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BBC News", "President Joe Biden inauguration speech: 'Democracy has prevailed' - BBC News", "Dartford mother-of-three died after liposuction in Turkey - BBC News", "Biden inauguration in pictures - BBC News", "Covid vaccine: 'Patience and perspective' needed in Wales - BBC News", "Racism in ballet: Black dancer's 'humiliation' at racist comments - BBC News", "Lockdown children forget how to use knife and fork - BBC News", "Coronavirus: BMJ urges NYT to correct vaccine 'mixing' article - BBC News", "Edinburgh's giant pandas may 'return to China' over Covid losses - BBC News", "Families rescued in Peak District after getting trapped in snow - BBC News", "Covid: Liverpool's leaders call for new national lockdown - BBC News", "Covid-19: Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine arrives at hospitals - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Scottish cabinet to consider further measures - BBC News", "Cold snap creates 'pop-up' ice hockey rink - BBC News", "Covid in Wales: Schools' phased return defended by first minister - BBC News", "Covid: Sweden official defends Christmas trip to Canary Islands - BBC News", "Irish Eurovision singer and Bagatelle frontman Liam Reilly dies - BBC News", "Zoe Davison: Racing trainer dies on same day two of her horses win at Plumpton - BBC Sport", "West Brom 0-4 Arsenal: Arsenal see off Baggies in ruthless display - BBC Sport", "Covid in Scotland: New strain of virus 'accelerating' spread - BBC News", "Coronavirus: India approves vaccines from Bharat Biotech and Oxford/AstraZeneca - BBC News", "Reading stabbing: Five teenagers arrested after boy, 13, dies - BBC News", "EuroMillions: Jackpot of more than £39m won by UK ticket-holder - BBC News", "Covid rules: What are the restrictions in your area? - BBC News", "Covid: Not much room for lockdown changes, Wales' first minister warns - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Twelve fined for playing dominoes in Tier 4 breach - BBC News", "Boris Johnson says indyref vote should be once-in-generation - BBC News", "Liverpool FC anthem singer Gerry Marsden dies aged 78 - BBC News", "New Year snow flurries fall across England - BBC News", "Covid-19: New variant 'raises R number by up to 0.7' - BBC News", "Suspected Islamists kill dozens in attacks on two Niger villages - BBC News", "Covid: What could 'tougher' measures mean for us? - BBC News", "Pep Guardiola: Man City boss may stay in management longer than planned - BBC Sport", "Covid-19: Anti-lockdown protesters arrested at Hyde Park demo - BBC News", "Benjamin Mendy: Man City 'disappointed' after defender breaches Covid-19 protocols - BBC Sport", "Ryan Garcia stops Luke Campbell after surviving knockdown in Dallas - BBC Sport", "County Antrim poultry flock to be culled after bird flu detected - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Restrictions 'could continue' amid rising cases - BBC News", "Hospitals across UK 'must prepare for Covid surge', senior doctor warns - BBC News", "Covid: Regional rules 'probably going to get tougher', says Boris Johnson - BBC News", "Covid: Cardiff Central MP Jo Stevens in hospital with virus - BBC News", "As it happened: Boris Johnson warns of tougher measures amid Covid surge - BBC News", "US Election 2020 - BBC News", "Covid: Snowdonia National Park wardens 'getting abuse' during lockdown - BBC News", "Leicester City 2-0 Southampton: James Maddison and Harvey Barnes send Foxes second - BBC Sport", "Covid: Nurseries 'teetering on the edge' during pandemic - BBC News", "Archie Lyndhurst: CBBC star died in his sleep, says mother - BBC News", "SLS: Nasa's 'megarocket' engine test ends early - BBC News", "Covid-19: Protect us from unlawful killing charges - medics - BBC News", "Phil Spector: Pop producer jailed for murder dies at 81 - BBC News", "Covid-19: Man said he had travelled 100 miles 'for a McDonald's' - BBC News", "RAF veteran receives Covid jab at Salisbury Cathedral - BBC News", "Covid-19: France begins 6pm curfew - BBC News", "Liverpool 0-0 Man Utd: Alisson saves thwart leaders at Anfield - BBC Sport", "Chris Cramer: Tributes paid after former BBC and CNN journalist dies aged 73 - 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BBC News", "Sri Lanka v England: Tourists wobble chasing 74 after Jack Leach takes 5-122 - BBC Sport", "Universal Credit: Benefit increase only 'temporary', says Raab - BBC News", "G7: UK to host Cornwall seaside summit in summer - BBC News", "Statues to get protection from 'baying mobs' - BBC News", "Home Office 'working to restore' lost police records - BBC News", "Eurostar: Government urged to 'safeguard' rail firm's future - BBC News", "Covid-19: Running a roadside van when a pandemic cuts traffic - BBC News", "Coronavirus: William and Kate hear from emergency workers - BBC News", "Covid: People broke lockdown rules in 200-mile drive to see friends - BBC News", "Covid-19: More mass jab centres, airport support and a virtual library - BBC News", "Covid-19: England delivering 140 jabs a minute, says NHS chief executive - BBC News", "Mount Semeru: Erupting volcano spews ash above Indonesia's Java island - BBC News", "Universal credit: MPs urge PM to keep £20 benefit 'lifeline' - BBC News", "Covid-19: Further 1,295 deaths recorded in the UK - BBC News", "Archbishop of Glasgow Philip Tartaglia dies with Covid aged 70 - BBC News", "Covid-19: Bedworth Pokemon player fined for lockdown breach - BBC News", "Manchester Arena and Parsons Green bombers charged with prison officer attack - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Freeman targets 400,000 vaccinations every week - BBC News", "Lockdown Christmas hits: Lidl pink prosecco and takeaways - BBC News", "Covid-19: BBC's Fergal Keane revisits St Mary’s and Charing Cross Hospital 10 months on - BBC News", "'Discriminatory' mental health system overhauled - BBC News", "Fresh calls for NI mother and baby homes inquiry - BBC News", "Covid-19: Welsh Government update - BBC News", "Covid: Police cancel fine for couple visiting care home - BBC News", "Human remains found in search for missing cyclist Tony Parsons - BBC News", "Johnson: 24-7 Covid-vaccine hubs as soon as supply allows - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: The six new lockdown rules - BBC News", "Coronavirus: British tourist blamed for Lauberhorn ski race cancellation - BBC News", "Coronavirus: 'How long can we keep going like this? About a week' - BBC News", "Covid-19: We can make this the peak by following rules, says Hancock - BBC News", "Morrisons to be first UK supermarket to pay minimum £10 an hour - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: How do the rules compare to last year? - BBC News", "Edinburgh Woollen Mill rescue deal to save 2,000 jobs - BBC News", "Furlough fraud: I'm still registered as furloughed for a job I quit' - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Stricter rules within days - BBC News", "China: Senior Conservatives call for reset of UK policy - BBC News", "Media billionaire David Barclay dies, aged 86 - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Lockdown lifting 'unlikely' as deaths pass 5,000 - BBC News", "Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech - BBC News", "PMQs: Some food parcels are an 'insult to families' - PM - BBC News", "Earl of Strathmore admits sex attack at Glamis Castle home - BBC News", "Covid rules: What are the restrictions in your area? - BBC News", "Sinovac: Brazil results show Chinese vaccine 50.4% effective - BBC News", "Covid-19: More than 100,000 vaccine doses administered in NI - BBC News", "Customs staff: Vaccinate us to keep trade flowing - BBC News", "Four arrested over 'public nuisance' at Redditch and Birmingham hospitals - BBC News", "Covid: Birmingham hospitals move 200 doctors to intensive care duties - BBC News", "Plastic bag charge to double to 10p from April in Scotland - BBC News", "Naomi Campbell's Kenya tourism role causes row - BBC News", "Heavy snow causes widespread disruption in Scotland - BBC News", "Covid-19: New test rule for England arrivals pushed back to Monday - BBC News", "David Attenborough to front government-funded 5G AR app - BBC News", "GCSE and A-level pupils could sit mini exams to aid grading - BBC News", "Covid-19: Lockdown measures 'starting to show signs of some effect' - PM - BBC News", "Covid-19: Alabama crowds ignore coronavirus to celebrate championship - BBC News", "Covid-19: New treatment, NHS staff struggles and free meals row - BBC News", "Trump impeachment process: Who are the key players? - BBC News", "Gurlitt's last Nazi-looted work returned to owners - BBC News", "Cramlington woman celebrates 100th birthday with covid jab - BBC News", "People's sonic boom surprise caught on camera - BBC News", "Libby Squire murder trial: Pawel Relowicz 'prowled streets for victim' - BBC News", "Battery lodged in baby's throat for four months - BBC News", "As it happened: Record number of daily deaths reported in UK - BBC News", "Covid vaccine: Pfizer v Oxford AstraZeneca v Moderna - BBC News", "Covid-19: Special school staff want jab priority - BBC News", "Tottenham Hotspur 1-1 Fulham: Ivan Cavaleiro earns a point for Premier League strugglers - BBC Sport", "Call for better coronavirus masks for all medical staff - BBC News", "Covid: Play your part in fight against virus, says Patel - BBC News", "YouTube suspends Donald Trump's channel - BBC News", "Covid: UK reports record 1,564 daily deaths - BBC News", "Mohamud Mohammed Hassan: Hundreds march over arrested man's death - BBC News", "Covid: Three Democratic lawmakers test positive after Capitol riot - BBC News", "Tesco, Asda and Waitrose ban shoppers without face masks - BBC News", "Trump impeached for second time - BBC News", "YFN Lucci: US rapper wanted in Atlanta for suspected murder - BBC News", "Covid: Many NHS staff 'traumatised' by first wave of virus, study shows - BBC News", "Duchess of York: From Budgie the Helicopter to Mills & Boon - BBC News", "Capitol riots: Who broke into the building? - BBC News", "Britain's Got Talent: Filming postponed due to coronavirus concerns - BBC News", "Boris Johnson condemns 'disgraceful scenes' in US - BBC News", "National Express to suspend all services - BBC News", "Fears schools will be overwhelmed by laptopless pupils - BBC News", "Trump allowed back onto Twitter - BBC News", "Trump auction for Arctic oil rights sees little interest - BBC News", "Reading stabbing: Three teenagers charged with murder after boy, 13, dies - BBC News", "Capitol riot: Biden says BLM protest would have been treated 'very differently' - BBC News", "Essex lorry deaths: Dad learned of son's fate on social media - BBC News", "As it happened: PM sets out Covid vaccine rollout plan - BBC News", "Teachers' grades to replace A-levels and GCSEs in England - BBC News", "Adrian Chiles confirmed in Emma Barnett 5 Live slot - BBC News", "Covid: Seven mass vaccination hubs announced for England - BBC News", "Capitol riots: World media see Trump ignite an 'insurrection' - BBC News", "Coronavirus: 'How long can we keep going like this? About a week' - BBC News", "Breonna Taylor: Two Louisville officers fired over roles in shooting - BBC News", "Stella Tennant: Family confirms model's death was suicide - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: 'Well over half' of care home residents vaccinated - BBC News", "Two more life-saving Covid drugs discovered - BBC News", "Capitol riot: What does a deadly day mean for Trump's legacy? - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Belfast Trust cancels urgent cancer surgeries - BBC News", "Capitol riots: How a Trump rally turned deadly - BBC News", "Capitol riots: A visual guide to the storming of Congress - BBC News", "Muted response as Clap for Heroes returns - BBC News", "Capitol riot: Five startling images from the siege - BBC News", "Capitol riots: Moment protesters storm US legislature - BBC News", "Capitol riots: Boris Johnson condemns Donald Trump for sparking events - BBC News", "Ryanair scraps most UK and Irish lockdown flights - BBC News", "Covid: UK travel curbs to keep out South Africa variant - BBC News", "Capitol riots: Pro-Trump protesters storm the US legislature - in pictures - BBC News", "'Mr Christmas' lights switched off for last time in Croxley Green - BBC News", "Inside one GP surgery's Covid vaccine roll-out - BBC News", "Covid-19: Baby's mother issues mottled skin warning - BBC News", "Trump’s Twitter downfall - BBC News", "ICU hospital staff: 'Scared, sad, petrified, worried' - BBC News", "Elon Musk becomes world's richest person as wealth tops $185bn - BBC News", "Capitol siege: Trump's words 'directly led' to violence, Patel says - BBC News", "Reading stabbing: Murder-accused teenagers appear in court - BBC News", "US Election 2020 - BBC News", "McDonald's pauses walk-in takeaways in lockdown - BBC News", "US Capitol riots: World leaders react to 'horrifying' scenes in Washington - BBC News", "'Show us it's safe' to be open, say nursery staff - BBC News", "Alex Rodda murder: Matthew Mason guilty of killing schoolboy - BBC News", "Covid-19: Boris Johnson makes daily jab pledge as Army helps rollout - BBC News", "Organ donor mum wishes she could help her children in need of kidneys - BBC News", "Meat factories warn Covid absences could hit supplies - BBC News", "Covid tests for Channel hauliers to continue 'until further notice' - BBC News", "Aston Villa plan to play youngsters against Liverpool in FA Cup after Covid outbreak - BBC Sport", "Covid-19: Vaccine rollout widens as hospital pressure rises - BBC News", "Sainsbury's Christmas sales rise despite smaller turkeys - BBC News", "Analysis: Can lockdown stop the new coronavirus variant? - BBC News", "Covid: China places 11m under lockdown after outbreak in northern city - BBC News", "The Wanted's Tom Parker says brain tumour has 'shrunk significantly' - BBC News", "Lockdown: 'I've borrowed £4m just to remain closed' - BBC News", "Capitol siege: An eyewitness account from inside the House chamber - BBC News", "Asos frontrunner to buy Topshop, Topman and Miss Selfridge brands - BBC News", "Boohoo 'set to buy Debenhams brand and website' - BBC News", "Covid-19: Top adviser warns France at 'emergency' virus moment - BBC News", "Covid-19: Essex student helps 600 refugees out of 'period poverty' - BBC News", "Covid: Israel vaccinates 16 to 18-year-olds ahead of exams - BBC News", "Covid: School return in Wales 'unlikely' for all in February - BBC News", "Care home worker thought cancer misdiagnosis was a 'cruel joke' - BBC News", "Skewen flood victims could be out of homes for days - BBC News", "SpaceX: World record number of satellites launched - BBC News", "England in Sri Lanka: Tourists complete six-wicket win and take series 2-0 - BBC Sport", "Boeing 737 Max cleared to fly again 'too early' - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Pressure on NHS front line 'relentless' - Hancock - BBC News", "Covid: Teachers 'not at higher risk' of death than average - BBC News", "Fraud epidemic 'is now national security threat' - BBC News", "Snow: Severe weather warnings in place across UK - BBC News", "Covid-19: MPs call for school reopening plan, and will France have a third lockdown? - BBC News", "Putin condemns Navalny protests as Western concern grows - BBC News", "Covid: 'Not a moment to ease measures,' says Matt Hancock - BBC News", "Robert Rowland: Former Brexit MEP dies in Bahamas diving accident - BBC News", "Pandemic prompts Super Bowl ad rethink in US - BBC News", "Covid: Schools will be told of reopening plans 'as soon as we can' - BBC News", "South Africa coronavirus variant: 77 cases found in UK - BBC News", "US police vehicle ploughs into crowd watching 'burnouts' - BBC News", "Barclaycard customers face higher minimum payments - BBC News", "Skewen flood: Is Wales' coalmining past behind home evacuations? - BBC News", "'Droves' of Pampas grass pickers at South Shields beach - BBC News", "Covid-19: Mansfield newlyweds, 90 and 86, in vaccination plea - BBC News", "'Knackered and confused.' That's just the parents - BBC News", "Covid: Call for long-term plan to help 'burnt-out' nurses - BBC News", "Heatwave sweeps Australian cities and raises bushfire danger - BBC News", "Dylan Freeman: Mother admits killing disabled son - BBC News", "'Running Man' robber jailed after nearly 13 years on the run - BBC News", "Travellers: Shocking lack of pitches for families, charity warns - BBC News", "Skewen flood victims face 'months' before returning home - BBC News", "Jenners: Building's owner says store 'will remain' despite Frasers move - BBC News", "PTSD: Eyes can reveal previous trauma, study reveals - BBC News", "Covid: 'More deadly' UK variant claim played down by scientists - BBC News", "Moderna vaccine appears to work against variants - BBC News", "Channel 4 Deepfake Queen complaints dropped by Ofcom - BBC News", "Debenhams shops to close permanently after Boohoo deal - BBC News", "Covid: Dutch curfew riots rage for third night - BBC News", "Gordon Brown: Trust has broken down in way UK is run - BBC News", "Q&A: Cwm Taf maternity problems - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Over-70 vaccine letters start but blue envelope delay - BBC News", "Cwm Taf maternity: Failings 'affected two-thirds of women' - BBC News", "Mastercard to push up fees for UK purchases from EU - BBC News", "Frank Lampard: Chelsea sack manager with Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him - BBC Sport", "Covid-19: Mexican President López Obrador tests positive - BBC News", "Janet Yellen to be first female US treasury secretary - BBC News", "Covid: Hays Travel to close 89 shops as lockdown delays 'bounce back' - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer self-isolates for third time - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Ways to 'accelerate' vaccine plans being examined - BBC News", "Welsh Valentine's Day: 'Why we mark St Dwynwen's Day' - BBC News", "Cwm Taf maternity: Mothers ignored and made to feel worthless - BBC News", "Keon Lincoln: Mother 'heard gunshots' that killed teen - BBC News", "Covid-19: Police investigate potential breaches at republican funeral - BBC News", "Skewen flooding: Villagers warned not to return to homes - BBC News", "Kickstart: Most job roles for youths not yet filled - BBC News", "Covid: Volunteers in Maesteg clear snow for vulnerable to get vaccine - BBC News", "Manchester United 3-2 Liverpool: Bruno Fernandes settles FA Cup thriller - BBC Sport", "Covid: Early years staff safety 'cause for concern' - BBC News", "Couple killed in Cameron House Hotel fire named - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Police support Crown probe into care home deaths - BBC News", "Covid: Sir Billy Connolly receives his first vaccine jab - BBC News", "Covid: Fire Brigades Union safety demands 'unworkable', says report - BBC News", "Shipping crisis: I'm being quoted £10,000 for a £1,600 container' - BBC News", "Covid: School return in Wales 'unlikely' for all in February - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Majority of discretionary self-isolation support applications rejected, Labour say - BBC News", "Festival season 'still possible' despite Glastonbury cancellation - BBC News", "Coronavirus: 'New variant may be associated with higher mortality' - PM - BBC News", "Inquiry uses legal powers to seek Salmond evidence - BBC News", "Bus driver jailed after passenger's death in Swansea crash - BBC News", "Covid: James Bond film No Time To Die delayed for third time - BBC News", "Covid: How a £20 gadget could save lives - BBC News", "Birmingham mosque becomes UK's first to offer Covid vaccine - BBC News", "Hotel quarantine for UK arrivals to be discussed - BBC News", "St Agnes Cold War bunker for sale - BBC News", "Covid: Side-by-side in a London mosque - funerals and a food bank - BBC News", "Brexit: Retailers warn they could burn goods stuck in EU - BBC News", "Skewen flood: Is Wales' coalmining past behind home evacuations? 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east London.", "Boris Johnson says the gap between referendums on Europe - 41 years - is \"a good sort of gap\" for independence referendums.", "The Gerry and the Pacemakers singer's number one hit became a football terrace anthem.", "Driving conditions on many roads will become \"hazardous\" next week, the Met Office warns.", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "The government said soldiers had been sent to protect the area, close to Niger's border with Mali.", "After the PM hints at tighter measures in England, our science editor looks at what they could entail.", "Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola says he may stay in management much longer than he anticipated.", "Up to 300 people gather in London's Hyde Park to protest at Covid-19 restrictions.", "Manchester City say they are disappointed after defender Benjamin Mendy breaches Covid-19 rules by hosting a New Year's Eve party.", "Mexican-American Ryan Garcia gets up from the canvas to stop Britain's Luke Campbell with a body shot in Dallas, Texas.", "About 30,000 birds are to be culled at the farm near Clough in north Antrim.", "The latest government figures show a further 2,137 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Scotland on Friday.", "It comes as a further 57,725 people test positive for the virus, a new daily high.", "Boris Johnson says more areas may need tougher rules, as Labour urges England-wide curbs within 24 hours.", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer describes her as a \"dear friend and colleague\", and wishes her well.", "Boris Johnson says regional restrictions in England are \"probably about to get tougher\".", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "The decision to keep car parks open is under \"constant review\", says one national park.", "Leicester City edge a keenly contested Premier League encounter with Southampton to maintain their push for a top-four place.", "Calls are made for \"front-line\" nursery staff to be supported with funding and vaccines.", "CBBC star's mother, Lucy Lyndhurst, says his death has had a \"catastrophic effect\" on their family.", "A critical engine test for Nasa's new \"megarocket\" - the Space Launch System (SLS) - ends early.", "Health groups say NHS staff fear prosecution over decisions if hospitals are overwhelmed.", "Spector, who was jailed for killing actress Lana Clarkson, transformed pop music with his \"wall of sound\".", "He told police he drove to Devizes for a McDonald's even though the town does not have a branch.", "Louis Godwin, 95, said he was \"so pleased\" to get his Covid-19 vaccination at Salisbury Cathedral.", "Prime Minister Jean Castex said the measures would be in place for at least 15 days.", "Leaders Manchester United are thwarted by the second-half heroics of keeper Alisson in a goalless draw with title rivals Liverpool at Anfield.", "The \"fiercely competitive\" but \"kind, thoughtful and caring\" news executive has died aged 73.", "Doctors say the \"patchy supply\" of vaccine to GPs is slowing down efforts to deliver it to patients.", "Northern Health Trust chief says system is under \"huge pressure\" with patients waiting for beds.", "Sir Richard Branson's rocket company succeeds in putting its first satellites in space.", "Statistics agency Nisra says 145 deaths were registered last week, bringing its pandemic total to 1,976.", "Mother Sara Powell-Davies welcomes its return, but nurseries say they fear for the future.", "Women are sent sexually explicit messages and requests for \"worn\" garments.", "As the UK records its highest death toll, Fergal Keane has been to see the strain the NHS is under for the second time.", "Fighting erupted after a man was stabbed in a row between two men from different ethnic groups.", "Former climbing champion Lai Chi-Wai raised HK$5.2 million for spinal cord patients.", "The government is aiming to provide grants by April to mitigate the impact of Covid travel rules.", "Patient numbers have risen by 15,000 since Christmas, but infections are stabilising, says Sir Simon Stevens.", "Pupils in England can read works by popular authors online while schools stay closed in lockdown.", "The Gerry and the Pacemakers singer died from a blood infection at the age of 78.", "More than half of the Church of England's 14,000 parishes will not open for Sunday services later.", "England need 36 runs on the final day to win the first Test against Sri Lanka despite losing three wickets in a chaotic final session in Galle.", "A decision on whether to extend £20 Universal Credit rise is unlikely before March's Budget, minister says.", "The leaders of the US, France, Germany and other leading economies will meet in Cornwall in June.", "The government is planning new laws to stop England's monuments being removed \"on a whim\" by protesters.", "Hundreds of thousands of DNA and arrest records were deleted after a human error, the Home Office says.", "A group of London firms has written to ministers calling for financial support for the rail firm.", "With traffic down and more people working from home, what is the future for these lay-by businesses?", "Prince William says he \"really worries\" about the effect of the pandemic on front-line workers.", "Drivers from Scotland and Portsmouth caught breaking lockdown rules in north Wales.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Sunday.", "But Sir Simon Stevens says the health service has never been in a more precarious situation.", "Mount Semeru has erupted, pouring volcanic matter miles into the air and placing locals on alert.", "Pressure grows on PM after non-binding motion on universal credit top-up is passed by 278 votes.", "The latest death and case figures should be a \"bitter warning for us all\", Public Health England says.", "The Most Reverend Philip Tartaglia tested positive for the virus shortly after Christmas but the cause of his death is not clear.", "The man told police he had travelled 14 miles from his home to search for the fictional characters.", "Hashem Abedi and Ahmed Hassan are accused of assaulting an officer in HMP Belmarsh in May.", "Scotland's health secretary says 400,000 jabs could be administered every week by the end of February.", "Lidl, Just Eat and Asos say demand for fizz, takeaways and clothes all rose during December.", "As the UK records its highest death toll, Fergal Keane has been to see the strain the NHS is under for the second time.", "Black people are more than four times more likely to be detained under the Mental Health Act in England.", "Amnesty International says the issue of forced adoptions also needs close scrutiny.", "Details and reaction to a briefing by Wales' chief medical officer and NHS Wales chief executive.", "Carol and David Richards had been fined £60 for driving 20 minutes to see her mother.", "Tony Parsons from Tillicoultry vanished more than three years ago during a charity cycle ride.", "The prime minister wants round-the-clock vaccination but adds supply is currently the limiting factor.", "Nicola Sturgeon announces the areas where restrictions will be tightened in Scotland from Saturday.", "The famous Lauberhorn ski event is cancelled after a spike in Covid-19 cases linked to one tourist.", "Staff at one of London's busiest hospitals say it's not going to take much for services to soon break.", "The health secretary urges people to follow rules, saying \"individual decisions\" make a difference.", "Rival supermarkets defend their pay, with Asda saying looking at hourly rates does not tell the whole story.", "Some restrictions have been tightened amid concerns the \"stay at home\" message has not had the same impact.", "Investors have agreed a deal to save the chain, along with Ponden Home and Bonmarché.", "Amid reports of mass furlough fraud the BBC hears from one worker who quit work but still gets furlough pay.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says because of the \"precarious\" situation in relation to the pandemic more restrictions will be brought in.", "A report from a group of Tory MPs adds to internal pressure on the government to harden its stance.", "Together with his twin brother, Sir David built a business empire spanning hotels, retail and newspapers.", "Scotland's first minister says the current restrictions are \"very unlikely\" to be lifted at the end of the month.", "The company denies selling technology that can identify the ethnic group and plans to reword the patent.", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer challenged Boris Johnson over the provision of \"disgraceful\" food parcels.", "The Earl of Strathmore attacked a woman in her room during an event he was hosting at Glamis Castle.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Latest results show Sinovac's Covid-19 vaccine is less effective in Brazil than previously suggested.", "The health minister says it is a \"strong start\" but there is more to do.", "One operator told the BBC his staff were working up to 16 hours a day to help traders.", "Earlier this month videos showing supposed empty hospitals were shared on social media.", "A leaked memo warns several Birmingham hospitals risk being \"overwhelmed\" by coronavirus patients.", "The increase is to further discourage shoppers from buying single-use plastic bags.", "Tweeters query why it has not been given to a prominent Kenyan like actress Lupita Nyong'o.", "A Met Office yellow weather warning for ice is in place after heavy snow caused road closures and travel disruption.", "A negative test had been due to be required from Friday, but ministers said people needed time to prepare.", "Sir David will showcase an augmented reality app as part of a drive to prove the uses of 5G.", "Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said this would help teachers to decide \"deserved grades\".", "But Boris Johnson does not rule out tougher restrictions in England, saying they are kept under review.", "Fans of the University of Alabama football team gathered in the streets of Tuscaloosa, ignoring social distancing.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning.", "These are the lawmakers with a big influence on the impeachment process against the former president.", "The last of 14 works identified as looted from Jewish collectors is returned to the owner's heirs.", "Isabella Curry said she now feels safe and will be able to go out and meet friends soon.", "An RAF aircraft breaking the sound barrier causes a loud bang in skies across the East of England.", "Pawel Relowicz committed \"sexually motivated\" burglaries before Libby Squire's death, jurors hear.", "Doctors believed 11-month-old Sofia-Grace Hill was rejecting food because she had tonsillitis.", "It comes as Boris Johnson is quizzed by MPs on the government's coronavirus response.", "Three vaccines have been approved in the UK - what are the differences between them?", "Parents of disabled children are calling for teachers in special schools to receive the Covid-19 vaccine.", "Ivan Cavaleiro's late header earns Premier League strugglers Fulham a hard-fought draw against Tottenham in their hastily rearranged London derby.", "Doctors leaders' want staff to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care.", "The home secretary says she will back police to enforce virus rules, as another 1,243 die in the UK.", "The Google-owned service said the president had broken its rules over the incitement of violence.", "The prime minister warns there is a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care being \"overtopped\".", "Mohamud Mohammed Hassan was arrested at home on Friday but released without charge on Saturday.", "The Democrats say they sheltered in a safe room alongside others who refused to wear masks.", "It follows similar moves by Morrisons and Sainsbury's, but those with medical reasons will be exempt.", "Ten members of his own party voted against the president over his role in the deadly riots at the US Capitol.", "Police in Atlanta want to question YFN Lucci, 29, over a fatal shooting in the city last month.", "More than 700 intensive care staff at nine hospitals were asked about their experiences for a study.", "Her novel Heart for a Compass is a fictional historical saga inspired by her great-great-aunt.", "There's speculation over who was involved in the protests and whether they belong to organised groups.", "Production was to begin later this month but filming and transmission will now be later than hoped.", "The PM leads UK politicians from all parties condemning the riot at the US Capitol building.", "The firm says tighter Covid restrictions and falling passenger numbers have prompted the decision.", "Allowing pupils without laptops into schools could limit the impact of the closures, say head.", "The president will be banned \"permanently\" if he breaks the platform's rules again.", "An Alaska state agency emerged as the main bidder at the sale, which was opposed by environmentalists.", "Two boys and a girl, all aged 13 or 14, are charged with murder after the death of Olly Stephens, 13.", "Joe Biden says it is \"totally unacceptable\" police showed more leniency in the Capitol riot than at anti-racism protests.", "Nguyen Huy Hung was one of 39 people who died in a container en route from Belgium to Essex.", "Boris Johnson has \"no doubt\" there is enough supply to vaccinate the first four priority groups by 15 February.", "Gavin Williamson will \"trust in teachers rather than algorithms\" in awarding this year's results.", "The broadcaster will be a part-time replacement for the new Woman's Hour host.", "The sites, including football stadiums and racecourses, will begin operations next week.", "Events in Washington spark dismay and criticism of America's politics and leader.", "Staff at one of London's busiest hospitals say it's not going to take much for services to soon break.", "The police officer who the FBI said fired the fatal shot is dismissed for breaching policy.", "Her family said the British model, who died in December aged 50, had been \"unwell for some time\".", "More than 113,000 Scots have now been given their first dose of a vaccine against Covid-19.", "The drugs, which save an extra life for every 12 intensive care patients treated, can be used immediately, say experts.", "The president is accused of inciting a riot with his divisive rhetoric - he's unlikely to stay silent.", "Health officials say it was the only option due to the demand for beds as a result of Covid-19.", "A ceremony meant to showcase a peaceful power transfer turns into a dark day. Here are the key moments.", "Breakdown of what happened when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol amid a key Senate vote.", "The weekly applause is back - but its founder distances herself from the initiative.", "News photographers captured extraordinary scenes as Trump supporters stormed the building.", "The US Capitol has gone into lockdown amid violent clashes between police and Trump supporters, who broke security lines and are inside the building.", "The UK prime minister also says the US president is \"completely wrong\" over his election fraud claims.", "The airline warns few, if any, flights will operate to or from Ireland or the UK from the end of January.", "Travellers from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana and Mauritius will be barred from entry.", "US lawmakers and staff are seen wearing protective gas masks as police draw guns on protesters.", "Dave Edwards lit up his home for 42 years but died before the recent festive season.", "At Fullwell Cross Medical Centre in north London, they are now vaccinating almost 1,000 people a week.", "George is recovering after spending three nights in hospital with coronavirus.", "How Trump's favourite social media site banned him - permanently.", "On Wednesday the UK recorded more than 1,000 daily Covid deaths and hospitals are struggling to cope.", "The Tesla and SpaceX owner replaces Jeff Bezos as the richest man on the planet.", "The home secretary says the US president fuelled the violence, as the PM condemns the \"disgraceful scenes\".", "Two boys and a girl are accused of murdering 13-year-old Olly Stephens in Reading.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Drive-through and delivery services will still be available while it reviews its safety procedures.", "Leaders from around the world call for peace and a peaceful transfer of power in Washington.", "Worried childcare staff call on ministers to prove it's safe for them to open in England.", "Matthew Mason beat 15-year-old Alex Rodda to death to stop their sexual relationship being revealed.", "Boris Johnson says the armed forces will use \"battle preparation techniques\" to help vaccinate millions.", "Sarah Bingham's son and daughter have the same rare illness and she is a donor match for both.", "Industry body calls for the early vaccination of workers to keep supply chains running smoothly.", "Lorry drivers will need a negative result to cross into France until further notice, the government says.", "Aston Villa are preparing to field a team of youngsters in Friday's FA Cup third-round tie at home to Liverpool.", "GPs in England receive doses of the Oxford Covid jab as medics warn of \"stretched\" wards.", "Families had smaller gatherings, but sales still rose 9.3% in the Christmas trading period, it says.", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "Residents of Shijiazhuang are banned from leaving and will be tested en masse after an outbreak there.", "The Wanted member shares some good news with his fans, three months on from his cancer diagnosis.", "The new lockdown has pushed pubs and restaurants into yet more debt, some of which may never be repaid.", "Jamie Stiehm was in the House of Representatives press gallery when protesters smashed at the door.", "The online retailer wants to buy the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.", "The fast fashion retailer is not purchasing the stores or taking on its staff, the BBC understands.", "The head of France's scientific council suggests a third lockdown is needed amid spread of variants.", "Ella Lambert says the period pain she experiences inspired her to help others.", "Israel has vaccinated more than a quarter of its population and now high school students are eligible.", "Ministers have said schools would stay closed until half term unless Covid cases fall significantly.", "Janice Johnston had 18 months of needless chemotherapy, causing her numerous physical problems.", "Underground investigations are due to begin on Saturday after flooding linked to old mine shaft.", "Entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX company delivers 143 satellites to orbit on a single rocket flight.", "England complete a thrilling victory on day four of the second Test against Sri Lanka to take the series 2-0.", "A former Boeing manager says more investigations are needed on the plane, grounded after two crashes.", "Nearly 38,000 people are in hospital in the UK with coronavirus, the health secretary says.", "The highest-risk job roles were in restaurants, care work and manufacturing.", "From credit card fraud to benefit fraud, the problem costs the UK up to £190bn a year, a report says.", "Motorists are urged to take care with sub-zero temperatures forecast into Monday.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.", "The crackdown on Alexei Navalny and his supporters fuels calls in the EU for tougher sanctions.", "The health secretary says it is \"difficult\" to put a timeline on when England's lockdown will be lifted.", "Tributes are paid to Robert Rowland following the accident near his home in the Bahamas.", "Budweiser will not advertise during the Super Bowl for the first time in 37 years.", "Boris Johnson says he understands parents' frustrations but the infection rate is \"still very high\".", "Ministers are due to meet on Monday to consider whether to tighten the UK's border restrictions further.", "Footage shows a police car apparently driving through a group at a street race in Washington state.", "The changes affecting some customers take effect as finances are squeezed by Covid and Christmas.", "A geologist says tens of thousands of old mine shafts must be monitored to help stop more flooding.", "An interior decor trend is blamed for the removal of the grass, which forms part of a wind defence.", "Geoff and Jenny Holland married in August after having to twice postpone their wedding.", "The lack of certainty about schools returning is fraying the exhausted nerves of parents.", "A Royal College of Nursing survey found almost 80% were more stressed because of the Covid pandemic.", "As temperatures continue to remain high, parts of Australia are facing their worst fire risk in a year.", "Three psychiatric reports found Olga Freeman was suffering from a severe depressive illness.", "Ambrose O'Neill disappeared after the first day of his trial in 2008.", "Only 18 out of 251 registered traveller sites have any available spaces, research from a charity suggests.", "Some will be able to return on Tuesday but others are urged to stay away due to safety fears.", "The building's owner vows it will continue as a department store despite the departure of current tenant, the House of Fraser.", "The eyes of people with PTSD behave differently when they see exciting images, researchers say.", "One says he is surprised Boris Johnson shared the early data when it is \"not particularly strong\".", "Laboratory tests suggest antibodies can recognise and fight the UK and South Africa variants.", "The media regulator decided not to pursue complaints about decency over the channel's satire.", "Online retailer Boohoo will buy the brand for £55m, but not its shops, putting 12,000 jobs at risk.", "Police describe it as the worst unrest in the Netherlands for decades, with more than 180 arrests.", "The UK's nations and regions are being treated as if they were \"invisible\", the former PM warns.", "What is behind the review of specialist care for mothers and babies in the south Wales valleys?", "Vaccination appointments for over-70s in Scotland will arrive on Monday as planned - but in white envelopes.", "A new report focuses on the experiences of pregnant women at Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board.", "The move sparks concerns that customers could see prices rise if merchants pass on the higher cost.", "Chelsea sack manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge, with former Paris St-Germain and Borussia Dortmund boss Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him.", "Andrés Manuel López Obrador, 67, announces he is receiving medical treatment for the coronavirus.", "The Senate has confirmed Janet Yellen as first female treasury secretary in US history.", "The third national lockdown and travel ban meant the travel firm \"had to act\", a spokeswoman says.", "Sir Keir Starmer says he will be working from home until next Monday.", "A pilot programme for 24/7 vaccinations is among options being considered by the Scottish government.", "Why one family finds St Dwynwen's Day - the Welsh patron saint of lovers - more relevant to their heritage.", "Mothers speaking to the Cwm Taf maternity review \"overwhelmingly\" had distressing experiences.", "The mother of Keon Lincoln, 15, who was shot and stabbed, pleads for information about his death.", "Images circulated on social media show mourners at the funeral of an IRA man in Londonderry.", "First Minister Mark Drakeford earlier visited the site of the flooding which led to 80 people being evacuated.", "About 118,000 placements for young people are yet to be filled due to coronavirus lockdowns.", "Community spirit praised as helpers clear 7cm of snow so vulnerable patients could get Covid jab.", "Bruno Fernandes comes off the bench to fire Manchester United past fierce rivals Liverpool in a pulsating FA Cup fourth-round tie.", "Nurseries, pre-schools and childminders call for rapid testing and priority access to vaccines.", "The two men were guests at Cameron House Hotel on the shores of Loch Lomond when the blaze broke out.", "The force said its role is designed to inform prosecutors and does not indicate a crime has taken place.", "The 78-year-old Scottish comedian received his first dose of the vaccine near his home in Florida.", "A report criticises the union after it told its members not to volunteer due to safety concerns.", "A shortage of shipping containers, rising costs, and congestion at ports are holding back imports from China.", "Ministers have said schools would stay closed until half term unless Covid cases fall significantly.", "The majority of applications for the discretionary part of the test and trace grant are unsuccessful.", "Despite Glastonbury's cancellation, smaller festivals could still go ahead, experts say.", "Boris Johnson says it's more important than ever to be vigilant in following rules and staying home.", "The probe into the handling of harassment claims against Alex Salmond wants to see messages between SNP and government officials.", "Eric Vice, 64, was driving to Swansea University when he hit a bridge.", "The premiere of No Time To Die, Daniel Craig's final 007 outing, is pushed back again due to Covid.", "Doctors say people should buy a pulse oximeter to monitor their oxygen levels at home.", "The imam, Sheikh Nuru Mohammed, hopes the centre will dispel false information about the vaccination.", "Boris Johnson has not ruled out further action to secure the borders amid concerns over Covid variants.", "A bunker built during the Cold War is being auctioned with a guide price of £25,000.", "Worship has been suspended as burials average 15-a-day, yet still there is denial about the disease.", "UK retailers may abandon goods EU customers want to return because it is cheaper than bringing them home.", "A geologist says tens of thousands of old mine shafts must be monitored to help stop more flooding.", "The UK's chief medical adviser warns that \"a very small change and it could start taking off again\".", "Health Minister Robin Swann warns restrictions are likely to continue after latest extension.", "Scottish postie Nathan Evans has quit his job and signed to a record label after storming TikTok with sea shanties.", "The TV presenter says Mr Trump went on with the conversation, believing it to be Morgan.", "A 14-year-old boy is suspected of murder over \"inconceivable violence\" before Keon Lincoln's death.", "The Mavisbank care home in Bishopbriggs was recently rated \"weak\" by the care inspectorate for its Covid response.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning.", "A national charity renews its plea for donations to help museums hit by the coronavirus pandemic.", "Paula Badosa reveals she has the virus and apologises for making complaints about quarantine rules.", "'This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge' - the new president knows how daunting his task is.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 15 and 22 January.", "The chief rabbi has described the event as a \"shameful desecration of all that we hold dear\".", "A £500 payment is already available for those on low incomes who cannot work from home, No 10 says.", "Thirty-nine Vietnamese migrants suffocated in a sealed container en route to Essex in October 2019.", "A teachers' union says a review delivers a \"scathing\" verdict on how exams were handled in 2020.", "Fines of £800 will be handed to anyone attending a house party of more than 15 people from next week.", "Thousands of files hacked from Scotland's environment watchdog appear on the \"dark web\" after it rejected a ransom demand.", "Boris Johnson says England's measures will be reviewed once the priority groups have had the vaccine.", "Paddy McElhone, 24, was shot in the back by a soldier near his home outside Pomeroy in August 1974.", "Investigators have been targeting offenders who operate online since the first coronavirus lockdown.", "CCTV footage has been released showing fire breaking out in a hotel after a porter put a bag of ash and embers in a cupboard.", "Vitinha's superb goal sees Wolves into the fifth round of the FA Cup at the expense of non-league Chorley.", "Two people died in the blaze at the Cameron House hotel in West Dunbartonshire three years ago.", "A consortium including the fashion chain will no longer bid to buy Topshop and Topman out of administration.", "Evidence suggests the variant that emerged in the UK may be more deadly as well as faster-spreading.", "Clothing was the hardest-hit sector last year, seeing a 25% drop in sales overall.", "Liverpool's 68-game unbeaten home run in the Premier League comes to an end as Ashley Barnes fires home a late winner from the penalty spot to secure a famous victory for Burnley.", "The Japanese car maker has told the BBC its Sunderland plant is secure for the long term.", "Police hold aides to Putin critic Alexei Navalny as opposition activists start a string of rallies.", "Parts of Skewen remain underwater with people unable to return to their flooded homes.", "Andy Murray will miss the Australian Open after failing to find a \"workable quarantine\" solution following his positive test for coronavirus.", "Simon Midgley's mother says she still does not have answers about how her son died in the fire at Cameron House.", "Campaigners say a government fund to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding is woefully inadequate.", "The minority \"blatantly flouting\" restrictions will face enforcement action, a senior officer says.", "The couple paid themselves the sum despite heavy losses at Mrs Beckham's fashion brand.", "Muller Milk & Ingredients in Somerset confirms 47 dairy workers have tested positive for Covid-19.", "NHS staff rally to arrange a wedding for a couple as the groom's condition deteriorates in hospital.", "Many of those who took part in the Capitol riot are believed to have subscribed to extremist views.", "The curbs may even continue until Easter in an attempt to drive down Covid-19 case numbers.", "Stars of the Essex-based reality show pay tribute to a \"true gentleman\" and \"one of the good guys\".", "Under coronavirus restrictions a maximum of 30 people are meant to attend a funeral.", "Abimbola Ajoke Bamgbose had been fed up with people asking if she was pregnant, an inquest hears.", "AstraZeneca is the latest company, after Pfizer, to warn of delivery issues, frustrating officials.", "Investigations are ongoing into what caused the road surface to give way, United Utilities say.", "As Covid patients waited at Royal Glamorgan Hospital the nurse had a fear of \"wanting to leave\".", "Under house arrest in Canada on bank fraud charges, Ms Meng has reportedly received death threats.", "As the UK records its highest death toll, Fergal Keane has been to see the strain the NHS is under for the second time.", "Richard Sharp says the BBC represents good value, but how it is funded \"may be worth reassessing\".", "The S21 Ultra's support for an S Pen will fuel speculation that the Note range's days are numbered.", "But the expert says the new Covid variant means any relaxation of rules will be a \"gradual process\".", "Amnesty International says the issue of forced adoptions also needs close scrutiny.", "Carol and David Richards had been fined £60 for driving 20 minutes to see her mother.", "Reports from Manaus say medical staff are begging for help in a critical situation due to Covid-19.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Thursday evening.", "But researchers warn there is still a risk of catching and passing the virus on to others again.", "Nicola Sturgeon announces the areas where restrictions will be tightened in Scotland from Saturday.", "One in three trusts in England was running above safe levels of bed occupancy by the end of 2020.", "Tui, the UK's largest tour operator, says 50% of bookings on their website are currently by over-50s.", "The famous Lauberhorn ski event is cancelled after a spike in Covid-19 cases linked to one tourist.", "Some urgent procedures including cancer surgery are postponed in one health board area due to Covid.", "Six chemists have been chosen initially, with 200 more offering vaccinations in the next fortnight.", "Hundreds of students say it is not right they will have to wait months for rebates during Covid-19.", "Some housed in the military camp say the conditions are so bad it causes them psychological trauma.", "Police and rail bosses condemn a social media post featuring a car parked on a level crossing.", "Armie Hammer dismisses supposedly leaked messages and says he can now not be apart from his children.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Jack Dorsey acknowledges that banning the president undermines the ideals of an open internet.", "Homes worry about being sued if people contract the virus while they are staying there.", "The health minister says it is a \"strong start\" but there is more to do.", "Arrivals from most of South America - and from Portugal - will be stopped from Friday.", "Dozens cancel Covid jabs and poor road conditions have a \"severe impact\" on Yorkshire's ambulances.", "Founder Charlie Mullins says it is a \"no-brainer\" that workers should get immunised.", "Scientists are racing to find out more about variants of the coronavirus that are spreading fast.", "The co-founder for Cyberpunk 2077's developer is explaining what went wrong with the launch.", "Samantha Hicks attributed her baby's kicking to sickness having been in hospital with Covid-19.", "The footballer joins celebrities and campaigners to call for action in a letter to the prime minister.", "The prime minister has suggested there could be restrictions on travel from Brazil to the UK.", "Services in England are being cut from 87% of normal levels to 72%, the Rail Delivery Group says.", "A Met Office yellow weather warning for ice is in place after heavy snow caused road closures and travel disruption.", "A negative test had been due to be required from Friday, but ministers said people needed time to prepare.", "Post-primary schools get extra time to decide how they will admit pupils after transfer tests are cancelled.", "A Scottish shellfish firm owner says he is on the brink of bankruptcy as EU customers desert his business.", "The 19-year-old mounted pavements and jumped red lights through London and three counties.", "Nintendo's first theme park, modelled on levels of its Mario games, was due to open on 4 February.", "More than 45% of this priority group has now been vaccinated, compared with about 30% in London.", "Travellers from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana and Mauritius will be barred from entry.", "New Brexit trade rules mean Britain's biggest supermarket faces problems importing some fruit, meat and ready meals.", "James Howells threw away a hard drive containing bitcoin - now worth £210m - by mistake in 2013.", "The last of 14 works identified as looted from Jewish collectors is returned to the owner's heirs.", "It tops up doses already promised as officials worry that Africa is at the back of the vaccine queue.", "England's cancer, critical care, A&E and routine treatments all hit as hospitals accommodate virus patients.", "Boris Johnson pledged to end rough sleeping by 2024, but a watchdog says plans need reviewing post-Covid.", "The government defends its plan to switch to a grant scheme to feed children at half term.", "Our voter panel is divided over the charge of incitement with Trump supporters warning it will deepen divisions.", "A respiratory doctor at the Mater Hospital warns that oxygen supplies are under \"extreme pressure\".", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Ministers could bring in possible measures after a new Covid variant was found in South America.", "Ivan Cavaleiro's late header earns Premier League strugglers Fulham a hard-fought draw against Tottenham in their hastily rearranged London derby.", "The couple, who both have coronavirus, were given \"precious\" time together, their daughter says.", "Doctors leaders' want staff to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care.", "The scientists investigating the origins of the coronavirus have landed in the city of Wuhan.", "The prime minister warns there is a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care being \"overtopped\".", "The home secretary says her focus is on enforcement but doesn't rule out tougher restrictions next week.", "Dom Bess takes 5-30 as a dreadful Sri Lanka batting display leaves England in control after day one of the first Test at Galle.", "A blind social media star could wait years for a new guide dog due to delays linked to the pandemic.", "The government wants bosses to do more to help victims as reports of domestic abuse soar in lockdown.", "Andy Murray is still hopeful of playing in the Australian Open despite not travelling to Melbourne after testing positive for coronavirus.", "On Thursday, 16 more deaths related to Covid-19 were recorded along with 973 new positive cases.", "Ten members of his own party voted against the president over his role in the deadly riots at the US Capitol.", "Illusionist Siegfried Fischbacher and partner Roy Horn were an institution in Las Vegas and beyond.", "Mr Leonard says it is in the best interests of the party if he stands down as leader immediately.", "The retailer insists it has no plans to move online, despite warning shop closures could cost it £1bn.", "A total of 1,596 patients are in Scottish hospitals with Covid as pressures on the NHS continue to build.", "The woman, who was Tasered by officers, is taken to hospital with non life-threatening injuries.", "Sarah Link lived in a caravan on her own drive so she could carry on working and protect her mother.", "Vincent Kane does not know when his operation will happen, having been delayed due to the pandemic.", "The property investment firm is accused of trying to \"jump the queue\".", "It said there may be \"an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks\".", "Officers \"will not hesitate\" to take action against those breaking the rules, home secretary says.", "The vaccines were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle, a royal source says.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says social media giants are \"taking editorial decisions\".", "The Labour leader urges ministers to give councils more money instead to protect family budgets.", "Three people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest, including the woman seen in the video.", "Eleanor Wadsworth flew hundreds of aircraft, including Spitfires and Hurricanes, to the front line in WW2.", "People who cannot work from home should be prioritised for rapid tests in England, the government says.", "Bernard Thomas was rescued from the rubble of Pantglas primary school on 21 October, 1966.", "But for now, people must stay at home during lockdown and alleviate 'serious' pressure on the NHS.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says the NHS is under \"very serious pressure\" and warns people to stay home.", "Electricity is gradually being restored after a huge outage triggered by a power station fault.", "The riots of 6 January took many by surprise, but to those tracking conspiracy and extreme right groups online, the warning signs were all there.", "Extra measures are taken to distribute Covid vaccines amid fears the snow could turn to ice.", "Crawley Town produce one of the FA Cup third round's most emphatic upsets as they stun Premier League side Leeds United.", "US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says contact between officials should no longer be \"shackled\".", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "At least six police vans are deployed to Clapham Common where about 30 protesters gathered.", "The farm has been left with over 4,000 surplus eggs after schools suddenly closed to most pupils.", "The government says a draft agreement saying flat owners need its approval first is \"standard\".", "Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove says \"work is ongoing\" to improve trade from GB to NI.", "Scott McTominay celebrates captaining Manchester United for the first time with an early winner to see off Watford in the FA Cup third round.", "A 107-year-old woman from County Meath is attempting to attend a virtual Mass in every county.", "Increasing numbers of seriously-ill patients add to the pressure facing Scotland's health service.", "Four deaths are reported as Storm Filomena dumps snow and triggers floods across the country.", "A \"significant step-up\" in rolling out vaccines is promised by the health minister.", "If Parler fails to find a new web hosting service by Sunday, the entire network will go offline.", "The Labour leader calls for tougher coronavirus restrictions and says help for low earners must continue.", "Almost 50,000 people in Wales have been given a first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.", "He hopes to beat his own lockdown bulge with his \"Get Buzzin' With Bez\" YouTube classes.", "Two landslides hit the same village in Indonesia within hours, leaving emergency teams trapped.", "Another 1,035 people have died, taking the total since the start of the pandemic to 80,868.", "Patients, many shielding, have been offered appointments miles away from their homes.", "The Labour leader rejects a second independence referendum but calls for other changes to devolution.", "More than 100 cars are turned away from a beauty spot in north Wales, police say.", "Boris Johnson will make a televised address at 20:00 GMT to outline further steps as virus cases rise.", "Lockdown measures will see schools closed until half term, and GCSEs and A-levels unable to go ahead as normal.", "The British coin collection will also mark the 75th anniversary of the death of novelist HG Wells.", "Four boys and a girl are held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after the Reading attack.", "An NHS chief executive says it 'beggars belief' people took pictures of empty corridors.", "Four people were accused of being a \"supporting cast\" for burglars who targeted west London homes.", "Boris Johnson says the gap between referendums on Europe - 41 years - is \"a good sort of gap\" for independence referendums.", "The PM says the number of vaccine doses will amount to \"tens of millions\" by the end of March.", "Mainland Scotland faces tougher restrictions from midnight, and schools will remain closed until February.", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine programme is being rolled out less than a week after it became the second approved in the UK.", "Dr Radha Modgil shares tips on staying mentally and emotionally well during the coronavirus lockdown.", "Dan Eliasson, head of the civil contingencies agency, flew to the Canary Islands to see his daughter.", "Tributes have been paid to trainer Zoe Davison, who died from cancer on the same day two of her horses claimed wins at Plumpton.", "The first minister warns Scotland could be entering the most dangerous period since the outbreak began.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "The group of more than 200 engineers say Google must live up to its 'Don't be evil' pledge.", "Nóra Quoirin's family say they are disappointed at the ruling and still think she was abducted.", "Boris Johnson warns of \"tough\" weeks ahead, as coronavirus infection rates continue to surge.", "The first minister says restrictions \"similar to March\" will come into force in mainland Scotland from midnight and schools will not re-open in January.", "The border crossings between the UK and the European Union face their first day of significant traffic under new rules.", "Professional sport in England will be allowed to continue behind closed doors, despite a new national lockdown announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.", "The Labour leader calls for an immediate lockdown in England to get the virus \"back under control\".", "The Department of Health's aim is for all people older than 80 to receive a jab by the end of January.", "Lockdown losses mean renewing the 10-year contract to lease Yang Guang and Tian Tian may be unaffordable.", "Police help dozens of motorists who became stranded after heavy snow fell in the Peak District.", "Parliament will be recalled for Nicola Sturgeon to make an \"urgent statement\" as case numbers rise by 2,464.", "Schools in Wales given a flexible approach to ensure a \"safe return\", despite concerns by unions.", "Economy Minister Diane Dodds writes to Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove over the issue.", "UK nationals resident in Spain say they were wrongly turned back when their flight landed in Barcelona.", "Four boys and a girl are held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after the Reading attack.", "Rutherglen MP Margaret Ferrier is charged by police with \"alleged culpable and reckless conduct\".", "After the PM hints at tighter measures in England, our science editor looks at what they could entail.", "Her Majesty said the now 75-year-old show had \"played a significant part in the evolving of women\".", "Schools will close for most pupils from Tuesday as people are told to stay at home in new lockdown.", "The latest government figures show a further 2,137 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Scotland on Friday.", "The government said suspected jihadists ambushed the two villages near Niger's border with Mali.", "Boris Johnson says more areas may need tougher rules, as Labour urges England-wide curbs within 24 hours.", "The news comes following confusion after her death was prematurely announced on Monday.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "The Championship club said \"several first-team staff and players\" had tested positive.", "England all-rounder Moeen Ali tests positive for Covid-19 upon arrival at Hambantota airport in Sri Lanka.", "The Love Island star is alleged to have \"breached quarantine\" regulations on holiday in Barbados.", "Stay-at-home orders are issued in England and Scotland, as UK classrooms face further disruption.", "The executive also plans to give its stay at home message legal force, with new travel restrictions.", "The Gerry and the Pacemakers singer's number one hit became a football terrace anthem.", "The bid approach is the latest attempt by a casino operator to tap into the online gambling boom.", "The locally-produced Covaxin jab was approved on Sunday before completion of third stage trials.", "Supermarkets say card payment problems that led to long queues are resolved, but cause still unknown", "Total deaths involving Covid pass 6,000, including 467 in the week ending 15 January.", "A Cardiff head teacher says keeping schools closed affects disadvantaged pupils most severely.", "The money comes from the liquidation of a firm co-founded by the disgraced film producer.", "Before Wuhan was locked down in January 2020 officials said the outbreak was under control - but the virus had spread inside and outside the city.", "Boris Johnson says he takes \"full responsibility\" for the UK government's response to the pandemic.", "Trinidadian-born British writer Monique Roffey says she is \"pinching herself\" over her win.", "Another 7,700 registered with coronavirus on the death certificate brings the total to nearly 104,000.", "The 71-year-old Lib Dem peer says she is wearing her \"I've had the jab\" badge with pride.", "The tunnel is a danger to public safety, an HS2 spokeswoman told the BBC.", "The UK is the second market - after the US - to get Facebook's latest news feature.", "The NHS says any invitation which asks for vaccine payment or bank account details is a scam.", "The shadow justice secretary calls for seven-member juries to deal with cases delayed by the pandemic.", "Scientists propose 10 golden rules for restoring forests to maximise benefits for the planet.", "Parents reveal the perils of juggling teaching with work and family life.", "The new measures are likely to apply to British residents arriving in England from high-risk countries.", "Boris Johnson says he takes \"full responsibility for everything that the government has done\".", "Major incidents were declared in north and south Wales as Storm Christoph causes flooding.", "The health secretary says it is \"difficult\" to put a timeline on when England's lockdown will be lifted.", "Ex-cabinet minister wants \"Britain's favourite animal\" to get same protections as bats and badgers.", "Budweiser will not advertise during the Super Bowl for the first time in 37 years.", "Boris Johnson says he understands parents' frustrations but the infection rate is \"still very high\".", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning.", "Several pupils at the school admitted visiting other households, breaking Covid-19 lockdown rules.", "Demand for the video game and cloud computing services helped push Microsoft sales to a new quarterly record.", "A geologist says tens of thousands of old mine shafts must be monitored to help stop more flooding.", "Lawyers for SMG deny claims it was penny-pinching before the 2017 Manchester Arena attack.", "An interior decor trend is blamed for the removal of the grass, which forms part of a wind defence.", "There will be \"a lot more deaths\" before the effect of vaccines is felt, England's chief medical officer says.", "Crew are asking to be designated 'key workers' so they can go home without risking public health.", "Campaigners claim changes to the way decisions were made led to a \"shocking\" fall in cases going to court.", "Comedians Meera Syal, Romesh Ranganathan and Adil Ray make a video urging people to get the vaccine.", "The Met says it was a \"poor decision\" to hire a barber to give cuts to 31 officers in the workplace.", "Some will be able to return on Tuesday but others are urged to stay away due to safety fears.", "Nadhim Zahawi says supply is tight, but he expects the UK to meet its February target of 15 million doses.", "The Belfast grammar school says it will use \"other academic criteria\" in the absence of transfer tests.", "As the UK records its 100,000th death from Covid within 28 days of a positive test, Catherine Burns speaks to some of the people behind the figures.", "It comes as the foreign secretary says the UK will return to spending 0.7% of GDP on aid \"as soon as possible\",", "Police describe it as the worst unrest in the Netherlands for decades, with more than 180 arrests.", "The government gives its support to a project to use oral contraceptives to control grey squirrels.", "As the number of people who died reaches six figures, the factors that led to this terrible total.", "The BBC brought a judicial review over reporting restrictions in a now abandoned legal case against Scotland's child abuse inquiry.", "An extra £50m is being directed towards grassroots sport after a \"significant hit\" to activity levels amid the coronavirus pandemic.", "The pharmaceutical giant said the late signing of contracts limited time to sort out supply glitches.", "Part of the grade II-listed bridge over the River Clwyd was swept away during Storm Christoph.", "Chelsea sack manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge, with former Paris St-Germain and Borussia Dortmund boss Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him.", "The Senate has confirmed Janet Yellen as first female treasury secretary in US history.", "The company acknowledges its \"Birdwatch\" idea could be \"messy\", but says it is worth trying.", "Parents and teachers are frustrated and worried about the impact of school closures on children.", "Before Wuhan was locked down in January 2020 officials said the outbreak was under control - but the virus had spread inside and outside the city.", "A plan to put the anti-slavery activist on the banknote was delayed under ex-President Donald Trump.", "The third national lockdown and travel ban meant the travel firm \"had to act\", a spokeswoman says.", "The Stormont-commissioned research examined institutions run by churches and other religious groups.", "English-speaking parents whose children go to Welsh-language schools say they struggle to help them.", "Three nights of rioting will not halt night curfews aimed at stopping coronavirus, say Dutch ministers.", "Claudia Marsh had recently qualified as a teacher and also volunteered for two charities.", "We must remember that every one of the lives lost during the pandemic leaves a legacy of sorrow.", "Images circulated on social media show mourners at the funeral of an IRA man in Londonderry.", "The mother of Keon Lincoln, 15, who was shot and stabbed, pleads for information about his death.", "The Welsh Government misses its target of giving 70% of over-80s the vaccine by last weekend.", "Leaders in the House have brought their article of impeachment against Donald Trump to the Senate.", "The border closure is likely to remain even with widespread vaccinations, a top official says.", "Alex Davies-Jones said \"like so many others\" she put off having a test for months.", "The convicted murderer and music producer was described as \"talented but flawed\" in an online story.", "The Welsh Ambulance Service boss warns that difficult weeks lie ahead in Covid-19 fight.", "An eyewitness speaks publicly for the first time about the 2015 death of a man being restrained by police.", "Lisbet Stone was turned away from her flight to London due to having an outdated Covid test.", "The number of people needing intensive care is expected to continue rising for at least two weeks.", "Passengers must also quarantine for up to 10 days following the closure of all UK travel corridors.", "Spector, who was jailed for killing actress Lana Clarkson, transformed pop music with his \"wall of sound\".", "At the age of 14, he sent encrypted messages inciting an Australian teenager to murder police officers.", "The owner of a toy retailer says high transport costs may mean larger toys become more expensive.", "Jonny Bairstow and Dan Lawrence help England seal victory over Sri Lanka on the final morning of the first Test in Galle.", "Ex-Marine John Deacy, 81, died with Covid-19 just two weeks after his last shift at the supermarket.", "A group of pensioners seek compensation for what they say was the excessive pricing of landlines.", "Leaders Manchester United are thwarted by the second-half heroics of keeper Alisson in a goalless draw with title rivals Liverpool at Anfield.", "Northern Health Trust chief says system is under \"huge pressure\" with patients waiting for beds.", "Doctors say the \"patchy supply\" of vaccine to GPs is slowing down efforts to deliver it to patients.", "The \"fiercely competitive\" but \"kind, thoughtful and caring\" news executive has died aged 73.", "Nóra Quoirin's parents do not accept the findings of an inquest into her death in Malaysia.", "Sir Richard Branson's rocket company succeeds in putting its first satellites in space.", "Jonathan Brooks is charged with the attempted murder of Graeme Perks, who was attacked in his home.", "Police have described the killers of 15-year-old Keelan Wilson as a \"pack of animals\".", "Brazil has the world's second-highest Covid death toll but has seen delay and discord over vaccines.", "A red deer had to be put down after being savaged by a red setter in London's Richmond Park.", "David Urpeth says smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths.\"", "Former climbing champion Lai Chi-Wai raised HK$5.2 million for spinal cord patients.", "Phil Neville leaves his role as manager of England's women and takes over at Major League Soccer side Inter Miami.", "Students call for more support as they continue their studies through another lockdown.", "The Jewish employee had warned co-workers about the danger of Nazis during the Capitol Riots.", "A group of London firms has written to ministers calling for financial support for the rail firm.", "Small armed groups gathered in several US cities but most state capitols were quiet amid high security.", "Annual growth of 2.3% puts China on course to be the only major economy to have expanded in 2020.", "Boris Johnson promises £23m in compensation for exporters which have lost orders due to delays.", "Someone is being admitted to hospital with coronavirus every 30 seconds, the health secretary says.", "The Perth-born actor was best known for screen roles including \"Chancer\" in City Lights and \"Pete Galloway\" in River City.", "Students at Aberystwyth are told not to return unless \"absolutely necessary\".", "Ambulance service staff in London explain the unique pressures of working during a pandemic.", "A shortage of computer chips is leading to car factories shutting down for days at a time.", "Drivers from Scotland and Portsmouth caught breaking lockdown rules in north Wales.", "Pressure grows on PM after non-binding motion on universal credit top-up is passed by 278 votes.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "There are very few spare beds for the most seriously ill patients in parts of the country, the NHS says.", "Police found evidence of sub-standard care at the Caerphilly home, an inquest hears.", "Democrats plan to start impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump on Monday, for inciting the invasion of the US Capitol, sources say.", "There's speculation over who was involved in the protests and whether they belong to organised groups.", "As Covid patients waited at Royal Glamorgan Hospital the nurse had a fear of \"wanting to leave\".", "The Welsh Government is in discussions with supermarkets about bringing \"more visible\" regulations.", "While GCSEs and A-levels are cancelled, IGCSEs, often used in independent schools, will continue.", "Terence Glover \"ploughed\" into a group of children in his car as they were leaving school.", "The firm says tighter Covid restrictions and falling passenger numbers have prompted the decision.", "The man charged the 92-year-old £160 and came back a week later asking for a further £100.", "Seventeen million doses have been ordered by the UK and are expected to arrive in spring.", "Sweet Melody becomes the band's fifth number one, and their first since Jesy Nelson left.", "But some performances may be pre-recorded if artists can't travel to Rotterdam.", "The deaths of a further 93 people have been recorded - with the number of patients in hospital at record levels.", "When Trump supporters stormed the Capitol they took out their cameras to record the chaos inside.", "He is remembered for the 7 Up documentary series which followed the lives of 14 children since 1964.", "Secret recordings revealed \"enough profanity, casual sexism and racism to last a lifetime\".", "Criticism of new Brexit trade rules is growing as firms warn of more bureaucracy, higher costs and delays.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Students say they will refuse to pay for accommodation they cannot use during lockdown.", "It is the third vaccine to be approved for UK use, after the Pfizer and Oxford jabs.", "Ross Kemp and Christopher Biggins do readings at the funeral of the EastEnders and Carry On actress.", "The Competition and Markets Authority will explore whether Google is abusing its market dominance.", "Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove says \"work is ongoing\" to improve trade from GB to NI.", "Her family said the British model, who died in December aged 50, had been \"unwell for some time\".", "We asked people around the US how they responded to the chaotic scenes from the US Capitol.", "The drugs, which save an extra life for every 12 intensive care patients treated, can be used immediately, say experts.", "Shark attacks are rare in the country and it is thought to be the first such death since 2013.", "Breakdown of what happened when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol amid a key Senate vote.", "The weekly applause is back - but its founder distances herself from the initiative.", "The lender says it expects \"downward pressure on house prices\" in 2021 following annual rise of 6% last year.", "Business Secretary Alok Sharma becomes full-time president of November's COP26 conference in Glasgow.", "Data leaked to BBC News shows a rise in the number of hours before patients are offloaded.", "Marks & Spencer's clothes sales overall fall nearly a quarter, but pyjamas are back in fashion.", "The UK prime minister also says the US president is \"completely wrong\" over his election fraud claims.", "The men were detained when special forces stormed the Nave Andromeda off the Isle of Wight.", "Travellers from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana and Mauritius will be barred from entry.", "Top Democrats call for the president to be removed as he commits to an \"orderly\" transition of power.", "A London fashion student made the \"social distancing bandeau\" out of a Chiltern Railways seat cover.", "The mayor says in some parts of London 1 in 20 people has Covid-19, as he declares a \"major incident\".", "It comes as all of Wales has snow and ice warnings for the next few days.", "The Korean car company originally said it was in talks with the tech titan before backtracking.", "Two women were fined £200 after driving five miles to walk around Foremark Reservoir, Derbyshire.", "Worried childcare staff call on ministers to prove it's safe for them to open in England.", "Boris Johnson says the armed forces will use \"battle preparation techniques\" to help vaccinate millions.", "Vincent Kane does not know when his operation will happen, having been delayed due to the pandemic.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 1 and 8 January.", "Satellite data shows that 2020 and 2016 are essentially tied as the hottest years since records began.", "Lorry drivers will need a negative result to cross into France until further notice, the government says.", "A record 68,053 cases are also reported as a third vaccine is approved for use in the UK.", "Details and reaction as First Minister Mark Drakeford confirms an extended closure of schools.", "The Duke of Cambridge says he wants his three children to appreciate sacrifices made during Covid.", "He claims her evidence to an inquiry into sexual harassment allegations against him was \"untrue\".", "The Wanted member shares some good news with his fans, three months on from his cancer diagnosis.", "Meanwhile almost half of people took advantage of Christmas bubble rules, a national survey suggests.", "Kelvin Hopkins has previously denied claims by a party activist of inappropriate physical contact.", "A series of streamed music events, shows and releases will mark five years since the singer's death.", "With attendance as high as 50% in some areas, heads call for pupil limits in England's lockdown schools.", "Ramsey was loved by fans for her role as Officer Laverne Hooks in the Police Academy film series.", "Lockdown measures will see schools closed until half term, and GCSEs and A-levels unable to go ahead as normal.", "Four boys and a girl are held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after the Reading attack.", "That includes some of the most vulnerable patients who should soon have \"significant\" protection against the virus.", "Four people were accused of being a \"supporting cast\" for burglars who targeted west London homes.", "Mainland Scotland faces tougher restrictions from midnight, and schools will remain closed until February.", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine programme is being rolled out less than a week after it became the second approved in the UK.", "President Trump initially accused China of the hack against US government agencies in December.", "The first cyclone of Australia’s season has been downgraded but continues to cause danger.", "Reversing earlier assurances, officials say tracing data can be used for criminal investigations.", "Boris Johnson tells a briefing that nearly a quarter of people over 80 have received a Covid-19 jab.", "Dr Radha Modgil shares tips on staying mentally and emotionally well during the coronavirus lockdown.", "Enrique Tarrio was detained as he entered the city ahead of a pro-Trump protest this week.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "BBC Two and CBBC will show content for primary and secondary pupils to watch without the internet.", "Sea Shepherd says the collision happened after it came under attack in the Gulf of California.", "Business groups welcomed the new help as a good start but said more aid and a clear plan would be needed.", "Boris Johnson made the decision on restrictions \"in the face of new information\", the chancellor says.", "The first minister says restrictions \"similar to March\" will come into force in mainland Scotland from midnight and schools will not re-open in January.", "Professional sport in England will be allowed to continue behind closed doors, despite a new national lockdown announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.", "The children's commissioner for England and Labour's leader call on firms to help low-income families.", "The Department of Health's aim is for all people older than 80 to receive a jab by the end of January.", "A growing divide over education, jobs, and ethnicity threaten the fabric of society, says Nobel laureate's study.", "Economy Minister Diane Dodds writes to Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove over the issue.", "UK nationals resident in Spain say they were wrongly turned back when their flight landed in Barcelona.", "You may be happy to let your phone recognise your face - but what about the police?", "Virgin Holidays joins Tui and Thomas Cook in cancelling holidays after latest coronavirus restrictions.", "In a TV address, Labour's leader says millions of doses need to be given each week by the end of January.", "Rutherglen MP Margaret Ferrier is charged by police with \"alleged culpable and reckless conduct\".", "The cancellations, although rare, reflect the pressure some hospitals are under from Covid.", "Roughly one in 50 people in England has got the virus, Prof Chris Whitty says.", "Demand surges as shoppers rush to secure online delivery slots following news of another lockdown.", "In the tightening of restrictions across the UK there is much that's an echo of March - but a lot that's different too.", "It's been a \"Herculean achievement\" for Marieme and Ndeye, who survived against the odds.", "The news comes following confusion after her death was prematurely announced on Monday.", "Former Manchester City and England midfielder Colin Bell dies aged 74 after a short illness, the Premier League club announces.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "YouTube says the broadcaster posted banned Covid content, but it has decided to reinstate its channel.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon thinks Celtic have questions to answer on the grounds for their winter trip to Dubai and says the club's social distancing \"should be looked into\".", "The stationery chain which has 127 stores and around 1,500 employees says shop closures hit it hard.", "Doctors leaders' want staff to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care.", "Former Buckingham Palace caterer Adamo Canto attempted to sell some items on eBay, a court hears.", "Vocational exams such as BTECs are not being cancelled by the lockdown like GCSEs and A-levels.", "A hearing will decide whether Khairi Saadallah was motivated by a religious or ideological cause.", "The Love Island star is alleged to have \"breached quarantine\" regulations on holiday in Barbados.", "Stay-at-home orders are issued in England and Scotland, as UK classrooms face further disruption.", "The executive also plans to give its stay at home message legal force, with new travel restrictions.", "The famous building on London's Oxford Street has been put on the market by administrators.", "Strict new Covid-19 restrictions come into force in Scotland, prohibiting people from leaving their homes.", "A fresh move to make non-fatal strangulation a specific criminal offence is under way.", "The personal trainer says he wants to \"give children structure\" during lockdown.", "Regulators say the plane is safe to resume service after two fatal crashes led to its grounding.", "Insurers reject claims that by covering ransomware bills they are funding organised crime.", "But loss of taste and smell may be less likely to affect those with the new strain, a study suggests.", "Travellers share their experiences of isolating in hotels, as the UK announces a similar scheme.", "Boris Johnson says he takes \"full responsibility\" for the UK government's response to the pandemic.", "Nicola Sturgeon says she is \"not ecstatic\" about reports the PM will visit Scotland on Thursday.", "The tunnel is a danger to public safety, an HS2 spokeswoman told the BBC.", "The 71-year-old Lib Dem peer says she is wearing her \"I've had the jab\" badge with pride.", "Philippa Day was found collapsed beside a letter rejecting her request for an at-home assessment.", "The 83-year-old Hollywood royalty is also known as an active climate change campaigner.", "The shadow justice secretary calls for seven-member juries to deal with cases delayed by the pandemic.", "Karen Hobbs' sister says she is in shock, and urges people to follow lockdown rules.", "Boris Johnson says most people in Scotland are focused on defeating Covid rather than another referendum.", "Images of Jonathan Mok's swollen eye were posted on Facebook and shared thousands of times.", "Robin Swann says all health workers are valued and have worked tirelessly during the pandemic.", "A collection of your tributes to some of the thousands of people in the UK who have died with coronavirus.", "The financial regulator will consult \"shortly\" on a rise from the current limit of £45.", "Ministers are due to meet on Monday to consider whether to tighten the UK's border restrictions further.", "Footage shows a banned driver in a stolen car drive into a police officer on his motorbike.", "The PM sets the date he hopes England's lockdown will begin to ease, but warns of a \"perilous situation\".", "Boris Johnson also says he shares the \"frustration\" of parents who want to get children back to school.", "Already 100,000 people in the UK have died with Covid. This is the story of one of them.", "Demand for the video game and cloud computing services helped push Microsoft sales to a new quarterly record.", "Families loaded up on the latest technology and sales increased in China.", "The maps depict the famous sea battle in which the English fleet was victorious in 1588.", "There will be \"a lot more deaths\" before the effect of vaccines is felt, England's chief medical officer says.", "The lack of certainty about schools returning is fraying the exhausted nerves of parents.", "The Army sends a bomb disposal unit to a site where the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is produced.", "Already 100,000 people in the UK have died with Covid. This is the story of one of them.", "The Met says it was a \"poor decision\" to hire a barber to give cuts to 31 officers in the workplace.", "The Oscar-nominated actor and his choreographer wife describe as \"difficult\" their decision to split.", "It is the first time the world-famous event will take place in the autumn.", "Nadhim Zahawi says supply is tight, but he expects the UK to meet its February target of 15 million doses.", "A \"legacy of poor decisions\" in 2020 and before the pandemic led to 100,000 deaths, scientists say.", "Scientists say sharks and rays are disappearing from the world's oceans at an \"alarming\" rate.", "As the UK records its 100,000th death from Covid within 28 days of a positive test, Catherine Burns speaks to some of the people behind the figures.", "Bailiffs move in to remove people who dug a 100ft tunnel to block the high-speed rail line.", "Nicola Sturgeon says she is concerned the UK's travel restrictions will not go far enough.", "The government gives its support to a project to use oral contraceptives to control grey squirrels.", "Leon Briggs was \"like a child crying out for a toy\" as he was held down by officers, a jury hears.", "As the number of people who died reaches six figures, the factors that led to this terrible total.", "Nurse Eva Gicain says when she held Elleana for the first time she \"didn't want to let go\".", "The pharmaceutical giant said the late signing of contracts limited time to sort out supply glitches.", "Has the PM effectively admitted we're heading for a full year of limits on our lives?", "Lockdown led to a surge in reports of fraudsters imitating genuine investment firms, regulator says.", "Jagtar Singh Johal has been held in an Indian jail without conviction for more than three years.", "Labour calls for key workers to be added to the first phase of the vaccination programme.", "Residents hit upon the idea after the annual street parade was cancelled because of the pandemic.", "Boris Johnson faced questions from MPs why the UK's coronavirus death toll is the highest in Europe.", "Claudia Marsh had recently qualified as a teacher and also volunteered for two charities.", "The social media platform removed posts after wrongly identifying the place name as offensive.", "We must remember that every one of the lives lost during the pandemic leaves a legacy of sorrow.", "Details from a briefing by the chief medical officer and chief scientific adviser for health.", "David Solomon is being punished for the bank's involvement in the fraudulent Malaysian investment fund.", "Josh Quigley, from Livingston, suffered multiple fractures after coming off his bike at 40mph while training in Dubai.", "The “phased” lifting of restrictions will depend on data on hospitalisations, deaths and vaccinations.", "The government faces legal action over its decision to allow the use of a pesticide that harms bees.", "UK residents can apply for the new card to access emergency medical care when their EHIC card runs out.", "Khairi Saadallah murdered three friends in a Reading park in a \"ruthless and brutal” terror attack.", "Cardiff City defender Sol Bamba is undergoing chemotherapy after being diagnosed with cancer, the Championship club has announced", "County Mayo man howls with laughter while trying to record a birthday message for his son.", "Derbyshire Police apologises to two women fined £200 for driving five miles for a countryside walk.", "New Covid curbs are necessary but they will hit the economy, Chancellor Rishi Sunak warns.", "Thousands of National Guard troops are being deployed to bolster security in Washington DC.", "Dutch TV films officials confiscating ham sandwiches from UK drivers under new food import rules.", "Unison chooses Christina McAnea to replace Dave Prentis, who has been in the job for 20 years.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says 2.3 million people in the UK have now had a Covid-19 vaccine dose.", "James Brokenshire will take leave from his Home Office job during further surgery for lung cancer.", "Medical director warns Wrexham Maelor is under huge pressure as numbers of seriously ill patients rise.", "It said there may be \"an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks\".", "The new Welsh Government vaccine plan says all eligible adults will be offered a jab by the autumn.", "M&S is buying the brand out of administration, but not Jaeger's scores of shops and concessions.", "University of Surrey tests for BBC News found no evidence of any effect.", "The decision follows a rise in cases across the emirates in the past week, officials say.", "A document advises doctors that the minimum level of oxygen required in the blood is being reduced.", "Scotland's first minister says she has doubts about whether Celtic's trip to Dubai was \"really essential\".", "\"Numbers are increasing not decreasing\" - inside an emergency body storage facility in Surrey.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.", "Three people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest, including the woman seen in the video.", "A number of Scottish schools, pupils and parents report Microsoft Teams running slowly or not at all.", "People who cannot work from home should be prioritised for rapid tests in England, the government says.", "Luke Evans portrays the policeman who brought John Cooper to justice for two double murders.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says the NHS is under \"very serious pressure\" and warns people to stay home.", "Extra measures are taken to distribute Covid vaccines amid fears the snow could turn to ice.", "Crawley Town produce one of the FA Cup third round's most emphatic upsets as they stun Premier League side Leeds United.", "As countries look to quickly vaccinate people, BBC reporters explain what's happening across Europe.", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "Manchester United will host Premier League champions Liverpool in the fourth round of the FA Cup.", "Seven mass vaccination centres have opened across England to help deliver the Coronavirus vaccine.", "A study finds that the financial burden on poorer families has increased during the pandemic.", "The much-loved TV series is back with a new name but only three of the original four leads will star.", "The government says a draft agreement saying flat owners need its approval first is \"standard\".", "An industry group wants more state help for people like Jon Wilding, whose business is hit by the pandemic.", "Kitchen robots, new TVs, smart masks and a toilet that analyses your poo are among the new products.", "Doctors at the hospital say they're treating more younger patients than in the first wave.", "Boris Johnson was spotted at the Olympic Park on Sunday, despite government advice to \"stay local\".", "Nicola Sturgeon acknowledges technical problems on the first day the vast majority of pupils in Scotland begin the new term at home.", "About 560,000 people will have been vaccinated by the beginning of next month, the health secretary says.", "He wants businesses to do more to protect the planet as he marks 50 years of environmental campaigning.", "It comes after a Celtic player tested positive less than 48 hours after the squad returned from a training trip there.", "People refusing to wear face coverings who are not medically exempt will not be allowed to shop inside.", "Increasing numbers of seriously-ill patients add to the pressure facing Scotland's health service.", "Celtic's only regret about their Dubai trip was Chris Jullien contracting Covid-19, said coach Gavin Strachan, after the draw with Hibernian.", "Details and reaction to Health Minister Vaughan Gething's vaccination rollout plan.", "Justice Secretary Robert Buckland says too many abusers' sentences are not tough enough.", "Lisa Montgomery's lawyers argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who deserved mercy, but her victim's community said otherwise.", "A \"significant step-up\" in rolling out vaccines is promised by the health minister.", "The Labour leader calls for tougher coronavirus restrictions and says help for low earners must continue.", "The social network has hit back asking a federal judge to order it to be reinstated.", "Two landslides hit the same village in Indonesia within hours, leaving emergency teams trapped.", "The content will not count in a mobile data allowance to help keep costs of online learning down.", "Patients, many shielding, have been offered appointments miles away from their homes.", "The health secretary says UK vaccine rollout is on track but urges everyone to play their part by following Covid rules.", "The warning from England's chief medical officer comes as seven mass vaccination centres open.", "Joe Biden's presidential Twitter account launches with no followers transferred from President Trump.", "Some areas could see freezing temperatures and 5-10cm of snow on Saturday, the Met Office says.", "The Daily Telegraph must publish a correction over Covid claims, press regulator Ipso rules.", "Police and rail bosses condemn a social media post featuring a car parked on a level crossing.", "A negative test had been due to be required from Friday, but ministers said people needed time to prepare.", "Post-primary schools get extra time to decide how they will admit pupils after transfer tests are cancelled.", "Plastic surgeons express shock at the stabbing of \"highly respected\" Graeme Perks in his home.", "Red tape plus a \"poor\" Brexit deal mean fishermen fear for the future, says an industry body.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 8 and 15 January.", "In one health board, 30% of four and five-year-olds are overweight or obese.", "The couple, who both have coronavirus, were given \"precious\" time together, their daughter says.", "Even experienced exporters are struggling with the system, says the British Meat Processor Association.", "Details and reaction as First Minister Mark Drakeford promises more protection to shop workers.", "It comes after reports that protections including the 48-hour work week could be dropped.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the action is needed to protect against the risk of new Covid strains.", "He helped kick-start punk and new wave, and was an influence on the Sex Pistols and Guns N' Roses.", "Move follows concern over a new Covid variant which an expert says has already been found in the UK.", "Statistics agency Nisra says 145 deaths were registered last week, bringing its pandemic total to 1,976.", "The show of military strength comes days before the inauguration of Joe Biden as US president.", "Craig Ross was quoted as saying food bank users were \"far from starving\" and more at risk of diabetes.", "The Home Office says it is working to \"assess the impact\" of the issue, which has been resolved.", "Homes worry about being sued if people contract the virus while they are staying there.", "Richard Sharp says the BBC represents good value, but how it is funded \"may be worth reassessing\".", "Scientists warn UK deaths will continue to rise as the global death toll passes two million.", "Coronavirus restrictions in England affected services, with pubs and hairdressers badly hit.", "Antonio says he felt he was discriminated against because of his skin colour when he was sectioned.", "Reports from Manaus say medical staff are begging for help in a critical situation due to Covid-19.", "The NHS fears some communities are being targeted with misinformation, a leading doctor says.", "Replacement exam grades are likely to arrive earlier and be decided by teachers and a test.", "Donations of plasma from people who have recovered from the virus have been suspended.", "A variant that is thought to be more infectious has not been found in the UK, scientist says.", "A letter from police chiefs also says 213,000 records were lost - more than first thought.", "Pharmacist Llyr Hughes said 50 patients would be given the Covid vaccine at his pharmacy on Friday.", "The R number in the UK is officially estimated at 1.2-1.3 as a further 1,280 deaths are reported.", "Hospitals with large critical care capacity are taking patients from other areas to ease pressures.", "The Saved by the Bell actor became ill last week and was taken to hospital.", "Network Rail said a 24m section of side wall fell away from a bridge between Carmont and Stonehaven.", "On Thursday, 16 more deaths related to Covid-19 were recorded along with 973 new positive cases.", "The earthquake struck the island of Sulawesi on Friday, injuring hundreds and destroying a hospital.", "US police held back a mob for hours in a \"barbaric\" battle at the Capitol. Here are their stories.", "A respiratory doctor at the Mater Hospital warns that oxygen supplies are under \"extreme pressure\".", "Wayne Rooney is named as Derby County's new manager, with the ex-England captain also announcing his retirement from playing.", "David Chambers is accused of charging the woman £160 for a bogus jab.", "The footballer joins celebrities and campaigners to call for action in a letter to the prime minister.", "Mr Leonard says it is in the best interests of the party if he stands down as leader immediately.", "The government says the funding will connect \"left-behind\" communities.", "Tens of thousands of people join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Saturday morning.", "It is claimed they were seen drinking on Welsh Parliament premises when a ban on its sale in pubs was in force.", "Campaigners say a government fund to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding is woefully inadequate.", "One says he is surprised Boris Johnson shared the early data when it is \"not particularly strong\".", "It brings the total number of deaths to 97,329.", "Keon Lincoln was attacked by a group of youths in the Handsworth area of Birmingham.", "Police uncover a string of late-night \"incredibly selfish\" parties in Kensington and Chelsea.", "Pressures on intensive care units are seeing one in 10 patients transferred to a different site.", "Photographs of National Guard members sheltering underground spark anger among lawmakers.", "Some elderly people have been told to travel miles to get the jab or face having to wait to get it.", "A shortage of shipping containers, rising costs, and congestion at ports are holding back imports from China.", "Presented as a safe pair of hands, he struggled to make himself heard during tumultuous times.", "Some will enable women to have overnight visits with their children, the Ministry of Justice says.", "Underground investigations are due to begin on Saturday after flooding linked to old mine shaft.", "Booking a jab by following a link in an email meant \"depriving someone else\" of a vaccine, he said.", "Vitinha's superb goal sees Wolves into the fifth round of the FA Cup at the expense of non-league Chorley.", "As the UK rejects £500 Covid pay outs, how are others countries getting people to stick to the rules?", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "Injections are to be delivered at Black Country Living Museum where the series has in part been filmed.", "The vaccination centres temporarily closed in south Wales as a weather warning was extended.", "The popular US broadcaster conducted about 50,000 interviews, from Nelson Mandela to Lady Gaga.", "Pavithra Wanniarachchi, Sri Lanka's health minister, tested positive for Covid on Friday.", "Anybody struggling to get to an appointment will be able to rearrange, a health board says.", "Boris Johnson said he looked forward to \"deepening the longstanding alliance\" between the UK and US.", "NHS staff rally to arrange a wedding for a couple as the groom's condition deteriorates in hospital.", "Evidence suggests the variant that emerged in the UK may be more deadly as well as faster-spreading.", "In the city where the virus first emerged there is now an insistence that it came from elsewhere.", "The chief rabbi has described the event as a \"shameful desecration of all that we hold dear\".", "Delaying second Pfizer doses to give more people their first is \"difficult to justify\", says BMA.", "Inadequate PPE and a new variant may be putting the lives of nurses at risk, says nursing union.", "Manchester City score three times in the last 10 minutes to defeat League Two side Cheltenham and avoid one of the biggest shocks in FA Cup history.", "Thirty-nine Vietnamese migrants suffocated in a sealed container en route to Essex in October 2019.", "Police hold aides to Putin critic Alexei Navalny as opposition activists start a string of rallies.", "Under coronavirus restrictions a maximum of 30 people are meant to attend a funeral.", "Boris Johnson has not ruled out further action to secure the borders amid concerns over Covid variants.", "Worship has been suspended as burials average 15-a-day, yet still there is denial about the disease.", "AstraZeneca is the latest company, after Pfizer, to warn of delivery issues, frustrating officials.", "The UK's chief medical adviser warns that \"a very small change and it could start taking off again\".", "An intensive care doctor says medics are seeing \"unprecedented\" numbers of people dying.", "They were hit while licking freshly laid salt on a road which is a black spot for animal accidents.", "And another 964 people died within 28 days of a positive test, only slightly down on Wednesday's figure.", "Objects are thrown and officers threatened as they break up the New Year's Eve party in Essex.", "As the UK prepares to sever EU ties, Stanley Johnson says he has always regarded himself as French.", "Campaigners say cutting of the 5% VAT rate on tampons and sanitary towels ends a 'sexist' tax.", "Japan's prime minister says the delayed Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead this summer despite concern over rising coronavirus cases.", "Doctors urge public to \"take it seriously\" and follow coronavirus restrictions amid rising cases.", "The British dance band make some of their biggest hits available for the first time.", "The new year celebrations featured a tribute to the NHS and a message from David Attenborough.", "Bishop, who recently tested positive for Covid-19, said boarding the Tardis was \"a dream come true\".", "Joe Anderson says Labour should pick another candidate while he seeks to clear his name.", "Former Manchester United and Scotland manager Tommy Docherty dies at the age of 92 following a long illness.", "The first minister warns Scotland could be entering the most dangerous period since the outbreak began.", "Manchester United move level on points with Premier League leaders Liverpool as a Bruno Fernandes penalty seals victory over Aston Villa.", "NHS England says the facility is available to help the capital's hospitals as Covid-19 cases rise.", "The designer of the scene says it is not the first time it has been targeted.", "Several hundred people gathered at Edinburgh Castle despite warnings to stay away.", "Education Secretary Gavin Williamson drops plan to keep primaries open in 10 boroughs in the city.", "Footage is released of the first police-involved death in the US city since George Floyd's in May.", "Staff absences and the new Covid variant are creating a \"challenging situation\", NHS Providers warn.", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "Primary schools in only 10 of London's boroughs are due to reopen next week.", "One of hip-hop's most influential MCs, masked rapper MF Doom died in October, his family confirm.", "It comes as most people heeded warnings to stay home - but police issued fines to those who didn't.", "With a Brexit deal done, we look at the challenges to come at British borders.", "The UK’s new single market is not as big as the country, it now needs to encompass the whole world.", "Some lorries heading for Ireland have already been turned away from Welsh ports over wrong paperwork.", "Health Minister Vaughan Gething urges \"patience\" as the vaccine programme steps up in Wales.", "Nine people are still missing, two days after a hillside collapsed due to flowing clay mud.", "The finance minister had visited the Caribbean while his province is under strict Covid lockdown.", "The UK will now leave a 12-week gap between both parts of the Covid vaccination, rather than 21 days.", "The trade border means most commercial goods entering NI from GB now require a customs declaration.", "Boris Johnson celebrates the \"freedom in our hands\" as the long Brexit process comes to a conclusion.", "Firework displays and some religious rituals go ahead, although Covid mutes celebrations.", "The station will reflect on the world's longest-running serial drama across its output on Friday.", "The deal - yet to become a treaty - enables Spanish workers to continue entering Gibraltar freely.", "Omar Elabdellaoui, who plays for Turkish club Galatasaray, suffers burns and is taken to hospital.", "A new campaign is launched to urge people not to become complacent about the Covid restrictions.", "A total of 1,596 patients are in Scottish hospitals with Covid as pressures on the NHS continue to build.", "Kim Jong-un calls the US his \"biggest enemy\" and says plans for a nuclear submarine are nearly complete.", "Two women were fined £200 after driving five miles to walk around Foremark Reservoir, Derbyshire.", "A self-employed father-of-three calls on UK government to be \"more flexible\" with its Covid support.", "Breakdown of what happened when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol amid a key Senate vote.", "Vincent Kane does not know when his operation will happen, having been delayed due to the pandemic.", "The property investment firm is accused of trying to \"jump the queue\".", "As Covid patients waited at Royal Glamorgan Hospital the nurse had a fear of \"wanting to leave\".", "Advertising campaign warning people not to get complacent comes as 1,325 deaths are recorded in the UK.", "Criticism of new Brexit trade rules is growing as firms warn of more bureaucracy, higher costs and delays.", "The vaccines were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle, a royal source says.", "The Welsh Government is in discussions with supermarkets about bringing \"more visible\" regulations.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "A record 68,053 cases are also reported as a third vaccine is approved for use in the UK.", "Bernard Thomas was rescued from the rubble of Pantglas primary school on 21 October, 1966.", "The gym owners were given a £1,000 fine after three people were found inside on Friday.", "The friends said they were relieved people would not have to fear being fined for taking a walk.", "Terence Glover \"ploughed\" into a group of children in his car as they were leaving school.", "A timeline of international air crashes from 1998 to the present.", "West Ham manager David Moyes says footballers must not be \"picked on\" for breaching coronavirus guidelines.", "Councillor Kevin Hughes missed his mother's funeral after testing positive for coronavirus.", "US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says contact between officials should no longer be \"shackled\".", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "Apple will also remove the social network from its App Store if it does not change its policies.", "As countries look to quickly vaccinate people, BBC reporters explain what's happening across Europe.", "At least six police vans are deployed to Clapham Common where about 30 protesters gathered.", "Ross Kemp and Christopher Biggins do readings at the funeral of the EastEnders and Carry On actress.", "The farm has been left with over 4,000 surplus eggs after schools suddenly closed to most pupils.", "The Duke of Cambridge says he wants his three children to appreciate sacrifices made during Covid.", "He claims her evidence to an inquiry into sexual harassment allegations against him was \"untrue\".", "Thousands more people have taken up fishing during the pandemic, figures show.", "Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove says \"work is ongoing\" to improve trade from GB to NI.", "Meanwhile almost half of people took advantage of Christmas bubble rules, a national survey suggests.", "How Trump's favourite social media site banned him - permanently.", "A London fashion student made the \"social distancing bandeau\" out of a Chiltern Railways seat cover.", "Kelvin Hopkins has previously denied claims by a party activist of inappropriate physical contact.", "He is remembered for the 7 Up documentary series which followed the lives of 14 children since 1964.", "Eva Williams was unable to travel to the United States for treatment due to coronavirus.", "Four deaths are reported as Storm Filomena dumps snow and triggers floods across the country.", "He hopes to beat his own lockdown bulge with his \"Get Buzzin' With Bez\" YouTube classes.", "The new more infectious variant requires tougher measures to control the spread of Covid, say scientists.", "Another 1,035 people have died, taking the total since the start of the pandemic to 80,868.", "The mayor says in some parts of London 1 in 20 people has Covid-19, as he declares a \"major incident\".", "More than 100 cars are turned away from a beauty spot in north Wales, police say.", "The total number of deaths within 28 days of a positive test during the pandemic is now above 90,000.", "The convicted murderer and music producer was described as \"talented but flawed\" in an online story.", "Police in Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire say they are expecting flooding in their regions.", "An eyewitness speaks publicly for the first time about the 2015 death of a man being restrained by police.", "Tory rebels hope to get another chance to outlaw trade deals with countries involved in mass killings.", "Lisbet Stone was turned away from her flight to London due to having an outdated Covid test.", "US tariffs on Scotch whisky and cashmere remain in place as UK fails to reach deal with Washington.", "Marion Dawson from Renfrewshire is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.", "Europe is gradually easing lockdown measures ahead of the tourist season.", "People accused of crimes in England and Wales - and alleged victims - wait years for a resolution.", "One person is killed and at least 10 are injured after vehicles collide on the Tohoku Expressway.", "Top medical adviser suggests schools in England may reopen region by region after lockdown.", "The Duchess of Sussex is suing the Mail on Sunday over the publication of her letter to her father.", "But researchers warn there is still a risk of catching and passing the virus on to others again.", "Out of 23,000 professors in UK universities only 155 are black, official figures reveal.", "Court cases face serious delays in the UK and lawyers say more investment in technology would help.", "The government is being scrutinised over trade deals with countries with poor human rights records.", "People who say Boris Johnson does not want Joe Biden as president are \"mistaken\", says Lord Sedwill.", "Police found evidence of sub-standard care at the Caerphilly home, an inquest hears.", "Matt Hancock says he will stay at home and urged others to do the same if \"pinged\" by the app.", "A collection of your tributes to some of the thousands of people in the UK who have died with coronavirus.", "The UK's push to secure a deal over fossil fuels is being undercut by a decision to allow a new coal mine, MPs warn.", "The number of people needing intensive care is expected to continue rising for at least two weeks.", "Ex-Marine John Deacy, 81, died with Covid-19 just two weeks after his last shift at the supermarket.", "Mainland Scotland and some islands to remain under toughest coronavirus rules until at least mid-February.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday evening.", "Labour accuses Kwasi Kwarteng of \"unpicking\" workers' rights, as minister confirms he will review rules.", "The unnamed man lived in Verbier, where the incident happened, police said.", "Boris Johnson promises £23m in compensation for exporters which have lost orders due to delays.", "Many parents struggle to meet their children's needs during the pandemic, say researchers.", "Alex Davies-Jones said \"like so many others\" she put off having a test for months.", "Paul Reid was the first person to reach Saffie-Rose Roussos, eight, after the bomb was detonated.", "Nicola Sturgeon says although there is \"cautious grounds for optimism\" on case numbers, the strictest rules will remain in place.", "Live updates from Trump's last hours in office before Democrat Joe Biden is sworn in as president on Wednesday.", "The artwork has been returned to an Italian museum - whose staff were unaware it was missing.", "A survey by consumer group Which? raises concerns over coronavirus leading to more cashless stores.", "Creator of the BBC crime drama says he \"always wanted to end Peaky with a movie\".", "University of Edinburgh scientists are a step closer to being able to reverse the damage caused by MND.", "Tory MPs want Parliament to debate ending trade deals with countries deemed responsible for genocide.", "Orthodox Christians, Putin among them, take an icy dip to commemorate a special day.", "The BBC speaks to Nirmal Purja, from the team of the first climbers to reach the K2 summit in winter.", "The UK has not always \"lived up to its values\" under Boris Johnson, his predecessor Theresa May says.", "Ambulance service staff in London explain the unique pressures of working during a pandemic.", "Pressure grows on PM after non-binding motion on universal credit top-up is passed by 278 votes.", "Are court backlogs creating miscarriages of justice? Helen Grady investigates.", "The Protection of Workers Bill will make it a new specific offence to assault, abuse or threaten Scottish retail staff.", "India pull off an astonishing run-chase to inflict Australia's first defeat at the Gabba since 1988 and take one of the all-time great series.", "The first minister says her statement to MSPs will concern the duration of Scotland's restrictions.", "Some 10% of the UK population is showing signs of recent infection, a doubling since October, says ONS.", "David Urpeth says smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths.\"", "A further 1,610 people die with Covid in the UK as Scotland extends its lockdown to mid-February.", "Campaigners are bringing a judicial review for indirect sexual discrimination on Thursday.", "All practices will have their own rollout plan but they have to meet official targets, says GP committee.", "Staff say there was a Covid outbreak after the \"party\" in a shut patisserie at Marylebone station.", "Hackers are selling Depop app account details on the dark web for as little as 77p each online.", "The bank has named the branches that will close between April and September, but aims to avoid redundancies.", "Large parts of northern and central England are expected to face sustained heavy rain from Tuesday.", "The PM leads UK politicians from all parties condemning the riot at the US Capitol building.", "One hospital boss said a two-week \"lag\" meant things could get worse before they get better.", "He wrote 30 novels about relationships and adventures involving young African American characters.", "That includes some of the most vulnerable patients who should soon have \"significant\" protection against the virus.", "He will lead negotiations with the government over the future of the licence fee.", "New 2020 car registrations sink to a 30-year low and see biggest one-year drop since the Second World War", "The bakery chain says it does not expect profits to return to pre-Covid levels until 2022 at the earliest.", "President Trump initially accused China of the hack against US government agencies in December.", "Joe Biden says it is \"totally unacceptable\" police showed more leniency in the Capitol riot than at anti-racism protests.", "All eyes are on the Senate runoff in Georgia, a key race that could help define Biden's presidency.", "Latest figures show more than 90,000 people in Scotland had received a first vaccination by late December.", "But there are fears bottlenecks in the system may hamper how fast NHS can deliver vaccines.", "The 19-year-old suffered life-changing injuries during the \"vicious\" assault in north London.", "Founder Annemarie Plas says the initiative will return on Thursday under the new name of Clap for Heroes.", "The US star says she had \"no idea\" what questions were included in a game bearing her image.", "Gavin Williamson will \"trust in teachers rather than algorithms\" in awarding this year's results.", "The hip-hop star and producer says he is \"doing great\" and \"getting excellent care\".", "A hearing is deciding whether Khairi Saadallah was motivated by a religious or ideological cause.", "The sites, including football stadiums and racecourses, will begin operations next week.", "Staff at one of London's busiest hospitals say it's not going to take much for services to soon break.", "BBC Two and CBBC will show content for primary and secondary pupils to watch without the internet.", "The police officer who the FBI said fired the fatal shot is dismissed for breaching policy.", "The government closed schools to help reduce the virus spread but says nurseries should stay open.", "Investment company Hipgnosis buys a half share of 1,180 songs by the Canadian folk rocker.", "The latest executive order by the US president will only take effect after he has left office.", "Cases have fallen below England's but the new variant is spreading fast, the health minister says.", "As Trump supporters entered the US Capitol building, politicians halted debate inside.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning.", "The US Capitol has gone into lockdown amid violent clashes between police and Trump supporters, who broke security lines and are inside the building.", "The investigators were turned back, with Beijing saying \"there might be some misunderstanding\".", "President Trump and others have made unsubstantiated claims of fraud in two Senate election run-offs.", "US lawmakers and staff are seen wearing protective gas masks as police draw guns on protesters.", "In a TV address, Labour's leader says millions of doses need to be given each week by the end of January.", "One scam tells recipients they are \"eligible to apply for your vaccine\" with a link to a bogus NHS website.", "At Fullwell Cross Medical Centre in north London, they are now vaccinating almost 1,000 people a week.", "Gordon Ramsay remembers late chef Albert Roux as \"the man who installed gastronomy in Britain\".", "The streaming giant is criticised for \"unfortunate\" timing during the new lockdowns.", "Roughly one in 50 people in England has got the virus, Prof Chris Whitty says.", "Details and reaction to a briefing by Wales' chief medical officer and the head of NHS Wales.", "Stores seek to reassure shoppers that there is no need to bulk-buy in new lockdown.", "It's been a \"Herculean achievement\" for Marieme and Ndeye, who survived against the odds.", "A top Chinese scientist addresses claims the coronavirus leaked from her lab in the city of Wuhan.", "The overnight temperature plunged below -12C in the north west Highlands.", "Former Manchester City and England midfielder Colin Bell dies aged 74 after a short illness, the Premier League club announces.", "The Trump administration pushes ahead with first oil lease sales in an Arctic wildlife refuge.", "A driver, who caused a Fife crash that led to his passenger losing her baby, admits causing death by dangerous driving.", "The news comes following confusion after her death was prematurely announced on Monday.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Judge rules he has an incentive to abscond if allowed to leave jail before major appeal hearing.", "Drive-through and delivery services will still be available while it reviews its safety procedures.", "Head teachers warn replacement grades for GCSEs and A-levels must not repeat last year's \"disaster\".", "Leaders from around the world call for peace and a peaceful transfer of power in Washington.", "YouTube says the broadcaster posted banned Covid content, but it has decided to reinstate its channel.", "Poet Helen Mort is calling for a change in the law after images of her were edited with porn.", "Vocational exams such as BTECs are not being cancelled by the lockdown like GCSEs and A-levels.", "The government says it is considering the move to prevent the virus spreading \"across the UK border\".", "Stay-at-home orders are issued in England and Scotland, as UK classrooms face further disruption.", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "The House of Commons approves the government's decision to impose tough restrictions across the country.", "FTSE 100 chiefs will by Wednesday have earned more this year than the average worker's annual wage.", "The BMA in Scotland says it is concerned about the potential impact of delaying the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.", "There will be a \"gradual unwrapping\" of England's lockdown, Boris Johnson tells MPs ahead of a vote later.", "Police say organisers padlocked the door from the inside to stop officers getting in.", "Tributes are paid to Robert Rowland following the accident near his home in the Bahamas.", "The first minister denies claims she knew about harassment allegations earlier than she told parliament.", "The online retailer wants to buy the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.", "It's been 10 years since New Zealand's Pike River mine disaster, and families of victims still feel raw.", "Philip Gannaway served in Wales in World War One and his grave lies thousands of miles from home.", "Tens of thousands of people join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years.", "Despite the furlough scheme, employers decided to cut a record number of jobs during 2020.", "The fast fashion retailer is not purchasing the stores or taking on its staff, the BBC understands.", "Ministers are due to meet on Monday to consider whether to tighten the UK's border restrictions further.", "Firms say they have been advised by officials to set up EU hubs, but the government says it is not policy.", "One says he is surprised Boris Johnson shared the early data when it is \"not particularly strong\".", "Pressures on intensive care units are seeing one in 10 patients transferred to a different site.", "Footage shows a police car apparently driving through a group at a street race in Washington state.", "Israel has vaccinated more than a quarter of its population and now high school students are eligible.", "The claim comes after a coroner ruled two deaths on the M1 motorway were avoidable.", "As high risk groups continue to be immunised there are growing concerns that people with learning disabilities have been missed out.", "Ministers are urged to intervene amid rising Covid infection numbers at the Swansea office.", "Booking a jab by following a link in an email meant \"depriving someone else\" of a vaccine, he said.", "Some of those leading the nation's vaccination effort have told of their experiences.", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "The vaccination centres temporarily closed in south Wales as a weather warning was extended.", "A Sunday Times poll shows 51% of people in favour of holding a border poll in NI within five years.", "The popular US broadcaster conducted about 50,000 interviews, from Nelson Mandela to Lady Gaga.", "Entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX company delivers 143 satellites to orbit on a single rocket flight.", "Pavithra Wanniarachchi, Sri Lanka's health minister, tested positive for Covid on Friday.", "Boris Johnson said he looked forward to \"deepening the longstanding alliance\" between the UK and US.", "Keon Lincoln was attacked by a group of youths in the Handsworth area of Birmingham.", "He replaces Paul Davies who quit after drinking alcohol with other politicians in the Senedd.", "Conor McGregor is left stunned on his return to the UFC as Dustin Poirier wins their rematch at UFC 257 by technical knockout.", "The UK health secretary also says the UK has identified 77 cases of the Covid South Africa variant.", "Bruno Fernandes comes off the bench to fire Manchester United past fierce rivals Liverpool in a pulsating FA Cup fourth-round tie.", "Tens of thousands braved a police crackdown to show support for jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny.", "Vaccination appointments for over-70s in Scotland will arrive on Monday as planned - but in white envelopes.", "Manchester City score three times in the last 10 minutes to defeat League Two side Cheltenham and avoid one of the biggest shocks in FA Cup history.", "Some guests were found hiding in cupboards when police raided student flats in Birmingham.", "Motorists are urged to take care with sub-zero temperatures forecast into Monday.", "England's deputy chief medical officer urges those who have had the jab to stick to lockdown rules.", "TV footage from China shows the first miner being brought to the surface, as emergency workers applaud.", "The extraordinary life of an American who invited hundreds of thousands to his Paris home for dinner.", "UK residents can apply for the new card to access emergency medical care when their EHIC card runs out.", "County Mayo man howls with laughter while trying to record a birthday message for his son.", "New Covid curbs are necessary but they will hit the economy, Chancellor Rishi Sunak warns.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says 2.3 million people in the UK have now had a Covid-19 vaccine dose.", "The Countryfile star will present the Friday and Saturday editions of the BBC Radio 4 programme.", "A 20-year-old man who spent a week in intensive care says many young people are in denial about Covid.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel says the \"horrifying\" death toll underlines the need to follow restrictions.", "Seven mass vaccination centres have opened across England to help deliver the Coronavirus vaccine.", "Kitchen robots, new TVs, smart masks and a toilet that analyses your poo are among the new products.", "Customers will only be able to collect from Waitrose stores following a \"change in tone\" from the government.", "The father of a Reading terror attack victim asks why the killer was not considered a danger.", "Deliveries may be delayed in 28 areas due to \"resourcing issues\", the postal group says.", "Khairi Saadallah murdered three friends in a Reading park in a \"ruthless and brutal” terror attack.", "Anna Wintour hit back at claims that the informal picture downplayed Ms Harris's achievements.", "Investors have agreed a deal to save the chain, along with Ponden Home and Bonmarché.", "Officials say 170 individuals involved in deadly Capitol riots have been identified, and many more will be.", "Scotland's first minister says the current restrictions are \"very unlikely\" to be lifted at the end of the month.", "The celebrated 94-year-old broadcaster is the latest celebrity to have a first dose of the vaccine.", "The decision follows a rise in cases across the emirates in the past week, officials say.", "The Earl of Strathmore attacked a woman in her room during an event he was hosting at Glamis Castle.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "A supermarket worker says door staff are facing abuse when they challenge those not wearing masks.", "The facility at the ExCeL Centre also has the capital's first mass vaccination centre on site.", "Overall, patients are now more likely to survive, but death rates are high in intensive care.", "Earlier this month videos showing supposed empty hospitals were shared on social media.", "A leaked memo warns several Birmingham hospitals risk being \"overwhelmed\" by coronavirus patients.", "Boris Johnson was spotted at the Olympic Park on Sunday, despite government advice to \"stay local\".", "A slump in demand for fashion and homeware during lockdown left many retailers struggling.", "Last year saw 697,000 deaths registered in the UK - 14% above what would be expected.", "Eugene Goodman was hailed for luring a mob away from the Senate - now new heroics have emerged.", "Tweeters query why it has not been given to a prominent Kenyan like actress Lupita Nyong'o.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning.", "People are still holding house parties, raves and gambling gatherings, the UK's most senior police officer says.", "Dutch TV films officials confiscating ham sandwiches from UK drivers under new food import rules.", "The increasing number of staff off work could prevent the NHS Louisa Jordan opening to Covid patients.", "The Northern Lights were visible overnight from Shetland, Moray and the Highlands.", "The manager of a care home says they were promised the jab on New Year's Eve - but none have arrived.", "Downing Street defends the PM, while the Met Police chief says he did not act \"against the law\".", "Fans of the University of Alabama football team gathered in the streets of Tuscaloosa, ignoring social distancing.", "We share the stories of some of the 12,000 people who have died with coronavirus in Scotland.", "There has been speculation over moves to make lockdown stricter, as infection rates remain high.", "Isabella Curry said she now feels safe and will be able to go out and meet friends soon.", "An RAF aircraft breaking the sound barrier causes a loud bang in skies across the East of England.", "Three vaccines have been approved in the UK - what are the differences between them?", "Derbyshire Police apologises to two women fined £200 for driving five miles for a countryside walk.", "Cwm Taf Morgannwg saw the highest number of weekly deaths and the highest number since April.", "More than a third of people using screens more in lockdown reported eyesight changes, a study suggests.", "The home secretary says she will back police to enforce virus rules, as another 1,243 die in the UK.", "New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick turns down Donald Trump's offer, citing the Capitol riots.", "Mohamud Mohammed Hassan was arrested at home on Friday but released without charge on Saturday.", "As countries look to quickly vaccinate people, BBC reporters explain what's happening across Europe.", "Donald Trump made the decision days before Joe Biden, who wants friendlier US-Cuban ties, takes office.", "The laptops and tablets will be delivered to schools in England to support disadvantaged pupils.", "It follows similar moves by Morrisons and Sainsbury's, but those with medical reasons will be exempt.", "Doctors at the hospital say they're treating more younger patients than in the first wave.", "People refusing to wear face coverings who are not medically exempt will not be allowed to shop inside.", "The social network has hit back asking a federal judge to order it to be reinstated.", "Ministers are reluctant to make the rules even tougher at the moment - but would never rule it out.", "A Typhoon aircraft \"safely escorts\" a civilian aircraft to Stansted Airport, an RAF spokesman says.", "Leicester City edge a keenly contested Premier League encounter with Southampton to maintain their push for a top-four place.", "Health and frontline workers are first in line for jabs at vaccination centres across the country.", "The number of incidents reported to the child safeguarding panel in England rose by a quarter.", "Some areas could see freezing temperatures and 5-10cm of snow on Saturday, the Met Office says.", "CBBC star's mother, Lucy Lyndhurst, says his death has had a \"catastrophic effect\" on their family.", "Sea port managers fear the shift may be part of a long-term trend to ship from the Irish Republic.", "A critical engine test for Nasa's new \"megarocket\" - the Space Launch System (SLS) - ends early.", "Heavy rain is causing flooding and travel disruption, with a warning for ice also forecast.", "Douglas Jones had been enjoying his dream job before the pandemic forced him to return home to southern Scotland.", "Sir Iain Duncan Smith and Joanna Lumley speak out about employees allegedly owed a total of £200,000.", "The Daily Telegraph must publish a correction over Covid claims, press regulator Ipso rules.", "Plastic surgeons express shock at the stabbing of \"highly respected\" Graeme Perks in his home.", "The UK prime minister wants girls' education in developing countries to be a key international focus.", "Everyone has heard about doctors and nurses catching Covid-19 but cleaners and porters have been worse hit.", "Health groups say NHS staff fear prosecution over decisions if hospitals are overwhelmed.", "Red tape plus a \"poor\" Brexit deal mean fishermen fear for the future, says an industry body.", "Louis Godwin, 95, said he was \"so pleased\" to get his Covid-19 vaccination at Salisbury Cathedral.", "People in parts of eastern England woke to a thick covering of snow on Saturday morning.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the action is needed to protect against the risk of new Covid strains.", "Prime Minister Jean Castex said the measures would be in place for at least 15 days.", "Statistics agency Nisra says 145 deaths were registered last week, bringing its pandemic total to 1,976.", "Holiday firms are expecting a \"bumper year\" once lockdown restrictions are lifted.", "As the UK records its highest death toll, Fergal Keane has been to see the strain the NHS is under for the second time.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Saturday.", "The latest UK government data also shows a further 1,295 deaths with 28 days of a positive test.", "Lahiru Thirimanne's unbeaten 76 frustrates England as a spirited Sri Lanka rally on the third day of the first Test in Galle.", "The Gerry and the Pacemakers singer died from a blood infection at the age of 78.", "Hundreds of thousands of DNA and arrest records were deleted after a human error, the Home Office says.", "Centrist Armin Laschet is now in a good position to succeed Angela Merkel as Germany's chancellor.", "Health officials warn the highly contagious UK Covid variant could become the dominant strain in the US by March.", "Replacement exam grades are likely to arrive earlier and be decided by teachers and a test.", "Donations of plasma from people who have recovered from the virus have been suspended.", "Prince William says he \"really worries\" about the effect of the pandemic on front-line workers.", "A letter from police chiefs also says 213,000 records were lost - more than first thought.", "Network Rail said a 24m section of side wall fell away from a bridge between Carmont and Stonehaven.", "US police held back a mob for hours in a \"barbaric\" battle at the Capitol. Here are their stories.", "David Chambers is accused of charging the woman £160 for a bogus jab.", "A Belfast mother says there is \"compelling evidence\" that her daughter was abducted in Malaysia.", "Mount Semeru has erupted, pouring volcanic matter miles into the air and placing locals on alert.", "The latest death and case figures should be a \"bitter warning for us all\", Public Health England says.", "The total number of deaths within 28 days of a positive test during the pandemic is now above 90,000.", "At least three people have died in a suspected gas blast that destroyed four floors of a building.", "Police in Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire say they are expecting flooding in their regions.", "Some 1,820 deaths have been reported in the past 24 hours - surpassing yesterday's previous high.", "The package will also see police target dealers and health services help people with addictions.", "Congratulating Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the PM said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and US.", "Marion Dawson from Renfrewshire is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.", "Boris Johnson faced questions on the UK's border policy, and the deletion of police records.", "The Duchess of Sussex is suing the Mail on Sunday over the publication of her letter to her father.", "There has been a fourfold increase in mortgage products for those offering a 10% deposit.", "The president responds to reports he is considering presidential pardons over alleged Russia collusion.", "Doris Hobday's family say they are \"totally heartbroken\" to lose her in this way.", "The big social networks are clamping down on threats of violence amid a tense wait for results.", "Some of the UK's biggest music stars sign an open letter demanding action over post-Brexit touring.", "The President-elect has a laundry list of priorities for his first 100 days in the White House.", "A collection of your tributes to some of the thousands of people in the UK who have died with coronavirus.", "The riots of 6 January took many by surprise, but to those tracking conspiracy and extreme right groups online, the warning signs were all there.", "Mainland Scotland and some islands to remain under toughest coronavirus rules until at least mid-February.", "Taking down pictures and clearing out desks is part of a huge operation readying for a new president.", "Labour accuses Kwasi Kwarteng of \"unpicking\" workers' rights, as minister confirms he will review rules.", "'This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge' - the new president knows how daunting his task is.", "Holidaymakers in 2021 must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the travel firm says.", "Boris Johnson calls it an \"outrageous\" error which officers are working \"round the clock\" to rectify.", "The new president is sworn into office by Chief Justice John G Roberts.", "The 22-year-old from LA is the youngest poet to perform at a presidential inauguration.", "Kamala Harris makes history as she is sworn in as US vice-president.", "Delays to smear tests in lockdown prompt cervical cancer charities to call for home-testing kits.", "It comes as industry workers warn their livelihoods are at risk due to Brexit border problems.", "Nine Met Police officers who broke lockdown rules have been asked to \"reflect on their choices\".", "Paul Pogba scores a superb winner as Manchester United reclaim top spot in the Premier League by coming from behind for a club-record equalling away win at Fulham.", "'This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge'. Read the 46th president's address in full.", "Online audiences for singalongs in the Llangollen church have \"exploded\", Father Lee Taylor says.", "Out-of-date tax systems mean people are falling through the cracks for help, MPs say.", "Orthodox Christians, Putin among them, take an icy dip to commemorate a special day.", "The ex-government adviser said the Tories would be seen as the \"nasty party\" by ending the top-up.", "They are all laughing at the camera, but what are the stories of the women next to Kamala Harris?", "More than 2,000 properties in Manchester are affected as police warn some occupants will have Covid.", "Services and waiting times must improve at the NHS's child gender-identity service, inspectors say.", "A further 1,820 people die in the UK within 28 days of a positive test - another all-time high.", "The UK has not always \"lived up to its values\" under Boris Johnson, his predecessor Theresa May says.", "The role of a president's inaugural cabinet goes beyond just policy - let's take a closer look.", "The body of Joy Morgan was found two months after a man was convicted of her murder.", "From \"the best talent in politics\" to \"Sloppy Steve\" and fraud charges - what went wrong for Steve Bannon?", "The Protection of Workers Bill will make it a new specific offence to assault, abuse or threaten Scottish retail staff.", "Donald Trump won a surprise victory in 2016 partly because he promised to shake things up. And boy, did he.", "The health minister asks the Ministry of Defence to help out, primarily at a number of hospitals.", "A National Audit Office report calls on the corporation to produce \"a long-term financial plan\".", "The last four years have been a whirlwind - we asked the experts to break down Trump's key moments.", "More work is needed to understand its benefits in schools in England given the new variant, health officials say.", "The BBC's James Cook returns to Monklands Hospital eight months on to find the staff struggling against the odds.", "President Biden inked 15 executive orders, moving to rejoin the Paris climate accord.", "His most famous Discworld novels were written in the house in Somerset, the estate agent says.", "Police say the van \"careered\" off the road and the man was rescued from the overturned vehicle.", "President Biden has said that democracy and 'freedom' are at stake in the upcoming 2024 election.", "All practices will have their own rollout plan but they have to meet official targets, says GP committee.", "The Duchess of Sussex is suing the Mail on Sunday over the publication of a letter to her father.", "Members of our voter panel all wish Joe Biden well, but they're divided over his chances of success.", "As Donald Trump prepares to leave office, here are some of the key moments of his presidency.", "A tearful President-elect Joe Biden says goodbye to his home state on the eve of his inauguration.", "Joe Biden makes his inaugural address as the 46th president of the United States.", "Parts of England prepare for widespread floods as Boris Johnson announces emergency Cobra meeting.", "Images from Joe Biden's swearing-in and first day as the 46th US President.", "The cupped clap of a butterfly's wings may be the key to their flying abilities and their survival.", "Relegation-threatened Fulham lose some of the momentum built up by their win at Everton but show battling qualities to claim a point at Burnley.", "The medical journal's editor says UK guidelines don't recommend giving different coronavirus jabs.", "They were hit while licking freshly laid salt on a road which is a black spot for animal accidents.", "Objects are thrown and officers threatened as they break up the New Year's Eve party in Essex.", "Former Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino is named Paris St-Germain boss following Thomas Tuchel's sacking.", "People driving to visit beauty spots in Wales are breaking Covid rules, a Snowdonia park warden says.", "The first doses of the latest coronavirus vaccination to be approved are due to be given on Monday.", "Japan's prime minister says the delayed Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead this summer despite concern over rising coronavirus cases.", "Doctors urge public to \"take it seriously\" and follow coronavirus restrictions amid rising cases.", "Bishop, who recently tested positive for Covid-19, said boarding the Tardis was \"a dream come true\".", "Arsenal continue their Premier League resurgence with a ruthless victory over strugglers West Brom at The Hawthorns.", "Manchester United move level on points with Premier League leaders Liverpool as a Bruno Fernandes penalty seals victory over Aston Villa.", "NHS England says the facility is available to help the capital's hospitals as Covid-19 cases rise.", "New detectorist Owen Thomas says \"the link with a life that's gone\" appeals to him.", "Just one ticket matched all seven numbers in the New Year's Day draw.", "A court has ruled that Lisa Montgomery can be executed on 12 January, despite appeals from lawyers.", "A last-ditch attempt to overturn the result is overturned, days before the White House changes hands.", "Education Secretary Gavin Williamson drops plan to keep primaries open in 10 boroughs in the city.", "Footage is released of the first police-involved death in the US city since George Floyd's in May.", "The New Year's Eve event, held in a warehouse in a village in Brittany, was shut down on Saturday.", "Volunteers at All Saints Church in East Horndon have praised those who donated £8,700 for repairs.", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "Amanda Quinn, diagnosed with rapid early onset dementia, says lockdown has been a \"scary\" time.", "Up to 300 people gather in London's Hyde Park to protest at Covid-19 restrictions.", "Nine people are still missing, two days after a hillside collapsed due to flowing clay mud.", "It comes as a further 57,725 people test positive for the virus, a new daily high.", "Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho says he is \"disappointed\" after three of his players breached coronavirus rules by attending a party over Christmas.", "The frontman, who found success with songs such as Summer in Dublin, \"passed away suddenly\" aged 65.", "The cryptocurrency's gain so far this year was almost $5,000 - after the value surged 300% in 2020.", "The government said soldiers had been sent to protect 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Video footage showed the aftermath of the deadly explosion\n\nAt least three people have died following an explosion that caused a building to partially collapse in centre of the Spanish capital, Madrid.\n\nA fourth person was missing and several others were hurt, officials said.\n\nCity officials said the blast, which destroyed four floors of the building, had been caused by a gas leak.\n\nMayor José Luis Martínez Almeida told reporters after the blast that a fire was raging inside the building, which belongs to the Catholic Church.\n\nThe blast happened shortly before 15:00 local time (14:00 GMT) as gas workers were repairing a boiler at the back of the building in the central Puerta de Toledo area of Madrid.\n\nAn 85-year-old woman passer-by and two men were killed while a third man who had been working on the boiler was missing, Spanish media reported. One of the injured was in a serious condition and taken to hospital, according to officials.\n\nSpanish reports said the upper floors affected were being used to house local priests.\n\nRescue workers evacuated more than 50 people from a care home next-door to the building in Caille de Toledo, but a school on the other side was closed at the time of the blast.\n\nFour floors of the building were destroyed in the explosion, which could be heard in many areas of Madrid. Images shared on social media showed billowing smoke and debris strewn along the street.\n\nEmergency services said nine fire crews and 11 ambulances were at the scene and some of those caught up in the blast were treated on the street.\n\nFour floors of the building were destroyed in the explosion\n\nPolice officers cleared the area, closing it to all traffic and pedestrians, and appealed to local residents not to come near.\n\n\"The noise was very loud, very loud, really,\" Lorenzo Fomento, who was working from home at a nearby apartment, told AFP news agency. \"I never heard anything so loud before,\" he added.\n\nThe director of the nursing home, Antonio Berlanga, said all the elderly residents were fine and places were being found for them to spend the night.", "The EU has maintained its diplomatic mission in the UK after Brexit\n\nA diplomatic row has broken out between the UK and EU over the status of the bloc's ambassador in London.\n\nThe UK is refusing to give Joao Vale de Almeida the full diplomatic status that is granted to other ambassadors.\n\nThe Foreign Office is insisting he and his officials should not have the privileges and immunities afforded to diplomats under the Vienna Convention.\n\nIt is understood not to want to set a precedent by treating an international body in the same way as a nation state.\n\nAs it stands, the ambassador would not have the chance to present his credentials to the Queen like other diplomatic heads of mission.\n\nThe British decision is in marked contrast to 142 other countries around the world where the EU has delegations and where its ambassadors are all granted the same status as diplomats representing sovereign nations.\n\nJosep Borrell, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs, has written to the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, to express his \"serious concerns\".\n\nThe issue is expected to be discussed by EU foreign ministers next Monday when they meet for the first time since the post-Brexit transition period ended on 31 December.\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office wants to treat the EU delegation only as representatives of an international organisation.\n\nThis means EU diplomats would not have the full protection of the Vienna Convention, giving them immunity from detention, criminal jurisdiction and taxation.\n\nThe rights given to staff of international organisations are more ad hoc and less fixed.\n\nThe EU argues it is not a typical international organisation because it has its own currency, judicial system and the power to make law.\n\nIn his letter to Mr Raab last November, seen by the BBC, Mr Borrell says: \"Your service have sent us a draft proposal for an establishment agreement about which we have serious concerns.\n\nAmbassadors of nation states have certain privileges - including being able to present their credentials to the Queen\n\n\"The arrangements offered do not reflect the specific character of the EU, nor do they respond to the future relationship between the EU and the UK as an important third country.\n\n\"It would not grant the customary privileges and immunities for the delegation and its staff. The proposals do not constitute a reasonable basis for reaching an agreement.\"\n\nEU officials privately accuse the Foreign Office of hypocrisy because when the EU's foreign service - known as the External Action Service - was set up in 2010 as a result of the Lisbon Treaty, the UK signed up to proposals that EU diplomats be granted the \"privileges and immunities equivalent to those referred to in the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 18 April 1961\".\n\nOne EU source said: \"It seems petty. This is not about privileges, it's about principle. What does it say about the UK, about how much the British signature is worth?\"\n\nSome in the EU also fear hostile states might copy the UK and downgrade the protections granted to EU diplomats in their own countries. This could open them up to being harassed and make them easier for them to be expelled.\n\nA European Commission spokesman said: \"The UK, as a signatory to the Lisbon Treaty, is well aware of the EU's status in external relations, and was cognisant and supportive of this status while it was a member of the EU.\n\n\"The EU has 143 delegations, equivalent to diplomatic missions, around the world. Without exception, all host states have accepted to grant these delegations and their staff a status equivalent to that of diplomatic missions of states under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, and the UK is well aware of this fact.\"\n\nHe added: \"Nothing has changed since the UK's exit from the European Union to justify any change in stance on the UK's part.\n\n\"The EU's status in external relations and its subsequent diplomatic status is amply recognised by countries and international organisations around the world, and we expect the United Kingdom to treat the EU Delegation accordingly and without delay.\"\n\nA Foreign Office spokesperson said: \"Engagement continues with the EU on the long-term arrangements for the EU delegation to the UK. While discussions are still ongoing, it would not be appropriate for us to speculate on the detail of an eventual agreement.\"", "\"You need to take care of each other,\" President Macron told students in Paris\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has promised all university students two meals a day for one euro (88p; $1.21) to help them cope during lockdown.\n\n\"We must be able to provide better support,\" he said at a meeting with students in Paris on Thursday.\n\nIt follows protests in which students called for more help to tackle loneliness and financial problems.\n\nFrance is currently under a 18:00-06:00 curfew, and coronavirus cases have risen steadily in recent weeks.\n\nMr Macron, who addressed students at Paris-Saclay university, also said the government would provide subsidies to pay for counselling and other mental health services.\n\nThe subsidies would take the form of a voucher which students can redeem if they feel the need to talk to a mental health professional, the president said.\n\nHe added that the discounted meals would be available from university canteens and other nearby outlets that are providing takeaways.\n\n\"We remain in a period of uncertainty,\" Mr Macron said. \"We will have a second semester that will have the virus and a lot of constraints.\"\n\n\"You need to take care of each other,\" he added.\n\nThe president spoke a day after students took to the streets to demand more attention from the government. They sought to raise awareness of the rising mental health problems many say they are suffering as a result of the pandemic.\n\nA combination of isolation, inactivity and concerns about the job market has left many students close to breakdown, according to university psychologists.\n\nRyan Kennedy says the French government is failing to take student issues seriously\n\n\"I've lived alone in a studio apartment since September - it's the first time I've ever lived alone,\" Ryan Kennedy, a 19-year-old law student in Montpellier, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"Not a day goes by without a friend calling me because they're struggling with their mental health.\"\n\nHeïdi Soupault, a political science student from Strasbourg, sent a letter to Mr Macron last week. \"I no longer have dreams,\" she said. \"If we have no hope or prospects for the future at 19, what do we have left?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Our mental health goes downhill in situations like this.\"\n\nMany of the protesting students are calling for a return to face-to-face teaching. Some first-year students will be able to return to the classroom from 25 January.\n\nBut, on Thursday, Mr Macron said all students should be allowed on campus once a week providing certain measures are in place.\n\n\"Given what your generation has already gone through, we cannot but take into account your right to some on-site presence, to exchange with your teachers, and to meet with other students,\" he said.\n\nFrance has had a curfew in place since December, but this was tightened on 16 January to the current hours of 18:00-06:00.\n\nBars, restaurants, theatres, cinemas and ski resorts remain shut. Schools, however, are open with extra testing in place.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"It's a big moment for us - we have things we want to do together.\"\n\nThe inauguration of President Joe Biden is a \"step forward\" for the United States, which has \"been through a bumpy period\", Boris Johnson has said.\n\nCongratulating Mr Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris, the UK PM said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and the US and their \"joint common agenda\".\n\nMr Johnson said he looked forward to working with the US on tackling climate change and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMaking his inaugural address, Mr Biden said \"democracy has prevailed\".\n\nHe promised to be a president \"for all Americans\" and said his \"whole soul is in putting America back together again\".\n\nOutgoing President Donald Trump, who has not formally conceded to Mr Biden, did not attend the ceremony.\n\nPresident Biden began work straight away on reversing a number of his predecessor's policies, including rejoining the Paris climate change agreement - gaining the praise of Mr Johnson.\n\nThe PM tweeted it was \"hugely positive news\", adding: \"I look forward to working with our US partners to do all we can to safeguard our planet.\"\n\nEarlier this week the former head of the civil service Lord Sedwill suggested Mr Johnson would be glad Mr Trump had not been re-elected for a second term as US president.\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, Lord Sedwill said those who believed Boris Johnson would have preferred Mr Trump to win again were \"mistaken\".\n\nThe former cabinet secretary - who stepped down in September - said a second term for Mr Trump \"would not have been to the benefit of British or European security, to transatlantic trade, let alone the environmental agenda to which the prime minister is so committed\".\n\nBoris Johnson with Donald Trump at the G7 summit in 2019\n\nMr Johnson's public stance toward the former president has varied over the years.\n\nIn 2015, when he was Mayor of London, Mr Johnson accused Mr Trump of \"stupefying ignorance\" over his comments about violence in the city.\n\nBut as foreign secretary, following Mr Trump's election as president, he said there was a \"lot to be positive about\", and in 2019, praised his \"many good qualities\".\n\nFor his part, Mr Trump has appeared largely supportive of Mr Johnson, backing his flagship Brexit policy and at one point saying of the British PM: \"They call him Britain Trump.\"\n\nAnd echoing his predecessor, in 2019 Mr Biden described the UK prime minister as a \"physical and emotional clone\" of Mr Trump.\n\nAfter winning the presidential election Mr Biden phoned Mr Johnson ahead of other European leaders and expressed his desire to strengthen the historic \"special relationship\" between the two countries.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said it was the job of all UK prime ministers to have a \"good, close working relationship\" with US presidents but, right now, there were many things the two countries \"wanted to do together\".\n\n\"When you look at the issues which unite me and Joe Biden, the UK and the US right now, there is a fantastic joint common agenda,\" he said. \"For us and America, it is a big moment.\"\n\nHe said he hoped the UK could help the US commit to a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 in the run up to the climate change conference COP 26, to be held in Glasgow this year.\n\nUK prime ministers like to consider American presidents as their best diplomatic friend.\n\nThat relationship, particularly when it comes to security and defence, is unusually close.\n\nWhen, as with Donald Trump, that friend has been unpredictable and unconventional, that has made for some very awkward political moments.\n\nSo for the government, this a really important and positive turning of the page.\n\nThe terribly over-used phrase the 'special relationship', which provokes neurotic behaviour on this side of the Atlantic, has meant the most when there has been a genuine personal chemistry between the two leaders - whether Thatcher and Reagan, or Bush and Blair.\n\nThere is nothing automatic about Mr Biden and Mr Johnson developing that kind of political friendship.\n\nBut in the words of one former senior minister, for the UK Biden means \"we will lose exclusivity but gain predictability: easier to work with, less cringeworthy and more dependable, but we may not be the only girlfriend on speed dial\".\n\nSpeaking to the Guardian, shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy described Mr Biden as \"a woke guy\".\n\nAsked if he agreed, Mr Johnson said: \"I can't comment on that. What I know is that he's a firm believer in the transatlantic alliance and that's a great thing.\"\n\nHe added that there was \"nothing wrong with being woke - I put myself in the category of people who believe that it's important to stick up for your history, your traditions and your values, the things you believe in.\"\n\nOpposition leader Sir Keir Starmer also sent his congratulations to the new president and vice-president.\n\n\"The US begins a new chapter in its history, one of hope, decency, compassion and strength,\" the Labour leader said, adding \"together, our two nations can build a better, more optimistic future for our world.\"\n\nAnd First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: \"Warm congratulations and best wishes to President Biden and Vice President Harris.\n\n\"Scotland and the USA share long-standing bonds of friendship and co-operation. We look forward to building on these in the years ahead.\"\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, former UK Prime Minister Theresa May said Mr Biden's election presented the UK with a \"golden opportunity\" for Western democracies to reverse the trend towards \"absolutism\" - and a \"few strongmen facing off against each other\" - in global affairs.\n\nThe Queen sent a private message to Mr Biden before his inauguration, Buckingham Palace has said.", "Food supply problems into Northern Ireland from Great Britain are \"clearly a Brexit issue\", Ireland's foreign affairs minister has said.\n\nSimon Coveney said the shortages were \"part of the reality\" of the UK leaving the EU.\n\n\"Let's not pretend Brexit doesn't force that kind of change,\" he said, speaking on ITV's Peston programme\n\nOn Tuesday, the NI secretary said images of empty supermarket shelves had \"nothing to do with the protocol\".\n\nRather, Brandon Lewis argued the disruption caused by coronavirus before Christmas was responsible for the shortages of some food products.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Protocol between the UK and the EU requires health certifications on animal-based food products entering NI from the rest of the UK.\n\nMr Coveney said it meant \"very real change\" for some businesses, as there now had to be a \"certain number of checks\" on goods from Britain into Northern Ireland.\n\nHe said that some companies were not ready for this.\n\nMr Coveney said the Republic of Ireland would work with the UK and EU to \"make sure\" supermarket shelves were not empty in the future.\n\nHe said the Brexit divorce deal agreed with the EU by then-prime minister Theresa May would have caused less separation from Northern Ireland from the UK.\n\nAsked about Mr Coveney's comments, International Trade Secretary Liz Truss said the disruption had been \"down to both\" Covid and Brexit - but defended the situation.\n\nSpeaking on the Peston programme she said \"there was always going to be a period of adjustment for businesses\" and \"we are now seeing a more rapid flow of goods into Northern Ireland those supermarket shelves are being stocked\".\n\nMs Truss said the government would continue to support businesses, and that \"predictions of Armageddon haven't happened\".", "The education secretary has said he would \"certainly hope\" schools in England could reopen before Easter.\n\nGavin Williamson said he was \"not able to exactly say\" when pupils would go back but schools would be given two weeks' notice before reopening.\n\nPrimary and secondary schools remain closed, apart from to vulnerable pupils and the children of key workers.\n\nDowning Street said the prime minister wanted schools to open as quickly as possible but would follow the evidence.\n\n\"If we can open them up before Easter then we obviously will do but that is determined by the latest scientific evidence and data,\" the prime minister's official spokesman said.\n\nThe Downing Street spokesman was also less specific about the promise of two weeks' notice, saying: \"We want to give schools as much notice as possible.\"\n\nSchools have been closed to most pupils so far this term, with primary schools closing after one day back, in response to rising Covid levels.\n\nPupils have been told they will be learning at home until at least half-term in mid-February.\n\nBut Mr Williamson was pressed on BBC Radio 4's Today programme whether he could guarantee that schools would reopen at all this term, before the Easter holidays.\n\n\"I want to see them, as soon as the scientific and health advice is there, open at the earliest possible stage - and I certainly hope that would be certainly before Easter,\" said the education secretary, who's responsible for schools in England.\n\nHe said schools and parents would have \"absolutely proper notice\" of when children were going to return, which he said would be a \"clear two weeks\" for teachers and families to get ready.\n\nA lesson from the first lockdown was that it's much harder to reopen schools than to close them.\n\nParents and teachers have to be persuaded again it's safe to go back, families need advance notice to plan their work and childcare, schools need to organise their staffing.\n\nAnd there are other parents who will be pushing for schools to go back as soon as possible, in addition to the vulnerable and key workers' children already attending.\n\nFor Education Secretary Gavin Williamson, already under pressure, it means a high-stakes balancing act - and it clearly remains uncertain whether this will happen for all schools before the Easter holidays.\n\nWhat seems likely, from Mr Williamson and England's deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries, is that this could be a patchwork return beginning after half-term, rather than a single starting date, depending on local levels of the virus.\n\nThe biggest teachers' union, the National Education Union, said schools and parents needed certainty and not a \"stop-start approach\".\n\nLast week Mr Williamson indicated to the Commons education committee that schools in some parts of the country might stay closed at the end of the lockdown, with a return to the \"contingency\" arrangements, under which schools in areas of high infection would be shut.\n\nOn Tuesday, England's deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries also said schools might reopen region by region in a phased return after half-term.\n\nLabour has accused the education secretary of causing \"chaos and confusion\" and called on him to resign.\n\nParty leader Sir Keir Starmer said providing two weeks' advance notice of opening was \"good news coming from an education secretary who normally gives them about 24 hours' notice\".\n\nSir Keir said the government needed to \"give children the ability to learn at home now\" and \"get on with the blindingly obvious\" task of getting testing in place in schools.\n\nAsked about his own future, Mr Williamson said: \"Our focus is making sure that we get the very best of remote education out to all children across the country, making sure that we return schools at the earliest possible moment.\"\n\nIn terms of his own achievements, the education secretary said: \"I'll let other people do the grading.\"\n\nSchools have also been closed by other governments in the UK. In Scotland and Northern Ireland they will remain closed until at least the middle of February, while in Wales the next review of restrictions will be on 29 January.\n\nThe government has also paused plans to roll out rapid daily coronavirus testing in all but a small number of secondary schools and colleges, with health officials saying the new variant meant the risk of missing infections had risen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer on Gavin Williamson: \"You would struggle... to find many people who would give him more than an F.\"\n\nBut Mr Williamson emphasised that mass testing in schools would continue, clarifying that it was the daily tests for those who had been in contact with a positive case which had been stopped.\n\nThe education secretary was also challenged on the fairness of setting tests as part of the replacement for cancelled GCSEs and A-levels, considering pupils will have missed different amounts of time in school.\n\nMr Williamson said the tests were only \"one element\" for deciding replacement results, which would be based on teachers' grades.\n\n\"That's why we're asking teachers to make a judgement in the round. We're asking teachers to look at the work they've been doing over the whole period of time they've been studying the course,\" he said.", "Low-deposit mortgages have made a return as the market emerges from a Covid-related slowdown.\n\nMortgage products for homeowners with a deposit of 10% of their property's value have risen more than fourfold compared with last summer's low.\n\nThe increase, based on figures from financial information service Moneyfacts, could offer some relief to first-time buyers.\n\nBut the cost of mortgages will remain an issue for many.\n\nIn early September last year, there were only 44 mortgage products available for those able to offer a 10% deposit. At the same time, first-time buyers putting money aside for a deposit were faced with pressures of poor savings rates and rising house prices.\n\nThat choice has now risen to 197 products, according to the Moneyfacts figures, with some big lenders returning in recent weeks.\n\nMortgage products for those able to offer a 15% deposit have also risen sharply, although the choice was already much greater.\n\n\"First-time buyers who may have been concerned that with record low savings rates and increasing house prices, their homeownership dreams may have had to be shelved, may have been pleased to note that we are now seeing some providers return products for those with 10% deposits,\" said Eleanor Williams, from Moneyfacts.\n\nLenders had been grappling with the practical effects that the coronavirus pandemic brought to their business.\n\nWhile some new businesses targeted first-time buyers on social media, many traditional lenders withdrew products from the market.\n\nStaff shortages, and employees working from home, meant they were unable to process applications as fast as they had before the pandemic.\n\nThere were also concerns among lenders that, despite strong activity in the housing market, riskier - and younger - first-time buyers could find it difficult to make mortgage repayments during an economic slowdown caused by the pandemic.\n\nResearch has shown that younger workers are more at risk of redundancy.\n\nAaron Strutt, from mortgage broker Trinity Financial, said lenders were now working more efficiently despite staff still being at home.\n\nHe said that some of the biggest mortgage lenders had returned to the market. Some of the mortgage rates they were offering were not as attractive as they had been, but competition would help push down costs.\n\n\"If you are planning to purchase a property and have a 10% deposit the mortgage rates are not as cheap as they used to be, but they are getting better,\" he said.\n\nMany thousands of existing mortgage-holders who had struggled to make their repayments during the pandemic had taken payment \"holidays\", which are deferrals on payments.\n\nThe latest figures from UK Finance, which represents lenders, show that 130,000 mortgage payment holidays were in place at the end of December 2020, down from a peak of 1.8 million in June last year.", "US President Joe Biden is now speaking from the White House about how his administration will tackle the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe says he has been meeting with his Covid response team, and it will “take months” to turn around the situation in the country.\n\nToday he is going to unveil a “national strategy” on Covid-19, he says, which is “comprehensive” and is based on “science and not politics”.\n\nThe plan, which consists of 198 pages, will start with an “aggressive, safe and effective” vaccination campaign.\n\nBut it will take months to protect everyone, he says, so in the meantime, \"mask up\", he tells the American people.\n\nWearing a mask, he says, is \"a patriotic act\".\n\nTo follow our coverage of his first day, head here.", "The emergency department at Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital is the biggest and busiest in Scotland.\n\nAmbulances keep arriving, bringing more patients. In a curtained cubicle, one man is explaining to the doctor that he's been in pain for days, but he put off coming in \"because of everything that's going on\".\n\nDr Alan Whitelaw, who runs the department, says that while there might be fewer patients coming through his door, there are no longer any \"easy wins\".\n\n\"Those that are coming are the sick people,\" he says. \"We are undoubtedly seeing the effects of people not seeking healthcare for six to 10 months.\n\n\"We are seeing disease that we wouldn't always see and we are seeing it further down the road.\n\n\"We are making more diagnoses that potentially would be made in primary care or outpatient clinics. On top of that we've got lots of Covid patients coming through the door.\n\n\"So it is those two things together that currently put the NHS under that significant pressure.\"\n\nAll over Scotland, hospitals are under severe pressure, with some treating significantly more coronavirus patients than they did during the first wave of the pandemic.\n\nPublic visitors are not allowed at the QEUH, but BBC Scotland was given special permission to film to highlight the impact of Covid and the importance of following lockdown rules.\n\nOn the day of the BBC's visit, there are 244 Covid patients. Critical care is running at capacity, and across the whole hospital it's a constant challenge to find space for new patients.\n\nDr Whitelaw says the level of unpredictability is extreme. His team has run out of spare beds.\n\n\"We are ten months into strange and difficult times. It's winter, no-one's had a holiday, no-one's had much downtime.\n\n\"Hospitals are fuller in winter, beds are tighter and patients are sick\".\n\nUpstairs, one ward that previously treated patients with infectious diseases like flu or norovirus, is now a Covid ward. All 28 beds are full.\n\nSome patients here are recently diagnosed, others are coming to the end of their isolation, while some have been stepped down from critical care, but need rehabilitation.\n\nSenior charge nurse Karen Paton says it feels like patients are now sicker for longer.\n\n\"We've had this going on for more or less a year now and staff are beginning to feel the emotional distress of it,\" she says.\n\n\"Having to deal with patients succumbing to coronavirus, and just having the emotions of all the patients not being able to have contact from their families.\n\n\"I think it's beginning to take its toll on everybody.\"\n\nCovid patient Gerry Gilroy says QEUH staff have been \"superb\"\n\nIn one room on the ward is Gerry Gilroy, who tested positive for Covid in late December. By 8 January, the day of his 66th birthday, he could barely get out of bed and couldn't eat.\n\n\"It just hit me and I knew there was something not right,\" he says.\n\n\"I know how serious it is. I never thought it would hit me. It's been a bit of an experience but thankfully I'm on the mend.\n\n\"The staff here are superb. When I get out of here, if I can do something for the NHS I'm going to. Doctors, cleaners, nurses, all top drawer.\"\n\nThe impact of Covid is being felt across the hospital. The acute receiving area used to be the first stop for people who needed urgent surgery.\n\nNow it's where medics like Dr Colin Perry assess Covid patients sent in by their GP or NHS 24. It's another area that's full.\n\n\"In the first wave our ICU was busy and it remains very busy, but during that period we had free beds,\" says Dr Perry.\n\n\"This time we have much more pressure on the downstream ward areas, so it is harder to manage the wider needs of the hospital and make room for patients to move through the system.\n\n\"The numbers are far higher than they were a year ago.\"\n\nRepurposing so many wards to treat coronavirus patients has meant some routine work had to be postponed, but staff are working to prioritise all different kinds of treatment.\n\nHelen Dorrance is a senior surgeon who specialises in bowel cancer at the QEUH. On the day the BBC visits she is operating on patients from another hospital to help relieve pressures there.\n\nDemand for critical care makes it difficult to operate some services, but cancer treatment is still running.\n\n\"We work together as a team across the region to make sure people who are the highest priority get dealt with,\" she says. \"But everyone gets their fair share and access to the care they need.\n\n\"It's not a choice, we do have to provide the best care we can for Covid patients and my critical care colleagues are stepping up to the mark.\n\n\"But the rest of us are making sure the rest of the service runs the way it should, so if you have your heart attack or stroke the right people are there to give you the best care.\"\n\nComing to hospital for any reason during the pandemic is a different experience, and services are stretched.\n\nBut the emergency department's Dr Whitelaw adds that no matter what happens, they will cope.\n\n\"We don't come to work to worry or be fearful, we come to work to do our best and to help,\" he says.\n\n\"I think there's an uncertainty about what the next two to three weeks look like.\n\n\"It might be very, very challenging but I have absolute faith that the staff here will continue to do everything that is required.\n\n\"I think the public should be reassured that no matter what is thrown at us we will definitely get through it.\"", "A council worker in Didsbury, Manchester, checks a bridge for damage, after heavy rainfall. On Thursday morning, there were more than 200 flood warnings in place across the country", "There is still no long-term decision on whether to cut fees as a review recommended\n\nUniversity tuition fees in England will be frozen at a maximum of £9,250 for the next academic year.\n\nThe Department for Education (DfE) said a longer-term decision on cuts to fees would be delayed until the next Comprehensive Spending Review.\n\nBut education sector groups said the government \"is wasting an opportunity\" to help university students.\n\nMinisters also set out plans to improve post-16 vocational education including student loans for adult learners.\n\nThe DfE also launched a consultation on changing the timetable for applying to university - to a so-called \"post-qualification admissions\" system.\n\nThis would mean admissions being based on the grades achieve by students, rather than not relying on predictions.\n\nThe government outlined its plans for higher education reforms for over-18s in response to a landmark review, commissioned by the government from finance expert Philip Augar. Its recommendations were published in May 2019.\n\nPlanned reforms include making £2.5bn available for technical qualifications for adult learners through the National Skills Fund, a lifelong student loan entitlement for up to four years of higher education and the prioritising of funding for STEM subjects.\n\nBut the Augar review's recommendations to reduce tuition fees to £7,500, alongside implementing reforms to minimum entry standards and foundation years at universities, were not addressed in this latest response.\n\nThe DfE said given the pandemic \"now is not the right time to conclude the review in full\".\n\nAny further reforms are expected to be announced at the next Spending Review.\n\nMr Augar also suggested the return of maintenance grants for poorer university students as part of his review, but there was not mention of this in the interim response.\n\nUniversity and College Union general secretary Jo Grady said: \"Sadly this interim response confirms that there will not be a radical change to the current system.\n\nThe Augar review recommended tuition fees should be cut to £7,500 and maintenance grants reintroduced\n\n\"The Westminster government is wasting an opportunity to make a real difference for students and institutions.\"\n\nProf Julia Buckingham, president of Universities UK , welcomed the prospect of lifelong loans, saying \"it is encouraging to see government's commitment to making lifelong learning opportunities more accessible to all\".\n\nHowever, Prof Buckingham said \"government should provide maintenance grants for those who need them the most, including those considering studying shorter courses on a modular basis\".\n\nAs part of its Skills for Jobs White Paper, published alongside higher education reforms, the DfE said it wanted to \"put an end to the illusion that a degree is the only route to success and a good job and that further and technical education is the second-class option\".\n\nA white paper is a policy document produced by the government to set out their proposals for future legislation.\n\nIn December, the government announced that tens of thousands of adults without an A-level or equivalent would be able to benefit from nearly 400 fully-funded courses from April.\n\nIt was the first major development in Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Lifetime Skills Guarantee (LSG) scheme, which was launched in September.\n\nThe government wants to boost the status of vocational education\n\nMr Johnson said it would mean \"everyone will be given the chance to get the skills they need, right from the very start of their career\".\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said: \"These reforms are at the heart of our plans to build back better, ensuring all technical education and training is based on what employers want and need, whilst providing individuals with the training they need to get a well-paid and secure job.\"\n\nBritish Chamber of Commerce director general Adam Marshall welcomed the plans to put the skills needs of businesses at the heart of further education.\n\n\"As local business leaders look to rebuild their firms and communities in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, it is essential to ensure that the right skills and training provision is in place to support growth,\" he added.\n\nBut organisations representing school and college leaders are also sceptical that there is enough funding for the further education sector to deliver on the proposals.\n\nIn November, an the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said FE colleges and sixth forms faced significant financial uncertainty.\n\nChief executive of the Association of Colleges David Hughes said: \"Colleges have been calling for this, after years of being overlooked and underutilised, but government has to not only recognise the vital college role, it also needs to increase funding.\"", "Video caption: David Olusoga learns the stories of the first inhabitants of the house in the 1840s-50s.\n\nDavid Olusoga learns the stories of the first inhabitants of the house in the 1840s-50s.", "One of the mysteries of Covid-19 is why oxygen levels in the blood can drop to dangerously low levels without the patient noticing.\n\nIt is known as \"silent hypoxia\".\n\nAs a result, patients have been arriving in hospital in far worse health than they realised and, in some cases, too late to treat effectively.\n\nBut a potentially life-saving solution, in the form of a pulse oximeter, allows patients to monitor their oxygen levels at home, and costs about £20.\n\nThey are being rolled out for high-risk Covid patients in the UK, and the doctor leading the scheme thinks everyone should consider buying one.\n\nA normal oxygen level in the blood is between 95% and 100%.\n\n\"With Covid, we were admitting patients with oxygen levels in the 70s or low-or-middle 80s,\" said Dr Matt Inada-Kim, a consultant in acute medicine at Hampshire Hospitals.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Inside Health: \"It was a really curious and scary presentation and really made us rethink what we were doing.\"\n\nDr Inada-Kim became the national clinical lead of the Covid Oximetry@home project.\n\nA pulse oximeter slips over your middle finger and shines a light into the body. It measures how much of the light is absorbed in order to calculate oxygen levels in the blood.\n\nIn England, they are being given to people with Covid who are over 65, younger but have a health problem, or anyone doctors are concerned about. Similar schemes are being rolled out across the UK.\n\nPeople measure and record their oxygen levels three times a day.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Health Education England - HEE This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIf oxygen levels drop to 93% or 94%, then people speak to their GP or call 111. If they go below 92%, people should go to A&E or call 999 for an ambulance.\n\nStudies, which have not been reviewed by other scientists, have shown even small drops below 95% are linked to an increased risk of dying.\n\nDr Inada-Kim said: \"The point of this whole strategy is to try to get in early to prevent people getting that sick, by admitting patients at a more salvageable point in their illness.\"\n\nChris Harris, who is 70, was one of the first patients to benefit from the scheme.\n\nHe was being treated for a urinary infection in November last year, but then when he developed unexpected flu-like symptoms his GP sent him for a Covid test. It was positive.\n\n\"I don't mind admitting I was in tears, it was a very stressful, frightening time,\" he told Inside Health.\n\nHis oxygen levels dropped a couple of percentage points below the normal zone, so after a call with his GP, he went to hospital.\n\nAt this point he was still feeling fine, but things changed the day after he was admitted.\n\n\"My breathing started to get a little bit laboured, I had a high temperature as the days went on, [my oxygen levels] were progressively getting lower, they were in their 80s,\" he told me.\n\nChris was treated, did not need intensive care and has made a full recovery.\n\nHe said: \"I may have gone [to hospital] as the very last resort and that's the frightening thing. It was the oxygen meter that forced me to go, I would have just sat it out thinking I would recover.\n\n\"I am extremely lucky and very, very grateful.\"\n\nHis GP, Dr Caroline O'Keefe, says she has seen a massive increase in the number of people being monitored.\n\nShe said: \"On Christmas Day we were monitoring 44 patients, today I have 160 patients who I am monitoring daily. So we are certainly busy.\"\n\n\"We've had to quadruple the size of our team in the last two weeks.\"\n\nOverall, NHS England has supplied around 300,000 pulse oximeters for the home-monitoring scheme.\n\nDr Inada-Kim says there isn't definitive proof that the gadget saves lives and it could take until April to know for sure. However, the early signs are all positive.\n\n\"What we think we can see are the early seeds of a reduction in the length of stay after a hospital admission, an improvement in survival and a reduction in the pressures on the emergency services,\" he said.\n\nHe is so convinced of their role in tackling silent hypoxia that he said everyone should consider buying one.\n\n\"Personally I would, and I know a number of colleagues who have bought pulse oximeters to distribute to their loved ones,\" he said.\n\nHe advised checking they had a CE Kitemark and to avoid apps on smartphones, which he said were not as reliable.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA mosque has become the first in the UK to open as a Covid vaccination centre.\n\nThe Al-Abbas Islamic Centre in Balsall Heath, Birmingham is expected to vaccinate up to 500 people a day.\n\nThe imam, Sheikh Nuru Mohammed, said he hoped it would help dispel false information that the vaccine was forbidden in Islamic law.\n\nNHS England said it fears disinformation could be causing some in the UK's South Asian communities to reject the Covid vaccine.\n\n\"It will send a strong message to our Muslim brothers and sisters. We are doing this to say a big 'no' to fake news and a big 'yes' to the vaccine,\" Sheikh Nuru said.\n\n\"Muslim scholars advise us to get the vaccine because the sanctity of life is important in Islam.\"\n\nImam Sheikh Nuru Mohammed said he hopes the opening of the vaccination centre will help dispel false information\n\nDr Rizwan Alidina, a trustee of the mosque and member of the Birmingham and Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group said: \"The significance of the venue is obviously quite evident with particularly the Muslim community being one of the communities with a bit of a lower uptake than we would otherwise have expected.\"\n\nHe said there had been a good response to the opening of the centre at the mosque and hoped it would soon be carrying out between 300 and 500 vaccinations a day.\n\nNHS England regional medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar told a Downing Street press conference some communities had \"legitimate and understandable concerns about the vaccines\".\n\nHe said despite it being a \"safe and effective vaccine\", for some Asian and black communities there were \"longstanding concerns\" that \"go back generations\".\n\nDr Diwakar said some people were \"told by their grandparents that experiments were done in the early part of the last century, that unethical experiments were done way back in the 60s\".\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street briefing, Home Secretary Priti Patel also sought to counter disinformation targeted at people from minority ethnic backgrounds.\n\n\"This vaccine is safe for us all,\" she said.\n\n\"It will protect you and your family... So I urge everyone from across our wonderfully diverse country to get the vaccine when their turn comes to keep us all safe.\"\n\nOne of the first to get the jab at he Birmingham mosque, retired GP Dr Masud Ahmad, said his message to others in the local community was \"that it's quite safe to have it and they should have it\".\n\nOther places of worship, including Salisbury Cathedral and Lichfield Cathedral, opened as vaccine centres last week.\n\nThe Al-Abbas Islamic Centre is administering the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of London taxi drivers plan to sue Uber for damages alleging the ride-hailing firm operated unlawfully.\n\nThe planned group legal action could, if successful, hit Uber with a bill for millions of pounds.\n\nThe action, part of a planned anti-Uber campaign by black-cab drivers this year, claims it didn't follow private hire rules between 2012 and 2018.\n\nUber said it \"operates lawfully in London and these allegations are completely unfounded\".\n\nThe group action, which will be launched by law firm Mishcon de Reya, will allege that for six years Uber operated unlawfully in London.\n\nTaxi rules in London mean that people have to contact a centralised office for minicabs, whereas they can hail a black cab on the street.\n\nThe lawsuit will claim that between 2012 and 2018, Uber let people hail its drivers directly, contravening those rules.\n\nLitigation specialist RGL Management, which is also working with the cabbies to bring the case, said more than 4,000 had signed up so far.\n\nThere are about 5,200 further registrations being processed, with hundreds of enquiries per day, it said. The firm is funding a marketing campaign, and is looking to sign up as many as 30,000 eligible drivers.\n\nA full-time driver over those six years could claim about £25,000 in lost earnings, it added. The group action is aiming to bring a case to the High Court no later than the first quarter of 2022.\n\nThis is not the first time that London's black cabs have done battle with Uber, but today's announcement shows neither side have conceded defeat.\n\nThe proposed claim itself is huge - loss of earnings for up to 30,000 drivers for nearly 6 years - and comes at a time when London black cabs and private hire vehicle drivers are struggling for work after nearly a year of lockdowns and restrictions.\n\nUber might now have its licence back, but the black cabs aren't willing to give them an easy ride.\n\nAn Uber spokeswoman said: \"Uber operates lawfully in London and these allegations are completely unfounded.\n\n\"We are proud to serve this great global city and the 45,000 drivers in London who rely on the app for earnings opportunities, and are committed to helping people move safely.\"\n\nUber has had a torrid history in the UK capital including previous lawsuits.\n\nIn February 2019 cab drivers lost a legal challenge which argued that Uber's London operating licence was granted by a biased judge.\n\nUber then went on to lose its licence to operate in London in November 2019 after safety concerns.\n\nBut in September last year it was spared a London ban after a judge upheld an appeal against Transport for London's decision over safety.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage captures the extent of the damage the bridge over the River Clwyd\n\nFinancial help has been promised to those affected by serious flooding, the Welsh Government has announced.\n\nPeople have been forced to leave their homes and a major incident declared after Storm Christoph struck.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated during flooding thought to be related to mine works in Skewen, Neath, while 30 were evacuated in Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would work with councils to deliver £500-£1,000 payments to affected households.\n\nEnvironment minister, Lesley Griffiths, said people across Wales were facing the \"twin problems\" of floods and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nShe said: \"We will support people in these circumstances just as we did in the aftermath of storms Ciara and Dennis last year, by working with local authorities to make support payments of between £500 and £1,000 available for each household flooded.\"\n\nSevere flood warnings remain in place across Wales as river levels remain high.\n\nIn the Lower Dee Valley a severe flood warning remains in force, from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadow, and a major incident was declared in Bangor-on-Dee.\n\nWrexham council leader Mark Pritchard said teams worked to ensure the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, made on Wrexham Industrial Estate, was not lost in the floods.\n\nFirefighters in Skewen waded through water up to their thighs amidst reports of evacuated homes\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated in Skewen, including residents of a care home, after at least eight streets were left under water.\n\nEmergency services said there were no injuries and all those evacuated had been found accommodation, but people are asked to avoid the area.\n\nIn Denbighshire, a bridge linking Trefnant to Tremeirchion over the River Clwyd collapsed in the storm. The council said it would be investigating the cause of the flooding, which forced road closures and evacuations.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said the River Dee, which runs through Bangor-on-Dee, was at its highest recorded level since the water gauge became operational in 1996 - 16.45m (54ft).\n\nIt urged people across Wales to remain vigilant, with river levels not set to have peaked until late Thursday evening, adding they would remain high until Friday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Met Office said over the past two days Wales had the highest rainfall of the four UK nations.\n\nBetween 19 and 21 January, Aberllefenni in Gwynedd saw 188mm (7.5in) of rain, more than average rainfall for Wales for the whole of January, which is 156.89mm (63in).\n\nThat was followed by 180mm (7in) in Crai reservoir, Powys, 169.8mm (6.6in) in Treherbert, Rhondda Cynon Taf, and 166mm (6.5in) in both Maerdy, RCT, and Capel Curig, Conwy.\n\nLlechryd bridge in Ceredigion has been completely submerged by the River Teifi\n\nUp to 30 people were forced out of their homes in Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham\n\nNatural Resources Wales said the River Dee was at its highest level since the water gauge became operational\n\nThe flooding threatened the supply of the coronavirus Oxford vaccine, which is produced at Wrexham Industrial Estate.\n\nWrexham council leader Mr Pritchard said it had to work to \"make sure we didn't lose the vaccinations in the floods\".\n\n\"I've been up all night... it's a very difficult time for us,\" he added.\n\nNorth East Wales Search and Rescue helped people whose homes were flooded in New Broughton, Wrexham\n\nWockhardt UK, which manufactures the vaccine, said at about 16:00 GMT on Wednesday, excess water surrounded part of its buildings.\n\n\"The site is now secure and free from any further flood damage and operating as normal,\" it said.\n\nThe clean-up has begun in Ruthin\n\nA multi-agency statement described the situation in Bangor-on-Dee as a \"major incident\".\n\nIt said: \"As a severe weather warning indicates that there is a risk to life...\n\n\"The evacuation effort continues, with all routes in and out of the village currently closed to the public due to the flooding.\"\n\nEarlier, some residents in Ruthin were told to leave their homes - people have been told Covid rules allow them leave their homes in an emergency.\n\nMeanwhile, a man's body was recovered from the River Taff near Blackweir in Cardiff.\n\nDozens of ducks and chickens, and 12 huskies were rescued by the RSPCA from a flooded farm in Bangor, while they also took hay to two donkeys stranded by flood water in Mold.\n\nSome 12 huskies had to be rescued after their kennels flooded\n\nDave Brown said the flooding in his home in Broughton, Flintshire, was horrific and his mother-in-law was rescued by firefighters.\n\n\"You don't realise the damage water does and everything that floats - the sheer volume of water. I am 6ft tall and it almost took me out,\" he said.\n\nDave Brown's mother-in-law was rescued from their home in Broughton, Flintshire\n\nWrexham council said some of the people forced to leave their homes were with relatives, while it found others accommodation after having to initially seek refuge in a church hall.\n\nNine properties in Berse Road in New Broughton were also evacuated.\n\nThe situation in Ruthin, Denbighshire, overnight was \"horrendous\", town councillor Stephen Beach said.\n\n\"The whole of Ruthin was on edge,\" he said.\n\n\"Some people were accommodated at the leisure centre, and others were offered places to stay by local residents. The community was superb.\n\n\"It was the sheer volume of water that came down - there was no stopping it.\"\n\nA yellow weather warning for ice for Wales has been issued by the Met Office until 10:00 GMT on Friday, with concerns it could lead to travel disruption, slips and falls.\n\nNumerous flood warnings and alerts remain in place across Wales, including two severe flood warnings.\n\nThe agency said flood defences were being used and river levels at Holt, Wrexham, would remain high for some time.\"There is therefore a significant risk of localised flooding problems and due to that the severe flood warning will remain in place until the levels drop,\" Keith Iven of NRW said\n\nIn Monmouthshire roads were closed following flooding, and the council said while water levels at the River Usk were dropping, a \"second peak\" on the River Wye had been expected on Thursday night.\n\nThe council had warned people living in Riverside Park, Monmouth, may be impacted and council workers were prepared to offer support.\n\nRiver Tywi has burst its banks in Carmarthen, affecting nearby businesses\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had attended 98 flooding-related incidents\n\nIt said it deployed swift water rescue teams to rescue 13 people from vehicles in floodwater. It also winched vehicles from water and pumped water from properties.\n\nIn Cardiff, emergency services attended a crash involving a number of vehicles at about 07:40 on the A4232 between Culverhouse Cross and the M4.\n\nNo-one was seriously injured, but both carriageways were closed for just over an hour. The road has since reopened.\n\nIn Carmarthen, people were treated for the effects of fumes after using a generator to pump water from their homes.\n\nIn Knighton and Crickhowell in Powys, crews spent Wednesday night pumping out a number of properties.\n\nIn Borth, Ceredigion, floodwater hit the water treatment plant, an electrical substation and eight properties.\n\nOgwen Valley Mountain Rescue Team had to rescue a man from the roof of his car.\n\nIt said he had tried to drive through the river ford along the road from Llandygai to Bangor, in Gwynedd, but had become stuck in deep water and had climbed onto the roof. He was not injured.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Derek Brockway - weatherman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf council said it was aware of a minor landslip on the mountainside above Pentre.\n\nIt said an initial inspection determined there was no immediate threat to the area and a further detailed inspection would be carried out on Friday. It asked people to avoid the area.\n\nBangor-on-Dee has been badly hit by Storm Cristoph\n\nDozens of roads have been closed across Wales, and while Covid rules are in place stopping people from travelling apart from for essential reasons, people are being warned not to travel in affected areas due to widespread flooding.\n\nChris Lloyd from North Wales Mountain Rescue Association warned people to not visit flood-hit areas to view the damage.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales: \"People who are going out to look at the floods are not only putting themselves at risk, but putting additional people on the roads which professional emergency services don't want - we don't want any more incidents.\"\n\nDenbighshire council said Ysgol Bodfari in Denbigh and Ysgol Caer Drewyn, Corwen, which had been open for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers, have been closed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The A9 south of Inverness was among the worst affected routes\n\nHeavy snowfall during Storm Christoph has caused travel disruption in parts of Scotland.\n\nVehicles were stuck on the A9 south of Inverness and many roads in the Borders were affected by snow.\n\nThe Queensferry Crossing was closed for a time earlier due to the risk of falling ice before later reopening.\n\nAn amber alert for south-east Scotland was lifted at 08:00 but yellow alerts are in place in other parts of the country until Friday.\n\nTraffic was queued on the A9 after lorries and cars became stuck in snow between Tomatin and Carrbridge.\n\nTractors were used to tow lorries on to cleared stretches of the road.\n\nHeavy snow has also closed the main route to Applecross at the Bealach na Ba.\n\nThe Queensferry Crossing has been reopened after being closed earlier due to the risk of falling ice\n\nThe A939 Cock Bridge to Tomintoul road in Moray was closed after Police Scotland shut the snowgates due to the wintry conditions.\n\nSnow had also affected traffic on parts of the M8.\n\nOn the Highlands' Far North Line, a landslip between Fearn and Tain stations has affected services.\n\nNetwork Rail Scotland said a section of the railway was open with a 5mph speed restriction in place.\n\nChris Tracey, Bear Scotland's south east unit bridges manager, said the Queensferry Crossing was temporarily closed for the safety of bridge users.\n\nHe said: \"We had already mobilised additional ice patrols in response to the weather forecast and the bridge was closed at 04:00 when staff observed ice falling from the structure.\"\n\nThe bridge was reopened after the risk had passed.\n\nEdinburgh is one of the areas where heavy snow has fallen\n\nPolice Scotland has urged people to avoid travelling in the affected areas.\n\nChief Superintendent Louise Blakelock said: \"Government restrictions on only travelling if your journey is essential remain in place and with an amber warning for snow, please consider if your journey really is essential and whether you can delay it until the weather improves.\n\n\"If you deem your journey is essential, plan ahead and make sure you and your vehicle are suitably prepared by having sufficient fuel and supplies such as warm clothing, food, water and charge in your mobile phone in the event you require assistance.\"\n\nAvalanche debris on Turnhouse in the Pentland Hills photographed from Penicuik\n\nPeople heading for the Pentland Hills, south-west of Edinburgh, have been urged to be aware of potential avalanche risk after avalanche debris was spotted on Turnhouse Hill.\n\nTweed Valley Mountain Rescue Team said the \"full depth\" avalanche had enough snow to knock a person off their feet, or even bury them.\n\nTeam leader Dave Wright said avalanches in the Pentland Hills were unusual and walkers, skiers and snowboarders might not appreciate the potential risk.\n\nHe said there had been heavy snowfalls in the hills this week and the avalanche occurred at some point on Thursday afternoon.\n\nMeanwhile, the potential avalanche hazard in all six mountain areas covered by the Scottish Avalanche Information Service - Glen Coe, Lochaber, Creag Meagaidh, Torridon and Northern and Southern Cairgorms - has been classed as \"considerable\".\n\nThe amber weather warning for snow covered a slice of Scotland from south of Edinburgh to close to the Scotland-England border and was valid until Thursday morning.\n\nHowever, further alerts remain in place.\n\nA Bear NW Trunk Roads' tractor clears snow ahead of a lorry on the A9 at the Slochd\n\nIn north-east Scotland and Orkney, a yellow warning for heavy rain and potential flooding is in place until 04:00 on Friday.\n\nYellow warnings for snow and ice are also in place in parts of northern and western Scotland until 12:00 on Friday.\n\nTransport Scotland said it was \"closely monitoring\" the road network and a multi-agency response team would be operational during the weather warnings.\n\nA snow-covered car in Carlops, in the Scottish Borders\n\nDrivers woke up to snow-covered cars in Haddington, East Lothian\n• None In pictures: Scotland in the snow", "Last March, the government set out new thinking on dealing with Northern Ireland's past\n\nThousands of relatives of Troubles victims have signed an open letter calling for the British and Irish governments to fully investigate decades of violence.\n\nIt calls for the long-delayed set up of an independent team of detectives to pursue new prosecutions and other measures to recover information.\n\nThese are measures included in the 2014 Stormont House Agreement.\n\nThe letter is addressed to Taoiseach Micheál Martin and UK PM Boris Johnson.\n\nIt asks for their assurances that their \"human rights as victims will no longer be disregarded or denied\".\n\n\"The peace process has repeatedly failed to deliver on our rights to truth, justice and accountability,\" they said.\n\nThe letter, signed by 3,500 relatives, is being published in the Irish News, Andersonstown News, and US publication the Irish Echo.\n\nThe letter is being printed in several newspapers\n\nMore than 3,600 people were killed during the 30 years of Northern Ireland's Troubles and thousands more injured.\n\nThe UK government has pledged to \"intensify\" engagement with victims' groups in addressing the legacy of the past.\n\nThe Stormont House proposals included a new independent investigation unit to re-examine all unsolved killings and a separate truth recovery mechanism to enable families to gain answers in cases where prosecutions are unlikely.\n\nLast March, the government set out new thinking on dealing with the past, which radically departed from what had been proposed in the Stormont House Agreement.\n\nHe proposed that after a paper review exercise, most unsolved cases would be closed and a new law would be enacted to prevent the investigations from being reopened.\n\nMark Thompson, chief executive of Belfast-based lobby group Relatives for Justice, said about half of those who signed the open letter are 35 years and under.\n\nHe said the letter \"represents the current and future generations\" and that it \"underlines the ongoing trauma and intergenerational impact that the killing of a relative has also had on surviving families\".", "Glastonbury Festival has been cancelled for a second year running due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe news was announced on Thursday on the Worthy Farm event's Twitter page.\n\n\"With great regret, we must announce that this year's Glastonbury Festival will not take place,\" said festival organisers Michael and Emily Eavis.\n\n\"And that this will be another enforced fallow year for us. Tickets for this year will roll over to next year. Michael & Emily.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Glastonbury Festival This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt comes in the same week that the future of UK music was up for debate at a DCMS inquiry into streaming, and in Parliament regarding post-Brexit music touring visas.\n\nThe full statement on the festival website read: \"In spite of our efforts to move heaven and earth, it has become clear that we simply will not be able to make the Festival happen this year. We are so sorry to let you all down.\"\n\nIt confirmed that as with last year, anyone with a ticket will now be offered the opportunity to roll their £50 deposit over to next year, when the festival will hopefully resume. It had been due to take place in June 2021.\n\n\"We are very appreciative of the faith and trust placed in us by those of you with deposits, and we are very confident we can deliver something really special for us all in 2022!\"\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden shared his \"disappointment\" at the lack of a Glastonbury 2021, on Twitter.\n\n\"This regrettable but understandable decision is recognition that public health comes first\" he posted, \"and that right now, getting 200k fans together in just a few months looks very difficult to make safe\".\n\nHe added: \"We continue to help the arts on recovery, including looking at problems around getting insurance. I'm Glastonbury will be back bigger and better next year.\"\n\nJulian Knight MP, chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee, said news of this year's cancellation was \"devastating\".\n\nSir Paul McCartney headlined Glastonbury in 2004, and was supposed to do so again in 2020\n\n\"We have repeatedly called for ministers to act to protect our world-renowned festivals like this one with a government-backed insurance scheme. Our plea fell on deaf ears and now the chickens have come home to roost,\" he said.\n\n\"The jewel in the crown will be absent but surely the government cannot ignore the message any longer - it must act now to save this vibrant and vital festivals sector.\"\n\nOn 5 January the government responded to a report by UK Music called Let the Music Play: Save Our Summer 2021, which outlined a range of measures that could help the industry get back up and running.\n\nThe government said: \"We know these are challenging times for the live events sector and are working flat out to support it.\n\n\"Our £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund has already seen more than £1bn offered to arts, heritage and performance organisations to support them through the impact of the pandemic, protecting tens of thousands of creative jobs across the UK, including festivals such as Deer Shed Festival, End of the Road and Nozstock.\"\n\nLast year's 50th anniversary Glastonbury was meant to be headlined by Sir Paul McCartney, Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar, but it was cancelled during the initial national lockdown in March 2020.\n\nMichael and Emily Eavis previously said that Glastonbury \"lost millions\" after cancelling in 2020\n\nLast month, organiser Emily Eavis told the BBC she hoped this year's festival could go ahead, despite the \"huge uncertainty\" surrounding live music in the pandemic.\n\n\"We're doing everything we can on our end to plan and prepare,\" she told the BBC, \"but I think we're still quite a long way from being able to say we're confident 2021 will go ahead.\"\n\nEavis said Glastonbury lost \"millions\" in 2020. Her father, Michael, has previously warned the festival \"would seriously go bankrupt\" if they had to cancel again next year.\n\nBut that scenario is unlikely \"as long as we can make a firm call either way in advance\", Eavis clarified to the BBC.\n\nNo line-up details had been confirmed for 2021. But just before Christmas, Sir Paul McCartney told the BBC the event was not in his calendar, as it would be a \"superspreader\".\n\nAt the start of January, MPs were told that some of the UK's biggest music festivals could be called off by the end of this month.\n\nThe festival normally welcomes 200,000 people to Pilton in Somerset every year\n\nEvents are \"rapidly approaching the determination point\", after which they'll have to pull the plug, said the Association of Independent Festivals.\n\nOrganisers will be in \"absolutely dire straits\" financially if the season is cancelled, added Anna Wade, of Winchester's Boomtown Fair.\n\nThey were speaking to MPs examining the plight of music festivals in the UK.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "At 12:01, in the midst of his inaugural address, Joe Biden officially became the 46th president of the United States.\n\nHe was already well into outlining exactly how daunting a task he - and the nation - have ahead in what he called its \"winter of peril\".\n\nAmerica is facing a devastating pandemic which has resulted in massive job losses and business closures, a threatened environment, urgent cries for racial justice and resurgence in \"political extremism, white supremacy and domestic terrorism\".\n\nHis speech was not a laundry list of proposals and solutions. Those were reserved for his first 17 executive actions as president - on immigration, climate change, transgender rights and public health, among others.\n\nThe Biden administration has also frozen all of Trump's last-minute regulations pending further review.\n\nInstead, Biden used his speech to offer hope - and to argue, at times forcefully, that the nation must be united in facing the challenges ahead; that it has to move past its current \"uncivil war\".\n\n\"Without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury,\" he said. \"No progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos.\"\n\n\"This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge,\" he continued. \"And unity is the path forward\".\n\nAt times, Biden's speech seemed a direct rebuttal to his predecessor's administration, although he did not mention Donald Trump by name.\n\nWhere Trump frequently spoke of American greatness and glorified its founders, Biden noted that the nation's history has been a \"constant struggle\" between its ideals and sometimes harsh realities.\n\nWhere Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway spoke of \"alternative facts\" almost four years ago, Biden said: \"There is truth and there are lies - lies told for power and for profit.\"\n\nBiden wrapped up his inaugural address by warning that America must not \"turn inward\" - both as individuals retreating into \"competing factions\" and as a nation on the world stage.\n\n\"We will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again,\" he said.\n\nRhetorically, Biden turned the page from Trump's days of \"America first\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first 100 days of any administration are always important to a new president. What are his priorities? What will he try to accomplish when his political capital is at its highest?\n\nJoe Biden and his presidential team have had nearly three months to plan out his first actions upon taking the oath of office, but executive action is the (relatively) easy part.\n\nHis speech reflected the reality that he enters office with his top priorities already determined for him.\n\nHis government will be responsible for distributing the coronavirus vaccine in an efficient and equitable way. After that, he will have to focus on the societal and economic disruptions caused by the pandemic.\n\nThe virus has exacerbated income inequality and pushed many households to the brink of economic ruin. It's devastated the travel and hospitality industries and placed incredible strain on the finances of state and local governments.\n\nHis pledge to seek unity will be tested early, as he pushes a sharply divided Congress to pass another, massive round of pandemic stimulus aid. If he wants to enact it quickly, he will need Republican support in the Senate, and already there are signs that some on the right may be lining up in opposition to more spending.\n\nThen there's Trump's Senate impeachment trial, which will present yet another challenge to national unity. It will keep Trump's name in the news for weeks, as his defenders rally to his side and his detractors call for consequences for his actions.\n\nAfter that, Biden's potential political paths diverge. He has said he wants to improve healthcare in the US, address growing college debt, make new investments in infrastructure and tackle climate change.\n\nHe's pledged to push immigration reform legislation that includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented migrants - a political lightning rod that helped fuel Trump's first presidential run.\n\nWhat he prioritises, and how successful his first efforts are, could determine the overall success of his administration. To make lasting change - policies that can't be undone by future presidents - he will have to work with Congress.\n\nThe inauguration ceremony is over. But, as Biden noted in his speech, the American people face one of the most challenging times in their nation's history.\n\n\"We will be judged by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era,\" he said.\n\nBiden campaigned against Trump for the opportunity to face those crises. Now he has his chance.", "Anyone going on a Saga holiday or cruise in 2021 must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the tour operator has said.\n\nSaga, which specialises in holidays for the over-50s, said it wanted to protect customers' health and safety.\n\nThe firm said it would delay restarting its travel packages until May to give customers enough time to get jabs.\n\nPeople over 50 in the UK have been rushing to book holidays as vaccinations boost confidence.\n\n\"The health and safety of our customers has always been our number one priority at Saga, so we have taken the decision to require everyone travelling with us to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19,\" Saga said in a statement.\n\n\"Our customers want the reassurance of the vaccine and to know others travelling with them will be vaccinated too.\"\n\nThe firm's holidays were due to restart in March and its cruises in April after a long hiatus, but they will now both be delayed.\n\nSaga said that meant all trips before May would no longer go ahead as planned, acknowledging it would be \"a huge disappointment\" to customers.\n\n\"We will be contacting all guests affected to discuss their options,\" it said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Singapore's 'cruises to nowhere' set back by Covid scare\n\nThe firm said its vaccination policy added to stronger safety processes already planned for when its holidays resume.\n\nThese include requiring cruise passengers to have a Covid-19 test before their trip, as well as a full medical screening.\n\nCapacity on its ships will also be kept to a maximum of 800 people.\n\nThere were some severe covid outbreaks on cruise ships early on the pandemic, before coronavirus restrictions were imposed.\n\nBritish-registered ship the Diamond Princess, owned by the company Carnival, was quarantined for nearly a month in February in the Port of Yokohama in Japan.\n\nMore than 700 of its 3,711 passengers and crew were infected, and 14 died.\n\nThe UK has embarked on a mass vaccination programme as Covid-19 cases surge.\n\nPeople in England are being vaccinated at a rate of 140 jabs per minute, NHS England boss Sir Simon Stevens said this week.\n\nExperts believe in future that airlines, concert venues and restaurants could routinely ask customers to prove that they have been vaccinated.\n\nAnd last week, London plumbing firm Pimlico Plumbers said that all of its staff would be contractually obliged to get the jab.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Hill We Climb: Watch 22-year-old Amanda Gorman's poem reading at Joe Biden's inauguration\n\nAmanda Gorman has become the youngest poet ever to perform at a presidential inauguration, calling for \"unity and togetherness\" in her self-penned poem.\n\nThe 22-year-old delivered her work The Hill We Climb to both the dignitaries present in Washington DC and a watching global audience.\n\n\"When day comes, we ask ourselves where can we find light in this never-ending shade?\" her five-minute poem began.\n\nShe went on to reference the storming of the Capitol earlier this month.\n\n\"We've seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it, would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy,\" she declared.\n\n\"And this effort very nearly succeeded. But while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated.\"\n\nThe poet was applauded by Vice President Kamala Harris\n\nIn her poem, Gorman described herself as \"a skinny black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother [who] can dream of becoming president, only to find her self reciting for one\".\n\nAmerica's first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate did her job, which was to find the right words at the right time.\n\nIt was a beautifully paced, well-judged poem for a special occasion, but it will live long beyond the time and space of the moment.\n\nAmanda Gorman delivered her piece with grace, the words it contained will resonate with people the world over: today, tomorrow, and far into the future.\n\nThe writer and performer, who became the country's first National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017, followed in the footsteps of such famous names as Robert Frost and Maya Angelou.\n\n\"I really wanted to use my words to be a point of unity and collaboration and togetherness,\" Gorman told the BBC World Service's Newshour programme before the ceremony.\n\n\"I think it's about a new chapter in the United States, about the future, and doing that through the elegance and beauty of words.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS broadcaster and actress Oprah Winfrey tweeted that she had \"never been prouder to see another young woman rise\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Oprah Winfrey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlso on Twitter, Joanne Liu, the former head of aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières, described the poem as \"the most inspiring 5:43 minutes for the longest time\".\n\nFormer First Lady Michelle Obama praised Gorman's \"strong and poignant words\" adding: \"Keep shining, Amanda!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Michelle Obama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUS politician and rights activist Stacey Abrams said the poem was \"an inspiration to us all\".\n\nFormer presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tweeted that Gorman had promised to run for president in 2036 and added: \"I for one can't wait.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIllinois poet laureate Angela Jackson said the recitation was \"so rich and just so filled with truth\".\n\n\"I was stunned that she was so young and so wise,\" Jackson told the Chicago Sun-Times.\n\nGorman said she \"screamed and danced her head off\" when she found out she had been chosen to read at President Biden's swearing-in ceremony.\n\nShe said she felt \"excitement, joy, honour and humility\" when she was asked to take part, \"and also at the same time terror\".\n\nAnd she added that she hoped her poem, completed on the day supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol, would \"speak to the moment\" and \"do this time justice\".\n\nGorman, pictured with actor Morgan Freeman in 2018, became LA's youth poet laureate at 16\n\nBorn in Los Angeles in 1998, Gorman had a speech impediment as a child - an affliction she shares with America's new president.\n\n\"It's made me the performer that I am and the storyteller that I strive to be,\" she said in a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times.\n\n\"When you have to teach yourself how to say sounds [and] be highly concerned about pronunciation, it gives you a certain awareness of sonics, of the auditory experience.\"\n\nGorman became LA's youth poet laureate at 16. Three years later, while studying sociology at Harvard, she became National Youth Poet Laureate.\n\nShe published her first book, The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough, in 2015 and will publish a picture book, Change Sings, later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kamala Harris was sworn into office by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.\n\nKamala Harris has made history as the first female, first black and first Asian-American US vice-president.\n\nShe was sworn in just before Joe Biden took the oath of office to become the 46th US president.\n\nMs Harris, who is of Indian-Jamaican heritage, initially ran for the Democratic nomination.\n\nBut Mr Biden won the race and chose Ms Harris as his running mate, describing her as \"a fearless fighter for the little guy\".\n\nPrior to taking the oath at the US Capitol, Ms Harris paid tribute to the women who she says came before her.\n\n\"I stand on their shoulders,\" she said in a video.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kamala Harris This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEugene Goodman, the Capitol police officer who was hailed as a hero for steering a pro-Trump mob away from Senate chambers during the 6 January riot, escorted Ms Harris at the inauguration.\n\nMs Harris, 56, was born in Oakland, California, to two immigrant parents: an Indian-born mother and Jamaican-born father.\n\nKamala, left, as child with her mother and younger sister Maya\n\nShe went on to attend Howard University, one of the nation's preeminent historically black colleges and universities. She has described her time there as among the most formative experiences of her life.\n\nMs Harris says she's always been comfortable with her identity and simply describes herself as \"an American\".\n\nAfter four years at Howard, Ms Harris went on to earn her law degree at the University of California, Hastings, and began her career in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.\n\nShe became the district attorney - the top prosecutor - for San Francisco in 2003, before being elected the first female and the first African American to serve as California's attorney general, the top lawyer and law enforcement official in America's most populous state.\n\nIn her nearly two terms in office as attorney general, Ms Harris gained a reputation as one of the Democratic party's rising stars, using this momentum to propel her to election as California's junior US senator in 2017. She was only the second black woman ever elected to the US senate.\n\nShe launched her candidacy for president to a crowd of more than 20,000 in Oakland at the beginning of 2019.\n\nBut Ms Harris failed to articulate a clear rationale for her campaign, and gave muddled answers to questions in key policy areas like healthcare.\n\nShe was also unable to capitalise on the clear high point of her candidacy: debate performances that showed off her prosecutorial skills, often placing Mr Biden in the line of attack, most notably criticising his praise for the \"civil\" working relationship he had with former senators who favoured racial segregation.\n\nShe dropped out of the presidential race in December 2019.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut Mr Biden chose her as his number two in August, calling her \"one of the country's finest public servants\".\n\nAfter Mr Biden was announced as the next president in November, Ms Harris tweeted a video of her congratulating her running mate.\n\n\"We did it, we did it Joe. You're going to be the next president of the United States!\" she beamed.", "Scientists tracking the spread of coronavirus in England say infection levels in the community may have risen at the start of the latest lockdown.\n\nInfections in 6-15 January were up by 50% on early December, with one in 63 people infected, Imperial College London's initial findings suggest.\n\nSwab tests from 143,000 people indicate 1.58% had the virus during in early January - up from 0.91% in December.\n\nMinisters say the report does not yet reflect the impact of the lockdown.\n\nThe latest round of results from Imperial College's React-1 infection survey - one of the country's largest studies into Covid-19 infections - are interim with the full set of results to be published in a week's time.\n\nBut Imperial College London's Prof Paul Elliott warned if the high prevalence continues \"more lives will be lost\".\n\nThe report also says there are \"worrying suggestions of a recent uptick in infections\" and Prof Elliott said the third lockdown - introduced on 6 January - was not having the same impact as the first, in April.\n\nLondon had the highest level in the January period - 2.8%, up from 1.21% in early December.\n\nProf Elliott old BBC Radio 4's Today programme the current R rate - which represents how many people an infected person will pass the virus on to - was \"around 1\".\n\n\"We're seeing this levelling off, it's not going up, but we're not seeing the decline that we really need to see given the pressure on the NHS from the current very high levels of the virus in the population,\" he said.\n\n\"To prevent our already stretched health system from becoming overwhelmed, infections must be brought down,\" Prof Elliot added.\n\nBefore the Covid rules were tightened, the restrictions faced by people in England varied depending on where they lived.\n\nThe researchers say the government's latest daily case figures, which show a slowdown, may reflect a drop in cases just after Christmas, which is only now being registered.\n\nAnd they suggest infection levels may have gone up in early January as a result of people's activity increasing after the Christmas holiday period.\n\nThey admit there is some uncertainty in their data amid a \"fast-changing situation\" but say it is more up to date than the daily government figures because it does not rely on those being tested developing symptoms and then waiting to have their infections confirmed by a laboratory.\n\nThe UK recorded another all-time high of daily coronavirus deaths on Wednesday. A further 1,820 people died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to government figures - taking the total number of deaths by that measure to 93,290.\n\nThe findings of the study are seemingly at odds with recent figures from NHS Test and Trace, which has been reporting recent decreases in daily infections and has prompted some experts to suggest that we might be beginning our journey out of the woods.\n\nThe researchers behind the study say the test and trace figures may be reflecting an initial drop in infections just after Christmas, which is only now being registered on the official figures.\n\nThe study's more up to date findings indicate that infection levels did not continue to fall in the first two weeks of January and may even have gone up. So why has this happened?\n\nData on people's movements has shown that there's been increased activity which the scientists involved say has kept transmission of the virus at a high level. The Department of Health says that the study does not yet reflect the impact of the lockdown in England.\n\nBut if this trend continues, say the scientists, the numbers admitted to hospital with severe Covid illness, will not fall in the short term, as some had hoped.\n\nThis is one set of figures over a short number of days so there might be a more optimistic picture when the study reports its full set of results in a week's time. But there is no getting away from the fact that ministers will be disappointed not to have seen a fall at this stage.\n\nUnless things change, even tougher measures will have to be considered.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said there will be \"tough weeks to come\" but he hoped there would be a \"real difference\" by spring as the vaccine programme accelerates.\n\nIt comes as another 60 NHS Covid-19 vaccination centres in England, including a mosque in Birmingham and a cinema in Aylesbury, will welcome their first patients later.\n\nMinisters have sought to reassure people in the top four priority groups for the Covid vaccination that they will get their jab by the government's mid-February target, following complaints from some GPs about unpredictable supplies.\n\nSome 4.6m people in the UK have now received the first dose of a Covid vaccine.\n\nFacebook mobility data, which tracks people's movements, suggested a fall in activity at the end of December but a rise at the start of the new year.\n\nAnd Prof Elliott said everyone should \"reduce their mobility as much as we can\".\n\nA new, more transmissible variant and the fact larger households and deprived communities were more likely to be affected, may also be factors.\n\nThe Imperial survey is one source of data used to estimate the UK's reproduction (R) number, along with other surveys, from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for example, and figures on confirmed cases and hospital admissions.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the React findings showed \"we must not let down our guard over the weeks to come\".\n\n\"It is absolutely paramount that everyone plays their part to bring down infections,\" he said.\n\n\"This means staying at home and only going out where absolutely necessary, reducing contact with others and maintaining social distancing.\"", "Police checkpoints have seen officers questioning people about whether their travel is essential\n\nNorthern Ireland has been in lockdown since 26 December, in a bid to control the spread of Covid-19.\n\nRestrictions had been eased in the run-up to Christmas, which led to a sharp spike in cases in January, causing severe pressure on the health service.\n\nMedically-trained military personnel will be deployed to help, but a union has questioned the move and said NI should have entered a stricter lockdown sooner.\n\nWith Stormont ministers extending the current lockdown, could other measures could be on the table?\n\nIt's worth bearing in mind that NI is already in tight lockdown restrictions and has been for almost a month.\n\nBut the current measures are now set to remain in place until at least 5 March.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said health officials had not requested any other measures be toughened up at this time, given the duration and extent of the current rules.\n\nThe initial lockdown began last March, with non-essential retail not permitted to open again until 12 June.\n\nBy law people are required to stay at home during the lockdown unless they have a reasonable excuse, such as going out for exercise, medical or food needs.\n\nPeople are also required to wear face masks in shops and on public transport, with only a limited number of exemptions.\n\nThose who breach the rules can face fines, with businesses that break the law also able to be fined if they do not follow the rules.\n\nHowever, DUP minister Edwin Poots has expressed concern that not enough has been done by the PSNI to enforce the laws.\n\nIt is a difficult balance for the executive to strike.\n\nThey previously announced that \"Covid marshals\" would be deployed in the retail sector to ensure social distancing in queues and adherence to the rules.\n\nMinisters want to ensure as many people as possible follow the restrictions voluntarily while ensuring the PSNI has enough powers to manage the situation.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has not ruled out revisiting whether the level of fines people can face should be increased, and said he would raise the matter with his executive colleagues.\n\nThe 2020 lockdown saw many businesses right across Northern Ireland forced to close, with retail and hospitality among them.\n\nThere was confusion over whether construction and manufacturing should stop, with the executive later clarifying that essential work on building sites could continue.\n\nIn the latest lockdown, the sector has been permitted to remain fully open.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, all non-essential construction has been ordered to stop during a fresh lockdown there.\n\nLike in the previous lockdown, people have again been told to work from home unless they cannot.\n\nBut it is worth pointing out many companies have had time to prepare since last March, making their workplaces Covid-secure to allow more staff to attend in person.\n\nThe executive has a defined list of essential businesses here.\n\nFace coverings in shops are mandatory in Northern Ireland's shops\n\nThere has also been confusion about what elements of the retail sector can operate.\n\nAll but essential retail shops were told to close on 26 December, and click-and-collect is only allowed for those essential retailers.\n\nBut concerns were later raised that some larger chains were \"gaming\" the regulations by selling non-essential items, with smaller independent shops who had to close arguing they were being treated unfairly.\n\nThe executive met with retailers last week to discuss this, but it seems unlikely it will act to define essential items in regulations.\n\nA similar situation in Wales last year led to criticism after supermarkets were told by law not to sell certain items.\n\nThe majority of pupils are in an extended period of remote learning until after half-term in February, but some children of key workers and vulnerable children are still permitted to attend the classroom.\n\nLast week it emerged that at least eight times as many pupils in Northern Ireland attended schools in the first week of term in 2021 compared to the first lockdown in 2020.\n\nThough part of this is due to special schools remaining open for all pupils, unlike in March to June last year.\n\nThe executive could potentially revisit the list of services it defines as meeting the \"key worker\" definition for childcare, if it wanted to reduce this further.\n\nIt is also possible schools could remain closed to most pupils for a longer period, in line with extending the lockdown to 5 March.\n\nThe executive says workers, builders, tradespeople and other professionals can continue to go into people's houses to carry out work such as repairs, installations and deliveries.\n\nBut it does not define further what this type of work should include.\n\nIt is possible ministers could tighten the circumstances in which work can be carried out in someone's home, but the guidance already specifies a limited number of exemptions for allowing others inside your home during the lockdown.\n\nHouse moves are also allowed under the regulations, although they were paused in the first lockdown.\n\nMusic lessons and private tutoring are permitted in someone's home, with mitigations.\n\nDuring the first week of lockdown from 26 December, people were told not to leave their homes between 20:00 and 06:00 every day - effectively amounting to a curfew.\n\nMinisters could decide to impose the measure again, if they felt that was necessary - but initially it was imposed to stop house parties over New Year's Eve.\n\nAll but essential travel is not permitted outside of Northern Ireland, and anyone entering Northern Ireland must self-isolate for 10 days on arrival or face a fine.\n\nHowever, there is no formal travel ban on passengers from Great Britain or the Republic of Ireland entering Northern Ireland.\n\nThe executive had voted by a majority before Christmas not to impose such a ban, despite calls from Sinn Féin for it to happen.\n\nOther parties argued that the public health advice did not propose a ban in law, and that travel from the Republic of Ireland to NI should be restricted as well due to its rise in cases.\n\nThe current guidance states that anyone coming into NI from within the Common Travel Area who is staying for more than 24 hours should self-isolate for 10 days, but there are exemptions for those who \"cross the border\" regularly for work or other essential reasons.\n\nThe executive also does not have a formal limit in law for travelling to exercise, unlike in the Republic of Ireland where it is 5km (3 miles).\n\nJustice Minister Naomi Long said there is an \"advisory limit\" of 10 miles for exercise in Northern Ireland.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo houses have partially collapsed after a sinkhole measuring 10ft (3m) opened up on a Manchester street.\n\nFour homes were evacuated on Wednesday evening after the hole appeared on Walmer Street in Abbey Hey, Gorton.\n\nFire crews returned hours later after the front of two of the empty properties crashed to the ground.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was dealing with a collapsed sewer but was investigating all possible causes including the recent heavy rain.\n\nThe fire service was first called to Walmer Street just after 21:00 GMT on Wednesday to reports an unoccupied car had fallen down a hole in the road.\n\nA cordon was put in place and residents evacuated as a precaution, the fire service said.\n\nAfter leaving the scene four hours later, the fire service was alerted to the partial collapse of two houses at 11:00 on Thursday.\n\nNo-one was injured in either incident.\n\nEmergency services remain at the scene on Walmer Street\n\nNearby residents Maureen and Louise Kennedy spoke of their shock after the houses collapsed.\n\n\"You're just waiting for your world to crumble. It's not just the bricks and water, said Ms Kennedy.\n\n\"I've lived in there since I was three. It's the memories.\"\n\nResident Nathaniel OKeleafor said he was \"terrified\" when the sinkhole appeared in the street on Wednesday evening.\n\n\"This morning we are out. We are just trying to find somewhere to live,\" he added.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was dealing with a collapsed sewer on Walmer Street\n\nThe collapse comes as rising levels on the River Mersey in Manchester came \"within centimetres\" of breaching flood defences following heavy rain caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nStation Manager Andrew O'Brien, from Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, praised firefighters who worked \"at the height of the stormy weather\".\n\n\"The safety of the public was our primary concern overnight and again today, and I'm pleased to say no-one has suffered any injuries,\" he said.\n\nUnited Utilities said: \"When it is safe for engineers to go back into the immediate area we will set up emergency drainage and water supply connections to restore services to the area and begin to assess how best to carry out repairs.\n\n\"It is not known what caused the sinkhole but this will be investigated.\"\n\nBBC Radio Manchester and BBC Radio Lancashire will be on air throughout Storm Christoph, bringing you all of the latest information and news updates\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel says police have her \"absolute backing\" to enforce coronavirus restrictions\n\nFines of £800 for anyone attending a house party of more than 15 people will be introduced in England from next week, under new Covid measures.\n\nThese will double for each repeat offence to a maximum of £6,400.\n\nAt a No 10 news conference, Home Secretary Priti Patel said there remained a \"small minority that refuse to do the right thing\".\n\n\"To them my message is clear. If you don't follow rules then the police will enforce them,\" she said.\n\nCurrently in England the fine for those attending illegal indoor gatherings stands at £200 - or £100 if paid early.\n\nFines of up to £10,000 for holding large illegal gatherings of more than 30 people will still only apply to the organisers.\n\nPolice will continue to follow the strategy of engaging with the public, explaining the rules and encouraging compliance, but the Home Office has warned that in severe breaches of lockdown rules, offenders should expect to receive a fine.\n\nMs Patel said the government would \"not stand by while a small number of individuals put others at risk\".\n\nShe was joined at the briefing by NHS England regional medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar, who compared breaking the rules to turning on a light in the middle of a blackout during the Blitz.\n\n\"It doesn't just put you at risk in your house, it puts your whole street and the whole of your community at risk,\" he said.\n\nWelcoming the fines announcement, Martin Hewitt, chairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council, said large gatherings were \"dangerous, irresponsible, and totally unacceptable\".\n\nHe added: \"I hope that the likelihood of an increased fine acts as a disincentive for those people who are thinking of attending or organising such events.\"\n\nOfficial figures will be released next week showing how many fines have been given out since the start of this latest national lockdown, Mr Hewitt said.\n\nHowever, he stressed that \"forces are telling us there has been a significant increase\" in recent weeks.\n\n\"That's reflecting the fact that we've had more officers out on dedicated patrols taking targeted action against those small few who are letting everybody down,\" he said.\n\nAccording to Mr Hewitt, three police officers were injured in Brick Lane, east London, last week, after more than 40 people were found cramped indoors at a house party.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 150 people were found at a party in Hertfordshire, complete with music equipment including mixing decks and amplifiers, and another officer was injured.\n\nHe said forces in England had issued 250 fixed penalty notices (FPNs) to people organising large gatherings between late August, when regulations were introduced, and 17 January.\n\nIn some other recent examples of lockdown breaches:\n\nThe latest fines announcement comes after figures showed that assaults on emergency workers made up more than a quarter of Covid-related crimes prosecuted in the first six months of the pandemic.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there were 1,688 such offences between 1 April and 30 September in England and Wales.\n\nThey were among almost 6,500 crimes related to coronavirus in that period.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome 1,137 charges were brought for breaking coronavirus laws, according to the figures published by the CPS - which cover completed prosecutions.\n\nOn Thursday, it was reported that another 1,290 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 in the UK, bringing the total to 94,580.\n\nAnd a further 37,892 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus were announced, bringing the total number of cases in the UK to 3,543,646.\n• None What powers do police have?", "\"I had no idea at all I was going to be charged any more for deliveries after Brexit. The extra costs were definitely a bit of a shock.\"\n\nEllie Huddleston, a 26-year-old Londoner, thought she would treat herself to some new work clothes in the January sales.\n\nHaving spotted a bargain, she placed an order for a coat and a number of blouses from two of her favourite clothes brands based in Europe.\n\nBut both deliveries were delayed, held up in customs checks for at least a week, she says.\n\nShe was surprised when she then received a text from courier company DPD, containing a link asking her to pay £58 in customs duties, VAT and additional charges for her £180 order.\n\nOn top of that, the UPS courier for the second parcel showed up at her door several days later, asking for an extra payment of £82 for her £200 coat.\n\nThese charges, imposed by new government rules, have to be collected by the courier firms on the authorities' behalf.\n\n\"I didn't even know when the parcels would be coming - so I sent both back without paying the extra fees and won't be ordering anything from Europe again any time soon,\" Ellie says.\n\nWhen the UK was part of the European Union's customs union, goods could move freely between the country and other member states without import taxes being charged.\n\nBut Ellie was one of the shoppers caught unaware of the fact that those rules have changed since the UK's official exit.\n\nEU retailers sending packages to the UK now need to fill out customs declaration forms. Shoppers may also have to pay customs or VAT charges, depending on the value of the product and where it came from.\n\nHowever, customs charges are the responsibility of the customer, not the retailer, who often has no idea of how much the eventual extra cost might be.\n\nThey cannot be paid in advance and are levied only when the item reaches the UK.\n\nAnother unhappy customer, Graeme from Manchester, paid £300 to buy two pairs of suede winter boots from a German firm online.\n\n\"You couldn't get them anywhere in the UK, so I had no choice but to order them from Europe,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe next thing he knew, courier UPS had sent him a text message saying he had to pay £147 extra before the boots could be delivered. He paid up, but is still waiting for the goods to arrive.\n\n\"It was virtually impossible to find out what the charges would be beforehand,\" he says, \"so I had to take a shot in the dark.\n\n\"I didn't imagine that it would be half as much again.\"\n\nCourier companies are adding charges to some deliveries from the EU\n\nUnder the new rules, anyone in the UK receiving a gift from the EU worth more than £39 may now face a bill for import VAT - with many items charged at 20%.\n\nFor goods costing more than £135, customs duties may also apply, which can range from 0% to 25% of the product you're buying if they have not been paid by the sender already.\n\nThe extra charges are usually collected by the courier on behalf of the government, with customers asked to pay before they can pick up their package.\n\nSome specialist European retailers, such as bicycle part firm Dutch Bike Bits and Belgium-based Beer On Web, recently said that they would stop all deliveries to the UK because of the VAT changes, which came into force on 1 January.\n\nSome firms have started charging additional \"handling fees\" to shoppers to cover costs associated with extra customs checks and paperwork that must be filled out.\n\nRoyal Mail, for example, is charging an £8 fee it says \"reflects the cost of clearing items through customs and presenting them to Border Force\".\n\nMeanwhile, delivery firm DHL says it is charging UK customers 2.5% of the amount paid to clear customs, with a minimum charge of £11.\n\nMail and freight company TNT is also adding £4.31 on all shipments from the UK to the EU and vice versa. It has said this reflects the increased investment it has had to make in adjusting its systems to cope with Brexit.\n\nA spokeswoman for Logistics UK told the BBC that the handling fees were \"a commercial decision by individual businesses\".\n\nBut Michelle Dale, senior manager at accountants UHY Hacker Young, said that new charges could present a major problem for firms in the coming weeks.\n\n\"I think what we'll find is that a lot of trade with the EU from a business-to-customer perspective will come to a stop until some of these rules are eased,\" she said.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"The new VAT model ensures goods from EU and non-EU countries are treated in the same way and that UK businesses are not disadvantaged by competition from VAT-free imports.\n\n\"The new system also addresses the problem of overseas sellers failing to pay the right amount of VAT when they sell goods in the UK. We anticipate this will bring in £300m in tax every year, to fund essential UK public services.\"\n\nThere is speculation the rules may change, but until they do, Ellie says she won't be buying from European firms.\n\n\"With all that uncertainty around things and whether or not these charges might change, I'd rather just avoid the hassle,\" she says.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHomes have been evacuated as Storm Christoph batters Wales with a three-day rainstorm.\n\nNorth Wales Police were called to help some residents in Ruthin who were being told to leave their homes.\n\nThey tweeted that \"people who do not live locally are driving to the area to 'see the floods'\".\n\nA rain warning issued by the Met Office is in place until midday on Thursday, with an ice warning for parts of north and mid Wales.\n\nSouth Wales fire crews pumped out water from homes in Pontypridd and Porth, in Rhondda, and roads were blocked in Powys and Flintshire.\n\nVehicles were pulled from floods by firefighters in Tenby, Llandovery, Llandeilo and Whitland, Mid and West Wales fire service said.\n\nUp to 20cm (8in) of rain is expected to fall, with the heaviest rain forecast for the north west of Wales.\n\nThere were flood warnings in 58 areas as forecasters warned heavy rain and melting snow could affect roads. There were also 57 flood alerts - meaning flooding is possible.\n\nA yellow warning for ice was issued for the north and parts of mid Wales, starting at 01:00 on Thursday and lasting until 10:00, as rain clears.\n\nA minor landslip was reported on the mountainside above Pentre in Rhondda Cynon Taf. Natural Resources Wales, who have responsibility for the land, said there is no immediate threat after an initial inspection, but the council urged residents to keep away from the area.\n\nThe River Taf at Llanglydwen in Carmarthenshire\n\nFlood warnings are in Carmarthenshire - the River Towy and isolated properties between Llandeilo and Abergwili, the River Gwendraeth Fawr at Pontyates and Ponthenry, the River Hydfron at Llanddowror and the River Taf at Trevaughan in Whitland.\n\nThe other flood warnings cover the River Ely at Peterston-Super-Ely in Vale of Glamorgan, the River Vyrnwy in the Meifod area in Powys, the River Rhyd Hir at Riverside Terrace in Gwynedd, two for the River Wye at Glasbury and Builth Wells, the Lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows, the River Dyfi at Pont ar Dyfi, the River Usk from Brecon to Glangrwyne, two at the River Severn at Abermule to Fron and Aberbechan and the River Lower Clydach at Clydach Bridge, Swansea.\n\nIn River Aeron at Aberaeron, in Ceredigion, the River Loughor at Ammanford and Llandybie and the River Wye at Builth Wells, Powys, are also covered by the warning.\n\nA person had to be saved from a car stuck in floodwater in Corwen, Denbighshire, North East Wales Search and Rescue tweeted.\n\nRest centres have been opened in St Asaph and Ruthin after some localised flooding following heavy rainfall throughout the day. Denbighshire council invited affected residents to use the facilities at the towns' main leisure centres.\n\nAnd Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said crews were called to help a motorist whose vehicle had become stuck in 3ft of water in Machynlleth.\n\nThe waters lapped the doors of Ruthin's Ocean Pearl restaurant\n\nIn Broughton, Flintshire, Ray and Jacqui Littler said they and their daughter waited all afternoon for help at their flooded bungalow after emergency services told them they were \"flat out\".\n\nThey eventually decided to leave their home on Main Road, which was under 10 inches of water, to stay with friends.\n\nNeighbours blamed a blocked culvert on the fields opposite the road. Police closed the road at about 16:00 GMT and Flintshire council attended, after three houses were affected, with the gardens of two pensioners' bungalows also under water.\n\nOverflowing banks of the River Usk at Brecon\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had been called to two incidents overnight with reports of water entering properties in Pontycymmer in Bridgend and Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, it dealt with flooding at properties in Tyfica Road, Pontypridd, and Trebanog Road in Porth, Rhondda, where a crew was helping residents divert and pump out water.\n\nFirefighters also had to rescue 46 sheep from land surrounded by water at Merthyr Road, Llanfoist, Monmouthshire.\n\nCrews from Abergavenny and Ebbw Vale were called to help the stricken animals near the River Usk.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWater in the grounds of Gwydir Castle in Llanrwst\n\nJudy Corbett, owner of 16th Century Gwydir Castle in Llanrwst, Conwy, which flooded last year, told BBC Radio Wales things were \"looking pretty dire here this morning\".\n\nShe said: \"We've been obviously monitoring the levels overnight so we've had another sleepless night worrying about the weather but the levels are rising and the water is very violent this morning and of course, we've got another a whole day ahead of us.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Sabrina Lee This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSeveral roads have been hit by flooding, including the B5106 between Llanrwst and Trefriw\n\nThe Met Office warned spray and flooding could lead to \"difficult driving conditions and some road closures\" and the downpours could cause delays.\n\nTraffic Wales said restrictions were in place on the M48 Severn Bridge where traffic is coming off eastbound at junction two or westbound at junction one before being directed back on to cross the bridge, which remains open.\n\nIn Flintshire, the A548 Coast Road has been closed at Tan Lan and Mostyn, the A5118 at Padeswood, the A541 between Llong to Pontblyddyn, Bagillt High Street and the B5101 between Treuddyn and Llanfynydd.\n\nThe A485 in Garreg is also closed from the Brondaw Arms to Pont Aberglaslyn.\n\nThe Dyfi Bridge near Machynlleth is closed\n\nIn Powys, the A487 over the Dyfi Bridge, near Machynlleth, is closed while the A458 at Llanfair Caereinion is blocked in both directions from Bridge Street to Guilsfield turn-off because of flooding.\n\nThe A483 in Builth Wells at the station is also closed along with the bridge over the River Wye.\n\nCapel Bangor in Ceredigion has temporary traffic lights on the A44 at Lovesgrove Roundabout due to flooding, which is affecting traffic between Aberystwyth and Llangurig.\n\nIn Bridgend, New Inn Road has been closed in both directions at The Dipping Bridge, affecting traffic between Ewenny village and the A48.\n\nSouth Wales Police warned people not to attempt driving through floodwater after the A4118 at Llanddewi on Gower became blocked.\n\nIn Gwynedd, the council tweeted that Ffordd Siliwen, Bangor, had been closed following a landslip.\n\nA section of the A470 Dolgellau Bypass has also been closed along with the A4085 at Garreg.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNational Rail said some lines between North Llanrwst, Conwy, and Blaenau Ffestiniog in Gwynedd were blocked due to heavy rain while services were also disrupted between Shrewsbury and Machynlleth in Powys.\n\nAlterative road transport will run in place of cancelled services, it said.\n\nThe Met Office said 56mm (2.2in) of rain had fallen at Capel Curig in Snowdonia by 18:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nA yellow warning for rain is in place for virtually the whole of Wales until Thursday\n\nForecasters also said fast flowing and deep floodwater \"could cause a danger to life\".\n\nThe Met Office warned flooding could lead to some communities being cut off and possible power cuts.\n\nStrong winds will also follow the torrential rain, with forecasters predicting this may cause \"travelling difficulties across areas higher and more exposed routes\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPaul Pogba scored a superb winner as Manchester United reclaimed top spot in the Premier League by coming from behind for a club-record equalling away win at Fulham.\n\nIn what is becoming a familiar pattern for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side outside Manchester this season, they fell behind early in the game, with Ademola Lookman beating the offside trap before firing in an angled drive.\n\nBut for the seventh time away from Old Trafford in 2020-21, United found a winning response - taking their run to 17 games unbeaten away in the Premier League - courtesy of a gift from their opponents and a bit of magic from their French midfielder.\n\nGoalkeeper Alphonse Areola has been a good addition for the Cottagers but in dropping Bruno Fernandes' cross at the feet of Edinson Cavani, he gifted his former Paris St-Germain team-mate the simplest of equalisers.\n\nAnd on the hour mark, Pogba stepped up to decide the contest, firing a superb angled drive across the diving Areola and into the far corner from 20 yards.\n\nThe France international has come in for criticism at times this season but received nothing but praise from his manager after his winner.\n\n\"I am very happy with his performances,\" said Solskjaer.\n\n\"I know what he can do. He does everything. Now he is putting all the elements together in his performances and it is great to see.\n\n\"It was about getting him fit. He is enjoying his football, he is happy and physically in a good shape.\"\n\nThe win takes United to 40 points, two more than both Leicester and Manchester City, who had briefly taken top spot from the Foxes with a 2-0 win over Aston Villa on Wednesday.\n\nSolskjaer, though, was reluctant to get drawn into discussing his side's title credentials with so much of the campaign to go.\n\n\"It is always going to be talked about that when you are halfway through and top of the league, but we are not thinking about this, we just have to go one game at a time,\" he added. \"It is such an unpredictable season.\"\n\nFulham remain in the bottom three, four points behind 17th-placed Burnley.\n• None Man Utd or Man City to end day top? Cassia bassist Lou Cotterill takes on Lawro\n\nSolskjaer felt his side missed a big opportunity to fully assert their title credentials in failing to make the most of their chances in Sunday's 0-0 draw at champions Liverpool.\n\nUnited were clearly in no mood to repeat such a mistake at a wet and windy Craven Cottage on Wednesday against a less daunting and defining opposition, but one that is far more robust now than they were in the season's first month.\n\nThe visitors fell behind, but this is par for the course for this side, who once again did not panic, wrestled control of the game away from their opponents and took the win.\n\nIt is a handy trick for a title-challenging side to have in their locker, although one they would rather not have to repeatedly pull.\n\nIn truth, they should have won more handsomely.\n\nThey had the far greater share of possession and territory and were well ahead of their opponents on shots taken until a frantic finale in which the Cottagers threw in all they had in pursuit of a point.\n\nFred felt he should have had a penalty in the first half courtesy of being caught in the box by a loose challenge from Ruben Loftus-Cheek, but both on-field and VAR officials disagreed.\n\nHarry Maguire twice headed wide from corners, the first from a far less forgivable, unmarked position than the second.\n\nEqually, though, it is a game that could have seen them drop points, especially in light of Fulham's late barrage, which saw David de Gea save superbly with his legs to deny Loftus-Cheek, and the ball pinballing around the United box on more than one occasion.\n\nThe Cottagers demonstrated that they are no pushover, but they are making of habit of being on the rough end of fine margins.\n\nFive straight draws followed by two defeats by a single goal suggests their battle against the drop will go right down to the wire.\n\n\"I'm really pleased but I'm disappointed at the same time, which shows how far we've come,\" said Cottagers boss Scott Parker.\n\n\"I saw a team today that looked threatening and tried their hardest to get back into the game, but we go again. The next challenge is to maintain where we are and don't let defeat sink us.\n\n\"No doubt we can win and operate in this division and we just need to push on and keep improving.\"\n\nUnited lead the way in early concessions\n• None No side has conceded more goals in the opening five minutes of Premier League games this season than Manchester United (4). Manchester United have won seven Premier League games having gone behind this season - only Newcastle in 2001-02 (10) and Man Utd themselves in 2012-13 (9) have done so more in a single campaign.\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their last 17 Premier League away games (W13 D4), equalling their longest ever unbeaten run on the road in top-flight history (17 between December 1998 and September 1999).\n• None This was the 41st different game in which Fulham had led in all competitions under Scott Parker, but the first time they had lost such a game (W34 D6).\n• None Edinson Cavani became the first Man Utd player whose first four Premier League goals for the club were all scored away from home.\n• None Since his return to the club in 2016, no Man Utd player has scored more league goals from outside the box than Paul Pogba (6).\n• None Ademola Lookman has been involved in more Premier League goals than any other Fulham player this season (6 - 3 goals, 3 assists).\n• None Bruno Fernandes has gone three Premier League games without a goal or assist for the first time since his Manchester United debut in February 2020.\n\nFulham's next game is in the FA Cup, against Burnley on Sunday (14:30 GMT). Their next league fixture, an away game on Wednesday, 27 January, is a big one. Opponents Brighton are two places and five points above them in the table.\n\nManchester United host Liverpool in the FA Cup on Sunday at 17:00, live on the BBC. They are also in league action the following Wednesday hosting the league's bottom club Sheffield United in a 20:15 kick-off.\n• None Attempt missed. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Fulham) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Kenny Tete with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ademola Lookman (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mario Lemina.\n• None Offside, Fulham. Aboubakar Kamara tries a through ball, but Kenny Tete is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Mario Lemina (Fulham) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Aboubakar Kamara.\n• None Attempt blocked. Joe Bryan (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Fulham) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right following a fast break.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fred (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Maguire with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis is America's day. This is democracy's day. A day of history and hope, of renewal and resolve. Through a crucible for the ages, America has been tested anew and America has risen to the challenge. Today we celebrate the triumph not of a candidate but of a cause, a cause of democracy. The people - the will of the people - has been heard, and the will of the people has been heeded.\n\nWe've learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile and, at this hour my friends, democracy has prevailed. So now on this hallowed ground where just a few days ago violence sought to shake the Capitol's very foundations, we come together as one nation under God - indivisible - to carry out the peaceful transfer of power as we have for more than two centuries.\n\nAs we look ahead in our uniquely American way, restless, bold, optimistic, and set our sights on a nation we know we can be and must be, I thank my predecessors of both parties for their presence here. I thank them from the bottom of my heart. And I know the resilience of our Constitution and the strength, the strength of our nation, as does President Carter, who I spoke with last night who cannot be with us today, but who we salute for his lifetime of service.\n\nI've just taken a sacred oath each of those patriots have taken. The oath first sworn by George Washington. But the American story depends not on any one of us, not on some of us, but on all of us. On we the people who seek a more perfect union. This is a great nation, we are good people. And over the centuries through storm and strife in peace and in war we've come so far. But we still have far to go.\n\nWe'll press forward with speed and urgency for we have much to do in this winter of peril and significant possibility. Much to do, much to heal, much to restore, much to build and much to gain. Few people in our nation's history have been more challenged or found a time more challenging or difficult than the time we're in now. A once in a century virus that silently stalks the country has taken as many lives in one year as in all of World War Two.\n\nMillions of jobs have been lost. Hundreds of thousands of businesses closed. A cry for racial justice, some 400 years in the making, moves us. The dream of justice for all will be deferred no longer. A cry for survival comes from the planet itself, a cry that can't be any more desperate or any more clear now. The rise of political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism, that we must confront and we will defeat.\n\nTo overcome these challenges, to restore the soul and secure the future of America, requires so much more than words. It requires the most elusive of all things in a democracy - unity. Unity. In another January on New Year's Day in 1863 Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. When he put pen to paper the president said, and I quote, 'if my name ever goes down in history, it'll be for this act, and my whole soul is in it'.\n\nMy whole soul is in it today, on this January day. My whole soul is in this. Bringing America together, uniting our people, uniting our nation. And I ask every American to join me in this cause. Uniting to fight the foes we face - anger, resentment and hatred. Extremism, lawlessness, violence, disease, joblessness, and hopelessness.\n\nWith unity we can do great things, important things. We can right wrongs, we can put people to work in good jobs, we can teach our children in safe schools. We can overcome the deadly virus, we can rebuild work, we can rebuild the middle class and make work secure, we can secure racial justice and we can make America once again the leading force for good in the world.\n\nI know speaking of unity can sound to some like a foolish fantasy these days. I know the forces that divide us are deep and they are real. But I also know they are not new. Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal, that we are all created equal, and the harsh ugly reality that racism, nativism and fear have torn us apart. The battle is perennial and victory is never secure.\n\nThrough civil war, the Great Depression, World War, 9/11, through struggle, sacrifice, and setback, our better angels have always prevailed. In each of our moments enough of us have come together to carry all of us forward and we can do that now. History, faith and reason show the way. The way of unity.\n\nWe can see each other not as adversaries but as neighbours. We can treat each other with dignity and respect. We can join forces, stop the shouting and lower the temperature. For without unity there is no peace, only bitterness and fury, no progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos. This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge. And unity is the path forward. And we must meet this moment as the United States of America.\n\nIf we do that, I guarantee we will not failed. We have never, ever, ever, ever failed in America when we've acted together. And so today at this time in this place, let's start afresh, all of us. Let's begin to listen to one another again, hear one another, see one another. Show respect to one another. Politics doesn't have to be a raging fire destroying everything in its path. Every disagreement doesn't have to be a cause for total war and we must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured.\n\nMy fellow Americans, we have to be different than this. We have to be better than this and I believe America is so much better than this. Just look around. Here we stand in the shadow of the Capitol dome. As mentioned earlier, completed in the shadow of the Civil War. When the union itself was literally hanging in the balance. We endure, we prevail. Here we stand, looking out on the great Mall, where Dr King spoke of his dream.\n\nHere we stand, where 108 years ago at another inaugural, thousands of protesters tried to block brave women marching for the right to vote. And today we mark the swearing in of the first woman elected to national office, Vice President Kamala Harris. Don't tell me things can't change. Here we stand where heroes who gave the last full measure of devotion rest in eternal peace.\n\nAnd here we stand just days after a riotous mob thought they could use violence to silence the will of the people, to stop the work of our democracy, to drive us from this sacred ground. It did not happen, it will never happen, not today, not tomorrow, not ever. Not ever. To all those who supported our campaign, I'm humbled by the faith you placed in us. To all those who did not support us, let me say this. Hear us out as we move forward. Take a measure of me and my heart.\n\nIf you still disagree, so be it. That's democracy. That's America. The right to dissent peacefully. And the guardrail of our democracy is perhaps our nation's greatest strength. If you hear me clearly, disagreement must not lead to disunion. And I pledge this to you. I will be a President for all Americans, all Americans. And I promise you I will fight for those who did not support me as for those who did.\n\nMany centuries ago, St Augustine - the saint of my church - wrote that a people was a multitude defined by the common objects of their love. Defined by the common objects of their love. What are the common objects we as Americans love, that define us as Americans? I think we know. Opportunity, security, liberty, dignity, respect, honour, and yes, the truth.\n\nRecent weeks and months have taught us a painful lesson. There is truth and there are lies. Lies told for power and for profit. And each of us has a duty and a responsibility as citizens as Americans and especially as leaders. Leaders who are pledged to honour our Constitution to protect our nation. To defend the truth and defeat the lies.\n\nLook, I understand that many of my fellow Americans view the future with fear and trepidation. I understand they worry about their jobs. I understand like their dad they lay in bed at night staring at the ceiling thinking: 'Can I keep my healthcare? Can I pay my mortgage?' Thinking about their families, about what comes next. I promise you, I get it. But the answer's not to turn inward. To retreat into competing factions. Distrusting those who don't look like you, or worship the way you do, who don't get their news from the same source as you do.\n\nWe must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal. We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts, if we show a little tolerance and humility, and if we're willing to stand in the other person's shoes, as my mom would say. Just for a moment, stand in their shoes.\n\nBecause here's the thing about life. There's no accounting for what fate will deal you. Some days you need a hand. There are other days when we're called to lend a hand. That's how it has to be, that's what we do for one another. And if we are that way our country will be stronger, more prosperous, more ready for the future. And we can still disagree.\n\nMy fellow Americans, in the work ahead of us we're going to need each other. We need all our strength to persevere through this dark winter. We're entering what may be the darkest and deadliest period of the virus. We must set aside politics and finally face this pandemic as one nation, one nation. And I promise this, as the Bible says, 'Weeping may endure for a night, joy cometh in the morning'. We will get through this together. Together.\n\nLook folks, all my colleagues I serve with in the House and the Senate up here, we all understand the world is watching. Watching all of us today. So here's my message to those beyond our borders. America has been tested and we've come out stronger for it. We will repair our alliances, and engage with the world once again. Not to meet yesterday's challenges but today's and tomorrow's challenges. And we'll lead not merely by the example of our power but the power of our example.\n\nFellow Americans, moms, dads, sons, daughters, friends, neighbours and co-workers. We will honour them by becoming the people and the nation we can and should be. So I ask you let's say a silent prayer for those who lost their lives, those left behind and for our country. Amen.\n\nFolks, it's a time of testing. We face an attack on our democracy, and on truth, a raging virus, a stinging inequity, systemic racism, a climate in crisis, America's role in the world. Any one of these would be enough to challenge us in profound ways. But the fact is we face them all at once, presenting this nation with one of the greatest responsibilities we've had. Now we're going to be tested. Are we going to step up?\n\nIt's time for boldness for there is so much to do. And this is certain, I promise you. We will be judged, you and I, by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era. We will rise to the occasion. Will we master this rare and difficult hour? Will we meet our obligations and pass along a new and better world to our children? I believe we must and I'm sure you do as well. I believe we will, and when we do, we'll write the next great chapter in the history of the United States of America. The American story.\n\nA story that might sound like a song that means a lot to me, it's called American Anthem. And there's one verse that stands out at least for me and it goes like this:\n\n'The work and prayers of centuries have brought us to this day, which shall be our legacy, what will our children say?\n\nLet me know in my heart when my days are through, America, America, I gave my best to you.'\n\nLet us add our own work and prayers to the unfolding story of our great nation. If we do this, then when our days are through, our children and our children's children will say of us: 'They gave their best, they did their duty, they healed a broken land.'\n\nMy fellow Americans I close the day where I began, with a sacred oath. Before God and all of you, I give you my word. I will always level with you. I will defend the Constitution, I'll defend our democracy.\n\nI'll defend America and I will give all - all of you - keep everything I do in your service. Thinking not of power but of possibilities. Not of personal interest but of public good.\n\nAnd together we will write an American story of hope, not fear. Of unity not division, of light not darkness. A story of decency and dignity, love and healing, greatness and goodness. May this be the story that guides us. The story that inspires us. And the story that tells ages yet to come that we answered the call of history, we met the moment. Democracy and hope, truth and justice, did not die on our watch but thrive.\n\nThat America secured liberty at home and stood once again as a beacon to the world. That is what we owe our forbearers, one another, and generations to follow.\n\nSo with purpose and resolve, we turn to those tasks of our time. Sustained by faith, driven by conviction and devoted to one another and the country we love with all our hearts. May God bless America and God protect our troops.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: It's too early to give a lockdown end date\n\nIt is \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions will be able to end in the spring, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.\n\nOnce the four priority groups have been vaccinated, by mid-February, \"we'll look then at how we're doing,\" he said.\n\nNearly two million people in the UK have had their first dose of vaccine in the past week, government figures show.\n\nScientist Marc Baguelin, who advises the government, has said restaurants and bars should not reopen before May.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson has said he \"certainly hopes\" schools in England can fully reopen before Easter, while Downing Street refused to be drawn on whether this would happen by then.\n\nA further 1,290 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test and there have been another 37,892 cases, according to the latest government figures.\n\nAnd almost five million people in the UK have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine.\n\nSpeaking after a study suggested infections might have increased at the start of the latest lockdown in England, Mr Johnson said it was \"absolutely crucial\" that people observed the restrictions.\n\nReferring to figures from the Imperial College London survey, he said they showed the new variant of the virus was \"not more deadly but it is much more contagious and the numbers are very great\".\n\nFigures published by Public Health England show cases - meaning people who come forward to get tested while they are infected - have fallen across England since early January.\n\nWith the two sets of figures pointing in different directions, it will be some time before it is known for sure how long it will take for lockdown to relieve the pressure on hospitals.\n\nDr Baguelin, from Imperial College, who sits on a sub-group of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) said the premature opening of the hospitality sector would lead to a \"bump\" in Covid-19 cases.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme even a partial reopening would generate \"an increase in the R number\". An R number above one means the epidemic is growing.\n\n\"Something of this scale, if it was to happen earlier than May, would generate a bump in transmission, which is already really bad,\" he said.\n\n\"So you have a lot of pressure on hospitals, you will have another wave of some extent. At best you will keep on having very, very unsustainable level of pressure on the NHS.\"\n\nNHS England figures show one in 10 major hospital trusts had no spare adult critical care beds last week.\n\nThis is a debate that is going to start to dominate public discourse.\n\nWith the vaccination programme under way, there is huge clamour to know what will happen once the most vulnerable are vaccinated, by mid-February.\n\nThe problem is there are still so many unknowns.\n\nFirstly, it is hard to predict by how much lockdown will have reduced infection levels, considering there is a new faster-spreading variant to deal with.\n\nThe level of uptake will also be crucial. Surveys suggest as many as one in five may not have the vaccine - although the older, more vulnerable groups tend to be the most willing to be vaccinated.\n\nAnd the fact that no vaccine is 100% effective means come February there could still be significant numbers of very vulnerable people who are not protected.\n\nAnother factor is whether the vaccine stops transmissions - so-called sterilising vaccination.\n\nTrials have shown the vaccines are good at stopping symptoms developing. But that does not mean someone who has received a jab will not pass on the virus.\n\nIf it does not, that, of course, has implications on how many control measures have to be kept in place. It will take us at least until spring to know the answer to this.\n\nAt this stage, it seems hard to see much beyond the possible reopening of schools come March.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was an \"impossible question\" to ask how long the lockdown would need to last.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, coronavirus lockdown restrictions will be extended until 5 March, BBC News understands.\n\nIn Scotland, lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home.\n\nAnd in Wales health minister Vaughan Gething has said no \"significant easing\" of Wales' Covid restrictions should be expected when the current guidelines are reviewed this month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Keir added that the coronavirus vaccines were \"really good news\" but \"should not mask the fact that we have still got a very serious problem\".\n\nThe government is aiming to offer a vaccine to all over-70s, the extremely clinical vulnerable and health and care workers by mid-February.\n\nSixty-five new vaccination centres are opening in England, including a mosque in Birmingham and a cinema in Aylesbury.", "Paddy McElhone was shot in the back by a soldier in 1974\n\nThe shooting dead of a man by the Army in County Tyrone in August 1974 was unjustified, a coroner has ruled.\n\nPaddy McElhone, 24, a farmer, was shot in the back near his home in Limehill, Pomeroy.\n\nAn inquest heard the shot was fired by a soldier from the First Battalion, Royal Regiment of Wales.\n\nJudge Siobhan Keegan said Mr McElhone was an \"innocent man shot in cold blood without warning when he was no threat to anyone\".\n\nThe soldier, now deceased, had been cleared of murder but the circumstances were re-examined in a new inquest ordered by the Attorney General.\n\nPaddy McElhone's family said he was killed without justification, explanation or apology\n\nAfterwards, a statement issued by the McElhone family said it had been a \"very long road\" to reach Thursday's ruling and that the truth \"has been heard\".\n\nIt reads: \"Our family always knew that Paddy was an innocent young man, taken from his home and shot by a British soldier for no reason.\"\n\nEvidence presented to the inquest found Mr McElhone was not on any list associated with the IRA and was an innocent man from a humble background.\n\nThe family said Mr McElhone's parents \"went to their graves broken-hearted knowing that their innocent son had been killed, without justification, explanation or apology\".\n\n\"We feel that, today, Judge Keenan at this inquest has, at long last, exonerated Paddy in full,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"As a family we can grieve Paddy, and respect his memory as an innocent young man.\"\n\nThe inquest into Mr McElhone's death was the first in a series of coroners' investigations into deaths associated with Northern Ireland's Troubles.\n\nIt was held in Omagh courthouse in County Tyrone.", "Nearly nine million people had to borrow more money last year because of the impact of coronavirus, government figures show.\n\nSince June last year, the proportion of workers borrowing £1,000 or more had increased from 35% to 45%, said the Office for National Statistics.\n\nSelf-employed people were more likely than employees to borrow money.\n\nThere was also a large increase in the proportion of disabled people borrowing similar sums, the ONS added.\n\nThis was adding to a \"widening financial gap\" between households.\n\nOverall, young people and low earners have been worst hit by the pandemic, according to the ONS survey.\n\nThose aged under 30 and those with household incomes of less than £10,000 were about 35% and 60% respectively more likely to be furloughed than the population as a whole.\n\nMeanwhile, higher-paid workers were more likely to be on full pay if they were unable to work.\n\nThere has been much focus on a glut of savings ready to be unleashed into the economy when pandemic restrictions are lifted.\n\nThis ONS report shines a light on the reality of this for many ordinary Britons, having to borrow more, amid a hit to incomes during the recession.\n\nDisproportionately this has hit the low paid and the young, and this would have been far worse without the government's support package.\n\nMore homeowners and the over-30s by December expected to be able to save for the year ahead. Fewer renters and under 30s expected to be able to save.\n\nThough the analysis does not include the latest national lockdown, the economic impact of schools closure is also clear.\n\nEmployed parents were twice as likely to experience income loss, though that gap closed when schools reopened. The fear is that this trend will have returned over the past month.\n\nGueorguie Vassilev from the ONS said: \"Many people took a financial hit in the first months of the pandemic, either being furloughed or working fewer hours.\n\n\"What we are seeing now, though, is a widening financial gap between households, where some people are relying on savings or borrowing to make ends meet. Those hardest hit are people on low pay, young people and parents of dependent children.\"\n\nParents living with children were almost twice as likely to report a reduction in income as the rest of the population, the ONS added.\n\nThis gap gradually narrowed throughout the year as schools reopened. Parents were less likely to have a reduced income during the November lockdown than in the first lockdown, as schools stayed open.\n\nHave you needed to borrow a substantial amount of money because of the impact of the pandemic? Tell us your story by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Biden invited Taiwan's envoy to his inauguration - what does it mean?\n\nBiden’s inauguration was marked by many historic “firsts”, and one of them could be a sign of potential future clashes between Beijing and Washington. Bi-khim Hsiao, Taiwan’s top envoy to the US, was formally invited to the inauguration - the first time this has happened in more than four decades. A video shared on her social media shows her standing in front of the US Capitol ahead of the inauguration ceremony. “Democracy is our common language and freedom is our common objective,” Taiwan’s de facto ambassador to the US said. China views the self-ruled island as part of its territory that it will eventually retake, by force if necessary. And the status of Taiwan has long been a thorny issue in US-China relations, as the US is by far Taiwan’s most important friend. Hsiao’s presence at the inauguration signals the US may continue to demonstrate strong support for Taiwan, despite the fact that many Taiwanese people are concerned that Biden will take a less confrontational stance towards Beijing compared with Trump. By contrast, it’s unclear whether China’s ambassador to the US, Cui Tiankai, attended Biden’s inauguration. Earlier today, China’s foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Cui had been invited, but did not confirm whether he was present in the ceremony. Hua reiterated China’s position of opposing official interactions between Taiwan and the US. It’s a long-running unspoken rule that Beijing and Taipei’s top diplomats in Washington do not attend the same event, because sharing a stage could be seen as Beijing acknowledging Taiwan as an independent sovereign country.", "Education Minister Peter Weir says that from an educational point of view, he wants \"to keep the extent to which they [children] are out of school to a minimum\".\n\nBut Mr Weir said that decisions about schools during the Covid-19 pandemic must \"be weighed up against the wider public health advice\".\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Evening Extra programme after it was announced that current restrictions will be extended, Mr Weir said that \"nobody wants to see restrictions last longer than they have to\".\n\nHe said the decision to extend lockdown was taken \"very reluctantly but there is a broad consensus in the executive that these are necessary measures that have to be taken to ensure we remain on top of the virus\".\n\nMr Weir added that schools have operated on a slightly different timetable to the rest of the restrictions, and that next week's discussions will consider keeping them closed until 5 March, in line with decisions taken by ministers today.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. While some young people have found it hard at times, others have learnt new skills\n\nYoung people have been asked to share their experiences of how they have coped during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nChildren's Commissioner for Wales Sally Holland said her national survey was important because sometimes views of younger people can be \"surprising\".\n\nShe said the information provided would also help inform the Welsh Government ahead of some tough decisions it will need to make in the future.\n\nA similar survey was carried out in the first lockdown last year.\n\nA recent Prince's Trust Youth Index survey asked young people across the UK about their thoughts and feelings towards the pandemic.\n\nMore than 2,000 responded including 200 from Wales.\n\nIt found 63% of 16 to 25-year-olds said the pandemic had left them \"always\" or \"often\" feeling anxious - 64% said they were feeling like they were \"missing out on being young\".\n\nBBC Wales spoke to a number of children and young people about their thoughts on a variety of issues including home schooling, loneliness and finding out what they are doing to stay positive.\n\nAngel, 16, from Cardiff, is studying for her GCSEs.\n\n\"I've just been confused a lot of the time. All the information out there and it's really hard to process and get to a point where you're in a mindset where you know what's happening.\n\n\"There's such a high level of uncertainty you're constantly worried or actually doubting what's going to happen next.\n\n\"When you have goals for the future it's something to help you get through this but when you're in the circumstances we're in now, it's really hard to find the motivation and a purpose for what you're doing now.\"\n\nTo try and stay positive Angel has been trying to get out for walks during her school breaks or watch Netflix.\n\nShe said she has also tried to learn some sign-language during lockdown and attempted yoga.\n\nEmrys and Clara have been learning home skills\n\nEmrys, 11, from Bridgend, said he misses not having the structure of a school day and seeing his friends.\n\nHe added: \"I'm a social person. I have friends, I chat with them, I play with them, and it's hard not being with my friends but I mean the family will have to do.\"\n\nHe and his six-year-old sister, Clara, have enjoyed going for walks with their parents and have been learning some new skills including washing dishes, cooking dinner and baking cakes.\n\nMeanwhile, 11-year-old Sophie has found it difficult to not get bored during long periods of time in the house.\n\n\"I'd say I cope OK with it at some points, but then not okay with it at other points,\" she added.\n\nSophie said it can be hard sometimes to find things to do\n\nAlicia is studying for her A-levels and has friends who have dropped out of their studies this year because of the stress and anxiety caused by the uncertainty about exams and their futures.\n\nThe 17-year-old also said it was \"heart-breaking\" not being able to see many of her close friends for almost a year.\n\nShe added: \"My thoughts are, it's less of a luxury now, I need to be able to go out to see them and to work.\"\n\nBefore the pandemic, Sarah, 16, from Swansea enjoyed going to her local youth club and took part in a local drama group but it how now moved online, giving a different experience.\n\n\"It's quite sad because I used to enjoy being able to do those things whenever it was on, but I think I'm getting used to do everything online,\" she said.\n\nAs a person who does not cope very well with not knowing what will happen next, the pandemic has caused anxiety at times for Sarah.\n\n\"I am finding it quite scary but hopefully things will change and I'll be able to go back soon,\" she said.\n\n\"I think if you're really struggling with something, talking really helps so it would be nice to see people in person.\"\n\nChildren's commissioner Sally Holland conducted a survey of pupils in Wales during the first lockdown\n\nChildren's helpline MEIC Cymru said it had seen a 10% increase in the number of calls from young people, parents, and carers during the pandemic compared with previous years.\n\nStephanie Hoffman, Head of Social Action at Promo Cymru, the charity which runs the helpline, said: \"We're seeing what I'd say are many more substantive contacts, so a lot more contact dealing with really serious issues to do with social well-being, mental health and relationships, as opposed to what we might have seen more of in the past.\n\n\"Now we're dealing with situations which can be quite complicated.\"\n\nOf the survey, Ms Holland said: \"We've heard a lot from adults showing concern for children at the moment, such as parents, carers and professionals working with children about the potential impact of the lockdown on children.\n\n\"Those voices are important to hear, but it's also important we hear directly from children and young people because sometimes they can be surprising.\"\n\nWe know that Covid-19 vaccinations have been on people's minds in Wales - with many wanting to know when they or their loved-ones will receive theirs.\n\nIf you have a question about this issue, a story you'd like to share or a query about anything else related to coronavirus, you can sent it to us using the form below.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Fashion chain Next has said it will no longer bid to buy Sir Philip Green's Arcadia retail brands Topshop and Topman out of administration.\n\nIt comes after a consortium including the fashion chain was named as frontrunner to buy the brands.\n\nIn a short statement, Next said the consortium had been \"unable to meet the price expectations of the vendor\".\n\nSome 13,000 jobs were put at risk when Arcadia, which also owns Burton and Dorothy Perkins, went bust in November.\n\nIt leaves a clutch of others in the race to buy the 440-store group, including Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, which owns House of Fraser and Sports Direct.\n\nAccording to reports, Authentic Brands, the US owner of the Barneys department store, and JD Sports have tabled a joint offer, while online retailers Asos and Boohoo are also said to be interested.\n\nAdministrators Deloitte have been looking for buyers for some or all of Arcadia, after a slump in sales caused by the pandemic triggered its collapse.\n\nNext, which has 550 UK shops and has weathered the pandemic well, was seen as a good fit to take over the group's assets.\n\nIt had been bidding in partnership with the US hedge fund Davidson Kempner, which was going to put up most of the money.\n\nNext said it wished \"the administrator and future owners [of Arcadia] well in their endeavours to preserve an important part of the UK retail sector\".\n\nExperts expect Arcadia to be broken up, with bidders taking on different parts of the business and brands potentially hived off from their stores.\n\nIn December, Australian collective City Chic said it would buy Arcadia's Evans brand, commerce and wholesale business for £23m but not its store network.\n\nLast year was the worst for the High Street in more than 25 years as the coronavirus accelerated the move towards online shopping, according to the Centre for Retail Research (CRR).\n\nNearly 180,000 retail jobs were lost, up by almost a quarter on the previous year, as shops faced strict curbs and prolonged closures.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool's 68-game unbeaten home run in the Premier League came to an end as Ashley Barnes fired in a late winner from the penalty spot to secure a famous victory for Burnley.\n\nBarnes was tripped in the box by goalkeeper Alisson with seven minutes remaining and converted the spot-kick as Burnley won at Anfield for the first time since 1974.\n\nLiverpool's last league loss on their own ground came nearly four years ago, against Crystal Palace in April 2017, and they are now six points behind leaders Manchester United at the midway point in the campaign.\n\nDivock Origi was given his first start of the season and should have scored when he ran free on goal after pouncing on Ben Mee's error but struck the crossbar.\n\nThe hosts pushed to find the net in the second half but ran out of ideas, Nick Pope making a stunning save to deny Mohamed Salah and fellow substitute Roberto Firmino flicking an effort wide.\n\nBurnley's shock win lifts them up to 16th in the table, seven points clear of the relegation zone.\n• None Klopp takes blame but what has happened to Liverpool?\n\nJurgen Klopp said before the game he was \"not worried\" by his side's poor run, but the latest setback means this has now turned into a real problem for the Liverpool manager.\n\nAfter 19 games, Liverpool are out of form and out of confidence, failing to find the net in their last 440 minutes of top-flight action and awaiting their first league victory of 2021.\n\nThey looked to be hitting their stride on 19 December when they took apart Crystal Palace 7-0, but have not won in the league since and scored just a solitary league goal in that time, against relegation strugglers West Brom.\n\nTheir drop-off from the same stage last season is extraordinary - after 19 games last term the Reds were 13 points clear at the top with 55 points, but they have 21 fewer points now.\n\nAside from Pope's save to thwart Salah and stops from Origi and Trent Alexander-Arnold, Liverpool did not look a side who were threatening to find the net.\n\nThey had 72% possession but much of it was slow and ponderous, and although they had spaces out wide and put 30 crosses into the box, the resolute Burnley defenders headed and hacked clear every ball that came in.\n\nLiverpool won 18 of 19 league games at Anfield as they cantered to the title last term.\n\nBurnley were the spoilers on that occasion - earning a 1-1 draw in July 2020 - and they bettered that showing here with another solid and well-organised display.\n\nCaptain Mee had 14 clearances and made two tackles, while centre-back partner James Tarkowski contributed five interceptions and won the ball back four times.\n\nBurnley are a well-drilled outfit and know their limitations, happy to sit back and soak up the pressure before looking to take their chances on the counter-attack.\n\nThey had sniffs on the break but were unable to get the final ball right and while Barnes forced an excellent save out of Alisson, the assistant referee's flag would have ruled it out.\n\nThey remain the lowest scorers in the league with just 10 goals - level with bottom side Sheffield United - but their defensive solidity means they will always pose a threat, even to the biggest teams.\n\n'We dealt with the basics' - manager reaction\n\nBurnley boss Sean Dyche to Match of the Day: \"Performance, we had to work very hard, as you do in these places, be diligent and do your jobs - shape was good, energy was good.\n\n\"We had a golden chance, kept searching, but you have to deal with the basics and we did that very well.\n\n\"We were close last year, you get a feel of a performance and I said 'you are used to playing against these players, working without the ball, there's always a chance and you have to take it'. Barnsey sticks it in there, gets a toe, it's a penalty and he sticks it away very well.\"\n• None This was Burnley's second Premier League win away against the reigning champions (also v Chelsea in August 2017). Indeed, since the 2017-18 season, Burnley are the only side with two away league wins over the reigning English champions.\n• None Liverpool have gone four league games without scoring for the first time since May 2000. The Reds have had a total of 87 shots since Sadio Mane's 12th-minute strike against West Brom, 25 days ago.\n• None This is the first time a Jurgen Klopp side has gone four league games without scoring since his Mainz side did so in the Bundesliga from November to December 2006.\n• None Liverpool have gone five Premier League games without a win (D3 L2) for only the second time under Klopp (also from Jan-Feb 2017).\n• None Liverpool have conceded two penalty goals at Anfield in this season's Premier League (also Sander Berge for Sheff Utd); they had only conceded two penalty goals at the ground under Klopp before 2020-21.\n• None Liverpool had 27 shots without scoring against Burnley, the most they have had in a single league match without finding the net since April 2013 v Reading (28), and most at Anfield since April 2012 v West Brom (30).\n• None Ashley Barnes' penalty for Burnley was his first away goal in the Premier League in 11 appearances on the road, since netting against Watford back in November 2019.\n• None Since the start of last season, no goalkeeper has made more saves against a single opponent in the Premier League than Burnley's Nick Pope against Liverpool (19). Pope has made 14 saves in his last two games at Anfield, including six tonight.\n\nLiverpool have another big game on Sunday against rivals Manchester United in the FA Cup. That game is live on the BBC (17:00 GMT). Burnley travel to Fulham in the same competition on the same day (14:30).\n• None Offside, Burnley. Dwight McNeil tries a through ball, but Chris Wood is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Takumi Minamino (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Dwight McNeil (Burnley) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Ashley Barnes.\n• None Attempt blocked. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold.\n• None Attempt missed. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Sadio Mané with a cross.\n• None Joel Matip (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sadio Mané.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 0, Burnley 1. Ashley Barnes (Burnley) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Alisson (Liverpool) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt blocked. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Andrew Robertson. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "There is a photograph of Kamala Harris, taken in 1986, while she was a student at Howard University.\n\nShe and two other friends, all shoulder pads and plaid, are smiling and laughing, a crowd behind them. It's a picture brimming with energy and hope.\n\nIt's been used a lot in telling the extraordinary story of her rise to become the first black and Asian American woman to be vice-president and the first person who attended one of America's HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) to get to such a position.\n\nBut this is the story of the other women in the photograph, her two best friends - Valarie Pippen and Karen Gibbs - as well as of others who might have been milling about in the background there.\n\nThis was the 1980s, when the children of America's civil rights generation came of age. Being at Howard University, an HBCU at a time when solidarity with the global anti-apartheid movement was reaching fever pitch and at the height of Reaganism, was a formative experience for many of them.\n\nNow they are about to witness one of their own become vice-president. What have their journeys been like and what does this moment feel like?\n\nHistorically Black Colleges, like Howard University, were founded in order to educate African Americans who were otherwise prohibited from attending college, after slavery.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAlthough that has now changed, a core part of the Howard message remains its focus on cultivating black leaders - it is not just about academic achievement, but social activism too.\n\nKamala Harris has made clear the influence Howard University had on her career and life goals. Last week, on the anniversary of her sorority's founding date, she posted on Instagram, paying homage to her Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, and referring to her days at Howard, attending anti-apartheid marches and being part of the debate team: \"Howard taught me that while you will often find that you're the only one in the room who looks like you, or who has had the experiences you've had, you must remember: you are never alone.\"\n\nLike Ms Harris, I also went to Howard University and became a member of that same sorority decades later.\n\nI became intrigued by the stories of the other women and graduates who ventured out into the same world during the same time as Kamala.\n\nIn that photograph, Valarie Pippen is on the right and smiling with confidence at the camera.\n\nHer parents attended historically black colleges after moving north with the great migration, which was the movement over decades of millions of African Americans to the North from the South, where economic uncertainty and segregation prevailed. They settled in the Chicago region and forged successful careers.\n\nShe was led to Howard, specifically, after her older brother attended and brought home a yearbook that intrigued her.\n\nHoward had a festive celebratory atmosphere that the friends made the most of while they were there\n\n\"The culture was festive and lively yet focused on academic and cultural advancement of oppressed people,\" says Ms Pippen. \"We knew that our generation would make a difference with our success.\"\n\nMs Pippen says that at Howard University \"we all had more of a striving to do well, a striving to live with integrity and to make your mark on the world\".\n\nComing from a high-achieving and proud black family with high expectations of their children, she was brought up knowing that her college experience was going to be important.\n\nShe is now a healthcare consultant, and after graduating from Howard she attended medical school at Yale.\n\nShe recalls the commitment to academic excellence, the need to prove your worth out there in the world and how that also translated into many nights studying with her good friend Kamala.\n\n\"There was one year at Howard, we both stayed for summer school. We worked during the day, did night classes and we studied together afterwards. We did that for the whole summer and we had fun.\n\n\"She was born for the job. Her dedication - like mine - was to academics, being an all around good person and to integrity.\"\n\nIn the 1990s, 52% of black pharmacy recipients, 30% of dentistry degree recipients, and 27% of theology degree recipients were all educated at HBCUs.\n\nToday, the two oldest HBCU medical schools - Meharry Medical College and Howard University - are responsible for more than 80% of black doctors and dentists practising in the US.\n\nHBCUs have educated three-quarters of all black people holding a doctorate; three-quarters of all black officers in the armed forces; and four-fifths of all black federal judges, according to the US Department of Education.\n\nThe culture they fostered was hugely important for many ambitious and successful middle- and upper-class class black families going out into a world to become leaders in their field, within one generation of getting the right to vote.\n\nKaren Gibbs, pictured on the left in that photo, remains best friends with the vice-president elect and Valarie Pippen.\n\nShe is now an attorney and speaks of her time at Howard in the same way Kamala Harris has in the past.\n\nThere was \"a lot of black pride and a lot of black love\" in the Howard community, says Ms Gibbs.\n\n\"We had black professors who loved us. That was the beauty of going to Howard. They nurtured us, they groomed us. They were realistic to tell us what we would confront when we left Howard - but they equipped us to realise and achieve our dreams.\"\n\nThat environment was especially important as an escape from the realities of society.\n\n\"I was raised in a rural area in Delaware, and the people there were really racist. I had been called bad names by a lot of people, despite having a black family and smaller community filled with educators and proud of their roots,\" says Ms Gibbs.\n\nThat is one of the reasons that she wanted to attend Howard University, to become a civil rights lawyer. She made the move so that she could be surrounded by \"love\" and \"support\".\n\n\"It was never a matter if I would go to an HBCU,\" it was just a matter of which she would go to.\n\nMs Gibbs and Ms Pippen's experience at Howard University strikes a chord with others who were also there in the 1980s.\n\nThey speak of the open fostering of social awareness and political activism in movements happening off campus.\n\nBeing in the nation's capital, Howard in particular had a front-row seat to some memorable episodes in politics.\n\nThe debate team in 1981 at Howard University. Kamala Harris was one of the few women to join the club.\n\nDexter Cole, a Howard alumnus and now top executive at TV One, told the BBC that \"our parents actively participated in the civil rights movements and were at the forefront, and we came to Howard with a sense of commitment to not only improve the lives of ourselves, but others as well\".\n\nAcross the nation, HBCUs were training a generation who would have a large impact on the world, and the progression of the broader African-American community.\n\n\"We understood that we were agents of change.\"\n\nMr Cole explained that \"social unrest was very prevalent, but as a student body we knew that we had a seat at the table because of those we saw who went before us\".\n\n\"I remember marching on Capitol Hill on the National Mall. There was a group of students going to protest to make Martin Luther King Jr's birthday a national holiday, and now I look there is a memorial just where I marched.\n\n\"We knew what our rights were and we were determined to invoke our right. That's why there were so many of us active in the anti-apartheid movement - we saw it play out in the US,\" says Ms Gibbs.\n\n\"It was a time when a lot of people from the era transcended into important places in different parts of society,\" says Lita Rosario-Richardson.\n\nMs Rosario-Richardson is currently an entertainment lawyer. On campus, she recruited Ms Harris on to the debate team.\n\n\"The election of Kamala Harris has really made crystal clear that Howard prepares you for anything,\" she adds.\n\nAlthough it is no surprise to those who knew Kamala Harris that she is now the vice-president of the United States, it feels like a vindication for their own personal journeys and the philosophy they took forward with them into the wider world.\n\n\"It was instilled that with your education comes a responsibility to improve the world - specifically our own people. And, we see that that has benefited everyone in America.\n\n\"Kamala is a child of desegregation, like myself. Her nomination seemed historically fit, and she's the right person for it,\" Ms Rosario-Richardson adds.\n\nDexter Cole is now a top executive at TV One\n\n\"Alumni like Thurgood Marshall - the first black Supreme Court Justice - who attended Howard laid the framework.\"\n\nEven during their time as students, these alumni felt that they were connected to greatness and expected to make big strides in the world.\n\nIt was not a feeling confined to Kamala Harris. The stories of these women show many have become movers and shakers in their own fields.\n\n\"All this has come full circle,\" says Andrea Holmes, a graduate who is now a marketing executive.\n\n\"The vice-presidency is where she belongs. She is the role model of the world and to all women and little girls.\"\n\nThe original photograph of Kamala, Valarie and Karen was taken in 1986 at Howard University's famous Homecoming.\n\nAt most schools in the US, homecoming is an annual tradition marked by an American football game and partying. At Howard University, homecoming is marked by a football game as well as a week of events where all generations come back to meet and celebrate. Notable graduates as well as celebrities and artists come to perform, join discussions, and be part of the week.\n\nAs a graduate, I know Homecoming remains a highly anticipated annual event, an experience like no other. That picture captures the energy, friendship and ambition of a group of women, at Howard in an electric era, who felt capable of anything.\n\nValarie Pippen remembers the moment: \"The weekend was truly exhilarating, and you can see from the looks and smiles on our faces we were having the time of our lives.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 2,000 homes in parts of Manchester are being evacuated due to flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nThe Environment Agency (EA) has issued two severe flood warnings, which means danger to life, for the Didsbury and Northenden areas.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey of Greater Manchester Police has warned some of those affected would \"be Covid-positive or isolating at home\".\n\nHe said the government was working to ensure it was \"totally prepared\" for floods \"in every part of the UK\".\n\nA major incident was earlier declared for the Greater Manchester area where up to 3,000 properties were feared to be at risk.\n\nMr Johnson urged people not to stay in their homes if they were told to evacuate.\n\n\"If you are told to leave your home then you should do so.\n\n\"People may think this is a minor issue at the moment, still relevantly minor by standards of previous floods, but never underestimate the suffering, the misery, that floods can cause people.\"\n\nUnder government restrictions due to the current national lockdown people are allowed to leave their homes to escape harm.\n\nIn an alert to those affected, ACC Bailey said: \"A basin at Didsbury to take water from the Mersey is full. It will over-top in the next few hours. As a result we will be issuing a flood warning to homes.\n\n\"This will be through texted flood alerts to some people, and police officers, PCSOs, firefighters, and volunteers will be knocking on doors.\"\n\nHe said police will be supported by North West Ambulance, the British Red Cross and St John Ambulance.\n\n\"I think it's important to stress that if you are contacted and advised to evacuate then we would strongly urge you to do so,\" he added.\n\nWater levels in the area were expected to peak at about 23:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nA major incident has also been declared in Derbyshire, where authorities believe a small number of evacuations are \"likely\" on Thursday morning, when the River Derwent is expected to peak.\n\nCounty council leader Barry Lewis said it could rival levels seen in November 2019, depending on the weather overnight.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says the government is making sure it is “totally prepared in every part of the UK” for flooding after Storm Christoph.\n\nSpeaking after a Cobra emergency meeting on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said work was under way to ensure transport and energy networks, and local council services, were prepared.\n\nHe added that work was also taking place to ensure the necessary numbers of sandbags were available.\n\n\"We want to make sure that we are totally prepared in every part of the UK for flooding, because it is coming on top of the stress people are already under fighting Covid,\" he said.\n\n\"We looked at particularly Manchester, we've got a situation potentially developing there,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"We are looking at a pattern of rainfall possibly not as bad at the end of this week, maybe worse next week.\"\n\nPeople in Greater Manchester have also been advised not to travel.\n\nStephen Rhodes, from Transport from Greater Manchester, said there was disruption across the network.\n\n\"Let's work together and not put our emergency services and the NHS - who are already working extremely hard due to the Covid-19 pandemic - under any more pressure,\" he said.\n\nIn Merseyside, the M57 has been closed in both directions between junction 6 and 7 due to flooding.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued more than 100 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, while there are also more than 200 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible.\n\nRiver levels have risen rapidly in parts of northern England\n\nThe North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands have been preparing for widespread flooding following the Met Office's amber weather warning for heavy rain until midday Thursday.\n\nThe Met Office said some isolated areas could see up to 200mm (7.8in).\n\nSandbags have been distributed as Storm Christoph batters parts of England\n\n\"Once again the government's response to inevitable flood events has been slow and uncoordinated,\" the Barnsley East MP said.\n\n\"We must ensure councils are supported to protect people, businesses, and local communities, and that all of the necessary precautions are also in place to protect those fighting the floods in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sheila Evans was among those to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine at the Al Abbas Mosque in Birmingham\n\nNearly two million people in the UK have received their first dose of a Covid vaccine in the past week, government figures show.\n\nBy the end of Tuesday 4.61 million people had received their initial jab, up from 2.64 million the week before.\n\nBut Boris Johnson warned there were \"unquestionably going to be a tough few weeks\" while the vaccine was rolled out and urged people to observe lockdown.\n\nSpeaking during a visit to flood-hit Didsbury in Manchester, the prime minister said it was still \"too early\" to say when some lockdown restrictions could be lifted in England.\n\nHe said figures from an Imperial College London survey showed the new variant of the virus to be \"not more deadly but it is much more contagious and the numbers are very great\".\n\nThe study suggests there was a rise in infections in the community at the start of the latest lockdown in England.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England figures show one in 10 major hospital trusts had no spare adult critical care beds last week.\n\nThe UK recorded another all-time high of daily coronavirus deaths on Wednesday. A further 1,820 people died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to government figures - taking the total number of deaths by that measure to 93,290.\n\nSixty-five new vaccination centres have opened in England, including a mosque in Birmingham and a cinema in Aylesbury.\n\nTwo million jabs a week are needed for the government to achieve its target of offering a vaccine to all over 70s, the extremely clinical vulnerable and health and care workers by mid-February.\n\nGiving a statement in the Commons, Health Secretary Mr Hancock said the country had an \"immense infrastructure in place that, day by day, is protecting the vulnerable and giving hope to us all\".\n\nDescribing this as a \"huge feat\", he said the government was making \"good progress\" towards its target.\n\nAsked about difficulties in getting vaccines to rural areas and whether the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine could be prioritised for these as it is easier to store, Mr Hancock said the challenge was that supply was \"lumpy\", with manufacturers working \"as fast as possible\".\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said new variants of the virus showed vaccination needed to go \"further and faster\".\n\nHe asked if there was a contingency plan in place in case vaccines needed to be redesigned to contain mutations.\n\nMr Hancock said the early indications were that the new variant was dealt with by the vaccine \"just as much as the old variant\".\n\nHe also said 63% of residents in elderly care homes had now received a vaccine.\n\nFormer Conservative health secretary Jeremy Hunt, who is now chairman of the Common's Health Select Committee, asked about establishing \"quarantine hotels\" to combat new strains, as well as whether there should be further restrictions on household mixing outside bubbles and mandating FFP2 masks in shops and on public transport.\n\nMr Hancock said the clinical advice was that the current guidelines on personal protective equipment (PPE) were \"right and appropriate\" and said \"very significant measures\" had been brought in for international travel.\n\nIn Northern Ireland more than 160,000 people have received a first vaccine dose, while in Wales, where more than 175,000 people have received a jab, people waiting for theirs have been urged to show \"patience\" and \"perspective\".\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon insisted her country's vaccine programme was not lagging behind, during First Minister's Questions on Wednesday.\n\nIn England the rollout of the vaccine started with people aged 80 and over. In some regions where the majority of these have been vaccinated, the programmes are now moving on to the over 70s.\n\nHome Secretary Priri Patel, who will lead a Downing Street press conference later, said ministers were working to ensure police and other front-line workers are moved up the priority list, while Education Secretary Gavin Williamson told BBC Breakfast he hoped teachers and support staff could be moved up the list.\n\nMeanwhile, pumps and sandbags were brought in to protect supplies of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from the risk of flood water at a warehouse in Wrexham, north-east Wales.\n\nYoung people in Wales have been asked to share their experiences of the pandemic in a survey by the nation's Children's Commissioner.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned there will be \"tough weeks to come\" as the UK reported another all-time high of daily coronavirus deaths.\n\nA further 1,820 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to government figures.\n\nIt means the total number of deaths by that measure is now 93,290.\n\nMr Johnson said there was now a \"race against time\" to vaccinate the vulnerable but he hoped there would be a \"real difference\" by spring.\n\nIn an interview with broadcasters, he said the high number of deaths was \"appalling\" and a reflection of the peak infection rates seen a couple of weeks ago.\n\nHe said: \"I must warn people there will be tough weeks to come, but as the vaccine goes in and that programme accelerates, there will be, I think, a real difference by spring.\"\n\nJust under half of the newly reported deaths occurred on Tuesday, while a further quarter took place on Monday or Sunday with the remainder last week or even earlier.\n\nThe previous highest number of daily deaths was the 1,610 reported on Tuesday.\n\nSome 4,609,740 people have now received the first dose of a vaccine - a rise of 343,163 from yesterday.\n\nThere were also a further 38,905 cases, with 3,887 more patients admitted into hospital.\n\nIt is the second consecutive day deaths have hit a new high.\n\nThat, sadly, was to be expected as it is a reflection of the surge in cases seen during December.\n\nIt takes a week or two from the point of infection for someone to become seriously ill - and they can then spend some time in hospital. The high number is also a result of delays reporting deaths - a quarter happened last week or even before.\n\nBut make no mistake the death toll is going up. If you look at the average over the course of a week, the numbers being reported at the moment are twice what they were just two weeks ago.\n\nHowever, we also know they should soon start coming down. Daily infections are falling, with signs lockdown is taking effect. For four days in a row new diagnoses have been below 40,000 - after averaging 60,000 at the start of year.\n\nIt could be another week or so before we start to see the impact of that in the death figures. The hope then would be that within a few weeks we could start seeing a more rapid fall as the impact of the vaccination programme begins to bite.\n\nBut before that happens the daily totals reported could, sadly, go even higher.\n\nNew coronavirus cases are down by 21.5% over the last seven days. But the number of patients being admitted into hospital in the same period has not yet fallen (up by 0.5%).\n\nThe prime minister said it looked as though infection rates across the country overall might now be peaking or flattening, but he cautioned that \"they're not flattening very fast\".\n\nAsked if daily deaths would continue to rise, he said it was \"difficult to predict\".\n\nHe added: \"We must hope that by getting the numbers of daily infections down in the way that perhaps has been happening since the lockdown that will feed through into a reduction in deaths as well.\n\n\"But I must stress that we have tough weeks to come now as we roll out the vaccine.\n\n\"The light will only really begin to dawn as we get those vaccination numbers up.\"\n\nEarlier, the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told Sky News: \"This is very, very bad at the moment, with enormous pressure, and in some cases it looks like a war zone in terms of the things that people are having to deal with.\"\n\nHe said there was \"light at the end of the tunnel\" in the form of the vaccination programme.\n\nBut he said vaccines were \"not going to do the heavy lifting for us at the moment, anywhere near it\".\n\nMilitary personnel are going to be deployed to a number of hospitals to help staff cope with high numbers of cases, including in Northern Ireland and Exeter.\n\nAnd this week 10 hospital trusts across England consistently reported having no spare adult critical care beds.\n\nIn other developments, Home Secretary Priti Patel said ministers were working to ensure police and other frontline workers were moved up the priority list for the Covid vaccine.\n\nMr Johnson said the government must rely on advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, but wanted front-line workers to be immunised \"as soon as possible\".\n\nHe also said the vaccination programme remained \"on track\" despite \"constraints on supply\".", "Politicians in pearls, the colour purple and warm woollen mittens - these are just a few of Washington's favourite things from the 2021 Inauguration.\n\nWith America's leaders in the spotlight on the inauguration - and world - stage, sometimes what they wear can say more than their speeches.\n\nDC-based fashion consultant Lauren Rothman says Americans have always taken an interest in what political leaders don for inaugural celebrations. And in 2021, with an ongoing pandemic and economic crisis as well as the swearing-in of the first female vice-president, things feel \"even more loaded\".\n\nIt's all about optics for the politically fashion-minded, says Ms Rothman, who helps style politicians for events including inaugurations past.\n\nSo let's see how outspoken this year's inauguration crowd really was, from the Bidens to Bernie Sanders - with a little help from some real fashion experts.\n\nVice-President Kamala Harris' purple ensemble has already made an impact.\n\n\"Symbolically, it's a bipartisan colour because it marries [Republican] red and [Democratic] blue,\" says Ms Rothman, noting a number of elected officials or spouses had opted for purple today.\n\nBut that's not the only reason purple has a special place for US women in politics. The suffragettes often wore the colour in the 1900s while campaigning for women's right to vote.\n\nProfessor Elka Stevens, coordinator of the fashion design programme at Howard University, also notes it's a colour of significance in the black community - one tied to the Christian experience as well. Ms Harris' pearl necklace also made reference to a tradition in her Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the oldest all-black sorority in the US.\n\nAdd it all up and Ms Harris' choice of pearls and a purple sharp-cut Christopher John Rogers coat was \"an excellent first building block on what the legacy is of how to look like a woman in power\", Ms Rothman says.\n\nBoth Mrs Biden and Ms Harris also took care to choose emerging US brands for their inaugural looks. Ms Harris' outfit, from head-to-toe, showed off African-American designers.\n\nAnd we can't forget Doug Emhoff either, America's \"first second gentleman\".\n\n\"He chose to do everything that he should, which is to not distract and perfectly fit in,\" says Rothman.\n\nWe can't discuss political fashion without bringing up Michelle Obama.\n\nHer purple Sergio Hudson sweater and palazzo pants plus coat look, along with perfectly curled hair, did not disappoint fans of the former first lady.\n\n\"It's a different dress code and different expectation for women who are first ladies versus people who aren't, like women who are elected,\" says Ms Rothman.\n\nFrom baring her arms to wearing both high-end and High Street fashion, Mrs Obama was \"legacy-making\" in a way that hearkened back to Nancy Reagan and Jackie Kennedy, Ms Rothman says.\n\nShe also put many \"independent and ethnic American designers\" on the map during her eight years in the White House.\n\nNewly former First Lady Melania Trump, too, had a clear style, often spotted in sleek looks from well-known brands (think Chanel, Hermès).\n\nOne of her favourite designers was French-American Hervé Pierre, but Prof Stevens also notes she faced a challenge dressing all-American as many US labels said they would not dress her.\n\nFor her final look of the day, Melania swapped out the all-black suit she left the White House in for a Gucci dress with a bold orange print.\n\n\"The curtain is down and she's onto the next phase of her life,\" says Ms Rothman of the sharp contrast. \"I think that's what she's using her clothing to signal: that DC is over.\n\nHe may not win the best-dressed award any time soon, but veteran Senator Bernie Sanders certainly won Twitter with his extra large mittens.\n\nMr Sanders' pair of eye-catching woolly mittens were given to him two years ago by a Vermont schoolteacher who made them from repurposed sweaters and recycled plastic bottles. Those, coupled with a snap of him alone in a crossed-arm pose, made for prime meme fodder.\n\n\"What we love about it is that it's so authentically Bernie,\" says Ms Rothman.\n\nWhen asked for his thoughts on all the stir his inauguration look caused, Mr Sanders simply said: \"In Vermont we dress warm...and we're not so concerned about good fashion. We want to keep warm. And that's what I did today.\"\n\nInauguration 2021 featured performances from Jennifer Lopez (in a crisp white ensemble) and Lady Gaga.\n\nBut it was Gaga's custom black-and-red Schiaparelli gown that stole the show or, more specifically, the large golden dove-shaped brooch she wore atop it.\n\nAside from the Hunger Games comparisons, the almost operatic outfit served another fun purpose in Ms Rothman's eyes.\n\n\"She brought the inaugural ball to the stage in a year where you're not going to get all of the dress up, the ball gowns that we have come to look at and adore and criticise.\"\n\nYouth poet laureate Amanda Gorman was another star on today's stage.\n\nThe self-described \"skinny black girl, descended from slaves and raised by a single mother\", touched on many heavy themes in her verses, but her outfit was a breath of fresh air.\n\nYellow is a colour of hope, energy, light. And her bright red Prada headband was a bold complement. To Prof Stevens, it was almost crown-like.\n\n\"It also honed attention on her hair, because no one else had that particular hairstyle. And we know that hair can be political as well.\"\n\nOur last noteworthy youthful garb of the day was Ella Emhoff, stepdaughter to the vice-president.\n\nHer dainty white collar atop a bejewelled plaid Miu Miu coat was particularly striking - or in the words of Teen Vogue, \"just *chef's kiss*\" - and to Prof Stevens, reminiscent of late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.\n\n\"I really thought about our democracy, justice, the collars [Ginsburg] wore and the messages she would send. I think this was [also] an ode to femininity.\"\n\nAnd as for her brother Cole's look? Prof Stevens' takeaway was: \"You need some gloves, young man.\"\n\nAnd last but not least, let's consider the new president and first lady.\n\nProf Stevens says the political dress mirrored a desire to project comfort and to reassure the nation that US democracy is safe and its way of life is \"going back to something familiar\" despite Covid-19.\n\nThere may not have been anything ground-breaking in Mr Biden's Ralph Lauren suit; perhaps the more interesting aspect is the way he wore it.\n\n\"As a Washington insider he's been wearing suits for decades,\" says Ms Rothman. \"He showed that he knows what works.\"\n\nAlso notable with both Biden's ensembles today: the colour blue. Prof Stevens notes that blue is recognised as a colour of trustworthiness; of stability; of confidence, especially for men.\n\nAs for Jill Biden's custom-made, Swarovski-crystal-accented aquamarine coat from the up-and-coming New York Makarian label?\n\nBoth Prof Stevens and Ms Rothman say it signalled responsibility and modesty.\n\n\"We already know [the Bidens] are very united, but it signalled that they're here and ready to do the work,\" Ms Rothman says.", "More than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed\n\nMembers of the military are to be brought in to help medical staff in Northern Ireland in the fight against Covid-19.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has asked the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to help out, primarily at a number of hospitals across NI.\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed.\n\nThose brought in will assist nursing staff and help on the wards in a move designed to ease the pressure on staff.\n\nIn the past, the use of the military in Northern Ireland has provoked controversy.\n\nWhile military help has already been used during the pandemic to transport equipment and patients, this is the first time military staff will be used in hospitals.\n\nIt is thought the first military staff will be made available as early as next week.\n\nMr Swann said it would have been an abdication of responsibility if he did not avail of help from the military.\n\nHe said while coronavirus cases were lower than two weeks ago, the challenge posed remained \"intense\" and intensive care pressures were expected to increase further in the next eight to 10 days.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe confirmed that a request for military assistance for NI's health service had been accepted by the MoD.\n\nThe health minister thanked the MoD for the Military Aid to the Civil Authorities agreement, which is being provided in other UK regions.\n\n\"The armed forces have provided invaluable support in this pandemic, including aeromedical evacuation, real-estate and ongoing logistical planning,\" he said.\n\n\"Our hospitals are under immense pressure and an additional staffing complement will be very welcome on the front line.\n\n\"This is a health decision and I am confident it will be supported on that basis.\"\n\nNI Secretary Brandon Lewis tweeted: \"Battling #COVID19 is a national effort. I'm pleased that 110 medically-trained personnel from our Armed Forces will support health and social care teams across Northern Ireland in their vital work on the frontline against coronavirus.\"\n\nThe move has been welcomed by the Democratic Unionist Party.\n\nWhen it was announced last April that the health minster had made requests for military help, Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said Mr Swann had taken that decision unilaterally.\n\nHowever, she later said her party would not rule out any measure necessary to save lives.\n\nReacting to the latest request for help, Sinn Féin said its priority throughout the pandemic had been to save lives, keep people safe and protect the health service.\n\n\"The Minister of Health has made a request for staffing support from the British Ministry of Defence,\" the party said.\n\n\"We do not rule out any measures to do so, and any effort to make the threat posed by Covid-19 into a green and orange issue is divisive and a distraction.\"\n\nAs of Wednesday, there were 832 people in hospital in Northern Ireland with coronavirus, of whom 67 were in intensive care, with 57 ventilated.\n\nA further 22 people with coronavirus died, bringing the Department of Health's total to 1,671 while there were 905 new cases.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 61 new Covid-19-related deaths were recorded on Wednesday, bringing the country's death toll to 2,768.\n\nA further 2,488 new cases of the virus were also confirmed by the Irish Department for Health.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's press briefing on Wednesday, Mr Swann confirmed the executive would review the current lockdown regulations on Thursday.\n\nNorthern Ireland began a six-week lockdown on 26 December, in a bid to bring the virus under control.\n\nMinisters promised to review the regulations after four weeks.\n\nMr Swann said he would not pre-empt the outcome of Thursday's meeting but confirmed he would bring recommendations from his officials to the meeting.\n\n\"This is not the time to open floodgates or take premature decisions that would lead to another spike in cases,\" he added.\n\n\"We must stay the course.\"\n\nThe minister also provided the latest update on the number of vaccinations - 160,396 doses have now been administered in NI, with 21,690 of those second doses.\n\nHe said he understood the frustration of some people that they were still waiting to hear when their elderly or vulnerable relatives would receive their vaccine, but he urged patience.\n\n\"We cannot go faster than supplies allow,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Relatives of some older people in Wales called the vaccinations \"poorly organised\"\n\nA housebound 84-year-old woman said she was told she may have to wait up to two months to have her coronavirus vaccine if she could not get to her GP surgery.\n\nStuart Wilson said his mother Julia was immobile and she required two people with a hoist to get her up.\n\nHe said her surgery in Sketty, Swansea, called on Tuesday offering a jab but they were told it would take time to arrange a house visit.\n\nWelsh Government said a mobile service could take a jab to the housebound.\n\nDr Chris Johns, from Sketty Medical Centre, said: \"I can give assurances that no housebound patient is being asked to wait this long for their vaccination.\n\n\"This is a massive undertaking by GPs and we would ask older patients, if they are mobile, to attend one of our vaccination clinics instead.\"\n\nHe said teams have already made close to 200 house calls to vaccinate those unable to come to the surgery and over the next few weeks GPs would continue to go to patients' homes \"where necessary\".\n\nMore than 175,000 vaccines have been administered across Wales so far.\n\nUnder Welsh Government plans, the goal is for everyone over the age of 70 to be offered a vaccination by mid-February.\n\nMr Wilson said the call left his mother \"concerned and distressed\" so with her permission he spoke to the GP surgery himself.\n\nShe has been with the surgery, which is the Sketty branch of Sketty and Killay Surgeries, for about five years, and they are familiar with her condition as she receives home visits for flu jabs.\n\n\"What I can't understand is how they can invite somebody for a vaccination and then turn around and say because you're housebound, they can't give it yet,\" he added.\n\n\"I'm not asking for preferential treatment; we're not asking to be bumped up the list. I was disgusted by the total lack of information.\"\n\nMr Wilson said he knew of three other cases where patients have been given the same information.\n\nHe said disabled people should receive equal treatment. He has also taken the issue up with the disability rights association, Disability Wales, who have been asked to comment.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"Those who cannot attend their appointment or cannot travel to the vaccination venue can let your health board know through the NHS booking system. They will then be offered another appointment on another day or at a more convenient location.\n\n\"There are also plans in place for people who are housebound and for care homes, which will mean the vaccine can be safely taken to them using a mobile service if they are unable to attend a GP surgery or mass vaccination centre.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Welsh Government has been criticised over the speed of rolling out vaccines to the over 80s age group.\n\nSteve Hockridge's 92-year-old mother Sheila suffers from Alzheimer's disease and lives alone in Cardiff.\n\nHe contacted her surgery but was told they had \"no information\" about when she would receive a vaccine.\n\n\"My confidence in the Welsh Government has been knocked,\" he said.\n\n\"After all the clarity during this pandemic, with this area they seem to be very, very secretive, giving different messages [which are] quite often conflicting.\"\n\nIn Wrexham, Helen Field said her mother, Eileen, 94, was also still waiting to hear about her vaccine.\n\n\"Our relations over the border in the Wirral area who are in a similar age group of over 80s and 90s have all received their second vaccine,\" she said.\n\n\"The difference is quite alarming and I just want to know what's going on in Wales and why they are so slow in putting the vaccines out?\n\n\"Nobody can seem to give us any information and it seems to be so poorly organised.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"Every day in Wales we are speeding up the vaccination programme.\n\n\"Thousands more people are receiving their first dose of the Covid vaccine and more clinics are opening with 45 vaccination centres operating or due to be operating shortly, and more than 250 GP surgeries being involved by the end of this month. As of 20 January, more than 175,816 people in Wales have been vaccinated.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The company said its milk processing was highly automated with no risk to the products caused by the virus outbreak\n\nOne worker at a dairy has died after contracting coronavirus and 95 others are self-isolating.\n\nMuller Milk & Ingredients said 47 staff members who work at the company's dairy near Bridgwater, Somerset, have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nIt said it was now testing all 300 workers at its site in North Petherton.\n\nA spokesman for the firm said the safety of its products had not been affected by the outbreak at its factory.\n\nIt was working with Public Health England and the council to help with mass testing, he added.\n\nThe employee was taken to hospital but died. The firm said its thoughts were with the worker's family and friends.\n\nProduction has since been reduced at the site.\n\nThe spokesman added: \"It is important to stress that fresh milk processing is highly automated ensuring no risk to products, with our Bridgwater facility one of the most modern dairies in the UK.\n\n\"As we have done throughout the pandemic, we are placing the safety of our employees first and following best practice as set down by the Health and Safety Executive.\n\n\"Standard measures in place include the use of facemasks, distancing, enhanced deep cleaning and hygiene, underpinned by a programme of e-learning, information and audits to ensure compliance and awareness of the measures.\"\n\nSomerset County Council said it was working closely with Public Health England and the factory and that further testing was being done throughout Thursday.\n\n\"The [council's] rapid outbreak testing team is carrying out further workforce testing today, for workers who were not present on Monday shifts.\n\n\"The testing on Monday identified a number of staff who were positive but asymptomatic, who are now isolating,\" a spokesman said.", "Gabriel is an ardent 'Latino for Trump' who is active in New York Republican circles. He wishes the Biden/Harris administration well but doesn't believe Democrats really want unity and thinks they'll reverse a lot of good Trump policies.\n\nHow did Joe Biden's inaugural speech on unity sit with you?\n\nI caught bits and pieces of the inauguration, but I did not watch the speech. I'll give it a watch when I'm not as busy. Hopefully, his message is not like what we saw on 6 January, when he tried to lambast people as white supremacists for showing up at the Capitol, because that will just alienate people.\n\nThis country has come a long way in terms of race relations and, if we really want unity, let's regain the sense of what an American is. An American isn't white, black or Jewish; it is a person within the United States that takes part in our republic.\n\nWhat do you think of the executive actions he is taking today?\n\nI knew Biden would come out swinging while he stills holds the majority in the legislative branch. It's certainly a statement in the same vein as President Trump's first few days of office, but I think it's horrible. As someone of Hispanic descent, the idea of potentially granting 11 million immigrants citizenship is a slap in the face to everyone who came through the legal process.\n\nJoining the Paris climate agreement again is widely regarded as a farce, even by some ecologists, because nations that are members in the agreement didn't actually hit their targets. The removal of the Keystone Pipeline is not only going to cost people jobs but it could potentially increase our carbon footprint. When it comes to the WHO, they failed us during the Covid pandemic. It's all just smoke and mirrors to undo what President Trump did and stick it in the face of Republicans.", "The former Western Daily Press journalist lived in the property from 1970 until 1994\n\nAn \"inspiring\" house previously owned by fantasy writer Sir Terry Pratchett has been put on the market.\n\nThe creator of the Discworld series lived in the 18th Century property, called Gaze Cottage, in the village of Rowberrow, Somerset, from 1970 until 1994.\n\nSir Terry died aged 66 in 2015, eight years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.\n\nHe wrote more than 70 books during his career and completed his final book in 2014.\n\nAt the turn of the century, Sir Terry was Britain's second most-read author, beaten only by JK Rowling.\n\nIn August 2007, it was reported he had suffered a stroke, but the following December he announced that he had been diagnosed with a very rare form of early-onset Alzheimer's disease.\n\nThe fitted kitchen is in the older half of the house\n\nRuth Treasure-Smith, from Robin King Estate Agent, said: \"He wrote most of his most famous novels in that house in the 80s.\n\n\"The house must have been inspiring. The current owner purchased the property from Terry Pratchett and has lived at the house since.\"\n\nShe said he had received letters to the house addressed to the \"Hogfather\", a quirky and satirical character from the Death collection in the Discworld series.\n\nThe sitting room has an inglenook fireplace complete with bread oven\n\nThe house is being sold at a guide price of £800,000\n\nThe first floor houses the master bedroom which overlooks the garden\n\nThe property has four bedrooms\n\nThe cottage sits on a plot comprising almost a third of an acre\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "More than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed\n\nNI's largest healthcare union has said it has not objected to military personnel being brought in to help medical staff deal with Covid-19.\n\nHowever, Unison said it had questions over the move and there had \"disappointingly\" been no consultation.\n\nAn initial statement from the union on the subject was criticised by some politicians.\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken described it as \"appallingly inappropriate\".\n\nA new statement issued on social media, from the union's regional secretary Patricia McKeown, said the first statement had been \"misunderstood\".\n\nSpeaking to Good Morning Ulster, she acknowledged the initial statement had caused \"stress and hurt\" to Unison members and apologised for that.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has asked the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to help out, primarily at a number of hospitals across NI.\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed.\n\nIn the union's initial statement, issued on Wednesday, it said it would ask Mr Swann for \"detailed reasons\" for the move.\n\nIt said this would include \"seeking information as to what other avenues of support have been sought, such as securing additional staffing from private sector healthcare providers\".\n\nHowever, following criticism, Ms McKeown said in a new statement on Thursday morning that the union was \"happy to clarify\" its position.\n\n\"To be absolutely clear, Unison has not objected to assistance from military personnel.\"\n\nShe added: \"In our experience the deployment of military personnel into public services is a decision taken as a last resort.\n\n\"We were immediately concerned that a request for aid of this nature indicates a crisis that is moving out of control.\n\n\"This is why it is important that we know in advance what options are being explored.\"\n\nThe union said it was important to get detailed information on how, when and where external personnel would be deployed and what the management and accountability structures will be in place for them.\n\nSteve Aiken described the first Unison statement as appallingly inappropriate\n\nSpeaking on Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster on Thursday, Ms McKeown said: \"We put a statement out last night, it said what we were going to do, but it didn't say why we were going to do it.\n\n\"That caused stress and hurt to our members and I am very, very sorry for that. That's why we corrected it.\"\n\nShe added that if military personnel were being brought in \"it means that all options have been exhausted, there's a big decision facing us now and that decision is a stronger lockdown\".\n\nThe earlier statement from the union, issued on Wednesday night, had been criticised by some politicians.\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken said: \"Judging by the number of healthcare workers who have contacted me tonight they are absolutely incredulous at the Unison statement this evening.\n\n\"Getting help is what is needed - time for Unison to withdraw its appallingly inappropriate remarks.\"\n\nDUP assembly member Jonathan Buckley said: \"This statement from Unison is extremely disappointing and is out of step with both Unison's own members and the wider public.\n\n\"I have already been contacted by health service staff making clear that this does not represent their views.\"\n\nHis party colleague Paul Frew tweeted: \"Utterly appalling. A lot of anger tonight for a union that is supposed to support its membership.\"\n\nSpeaking on Good Morning Ulster, West Belfast People Before Profit assembly member Gerry Carroll said: \"We all recognise that we're in a really desperate situation, a really difficult situation.\n\n\"But people want to see the health service expanded permanently and not just a short-term fix which people have questioned on a number of grounds.\"\n\nHowever, Ulster Unionist Doug Beattie said nurses and doctors were exhausted.\n\n\"What we're really talking about here is a surge of some personnel in order to support out frontline nurses who are dead on their feet,\" he said.\n\n\"The here and now is about saving lives.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Sinn Féin responded to Mr Swann's decision by saying it would not \"rule out\" any measures that help save lives and that \"any effort to make the threat posed by Covid-19 into an orange and green issue is divisive and a distraction\".\n\nThe chief executive of the Belfast Health Trust, Dr Cathy Jack, told Stormont's health committee that the move would ensure staff can continue to deliver care to as many patients as possible.\n\nShe said the military personnel are \"band 4 medically-trained technicians\" who will \"be working under normal management structures\".\n\n\"This is another group of highly-trained individuals that will support staff and I welcome this.\"\n\nDr Jack said discussions were \"ongoing\" about how private health care providers could help in this phase of the pandemic.\n\nShe said a small number of private lists were being used for surgeries with low-risk cancers and more would be freed up in March \"to allow us to try and catch up on the backlog\".\n\nThe Military Aid to the Civil Authorities (MACA) request means armed forces staff will assist nurses and help on the wards in a move designed to ease the pressure on staff.\n\nIt is thought the first military staff will be made available as early as next week.\n\nMr Swann said the Army has previously carried out pandemic roles in Northern Ireland with \"aeromedical evacuation, real-estate and ongoing logistical planning\".\n\nThe health minister added it would have been an abdication of responsibility if he did not avail of help from the military.\n\nHe said while coronavirus cases were lower than two weeks ago, the challenge posed remained \"intense\" and intensive care pressures were expected to increase further in the next eight to 10 days.\n\nAs of Wednesday, there were 832 people in hospital in Northern Ireland with coronavirus, of whom 67 were in intensive care, with 57 ventilated.\n\nA further 22 people with coronavirus died, bringing the Department of Health's total to 1,671 while there were 905 new cases.", "An algorithm is trained to pick out an elephant against a complex backdrop such as a forest\n\nAt first, the satellite images appear to be of grey blobs in a forest of green splotches - but, on closer inspection, those blobs are revealed as elephants wandering through the trees.\n\nAnd scientists are using these images to count African elephants from space.\n\nThe pictures come from an Earth-observation satellite orbiting 600km (372 miles) above the planet's surface.\n\nThe breakthrough could allow up to 5,000 sq km of elephant habitat to be surveyed on a single cloud-free day.\n\nAnd all the laborious elephant counting is done via machine learning - a computer algorithm trained to identify elephants in a variety of backdrops.\n\n\"We just present examples to the algorithm and tell it, 'This is an elephant, this is not an elephant,'\"Dr Olga Isupova, from the University of Bath, said.\n\n\"By doing this, we can train the machine to recognise small details that we wouldn't be able to pick up with the naked eye.\"\n\nAfrican elephants are listed as vulnerable to extinction\n\nThe scientists looked first at South Africa's Addo Elephant National Park.\n\n\"It has a high density of elephants,\" University of Oxford conservation scientist Dr Isla Duporge said.\n\n\"And it has areas of thickets and of open savannah.\n\n\"So it's a great place to test our approach.\n\n\"While this is a proof of concept, it's ready to go.\n\n\"And conservation organisations are already interested in using this to replace surveys using aircraft.\"\n\nConservationists will have to pay for access to commercial satellites and the images they capture.\n\nBut this approach could vastly improve the monitoring of threatened elephant populations in habitats that span international borders, where it can be difficult to obtain permission for aircraft surveys.\n\nThe scientists say it could also be used in anti-poaching work.\n\n\"And of course, [because you can capture these images from space,] you don't need anyone on the ground, which is particularly helpful during these times of coronavirus,\" Dr Duporge said.\n\n\"In zoology, technology can move quite slowly.\n\n\"So being able to use the cutting-edge techniques for animal conservation is just really nice.\"", "Four royal aides say they do not wish to \"take sides\" over a letter from the Duchess of Sussex to her father, the High Court has been told.\n\nIn a letter lawyers for the four said they believed their clients could \"shed some light\" on the letter's drafting but the four were \"strictly neutral\".\n\nMeghan is suing the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online publisher over articles that reproduced parts of the letter.\n\nShe claims her privacy and copyright were breached by the newspaper group.\n\nHer lawyers are asking for summary judgement - a dismissal of Associated Newspapers' (ANL) defence instead of a trial.\n\nThe five articles, published in February 2019, were a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of the duchess's privacy, correspondence and family, the lawyers claim.\n\nShe is seeking damages from the newspaper group for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act over the articles.\n\nANL claims Meghan wrote her letter \"with a view to it being disclosed publicly at some future point\" in order to \"defend her against charges of being an uncaring or unloving daughter\", which she denies.\n\nOn the second day of the hearing on Wednesday, ANL's barrister Antony White QC told the court that a letter from the so-called \"palace four\" showed that \"further oral evidence and documentary evidence is likely to be available at trial which would shed light on certain key factual issues in this case\".\n\nHe said it was \"likely\" there was also further evidence about whether Meghan \"directly or indirectly provided private information\" to the authors of an unauthorised biography of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Finding Freedom.\n\nThe four aides are: Jason Knauf, former communications secretary to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Christian Jones, their former deputy communications secretary, Samantha Cohen, formerly the Sussexes' private secretary, and Sara Latham, their ex-director of communications.\n\n\"None of our clients welcomes his or her potential involvement in this litigation, which has arisen purely as a result of the performance of his or her duties in their respective jobs at the material time,\" their lawyers said in a letter sent on their behalf.\n\n\"Nor does any of our clients wish to take sides in the dispute between your respective clients. Our clients are all strictly neutral.\n\n\"They have no interest in assisting either party to the proceedings. Their only interest is in ensuring a level playing field, insofar as any evidence they may be able to give is concerned.\"\n\nTheir letter said that their lawyers' \"preliminary view is that one or more of our clients would be in a position to shed some light\" on \"the creation of the letter and the electronic draft\".\n\nIt also said they may be able to shed light on \"whether or not the claimant anticipated that the letter might come into in the public domain\" and whether or not the duchess \"directly or indirectly provided private information, generally and in relation to the letter specifically, to the authors of Finding Freedom\".\n\nBut Justin Rushbrooke QC, representing the duchess, said the letter from the four \"contains no information at all that supports the defendant's case on alleged co-authorship (of Meghan's letter), and no indication that evidence will be forthcoming that will support the defendant's case should the matter proceed to trial\".\n\nMeghan, 39, sent a handwritten letter to her father in August 2018, following her marriage to Prince Harry in May that year, which Mr Markle did not attend. The couple are now living in the US with their son Archie.\n\nThe full trial of the duchess's claim had been due to be heard at the High Court this month, but last year the case was adjourned until autumn 2021.\n\nAt the conclusion of the hearing on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Justice Warby reserved his judgement, which he said he would deliver \"as soon as possible\".", "Michelle O'Neill and Arlene Foster were advised restrictions may have to remain in place until after Easter\n\nCoronavirus lockdown restrictions in Northern Ireland will be extended until 5 March, the first and deputy first ministers have said.\n\nThe executive backed the health minister's proposal on Thursday and will review the move on 18 February.\n\nBut ministers were also told that restrictions may have to remain in place until after the Easter holidays.\n\nA lockdown closing non-essential retailers and encouraging employees to work from home began after Christmas.\n\nFamily gatherings are prohibited and people have been ordered to stay at home for all but essential reasons.\n\nSchools are closed to most pupils until after February's half-term but a paper looking at reopening will be put to ministers at next week's executive meeting.\n\nThe lockdown came in response to a spike in the number of cases of coronavirus, which followed a relaxation of some rules in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said extending the restrictions was an \"appropriate and necessary response\" to tackle the \"imminent threat\" posed by Covid-19.\n\nShe said she understood it would be difficult for many people to accept, given the uncertainty facing families and businesses, but added: \"To not press forward would risk all of the hard-won gains.\"\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers were right to state just how tough this decision will be for many people.\n\nBut there's an acceptance among the public that restrictions would have to be extended, given how bad things are in our hospitals.\n\nTheir decision also suggests politicians have perhaps learned from the last wave of the pandemic, when restrictions were turned on and off sporadically, and the impact that had both on cases and the messaging.\n\nThey're not alone in sustaining tough lockdown measures, with other UK nations and the Republic of Ireland also keeping their restrictions in place for several more weeks.\n\nBeyond that, it is thought health officials also want to ensure the vaccination programme is also \"well advanced\" before any restrictions are relaxed.\n\nThe hope is that, by spring, the picture will have improved significantly.\n\nUntil then the price we are paying for relaxations before Christmas looks likely to keep rising.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said she recognised the executive was asking a lot of everybody but insisted the measures were important.\n\n\"We don't know what will come after [5 March],\" she said.\n\nMs O'Neill said there was a commitment not to keep restrictions in place longer than necessary but decisions would have to be taken in line with the health advice and concerns about a new variant of the virus which is more transmissible.\n\nThe executive's decision comes as another 21 deaths were recorded by the Department of Health on Thursday.\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R-number - had risen to about 1.8 due to Christmas relaxations.\n\nBut the latest estimate from the Department of Health says it is sitting between 0.65 and 0.85 for cases within the community but is still above one for hospital admissions and intensive care.\n\nWhile some may wonder why are restrictions are being extended when the executive's policy has always been based on this rate of infection, the difference is that this time around there are three times as many people in Northern Ireland's hospitals than there were in last April's peak.\n\nDaily case numbers are still significantly higher too.\n\nWhile ministers have agreed to keep the current restrictions in place until March, Health Minister Robin Swann said it was possible they could be needed until Easter, which this year falls in the first week of April.\n\nMinisters say they understand the extension of the lockdown will be difficult for people\n\nIt is understood this plan is being discussed across the four UK nations but ministers will have to consider that in the review next month.\n\nMinisters were also warned that restrictions would be eased on a step-by-step basis in line with reducing pressures on the health service and ensuring the vaccination programme is \"well advanced\" before any relaxations are agreed.\n\nMrs Foster pleaded with people struggling with their mental health during the lockdown to \"please seek help\".\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel are to be deployed to help health staff deal with the pressure the latest phase of the pandemic is placing on hospitals.\n\nThe chief medical officer Dr Michael McBride said the \"sustained pressure on our health service\" would probably last for three to four weeks.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 51 Covid-19 related deaths and 2,608 new cases of the virus were recorded on Thursday.\n\nSimon Hamilton, the chief executive of the Belfast Chamber of Trade and Commerce, said the extension of the lockdown would be of \"little surprise to most businesses\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Stormont executive has agreed how to allocate almost £300m to help businesses, education, tourism and transport during the next phase of the lockdown.\n\nA total of £100m is going towards the Local Restrictions Support Scheme, the grant for business premises forced to closed due to the restrictions.\n\nThere will also be £16m for tourism and hospitality, two sectors which have largely been unable to operate.\n\nIn addition, two more support schemes for the sector have been opened.\n\nOne aimed at large tourism and hospitality businesses is offering a pot of £26m, with the Department for Economy having identified 250 businesses that will be eligible.\n\nThe other is a £4m scheme to support those who provide bed-and-breakfast accommodation.\n\nMore money is being made available to help businesses affected by the lockdown\n\nJanice Gault from the trade body the Northern Ireland Hotels Federation said the schemes were a \"real lifeline for the sector\".\n\n\"Trading over the last year has been limited with reserves now severely depleted and businesses operating in survival mode,\" she added.\n\nAlso among those to receive the extra cash will be limited company directors, who had not received support since March.\n\nLast week, a scheme was announced to give directors £1,000 grants which one director described as a \"kick in the teeth\" given that he had little to no income for the past 10 months.\n\nBut that scheme is to be boosted with another £20m so the payments on offer will more than treble to £3,500.\n\nLocal newspapers will also benefit from 12 months of rates relief.", "Assaults on emergency workers made up more than a quarter of Covid-related crimes prosecuted in the first six months of the pandemic, figures show.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there were 1,688 such offences between 1 April and 30 September in England and Wales.\n\nMany of these involved police officers being \"coughed and spat on\" by suspected rule-breakers, the CPS said.\n\nThey were among almost 6,500 crimes related to coronavirus in that period.\n\nAssaults on emergency workers, which were the most common prosecution, were \"particularly appalling\" and incidents were still taking place, said director of public prosecutions Max Hill.\n\nHe added: \"I will continue to do everything in my power to protect those who so selflessly keep us safe during this crisis.\"\n\nAccording to the figures published by the CPS - which cover completed prosecutions - there were 1,137 charges brought for breaking coronavirus laws.\n\nThese included a man who claimed 15 people having a party at his house in Manchester were part of his support bubble and another man in Wales caught travelling between counties to solicit the services of a sex worker.\n\nOverall, 2,106 defendants were prosecuted for 6,469 coronavirus-related offences, with a conviction rate of 90%, according to the CPS.\n\nOther crimes flagged as being coronavirus-related by the CPS, included 480 charges for public order offences, 466 for criminal damage and 464 for common assault.\n\nThese included offences such as coughing and spitting while threatening to infect another person with the virus, thefts of essential items and fraudsters taking advantage of the crisis.\n\nMr Hill added: \"The CPS has had to adapt to a raft of new laws and regulations intended to keep the public safe during the pandemic.\n\n\"Our guiding principle throughout has always been to support the police in ensuring the right person in charged with the right offence.\"", "Marmite is one of Unilever's many brands\n\nUnilever has said that by 2030 it will refuse to do business with any firm that does not pay at least a living wage or income to its staff.\n\nThe consumer goods giant defined a living wage as one that covered a family's basic needs \"and helped them break the cycle of poverty\".\n\nIt said it wanted to raise wages for people outside its own workforce in order to promote economic inclusion.\n\nUnilever is one of the first big companies to make such a commitment.\n\nOxfam called the move a \"step in the right direction\".\n\nUnilever, whose products include Marmite, Ben & Jerry's ice cream and Dove soap, said it was committed to helping to build \"a more equitable and inclusive society\".\n\n\"Our ambition is to improve living standards for low-paid workers worldwide,\" it said.\n\n\"We will therefore ensure that everyone who directly provides goods and services to Unilever earns at least a living wage or income, by 2030.\"\n\nThe wage should be enough to cover food, water, housing, education, healthcare, transport and clothing, and also include a provision for unexpected events, Unilever said.\n\nThe firm said it was working with partners to establish exact rates of pay in the 190 countries where it operates.\n\nHowever, Unilever's chief human resources officer Leena Nair said it would pay twice as much as the minimum wage in some countries.\n\nUnilever said it already paid its own employees at least a living wage, but it wanted to secure the same for more people beyond its workforce, specifically focusing on the most vulnerable workers in manufacturing and agriculture.\n\nWhile there is no doubting Unilever's desire to improve the lot of those who make its products, there is also a commercial reason for its living wage initiative.\n\nIt wants all of its suppliers to pay their staff a decent wage by 2030, a plan that has the potential, given Unilever's enormous size and global reach, to change the lives of millions of people.\n\nBut the company also believes the move will give it an advantage in the fierce battle to attract buyers.\n\nAlan Jope, Unilever's Scottish-born chief executive, says customers want to buy products with good credentials, and that this desire has only increased during the pandemic.\n\nMr Jope's comments suggest that the next consumer battlegrounds might not be price, convenience or range of product, but environmental and social considerations.\n\nUnilever wants to get ahead of that trend, and plans to do well by doing good.\n\n\"We will work with our suppliers, other businesses, governments and NGOs - through purchasing practices, collaboration and advocacy - to create systemic change and global adoption of living wage practices,\" it added.\n\nIt has more than 60,000 direct suppliers worldwide, from smallholder farmers to major companies.\n\nAll of them will be covered by its commitment, it said, with millions of people set to benefit.\n\nUnilever already audits its suppliers over climate change commitments, and will use these existing arrangements to make sure workers are being paid a living wage.\n\nSuppliers not willing to sign up may lose their contracts with the firm, Ms Nair said.\n\nAlso by 2030, Unilever said, it would equip 10 million young people with essential job skills.\n\nAdditionally, it committed to spending €2bn (£1.8bn) with suppliers owned and managed by people from under-represented groups by 2025 in an effort to improve diversity.\n\n\"The two biggest threats that the world currently faces are climate change and social inequality,\" said Unilever chief executive Alan Jope.\n\n\"The past year has undoubtedly widened the social divide, and decisive and collective action is needed to build a society that helps to improve livelihoods, embraces diversity, nurtures talent, and offers opportunities for everyone.\"\n\nUnilever chief executive Alan Jope says the firm wants to be a \"positive force in the world\"\n\nHe told the BBC's Today programme that Unilever wanted to be a \"positive force in the world in tackling this persistent and worsening issue of social inequality.\"\n\n\"Without healthy societies, we don't have a healthy business,\" he said.\n\nThe move is the latest in a series of ethical initiatives by Unilever, including promoting vegan food products and experimenting with a four-day working week.\n\nGabriela Bucher, executive director at Oxfam International, welcomed Unilever's announcement, calling it \"an important step in the right direction\".\n\nShe said: \"Unilever's plan shows the kind of responsible action needed from the private sector that can have a great impact on tackling inequality and help to build a world in which everyone has the power to thrive, not just survive.\"\n\nLaura Gardiner, director of the Living Wage Foundation, said commitments such as Unilever's show how some employers \"are leading the way in spreading the living wage through both their business networks, and across their global operations\".\n\nFood services giants Sodexo and Compass Group, which are on the Living Wage Foundation's list of recognised service providers, have made similar supply chain commitments in the UK.", "Joe Biden has been sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, at a low key inauguration ceremony outside the US Capitol in Washington DC.\n\nIn his maiden speech as president, Mr Biden said: \"We've learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile, and at this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed.\"\n\nRead more: Joe Biden replaces Trump as US president", "Mr Olowo said his wife was \"as near perfection as it's possible to be\"\n\nA woman who died after having liposuction in Turkey had been fed up with people asking if she was pregnant, an inquest heard.\n\nAbimbola Ajoke Bamgbose, 38, of Dartford, Kent, died in August after having the treatment in Izmir.\n\nHusband Moyosore Olowo said he believed she was on holiday with friends until she called to say she was in pain.\n\nHe went to Turkey after she stopped calling and found she had been rushed to hospital for more surgery.\n\nMrs Bamgbose, who also had a Brazilian butt lift, died there two weeks later, the inquest in Maidstone heard.\n\nMr Olowo, a rail safety officer, said his wife paid £5,000 for the package with Mono Cosmetic Surgery as UK treatment was too expensive.\n\nDescribing why she wanted it, he said: \"When a woman is unhappy and getting feelings about her looks, the clothes she buys do not fit and people ask if she is pregnant because of her tummy, sometimes there is nothing we can do. We are powerless.\n\n\"I wasn't concerned. I told her 'you have three children'. I told her my tummy is bigger than hers.\"\n\nHe said his wife, a social worker who graduated with a first class degree, was \"as near perfection as it's possible to be\".\n\nMr Olowo said the medical director in Turkey \"confessed it had been a mistake\".\n\nAssistant coroner Alan Blundson recorded a narrative conclusion, and said: \"This is a tragic case, the more so because the surgery was elective cosmetic surgery.\n\n\"Whilst Mrs Bamgbose was determined to have it performed, her husband had not seen it in any way as necessary.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination found Mrs Bamgbose had a perforated bowel and her death was caused by peritonitis with multiple organ failure as a complication of liposuction surgery.\n\nMr Olowo has said he is suing Mono and the surgeon, Dr Hakan Aydogan, for £1m in the Turkish courts, claiming medical negligence.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Biden took his oath on a Bible that has been in his family since 1893 and was also used each time he was sworn in as Delaware senator. The book itself is five inches (12.5cm) thick with a Celtic cross on the cover", "Wales' former Chief Medical Officer Dame Deirdre Hine thinks the vaccine targets are achievable\n\nPeople waiting for the Covid vaccine need to show \"patience\" and \"perspective\", Wales' former chief medical officer has said.\n\nDame Deirdre Hine said Wales had made a \"very good start\" on delivering jabs.\n\nAged 83, she needs the vaccine herself and accepted there was \"understandable anxiety\" for those still waiting, but said: \"I think we should all quieten down and wait.\"\n\nThere has been criticism of the speed of the roll-out in Wales.\n\nStuart Wilson said he was \"appalled\" his 84-year-old housebound mother had been told she may have to wait up to two months to have her coronavirus vaccine if she cannot get to her GP surgery.\n\nDame Deirdre is regarded as one of Wales' leading medical experts, having not only held the chief medical officer post, but being the woman who established the Welsh breast cancer screening programme.\n\nA past president of the British Medical Association and Royal Society of Medicine, she also oversaw the official inquiry into the 2009 swine flu pandemic in the UK.\n\nIt's not surprising that people are worried and concerned... but I would say to them, let's keep it in proportion, let's look at the perspective\n\nShe told BBC Wales the response from governments had moved forward since then.\n\n\"I can detect some lessons that have been learned from the previous pandemic, the one I reported on. Because, although we had a vaccine then, the arrangements for delivering it were very much less clear and much more protracted than it has been this time.\n\n\"The arrangements for the GPs to deliver, and now pharmacists to deliver, all of that is a tremendous improvement on what I saw at the last pandemic.\"\n\nIn September, Dame Deirdre accused successive governments across the UK of taking \"their eye off the ball\" and failing to prepare for a global pandemic.\n\nShe also correctly warned of the \"real danger\" of a damaging second wave of Covid and has remained critical of failures to get adequate testing and tracing capability up and running in the early stages of the pandemic.\n\nShe added: \"I would say the testing and tracing is another matter, and I think there has been justifiable criticism of that.\"\n\nDame Deirdre, who lives in Cardiff, said she was still \"waiting impatiently\" for her vaccine appointment, but called on people to see the bigger picture.\n\n\"Let's get it in perspective. This is a massive logistical exercise, together with a narrow pipeline of supply of the vaccine, and so I'm not a bit surprised that it's taking as long as it is to get round to everybody. But I have every confidence that they will.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government, along with other UK nations, has committed to vaccinating all four of the highest priority groups by the middle of February, including the over-80s.\n\nLatest figures on vaccination in Wales show that, as of 20 January, there had been 175,816 people to get a first dose of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThis accounts for 5.6% of the population in Wales, while 7.1% have received a vaccination in England, 7.3% in Northern Ireland, and 5.7% in Scotland.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething has denied Covid-19 vaccines were being held back, following comments from First Minister Mark Drakeford that the supply had to last until February to prevent \"vaccinators standing around with nothing to do\".\n\nMr Drakeford later said on social media that \"nobody is holding back vaccines\" and Mr Gething added: \"We're rolling out the vaccination programme as quickly as possible.\"\n\nDame Deirdre said she believed the targets were achievable, but people's anxieties were \"understandable\".\n\nShe added: \"Some recent research by Imperial College shows that people in my age group, people over 70, are the people most worried about this pandemic and about their own safety.\n\n\"So it's not surprising that people are worried and concerned, dismayed, when they don't get the letter and then that turns to anger. But I would say to them, let's keep it in proportion, let's look at the perspective.\n\n\"If you'd asked me last May and June whether we would even have a vaccine, I would have been highly sceptical.\n\n\"Then once you've got the vaccine, there is the whole logistical exercise of the publicity, letting people know what's likely to happen, getting the personnel assembled to do that, getting the premises.\n\n\"And it's not easy, it's not easy to do all that very, very quickly.\"", "Chloé Lopes Gomes says she has faced racial harassment while being a ballet dancer.\n\nThe French performer is the first black female dancer at Berlin's principal ballet company Staatsballett.\n\nMs Gomes claims she was told she did not fit in because of her skin colour, and was asked to wear white make up so she would 'blend in' with the other dancers.\n\nThe company has responded by saying her allegation \"deeply moves us\" and an internal investigation is underway into racism and discrimination at Staatsballett.", "The pandemic has seen most children in England slipping back with their learning - and some have gone significantly back with their social skills, says Ofsted.\n\nA report from the education watchdog warns some young children have forgotten how to use a knife and fork or have regressed back to nappies.\n\nOlder children have lost their \"stamina\" for reading, say inspectors.\n\nThe Department for Education says it shows the need to keep schools open.\n\nOfsted has examined the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on children, based on visits to 900 schools and early years providers this autumn - and found that it has been a very divided experience.\n\nThe chief inspector, Amanda Spielman, says there are three \"broad groups\" to describe what has happened:\n\nBut Ms Spielman says this did not divide along the lines of advantage and deprivation, but instead factors such as whether parents were able to spend time with children and families having what she described as \"good support structures\".\n\nAmong older children, Ofsted warns of a loss of concentration among those returning to school and that \"online squabbles\" that started on social media during the lockdown are now \"being played out in the classroom\".\n\nThere are also reports of a loss of physical fitness, while other pupils are showing \"signs of mental distress\", with concerns over eating disorders and self-harm.\n\nThere are concerns about pupils who have so far not returned to school - and in a third of schools there has been an \"increase in children being removed from school to be educated at home\".\n\nBut inspectors say schools are still \"firefighting\" practical problems about keeping going during the pandemic, with the challenge of operating bubbles and responding to Covid outbreaks.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said the report \"starkly shows the educational and emotional impact of school closures, and why we need to do everything possible to keep schools open\".\n\nBut he warned that it was becoming financially unsustainable to keep schools running, with the cost of safety measures and the need to pay for supply staff when teachers had to self-isolate.\n\nA Department for Education spokeswoman said: \"The government has been clear that getting all pupils and students back into full-time education is a national priority.\"\n\nShe said the £1bn catch-up fund, including support for tutoring, would help to make up for lost learning.", "The editor of the British Medical Journal has asked the New York Times to correct an article that says UK guidelines allow two Covid-19 vaccines to be mixed.\n\nThe US publication reported that UK health officials would allow patients to be given a second dose that is a different vaccine to their first.\n\nFiona Godlee pointed out in her letter to the NYT that it was not a recommendation.\n\nShe said the NYT's headline claiming UK guidelines say such substitutions \"may happen\" was \"seriously misleading\".\n\nThe UK has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab - but both require two doses which are now to be administered 12 weeks apart\n\nMs Godlee said the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) does not make any recommendation to mix and match - in other words, having a shot of one vaccine and then a different one 12 weeks later.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, Public Health England's head of immunisations, said: \"We do not recommend mixing the Covid-19 vaccines - if your first dose is the Pfizer vaccine you should not be given the AstraZeneca vaccine for your second dose and vice versa.\"\n\nDr Ramsay added that on the \"extremely rare occasions\" where the same vaccine is unavailable or it is unknown which jab the patient received, it is \"better to give a second dose of another vaccine than not at all\".\n\nMs Godlee urged the New York Times to print a \"highly visible correction\" as soon as possible.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath was among the hospitals receiving a delivery\n\nMeanwhile, health staff have criticised the paperwork needed to gain NHS approval to give the coronavirus vaccine, with some medics being asked for proof they are trained in areas such as preventing radicalisation.\n\nThe first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are due to be given on Monday after the jab was approved for use in the UK last week.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first vaccine approved in the UK, and 944,539 people have had their first jab.", "Tian Tian arrived in Scotland, along with Yang Guang, from China in 2011\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's giant pandas may have to return to China next year because of financial pressures.\n\nYang Guang and Tian Tian cost about £1m a year to lease from China.\n\nThe zoo, which had hoped to breed the pair, is nearing the end of its 10-year contract with the Chinese government and may be unable to renew the deal.\n\nCovid lockdown closures led to a £2m loss for the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, which runs Edinburgh Zoo and the Highland Wildlife Park.\n\nDavid Field, chief executive of the society, said the charity would have to \"seriously consider every potential saving\", including its giant panda contract.\n\nMr Field said closures had had a \"huge financial impact\" on the charity because most of its income was from visitors.\n\n\"Although our parks are open again, we lost around £2m last year and it seems certain that restrictions, social distancing and limits on our visitor numbers will continue for some time, which will also reduce our income,\" Mr Field said.\n\n\"Yang Guang and Tian Tian have made a tremendous impression on our visitors over the last nine years, helping millions of people connect to nature and inspiring them to take an interest in wildlife conservation.\n\n\"I would love for them to be able to stay for a few more years with us and that is certainly my current aim.\"\n\nYang Guang was given a new enclosure in 2019\n\nThe zoo has already taken a government loan, furloughed staff, made redundancies and launched a fundraising appeal, but was not eligible for the UK government's zoo fund, which was aimed at smaller zoos.\n\n\"The support we have received from our members and animal lovers has helped to keep our doors open and we are incredibly grateful,\" Mr Field added.\n\n\"At this stage, it is too soon to say what the outcome will be. We will be discussing next steps with our colleagues in China over the coming months.\"\n\nThe zoo is part of a number of conservation projects, including one to reintroduce Scottish wildcats.\n\nWork to reintroduce Scottish wildcats in to the Highlands may also suffer from the Zoo's funding problems\n\nHowever, Mr Field said projects like that may also have to be scrapped because of Brexit and being unable to apply for grants from the European Union.\n\n\"We received a £3.2m grant from the EU Life programme to support our Saving Wildcats partnership project, which aims to restore wildcats in Scotland by breeding and releasing them into the wild.\n\n\"Wildcats are on the brink of extinction in Britain and this is the last hope for the species' survival.\"\n\nHe added: \"As we are no longer part of the European Union, our charity is no longer eligible to apply for funding from programmes like EU Life, which have proven critical for our wildlife conservation work and wider efforts to protect animals from extinction.\"\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's conservation genetics laboratory, which supports conservation projects around the world, has lost access to both funding and other researchers as a result.\n\nIt also faces challenges around moving animals, many of which are part of European endangered species breeding programmes.\n\nThe programme is currently about £900,000 short, meaning it may have to be cancelled.\n\nMr Field said: \"We still need to reduce costs to secure our future. It may be that some of our incredibly important conservation projects, including the vital lifeline for Scotland's wildcats, may have to be deferred, postponed or even stopped.\"", "Police rescued 22 people from the snow in Cheshire including a two-year-old child\n\nDozens of people, including a two-year-old child, had to be rescued when they became stranded on rural roads.\n\nPolice and volunteers came to the aid of people whose vehicles were stuck in the Derbyshire Peak District on Saturday.\n\nThere were similar scenes in Cheshire where 22 people, had to be rescued from stranded cars.\n\nThe wintry weather is set to continue with a Met Office warning for ice in the East Midlands and North East.\n\nAt around 20:00 GMT on Saturday, Derbyshire Police reported \"sudden snow\" had left dozens of vehicles and their occupants stranded in the Goyt Valley.\n\nSome visitors to the area were caught off-guard by how quickly the weather changed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adam White This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDerbyshire Police posted on Twitter: \"We are shuttling people back to Buxton as quickly as we can.\n\n\"Sit tight and we will get to you.\"\n\nThe A57 Snake Pass - a road notorious for becoming dangerous in the snow - had been closed earlier in the day because of the weather.\n\nIn Cheshire, police spent three hours helping families stuck in their vehicles in the White Peak area.\n\nIn total 22 people, including eight children - the youngest of whom was two - were recovered from nine vehicles.\n\nCheshire Police Rural Crime Team said: \"The snow had well and truly caught them all out on the back roads.\n\n\"We were three miles (4.8km) from the nearest village, and the light was fading on us quickly.\n\n\"It was decided to get everyone out of their cars and so began a mile walk in the snow.\"\n\nThey were led to a nearby farm where they could be taken to safety in police vehicles.\n\nMost of those rescued from snow in Cheshire had travelled to the area despite coronavirus restrictions\n\nThe force was critical of the families for travelling into the area, that is under tier four coronavirus restrictions.\n\nIt said: \"All except one car was from out of Cheshire. We had people from Sale, Stockport and Salford with the closest being Congleton.\n\n\"Sadly these people have put all of us at risk today.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Liverpool City Council issued their call after local cases nearly trebled in the past fortnight\n\nLiverpool's leaders have called on the government to impose a new nationwide lockdown to halt the spread of the new variant of Covid-19.\n\nActing mayor Wendy Simon and the city council's cabinet said urgent action is needed because the rise in coronavirus cases had reached \"alarming levels\".\n\nThey said it was \"self-evident\" the tier system has not curbed the variant.\n\nIt had been concentrated in London and south-east England but is believed to be spreading north.\n\nCases in Liverpool have almost trebled in the past two weeks to 350 per 100,000.\n\nThis is despite the city successfully leading the national pilot for community testing, which resulted in it becoming the first city to be taken out of tier 3 and moved into tier 2.\n\nHowever, the recent rise in cases meant Liverpool returned to tier three on Thursday.\n\nWendy Simon is the acting mayor for Liverpool\n\nSpeaking to the BBC News Channel, Ms Simon said: \"I think the difficulty with this new strain of the virus is the speed at which it is infecting.\n\n\"What we have seen in these last weeks is that the tier system hasn't worked with this particular strain of the virus.\n\n\"The way the numbers are going, we're likely to go into tier four very, very quickly.\"\n\nMs Simon said officials wanted to \"pre-empt that catastrophe\" and \"recover the economy quicker\", adding: \"We feel these three things - the mass vaccination, the mass testing and certainly a lockdown for a period - is what we need to get the city up and running again.\n\n\"There's a responsibility on us all to act promptly and bring it under control as soon as we can.\"\n\nIn an earlier statement, Ms Simon joined officials at the Labour-run city council to urge the government to \"listen to those at the frontline, both in our hospitals and frontline services\".\n\n\"We as a nation can cope with a lockdown,\" the statement said. \"We have before and we can again.\"\n\nThe city's leaders also called for \"an additional package of welfare and economic support\" to address the \"pain for our retail and hospitality sectors\".\n\nA further 57,725 confirmed cases were announced by the government on Saturday.\n\nThe sharp rise in numbers is partly down to a lag in reporting over the holiday period but, according to Public Health England, is \"largely a reflection of a real increase\".\n\nAlthough the new variant is now spreading more rapidly than the original version, it is not believed to be more deadly.\n\nLiverpool launched the national pilot for community testing in November\n\nOn Sunday, the prime minister said regional restrictions in England were \"probably about to get tougher\".\n\nHe said possible changes included keeping schools closed, although this is not \"something we want to do\".\n\nBoris Johnson said the government was \"entirely reconciled to doing what it takes to get the virus down,\" and warned of a \"tough period ahead\".\n\nHe said increasing vaccination would provide a way out of restrictions and that he hoped \"tens of millions\" would be vaccinated in the next three months.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has started to arrive in hospitals, with the first doses due to be given on Monday.\n\nThe Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath in West Sussex was one of the hospitals taking a delivery on Saturday.\n\nThe UK has ordered 100 million doses of the new vaccine - enough to vaccinate 50 million people.", "The Scottish cabinet will meet later to consider further measures to help tackle coronavirus, as 2,464 new cases are reported.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament will then be recalled for First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to make an \"urgent statement\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said the \"rapid increase in Covid cases driven by the new variant\" was of \"very serious concern\".\n\n\"We are in a race between this faster spreading strain of Covid and the vaccination programme,\" she tweeted.\n\nShe warned on Friday that the next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid.\n\nThe latest government figures for coronavirus cases showed that 15.2% of Saturday's 17,328 tests were positive.\n\nIt is higher than the 2,137 cases reported on Friday, but still lower than Thursday's 2,539 positive results.\n\nFigures for hospital admissions and deaths over the holiday weekend will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nThe cabinet is likely to consider a further delay to the return of Scottish schools and restrictions that are closer to the stay-at-home lockdown in March.\n\n\"All decisions just now are tough, with tough impacts,\" Ms Sturgeon wrote on twitter. \"Vaccines give us way out, but this new strain makes the period between now and then the most dangerous since start of pandemic.\"\n\nThe Scottish government's emergency resilience committee heard on Saturday that \"quick and decisive action is needed\" as the new variant of the virus is becoming the dominant one in Scotland.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"The even steeper rises and severe pressure on the NHS that is being experienced in some other parts of the UK is a sign of what may lie ahead in Scotland if we do not take all possible steps now to slow the spread of the virus, while the vaccination programme progresses.\n\n\"The strong message remains - people should stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\"\n\nThis is just the fifth time the Scottish Parliament has been recalled and the second time within the last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Linda Bauld says Scots should be prepared a longer period living with level four restrictions\n\nPublic health expert Prof Linda Bauld, from the University of Edinburgh, has said Scotland should be prepared for Covid restrictions to be extended as infection rates continue to rise.\n\nShe said there were no signs yet that the infection rate was levelling off, having risen suddenly from a daily rate of fewer than 1,000 to more than 2,000 per day in recent days.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It definitely is a fragile situation and you can see that we have more cases than we would expect at the current time.\n\n\"We may be starting to see some of the impacts of the Christmas mixing, but also we know around four in 10 cases, from recent data, are of the new variant.\n\n\"I would imagine that the new variant is playing a role in these higher rates of infection and if these numbers continue to sit at where they are we are going to have more people in hospital in a week or two's time, and that is very worrying.\"\n\nThe new year offers new hope in the struggle against coronavirus with two vaccines now authorised for UK use - but it looks as if the situation will get worse before it gets better.\n\nMinisters are worried by the rapid spread of the new strain of coronavirus during a holiday period when the highest level of restrictions are already in place.\n\nThey think more needs to be done to suppress the virus, to give the vaccination programme a chance to accelerate and give increasing numbers of people protection.\n\nWhen the Scottish cabinet meets they are likely to consider tightening the current restrictions to something closer to the stay at home lockdown of March 2020.\n\nThat will almost certainly mean a further delay to the return of schools into February.\n\nMinisters will take decisions on Monday morning with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon expected to make a statement at Holyrood in the afternoon.\n\nDaily confirmed cases in Scotland reached record highs on the last three days of 2020, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nMs Sturgeon warned last week there might be changes to the plans for reopening schools. Children start online learning from 11 January and are set to return to class by 18 January.\n\nThe education recovery group will meet on Monday.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said the situation was \"deteriorating and fast-moving\" but any decision to extend school closures should be clearly explained to parents and teachers.\n\nHe said: \"We have been here before so if schools remain closed, the Scottish government must show that it has learned from past mistakes in order to minimise disruption to education.\"\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie said the Scottish government should prioritise teachers and school staff as vaccines were rolled out.\n\nHe added: \"We must be honest and accept that most pupils, teachers and support staff cannot go back to schools until the situation is brought under control.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard called for ministers to publish the evidence behind all of its decisions to ensure public consent and compliance.\n\n\"What is clear is that we need to see an acceleration of the vaccine rollout and a step-change in testing,\" he said.\n\n\"It is also clear that financial support from government has simply not been nearly sufficient to make up for the damage that lockdown measures have done to jobs, livelihoods and businesses. The SNP government must distribute additional funds to the frontline now.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said: \"With tighter restrictions on movement and in schools comes a greater responsibility on the government to show its workings.\n\n\"If we are to restrict people's movement then we need to see what the benefit will be. We need an exit plan to give people hope, as well as to show them what is required to ease the restrictions on our freedoms.\"", "A farmer's field in Scotland has been transformed into a \"pop-up\" ice hockey rink.\n\nLocals in Bishopton, Renfrewshire, have been taking advantage of the clear skies and icy conditions.\n\nOne said the frozen rink had been playing host to skaters and hockey players of all ages and abilities, from six to 60.", "Some schools are due to reopen this week in Wales\n\nSchools are being given a flexible approach to ensure a \"safe return\", according to Wales' first minister.\n\nMark Drakeford said experts would be \"looking at all the evidence again early next week\".\n\nUnions have called for a national decision on reopening schools rather than leaving it to local councils.\n\nAccording to local authorities many secondary schools aim to return from 11 January, with some fully open on 6 January.\n\nA joint statement from nine unions called on the Welsh Government to give a \"centralised, coherent response\" regarding all educational settings \"rather than leaving decisions at local levels\".\n\nThe statement from ASCL Cymru, GMB, NAHT Cymru, NASUWT Cymru, NEU Cymru, Ucac, Unison, Unite and Voice continued: \"We are extremely worried that schools will be opening for face-to-face learning from next Monday, whilst Welsh Government continues to gather information about the nature and impact of the new variant of Covid-19...\n\n\"We strongly believe that we need to err on the side of caution and ensure, in advance, that we have the medical 'evidence and information' to ensure that any decisions are the correct ones.\"\n\nThe National Education Union Cymru has called for in-person learning to be delayed until at least 18 January.\n\nThe NASUWT has also threatened \"appropriate action in order to protect members whose safety is put at risk\", while head teachers' union NAHT Cymru said it had taken legal action.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford said: \"We reached an agreement with our local education colleagues that in Wales we will have a phased and flexible return to school.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday parents should send their children to primary school as long as they are open in their area.\n\nMark Drakeford: \"No evidence that young people get the illness more severely as a result of the variant\"\n\nJackie Parker, head of Crickhowell High School in Powys, which reopens for some form years from Wednesday, said \"it would have been more sensible to have had a national decision for the time being until the 18th\".\n\nShe said it would have allowed time to see if cases of Covid had increased over the holiday period.\n\n\"People may have been together during the Christmas holiday,\" she said.\n\nFigures published by Public Health Wales on Sunday showed 56 new deaths from Covid and 4,011 new cases of the virus.\n\nWales has been in lockdown since 20 December with restrictions on people meeting others on all but Christmas Day when it was limited to another household and a person living alone.\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"There is no evidence that young people get the illness more severely as a result of the variant.\n\n\"Our technical advisory group will be looking at all the evidence again early next week.\n\n\"And, of course, we will continue to make decisions in the light of the best knowledge, research and information that's available to us at the time,\" he told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement.\n\nHe also said mass testing in schools would begin as planned this month, in a decision which has been criticised by NAHT Cymru.\n\n\"It will allow more children and more teachers to stay safely in the classroom without having to be sent home because another child or another staff member has tested positive,\" he said.\n\nThe joint unions' statement also said the Welsh Government's testing proposals were unworkable for most schools.\n\n\"Due to the chaotic and rushed nature of this announcement, the lack of proper guidance, and an absence of appropriate support, the Welsh Government's proposals will be inoperable for most schools and colleges,\" it said.\n\nThe statement continued: \"Any suggestion that schools can safely recruit, train and organise a team of suitable volunteers to staff and run testing stations on their premises by an as yet unspecified date in the new term is simply not realistic.\"\n\nSian Gwenllian, Plaid Cymru's education spokeswoman, said \"parents and teachers need to know what the plan is for the next few weeks\".\n\n\"We don't really know very much about this new variant in the way that it transmits within the school community,\" she said.\n\n\"And if it is becoming inevitable that schools will have to close, well, an early decision is better for everybody.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative education spokeswoman Suzy Davies said: \"We've had conflicting reports in the press and on social media about the effect of the new variant on younger children and their role in transmitting the disease - complete confusion reigns...\n\n\"The Welsh Government hasn't succeeded in reassuring teachers and in some cases parents as well.\"", "A top Swedish official involved in the coronavirus response has defended a Christmas holiday in the Canary Islands in the face of heavy criticism.\n\nDan Eliasson is head of the civil contingencies agency, which earlier in December had texted all Swedes urging them to avoid travel.\n\nHe was photographed in Las Palmas airport on the island of Gran Canaria.\n\nMr Eliasson insisted the trip was necessary \"for family reasons\".\n\nHe told Swedish media that he had \"given up a lot of trips during this pandemic\" but thought this one was necessary because he had a daughter living in the Canaries.\n\n\"I celebrated Christmas with her and my family,\" he told Expressen newspaper. He also said he had been worked remotely while in the Canaries.\n\nSweden has had 437,000 confirmed cases and 8,700 deaths - many more than its Scandinavian neighbours. The country has never imposed a full lockdown.\n\nHowever, alarmed by rising numbers of cases last month, the Swedish government reversed some of its guidance and sent a text message to all Swedes asking them to read updated guidelines.\n\nThe guidelines included asking Swedes to avoid unnecessary trips and not to make new contacts during a journey or at the destination.\n\nMr Eliasson was then photographed several times in Gran Canaria, including at the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Expressen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere have been calls for Mr Eliasson, an experienced official who has worked at several important departments, to be fired.\n\nPrime Minister Stefan Löfven and other ministers have not yet commented, according to Swedish media.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From the pandemic to measles, Smitha Mundasad looks at global health challenges in 2021", "Liam Reilly fronted Bagatelle for more than 40 years\n\nIrish Eurovision singer and frontman of the rock band Bagatelle, Liam Reilly, has died aged 65.\n\nA family statement confirmed that Mr Reilly \"passed away suddenly but peacefully at his home\" on 1 January.\n\nMr Reilly fronted Bagatelle for more than 40 years and they had success with songs including Summer in Dublin and Second Violin.\n\nHe also came joint second at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1990 with the song Somewhere in Europe.\n\nThe song finished on 132 points, joint with France's entry sung by Joëlle Ursull, in the contest in Zagreb.\n\nMr Reilly, from Dundalk, County Louth, also composed Ireland's Eurovision entry for the contest in Rome in 1991, when Kim Jackson performed his song Could It Be That I'm In Love, which was placed 10th.\n\n\"We know that his many friends and countless fans around the world will share in our grief as we mourn his loss, but celebrate the extraordinary talent of the man whose songs meant so much to so many.\" the family statement added.\n\nJoe Gallagher, the band's promoter from Strabane, County Tyrone, told BBC Radio Ulster \"the talent that Liam brought to the music industry in Ireland is second to none\".\n\n\"Some of the songs that he has written are up there with some of the better songs written in Ireland,\" he said.\n\n\"He is one of the best singer-songwriters Ireland has ever seen or produced.\"\n\nMr Reilly also wrote songs for others, including The Wolfe Tones. The Irish group paid tribute to him on social media, describing him as \"a master songwriter\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪\n\nStephen Travers, a member of the Miami Showband, said Mr Reilly was a \"national treasure\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nTributes have been paid to trainer Zoe Davison, who died from cancer on the same day two of her horses claimed wins at Plumpton.\n\nDavison, who had breast cancer for four-and-a-half years, died at her Shovelstrode Racing Stables in Sussex.\n\nBrown Bullet and Mr Jack, both trained at the family's stable, had raced to victory at the Sussex track on Sunday.\n\nSimon Clare, part-owner of Brown Bullet, said: \"Zoe was just the most wonderful human being imaginable.\"\n\nHer husband Andrew Irvine - who she married in 2018 - was by her side, along with family.\n\nHe said: \"She was the most wonderful, incredible person. I am blessed to have spent the last 24 years of my life with her.\"\n\nDaughter Gemelle Johnson, who was assistant to her mother, said: \"I just feel a bit numb inside because of everything.\n\n\"I'm a bit overwhelmed we've had a double for mum. Hopefully we have made her proud. It's surreal. Our team is a family business and we put everything into it. She will be thoroughly missed as she is the glue that holds us together.\n\n\"We've had a few winners around here and it is one of our local tracks. It means everything to us as we want to do her proud.\"\n\nDavison sent out the first of over 100 winners when Sails Legend, with AP McCoy in the saddle, won at Towcester in November 1997.\n\nShe enjoyed her best season with 15 winners in the 2017-18 campaign.\n\nJockey Page Fuller has a long association with the stable and should have ridden Mr Jack but had been stood down from an earlier fall.\n\nShe said: \"You couldn't have written it any better today. She was just a kind and genuine person who was a real horsewoman. She loved her horses and did her best by them.\n\n\"She has been struggling for a long time, but fortunately her strength has rubbed off on everybody else and they showed that by sending out the winners today.\n\n\"It has been a great team effort and it is great she has gone out like that. I don't know anybody who would have a bad word to say about her - she was just one of those really nice people.\"\n\nEd Arkell, ex-Fontwell clerk of the course and now at nearby West Sussex track Goodwood, said: \"Zoe was a huge part of the southern racing circuit. I'm so sorry for her family and she will be very much missed. She was a friendly, happy person who everybody loved.\n\n\"As a trainer, she ran a wonderful family operation. There are less of those these days. She supported her local tracks and became a big part of them.\"\n\nClare added: \"Zoe was the most talented horsewoman imaginable. What she didn't know about horses wasn't worth knowing.\n\n\"She is so incredibly well loved and will be desperately missed by everyone who knew her.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal continued their Premier League resurgence with a ruthless victory over strugglers West Brom at The Hawthorns.\n\nDefender Kieran Tierney's excellent solo run and curling finish put the Gunners in front in the first half, before the impressive Bukayo Saka rounded off a stunning passing move to make it 2-0.\n\nAlexandre Lacazette added the third and fourth goals after the break - smashing in a rebound from Emile Smith Rowe's shot before he was set up by Tierney.\n\nIt was Arsenal's third league victory in a row after they had failed to win their previous seven.\n\nWest Brom, playing their fourth match under new manager Sam Allardyce, remain second from bottom and six points from safety.\n• None Confidence? Youth? How have Arsenal turned relegation talk into European hopes?\n\nArsenal boss Mikel Arteta said he wanted his players to \"show confidence\" at The Hawthorns, and they certainly did that in a dominant and eye-catching display.\n\nHector Bellerin forced Sam Johnstone into a save within two minutes after Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang broke down the left, and Saka tormented full-back Dara O'Shea on the opposite wing constantly during the opening half.\n\nIt was Saka's ball that fizzed past the back post, inches away from the toe of Aubameyang, after the 19-year-old had got the better of O'Shea and hit it straight at Johnstone.\n\nWest Brom were being suffocated and Tierney's burst of pace to get around Darnell Furlong, before bending it into the far corner, was the perfect way to open the scoring.\n\nSaka made it 2-0 by rounding off a slick, one-touch passing move that former Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger would have been proud of.\n\nWest Brom could offer no response after the break either and Arsenal were 3-0 up on the hour when Lacazette eventually blasted in the rebound from a catalogue of errors by defender Semi Ajayi.\n\nThat was game over but Lacazette was allowed to add a fourth when he was left unmarked to divert Tierney's cross into the roof of the net four minutes later.\n\nArteta, knowing the job was done, was able to bring off Saka and Emile Smith Rowe following impressive performances from both youngsters, while Arsenal continued to create chances to round off a very enjoyable evening in the snow.\n\nAllardyce's first match in charge of West Brom - a 3-0 drubbing by Aston Villa after captain Jake Livermore had been sent off - was a sign of just how tough this job was going to be.\n\nThen that 1-1 draw with Liverpool at Anfield provided hope. The Baggies were resilient, organised and tireless.\n\nBut heavy back-to-back defeats by Leeds United and now Arsenal at home have brought things back down to earth.\n\nWest Brom were overawed in defence, out-run in midfield and frustrated by a lack of opportunities in attack throughout this confidence-crushing defeat.\n\nTheir rare sniffs at goal came from a Granit Xhaka error in the first half - Matheus Pereira chipping it through to Matt Phillips who struck it straight at Bernd Leno - before Callum Robinson's finish was ruled out for offside in the second half.\n\nSubstitute Rekeem Harper's long-range strike deep in stoppage time was also comfortably turned behind by Leno.\n\nIt was West Brom's third home loss in three under Allardyce and they have conceded 12 goals with no reply in those games.\n\n'Everything looks much better' - what they said\n\nWest Brom manager Sam Allardyce: \"Another game gone by where we learn more about the players we have. We have learnt an awful lot about what we can and cannot do.\n\n\"We need to work out a way of not trying to be as sloppy as we have been at conceding goals. It appears when we try to open up we leave opportunities for the opposition and we cannot cope.\"\n\nArsenal manager Mikel Arteta: \"We had a big week, three games in seven days, and we managed to win them and everything looks much better. It was difficult conditions but the team looked sharp from the start. It's a big win.\n\n\"After the results we had before we had to lift things straight away. Now we have got some discipline back. We look more creative in the final third and we look solid at the back.\"\n\nThe best of the stats\n• None West Brom are the first side to lose consecutive home Premier League games by at least four goals since Wigan in August 2010.\n• None Arsenal have scored in all 25 of their Premier League meetings with West Brom, the best 100% scoring record by one side against an opponent in the competition's history.\n• None There were 20 passes in the build-up to Arsenal's first goal scored by Kieran Tierney - since Mikel Arteta's first game in charge on Boxing Day 2019, the Gunners have scored more goals following a sequence of 20+ passes than any other Premier League side (3).\n• None Tierney became the first Scottish player to score an away Premier League goal for Arsenal and the first to do so in the top flight since Charlie Nicholas against Ipswich Town in March 1986.\n• None Alexandre Lacazette has scored five away Premier League goals in 2020-21, his best such tally in a single season in the competition.\n\nWest Brom travel to Blackpool for an FA Cup third-round tie on Saturday, 9 January (15:00 GMT kick-off), before returning to Premier League action on Saturday, 16 January against Wolves (12:30 GMT).\n\nArsenal host Newcastle in their FA Cup match on the same day (17:30 GMT), before facing Crystal Palace at home in the league on Thursday, 14 January (20:00 GMT).\n• None Offside, West Bromwich Albion. Charlie Austin tries a through ball, but Kyle Bartley is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Rekeem Harper (West Bromwich Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Matheus Pereira.\n• None Attempt saved. Willian (Arsenal) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Dani Ceballos.\n• None Attempt missed. Joseph Willock (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Willian with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Conor Gallagher (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Callum Robinson.\n• None Attempt blocked. Charlie Austin (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Dara O'Shea.\n• None Dani Ceballos (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kieran Tierney.\n• None Attempt missed. Charlie Austin (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Matt Phillips. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Cases have reached record highs in the past week\n\nThe next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid, the first minister has warned.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\n\"If you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others and the NHS at risk,\" she tweeted.\n\nA further 2,539 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed on Friday.\n\nThe number is slightly down on Thursday's figure, but Ms Sturgeon said cases numbers were still \"worryingly high\".\n\nDaily confirmed cases have reached record highs on each of the previous three days, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted: \"Today's case numbers are worryingly high again. The new variant is accelerating spread.\n\n\"PLEASE do not visit other people's homes just now, even today - if you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others & the NHS at risk.\"\n\nShe said the \"vaccine cavalry\" was on the way, offering \"real hope for 2021\", but she added: \"With this new variant, the next few weeks may be the most dangerous we've faced since Mar/April.\n\n\"We must act together to suppress it, to save lives and protect the NHS. Folded hands stick with it.\"\n\nThe number of daily confirmed cases has reached record highs this week\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1.\n\nEmma Thomson, a professor of infectious disease at the University of Glasgow, said it was important to get people vaccinated quickly.\n\nThe professor, who has been working on the sequencing of the new Covid mutation, told the BBC that lockdown was not controlling the infection \"on its own\".\n\n\"At least we come in armed into the new year with two vaccines which are highly effective at preventing severe disease. We have that,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to roll it out now to add to the public health measures.\"\n\nParties, traditional \"first-footing\" and social events were banned this Hogmanay, with all of mainland Scotland and Skye being under the highest level of Covid restrictions.\n\nAll official events were cancelled, but police had to disperse a crowds of people who gathered at Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill to see in the new year.\n\nIt has also emerged that 32 people were charged with reckless conduct after police found them gathered at a rented property in Aberfoyle on 27 December.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"As the first minister has pointed out, the sharp rise in cases is evidence that the new strain seems to be speeding up transmission.\n\n\"This is why we are asking people to please stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\n\n\"There is light at the end of the tunnel, but we ask everyone to be patient as we work our way through the vaccination programme, and continue to follow FACTS to keep us all safe.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIndia has formally approved the emergency use of two coronavirus vaccines as it prepares for one of the world's biggest inoculation drives.\n\nThe drugs regulatory authority gave the green light to the jabs developed by AstraZeneca with Oxford University and by local firm Bharat Biotech.\n\nIndia plans to inoculate some 300 million people on a priority list this year.\n\nIt has recorded the second-highest number of infections in the world, with more than 10.3 million confirmed cases to date. Nearly 150,000 people have died.\n\nOn Saturday India held nationwide drills to prepare more than 90,000 health care workers to administer vaccines across the country, which has a population of 1.3 billion people.\n\nThe Drugs Controller General of India said both manufacturers had submitted data showing their vaccines were safe to use.\n\nHowever, opposition politicians and some doctors have criticised a lack of transparency in the approval process.\n\nDr Swapneil Parikh, an infectious diseases researcher based in Mumbai, told the BBC doctors were in a difficult position.\n\n\"I understand there is a need to go through the process quickly, remove regulatory hurdles,\" he said. \"However... [governments and regulators] have a duty to be transparent about the data they have reviewed and the process involved in making the decision to authorise a vaccine, because if they don't do this, it can affect the public's faith in the process.\"\n\nThe Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is being manufactured locally by the Serum Institute of India, the world's largest vaccine manufacturer. It says it is producing more than 50 million doses a month.\n\nAdar Poonawalla, the company's CEO, told the BBC in November that he aimed to ramp up production to 100 million doses a month after receiving regulatory approval.\n\nThe jab, which is known as Covishield in India, is administered in two doses given between four and 12 weeks apart. It can be safely stored at temperatures of 2C to 8C, about the same as a domestic fridge, and can be delivered in existing health care settings such as doctors' surgeries.\n\nThis makes it easier to distribute than some of the other vaccines. The jab developed by Pfizer/BioNTech - which is currently being administered in several countries - must be stored at -70C and can only be moved a limited number of times - a particular challenge in India, where summer temperatures can reach 50C.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adar Poonawalla This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe local vaccine, however, was approved despite the absence of data on how efficient it can be. It has yet to go through large-scale trials.\n\nThe Drugs Controller General, V.G. Somani, said Bharat Biotech's Covaxin was \"safe and provides a robust immune response\".\n\nMr Somani said it had been approved \"in public interest as an abundant precaution, in clinical trial mode, to have more options for vaccinations, especially in case of infection by mutant strains\".\n\nIndia, which makes about 60% of vaccines globally, plans to immunise about 300 million people by July 2021. It will prioritise health care workers, the emergency services, and those who are clinically vulnerable because of age or pre-existing conditions.\n\nIndia's existing vaccination programme already reaches about 55 million people a year, administering 390 million free jabs against a dozen diseases. It stocks and tracks the vaccines through a well-oiled electronic system.\n\nIndia immunisation programme is one of the largest in the world\n\nPfizer, whose vaccine has already been approved for use in jurisdictions including the UK, the US and the EU, is also seeking emergency authorisation in India.\n\nIn all, some 30 vaccine candidates are being developed in India.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olly Stephens was pronounced dead in Bugs Bottom fields in Emmer Green, Reading\n\nFour boys and a girl have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nThe five teenagers, all aged 13 or 14, remain in custody, according to Thames Valley Police.\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown said: \"Our thoughts remain with Olly's family at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident which has resulted in the death of a young boy.\"\n\nThe victim's family are being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nFloral tributes to Olly have been left outside Highdown School\n\nHighdown School and Sixth Form Centre said it was \"reeling from the tragic news\".\n\nIn a statement, head teacher Rachel Cave said: \"This student was part of our community and many students and staff knew him well.\n\n\"For a life to be ended at such a young age is a total tragedy. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.\"\n\nThe school, in Emmer Green, said it was arranging counselling support for students and setting up an electronic book of condolence.\n\nThames Valley Police said a \"considerable police presence\" would be in place in the area for several days\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack.\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone who was in the area between 15:00 and 16:30 who might have taken photos or camera footage to contact them if they notice anything suspicious.\n\nDet Supt Brown said he believed there would have been witnesses to the \"dreadful incident\" as the area is popular with dog walkers.\n\nA man said his wife was walking their dog through the park on Sunday afternoon when she saw a boy on the ground with several people around him trying to give him first aid.\n\nAnother dog walker said she saw a group of young people standing in the woods in Bugs Bottom fields at about 15:30 and described it as \"slightly unusual\".\n\nReading East MP Matt Rodda has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to the boy's family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Rodda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSt Barnabas Church in Emmer Green has invited residents to pray and light a candle in memory of the boy.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A UK ticket-holder has started the new year by winning the EuroMillions jackpot of nearly £40m.\n\nOne ticket matched all five regular numbers and two lucky stars in the draw on Friday night to win the £39,774,466.40 prize.\n\nCamelot's Andy Carter, senior winners' adviser at the National Lottery, said: \"What an amazing start to 2021 for UK EuroMillions players.\"\n\nA ticket-holder has now come forward to claim their prize.\n\nCamelot, which operates the lottery, said checks were being made on the claim.\n\nMr Carter said: \"It is fantastic news that the jackpot winning lucky ticket-holder has now claimed this enormous prize. We will now focus on supporting the ticket-holder through the process.\"\n\nThe winning numbers were 16, 28, 32, 44 and 48 with the lucky stars 01 and 09.\n\nTen other ticket-holders each won £1m in the UK Millionaire Maker New Year's Day event.\n\nIn 2019, a UK ticket-holder won the full £170m EuroMillions jackpot, making them Britain's richest ever lottery winner.\n\nAnd last year, a £57m EuroMillions prize claim was validated just before the deadline. The ticket had been bought in South Ayrshire.\n\nThe winning ticket holder's newfound cash means they are now wealthier than former One Direction singer Zayn Malik, who is worth £36m, according to the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nAnd if they have a bit more money in the bank, they could buy one of the UK's most expensive homes, which went on the market last year.\n\nNobody won the EuroMillons Hotpicks jackpot on Friday, which uses the same numbers as the main draw, but one winner scooped the Thunderball top prize of £500,000.\n\nThe Thunderball numbers were 13, 17, 30, 34, 35 and the Thunderball was 01.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Wales went into a new lockdown on 20 December\n\nWales is likely to remain in lockdown for the rest of January as the first minister said he does not \"see much headroom for change\".\n\nMinisters are to review restrictions ahead of an announcement on Friday.\n\nBut Mark Drakeford said it was \"very hard to see where the room for manoeuvre is at the moment\" with the NHS \"under huge pressure\".\n\nWithout further changes, restrictions could be kept until the next three-week review at the end of January.\n\nMr Drakeford also said the Welsh Government was unlikely to tighten restrictions despite the emergence of a new more contagious variant of the virus.\n\nHe said there could be some tweaks \"at the margins\" but no wholesale changes because \"it's difficult to see what more could be done\".\n\nThe government introduced a new four-level system of Covid-19 restrictions on 20 December with people told to stay home and avoid all but essential travel.\n\nA study has found the new variant of Covid-19 to be \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford does not believe the Welsh Government needs to change the system of restrictions it introduced before details of the new variant emerged.\n\n\"We'll keep our plans under review but level four restrictions in Wales are very strict indeed and it's difficult to see what more could be done to them,\" he said.\n\n\"If they need to be tweaked at the margins to take account of the new variation that's what the cabinet here will consider.\"\n\nHe has dismissed calls by teaching unions to suspend the phased return of face-to-face teaching.\n\nThe government's cabinet will meet on Wednesday to review the current restrictions ahead of an announcement by the first minister on Friday.\n\nBut when asked whether he expected any changes, Mr Drakeford said: \"It's very hard to see where the room for manoeuvre is at the moment.\n\n\"Our health service remains under huge pressure and the coming weeks will be very difficult indeed with winter pressures on the one hand and growing numbers of people suffering with coronavirus in our hospitals on the other.\n\n\"We'll review it, as we said we would, but when I look at the figures I don't see much headroom for change.\"\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives have not criticised the decision to remain in lockdown, but have called for greater scrutiny.\n\nSuzy Davies, Member of the Senedd for South Wales West, said questions would remain \"about how legitimate the decisions of the Welsh Government are\" until MSs had the opportunity to question them in the Welsh Parliament.\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price said the announcement was unsurprising given the pressures on the NHS, but called on the Welsh Government to ensure a \"rapid rollout\" of the Covid vaccine.\n\nMr Price also called for financial support for people forced to self-isolate and businesses \"during the hardest winter of our time\".\n\nAfter Friday's decision, the next three-week review announcement is not expected until 29 January.\n\nA further 56 people have died after contracting coronavirus in Wales, along with 4,011 new cases, according to data published by Public Health Wales on Sunday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A dozen people were fined in London for playing dominoes\n\nTwelve people have been fined after they were caught playing dominoes in a restaurant in east London.\n\nPolice officers found the group hiding in a dark room when they entered the building in Whitechapel on Tuesday.\n\nThe owner initially claimed those inside were workers, before admitting they were playing the game.\n\nTower Hamlets Council has been asked to consider issuing a fine to the owner of the restaurant for breaching tier four Covid-19 restrictions, the Met said.\n\nA video released by the Met shows the restaurant owner saying: \"They're playing dominoes.\"\n\nCh Insp Pete Shaw said: \"The rules under tier four are in place to keep all of us safe, and they do not exempt people from gathering to play games together in basements.\n\n\"The fact that these people hid from officers clearly shows they knew they were breaching the rules and have now been fined for their actions.\"\n• None Met breaks up more than 50 New Year's Eve parties\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has reiterated his position that a Scottish independence referendum should be a \"once-in-a-generation\" vote.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, the prime minister said the gap between referendums on Europe - the first in 1975 and the second in 2016 - was \"a good sort of gap\".\n\nHowever, Mr Marr suggested that now \"things had changed\" for Scotland.\n\nNicola Sturgeon wants to see an independent Scotland join the EU.\n\nAndrew Marr asked the prime minister what a voter in Scotland should do if they decided that a second independence referendum was now something they wanted, and what were the \"democratic tools\" to now do that?\n\nMr Johnson replied by saying: \"Referendums in my experience, direct experience, in this country are not particularly jolly events.\n\n\"They don't have a notably unifying force in the national mood, they should be only once-in-a-generation.\"\n\nAsked what the difference was between a referendum on EU membership being granted and one on Scottish independence being requested, he said: \"The difference is we had a referendum in 1975 and we then had another one in 2016.\n\n\"That seems to be about the right sort of gap.\"\n\nThe 2014 independence referendum resulted in a 55.3% vote against Scotland going alone.\n\nOn Hogmanay, Nicola Sturgeon said Europe should \"keep a light on\" as Scotland will be \"back soon\".\n\nThe first minister tweeted just after the Brexit transition period formally ended at 11:00 on 31 December 2020.\n\nScotland's trading and travel relationships with EU countries will now be governed by the agreement announced by the UK government on Christmas Eve.\n\nMs Sturgeon reiterated the SNP's call for an independent Scotland to join the EU.\n\nTweeting a picture of the words Europe and Scotland joined by a love heart, she wrote: \"Scotland will be back soon, Europe. Keep the light on.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSNP depute leader Keith Brown said: \"It may be a new year but it's the same old incoherent bluster from Boris Johnson. The prime minister pretends otherwise but he knows he can't keep on denying democracy.\n\n\"Even his American pal Donald Trump has learned that if you try to stand in the way of the democratic choice of a nation you get swept away.\n\n\"The people who will decide our future are the people of Scotland, not Boris Johnson and the Westminster Tories.\"\n\nFormer Labour prime minister Tony Blair said it was \"extremely difficult\" to challenge the SNP on independence when the party was \"virtually uncontested\" in Scotland.\n\nHe said: \"We had a referendum that rejected Scottish independence, but Brexit put it back on the agenda again. And it's going to require very careful management. The truth of the matter is it's still not in Scotland's interest to separate from England.\n\n\"There are huge economic and political reasons for the United Kingdom to stay the United Kingdom but we're going to have to examine whether there's different constitutional settlements.\n\n\"I also think it's incredibly important, the single most important thing politically to my mind, is that we get a really capable opposition in Scotland - which should be the Labour Party - that's capable of contesting the Scottish nationalist position in Scotland in a way that prevents them from doing what they do at the moment, which is govern Scotland but pretend they're in opposition.\"\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Lorna Slater said: \"Only the people of Scotland have the right to determine Scotland's future.\n\n\"Seventeen consecutive opinion polls have demonstrated majorities in favour of independence, with the most recent indicating a record 58% support.\n\n\"Whether it's the botched handling of the coronavirus crisis, the Brexit catastrophe or just the heartlessness of Tory governments we haven't voted for, it's clear that the UK isn't working for Scotland.\"", "Gerry Marsden was awarded an MBE in 2003 for services to Liverpudlian Charities.\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden, whose version of You'll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for his hometown club of Liverpool, has died at the age of 78.\n\nHis family said he died on Sunday after a short illness not linked to Covid-19.\n\nMarsden's band was one of the biggest success stories of the Merseybeat era, and in 1963 became the first to have their first three songs top the chart.\n\nThe band's other best known hit, Ferry Cross The Mersey, came in 1964.\n\nIt was written by Marsden himself as a tribute to his city, and reached number eight.\n\nMarsden was made an MBE in 2003 for services to charity after supporting victims of the Hillsborough disaster.\n\nAt the time, he said he was \"over the moon\" to have received the honour, following his support for numerous charities across Merseyside and beyond.\n\nGerry Marsden in 2009 on the Mersey ferry, which he made famous with his song Ferry Cross The Mersey, as he received the Freedom of the City in Liverpool\n\nMarsden's daughter, Yvette Marbeck, said he went into hospital on Boxing Day after tests showed he had a serious blood infection that had travelled to his heart.\n\nMs Marbeck told the PA news agency: \"It was a very short illness and too quick to comprehend really.\"\n\nHe died in hospital, Ms Marbeck said, adding: \"He was our dad, our hero, warm, funny and what you see is what you got.\"\n\nLiverpool FC posted on social media that Marsden's words would \"live on forever with us\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers worked the same Liverpool club circuit as The Beatles in the 1960s and were signed by the Fab Four's manager Brian Epstein.\n\nEpstein gave Marsden's group the song How Do You Do It, which had been turned down by The Beatles and Adam Faith, for their debut single.\n\nSir Paul McCartney described Gerry and the Pacemakers as The Beatles's \"biggest rivals\" on the Merseyside scene.\n\n\"I'll always remember you with a smile,\" Sir Paul said in his tribute to Marsden.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Paul McCartney This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd the other surviving Beatle, Sir Ringo Starr, sent \"peace and love\" to Marsden's family in a tribute on Twitter.\n\nWhile Marsden was a songwriter as well as a singer, his most enduring hit was actually a cover of a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical number from 1945, which he had to convince his bandmates to record as their third single.\n\nIn many interviews over the years, he explained how fate played a part in his band ever recording the song. He was watching a Laurel and Hardy movie at Liverpool's Odeon cinema in the early 1960s and, only because it was raining, he decided to stay for the second part of a double feature.\n\nThat turned out to be the film Carousel - which featured that song on its soundtrack - and Marsden was so moved by the lyrics that he became determined that it should become part of his band's repertoire.\n\nIn a 2013 interview, Marsden told the Liverpool FC website how You'll Never Walk Alone was adopted by the club's fans as soon as it topped the chart in 1963: \"I remember being at Anfield and before every kick off they used to play the top 10 from number 10 to number one, and so You'll Never Walk Alone was played before the match. I was at the game and the fans started singing it.\n\n\"When it went out of the top 10 they took the song off the playlist and then for the next match the Kop were shouting 'Where's our song?' So they had to put it back on.\n\n\"Now, every time I go to the game I still get goose pimples when the song comes on and I sing my head off.\"\n\nSir Kenny Dalglish, who managed Liverpool at the time of the Hillsborough tragedy, tweeted that he was \"saddened\" by the news of Marsden's death, and that You'll Never Walk Alone was an \"integral part of Liverpool Football Club, and never more so than now\".\n\nLiverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram posted a tribute on Twitter, saying he was \"devastated\" by the news.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Steve Rotheram This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGerry was an entertainer. He loved being an entertainer; he loved people seeing him in the street and asking him for his autograph and the like.\n\nHe had a very distinctive voice, and that is terribly important. You knew instantly it was him on those records. He was best on those ballads.\n\nI think he really did them very well indeed. You'll Never Walk Alone was a big show song that had been around for years and years, and lots of people had done it.\n\nJust before Gerry brought his version out, Johnny Mathis brought his out. If that version had been played on the Kop, I don't think the Kop would have taken to it because you couldn't sing along with Johnny Mathis - he had too big a range and too perfect a voice.\n\nBut Gerry sounded like everyman and it was absolutely perfect for the Kop. I think it's the greatest football anthem of the lot.\n\nAs well as being a Liverpool anthem, You'll Never Walk Alone has also been adopted by fans at both Celtic in Scotland and Borussia Dortmund in Germany.\n\nMarsden's career began at legendary live music venue, The Cavern Club, where The Pacemakers played nearly 200 times.\n\nThe club said on Twitter that Marsden was \"not only a legend, but also a very good friend of The Cavern\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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End of twitter post 4 by The Cavern Club\n\nGerry and The Pacemakers achieved nine hit singles and two hit albums between 1963 and 1965, before splitting up.\n\nMarsden pursued a solo career before the band reformed in 1974 for a world tour.\n\nIn 1985, Marsden was back in the pop spotlight when he was invited to be one of the vocalists of a charity version of You'll Never Walk Alone, which was released to raise funds for victims of a fire at a Bradford City match.\n\nIn doing so, Marsden set another chart record by becoming the first person to sing on two different chart-topping versions of the same song.\n\nSo when, after the Hillsborough tragedy in 1989, the other Pacemakers classic of Ferry Cross The Mersey was chosen to raise funds for its victims and a group of famous Liverpudlian singers was gathered, Marsden was again included and was back at number one once more for a cause he held dear for the rest of his life.\n\nMarsden was awarded the Freedom of Liverpool in April 2009, an occasion he marked by boarding a ferry across the Mersey and getting out his guitar to sing his famous hit which described the scene.", "A woman takes her dog for an early walk in Allendale in Northumberland\n\nMany parts of England have seen snow flurries accompany the arrival of New Year.\n\nAreas which welcomed in 2021 with several centimetres of snow included Northumberland, parts of Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.\n\nThe Met Office has warned worse is to come with more wintry showers forecast.\n\nDriving conditions on many roads will become \"hazardous\" as the cold weather continues next week, it said.\n\nSeveral football matches were cancelled this weekend due to frozen pitches.\n\nGround staff at West Bromwich Albion were faced with heavy snowfall prior to their Premier League match with Arsenal at The Hawthorns on Saturday evening.\n\nGround staff clear snow from the pitch prior to the Premier League match at The Hawthorns, West Bromwich on Saturday\n\nFurther snow is predicted mainly inland and particularly over higher ground where above 200-300m a further few centimetres of snow is possible.\n\nThe chill in the air is due to high pressure to the north of the UK, which is dragging air from the east \"which at this time of year is cold\", the Met Office said.\n\nThe cold easterly winds are set to develop next week, bringing wintry showers - particularly around eastern parts - while hazardous freezing fog, frost and ice risks will all continue, forecasters said.\n\nSledging in the snow around Silverdale Country Park in Newcastle-under-Lyme\n\nTwo women looking out over the snow covered Huntcliff sea cliffs in Saltburn on the North Yorkshire coast\n\nMeteorologist Alex Burkill said: \"Obviously it's very cold and it's going to stay cold through this week.\n\n\"Whilst there will be some wintry hazards around, it's not really until the end of the week until we see any significant snow.\"\n\nColston Bassett in Nottinghamshire got a light dusting of snow on Saturday\n\nA buried garden Buddha after heavy overnight snow in Buxton in Derbyshire\n\nRAC Breakdown spokesman Simon Williams said: \"The message for those who have to drive is to adjust their speed according to the conditions and leave extra stopping distance so 2021 doesn't begin with an unwelcome bump and an insurance claim.\n\n\"Snow and ice are by far the toughest driving conditions, so if they can be avoided that's probably the best policy.\"\n\nA plough clears snow from the roads in Allendale, Northumberland\n\nA man takes his dogs for an early morning walk through the snow in Allenheads, Northumberland\n\nWaterfowl were still active at a snowy Chapel en le Frith in the Derbyshire Peak District\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "The aftermath of an attack in August in Niger, which has suffered a number claimed by jihadist groups\n\nSuspected Islamist militants have attacked two villages in Niger, with reports of dozens of civilians killed.\n\nAround 49 died and 17 were injured in the village of Tchombangou, while another 30 died in Zaroumdareye - both near Niger's western border with Mali, Reuters reports.\n\nThere have been several recent violent incidents in Africa's Sahel region, carried out by militant groups.\n\nFrance said on Saturday that two of its soldiers were killed in Mali.\n\nHours earlier, a group with links to al-Qaeda said it was behind the killing of three French troops in a separate attack in Mali on Monday.\n\nFrance has been leading a coalition of West African and European allies against Islamist militants in the Sahel.\n\nBut the region continues to be affected by ethnic violence, banditry, and human and drug trafficking.\n\nIn light of Saturday's attacks, Interior Minister Alkache Alhada said soldiers had been sent to the area, according to French outlet RFI. But Mr Alhada did not say how many casualties there had been across the two villages.\n\nA local official, quoted by AFP news agency, said many people were killed, and a local journalist spoke of up to 50 deaths.\n\nNiger's Tillabéri region, where the villages are situated, lies within the so-called tri-border area between Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, which has been plagued by jihadi attacks in recent years.\n\nTravel by motorbike has been banned in the region for a year, as part of efforts to stop incursions by Islamic militants, who often launch attacks from the vehicles.\n\nAreas of Niger are also facing repeated attacks by jihadists from Nigeria, where the government is fighting an insurgency by Boko Haram.\n\nLast month, members of the group killed at least 27 people in Niger's south-eastern Diffa region.\n\nThe latest attacks in Tillabéri come amid national elections in Niger, as President Mahamadou Issoufou steps down after two five-year terms.\n\nElection officials announced provisional results on Saturday, showing a lead for Mohamed Bazoum - a former minister and a member of Niger's ruling party.\n\nA second round of votes is expected to be held on 21 February, once ballots have been validated by the country's constitutional court.", "The prime minister has said that tougher measures could be needed to help cope with a surge in coronavirus cases.\n\nHe has not yet said whether we will need school closures, or even overnight curfews like those imposed in France.\n\nBut clues about such measures to tackle the new more infectious variant come from the government's Sage advisory committee.\n\nThe headline is that whether we see a return to only being allowed one form of daily outdoor exercise, or stricter controls on travel around the country, we'll be hearing a lot more about something already very familiar: hand hygiene, social distancing, wearing masks and ensuring there is fresh air.\n\nThese may sound familiar but the advisers believe that because the new variant spreads so easily, the measures need to be applied with \"a step change in rigour\" - in other words, a lot more forcefully.\n\nThey suggest considering a return to the two-metre rule because it's more effective than the one-metre plus guidance adopted last year.\n\nMasks need to be made of three layers, not just one, and worn in more locations than now - including workplaces, schools and crowded outdoor spaces.\n\nThe key message is that it is vital to reduce social contact - being close to people, especially indoors for long periods of time, carries the highest risk of infection.\n\nSo expect tier four-type bans on visiting other households to become normal.\n\nThe advisers also say many people still do not recognise the key symptoms of Covid-19 - so ministers need to spell them out and help people understand why they should self-isolate.\n\nBut they also say it is essential to praise the efforts made so far, to recognise sacrifices and emphasise how they've kept infection numbers lower than they would otherwise have been.\n\nWhatever new measures are picked, the advice to ministers is to offer \"clear and convincing explanations\" to motivate people.\n\nThat could be a hint that the government's current \"hands, face, space\" slogan may need to make way for something stronger.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola says he may stay in management much longer than he anticipated.\n\nGuardiola, 49, has previously talked of limiting his time in football to pursue other interests.\n\n\"Before, I thought I was going to retire soon. Now I'm thinking I'm going to retire older. So, I don't know,\" Guardiola said.\n\nThe Spaniard signed a new two-year deal at City in November and has won six major trophies at the club.\n\nPrior to his arrival in Manchester, Guardiola, who turns 50 this month, spent four years as manager of Barcelona and three in charge of Bayern Munich.\n\n\"Experience helps you, especially the way I live my profession,\" he added.\n\nGuardiola's five-year stay at City represents the longest commitment he has made to a club in his management career.\n\nHe has won two Premier League titles, the FA Cup and three League Cups since joining them in 2016.\n\nDespite going into Sunday's match at Chelsea on the back of a six-game unbeaten run and with two games in hand on most clubs around them in the table, he is cautious about talk of winning a third league title.\n\n\"If you think about what [can] happen in January, February - the two games [in hand], we can lose these two games and anything can happen,\" he said.\n\n\"So, in the Premier League, every game is so tough and it is better to be calm. The real Premier League, the people I spoke to before I landed here, said everyone can lose to everyone. I didn't see this until now.\n\n\"Now is the first time when I see in the Premier League, one team is able to lose or win seven, and after draw, and after lose. The results are unpredictable.\"\n\nAmong the challengers this season are arch rivals Manchester United, who City face in the Carabao Cup semi-finals.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's side have been rejuvenated in recent weeks, shrugging off the disappointment of a Champions League exit with some excellent domestic form.\n\n\"Ole is happier than me,\" said Guardiola, whose preparations have been affected by five players testing positive for Covid-19.\n\n\"But I am not much concerned about United. I am so busy with what we have to do and what we can do with the players.\n\n\"They are there because they deserve it. Since I arrived I expected them to be there all the time. Sometimes in the last seasons it has not been possible, especially in the Premier League.\"\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Police made 17 arrests at the demonstration in Hyde Park\n\nPolice have made arrests at an anti-lockdown demonstration in central London.\n\nCrowds of between 200 to 300 people began to gather in Hyde Park, which is in a tier four coronavirus area, at about 13:30 GMT on Saturday, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nSeventeen people were arrested on suspicion of breaching public health regulations.\n\nMost demonstrators had left the park by 16:45, police said.\n\nThe Met tweeted: \"Officers continue to engage with groups of people who have gathered in the Hyde Park area.\n\n\"A number of people have been arrested under health protection regulations and taken into custody.\n\n\"We urge those in the area to leave immediately.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Metropolitan Police Events This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMore than two people are generally not allowed to meet in public under tier four rules.\n\nThe police force added: \"Officers will take enforcement action where we see clear breaches of the tier four rules.\n\n\"It's up to all of us to make the right choices and slow the spread of the virus.\"\n\nA group called The People's Lockdown, Stand For Your Human Rights, had said it was going to hold a event at Hyde Park on Saturday afternoon.\n\nIn an online post, it called on people to \"stand with your loved ones\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City say they are disappointed after defender Benjamin Mendy breached Covid-19 rules by hosting a New Year's Eve party.\n\nA spokesperson for the France international said the 26-year-old held a dinner party with guests from outside his household.\n\nThe mixing of households indoors is banned under the UK government's tier four restrictions.\n\nCity said they would conduct an internal investigation.\n\nMendy was named on the bench for City's Premier League game away to Chelsea on Sunday (16:30 GMT).\n\n\"While it is understood that elements of this incident have been misinterpreted in the reports [carried by newspapers earlier], and that the player has publicly apologised for his error, the club is disappointed to learn of the transgression and will be conducting an internal investigation,\" the club said in a statement.\n\nA spokesperson for Mendy said: \"Benjamin and his partner allowed a chef and two friends of his partner to attend his property for a dinner party on New Year's Eve.\n\n\"Ben accepts that this is a breach of Covid-19 protocols and is sorry for his actions in this matter. Ben has had a Covid test and is liaising with Manchester City about this.\"\n\nExplaining why Mendy was in his matchday squad on Sunday, manager Pep Guardiola told Sky Sports: \"First of all the club made a statement; second Benjamin already had Covid in the past - he's been tested every day like all of us and he's negative. He knows what he has done and he will learn in the future.\"\n\nMeanwhile, goalkeeper Ederson, forward Ferran Torres, and midfielder Tommy Doyle are among six City players out of the Chelsea game because of coronavirus.\n\nThe trio have tested positive for the virus, adding to the cases of Kyle Walker, Gabriel Jesus and Eric Garcia.\n\nEarlier on Sunday, defender Garcia became the sixth City player to test positive for coronavirus.\n\nGarcia, along with a member of staff who also returned a positive test, will now self-isolate.\n\nCity previously postponed their match against Everton on 28 December because of positive tests.\n\nThere have been a number of apparent coronavirus breaches by players at Premier League clubs in recent days.\n\nTottenham criticised three of their players after they attended a party over Christmas, while Fulham are looking into reports that striker Aleksandar Mitrovic allegedly broke coronavirus rules.\n\nCrystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson also apologised after midfielder Luka Milivojevic was pictured with Mitrovic at a gathering in London.\n\nFulham's match against Burnley on Sunday was postponed after an increase in positive cases at the club.\n\nCity also had to cancel their match against Everton on 28 December because of positive tests.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nLuke Campbell's hopes of another world title shot suffered a severe blow as Ryan Garcia rose from the canvas to land a superb stoppage in Dallas.\n\nIn a gripping lightweight fight, Briton Campbell landed a left hook in round two to floor Mexican-American Garcia.\n\nSome asked how the much-hyped Garcia might respond to adversity and while he fought on emotion, he found answers.\n\nCampbell survived a tough attack in the fifth, but a well-placed body shot ended the contest two rounds later.\n\n\"You taught me a lot,\" Garcia, 22, told 33-year-old Campbell as the opponents embraced in the beaten man's corner at the American Airlines Center.\n\nThe jubilant reaction from Garcia's team - including gym-mate Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez - hinted at relief, but unquestionably emphasised the statement they knew their man had made.\n\nIn beating a fighter of Campbell's pedigree - and by rising from the canvas to do so - this win served up plenty of answers about Garcia, whose social media following led him to be identified as the world's 12th most marketable athlete in October.\n\n\"I think I showed a lot of people who I really am. I showed today I am special,\" he told DAZN.\n\n\"They wanted to show me as a social media fighter. Anybody who puts you down, remember you're not who people tell you who you are - you are who you choose to be. I chose to be a champion tonight.\n\n\"He caught me, I was like, 'I got dropped, this is crazy'. I've never been dropped in my life. I had to adjust. I knew I could beat him, I just had to get back up.\"\n\nGarcia is the first man to beat Campbell by stoppage. Shortly after the fight Campbell told Garcia in his dressing room that he punched harder than anyone he had ever faced. The London 2012 Olympic gold medallist then told his Twitter followers that Garcia has a \"massive future ahead\".\n\nThis stoppage win will add to the kind of hype that has led some American broadcasters to suggest Garcia's star status could bring new fans to the sport in the years to come.\n\nThe 1-3 bookmakers' favourite was carried to the ring on a throne while Campbell waited in the ring in Texas.\n\nBut within two rounds a heavy left hook put Garcia on his back and it is to his credit he got up, took the fight to his rival and won rounds in the aftermath.\n\nGarcia had only twice gone past round four, and his last two bouts had lasted less than 180 seconds in total. He carried a fizz in his punches throughout and a left hook-right hand combination in the fifth rocked Campbell and sent him into the ropes as the bell sounded.\n\nIn a contest that ebbed and flowed, Campbell found some poise after a relentless attack from Garcia when the action resumed at the start of the sixth.\n\nBut a round later, Campbell braced for an attack to his head only for Garcia to beautifully drive a left hand to the body that left him on all fours.\n\nGarcia's team raced into the ring, lifted their man and placed a crown on his head.\n\nHis 21st win in as many fights could earn him a world title shot next, or his preferred bout with American Gervonta Davis.\n\nFor now, it has justified the hype and underlined his threat. After the fourth loss of his career, Campbell will need to regroup if he is to attempt to win a world title for the third time.\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "A large poultry flock is to be culled in County Antrim, after an outbreak of bird flu.\n\nThirty thousand birds are to be destroyed as a precautionary measure at the farm near Clough.\n\nIt is the first time the disease has been detected in a commercial flock in Northern Ireland since 1998\n\nThe outbreak affected a business rearing young hens for egg production and it is understood there are other poultry farms in the area.\n\nIt will mean certain movement restrictions in 3km and 10km protection zones around the affected farm, with potential trade implications for other poultry businesses there.\n\nBird flu is a notifiable disease carried by migratory wild birds. It can spread quickly and rapidly causes death in affected flocks.\n\nRestrictions were put in place earlier in the winter in an attempt to prevent transmission to commercial flocks which make up a key part of Northern Ireland's important agri-food industry.\n\nSince 23 December there has been a requirement for all poultry flocks, no matter how small, to be housed.\n\nPublic health advice is that bird flu- or avian influenza - poses a low risk to human health and the Food Standards Agency advises that it does not present a food risk.\n\nPoultry is a £750m a year industry in Northern Ireland which employs 5,000 people. There are around 24 million birds on 650 farms, most of them in counties Tyrone and Antrim.\n\nThe disease has been detected in a number of wild birds in Northern Ireland this winter and in commercial flocks in both Great Britain and in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nIn the short term it will mean no movements on or off poultry farms in the area, with a licensing system being introduced in the coming days.\n\nPoultry products from outside the restricted zone can continue to be traded with EU member states and products from within the zones can be sold on home markets.\n\nOther countries will apply their own rules depending on their assessment of the situation.\n\nNorthern Ireland's chief vet Robert Huey repeated his message for poultry owners to apply rigorous biosecurity measures.\n\n\"Given the level of suspicion and the density of the poultry population around the holding, it is vital that as a matter of precaution, we act now and act fast,\" he said.\n\n\"I have therefore taken the decision to cull the birds as well as introduce temporary control zones around the holding in an effort to protect our poultry industry and stop the spread of the virus.\n\n\"An epidemiological investigation is under way to determine the likely source of infection and determine the risk of disease spread.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Linda Bauld says Scots should be prepared a longer period living with level four restrictions\n\nScotland should be prepared for Covid restrictions to be extended as infection rates continue to rise, a public health expert has said.\n\nThe latest government figures show a further 2,137 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Scotland on Friday.\n\nProf Linda Bauld described it as a \"fragile situation\", despite the rate dropping below Thursday's 2,539 cases.\n\nThe latest figures for hospital admissions and deaths will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned on Friday that the next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid as the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\nDaily confirmed cases reached record highs on the last three days of 2020, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nIt had dropped to 10.8% on Friday. A percentage of lower than 5% is needed to show the virus is under control, according to the WHO.\n\nProf Bauld, a public health expert at the University of Edinburgh, said there were no signs yet that the infection rate was levelling off, having risen suddenly from a daily rate of fewer than 1,000 to more than 2,000 per day in recent days.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It definitely is a fragile situation and you can see that we have more cases than we would expect at the current time.\n\n\"We may be starting to see some of the impacts of the Christmas mixing, but also we know around four in 10 cases, from recent data, are of the new variant.\n\n\"I would imagine that the new variant is playing a role in these higher rates of infection and if these numbers continue to sit at where they are we are going to have more people in hospital in a week or two's time, and that is very worrying.\"\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is under level four restrictions in an attempt to slow down the rate of virus spread\n\nThis would bring \"real challenges\" for hospitals, especially in the central belt, Prof Bauld said, adding that it was \"absolutely imperative that we do not see these number rise more than they are now\".\n\nShe said it would take some time to see the impact of level four restrictions introduced in mainland Scotland on Boxing Day.\n\n\"Mentally we just need to be prepared for the fact that we may be living with the level four restrictions for longer than the Scottish government currently plans,\" Prof Bauld said.\n\nShe said the new, more transmissible coronavirus variant would make it harder to get the R number below one in Scotland and schools may not be able to fully reopen on 18 January.\n\nThe government's education recovery group was preparing with schools for blended learning to go on longer if necessary, she added.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is under level four restrictions in an attempt to slow down the rate of virus spread.\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes that the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe government has described the vaccination programme as a \"light at the end of the tunnel\" and has urged people to stay at home as much as possible in the meantime.", "Hospitals across the UK are being told to prepare to face the same Covid pressures as the NHS in London and south-east England.\n\nSenior doctor Prof Andrew Goddard said the virus's highly infectious new variant was spreading nationwide.\n\nCase numbers were \"mild\" compared with where he expected them to be next week, he said, with doctors \"really worried\".\n\nIt comes as a further 57,725 people have tested positive for Covid - a new daily high.\n\nThis is the fifth day in a row new daily cases have been over 50,000 and brings the total number of cases to 2,599,789.\n\nAnother 445 deaths, of people who had tested positive within the previous 28 days, were reported on Saturday - bringing the total number of deaths to 74,570, according to government figures.\n\nThe UK-wide total for people in hospital with Covid has already passed the spring peak.\n\nHalf of the major hospital trusts in England are said to be dealing with more Covid-19 patients than at the worst point of the first wave in April, with the NHS facing its \"busiest winter ever\".\n\nProf Goddard, of the Royal College of Physicians, told BBC Breakfast: \"There's no doubt that Christmas is going to have a big impact, the new variant is also going to have a big impact, we know that is more infectious, more transmissible, so I think the large numbers that we're seeing in the South East, in London, in south Wales, is now going to be reflected over the next month, two months even, over the rest of the country.\"\n\nHe said: \"It seems very likely that we are going to see more and more cases, wherever people work in the UK, and we need to be prepared for that.\"\n\nPressure has been so great on hospitals in London and south-east England that some patients have been moved out of the area.\n\nLondon's weekly rate of coronavirus cases is 858 per 100,000 people, double the UK figure.\n\nDominic Harrison, director of public health for Blackburn and Darwen, said a decision on a new lockdown had to be decided \"in the next week\" - instead of waiting for the North to get to the same rates as the capital \"and 'call it late' which has been our pattern of response too often\".\n\nThe most recent UK-wide statistics, from 28 December, showed there were 23,823 people in hospital with Covid. That was already significantly higher than the spring peak, which saw 21,683 in hospital on 12 April.\n\nOnly English hospitals have released figures for the final three days of December - and these show that a further 2,302 Covid patients were occupying hospital beds on 31 December.\n\nLondon's Nightingale emergency hospital is ready to admit patients, the NHS has said, while other sites currently not in use are being readied.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nProf Goddard said it was vital the public did not \"let their guard down\" and continued to follow government guidelines, including wearing a face mask, maintaining social distancing and washing hands.\n\n\"Until the vaccination hits and does its job - that's what our best defence is going to be,\" he said.\n\nDr Ami Jones, an intensive care consultant in Wales, told BBC Breakfast that \"hospitals are absolutely bursting\", adding that a quarter of her staff were currently off sick or self-isolating, making managing patients even more challenging.\n\n\"When we see the daily figures - we know that will sting us in about 10-12 days' time in the hospital,\" she said. \"We are not even at day 10 post-Christmas yet and it's already exceedingly busy.\n\n\"We are going to get to the point where we physically don't have the staff to look after people safely anymore.\"\n\nDr Jones also urged the public to \"please just obey the rules\", adding: \"Stop mixing with other households because it is spreading like wildfire - and we haven't got much more space in the hospitals left.\"\n\nDo you work in a hospital? Have you recently been treated in a hospital, or due to be treated? Email your experiences: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRegional restrictions in England are \"probably about to get tougher\" to curb rising Covid infections, the prime minister has warned.\n\nBoris Johnson told the BBC stronger measures may be required in parts of the country in the coming weeks.\n\nHe said this included the possibility of keeping schools closed, although this is not \"something we want to do\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for new England-wide restrictions within 24 hours.\n\nSir Keir said coronavirus was \"clearly out of control\" and it was \"inevitable more schools are going to have to close\".\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the sixth day in a row, with 54,990 announced on Sunday.\n\nAn additional 454 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result have also been reported, meaning the total by this measure is now above 75,000.\n\nSpeaking on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Johnson said he stuck by his previous prediction that the situation would be better by the spring, and he hoped \"tens of millions\" would be vaccinated in the next three months.\n\nBut he added: \"It may be that we need to do things in the next few weeks that will be tougher in many parts of the country. I'm fully, fully reconciled to that.\"\n\n\"And I bet the people of this country are reconciled to that because, until the vaccine really comes on stream in a massive way, we're fighting this virus with the same set of tools.\"\n\nThe PM added that ministers had taken \"every reasonable step that we reasonably could\" to prepare for winter, but \"could not have reasonably predicted\" the new, more transmissible variant of the virus that has emerged over the autumn.\n\nSpeaking after Mr Johnson's interview, Sir Keir said introducing new nationwide restrictions in England \"has to be the first step to controlling the virus\".\n\n\"There's no good the prime minister hinting that further restrictions are coming into place in a week or two or three,\" he told reporters on Sunday. \"That delay has been the source of so many problems.\"\n\n\"Let's not have the prime minister saying 'I'm going to do it, but not yet',\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson defended plans for primary schools to reopen in most of England on Monday, amid opposition from teaching unions and some local councils.\n\nIt came after Amanda Spielman, the head of Ofsted, England's schools watchdog, said closures should be kept to an \"absolute minimum\".\n\nThe rapidly rising infection rates mean it should come as no surprise that tougher measures are being considered.\n\nInfection levels are nearly four times higher now than they were at the start of December - and that in turn has put more pressure on hospitals.\n\nThere are signs the restrictions have started slowing the rises in London, the East of England and the South East.\n\nBut that on its own is not enough. Ministers want to get cases down.\n\nSo what extra can be done? After all most of England is effectively in lockdown already with tier four in place. Those places not in tier four could, of course, follow.\n\nBut some public health experts are warning more needs to be done.\n\nThere is a determination to get primary school children back - they have among the lowest rates of infection if you look at symptomatic cases.\n\nBut infection rates are higher among secondary school age children. The government has bought itself time by delaying their return.\n\nA further 20 million people in England were added to tier four - \"stay at home\" - the toughest set of rules, on 31 December in a bid to stem a surge in Covid cases.\n\nIt means 78% of the population of England is now in tier four, under which non-essential shops are closed and people can only leave their homes for a certain number of reasons.\n\nThe Scottish government will meet on Monday to consider \"further action\" to limit the spread of the disease, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is currently under its own level four restrictions - with only some islands under less stringent tier three measures.\n\nWales entered a nationwide lockdown on 20 December, with First Minister Mark Drakeford saying on Sunday it was \"difficult to see\" how the rules could be strengthened further.\n\nHe said Welsh ministers would consider whether restrictions could be \"tweaked at the margins\" at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown that began on Boxing Day. Stricter measures, including a \"stay-at-home curfew\", ended on Saturday.\n\nIn another development, an academic has said there is a \"big question mark\" over whether a vaccine developed at Oxford University will be as effective against a new variant of the virus that has emerged in South Africa.\n\nProf Sir John Bell, Regius professor of medicine at the university, said the team there were currently investigating this question \"right now\".\n\nHe added it was \"unlikely\" the variant would \"turn off the effect of vaccines entirely,\" and in any case it would be possible to tweak the vaccine in around 4-6 weeks.\n\n\"Everybody should stay calm - it's going to be fine,\" he told Times Radio.\n\n\"But we're now in a game of cat and mouse - because these are not the only two variants we're going to see.\"", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer described Jo Stevens as a \"dear friend and colleague\"\n\nCardiff Central MP Jo Stevens is being treated in hospital for Covid-19.\n\nA statement was released on her Twitter account on Saturday night in which her team thanked people for their good wishes.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer described Ms Stevens as a \"dear friend and colleague\", and wished her well.\n\nOn New Year's Eve, her Twitter account said she had been \"laid low with Covid for a while\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Keir Starmer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Stevens, who is Labour's shadow culture secretary, was elected as an MP in May 2015.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford tweeted: \"All of our thoughts and best wishes are with Jo for a speedy recovery.\n\n\"Thank you to Jo's constituency team for continuing to support Cardiff Central constituents at this difficult time.\"", "The rapidly rising infection rates mean it should come as no surprise that tougher measures are being considered.\n\nInfection levels are nearly four times higher now than they were at the start of December – and that in turn has put more pressure on hospitals.\n\nThere are signs the restrictions have started slowing the rises in London, the East of England and the South East. But that on its own is not enough. Ministers want to get cases down.\n\nSo what extra can be done? After all, most of England is effectively in lockdown already with tier four in place. Those places not in tier four could, of course, follow.\n\nBut many public health experts are warning more needs to be done.That’s why we have seen so much debate about schools in recent days.There is a determination to get primary school children back – they have among the lowest rates of infection if you look at symptomatic cases.\n\nBut infection rates are higher among secondary school-age children. The government has bought itself time by delaying their return.\n\nIt looks like there is going to be a very difficult trade-off that needs to be made between the damage to education and wellbeing of children and the risk of further spread of the virus.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Police said a car which had been parked on a bend in the road in Snowdonia was an \"accident waiting to happen\"\n\nStaff looking after a car park in a Welsh national park have been \"getting abuse\" as crowds continue to gather at popular beauty spots.\n\nA spokeswoman for Snowdonia National Park said the decision to keep car parks open was under \"constant review\".\n\nShe explained closing them could lead to unauthorised parking and would exclude locals with mobility issues.\n\nWales is at alert level four, meaning non-essential travel is banned and exercise must start and finish at home.\n\nOn Saturday, North Wales Police said officers had \"turned away\" people who wanted to walk up Snowdon in breach of stay-at-home rules, including some some from Milton Keynes and London.\n\nA red Honda was towed away at Pen y Pass, near Llanberis, after police said it had been parked unsafely on a bend, in snowy conditions.\n\nAt the start of the first lockdown in March, campsites, caravan parks and tourist hotspots were closed by the Welsh Government after \"unprecedented\" crowds gathered at beauty spots.\n\nThe Welsh Government decided to close beauty spots during the first lockdown after scenes like this at Pen y Gwryd in Snowdonia\n\nSnowdonia National Park Authority said it had chosen not to close its car parks again because the areas remained open to people living nearby.\n\n\"Closing car parks can lead to unauthorised parking on roads, so we are keeping them open at the moment,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"The mountains are open for people to be able to exercise from their front doors. Keeping car parks open allows people with mobility issues to exercise as well.\n\n\"We are working closely with police and Gwynedd council and we are reviewing it constantly.\"\n\nNorth Wales Police say beauty spots have been \"disappointingly busy\" since Christmas\n\nShe said its busiest car park, at Pen y Pass near Snowdon, had been overseen by wardens over the Christmas and New Year period, but in a more educational role than in previous years.\n\n\"Places like Pen y Pass are usually manned anyway but their role has changed slightly. They are getting some abuse, which is a shame,\" she continued.\n\n\"We are adopting a similar approach to police: engaging with people, asking what their plans are then educating them.\n\n\"The majority of the time people are going 'I misunderstood that', or people are saying 'I'm doing what I want anyway'.\"\n\nA breach of Covid rules can incur a £60 fine, which rises to £120 for a second breach.\n\nWales is in an alert level four lockdown\n\nPenny Brockman, of Central Beacons Mountain Rescue Team, called on people to help protect themselves and others, including rescue volunteers, by following government guidelines.\n\n\"It is important for people's well-being to walk, but there are probably lots of wonderful places in their own local areas,\" she added.\n\nSouth Wales Police tweeted a picture of Hamilton the police horse \"staying at home\" in his stable, urging people to be \"more like him\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLeicester City climbed to second in the Premier League as they won a keenly contested encounter with fellow top-four hopefuls Southampton at King Power Stadium.\n\nJames Maddison fired in from a tight angle after 37 minutes, the Foxes midfielder instructing his team-mates to stand back as he performed a socially distanced celebration, before Harvey Barnes added a second deep into second-half stoppage-time.\n\nVictory takes Leicester within one point of leaders Manchester United, who travel to third-placed Liverpool on Sunday, while Southampton are eighth, three points outside the top four.\n• None How Leicester followed guidance on celebrations - and others didn't\n• None Reaction to Leicester v Southampton, plus the rest of Saturday's Premier League action\n\nThe Saints dominated in the opening stages and created the first opening when Che Adams stretched the home defence on the counter-attack, while Leicester's Barnes' powerful drive forced Alex McCarthy into action with the game's first shot after 19 minutes.\n\nThe visitors, without talisman Danny Ings after the striker tested positive for Covid-19 last week, went close to a response through Ryan Bertrand and Will Smallbone either side of half-time but neither could find a way past Kasper Schmeichel.\n\nIn an entertaining conclusion, Stuart Armstrong rattled the Leicester crossbar with an excellent strike from the edge of the penalty area, while Jan Bednarek produced a superb goalline clearance to deny Barnes and the returning McCarthy saved from Jamie Vardy as both sides pushed for a late goal.\n\nIt took Leicester until the 95th minute to seal the three points, Barnes calmly slotting past McCarthy on the break.\n\nLeicester manager Brendan Rodgers challenged his side to \"disrupt the Premier League hierarchy\" after a 2-1 win over Newcastle in their last league outing maintained their top-four hopes.\n\nVictory in this stern test ensured they continue to do just that.\n\nEnjoying their longest unbeaten run of the season, their streak now at six matches in all competitions since defeat by Everton a month ago, Rodgers' side delivered an assured performance to remain firmly in contention at the top.\n\nDespite their lofty position as the halfway stage approaches, Leicester have struggled at home this campaign - their four defeats at King Power Stadium in 2020-21 is as many as they suffered in the entirety of last season.\n\nThough largely frustrated in the early exchanges as the visitors retained possession, Leicester's superior quality in attack eventually ensured that record was improved with Maddison turning sharply to meet Youri Tielemans' through-ball before drilling home.\n\nThe in-form Barnes once again impressed and eventually got the goal his performance deserved to equal his best season tally of 10 after just 24 games.\n\nUnlike last season's post-Christmas collapse, the Foxes are yet to show signs of falling away. Maddison - involved in six of Leicester's last 12 league goals - and Barnes are easing the pressure on Vardy to deliver every week and there appears the strength in depth to better maintain this challenge.\n\nThe only concern for Rodgers at the end of a pleasing night was the sight of Vardy appearing to limp off as he was replaced by Kelechi Iheanacho in the final minutes.\n\nWhen Southampton claimed victory in the corresponding fixture last January, the 2-1 win marked a remarkable short-term recovery from a club-record defeat by the Foxes less than three months earlier.\n\nOne year on, this match served as another reminder of how quickly the Saints are progressing under Ralph Hasenhuttl.\n\nThey were, however, unable to set a club top-flight record of seven consecutive away games without defeat in the absence of frontman Ings. That was despite their relative freshness, having not played for 12 days after their FA Cup tie against Shrewsbury Town was postponed last weekend because of a Covid-19 outbreak at the League One club.\n\nFollowing their impressive 1-0 victory over Liverpool on 4 January, a triumph which left Hasenhuttl with tears in his eyes, Southampton once again applied themselves with commendable determination but ultimately failed to produce in the final third.\n\nAdams ran out of space at the byeline after breaking clear from the halfway line in the game's first opening, and neither Bertrand nor Smallbone were able to place past Schmeichel as the equaliser their hard work perhaps deserved evaded them.\n\nAt the back, Bednarek produced the heroics to keep his side in the game and full-back Kyle Walker-Peters provided a regular outlet on the right, but Southampton, who named four teenagers on their bench because of an injury crisis, have now scored only once in five league games.\n\nThat is an obvious concern for Hasenhuttl as he looks to ensure his side do not fade after their promising start.\n\n'We took social distancing to the letter' - what the managers said\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers told BBC Sport: \"It's a very good win against a good team. We were too passive at the start, we took social distancing to the letter and didn't get close to them. After that we had some sustained attacks and ended up getting a brilliant goal.\n\n\"At half-time we had to reiterate the importance of fighting, you have to fight for every result and Southampton keep going. We were outstanding second half and should have scored more goals. We did the dirty work much better and Harvey Barnes showed again that he is a finisher now.\"\n\nOn Maddison's celebration: \"I said to them there is lots of negativity around it but see it as a positive and be creative. Supporters still want to see players celebrate, the happiness, so be creative with it.\"\n\nSouthampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl said: \"It's never nice to lose a game but we had chances. We hit the bar, we fought with everything we have. We are definitely a team that is never giving up. The quality of the opponent was better than ours today.\n\n\"The first goal, you don't shoot at goal like that every day, it was fantastic from Maddison. We had good chances but we couldn't finish and that was the difference.\n\n\"It doesn't look good at the moment, we have a lot of injuries and not many alternatives. The good news is we have 29 points and they don't take them away from us. We did our best with the options we have. We have nine injured but we are fighting for everything.\"\n• None Leicester earned their first home league victory against Southampton since April 2016, ending a run of four without a win against the Saints at King Power Stadium.\n• None Southampton's first 12 Premier League games in 2020-21 witnessed 41 goals (24 scored) at an average of 3.4 per game. Their past six games have seen just six goals (two scored).\n• None Jamie Vardy had seven shots for Leicester, his highest tally without scoring in a single Premier League match in his career.\n• None Vardy has faced Southampton seven times at home in the Premier League, more than any other side at King Power Stadium without scoring in the competition.\n• None James Maddison scored in consecutive Premier League games for Leicester for the first time since October 2019, matching his goal tally at home from each of the previous two campaigns (three).\n\nBoth sides return to action on Tuesday. Leicester host Chelsea in the Premier League at 20:15 GMT, while Southampton welcome Shrewsbury to St Mary's in their postponed FA Cup third-round tie (20:00).\n• None Goal! Leicester City 2, Southampton 0. Harvey Barnes (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Youri Tielemans following a fast break.\n• None Attempt missed. Stuart Armstrong (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right following a corner.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Marc Albrighton tries a through ball, but Ayoze Pérez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Wilfred Ndidi (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Marc Albrighton.\n• None Attempt saved. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by James Justin.\n• None Attempt missed. Daniel N'Lundulu (Southampton) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Kyle Walker-Peters with a cross.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Timothy Castagne tries a through ball, but Ayoze Pérez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ayoze Pérez with a cross.\n• None Marc Albrighton (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Stuart Armstrong. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Hear how David Bowie always managed to stay ahead of his time\n• None Joe Wicks and guests are here to bring positivity to your day", "Nurseries have stayed open during the latest lockdown, unlike schools\n\nNurseries are \"teetering on the edge\" and will \"find it hard to survive with next-to-no funding\" as children are kept home in lockdown, an owner said.\n\nLittle Stars near Pontypool has seen numbers drop by 35% - and Emma Matthews says nurseries are \"running on empty\".\n\nUnlike schools, they have remained open and an industry association wants support so they are around to \"provide places for children in the future\".\n\nA Welsh Government spokeswoman said funding was available through councils.\n\nDescribing childcare workers as \"front-line\", the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) Cymru also called for anxious staff to be made a priority for the Covid vaccine as they work with little protective equipment.\n\n\"We feel we have poured our heart into serving families and want acknowledgement for the early years and the vital part we play in the community,\" Ms Matthews said.\n\nLittle Stars furloughed some staff during the lockdown last March, with nurseries open for children of keyworkers only.\n\nLittle Stars nursery near Pontypool has seen numbers drop by more than a third\n\nThey reopened fully last summer and this has remained under Welsh Government guidance.\n\nHowever, many parents have decided not to send children - some because they are adhering to stay-at-home rules, are self-isolating, have lost their jobs and are struggling to pay bills, or are on furlough.\n\n\"The reasons are varied and valid why parents decide to pull children out,\" Ms Matthews added.\n\n\"The situation isn't great and some say 'we will wait and see next week'. It's very difficult to formulate a plan then or to furlough. We are teetering on the edge.\"\n\nLittle Stars is down the road from the new Grange hospital that opened in Cwmbran last November\n\nBefore coronavirus, the nursery looked after 65 children each day - but last week, 47 attended, made up of babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers.\n\nThere were also 11 babies due to start in January - but only one is attending because of reasons such as new mothers extending their maternity leave.\n\nMs Matthews believes facilities should be open for children of keyworkers only - allowing nurseries to access support for those not attending.\n\nA baby, a toddler and a staff member from Little Stars had coronavirus - and employees are worried for themselves and their families.\n\nIn Wales eligible children can access 30 hours of early-years education and childcare per week for 48 weeks of the year\n\nThey are unable to wear personal protective equipment because of their close contact with children, and describing workers as \"front-line\" who \"keep the economy going\", Ms Matthews said they should be in the priority group for the vaccine and weekly testing.\n\n\"Social distancing is the challenge,\" she added.\n\n\"Face, space and hands... we can only do hands. The others are impossible.\"\n\nThe facility received a grant of £10,000 at the start of the pandemic and a rate relief grant of £1,000, but Ms Matthews wants more support.\n\n\"It's about valuing the service,\" she said. \"It wasn't a very stable industry pre-Covid. But it's made it very fragile now.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government has been urged to give more help, allowing nurseries to survive and \"provide places for children in the future\" by NDNA Cymru.\n\nIt also said early years staff \"must be a priority for the vaccine to enable them to continue providing support for our youngest children and their families\".\n\nWhile nurseries were closed to all but keyworkers initially, they have been open since summer 2020\n\n\"We all know it's impossible to social distance from toddlers and babies who need close care from nappy changing to the contact and affection that supports their development and learning,\" added chief executive Purnima Tanuku.\n\nA Welsh Government spokeswoman said while the rates of coronavirus in Wales remain high, cases in children under five continue to be relatively low.\n\n\"Childcare providers have worked very hard to ensure settings are safe, with low numbers of children on site,\" she added.\n\nThe spokeswoman said funding is provided to councils, enabling them to help childcare settings experiencing financial difficulties and the Childcare Offer for Wales continues to be in place for all eligible children.\n\n\"We are following the advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation about the people who should be vaccinated first - all those in the priority groups will be immunised as safely and as quickly as possible,\" she added.\n\nMost school children in Wales will learn from home until at least February half-term, unless there is a big drop in Covid cases\n\nChildren's commissioner Sally Holland said she\"empathises with the concerns of staff\" and thanked them for their work \"during an extremely difficult period\".\n\n\"Nurseries play a really important part in young children's wellbeing and development,\" she said.\n\n\"Any services that can remain open for children is to be welcomed due to the importance for their health and wellbeing.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "CBBC star Archie Lyndhurst, the son of Only Fools and Horses actor Nicholas Lyndhurst, died in his sleep from a brain haemorrhage, his mother has said.\n\nLucy Lyndhurst said a second post-mortem exam had revealed his death was caused by a condition called Acute Lymphoblastic Lymphoma/Leukaemia.\n\nShe described Archie as \"the most magical human being we have ever met\".\n\nThe 19-year-old's death on 22 September had had a \"catastrophic effect\" on their family, she wrote on Instagram.\n\nArchie with his father Nicholas and mother Lucy Smith in 2017\n\nLucy said she and husband Nicholas were assured by the doctor who explained the post-mortem results to them that there \"wasn't anything anyone could have done as Archie showed no signs of illness\". She said it was \"not leukaemia as we know it\" and that acute in medical terms meant \"rapid\".\n\nThe couple were \"utterly floored\" to think something like this could happen, she wrote, adding: \"It's very rare and around only 800 people a year die from it.\"\n\nShe said that just days earlier he had been celebrating his birthday with \"the love of his life Nethra\".\n\n\"Life is fragile, precious and sometimes incredibly cruel,\" Lucy wrote.\n\nShe also criticised some media outlets for attempting to garner information about how her son had died from the coroner, before they knew the results of the post mortem themselves.\n\n\"To have a coroner call you a few days after your child has died to say the press have been calling for the results of Archie's post mortem, I think stoops to an all time low for us,\" she noted.\n\n\"What gives the press the right to badger a coroner's office solely to find the cause of death before the parents? The complete lack of empathy is astounding. We released no information at the time as we had no idea what he had died from.\"\n\nNicholas appeared alongside his son in an episode of So Awkward in 2019\n\nArchie began his acting career at the Sylvia Young Theatre School at the age of 10 and was best known for playing Ollie Coulton in the CBBC comedy show So Awkward.\n\nHe appeared in the sitcom, which followed the lives of a group of friends in secondary school, from its first series in 2015.\n\nNicholas appeared alongside his son in a 2019 episode of the programme.\n\nArchie's other roles included recurring appearances as a younger incarnation of comedian Jack Whitehall in various TV programmes.\n\nThese included BBC Three sitcom Bad Education, in which he was seen as a younger version of Whitehall's Alfie Wickers character.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The four main engines were fired in unison for the first time, but had to be shut down early\n\nA critical engine test for Nasa's new \"megarocket\" has ended early, but the agency denied it amounted to a failure.\n\nShortly before 22:30 GMT (17:30 EST) on Saturday, the four engines ignited, burning for more than a minute before the event was aborted.\n\nThe core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) was being evaluated at Stennis Space Center, in Mississippi.\n\nThe engines were supposed to fire for eight minutes to simulate the rocket's climb to orbit.\n\nThe SLS is part of Nasa's Artemis programme, which aims to put Americans back on the lunar surface in the 2020s.\n\nWhen it makes its maiden flight - possibly later this year - the SLS will become the most powerful rocket ever to have flown to space.\n\nTeams at Stennis are still poring over the data to find out what happened. John Honeycutt, SLS program manager at Nasa's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, said there were \"a lot of dynamics going on\" when the engine shut down.\n\nThe engines' power levels were being throttled down and up again; they were also being prepared to pivot - or gimbal. This movement allows the rocket to be steered during flight.\n\nThe RS-25 engines are the same type that powered the space shuttle orbiter\n\n\"We did see a little bit of a flash come from around the interface between the thermal protection blanket on engine four at the time when we had initiated the gimbal,\" Honeycutt told reporters at a post-test briefing at Stennis.\n\nThe as-yet unknown problem triggered what Nasa calls a failure identification (Fid), followed by a major component failure (MCF). As a result of the fault, an onboard computer known as the engine controller sent a message to another computer called the core stage controller, which took a decision to shut down the vehicle.\n\n\"Any parameter that went awry on the engine could have sent that failure ID,\" said John Honeycutt.\n\nIt was the first time all four RS-25 engines had been ignited together, in a test known as a \"hotfire\".\n\nThe core stage of the rocket was anchored to a massive steel structure called the B-2 test stand on the grounds of the Stennis facility.\n\nTo prepare the core stage, engineers filled its tanks with more than 700,000 gallons (2.6 million litres) of super-cold liquid hydrogen and oxygen propellant.\n\nThis was the eighth and final test in the Green Run, a programme of evaluation carried out by engineers from Nasa and Boeing - the rocket's prime contractor.\n\nAlthough the test was intended to run for eight minutes, engineers would have received all the data required to certify the rocket for flight after 250 seconds.\n\nThey wanted to iron out any problems before the core stage is used for the first SLS launch, in which it will send Nasa's next-generation Orion spacecraft on a loop around the Moon.\n\nNasa's outgoing administrator Jim Bridenstine declined to call Saturday's event a failure: \"This is why we test,\" he said, adding: \"Before we put American astronauts on American rockets, that's when we need it to be perfect.\"\n\nOfficials have not yet decided whether to re-run the hotfire, or proceed with shipping the core stage to Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida to prepare it for the rocket's uncrewed maiden flight, a mission called Artemis-1.\n\n\"It depends what the anomaly was and how challenging it's going to be to fix it,\" said Bridenstine.\n\nNasa administrator Jim Bridenstine said perfection wasn't a realistic expectation for the first engine test\n\nAsked whether a launch this year was still feasible, he added: \"I think it's too early to tell. As we figure out what went wrong, we're going to know what the future holds.\"\n\nHowever, if one or more of the engines needs to be replaced, there are spares waiting to be used at Stennis Space Center.\n\nThe Artemis-1 mission will evaluate how both the SLS and Orion capsule perform prior to Nasa staging a repeat of this lunar loop with astronauts in 2023.\n\nThis will be followed by the first landing on the Moon by humans since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.\n\nThe SLS consists of the 65m (212 ft) -long core stage with two smaller solid rocket boosters (SRBs) attached to the sides. Engineers at KSC have begun stacking the individual SRB segments for Artemis-1.\n\n\"This powerful rocket is going to put us in a position to be ready to support the agency and the country in deep space missions to the Moon and beyond,\" John Honeycutt said during a media briefing on Tuesday.\n\nArtwork: The initial version of the SLS - known as Block 1 - during the climb to orbit\n\nOfficials have been planning to ship the core stage to Florida in February.\n\nIts engines are of the same type that powered the spaceplane-like shuttle orbiter - America's crewed space vehicle for 30 years from 1981-2011.\n\nNasa is re-using flown hardware: the RS-25 engines used in this test helped launch 21 shuttle missions. Two were used on the last shuttle flight - STS-135 in 2011.\n\nThe four RS-25s can generate 1.6 million lbs (7 Meganewtons) of thrust - the force that propels a rocket through the air.\n\nWhen the solid rocket boosters are added to the core stage, the combined system will produce 8.8 million pounds (39.1 Meganewtons) of thrust. This will make it 15% more powerful than the giant Saturn V rocket that sent astronauts to the Moon in the 1960s and 70s.\n\nPrior to Saturday's test, John Shannon, vice president and SLS program manager at Boeing praised teams at Stennis for keeping the Green Run on track despite the pandemic and this year's particularly active hurricane season.", "Doctors and nurses need protection from prosecution over Covid-19 treatment decisions made under the pressures of the pandemic, medical bodies have said.\n\nGroups including the British Medical Association have written to ministers saying medical workers fear they could be at risk of unlawful killing charges.\n\nIt comes as the UK's chief medical officers said the NHS could be overwhelmed in weeks.\n\nThe government said staff should not have to fear legal action.\n\nThe letter from the health organisations points out that the prime minister warned in November that the NHS being overwhelmed would be a \"medical and moral disaster\", where \"doctors and nurses could be forced to choose which patients to treat, who would live and who would die\".\n\nIt said: \"With the chief medical officers now determining that there is a material risk of the NHS being overwhelmed within weeks, our members are worried that not only do they face being put in this position but also that they could subsequently be vulnerable to a criminal investigation by the police.\"\n\nCo-ordinated by the Medical Protection Society (MPS), the letter was signed by the British Medical Association, the Doctors' Association UK, the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin and Medical Defence Shield.\n\nIt calls for emergency legislation to protect doctors and nurses from \"inappropriate\" legal action when dealing with circumstances outside their control.\n\nExisting guidance for doctors and nurses on when to administer or withdraw treatment does not give legal protection, the letter says.\n\nIt also says the guidance does not consider the circumstances of the pandemic where demand for healthcare may outstrip supply.\n\n\"The first concern of a doctor is their patients and providing the highest standard of care at all times,\" the medical bodies said.\n\n\"We do not believe it is right that healthcare professionals should suffer from the moral injury and long-term psychological damage that could result from having to make decisions on how limited resources are allocated, while at the same time being left vulnerable to the risk of prosecution for unlawful killing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nThe medical organisations said no healthcare professional should be \"above the law\" and that the emergency legislation should only apply to decisions made \"in good faith\" and \"in circumstances beyond their control and in compliance with relevant guidance\".\n\nThey said the change in the law should be temporary and should apply retrospectively from the start of the pandemic.\n\nMedical staff in the NHS are protected financially from clinical negligence claims by indemnity schemes where the state pays the costs of claims.\n\nBut if someone dies as a result of a lack of treatment, doctors and nurses fear prosecutors could bring charges such as gross negligence manslaughter, which can carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.\n\nEarlier this month, a survey by the MPS of 2,420 of its members found that 61% were concerned about facing an investigation following a decision made in a high-pressure situation.\n\nAbout 36% were concerned about being investigated for a decision to withdraw or withhold life-prolonging treatment due to pressure on resources during the pandemic.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: \"Dedicated frontline NHS staff should be able to focus on treating patients and saving lives during the pandemic without fear of legal action.\"\n\nNHS staff have been told that existing indemnity arrangements will continue and will cover \"the vast majority of liabilities\", the spokesman said.", "Phil Spector pictured in court during his murder trial\n\nUS music producer Phil Spector has died at the age of 81, while serving a prison sentence for murder.\n\nSpector, who transformed pop with his \"wall of sound\" recordings, worked with the Beatles, the Righteous Brothers and Ike and Tina Turner.\n\nIn 2009, he was convicted of the 2003 murder of Hollywood actress Lana Clarkson.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\n\n\"California Health Care Facility inmate Phillip Spector was pronounced deceased of natural causes at 6:35 p.m. on Saturday, January 16, 2021, at an outside hospital. His official cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner in the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office,\" it said.\n\nSpector produced 20 top 40 hits between 1961 and 1965. His production methods influenced major artists including the Beach Boys and Bruce Springsteen.\n\nHis life was ultimately blighted by drug and alcohol addiction, and he all but retired from the music scene during the 1980s and 1990s.\n\nIn February 2003, actress Lana Clarkson was found dead at his house in Alhambra, California with a bullet wound to her head. Clarkson, who was known for her work in the sword-and-sorcery genre and starred in films including Barbarian Queen, had met Spector hours earlier at a nightclub.\n\nSpector claimed the shooting happened when Clarkson \"kissed the gun\" - but his trial heard from four women who claimed Spector had threatened them with guns in the past when they had spurned his advances.\n\nFollowing an initial mistrial, Spector was convicted of second degree murder and given a sentence of 19 years to life.\n\nLana Clarkson was an actress and model who starred in the film 1985 Barbarian Queen\n\nHarvey Phillip Spector was born in New York in 1939, to Russian-Jewish parents. His father killed himself when Spector was a boy, and his mother moved her family to Los Angeles.\n\nHe began his career in his teens as a performer, forming a band - the Teddy Bears - with three high school friends. They had a hit single in 1958 with a song that took its title from the wording on his father's gravestone: \"To know him is to love him.\"\n\nThe record went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, but the group split the following year.\n\nSpector founded his own record label, Philles, in 1961. He produced high-profile 1960s girl groups such as Crystals and the Ronettes, including on 1963 hits Be My Baby and Baby I Love You.\n\nHe also worked on The Righteous Brothers' hits You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' and Unchained Melody.\n\nSpector produced hits for The Ronettes, later marrying their lead singer Ronnie Bennett\n\nHis signature production technique, the \"Wall of Sound,\" involved layering several instruments, including strings, woodwind and brass, to give a lush, orchestral sound.\n\nIn the early 1970s, Spector collaborated with The Beatles on their final album Let It Be, as well as producing John Lennon's solo album Imagine.\n\nAs the decade progressed, the much-feted producer became reclusive and disturbing accounts of his behaviour became widespread. Spector is said to have held a gun to singer Leonard Cohen's head during sessions for his album Death of a Ladies' Man.\n\nRonettes lead singer Veronica \"Ronnie\" Bennett, who became Spector's second wife and divorced him in 1974, wrote in her 1990 autobiography that he subjected her to years of horrific abuse. She said he had threatened to kill her and display her body in a glass-topped coffin he kept in her basement.\n\n\"I can only say that when I left in the early '70s, I knew that if I didn't leave at that time, I was going to die there,\" Ronnie wrote of the time.\n\nWriting on Instagram after her ex-husband's death, Ronnie Spector said he had been \"a brilliant producer but a lousy husband\".\n\n\"When I was working with Phil Spector, watching him create in the recording studio, I knew I was working with the very best,\" she wrote. \"He was in complete control, directing everyone. So much to love about those days.\n\n\"Meeting him and falling in love was like a fairytale,\" she continued. \"The magical music we were able to make together was inspired by our love. I loved him madly, and gave my heart and soul to him.\n\n\"Unfortunately Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio. Darkness set in, many lives were damaged.\"\n\nSinger Darlene Love, who sang on several songs Spector produced, said he \"changed the sound of rock 'n' roll\" but likened their relationship to \"a bad marriage\".\n\n\"The problem I have with Phil is that he wanted to control Darlene Love's talent,\" she told Variety. \"If he couldn't do that, he was going to do everything in his power to keep my talent from shining.\"\n\nWeeks before Lana Clarkson was shot dead, Spector gave a rare interview to British broadsheet The Telegraph.\n\n\"I would say I'm probably relatively insane, to an extent,\" he told the paper, adding that he had \"devils inside that fight me\".\n\nResponding to news of the producer's death, Blondie guitarist Chris Stein tweeted: \"When we went to Phil Spector's house in the 70s he came to the door holding a bottle of diet Manischewitz wine in one hand and a presumably loaded 45 automatic in the other. Long story.", "The man from Luton was fined £200 for travelling to Devizes and also had his car seized for having no insurance\n\nA man told police he had driven from Luton to Devizes to visit a McDonald's, even though the town does not have a branch of the burger chain.\n\nWiltshire Police called his actions a \"flagrant breach\" of lockdown regulations and fined the man £200.\n\nThe 34-year-old was stopped on Estcourt Street in Devizes, a distance of more than 100 miles (160km) from Luton.\n\nHis car was also seized for having no insurance, police added.\n\n\"The distance travelled across numerous counties to Devizes, which doesn't have a McDonald's restaurant, is a flagrant breach of the regulations currently in place.\n\n\"The majority of people across Wiltshire continue to act responsibly and we thank you for that, however, it is important to protect the NHS that we all stick to the rules,\" said police.\n\nThe man was stopped on Thursday evening.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Louis Godwin said receiving the vaccine was \"no trouble at all\" and encouraged others to have it as soon as they could\n\nSalisbury Cathedral has been transformed into a vaccination centre with an RAF veteran being one of the first to receive the Covid-19 jab.\n\nFormer Flight Sergeant Louis Godwin, 95, gave a thumbs-up after being vaccinated in the cathedral, which dates back more than 800 years.\n\n\"I was so pleased to get it, especially in a setting like this,\" he said.\n\nOrganisers were aiming to vaccinate 1,000 people aged over 80 with the Pfizer/BioNTech jab on Saturday.\n\nPeople queuing to receive their vaccines at Salisbury Cathedral on Saturday\n\nMr Godwin, a great-grandfather of 12, joined the RAF aged 18 in 1943 and served as an air gunner during World War Two.\n\n\"I've had many jabs in my time, especially in the RAF. After the war, I was sent to Egypt and I had a couple of jabs which knocked me over for a week,\" he said.\n\n\"This one, the doctor said to me 'well that's done' and I thought he hadn't started. So it's no trouble at all and no pain.\"\n\nA health worker prepares the vaccine to be administered at the cathedral\n\nStella Bennett, 88, said she felt \"safer\" after receiving the jab.\n\n\"It was easy. I live on my own so it has been hard but I've managed. At least I'm at home and not in hospital with it,\" she said.\n\nDerek Burnett was also among those inoculated against the virus on Saturday.\n\n\"I feel unbelievably relieved as lockdown has been a big strain. It takes a big weight off my mind,\" said the 81-year-old.\n\nOrganisers hoped to vaccinate 1,000 people aged over 80 during the day\n\nThe Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury described the vaccines as \"a real sign of hope for us at the end of this very, very difficult year\".\n\n\"I doubt that anyone is having a jab in surroundings that are more beautiful than this so I hope it will ease people as they come into the building,\" he said.\n\nThe Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury, described hosting the event as \"absolutely wonderful\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The French government has imposed a nationwide curfew from 6pm - 6am to fight the surge in cases of coronavirus.\n\nWhile some departments were already under these restrictions, the majority of France was under an 8pm - 6am curfew.\n\nFrench Prime Minister Jean Castex said the measures would be in place for at least 15 days.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United \"missed an opportunity\" to beat Liverpool, said boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after his side stayed top of the Premier League with a goalless draw against the champions.\n\nIt was a game that failed to justify the pre-match anticipation and Solskjaer will know his side had the better chances to claim a statement victory at Anfield.\n\nLiverpool, without a recognised centre-back and with midfielders Jordan Henderson and Fabinho in defence, dominated possession in the first half but it was United who came closest when Bruno Fernandes' 20-yard free-kick curled inches wide.\n\nFernandes was then thwarted after the break by the outstretched leg of Liverpool keeper Alisson before Thiago Alcantara's long-range effort finally brought the previously unemployed David de Gea into action.\n\nAlisson was Liverpool's hero late on when he blocked Paul Pogba's drive from point-blank range.\n\n\"It was an opportunity missed with the chances we had but then again we were playing a very good side.\" Solskjaer told BBC Sport. \"I'm disappointed but, still, a point is OK if you win the next one.\n\n\"We have improved and progressed. It's not just the result we're disappointed with, it's some of the performance. I know these boys can play better.\"\n\nUnited are now two points ahead of Manchester City, who moved up to second by beating Crystal Palace 4-0, and Leicester City in third. Liverpool, who have scored just one goal in their past four league games, have dropped to fourth, a point behind the Foxes.\n\n\"The performance was good enough to win it but to win a game you have to score goals and we didn't do that, so that's why we had that result,\" said Reds boss Jurgen Klopp.\n\n\"We try not to not score. We obviously have to ignore the fact and hope it will be good again.\"\n• None 'From dejection to frustration in 12 months, Anfield draw underlines Man Utd progress'\n• None Lawro's predictions v You Me At Six drummer Dan Flint\n\nKlopp cut a frustrated figure pretty much from the first whistle, his voice booming around Anfield with a tone of displeasure, showing unhappiness with his own players and officials.\n\nThe German's team, so used to steamrollering all before them in recent times, are going through a very dry spell and barely created an opening worthy of the name here against a resolute Manchester United defence.\n\nToo often, Liverpool's approach play ended with a careless pass or an aimless cross and the longer this game went on the more United looked the most likely winners.\n\nIt was perhaps inevitable Liverpool would be unable to maintain their relentless style, but there will be concerns they have now gone four league games without a win since Crystal Palace were demolished 7-0 at Selhurst Park.\n\nBefore this draw, West Bromwich Albion left Anfield with a point, while Liverpool also had a goalless draw at Newcastle United and lost at Southampton.\n\nSadio Mane and Mohamed Salah are feeding off scraps, while Roberto Firmino's impact was so minimal that he was withdrawn near the end, even with the hosts chasing a goal.\n\nA team as good as Liverpool will not remain off the boil for too long, but there is no doubt they are struggling for form and spark. The fact this is their longest barren sequence in the league since February and March 2005 tells the tale.\n\nManchester United may have a taken a point before this game and there will be justified satisfaction that they subdued Liverpool so completely, created the game's best chances and remain top of the table.\n\nAnd yet there must also be disappointment that they could not cash in completely on an off-colour Liverpool, with reality dawning on them very late that they could take all three points.\n\nFernandes, despite being poor in general, almost unlocked Liverpool twice, while Solskjaer and his backroom team threw their hands up in frustration as other good positions were wasted late on.\n\nIn the final reckoning, however, there will be few complaints at this outcome, which leaves them three points ahead of Liverpool with the visit to Anfield negotiated without mishap.\n\nUnited were well organised and grew into the game after a poor opening half-hour and had real defensive heroes in captain Harry Maguire and left-back Luke Shaw, with the latter particularly outstanding.\n\nIt is a display that will give them increased confidence and belief as they lead the pack - although they might just look back and think a point could so easily have been three.\n\n'It was an opportunity missed' - reaction\n\nManchester United manager Solskjaer said: \"They are a good side and they have some injury problems but we didn't pounce on that.\n\n\"I felt we grew into the game and got stronger and stronger and were closer to winning.\n\n\"We were a bit disappointed in the performance, not just the result. We didn't do well enough to cause them problems in the first half but we defended well and they didn't create too many chances.\"But I think everyone was a bit disappointed with the way we started the game but that is a good feeling to have - that we were disappointed in the performance.\"\n\nLiverpool boss Klopp told BBC Sport: \"The performance was good and the first half was exceptionally good.\n\n\"With all the things that were said before the game - United are flying and we were struggling - and then to play this kind of game, I was happy with that.\n\n\"We tried in the second half again, but you cannot deny United over 90 minutes, not with the counter-attacking threat they have. So they had two really good chances, I have to say, but we had our chances in the second half as well.\n\n\"The way we understood the game, the way we felt the game, the way we read the moments were really good. But it is not exactly how it should be so we have space for improvement, absolutely. We will keep working on that.\"\n• None Liverpool and Manchester United have drawn 0-0 at Anfield in the league three times in the past five seasons, as many times as in the previous 48 top-flight campaigns.\n• None United are unbeaten in their past 16 away matches in the Premier League (W12 D4) - only once have they gone longer without a defeat on the road in the competition (17 games ending in September 1999).\n• None Liverpool are now unbeaten in their past 68 league games at Anfield, earning 178 out of a possible 204 points over this run.\n• None United are the first side to stop Liverpool scoring at Anfield in a Premier League match since Manchester City in October 2018 - this was Liverpool's 43rd home league game since then.\n• None Under Klopp, Liverpool are unbeaten in all seven of their Premier League games at Anfield when facing the side starting the day top of the table (W3 D4).\n• None Marcus Rashford was caught offside five times in this match, the most of any Premier League player this season and the most by a United player since Robin van Persie (six) against Spurs in January 2013.\n\nUnited are at Fulham in the league on Wednesday (20:15 GMT) and Liverpool host Burnley on Thursday (20:00). Next Sunday, Manchester United and Liverpool will meet again - at Old Trafford this time - in the FA Cup fourth round, a match you can watch live on BBC One and the BBC Sport website.\n• None Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Curtis Jones (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Paul Pogba tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Luke Shaw with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Thiago (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Georginio Wijnaldum. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Missed all the goals, highlights and talking points from Saturday's Premier League action? Match of the Day is streaming now", "Chris Cramer, a major figure in BBC News and later CNN International, has died at the age of 73 after a period of ill health. Former BBC director of news Richard Sambrook looks back at his life.\n\nChris Cramer's legacy will be the major change in attitudes and support for journalist safety he championed through the BBC and across the wider industry, as well as many achievements in newsgathering and international news.\n\nHe began his career as a teenager on the Portsmouth Evening News, moving to BBC Radio Solent when it launched in 1970.\n\nAfter a year's secondment in Brunei he found his way to the BBC TV Newsroom in the 1970s and developed his reputation as a highly competitive and effective news editor and field producer.\n\nIn 1980 he and a BBC team were in the Iranian Embassy in London collecting visas when it was seized by gunmen opposed to Ayatollah Khomeini. A standoff and siege followed, with Chris among 26 hostages.\n\nHe managed to feign serious illness and was released by the gunmen allowing him to give vital information to the authorities before the SAS stormed the embassy and rescued the hostages.\n\nAt a time when no-one understood or spoke of PTSD, it had a marked effect on his life.\n\nArmed police on the adjoining balcony to the Iranian Embassy during the siege in 1980\n\nMany journalists and crew subsequently spoke of his care and attention when they had difficult experiences and he went on to drive major changes in understanding and support for journalists' safety.\n\nWith BBC Safety manager Peter Hunter, Chris introduced the first hostile environment training courses, risk assessments and equipment for those covering conflicts.\n\nFormer correspondent Martin Bell recalls: \"From Vietnam to Croatia I had covered 10 wars without protection. Then in June 1992 we were shot up crossing the airport runway in Sarajevo in a soft-skinned vehicle. Within two weeks Chris had procured our first armoured Land Rover, the redoubtable 'Miss Piggy', and the body armour to go with it.\"\n\nHe later introduced the first confidential counselling service for news teams, recognising PTSD, and helped found the International News Safety Institute, which spearheaded safety across the news industry.\n\nDuring the 1980s he was at the forefront of organising and overseeing major news coverage, including Michael Buerk's reporting from the Ethiopian famine, coverage of the IRA Brighton bomb attack on the British government, the Zeebrugge ferry disaster, Kate Adie's reporting from Tiananmen Square, the fall of eastern Europe, the first Gulf War and many more major events.\n\nHis fierce competitiveness delivered a series of major exclusives and awards for BBC News.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Bowen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn the 1990s he oversaw major investment in BBC Newsgathering and the integration of radio and TV reporting - often against internal resistance. His managerial style could be uncompromising and tough, but he was also bitingly funny, shrewd and his hard exterior hid a warm-hearted and generous core.\n\nHe was crucial to establishing the integrated News division as it exists today.\n\nIn 1996 he left the BBC to move to Atlanta as managing director and executive vice-president of CNN International.\n\nThere he took his passion for news safety and his competitive news edge to develop the network into a greater global force.\n\nAs his former BBC and CNN colleague Tony Maddox has said: \"Among his many accomplishments Chris was a pioneer and innovator in field safety for journalists. He led the development of guidelines and practices now widely adopted across the industry.\"\n\nCramer moved to CNN after his time with the BBC\n\nHe was a larger-than-life figure who generated affection and respect in equal measure, often wielding a rapid and disarming wit.\n\nHe is also remembered for supporting women into senior and executive positions and helping them succeed.\n\nDirector of BBC News Fran Unsworth recalls: \"He was one of journalism's enormous characters and a legend in the television news industry. But the legend and the reported image always belied the man.\n\n\"He was immensely kind, thoughtful and caring underneath that image he sometimes projected.\"\n\nFormer deputy director general Mark Byford said: \"He was probably the greatest newsgathering executive ever in the broadcast news business and his organisational skills, competitiveness, eye for a story and steel were extraordinary.\n\n\"He was also, behind the facade, a gentle giant who cared for his people with amazing passion and love.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by John Simpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Many editors, correspondents and presenters in BBC News owe their success to his mentorship - myself included.\"\n\nAfter 11 years he left CNN and took up roles first with Reuters TV and then the Wall Street Journal, where his experience and expertise were used to develop their digital video services.\n\nHe leaves his wife, Nina, son Richard and daughter Nicolette and his daughter Hannah by an earlier marriage to Helen, a former BBC producer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BMA Scotland GP chief says doctors \"can't plan\" for vaccines\n\nDoctors leaders say the \"patchy supply\" of vaccine to GP surgeries across Scotland is hampering the speed of delivery to patients.\n\nMinisters have pledged a first dose of the vaccine to 1.4 million of the most vulnerable Scots by mid-February.\n\nBut the British Medical Association in Scotland said inconsistencies in supply made it difficult to plan patient appointments to receive the vaccine.\n\nThey also said some GP surgeries had yet to receive any vaccine at all.\n\nThe Scottish government said it was working with health boards to resolve the issues.\n\nCurrently, about 16,000 vaccinations a day are being carried out in Scotland. However, that is expected to rise significantly as efforts to deliver the vaccine are scaled up.\n\nOn Sunday, 1,341 new cases of Covid-19 were reported - the lowest daily figure since 28 December. However, the numbers being admitted to hospital have continued to rise, reaching 1,918.\n\nNo new deaths were registered.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman has pledged that the workforce and infrastructure will be in place to vaccinate 400,000 people each week by the end of February.\n\nThe government has already announced plans for large vaccination centres in Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh.\n\nIt comes after more than 5,000 front-line health and care staff were vaccinated at the NHS Louisa Jordan in Glasgow on Saturday.\n\nGP practices across Scotland are currently providing vaccination services to those aged over 80.\n\nAbout 16,000 vaccinations are currently being carried out a day in Scotland\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Politics Scotland programme, Dr Andrew Buist, who chairs the British Medical Association's (BMA) GP committee in Scotland, said there was inconsistencies across the GP network.\n\nHe said the vaccine deployment plan was \"ambitious\" and so far \"good progress\" had been made in giving it to priority groups such as care homes residents and front-line health staff.\n\nHowever, he told the programme: \"The current problem lies with the next priority group, which is the 80-plus group, which GPs in Scotland are set to vaccinate because the supply of the vaccine so far has been quite patchy.\n\n\"Some practices have a good supply, some have had none so far.\"\n\nHe said his practice had received 100 doses of the vaccine for 600 patients over the age of 80, who all needed to be vaccinated by 5 February.\n\nHe added: \"I then have to do another 1,200 patients in the 70-plus group and the extremely clinically vulnerable by the middle of February, so we need to do 1,700 vaccines in the next four weeks.\n\n\"Now we can do that. We are used to providing large number of flu vaccinations and it is possible, we have our workforce in place, but we need the vaccine, otherwise we can't do it.\"\n\nWhen asked if his practice was running out of vaccine at the end of each day, Dr Buist said: \"Yes - we can't plan, that's the key thing. We can't send out appointments to patients until we're sure we have the vaccine in our fridge.\n\n\"We were given 100 doses on Monday. We used that all up by Friday. We don't want to send out appointments to patients until we know that we can definitively vaccinate them otherwise patients get very upset.\"\n\nVaccinators have reported being able to extract one additional dose from vaccine vials\n\nDr Buist said vaccinators were regularly managing to extract higher numbers of doses from vaccine vials despite claims that some doses were being wasted.\n\nHe said there was widespread experience of six doses being extracted from Pfizer vaccine vials, which were marketed as having five doses, while 11 doses were regularly being taken from AstraZeneca vials.\n\nBut Dr Buist criticised issues around the red tape some retired health professional had faced when volunteering to become vaccinators.\n\n\"I have reports that arrangement to get doctors and nurses back into the system have been quite bureaucratic and I think it's something we need to look at.\"\n\nThe Scottish government acknowledged that there had been delays in vaccine supplies reaching some GP surgeries.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"GPs have a significant role to play in delivering the vaccine - and we thank them for their hard work and patience as we roll out more vaccines to those in the communities.\n\n\"We know there have been some initial delays in supply reaching some practices and are working with health boards to resolve this. Vaccines are being manufactured as quickly as possible and we will continue to explore all options available to increase supply.\"\n\nThe government said health boards were providing order information for their GP practices to National Procurement who in turn advised the distribution partner.\n\nThe spokeswoman added: \"Once stock is released for ordering, the distribution partner inputs the GP orders on to their ordering system. Once the order has been placed, GP practices will receive an automated email providing an indication of the delivery day.\n\n\"We too want to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible and are continually working hard to see if distribution can be made faster in any respect.\"", "Hospitals are preparing for the expected peak of the latest Covid-19 surge this week, the Northern Trust's chief executive has said.\n\nJennifer Welsh said there was \"huge pressure across the (healthcare) system\" with more intensive care admissions expected.\n\nThirty patients were awaiting admission to Antrim Area Hospital on Sunday morning, she said.\n\nThere were 25 more deaths linked to Covid-19 reported in NI on Sunday.\n\nThe total number of deaths recorded by the Department of Health since the start of the pandemic is now 1,606.\n\nIt was also reported that there had been 822 more positive cases, with 67 people in intensive care and 50 people on ventilators.\n\nThere are 840 patients being treated for Covid- 19 across Northern Ireland, according to the latest available figures with hospitals working at 93% capacity.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland has been continuing its vaccination programme having distributed 140,559 first doses and 20,174 second doses.\n\nThe total number of jabs administered in the UK, including both first and second doses, is 4,307,002 according to government data.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Sunday, there were 13 further deaths related to Covid-19, bringing the total number to 2,608 since the start of the pandemic.\n\nThere was also a further 2,944 positive cases, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 172,726.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan said the situation in the country's hospitals was \"stark\" and that people of all ages were being admitted and taken into intensive care.\n\nAt the beginning of January, Health Minister Robin Swann said that modelling indicated the \"peak of the third surge\" would hit in the third week of January.\n\nFrontline health staff have spoken to BBC News NI about their \"exhaustion\" and stress, as the pressure on the system continues to increase amid the surging number of cases.\n\nNorthern Ireland is currently in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nNorthern Trust chief executive Jennifer Welsh said hospitals were \"coping but at great cost\"\n\nMs Welsh told BBC NI's Sunday Politics programme that the \"ICU surge is yet to come\" and that the Northern Trust - where two major hospitals, Antrim Area and Causeway, are located - has had to redeploy staff to prepare for the coming days.\n\nShe said both hospitals had been \"under significant pressure and have been for some time\".\n\nShe said 30 patients in Antrim Area's Emergency Department are waiting on a bed after a decision was made to admit them - 24 of those patients have been waiting longer than 12 hours.\n\nMs Welsh added that almost half of all patients in Antrim Area Hospital have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\n\"At the peak of the first wave in Antrim and Causeway the highest number of Covid positive patients was 73.\n\n\"In November, the highest number was 102 and we peaked on Thursday at 202. We have now dropped below that slightly.\"\n\nThe chief executive said the hospitals were \"coping but at great cost\", with many urgent surgeries cancelled.\n\n\"Emergency surgery is being done but we are not being able to do any other in the Antrim Area site.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by bbctheview This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We have been able to deliver some red flag cancer surgery at Causeway but we would like to do more.\"\n\nDespite these emergency measures already in place, the worst of the current surge is only expected to arrive this week.\n\nShe added: \"We are not going to get out of this quickly. It's going to be a challenge for us as a system.\n\n\"It's been building from October.\"\n\n\"We're not yet at the peak of intensive care admissions and we expect that this week.\n\n\"Antrim has doubled its intensive care beds from seven to 14 in anticipation of the coming surge - 11 are already being used.\n\n\"All hospitals have doubled their ICU footprint. There are more than 160 inpatients in Antrim Area Hospital.\"", "Within seconds of being dropped, LauncherOne had ignited its engine\n\nSir Richard Branson's rocket company Virgin Orbit has succeeded in putting its first satellites in space.\n\nTen payloads in total were lofted on the same rocket, which was launched from under the wing of one of the entrepreneur's old 747 jumbos.\n\nSir Richard is hoping to tap into what is a growing market for small, lower-cost satellites.\n\nBy using a jet plane as the launch platform, he can theoretically send up spacecraft from anywhere in the world.\n\nIn reality, of course, his Virgin Orbit system has to be licensed in the locality where it is used, which at the moment is solely California. But there are well-advanced plans to bring the 747 and its rockets to Cornwall in south-west England, for example.\n\nSunday's success was a big fillip for Sir Richard's team who had tried and failed to launch a rocket in May last year. That effort was thwarted by a breached propellant line feeding liquid oxygen to the booster's first-stage Newton-3 engine.\n\nNo such problems occurred this time.\n\nThe modified 747, named Cosmic Girl, left its base in California's Mojave desert at 10:50 PST (18:50 UTC) to fly out over the Pacific Ocean.\n\nA little under 60 minutes later, and cruising at 35,000ft (10,500m), the jet banked hard to the right, dropping as it did so the 21m-long rocket that had been clamped to its underside.\n\nWithin seconds this booster, called LauncherOne, had ignited its engine and was climbing to space.\n\nCorrect deployment of the various spacecraft onboard at an altitude of roughly 500km was confirmed a couple of hours later.\n\n\"A new gateway to space has just sprung open,\" said Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart. \"That LauncherOne was able to successfully reach orbit today is a testament to this team's talent, precision, drive, and ingenuity.\"\n\nSir Richard has been trying to find the right solution to get into the satellite launch business since 2009. His concrete proposal was first put before the public at the Farnborough International Air Show three years later.\n\nThere is an emerging market for small, lower-cost spacecraft, whose developers are seeking more flexible and affordable ways of getting their assets above the Earth.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVirgin Orbit is one of a number of companies now racing to meet this demand. Other contenders include the Rocket Lab outfit, which sends up its vehicles from a ground launch pad in New Zealand. But there are tens of other small rocket start-ups at various stages of maturation, and some of these plan to operate from the UK as well.\n\n\"Virgin Orbit has achieved something many thought impossible. It was so inspiring to see our specially adapted Virgin Atlantic 747, Cosmic Girl, send the LauncherOne rocket soaring into orbit,\" Sir Richard said.\n\n\"This magnificent flight is the culmination of many years of hard work and will also unleash a whole new generation of innovators on the path to orbit. I can't wait to see the incredible missions Dan and the team will launch to change the world for good.\"\n\nSir Richard presented the LauncherOne concept at Farnborough in 2012\n\nWill Whitehorn is the president of UKSpace, the trade body representing the space industry in Britain. He's also a former president of Virgin Galactic, Sir Richard's other space company which hopes soon to start flying fare-paying passengers above the atmosphere in a rocket plane.\n\nHe said Virgin Orbit's success on Sunday was hugely significant.\n\n\"This is a momentous day for the small satellite world, as we will be able to launch satellites responsively; and for the UK this event promises sovereign launch capability very soon,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"I plan to push hard for a launch from Cornwall to coincide with the G7 meeting this year if at all possible!\"\n\nSunday's payloads were mostly shoebox-sized and developed by universities\n\nThe air-launched system has the flexibility to operate anywhere - in theory", "Northern Ireland's statistics agency has recorded its highest weekly Covid-19 related registered deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nNisra said 145 deaths were registered in the first week of 2021, although administrative delays over Christmas may have affected the number.\n\nThat brings the agency's death toll to 1,976 by 8 January.\n\nThe figures come as the chief medical officers from NI and the Republic issued a joint stay-at-home plea.\n\nDr Michael McBride and Dr Tony Holohan said they were \"gravely concerned\" about the \"unsustainably high level of Covid-19 infection\" across the island of Ireland.\n\nConcern was raised in the Republic of Ireland this week as figures showed it has the world's highest number of confirmed new Covid-19 cases per million people.\n\nOn Friday evening, the Irish Department of Health reported 50 further deaths with Covid-19 and 3,498 new cases of the virus. More than half (54%) of those newly diagnosed are under the age of 45.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nOf the 2,019 deaths recorded by Nisra by 8 January, 1,247 (62%) occurred in hospital, 622 (31%) in care homes, 12 (0.6%) in hospices and 138 (7%) at residential addresses or other locations.\n\nPeople aged 75 and over account for just over three-quarters of all Covid-19 related registered deaths (77.6%) between 19 March 2020 and 8 January 2021.\n\nJust over a fifth (22.2%) of all Covid-19 related registered deaths have been of people with an address in the Belfast council area.\n\nMeanwhile, the Department of Health reported 26 further Covid-related deaths on Friday.\n\nFive of these deaths did not occur in the past 24 hours.\n\nThe Department of Health bases its figures on a positive test result being recorded, whereas Nisra figures are based on mentions of the virus on death certificates, so people may or may not have been confirmed to have contracted the virus prior to death.\n\nA further 1,052 individuals have tested positive for Covid-19 and 63 patients are being treated in intensive care units, 47 of whom are on ventilators.\n\nThe chief medical officers warned the high infection rate was having a \"significant impact\" on the health of the population and the \"safe functioning\" of the healthcare systems.\n\nThey said the public should avoid all unnecessary journeys, including cross-border travel.\n\nPointing out that many of the patients admitted to hospital in January have been younger than 65, they warned coronavirus could affect anyone, \"regardless of age or underlying condition\".\n\n\"It highlights the need for us all to protect one another by staying at home,\" said the medical officers.\n\nNorthern Ireland's spike in infections has been put down to an easing of restrictions over Christmas.\n\nAsked if he regretted being part of the decision to ease restrictions, Health Minister Robin Swann said the executive had tried to be balanced in its approach.\n\n\"I regret the pressures we see now in our hospitals, but let's remember it's caused by this virus, we have it in our power to bring it back under control and get us back to where we were in the summer,\" he told BBC News NI on Friday.\n\nMr Swann pleaded with people to follow the current restrictions.\n\n\"We're in the middle of a very tough six-week scenario, and how we come out of this will be a more graduated approach to make sure we get the benefits of what we've already done, and also the benefits of the vaccine.\"", "Sara Powell-Davies said she was lucky her nursery was able to open following lockdown\n\nA mother with two young children has said it was \"incredibly stressful\" trying to manage without free childcare during lockdown.\n\nThe Welsh Government's scheme was suspended in April, with funds redirected to pay for childcare for key workers' children.\n\nNow the offer, available to working parents of three and four-year-olds, has been reinstated.\n\nBut there are concerns many nurseries have been operating at a loss.\n\nWorking parents of three and four-year-old children are able to claim up 30 hours of early-years education and childcare a week for 48 weeks a year under the Childcare Offer for Wales.\n\nThose whose children become eligible in the autumn term, can apply from September.\n\nSara Powell-Davies, from Caerphilly, said it had been really hard to manage without the help during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe mother to three-year-old Tirion and one-year-old Cadel said the free childcare saved the family about £200 a month.\n\n\"It does make a massive difference to our finances every month,\" she said.\n\nMrs Powell-Davies said, while she was lucky Cadel's nursery was open, after-school clubs would not run in September due to the coronavirus pandemic, which would make juggling childcare around work a challenge.\n\n\"It's incredibly stressful trying to manage this anyway,\" she said.\n\n\"We do rely on support like private nursery provision, after-school care [and] wraparound because we don't have any family that is able to support us.\n\n\"So, this is our lifeline.\"\n\nChildcare Offer for Wales gives those eligible 30 hours of early-years education and childcare per week for 48 weeks of the year\n\nChildcare providers are paid £4.50 per hour for every child who takes up a place through the childcare offer.\n\nBut the National Day Nurseries Association said many of its members were operating at a loss as fewer children had been attending and costs had gone up to comply with Covid-19 safety regulations.\n\nIts chief executive Purnima Tanuku called on the Welsh Government to set up a \"transformation fund to be able to support the sector until occupancy levels pick up and to really review the hourly rate to reflect the additional cost they've had to incur\".\n\nLyn Bourne, of Britannia Day Nursery, said nurseries were a \"forgotten industry\"\n\nBefore the coronavirus pandemic, around 70 children attended Britannia Day Nursery in Caerphilly - now there are about 40.\n\nOwner Lyn Bourne said the nursery was losing money every week, but was determined to keep going.\"It is hard financially and emotionally, but we decided we wanted to keep going so we've just done our best to do that,\" she said.Ms Bourne said she hoped the childcare offer would help some parents to bring children back, but said nurseries needed extra financial help from the government too.\"Nurseries are closing every week,\" she said.\"We seem to be a forgotten industry, but we're so important.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government confirmed that coronavirus guidance restricting children to groups of eight in childcare would be lifted.\n\nDeputy Minister for Social Care Julie Morgan said: \"Bringing the offer back will not only help parents, but it is crucial for providers too in supporting their businesses to recover after what has been a period of great uncertainty and anxiety for many.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said the hourly rate was under review and it was considering extending the offer to parents in education or training or \"on the cusp\" of returning to work.\n\nHe added: \"The childcare offer being restarted funded childcare for an average of 13,000 children per month before the pandemic, a significant investment in the Welsh childcare sector.\n\n\"We have also relaxed some of the regulatory requirements on childcare settings in the national minimum standards to make it easier for them to operate under the current restrictions.\"", "Women selling clothes online are being sent explicit messages, with requests for sex and \"worn\" garments.\n\nBoth businesses and private individuals have experienced the problem when advertising on mainstream platforms.\n\nWomen have been sent '\"creepy\" messages on Facebook, Instagram, eBay, and Depop, the BBC has learned.\n\nSome were asked for additional items including worn tights, explicit photos and used underwear.\n\nWhen inappropriate profiles were blocked or reported, some would reappear with a different account, sources told the BBC.\n\n\"During lockdown, the messages have gotten really creepy,\" said Sara Faye, who has sold her clothes on Depop for years.\n\n\"They always want to know how many times it has been worn and if it is dirty.\"\n\nMs Faye used to post images of herself in the clothes on the platforms but has now stopped because of the messages.\n\nWomen often model the clothing they're selling in the photos\n\n\"Don't message me on an innocent second-hand website, just because you can see a hot girl in the photos,\" she added. \"It feels like a violation, you should be able to sell your clothes online without getting harassed.\"\n\nSellers were sometimes offered additional money for used clothing or explicit images.\n\nJennifer Savin - a Cosmopolitan features writer, who recently investigated the topic - was offered ��5 for more than 50 intimate images after posting items on eBay.\n\n\"I think there are a lot of users out there, just trying their luck,\" she told the BBC. \"Who knows if they'd even pay up if they were to be sent the explicit content in the first place?\"\n\nOne online seller, who relies on the profits made on these platforms for a living, said \"it was a balance between feeling safe and needing the money.\"\n\nEstablished clothing brands have also reported receiving inappropriate messages and requests on Facebook and Instagram.\n\nLovely's Vintage Emporium sells vintage clothes and receives many such comments every week.\n\nLovely's Vintage Emporium says it receives many inappropriate messages every week\n\n\"I get a lot of messages about the model, especially if there are shirts with close-up images,\" said owner Lynnette Peck.\n\n\"I had a fetishist asking what [shoes] smelt like, who wore them and if I could take a photo of myself wearing them.\"\n\nShe has now stopped selling certain items on the website, after receiving explicit photographs through Facebook Messenger.\n\nNaomi Edmondson, who runs lingerie brand Edge o'Beyond, said the business was \"constantly bombarded with creepy comments from men\", often asking for sex.\n\n\"We get so many creepy messages and comments it's too time-consuming to report them all,\" she said. \"A few times I have felt concerned for safety.\n\n\"We create lingerie to empower women, we do not welcome the minority of men who think it's acceptable to send explicit pictures.\"\n\nSome of the women the BBC spoke to said they hadn't reported the messages because they were \"embarrassed\", \"ashamed\" or \"didn't want to risk losing their accounts\".\n\nFacebook, Instagram, Depop and eBay all said they take these kinds of messages seriously and would take action against those who violated policy.\n\nThey all urged users to report and block any accounts which break the rules.\n\nFacebook - which also owns Instagram - said it has built a \"global safety and security team as well as powerful technology\" to remove accounts as quickly as possible.\n\nDepop said it aims to respond to 95% reports of inappropriate behaviour within three hours, during business hours.\n\n\"The issue of women receiving creepy messages when selling clothes online is not a new phenomenon,\" said Jo O'Reilly, digital privacy expert at ProPrivacy.\n\n\"This is particularly concerning because to sell on most popular online selling platforms, including eBay and Depop, it is mandatory for users to provide a postal address - likely to be their home address.\"\n\nBut that is technically against the terms and conditions of most selling platforms.\n\n\"The very nature of selling second-hand clothes means that sellers will often post photos of themselves wearing the items,\" she says.\n\n\"That can, unfortunately, attract unwanted attention from buyers who might wish to buy worn clothes rather than just second-hand items.\"\n\nAlthough sites restrict the selling of certain used items, such as underwear, private messaging provides a \"loophole\", she added.", "Boris Johnson has said there is still a very substantial risk of intensive care units in hospitals being overwhelmed by the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes on a day when the UK has recorded the highest number of deaths in a single day in Europe.\n\nFergal Keane last visited the Imperial Healthcare Trust’s St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospital in London last April.\n\nHe's been back to see how they're coping.", "UN peacekeepers ended their mission in Darfur last month\n\nThe number of people killed in clashes between different ethnic groups in Sudan's West Darfur state has risen to 83, a medical body has said.\n\nThe fighting in the state capital, El Geneina, began on Saturday after a row in which a man was stabbed to death.\n\nA state-wide curfew has been imposed and Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has sent a delegation to investigate.\n\nA conflict in Darfur that began in 2003 forced millions to flee and, despite a peace process, tensions remain.\n\nSaturday's violence comes less than three weeks after peacekeepers from the United Nations and African Union handed over security to the Khartoum authorities after 13 years there, reports the BBC's Youssef Taha.\n\nSimilar clashes in El Geneina last year, which saw Arab pastoralists fight with non-Arab groups, caused hundreds of casualties.\n\nThe most recent fighting was centred around a camp for people who had been displaced by the Darfur conflict. A deadly row between two men escalated into a fight involving armed militias, the AFP news agency reports.\n\nThe Central Committee of Sudan Doctors said the death toll had risen from 48 to 83, and the number of wounded from around 100 to 160.\n\nMembers of the armed forces were among the victims, it said.\n\nCasualties were likely to rise further as fighting was continuing, the medical body added.\n\nThe government said on Sunday that troop reinforcements would be sent to the area\n\nThe announcement was made after army chief Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan met top security officials to discuss the violence.\n\nA peace deal involving most, but not all, groups in Darfur was signed last year.\n\nThe Darfur conflict began under the presidency of Omar al-Bashir, who was overthrown in 2019 and is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged war crimes and genocide in the region.\n\nJustice for the people of Darfur was a key rallying cry for civilian groups who backed the ouster of the president after nearly three decades in power.\n\nThe Sudanese Professionals' Association, which was at the forefront of the anti-Bashir movement, called for the current transitional government to deal with the \"unruly armed groups which have been freely moving and terrorising civilians since the collapse of the former regime\", Sudan's news agency reports.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nLast year Mohanad Hashim visited Kalma camp where some of the millions of people who fled flighting ended up:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The ongoing struggle for peace in Darfur", "A man has scaled a Hong Kong skyscraper in his wheelchair to raise money for spinal cord patients.\n\nLai Chi-Wai, who became paralysed after a road accident ten years ago, climbed 250 metres (820ft) of the Nina Towers building.\n\nBefore his accident, Lai Chi-Wai was a rock-climbing champion in Asia and eighth best in the world.\n\nHe said that \"knowing there was a possibility...that I could be a climber again, I found some direction in life\".", "A financial support scheme for airports in England will open this month, the government says, as the aviation sector faces new Covid travel curbs.\n\nAviation minister Robert Courts said the move was a response to the closure of all UK air corridors from Monday.\n\nThe aim was to provide grants by the end of this financial year, he said.\n\nIndustry groups had warned there was only so long airports could \"run on fumes\", following the announcement of the new quarantine rules.\n\nUnder the new rules beginning at 04:00 GMT on Monday, all travel corridors - which have been in place to allow arrivals from some countries to forgo quarantine - will close.\n\nAll arrivals to the UK after that time will need to isolate for up to 10 days, although the quarantine period can be cut short with a negative test after five days.\n\nPeople will also have to show proof of a negative test taken in the previous 72 hours before travelling.\n\nOn Sunday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab also told the BBC'S Andrew Marr Show that Public Health England would also be stepping up checks on travellers who must self-isolate, while enforcement checks at borders would also be \"ramped up\".\n\nHe added that asking all arrivals to self-isolate in hotels was a \"potential measure\" the government was keeping under review.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Courts said the Airport and Ground Operations Support Scheme \"will help airports reduce\" additional costs faced due to the pandemic and that further details would follow soon.\n\nThe scheme had first been announced in November, but without a set start date. It will involve grants of up to £8m per applicant, to be used to cover fixed costs, such as business rates.\n\nIn a statement at the time, the Airport Operators Association said the scheme would be a relief. However, it said support equivalent to business rates would only go so far and with the pandemic crisis deepening, a broader package of support was needed for all four nations, to see the sector through the next few months.\n\nAOA chief executive Karen Dee said the measures would \"provide much-needed support to many embattled airports, helping them through the challenging months ahead\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced the changes to the UK's travel rules at a Downing Street briefing on Friday, saying they would \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid.\n\nThe new rules will be in place until at least 15 February, he said.\n\nA ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde also came into force on Friday, having been imposed over concerns about a new variant identified in Brazil.\n\nNew variants causing concern have previously been identified in the UK and South Africa, with many countries imposing restrictions on arrivals from both nations.\n\nScientists fear the variants seen in South Africa and Brazil may interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines and evade parts of the immune system.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the press briefing on Friday that some of the new variants may be able to \"get round\" the Covid vaccines but it was \"really quite easy\" to adjust the vaccines to deal with mutations in the virus.\n\nThe travel industry said closing the travel corridors was understandable due to the health emergency, but warned it would deepen the crisis for the sector.\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK, said the system had been \"a lifeline for the industry\" last summer but \"things change and there's no doubting this is a serious health emergency\". He said he assumed the government would remove the latest restrictions as soon as it was safe.\n\n\"We've had no revenue now effectively for 12 months, give or take a few months in the summer last year. If we're going to have an aviation sector coming out of this we need to open up in the summer,\" he told the BBC.\n\nTravel operators had already been forced to cancel holidays before the latest restrictions were announced.\n\nEarlier this week, Jet2 suspended all flights and holidays until 25 March over \"ongoing uncertainty\" and budget travel provider EasyJet on Thursday began cancelling holidays up to and including 24 March.\n\nThe Department for Transport has said it is supporting the travel industry with an extension to the furlough scheme until the end of April, business rates relief and tax deferrals.\n\nWith all parts of the UK under strict virus rules amid high levels of infection, only essential travel is permitted.\n\nOn Saturday, another 1,295 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were reported in the UK, and a further 41,346 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from overseas? Do you work in the travel industry? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Pilot Douglas Jones, 27, was enjoying his dream job, working for Aegean Airlines and living in Greece, when the pandemic began last spring - and borders began to close.\n\nFearing being stranded in Greece, he booked a flight home to Scotland and within a couple of weeks learned his job was gone.\n\nBack home, in the small Scottish town of Moffat, in Dumfries and Galloway, he found himself “desperate to do something”.\n\n\"When you have been used to living in Berlin and Athens and you move back to Moffat, living with your dad, it is a bit of slowdown,\" he says.\n\nIt was a relative of a friend who spotted south of Scotland firm Alpha Solway was hiring new workers to meet demand for personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nIt certainly marked a change of pace – the nine-to-five office-based routine was difficult to adjust to for someone accustomed to navigating the skies of Europe – but Douglas says he was \"surprised\" by what parts of his old job he could bring to his new post.\n\n\"A lot in commercial aviation is about awareness - situational awareness - and a lot of that can be built into manufacturing as well,\" he says.\n\nWhile looking forward to returning to the skies one day, he adds: “I have learned a huge amount here.\n\n“There are good people here doing a good job and I am helping at least with that.\"", "Children in England will be able to access books online free during school closures via a virtual library.\n\nInternet classroom Oak National Academy created the library after schools moved to remote learning for the majority of pupils until February half-term.\n\nFormed with The National Literacy Trust, the library will provide a book a week from its author of the week.\n\nThe aim is to increase young readers' access to e-books and audiobooks, particularly the most disadvantaged.\n\nOak National Academy is funded by the Department for Education and has provided more than 28 million lessons since the start of the school term on 4 January.\n\nIn the last two weeks, 4.1 million pupils accessed its resources.\n\nThe latest lockdown has seen schools in England close except for children of key workers and vulnerable pupils.\n\nMatt Hood, principal of Oak National Academy, said: \"It's incredible to be able to add to our offer something vital for children's literacy and their mental wellbeing.\"\n\nJonathan Douglas, chief executive of the National Literacy Trust, said it was \"essential\" to enable as many children as possible to \"access a world of great literature\".\n\nHe added: \"Many children's literacy skills were profoundly affected by the first lockdown and school closures.\n\n\"We will do everything in our power to support children, families and teachers during this new lockdown period.\"\n\nDescribing the virtual library as a \"fantastic resource\", Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said learning and children's development must continue while schools remain closed.\n\nHe said: \"Reading is hugely beneficial not only for children's literacy skills, but also their mental health and wellbeing.\"\n\nThe first book to feature will be Dame Jacqueline Wilson's The Story Of Tracy Beaker, and will be available to access free for a week from 17 January.\n\nDame Jacqueline said with schools closed, the free online library is needed more than ever, adding: \"I think it's vitally important that every child should have an opportunity to access books.\"", "The funeral of Gerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden has been held at a church near his beloved River Mersey.\n\nMarsden died, aged 78, in hospital on 3 January following a blood infection.\n\nAs the frontman in the band Gerry and the Pacemakers, his hits included Ferry Cross The Mersey and a cover version of You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nEx-Liverpool boss Sir Kenny Dalglish was among the mourners at the funeral which had to remain small because of Covid restrictions.\n\nSir Kenny managed the club at the time of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, which led to the deaths of 96 fans who were attending an FA Cup game between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.\n\nGerry Marsden sings You'll Never Walk Alone before an Anfield match in 2010\n\nSir Kenny said: \"You'll Never Walk Alone has huge meaning to the lives of Liverpool supporters around the world and is synonymous with the club.\n\n\"He will be sadly missed by those who knew him and the millions he never got to meet.\"\n\nYou'll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for Marsden's hometown club soon after it topped the charts in 1963.\n\nThe song was played during the funeral by a guitarist while a version of Marsden singing Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying, a song he wrote for his wife Pauline, also featured.\n\nShe said: \"We, his family, are totally devastated and have been so moved and amazed at the extent of the respect, love and affection received from all over the world.\n\n\"When the time is right and we have come out of this terrible pandemic we hope a fitting memorial can be held for him in the city he loved so much.\"\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers was one of the biggest British bands in the 1960s\n\nReferring to the lyrics from Ferry Cross the Mersey, close friend Arthur Johnson said: \"He lived close to the banks of the Mersey for all his life and as the words of his song say: 'This land's the place I love and here I'll stay'.\"\n\nLiverpool City Region mayor Steve Rotheram said: \"I feel privileged he let me into his life, although that makes his passing even more painful.\"\n\nIn 1962, Beatles manager Brian Epstein signed up Gerry and the Pacemakers and, a year later, they became the first band to have their first three songs top the charts - How Do You Do It, I Like It and You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nA flag on the Royal Iris Mersey ferry flew at half mast after the death of Gerry Marsden\n\nThey were one of the successes of the Merseybeat era, with former Beatles star Sir Paul McCartney saying at the time of Marsden's death that: \"Gerry was a mate from our early days in Liverpool\".\n\n\"He and his group were our biggest rivals on the local scene.\"", "More than half of the Church of England's 14,000 parishes will not open for Sunday services later, as places of worship are hit hard by Covid-19.\n\nMany of the Church's clergy are shielding, while some parishes have decided it is not safe enough to admit worshippers.\n\nMost mosques in London did not open for Friday prayers.\n\nThe Catholic Church in England and Wales says parishes that are able to follow guidelines will still open.\n\nDespite coronavirus restrictions, places of worship in England and Wales can open - but many are struggling to do so safely.\n\nPlaces of worship remain closed throughout Scotland, while Northern Ireland's main church denominations are to cease public worship until early February.\n\nThe Church of England has told the BBC more than half of its parishes - including some cathedrals - will not open for communal prayer on Sunday. Many have moved their worship online.\n\nThe Church said some of its clergy were shielding, and all parishes were making their own decision.\n\nLincoln Cathedral took the decision to suspend in-person worship and move services online earlier in the week.\n\nRev Canon Nick Brown, Precentor of Lincoln, said the decision was taken \"with a very heavy heart\" but explained: \"To bring people together in worship is at the very heart of our purpose, but having considered expert advice we believe that the best way to help limit the spread of Covid-19 is to suspend public services for the time being.\"\n\nThe Catholic Church in England and Wales says it will keep its churches under review to make sure \"the highest standards of safety are maintained\". It is also organising online masses in many parishes.\n\nBritain's most senior Catholic, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, had criticised previous orders for churches to close.\n\nWith more than half of the Church of England's parishes closed for communal worship, thousands of Christians are being deprived of spiritual sustenance, at a time when many feel sorely in need of it.\n\nOther religions are also grappling with the issue and have worked hard to make their places of worship Covid-compliant by, for example, introducing strict booking and ticketing systems.\n\nMany church parishes have adapted by moving services online, a trend mirrored in some Jewish and Muslim denominations. These have been largely successful, and in some cases attracted new audiences from thousands of miles away. However, it's difficult to replicate the sense of community when people can physically and regularly meet up.\n\nOne Rabbi I spoke to last summer admitted he was worried some of his synagogue regulars, kept away by Covid-19, might never return.\n\nThere's also a financial aspect. Places of worship rely heavily on the generosity of believers. Weekly donations have been hit by church closures, and many revenue-generating schemes, such as hiring out church halls, have been cancelled. Many of the country's ancient cathedrals make much of their income from tourist admission fees.\n\nDifferent parts of the UK have taken different approaches, with all places of worship currently closed in Scotland, for example. Some Christian leaders, largely accepting of initial closures during the first lockdown, have gradually spoken out in favour of being able to make the decision themselves.\n\nBut with most shops and sporting facilities closed in England, some campaigners, such as the National Secular Society, have railed against what they say is \"a worrying deference to religious entitlement\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board has told the BBC although most mosques in England and Wales did open for Friday prayers, the majority in London did not - and it says it has asked its members in areas where the infection rate is rising to work closely with Public Health England and local authorities.\n\nUnder the latest lockdowns in the UK, there are changes to usual practices for worshippers of all religions.\n\nIn the areas of the UK where communal worship is allowed, a number of measures are in place, such as carrying out services in the shortest possible time, and ensuring worshippers do not mingle with anyone not in their own household or support bubble.\n\nFaith leaders have accepted the need for restrictions.\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain urges \"strong caution for mosques wishing to continue remaining open to the public for worship... and for tremendous care to be exercised\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Bishop of London, the Rt Rev Sarah Mullally, who has been in charge of the Church of England's plans for resuming services, has said \"some may feel that it is currently better not to attend in person... Clergy who have concerns, and others who are shielding, should take particular care and stay at home\".\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None What are the rules for places of worship?", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland need further 36 runs to win\n\nEngland need 36 runs on the final day to win the first Test against Sri Lanka despite losing three wickets in a chaotic end to the fourth day in Galle.\n\nChasing only 74, the tourists slipped to 14-3 as Dom Sibley and Zak Crawley fell to left-arm spinner Lasith Embuldeniya before captain Joe Root was run out after a mix-up with Jonny Bairstow.\n\nBairstow, who survived a run-out chance of his own, and debutant Dan Lawrence saw England to 38 without further loss before bad light ended play early.\n\nBairstow and Lawrence will resume on 11 and seven respectively at 04:15 GMT on Monday.\n\nEarlier, Sri Lanka were bowled out for 359, with Lahiru Thirimanne scoring 111 - his first century for almost eight years - and Angelo Matthews 73.\n\nJack Leach, playing his first Test since 2019, took 5-122 and Dom Bess 3-100 to finish with match figures of 8-130 and set up what should still be a comfortable England victory despite a wearing pitch.\n\nEngland won their most recent series in Sri Lanka 3-0, but their record in Asia - and playing spin - is poor and it reared its head again in a remarkable start to their fourth-innings chase.\n\nSibley, whom many feel is vulnerable against spin, was bowled for two not offering a shot, while Crawley, who was dropped on one, added only eight before a drive was superbly caught at gully by Kusal Mendis.\n\nEngland contributed to their own problems as captain Root, who scored a magnificent 228 in the first innings, was run out by a direct hit by wicketkeeper Niroshan Dickwella, colliding with bowler Dilruwan Perera after Bairstow called for a risky single.\n\nBairstow and Lawrence restored calm in a 24-run stand to steer England to stumps, and they remain firm favourites to take a 1-0 lead in the two-match series.\n\n\"If Sri Lanka had run Bairstow out just after Root it would have been very interesting,\" former England captain Michael Vaughan said on BBC Test Match Special.\n\nSri Lanka, whose first-innings effort of 135 in just 46.1 overs was described as \"one of the worse we've ever seen\", showed significantly more character and application in the second.\n\nOpener Thirimanne, 76 not out as the hosts resumed on 156-2, moved to his second Test century - 54 innings after his first, the third longest gap in Test history - with a cut for four off Bess.\n\nThe left-hander averaged 22 in 36 Tests before this match and his place was in serious doubt, only for captain Dimuth Karunaratne to be ruled out before the game with a thumb injury.\n\nAfter Thirimanne got a faint inside edge to the excellent Jos Buttler off Sam Curran, former captain Mathews played a dogged 219-ball innings containing only two fours to ensure Sri Lanka at least wiped out a 286-run first-innings deficit.\n\nWhen he edged Leach to Root at slip to be last man out, Sri Lanka were left wondering what might have been had they shown the same discipline first time round.\n\nBess, who took 5-30 in the first innings despite struggling with his length, improved throughout the second innings and took a wicket in the first over of his three spells on Sunday.\n\nHe had nightwatchman Embuldeniya caught by Sibley at short cover off the 12th ball of the day, before returning to have stand-in captain Dinesh Chandimal held at slip by Root, and Dickwella caught behind as he attempted to guide the ball to third man.\n\nLeach, who has missed England's past 11 Tests - in part due to illness - yorked Dasun Shanaka and had the dangerous Wanindu Hasaranga superbly taken by Root at slip, before Perera became Buttler's first stumping in Test cricket.\n\nThe wicket of Mathews rounded off Leach's five-wicket haul, the first time two England spinners had achieved the feat in the same match since Derek Underwood and John Emburey in Sri Lanka in 1982.\n\n'It will only mean something if we win' - reaction\n\nEngland spinner Jack Leach on BBC Test Match Special: \"I wouldn't say I bowled well. It has been hard graft out there and I have certainly found I am probably a little rusty.\n\n\"At times I felt I could have done a better job, but the pleasing thing is I felt I bowled better as the game went on.\n\n\"We will come back tomorrow, knock these off and then I can be happy about my five wickets. It will only mean something if we win.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"It has been an exciting day's play. Sri Lanka hung in there.\n\n\"Credit to Sri Lanka - we pelted them but on days three and four have shown they are a team that can compete in home conditions.\"\n\nFormer Sri Lanka all-rounder Russel Arnold: \"The start of England's innings was hectic. We saw panic from England, but Bairstow and Lawrence now look like they have it under control.\"\n• None Find all the resources you need to help with education at home\n• None The hilarious hit history podcast is back for a new series", "There are warnings more children could be plunged into poverty\n\nA decision on whether the £20 weekly rise in Universal Credit will be kept in place is unlikely before March's Budget, a top minister has indicated.\n\nCampaigners say the uplift, worth more than £1,000 a year, has been a lifeline for the vulnerable during the pandemic.\n\nLabour will use a Commons debate on Monday to add pressure on ministers to agree now to extend it beyond 31 March.\n\nBut Dominic Raab told the BBC it was a \"temporary measure\" and the Budget would spell out support \"in the round\".\n\nIn an interview with Andrew Marr, the foreign secretary confirmed that Conservative MPs would be told to abstain in Monday's debate, meaning Labour's \"opposition day\" motion will be approved.\n\nWhile the motion will not be binding on ministers and won't change policy, the BBC's Ben Wright said not opposing it represented an attempt by the government to \"neutralise\" the issue for the time being.\n\nIt showed, he added, how concerned ministers were about the prospect of a rebellion by Tory MPs - many of whom want an end to the uncertainty over the issue - if they had been asked to vote against it.\n\nThe standard Universal Credit allowance, which is claimed by more than 5.5 million households, was increased by £20 a week in April 2020 as part of Chancellor Rishi Sunak's early Covid economic response.\n\nWhile it was designed as a temporary response to help those unable to work or struggling due to the lockdown, opposition parties and charities say failing to extend will cause real hardship for hundreds of thousands of people.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has suggested about 16 million people will be directly affected, with millions of households facing an income loss equivalent to £1,040 a year.\n\nThe organisation has warned 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty, including 200,000 children, while a further 500,000 of those already in poverty will find themselves in even worse hardship.\n\nIts director Helen Barnard said a decision could not be delayed any longer.\n\n\"The chancellor has said the economy is going to get worse before it gets better and our evidence shows it is those with the least who are often suffering the most,\" she said.\n\n\"No one can seriously argue that cutting support for those on the lowest incomes in April will do anything other than weaken our already fragile economy.\"\n\nAsked whether the government should act now, Mr Raab said Monday's debate was a \"political\" move by the opposition and not about the government's overall financial support during the pandemic.\n\nHe promised to \"look at everything in the round\" to make sure support for the most vulnerable was available.\n\n\"Obviously in March there will be a Budget where again that holistic approach can be taken by the chancellor, but we've put that support in place to make sure that the most vulnerable communities can be protected at this very difficult time,\" he told Andrew Marr.\n\nThe government says it has injected an extra £7bn into the welfare system during the pandemic, including boosting Working Tax Credits by more than £1,000 a year for a 12-month period.\n\nLabour has urged the government to \"see sense\" on Universal Credit, saying that it would be both morally and economically wrong to \"take £1,000 a year from Britain's families\" at the peak of the unemployment crisis.", "The leaders of most of the world's biggest economies will get a brief taste of the English seaside this June as they gather for the G7 summit.\n\nCornwall's Carbis Bay, known for its sandy beach and clear waters, will be the venue for discussions on debt, climate change and post-Covid recovery.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson called it the \"perfect location for such a crucial summit\".\n\nThe UK, US, Germany, France, Canada, Italy and Japan make up the G7.\n\nLeaders from Australia, India, South Korea and the EU will also attend the event, from 11 to 13 June, as guests.\n\nVisit Cornwall estimates the county will make £50m, with the summit providing a boost to tourism and the area's international profile.\n\nBut the likes of US President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron are unlikely to enjoy an ice cream and a barefoot stroll through Carbis Bay's surf.\n\nG7 summits require security cordons, with anti-globalisation protests having affected several previous get-togethers.\n\nMeasures in place for the meeting in Biarritz, France, in 2019, saw the seaside resort likened to a temporary \"fortress\".\n\nThe Cornish meeting will be the first face-to-face G7 since the pandemic started. Last year's event - scheduled to take place at Camp David, Maryland - took place online instead.\n\nThe previous two UK-hosted meetings were at Lough Erne, Co Fermanagh, in 2013, and Gleneagles, Perth and Kinross, in 2005.\n\nBoris Johnson invoked the leading role of Cornwall's mining communities in the industrial revolution\n\nThis year, delegates will be put up - with Covid restrictions in place - at the Tregenna Castle Resort, overlooking nearby St Ives, and other locations.\n\nThe National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth will host international media.\n\nThe UK is hosting the summit as president of the G7 for the year.\n\n\"As the most prominent grouping of democratic countries, the G7 has long been the catalyst for decisive international action to tackle the greatest challenges we face,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nHe added that leaders should approach the economic challenges of Covid \"by uniting with a spirit of openness to create a better future\".\n\n\"Two-hundred years ago Cornwall's tin and copper mines were at the heart of the UK's industrial revolution and this summer Cornwall will again be the nucleus of great global change and advancement,\" the prime minister said.\n\nVisit Cornwall chief executive Malcolm Bell said the summit would \"not only showcase the beauty of Cornwall but give us the opportunity to communicate our heritage, culture and the connections\".\n\nLocal leaders said it would provide a \"fantastic opportunity\" to showcase the county on the world stage.\n\nThe government said it would announce more of its plans \"in due course\".\n\nThe G7 meeting comes five months ahead of UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow in November.", "A statue of Edward Colston was thrown into Bristol Harbour last June, after being pulled down and rolled through the streets\n\nThe government is planning new laws to protect statues in England from being removed \"on a whim or at the behest of a baying mob\", Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick has said.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, he said generations-old monuments should be \"considered thoughtfully\".\n\nThe legislation would require planning permission for any changes and a minister would be given the final veto.\n\nIt will be revealed in Parliament on Monday.\n\nThe plans follow the toppling of a statue of slave trader Edward Colston last year and a wider discussion on the removal of controversial monuments.\n\nFour people were later charged with criminal damage over the removal of the Colston statue, and six people accepted conditional cautions over their involvement.\n\nIn the paper, the communities secretary said Britain should not try to edit or censor its past.\n\nMr Jenrick said any decision to remove heritage assets in England would require planning permission and a consultation with local communities, adding that he wanted to see a \"considered approach\".\n\nHe wrote: \"Our view will be set out in law, that such monuments are almost always best explained and contextualised, not taken and hidden away.\"\n\nMr Jenrick added that he had noticed an attempt to set a narrative which seeks to erase part of the nation's history, saying this was \"at the hand of the flash mob, or by the decree of a 'cultural committee' of town hall militants and woke worthies\".\n\nHe said: \"We live in a country that believes in the rule of law, but when it comes to protecting our heritage, due process has been overridden. That can't be right.\n\n\"Local people should have the chance to be consulted whether a monument should stand or not.\n\n\"What has stood for generations should be considered thoughtfully, not removed on a whim or at the behest of a baying mob.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Metropolitan Police say they are seeking to identify those responsible for the damage\n\nThe death of George Floyd while in the custody of police in Minneapolis sparked anti-racism protests across the world.\n\nDuring largely peaceful demonstrations in the UK, the controversial Colston statue was dumped into Bristol Harbour and a memorial to Sir Winston Churchill was vandalised with the words \"was a racist\".\n\nSpeaking in June, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"The statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square is a permanent reminder of his achievement in saving this country - and the whole of Europe - from a fascist and racist tyranny.\n\n\"It is absurd and shameful that this national monument should ... be at risk of attack by violent protesters.\n\n\"Yes, he sometimes expressed opinions that were and are unacceptable to us today, but he was a hero, and he fully deserves his memorial.\"\n\nColston made his fortune in the slave trade and bequeathed his money to charities in Bristol, which led to many venues, streets and landmarks bearing his name.\n\nThe Society of Merchant Venturers, the Bristol charity which runs institutions named after Edward Colston, said it was right that the statue was removed, along with other memorials to \"a man who benefited from trading in human lives\".\n\nThey said it was part of acknowledging Bristol's \"dark past\" and building \"a city where racism and inequality no longer exist\".\n\nFollowing the toppling of the statue, Colston's Girls School changed its name to Montpelier High School and the city's Colston Hall music venue is now known as the Bristol Beacon.\n\nA statue of a Black Lives Matter protester was placed on the empty plinth without permission in July and was removed shortly afterwards.", "Work to restore hundreds of thousands of fingerprint, DNA and arrest records accidentally wiped from police databases is ongoing, the Home Office has said.\n\nAround 400,000 records were lost, according to The Times, which first reported the story.\n\nThe Home Office did not comment on how many records were likely to be restored, or how long it would take.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the issue was \"a result of human error\".\n\nData was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nThe coding that caused the problem was introduced in November 2020, and the deletions started earlier this week.\n\nInitially, it was thought some 150,000 records were lost, but it since has emerged the number could be significantly higher.\n\nCommenting on the error, Ms Patel said: \"Engineers continue to work to restore data lost as a result of human error during a routine housekeeping process earlier this week.\n\n\"I continue to be in regular contact with the team, and working with our policing partners, we will provide an update as soon as we can.\"\n\nEarlier, Labour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Ms Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he described the situation as \"extraordinarily serious\", adding: \"Priti Patel will be responsible for criminals walking free.\n\n\"We're not going to be able to link suspects to crime scenes without the DNA and fingerprint evidence.\"\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said the lost data had resulted in a couple of \"near misses\" for serious crimes when trying to identify an offender.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse insisted the affected records \"apply to cases where individuals were arrested and then released with no further action\".\n\nHe added: \"We are working to recover the affected records as a priority. While we do so, the Police National Computer is functioning and the police are taking steps to mitigate any impact.\"", "A group of London business leaders has written to the government calling for financial support for the struggling rail firm Eurostar.\n\nIn a letter to the Treasury and Department for Transport, they urge \"swift action to safeguard its future\".\n\nBosses of firms such as Fortnum & Mason signed the letter asking for access to government loans and business rates relief \"at the very least\".\n\nThe government says it is \"working closely\" with Eurostar.\n\nThe cross-Channel rail company is threatened by a large drop in passenger numbers due to coronavirus-related travel restrictions.\n\nIt reported in November that passenger numbers had been down 95% since March 2020.\n\nWith two trains an hour normally scheduled in peak hours, it now runs just two services a day from London to Paris and Brussels.\n\nThe letter, coordinated by business campaigning group London First and seen by the BBC, describes the firm as one that has \"fallen through the cracks\". Unlike some airlines, it has not been eligible for government-backed loans.\n\n\"If this viable business is allowed to fall between the cracks of support - neither an airline, nor a domestic railway - our recovery could be damaged,\" it says.\n\nCo-signed by 28 leaders, including the vice-chancellor of Middlesex University, the chief executive of West End property company Shaftesbury, as well as the boss of the ExCeL conference centre, the letter points out that the company currently employs 1,200 people in the UK.\n\nThe firm is 55% owned by French state rail firm SNCF. The UK government sold its stake in the business to private companies for £757m in 2015.\n\nThe letter also credits Eurostar with reducing carbon emissions. Since it launched in 1994, it has transported more than 190 million passengers between Britain and mainland Europe.\n\nA spokesman for Eurostar said: \"Without additional funding from government there is a real risk to the survival of Eurostar, the green gateway to Europe.\n\nHe described the current situation as \"very serious\".\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Transport said: \"We recognise the significant financial challenges facing Eurostar as a result of Covid-19 and the unprecedented circumstances currently faced by the international travel industry.\"\n\nHe added the government had been in contact with Eurostar \"on a regular basis\" since the start of the coronavirus crisis and would continue to work closely with the firm.\n• None How are travel rules being relaxed?", "Few people get as unique a take on the movement, mood and feelings of the public than the business owners that sit in its lay-bys.\n\nSince the start of lockdown they have juggled highs and lows.\n\nFrom supporting lorry drivers unable to stop at closed service stations to seeing their customers told to stay at home - and in turn not spend money with them.\n\nSome are now questioning their future and role in a workforce predicted to change its patterns and work from home more in the future.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge shared his own experiences of seeing \"death and so much bereavement\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been told the pandemic will leave many emergency workers \"broken\".\n\nMany police and NHS workers are too concerned with battling the pandemic to look after their mental health, they were told.\n\nInsp Phil Spencer from Cleveland Police said staff did not engage enough with counselling \"because we don't want to take anybody else's valuable time\".\n\nPrince William said he \"really worries\" about the effect on front-line workers.\n\n\"When you're surrounded by that level of intense trauma and sadness and bereavement, it really does, it stays with you at home, it stays with you for weeks on end,\" he said.\n\nInsp Spencer said emergency workers \"run towards danger, run towards a terrorist attack, we run towards the pandemic\".\n\n\"Perhaps further down the line when all this is gone we're going to have some broken police officers and emergency services staff, because we're too busy focusing on protecting the most vulnerable,\" he said.\n\nThe couple also spoke to counsellors from Hospice UK's Harrogate-based Just B support line for NHS staff, social care workers, carers and emergency services, which their foundation helps financially.\n\nThe prince said he feared \"you're all so busy caring for everyone else that you won't take enough time to care for yourselves\".\n\nHe and Catherine said the stigma surrounding seeking help for mental health issues must end.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n• None The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two drivers from Scotland were stopped by police on Anglesey going to see friends.\n\nPeople who drove more than 200 miles to visit friends in Wales and a group having a party in a garden shed have been caught breaking Covid rules.\n\nPolice forces in Wales have broken up parties, football matches and fined people for visiting beauty spots this weekend while Wales is in lockdown.\n\nTwo motorists were reported by North Wales Police in Anglesey after driving from Scotland to visit friends.\n\nWhile in Swansea, eight people were fined after a party was held in a shed.\n\nThe drivers from Scotland were stopped by police at Valley, near Holyhead, and reported for driving without insurance and breaching Covid travel restrictions.\n\nOfficers from North Wales Police on Saturday also stopped a car from Portsmouth as the driver was travelling to \"collect a front bumper\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by South Wales Police Vale of Glamorgan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by South Wales Police Vale of Glamorgan\n\n\"Travelling nearly 300 miles for a piece of cosmetic plastic for your car is not essential at this time,\" said North Wales Police's Intercept team.\n\n\"The regulations have been broadcast far and wide. Please be mindful you will be reported if your journey is not essential.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEven though national parks have shut car parks in a bid to stop people visiting, North Wales Police said it received about 100 calls on Saturday about potential Covid breaches - and officers told people they need to take \"personal responsibility\" and \"stay home\".\n\nSouth Wales Police officers issued fixed penalty notices after finding people from \"all different households\" in a shed - which had been converted into a bar - in the Sketty area of Swansea all \"mixing together\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mark Drakeford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA further nine fixed penalty notices were given out in the Townhill area of the city after different households attended a baby reveal party on Sunday.\n\nFive people were warned about breaking laws in Neath Port Talbot after a group travelled to a field to play football, while four people were fined after a house party in Aberavon.\n\nUnder coronavirus rules people are only allowed to leave their homes for \"essential\" reasons, including to shop for food, get medical treatment and to exercise.\n\nWhile exercise is allowed, people are not allowed to drive to a spot for a walk, run or cycle, and the law means exercising with people you do not live with (or who are your bubble if you live alone) is banned.\n\nThose found to be in breach of Covid laws can be fined £60 for the first offence, with the penalties increasing up to £1,920. If prosecuted, however, a court can impose an unlimited fine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid lockdown: 'This is why we say to you do not come out'\n\nUntil recently police had been using an education first approach, but the Welsh Government has repeatedly said it wants to see stricter enforcement of the rules.\n\nIn Powys, road officers from Dyfed-Powys Police stopped cars and turned around people driving to exercise.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Traffic Wales North & Mid #KeepWalesSafe This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Port Talbot, two people sat on a bench drinking alcohol were fined by South Wales Police for \"leaving home without a reasonable excuse\".\n\nGwent Police officers broke-up a house party in Glyn-Gaer, Caerphilly county, on Friday evening and issued fines.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Sunday. We'll have another update for you on Monday.\n\nTen new mass Covid vaccination centres are to open in England from Monday, as the government bids to meet its target of offering 15 million people in the UK a dose by 15 February. Blackburn Cathedral and St Helens Rugby Ground are among the venues chosen to join the seven hubs already in use. NHS England said the new centres would offer \"thousands\" of jabs a week. It comes as another 324,233 vaccine doses have been administered across the UK, taking the total above 3.5 million. Check when you will be eligible for a jab.\n\nA financial support scheme for airports in England will open this month, the government says, as the aviation sector faces new Covid travel curbs. Aviation minister Robert Courts said the move was a response to the closure of all UK air corridors from Monday. The aim is to provide grants before the end of this financial year, he said. Industry groups had warned there was only so long airports could \"run on fumes\", following the announcement of the new quarantine rules. Under the new rules beginning at 04:00 GMT on Monday, all travel corridors - which have been in place to allow arrivals from some countries to forgo quarantine - will close.\n\nMore than half of the Church of England's 14,000 parishes will not open for Sunday services today, as places of worship are hit hard by Covid-19. Many of the Church's clergy are shielding, while some parishes have decided it is not safe enough to admit worshippers. It has also been revealed that most mosques in London remained closed on Friday, meaning Muslims had to make alternative arrangements for Friday prayers. Despite current coronavirus restrictions, places of worship in England and Wales can open - but many are struggling to do so safely. Places of worship remain closed throughout Scotland, while Northern Ireland's main church denominations are to cease public worship until early February. Remind yourself of the rules where you live for places of worship.\n\nChildren in England will be able to access books online free during school closures via a virtual library. Internet classroom Oak National Academy created the library after schools moved to remote learning for the majority of pupils until February half-term. Formed with The National Literacy Trust, the library will provide a book a week from its author of the week. The aim is to increase young readers' access to e-books and audiobooks, particularly the most disadvantaged. The latest lockdown has seen schools in England close to all but children of key workers and vulnerable pupils.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has expressed his pride at the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh for stepping up and having their Covid-19 vaccinations. In a video call with frontline workers, Prince William spoke about his grandparents after being told medics have witnessed \"vaccine hesitancy\" among some communities during the jab rollout. He praised NHS staff behind the rollout of the vaccine, and described the programme as \"tremendous\", saying it didn't \"just happen\". Staff joked they had been \"thinking and dreaming\" of vaccines all day and night with some describing working seven-day weeks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a video call, the Duke of Cambridge said the vaccination programme was \"tremendous\"\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nAnd it's been almost a month since people in some parts of the UK were allowed to meet in Christmas \"bubbles\", so what impact did this have?\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The boss of NHS England reveals Covid-19 jabs are being done much faster than people are newly catching the virus\n\nPeople in England are being vaccinated four times faster than new cases of the virus are being detected, NHS England's chief executive has said.\n\nSir Simon Stevens told the BBC that 140 people a minute were now being given the jab, usually the first dose of two.\n\nBut he said the NHS had never been in a more precarious position, with 75% more Covid patients than at the April peak.\n\nIt comes as a further 298,087 people received their first dose of the vaccine on Saturday.\n\nThere were also 671 more deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test, and another 38,598 positive tests.\n\nSir Simon told the Andrew Marr Show some hospitals would open for vaccinations 24 hours a day, seven days a week on a trial basis in the next 10 days.\n\nHe said England was on course to deliver 1.5 million doses this week. Scotland has delivered a total of more than 224,000 first doses, Wales has given over 126,000 and Northern Ireland nearly 118,000 - although Scotland and Wales do not report figures at the weekend.\n\nHalf of all over-80s have now been vaccinated, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said. \"Each jab brings us one step closer to normal,\" he said.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab told the BBC that the UK was making \"good progress\" in ensuring every adult was offered a vaccine by September and \"if it can be done more swiftly, that's a bonus\".\n\nMore people have now been vaccinated than have had positive tests since the pandemic began, with 10 more mass vaccination sites due to open in England on Monday.\n\nSir Simon said hospitals and staff were under \"extreme pressure\", however. Asked if the NHS has ever been in a more precarious situation, he said \"no\", adding that the pandemic was a \"unique event\" in its 72-year history.\n\nSomeone was being admitted to hospital with coronavirus every 30 seconds, Sir Simon said, and since Christmas patient numbers had risen by 15,000 - the equivalent of 30 full hospitals.\n\nIt means there are 75% more Covid-19 patients in hospital than there were in the April peak, the NHS chief executive said.\n\nAlthough there were promising signs infection rates were falling, he said they were still too high and rising in some areas and age groups, including the over-60s.\n\nHe said the number of critical care beds had been increased by 50% since the first wave of the pandemic but a \"very small number\" of patients were still having to be transferred between regions when hospitals were full.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The foreign secretary said there would be increased UK border checks next week\n\nAsked about the ratio of nurses to patients in London intensive care units, Sir Simon said there were sometimes three patients for every nurse rather than the one-to-one ratio normally expected. But patients were receiving the \"highest quality care possible\".\n\nAbout 53,000 NHS staff are currently off work due to the virus, he added.\n\nSir Simon said the health service would only be able to maintain the vaccination rate and \"hold the line if people continue to do the right thing and prevent the transmission of coronavirus\".\n\nVaccinating priority groups by the spring would not mean that \"with one bound we are free\" of coronavirus restrictions, he said. But he added: \"I don't think we will have to wait until the autumn.\"\n\nHe said he suspected that there would be enough supply of the vaccine - \"the crucial thing\" - to begin lifting restrictions before then.\n\nSir Simon also warned that although starting with the most vulnerable groups reduced the risk of deaths, a quarter of hospital patients with the virus were currently under 55 - and therefore not a priority unless they have a medical condition that puts them at additional risk.\n\nAsked about suggestions that some vaccination centres were having to throw away leftover doses, he said: \"The guidance from the chief medical officer is crystal clear: every last drop of vaccine should be used.\"\n\nMany centres were finding they were able to get six doses out of a five-dose vial, and Sir Simon said they should keep a reserve list of staff and high-risk patients who could be contacted to receive a vaccination at short notice.\n\nDr Rosie Shire from the Doctors' Association UK told the BBC that as well as sometimes getting six doses out of the five-dose Pfizer vials, they had also got 11 or 12 doses out of 10-dose AstraZeneca vials.\n\nBut she said the uncertain dose count made it harder to know how many last-minute appointments to book in order to use up the supply.\n\nMr Raab said that he was not aware of any delays to supplies from manufacturers Pfizer and AstraZeneca and said he was \"confident we have the flexibility\" to deliver enough doses.\n\n\"It is an enormous challenge. We are meeting it,\" he said. \"But we take nothing for granted.\"\n\nThe foreign secretary said the risk that new variants could prove resistant to vaccines or more deadly meant the UK had to take the \"precautionary approach\" of requiring all travellers to quarantine on arrival from Monday, closing the travel corridors which previously been exempt.\n\n\"We don't want to find in two or three weeks time that our vaccine roll out is imperilled because we haven't taken the precautionary measures on travel corridors,\" he said.\n\nChecks by Border Force on the passenger locator forms filled out on arrival would be increased, Mr Raab said, as would the follow-up calls by Public Health England intended to ensure people were isolating for up to 10 days.\n\nAsked whether the UK would introduce quarantine hotels to ensure people maintained their isolation, he said all potential measures were under review but there was a challenge in the \"workability\" of the proposal.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Smoke rises from Mount Semeru, the highest volcano on the Indonesian island of Java\n\nIndonesia's Mount Semeru has erupted, pouring ash an estimated 5.6km (3.4 miles) into the sky above Java, the country's most densely populated island.\n\nNo evacuation orders have so far been issued, and no casualties reported.\n\nThe National Disaster Mitigation Agency (NDMA) warned villagers living on the mountain's slopes to be alert for ongoing volcanic activity.\n\nFootage showed ash from the 3,676m (12,060ft) volcano looming over homes.\n\n\"The villages of Sumber Mujur and Curah Koboan [in Lumajang municipality] are located in the trajectory of the hot clouds,\" local official Thoriqul Haq said on Saturday.\n\nResidents of the Curah Kobokan river basin have been urged to watch for possible \"cold lava\" mudflow, which can be triggered by intense rainfall combining with volcanic material.\n\nMount Semeru erupted at about 17:24 local time (10:24 GMT), authorities said.\n\nA picture from the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management shows ash rolling over the landscape\n\nIndonesia sits on the Pacific \"Ring of Fire\" where tectonic plates collide, causing frequent volcanic activity as well as earthquakes.\n\nSemeru - also known as \"The Great Mountain\" - is the highest volcano in Java and one of the most active. It is also one of Indonesia's most popular tourist hiking destinations.\n\nThe volcano previously erupted in December, when about 550 people were evacuated.", "A non-binding Labour motion calling for the universal credit top-up to be kept in place beyond 31 March passed by 278 votes to none after a Commons debate.\n\nSix Tory MPs defied party orders to abstain and voted with Labour, adding to the pressure on the PM on the issue.\n\nThe prime minister said the government had provided £280bn worth of support during the pandemic but all measures would be kept under \"constant review\".\n\nThe motion, which will not automatically lead to a change in policy, was put forward by Labour as a way to put additional pressure on the government to continue the increase, worth £1,000 a year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carl, a roofer, describes going from \"not having enough to barely having enough\" on universal credit.\n\nFormer Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb was among six Conservative MPs to rebel, along with Peter Aldous, Robert Halfon, Jason McCartney, Anne Marie Morris and Matthew Offord.\n\nAhead of the vote, Mr Crabb told the BBC that although there were \"difficult pressures on the chancellor\" extending the increase for 12 months was \"the right thing to do\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there were dozens of Conservative MPs who were \"deeply uneasy\" about ending the £20 weekly increase to universal credit.\n\nShe added that it was also understood the cabinet minister with responsibility for benefits, Therese Coffey, was arguing that the uplift should not be dropped in April.\n\nCharities and anti-poverty campaigners are pleading with the government to keep the support in place, describing it as a lifeline for more than 5.5 million families who receive the standard universal credit allowance.\n\nFood poverty campaigner and chef Jack Monroe told the BBC that the £20 increase \"has been a lifeline\" for millions of people who have needed to top up their income or rely on universal credit payments in order to get by.\n\nSir Keir said the increase was a vital safety net for those who had lost their jobs, seen their working hours slashed or who were not eligible for the government's wage subsidy furlough scheme.\n\n\"If we don't give a helping hand to families through this pandemic, then we are going to slow our economic recovery as we come out it.\n\n\"We urge Boris Johnson to change course and give families certainty today that their incomes will be protected.\"\n\nSix billion pounds of the benefits bill - the difference between poverty or not for 1.2 million families, according to a think tank.\n\nThe £1,040 a year increase to universal credit is a very emotive issue.\n\nThere's even a battle over what to call it.\n\nTo the government, its introduction was a one-off boost to cope with a crisis. For Labour, taking it away is a cut.\n\nMinisters would prefer we looked at the overall level of support they've provided for workers and businesses during the pandemic. The opposition say the £20 a week boost is a powerful symbol of the state's willingness to help.\n\nEven the act of debating it today is disputed. Labour say they've got the right occasionally to set the agenda in Parliament. Boris Johnson said his MPs risk abuse from campaigners and protestors if they engage.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has suggested about 16 million people will be directly affected if the £20 is rolled back.\n\nIt says 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty, including 200,000 children, while a further 500,000 of those already in poverty will find themselves in even worse hardship.\n\nHowever, free market think tank the Institute for Economic Affairs has argued that \"across-the-board benefit increases are a wasteful use of taxpayers' money\" at a time when the government is borrowing \"a hair-raising amount of money\".\n\nUniversal credit is a single payment replacing old benefits such as housing benefit and child tax credits.\n\nYou can claim universal credit if you are on a low income or are out of work.\n\nThe standard allowance varies from around £340 to just under £600 a month, depending on your age or whether you are single.\n\nYou may be eligible to receive more money on top of the standard allowance if, for example, you have children or a health condition.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the Northern Research Group, Conservative MP John Stevenson said the £1,000 increase had been \"a real life-saver for people throughout this pandemic\".\n\n\"To end it now would be devastating for the 6 million individuals and families who are already struggling to stay afloat,\" he added.\n\nWhile the vote is not binding, and will not lead to a change in policy, it will increase pressure on the government to keep the increase or come up with an alternative.\n\nLabour said the Conservatives' decision to abstain created \"unnecessary uncertainty\" but minister Nadhim Zahawi described the vote as \"a political stunt\".\n\nThe government says it has strengthened the welfare system with an extra £7bn of funding during the pandemic while families struggling with food and household bills can get help through the £170m Winter Grant Scheme.\n\nMinisters also point to extra support for housing costs, through an increase in local housing allowance for those on housing benefits and hardship payments worth £670m next year for those unable to pay their council tax bills.", "A further 1,295 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test have been reported in the UK, the third-highest daily total since the pandemic began.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths by this measure to 88,590.\n\nThere have also been a further 41,346 lab-confirmed cases, and 4,262 more people have been admitted to hospital.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director for Public Health England, said the \"continuous rise in cases and deaths should be a bitter warning for us all\".\n\n\"We must not forget the basics,\" she added. \"The lives of our friends and family depend on it.\n\n\"Keep your distance from others, wash your hands and wear a mask.\"\n\nThe latest figures come ahead of Monday's change in travel rules for the UK, with all travel corridors closing, meaning arrivals from every country will have to quarantine.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced the changes at Downing Street on Friday, saying they would \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid.\n\nWhile daily figures can fluctuate due to delays in reporting, the seven-day average of Covid deaths in the UK has now risen slightly to 1,103.\n\nFor cases, however, there has been a drop in the seven-day average, with the figure now at 48,565.\n\nThere are currently 37,475 people in hospital with the virus, government figures show, while a further 324,233 people have received their first vaccine dose.\n\nThe government has promised all the over-70s, the extremely clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers - about 15 million people - will be offered a jab by mid February.\n\nCurrently, just over 3.5 million doses have been administered.\n\nThe government has also announced £120m in funds for the social care sector to be used by local authorities to increase staffing levels.\n\nStaff absence rates have risen in care homes and among home care staff, due to them testing positive or having to self-isolate.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the money would bolster staffing numbers in a \"controlled and safe way, whilst ensuring people continue to receive the highest quality of care\".\n\nA further £149m funding was announced in December to support rapid testing of care home staff.\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM on Friday, England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said the number of patients being admitted to hospital with coronavirus was set to peak within the next 10 days, while the peak for deaths was also yet to come.\n\nHe added, however, that he hoped the peak in infections had already happened in the South East, East and London, where there was a surge in the new, more transmissible variant.\n\n\"The peak of deaths I fear is in the future, the peak of hospitalisations in some parts of the country may be around about now and beginning to come off the very, very top,\" he said.\n\n\"Because people are sticking so well to the guidelines we do think the peaks are coming over the next week to 10 days for most places in terms of new people into hospital.\"\n\nHowever, chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance stressed it was a \"suppressed peak\" that would \"boil over for sure\" if controls were eased.\n\nHe said: \"This is not the natural peak that's going to come down on its own, it's coming down because of the measures that are in place.\n\n\"Take the lid off now and it's going to boil over for sure and we're going to end up with a big problem.\"\n\nMeanwhile, on Saturday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer suggested he would back further coronavirus measures, as \"the tougher the restrictions now the quicker we get the virus back under control\".\n\nSir Keir said he was \"still worried\" by the number of infections, despite signs they are falling - and that the \"sense that we are through the worst\" of the third wave was wrong.\n\n\"Nobody likes restrictions but the tougher the restrictions now the quicker we get the virus back under control, the quicker we reduce the number of hospital admissions and the quicker we get that number of deaths, tragically, down,\" he added.", "The Archbishop of Glasgow, the Most Reverend Philip Tartaglia, has died suddenly at his home in the city.\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia had tested positive for Covid-19 shortly after Christmas and was self-isolating.\n\nThe Catholic Church said the cause of his death was not yet clear.\n\nHe was ordained a priest in 1975 and had served as leader of Scotland's largest Catholic community since 2012.\n\nA statement from the Archdiocese of Glasgow said: \"It is with the greatest sorrow that we announce the death of our Archbishop.\n\n\"The Pope's Ambassador to Great Britain, Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti, has been informed.\n\n\"It will be for Pope Francis to appoint a new Archbishop to succeed Archbishop Tartaglia, but until then the Archdiocese will be overseen by an administrator.\"\n\nScotland's Catholic bishops described Archbishop Tartaglia as a \"gentle, caring and warm-hearted pastor\".\n\nThey said in a statement: \"His loss to his family, his clergy and the people of the Archdiocese of Glasgow will be immeasurable but for the entire Church in Scotland this is a day of immense loss and sadness.\n\n\"He was a gentle, caring and warm-hearted pastor who combined compassion with a piercing intellect.\n\n\"His contribution to the work of the Bishops' Conference of Scotland over the past 16 years was significant and we will miss his wisdom, wit and robust Catholic spirit very much.\"\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia had been self-isolating at home after contracting coronavirus\n\nThe statement concluded: \"On behalf of the Bishops of Scotland, we commend his soul into the hands of God and pray that he may enjoy eternal rest.\"\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia was a lifelong Celtic fan and the club tweeted their tribute to him: \"We are saddened to hear of the death of Archbishop Philip Tartaglia who was a huge supporter of the club and regularly attended matches at Celtic Park.\n\n\"Everyone at Celtic offers their sincere condolences to Philip's family and Scotland's Catholic community at this sad time.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the archbishop was \"a fine man who was much loved within the Catholic community and beyond\".\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted: \"I always valued my interactions with him and he will be greatly missed. My thoughts are with his loved ones and wider community. May he rest in peace.\"\n\nThe leader of the Scottish Conservatives, Douglas Ross, tweeted: \"Tragic news about the sudden passing of Archbishop Philip Tartaglia. My condolences to his friends and family.\n\n\"His death will be keenly felt within the Catholic Church and across the wider community.\"\n\nThe leader of Glasgow City Council described the archbishop as \"a true Glaswegian\" who \"knew its people and the challenges faced by ordinary citizens, regardless of their faith or beliefs\".\n\nCouncillor Susan Aitken added: \"He was also unafraid to use his position to challenge deprivation, austerity and the ill-effects of welfare reform when he believed it was his duty to call them out.\"\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia was born in Glasgow on 11 January 1951 - the eldest son of Guido and Annita Tartaglia.\n\nAfter attending St Thomas' Primary in Riddrie, he began his secondary education at St Mungo's Academy before moving to the national junior seminary at St Vincent's College, Langbank.\n\nHe later attended St Mary's College, at Blairs, Aberdeen, before completing his ecclesiastical studies at the Pontifical Scots College, and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.\n\nOn returning to Scotland, he was an assistant and then parish priest at Our Lady of Lourdes, Cardonald, St Patrick's, Dumbarton, and St Mary's, Duntocher.\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia was ordained by then Archbishop Thomas Winning in the Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel, Dennistoun, on 30 June 1975.\n\nHe was a leading opponent of proposals to legalise same-sex marriage in Scotland and also criticised ministers over anti-bigotry legislation.\n\nThe Archdiocese of Glasgow is the largest of Scotland's eight dioceses with an estimated Catholic population of about 200,000. It comprises 95 parishes and is served by about 200 priests.\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia was the eighth person to hold the office since the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in Scotland in 1878.\n\nHe followed Archbishop Mario Conti and Archbishop Thomas Winning, who later became Cardinal Winning.", "The player told police he had travelled from his home in Bedworth to hunt the characters\n\nA man has been fined for breaking lockdown rules after travelling 14 miles to play Pokemon Go.\n\nHe admitted to Warwickshire Police he had driven from his home in Bedworth to look for the characters in Kenilworth.\n\nHe was fined £200 for \"contravening the requirement to not leave or be outside the place they live without a reasonable excuse\".\n\n\"Everyone has a part to play in ensuring they slow the spread of the virus,\" a police spokeswoman said.\n\n\"We would like to remind people they must not leave or be outside their home unless they have a reasonable excuse.\"\n\nPokemon Go is a Japanese augmented reality game for smartphones. First launched in 2016, it allows players to hunt for characters that \"appear\" in real-life places.\n\nIt has been downloaded around the world more than one billion times.", "Hashem Abedi (left) and Ahmed Hassan are due to appear at Bromley Magistrates' Court\n\nThe Manchester Arena and Parsons Green bombers have been charged with assaulting a prison officer together, the BBC has learned.\n\nHashem Abedi, 23, and Ahmed Hassan, 21, are accused of assaulting an officer in HMP Belmarsh, south London, in May last year.\n\nAnother man who is awaiting sentencing for terror offences is also charged with assaulting the same person.\n\nThe three men are due to appear at Bromley Magistrates' Court on 7 April.\n\nAbedi, who was jailed in August for murdering the 22 victims of the May 2017 Manchester Arena attack, is also charged with assaulting a second prison officer during the same incident on 11 May.\n\nHassan, from London, whose Parsons Green tube bomb injured 51 people in September 2017, was jailed for attempted murder the following year.\n\nMuhammed Saeed, 22, from Manchester, is the third person charged. Last year, he admitted possessing terrorist documents.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Up to 400,000 people could be given the Covid-19 vaccine every week by the end of February, Scottish Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has told MSPs.\n\nHealth teams are ramping up the rollout of jabs, with 1,100 vaccination centres now open and using two vaccines.\n\nMinisters aim to vaccinate care home residents, NHS staff and over-80s by the first week of February.\n\nThey then hope to have completed the over-70 group by mid-February and over-65 and vulnerable groups by March.\n\nThis would see 1.4m people given the jab, and Ms Freeman said the government's \"priority is to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible\".\n\nHowever, the BMA Scottish GP Committee has warned the vaccine supply is \"stuttering\" and blamed \"bureaucratic hold-ups\" for delaying distribution.\n\nIn a statement at Holyrood, the health secretary said Scotland faces \"a more perilous situation than at any point in this pandemic\", with the new variant of coronavirus \"increasing in its dominance\" of infections north of the border.\n\nHowever Ms Freeman said there was hope in the form of the vaccination programme, which she said was \"scaling up rapidly\".\n\nA first dose of vaccine has now been given to just over 80% of care home residents and 55% of staff, along with 52% of frontline NHS staff.\n\nAnd in the eight days since 4 January, just over 2% of those aged 80 or over in the community have been given a first dose.\n\nMs Freeman said that age was \"the greatest risk factor for serious illness and death from Covid, and represents well over 90% of preventable mortality\".\n\nThe government is prioritising giving a first dose to as many people as possible, which Ms Freeman said provides \"very high protection\", with a second dose of the same vaccine then administered within 12 weeks.\n\nMs Freeman said that by the end of February, an average of 400,000 people should be getting a jab per week.\n\nJeane Freeman said the vaccine programme was \"scaling up rapidly\"\n\nThe government is also working to set up large vaccination centres in the community, which could handle up to 20,000 vaccinations a week in a single location.\n\nSites include the Event Complex conference centre in Aberdeen, Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility in Motherwell, Queen Margaret University in Musselburgh and the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, and Ms Freeman said work was ongoing to secure more centres in the Glasgow area in particular.\n\nA total of 4.5m adults in Scotland are in line to be vaccinated.\n\nMs Freeman said she was aware that people would \"want to know when it will be their turn\", saying a national advertising campaign would be established to \"inform the public\".\n\nScottish Conservative health spokesman Donald Cameron said it was \"clear not enough people are being vaccinated each day and timetables are slipping\".\n\nHe also asked Ms Freeman whether there were delays to the creation of a national booking system, after speculation that it could hold up the start of mass vaccinations.\n\nThe health secretary said she did not believe it was the case that timetables were slipping, and said there were no delays to the national booking system - adding that it would be \"ready from the beginning of February to do its job\".\n\nMeanwhile Scottish Labour's Monica Lennon asked how quickly the country could move to a 24 hours a day rollout of vaccines.\n\nMs Freeman said this was \"entirely possible\" once the mass vaccination centres are open, saying she \"would anticipate that would be by the end of February or early March\".\n\nShe said: \"The will is there to do that, if that is what it takes, because the objective is to get as many people vaccinated as possible.\"\n\nThe BMA Scottish GP Committee has said practices \"don't know when their next supply is coming in\".\n\nIts chairman, Dr Andrew Buist, told BBC Scotland's Drivetime programme the Scottish government \"must do everything possible to ensure vaccine supply is as good as it can be\".\n\nHe said: \"I've spoken with the chief medical officer about this and emphasised we should remove any bureaucratic hold-up to the distribution of this vaccine.\n\n\"People are obviously very anxious to get it as soon as possible.\n\n\"We know what the priority groups are, we have the practices ready and running to give it to their patients. We just need to get the vaccine to them.\"\n• None All over-80s to be vaccinated by February", "More than six million glasses of pink prosecco were enjoyed by Lidl customers over the festive period as strict Covid rules prompted people to indulge.\n\nThe discount supermarket reported record total sales for the four weeks to 27 December with revenue up 18%.\n\nTakeaway firm Just Eat and online fashion retailer Asos have also reported stellar sales for the period.\n\nAll three benefited as restaurants and non-essential shops faced strict curbs or were forced to close.\n\nDemand was so strong, Lidl said it had shifted 7,000 glasses of mulled wine and almost 17,000 deluxe mince pies every hour in the run up to Christmas.\n\nIt also sold more than 2.7 million servings of panettone, the festive Italian cake.\n\nLidl continued to press ahead with its store expansion programme in the period, opening four new stores in December at a time when many businesses are closing down.\n\nBoss Christian Härtnagel said: \"Despite this Christmas being a difficult time for many across the country, we are pleased to have been able to help our customers enjoy themselves.\n\n\"As we look ahead to this year, we remain committed to our expansion and investment plans,\" he added.\n\nJust Eat said delivery orders in the UK surged 58% in the last three months of 2020 compared with the same period last year.\n\nThe takeaway firm, which operates around the world, said this had been its third consecutive quarter of growth, reflecting the huge demand for takeaway food as restaurants have faced curbs and closures.\n\nBoss Jitse Groen said the firm's progress in the UK was \"particularly exciting\" with demand up nearly five-fold in the fourth quarter of 2020 compared with the same period in 2019.\n\nIts UK sales force has also doubled compared with last year.\n\nIt was a similar story for Asos, whose sales for the four months to 31 December rose 36% to £554.1m, something it credited in part to restrictions on non-essential shops.\n\nThe fashion retailer, which also operates across Europe and the US, said its active customer base was now 24.5 million, up 1.1 million on the same period last year.\n\nRichard Lim, head of analysts Retail Economics, said: \"Lockdowns, fewer opportunities to mix socially and cancelled Christmas parties have decimated the demand for new outfits this year.\n\n\"But what consumers did spend was focused towards casual-wear and channelled online where the retailer was well position to leverage this opportunity.\"", "Boris Johnson has said there is still a very substantial risk of intensive care units in hospitals being overwhelmed by the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes on a day when the UK has recorded the highest number of deaths in a single day in Europe.\n\nFergal Keane last visited the Imperial Healthcare Trust’s St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospital in London last April.\n\nHe's been back to see how they're coping.", "Plans have been announced to overhaul the mental health system - with the aim of making it less discriminatory towards black people.\n\nMinisters say changes to how people are sectioned in England and Wales will see them treated \"as individuals, with rights, preferences, and expertise\".\n\nBlack people are over four times more likely to be detained under the Mental Health Act, relative to population.\n\nThe mental health charity Mind said the changes \"cannot come soon enough.\"\n\nPeople are detained under the mental health act - or sectioned - for their own safety, or the safety of others.\n\nHow long they are detained for varies - but once detained, they are immediately considered to be \"sectioned\".\n\nUse of the Mental Health Act has increased markedly - from 2005/6 to 2015/16, the number of people detained in hospital increased by 40%.\n\nNHS data for England shows there were at least 50,893 new detentions under the Mental Health Act in 2019/20 - but the overall total will be higher as not all providers submitted data.\n\nOf those detentions, 5,336 people were black or black British.\n\nThe data also shows that in 2019/20 there were 321 detentions per 100,000 population for people who were black or black British - while there were 73 detentions per 100,000 for white people.\n\nWith the act disproportionately used against black people, the reforms will see a Patient and Carers Race Equality Framework introduced across all NHS mental health trusts - which the government describes as a practical tool to improve the outcome for BAME communities.\n\nWhat ministers call \"culturally appropriate advocates\" will also be developed, so patients from all ethnic backgrounds can be supported.\n\n\"We need to bring mental health laws into the 21st Century,\" said Health Secretary Matt Hancock.\n\n\"I want to ensure our health service works for all, yet the Mental Health Act is now 40 years old.\n\n\"This is a significant moment in how we support those with serious mental health issues, which will give people more autonomy over their care and will tackle disparities for all who access services - in particular for people from minority ethnic backgrounds.\"\n\nThe reforms will also ensure that autism or a learning disability cannot be a reason for detaining someone under the act.\n\nIn future, a clinician will have to identify another psychiatric condition to order their detention.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is it like to be sectioned?\n\nThe current Mental Health Act dates from 1983 and the aim of these reforms, which are widely supported, is to give people greater say over their care and to rebalance the system between the state and the individual.\n\nAmong the recommendations are plans to introduce statutory advance choice documents which will allow people to express their preferred treatment before they reach a crisis and need hospitalisation.\n\n\"This is just the beginning of what is now a long overdue process,\" said Sophie Corlett, director of external relations at the mental health charity Mind.\n\n\"At the moment, thousands of people are still subjected to poor, sometimes appalling, treatment, and many will live with the consequences far into the future.\n\n\"Our understanding of mental health has moved on significantly in recent decades but our laws are rooted in the 19th Century.\"\n\nThe recommendations, set out in a government White Paper, build on the proposals from an independent review of the act, which was ordered by then prime minister Theresa May in October 2017 and which published its conclusions in December 2018.\n\nMinisters intend to publish a Mental Health Bill in 2022, following a consultation on their plans.", "Amnesty says about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the Northern Ireland homes,\n\nThere have been calls for an inquiry into mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes as the Irish government is to apologise after an investigation found an \"appalling level of infant mortality\" in the Republic of Ireland's homes.\n\nAbout 9,000 children died in the 18 institutions under investigation.\n\nMothers and babies who were in similar homes in Northern Ireland want a full inquiry to be held in NI too.\n\nStormont commissioned research into whether or not there should an inquiry held into the homes which operated in Northern Ireland, is due to be published by the end of January.\n\nPatrick Corrigan from Amnesty International said the issue of forced adoptions also needs close scrutiny.\n\n\"We have had cases of mothers telling us that ultimately, many decades later, when they tried to track down their long-lost children they found adoption certificates where they said their signature had actually been forged,\" he said.\n\n\"So I think that there is criminality to investigate here and that it behoves the Northern Ireland Executive to set up the inquiry that has long been sought here and long been denied.\"\n\nIn 2017 research into infant mortality rates at former mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland had prompted initial calls for a public inquiry.\n\nBBC News NI previously spoke to Eunan Duffy who was 47 years old when he found out he was adopted from Marianvale mother and baby home in Newry, County Down.\n\nIt was one of a network of institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland which offered women the voluntary option, for those who were unmarried, to give birth in private and give their babies up for adoption\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marian Vale was one of a network of mother and baby institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland\n\nAmnesty says there were more than a dozen mother-and-baby institutions in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt said about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the Northern Ireland homes, operated by both Catholic and Protestant churches and religious organisations.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, research into mother and baby homes and Magdalene laundries was commissioned three years ago and was initially expected to take 12 months.\n\nIt was completed in February last year, but was then sent to those facing criticism to give them an opportunity to reply.\n\nA Department of Health spokesperson said: \"A paper will be brought to the executive shortly for its consideration. Subject to executive approval, it is intended to publish the research report before the end of January 2021.\"\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, the commission that investigated the homes found that the number of children who died was about 15% of all those who were born in the institutions.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Mícheál Martin said the report, which can be read in full here, described a \"dark, difficult and shameful chapter\" of Irish history.\n\nSolicitor Claire McKeegan, who represents the Birth Mothers for Justice group, welcomed the apology in the Republic of Ireland, but said mothers and children in NI had not received one.\n\n\"The crimes perpetrated on them have yet to be investigated,\" she said.\n\n\"Those perpetrators who forced them into arbitrary detention, hard labour and colluded in the forced adoption of their babies, remain unchallenged in this jurisdiction.\"\n\nMary O'Neill became pregnant when she was 18 and was sent to Marianvale in Newry in the late 1970s.\n\nThere she gave birth to a baby girl who was taken away from her almost immediately after the birth.\n\nShe wanted to keep the baby, but was not allowed and was told the baby would be put up for adoption.\n\nThe mother and baby scandal became an international news story when 'significant human remains' were found on the grounds of a former home in County Galway\n\nMs O'Neill told Good Morning Ulster she eventually tracked down her daughter after 40 years.\n\n\"It was a long search, everywhere you went you were up against a brick wall,\" she said.\n\n\"There was no help, the social workers didn't want to tell you anything.\"\n\nShe finally found out her daughter was living in America but was coming home for her 40th birthday.\n\nShe said when she met her it was like meeting a stranger.\n\n\"But thank God we have met and we have a good relationship. She's still keeping in touch,\" Ms O'Neill said.\n\n\"It means the world to me, because you always wondered where was she? Was she happy? Did she know about you?\n\n\"It was always in the back of your mind. It never went away, the tears and the heartache.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs O'Neill said she was happy the victims in the Republic of Ireland were getting an apology, but wishes the homes in Northern Ireland could have been included.\n\nMechelle Dillon's mother was 21 and pregnant when she was sent to Marianvale in Newry in 1969.\n\nShe was placed in foster care a few months after her birth.\n\nHer mother returned to her home village and then moved to England. But she came back for Mechelle when she was around eight or nine-months-old.\n\nShe said she believed she was not adopted because she was born with a cyst on her mouth.\n\n\"I would have maybe been classed as a reject, if you want to put it that way,\" she said.\n\n\"It's the same as if you go to look for a little puppy and if the puppy doesn't feel right and you think 'Oh God, I'll have a lot of vet bills here, I don't want that puppy' - I would have probably been classed the same because I would have had that defect.\"\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said \"the executive should move quickly to publish the research report and then call a full public inquiry\".", "The numbers of care home residents and staff testing positive for Covid-19 have hit their highest levels.\n\nThere were 1,507 positive tests in care homes in Wales in the most recent week, a 78% rise on the week before.\n\nAcross Wales, 37,026 residents and staff were tested by either the NHS or the Lighthouse laboratories the week beginning 4 January, according to Public Health Wales.\n\nBroken down, 6,466 care home residents were tested in the most recent week and 582 (9%) were positive in results from NHS laboratories.\n\nAlso, 248 care home workers tested positive, with about 96% of tests negative.\n\nBut there were another 677 positive test results from Lighthouse labs, which do not distinguish between residents and care home staff.\n\nAll of these categories saw the highest numbers yet recorded.\n\nResidents and staff are supposed to be tested weekly at care homes in Wales.\n\nCare Home Inspectorate Wales also now publish separate figures around testing , which showed 137 care homes in Wales (13%) had notified one or more positive cases in staff or residents in the most recent week available and 31.8% within the last month.\n\nSwansea had 17 care homes which had notified at least one case in the week ending 1 January; Cardiff had 15 homes with at least one case and Bridgend was next with 13 care homes.", "Decima Minhinnick, pictured at her 90th birthday party, lives in a care home and has vascular dementia\n\nA couple who were fined £60 for driving 20 minutes to see a relative in a care home have had their fine cancelled by police.\n\nCarol and David Richards from Bridgend travelled seven miles to Porthcawl to visit her mother Decima Minhinnick, 94.\n\nOn Tuesday, police defended the fine, claiming the couple had broken lockdown rules.\n\nOn Wednesday, South Wales Police said it had \"since been reviewed and the notice has been rescinded\".\n\n\"The individual concerned has been notified\".\n\nIn a statement, it added: \"Wales remains at alert level four and South Wales Police will continue to patrol our communities to ensure the legislation, which has been enacted to slow the spread of coronavirus, is complied with\".\n\nMrs Richards has said she was \"mortified\" they were stopped by police while returning on Sunday from what she said was a compassionate visit.\n\nShe said on Tuesday she did not believe they breached lockdown rules.\n\nMrs Richards said the couple had arranged the visit to Picton Court Care Home in advance with the permission of staff, and spoke to her mother, who has vascular dementia, through the window of her ground-floor room from the car park.\n\nDavid and Carol Richards complained about the £60 fine\n\nShe told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that when she was issued with the fine it was like \"a sort of dystopian novel\", adding that the officer involved was \"pedantic and inflexible\".\n\n\"I was angry - she just would not listen to any protestations, and so she said 'you're going to be issued with a £60 fixed penalty fine'.\n\n\"It's not about the 60 quid, it's about the principle.\"\n\nThe home is just over seven miles from where the couple live", "Tony Parsons was last seen on 29 September 2017\n\nPolice have discovered human remains during a search for a man who went missing more than three years ago during a charity cycle ride.\n\nTony Parsons, from Tillicoultry, was last seen on 29 September 2017 outside the Bridge of Orchy Hotel.\n\nDetectives said the discovery was made during a detailed search of a remote site close to a farm near the A82 at Bridge of Orchy.\n\nPolice said that Mr Parsons' family have been made aware of the discovery.\n\nEfforts to recover the remains will continue over the coming days before a post mortem is held to establish their identity.\n\nTwo men, both aged 29, were arrested and then released pending further inquiries in December in connection with the disappearance of Mr Parsons.\n\nPolice have been carrying out searches in the area in recent days\n\nDet Ch Insp Alan Somerville said: \"This is clearly a significant development and extensive work is ongoing to recover the remains and confirm their identity.\n\n\"We have informed Mr Parsons' family, who are being supported by specialist officers.\n\n\"The thoughts of everyone involved in the investigation are with them at this difficult time.\"\n\nMr Parsons cycled through Glencoe village and was last seen at the Bridge of Orchy Hotel\n\nThe former navy officer, who was 63 when he went missing, was last seen outside the hotel at about 23:30. He then continued south along the A82 in the direction of Tyndrum but there were no more sightings of him after that.\n\nExtensive searches were carried out in the area, involving local mountain rescue teams, volunteers, Police Scotland dogs and the force's air support unit.\n\nMr Parsons had caught the train to Fort William on the day he was last seen with the intention of cycling the 104-mile (167km) journey home to Tillicoultry.", "Covid vaccinations will be offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week as soon as supply allows, Boris Johnson says.\n\nThe prime minister said the plan was to extend opening hours of vaccination centres - at the moment, most sites run from 08:00 to 22:00.\n\nThe 24-7 service will be piloted in a small number of places first - with NHS staff likely to be offered the option of overnight vaccinations first.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said supply was the limiting factor at the moment.\n\nThe NHS had just over a million doses available last week and used up most of them.\n\nThis week, there are thought to be more but not yet enough to vaccinate two million people - the weekly target the government is aiming to reach in the coming weeks.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said there would be 24-7 vaccination \"as soon as possible\".\n\nThe UK has access to two vaccines at the moment - the Pfizer-BioNTech jab and another produced in partnership by Oxford University and AstraZeneca.\n\nA third vaccine made by the US company Moderna has been approved but is not yet available to the UK.\n\nMr Johnson praised the work of the more than 200 hospitals and 1,000 GP-led NHS vaccination sites running at the moment.\n\n\"They are going exceptionally fast,\" he added.\n\nBy the end of Monday, 2.4 million people had received their first vaccine dose.\n\nThe government has promised all the over-70s, the extremely clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers - about 15 million people - will be offered a jab by mid February.\n\nThere is actually enough vaccine in the country to vaccinate all the highest at-risk groups.\n\nThe problem is that not all of it has been packaged into vials or passed through the final safety checks.\n\nThere should soon be two million doses available each week for the NHS to use.\n\nBut the key question once that is achieved is how quickly and by how much supply can increase from there.\n\nTo make full use of the network of vaccination centres - the ambition is to have 2,700 up and running - many millions of doses will be needed each week.\n\nThere is huge global demand for these vaccines.\n\nAnd while the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab is made in the UK, the Pfizer-BioNTech one is made abroad as is the Moderna vaccine.\n\nSupplies of the latter are not expected until the spring.\n\nThis is an issue the government is likely to be grappling with for some time.\n\nBut despite the concerns, it should also be recognised the UK has been quick out of the blocks.\n\nOnly two countries have vaccinated a larger proportion of the population than the UK.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was vital the government moved quickly.\n\nSpeaking about the planned 24-7 vaccination, he said: \"I obviously welcome that and urge the prime minister and the government to get on with this.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Nadhim Zahawi, the minister in charge of the vaccination programme, was also asked about supply, at an appearance before the Science and Technology Committee.\n\nHe said he had a \"clear line of sight\" for the expected numbers that would be available to the NHS for the next few months but refused to give any more detail.\n\n\"The more we show off about how many vaccine batches we're receiving, the more difficult life becomes for the manufacturers,\" he said.\n\nAstraZeneca vice president Sir Mene Pangalos said one of the issues the firm was facing was that infections among staff had begun to hinder production.\n\n\"I feel that it is critical that those who are working on vaccines are immunised because if you have an outbreak at one of the centres, which we've had actually or in one of the groups in Oxford that's working on new variants, or those working on the regulatory files everything stops.\"", "Changes to Scotland's lockdown restrictions have been announced. The tightening of the rules follows concerns the \"stay at home\" message is not having the same impact it did during last year's lockdown. The changes will come into effect on Saturday.\n\nThe availability and operation of click and collect services will be limited to retailers selling essential items such as clothes, footwear, baby equipment, homeware and books. Also, outlets that sell electrical goods; do key cutting; undertake shoe repairs, plus garden centres and plant nurseries can continue the collect service.\n\nFor qualifying businesses, staggered appointments will need to be offered to avoid any potential for queuing, and access inside premises for collection will not be permitted.\n\nCustomers in Scotland will no longer be allowed to go inside to collect takeaway food or coffee. Businesses will have to operate from a serving hatch or doorway.\n\nThe aim is to reduce the risk of customers coming into contact indoors with each other, or with staff.\n\nIt will be against the law in all level four areas of Scotland to drink alcohol outdoors in public.\n\nThis will mean that buying a takeaway pint and consuming on the street will not be permitted.\n\nIt is intended to underline the message that people should only be leaving home for essential purposes.\n\nThe Scottish government is strengthening the obligation on employers to allow their staff to work from home whenever possible.\n\nThe law already says that people should only be leaving home to go to work if it is work that cannot be done from home. This is a legal obligation that falls on individuals.\n\nHowever, statutory guidance is being introduced to make clear that employers should support employees to work from home wherever possible.\n\nThe Scottish government is strengthening provisions in relation to work inside people's houses.\n\nCurrent guidance says that in level four areas work is only permitted within a private dwelling if it is essential for the upkeep, maintenance and functioning of the household. This guidance is now being put into law.\n\nThe final change is an amendment to the regulations requiring people to stay at home.\n\nThis is intended to close an apparent loophole rather than change the spirit of the law. It will also bring the wording of the stay at home regulations in Scotland into line with the other UK nations.\n\nCurrently the law states that people can only leave home for an essential purpose.\n\nThe amendment will make it clear that people \"must not leave or remain outside\" the home unless it is for an essential purpose.\n\nThe Scottish government's full lockdown guidance is available here.", "The Lauberhorn course is the longest downhill run in the world (file image)\n\nA British tourist has been blamed for a spike in coronavirus cases that led officials to cancel Switzerland's famous Lauberhorn ski race.\n\nThe resort of Wengen, where the race is held, had recorded only 10 cases of the virus by mid-December.\n\nBut the number soon began to rise and many cases have since been linked to the new highly infectious variant of Covid-19 first identified in the UK.\n\nAt least 27 cases are connected to one British tourist, contact tracers say.\n\nThe tourist stayed in a hotel in Wengen over the holiday period.\n\nThe Lauberhorn course is the longest downhill run in the world, and racers can reach speeds of 160km/h (100 mph).\n\nOfficials desperately tried to save the race, shutting schools and offering to close off the resort to everyone but the competitors.\n\nSwiss health officials initially agreed with the plan, but a further jump in cases at the start of this week prompted them to pull the emergency brake and cancel the event.\n\nThe Lauberhorn track is 4,480m (14,700ft) long - and the race will now have to wait until 2022\n\nWengen is devastated. The Lauberhorn is one of the top competitions on the World Cup ski circuit. It is dearly loved by the Swiss, who have watched with delight as some of their own homegrown talent, such as Beat Feuz and Carlo Janka, have triumphed there.\n\nMoreover, the long love affair between Switzerland and British winter tourists has frosted over to some extent.\n\nIt was only last month that the vanishing Brits of Verbier, who reportedly fled Switzerland rather than accept the government mandated quarantine, triggered a flurry of negative headlines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Italy's Foppolo ski resort was closed until 6 January and missed the all-important Christmas ski season\n\nNow the high point of Switzerland's skiing calendar has been abruptly cancelled, and some Swiss blame the British.\n\nOthers say Switzerland only has itself to blame.\n\nWhile neighbours France and Italy closed their resorts over the festive period, the Swiss government opted for a precarious balancing act. It kept its slopes open, but closed all bars and restaurants and limited ski lifts to two-thirds capacity.\n\nMost Swiss resorts are quiet, with just a few locals enjoying the runs. But still some tourists arrived and, as Wengen's experience shows, just one infected guest is enough to cause major damage.\n\nInstead of hosting a major ski race, Wengen officials are now racing to control the virus. Mass testing has already begun in the resort.\n\nSwitzerland's government has extended the closure of bars, restaurants, museums, and theatres until the end of February in a bid to control the new variant. It has also ordered non-essential shops to close and made working from home obligatory.\n\nAs for the Lauberhorn, Switzerland's oldest and fiercest skiing rival, Austria, will now host the postponed event. Nothing could have been calculated to upset the Swiss more.\n\nThe event was first moved to the Austrian ski resort of Kitzbühel, but an outbreak of coronavirus there has prompted another move, this time to Flachau, 100km to the east.\n\nThe cluster of cases in Jochberg near Kitzbühel broke out among a group of mainly British trainee ski instructors.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nI'm standing in what should be an operating theatre - but instead it's been converted into an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients on ventilators.\n\nThis is the first time I have seen it full of patients like this. Normally this theatre would be busy with major cancer surgery, but that's been transferred to another building.\n\nA children's recovery area, still decorated with colourful stickers of cartoons, is once again filled with desperately sick adults. Every day, more wards are being transformed into ICU - ready for the next influx of patients.\n\nWe have been given access to University College Hospital, in central London. This is the same intensive care unit that I first visited in April, during the first peak.\n\nIt is one of the busiest hospitals in the capital and intensive care here is expanding across a hospital that is under pressure like never before, from a relentless rise in Covid admissions.\n\nI am struck by the toll the pandemic is taking on staff. It's immense - both physically and mentally. They are shell-shocked. \"My emotions are all over the place. Scared, sad, petrified, worried,\" one ICU nurse tells me.\n\nI asked one of the consultants who I've met several times in the last year, Dr Jim Down, how long they can keep going like this - and the answer was stark. \"At this rate, about a week. After that we really need to see it slow down or we're going to see the care we can deliver suffering.\"\n\nThey have got three times as many critically ill patients in the hospital as normal. The number of Covid admissions to London hospitals has doubled in just two weeks - they're more stretched now than at the peak last April. Senior staff are worried.\n\nDr Alice Carter compares it to an elastic band that is close to snapping. \"It gets to a point where you stretch so far it never returns back to its baseline. I think that's probably where we are now. It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break, and that's the real fear for us at the moment.\"\n\nDr Alice Carter: 'It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break'\n\nThat could have very serious consequences, she adds. \"If we get to that point, we can't offer anyone ICU, not just Covid patients, but anyone who has a traffic accident or a heart attack or a stroke - whatever it is, to take them in.\"\n\nFor 38-year-old Rachel Arfin, one of the three pregnant women in intensive care with Covid-19, treatment is more complicated. Her baby is due in five weeks and the staff have to monitor them both.\n\n\"They can't do anything that will harm the baby,\" she says. \"All the time [they are] checking, monitoring the baby.\" She is reassured by the \"beautiful sound\" of her baby's heartbeat.\n\n\"They are looking after two people in one. They're saving lives,\" says Rachel. But her children - she has seven - keep asking when she's coming home.\n\nRachel Arfin's baby is due in five weeks - both are doing well\n\nI've reported from here several times during the pandemic and am always struck by the professionalism and dedication of staff. It's always quiet and calm, but that belies what's actually happening. This is a system under strain like never before.\n\nThe warning signs are clear, the NHS is on the brink. Unless infection rates fall, soon it will have a serious impact. The pressure on staff is unrelenting. I saw two nurses in tears.\n\nCompared to when I visited in April, it's a lot busier. In some ways, it's more structured - they now know what they're dealing with. They've got new treatments, such as the drug dexamethasone, which they didn't have last time. And many of the staff have now had the first dose of the vaccine.\n\nBut other aspects don't get any easier, such as the emotional burden of breaking bad news over a telephone or video call. It is very different to being able to hold someone's hand.\n\nStaff say they don't know which patients to help first\n\nICU staff have incredibly high standards. They're used to doing everything meticulously and perfectly. And they're doing all they can. But sometimes they go home and feel guilty that they can't do more. The impact on nurses - the bedrock of care in intensive care - is visible.\n\nThe highly specialised staff are usually one-to-one with patients. Deputy sister Ashleigh Shillingford is looking after three or four ventilated patients at a time, with one other junior member of staff. It's emotional and often devastating work.\n\n\"We are so stretched we have to prioritise and prioritising care is not the NHS that I grew up in - we shouldn't have to choose which patient gets what care first.\" She says she's never had to make decisions like these before.\n\n\"You just don't know who to help first. The patients are losing their lives at a dramatic speed, we're not just getting old people,\" she says, \"these are young people that we're getting.\"\n\nGerald Williams, 58, is awaiting chemotherapy for lung cancer and had been shielding, but he still caught coronavirus. \"All of a sudden, out of the blue, Covid came knocking on my door and it's frightening - you don't know how you're getting your next breath,\" he says.\n\nGerald Williams had been shielding but he still caught coronavirus\n\nHe wants to get home to his daughters, the youngest of whom is 13. And he's annoyed at those who don't take it seriously. \"People are moaning and groaning. Even in A&E. They need to get a life. Don't be idiots, forget about meeting your mate, stay home. No-one is invulnerable.\"\n\nFor now the Trust is coping better than many others in London and is still taking Covid patients from other hospitals. But the next few weeks could be the biggest challenge the NHS has ever faced - and it will be its doctors and nurses who will bear the brunt for all of us.\n\nAs the BBC's medical editor, Fergus Walsh has been reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic and its immense impact on the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: 'Together we can make this the peak'\n\n\"We can make this the peak\" of the coronavirus pandemic \"if enough people follow the rules\", Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast it was \"those individual decisions\" that determine the virus's spread and it \"comes down to the behaviour of everyone\".\n\nPeople \"shouldn't take the mickey out of the rules,\" he said.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nLatest figures show there are now more than 35,000 people in hospital with Covid - an increase on the spring peak.\n\nIt comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to be questioned by MPs on the vaccine rollout later.\n\nMeanwhile, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is also due to announce whether there will be any changes to lockdown restrictions later. Ministers have been discussing the possibility of tightening the current restrictions.\n\nWhen asked on BBC Breakfast if this was the peak of this wave of the pandemic, Mr Hancock replied: \"I want it to be, but that comes down to the behaviour of everyone.\n\n\"Together we can make this the peak if enough people follow the rules which are incredibly clear.\"\n\nMr Hancock said England's lockdown measures were \"always under review\", but he would be \"very reluctant\" to remove the rule of meeting one other person outside for exercise as \"it is a lifeline\" for some people, including those who live alone. Mr Hancock has already ruled out scrapping support bubbles.\n\n\"What I'd rather is that everybody follow that rule and doesn't stretch it or flex it,\" he said.\n\nOn the news that patients at a hospital in London are to be discharged early and sent to a hotel to help free up beds for critically ill coronavirus patients, Mr Hancock said moving patients to hotels \"isn't something we are actively putting in place\".\n\nKing's College Hospital said it would help to create space for the \"high numbers\" of new admissions and would \"temporarily accommodate mainly homeless patients who are ready to safely leave hospital and will benefit from further support from community partners\".\n\nThere are very early signs that infections may have peaked - although as always we should be careful about reading too much into a few days' worth of data.\n\nThe past two days have seen newly diagnosed cases hover around the 46,000-mark. Up to the weekend, the average was close to 60,000.\n\nThe drop has largely been driven by falls in new cases in London, the South East and East of England.\n\nThe national picture does mask some regional differences. Cases are rising in the North West, which is causing particular concern.\n\nIt is too early for the vaccination programme to be having any significant impact so a combination of the national lockdown on top of the tier four restrictions that were imposed in some areas before Christmas look like they may be beginning to have an impact.\n\nThere is also some evidence the new variant may not be quite as fast-spreading as first feared - a Public Health England study suggested rather than being 70% more transmissible it may actually be somewhere between 30% to 50%.\n\nAnd, if it does represent the start of a continuous fall, it is important to remember it will still take some time to translate into fewer hospital cases - people being admitted at the moment are those who would have caught the virus a week or two ago.\n\nBut after six weeks of pretty sustained rises, it is at least an encouraging sign.\n\nAsked about images of elite footballers celebrating goals with hugs, Mr Hancock said: \"I think elite sport is important because these are tough times, and being able to watch the football on the telly is really important because there's loads of things that you can't do.\"\n\nHe said the Premier League has \"special arrangements to ensure that players are safe\" as well as a testing regime.\n\nThe health secretary told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine will accelerate over the coming weeks, saying they were \"on track\" to deliver it to 14 million people by mid-February.\n\nVaccines deployment minister Nadhim Zahawi later told the Commons' science and technology committee that he was \"confident\" of achieving this target.\n\nMore than 2.4 million people have now had a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, while 412,167 people have had a second dose. Mr Hancock said 40% of the 3.4m people over 80 in England had been vaccinated so far.\n\n\"We have the capacity to get that vaccine out. The challenge is that we need to get the vaccine in,\" Mr Hancock said.\n\n\"What I know is that the supply will increase over the next few weeks and that means the very rapid rate that we are going at at the moment will continue to accelerate over the next couple of weeks.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, NHS Providers chief executive Chris Hopson said it was \"pretty clear\" that because of the new strain the Covid-19 infection rate was not going to go down as quickly as it did during the first wave.\n\n\"It now looks like the peak for NHS demand may actually be in February,\" he said.", "Morrisons will become the first UK supermarket to pay at least £10 an hour from April.\n\nIt will increase its minimum pay for up to 96,000 workers from £9.20.\n\nRetail trade union Usdaw negotiated the £10 per hour basic rate which is 50p an hour above the voluntary Living Wage Foundation rate.\n\nHowever, other big supermarkets appear unlikely to follow any time soon, with Asda saying that just looking at hourly rates does not tell the full story.\n\nMorrisons said for the majority of its workers the pay increase will be approximately 9%.\n\nPart of the increase will result from changing the company's annual bonus scheme from a discretionary yearly payment into a guaranteed amount in workers' hourly rates.\n\nIt will boost the weekly pay of someone working 36.75 hours a week from £330.10 to £367.50.\n\nUnion members still need to approve the deal. The result will be announced on 12 February and, if accepted, the new rates will be paid from 5 April 2021.\n\n\"The new consolidated hourly rate is now the leading rate of the major supermarkets,\" said Joanne McGuinness, Usdaw national officer after the Morrisons announcement.\n\n\"It's been a tough time for food retail staff who have worked throughout the pandemic in difficult circumstances,\" said Ms McGuinness.\n\n\"They provide the essential service of keeping the nation fed and deserve our support, respect and appreciation. Most of all they deserve decent pay and this offer is a welcome boost.\"\n\nIn addition to the hourly pay increase, Morrisons will pay a higher London weighting.\n\nRates for inner London will be 85p and for outer London 60p per hour, up from 75p in inner London and 50p in outer London.\n\nDavid Potts, Morrisons chief executive said: \"It's a symbolic and important milestone that represents another step in rewarding the incredibly important work that our colleagues do up and down the country.\"\n\nMorrisons' move propels it to the top of the supermarket pay league, leapfrogging Aldi and Lidl. Will other big rivals follow suit?\n\nSupermarket staff have become frontline heroes in this pandemic and there's a new-found respect for the vital work they do in keeping us fed day-in day-out.\n\nMany consumers may welcome the idea of higher rewards for those staff.\n\nBut supermarkets have already taken on a lot of extra costs in ramping up their operations as well as recruiting thousands of extra staff.\n\nAnd there are no shortage of workers looking for jobs right now, which could keep a lid on pay.\n\nLidl has already announced plans to increase its hourly wage for staff from March, increasing the rate for 20,000 workers from £9.30 to £9.50.\n\nWithin London's M25 motorway boundary the rate has increased from £10.75 to £10.85 an hour.\n\n\"It is only right that we increase the income for our colleagues who are the backbone of our business.,\" said chief executive Christian Härtnagel.\n\n\"This is about recognising their hard work and dedication in keeping the nation fed during a year like no other.\n\nAsda, which pays £9.18 outside London and either £9.76 or £10.31 inside the capital, pointed out that it pays above National Living Wage rules and never employs on 'zero hours' contracts.\n\nAn Asda statement said: \"On top of a competitive wage structure, Asda colleagues also receive a host of benefits which contribute to their yearly earnings, these including colleague discount in our stores and online, special discounts for shops and a yearly performance-based bonus.\n\n\"So simply looking at the hourly rate doesn't tell the full story.\"\n\nSainsbury's basic hourly pay is £9.30, and a statement to the BBC made no mention of any immediate intention to raise the rate.\n\nA spokesperson said, \"Our colleagues do a brilliant job and we are so proud of how they continue to go above and beyond for our customers.\n\n\"We have made two thank you payments to frontline workers in recognition of this in the last year and regularly review colleague pay to make sure we offer leading rates.\"\n\nA Waitrose spokesperson said: \"Our hourly minimum starting pay across the UK for non-management Partners in Waitrose is currently £9.10 following a short induction period, with scope for higher pay according to performance.\n\n\"We review Partner pay annually each April and will do so again this year.\"\n\nM&S said their minimum pay for workers is £9.00 an hour, but pointed out that those that worked during the pandemic last April and May were handed a 15% pay reward on top of the rate.\n\nLatest available data suggests Aldi currently pays £9.40 an hour, Tesco £9.30 and Co-op £9.", "As Scotland's hospitals fill with Covid patients and the daily-registered death toll passes 5,000, there are concerns the \"stay at home\" message has not had the same impact it did during last year's lockdown.\n\nSome of the restrictions announced by Nicola Sturgeon in early January have now been tightened even further.\n\nHow do Scotland's current lockdown rules compare to those imposed last March?\n\nLast March outdoor exercise was allowed only if people were alone or with someone from the same household. It was initially limited to once a day, before this restriction was eased in May 2020.\n\nAll exercise had to be done close to home. No mixing with other households or other any outdoor relaxation was allowed.\n\nNow up to two people from separate households can meet for outdoor sport or exercise. Children under 12 years old do not count towards this number.\n\nThere is no limit on how many times you can go out to exercise each day, but you should still stay close to home and avoid crowded areas.\n\nProf Jason Leitch, Scotland's clinical director, says police enforcement is used as \"last resort\" against people who break the rules.\n\nThese rules are not expected to change in Scotland. However, the UK government has warned that exercise restrictions may be tightened after \"large groups\" have flouted their own two-person rule.\n\nLast March non-essential shops were ordered to shut along with cafes, bars, restaurants and cinemas. Supermarkets and pharmacies were among premises which could stay open.\n\nIn July a new law made it compulsory to wear a face covering in shops across Scotland.\n\nAll pubs, restaurants and cafes must remain closed in Scotland's level four areas - although they can still serve takeaway food. The definition of \"essential retail\" has also been narrowed, forcing homeware shops and garden centres to close once again.\n\nRules on click and collect will be tightened from 16 January. The service will be limited to retailers selling essential items and access inside premises for collection will not be allowed.\n\nTakeaway customers will also no longer be allowed inside premises for pick-up from 16 January. Businesses will have to operate from a serving hatch or doorway.\n\nSchools and nurseries were closed last March, with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon saying there were too many absent staff to continue.\n\nMany teachers prepared homeworking packs and some online learning. Parents and pupils had to get used to home schooling.\n\nChildren of essential workers and vulnerable pupils were looked after by staff in childcare hubs.\n\nSchools began the January 2021 term largely via online and remote learning.\n\nAs before, only children of key workers and vulnerable children are allowed in classrooms - but this time there is more focus on learning than simply child care.\n\nThe number of pupils attending school is much higher than last year.\n\nProf Leitch suggests this may be because Scotland has \"too much open\" in the rest of society with working adults in greater need of childcare. He said a \"sweet spot\" needs to be found to keep children and adults safe.\n\nThe Scottish government hopes pupils can return to the classroom in February, but this plan is to be kept under review.\n\nSee where coronavirus case rates have been rising in Scotland with this interactive map.\n\nPeople were told to stay at home except for essential shopping for food or medicine, going out for their daily exercise, or to care for the vulnerable.\n\nEmployers were asked to make provisions for staff to work from home. Wearing of face coverings on public transport was not initially required, but became mandatory in Scotland in June.\n\nIt is a legal requirement not to leave home for anything other than essential purposes. A \"reasonable excuse\" can include essential shopping, exercise or caring responsibilities.\n\nPeople should only go out to work if it absolutely cannot be done from home. It is illegal to travel between Scotland and other parts of the UK unless the journey is essential.\n\nThere are no expectations of enhanced travel restrictions, as the rules are already \"pretty tight\" says Prof Leitch.\n\n\"We have a stay at home law, it is illegal to fly overseas, it is illegal to travel, it is illegal to leave your home without a reason to do so,\" he added.\n\nThe latest contact tracing figures from Public Health Scotland show that since November, shops have accounted for 19% of the places visited by people the week before their positive test.\n\nWhile these figures don't tell us whether people contracted the virus in a specific location, they do suggest the most likely sources.\n\nThe number of cases traced to shopping-related locations increased by 83% between 27 December and 3 January.\n\nOther large increases were seen when:\n\nIn March \"essential\" was the key word for all employers. Businesses were told they could only stay open if what they do was \"essential\" to the effort of tackling Covid or the wellbeing of society.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said building sites should close unless they involved work on an \"essential building\" such as a hospital. Visits from tradespeople were allowed only for \"essential repairs\".\n\nOutdoor workplaces, construction, manufacturing, veterinary services and film and TV production can remain open. Employers have been told to plan for the minimum number of people needed on site to operate safely and effectively.\n\nHome visits by tradespeople are still allowed for essential maintenance. This guidance is being put into law from 16 January.\n\nProf Leitch says the Scottish government continues to examine rules around what constitutes essential and non-essential construction.", "A deal has been agreed for the sale of the Edinburgh Woollen Mill, Ponden Home and Bonmarché chains, which were on the brink of closure.\n\nThe businesses went into administration last year after a collapse in sales due to the pandemic.\n\nAlmost 2,000 staff will be kept on but as many as 260 stores could close.\n\nThe buyers are a consortium of international investors who will inject fresh funds into the business, led by the existing management team.\n\nEdinburgh Woollen Mill, which sells mid-price knitwear and other clothing to older shoppers, is part of a stable of retail brands owned by billionaire businessman, Philip Day.\n\nIt is understood that Mr Day will effectively lend the group the money to buy the businesses which will be paid back over a number of years.\n\nThe deal also covers two other brands in the group, value retailer Bonmarché, and Ponden Home, an interiors chain based in the south east of England.\n\nThe new owners plan to operate 246 stores across both the Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home brands, retaining 1,453 staff in those stores, the head office and distribution centres in Carlisle.\n\nHowever, 85 Edinburgh Woollen Mill stores and 34 Ponden Home stores have been closed permanently, with the loss of 485 jobs.\n\nWakefield-based Bonmarché will retain 72 of its stores and 531 staff including head office and distribution centre staff.\n\nThe majority of its stores, 148 outlets, remain under review with staff on furlough.\n\nAdministrators representing Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home said the deal represented the best chance to save stores and jobs, given the difficult outlook for UK retail.\n\n\"We regret that not all of Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home could be rescued,\" said Tony Wright, partner at FRP. \"This has resulted in a significant number of redundancies at a particularly challenging time of year and period of economic uncertainty.\"\n\nRetail has been particularly hard hit by measures to curb the spread of Covid-19. Even when shops have been open many shoppers stayed away, wary of the health risks.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium said consumers bought 5% less last year than the year before (not including food). Much of that custom switched from the High Street to online, making it harder for chains whose customers usually shop in person. Physical stores saw sales drop by a quarter, the BRC said.\n\nOther major brands including Topshop-owner Arcadia and Debenhams have also gone into administration, costing hundreds of jobs.\n\n\"Lockdowns have proved hugely damaging for mid-range fashion chains like Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Bonmarché whose traditional customer base has not adapted so quickly to online shopping as younger shoppers,\" said Susannah Streeter, analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"The backers of this rescue deal clearly believe there is pent-up demand amongst core customers which will be released once the doors are flung open once more,\" she added.\n\nOn Monday, Marks & Spencer announced it was buying Jaeger, another brand that had belonged to Philip Day's portfolio.\n\nPeacocks, another High Street fashion brand in the EWM group remains in administration.", "Sally told the BBC she is still waiting for her P45 despite handing in her notice in November\n\nHairdresser Sally had a surprise when she looked at her tax record with HM Revenue and Customs: \"It said I'd still been getting furlough pay from a job I left in November.\"\n\nShe told BBC Radio 5 Live's Wake up to Money: \"That was a revelation - none of it had landed in my bank account.\"\n\nHers is among more than 21,000 reports of suspected furlough fraud currently being handled by HMRC.\n\nThe money is either due to fraudulent claims, or is being paid out in error.\n\nThe Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, commonly called the furlough scheme was launched in March 2020, at the start of the coronavirus crisis, to minimise unemployment. Under the scheme, the government pays 80% of employees' wages up to £2,500 a month.\n\nThe number of tip offs to the taxman has spiralled since last April, from 3,000 to 21,378 reports of suspect payments by early January.\n\nSally's former employer told the BBC she did not know Sally had resigned\n\nAt the peak of its use in early May, the scheme was supporting 8.9 million jobs.\n\nIt was extended in January until the end of April 2021 and now also applies to those who are unable to work due to caring responsibilities, or because they are clinically extremely vulnerable.\n\nThe scheme has been widely supported for its role in supporting employers and jobs during the pandemic, but it has been found to be open to abuse.\n\nTax lawyer Anita Clifford said at the 'extreme end' of furlough fraud were 'dormant companies being resurrected' and 'fake employees'\n\nSally believes her former employer broke the rules after she resigned from the salon last year.\n\nShe told the BBC she sent her resignation letter and returned her uniform to her employer in the post in November, but \"heard nothing back\". A client later contacted her asking if she was OK, as they had heard she was off work, \"sick\".\n\nSally started to get her paperwork together to register as self-employed but when she opened her online HMRC account, she noticed she was registered as receiving payments equivalent to those she was getting while on furlough - although the money was not reaching her account.\n\nShe left it a couple of weeks in case her resignation was taking a few weeks to be processed.\n\nTo date, Sally has still has not received a P45, and says she is still registered as being paid through the furlough scheme.\n\nHMRC has called on anyone concerned about suspected abuse of the team to get in touch with the department\n\n\"In the middle of the pandemic, where people are losing homes because they can't get any help, I think it's quite sickening,\" she said.\n\n\"It's wrong, and it makes a mockery of all those people who are suffering.\"\n\nThe BBC contacted Sally's former employer, who has denied the claims, saying she did not know that Sally had resigned, and had struggled to get in touch with her.\n\nTax barrister, Anita Clifford, from the firm Bright Line Law, said Sally's experience was \"a classic example\".\n\n\"Whether it's a mistake, or whether some actors are doing it deliberately, continuing furlough payments for former employees is a classic way of defrauding the system.\"\n\nHMRC has previously stressed that some employers may accidentally be committing furlough fraud.\n\nMs Clifford told the BBC that she was seeing businesses coming forward, \"worried about the mistakes that they've made\".\n\nBut she added examples of furlough fraud could be more extreme, where some businesses \"are seeking to claim money for completely fake employees\".\n\n\"In time to come, we'll certainly see enforcement activity, and people very worried about being on the receiving end of a criminal prosecution for some of these things.\n\n\"Certainly where you have dormant companies being resurrected, in order to claim money from the furlough scheme, you have fake employees... businesses being quite unscrupulous, you're not using the funds to pay salaries, I think those are the businesses you'll eventually see being looked at very seriously for criminal prosecution,\" she said.\n\nHMRC told the BBC: \"The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme is part of the collective national effort to protect jobs. This is taxpayers' money and fraudulent claims limit our ability to support people and deprive public services of essential funding.\"\n\nNames have been changed to protect identities\n• None What happens when furlough ends?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Archbishop of Glasgow, Philip Tartaglia, has died suddenly at his home in Glasgow.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Catholic Church said that Archbishop Tartaglia had tested positive for Covid-19 shortly after Christmas and was self-isolating at home.\n\nThe cause of death is not yet clear.\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia, who was 70, was ordained a priest in 1975 and served as Archbishop of Glasgow since 2012.\n\nThe spokeswoman said it would be for Pope Francis to appoint a new archbishop, but until then the Archdiocese will be overseen by an administrator.", "Senior Conservatives have called for a \"reset\" in UK policy towards China, including sanctions against officials responsible for human rights abuses.\n\nThe Conservative Human Rights Commission demanded a rethink in relations after hearing evidence of abuses from torture to slavery.\n\nIt urged the UK to work with allies to respond to China's behaviour.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab has said the UK plays a \"leading role\" in highlighting abuses.\n\nThe Commission made the recommendations in a new report endorsed by two former Conservative foreign secretaries, Lord Hague and Sir Malcolm Rifkind.\n\nIt adds to growing internal pressure on the government from Conservative circles to harden its line on China.\n\nThe Commission says it has heard first-hand evidence of human rights violations in China from dissidents, lawyers, and human rights campaigners.\n\nThis included violations of media freedom, clampdowns on Uighur Muslims, modern day slavery, and the establishment of an \"Orwellian surveillance state,\" it added.\n\nThe group said this showed the need for a \"comprehensive review\" of China policy across UK government departments.\n\nIt also called for the UK to diversify its supply chains to reduce \"strategic dependency\" on China and further efforts to highlight rights issues at the United Nations.\n\nMr Raab announced fines on Tuesday for UK firms doing business in China if they cannot show that their products aren't linked to forced labour in the country's Xinjiang region.\n\nIn December, the BBC revealed new evidence that China is forcing hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities into hard, manual labour in the cotton fields of Xinjiang.\n\nMPs and peers are separately pushing for new laws to block trade deals with countries found guilty of genocide, something which for now the government is resisting.\n\nMr Raab told MPs the idea was \"well-meaning\" but it would be wrong to \"sub-contract\" the issue of when to break off trade talks to the courts.\n\nThe Conservative Human Rights Commission, established in 2005, aims to highlight human rights concerns and keep the issue high on the party's agenda.", "David (right) and Frederick Barclay receiving their knighthoods in 2000\n\nSir David Barclay, the co-owner of the Daily Telegraph newspaper, has died at the age of 86.\n\nSir David, together with his twin brother Sir Frederick, built up a business empire spanning hotels, retail and media.\n\nHis death was announced in the Telegraph, which reported that he died on Sunday after a short illness.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson, a former columnist for the paper, paid tribute to Sir David.\n\n\"Farewell with respect and admiration to Sir David Barclay who rescued a great newspaper, created many thousands of jobs across the UK and who believed passionately in the independence of this country and what it could achieve,\" he tweeted.\n\nThe Barclay brothers, who had an estimated wealth of £7bn according to the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List, were known for being media shy and rarely gave interviews.\n\nBorn in Hammersmith, west London, in 1934, Sir David was profoundly shaped by his childhood memories of war, and the death of his father when he was 12.\n\nHe and his twin Frederick - who was 10 minutes younger - started out as painters and decorators, before moving into property and eventually hotels.\n\nTheir success in property and hotels helped them take over Ellerman Lines, a shipping business with interests in brewing, in 1983.\n\nThis provided a launch pad from which they would become billionaires.\n\nAt various times, their hotel portfolio has included a number of trophy assets, including the Ritz Hotel in London, which they sold in March last year.\n\nIn 2012, the BBC’s Panorama reported that the Ritz had not paid any corporation tax since it had been taken over by the Barclays in 1995.\n\nAt the time, Sir David said they had “acted in a responsible way with regard to taxation and have never been involved in any tax avoidance scheme.”\n\nIn 2015, the twins sold off the hospitality group Maybourne, which included luxury hotels like Claridges.\n\nThe brothers first ventured into media ownership with their 1992 purchase of The European, a pan-European newspaper that shut down in 1998.\n\nThey also bought The Scotsman in 1995 and Sunday Business in 1997.\n\n“After these ventures in the publishing arena, the brothers had nurtured since the 1980s an ambition to own the Telegraph group,” The Telegraph said.\n\nThey acquired the Telegraph Group in 2004 for £665m from Canadian media magnate Conrad Black's Hollinger group.\n\nThe brothers also had a number of forays into retail, including Shop Direct, fashion retailer Very and delivery firm Yodel.\n\nThe pair were knighted in 2000 for services to charity. By this point their foundation was thought to have donated about £40m to charity and medical research.\n\nThe notoriously private twins' relationship was the subject of an extraordinary legal case last year, in which Sir David's three sons were accused by his brother of bugging conversations at the Ritz Hotel, which they previously owned.\n\nIn its obituary the Telegraph said Sir David had been a voracious reader, obsessed with newspapers, business, economics and politics, and had always said he had been educated at the \"university of life\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Lockdown likely to extend to February\n\nScotland's first minister has said the country's current lockdown is \"very unlikely\" to be lifted at the end of the month.\n\nNicola Sturgeon was speaking as she confirmed that more than 5,000 people have now died after testing positive for the virus.\n\nA review of the current restrictions is due to be carried out at the end of January.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was possible that there would be no easing at that point.\n\nA further 54 deaths have been recorded in the past 24 hours - bringing the total by that measure to 5,023.\n\nBut the most recent figures from the National Records of Scotland - which record all deaths registered in Scotland where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate - put the total at 6,686.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily briefing that the figures were a reminder of the toll the virus had taken.\n\nAnd she said every death had caused heartbreak to friends, families and loved ones across the country.\n\nThe first minister also said Scotland's NHS would be under far greater pressure if the current restrictions had not been put in place on Boxing Day.\n\nAnd she urged people not to raise their expectations about what will be announced when the lockdown review is completed in a fortnight as wholesale lifting of the restrictions was \"very unlikely\".\n\nShe added: \"There may not even be any lifting of these restrictions as soon as the end of January - we will have to consider all of that carefully and set it out in due course.\"\n\nAll of mainland Scotland and some islands were placed into level four restrictions on 26 December, with schools remaining closed to most pupils until at least the end of the month.\n\nA further 1,875 positive cases of the virus were recorded on Monday, bringing the total since the pandemic began to 153,423.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with the virus stands at 1,717 - an increase of 53 since yesterday and higher than the peak of about 1,500 in the first wave in April.\n\nOf these, 133 patients are intensive care units, with Ms Sturgeon saying that the virus was putting \"very acute pressure\" on hospitals.\n\nThe first minister also said that 175,942 people in Scotland had received their first vaccine dose by Monday.\n\nOpposition parties have claimed that the rollout of the vaccine has been \"sluggish\" in Scotland compared to south of the border - a charge that the government denies.\n\nAnd they have called for greater transparency over how many people are being given the jab every day.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said on Monday that the government was aiming to vaccinate about 560,000 people in Scotland by 31 January.\n\nNon-essential shops have been closed in Scotland since 26 December\n\nThe Scottish government has previously said it is concerned that too many people have not been following the \"stay at home\" rules that are in place across the whole of the mainland and some islands.\n\nMinisters have been discussing the possibility of imposing tougher rules on click and collect shopping and takeaway food, with an announcement expected to be made on Wednesday.\n\nRetail industry representatives have described click and collect services as a \"lifeline\" for struggling businesses amid the forced closure of all non-essential shops.\n\nAnd they said they had not been shown any evidence that click and collect was driving transmission of the virus.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily coronavirus briefing that the government may not stop click and collect services altogether.\n\nBut she added: \"If we are saying to people right now that you should not be out of your home for shopping unless it is essential, then do we need to have click and collect for non-essential services instead of having that for delivery?\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross told BBC Scotland that he did not want to see further restrictions put in place unless there was evidence that they would have the desired effect.\n\nHe also suggested that restricting click and collect would simply result in more people going back into supermarkets to do their shopping.\n\nThe Scottish government is also under pressure to lift the the current ban on public Sunday worship, with a group of 500 church leaders from across the UK - including 200 in Scotland - insisting that there is \"no evidence of any tangible contribution to community transmission through churches in Scotland\".\n\nIn a letter to the first minister, they claim that the ban may be unlawful and accuse the government of failing to understand that \"Christian worship is an essential public service, and especially vital to our nation in a time of crisis\".\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"Test and Protect tells us where people were in their 48-hour infectious period.\n\n\"So we know that on one day last week the seven-day number for places of worship was 120, and data from yesterday shows the seven-day number for places of worship is 38, underlining the essential decision to require places of worship to close for public health reasons.\"\n\nMeanwhile, it has been confirmed that everyone arriving in Scotland from overseas will need to show proof of a negative test from Friday.\n\nThe test will need to be \"highly reliable\", the first minister said, and will need to have been from the previous three days - although young children may be exempt from the restriction.\n\nThose travelling from countries not on the quarantine exemption list will still need to self-isolate on arrival.\n\nThe new rules, which will also come into force in England, were first outlined last week.", "A Huawei patent has been brought to light for a system that identifies people who appear to be of Uighur origin among images of pedestrians.\n\nThe filing is one of several of its kind involving leading Chinese technology companies, discovered by a US research company and shared with BBC News.\n\nHuawei had previously said none of its technologies was designed to identify ethnic groups.\n\nIt now plans to alter the patent.\n\nThe company indicated this would involve asking the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) - the country's patent authority - for permission to delete the reference to Uighurs in the Chinese-language document.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUighur people belong to a mostly Muslim ethnic group that lives mainly in Xinjiang province, in north-western China.\n\nGovernment authorities are accused of using high-tech surveillance against them and detaining many in forced-labour camps, where children are sometimes separated from their parents.\n\nBeijing says the camps offer voluntary education and training.\n\nChina's technology companies deny selling software that can be used to pick out Uighur people from the rest of the population by their appearance\n\n\"One technical requirement of the Chinese Ministry of Public Security's video-surveillance networks is the detection of ethnicity - particularly of Uighurs,\" said Maya Wang, from Human Rights Watch.\n\n\"While in the rest of the world, such targeting and persecution of a people on the basis of their ethnicity would be completely unacceptable, the persecution and severe discrimination of Uighurs in many aspects of life in China remain unchallenged because Uighurs have no power in China.\"\n\nHuawei's patent was originally filed in July 2018, in conjunction with the Chinese Academy of Sciences .\n\nIt describes ways to use deep-learning artificial-intelligence techniques to identify various features of pedestrians photographed or filmed in the street.\n\nIt focuses on addressing the fact different body postures - for example whether someone is sitting or standing - can affect accuracy.\n\nBut the document also lists attributes by which a person might be targeted, which it says can include \"race (Han [China's biggest ethnic group], Uighur)\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC News visited the camps where China’s Muslims have their \"thoughts transformed\", in 2019\n\nA spokesman said this reference should not have been included.\n\n\"Huawei opposes discrimination of all types, including the use of technology to carry out ethnic discrimination,\" he said.\n\n\"Identifying individuals' race was never part of the research-and-development project.\n\n\"It should never have become part of the application.\n\n\"And we are taking proactive steps to amend it.\n\n\"We are continuously working to ensure new and evolving technology is developed and applied with the utmost care and integrity.\"\n\nThe patent was brought to light by the video-surveillance research group IPVM.\n\nIt had previously flagged a separate \"confidential\" document on Huawei's website, referencing work on a \"Uighur alert\" system.\n\nIn that case, Huawei said the page referenced a test rather than a real-world application and denied selling systems that identified people by their ethnicity.\n\nOn Wednesday, Tom Tugendhat, who chairs the UK Parliament's Foreign Affairs Select Committee and leads the Conservative Party's China Research Group, told BBC News: \"Chinese tech giants supporting the brutal assault on the Uighur population show us why we as consumers and as a society must be careful with who we buy our products from or award business to.\n\n\"Developing ethnic-labelling technology for use by a repressive regime is clearly not behaviour that lives up to our standards.\"\n\nIPVM also discovered references to Uighur people in patents filed by the Chinese artificial-intelligence company Sensetime and image-recognition specialist Megvii.\n\nSensetime's filing, from July 2019, discusses ways facial-recognition software could be used for more efficient \"security protection\", such as searching for \"a middle-aged Uighur with sunglasses and a beard\" or a Uighur person wearing a mask.\n\nA Sensetime spokeswoman said the references were \"regrettable\".\n\n\"We understand the importance of our responsibilities, which is why we began to develop our AI Code of Ethics in mid-2019,\" she said, adding the patent had predated this code.\n\nMegvii's June 2019 patent, meanwhile, described a way of relabelling pictures of faces tagged incorrectly in a database.\n\nLike Huawei, Megvii now plans to withdraw the original version of its patent\n\nIt said the classifications could be based on ethnicity, for example, including \"Han, Uighur, non-Han, non-Uighur and unknown\".\n\nThe company told BBC News it would now withdraw the patent application.\n\n\"Megvii recognises that the language used in our 2019 patent application is open to misunderstanding,\" it said.\n\n\"Megvii has not developed and will not develop or sell racial- or ethnic-labelling solutions.\n\n\"Megvii acknowledges that, in the past, we have focused on our commercial development and lacked appropriate control of our marketing, sales, and operations materials.\n\n\"We are undertaking measures to correct the situation.\"\n\nIPVM also flagged image-recognition patents filed by two of China's biggest technology conglomerates, Alibaba and Baidu, that referenced classifying people by ethnicity but did not specifically mention the Uighur people by name.\n\nAlibaba responded: \"Racial or ethnic discrimination or profiling in any form violates our policies and values.\n\n\"We never intended our technology to be used for and will not permit it to be used for targeting specific ethnic groups.\"\n\nProtests have been held across the world to highlight China's treatment of Uighur people\n\nAnd Baidu said: \"When filing for a patent, the document notes are meant as an example of a technical explanation, in this case describing what the attribute-recognition model is rather than representing the expected implementation of the invention.\n\n\"We do not and will not permit our technology to be used to identify or target specific ethnic groups.\"\n\nBut Human Rights Watch said it still had concerns.\n\n\"Any company that sells video-surveillance software and systems to the Chinese police would have to ensure that they meet the police's requirements, which includes the capacity for ethnicity detection,\" Ms Wang said.\n\n\"The right thing for these companies to do is to immediately cease their sale and maintenance of surveillance equipment, software and systems, to the Chinese police.\"", "At Prime Minister’s Questions, Boris Johnson said that “the lockdown measures we had in place, combined with tier four measures, are starting to show some signs of effect.”\n\nLooking at cases of Covid-19 in England, the average for the week ending 1 January was almost 55,000 cases.\n\nThese people will have been infected before England’s lockdown came in on January 6, although much of the country was under very strict measures before then.\n\nSo, using publicly available data, it might be too early to make this assessment.\n\nAnd in the past month, we’ve seen that a couple of days of decline can quickly be followed by a sustained increase in cases.\n\nBut what is clear is that hospital admissions from coronavirus appear to be increasing (they usually peak up to a couple of weeks after high numbers of cases).\n\nThe latest seven day average (ending on January 7) saw 3,705 people admitted to hospital daily in England – that’s the highest throughout the entire pandemic.", "A Scottish earl has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman at his ancestral home in Angus.\n\nThe Earl of Strathmore, Simon Bowes-Lyon, forced his way into the sleeping woman's room during a weekend event he was hosting at Glamis Castle.\n\nHe repeatedly assaulted the 26-year-old victim and tried to pull off her nightdress during the 20-minute attack.\n\nBowes-Lyon, 34 - who is the Queen's first cousin twice removed - has been placed on the sex offenders register.\n\nHe was granted bail at Dundee Sheriff Court and sentence was deferred.\n\nSheriff Alistair Carmichael also ordered Glamis Castle be assessed for its suitability to house Bowes-Lyon while under a tagging order.\n\nThe court heard the woman fled the castle the morning after the attack on 13 February last year and flew home to report the matter to police.\n\nBoth Police Scotland and the Metropolitan Police were involved in the investigation.\n\nGlamis Castle was the childhood home of the Queen Mother\n\nOutside court, Bowes-Lyon said he was \"greatly ashamed\" of his actions.\n\nHe added: \"Clearly I had drunk to excess on the night of the incident. I should have known better. I recognise, in any event, that alcohol is no excuse for my behaviour.\n\n\"I did not think I was capable of behaving the way I did but have had to face up to it and take responsibility.\n\n\"My apologies go, above all, to the woman concerned, but I would also like to apologise to family, friends and colleagues for the distress I have caused them.\"\n\nGlamis Castle, near Forfar, has been the seat of the Bowes-Lyon family since 1372.\n\nIt was the childhood home of the Queen Mother, and the Queen's sister Princess Margaret was born there.\n\nBowes-Lyon was a great-great nephew of the Queen Mother.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "The Chinese vaccine is one of two that the Brazilian government has lined up\n\nA coronavirus vaccine developed by China's Sinovac has been found to be 50.4% effective in Brazilian clinical trials, according to the latest results released by researchers.\n\nIt shows the vaccine is significantly less effective than previous data suggested - barely over the 50% needed for regulatory approval.\n\nThe Chinese vaccine is one of two that the Brazilian government has lined up.\n\nBrazil has been one of the countries worst affected by Covid-19.\n\nSinovac, a Beijing-based biopharmaceutical company, is behind CoronaVac, an inactivated vaccine. It works by using killed viral particles to expose the body's immune system to the virus without risking a serious disease response.\n\nSeveral countries, including Indonesia, Turkey and Singapore, have placed orders for the vaccine.\n\nLast week researchers at the Butantan Institute, which has been conducting the trials in Brazil, announced that the vaccine had a 78% efficacy against \"mild-to-severe\" Covid-19 cases.\n\nBut on Tuesday they revealed that calculations for this figure did not include data from a group of \"very mild infections\" among those who received the vaccine that did not require clinical assistance.\n\nWith the inclusion of this data, the efficacy rate is now 50.4%, said researchers.\n\nBut Butantan stressed that the vaccine is 78% effective in preventing mild cases that needed treatment and 100% effective in staving off moderate to serious cases.\n\nThe Sinovac trials have yielded different results across different countries.\n\nLast month Turkish researchers said the Sinovac vaccine was 91.25% effective, while Indonesia, which rolled out its mass vaccination programme on Wednesday, said it was 65.3% effective. Both were interim results from late-stage trials.\n\nThe latest figures for China's coronavirus vaccine show just how difficult it is to compare vaccines.\n\nOn the face of it, the 50% effectiveness figure isn't as good as Oxford's 70% or Pfizer and Moderna's 95%. But trials are run very differently in different countries - the numbers of volunteers enrolled varies wildly, as do the criteria used to test how much protection the vaccines offer.\n\nA figure for efficacy is reached by looking at how many people developed Covid after being given the vaccine, compared with how many were affected when given a dummy injection. Normally, that is based on people developing obvious symptoms but in this Brazilian trial, people with no symptoms also appear to have been included.\n\nSo it's only when the full data from all trials of this vaccine are published that scientists can analyse its real efficacy, and compare like with like. Only limited data for this Sinovac vaccine is currently available - and experts say that is confusing the picture.\n\nIn the long term, many vaccines against Covid are needed to vaccinate the world and, inevitably, some will perform better than others - but giving as many people as possible some protection is the priority.\n\nThere has been concern and criticism that Chinese vaccine trials are not subject to the same scrutiny and levels of transparency as its Western counterparts.\n\nBoth the Sinovac vaccine and the vaccine developed by Oxford University and pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca have requests for emergency use authorisation pending with regulators in Brazil.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe latest news comes as Brazil is dealing with a major spike in cases. The country currently has the third highest number of Covid-19 cases in the world at over 8.1 million, just behind the US and India.\n\nThe BBC World Service's Americas editor Candace Piette says the country is suffering one of the world's deadliest outbreaks but as yet, has not announced when its vaccination programme will begin.\n\nThe delay has been caused in large part by the government's haphazard and divided approach to vaccination, says our correspondent.", "More than 100,000 Covid-19 vaccinations had been issued in Northern Ireland by Tuesday evening, Robin Swann has said.\n\nThe health minister said, of that figure, 91,419 people had received their first vaccine dose.\n\nHe added that 95% of care home residents had received their first dose and about 20% of those aged over 80 have received their first dose.\n\nIt comes as leading GP said the goal to begin a mass vaccine rollout by summer is \"achievable\" but hinges on supply.\n\nThe Department of Health published its plan to deliver vaccines in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nDr Alan Stout said the timeline was \"very sensible\" but was \"almost 100%\" dependent on getting enough of the vaccine.\n\nAt Wednesday's health briefing, Mr Swann said the programme had made a \"strong start\" but there was more to do.\n\nHe also said he has decided to issue tighter visiting guidelines for hospitals.\n\n\"I have ensured visiting will be permitted to hospices and care homes, but visits to general medical wards will no longer be permitted from this Friday\", he said.\n\nThe minister added that the measure would be kept under constant review.\n\nMr Swann also confirmed a new rapid test for Covid-19, which can return results in 12 minutes, would be used in emergency departments.\n\nHe said a pilot programme has been carried out using the LumiraDX nasal swab, which will enable health staff to \"very quickly identify patients who do not have Covid-19\".\n\nHe also repeated that the current lockdown restrictions were working and had helped to reduce NI's rate of infection, but warned the executive would still have \"difficult decisions\" to take in relation to decisions about whether to extend some restrictions in the coming weeks.\n\nOn Wednesday, a further 19 Covid-related deaths were announced by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland.\n\nA further 1,145 new cases of the virus were also reported.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland's chief medical officer warned there was \"no doubt\" that levels of the new, more transmissible variant of coronavirus are rising in Northern Ireland.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's executive briefing, Dr Michael McBride said that the new variant was making the job to contain it \"twice as difficult\".\n\nThe new variant is said to be up to 70% more transmissible, but there is no evidence it is more dangerous.\n\nThe first confirmed case of the new strain was detected in Northern Ireland on 23 December, but officials had said levels in Northern Ireland remained lower than in other areas of the UK.\n\nDr McBride said there would now be situations where the variant could spread, where previously it may not have.\n\n\"We need to be extremely cautious in the weeks ahead,\" he warned, adding that the virus would not \"magically disappear\" on 6 February, when the current lockdown is due to end.\n\nStormont ministers have to review the regulations on or before 22 January, with that scheduled for next Thursday.\n\nDr McBride said Northern Ireland had some distance to go before restrictions are lifted\n\nDr Stout, the chair of NI's GP committee, said practices needed another 22,000 doses to finish vaccinating people aged over 80.\n\nSpeaking to BBC's Good Morning Ulster, he said he was \"very confident\" the next doses would come through shortly.\n\n\"I have been overwhelmed by the desire of practices, the determination just to get going and the one thing we need to give them is vaccine - we need to get the supply in as quickly as possible.\n\n\"This is such a good news story that everybody wants the vaccine and everybody wants to give it.\"\n\nThe plan is for the vaccine to be given to the general population in summer 2021.\n\nGP clinics should have received their first delivery of the vaccine by Tuesday.\n\nResponding to reports in The Daily Telegraph that GPs administering the vaccine in England had been asked to \"slow down\" to let other regions \"catch-up\", Dr Stout said Northern Ireland had taken a different approach to how it rolled out vaccines to GPs.\n\nHe said vaccines were shared among all practices in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"We just don't have the full amount of vaccine in practice to give. We could have given all of the vaccine that a certain number of practices needed to start with but there were issues with inequality and discrimination ... so that's why an amount has gone to every single practice, so at least they have some.\"", "Customs operators have pleaded with the government to prioritise vaccinations for staff they insist are key front-line workers in the effort to keep vital supplies flowing into the UK.\n\nOne operator told the BBC his staff were working flat out - often up to 16 hours a day - to help traders comply with the new post-Brexit customs requirements.\n\n\"A Covid outbreak would be disastrous. Customs clearance staff should be identified as key workers and fast-tracked for vaccination.\"\n\nAnother said he had written to Transport Secretary Grant Shapps and his local MP for Ashford, Damian Green saying any coronavirus-related staff shortages could force them to close.\n\n\"We have 14 staff. Two have already had to self-isolate, if we lose any more we would have to consider closing\".\n\nRod McKenzie of the Road Haulage Association supports the argument to accelerate vaccinations of port and customs staff.\n\n\"Customs agents are absolutely swamped, they are understaffed by tens of thousands and although volumes have been light thanks to pre-Christmas and pre-Brexit stockpiling, we are approaching a critical point:\"\n\nSteve Cock of logistics firm KGH said that volume would begin to build this week and described Friday as \"a moment of truth\" as volumes would be close to normal, imposing the first serious test of the system's capacity.\n\nThe government told the BBC that vaccination priorities were based on clinical vulnerability determined by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation.\n\nAlthough the government said it would be looking at key workers beyond the current priorities - like teachers - that would not come till after phase 1 of the current programme ends. That is not expected till late March at the earliest.\n\nAlthough the ports themselves have been running reasonably smoothly, that is because many traders aren't getting as far as the ports as their documentation is not complete.\n\nThe Dover-Calais crossing last week saw only 40% of its usual traffic for this time of year. Many foreign hauliers have been avoiding the UK for fear of getting stuck on the wrong side of the channel or raising their prices by as much as six times to compensate for the additional risks of congestion.\n\nCracks in the system have already started to show with large European delivery firm DPD cancelling road deliveries from the UK to the EU while Ocado, M&S, and Fortnum and Mason have cited problems delivering to customers in the EU and Northern Ireland.\n\nFish and seafood exports have been particularly hard hit.\n\nMany small traders who usually club together to share the cost of space on large lorries headed to their primary markets in the EU have hit serious roadblocks.\n\nProducts of animal origin now need Export Health Certificates signed off by veterinary professionals.\n\nThe burden of getting multiple certificates for single lorries has brought exports to the EU to a virtual standstill for some traders.\n\nThe focus in the UK is understandably primarily on food supplies into the UK and although there are some limited shortages being reported in fruit and vegetable supplies, shelves in the UK are showing very few gaps.\n\nThe problems are more acute in Northern Ireland, which for the purposes of trade is still part of the EU customs area. For that reason, what is happening to food exports from GB to Northern Ireland is perhaps a useful proxy for what is happening to UK food exports to the EU.\n\nThe last thing the UK-EU trade machinery can afford right now is for critical staff - caught in the crossfire of pandemic and Brexit - to be laid low.", "The men were arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance at hospitals in Birmingham and Worcestershire\n\nFour men have been arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance at hospitals in the West Midlands.\n\nThe men, aged between 31 and 37, were held in relation to incidents in Birmingham and Worcestershire between 31 December and 9 January.\n\nEarlier this month, police said they were investigating after people posted videos of supposedly empty hospital corridors on social media.\n\nThe videos claiming Covid-19 was a hoax sparked an outcry from medical workers.\n\nWest Mercia Police launched a joint investigation with West Midlands Police, after incidents were reported at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the Alexandra in Redditch.\n\nHospitals in Worcester and Kidderminster also featured, before the footage was deleted.\n\nThe West Mercia force confirmed it had arrested two men from Bromsgrove aged 31 and 34 as well as a 37 year-old man from Kidderminster and a fourth man, aged 34, from Droitwich.\n\nThey were also detained relating to incidents in a park in Bromsgrove as well as the town centre.\n\nAll four men have since been bailed with conditions not to enter any hospital in England unless they have a medical reason to do so.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Birmingham has one of the largest intensive care capacities in the whole country\n\nTwo hundred doctors will be redeployed to one of England's largest intensive care units amid fears it could be \"overwhelmed\".\n\nA leaked memo warned hospitals in Birmingham were \"in a position of extremis\" as Covid-19 cases rise.\n\nElective surgeries at the city's main Queen Elizabeth Hospital will stop as staff move to critical care duties.\n\nA spokesperson said the approach ensured \"the greatest good for the greatest numbers of people\".\n\nThe trust's decision to redeploy doctors was revealed in a leaked email to the Health Service Journal, which has been verified by the BBC.\n\nSent by consultant Peter Hewins, it said hospitals in Birmingham risked being \"overwhelmed\" amid a \"period of absolute emergency\".\n\nThe University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) said there were 873 patients with Covid-19 across its sites, with 125 in intensive care.\n\nThis was significantly more than in April 2020, it said, as it announced plans to double its intensive care capacity to more than 250 beds.\n\nTime-critical surgery, including cancer operations, will continue, the trust said, but elective procedures at the Queen Elizabeth will be paused, and reduced elsewhere.\n\nThere will also be a \"further reduction of outpatient activity\", a spokesperson said, adding: \"Every member of staff will be supported by the Trust in delivering the best care wherever they are working.\"\n\nThere are currently 873 Covid-19 patients being treated at the trust\n\nNeighbouring University Coventry and Warwickshire Hospitals Trust confirmed it had started taking Covid patients from Birmingham.\n\nUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England.\n\nIt runs several hospitals, including Birmingham Heartlands, the Queen Elizabeth, Solihull Hospital and Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield. It also runs Birmingham Chest Clinic.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The minimum cost of carrier bags in Scotland is set to double to 10p from 1 April.\n\nThe Scottish government has said it is important to increase the charge periodically to encourage the use of reusable options instead.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham said the move was to deter the use of single-use plastic bags.\n\nThe 5p charge was introduced in 2014, with plastic bag usage dropping by 80% by the following year.\n\nMs Cunningham said: \"Thanks to the people of Scotland, the introduction of the charge has been successful in reducing the amount of single-use carrier bags in circulation.\n\n\"While the 5p bag charge was suitable when it was first introduced, it is important that pricing is updated to ensure that the charge continues to be a factor in making people think twice about using a single-use carrier bag.\"\n\nSome retailers have pledged to donate their carrier bag charges to good causes, with £2.5m raised in 2019.\n\nPrior to the charge being introduced in 2014, 800 million single use carrier bags were issued annually in Scotland.\n\nBy 2015 this fell by 80% with the Marine Conservation Society noting in 2016 that the number of plastic carrier bags being found on Scotland's beaches dropped by 40% two years in a row with a further drop of 42% recorded between 2018 and 2019.\n\nKeep Scotland Beautiful chief executive Barry Fisher said: \"Since 2014 the single use carrier bag charge has significantly helped reduce the number of bags being given out by retailers - saving thousands of tonnes of single use plastic realising a significant net carbon saving and reducing the chances of these items becoming littered.\n\n\"However, there is still an opportunity to challenge individual behaviours and improve consumer awareness which the doubling of the charge will help do.\n\nDue to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Scottish government is looking into creating an exemption on the bag charge for certain deliveries and collections, as was the case last year at the onset of the pubic health crisis.", "Naomi Campbell and Kenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala sealed the deal over the weekend\n\nThe appointment of British supermodel Naomi Campbell as Kenya's tourism ambassador has caused a Twitter storm in the East African nation.\n\nMany queried why it had not been given to a prominent Kenyan like Hollywood actress Lupita Nyong'o.\n\nOthers leapt to her defence, saying the debate already justified her role.\n\nKenya's tourism sector has been badly hit by coronavirus, with visitor numbers down by 72% between January and October last year.\n\n\"The sector hence lost over 110bn Kenyan shillings [$1bn, £738m] of direct international tourists' revenue due to the Covid-19 pandemic,\" Kenya's Tourism Research Institute reported last month.\n\nThe country is famous for its wildlife safaris and beach resorts.\n\nKenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala said the deal with Ms Campbell was done over the weekend after he met the model, who is currently on holiday in Kenya.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Ministry of Tourism & Wildlife-Kenya\n\nThe 50-year-old style icon and philanthropist has been posting images of her stay on Instagram, where she has 10 million followers.\n\n\"We welcome the exciting news that Naomi Campbell will advocate for tourism and travel internationally for the Magical Kenya brand,\" Mr Balala said, without giving further deals of the contract.\n\nBut the statement, posted on Twitter on Tuesday, prompted instant outrage from some, and the supermodel's name has since been trending in the country.\n\nOne tweeter cited other Kenyan celebrities better suited to the ambassadorial role, including models Ajuma Nasenyana and Debra Sanaipei, as well as Nyong'o.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Syombua A. 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This mentality is what causes nepotism and tribalism in Kenyan institutions, it should be about the most suitable candidate not 'one of our own' thing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Campbell's defenders praised her for visiting Kenya several times and said it was not only the model's social media following that made her the perfect appointment.\n\nHer circle of friends were equally important as she would attract wealthy tourists willing to spend money.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mlolwa🐬 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe tourism industry usually contributes about 8.8% to Kenya's annual Gross domestic product (GDP), according to Kenya's East African newspaper.\n• None The supermodel and the warlord", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Large parts of Scotland woke up to a blanket of snow on Thursday, including in Rutherglen where conditions became challenging for drivers\n\nMotorists continue to face difficult conditions after heavy snow across parts of Scotland caused road closures.\n\nA Met Office yellow warning for ice will be in place overnight and for all of Friday for mainland Scotland.\n\nThe A9 at Dunblane was closed due to snow but has now reopened, while driving conditions on the M90 and M8 were reported as difficult.\n\nThere have also been problems in the Scottish Borders where up to a foot of snow fell overnight.\n\nTraffic Scotland has reported difficult driving conditions on the M77 at Fenwick, M80 around Cumbernauld and the A9 at Greenloaning.\n\nA woman walks through the snow in Braco near Dunblane\n\nThe impact of the overnight freeze on a hedgerow near Strathaven, South Lanarkshire\n\nIn the Borders several lorries got stuck on the A7 between Selkirk and Hawick, while difficult driving conditions were also reported on the A68 at the Carter Bar and Soutra.\n\nThere were also delays on the A83 Old Military Road diversion and the A82 at Tyndrum.\n\nMeanwhile, police have urged drivers to properly clear their car windscreens before setting off in the wintry conditions.\n\nOfficers in Dumfries and Galloway shared a picture of a driver they stopped and charged for failing to do this.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople should only be leaving home to make essential journeys in parts of Scotland under level four Covid measures, under current Scottish government lockdown regulations.\n\nCh Supt Louise Blakelock, of Police Scotland, said: \"Government guidance on only travelling if your journey is essential remains in place and so with an amber warning for snow, please consider if your journey really is essential and whether you can delay it until the weather improves.\n\n\"If your journey really is essential, plan ahead and make sure you and your vehicle are suitably prepared by having sufficient fuel and supplies such as warm clothing, food, water and charge in your mobile phone in the event you require assistance.\"\n\nA motorist brushes snow off a car in Braco near Dunblane\n\nThe village of Bowden near Melrose woke up to snow\n\nA snowy scene at Fountainhall in the Scottish Borders\n\nPolice in Shetland have also warned of ice badly affecting roads on the islands.\n\nScotRail said its services could be affected, particularly on the Highland mainline.\n\nScottish Borders Council said the effects of the adverse weather could cause disruption into Friday morning.\n\nEmergency planning officer Jim Fraser said: \"With widespread snow and some freezing rain possible over the course of Wednesday and Thursday, there is the strong potential for disruption across our road network and communities.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome of the deepest snowfalls in recent weeks have been in the Highlands, including the Cairngorms.\n\nEarlier this month, the UK had its coldest night of the winter so far after a temperature of -12.3C was recorded in the north west Highlands.\n\nThe temperature was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch, near Garve, south of Ullapool in Wester Ross.\n\nThe record lowest temperature in the UK is -27.2C, which was recorded in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, in 1895 and 1982 and at Altnaharra in the Highlands in 1995.", "Pre-departure Covid-19 testing will now be required for everyone travelling to England from 04:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThe rules had been due to come into force on Friday, but the government said people needed time \"to prepare\".\n\nThose arriving by plane, train or boat, including UK nationals, will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country they are in.\n\nAnyone arriving from places not on the UK's travel corridor list must still self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe Scottish government is planning to impose the same rules and has had to defer them coming into effect as a result of changes in England.\n\n\"This meant Scotland was also obliged to delay implementation as we need sight of their final regulations in order to properly draft and approve the relevant Scottish regulations,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nIt is expected the requirement will come into force in Scotland at 04:00 GMT on Monday as well. Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce plans for pre-arrival testing in the coming days.\n\nAnnouncing the deferral on Twitter, Transport Secretary Mr Shapps said: \"To give international arrivals time to prepare, passengers will be required to provide proof of a negative Covid-19 test before departure to England from Monday 18 January at 4am.\"\n\nHe also reminded travellers to fill out the Passenger Locator Form - used in track and trace - and added that those without proof of a negative test faced a fine of £500.\n\nProblems with testing availability and capacity mean some countries will initially be exempt.\n\nFor instance, the requirement will not apply to travellers from St Lucia, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda until 04:00 GMT on 21 January.\n\nTravellers from Falkland Islands, Ascension Islands and St Helena are exempted permanently.\n\nHauliers are exempt to allow the free flow of freight, as are air, international rail and maritime crew.\n\nThe government has said all forms of PCR test will be accepted, as will other forms of test with \"97% specificity, 80% sensitivity\".\n\nThe move comes as a further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nWednesday's figure brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there had now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nMeanwhile on Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil.\n\nHe acknowledged it was not yet clear how effective existing vaccines would be against the latest new variant.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was taking steps to make sure it was not brought into the country.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from Brazil? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Sir David will appear in \"very high-resolution holographic video\"\n\nSir David Attenborough is to front an augmented reality app letting users see exotic plants and animals in their own surroundings, as part of a government drive to prove the uses of 5G.\n\nThe Green Planet AR app has been given £2.3m government funding as one of nine 5G test projects given a total of £28m.\n\nIt will be released alongside The Green Planet, Sir David's forthcoming BBC series that will show plants in detail.\n\nThe five-part documentary series is expected to be broadcast in 2022.\n\nAugmented reality superimposes virtual objects on to the world around us, meaning the app's users will be able to use their smartphones to see Sir David and \"meticulously detailed graphics of exotic plants and animals\" as if they were in front of them.\n\nThe app will help prove \"how new technology can reconnect us with the natural world whilst demonstrating the power of 5G to a huge new audience\", according to Minister for Digital Infrastructure Matt Warman.\n\nThe app will be available in \"set locations\" around the UK. Developer Factory 42 said it does not yet know how many locations, but they could include parks, visitor attractions like Kew Gardens and urban settings. Users will need a 5G-enabled device.\n\nThe other projects sharing the £28m funding include one to provide live, multi-angle HD video streams and replays on phones at sporting events; one to allow people to experience exhibits at The Eden Project in Cornwall from their own homes; and one to control the 113 cranes at the Port of Felixstowe in Suffolk.\n\nThey follow nine other 5G trial projects that were awarded a total of £35m in February 2020.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Pupils are currently learning remotely from home\n\nA-level, AS and GCSE students in England could be asked to sit mini external exams to help teachers with their assessments after formal exams were cancelled last week.\n\nIn a letter to the exams regulator, Ofqual, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said this would help teachers to decide \"deserved grades\".\n\nHe promised not to use an algorithm which led to controversy last summer.\n\nHead teachers said the \"devil was in the detail\" for these plans.\n\nThe letter was published on Wednesday morning, as Mr Williamson appeared before the education select committee to answer questions on the impact of Covid-19 on education.\n\nIn the letter to Ofqual he said: \"A breadth of evidence should inform teachers' judgments, and the provision of training and guidance will support teachers to reach their assessment of a student's deserved grade.\n\n\"In addition, I would like to explore the possibility of providing externally set tasks or papers, in order that teachers can draw on this resource to support their assessments of students.\"\n\nMr Williamson's pledge not to use an algorithm to determine grades comes after thousands of A-level students had their results downgraded from school estimates last summer - before Ofqual announced a U-turn allowing them to use teachers' predictions.\n\n\"We have agreed that we will not use an algorithm to set or automatically standardise anyone's grade,\" the letter says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gavin Williamson: \"The top priority is for all those that work in schools\"\n\n\"Schools and colleges should undertake quality assurance of their teachers' assessments and provide reassurance to the exam boards. We should provide training and guidance to support that, and there should also be external checks in place to support fairness and consistency between different institutions and to avoid schools and colleges proposing anomalous grades.\"\n\nBut he added: \"Changes should only be made if those grades cannot be justified, rather than as a result of marginal differences of opinion.\n\n\"Any changes should be based on human decisions, not by an automatic process or algorithm.\"\n\nA consultation on plans for this year is being launched later this week.\n\nGeoff Barton, head of the Association of School and College Leaders, said the letter set out \"broad and sensible parameters\" for assessing GCSEs and A-levels after exams were cancelled.\n\n\"But, as ever, the devil will be in the detail of how this is turned into reality,\" Mr Barton said.\n\nHe welcomed confirmation that no algorithm would be applied this year \"following last summer's grading debacle.\"\n\nBut he questioned how any system of externally set assessment would work and how it could ensures fairness for students whose education had been heavily disrupted.\n\n\"It is vital that the final plans not only provide fairness and consistency but that they are also workable for schools, colleges and teaching staff who will have to put them into practice,\" he added.\n\nNational Education Union joint general secretary Dr Mary Bousted said: \"Had the government listened to the NEU and put in place a contingency plan sooner we would be in a better position now to make sure grades could be awarded reliably and without creating severe workload issues for education staff and students.\n\nShe said the union would continue to work with the Dfe and Ofqual, but they needed to see the full details of the plans as soon as possible to ensure grades are fair and the process is manageable for staff.\n\nTaking questions from MPs on the education select committee, Mr Williamson said he wanted to see schools re-opening at the earliest opportunity and that he would \"never apologise for being the biggest champion for keeping schools open\".\n\nHe said attendance rates of vulnerable and key worker pupils in schools since the start of term were higher than in the first lockdown.", "The prime minister has said lockdown measures are \"starting to show signs of some effect\", but he has refused to rule out extra restrictions in England.\n\nAt PMQs, Boris Johnson said measures were kept under \"constant review\" after Labour's Sir Keir Starmer said it was obvious more restrictions were needed.\n\nMr Johnson added that vaccine centres would move to 24-7 \"as soon as we can\".\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nLater, Mr Johnson told the Commons Liaison Committee there was a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care capacity in hospitals being \"overtopped\", and appealed to people to follow lockdown rules.\n\nHe said the situation was \"very, very tough\" in the NHS and the strain on staff was \"colossal\".\n\nMeanwhile, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced new restrictions in Scotland from Saturday, including limiting click and collect services to essential items only and restricting takeaways.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions, Sir Keir said stronger restrictions were needed in England and accused Mr Johnson of being \"slow to act\".\n\nHe asked the prime minister why restrictions were weaker in this lockdown compared with March.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says the government acted \"within 24 hours\" of advice on the new Covid-19 variant\n\n\"We keep things under constant review,\" Mr Johnson replied. \"If there is any need to toughen up restrictions - which I don't rule out - we will of course come to this House.\n\n\"The lockdown measures we have in place combined with tier four measures that we were using are starting to show signs of some effect and we must take account of that too.\"\n\nHe added it was early days and urged people to abide by the rules.\n\nQuestioned by the liaison committee on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Johnson said it was \"far, far too early\" to say there could be any relaxation of the lockdown in the middle of February, and \"we've got to work very hard to achieve that\".\n\nHe acknowledged that it was a \"tragedy\" that so many children were missing face-to-face teaching at school and said reopening schools was \"the priority\".\n\nTier four - the highest level in England's tier system which bans households mixing indoors - was introduced on 21 December in parts of south-east England, including London.\n\nIt was then widened to include more of southern England on Boxing Day. England has been in a national lockdown since 5 January.\n\nMr Johnson also said the vaccination programme was going \"exceptionally fast\" but \"at the moment the limit is on supply\" of the vaccine.\n\n\"We will be going to 24/7 as soon as we can,\" he told MPs, saying Health Secretary Matt Hancock will set out further details \"in due course\".\n\nMore than 2.4 million people have had a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, while 412,167 people have had a second dose.\n\nScotland's Health Secretary Jeane Freeman said it was \"entirely possible\" to offer round-the-clock vaccinations in Scotland once mass sites were up and running by late February or early March.\n\nThere are very early signs that infections may have peaked - although as always we should be careful about reading too much into a few days' worth of data.\n\nThe past two days have seen newly diagnosed cases hover around the 46,000-mark. Up to the weekend, the average was close to 60,000.\n\nThe drop has largely been driven by falls in new cases in London, the South East and East of England.\n\nThe national picture does mask some regional differences. Cases are rising in the North West, which is causing particular concern.\n\nIt is too early for the vaccination programme to be having any significant impact so a combination of the national lockdown on top of the tier four restrictions that were imposed in some areas before Christmas look like they may be beginning to have an impact.\n\nThere is also some evidence the new variant may not be quite as fast-spreading as first feared - a Public Health England study suggested rather than being 70% more transmissible, it may actually be somewhere between 30% to 50%.\n\nAnd, if it does represent the start of a continuous fall, it is important to remember it will still take some time to translate into fewer hospital cases - people being admitted at the moment are those who would have caught the virus a week or two ago.\n\nBut after six weeks of pretty sustained rises, it is at least an encouraging sign.\n\nEarlier, Health Secretary Matt Hancock questioned whether there would be demand for a round-the-clock vaccination operation, saying: \"Most people want to get vaccinated in the daytime, and also most people who are doing the vaccinations want to give them in the daytime, but there may be circumstances in which that would help.\"\n\nHe said England's lockdown measures were \"always under review\", but he would be \"very reluctant\" to remove the rule of meeting one other person outside for exercise as \"it is a lifeline\" for some people, including those who live alone. Mr Hancock has already ruled out scrapping support bubbles.\n\n\"What I'd rather is that everybody follow that rule and doesn't stretch it or flex it,\" he said.", "Fans of the University of Alabama football team gathered in the streets of Tuscaloosa in Alabama, ignoring social distancing.\n\nThey were celebrating the university's third national championship in the past six years.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nThe first Covid patients have begun receiving a new treatment it's hoped will prevent sufferers becoming seriously ill. The patients are part of a large-scale trial testing the effect of inhaling a protein called interferon beta which the body produces when it gets a viral infection. Developed at Southampton University Hospital and produced by biotech company, Synairgen, early findings suggest the treatment cuts the odds of severe illness by almost 80%. Find out more here.\n\nKaye Flitney is one of those enrolled on the clinical trial\n\nMany hospital staff treating the sickest patients during the first wave of the pandemic have been left struggling to cope, a new study suggests. Researchers at King's College London questioned 709 workers at nine units in England and nearly half reported symptoms of severe anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder or problem drinking. Lead researcher Prof Neil Greenberg said it should be a \"wake-up call\" for managers about the need to provide more mental health support. Some staff are they're also facing abuse online and at protests from Covid sceptics and anti-lockdown activists.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChildren's minister Vicky Ford says caterers must urgently improve the quality of food parcels being provided for low-income families. Catering company Chartwells has apologised after photographs of some parcels were shared online and heavily criticised. The packages - more on them here - are being sent to children who would normally receive free school meals in England. The row could well come up when Education Secretary Gavin Williamson faces MPs' questioning later. Our education correspondent looks closely at Mr Williamson - a man whose political obituary has been written so many times he must sometimes feel like the walking dead.\n\nTwitter user Roadside Mum complained about the parcel she received\n\nNurse Kate Fraser said administering the vaccination to Ms Curry had been \"emotional\"\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, Britain's top police officer, Dame Cressida Dick, says it's \"preposterous\" to suggest some people are not aware of what the lockdown laws now tell them to do. So how much do you know? Try our quiz.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Democrats, including Jamie Raskin (centre), voted to impeach President Donald Trump, as did 10 Republicans\n\nThe US House of Representatives has voted to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time over his alleged role in the 6 January deadly assault on the Capitol.\n\nHis impeachment for \"incitement to insurrection\" was approved by 232 representatives including 10 Republicans.\n\nDemocrats led the effort to charge Mr Trump with encouraging the riots.\n\nBut some Republicans had backed calls for impeachment.\n\nSo, who are these key players, and what do we know about them?\n\nWhen the impeachment charges go to the Senate for trial, the case for the prosecution will be made by a team of lawmakers, led by Mr Raskin, a Democratic representative from Maryland since 2017 and a former professor of constitutional law.\n\nThe impeachment of Mr Trump represents the continuation of an extremely challenging start to 2021 for Mr Raskin, 58.\n\nJamie Raskin (left) helped to draft the article of impeachment against President Trump\n\nThe congressman's 25-year-old son, Tommy Bloom Raskin, took his own life on New Year's Eve and was laid to rest in early January.\n\nA day after the funeral, Mr Raskin found himself hunkering down with colleagues, shielding from a violent mob that rampaged through the Capitol where lawmakers were meeting to certify November's presidential election result.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn the day of the assault, Mr Raskin helped to draw up an article of impeachment against President Trump.\n\nSpeaking to the Washington Post, Mr Raskin said his son, who was studying law at Harvard University, would have considered last week's violence \"the absolute worst form of crime against democracy\".\n\n\"It really is Tommy Raskin, and his love and his values and his passion, that have kept me going,\" Mr Raskin said.\n\nIn total, nine Democrats, including Mr Raskin, have been named as impeachment managers. One is Representative Madeleine Dean, from Pennsylvania, who is one of three women on the team.\n\nMs Dean started her career in law, opening her own three-woman practice in Pennsylvania before teaching English at a university.\n\nHaving been active in state politics for decades, she was elected to the House in 2018, using her seat to champion women's reproductive rights, gun law reform, and healthcare for all, among other issues.\n\nMadeleine Dean has called for a quick trial of President Trump in the Senate\n\nIn an interview with MSNBC, Ms Dean, 68, said she favoured a \"speedy trial\" in the Senate if Mr Trump was impeached.\n\n\"This isn't about a party. This isn't about politics. This is about protection of our constitution, of our rule of law,\" Ms Dean said.\n\nAs the Speaker of the House, Ms Pelosi has been in the spotlight since the riots in the Capitol.\n\nMs Pelosi leads the Democrats in the lower chamber of Congress, so the 80-year-old had a huge influence over the decision to introduce an article of impeachment against Mr Trump.\n\nMs Pelosi had the House proceed with impeachment after former Vice-President Mike Pence did not invoked constitutional powers to force out Mr Trump, who was then president.\n\nMr Pence said at the time he believed such a move was against the country's interests.\n\n\"This president is guilty of inciting insurrection. He has to pay a price for that,\" Ms Pelosi said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The storming of the US Capitol\n\nMr McConnell, a 78-year-old Republican senator for Kentucky, is one to watch in the Senate.\n\nThe upper chamber's former majority leader remains the man at the helm of the upper chamber's Republican caucus.\n\nDubbed the \"Grim Reaper\" by Democrats, Mr McConnell was a thorn in the side of former President Barack Obama, often manoeuvring to frustrate his legislative agenda and judicial appointments.\n\nHe was also the driving force behind Mr Trump's acquittal in his first impeachment trial in 2019.\n\nIn his last few weeks as Senate leader, Mr McConnell also delayed Mr Trump's trial until after the former president left office, saying there was no time for a \"fair or serious trial\" ahead of Mr Biden's inauguration.\n\nMr McConnell has not publicly commented on whether he supports convicting or acquitting Mr Trump, but he has sent some mixed messages.\n\nMitch McConnell had been loyal to President Trump until the Capitol riots\n\nThough he spent the last four years in the president's corner, the minority leader said the rioters were \"provoked by\" Mr Trump and that he plans to hear out both sides in the trial.\n\nBut later on in January, he also joined the majority of Republican senators to vote for a motion to toss out the impeachment case as unconstitutional now that Mr Trump is no longer in the White House.\n\nMr McConnell may no longer have the final say on all things impeachment, but as Democrats need Republican support to convict Mr Trump with the required two-thirds majority, he still has a key role to play in the upcoming proceedings.\n\nWith just over a week to go before the trial, Mr Trump parted ways with his legal team, including attorneys Butch Bowers and Deborah Barbier.\n\nThey were quickly replaced by David Schoen, a trial lawyer, and Bruce Castor, a former district attorney, who will lead the defence efforts for the former president.\n\nIn a statement, both attorneys said they didn't believe the push to impeach Mr Trump is constitutional.\n\nDavid Schoen, left, and Bruce Castor will lead the defence efforts for the former president\n\nMr Castor added: \"The strength of our Constitution is about to be tested like never before in our history.\n\n\"It is strong and resilient. A document written for the ages, and it will triumph over partisanship yet again, and always.\"\n\nMr Schoen has previously represented Roger Stone, former adviser to Mr Trump. Stone received a presidential pardon in December.\n\nThe lawyer also made headlines in the past for meeting with Jeffrey Epstein in his final days to discuss possible representation, and for later saying he did not believe the death of the US financier and sex offender was suicide.\n\nMr Castor, a former Pennsylvania district attorney, is known for declining to prosecute Bill Cosby for sexual assault in 2005. The comedian was eventually convicted on three counts of sexual assault in a 2018 retrial of his case.\n\nMs Cheney, 54, is third-highest-ranking Republican leader in the House. As the daughter of former Republican Vice-President Dick Cheney, she has a high profile in the party.\n\nSo, her support for impeachment is particularly significant.\n\nLiz Cheney has accused President Trump of inciting the attack on Congress\n\nMr Trump had \"summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack\", Ms Cheney said of the Capitol riots.\n\n\"There has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution,\" the Wyoming representative said.\n\nHowever, in a recent test of support for conviction on impeachment charges that Mr Trump incited his supporters to mount an insurrection at the US Capitol, 45 out of 50 Senate Republicans voted last week to consider stopping the trial before it even starts.\n\nMs Cheney survived a House Republican vote - 145-61 - to oust her from her leadership position after breaking ranks with other GOP lawmakers last month to impeach the former president.\n\nShe is also now facing a primary challenger for her Wyoming congressional seat after voting to impeach Mr Trump.\n\nBlocking Mr Trump from ever running for office again is one rationale that may motivate some Republicans to impeach the president.\n\nThat reasoning could be attractive to Republican senators like Mr Sasse, who is seen as a possible contender for the presidency in 2024.\n\nElected to the Senate in 2014, the 48-year-old has been an ardent critic of Mr Trump.\n\nBen Sasse refused to overturn the results of November's presidential election in Congress\n\nMr Sasse was firmly opposed to a Republican effort - cheered on by Mr Trump - to overturn the certification of President-elect Joe Biden's election victory in Congress.\n\nOn the question of impeachment, Mr Sasse said he would \"definitely consider whatever articles they might move\" in the House.\n\nA two-thirds majority would be needed to convict Mr Trump in the Senate, meaning at least 17 Republicans - including Mr Sasse - would have to vote for it.\n\nIn Mr Trump's first impeachment trial in 2020, it was Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts who presided over the proceedings.\n\nThis time, he declined to participate, handing the job over to the 80-year-old Vermont Democrat, who will take the gavel in this second impeachment trial.\n\nMr Leahy was first elected to the Senate in 1974, and is the longest serving lawmaker in the upper chamber.\n\nHe will be presiding in his role as the Senate's president pro tempore - a constitutional officer, responsible for presiding over the Senate in the absence of the vice-president.\n\nIn a statement, he said \"the president pro tempore takes an additional special oath to do impartial justice according to the Constitution and the laws\" when presiding over an impeachment trial.\n\n\"It is an oath that I take extraordinarily seriously.\"", "Many of the works in Gurlitt's collection were in poor condition when they were discovered in 2012 (file photo)\n\nWhen a trove of 1,500 artworks hoarded by the son of a Nazi-era art dealer was discovered in 2012, an investigation began to find out how many were looted from Jewish owners.\n\nEventually only 14 were conclusively identified as looted, and now Germany has declared the last of those works has been returned to the owner's heirs.\n\nDas Klavierspiel (Playing the Piano) by Carl Spitzweg was owned by music publisher Henri Hinrichsen.\n\nHe was murdered at Auschwitz in 1942.\n\nGerman Culture Minister Monika Grütters said the return of the work sent an \"important signal\", and that while it could not make up for the deep suffering, it could \"make a contribution to historical justice and fulfil our moral responsibility\".\n\nThe 19th-Century work by Spitzweg was confiscated by the Nazis in 1939, the same year that Hinrichsen had bought it.\n\nDas Klavierspiel by Carl Spitzweg was seized by the Nazis in 1939\n\nIt was bought in 1940 by Hildebrand Gurlitt, a Nazi-era dealer who had been given the task by Adolf Hitler of dealing in art seized from Jewish collectors and of buying up so-called \"degenerate art\" removed from museums for a planned Führermuseum in the Austrian city of Linz.\n\nThe money for the Spitzweg work was paid into a blocked account, so Hinrichsen would never have received it.\n\nIn 2015, the piece was identified as looted, and it was handed over to the auctioneers Christie's on Tuesday, according to the wishes of Hinrichsen's heirs.\n\nAlthough his collection of 1,500 works, plundered from museums as well as individuals, was initially confiscated after the war by the Allies, Hildebrand Gurlitt eventually managed to get it back.\n\nGurlitt died in the 1950s and when German authorities approached his widow in 1961 in search of part of his collection, she claimed the works had been destroyed at the end of World War Two by Allied bombing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Stephen Evans was granted exclusive access to look at some of the long-lost masterpieces in 2014\n\nIt was only when tax investigators searched the Munich flat of his son Cornelius Gurlitt in 2012 that they found more than 1,400 of the works. Another 60 pieces were discovered at his Austrian home in Salzburg the following year.\n\nThe son died in 2014 with questions still hanging over the ownership of the collection - as he was protected by a statute of limitations.\n\nA court ruled that the works could be bequeathed to the Museum of Fine Arts in the Swiss capital Bern, as Cornelius Gurlitt had requested.\n\nWhile some of the works were deemed to belong to the family, the German Lost Art Foundation then tried to find out, with the Swiss museum, who were the rightful owners of the rest.\n\nFourteen pieces have now conclusively identified as belonging to Jewish owners and returned.\n\nAmong the many masterpieces in the collection was this work by Edouard Manet", "Isabella Curry urged others to get the jab and said it was just a little \"prick in the arm\"\n\nA woman has celebrated her 100th birthday by getting a covid vaccination at home.\n\nIsabella Curry, known as Ella, from Cramlington, was among some of the most vulnerable people in Northumberland to receive the vaccine.\n\nMs Curry, who lives alone, urged others not to be afraid to get the jab and said it was just a little \"prick in the arm\" and she now felt safe.\n\nHer birthday was also marked by the arrival of a card from the Queen.\n\nShe said: \"This vaccine means I'll be able to go out, meet my friends soon and feel safe.\"\n\nIsabella Curry's nephew Neil Curry thanked the \"army\" of helpers who cared for his aunt\n\nMs Curry's nephew, Neil Curry from Bristol, said he was delighted she had had the vaccination but sad the whole family could not get together for the milestone birthday.\n\n\"We had a family reunion for Ella's 90th - we all got together in Newcastle. We would have all got together again to mark this occasion, but we couldn't,\" he said.\n\nHe also said he wanted to thank the \"army\" of people who looked after his aunt including Noreen and Jim Hutchinson, who did her shopping and cut her grass.\n\nHe also thanked June and Peter Marshall and all the other people who collected her prescriptions and mobile library books.\n\nKate Fraser, the community nurse who administered the vaccination, said: \"It's been an emotional time being able to give Isabella her vaccination.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "People's reaction to a sonic boom heard across the East of England has been caught on camera.\n\nIt happened after a Typhoon aircraft took off from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire to escort a plane to Stansted Airport because it had lost communications at about 13:05 GMT.\n\nPeople in Cambridgeshire, Essex and parts of London posted videos on social media, with one person heard asking if it was thunder.\n\nHeather Eastlake, who was filming herself exercising near Cambridge, described her reaction as being like \"a deer in the highlights\".", "Libby Squire was not seen alive after travelling to Oak Road playing fields with Pawel Relowicz, a court heard\n\nA man accused of raping and murdering a student committed a string of \"sexually motivated\" burglaries in the months before her death, a court has heard.\n\nJurors heard \"trophies\" - underwear and sex toys - stolen from other women were found after his arrest.\n\nProsecutors claim he was \"prowling the streets\" of Hull's student area in search of a victim when he intercepted the \"extremely vulnerable\" Ms Squire.\n\nSheffield Crown Court previously heard the defendant drove Ms Squire - who had earlier been refused entry to a nightclub - to the Oak Road playing fields.\n\nOnce there, jurors were told, he subjected her to an \"act of sexual violence\" before he disposed of her body in the River Hull.\n\nHer remains were found in the Humber Estuary almost seven weeks later.\n\nProsecutor Richard Wright QC said Mr Relowicz would claim Ms Squire had \"instigated consensual sexual intercourse\", and he had left her \"safe and well\" on the fields.\n\nRichard Wright QC continued to outline the case against Pawel Relowicz on Wednesday\n\nHowever, Sam Alford, who lives nearby, reported hearing a woman's \"desperate screams\" coming from the direction of the river, the court heard.\n\nProsecutors allege the screams were Ms Squire's and a man seen \"emerging from the darkness\" and fleeing the area was the defendant.\n\n\"Libby was never seen again\", Mr Wright told jurors.\n\nThe screams, and scratches to the defendant's face were evidence Ms Squire had \"fought him off\", the court heard.\n\nMr Wright said the evidence established \"that she was raped by a man whose entire motivation for coming into contact with her that night was to take her away from safety to a remote area well known to him and there to subject her to his uncontrollable sexual urges\".\n\nThe prosecutor said a pathologist concluded he could not establish how Ms Squire died despite \"an obvious bruise\" to the inside of her right thigh.\n\nMr Wright told jurors a CCTV recording made after the last sighting of Ms Squire showed Mr Relowicz performing a sex act in the middle of a street.\n\nA condom found at the scene days later yielded a DNA profile matching the defendant, the court heard.\n\nIn the year leading up to Ms Squire's disappearance, Mr Relowicz exposed himself to women in public and watched them through windows as they changed or had sex, the court heard.\n\nHe also \"burgled their homes with the purpose of stealing their underwear and sexual toys or other objects,\" Mr Wright said.\n\nUniversity of Hull student Libby Squire was last seen in the early hours of 1 February 2019\n\nFollowing his arrest on 6 February, Mr Wright said, police recovered the pink holdall \"full of sex toys... and some photographs of young women and several pairs of women's knickers and thongs\".\n\nA statement made by Ms Squire's mother, Lisa Squire, was read out in court describing her daughter having battled mental health issues including an eating disorder, self-harming - cutting the top of her arms, legs and chest - and depression.\n\nShe said her eldest child had been afraid of water since she was young, to the point she would not go near a swimming pool when on holiday. She was also scared of the dark, jurors were told.\n\nStatements by Ms Squire's boyfriend Connor James-Pye were also read out, in which he described Libby as being \"a happy drunk\" and that she \"didn't understand moderation\".\n\nHowever, on the night she disappeared, the court heard Ms Squire \"didn't want to go out because she had a lecture the next morning, but she didn't want to let the girls down\".\n\nMr James-Pye last heard from his girlfriend at about 22:30 on 31 January, jurors heard.\n\nThe 21-year-old's body was recovered from the Humber Estuary on 20 March 2019\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The button battery was stuck in Sofia-Grace's throat for four months\n\nAn 11-month-old girl who was rejecting solid food had a button battery lodged in her throat for four months.\n\nDoctors thought Sofia-Grace Hill had tonsillitis or a viral infection until an X-ray revealed the battery the size of a 10p in her oesophagus.\n\nShe underwent a two-hour operation to remove it and is now on a liquid only diet.\n\nA surgeon said her survival may be due to the battery being old and without charge.\n\nDad Calham, from Swindon, first noticed something was wrong in January 2020 and had countless paramedic call-outs and visits to the GP and local hospital.\n\nShe had a two-hour operation to remove the battery\n\nHe was convinced there was something else going on as Sofia-Grace would only eat pureed food.\n\nAfter another hospital trip in May, she was given an X-ray which showed the battery lodged in her oesophagus was causing serious damage as it had corroded.\n\nMr Hill said: \"I was gutted when I saw it and angry at myself. I blamed myself, but now I realise there was nothing we could have done to know.\"\n\nThe button battery is the size of a 10p\n\nSofia-Grace had a feeding tube fitted to help her with food and to stop her throat from closing.\n\nEvery two weeks she has a general anaesthetic to stretch her oesophagus but faces the prospect of further surgery.\n\nMr Hill said: \"The damage has left a pocket in her oesophagus which needs to close but Sofia is improving week by week with regular dilations which is improving her oesophagus.\n\n\"But I know the chance of survival in the first weeks after this happens is very low so we are moving in the right direction.\"\n\nSofia-Grace is improving week by week, her dad said\n\nMr Hill is unsure how Sofia-Grace, now almost two-years-old, got hold of the button battery and warned parents about the dangers.\n\nHe said: \"Just get rid of them or lock them away and don't give your child car keys to play with. Always trust your instincts as a parent.\"\n\nJanet McNally, consultant paediatric surgeon at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, who is treating Sofia-Grace, said her survival may be because the battery was old and had lost its charge.\n\nShe said that without someone seeing a child swallow a battery or obvious symptoms it was not unusual for it to be missed.\n\n\"Clinicians and the government have been warning of the dangers of button batteries for a long time. But not all parents are aware of how dangerous they can be.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Brazil's variant: Two 'spike' changes flagged up\n\nAs MPs have been mentioning today - a coronavirus variant has been found circulating in the Amazonas state of Brazil, and was picked up in Japan in travellers from the region. It’s different from the UK and South African variants, but it contains common mutations - two changes to the virus’ \"spike\" in particular which have been flagged as potentially making the virus more infectious. This is not going to be the last mutation we hear about. At the moment changes are mainly being picked up in areas that do lots of genetic tracking of the virus - it’s almost certain there are other mutations already circulating unseen in other parts of the world. And the virus will continue to mutate - it’s just a question of how, how much and how fast. For now there’s no evidence the virus is becoming more dangerous - but if more people catch it then, left unchecked, more will potentially become ill or die. But the vaccines, which target several different areas of the virus’ spike, should still work - though that’s something that scientists the world over will be monitoring very closely.", "The three main Covid-19 vaccines are from Pfizer-BioNTech, the University of Oxford and Astra-Zeneca and Moderna.\n\nThe Pfizer, Oxford and Moderna vaccines each require two doses and you are not fully vaccinated until you have had both shots.\n\nBut there are many differences between them.\n\nThe BBC's Laura Foster looks at how much immunity they give, how they prevent infection and how they compare.", "Parents say teachers at special schools often provide medical care and should be treated like other front-line workers\n\nParents of children with special educational needs and disabilities are calling for teachers in special schools to be vaccinated against Covid-19.\n\nMany parents have been told their children cannot attend school because of safety concerns about the virus.\n\nNow they want staff in special schools to be prioritised for the vaccine and considered front-line workers.\n\nThe government said special schools should encourage pupils to attend.\n\nLaura cares for son Oscar alone and says their respite support collapsed during the pandemic\n\nStaff in special schools are often required to provide personal and medical care for pupils, such as clearing tracheotomies, on top of regular teaching responsibilities.\n\nThe schools also offer precious respite to many families of disabled children who require a lot of additional care.\n\nLaura Godfrey, 33, from Norwich, is mum to nine-year-old Oscar, who usually attends a school for children with complex needs. His return was delayed at the start of term, despite government advice for these schools to remain open.\n\n\"His school provision is essential to us as a family. Oscar's mental health suffered a lot in the first lockdown, as did mine. It was a very dark time.\"\n\nHe is currently attending school, but Laura worries it could be forced to close in the event of an outbreak.\n\nShe is calling for staff at special schools to be given PPE and access to the vaccine, to keep schools open and protect vulnerable pupils.\n\n\"They should be recognised and treated as front-line staff and afforded the same protections.\"\n\nLaura's calls have been echoed by Mark Powell, CEO of the Dorset-based Diverse Abilities charity which runs a special school in Poole.\n\nStaff at Langside School in Poole were provided with PPE at the start of the pandemic\n\nThe school bought its own PPE in order to remain open during the pandemic but said it was \"very difficult and extremely costly\".\n\nMr Powell described PPE as a \"wonderful barrier to prevent the spread of the virus\" but said it had also been \"a devastating barrier to the development and well-being of our pupils\".\n\n\"The fact we have nurses, physiotherapists, and occupational therapists on site to form part of our children's school provision means that our school can be classified as a health setting, which are at the top of the list for priority vaccinations.\"\n\nThe Department for Education said the impact of being out of education \"can be greatest on vulnerable children and those with education, health and care plans\".\n\nIt said special schools should \"continue to welcome and encourage pupils to go into school full-time\" where possible and \"ensure pupils with Send can successfully access remote education\" if they are unable to attend.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nIvan Cavaleiro scored a late header to earn Premier League strugglers Fulham a hard-fought draw against Tottenham in their hastily rearranged London derby.\n\nThe Portuguese forward's finish cancelled out Harry Kane's first-half diving header and came just minutes after Son Heung-min hit the post in search of Spurs' second.\n\nCavaleiro sealed a remarkable turnaround for a side whose manager Scott Parker said it was \"scandalous\" to be given just two days' notice to face Jose Mourinho's men after Spurs' game at Aston Villa was postponed because of a Covid-19 outbreak in the Villa camp.\n\nTottenham boss Mourinho had little sympathy for the visitors as the derby itself was a rearranged fixture, having been called off three hours before kick-off when originally scheduled on 30 December.\n\nFor all the complications surrounding the fixture, the intensity from two sides at opposite ends of the table was high at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with Fulham's fifth successive league draw a valuable point in their efforts to escape the relegation zone.\n• None Relive Tottenham v Fulham as it happened and analysis\n\nFulham made a bright start and Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa's fierce shot to test Hugo Lloris was a warning of what was to come from a side who remain 18th despite the draw.\n\nThe excellent Alphonse Areola twice denied Son in the first 45 minutes, first blocking a toe-poked effort before palming a header away.\n\nAreola could do nothing, however, to deny Kane the opener in the 25th minute, with the striker beating the Frenchman with a thumping diving header from an excellently-placed Sergio Reguilon cross.\n\nKane was off target with another header and Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Kenny Tete threatened to respond for the visitors, who had the woodwork to thank for denying Son in the second half after the South Korean scuffed a shot past Areola.\n\nSubstitute Ademola Lookman was instrumental following his introduction, creating the equaliser for Cavaleiro seven minutes after coming off the bench.\n\nThe powerful finish extended Fulham's unbeaten run to five league matches, which is their longest such sequence in the top flight in three Premier League campaigns since 2012-13.\n\nThis latest draw highlights just how resolute Parker's men have become after a slow start to the campaign, in which they collected just one point from their first six matches.\n\nSpurs punished for reliance on Kane and Son\n\nWhile the Cottagers may be in the relegation places and had lost a record 13 successive top-flight matches to London rivals, they presented a significantly sterner test of Mourinho's men than non-league side Marine - a team made up of NHS workers, teachers and a refuse collector - which Spurs cruised past in the third round of the FA Cup on Sunday.\n\nThe prolific pair of Kane and Son, a duo that has now scored 23 of Tottenham's 30 league goals this term, were among 10 to return to Spurs' starting line-up.\n\nSon was an unused substitute on their trip to Crosby but Kane, along with Lloris, Eric Dier, Serge Aurier and Harry Winks came back from being rested.\n\nWhile Kane was clinical with the nodded finish, he reacted in frustration as he flicked another header off target.\n\nThat miss, as well as the wastefulness of Reguilon - who sent an early effort over - and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg's tame strike, ensured Fulham were still in it at half-time.\n\nMoussa Sissoko also dithered in the box when an early second-half chance presented itself, allowing Tosin Adarabioyo to superbly block.\n\nSon's effort off the post, and their reliance on him and Kane for goals, ultimately proved costly as Cavaleiro ended the hosts' run of three clean sheets in January.\n\nAnd while Reguilon did have the ball in the back of the net again for Tottenham in the final minute, it was immediately disallowed for offside as Spurs missed the chance to move up to third in the table.\n\n'Some players had one day's training' - what the managers said\n\nTottenham manager Jose Mourinho, speaking to BBC Sport: \"In the first half Alphonse Areola made some impossible saves, a couple of others in the second, too.\n\n\"We have to kill a game and we didn't - but you have to keep a clean sheet, not make mistakes, so it was a very avoidable goal. The markers are there, there wasn't even an advantage in terms of numbers.\n\n\"Fulham were intelligent enough to understand the way they play, they change, they become more defensive and they are getting results. I thought they were a bit lucky but they were good.\n\n\"We have bad results and we should - and we could have - avoided these results.\"\n\nFulham boss Scott Parker, speaking to BBC Sport: \"I'm very proud of this team for what we've been through. There's a lot of talk around - everyone assumes about what happened. I know what we've been through the last two weeks.\n\n\"We had players out there today who had one day's training. What pleased me most was a desire and a passion and a real quality at times tonight.\n\n\"There's a real determination and hard work from this group of players. They've never shied away from anything.\"\n\nOn Monday's announcement of the game with Tottenham: \"We were told, in the end, at 9:30. It was put to me on Saturday, if there was a possibility, but I just batted it off thinking 'no chance'.\n\n\"This game was supposed to be scheduled 16 days ago - for 10 days some of these boys were locked up in their houses. I was surprised but it wasn't in terms of preparing for this game, we've prepared in two days for a game before, it was more just getting told of the consequences that you face.\"\n\nBest of the stats\n• None Tottenham and Fulham played out their first draw in the Premier League since December 2009, with Spurs winning 10 of the last 11 encounters (L1).\n• None Tottenham are unbeaten in their last eight London derbies in the Premier League (W3 D5), they've never gone longer without defeat against sides from the capital in the competition.\n• None Fulham have drawn five consecutive Premier League games, their longest such run since January 2007 (six games).\n• None Fulham have gained five points in their last four Premier League away games (W1 D2 L1), more than they collected in their previous 13 on the road in the competition (W1 D1 L11).\n• None Only Brighton (12) and Sheffield United (11) have dropped more points from winning positions than Spurs (10) in the Premier League this season.\n• None Tottenham's Harry Kane has become just the third player to score 25 Premier League goals with his head (25), his right foot (94) and his left foot (34) - after Robbie Fowler and Andy Cole.\n• None Ademola Lookman has been directly involved in five goals (two goals, three assists) in the Premier League this season, more than any other Fulham player.\n\nTottenham travel to Bramall Lane on Sunday (14:05 GMT) to face the Premier League's bottom side Sheffield United, who on Tuesday earned their first top-flight win of the season.\n\nFulham face Chelsea in another derby, hosting their west London rivals on Saturday (17:30 GMT).\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Erik Lamela tries a through ball, but Son Heung-Min is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Antonee Robinson (Fulham) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Aboubakar Kamara. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Can the TV personality make it as a pro footballer?\n• None New drama brings the chilling crimes of Charles Sobhraj to life", "Doctors' leaders have called for urgent improvements in personal protective equipment for health workers.\n\nThe British Medical Association is appealing for a higher grade of face mask to guard against coronavirus infection.\n\nIt says there is 'growing evidence' that the virus is being spread through the air by aerosols.\n\nThese are tiny virus particles that can build up in stuffy rooms and they have been linked to outbreaks of Covid-19.\n\nThis follows an open letter from more than 1,500 health professionals for staff on general wards to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care units.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) has issued guidance on what PPE staff in different settings require. It was last updated in October 2020.\n\nEarly in the pandemic, it was widely believed that to catch the disease you had to either be close to an infected person and hit by droplets from their coughs or sneezes or touch a surface they had contaminated.\n\nBut research during the course of last year highlighted how it is also possible for the virus to be carried in what are called aerosols, drifting and accumulating in the air.\n\nMost infections are thought to have occurred indoors in badly ventilated rooms, and many studies have shown that the 'airborne route' can be an important factor.\n\nAcross the UK, the guidance for hospital staff is to wear surgical masks in most areas.\n\nMore sophisticated masks - a type known as FFP3 that includes an air filter - are only required in intensive care or when certain procedures are carried out that are known to generate aerosols.\n\nIn their letter, the consultants, doctors and nurses say healthcare workers are three to four times more likely to become infected than the general population.\n\nBut they point out that staff in intensive care units, who have the best level of protection, have about half the risk of catching the virus than colleagues on general wards.\n\nThe letter states: \"It is now essential that healthcare workers have their PPE upgraded to protect against airborne transmission\".\n\nBarry McAree, a consultant surgeon in Northern Ireland, is one of many healthcare workers to be ill with Covid.\n\nHe is self-isolating at home right after his testing positive for the second time.\n\nA signatory to the letter, he says his hospital in Antrim followed the guidance about which type of masks should be worn in which areas, but he became infected nonetheless. It is not clear how and when he caught it.\n\n\"There's so much evidence that we are talking about an airborne infection that it has to be said that it is not appropriate just to wear FFP3 in environments when aerosol generating procedures take place.\"\n\nHe believes that with such high levels of the virus in the community and in hospitals, staff should be wearing the higher-grade masks whenever they're close to patients.\n\nSurgical masks can be bought online for about 10p each, while the FFP3 masks are far more expensive about £5.00.\n\nDr Barry Jones, a retired gastroenterologist and leading expert on aerosols, says that's nothing compared to the cost of a patient with Covid,\n\nHe points to data showing that roughly a fifth of people needing hospital treatment for Covid may have acquired the infection in hospital in the first place.\n\n\"We should do everything we can to reduce that possibility - it's the air we share that's killing us.\"\n\nA few hospitals have decided to break with official guidance.\n\nIt's understood that hospitals in Cambridge, Plymouth and Exeter have decided to equip staff with FFP3 masks if they face patients diagnosed with Covid or suspected of having it.\n\nOne consultant, who did not want to be named, said: \"When you realise patients are more infectious at an earlier stage of disease and are presenting at general wards with poorer ventilation than intensive care units and staff are wearing a poorer quality of PPE, you really want those in a position of leadership to listen and to act.\"\n\nRCN General Secretary Dame Donna Kinnair, said: \"Without delay, they must state whether existing PPE guidance is adequate for the new variant.\n\n\"While more research is carried out, we ask for the precautionary principle to be applied and staff to be given a higher level of PPE if working with suspected or confirmed cases.\"\n\nPublic Health England said this was a matter for NHS England to comment on.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"The safety of NHS and social care staff has always been our top priority and we continue to work tirelessly to deliver PPE that protects those on the frontline.\n\n\"UK guidance on the safest levels of PPE is written by experts and agreed by all four chief medical officers. Our guidance is kept under constant review based on the latest evidence and data.\n\n\"Emerging evidence and data, including on variant strains, will be continually monitored and reviewed, and the guidance updated accordingly if needed.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel: \"Our selfless police officers... will enforce the regulations and I will back them to do so\"\n\nPeople have been urged to \"play your part\" and follow Covid rules by Home Secretary Priti Patel, who says she will back police to enforce laws.\n\nAt a No 10 briefing, Ms Patel said a minority were \"putting the health of the nation at risk\" by flouting rules.\n\nPolice are \"moving more quickly to issuing fines\", she added, with nearly 45,000 fixed penalty notices issued across the UK.\n\nAnother 1,243 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid.\n\nAnd there have been a further 45,533 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nMeanwhile, another 145,076 people have received a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, and 20,768 a second dose, bringing the totals respectively to 2,431,648 and 412,167.\n\nAt the briefing, Ms Patel said: \"My message today to anyone refusing to do the right thing is simple: if you do not play your part, our selfless police officers - who are out there risking their own lives every day to keep us safe - they will enforce the regulations.\n\n\"And I will back them to do so, to protect our NHS and to save lives.\"\n\nIt comes after the UK's most senior police officer said lockdown rule-breakers were more likely to be fined as Covid laws would be enforced \"more quickly\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said her officers had been forced to break up parties, despite hospitals in London struggling to cope with rising patient numbers.\n\nChairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council Martin Hewitt, who also spoke at the Downing Street briefing, said people should be asking themselves whether their reason for leaving home was \"truly essential\".\n\nHe stressed that police officers had been \"putting themselves at risk in order to keep people safe\", and said it had been \"disappointing\" to see some of the behaviour by rule-breakers.\n\nHe said examples of recent breaches included:\n\nMr Hewitt said he made \"no apology\" for police issuing fines, and warned people breaking rules - such as by organising parties or not wearing face coverings on public transport - to \"expect\" a fine.\n\nAsked if there needed to be more clarity on the guidance around exercise and staying local, Mr Hewitt said it would be wrong to put a \"particular distance\" on how far people could exercise from their home - as it would be too difficult for police to enforce.\n\nHe said it was right there was an exception to allow people to exercise, but insisted it was the public's responsibility to make sure they were doing so safely.\n\nThere is a big focus on adherence to lockdown rules. But what has almost gone unnoticed is the fact that cases may have actually started falling.\n\nThere has now been two consecutive days where newly diagnosed cases have hovered around the 46,000 mark. Up to the weekend, the average was close to 60,000.\n\nThe drop has largely been driven by falls in new cases in London, the south east and east of England.\n\nIn some regions, cases are still going up. The north west of England is causing particular concern.\n\nIt is too early for the vaccination programme to be having any significant impact, so a combination of the national lockdown on top of the tier four restrictions that were imposed in some areas before Christmas look like they may be beginning to have an impact.\n\nCare must be taken in reading too much into a couple of days' data.\n\nHospital cases are still rising - patients being admitted at the moment are the ones who were infected a week or so ago - but it does at least offer a glimmer of hope.\n\nLater in the news conference, NHS medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar said the capital's Nightingale hospital has reopened and was admitting patients to help with the coronavirus spread.\n\nHe told reporters it was taking non-Covid patients to help free up beds in London's hospitals.\n\nDr Diwakar warned that if levels of hospitalisation in the capital continued to rise then more patients would need to be transferred out of London, adding that the NHS across the country was under pressure.\n\nIn Birmingham, 200 doctors are being redeployed to one of the country's largest intensive care units as it nears capacity.\n\nThe University Hospitals Birmingham Trust said there were 873 patients with Covid-19 in their hospitals, with 125 in intensive care.\n\nEarlier, crime and policing minister Kit Malthouse said people have a \"duty\" to make this lockdown \"the last one\".\n\n\"We are urging the small minority of people who aren't taking this seriously to do so now, and [we say] to them that, if they don't, they are much more likely to get fined by the police,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nDame Cressida told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the move towards greater enforcement was \"common sense\" rather than a show of \"dictatorial policing\".\n\nFines start at £200 in England and Northern Ireland, and £60 in Wales and Scotland. Large parties can be shut down by the police, with fines of up to £10,000.\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - all of which are in charge of deciding and enforcing their own coronavirus restrictions.\n• None Could I be fined for exercising?", "YouTube has become the latest social network to suspend President Trump.\n\nThe Google-owned service has prevented his account from uploading new videos or live-streaming material for a minimum of seven days, and has said it may extend the period.\n\nThe firm said the channel had broken its rules over the incitement of violence.\n\nThe president had posted several videos on Tuesday night, some of which remain online.\n\nGoogle has not provided details of what Mr Trump said in the video it banned, however the BBC has discovered it was a clip from a press conference he had given on Tuesday.\n\nThe move came hours after civil rights groups had threatened to organise an ads boycott against YouTube.\n\nPresident Trump's YouTube channel remains live but he cannot post new videos\n\nJim Steyer - who previously helped coordinate similar action against Facebook last year - had called on Google to go further and take the president's channel offline.\n\n\"We hope they will make it permanent. It is disappointing that it took a Trump-incited attack to get here, but appears that the major platforms are finally beginning to step up,\" he tweeted after the suspension.YouTube suspends Donald Trump's channel\n\nGoogle said that Mr Trump could still face his page being closed if he falls foul of its three-strikes policy.\n\n\"After review, and in light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence, we removed new content uploaded to Donald J Trump's channel for violating our policies,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"It now has its first strike and is temporarily prevented from uploading new content for a minimum of seven days.\n\n\"Given the ongoing concerns about violence, we will also be indefinitely disabling comments on President Trump's channel, as we've done to other channels where there are safety concerns found in the comments section.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Apple chief Tim Cook told CBS News that those involved with the riots on the US Capitol last week should be held accountable.\n\n\"Everyone that had a part in it needs to be held accountable. I think no one is above the law. We're a rule of law country.\"\n\nHe did not mention President Trump by name, but added: \"I don't think we should let it go. This is something we've got to be serious about.\"\n\nMr Trump had already been suspended by Facebook and Instagram following last week's rioting on Capitol Hill, until at least the transition of power to Joe Biden on 20 January.\n\nTwitter has gone further by imposing a permanent ban.\n\nAmazon's Twitch has also disabled his account on its platform. And Snapchat has locked his account.\n\nShopify, Pinterest, TikTok and Reddit have also taken steps to restrict content associated with the president and his calls for the results of the US election to be challenged.\n\nYouTube has often been behind its social media rivals when it comes to moderating user-posted content.\n\nOver the years it has come under fire from campaign groups and big advertisers for not acting swiftly.\n\nNow it has followed Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat in restricting Donald Trump's access to its platform.\n\nAnd as so often, there's a lack of transparency about exactly what prompted the President's suspension.\n\nIt's only saying that a video violated its policies on incitement to violence, but is indicating that the issue was the President's remarks to reporters on Tuesday where he refused to take responsibility for the attack on Congress.\n\nOf course, those comments were broadcast on TV channels, including the BBC, and are still widely available.\n\nIt's not long ago that the social media landscape was being described as the Wild West when it came to moderating content - now the platforms suddenly seem eager to appear more cautious than the mainstream media.\n\nIt's amazing what the threat of regulation can do.", "A further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there have now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nAnd the prime minister warned there was a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care capacity being \"overtopped\".\n\nSpeaking to the Commons Liaison Committee, Boris Johnson said the situation was \"very, very tough\" in the NHS and the strain on staff was \"colossal\".\n\nHe appealed to the public to follow lockdown rules, which require people in England to stay at home and only go out for limited reasons, such as for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nA further 47,525 new cases have also been recorded.\n\nPerhaps the most distressing element about the latest Covid deaths is that the numbers are almost certainly going to rise from here.\n\nPeople who are dying now are likely to have been infected three or so weeks ago, around Christmas time.\n\nThat was at a point when infection rates were rising quite steeply, so in the coming days and weeks we should, sadly, expect to see more deaths than this being reported.\n\nToday's figures are affected by the weekend, which sees delays in reporting deaths that tend to translate into higher figures from Tuesday onwards.\n\nCurrently around 1,000 people a day on average are dying once you take this into account.\n\nBut the figures also provide some hope. For the third day in a row the number of newly diagnosed infections are well below 50,000.\n\nThere have been several days where they have exceeded 60,000.\n\nIf that trend continues, and the number of new cases keeps coming down, that will eventually translate into the number of deaths falling.\n\nBut it is going to take some weeks for that to happen.\n\nThese are, as many have been saying, the darkest days of the pandemic so far.\n\nEarlier, during Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said lockdown measures were \"starting to show signs of some effect\".\n\nLabour's Sir Keir Starmer called for tougher restrictions in England, asking why they were weaker in this lockdown compared with March.\n\nDuring the first lockdown, nurseries were closed to most children and it was not permitted to exercise with someone from another household.\n\n\"We keep things under constant review,\" Mr Johnson replied. \"If there is any need to toughen up restrictions - which I don't rule out - we will of course come to this House.\"\n\nHe stressed that it was early days, but said: \"The lockdown measures we have in place combined with tier four measures that we were using are starting to show signs of some effect.\"\n\nLater, asked by the Commons Liaison Committee whether schools could reopen after February half-term, Mr Johnson said: \"It is far, far too early for us to say [early signs of progress mean] we can go into any kind of relaxation in the middle of February, we've got to work very hard to achieve that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson took questions from MPs on the Commons Liaison Committee\n\nThe prime minister also said on Wednesday that Covid vaccinations will be offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week as soon as supply allows.\n\nThe number of people in the UK who have received the first dose of a vaccine has risen to 2,639,309 - up by 207,661 from the day before.\n\nCommenting on the latest daily figures, PHE's Dr Doyle said: \"With each passing day, more and more people are tragically losing their lives to this terrible virus.\"\n\nShe added: \"It is essential that we stay at home, minimise contact with other people and act as if you have the virus.\"\n\nThe vast majority of the deaths reported on Tuesday happened over the past week. However, at least 100 were in 2020, with one death dating back to May.\n\nThe previous highest daily death toll was on Friday, when 1,325 people were reported to have died.\n\nThese government figures count people who died within 28 days of testing positive, but there are other ways of measuring the total number of deaths.\n\nWhen all deaths where coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate are counted, plus deaths known to have occurred more recently, the number of deaths involving Covid in the UK is more than 100,000.\n\nAnother method is to count excess deaths - all deaths over and above the usual number at the time of year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"We are taking steps to ensure that we do not see the import of this new variant\".\n\nMeanwhile, the prime minister has said he is \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil. He acknowledged it is not yet clear how effective existing vaccines will be against the latest new variant.\n\nThe UK is taking steps to make sure it is not brought into the country, Mr Johnson said.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAnd from Monday, anyone arriving into the UK from any country will have to present a negative Covid test. The new rule had been due to come into force this week but the government said it was being put back to give travellers more time to prepare.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of people have joined a march organised following claims a man died hours after being released by police in Cardiff.\n\nThe family of Mohamud Mohammed Hassan, 24, claim he was assaulted in custody.\n\nMore than 300 people took part in a march from the city centre to Cardiff Bay police station.\n\nSouth Wales Police said it found no evidence of excessive force. The police watchdog said initial tests showed Mr Hassan was not killed by any injuries.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said toxicology tests were now being carried out and it was awaiting the full post-mortem results.\n\nEarlier, First Minister Mark Drakeford said the reports of Mr Hassan's death were \"deeply concerning\".\n\nMr Hassan was arrested at his Roath home on Friday on suspicion of breach of the peace but released without charge on Saturday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Hassan's aunt Zainab Hassan told BBC Wales she had seen Mr Hassan within an hour of his release.\n\n\"He was released on Saturday morning with lots of wounds on his body and lots of bruises,\" she said.\n\n\"He didn't have these wounds when he was arrested and when he came out of Cardiff Bay police station, he had them.\"\n\nIn a virtual session of the Welsh Parliament on Monday, Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price said: \"Every effort should be made to seek the truth of what happened.\"\n\nHe said he wanted to know why Mr Hassan was arrested and what happened during his arrest.\n\nMr Hassan's aunt Zainab Hassan said she saw him after his release\n\n\"Why did this young man die?,\" he added.\n\nMr Price said any inquiry should not be prejudged, but asked if the first minister would \"help the family find those answers\".\n\nIn response, Mr Drakeford said reports of the story were \"deeply concerning\".\n\n\"Our thoughts must be with the family of a young man who was... a fit and healthy individual,\" the Cardiff West MS said.\n\nMark Drakeford said he was deeply concerned by the reports\n\nMr Drakeford, who said the death must be \"properly investigated\", said the first step in any inquiry would be to allow the IOPC to carry out their work, which he said he expected \"to be done rigorously and with full and visible independence\".\n\nHe added that if there were things the Welsh Government could do \"I will make sure that we attend properly to those\".\n\nProtesters on Tuesday afternoon chanted \"no justice, no peace\" and called for the police force to release CCTV of Mr Hassan's time in custody.\n\nProtesters on Tuesday afternoon marched from the city centre to Cardiff Bay\n\nIn a statement on Monday, South Wales Police said Mr Hassan was arrested at his home in Newport Road on Friday night and taken to Cardiff Bay police station.\n\nHe was released at 08:30 GMT on Saturday and officers returned to the property at about 22:30 following his death.\n\nIt added: \"As part of the South Wales Police investigation CCTV and body-worn video has already been, and will continue to be, examined.\n\n\"This will assist in establishing and understanding the events that took place.\n\n\"Early findings by the force indicate no misconduct issues and no excessive force.\"\n\nProtesters were heard chanting \"no justice, no peace\"\n\nCatrin Evans, the IOPC's director for Wales, said its investigation would focus on Mr Hassan's arrest, the journey in a police van to custody and his time at Cardiff Bay police station, including whether relevant assessments were made before he was released.\n\nShe said they would be \"urgently examining the extensive relevant CCTV footage and body-worn video\" and would be speaking to the officers involved as well as witnesses who saw his arrest on Friday evening and his movements the next day after leaving custody.\n\nShe added: \"I send my condolences to Mr Hassan's family and friends, and to everyone affected by his sad death.\n\n\"We are aware of concerns being expressed and questions being asked about use of force by police officers. We will look carefully at the level of force used during the interaction and I would urge people show patience while our inquiries, which will take some time, are made.\"\n\nMs Evans added: \"An interim report from a post-mortem examination is awaited.\n\n\"Preliminary indications are that there is no physical trauma injury to explain a cause of death, and toxicology tests are required.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bonnie Watson Coleman is one of three Democratic lawmakers to have tested positive since the invasion of the US Capitol\n\nThree US lawmakers have tested positive for the coronavirus after sheltering for hours with colleagues during last week's deadly assault on the Capitol.\n\nHouse Democrats Bonnie Watson Coleman, Pramila Jayapal and Brad Schneider have announced their diagnoses.\n\nLast Wednesday they hunkered down in secure rooms, seeking refuge from an invasion of Congress in which five people died.\n\nSome Republicans were not wearing masks during the ordeal, footage suggests.\n\nVideo shared by Punchbowl News shows several lawmakers apparently refusing facemasks offered to them.\n\nHowever, CBS pictures from inside the chamber show Ms Jayapal was herself not wearing a mask at one point.\n\nMedical experts fear more lawmakers may have contracted the disease, potentially amounting to a super-spreader event at a time when coronavirus infections and deaths continue to rise in the US.\n\nThe US has recorded the highest number of coronavirus infections (22.6 million) and deaths (367,000) in the world, with no sign of the epidemic abating, despite the limited roll-out of vaccines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nOver the weekend, top congressional doctor Brian Monahan told lawmakers and congressional staff who sheltered together from the riots to get tested.\n\n\"The time in this room was several hours for some and briefer for others,\" Mr Monahan said. \"During this time, individuals may have been exposed to another occupant with coronavirus infection.\"\n\nMr Monahan did not say how many lawmakers were in the room, but called on them to observe social-distancing measures and wear masks.\n\nNew Jersey Democratic Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman was the first lawmaker to confirm she had tested positive on Monday. In a tweet, the 75-year-old cancer survivor said she was resting at home with \"mild, cold-like symptoms\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Jayapal, a Democrat from Washington state, and Illinois congressman Mr Schneider revealed they had tested positive on Tuesday.\n\nAll three Democrats accused Republican lawmakers of refusing to wear masks as they huddled together for safety last Wednesday.\n\n\"Any member who refuses to wear a mask should be fully held accountable for endangering our lives,\" Ms Jayapal wrote, calling for mask transgressors to be fined.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe wearing of masks has been an explosive political issue throughout the pandemic in the US, with some lawmakers openly refusing to don a face covering.\n\nA Republican congressman, Jake LaTurner of Kansas, tested positive for Covid-19 after participating in a House vote to reject Arizona's presidential election results on Wednesday.\n\nBut on Tuesday, Mr LaTurner's spokesperson told the Topeka Capital-Journal newspaper that he was not in the secure area of the Capitol building where multiple members have since tested positive.\n\nOn Friday Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), had warned that Wednesday's rioting would probably have significant health consequences.\n\n\"You have to anticipate that this is another surge event,\" he told the McClatchy news agency. \"You had largely unmasked individuals in a non-distanced fashion, who were all through the Capitol.\"\n\nCoronavirus has swept through the heart of the American political establishment during the pandemic. One notable outbreak happened in September last year, when an event was held at the White House to announce the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett as a Supreme Court justice.\n\nSoon after, US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump tested positive for the virus, along with numerous other senior government officials.", "Tesco, Asda and Waitrose have become the latest supermarkets to say they will deny entry to shoppers who do not wear face masks unless they are medically exempt.\n\nIt follows a similar move by Morrisons, while Sainsbury's says it will challenge those who flout the rules.\n\nRetailers have been criticised for not doing enough to stop people breaking Covid rules as infections spread.\n\nBut enforcement of face coverings is officially a police responsibility.\n\nHowever, supermarkets can deny entry to their premises which is private property, and can call the police if someone refuses to follow the rules or becomes abusive.\n\nSenior police figures have reportedly said there is little officers can do to enforce the rules in shops because they are so busy.\n\nBut policing minister Kit Malthouse said that they would offer \"backup if things go seriously wrong\".\n\n\"What we hope is that in the vast majority of cases the enforcement, or the reminders if you like, put in place by the store owners will be enough,\" he told BBC News.\n\nA Tesco spokeswoman said the supermarket chain had decided to strengthen its policies.\n\n\"To protect our customers and colleagues, we won't let anyone into our stores who is not wearing a face covering, unless they are exempt in line with government guidance,\" she said.\n\n\"We are also asking our customers to shop alone, unless they're a carer or with children. To support our colleagues, we will have additional security in stores to help manage this.\"\n\nAn Asda spokesman said if customers had forgotten their face coverings, it would continue to offer them one free of charge.\n\nBut he added: \"Should a customer refuse to wear a covering without a valid medical reason and be in any way challenging to our colleagues about doing so, our security colleagues will refuse their entry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nAndrew Murphy, executive director of operations at Waitrose, said: \"We've listened carefully to the clear change in tone and emphasis of the views and information shared by the UK's governments in recent days.\n\n\"By insisting on the wearing of face coverings, over and above the social distancing measures we already have in place, we aim to make our shops even safer for customers.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Sainsbury's told the BBC it did not have the power to deny entry to shoppers without masks. However, trials showed customers complied more when asked to wear masks by security guards at the door, it said.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Sainsbury's boss, Simon Roberts, said \"we are not going to ban customers\".\n\nBut he urged shoppers to wear a mask and shop alone.\n\n\"By doing that we will help keep everybody safe,\" he said.\n\nThe Co-op also said it would not ban shoppers without masks from entering, and instead urged customers to take responsibility for wearing a face covering when visiting its stores, as it was mandatory by law.\n\nBoss of Co-op Food Jo Whitfield said: \"We've increased our in-store messaging to remind customers and government guidance does state that the police can take measures if members of the public don't comply with this law.\"\n\nIceland said it would take a similar approach, adding the vast majority of its customers continued to shop in compliance with the law.\n\n\"In view of the rising tide of abuse and violence being directed at our store colleagues, we do not expect them to confront the small minority of customers who aggressively refuse to comply with the law,\" a spokesman added.\n\nIn England, the police can issue a £200 fine to someone breaking the face covering rules. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, a £60 fine can be imposed. Repeat offenders face bigger fines.", "President Trump has just become the first sitting president to be impeached twice by the US House of Representatives.\n\nWe asked members of our BBC voter panel to weigh in as well.\n\nHere's what they said:\n\nQuote Message: Everything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution. If not for him continually fighting the election results and claiming the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened. Unfortunately it was completely predictable. from Melissa Dangaran 51, from Minnesota Everything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution. If not for him continually fighting the election results and claiming the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened. Unfortunately it was completely predictable.\n\nQuote Message: Unprecedented. He should not have been impeached at all. There is no justification, no legal basis, no constitutional basis for it. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm concerned about the double standard and I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. Why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol? from Belinda Noah 45, from Florida Unprecedented. He should not have been impeached at all. There is no justification, no legal basis, no constitutional basis for it. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm concerned about the double standard and I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. Why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol?\n\nQuote Message: It's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condone white supremacy and other threats. It's deeply saddening to me. from Williams Morales 19, from Georgia It's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condone white supremacy and other threats. It's deeply saddening to me.\n\nQuote Message: I was in DC at the rally - not near the Capitol - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm. It's just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. All violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history. from Gabriel Montalvo 21, from New York I was in DC at the rally - not near the Capitol - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm. It's just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. All violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history.", "US rapper YFN Lucci is wanted by police in Atlanta, Georgia, for his alleged involvement in the murder of a local man last month.\n\nTwo suspects have been arrested over the killing of the 28-year-old victim.\n\nAuthorities have appealed for help in locating YFN Lucci, 29 - whose birth name is Rayshawn Bennett.\n\nHe is wanted on suspicion of murder, aggravated assault and participation in criminal street gang activity, police told US media.\n\nThey say another man was wounded in the incident.\n\nLast month YFN Lucci released new material under the title Wish Me Well 3.\n\nIn 2018 rapper Cardi B was forced to defend her then-fiancé Offset against allegations of homophobia after he used a lyric by YFN Lucci that included the word \"queer.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many hospital staff treating the sickest patients during the first wave of the pandemic were left traumatised by the experience, a study suggests.\n\nResearchers at King's College London asked 709 workers at nine intensive care units in England about how they were coping as the first wave eased.\n\nNearly half reported symptoms of severe anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder or problem drinking.\n\nOne in seven had thoughts of self-harming or being \"better off dead\".\n\nNursing staff were more likely to report feelings of distress than doctors or other clinical staff in the anonymous web-based survey, which was carried out in June and July last year.\n\nVictoria Sullivan, an intensive care nurse at Queen's Hospital in Romford, said she often can't sleep because she's thinking about what is happening at the hospital.\n\nHer worst moment was breaking the news of a death on the phone, she said, adding that the screams from the patient's relatives \"will honestly stay with me forever\".\n\n\"Telling someone over the phone and all you can say is 'I'm really sorry', whilst they're crying their heart out, is quite traumatising,\" she said.\n\n\"Although you're saying how sorry you are, in the back of your mind, you're also thinking: 'I've got three other patients I've got to go and see, the infusions need drawing up, and meds need to be given and a nurse needs support'.\n\n\"The guilt is just too much.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn the study, which has been published online but has not yet been peer-reviewed:\n\nThe researchers say the findings are, in some ways, not surprising given the pressures ICU staff have faced.\n\nTheir workload has been relentless, caring for more patients than is ideal and under extremely challenging circumstances.\n\nLead researcher Prof Neil Greenberg said the findings should be a \"wake-up call\" for NHS managers.\n\nHe said: \"The severity of symptoms we identified are highly likely to impair some ICU staff's ability to provide high-quality care as well as negatively impacting on their quality of life.\"\n\nProf Greenberg said it was important to have \"occupationally focused\" mental health care to try to keep staff fighting fit or, where this was not possible, to ensure they got help to access the right sort of care.\n\nAnd he said that, while their work suggested things may have improved over the summer, there were signs the numbers experiencing mental health problems would rise in November and December.\n\nProf Partha Kar, diabetes consultant at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS trust, said it was \"really, really difficult seeing people battling through all sorts of odds\".\n\nHe added: \"We've got sickness rates high all around us and colleagues from all specialities, where they're not accustomed to seeing such ill patients, coming out and trying to help.\n\n\"Understandably the impact of that on everybody's mental health is not insignificant either... it's such a tough place to be in.\"\n\nPTSD is an anxiety disorder caused by very stressful, frightening or distressing events.\n\nSomeone with PTSD often relives the traumatic event through nightmares and flashbacks, and may experience feelings of isolation, irritability and guilt.\n\nThey may also have problems sleeping, such as insomnia, and find concentrating difficult.\n\nThese symptoms are often severe and persistent enough to have a significant impact on the person's day-to-day life.\n\nCauses of PTSD can include:\n\nAn NHS spokesperson said: \"This is an incredibly tough time for NHS staff working on the front line which is why we have invested £15m in support, including 38 local mental health and well-being hubs and a service for staff with complex mental health needs, such as trauma and addiction.\n\n\"The public can also help to support doctors and nurses by following the 'hands, space, face' guidance to reduce pressure on hospitals and save lives.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know has been affected by mental health issues, the organisations listed at this link might be able to help", "Sarah Ferguson has a long-held interest in history, especially that of the royals and the aristocracy\n\nSarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, has written her first novel for adults, to be released by the leading romantic fiction publisher Mills & Boon.\n\nHer Heart for a Compass is based on the life of the duchess's great-great-aunt, Lady Margaret Montagu Douglas Scott.\n\nShe has previously written children's books, non-fiction about Queen Victoria, and her own memoirs.\n\nShe said: \"I am proud to bring my personal brand of historical fiction to the publishing world.\"\n\n\"It all started with researching my ancestry. Digging into the history of the Montagu-Douglas Scotts, I first came across Lady Margaret, who intrigued me because she shared one of my given names,\" she added.\n\n\"But although her parents, the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, were close friends with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, I was unable to discover much about my namesake's early life, and so was born the idea which became Her Heart for a Compass.\"\n\nThe story will include some real people and events and also draw on the duchess's own experiences but she said \"my imagination took over\".\n\n\"I have long held a passion for historical research and telling the stories of strong women in history through film and television,\" she added.\n\nFor the big screen, she conceived the idea for the 2009 movie Young Victoria, starring Emily Blunt and written by Julian Fellowes.\n\nShe was a producer on the film and her daughter, Princess Beatrice, had a minor part. The duchess also worked on a documentary about Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Prince Albert's mother.\n\nShe recently revived her children's book series, Budgie the Helicopter.\n\nHeart for a Compass was written with the collaboration of established Mills & Boon novelist Marguerite Kaye, who has created more than 50 novels for the imprint, set in a variety of eras.\n\nThe duchess's novel is a saga that takes in events at Queen Victoria's court and the grand country houses of Scotland and Ireland, and crosses into the slums of London and on to the bustle of 1870s New York.\n\nMills & Boon described the story as a \"fascinating journey of a woman, born into the higher echelons of society, who desires to break the mould, follow her internal compass (her heart) and discover her raison d'être - and falling in love along the way\".\n\nMills & Boon is the UK's top publisher of romantic fiction and says it sells one of its novels every 10 seconds.\n\nThe stories are \"written by women, for women, it has a romance for every reader promising a happily-ever-after ending every time\", it adds.\n\nOther well-known names to venture into the Mills & Boon world include Made in Chelsea and I'm A Celebrity star Georgia Toffolo, whose debut romance novel, Meet Me in London, came out last year.\n\nBest-selling authors have also created stories for Mills & Boon under a pseudonym, including Destiny writer Sally Beauman (Vanessa James) and The Shell Seekers author Rosamunde Pilcher (Jane Fraser). PG Wodehouse also contributed a story in 1912.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Who were the protesters that broke into buildings on Capitol Hill after attending a rally in support of Donald Trump?\n\nSome were carrying symbols and flags strongly associated with particular ideas and factions, but in practice many of the members and their causes overlap.\n\nImages show individuals associated with a range of extreme and far-right groups and supporters of fringe online conspiracy theories, many of whom have long been active online and at pro-Trump rallies.\n\nOne of the most startling images, quickly shared across social media, shows a man dressed with a painted face, fur hat and horns, holding an American flag.\n\nHe's been identified as Jake Angeli, a well-known supporter of the baseless conspiracy theory QAnon. He calls himself the QAnon Shaman.\n\nHis social media presence shows him attending multiple QAnon events and posting YouTube videos about deep state conspiracies.\n\nHe was pictured in November making a speech in Phoenix, Arizona, about unproven claims the election was fraudulent.\n\nHis personal Facebook page is filled with images and memes relating to all sorts of extreme ideas and conspiracy theories.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnother group spotted at the storming of the Capitol were members of the far-right group Proud Boys.\n\nThe organisation was founded in 2016 and is anti-immigrant and all male. In the first US presidential debate President Trump in response to a question about white supremacists and militias said: \"Proud Boys - stand back and stand by.\"\n\nThe individual on the right is Nick Ochs, who describes himself as a \"Proud Boy Elder\".\n\nOne of their members, Nick Ochs, tweeted a selfie inside the building saying \"Hello from the Capital lol\". He also filmed a live stream inside.\n\nWe haven't identified the individual standing on the left in the above image.\n\nMr Ochs' profile on the messaging app Telegram describes himself as a \"Proud Boy Elder from Hawaii.\"\n\nIndividuals with large followings online were also spotted at the protests.\n\nAmong them was the social media personality Tim Gionet, who goes under the pseudonym \"Baked Alaska\".\n\nTim Gionet, better known as \"Baked Alaska\", livestreamed himself from the Capitol on Wednesday\n\nHis livestream from inside the Capitol posted on a niche streaming service was watched by thousands of people and showed him talking to other protesters.\n\nA Trump supporter, Mr Gionet has made a name for himself as an internet troll.\n\nYouTube banned his channel in October after he posted videos of himself harassing shop workers and refusing to wear a face-mask during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nOther platforms that have previously shut down his accounts include Twitter and PayPal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nA photo that went viral of a man who'd entered the office of senior Democrat politician Nancy Pelosi has been named as Richard Barnett from Arkansas.\n\nRichard Barnett left a message for US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying \"we will not back down\"\n\nOutside Capitol Hill buildings, he told the New York Times that he took an envelope from the speaker's office and says left a note calling her an expletive.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matthew Rosenberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nReacting to the New York Times interview, Republican congressman Steve Womack said on Twitter: \"I'm sickened to learn that the below actions were perpetrated by a constituent.\"\n\nLocal media reports say Mr Barnett is involved in a group that supports gun rights, and that he was interviewed at a 'Stop the Steal' rally following the presidential election - a movement that refused to accept Joe Biden's victory and supports the president's unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nIn the interview at the rally organised by 'Engaged Patriots' he said: \"If you don't like it, send somebody out to get me 'cause I ain't going down easy.\"\n\nThe group associated with Mr Barnett held a fundraiser in October with proceeds going towards body cameras for the local police department, according to the Westside Eagle Observer local paper.\n\nAs the events were unfolding, many social media users, especially those associated with QAnon and supporters of President Trump, were claiming that agitators from the loose-knit left-wing group antifa were involved.\n\nThe implication was that these activists were disguised as Trump supporters to create disruption.\n\nA number of prominent Republican politicians, such as US Representative Matt Gaetz, claimed it was antifa masquerading as Trump supporters.\n\nOne widely-shared post claimed one protester had a \"communist hammer\" tattoo, as evidence that he wasn't a Trump supporter.\n\nOn closer inspection, the symbol is from the video game series Dishonored.\n\nThere have also been suggestions that Mr Angeli, the man wearing fur and horns, was a Black Lives Matter supporter, with users sharing an image of him at a BLM event in Arizona.\n\nMr Angeli was indeed at that event, but he was there as a counter-protester. In images taken there, he's seen holding a QAnon sign.\n\nAt least one of the rioters was holding a Confederate flag, which represented US states that supported the continuation of slavery during the American civil war. For this reason, it is considered by many to be a symbol of racism and there have been calls to ban it across the US. Others see it as an important part of southern US history.\n\nA protester carries the Confederate flag after breaching US Capitol security\n\nIn July it was announced that the flag could no longer be flown on American military properties because of a new policy to reject \"divisive symbols\".\n\nPresident Trump has defended the use of the Confederate flag in the past, saying: \"I know people that like the Confederate flag and they're not thinking about slavery...I just think it's freedom of speech.\"\n\nThere were also protesters holding aloft flags featuring a coiled rattlesnake on a yellow background, often accompanied by the phrase \"don't tread on me\". This is known as the Gadsden flag, harking back to the American revolution and the war to expel British colonialists.\n\nIt was adopted by libertarians in the 1970s, according to an article in the New Yorker, and more recently became a favourite symbol of conservative Tea Party activists.\n\nThe flag has been adopted by the right over the past couple of decades, says Prof Margaret Weir, a political science expert at Brown University.\n\nIt is also used by anti-government, white supremacist groups who embrace violence, she says.", "The Christmas Day special saw Ashley Banjo (r) sit in for Simon Cowell\n\nThe filming of the next series of ITV show Britain's Got Talent has been postponed due to coronavirus concerns.\n\nProduction on the show was due to begin later this month but will now start at a later date yet to be confirmed.\n\nITV said it had decided to move \"the record and broadcast\" of the show's 15th series\" to safeguard \"the well-being of everyone involved\".\n\nThe filming of the programme's audition shows typically involves hundreds of people congregating en masse.\n\nIt is understood this has been considered to be unviable due to lockdown restrictions currently in place.\n\nWriting on Twitter, ITV thanked viewers for their \"continued love and support\" for the long-running programme.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BGT This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe filming of last year's Christmas special was also postponed after at least three crew members tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe Christmas Day programme saw former contestants return to perform again alongside the show's panel of celebrity judges.\n\nThe show saw Ashley Banjo sit in for Simon Cowell, who spent much of last year recovering from an electric bicycle accident.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" in the US, after supporters of President Donald Trump stormed Congress and clashed with police.\n\nRioters breached the Capitol building where lawmakers met to confirm Joe Biden's presidential election victory.\n\nThe PM said it was \"vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nAnd Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"direct attack on democracy\".\n\n\"The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power,\" Mr Johnson tweeted.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, meanwhile, called the events \"utterly horrifying\".\n\nFriend of President Trump and leader of Reform UK - formerly the Brexit Party - Nigel Farage tweeted: \"Storming Capitol Hill is wrong. The protesters must leave.\"\n\nThe US Congress has now reconvened after the violence - spurred on by Mr Trump's unproven claims of electoral fraud - to certify Mr Biden's victory in the US election in November\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol, and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nFour people died on Capitol grounds during the violence, including a woman shot by police and three others, who died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nUK MPs from across the political spectrum have criticised the events in the US.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said there was \"no justification for these violent attempts to frustrate the lawful and proper transition of power\", while Home Secretary Priti Patel called the scenes \"unacceptable and undemocratic\".\n\nShe added: \"There is no justification for this violence and Donald Trump must condemn it.\"\n\nHer Conservative colleague, and former Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt directly addressed President Trump for telling the crowd to march on Congress, tweeting: \"He shames American democracy tonight and causes its friends anguish - but he is not America.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner said: \"The violence that Donald Trump has unleashed is terrifying, and the Republicans who stood by him have blood on their hands.\"\n\nAnd shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said the events were \"the legacy of a politics of hate that pits people against each other and threatens the foundations of democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey has defended the prime minister's response to the rioting.\n\nAsked on ITV's Peston programme why Mr Johnson hadn't criticised Mr Trump, she said: \"The prime minister has been clear tonight that we need a peaceful and orderly transition.\"\n\nMs Coffey added that events in the US were a \"reminder that democracy is something precious - and will only continue to thrive as long as we protect institutions that make this country important and not demean each other when the majority of what we want to achieve is similar outcomes\".\n\nDonald Trump and Boris Johnson at a Nato summit in 2019\n\nMeanwhile, the SNP's leader in Westminster, Ian Blackford, said the end of Mr Trump's presidency \"cannot come quick enough\".\n\nHe tweeted: \"What a legacy the events of today are to his time in office. Shameful, shocking, an affront to democracy.\"\n\nLeader of the Liberal Democrats, Ed Davey, called the scenes \"absolutely horrendous\", while his party's foreign affairs spokeswoman, Layla Moran, said: \"The scenes coming out of Washington tonight are an attack on democracy.\"", "National Express has announced that it is suspending its entire national network of coach services from midnight on Sunday.\n\nThe firm said tighter Covid restrictions and falling passenger numbers had prompted the decision.\n\nIt added that it hoped to restart services in March.\n\nAll customers whose travel has been cancelled will be contacted and offered a free amendment or full refund, the company said.\n\nAll journeys before Monday 11 January will be completed to ensure any passengers making essential journeys are not stranded.\n\nChris Hardy, managing director of National Express UK Coach, said: \"We have been providing an important service for essential travel needs. However, with tighter restrictions and passenger numbers falling, it is no longer appropriate to do this.\n\nHe added that as the vaccination programme was rolled out and government guidance changed, the company would regularly review when services could restart.\n\n\"We plan to be back on the road as soon as the time is right and have put a provisional restart date of Monday 1 March in place,\" he said.\n\nNational Express first suspended coach services during the coronavirus crisis in April, then restarted in July.\n\nServices have been operating at half capacity, with strict cleaning and Covid protocols. As the tier structure came into operation, demand for services reduced.\n\nAs with the previous suspension, employees will be furloughed.\n\nFirms that transport passengers, including coach, rail and aviation businesses, have been under intense pressure during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nAvanti West Coast, the train operating company running services on the West Coast mainline, has confirmed it will cut its timetable from 18 January.\n\nAvanti says the new timetable will 'more closely reflect the current demand for our services whilst still allowing key workers, and those needing to make essential journeys, to travel with confidence'.\n\nDuring the first major lockdown in March, services on key intercity routes were reduced from three an hour to one. This included services from both Manchester and Birmingham to London.\n\nThe Department for Transport has been consulting with all train operators about service reductions during the latest lockdown.\n\nThe exact scale of reduction is still being worked on, but the DfT says service levels may fall to as low as 40% of the normal timetable by some operators.\n\nThe focus is to ensure essential workers can still make essential journeys.\n\n\"Following discussions with the Department for Transport we will be introducing a new timetable on Monday 18 January. This will more closely reflect the current demand for our services whilst still allowing key workers, and those needing to make essential journeys, to travel with confidence.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Ryanair also announced that it would make big cuts to its flight schedule from 21 January, with few, if any flights to or from the UK or Ireland until \"draconian travel restrictions are removed\".\n\nTrain services are expected to be reduced in lockdown, with some in the industry anticipating reductions of between 50% and 60% compared with normal service.\n\nIn the first national lockdown in England, services were reduced to almost half.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Work to get pupils connected in Wolverhampton is well under way\n\nThere are concerns some schools in lockdown could be inundated with pupils without laptops after a change to the vulnerable pupil list.\n\nPupils are learning remotely in England after schools were closed on Tuesday to all but children of key workers and those deemed vulnerable.\n\nBut those without laptops or space to study are now eligible to attend school, under government guidance.\n\nHeads' union, NAHT, said the move could reduce the effect of the shutdown.\n\nSchools were ordered to close to most pupils as a way of limiting the spread of the virus.\n\nNational Association of Head Teachers general secretary Paul Whiteman said demand for key worker and vulnerable places in schools had risen substantially since the last school shutdown.\n\nNearly a third of the 2,000 head teachers who joined an online union meeting on Wednesday afternoon reported having between 20 and 30% of pupils in school, the NAHT said.\n\nMr Whiteman said: \"It is critical that key worker child school places are only used when absolutely necessary to truly reduce numbers and spread of the virus.\n\n\"We have concern that the government has not supplied enough laptops for all the children without them and so has made lack of internet access a vulnerable criteria - only adding to numbers still in school.\n\n\"It is important that all vulnerable pupils have access to a school place, but the government must provide laptops and internet access for every pupil that needs one, so that they can access home learning to take some of the strain off the demand for school places.\n\n\"Nearly half of head teachers who we polled during a webcast on Wednesday evening said that had received fewer than 10% of the laptops they'd requested.\n\n\"It is essential that this is rectified immediately, so that we can keep school attendance figures at a level which will have the desired impact on getting transmission rates under control.\"\n\nJane Girt, head teacher of Carlton Bolling College in Bradford, said the rule change could leave her having to accommodate an extra 200 pupils on top of those already on the key worker and vulnerable children list.\n\nShe told BBC News that having so many pupils in school would \"defeat the object\" of closing amid the England-wide lockdown.\n\nMrs Girt said her secondary, which has more than 1,500 students, had received 261 laptops from the government since March but about 50% of pupils were sharing a device with another family member.\n\nThe prime minister told MPs on Wednesday that 560,000 devices had been given out to schools in 2020 and a further 50,000 so far this week.\n\nAnd Gavin Williamson reiterated that those without access to remote learning via digital devices could attend school.\n\nHe said: \"Schools are much better prepared to deliver online learning, with the delivery of hundreds of thousands of devices at breakneck speed, data support and high quality video lessons.\"\n\nBut Ofcom estimates there are up to 1.5m pupils without digital devices in their homes, on which they can learn.\n\nAmanda Bailey, director of the child poverty commission in north-east England, said pupils without internet access tended to be concentrated in disadvantaged areas and this meant some schools would be \"largely fully open\", she said.\n\n\"And we know that the most deprived communities are the ones most vulnerable to the health impact of the pandemic,\" she added.\n\n\"Our main concerns are that we're now nine months into this situation and we're still talking about families not having sufficient access to digital devices or data or the internet.\"\n\nLabour Councillor Beverley Momenabadi, Wolverhampton's champion for digital innovation, said the guidance massively expands the number of children who are entitled to go into school.\n\nShe said although plans to support those needing access while self-isolating in her city are at an advanced stage, with rental schemes being accessed and donations sought, the new lockdown changes the game completely.\n\nShe called for a national plan for the transition to remote learning.\n\nCouncillor Momenabadi said: \"Even after Gavin Williamson's statement in the Commons, children across the country are still waiting for that national plan.\n\n\"And even on the devices they've said will arrive; how will these be distributed, when will they arrive, will they arrive in time to ensure that no child misses out on their education?\"\n\nWill you have to send your child back to school because you are unable to supervise home learning? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has been allowed to Tweet again, after being locked out of his account for 12 hours.\n\nPosting a more conciliatory message, he refrained from reiterating false claims of voter fraud.\n\nTwitter said that it would ban Mr Trump \"permanently\" if he breached the platform's rules again.\n\nThe move from Twitter puts clear water between it and Facebook, which suspended him \"indefinitely\" on Thursday.\n\nTwitter has instead given the outgoing president a final warning.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, the popular gaming platform Twitch also placed an indefinite ban on Mr Trump's channel, which he has used for rally broadcasts.\n\nMr Trump tweeted several message on Wednesday, calling the people who stormed Capitol Hill \"patriots\". He also said \"We love you.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nA spokesperson for Twitter said: \"After the Tweets were removed and the subsequent 12-hour period expired, access to @realDonaldTrump was restored.\n\n\"Any future violations of the Twitter Rules, including our Civic Integrity or Violent Threats policies, will result in permanent suspension of the @realDonaldTrump account.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, the president was suspended from Facebook and Instagram. That suspension will be reviewed after the transition of power to Joe Biden on 20 January.\n\nThe social network had originally imposed a 24-hour ban after the US Capitol attack.\n\nFacebook's chief, Mark Zuckerberg, wrote that the risks of allowing Mr Trump to post \"are simply too great\".\n\nMr Zuckerberg said Facebook had removed the president's posts \"because we judged that their effect - and likely their intent - would be to provoke further violence\".\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by Mark This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nHe said it was clear Mr Trump intended to undermine the transfer of power to President-elect Joe Biden.\n\n\"Therefore, we are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete,\" he wrote.\n\nMr Trump's favoured platform, Twitter, suspended the president for 12 hours on Wednesday.\n\nThe company said it required the removal of three tweets for \"severe violations of our Civic Integrity policy\".\n\nIt said the president's account would remain locked for good if the tweets were not removed.\n\nTwitter has now confirmed the offending tweets have been removed, and he is free to tweet again.\n\nSnapchat also stopped Mr Trump from creating new posts, but did not say if or when it would end the ban. YouTube also removed Wednesday's video.\n\nThe president's supporters stormed the seat of US government and clashed with police, leading to the death of one woman.\n\nThe violence brought to a halt congressional debate over Democrat Joe Biden's election win.\n\nIn the House and Senate chambers, Republicans were challenging the certification of November's election results.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We will never give up, we will never concede\", Trump tells supporters\n\nBefore the violence, President Trump had told supporters on the National Mall in Washington that the election had been stolen.\n\nHours later, as the violence mounted inside and outside the US Capitol, he appeared on video and repeated the false claim.", "The controversy over drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has been ongoing since 1977\n\nThe Trump administration has held the first sale for rights to drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - but it drew no interest from major companies.\n\nAn Alaskan state agency emerged as the primary bidder at the auction, which has been heavily criticised by environmental groups.\n\nThe sale raised less than $15m (£11m) - far less than the government had hoped.\n\nThe tepid interest comes amid big changes in the energy industry.\n\nMajor companies, including oil giant Exxon, Shell and BP, have said they are focusing their spending on renewable energy, amid a huge slump in oil prices, in part triggered by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAdam Kolton, executive director of the Alaska Wilderness League, said the sale was an \"epic failure\" for the Trump administration and the Alaska Republicans, who had backed the move as a way to create jobs and reduce American dependence on foreign oil.\n\n\"After years of promising a revenue and jobs bonanza they ended up throwing a party for themselves, with the state being one of the only bidders,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"We have long known that the American people don't want drilling in the Arctic Refuge, the [Alaska native] Gwich'in people don't want it, and now we know the oil industry doesn't want it either.\"\n\nThe refuge is home to more than 200 species of bird including the Northern shrike\n\nMr Kolton said his organisation would continue to fight in court to reverse the sale of the land, which is home to caribou, polar bears and millions of migratory birds.\n\nThe wildlife refuge is estimated to hold some 11 billion barrels of oil.\n\nOpening the wilderness for drilling and development has been a long-term priority for Alaska Republicans, but development was expected to be costly since the area has minimal roads and infrastructure.\n\nAfter decades of controversy, the sale was finally authorised by the US Congress in 2017 as part of a major package of tax cuts. The auction comes just weeks before Donald Trump is due to leave office on 20 January.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden had vowed to protect the refuge and environmental groups have also challenged the sale, which they say threatens land that provides a vital home to wildlife.\n\nA federal court rejected arguments by environmental groups seeking to block the auction on Tuesday.\n\nPolar bears are particularly at risk of dying in oil spills\n\nAt Wednesday's auction, the Bureau of Land Management said it had received bids for 12 of the 22 tracts of land offered, covering more than 600,000 acres.\n\nThe Alaska Industrial Development and Industrial Authority, a state agency, was the sole bidder on at least eight of the 12 tracts.\n\nSome bids submitted were \"incomplete\", the bureau said.\n\nThe state agency has said it plans to work with private companies on development of the refuge, which encompasses more than 19,000 million acres overall.\n\nOn social media platform Twitter, Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy called the sale \"historic for Alaska and tremendous for America\".\n\n\"Opening [Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge] for responsible resource development could put more oil in our pipeline, put Alaskans to work, bring billions of dollars of investment to our state, support American energy independence, and provide critical revenues to our state and local communities,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Alaskans have waited two generations for this moment; I stand with them in support of this day.\"", "Olly Stephens was stabbed to death in Emmer Green in Reading on Sunday\n\nThree teenagers have been charged with murder and conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm after a boy, 13, was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nTwo boys, aged 13 and 14, and a girl, aged 13, will appear in Reading Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\n\nTwo other boys, also aged 13, have been released on bail, with strict conditions, until 1 February.\n\nThe girl has also been charged with perverting the course of justice.\n\nIn a statement, Oliver's family said: \"An Olly-sized hole has been left in our hearts.\"\n\nHis parents said their son was \"an enigma\", and having both autism and suspected pathological demand avoidance meant \"he became a challenge we never shied away from\".\n\nThe family described the ordeal as \"every parents' worst nightmare\".\n\nThey also sought to highlight those who helped at the scene, including \"a Good Samaritan that tried valiantly to save Oliver\", an off-duty doctor who offered help, and the emergency services.\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack in fields on the boundary of Emmer Green and Caversham Heights.\n\nParents laying flowers at nearby Highdown School called the killing \"utterly senseless\" and said their children who attended school with Olly were \"devastated\".\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown urged anyone with information to contact police and not to share any images or footage on social media.\n\n\"This continues to be a very difficult time for the family of Olly. Our thoughts remain with them,\" he said.\n\n\"The Stephens family appreciate all of the kindness shown to them but they have asked that their privacy is respected at this very difficult time.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "South Vietnam flags were seen during the unrest Image caption: South Vietnam flags were seen during the unrest\n\nOn Wednesday, as protesters gathered outside before swarming the Capitol building, the yellow flags of the old South Vietnam regime could be seen.\n\nIn fact, the yellow flags of the former South Vietnam are a common sight at pro-Trump rallies across the United States.\n\nVietnamese Americans, especially those of the older generation who fled Vietnam after Saigon fell in 1975, are known for their support for the Republican party and Donald Trump.\n\nA pre-election survey by the group Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote found that Vietnamese Americans are the only major East Asian ethnic community that favoured Trump over Biden . Trump’s anti-China and anti-communist rhetoric resonated greatly with the former refugees who risked their lives to escape communism.\n\nBut the support for President Trump has also become an increasingly divisive issue amongst the Vietnamese American community.\n\nHours after the Capitol riot, there are still calls on pro-Trump internet forums like the \"ABC Trump\" Facebook page for Vietnamese Americans to “take to the streets in support of President Trump” as “the battle continues”.\n\nBut there have also been condemnations.\n\n“This is embarrassing,” one young Vietnamese American wrote on Twitter, adding: “They’ve brought shame to the flag”.", "Nguyen Huy Hung was one of 39 people who died in a container en route from Belgium to Essex\n\nThe father of a 15-year-old boy who was one of 39 people to die in a lorry trailer said he learned of his son's death through social media.\n\nNguyen Huy Hung died in the sealed container en route from Belgium to Purfleet, Essex, in October 2019.\n\nHis father, Nguyen Huy Tung, said the family could not believe it until \"we saw his body by our own eyes\" at the hospital.\n\nEight men are being sentenced for their role in the people-smuggling operation.\n\nThe bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer on 23 October last year\n\nThe 39 Vietnamese migrants, aged 15 to 44, were sealed inside the container for at least 12 hours.\n\nThe Old Bailey heard how it became a \"tomb\" as temperatures reached an \"unbearable\" 38.5C (101F).\n\nThe people trapped inside had used a metal pole to try to punch through the roof, but only managed to dent the interior.\n\nAt a sentencing hearing set to last three days in front of Mr Justice Sweeney, some of their final desperate phone messages were played in court.\n\nIn one message, a man spoke with ragged breaths as he apologised to his family.\n\n\"I can't breathe,\" he said. \"I want to come back to my family. Have a good life.\"\n\nIn the background, a voice could be heard pleading: \"Come on everyone. Open up, open up.\"\n\nProsecutor Jonathan Polnay read out statements from the victims' families, and the mother of another 15-year-old who died, Dinh Dinh Binh, said her family had \"not been able to get back to our normal life yet\".\n\n\"Our economic conditions and work are negatively affected,\" she said. \"We have had to sell some properties of the family to afford our life.\"\n\nThe 39 people who died in the back of a trailer as it crossed the North Sea between Zeebrugge and the UK\n\nTran Hai Loc and his wife Nguyen Thi Van, both 35, were found huddled together in the trailer, and left behind two children, aged six and four.\n\nThe children's grandfather, Tran Dinh Thanh, said: \"At the moment their children are very small - this incident will affect their future.\n\n\"Every day, when they come home from school they always look at the photos of their parents on the altar. The decease of both parents is a big loss to them.\"\n\nThe moment lorry driver Maurice Robinson opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies inside was captured on CCTV\n\nPhan Thi Thanh, 41, had sold the family home and left her son with his godmother before setting off on the journey.\n\nHer son, who is now being looked after by his father in the UK, said he felt \"very heartbroken with mum not around\".\n\nHaulier boss Ronan Hughes, 41, of Tyholland, County Monaghan, Ireland, was described as a ringleader of the operation. He closed his eyes as the phone messages were played to the court. Other defendants hung their heads.\n\nBoth Maurice Robinson (l) and Ronan Hughes (r) admitted 39 counts of manslaughter in connection with the case\n\nHughes had previously admitted manslaughter, as had 26-year-old lorry driver Maurice Robinson, from County Armagh, who discovered the bodies in the trailer.\n\nEamonn Harrison, 24, of Newry, County Down, who dropped off the trailer at Zeebrugge port, and people-smuggler Gheorghe Nica, 43, were convicted of the same charge by a jury.\n\nThey will be sentenced alongside Christopher Kennedy, 24, from County Armagh, Valentin Calota, 38, from Birmingham, Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Hobart Road, Tilbury, Essex, and Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Tottenham, north London, who were convicted for their role in the smuggling.\n\nGheorghe Nica and Eamonn Harrison were both found guilty of manslaughter\n\nMr Polnay said: \"These defendants were party to a sophisticated, long-running and profitable conspiracy to smuggle [mainly] Vietnamese migrants to the UK, in the back of lorries, in a deliberate and intentional breach of border control.\"\n\nThe fee was between £10,000 and £13,000 for each migrant, for the \"VIP route\", the court heard.\n\nMr Polnay said seven smuggling trips were identified between May 2018 and 23 October 2019, but there was \"an irresistible inference that there were more events than those that were fortuitously detected\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "It is inevitable that part of the politics of a pandemic is the perceived relative performance of different countries.\n\nYou can pick your metric to make your comparison, and plenty have.\n\nThe death toll in the UK, and the economic slump, have come in for particular criticism.\n\nBut the government has, for some time, sought to emphasise how the UK is ahead of the game on vaccinations.\n\nThe UK was considerably quicker than the EU, for instance, in licencing the first vaccine, from Pfizer-BioNTech.\n\nAt today's news conference, the Prime Minister has pointed out that the UK has already given more people a first jab for Covid than all the other countries in Europe put together.\n\nSir Simon Stevens, the Chief Executive of the National Health Service in England, added that the UK has jabbed four times as many people as Germany and 300 times more than France.\n\nBut he acknowledged the scale of the ongoing challenge - trying to vaccinate as many people in the next five weeks as normally happens in five months with the flu jab.\n\nOne final thought: ministers tend to suggest international comparisons are pointless or premature when the comparisons are less than flattering.\n\nThey're rather keener on them when the numbers look better.", "Teachers' estimated grades will be used to replace cancelled GCSEs and A-levels in England this summer, says Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nHe told MPs he would \"trust in teachers rather than algorithms\", a reference to the U-turn over last year's exams.\n\nFor primaries, he confirmed there would be no Year 6 Sats tests this year.\n\nMr Williamson promised parents it would be \"mandatory\" for schools to provide \"high-quality remote education\" of three to five hours per day.\n\nHe said this would be \"enforced\" by Ofsted, with inspections where there were \"serious concerns\" about what was provided for children now studying at home.\n\nLabour's Shadow Education Secretary, Kate Green, accused Mr Williamson of \"chaos and confusion\" - and said he had failed to listen to the \"expertise of professionals on the front line\".\n\nShe said he had given a \"cast-iron commitment\" that exams would go ahead - and Ms Green said: \"At that moment, we should have known they were doomed to be cancelled.\"\n\nMr Williamson, in a statement to the House of Commons, said there would be \"training and support\" for teachers in estimating grades, \"to ensure these are awarded fairly and consistently\".\n\nHe also told MPs there would be no Sats tests for those at the end of primary school.\n\n\"I can absolutely confirm that we won't be proceeding with Sats this year. We do recognise that this will be an additional burden on schools\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said rather than a \"vague statement\" of how A-levels and GCSEs would be graded, ministers should already have a system ready in place - and it was a \"dereliction of duty\" that it was not already prepared.\n\nAnd he warned against repeating the \"shambles\" of last summer's cancelled exams.\n\nThe education secretary confirmed to MPs that GCSEs and A-levels are not going ahead - after this week's decision that it was no longer feasible with so much time lost in the Covid pandemic and the latest lockdown.\n\nThe exams watchdog Ofqual will draw up proposals for an alternative way of deciding results, for qualifications that could be used for jobs, staying on in school or university places.\n\nSimon Lebus, the watchdog's interim head, said evidence for replacement grades could include tests, homework, mock exams and teachers' observations - and would take into account how much of the syllabus had been covered.\n\nA consultation is expected to begin next week, with plans to be decided by the end of February or possibly sooner.\n\nLast year's attempts to find an alternative approach to exam results, which initially used an algorithm, descended into chaos - and eventually switched to using teachers' grades.\n\nAnd without any exam papers or standardised mock exams, the use of teachers' assessments, with some process of moderation between schools, will be used for this summer's candidates.\n\nOn vocational qualifications, Labour's Ms Green said the education secretary was \"failing to show leadership on exams in January\".\n\nVocational exams, such as BTecs, are carrying on, if schools and colleges decide to continue with them - but college leaders had complained that there needed to be a national decision to avoid confusion.\n\nIf students cannot take BTec exams this month as planned, they will still be awarded a grade, if they have \"enough evidence to receive a certificate that they need for progression\", says the awarding body Pearson.\n\nAn Ofqual spokeswoman said they would consider options for replacement exam results, academic and vocational, \"to ensure the fairest possible outcome in the circumstances\".\n\nThe exams watchdog's decisions will face much scrutiny - with the previous head of Ofqual resigning after last summer's U-turns over grades.\n\nMr Williamson's statement in the Commons came as all GCSE, AS and A-level exams in Northern Ireland were cancelled due to the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir announced the decision in the Stormont assembly on Wednesday.\n\nScotland has already cancelled its Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers.\n\nGCSEs and A-levels in Wales were scrapped in November.", "Adrian Chiles first joined 5 Live for its launch in 1994\n\nAdrian Chiles has been confirmed as the broadcaster who will replace Emma Barnett on BBC Radio 5 Live on Thursday mornings.\n\nNaga Munchetty now presents the same show from Monday to Wednesday.\n\nChiles has previously presented the same time slot on Fridays, along with the BBC's The One Show and Match of the Day 2, as well as ITV's Daybreak show.\n\n\"Adrian is a wonderful broadcaster who our audience trust and respect,\" said 5 Live controller Heidi Dawson.\n\n\"He has that unique ability to put listeners at ease and make them smile, whilst remaining relentless in his questioning of those in positions of power.\"\n\nChiles, who will present the show on Thursdays and Fridays, joined the station at its launch in 1994 and has featured regularly on shows like Wake Up To Money, and 5 Live Drive.\n\nFollowing his move to mid-morning, Chiles' Question Time Extra Time show will be replaced by a new programme, hosted by Colin Murray.\n\nBarnett, who has moved to BBC Radio 4 to host Woman's Hour, defended herself this week after a guest who was booked to appear on the BBC Radio 4 programme dropped out due to remarks the presenter made about her off-air.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Epsom Racecourse in Surrey will be one of seven mass vaccination hubs announced by the government\n\nSeven new mass Covid vaccination hubs across England have been announced by the government.\n\nCentres in London, Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Surrey and Stevenage are due to begin operations next week.\n\nVarious venues will be converted into regional centres in a bid to meet the government's target of vaccinating 14 million people in the UK by February.\n\nIt is expected the hubs will be staffed by NHS staff and volunteers.\n\nThe seven sites announced by Downing Street are:\n\nAshton Gate Stadium, home to Bristol City FC, will be used to help the government meet its vaccination target\n\nSupermarket chain Morrisons has confirmed car parks at its stores in Yeovil, Wakefield and Winsford would be used to drive-through vaccinations from Monday. It has also offered an additional 47 sites to the government.\n\nPremier League club Tottenham Hotspur has also offered the use of its stadium to the NHS as a venue to provide the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe sites across England will begin operations next week", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US Capitol riots: How the world's media reacted\n\nShock and contempt for the violent storming of the US Capitol by Donald Trump's supporters is evident in many reports and commentary on the event from around the world.\n\nFrom Germany's Die Welt daily describing \"disturbing, sad, terrifying scenes\", to the Nigerian Tribune saying \"Trump supporters defile US democracy\", many criticise the outgoing president for what what they see as his role in degrading America's institutions and democracy.\n\nOne commentator in Argentina's leading daily Clarin called it \"the 'scorched earth' legacy of Donald Trump\".\n\n\"Narcissism prevailing over all dignity, he harasses institutions, tramples on democracy, divides his own camp,\" says an editorial in France's Le Figaro.\n\n\"In refusing to quit, Donald Trump exposes the fragility of the American system in a final destructive offensive,\" a columnist says in France's Le Monde. Another headline in the paper calls him \"the insurrectional president\".\n\nIn Turkey, the pro-government Turkiye paper notes: \"Trump's stubbornness stirred the US\".\n\n\"I expect Trump to be tried after this turmoil,\" said one pundit on Egypt's MBC Misr TV, adding that \"the US is no longer a superpower in the full sense of the word\".\n\nSeveral of America's adversaries seized the opportunity to portray the incident as an example of the country's structural weaknesses and what they see as its hypocrisy.\n\n\"@SpeakerPelosi once referred to the Hong Kong riots as 'a beautiful sight to behold' — it remains yet to be seen whether she will say the same about the recent developments in Capitol Hill,\" tweeted China's daily Global Times.\n\n\"Capital vandals show fragility of US democracy,\" claimed a headline in the paper.\n\nIn Iran, state TV and radio inaccurately reported that the mayor of Washington DC had imposed \"martial law\", instead of the 12-hour curfew on the capital, which is what actually happened.\n\nAnd in Russia, where the first day of the Orthodox Christmas is currently being celebrated, footage of Trump's supporters ransacking the Capitol dominates state TV.\n\nMorning bulletins have focused on the events in America\n\nRolling news channel Rossiya 24 has played scenes of the violence at length, with no comment other than the caption \"Attack on the Capitol\".\n\nSome channels have also shown sympathy for the pro-Trump supporters, suggesting that they had cause to feel \"cheated\" over November's presidential election, and talked up claims that the event represents a crisis for US and even Western democracy.\n\nRossiya 24 said they were \"dissatisfied with the most scandalous election in US history\", while Rossiya 1 said it was the US system of democracy that was \"to a large degree the cause of today's events\".\n\nEven for those not necessarily unfriendly to America, the incident shows serious rifts in society that Trump's departure won't address.\n\nIt is \"a spectacular demonstration of frustration that has been building in the USA for decades,\" says one commentator in Poland's conservative daily Rzeczpospolita.\n\n\"Behind the façade of plastered smiles… and phrases about 'the best country in the world' lies the drama of a gigantic income gap, society in which more and more people struggle to make ends meet, while the few do not even know how many billions they own.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nI'm standing in what should be an operating theatre - but instead it's been converted into an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients on ventilators.\n\nThis is the first time I have seen it full of patients like this. Normally this theatre would be busy with major cancer surgery, but that's been transferred to another building.\n\nA children's recovery area, still decorated with colourful stickers of cartoons, is once again filled with desperately sick adults. Every day, more wards are being transformed into ICU - ready for the next influx of patients.\n\nWe have been given access to University College Hospital, in central London. This is the same intensive care unit that I first visited in April, during the first peak.\n\nIt is one of the busiest hospitals in the capital and intensive care here is expanding across a hospital that is under pressure like never before, from a relentless rise in Covid admissions.\n\nI am struck by the toll the pandemic is taking on staff. It's immense - both physically and mentally. They are shell-shocked. \"My emotions are all over the place. Scared, sad, petrified, worried,\" one ICU nurse tells me.\n\nI asked one of the consultants who I've met several times in the last year, Dr Jim Down, how long they can keep going like this - and the answer was stark. \"At this rate, about a week. After that we really need to see it slow down or we're going to see the care we can deliver suffering.\"\n\nThey have got three times as many critically ill patients in the hospital as normal. The number of Covid admissions to London hospitals has doubled in just two weeks - they're more stretched now than at the peak last April. Senior staff are worried.\n\nDr Alice Carter compares it to an elastic band that is close to snapping. \"It gets to a point where you stretch so far it never returns back to its baseline. I think that's probably where we are now. It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break, and that's the real fear for us at the moment.\"\n\nDr Alice Carter: 'It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break'\n\nThat could have very serious consequences, she adds. \"If we get to that point, we can't offer anyone ICU, not just Covid patients, but anyone who has a traffic accident or a heart attack or a stroke - whatever it is, to take them in.\"\n\nFor 38-year-old Rachel Arfin, one of the three pregnant women in intensive care with Covid-19, treatment is more complicated. Her baby is due in five weeks and the staff have to monitor them both.\n\n\"They can't do anything that will harm the baby,\" she says. \"All the time [they are] checking, monitoring the baby.\" She is reassured by the \"beautiful sound\" of her baby's heartbeat.\n\n\"They are looking after two people in one. They're saving lives,\" says Rachel. But her children - she has seven - keep asking when she's coming home.\n\nRachel Arfin's baby is due in five weeks - both are doing well\n\nI've reported from here several times during the pandemic and am always struck by the professionalism and dedication of staff. It's always quiet and calm, but that belies what's actually happening. This is a system under strain like never before.\n\nThe warning signs are clear, the NHS is on the brink. Unless infection rates fall, soon it will have a serious impact. The pressure on staff is unrelenting. I saw two nurses in tears.\n\nCompared to when I visited in April, it's a lot busier. In some ways, it's more structured - they now know what they're dealing with. They've got new treatments, such as the drug dexamethasone, which they didn't have last time. And many of the staff have now had the first dose of the vaccine.\n\nBut other aspects don't get any easier, such as the emotional burden of breaking bad news over a telephone or video call. It is very different to being able to hold someone's hand.\n\nStaff say they don't know which patients to help first\n\nICU staff have incredibly high standards. They're used to doing everything meticulously and perfectly. And they're doing all they can. But sometimes they go home and feel guilty that they can't do more. The impact on nurses - the bedrock of care in intensive care - is visible.\n\nThe highly specialised staff are usually one-to-one with patients. Deputy sister Ashleigh Shillingford is looking after three or four ventilated patients at a time, with one other junior member of staff. It's emotional and often devastating work.\n\n\"We are so stretched we have to prioritise and prioritising care is not the NHS that I grew up in - we shouldn't have to choose which patient gets what care first.\" She says she's never had to make decisions like these before.\n\n\"You just don't know who to help first. The patients are losing their lives at a dramatic speed, we're not just getting old people,\" she says, \"these are young people that we're getting.\"\n\nGerald Williams, 58, is awaiting chemotherapy for lung cancer and had been shielding, but he still caught coronavirus. \"All of a sudden, out of the blue, Covid came knocking on my door and it's frightening - you don't know how you're getting your next breath,\" he says.\n\nGerald Williams had been shielding but he still caught coronavirus\n\nHe wants to get home to his daughters, the youngest of whom is 13. And he's annoyed at those who don't take it seriously. \"People are moaning and groaning. Even in A&E. They need to get a life. Don't be idiots, forget about meeting your mate, stay home. No-one is invulnerable.\"\n\nFor now the Trust is coping better than many others in London and is still taking Covid patients from other hospitals. But the next few weeks could be the biggest challenge the NHS has ever faced - and it will be its doctors and nurses who will bear the brunt for all of us.\n\nAs the BBC's medical editor, Fergus Walsh has been reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic and its immense impact on the UK.", "Two US police officers linked to a notorious raid in which young black medic Breonna Taylor was fatally shot have been fired, authorities have said.\n\nDetectives Myles Cosgrove and Joshua Jaynes are the latest officers to be dismissed over the shooting in March last year.\n\nThe incident in Kentucky caused outrage, spurring protests against racism and police brutality.\n\nMs Taylor, 26, died when police raided her home in connection to a drug case.\n\nThe FBI said Mr Cosgrove fired the shot that killed Ms Taylor at her home in Louisville.\n\nLouisville police dismissed Mr Cosgrove for violating procedures for use of force and failing to use a body camera during the search, the Louisville Courier Journal reported on Wednesday.\n\nMr Jaynes, the newspaper said, was fired for violating the police force's policy for truthfulness and search warrant preparation.\n\nDuring the raid, Ms Taylor's boyfriend fired at the officers who he said he believed were attackers breaking into their home.\n\nPolice say they knocked on the door to announce their presence before breaking down the door with a battering ram.\n\nMs Taylor's boyfriend said police did not make their presence known, and he fired out of self-defence. Three officers returned fire with 32 shots, six of which hit Ms Taylor.\n\nMs Taylor's name became a global rallying cry as people demanded a thorough investigation into her death.\n\nBlack Lives Matter activists in the US have demanded that Louisville police take stronger action against the officers in the case and say that police too often escape unpunished after killing members of the public.\n\nBut despite the outcry against Ms Taylor's shooting, no criminal charges were sought relating to her death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Questions still aren't answered\": Breonna Taylor's family are worried about a \"cover-up\"", "Tennant was remembered as \"a beautiful soul\" and \"a sensitive and talented woman\"\n\nBritish model Stella Tennant took her own life after being \"unwell for some time\", her family has confirmed.\n\nIn a statement, her family said it was \"a matter of our deepest sorrow and despair that she felt unable to go on.\"\n\nTennant, who made her name in the early 1990s modelling for designers like Karl Lagerfeld and Versace, died in December five days after her 50th birthday.\n\nHer family said they were \"humbled by the outpouring of messages of sympathy and support\" they have received.\n\nTennant was \"a beautiful soul, adored by a close family and good friends, a sensitive and talented woman whose creativity, intelligence and humour touched so many\", they said.\n\n\"In grieving Stella's loss, her family renews a heartfelt request that respect for their privacy should continue.\"\n\nBorn in London on 1970, Tennant was known for her androgynous sultry looks and aristocratic heritage.\n\nShe shot to fame after being photographed for British Vogue at the age of 22 in 1993, going on to work with such designers as Alexander McQueen and Jean Paul Gaultier.\n\nTennant retired from the catwalk in 1998 but later returned. She also worked on campaigns to promote saving energy and reducing the environmental impact of fast fashion.\n\nShe had four children with French-born photographer David Lasnet. The couple married in the Scottish borders in 1999 and announced their separation last year.\n\nTennant with David Lasnet on their wedding day in 1999\n\nStella McCartney, Victoria Beckham and fellow model Naomi Campbell were among those to pay tribute after her death was announced last month.\n\nCampbell said she had been \"a class act in every way\", while Beckham remembered her as \"an incredible talent\".\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this article, information and support is available from BBC Action Line.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Medical staff are \"well over half way through\" vaccinating Scotland's care home residents with their first dose against Covid-19.\n\nThe first minister said this was \"extremely important\", as care homes accounted for more than a third of Covid-related deaths in the past week.\n\nBy Sunday more than 113,000 people in Scotland had been given their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nSome 1,100 vaccination centres are set to be operational within a week.\n\nThe government has set a target of giving a first dose to everyone over the age of 80 in Scotland within the next four weeks.\n\nScotland has about 30,000 residents living in care homes for older people.\n\nA further 78 deaths of people who had tested positive for Covid-19 were announced on Thursday, the highest daily number during the second wave of the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, the National Records of Scotland said the virus had been mentioned on 183 death certificates in the week to Sunday - with 63 of these deaths occurring in care homes.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said this underlined the importance of rolling out the vaccine in care homes, saying it would hopefully start to significantly reduce the risk of residents dying due to coronavirus.\n\nAnd she said the government would start issuing a daily update on how many people had been given the jab from next week.\n\nThe first minister said: \"Vaccination ultimately is what will provide us with the route out of this pandemic, so we are absolutely determined to make sure as many people as possible are vaccinated just as quickly as it is possible to do so.\"\n\nAs of Sunday, a total of 113,459 people had been given their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in Scotland.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine began to be rolled out on Monday, and will be reflected in statistics from next week.\n\nA total of 36 people have had a second dose of the vaccine, with efforts now focused on giving a first jab to as many people as possible\n\nThis means that people will now not receive their second dose for up to 12 weeks rather than within 21 days - a move that has been criticised by some medics.\n\nBut Chief Medical Officer Dr Gregor Smith said the first dose gave \"substantial\" protection against the virus.\n\nThe vaccine is being rolled out to health and social care workers in the first instance, then care home residents and other over-80s.\n\nEventually everyone in Scotland over the age of 18 - a total of 4.4m people - will be given a jab, although the government has refused to set targets beyond the initial phase due to uncertainty over supplies.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said Scotland is in a race between the vaccine and the virus\n\nThe UK government had already committed to publishing vaccination figures on a daily basis, and the Scottish Conservatives had been pushing for the Scottish government to follow suit.\n\nTory leader Douglas Ross said that \"publishing these numbers will increase transparency and give the public confidence that progress is being made in our fight against Covid-19\".\n\nThe MP told BBC Scotland that he had been getting inquiries from constituents about when they could expect to get a jab, saying people \"need to know roughly where they are on that list and when they can expect to receive that vaccine\".\n\nScottish Labour called on the government to backdate the statistics and to publish \"a detailed breakdown of how many people in each priority group has been vaccinated\".\n\nThe party's health spokeswoman, Monica Lennon, said: \"Quicker progress must be made on securing vaccinations sites and vaccinators, including the contribution that community pharmacy teams can make.\"\n\nAt her daily briefing, Ms Sturgeon said over-80s should not worry if they had not yet been contacted about a vaccine appointment.\n\nShe said these were being \"aligned with availability of supply\" in different local areas.\n\nThe first minister said there was \"no need to phone your GP\", and that people would be \"contacted with an appointment as soon as possible\".\n\nShe also said the government was considering \"as a matter of ongoing review\" whether tighter restrictions may still be needed.\n\nScotland has been in a new lockdown since Tuesday, and Ms Sturgeon said it was \"probably too early\" for this to be reflected in the number of new infections.\n\nHowever she warned that the number of interactions people are having needed to be \"radically\" cut in order to slow the spread of the virus.\n\nShe said shutting down construction, manufacturing and click-and-collect businesses was \"the kind of thing we need to look at if we have a concern that we are not sufficiently reducing the number of people who are out and about and interacting\".", "Two more life-saving drugs have been found that can cut deaths by a quarter in patients who are sickest with Covid.\n\nThe anti-inflammatory medications, given via a drip, save an extra life for every 12 treated, say researchers who have carried out a trial in NHS intensive care units.\n\nSupplies are already available across the UK so they can be used immediately to save hundreds of lives, say experts.\n\nThere are over 30,000 Covid patients in UK hospitals - 39% more than in April.\n\nThe UK government is working closely with the manufacturer, to ensure the drugs - tocilizumab and sarilumab - continue to be available to UK patients.\n\nAs well as saving more lives, the treatments speed up patients' recovery and reduce the length of time that critically-ill patients need to spend in intensive care by about a week.\n\nBoth appear to work equally well and add to the benefit already found with a cheap steroid drug called dexamethasone.\n\nAlthough the drugs are not cheap, costing around £500 per patient, on top of the £5 course of dexamethasone, the advantage of using them is clear - and less than the cost per day of an intensive care bed of around £2,000, say experts.\n\nLead researcher Prof Anthony Gordon, from Imperial College London, said: \"For every 12 patients you treat with these drugs you would expect to save a life. It's a big effect.\"\n\nIn the REMAP-CAP trial carried out in six different countries, including the UK, with around 800 intensive care patients:\n\nProf Stephen Powis, NHS national medical director, said: \"The fact there is now another drug that can help to reduce mortality for patients with Covid-19 is hugely welcome news and another positive development in the continued fight against the virus.\"\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"The UK has proven time and time again it is at the very forefront of identifying and providing the most promising, innovative treatments for its patients.\n\n\"Today's results are yet another landmark development in finding a way out of this pandemic and, when added to the armoury of vaccines and treatments already being rolled out, will play a significant role in defeating this virus.\"\n\nThe drugs dampen down inflammation, which can go into overdrive in Covid patients and cause damage to the lungs and other organs.\n\nDoctors are being advised to give them to any Covid patient who, despite receiving dexamethasone, is deteriorating and needs intensive care.\n\nTocilizumab and sarilumab have already been added to the government's export restriction list, which bans companies from buying medicines meant for UK patients and selling them on for a higher price in another country.\n\nThe research findings have not yet been peer reviewed or published in a medical journal.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We will never give up, we will never concede\", Trump tells supporters\n\nThis is how the Trump presidency ends. Not with a whimper, but with a bang.\n\nFor weeks, Donald Trump had been pointing to 6 January as a day of reckoning. It was when he told his supporters to come to Washington DC, and challenge Congress - and Vice-President Mike Pence - to discard the results of November's election and keep the presidency in his hands.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, the president and his warm-up speakers set the whirlwind in motion.\n\nRudy Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, said the election disputes should be resolved through \"trial by combat\".\n\nDonald Trump Jr, the president's oldest son, had a message to members of his party who would not \"fight\" for their president.\n\n\"This isn't their Republican Party anymore,\" he said. \"This is Donald Trump's Republican Party.\"\n\nThen the president himself encouraged the growing crowd, which had chanted \"stop the steal\" and \"bullshit\" at the president's prompting, to march the two miles from the White House to the Capitol.\n\n\"We will never give up. We will never concede,\" the president said. \"Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore.\"\n\nAs the president was concluding his remarks, a different kind of drama was playing out within the Capitol itself, as a joint session of Congress prepared to tabulate the state-by-state results of the election.\n\nFirst, Pence - disregarding the president's urging to throw out the results from contested states - released a statement that he did not have such powers and his role was \"largely ceremonial\".\n\nThen Republicans issued their first challenge, to Arizona votes, and the House and Senate began their separate deliberations on whether to accept Joe Biden's victory there.\n\nThe House proceedings were raucous, with both sides cheering as their speakers made their remarks.\n\n\"The oath that I took this past Sunday to defend and support the Constitution makes it necessary for me to object to this travesty,\" said newly elected Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, who had recently made headlines for insisting that she would carry a handgun with her in Congress. \"I will not allow the people to be ignored.\"\n\nProtesters gathered outside the Capitol as the joint session started\n\nIn the Senate, the debate was taking on a different tone. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, dressed in the kind of dark suit and tie that befits a funeral, was coming to bury Donald Trump, not praise him.\n\n\"If this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral,\" McConnell said. \"We'd never see the whole nation accept an election again. Every four years would be a scramble for power at any cost.\"\n\nThe Kentucky senator, who will become the Senate minority leader as a result of his party's two recent defeats in Georgia, said that the chamber was designed to \"stop short-term passions from boiling over and melting the foundations of our republic\".\n\nHis words were practically still hanging in the air when the passions outside the Capitol boiled over, and the Trump supporters, perhaps inspired by the earlier speeches, stormed the building. They swamped the insufficient security in place and brought the proceedings to a grinding halt, as lawmakers, staff and media rushed to find shelter from the rioters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How a Trump rally near the White House turned deadly at the Capitol\n\nThe drama unfolded in fits and starts. Television cameras broadcast images of protesters dancing and waving flags on the steps of the Capitol. Photos and snippets popped up on social media of rioters inside the building, attempting to break into the legislative chambers and posing in the offices of elected legislators; of security officers, guns drawn in the House of Representatives, behind barricaded doors.\n\nIn Wilmington, Delaware, President-elect Joe Biden scrapped a planned speech on the economy and condemned what he called an \"insurrection\" in Washington.\n\n\"At this hour our democracy is under unprecedented assault unlike anything we've seen in modern times,\" he said. \"An assault on the citadel of liberty, the Capitol itself.\"\n\nHe concluded his short remarks with a challenge to Trump: to go on national television to condemn the violence and \"demand an end to this siege\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden: The scenes of chaos at the Capitol do not reflect a true America, do not represent who we are\n\nMinutes later, Trump would offer his message to the nation - but it was not the one Biden suggested.\n\nInstead, sandwiched between his now familiar complaints about the election being \"stolen\", he told his supporters \"to go home, we love you, you're very special\".\n\nIt was the kind of kid gloves way the president has routinely responded to transgressions from his supporters - whether it was their violent treatment of protesters at his rallies, the \"very fine people on both sides\" statement after the clashes at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville or his \"stand back and stand by\" message to the far-right Proud Boys group during the first debate with Biden.\n\nTrump's tweet, and two subsequent ones which also praised his supporters, were flagged and then removed by Twitter, which took the unprecedented step of locking the president's account for 12 hours. Facebook followed suit, banning Trump for a full day.\n\nFor the first time in his presidency, for the first time in his long, intimate relationship with social media, Donald Trump had been silenced.\n\nIf this is the \"at long last, have you left no sense of decency\" moment for Donald Trump, it arrives as they're cleaning up blood and broken glass in the US Capitol.\n\nAs the afternoon stretched into the evening, and police finally secured the US Capitol, a growing chorus of voices - from the left and right - condemned the violence. It was not surprising that Democrats, like soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, laid the riots at the feet of the president.\n\n\"January 6 will go down as one of the darkest days in American history,\" he said. \"A final warning to our nation of the consequences of the demagogic president, the people who enable him, the captive media that parrot his lies and the people who follow him as he attempts to push America to the brink of ruin.\"\n\nMore noteworthy, however, were the Republicans who followed suit.\n\n\"We just had a violent mob assault the Capitol in an attempt to prevent those from carrying out our Constitutional duty,\" tweeted Congresswoman Lynne Cheney, a frequent Republican critic of the president's. \"There is no question that the president formed the mob, the president incited the mob, the president addressed the mob.\"\n\nThe condemnations were not limited to Trump's reliable intraparty critics, however. Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, who frequently sides with the president, also spoke out.\n\n\"It's past time for the president to accept the results of the election, quit misleading the American people, and repudiate mob violence,\" he said.\n\nFirst Lady Melania Trump's Chief of Staff Stephanie Grisham and Deputy White House Press Secretary Sarah Matthews both resigned in protest, and there are reports that more administration officials will head for the exits in the next 24 hours.\n\nCBS has reported that Trump administration Cabinet officials are discussing the 25th amendment to the US constitution, which outlines how the vice-president and a majority of the Cabinet can temporarily remove a president from office.\n\nWhether Pence and the Cabinet act or not, Trump's presidency will be over in just two weeks. At that point, Republican Party leaders will have to grapple with a future where it has lost control of the Congress and the White House and has a former president whose reputation is badly tarnished but who still has strong sway over a sizeable segment of the party's base.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mitt Romney warns fellow Republicans not to be complicit in attack on democracy\n\nWednesday's events could presage a pitched battle for the direction of the party, as conservatives within the party attempt to wrest control away from Trump and his loyalists. McConnell, given his remarks earlier in the day, appears willing to chart such a course. Others, like Utah Senator Mitt Romney, a former Republican presidential nominee, may also take a leading role.\n\nThey will be challenged by others within the party who may be more interested in laying claim to Trump's populist mantle. It was notable that Josh Hawley of Missouri, the first senator to announce he would object the results of the election in the Senate, did not step away from his challenge even after the Senate reconvened following the violence in the Capitol.\n\nCrisis can bring political opportunity, and there are many politicians who will not hesitate to use it to gain advantage.\n\nMeanwhile, Trump - for now - is still in power. And while he may be chastened, he may be sitting in the White House residence watching television temporarily without his social media outlet, he will not be silent for long.\n\nAnd once he decamps for his new Florida home, he could begin making plans to settle scores and, perhaps, someday return to power and rebuild a legacy that, for the moment, lies in tatters.", "The Belfast Health Trust has said it has no other option but to cancel urgent cancer surgery.\n\nThese are known as red flag cancer cases where an operation is expected to impact on a person's recovery and even surviving the disease.\n\nThe Department of Health has confirmed to the BBC that it's estimated that one in 60 people in NI have Covid-19.\n\nIt is understood the trust expects \"many 100s\" of new Covid patients in the next three weeks.\n\nThe demand for bed space is described as \"highly significant\", while a source added that all is being done to \"find beds and staff\".\n\nThey continued: \"People in here are moving heaven and earth to find beds in anticipation of what is coming and that's why some cancer patients even those who have been told their case is urgent are having their surgery cancelled.\"\n\nEffectively the move means that choices are already being made within the health service about who should receive critical treatment.\n\nThe daughter of a 66-year-old woman who was told her surgery has been cancelled has described the move as \"deeply worrying\".\n\n\"Mummy was diagnosed with cancer of the lining of the bladder in November, it's since spread to the muscle wall of her bladder. She was told in December her surgery was urgent - but now it's been cancelled.\n\n\"She is so frightened, it is just horrendous and I'm sure mum is not alone.\"\n\nWhile a cancer patient might have been told their case is critical and that treatment is necessary within weeks, some Covid patients are also being told that in order to survive they require treatment immediately.\n\nWith the number of cases soaring this is worse than the first lockdown and according to health professionals there is worse to come.\n\nThe BBC understands that the health minister is expected to respond to the problem in the coming days.\n\nIt is hoped that he will announce a regional approach to tackling cancelled surgeries among the various health trusts.\n\nNorthern Ireland's other health trusts have also begun to cancel operations due to pressures created by coronavirus.\n\nThe Northern, Western, Southern and South-Eastern trusts have said they will be cancelling planned surgeries.\n\nHospitals have said they were facing a surge in coronavirus cases following Christmas.\n\nOn Thursday, 599 people were in hospital with Covid-19.\n\nThe Belfast Trust apologised for the \"distress\" caused by the cancellations.\n\n\"Belfast Trust has made the difficult decision to cancel all planned inpatient surgery this week due to rising numbers of Covid cases,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe trust said it was contacting those affected and \"will rearrange this surgery as soon as possible and we will do everything we can to ensure continuity of care throughout this challenging time\".\n\nThe Northern Trust said it had \"regrettably\" cancelled the majority of its planned or elective surgeries to \"both free up staff to support the significant COVID-19 surge experience in the Trust and to reduce the clinical risk to patients who are or may be exposed to the virus\".\n\nIt apologised and said it would contacting people.\n\nThe Western Trust said it is \"facing unprecedented pressures due to the escalating rate\" of Covid infections.\n\nDirector of Acute Hospitals, Geraldine McKay, said routine elective inpatient, outpatient and day case surgeries have now been postponed until further notice.\n\nShe said the decision was \"very regrettable, but necessary\".\n\n\"Red flag and some time critical procedures and clinics will continue, but will be reviewed daily,\" she said.\n\nShould the number of Covid patients further increase, she added, the trust will \"have no option but to move to perform emergency and trauma surgery only\".\n\nA spokesperson for the South Eastern Trust said it was still carrying out some planned surgery, but the majority would be cancelled by next week.\n\nThe Southern Trust said it had taken its decision in response to the \"very significant recent increase\" in the number of Covid-19 cases.\n\nIt said this had been compounded by an increase in trauma workload and recent icy weather.\n\nThe trust said it would continue to provide day surgery and endoscopy across its hospital sites.\n\nOf the 3,359 planned procedures scheduled across NI between 29 December 2020 and 4 January, 3,267 went ahead as planned, according to the Health and Social Care website.\n\nThere were 92 cancellations which amounted to about 3% of all surgeries.", "During a speech earlier in the day, President Trump had asked his supporters to march towards the Capitol in protest. They breached the building while Congress was certifying Joe Biden's win.\n\nProtesters made it all the way to the Senate floor and the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.\n\nHere are the key moments in a dark day for US democracy.", "The US is reeling after supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC on the day Congress was meeting to confirm Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nLawmakers were forced to take shelter, the building was put into lockdown and four people died in the chaos that followed a pro-Trump rally near the White House.\n\nHere's a breakdown of how events unfolded on Wednesday.\n\nJust before midday local time (17:00 GMT) thousands of people gather at the Ellipse, near the White House, to hear the president speak at a \"Save America\" rally.\n\nHe tells them: \"We're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue... and we're going to the Capitol and we're going to try and give… our Republicans, the weak ones... the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.\"\n\nAs the speech ends, crowds start to drift towards the Congress building, about a mile and a half away, where they are met by police barriers.\n\nThe Capitol is home to the two chambers of the US government that make up Congress - the House of Representatives and the Senate.\n\nChanting crowds start to gather on both sides of the building at around 13:10, grappling with police at the metal barricades.\n\nTear gas and pepper spray are used to try to keep the protesters at bay.\n\nPolice officers struggle to maintain control of the situation as protesters advance on the building on multiple fronts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nOn the east side, the crowd force their way through barricades on the Capitol Plaza and move on the main entrance, quickly gaining access to the Great Rotunda.\n\nOnce inside, they head for the House and Senate chambers.\n\nIgor Bobic, a journalist for the Huffington Post, captures a group of men forcing a police officer to retreat up a set of stairs as they continue their advance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Igor Bobic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenators are forced to abandon the process of confirming President-elect Biden's victory and the building goes into lockdown.\n\nThe doors of the House chamber are locked and a makeshift barricade is erected in front of them. Security officials guard the entrance, guns drawn.\n\nWithin an hour, protesters have also broken police lines on the west side of the Capitol, scaling walls to reach the building itself before smashing windows and forcing doors open.\n\nOther videos and images show rioters storming through the building's ornately-decorated corridors and chambers chanting \"USA!\" and \"Stop the steal\".\n\nShortly before 15:00, gunshots are reportedly heard inside the building.\n\nPhotos and video footage later show a female protester being shot as she tries to break through the barricaded doors of the Speakers' Lobby.\n\nDespite efforts by police and others at the scene to save her, she is later reported to have died.\n\nOn the other side of the building, protesters break into the Senate chamber, one taking seat in the Speaker's chair.\n\nAnother protester is photographed nearby sitting in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, with his foot on the table.\n\nAfter growing condemnation of the riots, President Trump eventually calls for calm, telling the protesters to leave peacefully: \"Go home. We love you, you're very special.\"\n\nBy 17:40, the building is cleared and made secure ahead of the 18:00 curfew ordered by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.\n\nSeveral thousand National Guard troops, FBI agents and US Secret Service are deployed to help.\n\nMore than six hours after the storming of the building, senators return and resume the day's business of certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.\n\nAt 03:41 on Thursday, Congress confirms President-elect Joe Biden will succeed President Trump on 20 January.", "Young women clap for heroes outside Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London\n\nA revived initiative to applaud the heroes of the pandemic has returned - but much more quietly than last year.\n\nIt comes after the founder of Clap for Carers distanced herself from its return after facing online abuse.\n\nAnnemarie Plas wanted to bring back the weekly applause under a new name of Clap for Heroes to lift spirits in the new lockdown but it fell a little flat.\n\nSome health workers have said they would rather people stay at home and wear a mask than clap for them.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he participated at 20:00 GMT on Thursday, but clapping \"isn't enough\".\n\n\"They need to be paid properly and given the respect they deserve,\" he tweeted., of the health workers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The weekly clap returned but Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said clapping alone \"wasn't enough\"\n\nThe idea of clapping and banging pots from doorsteps originally began as a one-off to support NHS staff on 26 March - three days after the UK went into lockdown for the first time.\n\nAfter proving popular it was expanded to cover all key workers and continued every Thursday for 10 weeks last year, with millions of people across the UK taking part.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family and politicians including Prime Minister Boris Johnson also joined in with the show of support.\n\nHowever, the event faced criticism for becoming politicised, with some suggesting the NHS would benefit more from extra funding than applause.\n\nPeople in some streets stood on doorsteps and leaned out windows to clap for the pandemic's heroes, and landmarks in London were illuminated blue for the occasion - but reports suggested the applause was noticeably quieter than last year.\n\nAnnemarie Plas and her family were threatened online for her efforts\n\nOn Wednesday, Ms Plas, a 36-year-old mother-of-one, announced the return of the initiative, saying she hoped to \"lift the spirit of all of us\" including \"all who are pushing through this difficult time\".\n\nBut some NHS workers were less than enthusiastic. Ami Jones, an intensive care consultant from Wales, tweeted: \"No thanks. I'd rather you obey the rules, stay at home, wear masks and wash your hands.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rachel Clarke 💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke said: \"Please don't clap us. Just wear a mask, wash your hands and respect lockdown.\"\n\nIn a tweet posted hours before the weekly clap was due to return, Ms Plas, a Dutch national living in south London, said she had been targeted with personal abuse and threats against her and her family by \"a hateful few\" on social media.\n\n\"I have no political agenda, I am not employed by the government, I do not work in PR, I am just an average mum at home trying to cope with the lockdown situation,\" she said, in a statement.\n\nShe said the newly revived clap could and should still happen at 20:00 GMT.\n\n\"It's up to each person to decide how relevant or worthwhile they feel it is to participate,\" she said.\n\nThe fountains in Trafalgar Square were illuminated blue for the initiative on Thursday\n\nSome incorporated pots and pans during their weekly claps in warmer months", "As violent Trump supporters surged past barricades and into the US Capitol, news agency photographers - who were there to document the vote certifying Joe Biden's election win - captured extraordinary scenes.\n\nThe last time government buildings were breached in Washington was in 1814 and the invaders were British soldiers.\n\nBut in 2021 a Trump supporter, carrying the Confederate flag, is walking freely through the halls near the entrance to the Senate, encountering little resistance.\n\nThe Confederacy was the group of southern states that fought to keep slavery during the American Civil War. In this image, the oil paintings of political figures in the background emphasise this imagery of the past.\n\nThere have been renewed calls for the Confederate flag to be banned across the US following the anti-racism protests sparked by the police killing of George Floyd, a black man.\n\nHowever Mr Trump has defended use of the flag, calling it a matter of free speech.\n\nOne man in a Trump beanie here walks between the red guide ropes, as many visitors might do on a guided-tour to view the Crypt, the Statuary Hall and the Rotunda.\n\nBut this man is carrying a podium bearing the seal of the Speaker of the House, as he poses in front of a painting depicting the surrender of Gen Burgoyne in the war of independence.\n\nAnother man, identified as Jake Angeli, an ardent Trump supporter who has attended a number of the president's rallies, shouts as he makes his way to the Senate Chamber.\n\nHis incongruous garments set him apart from other protesters wearing black hoodies. These Trump activists stand by taking selfies, but he has clearly come here to be photographed by others.\n\nThe apparent lack of a security presence is in sharp contrast to other Washington protests where there is a highly visible presence of heavily armed security forces protecting US institutions.\n\nAnother Trump supporter, identified as Richard Barnett, sits with one boot disrespectfully on a desk that is at the very centre of power in Congress. It is in the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.\n\nIn the scene, unimaginable days earlier, Barnett in his baseball cap and checked shirt resembles a raconteur regaling friends with tales of his exploits.\n\nThe image went viral as did pictures of the notes he and others left on Ms Pelosi's desk.\n\nThis dramatic image shows how the formal proceedings came to a violent halt as Capitol police officers drew their guns on doors being attacked by protesters intent on entering the House Chamber.\n\nMany commentators asked if they were watching a coup unfold as doors were barricaded and firearms brandished.\n\nThe composition is reminiscent of a scene in a Hollywood Western, the lawmen bracing for the doors to be breached.\n\nUS President-elect Joe Biden made an impassioned TV address describing the scenes as \"an assault on democracy\" - this chilling picture encapsulates what he meant.", "A Joint Session of Congress to certify the election of Joe Biden has gone into an unexpected recess, and the Capitol building into lockdown, after Trump supporters breached security lines.\n\nEarlier, President Trump addressed supporters at a rally outside the White House and encouraged them to protest the election result.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way they did in the Capitol\"\n\nDonald Trump was \"completely wrong\" to cast doubt on the US election and encourage supporters to storm the Capitol, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe UK prime minister said he \"unreservedly condemns\" the US president's actions.\n\nFour people died after a pro-Trump mob stormed the building in a bid to overturn the election result.\n\nMr Trump had urged protesters to march on the Capitol after making false electoral fraud claims.\n\nHe later called on his supporters to \"go home\", while continuing to make false claims - Twitter and Facebook later froze his accounts.\n\nThe president has now said there will be an \"orderly transition\" to President-elect Joe Biden, whose November election victory has now been certified by US lawmakers.\n\nBut he added that he continued to \"totally disagree\" with the outcome of the vote, repeating his unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nOn Wednesday night, Mr Johnson condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" and called for a \"peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nBut asked by the BBC's political correspondent Alex Forsyth if President Trump was directly responsible, he said: \"All my life America has stood for some very important things. An idea of freedom, an idea of democracy.\n\n\"As you say, in so far as he encouraged people to storm the Capitol, and in so far as the president has consistently cast doubt on the outcome of a free and fair election, I believe that was completely wrong.\n\n\"I believe what President Trump has been saying about that has been completely wrong and I unreservedly condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way that they did in the Capitol.\"\n\nThe PM, speaking at a Downing Street briefing, then welcomed the confirmation of President-elect Biden, saying \"democracy has prevailed\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol on Wednesday - where lawmakers were meeting to confirm Mr Biden's election victory - and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nA woman died after being shot by police, and three others died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nUK politicians from different parties have all condemned Mr Trump's actions in encouraging the storming of the Capitol.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel said the president's comments had \"directly led\" to the events and he \"didn't do anything to de-escalate that\".\n\nShe added: \"He basically has made a number of comments yesterday that helped to fuel that violence and he didn't actually do anything to de-escalate that whatsoever... what we've seen is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Trump should \"take responsibility\" for what happened, calling it the \"culmination of years of the politics of hate and division\".\n\nSir Keir added he welcomed the outgoing president's agreement to an orderly handover, but told reporters \"he should have said it a long time ago.\"\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Trump had been \"inciting insurrection in his own country,\" and called it a \"dark period\" in US history.\n\n\"What we witnessed last night is not that surprising. In some senses, Donald Trump's presidency has been moving towards this moment almost from the moment it started,\" she told ITV's Good Morning Britain.\n\nScotland's Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the home secretary should \"give serious consideration\" to denying Mr Trump entry to the UK after he leaves office.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said certification of Mr Biden's victory was \"good to see\" after the \"shocking events\" on Wednesday, adding the UK condemned the violence \"unequivocally\".\n\nFormer Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, who shared time in office with Mr Trump, said there should be \"no place for the rule of the mob\".\n\nBut senior Welsh Conservative Andrew RT Davies has been criticised after comparing the rioting to politicians who supported a second referendum on Brexit.\n\nMr Davies, a member of the Welsh Parliament, later tweeted that \"violence must never be tolerated\".\n\nHis party colleague, the Conservative MP Simon Hoare, suggested Mr Trump could be sent to the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon Hoare MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has written to express his \"solidarity\" with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose empty office was broken into by protesters.\n\n\"Seeing your office trashed in that way and its occupation by one of the rioters was particularly outrageous. I am just so relieved you were not hurt,\" he wrote.\n\nTrump supporters left this note on the desk of Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives.", "Ryanair is making big cuts to its flight schedule from 21 January in response to the latest Covid lockdowns.\n\nIt warned that few, if any, flights would operate to or from Ireland or the UK from the end of January until \"draconian\" restrictions were removed.\n\nCustomers hit by the cancellations will be advised by email of entitlements to free moves or refunds, it said.\n\nRyanair also cut its full year traffic forecast from currently \"below 35 million\" to 26-30 million passengers.\n\nThe airline said that new Covid restrictions could reduce traffic in February and March to as little as 500,000 passengers each month. It expects January traffic to fall below 1.25 million.\n\nIt said it did not expect these latest flight cuts and further traffic reductions to materially affect its net loss for the year to 31 March 2021, since many of the flights would have been loss-making.\n\nRyanair hit out at Irish and UK governments for the latest lockdowns.\n\n\"The WHO have previously confirmed that governments should do everything possible to avoid brutal lockdowns, because lockdowns 'do not get rid of the virus',\" Ryanair said in a statement.\n\n\"Ireland's Covid-19 travel restrictions are already the most stringent in Europe, and so these new flight restrictions are inexplicable and ineffective when Ireland continues to operate an open border between the Republic and the North of Ireland.\"\n\nIt called on the Irish Government to accelerate the rollout of vaccines.\n\n\"The fact that the Danish Government, with a similar five million population, has already vaccinated 10 times more citizens than Ireland shows that emergency action is needed to speed Covid vaccinations in Ireland.\"\n\nRival low-cost carrier Norwegian said its traffic figures had been hit heavily by the pandemic, with customer numbers down 94% compared to the same period the previous year.\n\nIn December, 129,664 customers flew with Norwegian, with the capacity and total passenger traffic both down by 98%.\n\n\"2020 has been a very challenging year and we now find ourselves fighting for survival,\" said Jacob Schram, chief executive of Norwegian.\n\n\"The vaccination is now being rolled out across the world and is good news for both the aviation industry and those who want to travel.\"", "Mauritius has been removed from the safe list\n\nTravellers from countries near South Africa are to be banned from entering England to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nArrivals from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana, as well as island nations Mauritius and Seychelles, will be affected.\n\nThe rule will take effect on 9 January but there will be an exemption for British and Irish nationals.\n\nThey will need to follow existing quarantine procedures.\n\nA ban by visitors to the UK from South Africa started on 24 December.\n\nThe latest restriction brought in by the Department for Transport also affects travellers arriving from Eswatini, Zambia, Malawi, Lesotho and Mozambique.\n\nIt will apply from 04:00 GMT on Saturday to people who have travelled from or through any of the specified countries in the last 10 days.\n\nIt is understood most flights from the affected countries arrive at airports in England, although it is expected the policy will be formally adopted by the other UK nations.\n\nThe measures will be in place for an initial period of two weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, Botswana, and the islands of Seychelles and Mauritius, are being removed from the UK list of safe travel corridors as there is a high frequency of travel between the islands and South Africa.\n\nThe new variant of coronavirus circulating in South Africa is already being seen in other countries, including the UK.\n\nThe variant, much like the new UK variant first seen in Kent, appears to be more contagious than previous ones.\n\nAnyone arriving into the UK from most destinations must quarantine for 10 days.\n\nBut there are a list of countries exempt from the rules, meaning returning travellers do not need to self-isolate, called the travel corridor list.\n\nUnder the latest announcement, the travel corridor with Israel will also end amid concerns about rising infection levels in that country.\n\nHowever, rules in place across the UK currently ban travel abroad unless for specific reasons.", "Protesters in support of US President Donald Trump swarmed the Capitol building, forcing officials to order lawmakers to shelter in place and halting debate in both the House and Senate. Congress was meeting to confirm President-elect Joe Biden's electoral college victory.", "Mr Christmas' light displays attracted thousands of visitors over the years\n\nThe family of a man known affectionately as Mr Christmas has turned off his festive lights for the last time.\n\nDave Edwards, 86, lit up his home in Croxley Green, Hertfordshire, with extravagant light displays for 42 years to raise money for charity.\n\nHe died from cancer on the eve of his annual switch-on in November.\n\nHis daughter Sharon Markham called on local residents to \"continue to light up Croxley every year\".\n\nMr Edwards started putting up the light display with his wife - who died three years ago - as a competition with a house across the street, and continued to build on the set over the years.\n\nDave Edwards was dubbed Mr Christmas due to the illuminations at his home in Croxley Green\n\nPeople would travel miles to see the festive lights\n\nMrs Markham said each year they raised about £5,000 for charity, but this year a \"record amount\" of more than £10,000 had been donated.\n\nWhen his family said the 2020 display would be the last due to Mr Edwards's failing health, people across the village rallied together by installing their own displays in his honour.\n\nSharon Markham said her parents were \"such amazing people but their light will always be shining\"\n\nResidents of Croxley Green placed a banner opposite Mr Christmas' home to thank him for his displays and fundraising\n\nTurning off the lights at 21:23 GMT on Wednesday, in an event filmed for the Mr Christmas Facebook page, Mrs Markham thanked the community for its support over the years.\n\n\"Without you we could not have achieved the things we have done,\" she said.\n\n\"I thought turning the lights on was hard enough but switching them off - this moment has been worrying me for months and now it's finally here.\n\n\"For now, though, we say goodbye and we thank Mr and Mrs Christmas for all the joy they have brought us all.\n\n\"We ask you all to continue to light up Croxley every year.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Dr Anil Mehta, a GP at Fullwell Cross Medical Centre in North London, told the BBC that staff were working from 7 in the morning until 10pm at night during the three days of their weekly Covid-19 vaccine rollout, describing the process as a 'full team effort.\n\nDr Mehta was also keen to encourage people who might be nervous about the vaccine to take up the offer, emphasising that the evidence behind the vaccine 'was very strong'.\n\nThis message was echoed by Zahin Ahmed, whose grandfather Shafiquz Zaman has now received both doses of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine at the clinic. Mr Ahmed, who is from the Bangladeshi community, also said it was important that minority communities took up the offer of the vaccine when called upon to do so.", "George had mottled skin, swelling on his lips, a high temperature and could not keep fluids down\n\nThe mother of a baby who was treated in hospital for Covid-19 has urged parents to be alert to symptoms such as mottled skin and sickness.\n\nMyer Rudelhoff's four-month-old son George spent three nights in Basildon hospital, in Essex.\n\nHe had patchy skin, swelling on his lips, a high temperature and could not keep fluids down.\n\nShe said: \"I thought it was a sickness bug. I had no idea it was caused by coronavirus.\"\n\nDiarrhoea, vomiting and abdominal cramps in children can be a sign of coronavirus according to some researchers, but the officially recognised symptoms are a fever, cough and loss of smell or taste.\n\nMrs Rudlehoff, who lives in Basildon, noticed her son had a temperature on New Year's Eve but put it down to teething.\n\nGeorge began vomiting the following evening and on 2 January she called NHS 111, who told her to take him to hospital.\n\nShe said: \"I really did not want to go. I was so scared about him getting the virus there, I had no idea he had it.\n\n\"He got so poorly so quickly when we arrived and was really lethargic. They took a swab and, when they said he was positive, I burst into tears. It was such a shock.\"\n\nMyer Rudelhoff was scared to take her son to hospital but realised he was too poorly and needed treatment\n\nThe mother-of-two said she presumed it was not Covid-19 because he did not have a cough, though he did develop a mild one a few days later while in hospital.\n\nShe said the staff were \"amazing\" and she wanted to reassure parents \"not to be afraid to go to hospital\" if their children were ill.\n\nNurses told her they had treated several other children with the same mottled skin and sickness and asked her to share her story to raise awareness of these symptoms.\n\nMrs Rudelhoff's post on Facebook was shared nearly 7,000 times within three days.\n\nIn the post, she said she felt \"upset, angry and frustrated\" because she had taken the illness very seriously but George had still managed to catch it. He was the only member of the family who tested positive.\n\nGeorge was discharged from hospital and was making a good recovery at home, she said.\n\nGeorge is now making a good recovery at home and is being looked after by his big brother Stanley\n\nDr Kilali Ominu-Evbota, paediatric consultant at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, said: \"It's great to hear that George is now back home and on the road to recovery.\n\n\"George's family did the right thing and we encourage parents to seek medical advice with their GP or via the NHS 111 service in order to get the correct treatment for their child.\"\n\nBasildon has an infection rate of 1,265 cases per 100,000 people - compared to the average England rate of 606.9.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None 'Upset stomach' in children may be coronavirus\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The president says he hates Big Tech. Yet he has loved using Twitter.\n\nHe's used it as a way, for more than 10 years, to bypass the media and speak directly to voters.\n\nThe 280 characters fits neatly with his style of political engagement - broad brushstrokes rather than details.\n\nAnd Twitter has undoubtedly benefited from President Trump too, the place to go to hear the latest musings from the most powerful person on the planet.\n\nThat decade-long symbiosis has been ended with a shuddering halt.\n\nImmediately after the deadly riots, Twitter locked the President's Twitter feed and asked Mr Trump to delete three tweets for violations around its Civic Integrity policy., which he promptly did.\n\nAfter the suspension he tweeted as a new man, the nonsense claims of mass voter fraud replaced with a more conciliatory tone.\n\nPrivately though Twitter was pondering whether it had gone far enough. Facebook had already acted, banning Donald Trump \"indefinitely\".\n\nAfter more than 48 hours of consideration, Twitter acted. It made unquestionably the most important moderation decision in its history. It banned the president of the United States.\n\nSome have asked why he wasn't kicked off sooner.\n\nMr Trump or one of his associates appears to have deleted some of his most recent tweets\n\nWell, Twitter has very specific rules about world leaders.\n\n\"We recognise that sometimes it may be in the public interest to allow people to view tweets that would otherwise be taken down,\" Twitter's rules say.\n\n\"At present, we limit exceptions to one critical type of public-interest content - tweets from elected and government officials.\"\n\nChief executive Jack Dorsey had felt it was in the public interest to keep the account active, albeit with warning messages.\n\n\"No one is turning a blind eye,\" a senior source told the BBC before the ban.\n\nIn short, Mr Trump had been allowed to remain on Twitter - despite numerous breaches of its rules - because he is the president.\n\nWith less than two weeks to go of Trump's presidency, many social media companies have now decided enough is enough.\n\nCritics say the outgoing president's words on social media, for years, helped to incite Wednesday's storming of Capitol Hill.\n\nAll the big social media companies have made it clear that - as a private citizen - if you continually look to peddle conspiracy theories and promote extremism, you should expect to be kicked out. With just a few days of his presidency left, Mr Trump is already being held to a different standard - his privileges stripped.\n\nWhat's driving this? To be cynical, social media companies are acutely aware that President-elect Joe Biden believes Big Tech hasn't done enough to quell fake news and hate speech on their platforms.\n\nRioters broke into Congress after a speech by Mr Trump on Wednesday\n\nThey are now desperate to show that they can, in fact, police their own platforms without the need for stringent legal reforms.\n\nWhat better way to show you're serious than to act on Mr Trump's misinformation?\n\nWhat will Mr Trump do next? Well he's already said he's looking into the possibility of building his own platform in the future.\n\nBut for now he's consigned to the fringes of the internet. Can Trumpism survive without Big Tech? We're about to find out.\n\nJames Clayton is the BBC's North America technology reporter based in San Francisco. Follow him on Twitter @jamesclayton5.", "For the first since April the UK has recorded more than 1,000 daily Covid-related deaths – one of the highest figures of the pandemic.\n\nRight now, London is at the epicentre of this crisis. Hospitals now have more Covid patients being admitted every day than they did at the peak in April. Many doctors and nurses say they're reaching breaking point.\n\nThe BBC's medical editor Fergus Walsh has been allowed to film inside the intensive care unit at London's University College Hospital, which is one of the busiest in the capital.\n\nRead more: 'How long can we keep going like this? About a week'", "Elon Musk has become the world's richest person, as his net worth crossed $185bn (£136bn).\n\nThe Tesla and SpaceX entrepreneur was pushed into the top slot after Tesla's share price increased on Thursday.\n\nHe takes the top spot from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who had held it since 2017.\n\nMr Musk's electric car company Tesla has surged in value this year, and hit a market value of $700bn (£516bn) for the first time on Wednesday.\n\nThat makes the car company worth more than Toyota, Volkswagen, Hyundai, GM and Ford combined.\n\nMr Musk reacted to the news in signature style, replying to a Twitter user sharing the news with the remark \"how strange\".\n\nAn older tweet pinned to the top of his feed offered further insight into his thoughts on personal wealth.\n\n\"About half my money is intended to help problems on Earth, and half to help establish a self-sustaining city on Mars to ensure continuation of life (of all species) in case Earth gets hit by a meteor like the dinosaurs or WW3 happens and we destroy ourselves,\" it reads.\n\nThe tycoon's fortunes have been buoyed by politics in the US, where the Democrats will have control of the US Senate in the forthcoming session.\n\nDaniel Ives, an analyst with Wedbush Securities wrote: \"A Blue Senate is very bullish and a potential 'game changer' for Tesla and the overall electric vehicle sector, with a more green-driven agenda now certainly in the cards for the next few years.\"\n\nExpected electric vehicle tax credits would benefit Tesla, \"which continues to have an iron grip on the market today\", he added.\n\nMr Bezos is also using his personal wealth to fund space exploration\n\nMr Bezos has also seen his fortunes rise over the past year. The coronavirus pandemic has meant Amazon benefited from stronger demand for both its online store and cloud computing services.\n\nHowever, he gave a 4% stake in the business to his ex-wife MacKenzie Scott after they split, which helped Mr Musk overtake him.\n\nIn addition, the threat of regulation has meant Amazon's stock has not risen as high as it might otherwise have done.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is Elon Musk? Meet the meme-loving magnate behind SpaceX and Tesla...published in 2021\n\nThe owner of a business which has only just made its first annual profit and is still a minnow compared to the likes of Toyota - or Amazon - is now the world's richest person.\n\nIt is the fact that Tesla's share price has increased more than seven-fold in the past year that has sent Elon Musk's fortune rocketing past that of Jeff Bezos.\n\nTo believe the electric car-maker's worth could rise so rapidly in just 12 months is the ultimate example of irrational exuberance.\n\nIt means that Musk will have to show within the next five years that Tesla can make more profits than just about the whole of the rest of the motor industry combined to justify the valuation.\n\nMind you, his many fans will point out that the somewhat eccentric tycoon has constantly confounded the sceptics who bet that he would go bust.\n\nAnd of course 20 years ago another tech visionary was staring disaster in the face when the dot com bubble burst and big profits seemed a distant dream - but Jeff Bezos went on to make those who bet on Amazon very rich indeed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nDonald Trump's comments \"directly led\" to his supporters storming Congress and clashing with police, Home Secretary Priti Patel has said.\n\nFour people have died after a pro-Trump mob stormed the building in a bid to overturn the election result.\n\nPresident Trump had urged protesters to march on the Capitol after making false claims of electoral fraud.\n\nMs Patel said the president's words had fuelled the violence and he \"didn't do anything to de-escalate that\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" and called for a \"peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nOn Wednesday evening, President Trump later called on his supporters to \"go home\", while continuing to make false claims of electoral fraud.\n\nHe has been suspended from his Facebook and Instagram accounts for at least two weeks, and possibly indefinitely. Twitter has also frozen his account.\n\nThe president has now said there will be an \"orderly transition\" to Democrat Joe Biden, whose November election victory has now been certified by US lawmakers.\n\nBut he added that he continued to \"totally disagree\" with the outcome of the vote, repeating his unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol - where lawmakers were meeting to confirm Mr Biden's election victory - and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nMs Patel told BBC Breakfast the scenes were \"awful beyond words\".\n\nThe home secretary said: \"His comments directly led to the violence, and so far he has failed to condemn that violence and that is completely wrong.\"\n\nShe added: \"He basically has made a number of comments yesterday that helped to fuel that violence and he didn't actually do anything to de-escalate that whatsoever... what we've seen is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nA woman died after being shot by police, and three others died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nPoliticians across the UK's political parties lined up to condemn the scenes in Washington.\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Trump should \"take responsibility\" for what happened, calling it the \"culmination of years of the politics of hate and division\".\n\nSir Keir added he welcomed the outgoing president's agreement to an orderly handover, but told reporters \"he should have said it a long time ago.\"\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Trump had been \"inciting insurrection in his own country,\" and called it a \"dark period\" in US history.\n\n\"What we witnessed last night is not that surprising. In some senses, Donald Trump's presidency has been moving towards this moment almost from the moment it started,\" she told ITV's Good Morning Britain.\n\nScotland's Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the home secretary should \"give serious consideration\" to denying Mr Trump entry to the UK after he leaves office.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said certification of Mr Biden's victory was \"good to see\" after the \"shocking events\" on Wednesday, adding the UK condemned the violence \"unequivocally\".\n\nFormer Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, who shared time in office with Mr Trump, said there should be \"no place for the rule of the mob\".\n\nBut senior Welsh Conservative Andrew RT Davies has been criticised after comparing the rioting to politicians who supported a second referendum on Brexit.\n\nMr Davies, a member of the Welsh Parliament, later tweeted that \"violence must never be tolerated\".\n\nHis party colleague, the Conservative MP Simon Hoare, suggested Mr Trump could be sent to the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon Hoare MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFriend of President Trump and leader of Reform UK - formerly the Brexit Party - Nigel Farage tweeted: \"Storming Capitol Hill is wrong. The protesters must leave.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey has defended the prime minister's response to the rioting.\n\nAsked on ITV's Peston programme why Mr Johnson hadn't criticised Mr Trump, she said: \"The prime minister has been clear tonight that we need a peaceful and orderly transition.\"\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has written to express his \"solidarity\" with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose empty office was broken into by protesters.\n\n\"Seeing your office trashed in that way and its occupation by one of the rioters was particularly outrageous. I am just so relieved you were not hurt,\" he wrote.\n\nTrump supporters left this note on the desk of Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives.\n\nIt is a truism of British diplomacy that every occupant of 10 Downing Street has to get on with every occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, regardless of their politics or character.\n\nPersonal consideration is pushed aside. What matters is the national interest and staying close to one of Britain's closest allies.\n\nThus even now, even after Donald Trump's incitement of the Capitol mob, even though there are less than two weeks until the inauguration, even as close Republican allies jump ship, Boris Johnson and Dominic Raab were reluctant to criticise the president by name in their initial response overnight.\n\nYes, they condemned the violence. But of Mr Trump, not a word. This caution was matched by the Prime Ministers of fellow so-called Five Eyes intelligence allies, Australia and New Zealand, both of whom also both failed to mention Mr Trump in their condemnatory tweets.\n\nIn contrast, European leaders were quick to blame the president personally.\n\nIt was only this morning that a British minister, Home Secretary Priti Patel, felt able to follow suit in strong terms.\n\nSo was this natural and sensible diplomatic caution in the midst of a febrile crisis?\n\nOr was this, as some Labour figures are already claiming, a function of the closeness between the current UK government and the Trump administration?\n\nIt was only a few weeks ago that Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told The Sun that he would miss Donald Trump because he was a good friend to Britain.\n\nWhatever one's views, it is certainly the case that the British government is seen on the international stage by some has having ideological proximity to Mr Trump.\n\nChanging that reputation is seen by many diplomats as a priority in the months ahead, a task made more urgent by events overnight.", "Olly Stephens was stabbed to death in Emmer Green in Reading on Sunday\n\nThree teenagers accused of murdering a 13-year-old boy who was stabbed to death have appeared in Crown Court.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green in Reading, on Sunday.\n\nTwo boys, aged 13 and 14, and a 13-year-old girl have been charged with murder and conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm.\n\nThey have all been remanded in youth detention custody and a provisional trial date has been set for 21 June.\n\nThe three teenagers, who cannot be identified because of their ages, had appeared at Reading Youth Court earlier on Thursday before the Crown Court hearing.\n\nThe defendants only spoke at the youth court to confirm their names, ages and addresses.\n\nThe court heard the girl has also been charged with perverting the course of justice.\n\nThe Crown Court hearing was told a potential trial was estimated to last five or six weeks.\n\nPolice were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack in fields on the boundary of Emmer Green and Caversham Heights.\n\nOlly was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nIn a statement released on Wednesday, his family said: \"An Olly-sized hole has been left in our hearts.\"\n\nHis parents said their son was \"an enigma\", and having both autism and suspected pathological demand avoidance meant \"he became a challenge we never shied away from\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "McDonald's is pausing walk-in takeaway services in the UK as new lockdown restrictions come into force.\n\nDine-in meals and walk-in takeaways will not be available temporarily while it reviews safety procedures, it said.\n\nIts UK boss said it will be testing \"additional measures that may further enhance the safety of our takeaway service.\"\n\nRival food chains Burger King, Subway, KFC and Pret A Manger are still offering takeaways in-store.\n\nMcDonald's UK and Ireland chief executive Paul Pomroy said that safety measures across the firm's 1,300 restaurants will be reviewed by an independent health and safety body.\n\nHe added that customers would be kept updated via the restaurant's app and its website. Drive-through and delivery services across the fast food chain will remain open.\n\nUnder new lockdown restrictions which came into force in England and Scotland this week, hospitality firms are allowed to offer takeaways and deliveries.\n\nBut rules which previously allowed takeaways or click-and-collect services for alcoholic drinks have been scrapped.\n\nWales and Northern Ireland were already in lockdown, which meant that pubs, restaurants and cafes were restricted to takeaway-only too.\n\nAfter the first nationwide lockdown in March, many chains including McDonald's, Burger King and Pret closed their doors to hungry customers.\n\nThey gradually reopened with additional safety measures in place, such as plastic screens in front of the tills, hand sanitiser dispensers and restrictions on the number of customers allowed in at any one point. Some also pared back the number of dishes on offer.\n\nA Burger King spokesperson said that takeaway was still available in some branches and that it would continue to offer click-and-collect and delivery services \"in line with guidance issued\".\n\nSandwich chain Pret A Manger told the BBC that it is keeping some outlets open for both takeaways and delivery, but it would keep the number under review in the coming months.\n\n\"Last year we shifted our business to focus on delivery and expanded our delivery platform partnerships, to make Pret available to a wider customer base\", a spokesperson said.\n\n\"Since then, we have seen a significant increase in the use of delivery.\"\n\nSubway and KFC also confirmed that they remain open for in-store takeaways, deliveries and click-and-collect orders across the UK.\n\nFast food firm Leon, which has 65 outlets, said that 28 of their sites will remain open for takeaways and deliveries.\n\n\"We will continue to keep as many restaurants open as possible, as we did in the previous two lockdowns in line with government guidelines,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nDespite adapting their business models, many casual dining chains have been forced to make job cuts in the last year as lockdown restrictions hit sales. Pret, for example, announced 3,000 job cuts in August, while Greggs made 820 job cuts at the end of 2020.", "Supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday\n\nWorld leaders have condemned violent scenes in Washington after supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol building on Wednesday.\n\nThe riot forced the suspension of a joint session of Congress to certify Joe Biden's electoral victory.\n\nMany leaders called for peace and an orderly transition of power, describing what happened as \"horrifying\" and an \"attack on democracy\".\n\n\"The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nOther UK politicians joined him in criticising the violence, with opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer calling it a \"direct attack on democracy\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel told the BBC that Mr Trump's comments \"directly led\" to his supporters storming Congress and clashing with police.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted that the scenes from the US Capitol were \"utterly horrifying\".\n\nIn Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said those who stormed the US legislature were \"attackers and rioters\" and that she felt \"angry and also sad\" after seeing pictures from the scene.\n\nShe told a meeting of German conservatives: \"I regret very much that President Trump has still not admitted defeat, but has kept raising doubts about the elections.\"\n\nChina meanwhile attempted to draw comparisons between the rioters who entered Congress to try and subvert the US election result and pro-democracy protesters who stormed Hong Kong's Legislative Council last year.\n\nForeign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying claimed events in Hong Kong were more \"severe\" than those in Washington but \"not one demonstrator died\".\n\nThe comparisons between the two incidents has caused outrage among Hong Kong's pro-democracy activists and their supporters.\n\nRussia blamed the \"archaic\" US electoral system and the politicisation of the media for Wednesday's unrest in Washington.\n\n\"The electoral system in the United States is archaic, it does not meet modern democratic standards, creating opportunities for numerous violations, and the American media have become an instrument of political struggle,\" foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.\n\nElsewhere in Europe, a chorus of leaders condemned the scenes in Washington as an attack on democracy.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said: \"I have trust in the strength of US democracy. The new presidency of Joe Biden will overcome this tense stage, uniting the American people.\"\n\nIn a video on Twitter, French President Emmanuel Macron said: \"When, in one of the world's oldest democracies, supporters of an outgoing president take up arms to challenge the legitimate results of an election, a universal idea - that of 'one person, one vote' - is undermined.\n\n\"What happened today in Washington DC is not American, definitely. We believe in the strength of our democracies. We believe in the strength of American democracy\" he added.\n\nSwedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven described the incident as \"worrying\" and said it was \"an assault on democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by SwedishPM This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTop EU leaders have also made their views known. European Council President Charles Michel said he trusted the US \"to ensure a peaceful transfer of power\" to Mr Biden, while European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she looked forward to working with the Democrat, who \"won the election\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Charles Michel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLike many other global figures, the Secretary-General of the Nato military alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, said that the outcome of the election \"must be respected\".\n\nFor his part, UN Secretary-General António Guterres was \"saddened\" by the events at the US Capitol, his spokesman said.\n\nThe events also shocked America's close ally and neighbour to its north. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canadians were \"deeply disturbed and saddened by the attack on democracy\".\n\n\"Violence will never succeed in overruling the will of the people. Democracy in the US must be upheld - and it will be,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nFrom New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, tweeted that \"democracy - the right of people to exercise a vote, have their voice heard and then have that decision upheld peacefully - should never be undone by a mob\".\n\nMeanwhile Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia - another close US ally - condemned the \"distressing scenes\" and said he looked forward to a peaceful transfer of power.\n\nIn India, the world's largest democracy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi - who has enjoyed a good relationship with President Trump - said he was \"distressed to see news about rioting and violence\" in Washington.\n\n\"Orderly and peaceful transfer of power must continue,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTurkey, an ally through Nato, said it invited \"all parties\" to show \"restraint and common sense\".\n\nThe Venezuelan government, which the US does not recognise as legitimate, said \"with this regrettable episode, the United States suffers the same thing that it has generated in other countries with its policies of aggression\".\n\nIn statements on Twitter, Argentina's President Alberto Fernández and Chile's President Sebastián Piñera also condemned the scenes in Washington. Mr Piñera said Chile \"trusts in the solidity of US democracy to guarantee the rule of law\".\n\nIn Japan, one of America's closest allies and partners, Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said the government hoped for a \"peaceful transfer of power\" in the United States.\n\nFrom Fiji, Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, who led a coup in 2006, also expressed outrage at the events that took place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Frank Bainimarama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd in Singapore, Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean said he had watched as the \"shocking\" scenes took place, adding: \"Its a sad day.\"", "Nursery staff are not advised to wear face coverings\n\nChildcare organisations are demanding to see evidence that it is safe for them to remain open while schools and colleges have closed to most pupils.\n\nStaff have close contact with children and babies daily, when they change nappies and receive them by the hand from parents, for example.\n\nMinisters have insisted early years settings are safe as young children have very low rates of the virus.\n\nNurseries argue the evidence cited is based on data about old variant Covid.\n\nEngland's three main nursery organisations, the Early Years Alliance, the National Day Nurseries Association and childminders' group, Pacey, have joined together to mount a #ProtectEarlyYears campaign.\n\nThey want the government to provide clear scientific evidence on the risks to early years staff of staying open, particularly in light of the increased transmissibility of the new variant of Covid-19.\n\nSue Cardy, owner and manager of Ready Teddy Go Pre School, in Shoeburyness, Essex said: \"There isn't anyone who has asked: 'Is it 100% safe for us to remain fully open? No one can see the virus and staff may be asymptomatic, and so we all run an element of risk of catching or spreading it.\"\n\nShe added: \"Staff have families and are not all young... 50% of my staff are over 50 and some have underlying medical conditions.\"\n\nVicky, the manager of a church pre-school in Cheshire West and Chester said she could potentially have 30 children plus 10 staff in a church hall, with no PPE recommended, and limited social distancing.\n\n\"As an early years provider, I am increasingly worried about the safety of both staff and children, yet if we chose to partially close, we could be financially penalised.\"\n\nAnd Georgie Morrell from Brighton and Hove said: \"Since re-opening, I have had four households tell me. they are Covid positive.\n\n\"This is clearly very close to home and yet we have been given no choice or support but to remain open and carry on.\"\n\nNeil Leitch, chief executive of the Early Years Alliance, said: \"It is simply not acceptable that, at the height of a global pandemic, early years providers are being asked to work with no support, no protection and no clear evidence that is safe for them to do so.\n\n\"We know how vital access to early education and care is to many families, but it cannot be right to ask the early years workforce to put themselves at risk. That is why it is vital that the government takes the urgent steps needed to safeguard those working in the sector, particularly mass testing and priority access to vaccinations.\n\nNursery providers are calling for staff to be tested, priority for vaccination and for state funding lost due to lower numbers during the pandemic, to be replaced by government.\n\nPurnima Tanuku, chief Executive of National Day Nurseries Association, said nurseries were determined to support families during the current lockdown.\n\nBut, she added: \"Time and again, whether it's on PPE, cleaning costs, testing or staffing, early years providers have been overlooked by the Department for Education.\n\n\"Now, they are the only part of the education sector fully open to all children and must be given priority.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, vaccines minister Nadim Zahawi said there was very little risk to younger children.\n\n\"The nursery sector has taken tremendous care in making sure the premises are also Covid safe. It is the right thing to do.\"\n\nThe Department for Education is yet to comment on the #ProtectEarlyYears demands.", "Matthew Mason will be sentenced later this month\n\nA man who killed a schoolboy after paying him to stop their sexual relationship being revealed has been found guilty of murder.\n\nMatthew Mason admitted bludgeoning 15-year-old Alex Rodda with a wrench in Ashley, Cheshire, in 2019.\n\nThe 19-year-old paid Alex more than £2,000 after he contacted his then girlfriend about \"flirty\" messages, Chester Crown Court heard.\n\nMason, of Ash Lane in Ollerton, will be sentenced on 25 January.\n\nLawyers acting for Mason, who denied murder, had claimed the killing was the result of self-defence or a loss of control.\n\nBut the jury rejected this and found him guilty of murdering Alex by a majority of 10 to two.\n\nAs the verdict was returned, Mason appeared to be crying in the dock.\n\nMembers of Alex's family were also in tears. In a statement, they said they had \"never come across a more selfish, cold and calculating person\" as Mason.\n\n\"Mason has attempted to blame Alex and discredit his name throughout this trial and thankfully the jury were able to see through his web of deceit,\" they said.\n\nSpeaking outside the court, Alex's father Adam Rodda said the trial had been \"very difficult\" for the family and they were relieved Mason had been found guilty of murder.\n\n\"We wouldn't have accepted anything else, we would have been distraught if any other verdict had been given. We prayed and we are obviously delighted that justice has been done,\" he said.\n\nAlex Rodda was killed in woodland in Cheshire\n\nOn the evening of 12 December, Mason said he had picked Alex up from his home and drove him to a remote area of woodland where he told him he could not afford to give him any more money.\n\nThe agricultural engineering student, who was the son of a farmer, told the court he had taken the wrench with him to \"scare him\".\n\nHe claimed that, once in the woods, Alex had threatened to ruin his life \"financially or socially\" and pushed him to the floor, grabbing the wrench and hitting Mason with it.\n\nMason said he managed to get the wrench from Alex and recalled hitting him with it twice, although the court heard evidence of further blows.\n\nAlex, a pupil at Holmes Chapel High School, was struck at least 15 times to the head and his body was found by refuse collectors the next morning.\n\nEvidence showed Alex had been struck at least 15 times with the wrench\n\nThe jury heard Mason had paid Alex more than £2,000 to stop him reporting their \"intimate sexual relationship\".\n\nIn the month before the murder, Alex contacted Mason's girlfriend to tell her that her boyfriend had been messaging him \"in a flirty way\" and had sent an explicit photo and video.\n\nMason denied the claim but began making payments to the 15-year-old's bank account.\n\nBy the time of Alex's death, Mason had transferred more than £2,200 and was asking friends and family to borrow money, the court was told.\n\nGiving evidence, Mason, who lived with his family on a farm near Knutsford, admitted having sex with Alex but said he thought it was \"wrong\".\n\nHe told the court he did not believe his friends would accept him if he was gay or bisexual.\n\nIn the week before Alex's death, Mason made internet searches for phrases including \"what would happen if you kicked someone down the stairs\", \"everyday poison\" and \"the mysteries of Cheshire unsolved deaths of missing people\".\n\nBut he told the court he had been searching the terms because he was suicidal.\n\nAlex's body was found in woodland by refuse collectors\n\nAfter killing Alex, Mason had a drink with friends in the Red Lion pub in Pickmere and The Golden Pheasant pub in Plumley, Cheshire Police said.\n\nHe later returned to the woods and the prosecution believe he dragged Alex's body to the side of the road and attempted to put him inside his car.\n\nAfter failing to do this, he drove away. But a witness had taken a photo of his Renault Clio car parked on the track and reported this to police.\n\nMason was identified as the owner and arrested the next day.\n\nPolice said Mason had dried blood on his hands and there was a bin bag in his boot with a blood-stained fleece, the wrench and Alex's jacket in it.\n\nDet Insp Nigel Reid said: \"Mason had murder on his mind as he drove Alex to his death under the pretence of sexual activity.\n\n\"He chose a secluded place to kill him in cold blood, a place he believed he would go unseen and his crime undetected.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The coronavirus vaccine rollout is a national challenge requiring an unprecedented effort - involving the armed forces - Boris Johnson says.\n\nThe PM confirmed almost 1.5 million people in the UK have now received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine.\n\nMore than 1,000 GP-led sites in England will be able to offer a total of \"hundreds of thousands\" of jabs each day by 15 January, he said.\n\nThe Army will use \"battle preparation techniques\" to help achieve that goal.\n\nIt came as a further 1,162 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported on Thursday - the second consecutive day of more than 1,000 recorded fatalities - and 52,618 new cases.\n\nAnd as Simon Stevens, head of the NHS in England, warned 10,000 patients with Covid had been admitted to hospital since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street news conference, Mr Johnson said there would likely be \"lumpiness and bumpiness\" in the rollout of vaccines.\n\nHe said: \"Let's be clear, this is a national challenge on a scale like nothing we've seen before and it will require an unprecedented national effort.\n\n\"Of course, there will be difficulties, appointments will be changed but... the Army is working hand in glove with the NHS and local councils to set up our vaccine network and using battle preparation techniques to help us keep up the pace.\"\n\nAlongside GPs, there will be 223 hospital sites and seven \"giant vaccination centres\" - as well as an initial 200 community pharmacies - offering jabs, Mr Johnson said.\n\nEveryone will have a vaccination centre within 10 miles of their home, he added, with a \"full vaccination deployment plan\" to be published on Monday.\n\nHe also said there would be a national booking system for vaccinations - but did not give any more details.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brigadier Phil Prosser said his task was to ensure everyone in England had equal access to the vaccine\n\nBrigadier Phil Prosser, commander of military support to the vaccine delivery programme, told the news conference his team was \"embedded\" with the NHS.\n\nHe said his \"day job\" is to deliver combat supplies to UK forces in time of war, \"at speed in the most arduous and challenging conditions\".\n\nThe government has set a target to offer vaccination slots to 15 million in the top four priority groups - including all over-80s - by 15 February.\n\nAnd Mr Johnson said that, with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine available, he could pledge one of those groups - care home residents - would all receive their jab by the end of January.\n\nThe widespread rollout of the vaccine has begun in earnest with the first doses delivered during the day to family doctors for distribution.\n\nBut there were concerns from some GPs over supplies, as Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the levels of vaccine supply was the \"rate-limiting\" factor as jabs would be delivered as quickly as stock is available.\n\nIt comes as some hospitals in England are at risk of becoming Covid-only sites, with rising admissions for the virus forcing trusts to cut back on other services.\n\nThe latest NHS statistics also show that there were 30,370 patients with Covid in UK hospitals on Tuesday, a much higher figure than the first peak in the spring of 2020.\n\nHospital leaders have warned medics are becoming increasingly stretched with \"untrained staff\" used to fill gaps.\n\nAt 20:00 GMT, people in some streets stepped out onto doorsteps to clap for the heroes of the pandemic, following a weekly initiative which gained popularity during the UK's first lockdown.\n\nHowever, Thursday's clap for heroes was more muted than those seen last year, perhaps reflecting criticism the initiative had become politicised.\n\nLots of detail has been given about how the NHS - working hand-in-hand with the military - will be able to deliver the vaccines.\n\nThere will be more local vaccination centres, hospital hubs and even mass vaccination at sports stadiums.\n\nThousands of extra vaccinators have already been trained - and thousands more are waiting in the wings.\n\nBut the biggest hurdle the UK faces is vaccine supply.\n\nIf it is not available, it cannot be put in arms no matter how good the vaccination network is.\n\nIn the long-term, supply is not likely to be a problem - but in the coming weeks it could be tight.\n\nThere is enough vaccine in the country to offer all those at highest risk a jab by mid-February.\n\nBut it is not yet all ready for the NHS to use, either because the final safety checks have not been done or the vaccine has not been put into vials.\n\nThe former depends on lab work by the medicines regulator, while the latter is the job of a plant in Wrexham.\n\nEach stage takes some time. The target is achievable, but a lot has to go right.\n\nSir Simon Stevens said there were 50% more coronavirus patients in England's hospitals now compared to the peak last April, affecting every region across the country.\n\nHe said: \"That number is accelerating very, very rapidly... the pressures are real and they are growing.\"\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the Belfast Health Trust has said it has no other option but to cancel all of its urgent cancer surgery amid \"highly significant\" demand for bed space.\n\nThe cancelled operations will affect those patients for whom surgery could impact recovery and even survival, the trust said.\n\nBoris Johnson said all parts of government would be throwing everything at the vaccination effort \"round the clock\"\n\nIn one positive development for hospitals, two more life-saving drugs that can cut deaths by a quarter in patients who are sickest with Covid have been cleared for widespread use, with immediate effect.\n\nThe anti-inflammatory medications, given via a drip, save an extra life for every 12 treated, researchers said, following NHS trials.\n\nElsewhere, the UK has implemented restrictions on travellers to England from countries near South Africa to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson and Sir Simon were asked about persistent social media claims that coronavirus does not exist - and that reports of packed hospital wards of people being treated are just a myth.\n\nSir Simon said that such misinformation was an \"insult\" to hard-working critical care staff.\n\n\"There is nothing more demoralising than having that kind of nonsense spouted when it is most obviously untrue,\" he said.", "Sarah Bingham said she is a match donor for her daughter Ariel and eldest son Noah (far right)\n\nA mother with two children who need kidney transplants said she wishes she could help both of them, but can only donate one organ.\n\nSarah Bingham's son Noah, 20, and daughter Ariel, 16, have the same rare genetic condition.\n\nMrs Bingham, 48, is a donor match for her children and said her maternal instinct is to donate to both of them.\n\nBut her organ was always due to go to her daughter and two family friends are matches for her son.\n\nHer husband Darryl, 49, is not a match, so cannot be a donor for their children.\n\nBoth Noah and Ariel have nephronophthisis, which causes inflammation and scarring to the kidneys.\n\nMrs Bingham, of Hexham, Northumberland, said although her son is \"very poorly\", he undergoes regular dialysis and is in a stable condition.\n\nHer daughter's kidney function \"has been deteriorating more in the last year\" and she will probably need a transplant first.\n\nMrs Bingham said: \"I was all set to give a kidney to my daughter and then my son went into renal failure and he also needs a kidney. Obviously, I've only got one that I can donate.\n\n\"The renal teams don't push you [to make a decision], because you're putting yourself on the line to donate a kidney.\n\n\"You have to make that call yourself, but obviously as a mum when you've got two children who both need kidney transplants and you've expected to give your kidney to one, and suddenly the other one needs one as well, you feel this dilemma.\"\n\nNoah Bingham is in a stable condition thanks to regular kidney dialysis\n\nProblems began in 2016 when Ariel started to feel constantly tired.\n\nHer fatigue was initially put down to exam stress, but tests at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary found she had the kidney condition.\n\nMrs Bingham was told she would be a suitable donor for Ariel when the time came.\n\nThen, in 2019, Noah became ill and was diagnosed with the same condition.\n\nHe is stable, but would need to put on weight to undergo a transplant.\n\nThe couple have another son Casper, 12, who is being tested to see if he also has the condition.\n\nDarryl Bingham is not a suitable match for his two eldest children\n\nProf John Sayer, a kidney specialist at Newcastle's Freeman Hospital who is treating Noah, said nephronophthisis affects about one in 100,000 people.\n\n\"There's clearly a dilemma because there's a shortage of donors for patients needing kidney transplants.\n\n\"But kidney failure itself is not rare. There are 4,500 people across the country waiting for a transplant.\"\n\nHe added patients often face a \"gruelling and terrifying\" wait of about three years for a donor organ.\n\nIn December, Mr Bingham completed the challenge of walking 12,000 steps every day for 12 days to raise money for Kidney Research UK, which has supported the family.\n\nMrs Bingham said that if Ariel's condition was to deteriorate first she would get her kidney\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some supermarkets faced issues over the festive period due to ports disruption\n\nThe UK meat industry has called for the early vaccination of workers to keep food supplies running smoothly during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt warned that absences during the pandemic, coupled with disruption at ports, could hit food supply chains.\n\nAn early vaccination call for supermarket staff was also made by the boss of Sainsbury's on Thursday.\n\nThe government said the food industry remains \"well-prepared\" to make sure people have the food they need.\n\nThe British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) said coronavirus and disruption at ports due to new systems brought in after the Brexit transition period were \"a severe challenge to the industry and to the smooth running of the nation's food supply chain\".\n\nIt argued frontline workers in meat factories should get early vaccinations due to the risk of a rapid spread of the new strains of the virus among key workers.\n\nThe government has set out who will get vaccinated first, which starts with care home residents and the oldest and most vulnerable people.\n\nBut Nick Allen, chief executive of the BMPA, said it would be logical to also prioritise key workers in the food industry.\n\n\"As the new coronavirus variant takes hold across the whole of the UK, we are hearing widespread reports of rapidly rising absences in the food supply chain,\" he said.\n\nSome firms supplying supermarkets \"are seeing a tripling of staff having to take time off work through illness or enforced self-isolation\", he added.\n\nPressures on staff during the lockdown include illness, having to self-isolate, and childcare while some schools are closed under England's lockdown.\n\nDue to the specialised nature of meat production, if even a few key factory personnel such as the foreman or managers are absent, production can stop, Mr Allen said.\n\nEarly vaccinations should not be restricted to the meat industry, according to Mr Allen. All key workers in the food industry should get early vaccinations, he said.\n\nEven supermarkets themselves are having problems with absences, he suggested.\n\n\"The key food supply chains ought to be prioritised,\" he said. \"All food industry key workers should be prioritised [for vaccination]\".\n\nThe government is advised on vaccinations by a group of experts called the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).\n\nProfessor Wei Shen Lim, Covid-19 Chair for the JCVI, said the committee's advice on vaccine prioritisation \"was developed with the aim of preventing as many deaths as possible.\"\n\n\"As the single greatest risk of death from Covid-19 is older age, prioritisation is primarily based on age,\" he said.\n\n\"It is estimated that vaccinating everyone in the priority groups would prevent 99% of deaths, including those associated with occupational exposure to infection,\" the professor added.\n\nSainsbury's boss Simon Roberts also called for early vaccinations for key workers on Thursday.\n\n\"My view is that priority has to be given to those that need it first,\" he said. \"Those on the frontline should be part of that as and when capacity becomes available.\"\n\nAbsence rates for Sainsbury's staff are lower than at the peak of the crisis, but are rising, and have stepped up in the last few days, he said.\n\nThe Sainsbury's absence rate is currently 8%. The business has 172,000 employees.\n\nAsda said that it had seen an increase in employees self-isolating and shielding in line with the rising UK infection rate.\n\nHowever, it said that absence rates were still lower than at the peak of the pandemic.\n\n\"We are taking proactive steps to manage colleague absences by retaining temporary colleagues hired over the Christmas period and are bringing in additional temporary colleagues in those stores that need them the most,\" and Asda spokesman said.\n\nTesco has asked clinically vulnerable staff to stay at home.\n\nMorrisons, meanwhile, is also seeing more absences, but the rate is still more than half that of the peak of the pandemic. It is also a bigger business having taken on 26,000 extra staff during the crisis.\n\nAndrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the British Retail Consortium said: \"While absence rates are currently rising, retailers are closely monitoring the situation in stores and distribution centres and supply chains continue to run smoothly.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs said: \"As we have seen in recent months, the UK has a large, diverse and highly resilient food supply chain.\n\n\"We continue to closely monitor the situation and are working closely with the food industry on the workforce and absence related challenges presented by the pandemic.\"\n\nThey added that the food industry remains \"well-prepared\" to make sure people across the country have the food they need.\n\nUK ports have seen disruption due to the effects of coronavirus on trade and new systems brought in after the Brexit transition period.\n\nMr Roberts of Sainsbury's said that, so far, the flow of goods from Europe is in decent shape, but there had been some problems in sending food to Northern Ireland.There is still some backlog in general merchandising, he added.\n\nHowever, Scottish seafood exporters warned on Thursday that they had been hit by the \"perfect storm of Brexit disruption\".\n\n\"Weakened by Covid-19, and the closure of the French border before Christmas, the end of the Brexit transition period has unleashed layer upon layer of administrative problems, resulting in queues, border refusals and utter confusion,\" said Donna Fordyce, chief executive of Seafood Scotland.\n\nShe said IT problems in France meant consignments were diverted from Boulogne-sur-Mer to Dunkirk, \"which was unprepared as it wasn't supposed to be at the export frontline.\"\n\nThere have also been IT issues on the UK side with HMRC, she added.\n\n\"These businesses are not transporting toilet rolls or widgets,\" she said. \"They are exporting the highest quality, perishable seafood which has a finite window to get to markets in peak condition. If the window closes these consignments go to landfill.\"\n\nThe National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations also warned of delays to fish exports due to \"a brick wall of bureaucracy\".", "Lorry drivers crossing the Channel will continue to need a recent negative Covid test result \"until further notice\", the UK government has said.\n\nHauliers have been required to prove they have tested negative since the border with France reopened last month.\n\nThe decision to continue testing comes from the French government, the Department for Transport said.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps urged \"all hauliers to get tested before getting to the border\".\n\nThe decision comes as the introduction of new trading rules between the UK and European Union prompts disruption for some businesses and hauliers.\n\nMr Shapps said the government was \"offering support to businesses to set-up testing facilities at their own premises, assisting the smooth passage of trucks and good across the border, as well as setting up testing at information and advice sites around the country\".\n\nDrivers and crew of heavy goods vehicles (HGVs), drivers of large goods vehicles (LGVs) and van drivers are advised to obtain a negative test before arriving in Kent or at other Channel crossing points.\n\nThere are now 34 testing sites for hauliers situated in key \"stopping spots\" across the UK, with further sites being set up, the DfT said.\n\nTests must be authorised and taken 72 hours before entry into France.\n\nIn addition to a negative Covid test result, some hauliers require a new 24-hour permit to enter Kent since the introduction of the new UK-EU rules.\n\nFrance reported 21,703 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, while the UK reported 52,618.\n\nLast month, the border crisis saw France refuse arrivals from the UK for 48 hours between 20 and 22 December due to a new virus variant initially discovered in Kent.\n\nPassenger ferries and lorry freight bound for France were suspended from Dover, Portsmouth and Newhaven.\n\nAn emergency procedure devised as part of post-Brexit preparations allowed lorries to be \"stacked\" - leaving thousands of foreign drivers stranded throughout southern England.", "Last updated on .From the section Aston Villa\n\nAston Villa are preparing to field a team of youngsters in Friday's FA Cup third-round tie at home to Liverpool after a \"significant\" Covid-19 outbreak at the club.\n\nA final decision on whether the game will take place at all will be made on Friday.\n\nVilla manager Dean Smith, his coaching staff and the rest of the club's first-team squad will not be involved after the outbreak forced the closure of the club's Bodymoor Heath training headquarters on Thursday.\n\nThe club is in discussions with the Football Association and want to fulfil the fixture (kick-off 19:45 GMT) but final confirmation on whether the tie is played is still on hold pending the results of further testing on the young players who are now being considered for selection.\n\nMark Delaney, Villa's under-23 coach, is scheduled to take charge in the absence of Smith and his backroom staff. He will be accompanied by a doctor, physiotherapist and kit staff.\n\nThe game was thrown into doubt when Villa confirmed the shutdown of the training ground after \"a large number of first-team players and staff\" returned positive Covid-19 results after being tested on Monday.\n\nThose affected went into isolation and a second round of tests was carried out immediately, which produced more positive results on Thursday.\n\nVilla are keen to play the game against Jurgen Klopp's Premier League champions, who they thrashed 7-2 earlier this season. Manager Smith had planned to rest several stars for the game but the Covid-19 outbreak has thrown the club's plans into chaos.\n\nThey will now be hoping the additional Covid-19 testing returns a clean bill of health with Villa liaising closely with the FA in the hope of getting the game played on Friday night.\n\nThe meeting between in-form Villa and Liverpool is one of the most attractive ties of the third round, even if both managers were set to field unfamiliar line-ups.\n\nIt also remains to be seen whether Villa's scheduled Premier League home game against Tottenham Hotspur at Villa Park on Wednesday goes ahead.\n• None What sport has been hit by Covid-19 this weekend?\n\nElswhere, Southampton's FA Cup third-round game against Shrewsbury on Sunday was called off on Thursday after a significant number of Shrews players and staff tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nWayne Rooney and Derby's first-team squad will miss their FA Cup tie at Chorley on Saturday following a Covid-19 outbreak which closed their training ground on Monday.\n\nThe Rams' team for the game at Victory Park will be made up of under-23 and under-18 players.\n\nVilla will be doing all they can to ensure Friday's tie goes ahead but the Covid-19 outbreak could also have Premier League ramifications.\n\nVilla are scheduled to face fourth-placed Spurs at Villa Park on Wednesday and they currently stand only three points behind Jose Mourinho's team.\n\nThere must now be question marks over whether that game will take place.\n\nIf the game is off it will only add to the fixture congestion both clubs are likely to face in an already crowded calendar this season.\n\nVilla, even though they planned to leave out several established first-team players against Liverpool, still had high FA Cup ambitions and would have wanted to maintain the momentum that has given them such an impressive start to the season after only surviving in the top flight on the final day of last season.\n\nThey will hope the latest testing brings no further complications in the FA Cup context - then attention will turn to what has the potential to be a hugely significant game on Wednesday.\n• Stream eight live FA Cup third-round games this weekend on BBC iPlayer, the BBC Sport website and app. Find out more here.", "GPs in England are receiving doses of the Oxford Covid jab as medics warn about overstretched hospitals.\n\nThe rollout of the Oxford vaccine is part of the NHS's biggest-ever effort and aims to offer jabs to 13 million by mid-February - including all over-80s.\n\nBirmingham's NHS said there are enough supplies with more to come as politicians warned doses may run out.\n\nSome hospitals in England are at risk of becoming Covid-only sites, with rising admissions for the virus forcing trusts to cut back on other services.\n\nAnd hospital leaders have warned medics are becoming increasingly stretched with \"untrained staff\" used to fill gaps.\n\nIt came as a further 1,162 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported on Thursday - the second consecutive day of more than 1,000 recorded fatalities - and 52,618 new cases.\n\nThe latest NHS statistics also show that there were 30,370 patients with Covid in UK hospitals on Tuesday.\n\nThe rollout of the Oxford vaccine to GPs will help increase vaccinations among the top four priority groups who are first in line to receive doses.\n\nThe Department of Health said 1.3 million people in the UK, including almost a quarter of those aged over 80 in England, have received at least one dose so far.\n\nWriting to Health Secretary Matt Hancock, the Birmingham political leaders criticised communication around the vaccination programme in the city.\n\n\"We acknowledge that the vaccination rollout is in its early days, but we have also learned today that Birmingham has not yet been supplied with any AstraZeneca stock, while current Pfizer stocks are scheduled to run out on Friday this week with currently no clarity on when further supplies will arrive.\"\n\nThey added \"it remains unclear who is responsible for overseeing the vaccination programme in Birmingham, and whom we should hold accountable for progress and delivery\".\n\nThe letter is signed by Labour leader of Birmingham City Council, Ian Ward; Liam Byrne MP, Labour's candidate for the West Midlands mayor, and by Conservative MP and ex-minister Andrew Mitchell.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Liam Byrne This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut NHS Birmingham and Solihull told the BBC: \"Thousands of people in Birmingham and Solihull have already been vaccinated and this continues at pace.\n\n\"We have sufficient supplies and more will be coming.\"\n\nWest Midlands mayor Andy Street said he has been assured supplies of the Oxford vaccine will be delivered to Birmingham on Friday.\n\nElsewhere, Gillian McLauchlan, deputy director of public health at Salford Council, described \"teething\" issues with the vaccine rollout there.\n\nShe told councillors at a local scrutiny committee: \"We have no control over vaccine supplies. We are told literally two days in advance 'your next lot of vaccines are coming'.\"\n\nEngland's vaccination programme is described as the biggest in NHS history, with an aim to offer jabs to most care home residents by the end of January and the most vulnerable by mid-February.\n\nOfficials leading the vaccination programme are adamant rollout is going to plan - and are cautioning against judging performance too early.\n\nOf course, there will be teething problems, but the fact remains the UK has vaccinated more per head of population than any other country apart from Israel and Bahrain.\n\nWhile rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine started on Monday, it was actually only being used at the hospital hubs up to Thursday.\n\nDeliveries are now being made to hundreds of local vaccination centres. There are 17 in the Birmingham region so they should start to receive doses imminently.\n\nThat should mean there is a vaccine available if they do run out of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.\n\nAlthough disruption to the rollout of the programme in the city may still happen as local centres are warning they cannot book patients in until they know they have stock available.\n\nBut the fact the city's leaders felt compelled to write to the health secretary to warn about this is an illustration of the pressure in the system at the moment.\n\nGiven the high level of infections and current lockdown, there is a desperation in all quarters to get the most at-risk vaccinated as quickly as possible.\n\nAnd until the nation sees that translate into significant numbers of people getting vaccinated - 2 million a week is the goal - people will remain on edge.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was approved for emergency use on 2 December but requires specialist storage unsuitable for most GP practices, with doses largely delivered in hospitals.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca jab was approved on 30 December and does not require specialist storage. It was first rolled out on Monday to hospitals and to GPs in England from Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One medical centre in London is now vaccinating almost 1,000 people a week\n\nMr Hancock visited a GP surgery in London to promote the roll out earlier - but staff there said delivery of the Oxford vaccine had been delayed.\n\nThe health secretary said he was \"delighted\" care home residents would begin receiving their first Oxford jabs from GPs this week.\n\n\"This will ensure the most vulnerable are protected and will save tens of thousands of lives,\" he said.\n\nGP Ammara Hughes, a partner at Bloomsbury Surgery, told broadcasters its first delivery of the Oxford jab had been pushed back 24 hours to Thursday.\n\nShe said: \"It's just more frustrating than a concern because we've got the capacity to vaccinate. And if we had a regular supply - we do have the capacity to vaccinate three to four thousand patients a week.\"\n\nMr Hancock described supply of vaccine as a \"rate-limiting\" step.\n\nHe said: \"For the first three days with the Oxford vaccine we did it in hospitals to check that it was working well and it's working well so now we can make sure that it gets to all those GP surgeries that like this one can do all the vaccinations that are needed.\n\n\"The rate-limiting step is the supply of vaccine. We're working with the companies - both Pfizer and AstraZeneca - to increase the supply.\"\n\nMore than 700 local vaccination sites will administer jabs, with the government announcing a further seven mass vaccination sites across England.\n\nAnother 180 GP-led sites, 100 new hospital sites and a pilot scheme involving local pharmacies will open this week.\n\nMeanwhile, nearly 19,981 second doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech jab - which was the first to be approved for emergency use in the UK last month - were administered between 29 December and 3 January, NHS England said.\n\nIt came as Rupert Pearse, professor of intensive care medicine and a consultant at the Royal London, said his own intensive care staff are having to care for far more sick patients.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme there would usually be a ratio of one fully-trained intensive care nurse for each patient in a unit but staff are becoming increasingly stretched.\n\n\"Right now we are diluting down to one [intensive care] nurse to three [patients] and filling those gaps with untrained staff and in some instances doctors helping nurses deliver their care... and we're even facing diluting that further to one in four,\" he said.\n\nAll of the UK is now under strict virus curbs, with Wales, Northern Ireland and most of Scotland also in lockdown, and vaccinations are progressing across the devolved nations.", "Supermarket giant Sainsbury's has reported a bumper Christmas, with sales up 9.3% for the festive trading period.\n\nMore customers bought their food online than ever before, it said.\n\nIn the 10 days leading up to Christmas, it delivered 1.1 million online orders, twice last year's number.\n\n\"Many customers had to change their Christmas plans at the last minute and we sold smaller turkeys and more lamb and beef than normal,\" said chief executive Simon Roberts.\n\nSainsbury's Christmas trading period covered the nine weeks from 1 November 2020 to 2 January 2021.\n\nFor the 15 weeks to 2 January, like-for-like sales, which strip out the impact of new store openings, were up 8.6%.\n\n\"We now expect, after forgoing business rates relief of £410m, to report underlying profit before tax of at least £330m in the financial year to March 2021,\" the supermarket said.\n\nThat is down from the previous year's figure of £586m.\n\nSainsbury's has delivered bumper festive sales. It's invested heavily in boosting online capacity to keep up with the soaring demand.\n\nSupermarkets have struggled to make money from doing online deliveries, but Sainsbury's says its operation has become more efficient and profitability has improved. As volumes have increased, there are more orders in every van delivering to a smaller radius of customers.\n\nClick-and-collect is a lot cheaper to do than home deliveries. And this accounted for about a quarter of online sales in the final week.\n\nArgos generated more than half its sales from online well before the pandemic. More than 300 Argos counters are now inside Sainsbury's supermarkets, making it easy for people to pick up goods and gifts. Its fast-track delivery service can deliver to customers' homes and collection points within hours and this has seen growth of 62%.\n\nThis is a business that's been well placed to benefit from the huge shift to digital this Christmas.\n\nChristmas and New Year celebrations were constrained by coronavirus restrictions, which limited the number of people and households allowed to meet up.\n\nSainsbury's said that while people had smaller gatherings, they still treated themselves, with sales of the supermarket's premium Taste the Difference range up 11%.\n\nPremium champagne sales were up 52%, it added, echoing similar findings by rival Morrisons.\n\n\"People did more home baking than usual, with mincemeat sales up 24%. Customers still wanted New Year's Eve at home to feel special and we sold a record number of steaks,\" Sainsbury's said.\n\nSales of groceries, general merchandise and clothing were stronger than expected throughout the quarter, particularly since the start of England's second national lockdown, it added.\n\nClothing benefited from better-than-anticipated full-price sales, driven by customers shopping earlier for Christmas and changes to the supermarket's Black Friday trading strategy.\n\nSeparate figures issued by discount retailer B&M indicated that it too had a good Christmas, with like-for-like revenues at its UK stores up 21.1% year-on-year in the 13 weeks to 26 December.\n\n\"With our combination of exceptional value and convenient out-of-town locations, we are confident that our business model will prove highly relevant to the needs of customers in 2021,\" said chief executive Simon Arora.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "Shijiazhuang authorities have started mass-testing residents following an outbreak in the city\n\nChina has placed 11 million people in the northern city of Shijiazhuang under lockdown after more than 100 new Covid cases were confirmed there.\n\nResidents are banned from leaving the city and schools have also been closed.\n\nMore than 5,000 testing sites have been set up so every resident can be tested.\n\nThe new figures are the highest China has seen in more than five months. The country has been able to contain such outbreaks by immediately taking tough action.\n\nThis has involved consistently using mass testing when new clusters of cases appear, even if they seem relatively small.\n\nHebei province, where Shijiazhuang is located, reported 120 new cases on Thursday and all but one of those infections was in the city. Elsewhere in the country, 22 new cases were confirmed.\n\nThe virus was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019 before spiralling into a global pandemic.\n\nThursday's lockdown comes just weeks ahead of Chinese New Year, a time when people in China travel en masse to spend the holiday with their families.\n\nBut residents in the Gaocheng district of Shijiazhuang, considered to be the epicentre of the outbreak, are now not allowed to leave their local area. Other residents are banned from leaving the city.\n\nIn terms of transport, bus travel has been halted and many flights have been cancelled.\n\nResidents have been banned from leaving the city\n\nIn a sign of just how seriously the authorities see the situation, even the postal service in and out of Shijiazhuang has been suspended for three days. And the restrictions are being tightly enforced - police were photographed in protective hazmat suits guarding the entrance to an expressway.\n\nThree officials in Shijiazhuang's Gaocheng district have been punished for \"negligence\", according to the state-run China Daily newspaper.\n\n\"Villages should identify, report, isolate and treat cases as early as possible, so as to cut off the transmission,\" Wu Hao, a national health official, was quoted as saying.\n\nFive hospitals in Shijiazhuang have been cleared for Covid-19 patients, with three others standing by, the city's Vice-Mayor Meng Xianghong said.\n\nThursday's lockdown comes just weeks ahead of Chinese New Year - a time when families gather\n\nIt is not the first time China has locked down a city in response to a cluster of cases since the outbreak in Wuhan.\n\nIn October, all nine million residents of the Chinese city of Qingdao were tested in five days after a dozen cases were confirmed. The cases were linked to a hospital treating coronavirus patients arriving from abroad.\n\nThe same month, authorities in Kashgar, in Xinjiang, tested around 4.7m people after an outbreak there.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Many businesses in Beijing say that customers are still staying away", "The star thanked fans for their messages of support\n\nThe Wanted's Tom Parker has told fans he is \"responding well\" to treatment for his brain tumour.\n\nThe singer praised the NHS as he wrote on Instagram: \"Significant reduction: These are the words I received today and I can't stop saying them over and over again.\"\n\nSharing a picture with his wife Kelsey Hardwick and their two children, he added: \"Today is a good day.\"\n\nThe 32-year-old was found to have an inoperable brain tumour last year.\n\nThe diagnosis came after he suffered two seizures last summer. Because of Covid-19 restrictions, his wife was not allowed in the hospital during three days of tests and he received the news alone.\n\nAt the time he vowed to fight the cancer \"all the way\". Two weeks later he became a father for the second time after Hardwick gave birth to a baby boy.\n\nThe singer shared a photo of his young family alongside the latest update on his health\n\nSharing an update on his condition on Thursday, Parker said: \"I had an MRI scan on Tuesday and my results today were a significant reduction to the tumour and I am responding well to treatment.\n\n\"I can't thank our wonderful NHS enough,\" he continued. \"You're all having a tough time out there but we appreciate the work you are all doing on the front line.\"\n\nThe star also thanked his wife, calling her \"my rock\", and thanked fans for their support. \"Your love, light and positivity have inspired me,\" he wrote. \"Every message has not been unnoticed they have given me so much strength.\"\n\nParker achieved fame in the early 2010s as part of The Wanted, reaching number one with the singles All Time Low and Glad You Came.\n\nSince the band went on hiatus in 2014, he has played Danny Zuko in a touring production of Grease and reached the semi-finals of Celebrity Masterchef.\n\nHe married Hardwick, an actress, in 2018. As well as Bodhi, the couple have an 18-month-old daughter.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Just when the hospitality sector thought things couldn't get any worse, it has been hit by another lockdown.\n\nLast year's rolling closures forced Martin Wolstencroft to borrow £4m just to ensure the survival of Arc Inspirations, a bar chain with 17 venues across the north of England that he has spent the last two decades building into a successful business.\n\nAnd the latest lockdown has forced Mr Wolstencroft to ask his bank to lend him another £1m.\n\nHe is far from alone. UK Hospitality says the closure of pubs, restaurants and hotels is costing business owners such as Mr Wolstencroft a total of £500m a month, even allowing for any government support. And that has led to a huge rise in debt.\n\n\"The money that we are borrowing is really just to stand still,\" Mr Wolstencroft said.\n\n\"We'll be coming out of this in a far worse position with far greater debt and it totally reduces our ability to grow our business for the future.\n\n\"And all of this has been brought about through no fault of our own.\"\n\nHe reckons the debt he has taken on so far will take the business six years to pay back, which leaves him facing some difficult decisions.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a package of grants worth up to £3,000 a month per property to keep retail, hospitality and leisure businesses afloat until the spring.\n\nBut Mr Wolstencroft, who pays rents of more than £16,000 a month on some of his bars, described the grants as a \"mere drop in the ocean\".\n\nThe effect of taking on huge debts with no prospect of reopening soon is a major threat to millions working in the hospitality sector.\n\nMore than 1,600 restaurants closed last year, costing 30,000 jobs, says property adviser Altus.\n\nWhen bars, hotels and other hospitality businesses are included, almost 300,000 jobs were lost last year as a result of the pandemic, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.\n\nAnd that figure is expected to more than double in the first three months of this year alone.\n\nKate Nicholls, the boss of UK Hospitality, predicts the total will hit 660,000 by the end of March.\n\nUK Hospitality chief executive Kate Nicholls is calling for further support for the industry\n\n\"The longer that these restrictions are in place, the more rapidly businesses will simply run out of cash and be unable to to remain open,\" she said.\n\nA survey of the trade body's members revealed that 80% of businesses did not have enough cash to make it through to April. \"It's going to be unbelievably brutal in the first quarter,\" Ms Nicholls said.\n\nThe latest lockdown follows a bruising Christmas period for the hospitality sector, which typically depends on a busy December to tide it over during January, traditionally a quiet month for pubs and restaurants.\n\n\"It's obviously very worrying for our industry,\" says Tim Hughes, who runs the Plough pub at Sleapshyde in Hertfordshire.\n\n\"They have banned takeaway sales of alcohol from pubs, but off-licences and supermarkets can carry on selling it,\" he said.\n\nBetween them, Mr Hughes, his brother and his father run three pubs in the St Albans area. They have already borrowed £350,000 and Mr Hughes says the latest lockdown will force them to take on even more debt just to survive.\n\nMonthly fixed costs at each of the pubs run to £9,500 and only one of their venues qualifies for the full £3,000 grant, so Mr Hughes says the Treasury's support \"doesn't touch the sides\".\n\nIt's the fourth time Mr Hughes has been forced to close the doors to the Plough - and each time it has cost him about £5,000.\n\nThis time, he also had to give away £4,000 worth of jumbo pork, vegetarian and vegan Bavarian bratwursts, bought to give 2,000 customers a substantial meal in the pub's \"winter garden\" during the festive period.\n\nThat was before an unexpected decision to put St Albans into tier three forced him to close the pub. He cancelled those bookings and refunded customers their £16,000.\n\nThe Plough's \"winter garden\", which was booked up for the Christmas period, stands empty\n\nRalph Findlay, the boss of Marston's, which has 1,700 pubs across the country and employs 14,000 people, said some pubs that had been forced to close their doors because of the lockdown would never reopen.\n\nHalf of Marston's employees are under 25, he said. \"I really worry about the impact of this on their employment prospects in places where it's very difficult to find employment.\"\n\nHe has called for pubs to be given more time before they are required to pay business rates again, which will leave pubs facing an £800m bill as soon as the current rates holiday expires in March, according to the British Beer & Pub Association.\n\nThat would force landlords, including Mr Hughes, to foot a bill that works out at £25,000 a pub.\n\n\"We are kidding ourselves if we think that more debt upon more debt is going to be sustainable,\" said Stephen Welton, executive chairman of the Business Growth Fund.\n\n\"Past recessions have shown very clearly that it's coming out of a recession - when companies are short of working capital - that they fall over.\"\n\nFor Mr Hughes at the Plough, he is looking for all the support he can get to avoid being put into a \"bigger black hole\".\n\nA Treasury spokesman said: \"\"We've taken swift action throughout the pandemic to protect lives and livelihoods.\"\n\nHe said the grant scheme would continue to support businesses and jobs through to the spring.", "Jamie Stiehm is a US political columnist who was in the Capitol building in Washington DC when it was stormed by pro-Trump rioters. Here's what she saw from the press gallery in the House of Representatives.\n\nI had told my sister earlier: \"Something bad is going to happen today. I don't know what, but something bad will happen.\"\n\nOutside the Capitol, I encountered a group of very boisterous supporters of President Donald Trump, all waving flags and pledging their allegiance to him. There was a sense that trouble was brewing.\n\nI went inside to the House of Representatives and up into the press gallery, where we were assigned seats, looking down at the rather sombre gathering. Speaker Nancy Pelosi was holding the gavel, and keeping people to their five-minute statements.\n\nAs we went into the second hour, all of a sudden we heard breaking glass. The air began getting fogged. An announcement from the Capitol Police said, \"An individual has breached the building\". So everyone looked around and then it was business as usual. But after that, the announcements kept coming. And they were getting more and more urgent.\n\nThey announced that the intruders had breached the rotunda, which is under the famed marble dome. The sacred house of democracy was under fire.\n\nMany of us are hardened journalists - I've seen my share of violence covering homicides in Baltimore - but this was very unpredictable. The police didn't seem to know what was happening. They weren't coordinated. They locked the chamber doors but at the same time, they told us we would have to evacuate. So there was a sense of panic.\n\nI was afraid. I'll tell you that. And I've spoken to other journalists who said they were a little ashamed of themselves for feeling afraid.\n\nThere was a sense of \"nobody's in charge here, the Capitol Police have lost control of the building, anything can happen\".\n\nIf you think back to the September 11 attacks in 2001, there was one plane that went down and didn't hit its target. That target was the Capitol. There were echoes of that. I made a call to my family, just to let them know that I was here and it was a dangerous situation.\n\nThere was a shot. We could see there was a standoff in our chamber. Five men were holding guns at the door. It was a frightening sight. Men were looking through a broken glass window and looked like they could shoot at any second.\n\nThankfully there was no gunfire inside the chamber. But for a while there, it felt like it would be a real possibility. Because things were going downhill very fast.\n\nWe had to crawl under railings to get out of the way. I was not dressed to do that. A lot of women were dressed up, wearing heels, because they had come for a formal ritual.\n\nI sheltered in the House cafeteria alongside others. I'm still shaking now.\n\nI have seen a lot as a journalist, but this was something more. This was the collective public sphere being undermined, assaulted, degraded. And I think this was why the Speaker wanted to return and hold the gavel again and go on.\n\nAfterwards I had to decide whether I was going to go back to the chamber too. I decided l probably would, because the message that is sending is: \"You can incite a mob, but we're going to go on\". I think that is a very important political message.", "Asos says it is in \"exclusive\" talks to buy Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands out of administration.\n\nBut the online retailer said it only wanted the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.\n\nThe current owner of the brands, Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group, fell into administration last November putting 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nAsos said it was \"a compelling opportunity\" to buy \"strong brands that resonate well with its customer base\".\n\n\"However, at this stage, there can be no certainty of a transaction and Asos will keep shareholders updated as appropriate,\" it added.\n\nLast week, a consortium including fashion chain Next dropped its bid to buy Topshop and Topman because it could not meet the price tag.\n\nOthers interested in some or all of Arcadia - which also owns Dorothy Perkins and Burton - include Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, a consortium including JD Sports, and the online retailer Boohoo.\n\nIn addition, the Issa brothers, who recently bought supermarket chain Asda, and Chinese fast fashion giant Shein are said to have made bids for Topshop.\n\nAsos has seen strong sales in the pandemic and is already one of the biggest wholesalers for Topshop, Topman, Burton and Miss Selfridge.\n\nAdministrators from Deloitte requested that final bids be submitted last Monday, with the auction expected to conclude at the end of January.\n\nSir Philip Green is under pressure to use his own money to plug an estimated £350m hole in Arcadia's pension fund, which has about 10,000 members.\n\nLast year the retail tycoon had an estimated fortune of £930m, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nArcadia employed about 13,000 people and had 444 shops at the time of its collapse.", "Boohoo is set to buy the Debenhams brand and website, the BBC understands.\n\nHowever, the fast fashion retailer will not be taking on any of the company's remaining 118 High Street stores or its workforce.\n\nThe announcement could come as early as Monday morning.\n\nThe 242-year-old chain is already in the process of closing down, after administrators failed to secure a rescue deal for the business, with the likely loss of 12,000 jobs.\n\nA closing down sale at 124 Debenhams stores began in December, as administrators continued to seek offers for all, or parts of the business.\n\nIn the last week or so, the company announced that six shops would not reopen after lockdown, including its flagship department store on London's Oxford Street.\n\nBoohoo has already bought a number of High Street brands out of administration. It snapped up Oasis, Coast and Karen Millen, but not the associated stores.\n\nDebenhams has struggled for years with falling profits and rising debts, as more shopping has moved online. It called in administrators twice in two years, most recently in April.\n\nMike Ashley has bought other struggling businesses including House of Fraser and Evans Cycles\n\nHowever, its position became untenable during the coronavirus pandemic as non-essential retailers were forced to close for prolonged periods.\n\nThe firm had already trimmed its store portfolio and cut about 6,500 jobs since May, as it struggled to stay afloat.\n\nBusinessman Mike Ashley, who founded Sports Direct and also owns House of Fraser, had already made an offer for Debenhams after it was initially put up for sale in April.\n\nHowever the takeover offer, thought to be in the region of £125m, was rejected as being too low, leaving JD Sports as the last remaining bidder.\n\nMr Ashley had previously built up a 29% stake in the chain, but saw his £150m holding wiped out in 2019, when the company fell into administration and then ended up in the hands of its lenders - a consortium led by hedge fund Silverpoint.\n\nIn early December, the Frasers Group confirmed that it was working on a possible last minute rescue of Debenhams.\n\nThe announcement came five days after staff were informed and liquidators moved in to Debenhams' stores to start clearing stock, after a potential rescue deal with JD Sports fell through.\n\nBut Frasers said there was \"no certainty\" it could save the chain.\n\nOne of the biggest issues, it said, was the collapse into administration last week of another High Street giant, Arcadia, which is the biggest concession holder in Debenhams department stores.", "More than 26,000 are now in hospital with the virus, according to government data\n\nFrance's top medical adviser said on Sunday that a third national lockdown would probably soon be needed to combat coronavirus in the country.\n\nA strict curfew was implemented last weekend, but cases continue to climb.\n\nProf Jean-Francois Delfraissy, head of the scientific council that advises leaders on Covid-19, said \"there is an emergency\" and this week was critical.\n\nHe called for swift government action, amid rising concerns about the spread of new variants of the coronavirus.\n\nProf Delfraissy said data showed a new more transmissible variant first detected in the UK now makes up between 7-9% of cases in some French regions and will be hard to stop.\n\nHe said the country was in a better situation than others in Europe, but described the new variants as the \"equivalent of a second pandemic\".\n\n\"If we do not tighten regulations, we will find ourselves in an extremely difficult situation from mid-March,\" the advisor warned during an interview with BFM television.\n\nThe French government is expected to meet on Wednesday to decide if further measures are needed.\n\nOfficials have so far resisted implementing a third national lockdown, preferring an overnight curfew system which allows schools to stay open.\n\nBut daily infection numbers are rising - with the seven-day moving average now above 20,000 despite the 18:00 curfew.\n\nFrench Prime Minister Jean Castex previously said restrictions could be imposed \"without delay\" if the situation deteriorated further.\n\nThe country's virus death toll topped 73,000 on Sunday, as the country tightened restrictions on arrivals into the country.\n\nUnder new rules anyone entering from inside the EU by air or ferry must now present a negative Covid-19 test result within 72 hours of travel. Those entering France from the EU by road, including cross-border workers, will not be required to take a test.\n\nPresident of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said last week that all non-essential travel \"must be strongly advised against\" but EU nations have so far agreed to keep borders open.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police in Paris ensure shops close at 6pm as France begins a new curfew to tackle Covid-19", "Ella Lambert had never sewn before but borrowed a friend's machine to learn how to make sanitary pads made from cloth\n\nA student whose \"terrible period pains\" inspired her to start a reusable sanitary pad project has helped 600 refugees get out of \"period poverty\".\n\nElla Lambert, 20, from Chelmsford, Essex, started The Pachamama Project during the first coronavirus lockdown.\n\nShe said she wanted to help women who were unable to buy period products.\n\nNearly 2,500 pads sewn by 150 volunteers have been sent to camps in Greece and Lebanon.\n\nWomen are given four pads each, which are washable and can be reused for about five years, she said.\n\nThe pads are distributed to women in refugee camps\n\nMs Lambert said: \"In March I had terrible period pain, I was being sick, it was awful, and it made me think, I know I'm not the only person going through this.\n\n\"The people I want to help, in these camps, they're experiencing period pain and having to use random tissue paper, cardboard, socks, scraps of material and even leaves - whatever they can get hold of.\"\n\nThe University of Bristol languages student set up her not-for-profit group in March and launched her sanitary product - Pacha Pads - in August, with the help of charities and groups in the two countries to distribute them.\n\nThousands of pads have been made by hundreds of volunteers since August\n\nIt started when she put appeals for material on community groups, she said.\n\nVolunteers from all over the UK came forward to make the products after she developed a pattern, created a guide and explained how to source material for free.\n\nThe products are then sent back to her to be posted abroad, after quality checks.\n\nSome of the sewers came from groups formed to make scrubs for NHS workers during the first lockdown, and who still wanted to be useful, she said.\n\nAlice Corrigan, from The Free Shop of Lebanon, said the project helped with the \"fight against period poverty in Lebanon\"\n\nAlice Corrigan, founder of The Free Shop Lebanon, which hands out the products for free in its shop, said: \"Sustainable menstrual products are very new to many Lebanese and in particular Syrian women.\"\n\nShe added it is not common for them to talk about menstrual activity, so it was important they could be helped to understand its importance and accept it as part of their routine.\n\nKaty Chadwick, technical adviser at the charity ActionAid UK, said: \"For too many women and girls and people who menstruate a lack of access to products impacts on their ability to move freely and to access education and other opportunities.\n\n\"It's encouraging to see new initiatives to support the most marginalised women and girls access sustainable products.\"\n\nAll the sanitary pads are washable so they can be reused for up to about five years\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is hoped that vaccinating teenagers will allow them to sit exams\n\nIsrael has started vaccinating 16 to 18-year-olds against Covid-19, in an effort to enable them to sit exams.\n\nMore than a quarter of Israel's population of nine million have received at least one dose of the Pfizer vaccine since 19 December, its health ministry says.\n\nIt started with the elderly and others at high risk, but people aged 40 and over can also now get the jab.\n\nIsrael hopes to start reopening its economy in February.\n\nThe inclusion of 16 to 18-year-olds - with parental permission - is meant \"to enable their return (to school) and the orderly holding of exams\", an education ministry spokeswoman said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe matriculation exams that Israeli students sit at the end of high school play an important role in deciding where they will go to university. Their results can also affect their placement in the military, where many young Israelis do compulsory service.\n\nThe education ministry has said it is too early to say whether schools will reopen next month.\n\nIsrael started its rapid vaccination drive - the fastest in the world - on 19 December, reaching 10% of its population by the end of 2020.\n\nIsrael has recorded more than 596,000 cases and 4,392 deaths with Covid-19, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.\n\nOn Sunday, the government said it would ban passenger flights in and out of the country from Monday night for the rest of January, in an effort to halt the spread of new virus variants.\n\n\"Other than rare exceptions, we are closing the sky hermetically to prevent the entry of the virus variants and also to ensure that we progress quickly with our vaccination campaign,\" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.\n\nForeigners have largely been blocked from entering Israel during the pandemic.", "All schools moved to online learning before Christmas, following concerns from unions over the new coronavirus variant\n\n\"Wholesale\" return of pupils to school after February half term is \"unlikely\", Wales' first minister has said.\n\nMark Drakeford said there were \"intermediate positions between where we are today, with very few children in school, and everybody being back\".\n\nPreviously, ministers said schools would stay closed to most until February half term unless Covid cases fell significantly.\n\nThose preparing for qualifications and very young children may return first.\n\nMr Drakeford told a coronavirus briefing on Friday he had recently chaired a meeting of the teaching unions and local education authorities.\n\n\"We all agreed that we would work purposefully together to find ways of bringing more young people back into the classroom,\" he said.\n\n\"Does that mean that we will see a wholesale return of every child in every classroom, every day of the week across Wales? I do think that that is probably unlikely.\n\n\"But there are intermediate positions between where we are today, with very few children in school, and everybody being back.\"\n\nHe said there had been \"practical, creative, imaginative\" proposals put forward which could mean some children being back in the classroom for some of the week.\n\nMinisters previously said schools would stay closed until half term unless Covid cases fell significantly\n\nThese could include \"children preparing for qualifications [and] very young children for whom online learning really isn't a genuine possibility\".\n\n\"I certainly don't rule out making some of those things happen after the February half term, but I do think it's unlikely in the way you said that we would see every child back full-time in every classroom in the way that we would ideally wish to do,\" he added.\n\nAll schools and colleges moved to online learning before Christmas, following concerns from unions over the new coronavirus variant.\n\nThey have remained open for children of critical workers and vulnerable learners, as well as for learners who needed to complete essential exams or assessments.\n\nEarlier this month, when Education Minister Kirsty Williams said schools and colleges would stay closed to most pupils until the February half term, unions welcomed the news, saying the health and safety of pupils and staff \"had to be a priority\".\n\nBut, they added, teachers must now be given the vaccine as a priority, and pupils and staff must be protected before talks about reopening schools could begin.\n\nTeachers are still not on the priority list for immunisation, and have to wait to get the jab dependent on their age and if they have a medical condition.\n\nAt the time, Laura Doel, director of The National Association of Headteachers Cymru, said: \"Any plan that sees school staff return to face-to-face learning should be afforded as much protection as possible against the virus.\n\n\"Once these issues have been addressed, then we can discuss the orderly return to school we all want.\"\n\nOpposition parties have called for clear plans on how schools would return and for support to make sure pupils from poorer backgrounds did not fall behind due to a \"digital divide\".\n\nPlaid Cymru's education spokeswoman Sian Gwenllian said: \"The Welsh Government must plan now for the gradual and safe reopening of schools, putting in place safety measures, and should lay out plans for a vaccination programme for schools staff.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative education spokeswoman Suzy Davies called for the Welsh Government to publish evidence on its reasons for closing schools, bring forward vaccines for teachers, and said money must be made available for all pupils to access laptops for online learning.", "Janice Johnston says doctors who misdiagnosed her \"took so much away from me\"\n\nA care home worker who was wrongly diagnosed with cancer said she thought it was a \"cruel joke\" when she was told doctors had made a mistake and she did not have cancer at all.\n\nMum-of-four Janice Johnston said her \"world crumbled\" when she learned she had a rare form of blood cancer at Kent and Canterbury Hospital in 2017.\n\nShe had 18 months of oral chemotherapy treatment, during which she experienced weight loss, nausea and bone pain, and had to give up her job as an auxiliary nurse.\n\nWhen the treatment did not appear to be working, she says, medics upped the dosage.\n\nIn 2018, she sought alternative treatment at Guy's Hospital in London. It was there a specialist told her she did not have cancer at all but a different condition.\n\nMrs Johnston was awarded £75,950 in damages after East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust admitted liability. Staff at the hospital had failed to do the necessary ultrasound scan and bone marrow biopsy before diagnosing her.\n\nMrs Johnston, 53, said: \"The cancer diagnosis was an absolute shock. They said my life span would be shortened.\n\n\"I was at high risk of a fatal stroke or heart attack and I could drop down at any minute. It was heartbreaking and devastating.\n\n\"It didn't sink in until I saw the haematologist. I was in a room with people having serious chemotherapy who looked incredibly ill. I thought: 'I'm like them'.\"\n\nMrs Johnston says doctors told her she would need chemotherapy for life.\n\nThe side-effects led to her feeling \"wiped out\", her hair thinning, her teeth becoming loose and her gums receding.\n\nShe says occupational health told her that her immune system was jeopardised and she could pick up infections easily. That meant she was forced to resign from her job.\n\n\"Giving up work was horrible,\" Mrs Johnston says.\n\nShe was also worried she would not get to see some of her daughters get married or her grandchildren grow up.\n\nThe trust admitted failing to carry out vital tests before diagnosing Mrs Johnston\n\nAfter searching on the internet to find out more about the blood cancer she was told she had - Polycythaemia vera (PV) - she learned that Guy's Hospital offered a different type of chemotherapy and asked her consultant for an appointment there.\n\nMrs Johnston recalls: \"The specialist at Guy's looked over my blood counts and said: 'I don't think you have blood cancer'.\"\n\nThe doctor told Mrs Johnston she had a different condition called secondary PV which is not cancer.\n\n\"She asked if I'd had a bone marrow test and scan of the spleen to confirm the diagnosis - I hadn't had either. My husband thought it was fantastic but I was angry.\n\n\"I thought it was a cruel joke on me. It didn't sink in. My husband couldn't understand why I wasn't jumping for joy - but it had taken my life.\"\n\nOne of the hardest things to cope with for Mrs Johnston was thinking she had been a \"fraud\".\n\n\"I'd been doing some fundraising to try and have something positive to focus on. Cancer Research UK asked if I'd be guest of honour at a charity run in Margate. I stood on stage in front of 3,000 women saying I had cancer.\n\n\"I'm mortified that people will think I made it up. It has made me feel awful and like I have lied to everyone,\" she said.\n\nMrs Johnston now has severe anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).\n\n\"I still get flashbacks to it,\" she says. \"It was two years of my life. They took so much away from me.\"\n\nShe says she wants to \"raise awareness\" about her experience, and for \"anyone that does get diagnosed with it, to ask questions and learn as much as they can about it and if they feel any doubt, to get a second opinion\".\n\nA spokesperson for East Kent Hospitals said: \"A misdiagnosis of this kind is exceptionally rare and we wholeheartedly apologise to Ms Johnston.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\nFlood victims will not be able to return to their homes until their safety can be assured, a council leader has said.\n\nThe Coal Authority has said initial checks suggested water built up in a mine shaft causing a \"blow out\" that flooded properties in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated as water rushed through the village on Thursday.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones said it was unlikely residents could return Monday.\n\nHe said underground investigations would begin on Saturday and the work could take two to three days.\n\n\"Safety is the paramount concern for us,\" he said.\n\n\"Because we can't guarantee the site safety - that's the reason why people will remain away from their properties until such time as we can give the all clear.\n\n\"We don't know what the water has done underground.\"\n\nThe fire service said on Saturday morning the pumping operation was \"making good progress\".\n\nMr Jones told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast people may be able to return next week but \"did not want to raise hopes\" it will be Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said the flooding was \"more than likely\" related to old mine workings with six mines known about in area. He said the industry dated back 300 years.\n\nSkewen resident John Thomas returned home from a funeral with wife Lynne on Thursday to find their house had turned into \"a lake\".\n\nHe said: \"The water was around the level of the bottom of the doors so we couldn't go in, so we just had to stand there and watch this orange-coloured water just piling up and up and up.\n\n\"Other people who were evacuated had the chance to move things upstairs, I didn't have a chance to do that because I couldn't get in to it.\"\n\nAt least 80 people had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nLocal MP Stephen Kinnock said affected residents were staying in \"lots of different places\" across the region.\n\nAnd he praised the \"extraordinary\" generosity of the community and the support of the Salvation Army with donations of food, clothing and toiletries.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said officers were continuing to look at how to minimise the risk of pollution to nearby rivers, and investigating any impacts on the River Neath.\n\nThe Coal Authority, which manages the effects of past coal mining, is investigating the incident.\n\nChief executive Lisa Pinney said equipment, due on site on Saturday, would be used to drill into mine workings to \"fully investigate what has happened\".\n\n\"The blow out is likely to have been caused by a blockage underground which has caused water to back up and to break out using the easiest path,\" she said.\n\n\"The excessive rainfall of the past few days and the prolonged rainfall this winter, will have put additional pressure on the system.\n\n\"We know that people will want to get back to their homes and we will continue to progress these works as soon as possible, but public safety has to come first.\"\n\nThere are a number of historical mine workings in Skewen dating back beyond 1850.\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Jones said water was still pouring out of the affected site so workers were diverting it, while machines cleared gulleys and drains to give the water the chance to enter drainage systems.\n\nA residents' incident support centre has been set up at Abbey Primary School to offer help and information over the weekend, between 09:00-17:00 GMT.\n\nThe council has asked residents to be \"patient as the investigation continues\" and has set up a helpline. Tel. 01639 686868.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA new world record has been set for the number of satellites sent to space on a single rocket.\n\nThe 143 payloads, of all shapes and sizes, rode to orbit on a SpaceX Falcon rocket that launched out of Florida.\n\nThe number beats the previous record of 104 satellites carried aloft by an Indian vehicle in 2017.\n\nIt's further evidence of the major structural changes taking place in space activity that are allowing many more actors to get involved.\n\nThis shift is the result of a revolution in robust, miniaturised, low-cost components - many taken direct from consumer electronics such as smartphones - that mean pretty much anyone can now build a capable satellite in a very small package.\n\nAnd with SpaceX offering to transport those packages to orbit for just $1m, the commercial opportunities will continue to open up.\n\nGuatemala's Santa María volcano: Planet is imaging the entire Earth daily with its Dove satellites\n\nSpaceX itself had 10 satellites on the Falcon - the latest additions to its Starlink telecommunications mega-constellation, which is going to deliver broadband internet connections around the globe.\n\nSan Francisco's Planet company had the most satellites of all on the flight - 48.\n\nThese were another batch of its SuperDove models that image the Earth's surface daily at a resolution of 3-5m. The new spacecraft take the firm's operational fleet now in orbit to more than 200.\n\n\"Internet of things\": SpaceBees will connect to all manner of objects on the ground\n\nThe SuperDoves are the size of a shoebox. Many of the other payloads on the Falcon rocket were little bigger than a coffee mug, however; and some were smaller even than a paperback book.\n\nSwarm Technologies is rolling out what it calls the SpaceBees. They're just 10cm by 10cm by 2.5cm.\n\nThey'll act as telecommunications nodes to connect devices that are attached to all manner of objects on the ground, from migrating animals to shipping containers.\n\nThe satellites were mounted on a dispenser that ejected them in sequence\n\nSome of the larger items on the Falcon rocket were suitcase-sized. Among these were several radar satellites. Radar has been one of the major beneficiaries of the revolution in componentry.\n\nTraditionally, radar satellites were big, multi-tonne objects that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to fly, which essentially meant only the military or major space agencies could afford to operate them.\n\nBut the adoption of new materials and compact \"off the shelf\" parts have dramatically shrunk the size (to under 100kg) and price (a couple of million dollars) of these spacecraft.\n\niQPS artwork: The radar satellites unfurl large antennas once they are in space\n\nIceye from Finland, Capella from the US, and iQPS of Japan all took the ride to orbit on Sunday. These start-ups are establishing constellations in the sky that will return rapid, repeat imagery of the Earth.\n\nRadar has the advantage over standard optical cameras of being able to pierce cloud, and to sense the Earth's surface whether it is day or night. We're entering an age when any change on the planet, wherever it happens, will be picked up almost immediately.\n\nThe Falcon carried the 143 satellites into a 500km-high path that runs from pole to pole. This is one of the drawbacks of a big rideshare mission: you go where the rocket goes, and for some that might not be ideal.\n\nA number of satellite missions will want an orbit that's higher or lower in the sky, or on a different inclination to the equator.\n\nThis can be achieved by mounting the satellites on \"space tugs\" which, after coming off the top of the rocket, modify the final parameters for their \"passengers\" over the course of several weeks. Sunday's Falcon carried two such tugs.\n\nBut for some missions a bespoke ride is going to be the only satisfactory solution. It's why we're now witnessing a rush to produce small rockets that can run dedicated flights.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket blasts its way to space\n\nThese smaller rockets will not be able to compete on cost with the big vehicles, such as SpaceX's Falcon-9, but they should attract the custom of those with very specific or urgent needs.\n\nDan Hart, the CEO of Virgin Orbit, which has developed a small rocket that can be launched from under the wing of a Boeing 747, says the start-ups are becoming more discerning.\n\n\"These small satellites used to be points of fascination and interest, and it was a case of finding the cheapest way possible to get into space,\" he explained.\n\n\"That's rapidly changing. These are now businesses with critical missions that risk losing revenue if they have to wait on others or go into an unsuitable orbit. And that's why you're going to see people who will pay that little bit more to get to where they want to go when they absolutely need to go there,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will Marshall: \"Our satellites 'phoned home' and they are healthy\"\n\nWith the roll call of satellites going into orbit now accelerating rapidly, the issue of traffic management is becoming a hot topic.\n\nFull-on collisions are currently rare, but a surprisingly large number (10%) of satellites will even now experience sudden, unexpected momentum changes, most probably the result of being hit by some small fragment from a previous mission.\n\nThe space sector needs to find smarter ways to track objects in orbit and to command timely avoidance manoeuvres, otherwise certain altitudes could ultimately become unusable because of the presence of dangerously dense debris fields.\n\nJonathan McDowell from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is a noted historian of astronautics.\n\nHe commented: \"There are now over 3,000 working satellites in orbit. The number of satellites launched last year at over 1,200 is over twice as many as in any previous year. And the ones launched today - that used to be the number you'd launch in a whole year. So it's getting really crowded up there.\"\n\nWill Marshall, the CEO of Planet, said his company, and indeed all of the companies on Sunday's flight, were accutley aware of the issue.\n\n\"We are seeing crowded areas in certain orbits,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"Most of the crowded piece that is in danger of what they call Kessler Syndrome (runaway collisions) is quite high up. So one of the tricks that all of these satellites that were launched today use is to just stay really low where there's still a lot of atmospheric drag and eventually those satellites just come down.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nSecond Test, Galle (day four of five)\n\nEngland completed a thrilling victory on day four of the second Test against Sri Lanka to take the series 2-0.\n\nChasing a tricky 164, England were 89-4 on a turning pitch but opener Dom Sibley hit 56 not out to lead them to a six-wicket win.\n\nSibley, who had not reached double figures in the series, put on 75 with Jos Buttler, who made 46 not out.\n\nEarlier, England capitalised on reckless batting to dismiss Sri Lanka for 126 in their second innings.\n\nDom Bess and Jack Leach took four wickets each and the hosts would have been dismissed even more cheaply but for 40 from number 10 Lasith Embuldeniya, who finished with match figures of 10-210.\n\nResuming on 339-9 in their first innings, England conceded a first-innings deficit of 37 when Jack Leach was dismissed with only five runs added.\n\nSri Lanka were favourites at that point but England completed a turnaround on a dramatic day when 15 wickets fell.\n\nThe series win is England's fourth in a row and they are also unbeaten in 10 successive Tests under Joe Root's captaincy, going into a difficult series in India which starts on 5 February.\n\nEngland are fourth in the World Test Championship table, 0.5% behind third-placed Australia.\n• None Root urges England not to 'stand still'\n• None TMS podcast: What does England's series win mean for India tour?\n\nThis was also England's fifth consecutive away Test win, the first time they have achieved that feat since World War One. They are developing an impressive winning habit.\n\nSri Lanka's batting, perhaps spooked by the turning pitch, was inept and their effort in the field lacklustre, but England were clinical.\n\nBess and Leach bowled well - far better than their wicketless showing in the first innings - while James Anderson took a brilliant high catch and Zak Crawley two excellent grabs at short leg.\n\nSri Lanka were leading only by 115 when their eighth wicket fell, before Embuldeniya, who had a remarkable game in defeat, dragged them to a score.\n\nThe target looked competitive - the hosts were possibly even favourites - but the manner England in which overhauled it was mightily impressive.\n\nThere was a wobble when Jonny Bairstow was trapped lbw for a useful 28-ball 29, Root - the dominant player in the series - was bowled for 11 and Dan Lawrence edged behind with a further 85 needed.\n\nHowever, Sibley played the anchor role while Buttler provided impetus in his typically attacking style.\n\nSibley, so at sea in his previous three innings, calmly nudged singles into the leg side. Buttler played thumped drives to the extra-cover boundary, smacked a reverse sweep through point and launched a slog sweep through mid-wicket.\n\nIn the end, England won with ease, Sibley sealing a fine win by tapping for one.\n\nSri Lanka threatened better in this match, having been convincingly beaten by seven wickets in the first.\n\nThey batted well in the first innings and in Embuldeniya they have a fine spinner, playing only his ninth Test.\n\nBut their fourth-day performance was abysmal. Their batting was akin to their performance on day one of the series when they were bowled out for 135.\n\nThe dismissals of captain Dinesh Chandimal - skying a slog sweep to Anderson at mid-on having hit a four a ball earlier - and Niroshan Dickwella, who drove Bess to extra cover two minutes before lunch, were the worst of a series of needlessly aggressive shots.\n\nSri Lanka also disappointed in the field. They were a little unfortunate that Sibley survived three tight lbw reviews, all of which were umpire's call, but their tactics were baffling.\n\nChandimal set the field back and allowed an accumulator in Sibley to tick along as he wished.\n\nThis tour, while important for points in the World Test Championship, always felt like the warm-up act in a huge year for England's Test team.\n\nNext they face a far bigger challenge in India before a summer against New Zealand, top of the Test rankings, India again, and an Ashes series in Australia the winter.\n\nThe biggest plus of this series has been the emphatic run-scoring of Root. He did not score a century in 2019 but made 228 and 186, albeit against a poor Sri Lanka. The skipper amassed 426 runs at an average of 106.50 in the series.\n\nBess and Leach were by no means perfect - they bowl too many bad balls - but finished the series with 12 and 10 wickets respectively.\n\nThe match-winning fifty for Sibley is also a significant boost going into the four Tests in India. Having been dismissed by Embuldeniya in every innings on tour previously, he showed he can grind out a score.\n\nEngland's veteran bowlers, Anderson and Stuart Broad, proved once again they can perform in unhelpful conditions.\n\nThere are question marks, however, about opener Crawley, whose top score in four innings was 13.\n\nThe issues at the top of the order are complicated by the fact Bairstow, who has done well at number three, has been rested for the first two Tests in India.\n\nEngland opener Dom Sibley on Test Match Special: \"I didn't think I'd left any stone unturned with regards playing spin, but then you go back to your room in the evening and think 'maybe I'm not up to this' and have those doubts.\n\n\"It is about accepting those and just believing. It just feels like pure relief at the moment.\"\n\nSri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal: \"We were outplayed today. We have done all the hard work in the last three days but as a batting unit we made the same mistakes of the first Test. There are no excuses for the batsmen and we've got to learn how to bat like Joe Root.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"A really, really strong performance from England. If you look down from one to 11, most people have contributed.\n\n\"They will have to bowl better in India. But the confidence that this will do for the team, and for Joe Root at the start of a huge year, is huge.\"", "A former senior manager at Boeing's 737 plant in Seattle has raised new concerns over the safety of the company's 737 Max.\n\nThe aircraft, which was grounded after two accidents in which 346 people died, has already been cleared to resume flights in North America and Brazil, and is expected to gain approval in Europe this week.\n\nBut in a new report, Ed Pierson claims that further investigation of electrical issues and production quality problems at the 737 factory is badly needed.\n\nRegulators in the US and Europe insist their reviews have been thorough, and that the 737 Max aircraft is now safe.\n\nIn his report, Mr Pierson claims that regulators and investigators have largely ignored factors, which he believes, may have played a direct role in the accidents.\n\nHe explicitly links them to conditions at the company's factory in Renton, near Seattle at the time. Boeing says this is unfounded.\n\nInvestigators believe both accidents were triggered by the failure of a single sensor. It sent inaccurate data to a piece of flight control software, called MCAS.\n\nThis automated system then repeatedly forced the nose of the aircraft downwards, when the pilots were trying to gain height. Ultimately each aircraft was pushed into an unrecoverable dive.\n\nEfforts to make the 737 Max safe have focused on redesigning the MCAS software, and ensuring it can no longer be triggered by a single sensor failure.\n\nFor Ed Pierson, this does not go nearly far enough. A US Navy veteran, who had a senior role on the 737 production line from 2015-2018, he was a star witness during congressional hearings into the disasters involving the Max.\n\nHe told lawmakers he had become so concerned about conditions at the factory, he had told his bosses that he was hesitant about taking his own family on a Boeing plane.\n\nEd Pierson (centre), seated next to his attorney Eric Havian (right), at a House Transportation Committee hearing on oversight of the Boeing 737 Max certification, on 11 December 2019\n\nHe testified that during 2018, the factory was in a \"chaotic\" and \"dysfunctional\" state as, he claimed, staff there struggled under pressure from managers to build new planes as quickly as possible.\n\nNow, he is worried that these issues have been overlooked in the rush to get the 737 Max back in the air.\n\nHis report draws on material from the official investigations. It claims that both of the crashed aircraft suffered from - what he believes were - production defects, almost from the moment they entered service.\n\nThese included intermittent flight control system problems and electrical anomalies that occurred in the days and weeks before the accidents.\n\nHe claims these may have been symptoms of flaws in the aircrafts' highly complex wiring systems, which could have contributed to the erroneous deployment of MCAS.\n\nHe also points out that sensor failures contributed to both accidents and asks why such failures were happening on brand new machines.\n\nIn the case of the Lion Air plane, a faulty sensor was replaced with another part that was not properly calibrated.\n\nAll signs, Mr Pierson says, \"point back to where these airplanes were produced, the 737 factory\".\n\nHowever, he insists that the possibility of production defects playing a role in the accidents has not been addressed by regulators.\n\nHe claims this could lead to further tragedies, involving the Max or even a previous version of the 737.\n\nMr Pierson's concerns are supported by the celebrated aviation safety campaigner Captain Chesley Sullenberger.\n\nBest known as \"Sully\", one of the pilots who safely ditched a crippled and engineless Airbus plane in the Hudson river off Manhattan in 2009, he too believes that modifications to the Max do not go far enough.\n\nHe believes changes are needed to warning systems aboard the plane, which were carried over from a previous version of the 737 and are \"not up to modern standards\".\n\nCaptain Chesley \"Sully\" Sullenberger (centre) testifies during a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing on the status of the grounded Boeing 737 Max in June 2019\n\n\"Ed Pierson's report is very disturbing, about manufacturing issues in the Boeing factories that go well beyond just the Max, and also affect… the previous version of the 737,\" says Capt Sullenberger.\n\n\"There are many critically important unanswered questions that must be answered.\n\n\"Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) must finally become more transparent, and begin to provide information and data, so that independent experts can determine the worthiness of the work that's been done.\"\n\nThe BBC has also spoken to a former senior inspector with the UK's Air Accident Investigations Branch (AAIB), who now works as a safety specialist. He warns that Mr Pierson's findings should be viewed in a wider context.\n\nThe report, he says, does make some \"valid observations\" about the pressures on Boeing's production line and quality control, and concerns about specific components.\n\nHowever, he adds that \"taking the limited information in any accident report… and making fresh interpretations of it, is not the same as conducting a new investigation\".\n\nThe issues highlighted, he adds, \"may have been investigated and dismissed already, for good reason\".\n\nThe FAA, meanwhile, insists it only approved the return to service of the Max, following a \"comprehensive and methodical safety review process\".\n\nA worker stands by a Boeing 737 Max plane on the tarmac at the Boeing Renton factory in Washington\n\nIt adds: \"None of the many investigations of the two accidents produced evidence that a production flaw played a role\", and emphasises that \"every aircraft leaving the factory is inspected by a team of FAA inspectors before it is cleared for delivery\".\n\nBoeing itself will not comment on whether the electrical and flight control problems highlighted by Mr Pierson may have played a factor in the two accidents, on the grounds that this is a matter for the investigating authorities.\n\nIt has, however, described suggestions of any link between conditions at Renton and the two accidents as \"completely unfounded\", emphasising that none of the authorities investigating the crashes has found any such link.\n\nPatrick Ky, the head of Europe's aviation safety agency, EASA, has previously told the BBC he is \"certain\" the plane is safe to fly.\n\nBut relatives of those who died aboard ET302 are continuing to urge the agency not to allow the 737 Max to operate in Europe, \"until continuing concerns about the aircraft's safety have been fully and openly addressed\".", "People in Lebanon are living under one of the world's strictest lockdowns. Under the round-the-clock curfew, citizens who are not \"essential workers\" have been barred from leaving their homes since 14 January.\n\nLaila, 12, is in Beirut trying to study while her family works from home.\n\n\"We all have our own work to do and when we have meetings we hear each other. It can be a real distraction and stop you from finishing your work on time,\" she says.\n\n\"Sometimes I can't study well because I get stressed with all the work they're giving us. It is definitely not the same studying online as it is in the physical world.\"\n\nFor hairdresser Walid Kanaan this year has been \"extremely difficult psychologically and economically\".\n\n\"I own my shop but still I cannot afford it. I pay the workers' salary so I am really broke,\" says the 45-year-old.\n\n\"It is hitting hard. You can't go out at all or do anything. My wife works in a bank and she is also collapsing. She doesn't know if she will still have her job or not.\n\n\"We don't trust the government that if they bring a vaccine it will be safe to take it. We can only pray for God to protect us.\"\n\nRead more stories from people in lockdown in Lebanon here.", "Teachers were not at significantly higher risk of death from Covid-19 than the general population, Office for National Statistics figures suggest.\n\nRestaurant staff, people working in factories and care workers had among the highest death rates, followed by taxi drivers and security guards.\n\nNurses were more than twice as likely as their peers to die of coronavirus.\n\nSecondary school teachers may have been at slightly, but not measurably, higher risk than the average.\n\nThe ONS looked at death rates from coronavirus in England and Wales between 9 March and 28 December 2020.\n\nIt found 31 in every 100,000 working-age men and 17 in every 100,000 working-age women had died of Covid-19.\n\nThis equated to just under 8,000 deaths among 20-64-year-olds.\n\nBut care workers, security guards and people working in certain manufacturing roles died at more than three times the rate of their peers.\n\nTwo-thirds of deaths were among men.\n\nAs well as being more likely to be male, working-age people who died of Covid last year had other things in common: they were much more likely to work in jobs where they were either regularly exposed to known Covid cases or working in close proximity with other people more generally.\n\nMany of the highest-risk jobs were also relatively low paid and may be more likely to be casual or insecure, without sick pay, including hospitality, care work and taxi driving.\n\nAmong teachers, there were 18 deaths per 100,000 among men and 10 per 100,000 among women.\n\nBreaking that down by role, secondary school teachers appear to have a very slightly elevated risk at 39 deaths per 100,000 people in men and 21 per 100,000 in women.\n\nPer 100,000 men aged 20-64, 31 died in the population as a whole compared with:\n\nPer 100,000 women aged 20-64, 17 died in the population as a whole compared with:\n\nThese are illustrative examples, not an exhaustive league table.\n\nThe ONS calculated the rate by dividing the number of deaths by the number of workers in each job role.\n\nBecause the numbers for secondary teachers were comparatively small - 52 deaths in total - it's difficult to be certain about their exact risk, but any increase there might be compared with the general population was not considered statistically significant.\n\nHowever, while teachers were not at higher risk than the average, they did appear to be at higher risk than some other professional job roles, which have seen very few or no deaths.\n\nThe ONS excluded from its analysis any occupation that had seen fewer than 10 deaths, and the average death rate for the whole population masks this variation.\n\nThe study also covers periods where there were limited numbers of children attending school.\n\nBut the figures do tell us teachers didn't have an elevated risk of the magnitude faced by health and care staff and by lower-paid manual and service workers.\n\nOther groups of staff studied with higher death rates, including hospitality and some factory and construction workers, also had their usual work paused for similar chunks of that period.\n\nWhile these figures tell us the death rates in each occupation group, they do not tell us the jobs are themselves causing more infections.\n\nThe ONS looked at age and sex but did not adjust for ethnicity, health or socioeconomic status which might influence an individual's risk.\n\nONS analyst Ben Humberstone said: \"As the pandemic has progressed, we have learnt more about the disease and the communities it impacts most. There are a complex combination of factors that influence the risk of death; from your age and your ethnicity, where you live and who you live with, to pre-existing health conditions.\n\n\"Our findings do not prove that the rates of death involving COVID-19 are caused by differences in occupational exposure,\" he added.\n\nThis also just refers to deaths, not infections which may result in serious illness.\n\nSome earlier ONS data suggested certain types of teacher may have an increased risk of catching coronavirus, although again the body did not consider this to be statistically significant.\n\nDirector of policy for the Association of School and College Leaders teachers' union, Julie McCulloch, said: \"When trying to understand rates of coronavirus-related deaths, there are likely to be many complex factors and we need to be careful not to jump to conclusions about the relative risks of different workplaces.\n\n\"What we do know is that, when schools are fully open, education staff are asked to work in environments that are inherently busy and crowded. In order to give them reassurance, and to minimise the disruption to education, it is vital that they are prioritised for vaccination as soon as possible.\"\n\nWhether teachers should be prioritised for vaccines has been a matter of debate.\n\nAt the moment the programme is being rolled out based on what will save the most lives and prevent the most severe illness.\n\nAfter the oldest age groups, people with health conditions and frontline staff who are regularly exposed to the virus, the government will have to publish a new raft of priorities.\n\nVaccines minister Nadim Zahawi has indicated more people could be prioritised on the basis of their job role, including teachers, shop workers and police officers.", "Fraud has reached epidemic levels in the UK and should be seen as a national security issue, says think tank the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).\n\nThe scale of credit card, identity and cyber-fraud makes it the most prevalent crime, costing up to £190bn a year.\n\nUK intelligence agencies should play a greater role in responding, the RUSI argues in a report.\n\nPolicing should be better resourced, working more closely with the private sector, it adds.\n\nThe report argues that the scale of fraud against the private sector has an impact on the reputation of the UK as a place to do business.\n\nMeanwhile, the amount lost by the government in fraudulent claims represents a \"heist\" on the public purse, undermining faith and trust, it says.\n\nIt is the crime UK citizens are most likely to fall victim to, but the failures in responding risk undermining public confidence in the rule of law.\n\nThe Crime Survey for England and Wales found 3.7 million reported incidents in 2019-20 of members of the public being targeted by credit card, identity and cyber-fraud.\n\nThe private sector takes the biggest financial losses. One estimate from 2017 put the cost of fraud to businesses at £140bn.\n\nFraud against the public sector, including benefit, tax credit and student loan fraud, is estimated to cost £31-48bn a year, the upper figure larger than the UK's annual defence budget.\n\nThe losses go beyond the financial, the authors say.\n\n\"Fraud has the potential to disrupt society in multiple ways, by psychologically impacting individuals, undermining the viability of businesses, putting pressure on public services, fuelling organised crime and funding terrorism,\" they add.\n\nThe report cites evidence that terrorist groups and lone actors turn to fraud in order to finance their activities.\n\nIn one case, eight supporters of the Islamic State group were convicted of defrauding UK pensioners out of more than £1m, which was alleged to be used in part to fund travel from the UK to Syria.\n\nThe men carried out a type of courier fraud in which they pretended to be police officers, telling victims that their bank accounts had been compromised and needed to be transferred.\n\nBut despite the growing scale of the problem, there is no national strategy for tackling the issue, while the police response is underfunded and lacking focus.\n\nThis makes fraud \"everyone's problem but no-one's priority\", according to the report, written by RUSI experts Helena Wood, Tom Keatinge, Keith Ditcham and Ardi Janjev.\n\nThe digitisation of everyday life - accelerated by Covid - has only increased the risks, with organised crime groups showing increased sophistication in their tactics.\n\n\"The UK has become a target destination for global fraudsters,\" the RUSI argues.\n\nBut the extent to which international criminals focus on the UK is hard to gauge, because intelligence agencies have not traditionally focused on the issue.\n\nOne senior fraud professional interviewed by the researchers said that despite 30 years of investigating fraud, they still had no idea what proportion of the threat emanated from overseas.\n\nClassifying fraud as a national security issue would help ensure the right level of resourcing and prioritisation, the authors argue.\n\nThey also recommend more focused intelligence direction from the National Security Council, including greater tasking for GCHQ as well as the National Crime Agency to understand the issue.\n\nThey call for better information-sharing and use of data analytics, as well as more money and attention from police forces to address what they call a \"responsibility vacuum\".", "People made the most of the snowy slopes of Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, Dorset\n\nSevere weather warnings are in place across much of the UK after large parts of the country saw heavy snowfall.\n\nThe blanket of snow drew people outside for sledging and winter walks, but motorists have been warned to take extra care on icy roads with sub-zero temperatures forecast overnight.\n\nSeveral coronavirus vaccination and testing centres were closed in England and Wales due to the conditions.\n\nPolice reminded the public to keep to lockdown rules while out in the snow.\n\nOfficers in Wandsworth, south-west London, encouraged people with gardens to play in the snow at home.\n\nAnd police in Rutland, Leicestershire, were among several forces questioning why people were leaving their homes to go sledging.\n\nContinuing coronavirus lockdowns across the four UK nations mean most of the population must stay at home, except for a limited number of reasons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. For cats Bonny and Freddy, the snow is a chance to explore. Credit: Rachel Prew\n\nAs well as four vaccination centres in Wales, six Covid testing centres in the West Midlands had to close due to heavy snow on Sunday.\n\nHighways England warned that the snow had caused collisions on the M3, M27 and M25 in southern England, with the agency urging drivers to only travel if absolutely necessary.\n\nThose using the roads for essential journeys have been urged to allow plenty of extra time for their travel and pedestrians and cyclists are also advised to be cautious.\n\nThe Met Office put a yellow weather warning for snow in place on Sunday, stretching from coast to coast in southern England and ending just south of Manchester.\n\nIt is also in place for western and northern areas of Scotland, most of Northern Ireland and all of Wales apart from Anglesey.\n\nAn amber warning for snow in Nottingham and Stoke meant travel disruption and power cuts were likely on Sunday evening.\n\nYellow weather warnings for ice are in place until 11:00 GMT Monday for all of Wales and Northern Ireland, northern and eastern Scotland and much of southern England and the Midlands.\n\nMany people swapped their usual daily bout of exercise for sledging on Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath, north London, but police urged people to stay at home\n\nGritters leapt into action near Touchen-end in Berkshire\n\nIn Wales, appointments at the Bridgend, Rhondda, Abercynon and Merthyr Tydfil coronavirus vaccination centres were rescheduled for safety reasons, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said.\n\nUp to 1in (3cm) of snow was forecast to fall in most areas of Wales, with 4-6in (10-15cm) expected in the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia.\n\nIn the West Midlands, coronavirus testing centres at Castle Vale Stadium, the Arcadian Centre and Maypole Youth Centre were closed, Birmingham City Council said.\n\nFacilities in Moat Street, Coventry and The Place in Oakengates in Shropshire also closed, along with one in Lichfield, Staffordshire, local MP Michael Fabricant said.\n\nAnd in Devon, a gritting lorry overturned on Dartmoor. Devon County Council urged people to avoid travel unless it was absolutely essential and not to travel to find snow.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Devon County Council This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMet Office forecaster Simon Partridge said a band of hail, sleet, snow and rain moved in through Wales and south-west England in the early hours before sweeping across the UK and stalling over the Midlands, which saw some of the heaviest snow.\n\nColeshill, near Birmingham, had seen had 3.5in (9cm) by Sunday lunchtime.\n\nThe snow clouds eased away on Sunday evening but overnight temperatures could be as low as -4C to -6C (25F to 21F) for a lot of the south of the UK, the forecaster added.\n\n\"Some localised spots, likely in the Midlands, could see it as low as -10C (14F),\" he said.\n\nSnowmen popped up in the grounds of Guildford Castle, Surrey\n\nAs shown on the M1 in Bedfordshire, the wintry showers have caused hazardous driving conditions\n\nChris Fawkes of BBC Weather said some stretches of the M4 and M5 had been completely covered in snow at some points on Sunday morning.\n\nHe said this was partly because traffic has been low due to lockdown restrictions - and vehicles are needed to help grit mix into snow to make it melt.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you this evening.\n\nMost pupils across the UK have not been in school since before the Christmas holidays - and now Tory MPs are calling for a \"route map\" for the reopening of schools in England. Pupils have been told they will be learning from home until at least the February half-term holidays. And Education Secretary Gavin Williamson says schools will be given at least two weeks' notice to reopen - which he \"hopes\" will happen before Easter. So, with no firm timetable, the chairman of the education select committee, Robert Halfon, has called for a plan to be laid out to MPs. He has asked for an urgent question in the Commons - if granted, Mr Williamson must respond. No part of the UK has yet announced a firm date for schools' reopening - you can read about the different nations' plans here.\n\nThe UK must reform how it is governed or risk becoming a \"failed state\", former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown has warned. Writing in the Daily Telegraph, he says Covid has exposed \"tensions\" between Whitehall and the nations and regions. Recent polls have suggested rising support for Scottish independence - and a potential border vote in Northern Ireland. \"The complaint is that Whitehall does not fully understand the country it is supposed to govern,\" says Mr Brown.\n\nFrance's top medical adviser says a third national lockdown will probably soon be needed to combat Covid-19. Prof Jean-Francois Delfraissy says \"there is an emergency\", adding that the \"UK variant\" now makes up between 7-9% of cases in some French regions. A strict curfew was implemented last weekend but cases continue to climb. You can see police enforcing the 6pm shutdown below.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police in Paris ensure shops close at 6pm as France begins a new curfew to tackle Covid-19\n\nRiot police in the Netherlands have clashed with protesters who are angry at new coronavirus restrictions. Officers used water cannon and tear gas to clear demonstrators in Eindhoven. They had gathered in defiance of a new 9pm curfew. Some protesters threw fireworks, looted supermarkets and smashed shop windows. There were smaller demonstrations in the capital, Amsterdam.\n\nAustralia has suspended a travel bubble with New Zealand - after NZ's first Covid case in months was confirmed to be the South African variant. The infected patient had served 14 days in quarantine and tested negative twice before developing symptoms later. Travellers coming from New Zealand to Australia in the next 72 hours will now have to go through hotel quarantine. Health Minister Greg Hunt said the suspension was done out of an \"abundance of caution\".\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page. This explainer looks at various questions - including whether the vaccine stops you spreading the disease.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Supporters of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny protest against his arrest across Russia\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has condemned as \"illegal and dangerous\" the mass rallies in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny.\n\nTens of thousands defied a heavy police presence to join the rallies across Russia on Saturday. More than 3,500 were detained, monitors say.\n\nEU foreign ministers discussed the protests on Monday, but did not agree on further sanctions on Russia.\n\nIn Moscow riot police were seen beating and dragging away demonstrators.\n\nThe foreign ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are demanding \"restrictive measures against Russian officials responsible for arrests\".\n\nPoland's President Andrzej Duda also urged the EU to step up sanctions on Russia following the arrest of Mr Navalny. A week ago he was sentenced to 30 days in jail for violating parole conditions - a case he condemns as fabricated.\n\nMr Navalny, President Putin's most high-profile critic, called for protests after he was arrested at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, on arrival from Berlin on 17 January.\n\nDemonstrations were held on Saturday in about 100 cities and towns from Russia's Far East and Siberia to Moscow and St Petersburg.\n\nFrench Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian described the arrests as a \"slide towards authoritarianism\" and called for further sanctions against Russia.\n\n\"Change is in the air in Russia,\" declared Lithuania's new Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis, as he arrived for his first meeting with EU counterparts.\n\nBut he soon discovered that change is not always in the air in Brussels.\n\nA couple of years ago, one seasoned Spanish politician lamented the meetings of the 27 EU foreign ministers as being \"more a valley of tears\" than a place for decision-making: \"We express our condolence and concern… but no capacity for action comes out of it.\"\n\nUnfortunately for that same politician - Josep Borrell - he's now the man who chairs these gatherings.\n\nThe EU has already imposed sanctions on six senior Russian officials - including the head of the FSB security service - over the nerve agent attack on Mr Navalny last August.\n\nBut MEPs are urging the EU to go further and hit Mr Putin's administration \"where it really hurts - the money\".\n\nIn December, the EU unveiled a tougher sanctions regime, including asset freezes and travel bans for foreign individuals accused of human rights violations. It puts the bloc alongside the US and UK, which adopted so-called Magnitsky Acts.\n\nThey take the name of the lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a Moscow prison in 2009 after reporting massive fraud by Russian tax officials. The EU version does not bear his name, to avoid alienating Russia-leaning member states.\n\nAgreeing on EU sanctions is always tough, as it requires all 27 countries to agree and we're told no concrete proposal was discussed by foreign ministers today.\n\nObservers say the scale of the Russia-wide demonstrations was unprecedented for recent years, and the Moscow protest was the capital's largest in almost a decade.\n\nThey appeared to enjoy widespread passive support, with trolley bus passengers waving to the crowds and large numbers of car drivers beeping their horns.\n\nProtesters, like these in St Petersburg, braved freezing cold to rally for Mr Navalny\n\nThe protests were also notable for the high proportion of young Russians who turned out. Opposition rallies have attracted more young people since Mr Navalny began releasing online investigations into alleged government corruption.\n\nMany protesters said they were angered by the findings of that report, and chants of \"Putin is a thief!\" were heard during Saturday's demonstrations.\n\nSocial media also played a key role in driving young people - many of whom have only ever known a Putin-led Russia - to take to the streets. Posts promoting the demonstrations were viewed hundreds of millions of times on TikTok.\n\nThe flood of videos prompted Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, to demand the app take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\".\n\nMr Putin has said no underage children should take part in the protests: \"One must under no circumstances push forward underage people. After all, it is terrorists who act like that, when they drive in front of them women and children. The emphasis is slightly different, but essentially, this is the same thing.\"\n\nPolice should also act within the law, he said.\n\nNo-one should seek to advance \"their ambitious objectives and goals, particularly in politics\" through protests, he added, in an apparent reference to Mr Navalny.\n\nMr Navalny's video report into this Black Sea resort has been viewed 85 million times\n\nOn Sunday Mr Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov criticised a message from the US embassy in Moscow warning people to avoid the demonstrations, branding the warning an \"interference in our domestic affairs\".\n\nThe embassy said such warnings were a \"common and routine practice\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Russian embassy in the UK also accused Western nations of using their embassies to encourage the protests.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Russian Embassy, UK This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock says lifting restrictions can only happen when \"facts on the ground\" show it is safe\n\nIt is \"difficult to put a timeline\" on when England's lockdown could be lifted, Matt Hancock has said.\n\nThe health secretary said there were \"early signs\" the measures were working but it was \"not a moment to ease up\".\n\nHe said there were 37,000 people in hospital with coronavirus in the UK and \"more people on ventilators than at any time in this whole pandemic\".\n\n\"The pressure on the NHS remains huge and we've got to get that case rate down,\" he said.\n\nThe number of coronavirus cases in the UK has been falling, but the number of people in hospital remains high, as does the UK's daily death numbers.\n\nA further 592 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 22,195 cases have been recorded, according to Monday's government figures.\n\nThe are 4,076 people in hospital on ventilators.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAt Monday's Downing Street press briefing, Mr Hancock said: \"I understand the yearning people have to get out of this.\n\n\"The thing is that we have to look at the facts on the ground and we have to monitor those facts.\n\n\"And of course, everybody wants to have a timeline for that, but I think most people understand why it is difficult to put a timeline on it because it's a matter of monitoring the data.\"\n\nHe set out the factors the government would take into account when reaching decisions over lifting the restrictions, including: the death rate, the number of people in hospital, whether there were new coronavirus variants and the success of the vaccine rollout.\n\nAlmost four in five of the UK's over-80s have had the vaccine, Mr Hancock said, with nearly 6.6m people in total having had their first dose.\n\nThe falling numbers of infections being reported and the rising rate of vaccination are incredibly promising - even if the drop in infections reported on Monday may have been partly an artefact of fewer people coming forward for a test because of the snow.\n\nBut that does not offer any guarantees of a rapid lifting of lockdown.\n\nWhat is concerning ministers are the high numbers in hospital.\n\nThe number of new admissions seems to have plateaued - but at a very high rate.\n\nClose to 4,000 patients a day are being admitted to hospital.\n\nTo put that in context, that is four times the total number of all types of respiratory admissions the NHS would normally see in winter.\n\nIt means the numbers in hospital are at nearly twice the level they were at the peak in the spring during the first wave.\n\nWith better treatments available, patients are spending longer in hospital.\n\nSo come mid-February the pressures in hospital are likely to be very high, leaving ministers little wriggle-room to relax restrictions.\n\nThe big unknown, however, is what impact and how quickly vaccination will have an effect on admissions.\n\nThere is encouraging early news from Israel that hospitalisation really starts to drop three weeks after the first dose.\n\nIf that is repeated here, the picture could quickly change.\n\nBut until that happens the government - in the words of Health Secretary Matt Hancock - is urging the country to hold its nerve.\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street press conference, Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, warned: \"We are not out of this by a very long way.\"\n\nShe said current coronavirus rates were still causing concern, patience was needed about the vaccination programme and the NHS still faced its usual winter pressures.\n\nSusan Hopkins, from Public Health England, said the UK need to see the death rate \"fall much lower\" before any decision to ease measures.\n\nShe said teams were currently studying the impact on the UK's vaccine programme of the variant first identified in South Africa.\n\nBut she added the \"consensus view\" from four UK laboratories suggested that \"the current vaccine works against the variant that was first discovered in the UK\".", "Former Brexit Party MEP Robert Rowland was described as a larger than life character\n\nA former Brexit Party MEP has died in a diving accident near his home in the Bahamas.\n\nRobert Rowland, 54, represented the south east of England at the European Parliament from July 2019 until January 2020.\n\nNigel Farage paid tribute to the \"larger than life character\" and \"enthusiastic\" Brexit supporter.\n\nHe announced the death of his former colleague in a statement on Sunday.\n\nThe Royal Bahamas Police Force said it had \"received reports of a drowning incident\" on Saturday and was \"conducting inquires\".\n\nMr Farage said: \"It is with great sadness that I have to announce the death of Robert Rowland, after a diving accident near his home in the Bahamas.\n\n\"Following a successful career in the City, Robert was an enthusiastic Brexit Party MEP and larger than life character.\"\n\nHe said he wished to extend his \"sincerest condolences\" to Mr Rowland's family, including his wife and four children.\n\nFormer Brexit Party MEP David Bull said he was \"beyond devastated,\" adding: \"Robert was a wonderful friend and colleague.\"\n• None Farage's Brexit Party officially changes its name\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Budweiser has said it will not advertise its beer during the Super Bowl this year, joining a growing number of big brands sitting out the annual American football championship.\n\nThe event remains one of the most-watched in the US each year, drawing more than 100 million viewers in 2020.\n\nThe advertisements are often as much a conversation-starter as the game itself, sometimes sparking controversy.\n\nFirms say the virus has made finding the right message especially difficult.\n\nOthers are grappling with financial hits caused by the pandemic, which has dampened spending on many items, while also casting more than 10 million Americans out of work, resurfacing racial and economic inequalities and sharpening political divisions.\n\nBudweiser's parent company, Anheuser-Busch, said it planned to reallocate the money it would have spent on a 30-second Budweiser spot during the game to support an Ad Council campaign promoting coronavirus vaccination.\n\nIt is the first time the flagship brand will not make a game-time appearance in 37 years.\n\n\"This commitment is an investment in a future where we can all get back together safely over a beer\", it said, adding that it would still promote some of its other brands, such as Bud Light, during the game.\n\nOn Monday, Budweiser released a full 90-second Super Bowl ad on YouTube entitled \"Bigger Picture\", which showed US citizens overcoming pandemic challenges together and aimed to raise awareness about Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nCoke, Pepsi and Hyundai are among the other major names also planning to forego airtime during the broadcast.\n\nCoca-Cola said it had made the \"difficult choice\" to \"ensure we are investing in the right resources during these unprecedented times\". The firm did not advertise during the 2019 game either.\n\nHyundai cited \"marketing priorities\" and the timing of upcoming vehicle launches.\n\nPepsi has also said it would not promote its flagship soda during the game. Instead, it is spending money on an advert airing to promote the Super Bowl halftime show it has sponsored for almost a decade.\n\nThe Super Bowl boasts some of the most expensive advertising slots all year\n\nGiven all the economic, political and health questions of 2020, companies may have felt it was prudent to pull back - especially several months ago, when they would have had to start planning for such a high-profile night, said Kimberly Whitler, professor at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business\n\n\"It's the biggest night of TV watching and so they have to plan it months in advance,\" she said. \"There was so much uncertainty that to go and invest in a Super Bowl ad might have actually felt or seemed frivolous at the time.\"\n\nThe decision goes \"beyond finances\", she added. \"It's also, 'How do we identify the right tone that will match the moment'.\"\n\nThis year's Super Bowl will see star quarterback Tom Brady's Tampa Bay Buccaneers face off against reigning champions the Kansas City Chiefs on 7 February.\n\nLast year, firms spent an average of $5.25m (£3.8m) for a 30-second spot during the championship, driving Super Bowl ad spending to a record $450m, according to Kantar consultancy.\n\nThe firm has said its research suggests Super Bowl ads are \"typically 20 times more effective\" in changing a brand's perception than a normal advert.\n\nAnheuser-Busch, an official sponsor of the National Football League, is typically one of the night's top spenders, so the absence of its flagship brand may create its own buzz, said Satya Menon, a Chicago-based managing partner of of ROI practice at Kantar.\n\nChipotle's very first Super Bowl commercial is entitled, \"Can a burrito change the world?\"\n\n\"Budweiser in particular is a very established brand ... so for them, it's all about generating love and goodwill and maybe this is another way,\" she says.\n\n\"They do have a lot of pre-game advertising out there. When people have the expectation that they wil be there and then they don't see the brand, they'll start thinking why are they not.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the sports showdown still seems to be finding plenty of firms ready to fill spots left by the stalwarts. Names of newcomers include Chipotle and Fiverr, a freelance platform that has seen business soar during the pandemic.\n\n\"It doesn't get any bigger than the Super Bowl from a branding and marketing perspective,\" said Fiverr's chief marketing officer Gali Arnon. \"We believe this is a major opportunity for us to introduce the world to Fiverr in a unique and creative way.\"\n\nMany of this year's advertisers are firms coming from the e-commerce sector, which have benefited from the pandemic, Ms Menon said.\n\nAnd though audience numbers for NFL games have slipped this year, for those firms making their game-night debuts, Ms Menon says she still expects ads to have a big impact - even if the pandemic puts a damper on the traditional Super Bowl parties and other festivities, which can make championship feel like an unofficial national holiday.\n\n\"There isn't very much going on in life, so it will always have that great reach,\" she says. \"Some of that excitement may not be there, but watching will definitely be there.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says teachers and pupils will be told “as much as we can, as soon as we can” about reopening schools\n\nThe government will tell teachers and parents when schools in England can reopen \"as soon as we can\", the prime minister has said.\n\nMPs have called on the government to set out a \"route map\" for reopening amid concerns for children's education.\n\nBoris Johnson said he understood why people wanted a timetable but he did not want to lift restrictions while the infection rate was \"still very high\".\n\nHe would not guarantee schools would reopen before April's Easter break.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"We've now got the R [reproduction rate] down below 1 across the whole of the country, that's a great achievement, we don't want to see a huge surge of infection just when we've got the vaccination programme going so well and people working so hard.\n\n\"I understand why people want to get a timetable from me today, what I can tell you is we'll tell you, tell parents, tell teachers as much as we can as soon as we can.\"\n\nHe said the government would be \"looking at the potential of relaxing some measures\" before mid-February, with Downing Street clarifying that this meant looking at the data to decide \"what we may or may not be able to ease from 15 February onwards\".\n\nA further 592 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 22,195 cases have been recorded, according to Monday's government figures.\n\nAt Monday's Downing Street press briefing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said almost four in five of the UK's over-80s have had the vaccine, with nearly 6.6m people in total having had their first dose.\n\nBut he said the NHS continues to be under \"intense pressure\", with Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, saying there are \"twice the number of people in hospital than we had in the first wave\" of the pandemic.\n\nRobert Halfon, chairman of the education select committee, told BBC Breakfast there was \"enormous uncertainty\" and called for the government to set out what the conditions needed to be for pupils to return to schools.\n\nThe Conservative MP for Harlow suggested the government could consider tighter restrictions in other parts of society and the economy, in order to enable schools to open.\n\nTory MPs were enraged by reports over the weekend that schools might not re-open fully until after the Easter holidays.\n\nMinisters say it's the progress of the pandemic that will determine their decision rather than a pre-agreed timetable.\n\nYet whenever the government speaks, parents hear dates. Whether it's that the situation will be reviewed at half-term. Or a pledge to give two weeks' notice when classes will come back.\n\nMPs are now pushing for more transparency from the government about how they'll assess the data, and for some ideas between school being mostly closed or totally open.\n\nThis issue is a perfect metaphor for the situation facing the entire country. Too much hope breeds disappointment, but living with uncertainty is just as hard. And you can come up with a plan but it might have to be junked if the virus has other ideas.\n\nChildren's Commissioner for England Anne Longfield joined the call for clarity and told the BBC: \"Children are more withdrawn, they are really suffering in terms of isolation, their confidence levels are falling, and for some there are serious issues.\"\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said the government wanted to \"see all children back at the very earliest moment\".\n\nSchools in England have been closed to most pupils since the national lockdown began on 5 January due to high levels of Covid transmission in the community.\n\nThere have been calls for teachers to be vaccinated sooner, although it is not clear if that would allow schools to reopen earlier.\n\nThe majority of pupils in England are learning from home with schools only open to the children of key workers, vulnerable children and those who cannot learn at home\n\nCovid death rates among educational professionals are not \"statistically significantly different\" to those in the general population, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) data, but secondary school teachers appeared to have an elevated risk compared particularly with people working in office-type jobs.\n\nAmong secondary school teachers Covid death rates were 39.2 deaths per 100,000 males, compared with 31.4 for all males aged 20 to 64, and 21.2 per 100,000 females, compared with 16.8, but the ONS said these were \"not statistically significantly different than those of the same age and sex in the wider population\".\n\nSchools will remain closed in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales until at least the February half-term - with the Welsh first minister saying it is \"unlikely\" all pupils will return after the break.\n\nGemma Cocker with her children Charlie and Lyla\n\nGemma Cocker from Brighton is one of the many parents struggling to balance childcare, home learning and work.\n\nShe says she's having to share her work laptop with her son, who has already missed learning time after the family moved home and did not have internet access. \"We didn't have any internet. The school said they had reached their limit so couldn't take him,\" she says.\n\nAnd because her children are young, she says: \"They're never just going to watch a classroom by themselves, you have to be with them the whole time.\"\n\nKitty Jones, 11, is in her last year of primary school and she says home learning is \"tricky\" because she is not used to using different remote platforms like Google Classroom and she wants to return \"as soon as possible\".\n\n\"I still think that I'm learning a bit, but I don't think I'm learning as much as I would be in person,\" she tells BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\nHolly Agbukor, 18, is studying for her A-levels, says it is \"quite stressful\" learning at home, as it is a \"different environment, so it is not as easy to be fully present in the lessons\".\n\nBut, she says, while is it \"difficult\" working at home, \"I don't think it is worth the cost of reintroducing the virus into society and making things worse overall\".\n\nHow has home-schooling been going for your family? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The UK has identified 77 cases of the coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa, the health secretary has said.\n\nCases are linked to travellers arriving in the UK, rather than community transmission, Matt Hancock added.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr cases were under \"very close\" observation and enhanced contact tracing was under way.\n\nMinisters are due to meet on Monday to consider imposing tougher restrictions on people arriving from abroad.\n\nScientists have said there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock said that \"three quarters of all the 80-year-olds in the country and a similar number of care homes\" have received their first doses of the vaccine.\n\nBoth the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses, and figures so far reflect those given the first dose.\n\nMr Hancock said that it was \"far too early to say\" what proportion of the population needed to be vaccinated before lockdown restrictions could be eased.\n\nAll viruses, including the one that causes Covid-19, mutate, and variants have been first located in the UK, South Africa and Brazil.\n\nThe South Africa variant has been found in at least 20 other countries, including the UK.\n\nMr Hancock said that all the South Africa variant cases in the UK were linked to travel.\n\n\"That's why we have got such stringent border measures in place against movement from South Africa,\" he added.\n\nThe UK closed all travel corridors last week until at least 15 February, with almost all travellers arriving in the country now required to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has not ruled out bringing in tougher measures at UK borders, telling a Downing Street news conference on Friday: \"We don't want to put that (efforts to control Covid) at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nMinisters are set to discuss whether to tighten border restrictions further, including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"We have got to be cautious at the borders.\"\n\nAsked for a date on when lockdown restrictions might end, Mr Hancock said it was \"one of the many things that we don't yet know the answer to\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock on easing restrictions: \"We don't know the answer\"\n\nGovernment data on 14 January showed there were 35 confirmed cases of the South Africa variant identified in the UK, and a further 12 \"probable\" cases.\n\nMr Hancock said nine cases of the Brazil variant had been found in the UK, adding \"we are monitoring each and every one very closely\".\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that Labour had been \"pushing the government to take tougher measures at the border since last spring\".\n\nShe said: \"We would fully expect the government to bring in tougher quarantine measures, we would expect them to roll out a proper testing strategy and we would expect them as well to start checking up on the people who are quarantining.\n\n\"Only three out of every hundred people who are asked to quarantine when they arrive into the UK actually face any checks at all - that's just simply not sufficient.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Johnson said there was \"some evidence\" the UK variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific officer, Sir Patrick Vallance, said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nThe PM said on Friday that there was evidence that both the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine and Oxford-AstraZeneca jab were effective against the variant first detected in the UK.\n\nSir Patrick has warned that the variants in South Africa and Brazil might \"have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines\".\n\nBut he said \"there is no evidence\" that the two variants have transmission advantages over those already in the UK and so having cases here doesn't mean \"they will take off\".\n\nMeanwhile, England's deputy chief medical officer warned that people who have received a Covid-19 vaccine could still pass the virus on to others and should continue following lockdown rules.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam stressed that scientists \"do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission\".\n\nHe said vaccines offer \"hope\" but infection rates must come down quickly.\n\nIt's a key question but the fact is that no one can be sure.\n\nThat's because the trials of the vaccines explored the safety of the drugs and how well they prevent people from becoming ill - with good results for both.\n\nBut they did not investigate whether vaccination also stops infection and therefore whether people who've been immunised can still spread the virus to others.\n\nIf a vaccinated person did become infected, they probably wouldn't realise because they wouldn't have any symptoms. That's why health officials and ministers are so concerned.\n\nIt's possible that the antibodies boosted by the vaccine suppress the effects of the virus but don't eliminate it from the upper airway.\n\nMany scientists are cautiously hopeful that in this scenario, the amount of virus would be reduced but they're waiting for the results of studies under way now.\n\nAnd until there's an answer, it's difficult to calculate how and when it's safe to ease restrictions and allow people to mix again.\n\nA further 610 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Sunday - down from 671 deaths last Sunday - in addition to 30,004 new infections.\n\nThe number of positive cases has fallen for the fourth day in a row and is the lowest figure since before Christmas.\n\nThe death figures tend to be lower on a Sunday and Monday because of weekend lags in reporting of the data.\n\nMeanwhile, more than six million people have had their first dose of a Covid vaccine - with the figure now standing at 6,353,321.\n\nNadhim Zahawi, the minister responsible for the vaccine rollout, said on Twitter that 6,353,321 of the \"most vulnerable and frontline heroes\" had received a first dose of the vaccine, but there was still \"much more to do\".\n\nThere were 4,076 Covid patients in mechanical ventilation beds in UK hospitals as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video filmed in Tacoma, Washington, shows a police car apparently ploughing through a crowd of people\n\nA police officer is under investigation in the US after his vehicle ploughed into a group of people, running over at least one, in Tacoma, Washington.\n\nNobody was killed in the incident, although one person was rushed to hospital with injuries.\n\nA video shows a large group of people surrounding the police car as it revs its engine in an apparent effort to drive off.\n\nThe group refuses to move, and police say people started hitting the car.\n\nThe police officer then speeds through the group, hitting numerous people. One person is dragged under the car.\n\nTacoma Police Department said multiple vehicles and approximately 100 people were blocking an intersection when officers arrived on the scene. The group was apparently watching street racers doing \"burnouts\".\n\n\"During the operation, a responding Tacoma police vehicle was surrounded by the crowd. People hit the body of the police vehicle and its windows as the officer was stopped in the street,\" police said in a statement.\n\n\"The officer, fearing for his safety, tried to back up, but was unable to do so because of the crowd,\" it said.\n\n\"While trying to extricate himself from an unsafe position, the officer drove forward striking one individual and may have impacted others,\" it said.\n\nThe person who was run over was rushed to hospital. Their condition is as yet unclear.\n\nThe Pierce County Force Investigation Team is investigating the incident, the statement said. The police officer has not been identified.\n\n\"I am concerned that our department is experiencing another use of deadly force incident,\" Interim Police Chief Mike Ake said in the statement.\n\n\"I send my thoughts to anyone who was injured in tonight's event, and am committed to our department's full co-operation in the independent investigation and to assess the actions of the department's response during the incident.\"\n\nThe incident comes at a time of rising anger over the use of excessive force by police in the US.\n\nPeople across the world took to the streets last year to demonstrate their anger at the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis, and to demand an end to police brutality and what they see as systemic racism.", "Some Barclaycard customers will see their minimum repayments rise from Tuesday, at a time when finances are already stretched owing to Covid and Christmas.\n\nThe new requirements are tailored to each customer, although some may see a significant rise in demands.\n\nBut the changes will also see charges for exceeding a credit limit scrapped.\n\nJanuary is a pinch point for many in debt and borrowers are being urged to seek help if they are in trouble.\n\nBarclaycard signalled the changes to their pricing structures in November, although some borrowers may have missed the notice, which was titled \"changes to your terms and conditions\".\n\nThe new repayment rates will affect those with Platinum, Initial, Freedom, Forward, Cashback, Littlewoods, Rewards and Hilton Honors cards, but not Premier or Woolwich cards.\n\nFor cardholders who started using their cards in the last decade, the minimum repayment each month has been calculated as the highest of 2.25% of the full balance, 1% of the balance plus interest, or £5. This differed slightly for longer-standing customers.\n\nThe new charges mean minimum repayments will be the highest of between 2% and 5% of the full balance, between 1% and 3% of the balance plus interest, or £5.\n\nThis means some people could see the minimum repayment rise, although some other charges - such as the late payment fee - will be limited.\n\nThe exact percentage depends on the customer and would have been outlined in the November message.\n\nA Barclaycard spokesman said: \"We are increasing minimum payments for some customers to help them pay off debt quicker and reduce the overall interest they pay.\n\n\"This is part of our ambition to ensure that no Barclaycard customer gets into persistent debt - where they pay more in interest and charges than reducing their debt and take a long time to pay this debt off - and is being put in place to support our customers.\"\n\nSara Williams, who writes the Debt Camel blog, said that the higher minimum payment may well come as a \"nasty shock\".\n\n\"January is always the tightest month for money for most people. December pay is often early, so the money has to stretch further, and if you put any Christmas presents or expenses on your Barclaycard, this month's bill will be high anyway,\" she said.\n\n\"For people who were hardly managing before, the increase to the minimum payments may tip the bill over into being unaffordable.\"\n\nDebt charities had already warned that the coronavirus pandemic meant the UK was \"sleepwalking into a debt crisis\".\n\nThe government-backed Money and Pensions Service - which offers free guidance - said it was expecting a call about debt at least every four minutes throughout January.\n\nBarclaycard said the timing of the changes - which coincide with lockdown and many people on a reduced furlough income - was unintentional and had been signalled some time ago.\n\nAny borrowers who feel the new repayment levels are unaffordable are being asked to contact the company.\n\nMore broadly, anyone struggling to make debt repayments of any kind is being urged to face their difficulties and seek help.\n\n\"Financial worries negatively affect our 'cognition', which are the thinking processes that support and maintain our mental health. When in a poor state, financial worries cause stress and our cognition fails,\" said Keiron Sparrowhawk, a cognition expert from the Being Well Group, which runs the MyCognition app.\n\nThis could lead to depression and hasty, ill-thought-out decisions, he said.\n\n\"Together, depression and anxiety are distressing and disabling, causing us to spiral out of control and enter a pit of hell,\" he said.", "The water is warmer than the air and is creating a mist along Dynevor Road\n\nThe coalmining heritage of Wales has been implicated in flooding of homes - but what has happened in Skewen?\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated from the Neath Port Talbot village, with at least eight streets left under water.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones says the flood appears to be related to mine works - but the volume of water involved has hampered a full assessment so far.\n\nThe Coal Authority is investigating how \"historic underground mining features\" in the area exacerbated the problem.\n\nA geologist says there are tens of thousands of old mine shafts across the former south Wales coalfield and it is \"incredibly difficult\" to monitor them all.\n\nSkewen lies within an old coal mining hotspot, with several former colliery sites near the village that operated in the 19th and early 20th Century.\n\nThere were colliery sites near what is now Drummau Road, in the north of the village and another close to Old Road, near Neath Abbey.\n\nSkewen was part of a collection of collieries that stretched between Neath and Llanelli on the western side of south Wales' coalfield.\n\nGraham Levins, secretary of the Welsh Mines Preservation Trust, said old mines often contain groundwater which can flood in heavy rain.\n\nHe said: \"A lot of them go very, very deep down, much below the local water level and that's why they had all the big wheels to pump the water out.\n\n\"It fills up with water and will find a way out. Normally rainfall you get it doesn't cause a lot of problems but when you get really heavy rain, the water drains down through the ground and builds up.\"\n\nStreets were turned into rivers in Skewen\n\nGeologist Tom Backhouse said water was coming out of an area near the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where there is a record of a mine shaft dating from the turn of the 20th Century.\n\nIt then started \"rushing down\" Drummau Road, causing the flooding that forced evacuations.\n\n\"What we can expect to have happened is that the water level in the mines rose to a point where it's burst out of that entry point from the mine workings below.\n\n\"Also, there are images of very ochre like orange-coloured water and again, that may well be issuing from the mine workings on the highlands to the east of the property on the hill behind.\n\n\"That may be where the shallow workings have flooded.\"\n\nHe said old mine working across the former coalfield area hold water at a certain depth, but when an event such as Storm Christoph drops \"a huge amount in a small area\", the levels rise quickly.\n\n\"As it gets closer and closer to the surface, it basically looks for an escape, the pressure builds up,\" he continued.\n\n\"What it looks like has happened on the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where the mine shaft is recorded, is that pressure has built up at that point and then burst out through the shaft which is very likely to have been capped with wood or something like that.\n\n\"Where you've got those mine shafts, which ultimately are vertical tunnels down into the mine workings below, the water has literally forced itself up through that shaft, and the pressure is obviously so great it's caused this devastating flash flood.\"\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nThere are about 13 shafts recorded within about 820ft (250m) of the one in Goshen Park, so Mr Backhouse said it is possible more than one may have burst.\n\nThere are tens of thousands in south Wales and he said it was \"incredibly difficult\" to check them all, but there were \"tell tale signs\" as to why they may collapse such as age or what type of developments are around them.\n\nThe clean up has continued on Friday morning\n\n\"Not to try and fear-monger or anything but of course this sort of thing can happen again,\" he said.\n\n\"If another event like Storm Christoph happens, the water levels in the mine rises as quickly as it did, there's absolutely nothing to say that it wouldn't happen again in the future.\n\n\"And obviously as climate changes and we have many more events like Storm Christoph, they are going to increase in frequency, they are going to be much more severe.\n\n\"The Coal Authority will have to consider the risk in places like Skewen, and they'll have to understand how it will affect residents and proactively manage that and look at how to reduce the risks for residents.\"", "Pictures of the Pampas grass on social media are thought to have made the area in South Shields popular\n\nA boom in the popularity of Pampas grass with interior decorators has led to \"droves\" of people picking the plant which grows wild near a beach.\n\nThe grass, near Littlehaven Beach in South Shields, forms part of a wind defence to stop sand blowing onto roads and helps protect the coastline.\n\nSouth Tyneside Council warned anyone found removing it could be prosecuted.\n\nCouncillor Ernest Gibson said while the grass may look \"beautiful in vases\" people were \"damaging the environment\".\n\nThe grass, which was popular in the 1970s, can sell for up to £40 a bunch and has proved a popular addition to people's homes.\n\nIt is thought that photographs on social media sites such as Instagram may have influenced people turning up and taking it, Mr Gibson added.\n\n\"Pampas grass is quite expensive to buy if you went to a florist. It's cheaper to come to South Tyneside and take it away,\" he said.\n\n\"But what we are doing is urging people not to come here and take it away, it's there for a reason.\"\n\nPampas grass and Marram grass form part of a defence along the coast at South Shields\n\nThe Pampas grass helps to bond poor soils found at the coast, while Marram grass helps to prevent erosion in the dunes.\n\nSigns are to be erected warning people not to pick the grass because it is already in need of replenishment, the council said.\n\n\"Through Covid, we have a massive amount of people coming to the coastal town, it's Benidorm without the sunshine,\" he added.\n\n\"It's great to see people at the seaside enjoying it [the grass] and that's what it's part of. It's there for everybody to view.\"\n\nGarden designer George Wright said Pampas grass was \"very popular\" and he had seen demand increase two or three times at his nursery in West Boldon. He also expressed concern for the area.\n\n\"Once they take the flower heads themselves they take the seeds. Eventually this will become very much a patchy area and they will all start to decline.\n\n\"Pampas grass is becoming more and and more popular at the moment and I think a lot of it is people are starting to extend their houses into the garden so they want something nice in there, and also it's being used for interior decoration in houses.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Geoff and Jenny Holland married in August after two previous attempts to wed were delayed by the pandemic\n\nTwo newlywed pensioners are urging everyone to get vaccinated as they were among the first to receive a dose at a new centre.\n\nGeoff Holland, 90, and 86-year-old wife Jenny married in August after meeting at Town View independent living centre in Mansfield.\n\nThe pair tied the knot after being forced to postpone their nuptials twice due to the pandemic.\n\nThey both received the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThe couple made their vaccination plea as a centre at an old DIY store on Chesterfield Road South, in Mansfield, opened on Monday.\n\nIt has joined 31 other new sites opening across England this week, with anyone aged 75 and over who lives within a 45-minute drive encouraged to book their injections.\n\nMrs Holland praised staff at the vaccination site for the care she and her new husband received.\n\n\"We've been well looked after while we've been here,\" she said.\n\n\"People have worked long and hard to get this vaccine so I think people ought to have it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Time-lapse footage shows how a DIY store was transformed into a vaccine centre in three weeks\n\nMr and Mrs Holland said they both tested positive for coronavirus a couple of months ago after Mr Holland reported feeling unwell.\n\nBoth managed to recover without developing major symptoms.\n\nDespite the delay to their wedding and the ongoing after-effects of the pandemic, Mrs Holland said married life was turning out to be \"brilliant\".\n\n\"Hopefully, one day soon, we'll be able to have a get together and celebrate with our family and friends who couldn't be there on the day,\" she said.\n\nKathryn Turner, Mr Holland's daughter, said the family was thrilled the pair received their jabs.\n\n\"It's fantastic that they are getting the vaccine so their love story can continue,\" she said.\n\n\"Hopefully this will help us all get back to some sort of normality.\"\n\nThe Hollands met in the summer of 2019 and were engaged the following New Year's Eve\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n• None COVID-19 Vaccination in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire - NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire CCG The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Parents are struggling with the sense of uncertainty, says psychologist\n\nHome schooling can be tough. It's difficult to concentrate, there's emotional exhaustion, boredom, a lack of motivation and it's really hard not going out to see friends. And that's just the parents.\n\nThis winter lockdown is taking its toll on families, now struggling even more on the black ice of uncertainty as no-one can say when schools in England are going to reopen for most pupils again.\n\n\"There's a sense of fatigue,\" says Jacqueline Smallwood, who is at home with three secondary-school children. She says her own \"concentration levels have fallen dramatically\".\n\n\"It's so repetitive that it just makes you feel tired,\" she says of the latest lockdown and the \"silent struggle\" facing both parents and their children to try to get motivated.\n\nHome school shows no sign of coming to an early end\n\nThere might have been some guilty enjoyment at the start of the year when the school term was initially delayed, not having to get up and out on cold January mornings.\n\nUntil it dawned on them that this was becoming something much longer than a few weeks.\n\nIt's morphed from early January to half term in mid-February and now maybe Easter in early April or even later. And Jacqueline says, as a matter of \"respect\", parents need to know what's happening about schools.\n\nThe confusion over a return date seems to have further frayed the nerves of parents.\n\nThe mother, who lives outside Canterbury in Kent, says she worries about the pressures building up on young people.\n\nFor teenagers like her sons, she says this \"should be a pivotal time in their lives,\" when they're beginning to get some independence and when social lives are hugely important - but instead they're stuck inside with their parents.\n\n\"We can't live like the Waltons forever,\" she says, referencing the US TV series of a folksy family relying on each other.\n\nJacqueline says families are finding this latest lockdown tougher than the spring or summer\n\nThe first lockdown created an unexpected sense of togetherness, an \"enforced bonding\" that she says turned out to be a \"massive positive\".\n\nBut Jacqueline, who works as a writer, sees no such upside to the latest lockdown. There is a collective frustration - and she says it has been made even worse by the confusion about when schools will go back.\n\nThe online home-schooling seems to be working, she says, with teachers trying to boost the enthusiasm levels, but it's no real substitute for being in school. And she wants much more clarity about when they will go back.\n\n\"I've tried not to be political about decisions being made, but you can't help but feel disappointed. They don't seem to understand how real people are living,\" she says.\n\nShe says when politicians say maybe schools will or won't be back by Easter, they don't realise how much that uncertainty affects families trying to plan for what comes next.\n\nEducational psychologist Dan O'Hare says the \"key word is 'uncertainty'\".\n\nLiving on a laptop can take its toll on parents having to work and home school their children\n\nNot knowing what is coming next adds to the pressure, he says, and children out of school are already facing big unknowns such as what's going to happen about exams or when will they see their friends and teachers.\n\n\"It's really stressful for children and their families,\" says Dr O'Hare, who is co-chair of the British Psychological Society's division for educational and child psychology. \"They need a sense of a plan.\"\n\nThis lockdown is also in the depths of winter - and he says employers need to think about making sure staff working from home are able to take a break in daylight hours, so that families can get outside.\n\nIt's no use asking parents to answer work emails all day and expect them to go out when it's dark.\n\nSchools have been providing more online lessons in this lockdown\n\nFor some families it has got very difficult.\n\n\"It's affected her emotionally a lot,\" says Dave in Bolton, who is worrying about his six-year-old daughter, who has been crying because she misses her friends.\n\n\"It's awful, you can't put a positive spin on it. She's at that age where she's enjoying her friends, becoming more socialised,\" he told BBC 5 Live.\n\n\"She's quite a confident little girl and I can't help worry that being stuck at home is going to impact her in the longer term.\"\n\nThe father says many of her classmates are still going into school - and that makes it even harder when she sees her friends on school Zoom calls.\n\nEmployers should make sure that parents' working hours allow them to get out in daylight, says psychologist\n\nJen Locke in Newcastle makes the point that women can often be \"the most adversely affected by the decision to keep schools closed\".\n\nShe says home schooling has \"fallen squarely on my shoulders\", helping her children in the day and then shifting her work with an IT company into the evening, so it's an early start through to a very late finish.\n\n\"It's a huge mental strain… I'm knackered from it all,\" she says, right down to trying to get children to bed who aren't tired because they're not going out.\n\nA lockdown weariness seems to be out there, despite the best efforts of schools.\n\nSimon Armstrong in Bristol, whose son is in secondary school, says: \"Virtual lessons, no matter how well delivered, are a woeful substitute for real lessons.\"\n\n\"I am at the end of my tether,\" he says.\n\nThe Department for Education said: \"We are committed to reopening schools as soon as the public health picture allows, and will inform schools, parents and pupils of plans ahead of February half term.\"\n\nBut Labour has accused the government of causing \"chaos and confusion\" for parents and schools.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers said: \"Now is the moment for calm heads to decide on a sustainable return to school, not another chaotic and last-minute set of decisions that could easily result in a yo-yo return to lockdown.\"", "Of 2,000 Welsh members of the Royal College of Nursing who took part in a survey, 75.9% reported increased stress over the past year\n\nA long-term plan is needed to help nurses cope with post-traumatic stress resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, union officials have said.\n\nLast year the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) ran a survey looking at its impact on front-line staff and how it had changed nurses' lives.\n\nOf 2,000 Welsh members who took part, 75.9% reported increased stress and 52% were worried about their mental health.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it recognised the pressures on NHS workers.\n\nCarol Doggett, senior matron at Swansea's Morriston Hospital, said nurses were often becoming patients' \"next of kin\" during the pandemic, due to the \"absence of family, particularly at end of life\".\n\n\"Which we would do anyway, naturally, but in the absence of family it's far more profound than supporting them in a holistic way if they were present with us,\" she said.\n\nSenior matron Carol Doggett says the extreme pressure experienced in intensive care had been felt throughout the hospital\n\nMs Doggett said the extreme pressure experienced in intensive care had been felt throughout the hospital.\n\n\"Patients are coming in through [the emergency department]. They are sicker. The number of sicker patients has definitely increased,\" she said.\n\n\"That results in them having an extended period in hospital. They can stay beyond Covid. They continue to suffer with those conditions that present themselves as a result of Covid.\"\n\nOn Sunday, Ms Doggett's colleague, Morriston intensive care consultant John Gorst, said as many as five patients are dying with Covid during a single 12-hour shift.\n\nNicky Hughes, associate director of nursing at RCN Wales, said: \"The Welsh Government needs to set a long-term plan in place to deal with post-traumatic stress and other mental health issues amongst nurses as a result of the pandemic.\n\n\"Nurses are exhausted, stressed and nearing burnout. Every day they tell us that they feel that they have nothing left to give and feel devalued.\"\n\nAlmost a year on from the start of the pandemic nurses have had to find \"ever more physical and emotional strength\" to cope with Covid-19, said Ms Hughes.\n\nMental health charity Mind Cymru agreed with the RCN that a \"coherent long-term strategy\" was needed to help front-line workers deal with the pandemic's effect on their mental health.\n\n\"We urge Welsh Government to factor this in to their plans and take the necessary steps to give people the support they need,\" said Simon Jones, Mind Cymru's head of policy.\n\n\"Nursing staff and other healthcare professionals have played, and continue to play, a vital role in combatting the pandemic, often putting their own health and wellbeing at risk.\n\n\"Even before the outbreak, we heard from many healthcare professionals struggling with the mental health impact of things like long working hours without breaks, unsociable shift patterns, and dealing with traumatic events.\"\n\nA mental health support hotline for front-line NHS staff in Wales - Health for Health Professionals (HHP) Wales - has been set up by Cardiff University and has received Welsh Government funding.\n\nThe hotline's director Prof Jonathan Bisson said he was \"encouraged\" by the Welsh Government's investment in HHP Wales along with Traumatic Stress Wales, which helps people who have experienced traumatic events.\n\n\"These two initiatives are taking a long term strategic approach to support health workers exposed to traumatic events,\" Prof Bisson said.\n\n\"HHP Wales offers access to mental health support for any member of NHS staff in Wales and has linked with Traumatic Stress Wales to provide evidence-based treatment to health workers who are experiencing post traumatic stress disorder as a result of traumatic experiences related to the pandemic and other causes.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru said the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on health and care workers \"mustn't be underestimated\".\n\n\"The Welsh Government must demonstrate that they're taking this seriously with a robust workforce strategy that takes into account the mental health needs of workers, including sufficient down time after the pandemic, and addresses the need to retain and recruit more staff,\" said Plaid's health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth.\n\nThe Welsh Government called the \"commitment and tireless hard work\" of nurses across Wales \"truly remarkable\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"We recognise the pressures the NHS workforce is experiencing and have worked closely with NHS employers and trade unions to create a comprehensive wellbeing package to help support them, which includes a dedicated and confidential Samaritans listening support helpline.\n\n\"We have also expanded our Health for Health Professionals Wales service which offers psychological and mental health support, as well as a number of free-to-access health and wellbeing support apps.\"\n\nRCN Wales said it was glad the Welsh Government was backing projects supporting health workers.\n\nIt said it encouraged the continued development of a \"long-term strategy to deal with the lasting impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on our nursing workforce.\"", "A heatwave sweeping south-east Australia has sent temperatures soaring in the nation's biggest cities and escalated the threat of bushfires.\n\nA large blaze has been contained in Adelaide, South Australia after it burned through 2,500 hectares.\n\nNeighbouring Victoria state is facing its worst fire risk in a year.\n\nTemperatures in those states have started to cool but New South Wales and Queensland will see their heatwave continue into Tuesday.\n\nSydney recorded temperatures of above 40C by Monday afternoon.\n\nHealth officials have urged people to stay inside and to avoid physical activity, and for those near bushfires to avoid inhaling smoke.\n\nThe blaze in the Adelaide Hills has been contained but is expected to continue to burn for the next few days, local media reports.\n\nIt is believed to have destroyed several houses but has not caused injuries.\n\nThe blaze has burned through more than 2,500 hectares\n\nPeople in the area have been warned to take care.\n\n\"Smoke will reduce visibility on the roads and there is a risk of trees and branches falling,\" a statement from SA police said.\n\nImages taken on Monday show smoke over Adelaide obscuring parts of the city skyline and prompting some residents to wear face masks.\n\nAdelaide was blanketed by smoke on Monday\n\nAfter the hot spell began on Friday, the Bureau of Meteorology (Bom) issued heatwave warnings for South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and Queensland.\n\nOn Monday, Victoria's state capital Melbourne recorded temperatures of 41.5C at 12.40pm (01.40 GMT).\n\nPeople in Victoria have been urged to be careful when in water after the state recorded seven drownings over the past 10 days, ABC News reports.\n\nPeople in Sydney flocked to beaches at the weekend seeking relief from the heat\n\nThe heat is expected to linger until mid-week as the hot air mass tracks east across the country.\n\nAfter extreme bushfires and heatwaves a year ago, Australia's summer this year has so far been cooler and wetter. Meteorologists say the conditions are influenced by a La Nina phenomenon.\n\nAustralia has warmed on average by 1.4C since national records began in 1910, according to its science and weather agencies.\n\nThat's led to an increase in the number of extreme heat events, as well as increased fire danger days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hell to high water: Australia’s summer of extremes in 2019-20\n\n\"In summer we now see a greater frequency of very hot days compared to earlier decades,\" said BoM and the national science agency, CSIRO, in their 2020 State of the Climate report.\n\nThe same report noted that 2019 - Australia's hottest year on record - had 33 days where the national maximum temperature exceeded 39C. That surpassed the total number of days over 39C in the previous six decades.\n\nHeatwaves are Australia's deadliest natural disaster and have killed thousands more people than bushfires or floods.", "Police found Dylan Freeman in his mother's bed surrounded by toys\n\nA woman has admitted suffocating her severely disabled son after suffering a breakdown.\n\nDylan Freeman's body was found in Acton, west London, on 16 August with a sponge in his mouth.\n\nHis mother Olga Freeman pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility.\n\nThree psychiatric reports said Freeman was suffering from a severe depressive illness with psychotic symptoms at the time of the killing.\n\nFreeman attended Acton Police Station to report herself following the killing.\n\nOfficers later found Dylan in his mother's bed surrounded by toys.\n\nDylan had autism, Cohen syndrome - which is linked to abnormalities in many parts of the body - and significant difficulties with language and communication.\n\nIn the week leading up to the killing, Freeman had spoken about saving the world and being a Messiah, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.\n\nOlga Freeman had booked flights abroad the night before Dylan's body was found\n\nFreeman appeared by video-link to enter her plea and will be sentenced on 11 February.\n\nSpeaking after the hearing, the CPS's Kristen Katsouris described the death as \"tragic\".\n\nShe added: \"Olga Freeman had loved and cared for Dylan for many years, but the strain and pressures of her son's severe and complex special needs had built up and that, combined with her impaired mental health, led to heart-breaking consequences.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination at Great Ormond Street Hospital recorded Dylan's cause of death as upper airway obstruction.\n\nThe Met Police said Freeman had spoken to friends about struggling with the responsibility of caring for Dylan.\n\nOn the night before his body was found, Freeman booked two seats on a flight to Tel Aviv and told her friend not to go into Dylan's room.\n\nThe body of Dylan was found at a house in Cumberland Park, Acton\n\nAt the time of his death, his father, celebrity photographer Dean Freeman, was in Spain.\n\nHe described his son as \"a beautiful, bright, inquisitive and artistic child who loved to travel, visit art galleries and swim\".\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ambrose O'Neill was sentenced in his absence in 2008\n\nA violent robber who went on the run for nearly 13 years has finally been caught and jailed.\n\nAmbrose O'Neill - dubbed \"The Running Man\" due to his ability to evade capture - skipped his 2008 trial over an attack on an antiques dealer.\n\nHe was sentenced to eight years in prison in his absence but spent years at large, until police got a tip-off he was in hiding in Lincolnshire.\n\nThe 42-year-old was arrested on Friday and is now beginning his sentence.\n\nNottinghamshire Police said in 2007, O'Neill, of Ludgate Close in Arnold, knocked on his victim's front door in Seagrave, Leicestershire, posing as a pizza delivery man.\n\nWhen his victim opened the door, O'Neill pushed him over, punched him in the face and demanded he open a safe, threatening to kill him.\n\nBut he ultimately left empty-handed and was later arrested.\n\nO'Neill attended the first day of his trial at Leicester Crown Court but then went on the run.\n\nPolice said they launched Operation Gladiolus in December 2020 in a bid to track him down.\n\nPC James Gill, from Nottinghamshire Police's \"wanted squad\", said: \"We knew he had changed his appearance and lived in an area where people do not know him and he had an assumed identity,\" he said.\n\n\"He was laughing at the police, so we were determined to do everything to find him.\"\n\nA major breakthrough came from an anonymous tip-off suggesting O'Neill may be living with a woman in the Wyberton area, in Lincolnshire.\n\nPolice narrowed it down to a house in Causeway and arrested the \"surprised\" O'Neill in the early hours of Friday.\n\nPC James Gill worked in his free time to bring O'Neill to justice, Nottinghamshire Police said\n\nOfficers also arrested a 41-year-old woman on suspicion of assisting an offender. She remains in custody.\n\nO'Neill is due to appear at Leicester Crown Court on 29 January, where his sentence could be extended, the force added.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bethany and her two children have been on a waiting list for more than a year\n\nThere is a \"shocking\" lack of places for traveller families to live in England, according to a charity.\n\nOnly 18 out of 251 registered traveller sites have any spaces available, research from Friends, Families and Travellers (FFT) suggests.\n\nIt says the government must \"do more\" to identify land for the community to live on.\n\nThe government says councils are \"best placed\" to assess the local need for permanent traveller sites.\n\nIn October, FFT wrote to all local authorities and private registered site providers in England to ask how many pitches they had available.\n\nIt received responses relating to 251 out of 266 traveller sites - which represented 3,482 permanent pitches and 304 transit pitches.\n\nA transit pitch is a short-term place where people can stay for a set period of usually up to three months.\n\nBethany says she's near the bottom of the waiting list for a pitch in her local area\n\nBethany Rose, 26, and her two children have been on a waiting list for a pitch in West Sussex for more than a year.\n\nShe is currently staying with her parents in their caravan on a registered traveller site. But this is against the rules of their tenancy contract and she will have to move out once the coronavirus pandemic is over.\n\nBethany has a health condition which means she can often be paralysed from the waist down and she needs to be close to her mum who is her carer.\n\n\"It's frustrating, annoying, aggravating, I feel let down,\" she says. \"I'm disabled. I'm homeless and I have two kids.\n\n\"For anyone normally it would just be like, 'Boof, there you go, there's a property, go and live there'. But I can't do that. I can't even get a house, I can't buy a plot of land, I can't do anything.\"\n\nBethany and her children are currently living with her parents on a traveller site in West Sussex\n\nIt's estimated about 1.1 million households are on local authority housing waiting lists, but Bethany believes it would be easier for her to get a home if she wasn't a traveller.\n\nShe says being a traveller is a huge part of her identity and she wants to live on a site so she can continue to be connected to her heritage.\n\n\"A whole community is there if you need something or something happens,\" she said. \"If you fall or you go to hospital, you can guarantee your neighbour will watch the kids until you come back. If you need a cup of sugar, you can just go round.\"\n\nThe research from FFT comes as MPs were due to debate a petition on Monday against government proposals to criminalise trespassing. However, this has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe new measures could see travellers facing a fine or prison if they set up unauthorised encampments - currently it's a civil offence.\n\nIn a consultation paper published in 2019, the Home Office said there had been \"long-standing concerns\" about the distress they caused to local communities.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sarah Tanner posted a video saying she was \"disgusted\" by mess left by travellers in Dorset\n\nIn June 2020, residents in Dorset complained about mess left by travellers on a local park - which included a car being abandoned in the middle of a cricket pitch, rubbish dumped in green spaces and human waste deposited in the pond and lake.\n\nFFT says councils are failing to provide enough sites for travellers to live on.\n\nIn January 2019, plans to spend £5m on new traveller pitches in Milton Keynes were put on hold after a \"heated\" meeting with local residents.\n\nBethany believes councils are not doing more to provide extra sites because of discrimination towards travellers.\n\n\"They're building 50,000 new houses in West Sussex, not one of those places is having a site,\" she said. \"So you've got the Nimby (Not In My Back Yard) culture attached to that.\n\n\"For every 50 houses, they could put a site of five which is a whole little community that they can get used to and go, 'Yeah, OK, they're not as bad as people say.'\n\n\"That also means we're not pulling up the side of the roads. We're not being moved off. We're just trying to live like everyone else.\"\n\nMilton Keynes Council changed its plan to build a new traveller site after listening to residents\n\nWest Sussex County Council says when a vacancy comes up on a permanent site all those who have expressed an interest in that location are considered for the pitch.\n\nThe FFT wants the government to reintroduce pitch targets and a statutory duty on local authorities to meet the assessed need for Gypsy and traveller sites.\n\nIt also calls on the government to abandon its proposal to criminalise trespassing.\n\nSarah Sweeney, policy and communications manager at FFT, said: \"It is deeply unfair that while the government is dramatically failing to identify enough land for Gypsy and traveller families to live on, the home secretary is working to create laws to imprison, fine and remove the homes of families living on roadside camps for the 'crime' of having nowhere else to go.\"\n\nThe Local Government Association says it wants the government to publish \"better data\" on the scale of unauthorised encampments and the availability of authorised sites to help councils in England meet their planning obligations.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said: \"Unauthorised encampments cause distress and disruption for many people across the country so it's right we are giving the police the powers they need to address this issue.\n\n\"Councils are best placed to assess the local need for permanent traveller sites and decide where they should be, and can apply for funding through our Shared Ownership and Affordable Homes Programme to help build them.\"", "At least 80 people had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nPeople whose homes were flooded after a \"blow out\" at a mine shaft are said to be \"devastated\" as they face months before they can return home.\n\nSteve Morris said his son Gareth and his girlfriend's home in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, was inundated by \"orange\" flood water containing sewage.\n\nBut some will be allowed back to their properties on Tuesday.\n\nResidents of Goshen Park and Sunnyland Crescent who have yet to contact Neath Port Talbot council are urged to do so in the next 24 hours.\n\nThe council said access to these properties would continue to be affected beyond 26 January and the Coal Authority wished to have early discussions with them.\n\nMr Morris told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that his son called him on Thursday to say his house was about to be flooded.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\n\"I live about half a mile away... and by the time I got to his address I could see the water levels were rising rapidly up the road,\" he explained.\n\n\"Then it was so quick - the water came through his rear patio doors firstly, then the gardens and then the drains couldn't cope on the main road and came through the front door, then the side door.\n\n\"His ground floor was four feet under water, and it was this orange coloured water. There was sewage in the house, so his ground floor needs totally gutting.\"\n\nMr Morris said Gareth and his girlfriend are staying in a hotel as they wait to be allowed back to assess the damage.\n\nHe hopes their insurance firm will pay to rent a home for them, adding: \"I can honestly see them being out of their house for between six and 10 months.\n\n\"They are obviously devastated - they have only been in there for 12 months so everything was near enough brand new.\"\n\nCerys Thomas was at her mother's house with her son, in Goshen Park, when she saw water coming through the front door.\n\nThe stairs at the home of Cerys Thomas' parents were left caked in mud\n\nShe said: \"I said to my mother to get my son and herself out and up toward the street. I phoned the police then, because I could see it was going to be an emergency, and within minutes my parents' conservatory doors just blew through.\n\n\"The pressure of the water just blew through the house and the water, within minutes, was up to my waist.\n\n\"Trying to get out of the house was very scary because the pressure of the front door was getting pushed back.\"\n\nShe said the street was under water \"within seven minutes\".\n\n\"It was something you would see in a movie,\" she said.\n\nWithin minutes of water entering the house Ms Thomas was up to her waist in water\n\nMeanwhile, the Coal Authority said it has identified the cause of the \"blow out\".\n\nChief executive Lisa Pinney told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: \"Firstly, I just want to say our thoughts are with everyone affected by this flooding and we are genuinely sorry people have been affected in this way.\n\n\"What we know so far is the blow out was caused by a blockage underground which caused water to break out, basically to find the easiest path, and there's no doubt the excessive rainfall in the days before was also a factor in that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Pinney said crews had been able to find the site of the collapsed mineshaft which had caused the flooding, and the authority had started to \"develop options\".\n\n\"We really understand people want to get back into their homes, they want to collect things, they want to know what the next steps are,\" she continued.\n\n\"We are working as fast as possible to make that happen and we hope to be able to provide some more information in the next day or so, but you will understand that we have to be sure for public safety.\"\n\nMs Pinney said there are almost 300 mine shafts or entries across the Skewen mine works, which covers an area of about 12 sq km (7.6 sq miles).\n\nShe added: \"We have checked all recorded shafts in the immediate area and we are doing continued checks over the coming days. We have found no problems. They are all safe.\"", "Jenners department store in Edinburgh has been at the site since 1838\n\nThe owner of the Jenners building in Edinburgh has promised that it will remain a department store - despite the departure of its current tenant, the House of Fraser.\n\nFrasers Group said it would cease trading at the site on 3 May, with the loss of 200 jobs.\n\nThe building is owned by Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen.\n\nA company spokesman said it would continue as a store and that \"advanced\" talks were taking place with operators.\n\nThe Jenners building has occupied a prime location on Princes Street for 183 years.\n\nIt was bought by Mr Povlsen - who is one of Scotland's biggest landowners - in 2017, reportedly for £53m.\n\nThe store is currently operated by the Frasers Group, which owns the commercial rights to the Jenners trading name.\n\nIt said it would be quitting the site in May after the two sides were unable to come to an agreement.\n\nA Frasers spokesman claimed that the landlord had not been able to \"work mutually on a fair agreement\".\n\nHe said this had led to \"the loss of 200 jobs and a vacant site for the foreseeable future, with no immediate plans.\n\n\"Our commitment to our Frasers strategy remains but landlords and retailers need to work together in a fair manner, especially when all stores are closed.\"\n\nAnders Holch Povlsen is one of Scotland's biggest landowners\n\nHowever, Anders Krogh Vogdrup - the director of AAA United, which owns the Jenners building - said it had given Frasers a substantial rent reduction and rent-free periods to cover the lockdowns.\n\n\"Frasers has made the decision that it does not wish to continue in occupation,\" he said.\n\n\"This will see the end of the 16-year association between House of Fraser and this building, but not of the 180 years of Jenners department store.\"\n\nMr Vogdrup told BBC Scotland that it had bought the Jenners building \"out of passion for its architecture and history\".\n\n\"We have been sad to read on social media that we are to close the department store, as that is not the case,\" he said.\n\n\"We fought to keep the current tenant and we are now in advanced talks with other partners.\"\n\nHe said their \"first priority\" was to keep it as a department store, while there were also plans to turn some unused parts of the building into a hotel.\n\n\"The Jenners department store and building is the jewel in the crown of Edinburgh,\" he added.\n\n\"We are not turning it into a hotel. It will remain a department store.\"\n\nHe also expects the Jenners name will remain on the side of the building.\n\nMr Povlsen, whose parents set up Scandinavian fashion company Bestseller, is believed to be worth £4.5bn. As well as owning Bestseller he is a major shareholder in online retailer Asos.\n\nHe has previously revealed plans to use parts of the Princes Street building for a hotel, with the rest reserved for retail.\n\nThe plans included the restoration of the building's Victorian facade and central atrium, which is a three-storey, top-lit grand saloon. A rooftop restaurant and bar would overlook nearby St Andrew Square.\n\nMr Vogdrup said the plans to refurbish the store were now on hold due to the current economic climate.\n\nJenners has dominated Edinburgh's main shopping thoroughfare since the mid-19th Century.\n\nIt was opened in 1838 by local drapers Charles Jenner and Charles Kennington, who found themselves out of work after being sacked for taking a day off to go to the races in Musselburgh.\n\nInitially called Kennington & Jenner, the boutique store proved popular for keeping the people of Edinburgh in fine silks and linen, which could normally only be found in London.\n\nBy 1890 the shop had changed name to Charles Jenner & Co and had expanded to adjoining buildings, making it one of the biggest stores in Scotland.\n\nBut just two years later fire destroyed the shop and ambitious plans - backed by the local council - were launched for a new look Jenners.\n\nCelebrated architect William Hamilton Beattie, who also designed the Balmoral and Carlton Hotel, was brought in for the redesign.\n\nCharles Jenner died in 1893 before the work was completed in 1895.\n\nIn 1911 the popular store was given a Royal Warrant.\n\nAfter struggling in the the 21st Century, the Jenners brand was sold to rivals House of Fraser for £46m in 2005.\n\nIn 2018, House of Fraser was bought by Mike Ashley's Sports Direct group.", "The pupils of someone with PTSD have an exaggerated response when viewing exciting or dangerous images, the study found\n\nA person's pupils can reveal if they have suffered a traumatic experience in the past, according to new research.\n\nThe joint Swansea and Cardiff universities study found the eyes of people with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) behave differently.\n\nIt found their pupils have an exaggerated response when viewing exciting or dangerous images.\n\nThose behind the study said it could be useful in diagnosis, treatment and in bench-marking progress.\n\nNormally pupil size fluctuates with changing light levels, but it can also alter when a person is scared, excited, or even concentrating hard.\n\nShocking or surprising images can cause pupils to enlarge, however the researchers discovered this reaction was highly exaggerated in people who have experienced a traumatic event.\n\nThree groups of people were tested - some with diagnosed PTSD, others who had experienced a traumatic event but had no PTSD, and a control group of people with no previous issues.\n\nProf Nicola Gray, of Swansea University, co-authored the study with Prof Robert Snowden of Cardiff University.\n\nShe said: \"The pupil normally shows a fast constriction when the person sees a new image, but then the pupil gets bigger - especially if the picture is arousing, such as a scary image of, for example, fierce animals or weapons.\n\n\"However, the patients with PTSD behaved differently in both phases. First, their pupil did not constrict much when shown a new picture, and then it expanded more to the scary images than for people without PTSD.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Could virtual reality help treat PTSD in veterans?\n\nOne man with PTSD who wished to remain anonymous described how, after his time in the Army, he was left unable to drive at night because his pupils could not contract sufficiently in response to street lights and on-coming headlights, leaving him dazzled and unable to see properly.\n\nThe research found the PTSD group showed enlarged pupils to images which were positive and exciting.\n\n\"When we displayed exciting scenes, such as a sporting triumph or an image of a person sky-diving, these images elicited the same enhanced pupil response in the PTSD group as the frightening pictures,\" Prof Snowden said.\n\n\"The subjects weren't frightened by these images, but the images were arousing. Once again, the people with PTSD showed a far greater response, indicating that they were even more aroused by these images than the other participants\".\n\nAccording to Prof Gray this finding could help to develop new therapies for PTSD.\n\n\"If exciting, but non-threatening, images elicit the same response, then it may be possible in the future to use them to gradually reduce the arousal levels of people experiencing PTSD.\"\n\nPTSD is an anxiety disorder caused by very stressful, frightening or distressing events.\n\nSomeone with PTSD often relives the traumatic event through nightmares and flashbacks, and may experience feelings of isolation, irritability and guilt.\n\nThey may also have problems sleeping, such as insomnia, and find concentrating difficult.\n\nThese symptoms are often severe and persistent enough to have a significant impact on the person's day-to-day life.\n\nCauses of PTSD can include:\n\nThe pupil is the opening in the middle of the iris\n\nProf Gray said the research may also be useful from a diagnostic perspective.\n\n\"PTSD comes in many forms, from people who have experienced a one-off sudden event like a car crash, to those who have gone through many traumatic events over a period of months or years via abuse.\n\n\"Sometimes people struggle to express these thoughts, or might even play them down in order to please the therapist.\n\n\"Having a more objective method to look for these signs of hypervigilance and hyperarousal may be useful in order to obtain a more accurate benchmark of how the person is progressing.\"", "Scientists say signs a new coronavirus variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson has said there is \"some evidence\" the variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut the co-author of the study the PM was referring to said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open question\".\n\nAnother adviser said he was surprised Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nA third top medic said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\nAt a Downing Street coronavirus news conference on Friday, the prime minister said: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the South East - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\"\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, Sir Patrick said if 1,000 men in their 60s were infected with the old variant, roughly 10 of them would be expected to die - but this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThe announcement followed a briefing by scientists on the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) which concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the variant was associated with an increased risk of death.\n\nBut one of the briefing's co-authors, Prof Graham Medley, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The question about whether it is more dangerous in terms of mortality I think is still open.\"\n\n\"In terms of making the situation worse it is not a game changer. It is a very bad thing that is slightly worse,\" added Prof Medley, who is a professor of infectious disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nThere is huge uncertainty in the evidence on how lethal the variant is.\n\nThe scientific experts that reviewed the data used a precise phrase saying it was a \"realistic possibility\" the new variant is more deadly.\n\nThat means there's a roughly 50-50 chance it will turn out to be true.\n\nWith time, and sadly more deaths, the picture will become clearer.\n\nWhile people debate the uncertainties though, we already know this variant has the ability to kill more people than the old ones.\n\nA virus that spreads faster (this one is 30-70% faster) will infect more people, more quickly, putting a greater strain on hospitals and leading to a sharper spike in deaths.\n\nIt is why viruses becoming more transmissible can be a bigger problem than ones becoming more deadly.\n\nNervtag's chairman Prof Peter Horby defended the government's \"transparency\" in making the announcement.\n\n\"Scientists are looking at the possibility that there is increased severity... and after a week of looking at the data we came to the conclusion that it was a realistic possibility,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to be transparent about that. If we were not telling people about this we would be accused of covering it up.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nBut Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), agreed it was too early to draw \"strong conclusions\" as the suggested increased mortality rates were based on \"a relatively small amount of data\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he was \"actually quite surprised\" Mr Johnson had made the early findings public rather than monitoring the data \"for a week or two more\".\n\n\"I just worry that where we report things pre-emptively where the data are not really particularly strong,\" Dr Tildesley added.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle also said it was not \"absolutely clear\" the new variant was more deadly than the original.\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nMeanwhile, senior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".", "Moderna's Covid vaccine appears to work against new, more infectious variants of the pandemic virus found in the UK and South Africa, say scientists from the US pharmaceutical company.\n\nEarly laboratory tests suggest antibodies triggered by the vaccine can recognise and fight the new variants.\n\nMore studies are needed to confirm this is true for people who have been vaccinated.\n\nThe new variants have been spreading fast in a number of nations.\n\nThey have undergone changes or mutations that mean they can infect human cells more easily than the original version of coronavirus that started the pandemic.\n\nExperts think the UK strain, which emerged in September, may be up to 70% more transmissible.\n\nCurrent vaccines were designed around earlier variants, but scientists believe they should still work against the new ones, although perhaps not quite as well. There are already some early results that suggest the Pfizer vaccine protects against the new UK variant.\n\nFor the Moderna study, researchers looked at blood samples taken from eight people who had received the recommended two doses of the Moderna vaccine.\n\nThe findings are yet to be peer reviewed, but suggest immunity from the vaccine recognises the new variants.\n\nNeutralising antibodies, made by the body's immune system, stop the virus from entering cells.\n\nBlood samples exposed to the new variants appeared to have sufficient antibodies to achieve this neutralising effect, although it was not as strong for the South Africa variant as for the UK one.\n\nModerna says this could mean that protection against the South Africa variant might disappear more quickly.\n\nProf Lawrence Young, a virus expert at Warwick Medical School in the UK, said this would be concerning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC health and science journalist Laura Foster compares the three different Covid-19 vaccines\n\nModerna is currently testing whether giving a third booster shot might be beneficial.\n\nLike other scientists, the company is also investigating whether redesigning the booster to be a better match for the new variants will be beneficial.\n\nStephane Bancel, chief executive officer of Moderna, said the company believed it was \"imperative to be proactive as the virus evolves\".\n\nUK regulators have already approved Moderna's vaccine for rollout on the NHS, but the 17m pre-ordered doses are not expected to arrive until Spring.\n\nThe vaccine works in a similar way to the Pfizer one already being used in the UK.\n\nMore than 6.3 million people in the UK have already received a first dose of either the Pfizer or the AstraZeneca vaccine.", "Media regulator Ofcom has decided not to take any action over Channel 4's use of a \"deepfaked\" video of the Queen.\n\nThe \"alternative Christmas message\" attracted 354 complaints about decency after it aired on Christmas Day.\n\nIt showed an AI-generated version of the Queen, who made jokes about the Royal Family and the prime minister, and danced on top of a table.\n\nBut after assessing things, Ofcom decided not to pursue the complaints about disrespecting the monarch.\n\n\"In our view, Channel 4 made clear that the images were deliberately manipulated as a device to question societal trust in what we see online,\" a spokeswoman for the regulator said.\n\n\"We also consider that the satirical tone of the film was in keeping with audience expectations of this broadcaster,\" it added.\n\nThat decision is similar to Channel 4's own defence of the satire, in which it argued that the parody left viewers \"in no doubt that it was not real\".\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Channel 4 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIt also argued the message of the video as a whole was a warning about the importance of trust, and how easily convincing fake images and video can be created - even uploading a behind-the-scenes video about its creation.\n\nAfter airing on national television in the UK, the video has spread widely online, racking up nearly two million views on YouTube alone.\n\nIt has not, however, been universally popular - on top of the formal complaints to Ofcom, it has a poor ratio of likes-to-dislikes on YouTube - with more than 19,000 likes, but nearly 5,000 dislikes.\n\nDeepfakes work by training a computer to draw a person's face by showing it thousands of photographs of that person, ideally from many different angles and in different lighting conditions.\n\nThe computer can then draw that person's face on top of another actor's performance.\n\nThe more varied and numerous the images used in training the model, the better the result - which is why it is almost universally used to fake the appearance of celebrities, who already have hours of available film or television footage available.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut there are other limitations on the technology, too.\n\nThe similarity in facial structure, size, and appearance of the actor whose face is being replaced affects the realism of the finished deepfake. It is also far easier to produce a convincing result if the person remains still, as movement can often reveal the artificial nature of the animation.\n\nThe voice must also be replaced by an impersonator and the entire process is incredibly demanding, even for high-end computers, often taking many days of computation.\n\nHowever, the technique is advancing rapidly, and the results are becoming more convincing with each passing year, with major film firms such as Disney actively exploring the technique and developing their own variants.", "Fashion retailer Boohoo has bought the Debenhams brand and website for £55m.\n\nHowever, it will not take on any of the firm's remaining 118 High Street stores or its workforce.\n\nBoohoo said it was a \"transformational deal\" and a \"huge step\". But the deal means that up to 12,000 jobs at the department store chain are set to go.\n\nThe 242-year-old Debenhams chain is already in the process of closing down, after administrators failed to secure a rescue deal for the business.\n\nIn a separate development, Asos says it is in \"exclusive\" talks to buy the Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands out of administration.\n\nBut the online retailer said it only wanted the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.\n\nThe current owner of the brands, Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group, fell into administration last November putting 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nA closing-down sale at 124 Debenhams stores began in December, as the administrators continued to seek offers for all or parts of the business.\n\nThe company announced recently that six shops would not reopen after lockdown, including its flagship department store on London's Oxford Street.\n\nThe administrators of Debenhams UK, FRP Advisory, said they had undertaken a \"thorough and robust process\" to achieve \"the best outcome for Debenhams' stakeholders\".\n\n\"This transaction will allow a new Debenhams-branded business to emerge under strong new ownership, including an online operation and the opportunity to secure an international franchise network that will operate under licence using the Debenhams name,\" they added.\n\nBoohoo has already bought a number of High Street brands out of administration. It snapped up Oasis, Coast and Karen Millen, but not the associated stores.\n\nIts executive chairman, Mahmud Kamani, said: \"This is a transformational deal for the group, which allows us to capture the fantastic opportunity as ecommerce continues to grow. Our ambition is to create the UK's largest marketplace.\n\n\"Our acquisition of the Debenhams brand is strategically significant as it represents a huge step which accelerates our ambition to be a leader, not just in fashion ecommerce, but in new categories including beauty, sport and homeware.\"\n\nBoohoo said Debenhams was expected to relaunch on Boohoo's web platform later this year.\n\nIn the meantime, Debenhams will continue to operate its website for an agreed period.\n\nBoohoo's fast-fashion model has come under scrutiny\n\nBoohoo has recently come under fire over workers' pay and conditions and its ultra-low pricing.\n\nAs well as facing questions about the environmental impact of its fast-fashion business model, there have been accusations of widespread abuse of employment law at some of Boohoo's suppliers in Leicester.\n\nInvestigations last year suggested workers were being paid below the minimum wage.\n\nAfter an independent review of the claims found a series of failings, Mr Kamani said last month that the firm was working to fix the problems, adding: \"We will make a better Boohoo.\"\n\nWhile online retailers have been whittling away at their High Street rivals for years, few could have predicted how quickly bricks-and-mortar stalwarts have collapsed. The pandemic has fatally undermined their already parlous finances. Businesses that appeared to have a chance of survival just a year ago have been wiped out and their brands bought by online players.\n\nThe scale of the change is profound: when Debenhams listed on the stock exchange in 2011, investors valued it at £1.6bn. Boohoo, which was founded only in 2006, already has a stock market value of £4.4bn. Asos, a bit player two decades ago when Sir Philip Green's Arcadia group was riding high and toying with a bid for Marks & Spencer, is now valued by the stock market at £5bn.\n\nNeither Boohoo or Asos see any value in the Debenhams or Topshop High Street estates. Instead, they will concentrate on development of the brands and the associated customer data. This is bad news for the 19,000-odd people who work in the branches of Debenhams and Topshop, and will leave councils around the country wondering how they will fill town centres that were based on retail.\n\nBut just as canny entrepreneurs and private equity companies are gearing up to buy struggling pub chains, in the hope of a recovery once lockdown restrictions are eased, so will some investors be wondering what next for the High Street. The British love affair with shopping will not end overnight and a well-placed punt now could have big rewards.\n\nDebenhams has struggled for years with falling profits and rising debts, as more shopping has moved online. It called in administrators twice in two years, most recently in April.\n\nHowever, its position became untenable during the coronavirus pandemic as non-essential retailers were forced to close for prolonged periods.\n\nThe firm had already trimmed its store portfolio and cut about 6,500 jobs since May, as it struggled to stay afloat.\n\nBusinessman Mike Ashley, who founded Sports Direct and also owns House of Fraser, had already made an offer for Debenhams after it was initially put up for sale in April.\n\nHowever, the takeover offer, thought to be in the region of £125m, was rejected as being too low.\n\nMeanwhile, one of House of Fraser's flagship outlets, the Jenners department store in Edinburgh, is to leave its Princes Street home after 183 years. It will close on 3 May with the loss of 200 jobs.\n\nThe building's owner, Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen, announced in November 2019 that he intended to convert the site, replacing Jenners with a hotel, cafes, a rooftop restaurant and luxury shops.\n\nHowever, a spokesperson for Frasers Group said it had been \"unable to reach an agreement\" with Mr Povlsen and that the closure of Jenners would leave \"a vacant site for the foreseeable future with no immediate plans\".\n\nDo you work for Debenhams? Has your job been affected? Please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dutch police have described it as the worst unrest in four decades\n\nMore than 180 people were arrested in 10 Dutch cities as protesters defying a curfew clashed with riot police for a third night running.\n\nShops in Rotterdam were looted and police used water cannon, as rioters resisted latest Covid restrictions.\n\nPrime Minister Mark Rutte condemned \"criminal violence\" and the justice minister said the curfew would remain.\n\nThe Dutch chief of police said the riots no longer had \"anything to do with the basic right to demonstrate\".\n\nThe Netherlands has had nearly one million confirmed Covid cases since the start of the outbreak, with more than 13,500 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University in the US, which is tracking the pandemic.\n\nThe government recently introduced a night-time curfew which runs from 21:00 (20:00 GMT) to 04:30. Anyone caught violating it faces a €95 (£84) fine.\n\nThere were further violent scenes in many towns and cities. Riot police clashed with protesters in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, as well as Amersfoort, Den Bosch, Alphen and Helmond.\n\nSome of the worst disturbances were in the south of Rotterdam where police said 10 officers were hurt. Across the country 184 people were arrested. Amsterdam's mayor appealed to parents to keep young people indoors.\n\nSeveral cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances\n\nThe windows of some shops were smashed in Rotterdam\n\nFires were lit on the streets of The Hague, where police on bicycles attempted to move small clusters of men who threw stones and fireworks. There was violence in the southern city of Den Bosch, where rioters set off fireworks, broke windows, looted a supermarket and overturned cars.\n\nA woman living near Den Bosch train station told Dutch radio that masked youths had left a trail of destruction in the city centre. \"I saw windows smashed and fireworks going off. Really crazy, just like a war zone,\" the woman said. Roads into the city were closed to stop people joining the rioters and Mayor Jack Mikkers imposed an emergency order banning gatherings on Tuesday.\n\nThe ignition of discontent has rocked the core of Dutch society.\n\nIn the absence of any legitimate way to socialise, is this simply an outlet for young men to feel part of something, their masks concealing their identities and enabling them to violently channel their frustrations?\n\nThere are more sinister influences at play. Messages on social media, overt and covert, have whipped up anger. Misinformation has even been spread by some politicians.\n\nSome of the worst violence was in Rotterdam\n\nSome feared a curfew would be a tipping point, as Dutch restrictions tighten while some neighbouring countries relax their rules. The vast majority of people in the Netherlands are peacefully observing the curfew.\n\nThe unrest was initially seen as a response to the first \"stay-at-home\" order imposed since Nazi occupation during World War Two. That notion has been dismissed by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who said the rioters were simply criminals and would be treated as such.\n\nBut there are simmering anxieties in Dutch towns and cities, and with less than two months before a general election, voters are vulnerable and the streets volatile.\n\nThere has been widespread shock at the violence. In Rotterdam, where police used water cannon during clashes with rioters, Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb signed an emergency decree, giving police broader powers of arrest. He reacted furiously to shops being looted in the south of the city, condemning \"shameless thieves, I can't call it anything else\".\n\nThe prime minister said the police had the government's full support: \"The riots have nothing to do with protesting or fighting for freedom.\"\n\nRotterdam shop-owner Emrah Köker said he had no words for what he had seen. \"How can this happen in the Netherlands?\" he asked Dutch daily newspaper Algemeen Dagblad. Justice Minister Ferd Grapperhuis challenged anyone to explain what looting a shop had to do with coronavirus.\n\nThe mayor of Den Bosch said police had struggled to respond to the violence because they were needed in other nearby towns.\n\nFootball fans of the Willem II club took to the streets of Tilburg to \"protect their city\" against rioters, news site Brabants Dagblad reports.\n\nMayors in several cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances.\n\nThe Dutch prime minister has condemned the violence\n\nThere has been widespread shock in the Netherlands over the violence", "The public's trust in the way the UK is run is breaking down, former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown has warned.\n\nHe said Covid-19 had exposed \"tensions\" between Whitehall and the nations and regions, who were often treated by the centre as if they were \"invisible\".\n\nMr Brown is urging Boris Johnson to set up a commission to review how the country is governed and powers shared.\n\nBut the PM said his focus was on the pandemic, stressing the benefits of the union could be \"seen everywhere\".\n\nMr Brown's intervention comes amid a looming clash between Mr Johnson and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who has demanded the UK agree to another Scottish independence referendum if the SNP wins a majority in May's Holyrood elections.\n\nThe Court of Session is hearing arguments about whether Holyrood can legislate to hold one even if the UK government continues to object.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, Mr Brown - who advocates a federal system with more power for nations and regions - says the pandemic has \"brought to the surface tensions and grievances that have been simmering for years\" between Downing Street and the various parts of the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Conservatives election win was not 'a signal that the country is at ease' warns Brown\n\nHe points to \"bitter disputes\" over issues such as lockdown restrictions and furlough and said unless underlying tensions were resolved, the UK risked becoming a \"failed state\".\n\nIn an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today, he said at a time \"when all should be pulling together and intensifying co-operation across the UK\" there was division and claims by the leaders of Scotland and Wales and the English regions that they were not being properly consulted.\n\nLast year there were rows between the government and local authorities over coronavirus tiers, with the Labour mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, objecting to plans to put the region into the strictest level of restrictions.\n\nMr Brown told Today that while he was \"confident\" that Scotland would still be part of the UK in ten years time, the way the UK was governed had to change.\n\n\"I think the public are fed up. I think in many ways, they feel they are being treated as second class citizens, particularly in the outlying areas, that they are invisible and forgotten.\"\n\n\"Something has broken down in trust and has to be repaired.\"\n\nMr Brown is advising the Labour Party on its devolution strategy - but has also held talks with government ministers including Michael Gove in recent weeks.\n\nGovernment sources say they are focused on taking tangible steps to demonstrate the value of the UK.\n\nThe idea of a fundamental review of the UK's power structures has been suggested as one possible way to counter support for Scottish independence ahead of May's Holyrood election.\n\nBut a series of polls now suggest support for independence is higher than support for the union - and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will demand another referendum if, as seems likely, her party - the SNP - wins in May.\n\nHe is calling on Boris Johnson to immediately set up a commission on democracy to review how the UK is governed, something the Conservatives promised in their manifesto before the last general election.\n\nIn his Telegraph article, he suggests it would find that the UK needs a Forum of the Nations and Regions, citizens' assemblies, and a greater focus on the benefits of cooperation in areas such as the NHS and the armed forces.\n\nThe current Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer also supports devolving more powers from Westminster but opposes another Scottish independence referendum.\n\nThe SNP said last week that there would be a \"legal referendum\" after the pandemic if May's Holyrood election returned a pro-independence majority.\n\nAsked if he would stand in the way of this, Mr Johnson said what the British public wanted was for its political leaders to focus on beating coronavirus, adding that the advantages of the UK's four nations working together \"spoke for themselves\".\n\n\"I think people can see everywhere in the UK the visible benefits of our wonderful union,\" he said.\n\n\"A vaccine programme that is being rolled out by a National Health Service, a vaccine that was developed in labs in Oxford and is being administered by the British Army.\"\n\nBut the SNP said the Scottish people, not Westminster-based politicians, should decide the country's future.\n\n\"No amount of constitutional tinkering from Labour would protect Scotland from Brexit or the Tory power grab - only independence can do that,\" said Kirsten Oswald, the party's deputy Westminster leader.\n\n\"The Scottish people will see right through this attempt to deny their democratic right.\"\n\nA poll commissioned by the Sunday Times in Northern Ireland found 51% of people wanted a referendum on Irish unity in the next five years.\n\nDUP leader and Northern Irish First Minister Arlene Foster said such a vote would be \"absolutely reckless\".\n\nNumbers supporting Wales breaking away from the UK also appear to be rising. The pro-independence campaign group Yes Cymru has said membership swelled from 2,000 at the start of 2020 to more than 17,000.\n\nPlaid Cymru has also promised to hold an independence referendum if it wins the next Senedd election.\n\nResponding to Mr Brown's intervention, the party's Westminster leader Liz Saville Roberts said: \"It's been clear for many years that the UK doesn't work for Wales - I'm glad that the Labour Party are starting to see that.\"", "Prince Charles Hospital now has an expanded special care baby unit and six en-suite delivery rooms\n\nIt followed concerns that emerged in late 2018 that women and babies may have come to harm because of staff shortages and failures to report serious incidents.\n\nThe review by experts from two royal colleges was in addition to the health board's own investigation. Maternity services in Cwm Taf are now in special measures and an independent panel was set up to drive improvements.\n\nHow many incidents are we talking about?\n• None 150cases from 2016-2018 reviewed so lessons can be learnt\n\nThe health board's own investigation looked at 43 cases, including 25 serious incidents. Of these initial cases, 20 were at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant and 23 at Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil. The serious incidents include eight stillbirths and five deaths shortly after birth, all between January 2016 and last September.\n\nThey came to light after concerns were raised that staff had not been reporting serious incidents.\n\nThe health board said it faced \"extreme\" staff shortages and was urgently trying to make improvements.\n\nBut the review team cast doubt on the ability of the health board to make changes, without more support. It said it was \"dismayed\" that an internal report, written by a consultant midwife, highlighting many safety concerns last September was not acted upon, \"thereby continuing to expose women to unacceptable risks\".\n\nA consultant midwife also identified 67 stillbirths, going back to 2010, which had not been reported by the health board.\n\nThe independent panel decided to widen its scope to look at 350 cases of women who were transferred out of the health board area.\n\nIn October 2019, the panel said it was looking at a total of 150 cases between 2016 and 2018 - including the 43 cases initially investigated. There is still scope to look back at further years.\n\nWho has been investigating?\n\nThe health minister Vaughan Gething ordered an \"independent external review\" by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology and the Royal College of Midwives last October.\n\nIts findings, published in April 2019, were damning and found services \"under extreme pressure\" and \"dysfunctional\", while mothers had distressing experiences in how they were treated.\n\nCwm Taf's maternity services were placed in special measures and the independent panel overseeing changes has indicated as well as looking back in detail at past cases it wanted to ensure improvements were robust and to look at lessons that could be learned across Wales.\n\nHave any changes been made?\n\nThe royal colleges review team ordered urgent action after visiting hospitals in January 2019 - finding \"a number of immediate quality and safety concerns\".\n\nMeasures included more cover by doctors, strengthened processes for flagging up problems and more support for junior doctors. Cwm Taf now says these have all been completed.\n\nThe latest progress report from the independent panel in January 2020 found the most urgent improvements had been made.\n\nStaffing levels and training had improved, there was a better system for flagging up complaints and surveys found \"high levels of satisfaction\" from women using Prince Charles Hospital.\n\nThe panel was \"cautiously optimistic\" that long term improvements would be made.\n\nChioma Udeogu, who has moved back home to Nigeria\n\nThe review's parallel report on how families were dealt with was perhaps the most powerful testimony on the problems at Cwm Taf.\n\nMothers were said to have been ignored or made to feel worthless.\n\nThey spoke of being ignored or patronised.\n\nOne mother said: \"I want having a baby to be a good experience. It's ruined it.\"\n\nThere was the case of Sarah Handy, who was sent home from hospital in pain with laxatives, before giving birth prematurely at home. Her daughter died.\n\nChioma Udeogu's daughter was delivered stillborn after failings in her care at the Royal Glamorgan hospital in January 2017. An internal investigation has already found midwives failed for 12 hours to carry out antenatal checks on Mrs Udeogu, an engineering student at the University of South Wales at the time.\n\n\"I believe that if I was properly monitored in the hospital I wouldn't have lost her,\" she said.\n\nJessica Western, from Rhoose, in the Vale of Glamorgan, said she was not listened to when she could not feel her baby move in the month before the birth.\n\nJessica Western says she was not listened to at different points before and after the birth of her baby\n\nHer daughter Macie died in March 2018, 19 days after she was born.\n\n\"I'm only young and I do want to have more kids eventually, but I'm not prepared to put myself through a pregnancy if this could happen again,\" she said.\n\nAnother, Monique Aziz, from Coedely, Rhondda Cynon Taff, whose baby son died days after leaving hospital, said: \"I just want to know if he would have still been here if things had been done differently.\"\n\nWhat else has been happening?\n\nIn the background, there have been long planned changes in how maternity services are organised.\n\nFrom March 2019, doctor-led care for mothers in labour or for babies needing specialist neonatal care is now only provided on one site - Prince Charles Hospital. The Royal Glamorgan still has a 24-hour midwife unit for less complicated births and will continue to provide all antenatal services, clinic appointments, scans and tests during pregnancy.\n\nThe changes follow long-standing concerns that specialist maternity staff had been spread too thinly. The health board says those changes will help address challenges, including over staffing.\n\nAfter the critical report, the health board's chief executive went on sickness leave and then resigned in August 2019.\n\nStress and sickness absence was reported to be an issue among midwives, in the aftermath of the review.\n\nHow far back to those concerns go?\n\nThe fragility of maternity services in the area can be traced back for at least a decade. In a review in 2011 the Wales Audit Office raised concerns about staffing, skill mix and absences and the health board's ability to deliver maternity services on two sites.\n\nConcerns about the quality of maternity care were also at the heart of a controversial plan in 2014 to centralise some specialist services in fewer hospitals along the M4 corridor. It recommended moving doctor-led care for mothers and children (along with A&E) from the Royal Glamorgan hospital.\n\nCwm Taf health board initially rejected the plan and several months of wrangling followed.\n\nFour years later, the proposals on maternity services are only now being finally implemented.\n\nWhat is the independent panel doing?\n\nThe chairman Mick Giannasi - who has a track record going into troubled organisations, like Anglesey Council and the Welsh Ambulance Service - brings clinical expertise. He is also setting up a system so families can be involved and kept fully informed.\n\nIn the first progress report in October 2019, the panel said there had been progress - around a third of the action points in the improvement plan had been delivered - but a \"significant amount of work\" still needed to be done.\n\nThere had been \"significant\" progress by January 2020 although with more than two thirds of recommendations it was still \"work in progress\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vaccination appointments for people aged 70-79 are being delivered from Monday - but plans to use distinctive blue envelopes in some parts of the country have been delayed.\n\nThe aim is to have this group receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nOn Sunday morning, the Scottish government said some letters would be sent out in blue envelopes and given Royal Mail priority.\n\nBut in a statement published later it said the envelopes were not yet ready.\n\nIt added that the change has no impact on the vaccination programme timetable.\n\nVaccinations for over-80s are continuing, with Nicola Sturgeon revealing on Sunday that about 40% of this age group had received a first dose of the vaccine.\n\nAll appointments will initially be sent out in white envelopes which will have a window and a black NHS logo on the right hand side.\n\nThe blue envelopes were due to be sent out in Fife, Forth Valley, Ayrshire and Arran, Lanarkshire, Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and Lothian as part of a new booking system.\n\nUnder the system, patients are scheduled in order of priority and more boards are expected to make use of the technology as the vaccination programme expands.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said the blue envelopes would be introduced \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nHe added: \"The blue envelopes we hoped to use were not ready in time for the first tranche of vaccine appointment invitations so distinctive NHS branded white envelopes are being used as a temporary measure.\n\n\"The absolute priority remains the roll-out of vaccinations and this temporary change to the envelope colour has absolutely no impact to our timetable.\n\n\"We continue to strongly urge everyone in the 70-79 age group to check all their post in the coming weeks and take up the offer of the vaccine when it is received,\" he added.\n\nAccording to the Scottish government's vaccine deployment plan, the 470,000 people aged in the 70 and 79 age bracket should receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nSome patients may receive a phone call from their local health board as part of the appointment process.\n\nAnd all patients aged 75 to 79 in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde will be invited via phone.\n\nA Royal Mail spokesman said \"clearly marked envelopes\" would be used to make it easier for the postal service to identify and prioritise this mail during sorting and delivery process.\n\nHe added: \"We are poised to make these letters even more noticeable in the coming weeks as we have agreed.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish government has said it is on track for all those aged 80 and over to have received their first dose of the vaccine by the end of the first week in February.\n\nThis age group are being contacted by telephone or another form of letter.\n\nMinisters have faced criticism over the pace of the vaccine rollout, and accusations that Scotland is \"lagging behind\" England on the vaccine roll-out.\n\nOpposition parties say vaccines are not being supplied to GPs' surgeries fast enough.\n\nAnd they point to the latest official figures which show that 13% of over 80s in Scotland had their first dose by Sunday 17 January, while 56.3% of same age group had been vaccinated in England.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that, a week on, the figure had reached about 40%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says the over 70s are to receive their vaccine date\n\nThe UK government Health Secretary Matt Hancock told Andrew Marr on Sunday that 75% of over-80s and three-quarters of UK care homes had received a first Covid vaccine in England.\n\nAbout 95% of Scottish care home residents have received their first dose, Ms Sturgeon told the Scottish government briefing on Friday.\n\nShe said the over-80s roll-out has been slower because the Scottish government has \"very deliberately\" concentrated on vaccinating care home residents first, which is \"more time consuming and labour intensive\".\n\nThis was designed to target the most vulnerable and was in line with the priority list compiled by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises on vaccine rollout across the UK, she said.\n\nScotland's national clinical director Prof Jason Leitch has defended the plan, which has been challenged by the British Medical Association (BMA) for not getting second doses out quickly enough.\n\nProf Leitch told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"The difficulty with the BMA's position is that we would have to de-prioritise another group, either care home residents or the over-80s, in order to give a second dose to younger people.\n\n\"And that's what the Joint Committee on Vaccination have told us not to do.\n\n\"They have told us in very clear terms - give the first dose to as many vulnerable people as you can and that gives us the best chance of saving the most lives.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Deputy First Minister John Swinney told Politics Scotland that the Scottish government was \"actively exploring\" the possibility of stricter rules around facemasks.\n\nHe said the issue was being \"looked at\" after new rules announced in Germany last week required people to wear medical-grade facemasks on public transport and in shops.\n\nMr Swinney said progress was being made in reducing cases but hospitals were still under \"enormous pressure\" and it would be \"foolish\" to rule out strengthening restrictions further in the future.", "Concerns emerged in late 2018 that women and babies may have come to harm because of staff shortages and failures to report serious incidents\n\nTwo-thirds of women at the heart of a review into maternity services at a Welsh health board could have had very different outcomes if they had received better care, a report has found.\n\nThe Independent Maternity Services Oversight Panel (Imsop) focused on the experiences of pregnant women at Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board.\n\nIts maternity services have been in special measures since \"serious failings\" were found two years ago.\n\nConcerns emerged in late 2018 that women and babies may have come to harm because of staff shortages and failures to report serious incidents.\n\nThis sparked a major independent review, which gave a damning verdict on maternity services in the health board area that covers about 450,000 people living in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Bridgend and Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nPublished on Monday, the Imsop report focuses on the care of 27 women, most of whom were admitted to an intensive care unit during 28 \"episodes of care\" between January 2016 and September 2018.\n\nIt found that 19 reviews of maternal care (68%) revealed at least one factor where \"different management would reasonably have been expected to alter the outcome\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kayden was born with severe brain damage following mistakes in his mother's maternity care\n\nThe panel's chairman, Mick Giannasi, said: \"These findings will be concerning and potentially distressing for the women and families involved, and it will be difficult for staff.\n\n\"Of the 28 episodes of care, we concluded that in 27 of them, our independent teams who reviewed the care would have done something differently. Put simply, what went wrong, might not have gone wrong if things had been done differently.\"\n\nTwo further reviews of stillbirths and neonatal mortality and morbidity will follow later this year. In total, all three independent reviews will looks at 160 cases.\n\nImsop's findings reinforce those of the Royal College of Midwives and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.\n\nThe royal colleges' 2019 investigation found mothers faced \"distressing experiences and poor care\" at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant and Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil, with maternity services deemed \"dysfunctional\".\n\nFour key areas have been identified by Imsop as factors which contributed to poor care. These are:\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the latest report recognises things are moving in the right direction for the health board, but more needs to be done.\n\n\"The report highlights that women weren't always at the centre of their care and that women weren't always listened to, and that led to harm that could have been avoided,\" Mr Gething told reporters at the latest Welsh Government press briefing.\n\n\"Nothing will be able to change what these women and their families experienced at these two hospitals or the outcome for those families whose babies died or came to harm.\n\n\"I am deeply sorry for everything that happened.\"\n\nVaughan Gething says he is \"deeply sorry\" women and their families were not listened to\n\nHe said he hoped \"families can take some comfort\" from the reviews that have provided answers to questions they were asking.\n\n\"My thoughts are with everyone affected by this report today and those who are still awaiting the outcome of their reviews,\" Mr Gething added.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board said it has been \"working with the panel and families\" to put in place a \"comprehensive maternity and neonatal improvement programme\".\n\n\"It has been a period of reflection during which we have examined the regrettable failings in maternity services of the former Cwm Taf University Health Board and we acknowledge the fact that we still have some way to go,\" said Greg Dix, the health board's executive director of nursing and midwifery.\n\n\"We will never forget the tragedies suffered by women, their families and our staff, and the learning from these cases is a key corner stone on which we are building our improvement plans.\"", "Credit card giant Mastercard is to raise the fees it charges EU merchants when UK cardholders buy goods and services from them online by fivefold.\n\nIt has sparked fears that consumer prices could rise if merchants choose to pass on those costs, especially on items not available from UK retailers.\n\nTransactions with airlines, hotels, car rentals and holiday firms based in the EU could all be affected.\n\nMastercard attributed the move to the UK's decision to leave the EU.\n\nIt said that only online sales would be affected and that \"in practice\" UK consumers would not notice the change.\n\nThe change affects the \"interchange\" fees Mastercard sets on behalf of big banks, so that its customers can use their payment networks.\n\nFrom October, Mastercard said it would increase these fees to 1.5% on every transaction, up from 0.3%.\n\nThe EU introduced a cap on such fees in 2015 after concerns they pushed prices up for consumers and unfairly burdened companies.\n\nBritish customers makes tens of billions of pounds of purchases every year from European merchants on credit cards alone - and the hike in fees from Mastercard will affect the majority of those.\n\nThe increase may be relatively small but it's significant, coming at a time when retailers may face extra paperwork and checks - higher costs - for goods coming into the UK.\n\nWith Covid restrictions bringing their own challenges, businesses, especially smaller ones, may be compelled to pass on the costs to consumers.\n\nAnd it's not just items crossing borders. The payments for most items bought on Amazon in the UK are processed via its Luxembourg headquarters.\n\nWith the increase not coming in for several months, international companies may look at ways to reclassify UK sales, to avoid the charges.\n\nMastercard is implementing the rises simply as it's no longer bound by the restrictions imposed by the UK being in the EU. The banks which receive the fees have said in the past that they are invested in areas such as card security and innovation. This time, however, the trade body which represents them has declined to comment on the rises.\n\nBut Mastercard said that since the end of the Brexit transition period, the cap no longer applied to many payments between the UK and European Economic Area (which also includes Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway).\n\n\"As a result of the UK leaving the EEA, Mastercard will adapt interchange rates on UK cards to the commitments it gave the European Commission in 2019 for non-EEA card transactions,\" the company said.\n\n\"In practice, only EEA merchants making e-commerce sales to UK cardholders will see a change.\"\n\nKevin Hollinrake, chair of the parliamentary group on Fair Business Banking, told the Financial Times, which first reported the story, that the move \"smacks of opportunism\".\n\nAnd Callum Godwin, chief economist at CMSPI, the global payments consultancy, said airlines, hotels, car rentals and travel groups would be hit.\n\n\"[This will happen] anywhere the consumer is in the UK and the merchant is in the EU,\" he said.\n\nHe added that many firms in these industries were already struggling due to the pandemic.\n\nVisa, Mastercard's larger rival, has not announced plans to change its fees but told the FT it was keeping the issue under review.\n\nCompanies in the UK and EU are already facing added costs and delays due to post-Brexit trade rules brought in on 1 January.\n\nSome EU exporters have already stopped deliveries to the UK because of new VAT related charges.\n\nMeanwhile, UK consumers who have bought goods from firms based in the bloc have found themselves facing hefty charges to cover customs duties, taxes and administration.", "Chelsea have sacked manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge, with former Paris St-Germain boss Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him.\n\nLampard, 42, leaves with the club ninth in the Premier League after last week's defeat at Leicester City, having won once in their past five league matches.\n\nHis final game was Sunday's 3-1 FA Cup fourth-round win against Luton.\n\nLampard was appointed on a three-year contract when he replaced Maurizio Sarri at Stamford Bridge in July 2019.\n• None Watch Monday Night Club: Is Tuchel right man for Chelsea?\n• None 'Lampard had seen enough Chelsea managers go to know the score'\n• None Why Tuchel will be a popular appointment in the Chelsea dressing room\n• None Tuchel set to come in after Lampard sacking - reaction\n\nIn a statement released on Monday night, Lampard said he was \"disappointed not to have had the time to take the club forward\" and added that it had been a \"huge privilege and an honour\" to manage the club.\n\n\"When I took on this role I understood the challenges that lay ahead in a difficult time for the football club,\" he continued.\n\n\"I am proud of the achievements that we made, and I am proud of the academy players that have made their step into the first team and performed so well. They are the future of the club.\"\n\nChelsea are hopeful that new manager Tuchel will be on the bench for Wednesday's Premier League game against Wolves at Stamford Bridge.\n\nHe will not be exempt from coronavirus quarantine.\n\nBut if Tuchel tests negative on entry to the United Kingdom and then negative again in order to enter a Premier League club's bubble, he will be granted an exemption by the Football Association for attending matches and training.\n\nHe will still have to serve a quarantine period outside of those environments, which will last five days.\n\nFormer Chelsea midfielder Lampard guided them to fourth place and the FA Cup final in his first season in charge, and a 3-1 win against Leeds in early December put the club top of the Premier League.\n\nHowever, the Blues have suffered five defeats in their past eight league games, as many as they had in their previous 23.\n\nIn a statement, Chelsea said: \"This has been a very difficult decision, and not one that the owner and the board have taken lightly.\n\n\"We are grateful to Frank for what he has achieved in his time as head coach of the club. However, recent results and performances have not met the club's expectations, leaving the club mid-table without any clear path to sustained improvement.\n\n\"There can never be a good time to part ways with a club legend such as Frank, but after lengthy deliberation and consideration it was decided a change is needed now to give the club time to improve performances and results this season.\"\n\nOwner Roman Abramovich said Lampard's status as an \"important icon\" of the club \"remains undiminished\" despite his dismissal.\n\n\"This was a very difficult decision for the club, not least because I have an excellent personal relationship with Frank and I have the utmost respect for him,\" said Abramovich.\n\n\"He is a man of great integrity and has the highest of work ethics. However, under current circumstances we believe it is best to change managers.\"\n\nLampard did not sign a single player during his first season as the club were operating under a transfer embargo, but spent more than £200m on seven major signings last summer, including £45m on Leicester's Ben Chilwell and £71m on midfielder Kai Havertz from Bayer Leverkusen.\n\nIt is the most Chelsea have spent in one summer, eclipsing the £186m they invested at the start of the 2017-18 season.\n\nLampard is Chelsea's all-time record scorer, with 211 goals for the club between 2001 and 2014, and is also joint-seventh on the list of most capped England players, having made 106 appearances for his country over 15 years from 1999.\n\nDuring his 13 seasons as a player at Stamford Bridge, he made 648 appearances and won 11 major trophies - including four Premier League titles and the 2012 Champions League.\n\nHis first managerial job was at Derby. In his one season in charge, they reached the Championship play-off final, where they lost to Aston Villa.\n\nLampard became the 10th full-time manager appointed by Abramovich since the billionaire bought the club in 2003.\n\nAccording to football finance journalist Kieran Maguire, Abramovich had spent £110m on sacking managers before Lampard's dismissal.\n\nHaving finished with 66 points last season after 20 wins and 12 defeats, Chelsea have lost six times in their opening 19 league games this season.\n\nLampard's points-per-game average of 1.67 is the lowest of any permanent Chelsea manager in the Premier League. During the Abramovich era, only Andre Villas-Boas (47.5%) has a worse win rate than Lampard's 52.4%, in all competitions among permanent Chelsea bosses.\n\nIn contrast, Jose Mourinho's win rate in all competitions during his first spell in charge was 67.03%, while Sarri, Antonio Conte, Avram Grant, Carlo Ancelotti and Claudio Ranieri all had win rates over 60%.\n\nAnalysis - lack of confidence among squad key to sacking\n\nLampard was sacked because the club could not see him reversing a slide in form.\n\nAfter qualifying for the Champions League last season and spending more than £200m on players in the summer, the aim this campaign was to close the gap on the leaders, but that has not been achieved.\n\nAlthough links will be made between Tuchel's heritage and the poor form of fellow Germans Kai Havertz and Timo Werner, the change was made because of the lack of confidence among the whole squad.\n\nIt is hoped that Tuchel can rejuvenate a team that is five points outside of the top four, and an announcement could be made within 24 hours.\n\nThe decision to sack Lampard was very difficult for Abramovich, who has never made a statement when changing Chelsea managers previously.\n\nIn the end, Lampard paid for his relative inexperience as a manager, which cannot be said of Tuchel.\n\nBest of reaction to Lampard sacking\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola: \"People talk about projects and ideas. They don't exist. You have to win or you will be replaced. I am not judging Chelsea's decision. I respect their decision. But our world is to win as much as possible.\n\n\"I hope to see Frank soon and go to a restaurant with him when lockdown is finished.\"\n\nTottenham boss Jose Mourinho: \"It is the brutality of football. Anything can happen in football now, every time somebody loses their job it is sad news but he is a big boy, [with] a strong personality and strong mentality.\n\n\"I am pretty sure he will be back when he wants to be back and his career will be good. I hope so.\"\n\nWest Ham boss David Moyes: \"I'm disappointed for Frank as I saw him as one of the most up and coming young English managers in the country.\n\n\"It's a big thing we try to encourage our own British managers into the big leagues, if we can. I'm sure he'll come back and learn from it.\n\n\"He did a great job last year - he did a really good job with so many youngsters coming through the academy. It seemed a little bit harder for him this year. I'm sure he'll take time off, come back and get better.\"\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers: \"Clearly I'm really sad for Frank and his staff. I know how much the club means to him.\n\n\"Looking at the squad and how young they are, they need time. He hasn't been given that time. I really feel for him. He did great at Derby.\n\n\"He had the courage to step out of an amazing career and could have taken an easier route. It was a job he couldn't turn down, even though he didn't have a lot of experience.\n\n\"Results haven't been what he would have wanted, but I feel it's a job that needed time.\"\n\nCrystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson: \"It saddens me. I thought he did an excellent job last season. I was rather hoping that the idol of the fans and Chelsea legend that he is, he'd get a longer shot than 18 months.\n\n\"Managers who have had short stays at Chelsea have gone on to have good careers elsewhere. When you're sacked for the first time, it is a devastating blow. There's no doubt he has a pedigree to be a very good manager.\"\n\nFormer Chelsea striker Chris Sutton speaking on BBC 5 Live's Monday Night Club: \"It is 52 days since Chelsea were top of the Premier League and 48 days ago that Chelsea had been on an unbeaten run of 17 games.\n\n\"So in the space of 48 days the owner has decided to write Frank Lampard off. How are we ever going to know if Frank Lampard is a good manager? You only every really learn about people and their characteristics and traits when they go through a little bit of adversity and Frank has gone through a little bit of adversity.\n\n\"Frank has basically been sacked for the owner's expectations. I feel sorry for Frank because he is a club legend.\n\n\"They are five points off fourth place, but the bottom line is that the owner wants to win the Premier League and that was always going to be the pressure.\n\n\"Chelsea should have been more loyal. We know the owner's track record - he is ruthless, he is brutal and guillotined Frank.\"\n\nScott G: Been a Chelsea fan since Nevin, Speedie and Dixon and admit I've enjoyed all the success money has brought us over the last 20 years. However, there's a sadness about that decision. Some things money can't buy. #SuperFrank\n\nFil Harris: Isn't the whole point of appointing a younger manager to give him time to build and develop? Craziness from Chelsea to sack Lampard after such a short time.\n\nSimon Kirk: Been a Chelsea fan since 1969 and have never been so annoyed at a sacking of a Chelsea manager. He needed at least another 18 months. Shame on you Abramovich and the Chelsea board for supporting such a decision.\n\nRyan Howard: I find it such a weird sacking - a month or so ago Chelsea were in a nice groove, Zouma and Silva were scoring and keeping clean sheets, now after one bad run he gets sacked. Chelsea could be a world-class club if they just gave a manager proper time to build a team.\n\nPeter Josi: Chelsea are totally right to sack Lampard, he lacked the experience or coaching prowess to lead the side. The next phase should start with an investigation into our transfer policy and how our last two record signings turned out to be flops.\n\nThomas Wilson: Why are people surprised Lampard was sacked? Chelsea have been ruthlessly successful for 15 years. They are not going to suddenly resort to being generously unsuccessful because of a club legend being at the helm.\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Sunday's fourth-round ties are", "The leader says he is \"optimistic\" and is recieving medical treatment\n\nMexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has announced he has tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe 67-year-old said on Twitter that his symptoms were mild and that he was \"optimistic\" following the diagnosis.\n\nThe development comes as Mexico grapples with an upsurge in infections, with deaths nearing 150,000.\n\nMr López Obrador says he will continue working from home, including speaking to President Vladimir Putin about acquiring a Russian-made vaccine.\n\nIt was announced earlier on Sunday that a call between the two leaders will take place on Monday to discuss their bilateral relationship and the possible supply of Sputnik V jabs.\n\nThe Mexican president said last year he would try and acquire 12 million doses of the Russian-made vaccine if it proved effective.\n\nMexico has not yet approved the jab for use, but officials want to expand the country's vaccination program for the population of 128 million people amid delivery delays from Pfizer-BioNTech.\n\nSputnik V has already received authorisation in a number of other countries, including Brazil and Argentina. Hungary became the first in the EU to give it the green light this week.\n\nJosé Luis Alomia Zegarra, a senior health official, described Mr López Obrador's condition as stable and told a news briefing that \"a team of medical specialists\" were attending to the president.\n\nMexico has recorded more than 1.75m virus cases since the pandemic began, according to Johns Hopkins University tracking.\n\nThe nation's confirmed death toll of 149,614 is one of the highest in the world - behind only the US, Brazil and India.", "Janet Yellen has been confirmed as the first ever female US treasury secretary in a Senate vote.\n\nMs Yellen, who headed the US central bank from 2014 to 2018, earlier won bipartisan support from members of the Senate Finance Committee.\n\nShe will be responsible for guiding the Biden administration's economic response to the pandemic.\n\nThe US is struggling to rebound economically from the hit caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAt her confirmation hearing on 19 January, Ms Yellen urged Congress to approve trillions more in pandemic relief and economic stimulus, saying that lawmakers should \"act big\" without worrying about national debt.\n\nIn response, Republican senators warned the former Federal Reserve head this was not the time for \"a laundry list\" of liberal reforms.\n\nMs Yellen disagreed, highlighting the fact that many families whose incomes have fallen were not reached by jobless programmes. She argued that plans to raise taxes must be seen in the context of financing bigger investments necessary to make the US economy competitive.\n\n\"The focus now is not on tax increases. It is on programmes to help us get through the pandemic,\" she stressed.\n\nJanet Yellen was previously chair of the US Federal Reserve. She was known for focusing more attention on the impact of the central bank's policies on workers and the costs of America's rising inequality.\n\nBefore then-President Barack Obama named her to lead the Fed in 2014, she had served as one of its board members for a decade, including four years as vice-chair.\n\nJanet Yellen speaking at a press conference in 2017 as US Federal Reserve Chair\n\nDonald Trump bucked Washington tradition when he opted not to appoint Ms Yellen to a second four-year term at the Fed.\n\nHowever, her climb to the top of the economics profession had made her a feminist icon in the economics world.\n\nWhen she left the Fed in 2018, many paid tribute to her leadership by imitating her signature look of a blazer with a popped collar.\n\nMs Yellen is seen as someone able to satisfy both progressive and centrist members of Mr Biden's Democratic party. Her nomination to lead the Fed in 2014 won support from some Republicans.\n\nHer focus on employment, rather than inflation, gave her a reputation of favouring low interest rates, which spur economic activity by making it less expensive to borrow money.\n\nBut under her leadership, the Fed raised interest rates for the first time since 2008 - albeit less aggressively than some more conservative commentators supported.\n\nHer stewardship of that process has won praise on Wall Street, even as it remains hotly debated.", "Sunderland-based Hays Travel took over Thomas Cook's stores and staff in 2019\n\nTravel firm Hays Travel is to close 89 of its 535 shops following a review into its take over of Thomas Cook.\n\nThe Sunderland-based firm bought the collapsed company in October 2019 and deferred a review into the performance of its shops until 2021.\n\nA Hays Travel spokeswoman said the third national lockdown and travel ban meant \"the company had to act\".\n\nShe said 388 staff affected by the closures would be offered \"alternative work options\" to minimise redundancies.\n\nChief operating officer Jonathon Woodall said the \"first priority\" was to \"look after our customers\" and ensure \"the highest standards of customer service\".\n\nHe added that the firm was \"continuing with our robust two-year business plan and continue to be ready for the bounce back when it comes\".\n\nDame Irene Hays said business had not bounced back as had been hoped\n\nDame Irene Hays, owner and chair of the Sunderland-based firm, said it was \"always our intention to review the performance of our shops at the end of the licence period\".\n\n\"We had hoped the business would bounce back in January and it has not,\" she said.\n\n\"We have done everything we could to safeguard jobs and the business thus far, and we have come up with a range of options for those at risk of redundancy to help as many colleagues as we can.\"\n\nOptions for staff include working from home or filling vacancies in other shops.\n\nThe spokeswoman said the firm employed about 7,700 people, many of whom were \"working from home taking bookings for holidays for 2021 and beyond\".\n\nThe company has yet to confirm which of its locations will be affected.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Keir Starmer is isolating after a contact tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer is self-isolating for the third time, after coming into contact with someone who tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nHe said he would be working from home until next Monday after being notified of the contact earlier.\n\nSir Keir confirmed on Twitter that he had no symptoms.\n\nThe Labour leader last self-isolated in December after a member of his staff tested positive for Covid-19, but he never showed any symptoms of the virus.\n\nHe also self-isolated in September after a member of his family showed symptoms - but they later tested negative, allowing Sir Keir to get back to Westminster.\n\nIf you are contacted by NHS Test and Trace and told you have been in contact with someone who has tested positive for the virus, you have a legal obligation to self-isolate.\n\nYou then have to stay at home, not going out for any reason, for 10 days from the time you last saw the contact.\n\nIf you don't stick to the rules, the police can issue you with a fine, starting at £1,000.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Keir Starmer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFor Sir Keir, he needs to stay indoors until next Monday and cancel all his upcoming plans for the week.\n\nHe will still be able to take part in Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday via video link.\n\nThe current list of MPs set to question Boris Johnson, shows that only one will now physically be in the Commons with the PM.\n\nA number of politicians have had to self-isolate during the pandemic, including the prime minister.\n\nThe latest was Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who got a notification from the NHS app to stay at home.\n\nHe had the virus last March, but said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\" and urged others to do the same if contacted.\n\nMr Hancock's isolation period was due to end on Sunday, so he is expected back in Whitehall this week.", "Health and social care staff have been vaccinated at the NHS Louisa Jordan Hospital in Glasgow\n\nThe Scottish government is \"looking at all sorts of ways\" to accelerate its Covid-19 vaccine programme, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nThe government is considering a pilot of 24/7 vaccine arrangements, chiefly aimed at younger age groups.\n\nA total of 46% of over-80s in Scotland have now had a first dose, along with 95% of older care home residents.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the programme was \"picking up pace\" and \"on track\" to reach all over-70s by mid-February.\n\nShe said the government was \"looking at all options\" to get the vaccine out to people as quickly as possible.\n\nThe government aims to have the top priority groups - including care home residents and staff, frontline health workers and all those aged over 80 - given a first dose by the end of the first week in February.\n\nFrom Monday, letters are being sent out to people aged 70 to 79 inviting them to receive their first doses. Ms Sturgeon says the programme is \"on track\" to having this group complete by the middle of February.\n\nThere has been some criticism of the speed of the rollout in Scotland, with a greater proportion of over-80s having already received a jab in England.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon said the programme was \"making good progress\" and said any differences with the rest of the UK were because of an early focus on vaccinating older care home residents - 95% of whom have now had their first dose.\n\nShe said she was \"absolutely confident\" that the government would hit its targets.\n\nAnd the first minister said consideration was being given to how to speed up the programme further, saying her government is \"looking at all sorts of ways to accelerate things\".\n\nShe said: \"We are looking at piloting 24/7 arrangements so that when we get into wider groups of the population, people will have choices about the time they turn up for vaccines.\n\n\"There's been debate about whether people will want to turn up in the middle of the night to get vaccinated - some will and some won't. If that sort of thing is going to add to what we are able to do, it is likely to have the greatest impact when you get down into the relatively younger age groups.\n\n\"If we think it is appropriate there may be some things we try just to see if they would work, and if they don't we won't continue with them.\n\n\"We are looking at all of these options to make sure that as the supply increases, we can get it to people as quickly as possible.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said there was \"some early evidence\" that lockdown was reducing the number of new Covid-19 cases, although she said the government would take a \"cautious\" approach to restrictions - which are currently due to run into mid-February at the earliest.\n\nShe also voiced some \"cautious grounds for optimism\" that admissions to hospital are starting to \"tail off slightly\", although she warned that pressure on the NHS would remain \"acute\" for some time.\n\nOpposition leaders called for the vaccine programme to be accelerated and for support to be targeted at key workers.\n\nA mass vaccination centre is being set up at the P&J Live Arena in Aberdeen\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said: \"People are talking about a 24/7 approach here in Scotland - I think based on the figures so far we need to focus just on a seven day approach, because we are not vaccinating people quickly enough.\n\n\"We are not making the progress we need to, to get people vaccinated as quickly as possible.\"\n\nScottish Labour MSP Sarah Boyack said the vaccine programme \"needs to be accelerated as fast as possible\"\n\nShe said: \"We are all behind this vaccine being rolled out - but it has to be as soon as possible, because people are getting nervous.\n\n\"Whether it's police staff, construction staff, care staff who have been worried for weeks - the vaccine has got to be the top priority, along with the test and trace so we can monitor the impact on the ground and get targeted support to people.\"\n\nScottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said Scotland was \"slipping further and further behind England\" and added: \"The first minister's excuses on the rollout of the vaccine are wearing very thin.\"", "The Francis family said they would be exchanging cards and having a special meal for their lockdown St Dwynwen's Day\n\nIt may not be as well-known as Valentine's Day but St Dwynwen's Day is a special time for some in Wales.\n\nSian and Trystan Francis from Rhiwbina in Cardiff do not celebrate Valentine's Day but on Monday will exchange St Dwynwen cards and have a special meal.\n\nMr Francis, 40, said: \"It's just a part of my culture - I didn't know about Valentine's Day until about Year 6.\n\n\"My parents didn't celebrate Valentine's Day at all but they did send cards on Santes Dwynwen.\"\n\nSian and Trystan Francis perform as Do Re Mi Canu\n\nThe Welsh patron saint of lovers St Dwynwen - or Santes Dwynwen in Welsh - was a 4th Century princess who lived in what is now the Brecon Beacons National Park.\n\nThe story goes she was unlucky in love, became a nun and went on to pray for true lovers to have better luck than she did.\n\nMrs Francis, who grew up in Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taf, said her family did not speak Welsh but she went to a Welsh medium school and her mother learnt the language as an adult.\n\nMrs Francis, 38, said: \"I think if you're going to celebrate anything that says that you love your partner, then this one is loads more relevant to us because it's part of our heritage and our culture - Valentine's Day is not really that much to do with us.\"\n\nThe family have been busy organising cards and treats for their children, Jac, two, and Mimi, seven.\n\n\"I bought a card for Mimi from a mystery person and that's being delivered tomorrow,\" she said.\n\nShe added Covid had meant the celebration was a bit more low-key this year.\n\n\"I bought some cupcakes but we would normally go out for food and stuff,\" she said.\n\nMenna Llinos and her family celebrated with heart-shaped pizza in Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan\n\nThere was a time when they also marked Valentine's Day before they had a change of heart, she said.\n\n\"Over time we just went, 'actually, it's a bit irrelevant to us',\" she said.\n\n\"And you can never get a restaurant [on Valentine's Day],\" Mr Francis added.\n\nCarys Ingram from Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan, has been making heart-shaped cookies with her children\n\nMr Francis, who grew up speaking Welsh at home, said their choice was not unusual among their friends.\n\n\"My friends, people within the Welsh-speaking community definitely, celebrate Santes Dwynwen,\" he said.\n\n\"There is a subculture within Wales that does exist within Welsh-speaking communities so I would say Santes Dwynwen is part of that.\"\n\nMrs Francis said it meant they were able to avoid the commercialisation of the better-known celebration.\n\n\"Santes Dwynwen isn't particularly commercialised because it is so niche,\" she added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jessica Western says she is still fighting to find out why her daughter Macie died\n\nThe full extent of the problems with maternity services at two hospitals in the south Wales valleys rings out when the voices of women and families are listened to.\n\nAs one said: \"I want having a baby to be a good experience. It's ruined it.\"\n\nWomen repeatedly stated they were not listened to and their concerns were not taken seriously or valued.\n\nThey spoke of being ignored or patronised while being cared for at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant and Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nOften, their suspicions and concerns were found to have reflected a genuine problem that emerged later, but at the time they were dismissed when they tried to voice their concerns.\n\nA major independent review has found Cwm Taf health board's maternity services were \"under extreme pressure\" and the health minister has ordered them be put into special measures.\n\nIt was prompted by 25 serious incidents, including eight stillbirths and four neonatal deaths, between January 2016 and last September.\n\nThe independent review team has released a separate, damning 78-page report, which shares the views of 140 family members, including mothers about their experiences at the hospitals.\n\nNearly two thirds of women questioned felt they had not had good quality care during their pregnancy.\n\nThe review said: \"Many women had felt something was wrong with their baby or tried to convey the level of pain they were experiencing but they were ignored or patronised, and no action was taken, with tragic outcomes including stillbirth and neonatal death of their babies.\"\n\nOne woman said she felt worthless, adding: \"I'm broken from the whole experience, the lack of care and compassion.\"\n\nOn the care itself, repeatedly the review team heard from mothers who did not always believe the right level of skills and expertise were available at the right time.\n\nThere was a failure to seek a second, more senior opinion, and to escalate concerns, especially with women with complex pregnancies.\n\nOne mother said: \"He told me there was no point calling the consultant on a Sunday as no one would come.\"\n\nAnother said: \"I never saw the same consultant. They didn't know me, and they didn't want to know me. I was pushed in and out of rooms with all sorts of people.\"\n\nMothers faced too many variables in the service offered - from the time of day they used it, to staffing levels and the communication skills of the staff they met.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We picked the wrong day to be ill'\n\nSarah Handy's experience is highlighted in the report as illustrating a number of serious issues.\n\nIn pain, she was begging to see a doctor when she arrived in hospital in April 2017 and was left for nearly three hours without examination before being told it was constipation.\n\nMs Handy, 33, was sent back home to Merthyr Tydfil with laxatives and pain relief and that evening her baby Jennifer was delivered prematurely by her husband and mother-in-law.\n\nDespite their efforts to give CPR to save her life, Jennifer died.\n\nThe review said it showed:\n\nMs Handy said after the report came out: \"Today it's been proven in black and white that we were right to highlight our concerns and push for further investigation into our Jennifer's death.\n\n\"We just wish that this report will now do what it promised and improve the quality of care so that no other family has to go the traumatic experience we went through.\"\n\nOn communication, although individual staff were spoken of as excellent, many women felt during their care this aspect was extremely poor.\n\nWhen concerns were raised, there was a \"significant dissatisfaction\" with how they were dealt with, with dismissive attitudes.\n\nMany women were not listened to or taken seriously, one saying she was \"laughed at\" when she expressed concern.\n\nOther responses included: \"I was never asked, never believed.\n\n\"If only they had asked the right questions.\n\n\"Most importantly, we were not listened to. By the time we were it was too late.\"\n\nThe review said women reported an \"almost callous and brutal use of language\" and disregard for feelings.\n\nWhen one mother was concerned that she may be losing her baby she was told to \"prepare for the worst - it could be a miscarriage\" and then told to go home as \"there wasn't a lot she could do.\"\n\nYounger mothers in particular often felt their concerns were dismissed, which became an \"emerging theme\" for the review team.\n\nThere were failures to apologise, lack of access to notes and comprehensive investigations over concerns.\n\nWith high risk pregnancies, one woman interviewed believed that there was a lack of expertise and that \"anything different from the norm, they didn't seem set up to deal with it\".\n\nAnother described the antenatal clinic as being \"like a cattle-market\".\n\nWhen babies were lost, \"many women and families received no bereavement counselling or support and continue to experience emotional distress\".\n\nOne mother talking about the demand on midwives and doctors in the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, said it was \"no way a reflection on them\".\n\n\"They would always spend as much time as possible with me but unfortunately when needs must I was left with some questions but again this was due to staff shortages,\" she said.\n\nAnother said: \"There were so many jobs for one midwife to do and then people wonder why mistakes get made. They are human and are exhausted\".\n\nThe review published two parallel reports into Cwm Taf maternity services and the experiences of mothers\n\nThe review team said it was disappointing that lessons had not been learnt from a review of Furness General Hospital services four years ago.\n\nProf Jean White, chief nursing officer, said: \"It should be a joyous occasion giving birth to a child. Many of the women who shared their stories had care well below the standards we expect and that's not right.\n\n\"I think over time there appears to be a culture that has developed rather than an open culture where people are encouraged to say what's gone wrong, there is a blame culture.\"\n\nIn the words of another parent: \"Listen to women and families and believe what they tell you when they are in pain.\"\n\nThe review team concludes: \"The strong message heard from women and families in Cwm Taf is that they don't want their experiences to happen to anyone else and the importance to them that the organisation learns from these experiences to ensure that improvement and change occurs.\"\n\nCwm Taf chief executive Allison Williams said she was deeply sorry, is taking the findings very seriously but recognised \"significant work\" was still needed.\n\n\"Some of the feedback we have received from patients is extremely distressing and their experience in our maternity service has been totally unacceptable,\" she added.\n\nIf you have been affected by stillbirth, the following organisations might be able to help:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe mother of a 15-year-old boy attacked by a group of youths said she heard the gunshots that killed him.\n\nKeon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital, police said.\n\nIn an emotional appeal, Sharmaine Lincoln pleaded with the local community to \"help us understand why this has happened\".\n\nFive teenage boys have so far been arrested over his death.\n\nA post-mortem examination revealed Keon was shot and stabbed to death.\n\nKeon Lincoln's mother said not a day would go by when she would not hear her son's \"unbelievable\" laugh\n\nRemembering that afternoon, Ms Lincoln said: \"I heard the gunshots and my first instinct was, 'Where's my son?'\n\n\"A few minutes went by, we heard somebody was in the road and it was my boy.\"\n\nWest Midlands Police arrested three teenagers over the weekend on suspicion of Keon's murder - a 14-year-old boy from Birmingham and two others, aged 15 and 16, at an address in Walsall.\n\nThis is in addition to two 14-year-old boys arrested on Friday, one of whom remains in custody and the other released under investigation.\n\n\"The community needs to step up and put themselves in the shoes of the family,\" police say\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, from West Midlands Police, said the attack on Keon was \"the most pointless use of extreme violence I've witnessed in my 24 years in the police force\".\n\n\"The level of violence has not just caused shock to the family, but to hardened police officers,\" he said. \"It was an absolutely pointless attack, one I can't clear my mind of.\"\n\nThe force is appealing for information and Det Ch Insp Orencas said the community response was \"not where it should be\".\n\n\"These are multiple offenders in broad daylight. I simply don't believe there's not information out there that can help me with the inquiry,\" he said.\n\nKeon Lincoln was attacked on Linwood Road, a residential street in the Handsworth area of Birmingham\n\nMs Lincoln remembered her son as a joker, cheeky - a \"loving child with a jolly spirit\" whose \"unbelievable laugh\" would echo daily around her home.\n\n\"It doesn't make sense, the type of person Keon was, it doesn't make sense as to why someone would want to harm him or take his life in such a brutal way,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pictures of the funeral have led to criticism from unionists\n\nPolice have begun an investigation into potential breaches of Covid-19 regulations at the funeral of an IRA man in Londonderry.\n\nEamon McCourt, 62, who reportedly died with Covid-19, was buried on Monday.\n\nUnder current Covid-19 restrictions funerals in Northern Ireland are limited to 25 people.\n\nThe police said a \"significant number of people\" had gathered, in a manner \"likely to be in breach\" of the coronavirus regulations.\n\nPSNI Ch Supt Darrin Jones said anyone found in breach of public health regulations would be reported to the Public Prosecution Service.\n\nHe said police had \"engaged with representatives of the family of the deceased, the local church and local political representatives\", prior to the funeral.\n\n\"As a result, police were given a number of assurances as to the conduct of the funeral, and that people would seek to pay their respects to the deceased from outside their homes rather than gather at the funeral.\"\n\nPictures of the leading republican's funeral show men in white shirts and black ties flanking the cortege and dozens of others behind them.\n\nCh Supt Jones added: \"Regrettably at the funeral on Monday morning, a significant number of people gathered as part of the cortège, in a manner likely to be in breach of the health protection regulations.\"\n\nUnionist politicians had called on the police to act after images circulated online of mourners.\n\nDUP MLA Gary Middleton said those who had abided by Covid-19 restrictions would view the scenes from the funeral \"with dismay\".\n\nHe said it was \"hard to put into words the sheer recklessness of those involved\".\n\n\"Within republicanism it seems that certain individuals are viewed as being more important than public health regulations,\" Mr Middleton said.\n\n\"In those minds the reality of Covid-19 has not been brought home, or at the very least it is viewed as less important than having a public display at a funeral.\n\n\"Such sights are most painful for relatives who have recognised the need for such painful restrictions to be put in place and have abided by them.\"\n\n\"Eamon 'Peggy' McCourt who passed away on Saturday morning was buried from his family home in Creggan, a right accredited to us all.\n\n\"However, it was evident that social-distancing measures and permitted mourner numbers were completely ignored by those in attendance.\n\n\"Again, the majority of people in Northern Ireland who have followed lockdown measures since March 2020 are asking themselves why can republicans do whatever they like?\"\n\nHe called on the police to explain why such \"a large funeral procession was permitted to take place and what actions will follow\".\n\nIn a statement, Sinn Féin said: \"Everyone has a responsibility to follow the public health guidelines.\n\n\"Sinn Féin held its own tribute to his memory online.\"\n\nIn June last year, about 1,800 people attended the funeral of leading IRA member Bobby Storey in west Belfast.\n\nAmong them was Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, the Sinn Féin vice-president, who later admitted the public health message had been undermined.\n\nIn May, Assistant Chief Constable Alan Todd said there had been social-distancing breaches at funerals in Northern Ireland in both the unionist and nationalist communities.\n\nThis story was amended on 27 January 2021 to remove the phrase 'IRA veteran'. Whilst referring to Mr McCourt's long history in republicanism, we accept the phrase was open to misinterpretation.", "The first minister visited the site of the flooding, where 80 villagers were evacuated from their homes\n\nResidents have been urged to stay away from homes flooded after a \"blow out\" at a mine shaft following reports some had returned against advice.\n\nEighty people had to be evacuated from Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, on Thursday and the Coal Authority is investigating the cause of the flooding.\n\nOn Sunday First Minister Mark Drakeford visited the village.\n\nSpecialists said mine shafts in the area were stable, but villagers were told it was not safe to return home.\n\nNeath Port Talbot Council tweeted on Sunday afternoon that some evacuated residents had ignored the warnings.\n\nIt said: \"We are getting reports that some residents who have been evacuated are returning to their homes.\n\n\"Investigations are ongoing at the site, including safety checks by utility companies. They have asked us to reiterate the request for residents to stay away and that it is not safe to return today or tomorrow.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Drakeford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not known how many residents were thought to have returned to their flooded homes or how long they were there for.\n\nBigger equipment is being brought in to \"understand in detail what has caused the blow out\", according to Coal Authority chief executive Lisa Pinney.\n\nThe Coal Authority, which manages the effects of past mining on communities, said it believed the \"blow out\" was likely to have been caused by a blockage underground which caused water to back up before breaking out.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones warned residents it was unlikely that they could return home by Monday.\n\nMs Pinney said a hand-drilling crew \"determined the precise location and extension of the collapsed mine shaft\" on Saturday.\n\nThe village was flooded after a mine shaft \"blow out\"\n\n\"This now allows us to bring in larger equipment to investigate the wider mine workings and drainage channels in the area around it, so we can understand in detail what has caused the blow out,\" she said.\n\n\"We have checked all recorded shafts in the immediate area and found them all to be safe.\n\n\"We will be checking over a wider area in the days ahead.\"\n\nDuring his visit to the village Mr Drakeford was shown the sinkhole which had opened up on Thursday, leading to the flooding.\n\nOn Friday the Welsh Government confirmed financial support would be made available to people affected by the floods, up to £1,000 per household.\n\nMr Drakeford said on Sunday: \"Particularly for families who have no insurance, this is a devastating event.\n\n\"They will know that the Welsh Government is there to help and we will do that through the local authority which has been here very visibly, helping people in the last couple of days.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak: 'We’re throwing absolutely everything at it'\n\nFewer than 2,000 young people have so far started new roles under the government's £2bn Kickstart jobs scheme, data shows.\n\nThe programme, which launched in September, has created 120,000 temporary jobs to date.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak told the BBC coronavirus restrictions were making it harder for more young people to get started.\n\nHowever, he expected the number to rise once restrictions are lifted.\n\n\"Obviously because of the lockdowns and restrictions, that hampers businesses' ability to bring people into work,\" said Mr Sunak,\n\n\"What we can look forward to, as the restrictions ease, is more of these young people starting those placements.\n\n\"But taking a step back, we announced this scheme first week of July, it went live the first week of September and here we are, just a few months later, with 120,000 jobs having being vetted, funded and created.\"\n\nThe Chancellor insisted that the government had moved at an \"enormous pace\" to set up the programme, which targets youths at risk of long-term unemployment.\n\n\"I've always said my priority through this crisis is to protect, support and create as many jobs as possible, and young people in particular have been at the forefront of my mind,\" said Mr Sunak.\n\n\"We know that they're most likely to work in affected sectors, they're twice as likely to be furloughed, and the ones leaving college are entering a really difficult labour market.\"\n\nYouth unemployment rose to 14.5% between August to October 2020, with 597,000 people aged 16 to 24 unemployed, up from 11% in the same period in 2019.\n\nLatest data from the Department of Work Pensions shows that as of 15 January, 1,868 young people had begun their placements.\n\nHayden Finlayson, recipient of a Kickstart work placement with Whistl in Bedford\n\nHayden Finlayson, 24, is one of them. He was made redundant from a retail job last summer.\n\nLooking for work during the pandemic proved difficult: \"You start thinking about things - whether you're going to find work again.\"\n\nHe has secured a Kickstart placement at a Whistl distribution centre in Bedford, an opportunity for which he is grateful.\n\n\"I gave it a go. It's a new experience and I want to do new things,\" he said. \"[I'm learning] different skills every day, things I've never done before.\"\n\nBusinesses apply to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to create Kickstart places, which are then vetted for suitability.\n\nYoung people aged between 16 and 24 who are on Universal Credit are matched to roles by their job centre work coaches.\n\nThey are then interviewed by the prospective employer, which decides whether to take them on.\n\nFor each successful placement, the government covers the National Minimum Wage for a six-month period, at 25 hours per week.\n\nA further £1,500 grant is available per placement to help cover setup costs and assist in the development of employability skills. The current £2bn budget allows for around 250,000 roles.\n\nFSB's Craig Beaumont says the decision to allow small firms offer placements through a faster, more direct process is four months late\n\nFollowing criticism from small businesses, firms who wish to create just a handful of roles will have the option of applying direct to the Department for Work and Pensions.\n\nPreviously, small firms who wanted to create fewer than 30 Kickstart jobs had to group together, or use a \"gateway\" provider as an intermediary.\n\nMore than 600 gateways have now been approved, but small businesses complained that they found the process slow and difficult.\n\n\"The decision should have been made in September,\" said Craig Beaumont, chief of external affairs at the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).\n\n\"There is now a backlog of cases of people who've been appointed through intermediaries, who've not been able to access that work yet. So we need a real focus from the government to clear that.\"\n\nAsked if the scheme would need extending because continuing restrictions could prevent its aims being achieved this year, Mr Sunak left the possibility open.\n\nAnna Szymanowska runs Fighter Shots, which makes ginger-based remedy drinks. She is keen to create three digital marketing Kickstart roles as soon as possible.\n\nHowever, she says her application - which was done in a pool with other businesses - took a long time.\n\nSmall business owner Anna Szymanowska would like to hire three young people for digital marketing roles\n\n\"It was a little bit lengthy, because the first time I heard of the scheme was July or August,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"We applied within a month [of hearing about it], and just yesterday we received a contract to sign. So it was lengthy but otherwise well managed.\"\n\nThe Chancellor told the BBC that the changes hadn't been made earlier because Kickstart had been set up \"at speed\". He pointed out other interventions aimed at supporting young people's jobs, including investment in employment support schemes, training and apprenticeships.\n\nTracy Fishwick is the managing director of Transform Lives Company, a social enterprise which helps people into work.\n\nShe believes that the young people chosen to have Kickstart placements will be very important.\n\n\"The young people who really probably would already get a job with a little bit of help - we don't want all the Kickstart jobs going to those young people,\" said Ms Fishwick, who previously worked with the Future Jobs Fund - a scheme for young people created by Labour in 2009.\n\n\"We need to be able to put things in place to support those young people who were already unemployed before Covid.\"", "Volunteers responded to an appeal on social media on Saturday night\n\nVolunteers helped to clear up to 7cm of snow at a community hospital so Covid-19 vaccines could be given to about 300 vulnerable patients.\n\nMore than a dozen people cleared the car park at Maesteg community hospital in Bridgend county on Sunday where the Pfizer-BioNtech jab is being given.\n\nPeople with brushes and shovels came to the rescue after a Facebook appeal and Bridgend council provided a plough.\n\nOne local councillor said their community spirit \"knows no bounds\".\n\nThe Maesteg area had been at or near the top of Wales' Covid case rate chart for a few weeks before Christmas - with an infection rate of more than 1300 cases per 100,000 at its height.\n\nVaccinations were delayed for about an hour on Sunday and Maesteg West councillor Ross Thomas, who helped organise the clear-up, said it would have been a \"disaster\" to have cancelled the appointments.\n\nCovid jabs at four other locations in south Wales had to be cancelled after snow cause widespread disruption across the UK.\n\nAnd Mr Thomas praised the local community for preventing their centre from also falling victim to the weather.\n\n\"With a few Facebook call-outs we had a dozen or so volunteers within the hour together with surgery staff, a number of the GPs,\" Mr Thomas told BBC Radio Wales.\n\nCouncillor Ross Thomas said there would be some aching backs on Monday morning\n\n\"The grounds of the hospital are not small by any stretch of the imagination. It was a valiant effort over two-and-a-half hours to ensure we could allow access to Maesteg community hospital.\n\n\"It's thanks to them that 300 more people in the 80 and over priority group in the Llynfi valley received their jab yesterday.\"\n\nAnother 40 vulnerable patients will receive their Covid jabs on Monday.\n\nMr Thomas said the spirit in his community \"knows no bounds\" and added: \"People rally round, it's a sense of belonging, its genuinely instilled in our DNA in Maesteg and it was on show.\n\n\"Not only did people want to help, I think it's clear there's anxiety in the community about the virus.\n\n\"Ahead of Christmas some local wards here in the Llynfi valley had the highest case rates in Europe.\n\n\"There was the realisation yesterday that it wasn't just shovelling snow out of the way, it was about getting on top of this virus and ensuring the most vulnerable people in this community have a fighting chance moving forward.\"", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nBruno Fernandes' superb 78th-minute free-kick gave Manchester United victory in a thrilling FA Cup tie with old rivals Liverpool at Old Trafford.\n\nLiverpool led a fantastic contest through Mohamed Salah, who then equalised after Mason Greenwood and Marcus Rashford had struck for the hosts either side of the break.\n\nBut in a game which had everything last week's drab stalemate between this pair at Anfield lacked, Fernandes came off the bench to have the final word after Fabinho had fouled Edinson Cavani on the edge of the area.\n• None Don't worry about us, says Reds boss Klopp\n\nFernandes might have been slightly off the pace in recent games but when Ole Gunnar Solskjaer needed his £47m inspiration to come up with another special moment, the Portuguese delivered, bending his shot round the wall and beyond Allison's reach.\n\nThe victory earns United a home meeting with an in-form West Ham side managed by former boss David Moyes in the fifth round.\n\nBut the search for form goes on for Liverpool, whose only win in seven games since that seven-goal hammering of Crystal Palace came against Aston Villa's kids in the last round, and who have a meeting with Jose Mourinho's Tottenham looming on Thursday.\n• None Watch all the goals from the FA Cup fourth round\n\nIt was not quite the ending Solskjaer served up when he won a previous fourth-round meeting between these sides but, as in 1999, they had to come from behind.\n\nAnd while Fernandes applied the devastating finish, that goal should not be allowed to overshadow Rashford's contribution to United's victory.\n\nSo much has been said about the England forward as a social crusader it is sometimes easy to forget he also needs to be judged as a footballer.\n\nAt only 23, he is still a long way off his prime but he is developing into an outstanding forward, with vision to match his speed and finishing ability.\n\nThe pass that created Greenwood's equaliser was superb. Taking possession just inside his own half, Rashford delivered a 60-yard pass with such accuracy all Greenwood needed to do was take one touch to control with his chest before drilling low into the far corner.\n\nRashford's raw pace put Liverpool's defence under constant stress and the delicate touch that took him past Rhys Williams by the touchline in a move that ended with Paul Pogba curling wide was sensational.\n\nAnd then there was his goal, which needed a perfectly-timed run to go beyond the Liverpool defence and reach Greenwood's through ball, and then a cool head to apply the finish.\n\nAt that point, it seemed United had the game under control. It did not quite work out that way and once again, Fernandes, who has won four Premier League player of the month awards out of the seven he has been eligible for since leaving Sporting Lisbon less than 12 months ago, underlined his credentials as English football's most influential player at present.\n\nSalah's effort was the first time Liverpool had been ahead at Old Trafford since January 2017, since when Liverpool have won both the Champions League and Premier League, a clear indication that whatever issues Jurgen Klopp is wrestling with at the moment, they are not insurmountable.\n\nThe finish for the striker's 18th goal of the season did not hint at a lack of confidence as he raced on to Roberto Firmino's precise through ball, having escaped the attentions of Victor Lindelof, and lifted his shot beyond the reach of Dean Henderson.\n\nEvidently, what Klopp needs is to find a solution in defence. Williams was shaky and at fault for Rashford's goal, while Fabinho was exposed by United in this game and Cavani exploited the Brazilian's defensive inexperience to earn the free-kick that won the game.\n\nEven so, after Salah equalised from close range after United had lost possession to James Milner and never recovered their position after working their way up-field from a short goal-kick, the visitors did have chances to win it themselves.\n\nBut Dean Henderson saved from Trent Alexander-Arnold and Salah before Fernandes struck - so Liverpool's wait for a first FA Cup win since 1921 at Old Trafford, and Jurgen Klopp's for a first win at United full stop, goes on.\n\nManchester United are next in action against Sheffield United in the Premier League at Old Trafford on Wednesday, 27 January (20:15GMT). Liverpool play at Tottenham on Thursday, 28 January (20:00GMT).\n• None Manchester United have eliminated Liverpool from the FA Cup proper for the 10th time; in the competition's history, only Liverpool themselves (12 v Everton) have knocked a particular side out more times (including finals).\n• None Liverpool have won just one of their past 15 matches at Old Trafford in all competitions (D4 L10), and are winless in their last eight at the ground (D4 L4).\n• None Manchester United have won each of their past eight home games in the FA Cup; only from 1908 to 1912 have they had a better winning run on home soil in the competition (9 games).\n• None Liverpool are the first reigning Premier League champion to be eliminated from the FA Cup as early as the fourth round since Manchester City in 2014-15.\n• None Liverpool have lost back-to-back games in all competitions for the first time since March 2020.\n• None Roberto Firmino has assisted Mohamed Salah for 18 goals in all competitions for Liverpool, the most any player has set up another for the Reds under Jurgen Klopp. Since they first played together in 2017-18, this is the most one player has assisted another for all Premier League sides in all competitions.\n• None Mason Greenwood scored his first goal for Man Utd in 11 appearances in all competitions, ending his longest run of games without a goal for the club. Aged 19 years and 115 days, he was the youngest Man Utd player to score against Liverpool since Wayne Rooney in January 2005 in the Premier League (19y 83d).\n• None Marcus Rashford has scored more goals at Old Trafford against Liverpool than he has against any other opponent on home soil for Manchester United (4).\n• None Since his Man Utd debut in February 2020, Bruno Fernandes has scored more goals than any other player for Premier League clubs (28).\n• None No player has scored more goals for Premier League clubs in all competitions this season than Salah for Liverpool (19, level with Harry Kane).\n• None Attempt missed. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right following a set piece situation.\n• None Paul Pogba (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Victor Lindelöf (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Edinson Cavani (Manchester United) hits the right post with a header from the centre of the box. Assisted by Bruno Fernandes with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Aaron Wan-Bissaka.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 3, Liverpool 2. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Saturday's fourth-round ties are", "Early years educational providers in England have been told to remain open\n\nMany staff at nurseries, pre-schools and childminders \"don't feel safe at work\", says the Early Years Alliance.\n\nThe group, representing early years providers, wants staff in this sector to be a higher priority for Covid testing and vaccinations.\n\nNurseries and settings for young children in England have been told to remain open during lockdown.\n\nThe government said the under-fives were \"unlikely to be playing a driving role in transmission\".\n\nThe Early Years Alliance received more than 3,500 responses in a survey of staff in nurseries or childcare settings and said these suggested widespread concerns - with half of those who replied saying they did not feel safe at work.\n\nNeil Leitch, chief executive of the group, said the safety worries were \"a cause for serious concern\".\n\nHe called on the government to implement rapid coronavirus testing among early years staff \"as a matter of urgency\", adding they should be \"given priority access to vaccinations in phase two of the rollout\".\n\nThere are currently no confirmed plans for lateral-flow testing in nurseries and pre-schools.\n\nBut the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) is looking at whether some high-risk professions should be prioritised for vaccination.\n\nAnd Education Secretary Gavin Williamson told the BBC's Breakfast programme he would \"very much like to see it\" once the most vulnerable groups had received their jabs.\n\nA Department for Education (DfE) spokesman said: \"Keeping nurseries and childminders open will support parents and deliver the crucial care and education for our youngest children.\n\n\"Current evidence suggests that pre-school children are less susceptible to infection and are unlikely to be playing a driving role in transmission.\"\n\nThe Early Years Alliance survey also found concerns that staff shortages would make it difficult for some nurseries and pre-school settings to stay open.\n\nDr Amelia Massoura, who runs Stepping Stone pre-school, in Sittingbourne, Kent, said: \"Out of six members of staff, four have contracted Covid-19.\n\n\"Fortunately, all have recovered well.\"\n\nVanessa Linehan, manager of Sandbrook Community Playgroup in Hackney in London, said: \"We are happy to stay open to support our families.\n\n\"But we want our staff to have testing and vaccinations as a priority.\n\n\"We encourage local authorities to prioritise appropriate testing for early-years staff through their community testing programmes,\" said the Department for Education spokesman.\n\nThe Department for Education says the under-fives are \"unlikely\" to drive up coronavirus transmission\n\nHowever, Labour's shadow education minister Tulip Siddiq accused the government of \"incompetence and neglect\", saying early-years staff \"deserve... proper access to testing\".\n\nShe questioned why \"the government has refused to publish the scientific basis for keeping early-years settings open in lockdown\" and called on it to \"urgently pull back from the brink of funding changes that could lead to viable early-years providers going bust\".\n\nThe government changed the funding formula for the early years sector in December, basing it on current attendance rather than pre-pandemic levels.\n\nAccording to the DfE, early years attendance is at 54% of the usual daily level, as of 14 January, leading to a shortfall in revenues.\n\nIn primary and secondary schools, which are open to vulnerable children and children of key workers only, average attendance levels have fallen to just 14%.\n\nRoughly half of nurseries and pre-schools and a third of childminders expect to be operating at a loss by the end of the spring term, based on current levels of government support, according to the survey.\n\n\"Early years providers are the only part of the education sector that the government has asked to remain open to all families,\" said Mr Leitch\n\n\"It is surely not too much to ask for the protection - both practical and financial - needed to ensure that we can continue to do so.\"", "Richard Dyson and Simon Midgley were thought to be on a winter break in Scotland\n\nTwo men who died when a fire tore through a luxury five-star hotel on the shores of Loch Lomond have been named.\n\nSimon Midgley and Richard Dyson, believed to be from London, were staying at Cameron House Hotel when the blaze broke out on Monday morning.\n\nPolice have not confirmed the identity of those who died, but relatives have paid tribute on social media.\n\nThe hotel's director has praised the actions of the emergency services in preventing further tragedy.\n\nFirefighters who brought a couple and their baby to safety from an upper floor have been hailed as \"heroes\".\n\nA baby was rescued by firefighters from an upper floor of the hotel\n\nAndrew and Louise Logan, and their son Jimmy, from Worcestershire, were taken to hospital after being brought to safety, but were later discharged.\n\nMore than 200 guests were evacuated from the building when the blaze broke out. A joint investigation into the cause of the fire is under way.\n\nSocial media posts suggested that Mr Midgley and Mr Dyson were on a winter break in Scotland.\n\nA post on Mr Midgley's Instagram account on Saturday showed pictures of Cameron House Hotel and said: \"Home for the weekend.\"\n\nRelatives have been expressing their shock at news of the couple's deaths.\n\nMr Midgley's sister posted a picture of her brother and his partner on Facebook, while another relative wrote: \"I'm beyond heartbroken.\"\n\nKate Baxter wrote on Twitter: \"Such unbearably sad news.. RIP @SimonMidgleyPR, a shining star in our wonderfully close-knit industry.\"\n\nAccording to his Facebook page, Mr Midgley was a freelance journalist at the London Evening Standard and ran his own PR company, while Mr Dyson is believed to be a TV producer.\n\nPolice and firefighters remained at the scene on Tuesday morning, with the scale of the damage becoming more apparent.\n\nBBC Scotland's Andrew Black was allowed on site and said: \"The damage to the building is pretty extensive, especially the upper floors. There's a smell of burning wood and we could hear a fire alarm from part of the building still going off.\"\n\nThe BBC understands that a wedding due to take place at Cameron House hotel this weekend has been moved to another luxury hotel.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage from above Loch Lomond shows the extent of the damage at Cameron House\n\nIn a new statement, Cameron House's director, Andy Roger, praised the \"very swift actions of the emergency services\".\n\nHe said: \"Everyone associated with Cameron House Hotel is still coming to terms with the events of yesterday and we are all hugely conscious that two people tragically lost their lives in the fire.\n\n\"Their families and friends are foremost in our thoughts as we co-operate fully with the investigation teams to try to establish the circumstances surrounding this terrible incident.\n\n\"The emergency services were on the scene long into the night and I cannot praise their efforts highly enough. They are true heroes. The firemen bringing out a couple and their young child by ladder from a second-floor room was a heart-stopping moment for all those who witnessed it.\n\n\"We're also enormously grateful for the many, many offers of practical support and good wishes from the UK hospitality industry and also from the local community, which has rallied around to help. It's been a humbling experience, but we are a small, tight-knit community on Loch Lomond and a response like that is typical of our many friends and neighbours.\"\n\nMr Roger said the hotel had made arrangements for the vast majority of the guests to travel home or continue with their breaks and he thanked them for their patience and \"good spirits\".\n\nHe also paid tribute to the staff at Cameron House who he said had shown \"an enormous degree of care and teamwork throughout the last two days\".\n\nLocal people have been speaking of their shock and sadness at what happened at the hotel.\n\nOne woman told BBC Scotland: \"We are just very sad for all the families involved and so sorry for the people who work there.\"\n\nAnother added: \"It's absolutely horrific. I think the local community really feels it.\"\n\nReverend Ian Miller, a retired minister who lives locally and was called in to offer guests support in the aftermath of the fire, said those affected \"fell into two groups\".\n\n\"There were those in the side bedrooms which weren't really touched and they just realised they had escaped something terrible,\" he said.\n\n\"But for those in the main building then there were degrees of trauma. Some had escaped with virtually nothing.\n\n\"One man came out in his underwear. Another woman told me she just grabbed her baby, change bag and moved out.\"\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue service remained at the scene on Tuesday morning\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme, John Gow, from forensic investigations firm IFIC, said: \"There will be a number of strands to this investigation, running in tandem.\n\n\"Obviously, sadly, there is the death investigation due to the fatalities that occurred.\n\n\"There is the origin and cause investigation which is establishing how the fire started and spread throughout the property.\n\n\"It is also likely there will be an investigation to establish if the fire precaution measures were adequate and operated as they should.\"\n\nCameron House, an 18th Century mansion, was converted into a luxury hotel and resort in 1986.\n\nIt is a popular wedding venue and houses the Michelin-starred Martin Wishart at Loch Lomond restaurant.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Covid-19 has been reported in 60% of Scotland's care homes\n\nPolice Scotland has confirmed it will support the dedicated Crown Office unit which has been set up to investigate Covid-19 deaths in care homes.\n\nThe force said its involvement does not indicate that crimes have been committed but is designed simply to inform prosecutors.\n\nCases of the virus have been reported in 60% of Scotland's care homes, with a total of 5,635 residents affected.\n\nThe first minister described the impact on the sector as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nEarlier this month Lord Advocate James Wolffe QC announced the new unit and said it would help determine if Fatal Accident Inquiries were to be held into the deaths.\n\nThe outbreaks across Scotland include one on Skye which is under police investigation.\n\nOfficers are looking into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of three women - aged 84, 86 and 88 - at Home Farm in Portree.\n\nOn Friday police outlined the support officers will provide to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) review.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Duncan Sloan said: \"We understand the significant public anxiety caused by reports of deaths among those being cared for and staff in the health and care sectors as a result of coronavirus.\n\n\"This is a matter of great concern for us all.\"\n\nMr Sloan said COPFS is working with a number of agencies and asked the force to gather \"additional information\".\n\nHe added: \"Our involvement does not necessarily indicate that crimes are being investigated and the information we gather on behalf of COPFS will help inform its decision on whether further action is required.\n\n\"These are challenging times for everyone but Police Scotland will continue to work with COPFS and other partner agencies to maximise public safety, to support and protect the vulnerable in our communities and to support the work of colleagues in the health and care professions.\"", "The comedian's wife shared a picture online of the 78-year-old after he received the vaccination\n\nSir Billy Connolly has received his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe comedian's wife Pamela Stephenson shared an image on social media of the 78-year-old wearing a mask with a plaster on his left arm.\n\nAlongside the picture, Ms Stephenson wrote: \"Thank God... Billy had his first Covid vaccine today!\"\n\nSir Billy, who lives in Florida, was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2013 and announced he was \"finished with stand-up\" last year.\n\nHe said at the time: \"The Parkinson's has made my brain work differently and you need to have a good brain for comedy.\"\n\nSir Billy now lives in Florida with his wife Pamela Stephenson\n\nSir Billy joins famous faces including actress Dame Judi Dench, broadcaster Sir David Attenborough and actor Sir Ian McKellen in receiving the vaccine.\n\nHollywood star and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger also shared a video of him receiving the jab earlier this week.", "The Fire Brigades Union has held back firefighters from efforts to tackle the pandemic in England with \"unreasonable\" safety demands, a report claims.\n\nIn it, the fire service watchdog says the union has insisted on \"unworkable\" rules for testing and self-isolation.\n\nThousands of firefighters assisted health and emergency services last year but in December, as vaccinations began, the FBU asked members not to volunteer.\n\nThe union says it cannot be sure its members will be safe if they do.\n\nThat is because councils and fire chiefs have pulled out of an agreement on health protection measures, it added.\n\nFor most of last year the agreement allowed firefighters to perform a range of additional duties, including delivering meals, driving ambulances and transporting bodies.\n\nFirefighters returning from roles in potential contact with Covid victims would spend several days self-isolating and being tested to show they were not infected.\n\nBy December, when there was the prospect of firefighters helping with vaccinations, a row over the deal resulted in the union giving new advice to members\n\nThe FBU said in message on 9 December: \"At this time, members are asked not to volunteer and to suspend any expression of interest that they have registered until such time as satisfactory arrangements can be secured that allow a national agreement to be reached.\"\n\nOn 13 January, local councils, which employ firefighters, decided the agreement with the union \"was no longer sustainable or appropriate\", partly because of the requirements for staff to have tests and self-isolate.\n\nThey said these made it impossible to run the fire service flexibly. Fire chiefs argued that police officers and paramedics did not have to isolate and await test results.\n\nThe union says it cannot be sure its members will be safe if they volunteer\n\nThe FBU general secretary, Matt Wrack, told the BBC he still was not able to advise firefighters about additional Covid-related duties because the union did not know what the safety risks would be locally.\n\n\"I'm not prepared to ask people to volunteer if there aren't safety measures in place,\" he said. \"I don't want to see a deadly virus brought into workplaces when we have measures in place which have avoided it in the past several months.\"\n\nThe fire minister, Lord Stephen Greenhalgh, said: \"Brave firefighters have been prevented from stepping up to support the pandemic response because of the actions of the Fire Brigades Union.\"\n\nZoe Billingham, an inspector at Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Fire and Rescue Services, said many firefighters had contributed to the effort during the Covid crisis, but much more could have been done.\n\nShe described the union's position as \"deeply regrettable\" and \"not what the public would expect of a fire service\".\n\nThe inspectorate has released several reports calling for the modernisation of fire service working practices and criticising the FBU.\n\nLancashire Fire and Rescue Service said it had begun testing its staff twice a week\n\nAccording to this one, the dispute between firefighters and their employers has held up vital work to protect lives.\n\nIn Greater Manchester requests to the fire service to help with NHS Track and Trace were delayed by 12 weeks.\n\nIn Cleveland, the fire and rescue service had to use non-operational support staff, rather than firefighters, to carry out temperature testing for the local authority.\n\nIn Suffolk and South Yorkshire, there were delays to plans for firefighters to help get into properties where residents were suffering from Covid.\n\nThe FBU says it was not given an opportunity to respond to these claims before the report was published. Mr Wrack dismissed it as poorly-sourced and politically-motivated.\n\nSome fire services have reached agreements with local branches of the union instead so that they can volunteer for the vaccination effort.\n\nLancashire Fire and Rescue Service said it had begun testing its staff twice a week and those giving vaccinations had also received them first.", "Helen White's lighting business is struggling to absorb a six-fold increase in freight costs.\n\n\"We were paying £1,600 per container in November, this month we've been quoted over £10,000,\" says Helen White.\n\nThe founder of start-up Houseof.com, which imports lighting from China, says the rise in shipping costs means she's making a loss on what she sells.\n\nShe's one of many UK importers facing soaring freight costs amid a global shipping crisis that may last months.\n\nA shortage of empty shipping containers in Asia and bottlenecks at the UK's deep sea ports are behind the problems.\n\nIt was hoped the backlogs could be cleared during the Chinese New Year holiday in February, but instead a coronavirus outbreak in China is adding to the uncertainty facing firms.\n\nIn the UK the difficulties in international shipping have coincided with problems faced by businesses trading with the EU after Brexit.\n\nOne Manchester-based freight forwarder said the logistics industry is facing the most challenging conditions he's seen in the 17 years he's been in the business.\n\nCraig Poole from Cardinal Maritime said during lockdowns, people have been turning to online shopping, and that's causing a surge in demand for goods from China.\n\nFreight forwarder Craig Poole says the logistics industry is facing hugely challenging conditions\n\nBut some companies can't absorb the skyrocketing freight costs that shipping lines are charging. That could lead to higher prices for consumers or businesses having to close.\n\n\"The really unfortunate thing is, the small businesses who can't afford to pay those rates are going to go under as a result,\" Mr Poole said.\n\nHelen White's lighting range is designed in the UK and manufactured in Guangzhou, China.\n\nShe said the six-fold increase in shipping costs is hard to take, especially when getting hold of a container \"is like gold dust\".\n\n\"It's really hard for a small business to absorb those costs. We'll be making a loss on the goods we're selling.\"\n\nLighting seller houseof.com is struggling to import stock from China\n\nAt the other end of the supply chain, Chinese manufacturers and logistics firms say they are equally frustrated.\n\nJohnny Tseng is the owner and director of Hong Kong-based J&B Clothing Company Ltd., which manufactures garments for some of the UK's most popular fashion sites including Boohoo and Pretty Little Thing.\n\nHe's been supplying clothes to British retailers for more than 40 years, but he says his family-run firm won't be able to absorb inflated shipping rates for much longer.\n\n\"To be honest I don't even know how we can survive if we carry on shipping things at this kind of cost.\"\n\nJohnny Tseng says sky-high shipping rates are putting his business at risk.\n\nHe says he's now being quoted $14,000 to ship a container to the UK, when the usual price is $2,500.\n\nThe shortage of empty containers in China and congestion at UK ports caused some of his stock to miss the busy Christmas trading period. Now some customers are holding orders for their Autumn-Winter collections until next year.\n\n\"It's chaos,\" he said. \"We are making a loss. We take it as a loss leader and keep our fingers crossed it will go back to normal after Chinese New Year, but it is a major issue if it persists this way.\"\n\nUsually during the Chinese New Year holiday, factories in China shut down for two weeks. There were hopes the pause in production would give UK ports a chance to clear the backlog of ships waiting to dock, and encourage shipping lines to move more empty containers back to Asia, which is a less profitable journey.\n\nChinese workers usually travel home for the Chinese New Year holiday.\n\nBut rising numbers of coronavirus cases have prompted the Chinese authorities to stagger factory closing dates so that not all workers are travelling to their home regions at the same time. A worsening outbreak could lead to travel restrictions, in which case some factories may not stop production at all.\n\nCraig Poole says some companies have been caught out by factories closing earlier than planned.\n\n\"A lot of businesses that can't get those goods away are delaying orders until after Chinese New Year, so this situation could continue 'til March,\" he said.\n\nPatrick Lee from the Hong Kong-based Unique Logistics International said it could be even longer than that.\n\n\"Middle of the year at the earliest is what we're hearing from end customers in the UK, and also from some of our people in the industry. Some of the carriers as well,\" he said.\n\nMr Lee has called on the shipping lines to add more ships to help ease the backlog of stock orders building up at warehouses across China.\n\n\"They are increasing sailing but can increase a lot more. There are idle ships out there that they can reactivate without too much difficulty,\" he said.\n\nThe disruption could last for several months, according to logistics specialist Patrick Lee\n\nBut a spokeswoman for the World Shipping Council said carriers are using all available capacity.\n\n\"The demand for transportation service far exceeds supply. As in any free market, this puts upward pressure on rates,\" she said.\n\nShipping lines have been trying to drive down demand from British importers by charging a premium for deliveries to the UK, or bypassing the country's ports altogether.\n\nOne shipping line recently offered freight rates of $12,050 for a 40ft container from China to Southampton, but charged just $8,450 for the same container to travel from China to Rotterdam, Hamburg, or Antwerp.\n\nThe UK's largest container port at Felixstowe has been experiencing long delays since October. Congestion has also been a problem at the Port of Southampton, albeit to a lesser extent.\n\nThe bottlenecks were initially caused by a surge in imports as business activity picked up after the first wave of the pandemic. Huge shipments of PPE and the usual Christmas rush added to container volumes and ports struggled to cope.\n\nThe UK's largest container port at Felixstowe has been experiencing bottlenecks for months\n\n\"Most of the carriers just don't want UK cargo because of the issues when the vessels dock, so mainly they're favouring European ports and we are having to truck containers over,\" said freight forwarder Craig Poole.\n\nHe said that adds a cost of up to £2,000 per container, and takes an extra seven to ten days to reach the delivery point in the UK.\n\nFor business-owners like Helen White, the difficulties affecting the shipping industry can't be solved quickly enough.\n\n\"Lots of little start-ups are really hurting,\" she said. \"It has been paired with logistical nightmares across Europe as well. It just feels like logistics is falling apart at the moment. It's hard to see where the resolution is.\"", "All schools moved to online learning before Christmas, following concerns from unions over the new coronavirus variant\n\n\"Wholesale\" return of pupils to school after February half term is \"unlikely\", Wales' first minister has said.\n\nMark Drakeford said there were \"intermediate positions between where we are today, with very few children in school, and everybody being back\".\n\nPreviously, ministers said schools would stay closed to most until February half term unless Covid cases fell significantly.\n\nThose preparing for qualifications and very young children may return first.\n\nMr Drakeford told a coronavirus briefing on Friday he had recently chaired a meeting of the teaching unions and local education authorities.\n\n\"We all agreed that we would work purposefully together to find ways of bringing more young people back into the classroom,\" he said.\n\n\"Does that mean that we will see a wholesale return of every child in every classroom, every day of the week across Wales? I do think that that is probably unlikely.\n\n\"But there are intermediate positions between where we are today, with very few children in school, and everybody being back.\"\n\nHe said there had been \"practical, creative, imaginative\" proposals put forward which could mean some children being back in the classroom for some of the week.\n\nMinisters previously said schools would stay closed until half term unless Covid cases fell significantly\n\nThese could include \"children preparing for qualifications [and] very young children for whom online learning really isn't a genuine possibility\".\n\n\"I certainly don't rule out making some of those things happen after the February half term, but I do think it's unlikely in the way you said that we would see every child back full-time in every classroom in the way that we would ideally wish to do,\" he added.\n\nAll schools and colleges moved to online learning before Christmas, following concerns from unions over the new coronavirus variant.\n\nThey have remained open for children of critical workers and vulnerable learners, as well as for learners who needed to complete essential exams or assessments.\n\nEarlier this month, when Education Minister Kirsty Williams said schools and colleges would stay closed to most pupils until the February half term, unions welcomed the news, saying the health and safety of pupils and staff \"had to be a priority\".\n\nBut, they added, teachers must now be given the vaccine as a priority, and pupils and staff must be protected before talks about reopening schools could begin.\n\nTeachers are still not on the priority list for immunisation, and have to wait to get the jab dependent on their age and if they have a medical condition.\n\nAt the time, Laura Doel, director of The National Association of Headteachers Cymru, said: \"Any plan that sees school staff return to face-to-face learning should be afforded as much protection as possible against the virus.\n\n\"Once these issues have been addressed, then we can discuss the orderly return to school we all want.\"\n\nOpposition parties have called for clear plans on how schools would return and for support to make sure pupils from poorer backgrounds did not fall behind due to a \"digital divide\".\n\nPlaid Cymru's education spokeswoman Sian Gwenllian said: \"The Welsh Government must plan now for the gradual and safe reopening of schools, putting in place safety measures, and should lay out plans for a vaccination programme for schools staff.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative education spokeswoman Suzy Davies called for the Welsh Government to publish evidence on its reasons for closing schools, bring forward vaccines for teachers, and said money must be made available for all pupils to access laptops for online learning.", "Three quarters of applications for a £500 discretionary grant, which aims to help those on low incomes self-isolate, have been rejected, figures suggest.\n\nEmployed or self-employed people in England who do not qualify for the Test and Trace Support Payment because they do not receive benefits can apply.\n\nData obtained by Labour and shared with BBC Newsnight suggests just 12,069 of 49,877 applications were successful.\n\nThe government said it was assessing how the scheme is supporting people.\n\nThe cumulative figures obtained by Labour suggest that between October and December last year, 35,252 applications to local authorities in England for the discretionary part of the test and trace support payment scheme were rejected, while 12,069 were granted.\n\nThe government introduced the Test and Trace Support payment in late September as a way of topping up any benefits or Statutory Sick Pay a person receives.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care says it is a targeted scheme designed to help people on low incomes.\n\nThere is a list of specific criteria applicants must meet for the grant, but those who do not qualify for this payment and who are on a low income or may face financial hardship as a result of self-isolating, can apply for a discretionary payment.\n\nLocal authorities in England oversee the entire support scheme, with the qualifying criteria set by the government. They blame overly strict criteria and inadequate government guidance for people being rejected who feel they should qualify for a grant.\n\nThe Local Government Association, which represents councils in England as well as the London boroughs, said some councils were having to turn down applications for the discretionary support because \"people are ineligible or have failed to provide the evidence needed\".\n\nLast month, the self-isolation period for contacts of people with confirmed coronavirus was shortened from 14 to 10 days after the time of exposure.\n\nPeople who are contacted by NHS Test and Trace and told to self-isolate, face fines of up to £10,000 if they fail to comply. Those who don't self-isolate risk spreading the virus to others.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDr Nishant Joshi, a GP trainee working at a practice in Luton, says he meets, on a daily basis, people who are faced with what he calls a \"Sophie's choice\".\n\nHe says: \"People come to me with essentially a Sophie's choice situation - I know I have to isolate but also I don't have enough money to put food on my table.\n\n\"If I say to somebody who comes to me with a health problem, you need to take a couple of weeks off work, I've had patients who have come to me and they're in tears.\"\n\nRachel, a shop worker from East London with a disabled son, tested positive in early January and was left in a desperate situation after having to self-isolate.\n\nShe says: \"I didn't have a hot meal for 10 days. I had two bowls of cornflakes and a hot dog. I was hungry. I was petrified\".\n\nShe adds: \"It's been probably the worst two weeks of my life. On a personal level I knew I had no choice but to isolate to keep my son safe.\n\n\"Had I not been in that position I can't guarantee that I would have done the whole self isolation thing because you get desperate.\"\n\nHer local councillor eventually dropped off a hot meal. Rachel was fortunate and received a £500 grant at the end of her isolation.\n\nJosie Tothill said missing two weeks of work \"could be the difference between feeding your kids or not, or paying rent or not\"\n\nJosie Tothill from Manchester didn't qualify for the scheme, even though her job, as a personal assistant to a woman who needs mental health support, means she is on a low income.\n\nShe had to self-isolate in October after her sister tested positive. But she did not receive a call from Test and Trace despite being a contact. Only people with a Test and Trace number are eligible.\n\nJosie says: \"It was difficult, but I got by. But for a lot of people, especially if you work in care, you are already on poverty wages, so to miss two weeks of work - that could be the difference between feeding your kids or not, or paying rent or not.\n\n\"So you can see, for some people, it's impossible to do that isolation, so it's much harder to control the virus.\"\n\nThe Labour Party, which obtained the figures from local authorities under the Freedom of Information Act, says the government must make sure everyone can afford to self isolate.\n\nShadow communities secretary Steve Reed said it was vital that people who self-isolated were not \"punished for doing the right thing\".\n\nHe told the BBC: \"The problem is the government established a fixed pot of money and, in some cases, councils have eked it out so much that many people applying for the funding haven't received it.\n\n\"In other cases councils have used up all the money because they have more people applying than were expected.\n\n\"So, we end up with a postcode lottery, if you live in one area you might get the funding, if you live in another area you might not.\"\n\nAnalysis of the figures by the BBC shows that of the applications to the discretionary scheme:\n\nWhile most of councils that responded rejected the majority of applications to the discretionary scheme, a smaller number bucked the trend.\n\nLambeth granted 77% of applications, Haringey and Wakefield 75%, and Solihull 64%.\n\nWhile it's impossible to rule out that applications may be coming from people who are taking a chance, it's also clear that some councils are apparently more flexible about the criteria used on the discretionary scheme.\n\nThe government is putting £70 million into funding the scheme. It said: \"Local authorities are responsible for decisions when it comes to making additional discretionary payments to people who fall outside the scope of the main scheme and are facing financial hardship as a result of having to self-isolate.\n\n\"We continue to work closely with the 314 local authorities in England to assess how the scheme is supporting people experiencing financial difficulties.\"\n\nThe Local Government Association said the government \"needs to ensure its £500 self-isolation payment support scheme is available to those in need of financial support\".\n\nIt says it is \"good\" that councils will receive extra government funding \"to support people on low incomes who do not meet the strict criteria for this main scheme, but who may face financial hardship because of the requirement to self-isolate\".", "Because of its scale, work on Glastonbury's site must begin earlier than most festivals\n\nMusic festivals are \"still possible\" this summer, despite the cancellation of Glastonbury, says the head of the Association of Independent Festivals.\n\nPaul Reed said Glastonbury \"is a different beast to most festivals and most likely ran out of time due to the size and complexity of the event\".\n\nSmaller events could still happen if the government ensures organisers can access cancellation insurance, he said.\n\n\"For most festivals, the cut-off point is more likely the end of March.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Glastonbury organisers Michael and Emily Eavis called off their festival for the second year in a row because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"In spite of our efforts to move Heaven & Earth, it has become clear that we simply will not be able to make the festival happen,\" they said in a joint statement. \"We are so sorry to let you all down.\"\n\nTickets for the festival, which normally attracts 200,000 people and was due to take place in June, will roll over to 2022.\n\nGlastonbury is the UK's biggest music festival, but it was not the only event to cancel its plans on Thursday. The Country To Country festival, which was due to take place in March, also said its 2021 edition would not happen.\n\nThe three-day event, which attracts some of country music's biggest names to indoor venues in London, Dublin and Glasgow, said it had pulled the plug due to the \"current restrictions on mass gatherings and international travel\".\n\nThe announcements came as coronavirus deaths soared in England, with more than 8,500 deaths recorded in the past week. On Thursday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it was \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions would be lifted by the spring.\n\nStormzy has already been announced as a headliner for August's Reading and Leeds festivals\n\nGlastonbury's cancellation has raised fears for other music festivals this summer. However, the organisers of Glasgow's TRNSMT said there was \"reason to be optimistic\" that it could go ahead in July, with headliners Lewis Capaldi, Liam Gallagher and the Courteeners.\n\n\"Glastonbury is the biggest festival in the world and it's sad to see that, due to its enormous scale and taking several months to get the city-sized festival site ready, it's unable to go ahead this year,\" boss Geoff Ellis told Scotland's Daily Record.\n\n\"By comparison, TRNSMT is a much smaller city centre event with no camping. As such it takes us days rather than months to build TRNSMT. Therefore, we will continue to listen to and follow the advice from the government and remain positive about events later in the summer.\"\n\nHis comments were echoed by Bestival co-founder Rob Da Bank, who tweeted that \"festival season will happen in the UK this summer\", adding: \"Sadly Glasto is such a mammoth beast to plan it ran outta time.\"\n\nSacha Lord, co-founder of Manchester's Parklife festival, added that Glastonbury's cancellation was \"yet another blow\" to freelancers who work in the live music sector.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast on Friday, Mr Reed said the UK was at a \"serious point in the pandemic and festivals only want to return when it is safe to do so\".\n\nHe added that festivals were currently struggling to get insurance for coronavirus-related cancellations. Last week, MPs from the House of Commons culture select committee wrote to the chancellor, urging him to launch a Covid-19 insurance scheme to protect live music.\n\nThe appeal was backed by more than 100 industry figures, including organisers of the TRNSMT and Parklife festivals. \"We do need government to intervene in this issue,\" said Mr Reed.\n\nIn a tweet on Thursday, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden expressed his regret at Glastonbury's cancellation and said the government was \"looking at problems around getting insurance\".\n\nA government spokeswoman said on Friday they are in \"regular dialogue\" with public health experts to \"agree a realistic return date for festivals and other large events\". They added they were still helping festivals with the £1.5bn Culture Recovery Fund, \"with many already receiving this support\".\n\nLatitude Festival has been held at Henham Park, near Southwold, since 2006\n\nOther European countries, including Austria and Germany, have launched schemes to cover events that cannot be rescheduled, including music festivals. At present, England has a scheme protecting film and TV shoots, but not music.\n\nHowever, some festivals have been given support by the government's £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund, including Womad, End of the Road and Nozstock.\n\nMelvin Benn, whose company Festival Republic organises the Latitude, Download and the Reading & Leeds festivals, said that without an insurance scheme, other events would be left \"staring into the same barrel that Glastonbury stared into\".\n\n\"People can't afford to take that financial risk,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nThe government is holding \"early stage talks\" with insurers, confirmed Tim Thornhill of Tyser's Insurance, which counts Glastonbury amongst its clients.\n\n\"We have helped to put in place the film and TV restart scheme, which the chancellor explained saved 14,000 jobs,\" he said. \"So if we can do something for events, that would be welcome across the industry\".\n\nWhile there is \"no guarantee\" that insurance could be provided, he said there was \"significant urgency\" to finding a solution \"within the next few months\".\n\n\"It's really important that the government supports the industry,\" added Radiohead's Colin Greenwood. \"And they need to start thinking about that now, and not when we reach that point - say in October this year - when there are enough people vaccinated for [live music] to become safe.\n\n\"Nobody wants to go to anything, or take part in anything, that's going to turn into a super-spreader event,\" he said.\n\n\"But obviously there has to be a way out of this, through vaccination. And I think we need to make sure that systems are in place so we can get back into doing what we love.\"\n\nJulian Knight MP, chair of the culture select committee, said the government was working on insurance plans, because of the importance of festivals to British culture and the economy.\n\n\"I've been in to see the chancellor,\" he told BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat. \"Finally I think there is some movement. I understand that they are dropping some of the objections that they may have had, and that we may end up with an insurance scheme.\n\n\"However, there's a danger that it's too little too late.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "PM: We are enforcing lockdown with increasing toughness\n\nSky News's Sam Coates asks whether, if the new variant is more dangerous, it is right that more people are \"out and about\" during the current lockdown than the first one last year. The PM says that \"we are enforcing the law very strictly with increasing toughness\", meaning increased fines to dissuade risky behaviour. \"It depends on everybody doing the right thing and avoiding transmission,\" he says, adding that is what will be more effective than police action. On why the new variant may be transmitting more readily, Sir Patrick Vallance says it is not believed the new variant has a higher viral load, meaning people \"shed more virus\". He suggests it may be other factors that make it more transmissible. On the current infection rate, Chris Whitty says that while infections are slowly going down \"it is at a very, very high level\". He says that among some age groups - including those 20 to 30 - infections may still be increasing. And on hospitalisations, he says that they are \"broadly flat\" for the UK as a whole, but there are variations between regions. \"That peak is not yet definitely going down yet,\" he says. Deaths will be delayed further with the peak expected in the future, he adds. Video caption: Infection level 'very, very high' and 'extremely precarious' - Prof Whitty Infection level 'very, very high' and 'extremely precarious' - Prof Whitty", "The Holyrood inquiry into the handling of harassment claims against Alex Salmond is using legal powers to seek documents from the Crown Office.\n\nThe documents include messages between SNP officials, civil servants and advisers relating to Mr Salmond's legal challenge to the complaints process.\n\nIt is the first time MSPs have issued such a formal request in the history of the Scottish Parliament.\n\nConvener Linda Fabiani said the action was necessary to continue its work.\n\nThe committee was established in the wake of a judicial review court case where the Scottish government admitted its internal investigation of two harassment complaints against Mr Salmond had been unlawful.\n\nThe government had to pay out more than £500,000 in legal expenses to the former first minister, who was later acquitted of 13 charges of sexual assault in a separate criminal trial.\n\nThe notice, formally issued by Holyrood chief executive David McGill, states that the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) \"may hold documents relevant and necessary for the committee to fulfil its remit\".\n\nThe committee is seeking the release of documents detailing text or WhatsApp communications between SNP chief operating officer Susan Ruddick and Scottish government ministers, civil servants or special advisers between August 2018 and January 2019, that may be relevant to the inquiry.\n\nIt also wants to see any documents linked to the leaking of complaints to the Daily Record newspaper in August 2018.\n\nMs Fabiani said: \"Throughout this inquiry, the committee has been determined to get as much information as possible to inform its task.\n\n\"This is a step that hasn't been taken lightly, and is a first for this Parliament, but which the committee felt was needed as it continues its vital work.\"\n\nThe Crown Office has been given until 17:00 on 29 January to respond to the notice.\n\nNever before in Holyrood's history has it attempted to use this legal power of compulsion.\n\nSection 23 of the Scotland Act makes it possible to force a witness to give evidence in person or - as in this case - to hand over documents.\n\nIt sounds straightforward but lots of legal terms and conditions apply.\n\nThat's especially true in this case where MSPs are trying to compel the Crown Office - in charge of prosecutions and headed up by the Lord Advocate.\n\nThe Lord Advocate has potential get-outs if he considers releasing documents would \"prejudice criminal proceedings\" or otherwise be \"contrary to the public interest\".\n\nThat public interest test could be key.\n\nClearly, MSPs think social media messages and other material held by the Crown Office could be relevant to their inquiry and should be released.\n\nThe Crown Office has argued that disclosing evidence gathered in a criminal case for other purposes risks undermining confidence in the police and prosecutors.\n\nThe Lord Advocate has a big call to make - has the prosecution service (which he runs) or the parliament (to which he is answerable as a minister) got the better sense of where - on balance - the public interest lies?\n\nIn other developments, Mr Salmond has been given a deadline by which to appear before the committee.\n\nThe former SNP leader has been given the option of giving evidence to the committee either in person in the Parliament or by appearing remotely on a number of dates in the first week of February.\n\nMs Fabiani said if this was not possible then the \"committee regrets that it will not be able to take oral evidence from you\" although he would be free to submit further written evidence.\n\nMr Salmond's lawyers had said he was only available in the second week of February.\n\nIn a letter to the committee, the former first minister said this was because he had still to complete two further submissions but the process had been \"hampered\" by the Scottish government's \"failure\" to release its legal advice and the ongoing bid to recover documents from the Crown Office.\n\nMr Salmond's appearance is much anticipated following his written submission earlier this month in which he alleged that Nicola Sturgeon misled parliament.\n\nMs Sturgeon, who \"entirely rejects\" his claims, is expected to give evidence in the coming weeks and has said she is looking forward to putting her side across.\n\nMeanwhile, the committee has once again written to the Scottish government urging it to waive legal privilege and release the advice it received from lawyers regarding the case.\n\nA Crown Office spokesman said: \"COPFS has received the correspondence from the committee and will respond in early course.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"We will consider the committee's letter - but the Scottish government has already taken unprecedented steps to provide the committee with access to relevant information to allow it to fulfil its remit.\n\n\"The government has, exceptionally, provided the committee with access to a summary of the legal advice on the judicial review on a confidential basis.\"", "Eric Vice, 64, was on his way to Swansea University when he crashed into a bridge\n\nA bus driver who crashed his double-decker bus into a bridge, killing a passenger, has been jailed.\n\nJessica Jing Ren, 36, died 11 days after the bus, which was going to Swansea University, hit a bridge on Neath Road on 12 December 2019.\n\nEric Vice, 64, pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving and causing serious injury by dangerous driving at Swansea Crown Court.\n\nHe was sentenced to two years and six months.\n\nMs Ren had been on the front row of the upper deck of the bus and was on her phone at the time of the crash, the court heard.\n\nShe was a visiting academic at the university's accounting and finance department from Huanghuai University in China, where she had a five-year-old son with her husband, who is also a lecturer.\n\nProsecutor Carina Hughes said the crash left trapped passengers covered in debris and forced to crouch down in the flattened upper deck while they waited to be rescued.\n\nOlympic gold medallist and 400m hurdles world record holder Kevin Young, who was studying at the university, saw Ms Ren hit the front windscreen.\n\nEric Vice is \"consumed with guilt\" his defence barrister said\n\n\"Mr Young says that she was slowly trying to mouth some words to him, but it was inaudible.\n\n\"He described that he held her hand to try and comfort her until the police and paramedics arrived.\"\n\nMs Hughes said Ms Ren had been unconscious when cut out of the bus by firefighters 90 minutes later and was airlifted to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, with spine injuries, leg fractures, lacerations and a severe brain injury.\n\nAerospace engineering student Richard Thompson, 20, was seriously injured in the crash and required facial reconstruction. Mr Young suffered a head wound and two broken ribs.\n\nThe court heard passenger statements saying the bus appeared to be running late and the driver had been waving passengers on to the bus without scanning their tickets.\n\nMs Hughes said when Vice encountered traffic between Swansea University's Singleton campus and its Swansea Bay campus, he decided to take a different route, one he had taken several times before when driving a single-decker bus.\n\nShe said 21 passengers has been on board, 13 of whom were on the top deck.\n\nMs Hughes said Vice had driven past two height restriction warnings on the route.\n\nThe bus went under the stone arch of the railway bridge, but hit the lower steel bridge.\n\nIan Ibrahim, defending, said it had been \"without doubt a catastrophic error of judgement.\"\n\nHe added: \"He is consumed with guilt - he's been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder and severe depression.\"\n\nJessica Jing Ren was a visiting academic at Swansea University from Huanghuai University in China\n\nJudge Geraint Williams said: \"That fatal error of yours resulted in the death of a promising young academic.\n\n\"Following the crash you stayed at the scene where you witnessed first-hand the carnage you had created.\n\n\"I can't think of a word short of carnage to describe the scene on the upstairs of that bus - but it could have been many, many times worse.\n\n\"The stark reality in this case is that your impatience that day robbed you of the care which ordinarily you applied to your professional driving.\"\n\nThe scene inside the bus after it crashed into a railway bridge in Neath Road, Swansea\n\nAt the time of her death, Ms Ren's family said in a statement: \"Jessica was the loving wife of Wenquang Wang, a devoted mother to five-year-old Yushu Wang and the cherished Daughter of Mingqi Ren.\n\n\"A much loved and talented academic, Jessica will be deeply missed by her family and her friends both in China and in Swansea and will leave a great void in their lives.\"\n\nIn a statement released after Ms Ren died, Swansea University said: \"We are deeply shocked and saddened to hear of the death of Jessica Jing Ren.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Jessica's family at this time and we extend our deepest condolences at their tragic loss.\"", "Daniel Craig with director Cary Joji Fukunaga on the No Time To Die set in 2019\n\nThe release of the next James Bond film has been delayed for a third time because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nNo Time To Die had already been pushed back twice, and will now debut globally on 8 October, an announcement on the film's website said.\n\nIt had originally been due to hit screens in April 2020.\n\nThe film is the 25th instalment in the Bond franchise, and marks Daniel Craig's final appearance as British secret service agent 007.\n\nIt also features Lea Seydoux and Rami Malek.\n\nThe delay will come as a further blow to cinemas that have been forced to shut for months at a time because of lockdowns.\n\nEarlier this week, leading film-makers including Danny Boyle and Sir Steve McQueen wrote to the UK Government, calling for financial support for cinema chains because \"UK cinema stands on the edge of an abyss\".\n\nCineworld said in October, when No Time To Die was pushed back for the second time, that delays to big budget releases meant the industry was \"unviable\".\n\nBond's latest move sparked a flurry of other delays to major releases. Sony has pushed back Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Peter Rabbit 2, Jared Leto's Morbius, Tom Holland's Uncharted and Cinderella, which will star singer Camila Cabello; while Universal has moved Tom Hanks' Bios from April to November.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by James Bond 007 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe UK Cinema Association said the decision to postpone No Time To Die again, \"while clearly disappointing, is at the same time not surprising given the current situation around Covid-19 in the UK as well as the US and other major film territories\".\n\nThe postponement of Daniel Craig's swansong and other films \"underlines the need for ongoing support for the UK cinema sector\", the trade body's chief executive Phil Clapp said.\n\nThe association is calling on the government to provide \"direct funding\" to chains, which represent 80% of ticket sales.\n\nOne of the major chains, Vue, said the delay was \"understandable\", and that the continuing attempts to release the film in cinemas \"is further testament to our shared belief in a bright future for the big screen\".\n\nHowever, the latest postponement could stoke speculation that the film may ultimately skip cinemas and be released on a streaming platform.\n\nMajor Disney titles like Pixar's Soul and its live-action remake of Mulan bypassed cinemas, premiering instead on the Disney+ streaming service.\n\nWonder Woman 1984, meanwhile, was made available in the US on the HBO Max streaming service on the same day it received a limited cinema release.\n\nLast year, Warner Bros announced its 2021 titles - including sci-fi epic Dune and The Matrix 4 - would all adopt a similar dual release pattern, escalating tensions between Hollywood and US movie theatres.\n\nRami Malek plays the villainous Safin in the thrice-delayed film\n\nThe Dig, a new historical drama starring Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan, was due to be released in selected UK cinemas this month. Now, the film will only be available on Netflix from 29 January.\n\nAsked whether No Time To Die might go down the same route, Fiennes - who will reprise his role as M in the film - recently told BBC News: \"That's a good question and I'm not really in a position to answer it.\n\n\"I would love the idea that people could go to the cinema and have the full effect of the big-screen energy behind the Bond, but I'm sure it's something the people who make these executive decisions are probably considering.\n\n\"I really hope we come through this so people can go to the cinema. Maybe they just have to hold their nerve. But of course we don't know, and there may be financial reasons or imperatives that [mean] they have to put it on a streaming system.\"\n\nIf No Time To Die is indeed released in cinemas in October, it will arrive a full six years on from the release of its 2015 predecessor Spectre.\n\nThat won't be far behind the six years and four months that separated the release of Licence to Kill in summer 1989 and GoldenEye in late 1995 - the biggest gap between two Bond films.\n\nThe last Bond film, 2015's Spectre, took almost $900m (£690m) at worldwide box offices.\n\nOther blockbusters to have been delayed by the pandemic include action sequel Top Gun: Maverick and Marvel's Black Widow.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "One of the mysteries of Covid-19 is why oxygen levels in the blood can drop to dangerously low levels without the patient noticing.\n\nIt is known as \"silent hypoxia\".\n\nAs a result, patients have been arriving in hospital in far worse health than they realised and, in some cases, too late to treat effectively.\n\nBut a potentially life-saving solution, in the form of a pulse oximeter, allows patients to monitor their oxygen levels at home, and costs about £20.\n\nThey are being rolled out for high-risk Covid patients in the UK, and the doctor leading the scheme thinks everyone should consider buying one.\n\nA normal oxygen level in the blood is between 95% and 100%.\n\n\"With Covid, we were admitting patients with oxygen levels in the 70s or low-or-middle 80s,\" said Dr Matt Inada-Kim, a consultant in acute medicine at Hampshire Hospitals.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Inside Health: \"It was a really curious and scary presentation and really made us rethink what we were doing.\"\n\nDr Inada-Kim became the national clinical lead of the Covid Oximetry@home project.\n\nA pulse oximeter slips over your middle finger and shines a light into the body. It measures how much of the light is absorbed in order to calculate oxygen levels in the blood.\n\nIn England, they are being given to people with Covid who are over 65, younger but have a health problem, or anyone doctors are concerned about. Similar schemes are being rolled out across the UK.\n\nPeople measure and record their oxygen levels three times a day.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Health Education England - HEE This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIf oxygen levels drop to 93% or 94%, then people speak to their GP or call 111. If they go below 92%, people should go to A&E or call 999 for an ambulance.\n\nStudies, which have not been reviewed by other scientists, have shown even small drops below 95% are linked to an increased risk of dying.\n\nDr Inada-Kim said: \"The point of this whole strategy is to try to get in early to prevent people getting that sick, by admitting patients at a more salvageable point in their illness.\"\n\nChris Harris, who is 70, was one of the first patients to benefit from the scheme.\n\nHe was being treated for a urinary infection in November last year, but then when he developed unexpected flu-like symptoms his GP sent him for a Covid test. It was positive.\n\n\"I don't mind admitting I was in tears, it was a very stressful, frightening time,\" he told Inside Health.\n\nHis oxygen levels dropped a couple of percentage points below the normal zone, so after a call with his GP, he went to hospital.\n\nAt this point he was still feeling fine, but things changed the day after he was admitted.\n\n\"My breathing started to get a little bit laboured, I had a high temperature as the days went on, [my oxygen levels] were progressively getting lower, they were in their 80s,\" he told me.\n\nChris was treated, did not need intensive care and has made a full recovery.\n\nHe said: \"I may have gone [to hospital] as the very last resort and that's the frightening thing. It was the oxygen meter that forced me to go, I would have just sat it out thinking I would recover.\n\n\"I am extremely lucky and very, very grateful.\"\n\nHis GP, Dr Caroline O'Keefe, says she has seen a massive increase in the number of people being monitored.\n\nShe said: \"On Christmas Day we were monitoring 44 patients, today I have 160 patients who I am monitoring daily. So we are certainly busy.\"\n\n\"We've had to quadruple the size of our team in the last two weeks.\"\n\nOverall, NHS England has supplied around 300,000 pulse oximeters for the home-monitoring scheme.\n\nDr Inada-Kim says there isn't definitive proof that the gadget saves lives and it could take until April to know for sure. However, the early signs are all positive.\n\n\"What we think we can see are the early seeds of a reduction in the length of stay after a hospital admission, an improvement in survival and a reduction in the pressures on the emergency services,\" he said.\n\nHe is so convinced of their role in tackling silent hypoxia that he said everyone should consider buying one.\n\n\"Personally I would, and I know a number of colleagues who have bought pulse oximeters to distribute to their loved ones,\" he said.\n\nHe advised checking they had a CE Kitemark and to avoid apps on smartphones, which he said were not as reliable.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA mosque has become the first in the UK to open as a Covid vaccination centre.\n\nThe Al-Abbas Islamic Centre in Balsall Heath, Birmingham is expected to vaccinate up to 500 people a day.\n\nThe imam, Sheikh Nuru Mohammed, said he hoped it would help dispel false information that the vaccine was forbidden in Islamic law.\n\nNHS England said it fears disinformation could be causing some in the UK's South Asian communities to reject the Covid vaccine.\n\n\"It will send a strong message to our Muslim brothers and sisters. We are doing this to say a big 'no' to fake news and a big 'yes' to the vaccine,\" Sheikh Nuru said.\n\n\"Muslim scholars advise us to get the vaccine because the sanctity of life is important in Islam.\"\n\nImam Sheikh Nuru Mohammed said he hopes the opening of the vaccination centre will help dispel false information\n\nDr Rizwan Alidina, a trustee of the mosque and member of the Birmingham and Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group said: \"The significance of the venue is obviously quite evident with particularly the Muslim community being one of the communities with a bit of a lower uptake than we would otherwise have expected.\"\n\nHe said there had been a good response to the opening of the centre at the mosque and hoped it would soon be carrying out between 300 and 500 vaccinations a day.\n\nNHS England regional medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar told a Downing Street press conference some communities had \"legitimate and understandable concerns about the vaccines\".\n\nHe said despite it being a \"safe and effective vaccine\", for some Asian and black communities there were \"longstanding concerns\" that \"go back generations\".\n\nDr Diwakar said some people were \"told by their grandparents that experiments were done in the early part of the last century, that unethical experiments were done way back in the 60s\".\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street briefing, Home Secretary Priti Patel also sought to counter disinformation targeted at people from minority ethnic backgrounds.\n\n\"This vaccine is safe for us all,\" she said.\n\n\"It will protect you and your family... So I urge everyone from across our wonderfully diverse country to get the vaccine when their turn comes to keep us all safe.\"\n\nOne of the first to get the jab at he Birmingham mosque, retired GP Dr Masud Ahmad, said his message to others in the local community was \"that it's quite safe to have it and they should have it\".\n\nOther places of worship, including Salisbury Cathedral and Lichfield Cathedral, opened as vaccine centres last week.\n\nThe Al-Abbas Islamic Centre is administering the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ministers will discuss at a meeting on Monday whether to tighten restrictions at UK borders - including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers, the BBC has been told.\n\nAt a Downing Street news conference on Friday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson did not rule out taking further action.\n\nIt comes amid increased concerns over the spread of new coronavirus variants.\n\nUnder current travel curbs, almost all people arriving in the UK must test negative for Covid to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the 72 hours before travelling and anyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nAll passengers are also required to quarantine for up to 10 days, although the isolation period can be cut short with a second negative test after five days in England.\n\nThe only people not subject to the conditions are children under 11, hauliers, air, international rail and maritime crew, and passengers from the Common Travel Area - comprised of the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own quarantine rules, which differ slightly.\n\nAs of Monday, travel corridors, which exempted passengers arriving from some countries from quarantine, were suspended throughout the UK.\n\nAsked whether the government would bring in further measures at UK borders, Mr Johnson said: \"I really don't rule it out, we may need to take further measures still.\n\n\"We may need to go further to protect our borders.\n\n\"We don't want to put that [efforts to control Covid] at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nOne more infectious variant , which was first identified in Kent, has already spread widely across the UK.\n\nAnd, at the briefing, the prime minister announced that early evidence suggests this variant may be more deadly.\n\nOther new variants causing concern have been identified in South Africa and Brazil in the weeks since the Kent variant was discovered.\n\nThose discoveries led to direct flights to the UK from all South American countries and several southern African countries being suspended.\n\nScientists fear these variants discovered in other countries may interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines and evade parts of the immune system.\n\nWhile those travelling into the UK are asked to abide by the 10-day isolation and told they can be subject to checks, London mayor Sadiq Khan is among those who have called for the UK to adopt the use of enforced quarantine in hotel rooms.\n\nThe policy is among the measures in Australia that has limited the country to just 28,750 positive cases during the entire pandemic, fewer than the UK currently has every day.\n\nTravellers who choose to go to Australia have to pay for their rooms at one of a number of selected quarantine facilities - and have all their meals delivered to their room throughout a stay of at least 14 days. They get tested twice for Covid during that period and if they test positive their quarantine is extended for a further 14 days.\n\nMeanwhile, passengers arriving into London's Heathrow airport this week have complained of queues at passport control and what they described as poor social distancing, after the latest travel restrictions - requiring travellers to show proof of their negative Covid tests - came into force.\n\nOn Friday, former British ambassador Peter Westmacott posted a picture on Twitter of long queues at the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Peter Westmacott This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA government spokesman said people \"should not be travelling unless absolutely necessary\".\n\nThe statement added: \"You must have proof of a negative test and a completed passenger locator form before arriving.\n\n\"Border Force have been ramping up enforcement and those not complying could be fined £500.\n\n\"It's ultimately up to individual airports to ensure social distancing on site.\"\n\nWith all parts of the UK under strict virus rules amid high levels of infection, only essential foreign travel is permitted in the current advice from the Foreign Office.\n\nA further 40,261 cases, and 1,401 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported on Friday in the UK.", "The bunker is in a rural location near St Agnes, Cornwall\n\nAn \"eerie\" underground bunker built during the Cold War has been put up for sale with a guide price of £25,000.\n\nThe former monitoring post near St Agnes, Cornwall was built in 1961 and is accessed down a 14ft (4.2m) ladder.\n\nSellers have suggested \"a variety of uses\" for the \"out of the ordinary\" property, subject to planning permission from Cornwall Council.\n\nIt was used in the Cold War to monitor aircraft and any potential nuclear threats, said auctioneer Adam Cook.\n\nThe auction will be held online in February\n\nThe bunker was manned by volunteers and consists of an access shaft, a toilet and a monitoring room.\n\nIt is being auctioned online as part of a triangular piece of land on 18 February.\n\nThe site was first opened in 1961 and closed in 1991 and is accessed down a \"rustic vehicular track\", according to the online advert.\n\nMr Cook said it is a former Royal Observer Corps Monitoring Post \"but people love calling it a nuclear bunker\".\n\nHe said the bunker would have been one of around 1,500 monitoring posts built in coastal regions in the UK between the 1960s and 1990s.\n\nOld bunk beds remain in the bunker\n\nAccessed by a hatch, Mr Cook described the reinforced concrete bunker as \"a little bit eerie when you're there on your own\".\n\n\"I'm glad I've been down there...[to have] half a chance of explaining it to customers.\"\n\nHe said there was still a sense of what it used to be with an \"old bunk bed\" and a toilet \"which I don't think you'd fancy using but it certainly gives you the atmosphere\".\n\nMr Cook explained it is \"difficult to pigeon hole it onto any one kind of purchaser\" and said the buyer could be anyone from a history enthusiast to a landowner.\n\n\"All kinds could be interested and we're already getting lots of calls about it.\"\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your comments and story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Cold War bunker up for sale for £25,000", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some of the volunteers are working to prepare bodies for burial\n\nA mosque in east London has closed for all communal prayer. Instead it is serving two purposes - providing funerals and feeding the local community. Michael Buchanan finds a team of volunteers there battling to deal with the pandemic.\n\nThe family shuffled quietly past a crate of milk cartons. They came through the small porch, towards the open coffin. Inside was a woman - a loved one - who died of Covid two days ago. The coffin sat feet away from tins and packets to be distributed by the local food bank. The milk was the latest delivery.\n\nIt is impossible to capture the enormous consequences of the pandemic. But last Saturday lunchtime, this tragic image - one of grief and hardship coming together - came close, for me at least.\n\nCovid-19 has made extraordinary demands of so many different people, but what is currently happening at the Masjid Ibrahim and Islamic Centre in east London is truly remarkable. Situated on a busy road, with the noise of ambulance sirens regularly shattering its peaceful interior, the mosque has closed to communal prayer and is open for two other purposes - to provide a funeral service and a food bank to the local community. Both are inundated.\n\n\"We've had so many bodies coming in. It's quite shocking. It's one after another after another. We've never had that situation before,\" says Sofia Bhatti. Alongside her friend, Tabassum Khokhar - known as Tabs - the pair are unheralded heroes. They volunteer to wash the bodies of Covid-positive women prior to burial.\n\nThe practice, called Ghusl, is a sacred Islamic ritual and is usually performed by the deceased's relatives, who cleanse and shroud the body. But Covid restrictions mean families are currently denied that religious honour, so volunteers like Sofia and Tabs are taking on what they consider to be a privileged task.\n\n\"We actually believe that when we are shrouding here, that God is shrouding the soul at the same time,\" says Tabs, standing by a coffin. By day, she works as a teaching support worker in a local school, so the PPE that the mosque provides - bodysuit, footwear, two sets of gloves, masks and visors - is crucial for her. \"I make sure my PPE is secure because it's not just about me, it's about my family. I have an 81-year-old mother.\"\n\nThe women are seeing first hand - and in graphic detail - the pressure the NHS is under. \"Very often we see bodies coming in with a lot of medical equipment still attached to them,\" says Sofia. \"Tubes and pipes and catheters still attached. So it makes our job a little bit harder.\" One of the women they washed during my visit had died in the ambulance, never actually reaching hospital.\n\nVery often we see bodies coming in with a lot of medical equipment still attached to them. Tubes and pipes and catheters\n\nThere are far more bodies than during the first peak and there is a larger age range. One day this week, the mosque was handling seven bodies. A few days earlier they said they'd processed 10 funerals, all arranged for free and paid for by donations. Before the pandemic, they'd handled two to three funerals a week. The two local hospital trusts in east London have each had more than 1,000 Covid deaths since the start of the pandemic. More have died at home.\n\nThe borough of Newham, where the mosque sits, has suffered a disproportionate number of deaths. Home to the Olympic Park, the 2012 London games were meant to regenerate this area. Yet it retains high levels of poverty and overcrowded housing. Add in a diverse population, rich in south Asian culture, and large numbers of people who can't work from home and the virus has sadly ripped through its residents.\n\nIsfand Aslam said he's shocked by what's going on. His father, Mohammad, died on 3 January, a week after falling ill. His positive Covid test result arrived two days after his death. The 85-year-old was a committee member at the Masjid Ibrahim and despite his age had been in good health. \"It took a week between him passing away and getting buried. Initially I was getting a lot of condolences from friends. But by the end of that week I am giving condolences to three friends because their fathers had passed away. It's now got to the stage where everybody we know knows somebody who has passed away.\"\n\nThe sheer number of deaths is impacting the area's main Muslim cemetery. Normally, the Gardens of Peace buries three to four people each day. They're currently carrying out an average of 15 funerals daily. Overall, they are about 50% busier than usual. They can no longer promise burials within 24 hours, as per Muslim custom.\n\nDespite this, there is still a concerning number of people in the local area who either don't think Covid is real or are resistant to taking a vaccine. There was anger among some community leaders before Christmas when it emerged the Bangladeshi High Commission in London held a cultural evening to celebrate its independence. Photos from the event, on 16 December, showed a group - including the High Commissioner herself - standing close together with no masks or social distancing. The High Commission said performers had been Covid tested and it had issued 10 videos in Bangla urging British-Bangladeshis to adhere to UK government guidance.\n\nIt's now got to the stage where everybody we know knows somebody who has passed away\n\nTo counter disinformation among its members, an imam at the Masjid Ibrahim, Mohammad Ammar, filmed a short video of himself being injected with the vaccine and urged his congregation to follow suit. Imam Ammar has actually been furloughed by the mosque as it focusses all its resources on battling the pandemic, including feeding its local community.\n\nThe virus forced the mosque to open a food bank in March. It is still running 10 months on. On Monday night, I watched a steady stream of people gather in the gloom at the rear of the mosque to fill their bags. Most were collecting on behalf of a larger household, and the mosque says they're currently feeding 350 families each week, including students, refugees, people with no access to public funds and those who've lost income.\n\nAmong those collecting food on Monday was Mohammad Rahman. A 42-year-old chef, he lost his job in an Indian restaurant three months ago. The married father of two boys - aged eight and six - told me he was already in rent arrears and struggling to pay his energy bills. \"My son says 'where is the pizza'? But I have no money. He says '[can I have] chicken and chips'? But I have no money. The shops are open, but no money\", he adds, taking his hands from his pockets.\n\nIn normal times, the Masjid Ibrahim would attract about 1,100 worshippers over three floors for Friday prayers, and there has been some pressure on the leadership to reopen for communal worship. But Asim Uddin, chairman of the mosque, says now is not the time. \"Prayers, yes, it's important. But right now what is the need? The need of the community is they want to be fed and they want a place where they can respectfully bury their loved ones. And the demand is overwhelming. Right now, it's better they stay home, and they can pray at home until the situation goes back to normal.\"\n\nMichael Buchanan is the BBC's social affairs correspondent and has been reporting on the impact of the pandemic on communities in the UK. Last year, he visited the town of Pontypool to find out what impact coronavirus restrictions were having in Wales.", "UK retailers could abandon goods EU customers want to return, with some even thinking of burning them because it is cheaper than bringing them home.\n\nThey say the new EU trade deal has put costly duties on returns at a time when firms are already struggling.\n\nThe BBC has been told UK High Street and luxury brands have a mounting volume of goods stuck with courier services on the continent.\n\nNone of the retailers would comment on the problem.\n\nAdam Mansell, boss of the UK Fashion & Textile Association (UKFT), said it's \"cheaper for retailers to write off the cost of the goods than dealing with it all, either abandoning or potentially burning them.\"\n\nSince 1 January, lots of European customers have been presented with an unexpected customs invoice when signing for goods they've ordered from the UK. These new customs charges are a result of the new EU trade deal with the UK.\n\n\"It's part of the ongoing small print of the deal,\" said Mr Mansell. \"If you're in Germany and buying goods from the UK, you as the German customer are the importer bringing goods into the EU.\n\n\"You then have a courier company knocking on the door giving you a customs clearance invoice that you need to pay to receive your goods.\"\n\nMany customers automatically reject the goods, refusing to pay the additional surcharges, leaving couriers to take them away.\n\nAbout 30% of items bought online are returned, according to figures from Statista. That has meant large volumes of goods are heading back to the UK.\n\nWhen goods arrive back at depots on the Continent, there is new customs paperwork to complete. \"Export clearance charge, import charge arrival, import VAT charge and depending on the goods a rules of origin document as well,\" said Mr Mansell.\n\n\"Lots of large businesses don't have a handle on it, never mind smaller ones.\"\n\nThe BBC has seen a document that states four major UK High Street fashion retailers are stockpiling returns in Belgium, Ireland and Germany. One brand will incur charges of almost £20,000 to get the returns back.\n\nCouriers and freight businesses that ship from the UK to Europe are also experiencing delays getting goods to the Continent because of the new customs clearances.\n\n\"It's a bigger change than we thought possible,\" explained Shona Brown from Speedy Freight, a courier service. \"Before, we'd get the order to Germany and off the driver would go.\n\n\"Now we've got to do export entry detailing where was it made, the driver needs to go to the customs office at Dover, then customs in Germany on arrival and then sort out the VAT. There are so many hoops to jump through, it's so laborious.\"\n\n\"You've got to have manpower to figure out what to do. And with people working from home it's difficult. For small businesses, it is a huge thing for people to do,\" she added.\n\nUlla Vitting Richards runs her sustainable fashion brand VILDNIS from the UK. She has stopped exporting to her fastest growing market, the EU, because of the new customs processes.\n\n\"I've been involved in logistics before. I expected it to be bad and I am used to shipping to the USA which is difficult. But this is just mind-blowing,\" she said.\n\n\"Every day there is another layer. In the first two weeks we couldn't get answers. For two years we were told to get ready for Brexit. But for these we couldn't prepare.\"\n\nShe added: \"I don't think we can increase prices but we might just have to say that we can't make the business with the EU work. It is a real shame. There is a huge interest in sustainable fashion in Europe and we might have to walk away from it.\"\n\nUlla did speak with the Department for International Trade for help and advice. She was told that setting up a subsidiary distribution hub in Europe might be a good idea: \"He told me we'd be best off moving stock to a warehouse in Germany and get them to handle it.\"\n\nRetailers in the UK and Europe that trade across the new customs border are all still adapting to the rules. Hauliers and customs agents are facing a steep learning curve too.\n\nThe government said: \"Now the UK has left the EU customs union and Single Market, there are new rules and processes businesses will need to follow.\n\n\"We have encouraged companies new to dealing with customs declarations to appoint a specialist to deal with import and export declarations on their behalf - and we made more than £80m available to expand the capacity of the customs agents market.\"\n\nIt added: \"Most businesses use a specialist such as a customs broker, freight forwarder or fast parcel operator to deal with this.\n\n\"The government will continue to work closely with businesses to ensure they are able to trade effectively under the new rules.\"", "The water is warmer than the air and is creating a mist along Dynevor Road\n\nThe coalmining heritage of Wales has been implicated in flooding of homes - but what has happened in Skewen?\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated from the Neath Port Talbot village, with at least eight streets left under water.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones says the flood appears to be related to mine works - but the volume of water involved has hampered a full assessment so far.\n\nThe Coal Authority is investigating how \"historic underground mining features\" in the area exacerbated the problem.\n\nA geologist says there are tens of thousands of old mine shafts across the former south Wales coalfield and it is \"incredibly difficult\" to monitor them all.\n\nSkewen lies within an old coal mining hotspot, with several former colliery sites near the village that operated in the 19th and early 20th Century.\n\nThere were colliery sites near what is now Drummau Road, in the north of the village and another close to Old Road, near Neath Abbey.\n\nSkewen was part of a collection of collieries that stretched between Neath and Llanelli on the western side of south Wales' coalfield.\n\nGraham Levins, secretary of the Welsh Mines Preservation Trust, said old mines often contain groundwater which can flood in heavy rain.\n\nHe said: \"A lot of them go very, very deep down, much below the local water level and that's why they had all the big wheels to pump the water out.\n\n\"It fills up with water and will find a way out. Normally rainfall you get it doesn't cause a lot of problems but when you get really heavy rain, the water drains down through the ground and builds up.\"\n\nStreets were turned into rivers in Skewen\n\nGeologist Tom Backhouse said water was coming out of an area near the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where there is a record of a mine shaft dating from the turn of the 20th Century.\n\nIt then started \"rushing down\" Drummau Road, causing the flooding that forced evacuations.\n\n\"What we can expect to have happened is that the water level in the mines rose to a point where it's burst out of that entry point from the mine workings below.\n\n\"Also, there are images of very ochre like orange-coloured water and again, that may well be issuing from the mine workings on the highlands to the east of the property on the hill behind.\n\n\"That may be where the shallow workings have flooded.\"\n\nHe said old mine working across the former coalfield area hold water at a certain depth, but when an event such as Storm Christoph drops \"a huge amount in a small area\", the levels rise quickly.\n\n\"As it gets closer and closer to the surface, it basically looks for an escape, the pressure builds up,\" he continued.\n\n\"What it looks like has happened on the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where the mine shaft is recorded, is that pressure has built up at that point and then burst out through the shaft which is very likely to have been capped with wood or something like that.\n\n\"Where you've got those mine shafts, which ultimately are vertical tunnels down into the mine workings below, the water has literally forced itself up through that shaft, and the pressure is obviously so great it's caused this devastating flash flood.\"\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nThere are about 13 shafts recorded within about 820ft (250m) of the one in Goshen Park, so Mr Backhouse said it is possible more than one may have burst.\n\nThere are tens of thousands in south Wales and he said it was \"incredibly difficult\" to check them all, but there were \"tell tale signs\" as to why they may collapse such as age or what type of developments are around them.\n\nThe clean up has continued on Friday morning\n\n\"Not to try and fear-monger or anything but of course this sort of thing can happen again,\" he said.\n\n\"If another event like Storm Christoph happens, the water levels in the mine rises as quickly as it did, there's absolutely nothing to say that it wouldn't happen again in the future.\n\n\"And obviously as climate changes and we have many more events like Storm Christoph, they are going to increase in frequency, they are going to be much more severe.\n\n\"The Coal Authority will have to consider the risk in places like Skewen, and they'll have to understand how it will affect residents and proactively manage that and look at how to reduce the risks for residents.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Infection level \"very, very high\" and \"extremely precarious\" - Prof Whitty\n\nThe UK is at an \"extremely precarious\" point, according to the chief medical adviser, despite signs Covid infections are beginning to fall.\n\nThe virus's reproduction rate is estimated to be at or below one for the first time since early December.\n\nAnything below one means the epidemic is shrinking.\n\nBut cases are falling from a \"very, very high level\", Prof Chris Whitty said - and may still be increasing in some areas.\n\n\"A very small change and it could start taking off again from an extremely high base,\" he warned.\n\nSpeaking at a Number 10 press conference on Friday evening, the UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, said the \"awful\" death rate would stay high \"for a little while before it starts coming down\".\n\n\"That was always what was predicted...and I think the information about the new variant doesn't change that\".\n\nEarly evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, although findings are preliminary and there is a high level of uncertainty.\n\nDr Susan Hopkins at Public Health England said there was \"evidence from some but not all data sources which suggests that the variant of concern which was first detected in the UK may lead to a higher risk of death than the non-variant.\n\n\"Evidence on this variant is still emerging and more work is under way to fully understand how it behaves.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said while the UK's R or reproduction number, might be below one - meaning a shrinking epidemic - overall, \"cases remain dangerously high and...it is essential that everyone continues to stay at home, whether they have had the vaccine or not.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures suggested cases were decreasing slightly or levelling off across Britain.\n\nBut infections are falling more slowly than they did during the first lockdown - by somewhere around a quarter every fortnight compared with a halving back in April.\n\nA further 40,261 cases, and 1,401 deaths were recorded on Friday in the UK.\n\nMore than five million people had been given a first dose of the vaccine by 21 January, and about half a million had received their second dose.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has previously said it is \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions will be able to end in the spring.\n\nWhile cases are falling or stable across the rest of the UK, in Northern Ireland cases have continued to rise and the new, more infectious strain has overtaken the older variant of the virus as of the start of January.\n\nDuring the week ending 16 January, about one in 55 people in England had the virus, the ONS estimated, with one in 35 in London testing positive.\n\nOne in 100 people had the virus in Scotland and one in 70 in Wales.\n\nBut in Northern Ireland infections have shot up from an an estimated one in 200 people testing positive in the week to 2 January, to one in 60 last week.\n\nONS statistician Sarah Crofts said while fewer people were testing positive in England, \"rates remain high and we estimate the level of infection is still over one million people\".\n\nAnd, she pointed out, \"the picture across the UK is mixed\".\n\nA survey by tech company ZOE and King's College London, based on swabs of people with and without symptoms, also suggested the R number could be at 0.8.\n\nAnd it estimated symptomatic cases had fallen by a quarter since last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the R number and what does it mean?\n\nMeanwhile, the proportion of people testing positive for the new Covid variant has risen considerably in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, ONS data suggest.\n\nBut the new strain, which remains by far the main source of infections in England, has yet to overtake the old strain in Scotland and Wales.\n\nWithin England, the proportion of infections that appear to be due to the new variant remained stable, but the gap between the regions is narrowing.\n\nIn the figures covering 2 January, 80% of infections looked like the new variant in London compared to 30% in the North East.\n\nTwo weeks later, that gap had narrowed to 70% in London versus 50% in the North East.\n\nIt is not clear what is behind the small fall in London, but it may be down to behaviour change, or other variants like the South Africa strain now in circulation and diluting the numbers.", "It would be unrealistic to expect all lockdown restrictions in Northern Ireland to be lifted on 5 March, Health Minister Robin Swann has said.\n\nOn Thursday, the executive announced that the current restrictions, which have been in place since 26 December, would be extended to 5 March.\n\nBut ministers were also told restrictions may have to remain in place until after the Easter holidays.\n\nMr Swann said the decision to extend restrictions had not been easy.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme, he said: \"Can I say that'll we'll have to extend them at that point [5 March]? At this time, no I can't.\n\n\"But it would, I think, be unrealistic to think that we'd be able to lift every restriction come that date because we do see where this virus is going, the trajectory it's taking, the large number of positive cases that we are managing but also the large number of hospital admissions that we currently have.\n\nRobin Swann says the decision to extend the restrictions had not been easy\n\n\"There has to be a consideration and planning put into place - we know Covid's going to be with us for a very long time, we also know it will take time for our vaccination process to kick in and have that major effect.\"\n\nA lockdown closing non-essential retailers and encouraging employees to work from home began after Christmas.\n\nFamily gatherings are prohibited and people have been ordered to stay at home for all but essential reasons.\n\nSchools are closed to most pupils until after February's half-term break but a paper looking at reopening will be put to ministers at next week's executive meeting.\n\nThe Catholic Church, the Church of Ireland, the Presbyterian Church and the Methodist Church have all confirmed that in-person worship will continue to be suspended until 5 March in accordance with the executive's decision on the restrictions.\n\nThe churches say there are exceptions for weddings and funerals and private prayer.\n\nTwelve more Covid-19 related deaths were recorded in Northern Ireland on Friday, taking the overall death toll recorded by the Department of Health to 1,704.\n\nIt is a story that changes not only by the day but by the hour and is dictated by numbers.\n\nNever before have we scrutinised hospital figures so closely, especially this week.\n\nAnd the numbers are important as we know how many intensive care unit (ICU) beds are available across Northern Ireland and potentially how many will be required in the next 24 hours.\n\nOn Wednesday, 33 ICU beds were available - on Friday that dropped to 18.\n\nBut as we enter a difficult 72 hours, there is a feeling that the health system will cope.\n\nA regional approach to the crisis means no hospital is left to shoulder responsibility on its own.\n\nEvery afternoon a call is made about whether an additional \"pod\" - a bay of beds - is required to be opened at the Nightingale facility at Belfast City Hospital.\n\nIf not, it is felt that hospitals can hold their own for another 24 hours.\n\nCoping is good but comes at a terrible cost - keeping a lid on Covid-19 is only possible because so much else within hospitals has been cancelled.\n\nA heavy price has been paid and will continue to be paid for months, possibly years to come.\n\nOn Wednesday it was announced more than 100 medically-trained military personnel would be deployed in Northern Ireland to help hospital staff deal with Covid-19 pressures after a request by Mr Swann.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's Health Committee on Thursday, Sinn Féin MLA Pat Sheehan said: \"My only concern is that they [military personnel] don't get in the way of the real professionals who are doing the work to save lives.\n\n\"This is slamming the dead cat down on the table to deflect attention away from the inadequacies in the health department at the minute.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Swann responded by saying he was \"disappointed and disgusted\" by Mr Sheehan's comments.\n\nHe added: \"The majority of our health service workers are actually welcoming them because this is a tough period of time that we are entering into in the health service.\n\n\"To hear some of the comments where he's actually, I think, criticising the level of delivery that our health service has given over these past 10-12 months, I think is disappointing.\"\n\n\"It wouldn't be the language that would be reflective of his party leadership in regards to the assistance that we're receiving from the Army.\"\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, the Sinn Féin vice-president, had previously said her party's priority had \"always been to save lives\" and she would \"never rule out anything that actually supports the health service\".\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster, the DUP leader, said on critics of the move to deploy military medics were putting \"political intolerance before patients\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Swann also said the executive would \"not be found wanting\" in enforcing Covid-19 regulations.\n\nIt came after a district judge said on Wednesday that \"the powers-that-be made a significant error\" in making breaches of some rules punishable only with fines.\n\nDistrict Judge Michael Ranaghan told Dungannon Magistrates' Court he would have remanded two defendants from Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, in custody if he had \"the power to do so\".\n\nShania Devenney, 21, of Kilmacormick Drive, and Nathan Maguire, 20, of Carnmore Lodge, were charged with contravening the regulations when arrested by police who were alerted to anti-social behaviour.\n\nA police officer told the court there had been repeated parties at Ms Devenney's address this month.\n\nThe judge, granting bail, said: \"I cannot consider remanding in custody as these matters are fine-only.\n\n\"The powers-that-be made a significant error when drafting legislation in making these fine-only offences.\n\n\"Had I the power to do so I would definitely be remanding these two in custody.\"\n\nThe PSNI has issued more than 2,000 Covid-19 fines during the pandemic\n\nThe health minister said the executive had asked people \"to work with us\" and had increased the level of fines.\n\nAsked about the judge's comments about enforcement, Mr Swann said he was \"content enough to raise it with executive colleagues and ask the justice minister to have a look at that\".\n\nMr Swann added that the vast majority of people in Northern Ireland were abiding by the regulations as it is the \"right thing to do\".\n\nOn Tuesday, police revealed that 2,159 penalty notices had been issued during the pandemic, with fines starting at £200.\n\nThere have been 55 failure-to-isolate fines, which incur a £1,000 fine.", "Scottish postie Nathan Evans has quit his job and signed to a record label after storming TikTok with sea shanties.\n\nNathan said the singalong craze for his The Wellerman rendition exploded in just a matter of weeks.\n\nAnd Friday sees an official release of the shanty, after he was picked up by Polydor records.\n\nThe 26-year-old from Airdrie said it goes to show that if you keep going anything can happen.", "Mr Trump was duped by the prankster, Morgan said\n\nDonald Trump was called on Air Force One last year by a prankster posing as Piers Morgan, the TV presenter says.\n\nThe president, as he was at the time, only realised he had been tricked when he phoned the real Morgan while on his way to vote in Florida last year.\n\nThe alleged security breach is said to have happened in October, but only emerged in an interview Morgan gave to the BBC's Americast podcast.\n\nThe two recently had a falling out over Mr Trump's handling of the pandemic.\n\nAsked by the BBC's Jon Sopel why Mr Trump had called Morgan out of the blue this past October, the presenter described \"an absolutely hilarious story, where somebody had called [Trump] pretending to be me the day before and got through to him on Air Force One\".\n\nThe 45th US president didn't realise he had been duped, Morgan said. \"They had a conversation with Trump thinking he was talking to me.\"\n\nIt is not clear who the alleged hoaxers were, but if the story is true President Trump would not be the first political leader to have been pranked.\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, while he was foreign secretary, have both been tricked on the phone in recent years.\n\nBut it would revive long-running questions about the security of President Trump's phone conversations.\n\nMorgan became increasingly critical of Mr Trump in the final months of his presidency\n\nThe BBC has asked the Secret Service for comment.\n\nMorgan was a high-profile tabloid editor in the UK who took over from Larry King with a primetime CNN chat show in 2011. He now presents a breakfast show in the UK.\n\nHe was initially supportive of President Trump after his surprise election win but became increasingly critical in the last 12 months.\n\n\"We had a very nice conversation... I always got on well with Trump,\" Morgan said of their October call, but added that Mr Trump's \"character flaws - the chronic narcissism, the desire to make everything about himself\" made him a \"useless leader\".\n\nOn their friendship, Morgan described Mr Trump's behaviour since the November presidential election as \"egregious\" and \"so obviously on a pathway\" to the Capitol Hill riots on 6 January.\n\n\"I just felt - no, I'm done with you now,\" Morgan said.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The recording of the conversation between Elton John and the man he believed was Vladimir Putin", "Keon Lincoln died after being subjected to \"inconceivable violence\"\n\nA 15-year-old boy has died after being attacked in a residential street by a group of youths \"armed with knives\".\n\nPolice said Keon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road, in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital.\n\nThe attackers fled the scene in a car which crashed into a house a short distance away, added police, who said they had since seized the vehicle.\n\nA 14-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder and is in custody.\n\nThe investigation is progressing \"at pace\", according to the West Midlands force, which detained the suspect on Friday morning.\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, who is leading a murder inquiry, said Keon died \"in the most violent of circumstances\".\n\nKeon was attacked on Linwood Road, a residential street in the Handsworth area of Birmingham\n\nWitnesses who reported the carrying of knives to officers also said shots were heard.\n\nPolice confirmed Keon, who lived locally, was attacked with weapons but did not specify which sort.\n\nThe motive remained unknown said police, who urged those who could identify the attackers to contact the force.\n\n\"We are not sure of all the details at the moment, but we do know that Keon was set upon by this group and suffered a series of serious injuries,\" said Ch Supt Steve Graham, adding that five or six youths were believed to have been involved.\n\nPolice have not disclosed the nature of Keon's injuries. They say they are unable to say how he died before a post-mortem examination takes place.\n\nOfficers are searching Linwood Road after the attack on Thursday afternoon\n\nDet Ch Insp Orencas said: \"The death of Keon has shocked the whole community.\n\n\"This level of violence in broad daylight on a residential street is inconceivable, let alone the fact the target was a 15-year-old boy.\"\n\nHe said the family, who were being supported by specialist officers, \"had the worst shock imaginable\".\n\nIn a statement issued by police, the family said they were \"devastated\" by their loss, and remembered Keon as \"fun-loving\" and \"full of life and love\".\n\nThe tribute added: \"He had an infectious laugh that lit up the room whenever he was in it.\"\n\nPolice have seized a crashed car they believe to be a getaway vehicle\n\nDetectives are examining a white car they believe to be the getaway vehicle which crashed into a house on Wheeler Street.\n\nCCTV footage has been seized and the area is cordoned off while investigations continue.\n\nA resident of Linwood Road, who did not wish to be named, said she was shocked to hear someone had been killed.\n\nShe said: \"We've lived here 45 years and I've never heard of anything like this.\n\n\"It's just shocking and really, really sad.\"\n\nPolice have appealed for dash cam and CCTV footage as they piece together the events of Thursday afternoon\n\nLocal Labour MP, Khalid Mahmood, described the death as \"extremely tragic\" and \"a needless thing to have happened\".\n\nHe said: \"We must work with police as much as we can to stop this happening again.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A coronavirus outbreak at Mavisbank care home has led to the deaths of 13 residents\n\nA total of 13 residents at an East Dunbartonshire care home have died in a Covid-19 outbreak.\n\nThe owners of Mavisbank care home in Bishopbriggs confirmed the deaths and said that a further seven residents had also tested positive for the virus.\n\nAnother 11 staff members were self-isolating following positive tests.\n\nThe Care Inspectorate rated the home in Lennox Crescent as \"weak\" in its Covid-19 response in an inspection last month.\n\nAt the unannounced check on 26 October, inspectors found the cleanliness of the home a \"significant concern\".\n\nIt went on to describe the cleanliness of the environment and the overall fabric of the building as \"poor\".\n\nInspectors said in their report that they were \"very concerned about the potential risk of infection for residents\".\n\nSenior managers responded immediately and maintenance staff were deployed to clean the home.\n\nHowever, the operators were ordered to carry out a deep clean of the facility by 11 November.\n\nMavisbank owners HC-One said they were monitoring the situation closely.\n\nMavisbank was given a rating of \"weak\" in October\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Our thoughts and sympathies are with all families who have lost a loved one from coronavirus.\n\n\"As we navigate this outbreak, we continue to work closely with all the relevant authorities to contain the virus and safeguard our residents.\n\n\"We are pleased that a number of residents have now recovered, and we continue to closely monitor the health and wellbeing of all those affected.\n\n\"This includes following all government guidance in relation to infection prevention and control.\"\n\nResponding to the Care Inspectorate report, the company said the health, safety and wellbeing of its residents and staff was a priority.\n\nThe spokeswoman said: \"We were disappointed that inspectors found some elements of our robust infection control plan were not being fully implemented and we acted urgently to respond to this feedback. These issues were immediately rectified so that when inspectors returned, they were able to see and approve of the work that had been completed.\n\n\"Senior staff are also supporting the home and our learning and development team are ensuring that all colleagues complete refresher training which includes our specific coronavirus training modules on the virus, enhanced infection control procedures, and the correct use of PPE.\n\n\"These training modules have been regularly updated to reflect all changes in the guidance over recent months.\"\n\nCaroline Sinclair, of East Dunbartonshire Health and Social Care Partnership, said, \"We are aware of this very sad situation and have been working with Mavisbank care home to provide a high level of clinical support to residents at this difficult time. Our thoughts are with the families of those who have passed and others affected by their loss.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning. We'll have another update for you this evening.\n\nMinisters wrestling with how to ensure people with coronavirus obey laws to self-isolate are to consider paying £500 to anyone who tests positive. It's among options drawn up for England by the Department of Health to encourage people to stay at home, amid fears the current support leaves some unable to afford the time away from work. However, Treasury sources say funding a universal payment to the tune of £453m a week is unlikely.\n\nBritish retail sales saw their largest annual fall in history last year as the impact of coronavirus took its toll. Sales fell by 1.9% in 2020, when compared with 2019, official figures show. Clothes shops were hit hard, with a record annual fall of more than 25%. Meanwhile, UK government borrowing hit £34.1bn last month, the highest December figure on record, as the cost of pandemic support weighed on the economy, the Office for National Statistics says.\n\nA Crown Office unit set up to probe Covid-related deaths is investigating cases at 474 care homes in Scotland, ahead of prosecutors' decisions on whether they should be the subject of a fatal accident inquiry or prosecution. Care homes say the investigation is \"disproportionate\". But Linda Duncan, whose 91-year-old mother Anne died last April, argues: \"A lot of the focus has been on the government response but we need this investigation to look at the private operators.\"\n\nHalf of all staff at nurseries, pre-schools and childminders \"don't... feel safe at work\", with about one in every 10 having tested positive since 1 December, according to an Early Years Alliance survey of more than 3,000 staff. Providers in England have been told to remain open to all children during lockdown and the government says under-fives are \"unlikely to be playing a driving role in transmission\".\n\nAs lockdown has forced families apart, grandparents have had to find new ways of keeping in touch with their grandchildren. Annette Landy tells us how reading over video calls to Alicia, eight, and Sadie, two, has made things a little easier.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harry Potter and The Secret Garden have proven to be favourites\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nIf you're struggling to understand why vaccinating the most vulnerable won't immediately end lockdown, health correspondent Nick Triggle explains the reasoning.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The Florence Nightingale Museum announced it would close for the foreseeable future\n\nMuseums and galleries are \"fighting for survival\" amid the current lockdown, a national charity has warned.\n\nThe Art Fund has predicted that small institutions are likely to suffer most and said more help is needed.\n\nSo far, the charity has only been able to help 15% of applicants to its emergency response fund.\n\nEarlier this month, it was announced London's Florence Nightingale Museum is to close for the foreseeable future due to the impact of the pandemic.\n\nThe Williamson Art Gallery & Museum in Birkenhead is also under threat of closure, according to the Art Fund.\n\nThe charity's director Jenny Waldman said: \"The latest lockdown is a body blow and is leaving our museums and galleries fighting for survival.\n\n\"Smaller museums in particular, which are so vital to their communities, simply do not have the reserves to see them through this winter.\n\nResearch previously conducted by the charity found six in 10 museums, galleries and historic houses were worried about their own survival.\n\n\"Tragically, we are now seeing well-known and much-loved museums facing mothballing or permanent closure,\" Waldman said.\n\nIn November, the charity offered limited edition artworks to members of the public who donated to help coronavirus-hit museums.\n\nSir Anish, Lubaina Himid, David Shrigley and Michael Landy were among the artists who provided their works to the appeal.\n\nArt Fund has renewed its appeal for people to donate to the crowdfunding campaign, which is called Together For Museums.\n\nNew works of art from Howard Hodgkin, Jeremy Deller and Cornelia Parker have been added to the items on offer.\n\nJeremy Deller worked on the 2016 Somme commemoration project featuring 'Ghost Tommies' appearing across UK locations\n\nSir Anish said: \"Museums are where we go to engage with art, witness our psychic history and understand ourselves. Today they face great difficulty.\n\n\"The Art Fund campaign gives us an opportunity to help museums to continue to provide access to all in spite of the difficulties of this time.\"\n\nArt Fund has also announced £750,000 of new grants to help 23 museums respond to the pandemic - taking its total spend so far to £2.25 million.\n\nBut that is only a small proportion of the applications the charity has received, which total over £16 million.\n\nRecipients include the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, for a health and wellbeing project, and Portland Museum, Dorset, for a plan to recreate Rufus Castle digitally.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Spanish player Paula Badosa has revealed that she has the virus\n\nA Spanish tennis player who was among many Australian Open competitors to complain about quarantine rules has revealed she has coronavirus.\n\nPaula Badosa said she had felt unwell with symptoms before testing positive for the virus in Melbourne on Thursday.\n\nBadosa is believed to be the fourth competitor to test positive in hotel quarantine, but is the first to identify herself publicly.\n\nOn Friday, she said \"sorry guys\", adding quarantine rules were \"pivotal\".\n\n\"Please, don't get me wrong. Health will always comes first & I feel grateful for being in Australia,\" tweeted Badosa, who is ranked 67th globally in singles.\n\nThe 23-year-old said she had been taken to a separate hotel in Melbourne to \"self-isolate and be monitored\".\n\n\"I'll try to recover as soon as possible listening to the doctors,\" she said.\n\nVictoria state health authorities said on Wednesday a total of 10 infections had been linked to the event, but a few were \"viral shedding\" cases where the person was not infectious.\n\nMelbourne endured one of the world's longest lockdowns last year and many locals have concerns about the potential Covid risk posed by the tournament.\n\nTennis Australia chartered 15 flights to bring players and their entourages into the country, but three flights had passengers who later tested positive for the virus.\n\nBadosa is one of 72 players who have been confined full-time to their hotel rooms for 14 days - under a state health order - after the infections were discovered. She has already spent seven days in isolation.\n\nPlayers who arrived on flights with no infections are also in quarantine but are allowed five hours of court practice a day.\n\nSeveral players have complained about the impacts to their tennis preparation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Confined players have been training in their hotel rooms\n\nEarlier this week, in a tweet reported by Australian media that has since been deleted, Badosa wrote: \"At the beginning the rule was the positive section of the plane who was with that person had to quarantine. Not the whole plane.\n\n\"Not fair to change the rules at the last moment. And to have to stay in a room with no windows and no air.\"\n\nBut Tennis Australia and state officials have rejected assertions that any rules were changed or not clear ahead of time.\n\n\"We're thinking of you Paula, and hoping you feel better soon,\" the Australian Open's Twitter account replied in a message to Badosa on Friday.\n\nOrganisers have said that despite the infections, the Grand Slam will go ahead on 8 February.", "At 12:01, in the midst of his inaugural address, Joe Biden officially became the 46th president of the United States.\n\nHe was already well into outlining exactly how daunting a task he - and the nation - have ahead in what he called its \"winter of peril\".\n\nAmerica is facing a devastating pandemic which has resulted in massive job losses and business closures, a threatened environment, urgent cries for racial justice and resurgence in \"political extremism, white supremacy and domestic terrorism\".\n\nHis speech was not a laundry list of proposals and solutions. Those were reserved for his first 17 executive actions as president - on immigration, climate change, transgender rights and public health, among others.\n\nThe Biden administration has also frozen all of Trump's last-minute regulations pending further review.\n\nInstead, Biden used his speech to offer hope - and to argue, at times forcefully, that the nation must be united in facing the challenges ahead; that it has to move past its current \"uncivil war\".\n\n\"Without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury,\" he said. \"No progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos.\"\n\n\"This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge,\" he continued. \"And unity is the path forward\".\n\nAt times, Biden's speech seemed a direct rebuttal to his predecessor's administration, although he did not mention Donald Trump by name.\n\nWhere Trump frequently spoke of American greatness and glorified its founders, Biden noted that the nation's history has been a \"constant struggle\" between its ideals and sometimes harsh realities.\n\nWhere Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway spoke of \"alternative facts\" almost four years ago, Biden said: \"There is truth and there are lies - lies told for power and for profit.\"\n\nBiden wrapped up his inaugural address by warning that America must not \"turn inward\" - both as individuals retreating into \"competing factions\" and as a nation on the world stage.\n\n\"We will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again,\" he said.\n\nRhetorically, Biden turned the page from Trump's days of \"America first\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first 100 days of any administration are always important to a new president. What are his priorities? What will he try to accomplish when his political capital is at its highest?\n\nJoe Biden and his presidential team have had nearly three months to plan out his first actions upon taking the oath of office, but executive action is the (relatively) easy part.\n\nHis speech reflected the reality that he enters office with his top priorities already determined for him.\n\nHis government will be responsible for distributing the coronavirus vaccine in an efficient and equitable way. After that, he will have to focus on the societal and economic disruptions caused by the pandemic.\n\nThe virus has exacerbated income inequality and pushed many households to the brink of economic ruin. It's devastated the travel and hospitality industries and placed incredible strain on the finances of state and local governments.\n\nHis pledge to seek unity will be tested early, as he pushes a sharply divided Congress to pass another, massive round of pandemic stimulus aid. If he wants to enact it quickly, he will need Republican support in the Senate, and already there are signs that some on the right may be lining up in opposition to more spending.\n\nThen there's Trump's Senate impeachment trial, which will present yet another challenge to national unity. It will keep Trump's name in the news for weeks, as his defenders rally to his side and his detractors call for consequences for his actions.\n\nAfter that, Biden's potential political paths diverge. He has said he wants to improve healthcare in the US, address growing college debt, make new investments in infrastructure and tackle climate change.\n\nHe's pledged to push immigration reform legislation that includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented migrants - a political lightning rod that helped fuel Trump's first presidential run.\n\nWhat he prioritises, and how successful his first efforts are, could determine the overall success of his administration. To make lasting change - policies that can't be undone by future presidents - he will have to work with Congress.\n\nThe inauguration ceremony is over. But, as Biden noted in his speech, the American people face one of the most challenging times in their nation's history.\n\n\"We will be judged by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era,\" he said.\n\nBiden campaigned against Trump for the opportunity to face those crises. Now he has his chance.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 15 and 22 January. Send your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you follow current coronavirus guidelines and take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nHot dog: Ann Baldwin thinks it looks warm enough for a swim in this shot looking towards Inchcolm Island and Arthur’s Seat from the sailing club in Dalgety Bay, Fife, 10 minutes before sunrise.\n\nLittle sucker: Tessa McAndrew helped this beautiful octopus back into the water after finding him clinging to driftwood on the beach at Lower Largo.\n\nWindswept: Bad hair day for these trees in the Pentland Hills Regional Park in Edinburgh. Claire Dunbar took this picture during one of the many recent snow dumps in the area.\n\nIntricate web: The sun was making an attempt to defrost this frozen spider web in Colin Sergeant's back garden in Motherwell.\n\nHindsight: David Fox thinks this roe deer fawn that he captured on his camera at Strathbraan in Perthshire will be \"a future Monarch of the Glen\".\n\nTrue snowman: Only Gordon Brandie knows what this Highland fling snowman is wearing under his kilt and peg sporran in Faskally, Perthshire.\n\nStill life: Artistic beauty found when looking through a drainage hole in the Arbroath sea wall.\n\nBlurred lines: Sunrise on top of Falkland Hill in the early hours of the morning, taken by Jordan Moreham.\n\nStick together: Judith McIntyre spotted these wooden friends huddling to keep warm this winter in Kingston, Moray.\n\nHowling wind: Three-year-old Poppy enjoying a very windy afternoon walk on Craiglockhart Hill in Edinburgh with her mum, Sophia Lyons.\n\nCollectivism vs Individualism: Victor Tregubov took this shot of birds in countryside near Glasgow.\n\nStrike a pose: Colin Little on the bank of the River Lossie in Elgin, said: \"This otter posed for a couple of shots before diving under again.\"\n\nBlack and white: Derek Brown took this snowy scene in Stow just outside Galashiels in the Scottish Borders.\n\nEbb and flow: Michelle Moggach said it was \"Baltic but beautiful\" at Aberdeen Beach while she gazed at the sea.\n\nAlan Kemp said about 100 fieldfares descended on his pink berry Rowan trees in Murthly, Perthshire and devoured the lot in one sitting.\n\nMindfulness: Shirley Faichney captured a zen moment during a recent sunrise at West Wemyss beach in Fife.\n\nBridge to nowhere: Rachel Abbie was left puzzled as to where her walk was leading at Belhaven Beach in Dunbar.\n\nWinter wonderland: The path for Ross McKellar looks bright in High Blantyre in Glasgow.\n\nAutumn meets winter: Agnes Neal observed a sole woman walking through this peaceful scene in Queen's Park in Glasgow.\n\nSquirrel Nutkin: David Doogan loves it when this bushy-tailed friend joins him for a picnic in his garden in Glencoe, Argyll.\n\nTop of the world: ...well it was for Katie Gillingham and her friends on Goatfell on the Isle of Arran this week.\n\nEthereal moonlight: Arletta Babicz thought there was a \"magical vibe\" when he took this shot of the most photographed tree in Scotland at Loch Lomond.\n\nFollow the herd: Christopher Barrow thought it was funny when this flock of sheep kept following him while he was out skiing in Almondbank, Perthshire.\n\nPillars of the community: Poll nan Crann pier, known locally as Stinky Bay due to the large amount of seaweed blown onto the beach by storms which then rots in the sun. Seonaidh MacInnes took this picture at night on the Isle of Benbecula.\n\nRising above the herd: Jim Clark thought this beast could have been thinking outside the box when he captured this shot at Glanderston Dam, Barrhead.\n\nVirgin powder: Dan Price-Davies enjoyed Alpine conditions at Clashindarroch Forest while Nordic skiing with his son, Lestin, this week.\n\nCloud inversion: Steve Mitchell took in this stunning view overlooking a snowy drystone dyke at the top of the Cairn o' Mount (B974) road between Banchory and Fettercairn.\n\nWinter Washingland: Louise Harper took this picture of colourful plastic pegs with no job to do during heavy snow in Motherwell.\n\nThe Night Walker: Tamar Lewis thought there was an eerie glow in the sky as she took an evening stroll through Pollok Country Park.\n\nStripped bare: This dead-looking tree brings life to Dave Cullen's picture of the Cramond landscape in Edinburgh.\n\nDuck down: All but one mallard enjoying the food thrown to them at St Fillans in the snow, taken by Kenn Begley.\n\nWinter coat: Glen Tanar cleansed in white, near the summit of Baudy Meg in Aberdeenshire, taken by Neil Marchant.\n\nFyrish sunrise: It's as if Sir Hector Munro ordered his monument to be put in the best light possible for Laura Steel who took this picture in Evanton near Alness.\n\nSun and shadows: Michal Markowski took this eye-catching picture in West Linton using a drone.\n\nHair ice: Jane Tweedie noticed this rare phenomenon while out walking at Craigellachie, Moray. It is also known as ice wool or frost beard and is a type of ice that forms on dead wood and takes the shape of fine, silky hair.\n\nUdderly mootiful: Izabela Bodzioch took this picture of cows admiring the view of Ben Cruachan covered in snow.\n\nIce bath: Jan Overmeer said he changed his mind about going for a swim in Loch Carron when he was greeted by this frozen scene.\n\nJack Frost: Graeme Mackay was mesmerised by the patterns Mother Nature had made on the sunroof of his car in Aberdeen.\n\nSwan Lake: Bob Smart captured the sheer power and might of this magnificent bird at Townhill Loch in Fife.\n\nFine sunset: James MacArthur captured the fresh breath of brightness burning the last corner of Loch Fyne as the sun dropped below the skyline.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Guests fled when officers arrived at the Stamford Hill school, where the windows had been covered\n\nPolice broke up a wedding party in north London, where they now say about 150 people had gathered.\n\nOfficers found the windows at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School, in Stamford Hill, had been covered when they arrived at 21:15 GMT on Thursday.\n\nGuests fled from the strictly Orthodox Charedi Jewish school when the police arrived. The organisers face a £10,000 fine for breaking lockdown rules.\n\nThe Met originally claimed that about 400 guests were at the gathering.\n\nIn a statement, the school said its hall had been leased out.\n\nA spokesman for the school, whose principal Rabbi Avrahom Pinter died in April after contracting coronavirus, said \"we had no knowledge that the wedding was taking place\".\n\nHe added: \"We are absolutely horrified about last night's event and condemn it in the strongest possible terms.\"\n\nBoris Johnson supports the police for \"taking action against people who flagrantly and selfishly ignore the rules\", according to the prime minister's official spokesman.\n\nThe spokesman said: \"Large gatherings such as that pose a health risk, not just to those who attend but those who they live with or others who they may come into contact with.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, meanwhile, said the \"overwhelming majority\" of the Jewish community would be appalled at the event.\n\nRabbi Mirvis, who serves as the head of the UK's orthodox Jewish community but is not the leader of the Charedi group, called the wedding party \"a most shameful desecration of all that we hold dear\".\n\nFive guests were issued with £200 fixed penalty notices, according to police, who said their inquiries had established those present at the school had gathered for a wedding.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A video shared with the Jewish Chronicle shows officers in Stamford Hill\n\nVideo shared with the Jewish Chronicle shows officers in Stamford Hill speaking with a man to explain why they are there, although he is not accused of any wrongdoing.\n\nThey are then seen arriving at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School.\n\nDet Ch Sup Marcus Barnett of the Met Police said: \"This was a completely unacceptable breach of the law.\n\n\"People across the country are making sacrifices by cancelling or postponing weddings and other celebrations and there is no excuse for this type of behaviour.\n\n\"My officers are working tirelessly with the community and we will not hesitate to take enforcement action if that is required to keep people safe.\"\n\nOn Friday morning, a security guard at the school told the BBC there were more like 100 guests at the party than the much higher number given out by police.\n\nThe Met later said in a statement: \"Although initial calls suggested some 400 people had attended the wedding, it is now believed that approximately 150 people were in attendance.\"\n\nStamford Hill is part of the borough of Hackney, which has a Covid-19 infection rate of 625.43 cases per 100,000 people. The England average rate is 471.31 per 100,000 people.\n\nThe mayor of Hackney, Philip Glanville, said he was \"deeply disappointed\" that the wedding party had taken place, despite \"the number of lives that have already been lost in the Charedi community and across the borough\".\n\nHe added: \"Unfortunately, similar events have taken place even at this venue before and we need to be really clear how unacceptable it is.\n\n\"We will be meeting with the Rabbinate and our community partners over the coming days to see how we can prevent further incidents of this nature.\"\n\nLondon is under an England-wide lockdown, which prevents social mixing between households.\n\nLondoners are asked to only leave home for limited reasons such as shopping, going to work, seeking medical assistance, or avoiding domestic abuse.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nDo you have any information to share about this incident? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There are no plans to pay everyone in England who tests positive for Covid £500 to self-isolate, No 10 has said.\n\nThe PM's official spokesman said there was already a £500 payment available for those on low incomes who could not work from home and had to isolate.\n\nA universal £500 payment was among suggestions in a leaked Department of Health document.\n\nThere are fears the current financial support is not working because low paid workers cannot afford to self-isolate.\n\nBut a senior government source said the idea of extending the £500 payments to everyone who tests positive had been drawn up by officials and had not been considered by the prime minister.\n\nBBC Newsnight's Katie Razzall said ministers were aware self-isolation was crucial for stopping the spread of coronavirus and the \"options paper\" had been drawn up by civil servants at the Department of Health.\n\nShe said it would be discussed soon by the Covid operations committee chaired by Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove, adding the move suggested there was an admission in government that too many people were not staying at home and a decision needed to be made quickly.\n\nThe story was first reported by the Guardian which said the options paper suggested the proposal could cost up to £453m per week - 12 times the cost of the current payouts.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice told the BBC he had not seen the leaked document but said the issue of financial support for people self-isolating was \"always kept under review\".\n\n\"We've got to consider all sorts of policies in order to make sure that people abide by the rules, are able to abide by the rules and we get the infection rate down,\" he said.\n\nBut the prime minister's official spokesman denied the government was planning to introduce the new payment, telling reporters: \"We've given local authorities £70m for the scheme and they are able to provide extra payments on top of those £500 if they think it necessary.\n\n\"That £500 is on top of any other benefits and statutory sick pay that people are eligible for.\"\n\nAsked about document, the spokesman said he would not comment on a leaked paper.\n\nIt's impossible to say exactly what proportion of people stay at home for the full 10 days after being in contact with someone who has tested positive, however some evidence suggests the minority of people do.\n\nA government-backed study from September 2020 suggests that just 10.9% of people remained indoors for the full time.\n\nLabour has often cited this report when arguing that people cannot afford to miss work, but a closer look at it suggests that, of those who break the rules, just 8.9% do \"to go to work\".\n\nMost people reported going out for things like shopping or exercise, but also because they didn't think they needed to quarantine as they didn't develop symptoms.\n\nThis research is quite old (done before self-isolation grants came in) and has a relatively small sample size of just 400 people.\n\nHowever, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) has also highlighted research that shows that most people don't completely follow the rules.\n\nThis research also suggests that those on lower incomes felt they were three times less able to self-isolate than those better off.\n\nBBC political correspondent Ben Wright said there was concern in government about the huge cost of the proposal for the Treasury.\n\nHowever, he said the issue of financial incentives and trying to get people to self-isolate was clearly a live discussion within government.\n\nIt became a legal requirement last September for anyone in England testing positive for coronavirus to self-isolate.\n\nThe £500 grant already available in England is funded by the government but administered by local authorities.\n\nThe same level of payment is available in Scotland and Wales with similar conditions attached. Northern Ireland offers a discretionary self-isolation grant that covers expenses, such as the cost of groceries.\n\nThere is a list of specific criteria applicants must meet for the grant, but those who do not qualify for this payment and who are on a low income or may face financial hardship as a result of self-isolating can apply for a discretionary payment.\n\nHowever, there have been high rejection rates for this discretionary grant in England, figures obtained by Labour and reported by the BBC this week suggest.\n\nBetween October and December last year, three-quarters of the 49,877 applications were rejected, the data showed.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said the Scottish government would welcome the introduction of a £500 payment, as the additional funds it would generate for Scotland could allow for a similar scheme to be set up.\n\nSpeaking at her regular coronavirus briefing, she said: \"We will see whether that transpires or not, but any extra resources for self-isolation we would use to support self-isolation.\"\n\nProf Susan Michie, an adviser on the government's Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme just 18% of people with symptoms were self-isolating for the full 10 days they were meant to.\n\nShe said financial support currently offered to people having to self-isolate was a \"key weakness\" of the government's pandemic strategy.\n\nSharon, a cleaner from Kent, told the BBC if no money were to come in for two weeks she would not be able to afford to self-isolate.\n\n\"I have a mortgage to pay,\" she said.\n\n\"I can't even afford to heat my property at the moment because my wages were cut and that £500 payment would make all the difference. I would be able to self-isolate.\n\n\"It wouldn't be enough money, but it would help.\"\n\nThe DoH said it would not comment on a leaked paper but stressed it was incumbent on everyone to help protect the NHS by staying at home and following the rules at \"one of the toughest moments of this pandemic\".\n\nA spokesman said £50m was invested at the time the Test and Trace Support Payment scheme launched and it was providing a further £20m to help support people on low incomes who need to self-isolate.\n\nPeople who have tested positive for coronavirus and those considered at risk of having been exposed to it must self-isolate.\n\nOther legal obligations to self-isolate in the UK include:\n\nWould £500 be enough to help you to self-isolate? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The 39 people who died in the back of a trailer as it crossed the North Sea between Zeebrugge and the UK\n\nFour men have been jailed for the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants found dead in a lorry trailer in Essex.\n\nThe migrants died \"excruciatingly painful\" deaths, having suffocated in the container en route from Belgium to Purfleet in October 2019, a judge said.\n\nRonan Hughes, 41, and Gheorghe Nica, 43, played \"leading roles\" in the smuggling conspiracy and were jailed for 20 and 27 years respectively.\n\nAt the Old Bailey, two lorry drivers were also jailed for manslaughter.\n\n[Left to right] Eamonn Harrison, Ronan Hughes, Gheorghe Nica and Maurice Robinson were all jailed for manslaughter\n\nEamonn Harrison, 24, who towed the trailer to the Belgian port of Zeebrugge before their journey to the UK, was sentenced to 18 years.\n\nMaurice Robinson, 26, was given 13 years and four months, having collected the trailer and opened it in an industrial estate to find the migrants dead.\n\nThree others members of the people-smuggling gang were also sentenced for conspiracy to facilitate unlawful immigration.\n\nChristopher Kennedy, 24, from County Armagh, was jailed for seven years; Valentin Calota, 38, of Birmingham, for four-and-a-half years; and Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Hobart Road, Tilbury, Essex, was given a three-year sentence.\n\n[Left to right] Valentin Calota, Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga and Christopher Kennedy were also sentenced on Friday\n\nSentencing, Mr Justice Sweeney said: \"I have no doubt that the conspiracy was a sophisticated, long-running and profitable one to smuggle mainly Vietnamese people across the channel.\"\n\nHe said on the fatal trip the temperature had been rising along with the carbon dioxide levels throughout, hitting 40C (104F) while the container was at sea on 22 October 2019.\n\n\"There were desperate attempts to contact the outside world by phone and to break through the roof of the container,\" the judge said.\n\n\"All were to no avail and, before the ship reached Purfleet, [the victims] all died in what must have been an excruciatingly painful death.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video evidence showed how the trainer containing 39 Vietnamese migrants made its way to the UK\n\nThe victims had used a metal pole to try to punch through the roof but only managed to dent the interior.\n\nThe court heard some of their final desperate phone messages, including one where a man spoke with ragged breaths as he apologised to his family.\n\n\"I can't breathe,\" he said. \"I want to come back to my family. Have a good life.\"\n\nJustice Sweeney added: \"The willingness of the victims to try and enter the country illegally provides no excuse for what happened to them.\"\n\nThe bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer on 23 October 2019\n\nDuring the trial, jurors were given a snapshot of the victims - who included a bricklayer, a university graduate and a nail bar technician - and their dreams of a better life.\n\nMany of their families borrowed heavily to fund their passage, relying on their potential future earnings once they got into the UK.\n\nThe father of Nguyen Huy Tung, one of two 15-year-olds in the container, later learned of his son's death via social media.\n\nHarrison, of Newry, County Down, claimed he did not know there were people in the trailer when he towed it to the Belgian port, and that he watched \"a wee bit of Netflix\" in bed as they were loaded on.\n\nAfter receiving this message from his boss, Robinson got out of his cab, opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies\n\nRobinson, from County Armagh, collected the trailer when it arrived on UK shores just after midnight on 23 October.\n\nHis boss, Hughes, had messaged him: \"Give them air quickly don't let them out.\"\n\nRobinson gave a thumbs-up in reply. When Robinson stopped on a nearby industrial estate, he found that the migrants were all dead.\n\nHis barrister said Robinson, who admitted manslaughter, being part of the trafficking plot and money laundering, was \"horrified by what he saw\".\n\nThe moment lorry driver Maurice Robinson opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies inside was captured on CCTV\n\nThe trial examined three smuggling attempts by the gang - two that were successful on 11 and 18 October, and the final trip on 23 October.\n\nOn all three runs, Nica, of Basildon, Essex, had arranged cars and a van to transport the migrants at the UK end.\n\nWhen Robinson discovered the bodies, there was a series of telephone conversations between him and Nica and Hughes, of Tyholland, County Monaghan, Ireland, before the driver eventually dialled 999.\n\nIn his evidence, Nica said Robinson told him: \"I have a problem here - dead bodies in the trailer.\"\n\nWhile Hughes admitted manslaughter, both Nica and Harrison were convicted by a jury.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney said that in the conspiracy \"two played leading roles, namely - in order of importance - Hughes and Nica\".\n\nHe accepted Hughes was \"not at the very top of the conspiracy\" but said his role was \"pivotal... in that he ran a haulage business and supplied the trailers and drivers used to transport the migrants\".\n\nThe judge said Nica \"recruited and paid the drivers whose job it was to collect the migrants when they reached the drop-off site in this country and to drive them to the safe house(s) where they were to be held until payment\".\n\nHe added at the top of the conspiracy was a Vietnamese man called \"Fong\", who was based in London.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney told the defendants jailed for manslaughter they would serve two-thirds of the term in custody, instead of the usual half.\n\nEarlier this month, Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Barclay Road, Tottenham, north London, was sentenced, having admitted his limited role in the people-smuggling operation. It was accepted he was not a member of the organised crime group behind the smuggling operation.\n\nDet Ch Insp Daniel Stoten said: \"May this serve as a warning to those who think it's OK to prey on the vulnerabilities of migrants and their families, transporting them in a way worse than we would transport animals.\n\n\"My message to you is that we will find you and we will stop you.\"\n\nHe said the victims died in an \"unimaginable way, because of the utter greed of these criminals\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Last summer's A level results prompted an outcry from students - leading to an independent review\n\nThere was a \"significant failure\" in the way exam bodies in Wales handled awarding student grades in 2020, a report says.\n\nThe independent review found there was \"too much confidence\" in statistical models, and the appeals process in place was inadequate.\n\nQualifications Wales (QW) said it had learnt many lessons and WJEC exam board will look \"in detail\" at the findings.\n\nTeaching union UCAC described the report's findings as \"scathing\".\n\nIts release comes after it was announced this week that teachers will make 2021 grade assessments\n\nThe review was ordered by the Welsh Government following the outcry over initial examination results awarded in August for A-level students.\n\nThe assessment approach resulted in a \"significant breakdown\" in trust, says the review\n\nIn the weeks after the coronavirus pandemic took hold, formal external exams in Wales were scrapped, with schools asked to provide grade assessments for sixth-form and GCSE pupils.\n\nHowever, it later emerged 42% of the A-level grades were lower than those submitted by teachers.\n\nIn her foreword the report panel's chairwoman Louise Casella, said substantial numbers of young people across Wales \"were left feeling bewildered and distressed as they received A level results that bore no relation to their expectation and their abilities\".\n\nThe result decision was reversed, and school's predicted grades reinstated, but not before \"some learners lost their university place and some were not able to progress as planned in 2020\", noted Ms Casella, who is also director of The Open University in Wales.\n\nThe review found that QW and the WJEC board would have known the \"scale of the outliers\" and had \"an insight\" into the likely number of appeals.\n\nBut the bodies failed to fully test \"alternative routes or approaches\" to the statistical models they used to standardise results.\n\nThe review added it was \"surprising\" QW did not explore additional safeguards, after having being previously warned about, and acknowledging that there were potential problems with the statistical process.\n\nThe report said it could not find evidence either WJEC or QW \"acknowledged, accepted or anticipated the scale of the issues\" nor the risk of unfairness to learners, and that it considered this a \"significant failure\".\n\nThe approach last summer had resulted in a \"significant breakdown\" in trust between the teaching profession and the regulator and examining body, added the report authors.\n\nIt said fairness must now be central to planning for 2021, avoiding automated algorithms to predict individual grades, and developing an appeals process.\n\nDelivering the report, the review panel chair added: \"There is now a real opportunity for the education sector of Wales to come together to develop and deliver a qualifications system that puts learners at its heart, not only for the cohort facing qualifications in 2021, but for the longer term.\"\n\nQW said the review had \"some useful findings and recommendations that we are already addressing\".\n\nChair David Jones and Chief Executive Philip Baker said: \"We would have welcomed greater engagement with the review panel so there was full consideration of all the issues.\"\n\nChief Executive of WJEC Ian Morgan, said he was \"disappointed with some aspects of the report\" but the exam board would \"look in detail at the findings to identify areas where we need to take action to continuously improve as an organisation.\"\n\nEducation Minister Kirsty Williams has already said teachers will assess grades in 2021\n\nEducation Minister Kirsty Williams has welcomed the report and how it would help drive how students are graded by teachers and schools this summer.\n\n\"It is my sincere hope and expectation that our education system can continue to work together to support the progression of our learners in exam years, both through the delivery of these assessment arrangements and through a wider package of support,\" she said.\n\nUCAC Deputy General Secretary Rebecca Williams, said the report supported its call for external moderation of grades, to improve fairness to students.\n\n\"There are longer-term recommendations, including the need to be more ambitious in terms of reform of qualifications and assessment in relation to the new curriculum, and we look forward to discussing these over the coming months,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel says police have her \"absolute backing\" to enforce coronavirus restrictions\n\nFines of £800 for anyone attending a house party of more than 15 people will be introduced in England from next week, under new Covid measures.\n\nThese will double for each repeat offence to a maximum of £6,400.\n\nAt a No 10 news conference, Home Secretary Priti Patel said there remained a \"small minority that refuse to do the right thing\".\n\n\"To them my message is clear. If you don't follow rules then the police will enforce them,\" she said.\n\nCurrently in England the fine for those attending illegal indoor gatherings stands at £200 - or £100 if paid early.\n\nFines of up to £10,000 for holding large illegal gatherings of more than 30 people will still only apply to the organisers.\n\nPolice will continue to follow the strategy of engaging with the public, explaining the rules and encouraging compliance, but the Home Office has warned that in severe breaches of lockdown rules, offenders should expect to receive a fine.\n\nMs Patel said the government would \"not stand by while a small number of individuals put others at risk\".\n\nShe was joined at the briefing by NHS England regional medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar, who compared breaking the rules to turning on a light in the middle of a blackout during the Blitz.\n\n\"It doesn't just put you at risk in your house, it puts your whole street and the whole of your community at risk,\" he said.\n\nWelcoming the fines announcement, Martin Hewitt, chairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council, said large gatherings were \"dangerous, irresponsible, and totally unacceptable\".\n\nHe added: \"I hope that the likelihood of an increased fine acts as a disincentive for those people who are thinking of attending or organising such events.\"\n\nOfficial figures will be released next week showing how many fines have been given out since the start of this latest national lockdown, Mr Hewitt said.\n\nHowever, he stressed that \"forces are telling us there has been a significant increase\" in recent weeks.\n\n\"That's reflecting the fact that we've had more officers out on dedicated patrols taking targeted action against those small few who are letting everybody down,\" he said.\n\nAccording to Mr Hewitt, three police officers were injured in Brick Lane, east London, last week, after more than 40 people were found cramped indoors at a house party.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 150 people were found at a party in Hertfordshire, complete with music equipment including mixing decks and amplifiers, and another officer was injured.\n\nHe said forces in England had issued 250 fixed penalty notices (FPNs) to people organising large gatherings between late August, when regulations were introduced, and 17 January.\n\nIn some other recent examples of lockdown breaches:\n\nThe latest fines announcement comes after figures showed that assaults on emergency workers made up more than a quarter of Covid-related crimes prosecuted in the first six months of the pandemic.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there were 1,688 such offences between 1 April and 30 September in England and Wales.\n\nThey were among almost 6,500 crimes related to coronavirus in that period.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome 1,137 charges were brought for breaking coronavirus laws, according to the figures published by the CPS - which cover completed prosecutions.\n\nOn Thursday, it was reported that another 1,290 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 in the UK, bringing the total to 94,580.\n\nAnd a further 37,892 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus were announced, bringing the total number of cases in the UK to 3,543,646.\n• None What powers do police have?", "Cyber criminals who stole thousands of digital files belonging to environmental regulator Sepa have published them on the internet.\n\nThe public body had about 1.2GB of data stolen from its digital systems on Christmas Eve.\n\nSepa rejected a ransom demand for the attack, which has been claimed by the international Conti ransomware group.\n\nContracts, strategy documents and databases are among the 4,000 files released.\n\nThe data has been put on the dark web - a part of the internet associated with criminality and only accessible through specialised software.\n\nSepa chief executive Terry A'Hearn said: \"We've been clear that we won't use public finance to pay serious and organised criminals intent on disrupting public services and extorting public funds.\n\n\"We have made our legal obligations and duty of care on the sensitive handling of data a high priority and, following Police Scotland advice, are confirming that data stolen has been illegally published online.\n\n\"We're working quickly with multi-agency partners to recover and analyse data then, as identifications are confirmed, contact and support affected organisations and individuals.\"\n\nThe attack locked Sepa's emails and contacts centre but Sepa said \"priority regulatory, monitoring, flood forecasting and warning services were continuing to adapt and operate\".\n\nSepa said the theft was the equivalent to a fraction of the contents of an average laptop hard drive.\n\nSepa chief executive Terry A'Hearn said the organisation had faced a \"significant and sophisticated cyber-attack\"\n\nSome of the information stolen was already publicly available but other files included data about staff and suppliers was not.\n\nWhere information has been identified to date, staff have been contacted and are being supported.\n\nBrett Callow, of cyber security company Emsisoft, has been tracking the Sepa ransomware attack.\n\nHe said: \"Conti may well be the work of the same people behind another type of ransomware called Ryuk.\n\n\"There are similarities in the code, ransom note and attack mechanisms.\n\n\"When the complete haul of data is posted like this, it usually means the group has given up hope of being able to extract payment from the victim of monetise the data in other ways.\n\n\"It's a loss for them. At this point, they've lost all leverage and the action is intended to serve as a warning to future victims.\"\n\nDet Insp Michael McCullagh, of Police Scotland's cybercrime investigations unit, said: \"This remains an ongoing investigation.\n\n\"Inquiries remain at an early stage and continue to progress including deployment of specialist cybercrime resources to support this response.\"\n\nThe authorities will be pleased.\n\nIt looks like Sepa decided not to play ball with the cyber criminals.\n\nRansomware is a scourge that is costing organisations billions of pounds and every time a victim pays, it fuels further attacks.\n\nSadly for Sepa this is far from over.\n\nBy the looks of the stash of files that the hackers stole and encrypted, Sepa will have months of work ahead to try to recover important documents and spreadsheets from backups and rebuild their records.\n\nIt's also telling that, according to the hackers website, almost 1,000 people have so far looked at the documents.\n\nWho knows what other criminals or hackers are poring over the files right now.\n\nMaking the documents open to all means that information can be extracted to potentially be used against Sepa in further attacks or extortion attempts.\n\nIt will be months, perhaps even years until the organisation can say it is safe once more and can put this cyber attack behind it.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: It's too early to give a lockdown end date\n\nIt is \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions will be able to end in the spring, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.\n\nOnce the four priority groups have been vaccinated, by mid-February, \"we'll look then at how we're doing,\" he said.\n\nNearly two million people in the UK have had their first dose of vaccine in the past week, government figures show.\n\nScientist Marc Baguelin, who advises the government, has said restaurants and bars should not reopen before May.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson has said he \"certainly hopes\" schools in England can fully reopen before Easter, while Downing Street refused to be drawn on whether this would happen by then.\n\nA further 1,290 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test and there have been another 37,892 cases, according to the latest government figures.\n\nAnd almost five million people in the UK have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine.\n\nSpeaking after a study suggested infections might have increased at the start of the latest lockdown in England, Mr Johnson said it was \"absolutely crucial\" that people observed the restrictions.\n\nReferring to figures from the Imperial College London survey, he said they showed the new variant of the virus was \"not more deadly but it is much more contagious and the numbers are very great\".\n\nFigures published by Public Health England show cases - meaning people who come forward to get tested while they are infected - have fallen across England since early January.\n\nWith the two sets of figures pointing in different directions, it will be some time before it is known for sure how long it will take for lockdown to relieve the pressure on hospitals.\n\nDr Baguelin, from Imperial College, who sits on a sub-group of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) said the premature opening of the hospitality sector would lead to a \"bump\" in Covid-19 cases.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme even a partial reopening would generate \"an increase in the R number\". An R number above one means the epidemic is growing.\n\n\"Something of this scale, if it was to happen earlier than May, would generate a bump in transmission, which is already really bad,\" he said.\n\n\"So you have a lot of pressure on hospitals, you will have another wave of some extent. At best you will keep on having very, very unsustainable level of pressure on the NHS.\"\n\nNHS England figures show one in 10 major hospital trusts had no spare adult critical care beds last week.\n\nThis is a debate that is going to start to dominate public discourse.\n\nWith the vaccination programme under way, there is huge clamour to know what will happen once the most vulnerable are vaccinated, by mid-February.\n\nThe problem is there are still so many unknowns.\n\nFirstly, it is hard to predict by how much lockdown will have reduced infection levels, considering there is a new faster-spreading variant to deal with.\n\nThe level of uptake will also be crucial. Surveys suggest as many as one in five may not have the vaccine - although the older, more vulnerable groups tend to be the most willing to be vaccinated.\n\nAnd the fact that no vaccine is 100% effective means come February there could still be significant numbers of very vulnerable people who are not protected.\n\nAnother factor is whether the vaccine stops transmissions - so-called sterilising vaccination.\n\nTrials have shown the vaccines are good at stopping symptoms developing. But that does not mean someone who has received a jab will not pass on the virus.\n\nIf it does not, that, of course, has implications on how many control measures have to be kept in place. It will take us at least until spring to know the answer to this.\n\nAt this stage, it seems hard to see much beyond the possible reopening of schools come March.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was an \"impossible question\" to ask how long the lockdown would need to last.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, coronavirus lockdown restrictions will be extended until 5 March, BBC News understands.\n\nIn Scotland, lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home.\n\nAnd in Wales health minister Vaughan Gething has said no \"significant easing\" of Wales' Covid restrictions should be expected when the current guidelines are reviewed this month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Keir added that the coronavirus vaccines were \"really good news\" but \"should not mask the fact that we have still got a very serious problem\".\n\nThe government is aiming to offer a vaccine to all over-70s, the extremely clinical vulnerable and health and care workers by mid-February.\n\nSixty-five new vaccination centres are opening in England, including a mosque in Birmingham and a cinema in Aylesbury.", "Paddy McElhone was shot in the back by a soldier in 1974\n\nThe shooting dead of a man by the Army in County Tyrone in August 1974 was unjustified, a coroner has ruled.\n\nPaddy McElhone, 24, a farmer, was shot in the back near his home in Limehill, Pomeroy.\n\nAn inquest heard the shot was fired by a soldier from the First Battalion, Royal Regiment of Wales.\n\nJudge Siobhan Keegan said Mr McElhone was an \"innocent man shot in cold blood without warning when he was no threat to anyone\".\n\nThe soldier, now deceased, had been cleared of murder but the circumstances were re-examined in a new inquest ordered by the Attorney General.\n\nPaddy McElhone's family said he was killed without justification, explanation or apology\n\nAfterwards, a statement issued by the McElhone family said it had been a \"very long road\" to reach Thursday's ruling and that the truth \"has been heard\".\n\nIt reads: \"Our family always knew that Paddy was an innocent young man, taken from his home and shot by a British soldier for no reason.\"\n\nEvidence presented to the inquest found Mr McElhone was not on any list associated with the IRA and was an innocent man from a humble background.\n\nThe family said Mr McElhone's parents \"went to their graves broken-hearted knowing that their innocent son had been killed, without justification, explanation or apology\".\n\n\"We feel that, today, Judge Keenan at this inquest has, at long last, exonerated Paddy in full,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"As a family we can grieve Paddy, and respect his memory as an innocent young man.\"\n\nThe inquest into Mr McElhone's death was the first in a series of coroners' investigations into deaths associated with Northern Ireland's Troubles.\n\nIt was held in Omagh courthouse in County Tyrone.", "Some 320 of the UK's most dangerous child sex offenders have been arrested since the first coronavirus lockdown, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said.\n\nInvestigators have been focusing on tracking down offenders who operate online.\n\nThe operation led to a total of 4,760 arrests and 6,500 children safeguarded between April and September last year.\n\nMeanwhile, the Home Office has launched a strategy to collect detailed data about child grooming gangs.\n\nThe Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Strategy aims to identify and convict offenders who operate in groups by gathering more information about their characteristics, including ethnicity.\n\nIt also involves investing in the national child abuse image database to identify offenders more quickly, protecting police from frequently being exposed to indecent images, and enabling parents to ask officers if someone with access to their child is known to them for cases of abuse.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said some who had suffered child sexual abuse had told her they felt \"let down by the state\", and insisted she was \"determined to put this right\".\n\nRob Jones, an NCA director, welcomed the initiative \"at a time when the threat to children is more severe than it has ever been\", highlighting that last year there were at least 300,000 people posing a sexual threat to children in the UK.\n\nHe said the NCA was focusing on the most dangerous offenders \"as part of the whole system approach\".\n\n\"Many feel they can operate with impunity online - using anonymisation techniques, secure accounts and the dark web - but as we have shown with this operation they are wrong and we have the capabilities to track them down,\" he said.\n\nMr Jones added: \"These are not just images or videos being viewed online.\n\n\"What we are uncovering here is evidence of the horrific, real-world sexual abuse of children.\"\n\nOut of the 320 arrested as part of the NCA's operation targeting the UK's most dangerous child sex offenders, 122 were targeted by NCA officers.\n\nSeventeen were in positions of trust, including a volunteer with the Scouts, church youth group leaders, a social worker, primary school and college teachers, a hospital care assistant, a police officer, and a civil servant.\n\nIn the year ending March 2020 the NCA and UK policing made 7,212 arrests and safeguarded and protected 8,329 children. This was a 50% increase in arrests and a 10% increase in safeguards compared with the year ending March 2019.\n\nMs Patel said that the national strategy would tackle and respond to \"all forms of child sexual abuse, relentlessly going after abusers, whilst better protecting victims and survivors\".\n\nShe added: \"Crucially, it contains a commitment to collect higher quality data on the characteristics of offenders, so that the government can build a fuller picture of perpetrators, and tackle the abuse that has blighted many towns and cities across our country.\"\n\nThe government has pledged to support local authorities' responses to exploitation through funding for The Children's Society's Prevention Programme initiative, which has so far trained 13,363 professionals to spot signs of child abuse.\n\nThrough the Online Safety Bill, the Home Office has also said it will ensure technology companies are held to account for harmful content on their sites.\n\nThe Children's Society's chief executive, Mark Russell, has described the strategy as a \"golden opportunity to improve support for child victims of horrific crimes and send a clear signal that child sexual abuse and exploitation are crimes that will not be tolerated\".\n\nThe scheme was also welcomed by GCHQ and charity NSPCC, which said it has received more than 40 calls a day about child sexual abuse since the pandemic began.\n\nGCHQ's director of serious and organised crime said: \"Our work to tackle systemic internet problems, the insight we provide into offender behaviour and our efforts alongside law enforcement to identify and pursue the worst offenders will help to ensure there is no safe space online for these people to operate.\"\n\nNSPCC chief executive Sir Peter Wanless said it \"rightly puts the emphasis on early intervention and action across government but added it \"must be backed up with serious investment in support for victims\" - and that children were still being exposed to abuse from teachers and social workers.\n\nSir Peter said: \"It's crucial that no young person is left unprotected which is why it's disappointing the government has not committed to closing the legal loophole that enables some adults to abuse their position of power to have sexual contact with 16 and 17-year-olds in their care.\"", "CCTV footage has been released of the moment a fire took hold in a hotel after a porter put a bag of ash and embers in a cupboard.\n\nSimon Midgley and his partner Richard Dyson died in the fire at Cameron House next to Loch Lomond in December 2017.\n\nCameron House admitted charges under the Fire Scotland Act of failing to take fire safety measures.\n\nChristopher O'Malley, who put the bag in the cupboard, admitted breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nNon-league Chorley were unable to emulate the heroes from 1986 by causing an FA Cup sensation against Wolves - but the National League North side came away with all the credit from their fourth-round tie at Victory Park.\n\nVitinha's superb 30-yard shot after 12 minutes proved enough to secure an all-Premier League tie against Arsenal or Southampton at Molineux in the fifth round.\n\nBut Nuno Espirito Santo's side were less than impressive against their part-time opponents.\n\nChorley had the first shot of the match through Elliot Newby, and after Vitinha had struck his first Wolves goal with the visitors' only shot on target, it was the hosts who had the best chances.\n\nCrucially, they also pocketed around £120,000 in prize money, plus TV fees, to sustain them through what could be a difficult period after their league was suspended for two weeks amid funding concerns earlier in the day.\n\n\"If you are going to lose, I would prefer to lose to a goal like that than a scruffy goal,\" said Chorley boss Jamie Vermiglio.\n\n\"I am proud of what we have done for our community, my kids at school will remember that their head teacher got this far in the FA Cup. Hopefully it can inspire some of them.\n\n\"We are approaching up to half a million [in earnings from the cup run], we have people who are isolating, and those players have given them a little bit of happiness.\n\n\"If it is 2-0 or 3-0 at half-time the game is done and people are turning their TVs off. That did not happen. I felt we were in the game. Every player was outstanding.\"\n• None How to follow FA Cup fourth round on the BBC\n\nIf this does end up being Chorley's last game of the season, it is one they will remember for some time, not only for the action on the pitch but also for the huge volley of fireworks that went off behind the main stand minutes into the contest.\n\nFor visiting Wolves, it was a step into the unknown. Their starting line-up got changed in the away dressing room, while their substitutes - European Championship winner Rui Patricio and Spain international Adama Traore among them - readied themselves in a sponsors' lounge.\n\nSeemingly those starting the game on the bench got the better deal.\n\nWolves boss Nuno paid Chorley the compliment of picking a strong starting line-up, including £35.6m record signing Fabio Silva and England international Conor Coady.\n\nAnd had this match been played in more imposing surroundings, it could have been mistaken for one of those Premier League games where one side sits back, challenges the opposition to break them down and then hits them on the counter.\n\nWolves' return of 76% possession and one shot on target, set against Chorley's five shots on target, suggests home manager Vermiglio got his tactics spot on.\n\nIndeed, had Andy Halls, a personal trainer by day, not had his goal-bound header tipped over by John Ruddy after an hour, Chorley might have forced a different outcome.\n\n\"The scene was set for us to lose this game,\" said Nuno. \"John Ruddy did his job, everybody knows his quality. He helped us to win the game.\"\n\nIt was nevertheless a typically English FA Cup tie, enlivened by Vermiglio yelling \"nothing wrong with that\" when two Wolves players went down under agricultural challenges, and then laughing in Traore's face amid a brief skirmish.\n\nIt was fantastic knockabout stuff. Sadly, the enduring disappointment was that other than staff, media and stewards, no-one was there in person to witness it.\n• None Wolves have reached the FA Cup fifth round in three of the last five seasons, as many as in the 21 seasons prior to this.\n• None Premier League teams have progressed from 45 of their 47 FA Cup ties against non-league teams (96%), with only Norwich vs Luton in 2013 and Burnley vs Lincoln in 2017 failing to progress.\n• None Separated by 120 years and 362 days, Chorley have lost both of their FA Cup games against top-flight opponents, losing against Notts County in January 1900 and Wolves.\n• None Vitinha became the 32nd different Wolves player to score a goal for Nuno Espirito Santo in all competitions and the 11th different Portuguese player to do so, with what was his third shot in his 12th appearance.\n• None Since the start of 2017-18, Wolves have had 11 different Portuguese scorers - more than twice as many as any other English league team in that time (Nottingham Forest, five).\n\nWolves are next in action against Chelsea in the Premier League at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday, 27 January (18:00 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Rayan Aït-Nouri (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Rúben Neves.\n• None Harry Cardwell (Chorley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Pedro Neto (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Rúben Neves.\n• None Arlen Birch (Chorley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fábio Silva (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Pedro Neto. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA hotel fire which claimed the lives of two men started after a porter put a bag of ash and embers in a cupboard containing kindling and newspaper.\n\nSimon Midgley and his partner Richard Dyson died in the fire at Cameron House next to Loch Lomond in December 2017.\n\nCameron House pled guilty to charges under the Fire Scotland Act of failing to take fire safety measures.\n\nChristopher O'Malley, who put the bag in the cupboard, admitted breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act.\n\nO'Malley's lawyer said the night porter - from Renton in West Dunbartonshire - deeply regretted his actions, and did not deliberately start the fire.\n\nDumbarton Sheriff Court also heard that Cameron House did not have proper procedures in place for the disposal of ash, or for training staff.\n\nThe owners also failed to keep cupboards that contained potential ignition sources free of combustibles.\n\nAt about 04:00 on 18 December 2017, O'Malley, 35, cleared ash and embers from a fireplace in the Cameron House reception into a metal bucket.\n\nHe then emptied the contents of the bucket into a plastic bag, which he put into the concierge cupboard.\n\nThe cupboard also contained flammable materials including kindling, newspapers and cardboard.\n\nRichard Dyson, left, and Simon Midgley, right, who both died, had been on a winter break in Scotland\n\nAt about 06:40 an initial fire alarm sounded and staff noticed smoke coming from the concierge cupboard.\n\nO'Malley opened the door and flames took hold, spreading to the hall.\n\nHe and two others tried to fight the blaze with fire extinguishers, but were overcome by the flames.\n\nAdvocate depute Michael Meehan QC told the court the cupboard was well alight and the \"blaze immediately took hold and spread from there\".\n\nHe added: \"As a result of [Cameron House's] failure to keep the cupboard free of combustibles, ash and embers ignited and fire spread in the main building.\"\n\nThe night manager sounded the alarm and called 999. Firefighters arrived within 10 minutes to find a \"well developed\" fire in the mansion, which is near Balloch in West Dunbartonshire.\n\nMore than 200 guests were staying in the hotel.\n\nThe court heard one family-of-three on the second floor had to be rescued by firefighters while a couple on the first floor had to crawl to safety because corridors and fire escape pathways were filling with smoke and gases.\n\nIt was after 08:00 when it was discovered that Mr Dyson, 38, and Mr Midgley, 32, were missing.\n\nFirefighters wearing breathing apparatus found Mr Dyson on a landing at the top of a staircase.\n\nMr Midgley was lying in a fire escape passageway. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.\n\nMr Dyson was taken to hospital, where he was also pronounced dead.\n\nPost-mortem examinations said the men's causes of death had been inhalation of smoke and fire gases.\n\nThe couple had travelled from London, and were staying at the five-star resort as the final stop on their winter break to Scotland.\n\nSheriff William Gallacher also heard of an incident three nights before the fatal fire, where O'Malley and another night porter were told not to put ash into plastic bags because it was a fire hazard.\n\nCameron House QC Peter Gray said it was therefore \"extremely difficult to understand\" why O'Malley did not follow this guidance on the night of the fire.\n\nThe court also heard that Cameron House staff were not properly trained in the safe disposal of ash and that no written procedures were in place.\n\nThere was also no procedure in place for emptying the metal ash bins outside the hotel on a regular basis.\n\nThat was contrary to recommendations made in two fire risk assessments carried out by an independent company in 2016 and 2017.\n\nAfter the first report was received by Cameron House management in January 2016, the resort manager agreed there was a lack of a formal procedure for disposing of ash and delegated the responsibility for this to his deputy.\n\nMr Meehan said this report \"should have been a game-changer\" for Cameron House.\n\nWhen the issue was raised again in a follow-up report a year later, managers believed it had already been dealt with.\n\nMr Gray said: \"The resort manager understood incorrectly that all the actions had been completed, including in relation to the written procedure for disposing of ash from open fires.\"\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service had also warned Cameron House managers about the risks of storing combustibles in the concierge cupboard in August 2017.\n\nThe audit highlighted the potential danger of fire spreading rapidly through the building because of its age and voids.\n\nA follow-up letter was sent to management in November 2017 - one month before the fire - but combustibles continued to be stored in the cupboard.\n\nCameron House's lawyer added that the failings were not deliberate breaches but occurred \"as a result of genuine errors\".\n\nHe also told the court the fire had gone undetected for a long period before being discovered, and that the hotel had a \"suite of measures in place\" to deal with fire safety.\n\nAn absence of formal procedures for dealing with ashes and embers gave staff the opportunity to improvise, he added.\n\nMr Gray continued: \"I am instructed to extend my deepest sympathies from the accused to the families of Mr Midgley and Mr Dyson.\n\nHe said the hotel takes its duties to ensure the safety of its guests extremely seriously.\n\nDetails of what happened at Cameron House were first revealed in court on 14 December last year, but reporting restrictions meant they could not be published until now.\n\nSentencing is due to take place on 29 January.", "Fashion chain Next has said it will no longer bid to buy Sir Philip Green's Arcadia retail brands Topshop and Topman out of administration.\n\nIt comes after a consortium including the fashion chain was named as frontrunner to buy the brands.\n\nIn a short statement, Next said the consortium had been \"unable to meet the price expectations of the vendor\".\n\nSome 13,000 jobs were put at risk when Arcadia, which also owns Burton and Dorothy Perkins, went bust in November.\n\nIt leaves a clutch of others in the race to buy the 440-store group, including Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, which owns House of Fraser and Sports Direct.\n\nAccording to reports, Authentic Brands, the US owner of the Barneys department store, and JD Sports have tabled a joint offer, while online retailers Asos and Boohoo are also said to be interested.\n\nAdministrators Deloitte have been looking for buyers for some or all of Arcadia, after a slump in sales caused by the pandemic triggered its collapse.\n\nNext, which has 550 UK shops and has weathered the pandemic well, was seen as a good fit to take over the group's assets.\n\nIt had been bidding in partnership with the US hedge fund Davidson Kempner, which was going to put up most of the money.\n\nNext said it wished \"the administrator and future owners [of Arcadia] well in their endeavours to preserve an important part of the UK retail sector\".\n\nExperts expect Arcadia to be broken up, with bidders taking on different parts of the business and brands potentially hived off from their stores.\n\nIn December, Australian collective City Chic said it would buy Arcadia's Evans brand, commerce and wholesale business for £23m but not its store network.\n\nLast year was the worst for the High Street in more than 25 years as the coronavirus accelerated the move towards online shopping, according to the Centre for Retail Research (CRR).\n\nNearly 180,000 retail jobs were lost, up by almost a quarter on the previous year, as shops faced strict curbs and prolonged closures.", "Early evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.\n\nHowever, there remains huge uncertainty around the numbers - and vaccines are still expected to work.\n\nThe data comes from mathematicians comparing death rates in people infected with either the new or the old versions of the virus.\n\nThe new more infectious variant has already spread widely across the UK.\n\nMr Johnson told a Downing Street briefing: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the south east - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\n\n\"It's largely the impact of this new variant that means the NHS is under such intense pressure.\"\n\nPublic Health England, Imperial College London, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Exeter have each been trying to assess how deadly the new variant is.\n\nTheir evidence has been assessed by scientists on the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag).\n\nThe group concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the virus had become more deadly, but this is far from certain.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser, described the data so far as \"not yet strong\".\n\nHe said: \"I want to stress that there's a lot of uncertainty around these numbers and we need more work to get a precise handle on it, but it obviously is a concern that this has an increase in mortality as well as an increase in transmissibility.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nPrevious work suggests the new variant spreads between 30% and 70% faster than others, and there are hints it is about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, with 1,000 60-year-olds infected with the old variant, 10 of them might be expected to die. But this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThis difference is found when looking at everyone testing positive for Covid, but analysing only hospital data has found no increase in the death rate. Hospital care has improved over the course of the pandemic as doctors get better at treating the disease.\n\nThe new variant was first detected in Kent in September. It is now the most common form of the virus in England and Northern Ireland, and has spread to more than 50 other countries.\n\nThe Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are both expected to work against the variant that emerged in the UK.\n\nHowever, Sir Patrick said there was more concern about two other variants that had emerged in South Africa and Brazil.\n\nHe said: \"They have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines.\n\n\"They are definitely of more concern than the one in the UK at the moment and we need to keep looking at it and studying this very carefully.\"\n\nThe prime minister said the government was prepared to take further action to protect the country's borders to prevent new variants from entering.\n\n\"I really don't rule it out, we may need to take further measures still,\" he said.\n\nLast week the government extended a travel ban to South America, Portugal and many African countries amid concerns about new variants, while all international travellers must now test negative ahead of departure to the UK and go into quarantine on arrival.", "Shoppers bought far fewer clothes last year as lockdowns meant people had less opportunity to socialise and go out.\n\nClothes sales slumped 25%, the biggest drop in 23 years when records began, official figures suggest.\n\nWhile shops have reported demand for certain clothing such as pyjamas and loungewear has risen, demand for going-out items has fallen sharply.\n\nAnd despite a pick-up in December, clothing sales remain lower than before the pandemic struck.\n\n\"With few opportunities to socialise during lockdown and many people working from home, the clothing sector has been one of the \"worst-affected by restrictions\", the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.\n\nEarlier this month, Marks & Spencer said sales of sleepwear had soared\n\nGrowing numbers of High Street shops have faced financial difficulties due to the temporary store closures imposed during lockdowns.\n\nTopshop-owner Arcadia and competitors Debenhams, Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group, Oasis and Warehouse have all slid into insolvency since lockdown measures were first imposed last March.\n\nThe inability to try clothes on in bricks-and-mortar shops, as well as restrictions on eating out meaning consumers are going out less, have all affected sales, the ONS suggested.\n\nAnd the slump in demand for fashion meant that British retail sales saw their largest annual fall on record in 2020.\n\nSales fell by 1.9% last year, when compared with 2019, the largest year-on-year fall since records began in 1997.\n\nRetail sales, including fuel, did see a small increase last month, growing by 0.3% when compared with November.\n\nIt came following the end of England's national lockdown on 2 December. Sales had slumped by 4.1% in November during a month-long shutdown.\n\nBut \"this was very clearly not a Merry Christmas for most of the High Street\", said Susannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"For most retailers it's the most crucial month of the year to get profit back on track but the large upswing in sales after the pain of the November lockdowns didn't materialise,\" she said.\n\nONS deputy national statistician for economic statistics Jonathan Athow said that some sectors, however, had been \"able to buck the trend\" last year.\n\n\"The increased popularity of click-and-collect and people buying more items from home led to a strong year for overall internet sales, with record highs for food and household goods sales online.\"\n\nIn a sign of the way the pandemic has changed shopping habits, the value of online retail sales jumped by 46.1% in 2020 when compared with 2019 - the highest annual growth reported since 2008.\n\nOnline trade now accounts for more than one-third of all retail sales.\n\nRichard Lim, chief executive of Retail Economics, explained that the rise of online had \"polarised industry performance\".\n\n\"The gap widened between those retailers with the most sophisticated online propositions from those with legacy store-dependent business models,\" he said.\n\nOnline-only retailers such as Boohoo and Asos, for example, have reported strong sales figures in 2020.\n\nSupermarkets in particular have embraced the shift to digital, with online food store sales up 79.3% last year.\n\nThere was also better news from the John Lewis Partnership, which owns Waitrose, on Friday. It said that it would return a £300m emergency coronavirus loan to the government as trading went \"better than anticipated\" over Christmas.\n\nToday's figures show just how badly the clothing sector has been affected these last 12 months.\n\nFashion is the big retail loser from this pandemic. Who needs to splash out on the latest trends when we're working from home and not going out? And even when clothing shops are open, chances are you can't try things on.\n\nWith all of the Covid-19 measures in place, the fun has been sucked out of shopping. We haven't stopped spending, but most of it is going online. Boohoo and Asos have seen very strong sales growth, for instance.\n\nThe going's far harder for retailers with large numbers of physical stores. The pressures have already taken their toll on the likes of Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group and Debenhams.\n\nAnd things may well get worse on the high street before they better. Many retailers are worried about the end of the business rates holiday and of the temporary ban on eviction for non payment of rent in April. These will result in a big increase in costs when sales have yet to fully recover.\n\nBut Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, called for more help for non-essential shops and High Street retailers who continue to be affected by lockdown restrictions.\n\n\"With no end in sight for retailers closed in lockdown, many will struggle to survive under a mounting rent burden, and a return to full business rates in April,\" she said.\n\nShe called on government to offer \"targeted\" business rates relief to businesses worst-affected by the pandemic.\n\n\"Decisive action is needed to save jobs, shops and local communities, with town and city centres looking to be particularly hard hit unless the government acts now.\"\n\nEarlier in January, a report from the Centre for Retail Research said that 2020 was the worst for High Street job losses in more than 25 years, because of the acceleration towards online shopping.\n\nNearly 180,000 retail jobs were lost last year, up by almost a quarter from 2019, it said.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool's 68-game unbeaten home run in the Premier League came to an end as Ashley Barnes fired in a late winner from the penalty spot to secure a famous victory for Burnley.\n\nBarnes was tripped in the box by goalkeeper Alisson with seven minutes remaining and converted the spot-kick as Burnley won at Anfield for the first time since 1974.\n\nLiverpool's last league loss on their own ground came nearly four years ago, against Crystal Palace in April 2017, and they are now six points behind leaders Manchester United at the midway point in the campaign.\n\nDivock Origi was given his first start of the season and should have scored when he ran free on goal after pouncing on Ben Mee's error but struck the crossbar.\n\nThe hosts pushed to find the net in the second half but ran out of ideas, Nick Pope making a stunning save to deny Mohamed Salah and fellow substitute Roberto Firmino flicking an effort wide.\n\nBurnley's shock win lifts them up to 16th in the table, seven points clear of the relegation zone.\n• None Klopp takes blame but what has happened to Liverpool?\n\nJurgen Klopp said before the game he was \"not worried\" by his side's poor run, but the latest setback means this has now turned into a real problem for the Liverpool manager.\n\nAfter 19 games, Liverpool are out of form and out of confidence, failing to find the net in their last 440 minutes of top-flight action and awaiting their first league victory of 2021.\n\nThey looked to be hitting their stride on 19 December when they took apart Crystal Palace 7-0, but have not won in the league since and scored just a solitary league goal in that time, against relegation strugglers West Brom.\n\nTheir drop-off from the same stage last season is extraordinary - after 19 games last term the Reds were 13 points clear at the top with 55 points, but they have 21 fewer points now.\n\nAside from Pope's save to thwart Salah and stops from Origi and Trent Alexander-Arnold, Liverpool did not look a side who were threatening to find the net.\n\nThey had 72% possession but much of it was slow and ponderous, and although they had spaces out wide and put 30 crosses into the box, the resolute Burnley defenders headed and hacked clear every ball that came in.\n\nLiverpool won 18 of 19 league games at Anfield as they cantered to the title last term.\n\nBurnley were the spoilers on that occasion - earning a 1-1 draw in July 2020 - and they bettered that showing here with another solid and well-organised display.\n\nCaptain Mee had 14 clearances and made two tackles, while centre-back partner James Tarkowski contributed five interceptions and won the ball back four times.\n\nBurnley are a well-drilled outfit and know their limitations, happy to sit back and soak up the pressure before looking to take their chances on the counter-attack.\n\nThey had sniffs on the break but were unable to get the final ball right and while Barnes forced an excellent save out of Alisson, the assistant referee's flag would have ruled it out.\n\nThey remain the lowest scorers in the league with just 10 goals - level with bottom side Sheffield United - but their defensive solidity means they will always pose a threat, even to the biggest teams.\n\n'We dealt with the basics' - manager reaction\n\nBurnley boss Sean Dyche to Match of the Day: \"Performance, we had to work very hard, as you do in these places, be diligent and do your jobs - shape was good, energy was good.\n\n\"We had a golden chance, kept searching, but you have to deal with the basics and we did that very well.\n\n\"We were close last year, you get a feel of a performance and I said 'you are used to playing against these players, working without the ball, there's always a chance and you have to take it'. Barnsey sticks it in there, gets a toe, it's a penalty and he sticks it away very well.\"\n• None This was Burnley's second Premier League win away against the reigning champions (also v Chelsea in August 2017). Indeed, since the 2017-18 season, Burnley are the only side with two away league wins over the reigning English champions.\n• None Liverpool have gone four league games without scoring for the first time since May 2000. The Reds have had a total of 87 shots since Sadio Mane's 12th-minute strike against West Brom, 25 days ago.\n• None This is the first time a Jurgen Klopp side has gone four league games without scoring since his Mainz side did so in the Bundesliga from November to December 2006.\n• None Liverpool have gone five Premier League games without a win (D3 L2) for only the second time under Klopp (also from Jan-Feb 2017).\n• None Liverpool have conceded two penalty goals at Anfield in this season's Premier League (also Sander Berge for Sheff Utd); they had only conceded two penalty goals at the ground under Klopp before 2020-21.\n• None Liverpool had 27 shots without scoring against Burnley, the most they have had in a single league match without finding the net since April 2013 v Reading (28), and most at Anfield since April 2012 v West Brom (30).\n• None Ashley Barnes' penalty for Burnley was his first away goal in the Premier League in 11 appearances on the road, since netting against Watford back in November 2019.\n• None Since the start of last season, no goalkeeper has made more saves against a single opponent in the Premier League than Burnley's Nick Pope against Liverpool (19). Pope has made 14 saves in his last two games at Anfield, including six tonight.\n\nLiverpool have another big game on Sunday against rivals Manchester United in the FA Cup. That game is live on the BBC (17:00 GMT). Burnley travel to Fulham in the same competition on the same day (14:30).\n• None Offside, Burnley. Dwight McNeil tries a through ball, but Chris Wood is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Takumi Minamino (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Dwight McNeil (Burnley) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Ashley Barnes.\n• None Attempt blocked. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold.\n• None Attempt missed. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Sadio Mané with a cross.\n• None Joel Matip (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sadio Mané.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 0, Burnley 1. Ashley Barnes (Burnley) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Alisson (Liverpool) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt blocked. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Andrew Robertson. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "Nissan's car plant in Sunderland is the UK's biggest and employs 6,000 people directly\n\nJapanese car maker Nissan has told the BBC its Sunderland plant is secure for the long term as a result of the trade deal reached between the UK and the EU.\n\nIt said it will move additional battery production close to the plant where it has 6,000 direct employees and supports nearly 70,000 jobs in the supply chain.\n\nCurrently, the batteries in its Leaf electric cars are imported from Japan.\n\nNissan would not confirm if this would mean additional jobs at Sunderland, which is the UK's largest car plant.\n\nManufacturing the more powerful batteries in the UK will ensure its cars comply with trade rules agreed with the EU requiring at least 55% of the car's value to be derived from either the UK or the EU to qualify for zero tariffs when exported to the EU.\n\nSome 70% of the cars made in Sunderland are exported and the vast majority of them are sold in the EU.\n\nNissan had issued stark warnings last year that if the UK left the EU without a trade deal, the resulting tariffs on cars and components would make the Sunderland plant \"unsustainable\".\n\nNissan's chief operating officer Ashwani Gupta told the BBC: \"The Brexit deal is positive for Nissan. Being the largest automaker in the UK we are taking this opportunity to redefine auto-making in the UK.\n\nNissan's Ashwani Gupta said the Brexit deal had created a 'competitive environment'\n\n\"It has created a competitive environment for Sunderland, not just inside the UK but outside as well.\n\n\"We've decided to localise the manufacture of the 62kWh battery in Sunderland so that all our products qualify [for tariff-free export to the EU]. We are committed to Sunderland for the long term under the business conditions that have been agreed.\"\n\nIt came as Nissan paused one of its two production lines in Sunderland on Friday as disruption at ports caused by the pandemic affected its supply chain.\n\nThe company said the move would affect the line which produces the Qashqai and Leaf, but work would resume next week.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng welcomed the firm's endorsement of Sunderland as a manufacturing base.\n\n\"Nissan's decision represents a genuine belief in Britain and a huge vote of confidence in our economy thanks to the certainty our trade deal with the EU delivers,\" he said.\n\n\"For the dedicated and highly-skilled workforce in Sunderland, it means the city will be home to Nissan's latest models for years to come and positions the company to capitalise on the wealth of benefits that will flow from electric vehicle production.\"\n\nIt's particularly welcome after the more guarded comments from the boss of Vauxhall's parent company last week.\n\nSpeaking as the tie-up between Fiat Chrsyler and Peugeot Citroen was christened with new umbrella name Stellantis, boss Carlos Tavares said that the future of its Ellesmere Port plant depended on the support the UK government was prepared to offer after its decision to ban sales of new petrol and diesel cars after 2030.\n\n\"If you change, brutally, the rules and if you restrict the rules for business then there is at one point in time a problem,\" he said.\n\nLooking forward, he said it would make more sense to locate an electric vehicle factory closer to the larger EU market.\n\nIndustry voices welcomed the news from Nissan but reinforced the message from Vauxhall's owners that the government needs to do more to secure the future of the car industry as it electrifies.\n\n\"This is obviously good news and will help the Nissan Leaf avoid any future tariffs, but we are going to need to see a lot more investment in battery production in the UK if we are to preserve the UK as a car manufacturer and exporter,\" said Professor David Bailey of Warwick University.\n\nThe head of trade body the Society for Motor Manufacturers and Traders agreed.\n\n\"The battery plant in Sunderland may be enough for Nissan's near-term plans to build tens of thousands of electric cars but the UK made 1.5 million cars last year and all will be partly electric by 2030,\" Mike Hawes said.\n\nAndy Palmer, former boss of Aston Martin and current chairman of electric bus maker Switch Mobility, has gone further. He says that 800,000 jobs are at risk if the UK government doesn't act now to foster battery investment.\n\n\"Without electric vehicle batteries made in the UK, the country's auto industry risks becoming an antiquated relic and overtaken by China, Japan, America and Europe.\"\n\nHe urged the UK government to use every lever at its disposal to make the UK attractive.\n\nUK car investment has fallen sharply since the UK voted to leave the EU.\n\nIn the five years to 2016 it averaged £3.5bn per year. In the four years since it has averaged around £1bn - a fall of 71% at a time when the technology and map of car production are going through their biggest revolution since the car was invented.\n\nThe Nissan decision is therefore a very welcome boost to the UK which is in an international scramble for the investment of the future which is happening right now.", "Police warned that unsanctioned protests would be \"immediately suppressed\"\n\nRussian police have detained close aides of the jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny, as a string of nationwide protests gets under way.\n\nPolice have broken up demonstrations in the eastern Khabarovsk region, amid stern warnings for people to stay home.\n\nMr Navalny's supporters flooded social media with calls to rally at protests expected in dozens of cities later.\n\nHe is Russian leader Vladimir Putin's most high-profile critic.\n\nHe was arrested last Sunday after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Russia last August.\n\nOn his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. He says it is a trumped-up case designed to silence him.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alexei Navalny was filmed by the BBC saying goodbye to his wife and then being led away by authorities\n\nMore than 60m people have watched his new video about President Vladimir Putin's alleged luxury Black Sea palace.\n\nThe Kremlin denies the property belongs to the president.\n\nAmong those detained in Moscow on Thursday were his spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, and one of his lawyers, Lyubov Sobol. They face fines or short jail terms.\n\nMs Sobol, who has a young child, was later released. But Ms Yarmysh has now been jailed for nine days.\n\nProminent Navalny activists are also being held in the cities of Vladivostok, Novosibirsk and Krasnodar.\n\nUnauthorised rallies are being planned in more than 60 cities across Russia for Saturday. Moscow police say any unauthorised demonstrations and provocations will be \"immediately suppressed\".\n\nA thousand people were reported to have come onto the streets in the Khabarovsk region, with some of them already detained.\n\nMr Navalny's wife Yulia, who travelled back to Russia with him from Germany, said she would demonstrate in Moscow \"for myself, for him, for our children, for the values and the ideals that we share\".\n\nAlexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) has drawn millions of followers on social media, through slickly produced videos alleging large-scale official corruption. He has long denounced Mr Putin's administration as \"feudal\" and full of \"crooks and thieves\".\n\nFor a long time the Russian authorities made out that Alexei Navalny was irrelevant. Just a blogger. With a tiny following. No threat whatsoever.\n\nRecent events suggest the opposite. First Mr Navalny was targeted with a nerve agent, allegedly by a secret group of FSB state security hitmen. Instead of investigating the poisoning, Russia is investigating him: on his return from Germany the Kremlin critic was arrested.\n\nHaving put Mr Navalny behind bars, the authorities are putting pressure on his supporters. The Kremlin's greatest fear is of a Ukraine-style revolution in Russia that would sweep away those in power.\n\nThere's no indication that such a scenario is imminent. But with economic problems growing, the Kremlin will worry that Mr Navalny could act as a lightning rod for protest sentiment. That explains the police crackdown on Navalny allies ahead of Saturday's potential protests.\n\nPlus, this is getting personal. Mr Navalny's video about \"Putin's Palace\" on the Black Sea was designed to cause maximum embarrassment to the Russian president.\n\nIn the \"Putin's palace\" video Mr Navalny alleges that rich businessmen close to Mr Putin paid for a sumptuous 17,691sq m (190,424sq ft) palace for him at Gelendzhik, by the Black Sea.\n\nIt is alleged to have a casino, a theatre and many other comforts, including a vineyard and tea house in the sprawling grounds. The Kremlin dismissed the YouTube video as a \"pseudo-investigation\" aimed at earning money for Mr Navalny.\n\nProsecutors have warned people against protesting in support of Mr Navalny on Saturday. Russia's education ministry has told parents not to allow their children to attend.\n\nSome Russian celebrities in the arts and sports have pledged support for Mr Navalny. They include ice hockey star Artemi Panarin.\n\nFormer world chess champion Garry Kasparov - now a leading anti-Putin activist based in the US - tweeted that pro-Navalny posts were being widely blocked in Russia.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Garry Kasparov This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a phone call to President Putin on Friday, EU Council President Charles Michel voiced \"grave concern\" about the jailing of Mr Navalny.\n\nMr Michel said the EU was \"united in its call on Russia to swiftly release Mr Navalny and proceed with the investigation into the assassination attempt on him, in full transparency and without further delay\".\n\nIn October, the EU imposed sanctions on six top Russian officials and a Russian chemical weapons research centre over the Novichok poisoning of Mr Navalny.\n\nThe Kremlin retaliated with tit-for-tat sanctions, denying any role in the attack and rejecting the expert finding that the Russian nerve agent had been used.\n\nThe Black Sea palace allegedly features a casino, an ice rink and a vineyard\n\nThe social media app TikTok has a flood of videos from Russians promoting the protests planned for Saturday. The messages about Mr Navalny have been going viral for several days.\n\nA well-known Russian TikTok user, Slava Varfolomeyev, told BBC Russian: \"I go on TikTok and find that every third video is about 'Putin's palace', the detention of Navalny and the 23 January rally!\"\n\nHe said that on Thursday \"this swelled to a maximum: practically seven out of every 10 videos were on that topic [Navalny]\". TikTok's popularity is based on short-form videos.\n\nOn Wednesday Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, demanded that TikTok take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\", threatening large fines.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\nSerious flooding which forced villagers from their homes was potentially caused by a mine shaft \"blow out\" during Storm Christoph, authorities have said.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated as water rushed through Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, on Thursday.\n\nResidents have been told they will not be able to return home this weekend or \"possibly longer\".\n\nThe Coal Authority said initial checks suggested water had built up in the shaft and flooded the village.\n\nCarl Banton, from the Coal Authority, said there had been a \"tremendous amount\" of rain recently and potentially a blockage in the drainage system could have caused the mine shaft to \"blow out\".\n\nMr Banton reassured people that officers had visually checked other mine shafts in the area and were \"not concerned\" any would collapse.\n\n\"The mine shaft in question is the one that was on actually on the water level, it has found its point of weakness,\" he said.\n\nCarl Banton said that while investigations were ongoing heavy rain may have overwhelmed the mine shaft\n\nA major incident was declared as water rushed into the village on Thursday, leaving eight streets underwater as Storm Christoph caused widespread flooding across Wales.\n\nOn Friday, as firefighters continued to pump water out of the village, Natural Resources Wales (NRW) confirmed the Tennant Canal had been polluted \"from mine water\".\n\nLate on Friday evening, Neath Port Talbot council said, for safety reasons, people forced to leave their homes would \"not be able to return home this weekend, and the wait could possibly longer\".\n\nA support centre will open at Abbey Primary School from Saturday, with council officers on site to help people access emergency support.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Coal Authority, which manages the effects of historical coal mining, are investigating the cause of the flooding.\n\nMr Banton said initial findings showed there may have been a build-up of water on the hillside which had \"found its way out\" through the mine shaft, flooding the village.\n\n\"The flow appears to be subsiding... but what we are unsure of is if there is a feed of additional water into the mine workings, from the extensive mine workings on the hillside,\" he added.\n\nAt least 80 people have had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nMr Banton said officers would drill down into the shaft and investigate on Saturday, in the hope that people could soon be allowed back into their homes.\n\n\"A lot of the mining in this area is very old... some of it dates back to the early 1800s... we have no details of how the shaft in question here was originally filled or capped,\" he said.\n\n\"We will ensure the mine shaft is properly capped and sorted out.\"\n\nMartyn Evans, of NRW, said officers were looking at how to minimise the risk of pollution to nearby rivers, and investigating any impacts on the River Neath.\n\n\"We have also carried out tests on other watercourses in the vicinity of the incident. Results indicate there has been no significant impact on those at present,\" he said.\n\nOn Thursday night a further 20 homes were evacuated by emergency services as the water continued to rush through the village.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford confirmed on Friday financial support would be made available to people affected by the recent floods, up to £1,000 per household.\n\n\"This is the same level of support available a year ago when storms Ciara and Dennis hit Wales, just before the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nThe water is warmer than the air and is creating a mist along Dynevor Road\n\nSkewen resident John Thomas said he returned home from a funeral with wife Lynne on Thursday to find their house had turned into \"a lake\", he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\nHe said: \"The water was around the level of the bottom of the doors so we couldn't go in, so we just had to stand there and watch this orange-coloured water just piling up and up and up.\"\n\nMr Thomas said that with water up to his waist, he was unable to get in to rescue possessions.\n\nHe added: \"We're in a bit of a dip on the road, so you could see it gradually coming up, they were worried it might have been a sinkhole because of the coal mines.\n\n\"It's definitely mine workings, just by looking at the colour of the water, it's an orange colour.\n\n\"Other people who were evacuated had the chance to move things upstairs, I didn't have a chance to do that because I couldn't get in to it.\"\n\nThe couple are now staying with their daughter, with everyone else who was evacuated from their homes finding accommodation and told to avoid the area.\n\nMore than 30 residents of Cwrt-Clwydi-Gwyn care home were among those moved as a precaution.\n\nIt was a sleepless night for Skewen resident Teresa Dalling\n\nTeresa Dalling, who lives in Dynevor Road, said she had spent the night fearing for her safety.\n\n\"I haven't slept. I was up the back door every two hours checking the water level,\" she said.\n\n\"I didn't know we lived near old mines and if there's been a collapse, my fear is more could follow and that's terrifying.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Stephen Kinnock This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nUp to 45 firefighters were involved at the scene at the height of the flooding.\n\nIn a joint statement, the police, fire service and Neath Port Talbot Council urged people not to return to their homes until it was safe.\n\nCh Supt Trudi Meyrick said: \"We appreciate people are eager to get back to their homes and we are working with partners to allow this to happen as soon as it is safe to do so.\n\n\"In the meantime we ask people to please be patient as their safety is our top priority.\"\n\nIn one home, floodwater can be seen filling the living room\n\nFirefighters are continuing to pump water out of the village where people were forced to leave their homes\n\nDeputy Chief Fire Officer Roger Thomas, of Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service, said firefighters remained in the village, pumping out water.\n\nHe said: \"We will continue to monitor the situation and support our partner agencies and those affected over the next few days.\"\n\nHomes were evacuated at Goshen Park, in Skewen\n\nNeath Port Talbot council said a local rest centre was available, and measures had been put in place to protect against Covid-19.\n\nChief executive Karen Jones said they would continue to support residents who had to leave their homes and they would ensure others had a safe place to go if further evacuations were necessary.\n\nNetwork Rail said engineers had checked for any potential damage to the railway line, but had found no \"cause for concern\".\n\nThe water has rushed through the streets of the town\n\nA severe flood warning remains in force for the Lower Dee Valley, from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows.\n\nThree flood warnings are in place for the River Wye at Monmouth, River Ritec at Tenby, and Bangor-on-Dee, where people were forced to leave their homes on Thursday as flooding saw a major incident declared. Eleven flood alerts are also in place.\n\nSnow and ice could also exacerbate issues for emergency services and those forced to leave their homes, with temperatures forecast to plummet in coming days.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nFive-time finalist Andy Murray will miss the Australian Open after a solution to find a \"workable quarantine\" following his positive test for coronavirus could not be found.\n\nThe 33-year-old Briton was set to fly out to Melbourne last week, but was not allowed to travel on a charter flight after being found to have Covid-19.\n\nThe former world number one had hoped to travel safely and compete as planned on the back of a negative test.\n\nMurray said he was \"gutted\" not to go.\n\nHe was asymptomatic and is now out of self-isolation, but finding a way for him to travel to Australia and then going into quarantine before the tournament starts on 8 February proved too difficult.\n\n\"We've been in constant dialogue with Tennis Australia to try and find a solution which would allow some form of workable quarantine, but we couldn't make it work,\" said Murray.\n\n\"I want to thank everyone there for their efforts. I'm devastated not to be playing out in Australia. It's a country and tournament that I love.\"\n\nMurray was able to play only seven official matches in 2020 because of a lingering pelvic injury, and the five-month suspension of the tours because of the pandemic.\n\nAt 123rd in the world, he was ranked too low to gain direct entry into Australian Open so the three-time Grand Slam champion was given a wildcard.\n\nThe Australian Open at Melbourne Park is starting three weeks later than usual because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nPlayers had to test negative before taking one of the 15 chartered flights - which were put on last week by tournament organisers and operated at 25% capacity - to Australia.\n\nOn arrival, the players and their support staff went straight into a 14-day quarantine under the conditions imposed by the Australian government.\n\nThat agreement allowed them out of their rooms for up to five hours a day for food and practice.\n\nHowever, 72 players have been confined to their rooms in a tougher quarantine - which led to some complaints and creative ways of staying fit - after they travelled on three flights where positive cases were found on arrival.\n\nHaving missed his flight to Melbourne, and therefore last weekend's window for the players to begin 14 days of quarantine, Murray was always up against it.\n\nThere are no health issues, and no injury concerns, and Murray had been hoping he could make it to Australia to complete quarantine in time to play a first-round match on either 8 or 9 February.\n\nBut the only \"workable quarantine\" would have included five hours out of his room every day. This was no longer available, and no player - irrespective of age or injury history - would want to play a Grand Slam first-round match just hours after two weeks in a hotel room.\n\nMurray is understandably devastated: he knows that at 33, and with two hip operations behind him, he cannot guarantee there will be another opportunity.\n\nBut it would have been a long way to travel potentially to lose in the first round, and receiving a special exemption may not have sat well with Murray over time.\n\nInstead, he will work with his team on his next move. Montpellier and Rotterdam are the next two ATP tournaments in Europe, although nothing is easy with Covid travel restrictions.\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "Jane Midgley says she needs answers about the death of her son, Simon\n\nThe mother of a man killed in a fire at a hotel on the shores of Loch Lomond more than two years ago has said it is \"torture\" not knowing why he died.\n\nSimon Midgley, 32, and Richard Dyson, 38, died in the fire which fire broke out at the Cameron House Hotel in 2017.\n\nJane Midgley said she needs answers about what led to Simon's death.\n\nThe Crown Office said it was committed to ensuring the circumstances around the deaths were aired in an \"appropriate legal forum\".\n\nMs Midgley said every day without answers was like the day she found out about his death.\n\n\"I just live it every single day and I can't cope with it much longer,\" she said. \"I need to know why they are not here and it's so difficult.\n\n\"I need answers. Why are these boys not here anymore? Why did this happen? Nearly three years on, no one is telling me.\"\n\nRichard Dyson and Simon Midgley were thought to be on a winter break in Scotland\n\nShe told BBC Scotland she wakes up during the night thinking about her son, asking herself \"has this really happened?\".\n\n\"Nearly three years on, should I still be feeling this hurt and pain?\"\n\nAfter the fire, the emergency services conducted investigations.\n\nWhile this can be a lengthy process, reports from the fire service and the police were passed to the Crown months ago.\n\nMs Midgley criticised prosecutors for not providing her with more information. She added she thinks they should be in contact with her more regularly than every four weeks.\n\nShe said: \"When the Crown say that they regularly update the family and are in regular contact that is always to say... 'it's still ongoing', 'we'll update you with anything significant', 'it's complicated'.\"\n\nShe added that there were many questions she still wanted answers to.\n\n\"The most important thing is finding out why Simon couldn't get out of that hotel that night - what went wrong. I have no idea, I've got to understand, I just need the answers.\n\n\"I need to know how it happened. I need to know why the boys didn't get out of that hotel when it was on fire, how it started, where it started, why they could not get out, could it have been prevented... it is pure torture.\"\n\nFire broke out at the Cameron House hotel in 2017\n\nMr Midgley was a freelance writer with the Evening Standard. Following his death the newspaper's editor, George Osbourne, paid tribute to Mr Midgley's \"adventurous spirit\".\n\nA spokesman for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service said: \"Our staff have been in regular contact with the nearest relatives and provided them with information at every stage.\n\n\"The information that can be shared while a case is being investigated is limited so as not to prejudice any potential proceedings.\n\n\"The Crown‎ is committed to ensuring that the facts and circumstances surrounding the deaths of Simon Midgley and Richard Dyson are thoroughly investigated by the relevant agencies, fully considered by COPFS and, in due course, aired in an appropriate legal forum.\n\n\"The nearest relatives will continue to be kept updated in relation to any significant developments.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Amy says her flat isn't worth anything until it is made safe\n\nThe government's fund to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding is woefully inadequate, oversubscribed and taking too long to make buildings safe, campaigners say.\n\nMore than three and a half years since the Grenfell Tower fire which killed 72 people, an estimated 700,000 people are still living in high-rise blocks with flammable cladding.\n\nThe £1.6bn Building Safety Programme was set up in 2019. Concerns have emerged about the contract that the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government requires applicants to the fund, usually managing agents or building owners, to sign.\n\nA clause in the contract, seen by the BBC, indicates applicants will be financially liable for any repair work not covered by the fund.\n\nThe BBC has learnt that some managing agents are refusing to sign the document, further delaying the repair work, and have written to the government asking ministers to clarify the position.\n\nChristian Hansen, a solicitor at Bindmans LLP specialising in housing law and fire safety claims, said the contract showed that \"there's going to be a significant shortfall between the costs of the [repair] works that are required and the funding provided under the scheme\".\n\n\"Someone is going to need to pick up the bill and pay the difference. This contract makes clear it's going to be the leaseholders and for many, this could be tens of thousands of pounds, potentially ruinous costs,\" he warned.\n\nMr Hansen said that leaseholders wanted the focus of government action \"to be on the manufacturers of the defective materials and construction companies who built these buildings\".\n\n\"At the moment, they are the ones profiting from putting people's lives at risk.\"\n\n\"It is absolutely terrifying knowing that you are stuck here,\" says Amy\n\nFirst-time buyer Amy Cottenden, who is 28, bought a one-bed flat in Metis Tower in the centre of Sheffield for £85,000 in 2017.\n\nInspections of the 14-storey building in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy revealed it had the same type of flammable ACM cladding and other safety faults.\n\nWork to remove the cladding started last month, but Ms Cottenden, who is a frontline NHS health worker, is frustrated at what she describes as a lack of progress.\n\n\"The pace of work is extremely slow. So far, they've put scaffolding up and removed three panels. They have told us it's going to take between 12 and 24 months just to take the cladding off,\" she said.\n\n\"It is absolutely terrifying knowing that you are stuck here. With lockdown, they are saying not to go out, but you are in a building where all you want to do is not be in it. You can't leave. You can't sell. My flat isn't worth anything until it is made safe.\"\n\nWhile the government's Building Safety Fund is paying for the Grenfell-style cladding to be removed, the building has other fire safety faults, including missing fire breaks, that aren't covered by the scheme.\n\nIt could cost up to £6m to fix. Flat owners fear they may face huge bills of up to £50,000 each.\n\n\"We can't pay it and we shouldn't have to pay it. It is not our fault. We could all go bankrupt because of this,\" Ms Cottenden said.\n\nA spokesperson for Rendall & Rittner, the company which manages Metis Tower, said government funding to remove ACM cladding had been approved totalling £6.3m.\n\nHowever, an application to the same fund to pay for the removal of other types of unsafe cladding was rejected and the company has appealed against that decision.\n\nThe company added: \"We understand and sympathise with residents and owners about the uncertainty that this situation is causing and will do all we can to assist.\"\n\nWhat started as a cladding scandal has now become a much wider building safety crisis, exposing decades of regulatory failure.\n\nSafety inspections have revealed that many buildings have other serious faults, including missing fire breaks, flammable balconies and defective insulation. None of that is covered by the government's Building Safety Fund.\n\nDr Nigel Glen, the chief executive of ARMA, the trade association for residential leasehold management, said the additional costs that leaseholders were currently facing for non-cladding-related issues remained a huge concern.\n\n\"In the longer term, the draining of reserve funds will also mean that in the years to come, any major works that were being saved up for, such as a new roof or lift repairs, will have to be funded anew by the leaseholders,\" he added.\n\nA spokesperson for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said that despite the pandemic, significant progress had been made to remove dangerous cladding, but \"building safety remains the responsibility of the building owner and we expect them to ensure any necessary work is carried out safely and effectively\".\n\n\"All applicants to the Building Safety Fund are told the amount of funding they have been awarded before being asked to sign contracts - this is clearly explained in the guidance,\" the spokesperson added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This is the moment a police officer broke up a house party on Saturday\n\nA minority still breaking Covid lockdown rules could make the pandemic \"stretch longer\" in Wales, a senior police officer has warned.\n\nThe \"gold commander\" for policing lockdown across the Gwent force area said he wanted to thank the vast majority for sticking to the law.\n\nBut Chief Superintendent Mark Hobrough said those \"blatantly flouting\" rules would face enforcement action.\n\nNearly 3,800 fines have been issued in Wales for Covid rule breaches.\n\nThe latest figures released by UK police forces revealed nearly three-quarters of those fines went to men, and the largest group falling foul of Covid rules were aged between 18 and 24.\n\nCh Supt Hobrough, who oversees Gwent Police's response to Covid-19, said he and his officers had seen a change in the way the public responded to the restrictions since the first lockdown was announced in March 2020.\n\n\"When it first started there was certainly a lack of understanding among the public,\" he said.\n\n\"We were called for advice and questions on what was allowed or not allowed, which we've certainly seen diminish.\"\n\nHe said initially his force was dealing with breaches of regulations by pubs and bars, or people holding house parties.\n\n\"That has changed over time. We still have experiences of house parties and people congregating in houses, which just isn't allowed obviously.\n\n\"But I think we are also seeing breaches in relation to people congregating in beauty spots and maybe not exercising in line with the requirements.\"\n\nAccording to the National Police Chiefs' Council, there were 3,770 fixed penalty notices issues by the four Welsh forces between the last Friday in March and 20 December last year.\n\nOf those fines, 2,188 were for breaching rules on movement restrictions, while 823 faced penalties for gathering in private properties outside their own households.\n\nA further 113 notices were issued to individuals for staying in Wales when it was not their main residence, and 89 were hit with fines for entering or leaving local health protection areas, when many counties in Wales had separate travel restrictions in place in the autumn.\n\nThe figures also reveal that just two fines were issued in the period for failing to wear a face covering in designated indoor areas.\n\nSgt Dan Wise says enforcement is sometimes the only option for his team\n\nOut on the streets of Newport, and around the rest of the Gwent force area, the officers on the ground said they wanted to educate the public whenever rules changed, but they will enforce clear breaches.\n\n\"Some of the things people have been stopped for are travelling into Wales to look at the snow,\" said Sgt Dan Wise, as he carried out checks on motorists in Newport.\n\n\"Others are travelling to local beauty spots to exercise. Obviously, these are things that are not acceptable.\"\n\nHe said as the pandemic continues, with high numbers of cases and given how easily the virus can spread, \"we will look to enforce where people are blatantly flouting the rules\".\n\nAt the Gwent Police headquarters, Ch Supt Hobrough said he had this message for the minority of \"those people who aren't abiding\" by the rules: \"It would very much be within everybody's interest for them to reflect on the way they are conducting themselves.\n\n\"Because that minority of people who aren't abiding are possibly making this pandemic stretch longer.\"\n• None Coronavirus legislation and guidance on the law - GOV.WALES The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "David and Victoria Beckham have paid themselves £21m from their sports and media business since 2019, according to the their latest accounts.\n\nThis is despite continued heavy losses at Ms Beckham's fashion business, where trade has worsened during the pandemic.\n\nProfit at David Beckham Ventures Limited (DBVL), the brand management firm owned by the former footballer and his wife, fell £3.5m to £11.3m in 2019.\n\nThis was in part due to money spent on expansion and charitable donations.\n\nHowever, the celebrity couple still paid themselves a £14.5m dividend at the end of 2019, accounts show, and took a further £7.1m in 2020.\n\nA spokesman attributed the payments to \"profitable performance\" at DBVL, which among other things manages Mr Beckham's strategic partnerships with Adidas and Haig Club whisky.\n\nHe also noted that the company's revenue climbed by £600,000 in 2019 to £16.2m.\n\nHowever, Victoria Beckham Holdings (VBHL), which manages the former Spice Girl's fashion label, fared much worse during that time.\n\nLosses at the business - which is also backed by the Beckhams' former business partner Simon Fuller and private equity firm NEO investment Partners - widened to £16.6m during the year, following a loss of £12.5m in 2018.\n\nIt marked the seventh year the brand has been in the red since it was founded in 2008.\n\nVBHL blamed costs associated with the launch of the Victoria Beckham Beauty business, a new cosmetics range in which the group has an 85% shareholding.\n\nIt also noted that total sales across the whole business were up by 7% in 2019.\n\nNevertheless, auditors BDO, who signed off on the accounts, warned that the business was now reliant on shareholder support to keep going which could \"cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern\".\n\nAs the pandemic hammered the business last April, VBHL had to borrow £9.2m from its shareholders to repay an outstanding bank loan to HSBC after breaking its debt covenants.\n\nVBHL said it was doing all it could to \"navigate\" the coronavirus crisis, including taking \"all actions possible to conserve cash\".\n\n\"All non-essential expenditure is being deferred and hiring freezes have been implemented for open positions.to enable the company to navigate through this pandemic,\" it said.", "The company said its milk processing was highly automated with no risk to the products caused by the virus outbreak\n\nOne worker at a dairy has died after contracting coronavirus and 95 others are self-isolating.\n\nMuller Milk & Ingredients said 47 staff members who work at the company's dairy near Bridgwater, Somerset, have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nIt said it was now testing all 300 workers at its site in North Petherton.\n\nA spokesman for the firm said the safety of its products had not been affected by the outbreak at its factory.\n\nIt was working with Public Health England and the council to help with mass testing, he added.\n\nThe employee was taken to hospital but died. The firm said its thoughts were with the worker's family and friends.\n\nProduction has since been reduced at the site.\n\nThe spokesman added: \"It is important to stress that fresh milk processing is highly automated ensuring no risk to products, with our Bridgwater facility one of the most modern dairies in the UK.\n\n\"As we have done throughout the pandemic, we are placing the safety of our employees first and following best practice as set down by the Health and Safety Executive.\n\n\"Standard measures in place include the use of facemasks, distancing, enhanced deep cleaning and hygiene, underpinned by a programme of e-learning, information and audits to ensure compliance and awareness of the measures.\"\n\nSomerset County Council said it was working closely with Public Health England and the factory and that further testing was being done throughout Thursday.\n\n\"The [council's] rapid outbreak testing team is carrying out further workforce testing today, for workers who were not present on Monday shifts.\n\n\"The testing on Monday identified a number of staff who were positive but asymptomatic, who are now isolating,\" a spokesman said.", "Elizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien were married moments before he was put on a mechanical ventilator\n\nAn engaged couple taken to hospital in the same ambulance with Covid-19 were able to marry moments before the man was sedated and put on a ventilator.\n\nElizabeth Kerr, 31, and Simon O'Brien, 36, were taken to Milton Keynes University Hospital with breathing difficulties on 9 January.\n\nStaff rallied to arrange a wedding as the groom's condition worsened.\n\nThey held off intubating Mr O'Brien so the ceremony could go ahead. The couple are now recovering in hospital.\n\nMrs Kerr, a nurse, and Mr O'Brien had planned to marry in June.\n\nBoth contracted the disease and were taken to hospital together when their oxygen levels fell dangerously low.\n\nThey were placed on separate wards but when Mrs Kerr told nurse Hannah Cannon about their wedding plans, she asked her if they would like to marry in the hospital.\n\nMrs Kerr said she was told it could be their only chance.\n\n\"Those are words I never, ever want to hear again,\" she said.\n\nA photo on Mrs Kerr's phone shows the wedding took place in the beds of the intensive care unit\n\nHowever, while staff were securing the wedding licence, Mr O'Brien's condition further deteriorated and on 12 January he was placed on the intensive care unit, to be put on a ventilator.\n\nThey waited to intubate him just long enough for the ceremony to go ahead.\n\nMs Cannon said: \"With lots of teamwork... we were able to give them a wedding, not necessarily the wedding that they would have initially intended, but certainly something positive, remarkable and memorable for them to really hold on to.\"\n\nShe filmed the marriage for the couple's families and friends, and catering staff at the hospital provided a cake.\n\nShortly after saying \"I do\", Mr O'Brien was placed on the ventilator.\n\nThe couple have now been reunited on a recovery ward and were able to kiss for the first time since being married.\n\nMrs Kerr said having the wedding meant \"everything\" to them.\n\n\"If we hadn't had each other and we hadn't been given that opportunity to get married, I don't think both of us would be here now,\" she added.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The White House has just put out a statement marking the 48th anniversary of Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court decision that essentially legalised the right to abortion.\n\n\"In the past four years, reproductive health, including the right to choose, has been under relentless and extreme attack,\" the statement from Biden and Harris begins .\n\nThey go on to say they are committed to \"codifying\" the judgement, which means pass legislation through Congress that enshrines abortion access into law.\n\nThey will also appoint judges who will support abortion access, they say. Trump, during his time in office, was able to give the Supreme Court a conservative majority, making anti-abortion activists hopeful that Roe v Wade could eventually be overturned.\n\nBiden was the only candidate during the primary to say he endorsed the so-called Hyde Amendment, which says that no federal funds can go towards abortions. After nearly all 22 other candidates came out against the Hyde Amendment, he reversed his stance.\n\nAlthough abortion is technically legal across the US, multiple states have instituted laws that make it nearly impossible in practice. Abortion activists hope that a law would make it more difficult for local governments to restrict access.", "Michelle O'Neill and Arlene Foster were advised restrictions may have to remain in place until after Easter\n\nCoronavirus lockdown restrictions in Northern Ireland will be extended until 5 March, the first and deputy first ministers have said.\n\nThe executive backed the health minister's proposal on Thursday and will review the move on 18 February.\n\nBut ministers were also told that restrictions may have to remain in place until after the Easter holidays.\n\nA lockdown closing non-essential retailers and encouraging employees to work from home began after Christmas.\n\nFamily gatherings are prohibited and people have been ordered to stay at home for all but essential reasons.\n\nSchools are closed to most pupils until after February's half-term but a paper looking at reopening will be put to ministers at next week's executive meeting.\n\nThe lockdown came in response to a spike in the number of cases of coronavirus, which followed a relaxation of some rules in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said extending the restrictions was an \"appropriate and necessary response\" to tackle the \"imminent threat\" posed by Covid-19.\n\nShe said she understood it would be difficult for many people to accept, given the uncertainty facing families and businesses, but added: \"To not press forward would risk all of the hard-won gains.\"\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers were right to state just how tough this decision will be for many people.\n\nBut there's an acceptance among the public that restrictions would have to be extended, given how bad things are in our hospitals.\n\nTheir decision also suggests politicians have perhaps learned from the last wave of the pandemic, when restrictions were turned on and off sporadically, and the impact that had both on cases and the messaging.\n\nThey're not alone in sustaining tough lockdown measures, with other UK nations and the Republic of Ireland also keeping their restrictions in place for several more weeks.\n\nBeyond that, it is thought health officials also want to ensure the vaccination programme is also \"well advanced\" before any restrictions are relaxed.\n\nThe hope is that, by spring, the picture will have improved significantly.\n\nUntil then the price we are paying for relaxations before Christmas looks likely to keep rising.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said she recognised the executive was asking a lot of everybody but insisted the measures were important.\n\n\"We don't know what will come after [5 March],\" she said.\n\nMs O'Neill said there was a commitment not to keep restrictions in place longer than necessary but decisions would have to be taken in line with the health advice and concerns about a new variant of the virus which is more transmissible.\n\nThe executive's decision comes as another 21 deaths were recorded by the Department of Health on Thursday.\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R-number - had risen to about 1.8 due to Christmas relaxations.\n\nBut the latest estimate from the Department of Health says it is sitting between 0.65 and 0.85 for cases within the community but is still above one for hospital admissions and intensive care.\n\nWhile some may wonder why are restrictions are being extended when the executive's policy has always been based on this rate of infection, the difference is that this time around there are three times as many people in Northern Ireland's hospitals than there were in last April's peak.\n\nDaily case numbers are still significantly higher too.\n\nWhile ministers have agreed to keep the current restrictions in place until March, Health Minister Robin Swann said it was possible they could be needed until Easter, which this year falls in the first week of April.\n\nMinisters say they understand the extension of the lockdown will be difficult for people\n\nIt is understood this plan is being discussed across the four UK nations but ministers will have to consider that in the review next month.\n\nMinisters were also warned that restrictions would be eased on a step-by-step basis in line with reducing pressures on the health service and ensuring the vaccination programme is \"well advanced\" before any relaxations are agreed.\n\nMrs Foster pleaded with people struggling with their mental health during the lockdown to \"please seek help\".\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel are to be deployed to help health staff deal with the pressure the latest phase of the pandemic is placing on hospitals.\n\nThe chief medical officer Dr Michael McBride said the \"sustained pressure on our health service\" would probably last for three to four weeks.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 51 Covid-19 related deaths and 2,608 new cases of the virus were recorded on Thursday.\n\nSimon Hamilton, the chief executive of the Belfast Chamber of Trade and Commerce, said the extension of the lockdown would be of \"little surprise to most businesses\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Stormont executive has agreed how to allocate almost £300m to help businesses, education, tourism and transport during the next phase of the lockdown.\n\nA total of £100m is going towards the Local Restrictions Support Scheme, the grant for business premises forced to closed due to the restrictions.\n\nThere will also be £16m for tourism and hospitality, two sectors which have largely been unable to operate.\n\nIn addition, two more support schemes for the sector have been opened.\n\nOne aimed at large tourism and hospitality businesses is offering a pot of £26m, with the Department for Economy having identified 250 businesses that will be eligible.\n\nThe other is a £4m scheme to support those who provide bed-and-breakfast accommodation.\n\nMore money is being made available to help businesses affected by the lockdown\n\nJanice Gault from the trade body the Northern Ireland Hotels Federation said the schemes were a \"real lifeline for the sector\".\n\n\"Trading over the last year has been limited with reserves now severely depleted and businesses operating in survival mode,\" she added.\n\nAlso among those to receive the extra cash will be limited company directors, who had not received support since March.\n\nLast week, a scheme was announced to give directors £1,000 grants which one director described as a \"kick in the teeth\" given that he had little to no income for the past 10 months.\n\nBut that scheme is to be boosted with another £20m so the payments on offer will more than treble to £3,500.\n\nLocal newspapers will also benefit from 12 months of rates relief.", "Mick Norcross, 57, was found dead at his home in Essex on Thursday\n\nFormer The Only Way Is Essex star Mick Norcross has died at the age of 57.\n\nThe businessman and father of Kirk Norcross, who also appeared in the ITV show, was found dead at his home in Bulphan at 15:15 GMT on Thursday.\n\nEssex Police said the death was not being treated as suspicious.\n\nIn tributes on social media, fellow Towie stars past and present, including Gemma Collins and James \"Arg\" Argent, called him \"one of the good guys\" and a \"true gentleman\".\n\nNorcross first appeared in the reality show in 2011 in his position as owner of Sugar Hut, a Brentwood nightclub which was often attended by the cast.\n\nHe left the show two years later, stating that the venue's prominent place in Towie had damaged its brand.\n\nThe star posted a tweet to his 505,000 followers on Thursday morning saying: \"At the end remind yourself that you did the best you could. And that's good enough.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sugar Hut This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe club tweeted that \"Mr Sugarhut\" had been a \"very talented, friendly and fun guy\" and a \"true Essex legend, who will be sorely missed\".\n\nCollins, who briefly dated Norcross during their time on the show, shared a photo of them together on Instagram and said he had been \"one of the good guys\", while Argent tweeted that he had been \"a true gentleman and a very kind man\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by gemmacollins This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTributes were also shared by Towie stars Lauren Goodger and Mario Falcone, with the latter tweeting that he was \"thankful I got the privilege of having you in my life\".\n\nIn another tweet, Mark Wright, the Towie star turned TV presenter and professional footballer, said he was \"a great man, an inspiration to many, always so polite and welcoming\".\n\nPresenter Denise Van Outen tweeted that he was \"such a lovely man\" while TV chef James Martin, posted that he was \"a true gentleman, who I had the pleasure to meet and spend evenings with over the years\".\n\nThe Only Way Is Essex posted a tribute on Instagram, saying the team behind the show were \"shocked and deeply saddened\".\n\nThey said: \"He was hugely popular with cast, crew and the audience alike. Charming, generous and host to many of Essex's most glamorous events, Mick will be missed by us all.\"\n\nAn Essex Police spokesman said officers \"were called to an address in Brentwood Road, Bulphan shortly before 15:15 on Thursday\" and \"sadly, a man inside was pronounced dead\".\n\nThe police spokesman said the death was \"not being treated as suspicious and a file will be prepared for the coroner\".\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this article, information and support is available from BBC Action Line.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Police said they had been in contact with the family before the funeral took place \"in an attempt to ensure safety\"\n\nA funeral director has been fined £10,000 after police were called to a funeral with close to 150 people in attendance.\n\nHertfordshire Police said the large gathering in Welwyn Garden City on Thursday was reported to them by members of the public.\n\nCoronavirus rules mean a maximum of 30 people can attend a funeral.\n\nA second person was fined, by Bedfordshire Police, for when the gathering was in Arlesey, Bedfordshire.\n\nSupt Nick Caveney, of Hertfordshire Police, said: \"This was a clear and blatant breach of the current restrictions.\"\n\nHe said the fine was given to the funeral director \"for not managing this event correctly and advising their clients of the rules\".\n\n\"We implore all business owners to ensure they are following the restrictions safely and responsibly,\" he said.\n\n\"Flagrant breaches such as this will not be tolerated.\"\n\nThe force said it had worked with other agencies and the family in advance of the funeral \"in an attempt to ensure the safety of those attending and that of the wider public\".\n\nBut when officers attended they found the large number of people at the church, and a 41-year-old man from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, was handed the £10,000 fine after police served a fixed penalty notice.\n\nSeveral members of the public had contacted the force about the funeral at the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady, Queen of Apostles on Woodhall Lane.\n\nBedfordshire Police said a man in his 30s was issued with the fine over the gathering.\n\nCh Supt John Murphy from the force said: \"Fines and enforcement are a last resort for us, and we will always engage and work with families in the first instance.\n\n\"But we need to take firm action against those who brazenly decide to go against the guidelines outlined by the government and put a large number of people at risk.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Mr Olowo said his wife was \"as near perfection as it's possible to be\"\n\nA woman who died after having liposuction in Turkey had been fed up with people asking if she was pregnant, an inquest heard.\n\nAbimbola Ajoke Bamgbose, 38, of Dartford, Kent, died in August after having the treatment in Izmir.\n\nHusband Moyosore Olowo said he believed she was on holiday with friends until she called to say she was in pain.\n\nHe went to Turkey after she stopped calling and found she had been rushed to hospital for more surgery.\n\nMrs Bamgbose, who also had a Brazilian butt lift, died there two weeks later, the inquest in Maidstone heard.\n\nMr Olowo, a rail safety officer, said his wife paid £5,000 for the package with Mono Cosmetic Surgery as UK treatment was too expensive.\n\nDescribing why she wanted it, he said: \"When a woman is unhappy and getting feelings about her looks, the clothes she buys do not fit and people ask if she is pregnant because of her tummy, sometimes there is nothing we can do. We are powerless.\n\n\"I wasn't concerned. I told her 'you have three children'. I told her my tummy is bigger than hers.\"\n\nHe said his wife, a social worker who graduated with a first class degree, was \"as near perfection as it's possible to be\".\n\nMr Olowo said the medical director in Turkey \"confessed it had been a mistake\".\n\nAssistant coroner Alan Blundson recorded a narrative conclusion, and said: \"This is a tragic case, the more so because the surgery was elective cosmetic surgery.\n\n\"Whilst Mrs Bamgbose was determined to have it performed, her husband had not seen it in any way as necessary.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination found Mrs Bamgbose had a perforated bowel and her death was caused by peritonitis with multiple organ failure as a complication of liposuction surgery.\n\nMr Olowo has said he is suing Mono and the surgeon, Dr Hakan Aydogan, for £1m in the Turkish courts, claiming medical negligence.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Reports suggest AstraZeneca may have warned of a 60% cut to doses available\n\nA second coronavirus vaccine manufacturer has warned of supply issues to the European Union, compounding frustration in the bloc.\n\nAstraZeneca said a production problem meant the number of initial doses available would be lower than expected.\n\nThe fresh blow comes after some nations' inoculation programmes were slowed due to a cut in deliveries of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nThe EU Health Commissioner expressed \"deep dissatisfaction\" at the news.\n\nOfficials have not confirmed publicly how big the shortfall will be, but an unnamed EU official told Reuters news agency that deliveries would be reduced to 31m - a cut of 60% - in the first quarter of this year.\n\nThe drug firm had been set to deliver about 80 million doses to the 27 nations by March, according to the official who spoke to Reuters.\n\nThe AstraZeneca vaccine, developed with Oxford University, has not yet been approved by the EU's drug regulator but is expected to get the green light at the end of this month, paving the way for jabs to be given.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA spokesman for AstraZeneca said on Friday that \"initial volumes will be lower than originally anticipated\" without giving further details.\n\nHis written statement blamed the discrepancy on \"reduced yields at a manufacturing site within our European supply chain\" and said the firm was continuing to ramp up production volumes.\n\nNews of the delay comes amid criticism and frustration across the region about the speed of vaccination roll-outs.\n\nIsrael, the United Arab Emirates, the UK, and the US are all well ahead of EU nations in terms of doses given per capita so far.\n\nThe European Commission has co-ordinated orders for all member states, with vaccines then distributed based on their population size.\n\nVaccines are increasingly seen by experts as the only way out of the Covid-19 crisis, with many European nations struggling to cope with a deadly surge of the virus over the winter period.\n\nAustrian media have reported that only 600,000 of two million AstraZeneca doses promised by the end of March will arrive in the country on time, with the remaining 1.4m now being delivered in April.\n\nA delay would be \"completely unacceptable\", Austrian Health Minister Rudolf Anschober said on Friday.\n\nAs for Pfizer, the US firm said it had to cut shipments for the next few weeks while it worked to increase capacity at its Belgian processing plant. The EU has ordered 600 million doses from Pfizer.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Ursula von der Leyen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome regions, including Germany's most populous state North-Rhine Westphalia and parts of Italy, said earlier this week that they were suspending giving first jabs of the two-dose vaccine because of the shortages.\n\nItaly and Poland have threatened to take legal action in response to the reduction in vaccine supply.\n\nMeanwhile Hungary's government, which has complained over the time it is taking EU regulators to approve the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, has reached a deal with Russia to buy up large quantities of its Sputnik V vaccine, even though it has not received EU approval.\n\nEuropean Council President Charles Michel, who led a call of EU leaders this week, said Thursday that officials were considering all ideas to try and stop future vaccine delays.\n\n\"All possible means will be examined to ensure rapid supply, including early distribution to avoid delays,\" he said.\n\nEuropean Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Mr Michel both say they are still aiming for the target of 70% of the EU population being vaccinated by summer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid vaccine safety: How does a vaccine get approved?\n\nThe total number of German Covid deaths climbed above 50,000 on Friday - a day after the country warned that it could close its borders if other EU countries were less strict in controlling the virus. Berlin sounded the alarm amid rising concern about new variants.\n\nEU leaders agreed late on Thursday to keep their internal borders open but warned non-essential travel might need to be restricted to curb the spread of the virus.\n\nMs von der Leyen said Thursday that more testing and \"targeted measures\" were needed throughout the EU in order to keep internal and external borders open.\n\nFor its part, France said it would impose tighter travel restrictions for European arrivals from Sunday, requiring a negative PCR Covid test within three days of travel.\n\nIn the Netherlands, a ban on all flights from the UK, South Africa and South American countries came into effect on Saturday to try and prevent new coronavirus variants gaining a foothold.\n\nLooking forward to the future, officials from EU nations reliant on tourism - including Spain and Greece - have floated the possibility of using vaccination certificates to allow for cross-border travel but there has been scepticism within the bloc.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo houses have partially collapsed after a sinkhole measuring 10ft (3m) opened up on a Manchester street.\n\nFour homes were evacuated on Wednesday evening after the hole appeared on Walmer Street in Abbey Hey, Gorton.\n\nFire crews returned hours later after the front of two of the empty properties crashed to the ground.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was dealing with a collapsed sewer but was investigating all possible causes including the recent heavy rain.\n\nThe fire service was first called to Walmer Street just after 21:00 GMT on Wednesday to reports an unoccupied car had fallen down a hole in the road.\n\nA cordon was put in place and residents evacuated as a precaution, the fire service said.\n\nAfter leaving the scene four hours later, the fire service was alerted to the partial collapse of two houses at 11:00 on Thursday.\n\nNo-one was injured in either incident.\n\nEmergency services remain at the scene on Walmer Street\n\nNearby residents Maureen and Louise Kennedy spoke of their shock after the houses collapsed.\n\n\"You're just waiting for your world to crumble. It's not just the bricks and water, said Ms Kennedy.\n\n\"I've lived in there since I was three. It's the memories.\"\n\nResident Nathaniel OKeleafor said he was \"terrified\" when the sinkhole appeared in the street on Wednesday evening.\n\n\"This morning we are out. We are just trying to find somewhere to live,\" he added.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was dealing with a collapsed sewer on Walmer Street\n\nThe collapse comes as rising levels on the River Mersey in Manchester came \"within centimetres\" of breaching flood defences following heavy rain caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nStation Manager Andrew O'Brien, from Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, praised firefighters who worked \"at the height of the stormy weather\".\n\n\"The safety of the public was our primary concern overnight and again today, and I'm pleased to say no-one has suffered any injuries,\" he said.\n\nUnited Utilities said: \"When it is safe for engineers to go back into the immediate area we will set up emergency drainage and water supply connections to restore services to the area and begin to assess how best to carry out repairs.\n\n\"It is not known what caused the sinkhole but this will be investigated.\"\n\nBBC Radio Manchester and BBC Radio Lancashire will be on air throughout Storm Christoph, bringing you all of the latest information and news updates\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA nurse felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued at her hospital's A&E department - in the Welsh region currently hardest hit by Covid deaths.\n\nTo date Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board, which runs Royal Glamorgan Hospital, has reported 1,091 deaths of patients with coronavirus.\n\nBBC Wales was granted access to A&E at the hospital in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nSenior doctor Amanda Farrow said the whole hospital had faced \"unrelenting\" pressure last Saturday.\n\nSarah Fogarasy was the senior nurse on duty as 13 ambulances queued up outside her A&E department\n\nSenior A&E nurse Sarah Fogarasy, who was on shift as the ambulances arrived, said there was no capacity at the unit - a situation that left her wanting \"to leave\".\n\n\"We had to escalate it to our site manager and deputy head of nursing who were liaising with the executive team on call,\" she said.\n\n\"And then it got to 13 patients outside - I had no capacity in this unit, no resuscitation capacity, no capacity to put a patient on CPAP [continuous positive airway pressure] should they require that and no physical areas to put a patient in.\n\nOn Saturday, 13 ambulances queued outside the hospital's A&E department\n\nShe said she found it hard to keep going.\n\n\"This bit makes me quite emotional… for the first time I was sat trying to coordinate this department and I had that overwhelming fear that I just wanted to leave,\" Ms Fogarasy continued.\n\n\"I was just - 'I'm done. I'm done with this'... and it's scary, it fills you full of fear when you have got 13 ambulances outside, queuing around the carpark. Where do you go from that?\"\n\nShe said it was the team that kept her going: \"I started looking around to all the staff working tirelessly and just trying to remember what we're here for and why I became a nurse.\n\n\"I know it sounds soppy but it's literally the humanitarian effort that has gone into [fighting] this pandemic that has kept people going.\n\n\"It's the sheer determination and guts of the staff working in these times that is so powerful, that keeps the shift going.\"\n\nEmergency Medicine Consultant Amanda Farrow said it was a \"very emotional time for everyone\"\n\nDr Farrow, emergency medicine consultant, said staffing and bed numbers were of particular concern.\n\n\"In the emergency department the challenge we have is with regards to flow, so that is our daily challenge,\" she explained.\n\n\"And we say it's like playing a game of Tetris trying to work out which patient you can put where.\"\n\nStaff reported feeling overwhelmed as they work through the second Covid wave\n\nShe said the second wave of the virus had also seen more staff off sick with Covid and isolating - with some becoming very ill.\n\n\"We've had staff in as patients and one of my colleagues - I saw them when they were critically ill and ended up going to intensive care,\" continued Dr Farrow.\n\n\"So it's very emotional time for everyone as well you know, looking after the sick patients and looking after your colleagues.\n\n\"There's a level of anxiety still around - will you be the next person to get this disease?\"\n\nShe said although fewer people were attending A&E, they were seeing more people arriving by ambulance and presenting with more complex needs.\n\n\"The group of patients we are seeing this time I think is different, we're definitely having more younger people with Covid that are becoming sick, the volume is very high in the community.\n\n\"I think people are afraid of come into the hospital as well, so there are still quite a lot of patients who leave it maybe a bit too late before they're seeking hospital attention.\"\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, Helen Whatmore said she was extremely grateful to staff\n\nHelen Whatmore, 45, from Beddau, has been hospital since early December after developing Covid symptoms.\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, she said she had been unwell in February so assumed she had already caught the virus.\n\n\"I honestly didn't believe it was as bad until I caught [Covid] this time,\" she said.\n\n\"This time it's absolutely knocked the socks off me. It's nearly killed me.\n\n\"A friend of mine passed away as I came into hospital and I came down very rapidly with Covid, kidney problems and pneumonia.\"\n\nShe said she was grateful for the care she had received: \"The nurses are coming in [working] all shifts, they're fighting for your loved ones, from the time they enter right until the time they leave, then they're changing over and doing the same again.\n\n\"People are passing away… how much more have they got to do? We're asking them to protect our children and our families. Why are we not protecting them ourselves? Saving our families and our own children.\"", "Top Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou has been sent bullets in the mail while under house arrest in Vancouver, according to court testimony.\n\nIt was one of several alleged death threats revealed on Wednesday by the company providing her security.\n\nMs Meng was detained in 2018 on charges relating to allegedly misleading HSBC about Huawei's dealings in Iran.\n\nHer case has created a rift between China and Canada, with Beijing repeatedly calling for her release.\n\nThe chief financial officer of Huawei was arrested at Vancouver International Airport on a warrant from the US, where she is facing charges of bank fraud and potentially causing HSBC to break US sanctions.\n\nDays after she was released on bail, she was placed under house arrest in Vancouver. She has been fighting against her extradition to the US, which wants her to stand trial.\n\nThe threats were revealed at the British Columbia Supreme Court by Doug Maynard, chief operating officer of security firm Lions Gate Risk Management.\n\nHe said Ms Meng received \"five or six\" threatening letters at her residence in June and July 2020 and that the letters were \"easily identifiable by markings on the outside\". He added that \"sometimes there were bullets inside the envelopes\".\n\nThe role of the Vancouver police and any investigations is unclear.\n\nMs Meng has been in court pushing for conditions of her bail to be loosened, including dropping the daytime security detail that constantly follows her.\n\nShe is permitted to leave home between 6am and 11pm and pays for a round-the-clock security detail. She also wears a GPS tracking anklet as stipulated by her bail conditions.\n\nThe government has also granted family members of Ms Meng permission to travel to Canada, sparking controversy.\n\nConservative MP Raquel Dancho said the exception was an \"insult to the millions of Canadians who were told by this government not to visit loved ones\" over the holidays.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Raquel Dancho This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe called the move disappointing, noting that Beijing detained two Canadians soon after Ms Meng's arrest in December 2018 and has held them in prison ever since, subjecting them to interrogations.\n\nMs Meng's defence lawyer has argued that Canada is effectively being asked \"to enforce US sanctions\".\n\nHuawei has been one of the main targets of the Trump administration's attack on Chinese companies that it deems are security threats and pass data to the government.\n\nThe US has placed harsh restrictions on Huawei and has banned its 5G equipment from its networks. It also added 38 names linked to Huawei to a trade blacklist.\n\nThis week Huawei came under fire for technology that identifies people who appear to be of Uighur origin among images of pedestrians.\n\nHuawei had previously said none of its technology was designed to identify ethnic groups.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Boris Johnson has said there is still a very substantial risk of intensive care units in hospitals being overwhelmed by the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes on a day when the UK has recorded the highest number of deaths in a single day in Europe.\n\nFergal Keane last visited the Imperial Healthcare Trust’s St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospital in London last April.\n\nHe's been back to see how they're coping.", "The licence fee is the \"least worst\" way of funding the BBC, its incoming chairman Richard Sharp has said.\n\nBut Mr Sharp told MPs he had an \"open mind\" about how the corporation should be funded in the future, and it \"may be worth reassessing\" the current system.\n\nHe also said he didn't think the BBC's Brexit coverage was biased overall, but \"there were some occasions when the Brexit representation was unbalanced\".\n\nQuestion Time \"seemed to have more Remainers than Brexiteers\", he said.\n\nBBC Three's Normal People was one of the corporation's biggest hits last year\n\nThe £157.50 licence fee is due to stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends, with a debate about how the broadcaster should be funded after that.\n\nMr Sharp, who spent 23 years working as a banker for Goldman Sachs, told the House of Commons digital, culture, media and sport select committee: \"At 43p a day, the BBC represents terrific value.\"\n\nThe government is currently reviewing whether its cost should continue rising with inflation from 2022, and whether non-payment should remain a criminal offence. Mr Sharp said he was \"not in favour of decriminalisation\".\n\nHe said other possible options for funding the BBC in the future could include a household tax like the one used in Germany, \"which amounts to the same amount of money\".\n\nHe added: \"So when we next get the chance to review the structure of this then it may be worth reassessing.\"\n\nAsked whether he believed the BBC's coverage of Brexit had been unbalanced, he replied: \"No, actually I don't.\n\n\"I believe there were some occasions when the Brexit representation was unbalanced.\n\n\"So if you ask me if I think Question Time seemed to have more Remainers than Brexiteers, the answer is yes, but the breadth of the coverage I thought was incredibly balanced, in a highly toxic environment that was extremely polarised.\"\n\nQuestion Time has said it has robust processes in place to ensure balance on its panels.\n\nMr Sharp said he was \"considered to be a Brexiteer\" and had donated around £400,000 to the Conservative Party over the past 20 years.\n\nHe said the biggest issue now facing the BBC is impartiality, and that \"trust in leadership and trust in processes\" must be rebuilt after high-profile equal pay cases with journalists such as Carrie Gracie and Samira Ahmed.\n\n\"Clearly some of the problems it's had recently are really rather terrible and reflect a culture that needs to be rebuilt, so everybody who cherishes the BBC and works at the BBC feels proud and happy to work there,\" he said. \"Then in my view that would produce a better output inevitably.\"\n\nMr Sharp also told the committee he would give his £160,000 salary as BBC chairman to charity.\n\nWhen asked \"what's in it for you?\" Mr Sharp, whose heritage is Jewish, said: \"We're all a product of our upbringing and I was very fortunate with the parents I have, my great grandparents came to this country escaping tyranny.\n\n\"I think I won the lottery in life to be British and if I can make a contribution, I couldn't be happier to.\n\n\"The BBC is part of the fabric of all our national identities, it offers education and enrichment and is also important for our position in the world... It is a massive privilege to be chair of the BBC.\"\n\nSir David Clementi, the current BBC chairman, steps down in February. The post-holder is officially appointed by the Queen on the recommendation of the government.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Galaxy S21 Ultra has hardware built into it to make use of the firm's S Pen stylus\n\nSamsung's new flagship Galaxy S smartphone works with its stylus for the first time.\n\nThe S Pen is an optional add-on for the Galaxy S21 Ultra. But the move will fuel speculation the firm will phase out its separate Note handset range.\n\nSamsung told the BBC it had yet to make a decision about this.\n\nThe company's handset sales have declined more quickly than the wider market. One expert said a streamlined line-up might help address this.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: First look at Samsung's S21 Ultra phone\n\n\"There's increasing logic for Samsung to converge the Galaxy S and Note platforms, because there's so little differentiation between the two kinds of devices now,\" said Ben Wood, from the CCS Insight consultancy.\n\n\"That would align them with Apple, which also has one big phone launch event a year.\n\n\"My concern is that every time Samsung has announced its Note products in the past, it has planted a seed in consumers' minds that the Galaxy S products have become kind of the old ones.\"\n\nThe benefit of having a stylus is that it is easier to write, draw or annotate notes than using a finger. But to work it requires special hardware under the glass of the phone's display to pass power to the stylus and to track its tip.\n\nThe Android-based Galaxy S21 Ultra has a 6.8in (17.3cm) display, which is only slightly smaller than the top-end 6.9in Note.\n\nIn years past, the Note phones were known as \"phablets\", and their size was the other key distinguishing factor with the S range.\n\nUnlike the Note series, the S21 Ultra requires a special case to stow away the pen\n\nProduct manager Mark Notton said \"we haven't decided\", when asked whether Samsung planned to continue the Note family.\n\n\"It does not mean that Samsung is not committed to the Note category, but is expanding the Note experience across device categories,\" the firm said in a follow-up statement.\n\n\"We will actively listen to consumers' feedback and reflect it in our continued product innovation.\"\n\nThe S21 Ultra will start at £1,149 when it goes on sale on 29 January. The S Pen costs an extra £35 on its own, or £85 when bundled with a case that stores it.\n\nThat puts it in the ballpark of the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra's £1,179 starting price, which comes with a stylus that slots into its body.\n\nThere are also two other lower-cost models in the new range, neither of which works with the S-Pen stylus: the 6.2in S21 and 6.7in S21+.\n\nAll three models feature a redesigned camera module on their back.\n\nAll the Galaxy S21 phones feature a redesigned camera module on their back\n\nBut while the two lower-end models have three lenses - ultra-wide, wide and 3x-zoom telephoto - the S21 Ultra adds a further 10x-zoom telephoto lens, letting owners shoot action from even further away.\n\nThe handsets also benefit from a new Director's View facility. It lets users film video while getting thumbnail previews superimposed on-screen of what it would look like if they switched to another lens.\n\nAll three phones can film in 8K - double the maximum resolution of the competing iPhone 12 range's native video app.\n\nThe Director's View mode lets users preview how the recorded shot will change in a video if they switch to a different lens while filming\n\nHowever, the handsets may be more notable for following Apple in two regards.\n\nThey have abandoned a slot for a microSD memory card.\n\nAnd they will be sold without either a charger - a decision over which Samsung had mocked its rival. - or earphones.\n\nSamsung posted this ad in October on social media before deleting it\n\n\"We discovered that more and more Galaxy users are reusing accessories they already have,\" the firm said.\n\nSamsung typically unveils its Galaxy range in late February, but has brought forward this year's launch to coincide with the CES tech show.\n\n\"Samsung needs S21 to be a success given that S20 was launched in the middle of Covid first wave in Europe and didn't gain many fans,\" commented Marta Pinto, from research firm IDC.\n\nShe added the earlier launch date could help it compete in the \"premium market\" with Apple, whose iPhones were released later than normal last year.\n\nThe South Korean firm should also benefit from collapsing sales of Huawei's devices in the West, caused by US sanctions that prevent them offering the Google Play store and some of the search giant's other services.\n\nSamsung dedicated a segment of its Unpacked launch presentation to its partnership with Google\n\nBut Mr Wood said Samsung was facing growing competition from other Chinese brands including Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo.\n\n\"Samsung's differentiator is going to be its ability to market its strong brand, and the fact it has a very wide product portfolio,\" he commented.\n\nSamsung also aims to widen its appeal with two further accessories.\n\nIt has a new pair of £219 wireless earbuds that monitor what the user is doing.\n\nSamsung's earbuds should automatically adapt their audio output according to what the user is doing\n\nIf they detect the wearer is talking, they automatically turn down the volume of music and amplify the sounds of the nearby environment picked up by their microphones, allowing the owner to have a brief conversation without needing to take them out or manually adjust their settings.\n\nSamsung also is launching the £30 Galaxy SmartTag - a Bluetooth-enabled tracker that can be attached to belongings or pets.\n\nIt will allow an app to show their location, so long as the tag is in range of the owner or anyone else's compatible Samsung device.\n\nThe tracker will compete with similar products from the current market leader Tile.\n\nThe SmartTag will challenge Tile, which already sells a range of Bluetooth trackers\n\nApple is widely rumoured to be working on similar devices of its own.", "The coronavirus growth rate is slowing in the UK and the number of infections is starting to level off in some areas, a top scientist has said.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson told the BBC that in some NHS regions there is a \"sign of plateauing\" in cases and hospital admissions.\n\nBut he warned the overall death toll would exceed 100,000.\n\nOn Wednesday, the UK saw its biggest daily death figure since the start of the pandemic, with 1,564 deaths.\n\nIt has taken the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767. There were also 47,525 new cases.\n\nIt comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the national lockdown measures were \"starting to show signs of some effect\", but it was early days and urged people to abide by the rules.\n\nPeople in England are required to stay at home and only go out for limited reasons, such as for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf Ferguson, an epidemiologist at Imperial College London whose modelling led to the first lockdown in March, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was \"much too early\" to say when the number of cases would come down.\n\nBut he said: \"It looks like in London in particular and a couple of other regions in the South East and East of England, hospital admissions may even have plateaued.\n\n\"It has to be said this is not seen everywhere - both case numbers and hospital admissions are going up in many other areas, but overall at a national level we are seeing the rate of growth slow.\"\n\nProf Ferguson added: \"I would hope the hospital admissions might plateau… sometime in the next week, but hospital bed occupancy may continue to rise slowly for up to two weeks.\"\n\nHe warned the overall death toll would be \"well over 100,000\", adding \"there's nothing we can do about that now\".\n\nProf Ferguson added Covid restrictions could be in place for many months to come, adding the new variant's increased transmissibility would mean relaxation of the rules will be a \"gradual process to the autumn\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said on Thursday that the government will not be introducing tougher social distancing rules \"today or tomorrow\" and insisted that ministers are focusing on increasing enforcement of the current restrictions.\n\nAsked about speculation further measures could include a three-metre social distancing rule or a requirement to wear masks outside, she told ITV's This Morning: \"This isn't about new rules coming in - we're going to stick with enforcing the current measures.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a major study led by Public Health England has shown most people who have had Covid-19 are protected from catching it again for at least five months.\n\nPast infection was linked to an 83% lower risk of getting the virus, compared with those who had never had Covid-19, scientists found.\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, who led the study, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the finding \"doesn't eliminate\" the risk of people catching Covid-19 again, and infecting others.\n\nShe said: \"We found people with very high amounts of virus in their nose and throat swabs, that would easily be in the range which would cause levels of transmission to other individuals.\"\n\nProf Hopkins said she hoped that after Easter, \"we will start to see reduced infection rates, as we did at that time last year\" and the number of people who have been vaccinated at a \"very high level\".\n\nThe UK is continuing efforts to ramp up the rollout of the Covid vaccine, with the prime minister saying that Covid vaccinations will be offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week as soon as supply allows.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock tweeted on Thursday to say that \"three million vaccines have now been administered\" in the UK.\n\nOn Thursday, NHS England published a breakdown of vaccinations by age and region for the first time.\n\nMr Johnson told the Commons Liaison Committee on Wednesday that he was \"concerned\" about a new Covid variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil and said that the UK was taking steps to ensure it is not brought into the UK.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said ministers met this morning to discuss \"urgent measures to reduce the potential spread to the UK of the Brazilian variant\".\n\nThey could include a ban on flights from Brazil. Arrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nMeanwhile, the Deputy Scottish First Minister John Swinney told BBC Breakfast \"the virus is not accelerating as fast as it was\" in Scotland.\n\nHe said \"there are some early signs of optimism\" but emphasised people should follow all guidance as the \"virus is still at a very strong level\".", "Amnesty says about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the Northern Ireland homes,\n\nThere have been calls for an inquiry into mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes as the Irish government is to apologise after an investigation found an \"appalling level of infant mortality\" in the Republic of Ireland's homes.\n\nAbout 9,000 children died in the 18 institutions under investigation.\n\nMothers and babies who were in similar homes in Northern Ireland want a full inquiry to be held in NI too.\n\nStormont commissioned research into whether or not there should an inquiry held into the homes which operated in Northern Ireland, is due to be published by the end of January.\n\nPatrick Corrigan from Amnesty International said the issue of forced adoptions also needs close scrutiny.\n\n\"We have had cases of mothers telling us that ultimately, many decades later, when they tried to track down their long-lost children they found adoption certificates where they said their signature had actually been forged,\" he said.\n\n\"So I think that there is criminality to investigate here and that it behoves the Northern Ireland Executive to set up the inquiry that has long been sought here and long been denied.\"\n\nIn 2017 research into infant mortality rates at former mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland had prompted initial calls for a public inquiry.\n\nBBC News NI previously spoke to Eunan Duffy who was 47 years old when he found out he was adopted from Marianvale mother and baby home in Newry, County Down.\n\nIt was one of a network of institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland which offered women the voluntary option, for those who were unmarried, to give birth in private and give their babies up for adoption\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marian Vale was one of a network of mother and baby institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland\n\nAmnesty says there were more than a dozen mother-and-baby institutions in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt said about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the Northern Ireland homes, operated by both Catholic and Protestant churches and religious organisations.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, research into mother and baby homes and Magdalene laundries was commissioned three years ago and was initially expected to take 12 months.\n\nIt was completed in February last year, but was then sent to those facing criticism to give them an opportunity to reply.\n\nA Department of Health spokesperson said: \"A paper will be brought to the executive shortly for its consideration. Subject to executive approval, it is intended to publish the research report before the end of January 2021.\"\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, the commission that investigated the homes found that the number of children who died was about 15% of all those who were born in the institutions.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Mícheál Martin said the report, which can be read in full here, described a \"dark, difficult and shameful chapter\" of Irish history.\n\nSolicitor Claire McKeegan, who represents the Birth Mothers for Justice group, welcomed the apology in the Republic of Ireland, but said mothers and children in NI had not received one.\n\n\"The crimes perpetrated on them have yet to be investigated,\" she said.\n\n\"Those perpetrators who forced them into arbitrary detention, hard labour and colluded in the forced adoption of their babies, remain unchallenged in this jurisdiction.\"\n\nMary O'Neill became pregnant when she was 18 and was sent to Marianvale in Newry in the late 1970s.\n\nThere she gave birth to a baby girl who was taken away from her almost immediately after the birth.\n\nShe wanted to keep the baby, but was not allowed and was told the baby would be put up for adoption.\n\nThe mother and baby scandal became an international news story when 'significant human remains' were found on the grounds of a former home in County Galway\n\nMs O'Neill told Good Morning Ulster she eventually tracked down her daughter after 40 years.\n\n\"It was a long search, everywhere you went you were up against a brick wall,\" she said.\n\n\"There was no help, the social workers didn't want to tell you anything.\"\n\nShe finally found out her daughter was living in America but was coming home for her 40th birthday.\n\nShe said when she met her it was like meeting a stranger.\n\n\"But thank God we have met and we have a good relationship. She's still keeping in touch,\" Ms O'Neill said.\n\n\"It means the world to me, because you always wondered where was she? Was she happy? Did she know about you?\n\n\"It was always in the back of your mind. It never went away, the tears and the heartache.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs O'Neill said she was happy the victims in the Republic of Ireland were getting an apology, but wishes the homes in Northern Ireland could have been included.\n\nMechelle Dillon's mother was 21 and pregnant when she was sent to Marianvale in Newry in 1969.\n\nShe was placed in foster care a few months after her birth.\n\nHer mother returned to her home village and then moved to England. But she came back for Mechelle when she was around eight or nine-months-old.\n\nShe said she believed she was not adopted because she was born with a cyst on her mouth.\n\n\"I would have maybe been classed as a reject, if you want to put it that way,\" she said.\n\n\"It's the same as if you go to look for a little puppy and if the puppy doesn't feel right and you think 'Oh God, I'll have a lot of vet bills here, I don't want that puppy' - I would have probably been classed the same because I would have had that defect.\"\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said \"the executive should move quickly to publish the research report and then call a full public inquiry\".", "Decima Minhinnick, pictured at her 90th birthday party, lives in a care home and has vascular dementia\n\nA couple who were fined £60 for driving 20 minutes to see a relative in a care home have had their fine cancelled by police.\n\nCarol and David Richards from Bridgend travelled seven miles to Porthcawl to visit her mother Decima Minhinnick, 94.\n\nOn Tuesday, police defended the fine, claiming the couple had broken lockdown rules.\n\nOn Wednesday, South Wales Police said it had \"since been reviewed and the notice has been rescinded\".\n\n\"The individual concerned has been notified\".\n\nIn a statement, it added: \"Wales remains at alert level four and South Wales Police will continue to patrol our communities to ensure the legislation, which has been enacted to slow the spread of coronavirus, is complied with\".\n\nMrs Richards has said she was \"mortified\" they were stopped by police while returning on Sunday from what she said was a compassionate visit.\n\nShe said on Tuesday she did not believe they breached lockdown rules.\n\nMrs Richards said the couple had arranged the visit to Picton Court Care Home in advance with the permission of staff, and spoke to her mother, who has vascular dementia, through the window of her ground-floor room from the car park.\n\nDavid and Carol Richards complained about the £60 fine\n\nShe told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that when she was issued with the fine it was like \"a sort of dystopian novel\", adding that the officer involved was \"pedantic and inflexible\".\n\n\"I was angry - she just would not listen to any protestations, and so she said 'you're going to be issued with a £60 fixed penalty fine'.\n\n\"It's not about the 60 quid, it's about the principle.\"\n\nThe home is just over seven miles from where the couple live", "The governor of Amazonas state warned of a \"critical\" moment and has implemented a curfew\n\nHospitals in the Brazilian city of Manaus have reached breaking point while treating Covid-19 patients, amid reports of severe oxygen shortages and desperate staff.\n\nThe city, in Amazonas state, has seen a surge of deaths and infections.\n\nHealth professionals, quoted by local media, warned \"many people\" could die due to lack of supplies and assistance.\n\nBrazil has recorded more than 205,000 virus deaths - the second-highest tally in the world, behind the US.\n\nA new coronavirus variant has recently emerged in Brazil, with several cases in travellers arriving in Japan traced back to the Amazonas region.\n\nAmazonas suffered heavy losses in the first wave of the pandemic but is also being badly hit by a new rise in infections.\n\nRefrigerated containers were brought to hospitals to help store bodies last week, as authorities declared a state of emergency.\n\nJessem Orellana, from the Fiocruz-Amazonia scientific investigation institute, told the AFP news agency that some hospitals in Manaus had \"run out of oxygen\" with some centres becoming \"a type of suffocation chamber\" for patients.\n\nThe researcher told Brazilian media she had received reports from the front-line of \"dramatic\" scenes playing out in some hospitals.\n\nReports in the daily Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper described desperate staff having to try to keep patients alive through manual ventilation.\n\nIn a widely shared video from the region, a female medical worker asks the internet for help: \"We're in an awful state. Oxygen has simply run out across the whole unit today.\"\n\n\"There is no oxygen and lots of people are dying,\" she says in the clip. \"If anyone has any oxygen, please bring it to the clinic. There are so many people dying.\"\n\nThe UK has banned travellers from much of Latin America over a new variant detected in Brazil\n\nAmazonas Governor Wilson Lima said the state was \"in the most critical moment of the pandemic\" and has announced a nightly curfew will begin at 19:00 local time (23:00 GMT) on Friday to try to stem the spread.\n\nMarcellus Campelo, a local health secretary, said the state needed three times the amount of oxygen it can produce locally and appealed for help.\n\nBrazil's vice-president shared images on Twitter of the air force transporting hospital supplies, including oxygen cylinders and stretchers, to the city as reports of the situation spread throughout the country.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHealth officials also say some patients will be airlifted to other states for treatment due to the demand for intensive care units, Reuters reports.\n\nFelipe Naveca, deputy director of research at the state-run Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, told the BBC's South America correspondent Katy Watson that the new variant had evolved separately from those in the UK and South Africa, but that it showed some of the same characteristics: \"Some of these mutations have been linked to increased transmission and that is of concern.\"\n\nMr Naveca said that they did not yet have any data to suggest that existing vaccines would be any less effective against the new variant. \"We have to do a lot more sequencing of samples to answer that question,\" he said.\n\nHowever, on Thursday UK officials announced a ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde due to the new strain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Thursday evening. We'll have another update for you on Friday morning.\n\nTravel from South America and Portugal to the UK is being banned, other than for British or Irish citizens and foreign nationals with residence rights. The new ruling is being brought in because of concerns about the new Brazilian coronavirus variant and comes into force from 04:00 GMT on Friday. The ban applies to people who have travelled from, or through, these countries in the 10 days before their departure for the UK: Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Cape Verde, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela. Find out more about the new variants here.\n\nDoctors have warned that the recent surge in Covid hospital cases has left key hospital services in England in crisis. Accident and Emergency departments are facing rising delays in admitting extremely sick patients on to wards, NHS data shows. The total number of people facing year-long waits for routine treatments is more than 100 times higher than it was before the pandemic - and cancer specialists are warning of a \"terrifying\" disruption to their services that would cost lives.\n\nThe government has told schools not to provide free meals to eligible pupils' families over half term, with food to be provided by councils under the Covid Winter Grant Scheme instead. The Department for Education said vulnerable families would continue to receive meals outside of term time through the welfare support they have made available. But councils say the government should be responsible for providing food vouchers during the February half-term, like it did over summer.\n\nA top scientist has said the coronavirus growth rate in the UK is slowing, with the number of infections starting to level off in some areas. Prof Neil Ferguson told the BBC that in some NHS regions there is a \"sign of plateauing\" in cases and hospital admissions. But he warned the overall death toll - currently standing at over 80,000 - would exceed 100,000. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the national lockdown measures in place across the UK are \"starting to show signs of some effect\" but warned that it was still early days.\n\nMany people feel they've put on weight during the pandemic, due to staying indoors more and turning to comfort food. Samantha Hicks, from Portishead, North Somerset, thought she was one of them - but what she believed was a few extra pounds of weight was actually a baby. She gave birth to her daughter Julia just 10 days after discovering she was pregnant. Her pregnancy was even missed when she was taken to hospital in November with Covid-19. She said: \"My tummy was a bit swollen but again, because I felt sick and I wasn't great, it never occurred to me I was pregnant.\"\n\nThe UK travel rules have been updated again. Find out all the details you need here.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Most people who have had Covid-19 are protected from catching it again for at least five months, a study led by Public Health England shows.\n\nPast infection was linked to around a 83% lower risk of getting the virus, compared with those who had never had Covid-19, scientists found.\n\nBut experts warn some people do catch Covid-19 again - and can infect others.\n\nAnd officials stress people should follow the stay-at-home rules - whether or not they have had the virus.\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, who led the study, said the results were encouraging, suggesting immunity lasted longer than some people feared, but protection was by no means absolute.\n\nIt was particularly concerning some of those reinfected had high levels of the virus - even without symptoms - and were at risk of passing it on to others, she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Susan Hopkins from Public Health England said immunity from having Covid-19 is \"not 100% protective\"\n\n\"This means even if you believe you already had the disease and are protected, you can be reassured it is highly unlikely you will develop severe infections but there is still a risk that you could acquire an infection and transmit to others,\" she added.\n\n\"Now more than ever, it is vital we all stay at home to protect our health service and save lives.\"\n\nFrom June to November 2020, almost 21,000 healthcare workers across the UK were regularly tested to see whether they:\n\nOf those who had no antibodies to the virus, suggesting they may have never had it, 318 developed potential new infections within this timeframe.\n\nBut among the 6,614 with antibodies, this figure was just 44 potential new infections.\n\nResearchers received various different pieces of evidence suggesting these people had become re-infected - including new symptoms more than 90 days after their first infection, new positive swab tests and blood tests.\n\nSome tests are still being run and researchers say their results will be updated as they come in.\n\nScientists will continue to monitor the healthcare workers for 12 months to see how long immunity lasts.\n\nThey will also look closely at cases with the new variant - which was not widespread at the time of this first analysis - and observe the immunity of participants who receive the vaccine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Can you become immune to coronavirus?\n\nDr Julian Tang, a virus expert at the University of Leicester, said the results were reassuring for healthcare workers.\n\n\"Having the vaccine after recovering from Covid-19 is not an issue... and will likely boost the natural immunity,\" he added.\n\n\"We also see this with the seasonal flu vaccine.\n\n\"So hopefully the results from this paper will reduce the anxiety of many healthcare-worker colleagues who have concerns about getting Covid-19 twice.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Changes to Scotland's lockdown restrictions have been announced. The tightening of the rules follows concerns the \"stay at home\" message is not having the same impact it did during last year's lockdown. The changes will come into effect on Saturday.\n\nThe availability and operation of click and collect services will be limited to retailers selling essential items such as clothes, footwear, baby equipment, homeware and books. Also, outlets that sell electrical goods; do key cutting; undertake shoe repairs, plus garden centres and plant nurseries can continue the collect service.\n\nFor qualifying businesses, staggered appointments will need to be offered to avoid any potential for queuing, and access inside premises for collection will not be permitted.\n\nCustomers in Scotland will no longer be allowed to go inside to collect takeaway food or coffee. Businesses will have to operate from a serving hatch or doorway.\n\nThe aim is to reduce the risk of customers coming into contact indoors with each other, or with staff.\n\nIt will be against the law in all level four areas of Scotland to drink alcohol outdoors in public.\n\nThis will mean that buying a takeaway pint and consuming on the street will not be permitted.\n\nIt is intended to underline the message that people should only be leaving home for essential purposes.\n\nThe Scottish government is strengthening the obligation on employers to allow their staff to work from home whenever possible.\n\nThe law already says that people should only be leaving home to go to work if it is work that cannot be done from home. This is a legal obligation that falls on individuals.\n\nHowever, statutory guidance is being introduced to make clear that employers should support employees to work from home wherever possible.\n\nThe Scottish government is strengthening provisions in relation to work inside people's houses.\n\nCurrent guidance says that in level four areas work is only permitted within a private dwelling if it is essential for the upkeep, maintenance and functioning of the household. This guidance is now being put into law.\n\nThe final change is an amendment to the regulations requiring people to stay at home.\n\nThis is intended to close an apparent loophole rather than change the spirit of the law. It will also bring the wording of the stay at home regulations in Scotland into line with the other UK nations.\n\nCurrently the law states that people can only leave home for an essential purpose.\n\nThe amendment will make it clear that people \"must not leave or remain outside\" the home unless it is for an essential purpose.\n\nThe Scottish government's full lockdown guidance is available here.", "Covid-19 patients in England's busiest intensive care units in 2020 were 20% more likely to die, University College London research has found.\n\nThe increased risk was equivalent to gaining a decade in age.\n\nBy the end of 2020, one in three hospital trusts in England was running at higher than 85% capacity.\n\nEleven trusts were completely full on 30 December, and the total number of people in intensive care with Covid has continued to rise since then.\n\nThe link between full ICUs and higher death rates was already known, but this study is the first to measure its effect during the pandemic.\n\nTighter lockdown restrictions are needed to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed, says study author Dr Bilal Mateen.\n\nResearchers looked at more than 4,000 patients who were admitted to intensive care units in 114 hospital trusts in England between April and June last year.\n\nThey found the risk of dying was almost a fifth higher in ICUs where more than 85% of beds were occupied, than in those running at between 45% and 85% capacity.\n\nThat meant a 60-year-old being treated in one of these units had the same risk of dying as a 70-year-old on a quieter ward.\n\nThe Royal College of Emergency Medicine sets 85% as the maximum safe level of bed occupancy.\n\nHowever, the team found there was no tipping point after which deaths rose - instead, survival rates fell consistently as bed-occupancy increased.\n\nThis suggests \"a lot of harm is occurring before you get to 85%\".\n\nPatients admitted to ICUs that were less than 45% full were 25% less likely to die than average.\n\nUsually if a very sick patient's heart stops, everyone on the ward will rush to help them, Dr Mateen explained.\n\nBut when there are too many patients, staff's time is inevitably split, so \"it makes sense that the quality of patient care would be sacrificed\", he said.\n\nWhile extra beds and equipment can, and have, been provided through the Nightingale hospitals and the private sector, finding enough qualified staff has been an issue.\n\n\"You can't just create an ICU nurse who knows how to operate a mechanical ventilator overnight,\" Dr Mateen told the BBC.\n\nThese are highly-skilled roles that take years of training and sometimes decades of experience, he added.\n\nInstead, a \"robust vaccination programme\" and tighter lockdown restrictions are needed to bring down cases and hospitalisations, he believes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nCo-author Prof Christina Pagel at UCL added: \"This paper highlights for the first time that putting such strain on ICUs during pandemic peaks does, sadly, mean that that chances of someone dying in intensive care are higher.\n\n\"Our work underlines the urgency of both vaccinating vulnerable groups as soon as possible and reducing Covid transmission in the community to relieve pressure on intensive care.\"\n\nIt's difficult to say for sure that fuller ICUs are actually causing more deaths - it's possible that as they get fuller, only the sickest patients are admitted.\n\nBut Dr Mateen says there was no evidence of rationing - of sick patients being turned away.\n\nEven pre-Covid, data suggests larger ICUs had lower death rates - with a 25% increase in bed numbers linked to a corresponding 25% fall in mortality.\n\nAnd the findings are supported by a wealth of evidence from before the pandemic and from around the world.", "Coach and tour operators have seen an unexpected growth in bookings in the last fortnight.\n\nWhilst there is no doubt that the pandemic continues to put huge pressure on lives and the NHS, this is a small amount of sunshine for the travel industry, which has had a tough year.\n\nTUI, the UK's largest tour operator, says 50% of bookings on their website are currently by over-50s.\n\nThis was previously a smaller market for them.\n\nNational Express's coach holiday businesses say bookings made by those 65 and over have increased by 185% in the last fortnight compared to last year.\n\n\"Since the announcement of the vaccine, it's given our customer base, predominantly those over 65, increased confidence to book and have that summer getaway in 2021\" says Jit Desai, head of holidays and travel at National Express.\n\n\"We launched the brochure for spring-summer 2021 just this weekend gone, and on Monday we took a week's worth of bookings in a day and that's continued so far,\" says Mr Desai. \"What the vaccine does is give certainty and confidence.\n\n\"That then allows the customer and ourselves the ability to plan ahead\".\n\nThe pandemic has been devastating for the travel sector. Tens of thousands of jobs have gone in the UK. Millions of Britons cancelled breaks because the health situation was in flux across the world.\n\nBut National Express now points to returning confidence to travel.\n\n\"Many we've spoken to have had the first jab. They know in 12 weeks they'll get a second jab. It gives them certainty that they can enjoy and look forward to their 2021 holiday. It is something to look forward to, to being with people, with friends, like minded and from the same generation.\"\n\nDawn and Ray - 75 and 78 years old - are from Hampshire and are due to have their first jab soon. They have just booked five UK holidays.\n\n\"We are raring to go once we've got that vaccine, we are really looking forward to it - both of us. We are going to Wales, Leicestershire, to York where there is a mystery tour - and to the Cotswolds'\", Dawn said.\n\nFor Dawn and Ray, it's the ease of coach travel that's appealing, as well as the safety. She adds \"they've looked after us so well in the past, the coaches are clean, we'll all wear masks, we all look after each other.\"\n\nAt the moment, 90% of the bookings with National Expresses coach businesses are UK based, so it looks like another good year for the staycation.\n\n\"European bookings are lower because of the uncertainty on the continent,\" says Mr Desai.\n\n\"The UK wins because of the lack of need to quarantine. And uncertainty about the moves other governments might make whilst away also creates fear.\"\n\nIt's not just UK breaks that are selling. The UK's largest tour operator TUI, famous for its sun-drenched European beach holidays, says there has also been a change in the last fortnight.\n\n\"We're seeing a customer base or age group that wasn't booking before, that is starting to book,\" says Andrew Flintham the MD of TUI UK. \"The over 50s, we assume, is on the back to the vaccine news.\"\n\nWhilst TUI UK boss acknowledges that \"the market is still depressed and it's not where we want it - we are seeing glimmers of hope.\"\n\nTrips to towns in England are among those being booked\n\nThere are also interesting changes emerging in the types of breaks holidaymakers plan to take and the months they're planning to travel.\n\n\"People are booking later into the summer, hedging their bets\" said Mr Flintham. \"More July and August and a lot of demand for September and October.\n\n\"People are booking longer holidays, we're seeing more people booking ten or eleven or 14 nights rather than seven. People are maybe catching up on what they've missed.\"\n\nAs TUI analysed its recent booking data, one trend they spotted is the emergence of large, multigenerational group bookings.\n\n\"It is family time we've all missed. We can't get away from our own families, but our broader families we can't see, and that's feeding into our choices\" Mr Flintham explains.\n\nAfter such a bad 10 months, and TUI cancelling all holidays until the middle of February at the earliest because of the new lockdown, how does the rest of the summer look?\n\n\"I think the summer holiday is on\" says Mr Flintham, \"I think we just need time for people to get that confidence, but yes, we think there will be a good summer this summer\".\n\nFor those who've watched the paralysis brought upon the travel industry since last winter, a morsel of good news about customers booking again is being celebrated.\n\n\"This is fantastic news and to be hugely welcomed by an industry that has been utterly devastated by the pandemic\", says Sophie Griffiths, editor of Travel Trade Gazette.\n\n\"Ten months into this crisis and the industry has still received zero dedicated support from the government despite being unique as a sector in terms of giving out thousands in refunds while getting next to nothing back in for 2020.\"", "The Lauberhorn course is the longest downhill run in the world (file image)\n\nA British tourist has been blamed for a spike in coronavirus cases that led officials to cancel Switzerland's famous Lauberhorn ski race.\n\nThe resort of Wengen, where the race is held, had recorded only 10 cases of the virus by mid-December.\n\nBut the number soon began to rise and many cases have since been linked to the new highly infectious variant of Covid-19 first identified in the UK.\n\nAt least 27 cases are connected to one British tourist, contact tracers say.\n\nThe tourist stayed in a hotel in Wengen over the holiday period.\n\nThe Lauberhorn course is the longest downhill run in the world, and racers can reach speeds of 160km/h (100 mph).\n\nOfficials desperately tried to save the race, shutting schools and offering to close off the resort to everyone but the competitors.\n\nSwiss health officials initially agreed with the plan, but a further jump in cases at the start of this week prompted them to pull the emergency brake and cancel the event.\n\nThe Lauberhorn track is 4,480m (14,700ft) long - and the race will now have to wait until 2022\n\nWengen is devastated. The Lauberhorn is one of the top competitions on the World Cup ski circuit. It is dearly loved by the Swiss, who have watched with delight as some of their own homegrown talent, such as Beat Feuz and Carlo Janka, have triumphed there.\n\nMoreover, the long love affair between Switzerland and British winter tourists has frosted over to some extent.\n\nIt was only last month that the vanishing Brits of Verbier, who reportedly fled Switzerland rather than accept the government mandated quarantine, triggered a flurry of negative headlines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Italy's Foppolo ski resort was closed until 6 January and missed the all-important Christmas ski season\n\nNow the high point of Switzerland's skiing calendar has been abruptly cancelled, and some Swiss blame the British.\n\nOthers say Switzerland only has itself to blame.\n\nWhile neighbours France and Italy closed their resorts over the festive period, the Swiss government opted for a precarious balancing act. It kept its slopes open, but closed all bars and restaurants and limited ski lifts to two-thirds capacity.\n\nMost Swiss resorts are quiet, with just a few locals enjoying the runs. But still some tourists arrived and, as Wengen's experience shows, just one infected guest is enough to cause major damage.\n\nInstead of hosting a major ski race, Wengen officials are now racing to control the virus. Mass testing has already begun in the resort.\n\nSwitzerland's government has extended the closure of bars, restaurants, museums, and theatres until the end of February in a bid to control the new variant. It has also ordered non-essential shops to close and made working from home obligatory.\n\nAs for the Lauberhorn, Switzerland's oldest and fiercest skiing rival, Austria, will now host the postponed event. Nothing could have been calculated to upset the Swiss more.\n\nThe event was first moved to the Austrian ski resort of Kitzbühel, but an outbreak of coronavirus there has prompted another move, this time to Flachau, 100km to the east.\n\nThe cluster of cases in Jochberg near Kitzbühel broke out among a group of mainly British trainee ski instructors.", "Some 13 ambulances queued outside the Royal Glamorgan Hospital hospital's A&E department on Saturday\n\nHospitals in the area with Wales and England's worst Covid death rates are only coping by postponing urgent surgery such as cancer operations.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg had already suspended some non-emergency services but the boss of the health board said they have now paused some urgent procedures.\n\nCwm Taf covers Rhondda Cynon Taf and Merthyr Tydfil, which have the highest and second highest Covid death rates.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said he \"would not be surprised\" if other health boards were forced to do the same soon, if case rates did not come down.\n\n\"There is real harm being done... because of the level of hospital admissions,\" he said.\n\n\"Our critical care units are at 150% of their capacity and that has very real consequences.\n\n\"It reinforces why all of us need to do the right thing in reducing our contacts with other people and follow the rules, otherwise greater harm will be caused.\"\n\nThe news comes as NHS bosses said the number of Covid patients in Welsh hospitals is double April's peak.\n\nOn Thursday, Public Health Wales (PHW) said a further 54 people had died with coronavirus in Wales, taking the total number of deaths since the start of the pandemic to 4,117.\n\nMr Lyons said on Wednesday night their field hospital Ysbyty Seren in Bridgend had 74 patients, people they \"wouldn't have been able to accommodate within our usual hospitals\".\n\n\"We are coping, but that's coping because we've been cancelling urgent surgery.\n\n\"We even had to cancel some cancer surgery over the last few weeks,\" Mr Lyons told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"My heart goes out to families and to patients with all the stress and the worry that gives.\n\n\"It's tough times and we're all in it together, and we do see that optimism, that glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel but it's hard.\"\n\nNearly half of hospital beds in the health board - which covers Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf- are taken up with Covid-19 patients, including 31 in critical care or on ventilation.\n\nThey outnumber those in critical care with other conditions by three to one.\n\nLatest NHS Wales figures show 2,806 hospital patients in Wales with Covid-19 - 35% of all patients. This is twice the proportion in May.\n\nIn Rhondda Cynon Taf, the Covid death rate is 283.9 per 100,000 population - followed by Merthyr Tydfil where the death rate is 253.6.\n\n\"It's an absolute tragedy for the families and the loved ones and very sobering,\" said Mr Lyons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. See how case rates have changed in each part of Wales\n\n\"We're coping but only because of the dedication of our staff, and it's immensely humbling to see people giving up their spare time coming in doing extra shifts, but the toll on them is immense.\n\n\"In practice our hospitals are full and although we are coping that we're only coping because we've cancelled all but the most urgent surgery.\n\n\"We've redeployed staff who've been incredibly flexible from places they normally work such as outpatients.\"\n\nThe health board oversees three hospitals - Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil, Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend and the Royal Glamorgan in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nA nurse at Royal Glamorgan Hospital, near Llantrisant, said earlier this week how she felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued outside her hospital's A&E department.", "Six pharmacies will be vaccinating people invited by letter to make an appointment online\n\nSome High Street pharmacies in England will start vaccinating people from priority groups on Thursday, with 200 providing jabs in the next two weeks.\n\nSix chemists in Halifax, Macclesfield, Widnes, Guildford, Edgware and Telford are the first to offer appointments to those invited by letter.\n\nBut pharmacists say many more sites should be allowed to give the jab, not just the largest ones.\n\nMore than 2.6 million people in the UK have now received their first dose.\n\nAcross the UK, the target is to vaccinate 15 million people in the top four priority groups - care home residents and workers, NHS frontline staff, the over-70s and the extremely clinically vulnerable - by mid-February.\n\nThe vaccines - made by either Oxford-AstraZeneca or Pfizer-BioNTech - are being administered at hospitals, care homes, GP surgeries and vaccination centres.\n\nIt comes as the UK saw its highest number of daily reported coronavirus deaths since the pandemic began, with the government announcing a further 1,564 deaths of people within 28 days of a positive Covid test.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, the Scottish government published its detailed 16-page plan for rolling out the vaccine, including details of how many vaccines it expects to receive every week until the end of May.\n\nThe first pharmacy sites in England to deliver a vaccine have been chosen because they are capable of delivering large numbers of vaccines quickly while allowing space for social distancing.\n\nPeople will be invited by letter to make an appointment at one of the pharmacies, or a vaccination centre, through the NHS Covid-19 vaccination booking service.\n\nAnyone who doesn't want to travel to these sites can still be vaccinated by their local GP or hospital service, but they may have to wait longer.\n\nUp to 70 more pharmacies will be taking bookings for appointments for next week, with 200 in total offering slots over the next fortnight, according to NHS England.\n\nVaccines are currently being offered at more than 1,000 sites, including :\n\nAn Asda supermarket in Birmingham will also host a vaccination centre, with pharmacy staff giving jabs in the store's former clothing section from 25 January.\n\nBut the National Pharmacy Association says the rules on which pharmacies qualify to deliver Covid vaccines should be relaxed to allow more to take part.\n\nHow people awaiting vaccines will queue and socially distance in the Halifax store of Boots\n\nAt present, pharmacies have to be able to deliver 1,000 vaccines a week, have enough fridge space to store all the doses, and be able to open seven days a week.\n\nAndrew Lane, of the National Pharmacy Association, said now that the Oxford vaccine had been approved, community pharmacies could store and administer it in the same way as they deliver the flu jab.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine only needs to be stored at fridge temperature, as opposed to the freezer temperatures of -70C required by Pfizer.\n\n\"We're here, we're trained, we will deliver,\" said Mr Lane, who represents Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Northamptonshire.\n\nNHS England has said that as more supplies of vaccine become available, more community pharmacists will be able to play a role in the programme.\n\nThe government's vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said staff across the NHS had \"pulled out all the stops to help ramp up vaccinations\" and were working day and night to keep people safe.\n\nProf Claire Anderson, chair of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's English Pharmacy Board, said pharmacy teams in hospital, primary care and the community were \"working flat out to support the nation's health\".\n\nShe said she looked forward to the vaccination programme being expanded through pharmacies to benefit patients.\n\nBoris Johnson said on Wednesday that vaccinations would also start being offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week \"as soon as possible\" - but supply of doses was currently the limiting factor.\n\nIt comes as hospitals struggle to cope with the rising numbers of patients being admitted with Covid.\n\nA study published today has shown the impact of packed intensive care units on death rates, finding that patients in England's busiest ICUs in 2020 were 20% more likely to die.\n\nMeanwhile, a government committee is meeting later to discuss whether to stop flights from Brazil coming to the UK because of concern about a new variant of the virus believed to have emerged there.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe strain is one of a small number of new variants which have been spreading, including ones first spotted in the UK and South Africa.\n\nScientists are racing to understand what it means for the vaccines - but most experts think vaccines will still be effective.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bangor student Michelle Francis said students had hardly used rooms and had not been able to use facilities on campus\n\nHundreds of students are preparing to take part in rent strikes after paying for \"hardly used\" rooms during the pandemic.\n\nSome Welsh universities have already offered refunds to students who have been living away due to Covid-19.\n\nBut students in Cardiff, Swansea and Bangor claim they are being treated unfairly and are threatening to withhold rent.\n\nUniversities said they were trying to work out the implications of Covid-19.\n\nAnd a solicitor warned students they could face legal action for not paying rent, with long-term implications possible if they lose.\n\nFace-to-face teaching was suspended and many students moved back home before Christmas as coronavirus cases continued to rise.\n\nStaggered returns are being introduced in order to \"help stop the spread of the virus in student accommodation\", according to the Welsh Government.\n\nThey said they had not been living in the rooms or using facilities, despite paying for them, because they were abiding by Welsh Government guidelines.\n\nCardiff Metropolitan University, Aberystwyth University, Swansea University, Bangor University and Cardiff University have now offered eligible students rebates or discounts for time not spent living on campus.\n\nUniversity of South Wales said it will be offering a \"rent holiday\" on university-owned accommodation in Treforest, Rhondda Cynon Taf, for the period 4 January to 12 February.\n\nUniversity of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) said on Thursday it is now offering refunds to students who have not returned to university-owned accommodation while teaching is solely online.\n\nBut students say the offers are inadequate for students already paying £9,000-a-year tuition fees at a time when most of the teaching was online, and they had been unable to use facilities in halls.\n\nWhile the students cannot hold their protests in person due to coronavirus laws, hundreds are now planning to cancel their direct debits, withholding thousands of pounds of rent from universities.\n\nMichelle Francis, who formed the Bangor Rent Strike campaign, said the university's offer of a 10% discount to eligible students living in university-owned accommodation did not go far enough.\n\nShe said students who had chosen to go home for Christmas were not eligible, despite being unable to use facilities paid for during the first term.\n\n\"[We were] advised to have left university from the beginning of December and to come back at 8 February,\" she said.\n\n\"That's 25% of our halls that we've been paying and we're not there... we should be allowed to have that back.\"\n\nSo far over 300 students have joined the campaign to cancel their direct debits paid to Welsh universities and campaigners said the numbers were growing daily.\n\nOn Wednesday, Cardiff University joined other Welsh universities in offering a rent rebate to students living in university-owned accommodation during the pandemic.\n\nBut the full rebate, for the time students are unable to return to live in their accommodation, will not be applied until April.\n\nSwansea University has also confirmed a rent reduction to students in university halls who have been asked to remain at home.\n\nOisin Mulholland of Swansea Rent Strike said the group wanted the university to commit to fairly \"assessing the situation\", including for the coming term, and students who had already moved in should be given rebates as well.\n\n\"There was a window in January, where the Welsh Government said return, but the English government said don't return, and the university said nothing,\" he said.\n\n\"Many students came back and are now trapped in Swansea and can't go back because of lockdown\"\n\nIbrahim Khan said students were struggling and needed the rebate immediately\n\nIbrahim Khan, of the Cardiff Rent Strike campaign, said the rebate was \"too late\" for students struggling financially now.\n\n\"The university should be giving us the rebate this January as opposed to the third instalment in April,\" he said.\n\nLawyers have warned that students would in breach of contract if they cancel the direct debit for their rent.\n\nSiôn Fôn, a solicitor at Darwin Gray, encouraged students to discuss the issue with their families and student unions before taking action.\n\n\"I think a case could be brought forward pretty easily against somebody not paying rent,\" he said.\n\nBut he said students may have a case against the university due to not being able to access advertised facilities, but if the university took legal action it could have long-term consequences for individuals.\n\n\"If the students lose, and even after losing don't pay the rent, that would come up on credit scores, or with the bank, if they're trying to get a mortgage or a credit card it would come up on their record,\" he warned.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"How am I going to afford to do my food shop... if I can't go to work?\"\n\nA spokesperson for Cardiff University said technical reasons meant they had to wait until the April instalment of accommodation fees to provide the rebate.\n\nSwansea University said some students had already returned when the stay at home guidance was issued, and it was working through the \"implications of this\".\n\n\"To help with this the university will not generate invoices for any students with university accommodation until May when we have been able to look at these cases,\" a spokesman said.\n\nBangor University said it did not wish to add anything further following its rebate announcement.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had provided an extra £40m to help universities, including £10m for towards student hardship and support.\n\n\"It would seem fair that students should be eligible for a rebate for the period when a course is online only and we welcome moves by universities to address this,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"We are actively considering how we can support our students and universities even further.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Residents of an asylum seeker camp in Pembrokeshire says life is 'very bad'\n\nAsylum seekers housed in a military training camp have claimed the \"very bad\" conditions are making them feel increasingly desperate.\n\nThe Home Office decided to house up to 250 asylum seekers at the site in Penally, Pembrokeshire, from September.\n\nBut some housed at the camp claim the conditions are unsafe and putting them at risk of coronavirus.\n\nPlaid Cymru has called for an urgent inspection, but the Home Office said it was safe and \"Covid-compliant\".\n\nOn Thursday afternoon, the independent chief inspector for borders and immigration David Bolt said he hoped an inspection can begin \"within a few weeks\" and was awaiting further details he requested from the Home Office.\n\nProtests and counter-protests have taken place at the camp, with concerns conditions breach human rights.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford has said the facility was \"unsuitable\" for vulnerable people who have \"fled terror and suffering\".\n\nNow, asylum seekers have spoken to the BBC about their experiences of living in the camp during the pandemic, with some claiming the site does not abide by Covid-19 rules.\n\nPhotos taken inside the camp show the living conditions in one of the rooms\n\nOne man, who wishes to remain anonymous, arrived at the camp on 1 October.\n\nHe said he had pain from \"old injuries\" obtained in Syria, but had to wait \"four days\" to see a doctor. He also has concerns about hygiene facilities at the camp.\n\n\"There is no observance of the Covid safety laws,\" he said, claiming \"six men\" share a small bedroom, dozens eat in the same room, and some staff preparing food do not wear face masks.\n\nVideo footage and photographs of the camp, seen by BBC Wales, show bathroom floors covered with water, every toilet in one bathroom blocked, beds in communal rooms less than 2m (6ft) apart and a bathroom where all the soap dispensers are empty.\n\nThe Home Office said medical need determined GP appointments, social distancing was required, and soap was replenished at the site.\n\nThe man said the camp's conditions had left him in a \"bad psychological state\" and others had attempted self-harm: \"Should I try to hurt myself to get out of here?\"\n\nHe said he and other residents were able to leave the camp as long as they are back by 22:00 GMT, but said he was reluctant to go out due to the \"humiliation, abuse and racism\" he has experienced.\n\nThe site has attracted protests in recent months\n\nWhile some have welcomed the refugees, posting welcome notes outside the gates, the camp has been described as a target for \"hard-right extremist\" protesters.\n\nThe Home Office said that, where someone claims their mental health is suffering, it would consider if their needs can be met at the site.\n\nAnother resident, from Eritrea, north-east Africa, said life in the camp was stressful, and people were being \"treated like prisoners\".\n\n\"For the Eritrean community in this camp, the most difficult thing is we escaped from our country from indefinite military service and illegal imprisonment,\" he said.\n\n\"So we feel like we are imprisoned in a military camp. It is all coming back to us.\"\n\nOne resident said it was impossible to maintain social distancing in a room with six people\n\nThe man said he had been told to be careful and to abide to Covid rules, but there was \"no protection\" as he was sleeping in a room with five others.\n\n\"Most of the bathrooms - they are broken,\" he said.\n\n\"They are filled with tissues, masks, everything you can find, they are blocked, they don't work.\"\n\nHe said he had not been offered a coronavirus test since arriving about three months ago.\n\nThe Home Office said residents had often entered the UK some time ago, and had been mainly placed in the camp after being in the south-east of England and around London.\n\nIt added that coronavirus tests were only necessary in line with Welsh Government guidance.\n\nIt added that Clearsprings Ready Homes, which manage the camp, took immediate steps to repair damage.\n\nSome have welcomed the asylum seekers in the community\n\nBut Plaid Cymru's leader in Westminster, Liz Saville Roberts, has called for an \"urgent\" and \"transparent\" inspection of the site.\n\nIn a letter to the UK's Independent chief inspector of borders and immigration, David Bolt, the MP said: \"We are now not only in the middle of winter, but cases of Covid-19 in Wales are rising at an alarming rate.\n\n\"I am extremely worried that the conditions at the old military barracks are wholly unsuitable to deal with the cold weather and to facilitate effective social distancing.\n\n\"This shows a clear disregard for the health and wellbeing of those being kept in the camp.\"\n\nAbout 40 men took part in the protest outside the camp in November over claims their human rights were being breached\n\nShe told BBC Radio Wales: \"If we aspire to be a nation of sanctuary, surely we should be looking at how people, while they are with us, are integrated into our communities and given all the services that they need, rather than putting them in a convenient enclosed space in a tiny community which is ill equipped itself to deal with this... Let alone far right protests outside and all the pressure that's put on the local population.\n\n\"We need to make sure that this doesn't set a precedent into the future.\"\n\nMr Bolt told Ms Saville Roberts he had \"received assurances\" from the Home Office that the Penally camp had an independent Covid-19 audit on 4 November.\n\nIn a letter, he said he hoped an inspection could be held \"within a few weeks\".\n\nHe said he was keen to understand how the Home Office \"was assuring itself\" individuals who were particularly vulnerable, including torture victims, potential victims of modern slavery, and those with complex health and other needs, were being identified and action taken to safeguard them.\n\nHe said: \"While on site I would expect the only restrictions to be those relating to Covid-19 and that inspectors would be free to examine the premises and facilities, observe daily life and interview staff and service users, and I would look to the Home Office to ensure that whoever is responsible for managing the site understands that they must cooperate with the inspection team.\"\n\nIn December, the Welsh Labour Government deputy minister Jane Hutt called on the Home Secretary Priti Patel to close the camp, describing the conditions as \"unsafe\" and \"inhumane\".\n\nTom Nunn, a solicitor representing some of the residents at camp, said the Home Office had said the camp should only be used as short-term accommodation for single, asylum-seeking males with no known vulnerabilities.\n\nBut he said 20 clients had been transferred away from the camp due to being vulnerable, and feared a serious incident would happen if things did not change.\n\n\"The majority of them have been detained and/or tortured in their country of origin, many have been exploited on their journey to the UK and a large number have fairly severe mental health problems,\" he said.\n\n\"It should not be the case that the only effective way of being transferred out is through making submissions through lawyers, and we are concerned about a large number of individuals who for a myriad of reasons may be unable to obtain this representation.\"\n\nThe UK's Minister for Immigration Compliance, Chris Philp, said: \"We provide asylum seekers in Penally with safe, Covid-compliant and weather-proof accommodation along with free, nutritious meals, all paid for by the taxpayer.\n\n\"We take the welfare of those in our care extremely seriously and asylum seekers can contact the 24/7 helpline run by Migrant Help if they have any issues.\n\n\"We are fixing our asylum system to make it firm and fair. We will be bringing forward legislation which will stop abuse of the system while ensuring it is compassionate towards those who need our help, welcoming people through safe and legal routes.\"", "The TikTok clip was reported to police by Network Rail\n\nA TikTok stunt featuring a car parked on a level crossing has been branded \"staggeringly stupid\".\n\nThe \"reckless\" social media post, recorded on the line at Bromley Cross, Bolton, showed a camera and tripod set up on the railway to record the scene.\n\nAn accompanying caption asked viewers: \"Would you take the risk to get the shot no-one else would?\"\n\nInsp Becky Warren, from British Transport Police, said: \"No picture or video is worth risking your life for.\"\n\nNetwork Rail, which reported the footage after it appeared on the video-sharing app, blasted the \"staggeringly stupid and dangerous\" clip.\n\nIt issued a reminder that trespassing on railway lines is against the law.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ManchesterPiccadilly This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth West route director Phil James said using the tracks \"as a backdrop for a photo shoot beggars belief\".\n\n\"Lives could so easily have been lost by this reckless behaviour,\" he said.\n\nInsp Warren added: \"There is simply no excuse for not following safety procedures at level crossings. The behaviour shown by the individuals in this video is incredibly dangerous and reckless.\"\n\nMany instances of trespass involve people using railway lines as backdrops for selfies and even wedding photos.\n\nLast year, Network Rail and British Transport Police launched a You vs. Train campaign to highlight the issue of young people trespassing.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Armie Hammer has starred in The Social Network and Call Me By Your Name\n\nUS actor Armie Hammer has pulled out of a new film with Jennifer Lopez after what he described as \"vicious and spurious online attacks against me\".\n\nHammer had been set to appear in the action comedy Shotgun Wedding.\n\nHowever, the star's role will now be re-cast after private messages he supposedly sent were circulated online.\n\nIn a statement, Hammer dismissed the messages and said the subsequent abuse meant he could no longer spend months away from his children while filming.\n\n\"I'm not responding to these [false] claims but in light of the vicious and spurious online attacks against me, I cannot in good conscience now leave my children for four months to shoot a film in the Dominican Republic,\" the 34-year-old said, according to Deadline and Variety.\n\nThe Social Network and Call Me By Your Name actor added that film studio Lionsgate \"is supporting me in this and I'm grateful to them for that\".\n\nHammer has two children aged six and three with TV host Elizabeth Chambers. The couple announced their divorce last summer.\n\nHis name began trending over the weekend after explicit messages detailing disturbing sexual fantasies, which were purportedly sent by him, appeared online.\n\nA spokesman for Shotgun Wedding told the PA news agency that the film's producers accepted his decision.\n\n\"Given the imminent start date of Shotgun Wedding, Armie has requested to step away from the film and we support him in his decision,\" they said.\n\nHammer played the Winklevoss twins in 2010's The Social Network and starred opposite Timothée Chalamet in 2017's acclaimed drama Call Me By Your Name. He also appeared alongside Lily James in the Netflix adaptation of Rebecca, which came out last year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Twitter boss Jack Dorsey has said banning US President Donald Trump was the right thing to do.\n\nHowever, he expressed sadness at what he described as the \"extraordinary and untenable circumstances\" surrounding Mr Trump's permanent suspension.\n\nHe also said the ban was in part a failure of Twitter's, which hadn't done enough to foster \"healthy conversation\" across its platforms.\n\nTwitter has been praised and criticised for freezing Mr Trump's account.\n\nGerman leader Angela Merkel and Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador - neither an ally of the outgoing US president - spoke out against the tech titan's move.\n\nIn a long Twitter thread, Twitter's chief said he did not celebrate or feel pride in the ban - which came after the Capitol riot last week.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by jack This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe reiterated that removing the president from Twitter was made after \"a clear warning\" to Mr Trump.\n\n\"We made a decision with the best information we had based on threats to physical safety both on and off Twitter,\" Mr Dorsey said.\n\nHe also accepted that the move would have consequences for an open and free internet.\n\n\"Having to take these actions fragment the public conversation. They divide us….And sets a precedent I feel is dangerous.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nHe also addressed criticism that just a handful of tech bosses can make decisions on who does and doesn't have a voice on the internet - and on accusations of censorship.\n\n\"A company making a business decision to moderate itself is different from a government removing access, yet can feel much the same,\" said Mr Dorsey.\n\nThe decision to remove users, posts and tweets has been criticised by some for violating First Amendment - free speech - rights.\n\nHowever, big tech firms generally argue that as they are private companies, and not state actors, this law does not apply when they moderate their platforms.\n\nFacebook and YouTube have taken steps to silence the president, while Amazon shut down Parler, an app widely used by his supporters.\n\nNow Snapchat has also announced that Mr Trump will be permanently banned from its platform too.\n\nIt had already announced an indefinite suspension, but has now decided that \"in the interest of public safety and based on his attempts to spread misinformation, hate speech, and incite violence\" to permanently terminate his account.\n\nOn Monday, the German chancellor's spokesperson said she found the social media ban \"problematic\". And the Mexican president said: \"I don't like anybody being censored.\"\n\nIncoming US President-elect Joe Biden has said he wants companies like Facebook and Twitter to do more to take down hate speech and fake news.\n\nHe has previously said he wants to repeal Section 230, a law protecting social media companies from being sued for the things people post.\n\nIt's not clear how Mr Biden intends to regulate Big Tech, though it's likely to be a legislative focus of his.", "Despite the huge need to free up space in hospitals, some care homes say insurance issues make it impossible for them to accept Covid-19 patients.\n\nIn October, the government launched a scheme for designated care homes to take patients recovering from the virus but insurance is a stumbling block.\n\nSir David Behan, head of the UK's largest care home company, HC-One, says insurance has become a major concern.\n\nThe government says it is working to resolve the issue.\n\n\"We are aware the adult social care insurance market is changing in response to the pandemic, and recognise some care providers may encounter difficulties as their policies come up for renewal,\" said a Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson.\n\nOne Hampshire care home says it will have to stop taking patients within days because its insurance will expire.\n\nWaterside House in Netley, Hampshire usually provides holidays and respite care for people with disabilities.\n\nBut since the autumn it has been taking Covid-positive patients discharged from hospitals on the south coast.\n\nThey are looked after on a separate floor from other residents, and the home has had to meet high infection control standards.\n\nHome manager Sarah Knight said demand for the 31 beds is unparalleled and added: \"I've been in nursing a long, long time, and I have never known anything like this.\n\n\"People end up in an ambulance sat outside hospitals for hours and hours, or they end up on a trolley in A&E in a corridor for hours and hours.\n\n\"By offering the best that we've got here, we can reduce some of that burden.\"\n\nJan Tregelles is chief executive of the charity Revitalise which runs Waterside House\n\nThe government originally hoped there would be 500 designated care homes taking in Covid-positive patients.\n\nBut Waterside House is one of only 129 which have been set up to take those who have not completed 14 days in isolation.\n\nHowever, its public indemnity insurance protection, which it needs in case someone contracts Covid there, runs out at the end of January.\n\nWaterside House is run by the charity Revitalise, whose chief executive, Jan Tregelles, said they have tried everything, but will soon have to start turning away people.\n\n\"It's shocking,\" she says. \"We are truly helpless. We have a fantastic team of nurses and colleagues already.\n\n\"The facilities are here, everything's arranged and we can't step up to support our communities at this time.\"\n\nOne resident, Alan Washbourne, who has been living at Waterside House since he was discharged from hospital during the first wave of the pandemic, said: \"I feel quite safe here.\"\n\nHe is not on the Covid floor of the home, and added: \"If I were to go to somewhere else, which is possible, I might not feel quite so safe.\"\n\nAlan Washbourne has been at Waterside House since April last year\n\nAfter so many deaths last spring, many care homes will not consider taking patients who are Covid-positive, even with extra infection control measures.\n\nMeanwhile, growing numbers of staff are off sick or self-isolating, leaving care homes facing shortages.\n\nAnd many are also finding it difficult to get the public indemnity insurance.\n\nSir David Behan is chairman of HC-One, the UK's largest care home provider\n\nSince November, HC-One, which is the UK's largest care home provider, has had to cover its own Covid risks because it cannot get the insurance.\n\nSir David said it is one of the reasons why they have not taken part in the designated places scheme.\n\n\"You've got solicitors' firms advertising, taking cases up against care companies,\" he says.\n\n\"So, this isn't a theoretical risk that there may be proceedings, it's an actual risk, and therefore we need cover.\n\n\"The NHS wouldn't operate without similar liability cover and that's what we need to see, and I think governments have a role to play working with the insurance industry to work to find a solution.\"\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care said it was making efforts to determine what actions it could take.\n\n\"Our priority is to ensure everyone receives the right care, in the right place, at the right time,\" said a spokesperson.", "More than 100,000 Covid-19 vaccinations had been issued in Northern Ireland by Tuesday evening, Robin Swann has said.\n\nThe health minister said, of that figure, 91,419 people had received their first vaccine dose.\n\nHe added that 95% of care home residents had received their first dose and about 20% of those aged over 80 have received their first dose.\n\nIt comes as leading GP said the goal to begin a mass vaccine rollout by summer is \"achievable\" but hinges on supply.\n\nThe Department of Health published its plan to deliver vaccines in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nDr Alan Stout said the timeline was \"very sensible\" but was \"almost 100%\" dependent on getting enough of the vaccine.\n\nAt Wednesday's health briefing, Mr Swann said the programme had made a \"strong start\" but there was more to do.\n\nHe also said he has decided to issue tighter visiting guidelines for hospitals.\n\n\"I have ensured visiting will be permitted to hospices and care homes, but visits to general medical wards will no longer be permitted from this Friday\", he said.\n\nThe minister added that the measure would be kept under constant review.\n\nMr Swann also confirmed a new rapid test for Covid-19, which can return results in 12 minutes, would be used in emergency departments.\n\nHe said a pilot programme has been carried out using the LumiraDX nasal swab, which will enable health staff to \"very quickly identify patients who do not have Covid-19\".\n\nHe also repeated that the current lockdown restrictions were working and had helped to reduce NI's rate of infection, but warned the executive would still have \"difficult decisions\" to take in relation to decisions about whether to extend some restrictions in the coming weeks.\n\nOn Wednesday, a further 19 Covid-related deaths were announced by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland.\n\nA further 1,145 new cases of the virus were also reported.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland's chief medical officer warned there was \"no doubt\" that levels of the new, more transmissible variant of coronavirus are rising in Northern Ireland.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's executive briefing, Dr Michael McBride said that the new variant was making the job to contain it \"twice as difficult\".\n\nThe new variant is said to be up to 70% more transmissible, but there is no evidence it is more dangerous.\n\nThe first confirmed case of the new strain was detected in Northern Ireland on 23 December, but officials had said levels in Northern Ireland remained lower than in other areas of the UK.\n\nDr McBride said there would now be situations where the variant could spread, where previously it may not have.\n\n\"We need to be extremely cautious in the weeks ahead,\" he warned, adding that the virus would not \"magically disappear\" on 6 February, when the current lockdown is due to end.\n\nStormont ministers have to review the regulations on or before 22 January, with that scheduled for next Thursday.\n\nDr McBride said Northern Ireland had some distance to go before restrictions are lifted\n\nDr Stout, the chair of NI's GP committee, said practices needed another 22,000 doses to finish vaccinating people aged over 80.\n\nSpeaking to BBC's Good Morning Ulster, he said he was \"very confident\" the next doses would come through shortly.\n\n\"I have been overwhelmed by the desire of practices, the determination just to get going and the one thing we need to give them is vaccine - we need to get the supply in as quickly as possible.\n\n\"This is such a good news story that everybody wants the vaccine and everybody wants to give it.\"\n\nThe plan is for the vaccine to be given to the general population in summer 2021.\n\nGP clinics should have received their first delivery of the vaccine by Tuesday.\n\nResponding to reports in The Daily Telegraph that GPs administering the vaccine in England had been asked to \"slow down\" to let other regions \"catch-up\", Dr Stout said Northern Ireland had taken a different approach to how it rolled out vaccines to GPs.\n\nHe said vaccines were shared among all practices in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"We just don't have the full amount of vaccine in practice to give. We could have given all of the vaccine that a certain number of practices needed to start with but there were issues with inequality and discrimination ... so that's why an amount has gone to every single practice, so at least they have some.\"", "A ban on travellers to the UK from South America has left one family fearing it could leave them stranded abroad for months.\n\nThe restriction comes into force at 04:00 GMT on Friday amid fears of a new Covid variant identified in Brazil.\n\nBritish and Irish citizens and foreign nationals with residence rights will still be able to travel but must isolate for 10 days.\n\nHowever many flights have now been cancelled.\n\nJon Den travelled to Brazil with his wife Carla, 32, in October so that her family - who live in Goiania - could meet their one-year-old daughter Luiza for the first time.\n\nThe couple, who live in Wolverhampton, are due to fly back to the UK on 6 February but Jon now fears they may be stuck out there for months due to the travel ban.\n\n\"We had planned to visit in February 2020 but we had to postpone because of the lockdown and that was rough on my wife, she suffered a lot,\" the 31-year-old says.\n\n\"Now I think my mum is suffering as she's expecting Luiza to be back, but who knows now?\n\n\"My initial reaction was worry because it's so unknown. The thought of not being able to return home and being stranded is not a nice feeling.\n\n\"I'm hoping British residents will be able to get home but I don't know if the government will organise flights. I think it's a long shot. I hope we can get home and not be stranded out here for months.\n\n\"We've got to be patient but at the same time flexible.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Several Leeds bus drivers were faced with challenging conditions in the snow.\n\nHigh demand and heavy snow have had a \"severe impact\" on Yorkshire's ambulances, with bad weather also affecting coronavirus vaccinations.\n\nThe county ambulance trust declared a major incident, urging calls only in a \"serious or life-threatening emergency\" due to poor road conditions.\n\nA vaccination centre in Barnsley was closed, with patients told to await new appointments.\n\nCovid testing centres in Kirklees and Bradford also suspended operations.\n\nA yellow Met Office warning for snow and ice is in force until 21:00 GMT.\n\nMark Millins, strategic commander at Yorkshire Ambulance Service, said \"very snowy conditions across West, South and North Yorkshire\" had caused gridlock and made driving difficult.\n\nStaff were \"working extremely hard to reach patients\", he said, but \"hazardous driving conditions and blocked roads mean that it is taking us longer than normal in the worst-hit areas.\"\n\nVaccinations taking at the Priory Campus in Lundwood, Barnsley, were suspended from 15:00 GMT\n\nIn Barnsley, the town's Clinical Commissioning Group issued a tweet advising that it had postponed all Covid vaccinations at one centre from 15:00 on Thursday.\n\nIt asked those due to receive jabs at the Priory Campus in Lundwood after this time not to travel, and said patients would be contacted with a rescheduled appointment.\n\nThe group said its two remaining centres at Goldthorpe and Apollo Court, in Dodworth, remained open, but those unable to attend would also get a new time and date.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said it had also seen a surge in calls and urged people not to call 101 for \"non-urgent matters\".\n\nSupt Chris Bowen said the force had received 300 calls to the 999 and 101 numbers in the space of an hour on Thursday morning.\n\nA large snowball fight on Woodhouse Moor in Leeds was criticised for an apparent lack of social distancing after footage was posted on social media.\n\nLiam Ford, who recorded the video, said he saw the \"awful scenes\" after he \"heard the commotion while on a walk round the block\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A large group of people have been filmed in a snowball fight in Leeds\n\nPolice urged drivers to stay at home until the roads cleared\n\nMotorists reported hazardous driving conditions on many routes and police warned people to stay at home or allow extra time for essential journeys.\n\nPhil Airey said his usual 30-minute commute from Boston Spa to Harrogate took 90 minutes due to the poor conditions.\n\n\"The gritters have been doing their job but any sort of hill then it's not very good and if you go off onto the little roads well they are not good at all,\" he said.\n\nWest Yorkshire's road policing unit said it was dealing with a number of crashes while the North Yorkshire force said the A59 was blocked near Skipton due to a number of vehicles getting stuck in the snow.\n\nThe Met Office has not issued a weather notice for Friday, but a yellow warning for snow and ice on Saturday is in place across most of northern England and Scotland.\n\nPolice say they have dealt with a number of collisions and accidents\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.", "Charlie Mullins said workers getting vaccinated is \"a no-brainer\".\n\nA large London plumbing firm plans to rewrite all of its workers' contracts to require them to be vaccinated against coronavirus.\n\nPimlico Plumbers chairman Charlie Mullins said it was \"a no-brainer\" that workers should get the jab.\n\nIf they do not want to comply with the policy, it will be decided on a case-by-case basis whether they are kept on, he said.\n\nEmployment lawyers said the plan carried risks for the business.\n\nThe NHS is seeking to vaccinate 15 million people from priority groups by mid-February as part of efforts to try to control the spread of Covid-19.\n\nBut Mr Mullins said he was prepared to pay for private immunisations for people at the firm, should they become available, which would be done on the company's time.\n\nDoctors have warned that key hospital services in England are in crisis, with reports of hospitals cancelling urgent operations after a surge in Covid patients in recent weeks.\n\nPimlico Plumbers plans to change its contracts for new joiners to require immunisation. It will rewrite its contracts with existing workers and employees as soon as is practical, depending on vaccine availability.\n\nThe firm has about 350 plumbers working as contractors and about 120 employees.\n\nMr Mullins said the firm was \"not putting anyone under any pressure\" to have the jab.\n\nHowever, new starters who were not immunised would not be taken on, he said.\n\nMr Mullins said employees approved of the policy.\n\n\"It's a no-brainer,\" he said. \"I've talked to people who have said: 'I will queue up all night to get the vaccine.'\n\n\"I think it will be the norm in five or six months. To go into a bar or cinema, or go on a plane, you have to have a vaccine,\" he added.\n\nMr Mullins said he had set aside £800,000 to pay for private vaccinations, but estimated costs more in the region of £100,000.\n\n\"Whatever it costs, I will pay,\" he said. \"I would pay £1m tomorrow to safeguard our staff.\n\n\"If people don't want the vaccine, let them sit at home and not have a normal life,\" he added.\n\nHowever, employment lawyers said this vaccination policy could be risky.\n\nLegally, companies cannot force employees to take a vaccine, said Thrive Law managing director Jodie Hill.\n\n\"They can't jab a vaccine in your arm,\" she said.\n\nPeople who refuse vaccination and are dismissed may have grounds to make a legal claim, she said.\n\n\"Even if they put that [requirement] in a new contract, I don't think they'd get away with it,\" she said.\n\nEmployees with more than two years' service could claim unfair dismissal. But this option is not open to workers and self-employed contractors.\n\nBroadly, people can refuse a vaccination for legitimate reasons such as being pregnant or breastfeeding, for religious reasons, because of disability or allergy, or for ethical vegan reasons if the jab contains animal products.\n\nThe two vaccines approved for use in the UK, from Oxford-AstraZeneca and Pfizer/BioNTech, do not contain any components of animal origin, a Department for Health and Social Care spokesman confirmed.\n\nDismissal for employees with one or more of these protected characteristics could give rise to a discrimination claim.\n\nPeople who are hesitant about taking the vaccine for personal reasons would not be able to claim discrimination, but could potentially claim unfair dismissal if they have been with the firm for two years or more.\n\nPeople with strong anti-vaccination beliefs may be protected under equality law, Ms Hill added.\n\nThe company and Mr Mullins have previously faced a lengthy legal battle with one of its former contractors, Gary Smith.\n\nIn 2018, Mr Smith won a Supreme Court ruling over holiday and sick pay. However, an employment tribunal later ruled that he was not entitled to make a claim for the back pay, as he had not completed the necessary paperwork.\n\nMr Mullins insisted that the vaccination change to contracts \"will be done legally\", but said that he was willing to take this matter to the Supreme Court as well, if necessary.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The rapid spread of coronavirus variants has put the world on alert and triggered a new lockdown in the UK. What are these variants and why are they causing concern?\n\nAll viruses naturally mutate over time, and Sars-CoV-2 is no exception.\n\nSince the virus was first identified a year ago, thousands of mutations have arisen.\n\nThe vast majority of mutations are \"passengers\" and will have little impact, says Dr Lucy van Dorp, an expert in the evolution of pathogens at University College London.\n\n\"They don't change the behaviour of the virus, they are just carried along.\"\n\nBut every once in a while, a virus strikes lucky by mutating in a way that helps it survive and reproduce.\n\n\"Viruses carrying these mutations can then increase in frequency due to natural selection, given the right epidemiological settings,\" Dr van Dorp says.\n\nThis is what seems to be happening with the variant that has spread across the UK, known as 202012/01, and a similar, but different variant, recently identified in South Africa (501.V2).\n\nHundreds of thousands of viral genomes have been analysed across the world\n\nThere is no evidence so far that either causes more severe disease, but the worry is that health systems will be overwhelmed by a rapid rise in cases.\n\nIn a rapid risk assessment of these \"variants of concern\", the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said they place increased pressure on health systems.\n\n\"Although there is no information that infections with these strains are more severe, due to increased transmissibility, the impact of Covid-19 disease in terms of hospitalisations and deaths is assessed as high, particularly for those in older age groups or with co-morbidities,\" the EU agency said.\n\nThe variants have different origins but share a mutation in a gene that encodes the spike protein, which the virus uses to latch on to and enter human cells.\n\nScientists think this could be why they appear more infectious.\n\n\"The UK and South African virus variants have changes in the spike gene consistent with the possibility that they are more infectious,\" says Prof Lawrence Young at the University of Warwick.\n\nBut as Dr Jeff Barrett, director of the Covid-19 genomics initiative at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Hinxton, UK, points out, it's the combination of what the virus is doing and what we're doing that determines how fast it spreads.\n\n\"With the new variant, the situation changes more quickly as restrictions are relaxed and tightened, and there is less room for error in controlling the spread,\" he says.\n\n\"We don't have any evidence, however, that the new variant can fundamentally evade masks, social distancing, or the other interventions - we just need to apply them more strictly.\"\n\nThe spike protein (foreground) enables the virus to enter and infect human cells\n\nWith vaccine roll-out underway, scientists are racing to understand the repercussions for vaccines, which are based on the spike protein sequence.\n\nThere is particular concern about the South Africa variant, which has several changes in the spike (S) protein.\n\nMost experts think vaccines will still be effective, at least in the short term.\n\nDr Julian W Tang, a virologist at the University of Leicester, says vaccines can be modified to be \"more close-fitting and effective against this variant in a few months\".\n\n\"Meanwhile, most of us believe that the existing vaccines are likely to work to some extent to reduce infection/ transmission rates and severe disease against both the UK and South African variants - as the various mutations have not altered the S protein shape that the current vaccine-induced antibodies will not bind at all.\"\n\nMink outbreaks are a \"spillover\" from the human pandemic\n\nScientists are carrying out laboratory studies to find out more about the variants. And they are tracking every move of the virus as it hopscotches around the world.\n\nBy taking a swab from an infected patient, the genetic code of the virus can be extracted and amplified before being \"read\" using a sequencer.\n\nThe string of letters, or nucleotides, allows genomes and mutations to be compared.\n\n\"It is thanks to these efforts, and UK testing laboratories, that the UK variant has been flagged so quickly as a potential cause of concern,\" Dr van Dorp says.\n\nProf Julian Hiscox, chair in infection and global health at the University of Liverpool, says that, through the efforts of scientists to sequence the virus, \"we've got a really good handle on variants that emerge\".\n\nIn the short-term, only the harshest of lockdowns will reduce case numbers, he says.\n\n\"What lockdown does is reduce the number of people with the virus and reduce the amount of virus out there and that's a good thing.\"\n\nBut in the long term, Prof Hiscox suspects, we may face a scenario like flu, where new vaccines are developed and administered every year.\n\n\"The problem is, the more variants we get, the greater the chance the virus will be able to escape part of the vaccine - and this may reduce [its] efficacy,\" he says.\n• None New coronavirus variant: What do we know?", "The co-founder for Cyberpunk 2077's developer has released a new video explaining what went wrong with the game.\n\nCD Projekt's Marcin Iwiński admitted they \"underestimated the task\" of adapting the game for consoles like the PS4 and Xbox One.\n\nMarcin says he's \"deeply sorry for this and this video is me publicly owning up\".\n\nThe game was arguably the most anticipated release of 2020 but the launch just before Christmas was a disaster.\n\nThe problems led to Sony and Microsoft removing the game from online stores and gamers were offered refunds.\n\nCyberpunk 2077 is a set in the fictional Night City - a dystopian future where pollution and crime are rampant and social inequality is the norm.\n\nIn the video, Marcin explains issues originated from Cyperpunk's \"huge\" scope, particularly the high number \"of custom objects, interacting systems, and mechanics\", making it a complex game.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Cyberpunk 2077 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAs this was \"condensed in one big city\" rather than spread over a bigger space - it needed greater hardware capability.\n\nSo despite working well for high-end PCs, it couldn't be adjusted to older generation consoles such as the PS4 and Xbox One, making in-game streaming difficult.\n\n\"We hit the ground running on PC. While not perfect, it's a version of Cyberpunk we're very proud of.\"\n\nMarcin adds that testing did not \"show a big part of the issues\" that gamers experienced.\n\n\"As we got closer to the final release, we saw significant improvements each and every day.\"\n\nHe also blames the coronavirus pandemic for creating issues for CD Projekt as they tried to improve performance after launch.\n\n\"A lot of the dynamics we normally take for granted got lost over video calls or email. And we took that hit too.\"\n\nLooks good right? But this wasn't what the game looked like for a lot of console gamers\n\nMarcin added the \"incredibly hard working and talented\" development team should not be blamed for problems, saying the final decision came down to him and the board.\n\n\"Believe me, we never ever intended for anything like this to happen. I assure you that we will do our best to regain your trust\".\n\nAs part of that, he says they intend to fix the problems and improve the game across platforms.\n\n\"Our ultimate goal is to fix the bugs and crashes,\" he says, with updates to the game expected to arrive in the coming days and weeks.\n\n\"We treat this entire situation very seriously and are working hard to make it right.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Julia is doing well after her surprise arrival into the world\n\nA mother who gave birth just 10 days after discovering she was pregnant thought she had put on weight in lockdown.\n\nSamantha Hicks, from Portishead, North Somerset, attributed her baby Julia's kicking to sickness having been ill.\n\nHer pregnancy was missed even when she was in Southmead Hospital in Bristol with Covid-19 in November .\n\n\"It never occurred to me I was pregnant as I had taken two previous tests which both came back negative,\" she said.\n\nWhen Mrs Hicks was taken to the Covid ward in hospital, doctors asked if she was pregnant and she said no.\n\nShe said she had noticed a small amount of weight gain but put it down to lockdown and that she thought she might have Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) as it runs in the family.\n\nMrs Hicks said: \"I felt a bit of movement but I thought it was because I had not been well.\n\n\"My tummy was a bit swollen but again, because I felt sick and I wasn't great, it never occurred to me I was pregnant.\"\n\nHer husband Joe said: \"On Christmas Day, I asked her if she was sure she wasn't pregnant, but she said no and she knows her own body.\n\n\"Then on January 1, I had my hands on Sammy and we felt a baby kick.\n\n\"We took another pregnancy test which came back positive.\"\n\nAt that stage, Mrs Hicks thought she was only five or six months into her term and returned to her job in a care home, walking 40 minutes to get there.\n\nTen days later, her contractions began and Mr Hicks rushed her to hospital\n\n\"It was unreal, the doctors only realised Julia was full term when she was born,\" he said.\n\nThe couple, who have two sons aged three and eight, said they had not planned on having more children.\n\nThey have since been \"inundated\" with gifts from friends, family and strangers in Portishead, who have offered blankets and essentials to help out.\n\n\"We want to say thank you to everyone really,\" Mr Hicks said.\n\nHelen Blanchard, Director of Nursing and Quality at North Bristol NHS Trust said: \"We would like to pass our congratulations to Mrs Hicks and her family on their new arrival.\n\n\"As Mrs Hicks experienced when she was cared for at Southmead, it is routine practice to ask people if they are, or could be, pregnant upon admission.\n\n\"However, we would ask a patient to do a pregnancy test if they were undergoing specific operations or procedures.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marcus Rashford and a group of celebrity chefs and campaigners have called on Boris Johnson to review the government's free school meals policy.\n\nThe group, including Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Tom Kerridge, have written to the PM asking him to \"fix\" the system long-term.\n\nThey called for a strategy to help \"end child food poverty\" before the summer holidays.\n\nNo 10 said \"no child will ever go hungry\" because of the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe call for a wide review comes after another row over free school meals during February half-term.\n\nThe government has said food will be provided to children by councils under the Covid Winter Grant Scheme while schools are closed for the holiday.\n\nCouncils and unions say the government should provide food vouchers instead, with the Local Government Association's Councillor Richard Watts telling BBC Radio 4's PM programme the grant had already been allocated for other support.\n\nBut Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We are down to semantics whether it is the school delivering the meal or whether it is the local authority - fortunately there is quite a lot of different support available.\"\n\nAs well as getting the backing of Rashford - who has led campaigns around child poverty over the course of the pandemic - the letter has been signed by chefs Oliver, Kerridge and Fearnley-Whittingstall, along with actor Dame Emma Thompson and over 40 charities and education leaders.\n\nOrganised by the Food Foundation charity, the letter said it was time to \"step back and review the policy in more depth\".\n\nThey called for an \"urgent comprehensive review into free school meal policy across the UK\" to feed into the government's next Spending Review, saying it should look at:\n\nThe signatories praised the Department for Education's \"swift response\" to reports earlier this week of inadequate food parcels sent to families, saying the \"robustness of the message from you and the secretary of state on this issue was very welcome\".\n\nBut, they added that \"following the series of problems which have arisen over school food vouchers, holiday provision and food parcels since the start of the pandemic\", now was the time for a review.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Kerridge: There has to be a solution to free school meals\n\nAnna Taylor, executive director of the Food Foundation charity, said the last few months had seen \"crisis after crisis with the provision of free school meals\".\n\n\"The result of that is disadvantaged children have often paid the price,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Our view is that really unless we do a root and branch review these problems are going to still keep appearing.\"\n\nChef Fearnley-Whittingstall also called for a more consistent, long-term response to the issue of food poverty.\n\n\"We need to get out of this fire-fighting, highly reactive series of actions by the government,\" he told the same programme.\n\nThe signatories want a review to be published and debated in Parliament before the 2021 summer holidays.\n\n\"We are ready and willing to support your government in whatever way we can to make this review a reality and to help develop a set of recommendations that everyone can support,\" the letter said.\n\n\"School food is essential in supporting the health and learning of our most disadvantaged children.\n\n\"Now, at a time when children have missed months of in-school learning and the pandemic has reminded us of the importance of our health, this is a vital next step.\"\n\nAnti-poverty campaigner and food writer Jack Monroe welcomed the letter to the PM, but told the BBC: \"We need to be feeding children right now.\"\n\nShe added: \"While it is great to be looking longer term... having an underpinning strategy that means that children aren't put into poverty in the first place, we need to also immediately be putting resources in to ensure people aren't going hungry, today, tonight, next week and in the February half-term.\n\n\"This isn't a rhetorical thing. It isn't a dinner party discussion. We need to be doing this now.\"\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said: \"It is great that celebrities and groups across society see the importance of school food. The PM thanks Marcus Rashford for his letter and will reply soon.\n\n\"School food is essential in supporting the health and learning of the most disadvantaged pupils. The prime minister has been clear that no child will ever go hungry as a result of the pandemic\".", "The prime minister has suggested there could be restrictions on travel from Brazil to the UK - but a final decision has not been taken.\n\nBoris Johnson was asked by Labour MP Yvette Cooper why checks on people arriving from Brazil have not been strengthened, given that a new variant of coronavirus has been identified there.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"We are taking steps to ensure that we do not see the import of this new variant from Brazil.\"\n\nThe UK government’s 'Covid-O' committee is expected to discuss the new Brazil variant of coronavirus at a meeting on Thursday.", "People needing to travel by rail during lockdown are being urged to double-check train times, as services are being reduced.\n\nServices in England are being cut from 87% of normal levels to 72%, industry body the Rail Delivery Group said.\n\nIt said the number of trains would reflect the drop in passengers, and provide better value for money for taxpayers who are subsidising services.\n\nPeak services will be prioritised to help key workers, it added.\n\nWhile some timetables have already changed, others will be altered in the next few weeks.\n\nSince the early days of the pandemic, the government has spent billions of pounds covering the fall in ticket revenues for rail companies, owing to low passenger numbers.\n\nCutting some services will save public money, the government said.\n\nRail minister Chris Heaton-Harris said: \"It is critical that our railways continue to deliver reliable services for key workers and people who cannot reasonably work from home, and that they respond quickly to changes in demand.\"\n\nRail usage has slumped, with passenger journeys falling more than 90% to 35 million journeys for the three-month period to June, according to the Office of Rail and Road.\n\nThe figures recovered a little to 134 million for the three months to September - the latest published.\n\nWith fewer passengers, the government argues, it makes sense to run fewer services.\n\nNot least because right now, the government are footing much of the bill; since the start of the pandemic, the government has spent more than £4bn covering the fall in ticket revenues because of low passenger numbers.\n\nThe cuts aren't as deep as they were in March - then services were running around 55% of pre-pandemic levels - which is partly because the train companies want to make sure it doesn't take as long getting the services back up again when they are needed.\n\nLonger term, rail companies are nervous about how quickly passengers, particularly commuters, will return, but for now the message is still firmly \"stay at home\".\n\n\"Train timetables must still meet the needs of those who have to travel, said Transport Focus chief executive Anthony Smith.\n\n\"Many key workers rely on the first and last services of the day so it's important that these are maintained. Providing enough capacity for those who are travelling to properly social distance remains vital.\"\n\nAlthough timetables were restored when restrictions were eased over the summer, rail franchising has since been scrapped and replaced with a model which means the taxpayer is currently liable for the losses on the railways.\n\nIn September, the bill had run to more than £3.5bn - and the Department for Transport has said \"significant\" support is still needed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Large parts of Scotland woke up to a blanket of snow on Thursday, including in Rutherglen where conditions became challenging for drivers\n\nMotorists continue to face difficult conditions after heavy snow across parts of Scotland caused road closures.\n\nA Met Office yellow warning for ice will be in place overnight and for all of Friday for mainland Scotland.\n\nThe A9 at Dunblane was closed due to snow but has now reopened, while driving conditions on the M90 and M8 were reported as difficult.\n\nThere have also been problems in the Scottish Borders where up to a foot of snow fell overnight.\n\nTraffic Scotland has reported difficult driving conditions on the M77 at Fenwick, M80 around Cumbernauld and the A9 at Greenloaning.\n\nA woman walks through the snow in Braco near Dunblane\n\nThe impact of the overnight freeze on a hedgerow near Strathaven, South Lanarkshire\n\nIn the Borders several lorries got stuck on the A7 between Selkirk and Hawick, while difficult driving conditions were also reported on the A68 at the Carter Bar and Soutra.\n\nThere were also delays on the A83 Old Military Road diversion and the A82 at Tyndrum.\n\nMeanwhile, police have urged drivers to properly clear their car windscreens before setting off in the wintry conditions.\n\nOfficers in Dumfries and Galloway shared a picture of a driver they stopped and charged for failing to do this.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople should only be leaving home to make essential journeys in parts of Scotland under level four Covid measures, under current Scottish government lockdown regulations.\n\nCh Supt Louise Blakelock, of Police Scotland, said: \"Government guidance on only travelling if your journey is essential remains in place and so with an amber warning for snow, please consider if your journey really is essential and whether you can delay it until the weather improves.\n\n\"If your journey really is essential, plan ahead and make sure you and your vehicle are suitably prepared by having sufficient fuel and supplies such as warm clothing, food, water and charge in your mobile phone in the event you require assistance.\"\n\nA motorist brushes snow off a car in Braco near Dunblane\n\nThe village of Bowden near Melrose woke up to snow\n\nA snowy scene at Fountainhall in the Scottish Borders\n\nPolice in Shetland have also warned of ice badly affecting roads on the islands.\n\nScotRail said its services could be affected, particularly on the Highland mainline.\n\nScottish Borders Council said the effects of the adverse weather could cause disruption into Friday morning.\n\nEmergency planning officer Jim Fraser said: \"With widespread snow and some freezing rain possible over the course of Wednesday and Thursday, there is the strong potential for disruption across our road network and communities.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome of the deepest snowfalls in recent weeks have been in the Highlands, including the Cairngorms.\n\nEarlier this month, the UK had its coldest night of the winter so far after a temperature of -12.3C was recorded in the north west Highlands.\n\nThe temperature was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch, near Garve, south of Ullapool in Wester Ross.\n\nThe record lowest temperature in the UK is -27.2C, which was recorded in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, in 1895 and 1982 and at Altnaharra in the Highlands in 1995.", "Pre-departure Covid-19 testing will now be required for everyone travelling to England from 04:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThe rules had been due to come into force on Friday, but the government said people needed time \"to prepare\".\n\nThose arriving by plane, train or boat, including UK nationals, will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country they are in.\n\nAnyone arriving from places not on the UK's travel corridor list must still self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe Scottish government is planning to impose the same rules and has had to defer them coming into effect as a result of changes in England.\n\n\"This meant Scotland was also obliged to delay implementation as we need sight of their final regulations in order to properly draft and approve the relevant Scottish regulations,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nIt is expected the requirement will come into force in Scotland at 04:00 GMT on Monday as well. Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce plans for pre-arrival testing in the coming days.\n\nAnnouncing the deferral on Twitter, Transport Secretary Mr Shapps said: \"To give international arrivals time to prepare, passengers will be required to provide proof of a negative Covid-19 test before departure to England from Monday 18 January at 4am.\"\n\nHe also reminded travellers to fill out the Passenger Locator Form - used in track and trace - and added that those without proof of a negative test faced a fine of £500.\n\nProblems with testing availability and capacity mean some countries will initially be exempt.\n\nFor instance, the requirement will not apply to travellers from St Lucia, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda until 04:00 GMT on 21 January.\n\nTravellers from Falkland Islands, Ascension Islands and St Helena are exempted permanently.\n\nHauliers are exempt to allow the free flow of freight, as are air, international rail and maritime crew.\n\nThe government has said all forms of PCR test will be accepted, as will other forms of test with \"97% specificity, 80% sensitivity\".\n\nThe move comes as a further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nWednesday's figure brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there had now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nMeanwhile on Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil.\n\nHe acknowledged it was not yet clear how effective existing vaccines would be against the latest new variant.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was taking steps to make sure it was not brought into the country.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from Brazil? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Post-primary schools have been given extra time to decide how they will admit pupils in 2021 following the cancellation of transfer tests.\n\nOn Wednesday the AQE said it would not hold any transfer tests in the 2020-21 school year.\n\nThey had originally planned to go ahead with a test in late February after cancelling tests in January.\n\nThe other test provider, PPTC, had also previously announced it would not hold tests this year.\n\nAttention will now focus especially on what criteria grammar schools will use to select pupils.\n\nSome have already published what criteria they would use in the event transfer tests were cancelled but it is not clear if those will now change.\n\nAll post-primaries were to submit their admissions criteria to the Education Authority (EA) by this Friday.\n\nBut following the AQE's move the Department of Education (DE) has written to schools to tell them they do not have to provide criteria to the EA until Friday 22 January.\n\n\"This will allow them to meet the statutory deadline for publication on their website of 2 February 2021,\" the DE letter said.\n\n\"I would also remind you that boards of governors should ensure that any admissions criteria are robust and are able to clearly and objectively rank order applicants.\"\n\nIt is unclear how most grammar schools who have used transfer tests to select pupils in previous years will admit children in 2021.\n\nPatrick Allen, principal of Foyle College in Londonderry, said his school's board of governors was now working to determine this year's admissions criteria.\n\n\"This is and continues to be an exceptional year. It is a very difficult circumstance,\" he said.\n\n\"We are trying to do the best and what is right for as many pupils as possible in looking at various permutations and combinations of criteria\".\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir said it was \"a very disappointing day\" for many families.\n\n\"The transfer test, while it has never been about being compulsory for either a school or indeed an individual parent, does enable a level of parental choice and that has been dramatically reduced as a result of that,\" he told Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"But sadly what we have seen is for this year, the pandemic has prevented those transfer tests taking place, and I am very disappointed and entirely understand the disappointment and frustration of many families today.\"\n\nMr Weir said there had been \"a lack of consistency\" from AQE.\n\n\"I don't think the way things have worked out from AQE's point of view, particularly over the last couple of weeks, have been particularly helpful,\" he said.\n\nThe minister also apologised for \"clumsy language\" in a statement he issued on Wednesday night.\n\nWriting on Twitter about the cancellation of the transfer test, Mr Weir said: \"This severely limits parental choice and children's opportunities.\"\n\n\"There was no adverse intention towards non-selective schools,\" he said in relation to his tweet.\n\n\"I think both selective and non-selective schools have got excellent records in Northern Ireland.\"\n\n\"But once the opportunities for entry to any school is reduced then that is a reduction in opportunities for all.\"\n\nUUP MLA Robbie Butler has proposed that pupils' results in tests in primary schools could be given to parents and then used by grammar schools to decide which children get a place.\n\nMr Butler said that he had some favourable responses from some grammars and some primary schools to that proposal.\n\n\"Whilst I don't think my solution is absolutely perfect I do believe it to be absolutely fair and absolutely compassionate,\" he told MLAs on the committee.\n\n\"We have the genesis of a solution for these P7 pupils.\"\n\nBut, speaking on Wednesday, Mr Weir replied that there were issues with that approach.\n\n\"There are very major problems, I'm being honest with you, in terms of the models that have been put forward for academic selection without the test,\" he said.\n\nThe minister said it would be difficult to get comparable information for pupils across all primaries.\n\n\"While it's not entirely ruling out those and there is the option for schools to do it, it does leave them in a very difficult position making comparability between pupils on a fair basis,\" he said", "Jamie McMillan said delays in exporting his shellfish would result in them arriving dead\n\nA Scottish shellfish firm has warned it is on the brink of bankruptcy as delays continue at ports following the introduction of post-Brexit red tape.\n\nLochfyne Langoustines managing director Jamie McMillan said his firm had already lost some consignments after they were found to be rotten by the time they arrived in France.\n\nHe also warned EU customers were now going to Denmark to buy langoustines.\n\nMr McMillan described it as a \"very, very serious situation\".\n\nHis comments came after transport company DFDS announced a further delay in exports of group consignments of seafood to the EU.\n\nIt halted groupage exports last week after delays in getting new paperwork for EU border posts in France.\n\nDFDS said it would not resume those exports until Monday.\n\nMr McMillan told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"We've been screaming for the last six months - eight months - that we have to get our produce to market within 12 to 24 hours.\n\n\"Any delays in that process, our shellfish will arrive in France dead.\n\n\"We lost two pallets last week. It took five days to arrive in Boulogne from Scotland, so our goods were rotten on arrival.\"\n\nTransport company DFDS has said it will not resume groupage exports until Monday\n\nHe added: \"Customers are not buying from us any more - we have become unreliable suppliers.\n\n\"Everybody has stopped buying. This has happened for the past two weeks. We can't continue this to happen for another week because we will be out of business.\n\n\"We have had no sales to the EU, our biggest market for live shellfish, in the last two weeks.\n\n\"If we go another week without that, we are finished.\"\n\nMr McMillan said there were \"sticking points\" in both the UK and France, with transportation hubs in Scotland struggling with increased paperwork and checks by vets.\n\n\"There are sticking points down in France as well,\" he said.\n\n\"There are delays at the borders in France for up to 30 hours, I'm hearing, to clear customs by the time they do all their checks.\"\n\nThe UK government's Scotland Office minister David Duguid said he did not underestimate the struggles the industry was facing with paperwork, IT and ports.\n\nHe said the UK and Scottish governments, fish exporters and the EU needed to come together to work through the issues, which he estimated would last \"weeks\" and not months.\n\nHe told Good Morning Scotland: \"What I can commit to is that the UK government, whether that's through Defra or the Scotland Office, we are working day and night in resolving the issues that we know about and that we can fix directly.\n\n\"The other issues that are maybe the responsibility of the Scottish government, or indeed the EU on the other side of the channel, Defra are engaging heavily with those parties as well.\"\n\nHowever, when asked directly on the programme how long the problems would last, Mr Duguid responded: \"How long is a piece of string?\"\n\nFish ate up a lot of the time in negotiating the deal for departing the European customs union and single market.\n\nNow grown to become a much bigger political predator, it has started the post-Brexit era by threatening to devour UK ministers with the task of making the deal work.\n\nThe fisheries minister admitted she was preparing for Christmas rather than seeing how the deal had turned out on 24 December. Asked how long it will take to sort out delays, a Scotland Office minister asked: \"How long's a piece of string?\"\n\nThe prime minister says there will be compensation, but it seems that is due to come from the fund intended to expand the fishing fleet.\n\nAnd Michael Gove, who appears to have more of a grasp of the detail, was in the Commons on Wednesday, acknowledging there's a vast amount for the government yet to sort out - and that was only for Northern Ireland.\n\nAt least the province got a grace period before consignments of food require the paperwork now needed to send fish to France. That was sought by fish and meat exporters.\n\nIt's not clear if the request was made of EU negotiators, but it hasn't materialised. Yet coming the other way, the UK has given a six-month preparation period for EU exporters to Britain.\n\nBecause seafood is freshly delivered, it is the product that hit the obstacles first. Meat and dairy are sure to follow.\n\nBeef exporters to Europe are beginning to face delays, while Brexit chickens are coming home to roast.", "A teenage motorcyclist who led police on a 30-minute pursuit at speeds of up to 180mph (290km/h) through London and three counties has been sentenced.\n\nOfficers in Haringey, London, spotted a speeding rider at about 21:20 BST on 20 May and were joined by a police helicopter as they followed it along the M1, through Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire.\n\nThe biker mounted pavements, drove through multiple red lights and the wrong way down the motorway hard shoulder before he was arrested at a service station.\n\nMarian Vasilica Dragoi, 19, of Teynton Terrace, Haringey, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, failing to stop for police, driving without a licence and being uninsured and was sentenced at Wood Green Crown Court to 46 weeks' detention.", "The opening of Nintendo's first theme park has been delayed because of rising coronavirus cases in Japan.\n\nSuper Nintendo World, modelled on levels of the company's Mario games, had been due to open on 4 February.\n\nBut Japan has expanded its state of emergency, due to last until at least 7 February, beyond Tokyo to include Osaka prefecture, where the park is located.\n\nThe opening, at Universal Studios Japan, had already been postponed from mid-2020 because of the pandemic.\n\nBut in December, Nintendo posted a video tour of the park in December, starring Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario, Zelda, and Donkey Kong, among others.\n\nIt is not the first theme park to suffer problems during the pandemic - the shuttered Disneyland theme park in California is set to become a large-scale vaccination centre.\n\nThe state of emergency in Japan, which has so far avoided the types of lockdowns seen in the UK and other European nations, prohibits non-essential trips outside the home.\n\nOn Tuesday, the country's total number of cases reached 300,000, with more than 4,000 deaths.\n\nAnd many of those have been in the past three months.\n\nThe rising number of cases has also led to some doubts over the fate of the Tokyo Olympics, scheduled for this summer, having already been postponed last year.\n\nOrganisers, however, insist the Games will go ahead.", "Nearly 46% of over-80s in England's North East and Yorkshire region have been given their first dose of a Covid vaccine - more than any other area, official figures show.\n\nThis compares with about 30% of over-80s in both London and the East of England who have received a first jab.\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan claims the capital is not getting its fair share of vaccine doses.\n\nIn total, more than 2.2 million people in England have had one vaccine dose.\n\nAbout 400,000 second doses have also been administered, despite guidance from the UK's chief medical officers and vaccine advisers, the JCVI, that giving a first dose to as many people as possible was a public health priority.\n\nThe NHS England figures cover Covid-19 vaccinations given to people at hospital hubs and GP practices between 8 December 2020 and 10 January 2021.\n\nAmong the over-80s alone, most first doses - 204,140 - were administered in north-east England and Yorkshire, while the lowest number (92,398) were given to this age group in London.\n\nOverall, more than one-third of people aged 80 and over in England have received at least one dose.\n\nThe figures show that in the Midlands more vaccine doses had been administered to all people in the top priority groups - 387,647 - than in any other area of England. In London, a total of 199,986 first doses were given and in the East the figure was 186,291.\n\nThese include care home residents, frontline heath and care staff, the over-80s and people who are clinically extremely vulnerable, who are most at risk of becoming seriously ill and dying from the Covid-19.\n\nThe percentage of the whole population to have received a first dose so far ranged from 4.3% in the north-east and Yorkshire to 2.2% in London.\n\nMr Khan said he was \"hugely concerned\" that Londoners had received only one-tenth of the vaccines that had been given across the country.\n\n\"The situation in London is critical with rates of the virus extremely high, which is why it's so important that vulnerable Londoners are given access to the vaccine as soon as possible,\" he said.\n\nHe said he would hold talks with vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi to ensure more vaccines were delivered to reflect the level of need in the city.\n\nLondon has a younger average population than other parts of England and the smallest number of people aged over 80 compared with other regions.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, head of immunisation at Public Health England, said vaccinating over a third of all over-80s was \"a great achievement\".\n\nBut she said people must continue to follow the guidance that is in place to protect themselves and their loved ones.\n\n\"These data will help us to evaluate the protection from the vaccine and to effectively target the roll-out of the programme to help control the virus and save lives,\" she added.", "Mauritius has been removed from the safe list\n\nTravellers from countries near South Africa are to be banned from entering England to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nArrivals from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana, as well as island nations Mauritius and Seychelles, will be affected.\n\nThe rule will take effect on 9 January but there will be an exemption for British and Irish nationals.\n\nThey will need to follow existing quarantine procedures.\n\nA ban by visitors to the UK from South Africa started on 24 December.\n\nThe latest restriction brought in by the Department for Transport also affects travellers arriving from Eswatini, Zambia, Malawi, Lesotho and Mozambique.\n\nIt will apply from 04:00 GMT on Saturday to people who have travelled from or through any of the specified countries in the last 10 days.\n\nIt is understood most flights from the affected countries arrive at airports in England, although it is expected the policy will be formally adopted by the other UK nations.\n\nThe measures will be in place for an initial period of two weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, Botswana, and the islands of Seychelles and Mauritius, are being removed from the UK list of safe travel corridors as there is a high frequency of travel between the islands and South Africa.\n\nThe new variant of coronavirus circulating in South Africa is already being seen in other countries, including the UK.\n\nThe variant, much like the new UK variant first seen in Kent, appears to be more contagious than previous ones.\n\nAnyone arriving into the UK from most destinations must quarantine for 10 days.\n\nBut there are a list of countries exempt from the rules, meaning returning travellers do not need to self-isolate, called the travel corridor list.\n\nUnder the latest announcement, the travel corridor with Israel will also end amid concerns about rising infection levels in that country.\n\nHowever, rules in place across the UK currently ban travel abroad unless for specific reasons.", "Tesco says it has seen some disruption to food supplies in Northern Ireland since trading arrangements with the EU changed on 1 January.\n\n\"We see this as a challenge at the moment, but not a crisis,\" boss Ken Murphy said.\n\nBut he said the retailer was working closely with government on both sides of the Irish Sea to \"smooth the flow\".\n\nSince 31 December, Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that has stayed in the EU's single market for goods.\n\nMr Murphy said certain foodstuffs had faced supply chain disruption going into both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\n\"Ready meals have been the most affected as they have an eight-day shelf life so any wait is more likely to have an impact,\" he said.\n\n\"Some processed meat and some citrus fruit has also been impacted, but it is important to stress that our availability in the Republic and Northern Ireland is strong and is very strong in the mainland UK.\n\nLast week, all the major grocers wrote to Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove asking him to take urgent action.\n\nBut Tesco said its \"comprehensive preparations and... strong relationships with suppliers\" had allowed it to maintain strong levels of availability during the Brexit transition period.\n\nMr Murphy said he was confident Tesco would have the right measures in place to supply Northern Ireland after end of a three month grace period on certain rules and regulations with the EU on 31 March.\n\nHe also said there had also been \"teething problems\" with supply flows from continental Europe to Great Britain.\n\n\"Inevitably there are bedding-in issues, teething issues, that you would expect with any new process that's been set up at relatively short notice,\" he said.\n\n\"We're working our way through those and we would hope over the coming weeks and months that we will end up with a much smoother flow of product.\"\n\nUnder new trading arrangements, food products entering Northern Ireland from Britain need to be professionally certified and are subject to new checks and controls at ports.\n\nMarks & Spencer has temporarily reduced its range of food products in Northern Ireland\n\nA three month \"grace period\" means that supermarkets currently don't need to comply with all the EU's usual certification requirements until 1 April - but there has still been disruption.\n\nM&S has temporarily reduced its range of food products and Sainsbury's has been sourcing Spar-branded products from an NI wholesaler.\n\nThis week the bosses of Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Iceland, Co-Op and Marks & Spencer warned that trade into Northern Ireland would become \"unworkable\" if further new certification requirements were introduced in April .\n\nThe government said a new dedicated team has already been set up and will be working with supermarkets, the food industry and the Northern Ireland Executive to develop ways to streamline the movement of goods.\n\nTesco's comments came as the supermarket giant reported record sales for the Christmas period after customers looked to \"treat themselves\" amid tough Covid restrictions across most of the UK.\n\nUK like-for-like sales were up 8.1% in the six weeks to 9 January, as the supermarket saw a surge in demand for goods in its Tesco Finest range.\n\nBig grocers have benefited at a time when most non-essential shops and restaurants are closed, prompting consumers to spend more on their weekly shop. But they have faced criticism too.\n\nLast month, Tesco said it would repay £585m of business rates relief after it was criticised for paying dividends to shareholders during the crisis. Most big grocers followed suit.\n\nTesco was later criticised for keeping its shops open on Boxing Day despite union calls to give staff the day off.\n\nIn its results the grocer said it had given all frontline staff a 10% bonus over Christmas. It also said it had shielded vulnerable staff and taken on nearly 35,000 additional temporary staff for the season.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Howells says he wishes he had never thrown away the hard drive\n\nA man who threw away a laptop hard drive containing bitcoin he believes is now worth about £210m wants his council to let him search for it in landfill.\n\nJames Howells had 7,500 bitcoins, a virtual currency, on the hard drive, which he mistakenly threw away in 2013.\n\nHe said he was willing to donate 25% of the value of the bitcoins to his home city of Newport in south Wales - about £52.5m - if he found the hard drive.\n\nNewport council said excavation was not possible under its licensing permit.\n\nMr Howells said if he was to recover the hard drive, he would want the money to be put into a \"Covid relief fund\" for people in Newport to use \"no questions asked\".\n\n\"Imagine how great it would be to say 'I've given everyone in the city a few hundred pounds',\" he told the BBC.\n\nMr Howells bought the bitcoins for almost nothing in 2009, but the hard drive ended up in a drawer after he spilled a drink on his laptop.\n\nHe kept the hard drive in his office drawer and \"totally forgot about bitcoin all together\" - so when he had a clear out, he believed everything had been taken off it.\n\nWhen he threw the hard drive away in 2013, the value of the bitcoins was about $7.5m (£4.6m).\n\nBut now they are worth almost 50 times more, with the cost of a single bitcoin currently just over £28,000 after a surge in value.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Howells: \"When I went up to the landfill site yesterday my first thought was 'I've got not chance'\"\n\nHe said he has asked Newport council if he could search the landfill several times, but had not been granted permission.\n\n\"I offered the local authority 10% of the recovered funds in order to give me permission to search on their property and unfortunately they said no at the time,\" Mr Howells told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"What actually happened after that was the value of bitcoin skyrocketed even further. In 2017 the value of my hard drive was approximately £125m, at which point I made them another offer of 10% and unfortunately that offer was refused as well.\n\nJames Howells said he wants to donate a quarter of the money to the people of Newport\n\n\"I haven't actually made an offer to them today, but I'm willing to increase my offer to them to 25%. On today's valuation that would be £52.5m and I'd like to put that into a Covid relief fund for the citizens of Newport.\"\n\nMr Howells said searching for the discarded hard drive would \"not be as hard as you might think\" as he would employ a professional team - and knows when he threw it away so could use that to find a grid reference of where the hard drive is buried.\n\nHe added investors had offered to cover the cost of excavating the landfill, in exchange for a large proportion of the recovered bitcoin.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Howells said he wants to meet with the council to discuss what he said would be a \"win-win-win\" situation for him, the council and the city.\n\nBut a spokeswoman for the council said: \"Newport City Council has been contacted a number of times since 2013 about the possibility of retrieving a piece of IT hardware said to contain bitcoins.\n\n\"The first time was several months after Mr Howells first realised the hardware was missing.\n\n\"The council has told Mr Howells on a number of occasions that excavation is not possible under our licencing permit and excavation itself would have a huge environmental impact on the surrounding area.\n\n\"The cost of digging up the landfill, storing and treating the waste could run into millions of pounds - without any guarantee of either finding it or it still being in working order.\"", "Many of the works in Gurlitt's collection were in poor condition when they were discovered in 2012 (file photo)\n\nWhen a trove of 1,500 artworks hoarded by the son of a Nazi-era art dealer was discovered in 2012, an investigation began to find out how many were looted from Jewish owners.\n\nEventually only 14 were conclusively identified as looted, and now Germany has declared the last of those works has been returned to the owner's heirs.\n\nDas Klavierspiel (Playing the Piano) by Carl Spitzweg was owned by music publisher Henri Hinrichsen.\n\nHe was murdered at Auschwitz in 1942.\n\nGerman Culture Minister Monika Grütters said the return of the work sent an \"important signal\", and that while it could not make up for the deep suffering, it could \"make a contribution to historical justice and fulfil our moral responsibility\".\n\nThe 19th-Century work by Spitzweg was confiscated by the Nazis in 1939, the same year that Hinrichsen had bought it.\n\nDas Klavierspiel by Carl Spitzweg was seized by the Nazis in 1939\n\nIt was bought in 1940 by Hildebrand Gurlitt, a Nazi-era dealer who had been given the task by Adolf Hitler of dealing in art seized from Jewish collectors and of buying up so-called \"degenerate art\" removed from museums for a planned Führermuseum in the Austrian city of Linz.\n\nThe money for the Spitzweg work was paid into a blocked account, so Hinrichsen would never have received it.\n\nIn 2015, the piece was identified as looted, and it was handed over to the auctioneers Christie's on Tuesday, according to the wishes of Hinrichsen's heirs.\n\nAlthough his collection of 1,500 works, plundered from museums as well as individuals, was initially confiscated after the war by the Allies, Hildebrand Gurlitt eventually managed to get it back.\n\nGurlitt died in the 1950s and when German authorities approached his widow in 1961 in search of part of his collection, she claimed the works had been destroyed at the end of World War Two by Allied bombing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Stephen Evans was granted exclusive access to look at some of the long-lost masterpieces in 2014\n\nIt was only when tax investigators searched the Munich flat of his son Cornelius Gurlitt in 2012 that they found more than 1,400 of the works. Another 60 pieces were discovered at his Austrian home in Salzburg the following year.\n\nThe son died in 2014 with questions still hanging over the ownership of the collection - as he was protected by a statute of limitations.\n\nA court ruled that the works could be bequeathed to the Museum of Fine Arts in the Swiss capital Bern, as Cornelius Gurlitt had requested.\n\nWhile some of the works were deemed to belong to the family, the German Lost Art Foundation then tried to find out, with the Swiss museum, who were the rightful owners of the rest.\n\nFourteen pieces have now conclusively identified as belonging to Jewish owners and returned.\n\nAmong the many masterpieces in the collection was this work by Edouard Manet", "A provisional 270 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been secured by the African Union (AU) for distribution across the continent.\n\nAll of the doses will be used this year, promises current AU head South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.\n\nThis is on top of 600 million doses already promised but is still not enough to vaccinate the whole region.\n\nThere are fears that poorer countries globally will wait far longer than richer nations to be inoculated.\n\nAlthough infection numbers and death rates are comparatively lower across most of Africa, cases are spiking again in some areas.\n\nA new variant of Covid-19 in South Africa is causing particular alarm and makes up most of the new cases.\n\n\"As a result of our own efforts we have so far secured a commitment of a provisional amount of 270 million vaccines from three major suppliers: Pfizer, AstraZeneca (through Serum Institute of India) and Johnson & Johnson,\" President Ramaphosa said on Wednesday.\n\nAt least 50 million of the doses will be available \"for the crucial period of April to June 2021,\" he said.\n\nIn addition, the region is expecting around 600 million doses from the global Covax effort which aims to provide vaccines to lower-income countries.\n\nBut officials are still waiting for details and are now \"happy we have alternative solutions,\" Nicaise Ndembi, senior science adviser for the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told the AP news agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid vaccines in Africa: What you need to know\n\nMr Ramaphosa said officials are worried that the doses from the Covax effort released in the first half of 2021 will only be enough to inoculate health care workers. With a population of 1.3 billion people and each person requiring two vaccine jabs, Africa would need around 2.6 billion doses to eventually vaccinate everyone.\n\n\"These endeavours aim to supplement the Covax efforts, and to ensure that as many dosages of vaccine as possible become available throughout Africa as soon as possible,\" he explained.\n\nAfrica has recorded more than three million cases of Covid-19 and nearly 75,000 deaths. By contrast, the US has reported close to 23 million infections and more than 383,000 fatalities.\n\nThere has been a global rush to buy vaccines, with richer countries accused of buying up most of the supply.\n\nAs many had feared, Africa appears to be at the back of the queue to get Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nThe announcement of 270 million doses by South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa - who is also the current chair of the African Union - is good news. This is in addition to those secured by the Covax facility, which is led by the World Health Organisation and the Vaccine Alliance, Gavi. The facility has secured 600 million doses - enough to vaccinate only a fifth of the continent.\n\nBut it may be a while before any of them get to the continent. The announcements are agreements to supply vaccines. There is still the actual procurement process that needs to happen. Negotiations are ongoing.\n\nWealthier nations had a head start. They already acquired the bulk of the early doses being produced through advance purchase deals with manufacturers. The race is on to meet that demand.\n\nAfrica, on the other hand, still faces funding deficits. There are questions also about the continent's readiness to receive the vaccines. Ultra-cold refrigeration is needed for both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. Countries are working on building their cold chains. But even this is marred by a shortage of funds.\n\nSo, the continent can only wait.", "The surge in Covid hospital cases has left key hospital services in England in crisis, doctors are warning.\n\nNHS data showed A&Es were facing rising delays admitting extremely sick patients on to wards.\n\nMeanwhile, the total number of people facing year-long waits for routine treatments is now more than 100 times higher than it was before the pandemic.\n\nCancer experts are also warning the disruption to their services was \"terrifying\" and would cost lives.\n\nReports have emerged of hospitals cancelling urgent operations - London's King's College Hospital has stopped priority two treatments, which are those that need to be done within 28 days.\n\nAnd Birmingham's major hospital trust has temporarily suspended most liver transplants.\n\nIt comes after a surge in Covid patients in recent weeks.\n\nOne in three patients in hospital have the virus - and at some sites it is more than half.\n\nNHS England medical director Prof Stephen Powis said the NHS was facing an \"exceptionally tough challenge\", adding services would continue to be under pressure until the virus was under control.\n\nBut he stressed non-Covid treatment was still happening - with three times as many diagnostic tests and twice as many operations being carried out than in the spring when the pandemic first hit.\n\nThe data published by NHS England showed the scale of the impact from dealing with Covid on key hospital services.\n\nThe figures for cancer date back to November, before the surge in cases.\n\nAt that point, the number of urgent cancer check-ups and treatments being started was at normal levels.\n\nBut since then, concerns have been raised that services have been reduced.\n\nProf Pat Price, of the Catch Up With Cancer campaign, said services were facing the \"biggest crisis\" of her 30-year career.\n\n\"This is a truly terrifying scenario,\" she added.\n\nAnd the Royal College of Surgeons warned the pandemic was having a \"calamitous impact\" on waiting times for planned surgery.\n\nSarah Scobie, from the Nuffield Trust think tank, said services were under \"intolerable strain\", adding \"the worst is yet to come\".\n\nSaffron Cordery, of NHS Providers, which represents hospital bosses, agreed: \"The next few weeks are no doubt going to be the most testing in NHS history.\"", "The government must review its strategy to end rough sleeping in England by 2024 after coronavirus showed it to be \"out of step\", a watchdog warned.\n\nA National Audit Office report praised the 'Everyone In' scheme, which housed about 33,000 people in the crisis.\n\nBut the plan highlighted issues with the current strategy - with thousands more needing help than expected.\n\nThe government said it was \"regularly taking into account the lessons learned\" from the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson made the pledge to end rough sleeping by the end of this Parliament shortly before he won the general election in 2019.\n\nAt the time, a snapshot figure taken by the government one evening showed 4,266 people were sleeping on the streets in England.\n\nBut it did not include people in night shelters or assessment centres, and could have missed people sleeping hidden from view.\n\nResearch by the BBC carried out in February 2020 showed more than 28,000 people across the UK had been recorded as sleeping rough in the previous 12 months - and in England, councils were seeing figures five times higher than the snapshot.\n\nThe 'Everyone In' scheme, launched in March 2020, aimed to provide emergency shelter for all rough sleepers during the first wave of the pandemic.\n\nFunding was ended two months later to the anger of many charities, but the government said it had made a number of more targeted funding pledges to tackle the issue since.\n\nThe National Audit Office (NAO) carried out an investigation into the housing of rough sleepers in the pandemic and praised the \"considerable achievement\" of 'Everyone In'.\n\nThe head of the watchdog, Gareth Davies, said the government \"acted swiftly to house rough sleepers and keep transmission rates low during the first wave\".\n\nBut the NAO investigation found between the end of March and November 2020, 33,139 people were given accommodation through the scheme - a number almost eight times greater than the annual snapshot of rough sleepers.\n\nExamples included Bristol City Council which reported it accommodated 400 people in March, despite its most recent snapshot count being 98 rough sleepers.\n\nAnd the London Borough of Southwark had 25 known rough sleepers in March 2020, but within hours of 'Everyone In' launching, it had taken 200 people into hotels, with nearly 1,000 accommodated by November.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the UK's homeless are coping during the coronavirus pandemic\n\nThe government pledged to carry out a review of its strategy to end rough sleeping early in 2020, but the plans took a back seat as the crisis unfolded.\n\nThe NAO said there was \"an ongoing need for a review of the strategy as it is out of step with the government's target\", adding there were now \"important lessons from Everyone In to consider\".\n\nMr Davies said the scale of the rough sleeping population in England has now been made clear, and it \"far exceeds\" previous government estimates.\n\n\"Understanding the size of this population, and who needs specialist support, is essential to achieve its ambition to end rough sleeping\", he added.\n\nThe report also highlighted the large number of people remaining in emergency accommodation unable to move on as they have no recourse to public funds - a condition put into the residence permit of some immigrants meaning they cannot access benefits.\n\nThe NAO also called on the government to \"keep under close review\" its more targeted response to the current coronavirus resurgence, whether it will \"protect vulnerable individuals as decisively\" as 'Everyone in'.\n\nA spokesman from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said they were pleased the NAO recognised its achievements with 'Everyone In'.\n\nHe added: \"By November, we had supported around 33,000 people, with nearly 10,000 in emergency accommodation and more than 23,000 in longer-term accommodation.\n\n\"We recently announced an additional £10m to help accommodate rough sleepers and ensure they are registered with a GP to receive the vaccine, and we will invest £750m next year as part of our commitment to end rough sleeping.\"\n\nAsked whether the review into the ending rough sleeping strategy would take place, the spokesman said: \"Our ambition to end rough sleeping within this parliament still stands, and we are regularly taking into account the lessons learned from our ongoing pandemic response, including 'Everyone In'.\"", "The government has defended its scheme to offer free food to struggling families in England over half term - after criticism from teachers' unions and council leaders.\n\nFood will be provided for children by councils under the Covid Winter Grant Scheme, rather than through schools.\n\nBut councils say the government should provide food vouchers over half term.\n\n\"Vulnerable families will continue to receive meals,\" said a Department for Education (DFE) spokeswoman.\n\n\"Our guidance is clear: schools provide free school meals for eligible pupils during term time.\n\n\"Beyond that, there is wider government support in place to support families and children via the billions of pounds in welfare support we've made available,\" said the DFE spokeswoman.\n\nBut the Local Government Association (LGA), representing councils, said \"the government should provide food vouchers to eligible families during February half-term as it did last summer\" - and that the £170m Covid Winter Grant Scheme should be used for other support.\n\n\"During the last full national lockdown, government recognised the significant extra pressures on low income families and extended free school meal provision into the school holidays,\" said Richard Watts, chairman of the LGA's resources board.\n\n\"Government was explicit that the Covid Winter Grant Scheme was not intended to replicate or replace free school meals, but was to enable councils to support low income households, particularly those at risk of food poverty as we moved towards economic recovery.\"\n\nThe row follows the DFE's publication of guidelines on free meals, after an outcry over pictures of food packages to replace free school meals during the lockdown.\n\nThe prime minister and other ministers criticised the quality of what was being sent out by some school food firms.\n\nMarcus Rashford has spear-headed a campaign for holiday food\n\nThe DfE guidance says: \"Schools do not need to provide lunch parcels or vouchers during the February half term.\n\n\"There is wider government support in place to support families and children outside of term-time through the Covid Winter Grant Scheme.\"\n\nThe DFE insists that even though schools will not provide food parcels or vouchers during half term, children will still be supplied with food through the Covid Winter Grant Scheme.\n\nThis aims to support those most in need with the cost of food, energy, water bills and other essentials.\n\nCouncils are required to work out their own local approach to eligibility, using benefits data and their local knowledge to decide how to support vulnerable families.\n\nMoving to this scheme for a replacement for school meals during half term, with the added pressure of a lockdown, has drawn criticism from head teachers and teachers.\n\nKevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, warned that switching schemes meant \"yet more disruption to free schools meals could lie ahead in half term\".\n\nHe said using this scheme could cause an \"unnecessary logistical nightmare\", suggesting continuing with providing meals through schools would be more simple.\n\nMr Courtney said: \"This week, Matt Hancock, Gavin Williamson and Boris Johnson made public statements about how appalled they were by the quality of food parcels shared on Twitter,\" said Mr Courtney.\n\nBut he said ministers should now \"hang their heads in shame\" for threatening more \"chaos and confusion\" over providing food.\n\n\"These are battles which should not have to be repeatedly fought,\" said Mr Courtney.\n\nNational Association of Head Teachers general secretary Paul Whiteman accused the the government of \"badly thought out and last-minute schemes to help with holiday hunger\" which he said were \"leaving families and children anxious\".\n\n\"The government must urgently clarify for families how they will be helped during the upcoming half term holiday so they can be assured that they will not go hungry,\" said Mr Whiteman.\n\nLabour's Tulip Siddiq, shadow minister for children and early years, said: \"Time and time again this government has had to be shamed into providing food for hungry children over school holidays.\"\n\nFood charities and anti-poverty campaigners, including footballer Marcus Rashford, have repeatedly clashed with the government over the issue of food for poor pupils during the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly over school holidays.\n\nThe footballer forced the government to back down in the summer over its plans not to offer free meals in the holidays to poor pupils, whose families were likely to be suffering with reduced incomes.\n\nBut over the October half-term when the provision was withdrawn many local authorities continued to offer them from their own budgets.", "President Donald Trump has just become the only US president to be impeached twice by the House of Representatives. He was impeached on Wednesday for \"incitement of insurrection\" following last week's riot at the US Capitol. However, a recent poll suggests that a majority of Republicans still support President Trump and don't hold him responsible for the violence.\n\nWe've been hearing from lawmakers - but what do Americans think? We asked members of our BBC voter panel to weigh in.\n\nBelinda is an attorney and devoted Trump supporter of Native American and African American ancestry. She says this second impeachment vote is wrong and misconstrues the facts of what happened last week in favour of political expediency.\n\nThis is unprecedented. There is no justification, no legal or constitutional basis for this impeachment. He did not even receive due process. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. I hope the American people will stand up against this outrage. It's indicative of what would happen in a communist country where we have no free speech rights.\n\nThose who broke in should be charged appropriately for whatever laws they violated. But why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol? His rallies have always been peaceful and most of the people on Wednesday were middle-aged and elderly, with children and grandchildren.\n\nIndividuals who violated the law should definitely be prosecuted but I don't see how you can blame someone for a speech and someone else's criminal activity. It can't be selective enforcement of the law.\n\nMelissa is a Filipino American small business owner with two children who had told us the country could not afford four more years of Donald Trump. She says the behaviour he displayed last Wednesday was undoubtedly an impeachable offense.\n\nEverything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution.\n\n[Republican Congresswoman] Liz Cheney said that, if not for the president, last week would not have happened and she's right. If not for him continually fighting the election results, if not for him repeatedly sending the false message the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about an 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened.\n\nEven three months ago, before all the lawsuits and everything else he was saying, I was not shocked by his behaviour. It's all completely predictable because it's just within his character. So the argument by politicians that impeachment could divide us more, I don't see that as the goal of impeachment.\n\nIt can't help but I don't think it will have any impact on deterring violence. There needs to be some kind of statement that the president is not allowed to attack another branch of government. It's a chance for the Republican Party to rid itself of Trump's stranglehold on them.\n\nGabriel is a regional coordinator for the New York Young Republicans and is an outspoken 'Latino for Trump'. He condemns the violence of last Wednesday but says the reaction has been unfair and worries about where the party will go from here.\n\nI do not think that Donald Trump should be impeached. I was in DC at the rally on 6 January - I did not go near the Capitol and went back to my hotel room - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm.\n\nThis is just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. I fear that people will become reactionary and elected officials will use impeachment in the future not as a last resort to uphold our republic but as a tool to remove whoever they don't agree with.\n\nAll violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history and it was not a coup. It's important to dictate that violence is not the answer. The day was supposed to be different. January 6 did something to the Republican Party. The actions of the few will discourage many of the new voters that Trump brought in and made his base.\n\nWilliams is a first-generation Mexican American college student in Atlanta who has been extremely concerned about what he has seen in his country over the past four years. He says the events of the past week justify today's vote in the House.\n\nI believe he should have been impeached. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condemn white supremacy and other threats. That affects us internally within the United States as well as abroad.\n\nIt's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Impeachment failed once, but now he has set the precedent that a president can be impeached more than once.\n\nIn processing the past week, all I could do at first was to ignore it and joke about the situation. It's deeply saddening to me.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA respiratory doctor at Belfast's Mater Hospital has warned that hospital oxygen supplies are under \"extreme pressure\".\n\nDr Nick Magee also said more younger patients were now being treated in hospital than during the first and second waves of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nHe said in the past they did not have to consult other NI hospitals about how much oxygen they had.\n\n\"That was never a thing in previous January flu problems,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"But that is something we are now having to think of,\" he added.\n\nEarlier this week Northern Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride said there is enough oxygen to cope with the current demand.\n\nBut according to Dr Magee the current level of oxygen being used in \"bays\" at the Mater means patients cannot charge their mobile phones by their bedside because of the \"fire risk\".\n\n\"It is all well controlled and we are making sure that we can share out that oxygen burden. That is something we are having to think about,\" he said.\n\n\"I can't say specifically about other regional hospitals but I know that they are under extreme pressure and it's just something we have to think of as a region.\n\n\"Can we supply oxygen adequately for the amounts of oxygen we are using in hospitals?\"\n\nThe number of Covid positive hospital in-patients has increased significantly since last week - up from 599 a week ago to 850 on Thursday.\n\nThe number of people in ICU has also risen from 44 to 58 in the past week.\n\nDr Magee said staff were concerned about having to cope with \"large volumes\" of patients requiring respiratory support.\n\nHe said the number of younger patients becoming increasingly sick with the virus was growing.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Mater Hospital moved six patients who had been on wards into ICU and also took patients from the Southern Health Trust.\n\n\"Recently I saw a 29-year-old patient, also three who were in their mid 30s that all required respiratory support on a ward,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"They are frightened they are wearing specialist masks CPAP masks that help them breathe. They are scared.\"\n\nThe relentless pressure of the past 10 months and the prospect of a further surge in admissions over the next fortnight is weighing heavily on the minds of medics.\n\n\"We are really worried about next week,\" said Dr Magee.\n\n\"It's very busy this week, we are coping well but we are particularly concerned about next week.\n\n\"Normally, if we had somebody who needed a lot of respiratory support we would involve a high dependency unit but all the respiratory wards are becoming like high dependency units.\n\n\"Volume of sicker, younger patients is much greater and it's not something that I would [have] ever seen before,\" he added.\n\nThe Southern Health and Social Care Trust said its hospitals had limited infrastructure to manage high numbers of patients requiring oxygen so a regional agreement was in place to share resources across Trusts to support Covid-positive patients.\n\n\"As a result some patients have been diverted to Belfast or SE Trust to help reduce pressure on the Southern Trust hospital system,\" a statement said.\n\n\"Craigavon and Daisy Hill hospitals remain very busy with high numbers of Covid-19 positive patients who are dependent on oxygen therapy.\n\n\"These protocols are in place as part of regional surge planning to ensure that we can safely manage the current high volume of Covid-19 patients needing hospital care.\n\n\"Patients who are currently being treated in Craigavon and Daisy Hill have secure supplies of oxygen.\"", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Travel from Brazil to the UK could be banned in response to the discovery of a new coronavirus variant.\n\nMinisters have met to discuss possible measures and a block on flights could also be extended to other South American countries in a bid to stop its spread.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said he is \"concerned\" about the new variant and \"extra measures\" were being taken.\n\nArrivals from Brazil are currently required to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove chaired a meeting earlier to discuss whether measures should be put in place.\n\nNew variants of Covid-19 have also been identified in the UK and South Africa.\n\nDuring a two-hour appearance in front of the Commons Home Affairs Committee on Wednesday Mr Johnson stopped short of promising a ban on travel from Brazil.\n\n\"We already have tough measures ... to protect this country from new infections coming in from abroad,\" he said.\n\n\"We are taking steps to do that in respect of the Brazilian variant.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"We are taking steps to ensure that we do not see the import of this new variant\".\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, who is Strategic Response Director for Covid-19 with Public Health England, told BBC Breakfast experts were looking at the Brazilian variant and needed to grow the virus in the UK in order to perform laboratory experiments.\n\n\"So we need to understand the biology of these [new strains], as well as understanding mutations,\" she said.\n\n\"We will be watching them all to make sure that they can't escape your immune response, which is the key thing that we're looking at the moment.\"\n\nA travel ban was put in place on arrivals from South Africa on 24 December, which was later extended to several other nearby countries, following the discovery of a new variant.\n\nLuiz Amorim, a graphic designer in London, said he had travelled to Brazil to spend Christmas with his family and was now worried he may not be able to get home.\n\n\"My wife was also supposed to come but didn't in the end,\" he said. \"Now I am worried I won't be able to get back to her in London.\"\n\nMr Amorim said his workplace had been supportive but he may have to take leave if he was unable to return, with his original flight back having been cancelled.\n\nHe has now booked another flight on 27 January and is \"watching the news closely to see what will happen\".\n\nThe discussion comes after it was announced a requirement for arrivals into England to test negative for coronavirus 72 hours before their journey will now come into force at 04:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said the new rules had been delayed from Friday \"to give international arrivals time to prepare\".\n\nLabour's Yvette Cooper, chairwoman of the Commons Home Affairs Committee, described the delay in introducing the new rules as \"truly shocking\".\n\nScotland is taking the same approach to international travellers but will implement the policy on Friday, while Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce their own plans in the coming days.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer criticised the government for delaying pre-departure testing for arrivals to England, describing the situation as a \"complete mess\".\n\n\"Priti Patel has talked tough about the borders but other countries have been doing testing for months and months,\" he said.\n\nSir Keir said people were \"really worried\" about strains in other parts of the world, including Brazil, and people would be \"bewildered and they will feel that we're exposed\".", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nIvan Cavaleiro scored a late header to earn Premier League strugglers Fulham a hard-fought draw against Tottenham in their hastily rearranged London derby.\n\nThe Portuguese forward's finish cancelled out Harry Kane's first-half diving header and came just minutes after Son Heung-min hit the post in search of Spurs' second.\n\nCavaleiro sealed a remarkable turnaround for a side whose manager Scott Parker said it was \"scandalous\" to be given just two days' notice to face Jose Mourinho's men after Spurs' game at Aston Villa was postponed because of a Covid-19 outbreak in the Villa camp.\n\nTottenham boss Mourinho had little sympathy for the visitors as the derby itself was a rearranged fixture, having been called off three hours before kick-off when originally scheduled on 30 December.\n\nFor all the complications surrounding the fixture, the intensity from two sides at opposite ends of the table was high at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with Fulham's fifth successive league draw a valuable point in their efforts to escape the relegation zone.\n• None Relive Tottenham v Fulham as it happened and analysis\n\nFulham made a bright start and Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa's fierce shot to test Hugo Lloris was a warning of what was to come from a side who remain 18th despite the draw.\n\nThe excellent Alphonse Areola twice denied Son in the first 45 minutes, first blocking a toe-poked effort before palming a header away.\n\nAreola could do nothing, however, to deny Kane the opener in the 25th minute, with the striker beating the Frenchman with a thumping diving header from an excellently-placed Sergio Reguilon cross.\n\nKane was off target with another header and Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Kenny Tete threatened to respond for the visitors, who had the woodwork to thank for denying Son in the second half after the South Korean scuffed a shot past Areola.\n\nSubstitute Ademola Lookman was instrumental following his introduction, creating the equaliser for Cavaleiro seven minutes after coming off the bench.\n\nThe powerful finish extended Fulham's unbeaten run to five league matches, which is their longest such sequence in the top flight in three Premier League campaigns since 2012-13.\n\nThis latest draw highlights just how resolute Parker's men have become after a slow start to the campaign, in which they collected just one point from their first six matches.\n\nSpurs punished for reliance on Kane and Son\n\nWhile the Cottagers may be in the relegation places and had lost a record 13 successive top-flight matches to London rivals, they presented a significantly sterner test of Mourinho's men than non-league side Marine - a team made up of NHS workers, teachers and a refuse collector - which Spurs cruised past in the third round of the FA Cup on Sunday.\n\nThe prolific pair of Kane and Son, a duo that has now scored 23 of Tottenham's 30 league goals this term, were among 10 to return to Spurs' starting line-up.\n\nSon was an unused substitute on their trip to Crosby but Kane, along with Lloris, Eric Dier, Serge Aurier and Harry Winks came back from being rested.\n\nWhile Kane was clinical with the nodded finish, he reacted in frustration as he flicked another header off target.\n\nThat miss, as well as the wastefulness of Reguilon - who sent an early effort over - and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg's tame strike, ensured Fulham were still in it at half-time.\n\nMoussa Sissoko also dithered in the box when an early second-half chance presented itself, allowing Tosin Adarabioyo to superbly block.\n\nSon's effort off the post, and their reliance on him and Kane for goals, ultimately proved costly as Cavaleiro ended the hosts' run of three clean sheets in January.\n\nAnd while Reguilon did have the ball in the back of the net again for Tottenham in the final minute, it was immediately disallowed for offside as Spurs missed the chance to move up to third in the table.\n\n'Some players had one day's training' - what the managers said\n\nTottenham manager Jose Mourinho, speaking to BBC Sport: \"In the first half Alphonse Areola made some impossible saves, a couple of others in the second, too.\n\n\"We have to kill a game and we didn't - but you have to keep a clean sheet, not make mistakes, so it was a very avoidable goal. The markers are there, there wasn't even an advantage in terms of numbers.\n\n\"Fulham were intelligent enough to understand the way they play, they change, they become more defensive and they are getting results. I thought they were a bit lucky but they were good.\n\n\"We have bad results and we should - and we could have - avoided these results.\"\n\nFulham boss Scott Parker, speaking to BBC Sport: \"I'm very proud of this team for what we've been through. There's a lot of talk around - everyone assumes about what happened. I know what we've been through the last two weeks.\n\n\"We had players out there today who had one day's training. What pleased me most was a desire and a passion and a real quality at times tonight.\n\n\"There's a real determination and hard work from this group of players. They've never shied away from anything.\"\n\nOn Monday's announcement of the game with Tottenham: \"We were told, in the end, at 9:30. It was put to me on Saturday, if there was a possibility, but I just batted it off thinking 'no chance'.\n\n\"This game was supposed to be scheduled 16 days ago - for 10 days some of these boys were locked up in their houses. I was surprised but it wasn't in terms of preparing for this game, we've prepared in two days for a game before, it was more just getting told of the consequences that you face.\"\n\nBest of the stats\n• None Tottenham and Fulham played out their first draw in the Premier League since December 2009, with Spurs winning 10 of the last 11 encounters (L1).\n• None Tottenham are unbeaten in their last eight London derbies in the Premier League (W3 D5), they've never gone longer without defeat against sides from the capital in the competition.\n• None Fulham have drawn five consecutive Premier League games, their longest such run since January 2007 (six games).\n• None Fulham have gained five points in their last four Premier League away games (W1 D2 L1), more than they collected in their previous 13 on the road in the competition (W1 D1 L11).\n• None Only Brighton (12) and Sheffield United (11) have dropped more points from winning positions than Spurs (10) in the Premier League this season.\n• None Tottenham's Harry Kane has become just the third player to score 25 Premier League goals with his head (25), his right foot (94) and his left foot (34) - after Robbie Fowler and Andy Cole.\n• None Ademola Lookman has been directly involved in five goals (two goals, three assists) in the Premier League this season, more than any other Fulham player.\n\nTottenham travel to Bramall Lane on Sunday (14:05 GMT) to face the Premier League's bottom side Sheffield United, who on Tuesday earned their first top-flight win of the season.\n\nFulham face Chelsea in another derby, hosting their west London rivals on Saturday (17:30 GMT).\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Erik Lamela tries a through ball, but Son Heung-Min is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Antonee Robinson (Fulham) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Aboubakar Kamara. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Can the TV personality make it as a pro footballer?\n• None New drama brings the chilling crimes of Charles Sobhraj to life", "Gerry and Barbara Jarrett were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 two weeks ago\n\nAn elderly couple with coronavirus have been helped by a hospital to say their last goodbyes to each other after the wife's condition deteriorated.\n\nGerry and Barbara Jarrett, from Bracknell, Berkshire, are in separate wards at Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey.\n\nTheir daughter Chloe, who posted a picture of one reunion on Twitter, said her mother \"looked to be at the end\".\n\nShe said her parents had \"precious\" extra time together thanks to the hospital's \"incredible\" efforts.\n\nMrs Keljarrett said her 79-year-old father and mother, 76, who have been together for 50 years, were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 two weeks ago.\n\nOn Tuesday she posted: \"In the midst of a pandemic peak, staff (namely a consultant, a surgeon and a HCA) at FPH just made sure my dad saw my mum for what is likely the last time.\"\n\nShe said another meeting happened on Wednesday when \"mum looked to be at the end\".\n\nFrimley Park Hospital said the reunions were the sort of \"care that matters the most\"\n\nShe said: \"Dad was wheeled in, crying, touched her hand and her eyes flew open. She was awake and bright and could talk.\n\n\"We got a precious extra hour or two before her breathing got worse again and got to say what we wanted.\n\n\"All thanks to the staff who made these meetings possible. In current times I just find that incredible.\"\n\nMrs Keljarrett, a teacher at The Brakenhale School, said her father was \"showing signs of improvement but has a very long journey to complete\".\n\n\"He has a number of other health issues that will make recovery that bit trickier, but I have to remain positive that he will overcome this horrendous virus,\" she added.\n\nShe said she had met hospital workers who were \"pulling unexpected double shifts\" due to short-staffing.\n\n\"How they are managing such compassion when they are stretched to their emotional and physical limits I do not know,\" she added.\n\nResponding to Mrs Keljarrett's Twitter post, the hospital wrote: \"Our hearts go out to you and your family.\n\n\"We are so glad that our staff managed to make this time just a little bit easier for you all.\n\n\"This truly is some of the care we give that matters the most.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Doctors' leaders have called for urgent improvements in personal protective equipment for health workers.\n\nThe British Medical Association is appealing for a higher grade of face mask to guard against coronavirus infection.\n\nIt says there is 'growing evidence' that the virus is being spread through the air by aerosols.\n\nThese are tiny virus particles that can build up in stuffy rooms and they have been linked to outbreaks of Covid-19.\n\nThis follows an open letter from more than 1,500 health professionals for staff on general wards to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care units.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) has issued guidance on what PPE staff in different settings require. It was last updated in October 2020.\n\nEarly in the pandemic, it was widely believed that to catch the disease you had to either be close to an infected person and hit by droplets from their coughs or sneezes or touch a surface they had contaminated.\n\nBut research during the course of last year highlighted how it is also possible for the virus to be carried in what are called aerosols, drifting and accumulating in the air.\n\nMost infections are thought to have occurred indoors in badly ventilated rooms, and many studies have shown that the 'airborne route' can be an important factor.\n\nAcross the UK, the guidance for hospital staff is to wear surgical masks in most areas.\n\nMore sophisticated masks - a type known as FFP3 that includes an air filter - are only required in intensive care or when certain procedures are carried out that are known to generate aerosols.\n\nIn their letter, the consultants, doctors and nurses say healthcare workers are three to four times more likely to become infected than the general population.\n\nBut they point out that staff in intensive care units, who have the best level of protection, have about half the risk of catching the virus than colleagues on general wards.\n\nThe letter states: \"It is now essential that healthcare workers have their PPE upgraded to protect against airborne transmission\".\n\nBarry McAree, a consultant surgeon in Northern Ireland, is one of many healthcare workers to be ill with Covid.\n\nHe is self-isolating at home right after his testing positive for the second time.\n\nA signatory to the letter, he says his hospital in Antrim followed the guidance about which type of masks should be worn in which areas, but he became infected nonetheless. It is not clear how and when he caught it.\n\n\"There's so much evidence that we are talking about an airborne infection that it has to be said that it is not appropriate just to wear FFP3 in environments when aerosol generating procedures take place.\"\n\nHe believes that with such high levels of the virus in the community and in hospitals, staff should be wearing the higher-grade masks whenever they're close to patients.\n\nSurgical masks can be bought online for about 10p each, while the FFP3 masks are far more expensive about £5.00.\n\nDr Barry Jones, a retired gastroenterologist and leading expert on aerosols, says that's nothing compared to the cost of a patient with Covid,\n\nHe points to data showing that roughly a fifth of people needing hospital treatment for Covid may have acquired the infection in hospital in the first place.\n\n\"We should do everything we can to reduce that possibility - it's the air we share that's killing us.\"\n\nA few hospitals have decided to break with official guidance.\n\nIt's understood that hospitals in Cambridge, Plymouth and Exeter have decided to equip staff with FFP3 masks if they face patients diagnosed with Covid or suspected of having it.\n\nOne consultant, who did not want to be named, said: \"When you realise patients are more infectious at an earlier stage of disease and are presenting at general wards with poorer ventilation than intensive care units and staff are wearing a poorer quality of PPE, you really want those in a position of leadership to listen and to act.\"\n\nRCN General Secretary Dame Donna Kinnair, said: \"Without delay, they must state whether existing PPE guidance is adequate for the new variant.\n\n\"While more research is carried out, we ask for the precautionary principle to be applied and staff to be given a higher level of PPE if working with suspected or confirmed cases.\"\n\nPublic Health England said this was a matter for NHS England to comment on.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"The safety of NHS and social care staff has always been our top priority and we continue to work tirelessly to deliver PPE that protects those on the frontline.\n\n\"UK guidance on the safest levels of PPE is written by experts and agreed by all four chief medical officers. Our guidance is kept under constant review based on the latest evidence and data.\n\n\"Emerging evidence and data, including on variant strains, will be continually monitored and reviewed, and the guidance updated accordingly if needed.\"", "It was initially believed that Covid-19 originated at a market in Wuhan\n\nA World Health Organization (WHO) team has arrived in the Chinese city of Wuhan to start its investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe long-awaited probe comes after months of negotiations between the WHO and Beijing.\n\nA group of 10 scientists is set to interview people from research institutes, hospitals and the seafood market linked to the initial outbreak.\n\nCovid-19 was first detected in Wuhan in central China in late 2019.\n\nThe team's arrival on Thursday morning coincides with a resurgence of new coronavirus cases in the north of the country, while life in Wuhan is relatively back to normal.\n\nThey will undergo two weeks of quarantine before beginning their research, which will rely upon samples and evidence provided by Chinese officials.\n\nTeam leader Peter Ben Embarek told AFP news agency just before the trip that it \"could be a very long journey before we get a full understanding of what happened\".\n\n\"I don't think we will have clear answers after this initial mission, but we will be on the way,\" he said.\n\nThe probe, which aims to investigate the animal origin of the pandemic, looks set to begin after some initial hiccups.\n\nChina resisted this investigation because it doesn't want to look back. It sees the potential for more blame, from a group of foreigners. It has its official version of what happened already.\n\nThe government paper published months ago declared \"victory\" in the war against the virus. But it didn't have a verdict - not one it made public anyway - on where the new coronavirus came from nor how it passed to humans. There's been global pressure to answer that, to prevent repeat pandemics.\n\nThe WHO team will be heavily reliant on their Chinese hosts for access: to key places in Wuhan and beyond, and crucially to research material, human and animal samples and data gathered by China's authorities over the past year. The man leading the WHO team said he is open minded. No theories - and there is a range of theories - are off the table. All sides have talked about the importance of the science. But the investigators arrived here as a propaganda effort, lead by China's state media, is in full swing, to question whether the pandemic originated here in the first place.\n\nDespite a lack of any credible evidence it's reported for months now that it was in Spain, Italy or maybe the US before it was seen in China. A campaign intended to undermine the very reason the WHO is, finally, here in Wuhan.\n\nEarlier this month the WHO said its investigators were denied entry into China after one member of the team was turned back and another got stuck in transit. But Beijing said it was a misunderstanding and that arrangements for the investigation were still in discussion.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19: How everyday life has changed in Wuhan\n\nChina has been saying for months that the although Wuhan is where the first cluster of cases was detected, it is not necessarily where the virus originated.\n\nProfessor Dale Fisher, chair of the global outbreak and response unit at the WHO, told the BBC that he hoped the world would consider this a scientific visit. \"It's not about politics or blame but getting to the bottom of a scientific question,\" he said.\n\nProf Fisher added that most scientists believed that the virus was a \"natural event\".\n\nThe visit comes as China reports its first fatality from Covid-19 in eight months.\n\nNews of the woman's death in northern Hebei province prompted anxious chatter online and the hashtag \"new virus death in Hebei\" trended briefly on social media platform Weibo.\n\nThe country has largely brought the virus under control through quick mass testing, stringent lockdowns and tight travel restrictions.\n\nBut new cases have been resurfacing in recent weeks, mainly in Hebei province surrounding Beijing and Heilongjiang province in the northeast.", "A further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there have now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nAnd the prime minister warned there was a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care capacity being \"overtopped\".\n\nSpeaking to the Commons Liaison Committee, Boris Johnson said the situation was \"very, very tough\" in the NHS and the strain on staff was \"colossal\".\n\nHe appealed to the public to follow lockdown rules, which require people in England to stay at home and only go out for limited reasons, such as for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nA further 47,525 new cases have also been recorded.\n\nPerhaps the most distressing element about the latest Covid deaths is that the numbers are almost certainly going to rise from here.\n\nPeople who are dying now are likely to have been infected three or so weeks ago, around Christmas time.\n\nThat was at a point when infection rates were rising quite steeply, so in the coming days and weeks we should, sadly, expect to see more deaths than this being reported.\n\nToday's figures are affected by the weekend, which sees delays in reporting deaths that tend to translate into higher figures from Tuesday onwards.\n\nCurrently around 1,000 people a day on average are dying once you take this into account.\n\nBut the figures also provide some hope. For the third day in a row the number of newly diagnosed infections are well below 50,000.\n\nThere have been several days where they have exceeded 60,000.\n\nIf that trend continues, and the number of new cases keeps coming down, that will eventually translate into the number of deaths falling.\n\nBut it is going to take some weeks for that to happen.\n\nThese are, as many have been saying, the darkest days of the pandemic so far.\n\nEarlier, during Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said lockdown measures were \"starting to show signs of some effect\".\n\nLabour's Sir Keir Starmer called for tougher restrictions in England, asking why they were weaker in this lockdown compared with March.\n\nDuring the first lockdown, nurseries were closed to most children and it was not permitted to exercise with someone from another household.\n\n\"We keep things under constant review,\" Mr Johnson replied. \"If there is any need to toughen up restrictions - which I don't rule out - we will of course come to this House.\"\n\nHe stressed that it was early days, but said: \"The lockdown measures we have in place combined with tier four measures that we were using are starting to show signs of some effect.\"\n\nLater, asked by the Commons Liaison Committee whether schools could reopen after February half-term, Mr Johnson said: \"It is far, far too early for us to say [early signs of progress mean] we can go into any kind of relaxation in the middle of February, we've got to work very hard to achieve that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson took questions from MPs on the Commons Liaison Committee\n\nThe prime minister also said on Wednesday that Covid vaccinations will be offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week as soon as supply allows.\n\nThe number of people in the UK who have received the first dose of a vaccine has risen to 2,639,309 - up by 207,661 from the day before.\n\nCommenting on the latest daily figures, PHE's Dr Doyle said: \"With each passing day, more and more people are tragically losing their lives to this terrible virus.\"\n\nShe added: \"It is essential that we stay at home, minimise contact with other people and act as if you have the virus.\"\n\nThe vast majority of the deaths reported on Tuesday happened over the past week. However, at least 100 were in 2020, with one death dating back to May.\n\nThe previous highest daily death toll was on Friday, when 1,325 people were reported to have died.\n\nThese government figures count people who died within 28 days of testing positive, but there are other ways of measuring the total number of deaths.\n\nWhen all deaths where coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate are counted, plus deaths known to have occurred more recently, the number of deaths involving Covid in the UK is more than 100,000.\n\nAnother method is to count excess deaths - all deaths over and above the usual number at the time of year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"We are taking steps to ensure that we do not see the import of this new variant\".\n\nMeanwhile, the prime minister has said he is \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil. He acknowledged it is not yet clear how effective existing vaccines will be against the latest new variant.\n\nThe UK is taking steps to make sure it is not brought into the country, Mr Johnson said.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAnd from Monday, anyone arriving into the UK from any country will have to present a negative Covid test. The new rule had been due to come into force this week but the government said it was being put back to give travellers more time to prepare.", "The home secretary has said the government will not announce new Covid restrictions on Thursday or Friday, but did not rule out further measures being announced next week.\n\nPriti Patel told ITV her focus was on enforcing the current lockdown rules.\n\nIt is thought ministers are considering measures like requiring masks outside or allowing people to exercise only with people from the same household.\n\nOn Wednesday, the UK recorded 1,564 new deaths, the highest daily total so far.\n\nMrs Patel emphasised the current stay-at-home rules, under which people are only allowed to go out for a limited number of reasons, including work, essential shopping and providing care to a vulnerable person.\n\nAsked whether further restrictions could include a three-metre social distancing rule, or the requirement to wear masks outside, the home secretary told ITV's This Morning: \"The plans are very much to enforce the rules.\n\n\"This isn't about new rules coming in - we're going to stick with enforcing the current measures.\"\n\nBut Ms Patel did not rule out new measures being announced next week, saying: \"We are not thinking about bringing in new measures today or tomorrow.\"\n\nAt a press conference on Monday, she said police would move more quickly to fine people who break the rules.\n\nOver the course of the pandemic, more than 30,000 such fines have been issued.\n\nA senior backbench Conservative MP has written to his colleagues to criticise the government's approach to coronavirus restrictions.\n\nSteve Baker, deputy chairman of the Covid Recovery Group of MPs, which is sceptical of lockdown measures, said that if the government did not change its strategy, \"inevitably the prime minister's leadership will be on the table: we strongly do not want that after all we have been through as a country\".\n\nHe asked his colleagues to impress upon the party's chief whip the need for \"a clear plan for when our full freedoms will be restored, with a guarantee that this strategy will not be used again next winter\".\n\nHowever, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has questioned why the current lockdown restrictions are \"weaker\" than those imposed in March last year, when deaths and hospitalisations were lower than they are now.\n\nHe questioned why nurseries were open when primary schools were closed, and whether estate agents should be allowed to continue with house viewings.\n\nRules have been further tightened in Scotland this week, with new restrictions on click and collect and takeaway services.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nSpinner Dom Bess took 5-30 as a woeful Sri Lanka batting display left England in control after the opening day of the first Test in Galle.\n\nThe hosts were bowled out for 135 in only 46.1 overs despite winning the toss on a pitch that offered only a little spin.\n\nEngland closed on 127-2, with Joe Root unbeaten on 66, Jonny Bairstow 47 not out and their third-wicket stand worth 110.\n\nDom Sibley and Zak Crawley fell to left-arm spinner Lasith Embuldeniya for four and nine respectively.\n\nSri Lanka's total was the lowest in a first innings in a Galle Test, and was a pitiful exhibition of indiscipline and poor strokes which demonstrated a clear lack of understanding of how to build a Test innings.\n\nEngland, who made five changes from their previous Test in August, were disciplined with the ball and tidy in the field, aside from a drop from debutant Dan Lawrence, with Stuart Broad superb in taking 3-20.\n\nTheir reward was a strong position on their first day of overseas Test cricket since the coronavirus pandemic took hold, and their opening action of a year that includes home and away series against India, a likely two-Test series against world number one side New Zealand and a bid to regain the Ashes in Australia.\n\nThe second day starts at 04:30 GMT on Friday.\n• None 'Right up there with the worst we've seen' - Sri Lanka collapse shocks pundits\n\nWith England's most recent Test being played five months ago, and Sri Lanka playing in South Africa over Christmas and the new year, there was concern that the tourists would not be as prepared as the hosts.\n\nBroad, who had Lahiru Thirimanne caught at leg slip and Kusal Mendis, who has now made a duck in four successive Test innings, caught behind in the seventh over, showcased his experience and guile by turning to off-cutters almost immediately.\n\nBess, playing his 11th Test, may have taken his second five-wicket haul in Tests but struggled to find a consistent line and length.\n\nKusal Perera reverse swept Bess' second ball to Root at slip, while Niroshan Dickwella slapped a long hop to Sibley at point to fall for 12.\n\nAfter getting Dasun Shanaka in fortunate circumstances as a sweep rebounded off Bairstow at short leg into wicketkeeper Jos Buttler's hands, Bess produced a beautifully flighted delivery to bowl Dilruwan Perera between bat and pad for a duck.\n\nHe rounded off the innings by bowling the reverse-sweeping Wanindu Hasaranga for 19 as the hosts lost their last five wickets for 30 runs.\n\nStand-in captain Dinesh Chandimal and Angelo Mathews offered some fight with a stand of 56 for the fourth wicket, the former becoming the 12th Sri Lankan to reach 4,000 Tests runs and Mathews the fifth to 6,000.\n\nHowever, both fell tamely in the space of three balls as Broad - who had taken three wickets in 80 overs in Sri Lanka before this match - had Mathews slashing to slip, before Chandimal looped a simple catch to Sam Curran at cover to give Jack Leach his first Test wicket since November 2019.\n• None Why the Sri Lanka tour matters for the Ashes\n\nFor England this two-Test tour, which was cut short in March 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, is a build-up to the four-Test series in India that follows.\n\nTo stand any chance of beating Virat Kohli's side England must play spin well, and they will be concerned by the early inroads that Sri Lanka made.\n\nOpener Sibley, whom many feel is vulnerable against spin, edged to slip via his back pad as he attempted to work Embuldeniya to leg.\n\nCrawley, promoted to open given Rory Burns' absence to be at the birth of his first child, looked to take Embuldeniya over the top - a shot he played superbly last summer - but mistimed it to mid-off.\n\nHowever, Root, whose fifty was his 50th in Test cricket, will be buoyed by the way he and the recalled Bairstow nullified the spin threat as they shared England's highest partnership in Galle.\n\nIt was a chanceless stand, although Root overturned an lbw decision on 20 with replays showing the ball would have gone over the stumps.\n\nBoth he and Bairstow scored around the wicket, with Root playing the sweep to good effect, and Bairstow cutting and flicking through mid-wicket well.\n\nThey will hope to build a substantial first-innings lead and turn the match into a three-innings game.\n\n'England didn't have to work hard at all' - reaction\n\nEngland spinner Dom Bess on BBC Test Match Special: \"We have put ourselves in a really good position. Rooty and Jonny batted really well because the wicket started to spin.\n\n\"I felt I was quite nervous. I hadn't bowled in a game since the Test matches last summer.\n\n\"I didn't feel I bowled as well as I know I can. That's cricket, isn't it? There might be days bowl exceptionally well and go 1-100.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"It was a fantastic day for England.\n\n\"The partnership with Root and Bairstow was exactly what was required by Sri Lanka.\n\n\"Mathews and Chandimal are experienced pros. They were playing nicely and then played two rash shots. It was so poor from Sri Lanka.\"\n\nSri Lanka batting coach Grant Flower: \"I'm at a loss for words, I've never seen us bat that badly. They know these conditions well and it should have been a big advantage.\n\n\"England's batsmen showed us there's nothing wrong with the pitch. We batted terribly.\"\n\nFormer Sri Lanka all-rounder Russell Arnold: \"It is not a minefield. It was very poor from Sri Lanka. England didn't have to work hard at all.\n\n\"It is very, very disappointing. It surprised me and I expected a lot more.\"\n• None Can the TV personality make it as a pro footballer?\n• None New drama brings the chilling crimes of Charles Sobhraj to life", "Lucy Edwards, pictured with dog Olga, became BBC Radio 1's first blind presenter when she guested in 2019\n\nA blind social media star said she could be waiting for years for a new guide dog because of delays connected with the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nLucy Edwards creates videos on living with sight loss, which have been watched millions of times.\n\nThe 25-year-old has used a guide dog since she was 17 and said she had lost her independence since her latest dog was retired four months ago.\n\nShe said it was like losing her \"eyesight all over again\".\n\n\"It has really knocked my confidence that in a pandemic I don't have my dog any more,\" Ms Edwards, from Sutton Coldfield, in the West Midlands, said.\n\n\"I don't feel comfortable going outside on my own.\"\n\nLucy Edwards says she struggles to socially distance using her cane alone, as she does not know where people are around her\n\nShe now relies on her cane and her sighted partner, but added she found it difficult to socially distance with just a cane and felt \"scared\" without the support of her dog Olga.\n\nThe Guide Dogs for the Blind Association said the pandemic meant it had been forced to stop dog training for five months last year.\n\nIt said 52 dogs had been trained and become qualified in the Midlands in 2020, compared with 125 in 2019, and added the monthly figures showed a big impact in April.\n\nWhile general dog training is continuing during the third England lockdown, with social distancing measures in place, some orientation and other work has stopped, along with puppy training classes.\n\nWest Bromwich marathon runner Dave Heeley, who was appointed an OBE in the New Year Honours, has been waiting for a dog for more than two years.\n\n\"The dog is your best friend, your dog is your mobility and I don't feel that from a stick,\" he said.\n\nDave Heeley has been waiting two years for a dog\n\nThe Guide Dogs for the Blind Association said over the past two years it had matched 80% of people with a guide dog within 16 months.\n\nThe charity currently has about 5,000 guide dogs working in the UK and within the next few years said it was targeting 1,000 new guide dog partnerships a year.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Employers \"have a duty\" to support staff who suffer domestic abuse but few have adequate policies in place, the government says.\n\nIt said bosses were in a unique position to help but a \"lack of awareness and stigma\" held them back.\n\nCalls to domestic abuse services have surged in the pandemic as couples spend more time at home.\n\nBusiness Minister Paul Scully said employers could be a \"bridge between a worker and the support they need\".\n\n\"It was once taboo to talk about mental health, but now most workplaces have well-established policies in place. We want to see the same happen for domestic abuse, but more quickly and more effectively,\" he said in an open letter to employers.\n\nManagers and colleagues are often the only other people outside the home that victims talk to each day and so \"uniquely placed\" to spot signs of abuse, he said.\n\nThese include becoming more withdrawn than usual, sudden drops in performance, mentions of controlling or coercive behaviour in partners, or physical signs such as bruising.\n\nEmployers did not have to become \"specialists\" in handling domestic abuse, Mr Scully said, but could do more to help, including:\n\nFirms already taking action include Vodafone, which offers specialist training to HR and line managers and support for victims including counselling and additional paid leave.\n\nIn August, law firm Linklaters strengthened its policies and now offers people who need to flee their home but can't stay with others three nights' accommodation in a hotel.\n\nIt also offers the option of paid leave, plus one-off payments of £5,000 to help victims trying to become financially independent.\n\nDomestic violence charity Refuge said it saw an 80% increase in calls to its helpline during the first national lockdown, a trend the government believes has continued.\n\nAnd in November, 43% of respondents to a survey by charity Surviving Economic Abuse showed an abuser had interfered with someone's ability to work or study from home during the crisis.\n\nExamples included hiding phones or computers, removing wi-fi connections, and phoning an employer claiming a breach of lockdown rules, in an apparent effort to get them sacked.\n\nDomestic abuse isn't a new problem, nor does today's call to businesses apply only during a pandemic.\n\nBut coronavirus has highlighted new and existing risks.\n\nFor many victims and survivors, work is a place of respite.\n\nBeing based at home, or on furlough, can reduce communication with team members, and prevent face-to-face chats with colleagues.\n\nI've heard of employers finding simple yet effective ways of supporting staff during the pandemic.\n\nFor example, finding a plausible reason for an employee whose remote communications were being overlooked, to go into the office as a one-off, so they could talk freely and hand over an ID document for safe keeping.\n\nOf course, not every business can afford to offer emergency accommodation or financial support to those in urgent need. But the focus of today's letter is on awareness, using free support and removing stigma.\n\nThe charity Surviving Economic Abuse wants the government to go further, and put paid leave for domestic abuse victims into law.\n\nElizabeth Filkin, who chairs the Employer's Initiative on Domestic Abuse, argues there are real benefits in supporting staff - including around productivity, loyalty and reputation.\n\nEmployment lawyer Sarah Chilton, a partner at CM Murray, told the BBC that all employers have a duty to protect their staff's health and safety while working from home. That includes if they are being subjected to domestic abuse.\n\n\"Where an employee is required to work at home during, for example, the pandemic, the employer should take account of any risk to that person's physical and mental health and safety in the environment in which they work.\"\n\nAngela Ogilvie, global director of HR at Linklaters, said training was vital to spot signs of abuse, especially now.\n\n\"Victims may avoid calls or videos for example. They may become quiet, anxious or tearful, secretive about their home life.\n\n\"And it's being conscious of how you start those conversations because they may be overheard, so you may have to switch your conversation to email or text.\"\n\nMr Scully said the government would consult on ways to help domestic abuse victims at work, for instance by making it easier to request flexible working.\n\nThe government's Domestic Abuse Bill also continues to make its way through parliament.\n\nIt will bring into law a statutory definition of domestic abuse that includes coercive or controlling behaviour as well as emotional and economic abuse.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nFormer world number one Andy Murray's participation at the Australian Open is in doubt after the Briton tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe 33-year-old Scot was set to fly out to Melbourne on a chartered flight arriving there over the next 36 hours.\n\nInstead he remains in quarantine and isolating at home in London.\n\nMurray, who is said to be in good health, remains hopeful he will be allowed to travel safely at a later date and compete as planned.\n\nThe five-time Australian Open runner-up pulled out of last week's ATP event in Delray Beach as he wanted to \"minimise the risks\" of catching a transatlantic flight to Florida.\n\n'He will be refused'\n\nThe Australian Open will start on 8 February at Melbourne Park, three weeks later than usual, because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nPlayers must test negative before taking one of the 15 chartered flights - which have been put on by tournament organisers and will operate at 25% capacity - to Australia.\n\nOnce they have arrived, they will have to pass a series of Covid tests during a 14-day quarantine in Melbourne before the Grand Slam.\n\n\"Mr Murray, and the other 1,240 people as part of the program, need to demonstrate that if they're coming to Melbourne they have returned a negative test,\" said Victorian state health minister Martin Foley.\n\n\"So should Mr Murray arrive, and I have no indication that he will, he will be subject to those same rigorous arrangements as everyone else. Should he test positive prior to his attempts to come to Australia, he will be refused.\"\n\nMurray's planned appearance at Melbourne Park would come two years after he played there in what he feared would be his final match as a professional.\n\nAt 123rd in the world, Murray is ranked too low to gain direct entry into the tournament so the three-time Grand Slam champion has been given a wildcard.\n\nMurray was able to play only seven official matches in 2020 because of a lingering pelvic injury, and the five-month suspension of the tours because of the pandemic.\n\nThe Scot is among a number of players to have their plans disrupted.\n\nAmerican Madison Keys, who reached the Australian Open women's singles semi-finals in 2015, said she would not be playing in Melbourne after testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nWorld number two Rafael Nadal is travelling to Melbourne in search of a record 21st Grand Slam men's singles title without coach Carlos Moya, who has decided to stay at home in Spain with his family because of the health situation.\n\nWorld number three Dominic Thiem's coach Nicolas Massu has also not travelled after a positive Covid test, Thiem's father Wolfgang told Austrian newspaper Kurier.\n\n'Change of year, but not a change of luck' - analysis\n\nA change of year does not appear to have brought about a change of luck for Andy Murray.\n\nHe is now hoping he will be given permission to arrive in Melbourne late - and outside the window Tennis Australia painstakingly negotiated with the Victorian state government.\n\nIf he does get the green light to travel, having completed self-isolation in the UK and returned a negative test, he will still have to spend 14 days in quarantine on arrival.\n\nThat means he won't be able to play in the warm-up events the week before the Australian Open.\n\nBut it would keep alive his hopes of playing in the first Grand Slam of the year, as players will be allowed out of their rooms to practise for five hours a day during quarantine.\n\nAmerican player Tennys Sandgren, meanwhile, boarded a charter plane to Melbourne despite testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe world number 50, a two-time Australian Open quarter-finalist, tweeted that after testing positive in November he had returned another positive on Monday and might not be able to fly on Wednesday.\n\nBut Australian Open organisers said his medical file had been reviewed by Victoria state authorities and he had then been cleared to fly.\n\nThey explained that players are only allowed to enter Australia with proof of a negative test done just before departure or \"with approval to travel as a recovered case at the complete discretion of an Australian government authority\".\n\nSandgren posted on social media that he had been ill in November but was \"totally healthy now\".\n\n\"My two tests were less than eight weeks apart,\" he wrote. \"There's not a single documented case where I would be contagious at this point.\"\n\nLisa Neville, minister for police and emergency services, tweeted: \"Tennys Sandgren's positive result was reviewed by health experts and determined to be viral shedding from a previous infection, so was given the all clear to fly.\n\n\"No-one who is Covid positive for the first time - or could still be infectious - will be allowed in for the Aus Open.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Can the TV personality make it as a pro footballer?\n• None New drama brings the chilling crimes of Charles Sobhraj to life", "Passengers will need to provide a negative Covid-19 test taken within 72 hours before departure\n\nPassengers arriving into NI from outside the UK and Republic of Ireland will soon have to produce a negative Covid-19 test before departure.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster confirmed the executive had agreed the plan on Thursday.\n\nPeople arriving from countries not on the government's travel corridors list will also still have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe move has already been agreed in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nPassengers arriving there will be subject to the new rules from Saturday, with the measure taking effect in England and Scotland from Monday.\n\nNegative tests 72 hours prior to arrival are already a requirement in the Republic of Ireland for passengers travelling from Great Britain and South Africa.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's press conference on Thursday, the first minister said Northern Ireland's R-number had also fallen to between 0.7 and 0.9 for new cases of the virus.\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R rate, measures the infection rate of Covid-19 and had risen to about 1.8 due to Christmas relaxations.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said the drop showed the \"very real\" effect of lockdown restrictions imposed on 26 December, but she warned there was still \"no room for complacency\".\n\nShe said she still believed there needed to be an \"two-island approach\" to travel restrictions, including discussions with the British and Irish governments as a \"matter of urgency\".\n\nMrs Foster said Stormont ministers had also expressed frustration at the executive meeting over a lack of data-sharing from authorities in the Republic of Ireland, and called for it to be escalated.\n\nPSNI Chief Constable (centre) Simon Byrne attended Stormont's press briefing on Thursday with the first and deputy first ministers\n\nPSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne said 40 penalty notices a day are being handed out to those who breach the Covid-19 regulations.\n\nHe told the press briefing that if people continued flouting rules, they could expect \"firm and swift enforcement\".\n\n\"We won't turn a blind eye when people break the rules.\"\n\nOn Thursday, 16 more deaths related to Covid-19 were reported by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland, bringing its total to 1,533.\n\nThere have been 973 new cases diagnosed in the past 24 hours, while 58 Covid-19 patients are being treated in ICUs across Northern Ireland, of which 44 are on ventilators.\n\nMrs Foster said she found it \"incredible and frankly unbelievable\" that some people were still holding house parties and gatherings, despite the pandemic rates and the lockdown.\n\nOn Wednesday, health officials warned that levels of the new, more transmissible variant of the virus are rising.\n\nMr Swann said that meant more \"difficult decisions\" on lockdown restrictions could be required.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThe executive is due to review the current restrictions on 21 January.\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers said they would take evidence from health officials before deciding whether an extension of the lockdown would be required.\n\nMinisters have expressed concerns about keeping non-essential parts of businesses open\n\nMinisters have also expressed concerns about some larger retailers \"gaming\" the regulations and keeping open non-essential parts of their businesses.\n\nA meeting between the first and deputy first ministers and representatives of the retail sector is due to happen on Friday afternoon.\n\nElsewhere, the Chief Medical Officer has confirmed that unpaid carers looking after Clinically Extremely Vulnerable individuals should receive the first dose of their vaccine when phase two of the vaccination programme begins next month.\n\nDr Michael McBride told Stormont's Health Committee they are provided for on a list of prioritisation provided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which decides the order of vaccination delivery.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Department of Health This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Department of Health\n\nMr Swann was asked if his department was \"putting all its eggs in the vaccine basket\".\n\nHe said it was \"not the entirety of the answer\", adding: \"It will take time for the benefits of it to bed in.\n\n\"And while it is doing it, we still have to follow those restrictions that are in place.\n\n\"We may actually have to introduce more.\"\n\nOn Thursday afternoon the department tweeted that 121,711 vaccines have been administered in Northern Ireland.\n\nMrs Foster said that by end of this month, it is hoped all care home residents, health staff and those aged over 80 in Northern Ireland will have received their first vaccination.\n\nShe said that would be an \"incredible achievement\" and make Northern Ireland one of the top-performing countries in rolling out its vaccination programme.\n\nMeanwhile, the chairman of the Police Federation for NI (PFNI) has said officers need more powers to enforce Covid-19 regulations.\n\nAt present officers can only issue guidance and advice on the public health regulations.\n\nPFNI chairman Mark Lindsay said that puts officers in a \"difficult position\".\n\nThe federation represents thousands of rank and file PSNI officers.\n\n\"I think we are well past the stage where police officers are the people that should be giving advice around the guidance,\" Mr Lindsay told BBC Radio Foyle.", "President Trump has just become the first sitting president to be impeached twice by the US House of Representatives.\n\nWe asked members of our BBC voter panel to weigh in as well.\n\nHere's what they said:\n\nQuote Message: Everything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution. If not for him continually fighting the election results and claiming the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened. Unfortunately it was completely predictable. from Melissa Dangaran 51, from Minnesota Everything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution. If not for him continually fighting the election results and claiming the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened. Unfortunately it was completely predictable.\n\nQuote Message: Unprecedented. He should not have been impeached at all. There is no justification, no legal basis, no constitutional basis for it. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm concerned about the double standard and I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. Why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol? from Belinda Noah 45, from Florida Unprecedented. He should not have been impeached at all. There is no justification, no legal basis, no constitutional basis for it. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm concerned about the double standard and I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. Why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol?\n\nQuote Message: It's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condone white supremacy and other threats. It's deeply saddening to me. from Williams Morales 19, from Georgia It's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condone white supremacy and other threats. It's deeply saddening to me.\n\nQuote Message: I was in DC at the rally - not near the Capitol - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm. It's just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. All violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history. from Gabriel Montalvo 21, from New York I was in DC at the rally - not near the Capitol - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm. It's just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. All violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history.", "Siegfried and Roy were one of the hottest tickets in Las Vegas\n\nSiegfried Fischbacher, one half of celebrated magic double act Siegfried and Roy, has died from pancreatic cancer in Las Vegas at the age of 81.\n\nThe pair were among the biggest names in the world of magic and were known for working with lions and tigers.\n\nPaying tribute, David Copperfield called him a \"legend in magic\", and Penn Jillette said Siegfried and Roy were \"pure showbiz and pure class\".\n\nRoy Horn died from Covid-19 complications last May.\n\nThe pair \"invented the full length magic show headlining Vegas\", according to Jillette, who is known as part of the duo Penn and Teller.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSiegfried and Roy teamed up in their native Germany in the 1950s, and the highlight of their extravagant shows was their performances with white lions and white tigers.\n\nHorn was attacked by a 400lb white Bengal tiger named Montecore during a performance in Las Vegas in 2003, leaving him partially paralysed and using a wheelchair.\n\nHe underwent lengthy rehabilitation and was later able to walk again, but the attack ended the duo's long-running Las Vegas residency.\n\nRoy Horn (left) had to use a wheelchair after the tiger attack\n\nFischbacher and Horn, whose real name was Uwe Ludwig Horn, had met on a cruise ship and were later signed up by a liner company.\n\nAfter being spotted and signed to perform at a nightclub in Bremen, they went on to tour Europe and brought tigers into their act.\n\nBut they shot to worldwide fame after launching their Las Vegas shows in the 1960s.\n\nTheir unique brand of magic and artistry consistently attracted sell-out crowds. They performed an estimated 5,000 shows for 10 million fans in the city after 1990, when they began performing at the Mirage hotel-casino.\n\nThey were also estimated to have grossed more than $1bn by 2001, which included their thousands of shows at other venues in earlier years.\n\nIn 2004, their act became the basis for the animated comedy Father of the Pride, about the mischievous adventures of a family of white lions who perform with Siegfried & Roy in Las Vegas.\n\nHorn's condition improved and by 2006 he was able to talk and walk with assistance from Fischbacher.\n\nIn 2009, the duo staged a final appearance with a tiger (said to be Montecore, but this was disputed by some) at a benefit for the Lou Ruvo Brain Institute in Las Vegas.\n\nSiegfried Fischbacher was devoted to his partner Roy\n\nThey retired from showbusiness in 2010. After Horn's death last year, Fischbacher said: \"Today, the world has lost one of the greats of magic, but I have lost my best friend.\n\n\"From the moment we met, I knew Roy and I, together, would change the world. There could be no Siegfried without Roy, and no Roy without Siegfried.\"\n\nFischbacher recently had a 12-hour operation to remove a malignant tumour. He had been receiving care at home from two hospice workers in recent days.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRichard Leonard has resigned as Scottish Labour leader, saying it is in the best interests of the party for him to stand down.\n\nMr Leonard said he believed speculation about his leadership had become a \"distraction\".\n\nAnd he said he would be stepping down with immediate effect.\n\nHis resignation comes just months ahead of the Scottish Parliament election, which is scheduled to be held in May.\n\nMr Leonard had been leader of the party for three years after succeeding Kezia Dugdale.\n\nThe former union official had faced open calls to quit from some of his own MSPs last year amid concerns that his leadership style could damage the party in the forthcoming Scottish Parliament election.\n\nPolls have suggested that many Scottish Labour supporters struggle to recognise him, and he is closely associated with former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nScottish Labour had dominated politics in Scotland for decades, but is currently the third largest party at Holyrood behind the SNP and Conservatives.\n\nAnd Mr Leonard's critics had questioned whether he was capable of turning the party's fortunes around.\n\nMr Leonard was seen as a close ally of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn\n\nIn a statement, Mr Leonard said the decision to resign had not been easy - but he felt it was the right one for him and his party.\n\nHe said: \"I have thought long and hard over the Christmas period about what this crisis means, and the approach Scottish Labour takes to help tackle it.\n\n\"I have also considered what the speculation about my leadership does to our ability to get Labour's message across. This has become a distraction.\n\n\"I have come to the conclusion it is in the best interests of the party that I step aside as leader of Scottish Labour with immediate effect.\"\n\nHe also insisted that Scotland now needs a Labour government more than ever, and accused both the Scottish and UK governments of mishandling the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Leonard added: \"While I step down from the leadership today, the work goes on - and I will play my constructive part as an MSP in winning support for Labour's vision of a better future in a democratic economy and a socialist society.\"\n\nHis decision leaves Scottish Labour looking for its fifth leader since the independence referendum in 2014 - with Johann Lamont, Jim Murphy and Kezia Dugdale all having held the job since then.\n\nA Procedures Committee, to oversee the election of Mr Leonard's successor, has been formed and will have its first meeting on Friday.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's Scottish Executive Committee will also meet in the coming days to agree a timetable for the process.\n\nMSP Jackie Baillie, who was Scottish Labour's deputy leader, has taken charge of the party on an interim basis.\n\nThis sudden resignation four months from the Holyrood elections seems to have taken Scottish Labour by surprise.\n\nMSPs I've spoken to said they did not see it coming.\n\nThere have been times when Richard Leonard has been under severe pressure from some in his party to stand down.\n\nWhen several MSPs publicly called for him to quit because the party had gone backwards at successive elections on his watch, he stood firm.\n\nHis critics seemed to have accepted that he would lead them and a divided party into the Holyrood election.\n\nThat has now changed and interim leader Jackie Baillie has to quickly organise a contest to replace him.\n\nIt's a contest in which Anas Sarwar, if he stands, would be an obvious frontrunner - even although he lost last time to Mr Leonard, who was seen as much closer to the then UK party leader, Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Leonard should be \"very proud\" of his achievements as leader of the party in Scotland.\n\nSir Keir added: \"I would like to thank Richard for his service to our party and his unwavering commitment to the values he believes in.\n\n\"Richard has led Scottish Labour through one of the most challenging and difficult periods in our country's history, including a general election and the pandemic.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Neil Findlay MSP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Leonard had been due to face a confidence vote at the party's ruling Executive Committee last September - but the motion was withdrawn at the last minute.\n\nIt came after four Scottish Labour MSPs called for him to go, warning that the party faced \"catastrophe\" at the ballot box under his leadership.\n\nThey pointed to the party's dismal performance in previous elections under Mr Leonard.\n\nScottish Labour finished fifth in the European election in May 2019, and then lost all but one of its MPs in the general election in December of the same year.\n\nMr Leonard insisted at the time that he intended to lead the party into this year's Holyrood election, and accused his opponents of waging \"internal war\" against him.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who faced Mr Leonard in her weekly question session in the Scottish Parliament, tweeted that she had \"always liked Richard Leonard\" despite their political difference.\n\nShe added: \"He is a decent guy and I wish him well for the future.\"\n\nRuth Davidson, who quit as leader of the Scottish Tories in 2019 before returning to lead the party at Holyrood, said she had always found Mr Leonard to be a \"thoroughly decent man and a committed campaigner.\"\n\nAnas Sarwar, who was defeated by Mr Leonard in the leadership contest in 2017 and is seen as one of the favourites to replace him, said he was sure Mr Leonard would \"continue to fight for a fairer, more just and more equal society today, tomorrow and long into the future.\"\n\nBut Labour MSP Neil Findlay, an outspoken supporter of Mr Leonard, took aim at those who had sought to oust him last year - describing them as \"flinching cowards\" and \"sneering traitors\".", "Primark stores have been hit hard by lockdown\n\nPrimark says it has no plans to sell its clothes online despite warning that lockdown store closures could cost it more than £1bn in lost sales.\n\nSome 305 of Primark's 389 global stores are shut - including all 190 UK outlets - but unlike rivals it has no online arm to fall back on.\n\nCustomers have said they would welcome the retailer setting up an online shop.\n\nBut Primark, which saw a 30% sales fall to £2bn in the 16 weeks to 2 January, says the cost would mean price rises.\n\nIt contrasts with online only fashion retailers such as Asos and Boohoo, whose sales rose by around 40% in the last four months of 2020.\n\nOn Thursday, consumers called on Primark to embrace e-commerce with one tweeting: \"Online sales are thru the roof during the pandemic. You're missing out on a LOT of money.\"\n\nBut the retailer tweeted back: \"We prefer to sell our products in our physical stores but thanks for the suggestion.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Primark This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSince March last year, non-essential shops in the UK and overseas have faced strict curbs and prolonged closures and all are currently shut in England.\n\nIn a statement, Primark said that if all of its stores stayed closed until 27 February 2021, it expected to miss out on £1.05bn of sales - up from a previous estimate of £650m.\n\nThe retailer said it would partially mitigate this by cutting its costs, but did not say if that would mean job losses. It added that it only expected to break even in the first half of the financial year, after seeing healthy operating profits of £441m last time around.\n\nIn the past Primark has said it won't sell online because the cost of manning the operation and processing high volumes of returns would mean it could no longer offer low prices.\n\n\"As a fast fashion retailer they are on a low margins anyway - they have to be very competitive on price,\" Patrick O'Brien, UK retail research director at GlobalData told the BBC.\n\nHe said pure online players like Asos and Boohoo could make it work because they were \"geared up for it in terms of logistics\".\n\nPrimark shops saw strong sales when they reopened after the first lockdown\n\n\"But Primark would be starting from scratch, and would have to integrate any new online operation with its existing store structure which would be costly.\"\n\nDespite this Mr O'Brien said the retailer was still likely succeed, pointing to the surge in sales it saw when its shops reopened after the first lockdown.\n\nBut Retail Economics' Richard Lim said Primark was at risk of \"potentially alienating its customers\" who increasingly expect to be able to shop online.\n\n\"They have very loyal customers who love the brand, but they are crying out to be able to access it online.\n\n\"The longer they are not online, the more disruptive it is. The more their customers are discovering new brands and ways to shop.\"\n\nAssociated British Foods also owns food and agriculture businesses. Sales across the group were down 13% in the 16 weeks to 2 January at £4.8bn.\n\nThere are always winners and losers in retail but this Christmas the picture is more polarised than ever thanks to the effects of the pandemic. Just contrast the fortunes of Primark, which doesn't sell online, with Boohoo and Asos which have both reported soaring growth in sales.\n\nAll our big supermarkets have now reported bumper Christmas trading, too, which is no real surprise given we can't go out to eat and so many of us are working from home. This growth has also been driven by an extraordinary rise in internet orders.\n\nWhile Primark is bracing itself to lose £1bn in business as a result of store closures, Tesco says it added £1bn of extra sales online this festive quarter. It's been very tough for many traditional non-food retailers, big and small, who've been unable to make up for all the lost sales from their High Street shops. Looking ahead, the big question is where the online dial will settle when our lives eventually return to normal.", "The number of people being treated in Scotland's hospitals for coronavirus has reached another record daily high.\n\nLatest Scottish government figures show a total of 1,596 people are in hospital with recently confirmed Covid.\n\nThis is up from Friday's figure of 1,530 patients.\n\nThe deaths of a further 93 people who had tested positive for the virus have been recorded in the past 24 hours, the same tally as Friday which was the highest daily figure of the pandemic.\n\nIt is the second day in a row there has been a record figure for Covid hospital patients.\n\nOf the 1,596 people in hospital, a total of 109 are in intensive care, up seven on Friday's figure.\n\nNational clinical director Prof Jason Leitch said Scotland's hospitals were \"very busy and fragile\" but coping so far.\n\nHe said: \"People should not be worried we have reached capacity but the best way of getting those numbers down is to reduce the prevalence of the virus.\"\n\nProf Leitch said the NHS could create more intensive care capacity if needed but \"all of that has a cost in what we won't be able to do\" elsewhere in the health service.\n\nThe NHS Louisa Jordan temporary hospital in Glasgow can be used to care for the sickest of Covid patients if the spike in admissions continues, but officials are trying to avoid this \"if we can manage without it\", Prof Leitch added.\n\nThis is because it is better for patients and staff for Covid patients to be in traditional intensive care units, he explained.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has described the latest Covid figures as \"a big concern\".\n\nOn Twitter, she said: \"Covid case numbers still a big concern and putting huge pressure on the NHS, as hospital and ICU cases increase.\n\n\"Also, 93 further deaths remind us just how dangerous the virus can be - my thoughts are with all those grieving.\"]\n\nThe Scottish government data shows a further 1,865 new cases of Covid have been reported in the last 24 hours, down from the 2,309 cases reported on Friday.\n\nHowever, the daily test positivity rate is 8.7%, up from 8.1% on the previous day.\n\nThis breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.\n\nYou can receive Breaking News on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts.", "A 28-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after two men died at a property in east London.\n\nPolice were called to an address in Tavistock Gardens, Ilford, at 04:24 GMT to reports of a disturbance.\n\nTwo men were found seriously injured inside the property and both died at the scene.\n\nThe woman, who was Tasered during the arrest, also suffered non life-threatening injuries. She has been taken to hospital, the Met Police said.\n\nA man who lives a short way down the street said he was awoken by the sounds of a woman screaming.\n\nKuddus Miah, 44, said: \"She was screaming 'help, help, call the police'.\n\n\"The police and ambulances were there very quick.\"\n\nThe men who were found seriously injured on Sunday morning died at the scene\n\n\"I got changed out my PJs and went outside and asked one of the neighbours opposite what happened.\n\n\"She said a woman was coming in and out of the house crying out for help.\n\n\"Apparently they were new tenants. We've lived here around 15 years and it's a very quiet neighbourhood, it's shocking.\"\n\nSeveral forensics officers were seen outside the house and a large police cordon has been put in place.\n\nForensic officers have been seen working in the house\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sarah and her husband Gary lived in the caravan on the drive for nine months\n\nA nurse who lived in a caravan for nine months to protect her mother from coronavirus says moving back into her house was like \"winning the lottery\".\n\nSarah Link and her husband Gary, who usually share a home with her mother, bought the caravan in March to allow them to isolate.\n\n\"I have cried a river in the caravan, if it wasn't for Gary, I wouldn't have got through it,\" Mrs Link said.\n\nThey moved back home for Christmas after her mother received the vaccine.\n\nThe caravan, bought for £600 and parked on their own drive in Cradley, in the Black Country, allowed Mrs Link to continue working at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital and her husband at his fishmonger's business.\n\n\"I'd do it again tomorrow. I would do it every time, I would have done anything to protect mum,\" she said.\n\n\"We were thinking it would be four weeks, 12 weeks max, then the summer came and went and nine months later we were still there. It was incredible, I just can't believe we did it,\" Mrs Link, who has been a nurse for 17 years, said.\n\nThe couple both contracted coronavirus in December, but carried on living in the caravan so they could self-isolate and continue to protect Mrs Link's 84-year-old mother.\n\nMrs Link said her Christmas this year was \"magical\" after moving out of the caravan\n\n\"I went back to work properly last week. I still get tired easily and suffer with fatigue, but I'm OK,\" Mrs Link said.\n\n\"It's getting ridiculous the cases... some people still walk around and don't believe it's real. If people came on my ward and see what I've seen.\"\n\nMrs Link said she had not hugged her mother since before March as they were still taking precautions to keep her safe.\n\nShe said Christmas and new year had been \"magical\" adding it was the \"best\" she had ever experienced after being able to move back home.\n\n\"We all cried when it turned midnight, that year we'd all had.\n\n\"It was like winning the lottery, waking up in a proper bed.\n\n\"We're in the warm... I wouldn't be happier if I'd won a million pounds.\"\n\nThe couple decorated the caravan throughout the year\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vincent Kane - pictured with his grandson Sonny - is facing uncertainty about his operation\n\nThe son of a man with pancreatic cancer has said the last-minute cancellation of his surgery has been \"devastating\".\n\nJodie Kane said his father Vincent was due to have his operation on Friday.\n\nHowever, that procedure was cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust on Tuesday as the worsening coronavirus crisis increases the pressure on hospitals.\n\nThe trust apologised, saying it had faced an 80% rise in the number of patients with Covid-19 admitted to hospitals since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan Show, Jodie said that there was now \"no guarantee\" his 68-year-old father would get the treatment.\n\n\"To be told we had the chance of a very successful surgery on offer and then to have it taken away at the last minute is pretty devastating,\" he said.\n\n\"Even the surgeon himself said they would be concerned if it was to go on more than four weeks.\n\n\"There is an uncertainty hanging over us now that we don't know when he'll actually get that surgery or what the impact on his health is going to be.\"\n\nVincent Kane - pictured with his with wife Karen - has been suffering other health issues arising from his cancer\n\nVincent, from Newtownards, County Down, did not receive treatment for some of his other symptoms as it was planned that the surgery would help with those.\n\n\"Because they were hoping to get him straight into surgery he hasn't had the blockage in his gall bladder addressed so he's jaundiced, he's covered in a rash, can't sleep, he's lost a lot of weight,\" Jodie said.\n\n\"Undoubtedly there are people worse off than us out there but it is still a critical illness that he has got and it is one that we don't have an end in sight for, in terms of treatment.\n\n\"There must be a way of helping all those in need, or I suppose if you were being really honest about it those who stand the best chance of surviving - making the decisions for the benefit of them.\n\n\"There's no guarantee that in six weeks' time surgery is going to be an option because who knows what's going to happen with Covid?\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it had to reduce the number of ill patients on wards to protect them from coronavirus\n\nJodie called on those who were breaking Covid-19 regulations to think about the the \"direct and indirect impacts\" of their actions.\n\n\"We've every sympathy for anyone who has a loved one who needs [intensive] care because of Covid but cancer and Covid are both life-and-death situations.\n\n\"We can minimise the risks of one of them as a collective society just by taking the necessary precautions.\n\n\"It could be someone they love or their neighbour or someone in their community that's in the same situation as us in the very near future.\"\n\nFlo McClements, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in December, found out on Tuesday that her surgery - scheduled for Thursday - had been cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle, her son Gregg said the pressure was \"mounting day by day\" on the the 72-year-old from Ballymoney, County Antrim.\n\n\"She had waited all through Christmas for the date and due to the Covid-19 restrictions we as a family had stayed away from her,\" he added.\n\nFlo McClements' family wants to \"give her a hug\" after her operation was cancelled\n\n\"We left her on her own with my dad just to make sure she didn't catch Covid and risk the operation.\n\n\"When you get the date you like to think it's the next step to recovery but unfortunately that didn't happen.\"\n\nGregg said his mother was \"putting on a brave face\" but it was difficult for the family to not be with her in person during what was a difficult time.\n\n\"That's actually the hardest part that we can't go up and have a cup of tea with her or give her a hug to make her feel a bit better even for a few minutes.\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it \"would like to sincerely apologise\" to those affected by the postponement of surgeries.\n\nIt said the decision was taken to reduce the number of ill patients on wards that would be more at risk from the virus than others.\n\n\"This was an incredibly difficult decision to make and we did not take it without considering all the information available to us,\" said the trust.\n\n\"We do not underestimate the anxiety and distress this causes the patients and families affected and we deeply regret this.\n\nIt said it would do \"everything in our power\" to reschedule their operations \"as soon as possible\".", "The company offered to pay surgeries a £5,000 charitable donation \"or to the staff member directly\" in emails\n\nThe Hacking Trust's medical division approached surgeries in Bristol and Worthing offering to pay the money to charity \"or the staff member directly\".\n\nRobyn Clark, from the Institute of General Practice Management, said it was \"just appalling\".\n\nThe company, based in London, has apologised, saying its \"good intentions\" were \"misinterpreted\".\n\nNHS England said people \"will rightly take a dim view of anyone who tries to jump the queue\".\n\n\"The NHS is free at the point of access for everyone who needs it,\" said Mrs Clark.\n\n\"What we felt this company was trying to do was jump the queue.\"\n\nThe Bristol-based manager said she worried it could \"create more health inequality\".\n\nShe said: \"The JCVI [Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation] is trying to prioritise the vaccine based on the vulnerability to Covid.\"\n\nThe e-mail sent to the GP surgery in Worthing said The Hacking Trust was aware that \"many appointments\" for vaccinations are not kept, and that it would be interested in being informed of \"any no-shows\".\n\nA donation of £5,000 would be paid to a staff member or given to charity for each dose it could secure, the e-mail said.\n\nIn a statement, the Battersea-based company said it \"offered charitable donations to staff or surgeries in this difficult time for any vaccines which were unused\".\n\nIt added: \"We had heard that some vaccines were being unused due to missed appointments. We would apologise that our good intentions have been misinterpreted.\"\n\nNHS England said it knew \"these particular emails were received across the country\".\n\nDr Nikki Kanani, GP and NHS medical director for primary care, said hundreds of NHS teams across the country were \"working hard to deliver vaccines quickly to those who would benefit most\".\n\n\"NHS staff will never ask for, or accept, cash for vaccines,\" she said.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said vaccinations were available from the NHS \"for free\" and \"cannot be sold privately in the UK\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Online supermarket Ocado has become the first big retailer to warn of shortages of some products.\n\nIt told customers in an email that there may be \"an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks\".\n\nStaff sickness and self-isolation means some food producers are cutting the number of product lines they offer.\n\nWhile customers might not get their exact product choice, plenty of food should be available, Ocado said.\n\n\"Staff absences across the supply chain may lead to an increase in product substitutions for a small number of customers as some suppliers consolidate their offering to maintain output,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe news comes after a rush of online food orders for supermarkets, as shoppers try to stay at home after the new lockdown started.\n\nWithin a couple of hours of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's speech to the nation on Monday, shoppers reported problems with Sainsbury's and Tesco, while Ocado customers were placed in a virtual queue.\n\nOcado told its customers that from Friday \"changes to the UK supply chain have affected some of our suppliers and may result in an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks.\"\n\nIt added: \"We apologise for any inconvenience caused and we are working hard to mitigate any impact.\"\n\nFood suppliers are grappling with staffing problems, hospitality clients who have closed their doors and delays at the border with the EU.\n\nWholesalers the BBC spoke to this week said they faced throwing away thousands of pounds worth of food because of cancelled orders following new restrictions.\n\nThe UK meat industry has called for the early vaccination of its workers to keep food supplies running smoothly during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt warned earlier this week that absences during the pandemic, coupled with disruption at ports, could hit food supply chains.\n\nAn early vaccination call for supermarket staff was also made by the boss of Sainsbury's on Thursday.\n\nThe government said the food industry remains \"well-prepared\" to make sure people have the food they need.\n\nThe British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) said coronavirus and disruption at ports due to new systems brought in after the Brexit transition period were \"a severe challenge to the industry and to the smooth running of the nation's food supply chain\".", "Home Secretary Priti Patel has said officers \"will not hesitate\" to enforce lockdown rules as she defended the way police have handled breaches.\n\nShe said rising numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths illustrated the need for \"strong enforcement\".\n\nIt comes after the National Police Chiefs' Council published guidance saying officers should issue fines more quickly when rules are broken.\n\nMore than 30,000 fines have been handed out by forces in England and Wales.\n\nNPCC figures show 32,329 fixed penalty notices were issued between 27 March and 21 December last year.\n\nThe number of people who have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test surpassed 80,000 on Saturday, and a further 59,937 people tested positive.\n\nMinisters have launched a new campaign urging people to act like they have the virus and scientists have warned that lockdown measures in England need to be stricter.\n\n\"The vast majority of the public have supported this huge national effort and followed the rules,\" Ms Patel said.\n\n\"But the tragic number of new cases and deaths this week shows there is still a need for strong enforcement where people are clearly breaking these rules to ensure we safeguard our country's recovery from this deadly virus.\n\n\"Enforcing these rules saves lives. It is as simple as that. Officers will continue to engage with the public across the country and will not hesitate to take action when necessary.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has warned the public to follow the lockdown restrictions, telling the BBC's Andrew Marr programme that \"every time you try to flex the rules, that could be fatal\".\n\nBut Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer criticised the government for not providing \"absolute clarity of messaging\", telling the BBC's Andrew Marr that there had been \"mixed messaging over the last nine months\".\n\nNPCC guidance, published on 6 January, says officers should still offer people \"encouragement\" to comply with the regulations and explain any changes.\n\n\"However, if the individual or group does not respond appropriately, then enforcement can follow without repeated attempts to encourage people to comply with the law,\" the NPCC said.\n\nOn Saturday 12 people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nElsewhere, North Wales Police turned away more than 100 cars at Moel Famau in Flintshire by Saturday lunchtime, and Norfolk Police fined one couple who had travelled about 130 miles (209km) to see a seal colony.\n\nHowever, Derbyshire Police has launched an urgent review into how fines were issued after two women were charged £200 each.\n\nThe pair were stopped by officers for walking five miles from their home with hot drinks, which they were told were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nJohn Apter, chair of the Police Federation of England and Wales, said officers were under \"immense pressure to do the right thing\" and said with \"such a changing landscape politically and legally\" there were going to be things which did not go right.\n\nHe said the police had to balance the relationship with the public.\n\n\"It's not easy because all we are trying to do in policing is keep as many people safe as possible,\" he said.", "The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have received Covid-19 vaccinations, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nA royal source said the vaccinations were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe source added the Queen decided to let it be known she had the vaccination to prevent further speculation.\n\nThe Queen, 94, and Prince Philip, 99, are among around 1.5 million people in the UK to have had at least one dose of a Covid vaccine so far.\n\nPeople aged over 80 in the UK are among the high-priority groups who are being given the vaccine first.\n\nThe couple have been spending the lockdown in England at their Windsor Castle home after deciding to have a quiet Christmas at their Berkshire residence, instead of the traditional royal family gathering at Sandringham.\n\nLast month, the Queen appeared alongside several other senior members of the royal family for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began.\n\nIn 2020 she went seven months - between March and October - without carrying out public engagements outside of a royal residence.\n\nDuring that time, her eldest child, Prince Charles, 72, contracted coronavirus and displayed mild symptoms.\n\nPalace sources also told the BBC that her grandson Prince William tested positive in April - although Kensington Palace refused to comment officially.\n\nThe Queen made a private pilgrimage to the grave of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey in November\n\nThe Queen used her Christmas Day message to reassure anyone struggling without friends and family this year that they \"are not alone\".\n\nShe said the pandemic had \"brought us closer\" despite causing hardship, adding that the Royal Family has been \"inspired\" by people volunteering in their communities.\n\nOn Friday a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use in the UK, joining the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines already approved by UK regulators.\n\nIt is not known which vaccine the Queen and Prince Philip have received.\n\nAll the approved vaccines require two doses to provide the best possible protection, with the second dose being given up to 12 weeks after the first.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said the aim is to vaccinate 15 million people in the UK by mid-February, including care home residents and staff, frontline NHS staff, everyone over 70 and those who have been categorised as clinically extremely vulnerable.", "Bans imposed by Twitter, Facebook and Instagram on Donald Trump's accounts raise a \"very big question\" about how social media is regulated, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nThe companies acted after supporters of the US president stormed Washington DC's Capitol building on Wednesday.\n\nMr Hancock said the bans showed they were now \"taking editorial decisions\".\n\nCampaigners want social media to be treated as \"publishers\", rather than \"platforms\", meaning more regulation.\n\nBut opponents of the idea argue that it could allow governments to limit debate.\n\nMr Trump faces an impeachment charge, with Democrats accusing the Republican president of encouraging the Washington riots, in which five people died.\n\nTwitter permanently suspended his @realDonaldTrump account on Saturday, citing the \"risk of further incitement of violence\".\n\nBut Mr Trump called this an attack on free speech and suggested he would look at \"building out our own platform in the future\".\n\nThere has been a long-running debate over whether social media companies should be treated in law as \"publishers\", with greater responsibility for dealing with libellous, discriminatory, misleading or incendiary content posted by users.\n\nMr Hancock, a former culture secretary, told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: \"The scenes, clearly encouraged by President Trump - the scenes at the Capitol - were terrible - and I was very sad to see that because American democracy is such a proud thing.\n\n\"But there's something else that has changed, which is that social media platforms are making editorial decisions now. That's clear because they're choosing who should and shouldn't have a voice on their platform.\"\n\nMr Hancock said that development was likely to have \"consequences\".\n\nAsked earlier about Twitter's decision to ban Mr Trump's account, he told Sky News: \"I think it raises a very important question, which is it means that the social media platforms are taking editorial decisions.\n\n\"And that is a very big question because then it raises questions about their editorial judgements and the way that they're regulated.\"\n\nTwitter's ban on Mr Trump's account followed the increasing use of warning labels on his posts referring to the coronavirus pandemic and the result of the US presidential election.\n\nIn a blog on Friday, the company said its public interest framework existed \"to enable the public to hear from elected officials and world leaders directly\".\n\nIt added: \"However, we made it clear going back years that these accounts are not above our rules and cannot use Twitter to incite violence. We will continue to be transparent around our policies and their enforcement.\"\n\nFacebook and Instagram banned Mr Trump \"indefinitely\" on Thursday, with Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg saying this sanction would not be lifted until at least 20 January, when Joe Biden is sworn in as the new US president.", "\"Absurd\" council tax rises should be scrapped to ease the pressure on family budgets, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said.\n\nLocal authorities in England will be able to raise council tax by 5% from April, with 3% used to top up adult social care budgets.\n\nSir Keir said this meant those living in a band D property could see bills rise by an average of £90.\n\nHe added that the prime minister should provide extra funding to councils.\n\nBut the government says the rise in council tax bills, plus extra money from central government, will ensure a real-terms increase in support for local services.\n\nSir Keir wrote in the Sunday Telegraph: \"It is absurd that during the deepest recession in 300 years, at the very time millions are worried about the future of their jobs and how they will make ends meet, Boris Johnson and [Chancellor] Rishi Sunak are forcing local government to hike up council tax.\n\n\"The prime minister said he would do 'whatever is necessary' to support local authorities in providing vital services - he needs to make good on that promise.\"\n\nSir Keir urged Mr Johnson to \"give families the security they need\" by dropping the tax increase.\n\nHe said families had been treated as an \"afterthought\" by the government during the pandemic, adding that Labour would become the \"party of the family\" under his leadership.\n\nA Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government spokesperson said: \"Council tax plays an important role in helping fund the frontline services needed to respond to the pandemic.\n\n\"Our approach strikes a balance between allowing local authorities to address service pressures and ensuring local residents have the final say on excessive increases.\"\n\nA £500m fund to support people struggling with finances meant councils could \"cut bills further for some of the most vulnerable households\", they added, while a £7.2bn support package would help meet \"the major Covid-19 service pressures in their local area\".\n\nThe chancellor's Spending Review in November set out the cost to the UK economy so far of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Sunak warned the \"economic emergency\" caused by the pandemic had only begun, with lasting damage to growth and jobs.\n\nInterviewed on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, Sir Keir said there was no scope for a \"major renegotiation\" of the UK's post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, but added that there were \"bits already that need to be improved on\".\n\nAnd, asked about the possibility of another Scottish referendum on independence from the UK, he said that a \"further, divisive\" vote was not \"the way forward\".\n\n\"But I do accept that the status quo isn't working\", Sir Keir added. \"I don't accept the argument that the status quo isn't working, the next thing you do is go to a referendum.\"\n\nThe prime minister has said such a vote - last held in 2014 - should be a \"once-in-a-generation\" event.\n\nBut Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said a referendum should take place.", "Dorset Police said officers dispersed dozens of demonstrators from the town centre as they attempted to march\n\nA video shared online apparently showing a woman being arrested in breach of lockdown for sitting on a bench was \"stage-managed\", police said.\n\nDorset Police believe the video was planned and recorded by anti-lockdown protesters during a demonstration in Bournemouth on Saturday.\n\nThree people were arrested for not giving their details so officers could issue fines for breaking Covid rules.\n\nThe BBC has asked one of the protesters who posted the video to comment.\n\nThe force said two of those held were later de-arrested when they confirmed their details in police custody and a third was released when his details were verified - all three were then issued fixed penalty notices.\n\nOfficers also issued at least seven other fines and 10 dispersal notices.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mark Callaghan, from Dorset Police, said: \"We believe this video was planned, stage-managed and recorded by members of the protest group who turned up in multiple areas, several of whom refused to engage or provide their details.\n\n\"If people refuse to give their details in such circumstances then it leaves officers with little option, but to arrest until the details are established. Our officers would only arrest as a last resort.\n\n\"It was clear that the group was deliberately organising their activities, walking around in twos and then trying to come together in a 'flash mob'-style approach, as they have done previously. This activity went on for a couple of hours.\"\n\nThe force's chief constable James Vaughan earlier said: \"I condemn the actions of these selfish individuals who knowingly flouted the lockdown restrictions.\"\n\nThe force said there were \"repeated attempts\" to engage with the organisers to stop the planned protest and found a number of the protesters had \"travelled considerably\" from out of the Dorset area.\n\nMr Vaughan added: \"Our county is gripped with infections and yet these irresponsible individuals have ignored what is being asked of them and have left their homes to protest. Shame on them.\"\n\nSam Crowe, director of public health for Dorset, said its hospital services were \"close to being overwhelmed\".\n\nMr Crowe said: \"Infection rates locally have been doubling in less than a week. If this carries on, our hospitals will not be able to cope with caring for those needing life-saving treatment. Stay at home means exactly that.\"\n\nLatest figures show Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole has reached 745.2 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nAlso on Saturday, 16 people were also arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Eleanor Wadsworth was a civilian pilot with the Air Transport Auxiliary\n\nOne of the last surviving \"Spitfire Women\", who ferried aircraft to the front line in World War Two, has died.\n\nEleanor Wadsworth, who was 103, was part of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), a civilian service that transported fighter aircraft and crew.\n\nThe ATA Association said she was among 165 women who flew without radios or instrument flying instructions.\n\nMrs Wadsworth, who lived in Bury St Edmunds, died in December after a month of illness.\n\nDuring the war, about 1,250 men and women from 25 countries transferred some 309,000 aircraft of 147 different types.\n\nMrs Wadsworth said the \"thought of learning to fly for free was a great incentive\" to join the ATA\n\nMrs Wadsworth, who was born in Nottingham, joined the ATA in 1943 after seeing an advertisement for female pilots and was one of the first six successful candidates to be accepted with no or little previous flying experience, historian Sally McGlone said.\n\nIn 2020, the former pilot told her housing association's in-house magazine that she had been \"looking for a new challenge\" when she joined the service.\n\n\"The thought of learning to fly for free was a great incentive [so] I put my name down and didn't think much about it,\" she said.\n\nShe added that she had enjoyed flying Spitfires the most, which she did 132 times.\n\n\"It was a beautiful aircraft, great to handle,\" she said.\n\nTributes have been paid to her bravery on social including one from former RAF Tornado navigator and Gulf prisoner of war John Nichol.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs McGlone said Mrs Wadsworth and her fellow ATA pilots \"will remain an inspiration to women worldwide\", while fellow historian Howard Cook said she and her fellow \"Spitfire Women\" had been \"incredibly brave\".\n\nAuthor Karen Borden, who interviewed Mrs Wadsworth for an upcoming book, added that \"like many of the women pilots, she was incredibly humble about her contribution to the war effort\".\n\n\"She joked about how flying 'straight and level' was her mark... and how marvellous it was to take to the air on her own.\"\n\nEleanor Wadsworth (bottom row, far left) joined the ATA in 1943\n\nHer son Robert said she had been \"a wonderful mother, an adoring grandmother and great-grandmother\", who had been \"matter of fact\" about her wartime service.\n\nHe said she would say that \"we had a job to do [and] we just got on and did it\".\n\nHer funeral will take place on Tuesday.\n\nMrs Wadsworth had been one of three surviving female ATA pilots, alongside American Nancy Stratford and Briton Jaye Edwards, who lives in Canada.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Asymptomatic testing for Covid can help \"break the chains of transmission\", Matt Hancock says\n\nRegular rapid testing for people without coronavirus symptoms will be made available across England this week, the government has said.\n\nThe community testing regime - expanded to cover all 317 local authorities - uses rapid lateral flow tests, which can return results in 30 minutes.\n\nLocal councils are being encouraged to prioritise tests for those who cannot work from home during the lockdown.\n\nThe health secretary said asymptomatic testing can help break transmission.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England has invited tens of thousands of people over 80 to book vaccinations.\n\nA further 563 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 54,940 cases reported, according to government figures on Sunday.\n\nThe total number of deaths in the UK after a positive test passed 80,000 on Saturday.\n\nThe government has launched a campaign telling people to act like they have got the virus in a bid to tackle the rise in infections.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said expanding the Community Testing Programme to more people without symptoms was \"crucial given that around one in three people\" who contract Covid-19 show no symptoms.\n\nIt said regular community testing using the rapid tests had already identified more than 14,800 positive Covid-19 cases.\n\nSo far, 131 local authorities in England have enrolled in the government's community testing programme, with Milton Keynes, Slough, Doncaster and Essex the latest to join.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said targeted asymptomatic testing and subsequent isolation was \"highly effective in breaking chains of transmission\".\n\nBut Angela Raffle, a consultant in public health at the University of Bristol Medical School, said increasing lateral flow testing was \"very worrying\" and warned the benefits of finding symptomless cases \"will be outweighed by the many more infectious cases that are missed by these tests\".\n\nDefending lateral flow tests on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme Mr Hancock said mass asymptomatic testing in Liverpool had seen the case rate drop \"more sharply than it did in other similar areas where only restrictions were brought in\".\n\nNHS Test and Trace will also work closely with other government departments to scale up workforce testing, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nMany are already piloting regular workforce testing, with 15 large employers having taken up this offer already across 64 sites, \"including organisations operating in the food, manufacturing, energy and retail sectors, and within the public sector including job centres, transport networks and the military\".\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said plans were already in place for rapid testing of staff and students in schools and colleges and staff in primary schools.\n\nAsked when schools could reopen by the BBC's Andrew Marr, Mr Hancock said there were four conditions: that there is not a major new variant, the vaccine rollout is proceeding effectively, the number of deaths is falling and there is an easing of pressure on the NHS.\n\nMatthew Fell, of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), which represents 190,000 UK businesses, said: \"This expansion of testing will help more critical workers and those unable to work from home to operate safely, while also catching new cases more swiftly.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the safety of the workforce had been an \"absolute priority\" and said the expansion of testing means \"we can keep our economy on the move while giving individuals in key sectors complete confidence that their workplace is safe\".\n\nBut Prof Susan Michie, professor of health psychology at University College London, told BBC Breakfast the country would continue a \"yo-yoing of lockdown\" without a \"test, trace and isolate system that actually works\" and warned there needed to be tighter restrictions and tougher messaging than in March to prevent \"tens of thousands of avoidable deaths in the next few weeks\".", "Bernard Thomas was interviewed by BBC Wales at the time of the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster\n\nA survivor of the Aberfan disaster has died after contracting Covid-19.\n\nAs a nine-year-old Bernard Thomas was rescued from the rubble of Pantglas primary school after one of the biggest tragedies in Welsh history.\n\nA total of 144 people were killed in the disaster on 21 October, 1966, after thousands of tonnes of coal slurry slid from a tip. Of those 116 were primary school pupils.\n\nLater Bernard was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress.\n\nHe told S4C he \"still heard the sounds of children screaming.\"\n\nPaying tribute to Mr Thomas, 63, who died on Wednesday, his brother Andrew told BBC's Newyddion: \"Bernard was a real character and his death has come as a shock to us as a family and the community of Aberfan.\"\n\n\"We can't be sure where he caught Covid, but he had an eye appointment at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital on 21 December.\n\n\"A few days later, he became ill and at Prince Charles Hospital, he tested positive for Covid-19.\"\n\n\"Although he had been receiving oxygen through a mask, we spoke regularly on the phone and he told us he was getting better.\n\n\"But on Wednesday morning he removed his mask to eat his breakfast, and 10 minutes after eating he faded away.\"\n\n\"It's a huge shock but I don't blame anybody.\"\n\nOn the 50th anniversary of the disaster Bernard told the BBC: \"I still wonder what the others would have been doing if it hadn't happened. Who would have got married to who, you know.\"\n\nBernard is survived by his 90-year-old mother Gwen, with whom he shared a home, and brothers Andrew and Robert.", "Coronavirus does not show much sign of \"abating\" in Scotland, says the deputy first minister as he refused to rule out tougher restrictions.\n\nScotland is facing \"a very alarming situation\" with the virus, according to John Swinney, whose comments come as the country records its highest death toll so far in the pandemic in the last two days, where 93 Scots died from the virus.\n\nSwinney tells Politics Scotland: \"I don't think I'm revealing a state secret when I say that the debate within cabinet [on Monday] was not whether we were going too far but whether we were going far enough.\"\n\nMr Swinney says Scotland recorded around 130 cases per 100,000 people on Boxing Day, but the figure shot up to 300 just 10 days later.\n\nDespite the new measures put in place, Mr Swinney said: \"It doesn't show much sign of abating to any extent.\n\n\"We're seeing case numbers which are hovering around 2,000 per day... so we've got an accelerating situation on our hands and we have to constantly review whether more restrictions are required.\"\n\nHe added: \"We remain open to considering further restrictions if they are necessary.\"", "Flexing the coronavirus lockdown rules could be fatal, the health secretary has warned as hospital admissions soar.\n\nMatt Hancock did not rule out strengthening current restrictions and told the BBC's Andrew Marr the NHS was under \"very serious pressure\".\n\nIt comes after almost 55,000 new cases of coronavirus were reported in the UK and the number of deaths after a positive test passed 80,000.\n\nScientist Prof Peter Horby warned the UK was in \"the eye of the storm\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the rules were tough but \"may not be tough enough\" and called for the government to hold daily press conferences to avoid \"mixed messages\".\n\nThe UK recorded another 563 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test on Sunday, down from 1,065 deaths on Saturday.\n\nHowever, there tends to be fewer deaths reported on Sundays, due to a reporting lag over the weekend. There were also a further 54,940 daily cases.\n\nMr Hancock told Andrew Marr \"every time you try to flex the rules that could be fatal\" and said staying at home was the \"most important thing we can do collectively as a society\".\n\nThe health secretary said he did not want to speculate on whether the government would further strengthen restrictions, after warnings from scientists on Saturday that they may need to be stricter.\n\n\"People need to not just follow the letter of the rules but follow the spirit as well and play their part,\" he said.\n\nHis comments came after Home Secretary Priti Patel defended police over enforcing lockdown rules following the case of two women who were fined for going for a walk five miles from their homes - a decision which is now under review.\n\nThe government has launched a campaign telling people to act like they have got the virus in a bid to tackle the rise in infections.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said that if the virus continued on its current trajectory \"many hospitals will be in real difficulties, and very soon\".\n\nIn a statement released on Sunday, he said that unless people started to follow the rules more strictly, emergency patients will have to be turned away from hospitals, causing \"avoidable deaths\".\n\nProf Horby, chairman of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), said there may be \"early signs that something is beginning to bite\" due to the restrictions - but if they did not then stricter measures would be needed.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: \"I really hope people take this very seriously. It was bad in March, it's much worse now.\n\n\"We've seen record numbers across the board, record numbers of cases, record numbers of hospitalisations, record numbers of deaths.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Peter Horby explains why the new Covid-19 variant is up to 70% more transmissible\n\nProf Horby said tougher measures might include those during the March lockdown, such as people only being able to exercise once a day and stricter rules about meeting people.\n\n\"We are in a situation where everything that was risky in the past is now more risky,\" he said.\n\nProf Horby said early signs were encouraging that the vaccines would be effective against the new Covid variants - first identified in the UK and in South Africa - and he did not want people to \"hide under the duvet\".\n\n\"We can see the end game now,\" he said.\n\nHigher cases inevitably mean more hospitalisations and more deaths.\n\nThe most recent figures show that, on average, 894 people per day are now dying within 28 days of a positive Covid test, up from 438 at the start of December.\n\nThe spike in cases since Christmas means that figure is almost certain to get worse before the most recent lockdown measures can start to have any effect.\n\nScientists think the new variant of the disease is more \"transmissible\", possibly because each infected individual produces more of the actual virus - sometimes referred to as the viral load.\n\nVaccination should help to protect the most vulnerable from serious symptoms but we don't yet know if receiving the jab stops an individual contracting the virus and passing it on to others.\n\nScientists say that may mean even tougher restrictions will be needed to bring the R-number below one and start to reduce the overall size of the pandemic.\n\nMass community testing is to be rolled out this week, the government has said, and the health secretary said around two million people had been vaccinated in the UK, with some 200,000 jabs being given in England daily.\n\nMr Hancock said by autumn every adult in the UK would be offered a vaccine.\n\nHe said the government was on course to reach its target of 15 million people vaccinated by mid-February, with the opening of seven mass vaccination centres this week likely to increase the rate of jabs.\n\nMr Hancock told Sky News' Sophy Ridge he hoped coronavirus could be treated like seasonal flu with an annual vaccination programme in the future.\n\nProf Horby said the vaccines may have to be updated \"every few years\" as the virus mutates and said it was unlikely the virus would go away completely.\n\n\"We're going to have to live with it,\" he said. \"But that may change significantly.\n\n\"It may well become more of an endemic virus that's with us all the time and may cause some seasonal pressures and some excess deaths but is not causing the huge disruption that we're seeing now.\"", "Electricity is gradually being restored in Pakistan following a huge power cut across the country, which led to every city reporting outages.\n\nHomes nationwide were suddenly plunged into darkness from about midnight.\n\nPower is now back in most cities but officials warn that it could still be a few hours before electricity is fully restored.\n\nThe outage is believed to have been caused by a fault at a power plant in the south of the country.\n\nPower cuts are not uncommon in Pakistan. Essential facilities such as hospitals often use diesel-fuelled generators as a back-up power supply.\n\n\"A countrywide blackout has been caused by a sudden plunge in the frequency in the power transmission system,\" Pakistan's power minister, Omar Ayub Khan, wrote on Twitter in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nHomes across the country were plunged into darkness at about midnight\n\nMr Khan later said that power had been restored in most major cities but that it would take a few more hours for the grid to go completely back to normal.\n\nHe added that the outage occurred after a fault developed at the Guddu power plant in Sindh province shortly before midnight on Saturday (19:00 GMT).\n\nInvestigators were at the site to ascertain the cause of the fault, Mr Khan said.\n\nBlackouts sometimes occur in Pakistan because of chronic power shortages, with many areas having no electricity for several hours a day. The issue has previously led to street protests.\n\nIn 2013, Pakistan's electricity network broke down completely after a power plant in south-western Balochistan province developed a technical fault.\n\nPakistanis seem to have largely taken this power cut in their stride. Outages lasting a number of hours are not uncommon, though they are rarely on this scale, and normally occur during the hotter summer months. The last time there was a near national blackout like this was in 2015.\n\nSo far, there have been no reports of problems at hospitals, which have their own back-up supplies. A senior member of staff at a major hospital in the city of Karachi told me they could maintain services for 48-72 hours without mainline power.\n\nMany businesses and richer families invariably own diesel or petrol fuelled generators too, allowing them to continue using electricity whenever power cuts occur. There were reports of queues at some petrol stations earlier in the day as people tried to keep refilling their generators.\n\nOthers will have been without internet and phone access, or hot water, but - already used to periods without electricity - appear to have accepted the outage with an air of resignation.", "Many were taken by surprise by the events in Washington, but to those who closely follow conspiracy and extreme right groups online, the warning signs were all there.\n\nAt 02:21 Eastern Standard Time on election night, President Trump walked onto a stage set up in the East Room of the White House and declared victory.\n\n\"We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we did win this election.\"\n\nHis speech came an hour after he'd tweeted: \"They are trying to steal the election\".\n\nHe hadn't won. There was no victory to steal. But to many of his most fervent supporters, these facts didn't matter, and still don't.\n\nSixty five days later, a motley coalition of rioters stormed the US Capitol building. They included believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory, members of \"Stop the Steal\" groups, far-right activists, online trolls and others.\n\nOn Friday 8 January - some 48 hours after the Washington riots - Twitter began a purge of some of the most influential pro-Trump accounts that had been pushing conspiracies and urging direct action to overturn the election result.\n\nThen came the big one - Mr Trump himself.\n\nThe president was permanently banned from tweeting to his more than 88 million followers \"due to the risk of further incitement of violence\".\n\nThe violence in Washington shocked the world and seemed to catch the authorities off guard.\n\nBut for anyone who had been carefully watching the unfolding story - online and on the streets of American cities - it came as no surprise.\n\nThe idea of a rigged election was seeded by the president in speeches and on Twitter, months before the vote.\n\nOn election day, the rumors started just as Americans were going to the polls.\n\nA video of a Republican poll watcher being denied entry to a Philadelphia polling station went viral. It was a genuine error, caused by confusion about the rules. The man was later allowed into the station to observe the count.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Will Chamberlain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Will Chamberlain\n\nBut it became the first of many videos, images, graphics and claims that went viral in the days that followed, giving rise to a hashtag: #StopTheSteal.\n\nThe message behind it was clear - Mr Trump had won a landslide victory, but dark forces in the establishment \"deep state\" had stolen it from him.\n\nIn the early hours of Wednesday 4 November, while votes were still being counted and three days before the US networks called the election for Joe Biden, President Trump claimed victory, alleging \"a fraud on the American public\".\n\nMr Trump did not provide any evidence to back up his claims. Studies carried out for previous US elections have shown that voter fraud is extremely rare.\n\nBy mid-afternoon a Facebook group called \"Stop the Steal\" was created and quickly became one of the fastest-growing in the platform's history. By Thursday morning, it had added more than 300,000 members.\n\nMany of the posts focused on unsubstantiated allegations of mass voter fraud, including manufactured claims that thousands of dead people had voted and that voting machines had somehow been programmed to flip votes from Mr Trump to Mr Biden.\n\nBut some of the posts were more alarming, speaking of the need for a \"civil war\" or \"revolution\".\n\nBy Thursday afternoon, Facebook had taken down Stop the Steal, but not before it had generated nearly half a million comments, shares, likes, and reactions.\n\nDozens of other groups quickly sprang up in its place.\n\nThe idea of a stolen election continued to spread online and take hold. Soon, a dedicated Stop the Steal website was launched in a bid to register \"boots on the ground to protect the integrity of the vote\".\n\nOn Saturday 7 November, major news organisations declared that Joe Biden had won the election. In Democratic strongholds, throngs of people took to the streets to celebrate. But the reaction online from Mr Trump's most ardent supporters was one of anger and defiance.\n\nThey planned a rally in Washington DC for the following Saturday, dubbed the Million MAGA (Make America Great Again) March.\n\nTrump tweeted that he might try to stop by the demonstration and \"say hello\".\n\nPrevious pro-Trump rallies in Washington had failed to attract large crowds. But thousands gathered at Freedom Plaza that sunny morning.\n\nOne extremism researcher called it the \"debut of the pro-Trump insurgency\".\n\nAs Trump's motorcade drove through the city, supporters screaming with delight rushed to catch a glimpse of the president, who beamed at them wearing a red MAGA hat.\n\nWhile mainstream conservative figures were present, the event was dominated by far-right groups.\n\nDozens of members of the far-right, anti-immigrant, all-male group Proud Boys, who have repeatedly been involved in violent street protests and were among those who would later break into the US Capitol, joined the march. Militia groups, far-right media figures and promoters of conspiracy theories were also there.\n\nAs night fell, clashes between Trump supporters and counter-protesters broke out, including a brawl about five blocks from the White House.\n\nThe violence - although largely contained by police on this occasion - was a clear sign of things to come.\n\nBy now, President Trump and his legal team had invested their hopes in dozens of legal cases.\n\nAlthough a number of courts had already dismissed fraud allegations, many in the pro-Trump online world became fascinated with two lawyers with close ties to the president - Sidney Powell and L Lin Wood.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood promised they were preparing cases of voter fraud so comprehensive that when released, they would destroy the case for Mr Biden having won the presidency.\n\nMs Powell, 65, a conservative activist and former federal prosecutor, told Fox News that the effort would \"release the Kraken\" - a reference to a gigantic sea monster from Scandinavian folklore that rises up from the ocean to devour its enemies.\n\nThe \"Kraken\" quickly became an internet meme, representing sprawling, unsubstantiated claims of widespread election fraud.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood became heroes to followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory - who believe President Trump and a secret military intelligence team are battling a deep state made up of Satan-worshipping paedophiles in the Democratic Party, media, business and Hollywood.\n\nThe lawyers became a conduit between the president and his most conspiracy-minded supporters - a number of whom ended up inside the Capitol on 6 January.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood were successful in whipping up sound and fury online, but their legal efforts came to nothing.\n\nWhen they released almost 200 pages of documents in late November, it became clear that their lawsuit consisted predominantly of conspiracy theories and debunked allegations that had already been rejected by dozens of courts.\n\nThe filings contained simple legal errors - and basic misspellings and typos.\n\nStill, the meme lived on. The terms \"Kraken\" and \"Release the Kraken\" were used more than a million times on Twitter before the Capitol riot.\n\nDeath threats were made against a Georgia election worker, and Republican officials in the state - including Governor Brian Kemp, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and the official in charge of the state's voting systems, Gabriel Sterling - were branded \"traitors\" online.\n\nMr Sterling issued an emotional and prescient warning to the president in a press conference on 1 December.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"This has to stop... someone's gonna get killed\": Mr Sterling calls on President Trump to condemn the threats\n\n\"Someone's going to get hurt, someone's going to get shot, someone's going to get killed, and it's not right,\" he said.\n\nIn Michigan in early December, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, had just finished trimming her Christmas tree with her four-year-old son when she heard a commotion outside her Detroit home.\n\nAbout 30 protesters with banners stood outside, shouting \"Stop the steal!\" through megaphones.\n\n\"Benson, you are a villain,\" one person yelled.\n\nOne of the demonstrators live-streamed the protest on Facebook, stating that her group was \"not going away\".\n\nIt was just one of a rash of protests targeting people involved in the vote.\n\nIn Georgia, a constant stream of Trump supporters drove past Mr Raffensperger's home, honking their horns. His wife received threats of sexual violence.\n\nIn Arizona, demonstrators gathered outside of the home of Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, at one point warning: \"We are watching you.\"\n\nOn 11 December, the Supreme Court rejected an attempt by the state of Texas to throw out election results.\n\nAs the president's legal and political windows continued to close, the language in pro-Trump online circles became increasingly violent.\n\nOn 12 December, a second Stop the Steal rally was held in the capital. Once again, thousands attended, and once again prominent far-right activists, QAnon supporters, fringe MAGA groups and militia movements were among the demonstrators.\n\nMichael Flynn, Mr Trump's former national security advisor, likened the protesters to the biblical soldiers and priests breaching the walls of Jericho. This echoed the rally organisers' call for \"Jericho Marches\" to overturn the election result.\n\nNick Fuentes, the leader of Groypers, a far-right movement that targets Republican politicians and figures they deem too moderate, told the crowd: \"We are going to destroy the GOP!\"\n\nThe march once again turned violent.\n\nThen two days later, the Electoral College certified Mr Biden's victory, one of the final steps required for him to take office.\n\nOn online platforms, supporters were becoming resigned to the view that all legal avenues were dead ends, and only direct action could save the Trump presidency.\n\nSince election day, alongside Mr Flynn, Ms Powell and Mr Wood, a new figure had rapidly gained prominence among pro-Trump circles online.\n\nRon Watkins is the son of Jim Watkins, the man behind 8chan and 8kun - message boards filled with extreme language and views, violence and extreme sexual content. They gave rise to the QAnon movement.\n\nIn a series of viral tweets on 17 December, Ron Watkins suggested President Trump should follow the example of Roman leader Julius Caesar, and capitalise on \"fierce loyalty of the military\" in order to \"restore the Republic\".\n\nRon Watkins encouraged his more than 500,000 followers to make #CrossTheRubicon a Twitter trend, referring to the moment when Caesar launched a civil war by crossing the Rubicon river in 49BC. The hashtag was also used by more mainstream figures - including the chairwoman of Arizona Republican Party, Kelli Ward.\n\nIn a separate tweet, Ron Watkins said Mr Trump must invoke the Insurrection Act, which empowers the president to deploy the military and federal forces.\n\nMr Trump met Ms Powell, Mr Flynn and others at a strategy meeting at the White House the following day, 18 December.\n\nDuring the meeting, according to the New York Times, Mr Flynn called on Mr Trump to impose martial law and deploy the military to \"rerun\" the election.\n\nThe meeting further stoked online chatter about \"war\" and \"revolution\" in far-right circles. Many came to see the joint session of Congress on 6 January, normally a formality, as a last roll of the dice.\n\nA wishful story began to take hold among QAnon and some MAGA supporters. They hoped that Vice-President Mike Pence, who was set to preside over the 6 January ceremony, would ignore the electoral college votes.\n\nThe president, they said, would then deploy the military to quell any unrest, order the mass arrest of the \"deep state cabal\" who had rigged the election and send them to Guantanamo Bay military prison.\n\nBack in the land of reality, none of this was remotely feasible. But it launched a movement for \"patriot caravans\" to organise ride shares to help transport thousands from around the country to Washington DC on 6 January.\n\nLong processions of vehicles flying Trump flags and sometimes towing elaborately decorated trailers gathered in car parks in cities including Louisville, Kentucky, Atlanta, Georgia, and Scranton, Pennsylvania.\n\n\"We are on our way,\" one caravaner posted on Twitter with a picture of about two dozen supporters.\n\nAt an Ikea parking lot in North Carolina, another man showed off his truck. \"The flags are a little tattered - we'll call them battle flags now,\" he said.\n\nAs it became clear that Mr Pence and other key Republicans would follow the law and allow Congress to certify Mr Biden's win, the language towards them became vicious.\n\n\"Pence will be in jail awaiting trial for treason,\" Mr Wood tweeted. \"He will face execution by firing squad.\"\n\nOnline discussion reached boiling point. References to firearms, war and violence were rife on self-styled \"free speech\" social platforms such as Gab and Parler, which are popular with Trump supporters, as well as on other sites.\n\nIn Proud Boys groups, where members had once supported police, some turned against authorities, whom they deemed to no longer be on their side.\n\nHundreds of posts on a popular pro-Trump site, TheDonald, openly discussed plans to cross barricades, carry firearms and other weapons to the march in defiance of Washington's strict gun laws. There was open chatter about storming the Capitol and arresting \"treasonous\" members of Congress.\n\nOn Wednesday 6 January, Mr Trump addressed a crowd of thousands at the Ellipse, a park just south of the White House, for more than an hour.\n\nEarly on he encouraged supporters to \"peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard\", but he ended with a warning. \"We fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.\n\n\"So we're going to, we're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue… and we're going to the Capitol.\"\n\nTo some observers, the potential for violence that day was clear from the outset.\n\nMichael Chertoff, former secretary of homeland security under President George W Bush, blamed the Capitol Police, who reportedly turned down offers of assistance from the much larger National Guard ahead of time. He characterised it as \"the worst failure of a police force I can think of\".\n\n\"I think it was a very foreseeable potential negative turn of events,\" Mr Chertoff said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"To be blunt, it was obvious. If you read the newspaper and were awake, you understood that you've got a lot of people who have been convinced there was a fraudulent election. Some of them are extremists, and violent. Some of the groups openly said, 'Bring your guns'.\"\n\nStill, many Americans were astonished by Wednesday's scenes, like James Clark, a 68-year-old Republican from Virginia.\n\n\"I find it absolutely shocking. I didn't think it would come to this,\" he told the BBC.\n\nBut the signs were there for weeks. A hodgepodge of extreme and conspiratorial groups were convinced that the election was stolen. Online, they repeatedly talked about arming themselves, and violence.\n\nPerhaps the authorities didn't think their posts were serious, or specific enough to investigate. They now face pointed questions.\n\nFor Joe Biden's inauguration on 20 January, Mr Chertoff is expecting a \"much stronger showing\" by security services than last Wednesday night.\n\nBut that hasn't stopped many on extreme platforms calling for further violence and disruption on the day.\n\nThere are questions, too, for the major social media platforms, which enabled conspiracy theories to reach millions of people.\n\nLate on Friday, Twitter deleted the accounts of Mr Flynn, the former Trump advisor, the \"Kraken\" lawyers Ms Powell and Mr Wood, and Mr Watkins. Then Mr Trump himself.\n\nArrests of those who stormed the Capitol continue. But most of the rioters still live in a parallel online universe - a subterranean world filled with alternative facts.\n\nThey have already come up with fanciful explanations to dismiss Mr Trump's video statement, posted on Twitter the day after the riots, in which he acknowledged for the first time that \"a new administration will be inaugurated on 20 January\".\n\nHe can't possibly be giving up, they contend. Among their new theories - it's not really him in the video but a computer-generated \"deep fake\". Or perhaps the president is being held hostage.\n\nMany still believe Mr Trump will prevail.\n\nThere's no evidence behind any of this, but it does prove one thing.\n\nNo matter what happens to Donald Trump, the rioters who stormed the US Capitol are not backing down anytime soon.", "Spain is in a race against time to clear roads covered by heavy snow, and get Covid vaccines and food supplies to areas affected by Storm Filomena.\n\nUp to 50cm (20 inches) of snow fell on the capital Madrid, one of the worst hit areas, between Friday and Saturday.\n\nAt least four people died and thousands of travellers were left stranded.\n\nOvernight, temperatures plunged to -8C (18F) in parts of Spain, amid warnings by meteorologists that the snow was turning to perilous ice.\n\nThe unusual cold wave on the Iberian peninsula is expected to last until Thursday.\n\nThe Spanish government said it had taken extra steps - including police-escorted convoys - to ensure its expected shipment of some 300,000 coronavirus vaccines can be distributed as planned to regional health authorities later on Monday.\n\n\"The commitment is to guarantee the supply of health, vaccines and food. Corridors have been opened to deliver the goods,\" Transport Minister Jose Luis Abalos said on Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Madrid has been hit by heavy snowfall after Storm Filomena\n\nSoldiers have been deployed to clear some of the 700 major roads.\n\nSome 3,500 tonnes of salt were later brought on lorries to the capital, Spain's El Mundo website reported on Monday.\n\nThe record-breaking snowfall has triggered some unprecedented scenes here in Madrid. People have skied along the city's main commercial street, Gran Vía, and one man was pictured being pulled through the district of Hortaleza on a sled by five huskies.\n\nBut other responses to the snow have been more controversial due to concerns about Covid-19. Dozens of young people had a snowball fight in Callao square, for example, and many of them were without facemasks.\n\nNearby, in Puerta del Sol, others celebrated the snow by dancing a conga. The daily Marca newspaper branded it \"the conga of shame\".\n\nAlthough the snowfall has now stopped, low temperatures have left snow and ice piled up across the capital and the surrounding region. And with residents advised to avoid using their cars, public transport has seen a surge in demand.\n\nThis has compounded coronavirus concerns as many metro train carriages were packed at rush hour on Monday morning, making social distancing impossible.\n\nMadrid's international airport began gradually resuming operations on Sunday afternoon, having cancelled all flights on Friday.\n\nSome 500 people across the Madrid region were forced to spend the night in temporary shelter, including sports centres, after they were trapped by the whiteout.\n\nAbout 100 shoppers and staff spent two nights at a shopping centre in Majadahonda, a town north of the capital. \"There are people sleeping on the ground on cardboard,\" one restaurant employee told TVE television.\n\nSpain's Meteorological Agency said Saturday's snowfall was the heaviest in Madrid since 1971\n\nBut there were stories of heroism too, including doctors and medical workers who abandoned their cars and walked for hours to get to work. One doctor, Alvaro Sanchez, said on social media he had walked 17km (10 miles) over nearly two hours to get to work, while two nurses, Paco and Monica, said they had walked 22km to their hospital.\n\nThey were praised by Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa, who tweeted: \"The commitment that the entire group of health workers is showing is an example of solidarity and dedication.\"\n\nSome 4x4 vehicle owners offered to transport medical workers, while other volunteers helped to clear hospital entrance ways.\n\n\"Health staff have been working (hard) for more than a year and this is just a short moment for us, so as citizens, we are trying to help; it is everyone's responsibility,\" said Fernando de la Fuente, 60, who helped clear the entrance to Madrid's Gregorio Maranon Hospital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpaniards in large parts of the country have been warned to take care in the coming days as temperatures could fall to -12C (10F) in some areas until Thursday.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nCrawley Town delivered one of the FA Cup third round's most emphatic upsets as the League Two underdogs tore apart Marcelo Bielsa's Leeds.\n\nThree second-half goals rewarded a fantastic performance from John Yems' side as they made light of the 62 places between themselves and their Premier League visitors.\n\nNick Tsaroulla, playing only his seventh game in senior football, set the ball rolling, beating three Leeds defenders to fire home a superb solo opener.\n\nUnited keeper Kiko Casilla's error allowed Ashley Nadesan to double the lead before Jordan Tunnicliffe added a third for Crawley, who could have won by more.\n• None Watch all of the goals from the FA Cup third round\n• None Can Mark Wright make it as a pro at Crawley?\n\nBielsa made seven changes to his side but Leeds fielded England midfielder Kalvin Phillips among several regular top-flight starters including Pablo Hernandez, Ezgjan Alioski and club record signing Rodrigo.\n\nHowever, after an even first half, they were completely outplayed in the second period by a Crawley side who have reached the fourth round for only the third time, having spent most of their 125-year existence in non-league football.\n\nCrawley even had the luxury of bringing on reality TV celebrity Mark Wright in stoppage time for the former The Only Way Is Essex star's debut, having signed for the club on non-contract terms in December.\n\nLeeds' loss is the first time in 34 years a top-flight side has lost to a fourth-tier team by three or more goals and only the second ever instance since a fourth division was added to the Football League in 1958.\n\nThey may be the lesser-known of the two Red Devils but Crawley's efforts were no less impressive than Manchester United's 6-2 dissection of Leeds last month.\n\nWhile Bielsa rested first-choice stars such as Patrick Bamford, Luke Ayling, Stuart Dallas and Mateusz Klich, there was still plenty of experience mixed in with the youth in Leeds' line-up.\n\nBut the hosts, sixth in League Two after an eight-game unbeaten run, never gave them the chance to settle and while neither side could break the deadlock before the interval, it was Crawley who went closest as Casilla kept out Tom Nichols' close-range header.\n\nHe was helpless, however, to prevent Tsaroulla - a former Tottenham trainee who spent a year out of the game because of injuries sustained in a car crash - firing Crawley ahead after a twisting run into the area that beguiled the Leeds back-line.\n\nRather than protect their lead, Crawley went for the jugular and Nadesan soon doubled their advantage, although his strike owed much to a bobble that beat Casilla at his near post.\n\nTunnicliffe then fired into the roof of the net after Casilla parried from Nadesan and Crawley could have had a fourth after top scorer Max Watters came off the bench to round the keeper, only to be denied by a covering defender.\n\nThe win marked the first time in four attempts that Crawley have beaten a Premier League side in the FA Cup and so comfortable was the victory that TV personality Wright was given his late cameo.\n\nAnother name added to Leeds' list of cup woes\n\nBielsa was left to mull over back-to-back 3-0 defeats, albeit this one coming in a much different context to Leeds' Premier League loss at Tottenham on 2 January.\n\nThis was the former Argentina manager's first taste of an FA Cup shock, after far more mundane exits against Arsenal and QPR in Bielsa's two previous campaigns since taking the Elland Road reins in 2018.\n\nBut it was not unfamiliar ground for Leeds as Crawley - who have finished in the bottom half of League Two for five successive seasons - emulated non-league pair Histon and Sutton United, as well as lower-league clubs Rochdale and Newport, in upsetting the Whites this century.\n\nThe visitors only forced one real save from Crawley keeper Glenn Morris, who reacted well to push away Ian Poveda's strike from an acute angle in the first half.\n\nLeeds might point to a penalty they perhaps should have had before the interval when Crawley defender Tony Craig got away with pulling back Rodrigo as he attempted to meet Helder Costa's volleyed cross.\n\nBut there was no video assistant referee system at the game, and they offered very little going forward after Rodrigo was substituted at half-time.\n\nIt was a fourth successive third-round exit in a competition they could have looked to with some hope, given their relatively comfortable position in the Premier League.\n\n\"We've got 11 star men\" - what they said\n\nCrawley manager Yems to BBC Sport: \"You have to enjoy these games - you work hard enough for it. It was a really good team performance and it's clear that we've got 11 star men.\n\n\"These players have got a lot to prove to the clubs who have released them and we've showed what we can do against a really good side.\n\n\"Let's see who we get in the next round and enjoy the moment.\"\n\nLeeds midfielder Alioski to BBC Radio 5 Live: \"We are really disappointed and it wasn't the result that we wanted. We took the game really seriously and we wanted to win and go on a run, so it is disappointing.\n\n\"Crawley played the game of their lives, and congratulations. To beat us 3-0 - I still can't believe it.\n\n\"The manager said what he wanted to say. It's important for every player to know what this means. He is sad and the players are sad.\"\n• None Attempt blocked. Sam Greenwood (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Raphinha (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Pablo Hernández.\n• None Jake Hessenthaler (Crawley Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Hélder Costa (Leeds United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Pablo Hernández.\n• None Jamie Shackleton (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Max Watters (Crawley Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tom Nichols. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None All the goals and highlights from a huge Saturday of third-round matches are", "Mike Pompeo said the US-Taiwan relationship should not be \"shackled\" (file photo)\n\nThe US is lifting long-standing restrictions on contacts between American and Taiwanese officials, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says.\n\nThe \"self-imposed restrictions\" were introduced decades ago to \"appease\" the mainland Chinese government, which lays claim to the island, the US state department said in a statement.\n\nThese rules are now \"null and void\".\n\nThe move is likely to anger China and increase tensions between Washington and Beijing.\n\nIt comes as the Trump administration enters its final days ahead of the inauguration of Joe Biden as president on 20 January.\n\nThe Biden transition team have said the president-elect is committed to maintaining the long-standing US policy towards Taiwan.\n\nAnalysts say they will be unhappy with such a policy decision being made in the final days of the Trump administration, but that the move could be reversed easily by Mr Pompeo's successor Antony Blinken.\n\nChina regards Taiwan as a breakaway province, but Taiwan's leaders argue that it is a sovereign state.\n\nRelations between the two are frayed and there is a constant threat of a violent flare up that could drag in the US, an ally of Taiwan.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday, Mr Pompeo said the US state department had introduced complicated restrictions limiting the communication between American diplomats and their Taiwanese counterparts.\n\n\"Today I am announcing that I am lifting all of these self-imposed restrictions,\" he said. \"Today's statement recognises that the US-Taiwan relationship need not, and should not, be shackled by self-imposed restrictions of our permanent bureaucracy.\"\n\nHe added that Taiwan was a vibrant democracy and a reliable US partner, and that the restrictions were no longer valid.\n\nFollowing the announcement, Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu thanked Mr Pompeo, saying he was \"grateful\".\n\n\"The closer partnership between Taiwan and the US is firmly based on our shared values, common interests and unshakeable belief in freedom and democracy,\" he wrote in a tweet.\n\nLast August, US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar became the highest-ranking US politician to hold meetings on the island for decades.\n\nIn response, China urged the US to respect what it calls its \"one China\" principle.\n\nThe US also sells arms to Taiwan, though it does not have a formal defence treaty with the country, as it does with Japan, South Korea and the Philippines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChina and Taiwan have had separate governments since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949.\n\nBeijing has long tried to limit Taiwan's international activities and both have vied for influence in the Pacific region.\n\nTensions have increased in recent years and Beijing has not ruled out the use of force to take the island back.\n\nAlthough Taiwan is officially recognised by only a handful of nations, its democratically-elected government has strong commercial and informal links with many countries.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "Dozens of demonstrators were walking and chanting along Clapham High Street as police attempted to keep them contained to the area\n\nSixteen people have been arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nPolice officers clashed with some of the maskless protesters who arrived in Clapham Common, some shouting \"take your freedom back\".\n\nSix police vans were deployed to the scene while officers moved the crowd of about 30 people away from the area.\n\nGathering for the purpose of a protest is not an exemption to the rules, the Met Police said.\n\nOne woman shouted from her car at the protesters \"there's a pandemic going\", while another bystander shouted \"idiots\".\n\nOne anti-lockdown protester, who was detained at Clapham Common park, said \"I stand under common law, not maritime law and this is assault\" as he was put into handcuffs by police officers.\n\nA large police presence remains around Clapham Common station, but almost all protesters had left the area as of 14:00 GMT.\n\nIt comes as a \"major incident\" was declared as the spread of Covid-19 threatens to \"overwhelm\" London hospitals.\n\nCity Hall said Covid-19 cases in the capital had exceeded 1,000 per 100,000, while there were 35% more people in hospital with the virus than in the peak of the pandemic in April.\n\nPolice could be seen questioning several people at the demonstration\n\nPolice battled to disperse the protestors gathering in Clapham Common\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ben Jackson said the closure of the farm's bulk-buyers like hotels and schools has left thousands of eggs unsold\n\nA fall in bulk egg orders due to the lockdown could lead to chickens being culled, a poultry-farmer has warned.\n\nFluffetts Farm near Fordingbridge had been supplying free range eggs to 350 Hampshire schools, but orders stopped when schools suddenly closed.\n\nFarm owner, Ben Jackson said: \"If you can't sell the eggs you can't still keep feeding the chickens and therefore something has to give.\"\n\nHe said he hoped to work out a local delivery system to avoid culling birds.\n\nMr Jackson, who has been selling some of the surplus eggs off on social media, has more than 13,000 chickens laying 12,000 eggs each day.\n\nThe cancellation of his school orders has left him with about 4,000 spare eggs a day. The farm has also been hit by restaurants and pubs closing again.\n\nThe farm has a surplus of about 4,000 eggs each day from its 13,000 chickens\n\nHe said: \"If we can't find a home for the eggs the worst-case scenario is that we may have to look to get rid of some of our chickens, but that's what we're trying to avoid.\n\n\"Other chicken farmers are in the same situation - they are talking about potentially having to cull birds in the next week or so - it's not a decision that anyone wants to make.\n\n\"We just want to get through this dark time - we're just taking it a day at time.\"\n\nChickens at the farm are currently in a bird lockdown.\n\nSince 14 December strict biosecurity regulations have been in place following a number of outbreak of avian influenza throughout England.\n• None 'I'll have to throw away £6,000-worth of milk'", "Flat owners applying to a fund to help pay to remove flammable building cladding will be told not to talk to the press without government approval.\n\nA draft agreement, uncovered by the Sunday Times, says that even where there is \"overwhelming public interest\" in speaking to journalists, the government must be told first.\n\nThe government said the wording was \"standard\".\n\nIt set up a £1.6bn fund last year to repair the most dangerous buildings.\n\nBut it warned that the fund might not cover all the costs of removing the cladding.\n\nThe clause might affect building owners and professional managing agents but also residents who manage their building.\n\nSome types of the covering, often added to newer blocks of flats, have been proven to be a fire hazard.\n\nAfter the 2017 Grenfell fire, the government pledged that safe alternatives to dangerous cladding would be provided on all buildings in England taller than 18m.\n\nIt set up the £1.6bn fund to help foot the costs.\n\nThe agreement, between the building owner or leaseholder and the government, says: \"The Applicant shall not make any communication to the press or any journalist or broadcaster regarding the Project or the Agreement (or the performance of it by any Party) without the prior written approval of Homes England and [the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government ]\" and its press offices.\n\nIt says an exception can be made \"where such disclosure is in the overwhelming public interest (in which case disclosure will not be made without first allowing Homes England and MHCLG to make representations on such proposed disclosure).\"\n\nThe UK Cladding Action Group tweeted that it was \"clearly a matter of public interest\" that these issues were aired in public.\n\n\"No department should be hiding behind non-disclosure agreements to stop scrutiny of their actions,\" the group said.\n\nAnother campaign group, Manchester Cladiators, said the existence of the \"gagging clause\" was \"shocking but not necessarily that surprising\".\n\nSpokesperson Rebecca Fairclough said residents would feel \"intimidated\" by it, adding: \"We ask the government to remove this unfair clause immediately and focus on the priority of solving this institutional failure, which still exists and is only growing over three and a half years after the Grenfell tragedy.\"\n\nThe government insists that the wording in the agreement, under the heading \"Marketing material\", is there to ensure applicants come to the government first.\n\n\"The terms set out are standard in commercial agreements and are not specific to this fund - to suggest otherwise is misleading and inaccurate,\" the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) said in a statement.\n\n\"We want a constructive working relationship with building owners who apply to the fund and applicants are asked to work with the department on public communications relating to the project.\"", "Edwin Poots said he has asked senior UK government figures to consider unilaterally revoking the NI Protocol\n\nThe Stormont minister whose officials are responsible for the new Irish Sea border has said some food will be unavailable if changes are not made.\n\nDUP Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has also said jobs could be at risk.\n\nHe said problems at the ports were being caused by new rules applied on imports of food and other products from Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nEarlier Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said trade from GB to NI \"will get worse before it gets better\".\n\nMr Gove said that \"work is ongoing\" and it is \"all part of the process of leaving the European Union\".\n\nHe added that he had spoken to ministers from all parties in the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nAfter speaking with hauliers, supermarkets and processors this week, Mr Poots predicted the loss of jobs and rising costs.\n\n\"A wide range of frozen and chilled foods will be unavailable after the temporary exemption period ends,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Edwin Poots MLA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThat exemption period applies to supermarkets and other food importers and runs out in April.\n\nAfter that they will have to comply with all the paperwork required to ship food in, or find suppliers on the island of Ireland or elsewhere in the EU.\n\nNew rules - called the Northern Ireland Protocol - were introduced because while the UK has left the EU, Northern Ireland has remained in the Single Market for goods and is continuing to apply EU customs rules.\n\nThe arrangement was agreed between the UK and the EU to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nMr Poots said he had spoken to senior UK government figures to ask them to consider unilaterally revoking the protocol as it was \"damaging Northern Ireland at the economic and societal level\".\n\nAnd he hit out at members of Sinn Fein, the SDLP, and Alliance Party who he claimed had supported it.\n\nMembers of those parties have countered similar claims from other DUP politicians in recent days.\n\nThey said DUP MPs had voted against alternative arrangements that would have been simpler to manage before the government pushed ahead with the protocol plan.\n\nResponding to Mr Poot's tweet on Friday evening, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood wrote: \"You broke it, you own it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Colum Eastwood This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson accused Mr Poots of being \"asleep at the wheel\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Martina Anderson MLA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) has called for the assembly to be recalled to discuss difficulties over trading between Great Britain and Northern Ireland due to Brexit.\n\nUUP MLA Roy Beggs said: \"The impact of the Irish Sea border is causing horrendous difficulties for hauliers and this is being seen in shops and businesses across Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It is damaging the Northern Ireland economy and the situation is escalating.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, Michael Gove said it had been expected that there would be \"some initial disruption\" to trade between GB and NI, but that the government is \"ironing\" issues out.\n\nHe said discussions with the executive in Northern Ireland were \"in order to make sure that the [Northern Ireland] protocol works\".\n\n\"[To make sure] that businesses in Northern Ireland can continue to have access to the rest of the UK market, and that Northern Ireland businesses can have the goods that they need on the shelves, that they have access to at the moment,\" he said.\n\nNorthern Ireland has remained a part of the EU's single market for goods while the rest of the UK has left.\n\nThis means food products from Great Britain are subject to checks when they enter Northern Ireland.\n\nSimilar processes and checks also apply when moving food products from Great Britain into the Republic of Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, an organisation representing haulage firms has called on the UK and Irish government to relax some of the new Irish Sea trade border rules.\n\nThe Road Haulage Association (RHA) said there is serious disruption to freight movements into the island of Ireland.\n\nThe RHA said relaxing the controls on food products and customs declarations \"would help traders to ship goods that have struggled to move over recent days.\"\n\n\"The problems have led to gaps in supermarket shelves and lorries delayed at ports because of problems with red-tape and the situation is worsening,\" the organisation added.\n\n\"We are facing an inflexible, cumbersome and time consuming process just to move goods.\"\n\nThe UK government said the flow of goods \"between GB and NI has been smooth overall and arrivals of freight have continued to increase substantially over this week\".\n\n\"There are no significant queues at NI ports and supermarkets are reporting healthy supplies into their Northern Ireland stores,\" a spokesperson added.\n\n\"We recognise the need to provide as much support to the haulage sector as possible as industry adapts to new processes. That's why hauliers can benefit from the Trader Support Service, which provides free advice and support to businesses of all sizes moving goods under the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\n\"We have been engaging intensively with the Irish authorities and hauliers on the issues that have been encountered for goods transiting through Dublin port.\"\n\nOn Thursday customs authorities in the Republic of Ireland announced a temporary relaxation of one customs process.\n\nHauliers will be able to use an override code to complete a piece of administration known as ENS.\n\nThe letters ENS refer to an entry summary declaration, an online form which goods carriers are now legally obliged to submit to Irish customs when transporting goods from Great Britain into Ireland.\n\nLorries arriving in Ireland from Great Britain have faced new checks since 1 January\n\nOn Thursday night the Irish Revenue Commissioners said it recognised that \"some businesses are experiencing difficulties on lodging their safety and security ENS declarations\".\n\nIt said that in response it was providing a \"temporary easement\" which would allow an ENS to be produced without all the normally required information.\n\nAn Irish government spokesperson said it is \"absolutely essential that Ireland fulfils its obligations as a member of the EU and that we protect the integrity of the single market and the customs union\".\n\n\"We appreciate that the new requirements and customs formalities present significant challenges and impose additional burdens on businesses.\"\n\nMeanwhile Stena, the ferry company, said it was cancelling a dozen sailings between Wales and Ireland next week due to \"a decline in freight volumes during the first week of Brexit.\"", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nScott McTominay's fourth-minute header was enough to give Manchester United an unconvincing victory in their FA Cup third-round tie against Watford on Saturday.\n\nWearing the captain's armband for the first time in a much-changed side from Wednesday's Carabao Cup semi-final defeat by Manchester City, McTominay found the net after rising to meet Alex Telles' corner.\n\nThe hosts did have chances to increase their lead, but Juan Mata failed to find a finish to an excellent three-man move just before half-time, then Daniel James and substitute Marcus Rashford had shots saved after the break.\n\nBut none of those opportunities were better than that for Hornets defender Adam Masina, who saw his effort blocked by United keeper Dean Henderson not long after McTominay had struck.\n• None Watch all the goals from the FA Cup third round\n• None How all of Saturday's FA Cup action unfolded\n• None How to follow FA Cup third round on the BBC\n\nNow under their fifth manager in two years, Xisco Munoz, Watford had other chances too - Joao Pedro's header went straight to Henderson and Ken Sema was off target with his.\n\nMason Greenwood and Donny van de Beek did little to press their claims for a regular starting slot in manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side, while Jesse Lingard - making only his third appearance of the season and the subject of interest from a number of clubs in the January transfer window - showed glimpses of form but eventually faded.\n\nUnited will go into the hat for Monday's fourth and fifth-round draws, while Watford are left to focus on winning promotion back to the Premier League at the first attempt.\n\nGiven the increasing awareness of the effects of concussion, the decision of United's medical staff to take no risks with defender Eric Bailly when he was caught in the head by Henderson's knee as the keeper punched clear was a welcome one.\n\nThe Football Association had hoped to introduce concussion substitutes by now but it has not yet been able to as detailed protocols are yet to be received from Ifab, the world game's rulemakers.\n\nAs Bailly was guided towards the tunnel in the last minute of the first half, Harry Maguire replaced him and helped United keep the clean sheet which ensured they reached the fourth round for the 34th time in their past 36 attempts.\n\nAfterwards, United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said: \"I think it was his neck. I don't think it was concussion so that is a positive. But we have got to do scans.\"\n\n'I wanted to test McTominay and he delivered' - post-match quotes\n\nManchester United manager Solskjaer said: \"Scott has got everything a leader has to have. I wanted to test him by making him captain and see how he would react.\n\n\"He delivered and he always does. He was brilliant today.\n\n\"We have always trusted our young men coming through and Scott is one who we believe has the Manchester United DNA in him and knows what it is to be a Manchester United player.\"\n\nMcTominay on captaining the side: \"When the manager told me it was a surreal moment. I've been here since I had just turned five, so that's 18 or 19 years associated with the club and it is a huge honour.\n\n\"I love this club and it has been my whole life.\"\n\nUnited turn their attentions to a big week in the Premier League. Solskjaer's side travel to Burnley on Tuesday (20:15 GMT) knowing victory will send them top of the table above Liverpool - who they then play at Anfield on Sunday (16:30 GMT).\n\nWatford's miserable run at Old Trafford continues - stats of the day\n• None The last time Manchester United failed to progress in the FA Cup third round was January 2014, when they lost 2-1 to Swansea.\n• None Watford have lost on 10 consecutive visits to Old Trafford, scoring just three goals.\n• None United have progressed from each of their past 17 FA Cup matches against opposition from a lower division, since a 1-0 home defeat by League One side Leeds United in January 2010.\n• None McTominay has scored four goals in 22 matches this season, one short of his best tally in a campaign (five goals in 37 appearances in 2019-20). Three of those goals have been scored in the first five minutes of games.\n• None Watford attempted 18 shots in the match - only in their 2-0 loss at Huddersfield (21) have they had more shots on the road this season.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marc Navarro (Watford) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Will Hughes (Watford) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\n• None Attempt missed. Juan Mata (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right from a direct free kick.\n• None Joseph Hungbo (Watford) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Joseph Hungbo (Watford) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Joseph Hungbo (Watford) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by João Pedro. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Calculate the impact and how to change it\n• None Sir David Attenborough shows us the forces of nature that support the Earth", "A 107-year-old woman from Clonard, County Meath is attempting a virtual Mass tour across Ireland while in lockdown.\n\nNancy Stewart and granddaughter, Louise Coghlan, have been shielding together since March last year, and have set themselves the spiritual challenge.\n\nThey are attending Mass services across the 32 counties on the island from the comfort of their own kitchen.\n\nLouise said that because they have been shielding for so long together, she is constantly trying to find \"different ways of keeping granny entertained\".\n\nShe said that when she asks Nancy if she wants to watch Mass her \"eyes light up like I'd just given her a million euros\".\n\nNancy, whose favourite saint is St Anthony, said she can hardly believe she is able to watch Mass on a computer or a phone from her comfy armchair.\n\n\"I feel so happy and so refreshed sitting happily in my own kitchen, in my armchair looking at Mass,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"I can't believe it, I'm trying to believe it's true.\"", "The number of patients in intensive care with Covid has risen sharply, amid warnings that tougher lockdown measures may be needed.\n\nLatest Scottish government figures show 1,877 new cases of Covid were reported in the last 24 hours\n\nThe number of people in intensive care has risen from 109 to 123, the highest daily jump since October.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said a tightening of restrictions could not be ruled out.\n\nA total of 1,598 people are currently in hospital with recently-confirmed Covid, up from Saturday's figure of 1,596 patients which was the highest number since the outbreak began.\n\nThe daily test positivity rate was10%, up from 8.7% on Saturday, when 1,865 positive cases were recorded.\n\nThe deputy first minister said the country was facing \"a very alarming situation\" with the virus.\n\nSpeaking on Politics Scotland, Mr Swinney said coronavirus does not show much sign of \"abating\" and he would not rule out tougher lockdown measures.\n\nHe said: \"We're seeing case numbers which are hovering around 2,000 per day... so we've got an accelerating situation on our hands and we have to constantly review whether more restrictions are required.\"\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs in recent days with average positivity rates falling, a possible indicator that the lockdown is having an impact, but Prof Linda Bauld, of Edinburgh University, urged caution.\n\nShe said: \"The numbers are not reducing at the rate which we want them to, so [it is] still a very fragile situation.\n\n\"The measures we have now I hope are working but it's not clear whether they are tough enough.\n\n\"I think the key change the government could make is in the sectors which are still open, particularly workplaces but also things like takeaways and click and collect.\"\n\nMr Swinney said the Scottish government is \"open to considering further restrictions if they are necessary\"\n\nProfessional sport, along with manufacturing and construction work have been allowed to continue in this lockdown, whereas they were not in the first wave in March.\n\nThe deputy first minister said the meeting of the cabinet which agreed the latest lockdown saw ministers wondering if they had gone far enough to stop the spread.\n\nMr Swinney added: \"I don't think I'm revealing a state secret when I say that the debate within cabinet was not whether we were going too far but whether we were going far enough.\"\n\nA total of three deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours but these figures are lower at weekends because register offices are generally closed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Madrid has been hit by heavy snowfall after Storm Filomena\n\nStorm Filomena has blanketed parts of Spain in heavy snow, with half of the country on red alert for more on Saturday.\n\nRoad, rail and air travel has been disrupted and interior minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said the country was facing \"the most intense storm in the last 50 years\".\n\nMadrid, one of the worst affected areas, is set to see up to 20cm (eight inches) of snow in the next 24 hours.\n\nFurther south the storm caused rivers to burst their banks.\n\nFour deaths have been reported so far as a result of Filomena. Officials said two people had been found frozen to death - one in the town of Zarzalejo, north-west of Madrid, and the other in the eastern city of Calatayud. Two people travelling in a car were swept away by floods near the southern city of Malaga.\n\nAs snow fell on Madrid on Friday evening, a number of vehicles became stranded on a motorway near the capital.\n\nThe city's Barajas airport has closed, along with a number of roads, and all trains to and from Madrid have been cancelled.\n\nFirefighters were called in to assist drivers who had become stuck. In some areas the military were called in to help clear roads.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez urged people to stay at home and to follow the instructions of emergency services. King Felipe and Queen Letizia took to Twitter to urge \"extreme caution against the risks of accumulation of ice and snow\".\n\nThe country's AEMET weather agency said the snowfall was \"exceptional and most likely historic\".\n\nA number of people were seen making the most of the snowy scenery, walking through Madrid's Puerta del Sol square.\n\nLarge parks in Madrid have since been closed as a precaution, AFP news agency reports.\n\nOne man was pictured skiing along the Gran Via, the capital's famous shopping street.\n\nIn Cañada Real, the largest shanty town in western Europe, residents were seen creating a bonfire to keep warm.\n\nThe cold weather is set to continue beyond the weekend with temperatures in Madrid predicted to hit -12C on Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Wales has received 275,000 doses of the two Covid-19 vaccines to deal with the pandemic.\n\nAbout 70,000 people received a first dose after the first month of the vaccine rollout.\n\nThe Welsh Government confirmed it has had more than 250,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 25,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab.\n\nThe health minister promised a \"really significant step-up\" in the roll-out after opponents criticised its speed.\n\nThe Pfizer jabs were first administered in early December at seven sites across Wales as part of the UK-wide immunisation programme.\n\nThis 82-year-old woman was one of 100 to receives her vaccine at a special clinic in Swansea on Saturday\n\nApproximately 1.6% of people were vaccinated up to 3 January - fewer than all other UK nations.\n\nIn England, about 1.9% of the population had received the first dose, while 2.1% of people in both Scotland and Northern Ireland had received their first jab.\n\nThe Welsh Government has dismissed criticism it is lagging behind, with health officials saying the new Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine would help speed up the programme \"considerably\".\n\nTwo full doses of the Oxford vaccine gave 62% protection, a half dose followed by a full dose was 90% and overall the trial showed 70% protection.\n\nThe rollout of the Oxford vaccine started on Monday, with 25,000 doses received this week, according to the Welsh Government.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said on Friday that Wales would receive another 25,000 Oxford doses next week and 80,000 the week after that.\n\nWhen asked how many doses of the Pfizer vaccine Wales had received, he said he could not recall the exact figure but further deliveries had been received \"on the 23rd and the 27th of December\".\n\nPressed on a figure, he said: \"It's the low hundreds of thousands\", adding: \"The Pfizer vaccine has particular challenges in terms of the conditions that it's got to be stored in and in parts of Wales that is a very particular challenge because it is a hard vaccine to transport over long distances to relatively scattered and remote communities.\n\n\"But the fact that we've got it and the fact that we're able to use more of it than we originally anticipated means we'll be able to accelerate the use of it over the next couple of weeks.\"\n\nThese were the latest comparative weekly totals - daily updates are promised from this week onwards in Wales\n\nOn Sunday, the Welsh Government confirmed it had received 25,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the first week but the quantity would increase, allocated to Wales based on a population share on a weekly basis.\n\n\"We are confident in the assurances we have been given that this will increase over the next few weeks to around 100,000 per week,\" they said.\n\n\"We are delivering all the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine allocated to Wales directly to GPs, other primary care providers and hospitals as soon as it is available.\"\n\nConservative MP for the Vale of Clwyd, Dr James Davies, said: \"We all know that the Pfizer vaccine is difficult to transport and store and needs to be stored at -70 degrees, that's understood.\n\n\"But the issue is that actually, if you look at the rest of the UK, including very rural areas, they've managed to deal with it... and it is difficult to see why they haven't been in a position to be organised earlier and to ramp-up the delivery.\"\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru's health spokesman, called for transparency: \"It is very worrying to find out that we have had in Wales more than 250,000 doses but only a relatively small proportion of that have yet ended up in people's arms, protecting people, because that's what we want to happen.\"\n\nHe has written an open letter to Health Minister Vaughan Gething calling for greater clarity on the vaccine deployment programme, asking for a dashboard of information which would allow the public to track the rollout's progress for themselves, including volume of doses delivered and administered by health board and by the nine priority groups.\n\nDr Olwen Williams, vice-president for Wales at the Royal College of Physicians, also called on health boards and Welsh Government to publish regular data showing which groups of people have been vaccinated, with patient-facing health workers prioritised over other colleagues.\n\n\"I think that would give assurance to people working in the NHS and the population in general, that the programme is progressing as planned,\" she said.\n\nAll data will be published daily from Monday but Mr Gething conceded that Wales, from last week's figures, was \"slightly behind on the population share and I'm not getting away from that.\"\n\nHe said the race was not \"necessarily against other UK nations\" but against the virus.\n\nHe also told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement that, in the next two to three weeks, he expected to see a \"really significant step-up in the delivery of the vaccine\" as more GP practices and community pharmacies help.\n\n\"We're going to get through many more people, giving them significant protection with a first vaccine,\" he said.\n\n\"And that will mean that we're going to be able to prevent most of the avoidable deaths.\"\n\nIt is hoped the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will speed up the process.\n\nBy the end of last week, it was being offered to patients aged over 80 at 73 GP practices.\n\nMore than 100 are expected to be offering the jabs next week, Mr Gething said, \"and then we get into several hundred thereafter and we'll bring community pharmacies on board.\"\n\nThe UK and Scottish governments did not provide the numbers of Pfizer vaccines supplied to England and Scotland. BBC Wales is still waiting for a response from the Northern Irish Executive.\n\nMeanwhile, regular rapid testing for people without coronavirus symptoms will be made available in England.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would evaluate its mass testing pilots in Merthyr Tydfil and lower Cynon Valley, as well as elsewhere in the UK, to inform its approach to community testing.\n\nA spokesman added: \"We have announced regular asymptomatic testing of health and social care workers, in education and daily contact testing in South Wales Police.\n\n\"A pilot has also started at the Tata Port Talbot site. We are also exploring other opportunities for regular testing to support critical services.\"", "Amazon is removing \"free speech\" social network Parler from its web hosting service for violating rules.\n\nIf Parler fails to find a new web hosting service by Sunday evening, the entire network will go offline.\n\nParler styles itself as an \"unbiased\" social media and has proved popular with people banned from Twitter.\n\nAmazon told Parler it had found 98 posts on the site that encouraged violence. Apple and Google have removed the app from their stores.\n\nLaunched in 2018, Parler has proved particularly popular among supporters of US President Donald Trump and right-wing conservatives. Such groups have frequently accused Twitter and Facebook of unfairly censoring their views.\n\nWhile Mr Trump himself is not a user, the platform already features several high-profile contributors following earlier bursts of growth in 2020.\n\nTexas Senator Ted Cruz boasts 4.9 million followers on the platform, while Fox News host Sean Hannity has about seven million.\n\nThe move comes after Apple suspended Parler from its app store. The suspension will remain in place for as long as the network continued to spread posts that incite violence, it said.\n\nGoogle removed the app from its store on Friday.\n\nResponding to Google's move earlier, Parler's chief executive John Matze said: \"We won't cave to politically motivated companies and those authoritarians who hate free speech!\"\n\nHe also warned that Parler could be offline for up to a week while \"we rebuild from scratch\".\n\nIt briefly became the most-downloaded app in the United States after the US election, following a clampdown on the spread of election misinformation by Twitter and Facebook.\n\nIn a letter obtained by CNN, Amazon's AWS Trust and Safety team told Parler's Chief Policy Officer Amy Peikoff that the social network \"does not have an effective process to comply with the AWS terms of service\".\n\n\"AWS provides technology and services to customers across the political spectrum, and we continue to respect Parler's right to determine for itself what content it will allow on its site\", the letter said.\n\n\"However we cannot provide services to a customer that is unable to effectively identify and remove content that encourages or incites violence against others.\".\n\nParler will be removed from Amazon's web hosting service shortly before midnight on Sunday Pacific Standard Time (07:59 GMT on Monday).\n\nOn Saturday, Apple removed Parler from its app store after warning the network to remove content that violated its rules or face a ban.\n\n\"Parler has not taken adequate measures to address the proliferation of these threats to people's safety\", it said in a statement announcing the app's suspension on Saturday evening.\n\nFor months, Parler has been one of the most popular social media platforms for right-wing users.\n\nAs major platforms began taking action against viral conspiracy theories, disinformation and the harassment of election workers and officials in the aftermath of the US presidential vote, the app became more popular with elements of the fringe far-right.\n\nThis turned the network into a right-wing echo chamber, almost entirely populated by users fixated on revealing examples of election fraud and posting messages in support of attempts to overturn the election outcome.\n\nIn the days preceding the Capitol riots, the tone of discussion on the app became significantly more violent, with some users openly discussing ways to stop the certification of Joe Biden's victory by Congress.\n\nUnsubstantiated allegations and defamatory claims against a number of senior US figures such as Chief Justice John Roberts and Vice-President Mike Pence were rife on the app.\n\nGoogle and Apple say they are taking necessary action to ensure violent rhetoric is not promoted on their platforms.\n\nHowever, to those increasingly concerned about freedom of speech and expression on online platforms, it represents another example of draconian action by major tech companies which threatens internet freedom.\n\nThis is a debate which is certain to continue beyond the Trump presidency.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer calls for families to be put \"at the heart of our recovery\" from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has urged the government to \"protect family incomes\" as it deals with the economic effects of coronavirus.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he demanded teachers, the armed forces and care workers are left out of the public sector pay freeze.\n\nSir Keir also called for tougher restrictions to be considered for tackling coronavirus.\n\nNo 10 said the government had \"shown it is prepared to act\".\n\nWith coronavirus restrictions and lockdowns shutting thousands of businesses, the economy was 7.9% smaller in October last year than it had been six months earlier.\n\nAnd the government's independent forecaster, the Office for Budgetary Responsibility, predicts that unemployment will rise to 2.6 million by the middle of this year.\n\nIn his speech, Sir Keir attacked the government for \"having been found wanting at every turn\", accusing Boris Johnson of being \"indecisive\" and acting \"too slow\" over further lockdowns and support for business and families.\n\nHe said: \"The British people will forgive many things. They know the pandemic is difficult.\n\n\"But they also know serial incompetence when they see it - and they know when a prime minister simply isn't up to the job.\"\n\nBut the PM's official spokeswoman rejected the criticism, saying: \"This government has shown it is prepared to act. When given evidence in the morning it has taken action that evening.\"\n\nAsked by the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg whether the government should tighten restrictions, such as closing nurseries, Sir Keir said there \"probably is more that we could do [and we] may have to get tougher\".\n\nBut he did not outline what measures he would recommend, instead saying it was \"time to hear from the scientists what else can be done - and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nThe Labour leader said ministers must \"protect family incomes and support businesses\" from the economic effects of previous restrictions and the current lockdown.\n\nHe added policies must \"make a real difference to millions of people across the country\" and \"put families at the heart of our recovery\".\n\nSir Keir argued the £20-a-week rise given to Universal Credit claimants last April must continue beyond this April's cut-off point.\n\nCouncil tax increases in England of up to 5% this April must not happen, he said, while calling for the ban on evictions and repossessions to be extended.\n\nThe government's pay freeze for at least 1.3 million public sector workers - which does not apply to NHS frontline staff and those earning below £24,000 a year - must not go ahead, said Sir Keir.\n\n\"I know this isn't everything that's needed,\" he added, \"and after so much suffering we can't go back the status quo.\n\n\"We cannot return to an economy where over half our care workers earn less than the living wage, where childcare is among the most expensive in Europe, where our social care system is a national disgrace and where over four million children grow up in poverty.\"\n\nAn opposition leader has no policy leavers to pull. They have to rely on words to persuade the public they are worthy of power.\n\nWith the next general election an eternity away, Sir Keir Starmer knows the question of competence matters far more to voters than ideology right now.\n\nThe Labour leader was unsparing in his criticism of the government's handling of the pandemic - accusing the prime minster of serial incompetence, dithering and delay.\n\nSir Keir said the government could reverse planned changes to council tax and universal credit to ease the financial pressure on families.\n\nBut pressed on how lockdown might be different today if he was in No 10, the Labour leader mirrored the government's messaging.\n\nHe said there was \"probably\" more that could be done around nurseries and estate agent viewings, but Sir Keir's mantra was listen to the scientists.\n\nIt's what ministers say endlessly too.\n\nSir Keir argued that, just as a Labour government \"built the welfare state from the rubble\" of World War Two, a future one can \"secure our economy, protect our NHS and rebuild our country so that Britain is the best country to grow up in and the best country to grow old in\".\n\nBut Conservative Party co-chairman Amanda Milling accused Sir Keir of \"calling for actions the Conservatives are already taking in government\".\n\n\"We have delivered an unprecedented £280bn package of support to protect jobs, livelihoods and public services through this pandemic,\" she added, including the furlough scheme, the temporary increase to Universal Credit and extra funding for councils.\n\n\"The Conservatives will continue to put families and communities at the heart of every decision we take as we deliver on our promises to the British people,\" Ms Milling said.\n\nIn his Spending Review in November, Chancellor Rishi Sunak warned that the \"economic emergency\" caused by the pandemic had only begun.\n\nHe promised to take \"extraordinary measures to protect people's jobs and incomes\".", "The Oxford vaccine rollout started in Wales earlier this week - those figures are not yet included\n\nMore than 14,000 people had their first dose of the Covid-19 jab in Wales in the past week, the latest figures show.\n\nIt takes the numbers on the priority list to have got the Pfizer-BioNTech jab to 49,403 since the rollout started on 8 December.\n\nBut Wales is lagging behind the rest of the UK so far, with a lower proportion of people getting a first dose.\n\nThe Welsh Government said that by next week, 60 GP practices and 20 centres would be vaccinating.\n\nHealth officials said the new Oxford vaccine would help speed up the programme \"considerably\".\n\nThe numbers do not include the first people to receive the new vaccine, which began to be given this week.\n\nPublic Health Wales (PHW) said the real numbers were likely to be higher, with the figures a snapshot based on those vaccines recorded electronically so far.\n\nThey give a breakdown by health board and also show how many people have been given their first dose.\n\nThe figures also include people, such as NHS staff, who work in Wales but live over the border, but do not yet give details of people in different priority categories.\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru's health spokesman, said: \"We need real transparency on progress of the vaccination process.\n\n\"This must include clear targets and data on how many vaccines come to Wales, and how many are distributed and given out by each health board to each priority group - both the first and second doses - so we can measure this against the targets. This is how confidence can be built that Wales is on track.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"These are early days in our mass vaccination programme. Momentum will continue to build and the speed of our vaccination programme will increase each week.\n\n\"From Monday, the number of people vaccinated will be published daily and we will publish our vaccination rollout plan early next week.\"\n\nThe figure in Wales means approximately 1.6% of people have been vaccinated up to 3 January - fewer than other UK nations - and the gap appears to be growing compared to last week.\n\nIn England, nearly 1.1 million people were given the first dose by 3 January. This is about 1.9% of the population. NHS England said 60% of doses have gone to people aged over 80.\n\nIf vaccinations were being given at the same rate in Wales as in England, a further 13,000 people would have been given a dose.\n\nIn both Scotland and Northern Ireland, 2.1% of people have been given a first dose.\n\nHow many people have had a Covid-19 vaccine? Residents in Wales vaccinated by health board, to 3 January Source: Public Health Wales, 7 January. Excludes 224 unknown and 1,024 doses for priority groups living in England\n\nSamantha is keen to have the vaccine as soon as possible and return to work\n\nDental nurse Samantha Davies, 47, who has shielded since March, was overjoyed at the prospect of having the coronavirus vaccine and returning to work.\n\nBut she is now in limbo after confusion over whether she could have the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab because of her ongoing treatment for Crohn's Disease.\n\nAfter filling out a questionnaire sent by PHW, a consultant recommended she should have the Pfizer-BioNTech jab instead.\n\nThis is because of the inflectra infusion treatment she receives every eight weeks to treat her Crohn's Disease - a type of inflammatory bowel condition.\n\nHowever, the Pfizer vaccine is in shorter supply than the Oxford vaccine and the Swansea practice where Samantha works was only offered 10 vaccinations.\n\nAs Samantha, from Foelgastell, Carmarthenshire, is shielding and not in work, she was not considered a priority for one of these.\n\nSwansea Bay health board has since said the advice about vaccines was given in error and pledged to arrange an appointment for her as soon as possible.\n\n\"It's just being home all the time. Some people I know had it two or three weeks ago. The government put me shielding since March on sick pay and I just want to return to work,\" she said.\n\nWhile she was furloughed from April to August, Samantha has been on statutory sick pay since.\n\nDr Gillian Richardson, the senior officer responsible for the Covid-19 vaccine programme in Wales, said the efforts from NHS Wales and PHW had been \"exceptional\".\n\n\"The number of doses unable to be used have been incredibly low - around 1% - and significantly below anticipated levels, thanks to the robust appointment planning and reserve lists,\" she said.\n\n\"The NHS is providing vaccines as quickly and as safely as possible to people in the priority groups.\"\n\nDerek Hinchliffe, 80, says he is \"frustrated\" at not knowing when he will get his first dose of vaccine\n\nHowever, 80-year-old Derek Hinchliffe, who is eligible for a first dose of a Covid vaccine during this period of the rollout, said he was \"frustrated\" because he has had no information about getting the first dose.\n\nMr Hinchliffe, who lives with his wife in Penpedairheol in Caerphilly county, said: \"We've had nothing - no communication.\n\n\"We've got friends the same as us who live in England who have had their first dose, and some of them are having their second vaccination.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nConservative health spokesman Andrew RT Davies renewed his call for a vaccinations minister to be appointed to take control.\n\n\"Of course we welcome the increase in the number of vaccinations, but the rough calculation is that one in 65 people in Wales has had their jab compared to one in 50 in England,\" he said,\n\n\"Factor in the postcode lottery emerging in Wales, and the picture's not looking great.\n\n\"You're twice as likely in south Wales to have had the vaccination and three times more likely to have had it in mid Wales than in north Wales.\"\n\nDr Richardson called the second Covid vaccine - Oxford-AstraZeneca - which began its roll-out on Monday a \"real game-changer\".\n\nShe said it would help speed up vaccinations considerably.\n\nThere are challenges with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine because it has to be stored at extremely cold temperatures, while the Oxford vaccine can be be kept in a fridge.\n\nBoth vaccines will be available in Wales and the Welsh Government said 40,000 doses of the Oxford jab would be available within the first two weeks - with 22,000 jabs this week.\n\nTwo full doses of the Oxford vaccine gave 62% protection, a half dose followed by a full dose was 90% and overall the trial showed 70% protection.", "Bez in training for his new exercise classes in a park in Manchester\n\nHappy Mondays star Bez is to launch his own lockdown fitness classes to inspire the nation like Joe Wicks.\n\nThe former maraca-shaking dancer, 56, wants to rival Joe Wicks with his online YouTube classes \"Get Buzzin' With Bez\" to be launched on 17 January.\n\nBez, whose on-stage \"freaky dancing\" made him an icon of the 'Madchester' music scene, has admitted he also wants to budge his own lockdown bulge.\n\nHe won Celebrity Big Brother in 2005 and even made a bid to become an MP.\n\nBez, whose real name is Mark Berry, will be shown being trained in the fitness classes rather than acting as the instructor himself.\n\nHe said: \"I'd like to think I'm somewhere between Joe Wicks and Mr Motivator.\n\n\"I've started this new year seriously unfit, with a fat belly and creaky hips, and I can't stop eating chocolate.\n\n\"Last lockdown I got unfit, fat, lazy and into some seriously bad eating habits.\n\nBez being put through his paces with a personal trainer\n\n\"This year, this lockdown, I need to sort it out sharpish.\"\n\nHe said that people can join him on \"on this mad journey or just sit on the sofa and have a good laugh at me\".\n\nBez said he has \"started this new year seriously unfit, with a fat belly and creaky hips\"\n\nThe former dancer added: \"At the very least, I know I'll be making people smile, at best I'll be helping people get fit and mentally happier alongside me.\"\n\nThe Happy Mondays, along with bands like The Stone Roses and Inspiral Carpets, spearheaded the indie music 'Madchester' scene of the late 80s and early 90s.\n\nBez dancing with his maraca on BBC One's Top of the Pops as the band perform Step On in 1989\n\nBez's bug-eyed dance routines were said to have inspired the group's song Freaky Dancin' and made him one of the best-known members of the group, alongside frontman Shaun Ryder.\n\nTheir hits included Step On, Kinky Afro, Hallelujah and 24 Hour Party People.\n\nHowever, serious drug habits and infighting led to the Salford band's breakup in 1993.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An ambulance had to be lifted out of the mud\n\nRescuers searching for victims of a landslide in Indonesia were buried by a second mudslide just hours later, officials say.\n\nThe first landslide, in Cihanjuang village, West Java, was triggered by torrential rain.\n\nAnother struck as survivors were still being evacuated. At least 12 people died and dozens more are missing.\n\nLandslides are common in Indonesia during rainy season, and often blamed on deforestation.\n\nThe latest disasters hit the villagers in Sumedang regency, about 150km (95 miles) southeast of the capital Jakarta, three and a half hours apart on Saturday.\n\nThe first happened at 16:00 (09:00 GMT) and the second at 19:30 (12:30 GMT), disaster agency spokesman Raditya Jati said in a statement.\n\n\"The first landslide was triggered by high rainfall and unstable soil conditions. The subsequent landslide occurred while officers were still evacuating victims around the first landslide area,\" he added.\n\nRescuers are believed to be among those killed, he added. A six-year-old boy was also among the dead, according to AFP news agency.\n\nSome 27 people were believed to be missing late on Sunday, local media quoted Deden Ridwansah, the head of the local search and rescue agency as saying. About 46 were known to have survived.\n\nBad weather had forced the search to be suspended, he said, but it was expected to resume on Monday.\n\nIndonesia frequently suffers floods and landslides. Thousands of people had to be evacuated in the capital Jakarta this time last year as the city was inundated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n• None The fastest-sinking city in the world", "More than 80,000 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test since the start of the pandemic, official figures have shown.\n\nA further 1,035 deaths in the UK were reported on Saturday, taking the total by that measure to 80,868.\n\nThe number of daily cases of people who tested positive for coronavirus increased by 59,937.\n\nOnly the US, Brazil, India and Mexico have recorded more Covid deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nIt is the fourth day in a row that the UK has reported more than 1,000 daily deaths.\n\nIt comes as scientists advising the government have warned that lockdown measures in England need to be stricter to achieve the same impact as the March shutdown.\n\nMinisters have launched a new campaign urging people to act like they have the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, Buckingham Palace has said the Queen, 94, and the Duke of Edinburgh, 99, received Covid-19 vaccinations on Saturday.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 50 people in England had coronavirus between 27 December and 2 January, while in London it was one in 30.\n\nOn Friday, mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of Covid in the capital was \"out of control\".\n\nOfficial figures from Public Health England showed London had the highest regional case rate in the UK, exceeding 1,000 per 100,000 people.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can only go out for essential reasons. Similar measures are in place across most of Scotland, in Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf Robert West, a participant in the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours (SPI-B), which advises the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said the current rules were \"still allowing a lot of activity which is spreading the virus\".\n\nHe said the new variant of Covid was around 50% more infectious compared to the virus that infected people last March.\n\n\"That means that if we were to achieve the same result as we got in March we would have to have a stricter lockdown, and it (the current regime) is not stricter,\" he added.\n\nThe professor of health psychology at University College London also told the BBC more children were going to school, compared to during the first lockdown.\n\nHe said schools were \"a very important seed of community infection\".\n\nMore children are at school, after the Department for Education widened the categories of vulnerable and key worker pupils allowed to attend. Attendance rates have risen to 50% in some places.\n\nProf Susan Michie, who is also a member of Sage, said the spread of the new, more infectious variant meant current restrictions were \"too lax\".\n\n\"When you look at the data, it shows that almost 90% of people are overwhelmingly adhering to the rules - despite the fact that we're also seeing more people out and about,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShe said, in comparison to the first lockdown in spring 2020, more people were allowed to go out to work and children's nurseries were open, making public transport busier.\n\nThe number of people travelling by public transport in London has decreased since the latest national lockdown began, with tube journeys now at 18% of the pre-pandemic demand and bus journeys at 30%, according to figures from Transport for London.\n\nHowever, during the first lockdown passenger numbers fell below 10% at some points.\n\nScientists believe the new variant spreads between 50 and 70% faster compared to previous forms of the virus.\n\nProf Kevin Fenton, London regional director for Public Health England, said there were \"things we could do better\" to reduce the number of infections, including greater compliance with mask wearing and social distancing when shopping and using public transport.\n\nTorsten Bell, chief executive of the Resolution Foundation think tank, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that the UK's statutory sick pay system was \"not fit for purpose for a pandemic\" and more effective measures to encourage people to isolate were needed.\n\nAs cases and deaths soar, the government has launched an advertising campaign, which will be shared across television, radio, newspapers and on social media, urging people to stay at home and not to get complacent.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"I know the last year has taken its toll - but your compliance is now more vital than ever.\"\n\nGovernment sources say there is also likely to be more focus from police on enforcing rather than explaining rules.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, 12 people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. Upload your pictures here. Don't forget to include your contact details, so we can get in touch with you.\n\nWe would like to respond to everyone individually and include every tribute in our coverage, but unfortunately that may not be possible. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMary McGarry from Leamington Spa in Warwickshire told BBC News that her letter points to an NHS online booking page which suggests she would have to take her husband, who has cancer and a lung disease, 20 miles to Birmingham.\n\n\"We're very reluctant to go into Birmingham city centre,\" she said.\n\n\"If we can't get somebody to take us, we'd have to go on the train but we're shielding because my husband's got poor health.... we want to know why we've got to travel that far?\"\n\nKay Hayward, from Whitwick in Leicestershire, said she went online to book an appointment for her 85-year-old husband Kenneth and was offered five different places including Widnes in Cheshire and Stevenage in Hertfordshire.\n\n\"I thought they must be joking... we talked about it and we thought it was actually safer to stay here and for him not not have it.\n\n130,000 letters have been sent out by NHS England so far\n\n\"But we were worried if we turned this down, we'd be off the list.. the letter doesn't say anything about having the vaccines anywhere else locally.\"\n\nAndrea Eaton, from Coventry, said she was so angry that her 81-year-old mother, who has heart problems and leukaemia, was offered Birmingham for her appointment that she attempted to ring Downing Street on Saturday night to complain.\n\nShe said she reached the press office and said: \"I want you to give Boris a message please that he has lied to the British public.\n\n\"He has told them they never need to go more than 10 miles... they were really rude and just put the phone down on me.\"\n\nAndrea Eaton said she wanted to get a message to Boris Johnson so rang Downing Street on Saturday evening\n\nA spokesperson from Number 10 told BBC News that they did not wish to comment, but wanted to remind the public to use the government website to write to the prime minister or contact their constituency MP.\n\nCouncillor Shaun Davies, the Labour leader at Telford and Wrekin Council in Shropshire, said he had been contacted by dozens of people who have found the letters misleading, thinking this is their only chance to get the vaccine.\n\nHe said he had spoken to Trafford Council and was aware of people in Shropshire being sent to Manchester and residents there being directed to Birmingham to get their jabs.\n\n\"For many people they have been told consistently to wait for the NHS to contact you in order to get a vaccine and that's what they've had for the first time as a piece of communication.\n\n\"This is really, really concerning for people in their 80s or 90s because of the importance of getting the vaccine.\"\n\nThe letters are not \"going to the heart\" of the public health message which is staying home and staying local, he said.\n\nMore than 500,000 letters will be sent out to homes offering people appointments at the centres over the next seven days\n\nDr Sarah Raistrick, from Coventry and Rugby Clinical Commission group (CCG), said people did not have to travel to the centres but admitted the letter did not make that clear.\n\n\"You can wait and be contacted by your local GP service and have it locally if you'd prefer.\n\n\"If you sit tight, you will be contacted and I'm hopeful that if you're 80 or over, by the end of this month you will have had your vaccination whether that is locally or whether you have chosen to travel,\" she said.\n\nWork will be done with the NHS locally and nationally to make that message clearer, she added.\n\nThe seven centres were chosen to give a geographical spread covering as many people as possible and are capable of delivering thousands of jabs per week, NHS England has said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Keir Starmer has said the \"status quo isn't working\" for Scotland but has again rejected calls for a second independence referendum.\n\nThe Labour leader, who backs devolving more powers from Westminster, claimed another vote would be \"divisive\".\n\nHowever, he said he did not agree with Boris Johnson's assessment that there should not be another referendum for at least 40 years.\n\nThe SNP said a vote would allow Scots to choose how to rebuild after Covid.\n\nLast year Sir Keir said he would set up a constitutional commission to offer a \"positive alternative to the Scottish people\".\n\nHe told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: \"I don't think there should be another referendum, I don't think a further divisive referendum is the way forward.\n\n\"But I do accept that the status quo isn't working. I don't accept the argument that the status quo isn't working, the next thing you do is go to a referendum.\n\n\"I think there are other things you can do, other arguments that can be made in support of the United Kingdom.\"\n\nAsked about Boris Johnson's 40-year position, Sir Keir replied: \"I heard the prime minister say that and I don't agree with him on that.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Politics Scotland, Deputy First minister John Swinney rejected suggestions that the recovery from the Covid crisis should be a greater priority than another independence vote.\n\nHe said: \"An independence referendum is an essential priority of the people of Scotland because it gives us the opportunity to choose how we rebuild as a country from Covid.\n\n\"It would give us the opportunity to decide on our constitutional future and to determine the nature of our economy and how we deal with and support our citizens.\"\n\nEarlier this month Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the BBC he thought the 41-year interval between the UK's referendums on joining the EU and leaving it was a \"good sort of gap\".\n\nMr Johnson said in his experience, such votes \"don't have a notably unifying force in the national mood, they should be only once in a generation\".", "This car was one of many turned away by police at Moel Famau on Saturday\n\nPeople are \"blatantly\" ignoring rules on lockdown restrictions despite repeated warnings, police have said.\n\nMore than 100 cars had been turned away from Moel Famau on the Flintshire border by Saturday lunchtime, with some driving past \"road closed\" signs.\n\nIn Snowdonia, Gwynedd, a warden said a group from Leicester would have \"probably ignored our advice\" if police had not arrived and told them to leave.\n\nLevel four restrictions mean travelling for exercise is not allowed in Wales.\n\nKeith Ellis, a warden at Pen y Pass in Snowdonia, said while it had been much quieter this weekend, people were still travelling, despite the restrictions.\n\n\"We've had three from Leicester first thing this morning and if the police hadn't turned up they would have probably ignored our advice and carried on up the mountain,\" he said.\n\n\"What they were wearing was totally inappropriate and they would have probably got into danger.\n\n\"We've had people also from Liverpool and some locals turning up knowing full well what the rules are, but just trying it on.\n\n\"Luckily there are a lot more police officers around and all these people have been spoken to and advised by the police as well.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Cases of coronavirus are very high in Wales at the moment and there is a new strain of the virus circulating, which is highly infectious and moving quickly.\n\n\"At alert level four, exercise should always be undertaken from home, unless you have special circumstances which requires some flexibility - such as disability or autism.\n\n\"The more people gather, the greater the risk of spreading or catching the virus.\"", "Boris Johnson is expected to announce a set of new national restrictions for England, similar to the March lockdown, in a televised address at 20:00 GMT.\n\nThe PM is likely to urge the public to follow the new rules from midnight.\n\nIt is expected people will be told to work from home if possible and schools will close for most pupils.\n\nIt is not yet clear when the measures will be reviewed, but MPs are likely to be given a vote to approve them retrospectively on Wednesday.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK's chief medical officers warned of a \"material risk of healthcare services being overwhelmed\" in several areas over the next 21 days.\n\nScotland announced a legal requirement to stay at home from midnight, with schools to be closed.\n\nMr Johnson will set out plans for England as the UK's devolved nations have the power to set their own coronavirus regulations.\n\nBoth Wales and Northern Ireland are already under national restrictions.\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nAs of 08:00 GMT, there were 26,626 Covid-19 patients in hospital in England, according to the latest figures.\n\nThis is a week-on-week increase of 30%, and a new record high.\n\nMr Johnson is expected to tell people to work from home unless they are a key worker, or it is not possible for them to do so, for example if they work on a construction site, according to BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nIt is also understood that England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, has told the prime minister the new variant of coronavirus is now spreading throughout the country.\n\nThe new variant - first identified in Kent and since seen across the UK and other parts of the world - has been found to spread much more easily than earlier variants.\n\nA No 10 spokesman said the spread of the new variant had led to \"rapidly escalating case numbers across the country\".\n\n\"The prime minister is clear that further steps must now be taken to arrest this rise and to protect the NHS and save lives,\" he added.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer - who called for a national lockdown in England within 24 hours on Sunday - said: \"I hope the prime minister has been listening to the clear calls for tough national restrictions.\"\n\nHospitals have said they are under \"extreme pressure\" and one of Britain's most senior doctors warned on the weekend that trusts across the UK should prepare themselves for a surge in cases.\n\nThe number of Covid-19 patients in UK hospitals is currently above the level seen in spring 2020.\n\nA further 58,784 cases and an additional 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported on Monday, though deaths in Scotland were not recorded.\n\nWhat worked before may not work again - even a repeat of the March lockdown may not be enough to contain the new variant.\n\nConsider the R number - the number of people each infected person passes the virus onto on average.\n\nThe March lockdown brought R down to 0.6 and led to a sharp decline in cases.\n\nEvery 100 infected people passed the virus onto 60 others, who passed it onto 36, then 21, then 12 and so on.\n\nBut the new variant is thought to be around 50% more transmissible so its R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be around 0.9.\n\nThen 100 infected people would pass the virus onto 90 others, then 81, then 73, then 66 and so on.\n\nThis is a far slower decline.\n\nHowever, uncertainty around the new variant means there are scenarios where its levels plateau rather than fall during lockdown conditions.\n\nIt is going to be a tough start to the year. Even with immediate and tough restrictions there are a projected 20,000 additional deaths in the first months of 2021.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.\n\nMr Johnson's address comes as UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nIt means the NHS may soon be unable to handle a further sustained rise in cases, the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, said hospitals were at a \"critical point\" and that \"immediate and decisive action\" is needed.\n\nPreviously, the government described level five as requiring stricter social distancing measures. The first lockdown, which began in March 2020, was when the UK was under level four.\n\nThese Covid threat levels are separate to the regional tier system of restrictions in England.\n\nAnnouncing tougher measures in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year.\"\n\nThe new restrictions in Scotland mean it will be a legal requirement to stay at home except for certain essential purposes, similar to the first lockdown last March. Schools will be closed to pupils until February.\n\nIn Wales, all schools and colleges will move to online learning until at least 18 January.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Stormont Executive are also meeting to discuss possible new measures in light of Mr Johnson's televised address - which will air on BBC One and the BBC iPlayer from 19:35 GMT.\n\nThe prime minister will speak amid continued uncertainty over whether schools will remain open to all pupils in England, after several councils requested classrooms stay shut.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 82-year-old Brian Pinker is given the Oxford vaccine at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford\n\nEarlier on Monday, an 82-year-old retired maintenance manager became the first person in the UK to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nBrian Pinker said he was \"really proud\" to receive a jab developed in the UK, which will form a large part of the country's mass vaccination plan.\n\n\"The nurses, doctors and staff today have all been brilliant and I can now really look forward to celebrating my 48th wedding anniversary with my wife Shirley later this year,\" Mr Pinker said.", "Most pupils will be studying from home for the rest of this half term\n\nSchools and colleges in England are to be closed to most pupils until at least half term, Boris Johnson has announced.\n\nThe prime minister said the new lockdown had to be \"tough enough\" to stop the variant virus from spreading - and teaching will go online.\n\nA-Levels and GCSEs will be cancelled, a government source confirmed to BBC News - although vocational exams will go ahead.\n\nThe National Education Union accused the government of causing \"chaos\".\n\nIn a television address, Mr Johnson announced the biggest changes to schools since the early days of the first lockdown in March.\n\n\"Because we now have to do everything we possibly can to stop the spread of the disease, primary schools, secondary schools and colleges across England must move to remote provision from tomorrow,\" said the prime minister.\n\nThis means a return to online learning for pupils of all ages - apart from vulnerable children and the children of key workers who can continue to go into school.\n\nPrimary schools went back today - and will then close again tomorrow\n\n\"We recognise that this will mean it's not possible or fair for all exams to go ahead this summer, as normal,\" said Mr Johnson.\n\nIt is understood that vocational exams will continue, but GCSEs and A-levels will be cancelled - and that the exam watchdog Ofqual will make \"alternative arrangements\" for delivering results.\n\nAn attempt to produce replacement exam grades last summer turned into one of the biggest U-turns of the pandemic.\n\nTeachers' unions accused the government of failing to react more swiftly to \"mounting evidence\" about Covid transmission in schools and to make preparations for remote teaching and alternatives to written exams.\n\nBut Mary Bousted, co-leader of the National Education Union, said Education Secretary Gavin Williamson had \"become an expert in putting his head in the sand\".\n\nGeoff Barton of the ASCL head teachers' union criticised ministers for having issued legal threats to keep schools open at the end of last term - and then \"made a series of chaotic announcements about the start of this term\".\n\nThe new term, which began on Monday for primary pupils, has only lasted a day before it has been suspended.\n\nThe prime minister said he hoped that schools would be \"reopening schools after the February half term\".\n\nThere have been assurances that there will be a more thorough approach to home learning than in the first lockdown last year.\n\nThe Department for Education has provided hundreds of thousands of computer devices - with the aim of supporting those without the equipment needed to work online from home.\n\nThere have also been suggestions Ofsted inspectors will play a more active role in checking on what support schools are providing to pupils in their online learning.\n\nUniversities in England had already planned a staggered return for this term - but there will now be even fewer students on campus this month.\n\nThe latest lockdown guidance says university students who are taking hands-on courses such as medicine or veterinary science should return for face-to-face lessons as planned.\n\nThese students will be expected to take two Covid tests or self-isolate for 10 days when they return.\n\nBut students on all other courses are being told not to come back to university if possible and to start their term online \"until at least mid-February\".", "The Queen's 95th birthday will be commemorated on one of five new coins released this year, the Royal Mint has announced.\n\nThe 2021 British coin collection will also mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of novelist Sir Walter Scott, and the 75th anniversary of the death of author HG Wells.\n\nThe release of a £5 coin is typically reserved for significant royal events.\n\nIn April the Queen will become the first UK monarch to reach 95.\n\nThe new £5 coin depicts the royal cypher \"EIIR\", above the words \"my heart and my devotion\", a nod to part of her 1957 Christmas broadcast, which was the first to be televised.\n\nDuring that speech, the Queen told the nation: \"In the old days the monarch led his soldiers on the battlefield and his leadership at all times was close and personal.\n\n\"Today things are very different. I cannot lead you into battle, I do not give you laws or administer justice, but I can do something else, I can give you my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.\"\n\nThe anniversary of the birth of Sir Walter Scott, who wrote the novels Waverley, Rob Roy and Ivanhoe and is considered one of Scotland's most famous figures, will be celebrated with a £2 coin.\n\nThe 75th anniversary of the death of science fiction author HG Wells, who penned works such as The Time Machine and The War Of The Worlds, will also be marked on a £2 coin, with a depiction of images from his novels.\n\nThe 50th anniversary of decimalisation, when Britain's modern coins came into force, will be featured on a 50p coin.\n\nThe 75th anniversary of the death of the inventor John Logie Baird, famous for his early prototypes of the television, will be commemorated on another new 50p coin.\n\nAs the Queen's head already appears on one side of all coins in circulation, these five coins will each offer a different depiction from the various stages of her reign.\n\nClare Maclennan, of the consumer division at the Royal Mint, said this year's commemorative coins marked \"some of the biggest anniversaries in 2021\", with each coin \"a miniature work of art\" designed as \"a treasured keepsake or gift\".\n\nThe commemorative set will be available to purchase from the Royal Mint website.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olly Stephens was pronounced dead in Bugs Bottom fields in Emmer Green, Reading\n\nA school says its community has been left \"reeling\" after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nFour boys and a girl, all aged 13 or 14, have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder. They remain in custody.\n\nHighdown School and Sixth Form Centre head teacher Rachel Cave described the boy's death as a \"total tragedy\".\n\nIn a statement, she said: \"This student was part of our community and many students and staff knew him well.\n\n\"Many have been deeply affected by this tragedy.\n\n\"In normal circumstances we would open the school and welcome in students for support before the start of the term.\n\n\"We are currently unable to do this, of course, but are arranging counselling support and will be establishing an electronic book of condolence.\"\n\nFlowers have been left outside Highdown School\n\nMs Cave said the school was \"a supportive and close-knit community\" which would \"work together over the coming days and weeks\".\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown, of Thames Valley Police, said: \"Our thoughts remain with Olly's family at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident which has resulted in the death of a young boy.\"\n\nThe victim's family are being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nThames Valley Police said a \"considerable police presence\" would be in place in the area for several days\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack.\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone who was in the area between 15:00 and 16:30 who might have taken photos or camera footage to contact them if they notice anything suspicious.\n\nDet Supt Brown said he believed there would have been witnesses to the \"dreadful incident\" as the area is popular with dog walkers.\n\nA man said his wife was walking their dog through the park on Sunday afternoon when she saw a boy on the ground with several people around him trying to give him first aid.\n\nAnother dog walker said she saw a group of young people standing in the woods in Bugs Bottom fields at about 15:30 and described it as \"slightly unusual\".\n\nReading East MP Matt Rodda has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to the boy's family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Rodda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSt Barnabas Church in Emmer Green has invited residents to pray and light a candle in memory of the boy.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nick Hulme said intensive care units at Colchester and Ipswich hospitals were \"at capacity\"\n\nSecurity officers removed Covid-19 \"deniers\" who were taking pictures of empty corridors at a NHS hospital where the intensive care unit is at maximum capacity, its chief executive said.\n\nThe incident took place at Colchester Hospital at the weekend.\n\nChief executive Nick Hulme said it \"beggars belief\" some people were calling the pandemic a hoax.\n\nHe said it was \"the right thing to do\" to keep corridors in outpatients units as empty as possible.\n\nMr Hulme said hospital security had to \"remove people who were taking photographs of empty corridors and then posting them on social media, saying the hospital is not in crisis\".\n\n\"When you've got that sort of social media pressure and those people denying the reality of Covid it really concerns us. Words fail me,\" he said.\n\n\"Why would people do that when we all know somebody who has died from Covid?\n\n\"Of course there are empty corridors at the weekend in outpatients, because that's the right thing to do.\n\n\"We are facing the biggest health challenge we've ever seen and we are still seeing people flouting the [social distancing] rules.\"\n\nPeople had to be removed from Colchester Hospital's outpatients ward for taking pictures of empty corridors and claiming Covid-19 was a hoax\n\nUnder coronavirus pandemic restrictions on social distancing, many outpatient consultations had been moved online or were taking place over the telephone, he added.\n\nPhysical appointments, tests and procedures had been organised differently to avoid crowded waiting areas.\n\nMr Hulme is chief executive of East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust which also runs Ipswich Hospital and he said there were currently 320 patients being treated for Covid-19 across both sites.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "The homes of Frank and Christine Lampard, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and Tamara Ecclestone and her husband were broken into in December 2019\n\nFour people have been cleared of being involved in a plot to raid the luxury homes of celebrities in west London.\n\nItems belonging to Frank Lampard, Tamara Ecclestone and the family of tycoon Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha were among the items taken during three burglaries in December 2019.\n\nProsecutors said Maria Mester, 48, Emil Bogdan Savastru, 30, Sorin Marcovici, 53, and Alexandru Stan, 49, were a \"supporting cast\" for the burglars.\n\nBut a jury found all four not guilty.\n\nIsleworth Crown Court heard the three burglaries had netted \"big money\" for the raiders, with \"fabulous jewellery\" stolen and the majority of it having never been recovered.\n\nJay Rutland, Tamara Ecclestone and their daughter had left for Lapland on the morning of the burglary\n\nJewellery and cash worth £25m was taken from Ms Ecclestone's Kensington home while she was on holiday in Lapland with her husband Jay Rutland and their daughter.\n\nMr Lampard and his TV presenter wife Christine had about £60,000 in watches and jewellery stolen when they were out, while raiders also ransacked the family home of Mr Srivaddhanaprabha, who died in 2018 in a helicopter crash, the jury was told.\n\nThe four defendants were accused of eight charges including conspiracy to burgle.\n\nHowever, each denied their involvement with the plot, saying they had no knowledge that the alleged burglars were criminals.\n\nJurors were shown an image from Maria Mester's Facebook account, in which she was said to be wearing Tamara Ecclestone's necklace\n\nThe court heard escort Ms Mester had flown into the UK from Italy on 7 December.\n\nPolice described her as the plot's \"matriarch\", but the 48-year-old told jurors she was only in London after being paid £5,000 to accompany one of the alleged burglars for the week.\n\nSavastru was arrested at Heathrow Airport on 30 January as he prepared to leave for Japan, wearing Mr Srivaddhanaprabha's Tag watch and carrying a Louis Vuitton bag stolen from Mr Rutland.\n\nHe told the court he thought the items had been left behind by the alleged burglars at the Airbnb property he had helped them rent.\n\nThe four Romanian nationals were cleared of all charges apart from Savastru, who was convicted of one count of attempting to conceal criminal property.\n\nThe 30-year-old will be sentenced at a later date.\n\nA group of alleged burglars, who cannot be named for legal reasons, are accused of carrying out the raids.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has reiterated his position that a Scottish independence referendum should be a \"once-in-a-generation\" vote.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, the prime minister said the gap between referendums on Europe - the first in 1975 and the second in 2016 - was \"a good sort of gap\".\n\nHowever, Mr Marr suggested that now \"things had changed\" for Scotland.\n\nNicola Sturgeon wants to see an independent Scotland join the EU.\n\nAndrew Marr asked the prime minister what a voter in Scotland should do if they decided that a second independence referendum was now something they wanted, and what were the \"democratic tools\" to now do that?\n\nMr Johnson replied by saying: \"Referendums in my experience, direct experience, in this country are not particularly jolly events.\n\n\"They don't have a notably unifying force in the national mood, they should be only once-in-a-generation.\"\n\nAsked what the difference was between a referendum on EU membership being granted and one on Scottish independence being requested, he said: \"The difference is we had a referendum in 1975 and we then had another one in 2016.\n\n\"That seems to be about the right sort of gap.\"\n\nThe 2014 independence referendum resulted in a 55.3% vote against Scotland going alone.\n\nOn Hogmanay, Nicola Sturgeon said Europe should \"keep a light on\" as Scotland will be \"back soon\".\n\nThe first minister tweeted just after the Brexit transition period formally ended at 11:00 on 31 December 2020.\n\nScotland's trading and travel relationships with EU countries will now be governed by the agreement announced by the UK government on Christmas Eve.\n\nMs Sturgeon reiterated the SNP's call for an independent Scotland to join the EU.\n\nTweeting a picture of the words Europe and Scotland joined by a love heart, she wrote: \"Scotland will be back soon, Europe. Keep the light on.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSNP depute leader Keith Brown said: \"It may be a new year but it's the same old incoherent bluster from Boris Johnson. The prime minister pretends otherwise but he knows he can't keep on denying democracy.\n\n\"Even his American pal Donald Trump has learned that if you try to stand in the way of the democratic choice of a nation you get swept away.\n\n\"The people who will decide our future are the people of Scotland, not Boris Johnson and the Westminster Tories.\"\n\nFormer Labour prime minister Tony Blair said it was \"extremely difficult\" to challenge the SNP on independence when the party was \"virtually uncontested\" in Scotland.\n\nHe said: \"We had a referendum that rejected Scottish independence, but Brexit put it back on the agenda again. And it's going to require very careful management. The truth of the matter is it's still not in Scotland's interest to separate from England.\n\n\"There are huge economic and political reasons for the United Kingdom to stay the United Kingdom but we're going to have to examine whether there's different constitutional settlements.\n\n\"I also think it's incredibly important, the single most important thing politically to my mind, is that we get a really capable opposition in Scotland - which should be the Labour Party - that's capable of contesting the Scottish nationalist position in Scotland in a way that prevents them from doing what they do at the moment, which is govern Scotland but pretend they're in opposition.\"\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Lorna Slater said: \"Only the people of Scotland have the right to determine Scotland's future.\n\n\"Seventeen consecutive opinion polls have demonstrated majorities in favour of independence, with the most recent indicating a record 58% support.\n\n\"Whether it's the botched handling of the coronavirus crisis, the Brexit catastrophe or just the heartlessness of Tory governments we haven't voted for, it's clear that the UK isn't working for Scotland.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 82-year-old Brian Pinker is given the Oxford vaccine at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford\n\nDialysis patient Brian Pinker, 82, has become the first person to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe retired maintenance manager got the jab at 7:30 GMT from nurse Sam Foster at Oxford's Churchill Hospital.\n\nMore than half a million doses of the vaccine are ready for use on Monday.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said it was a \"pivotal moment\" in the UK's fight against the virus, as vaccines will help curb infections and then allow restrictions to be lifted.\n\nBut Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned on Monday there was \"no question we will have to take tougher measures\", which will be announced in \"due course\", as the UK struggles to control a new, fast-spreading variant of the virus.\n\nOn Sunday more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases were recorded in the UK for the sixth day running, prompting Labour to call for a third national lockdown in England.\n\nNorthern Ireland and Wales currently have their own lockdowns in place and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a fresh lockdown will begin in Scotland from 00:01 on Tuesday.\n\nThe rollout comes as rows continue over whether pupils should return to school with the current high levels of Covid infections.\n\nSix hospital trusts - in Oxford, London, Sussex, Lancashire and Warwickshire - have begun administering the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab, with 530,000 doses ready for use.\n\nMost other available doses will be sent to hundreds of GP-led services and care homes across the UK later in the week, according to the Department of Health and Social Care.\n\nMr Pinker, who has been having dialysis for kidney disease at the Churchill Hospital for a number of years, said he was \"really proud\" the vaccine was developed in Oxford.\n\n\"The nurses, doctors and staff today have all been brilliant and I can now really look forward to celebrating my 48th wedding anniversary with my wife Shirley later this year,\" he said.\n\nMusic teacher and father-of-three Trevor Cowlett, 88, and Prof Andrew Pollard, a paediatrician working at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and lead investigator of the Oxford vaccine trial, were also among the first to be vaccinated.\n\nChief nurse Ms Foster, who administered the first dose, told the BBC it was a \"huge privilege\", saying: \"Every single patient that we have vaccinated over the last couple of weeks have got their own personal stories to the difference it's going to make, so it is no different this morning.\"\n\nSpeaking during a visit to London's Chase Farm Hospital, to meet some of the first people to receive the Oxford vaccine, the prime minister said there were \"tough, tough\" weeks to come.\n\nThere will now be a \"massive ramp-up\" in vaccination numbers \"in the weeks ahead\", Mr Johnson said, and the number of vaccine doses will amount to \"tens of millions by the end of March\".\n\nAsked when the government will be able to vaccinate two million people a week, Mr Johnson said the government will give more details \"in the next few days... as soon as we have better numbers to give\".\n\nMr Hancock told BBC Breakfast the Oxford vaccine rollout was a \"pivotal moment\" in the fight against coronavirus, saying: \"It's going to be a tough few weeks ahead, but this is the way out.\"\n\nAsked about reports potential volunteers were being deterred by the additional training and forms, Mr Hancock said they were going to \"reduce the amount of bureaucracy\".\n\n\"For instance there's one of the training programmes about how to tackle terrorism, I don't think that's necessary, we're going to stop that,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he said this was not delaying the delivery of the vaccine, adding that the next delivery of the vaccine will be \"early this week\" to be \"deployed next week\".\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Chris Whitty said the vaccines \"give us a route out in the medium term\" but warned the NHS was \"under considerable and rising pressure in the short term\".\n\nFormer health secretary and Conservative chairman of the Commons' health committee Jeremy Hunt tweeted that it was \"time to act\" and the government needed to close schools and borders, ban all household mixing and impose a 12-week national lockdown in England.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Hunt This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth agreed that a national lockdown was needed, as well as \"rapidly scaled-up vaccine distribution\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: 'This way can save more lives'\n\nAs the recent rise in Covid cases puts increased pressure on the NHS, the UK has accelerated its vaccination rollout by planning to give both doses of the vaccine 12 weeks apart, having initially planned to leave 21 days between jabs.\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers have defended the delay to second doses, saying getting more people vaccinated with the first jab \"is much more preferable\".\n\nMake no mistake, the UK is in a race against time.\n\nThat much is clear from the decision to delay the second dose of the vaccine to focus on giving as many people as possible their first doses.\n\nSo how fast can the NHS go? Ultimately it wants to get to two million doses a week.\n\nThat will not be achieved this week.\n\nBut Monday marks the start of the NHS putting the accelerator to the floor.\n\nA rapid increase in the vaccination rate should follow.\n\nBut how quickly the UK can go is dependent on several complex processes.\n\nFirst, the vaccine has to be manufactured, then it has to be put into vials and packaged up (known as fill and finish). After that each batch has to be checked and certified before being sent to NHS vaccination sites where there needs to be enough vaccinators and support staff to ensure those doses are given as quickly as possible.\n\nProblems at any one stage can disrupt how quickly the vaccination programme can be rolled out.\n\nWhile there are millions of doses of each vaccine in the country and a total of 140 million of both vaccines pre-ordered, there are currently just over one million - around 500,000 of each - ready to be given this week.\n\nNHS medical director Professor Stephen Powis said: \"The NHS' biggest vaccination programme in history is off to a strong start, thanks to the tremendous efforts of NHS staff who have already delivered more than one million jabs.\"\n\nHe said the Oxford vaccine rollout was \"chalking up another world first that will protect thousands more over the coming weeks\".\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first jab approved in the UK, and more than a million people have had their first one.\n\nThe first person to get the jab on 8 December, Margaret Keenan, has already had her second dose.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Nikita Kanani, NHS England's medical director for primary care, says it's crucial to get more patients the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine\n\nThe Oxford jab - which was approved for use in late December - can be stored at normal fridge temperatures, making it easier to distribute and store than the Pfizer jab. It is also cheaper per dose.\n\nThe UK has secured 100 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, enough for most of the population.\n\nCare home residents and staff, people aged over 80, and frontline NHS staff will be first to receive it.\n\nGPs and local vaccination services have been asked to ensure every care home resident in their local area is vaccinated by the end of January, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nSome 730 vaccination sites have already been established across the UK, with the total set to surpass 1,000 later this week, the department added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon announces stay at home rules in new lockdown\n\nScots are to be ordered to stay at home amid a fresh Covid-19 lockdown which will see schools remain closed to pupils until February.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said new curbs would be introduced at midnight in a bid to contain the new, faster-spreading strain of the virus.\n\nNew laws will require people to stay at home and work from home where possible.\n\nOutdoor gatherings are also to be cut back, with people only allowed to meet one person from one other household.\n\nPlaces of worship are to be closed, group exercise banned, and schools will largely operate via online and remote learning.\n\nThese rules will apply across the Scottish mainland until at least the end of January, and will be kept under review.\n\nIsland areas will remain in level three - but Ms Sturgeon said they would be monitored carefully.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson later announced similar lockdown measures for the whole of England with all schools and colleges closing to most pupils until mid February.\n\nA further 1,905 new cases were reported in Scotland on Monday - with 15% of tests returning a positive result, something Ms Sturgeon said \"illustrates the severity and urgency of the situation\".\n\nThe first minister said she was \"more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year\", with the new coronavirus strain now accounting for half of new cases.\n\nAnd she said a \"steeply rising trend of infections\" was threatening to put \"significant pressure\" on NHS services, saying hospitals could breach capacity within three to four weeks.\n\nThe new rules - which will be put down in law - mean Scots will only be allowed to leave home for essential purposes, such as shopping for food and medicine, exercise and caring responsibilities.\n\nNo limit is to be put on how many times people can go out to exercise, but outdoor meetings are to be limited to a maximum of two people from two households.\n\nEveryone who can work from home will be required to, and people in the \"shielding\" category are advised not to go in to work at all.\n\nThe construction and manufacturing industries will remain open, but Ms Sturgeon said this would be kept under review.\n\nPlaces of worship are to close, the number of people who can attend weddings is to be cut to five, and funeral wakes will no longer be allowed.\n\nSchools are to remain closed to the majority of pupils until February, with Ms Sturgeon saying community transmission of the virus must be brought to a lower level amid concerns that the new variant of the virus spreads more easily among young people.\n\nShe said she knew remote learning presented \"significant challenges\" for parents, teachers and pupils, adding: \"I want to be clear that it remains our priority to get school buildings open again for all pupils are quickly as possible and then keep them open.\"\n\nThe first minister said she was considering whether teachers could be given the Covid-19 vaccine as a priority.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have been given a first dose of the vaccine in Scotland, and the government expects to have access to just over 900,000 doses by the end of January.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon said the best way to get schools open again was to drive down transmission of the virus - urging Scots to abide by the rules.\n\nThese are the toughest restrictions Scotland has faced since the lockdown of March 2020.\n\nIt is - once again - becoming compulsory to stay at home except for essential purposes like food shopping, exercise and medical care.\n\nThe extended closure of schools to most pupils is something the Scottish government was particularly keen to avoid.\n\nThese decisions are a measure of how worried ministers are about the rapid spread of the new variant of coronavirus, which is fast becoming the dominant strain.\n\nWith 225 cases per 100,000 people, Scotland is thought to be about four weeks behind London, which already has four times as many cases and NHS services under considerable pressure.\n\nThe Scottish government believes that without further action the NHS here would run out of beds for Covid patients within a month.\n\nThis new alert comes at the start of a new year which also brings new hope for a route out of the pandemic with two vaccines now beginning to offer protection.\n\nAround 100,000 doses have already been administered in Scotland but it is likely to take several months to reach all in the most vulnerable groups.\n\nThe first minister said Scotland was now in \"a race between the vaccine and the virus\".\n\nShe said: \"The Scottish government will do everything we can to speed up distribution of the vaccine. But all of us must do everything we can to slow down the spread of the virus.\n\n\"We can already see - by looking at infection rates in the south of England - some of what could happen here in Scotland. To prevent that, we need to act immediately and firmly.\n\n\"For government, that means introducing tough measures - as we have done today. And for all of us, it means sticking to the rules.\"\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson raised concerns about online learning, saying it was vital that pupils had \"equal access to high-quality education\".\n\nAnd Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said teachers and working parents would need support to make the remote learning system work.\n\nMs Sturgeon said her government had \"agonised\" over the decision on schools, and said the \"fundamental priority\" was to re-open them in full as soon as possible.\n\nShe said: \"Just as the last places we ever want to close are schools and nurseries - so it is the case that schools and nurseries will be the first places we want to reopen as we re-emerge from this latest lockdown.\"\n\nThe NHS has coped so far in Scotland - more so than many other parts of the UK.\n\nBut in places like Glasgow and Lanarkshire it has been very, very tight. And here like everywhere else staff are bracing themselves for the post-Christmas effects of rising cases.\n\nThe first minister gave some stark figures on hospital and ICU occupancy - suggesting we are just weeks away from reaching limits.\n\nThere is so little give in the system they will be glad to see everything possible done to prevent stretched services being overwhelmed at a time when we are on our way to getting out the other side.\n\nThere is real anxiety about what the next few weeks might bring.\n• None Covid in Scotland: New lockdown from midnight", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Shaw, from Dundee, was among the first to receive the jab\n\nThe first Scottish recipients of the new Oxford University and AstraZeneca vaccine have received their jabs.\n\nJames Shaw, 82, and his 82-year-old wife Malita were among the first to be vaccinated in Dundee.\n\nThe couple received their first doses at Lochee Health and Community Care Centre.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said she hoped all over-50s and those with underlying health conditions will have been vaccinated by early May.\n\nJames said: \"My wife and I are delighted to be receiving this vaccination. I have asthma and bronchitis and I have been desperate to have it so I am really pleased to be one of the first to be getting it.\n\n\"I know it takes a little while for the vaccine to work but after today I know that I will feel a bit less worried about going out. I will still be very careful and avoid busy places but knowing I have been vaccinated will really help me.\n\n\"All of my friends have said they are going to have the vaccine when it is their turn and I would encourage everyone who is offered this vaccination to take it.\"\n\nJames Shaw, 82, was one of the first people in Scotland to receive the AstraZeneca/Oxford Covid-19 vaccine, administered by advanced nurse practitioner Justine Williams\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine programme is being rolled out less than a week after it was approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). It is the second vaccine approved for use in the UK.\n\nNHS Tayside is rolling out the vaccine through GP practices in the community and will also vaccinate elderly residents and staff in care homes.\n\nIts associate director of public health Dr Daniel Chandleris said: \"The efforts of our vaccination teams have been amazing and it is testament to a real whole team approach that sees the first over-80s in the general population have their jabs today in Tayside.\n\n\"The availability and mobility of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine gives us the opportunity to start to roll out the biggest vaccine programme that the UK has ever seen across our communities.\n\n\"Over-80s are the first priority group and patients will be contacted directly to attend a vaccination session.\"\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack added: \"This is another important moment in our fight against the virus - every vaccination takes us a step closer to getting back to our normal lives as soon as possible.\n\n\"As with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, the UK is the first country in the world to approve and roll out the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, with the UK Government ordering and paying for millions of doses for people in all parts of the UK.\"\n\nThe milestone came as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a new stricter lockdown.\n\nWith the exception of essential travel, people in mainland Scotland will have to remain at home from midnight.\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed a further 1,905 people had contracted Covid-19.\n\nFigures for hospital admissions and deaths over the holiday weekend will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nMs Sturgeon likened the situation to a race between the vaccine and the virus.\n\nShe said: \"In one lane we have vaccines - our job is to make sure they run as fast as possible.\n\n\"But in the other lane is the virus which - as a result of this new variant - has just learned to run much faster and has most definitely picked up pace in the last couple of weeks.\n\n\"To ensure that the vaccine wins the race, it is essential to speed up vaccination as far as possible. But to give it the time it needs to get ahead, we must also slow the virus down.\"\n\nThe new vaccine will initially be available in the hospitals that have been delivering the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine, and new community settings will be able to deliver the jabs from 11 January.\n\nPeople in Scotland will be contacted by their health board when it is their turn to be vaccinated.\n\nThe Oxford vaccination marks a major turning point in the pandemic and will lead to a massive expansion in the UK's immunisation campaign, with enough to vaccinate 50 million people throughout the UK already on order.\n\nIt is easier to transport and store than the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which needs cold storage of about -70C.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine is logistically much easier to distribute\n\nThe UK government has said 530,000 doses of the Oxford vaccine will be available to the UK from Monday, with \"millions due by the beginning of February\".\n\nScotland will ultimately get an 8.2% share of these vaccines, based on its population.\n\nChief Medical Officer Dr Gregor Smith has said he expects the NHS in Scotland to receive 440,360 doses of the vaccine during January.\n\nThe first minister said on Monday about 100,000 people in Scotland have already received a first dose of vaccine.\n\nBoth vaccines require two doses to be administered with an interval of between four and 12 weeks.\n\nPreviously the advice was for the vaccines to have a four-week gap between doses.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) then recommended as many people as possible in the top priority groups should be offered a first dose as the initial priority.", "Dr Radha Modgil from BBC Radio 1’s Life Hacks shares her top five tips on how to stay mentally and emotionally well during the coronavirus lockdown, all beginning with the letter C.\n\nSticking to a routine, making sure we take care of ourselves, and using our creativity in new ways are all ways she suggests we can ease the psychological toll that staying inside is having on all of us.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "A top Swedish official involved in the coronavirus response has defended a Christmas holiday in the Canary Islands in the face of heavy criticism.\n\nDan Eliasson is head of the civil contingencies agency, which earlier in December had texted all Swedes urging them to avoid travel.\n\nHe was photographed in Las Palmas airport on the island of Gran Canaria.\n\nMr Eliasson insisted the trip was necessary \"for family reasons\".\n\nHe told Swedish media that he had \"given up a lot of trips during this pandemic\" but thought this one was necessary because he had a daughter living in the Canaries.\n\n\"I celebrated Christmas with her and my family,\" he told Expressen newspaper. He also said he had been worked remotely while in the Canaries.\n\nSweden has had 437,000 confirmed cases and 8,700 deaths - many more than its Scandinavian neighbours. The country has never imposed a full lockdown.\n\nHowever, alarmed by rising numbers of cases last month, the Swedish government reversed some of its guidance and sent a text message to all Swedes asking them to read updated guidelines.\n\nThe guidelines included asking Swedes to avoid unnecessary trips and not to make new contacts during a journey or at the destination.\n\nMr Eliasson was then photographed several times in Gran Canaria, including at the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Expressen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere have been calls for Mr Eliasson, an experienced official who has worked at several important departments, to be fired.\n\nPrime Minister Stefan Löfven and other ministers have not yet commented, according to Swedish media.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From the pandemic to measles, Smitha Mundasad looks at global health challenges in 2021", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nTributes have been paid to trainer Zoe Davison, who died from cancer on the same day two of her horses claimed wins at Plumpton.\n\nDavison, who had breast cancer for four-and-a-half years, died at her Shovelstrode Racing Stables in Sussex.\n\nBrown Bullet and Mr Jack, both trained at the family's stable, had raced to victory at the Sussex track on Sunday.\n\nSimon Clare, part-owner of Brown Bullet, said: \"Zoe was just the most wonderful human being imaginable.\"\n\nHer husband Andrew Irvine - who she married in 2018 - was by her side, along with family.\n\nHe said: \"She was the most wonderful, incredible person. I am blessed to have spent the last 24 years of my life with her.\"\n\nDaughter Gemelle Johnson, who was assistant to her mother, said: \"I just feel a bit numb inside because of everything.\n\n\"I'm a bit overwhelmed we've had a double for mum. Hopefully we have made her proud. It's surreal. Our team is a family business and we put everything into it. She will be thoroughly missed as she is the glue that holds us together.\n\n\"We've had a few winners around here and it is one of our local tracks. It means everything to us as we want to do her proud.\"\n\nDavison sent out the first of over 100 winners when Sails Legend, with AP McCoy in the saddle, won at Towcester in November 1997.\n\nShe enjoyed her best season with 15 winners in the 2017-18 campaign.\n\nJockey Page Fuller has a long association with the stable and should have ridden Mr Jack but had been stood down from an earlier fall.\n\nShe said: \"You couldn't have written it any better today. She was just a kind and genuine person who was a real horsewoman. She loved her horses and did her best by them.\n\n\"She has been struggling for a long time, but fortunately her strength has rubbed off on everybody else and they showed that by sending out the winners today.\n\n\"It has been a great team effort and it is great she has gone out like that. I don't know anybody who would have a bad word to say about her - she was just one of those really nice people.\"\n\nEd Arkell, ex-Fontwell clerk of the course and now at nearby West Sussex track Goodwood, said: \"Zoe was a huge part of the southern racing circuit. I'm so sorry for her family and she will be very much missed. She was a friendly, happy person who everybody loved.\n\n\"As a trainer, she ran a wonderful family operation. There are less of those these days. She supported her local tracks and became a big part of them.\"\n\nClare added: \"Zoe was the most talented horsewoman imaginable. What she didn't know about horses wasn't worth knowing.\n\n\"She is so incredibly well loved and will be desperately missed by everyone who knew her.\"", "Cases have reached record highs in the past week\n\nThe next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid, the first minister has warned.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\n\"If you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others and the NHS at risk,\" she tweeted.\n\nA further 2,539 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed on Friday.\n\nThe number is slightly down on Thursday's figure, but Ms Sturgeon said cases numbers were still \"worryingly high\".\n\nDaily confirmed cases have reached record highs on each of the previous three days, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted: \"Today's case numbers are worryingly high again. The new variant is accelerating spread.\n\n\"PLEASE do not visit other people's homes just now, even today - if you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others & the NHS at risk.\"\n\nShe said the \"vaccine cavalry\" was on the way, offering \"real hope for 2021\", but she added: \"With this new variant, the next few weeks may be the most dangerous we've faced since Mar/April.\n\n\"We must act together to suppress it, to save lives and protect the NHS. Folded hands stick with it.\"\n\nThe number of daily confirmed cases has reached record highs this week\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1.\n\nEmma Thomson, a professor of infectious disease at the University of Glasgow, said it was important to get people vaccinated quickly.\n\nThe professor, who has been working on the sequencing of the new Covid mutation, told the BBC that lockdown was not controlling the infection \"on its own\".\n\n\"At least we come in armed into the new year with two vaccines which are highly effective at preventing severe disease. We have that,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to roll it out now to add to the public health measures.\"\n\nParties, traditional \"first-footing\" and social events were banned this Hogmanay, with all of mainland Scotland and Skye being under the highest level of Covid restrictions.\n\nAll official events were cancelled, but police had to disperse a crowds of people who gathered at Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill to see in the new year.\n\nIt has also emerged that 32 people were charged with reckless conduct after police found them gathered at a rented property in Aberfoyle on 27 December.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"As the first minister has pointed out, the sharp rise in cases is evidence that the new strain seems to be speeding up transmission.\n\n\"This is why we are asking people to please stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\n\n\"There is light at the end of the tunnel, but we ask everyone to be patient as we work our way through the vaccination programme, and continue to follow FACTS to keep us all safe.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nThe first patients have been given the Oxford vaccine - five days after it was approved for use in the UK. Dialysis patient Brian Pinker, aged 82, was the first to receive it. It's a \"pivotal moment\" in the fight against the virus, according to Health Secretary Matt Hancock. More than 500,000 doses are ready to go, with care home residents and staff, people aged over 80, and NHS workers at the front of the queue. Some 730 vaccination sites have already been established, we're told, with the total set to surpass 1,000 later this week. The Oxford jab is easier to distribute and store than the Pfizer version, which was the first to be approved. It's also cheaper per dose. Find out more about how it was developed, and when you might receive one.\n\nThe vaccine news may be positive, but few deny the coronavirus situation in the UK right now is bleak. On Sunday, more than 50,000 new cases were recorded for the sixth day running and Labour is calling for a third national lockdown in England. Boris Johnson has admitted tougher restrictions are likely. Nicola Sturgeon is expected to announce new restrictions for Scotland later, while Northern Ireland and Wales already have their own lockdowns in place. The obvious next step for England would probably be to move more areas into tier four - a reminder of what that means - but our science editor David Shukman says there are other steps under discussion too.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJanuary is normally a boom time for gyms, but coronavirus restrictions mean many are closed and others can't offer any group classes. At the same time, there's been an explosion in fitness tech, allowing more of us than ever to work out at home. So what does this mean for the future of the gym sector? Our reporter Eleanor Lawrie looks closely. Meanwhile, wherever you are in the UK, see 21 simple ways to get fitter in 2021.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sports expert Ruth Lowry says exercising outdoors could help us cope with Covid this winter\n\nThe pandemic has prompted many of us to change direction, career-wise, whether out of choice or necessity. Our CEO Secrets series has been documenting some of those forging a new path here in the UK, but the same trends are going on elsewhere too. In India, Shalini Sharma and Mrinali Hariyal have gone from stay-at-home mums cooking for their families to chefs providing meals for paying customers. They're plugging the gap left by restaurant closures and finding new identities for themselves. Watch their stories.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, are pandemics the new normal?\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "More than 200 workers at Google-parent Alphabet have taken steps to form a labour union in a rare development for an American tech giant.\n\nThey said the organisation will give staff greater power to voice concerns about discriminatory work practices at the firm and how it handles issues like online hate speech.\n\nThe move follows walkouts and other actions by staff in recent years.\n\nGoogle said it would \"continue engaging directly with all our employees\".\n\n\"We've always worked hard to create a supportive and rewarding workplace for our workforce,\" Kara Silverstein, director of people operations, said in a statement.\n\n\"Of course our employees have protected labour rights that we support. But as we've always done, we'll continue engaging directly with all our employees\".\n\nThe announcement of the Alphabet Workers Union comes weeks after Google's firing of a high-profile black artificial intelligence and ethics researcher generated uproar.\n\nThe US National Labor Relations Board also recently ruled the firm had unlawfully fired employees for attempting to organise a union.\n\nGoogle staff stage a walkout in 2018 over the company's handling of sexual misconduct allegations\n\nStaff have also mobilised against the firm's \"Project Maven\" work with the Department of Defense and the company's handling of sexual harassment complaints.\n\n\"This union builds upon years of courageous organizing by Google workers,\" Nicki Anselmo, program manager, said in the announcement.\n\n\"From fighting the 'real names' policy, to opposing Project Maven, to protesting the egregious, multi-million dollar payouts that have been given to executives who've committed sexual harassment, we've seen first-hand that Alphabet responds when we act collectively.\n\n\"Our new union provides a sustainable structure to ensure that our shared values as Alphabet employees are respected even after the headlines fade.\"\n\nThe group was organised by software engineers but is open to all ranks at the company's US and Canadian workforce, including temporary workers and contractors.\n\nIt is affiliated with the larger labour group, Communication Workers of America, but is not seeking formal recognition from the federal government, limiting its bargaining power.\n\nIt represents a small fraction of Alphabet's workforce, which includes more than 130,000 people as of September and roughly as many contractors, vendors and temporary staff.\n\nMembers who join will contribute about 1% of their compensation to the effort.\n\n\"We want Alphabet to be a company where workers have a meaningful say in decisions that affect us and the societies we live in,\" organisers wrote on Twitter.", "Nóra Quoirin was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder that affects brain development\n\nA girl whose body was found in a jungle during a holiday in Malaysia died by misadventure, a coroner has recorded.\n\nNóra Quoirin, 15, from Balham, south-west London, was discovered dead nine days after she went missing from an eco-resort in August 2019.\n\nThe family said they were \"utterly disappointed\" with the verdict, which ruled out any criminal involvement.\n\nThey believe \"layers of evidence\" that were heard at the inquest point towards Nora having been abducted.\n\nThe family were staying in Sora House in Dusun eco-resort near Seremban, about 40 miles (65km) south of Kuala Lumpur, when they reported Nóra missing, the day after they had arrived.\n\nNóra, who was born with holoprosencephaly - a disorder which affects brain development - was eventually found by a group of civilian volunteers in a palm-oil plantation less than two miles from the holiday home.\n\nThe Quoirins, whose lawyers had asked the coroner to record an open verdict, said in a statement after the ruling that they have a number of reasons for the abduction theory. These include:\n\nSearch and rescue teams were deployed in an effort to locate Nora\n\nIn the statement, issued through the Lucie Blackman Trust, the family said they witnessed 80 slides presented in court as the verdict was given, adding that none of them \"engaged with who Nóra really was - neither her personality nor her intellectual abilities\".\n\nThey said: \"The coroner made mention several times of her inability to rule on certain points due to not knowing Nóra enough.\n\n\"It is indeed our view that to know Nóra would be to know that she was simply incapable of hiding in undergrowth, climbing out a window and making her way out of a fenced resort in the darkness unclothed.\"\n\nThe statement added: \"We believe we have fought not just for Nóra but in honour of all the special needs children in this world who deserve our most committed support and the most careful application of justice.\n\n\"This is Nóra's unique legacy and we will never let it go.\"\n\nFom the outset Meabh Quoirin believed her daughter had been abducted but Malaysian police insisted Nóra's disappearance had always been a missing persons case and ruled out any criminal involvement.\n\nThe authorities closed the case in January 2020, and Nóra's parents pushed for the inquest.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police played the sound of Nóra's mother's voice through a loudspeaker in the jungle\n\nDuring the inquest, a British pathologist who carried out a second post-mortem examination said Nóra's body had no injuries to suggest she was attacked or restrained.\n\nOn the final day of evidence, an investigating officer who was on duty the morning Nóra was reported missing said he was confident there were no criminal elements involved in her disappearance.\n\nFollowing the coroner's verdict, the Quoirins' legal team have discussed the family's rights moving forward, which include the possibility of applying for a revision of the misadventure verdict at the High Court of Seremban.\n\nLouise Azmi, one lawyer for the family, said they had pressed for an open verdict to reflect the lack of positive evidence in the case regarding what happened to Nora.\n\nAn open verdict would leave open the possibility that a criminal element was involved in Nora's death, Mrs Azmi said.\n\nShe told the BBC based on everything the family know of Nora, \"they continue to believe it is impossible she would have willingly walked away into the jungle\".\n\nThe family's legal team say parents Meabh and Sebastien Quoirin are \"disappointed\" with today's verdict.\n\nBut, Coroner Maimoonah Aid said her verdict was made not on \"theories\" and \"speculation\" surrounding the case, but on the balance of probabilities of the evidence presented before her.\n\nWith no evidence to the contrary she ruled out foul play.\n\nMoving forward, the Quoirin family now have the possibility to apply for a revision of the verdict with the High Court of Seremban.\n\nThere is precedent of a verdict being overturned in Malaysia before.\n\nIn 2019, following an appeal, a Malaysian coroner's verdict of misadventure concerning the death of 18-year-old model Ivana Smit was overturned in Kuala Lumpur and reopened as a murder investigation.\n\nAccording to Quoirin family lawyer Sakthy Vell, the family say they now need time to consider their next course of action.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: 'No question we're going to have to take tougher measures'\n\nBoris Johnson has said there is \"no question\" the government will announce stricter measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus \"in due course\".\n\nHe predicted \"tough, tough\" weeks to come, with more than three-quarters of England's population already under the highest - tier four - restrictions.\n\nOn Sunday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the sixth day in a row.\n\nLabour is calling for new England-wide restrictions to come in immediately.\n\nLeader Sir Keir Starmer said it was \"inevitable\" more schools would have to close to lessen the spread of coronavirus.\n\nIn Scotland, further new restrictions are to come into force at midnight, including a \"legal requirement\" for people to stay at home. except for essential purposes.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Scotland was effectively returning to conditions similar to Spring's nation-wide lockdown, with the curbs in place until at least the end of January.\n\nAn additional 454 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported across the UK on Sunday, meaning the total by this measure is now above 75,000.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the \"old tier system\" in England was \"no longer strong enough\" to contain increasing infections.\n\nHospitals are coming under increasing pressure, as cases mount up.\n\nThe old tier system is no longer enough…the figures are only heading in one direction.\n\nThese are the words of the health secretary and a health minister.\n\nBoris Johnson says stricter measures are coming, which immediately sparks the questions \"when?,\" and \"what are you waiting for?\"\n\nDowning Street wants to push a tougher message on adherence to the current rules in England while it assesses the latest Christmas data, but is coming under growing pressure to act sooner.\n\nWith Nicola Sturgeon about to go further in Scotland and the Labour leader calling for an immediate national lockdown, it's difficult to see how the prime minister can wait much longer.\n\nAsked what further restrictions would be put in place, Mr Johnson said: \"What we have been waiting for is to see the impact of the tier four measures on the virus and it is a bit unclear, still, at the moment.\n\n\"But if you look at the numbers, there is no question that we are going to have to take tougher measures and we will be announcing those in due course.\"\n\nHe said the faster-spreading coronavirus variant that has developed in south-eastern England required \"extra-special vigilance\".\n\nBBC science editor David Shukman said new measures could include limits on outdoor exercise and a return to the two-metre (rather than one-metre-plus) social distancing rule, as applied during the first lockdown last year.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to Chase Farm Hospital in north London, the prime minister argued that closing primary schools must remain a \"last resort\", adding that the \"risk to kids\" was \"very, very small\".\n\nSecondary schools in England are currently closed until 18 January, except for pupils in their final GCSE and A-level years, who are due to return on 11 January.\n\nAsked whether they could remain closed, Mr Johnson said: \"We are keeping things under review.\"\n\nBut former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt urged the government to close all schools and UK borders \"right away\", while banning \"all household mixing\".\n\nThe Conservative MP, who now chairs the Commons Health Committee, said these restrictions should be \"time-limited\" to \"12 weeks or so\", after which the roll-out of vaccines would provide \"light at the end of the tunnel\".\n\nMore than 500,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine are now available for use, with the Pfizer BioNTech jab having been issued since early last month.\n\nThe virus is winning at the moment, despite science fighting back with a vaccine. New daily cases of Covid have been rising to record levels, which means hospital numbers and deaths will increase too.\n\nMinisters say more measures are coming, but it is not clear yet what that will mean in practice.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are already in lockdown, and most of England is under tier four rules.\n\nIn recent days the focus has shifted to schools and whether they can be kept open without making the epidemic worse.\n\nExperts agree that the risk the virus poses to children is still low, but they can spread the disease.\n\nWith a new, more transmissible variant of Covid circulating, the government may have to enact this unpalatable \"last resort\" of closing classrooms.\n\nSome 78% of the population of England is now in tier four, under which non-essential shops are closed and people can only leave their homes for a certain number of reasons.\n\nThe Scottish government meets later to consider \"further action\", with all of mainland Scotland currently under its own level four restrictions - only some islands are under less stringent tier three measures.\n\nWales entered a nationwide lockdown on 20 December, while Northern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown that began on Boxing Day.\n\nIn another development, an academic has said there is a \"big question mark\" over whether a vaccine developed at Oxford University will be as effective against a new variant of the virus that has emerged in South Africa.\n\nProf Sir John Bell, Regius professor of medicine at the university, said the team there were currently investigating this question \"right now\".\n\nHe added it was \"unlikely\" the variant would \"turn off the effect of vaccines entirely\", and in any case it would be possible to tweak the vaccine in around four to six weeks.\n\nBut Matt Hancock told Today he was \"incredibly worried\" about the South African variant, saying: \"This is a very, very significant problem.\"\n\n\"We have shown that we are prepared to move incredibly quickly, within 24 hours if we think that is necessary, and we keep these things under review all the time,\" added the health secretary.", "Quote Message: The return of lockdown for at least the rest of January is a severe blow for much of the Scottish economy. It could be worse: this is not the peak Christmas season for retail and hospitality, though the season they’ve just had was very hard going for many, and non-existent for others. This is also the quietest part of the tourism year, so January is a relatively good month to lose one’s bookings. For many firms, it is better than last spring, because they have infection controls in place. And there is a less harsh closure scheme, meaning construction sites and others can stay open, subject to tight rules. Many employers have settled into patterns of working from home, so this does not carry the shock of last March. There was little expectation of getting staff back into offices for months yet. But that doesn’t make this time any easier for workers who are also parents. They know, from last year, how tough it is to handle childcare and lessons while schools are shut - and this time, they have to manage without good weather. The other, more negative comparison with last spring is that firms now are, typically, deeper in debt and with less spare cash to pay the bills that don’t stop - rent, and utility bills, for instance. Some delayed payments are getting tougher to keep on hold. Their frustration with the slow movement of government grant schemes is showing. They aren’t disputing the case for further lockdown but they are making their own case for support through it, and for a recovery strategy once restrictions are lifted, including a boost to consumer confidence and spending.\" from Douglas Fraser Scotland business & economy editor\n\nThe return of lockdown for at least the rest of January is a severe blow for much of the Scottish economy. It could be worse: this is not the peak Christmas season for retail and hospitality, though the season they’ve just had was very hard going for many, and non-existent for others. This is also the quietest part of the tourism year, so January is a relatively good month to lose one’s bookings. For many firms, it is better than last spring, because they have infection controls in place. And there is a less harsh closure scheme, meaning construction sites and others can stay open, subject to tight rules. Many employers have settled into patterns of working from home, so this does not carry the shock of last March. There was little expectation of getting staff back into offices for months yet. But that doesn’t make this time any easier for workers who are also parents. They know, from last year, how tough it is to handle childcare and lessons while schools are shut - and this time, they have to manage without good weather. The other, more negative comparison with last spring is that firms now are, typically, deeper in debt and with less spare cash to pay the bills that don’t stop - rent, and utility bills, for instance. Some delayed payments are getting tougher to keep on hold. Their frustration with the slow movement of government grant schemes is showing. They aren’t disputing the case for further lockdown but they are making their own case for support through it, and for a recovery strategy once restrictions are lifted, including a boost to consumer confidence and spending.\"", "Northern Ireland's First Minister Arlene Foster has said there \"is a gateway of opportunity\" for the UK and Northern Ireland after Brexit.\n\nShe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show on Sunday that the trade deal also tackled \"some of the great difficulties that there are with the (Northern Ireland) Protocol\".\n\nThe purpose of the Protocol is to prevent a hardening of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. It does that by keeping Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods and by having Northern Ireland apply EU customs rules at its ports.\n\nAs a result, an 'Irish Sea border' now exists, with most commercial goods entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain requiring a customs declaration.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), which Mrs Foster leads, opposed the protocol and had criticised the establishment of such a border. She told The Andrew Marr show that her party \"didn't want the protocol but it is here\".\n\n\"I have to mitigate against that and my job from now on is to mitigate against those excesses and to hold the government to account,\" Mrs Foster added.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nProfessional sport in England can continue behind closed doors, despite a new national lockdown announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nIt means Premier League football and elite leagues in other sports are allowed to carry on.\n\nThe sport and leisure rules in England are similar to those announced in Scotland earlier on Monday.\n\nPeople living in England have been told to stay at home and schools will shut for most pupils from Tuesday.\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nFor those in England, exercising outside is allowed once a day. Venues such as gyms, tennis courts and golf courses will be closed.\n\nOrganised outdoor sport for disabled people is exempt from the new measures.\n\nGames and training in non-elite football - which includes all adult and youth grassroots, except for disabled people - have been suspended.\n\nThe Women's FA Cup is among the non-elite competitions placed on hold. All but one of the second-round matches scheduled to take place on Sunday were postponed because of Covid-19 regulations.\n\nTeams from the Women's Super League and Women's Championship enter the draw from the fourth round onwards.\n\nWhich non-elite football has been suspended? Steps three to six of the National League System (all divisions below the National League North and South) Tiers three to seven of the Women's Football Pyramid (all divisions below the Women's Championship) Women's FA Cup (classified as 'non-elite' up to and including the third round) All indoor and outdoor youth and adult grassroots football, including under-18s (except organised outdoor football for disabled people, which is allowed to continue)\n\nFollowing Monday's announcement by the prime minister, this week's sporting fixtures in England are set to go ahead as planned.\n\nIn football, the Carabao Cup semi-finals are being played on Tuesday and Wednesday, while the FA Cup third round - which has 32 fixtures spanning four days - starts on Friday.\n\nThere are also several Women's Super League, English Football League and National League games set to take place, as well as English Premiership and Premier 15s rugby union matches, plus the Masters snooker event in Milton Keynes.\n\nEarlier on Monday, Rochdale chief executive David Bottomley said he believes it is \"inevitable\" that the EFL will have to temporarily suspend fixtures because of rising coronavirus cases.\n\nSeven of last Saturday's EFL games - and 52 across the season - have been called off as teams are affected by the virus.\n\nFour Premier League matches have also been postponed this season because of coronavirus cases.\n\nWhat does the new lockdown mean for sport in England?\n\nThe UK government published its guidance for England's new national lockdown shortly after the prime minister's televised address at 20:00 GMT.\n\nHere are the points relating to sport and physical activity:\n• None Elite sportspeople (and their coaches if necessary, or parents/guardians if they are under 18) - or those on an official elite sports pathway - to compete and train\n• None Outdoor sports courts, outdoor gyms, golf courses, outdoor swimming pools, archery/driving/shooting ranges and riding arenas must also close\n• None Organised outdoor sport for disabled people is allowed to continue\n\nWhile golfing has been allowed to continue in Scotland under strict rules, courses will be closed in England.\n\nEngland Golf said it was \"extremely disappointed\" with the decision, adding it had made a \"strong case\" to keep the sport open in recent months.\n\nWhere can I exercise and who can I exercise with?\n\nYou can exercise in a public outdoor place:\n• None with the people you live with\n• None with your support bubble ( if you are legally permitted to form one)\n• None or, when on your own, with one person from another household\n• None public gardens (whether or not you pay to enter them)\n\nUK Active, a not-for-profit organisation that promotes health and fitness, says the government must act immediately to \"minimise the damaging impact of lockdown\".\n\n\"We know from the millions of people that depend on gyms, pools, and leisure centres to support their physical and mental health, how essential they are,\" said UK Active chief executive Huw Edwards.\n\n\"We cannot afford to wait until the vaccine rollout is advanced before we act, so the government must explore all options at this time and provide a credible plan for maintaining this support to millions of people who rely on these Covid-secure facilities to stay strong and healthy.\n\n\"Furthermore, the UK governments must protect this sector before it becomes too late.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson must bring back \"the spirit of March\" to get control of coronavirus in England, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said.\n\nSir Keir said the virus was \"out of control\" and a second \"national lockdown\" - including the closure of all schools - was needed.\n\nThe PM had to give a firm \"stay at home message\", Sir Keir told the BBC.\n\nMr Johnson will make a televised address at 20:00 GMT to set out further restrictions amid surging cases.\n\nIt comes as Scotland announced a legal requirement to stay at home from midnight.\n\nSir Keir said Labour would support any move towards tighter restrictions in England, but urged the prime minister to \"stop dithering\" and take action.\n\nThe Labour leader said it was \"inevitable\" that schools would need to close.\n\n\"There is complete chaos, with parents not knowing what is going on. We need to create space for the vaccine now, to be rolled out safely.\n\n\"The virus is out of control. We have got to get it back under control. The more we delay, the worse it will be. The more we delay, the longer schools will be closed.\"\n\nIn March last year, Boris Johnson told people in England they could only leave home to exercise once a day, travel to and from work when it is \"absolutely necessary\", shop for essential items and fulfil any medical or care needs.\n\nCurrently, shops selling non-essential goods have been told to shut and gatherings in public of more than two people who do not live together are prohibited in tier four areas.\n\nSir Keir said the government's message needed to be firmer and backed by law, if necessary, to encourage people to comply.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's deputy political editor Vicki Young, he urged the country to get back to \"the spirit of March, where there was a very strong stay at home message\".\n\n\"You only need to go out on the streets now and you see lots of people out and about, you see trains that are half full,\" said the Labour leader.\n\n\"We need to go back to where we were in March with very very strong messaging about staying at home.\n\n\"And I'm afraid that the closure of schools is now inevitable, and therefore that needs to be part of that plan, as part of the national plan for further restriction.\n\n\"And that means that we need to have measures in place to protect working parents, most in place to enable children to learn at home, and a plan to get schools safely reopened again and that goes back to vaccination. It must be mission critical now.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eileen Lynch, 94, was the first person in Northern Ireland to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine this week.\n\nThe aim is to ensure everyone in that age group will be offered the vaccine by the end of January.\n\nThirty GP practices will be administering 50,000 doses of the vaccine, which was approved for use in the UK on 30 December.\n\nIt is the second vaccine to be approved in the battle against coronavirus in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes ahead of a UK-wide announcement by the prime minister, set to be made at 20:00 GMT on Monday, in which further restrictions will be announced.\n\nIn a statement, a No 10 spokesman said the new variant of Covid-19 had \"led to rapidly escalating case numbers across the country\" and \"further steps must now be taken to arrest this rise\".\n\nOn Monday, Northern Ireland recorded a further 1,801 Covid-19 cases and 12 more virus-related deaths.\n\nThese latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,366, while 79,873 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic started.\n\nMore than 12,000 cases have been reported in the past seven days, more than double the week before.\n\nThe seven-day rate per 100,000 people is now 660 positive cases, compared to 200 per 100,000 two weeks ago.\n\nMedical experts believe that is down to the two-week easing of restrictions over the Christmas period.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Monday, an additional 6,110 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were announced, with six further deaths linked to the virus.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown in which non-essential retail is closed.\n\nThe first doses of the vaccine were given delivered at a GP surgery on the Falls Road in West Belfast on Monday afternoon.\n\nThe first person in Northern Ireland to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine was 94-year-old Eileen Lynch.\n\nSpeaking after receiving the vaccine, Ms Lynch said she was \"delighted and privileged\" to receive it.\n\n\"I feel like I can really look forward to the year ahead now that I have been vaccinated,\" she said.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has already been used to vaccinate care home residents and staff.\n\nBy mid December, 50,000 doses of that vaccine had been made available and by 30 December, Northern Ireland's Department of Health reported that 33,000 people had been vaccinated.\n\nThis included 8,940 care home residents, 10,484 care home staff and 14,259 health and social care staff.\n\nAccording to the latest NI statistics, for the first time the percentage positive cases in the over 80s is down - an indication the vaccination process is working.\n\nThere are approximately 82,000 people over 80 in NI and BBC News NI understands that if deliveries of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine happen as planned, it is thought that all of those over 80, as well as GPs and their staff, could be vaccinated within three weeks.\n\nWhile 50,000 doses have been delivered to Northern Ireland, a further 23,000 vaccines are expected on 19 January while another 68,000 are due on 24 January.\n\nDr Alan Stout, who is a GP in Belfast, told BBC News NI that members are \"very optimistic\" that 11,000 people can be vaccinated this week.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is the second coronavirus vaccine to be approved in the UK\n\nNI's chief medical officer said the Oxford-AstraZeneca rollout would run alongside the ongoing vaccination programme.\n\nDr Michael McBride said: \"First and foremost we must act to protect those most at risk of severe disease and death.\n\n\"The evidence shows that the initial dose of vaccine offers as much as 70% protection against the effects of the virus.\n\n\"Providing that level of protection on a large scale will have the greatest impact on reducing mortality and hospitalisations, protecting the health and social care system.\"\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has to be kept at an extremely low temperature which complicates handling constraints.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is considered easier to store and distribute.\n\nIts rollout consists of two full doses of the vaccine, with the second dose to be given four to 12 weeks after the first.\n\nGPs are appealing to the public to remain calm and wait to be called for their vaccine either by telephone or by letter.\n\nDr Stout said as demand grows worldwide for the vaccine, that schedule could easily change.\n\n\"The public have to be patient, we have a system and must be allowed to get on with it - it really is 'don't call us - we will call you'.\"\n\nWhile some vaccinations will take place in surgeries others will happen in a drive-through system.\n\nCovid-19 is deadlier than flu, which means January 2021 is going to be even tougher than usual.\n\nAlso, Covid patients tend to stay much longer in hospital with more severe symptoms requiring additional beds and care.\n\nBut those rising patient numbers aren't matched by an increased workforce.\n\nInstead it is expected that the nurse-patient ratio will increase (even though many aren't trained to work in critical care) as there simply aren't enough nurses available.\n\nSome health unions fear this will only add to Northern Ireland's excess mortality rate, which is greater than that in Great Britain.\n\nOnce again, this highlights Northern Ireland's failing health care system, which was already below par well before the start of the pandemic.\n\nCoronavirus infection figures here are expected to peak between 15 and 21 January. That will be felt not only in hospitals but also in GP practices as they continue to roll out the vaccine.\n\nWhile at this stage the six weeks look bleak it's hoped that the additional Astra-Zeneca vaccine and the low incidence of flu will go a long way in not only saving lives, but also protecting the health service.\n\nDr Stout said much planning had gone into ensuring the programme happened as smoothly as possible.\n\n\"People will literally stay in their cars and be asked to roll up their sleeves - it has to be safe and efficient in order for us to get through it and safely.\"\n\nThe UK has ordered 100 million doses of the new vaccine - enough to vaccinate 50 million people.\n\nMeanwhile, Dr Tom Black, chair of the British Medical Association in Northern Ireland, said it was \"appalling\" that the Pfizer vaccine was not to be administered in two doses within 21 days as instructed by the company and threatened legal action.\n\nDr Black was responding to news that the UK will give both parts of the Oxford and Pfizer vaccines 12 weeks apart.\n\n\"They have left care workers in Northern Ireland with a gap in their expected immunity,\" he told BBC NI's Radio Foyle on Monday.\n\n\"In that period doctors, nurses, porters or health care professionals could infect patients because they will not be protected against the transmission of the infection to patients.\"\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers have defended their Covid vaccination plan.\n\nThey said getting more people vaccinated with the first jab was \"much more preferable\" and that the great majority of the initial protection from clinical disease is after the first dose of vaccine.\n\nDr Black is to meet NI Health Minister Robin Swann later to express health care workers' concern over the change in vaccine policy.", "Tian Tian arrived in Scotland, along with Yang Guang, from China in 2011\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's giant pandas may have to return to China next year because of financial pressures.\n\nYang Guang and Tian Tian cost about £1m a year to lease from China.\n\nThe zoo, which had hoped to breed the pair, is nearing the end of its 10-year contract with the Chinese government and may be unable to renew the deal.\n\nCovid lockdown closures led to a £2m loss for the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, which runs Edinburgh Zoo and the Highland Wildlife Park.\n\nDavid Field, chief executive of the society, said the charity would have to \"seriously consider every potential saving\", including its giant panda contract.\n\nMr Field said closures had had a \"huge financial impact\" on the charity because most of its income was from visitors.\n\n\"Although our parks are open again, we lost around £2m last year and it seems certain that restrictions, social distancing and limits on our visitor numbers will continue for some time, which will also reduce our income,\" Mr Field said.\n\n\"Yang Guang and Tian Tian have made a tremendous impression on our visitors over the last nine years, helping millions of people connect to nature and inspiring them to take an interest in wildlife conservation.\n\n\"I would love for them to be able to stay for a few more years with us and that is certainly my current aim.\"\n\nYang Guang was given a new enclosure in 2019\n\nThe zoo has already taken a government loan, furloughed staff, made redundancies and launched a fundraising appeal, but was not eligible for the UK government's zoo fund, which was aimed at smaller zoos.\n\n\"The support we have received from our members and animal lovers has helped to keep our doors open and we are incredibly grateful,\" Mr Field added.\n\n\"At this stage, it is too soon to say what the outcome will be. We will be discussing next steps with our colleagues in China over the coming months.\"\n\nThe zoo is part of a number of conservation projects, including one to reintroduce Scottish wildcats.\n\nWork to reintroduce Scottish wildcats in to the Highlands may also suffer from the Zoo's funding problems\n\nHowever, Mr Field said projects like that may also have to be scrapped because of Brexit and being unable to apply for grants from the European Union.\n\n\"We received a £3.2m grant from the EU Life programme to support our Saving Wildcats partnership project, which aims to restore wildcats in Scotland by breeding and releasing them into the wild.\n\n\"Wildcats are on the brink of extinction in Britain and this is the last hope for the species' survival.\"\n\nHe added: \"As we are no longer part of the European Union, our charity is no longer eligible to apply for funding from programmes like EU Life, which have proven critical for our wildlife conservation work and wider efforts to protect animals from extinction.\"\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's conservation genetics laboratory, which supports conservation projects around the world, has lost access to both funding and other researchers as a result.\n\nIt also faces challenges around moving animals, many of which are part of European endangered species breeding programmes.\n\nThe programme is currently about £900,000 short, meaning it may have to be cancelled.\n\nMr Field said: \"We still need to reduce costs to secure our future. It may be that some of our incredibly important conservation projects, including the vital lifeline for Scotland's wildcats, may have to be deferred, postponed or even stopped.\"", "Police rescued 22 people from the snow in Cheshire including a two-year-old child\n\nDozens of people, including a two-year-old child, had to be rescued when they became stranded on rural roads.\n\nPolice and volunteers came to the aid of people whose vehicles were stuck in the Derbyshire Peak District on Saturday.\n\nThere were similar scenes in Cheshire where 22 people, had to be rescued from stranded cars.\n\nThe wintry weather is set to continue with a Met Office warning for ice in the East Midlands and North East.\n\nAt around 20:00 GMT on Saturday, Derbyshire Police reported \"sudden snow\" had left dozens of vehicles and their occupants stranded in the Goyt Valley.\n\nSome visitors to the area were caught off-guard by how quickly the weather changed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDerbyshire Police posted on Twitter: \"We are shuttling people back to Buxton as quickly as we can.\n\n\"Sit tight and we will get to you.\"\n\nThe A57 Snake Pass - a road notorious for becoming dangerous in the snow - had been closed earlier in the day because of the weather.\n\nIn Cheshire, police spent three hours helping families stuck in their vehicles in the White Peak area.\n\nIn total 22 people, including eight children - the youngest of whom was two - were recovered from nine vehicles.\n\nCheshire Police Rural Crime Team said: \"The snow had well and truly caught them all out on the back roads.\n\n\"We were three miles (4.8km) from the nearest village, and the light was fading on us quickly.\n\n\"It was decided to get everyone out of their cars and so began a mile walk in the snow.\"\n\nThey were led to a nearby farm where they could be taken to safety in police vehicles.\n\nMost of those rescued from snow in Cheshire had travelled to the area despite coronavirus restrictions\n\nThe force was critical of the families for travelling into the area, that is under tier four coronavirus restrictions.\n\nIt said: \"All except one car was from out of Cheshire. We had people from Sale, Stockport and Salford with the closest being Congleton.\n\n\"Sadly these people have put all of us at risk today.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Scottish cabinet will meet later to consider further measures to help tackle coronavirus, as 2,464 new cases are reported.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament will then be recalled for First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to make an \"urgent statement\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said the \"rapid increase in Covid cases driven by the new variant\" was of \"very serious concern\".\n\n\"We are in a race between this faster spreading strain of Covid and the vaccination programme,\" she tweeted.\n\nShe warned on Friday that the next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid.\n\nThe latest government figures for coronavirus cases showed that 15.2% of Saturday's 17,328 tests were positive.\n\nIt is higher than the 2,137 cases reported on Friday, but still lower than Thursday's 2,539 positive results.\n\nFigures for hospital admissions and deaths over the holiday weekend will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nThe cabinet is likely to consider a further delay to the return of Scottish schools and restrictions that are closer to the stay-at-home lockdown in March.\n\n\"All decisions just now are tough, with tough impacts,\" Ms Sturgeon wrote on twitter. \"Vaccines give us way out, but this new strain makes the period between now and then the most dangerous since start of pandemic.\"\n\nThe Scottish government's emergency resilience committee heard on Saturday that \"quick and decisive action is needed\" as the new variant of the virus is becoming the dominant one in Scotland.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"The even steeper rises and severe pressure on the NHS that is being experienced in some other parts of the UK is a sign of what may lie ahead in Scotland if we do not take all possible steps now to slow the spread of the virus, while the vaccination programme progresses.\n\n\"The strong message remains - people should stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\"\n\nThis is just the fifth time the Scottish Parliament has been recalled and the second time within the last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Linda Bauld says Scots should be prepared a longer period living with level four restrictions\n\nPublic health expert Prof Linda Bauld, from the University of Edinburgh, has said Scotland should be prepared for Covid restrictions to be extended as infection rates continue to rise.\n\nShe said there were no signs yet that the infection rate was levelling off, having risen suddenly from a daily rate of fewer than 1,000 to more than 2,000 per day in recent days.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It definitely is a fragile situation and you can see that we have more cases than we would expect at the current time.\n\n\"We may be starting to see some of the impacts of the Christmas mixing, but also we know around four in 10 cases, from recent data, are of the new variant.\n\n\"I would imagine that the new variant is playing a role in these higher rates of infection and if these numbers continue to sit at where they are we are going to have more people in hospital in a week or two's time, and that is very worrying.\"\n\nThe new year offers new hope in the struggle against coronavirus with two vaccines now authorised for UK use - but it looks as if the situation will get worse before it gets better.\n\nMinisters are worried by the rapid spread of the new strain of coronavirus during a holiday period when the highest level of restrictions are already in place.\n\nThey think more needs to be done to suppress the virus, to give the vaccination programme a chance to accelerate and give increasing numbers of people protection.\n\nWhen the Scottish cabinet meets they are likely to consider tightening the current restrictions to something closer to the stay at home lockdown of March 2020.\n\nThat will almost certainly mean a further delay to the return of schools into February.\n\nMinisters will take decisions on Monday morning with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon expected to make a statement at Holyrood in the afternoon.\n\nDaily confirmed cases in Scotland reached record highs on the last three days of 2020, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nMs Sturgeon warned last week there might be changes to the plans for reopening schools. Children start online learning from 11 January and are set to return to class by 18 January.\n\nThe education recovery group will meet on Monday.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said the situation was \"deteriorating and fast-moving\" but any decision to extend school closures should be clearly explained to parents and teachers.\n\nHe said: \"We have been here before so if schools remain closed, the Scottish government must show that it has learned from past mistakes in order to minimise disruption to education.\"\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie said the Scottish government should prioritise teachers and school staff as vaccines were rolled out.\n\nHe added: \"We must be honest and accept that most pupils, teachers and support staff cannot go back to schools until the situation is brought under control.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard called for ministers to publish the evidence behind all of its decisions to ensure public consent and compliance.\n\n\"What is clear is that we need to see an acceleration of the vaccine rollout and a step-change in testing,\" he said.\n\n\"It is also clear that financial support from government has simply not been nearly sufficient to make up for the damage that lockdown measures have done to jobs, livelihoods and businesses. The SNP government must distribute additional funds to the frontline now.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said: \"With tighter restrictions on movement and in schools comes a greater responsibility on the government to show its workings.\n\n\"If we are to restrict people's movement then we need to see what the benefit will be. We need an exit plan to give people hope, as well as to show them what is required to ease the restrictions on our freedoms.\"", "Some schools are due to reopen this week in Wales\n\nSchools are being given a flexible approach to ensure a \"safe return\", according to Wales' first minister.\n\nMark Drakeford said experts would be \"looking at all the evidence again early next week\".\n\nUnions have called for a national decision on reopening schools rather than leaving it to local councils.\n\nAccording to local authorities many secondary schools aim to return from 11 January, with some fully open on 6 January.\n\nA joint statement from nine unions called on the Welsh Government to give a \"centralised, coherent response\" regarding all educational settings \"rather than leaving decisions at local levels\".\n\nThe statement from ASCL Cymru, GMB, NAHT Cymru, NASUWT Cymru, NEU Cymru, Ucac, Unison, Unite and Voice continued: \"We are extremely worried that schools will be opening for face-to-face learning from next Monday, whilst Welsh Government continues to gather information about the nature and impact of the new variant of Covid-19...\n\n\"We strongly believe that we need to err on the side of caution and ensure, in advance, that we have the medical 'evidence and information' to ensure that any decisions are the correct ones.\"\n\nThe National Education Union Cymru has called for in-person learning to be delayed until at least 18 January.\n\nThe NASUWT has also threatened \"appropriate action in order to protect members whose safety is put at risk\", while head teachers' union NAHT Cymru said it had taken legal action.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford said: \"We reached an agreement with our local education colleagues that in Wales we will have a phased and flexible return to school.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday parents should send their children to primary school as long as they are open in their area.\n\nMark Drakeford: \"No evidence that young people get the illness more severely as a result of the variant\"\n\nJackie Parker, head of Crickhowell High School in Powys, which reopens for some form years from Wednesday, said \"it would have been more sensible to have had a national decision for the time being until the 18th\".\n\nShe said it would have allowed time to see if cases of Covid had increased over the holiday period.\n\n\"People may have been together during the Christmas holiday,\" she said.\n\nFigures published by Public Health Wales on Sunday showed 56 new deaths from Covid and 4,011 new cases of the virus.\n\nWales has been in lockdown since 20 December with restrictions on people meeting others on all but Christmas Day when it was limited to another household and a person living alone.\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"There is no evidence that young people get the illness more severely as a result of the variant.\n\n\"Our technical advisory group will be looking at all the evidence again early next week.\n\n\"And, of course, we will continue to make decisions in the light of the best knowledge, research and information that's available to us at the time,\" he told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement.\n\nHe also said mass testing in schools would begin as planned this month, in a decision which has been criticised by NAHT Cymru.\n\n\"It will allow more children and more teachers to stay safely in the classroom without having to be sent home because another child or another staff member has tested positive,\" he said.\n\nThe joint unions' statement also said the Welsh Government's testing proposals were unworkable for most schools.\n\n\"Due to the chaotic and rushed nature of this announcement, the lack of proper guidance, and an absence of appropriate support, the Welsh Government's proposals will be inoperable for most schools and colleges,\" it said.\n\nThe statement continued: \"Any suggestion that schools can safely recruit, train and organise a team of suitable volunteers to staff and run testing stations on their premises by an as yet unspecified date in the new term is simply not realistic.\"\n\nSian Gwenllian, Plaid Cymru's education spokeswoman, said \"parents and teachers need to know what the plan is for the next few weeks\".\n\n\"We don't really know very much about this new variant in the way that it transmits within the school community,\" she said.\n\n\"And if it is becoming inevitable that schools will have to close, well, an early decision is better for everybody.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative education spokeswoman Suzy Davies said: \"We've had conflicting reports in the press and on social media about the effect of the new variant on younger children and their role in transmitting the disease - complete confusion reigns...\n\n\"The Welsh Government hasn't succeeded in reassuring teachers and in some cases parents as well.\"", "Economy Minister Diane Dodds has written to Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove to call for urgent action to be taken on deliveries to NI.\n\nSince Christmas some orders have been cancelled or delayed and some retailers have suspended deliveries.\n\nThe problem is related to uncertainty about post-Brexit transition rules.\n\nHM Customs announced a grace period on New Year's Eve confirming most parcels from GB-NI will not need customs declarations until at least April.\n\nThe problems have not affected all companies with many continuing to take orders and deliver as normal.\n\nHowever, some companies had already suspended deliveries, including John Lewis.\n\nThe government said the three-month grace period \"recognises the unique circumstances of Northern Ireland, the impacts of any disruption to parcel movements in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and specific challenges for operators moving express consignments\".\n\nA government spokesman said further details will be published in the new year, adding: \"Our priority is to have a pragmatic approach that allows us to comply with the [Northern Ireland] Protocol without causing undue disruption to businesses and citizens.\n\n\"HMRC is engaging with operators to finalise arrangements.\"\n\nSome changes have already come into effect.\n\nA Northern Ireland-based business receiving goods valued at £135 or more through an express carrier or Royal Mail will need to submit a customs declaration.\n\nThey will need to do this within three months of receiving the goods and can use the government's Trader Support Service to do so.\n\nExcise goods, which mostly refers to alcoholic drinks, will also need a declaration when being sent from GB to NI.\n\nThe government has advised retailers of those goods to contact their delivery company.\n\nIt said: \"They will then tell you if they carry the type of goods you want to send and, if they do, they will ask you to provide any additional information that they need so that a declaration can be made.\"", "About 10 UK nationals resident in Spain say they were wrongly turned back when their flight landed in Barcelona.\n\nThey left Heathrow on the Saturday morning British Airways flight, but were refused entry on arrival.\n\nThey were stopped by border police and ultimately flown back to the UK.\n\nSpain has banned all but Spanish nationals and residents flying from the UK to Spain since 22 December in the hope of containing the spread of the new UK strain of Covid-19.\n\nOne passenger on the flight, who did not wish to be named, said that those on board had been told repeatedly that only Spanish nationals or residents would be allowed to enter the country and that their residency certificates, also known as green certificates, were shown to airline staff several times.\n\nHowever, on arrival, British passengers with green residency certificates were prevented from entering Spain.\n\nBA has confirmed that about 10 people were denied entry into Barcelona, as they did not meet the Spanish authorities' required criteria.\n\nOne of those affected, Ruth O'Leary, said: \"I was very confused, obviously. I asked them what other documents I could provide.\n\n\"They seemed to be just flat-out refusing anything I had and just wouldn't let me on the flight. Very upsetting really.\n\n\"Quite an awful feeling not to be able to go back to your own house and to not really be given an explanation why you can't go home.\"\n\nOther British expat passengers have also said that they have been stopped from boarding planes to Spain.\n\nOne passenger on board said that seven British citizens were prevented from boarding a British Airways/Iberia flight from Heathrow to Madrid on Saturday evening, despite having their green residency certificates, as well as negative Covid tests.\n\nThe exact number of flights and passengers affected has not been released by the Foreign Office.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, Iberia said that on 1 January, it received an email from the border police saying that registration as a European citizen was no longer considered to be a valid document to prove legal residency in Spain as a British citizen.\n\nHowever, by 19:30 on 2 January, the airline received a second email, confirming that the document could be used if it had not expired.\n\nA British Airways spokesperson said: \"In these difficult and unprecedented times with dynamic travel restrictions, we are doing everything we can to help and support our customers.\"\n\nThe Spanish Embassy in London tweeted a letter stating it was aware that during the current travel restrictions, there had been some problems for British nationals resident in Spain who had not been allowed to return.\n\nThe embassy clarified that green certificates were valid proof of residency.\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said: \"We have worked closely with the Spanish government to resolve these issues.\n\n\"The Spanish Embassy in London has re-confirmed today that both the green residence certificate and the new residence TIE card [Photo-ID card] are equally valid in terms of proving residence in Spain, as set out in the [Brexit] Withdrawal Agreement.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olly Stephens was pronounced dead in Bugs Bottom fields in Emmer Green, Reading\n\nFour boys and a girl have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nThe five teenagers, all aged 13 or 14, remain in custody, according to Thames Valley Police.\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown said: \"Our thoughts remain with Olly's family at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident which has resulted in the death of a young boy.\"\n\nThe victim's family are being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nFloral tributes to Olly have been left outside Highdown School\n\nHighdown School and Sixth Form Centre said it was \"reeling from the tragic news\".\n\nIn a statement, head teacher Rachel Cave said: \"This student was part of our community and many students and staff knew him well.\n\n\"For a life to be ended at such a young age is a total tragedy. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.\"\n\nThe school, in Emmer Green, said it was arranging counselling support for students and setting up an electronic book of condolence.\n\nThames Valley Police said a \"considerable police presence\" would be in place in the area for several days\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack.\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone who was in the area between 15:00 and 16:30 who might have taken photos or camera footage to contact them if they notice anything suspicious.\n\nDet Supt Brown said he believed there would have been witnesses to the \"dreadful incident\" as the area is popular with dog walkers.\n\nA man said his wife was walking their dog through the park on Sunday afternoon when she saw a boy on the ground with several people around him trying to give him first aid.\n\nAnother dog walker said she saw a group of young people standing in the woods in Bugs Bottom fields at about 15:30 and described it as \"slightly unusual\".\n\nReading East MP Matt Rodda has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to the boy's family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Rodda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSt Barnabas Church in Emmer Green has invited residents to pray and light a candle in memory of the boy.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Margaret Ferrier admitted travelling back from London to Glasgow after testing positive for coronavirus\n\nScottish MP Margaret Ferrier has been arrested by police after she admitted using public transport while infected with Covid-19.\n\nMs Ferrier apologised for what she called a \"blip\" in September.\n\nShe was suspended from the SNP group at Westminster and leaders, including First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, urged her to quit as an MP over the row.\n\nPolice Scotland said she had been charged in connection with \"alleged culpable and reckless conduct\".\n\nMs Ferrier apologised in September after travelling from London to Glasgow having tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe Rutherglen and Hamilton West MP said she had experienced \"mild symptoms\" and taken a test, but had then decided to travel to Westminster because she was \"feeling much better\".\n\nShe then travelled home again on a train after receiving the positive test result, and said she \"deeply regretted\" her actions.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesman said: \"We can confirm that officers today arrested and charged a 60-year-old woman in connection with alleged culpable and reckless conduct.\n\n\"This follows a thorough investigation by Police Scotland into an alleged breach of coronavirus regulations between 26 and 29 September 2020.\n\n\"A report will be sent to the procurator fiscal and we are unable to comment further.\"\n\nMs Ferrier has been contacted for comment.", "The prime minister has said that tougher measures could be needed to help cope with a surge in coronavirus cases.\n\nHe has not yet said whether we will need school closures, or even overnight curfews like those imposed in France.\n\nBut clues about such measures to tackle the new more infectious variant come from the government's Sage advisory committee.\n\nThe headline is that whether we see a return to only being allowed one form of daily outdoor exercise, or stricter controls on travel around the country, we'll be hearing a lot more about something already very familiar: hand hygiene, social distancing, wearing masks and ensuring there is fresh air.\n\nThese may sound familiar but the advisers believe that because the new variant spreads so easily, the measures need to be applied with \"a step change in rigour\" - in other words, a lot more forcefully.\n\nThey suggest considering a return to the two-metre rule because it's more effective than the one-metre plus guidance adopted last year.\n\nMasks need to be made of three layers, not just one, and worn in more locations than now - including workplaces, schools and crowded outdoor spaces.\n\nThe key message is that it is vital to reduce social contact - being close to people, especially indoors for long periods of time, carries the highest risk of infection.\n\nSo expect tier four-type bans on visiting other households to become normal.\n\nThe advisers also say many people still do not recognise the key symptoms of Covid-19 - so ministers need to spell them out and help people understand why they should self-isolate.\n\nBut they also say it is essential to praise the efforts made so far, to recognise sacrifices and emphasise how they've kept infection numbers lower than they would otherwise have been.\n\nWhatever new measures are picked, the advice to ministers is to offer \"clear and convincing explanations\" to motivate people.\n\nThat could be a hint that the government's current \"hands, face, space\" slogan may need to make way for something stronger.", "The Queen said she wished Woman's Hour \"continued success\" in the programme's \"important work\"\n\nThe Queen has sent her \"best wishes\" to Woman's Hour to mark the BBC Radio 4 show's 75th year.\n\nThe 94-year-old noted that the show had \"played a significant part in the evolving role of women\".\n\n\"As you celebrate your 75th year, it is with great pleasure that I send my best wishes to the listeners and all those associated with Woman's Hour,\" she said in a letter sent to the programme.\n\nEmma Barnett read out the message on her first day as the show's presenter.\n\n\"During this time, you have witnessed and played a significant part in the evolving role of women across society, both here and around the world,\" the Queen added in her message.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Presenter Emma Barnett reads a message from Her Majesty to Woman's Hour listeners.\n\n\"In this notable anniversary year, I wish you continued success in your important work as a friend, guide and advocate to women everywhere.\"\n\nSpice Girl Melanie C also performed a rendition of The Beatles track Here Comes the Sun, after presenter Barnett had declared that 2021 \"has to be better\" than the previous year.\n\nLater, guest Imelda Staunton, who will play Her Majesty in the upcoming series five of Netflix's royal drama, The Crown, described her as being like \"the original Spice Girl\".\n\n\"The Queen, you think, might be an original Spice Girl because girl power is what she is,\" said the actress, who is due to take over the role from Olivia Colman. \"She became the head of state and all that sort of thing.\n\n\"It's the continuity of The Queen that has been so important... Whether you're a royalist or not, this person has got up and gone to work every day for 60 years, and I sort of admire that.\"\n\nLast month, the Queen used her Christmas Day message to reassure anyone struggling without friends and family this year that they \"are not alone\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe message helped to mark a memorable opening day in the hot seat for Barnett, which also saw her discuss Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian under house arrest in Tehran, with her husband Richard and the MP and former foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt.\n\nBarnett - known for hosting Newsnight and shows on 5 Live - has replaced Jane Garvey, who presented her final edition of Woman's Hour after 13 years last week, saying the programme \"needs to move on, and now it can\".\n\nGarvey's exit came three months after her co-host Dame Jenni Murray also left the long-running show after 33 years.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Emma Barnett This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBarnett's 5 Live show has been taken over by BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty, who also broadcast her first show on Monday.\n\nMunchetty told listeners she was \"absolutely delighted to be here with you on the first Monday of 2021\".\n\n\"I am so excited to be on board with you on this, the morning show we are making together,\" she added. \"We are going to get to know each other, I promise. There is so much to talk about.\"\n\nEmma Barnett interviewed former prime minister Theresa May on her 5 Live show\n\nWoman's Hour is a topical, conversation-led programme; Barnett has a strong news pedigree. Her previous 5 Live show involved thorough interrogation of politicians, and she has made no secret of her love of politics, not least in her outings on Newsnight.\n\nIt doesn't get any bigger than the Queen, obviously. Interestingly, the other big 'get' for her first show is Sonia Khan, former special adviser to the Chancellor.\n\nSo Barnett's first show indicates very clearly that she will make Woman's Hour newsier and more political.\n\nIt's also a safe bet that short, visual clips of the kind that allowed Barnett's 5 Live show to dramatically increase its impact will also be a big feature of her time in the job.\n\nOne early challenge: getting an even bigger name for next Monday. Any thoughts?\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The lockdown announcement contained the clearest indication yet of how quickly the government hopes to vaccinate the at risk groups.\n\nA target of mid February for vaccinating all the over 70s and those deemed extremely clinically vulnerable and frontline health and care staff opens up a pathway to a significant easing of restrictions by the start of March.\n\nBut it will require a rapid acceleration in vaccination rates.\n\nSo far nearly one million people have been vaccinated.\n\nBy the end of the week that number is expected to double.\n\nThe hope is that later in January two million doses a week will be given.\n\nThat will be the minimum needed – there are around 12 million in those priority groups.\n\nBy vaccinating them, there is the potential to prevent close to nine in 10 deaths.\n\nBut achieving that requires a lot to go right.\n\nThere is enough vaccine in the country to vaccinate that many people, but not all of it has been through the final “fill and finish” process which involves packaging it in glass vials (and there is a shortage of those) and then the batches have to be checked and signed off by the regulator – a process that is taking weeks at the moment.\n\nAnd all of that is before it is sent out to the NHS vaccination centres to inject it into people’s arms.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Linda Bauld says Scots should be prepared a longer period living with level four restrictions\n\nScotland should be prepared for Covid restrictions to be extended as infection rates continue to rise, a public health expert has said.\n\nThe latest government figures show a further 2,137 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Scotland on Friday.\n\nProf Linda Bauld described it as a \"fragile situation\", despite the rate dropping below Thursday's 2,539 cases.\n\nThe latest figures for hospital admissions and deaths will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned on Friday that the next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid as the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\nDaily confirmed cases reached record highs on the last three days of 2020, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nIt had dropped to 10.8% on Friday. A percentage of lower than 5% is needed to show the virus is under control, according to the WHO.\n\nProf Bauld, a public health expert at the University of Edinburgh, said there were no signs yet that the infection rate was levelling off, having risen suddenly from a daily rate of fewer than 1,000 to more than 2,000 per day in recent days.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It definitely is a fragile situation and you can see that we have more cases than we would expect at the current time.\n\n\"We may be starting to see some of the impacts of the Christmas mixing, but also we know around four in 10 cases, from recent data, are of the new variant.\n\n\"I would imagine that the new variant is playing a role in these higher rates of infection and if these numbers continue to sit at where they are we are going to have more people in hospital in a week or two's time, and that is very worrying.\"\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is under level four restrictions in an attempt to slow down the rate of virus spread\n\nThis would bring \"real challenges\" for hospitals, especially in the central belt, Prof Bauld said, adding that it was \"absolutely imperative that we do not see these number rise more than they are now\".\n\nShe said it would take some time to see the impact of level four restrictions introduced in mainland Scotland on Boxing Day.\n\n\"Mentally we just need to be prepared for the fact that we may be living with the level four restrictions for longer than the Scottish government currently plans,\" Prof Bauld said.\n\nShe said the new, more transmissible coronavirus variant would make it harder to get the R number below one in Scotland and schools may not be able to fully reopen on 18 January.\n\nThe government's education recovery group was preparing with schools for blended learning to go on longer if necessary, she added.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is under level four restrictions in an attempt to slow down the rate of virus spread.\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes that the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe government has described the vaccination programme as a \"light at the end of the tunnel\" and has urged people to stay at home as much as possible in the meantime.", "Security has been stepped up in Niger's Tillabéri region, where the two villages are situated\n\nNiger's prime minister says 100 people are now known to have been killed in Saturday's attacks by suspected jihadists on two villages.\n\nBrigi Rafini said 70 people were killed in the village of Tchombangou and 30 others in Zaroumdareye - both near Niger's border with Mali.\n\nIt was one of the deadliest days in living memory, as Niger grapples with ethnic violence and Islamist militancy.\n\nNo group has said it carried out the attacks.\n\nAccording to local mayor Almou Hassane, those responsible travelled on \"about 100 motorcycles,\" AFP news agency reports.\n\nThey split into two groups and carried out the attacks simultaneously.\n\nFormer minister Issoufou Issaka told AFP that jihadists launched the assaults after villagers killed two of their group members, though this hasn't been officially confirmed.\n\nMayor Hassane said 75 other villagers were left wounded in the aftermath, and some have been evacuated for treatment in Ouallam and the capital, Niamey.\n\nPrime Minister Rafini visited both of the villages on Sunday.\n\n\"This situation is simply horrible... but investigations will be conducted so that this crime does not go unpunished,\" he told reporters.\n\nNiger's Tillabéri region lies within the so-called tri-border area between Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, which has been plagued by jihadist attacks for many years.\n\nNiger's Prime Minister Brigi Rafini visited the two villages on Sunday\n\nLast month, seven Nigerien soldiers were killed in an ambush in the region.\n\nAreas of Niger are also facing repeated attacks by jihadists from neighbouring Nigeria, where the government is fighting an insurgency by Boko Haram.\n\nAs part of efforts to quell the violence, France has been leading a coalition of West African and European allies against Islamist militants in the Sahel.\n\nCoalition forces have become targets, and last week five French soldiers were killed in two separate incidents in Mali.\n\nThe latest attacks in Tillabéri also come amid national elections in Niger, as President Mahamadou Issoufou steps down after two five-year terms.\n\nElection officials announced provisional results on Saturday, showing a lead for Mohamed Bazoum - a former minister and a member of Niger's ruling party.\n\nA second round of votes is expected to be held on 21 February, once ballots have been validated by the country's constitutional court.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRegional restrictions in England are \"probably about to get tougher\" to curb rising Covid infections, the prime minister has warned.\n\nBoris Johnson told the BBC stronger measures may be required in parts of the country in the coming weeks.\n\nHe said this included the possibility of keeping schools closed, although this is not \"something we want to do\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for new England-wide restrictions within 24 hours.\n\nSir Keir said coronavirus was \"clearly out of control\" and it was \"inevitable more schools are going to have to close\".\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the sixth day in a row, with 54,990 announced on Sunday.\n\nAn additional 454 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result have also been reported, meaning the total by this measure is now above 75,000.\n\nSpeaking on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Johnson said he stuck by his previous prediction that the situation would be better by the spring, and he hoped \"tens of millions\" would be vaccinated in the next three months.\n\nBut he added: \"It may be that we need to do things in the next few weeks that will be tougher in many parts of the country. I'm fully, fully reconciled to that.\"\n\n\"And I bet the people of this country are reconciled to that because, until the vaccine really comes on stream in a massive way, we're fighting this virus with the same set of tools.\"\n\nThe PM added that ministers had taken \"every reasonable step that we reasonably could\" to prepare for winter, but \"could not have reasonably predicted\" the new, more transmissible variant of the virus that has emerged over the autumn.\n\nSpeaking after Mr Johnson's interview, Sir Keir said introducing new nationwide restrictions in England \"has to be the first step to controlling the virus\".\n\n\"There's no good the prime minister hinting that further restrictions are coming into place in a week or two or three,\" he told reporters on Sunday. \"That delay has been the source of so many problems.\"\n\n\"Let's not have the prime minister saying 'I'm going to do it, but not yet',\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson defended plans for primary schools to reopen in most of England on Monday, amid opposition from teaching unions and some local councils.\n\nIt came after Amanda Spielman, the head of Ofsted, England's schools watchdog, said closures should be kept to an \"absolute minimum\".\n\nThe rapidly rising infection rates mean it should come as no surprise that tougher measures are being considered.\n\nInfection levels are nearly four times higher now than they were at the start of December - and that in turn has put more pressure on hospitals.\n\nThere are signs the restrictions have started slowing the rises in London, the East of England and the South East.\n\nBut that on its own is not enough. Ministers want to get cases down.\n\nSo what extra can be done? After all most of England is effectively in lockdown already with tier four in place. Those places not in tier four could, of course, follow.\n\nBut some public health experts are warning more needs to be done.\n\nThere is a determination to get primary school children back - they have among the lowest rates of infection if you look at symptomatic cases.\n\nBut infection rates are higher among secondary school age children. The government has bought itself time by delaying their return.\n\nA further 20 million people in England were added to tier four - \"stay at home\" - the toughest set of rules, on 31 December in a bid to stem a surge in Covid cases.\n\nIt means 78% of the population of England is now in tier four, under which non-essential shops are closed and people can only leave their homes for a certain number of reasons.\n\nThe Scottish government will meet on Monday to consider \"further action\" to limit the spread of the disease, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is currently under its own level four restrictions - with only some islands under less stringent tier three measures.\n\nWales entered a nationwide lockdown on 20 December, with First Minister Mark Drakeford saying on Sunday it was \"difficult to see\" how the rules could be strengthened further.\n\nHe said Welsh ministers would consider whether restrictions could be \"tweaked at the margins\" at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown that began on Boxing Day. Stricter measures, including a \"stay-at-home curfew\", ended on Saturday.\n\nIn another development, an academic has said there is a \"big question mark\" over whether a vaccine developed at Oxford University will be as effective against a new variant of the virus that has emerged in South Africa.\n\nProf Sir John Bell, Regius professor of medicine at the university, said the team there were currently investigating this question \"right now\".\n\nHe added it was \"unlikely\" the variant would \"turn off the effect of vaccines entirely,\" and in any case it would be possible to tweak the vaccine in around 4-6 weeks.\n\n\"Everybody should stay calm - it's going to be fine,\" he told Times Radio.\n\n\"But we're now in a game of cat and mouse - because these are not the only two variants we're going to see.\"", "Former Bond actress and Charlie's Angel Tanya Roberts has died in hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 65.\n\nRoberts appeared with Sir Roger Moore in his final Bond film, 1985's A View To A Kill, and had a recurring role in That '70s Show.\n\nShe also starred in the final series of Charlie's Angels on TV in 1980.\n\nHer death was prematurely announced on Monday, only for doctors to say she was still alive. However, her death was then confirmed on Tuesday.\n\nRoberts had collapsed while walking her dogs on 24 December and was admitted to Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre.\n\nHer partner Lance O'Brien mistakenly thought she had died on Sunday after visiting her in hospital. After getting a call from doctors to say she was deteriorating quickly, he went to her bedside, her eyes closed and she \"faded\", TMZ reported.\n\nDevastated, he walked out of the room and then the hospital without speaking to medical staff before informing Roberts' agent that he had \"just said goodbye to Tanya\".\n\nBut while being interviewed for US TV show Inside Edition on Monday, Mr O'Brien got a call from the hospital to say she was alive.\n\nThe moment was captured on film, as he picked up his phone and said: \"Now you're telling me she's alive? Thank the Lord.\" However, she died on Monday night.\n\nShe appeared in A View To A Kill alongside Sir Roger Moore and singer Grace Jones\n\nBorn Victoria Leigh Blum in 1955, Roberts grew up in New York before moving to Hollywood in 1977.\n\nHer big break came when she replaced Shelly Hack in Charlie's Angels, joining Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd as third 'Angel' Julie.\n\nAfter the show's cancellation, she appeared in such fantasy adventure films as The Beastmaster and Hearts and Armour.\n\nShe also played comic book heroine Sheena in a 1984 film that saw her nominated for a Golden Raspberry award for worst actress.\n\nRoberts received another Razzie nomination for her role as geologist Stacey Sutton in 1985 Bond film A View to a Kill.\n\nRoberts in the title role in Sheena: Queen of the Jungle\n\nShe admitted being \"a little cautious\" about taking the role, but said it would have been \"ridiculous\" to have turned it down.\n\nRoberts' subsequent films included Night Eyes and Inner Sanctum, erotic thrillers that did little to advance her career.\n\nShe went on to play Midge Pinciotti in more than 80 episodes of That '70s Show between 1998 and 2004.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Derby County said several staff members and first-team players tested positive for the virus\n\nChampionship side Derby County has said \"several first-team staff and players\" have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nIn a statement, the club said it had closed its Moor Farm training ground and was speaking to the EFL and the Football Association about forthcoming fixtures.\n\nThe club said it would not reveal the names of those who had tested positive, due to medical confidentiality.\n\nIt added they would be isolating in line with government guidelines.\n\nThe outbreak at Derby comes after Sheffield Wednesday closed their Middlewood Road training ground following a Covid-19 outbreak at the club.\n\nThe Rams were beaten 1-0 by Wednesday in their most recent match on New Year's Day at Hillsborough.\n\nDerby, who are third from bottom in the Championship, are due to travel to Chorley on Saturday for a third round FA Cup tie.\n\nFormer England striker Wayne Rooney took over as interim manager at Derby after the club sacked former head coach Phillip Cocu in November\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland all-rounder Moeen Ali has tested positive for Covid-19 upon the squad's arrival in Sri Lanka.\n\nThe 33-year-old, who tested negative before departure, will now isolate for 10 days in accordance with the Sri Lanka government's quarantine protocol.\n\nFellow all-rounder Chris Woakes has been deemed as a possible close contact, and will observe a period of self-isolation and further testing.\n\nEngland's two-Test tour of Sri Lanka starts in Galle on 14 January.\n\nEngland had lateral flow tests and a PCR test at Hambantota airport upon arrival, with Moeen's PCR test returning the positive.\n\nThe rest of the touring parting will be retested on Tuesday morning, before being allowed to train for the first time on Wednesday.\n\nMoeen is the first England player to test positive for the virus, with a full summer of games against West Indies, Pakistan, Australia and Ireland being completed without any cases.\n\nEngland's last overseas tour, in South Africa, was cut short in December after positive cases in the Cape Town hotel where England were staying. England returned two positive tests - that were later verified as false positives.\n\nLast week England captain Joe Root said he did not expect the tour to be postponed if there were one or two isolated cases of the virus.\n\nSince England's tour of South Africa was called off, Pakistan's tour of New Zealand and Sri Lanka's of South Africa have both continued despite positive cases.\n\nEngland flew on a chartered flight from London to Hambantota on Saturday evening.\n\nAll of the players, and touring party, tested negative before their departure and were sprayed with disinfectant upon their arrival in Sri Lanka.\n\nThe series was scheduled to take place last year but England flew home after the tour was called off on 13 March as the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic took hold.\n\nSri Lanka has seen 44,774 coronavirus infections and 213 deaths during the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nGiven the circumstances of their abandoned trip to South Africa, this is clearly alarming for England, however it's important to make the distinction between the two tours. In South Africa, they felt their bubble was breached, whereas this is an issue internal to the tourists.\n\nMoeen will be moved to Galle, the location of the two Tests, for his period of isolation, but given that is not due to end until the day before the first match, he must be considered a huge doubt.\n\nEngland have planned for this sort of issue, travelling with seven reserves in addition to the squad of 16. Three of those reserves - Mason Crane, Amar Virdi and Matt Parkinson - are spinners, but have only Crane's one Test cap between them.\n\nAt the moment, England have not discussed promoting a player to the main squad but should they feel the need to supplement frontline spinners Dom Bess and Jack Leach in their Test XI, then an inexperienced name is set for a big opportunity.", "Zara Holland appeared on the second series of Love Island\n\nLove Island star Zara Holland is to be prosecuted for allegedly breaking Covid rules on holiday in Barbados.\n\nIsland police say the former Miss Great Britain is expected to appear in court on Wednesday, accused of \"breaching quarantine\".\n\nStation Sergeant Michael Blackman told Newsbeat she was \"intercepted\" at the airport and later presented herself at a police station.\n\nIt's not clear whether she will appear in court in person or by video link.\n\nAn apology from the 25-year-old for what she described as \"a massive mix-up and misunderstanding\" was published by the Barbados Today website.\n\nShe told the publication: \"I have been a guest of this lovely island in excess of 20 years and would never do anything to jeopardise an entire nation that I have nothing but love and respect for and which has treated me as a family.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEveryone in England must stay at home except for permitted reasons during a new coronavirus lockdown expected to last until mid-February, the PM says.\n\nAll schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning from Tuesday.\n\nBoris Johnson warned the coming weeks would be the \"hardest yet\" amid surging cases and patient numbers.\n\nHe said those in the top four priority groups would be offered a first vaccine dose by the middle of next month.\n\nAll care home residents and their carers, everyone aged 70 and over, all frontline health and social care workers, and the clinically extremely vulnerable will be offered one dose of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nSchools in Northern Ireland will have an \"extended period of remote learning\", the Stormont Executive said.\n\nSpeaking from Downing Street, Mr Johnson told the public to follow the new lockdown rules immediately, before they become law in the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nAll the new measures in England will then last until at least the middle of February, he said, as a new more infectious variant of the virus spreads across the UK.\n\nThe PM added that he believed the country was entering \"the last phase of the struggle\".\n\nHospitals were under \"more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic\", he said.\n\nAnd he reiterated the slogan used earlier in the pandemic, urging people to immediately \"stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives\".\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nA further 58,784 cases and an additional 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported, though deaths in Scotland were not recorded.\n\nAs of 08:00 GMT, there were 26,626 Covid-19 patients in hospital in England, according to the latest figures.\n\nThis is a week-on-week increase of 30%, and a new record high.\n\nThose who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be contacted by letter and should now shield once more, Mr Johnson said.\n\nSupport and childcare bubbles will continue under the new measures - and people can meet one person from another household for outdoor exercise.\n\nCommunal worship and life events like funerals and weddings can continue, subject to limits on attendance.\n\nWhile Mr Johnson said end-of-year exams would not take place as normal in the summer, he said alternative arrangements would be announced separately.\n\nThe government has published a 22-page document outlining the new rules in detail.\n\nThe House of Commons has been recalled to allow MPs to vote on the new restrictions on Wednesday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his MPs would \"support the package of measures\", saying \"we've all got to pull together now to make this work\".\n\nOnce again it is the threat to the NHS that has forced the hand of ministers.\n\nIn England there has been a 50% rise in the number of patients in hospital with Covid since Christmas day.\n\nTo put that into context, it equates to 18 hospitals being filled.\n\nCurrently around three out of 10 beds are occupied by patients with the disease.\n\nIn some hospitals it is more than six in 10.\n\nBut what is worrying ministers and NHS leaders is that the number is just going to increase.\n\nIn the spring it took nearly three weeks after lockdown for hospital cases to peak.\n\nThe last six days have seen in excess of 50,000 new infections confirmed each day across the UK - a number of these infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nIt is why the UK's chief medical officers were warning there was a \"material risk\" of some hospitals being overwhelmed if something did not change.\n\nMr Johnson spoke after UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nLevel five means the NHS may soon be unable to handle a further sustained rise in cases, the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, said hospitals were at a \"critical point\" and that \"immediate and decisive action\" was needed.\n\nAnnouncing tougher measures in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year.\"\n\nFor pupils who returned for their first day of the new term at primary school on Monday, it's turned out to be an extremely short-lived visit.\n\nBoris Johnson's announcement will see primary, secondary and further education colleges closed for at least the next six weeks, except for vulnerable and key workers' children.\n\nIt's a much bigger shift in policy than had been anticipated, even a few days ago.\n\nEven the return date will depend on the progress in tackling the virus.\n\n\"I hope we can steadily move out of lockdown, reopening schools after the February half term,\" said the prime minister.\n\nKeeping schools open was the government's most definite of red lines, a few weeks ago they were threatening councils that wanted to close them - but it's now been overtaken by the spiking lines on the Covid infection charts.\n\nEven after the chaos of last year's replacement grades, GCSEs and A-levels are being cancelled again - with a replacement system still to be decided. Vocational exams are to continue.\n\nFor parents dreading home schooling, there are plans for it to be better supported this time - with more computer devices available and suggestions that Ofsted inspectors will check what schools are offering.\n\nBut there's no escaping that this will feel like another sudden and chaotic change of direction for schools and parents.\n\nMr Johnson's pledge on vaccinations comes after an 82-year-old retired maintenance manager became the first person in the UK to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab\n\nSome 13.9 million people are among the four priority groups who will receive a vaccine dose by about 15 February, vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? What questions do you have? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill met throughout Monday\n\nThere will be an extended period of remote learning for schools in Northern Ireland, the executive has said.\n\nMinisters met on Monday night as other parts of the UK tightened their coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe Stormont executive also plans to give its stay at home guidance legal force, with new restrictions on travel.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said details would be formalised on Tuesday.\n\nThe health and education ministers will bring separate papers on the issues to the executive at the meeting, she added.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Education Minister Peter Weir had previously announced a staggered return to school for pupils during the month of January.\n\nThe first transfer test, used by many grammar schools to select pupils, is due to take place on Saturday but there have been calls from some teaching unions and political parties for the test to be cancelled this year, in light of the uncertainty with the pandemic.\n\nIn England, all schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning until the middle of February, and end-of-year exams will not take place this summer as normal.\n\nRecommendations on exams in Northern Ireland are also expected to be brought forward by the executive on Tuesday.\n\nIt is understood ministers will update the assembly on Wednesday about their decisions.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said the new restrictions were unfortunate, but necessary.\n\nShe said she believed the stay-at-home message will be in place \"for the rest of January, probably into February\".\n\n\"We will of course review it, as we're legally bound to do every couple of weeks.\"\n\nShe added that ministers would \"much prefer\" for face-to-face education to continue, but said they had to \"take into account the very serious situation that we find ourselves in tonight.\"\n\nBoth organisations which organise transfer tests will be making announcements on Tuesday, she said.\n\n\"We'll wait to hear what they have to say. They do of course have to abide by public health advice, but they are private organisations and they will make their own announcements.\"\n\nThe Irish government is considering a proposal to close schools for the rest of January.\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health reported that a further 1,801 people had tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours.\n\nThere have also been 12 more Covid-19 related deaths.\n\nThese latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,366, while 79,873 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic started.\n\nMore than 12,000 cases have been reported in the past seven days, more than double the week before.\n\nThe seven-day rate per 100,000 people is now 660 positive cases, compared to 200 per 100,000 two weeks ago.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Monday, an additional 6,110 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were announced, with six further deaths linked to the virus.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has already announced a fresh lockdown there from midnight, with schools closed until February.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme, Dr Michael McBride said Scotland's measures were \"prudent and sensible\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine rollout has begun in Northern Ireland.\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the this week, with some of the first doses delivered at a GP surgery on the Falls Road in West Belfast on Monday afternoon.\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca\n\nThe SDLP has called for the assembly to be recalled on Tuesday to discuss the rolling out of the vaccine.\n\nIt can be recalled if at least 30 MLAs sign a petition.\n\nOn Monday, Justice Minister Naomi Long welcomed the opening of Northern Ireland's first Nightingale venue, which will be used for courts and tribunals business.\n\nThe facility was approved by a meeting of the executive on 17 December, and will sit in the International Convention Centre in Belfast (ICC).\n\nActivity at the centre will be phased in, in line with Covid-19 regulations.\n\nIn other coronavirus-related developments on Monday:", "Gerry Marsden was awarded an MBE in 2003 for services to Liverpudlian Charities.\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden, whose version of You'll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for his hometown club of Liverpool, has died at the age of 78.\n\nHis family said he died on Sunday after a short illness not linked to Covid-19.\n\nMarsden's band was one of the biggest success stories of the Merseybeat era, and in 1963 became the first to have their first three songs top the chart.\n\nThe band's other best known hit, Ferry Cross The Mersey, came in 1964.\n\nIt was written by Marsden himself as a tribute to his city, and reached number eight.\n\nMarsden was made an MBE in 2003 for services to charity after supporting victims of the Hillsborough disaster.\n\nAt the time, he said he was \"over the moon\" to have received the honour, following his support for numerous charities across Merseyside and beyond.\n\nGerry Marsden in 2009 on the Mersey ferry, which he made famous with his song Ferry Cross The Mersey, as he received the Freedom of the City in Liverpool\n\nMarsden's daughter, Yvette Marbeck, said he went into hospital on Boxing Day after tests showed he had a serious blood infection that had travelled to his heart.\n\nMs Marbeck told the PA news agency: \"It was a very short illness and too quick to comprehend really.\"\n\nHe died in hospital, Ms Marbeck said, adding: \"He was our dad, our hero, warm, funny and what you see is what you got.\"\n\nLiverpool FC posted on social media that Marsden's words would \"live on forever with us\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers worked the same Liverpool club circuit as The Beatles in the 1960s and were signed by the Fab Four's manager Brian Epstein.\n\nEpstein gave Marsden's group the song How Do You Do It, which had been turned down by The Beatles and Adam Faith, for their debut single.\n\nSir Paul McCartney described Gerry and the Pacemakers as The Beatles's \"biggest rivals\" on the Merseyside scene.\n\n\"I'll always remember you with a smile,\" Sir Paul said in his tribute to Marsden.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Paul McCartney This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd the other surviving Beatle, Sir Ringo Starr, sent \"peace and love\" to Marsden's family in a tribute on Twitter.\n\nWhile Marsden was a songwriter as well as a singer, his most enduring hit was actually a cover of a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical number from 1945, which he had to convince his bandmates to record as their third single.\n\nIn many interviews over the years, he explained how fate played a part in his band ever recording the song. He was watching a Laurel and Hardy movie at Liverpool's Odeon cinema in the early 1960s and, only because it was raining, he decided to stay for the second part of a double feature.\n\nThat turned out to be the film Carousel - which featured that song on its soundtrack - and Marsden was so moved by the lyrics that he became determined that it should become part of his band's repertoire.\n\nIn a 2013 interview, Marsden told the Liverpool FC website how You'll Never Walk Alone was adopted by the club's fans as soon as it topped the chart in 1963: \"I remember being at Anfield and before every kick off they used to play the top 10 from number 10 to number one, and so You'll Never Walk Alone was played before the match. I was at the game and the fans started singing it.\n\n\"When it went out of the top 10 they took the song off the playlist and then for the next match the Kop were shouting 'Where's our song?' So they had to put it back on.\n\n\"Now, every time I go to the game I still get goose pimples when the song comes on and I sing my head off.\"\n\nSir Kenny Dalglish, who managed Liverpool at the time of the Hillsborough tragedy, tweeted that he was \"saddened\" by the news of Marsden's death, and that You'll Never Walk Alone was an \"integral part of Liverpool Football Club, and never more so than now\".\n\nLiverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram posted a tribute on Twitter, saying he was \"devastated\" by the news.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Steve Rotheram This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGerry was an entertainer. He loved being an entertainer; he loved people seeing him in the street and asking him for his autograph and the like.\n\nHe had a very distinctive voice, and that is terribly important. You knew instantly it was him on those records. He was best on those ballads.\n\nI think he really did them very well indeed. You'll Never Walk Alone was a big show song that had been around for years and years, and lots of people had done it.\n\nJust before Gerry brought his version out, Johnny Mathis brought his out. If that version had been played on the Kop, I don't think the Kop would have taken to it because you couldn't sing along with Johnny Mathis - he had too big a range and too perfect a voice.\n\nBut Gerry sounded like everyman and it was absolutely perfect for the Kop. I think it's the greatest football anthem of the lot.\n\nAs well as being a Liverpool anthem, You'll Never Walk Alone has also been adopted by fans at both Celtic in Scotland and Borussia Dortmund in Germany.\n\nMarsden's career began at legendary live music venue, The Cavern Club, where The Pacemakers played nearly 200 times.\n\nThe club said on Twitter that Marsden was \"not only a legend, but also a very good friend of The Cavern\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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End of twitter post 4 by The Cavern Club\n\nGerry and The Pacemakers achieved nine hit singles and two hit albums between 1963 and 1965, before splitting up.\n\nMarsden pursued a solo career before the band reformed in 1974 for a world tour.\n\nIn 1985, Marsden was back in the pop spotlight when he was invited to be one of the vocalists of a charity version of You'll Never Walk Alone, which was released to raise funds for victims of a fire at a Bradford City match.\n\nIn doing so, Marsden set another chart record by becoming the first person to sing on two different chart-topping versions of the same song.\n\nSo when, after the Hillsborough tragedy in 1989, the other Pacemakers classic of Ferry Cross The Mersey was chosen to raise funds for its victims and a group of famous Liverpudlian singers was gathered, Marsden was again included and was back at number one once more for a cause he held dear for the rest of his life.\n\nMarsden was awarded the Freedom of Liverpool in April 2009, an occasion he marked by boarding a ferry across the Mersey and getting out his guitar to sing his famous hit which described the scene.", "US casino giant MGM Resorts has made an $11bn (£8.1bn) offer for British gaming company Entain, which owns Ladbrokes.\n\nThe move is the latest attempt by a casino operator to move into the online gambling business.\n\nIn addition to its chain of High Street betting shops, UK-based Entain also owns a number of online sports betting and gambling sites.\n\nEntain confirmed the offer, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, but said the price was too low.\n\nIt had recently rebuffed an earlier $10bn (£7.3bn) all-cash approach from MGM, the newspaper said.\n\nIn a statement, Entain said the latest bid approach \"significantly undervalues the company and its prospects\".\n\nMGM Resorts, which runs the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas, now has until the beginning of next month to decide whether to make a formal bid or to walk away.\n\nFTSE 100-listed Entain. which renamed itself from GVC Holdings last month, describes itself as \"one of the world's largest sports betting and gaming groups operating in the online and retail sector\".\n\nAlong with Ladbrokes, it also owns brands such as Bwin, Partypoker, Coral, Eurobet, Gala and Foxy Bingo.\n\nAfter news of the latest offer for the firm, investors started betting on Entain, pushing its share price up by more than 25% to £14.30 a share - above MGM's offer of roughly £13.83 a share - a sign that market watchers are expecting a higher bid.\n\nIf the two firms do reach an agreement, it would follow another deal in September when MGM rival Caesars Entertainment agreed to buy UK-based William Hill for $3.7bn (£2.9bn).\n\n\"Following Caesar's offer for William Hill last year, a bid by MGM for Ladbroke's owner Entain isn't exactly a surprise,\" said Nicholas Hyett an analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"The two are working together to take advantage of the recent legalisation of sports betting in the US, a market worth many billions of dollars a year.\"\n\nPredictions about the stockmarket have a habit of making the person trying to guess the future look foolish. No such problem for Laura Foll, a fund manager at the investment firm Janus Henderson. On the Today programme on Monday, she forecast more takeover offers for household names in Britain, noting that the UK markets remained unloved by investors and so - perhaps - undervalued.\n\nAn hour after the prediction a big offer duly landed, with Entain, the London-listed company that owns Ladbrokes and other gambling brands, saying it had received a takeover proposal from MGM Resorts, an American rival.\n\nThe US company is offering to pay shareholders in Entain not in cash, but in new MGM shares - an obvious move given the sky-high rating of US shares compared to those listed in London.\n\nIt looks a carbon copy of last year's deal where Caesars, best known for its Las Vegas properties, bought another venerable name in British bookmaking, William Hill. Get ready for more acquisitive foreign companies looking for deals in bargain basement London.\n\nThe new bid for Entain comes with financial backing from MGM's largest shareholder, InterActiveCorp (IAC), which took a 12% stake in MGM Resorts last August.\n\nAt the time, IAC's chief executive Barry Diller said it planned to work with MGM to expand its online gambling portfolio.\n\nThe attempted acquisition comes as the casino industry faces headwinds from the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe economy of Asian casino hub Macau shrank 49% in the first quarter of this year, while unemployment in Las Vegas reached 30% earlier in the year and remains well above the US average.\n\nMGM Resorts, which is the operator of the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas, laid off 18,000 furloughed employees in the US in August.\n\nMany online gambling companies, by contrast, saw a boost during Covid-19 restrictions, prompting many casino owners to pivot their businesses towards online.", "Experts have raised concerns over India's emergency approval of a locally-produced coronavirus vaccine before the completion of trials.\n\nOn Sunday, Delhi approved the vaccine - known as Covaxin - as well as the global AstraZeneca Oxford jab, which is also being manufactured in India.\n\nThe head of Bharat Biotech, which makes Covaxin, defended the approval process, but health experts warn it was rushed.\n\nHealth watchdog All India Drug Action Network said it was \"shocked\".\n\nIt said that there were \"intense concerns arising from the absence of the efficacy data\" as well a lack of transparency that would \"raise more questions than answers and likely will not reinforce faith in our scientific decision making bodies\".\n\nThe statement came after India's Drugs Controller General, VG Somani, insisted Covaxin was \"safe and provides a robust immune response\".\n\nHe added the vaccines had been approved for restricted use in \"public interest as an abundant precaution, in clinical trial mode, to have more options for vaccinations, especially in case of infection by mutant strains\".\n\n\"The vaccines are 100% safe,\" he said, adding that side effects such as \"mild fever, pain and allergy are common for every vaccine\".\n\nThe All India Drug Action Network, however, said it was \"baffled to understand the scientific logic\" to approve \"an incompletely studied vaccine\".\n\nOne of India's most eminent medical experts, Dr Gagandeep Kang, told the Times of India newspaper that she had \"not seen anything like this before\". She added that \"there is absolutely no efficacy data that has been presented or published\".\n\nEven social media users were quick to point out that approving the vaccine before trials were complete was a matter of concern irrespective of how safe or effective the vaccine eventually turned out to be.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Joy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Krishna Ella, chairman of Bharat Biotech, met reporters on Monday and said the approval of Covaxin had not been rushed. He cited previous examples where emergency authorisation approvals had been given based only on immunogenicity data.\n\n\"Under Indian laws we can get emergency approval for the vaccine based on fulfilling five parameters after Phase 2 trails. That is what has happened with our vaccine. So it is not a premature approval,\" he said.\n\n\"We will complete the Phase 3 trials soon and provide the efficacy data for the vaccine by February.\"\n\nThe company currently has 20 million doses available and plans to produce about 700 million doses this year, Dr Ella said.\n\n\"We have four facilities coming up and we are planning [to make] around 200 million doses in Hyderabad, 500 million doses in other cities.\"\n\nMany scientists and opposition politicians have raised questions over what they say is the hasty authorisation of Covaxin.\n\nBharat Biotech has developed the vaccine with the state-run Indian Council of Medical Research - and the effort has been touted as an example of India's might in vaccine development and production.\n\nRegulators say the vaccine is safe and effective. The firm says phase 1 and phase 2 trials have shown good results.\n\nBut scientists say that the government's decision not to release data on the vaccine's efficacy for peer review has raised concerns.\n\nMr Modi has welcomed the approval, saying Covaxin is a shining example of his ambitious Atmnirbhar (self-reliance) India campaign.\n\nBut experts worry that questions over the approval process don't bode well for the campaign. And there could be deeper issues. Many believe that the government needs to be more transparent about the authorisation process because the success of the Covid-19 vaccine programme depends on public trust.\n\nThe emergency authorisation also sparked a fierce debate on Indian Twitter on Sunday night between ministers and opposition leaders.\n\nIndia's health minister Dr Harsh Vardhan called out opposition leaders for failing to \"applaud\" the country's \"prowess\" in locally producing a vaccine. India makes about 60% of vaccines globally.\n\nMembers of the main opposition Congress party, Shashi Tharoor and Jairam Ramesh, and former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh state, Akhilesh Yadav, were among those who raised concerns about the manner in which Covaxin was approved.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Shashi Tharoor This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Dr Harsh Vardhan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe approval comes as India gears up to vaccinate its population of more than 1.3 billon people. Amid fears that richer countries are buying up much of the vaccine supply, India too appears to be stockpiling vaccines.\n\nIn an interview with the Associated Press, Adar Poonawalla, whose Serum Institute of India (SII) is manufacturing the AstraZeneca Oxford vaccine, said the jab was given emergency authorisation on the condition that it would not be exported outside India.\n\nMr Poonawalla said his company, the world's largest vaccine maker, was also not allowed to sell the shot in the private market.\n\nThis has raised concerns in India's neighbouring countries, including Nepal and Bangladesh, which were primarily depending on the SII to start vaccinating their populations.\n\nBangladesh had already ordered 30 million doses of the vaccine in the first phase, Reuters reported, but now the fate of the order is unclear. The country's health secretary told local media in December that it expected the first batch of the jab by February.\n\nIndia plans to vaccinate some 300 million people on a priority list by August.\n\nIt has recorded the second-highest number of infections in the world, with more than 10.3 million confirmed cases to date. Nearly 150,000 people have died.\n\nBoth vaccines approved on Sunday can be transported and stored at normal refrigeration temperatures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Co-op, Morrisons and their payments processing provider ACI say they are investigating an IT glitch that created problems for card payments in stores.\n\nLong queues were seen outside some of the Co-op's convenience stores from Sunday amid the snow, with some shoppers asked to use cash.\n\nCo-op and Morrisons said customers were no longer experiencing problems but they, and ACI, were studying the cause.\n\nOne MP said the problem exposed the risks of letting cash use \"wither\".\n\nACI, which provides real-time payments processing for the retailers, said: \"We are working closely with the IT teams at our partners to resolve the problem as quickly as possible. We apologise to shoppers for any inconvenience caused.\"\n\nThe issue comes as contactless payments have taken off in the UK during the pandemic, with fewer consumers using cash to pay for groceries.\n\nCustomers complained about the issue on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jen Bartram This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Co-op spokesman told the BBC: \"All card transactions are being processed as usual and our payment process partner is investigating after we experienced an intermittent issue.\n\n\"We would like to apologise to customers for any inconvenience caused during that time.\"\n\nThe BBC witnessed the card processing issue affecting some of The Co-op's stores meant that self-service checkouts had to be closed, requiring customers to queue to be served at tills manned by staff.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by David of Nottingham This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 2 by David of Nottingham\n\nAt some stores, customers queuing outside were warned on Monday evening that transactions had to be \"cash-only\" due to the ongoing issue.\n\nSome customers said they had to use the convenience store's cash machine to withdraw money to pay for purchases.\n\nHowever in other stores, the problem was intermittent, impacting some payment card brands, but not others.\n\nShadow economic secretary to the Treasury Pat McFadden said: \"This shows the dangers of letting the cash network just wither away as use declines.\n\n\"The government promised legislation to secure nationwide access to cash a year ago. It hasn't been brought forward.\"", "The case rate in Bridgend peaked just before Christmas, but now we are seeing deaths in hospitals\n\nThe total number of deaths involving Covid-19 in Wales has reached its highest weekly total of the pandemic.\n\nThere were 467 deaths in the week ending 15 January, which is 13 more than the week before.\n\nThis was nearly 40% of all registered deaths, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nBoth Betsi Cadwaladr and Cwm Taf Morgannwg health boards saw their highest weekly numbers, more than experienced during the first wave.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr had 74 deaths while Cwm Taf Morgannwg had 116.\n\nUnlike during the peak in the first wave in 2020, Wales is also now seeing higher numbers of deaths in north Wales and west Wales.\n\nIn north-east Wales, where there have been the highest case rates of Covid-19 in recent weeks, there were 30 deaths of Flintshire residents, including 25 in hospital. In Wrexham, there were 27 deaths - with 21 in hospital.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board saw 49 hospital deaths in Bridgend - the highest weekly number in Wales. There were also 33 patients who died in Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT) and six in Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nAll counties recorded at least three deaths involving Covid-19 and the total number of deaths in Wales, up to and registered by 15 January, was 5,884.\n\nWhen deaths registered over the following few days are counted, there is now a total of 6,074.\n\nRCT, with 752 deaths, has the largest number in Wales, followed by Cardiff with 637, up to the latest week.\n\nWhen looking at crude mortality rates, the highest number of deaths - when taking into account the size of populations in England and Wales - are Welsh areas: RCT, followed by Merthyr Tydfil and Blaenau Gwent.\n\nSo-called excess deaths, which compare all registered deaths with previous years, continue to be above the five-year average.\n\nLooking at the number of deaths we would normally expect to see at this point in the year is seen as a useful measure of how the pandemic is progressing.\n\nIn Wales, the number of deaths from all causes fell from 1,198 in the previous week - the highest recorded during the pandemic - to 1,170. But this was still 314 (36.7%) higher than the five-year average for that week.\n\nThis means deaths have been more than the peak in the first wave of the pandemic - 1,169 deaths in the week ending 17 April 2020 - for two weeks in a row.\n\nThe highest proportion of excess deaths was 84.1% in London.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Schools and colleges in Wales moved to online learning before Christmas\n\nKeeping schools shut during the Covid pandemic is \"almost like systematic neglect\" to disadvantaged pupils, a head teacher has said.\n\nCardiff head Armando Di-Finizio said there was a \"fair degree of trauma\" among pupils because of the lockdowns.\n\nOne expert said children from disadvantaged backgrounds were falling furthest behind academically.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it ensured vulnerable children could continue to attend school.\n\nBefore the pandemic the proportion of pupils receiving free school meals who achieved five or more GCSEs was 32% lower than the figure for other pupils in Wales.\n\nAt Eastern High School, where 47% of children receive free school meals, Mr Di-Finizio said the challenges of lockdown were greater for pupils who may not have support or structure at home for learning.\n\nArmando Di-Finizio, head teacher of Eastern High School, says the the attainment gap among pupils is \"widening\"\n\nMr Di-Finizio told Wales Live he did not think the balance was right \"between those who are genuinely vulnerable\" with the virus and young people who are vulnerable in terms of their welfare and wellbeing and their academic progress.\n\n\"I think there would have been other ways to handle this because we are seeing students struggling because of it and the attainment gap is widening for this generation,\" he said.\n\n\"It's almost like systematic neglect of young people that is going on day after day, week after week, month after month.\n\n\"We have to somehow pull this back because I do wonder one day, how the children will look back and judge us in terms of our responses.\"\n\nAnother concern since the pandemic began, he said, was the fact the number of child protection cases at his school has doubled.\n\n\"I don't want to sound alarmist, but I do believe it will take a number of years for us to unpick the traumas that young people go through because we don't know yet just what this lasting impact will be,\" he added.\n\nProfessor Chris Taylor says home learning reduces the ability to provide a \"level playing field\" for education\n\nWelsh Chief Inspector of Schools Meilyr Rowlands, has previously said there was evidence of widening inequality in performance as a result of the pandemic.\n\nSocial Sciences Prof Chris Taylor, from Cardiff University, said this gap was continuing to widen.\n\n\"Closing schools exposes and accentuates the deep disadvantage that many families have across Wales in the different circumstances that they're in,\" Prof Taylor said.\n\nHome learning reduces the ability of schools \"to provide that level playing field\" for educational opportunities.\n\n\"Instead, we're relying on what families and households can produce and provide to support that learning,\" he said.\n\nProf Taylor added some children would \"feel like they've left school at the age of 14 or 15, instead of 18\" in terms of their learning, and the focus for them should be preparing for the next step in their education rather than exams that are not going to happen this summer.\n\nHe said some pupils who may have been planning to leave school at 16 should remain in education until they are 18 to \"remedy some of the missed opportunities\", and that summer school and activities should be put on to help address isolation.\n\nAlmost half of all pupils receive free school meals at Eastern High School in Cardiff\n\nSiân Gwenllian MS, Plaid Cymru's education spokeswoman, has called on the Welsh Government to publish a plan on how pupils will be helped to catch up with \"lost education\".\n\n\"Those children in more deprived areas have been doubly disadvantaged - coronavirus has been more prevalent in these areas, meaning they will have lost more school prior to the lockdown, and these children are less likely to have the means to access online learning,\" she said.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said it had provided \"more than 130,000 [electronic] devices\" since the start of the pandemic for pupils' home learning.\n\n\"We've also recruited more than 1,000 teaching and support staff to provide additional support for learners who may have missed out on teaching time due to the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nThe government has ensured vulnerable children, as well as children of critical workers, could continue to attend school throughout the pandemic, he added.", "A US bankruptcy judge has agreed a $17m (£12.4m) payout to women who accused disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct.\n\nWeinstein, 68, was convicted last year and jailed for 23 years for rape and sexual assault.\n\nThe payout for his victims will come from the liquidation of the Weinstein Co, which filed for bankruptcy in 2018.\n\nThe judge overruled an objection from some accusers looking to pursue appeals outside of bankruptcy court.\n\nJudge Mary Walrath said without the settlement, the plaintiffs would get \"minimal, if any, recovery.\"\n\nThe Weinstein Co was set up as an independent film studio with the disgraced Hollywood mogul one of its co-founders.\n\nThe company collapsed in late 2017, following widespread claims of sexual misconduct against Weinstein, who was convicted of sexually assaulting a former production assistant and raping an actress.\n\nThe US judge said that 83% of sexual misconduct claimants in the bankruptcy \"have expressed very loudly that they want closure through acceptance of this plan, that they do not seek to have to go through any further litigation in order to receive some recovery, some possible recompense... although it's clear that money will never give them that\".\n\nThe $17m fund will be divided among more than 50 claimants, with the most serious allegations resulting in payouts of $500,000 or more.\n\nThe settlement was put to a vote of Weinstein's accusers, with 39 voting in favour and eight opposed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThey will have the option to forgo most of their payout under the plan if they want to continue pursuing their claims.\n\nInsurers contributed $35m under the liquidation plan, which also provides $9.7m to the former officers and directors of the Weinstein Co, allowing them to pay a portion of their legal bills over the last several years.\n\nThe directors and officers, who include Weinstein's brother, Bob, also received releases that absolve them of any potential liability for enabling Weinstein's conduct.\n\nThe Weinstein Co sold its assets to Lantern Entertainment, which later became Spyglass Media Group, for $289m.", "A year ago, the Chinese government locked down the city of Wuhan. For weeks beforehand officials had maintained that the outbreak was under control - just a few dozen cases linked to a live animal market. But in fact the virus had been spreading throughout the city and around China.\n\nThis is the story of five critical days early in the outbreak.\n\nBy 30 December, several people had been admitted to hospitals in the central city of Wuhan, having fallen ill with high fever and pneumonia. The first known case was a man in his 70s who had fallen ill on 1 December. Many of those were connected to a sprawling live animal market, Huanan Seafood Market, and doctors had begun to suspect this wasn't regular pneumonia.\n\nSamples from infected lungs had been sent to genetic sequencing companies to identify the cause of the disease, and preliminary results had indicated a novel coronavirus similar to Sars. The local health authorities and the country's Center for Disease Control (CDC) had already been notified, but nothing had been said to the public.\n\nAlthough no-one knew it at the time, between 2,300 and 4,000 people were by now likely infected, according to a recent model by MOBS Lab at Northeastern University in Boston. The outbreak was also thought to be doubling in size every few days. Epidemiologists say that at this early part of an outbreak, each day and even each hour is critical.\n\nWuhan’s Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was sealed off on 1 January 2020\n\nAt around 16:00 on 30 December, the head of the Emergency Department at Wuhan Central Hospital was handed the results of a test carried out by sequencing lab Capital Bio Medicals in Beijing.\n\nShe went into a cold sweat as she read the report, according to an interview given later to Chinese state media.\n\nAt the top were the alarming words: \"SARS CORONAVIRUS\". She circled them in bright red, and passed it on to colleagues over the Chinese messaging site WeChat.\n\nWithin an hour and a half, the grainy image with its large red circle reached a doctor in the hospital's ophthalmology department, Li Wenliang. He shared it with his hundreds-strong university class group, adding the warning, \"Don't circulate the message outside this group. Get your family and loved ones to take precautions.\"\n\nWhen Sars spread through southern China in late 2002 and 2003, Beijing covered up the outbreak, insisting that everything was under control. This allowed the virus to spread around the world. Beijing's response invoked international criticism and - worryingly for a regime deeply concerned about stability - anger and protests within China. Between 2002 and 2004, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) went on to infect more than 8,000 people and kill almost 800 worldwide.\n\nRobert Maguire of the WHO and a Chinese doctor visit a Sars patient in Guangzhou, China – April 2003\n\nOver the coming hours, screen shots of Li's message spread widely online. Across China, millions of people began talking about Sars online.\n\nIt would turn out that the sequencers made a mistake - this was not Sars, but a new coronavirus very similar to it. But this was a critical moment. News of a possible outbreak had escaped.\n\nThe Wuhan Health Commission was already aware that there was something going on in the city's hospitals. That day, officials from the National Health Commission in Beijing arrived, and lung samples were sent to at least five state labs in Wuhan and Beijing to sequence the virus in parallel.\n\nNow, as messages suggesting the possible return of Sars began flying over Chinese social media, the Wuhan Health Commission sent two orders out to hospitals. It instructed them to report all cases direct to the Health Commission, and told them not to make anything public without authorisation.\n\nWithin 12 minutes, these orders were leaked online.\n\nIt might have taken a couple more days for the online chatter to make the leap from Chinese-speaking social media to the wider world if it wasn't for the efforts of veteran epidemiologist Marjorie Pollack.\n\nThe deputy editor of ProMed-mail, an organisation which sends out alerts on disease outbreaks worldwide, received an email from a contact in Taiwan, asking if she knew anything about the chatter online.\n\nDr Marjorie Pollack is an epidemiologist based in New York\n\nBack in February 2003, ProMed had been the first to break the news of Sars. Now, Pollack had deja vu. \"My reaction was: 'We're in trouble,'\" she told the BBC.\n\nThree hours later, she had finished writing an emergency post, requesting more information on the new outbreak. It was sent out to ProMed's approximately 80,000 subscribers at one minute to midnight.\n\nAs word began to spread, Professor George F Gao, director general of China's Center for Disease Control [CDC], was receiving offers of help from contacts around the world.\n\nChina revamped its infectious disease infrastructure after Sars - and in 2019, Gao had promised that China's vast online surveillance system would be able to prevent another outbreak like it.\n\nBut two scientists who contacted Gao say the CDC head did not seem alarmed.\n\n\"I sent a really long text to George Gao, offering to send a team out and do anything to support them,\" Dr Peter Daszak, the president of New York-based infectious diseases research group EcoHealth Alliance, told the BBC. But he says that all he received in reply was a short message wishing him Happy New Year.\n\nDirector of the Chinese Center for Disease Control, George F Gao – 22 January 2020\n\nEpidemiologist Ian Lipkin of Columbia University in New York was also trying to reach Gao. Just as he was having dinner to ring in the New Year, Gao returned his call. The details Lipkin reveals about their conversation offer new insights into what leading Chinese officials were prepared to say at this critical point.\n\n\"He had identified the virus. It was a new coronavirus. And it was not highly transmissible. This didn't really resonate with me because I'd heard that many, many people had been infected,\" Lipkin told the BBC. \"I don't think he was duplicitous, I think he was just wrong.\"\n\nLipkin says he thinks Gao should have released the sequences they had already obtained. My view is that you get it out. This is too important to hesitate.\"\n\nGao, who refused the BBC's requests for an interview, has told state media that the sequences were released as soon as possible, and that he never said publicly that there was no human-to-human transmission.\n\nThat day, the Wuhan Health Commission issued a press release stating that 27 cases of viral pneumonia had been identified, but that there was no clear evidence of human to human transmission.\n\nIt would be a further 12 days before China shared the genetic sequences with the international community.\n\nThe Chinese government refused multiple interview requests by the BBC. Instead, it gave us detailed statements on China's response, which state that in the fight against Covid-19 China \"has always acted with openness, transparency and responsibility, and … in a timely manner.\"\n\nBBC This World's 54 Days: China and the pandemic can be seen on BBC Two at 21:00 GMT on Tuesday 26 January, or 23:30 on Monday 1 February (except BBC Two Northern Ireland). Or watch on BBC iPlayer.\n\nPart two - 54 Days: America and the Pandemic - will be on BBC Two on Tuesday 2 February at 21:00.\n\nInternational law stipulates that new infectious disease outbreaks of global concern be reported to the World Health Organization within 24 hours. But on 1 January the WHO still had not had official notification of the outbreak. The previous day, officials there had spotted the ProMed post and reports online, so they contacted China's National Health Commission.\n\n\"It was reportable,\" says Professor Lawrence Gostin, Director of the WHO Collaborating Center on national and global health law at Georgetown University in Washington DC, and a member of the International Health Regulations roster of experts. \"The failure to report clearly was a violation of the International Health Regulations.\"\n\nDr Maria Van Kerkhove, a WHO epidemiologist who would become the agency's Covid-19 technical lead, joined the first of many emergency conference calls in the middle of the night on 1 January.\n\n\"We had the assumptions initially that it may be a new coronavirus. For us it wasn't a matter of if human to human transmission was happening, it was what is the extent of it and where is that happening.\"\n\nIt was two days before China responded to the WHO. But what they revealed was vague - that there were now 44 cases of viral pneumonia of unknown cause.\n\nChina says that it communicated regularly and fully with the WHO from 3 January. But recordings of internal WHO meetings obtained by the Associated Press (AP) news agency some of which were shared with PBS Frontline and the BBC, paint a different picture, revealing the frustration that senior WHO officials felt by the following week.\n\n\"'There's been no evidence of human to human transmission' is not good enough. We need to see the data,\" Mike Ryan WHO's health emergencies programme director is heard saying.\n\nThe WHO was legally required to state the information it had been provided by China. Although they suspected human to human transmission, the WHO were not able to confirm this for a further three weeks.\n\n\"Those concerns are not something they ever aired publicly. Instead, they basically deferred to China,\" says AP's Dake Kang. \"Ultimately, the impression that the rest of the world got was just what the Chinese authorities wanted. Which is that everything was under control. Which of course it wasn't.\"\n\nThe number of people infected by the virus was doubling in size every few days, and more and more people were turning up at Wuhan's hospitals.\n\nBut now - instead of allowing doctors to share their concerns publicly - state media began a campaign that effectively silenced them.\n\nOn 2 January, China Central Television ran a story about the doctors who spread the news about an outbreak four days earlier. The doctors, referred to only as \"rumour mongers\" and \"internet users\", were brought in for questioning by the Wuhan Public Security Bureau and 'dealt with' 'in accordance with the law'.\n\nOne of the doctors was Li Wenliang, the eye doctor whose warning had gone viral. He signed a confession. In February, the doctor died of Covid-19.\n\nThe Chinese government says that this is not evidence that it was trying to suppress news of the outbreak, and that doctors like Li were being urged not to spread unconfirmed information.\n\nBut the impact of this public dressing down was critical. For though it was becoming apparent to doctors that there was, in fact, human-to-human transmission, they were prevented from going public.\n\nA health worker from Li's hospital, Wuhan Central, told us that over the next few days \"there were so many people who had a fever. It was out of control. We started to panic. [But] The hospital told us that we were not allowed to speak to anyone.\"\n\nThe Chinese government told us that \"it takes a rigorous scientific process to determine if a new virus can be transmitted from person to person\".\n\nThe authorities would continue to maintain for a further 18 days that there was no human-to-human transmission.\n\nLabs across the country were racing to map the complete genetic sequence of the virus. Among them was a renowned virologist in Shanghai, Professor Zhang Yongzhen who began sequencing on 3 January.\n\nAfter having worked for two days straight, he obtained a complete sequence. His results revealed a virus that was similar to Sars, and therefore likely transmissible.\n\nOn 5 January, Zhang's office wrote to the National Health Commission advising taking precautionary measures in public places.\n\n\"On that very day, he was working to try and get information released as soon as possible, so the rest of the world could see what it was and so we could get diagnostics going\", says Zhang's research partner, Professor Edward Holmes an evolutionary virologist at the University of Sydney.\n\nBut Zhang could not make his findings public. On January 3, the National Health Commission had sent a secret memorandum to labs banning unauthorised scientists from working on the virus and disclosing the information to the public.\n\n\"What the notice effectively did,\" says AP's Dake Kang, \"is it silenced individual scientists and laboratories from revealing information about this virus and potentially allowing word of it to leak out to the outside world and alarm people.\"\n\nNone of the labs went public with the genetic sequence of the virus. China continued to maintain it was viral pneumonia with no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission.\n\nIt would be six days before it announced that the new virus was a coronavirus, and even then, it did not share any genetic sequences to allow other countries to develop tests and begin tracing the spread of the virus.\n\nThree days later, on 11 January, Zhang decided it was time to put his neck on the line. As he boarded a plane between Beijing and Shanghai, he authorised Holmes to release the sequence.\n\nThe decision came at a personal cost - his lab was closed the next day for \"rectification\" - but his action broke the deadlock. The next day state scientists released the sequences they had obtained. The international scientific community swung into action, and a toolkit for a diagnostic test was publicly available by 13 January.\n\nDespite the evidence from scientists and doctors, China would not confirm there was human-to-human transmission until 20 January.\n\nIllustration of spike proteins (red) of Covid-19 binding with receptors (blue) on a target human cell\n\nAt the beginning of any emerging disease outbreak, says health law expert Lawrence Gostin, it's always chaotic. \"It was always going to be very difficult to control this virus, from day one. But by the time we knew [the international community] it was transmissible human to human, I think the cat was already out the bag, it already spread.\n\n\"That was the shot we had, and we lost it.\"\n\nAs Wang Linfa, a bat virologist at Duke-Nus Medical School in Singapore, says: \"January 20th is the dividing line, before that the Chinese could have done much better. After that, the rest of the world should be really on high alert and do much better.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the government's actions, saying: \"We truly did everything we could.\"\n\n\"I'm deeply sorry for every life lost,\" he said.\n\nA total of 100,162 deaths have been recorded in the UK, the first European nation to pass the landmark.\n\nEarlier, figures from the ONS, which are based on death certificates, showed there had been nearly 104,000 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nThe government's daily figures rely on positive tests and are slightly lower.\n\nMr Johnson told Tuesday's Downing Street news conference that it was \"hard to compute the sorrow contained in this grim statistic\".\n\nHe gave his \"deepest condolences\" to those who had lost loved ones, including \"fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, and the many grandparents who've been taken\".\n\nThe UK is the fifth country to pass 100,000 deaths, coming after the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nA surge in cases in recent weeks - driven in part by a new, fast-spreading variant of the virus - has left the UK with one of the highest coronavirus death rates globally.\n\nA further 20,089 coronavirus cases were recorded on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days. The number of people in hospital remains high, as do the UK's daily death figures.\n\nMr Johnson said the coronavirus infection rate remained \"pretty forbiddingly high\" despite lockdown restrictions which have been in place in England since 5 January.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons - including for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Johnson said he would set out more detail in \"the next few days and weeks\" about \"when and how we want to get things open again\".\n\nIt's a terrible milestone - and one that represents unimaginable loss.\n\nMost of the deaths have come in two waves - the sharp, sudden surge in the spring followed by a slow and sustained rise throughout autumn and winter.\n\nMistakes have been made - the delay locking down back in March is one that is often cited even by the government's own advisers.\n\nThe UK, like much of Europe, was also woefully underprepared with limited testing and contact tracing systems.\n\nBut the ageing population, high rates of obesity, the fact the UK is a global hub and its inter-connectedness with Europe are also factors that meant we were tragically never going to escape lightly once the virus got a foothold.\n\nSpeaking alongside the prime minister, Prof Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, described it as a \"very sad day\".\n\nHe said the number of people dying \"will come down relatively slowly over the next two weeks - and will probably remain flat for a while now\".\n\nProf Whitty added the new coronavirus variant had changed the UK's situation \"very substantially\" with infection rates \"just about holding\" due to lockdown restrictions.\n\nBut he said the number of people testing positive for Covid-19 in the UK \"has been coming down\" and the number of people in hospital with Covid has \"flattened off\" - including in London, the South East and East of England.\n\nHowever, there were \"some areas\" where the hospital figures were \"still not convincingly reducing\", he said.\n\nNHS chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said there had been \"continuing improvements in hospital treatment for severely sick coronavirus patients\".\n\nHe said he expected more treatments within the next six to 18 months, adding: \"We can see a world in which coronavirus may be more treatable, but for now, it's a combination of reducing infections and getting vaccinations done.\"\n\nOne day there will be a public inquiry - maybe several - seeking to understand why so many died.\n\nLast summer, back when the government was subsidising people to eat out at restaurants, Boris Johnson said there would be an independent inquiry into the government's handling of Covid, but gave no details or dates.\n\nHe still hasn't, despite a recent call from bereaved families, trade unions and charities for lessons to be learnt now.\n\nThe gravest public health crisis for a century would have tested any government.\n\nBut as the pandemic has worsened, the criticisms and questions have mounted - about the timing of lockdowns, the rollout of test and trace and the failure to protect care homes last spring.\n\nThere is now pressure on Boris Johnson from some Tory MPs to ease restrictions as soon as the most vulnerable are vaccinated.\n\nBut this evening a sombre prime minister said the government would first do everything it could to minimise further loss of life.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said it was a \"sobering moment in the pandemic\", saying: \"Each death is a person who was someone's family member and friend.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"national tragedy\" to have reached 100,000 deaths.\n\nThe government had been \"behind the curve at every stage\" of the pandemic and had not learnt lessons over the summer, he added.\n\nThe epidemiologist whose modelling in part prompted the UK's first national lockdown said more action in the autumn of last year could have saved lives.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson told BBC Radio 4's PM programme: \"Had we acted both earlier and with greater stringency back in September when we first saw case numbers going up, and had a policy of keeping case numbers at a reasonably low levels, then I think a lot of the deaths we've seen, not all by any means, but a lot of the deaths we've seen in the last four or five months, could have been avoided.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the death toll was \"heartbreaking\" and warned there was a \"tough period ahead\".\n\n\"The vaccine offers the way out, but we cannot let up now,\" he added.\n\nMore than 6.8 million people in the UK have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, according to the latest figures.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. 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Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your tribute.", "The Mermaid of Black Conch, a dark love story about a fisherman and a mermaid torn from the sea, has won the Costa Book of the Year award.\n\nTrinidadian-born British writer Monique Roffey beat four other contenders with her sixth novel to scoop the £30,000 prize.\n\nJudges said the book was \"utterly original... and feels like a classic in the making\".\n\nA \"delighted\" Roffey said her win was a vote for Caribbean literature.\n\n\"A huge thank you to the judges for exposing my book to a wide readership. I'll be pinching myself for weeks to come,\" she added.\n\nBased on a Taino legend of a beautiful woman transformed into a mermaid, the story is set in the Caribbean village of St Constance.\n\nDavid, a fisherman, unexpectedly attracts the attention of Aycayia, a mermaid who is drawn to his singing. When she is captured from the sea during an annual fishing competition, he does all he can to save her, with dramatic consequences.\n\nProfessor Suzannah Lipscomb, chair of judges, said: \"The Mermaid of Black Conch is an extraordinary, beautifully written, captivating, visceral book - full of mythic energy and unforgettable characters, including some tremendously transgressive women.\"\n\nThe Costa Book Awards have a reputation for picking popular reads: books you would recommend to a friend. And I would definitely recommend The Mermaid of Black Conch.\n\nAt first, the novel might sound a bit odd. Set on a Caribbean island in the 1970s, it is a bittersweet love story between a beautiful young woman cursed to live as a mermaid and a fisherman.\n\nBased on a legend passed down by the indigenous people of the Caribbean, the Taino, there are touches of magic and snippets of poetry. The book was also shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize last year, which rewards fiction that breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel.\n\nBut while it is unusual it is also a joy to read, brimming with memorable characters and vivid descriptions.\n\nWe see the mermaid's \"hair flying like a nest of cables\" while we are told \"sea moss trailed from her shoulders like slithers of beard\" and \"barnacles speckled the swell of her hips.\"\n\nFor me, this was a hugely entertaining and thought-provoking novel and a worthy winner.\n\nRoffey, a senior lecturer in creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University, secured her publishing deal through Peepal Tree Press, an independent publisher supporting Caribbean writers.\n\nShe then crowd-funded her publicity campaign with the support of fellow authors.\n\nThe Mermaid of Black Conch is set in the Caribbean\n\nRoffey's entry was also named Costa's Novel of the Year earlier this month, alongside winners from four other categories:\n\nThe Mermaid of Black Conch is the thirteenth novel to take the overall prize. Days Without End by Sebastian Barry was the last novel to be named Costa Book of the Year in 2016.\n\nTuesday's virtual ceremony also saw London-based writer Tessa Sheridan receive the 2020 Costa Short Story Award.\n\nSheridan won the public vote and £3,500 for her story, The Person Who Serves, Serves Again.\n\nThe Costa Book Awards, formerly the Whitbread Book Awards, were established in 1971 to encourage, promote and celebrate the best contemporary British writing.\n\nIt is open to UK and Irish authors.\n\nSeamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Sebastian Barry are among the authors to have won the book of the year award more than once.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The number of people to have died with coronavirus in the UK has exceeded 100,000.\n\nThere have been nearly 104,000 deaths since the pandemic began, data from the UK's national statisticians shows.\n\nThe figures, which go up to 15 January, are based on death certificates. The government's daily figures, which rely on positive tests, are slightly lower.\n\nIt follows a surge of cases last month, leaving the UK with one of the highest coronavirus death rates globally.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics and its counterparts in Scotland and Northern Ireland registered 7,776 deaths with coronavirus on the death certificate in the most recent week.\n\nThat total is the third highest of the epidemic.\n\nLast April, there were two weeks with more than 9,000 coronavirus deaths registered across the UK - but there have been no other weeks with more than 7,000 deaths registered.\n\nAbout nine in 10 death certificates citing coronavirus registered Covid as the cause of death.\n\nMost of the deaths have been in older age groups - nearly three-quarters of those who have died with the virus were over 75. One in three deaths were care home residents.\n\nChris Hopson, of NHS Providers, which represents health service managers, described the milestone as a \"tragedy\".\n\n\"Behind each death will be a story of sorrow and grief,\" he said.\n\n\"We pay tribute, once again, to NHS and care staff who have done everything they can throughout the long months of this pandemic to avoid each one of these deaths and reduce patient harm.\n\n\"We won't know the true impact of Covid-19 for a long time to come because of its long-term effects.\n\n\"But, as well as the high death rate, it's particularly concerning that this virus has widened health inequalities and affected black, Asian and minority-ethnic communities disproportionately.\"\n\nSarah Scobie, of the Nuffield Trust think tank, said it was a \"harrowing figure\".\n\nShe added: \"While the vaccine rollout for the most vulnerable is continuing at impressive speed, it will be a while until the benefits feed through to the figures.\"\n\nWe were one of the worst hit countries, if not the worst, in the spring - certainly in Europe and the G7.\n\nTwo big drivers of that were the timing of the first lockdown and the terrible numbers of deaths in care homes.\n\nAs a result, the UK could always rank among the hardest hit nations overall.\n\nBut comparing experiences in second waves is harder.\n\nSome countries have very clearly done better than the UK.\n\nAustralia, for example, has seen very few coronavirus deaths overall, and deaths quite close to usual levels throughout 2020.\n\nBut the US, which had a milder first wave than the UK, has seen steady numbers of coronavirus deaths throughout summer and autumn.\n\nIts death toll has been catching up with that of the UK in the most recent data, covering up until Christmas.\n\nAnd some countries that missed the first wave entirely - such as Poland (shown above) or Germany - have seen significant spikes in deaths in recent months.\n\nWith deaths rising since then in many countries and vaccination programmes only getting up and running, there is still a long way to go before we will know who has had the toughest second wave.\n• None Lockdown needs to be stricter, scientists warn", "Baroness Floella Benjamin has spoken of her pride after receiving a first coronavirus vaccine dose.\n\nThe 71-year-old actress said she would wear a badge saying \"I've had the jab\" after being vaccinated.\n\nThe Lib Dem peer, who came to Britain in 1960 and was born in Trinidad, is known for appearing in the children's programme Play School and received a damehood last year.\n\nOver 6.8m people in the UK have now received a first vaccine dose.\n\nAs a member of the House of Lords, Baroness Benjamin has spoken regularly about the disproportionate effect of Covid-19 on black, Asian and minority ethnic communities as well as the knock-on impact of the pandemic.\n\nIn September, she told peers she knew two people who had taken their own lives \"because they could not cope with the uncertainty of the future\".\n\nShe is also a member of the Lords Covid-19 Committee.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Floella Benjamin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe government has set a target for all those in the top four priority groups - around 15 million - to be offered a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nTwo vaccines - developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are being used. A third, from Moderna, has been approved.\n\nAll have been shown to be safe and effective in trials with two doses needed to offer the best protection - now timed 12 weeks apart.\n\nIt comes as British Asian celebrities united to dispel myths about the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nComedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali appear in a video urging people to get a jab.\n\nA study from the Royal Society for Public Health found 57% of black, Asian and minority ethnic people said they would take the vaccine.\n\nThis figure compared with 79% of white people who would do so.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One protester said: \"This is the only way I can effect change\"\n\nPeople campaigning against the HS2 rail project have dug a tunnel near Euston station, in a bid to prevent their eviction from a protest camp.\n\nIn September, members of HS2 Rebellion set up a Tree Protection Camp in Euston Square Gardens in central London to protest against the £106bn scheme.\n\nThey claim the tunnel is 100ft (30m) long and has taken two months to dig.\n\nActivists say the tunnel - codenamed \"Kelvin\" - is their \"best defence\" against being evicted.\n\nOne protester, identified only as Blue, told the BBC: \"It is all very dangerous and life-threatening but it is all worth it. This is the only way I can effect change, I would sacrifice everything for the climate ecological emergency to not be happening.\"\n\nThe 18-year-old added: \"We want to be as safe as possible. It is not about us martyring ourselves, it is about delaying and stopping HS2.\"\n\nDemonstrators have previously built tree houses and scaled cranes near the HS2 Euston site\n\nA spokeswoman for HS2 said tunnel protests were \"costly to the taxpayer\".\n\nShe added: \"These are a danger to the safety of the protesters, HS2 staff, High Court enforcement officers and the general public, as well as putting unnecessary strain on the emergency services during the pandemic.\n\n\"Safety is our first priority when taking possession of land and removing illegal encampments.\"\n\nBritish Transport Police said it was aware of the tunnel but it was a matter for the Met Police, which said no complaint yet had been made.\n\nHS2 is set to link London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It is hoped the 20-year project will reduce rail passenger overcrowding and help to rebalance the UK's economy.\n\nThe campaign group alleges HS2 is the \"most expensive, wasteful and destructive project in UK history\" and that it is \"set to destroy or irreparably damage 108 ancient woodlands and 693 wildlife sites\".\n\nHowever, HS2 bosses have said seven million trees will be planted during phase one of the project and that much ancient woodland will \"remain intact\".\n\nSeasoned activist Daniel Cooper - better known as Swampy - has been at Euston supporting the campaigners\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told MPs in September that the first phase of the high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham would not open until 2028 at the earliest.\n\nThe second phase, to Manchester and Leeds, was due to open in 2032-33 but that has been pushed back to 2035-40.\n\nNetwork Rail, which owns the land, has been approached for a comment about the tunnel.\n\nHS2 protester Dr Larch Maxey said the tunnel was \"warm and quiet\"\n\nTunnelling as a form of environmental protest has a long history in the UK.\n\nIn the 1990s it was one of the ways that pushed environmental concerns into the headlines and changed perceptions.\n\nIn one of the environmental protesters' tunnelling guides, written by \"Disco Dave\", it says:\n\n\"In the world of NVDA (non-violent direct action) there are few defence tactics that can compare with the protest tunnel. Dangerous, laborious and time consuming, tunnelling is the ultimate and desperate tactic of desperate people in desperate times.\"\n\nThe first protest tunnel goes back to the M11 and 1993 but they only really developed during the Newbury Bypass protests in 1996.\n\nProtest tunnels against the A30 in Devon and Manchester Airport's second runway then followed.\n\nNot only did they make household names of environmental campaigners like \"Swampy\" but they arguably changed transport policy - road-building reduced massively.\n\nWe have seen tunnels more recently in 2017 in Coldharbour in Surrey in a protest against fracking so it's not a massive surprise we are seeing tunnels again.\n\nTunnelling in particular as a direct action slows down developers and it is expensive to dig out protesters safely.\n\nDisco Dave wrote: \"That ultimately is the purpose of tunnels and tree houses. To act as a deterrent warning the authorities that should they decide to evict, then it will hurt them where for them it hurts most - in the pocket.\"\n\nWhat will be interesting is if these tunnels have the same impact on HS2 as they did on the road-building programme of the late 1990s.\n\nWill it reframe HS2 so it will be seen in the same way as fracking or road building? Or can the argument still be made that it is a low-carbon form of travel even though it does cause some destruction of habitat?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Facebook News, the social network's dedicated section for news content, is launching in the UK.\n\nThe UK is the second market to get Facebook News, which launched in the United States last year.\n\nSeveral major news publishers, including Channel 4, Sky News, and The Guardian have signed deals with Facebook to provide content.\n\nIt comes as the tech industry's relationship with the media comes under increased scrutiny.\n\nAnd French publishers recently agreed a deal with Google on how a new EU copyright law about news excerpts should be applied.\n\nFacebook News is the social network's own attempt to address the long-running friction between it and news publishers, as advertising spend has increasingly moved to the large tech firms instead of individual news outlets.\n\nThe new feature is set to go live on Tuesday afternoon, Facebook said.\n\nThe new feature is a dedicated tab within the Facebook mobile app, accessible by tapping the three-line icon for more options.\n\nThe tab features a mix of major daily news stories and \"personalised\" news selected for each reader based on their interests, as decided by Facebook's algorithm.\n\nFacebook says it pays publishers \"for content that is not already on the platform\", and says the feature will also provide publishers with new advertising and subscription \"opportunities\".\n\nThe dedicated news feed will have personalisation controls, Facebook says\n\nThat may be partly based on data from the United States, which Facebook says shows more than 95% of traffic on Facebook News is from people who have not read those publications before.\n\nThe social network says the new product is a \"a multi-year investment that puts original journalism in front of new audiences\".\n\nAnd news organisations, for which new readers are often in short supply, are signing up.\n\nIn November, when it first announced the product was heading to the UK, major names such as The Economist, The Independent, and Cosmopolitan were already on board.\n\nAhead of Tuesday's launch, The Daily Mail, Financial Times and Telegraph were also announced, among others.\n\nBBC News has not signed a commercial deal with Facebook News, but may still appear on the tab through public posts it makes on the Facebook platform.\n\nFacebook also says that this new product is a direct result of discussions with the news industry, with which it has often been at loggerheads.\n\nThe tech giant is responsible for driving a lot of traffic around the internet, and a story which performs well on Facebook will often attract more readers than one which does not.\n\nBut Facebook has also repeatedly made changes to its algorithms over the years which have affected news organisations, sometimes with little notice. It has also encouraged organisations to use its features such as instant articles, or to make video content for Facebook.\n\nHowever, it envisions Facebook News as a better solution than earlier attempts, and one it plans to roll out to other countries - including France and Germany - in the near future.\n\n\"Our goal has always been to work out the best ways we can support the industry in building sustainable business models,\" Facebook said in its blog post about the UK launch.\n\n\"As we invest more in news, and pay publishers for more content in more countries, we will work with them to support the long-term viability of newsrooms.\"", "The fake email looks like it has come from NHS Test and Trace\n\nThe NHS has warned people to be vigilant about fake invitations to have the coronavirus vaccination, sent by scammers.\n\nThe scam email includes a link to \"register\" for the vaccine, but no registration for the real vaccination is required.\n\nThe fake site also asks for bank details either to verify identification or to make a payment.\n\nThe NHS says it would never ask for bank details, and the vaccine is free.\n\nCyber-security consultant Daniel Card told BBC News that traffic data indicates thousands of people had clicked the link to the fake site - although it is unclear how many then filled in the form.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NHS This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe urged people to remain vigilant: \"These things spring up, we take them down and then they spring up again.\"\n\nBoth the National Cyber Security Centre and Action Fraud have asked anyone who receives a scam email or text to report it.\n\n\"Vaccines are our way out of this pandemic,\" said health secretary Matt Hancock.\n\n\"It is vital that we do not let a small number of unscrupulous fraudsters undermine the huge team effort under way across the country to protect millions of people from this terrible disease.\"\n\nAt the start of January, Derbyshire police issued a warning about a text message scam which offered Covid vaccinations.\n\n\"If you receive a text or email that asks you to click on a link or for you to provide information, such as your name, credit card or bank details, it's a scam,\" the force said.\n\nLast year, tech firms warned that coronavirus was a popular hook for scammers. In April 2020 Google said it was blocking 18 million scam emails a day on the subject.", "Labour is calling for juries to be cut from 12 members to seven, to stem the \"gravest crisis\" in the justice system since World War Two.\n\nShadow justice secretary David Lammy said action was needed to clear the backlog of thousands of cases.\n\nHe argued that smaller juries and the use of more temporary courts would allow socially distanced trials.\n\nThe government has not ruled out such a move but insists measures it is taking to clear the backlog are working.\n\nLast week four criminal justice watchdogs warned that courts in England and Wales were straining under pressure from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nJury trials ground to a halt at the start of the first lockdown, when people were advised to stay at home except in limited circumstances.\n\nWhen they resumed, there were severe delays and numerous cancellations due to social-distancing requirements.\n\nRecent figures revealed that the number of unheard cases in crown courts had reached a record 54,000.\n\nThe backlog means some from last year may not go before a jury until 2022, and it could be years before the courts get back on track.\n\nLabour wants the temporary return of so-called \"wartime juries\" of seven rather than 12 members to speed up the process.\n\n\"Victims of rape, murder, domestic abuse, robbery and assault are facing delays of up to four years because of the government's failure to act,\" Mr Lammy said.\n\nHe also urged the government to speed up the rollout of temporary \"Nightingale courts\" to hear civil, family and tribunals work, as well as non-custodial crime cases.\n\nTen of these were announced in July 2020 to help deal with the backlog in court proceedings, and 20 are now in operation across England and Wales.\n\nLeading lawyers are sceptical about Labour's proposal to reach back into wartime history.\n\nThe Criminal Bar Association - representing barristers who prosecute and defend trials - says a panel of seven may allow more courtrooms to be used, but it wouldn't solve what it says is chronic underfunding - and potentially undermines one of the most important safeguards in our society.\n\nThe Law Society, for solicitors, wants to see evidence that smaller panels would ease backlogs without risking injustices.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice's internal modelling calculated last year that reduced juries would lead to a 10% increase in cases - but that was before courtrooms received new Covid-proof screens that have allowed more trials to run.\n\nScotland's courts are using cinemas to host juries - and while that is not being actively discussed in England, it's not been ruled out either.\n\nEven if juries were slimmed, courts would still need to tightly control the number of defendants who can use their cells and courtroom docks to meet Public Health England's guidelines.\n\nIn April last year, the head of judiciary in England and Wales, Lord Burnett, backed the idea of reducing the number of jurors if social distancing continued.\n\nIn June, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland told the BBC he was \"very attracted\" by the idea of smaller juries, as had happened in wartime, and judge-only trials in less serious cases.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice says it has now installed plastic screens in more than 450 courtrooms and jury deliberation rooms to reduce Covid risks.\n\nIt says the safety measures are designed for 12-person juries and that the impact of lowering the number of jurors would be negligible.\n\nHowever, a spokesman said nothing was being ruled out and ministers were continuing to consider every option available to ensure courts recover quickly.\n\n\"This approach is already delivering results, with magistrates' backlogs falling significantly and the number of cases being dealt with in the crown courts reaching pre-Covid levels last month,\" he added.\n\nThe spokesman also said: \"We know more must be done and are investing £110m into a range of measures to drive this recovery further, including opening more Nightingale courts.\"", "Trees must be able to cope with projected climate change\n\nScientists have proposed 10 golden rules for tree-planting, which they say must be a top priority for all nations this decade.\n\nTree planting is a brilliant solution to tackle climate change and protect biodiversity, but the wrong tree in the wrong place can do more harm than good, say experts at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.\n\nThe rules include protecting existing forests first and involving locals.\n\nForests are essential to life on Earth.\n\nThey provide a home to three-quarters of the world's plants and animals, soak up carbon dioxide, and provide food, fuels and medicines.\n\nBut they're fast disappearing; an area about the size of Denmark of pristine tropical forest is lost every year.\n\n\"Planting the right trees in the right place must be a top priority for all nations as we face a crucial decade for ensuring the future of our planet,\" said Dr Paul Smith, a researcher on the study and secretary general of conservation charity, Botanic Gardens Conservation International, in Kew.\n\nIt takes at least a century to restore damaged forests\n\nA raft of ambitious tree-planting projects are underway around the world to replace the forests being lost.\n\nBoris Johnson has said he is aiming to plant 30,000 hectares (300 sq km) of new forest a year across the UK by the end of this parliament.\n\nAn African-led movement to plant a 5,000-mile (8,048km) forest wall to fight the climate crisis is set to become the largest living structure on Earth, three times the size of the Great Barrier Reef.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A solution that's slowing desertification on the front lines of climate change\n\nHowever, planting trees is highly complex, with no universal easy solution.\n\n\"If you plant the wrong trees in the wrong place you could be doing more harm than good,\" said lead researcher Dr Kate Hardwick of RBG Kew.\n\nAll too often natural forests teeming with plants, animals and fungi are replaced by commercial plantations with row upon row of timber trees, which will be harvested after a few decades, she told BBC News.\n\n\"What we're trying to do is to encourage people, wherever possible, to try and recreate forests which are similar to the natural forests and which provide multiple benefits to people, the environment and to nature as well as capturing carbon.\"\n\nThe review of research, published in the journal Global Change Biology, found that in some cases, planned tree planting does not increase carbon capture and can have negative effects.\n\nKeeping forests in their original state is always preferable; undamaged old forests soak up carbon better and are more resilient to fire, storm and droughts. \"Whenever there's a choice, we stress that halting deforestation and protecting remaining forests must be a priority,\" said Prof Alexandre Antonelli, director of science at RGB Kew.\n\nPut local people at the heart of tree-planting projects\n\nStudies show that getting local communities on board is key to the success of tree-planting projects. It is often local people who have most to gain from looking after the forest in the future.\n\nReforestation should be about several goals, including guarding against climate change, improving conservation and providing economic and cultural benefits.\n\nSelect the right area for reforestation\n\nPlant trees in areas that were historically forested but have become degraded, rather than using other natural habitats such as grasslands or wetlands.\n\nUse natural forest regrowth wherever possible\n\nLetting trees grow back naturally can be cheaper and more efficient than planting trees.\n\nSelect the right tree species that can maximise biodiversity\n\nWhere tree planting is needed, picking the right trees is crucial. Scientists advise a mixture of tree species naturally found in the local area, including some rare species and trees of economic importance, but avoiding trees that might become invasive.\n\nMake sure the trees are resilient to adapt to a changing climate\n\nUse tree seeds that are suitable for the local climate and how that might change in the future.\n\nPlan how to source seeds or trees, working with local people.\n\nCombine scientific knowledge with local knowledge. Ideally, small-scale trials should take place before planting large numbers of trees.\n\nThe sustainability of tree re-planting rests on a source of income for all stakeholders, including the poorest.\n• None Will millions more trees really stop climate change?", "Clare Ferguson-Walker says she has struggled with home-schooling her two children\n\nAs kitchen tables are turned back into classrooms across Wales, parents admit they are struggling with the return to home-schooling.\n\nFor Clare Ferguson-Walker from Tavernspite, Pembrokeshire, the experience has been a \"nightmare\".\n\nShe said trying to educate her two children alongside work has resulted in her relying on universal credit.\n\nGetting to grips with home-schooling in the first lockdown was \"a shock to the system\".\n\n\"My heart goes out to teachers, I can't imagine what it was like for them putting together all these packages,\" she said.\n\n\"My son is 12 and loves gaming so he's quite tech-savvy. When I have managed to pin him down he's been 'go away, dinosaur mother, I know how to do it!'\n\n\"I'm not au fait with these subjects I haven't done for years. It's different to how I learned at school.\"\n\nAs a single parent, Clare said she had found it difficult to juggle home-schooling with her work.\n\n\"At first, in the summer, we were doing Joe Wicks exercises every day then some work. Then it fell into chaos. I tried really hard at the beginning to be organised.\n\n\"I'm an artist and sculptor - that work ended and my income has dried up so I'm on universal credit.\n\n\"It's incredibly tough financially. Life has revolved around looking after the kids,\" she said.\n\nBy the end of the year, she said the pressure had all become too much.\n\n\"The thought of going through that again in the winter months - without sunny days in the garden - the stress really got to me.\n\n\"I was finding myself going repeatedly from the kettle to the fridge and back again in this weird loop, thinking what do I do now?\n\n\"It was like being a caged animal, like one of those bears that starts to pace in a cage. The kids had gone feral by then.\n\n\"I think it's been horrendous for young people and families - we can't even rely on grandparents. Mental health struggles are at an all-time high,\" she said.\n\n\"The one positive is I've got to know my kids a hell of a lot more and there have been times that have been lovely.\n\n\"I think they've learned more sat around the kitchen table when we've been talking about what's going on, they've learned about rational thinking, the importance of science and not jumping to conclusions.\n\nJayne Palmer advises not sitting down at a desk\n\nJayne Palmer from Cardiff, who home-educated both her sons, said there was too much pressure on parents to replicate traditional classroom learning.\n\n\"This is not an ideal circumstance for home-education families either because they are not used to being locked indoors.\n\n\"I think there's far too much emphasis in continuing the set curriculum. Right now it's a complete waste of time. There's pressure to compete in a system parents weren't even involved in.\n\nIt is far more important to \"create and interest in learning,\" she said.\n\n\"There's been a tendency of families to rush to buy desks and chairs and pens. What we find is the best way forward is not to sit down and teach your children - watch documentaries with them, play online games with historical content, practise reading to them, do some cooking, Lego or gardening.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome travellers coming to England will have to quarantine in hotels amid concerns about new Covid variants, the government is expected to announce.\n\nBoris Johnson will discuss proposals with ministers later, but a decision may not be announced until Wednesday.\n\nMost foreign nationals from high-risk countries are already denied UK entry, so the new rules will mainly affect returning UK citizens and residents.\n\nQuarantine rules are set by each of the UK nations but tend to be similar.\n\nThe requirement to isolate in a hotel for 10 days will apply to arrivals from most of southern Africa and South America, as well as Portugal, because many flights from Brazil come via Lisbon, according to BBC Newsnight's political editor Nicholas Watt.\n\nHe said there had been \"no definitive decision yet\" on arrivals from other parts of the world and this was \"still a live issue\".\n\nWhitehall sources said those quarantining in hotels would have to pay for the costs of their own accommodation.\n\nThe prime minister will later chair a meeting of the Covid operations committee, attended by senior ministers, to discuss the options.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nAt the moment, almost all arrivals to the UK need to have tested negative for Covid-19 within the 72 hours before they set off to be allowed entry. Then they still have to quarantine for up to 10 days, although this can be done at home.\n\nIn England, this self-isolation period can be cut short with a second negative test after five days.\n\nQuarantine rules are set separately in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland but have only tended to differ slightly, and there has been a \"four nations\" approach to discussions around hotel quarantine, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said.\n\nBut deputy first minister John Swinney said his government would \"go at least as far\" as any Westminster policy, adding: \"If these UK restrictions are at a minimal level, we will look at other controls we can announce - including additional supervised quarantine measures - that can further protect us from importation of the virus.\"\n\nHotel quarantine is already in use in countries including New Zealand and Australia.\n\nJessica Gold (centre), her son William Copsey (left), and her mother, Rossana Gold, are trying to get home to the UK from South Africa\n\nJessica Gold, from London, has been trying to get home from South Africa with her mother, 77, and son, 13, since 1 January - but their flights have been cancelled three times.\n\nShe says the idea of having to quarantine in a hotel when she eventually manages to get home is \"absolutely absurd\".\n\n\"Now we are booked to return on 16 Feb, and there is no way we can or will stay in a hotel to quarantine when I have my own place and we can quarantine there, as we have done in the past,\" says Jessica, who flew out to her safari lodge in Greater Kruger National Park, on business, at the end of November.\n\nJessica, 42, wants the government to get tougher on enforcing travellers' home quarantines, rather than bringing in the hotel rule which she says is \"ridiculous and an extra unnecessary expense during these very tough times\".\n\nJessica adds that she's looking into other ways of getting home earlier, before any potential new rules kick in.\n\nShadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds told MPs on Tuesday that bringing in hotel quarantine plans for arrivals from a small number of countries would leave \"gaping holes\" in the UK's defences against any new, unknown variants of coronavirus coming from across the globe.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said all current travel measures were being kept under review and the government \"will not hesitate to take further action\" to combat variants, especially as they could effect the efficacy of Covid vaccines.\n\nTravel writer Simon Calder told BBC Breakfast it was \"going to be tricky\" to identify people arriving from the high-risk countries, as travellers could go to a third country before coming to the UK.\n\nHe said British citizens in Portugal, for example, could travel to Madrid in order to fly back to the UK.\n\nPassengers in Australian quarantine hotels have all meals delivered to their room\n\nIn Australia, travellers are allocated a hotel room on arrival and taken there by bus. Often, entire flights are accommodated in the same hotel.\n\nThe New South Wales government promises to make \"every attempt\" to find suitable accommodation for travellers and families. But availability of rooms means there are severe limits on the number of people who can arrive in the country on any given day.\n\nThe hotel quarantine lasts a minimum of 14 days up to 24 days, providing a person tests negative twice.\n\nThe passenger must cover the cost of quarantine - at about £2,800 for a family of two adults and two children.\n\nFees are waived for those who can prove they are unable to pay, and there are certain exemptions.\n\nBut not following the rules is a criminal offence, and in New South Wales carries fines of around £6,000 for individuals, six months in prison, or both - with an extra fine for each day the offence continues.\n\nHotel quarantine is among the measures credited with limiting cases of coronavirus in Australia - which has a population of around 25 million - to just 28,777 positive cases during the entire pandemic, a smaller number of cases than is currently being recorded in the UK every day.\n\nBut international arrivals to Australia have fallen dramatically since its hotel quarantine policy was introduced in March 2020.\n\nBetween July and October 2020, just 72,111 people arrived in Australia to live, work or visit - compared with 7.5 million people in the same period in 2019, according to Australian government figures.\n\nRob Paterson, chief executive of Best Western Hotels, said his hotels would be well-prepared for the expected new policy.\n\nSome already have Covid infection controls in place, he said, as they have been used to host \"step-down\" patients who complete their recovery in hotels to free up hospital beds.\n\nMr Paterson told BBC Breakfast quarantining customers would like to see reduced prices, a contact arrival process, CCTV and security to stop people leaving and meals delivered three times a day outside the door - along with clean linen and towels.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: “That idea of looking at hotels is certainly one thing we are actively now working on.”\n\nJoss Croft, chief executive of UKinbound, which represents the tourism sector, said he hoped hotel quarantine rules would cover as few countries as possible and told the BBC's Newsnight the industry had been \"decimated\".\n\nIn a joint statement, the Airport Operators Association and Airlines UK said the country already had \"some of the highest levels of restrictions in the world\" and tougher rules would be \"catastrophic\".", "President Joe Biden has said that the US might be able to boost its daily vaccination roll-out targets after criticising the Trump administration’s record.\n\nBiden, who has described the previous vaccine programme as a \"dismal failure\", has committed to getting 100 million vaccine doses done in his first 100 days and has since said: \"I think we may be able to get that to 1.5 million a day, rather than one million a day.\"\n\nIs he right about the vaccine roll-out under the Trump administration?\n\nAs of 20 January, when Biden became US president, about 16.5 million vaccines had been administered.\n\nThat is some way off the Trump administration's target of vaccinating 20 million people by the end of 2020. In fact, fewer than three million people had received a jab by 31 December.\n\nVaccinations have sped up since the start of the year.\n\nThe daily average for the week before Trump left office was less than 900,000, according to Our World in Data .\n\nThat figure has since risen above one million doses a day, and Biden has come under some scrutiny for not setting a more ambitious target.\n\nWhen you look at the countries doing the most vaccinations by population, the US is fourth after Israel, the UAE and the UK in terms of doses per 100 people.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage captures the extent of the damage the bridge over the River Clwyd\n\nFinancial help has been promised to those affected by serious flooding, the Welsh Government has announced.\n\nPeople have been forced to leave their homes and a major incident declared after Storm Christoph struck.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated during flooding thought to be related to mine works in Skewen, Neath, while 30 were evacuated in Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would work with councils to deliver £500-£1,000 payments to affected households.\n\nEnvironment minister, Lesley Griffiths, said people across Wales were facing the \"twin problems\" of floods and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nShe said: \"We will support people in these circumstances just as we did in the aftermath of storms Ciara and Dennis last year, by working with local authorities to make support payments of between £500 and £1,000 available for each household flooded.\"\n\nSevere flood warnings remain in place across Wales as river levels remain high.\n\nIn the Lower Dee Valley a severe flood warning remains in force, from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadow, and a major incident was declared in Bangor-on-Dee.\n\nWrexham council leader Mark Pritchard said teams worked to ensure the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, made on Wrexham Industrial Estate, was not lost in the floods.\n\nFirefighters in Skewen waded through water up to their thighs amidst reports of evacuated homes\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated in Skewen, including residents of a care home, after at least eight streets were left under water.\n\nEmergency services said there were no injuries and all those evacuated had been found accommodation, but people are asked to avoid the area.\n\nIn Denbighshire, a bridge linking Trefnant to Tremeirchion over the River Clwyd collapsed in the storm. The council said it would be investigating the cause of the flooding, which forced road closures and evacuations.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said the River Dee, which runs through Bangor-on-Dee, was at its highest recorded level since the water gauge became operational in 1996 - 16.45m (54ft).\n\nIt urged people across Wales to remain vigilant, with river levels not set to have peaked until late Thursday evening, adding they would remain high until Friday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Met Office said over the past two days Wales had the highest rainfall of the four UK nations.\n\nBetween 19 and 21 January, Aberllefenni in Gwynedd saw 188mm (7.5in) of rain, more than average rainfall for Wales for the whole of January, which is 156.89mm (63in).\n\nThat was followed by 180mm (7in) in Crai reservoir, Powys, 169.8mm (6.6in) in Treherbert, Rhondda Cynon Taf, and 166mm (6.5in) in both Maerdy, RCT, and Capel Curig, Conwy.\n\nLlechryd bridge in Ceredigion has been completely submerged by the River Teifi\n\nUp to 30 people were forced out of their homes in Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham\n\nNatural Resources Wales said the River Dee was at its highest level since the water gauge became operational\n\nThe flooding threatened the supply of the coronavirus Oxford vaccine, which is produced at Wrexham Industrial Estate.\n\nWrexham council leader Mr Pritchard said it had to work to \"make sure we didn't lose the vaccinations in the floods\".\n\n\"I've been up all night... it's a very difficult time for us,\" he added.\n\nNorth East Wales Search and Rescue helped people whose homes were flooded in New Broughton, Wrexham\n\nWockhardt UK, which manufactures the vaccine, said at about 16:00 GMT on Wednesday, excess water surrounded part of its buildings.\n\n\"The site is now secure and free from any further flood damage and operating as normal,\" it said.\n\nThe clean-up has begun in Ruthin\n\nA multi-agency statement described the situation in Bangor-on-Dee as a \"major incident\".\n\nIt said: \"As a severe weather warning indicates that there is a risk to life...\n\n\"The evacuation effort continues, with all routes in and out of the village currently closed to the public due to the flooding.\"\n\nEarlier, some residents in Ruthin were told to leave their homes - people have been told Covid rules allow them leave their homes in an emergency.\n\nMeanwhile, a man's body was recovered from the River Taff near Blackweir in Cardiff.\n\nDozens of ducks and chickens, and 12 huskies were rescued by the RSPCA from a flooded farm in Bangor, while they also took hay to two donkeys stranded by flood water in Mold.\n\nSome 12 huskies had to be rescued after their kennels flooded\n\nDave Brown said the flooding in his home in Broughton, Flintshire, was horrific and his mother-in-law was rescued by firefighters.\n\n\"You don't realise the damage water does and everything that floats - the sheer volume of water. I am 6ft tall and it almost took me out,\" he said.\n\nDave Brown's mother-in-law was rescued from their home in Broughton, Flintshire\n\nWrexham council said some of the people forced to leave their homes were with relatives, while it found others accommodation after having to initially seek refuge in a church hall.\n\nNine properties in Berse Road in New Broughton were also evacuated.\n\nThe situation in Ruthin, Denbighshire, overnight was \"horrendous\", town councillor Stephen Beach said.\n\n\"The whole of Ruthin was on edge,\" he said.\n\n\"Some people were accommodated at the leisure centre, and others were offered places to stay by local residents. The community was superb.\n\n\"It was the sheer volume of water that came down - there was no stopping it.\"\n\nA yellow weather warning for ice for Wales has been issued by the Met Office until 10:00 GMT on Friday, with concerns it could lead to travel disruption, slips and falls.\n\nNumerous flood warnings and alerts remain in place across Wales, including two severe flood warnings.\n\nThe agency said flood defences were being used and river levels at Holt, Wrexham, would remain high for some time.\"There is therefore a significant risk of localised flooding problems and due to that the severe flood warning will remain in place until the levels drop,\" Keith Iven of NRW said\n\nIn Monmouthshire roads were closed following flooding, and the council said while water levels at the River Usk were dropping, a \"second peak\" on the River Wye had been expected on Thursday night.\n\nThe council had warned people living in Riverside Park, Monmouth, may be impacted and council workers were prepared to offer support.\n\nRiver Tywi has burst its banks in Carmarthen, affecting nearby businesses\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had attended 98 flooding-related incidents\n\nIt said it deployed swift water rescue teams to rescue 13 people from vehicles in floodwater. It also winched vehicles from water and pumped water from properties.\n\nIn Cardiff, emergency services attended a crash involving a number of vehicles at about 07:40 on the A4232 between Culverhouse Cross and the M4.\n\nNo-one was seriously injured, but both carriageways were closed for just over an hour. The road has since reopened.\n\nIn Carmarthen, people were treated for the effects of fumes after using a generator to pump water from their homes.\n\nIn Knighton and Crickhowell in Powys, crews spent Wednesday night pumping out a number of properties.\n\nIn Borth, Ceredigion, floodwater hit the water treatment plant, an electrical substation and eight properties.\n\nOgwen Valley Mountain Rescue Team had to rescue a man from the roof of his car.\n\nIt said he had tried to drive through the river ford along the road from Llandygai to Bangor, in Gwynedd, but had become stuck in deep water and had climbed onto the roof. He was not injured.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Derek Brockway - weatherman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf council said it was aware of a minor landslip on the mountainside above Pentre.\n\nIt said an initial inspection determined there was no immediate threat to the area and a further detailed inspection would be carried out on Friday. It asked people to avoid the area.\n\nBangor-on-Dee has been badly hit by Storm Cristoph\n\nDozens of roads have been closed across Wales, and while Covid rules are in place stopping people from travelling apart from for essential reasons, people are being warned not to travel in affected areas due to widespread flooding.\n\nChris Lloyd from North Wales Mountain Rescue Association warned people to not visit flood-hit areas to view the damage.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales: \"People who are going out to look at the floods are not only putting themselves at risk, but putting additional people on the roads which professional emergency services don't want - we don't want any more incidents.\"\n\nDenbighshire council said Ysgol Bodfari in Denbigh and Ysgol Caer Drewyn, Corwen, which had been open for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers, have been closed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock says lifting restrictions can only happen when \"facts on the ground\" show it is safe\n\nIt is \"difficult to put a timeline\" on when England's lockdown could be lifted, Matt Hancock has said.\n\nThe health secretary said there were \"early signs\" the measures were working but it was \"not a moment to ease up\".\n\nHe said there were 37,000 people in hospital with coronavirus in the UK and \"more people on ventilators than at any time in this whole pandemic\".\n\n\"The pressure on the NHS remains huge and we've got to get that case rate down,\" he said.\n\nThe number of coronavirus cases in the UK has been falling, but the number of people in hospital remains high, as does the UK's daily death numbers.\n\nA further 592 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 22,195 cases have been recorded, according to Monday's government figures.\n\nThe are 4,076 people in hospital on ventilators.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAt Monday's Downing Street press briefing, Mr Hancock said: \"I understand the yearning people have to get out of this.\n\n\"The thing is that we have to look at the facts on the ground and we have to monitor those facts.\n\n\"And of course, everybody wants to have a timeline for that, but I think most people understand why it is difficult to put a timeline on it because it's a matter of monitoring the data.\"\n\nHe set out the factors the government would take into account when reaching decisions over lifting the restrictions, including: the death rate, the number of people in hospital, whether there were new coronavirus variants and the success of the vaccine rollout.\n\nAlmost four in five of the UK's over-80s have had the vaccine, Mr Hancock said, with nearly 6.6m people in total having had their first dose.\n\nThe falling numbers of infections being reported and the rising rate of vaccination are incredibly promising - even if the drop in infections reported on Monday may have been partly an artefact of fewer people coming forward for a test because of the snow.\n\nBut that does not offer any guarantees of a rapid lifting of lockdown.\n\nWhat is concerning ministers are the high numbers in hospital.\n\nThe number of new admissions seems to have plateaued - but at a very high rate.\n\nClose to 4,000 patients a day are being admitted to hospital.\n\nTo put that in context, that is four times the total number of all types of respiratory admissions the NHS would normally see in winter.\n\nIt means the numbers in hospital are at nearly twice the level they were at the peak in the spring during the first wave.\n\nWith better treatments available, patients are spending longer in hospital.\n\nSo come mid-February the pressures in hospital are likely to be very high, leaving ministers little wriggle-room to relax restrictions.\n\nThe big unknown, however, is what impact and how quickly vaccination will have an effect on admissions.\n\nThere is encouraging early news from Israel that hospitalisation really starts to drop three weeks after the first dose.\n\nIf that is repeated here, the picture could quickly change.\n\nBut until that happens the government - in the words of Health Secretary Matt Hancock - is urging the country to hold its nerve.\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street press conference, Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, warned: \"We are not out of this by a very long way.\"\n\nShe said current coronavirus rates were still causing concern, patience was needed about the vaccination programme and the NHS still faced its usual winter pressures.\n\nSusan Hopkins, from Public Health England, said the UK need to see the death rate \"fall much lower\" before any decision to ease measures.\n\nShe said teams were currently studying the impact on the UK's vaccine programme of the variant first identified in South Africa.\n\nBut she added the \"consensus view\" from four UK laboratories suggested that \"the current vaccine works against the variant that was first discovered in the UK\".", "A group of MPs is calling for hedgehog nesting sites to get the same protections as those for bats and badgers, in an effort to boost numbers.\n\nFormer Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has tabled an amendment to the Environment Bill, which he said would help \"Britain's favourite animal\".\n\nThe spiky mammals should be on developers' \"radar\" when they are planning a project, he added.\n\nA report in 2018 suggested UK hedgehog numbers had halved since 2000.\n\nRough estimates put the population at one million, compared with 30 million during the 1950s.\n\nMr Grayling's amendment would add hedgehogs the list of protected animals under the Wildlife and Countryside Act.\n\nThis would place a legal obligation on developers to search for the animals and take action to reduce the risk to them from building.\n\nChris Grayling said hedgehogs should feature on property developers' surveys\n\nIt is illegal to kill or capture hedgehogs using certain methods but Mr Grayling said: \"It seems wrong to me, for example, that whenever a developer has to carry out a wildlife survey before starting work on a project that the hedgehog is not on anyone's radar.\n\n\"It is Britain's favourite animal, its numbers are declining and it should be as well protected as any other popular but threatened British animal.\"\n\nFormer cabinet ministers Liam Fox, Andrew Mitchell and Dame Cheryl Gillan are among 13 fellow Conservative MPs supporting Mr Grayling's amendment.\n\nLabour's Hilary Benn and Debbie Abrahams have also signed it.\n\nThe Environment Bill - which seeks to write environmental principles into UK law for the first time - will be debated in the House of Commons on Tuesday.\n\nIt includes setting legally binding targets to improve air quality, water, biodiversity and waste reduction by 2037.\n\nBut some Conservative backbenchers say this is much too slow. They want the targets brought forward to 2030 at the latest.\n\nAn amendment from the Conservative MP, Chris Loder, calls for unmissable targets to reduce plastics waste.\n\nIt comes as a report from Greenpeace and the Environmental Investigation Agency claims that the UK's 10 largest supermarket chains put plastic equivalent to the weight of 90 Eiffel Towers on to the market in 2019.\n\nThe study found that while the number of single-use carrier bags fell by more than a third, more than one and a half billion plastic \"bags for life\" were issued by the top brands, and that 2.5 billion plastic water bottles were sold or given away.\n\nThe Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said the bill would help \"improve the environment for future generations\".\n\nIt added that ministers were \"ambitious\" to \"drive a world-leading programme of environmental reform\".\n\nFor Labour, shadow environment secretary Luke Pollard said the bill should be prioritised to complete its passage in this session of Parliament.\n\nHe added that the UK needed legislation that \"recognises the urgency of the crisis and doesn't go backwards\".", "Budweiser has said it will not advertise its beer during the Super Bowl this year, joining a growing number of big brands sitting out the annual American football championship.\n\nThe event remains one of the most-watched in the US each year, drawing more than 100 million viewers in 2020.\n\nThe advertisements are often as much a conversation-starter as the game itself, sometimes sparking controversy.\n\nFirms say the virus has made finding the right message especially difficult.\n\nOthers are grappling with financial hits caused by the pandemic, which has dampened spending on many items, while also casting more than 10 million Americans out of work, resurfacing racial and economic inequalities and sharpening political divisions.\n\nBudweiser's parent company, Anheuser-Busch, said it planned to reallocate the money it would have spent on a 30-second Budweiser spot during the game to support an Ad Council campaign promoting coronavirus vaccination.\n\nIt is the first time the flagship brand will not make a game-time appearance in 37 years.\n\n\"This commitment is an investment in a future where we can all get back together safely over a beer\", it said, adding that it would still promote some of its other brands, such as Bud Light, during the game.\n\nOn Monday, Budweiser released a full 90-second Super Bowl ad on YouTube entitled \"Bigger Picture\", which showed US citizens overcoming pandemic challenges together and aimed to raise awareness about Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nCoke, Pepsi and Hyundai are among the other major names also planning to forego airtime during the broadcast.\n\nCoca-Cola said it had made the \"difficult choice\" to \"ensure we are investing in the right resources during these unprecedented times\". The firm did not advertise during the 2019 game either.\n\nHyundai cited \"marketing priorities\" and the timing of upcoming vehicle launches.\n\nPepsi has also said it would not promote its flagship soda during the game. Instead, it is spending money on an advert airing to promote the Super Bowl halftime show it has sponsored for almost a decade.\n\nThe Super Bowl boasts some of the most expensive advertising slots all year\n\nGiven all the economic, political and health questions of 2020, companies may have felt it was prudent to pull back - especially several months ago, when they would have had to start planning for such a high-profile night, said Kimberly Whitler, professor at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business\n\n\"It's the biggest night of TV watching and so they have to plan it months in advance,\" she said. \"There was so much uncertainty that to go and invest in a Super Bowl ad might have actually felt or seemed frivolous at the time.\"\n\nThe decision goes \"beyond finances\", she added. \"It's also, 'How do we identify the right tone that will match the moment'.\"\n\nThis year's Super Bowl will see star quarterback Tom Brady's Tampa Bay Buccaneers face off against reigning champions the Kansas City Chiefs on 7 February.\n\nLast year, firms spent an average of $5.25m (£3.8m) for a 30-second spot during the championship, driving Super Bowl ad spending to a record $450m, according to Kantar consultancy.\n\nThe firm has said its research suggests Super Bowl ads are \"typically 20 times more effective\" in changing a brand's perception than a normal advert.\n\nAnheuser-Busch, an official sponsor of the National Football League, is typically one of the night's top spenders, so the absence of its flagship brand may create its own buzz, said Satya Menon, a Chicago-based managing partner of of ROI practice at Kantar.\n\nChipotle's very first Super Bowl commercial is entitled, \"Can a burrito change the world?\"\n\n\"Budweiser in particular is a very established brand ... so for them, it's all about generating love and goodwill and maybe this is another way,\" she says.\n\n\"They do have a lot of pre-game advertising out there. When people have the expectation that they wil be there and then they don't see the brand, they'll start thinking why are they not.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the sports showdown still seems to be finding plenty of firms ready to fill spots left by the stalwarts. Names of newcomers include Chipotle and Fiverr, a freelance platform that has seen business soar during the pandemic.\n\n\"It doesn't get any bigger than the Super Bowl from a branding and marketing perspective,\" said Fiverr's chief marketing officer Gali Arnon. \"We believe this is a major opportunity for us to introduce the world to Fiverr in a unique and creative way.\"\n\nMany of this year's advertisers are firms coming from the e-commerce sector, which have benefited from the pandemic, Ms Menon said.\n\nAnd though audience numbers for NFL games have slipped this year, for those firms making their game-night debuts, Ms Menon says she still expects ads to have a big impact - even if the pandemic puts a damper on the traditional Super Bowl parties and other festivities, which can make championship feel like an unofficial national holiday.\n\n\"There isn't very much going on in life, so it will always have that great reach,\" she says. \"Some of that excitement may not be there, but watching will definitely be there.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says teachers and pupils will be told “as much as we can, as soon as we can” about reopening schools\n\nThe government will tell teachers and parents when schools in England can reopen \"as soon as we can\", the prime minister has said.\n\nMPs have called on the government to set out a \"route map\" for reopening amid concerns for children's education.\n\nBoris Johnson said he understood why people wanted a timetable but he did not want to lift restrictions while the infection rate was \"still very high\".\n\nHe would not guarantee schools would reopen before April's Easter break.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"We've now got the R [reproduction rate] down below 1 across the whole of the country, that's a great achievement, we don't want to see a huge surge of infection just when we've got the vaccination programme going so well and people working so hard.\n\n\"I understand why people want to get a timetable from me today, what I can tell you is we'll tell you, tell parents, tell teachers as much as we can as soon as we can.\"\n\nHe said the government would be \"looking at the potential of relaxing some measures\" before mid-February, with Downing Street clarifying that this meant looking at the data to decide \"what we may or may not be able to ease from 15 February onwards\".\n\nA further 592 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 22,195 cases have been recorded, according to Monday's government figures.\n\nAt Monday's Downing Street press briefing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said almost four in five of the UK's over-80s have had the vaccine, with nearly 6.6m people in total having had their first dose.\n\nBut he said the NHS continues to be under \"intense pressure\", with Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, saying there are \"twice the number of people in hospital than we had in the first wave\" of the pandemic.\n\nRobert Halfon, chairman of the education select committee, told BBC Breakfast there was \"enormous uncertainty\" and called for the government to set out what the conditions needed to be for pupils to return to schools.\n\nThe Conservative MP for Harlow suggested the government could consider tighter restrictions in other parts of society and the economy, in order to enable schools to open.\n\nTory MPs were enraged by reports over the weekend that schools might not re-open fully until after the Easter holidays.\n\nMinisters say it's the progress of the pandemic that will determine their decision rather than a pre-agreed timetable.\n\nYet whenever the government speaks, parents hear dates. Whether it's that the situation will be reviewed at half-term. Or a pledge to give two weeks' notice when classes will come back.\n\nMPs are now pushing for more transparency from the government about how they'll assess the data, and for some ideas between school being mostly closed or totally open.\n\nThis issue is a perfect metaphor for the situation facing the entire country. Too much hope breeds disappointment, but living with uncertainty is just as hard. And you can come up with a plan but it might have to be junked if the virus has other ideas.\n\nChildren's Commissioner for England Anne Longfield joined the call for clarity and told the BBC: \"Children are more withdrawn, they are really suffering in terms of isolation, their confidence levels are falling, and for some there are serious issues.\"\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said the government wanted to \"see all children back at the very earliest moment\".\n\nSchools in England have been closed to most pupils since the national lockdown began on 5 January due to high levels of Covid transmission in the community.\n\nThere have been calls for teachers to be vaccinated sooner, although it is not clear if that would allow schools to reopen earlier.\n\nThe majority of pupils in England are learning from home with schools only open to the children of key workers, vulnerable children and those who cannot learn at home\n\nCovid death rates among educational professionals are not \"statistically significantly different\" to those in the general population, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) data, but secondary school teachers appeared to have an elevated risk compared particularly with people working in office-type jobs.\n\nAmong secondary school teachers Covid death rates were 39.2 deaths per 100,000 males, compared with 31.4 for all males aged 20 to 64, and 21.2 per 100,000 females, compared with 16.8, but the ONS said these were \"not statistically significantly different than those of the same age and sex in the wider population\".\n\nSchools will remain closed in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales until at least the February half-term - with the Welsh first minister saying it is \"unlikely\" all pupils will return after the break.\n\nGemma Cocker with her children Charlie and Lyla\n\nGemma Cocker from Brighton is one of the many parents struggling to balance childcare, home learning and work.\n\nShe says she's having to share her work laptop with her son, who has already missed learning time after the family moved home and did not have internet access. \"We didn't have any internet. The school said they had reached their limit so couldn't take him,\" she says.\n\nAnd because her children are young, she says: \"They're never just going to watch a classroom by themselves, you have to be with them the whole time.\"\n\nKitty Jones, 11, is in her last year of primary school and she says home learning is \"tricky\" because she is not used to using different remote platforms like Google Classroom and she wants to return \"as soon as possible\".\n\n\"I still think that I'm learning a bit, but I don't think I'm learning as much as I would be in person,\" she tells BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\nHolly Agbukor, 18, is studying for her A-levels, says it is \"quite stressful\" learning at home, as it is a \"different environment, so it is not as easy to be fully present in the lessons\".\n\nBut, she says, while is it \"difficult\" working at home, \"I don't think it is worth the cost of reintroducing the virus into society and making things worse overall\".\n\nHow has home-schooling been going for your family? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning. We'll have another update for you this evening.\n\nRules for people entering the UK could get tighter later - with the government expected to enforce hotel quarantine in England for some arrivals. Currently, people arriving in the UK must test negative before setting off, and then self-isolate for 10 days on arrival. This can be reduced to five days in England after a second negative test. But it's feared that not everyone follows the rules - so people could now be told to stay in hotels, where the isolation will be enforced. It's thought the rules will definitely apply to UK citizens and residents arriving from southern African, South America, and Portugal (foreign nationals are already banned from arriving from those \"high risk\" areas). The rules could also apply to other countries. And it's expected that people will have to pay their own way. Although each part of the UK sets its own travel rules, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said a \"four nations\" approach is being discussed. Here's a glimpse from last year of hotel quarantine in Australia.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK's unemployment rate rose to 5% in the three months to November, up from 4.9%, as the pandemic continued to hit the jobs market. In November, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said unemployment could peak at 2.6 million by the middle of this year - that's 7.5% of the working population.\n\nThe EU has been criticised for a slow vaccine rollout - which is partly down to delays from manufacturers Pfizer and AstraZeneca (although the latter's jab hasn't actually been approved in the EU yet). Now the EU says vaccine makers must provide \"early notification\" when they want to export vaccines outside the bloc. This could mean more doses stay inside the EU. The UK minister responsible for vaccine deployment, Nadhim Zahawi, has said he is confident Pfizer - which manufactures its vaccine in Belgium - will deliver for both the UK and the EU. This tweet is from the EU's health commissioner.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Stella Kyriakides This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRiot police in the Netherlands have again clashed with people defying a curfew, following a weekend of unrest. More than 150 were arrested. In Rotterdam, police fired warning shots and tear gas, after an emergency order failed to move demonstrators.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dutch police described the rioting as the worst unrest in four decades\n\nDespite Covid and the strains on the system, there is still kindness - and new life - in NHS hospitals. The BBC's Hugh Pym went to Kings Mill Hospital, part of Sherwood Forest Hospitals Trust, to meet the patients and staff.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: ‘Among all the doom and gloom there’s positives’\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page. This page analyses UK data - including the recent fall in daily cases.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The school's head teacher said it was unacceptable staff were being put at risk\n\nA school has threatened to withdraw places for pupils who have told teachers they are visiting people outside their households.\n\nYew Tree Community School in Oldham said several children had admitted visiting friends, neighbours and family contrary to Covid-19 lockdown rules.\n\nHead teacher Martine Buckley said she would take the action when \"parents were putting staff in danger\".\n\nThe Department for Education said \"all vulnerable\" pupils should go to school.\n\nDuring the current lockdown schools are open only to pupils listed as vulnerable and the children of key workers.\n\nFamilies can form \"childcare bubbles\" with one other household, and children who live with two parents who live separately can move between households - but any further mixing is forbidden.\n\nIn a letter posted on the Chadderton school's Facebook page, Mrs Buckley said she was \"upset\" to be writing it \"but I feel I must\".\n\n\"Our lovely children are open and honest and they tell us about their lives and activities,\" she said.\n\n\"A number of them are telling us that they are visiting friends, neighbours and family which is against the law.\n\n\"Our teachers and support staff are putting their own safety at risk to look after your children and they should be confident you are doing your bit to follow the lockdown rules.\n\n\"I am afraid I will have to withdraw the offer of a place in school to children whose parents are putting us in danger.\"\n\nWhile a number of parents applauded the message, others have been angered.\n\nOne man told the BBC his two grandchildren were at the school and children as young as four have been asked about their activities at home, which was \"out of order\".\n\n\"My granddaughters are pretty intimidated by the tone,\" he said.\n\n\"Asking them questions like that and then the answers off the back of that. They come to a decision of whether they are going to displace them or not.\"\n\nThe school has about 660 pupils aged between four and 11.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department for Education said during the current lockdown, schools were \"open for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers\".\n\n\"We expect schools to work with families to ensure all critical worker children are given access to a place if this is required,\" she added.\n\n\"We encourage all vulnerable children to attend.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Microsoft has reported booming demand for its Xbox gaming consoles as the pandemic continues to lift the fortunes of the American tech giant.\n\nIts Azure cloud computing services also got a boost due to a surge in working and learning from home.\n\nThe gains helped push the firm's overall revenue up 17% to a record $43.1bn (£31.4bn).\n\nBut its growth came as the virus continues to weigh on other industries.\n\nMicrosoft boss Satya Nadella said the firm is benefiting from a long-term shift in behaviour.\n\n\"What we have witnessed over the past year is the dawn of a second wave of digital transformation sweeping every company and every industry,\" he said.\n\nXbox sales jumped 40% in the three months to 31 December while Azure services soared 50%.\n\nThe virus continues to weigh on industries outside of tech\n\nThe pandemic has prompted many firms to switch to remote working, while keeping many entertainment options outside of the home off-limits.\n\nMicrosoft has seized on the changes, focusing energy on updating its remote work software options.\n\nThe firm also released two new Xbox consoles in November, helping to boost the performance of its personal computing unit.\n\nMicrosoft's gaming business topped $5bn in quarterly sales for the first time ever due to gaming subscriptions and sales as well as new consoles.\n\nThe firm said profits in the quarter rose 33% compared with last year to $15.5bn.\n\nIts shares - which climbed roughly 40% last year - were up another 4% in after-hours trade,\n\n\"These were blow out numbers that will be another feather in the cap for the tech sector as the cloud growth party is just getting started,\" said Dan Ives, an analyst at Wedbush Securities.\n\nBut the gains enjoyed by tech firms like Microsoft stand in contrast to the ongoing struggles seen in other industries such as hospitality, retail and travel.\n\nCoffee chain Starbucks on Tuesday said its sales in the last three months of 2020 fell roughly 5% compared to 2019, driven by a drop in business in the US where concerns about Covid-19 have prompted authorities to urge people to stay at home.\n\nIn China, where the virus is under more control, sales rose 5%, the company said.\n\nThe firm said it expected business to return to growth in the next few months, including in the critical US market.\n\nBut profits in the quarter dropped 30% to $622.2m compared with last year, sending the firm's shares lower in after-hours trade.", "The water is warmer than the air and is creating a mist along Dynevor Road\n\nThe coalmining heritage of Wales has been implicated in flooding of homes - but what has happened in Skewen?\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated from the Neath Port Talbot village, with at least eight streets left under water.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones says the flood appears to be related to mine works - but the volume of water involved has hampered a full assessment so far.\n\nThe Coal Authority is investigating how \"historic underground mining features\" in the area exacerbated the problem.\n\nA geologist says there are tens of thousands of old mine shafts across the former south Wales coalfield and it is \"incredibly difficult\" to monitor them all.\n\nSkewen lies within an old coal mining hotspot, with several former colliery sites near the village that operated in the 19th and early 20th Century.\n\nThere were colliery sites near what is now Drummau Road, in the north of the village and another close to Old Road, near Neath Abbey.\n\nSkewen was part of a collection of collieries that stretched between Neath and Llanelli on the western side of south Wales' coalfield.\n\nGraham Levins, secretary of the Welsh Mines Preservation Trust, said old mines often contain groundwater which can flood in heavy rain.\n\nHe said: \"A lot of them go very, very deep down, much below the local water level and that's why they had all the big wheels to pump the water out.\n\n\"It fills up with water and will find a way out. Normally rainfall you get it doesn't cause a lot of problems but when you get really heavy rain, the water drains down through the ground and builds up.\"\n\nStreets were turned into rivers in Skewen\n\nGeologist Tom Backhouse said water was coming out of an area near the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where there is a record of a mine shaft dating from the turn of the 20th Century.\n\nIt then started \"rushing down\" Drummau Road, causing the flooding that forced evacuations.\n\n\"What we can expect to have happened is that the water level in the mines rose to a point where it's burst out of that entry point from the mine workings below.\n\n\"Also, there are images of very ochre like orange-coloured water and again, that may well be issuing from the mine workings on the highlands to the east of the property on the hill behind.\n\n\"That may be where the shallow workings have flooded.\"\n\nHe said old mine working across the former coalfield area hold water at a certain depth, but when an event such as Storm Christoph drops \"a huge amount in a small area\", the levels rise quickly.\n\n\"As it gets closer and closer to the surface, it basically looks for an escape, the pressure builds up,\" he continued.\n\n\"What it looks like has happened on the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where the mine shaft is recorded, is that pressure has built up at that point and then burst out through the shaft which is very likely to have been capped with wood or something like that.\n\n\"Where you've got those mine shafts, which ultimately are vertical tunnels down into the mine workings below, the water has literally forced itself up through that shaft, and the pressure is obviously so great it's caused this devastating flash flood.\"\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nThere are about 13 shafts recorded within about 820ft (250m) of the one in Goshen Park, so Mr Backhouse said it is possible more than one may have burst.\n\nThere are tens of thousands in south Wales and he said it was \"incredibly difficult\" to check them all, but there were \"tell tale signs\" as to why they may collapse such as age or what type of developments are around them.\n\nThe clean up has continued on Friday morning\n\n\"Not to try and fear-monger or anything but of course this sort of thing can happen again,\" he said.\n\n\"If another event like Storm Christoph happens, the water levels in the mine rises as quickly as it did, there's absolutely nothing to say that it wouldn't happen again in the future.\n\n\"And obviously as climate changes and we have many more events like Storm Christoph, they are going to increase in frequency, they are going to be much more severe.\n\n\"The Coal Authority will have to consider the risk in places like Skewen, and they'll have to understand how it will affect residents and proactively manage that and look at how to reduce the risks for residents.\"", "Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured in the 2017 bombing\n\nThe operator of the Manchester Arena has denied it \"deliberately sacrificed safety\" in the aftermath of the 2017 bombing.\n\nAn inquiry has heard how security failures contributed to the arena being unsafe on the night of the attack.\n\nVenue operator SMG has disputed claims it \"was akin to the worst kind of Dickensian factory owner, deliberately and cynically sacrificing safety\".\n\nTwenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured when Salman Abedi detonated a home-made device as fans left the arena following an Ariana Grande concert.\n\nAndrew O'Connor QC, representing SMG, told the inquiry the firm had always accepted responsibility for security in the City Room, where the bomb exploded.\n\nBut he denied the firm had sought to \"blame others,\" adding it had \"simply sought to explain how SMG discharged its responsibilities\".\n\n\"It is for that purpose and not for prevarication, finger-pointing or buck passing that we have sought to explain to you SMG's relationship with all the other organisations involved,\" he added.\n\nMr O'Connor said the company accepted there were \"shortcomings\" with its written risk assessments but maintained it \"did have a system for assessing terrorism-related risk\".\n\nThe public inquiry into the bombing will look at whether the attack could have been prevented\n\nPatrick Gibbs QC, representing BTP, told the inquiry the force made five key mistakes on the night of the bombing.\n\nThis included having no officers on patrol at Victoria station when Abedi made his final journey to the arena and not having an officer in the City Room at the end of the concert.\n\nOther mistakes included failing to complete a written risk-assessment for the concert, officers not following instructions from their duty sergeant and that PC Stephen Corke, the most experienced officer on duty, was not at the arena complex for the end of the event.\n\nBTP has since made significant changes to its procedures since the attack, the inquiry was told.\n\nThese include monthly meetings with the arena operators to discuss events.\n\nThe inquiry, which began in September, continues.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pictures of the Pampas grass on social media are thought to have made the area in South Shields popular\n\nA boom in the popularity of Pampas grass with interior decorators has led to \"droves\" of people picking the plant which grows wild near a beach.\n\nThe grass, near Littlehaven Beach in South Shields, forms part of a wind defence to stop sand blowing onto roads and helps protect the coastline.\n\nSouth Tyneside Council warned anyone found removing it could be prosecuted.\n\nCouncillor Ernest Gibson said while the grass may look \"beautiful in vases\" people were \"damaging the environment\".\n\nThe grass, which was popular in the 1970s, can sell for up to £40 a bunch and has proved a popular addition to people's homes.\n\nIt is thought that photographs on social media sites such as Instagram may have influenced people turning up and taking it, Mr Gibson added.\n\n\"Pampas grass is quite expensive to buy if you went to a florist. It's cheaper to come to South Tyneside and take it away,\" he said.\n\n\"But what we are doing is urging people not to come here and take it away, it's there for a reason.\"\n\nPampas grass and Marram grass form part of a defence along the coast at South Shields\n\nThe Pampas grass helps to bond poor soils found at the coast, while Marram grass helps to prevent erosion in the dunes.\n\nSigns are to be erected warning people not to pick the grass because it is already in need of replenishment, the council said.\n\n\"Through Covid, we have a massive amount of people coming to the coastal town, it's Benidorm without the sunshine,\" he added.\n\n\"It's great to see people at the seaside enjoying it [the grass] and that's what it's part of. It's there for everybody to view.\"\n\nGarden designer George Wright said Pampas grass was \"very popular\" and he had seen demand increase two or three times at his nursery in West Boldon. He also expressed concern for the area.\n\n\"Once they take the flower heads themselves they take the seeds. Eventually this will become very much a patchy area and they will all start to decline.\n\n\"Pampas grass is becoming more and and more popular at the moment and I think a lot of it is people are starting to extend their houses into the garden so they want something nice in there, and also it's being used for interior decoration in houses.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Chris Whitty said it was a very sad day, as the UK surpassed 100,000 Covid deaths\n\nThe number of daily coronavirus deaths in the UK is likely to come down \"relatively slowly\", England's chief medical officer has warned.\n\nProf Chris Whitty said the UK was going to see \"a lot more deaths\" over the next few weeks before the effects of the vaccination programme were felt.\n\nCurrent restrictions were \"just about holding\" in lowering infection rates, he told a Downing Street briefing.\n\nIt comes as the UK surpassed 100,000 coronavirus deaths on Tuesday.\n\nA further 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nAnd 20,089 coronavirus cases were reported on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days.\n\nProf Whitty told a Downing Street news conference the rolling seven-day average for deaths was 1,242 - \"an incredibly high number\" - and unlikely to come down quickly.\n\n\"I think we have to be realistic that the rate of mortality, the number of people dying a day, will come down relatively slowly over the next two weeks - and will probably be flat for a while now.\"\n\nProf Whitty said the number of people testing positive for coronavirus was \"still at a very high number, but it has been coming down\".\n\nBut he cautioned against relaxing restrictions \"too early\", as Office for National Statistics data showed a \"rather slower\" decrease.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with Covid-19 in the UK had \"flattened off\", he said, but was still an \"incredibly high number\" and \"substantially above the peak in April\".\n\nProf Whitty said the new, more transmissible variant discovered in the south east of England at the end of last year had altered the UK's situation \"very substantially\" and had made it \"much harder\" to bring infection levels down.\n\n\"We were worried two weeks ago that the measures we have at the moment were not enough to hold this new variant,\" he told the news conference.\n\n\"I think what the data I showed you at the beginning of the slide sessions shows is that the rates are just about holding with the new variant, with what everybody's doing.\n\n\"It's going to be much harder because of this new variant and I think we have to be realistic about that.\"\n\nSir Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, said that more than a quarter of a million severely ill coronavirus patients have been looked after in hospital since the pandemic started last year.\n\n\"This is not a year that anybody is going to want to remember nor is it a year that across the health service any of us will ever forget,\" he said.\n\nThe daily Covid figures have seen the number of deaths top 100,000. But they also contain some signs of hope.\n\nJust over 20,000 new infections have been reported - down from 22,000 yesterday.\n\nThis compares to an average of 60,000 at the start of the year.\n\nIt is a sharp fall, although Prof Whitty cautions it may actually be a little slower than that.\n\nNot everyone who is infected comes forward for testing and the government surveillance programme which involves random testing of the population suggests the fall has not been quite so great.\n\nNonetheless, it is clear the infection rate is coming down - and that offers hope.\n\nHospital cases have plateaued and should soon start falling. That will eventually lead to a reduction in the number of deaths.\n\nThen, in February, the vaccination programme should start having an impact, leading, hopefully, to a rapid drop in deaths.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson told the briefing the coronavirus infection rate remained \"pretty forbiddingly high\" to ease lockdown restrictions, which have been in place in England since 5 January.\n\nBut he said \"at a certain stage we will want to be getting things open\".\n\nHe added: \"What I will be doing in the course of the next few days and weeks is setting out in more detail, as soon as we can, when and how we want to get things open again.\"\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons - including for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, the epidemiologist whose modelling prompted the UK government to impose the first lockdown has told BBC Radio 4's PM he believes more action in autumn last year could have \"drastically reduced\" the number of lives lost in the second wave - some 60,000.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson said: \"They couldn't have been eliminated, but they could have been drastically reduced by earlier action, unfortunately.\n\n\"How much is difficult to judge, the new variant was unpredictable and did change our understanding of how much was needed to control spread, but we did just let the autumn wave get to far, far too high infection levels.\"\n\nReacting to the UK's death toll, Mr Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the government's actions, but added: \"We truly did everything we could.\"", "The fate of more than 200,000 seafarers who play a crucial role in keeping global trade flowing is being labelled a \"humanitarian crisis at sea\".\n\nMore than 300 firms and organisations are urging for them to be treated as \"key workers\", so they can return home without risking public health.\n\nMore than 90% of global trade - from household goods to medical supplies - is moved by sea.\n\nBut governments have banned crew from coming ashore amid Covid-19 fears.\n\nLarge firms including shipping titan AP Moller-Maersk, oil firms BP and Shell, consumer giant Unilever and mining groups Rio Tinto and Vale, as well as maritime transporters, unions, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and other supply chain partners have signed the Neptune Declaration on Seafarer Wellbeing and Crew Change.\n\nThey are calling for all countries to designate seafarers as key workers and implement crew change protocols.\n\nThe signees of the Neptune Declaration are warning global leaders that ignoring the risk to crews' mental and physical wellbeing threatens global supply chains, which are crucial to vaccinating the world from coronavirus.\n\nThe firms and organisations hope that world leaders, gathering at this year's virtual Davos Forum, will heed their call.\n\n\"Unified, prompt action from governments and other key stakeholders is needed to protect the lives and livelihoods of the 1.6 million seafaring men and women who serve us all across the seas, and who continue to face extreme risk to their safety and earnings,\" said WEF's head of supply chain and transport Margi Van Gogh.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. India coronavirus: The stranded sailor yet to meet his daughter\n\n\"By granting stranded seafarers key worker status, and by prioritising vaccine allocation for transport crew, we can prevent a deepening humanitarian and economic crisis.\"\n\nAccording to latest data from the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and international ship owners body Bimco, there are 1.6 million seafarers serving on internationally trading merchant ships worldwide.\n\nTypically, ICS estimates around 100,000 seafarers are rotated every month, with 50,000 staff disembarking and 50,000 crew embarking ships to comply with international maritime regulations, governing safe working hours and crew welfare.\n\nSeafarers usually work 10-12 hours shifts, seven days a week to man ships, on four or six-month-long contracts, followed by a period of leave.\n\nBut due to the coronavirus crisis and travel bans brought in by many governments to combat new variants of Covid-19, hundreds of thousands of crew are spending extended periods at sea, far beyond the expiry of their contracts.\n\nFor those who have been at sea for months longer than their contract stipulates, there is a growing risk to their mental and physical wellbeing.\n\n\"Seafarers are the unacceptable collateral damage on the war on Covid-19 and this must stop,\" said ICS secretary general Guy Platten.\n\n\"If we want to maintain global trade seafarers must not be put to the back of the vaccine queue. You can't inject a global population without the shipping industry and most importantly our seafarers. We are calling on the supply chain to take action to support seafarers now.\"", "Changes were made to rape prosecution policy that led to a \"shocking\" fall in offences before courts in England and Wales, the Court of Appeal has heard.\n\nThe End Violence Against Women (EVAW) coalition is challenging what it said was an \"unlawful\" move by the Crown Prosecution Service in 2016-18.\n\nThe CPS said there was no \"substantial change\" in how cases were treated.\n\nAnd it denied the coalition's claim it had been taking on only \"strong cases\" to keep conviction rates up.\n\nAccording to the EVAW, the CPS adopted what is known as the \"bookmaker's approach\" to cases, which saw prosecutors considering what may happen based on past experience of similar cases, rather than its earlier \"merits-based approach\" based on objective assessment of the evidence.\n\nIn documents before the court, Phillippa Kaufmann QC said that from September 2016 prosecutors were \"trained away\" from the former CPS policy, including through a series of roadshows.\n\nIn 2017 legally binding guidance on the old approach was removed, and the CPS introduced a 60% conviction rate target in relation to rape cases.\n\nMs Kauffmann said both the volume of cases and the charging rate fell.\n\nShe cited figures showing an average of 3,446 rape cases were charged per year between 2009 and 2016, compared with 2,822 in 2017, a fall of 23%.\n\nAt the same time the charging rate \"declined precipitously\" from 56% in 2016, to 47% in 2017 and 34% in 2018.\n\nThe court documents note the conviction target was removed at some point between 2017 and 2019, and guidance relating to the \"merits-based approach\" to prosecutions was reintroduced.\n\nThe campaigners are aiming to show there was a policy change and the way the CPS went about it was unlawful.\n\nIf a ruling goes in its favour, the EVAW hopes some cases could be looked at again by the CPS.\n\nLawyers for the CPS argue the case was not suitable for a legal challenge.\n\nIn written submissions, Tom Little QC, says the move away from a \"merits-based approach\" was out of a concern that \"some people were being prosecuted when the case ought not to have been charged\".\n\nHe added the decision to initiate the roadshows and remove the guidance \"did not result in any substantial change in the application of the evidential test in the code for Crown prosecutors\".\n\nIn a statement, the CPS said: \"Independent inspectors have found no evidence of a risk-averse approach and have reported a clear improvement in the quality of our legal decision-making in rape cases.\"\n\nThe judges are expected to give their ruling in the case at a later date.", "Celebrities including comedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali have made a video urging people to get the Covid vaccine.\n\nThe video was co-ordinated by Citizen Khan creator Adil Ray, who said he wanted to dispel vaccination myths for those from ethnic minority communities.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan and former Conservative Party Chairman Baroness Warsi are among the others taking part.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adil Ray OBE 💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We all just feel we needed to do something,\" Ray told the BBC.\n\nFake news about the vaccine, particularly in the South Asian community, has led to concerns about uptake.\n\nRay appears in the five-minute video alongside stars like former Coronation Street actress Shobna Gulati, who tells viewers: \"We will find our way through this. And we will be united once again with our friends and our families. All we have to do is take the vaccination.\"\n\nSomali-born British journalist Rageh Omaar and his ITV colleague Ranvir Singh join comedians like Sanjeev Bhaskar, Asim Chaudhry and Ranganathan to debunk common vaccine misinformation and misconceptions.\n\nRanganathan says: \"There's no chip or tracker in the vaccine to keep watching where you go. Your mobile phone actually does a much better job of that.\"\n\nAfter posting the video, Ray told BBC Radio Leicester: \"For the British Asian and black communities, at the very beginning of the pandemic we were told they were perhaps the most vulnerable, that there was a disproportionate number of cases and even deaths.\n\n\"Even now there are a disproportionate number of deaths. But nothing was really done about it and that was really quite confusing for a lot of the community. So we felt that we've got to try and take the lead a little bit here and dispel some of these myths.\"\n\nHe added: \"This was recorded entirely independently from the government - the only thing we did do was we went to the NHS website for the correct medical guidance.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWith the UK aiming to offer Covid vaccinations to every adult by autumn, vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi said confidence in the vaccines was high in the UK, with 85% saying they would accept the jab.\n\nBut he said that those who were hesitant \"skew heavily\" towards black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.\n\nThe UK is recording the ethnicity and occupations of people who receive the vaccine and figures would be published soon, Mr Zahawi added.\n\nLast month, a poll commissioned by the Royal Society of Public Health suggested 57% of black, Asian and minority ethnic people would be happy to have the coronavirus vaccine, compared with 79% of white people.\n\nDr Harpreet Sood, who is leading an NHS anti-disinformation drive, recently said fake news was likely to be causing some people from the UK's South Asian communities to reject the vaccine.\n\nSuch warnings have led the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board to urge places of worship and community hubs to be used as vaccination centres in an attempt to inspire confidence.\n\nThe board's chairman, Imam Qari Asim, said: \"As an imam, my message is simple - do not trust 'fake news', verify before you amplify.\"\n\nThe Al Abbas Mosque in Birmingham is being used as a Covid vaccination centre\n\nMany mosques are using their Friday sermons to urge people to have the jab, while some imams are sharing photos of themselves getting the jab on social media.\n\nMeanwhile, the government has announced £23m funding for a network of \"community champions\" to spread accurate information and provide support for people in at-risk groups including older people, disabled people and ethnic minorities.\n\nOn Monday, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick visited the UK's first vaccination centre to be opened in a mosque, at Al-Abbas Islamic Centre in Birmingham.\n\n\"It is absolutely brilliant to see faith communities like this stepping up and playing their part in the vaccine programme,\" Mr Jenrick said.\n\n\"We have to build trust, ensure that we counter misinformation and ensure that everyone, regardless of their faith, regardless of what community they're from, gets access to the programme.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The police officers were on duty when they had their hair cut, the Met says\n\nThirty-one Met Police officers who broke coronavirus rules to get haircuts are facing £200 fines.\n\nTwo officers who hired a barber to give the cuts to staff at Bethnal Green Police Station, on 17 January, are also facing misconduct investigations, the Met said.\n\nUnder current lockdown restrictions in England, barbers and hairdressers are not allowed to work.\n\nDet Ch Supt Marcus Barnett said he was \"deeply disappointed\" in the officers.\n\n\"Although officers donated money to charity as part of the haircut, this does not excuse them from what was a very poor decision,\" he said. \"I expect a lot more of them.\n\n\"Quite rightly, the public expect police to be role models in following the regulations, which are designed to prevent the spread of this deadly virus.\"\n\nThe investigation comes after fines were handed out to nine officers who were caught eating breakfast together in a Greenwich café.\n\nAll those officers were issued with a £200 fixed penalty notice.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "At least 80 people had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nPeople whose homes were flooded after a \"blow out\" at a mine shaft are said to be \"devastated\" as they face months before they can return home.\n\nSteve Morris said his son Gareth and his girlfriend's home in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, was inundated by \"orange\" flood water containing sewage.\n\nBut some will be allowed back to their properties on Tuesday.\n\nResidents of Goshen Park and Sunnyland Crescent who have yet to contact Neath Port Talbot council are urged to do so in the next 24 hours.\n\nThe council said access to these properties would continue to be affected beyond 26 January and the Coal Authority wished to have early discussions with them.\n\nMr Morris told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that his son called him on Thursday to say his house was about to be flooded.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\n\"I live about half a mile away... and by the time I got to his address I could see the water levels were rising rapidly up the road,\" he explained.\n\n\"Then it was so quick - the water came through his rear patio doors firstly, then the gardens and then the drains couldn't cope on the main road and came through the front door, then the side door.\n\n\"His ground floor was four feet under water, and it was this orange coloured water. There was sewage in the house, so his ground floor needs totally gutting.\"\n\nMr Morris said Gareth and his girlfriend are staying in a hotel as they wait to be allowed back to assess the damage.\n\nHe hopes their insurance firm will pay to rent a home for them, adding: \"I can honestly see them being out of their house for between six and 10 months.\n\n\"They are obviously devastated - they have only been in there for 12 months so everything was near enough brand new.\"\n\nCerys Thomas was at her mother's house with her son, in Goshen Park, when she saw water coming through the front door.\n\nThe stairs at the home of Cerys Thomas' parents were left caked in mud\n\nShe said: \"I said to my mother to get my son and herself out and up toward the street. I phoned the police then, because I could see it was going to be an emergency, and within minutes my parents' conservatory doors just blew through.\n\n\"The pressure of the water just blew through the house and the water, within minutes, was up to my waist.\n\n\"Trying to get out of the house was very scary because the pressure of the front door was getting pushed back.\"\n\nShe said the street was under water \"within seven minutes\".\n\n\"It was something you would see in a movie,\" she said.\n\nWithin minutes of water entering the house Ms Thomas was up to her waist in water\n\nMeanwhile, the Coal Authority said it has identified the cause of the \"blow out\".\n\nChief executive Lisa Pinney told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: \"Firstly, I just want to say our thoughts are with everyone affected by this flooding and we are genuinely sorry people have been affected in this way.\n\n\"What we know so far is the blow out was caused by a blockage underground which caused water to break out, basically to find the easiest path, and there's no doubt the excessive rainfall in the days before was also a factor in that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Pinney said crews had been able to find the site of the collapsed mineshaft which had caused the flooding, and the authority had started to \"develop options\".\n\n\"We really understand people want to get back into their homes, they want to collect things, they want to know what the next steps are,\" she continued.\n\n\"We are working as fast as possible to make that happen and we hope to be able to provide some more information in the next day or so, but you will understand that we have to be sure for public safety.\"\n\nMs Pinney said there are almost 300 mine shafts or entries across the Skewen mine works, which covers an area of about 12 sq km (7.6 sq miles).\n\nShe added: \"We have checked all recorded shafts in the immediate area and we are doing continued checks over the coming days. We have found no problems. They are all safe.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nadhim Zahawi: \"We have 367m vaccines from seven different manufacturers that we have contracted with\"\n\nSupplies of vaccines are \"tight\" but the UK believes it will receive enough doses to meet its targets, the vaccine minister has said.\n\nNadhim Zahawi told BBC Breakfast manufacturers were \"confident\" they would deliver for the UK amid warnings of production delays.\n\nIt comes as the EU said it might tighten vaccine export controls.\n\nCountries should avoid \"vaccine nationalism\" and ensure a fair global supply, Mr Zahawi said.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nMr Zahawi said the vaccination programme was still on track to deliver a first dose to 15 million of the most vulnerable by mid-February and to offer all adults their first dose by autumn.\n\nHe said the UK had supplies of the Oxford vaccine manufactured domestically by AstraZeneca as well as the Pfizer one, which is made in Belgium.\n\nThe government is also planning to publish figures on the take-up of the vaccine by ethnicity from Thursday, following concerns that some black, Asian and ethnic minority communities were more hesitant to get the jab.\n\n\"I'm confident we will meet our mid-February target and continue beyond that,\" Mr Zahawi told the BBC.\n\n\"Supplies are tight, they continue to be, these are new manufacturing processes,\" he added. \"It's lumpy and bumpy, it gets better and stabilises and improves going forward.\"\n\nBut he declined to say that he had received guarantees about the number of doses the UK would receive from Pfizer or other manufacturers and refused to confirm how many doses had already arrived.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said AstraZeneca had committed to delivering two million doses a week to the UK, and the government was not expecting any changes to that supply.\n\nDowning Street also rejected German media reports claiming a very low efficacy rate for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine among older people, saying they had been denied by Oxford University, AstraZeneca and the German health ministry.\n\nChief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the cabinet the trials showed similar immune responses in younger and older adults.\n\nAnd England's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, has defended the UK's strategy of extending the time between first and second doses of coronavirus vaccines from three to 12 weeks in order to immunise more people.\n\nHe told the Downing Street coronavirus briefing on Tuesday that the \"great majority\" of protection came from the first dose.\n\nHe also said there was \"no evidence\" that immunity waned between three and 12 weeks after the first dose was administered.\n\nProf Whitty said: \"We thought very carefully about what the balance of this is, but the balance of risk in terms of reducing the number of deaths in the community - and I really want to stress that, that is the aim of this - is to maximise the number of people who get that first dose, where the great majority of protection comes from.\"\n\nThe latest tension over supply of the Covid vaccine is another illustration of just how fragile this issue is.\n\nThere are huge global demands for Covid vaccine, limited raw materials and constraints on manufacturing.\n\nThe UK already has enough vaccine to jab all the highest-risk groups by mid-February, although not all of it has been packaged up or been through the final safety checks.\n\nThis explains why ministers are confident about the immediate target for the over-70s, health and care workers and the extremely clinically vulnerable.\n\nBut what is in doubt is how quickly the UK can vaccinate in the medium term.\n\nWith the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured in the UK those supply routes are more guaranteed.\n\nBut the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is made in Belgium. The UK, like the rest of Europe, is affected by the problems with manufacturing that are being experienced with that vaccine.\n\nWith Europe experiencing major problems rolling out its vaccination programme - per head of population five times fewer vaccines have been delivered - this is a story that is going to rumble on for months.\n\nThe UK has placed orders for 367 million doses of vaccines from seven manufacturers, Mr Zahawi said. \"As vaccines come along we will get more volume, millions more in the weeks and months to come,\" he added.\n\nThe tension over vaccine supplies increased after UK-based AstraZeneca warned the EU it would have to reduce planned deliveries because of production problems. Pfizer-BioNTech has also said supplies will be temporarily lower as it works to increase capacity at its Belgian factory.\n\nIt has prompted the EU to accuse AstraZeneca of failing to meet its commitments and to warn that it might require all companies producing Covid vaccines to provide \"early notification\" whenever they planned to export supplies out of the EU.\n\n\"The thing to do now is not to go down the dead end of vaccine nationalism. It's to work together to protect our people,\" Mr Zahawi said.\n\n\"No-one is safe until the whole world is safe.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock subsequently said the UK government \"oppose protectionism in all its forms\" and urged all international partners to \"be collaborative\" and \"work closely together\" on vaccine distribution.\n\nHe added that the EU's warning that it could restrict exports of vaccines made in the bloc was \"unfortunate and especially so in the midst of a pandemic\".\n\nMeanwhile, the head of NHS England earlier told MPs coronavirus could become a \"much more treatable disease\" over the next six to 18 months, with the hope of a return to a \"much more normal future\".\n\nSir Simon Stevens told the Health and Social Care Committee: \"The first half of the year, vaccination is going to be crucial.\n\n\"I think a lot of us in the health service are increasingly hopeful that in the second half of the year and beyond we will also see more therapeutics and more treatments for coronavirus.\"\n\nHe also said it \"would be great\" if the Covid vaccine and flu vaccine were combined into a single jab, if not for next winter then future ones.\n\nAnd he said vaccines were being used as fast as they arrived in the NHS, with more than half of those aged 75-79 having now had their first dose.\n\nThe UK aims to offer Covid vaccination to every adult by autumn.\n\nMr Zahawi said confidence in the vaccines was high, with 85% of people saying they would accept the jab.\n\nBut he said those who were hesitant \"skew heavily\" towards black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.\n\nThe government is providing £23m of funding to 60 local councils and voluntary groups to boost vaccine take-up among groups such as older people, disabled people, and people from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nIt comes as celebrities such as comedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali appeared in a video urging people in their communities to get vaccinated.\n\nMr Zahawi told ITV's Good Morning Britain his uncle had died from Covid-19 last week. He had been eligible for vaccination but caught the virus before he could receive it, the minister said.\n\nThis \"grim and horrible\" experience made him determined to ensure that the most vulnerable were protected as quickly as possible, Mr Zahawi said.\n\nSir Simon said there was concern about vaccine hesitancy in some groups, where there were access problems as well as \"systematic attempts to misinform and lie about the vaccine programme targeted particularly at minority populations, and - in some cases - long-standing mistrust of public services\".\n\nHe said disruption to vaccine deliveries from EU export restrictions was not thought to be likely.\n\nIn other developments, the UK has offered to carry out genomic sequencing for other countries around the world to help identify further new variants.\n\nPublic Health England said it would give \"crucial early warning\" of any mutations that might cause the virus to spread faster, make people more ill or possibly reduce the effectiveness of vaccines.", "Transfer tests normally used by grammar schools have been cancelled this year\n\nOne of NI's most prominent grammar schools has said it will use primary school test scores to decide which pupils to admit in 2021.\n\nRoyal Belfast Academical Institution said it would \"adopt other academic criteria for admission to the school\".\n\nThat is despite the vast majority of grammar schools not planning to use academic criteria this year.\n\nThe tests run by the AQE and the Post-Primary Transfer Consortium (PPTC) were cancelled in early 2021.\n\nAs a result, grammar schools - which are attended by about 45% of post-primary pupils in Northern Ireland - are drawing up new criteria for how they will select pupils in 2021.\n\nBanbridge Academy, Bangor Grammar, Belfast Royal Academy and Regent House are among those to have published their admissions criteria for 2021.\n\nNone of those schools are using academic criteria, but pupils applying will have to have entered the AQE transfer test.\n\nSome other grammars like Thornhill College and St Columb's College in Londonderry, which decided in 2020 not to use the PPTC transfer test in 2021, have also published admissions criteria.\n\nIn a statement to BBC News NI, Royal Belfast Academical Institution (RBAI) said it was \"committed to the principle that a child should be placed in a school which offers a curriculum best suited to the aptitudes of that child\".\n\n\"For this reason RBAI believes that the use of academic criteria for admission to grammar schools is the outworking of that principle,\" the school said.\n\n\"Accordingly, in the absence of AQE and PPTC tests for admissions, RBAI will adopt other academic criteria for admission to the school.\"\n\nRBAI said scores in practice AQE or PPTC transfer tests will be taken into account\n\nThe school is planning to use standardised scores in the Progress Test in English (PTE) and Progress Test in Maths (PTM) which pupils sat in Primary Five to decide which pupils to admit.\n\nRBAI said that school year was \"the most recent one which has not been interrupted\".\n\nPupils scores in practice AQE or PPTC transfer tests taken under supervision by a teacher will also be taken into account.\n\n\"RBAI is satisfied that this is a reasonable and robust way of selecting pupils based on academic aptitude in the absence of a bespoke test,\" the school said.\n\nRBAI normally admits 150 pupils each year, but received 227 applications for places in 2020.\n\nThe admissions criteria for all post-primary schools will be published on the Education Authority (EA) website on 2 February.\n\nThe UUP assembly member Robbie Butler had proposed that pupils' results in tests in primary schools could be given to parents and then used by grammar schools to decide which children get a place.\n\nBut Education Minister Peter Weir had said there would be \"major problems\" with that approach.", "In March 2020, we were told it would be a ‘’good outcome’’ if coronavirus killed 20,000 people across the UK.\n\nNow the bleakest milestone has been reached: 100,000 deaths.\n\nIn a statement, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said \"behind these heart-breaking figures are friends, families and neighbours. The vaccine offers us the way out, but we cannot let up now and we sadly still face a tough period ahead. The virus is still spreading and we're seeing over 3,500 people per day being admitted into hospital.\"\n\nHealth correspondent Catherine Burns looks at the past year of the UK’s epidemic and hears from families who have lost loved ones.\n\nFilmed and edited by Julius Peacock. Additional filming by Emily Brooks", "The UK government should cancel the debt owed by developing countries struggling with the impact of Covid-19, MPs have said.\n\nThe International Development Committee warned that the pandemic was fuelling extreme poverty and food insecurity.\n\nIt was also disrupting routine healthcare, such as tuberculosis immunisations, it added.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was spending £1.3bn to protect livelihoods, improve health systems and distribute vaccines.\n\nMore than two million people around the world have died after contracting coronavirus, with almost 100 million cases reported.\n\nAppearing before the Commons International Development Committee, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said he wanted the UK to be a \"force for good in the world\" as it fought the pandemic.\n\nHe defended the government's decision to cut overseas aid spending next year, saying there were \"no easy choices\" given the hit to the public finances from the pandemic.\n\nThe cuts mean the UK will fail to meet the UN target of spending 0.7% of national income on overseas aid in 2021-2, a target that was enshrined into UK law in 2015.\n\nMr Raab said he hoped the UK would be able to reach 0.7% again as \"soon as possible\" but this would only happen once the long-term damage to the UK's balance sheet had been \"corrected\".\n\nLabour said the government was \"betraying the world's poorest.\"\n\nShadow international development secretary Preet Kaur Gill said: \"This move signals a retreat from the world stage, damages the UK's reputation and will only show our allies and detractors that Britain under Boris Johnson is no longer interested in fulfilling our moral or legal responsibilities.\n\n\"Labour are committed to spending 0.7% of Gross National Income on aid to tackle global poverty and injustice and will oppose any attempt from this government to damage this country's reputation.\"\n\nMr Raab said he took seriously warnings from Conservative MPs and ex-ministers that to press ahead with the cuts without passing new legislation would be unlawful.\n\nFormer Solicitor General Lord Garnier said earlier on Tuesday that Mr Raab's \"reputation\" and the government's domestic and international standing would be damaged if it was seen to \"flout a clear legal obligation\".\n\nIn tough financial times, Mr Raab said the UK needed to \"make the most\" of its £10bn spending, avoiding \"salami-slicing\" budgets and focusing on a handful of priorities such as climate, biodiversity, conflict prevention and helping the \"bottom billions\" out of extreme poverty.\n\n\"I think we should unabashedly be proud and confident about the moral responsibility we have to make the world a better place,\" he said.\n\n\"At the same time, I see a range of grittier strategic interests in dealing with climate change and humanitarian suffering and indeed trade.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office took over responsibility for overseas aid in September after absorbing the Department for International Development.\n\nOn debt cancellation, the committee said that, due to disruption caused by the pandemic, millions of people in developing countries were more at risk from diseases such as tuberculosis because of missed immunisations.\n\nMillions were more likely to lose their livelihoods because of the global recession and millions of women were more exposed to sexual violence.\n\nThe MPs want the government to provide more aid to address the problems and cancel long-term national debt that was diverting cash away from those in need.\n\nA Foreign Office spokesperson said: \"We'll only be safe from coronavirus when we're all safe - which is why the UK is leading global efforts to fight this pandemic, committing up to £1.3bn of new UK aid to find and equitably distribute a vaccine, strengthen health systems, protect livelihoods and support the global economy.\"\n\nThey added that the UK would use its 2021 presidency of the G7 group of leading economies \"to help the world build back stronger and fairer after the pandemic\".\n\nThis would include \"promoting open societies, championing gender equality and girls' education, and setting out new international approaches to global health security and climate action\", the spokesperson said.\n\nThe UK has announced it will step up its efforts to help other countries, including some of the poorest in the world, to find new variants of Covid-19.\n\nIn a speech in London, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the UK would share its world-leading genomics expertise worldwide to help countries identify new mutations of the virus and protect global health security.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dutch police have described it as the worst unrest in four decades\n\nMore than 180 people were arrested in 10 Dutch cities as protesters defying a curfew clashed with riot police for a third night running.\n\nShops in Rotterdam were looted and police used water cannon, as rioters resisted latest Covid restrictions.\n\nPrime Minister Mark Rutte condemned \"criminal violence\" and the justice minister said the curfew would remain.\n\nThe Dutch chief of police said the riots no longer had \"anything to do with the basic right to demonstrate\".\n\nThe Netherlands has had nearly one million confirmed Covid cases since the start of the outbreak, with more than 13,500 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University in the US, which is tracking the pandemic.\n\nThe government recently introduced a night-time curfew which runs from 21:00 (20:00 GMT) to 04:30. Anyone caught violating it faces a €95 (£84) fine.\n\nThere were further violent scenes in many towns and cities. Riot police clashed with protesters in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, as well as Amersfoort, Den Bosch, Alphen and Helmond.\n\nSome of the worst disturbances were in the south of Rotterdam where police said 10 officers were hurt. Across the country 184 people were arrested. Amsterdam's mayor appealed to parents to keep young people indoors.\n\nSeveral cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances\n\nThe windows of some shops were smashed in Rotterdam\n\nFires were lit on the streets of The Hague, where police on bicycles attempted to move small clusters of men who threw stones and fireworks. There was violence in the southern city of Den Bosch, where rioters set off fireworks, broke windows, looted a supermarket and overturned cars.\n\nA woman living near Den Bosch train station told Dutch radio that masked youths had left a trail of destruction in the city centre. \"I saw windows smashed and fireworks going off. Really crazy, just like a war zone,\" the woman said. Roads into the city were closed to stop people joining the rioters and Mayor Jack Mikkers imposed an emergency order banning gatherings on Tuesday.\n\nThe ignition of discontent has rocked the core of Dutch society.\n\nIn the absence of any legitimate way to socialise, is this simply an outlet for young men to feel part of something, their masks concealing their identities and enabling them to violently channel their frustrations?\n\nThere are more sinister influences at play. Messages on social media, overt and covert, have whipped up anger. Misinformation has even been spread by some politicians.\n\nSome of the worst violence was in Rotterdam\n\nSome feared a curfew would be a tipping point, as Dutch restrictions tighten while some neighbouring countries relax their rules. The vast majority of people in the Netherlands are peacefully observing the curfew.\n\nThe unrest was initially seen as a response to the first \"stay-at-home\" order imposed since Nazi occupation during World War Two. That notion has been dismissed by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who said the rioters were simply criminals and would be treated as such.\n\nBut there are simmering anxieties in Dutch towns and cities, and with less than two months before a general election, voters are vulnerable and the streets volatile.\n\nThere has been widespread shock at the violence. In Rotterdam, where police used water cannon during clashes with rioters, Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb signed an emergency decree, giving police broader powers of arrest. He reacted furiously to shops being looted in the south of the city, condemning \"shameless thieves, I can't call it anything else\".\n\nThe prime minister said the police had the government's full support: \"The riots have nothing to do with protesting or fighting for freedom.\"\n\nRotterdam shop-owner Emrah Köker said he had no words for what he had seen. \"How can this happen in the Netherlands?\" he asked Dutch daily newspaper Algemeen Dagblad. Justice Minister Ferd Grapperhuis challenged anyone to explain what looting a shop had to do with coronavirus.\n\nThe mayor of Den Bosch said police had struggled to respond to the violence because they were needed in other nearby towns.\n\nFootball fans of the Willem II club took to the streets of Tilburg to \"protect their city\" against rioters, news site Brabants Dagblad reports.\n\nMayors in several cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances.\n\nThe Dutch prime minister has condemned the violence\n\nThere has been widespread shock in the Netherlands over the violence", "The greys were introduced to Britain from North America in the 19th Century\n\nThe UK government has given its support to a project to use oral contraceptives to control grey squirrel populations.\n\nEnvironment minister Lord Goldsmith says the damage they and other invasive species do to the UK's woodlands costs the UK economy £1.8 billion a year.\n\nThe bizarre-sounding plan is to lure grey squirrels into feeding boxes only they can access with little pots containing hazelnut spread.\n\nThese would be spiked with an oral contraceptive.\n\nLord Goldsmith says the damage from squirrels also threatens the effectiveness of government efforts to tackle climate change by planting tens of thousands of acres of new woodlands.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) told BBC News: \"We hope advances in science can safely help our nature to thrive, including through the humane control of invasive species.\"\n\nA partnership of conservation and forestry organisations called the UK Squirrel Accord (UKSA) is behind the proposal.\n\nIt says grey squirrels, which were first introduced from North America in the late 19th century, cause huge damage to woodlands by stripping bark from trees aged between 10-50 years, the younger trees in a forest.\n\nThey particularly target broad-leafed varieties including oak, which are particularly ecologically important because they support so many other species.\n\nIt is estimated the UK is home to some three million of these invasive rodents.\n\nRed squirrels are now confined mainly to Scotland and Ireland\n\nThey have displaced the native red squirrel across most of the UK.\n\nLord Goldsmith says the government supports the plan as well as a longer-term effort to breed infertility into female grey squirrels to reduce their numbers.\n\nInvasive non-native species such as grey squirrels threaten our native biodiversity, he argues.\n\nWhen regulating grey squirrels with oral contraceptive was first proposed in 2017, the government's Animal and Plant Health Agency said it thought it could reduce their numbers by as much as 90%.\n\nThe project also has royal approval.\n\nPrince Charles was instrumental in founding the UK Squirrel Accord with the objective of \"managing the negative impacts of invasive grey squirrels in the UK\".\n\nHe has written of the importance of protecting Britain's remaining red squirrels.\n\n\"These charming and intelligent creatures never fail to delight\", he wrote last week in his capacity as patron of the Red Squirrel Survival Trust, describing red squirrels as the \"symbol and benchmark\" of healthy woods.\n\nJason Gilchrist, an ecologist from Edinburgh Napier University, has written in defence of the grey squirrel but he says he supports the oral contraceptive plan.\n\nHe acknowledges there is a need to manage grey squirrel populations.\n\n\"It is better than the alternative: a shotgun\", he told BBC News.\n\nIt is the same argument the UKSA makes: dosing the animals with contraceptives provides a humane alternative to culling them.\n\nLast week, the Royal Forestry Society, a member of the Squirrel Accord, called for just such a cull.\n\nSimon Lloyd, its chief executive, says efforts to tackle global warming and improve biodiversity will be undermined unless grey squirrel numbers can be reduced.\n\nNew trees will not survive to \"deliver the carbon capture or biodiversity objectives if grey squirrels cannot be controlled\", he told the Daily Telegraph.\n\nThe UKSA has been experimenting with ways to deliver oral contraceptives to squirrels for more than three years now.\n\nLast year, it tested special feeding stations designed so only grey squirrels can gain access in woodland in East Yorkshire.\n\nInstead of contraceptives, the hazelnut paste bait was dosed with a dye that, when ingested, causes squirrel hair to fluoresce under UV light.\n\nThe researchers found that more than 90% of the grey squirrel population being studied visited the traps.\n\nThey concluded that it was possible to deliver repeat doses of a contraceptive to the majority of grey squirrels in a wood.", "More than 100,000 people in the UK have died from a virus, that, this time last year, felt like a far-off foreign threat. How did we come to be one of the countries with the worst death tolls?\n\nThere is no quick answer to that question, and there is sure to be a long and detailed public inquiry once the pandemic is over. But there are plenty of clues that, when pieced together, help build a picture of why the UK has reached this devastating number.\n\nSome will point a finger at the government - its decision to lock-down later than much of western Europe, the stuttering start to its test-and-trace network and the lack of protection afforded to care home residents.\n\nOthers will spotlight deeper rooted problems with British society - its poor state of public health, with high levels of obesity, for example.\n\nOthers, still, will note that some of the UK's great strengths - its position as a vibrant hub for international air travel, its ethnically diverse and densely-packed urban populations - exposed its vulnerability to a virus that spreads effortlessly between people.\n\nIn some people's eyes, the UK's island status might have helped it. New Zealand, Australia and Taiwan managed to stop the virus getting a foothold and deaths have been kept to a minimum - Australia has seen fewer deaths throughout the pandemic than the UK is recording every day on average.\n\nAll introduced strict border restrictions immediately and lockdowns to contain the virus before it had spread. The UK did not. It was not until June that quarantine rules were introduced for all arrivals and even then travel corridors were soon set up, relaxing the rules for travellers from certain countries. Only this month were these scrapped.\n\nProf Devi Sridhar, an expert in public health from Edinburgh University, is one of those who has been critical of the approach the UK has taken from the start.\n\nShe says the UK, like much of Europe, was \"complacent\" about the threat of infectious disease - choosing to treat the new coronavirus \"like flu\" and allowing it to spread, while talking about the desire to achieve herd immunity.\n\nThis all changed in late March, when a full lockdown eventually came. But there was a crucial delay of a week which is estimated to have cost more than 20,000 lives, according to government modeller Prof Neil Ferguson, because of how quickly infection rates were doubling at that point.\n\nThis, of course, is said with the benefit of hindsight. Government modellers themselves acknowledge the data was \"really quite poor\" making it difficult to make a decision that would have significant repercussions. It is a point acknowledged by Prof Chris Whitty, the UK's chief medical adviser. Speaking in the summer he said there had been \"very limited information\" in early March.\n\nBy then, the virus was ripping through care homes. Around 30% of deaths in the first wave happened in care homes; 40% if you include care home residents who died in hospital.\n\nThose at the heart of government acknowledge mistakes were made. UK chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said recently: \"The lesson is go earlier than you think you want to, go harder than you think you want to, and go a bit broader than you think you want to in terms of applying the restrictions.\"\n\nBy May, restrictions were beginning to be eased. But was this too soon?\n\nThe government seized on the relative lull to focus on building what the prime minister promised would be a \"world-beating\" test-and-trace system. The idea was that new outbreaks could be nipped in the bud, with comprehensive tracking by a centralised team of tracers.\n\nThe mere fact this had to be done some months after the virus had struck, illustrates another factor behind the high number of deaths - the UK was simply not prepared for a pandemic of this nature in the way some Asian nations had been. Countries such as South Korea and Taiwan had established test-and-trace systems in place that were ready to be activated.\n\nThe UK had a chance to bed in its system in the summer but it was riven with teething problems, with tracers struggling to reach many contacts and the testing capacity slowing down as demand rose.\n\nLow levels of infection over the summer had created a false sense of security.\n\nDesperate to boost the economy, the government launched the Eat Out to Help Out scheme, offering people discounted meals out during August. To what extent it contributed to the rise in the autumn is much argued about but certainly some doctors blame it in part for an increase in patients seen.\n\nThe truth is the virus never went away. Testing in the summer showed even at the lowest levels there were still around 500 cases a day being diagnosed - and random testing in the population subsequently showed the true level may have been twice that.\n\nIn late August around 1,000 people a day were testing positive. By mid-September that had trebled and from there it rose five-fold to 15,000 by mid October. The numbers testing positive have never returned below 10,000 a day on average since.\n\nAnother decision that has been heavily criticised was the refusal of ministers to introduce a short two-week lockdown, or \"circuit breaker\", in September - despite their advisers on Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) recommending such a step. The argument was it would have set the spread of the virus back by at least a month, giving test and trace time to regroup.\n\nWales, however, did introduce its own \"fire-breaker\" - a 17-day lockdown in October. It got infection rates down, but as soon as it was lifted they rebounded. This is, of course, why lockdowns have been criticised.\n\nEdinburgh University infectious diseases expert Prof Mark Woolhouse, one of the modellers who feeds data into Sage, is on the record in the autumn questioning the logic of them for this very reason. It remains up for debate how effective a circuit-breaker would actually have been.\n\nThis after all is the time of year when respiratory illnesses start to increase. Schools had returned as had university students, creating new environments for the novel coronavirus to spread.\n\nWhen a lockdown was eventually introduced in England in November it was to last four weeks, with Sage members lamenting the delay. \"The absence of a decision is a decision in itself,\" says Wellcome Trust director Sir Jeremy Farrar.\n\nBut even before that lockdown was lifted cases had started going up in the south-east of England. Within weeks it became clear what was happening. The virus had mutated and a new faster-spreading variant was on the rise.\n\nBy mid-December the clamour for lockdown was growing again, but the plan for a Christmas relaxation of restrictions had already been announced. In every nation of the UK, ministers waited.\n\nAt the start of 2021, with hospital admissions rising rapidly, the UK's four chief medical officers intervened, issuing a joint statement warning the NHS was at \"material risk\" of being overwhelmed. Within hours the UK was back in lockdown.\n\nWhat has struck some is just how similar the mistakes have been in terms of locking down late.\n\n\"It will take years to unpick why Covid has gone so badly in the UK,\" says University College London infectious diseases expert Dr Neil Stone. \"But the failure to learn from wave one stands out.\"\n\nBut it must also be recognised that there are factors outside the control of the government - certainly in terms of its pandemic response - that have contributed to the high number of deaths.\n\nOne of the reasons the virus was able to take a hold and spread so quickly was because of geography and the fact the UK - and London in particular - is a global hub. Genetic analysis has shown the virus was brought into the UK on at least 1,300 separate occasions, mainly from France, Spain and Italy, by the end of March.\n\nIt was here before we knew it. That's not something Australia or New Zealand had to deal with on such a scale.\n\nDensity of population is also a factor. The UK is among the 10 most densely populated big nations - those with populations of more than 20 million. What is more, our cities are more inter-connected than they are in many places.\n\nIt meant the virus was able to seed everywhere quite quickly. Contrast this with Italy which saw the vast majority of cases in the north of the country in the first wave.\n\nThe ageing population also needs to be taken into account. Once you do this, and adjust for the size of the population - known as age-standardised mortality - deaths have risen, but not by as much as some of the headline figures suggest.\n\nThe health of the nation has also been a factor. The UK has one of the highest rates of obesity in the world. And obesity increases the risk of hospitalisation and death, according to Public Health England. One study found the risk of death was almost double for those who are severely obese.\n\nConditions such as diabetes, kidney disease and respiratory problems also increase the risk - a fifth of Covid deaths have listed diabetes on the death certificate.\n\nAgain the UK has relatively high rates of these illnesses.\n\nBut many have argued that these high levels of ill-health have been compounded by the levels of inequality in the UK.\n\nLevels of ill health and life expectancy have always been worst in the poorest areas, but the pandemic certainly seems to have exacerbated this.\n\nOffice for National Statistics data shows mortality rates have been twice as high in deprived areas as they have been in wealthy areas. The Health Foundation is carrying out its own inquiry into the issue, arguing the Covid death toll needs to be seen through the \"lens\" of inequality to fully understand it.\n\nIt is something that has also been raised by Prof Michael Marmot, one of the country's leading experts on health inequalities. \"The UK's dismal record is telling us something important about our society.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by bereavement, here is a list of organisations that may be able to help.", "A senior judge prevented the BBC from properly reporting a £2.6m legal claim against Scotland's child abuse inquiry, a court has been told.\n\nThe Court of Session heard how Lady Smith, chairwoman of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI), faced an employment tribunal claim in 2019.\n\nLady Smith passed orders which stopped detail of the action being reported.\n\nThe top judge denied any wrongdoing in regard to the claim that was later abandoned.\n\nThe employment tribunal case alleging discrimination, harassment and victimisation was from a former senior member of the inquiry legal team.\n\nBBC Scotland has raised a judicial review of the SCAI restriction orders, arguing they were beyond the powers of Lady Smith and her involvement in the case meant any restriction decision should have been made by the employment tribunal.\n\nBut Roddy Dunlop QC, advocate for the SCAI, told the Court of Session the corporation's case was academic as the original restriction order had been overtaken by another order.\n\nMr Dunlop also argued the BBC had not spelled out to the SCAI what detail it wanted to publish in relation to the tribunal.\n\nKenneth McBrearty QC, acting for the broadcaster, told the court the purpose of the original restriction order was, \"not merely to prohibit disclosure or publication of the documents. It was to prohibit disclosure or publication of the very existence of the proceedings\".\n\nHe said: \"It is in effect what is equivalent to what in England has been described as a super injunction. That is what in effect it amounts to because it prohibits even the disclosure of the proceedings.\n\n\"The importance of this case lies with the way the Restriction Order impinged on the open justice principle. If there was a need for an order restricting the disclosure of any material, that is an order to be sought from the employment judge.\"\n\nThe case before Lord Boyd is being heard at the Court of Session\n\nThe Court of Session heard the employment tribunal claim for £2.6m damages was brought in July, 2019, by the inquiry's former lead junior counsel, John Halley.\n\nA news release, issued by SCAI in October 2019, confirmed existence of the claim and a denial that Lady Smith had discriminated against Mr Halley. An initial hearing took place that month and Mr Halley abandoned the tribunal two months later.\n\nBut Mr McBrearty QC said the SCAI press release did not include the full outline of the claim\n\nHe said: \"All that the media was to be entitled to publish was that which the respondent had considered able to include in a press release in circumstances to which the respondent was herself party in the proceedings.\"\n\nThe BBC is seeking declarators from the Court of Session stating that Lady Smith's restriction orders were unlawful.\n\nRoddy Dunlop QC said the BBC had the option to present to Lady Smith what it wanted to report on in the case, as per the detail of the media restriction order, and then get her permission to publish but failed to do so.\n\nHe said: \"That simple request is all that needed to be done and it wasn't resorted to. That's why the alternative remedy aspect of this is a problem to the BBC.\n\n\"There needs to be a practical effect, the entitlement to publish could have been obtained at any point by asking.\"\n\nMr Dunlop pointed out that the original restriction orders objected to by the BBC have now been replaced by a new order issued in March last year.\n\nHe said: \"What is the point of challenging orders which cease to have any potency.\n\n\"Why is it we continue to expend grey matter, and more importantly public funds on both sides, in fighting on something which is in any view within the terms of the reference [of the SCAI inquiry] and within article ten [of Human Rights legislation].\"\n\nOn Wednesday Mr Dunlop will continue his submissions before Lord Boyd.", "An extra £50m is being directed towards grassroots sport after a \"significant hit\" to activity levels amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nFunding agency Sport England - which has already invested £220m since the start of the crisis - announced the additional money as part of a new 10-year strategy.\n\nThousands of clubs, swimming pools, leisure centres and gyms have been forced to shut in recent months.\n\nWith many children having done no sport outside of PE lessons since the start of November, and schools now shut across the county, emphasis will be placed on supporting young people to get active.\n\nEarlier this month, figures showed the majority of young people failed to meet the recommended 60 minutes of daily exercise in the last academic year. Almost a third of children were classed as 'inactive' as a result of the first lockdown, not even doing 30 minutes.\n\nAnother focus in the new 'Uniting the Movement' strategy will be tackling the long-standing inequalities that have existed within the sport sector and reinforced by the recent disruption.\n\nNew data shows the pandemic has disproportionately affected people from lower socio-economic groups and BAME backgrounds, for whom there was already a clear pattern of low activity.\n\n\"This strategy comes at a critical time\" said Tim Hollingsworth, the chief executive of Sport England.\n\n\"We have made significant funding available, but many organisations are struggling, and activity levels have taken a significant hit.\n\n\"At the heart of all this is a ruthless focus on providing opportunities to people and communities that have traditionally been left behind.\"\n\nAndy Reed, Chair of the Sport for Development Coalition, said: \"The impact of the pandemic, growing social challenges and subsequent widening inequalities mean we urgently need a new social contract with sport and physical activity, focused on the wider social outcomes that sport can deliver.\"\n\n\"We must expand understanding, recognition and investment in the contribution that sport can make beyond health and wellbeing, to addressing loneliness and social isolation, improving educational attainment and employability, to community cohesion, and reducing anti-social behaviour and entry into the justice system.\"\n\nA group of more than 50 sports bodies have called for a new government action plan and emergency funding to help them survive the pandemic. The Save Our Sports campaign has warned that the activity sector - which employs nearly 600,000 people in the UK and contributes £16bn to the economy each year - faces an unprecedented crisis.\n\nHuw Edwards, the chief executive of Ukactive, which represents the physical activity industry, said: \"Crucially, before the sector begins its recovery from the impact of Covid-19, it must first survive it.\n\n\"The publication of this strategy needs to be accompanied by a new level of urgency and commitment from the government that it will not leave parts of this sector behind, and provide the necessary financial and regulatory support so desperately needed.\"\n\nBut Sports Minister Nigel Huddleston said it was \"placing sport and physical activity at the heart of its coronavirus recovery plan, and Sport England's new strategy provides a strong base to invest in sports organisations, facilities and people\".\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Sunday's fourth-round ties are", "The head of AstraZeneca has defended its rollout of the coronavirus vaccine in the EU, amid tension with member states over delays in supply.\n\nPascal Soriot told Italian newspaper La Repubblica that his team was working \"24/7 to fix the very many issues of production of the vaccine\".\n\nHe said production was \"basically two months behind where we wanted to be\".\n\nHe also said the EU's late decision to sign contracts had given limited time to sort out hiccups with supply.\n\nMr Soriot, chief executive of the UK-Swedish multinational, said a contract with the UK had been signed three months before the one with the EU, giving more time for glitches to be ironed out.\n\nHe told La Repubblica that problems in \"scaling up\" vaccine production were being experienced at two plants, one in the Netherlands and one in Belgium.\n\n\"It's complicated, especially in the early phase where you have to really sort out all sorts of issues,\" he said.\n\n\"We believe we've sorted out those issues, but we are basically two months behind where we wanted to be.\"\n\nHe added: \"We've also had teething issues like this in the UK supply chain. But the UK contract was signed three months before the European vaccine deal. So with the UK we have had an extra three months to fix all the glitches we experienced.\n\nAstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot said a vaccine targeting the South African variant was being worked on\n\n\"Would I like to do better? Of course. But, you know, if we deliver in February what we are planning to deliver, it's not a small volume. We are planning to deliver millions of doses to Europe, it is not small.\"\n\nMr Soriot also said AstraZeneca was working on a vaccine with Oxford University that would target the South African variant of the coronavirus.\n\nScientists have warned there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nThe AstraZeneca vaccine is already being used in the UK but has not yet been approved by the EU, although the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is expected to give it the green light at the end of this month.\n\nThe bloc signed a deal in August for 300 million doses, with an option for 100 million more. The EU had hoped that, as soon as approval was given, delivery would start straight away, with some 80 million doses arriving in the 27 nations by March.\n\nThe EU has ordered 600 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which is already being used on patients around the bloc.\n\nBut Pfizer-BioNTech said last week it was delaying shipments for the next few weeks because of work to increase capacity at its Belgian plant.\n\nIn response to the delays, the EU has said it might restrict exports of vaccines made in the bloc.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sofia Bettiza explains why some countries are far ahead of others in the vaccination race\n\nHealth Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said companies making Covid vaccines in the bloc would have to \"provide early notification whenever they want to export vaccines to third countries\".\n\nShe said the 27-member EU bloc would \"take any action required to protect its citizens\".\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, addressing the virtual version of the annual World Economic Forum (WEF), usually held in Davos, said: \"Europe invested billions to help develop the world's first Covid-19 vaccines. And now, the companies must deliver. They must honour their obligations.\"\n\nHave you been affected by vaccine supply issues? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage captures the extent of the damage the bridge over the River Clwyd\n\nIt could take 18 months to draw up plans to rebuild a bridge which was swept away during last week's Storm Christoph, a council has warned.\n\nLlanerch bridge, between Trefnant and Tremeirchion in Denbighshire, is a backroad link to the A55.\n\nThe grade II-listed bridge crosses the River Clwyd and villagers now face a seven-mile detour.\n\nMeanwhile, some people in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, can return home later after flooding caused by the storm.\n\nDenbighshire council said diversions would go through St Asaph while Llanerch bridge was repaired.\n\n\"It means it takes much longer now to go from Tremeirchion to Trefnant or St Asaph,\" he said.\n\n\"I know of one couple that have a horse in stables on the other side of the river - so it's a seven-mile journey each way, twice a day, for them now.\n\n\"It's quite a challenge and we're starting to think about how long we'll need to live with it. Are we talking a year, two, three, or maybe much longer than that?\"\n\nVale of Clwyd Conservative MP James Davies said the bridge should be rebuilt: \"There are many who would wish to see the bridge replaced like-for-like, although I appreciate that the new structure will need to take into account the challenges posed by modern-day and projected river flows.\"\n\nDenbighshire council's Meirick Lloyd Davies suggested the structure could be widened, similar to the one in Llangollen.\n\nBut the Trefnant ward councillor added: \"We will need money from the Welsh Government and I hope the UK government are also ready to throw something into the bucket because it is very expensive.\"\n\nA council spokesman said: \"We will seek to resolve this as soon as we are able.\n\n\"Final plans for the bridge will involve a number of third parties and it could take up to 18 months or more to resolve.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said the condition of the structure was the responsibility of the owner, with local authorities having powers to ensure listed structures were preserved.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cerys Thomas said her mother's conservatory windows were blown open by the force of the water\n\nSouth Wales was also hit by Storm Christoph on Thursday and in Skewen about 80 people were evacuated as water rushed through the village on Thursday.\n\nThe Coal Authority said initial checks suggested water built up in a mine shaft, causing a \"blow out\" which flooded properties.\n\nThose living in Jubilee Crescent and Dunevor Road have been told they can return home, but others will have to wait until the Coal Authority has made further investigations.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones told Breakfast with Claire Summers: \"We haven't got the exact figures of the number of people who will be able to return home today, there's going to be further assessments this morning.\n\n\"As early as we can, we will release the names of the streets of those people who will be able to go back, but it will be conditional. They need to go back in a controlled manner. We've still got Covid around.\"\n\nHe added houses would need to have their electrics checked and information would be provided on how to do this.\n\nOther people have been warned it could take months before they can go home.", "Chelsea have sacked manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge, with former Paris St-Germain boss Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him.\n\nLampard, 42, leaves with the club ninth in the Premier League after last week's defeat at Leicester City, having won once in their past five league matches.\n\nHis final game was Sunday's 3-1 FA Cup fourth-round win against Luton.\n\nLampard was appointed on a three-year contract when he replaced Maurizio Sarri at Stamford Bridge in July 2019.\n• None Watch Monday Night Club: Is Tuchel right man for Chelsea?\n• None 'Lampard had seen enough Chelsea managers go to know the score'\n• None Why Tuchel will be a popular appointment in the Chelsea dressing room\n• None Tuchel set to come in after Lampard sacking - reaction\n\nIn a statement released on Monday night, Lampard said he was \"disappointed not to have had the time to take the club forward\" and added that it had been a \"huge privilege and an honour\" to manage the club.\n\n\"When I took on this role I understood the challenges that lay ahead in a difficult time for the football club,\" he continued.\n\n\"I am proud of the achievements that we made, and I am proud of the academy players that have made their step into the first team and performed so well. They are the future of the club.\"\n\nChelsea are hopeful that new manager Tuchel will be on the bench for Wednesday's Premier League game against Wolves at Stamford Bridge.\n\nHe will not be exempt from coronavirus quarantine.\n\nBut if Tuchel tests negative on entry to the United Kingdom and then negative again in order to enter a Premier League club's bubble, he will be granted an exemption by the Football Association for attending matches and training.\n\nHe will still have to serve a quarantine period outside of those environments, which will last five days.\n\nFormer Chelsea midfielder Lampard guided them to fourth place and the FA Cup final in his first season in charge, and a 3-1 win against Leeds in early December put the club top of the Premier League.\n\nHowever, the Blues have suffered five defeats in their past eight league games, as many as they had in their previous 23.\n\nIn a statement, Chelsea said: \"This has been a very difficult decision, and not one that the owner and the board have taken lightly.\n\n\"We are grateful to Frank for what he has achieved in his time as head coach of the club. However, recent results and performances have not met the club's expectations, leaving the club mid-table without any clear path to sustained improvement.\n\n\"There can never be a good time to part ways with a club legend such as Frank, but after lengthy deliberation and consideration it was decided a change is needed now to give the club time to improve performances and results this season.\"\n\nOwner Roman Abramovich said Lampard's status as an \"important icon\" of the club \"remains undiminished\" despite his dismissal.\n\n\"This was a very difficult decision for the club, not least because I have an excellent personal relationship with Frank and I have the utmost respect for him,\" said Abramovich.\n\n\"He is a man of great integrity and has the highest of work ethics. However, under current circumstances we believe it is best to change managers.\"\n\nLampard did not sign a single player during his first season as the club were operating under a transfer embargo, but spent more than £200m on seven major signings last summer, including £45m on Leicester's Ben Chilwell and £71m on midfielder Kai Havertz from Bayer Leverkusen.\n\nIt is the most Chelsea have spent in one summer, eclipsing the £186m they invested at the start of the 2017-18 season.\n\nLampard is Chelsea's all-time record scorer, with 211 goals for the club between 2001 and 2014, and is also joint-seventh on the list of most capped England players, having made 106 appearances for his country over 15 years from 1999.\n\nDuring his 13 seasons as a player at Stamford Bridge, he made 648 appearances and won 11 major trophies - including four Premier League titles and the 2012 Champions League.\n\nHis first managerial job was at Derby. In his one season in charge, they reached the Championship play-off final, where they lost to Aston Villa.\n\nLampard became the 10th full-time manager appointed by Abramovich since the billionaire bought the club in 2003.\n\nAccording to football finance journalist Kieran Maguire, Abramovich had spent £110m on sacking managers before Lampard's dismissal.\n\nHaving finished with 66 points last season after 20 wins and 12 defeats, Chelsea have lost six times in their opening 19 league games this season.\n\nLampard's points-per-game average of 1.67 is the lowest of any permanent Chelsea manager in the Premier League. During the Abramovich era, only Andre Villas-Boas (47.5%) has a worse win rate than Lampard's 52.4%, in all competitions among permanent Chelsea bosses.\n\nIn contrast, Jose Mourinho's win rate in all competitions during his first spell in charge was 67.03%, while Sarri, Antonio Conte, Avram Grant, Carlo Ancelotti and Claudio Ranieri all had win rates over 60%.\n\nAnalysis - lack of confidence among squad key to sacking\n\nLampard was sacked because the club could not see him reversing a slide in form.\n\nAfter qualifying for the Champions League last season and spending more than £200m on players in the summer, the aim this campaign was to close the gap on the leaders, but that has not been achieved.\n\nAlthough links will be made between Tuchel's heritage and the poor form of fellow Germans Kai Havertz and Timo Werner, the change was made because of the lack of confidence among the whole squad.\n\nIt is hoped that Tuchel can rejuvenate a team that is five points outside of the top four, and an announcement could be made within 24 hours.\n\nThe decision to sack Lampard was very difficult for Abramovich, who has never made a statement when changing Chelsea managers previously.\n\nIn the end, Lampard paid for his relative inexperience as a manager, which cannot be said of Tuchel.\n\nBest of reaction to Lampard sacking\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola: \"People talk about projects and ideas. They don't exist. You have to win or you will be replaced. I am not judging Chelsea's decision. I respect their decision. But our world is to win as much as possible.\n\n\"I hope to see Frank soon and go to a restaurant with him when lockdown is finished.\"\n\nTottenham boss Jose Mourinho: \"It is the brutality of football. Anything can happen in football now, every time somebody loses their job it is sad news but he is a big boy, [with] a strong personality and strong mentality.\n\n\"I am pretty sure he will be back when he wants to be back and his career will be good. I hope so.\"\n\nWest Ham boss David Moyes: \"I'm disappointed for Frank as I saw him as one of the most up and coming young English managers in the country.\n\n\"It's a big thing we try to encourage our own British managers into the big leagues, if we can. I'm sure he'll come back and learn from it.\n\n\"He did a great job last year - he did a really good job with so many youngsters coming through the academy. It seemed a little bit harder for him this year. I'm sure he'll take time off, come back and get better.\"\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers: \"Clearly I'm really sad for Frank and his staff. I know how much the club means to him.\n\n\"Looking at the squad and how young they are, they need time. He hasn't been given that time. I really feel for him. He did great at Derby.\n\n\"He had the courage to step out of an amazing career and could have taken an easier route. It was a job he couldn't turn down, even though he didn't have a lot of experience.\n\n\"Results haven't been what he would have wanted, but I feel it's a job that needed time.\"\n\nCrystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson: \"It saddens me. I thought he did an excellent job last season. I was rather hoping that the idol of the fans and Chelsea legend that he is, he'd get a longer shot than 18 months.\n\n\"Managers who have had short stays at Chelsea have gone on to have good careers elsewhere. When you're sacked for the first time, it is a devastating blow. There's no doubt he has a pedigree to be a very good manager.\"\n\nFormer Chelsea striker Chris Sutton speaking on BBC 5 Live's Monday Night Club: \"It is 52 days since Chelsea were top of the Premier League and 48 days ago that Chelsea had been on an unbeaten run of 17 games.\n\n\"So in the space of 48 days the owner has decided to write Frank Lampard off. How are we ever going to know if Frank Lampard is a good manager? You only every really learn about people and their characteristics and traits when they go through a little bit of adversity and Frank has gone through a little bit of adversity.\n\n\"Frank has basically been sacked for the owner's expectations. I feel sorry for Frank because he is a club legend.\n\n\"They are five points off fourth place, but the bottom line is that the owner wants to win the Premier League and that was always going to be the pressure.\n\n\"Chelsea should have been more loyal. We know the owner's track record - he is ruthless, he is brutal and guillotined Frank.\"\n\nScott G: Been a Chelsea fan since Nevin, Speedie and Dixon and admit I've enjoyed all the success money has brought us over the last 20 years. However, there's a sadness about that decision. Some things money can't buy. #SuperFrank\n\nFil Harris: Isn't the whole point of appointing a younger manager to give him time to build and develop? Craziness from Chelsea to sack Lampard after such a short time.\n\nSimon Kirk: Been a Chelsea fan since 1969 and have never been so annoyed at a sacking of a Chelsea manager. He needed at least another 18 months. Shame on you Abramovich and the Chelsea board for supporting such a decision.\n\nRyan Howard: I find it such a weird sacking - a month or so ago Chelsea were in a nice groove, Zouma and Silva were scoring and keeping clean sheets, now after one bad run he gets sacked. Chelsea could be a world-class club if they just gave a manager proper time to build a team.\n\nPeter Josi: Chelsea are totally right to sack Lampard, he lacked the experience or coaching prowess to lead the side. The next phase should start with an investigation into our transfer policy and how our last two record signings turned out to be flops.\n\nThomas Wilson: Why are people surprised Lampard was sacked? Chelsea have been ruthlessly successful for 15 years. They are not going to suddenly resort to being generously unsuccessful because of a club legend being at the helm.\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Sunday's fourth-round ties are", "Janet Yellen has been confirmed as the first ever female US treasury secretary in a Senate vote.\n\nMs Yellen, who headed the US central bank from 2014 to 2018, earlier won bipartisan support from members of the Senate Finance Committee.\n\nShe will be responsible for guiding the Biden administration's economic response to the pandemic.\n\nThe US is struggling to rebound economically from the hit caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAt her confirmation hearing on 19 January, Ms Yellen urged Congress to approve trillions more in pandemic relief and economic stimulus, saying that lawmakers should \"act big\" without worrying about national debt.\n\nIn response, Republican senators warned the former Federal Reserve head this was not the time for \"a laundry list\" of liberal reforms.\n\nMs Yellen disagreed, highlighting the fact that many families whose incomes have fallen were not reached by jobless programmes. She argued that plans to raise taxes must be seen in the context of financing bigger investments necessary to make the US economy competitive.\n\n\"The focus now is not on tax increases. It is on programmes to help us get through the pandemic,\" she stressed.\n\nJanet Yellen was previously chair of the US Federal Reserve. She was known for focusing more attention on the impact of the central bank's policies on workers and the costs of America's rising inequality.\n\nBefore then-President Barack Obama named her to lead the Fed in 2014, she had served as one of its board members for a decade, including four years as vice-chair.\n\nJanet Yellen speaking at a press conference in 2017 as US Federal Reserve Chair\n\nDonald Trump bucked Washington tradition when he opted not to appoint Ms Yellen to a second four-year term at the Fed.\n\nHowever, her climb to the top of the economics profession had made her a feminist icon in the economics world.\n\nWhen she left the Fed in 2018, many paid tribute to her leadership by imitating her signature look of a blazer with a popped collar.\n\nMs Yellen is seen as someone able to satisfy both progressive and centrist members of Mr Biden's Democratic party. Her nomination to lead the Fed in 2014 won support from some Republicans.\n\nHer focus on employment, rather than inflation, gave her a reputation of favouring low interest rates, which spur economic activity by making it less expensive to borrow money.\n\nBut under her leadership, the Fed raised interest rates for the first time since 2008 - albeit less aggressively than some more conservative commentators supported.\n\nHer stewardship of that process has won praise on Wall Street, even as it remains hotly debated.", "Twitter is asking its users for help in combating fake news.\n\nIt has announced a pilot that allows people to submit notes on tweets that may be false or misleading.\n\nThe initiative, named 'Birdwatch', is being trialled among a small group in the US initially. The firm acknowledged the new system would have to be \"resistant to manipulation attempts\".\n\nCompanies like Twitter are looking at how they can better moderate their platforms.\n\nTwitter said on Monday: \"We know this might be messy and have problems at times, but we believe this is a model worth trying.\"\n\nTwitter, along with other large social media companies, has struggled to deal with disinformation on its platform.\n\nThe pilot will allow users to flag tweets they believe to be \"misleading or false\", provide evidence to the contrary and discuss them with other - on a separate 'Birdwatch' site.\n\nAdditional notes and flags would then be placed on to content.\n\nTwitter says this new approach could help it respond more quickly when misleading information spreads.\n\n\"Eventually we aim to make notes visible directly on Tweets for the global Twitter audience, when there is consensus from a broad and diverse set of contributors,\" Twitter said.\n\nTwitter already adds labels to some misleading news. For example, many of Donald Trump's false claims of voter fraud were labelled by the company.\n\nTwitter also reserves the right to remove tweets - and in extreme circumstances ban users - which it did with the US president after the riots in Washington earlier this month.\n\nTwitter, though, wants to go further: \"We don't want to limit efforts to circumstances where something breaks our rules or receives widespread public attention,\" said Twitter's Vice-President Keith Coleman.\n\nParticipants will have to provide a verified phone number and email to take part, in a bid to keep bots and bad actors away, as well as having no recent rule violations against their Twitter account.\n\nPresident Biden said in his inauguration speech that: \"We must reject a culture where facts are manipulated, or even manufactured.\"\n\nJames Clayton is the BBC's North America technology reporter based in San Francisco. Follow him on Twitter @jamesclayton5.", "Parents and teachers say they are \"frustrated\" schools will be shut until the February half term and fear the impact it will have on children.\n\nSpeaking to Radio Wales' phone-in, one caller said they felt young people were being \"thrown under the bus\".\n\nOthers said they were fed up with \"bitty information\" from the Welsh Government.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said it was the \"best certainty\" he could offer \"in a world which is highly uncertain\".\n\nSo how have parents, pupils and professionals reacted to the announcement that schools may not reopen until 22 February?\n\nDr Dai Samuel welcomed the news as a consultant treating Covid patients - but as a dad he feels some \"trepidation\"\n\nDr Dai Samuel, a consultant at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taf, is also a father and lives in one of the worst-hit areas in Wales.\n\nHe said he had mixed feelings about the decision as he had \"two hats on\" - one as an NHS doctor treating Covid patients and the other as a dad.\n\n\"The hospitals are full and the ITU units only have beds now because they've expanded that capacity,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a very precarious position and I just hope that this measure now for the next three to six weeks will hopefully allow us to get through this winter, allow the vaccines to take effect and get us out of this mess come the spring and summer.\n\n\"I'm a doctor so, from a medical point of view, yes [the decision is] a massive sigh of relief, but as a father and someone who lives in Merthyr - a town that's been hit already significantly by the virus and the economical impacts of that - I've got some sort of trepidation because I fear that those businesses now that still remain closed will suffer and will go under.\n\n\"What will happen to that generation of children now who might not get the education they deserve and would have had otherwise… who won't achieve what they could have?\"\n\nTrying to home-school four young children and work is a \"challenge\", said Kaarina Rutta Reuter from Sully, Vale of Glamorgan.\n\n\"It's a challenge trying to help all four at the same time and also having in the back of your mind, 'I should also be working and doing other things',\" she said.\n\n\"I was quite sure that this was going to happen. It didn't come as a surprise I have to say, because the situation is just so bad I think there is no other way out of it at the moment. I just wish we had known earlier on and it would have been easier to plan.\"\n\nThe pressures of juggling home-schooling with her career mean she is working at night when the children have gone to bed.\n\n\"I don't even try to work during the day with the children around because I've just realised it's just not possible.\n\n\"My husband is working full-time but I'm only working part-time, I'm teaching at university so I still have quite flexible hours - apart from obviously teaching hours - it just means that I have to work in the evening or over the weekend, just organise yourself differently.\"\n\nShe said it was \"best not to have too high expectations\" when it came to guessing when lockdown would end and schools would reopen.\n\n\"Like we saw in the first lockdown in spring, in the end it was quite a bit longer than we had all thought,\" she said.\n\n\"I would hope they could go back in March, that's my hope for now but I think we'll just have to wait and see what will happen with the numbers over the next few weeks, months and just take it from there really.\"\n\nA father called Ron, from Bridgend, told the phone-in with Dot Davies he was predominantly worried about the effects on children, particularly in the south Wales valleys.\n\n\"I just see children deteriorating on a regular basis. I can only speak about my own - I have a teenage daughter and her mental health, her lack of access to her school, her teachers, to her peers, will cause more harm than the virus will cause children.\n\n\"It feels like we are asking our children to donate their kidneys to the vulnerable. We are throwing them under the bus as far as I'm concerned.\"\n\nAnna, 16, who is studying for her GCSEs at Ysgol Gyfun Gwyr, Swansea, said the decision to keep schools and colleges closed was \"a big disappointment\".\n\n\"The idea of staying in the house until February fills me with dread because we've been in the house for months,\" she told Newyddion.\n\nAfter a case of Covid-19 in her school, she said she had to self-isolate, adding: \"It's been an age since I last saw my friends, went to school, and really learned.\n\n\"It's really hard. We've been back in school since Wednesday and doing everything online but it's nigh-on impossible. It's not the same.\n\n\"It's really hard to learn. There's this feeling of 'why am I even bothering?' - I really want to go back but I appreciate that might not be possible because people are dying. It's not an easy situation.\"\n\nHer mock assessments before her final assessments - which were brought in to replace exams - have been cancelled until the return to school, which she said has taken away some of the pressure.\n\n\"Without practising, there's a lot of uncertainty. What's going to be in the assessment? So, it is nice to hear they've cancelled them. It's a difficult situation so cancelling them takes a bit of the pressure off children and young people my age.\"\n\nMother-of-three Amanda Williams from Bridgend told the Local Democracy Reporting Service she was glad schools would remain closed and hoped it would minimise the spread of the virus.\n\n\"I don't believe schools are safe to open at the moment,\" she said.\n\n\"Until they can classify exactly what the main symptoms are in children I think it's a risk to send children back to school and it's a risk with these new variants.\"\n\nMrs Williams lives in Bridgend county borough, where infection rates are the highest among all Welsh local authority areas. One of her relatives is currently on a ventilator at Bridgend's Princess of Wales Hospital with Covid-19.\n\n\"In the last week I've heard of a lot of people passing away such as friends of friends. It's starting to get closer to home.\"\n\nSarah Curley, a maths teacher and mother of twins, also from Bridgend, said she would \"rather be in school\" but agreed schools remaining shut was the \"safest option\".\n\nShe said: \"In school each day I come into contact with 100-odd pupils and we don't wear PPE.\"\n\nMs Curley said she was glad her school, Coleg Cymunedol Y Dderwen in Bridgend, would not be welcoming students back on Monday, as originally planned, because of the area's high infection rates.\n\n\"My anxiety was through the roof around Christmas. I could see the numbers going up and I was thinking, 'I've got to go back into school next week'.\"", "A year ago, the Chinese government locked down the city of Wuhan. For weeks beforehand officials had maintained that the outbreak was under control - just a few dozen cases linked to a live animal market. But in fact the virus had been spreading throughout the city and around China.\n\nThis is the story of five critical days early in the outbreak.\n\nBy 30 December, several people had been admitted to hospitals in the central city of Wuhan, having fallen ill with high fever and pneumonia. The first known case was a man in his 70s who had fallen ill on 1 December. Many of those were connected to a sprawling live animal market, Huanan Seafood Market, and doctors had begun to suspect this wasn't regular pneumonia.\n\nSamples from infected lungs had been sent to genetic sequencing companies to identify the cause of the disease, and preliminary results had indicated a novel coronavirus similar to Sars. The local health authorities and the country's Center for Disease Control (CDC) had already been notified, but nothing had been said to the public.\n\nAlthough no-one knew it at the time, between 2,300 and 4,000 people were by now likely infected, according to a recent model by MOBS Lab at Northeastern University in Boston. The outbreak was also thought to be doubling in size every few days. Epidemiologists say that at this early part of an outbreak, each day and even each hour is critical.\n\nWuhan’s Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was sealed off on 1 January 2020\n\nAt around 16:00 on 30 December, the head of the Emergency Department at Wuhan Central Hospital was handed the results of a test carried out by sequencing lab Capital Bio Medicals in Beijing.\n\nShe went into a cold sweat as she read the report, according to an interview given later to Chinese state media.\n\nAt the top were the alarming words: \"SARS CORONAVIRUS\". She circled them in bright red, and passed it on to colleagues over the Chinese messaging site WeChat.\n\nWithin an hour and a half, the grainy image with its large red circle reached a doctor in the hospital's ophthalmology department, Li Wenliang. He shared it with his hundreds-strong university class group, adding the warning, \"Don't circulate the message outside this group. Get your family and loved ones to take precautions.\"\n\nWhen Sars spread through southern China in late 2002 and 2003, Beijing covered up the outbreak, insisting that everything was under control. This allowed the virus to spread around the world. Beijing's response invoked international criticism and - worryingly for a regime deeply concerned about stability - anger and protests within China. Between 2002 and 2004, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) went on to infect more than 8,000 people and kill almost 800 worldwide.\n\nRobert Maguire of the WHO and a Chinese doctor visit a Sars patient in Guangzhou, China – April 2003\n\nOver the coming hours, screen shots of Li's message spread widely online. Across China, millions of people began talking about Sars online.\n\nIt would turn out that the sequencers made a mistake - this was not Sars, but a new coronavirus very similar to it. But this was a critical moment. News of a possible outbreak had escaped.\n\nThe Wuhan Health Commission was already aware that there was something going on in the city's hospitals. That day, officials from the National Health Commission in Beijing arrived, and lung samples were sent to at least five state labs in Wuhan and Beijing to sequence the virus in parallel.\n\nNow, as messages suggesting the possible return of Sars began flying over Chinese social media, the Wuhan Health Commission sent two orders out to hospitals. It instructed them to report all cases direct to the Health Commission, and told them not to make anything public without authorisation.\n\nWithin 12 minutes, these orders were leaked online.\n\nIt might have taken a couple more days for the online chatter to make the leap from Chinese-speaking social media to the wider world if it wasn't for the efforts of veteran epidemiologist Marjorie Pollack.\n\nThe deputy editor of ProMed-mail, an organisation which sends out alerts on disease outbreaks worldwide, received an email from a contact in Taiwan, asking if she knew anything about the chatter online.\n\nDr Marjorie Pollack is an epidemiologist based in New York\n\nBack in February 2003, ProMed had been the first to break the news of Sars. Now, Pollack had deja vu. \"My reaction was: 'We're in trouble,'\" she told the BBC.\n\nThree hours later, she had finished writing an emergency post, requesting more information on the new outbreak. It was sent out to ProMed's approximately 80,000 subscribers at one minute to midnight.\n\nAs word began to spread, Professor George F Gao, director general of China's Center for Disease Control [CDC], was receiving offers of help from contacts around the world.\n\nChina revamped its infectious disease infrastructure after Sars - and in 2019, Gao had promised that China's vast online surveillance system would be able to prevent another outbreak like it.\n\nBut two scientists who contacted Gao say the CDC head did not seem alarmed.\n\n\"I sent a really long text to George Gao, offering to send a team out and do anything to support them,\" Dr Peter Daszak, the president of New York-based infectious diseases research group EcoHealth Alliance, told the BBC. But he says that all he received in reply was a short message wishing him Happy New Year.\n\nDirector of the Chinese Center for Disease Control, George F Gao – 22 January 2020\n\nEpidemiologist Ian Lipkin of Columbia University in New York was also trying to reach Gao. Just as he was having dinner to ring in the New Year, Gao returned his call. The details Lipkin reveals about their conversation offer new insights into what leading Chinese officials were prepared to say at this critical point.\n\n\"He had identified the virus. It was a new coronavirus. And it was not highly transmissible. This didn't really resonate with me because I'd heard that many, many people had been infected,\" Lipkin told the BBC. \"I don't think he was duplicitous, I think he was just wrong.\"\n\nLipkin says he thinks Gao should have released the sequences they had already obtained. My view is that you get it out. This is too important to hesitate.\"\n\nGao, who refused the BBC's requests for an interview, has told state media that the sequences were released as soon as possible, and that he never said publicly that there was no human-to-human transmission.\n\nThat day, the Wuhan Health Commission issued a press release stating that 27 cases of viral pneumonia had been identified, but that there was no clear evidence of human to human transmission.\n\nIt would be a further 12 days before China shared the genetic sequences with the international community.\n\nThe Chinese government refused multiple interview requests by the BBC. Instead, it gave us detailed statements on China's response, which state that in the fight against Covid-19 China \"has always acted with openness, transparency and responsibility, and … in a timely manner.\"\n\nBBC This World's 54 Days: China and the pandemic can be seen on BBC Two at 21:00 GMT on Tuesday 26 January, or 23:30 on Monday 1 February (except BBC Two Northern Ireland). Or watch on BBC iPlayer.\n\nPart two - 54 Days: America and the Pandemic - will be on BBC Two on Tuesday 2 February at 21:00.\n\nInternational law stipulates that new infectious disease outbreaks of global concern be reported to the World Health Organization within 24 hours. But on 1 January the WHO still had not had official notification of the outbreak. The previous day, officials there had spotted the ProMed post and reports online, so they contacted China's National Health Commission.\n\n\"It was reportable,\" says Professor Lawrence Gostin, Director of the WHO Collaborating Center on national and global health law at Georgetown University in Washington DC, and a member of the International Health Regulations roster of experts. \"The failure to report clearly was a violation of the International Health Regulations.\"\n\nDr Maria Van Kerkhove, a WHO epidemiologist who would become the agency's Covid-19 technical lead, joined the first of many emergency conference calls in the middle of the night on 1 January.\n\n\"We had the assumptions initially that it may be a new coronavirus. For us it wasn't a matter of if human to human transmission was happening, it was what is the extent of it and where is that happening.\"\n\nIt was two days before China responded to the WHO. But what they revealed was vague - that there were now 44 cases of viral pneumonia of unknown cause.\n\nChina says that it communicated regularly and fully with the WHO from 3 January. But recordings of internal WHO meetings obtained by the Associated Press (AP) news agency some of which were shared with PBS Frontline and the BBC, paint a different picture, revealing the frustration that senior WHO officials felt by the following week.\n\n\"'There's been no evidence of human to human transmission' is not good enough. We need to see the data,\" Mike Ryan WHO's health emergencies programme director is heard saying.\n\nThe WHO was legally required to state the information it had been provided by China. Although they suspected human to human transmission, the WHO were not able to confirm this for a further three weeks.\n\n\"Those concerns are not something they ever aired publicly. Instead, they basically deferred to China,\" says AP's Dake Kang. \"Ultimately, the impression that the rest of the world got was just what the Chinese authorities wanted. Which is that everything was under control. Which of course it wasn't.\"\n\nThe number of people infected by the virus was doubling in size every few days, and more and more people were turning up at Wuhan's hospitals.\n\nBut now - instead of allowing doctors to share their concerns publicly - state media began a campaign that effectively silenced them.\n\nOn 2 January, China Central Television ran a story about the doctors who spread the news about an outbreak four days earlier. The doctors, referred to only as \"rumour mongers\" and \"internet users\", were brought in for questioning by the Wuhan Public Security Bureau and 'dealt with' 'in accordance with the law'.\n\nOne of the doctors was Li Wenliang, the eye doctor whose warning had gone viral. He signed a confession. In February, the doctor died of Covid-19.\n\nThe Chinese government says that this is not evidence that it was trying to suppress news of the outbreak, and that doctors like Li were being urged not to spread unconfirmed information.\n\nBut the impact of this public dressing down was critical. For though it was becoming apparent to doctors that there was, in fact, human-to-human transmission, they were prevented from going public.\n\nA health worker from Li's hospital, Wuhan Central, told us that over the next few days \"there were so many people who had a fever. It was out of control. We started to panic. [But] The hospital told us that we were not allowed to speak to anyone.\"\n\nThe Chinese government told us that \"it takes a rigorous scientific process to determine if a new virus can be transmitted from person to person\".\n\nThe authorities would continue to maintain for a further 18 days that there was no human-to-human transmission.\n\nLabs across the country were racing to map the complete genetic sequence of the virus. Among them was a renowned virologist in Shanghai, Professor Zhang Yongzhen who began sequencing on 3 January.\n\nAfter having worked for two days straight, he obtained a complete sequence. His results revealed a virus that was similar to Sars, and therefore likely transmissible.\n\nOn 5 January, Zhang's office wrote to the National Health Commission advising taking precautionary measures in public places.\n\n\"On that very day, he was working to try and get information released as soon as possible, so the rest of the world could see what it was and so we could get diagnostics going\", says Zhang's research partner, Professor Edward Holmes an evolutionary virologist at the University of Sydney.\n\nBut Zhang could not make his findings public. On January 3, the National Health Commission had sent a secret memorandum to labs banning unauthorised scientists from working on the virus and disclosing the information to the public.\n\n\"What the notice effectively did,\" says AP's Dake Kang, \"is it silenced individual scientists and laboratories from revealing information about this virus and potentially allowing word of it to leak out to the outside world and alarm people.\"\n\nNone of the labs went public with the genetic sequence of the virus. China continued to maintain it was viral pneumonia with no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission.\n\nIt would be six days before it announced that the new virus was a coronavirus, and even then, it did not share any genetic sequences to allow other countries to develop tests and begin tracing the spread of the virus.\n\nThree days later, on 11 January, Zhang decided it was time to put his neck on the line. As he boarded a plane between Beijing and Shanghai, he authorised Holmes to release the sequence.\n\nThe decision came at a personal cost - his lab was closed the next day for \"rectification\" - but his action broke the deadlock. The next day state scientists released the sequences they had obtained. The international scientific community swung into action, and a toolkit for a diagnostic test was publicly available by 13 January.\n\nDespite the evidence from scientists and doctors, China would not confirm there was human-to-human transmission until 20 January.\n\nIllustration of spike proteins (red) of Covid-19 binding with receptors (blue) on a target human cell\n\nAt the beginning of any emerging disease outbreak, says health law expert Lawrence Gostin, it's always chaotic. \"It was always going to be very difficult to control this virus, from day one. But by the time we knew [the international community] it was transmissible human to human, I think the cat was already out the bag, it already spread.\n\n\"That was the shot we had, and we lost it.\"\n\nAs Wang Linfa, a bat virologist at Duke-Nus Medical School in Singapore, says: \"January 20th is the dividing line, before that the Chinese could have done much better. After that, the rest of the world should be really on high alert and do much better.\"", "Harriet Tubman was a spy and a nurse for the Union during the US Civil War\n\nThe Biden administration has said it will seek to push forward a plan to make anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman the face of a new $20 bill.\n\nA note featuring Ms Tubman, who was born a slave in about 1822, was originally due to be unveiled in 2020.\n\nThe US Treasury said she would replace former President Andrew Jackson, a slave owner.\n\nBut the effort was delayed under former President Donald Trump, who branded it \"pure political correctness\".\n\nNow President Joe Biden has revived the project, with White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki telling reporters the Treasury was \"exploring ways to speed up\" the process.\n\nThe move would make Ms Tubman the first African American to appear on a US banknote, and the first woman for more than 100 years.\n\n\"It's important that our notes, our money - if people don't know what a note is - reflect the history and diversity of our country, and Harriet Tubman's image gracing the new $20 note would certainly reflect that,\" Ms Psaki said on Monday.\n\nA mock-up of the new $20 note\n\nThe women last depicted on US notes were former First Lady Martha Washington, on the $1 silver certificate from 1891 to 1896, and Native American Pocahontas, in a group image on the $20 bill from 1865 to 1869.\n\nHowever, given the complexities of redesigning and producing US banknotes, the bill is not expected to be released any time soon.\n\nIn 2019, Mr Trump's Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, said the redesign would be delayed until at least 2026. At the time, he said he was focused on redesigning bills to address counterfeiting issues, not making changes to their imagery.\n\nMr Trump, an admirer of his populist predecessor Andrew Jackson - whose portrait hung in his office - expressed opposition to the redesign.\n\nWhile campaigning in 2016, Mr Trump suggested that Ms Tubman be put on the $2 bill instead.\n\nBorn into slavery in about 1822, Ms Tubman grew up working in the cotton fields in Dorchester County, Maryland. She was the fourth of nine children born to two enslaved parents, Benjamin Ross and Harriet Rit.\n\nAs a teenager, she was hit in the head by an iron weight thrown by an overseer, leaving her severely injured.\n\nShe escaped from a slave plantation in 1849, fleeing north to the neighbouring state of Pennsylvania.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Harriet Tubman escaped slavery and then helped others to do so.\n\nIn the years that followed, Ms Tubman returned multiple times to Maryland to rescue others, conducting them along the so-called \"underground railroad\", a network of safe houses used to spirit slaves from the south to the free states in the north.\n\nShe is estimated to have made some 13 missions to rescue more than 70 enslaved people, including family and friends, using the network.\n\nLater, she became a spy for the Union Army during the Civil War, a prominent supporter of the women's suffrage movement, and a famous veteran of the struggle for the abolition of slavery.\n\nAfter the war, Ms Tubman toured eastern cities giving speeches in support of women's suffrage, drawing on her experiences in the fight against slavery.\n\nShe died in 1913, aged 91, surrounded by her family.", "Sunderland-based Hays Travel took over Thomas Cook's stores and staff in 2019\n\nTravel firm Hays Travel is to close 89 of its 535 shops following a review into its take over of Thomas Cook.\n\nThe Sunderland-based firm bought the collapsed company in October 2019 and deferred a review into the performance of its shops until 2021.\n\nA Hays Travel spokeswoman said the third national lockdown and travel ban meant \"the company had to act\".\n\nShe said 388 staff affected by the closures would be offered \"alternative work options\" to minimise redundancies.\n\nChief operating officer Jonathon Woodall said the \"first priority\" was to \"look after our customers\" and ensure \"the highest standards of customer service\".\n\nHe added that the firm was \"continuing with our robust two-year business plan and continue to be ready for the bounce back when it comes\".\n\nDame Irene Hays said business had not bounced back as had been hoped\n\nDame Irene Hays, owner and chair of the Sunderland-based firm, said it was \"always our intention to review the performance of our shops at the end of the licence period\".\n\n\"We had hoped the business would bounce back in January and it has not,\" she said.\n\n\"We have done everything we could to safeguard jobs and the business thus far, and we have come up with a range of options for those at risk of redundancy to help as many colleagues as we can.\"\n\nOptions for staff include working from home or filling vacancies in other shops.\n\nThe spokeswoman said the firm employed about 7,700 people, many of whom were \"working from home taking bookings for holidays for 2021 and beyond\".\n\nThe company has yet to confirm which of its locations will be affected.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There has been a recent investigation into mother-and-baby homes in the Republic of Ireland\n\nA report into mother-and-baby homes and Magdalene Laundries in Northern Ireland is expected to be published later.\n\nThe Stormont-commissioned research was carried out by Queen's University and Ulster University.\n\nIt examined whether a public inquiry should be held into the homes.\n\nAmnesty has estimated about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the institutions operated by both Catholic and Protestant churches and other religious organisations.\n\nSome survivors, both unmarried pregnant mothers who were brought to the facilities and children who were later adopted, have long called for a public inquiry.\n\nThe NI Executive is currently meeting to discuss the report and its recommendations.\n\nFirst Minster Arlene Foster tweeted to say she had spoken to survivors of the homes about the report and the next steps.\n\nShe described it as \"a shameful chapter\", adding: \"Now the silence is broken and their stories have rightfully begun to be told\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Arlene Foster #WeWillMeetAgain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said earlier that Tuesday's research \"breaks the silence\" around what happened.\n\nShe added that \"what happened was so, so wrong\", and that her thoughts were with the survivors \"who deserve answers to their many questions\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe report was commissioned by the Department of Health in 2018 and assessed the period from 1922 to 1999.\n\nIt was completed in February 2020 but was then sent to those facing criticism to give them an opportunity to reply.\n\nSolicitor Claire McKeegan, representing the group Birth Mothers and their Children for Justice NI, said many women were branded as \"fallen\" after becoming pregnant outside marriage and were forced to carry out unpaid labour.\n\nThis \"abuse\", she said, happened on both sides of the Irish border.\n\n\"The state in Northern Ireland not only permitted what happened, but also policed it,\" she added.\n\nAmnesty said there were more than a dozen mother-and-baby home and Magdalene Laundry-type institutions in NI, with the last one closing its doors as recently as 1990.\n\nPatrick Corrigan, NI programme director of Amnesty International, said the report would \"shed new light on the appalling extent and vast scale of the suffering experienced by generations of women and girls in these institutions\".\n\nThe human rights organisation has written to the first and deputy first ministers urging them to meet survivors of mother-and-baby homes.\n\n\"It's time for ministers to listen to the survivors - both the women and girls forced into the homes and the children born there,\" said Mr Corrigan.\n\nThe publication of the report in Northern Ireland comes after a similar investigation into mother-and-baby homes and laundries in the Republic of Ireland, which prompted an apology from Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Mícheál Martin.\n\nThis report found an \"appalling level of infant mortality\".\n\nAbout 9,000 children died in the 18 institutions which were investigated.\n\nMr Martin said there had been \"profound and generational wrong\", adding it was a \"dark, difficult and shameful chapter\" of Irish history.\n\nFollowing the report's publication, NI's first and deputy first ministers Arlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill met the Irish Children's Minister Roderic O'Gorman.\n\nBoth Mrs Foster and Ms O'Neill said there was a need for the executive and the Irish government to work together in sharing information and to support survivors.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Time out of school has affected some children who have not established their language skills\n\nParents in English-speaking homes whose children go to Welsh-language schools need more support during lockdown, the Welsh language commissioner has said.\n\nSome parents said time away from face-to-face schooling was affecting younger children who have not fully established their language skills.\n\nOne mother said \"not only do you not know how to help them, you don't know what the question is to start with\".\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had given guidance to Welsh-medium schools.\n\nThere are 65,000 children in Welsh-medium or bilingual primary schools across Wales.\n\nCardiff council estimated more than 70% of children in Welsh-medium education in the city did not speak Welsh at home.\n\nWelsh language commissioner Aled Roberts said any parents concerned about remote learning in should let the school and teachers know in the first instance.\n\nHowever, he said it should be ensured there were \"as many resources as possible to support them\" at a national level and these policies should \"recognise the huge investment that these people are making [into] Welsh-medium education\".\n\nAngela Crabtree said her nine-year-old daughter Ffion had to help her younger sisters\n\nAngela Crabtree, from Caerphilly, said her daughters were partly reliant on her eldest child Ffion to translate Welsh schoolwork.\n\nMs Crabtree, who is on furlough, said keeping up Welsh-language skills had been a challenge for her three daughters, Ffion, Natalie and Chloe, who go to Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Caerffili.\n\n\"It's hard if they ask you a question, not only do you not know how to help them, you don't know what the question is to start with,\" she said.\n\nNatalie and Chloe are partly reliant on their older sister Ffion to translate Welsh work during lockdown\n\n\"The school has been really good in sending things back bilingually, but I've still got the challenge of trying to make sure that the girls look at the Welsh first.\n\n\"Off the back of the first lockdown I think what suffered most was their Welsh language, especially the middle child, going from the infants to the juniors - her Welsh comprehension fell behind a bit.\"\n\nLisa Jane Thomas, from Cardiff, said she was concerned her youngest child, who attends a Welsh-medium school, was going to be disadvantaged.\n\n\"These are really critical stages and to have so much timeout, it does worry me that may be putting her back [and] is going to make it more difficult for her longer term,\" she said.\n\nMs Thomas said she felt there \"ought to be more recognition\" and more could be offered to help parents and children.\n\nYsgol Gynradd Gymraeg Caerffili headteacher Lynn Griffiths said parents make a \"conscious decision\" to send children to Welsh-medium schools\n\nHead teacher of Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Caerffili, Lynn Griffiths, said of almost 440 pupils at the school, three families spoke to him about issues with Welsh-language learning.\n\nMr Griffiths said it was \"a rarity\" after one family that chose not to send their child back to the school this year, while the two other \"listened to what support we can provide them to enable them to do the best for their children\".\n\n\"But also let's not forget our parents have made a conscious decision to send their children to a Welsh medium school because they want their children to be fully bilingual and the advantages that will give them,\" he said.\n\nCampaign group Parents for Welsh medium education said it was launching new website end of this month to help parents by collating Welsh language resources in one place, due to the extra pressure of lockdown home-schooling.\n\nElin Maher, who is a part of the group, said: \"Obviously, we do acknowledge that acquiring language is done best in the classroom, with the teacher at the front and to be surrounded by the language - we want to reassure parents that the language will be there.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government, which has a target of one million people speaking Welsh by 2050, said it appreciated the challenges all parents faced with learning at home.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We have provided guidance to schools to help them during the pandemic, which includes dedicated support for Welsh-medium learners whose families don't speak Welsh.\n\n\"This includes advice for parents and carers on how they can support their children to use the Welsh language while at home.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Maaike Neuféglise said she found blood on the floor of her shop alongside upturned stands and damaged equipment\n\nThe Dutch government says it will not lift a curfew, after a third night of violent protests against increased Covid curbs across the Netherlands.\n\nShops in Rotterdam and other cities were looted and Finance Minister Wopke Hoekstra said: \"It's scum doing this\". More than 180 arrests have been made.\n\nThe Dutch chief of police said the riots no longer had \"anything to do with the basic right to demonstrate\".\n\nThe criminal violence had to stop, said Prime Minister Mark Rutte.\n\nShop-owners in Rotterdam, Den Bosch and other cities spent Tuesday morning cleaning up the debris from Monday night's violence.\n\nRotterdam Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb sent a passionate message to \"shameless thieves\" who had caused the damage: \"Does it make you feel good that you've helped ruin your city? To wake up with a bag full of stolen stuff beside you?\"\n\nA night-time curfew from 21:00 (20:00 GMT) to 04:30 was imposed last Saturday to halt the spread of the virus. Anyone caught violating it faces a €95 (£84) fine. Mr Hoekstra said they would not \"capitulate to a few idiots\" and anyone who caused damage should be tracked down and be made to pay for it.\n\nSome of the worst damage was caused in the southern city of Den Bosch\n\nThe Netherlands has had nearly a million confirmed Covid cases since the start of the outbreak, with more than 13,500 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University in the US, which is tracking the pandemic.\n\nRiot police clashed with protesters in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, as well as Amersfoort, Den Bosch, Alphen and Helmond.\n\nSome of the worst disturbances were in the south of Rotterdam where police said 10 officers were hurt. Most of the rioters were youths or young men, and Amsterdam's mayor appealed to parents to keep young people indoors.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dutch police have described it as the worst unrest in four decades\n\nFires were lit on the streets of The Hague, where police on bicycles attempted to move small clusters of men who threw stones and fireworks.\n\nIn Den Bosch in the south, rioters set off fireworks, broke windows, looted a supermarket and overturned cars. A local woman told Dutch radio that masked youths had left a trail of destruction in the city centre. \"I saw windows smashed and fireworks going off. Really crazy, just like a war zone,\" she said.\n\nSeveral cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances\n\nRoads into Den Bosch were closed to stop people joining the rioters and Mayor Jack Mikkers imposed an emergency order banning gatherings on Tuesday.\n\nThe region's chief prosecutor, Heleen Rutgers, urged parents to ensure teenagers stayed at home. \"Start talking about how to respond to calls on social media to go and turn up somewhere,\" she told public broadcaster NOS.\n\nIn some southern cities, such as Maastricht and Breda, football fans marched through the centres promising to protect them from rioters. Ex-football international Robin van Persie appealed to people in Rotterdam to keep \"our beautiful city\" intact.\n\nThe ignition of discontent has rocked the core of Dutch society.\n\nIn the absence of any legitimate way to socialise, is this simply an outlet for young men to feel part of something, their masks concealing their identities and enabling them to violently channel their frustrations?\n\nThere are more sinister influences at play. Messages on social media, overt and covert, have whipped up anger. Misinformation has even been spread by some politicians.\n\nSome of the worst violence was in Rotterdam\n\nSome feared a curfew would be a tipping point, as Dutch restrictions tighten while some neighbouring countries relax their rules. The vast majority of people in the Netherlands are peacefully observing the curfew.\n\nThe unrest was initially seen as a response to the first \"stay-at-home\" order imposed since Nazi occupation during World War Two. That notion has been dismissed by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who said the rioters were simply criminals and would be treated as such.\n\nBut there are simmering anxieties in Dutch towns and cities, and with less than two months before a general election, voters are vulnerable and the streets volatile.\n\nThere has been widespread shock at the violence. In Rotterdam, where police used water cannon against the rioters, the mayor signed an emergency decree, giving police broader powers of arrest.\n\nThe prime minister said the police had the government's full support: \"The riots have nothing to do with protesting or fighting for freedom.\"\n\nRotterdam shop-owner Emrah Köker said he had no words for what he had seen. \"How can this happen in the Netherlands?\" he asked Dutch daily newspaper Algemeen Dagblad. The justice minister said he challenged anyone to explain what looting a shop had to do with coronavirus.\n\nIn Den Bosch, Maaike Neuféglise said the damage to her shop was heartbreaking and ran into thousands of euros. \"Everything's ruined. I saw the videos, it was a complete invasion. There must have been 40 people in our store,\" she told broadcaster Omroep Brabant.\n\nThe city's mayor said police had struggled to respond to the violence because they were needed in other nearby towns.", "Claudia Marsh was a volunteer for an eating disorder charity which had helped her in the past\n\nAn \"incredible\" recently-qualified teacher has died with coronavirus on her 25th birthday.\n\nClaudia Marsh's death was described as \"sudden and unexpected\" by a charity which had helped her recover from an eating disorder several years ago.\n\nShe had gone on to volunteer for the organisation and became a \"beacon of hope\" for others.\n\nHer mother Tina Marsh, from Heswall in Wirral, said she was \"very proud\" and \"blown away\" by the many tributes.\n\nWriting on Facebook, Ms Marsh said she was a \"beautiful daughter and incredible sister\" who was selfless in her work for Merseyside-based charities Talking Eating Disorders (TEDS) and The Whitechapel Centre.\n\nShe said: \"She loved giving back to people less fortunate than herself.\"\n\nFamily friend Leigh Best, who founded TEDS, described the death as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nShe added: \"Claudia was very special, kind, caring and a dedicated teacher.\n\n\"She supported countless families across the UK. Claudia made her own little packs to give out to others with eating disorders with positive affirmations.\n\n\"She was full of positivity, kindness and hope, and had a smile that would brighten up the whole room.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Whitechapel Centre, where Claudia also volunteered, said staff were \"devastated\", adding she would leave behind a \"legacy of care, dedication and enthusiasm\".\n\nThe charity said she put all of her time and energy into providing food and clothing to those who needed it during the pandemic.\n\n\"Claudia always put others before herself and her memory will live on through the impact and contribution she made to our organisation,\" the centre said.\n\n\"She was instrumental in bringing together our volunteer community.\"\n\nMs Marsh has set up an online fundraising page for the two charities, which has already garnered more than £10,000.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It wasn't normal when the prime minister stood at the lectern in Downing Street's wood-panelled State Dining Room and announced that four people had died from coronavirus on 9 March last year.\n\nIt wasn't normal, that day, when he announced the obscure-sounding virus was a global pandemic that, in the 21st Century, the UK government would struggle to contain.\n\nIt was unprecedented, in peacetime, when, on 23 March, Boris Johnson instructed the country to stay at home.\n\nIt was shocking when, on 28 March, official figures reported more than 1,000 cases in a single day.\n\nA few weeks later, there were sharp intakes of breath when the UK government's chief scientific adviser told MPs, and all of us, that keeping the numbers of deaths down to around 20,000 would be a \"good outcome\".\n\nIt wasn't normal when the Treasury started paying the wages of millions of people to prevent hardship on a vast scale.\n\nIt wasn't normal when planes stayed on the ground, roads and trains emptied.\n\nIt certainly wasn't normal when classrooms fell largely silent, or when the nooks and crannies of Westminster, usually full of intrigue, emptied.\n\nBut in that new strangeness it became normal, week after week, for millions of us to stand in the street, on balconies or on doorsteps to express thanks to those who care for us.\n\nAnd there is now an emerging routine of the most vulnerable rolling up their sleeves, sometimes in front of the cameras, for vaccines that offer at least part of the route to the future.\n\nYet the daily publication of the numbers of people who have died because of Covid has become an all-too-familiar rhythm.\n\nIn the middle of the afternoon, every day, the latest total emerges. A previously unimaginable communication has become a regular part of the country's conversation.\n\nBut today that number has reached a terrible height. Every one of those 100,000 lives lost leaves its own story, and sorrow, behind.\n\nThis miserable landmark is a moment to remember, maybe, that what has happened in the last year, to our politics, to us all is not normal at all.", "Pictures of the funeral have led to criticism from unionists\n\nPolice have begun an investigation into potential breaches of Covid-19 regulations at the funeral of an IRA man in Londonderry.\n\nEamon McCourt, 62, who reportedly died with Covid-19, was buried on Monday.\n\nUnder current Covid-19 restrictions funerals in Northern Ireland are limited to 25 people.\n\nThe police said a \"significant number of people\" had gathered, in a manner \"likely to be in breach\" of the coronavirus regulations.\n\nPSNI Ch Supt Darrin Jones said anyone found in breach of public health regulations would be reported to the Public Prosecution Service.\n\nHe said police had \"engaged with representatives of the family of the deceased, the local church and local political representatives\", prior to the funeral.\n\n\"As a result, police were given a number of assurances as to the conduct of the funeral, and that people would seek to pay their respects to the deceased from outside their homes rather than gather at the funeral.\"\n\nPictures of the leading republican's funeral show men in white shirts and black ties flanking the cortege and dozens of others behind them.\n\nCh Supt Jones added: \"Regrettably at the funeral on Monday morning, a significant number of people gathered as part of the cortège, in a manner likely to be in breach of the health protection regulations.\"\n\nUnionist politicians had called on the police to act after images circulated online of mourners.\n\nDUP MLA Gary Middleton said those who had abided by Covid-19 restrictions would view the scenes from the funeral \"with dismay\".\n\nHe said it was \"hard to put into words the sheer recklessness of those involved\".\n\n\"Within republicanism it seems that certain individuals are viewed as being more important than public health regulations,\" Mr Middleton said.\n\n\"In those minds the reality of Covid-19 has not been brought home, or at the very least it is viewed as less important than having a public display at a funeral.\n\n\"Such sights are most painful for relatives who have recognised the need for such painful restrictions to be put in place and have abided by them.\"\n\n\"Eamon 'Peggy' McCourt who passed away on Saturday morning was buried from his family home in Creggan, a right accredited to us all.\n\n\"However, it was evident that social-distancing measures and permitted mourner numbers were completely ignored by those in attendance.\n\n\"Again, the majority of people in Northern Ireland who have followed lockdown measures since March 2020 are asking themselves why can republicans do whatever they like?\"\n\nHe called on the police to explain why such \"a large funeral procession was permitted to take place and what actions will follow\".\n\nIn a statement, Sinn Féin said: \"Everyone has a responsibility to follow the public health guidelines.\n\n\"Sinn Féin held its own tribute to his memory online.\"\n\nIn June last year, about 1,800 people attended the funeral of leading IRA member Bobby Storey in west Belfast.\n\nAmong them was Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, the Sinn Féin vice-president, who later admitted the public health message had been undermined.\n\nIn May, Assistant Chief Constable Alan Todd said there had been social-distancing breaches at funerals in Northern Ireland in both the unionist and nationalist communities.\n\nThis story was amended on 27 January 2021 to remove the phrase 'IRA veteran'. Whilst referring to Mr McCourt's long history in republicanism, we accept the phrase was open to misinterpretation.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe mother of a 15-year-old boy attacked by a group of youths said she heard the gunshots that killed him.\n\nKeon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital, police said.\n\nIn an emotional appeal, Sharmaine Lincoln pleaded with the local community to \"help us understand why this has happened\".\n\nFive teenage boys have so far been arrested over his death.\n\nA post-mortem examination revealed Keon was shot and stabbed to death.\n\nKeon Lincoln's mother said not a day would go by when she would not hear her son's \"unbelievable\" laugh\n\nRemembering that afternoon, Ms Lincoln said: \"I heard the gunshots and my first instinct was, 'Where's my son?'\n\n\"A few minutes went by, we heard somebody was in the road and it was my boy.\"\n\nWest Midlands Police arrested three teenagers over the weekend on suspicion of Keon's murder - a 14-year-old boy from Birmingham and two others, aged 15 and 16, at an address in Walsall.\n\nThis is in addition to two 14-year-old boys arrested on Friday, one of whom remains in custody and the other released under investigation.\n\n\"The community needs to step up and put themselves in the shoes of the family,\" police say\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, from West Midlands Police, said the attack on Keon was \"the most pointless use of extreme violence I've witnessed in my 24 years in the police force\".\n\n\"The level of violence has not just caused shock to the family, but to hardened police officers,\" he said. \"It was an absolutely pointless attack, one I can't clear my mind of.\"\n\nThe force is appealing for information and Det Ch Insp Orencas said the community response was \"not where it should be\".\n\n\"These are multiple offenders in broad daylight. I simply don't believe there's not information out there that can help me with the inquiry,\" he said.\n\nKeon Lincoln was attacked on Linwood Road, a residential street in the Handsworth area of Birmingham\n\nMs Lincoln remembered her son as a joker, cheeky - a \"loving child with a jolly spirit\" whose \"unbelievable laugh\" would echo daily around her home.\n\n\"It doesn't make sense, the type of person Keon was, it doesn't make sense as to why someone would want to harm him or take his life in such a brutal way,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People were vaccinated at Cwmbran Stadium on Tuesday\n\nA pledge that 70% of the over-80s would get the Covid-19 vaccine by last weekend was missed, the Welsh Government has admitted.\n\nWeather has been blamed for the problem with figures showing 96,830, or 52.8%, had their first dose.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said many over-80s felt unsafe attending appointments amid the snow and ice.\n\nThe pledge had been made by Health Minister Vaughan Gething in the Senedd, last week.\n\nBut earlier, Mr Gething said that as well as missed appointments, five mass vaccination centres were affected by the conditions and \"a range of additional GP clinics didn't go ahead\".\n\nLatest data shows almost 97,000 of the most vulnerable have had a dose - but there is a lag and it can take up to five days for doses injected to be included in the figures. At least 289,566 people have had a first dose - 9.2% of the population.\n\nThat compares to 10.6% in England, 8.6% in Northern Ireland and 8% in Scotland.\n\nMr Drakeford told First Minister's Questions earlier: \"We will not reach the 70% for over-80s because of the interruption to the programme of vaccination that happened on Sunday and on Monday morning.\n\nA pledge 70% of over-80s would be inoculated by last weekend was missed\n\n\"I won't have people over-80 feeling pressurised to come out to be vaccinated when they themselves decide that it is not safe for them to do so.\"\n\nHe said all of those people would have been offered a further opportunity to be vaccinated by the end of Wednesday.\n\nHowever, Mr Drakeford said Wales was on track to meet plans to offer everybody in the top four priority groups (those aged 70 or over) a vaccination by mid-February.\n\nAround 23,700 first doses a day would need to be given for the first four priority groups to be have a vaccine offered by 14 February.\n\nOn the latest seven day rolling average, it would take 25 days.\n\nBut Mr Davies said: \"Welsh Conservatives would have been the first to congratulate the Welsh Government and its health minister had the target been reached on Friday, but that target has been missed.\n\n\"It's the same old Labour story of taking credit when things go well but look to blame anyone and everything else when it goes wrong.\"\n\nIn the Senedd, he accused the government of running a \"postcode lottery\" for vaccinations, which Mr Drakeford denied.\n\nThe first minister said figures had gone from 162,000 people being vaccinated last week to 230,000 this Tuesday.\n\nHe said that was \"the fastest rate of increase in any part of the United Kingdom\", and accused Mr Davies of wanting to \"run it down\".\n\n\"He leads a Conservative party in Wales, which has reverted to its 19th Century type - for Wales, see England.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth said he did not think \"blaming snow over the weekend holds water\".\n\n\"Snow did cause problems in certain areas but the problem was that you were still on 24% of over-80s in the middle of last week. There was too high a mountain to climb,\" he added.\n\nBut Mr Gething said the weather was an \"obvious factor\" on both Sunday and Monday.\n\nIn a statement, he said more than 11,000 care home residents - 67% of the priority group - had received their first vaccine dose.\n\nOver 65% of Welsh Ambulance Service staff had also taken up the offer of a vaccine.\n\n\"We have seen a significant escalation in the pace of vaccine deployment here in Wales over the last couple of weeks,\" he told Members of the Senedd (MSs).", "Leaders in the US House of Representatives have officially delivered their article of impeachment against former President Donald Trump to the Senate, the first step in beginning his trial.\n\nRead more: Trump impeachment trial delayed until next month", "Anyone entering Australia has to undergo a mandatory 14-day hotel quarantine\n\nAustralia is unlikely to fully open its borders in 2021 even if most of its population gets vaccinated this year as planned, says a senior health official.\n\nThe comments dampen hopes raised by airlines that travel to and from the country could resume as early as July.\n\nDepartment of Health Secretary Brendan Murphy made the prediction after being asked about the coronavirus' escalation in other nations.\n\nDr Murphy spearheaded Australia's early action to close its borders last March.\n\n\"I think that we'll go most of this year with still substantial border restrictions,\" he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Monday.\n\n\"Even if we have a lot of the population vaccinated, we don't know whether that will prevent transmission of the virus,\" he said, adding that he believed quarantine requirements for travellers would continue \"for some time\".\n\nCitizens, permanent residents and those with exemptions are allowed to enter Australia if they complete a 14-day hotel quarantine at their own expense.\n\nDr Brendan Murphy (left) was Australia's chief medical officer and now leads the Department of Health\n\nQantas - Australia's national carrier - reopened bookings earlier this month, after saying it expected international travel to \"begin to restart from July 2021.\"\n\nHowever, it added this depended on the Australian government's deciding to reopen borders.\n\nThe country opened a travel bubble with neighbouring New Zealand late last year, but currently it only operates one-way with inbound flights to Australia.\n\nAustralia has also discussed the option of travel bubbles with other low-risk places such as Taiwan, Japan and Singapore.\n\nA passenger from New Zealand arriving at Sydney Airport last October\n\nA vaccination scheme is due to begin in Australia in late February. Local authorities have resisted calls to speed up the process, giving more time for regulatory approvals.\n\nAustralia has so far reported 909 deaths and about 22,000 cases, far fewer than many nations. It reported zero locally transmitted infections on Monday.\n\nExperts have attributed much of Australia's success to its swift border lockdown - which affected travellers from China as early as February - and a hotel quarantine system for people entering the country.\n\nLocal outbreaks have been caused by hotel quarantine breaches, including a second wave in Melbourne. The city's residents endured a stringent four-month lockdown last year to successfully suppress the virus.\n\nOther outbreaks - including one in Sydney which has infected about 200 people - prompted internal border closures between states, and other restrictions around Christmas time.\n\nThe state of Victoria said on Monday it would again allow entry to Sydney residents outside of designated \"hotspots\", following a decline in cases.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Travel abroad UK: How to fly during a global pandemic\n\nWhile the measures have been praised, many have also criticised them for separating families across state borders and damaging businesses.\n\nDr Murphy said overall Australia's virus response had been \"pretty good\" but he believed the nation could have introduced face masks earlier and improved its protections in aged care homes.\n\nIn recent days, Australia has granted entry to about 1,200 tennis players, staff and officials for the Australian Open. The contingent - which has recorded at least nine infections - is under quarantine.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ms Davies-Jones wanted to highlight how \"vitally important\" smear tests are\"\n\nAn MP has described how she had to have most of her cervix removed after putting off a smear test for several months.\n\nPontypridd MP Alex Davies-Jones, 31, said she was invited for her first routine screening in December 2015 and \"like so many others, I put it off\".\n\nFollowing a reminder in April 2016 she went for the cervical screening.\n\nShe wrote in the i newspaper it led to her being diagnosed with CIN3, abnormal cells and had to have surgery.\n\nIf left untreated, CIN3 can have a high chance of becoming cancerous.\n\nMs Davies-Jones wrote in the paper she was left \"without the majority of my cervix\" after the surgery.\n\nShe said she used her article to urge others \"don't delay in booking\" and said she felt compelled to write about her experiences for Cervical Cancer Prevention Week.\n\nA cervical screening checks the health of your cervix.\n\nA small sample of cells is taken from the cervix and checked for certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV) that can cause changes to the cells.\n\nIf present the sample is then checked for any changes in the cells which can be treated before they get a chance to turn into cervical cancer.\n\nThe NHS advises women between the ages of 25 to 49 to have a smear test every three years.\n\nAlex Davies-Jones became the Labour MP for Pontypridd in the 2019 General Election\n\nShe wrote: \"I used all of the usual excuses that you may have heard before.\n\n\"I was simply too busy, I couldn't get an appointment and I had no symptoms or abnormalities that were worrying me.\"\n\nMs Davies-Jones wrote she thought the routine screening would \"just be five minutes of awkward conversation with the nurse at my local GP whilst taking my knickers off\".\n\n\"I didn't ever think that there could be a chance that my cells would be 'abnormal' and that the next few months of my life would leave me terrified and constantly contemplating my own mortality.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chloe Delevingne had a smear test live on the Victoria Derbyshire programme to show what the procedure involved\n\nIf she had put off the screening any longer \"the situation could have been different\", the MP wrote.\n\nShe said she first received a type of laser treatment to \"burn off the abnormal cells from my cervix\" but more treatment was needed after the doctor told her the abnormal cells on her cervix were \"embedded deeper and looked more challenging than expected\".\n\nThen she had to have surgery, a \"cold knife biopsy\".\n\n\"I was without the majority of my cervix, but my life was saved. It was over,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Sadly, for many this isn't the case. For the next few years, I attended screenings every six months to ensure the abnormal cells didn't return.\n\n\"My last screening was in April 2018. Thankfully again all was fine but the anxiety and fear that surrounded me as I awaited those results has stayed with me even now.\"\n\nShe went on to give birth to her son Sullivan in March 2019.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In 2009, Spector was convicted of the 2003 murder of Hollywood actress Lana Clarkson\n\nThe BBC has apologised for the original headline in its reporting of the death of the convicted murderer Phil Spector.\n\nThe former music producer died on Saturday at the age of 81, while serving a prison sentence for the murder of Lana Clarkson in 2003.\n\nThe first version on the breaking news story on the BBC News website carried the headline: \"Talented but flawed producer Phil Spector dies aged 81\".\n\nThe BBC said the headline \"did not meet our editorial standards\".\n\nThe text was quickly changed to: \"Pop producer jailed for murder dies at 81.\"\n\n\"This was changed within minutes and we also deleted a tweet that had gone out automatically with the original headline,\" a statement issued by the BBC read.\n\n\"We apologise for this error.\"\n\n\"Our coverage of the story across BBC News has been clear that Phil Spector was convicted of the murder of Lana Clarkson and had a long history of violence and abuse,\" it continued.\n\nSpector was convicted of murdering Clarkson, an actress, in 2009.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\n\nReacting to the original version of the BBC's story, pop star Lily Allen tweeted: \"Rolling eyes at all the journos deliberately downplaying Phil Spector being a murderer in their headlines, so everyone points this out while linking to their articles resulting in lots of clicks.\"\n\n\"How about 'Murderer, Phil Spector dies aged 81'?\" offered author and historian Hallie Rubenhold.\n\nThe headline was also discussed on TV and radio programmes on Monday, including Loose Women and Radio 4's Woman's Hour, and prompted an article in the Guardian.\n\nThe phrasing of the BBC's article - and others like it - were \"a reflection of how a man's 'genius' is often viewed as more important than a woman's humanity,\" said columnist Arwa Mahdawi.\n\nSpector, who transformed pop with his \"wall of sound\" recordings, worked with The Beatles, The Righteous Brothers and Tina Turner.\n\nBut after the commercial failure of Tina Turner's River Deep, Mountain High, he largely withdrew from public life, and entered a long decline, marked by erratic behaviour, heavy drinking, and a fondness for guns.\n\nHis turbulent marriage to Ronettes singer Veronica Bennett, known as Ronnie Spector, ended in divorce.\n\n\"Unfortunately Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio,\" she wrote after his death was announced. \"Darkness set in, many lives were damaged.\"\n\nSinger Darlene Love, who sang on several songs Spector produced, said he \"changed the sound of rock 'n' roll\" but likened their relationship to \"a bad marriage\".\n\n\"The problem I have with Phil is that he wanted to control Darlene Love's talent,\" she told Variety. \"If he couldn't do that, he was going to do everything in his power to keep my talent from shining.\"\n\nWeeks before Lana Clarkson was shot dead, Spector gave a rare interview to British broadsheet The Telegraph.\n\n\"I would say I'm probably relatively insane, to an extent,\" he told the paper, adding that he had \"devils inside that fight me\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I was spat at working as an ambulance paramedic'\n\nAfter experiencing its most difficult period of the entire Covid-19 pandemic in December, the boss of Welsh Ambulance Service said it was still under \"extreme pressure\".\n\nAt one stage, 400 staff - 12% of all workers - were sick or self-isolating.\n\nJason Killens said this was exacerbated by high call numbers and \"significant delays\" handing patients to hospitals.\n\nOne paramedic described questioning whether he was in the right job after being spat at during the pandemic.\n\nThe chief executive said it meant \"patients with less serious conditions waited much longer than we would like\".\n\nParamedic Stan Baxter was assaulted by someone who spat at him\n\nParamedic Stan Baxter, describing the pressure he and colleagues were under, said at one point an incident caused him to question whether he wanted to continue working.\n\n\"During the peak of the pandemic last year, I was assaulted by a member of the public where I was spat at in the face,\" he said.\n\n\"And that's really the only time that I've stopped and gone: 'Is this for me?'\"\n\nHowever the \"vast majority of the public\" had been \"absolutely fantastic\", he stressed, adding: \"We've had people waving at us, buying us coffee.\"\n\nLuke Robinson and Stan Baxter must wear more protective equipment when they help patients\n\nFor his work partner, Luke Robinson, their job made it clear how coronavirus had made a resurgence across the country.\n\n\"I worked New Year's Eve and I responded to a number of incidents which involved just regular health complaints,\" he said.\n\n\"But next door or in the adjacent building there's people having parties and you can tell that there's large gatherings going on. And it's really frustrating because it really hammers home that some people aren't listening to the rules.\n\n\"And it's not surprising that we're seeing a second wave now.\"\n\nMr Killens said the pressure was now \"palpably less\" compared to last month, but admitted difficult weeks lie ahead.\n\n\"December was probably the most pressurised period during the whole pandemic for a number of reasons,\" he said.\n\n\"Staff that were symptomatic or isolating, that's been at its peak in December.\n\n\"We've seen more work both in the 111 and 999 service, that is patients contacting us with Covid-related symptoms, and of course because of the pressure on the rest of the NHS, we've seen extended handover at some of our emergency departments and what that's meant regrettably is some less serious patients have waited a lot longer in the community than I would have expected.\"\n\nSoldiers have been helping to relieve pressure on ambulance staff\n\nThe ambulance service has been at its highest level of alert - described as \"extreme pressure\" - since early December.\n\nIt was so bad at the beginning of the month, the service had to declare a \"critical incident\", because of severe problems in south east Wales in particular - and one man had to wait 19 hours in an ambulance outside a hospital.\n\nThis strain has been partly blamed for deteriorating ambulance response times, with the situation exacerbated by the fact hospitals are struggling.\n\nAmbulances spent more than 11,661 hours outside emergency departments waiting to transfer patients in December - an equivalent to a total of more than 485 days. The average delay was one hour and eight minutes.\n\nThe Ambulance Service has been hit by high numbers of staff sick or self-isolating\n\n\"We would usually see handover delays through winter - but what's unique this time is the overlay of the pandemic,\" Mr Killens added.\n\n\"There has to be additional distancing, this means less capacity in emergency departments.\n\n\"Testing also needs to be done before patients are admitted - the additional complexities mean the process is slower and there's less space for patients to go into.\"\n\nHe said the impact of implementing Covid precautions is also affecting how quickly crews can respond.\n\n\"As a result of the virus, we're having to clean vehicles and equipment more frequently and thoroughly than before,\" Mr Killens said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Also there are levels for personal protective equipment that staff have to wear to protect themselves and others. Level three - the highest in some cases.\n\n\"And it takes a number of minutes for crews to put that on before staff treat the patients.\"\n\nTo bolster staffing levels and speed up response times, about 80 soldiers are assisting the Welsh Ambulance Service for the second time since the start of the pandemic - along with smaller number of staff from other services like the fire service.\n\n\"They are driving emergency ambulances for us... which means an emergency ambulance clinician can look after the patient,\" Mr Killens added.\n\n\"They'll drive the ambulance from the scene to hospital... it enables us to put more ambulances on the streets to respond to patients more quickly given the levels of absence that we've seen.\"\n\nParamedics now have to carry out a more rigorous and time-consuming cleaning regime\n\nAfter facing relentless pressure for close to a year, Mr Killens is worried about the impact on mental health and well-being of ambulance and control centre staff.\n\nThe service is focused on \"what we can do to keep them fit and well\", he said.\n\nBut he praised staff for \"stepping up to the plate\" - and insists some of the lessons learnt during the last year will benefit the service during the longer term.\n\n\"I've been in the ambulance sector for 25 years and this is like dealing with a very long incident,\" said Mr Killens.\n\n\"So, a major incident an emergency service routinely responds to generally will be over in a couple of hours. But the level of pressure has been sustained now for 12 months.\n\n\"All of our people have stepped up and done what was necessary and got on with providing the best care in really difficult circumstances.... we will come through it and at the end of the pandemic and will be a stronger organisation for it.\"\n\nHe believes the service is now \"on the home straight\" in dealing with the pandemic.\n\n\"We've had two waves of this virus and learnt much along the way, and with a vaccine rollout we have a real opportunity now to see an end to the disruption, the personal impact and the level of death and harm,\" Mr Killens said.\n\n\"By the time we get to the other side of the spring, probably we will be able to return to some kind of normality whatever that will be 18 months into a pandemic.\n\n\"There's a couple of difficult weeks to come, but if we can emerge through February and March, provided we all stick to the rules, because it's easy for the virus to grab hold again if we get complacent .... we'll be in a far better position as we come to the spring.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sheku Bayoh death: Eyewitness says stamping attack on officer 'never happened'\n\nTwo police officers involved in the death of a black man they were restraining may have provided false statements, the BBC can reveal.\n\nThey said Sheku Bayoh carried out a stamping attack on a female PC before he was brought to the ground and restrained by up to six officers.\n\nBut now an eyewitness has spoken publicly for the first time about the 2015 incident.\n\nHe told a Panorama investigation that the stamping attack \"never happened\".\n\nThe Scottish Police Federation said its officers had cooperated truthfully with investigators.\n\nMr Bayoh, a 31-year-old father of two, died in the incident in the Fife town of Kirkcaldy in 2015.\n\nA public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding his death has recently got under way. One of its tasks is to examine whether his race was a factor.\n\nSheku Bayoh was restrained on the ground for five minutes before falling unconscious\n\nOn the night of 2 May 2015, Sheku Bayoh had taken drugs, which friends said dramatically altered his behaviour.\n\nPolice were called early the following morning after he was spotted behaving erratically with a knife in the streets of his home town.\n\nAccording to police statements, by the time the officers arrived at the scene Mr Bayoh no longer had the knife but he failed to obey instructions to get down on the ground.\n\nEach of the officers used force on Mr Bayoh within seconds of encountering him, including CS Spray and batons.\n\nHe then punched PC Nicole Short, who went to the ground.\n\nTwo officers, PCs Craig Walker and Ashley Tomlinson, would later tell investigators that Mr Bayoh then carried out a violent stamping attack on PC Short while she lay on the ground, a claim reported widely in the media.\n\nThe stamping attack was widely reported in the newspapers\n\nPC Walker told investigators: \"I had a clear view of him… he had his arms raised up at right angles to his body and brought his right foot down in a full-force stamp on to her lower back.\"\n\nPC Tomlinson said: \"I thought he had killed her. He stomped on her back again.\"\n\nNow, evidence obtained by Panorama suggests these accounts may be false.\n\nMr Bayoh was restrained on the ground for five minutes before falling unconscious. He was pronounced dead at hospital a short time later.\n\nA post-mortem examination report revealed 23 separate injuries to Mr Bayoh's body, including a broken rib and gashes to his head. The cause of death was recorded as \"sudden death in a man intoxicated [with drugs] whilst under restraint\".\n\nIn 2018, the Crown Office in Scotland decided there would be no prosecutions against any officers involved.\n\nKevin Nelson gave evidence to investigators two days after the incident\n\nKevin Nelson was in a nearby house and saw events unfold over a garden hedge.\n\nHe gave his account to investigators from Pirc (Police Investigations and Review Commissioner), which investigates deaths in custody, two days after the incident.\n\nSpeaking publicly for the first time, Mr Nelson told Panorama he saw Mr Bayoh attempt to walk away from the officers, ignoring their commands, before being sprayed with CS spray. He said Mr Bayoh retaliated and punched PC Short.\n\nAsked if there had been any further contact with PC Short, he said, \"No. He was running off… after the punch, there was no more attack on her at all.\"\n\nMr Nelson said Mr Bayoh ran off from where PC Short went down and was quickly intercepted by the other officers.\n\nAsked about PC Walker's claim that Mr Bayoh had \"his arms raised up… and brought his right foot down in a full force stamp\", Mr Nelson said: \"That never happened. I didn't see him stamping at all or, other than the punch, any raised arms.\n\n\"After the punch, that was it. There was no more attack on her at all. That's not right.\"\n\nThe officers provided their accounts to investigators 32 days after Mr Bayoh's death.\n\nMr Nelson said no-one from Pirc returned to ask about the discrepancy between their account and his.\n\nThe eyewitness said he decided to speak out because it was unfair on Mr Bayoh's family that the officers had \"made the incident worse than it actually was to justify what had happened and… that's not right\".\n\nMr Nelson's account is supported by CCTV footage of the incident, obtained by the BBC.\n\nIt is poor quality but appears to show that once PC Short is knocked down by Mr Bayoh, the action moves away from her, and he is brought down within five seconds.\n\nPC Short did not mention in her statement she had been stamped on. Now retired, she later said she was unsure if she was conscious, and only learned about the alleged stamping attack when her colleagues told her about it afterwards.\n\nIn the CCTV, PC Short appears to get to her feet a few seconds after Mr Bayoh is brought down.\n\nMike Franklin says conflicts of evidence should have been resolved\n\nMike Franklin, former commissioner for the body which investigated police complaints in England and Wales, looked at Panorama's evidence.\n\nHe said: \"I think there's nothing more serious than a police officer who gives false information in an investigation where somebody has died. So without accusing them of lying, I simply say that there's a big conflict.\n\n\"Two officers who were there say that it did happen. The person to whom it happened didn't mention it. And an eyewitness says it didn't happen.\n\n\"I would've been reluctant to sign off the investigation as complete, without resolving those… conflicts of evidence.\"\n\nMr Bayoh's sister, Kadi Johnson, told Panorama the new allegations had made her \"really angry\".\n\nShe said the way her brother was \"painted\" by the accounts given after his death was not who he was.\n\nMr Bayoh's sister, Kadi Johnson, said the new allegations had made her really angry\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish Police Federation, which represents rank and file officers, said serving officers were unable to comment on matters \"to which they may be called upon to give sworn evidence\" but that they had \"co-operated fully and truthfully with the investigations that have taken place\".\n\nIt added it had seen \"compelling material that Mr Bayoh did violently stamp on the back of a policewoman as she lay unconscious\".\n\nThe BBC asked for this material to be produced but was told the inquiry was the \"proper forum\" for such matters.\n\nThe Crown Office, which directed the Pirc Inquiry, told Panorama it had examined \"eye-witness accounts of police and civilian witnesses\" and instructed \"appropriate investigation\".\n\nIt said after careful consideration it was decided there should be no prosecutions but reserved the right to prosecute should evidence become available.\n\nPirc told Panorama its investigation was \"detailed and extensive\" but could not comment further because of the public inquiry.\n\nPolice Scotland Chief Constable Iain Livingstone expressed his condolences to the Bayoh family and said the force would \"participate fully\" in the inquiry.\n\nKevin Clarke died after being restrained in London by up to nine officers\n\nPanorama's \"I Can't Breathe: Black and Dead in Custody\" also investigates the case of Kevin Clarke, 35, who died in 2018 after being restrained in London by up to nine officers.\n\nAn inquest into his death resulted in a damning verdict on the police and ambulance services.\n\nMr Clarke's sister Tellecia told the programme that if the officers \"hadn't used excessive force he would still be here today… treat him like a human being, and not just see him as a big scary black man\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commander Bas Javid apologised to Mr Clarke's family and accepted the restraint had not been appropriate.", "Lisbet Stone is stranded at Madrid Airport due to having an out-of-date coronavirus test result\n\nPassenger Lisbet Stone says she is stuck in Madrid Airport after airline officials said her coronavirus test result was out of date.\n\nFrom Monday, travellers arriving in the UK, whether by boat, train or plane, have to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the three days before travelling.\n\nFor those with connecting flights, the test must be 72 hours before your final departure point to England.\n\nAnyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nMrs Stone originally travelled to Cuba in February 2020 to see family. The British Cuban dual national was unable to fly home to the UK when Cuba closed its borders in March.\n\nThe family say she had several previous flights cancelled before finally being able to leave this weekend. She hasn't been able to see her four children or her husband Trevor in 11 months.\n\nThe government are understood to be speaking to Air Europa to try to get Mrs Stone home. Carriers have been told that they should permit stranded passengers to board and will not be fined for doing so.\n\nWhile Mrs Stone has been caught out by the new restrictions for incoming travellers, the first day of the new regulations appeared to go smoothly.\n\nMrs Stone left Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba, on Sunday night to fly back to the UK via Madrid.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\nShe took a Covid test on Thursday to be guaranteed a result by Saturday. It was negative and Mrs Stone was able to board the plane from Cuba.\n\nHowever, on arrival at Madrid-Barajas Airport, Mrs Stone says she was stopped from boarding the next leg of her journey to London Gatwick by Air Europa staff, because her test had been taken more than 72 hours before the final flight.\n\n\"She's crying her eyes out,\" says Trevor Stone, her husband. \"I feel absolutely helpless. She doesn't have any Euros as she wasn't meant to stay in Spain. The authorities have given her no help whatsoever, we are just trying to understand what to do.\n\n\"She took her test 72 hours before the start of her journey, but had to take a connecting flight onwards. There would be no other way to do it, it is not physically possible.\"\n\nIn the meantime, Mr Stone says he has been home-schooling their four children on his own through the pandemic.\n\nTrevor Stone (left) has been caring for the couple's four children on his own for 11 months since Lisbet Stone was unable to leave Cuba\n\n\"We are just desperate to get her home - I'm so worried about her and after 11 months, she really wants to see her children,\" he added. \"We haven't done anything wrong, I don't know what to do or who to turn to.\"\n\nA Department for Transport spokesman said: \"Passengers travelling to the UK must provide proof of a negative coronavirus test which meets the performance standards set out by the government in the guidance published on gov.uk.\n\n\"The type of test could include a PCR test or antigen test, including a lateral flow test. Anyone who cannot provide the necessary documentation may not be allowed to board their flight.\"\n\nAir Europa and Madrid Airport have been approached by the BBC for comment.", "Medical staff are expected to \"face pressures unlike any other they have faced before\" as NI approaches its toughest week so far in the pandemic.\n\nThe British Medical Association has said while its doctors are \"coping\", many feel they are unable to give care to the \"standard they would want\".\n\nThe peak in intensive care is predicted to happen next weekend.\n\nThe head of the BMA in NI, Dr Tom Black has been critical of the way this wave of the pandemic has been managed.\n\nHe said: \"Staff will do their best in a very difficult situation, where many decisions in this pandemic were made too late.\"\n\nWhile it is expected the number of hospital admissions will peak sometime over the next eight to 10 days, the number requiring intensive care treatment is likely to continue increasing for at least another fortnight.\n\nDr Black said he was concerned for both patients and staff.\n\nHe said: \"It is likely that over the next few weeks doctors will be asked to work in a new location or provide support to areas that are already overstretched.\n\n\"Many have already had planned annual leave cancelled.\"\n\nThere were a further 19 virus-related deaths and 640 more Covid-19 cases reported in Northern Ireland on Monday.\n\nThe latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,625, while 96,001 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic began.\n\nSome 65 patients are in ICU, down two from the last report, and 51 patients are being ventilated.\n\nSince the vaccine rollout began in NI, 146,733 people have been vaccinated, according to the Department of Health.\n\nOf that number, 125,717 were first doses and 21,016 were second jabs.\n\nA total of 31,393 people from the over-80 age group have been vaccinated.\n\nEarlier the BMA told BBC News NI that more than 90,000 doses the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine had arrived in Northern Ireland but the Department of Health has said it is anticipated separate deliveries will arrive by this weekend.\n\nDr Black said many staff members had reported feeling \"exhausted and demoralised\" and he warned that when it came to reviewing how the pandemic was handled \"this phase will stand out as one where we could have planned better\".\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said the next seven days is \"when we will see that real intense pressure coming on our inpatients and intensive care units\".\n\n\"Our worst case scenario has modelling up to 1,200 inpatients - and that's a serious pressure that comes on our system,\" he told Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme.\n\n\"We can go up into nearly 200 ICU capacity but that comes at a stretch, that comes with putting our staff under severe pressure in ICU units.\n\n\"It also comes by having to shift the ICU specialist nurse from a ratio of one-to-one to a ratio of one-to-two or even one-to-three in extreme pressures.\n\n\"That's not something we want to do,\" he added.\n\nThe past week saw hospitals across Northern Ireland coming together in order to cope with the strain.\n\nOn 10 January, the Southern Health Trust was on the cusp of declaring a major incident amid the mounting pressures across the health service.\n\nThat was avoided as many off-duty staff answered a call to come into work and the health trusts pulled together to provide a regional response to the crisis.\n\nPatients were diverted to those hospitals which could take them and where infrastructure could cope with supplying additional oxygen to the very ill.\n\nOver the weekend of 9/10 January the Southern Health Trust - the smallest of the health trusts - was dealing with the highest number of patients who required oxygen.\n\nIn the past week the Northern and Southern Health Trusts have seen the highest number of patients.\n\nThat reflects the high rate of community transmission in some areas those trusts cover.\n\nMeanwhile, no resolution has been reached between Stormont leaders and the Irish Government over the sharing of passenger data.\n\nLast week, First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill criticised Dublin for failing to share information on travellers arriving there during the pandemic.\n\nMichelle O'Neill said it was \"regrettable\" the issue has not been resolved\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said repeated efforts to access data on passenger locator forms filled out by people arriving in the Republic of Ireland had failed.\n\nMrs Foster and Ms O'Neill indicated on Thursday that they planned to raise the matter directly with Taoiseach (Irish prime minsiter) Micheál Martin.\n\nMs O'Neill told the Northern Ireland Assembly on Monday that no resolution has been found yet.\n\nShe told MLAs the issue had been raised \"on every occasion we have had the opportunity\" and that it was \"regrettable\" that the issue had not been resolved.\n\nThe travel issue will be discussed at a meeting on Wednesday involving the first minister, the deputy first minister, Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney and NI Secretary of State Brandon Lewis.\n\n\"I hope that perhaps Wednesday's meeting will allow some opportunity for there to be a way forward,\" the deputy first minister added.\n\nIt was announced on Sunday that all travellers who have returned from Portugal or transited through 16 South American countries in the past 14 days will have to - along with their household - self-isolate for 10 days upon return to Northern Ireland.\n\nThis includes travellers who entered these countries en route to another destination. All travellers returning home from South America are advised to be tested, whether or not they have symptoms.\n\nFrom Thursday, all international travellers will be required to present a negative Covid-19 test result before arriving in Northern Ireland.\n\nThis rule comes into effect in England, Scotland and Wales on Monday.\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health in the Republic of Ireland reported eight more coronavirus-related deaths.\n\nIt brings its death toll to 2,616.\n\nThe department said 2,121 new cases of the virus had been reported, with a cumulative total of 174,843 infections.\n\nIt said that as of 14:00 local time on Monday, 1,975 Covid-19 patients are in hospital, of which 200 are in ICU (intensive care units).\n\nIrish Chief Medical Officer, Dr Tony Holohan, said: \"This third wave of the pandemic has seen higher level of hospitalisations across all age groups.\n\n\"There are now more sick people in hospital than any time in the course of this pandemic\".", "All travellers arriving in the UK will need to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test\n\nAll UK travel corridors, which allow arrivals from some countries to avoid having to quarantine, have now closed.\n\nTravellers arriving in the UK, whether by boat, train or plane, also have to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the 72 hours before travelling and anyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nAll passengers will still be required to quarantine for up to 10 days.\n\nThe isolation period can be cut short with a negative test after five days in England, but it does not apply in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.\n\nThe government has said the travel corridor closure will be in force until at least 15 February.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\nUnder the new rules, travellers arriving from the Falklands, St Helena and Ascension Islands are exempt.\n\nThose arriving from some Caribbean islands are exempt until 04:00 GMT on Thursday 21 January.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab told the BBC'S Andrew Marr Show on Sunday that Public Health England would be stepping up checks on travellers who must self-isolate.\n\nHe said enforcement checks at borders would also be \"ramped up\" and added that asking all arrivals to self-isolate in hotels was a \"potential measure\" the government was keeping under review.\n\nPassengers arriving into London's Heathrow airport on Monday said they had been met with \"substantial\" queues at passport control and one couple complained they had \"felt unsafe\" due to what they described as poor social distancing.\n\nPassengers speak to staff at the entrance to the Covid-19 Testing Centre at Heathrow\n\nAndy Hart, from London, who had arrived into the UK from Nairobi, said: \"We felt that even though everyone was masked they were far too close together.\n\n\"It took an hour and 10 minutes. I've been flying 30 times a year for 20 years. I mean, once or twice have I ever seen it [airport queues] like this. How can this happen during Covid times?\"\n\nMeanwhile on Sunday, the government announced that a financial support scheme for airports in England would open this month in response to the new travel curbs.\n\nAviation minister Robert Courts said the aim was to provide grants of up to £8m per applicant by the end of this financial year. The scheme was first announced in November but without a start date.\n\nIndustry groups have warned there was only so long airports could \"run on fumes\", following the announcement of the new quarantine rules.\n\nEasyJet chief executive Johan Lundgren said the closure of the travel corridors will not have a \"significant impact\" on his airline in the short term as flight numbers were already limited due to the pandemic.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the minimum number of days arrivals must wait to take a negative test releasing them from quarantine could be reduced from five days to three days.\n\nKaren Dee, chief executive of trade body the Airport Operators Association, said she supported the decision to close the travel corridors but stressed the need for \"a clear pathway out\".\n\nA ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde also came into force on Friday, having been imposed over concerns about a new variant identified in Brazil.\n\nNew variants causing concern have previously been identified in the UK and South Africa, with many countries imposing restrictions on arrivals from both nations.\n\nScientists fear the variants seen in South Africa and Brazil may interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines and evade parts of the immune system.\n\nThe travel industry has said closing the travel corridors was understandable due to the health emergency, but warned it would deepen the crisis for the sector.\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK, said the system had been \"a lifeline for the industry\" last summer but \"things change and there's no doubting this is a serious health emergency\". He said he assumed the government would remove the latest restrictions as soon as it was safe.\n\n\"We've had no revenue now effectively for 12 months, give or take a few months in the summer last year. If we're going to have an aviation sector coming out of this we need to open up in the summer,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe Department for Transport has said it is supporting the travel industry with an extension to the furlough scheme until the end of April, business rates relief and tax deferrals.\n\nWith all parts of the UK under strict virus rules amid high levels of infection, only essential travel is permitted.\n\nOn Sunday, another 671 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were reported in the UK, and a further 38,598 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from overseas? Do you work in the travel industry? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Phil Spector pictured in court during his murder trial\n\nUS music producer Phil Spector has died at the age of 81, while serving a prison sentence for murder.\n\nSpector, who transformed pop with his \"wall of sound\" recordings, worked with the Beatles, the Righteous Brothers and Ike and Tina Turner.\n\nIn 2009, he was convicted of the 2003 murder of Hollywood actress Lana Clarkson.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\n\n\"California Health Care Facility inmate Phillip Spector was pronounced deceased of natural causes at 6:35 p.m. on Saturday, January 16, 2021, at an outside hospital. His official cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner in the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office,\" it said.\n\nSpector produced 20 top 40 hits between 1961 and 1965. His production methods influenced major artists including the Beach Boys and Bruce Springsteen.\n\nHis life was ultimately blighted by drug and alcohol addiction, and he all but retired from the music scene during the 1980s and 1990s.\n\nIn February 2003, actress Lana Clarkson was found dead at his house in Alhambra, California with a bullet wound to her head. Clarkson, who was known for her work in the sword-and-sorcery genre and starred in films including Barbarian Queen, had met Spector hours earlier at a nightclub.\n\nSpector claimed the shooting happened when Clarkson \"kissed the gun\" - but his trial heard from four women who claimed Spector had threatened them with guns in the past when they had spurned his advances.\n\nFollowing an initial mistrial, Spector was convicted of second degree murder and given a sentence of 19 years to life.\n\nLana Clarkson was an actress and model who starred in the film 1985 Barbarian Queen\n\nHarvey Phillip Spector was born in New York in 1939, to Russian-Jewish parents. His father killed himself when Spector was a boy, and his mother moved her family to Los Angeles.\n\nHe began his career in his teens as a performer, forming a band - the Teddy Bears - with three high school friends. They had a hit single in 1958 with a song that took its title from the wording on his father's gravestone: \"To know him is to love him.\"\n\nThe record went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, but the group split the following year.\n\nSpector founded his own record label, Philles, in 1961. He produced high-profile 1960s girl groups such as Crystals and the Ronettes, including on 1963 hits Be My Baby and Baby I Love You.\n\nHe also worked on The Righteous Brothers' hits You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' and Unchained Melody.\n\nSpector produced hits for The Ronettes, later marrying their lead singer Ronnie Bennett\n\nHis signature production technique, the \"Wall of Sound,\" involved layering several instruments, including strings, woodwind and brass, to give a lush, orchestral sound.\n\nIn the early 1970s, Spector collaborated with The Beatles on their final album Let It Be, as well as producing John Lennon's solo album Imagine.\n\nAs the decade progressed, the much-feted producer became reclusive and disturbing accounts of his behaviour became widespread. Spector is said to have held a gun to singer Leonard Cohen's head during sessions for his album Death of a Ladies' Man.\n\nRonettes lead singer Veronica \"Ronnie\" Bennett, who became Spector's second wife and divorced him in 1974, wrote in her 1990 autobiography that he subjected her to years of horrific abuse. She said he had threatened to kill her and display her body in a glass-topped coffin he kept in her basement.\n\n\"I can only say that when I left in the early '70s, I knew that if I didn't leave at that time, I was going to die there,\" Ronnie wrote of the time.\n\nWriting on Instagram after her ex-husband's death, Ronnie Spector said he had been \"a brilliant producer but a lousy husband\".\n\n\"When I was working with Phil Spector, watching him create in the recording studio, I knew I was working with the very best,\" she wrote. \"He was in complete control, directing everyone. So much to love about those days.\n\n\"Meeting him and falling in love was like a fairytale,\" she continued. \"The magical music we were able to make together was inspired by our love. I loved him madly, and gave my heart and soul to him.\n\n\"Unfortunately Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio. Darkness set in, many lives were damaged.\"\n\nSinger Darlene Love, who sang on several songs Spector produced, said he \"changed the sound of rock 'n' roll\" but likened their relationship to \"a bad marriage\".\n\n\"The problem I have with Phil is that he wanted to control Darlene Love's talent,\" she told Variety. \"If he couldn't do that, he was going to do everything in his power to keep my talent from shining.\"\n\nWeeks before Lana Clarkson was shot dead, Spector gave a rare interview to British broadsheet The Telegraph.\n\n\"I would say I'm probably relatively insane, to an extent,\" he told the paper, adding that he had \"devils inside that fight me\".\n\nResponding to news of the producer's death, Blondie guitarist Chris Stein tweeted: \"When we went to Phil Spector's house in the 70s he came to the door holding a bottle of diet Manischewitz wine in one hand and a presumably loaded 45 automatic in the other. Long story.", "Now 20, he was jailed for life at Manchester Crown Court after admitting inciting terrorism overseas\n\nThe youngest person convicted of a terrorism offence in the UK - who plotted to murder police in Australia on Anzac Day aged 14 - can be freed from jail, the Parole Board has ruled.\n\nThe 20-year-old, from Blackburn, who can only be identified as RXG, sent encrypted messages inciting an Australian to launch attacks in 2015.\n\nHe was jailed for life that year after admitting inciting terrorism overseas.\n\nBut the Parole Board now says it is \"satisfied\" he is suitable for release.\n\n\"After considering the circumstances of his offending, the progress made while in detention, and the evidence presented at the hearings, the panel was satisfied that RXG was suitable for release,\" the board said in a document detailing the decision.\n\nDuring his trial, the court heard how at the age of 14, the boy adopted an older persona in messages to alleged Australian jihadist Sevdet Besim, 18, instructing him to kill police officers at the remembrance parade.\n\nHe sent thousands of messages suggesting Mr Besim get his \"first taste of beheading\" by attacking \"a proper lonely person\".\n\nAustralian police were alerted to the plot after British officers discovered material on the teenager's phone.\n\nA written summary of the Parole Board decision reveals that two hearings took place to consider the decision - hearings that included evidence from RXG himself.\n\nThe summary records that \"no-one at the hearing considered there to be a need for further time\" in custody and that \"all necessary work had been completed\".\n\nRXG, who became eligible for parole in October, is said to have \"undertaken extensive specialist work in detention to address his offending behaviour, his understanding of Islam and to develop his level of maturity\".\n\nThe Parole Board panel noted that \"considerable progress that had been made\", the summary records.\n\nLicense conditions for the 20-year-old a requirement to live at designated address, wearing an electronic tag, and limits on his contacts, movements and activities.\n\nAnzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand\n\nA ban on identifying RXG, made when he was sentenced, would normally have expired on his 18th birthday, but a number of media organisations made representations to the High Court, arguing that he should be named.\n\nBut in 2019, the court ruled identifying him was likely to cause him \"serious harm\", and so granted him lifelong anonymity.\n\nThe decision taken by the judge, Dame Victoria Sharp, has only been made in a small number of cases.\n\nIn 2016, two brothers who had tortured other children in South Yorkshire were granted lifelong anonymity.\n\nLifelong anonymity under new identities was also been granted after release to Mary Bell, the Newcastle child killer; Maxine Carr, who obstructed police investigating the 2002 Soham murders by her partner Ian Huntley; and Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, who murdered Liverpool toddler James Bulger.", "Soaring shipping costs are likely to cause a bounce in the cost of trampolines in the UK this summer, according to one games retailer.\n\nJames Owen, owner of Outdoor Toys, says high transport costs and port congestion may mean larger toys such as swings, trampolines and climbing frames will be more expensive.\n\nTrampoline prices could soar by 40-50%, he told BBC 5 Live's Wake Up to Money.\n\n\"The port congestion just keeps snowballing,\" he said.\n\n\"More and more issues keep arising,\" Mr Owen added. \"We can't get space out of China, there's a container shortage.\n\n\"Hauliers are really stretched, rates keep climbing.\"\n\nHis firm makes some products in the UK already and rising shipping costs will mean it will become economical to make more.\n\n\"For the first time ever, the ocean freight outweighs the cost of the item,\" in some cases, he said.\n\nDemand for Chinese goods has soared around the world in recent months, placing a strain on existing shipping capacity.\n\nThe price of shipping a 40-foot container on major world trade routes has almost tripled since a year ago, according to research firm Drewry.\n\nHauliers in the UK are also charging more. It used to cost about £650 to haul a container from the port of Felixstowe to the company's site in mid-Wales, Mr Owen says.\n\nThe cost is now up to £1,800 per container \"if you can get the haulier to take it,\" he says.\n\nWhether people will pay the premium for a new outdoor toy is \"a good question,\" he said.\n\nIt emerged over the weekend that Irish hauliers are bypassing Welsh ports to avoid Brexit bureaucracy.\n\nSo-called \"teething problems\" with new export rules are causing \"enormous strain on staff\", according to one haulage company.\n\nBut others warn of a longer-term shift by truck firms from using Holyhead, Fishguard and Pembroke Dock.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland won by seven wickets; take 1-0 series lead\n\nEngland wrapped up a seven-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in the first Test of a two-match series in Galle.\n\nResuming on 38-3, needing another 36 for victory, Jonny Bairstow and debutant Dan Lawrence carried England to their target inside 35 minutes on the final morning of an enthralling encounter.\n\nBairstow ended unbeaten on 35 and Lawrence 21, although the latter survived an lbw review against Dilruwan Perera and Sri Lanka did not refer another shout that replays suggested would have been overturned.\n\nAfter England slipped to 14-3 during a frantic end to day four, Bairstow and Lawrence's unbroken 62-run stand guided them to an ultimately comfortable win.\n\nThe second Test starts at 04:30 GMT on Friday at the same ground.\n• None 'It wasn't perfect but England's win ticked a lot of boxes'\n• None 'We are on an upward curve' - Root savours fourth straight away win\n\nEngland are now unbeaten in nine Tests under Joe Root's captaincy, they have won four consecutive overseas Tests for the first time since 1957, and boast five successive wins in Sri Lanka.\n\nVictory improved England's chances of reaching the inaugural World Test Championship final at Lord's in June. They remain fourth in the standings, with the two top sides playing in the final.\n\nEngland out of the blocks quickly\n\nRoot's side have been slow starters in series in recent years - they lost the opening Test against Australia, New Zealand and South Africa in 2019, and against West Indies last summer.\n\nHowever, Sunday's top-order wobble aside, they were rarely troubled in the first of six successive Tests on the subcontinent - an achievement made all the more impressive given they had one day of match practice before this game.\n\nRoot scored a magnificent 226 in the first innings, and off-spinner Dom Bess and slow left-armer Jack Leach, who returned match figures of 8-130 and 6-177 respectively, found more rhythm as the game progressed, which bodes well for the sterner four-Test series in India that follows this tour.\n\nLawrence can take considerable credit for his first-innings 73 and the manner in which he helped negate England's second-innings nerves alongside the efficient Bairstow, while wicketkeeper Jos Buttler was tidy behind the stumps throughout on a dry, turning pitch.\n\nSri Lanka, meanwhile, were left wondering what if. Their collapse to 135 all out on the first day was described as \"one of the worse we've ever seen\", and even an extra 50 runs could have changed the course of this game.\n\n'Very impressive' - what they said\n\nEngland captain and player of the match Joe Root: \"To come here with the little preparation we have had and play in the manner we have is very impressive.\n\n\"We worked extremely hard and for the spinners to come out of the game with two five-fors is a great effort. Without the preparation, it is testament to their characters.\n\n\"It is a good start to the tour. We know we have to keep getting better but I am really pleased with the start we have had.\"\n\nEngland bowler Stuart Broad on BBC Test Match Special: \"It looked like we could lose a wicket every ball last night. We were pretty happy when play finished last night.\n\n\"It felt calm here this morning. We had a job to do and felt we had enough in tank to chase 30-odd. To do it without losing a wicket is awesome.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"When I think about the preparation England have had, in Loughborough in a tent, one day in the middle in Sri Lanka and then rain, to put in this kind of performance is a great effort.\n\n\"I can't think Sri Lanka will gift England two poor days in the next Test - that match will be really tough.\n\n\"I am happy England have played in difficult conditions and won the game.\"\n\nSri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal: \"We were outplayed in first innings with bat and ball. As a batting unit, especially playing at home, you have to get a big total in the first innings. It cost us the game.\n\n\"Everyone did their bit in the second innings. We played outstanding knocks in the second innings. We have to take the positives out of this.\"\n\nSri Lanka coach Mickey Arthur: \"The first innings was very poor - it was an unacceptable batting performance.\n\n\"Even if we get 220 in the first innings we keep ourselves massively in the game, so that's where it was lost. We did put it right in the second innings. But it was too late.\"\n• None All the goals, highlights and analysis from the weekend's Premier League matches including Manchester United's visit to Anfield: MOTD2 is streaming now on BBC iPlayer", "Staff gathered outside a supermarket to pay their respects to a colleague who died with coronavirus.\n\nJohn Deacy, 81, worked the Christmas Eve shift at the Tesco Extra store in Gabalfa, Cardiff, died just two weeks later.\n\nFriends and colleagues clapped as the funeral procession went by the store.\n\nFormer members of a jazz band, formed by Mr Deacy in the 1970s, marched in front of the hearse.\n\nHis son, Wayne, 56, said: “My dad put everyone above himself. He’d do anything for anyone.\n\n\"He’d help anyone and would never speak badly of people.”\n\nMr Deacy was in the Royal Marines for seven years and was a semi-professional boxer before starting a career at the industrial gas company BOC.\n\nHe went on to work for the supermarket for 16 years.\n\n“We’ve had loads and loads of messages from hundreds of staff who said he will leave a massive gaping hole,\" his son said.", "BT is facing a class action lawsuit over claims it failed to compensate elderly customers who were overcharged for landlines for years.\n\nIn 2017, Ofcom said people who only had a landline telephone were \"getting poor value for money in a market that is not serving them well enough\".\n\nAs a result, BT reduced the price of its landlines by £7 a month.\n\nBut campaigners are unhappy that \"loyal customers\" have still not been compensated for previous overcharging.\n\n\"Ofcom made it very clear that BT had spent years overcharging landline customers, but did not order it to repay the money it made from this,\" said Justin Le Patourel, founder of consumer group Collective Action on Landlines (CALL) and a telecoms consultant who worked for Ofcom for 13 years.\n\n\"We think millions of BT's most loyal landline customers could be entitled to compensation of up to £500 each, and the filing of this claim starts that process.\"\n\nBT said it \"strongly disagrees\" with the claim that it had engaged in anti-competitive behaviour and intends to defend itself \"vigorously\" in court.\n\nA spokesman for BT said: \"We take our responsibilities to older and more vulnerable customers very seriously and will defend ourselves against any claim that suggests otherwise.\n\n\"For many years we've offered discounted landline and broadband packages in what is a competitive market with competing options available, and we take pride in our work with elderly and vulnerable groups, as well as our work on the Customer Fairness agenda.\"\n\nLaw firm Mishcon de Reya has filed a claim with the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) worth £600m. The claim could result in payments of up to £500 each for 2.3 million BT customers, should it be successful.\n\nThe case represents customers who purchased a BT landline contract, but did not also take BT broadband or pay TV packages.\n\nSince 2009, the wholesale costs of providing landlines to consumers have been falling by at least 25%.\n\nBut in October 2017, Ofcom found that all major landline providers in the UK had increased the line rental charges by 28-41%.\n\nOfcom strongly criticised market leader BT for raising prices, saying that customers were being given \"poor value\" for money.\n\nIt added that many of the affected customers had \"been with BT for decades\" and were more likely to be old, on low incomes and vulnerable.\n\nBT announced that it would slash its landline prices by £84 a year.\n\nBT's argument is that Ofcom's final statement did not explicitly accuse it of engaging in anti-competitive behaviour.\n\nBut independent telecoms analyst Ian Grant says that the telecoms giant \"has a history of abusing its position\".\n\n\"Earlier in 2017, Ofcom fined BT £42m because it was late providing high-speed Ethernet lines, and forced BT to make good the losses of firms like Vodafone and TalkTalk,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Ofcom, which has a statutory duty to stop consumer abuses, could have done the same for these customers. Instead, it allowed BT to get away with a 37% price cut, at a time when the difference between its costs and what it charged customers had risen between 50-74%.\"\n\nMr Grant added: \"It is especially poor that BT was overcharging customers who were mostly over 65, more than three-quarters of whom had never used a different provider, and for whom the telephone was their only communications link.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United \"missed an opportunity\" to beat Liverpool, said boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after his side stayed top of the Premier League with a goalless draw against the champions.\n\nIt was a game that failed to justify the pre-match anticipation and Solskjaer will know his side had the better chances to claim a statement victory at Anfield.\n\nLiverpool, without a recognised centre-back and with midfielders Jordan Henderson and Fabinho in defence, dominated possession in the first half but it was United who came closest when Bruno Fernandes' 20-yard free-kick curled inches wide.\n\nFernandes was then thwarted after the break by the outstretched leg of Liverpool keeper Alisson before Thiago Alcantara's long-range effort finally brought the previously unemployed David de Gea into action.\n\nAlisson was Liverpool's hero late on when he blocked Paul Pogba's drive from point-blank range.\n\n\"It was an opportunity missed with the chances we had but then again we were playing a very good side.\" Solskjaer told BBC Sport. \"I'm disappointed but, still, a point is OK if you win the next one.\n\n\"We have improved and progressed. It's not just the result we're disappointed with, it's some of the performance. I know these boys can play better.\"\n\nUnited are now two points ahead of Manchester City, who moved up to second by beating Crystal Palace 4-0, and Leicester City in third. Liverpool, who have scored just one goal in their past four league games, have dropped to fourth, a point behind the Foxes.\n\n\"The performance was good enough to win it but to win a game you have to score goals and we didn't do that, so that's why we had that result,\" said Reds boss Jurgen Klopp.\n\n\"We try not to not score. We obviously have to ignore the fact and hope it will be good again.\"\n• None 'From dejection to frustration in 12 months, Anfield draw underlines Man Utd progress'\n• None Lawro's predictions v You Me At Six drummer Dan Flint\n\nKlopp cut a frustrated figure pretty much from the first whistle, his voice booming around Anfield with a tone of displeasure, showing unhappiness with his own players and officials.\n\nThe German's team, so used to steamrollering all before them in recent times, are going through a very dry spell and barely created an opening worthy of the name here against a resolute Manchester United defence.\n\nToo often, Liverpool's approach play ended with a careless pass or an aimless cross and the longer this game went on the more United looked the most likely winners.\n\nIt was perhaps inevitable Liverpool would be unable to maintain their relentless style, but there will be concerns they have now gone four league games without a win since Crystal Palace were demolished 7-0 at Selhurst Park.\n\nBefore this draw, West Bromwich Albion left Anfield with a point, while Liverpool also had a goalless draw at Newcastle United and lost at Southampton.\n\nSadio Mane and Mohamed Salah are feeding off scraps, while Roberto Firmino's impact was so minimal that he was withdrawn near the end, even with the hosts chasing a goal.\n\nA team as good as Liverpool will not remain off the boil for too long, but there is no doubt they are struggling for form and spark. The fact this is their longest barren sequence in the league since February and March 2005 tells the tale.\n\nManchester United may have a taken a point before this game and there will be justified satisfaction that they subdued Liverpool so completely, created the game's best chances and remain top of the table.\n\nAnd yet there must also be disappointment that they could not cash in completely on an off-colour Liverpool, with reality dawning on them very late that they could take all three points.\n\nFernandes, despite being poor in general, almost unlocked Liverpool twice, while Solskjaer and his backroom team threw their hands up in frustration as other good positions were wasted late on.\n\nIn the final reckoning, however, there will be few complaints at this outcome, which leaves them three points ahead of Liverpool with the visit to Anfield negotiated without mishap.\n\nUnited were well organised and grew into the game after a poor opening half-hour and had real defensive heroes in captain Harry Maguire and left-back Luke Shaw, with the latter particularly outstanding.\n\nIt is a display that will give them increased confidence and belief as they lead the pack - although they might just look back and think a point could so easily have been three.\n\n'It was an opportunity missed' - reaction\n\nManchester United manager Solskjaer said: \"They are a good side and they have some injury problems but we didn't pounce on that.\n\n\"I felt we grew into the game and got stronger and stronger and were closer to winning.\n\n\"We were a bit disappointed in the performance, not just the result. We didn't do well enough to cause them problems in the first half but we defended well and they didn't create too many chances.\"But I think everyone was a bit disappointed with the way we started the game but that is a good feeling to have - that we were disappointed in the performance.\"\n\nLiverpool boss Klopp told BBC Sport: \"The performance was good and the first half was exceptionally good.\n\n\"With all the things that were said before the game - United are flying and we were struggling - and then to play this kind of game, I was happy with that.\n\n\"We tried in the second half again, but you cannot deny United over 90 minutes, not with the counter-attacking threat they have. So they had two really good chances, I have to say, but we had our chances in the second half as well.\n\n\"The way we understood the game, the way we felt the game, the way we read the moments were really good. But it is not exactly how it should be so we have space for improvement, absolutely. We will keep working on that.\"\n• None Liverpool and Manchester United have drawn 0-0 at Anfield in the league three times in the past five seasons, as many times as in the previous 48 top-flight campaigns.\n• None United are unbeaten in their past 16 away matches in the Premier League (W12 D4) - only once have they gone longer without a defeat on the road in the competition (17 games ending in September 1999).\n• None Liverpool are now unbeaten in their past 68 league games at Anfield, earning 178 out of a possible 204 points over this run.\n• None United are the first side to stop Liverpool scoring at Anfield in a Premier League match since Manchester City in October 2018 - this was Liverpool's 43rd home league game since then.\n• None Under Klopp, Liverpool are unbeaten in all seven of their Premier League games at Anfield when facing the side starting the day top of the table (W3 D4).\n• None Marcus Rashford was caught offside five times in this match, the most of any Premier League player this season and the most by a United player since Robin van Persie (six) against Spurs in January 2013.\n\nUnited are at Fulham in the league on Wednesday (20:15 GMT) and Liverpool host Burnley on Thursday (20:00). Next Sunday, Manchester United and Liverpool will meet again - at Old Trafford this time - in the FA Cup fourth round, a match you can watch live on BBC One and the BBC Sport website.\n• None Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Curtis Jones (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Paul Pogba tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Luke Shaw with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Thiago (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Georginio Wijnaldum. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Missed all the goals, highlights and talking points from Saturday's Premier League action? Match of the Day is streaming now", "Hospitals are preparing for the expected peak of the latest Covid-19 surge this week, the Northern Trust's chief executive has said.\n\nJennifer Welsh said there was \"huge pressure across the (healthcare) system\" with more intensive care admissions expected.\n\nThirty patients were awaiting admission to Antrim Area Hospital on Sunday morning, she said.\n\nThere were 25 more deaths linked to Covid-19 reported in NI on Sunday.\n\nThe total number of deaths recorded by the Department of Health since the start of the pandemic is now 1,606.\n\nIt was also reported that there had been 822 more positive cases, with 67 people in intensive care and 50 people on ventilators.\n\nThere are 840 patients being treated for Covid- 19 across Northern Ireland, according to the latest available figures with hospitals working at 93% capacity.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland has been continuing its vaccination programme having distributed 140,559 first doses and 20,174 second doses.\n\nThe total number of jabs administered in the UK, including both first and second doses, is 4,307,002 according to government data.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Sunday, there were 13 further deaths related to Covid-19, bringing the total number to 2,608 since the start of the pandemic.\n\nThere was also a further 2,944 positive cases, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 172,726.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan said the situation in the country's hospitals was \"stark\" and that people of all ages were being admitted and taken into intensive care.\n\nAt the beginning of January, Health Minister Robin Swann said that modelling indicated the \"peak of the third surge\" would hit in the third week of January.\n\nFrontline health staff have spoken to BBC News NI about their \"exhaustion\" and stress, as the pressure on the system continues to increase amid the surging number of cases.\n\nNorthern Ireland is currently in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nNorthern Trust chief executive Jennifer Welsh said hospitals were \"coping but at great cost\"\n\nMs Welsh told BBC NI's Sunday Politics programme that the \"ICU surge is yet to come\" and that the Northern Trust - where two major hospitals, Antrim Area and Causeway, are located - has had to redeploy staff to prepare for the coming days.\n\nShe said both hospitals had been \"under significant pressure and have been for some time\".\n\nShe said 30 patients in Antrim Area's Emergency Department are waiting on a bed after a decision was made to admit them - 24 of those patients have been waiting longer than 12 hours.\n\nMs Welsh added that almost half of all patients in Antrim Area Hospital have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\n\"At the peak of the first wave in Antrim and Causeway the highest number of Covid positive patients was 73.\n\n\"In November, the highest number was 102 and we peaked on Thursday at 202. We have now dropped below that slightly.\"\n\nThe chief executive said the hospitals were \"coping but at great cost\", with many urgent surgeries cancelled.\n\n\"Emergency surgery is being done but we are not being able to do any other in the Antrim Area site.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by bbctheview This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We have been able to deliver some red flag cancer surgery at Causeway but we would like to do more.\"\n\nDespite these emergency measures already in place, the worst of the current surge is only expected to arrive this week.\n\nShe added: \"We are not going to get out of this quickly. It's going to be a challenge for us as a system.\n\n\"It's been building from October.\"\n\n\"We're not yet at the peak of intensive care admissions and we expect that this week.\n\n\"Antrim has doubled its intensive care beds from seven to 14 in anticipation of the coming surge - 11 are already being used.\n\n\"All hospitals have doubled their ICU footprint. There are more than 160 inpatients in Antrim Area Hospital.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BMA Scotland GP chief says doctors \"can't plan\" for vaccines\n\nDoctors leaders say the \"patchy supply\" of vaccine to GP surgeries across Scotland is hampering the speed of delivery to patients.\n\nMinisters have pledged a first dose of the vaccine to 1.4 million of the most vulnerable Scots by mid-February.\n\nBut the British Medical Association in Scotland said inconsistencies in supply made it difficult to plan patient appointments to receive the vaccine.\n\nThey also said some GP surgeries had yet to receive any vaccine at all.\n\nThe Scottish government said it was working with health boards to resolve the issues.\n\nCurrently, about 16,000 vaccinations a day are being carried out in Scotland. However, that is expected to rise significantly as efforts to deliver the vaccine are scaled up.\n\nOn Sunday, 1,341 new cases of Covid-19 were reported - the lowest daily figure since 28 December. However, the numbers being admitted to hospital have continued to rise, reaching 1,918.\n\nNo new deaths were registered.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman has pledged that the workforce and infrastructure will be in place to vaccinate 400,000 people each week by the end of February.\n\nThe government has already announced plans for large vaccination centres in Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh.\n\nIt comes after more than 5,000 front-line health and care staff were vaccinated at the NHS Louisa Jordan in Glasgow on Saturday.\n\nGP practices across Scotland are currently providing vaccination services to those aged over 80.\n\nAbout 16,000 vaccinations are currently being carried out a day in Scotland\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Politics Scotland programme, Dr Andrew Buist, who chairs the British Medical Association's (BMA) GP committee in Scotland, said there was inconsistencies across the GP network.\n\nHe said the vaccine deployment plan was \"ambitious\" and so far \"good progress\" had been made in giving it to priority groups such as care homes residents and front-line health staff.\n\nHowever, he told the programme: \"The current problem lies with the next priority group, which is the 80-plus group, which GPs in Scotland are set to vaccinate because the supply of the vaccine so far has been quite patchy.\n\n\"Some practices have a good supply, some have had none so far.\"\n\nHe said his practice had received 100 doses of the vaccine for 600 patients over the age of 80, who all needed to be vaccinated by 5 February.\n\nHe added: \"I then have to do another 1,200 patients in the 70-plus group and the extremely clinically vulnerable by the middle of February, so we need to do 1,700 vaccines in the next four weeks.\n\n\"Now we can do that. We are used to providing large number of flu vaccinations and it is possible, we have our workforce in place, but we need the vaccine, otherwise we can't do it.\"\n\nWhen asked if his practice was running out of vaccine at the end of each day, Dr Buist said: \"Yes - we can't plan, that's the key thing. We can't send out appointments to patients until we're sure we have the vaccine in our fridge.\n\n\"We were given 100 doses on Monday. We used that all up by Friday. We don't want to send out appointments to patients until we know that we can definitively vaccinate them otherwise patients get very upset.\"\n\nVaccinators have reported being able to extract one additional dose from vaccine vials\n\nDr Buist said vaccinators were regularly managing to extract higher numbers of doses from vaccine vials despite claims that some doses were being wasted.\n\nHe said there was widespread experience of six doses being extracted from Pfizer vaccine vials, which were marketed as having five doses, while 11 doses were regularly being taken from AstraZeneca vials.\n\nBut Dr Buist criticised issues around the red tape some retired health professional had faced when volunteering to become vaccinators.\n\n\"I have reports that arrangement to get doctors and nurses back into the system have been quite bureaucratic and I think it's something we need to look at.\"\n\nThe Scottish government acknowledged that there had been delays in vaccine supplies reaching some GP surgeries.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"GPs have a significant role to play in delivering the vaccine - and we thank them for their hard work and patience as we roll out more vaccines to those in the communities.\n\n\"We know there have been some initial delays in supply reaching some practices and are working with health boards to resolve this. Vaccines are being manufactured as quickly as possible and we will continue to explore all options available to increase supply.\"\n\nThe government said health boards were providing order information for their GP practices to National Procurement who in turn advised the distribution partner.\n\nThe spokeswoman added: \"Once stock is released for ordering, the distribution partner inputs the GP orders on to their ordering system. Once the order has been placed, GP practices will receive an automated email providing an indication of the delivery day.\n\n\"We too want to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible and are continually working hard to see if distribution can be made faster in any respect.\"", "Chris Cramer, a major figure in BBC News and later CNN International, has died at the age of 73 after a period of ill health. Former BBC director of news Richard Sambrook looks back at his life.\n\nChris Cramer's legacy will be the major change in attitudes and support for journalist safety he championed through the BBC and across the wider industry, as well as many achievements in newsgathering and international news.\n\nHe began his career as a teenager on the Portsmouth Evening News, moving to BBC Radio Solent when it launched in 1970.\n\nAfter a year's secondment in Brunei he found his way to the BBC TV Newsroom in the 1970s and developed his reputation as a highly competitive and effective news editor and field producer.\n\nIn 1980 he and a BBC team were in the Iranian Embassy in London collecting visas when it was seized by gunmen opposed to Ayatollah Khomeini. A standoff and siege followed, with Chris among 26 hostages.\n\nHe managed to feign serious illness and was released by the gunmen allowing him to give vital information to the authorities before the SAS stormed the embassy and rescued the hostages.\n\nAt a time when no-one understood or spoke of PTSD, it had a marked effect on his life.\n\nArmed police on the adjoining balcony to the Iranian Embassy during the siege in 1980\n\nMany journalists and crew subsequently spoke of his care and attention when they had difficult experiences and he went on to drive major changes in understanding and support for journalists' safety.\n\nWith BBC Safety manager Peter Hunter, Chris introduced the first hostile environment training courses, risk assessments and equipment for those covering conflicts.\n\nFormer correspondent Martin Bell recalls: \"From Vietnam to Croatia I had covered 10 wars without protection. Then in June 1992 we were shot up crossing the airport runway in Sarajevo in a soft-skinned vehicle. Within two weeks Chris had procured our first armoured Land Rover, the redoubtable 'Miss Piggy', and the body armour to go with it.\"\n\nHe later introduced the first confidential counselling service for news teams, recognising PTSD, and helped found the International News Safety Institute, which spearheaded safety across the news industry.\n\nDuring the 1980s he was at the forefront of organising and overseeing major news coverage, including Michael Buerk's reporting from the Ethiopian famine, coverage of the IRA Brighton bomb attack on the British government, the Zeebrugge ferry disaster, Kate Adie's reporting from Tiananmen Square, the fall of eastern Europe, the first Gulf War and many more major events.\n\nHis fierce competitiveness delivered a series of major exclusives and awards for BBC News.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Bowen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn the 1990s he oversaw major investment in BBC Newsgathering and the integration of radio and TV reporting - often against internal resistance. His managerial style could be uncompromising and tough, but he was also bitingly funny, shrewd and his hard exterior hid a warm-hearted and generous core.\n\nHe was crucial to establishing the integrated News division as it exists today.\n\nIn 1996 he left the BBC to move to Atlanta as managing director and executive vice-president of CNN International.\n\nThere he took his passion for news safety and his competitive news edge to develop the network into a greater global force.\n\nAs his former BBC and CNN colleague Tony Maddox has said: \"Among his many accomplishments Chris was a pioneer and innovator in field safety for journalists. He led the development of guidelines and practices now widely adopted across the industry.\"\n\nCramer moved to CNN after his time with the BBC\n\nHe was a larger-than-life figure who generated affection and respect in equal measure, often wielding a rapid and disarming wit.\n\nHe is also remembered for supporting women into senior and executive positions and helping them succeed.\n\nDirector of BBC News Fran Unsworth recalls: \"He was one of journalism's enormous characters and a legend in the television news industry. But the legend and the reported image always belied the man.\n\n\"He was immensely kind, thoughtful and caring underneath that image he sometimes projected.\"\n\nFormer deputy director general Mark Byford said: \"He was probably the greatest newsgathering executive ever in the broadcast news business and his organisational skills, competitiveness, eye for a story and steel were extraordinary.\n\n\"He was also, behind the facade, a gentle giant who cared for his people with amazing passion and love.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by John Simpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Many editors, correspondents and presenters in BBC News owe their success to his mentorship - myself included.\"\n\nAfter 11 years he left CNN and took up roles first with Reuters TV and then the Wall Street Journal, where his experience and expertise were used to develop their digital video services.\n\nHe leaves his wife, Nina, son Richard and daughter Nicolette and his daughter Hannah by an earlier marriage to Helen, a former BBC producer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nóra Quoirin's parents: \"The inquest is a battle we must continue in Nóra's name\"\n\nThe mother of a 15-year-old girl found dead in a Malaysian jungle says she believes her daughter's body was placed by somebody in the spot she was found.\n\nNóra Quoirin, from Balham in south London, vanished from her room at the Dusun rainforest resort in August 2019.\n\nHer body was found near the resort nine days after she went missing. A coroner recorded her death was by misadventure.\n\nMeabh Quoirin, who thinks Nora was abducted, said the family would \"never give up their fight for justice\".\n\nNóra was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder that affects brain development, and her parents have always believed that wandering off from the resort - which is about 40 miles from Kuala Lumpur - was not something their daughter would have done.\n\nA post-mortem examination found Nóra had died three days before her body was found, due to gastrointestinal bleeding from hunger and stress endured over a prolonged period.\n\nBut Mrs Quoirin points out that the jungle had been searched on four occasions in the seven days leading up to her death, with police suggesting the teenager been \"alive and moving\" during the first stages of the search.\n\n\"The fact that search teams were there, along with many hundreds of volunteers in that particular area so close to her death, makes us feel that she was placed there at a later point,\" Mrs Quoirin told the BBC.\n\nNóra's parents Maebh and Sebastien Quoirin want there to be a revision of the inquest verdict\n\nThe teenager's mother pointed out that the inquest had not explained how her daughter ended up in the jungle, where her unclothed body was eventually found by a group of volunteers.\n\n\"I suppose the easiest one to dwell on was the fact there was an open window [in the family's chalet],\" said Mrs Quoirin, who is originally from Belfast.\n\n\"Someone opened that window, it wasn't any of us. That is totally unexplained.\"\n\nMalaysian police have always treated Nóra's disappearance as a missing person case. They maintain there was no suggestion of abduction, kidnap or foul play.\n\nDuring the search for her daughter, Mrs Quoirin told emergency services that their work meant \"the world to us\"\n\n\"Nóra always looked to someone else for reassurance on what she should do next so the idea that she would have climbed out a window - even found a window or seen a window in the pitch black - is in our view crazy,\" Mrs Quorin said.\n\n\"If she had somehow mistaken which door was for the bathroom and had gone out the front door for instance... she was barefoot, she would have instantly felt pain and she would have been absolutely petrified.\"\n\nNóra's parents have asked for a revision of the inquest verdict as \"so many questions have been left unanswered\".\n\nNóra was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder which affects brain development\n\n\"I think it will be impossible to ever have all the answers to questions that inevitably we will agonise over for the rest of our lives,\" Mrs Quoirin said.\n\n\"We can do more justice by at least recognising who this child was and that she wouldn't have - couldn't have - done the things that have been ruled through this verdict of misadventure.\n\n\"It's our duty to Nora to stand up for that, to really recognise who she was and stand up in the name of all children with special needs, to recognise who these children are, what they represent in our society.\"", "Within seconds of being dropped, LauncherOne had ignited its engine\n\nSir Richard Branson's rocket company Virgin Orbit has succeeded in putting its first satellites in space.\n\nTen payloads in total were lofted on the same rocket, which was launched from under the wing of one of the entrepreneur's old 747 jumbos.\n\nSir Richard is hoping to tap into what is a growing market for small, lower-cost satellites.\n\nBy using a jet plane as the launch platform, he can theoretically send up spacecraft from anywhere in the world.\n\nIn reality, of course, his Virgin Orbit system has to be licensed in the locality where it is used, which at the moment is solely California. But there are well-advanced plans to bring the 747 and its rockets to Cornwall in south-west England, for example.\n\nSunday's success was a big fillip for Sir Richard's team who had tried and failed to launch a rocket in May last year. That effort was thwarted by a breached propellant line feeding liquid oxygen to the booster's first-stage Newton-3 engine.\n\nNo such problems occurred this time.\n\nThe modified 747, named Cosmic Girl, left its base in California's Mojave desert at 10:50 PST (18:50 UTC) to fly out over the Pacific Ocean.\n\nA little under 60 minutes later, and cruising at 35,000ft (10,500m), the jet banked hard to the right, dropping as it did so the 21m-long rocket that had been clamped to its underside.\n\nWithin seconds this booster, called LauncherOne, had ignited its engine and was climbing to space.\n\nCorrect deployment of the various spacecraft onboard at an altitude of roughly 500km was confirmed a couple of hours later.\n\n\"A new gateway to space has just sprung open,\" said Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart. \"That LauncherOne was able to successfully reach orbit today is a testament to this team's talent, precision, drive, and ingenuity.\"\n\nSir Richard has been trying to find the right solution to get into the satellite launch business since 2009. His concrete proposal was first put before the public at the Farnborough International Air Show three years later.\n\nThere is an emerging market for small, lower-cost spacecraft, whose developers are seeking more flexible and affordable ways of getting their assets above the Earth.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVirgin Orbit is one of a number of companies now racing to meet this demand. Other contenders include the Rocket Lab outfit, which sends up its vehicles from a ground launch pad in New Zealand. But there are tens of other small rocket start-ups at various stages of maturation, and some of these plan to operate from the UK as well.\n\n\"Virgin Orbit has achieved something many thought impossible. It was so inspiring to see our specially adapted Virgin Atlantic 747, Cosmic Girl, send the LauncherOne rocket soaring into orbit,\" Sir Richard said.\n\n\"This magnificent flight is the culmination of many years of hard work and will also unleash a whole new generation of innovators on the path to orbit. I can't wait to see the incredible missions Dan and the team will launch to change the world for good.\"\n\nSir Richard presented the LauncherOne concept at Farnborough in 2012\n\nWill Whitehorn is the president of UKSpace, the trade body representing the space industry in Britain. He's also a former president of Virgin Galactic, Sir Richard's other space company which hopes soon to start flying fare-paying passengers above the atmosphere in a rocket plane.\n\nHe said Virgin Orbit's success on Sunday was hugely significant.\n\n\"This is a momentous day for the small satellite world, as we will be able to launch satellites responsively; and for the UK this event promises sovereign launch capability very soon,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"I plan to push hard for a launch from Cornwall to coincide with the G7 meeting this year if at all possible!\"\n\nSunday's payloads were mostly shoebox-sized and developed by universities\n\nThe air-launched system has the flexibility to operate anywhere - in theory", "A doctor has appeared in court charged with the attempted murder of a \"highly-respected\" fellow plastic surgeon who was stabbed in his own home.\n\nGraeme Perks, 65, was stabbed in his abdomen and chest in Halam, Nottinghamshire, on Thursday.\n\nJonathan Peter Brooks, also charged with three counts of attempted arson with intent to endanger life, appeared at Nottingham Magistrates' Court.\n\nMr Perks is currently in a serious but stable condition, police said.\n\nMr Brooks, 56, of Landseer Road, Southwell, has also been charged with possession of a knife in a public place.\n\nHe was remanded in custody to appear at Nottingham Crown Court on 15 February.\n\nPolice said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the attack.\n\nGraeme Perks has been described as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\"\n\nThe two men were colleagues at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.\n\nA spokeswoman for the trust said: \"This incident has affected many of our staff who worked closely with, and are friends with Graeme.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Graeme and his family at this time.\"\n\nMr Perks had served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS), which described him as \"one of the most highly-regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\".\n\nPolice previously said Mr Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass at about 04:15 GMT on Thursday, after an intruder was believed to have smashed their way into the house.\n\nPolice said Mr Perks was stabbed at his home in Halam, Nottinghamshire, while his family were upstairs\n\nThey said Mr Perks was stabbed and the suspect ran off.\n\nMr Perks worked in London, Sheffield, Newcastle and Melbourne, Australia, but returned to the UK in the mid-1990s and started working in Nottingham.\n\nHe and his wife have raised thousands of pounds for charity by opening their garden to visitors, and were featured on BBC Radio Nottingham after raising more than £34,000.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Keelan Wilson was 15 when he was stabbed more than 40 times\n\nFour men have been found guilty of murdering a boy stabbed more than 40 times in a \"well-planned execution\".\n\nKeelan Wilson, 15, was fatally injured on Langley Road in Merry Hill, Wolverhampton, on 29 May, 2018.\n\nThe four murderers acted \"like a pack of animals\" amid rising gang violence in the city, police said.\n\nKeelan's mother Kelly Ellitts said the convictions meant justice for her son, but added \"nothing would bring Keelan back\".\n\nIt emerged a few days after the murder that when an ambulance was called for the wounded boy, his final words included \"tell my mum I love her\".\n\nThe trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court heard how the night time attack - carried out by Brian Sasa and Nehemie Tampwo, each aged 20, along with Tyrique King and Zenay Pennant-Phillips, both 19 - was \"not in any way spontaneous\".\n\nDet Sgt Nick Barnes from the West Midlands force said Keelan had the \"single worst set of injuries\" he had seen on a victim in more than six years investigating homicide.\n\nThere had been increasing acts of violence between opposing gangs leading up to the murder, including disorder earlier that day, police said.\n\nThat included weapons being brandished in Wolverhampton city centre, and in another incident, Keelan and two others being shot at by a group of youngsters on bikes. No one was hurt.\n\nBut later on, the court heard, the group of four killers ran towards Keelan as he sat in a taxi close to his home, then pulled open the rear door and \"set about him with weapons\", inflicting more than 40 knife wounds.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keelan Wilson's mother Kelly Ellitts 'hit the floor' when she saw he had been stabbed\n\nMichael Duck QC, prosecuting, said the killing \"was not in any way a spontaneous act of violence\".\n\nHe said: \"This was a well-planned, targeted group attack by a number of youths armed with knives, and that was with the plan to execute another young man.\"\n\nDuring the 13-week trial, jurors heard there was evidence to suggest the victim had \"become embroiled in gang culture\", with his killers believing he had switched factions.\n\nDet Sgt Barnes said it was \"difficult\" to pinpoint a motive \"because Keelan wasn't on the police radar particularly for any such activity\".\n\nKeelan was wounded just metres from his home, receiving 43 stab wounds in total, according to police.\n\nHe had been driving with a friend - with whom he met up after the shooting incident - when their car broke down, which led to a taxi being called.\n\nA spokesperson for the Crown Prosecution Service said while Keelan was attacked on boarding the vehicle, his friend was \"left unscathed\" and fled, making it \"evident\" to authorities that \"Keelan was the only target\".\n\nMs Ellitts said she lived with the shock of her son's death daily.\n\n\"This isn't something that you think of every now and again, this is a daily thing that you have to live with.\n\n\"It's terrible my daughters won't know who he is.\"\n\nOn the day of Keelan's death, CCTV captured a scene from the Wolverhampton city centre disorder that police said was linked to gang activity\n\nSasa, of Long Ley, Heath Town, Wolverhampton; King, of Chelwood Gardens, Wolverhampton; Tampwo of Fern Grove in Bletchley, Milton Keynes; and Pennant-Phillips, whose address cannot be published for legal reasons, had all denied murder.\n\n\"Keelan was a child who had his whole life ahead of him,\" Det Sgt Barnes said.\n\nThe convictions, he added, came after a \"very difficult and long investigation,\" with more than 2,000 lines of inquiry having to be examined.\n\nSome lines of investigation had been met with a \"wall of silence,\" he said.\n\nJudge Michael Chambers said: \"It is an utter tragedy that a 15-year-old child lost his life at the hands of others who are barely older than he.\"\n\nSentencing is set to take place at Wolverhampton Crown Court on 19 March.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n• None 'Tell mum I love her' said stabbed boy\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Monica Calazans, a 54-year-old nurse in São Paulo, was given a Chinese-developed vaccine\n\nA nurse has received Brazil's first Covid-19 vaccine dose after regulators gave emergency approval to two jabs.\n\nRegulator Anvisa gave the green light to vaccines from Oxford-AstraZeneca and China's Sinovac, doses of which will be distributed among all 27 states.\n\nBrazil has the world's second-highest death toll from Covid-19 and cases are rising again across the country.\n\nPresident Jair Bolsonaro has been heavily criticised for his handling of the pandemic.\n\nThe president, who caught Covid-19 last year and recovered, has said he will not take a vaccine.\n\nAuthorities reported 551 new fatalities on Sunday, the first time in six days that it had fallen short of 1,000 although this could reflect a delay in the reporting of numbers over the weekend.\n\nIn all, more than 209,000 Covid-related deaths have been recorded in Brazil, a raw total figure only exceeded by the US.\n\nOver 8.4 million infections have been confirmed since the start of the pandemic - the third-highest tally in the world.\n\nHealth Minister Eduardo Pazuello told reporters that the national vaccination programme in the country of 211 million people would begin in earnest in the coming days. Two Brazilian biomedical centres which have been given approval to produce the jabs will be heavily involved.\n\nAbout six million doses of the Sinovac-developed CoronaVac have already been produced in Brazil, while the government is waiting for shipments of the AstraZeneca vaccine from a laboratory in India.\n\nShortly after Anvisa's board gave emergency approval, Monica Calazans, a 54-year-old nurse in São Paulo, became the first person to be inoculated with CoronaVac.\n\nHer vaccination was organised by the São Paulo state government, which is led by Mr Bolsonaro's main political rival, João Doria.\n\nThis has been a rare piece of good news today for Brazilians who are grappling with a devastating second wave.\n\nFrom where I am, the city of Manaus, the vaccine does not feel real. People here are trying to recover a collapsed health system and doing what they can to keep their sick relatives alive.\n\nThe pandemic has become deeply political in Brazil. President Bolsonaro continues to present himself as a vaccine sceptic and he was notably absent as the vaccines were approved. Instead, Monday's newspapers will no doubt have São Paulo Governor Doria slapped on their front pages.\n\nHe is expected to run in next year's presidential elections and has backed the Sinovac vaccine from the very start. He was once a Bolsonaro ally and is now his nemesis - but there is no doubt who is leading the way in trying to get the population vaccinated.\n\nEarlier this week researchers said the Chinese vaccine had been found to be 50.4% effective in Brazilian clinical trials. This, results showed, was significantly less effective than previous data suggested - barely over the 50% needed for regulatory approval.\n\nCoronaVac is also being used in China, Indonesia and Turkey.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe news comes after revelations that a new coronavirus variant has emerged in Brazil. Several cases were traced back to the Amazonas state, where a state of emergency is in place.\n\nManaus, the state capital, has been hit especially hard, with beds and life-saving oxygen running low. Refrigerated containers have also been brought to hospitals to help store bodies.\n\nNeighbouring Venezuela said it had sent a convoy of trucks with oxygen supplies to help Amazonas.\n\nPresident Bolsonaro has faced mounting criticism for his handling of Brazil's outbreak, and several anti-government protests were held last week.\n\nAn opponent of lockdowns, he has previously blamed state governors and mayors for the Covid crisis, saying the federal government has provided all the resources needed to tackle the virus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The deer had to be put down by a gamekeeper after the attack\n\nA warning has been issued by royal parks police after a dog carried out a \"relentless\" attack on a deer that had to be put down.\n\nFootage shows the dog savaging the red deer in London's Richmond Park.\n\nCases of pets worrying deer in London's eight royal parks have shot up during lockdown, police say. They are urging owners to keep dogs on leads.\n\nSeparately, on Sunday, a 10-year-old child was injured by a herd of deer being chased by a dog in Bushy Park.\n\nPolice said the incident in the park in Richmond-upon-Thames, which left the child needing hospital treatment, underlined the need for people to keep their dogs on a lead if they are unsure how they will react to deer.\n\nOn Friday, Franck Hiribarne, 44, from Kingston in south-west London, admitted causing or permitting an animal he was in charge of to injure another animal, in relation to the Richmond Park attack.\n\nWimbledon magistrates heard the doe suffered deep wounds, then received a broken leg when it was hit by a car as it tried to flee from the dog. Witnesses described the attack as \"relentless\".\n\nThe deer had to be put down by a gamekeeper after the attack in October.\n\nMr Hiribarne, who reported the matter himself to the Royal Parks Office, said he usually walked his red setter Alfie on a lead until he was well away from any grazing deer, and that the dog had been responding well to \"off-lead\" commands.\n\nThe dog owner, who was fined £600, said in a statement: \"I was genuinely shocked and sorry for what had happened and since then I have refrained completely from letting Alfie off the leash in any park.\n\n\"I have also taken a special dog trainer specialised in gundogs to control more accurately any of his hunting instincts. He has made great progress.\"\n\nFour deer have died from dog attacks in the royal parks since March 2020, while there have been 58 incidents of dogs chasing the herds - a big increase on previous years - according to the manager of Richmond Park.\n\nPart of the increase is thought to be down to new dog owners who are unfamiliar with the best conduct around wildlife.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alexandru Murgeanu (l) and Jason Mercer were killed in the crash on the M1 in South Yorkshire\n\nA coroner has called for a review of smart motorways after an inquest heard the deaths of two men on a stretch of the M1 could have been avoided.\n\nJason Mercer, 44, and Alexandru Murgeanu, 22, died when Prezemyslaw Szuba crashed his lorry into their vehicles near Sheffield on 7 June 2019.\n\nCoroner David Urpeth said smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths\".\n\nHighways England said it was \"addressing many of the points raised\".\n\nMr Urpeth recorded a verdict of unlawful killing at Sheffield Town Hall. He added he would be writing to Highways England and the transport secretary asking for a review.\n\nThe inquest heard the deaths of the two men may have been avoided had there had been a hard shoulder.\n\nOn the stretch of the M1 where the crash took place, the hard shoulder has been replaced by an active lane.\n\nSzuba, 40, from Hull, was jailed last year after admitting causing their deaths by careless driving.\n\nHe was speaking from prison to the inquest.\n\nPrezemyslaw Szuba was jailed over the deaths\n\nAnswering questions over the phone, Szuba told the hearing he accepted he was driving without paying proper attention.\n\n\"I have already accepted that at my trial,\" he said, but added: \"If there had been a hard shoulder on this bit of motorway, the collision would have been avoidable.\n\n\"I would have driven past these two cars as it would be safer and they would have been able to come home safely and I would be able to come back home.\"\n\nSzuba said he had only three to five seconds to react, and asked if he would have avoided the crash had he been paying attention, he said: \"It's difficult to say after everything now.\"\n\nSgt Mark Brady, who oversees major collision investigations for South Yorkshire Police, told the hearing: \"Had there been a hard shoulder, had Jason and Alexandru pulled on to the hard shoulder, my opinion is that Mr Szuba would have driven clean past them.\"\n\nBut he accepted the primary cause of the crash was Szuba's inattention to the road.\n\nThe crash happened after a collision between a Ford Focus driven by Mr Mercer, from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, and a Ford Transit driven by Mr Murgeanu, who was living in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, but was originally from Romania.\n\nWhen Mr Mercer and Mr Murgeanu got out to exchange details they were hit by the lorry, and both died at the scene.\n\nMr Mercer's wife Claire has campaigned against smart motorways since her husband's death, and was at the hearing on Monday.\n\nClaire Mercer has campaigned against the use of smart motorways since her husband's death\n\nIn a statement, Highways England said it was \"determined\" to do everything it could to make roads as safe as possible and was already addressing many of the points raised by the coroner \"as published in the Government's Smart Motorway Evidence Stocktake and Action Plan of March 2020\".\n\n\"We will carefully consider any further comments raised by the coroner once we receive the report,\" it added.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man has scaled a Hong Kong skyscraper in his wheelchair to raise money for spinal cord patients.\n\nLai Chi-Wai, who became paralysed after a road accident ten years ago, climbed 250 metres (820ft) of the Nina Towers building.\n\nBefore his accident, Lai Chi-Wai was a rock-climbing champion in Asia and eighth best in the world.\n\nHe said that \"knowing there was a possibility...that I could be a climber again, I found some direction in life\".", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nPhil Neville has left his role as manager of England's women and been appointed in charge of David Beckham's Major League Soccer side Inter Miami.\n\nThe 43-year-old was appointed as England boss in January 2018 and his contract was set to end in July.\n\nThe Football Association says it will \"shortly confirm\" an interim head coach until Sarina Wiegman's arrival.\n\nNetherlands manager Wiegman will take on the role after the delayed Tokyo Olympics in August.\n\nFormer Manchester United and Everton defender Neville was the leading contender to manage Great Britain at the Games, but his move to the United States has left the FA needing another option.\n\n\"This is a very young club with a lot of promise and upside, and I am committed to challenging myself, my players and everyone around me to grow and build a competitive soccer culture we can all be proud of,\" Neville said of his American move.\n\nBeckham said of his former Manchester United team-mate: \"I have known Phil since we were both teenagers at the academy.\n\n\"We share a footballing DNA having been trained by some of the best leaders in the game, and it's those values that I have always wanted running through our club.\"\n\nThe MLS side had been managed by former Uruguay striker Diego Alonso before the 45-year-old left by mutual consent earlier this month.\n\nBeckham added: \"Anyone who has played or worked with Phil knows he is a natural leader, and I believe now is the right time for him to join.\"\n\nNeville led the Lionesses to their first SheBelieves Cup title in 2019 and fourth place at the Women's World Cup later the same year, but results since that tournament have been poor.\n\nEngland's struggles under Neville continued at the 2020 SheBelieves Cup, where a late defeat by Spain in the final match was their seventh loss in 11 games.\n\nThe Lionesses have not played since that game last March because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"It has been an honour to manage England and I have enjoyed three of the best years of my career,\" said Neville, who won 19 of his 35 games in charge.\n\n\"The players who wear the England shirt are some of the most talented and dedicated athletes I have ever had the privilege to work with.\n\n\"They have challenged me and improved me as a coach, and I am very grateful to them for the fantastic memories we have shared.\"\n\nNeville, who had no previous experience in the women's game before taking over, has made a \"significant contribution\" during his three-year spell, said Baroness Campbell, the FA's director of women's football.\n\n\"The commitment, dedication and respect he has shown the position has been clear to see,\" she added.\n\n\"I will personally miss our many conversations about ways we can improve and progress.\"\n\nEngland are ranked sixth in the world, having been third when Neville succeeded Mark Sampson.\n\nNeville's record against the best sides came under particular scrutiny, with England winning one of their nine games against teams ranked in the top five in the world during his reign.\n\nNeville's record against teams ranked in the world's top five\n\n\"After steadying the ship at a challenging period, he helped us to win the SheBelieves Cup for the first time, reach the World Cup semi-finals and qualify for the Olympics,\" added Campbell.\n\n\"Given his status as a former Manchester United and England player, he did much to raise the profile of our team.\n\n\"He has used his platform to champion the women's game, worked tirelessly to support our effort to promote more female coaches and used his expertise to develop many of our younger players.\"\n\nWhat happens next with England?\n\nThe FA is expected to name England's interim head coach in the next few days.\n\nAmong the favourites is former Norway midfielder Hege Riise, one of the greatest players of her generation - a European Championship winner in 1993, a World Cup winner in 1995 and an Olympic gold medallist in 2000.\n\nAfter retiring as a player, Riise moved into club management in Norway and also coached the country's Under-23 side before spending three years as assistant to then-USA head coach Pia Sundhage from 2009.\n\nShe then joined the set-up at Norwegian club LSK Kvinner in 2012 - becoming head coach in 2017 - as they won six successive titles between 2014 and 2019, while also reaching the 2018-19 Champions League quarter-finals.\n\nRiise was one of seven nominees for the Fifa best women's coach award in 2020, won by Wiegman in December.\n\nThe new interim manager has no England fixtures booked in the diary, though there has reportedly been discussions over a mini-tournament during the next international window in February.\n\nEngland will not be taking part in the SheBelieves Cup but could host a tournament which would see three other nations take part in a round-robin event.\n• None All the goals, highlights and analysis from the weekend's Premier League matches, including Manchester United's visit to Liverpool: MOTD2 is streaming now on BBC iPlayer", "Morgan Le-Riche and other students have questioned if they should be paying full tuition fees\n\n\"I am paying £9,000 for a university degree that is causing me nothing but anxiety and stress.\"\n\nFor Morgan Le-Riche, the university experience since the coronavirus pandemic hit has not been worth the fee.\n\nSome students are calling for reduced tuition fees and more support.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it provided the most generous student support package in the UK and has appointed a dedicated minister for mental health.\n\nIn announcing a lockdown earlier this week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said students in England would not return to the classroom until mid February, with calls for clarity over what will happen in Wales.\n\nMorgan, who is studying criminology and criminal justice at the University of South Wales, said \"something needs to be done to help us students\".\n\nHer Facebook post calling for more help was shared 3,000 times in three days - something that surprised her but also highlighted the depth of feeling.\n\nStudents face an uncertain time with with restrictions currently in place\n\nThe second year student said: \"I don't think the government is understanding students, instead they are only recognising primary and secondary schools - there's no recognition for university students.\"\n\nMorgan was given assignments to complete over Christmas, but said her lecturers had turned off their emails so she could not seek guidance when she was finding work difficult.\n\n\"I feel like the amount of stress I've had has meant I'm not doing a high enough standard of work, that I would normally do, due to the lack of assistance,\" she said.\n\nShe said more time with tutors and spaces for students to come together to discuss mental health would be beneficial.\n\nThe University of South Wales said their course teams are committed to providing \"comprehensive support\" and are \"readily available to offer help and guidance for students\".\n\nStudents in England have been told to work online and remain where they are\n\nA petition calling for the UK government to reduce university student tuition fees from £9,250 to £3,000 has gained more than 400,000 signatures online.\n\nMorgan thinks she has been \"massively let down\" and there needs to be a \"heavy reduction\" on the amount students are paying for their courses.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"We are the only country in the whole of Europe that provides equivalent up front living costs grants and loans for full and part-time undergraduates, and for post-graduates.\n\n\"This already covers campus-based and distance learners and will continue throughout the academic year.\"\n\nDanielle Herbert believes university students need more focus from government\n\nJournalism student Danielle Herbert, who also studies at the University of South Wales, said online learning has helped her mental health because otherwise a lot of her face-to-face interactions would be limited.\n\nDespite \"lecturers trying their best\", students' experiences since March last year have not been \"adequate for a £9,000 fee\".\n\nThe third-year student from Swindon said the prime minister's announcement of an England-wide lockdown was stressful \"because there was no mention of universities\".\n\nShe said: \"I was left very unclear and confused as to where I stood on travelling back to Wales. As someone who suffers from anxiety, I rely on concrete facts and that wasn't provided. We have been ignored by the prime minister.\n\n\"I had just paid my rent for this term - which was £2,300 - and I looked at my mum and dad and said: 'Am I even going to be able to go back to my student flat'?\"\n\nDanielle has called for more help for students in dealing with mental health issues during the pandemic\n\nShe does not believe students have had the same level of support as secondary school pupils, adding: \"We're still expected to produce the same standard of work without protection whilst there's a pandemic going on - it's really unrealistic.\"\n\nDanielle said having a \"no detriment\" policy in place would help to relieve students' stress.\n\n\"I think there's a real issue amongst students and students' mental health and it's only grown because of coronavirus. I think we will see the consequences of that if nothing is done.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"To support mental health services, we have made an additional £9.9m available, as part of efforts to ensure people can access the right support when they need it.\n\n\"In October we announced an additional £10m to support mental health services for higher education students in Wales to increase capacity in students' unions and universities to provide support services.\n\n\"This is in addition to the £27m Higher Education Investment and Recovery Fund announced in the summer.\"\n\nThe University of South Wales said the safety and wellbeing of students is its priority and students have access to a \"wide range of comprehensive support for their health, mental health and wellbeing\".\n\n\"Recognising that a number of staff would be on leave over the Christmas and New Year holidays, the course team let students know they were available for help and support right up until the end of term and students were encouraged to ask for support if they needed it,\" said a spokesperson.\n\n\"We are providing a full and interactive blended learning offer this term, in line with Welsh Government guidance, so that students can receive good experiences and a high-quality education, enabling them to progress and complete their studies on time.\"", "Software giant Github has apologised for firing a Jewish employee who warned co-workers to be careful about Nazis.\n\nThe employee was fired two days after using the word to describe participants in the US Capitol riots.\n\nBut Github now says that decision was a mistake, and its head of HR has resigned over the scandal.\n\nThe company says it has offered the fired employee his job back, and clarified that \"employees are free to express concerns about Nazis\".\n\nMicrosoft-owned Github is one of the most popular software development tools in the world, with more than 50 million users. News of the internal row was first reported by Business Insider.\n\nPeople associated with a range of extreme and far-right groups and supporters of fringe online conspiracy theories stormed Congress.\n\nAs it happened, the Jewish employee posted to an internal Github Slack channel: \"Stay safe homies, Nazis are about.\"\n\nBut the comment sparked criticism from a co-worker about the use of the word \"Nazi\" to describe the rioters, calling it \"untasteful conduct\" for the workplace.\n\nThe Jewish employee, who wished to remain anonymous, told Techcrunch he had been \"genuinely concerned about his co-workers in the area, in addition to his Jewish family members\".\n\nTwo days later, he was fired for his \"patterns of behaviour\".\n\nBut the firing led to an outcry from many more co-workers, with hundreds signing an internal letter calling on Github to explain the decision - and to publicly denounce Nazis.\n\nAmid the outcry, the company opened an investigation with an external investigator.\n\n\"The investigation revealed significant errors of judgment and procedure,\" chief executive Erica Brescia wrote in a blogpost. \"Our head of HR has taken personal accountability and resigned from GitHub.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden: \"Yesterday, in my view, was one of the darkest days in the history of our nation.\"\n\nShe said the firm had \"reversed the decision to separate with the employee\", and had contacted him - but it is not clear if the employee wishes to return after the treatment he received.\n\nThe company has also issued statements condemning white supremacists, Nazism, anti-Semitism, and those who took part in the Capitol riots.", "A group of London business leaders has written to the government calling for financial support for the struggling rail firm Eurostar.\n\nIn a letter to the Treasury and Department for Transport, they urge \"swift action to safeguard its future\".\n\nBosses of firms such as Fortnum & Mason signed the letter asking for access to government loans and business rates relief \"at the very least\".\n\nThe government says it is \"working closely\" with Eurostar.\n\nThe cross-Channel rail company is threatened by a large drop in passenger numbers due to coronavirus-related travel restrictions.\n\nIt reported in November that passenger numbers had been down 95% since March 2020.\n\nWith two trains an hour normally scheduled in peak hours, it now runs just two services a day from London to Paris and Brussels.\n\nThe letter, coordinated by business campaigning group London First and seen by the BBC, describes the firm as one that has \"fallen through the cracks\". Unlike some airlines, it has not been eligible for government-backed loans.\n\n\"If this viable business is allowed to fall between the cracks of support - neither an airline, nor a domestic railway - our recovery could be damaged,\" it says.\n\nCo-signed by 28 leaders, including the vice-chancellor of Middlesex University, the chief executive of West End property company Shaftesbury, as well as the boss of the ExCeL conference centre, the letter points out that the company currently employs 1,200 people in the UK.\n\nThe firm is 55% owned by French state rail firm SNCF. The UK government sold its stake in the business to private companies for £757m in 2015.\n\nThe letter also credits Eurostar with reducing carbon emissions. Since it launched in 1994, it has transported more than 190 million passengers between Britain and mainland Europe.\n\nA spokesman for Eurostar said: \"Without additional funding from government there is a real risk to the survival of Eurostar, the green gateway to Europe.\n\nHe described the current situation as \"very serious\".\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Transport said: \"We recognise the significant financial challenges facing Eurostar as a result of Covid-19 and the unprecedented circumstances currently faced by the international travel industry.\"\n\nHe added the government had been in contact with Eurostar \"on a regular basis\" since the start of the coronavirus crisis and would continue to work closely with the firm.\n• None How are travel rules being relaxed?", "A small group of armed protesters held a rally in front of the capitol building in Texas\n\nSmall groups of protesters - some of them armed - gathered on Sunday at statehouses in the US, where tensions are high after the deadly riots at the Capitol in Washington.\n\nProtests were held outside capitol buildings in Texas, Oregon, Michigan, Ohio and elsewhere.\n\nBut many other statehouses were quiet, amid a ramping up of security across US legislatures. No clashes were reported.\n\nThe FBI has warned of armed protests ahead of Wednesday's inauguration.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden will take office two weeks after pro-Trump protesters stormed the US Capitol in Washington DC on 6 January, leaving five dead, including a police officer.\n\nMore than 25,000 National Guard troops are being deployed to secure Washington. In a sign of just how worried officials are about potential unrest, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy told the Associated Press on Sunday that all Guard members were being vetted because of fears of an insider threat.\n\nAlso on Sunday, a county official from New Mexico was arrested in Washington in connection with the riots at the US Capitol on 6 January.\n\nCouy Griffin, the founder of a group called Cowboys for Trump, had vowed to return on inauguration day with firearms to \"embrace my Second Amendment\".\n\nMany cities had prepared for potentially violent protests over the weekend, erecting barriers and deploying thousands of National Guard troops.\n\nPosts on pro-Trump and far-right online networks had called for armed demonstrations on Sunday in particular, but some militias told their followers not to attend, citing heavy security or claiming the planned events were police traps.\n\nSmall crowds of protesters numbering in the dozens gathered in only some cities, leaving the streets surrounding many statehouses largely empty.\n\nMembers of the the Boogaloo Bois were seen outside the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing\n\nThe New York Times reported about 25 members of the Boogaloo Bois movement were among heavily-armed protesters who gathered at the statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. But the men - who are part of a loosely organised extremist group that wants to overthrow the US government - said they were there for a long-planned gun rights rally.\n\nMeanwhile in Michigan, about two dozen people - some carrying rifles - protested outside the statehouse in Lansing, as police watched on.\n\n\"I am not here to be violent and I hope no one shows up to be violent,\" one protester told Reuters news agency.\n\nA similarly small group of about a dozen protesters, a few armed with rifles, stood outside the Texas Capitol in Austin.\n\nOutside Pennsylvania's capitol in Harrisburg, one Trump supporter noted the poor turn-out, telling Reuters: \"There's nothing going on.\"\n\nMore protests are expected on Wednesday, when Mr Biden will officially be sworn into office, replacing Mr Trump as president.\n\nMr Biden will issue executive orders to reverse President Trump's travel bans and re-join the Paris climate accord on his first day in the White House.\n\nThe president-elect is also expected to focus on reuniting families separated at the US-Mexico border, and to issue mandates on Covid-19 and mask-wearing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The US Capitol is on high alert ahead of Biden's inauguration\n\nMuch of Washington DC has been locked down ahead of the inauguration. The National Mall, which is usually thronged with thousands of people for inaugurations, has been shut at the request of the Secret Service.\n\nThe Biden team had already asked Americans to avoid travelling to the nation's capital for the inauguration because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Local officials said people should watch the event remotely.", "China's economy grew at the slowest pace in more than four decades last year, official figures show, but remains on course to be the only major economy to have expanded in 2020.\n\nThe economy grew 2.3% last year, despite Covid-19 shutdowns causing output to slump in early 2020.\n\nStrict virus containment measures and emergency relief for businesses helped the economy recover.\n\nGrowth in the final three months of the year picked up to 6.5%.\n\n\"The GDP data shows the economy has almost normalised. This momentum will continue, although the current Covid-19 outbreak in a couple of provinces in northern China might temporarily cause fluctuation,\" said Yue Su, principal economist for the Economist Intelligence Unit.\n\nChina's mainland share markets as well as Hong Kong's Hang Seng posted modest gains on the latest figures, which exceeded economists' expectations, according to a Reuters poll.\n\nHowever, Covid-19 was still a major drain on growth in 2020, with nationwide shutdowns of factories and manufacturing plants forcing economic growth down to its slowest rate for four decades.\n\nChina's manufacturing sector appears to have recovered, with Monday's data showing a 7.3% increase in industrial output.\n\nExports have also led the way. Data last week showed Chinese exports grew by more than expected in December, as coronavirus disruptions around the world fuelled demand for Chinese goods.\n\nThat is despite a stronger yuan, which makes Chinese exports more expensive for overseas buyers.\n\nChina's economy has seen a strong rebound, while the rest of the world struggles with anaemic demand, millions of job losses, and businesses shutting down.\n\nChina's economic engine roared back to life after a brutal lockdown that saw the Chinese economy contract by a historic 6.8% in the first quarter of 2020.\n\nWe should always be circumspect about Chinese data - with the usual caveat that the trajectory of the data rather than the figures themselves are a useful guide to how China's economy is growing.\n\nWhat these numbers show is that China's strategy of locking down cities hard and quickly has worked.\n\nA combination of government-led investment and global demand for Chinese goods also helped to power a rapid recovery, and boost exports.\n\nStill - this is the lowest rate of annual growth in more than 40 years for the economic giant. Worries over a resurgence of the virus are also clouding China's growth outlook, with consumer demand still weak.\n\nAnd Beijing is trying to navigate a prickly trade relationship with the US, with the incoming administration unlikely to be softer on China than President Donald Trump.\n\nAll of these challenges will no doubt weigh on Chinese growth in 2021 - but they seem to be in a better place than the rest of the world's major economies.\n\nIt was not all good news from the latest figures.\n\nLi Wei, a senior economist at Standard Chartered Bank, said pandemic-related exports and credit-fuelled car and housing sales accounted for much of the growth, while domestic demand lagged behind.\n\n\"Domestic household consumption of food, clothing, furniture and utilities remains below pre-pandemic levels, while the hospitality and transportation sectors continue to face capacity and travel restrictions,\" he told Reuters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does China’s economy matter to you?\n\nAlthough retail sales grew by 4.6% in the fourth quarter of 2020, they fell by 3.9% for the year.\n\nMany analysts are tipping growth to accelerate in 2021, but the China Bureau of Statistics has warned of a \"grave and complex environment both at home and abroad\", with the pandemic having a \"huge impact\".\n\nChina still faces many challenges, including continuing trade tensions with the US and how they might play out under the administration of President-elect Joe Biden, who takes office later this week.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lorry drivers have been holding up the traffic in Westminster.\n\nBoris Johnson has pledged £23m to help businesses affected by Brexit delays amid protests by fishing firms.\n\nDemonstrations took place outside government departments in central London by exporters who are warning their livelihoods are under threat.\n\nExports of fresh fish and seafood have been severely disrupted by new border controls since the UK's transition period ended earlier this month.\n\nThe PM said firms would be compensated for delays that were not their fault.\n\nIndustry associations have complained that extra paperwork has made it difficult to deliver fresh produce to mainland Europe before it goes off.\n\nThey have warned that if the situation continues, jobs could soon be at risk.\n\nPressed on what he would do in response, Mr Johnson said the government would step in to support firms which \"through no fault of their own have experienced bureaucratic delays, difficulties getting their goods through, where there is a genuine willing buyer on the other side of the channel\".\n\n\"There's a £23m compensation fund we've set up and we'll make sure they get help,\" he said.\n\nDetails of the scheme are expected later this week.\n\nAfter a day of protests in central London, which saw 20 lorries drive up Whitehall, the Metropolitan Police said 14 people had been reported for Covid-related offences, but no arrests were made.\n\nMark Moore, manager of the Dartmouth Crab Company, said his business and others were protesting to \"raise awareness\" of the impact of new border checks.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live his company had faced delays of up to eight and a half hours when delivering produce into the European Union.\n\nHe added that the situation was \"especially difficult\" for the shellfish sector, where goods were at risk of going off before reaching customers.\n\n\"It's not about the increased documentation per se,\" he said.\n\n\"We have taken that on board, and we ourselves - and I know many others - have had no issues with producing the actual paperwork.\n\n\"It's the volume required and the timeframe in which to produce it, which doesn't lend itself to live shellfish and fish generally.\"\n\nThere are 24 lorries in total, overwhelmingly from seafood exporters in Scotland. Businesses taking part say the Brexit trade deal has left their industry high and dry.\n\nAnd although one haulier from Aberdeenshire I spoke to was keen to stress that their coordinated protest was peaceful, it is clear that they all feel that direct action is now necessary to make the government sit up and take notice.\n\nGood natured though their action was, it did for a time cause serious traffic congestion along Whitehall and Parliament Square.\n\nHowever, low levels of traffic perhaps caused by the Covid lockdown meant the roads around Whitehall didn't grind to a complete halt.\n\nAt stake, they believe, is an industry, but also thousands of livelihoods. Exporters say they are backed by fishermen who are struggling to land their catches.\n\nAnd although the rural Scottish communities which are sustained by fishing might seem like a long way from the streets of SW1, the hauliers certainly made their presence felt this morning.\n\nHaving left the EU's customs union and the single market, UK exports are subject to new customs and veterinary checks which have caused problems at the border.\n\nSome Scottish fishermen have been landing their catch in Denmark to avoid the \"bureaucratic system\" involved in exporting to Europe, according to Scotland's rural economy secretary.\n\nLast week, Boris Johnson told a committee of MPs that fishing firms impacted by disruption would be compensated for \"temporary frustrations\".\n\nBut the BBC was told that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) did not know about the promise of compensation before it was made by Mr Johnson.\n\nSpeaking to reporters, the prime minister said he understood the \"frustrations\" of the fishing industry, noting its plight had been \"exacerbated by the Covid pandemic\".\n\n\"Unfortunately, the demand in restaurants on the continent for UK fish has not been what it was before the pandemic, just because the restaurants have been closed for so long,\" he added.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused ministers of trying to \"blame fishing communities\" for problems \"rather than accepting it's their failure to prepare\".\n\n\"The government has known there would be a problem with fishing and particularly the sale of fish into the EU for years,\" he told reporters.\n\nMuch media attention has been focussed on Scotland as this export crisis has unfolded.\n\nBut exactly the same problem is rearing its head in the UK's other great fishing stronghold - at the other end of the UK in Devon and Cornwall.\n\nA virtual Who's Who of South West fishing leaders wrote to the environment secretary back in November warning that the new post-Brexit export requirements would have a \"seriously detrimental effect\" on the industry, claiming this \"could be the final straw for many businesses\".\n\nHere, too, many fish exports have now ground to a halt and others have encountered obstacles and long delays.\n\nAnd exporters have reacted angrily to the government's repeated insistence that the issues they've been experiencing over the last two weeks are just \"teething problems\".", "Although it has been common to hear and see the impact on care homes internationally throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, one country where such insight has been rare is China.\n\nPrivate care homes have been growing in popularity in China in recent years, but there are some stigmas associated with the industry.\n\nIn China, many view nursing homes as going against the cultural concept of “filial piety”. This is the belief that the young should respect for and care for their elders, and so many believe the elderly should live with their children, and not live in care homes.\n\nHowever, as cases of the virus grow in the northeast of the country, the official broadcaster CCTV has offered viewers a rare insight into how China’s elderly in these facilities are being protected.\n\nA journalist today has visited the Shijiazhuang Nursing Home. Shijiazhuang is the Chinese city that has been hardest hit by the virus in recent weeks.\n\nIn a 30-minute livestream in which he is clad in hazmat suit and visor, journalist Gu Junling introduces viewers to how the facilities are kept safe, and shows viewers inside the care home’s stockrooms, packed with ample provisions for its residents.\n\nMany of the residents seem happy to speak to the journalist and talk about how they are healthy, and happy. Masks are mandatory for both residents and staff, even in the areas outside on-site. However, far from being kept under house arrest, residents are shown to have sufficient space to go outside, use computers and games rooms.", "Tributes have been paid to the actor Andy Gray who has died at the age of 61.\n\nThe Perth-born star was a well known face on TV and the stage for more than 40 years.\n\nAmong his best known on-screen roles were \"Chancer\" in the 1980s comedy City Lights and more recently \"Pete Galloway\" in BBC soap River City.\n\nHis River City co-star Gayle Telfer Stevens said Gray was a \"national treasure\".\n\nShe added: \"Not only was he an exceptional actor and entertainer who brought so much joy to so many people, he was an extraordinary man.\n\n\"When you were in his presence you could feel it was of greatness. The most kind, clever, funny beyond measure, beautiful man.\"\n\nAndy Gray, second from the left in the back row, starred as \"Chancer\" in the hit 1980s comedy show \"City Lights\"\n\nAndy Gray performing at the Edinburgh Festival in 2013\n\nSteve Carson, director of BBC Scotland, said: \"We are deeply saddened by the news that one of Scotland's much loved comedy actors and close friend to many at BBC Scotland, Andy Gray has passed away.\n\n\"On screen and in person he could always make you laugh and was one of the kindest people to have around on any production. Our thoughts are with his family at this difficult time.\"\n\nAndy Gray, pictured with Grant Stott, had been one of the stars at Edinburgh's King's Theatre pantomime for years\n\nMartin McCardie, executive producer at BBC Scotland Studios, added: \"When Andy joined River City in 2016 he had an extremely successful stage, TV and film career behind him, but the character of Pete Galloway turned out to be one of the most popular ever to pass through Shieldinch.\n\n\"Andy took ill in 2018 and he had to leave the show and he had a difficult time. His ongoing recovery was borne with humour and gratitude for what he had. He had unfinished business on River City and we were looking forward to welcoming him back to film with us before the end of the current series.\"\n\nAndy Gray was genuinely one of the nicest people in the world of showbusiness.\n\nWhether you were an actor, or a journalist, or just someone who'd seen him in panto, he was always ready to have a chat.\n\nWhen he dropped out of his Fringe show in 2018, after being diagnosed with a rare form of leukaemia, he was inundated with good wishes, but said he wanted privacy to deal with his illness.\n\nHe retreated to his home in Perthshire and took the time to recover.\n\nWhen he returned to the stage of the Kings Theatre in Edinburgh for their 2019 panto, it was an emotional milestone.\n\nWrapped in his Batman dressing gown backstage (he was a huge fan with a shed full of film paraphernalia) he admitted it could be overwhelming. Sometimes the whoops and cheers of the audience at his arrival in the midst of a glitzy song and dance routine would go on for several minutes.\n\nHis co-stars Grant Stott and Allan Stewart watched from the wings and said it had restored the balance of their long established trio. The Kings is one of the only theatres to have a tradition of a pantette - where the cast sit in the auditorium and watch the front of house staff performing the show. Andy wasn't spared the merciless send up, nor would he have wanted to.\n\nDaughter Claire was also in the show - as one of the three bears - and her baby daughter was in Andy's arms for the curtain call. But whether his actual family, or his panto family, or the generations of people who've seen him onstage or screen, it was a moment of hope, as well as joy, that someone who'd brought so much laughter and entertainment to Scotland was back.\n\nThat's why his sudden death at 61 is such a cruel blow.\n\nHe had been campaigning to keep the Kings afloat, and was involved in online performances. He and Allan Stewart had hoped to appear in one of the few surviving pantomimes in Milton Keynes but that too was cancelled.\n\nFriends and colleagues knew he'd been admitted to hospital in the last few days, and feared the worst. Those who simply knew him as someone who made them laugh, on stage or screen, are no less bereft.\n\nTonight the world of Scottish entertainment is in mourning for a gifted comic actor, writer and genuinely nice man.", "Aberystwyth University's vice chancellor told students not to attend lectures unless \"absolutely necessary\"\n\nAberystwyth University has told its students not to return to campus following new advice from the Welsh Government.\n\nA phased return had been planned from 11 January, but this has now been postponed.\n\nVice-chancellor Prof Elizabeth Treasure said students should not attend the university, in Ceredigion, unless \"absolutely necessary.\"\n\nOn Friday the Welsh Government told learners \"study from home if you can\".\n\nMs Treasure said: \"We are reviewing our plans for in-person teaching and will inform you as soon as we can. Whilst we are reviewing those plans, we don't want students travelling to the university unnecessarily.\"\n\nShe said there were certain exceptions, including students without internet access and those for whom laboratory access was essential.\n\nWales' Education Minister, Kirsty Williams, said universities were reviewing their plans based on their individual circumstances.\n\n\"On return, students are also expected to take two asymptomatic tests and comply with rules as they re-join their term time household,\" she said.\n\nDespite the announcement, Bangor University said on Facebook on Friday that it \"falls under the rules of the Welsh Government which allow for a staggered return to blended learning\".\n\nCardiff University said earlier this week that most students would not return to face-to-face teaching until 22 February.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Our message to students, staff and universities in general is the same as the rest of the population: Stay home, work or study from home if you can.\n\n\"Only attend your place of work or study if you can't work from home.\"\n\nThe new announcement came after calls for clarity were made because of differences with the rules in England.\n\nAt that point, the Welsh Government and Universities Wales said the plans agreed before Christmas would remain in place.\n\nOn Friday, it was announced that schools and colleges would stay closed to most pupils until the February half term unless there is a \"significant\" fall in Covid cases.", "LAS received almost 200,000 calls in December - up 50,000 on November, when London was in the second national lockdown\n\nLast week London exceeded the grim milestone of 10,000 deaths linked to Covid-19. Thousands of people are critically ill in hospital, and as many as 5% of Londoners are thought to have the virus in some parts of the city. As coronavirus continues to circulate silently around the capital, staff at the London Ambulance Service (LAS) are under immense pressure.\n\nThe service is currently taking up to 8,500 calls a day, compared with a pre-Covid figure of 5,000 to 6,000, according to its chief executive Garrett Emmerson.\n\nLizzie Cooke is one of the workers at LAS's south London headquarters who are dealing with strangers at what is a distressing time.\n\nI covered the London Bridge terror attacks and Grenfell but this is a different scale\n\nCalmly, the 30-year-old answers the phone and usually asks first if the patient is breathing.\n\n\"In the first wave we were getting a lot of calls of [people seeking] reassurance,\" Lizzie says. \"But now there are more and more who have symptoms, and family members are really frightened.\"\n\nIt is a fear that Lizzie knows all too well, having been hospitalised with Covid-19 in March. She spent a week receiving treatment for the virus.\n\n\"I was at work taking calls and struggling to concentrate,\" the call-handling supervisor says. \"At times I would just have my head on the desk in between calls.\n\n\"I started to develop chest pains five days later so my parents took me to Royal County Hospital, in Hampshire, and an X-ray showed a lot of fluid in my lungs. It was quite horrible.\n\n\"Luckily, I wasn't on a ventilator but I had the oxygen hood, and the nurses were so rushed off their feet. I didn't have my phone with me or know my parents' numbers off by heart so for that week I was quite alone and isolated.\n\n\"It was just a mixture of the unknown and not knowing when it was going to stop that was so daunting.\"\n\nThe unprecedented volume of calls means waiting times for patients are increasing\n\nLizzie's personal battle with coronavirus has helped her to empathise with people who call up with breathing problems.\n\nIt's something she says she's having to do more and more.\n\n\"Just before Christmas we were getting a lot of respiratory and cardiac arrest calls,\" she says. \"You could just hear colleagues counting to four [for chest compressions] and it was echoing around the room. It has been tough.\n\n\"We are getting calls from family members who are really frightened. I covered the London Bridge terror attacks and Grenfell but this is a different scale.\n\n\"I did get one call for toothache, but that's part of the job.\"\n\nLizzie, who lives in Hampshire, says that because the coverage of coronavirus is everywhere, it is \"difficult to escape\".\n\nWhen she's not at work she binge-watches Line of Duty on Netflix, but she says winding down isn't easy.\n\nLizzie sometimes thinks about the people who aren't following the rules aimed at helping stop the spread of the virus, and those who deny Covid-19 even exists.\n\n\"It's a kick in the teeth,\" she says. \"It is frustrating on the way to work when you see people not wearing masks or even posting stuff on social media not believing the virus is real.\n\n\"I just don't know where the disconnect is coming from; there are many people in hospital, many people dying, and I don't know what more needs to be said to make them realise how dangerous the illness is.\"\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nSitting a few metres away from Lizzie is 24-year-old Louise Essam, who has been in the job for two years.\n\n\"Every call we take at the moment is coronavirus,\" she says. \"My record was 108 calls in a day back in March during the first wave.\n\n\"But easily in the last few weeks I've been taking around 100 a day at times,\" Louise adds.\n\n\"We are just doing the best we can,\" says emergency call co-ordinator Louise Essam\n\n\"Sometimes I'll come in for a shift and can just hear colleagues counting one, two, three, four, for the compressions, and you just know what kind of shift it is going to be.\n\n\"It has been tough and quite frustrating, really. We are trying to help people. We are under so much pressure as there are high waiting times, but we are just doing the best we can.\"\n\nHelp is at hand though from the LAS workers' fellow emergency services personnel.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick visited Wembley Stadium on Wednesday, where her officers are being trained to drive ambulances\n\nSeventy-five Met Police officers are currently being trained at Wembley Stadium to drive ambulances.\n\nThey will start work as drivers from 20 January, joining the 200 firefighters who are already helping LAS.\n\n\"It came as a huge relief when they announced it,\" says 37-year-old paramedic Ben West.\n\nBen West has been with the London Ambulance Service for 13 years\n\nAs is the case with many frontline workers, Ben says he is concerned about the dangers of exposure to coronavirus.\n\nHe has lost four colleagues to Covid-19, including Ian Reynolds, a paramedic based in Croydon, and Melonie Mitchell, a member of the NHS 111 team. They both died during the first wave in April.\n\n\"I wouldn't be a normal person if I said I wasn't scared,\" he says.\n\n\"I am scared and I do worry but we take every day as it comes, take our precautions and we just see where we go with that.\n\n\"We know the virus is out there in the community and we are not immune.\"", "Audi factories, like others, will make thousands fewer cars at the start of this year\n\nAudi is having to slow production because of a computer-chip shortage it is calling a \"crisis upon a crisis\".\n\nBoss Markus Duesmann said it was now aiming to make 10,000 fewer cars in the first quarter of the year and putting more than 10,000 workers on furlough.\n\nIts parent company, Volkswagen, announced its own go-slow due to a lack of chips last week, alongside rivals such as Honda.\n\nMr Duesmann told the Financial Times carmakers had been caught by surprise.\n\nAfter a poor start to 2020 for new car sales, manufacturers cut their orders from the Chinese factories making computer chips.\n\nBut then, at the end of the year, \"everybody was quite surprised by the strength of the market\", Mr Duesmann said.\n\nHowever, ordering new chips is not simple.\n\nCCS Insight analyst Geoff Blaber said: \"Semiconductors have a broad range of applications but a very limited pool of companies capable of manufacturing the silicon.\n\n\"Demand is high, and supply is tight\" and any sudden needs \"can prove very difficult to accommodate\".\n\n\"Modern cars are becoming computers on wheels, with an abundance of silicon required to control everything from the infotainment system to camera, radar and lidar,\" he said.\n\nThe demand from carmakers \"competes for manufacturing capacity with smartphones, servers and a host of other segments\".\n\nAnd a boom in the market for devices such as PCs and new game consoles was making it doubly difficult to book manufacturing time.\n\nThe shortages have seen Mercedes-maker Daimler, Fiat, Ford, Honda, Nissan, Subaru and Toyota all reportedly suspend production for days or weeks at a time.\n\nAnd German car-parts company Continental described \"largescale supply shortages\", with lead times of six to nine months, adding bottlenecks were expected to continue \"well into 2021, causing major disruptions\".", "Two drivers from Scotland were stopped by police on Anglesey going to see friends.\n\nPeople who drove more than 200 miles to visit friends in Wales and a group having a party in a garden shed have been caught breaking Covid rules.\n\nPolice forces in Wales have broken up parties, football matches and fined people for visiting beauty spots this weekend while Wales is in lockdown.\n\nTwo motorists were reported by North Wales Police in Anglesey after driving from Scotland to visit friends.\n\nWhile in Swansea, eight people were fined after a party was held in a shed.\n\nThe drivers from Scotland were stopped by police at Valley, near Holyhead, and reported for driving without insurance and breaching Covid travel restrictions.\n\nOfficers from North Wales Police on Saturday also stopped a car from Portsmouth as the driver was travelling to \"collect a front bumper\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEven though national parks have shut car parks in a bid to stop people visiting, North Wales Police said it received about 100 calls on Saturday about potential Covid breaches - and officers told people they need to take \"personal responsibility\" and \"stay home\".\n\nSouth Wales Police officers issued fixed penalty notices after finding people from \"all different households\" in a shed - which had been converted into a bar - in the Sketty area of Swansea all \"mixing together\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mark Drakeford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA further nine fixed penalty notices were given out in the Townhill area of the city after different households attended a baby reveal party on Sunday.\n\nFive people were warned about breaking laws in Neath Port Talbot after a group travelled to a field to play football, while four people were fined after a house party in Aberavon.\n\nUnder coronavirus rules people are only allowed to leave their homes for \"essential\" reasons, including to shop for food, get medical treatment and to exercise.\n\nWhile exercise is allowed, people are not allowed to drive to a spot for a walk, run or cycle, and the law means exercising with people you do not live with (or who are your bubble if you live alone) is banned.\n\nThose found to be in breach of Covid laws can be fined £60 for the first offence, with the penalties increasing up to £1,920. If prosecuted, however, a court can impose an unlimited fine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid lockdown: 'This is why we say to you do not come out'\n\nUntil recently police had been using an education first approach, but the Welsh Government has repeatedly said it wants to see stricter enforcement of the rules.\n\nIn Powys, road officers from Dyfed-Powys Police stopped cars and turned around people driving to exercise.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Traffic Wales North & Mid #KeepWalesSafe This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Port Talbot, two people sat on a bench drinking alcohol were fined by South Wales Police for \"leaving home without a reasonable excuse\".\n\nGwent Police officers broke-up a house party in Glyn-Gaer, Caerphilly county, on Friday evening and issued fines.", "A non-binding Labour motion calling for the universal credit top-up to be kept in place beyond 31 March passed by 278 votes to none after a Commons debate.\n\nSix Tory MPs defied party orders to abstain and voted with Labour, adding to the pressure on the PM on the issue.\n\nThe prime minister said the government had provided £280bn worth of support during the pandemic but all measures would be kept under \"constant review\".\n\nThe motion, which will not automatically lead to a change in policy, was put forward by Labour as a way to put additional pressure on the government to continue the increase, worth £1,000 a year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carl, a roofer, describes going from \"not having enough to barely having enough\" on universal credit.\n\nFormer Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb was among six Conservative MPs to rebel, along with Peter Aldous, Robert Halfon, Jason McCartney, Anne Marie Morris and Matthew Offord.\n\nAhead of the vote, Mr Crabb told the BBC that although there were \"difficult pressures on the chancellor\" extending the increase for 12 months was \"the right thing to do\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there were dozens of Conservative MPs who were \"deeply uneasy\" about ending the £20 weekly increase to universal credit.\n\nShe added that it was also understood the cabinet minister with responsibility for benefits, Therese Coffey, was arguing that the uplift should not be dropped in April.\n\nCharities and anti-poverty campaigners are pleading with the government to keep the support in place, describing it as a lifeline for more than 5.5 million families who receive the standard universal credit allowance.\n\nFood poverty campaigner and chef Jack Monroe told the BBC that the £20 increase \"has been a lifeline\" for millions of people who have needed to top up their income or rely on universal credit payments in order to get by.\n\nSir Keir said the increase was a vital safety net for those who had lost their jobs, seen their working hours slashed or who were not eligible for the government's wage subsidy furlough scheme.\n\n\"If we don't give a helping hand to families through this pandemic, then we are going to slow our economic recovery as we come out it.\n\n\"We urge Boris Johnson to change course and give families certainty today that their incomes will be protected.\"\n\nSix billion pounds of the benefits bill - the difference between poverty or not for 1.2 million families, according to a think tank.\n\nThe £1,040 a year increase to universal credit is a very emotive issue.\n\nThere's even a battle over what to call it.\n\nTo the government, its introduction was a one-off boost to cope with a crisis. For Labour, taking it away is a cut.\n\nMinisters would prefer we looked at the overall level of support they've provided for workers and businesses during the pandemic. The opposition say the £20 a week boost is a powerful symbol of the state's willingness to help.\n\nEven the act of debating it today is disputed. Labour say they've got the right occasionally to set the agenda in Parliament. Boris Johnson said his MPs risk abuse from campaigners and protestors if they engage.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has suggested about 16 million people will be directly affected if the £20 is rolled back.\n\nIt says 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty, including 200,000 children, while a further 500,000 of those already in poverty will find themselves in even worse hardship.\n\nHowever, free market think tank the Institute for Economic Affairs has argued that \"across-the-board benefit increases are a wasteful use of taxpayers' money\" at a time when the government is borrowing \"a hair-raising amount of money\".\n\nUniversal credit is a single payment replacing old benefits such as housing benefit and child tax credits.\n\nYou can claim universal credit if you are on a low income or are out of work.\n\nThe standard allowance varies from around £340 to just under £600 a month, depending on your age or whether you are single.\n\nYou may be eligible to receive more money on top of the standard allowance if, for example, you have children or a health condition.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the Northern Research Group, Conservative MP John Stevenson said the £1,000 increase had been \"a real life-saver for people throughout this pandemic\".\n\n\"To end it now would be devastating for the 6 million individuals and families who are already struggling to stay afloat,\" he added.\n\nWhile the vote is not binding, and will not lead to a change in policy, it will increase pressure on the government to keep the increase or come up with an alternative.\n\nLabour said the Conservatives' decision to abstain created \"unnecessary uncertainty\" but minister Nadhim Zahawi described the vote as \"a political stunt\".\n\nThe government says it has strengthened the welfare system with an extra £7bn of funding during the pandemic while families struggling with food and household bills can get help through the £170m Winter Grant Scheme.\n\nMinisters also point to extra support for housing costs, through an increase in local housing allowance for those on housing benefits and hardship payments worth £670m next year for those unable to pay their council tax bills.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Staff are in \"the eye of the storm\" amid the coronavirus pandemic, the NHS says\n\nTen hospital trusts across England consistently reported having no spare adult critical care beds in the most recent figures.\n\nIt comes as hospital waiting times, coronavirus admissions and patients requiring intensive care are rising.\n\nEngland's 140 acute trusts had 5,503 adult critical care beds on 10 January, with 4,632 in use.\n\nNHS bosses have warned hospitals could \"hit the limit\" of their capacity this week.\n\n\"I think, this next week, we will be at the limit of what we probably have the physical space and the people to safely do,\" Danny Mortimer, the chief executive of the NHS Confederation, said.\n\n\"And, of course, this is the week when we expect also the highest rate of admissions, the highest demand for the care that we're providing.\"\n\nThe latest figures from NHS England show the number of trusts that were, on average, at full capacity in adult critical care across an entire week rose from four to 10 in the week to 10 January.\n\nThis was the highest number in the last 10 weeks for which data was available.\n\nThe increase comes despite trusts adding an additional 50% \"surge\" capacity across the summer and autumn to cope with winter pressures, according to NHS England.\n\nOverall, 30 acute hospital trusts in England had no spare adult critical care beds on 10 January alone. But daily admissions figures can vary from day-to-day as patients move in and out of intensive care.\n\nSpeaking on the Andrew Marr Show on Sunday, NHS England chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said nine critical care patients had recently been transferred to other parts of the country because of no beds being available in their local area.\n\nSpeaking about all admissions, Sir Simon said hospitals in England had seen an increase of 15,000 inpatients since Christmas Day.\n\n\"That's the equivalent of filling 30 hospitals full of coronavirus patients and staggeringly every 30 seconds across England another patient is being admitted to hospital with coronavirus,\" he added.\n\nHelen Buckingham, from Health think-tank The Nuffield Trust, said the NHS was facing a winter \"like no other\" and, on top of rising coronavirus hospital admissions, critical care beds were also required for non-Covid patients.\n\n\"The NHS has pulled out all the stops to create more beds this year, and hospitals are working together so that patients who need critical care can be moved to other hospitals as necessary - but without more fully trained critical care staff there isn't much further the service can go,\" she said.\n\nThe figures only tell part of the story. The creation of extra beds to cope with rising numbers of Covid patients has come at a price.\n\nCritical care beds have been set up in overspill areas including departments usually reserved for operations. What is more, there is no extra staff to look after these extra patients - so specialist intensive care nurses have been stretched across more patients than normal. Instead of providing one-to-one care for the most sick, some areas are seeing nurses looking after three or four patients.\n\nStaff from other areas have had to be redeployed into critical care departments too.\n\nThat of course comes at a cost to non-Covid services and is part of the reason we have seen planned surgery and even cancer care being cut back on.\n\nA leaked email recently revealed about 200 doctors would be redeployed to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham amid fears its intensive care unit could be \"overwhelmed\".\n\nUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust said it had \"significantly\" more patients in hospital with Covid-19 than in April last year.\n\nThe trust had 147 critical care beds available across its hospitals as of 10 January, all of which were full as of the latest figures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nA spokesman said the trust would continue to extend its intensive care teams \"so they are able to treat the rising number of Covid-19 patients and those who require time-critical surgery, including cancer operations\".\n\nAiredale NHS Foundation Trust, despite having nine critical care beds overall, said it did not normally experience full occupancy at this time in the year and the ward had both Covid and non-Covid patients.\n\n\"We are experiencing normal winter pressures across the trust, combined with an increasing number of Covid-19 patients, particularly over the last week,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"Every bed in ICU that is occupied by a Covid-19 patient is one less available for people who need that level of care for other reasons.\"\n\nSir Simon said the current number of patients in critical care was a \"clear indication of the huge pressure on the NHS\", including ambulance and mental health services as well as hospitals.\n\n\"The likelihood is, even with a stabilising of infections in some parts of the country, we're still seeing increases in infections among the over-60s in many parts of the country,\" he added.\n\n\"The forecasts are the pressure on hospitals will only get more intense over the next several weeks.\"\n\nNHS England said critical care services were under \"unprecedented pressure\".\n\nA spokeswoman added that hospitals had \"tried and tested plans in place\" to manage pressure from increased Covid-19 and non-Covid patients, including mutual aid practices where hospitals work together to manage admissions.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Evelyn Jones was one of the care home residents whose family raised concerns\n\nSix care home residents died after suffering dehydration and malnourishment because of alleged neglect, an inquest has been told.\n\nStanley James, 89, June Hamer, 71, Stanley Bradford, 76, Edith Evans, 85, Evelyn Jones, 87, and William Hickman, 71 all died between 2003 and 2005.\n\nThey were residents at Brithdir Nursing Home in New Tredegar, Caerphilly.\n\nThe inquest in Newport follows Operation Jasmine, an £11.6m inquiry into alleged neglect at six homes.\n\nOne of Wales' biggest inquiries, it was launched after the death of an 84-year-old patient at a nursing home in Newbridge, Caerphilly.\n\nOpening the inquest, Assistant Coroner for Gwent Geraint Williams said police started investigating in 2005 following the death of an 84-year-old \"mentally infirm\" woman at another care home in Newbridge.\n\nMr Williams said it led to officers uncovering a \"pattern of concerns linked to other deaths in other care homes\".\n\nJune Hamer went into Brithdir in 2003\n\nIn relation to the Brithdir inquiry, Mr Williams said: \"Operation Jasmine uncovered evidence suggesting poor care of residents, including allegations of poor pressure sore and peg [percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy] feed management, malnourishment, and general neglect of the residents' long-term needs, together with deficient standards of care and nursing practice.\"\n\nThe inquest heard resident Mr James, who had dementia and was not mobile, developed several pressure sores in the 18 months before he died in August 2003.\n\nMr Bradford, who had schizophrenia, was admitted to the Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil on several occasions for complaints of \"dehydration, chest and urine infections\".\n\nBefore he died in August 2005 he was \"observed to be seriously malnourished\", by doctors.\n\nDementia patient Mrs Evans was admitted to the same hospital in September 2005, where nurses found the site around her feeding tube \"infected\", while broken skin was found on her buttocks and she appeared \"unkempt and dirty, and her mouth and lips were dry and her tongue was thick\".\n\nThe trial of the late Dr Prana Das for care home neglect collapsed after he suffered brain damage in an attack\n\nDr Prana Das, who owned and ran the nursing home along with several other facilities in Wales, faced a string of charges relating to failings in care.\n\nHe suffered a brain injury during a burglary at his home in 2012 and was declared medically unfit to stand trial.\n\nDr Das died in January 2020 aged 73, but his widow and co-owner of the home, Dr Nishebita Das, who is said not to have taken part in running it, is expected to give evidence at the inquest.\n\nMr Williams told the hearing that, even before the couple purchased the home in April 2002 under their company Puretruce Health Care Limited, \"serious concerns\" were raised by state agencies regarding the number of residents who had suffered pressure ulcers.\n\n\"Those issues continued, even after Dr Das assumed ownership of the home,\" he said.\n\nMr Williams said the inquest will consider the actions of nurses and carers at the home, \"many of whom came to this country from abroad to work and have since returned there, and are now not available to participate in the inquest\".\n\nThe inquest is set to last until March.\n\nA hearing into the death of a seventh resident, Matthew Higgins, 86, will be held following the conclusion of this inquest.", "A Republican lawmaker who had been in office for less than a week when she invoked German dictator Adolf Hitler in a Washington speech has apologised for saying that she agreed with the mass murderer.\n\nIllinois Congresswoman Mary Miller had said in a speech on Tuesday outside the Capitol, one day before her fellow Trump supporters ransacked the building, that Hitler had been \"right\".\n\nMiller told the crowd: \"You know, if we win a few elections we’re still going to be losing unless we win the hearts of our children.\n\n\"It’s the battle. Hitler was right on one thing - that whoever has the youth has the future.\"\n\nHitler, among his supporters in Germany in 1933 Image caption: Hitler, among his supporters in Germany in 1933\n\nThe comments drew large-scale condemnation, with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum saying in a statement that it \"unequivocally condemns any leader trying to advance a position by claiming Adolf Hitler was ‘right.’\"\n\nUnder Hitler, millions of Jews and other minority groups were murdered across Europe by Germany and its allies during World War Two.\n\nOn Friday, Miller insisted that she is not anti-semitic and accused other of \"trying to intentionally twist my words\".\n\n\"I sincerely apologise for any harm my words caused and regret using a reference to one of the most evil dictators in history to illustrate the dangers that outside influences can have on our youth,\" she said.\n\nCorrection 23rd June 2022: This post originally described Mary Miller as having praised Hitler and has been amended to make clear that she invoked Hitler in her speech.", "Who were the protesters that broke into buildings on Capitol Hill after attending a rally in support of Donald Trump?\n\nSome were carrying symbols and flags strongly associated with particular ideas and factions, but in practice many of the members and their causes overlap.\n\nImages show individuals associated with a range of extreme and far-right groups and supporters of fringe online conspiracy theories, many of whom have long been active online and at pro-Trump rallies.\n\nOne of the most startling images, quickly shared across social media, shows a man dressed with a painted face, fur hat and horns, holding an American flag.\n\nHe's been identified as Jake Angeli, a well-known supporter of the baseless conspiracy theory QAnon. He calls himself the QAnon Shaman.\n\nHis social media presence shows him attending multiple QAnon events and posting YouTube videos about deep state conspiracies.\n\nHe was pictured in November making a speech in Phoenix, Arizona, about unproven claims the election was fraudulent.\n\nHis personal Facebook page is filled with images and memes relating to all sorts of extreme ideas and conspiracy theories.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnother group spotted at the storming of the Capitol were members of the far-right group Proud Boys.\n\nThe organisation was founded in 2016 and is anti-immigrant and all male. In the first US presidential debate President Trump in response to a question about white supremacists and militias said: \"Proud Boys - stand back and stand by.\"\n\nThe individual on the right is Nick Ochs, who describes himself as a \"Proud Boy Elder\".\n\nOne of their members, Nick Ochs, tweeted a selfie inside the building saying \"Hello from the Capital lol\". He also filmed a live stream inside.\n\nWe haven't identified the individual standing on the left in the above image.\n\nMr Ochs' profile on the messaging app Telegram describes himself as a \"Proud Boy Elder from Hawaii.\"\n\nIndividuals with large followings online were also spotted at the protests.\n\nAmong them was the social media personality Tim Gionet, who goes under the pseudonym \"Baked Alaska\".\n\nTim Gionet, better known as \"Baked Alaska\", livestreamed himself from the Capitol on Wednesday\n\nHis livestream from inside the Capitol posted on a niche streaming service was watched by thousands of people and showed him talking to other protesters.\n\nA Trump supporter, Mr Gionet has made a name for himself as an internet troll.\n\nYouTube banned his channel in October after he posted videos of himself harassing shop workers and refusing to wear a face-mask during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nOther platforms that have previously shut down his accounts include Twitter and PayPal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nA photo that went viral of a man who'd entered the office of senior Democrat politician Nancy Pelosi has been named as Richard Barnett from Arkansas.\n\nRichard Barnett left a message for US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying \"we will not back down\"\n\nOutside Capitol Hill buildings, he told the New York Times that he took an envelope from the speaker's office and says left a note calling her an expletive.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matthew Rosenberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nReacting to the New York Times interview, Republican congressman Steve Womack said on Twitter: \"I'm sickened to learn that the below actions were perpetrated by a constituent.\"\n\nLocal media reports say Mr Barnett is involved in a group that supports gun rights, and that he was interviewed at a 'Stop the Steal' rally following the presidential election - a movement that refused to accept Joe Biden's victory and supports the president's unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nIn the interview at the rally organised by 'Engaged Patriots' he said: \"If you don't like it, send somebody out to get me 'cause I ain't going down easy.\"\n\nThe group associated with Mr Barnett held a fundraiser in October with proceeds going towards body cameras for the local police department, according to the Westside Eagle Observer local paper.\n\nAs the events were unfolding, many social media users, especially those associated with QAnon and supporters of President Trump, were claiming that agitators from the loose-knit left-wing group antifa were involved.\n\nThe implication was that these activists were disguised as Trump supporters to create disruption.\n\nA number of prominent Republican politicians, such as US Representative Matt Gaetz, claimed it was antifa masquerading as Trump supporters.\n\nOne widely-shared post claimed one protester had a \"communist hammer\" tattoo, as evidence that he wasn't a Trump supporter.\n\nOn closer inspection, the symbol is from the video game series Dishonored.\n\nThere have also been suggestions that Mr Angeli, the man wearing fur and horns, was a Black Lives Matter supporter, with users sharing an image of him at a BLM event in Arizona.\n\nMr Angeli was indeed at that event, but he was there as a counter-protester. In images taken there, he's seen holding a QAnon sign.\n\nAt least one of the rioters was holding a Confederate flag, which represented US states that supported the continuation of slavery during the American civil war. For this reason, it is considered by many to be a symbol of racism and there have been calls to ban it across the US. Others see it as an important part of southern US history.\n\nA protester carries the Confederate flag after breaching US Capitol security\n\nIn July it was announced that the flag could no longer be flown on American military properties because of a new policy to reject \"divisive symbols\".\n\nPresident Trump has defended the use of the Confederate flag in the past, saying: \"I know people that like the Confederate flag and they're not thinking about slavery...I just think it's freedom of speech.\"\n\nThere were also protesters holding aloft flags featuring a coiled rattlesnake on a yellow background, often accompanied by the phrase \"don't tread on me\". This is known as the Gadsden flag, harking back to the American revolution and the war to expel British colonialists.\n\nIt was adopted by libertarians in the 1970s, according to an article in the New Yorker, and more recently became a favourite symbol of conservative Tea Party activists.\n\nThe flag has been adopted by the right over the past couple of decades, says Prof Margaret Weir, a political science expert at Brown University.\n\nIt is also used by anti-government, white supremacist groups who embrace violence, she says.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA nurse felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued at her hospital's A&E department - in the Welsh region currently hardest hit by Covid deaths.\n\nTo date Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board, which runs Royal Glamorgan Hospital, has reported 1,091 deaths of patients with coronavirus.\n\nBBC Wales was granted access to A&E at the hospital in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nSenior doctor Amanda Farrow said the whole hospital had faced \"unrelenting\" pressure last Saturday.\n\nSarah Fogarasy was the senior nurse on duty as 13 ambulances queued up outside her A&E department\n\nSenior A&E nurse Sarah Fogarasy, who was on shift as the ambulances arrived, said there was no capacity at the unit - a situation that left her wanting \"to leave\".\n\n\"We had to escalate it to our site manager and deputy head of nursing who were liaising with the executive team on call,\" she said.\n\n\"And then it got to 13 patients outside - I had no capacity in this unit, no resuscitation capacity, no capacity to put a patient on CPAP [continuous positive airway pressure] should they require that and no physical areas to put a patient in.\n\nOn Saturday, 13 ambulances queued outside the hospital's A&E department\n\nShe said she found it hard to keep going.\n\n\"This bit makes me quite emotional… for the first time I was sat trying to coordinate this department and I had that overwhelming fear that I just wanted to leave,\" Ms Fogarasy continued.\n\n\"I was just - 'I'm done. I'm done with this'... and it's scary, it fills you full of fear when you have got 13 ambulances outside, queuing around the carpark. Where do you go from that?\"\n\nShe said it was the team that kept her going: \"I started looking around to all the staff working tirelessly and just trying to remember what we're here for and why I became a nurse.\n\n\"I know it sounds soppy but it's literally the humanitarian effort that has gone into [fighting] this pandemic that has kept people going.\n\n\"It's the sheer determination and guts of the staff working in these times that is so powerful, that keeps the shift going.\"\n\nEmergency Medicine Consultant Amanda Farrow said it was a \"very emotional time for everyone\"\n\nDr Farrow, emergency medicine consultant, said staffing and bed numbers were of particular concern.\n\n\"In the emergency department the challenge we have is with regards to flow, so that is our daily challenge,\" she explained.\n\n\"And we say it's like playing a game of Tetris trying to work out which patient you can put where.\"\n\nStaff reported feeling overwhelmed as they work through the second Covid wave\n\nShe said the second wave of the virus had also seen more staff off sick with Covid and isolating - with some becoming very ill.\n\n\"We've had staff in as patients and one of my colleagues - I saw them when they were critically ill and ended up going to intensive care,\" continued Dr Farrow.\n\n\"So it's very emotional time for everyone as well you know, looking after the sick patients and looking after your colleagues.\n\n\"There's a level of anxiety still around - will you be the next person to get this disease?\"\n\nShe said although fewer people were attending A&E, they were seeing more people arriving by ambulance and presenting with more complex needs.\n\n\"The group of patients we are seeing this time I think is different, we're definitely having more younger people with Covid that are becoming sick, the volume is very high in the community.\n\n\"I think people are afraid of come into the hospital as well, so there are still quite a lot of patients who leave it maybe a bit too late before they're seeking hospital attention.\"\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, Helen Whatmore said she was extremely grateful to staff\n\nHelen Whatmore, 45, from Beddau, has been hospital since early December after developing Covid symptoms.\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, she said she had been unwell in February so assumed she had already caught the virus.\n\n\"I honestly didn't believe it was as bad until I caught [Covid] this time,\" she said.\n\n\"This time it's absolutely knocked the socks off me. It's nearly killed me.\n\n\"A friend of mine passed away as I came into hospital and I came down very rapidly with Covid, kidney problems and pneumonia.\"\n\nShe said she was grateful for the care she had received: \"The nurses are coming in [working] all shifts, they're fighting for your loved ones, from the time they enter right until the time they leave, then they're changing over and doing the same again.\n\n\"People are passing away… how much more have they got to do? We're asking them to protect our children and our families. Why are we not protecting them ourselves? Saving our families and our own children.\"", "The Welsh Government is in discussions about bringing in \"more visible\" coronavirus regulations.\n\nStricter enforcement of coronavirus rules could return to supermarkets in Wales, Mark Drakeford has said.\n\nThe first minister said he had heard concerns from people \"expressing anxiety\" about a lack of \"visible protections\" in supermarkets.\n\nThe Welsh Government is now in talks with stores about social-distancing measures.\n\nMr Drakeford said he wanted to see stores policed as they were during the first lockdown.\n\nAmong the measures previously used was a strict limit of the numbers of people allowed in a store however Mr Drakeford said people were worried the rules \"don't appear to be there this time\".\n\n\"Given the fact the new variant is so much easier to catch... we are looking at supermarkets and other places where people leave their homes, to make sure they are organised in a way that keeps their staff and customers safe,\" he said.\n\nHe said previously sanitising arrangements had been \"very visible\", one-way markings were prominently displayed, regular reminders were announced to customers and staff were also posted at the front entrance of supermarkets\n\n\"That person was carefully controlling the numbers of people going in, to make sure that they were no more than a certain number of people in the store at any one time,\" he said.\n\n\"There was somebody directing people to the checkout, to make sure people weren't queuing next to each other over prolonged periods, and markings on the floor so people kept at a two-metre distance\".\n\nHowever the first minister said some of those measures are no longer as apparent to people.\n\n\"I want to make sure that those visible signs of the protections that are being offered to the public and the shop workers are in place again.\"\n\nFederation of Small Businesses Wales said has called for clarity on what support would be available and the possible new measures required of shops.\n\nPolicy Chair, Ben Francis, said: \"We've already asked to see more information on the technical data that informs the decisions that Welsh Government are making.\n\n\"It seems clear that businesses will require funding support for longer than was originally anticipated if they are to survive this troubling period.\n\n\"Welsh Government should urgently give clarity on what additional funding will be made available to support businesses beyond this next three week period to allow them to plan.\"", "While GCSEs and A-levels are being cancelled, the IGCSE exams will go ahead this summer\n\nThe IGCSE exams, usually only taken in private schools, are still going ahead this summer - even though GCSEs and A-levels have been cancelled.\n\nExam boards that run IGCSEs plan to offer them, while many other exams have been stopped by the pandemic.\n\nIGCSE qualifications, alternative exams to GCSEs, are not usually available in state schools.\n\nPupils in England whose A-levels and GCSEs are cancelled will depend on replacement grades from teachers.\n\nBut Education Secretary Gavin Williamson's scrapping of exams this summer does not apply to students taking IGCSEs.\n\nA Department for Education report in 2019 found 94% of IGCSEs were taken in private schools, accounting for 164,000 exam entries.\n\nThe decision not to cancel them was welcomed by the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC), representing some of the most prestigious independent schools.\n\nThe HMC's general secretary, Simon Hyde, said their schools \"would be the first to cheer if pupils educated by the state had the same opportunity\".\n\n\"The decision to cancel GCSEs was premature. Exams are the fairest way of assessing what learners know and understand and we would like to see as many pupils as possible take a form of exam in the summer,\" said Dr Hyde.\n\nIndependent schools often offer a mix of IGCSEs and GCSEs for different subjects, although IGCSEs do not count towards school league tables.\n\nThe qualifications - International GCSEs - are offered by Cambridge Assessment and Pearson and are taken in other countries as well as the UK. Both boards say they are planning to go ahead with exam papers for UK schools this summer.\n\nIGCSEs were not included in the cancellation of exams announced by England's Department for Education and it will be up to individual schools to decide whether to continue with them.\n\nJulie McCullloch of the ASCL head teachers' union said: \"It creates another inconsistency, but none of this is easy.\"\n\nShe said it created an \"odd situation\" when GCSEs were cancelled but IGCSEs were going ahead, but she recognised that an international qualification could need a common approach across different countries.\n\nWith the latest lockdown and most pupils studying at home, GCSEs and A-levels have been cancelled in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nIn England, the exams watchdog Ofqual will launch a consultation next week on a replacement way of deciding grades - but Ofqual does not regulate IGCSEs and they will not be part of the watchdog's proposals.", "Harley Watson's mother Jo described him as a \"kind, caring, selfless, intelligent and comical young man\"\n\nA man who killed a 12-year-old boy by driving into schoolchildren in a \"deliberate\" hit and run has been detained in a secure hospital.\n\nHarley Watson died after he was hit by a car outside Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, on 2 December 2019.\n\nTerence Glover, 52, pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility at an earlier hearing.\n\nHe also admitted 10 counts of attempted murder and has been detained under the Mental Health Act indefinitely.\n\nAt the sentencing hearing at Snaresbrook Crown Court, Harley's mother Jo described her son as a \"kind, caring, selfless, intelligent and comical young man\".\n\nHe was hit by Glover's Ford Ka as he left school with friends and died later in Whipps Cross University Hospital.\n\nTerence Glover has been sentenced indefinitely under the Mental Health Act\n\nChristine Agnew, prosecuting, said eye-witnesses saw Glover's car \"ploughing through and hitting children from behind\".\n\nShe said he \"deliberately mounted the pavement... and drove directly at a group of people, mostly children, intending to kill them\".\n\nGlover, previously of Newmans Lane, Loughton, also pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of 23-year-old Raquel Jimeno and six boys and three girls aged between 12 and 16 who were outside the school.\n\nThe court heard he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and medical experts agreed his \"significant\" mental illness \"provided an explanation for his conduct\".\n\nHe was given a hospital order under the Mental Health Act 1983, meaning if his illness was treated successfully, he would be transferred to prison.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harley Watson's classmates paid tribute to him in 2019\n\nJudge Andrew Edis said if transferred, Glover must serve a life sentence with a minimum of 15 years.\n\nIn his sentencing statement, Judge Edis noted his history of mental illness and cocaine use, but said Glover's actions were \"appalling\".\n\n\"He caused the death of a much-loved and admired 12-year-old boy who had done no harm to anyone,\" he said.\n\nHe added that Glover's behaviour \"requires punishment as well as treatment\" and there was \"no doubt that this defendant is dangerous\".\n\nHe also ordered that Glover be banned from driving for life and that the car should be destroyed.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "National Express has announced that it is suspending its entire national network of coach services from midnight on Sunday.\n\nThe firm said tighter Covid restrictions and falling passenger numbers had prompted the decision.\n\nIt added that it hoped to restart services in March.\n\nAll customers whose travel has been cancelled will be contacted and offered a free amendment or full refund, the company said.\n\nAll journeys before Monday 11 January will be completed to ensure any passengers making essential journeys are not stranded.\n\nChris Hardy, managing director of National Express UK Coach, said: \"We have been providing an important service for essential travel needs. However, with tighter restrictions and passenger numbers falling, it is no longer appropriate to do this.\n\nHe added that as the vaccination programme was rolled out and government guidance changed, the company would regularly review when services could restart.\n\n\"We plan to be back on the road as soon as the time is right and have put a provisional restart date of Monday 1 March in place,\" he said.\n\nNational Express first suspended coach services during the coronavirus crisis in April, then restarted in July.\n\nServices have been operating at half capacity, with strict cleaning and Covid protocols. As the tier structure came into operation, demand for services reduced.\n\nAs with the previous suspension, employees will be furloughed.\n\nFirms that transport passengers, including coach, rail and aviation businesses, have been under intense pressure during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nAvanti West Coast, the train operating company running services on the West Coast mainline, has confirmed it will cut its timetable from 18 January.\n\nAvanti says the new timetable will 'more closely reflect the current demand for our services whilst still allowing key workers, and those needing to make essential journeys, to travel with confidence'.\n\nDuring the first major lockdown in March, services on key intercity routes were reduced from three an hour to one. This included services from both Manchester and Birmingham to London.\n\nThe Department for Transport has been consulting with all train operators about service reductions during the latest lockdown.\n\nThe exact scale of reduction is still being worked on, but the DfT says service levels may fall to as low as 40% of the normal timetable by some operators.\n\nThe focus is to ensure essential workers can still make essential journeys.\n\n\"Following discussions with the Department for Transport we will be introducing a new timetable on Monday 18 January. This will more closely reflect the current demand for our services whilst still allowing key workers, and those needing to make essential journeys, to travel with confidence.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Ryanair also announced that it would make big cuts to its flight schedule from 21 January, with few, if any flights to or from the UK or Ireland until \"draconian travel restrictions are removed\".\n\nTrain services are expected to be reduced in lockdown, with some in the industry anticipating reductions of between 50% and 60% compared with normal service.\n\nIn the first national lockdown in England, services were reduced to almost half.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police have issued CCTV footage of a man they want to speak to in connection with the incident\n\nA fraudster claiming to work for the NHS injected a 92-year-old woman with a fake Covid-19 vaccine, City of London Police has said.\n\nDetectives are hunting the man who charged the victim in Surbiton, south-west London, £160.\n\nPolice said it was \"crucial\" he was caught as soon as possible as he \"may endanger people's lives\".\n\nDet Insp Kevin Ives described it as a \"disgusting and totally unacceptable assault\".\n\nIt comes after the NHS warned people that no-one should be turning up at doorsteps offering a vaccine for payment, following a spate of fake text messages.\n\nUnder the current coronavirus vaccine rollout plans, people will be invited to receive the vaccine by their GP or healthcare provider.\n\nPolice said the victim allowed the man into her home on the afternoon of 30 December after he said he was from the NHS and there to administer the Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nShe said she was jabbed in the arm with a \"dart-like implement\" before being charged £160, which the man said would be refunded by the NHS.\n\nPolice said it was not known what substance, if any, was administered, but the woman had been checked at her local hospital and showed no ill effects.\n\nDet Insp Ives appealed for information to help identify the suspect.\n\nHe added: \"It is crucial we catch him as soon as possible as not only is he defrauding individuals of money, he may endanger people's lives.\"\n\nThe man made a second visit to the woman's home on 4 January, when he asked for another £100, police said.\n\nThe man was spotted in the Tolworth area of Kingston-upon-Thames on 4 January\n\nOfficers released CCTV footage on Friday of a man dressed in a navy blue tracksuit with white stripes down the side, who they want to speak to in connection with the incident.\n\nHe is described as a white man in his early 30s, who is about 5ft 9ins (1.75m) tall, of medium build, with light brown hair that is combed back. He speaks with a London accent.\n\nA spokesman for the Department of Health said: \"NHS England will never ask for bank details, Pin numbers or passwords, when contacting you about a vaccination.\n\n\"Any communication which claims to be from the NHS but asks for payment, or bank details, is fraudulent and can be ignored. It can be reported to police via Action Fraud.\n\n\"You will never be charged for the vaccine.\"\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said it is \"excellent news\" that a third coronavirus vaccine has been approved for use in the UK.\n\nIt is made by US company Moderna and works in a similar way to the Pfizer one already being offered on the NHS.\n\nThe UK has pre-ordered 17 million doses of the Moderna vaccine - 10 million more than planned - but supplies are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nIt is the last Covid vaccine with final trial data published.\n\nThere are hundreds still in development, with some expected to report findings in the near future.\n\nAround 1.5 million people in the UK have had at least one dose of a Covid vaccine so far, with either the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccines already approved by UK regulators.\n\nThat figure includes almost a quarter of those aged over 80 in England - people at highest risk of severe illness or death from the virus.\n\nVaccines are being given to the most vulnerable first, as set out in a list of nine high-priority groups, covering around 30 million people in the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vaccine Deployment Minister Nadhim Zahawi welcomed the approval of the Moderna jab\n\nThe prime minister has said the aim is to vaccinate 15 million people in the UK by mid-February, including care homes residents and staff, frontline NHS staff, everyone over 70 and those who are clinically extremely vulnerable.\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"This is further great news and another weapon in our arsenal to tame this awful disease.\"\n\nThe UK had originally ordered 7 million doses of the Moderna jab, but has increased this to get even more people immunised as quickly as possible.\n\nIn total, the UK has now ordered 367 million doses of vaccines to protect against Covid-19.\n\nNadhim Zahawi, vaccine deployment minister, said: \"The NHS is pulling out all the stops to vaccinate those most at risk as quickly as possible, with over 1,000 vaccination sites live across the UK by the end of the week to provide easy access to everyone, regardless of where they live.\n\n\"The Moderna vaccine will be a vital boost to these efforts and will help us return to normal faster.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid vaccine safety: How does a vaccine get approved?\n\nThe Moderna vaccine, an RNA vaccine like Pfizer's, injects part of the virus's genetic code in order to provoke an immune response.\n\nIt requires temperatures of around -20C for shipping - similar to a normal freezer.\n\nIn comparison, the Pfizer/BioNTech one requires temperatures closer to -75C, making transport logistics much more difficult.\n\nThe AstraZeneca jab is easier to store and distribute, as it can be kept at normal fridge temperature.\n\nAll of these vaccines require a second booster shot, but a first dose is likely to be given to as many people as possible.\n\nIn trials with more than 30,000, the Moderna vaccine offered nearly 95% protection from severe Covid.\n\nNo vaccine is 100% effective and it takes time for protection to build. For all of the Covid vaccines, we still do not know how long immunity will last.\n\nPeople who have received a coronavirus vaccine should continue to follow social distancing rules to protect themselves and others.\n\nEU and US regulators have already approved the Moderna vaccine.", "The band recently became a trio (left-right): Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Jade Thirlwall and Perrie Edwards\n\nLittle Mix have risen to top the top of UK singles chart after Christmas songs released their grip on the top 40.\n\nSweet Melody has become the band's fifth number one, three months after it was released - and will be their last with Jesy Nelson, who quit last year.\n\nThe 29-year-old said in December that nine years in the girl group had taken \"a toll on her mental health\".\n\nLittle Mix's victory is part of a huge chart upheaval, after 56 Christmas songs dropped out of the top 100.\n\nAmong them was last week's number one, Wham's Last Christmas, which set a new record for the biggest-ever fall from the top. The festive ballad has now left the chart altogether.\n\nThe previous record-holder - Three Lions, by The Lightning Seeds with Frank Skinner and David Baddiel - fell from number one to 96 after England crashed out of the World Cup in 2018.\n\nSweet Melody has risen from number nine to number one this week, giving Little Mix their first chart-topper since Shout Out To My Ex in 2016.\n\nJade Thirlwall told BBC Radio 1 the milestone was particularly important because it was \"the last single we did as a four with Jesy\".\n\n\"And it's even more special that now, going into 2021 as a three, we've got the first number one,\" she added.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Official Charts This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. End of youtube video by Official Charts\n\nAcknowledging a fan campaign to boost the song's chart position, bandmate Perrie Edwards said: \"I just want to squish every single fan who managed to get it to number one.\n\n\"The power they have, I'm sorry. The song's been out for months!\"\n\nWith fans abandoning their festive playlists, the stage was also set for singles that had previously been forced out of the top 40 to stage a dramatic return.\n\nDua Lipa's Levitating jumped 63 places to number five, reclaiming a position it last held on 3 December; and Tate McRae's You Broke Me First rocketed from number 74 to nine. In total, there were 39 new entries or re-entries in the top 75.\n\nIn the album chart, Taylor Swift's Evermore returned to number one, four weeks after its surprise pre-Christmas release, while companion album Folklore climbed to number 12.\n\nMeanwhile, Harry Styles' Fine Line reached a new chart peak at number two following the release of a video for his latest single Treat People With Kindness, which sees him dance with Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge.\n\nLewis Capaldi's Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent - the UK's biggest-selling album of both 2019 and 2020 - also climbed to number six, notching up its 86th week in the top 10.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Graham Norton has been the BBC's Mr Eurovision since 2009\n\nGraham Norton, who commentates for the UK's BBC Eurovision coverage, has said the song contest will go ahead this year despite the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"There's definitely going to be a Eurovision... The competition element is going to happen,\" he said.\n\nContest organisers told the BBC: \"We can confirm the Eurovision Song Contest will definitely take place this year.\"\n\nBut pre-recorded performances may be used if acts cannot travel to Rotterdam or have to isolate when they get there.\n\nLast year's contest was cancelled due to the pandemic. It was replaced in the UK with a programme looking back at the event's history, including a vote to find the greatest Eurovision song of all time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNorton told US radio station Sirius XM that if some artists are unable to travel to the Netherlands in 2021, \"they can Zoom in a performance\". He added: \"I doubt we'll be in a stadium full of 20,000 people.\"\n\nOrganisers stressed that while \"the general gist of Graham's comments is correct\", pre-recorded performances will be used if an act can't travel, rather than asking them to perform live from their home country.\n\nThe filmed routines will be shown \"if a participant cannot travel to Rotterdam due to the current pandemic, or in the unfortunate instance of an artist having to quarantine on site\", a spokesman said.\n\nBroadcasters will have to follow a \"strict set of guidelines\" to help them record their \"live on tape\" performances \"to keep the competition fair should it not go ahead in the traditional way\", he added.\n\nThe new rules state: \"The recording will take place in real time (as it would be at the contest) without making any edits to the vocals or any part of the performance itself after the recording.\"\n\nThis year's contest will take place on 22 May.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "The number of people in Scotland who have died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus now stands at 4,872\n\nScotland's hospitals have more Covid patients than ever before - with the number of deaths also \"distressingly high\", the first minister has said.\n\nThe latest figures showed that the deaths of 93 people who had tested positive for the virus have been recorded in the past 24 hours.\n\nBut the figure includes some people who died over Christmas and New Year.\n\nThere were also 1,530 people in hospital with the virus, higher than the peak of 1,520 last April.\n\nOf these, 102 patients were in intensive care - with Ms Sturgeon saying the statistics showed the \"severity of the pressure\" that hospitals are facing.\n\nThe 93 deaths recorded on Friday is the highest daily figure since the outbreak began - with the previous high being 84 on 15 April.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said the figure will \"undoubtedly include some people who died over the Christmas and New Year period and the delay in registration because of the bank holidays means that their deaths are only being reported today.\"\n\nShe added: \"To be clear, that is not more than 90 people who died yesterday. It will be people who have died over a period of time.\n\n\"That does not change the fact they are all individuals who have died and have died of Covid.\"\n\nA further 2,309 people have tested positive for Covid-19, which was 8.1% of the tests carried out on Thursday and takes the total number of cases in Scotland to 146,024.\n\nThe figures mean that the total number of people in Scotland who have died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus now stands at 4,872.\n\nThe Scottish government has said it is concerned that too many people have not been following the \"stay at home\" rules that are in place across the whole of the mainland and some islands.\n\nIt believes that more people are using the country's road and public transport networks than during the lockdown last spring.\n\nAnd it has warned that tougher restrictions could be needed to increase compliance with the travel restrictions.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily briefing that the areas being looked at included non-essential click and collect shopping, further restrictions on takeaway food, non-essential construction and whether more people should be working from home.\n\nThe first minister also confirmed that universities and colleges will not resume in-person teaching until at least the end of February.\n\nThis means that students should stay at home rather than travelling back to their campus or accommodation.\n\nThere will be exceptions for cases where remote study is not possible - for example for a student nurse or a doctor on a practical placement.\n\nAnd Ms Sturgeon said any students who have remained on campus will be \"fully supported\" by their institution.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland was placed into level four restrictions from 26 December before additional measures, including closing schools to most pupils until at least the end of the month, was introduced on Tuesday.\n\nScotland's interim chief medical officer, Dr Dave Caesar, insisted on Friday morning that coronavirus case numbers in January \"could have been worse\".\n\nHe said the restrictions that were introduced on Boxing Day had helped to \"blunt the spike\" but warned that the country was \"not out of the woods yet\".\n\nDr Caesar told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"Our case numbers are high, but they're not as high as they could have been if we hadn't taken the measures that we undertook from Boxing Day.\n\n\"Our health system is under serious pressure but is coping.\n\n\"I hate to say it, but it could have been worse by this time in January. We're not out of the woods yet by any stretch of the imagination, but I suppose we're holding our own in very significantly challenging circumstances.\"\n\nNew Covid testing measures for international travellers are to be introduced\n\nNew plans to make international passengers test negative for Covid-19 before travelling to Scotland and England have also been unveiled, with Ms Sturgeon saying she hoped the scheme could start by the end of next week.\n\nIt will mean people arriving by plane, train or boat - including UK nationals - will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country they are travelling from.\n\nProf Linda Bauld of Edinburgh University said the move was long overdue as the UK had \"really struggled from the beginning\" with limiting the impact of international travel on the pandemic.\n\nBut she said the country should also consider introducing supervised quarantine for people arriving from overseas.", "When Trump supporters stormed the Capitol they took out their cameras to record the chaos inside. The BBC looked through hours of phone footage to paint a picture of what happened.", "Film director Michael Apted, best known for the Up series of TV documentaries following the lives of 14 people every seven years, has died aged 79.\n\nHe also directed Coal Miner's Daughter, Gorillas In The Mist and the 1999 Bond movie The World Is Not Enough.\n\nThe original 7 Up in 1964 set out to document the life prospects of a range of children from all walks of life.\n\nThe show was inspired by the Aristotle quote \"give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man\".\n\nThe first 7 Up show was followed by 14 Up at the start of the next decade, which interviewed the same children as teenagers - and the pattern was set right up until 63 Up in 2019.\n\nThroughout all those intervening years ITV viewers became engrossed with the stories of private school trio Andrew, Charles and John, of Jackie who went through two divorces, of Neil who went from jobless and homeless to Liberal Democrat councillor, and of working class chatterbox Tony, whose life ambition was to become a jockey.\n\nApted's shows - which won three Bafta awards - have often been described as the forerunner of modern-day reality TV series, giving its participants the time to tell their own stories on screen.\n\nBut unlike their modern counterparts, the original Up children tended to fade away from the limelight in the seven years between each chapter.\n\nIn 2008, Apted was made a companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to the British film and television industries.\n\nThomas Schlamme, president of the Directors Guild of America, said Apted was a \"fearless visionary\" whose legacy would live on.\n\nHe said Apted, who was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, \"saw the trajectory of things when others didn't and we were all beneficiaries of his wisdom and lifelong dedication\".\n\nITV's managing director Kevin Lygo said the director's six-decade career was \"in itself truly remarkable\".\n\nHe said the Up series \"demonstrated the possibilities of television at its finest in its ambition and its capacity to hold up a mirror to society and engage with and entertain people while enriching our perspective on the human condition\".\n\nApted directed the 19th James Bond film The World Is Not Enough\n\n\"The influence of Michael's contribution to film and programme-making continues to be felt and he will be sadly missed,\" Lygo added.\n\nMichael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, producers of the James Bond film franchise, said Apted \"was a director of enormous talent\" and \"beloved by all those who worked with him\".\n\n\"We loved working with him on The World Is Not Enough and send our love and support to his family, friends and colleagues,\" they said.\n\nA post on the Twitter account of the band Garbage, who performed the theme for The World Is Not Enough, labelled Apted a \"delightful, charming soul\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Garbage This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nComposer David G Arnold, who composed the Bond theme and worked with Apted on three other non-Bond movies, said he felt \"lucky\" to work with him.\n\n\"A more trusting, funny, friendly and, most importantly, kind, person you'd never meet. So pleased to have known him and so sad that he's gone,\" Arnold wrote on Twitter.", "Former Det Insp Tim Ireson led the unit for two years and would have been sacked if he was still serving\n\nThree members of a \"toxic\" police unit have been sacked for gross misconduct after their \"offensive\" conversations were secretly bugged.\n\nThe devices picked up \"homophobic, racist and sexist\" conversations in the offices of Hampshire's Serious and Organised Crime Unit in Basingstoke in 2018, a misconduct panel heard.\n\nA number of force staff referred to it as a \"lads' pad\".\n\nTwo other officers would have been sacked but had already left the force.\n\nThe misconduct hearing was told in the 24 days the office was bugged - following concerns raised by a whistleblower - there was \"enough profanity, casual sexism and racism to last a lifetime\".\n\nDet Sgt Oliver Lage, Det Sgt Gregory Willcox and PC James Oldfield have been dismissed while retired Det Insp Tim Ireson and former PC Craig Bannerman were the two who had previously left the force.\n\nTrainee Det Con Andrew Ferguson, who sent colleagues a fake pornographic image of members of the royal family, has been given a final written warning.\n\nThe six men were based at the Serious and Organised Crime Unit in Basingstoke\n\nImposing the sanctions, panel chairman John Bassett said the conduct had been \"shameful\".\n\nHe said police officers could not \"pick and choose the standards they will abide by\" in order to create more \"cohesive\" teams.\n\nMr Bassett said PC Ferguson was \"essentially a good officer\" who joined the team three months before the recordings, by which time the \"culture was well-established\".\n\nHe said the officer was \"conflicted by what he witnessed\" and \"felt unable to raise the matter with a supervisor\".\n\nChief Constable Olivia Pinkney said the force's internal investigation had revealed a \"catalogue of sexist, racist, homophobic and ableist language and commentary that has rightly shocked us all\".\n\nShe added: \"These officers have failed to deliver on the promise they made to uphold fundamental human rights and accord equal respect to all people.\n\n\"[They] have undermined the trust and confidence of our communities and damaged the reputations of their colleagues.\"\n\nThe six officers have apologised but some told the disciplinary panel swearing was in the \"fabric\" of the police force.\n\nOne also said they felt they were being \"made an example of\" by the force which should have learned from other previous incidents.\n\nIn all, 20 police officers and staff from the unit have faced some sort of disciplinary action.\n\nDuring the misconduct hearing at Hampshire Constabulary's headquarters in Eastleigh, it was heard a \"toxic, abhorrent culture\" developed with officers using offensive terms for women, black people, immigrants, disabled, gay and transgender people and foreign nationals.\n\nJason Beer QC, prosecuting, said the only black member of the team was referred to using racist tropes and references to slavery.\n\nWomen were described using derogatory terms and stared at in the canteen, he added.\n\nThe men admitted some of the charges of breaching standards of professional behaviour against them but claimed it only amounted to misconduct not gross misconduct.\n\nZoe Wakefield, chair of Hampshire Police Federation, said: \"The outdated and offensive views we heard during the hearing have no place in society and they certainly have no place in policing.\n\n\"We should not let the awful language and terminology used by a very small number of police officers tarnish the hard work and dedication of thousands of police officers and staff in Hampshire...\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marks & Spencer has temporarily stopped selling hundreds of items in its Northern Ireland stores due to Brexit red tape.\n\nThe retailer said it feared its food would be blocked due to new rules governing shipments between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nA growing number of firms have spoken out about paperwork delays at ports.\n\nThe government said traders and hauliers need to take steps to comply with new border rules.\n\nM&S took the decision to temporarily drop hundreds of products, including chocolate fudge pudding and sweet and sour chicken, from its Northern Ireland stores after it saw competitors' lorries barred from travelling between the mainland and Northern Ireland.\n\nAn entire consignment in a lorry can be held up if only one item in the truck doesn't have the correct customs forms filled out.\n\nThe retailer said it aimed to get the products back up for sale soon.\n\nAn M&S spokesperson said: \"We have served customers in Northern Ireland for over 50 years and our priority is to make sure we continue to deliver the same choice and great quality range that our loyal customers have always enjoyed.\n\n\"Stores have been receiving regular deliveries this week, however following the UK's recent departure from the EU, we are transitioning to new processes and we're working closely with our partners and suppliers to ensure customers can continue to enjoy a great range of products.\"\n\nIn addition to problems shipping goods internally in the UK, the new Brexit trade rules are creating problems for exporters and traders transporting goods to and from the EU, say firms.\n\nThe UK sealed a trade deal with the European Union (EU) on 24 December that was billed as preserving its zero-tariff and zero-quota access to the bloc's single market.\n\nBut in addition to red tape causing delays, major retailers that use the UK as a distribution hub for European business could face possible tariffs if they re-export goods to the EU.\n\nOn Friday, M&S chief executive Steve Rowe warned of more red tape and a rise in export costs to some countries.\n\n\"The best example I can give you of that is Percy Pig,\" he said,\n\n\"Percy Pig is actually manufactured in Germany. If it comes to the UK and we then send it to Ireland, in theory it would have some tax on it,\" he added.\n\nM&S said it was \"actively working to mitigate\" the effects of the \"rules of origin\" regulations, under which products are taxed differently depending on which country they come from.\n\nOther firms have also been hit by the confusion caused by new Brexit trading rules.\n\nParcels giant DPD has suspended some services, while seafood exporter John Ross said the chaos was like being \"thrown in the cold Atlantic without a lifejacket\".\n\nShane Brennan, chief executive of the Cold Chain Federation, which represents chilled transport and storage companies, said the emerging problems had come despite the amount of cross-border traffic still being quite low.\n\n\"Trade flows are still only about 50% of what we would expect, but even at those levels we are seeing levels of confusion and delays,\" he told the BBC's Today programme. \"The feeling is we are building to quite a significant potential disruption.\"\n\nA government spokesman acknowledged that there had been \"some issues\", but said ministers had always been clear there would be some disruption at the end of the transition period.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said in a statement that the volume of border crossings had been low so far this year, but that it expected crossings to steadily increase to normal levels.\n\nThis brings the potential for \"significant disruption if traders and hauliers have not taken the necessary steps to comply with the new rules,\" the Cabinet Office said.\n\nOut of about 1,500 lorries per day trying to get from Great Britain to the EU in the new year, 700 have been turned away - mainly due to a lack of a negative Covid test for drivers, it said.\n\n\"We have always been clear there would be changes now that we are out of the customs union and single market, so full compliance with the new rules is vital to avoid disruption,\" said Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove.\n\nHowever, anger is growing among companies whose livelihoods depend on export trade.\n\nIn a letter on Friday to Business Secretary Alok Sharma, Scottish salmon producer John Ross Jr launched a stinging attack on the government's handling of the situation.\n\nThe firm's sales director, Victoria Leigh-Pearson, wrote that the company had in recent months \"had to endure the government issuing a barrage of useless information\" and an \"absence of factually correct information from all government agencies.\" It amounted, she said, to \"gross incompetence\".\n\nJohn Ross exports to 36 countries and has won the Queen's Award twice\n\nPart of the letter to Alok Sharma:\n\nAs I write, perishable goods that were dispatched from our facility five days ago, headed for France following a process that your department advised, have still not crossed the border. This usually takes only 24 hours because they are consolidated with the produce of other companies, which have not been able to follow the correct procedures due to a knowledge gap directly attributable to your department.\n\nEntire trucks are currently being rejected without explanation by the French customs authority. Our hauliers have now pulled their services as such a backlog has been created. Other hauliers are not taking on new customers. Today, we've even had confirmation that the IT systems of the UK and France are incompatible. After four years you only establish this now?\n\nYour so-called 'deal' is worthless if this situation is not fixed immediately, and unless you put in place measures to address the issues that continue to unfold on a daily basis. Moreover, as a seafood exporter, it feels as though our own government has thrown us into the cold Atlantic waters without a lifejacket.\n\nJohn Ross is not the only Scottish seafood exporter suffering. The industry says it has been hit by a \"perfect storm\" of Brexit disruption, which could sink a centuries-old industry.\n\n\"These businesses are not transporting toilet rolls or widgets. They are exporting the highest quality, perishable seafood which has a finite window to get to markets in peak condition,\" said Donna Fordyce, chief executive of Seafood Scotland.\n\n\"If the window closes, these consignments go to landfill.\"\n\nShe said the sector has already been weakened by Covid-19, the closure of the French border before Christmas as well as \"layer upon layer\" of problems associated with Brexit.\n\nThe group fears that without exports, the fishing fleet will have little reason to go out.\n\n\"In a very short time, we could see the destruction of a centuries-old market which contributes significantly to the Scottish economy,\" added Ms Fordyce.\n\nUK government Minister for Scotland David Duguid blamed Scottish leaders for the issues.\n\n\"The Scottish Government has persistently refused to accept the democratic vote to leave the EU, but that does not allow them to abdicate their responsibilities to Scottish businesses,\" he said.\n\n\"Over the past 18 months they have assured the fishing industry that the systems they were putting in place would be adequate. They clearly are not.\"\n\nParcel delivery service DPD UK said it had paused its European Road Service because of the '\"increased burden\" of customs paperwork for packages heading to the EU, including the Republic of Ireland.\n\nDPD said 20% of parcels had \"incorrect or incomplete data attached\", which meant they would have to be returned.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What Brexit means for Britons travelling, shopping, studying or owning properties in the EU.\n\nIn an email to its business customers, the company said that it had been a \"challenging few days\" for its international operation, and that it would \"pause and review\" its service. It plans to restart on 13 January.\n\n\"It has now become evident that we have an increased burden with the new, more complex processes, and additional customs data we require from you for your parcels destined to Europe\" the firm wrote.\n\nThe boss of one of Wales' largest hauliers said logistical problems have emerged at the Irish border too.\n\nAndrew Kinsella, managing director of Gwynedd Shipping, said his company has a backlog of 60 lorries waiting to be shipped to Dublin.\n\nHe said many hauliers are finding that their customers are not able to generate the special declarations that are needed to ultimately enable a lorry to get onto a ferry.\n\n\"Whilst you don't see queues at ports and terminals the reality is that these queues are developing elsewhere in our depot in Holyhead, in our depot in Deeside and in our depot in Newport in South Wales, and lots of hauliers have depots in the proximity of ports,\" he said.\n\n\"There are a lot of issues about demarcation about who is going to arrange the export declaration with the UK revenue authorities, who's going to arrange the import declaration, the hauliers then trying to arrange the import safety and security declaration to create an ENS number which helps you generate a PBN number so there has been a lot of everyone finding their feet\".\n\nCorrection 9th April 2021: An earlier version of this article included a photo showing queues of lorries at Dover Port. This photo was replaced in the hours after publication after it was established that it had been taken months earlier.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Growing numbers of students in England have pledged to withhold rent on university accommodation they cannot use during the Covid lockdown.\n\nOrganisers say this is building up to be a major protest, estimating that about 15,000 students at dozens of universities have signed up so far.\n\nThey want a rebate on rent when many students are being kept off campus at the start of term.\n\nBut universities say they only provide 20% of student accommodation.\n\nUniversities UK says this means \"many decisions on refunds will be made by private landlords and other providers\".\n\nIn November, University of Manchester offered a 30% rent rebate for the first half of the academic year, worth about £1,000 to each student in halls.\n\nThe move followed protests over lack of support during the coronavirus pandemic which saw students tear down temporary fencing in one demonstration.\n\nUniversity of Manchester students have been calling for a rent strike\n\nThe reduction will be applied to direct debit payments this month, with students who have already paid for the whole year getting a refund.\n\nBut organiser of the Rent Strike Now campaign, Ben McGowan, said the new lockdown means students are still paying for halls they are unable to return to which has prompted a wave of student anger.\n\nOn Twitter, campaigners listed more than 40 universities where they said students were pledging to withhold rent.\n\nThe campaign group Rent Strike Now tweeted a list of universities where there are campaigns\n\n\"Most of us are being told not to go back so we're paying for accommodation we can't use and there's been no extra support from universities and government,\" added Saranya Thambiranjah, a first year at Bristol University who also helps run the campaign.\n\n\"Rent striking is a great way to make our voices heard and get universities to listen our concerns.\"\n\nStudents at universities not yet part of this campaign have said they will organise similar challenges on their own campuses, including Coventry and Keele.\n\nRebecca Hyde is having to do her journalism course in her bedroom\n\nAt Nottingham Trent University, student campaigner Rebecca Hyde, who is doing a masters in broadcast journalism, said 244 students had so far pledged to withhold rent on university halls since their campaign was launched a few days ago.\n\nShe believes universities should do more to help students who are having to pay for rooms they are unable to use through no fault of their own.\n\nShe says her course leaders have been brilliant but missing out on using studios and running \"news days\" with her fellow students \"is just so disappointing\".\n\nNottingham Trent University says it understands student concerns over rents and urged the government \"to show leadership to find a solution that is fair to all students\".\n\n\"At NTU, only a minority of our students are in accommodation operated by or on behalf of the university.\n\n\"We do not want a repeat of the situation in the summer term of 2020 where most of our students were reliant on the goodwill of private accommodation providers who did not always do the right thing,\" said the university in a statement.\n\nAt King's College London, campaign secretary \"Juno\" likewise reported hundreds of new pledges to withhold rent in the past few days, saying students felt they had been \"lured\" into their accommodation at the start of the academic year.\n\nA King's spokesperson promised that students would not be charged for accommodation they are unable to use during lockdown.\n\nAbout a quarter of students are in privately-run purpose built accommodation, and one of the biggest of these providers, Unite Students, is also facing demands.\n\nLiverpool John Moores student Suhail Accad, in Unite accommodation, says his rent strike post on Instagram has gained 3,000 followers and has had 8,000 shares in just a few days.\n\n\"It's expensive to stay here,\" says Suhail.\n\nUnite was unable to comment directly on the threat of rent strikes but maintains that it is doing all it can to help keep students and staff safe \"during this challenging period\".\n\nUniversities UK said universities were looking at the issue \"actively\" and considering what support they can offer students.\n\n\"Universities recognise the financial pressures the pandemic has placed on students and are providing increased financial and other support as a result.\n\n\"With government restrictions reducing the numbers of students returning in person to universities, now is the time for the government to seriously consider the financial implications for students and institutions and what support they will provide.\"", "Prof Chris Whitty will front one of the adverts Image caption: Prof Chris Whitty will front one of the adverts\n\nThe government is urging people in England to stay at home and \"act like you've got it\" as part of a new advertising campaign.\n\nThe \"stay at home, save lives\" campaign will run across TV, radio, out-of-home advertising and social media.\n\nThe campaign will include a new advert fronted by England's Chief Medical Officer, Prof Chris Whitty, which will air for the first time on ITV at 19:15 GMT tonight.\n\nThe UK reported a record number of deaths and cases today, as hospitals come under growing pressure, with some in the South East at extreme capacity.\n\nAround one in three people with Covid-19 don’t have any symptoms and can pass it on without realising, the government said, \"which is why it’s essential everyone stays at home and remembers Hands, Face, Space\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Our hospitals are under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic, and infection rates across the entire country continue to soar at an alarming rate.\n\n“The vaccine has given us renewed hope in our fight against the virus but we must not be complacent.\n\n\"The NHS is under severe strain and we must take action to protect it, both so our doctors and nurses can continue to save lives and so they can vaccinate as many people as possible as quickly as we can.\n\n“I know the last year has taken its toll – but your compliance is now more vital than ever. So once again, I must urge everyone to stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives.”", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One floral tribute had Dame Barbara's photograph in the centre\n\nThe funeral of EastEnders and Carry On actress Dame Barbara Windsor has taken place in London.\n\nRoss Kemp, who played her on-screen son in the soap, was among the 30 mourners and gave a reading, as did actor and friend Christopher Biggins.\n\nDame Barbara died in December at the age of 83, having had dementia.\n\nThere were floral arrangements spelling Babs, The Dame and Saucy, and a mock pub sign showing her as The Queen Peggy in the style of the soap's Queen Vic.\n\nDame Barbara played pub landlady Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders for more than two decades.\n\nA version of the EastEnders Queen Vic pub sign was painted in tribute\n\nScott Mitchell, who was married to Dame Barbara for 20 years, was joined at Golders Green Crematorium by family and friends including comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams.\n\n\"As Covid has denied so many of Barbara's family, friends and fans a chance to say farewell properly, I wanted to share the order of service to let people be a small part of it,\" Mr Mitchell told the PA news agency.\n\n\"My heart goes out to every family who have experienced the same restrictions at their loved ones' funerals.\"\n\nLeft-right: Christopher Biggins, Ross Kemp and David Walliams were among the mourners\n\nHe added: \"I would again like to thank my family, friends, the media and the public for their incredible support and well wishes since Barbara's passing.\"\n\nDame Barbara's coffin was brought into the crematorium to sound of Frank Sinatra's On The Sunny Side Of The Street, and the service featured a recording of Sparrows Can't Sing from the actress's 1963 film of the same.\n\nIt finished with the famous topless photo of Dame Barbara from the film Carry On Camping, alongside her quote: \"That picture will follow me to the end.\"\n\nLong-time friend Anna Karen, who played Dame Barbara's on-screen sister Aunt Sal in EastEnders, also paid tribute during the service.\n\nThe funeral was also attended by Loose Women's Jane Moore and EastEnders actor Jamie Borthwick. However, the numbers were limited due to coronavirus social distancing.\n\nAlzheimer's Research UK recently said it had seen a spike in donations since Dame Barbara's death, and a JustGiving page set up as a tribute to her and in aid of the charity has raised more than £150,000 (including Gift Aid).\n\nMr Mitchell said that was \"beyond anything we may have dreamed of\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Google's plan to replace web browser cookies with a system that shares less data with advertisers is being investigated in the UK.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said Google's plan could have a \"significant impact\" on news websites and the digital advertising market.\n\nIt had already raised concerns that publishers' profits could sink if they were unable to run personalised ads.\n\nBut Google said digital advertising practices had to \"evolve\".\n\nCookies are small files a web browser stores on a user's device when they visit a webpage.\n\nThey can be used to remember what items a person has added to their online basket and deliver personalised content.\n\nThey can also be used to track somebody's activity online and deliver targeted advertising.\n\nSome cookies known as cross-site or third-party cookies can let publishers track a person's web activity as they move from one website to another.\n\nBy default, Apple's Safari and Mozilla's Firefox browsers already block cross-site cookies.\n\nBut Google intends to go further by ending support for all cookies except first-party ones - those used by sites to track activity within their own pages.\n\nIt wants to replace them with new tools that give advertisers more limited, anonymised information such as how many users visited a promoted product's page after seeing a relevant ad - but not tie this information to individual users.\n\nAccording to one industry group opposing the move, Google's Chrome browser is installed on more than 70% of computers in the UK.\n\nSo even if other web browsers do not adopt the same approach the move would still be significant.\n\n\"Google's Privacy Sandbox proposals will potentially have a very significant impact on publishers like newspapers, and the digital advertising market. But there are also privacy concerns to consider,\" said Andrea Coscelli, chief executive of the CMA.\n\nA coalition of about a dozen small tech companies and publishers - Marketers for an Open Web (Mow) - claims some of its members' revenues could drop by as much as two-thirds.\n\nMoreover, it suggests the move would put too much power into Google's hands.\n\n\"Google will effectively control how websites can monetise and operate their business,\" it warned last month.\n\n\"This means that any business that buys or sells advertising will be reliant on Google for a part of the process, whether they like it or not.\n\n\"This will reduce the ability of independent players to compete with Google, strengthening its monopoly control of online commerce.\"\n\nThe group has also raised concerns about other related matters, including the tech firm's plan to end support for user-agent strings.\n\nThese are bits of text that browsers send to websites at the start of a user's visit to reveal details about the device and browser being used.\n\nPublishers use this information to optimise the way their sites appear.\n\nBut Google is phasing out support on the grounds that they are also used as an alternative to cookies to track users, and sometimes cause compatibility issues.\n\nThe CMA previously issued a report into the matter in July.\n\nAt that point it acknowledged that while there were benefits to consumers from the kinds of privacy measures Google was proposing, they might be outweighed by other concerns.\n\nIt added that \"many news publishers\" had expressed concern that their news sites would become \"unsustainable\".\n\nUntil recently, the European Commission was responsible for most large and complex competition cases involving the UK.\n\nOn 1 January, the CMA took over these responsibilities on a local level due to Brexit.\n\nLast November, the government announced it would create a new Digital Markets Unit within the CMA.\n\nThe organisation subsequently detailed how it would to govern the behaviour of Google, Facebook and other tech platforms \"that currently dominate\" online markets, and give consumers \"more control over how their data is used\".\n\nThe new unit becomes operational in April, but is dependent on legislation going through Parliament before it gets new powers, and that may not happen until 2022.\n\nSince that would be too late to block Google's Privacy Sandbox plans, the probe is being carried out under the existing regime.\n\nEven so, all those involved will be watching closely for signs of how willing the authority is to confront the US's largest tech companies.", "Edwin Poots said he has asked senior UK government figures to consider unilaterally revoking the NI Protocol\n\nThe Stormont minister whose officials are responsible for the new Irish Sea border has said some food will be unavailable if changes are not made.\n\nDUP Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has also said jobs could be at risk.\n\nHe said problems at the ports were being caused by new rules applied on imports of food and other products from Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nEarlier Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said trade from GB to NI \"will get worse before it gets better\".\n\nMr Gove said that \"work is ongoing\" and it is \"all part of the process of leaving the European Union\".\n\nHe added that he had spoken to ministers from all parties in the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nAfter speaking with hauliers, supermarkets and processors this week, Mr Poots predicted the loss of jobs and rising costs.\n\n\"A wide range of frozen and chilled foods will be unavailable after the temporary exemption period ends,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThat exemption period applies to supermarkets and other food importers and runs out in April.\n\nAfter that they will have to comply with all the paperwork required to ship food in, or find suppliers on the island of Ireland or elsewhere in the EU.\n\nNew rules - called the Northern Ireland Protocol - were introduced because while the UK has left the EU, Northern Ireland has remained in the Single Market for goods and is continuing to apply EU customs rules.\n\nThe arrangement was agreed between the UK and the EU to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nMr Poots said he had spoken to senior UK government figures to ask them to consider unilaterally revoking the protocol as it was \"damaging Northern Ireland at the economic and societal level\".\n\nAnd he hit out at members of Sinn Fein, the SDLP, and Alliance Party who he claimed had supported it.\n\nMembers of those parties have countered similar claims from other DUP politicians in recent days.\n\nThey said DUP MPs had voted against alternative arrangements that would have been simpler to manage before the government pushed ahead with the protocol plan.\n\nResponding to Mr Poot's tweet on Friday evening, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood wrote: \"You broke it, you own it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Colum Eastwood This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson accused Mr Poots of being \"asleep at the wheel\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Martina Anderson MLA This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) has called for the assembly to be recalled to discuss difficulties over trading between Great Britain and Northern Ireland due to Brexit.\n\nUUP MLA Roy Beggs said: \"The impact of the Irish Sea border is causing horrendous difficulties for hauliers and this is being seen in shops and businesses across Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It is damaging the Northern Ireland economy and the situation is escalating.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, Michael Gove said it had been expected that there would be \"some initial disruption\" to trade between GB and NI, but that the government is \"ironing\" issues out.\n\nHe said discussions with the executive in Northern Ireland were \"in order to make sure that the [Northern Ireland] protocol works\".\n\n\"[To make sure] that businesses in Northern Ireland can continue to have access to the rest of the UK market, and that Northern Ireland businesses can have the goods that they need on the shelves, that they have access to at the moment,\" he said.\n\nNorthern Ireland has remained a part of the EU's single market for goods while the rest of the UK has left.\n\nThis means food products from Great Britain are subject to checks when they enter Northern Ireland.\n\nSimilar processes and checks also apply when moving food products from Great Britain into the Republic of Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, an organisation representing haulage firms has called on the UK and Irish government to relax some of the new Irish Sea trade border rules.\n\nThe Road Haulage Association (RHA) said there is serious disruption to freight movements into the island of Ireland.\n\nThe RHA said relaxing the controls on food products and customs declarations \"would help traders to ship goods that have struggled to move over recent days.\"\n\n\"The problems have led to gaps in supermarket shelves and lorries delayed at ports because of problems with red-tape and the situation is worsening,\" the organisation added.\n\n\"We are facing an inflexible, cumbersome and time consuming process just to move goods.\"\n\nThe UK government said the flow of goods \"between GB and NI has been smooth overall and arrivals of freight have continued to increase substantially over this week\".\n\n\"There are no significant queues at NI ports and supermarkets are reporting healthy supplies into their Northern Ireland stores,\" a spokesperson added.\n\n\"We recognise the need to provide as much support to the haulage sector as possible as industry adapts to new processes. That's why hauliers can benefit from the Trader Support Service, which provides free advice and support to businesses of all sizes moving goods under the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\n\"We have been engaging intensively with the Irish authorities and hauliers on the issues that have been encountered for goods transiting through Dublin port.\"\n\nOn Thursday customs authorities in the Republic of Ireland announced a temporary relaxation of one customs process.\n\nHauliers will be able to use an override code to complete a piece of administration known as ENS.\n\nThe letters ENS refer to an entry summary declaration, an online form which goods carriers are now legally obliged to submit to Irish customs when transporting goods from Great Britain into Ireland.\n\nLorries arriving in Ireland from Great Britain have faced new checks since 1 January\n\nOn Thursday night the Irish Revenue Commissioners said it recognised that \"some businesses are experiencing difficulties on lodging their safety and security ENS declarations\".\n\nIt said that in response it was providing a \"temporary easement\" which would allow an ENS to be produced without all the normally required information.\n\nAn Irish government spokesperson said it is \"absolutely essential that Ireland fulfils its obligations as a member of the EU and that we protect the integrity of the single market and the customs union\".\n\n\"We appreciate that the new requirements and customs formalities present significant challenges and impose additional burdens on businesses.\"\n\nMeanwhile Stena, the ferry company, said it was cancelling a dozen sailings between Wales and Ireland next week due to \"a decline in freight volumes during the first week of Brexit.\"", "Tennant was remembered as \"a beautiful soul\" and \"a sensitive and talented woman\"\n\nBritish model Stella Tennant took her own life after being \"unwell for some time\", her family has confirmed.\n\nIn a statement, her family said it was \"a matter of our deepest sorrow and despair that she felt unable to go on.\"\n\nTennant, who made her name in the early 1990s modelling for designers like Karl Lagerfeld and Versace, died in December five days after her 50th birthday.\n\nHer family said they were \"humbled by the outpouring of messages of sympathy and support\" they have received.\n\nTennant was \"a beautiful soul, adored by a close family and good friends, a sensitive and talented woman whose creativity, intelligence and humour touched so many\", they said.\n\n\"In grieving Stella's loss, her family renews a heartfelt request that respect for their privacy should continue.\"\n\nBorn in London on 1970, Tennant was known for her androgynous sultry looks and aristocratic heritage.\n\nShe shot to fame after being photographed for British Vogue at the age of 22 in 1993, going on to work with such designers as Alexander McQueen and Jean Paul Gaultier.\n\nTennant retired from the catwalk in 1998 but later returned. She also worked on campaigns to promote saving energy and reducing the environmental impact of fast fashion.\n\nShe had four children with French-born photographer David Lasnet. The couple married in the Scottish borders in 1999 and announced their separation last year.\n\nTennant with David Lasnet on their wedding day in 1999\n\nStella McCartney, Victoria Beckham and fellow model Naomi Campbell were among those to pay tribute after her death was announced last month.\n\nCampbell said she had been \"a class act in every way\", while Beckham remembered her as \"an incredible talent\".\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this article, information and support is available from BBC Action Line.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The storming of the US Capitol building in Washington DC stunned viewers around the world.\n\nBut how did Americans feel seeing the seat of their government being ransacked?\n\nWe asked members of our BBC voter panel for their views.\n\nSimon grew up in Uganda during its civil war and became a US citizen last year. A master's student and stay-at-home father, he warns that, while things may settle down, \"democracy is not guaranteed\".\n\nI'm disgusted but not surprised. I anticipated this would happen and it was a matter of when, not if.\n\nI didn't anticipate that it would happen in the capital. This is the president whose people - since the racial justice movement in the summer - said they were for \"law and order\". So the \"law and order\" people broke into the Capitol and changed the American flag with the Trump flag. History shows that has not happened in over 200 years, so it tells you how dangerous this man is.\n\nIn Uganda, in November, when the opposition was arrested, people took to the streets and got shot. Here, in the summer, the Capitol building was protected and they were breaking up peaceful protests.\n\nIt's clear that [Trump supporters] have been organising, we've seen this was going to happen, yet we subconsciously did not think that white people are a threat. That is the construct of this country and how law enforcement viewed it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nTaylor is a staunch Trump supporter and recently travelled to Washington DC for a post-election pro-Trump rally. A photographer by trade, she was upset by the rioting but believes unsubstantiated claims that left-wing radicals were behind the violence.\n\nIt was just heart-breaking to watch what was going on and the behaviour of protesters is just not like the Trump people I've been around. If it did come from any conservatives, then I condemn it. There's no excuse for violence.\n\nIt doesn't change my support for Trump. The people that love Trump, that's not going to change no matter if he gets a second term or not. It just means we're going to hold out for 2024 and hope either he runs again or his kids do.\n\nOur country is going to go downhill over the next four years if Biden does take office. I'm actually moving today out of the city into the suburbs of a Republican county because I am afraid of how Democratic counties will end up under a Biden presidency.\n\nWe're going to catapult towards socialism and communism. I'm worried for the country's future, but regardless of who takes office, we have a lot of healing to do. I hope we can all find our common humanity and embrace each other when this is all over, which is hopefully soon.\n\nJames is a lifelong Republican who worked on Capitol Hill for the party for nearly two decades, but cast his first ever vote for a Democrat in the 2020 election. He was stunned by 6 January's events and expects it to become a bad footnote in the country's history.\n\nI find it absolutely shocking. I didn't think it would come to this.\n\nI had actually thought about going down to the protests with a sign that said \"Republicans Against Trump\". My brother said, if I had done that, there would have been five deaths, not four, and he may have been right. I'm astounded by the stupidity of these people who show up without masks and who are being filmed. Quite a few of them are going to prison. It's a serious situation when you break past a police barricade and go into a building that's supposed to be secure.\n\nI have a lot of friends who say things couldn't get worse, but I have to remind them, as a student of history, that it has been worse. The Civil War was much worse. There was a lot of violence in the South during the Reconstruction period. This is something the country will get over. I was heartened by President-elect Biden's speech yesterday. Finally we've got someone who's sounding presidential. We haven't had it for the last four years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA'Kayla is a college student who supports the Black Lives Matter movement. She says law enforcement \"coddled\" the rioters at the Capitol and thus made an argument for police reform because they were far more aggressive at protests she attended.\n\nIt's so irritating I can't put into words how frustrating it is. They stormed the Capitol and the police were gentle and lackadaisical with them. I expected the police to use force, but they were so kind and gentle. During the summer, when the Black Lives Matter protests were going on, so many people were injured, locked up and lost their lives.\n\nFrom my own experience, marching peacefully on the front lines in Charleston, we had tear gas thrown at us and had to pour milk in our eyes. It was excruciating. And for what? We're marching for a cause, because we had the murder of somebody by the police. What are they upset about? They're upset because we are living in a democracy and they didn't get their way.\n\nDuring one of the debates, when Trump said \"stand back and stand by\", is this what he was talking about? This is the calm before the storm. I think it's going to get way more ugly, but Kamala [Harris] and Joe [Biden] are a symbol of change and hope.\n\nWhether [Trump supporters] like it or not, America is moving towards a more progressive country and there's going to be a lot of changes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden: Black Lives Matter protesters would have been treated \"differently\"", "Two more life-saving drugs have been found that can cut deaths by a quarter in patients who are sickest with Covid.\n\nThe anti-inflammatory medications, given via a drip, save an extra life for every 12 treated, say researchers who have carried out a trial in NHS intensive care units.\n\nSupplies are already available across the UK so they can be used immediately to save hundreds of lives, say experts.\n\nThere are over 30,000 Covid patients in UK hospitals - 39% more than in April.\n\nThe UK government is working closely with the manufacturer, to ensure the drugs - tocilizumab and sarilumab - continue to be available to UK patients.\n\nAs well as saving more lives, the treatments speed up patients' recovery and reduce the length of time that critically-ill patients need to spend in intensive care by about a week.\n\nBoth appear to work equally well and add to the benefit already found with a cheap steroid drug called dexamethasone.\n\nAlthough the drugs are not cheap, costing around £500 per patient, on top of the £5 course of dexamethasone, the advantage of using them is clear - and less than the cost per day of an intensive care bed of around £2,000, say experts.\n\nLead researcher Prof Anthony Gordon, from Imperial College London, said: \"For every 12 patients you treat with these drugs you would expect to save a life. It's a big effect.\"\n\nIn the REMAP-CAP trial carried out in six different countries, including the UK, with around 800 intensive care patients:\n\nProf Stephen Powis, NHS national medical director, said: \"The fact there is now another drug that can help to reduce mortality for patients with Covid-19 is hugely welcome news and another positive development in the continued fight against the virus.\"\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"The UK has proven time and time again it is at the very forefront of identifying and providing the most promising, innovative treatments for its patients.\n\n\"Today's results are yet another landmark development in finding a way out of this pandemic and, when added to the armoury of vaccines and treatments already being rolled out, will play a significant role in defeating this virus.\"\n\nThe drugs dampen down inflammation, which can go into overdrive in Covid patients and cause damage to the lungs and other organs.\n\nDoctors are being advised to give them to any Covid patient who, despite receiving dexamethasone, is deteriorating and needs intensive care.\n\nTocilizumab and sarilumab have already been added to the government's export restriction list, which bans companies from buying medicines meant for UK patients and selling them on for a higher price in another country.\n\nThe research findings have not yet been peer reviewed or published in a medical journal.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A young woman has died after a rare suspected shark attack in New Zealand.\n\nPolice named the victim as 19-year-old Kaelah Marlow, from Hamilton.\n\nMarlow was taken out of the water still alive but died at the scene despite efforts to save her life. Police said it appeared she had been injured by a shark.\n\nThe attack happened at Waihi Beach on North Island not far from the country's biggest city Auckland.\n\n\"Police extend our deepest sympathies to Kaelah's family and loved ones at this very difficult time,\" police said in a statement.\n\n\"We appreciate her death was extremely traumatic for those who were at Waihi Beach yesterday and we are offering victim support services to anyone who requires it,\" the statement said.\n\nShark attacks are unusual in the country and this is thought to be the first fatality since 2013. Local media cited witnesses as saying the woman had been swimming right in front of the lifeguard flags on Thursday.\n\nWhen they heard screams, lifeguards went out by boat immediately and pulled her to shore.\n\nIt is not clear what kind of shark attacked Kaelah Marlow, but an eyewitness reportedly claimed it was a great white, a species which is protected in the waters around New Zealand.\n\n\"Sharks are reasonably common near all northern beaches of New Zealand, most are harmless and even species considered dangerous very rarely interact with swimmers,\" shark researcher Kina Scollay told the BBC.\n\n\"My thoughts and sympathies are with the victim's family and we need to remember that this is a real tragedy to real people. I worry that this gets lost sight of in the media scramble after such events.\"\n\nOne witness quoted by local media said he believed a great white shark attacked the woman\n\nMr Scolley said that while attacks were rare, there were ways to be careful about interactions that could go wrong. Among the risk factors are, for instance, fish feeding events or dead animals in the water.\n\n\"If a large shark approaches or is seen nearby people should stay calm, warn those nearby and calmly exit the water,\" he said.\n\nA seven-day rahui, a traditional Maori prohibition restricting access to an area, has been placed on the beach.\n\nThe last recorded shark attack was in 2018 when a man was injured - but survived - at Baylys Beach. Over the past 170 years, there have only been 13 fatal shark attacks documented in New Zealand, according to the country's department of conservation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The US is reeling after supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC on the day Congress was meeting to confirm Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nLawmakers were forced to take shelter, the building was put into lockdown and four people died in the chaos that followed a pro-Trump rally near the White House.\n\nHere's a breakdown of how events unfolded on Wednesday.\n\nJust before midday local time (17:00 GMT) thousands of people gather at the Ellipse, near the White House, to hear the president speak at a \"Save America\" rally.\n\nHe tells them: \"We're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue... and we're going to the Capitol and we're going to try and give… our Republicans, the weak ones... the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.\"\n\nAs the speech ends, crowds start to drift towards the Congress building, about a mile and a half away, where they are met by police barriers.\n\nThe Capitol is home to the two chambers of the US government that make up Congress - the House of Representatives and the Senate.\n\nChanting crowds start to gather on both sides of the building at around 13:10, grappling with police at the metal barricades.\n\nTear gas and pepper spray are used to try to keep the protesters at bay.\n\nPolice officers struggle to maintain control of the situation as protesters advance on the building on multiple fronts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nOn the east side, the crowd force their way through barricades on the Capitol Plaza and move on the main entrance, quickly gaining access to the Great Rotunda.\n\nOnce inside, they head for the House and Senate chambers.\n\nIgor Bobic, a journalist for the Huffington Post, captures a group of men forcing a police officer to retreat up a set of stairs as they continue their advance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Igor Bobic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenators are forced to abandon the process of confirming President-elect Biden's victory and the building goes into lockdown.\n\nThe doors of the House chamber are locked and a makeshift barricade is erected in front of them. Security officials guard the entrance, guns drawn.\n\nWithin an hour, protesters have also broken police lines on the west side of the Capitol, scaling walls to reach the building itself before smashing windows and forcing doors open.\n\nOther videos and images show rioters storming through the building's ornately-decorated corridors and chambers chanting \"USA!\" and \"Stop the steal\".\n\nShortly before 15:00, gunshots are reportedly heard inside the building.\n\nPhotos and video footage later show a female protester being shot as she tries to break through the barricaded doors of the Speakers' Lobby.\n\nDespite efforts by police and others at the scene to save her, she is later reported to have died.\n\nOn the other side of the building, protesters break into the Senate chamber, one taking seat in the Speaker's chair.\n\nAnother protester is photographed nearby sitting in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, with his foot on the table.\n\nAfter growing condemnation of the riots, President Trump eventually calls for calm, telling the protesters to leave peacefully: \"Go home. We love you, you're very special.\"\n\nBy 17:40, the building is cleared and made secure ahead of the 18:00 curfew ordered by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.\n\nSeveral thousand National Guard troops, FBI agents and US Secret Service are deployed to help.\n\nMore than six hours after the storming of the building, senators return and resume the day's business of certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.\n\nAt 03:41 on Thursday, Congress confirms President-elect Joe Biden will succeed President Trump on 20 January.", "Young women clap for heroes outside Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London\n\nA revived initiative to applaud the heroes of the pandemic has returned - but much more quietly than last year.\n\nIt comes after the founder of Clap for Carers distanced herself from its return after facing online abuse.\n\nAnnemarie Plas wanted to bring back the weekly applause under a new name of Clap for Heroes to lift spirits in the new lockdown but it fell a little flat.\n\nSome health workers have said they would rather people stay at home and wear a mask than clap for them.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he participated at 20:00 GMT on Thursday, but clapping \"isn't enough\".\n\n\"They need to be paid properly and given the respect they deserve,\" he tweeted., of the health workers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The weekly clap returned but Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said clapping alone \"wasn't enough\"\n\nThe idea of clapping and banging pots from doorsteps originally began as a one-off to support NHS staff on 26 March - three days after the UK went into lockdown for the first time.\n\nAfter proving popular it was expanded to cover all key workers and continued every Thursday for 10 weeks last year, with millions of people across the UK taking part.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family and politicians including Prime Minister Boris Johnson also joined in with the show of support.\n\nHowever, the event faced criticism for becoming politicised, with some suggesting the NHS would benefit more from extra funding than applause.\n\nPeople in some streets stood on doorsteps and leaned out windows to clap for the pandemic's heroes, and landmarks in London were illuminated blue for the occasion - but reports suggested the applause was noticeably quieter than last year.\n\nAnnemarie Plas and her family were threatened online for her efforts\n\nOn Wednesday, Ms Plas, a 36-year-old mother-of-one, announced the return of the initiative, saying she hoped to \"lift the spirit of all of us\" including \"all who are pushing through this difficult time\".\n\nBut some NHS workers were less than enthusiastic. Ami Jones, an intensive care consultant from Wales, tweeted: \"No thanks. I'd rather you obey the rules, stay at home, wear masks and wash your hands.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rachel Clarke 💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke said: \"Please don't clap us. Just wear a mask, wash your hands and respect lockdown.\"\n\nIn a tweet posted hours before the weekly clap was due to return, Ms Plas, a Dutch national living in south London, said she had been targeted with personal abuse and threats against her and her family by \"a hateful few\" on social media.\n\n\"I have no political agenda, I am not employed by the government, I do not work in PR, I am just an average mum at home trying to cope with the lockdown situation,\" she said, in a statement.\n\nShe said the newly revived clap could and should still happen at 20:00 GMT.\n\n\"It's up to each person to decide how relevant or worthwhile they feel it is to participate,\" she said.\n\nThe fountains in Trafalgar Square were illuminated blue for the initiative on Thursday\n\nSome incorporated pots and pans during their weekly claps in warmer months", "UK house prices rose by 6% last year, according to the Halifax, but the lender is predicting \"downward pressure\" on values in 2021.\n\nThe mortgage lender, part of Lloyds Banking Group, said that prices \"soared\" in the second half of 2020.\n\nPent-up demand, a clamour for more space, and stamp duty holidays led to higher prices.\n\nBut the Halifax said the economic realities of 2021 meant activity would slow as the year progressed.\n\n\"With the pace of the UK's economic recovery expected to be constrained by the renewed national lockdown, and unemployment widely predicted to rise in the coming months, downward pressure on house prices remains likely as we move through 2021,\" said Russell Galley, managing director at the Halifax.\n\nHe said that last year was a market of two halves - starting with slow growth, and stalling when the market was closed during the first national lockdown, but then booming when it reopened.\n\nThis meant that overall, demand and price growth were relatively high.\n\nThe conclusion mirrors the findings of rival lender, the Nationwide, which said that UK house prices climbed 7.5% in 2020, the highest growth rate for six years.\n\nBoth mortgage lenders base their findings on their customer data.\n\nLucy Pendleton, from estate agents James Pendleton, said: \"The simple truth is that extra space has become non-negotiable for legions of homeowners with families, and the usual winter slowdown has met the immovable force that is hundreds of thousands of people all trying to jump to larger properties at the same time.\"\n\nThe Halifax said there were already signs of the market slowing, with prices rising by 0.2% in December compared with the previous month.\n\nThat was the slowest monthly rise of the last six months.\n\nThe lender said the average home was valued at £253,374.\n• None Where can I afford to live?", "The switch has been welcomed by climate campaigners\n\nAlok Sharma is to leave his position as business secretary to focus full-time on his role as president of the UN COP26 climate conference in November.\n\nThe Glasgow event is expected to be the biggest summit the UK has ever hosted.\n\nMr Sharma, who will remain in the cabinet, said he was \"delighted to have been asked by the PM to dedicate all my energies\" to the position.\n\nKwasi Kwarteng replaces him as business secretary while Anne-Marie Trevelyan becomes the new energy minister.\n\nThe government says a successful summit will be critical if the UK wants to meet the objectives set out by the Paris Agreement and reduce global emissions.\n\nThe event had originally been scheduled for November 2020 but was delayed by a year due to Covid-19.\n\nThe BBC's political correspondent Jessica Parker said the decision to move Alok Sharma wasn't a surprise and would be seen as a recognition of the need to free him up to do more of the crucial diplomatic leg-work required.\n\nSome MPs had previously warned that Mr Sharma lacked the \"bandwidth\" to head the conference alongside his cabinet job, especially given the strains on business due to the pandemic.\n\nIn his new role, which is based in the Cabinet Office, Mr Sharma's will remain a member of Boris Johnson's top team but be focused solely on coordinating global action to tackle climate change\n\nBoris Johnson chose Mr Sharma to head the event after ex-minister Claire O'Neill was ousted from the position in the summer of 2019.\n\nShe later condemned what she called broken promises and backsliding on climate commitments.\n\nFormer Conservative PM David Cameron turned down the chance to head the conference and ex-Foreign Secretary Lord Hague was also involved in discussions.\n\nMr Sharma's move will be welcomed by climate campaigners, who worried he was over-stretched running a frantically busy department while also orchestrating the most important climate meeting on Earth.\n\nMany of these summits - known as COPs - yielded little because the leadership was poor.\n\nThe French produced a triumphant agreement in the 2015 Paris COP after mustering the mighty force of French diplomacy.\n\nMr Sharma is reported to accept that he now needs to concentrate full time on the challenge.\n\nHe will need subtle diplomatic skills, a mastery of detail and the stamina of an ox as he attempts to corral world leaders into agreement on curbing emissions faster. He'll also need 100% support from the PM.\n\nThe greatest obstacle to action - Donald Trump - will soon disappear from the scene, and with China making bold promises, the COP has potential.\n\nBut politicians have been so slow to act that some key tipping points in the climate might already have been breached.\n\nReflecting on his new role, Mr Sharma said: \"The biggest challenge of our time is climate change and we need to work together to deliver a cleaner, greener world and build back better for present and future generations.\n\n\"Through the UK's Presidency of COP26 we have a unique opportunity, working with friends and partners around the world, to deliver on this goal.\"\n\nRichard Black, senior associate at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) said: \"Allowing Alok Sharma to focus full-time on his COP26 role is a sensible decision, not least as it signals the government's commitment to ensuring that the summit is a success.\n\n\"With the election of Joe Biden as the next US President and China's recent carbon neutrality pledge, the diplomatic opportunities have opened up for more ambitious action on climate change. Mr Sharma's job will be to seize them.\"\n\nAnd ex-cabinet minister Amber Rudd, who led the UK delegation at the Paris climate change conference, said the move showed the government \"recognises the importance and opportunity for a global agreement this year\".\n\nResponding to his new appointment, Mr Kwarteng said he was \"thrilled\" and pledged to help businesses through this period of \"extremely challenging circumstances\".\n\nThe Spelthorne MP, who entered Parliament in 2010, has been energy minister since July 2019.\n\nLabour's shadow business secretary Ed Miliband said Mr Kwarteng had \"a massive task\" in providing business with \"a plan to help them through this year, not the inadequate sticking plaster measures we have seen\".\n\nHe welcomed the decision to make Mr Sharma's COP role full time.\n\n\"It's absolutely crucial that the full political, diplomatic and strategic resources of government are now directed to the most ambitious outcome at Glasgow, which is a 1.5 degree deal.\"", "The number of hours ambulances spent waiting to offload patients in parts of England is \"off the scale\", the Royal College of Emergency Medicine says.\n\nData leaked to BBC News shows ambulance waiting times at hospitals in the South East rose by 36% in December compared to the same month in 2019.\n\nPeople are also having to wait longer for ambulances to arrive when called.\n\nAmbulance services say it is taking longer to hand over patients but they are doing all they can to meet demand.\n\nIt comes as the NHS faces unprecedented pressure because of the Covid pandemic.\n\nA paramedic working in London told BBC News he had encountered patients left waiting up to 12 hours for an ambulance in the last week.\n\nOne patient in London with a broken leg had to wait outside at night for six hours before an ambulance arrived to collect him, he said.\n\nOn another occasion, paramedics were called to attend to a young man with Covid-19 whose oxygen levels were \"so low\". He was given oxygen when they arrived - but that was eight hours after the ambulance was called.\n\nIncidents such as these are \"dangerous\" and the service is \"on its knees\", the paramedic added.\n\nThe figures also show that at one point on Monday this week more than 700 patients were left waiting for an ambulance to arrive in London when none was available.\n\nDifferent statistics obtained by BBC News highlight the number of hours spent waiting to offload patients at hospitals half an hour after ambulances arrived at hospitals in the South East.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nSouth East Coast Ambulance service lost 7,803 hours queuing outside hospitals, an increase on 5,732 hours in 2019.\n\nKent saw the greatest rise in this period. One of its hospitals, Medway Maritime Hospital, saw a doubling in ambulance waiting times.\n\nThese figures are \"off the scale\", according to Royal College of Emergency Medicine Vice President Adrian Boyle.\n\n\"It is not because more ambulances are being called, it's because the amount of time they're spending outside a hospital has increased,\" he said.\n\nDr Boyle says ambulances left queuing outside hospitals meant crews were not available to respond to other emergencies.\n\nHe says services are facing a \"crisis\" unlike any other he has seen.\n\n\"People may feel they have a winter crisis every year but this is a different order of magnitude\", he added.\n\n\"This is the worst winter crisis I've been through in my 25 years of practising as a doctor.\"\n\nAmbulance services say they are are doing everything they can to meet the demand.\n\nA London Ambulance Service Trust spokesperson said: \"We are continuing to prioritise the most seriously ill and injured patients, and our team of trained clinicians in our control rooms are working hard to monitor and maintain contact with many other patients as needed while they are waiting for ambulance crews to arrive.\"\n\nA South East Coast Ambulance Service Trust spokesperson said: \"We are doing everything we can to increase the number of staff available to meet this demand, including increasing overtime, to ensure crews are as available as possible to respond to patients in the community.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Marks & Spencer says sales of sleepwear have soared as people spend more time at home because of Covid restrictions.\n\nThe retailer sold 20% more women's pyjamas during the 13 weeks to 26 December, with many of them being bought as Christmas presents.\n\n\"The great British public are back in their pyjamas,\" said chief executive Steve Rowe.\n\nDespite this, clothing sales as a whole fell nearly a quarter, although food sales showed modest growth.\n\nM&S said its trading was \"robust\" over the Christmas period, but UK revenues for the quarter were £2.52bn, 8.2% lower than last year.\n\nM&S blamed \"on-off restrictions and distortions in demand patterns\" due to the coronavirus crisis.\n\nM&S also said that potential post-Brexit tariffs on part of its range exported to the EU, together with \"very complex\" administrative processes, would \"significantly impact\" its businesses in Ireland and the Czech Republic, as well as its franchise business in France.\n\nMr Rowe said the chain's popular Percy Pig sweets, made in Germany, were one product that could face tax rises.\n\nIt said it was \"actively working to mitigate\" those effects.\n\nMr Rowe thanked staff for \"a first-class execution of Christmas for our customers in near impossible conditions\".\n\nThe High Street stalwart said customers had responded to its \"innovative seasonal product\" during the four-week run-up to Christmas.\n\nLike-for-like food sales had risen 2.6% during the period, it said.\n\nHowever, clothing and home sales fell by 24.1%, and UK sales overall were down 7.6% on a like-for-like basis.\n\nTrading was hit particularly badly in November by the national lockdown in England, with clothing and home sales slumping 40.5% in the month and food sales down 4.5%.\n\n\"Near-term trading remains very challenging, but we are continuing to accelerate change under our Never the Same Again programme to ensure the business emerges from the pandemic in very different shape,\" Mr Rowe said.\n\nOn the positive side, M&S said its tie-up with online firm Ocado had produced \"very strong\" results, while customers had responded to its \"innovative seasonal product\" during the four-week run-up to Christmas.\n\nRoss Hindle, retail sector analyst at Third Bridge, said: \"Despite the pressure faced by their clothing division, the M&S food division is expected to deliver solid results, propelled by both stockpiling and its Ocado partnership.\n\nHe pointed to reports that M&S was poised to acquire the Jaeger clothing brand as a possible way forward, saying it \"hints at the potential for a more aggressive shift into the multi-brand space\".\n\n\"M&S have numerous large stores which could be filled with non-M&S merchandise in order to drive their top-line. The risk here is whether such brands might cannibalise M&S branded products,\" he added.\n\nEmily Salter, retail analyst at GlobalData, said M&S was \"paying the cost for its inability to adapt fast enough to changing shopping habits\".\n\n\"M&S's recovery is slow versus other apparel players, as it continues to be hurt by an online platform unable to make up for lost store sales,\" she added.\n\nShe saw little point in a potential purchase of Jaeger, as it would be \"costly to turn around and do little to boost the retailer's fortunes\".\n\nHowever, she said M&S's focus on value in food had \"started to pay off, with decent sales growth, especially considering dampened footfall on High Streets\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way they did in the Capitol\"\n\nDonald Trump was \"completely wrong\" to cast doubt on the US election and encourage supporters to storm the Capitol, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe UK prime minister said he \"unreservedly condemns\" the US president's actions.\n\nFour people died after a pro-Trump mob stormed the building in a bid to overturn the election result.\n\nMr Trump had urged protesters to march on the Capitol after making false electoral fraud claims.\n\nHe later called on his supporters to \"go home\", while continuing to make false claims - Twitter and Facebook later froze his accounts.\n\nThe president has now said there will be an \"orderly transition\" to President-elect Joe Biden, whose November election victory has now been certified by US lawmakers.\n\nBut he added that he continued to \"totally disagree\" with the outcome of the vote, repeating his unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nOn Wednesday night, Mr Johnson condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" and called for a \"peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nBut asked by the BBC's political correspondent Alex Forsyth if President Trump was directly responsible, he said: \"All my life America has stood for some very important things. An idea of freedom, an idea of democracy.\n\n\"As you say, in so far as he encouraged people to storm the Capitol, and in so far as the president has consistently cast doubt on the outcome of a free and fair election, I believe that was completely wrong.\n\n\"I believe what President Trump has been saying about that has been completely wrong and I unreservedly condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way that they did in the Capitol.\"\n\nThe PM, speaking at a Downing Street briefing, then welcomed the confirmation of President-elect Biden, saying \"democracy has prevailed\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol on Wednesday - where lawmakers were meeting to confirm Mr Biden's election victory - and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nA woman died after being shot by police, and three others died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nUK politicians from different parties have all condemned Mr Trump's actions in encouraging the storming of the Capitol.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel said the president's comments had \"directly led\" to the events and he \"didn't do anything to de-escalate that\".\n\nShe added: \"He basically has made a number of comments yesterday that helped to fuel that violence and he didn't actually do anything to de-escalate that whatsoever... what we've seen is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Trump should \"take responsibility\" for what happened, calling it the \"culmination of years of the politics of hate and division\".\n\nSir Keir added he welcomed the outgoing president's agreement to an orderly handover, but told reporters \"he should have said it a long time ago.\"\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Trump had been \"inciting insurrection in his own country,\" and called it a \"dark period\" in US history.\n\n\"What we witnessed last night is not that surprising. In some senses, Donald Trump's presidency has been moving towards this moment almost from the moment it started,\" she told ITV's Good Morning Britain.\n\nScotland's Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the home secretary should \"give serious consideration\" to denying Mr Trump entry to the UK after he leaves office.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said certification of Mr Biden's victory was \"good to see\" after the \"shocking events\" on Wednesday, adding the UK condemned the violence \"unequivocally\".\n\nFormer Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, who shared time in office with Mr Trump, said there should be \"no place for the rule of the mob\".\n\nBut senior Welsh Conservative Andrew RT Davies has been criticised after comparing the rioting to politicians who supported a second referendum on Brexit.\n\nMr Davies, a member of the Welsh Parliament, later tweeted that \"violence must never be tolerated\".\n\nHis party colleague, the Conservative MP Simon Hoare, suggested Mr Trump could be sent to the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon Hoare MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has written to express his \"solidarity\" with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose empty office was broken into by protesters.\n\n\"Seeing your office trashed in that way and its occupation by one of the rioters was particularly outrageous. I am just so relieved you were not hurt,\" he wrote.\n\nTrump supporters left this note on the desk of Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives.", "The Liberia-flagged oil tanker Nave Andromeda docked at Southampton after the incident\n\nSeven men, including two who had already been charged, will face no action over a suspected hijacking of an oil tanker off the Isle of Wight.\n\nSpecial forces stormed the Nave Andromeda on 25 October after the crew raised concerns about stowaways.\n\nMatthew Okorie, 25, and Sunday Sylvester, 22, had been charged with conduct endangering ships.\n\nBut prosecutors dropped their case after evidence analysis \"cast doubt\" on whether the tanker was put in danger.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said initial reports had indicated there was a \"real and imminent threat\" to the vessel, but added mobile phone footage and witness accounts \"could not show that the ship or crew were threatened\" and there was no evidence the men had any intention to seize control of the vessel.\n\nThe CPS said the new evidence meant the \"legal test\" for the offence was \"no longer met\".\n\n\"Our case was that the actions of the men were responsible for the endangerment of the vessel, but further material was then supplied by a maritime expert which significantly undermined whether there was a threat of danger,\" prosecutors said in a statement.\n\nThe Home Office said it was \"disappointed\" by the CPS's decision and added it was working with prosecutors to \"urgently resolve the issues raised by this case\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"It is frustrating that there will be no prosecution in relation to this very serious incident and the British people will struggle to understand how this can be the case.\"\n\nHampshire Constabulary said the five other men, who were arrested on suspicion of seizing or exercising control of a ship by use of threats or force, also face no police action.\n\nThey will remain detained under immigration regulations.\n\nThe 748ft-long (228m) ship left Lagos in Nigeria on 5 October bound for Southampton.\n\nAs it approached the Isle of Wight 20 days later, an emergency call came from the ship concerned about stowaways on board while the 22 crew members had locked themselves in the ship's citadel - secure area.\n\nThe men had been found on the ship earlier in the voyage and the vessel had made unsuccessful attempts to dock in other ports.\n\nIt was reported the men became hostile as the tanker approached the UK - but the CPS said it was thought this may have occurred while the ship was outside of UK waters.\n\nAt the time the Ministry of Defence called the incident a \"suspected hijacking\" and said Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and Home Secretary Priti Patel authorised a special forces operation in response to a police request following a 10-hour stand-off.\n\nIn a nine-minute operation carried out under the cover of darkness, Special Boat Service commandos boarded the vessel and arrested the seven men, believed to be Nigerian nationals seeking asylum in the UK.\n\nThe Liberian-registered tanker later docked in Southampton.\n\nSpecial forces boarded the Nave Andromeda on the evening of 25 October\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mauritius has been removed from the safe list\n\nTravellers from countries near South Africa are to be banned from entering England to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nArrivals from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana, as well as island nations Mauritius and Seychelles, will be affected.\n\nThe rule will take effect on 9 January but there will be an exemption for British and Irish nationals.\n\nThey will need to follow existing quarantine procedures.\n\nA ban by visitors to the UK from South Africa started on 24 December.\n\nThe latest restriction brought in by the Department for Transport also affects travellers arriving from Eswatini, Zambia, Malawi, Lesotho and Mozambique.\n\nIt will apply from 04:00 GMT on Saturday to people who have travelled from or through any of the specified countries in the last 10 days.\n\nIt is understood most flights from the affected countries arrive at airports in England, although it is expected the policy will be formally adopted by the other UK nations.\n\nThe measures will be in place for an initial period of two weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, Botswana, and the islands of Seychelles and Mauritius, are being removed from the UK list of safe travel corridors as there is a high frequency of travel between the islands and South Africa.\n\nThe new variant of coronavirus circulating in South Africa is already being seen in other countries, including the UK.\n\nThe variant, much like the new UK variant first seen in Kent, appears to be more contagious than previous ones.\n\nAnyone arriving into the UK from most destinations must quarantine for 10 days.\n\nBut there are a list of countries exempt from the rules, meaning returning travellers do not need to self-isolate, called the travel corridor list.\n\nUnder the latest announcement, the travel corridor with Israel will also end amid concerns about rising infection levels in that country.\n\nHowever, rules in place across the UK currently ban travel abroad unless for specific reasons.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump calls for an 'orderly transition of power' to the Biden administration on January 20th\n\nA US Capitol police officer has died from injuries sustained in the attack on Congress by a pro-Trump mob as top Democrats have called for the president to be removed for \"inciting\" the riot.\n\nHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged Vice-President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th amendment to the Constitution to declare the president unfit for office.\n\nAlternatively, she vowed to initiate the process to impeach the president.\n\nWednesday's violence came hours after Mr Trump encouraged his supporters to fight against the election results as Congress was certifying President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the November vote.\n\nFive people have died in relation to the riot, including Brian Sicknick, an officer at the US Capitol Police (USCP) who was \"injured while physically engaging with protesters\", the police said.\n\nMeanwhile, the top congressional Democrats - Speaker Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer - have urged Vice-President Pence and Mr Trump's cabinet to remove the president for \"his incitement of insurrection\".\n\n\"The President's dangerous and seditious acts necessitate his immediate removal from office,\" they said in a joint statement.\n\nThe duo called for Mr Trump to be ousted using the 25th Amendment, which allows the vice-president to step up if the president is unable to perform his duties owing to a mental or physical illness.\n\nBut it would require Mr Pence and at least eight cabinet members to break with Mr Trump and invoke the amendment, something they have so far seemed unlikely to do. Mr Trump is due to leave office on 20 January, when Mr Biden will be sworn in.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMrs Pelosi indicated that if the vice-president failed to act, she would convene the House to launch their second impeachment proceedings against Mr Trump.\n\nHowever, to succeed in convicting and removing the president, Democrats would need a two-thirds majority in the Senate, and there is no indication they would get those numbers. And it was not clear whether enough time remained to carry out the process.\n\nMrs Pelosi's deputy, Katherine Clark, told CNN the House could move on impeachment next week.\n\nMedia reports, quoting unnamed sources, said Mr Trump had suggested to aides he was considering granting a pardon to himself in the final days of his presidency. The legality of such a move is untested.\n\nIt wasn't until Thursday night, more than 24 hours after the US Capitol had been ransacked by his supporters, that Donald Trump released a recorded statement calling for \"healing and reconciliation\" in a wounded nation.\n\nThat was the very least that could be expected from a US president in a time of crises, and it probably will not be enough to silence calls for his removal, impeachment or resignation. Those demands have been coming from the political left, of course, but also from parts of the right - longtime critics, from former allies and, remarkably, even the conservative editorial page of Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal.\n\nEver since November's election, when Trump chose to attack the results rather than admit defeat, a reckoning was coming. The pressure, like a malfunctioning steam engine, was building toward a catastrophic ending.\n\nOn Thursday night, the president began trying to pick up the pieces.\n\nTeleprompter Trump had spoken. In past crises, unscripted Trump has quickly returned, with words and actions that reveal his earlier comments were insincere.\n\nWith 12 days left in his presidency, the question is whether, or more likely when, that Trump will return - and what happens when he does.\n\nPresident Trump returned to Twitter on Thursday following a 12-hour freeze of his account. His message was the closest he has come to a formal acceptance of his defeat after weeks of falsely insisting he actually won the election in a \"landslide\".\n\n\"Now Congress has certified the results a new administration will be inaugurated on January 20th,\" the Republican said in a video, without mentioning Mr Biden by name.\n\n\"My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power. This moment calls for healing and reconciliation.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nMr Trump said he had \"immediately deployed\" the National Guard to expel the intruders, though some US media reported he had hesitated to send in the troops, leaving his vice-president to give the order.\n\nHe also praised his \"wonderful supporters\" and promised \"our incredible journey is only just beginning\".\n\nLaw enforcement have been heavily criticised after they were overrun by the protesters. Mr Biden said: \"Nobody could tell me that if it was a group of Black Lives Matter protesters yesterday they wouldn't have been treated very differently than the thugs that stormed the Capitol.\"\n\nImages captured inside the Capitol building showed protesters roaming through some of the corridors unimpeded.\n\nThe FBI is seeking to identify those involved in the rampage, and the Washington DC police have released pictures of \"persons of interest\" for their involvement in the riot. The Department of Justice says people could face charges of seditious conspiracy, as well as rioting and insurrection.\n\nWashington police say 68 people have so far been arrested. One of those detained at the Capitol had a \"military-style automatic weapon and 11 Molotov cocktails (petrol bombs)\", according to the federal attorney for Washington DC.\n\nThe official responsible for security in the House of Representatives, the sergeant at arms, has resigned. Mr Schumer has called for his counterpart in the Senate to be sacked. USCP chief Steven Sund is also resigning, effective 16 January, following calls from Mrs Pelosi.\n\nOn Thursday, crews began installing a non-scalable 7ft (2m) fence around the Capitol which will remain in place for at least 30 days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden: Black Lives Matter protesters would have been treated \"differently\"\n\nAshli Babbitt, a 35-year-old US Air Force veteran from San Diego, California, was named as the woman fatally shot by a police officer who has now been placed on leave. Law enforcement told US media the victim was unarmed.\n\nThree others died after suffering unspecified medical emergencies on Capitol grounds: Benjamin Philips, 50, from Pennsylvania; Kevin Greeson, 55, from Alabama; and Rosanne Boyland, 34, from Georgia. Mr Greeson's family said he died of a heart attack.\n\nPolice said that 14 officers had been injured in the riot.\n\nOn Thursday evening, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos - one of the longest serving members of the president's administration - became the second cabinet member to quit following the Capitol riot.\n\nIn her resignation letter, Ms DeVos accused the president of fomenting Wednesday's disorder. \"There is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation, and it is the inflection point for me.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao stepped down, saying she had been \"deeply troubled\" by the rampage.\n\nOther aides to quit include special envoy Mick Mulvaney, a senior national security official, and the chief of staff to First Lady Melania Trump. A state department adviser was also sacked after calling Mr Trump \"unfit for office\" in a tweet.", "Fashion student Mhari Thurston-Tyler posted an advert for the \"crop top\" (right) on Depop after she says she found some discarded Chiltern Railways seat covers (like those on the left)\n\nA fashion student has been warned not to sell prohibited items on the clothes app, Depop, after she posted an advert for a top made from a train seat cover.\n\nMhari Thurston-Tyler made the bandeau out of a Chiltern Railways seat cover designed to promote social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe 20-year-old sold the top for £15 but later refunded her customer and took the advert down.\n\nDepop said the item \"clearly violates our terms of service\".\n\nThe app for buying and selling second-hand clothes said the sale of stolen goods was banned - but Ms Thurston-Tyler denied stealing.\n\nShe told BBC News she found two of the blue seat covers \"balled up on the floor\" outside Marylebone station in London in September.\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler, who is a fashion student at Central Saint Martins, re-sewed one of the covers to make it fit her, before deciding to advertise the second cover on Depop.\n\n\"I have no money at the moment so decided to put the second one on Depop to see if anyone would buy it,\" she said, adding that the app had become her main source of income as she has struggled to find other work during the pandemic.\n\n\"I have to resort to little things like this to make ends meet, to pay the bills.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler's advert went viral on social media after being shared by Depop Drama's Instagram and Twitter accounts.\n\nMhari Thurston-Tyler said she has been unable to find a job during the coronavirus pandemic and sells clothes on Depop \"to make ends meet\"\n\nIn the advert, Ms Thurston-Tyler models the seat cover and describes it as a \"social distancing crop\", adding: \"Got a few of these can do different sizes.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler, from Kenilworth in Warwickshire, said a Depop customer paid her £15 and ordered a crop top \"in extra small\".\n\nBut realising she should not be making money out of Chiltern Railways' property, Ms Thurston-Tyler refunded the customer 15 minutes later and took the advert down shortly afterwards.\n\n\"I didn't steal it but I understand it's not right to re-sell it,\" she said.\n\nA Depop spokesperson said Ms Thurston-Tyler would be banned from the platform if she listed any other prohibited goods.\n\n\"We explicitly prohibit the sale of illegal and unlawful content on the app, including any stolen goods,\" they said.\n\n\"This item clearly violates our terms of service, but as it has been removed by the seller and is no longer for sale on the platform, we will not be taking immediate steps to ban this user.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler said she hopes to make her own line of crop tops with the words \"children railways\" on the design, while \"the hype\" of the viral moment continues.\n\nChiltern Railways said it has been using the social distancing \"seat sashes\" since the beginning of the UK's Covid epidemic.\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"Whilst we appreciate this new take on railway memorabilia, these items are there to help customers travel with confidence and we would respectfully ask that they are left in place.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. London mayor Sadiq Khan: \"Unless the virus reduces... we could run out of beds\"\n\nThe spread of Covid in London is \"out of control\" according to Sadiq Khan, who has declared a \"major incident\".\n\nThe coronavirus infection rate in London has exceeded 1,000 per 100,000 people, based on the latest figures from Public Health England.\n\nHowever, the Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 30 Londoners has coronavirus.\n\nMr Khan told BBC political reporter Karl Mercer that the figure is as high as one in 20 in some parts of London.\n\nMajor incidents have previously been called for the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017 and the terror attacks at Westminster Bridge and London Bridge.\n\nA major incident is any emergency that requires the implementation of special arrangements by one or all of the emergency services, the NHS or the local authority.\n\nIt means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response.\n\nCurrently, there are more than 7,000 people in hospital with Covid-19, the mayor said.\n\nThis is a 35% increase compared to last April's peak of the pandemic, he added.\n\nDr Samantha Batt-Rawden, an ICU registrar and President of the Doctors' Association UK, tweeted: \"We tried. We really tried. NHS staff pleaded with people that Christmas is not worth it. Now one in 30 people in London have Covid and ICUs are overwhelmed. My heart is broken.\"\n\nAn analysis of Public Health England figures show in the week to 3 January, the number of cases rose across all of the London's boroughs compared with the previous week, with 17 individually recording more than 1,000 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nTesting increased in parts of the city after a drop over the Christmas period but positivity was high among people taking lab-based tests - suggesting more testing is needed to find undiagnosed cases in the community.\n\nIn the past week, many parts of the capital saw a rise in deaths where a person had tested positive for coronavirus in the previous 28 days - with some areas recording more than double the number of deaths compared with the previous week.\n\nHowever, reporting over the Christmas period may have affected this.\n\nOut of the 18 acute hospital trusts in London providing figures to the government, all of them recorded having more beds being filled by coronavirus patients than in the previous week.\n\nBarts NHS Health, one of London's largest trusts, saw a 30% increase in coronavirus patients between 29 December and 5 January, to 830.\n\nThe London Ambulance Service is now taking up to 8,000 emergency calls a day, the mayor says\n\nThe mayor of London's announcement comes after the counties of Sussex and Surrey declared similar major incidents on Thursday.\n\nHe said the London Ambulance Service was currently taking up to 8,000 emergency calls a day, compared to 5,500 on a typical busy day.\n\nThe London Fire Brigade said more than 100 firefighters had been drafted in to drive ambulances to help cope with the demand.\n\nEvery frontline agency involved in protecting the public has a legal duty to prepare for emergencies by devising and testing major incident plans.\n\nThese public bodies declare a major incident when the situation they're confronting is so big or terrible that it's not only likely to cause serious harm, but it will also compromise their ability to respond effectively.\n\nIn general terms, that means public bodies can legally stop delivering some everyday services, so that their personnel, attention and resources can be diverted to the emergency confronting them.\n\nAt other times, the plans will lead to the military sending soldiers to aid the civilian effort, as we have seen already during the pandemic.\n\nPrevious major incidents include the Grenfell Tower disaster in London, the Salisbury Novichok poisonings and the 2017 terrorism attacks.\n\nLondon's regional director for Public Health England Kevin Fenton said the current wave of coronavirus was \"the biggest threat\" the capital has faced in this pandemic to date.\n\nHe added: \"The emergence of the new variant means we are setting record case rates at almost double the national average, with at least one in 30 people now thought to be carrying the virus.\n\n\"We know this will sadly lead to large numbers of deaths, so strong and immediate action is needed.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nMr Khan is warning that London is \"at crisis point\".\n\n\"If we do not take immediate action now, our NHS could be overwhelmed and more people will die,\" he said.\n\n\"Londoners continue to make huge sacrifices and I am today imploring them to please stay at home unless it is absolutely necessary for you to leave. Stay at home to protect yourself, your family, friends and other Londoners and to protect our NHS.\"\n\nHe said he had written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking for more financial support for Londoners who need to self-isolate and are unable to work, and for daily vaccination data.\n\nMr Khan also called for the closure of places of worship and for face masks to be worn routinely outside the home, including in crowded places and supermarket queues, in a bid to curb case numbers.\n\nTwo hospital trusts in London have recorded more than 1,000 coronavirus deaths\n\nThe mayor of London was in a sombre mood when I spoke to him earlier this afternoon. One in 20 Londoners in some areas now has Covid, and there is a real fear that hospitals will simply be overwhelmed in the next two weeks.\n\nDeclaring a major incident is a real indication of the levels of concern felt not just at City Hall but across London's emergency services and the NHS.\n\nMore Londoners are now in hospital with coronavirus than at the peak of the first wave last April - and those numbers are growing by more than 800 every day.\n\nIt's believed the last mayor to declare a London-wide major incident was Boris Johnson in response to the 2011 riots.\n\nThe coming days will be some of the most challenging in the city's recent history.\n\nKatie Sanderson, a junior doctor working in London, said she is worried how long medical staff can cope with the surge of patients.\n\n\"[Staff] are working on wards and spending long amounts of time with patients who need high-intensive oxygen therapy,\" she said.\n\n\"It is technically challenging and the emotional burden is enormous. I see it in a flatness in their demeanour, like we've all got used to doing things which before were totally inconceivable.\"\n\nGeorgia Gould, chair of London Councils, described London's rising coronavirus rate as \"dangerous\".\n\nShe added: \"One in 30 Londoners now has Covid. This is why public services across London are urging all Londoners to please stay at home except for absolutely essential shopping and exercise.\n\n\"This is a dark and difficult time for our city but there is light at end of the tunnel with the vaccine rollout. We are asking Londoners to come together one last time to stop the spread - lives really do depend on it.\"\n\nEarlier this week as the prime minister introduced an England-wide lockdown, the Met Police said officers were going to be \"more inquisitive\" towards Londoners seen outside.\n\nThe Met handed out 1,761 fines for breaches of coronavirus laws between 27 March and 20 December.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said the major incident was a \"stark reminder\" of the point London is at in the pandemic.\n\nHe said: \"These rule-breakers cannot continue to feign ignorance of the risk that this virus poses or listen to the false information and lies that some promote downplaying the dangers.\n\n\"Every time the virus spreads it increases the risk of someone needlessly losing their life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'One of the worst shifts of my life - it's overwhelming'\n\nIn response to Mr Khan's announcement the government said the NHS is continuing to \"face a huge challenge\"\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"It is absolutely paramount people in London, and the rest of the country, follow the rules and stay at home to protect the NHS and save lives.\n\n\"We are working closely with NHS England to support hospitals in the capital, including additional bed capacity at the London Nightingale.\n\n\"Financial support is in place for workers who need to self-isolate - including a £500 payment for those on the lowest incomes who have been contacted by NHS Test and Trace.\"\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nHave any of the issues raised in this article had an impact on you? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid lockdown: 'This is why we say to you do not come out'\n\nPeople are being warned about breaking lockdown restrictions after the police got stuck in snow due to rule-breakers.\n\nA car driving on Moel Famau hill, Flintshire, despite roadblocks, skidded off the road on Thursday night, with officers deployed to help the passengers.\n\nHowever, they then became stuck and had to call mountain rescuers.\n\nA yellow warning for snow and ice has been issued by the Met Office for all of Wales, until midnight on Friday.\n\nPolice said: \"This is why we say to you do not come out.\"\n\nOn a video posted on Twitter, an officer for the North Wales Police Rural Crime Team warned people about the consequences of breaking the rules.\n\n\"It is now involving two agencies, two police vehicles, two mountain rescue vehicles and three police officers and the casualty.\"\n\nRob Taylor from North Wales Police Rural Crime Team said the person who was driving the car, which travelled 200m when it lost control was \"very, very lucky to be alive and escape uninjured\".\n\n\"We've been having problems with people lately flouting the law and going where they shouldn't be going,\" he said.\n\n\"People have been going through them for various reasons whether that's a walk or sledge and gathering in large groups. So we have been paying attention.\n\n\"This issue that was highlighted perfectly yesterday where someone's gone there thinking it's okay to flout the law. They get themselves in trouble and cause an emergency response from police and actually put those police officers' lives at risk.\n\n\"Their actions can really affect many people.\"\n\nSnow and ice warnings are in place for all of Wales\n\nThe snow warning for Friday said 5cm of snow could also fall on hills and mountains, with a widespread frost forecast for the morning.\n\nRoad agencies said driving conditions on the A55 in Flintshire were difficult, with snow on Rhuallt Hill.\n\nOne lane on the expressway has been closed eastbound between Pentre Halkyn and Northop following a crash.\n\nRoads have also been closed in Denbighshire following the heavy snow.\n\nThe Met Office warned there was a risk of slips and falls with sleet and snow predicted to fall on to already-frozen ground, creating icy patches.\n\nForecasters said that while snow was likely to fall on hills and mountains, flurries could be seen elsewhere, but this was likely to \"be slight and temporary\".\n\nFurther ice warnings have also been issued until 11:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nResidents in parts of Wales have been waking to snow, including in Mold, Flintshire\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hyundai has sparked confusion over a possible electric car tie-up with Apple.\n\nThe South Korean car company initially said it was in the \"early stage\" of talks with the iPhone maker about a possible electric car partnership.\n\nBut hours later it backtracked and said it was talking with a number of potential partners without naming Apple.\n\nHyundai's share price rose more than 20% when the tie-up was announced.\n\n\"Apple and Hyundai are in discussions but they are at an early stage and nothing has been decided,\" it said in a statement which was later revised. Hyundai's value shot up $9bn (£6.5bn) after the Apple announcement.\n\nWhile an updated statement said it was talking to a number of companies about a possible electric car tie-up including Apple, a later version omitted the US tech firm.\n\nApple is known for its secretiveness when it comes to new products and partnerships.\n\n\"I'm not surprised to see a big jump in the valuation of Hyundai. The stock market loves car companies who are tech firms as seen with Tesla rise,\" said Sarwant Singh, managing partner at consultants Frost & Sullivan. \"This partnership helps Hyundai be seen as a tech innovator.\"\n\nLast month, news emerged that Apple was moving forward with self-driving car technology with a 2024 launch date.\n\nThe electric vehicle (EV) market is becoming increasingly competitive, with companies such as Tesla grabbing the headlines with its rapidly-increasing valuation. Tesla chief executive Elon Musk is now the richest man in the world, displacing Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.\n\nExperts say an electric vehicle from Apple is still at least five years away.\n\nThey say pandemic-related delays could push the start of production into 2025 or beyond.\n\nHyundai has already been pushing into new technologies such as electric, driverless and flying cars.\n\nLast month, it took a controlling stake in Boston Dynamics in a deal that valued the mobile robot firm at $1.1bn.\n\nThe company is also setting up a $4bn autonomous-driving joint venture with auto parts supplier Aptiv.\n\nBoth partners will invest $2bn, while Ireland-based Aptiv will contribute about 700 engineers and transfer patents and intellectual property to the venture.\n\n\"Apple could certainly jumpstart that project and Hyundai brings the vehicle development and manufacturing expertise,\" said Jeff Schuster at automobile data firm LMC Automotive\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nApple's efforts to produce an electric car, known as Project Titan, have been on and off ever since plans were revealed in 2014.\n\nThere have been rumours over who would assemble an Apple-branded car as it may be difficult for the tech giant to manufacture them on its own.\n\nIts rival Alphabet's Waymo chose a factory in Detroit to mass produce its own self-driving cars.", "Jessica Allen (left) and Eliza Moore are now sticking to walks nearer their homes\n\nA police force that was criticised for its \"intimidating\" approach to two walkers is to review its lockdown fines policy.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore said they were surrounded by police after driving five miles from their home for a walk on Wednesday, and fined £200 each.\n\nDerbyshire Police initially said driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of lockdown.\n\nBut it now says new national guidelines mean it will review its position.\n\nIn a statement, the force said all of its fixed penalties issued during the new national lockdown will be reviewed.\n\nMs Allen, from Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire, said she assumed \"someone had been murdered\" when she arrived at Foremark Reservoir on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nWhen she and her friend were questioned by police, they were also told by officers the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nShe said: \"The next thing, my car is surrounded. I got out of my car thinking 'There's no way they're coming to speak to us'. Straight away they start questioning us.\n\n\"I said we had come in separate cars, even parked two spaces away and even brought our own drinks with us. He said 'You can't do that as it's classed as a picnic'.\"\n\nMs Allen said the experience was \"very intimidating\" and had left her feeling scared of police in general.\n\nForemark Reservoir is five miles away from where Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore live\n\nHer friend, Ms Moore, said she was \"stunned at the time\" so did not challenge police and gave her details so they could send a fixed penalty notice.\n\nAt the time Derbyshire Police said that driving to a location to exercise \"is clearly not in the spirit of the national effort to reduce our travel, reduce the possible spread of the disease and reduce the number of deaths\".\n\nThe force added: \"Where there are cases of blatant breaches of the regulations then fines will be issued by officers.\"\n\nDerbyshire Police has also been giving fixed penalty notices to people who visit Calke Abbey and Elvaston Castle.\n\nFixed penalty notices have been given to people who visit Calke Abbey, a National Trust property\n\nBut in a statement, the force said further guidance issued by the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) had \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nThe NPCC added that rather than issue fines for people who travel out of their local area \"but are not breaching regulations, officers will encourage people to follow the guidance\".\n\nThe force has now said it will be \"aligning to adhere to this stance\".\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Kem Mehmet said: \"We are grateful for the guidance from the NPCC.\n\n\"The actions of our officers continues to be to protect the public, the NHS and to help save lives.\"\n\nIt is not the first time the force has been accused of being overzealous in enforcing alleged lockdown breaches.\n\nIn the country's first lockdown in March the use of a drone to film people walking in the Peak District was labelled \"nanny policing\".\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nursery staff are not advised to wear face coverings\n\nChildcare organisations are demanding to see evidence that it is safe for them to remain open while schools and colleges have closed to most pupils.\n\nStaff have close contact with children and babies daily, when they change nappies and receive them by the hand from parents, for example.\n\nMinisters have insisted early years settings are safe as young children have very low rates of the virus.\n\nNurseries argue the evidence cited is based on data about old variant Covid.\n\nEngland's three main nursery organisations, the Early Years Alliance, the National Day Nurseries Association and childminders' group, Pacey, have joined together to mount a #ProtectEarlyYears campaign.\n\nThey want the government to provide clear scientific evidence on the risks to early years staff of staying open, particularly in light of the increased transmissibility of the new variant of Covid-19.\n\nSue Cardy, owner and manager of Ready Teddy Go Pre School, in Shoeburyness, Essex said: \"There isn't anyone who has asked: 'Is it 100% safe for us to remain fully open? No one can see the virus and staff may be asymptomatic, and so we all run an element of risk of catching or spreading it.\"\n\nShe added: \"Staff have families and are not all young... 50% of my staff are over 50 and some have underlying medical conditions.\"\n\nVicky, the manager of a church pre-school in Cheshire West and Chester said she could potentially have 30 children plus 10 staff in a church hall, with no PPE recommended, and limited social distancing.\n\n\"As an early years provider, I am increasingly worried about the safety of both staff and children, yet if we chose to partially close, we could be financially penalised.\"\n\nAnd Georgie Morrell from Brighton and Hove said: \"Since re-opening, I have had four households tell me. they are Covid positive.\n\n\"This is clearly very close to home and yet we have been given no choice or support but to remain open and carry on.\"\n\nNeil Leitch, chief executive of the Early Years Alliance, said: \"It is simply not acceptable that, at the height of a global pandemic, early years providers are being asked to work with no support, no protection and no clear evidence that is safe for them to do so.\n\n\"We know how vital access to early education and care is to many families, but it cannot be right to ask the early years workforce to put themselves at risk. That is why it is vital that the government takes the urgent steps needed to safeguard those working in the sector, particularly mass testing and priority access to vaccinations.\n\nNursery providers are calling for staff to be tested, priority for vaccination and for state funding lost due to lower numbers during the pandemic, to be replaced by government.\n\nPurnima Tanuku, chief Executive of National Day Nurseries Association, said nurseries were determined to support families during the current lockdown.\n\nBut, she added: \"Time and again, whether it's on PPE, cleaning costs, testing or staffing, early years providers have been overlooked by the Department for Education.\n\n\"Now, they are the only part of the education sector fully open to all children and must be given priority.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, vaccines minister Nadim Zahawi said there was very little risk to younger children.\n\n\"The nursery sector has taken tremendous care in making sure the premises are also Covid safe. It is the right thing to do.\"\n\nThe Department for Education is yet to comment on the #ProtectEarlyYears demands.", "The coronavirus vaccine rollout is a national challenge requiring an unprecedented effort - involving the armed forces - Boris Johnson says.\n\nThe PM confirmed almost 1.5 million people in the UK have now received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine.\n\nMore than 1,000 GP-led sites in England will be able to offer a total of \"hundreds of thousands\" of jabs each day by 15 January, he said.\n\nThe Army will use \"battle preparation techniques\" to help achieve that goal.\n\nIt came as a further 1,162 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported on Thursday - the second consecutive day of more than 1,000 recorded fatalities - and 52,618 new cases.\n\nAnd as Simon Stevens, head of the NHS in England, warned 10,000 patients with Covid had been admitted to hospital since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street news conference, Mr Johnson said there would likely be \"lumpiness and bumpiness\" in the rollout of vaccines.\n\nHe said: \"Let's be clear, this is a national challenge on a scale like nothing we've seen before and it will require an unprecedented national effort.\n\n\"Of course, there will be difficulties, appointments will be changed but... the Army is working hand in glove with the NHS and local councils to set up our vaccine network and using battle preparation techniques to help us keep up the pace.\"\n\nAlongside GPs, there will be 223 hospital sites and seven \"giant vaccination centres\" - as well as an initial 200 community pharmacies - offering jabs, Mr Johnson said.\n\nEveryone will have a vaccination centre within 10 miles of their home, he added, with a \"full vaccination deployment plan\" to be published on Monday.\n\nHe also said there would be a national booking system for vaccinations - but did not give any more details.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brigadier Phil Prosser said his task was to ensure everyone in England had equal access to the vaccine\n\nBrigadier Phil Prosser, commander of military support to the vaccine delivery programme, told the news conference his team was \"embedded\" with the NHS.\n\nHe said his \"day job\" is to deliver combat supplies to UK forces in time of war, \"at speed in the most arduous and challenging conditions\".\n\nThe government has set a target to offer vaccination slots to 15 million in the top four priority groups - including all over-80s - by 15 February.\n\nAnd Mr Johnson said that, with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine available, he could pledge one of those groups - care home residents - would all receive their jab by the end of January.\n\nThe widespread rollout of the vaccine has begun in earnest with the first doses delivered during the day to family doctors for distribution.\n\nBut there were concerns from some GPs over supplies, as Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the levels of vaccine supply was the \"rate-limiting\" factor as jabs would be delivered as quickly as stock is available.\n\nIt comes as some hospitals in England are at risk of becoming Covid-only sites, with rising admissions for the virus forcing trusts to cut back on other services.\n\nThe latest NHS statistics also show that there were 30,370 patients with Covid in UK hospitals on Tuesday, a much higher figure than the first peak in the spring of 2020.\n\nHospital leaders have warned medics are becoming increasingly stretched with \"untrained staff\" used to fill gaps.\n\nAt 20:00 GMT, people in some streets stepped out onto doorsteps to clap for the heroes of the pandemic, following a weekly initiative which gained popularity during the UK's first lockdown.\n\nHowever, Thursday's clap for heroes was more muted than those seen last year, perhaps reflecting criticism the initiative had become politicised.\n\nLots of detail has been given about how the NHS - working hand-in-hand with the military - will be able to deliver the vaccines.\n\nThere will be more local vaccination centres, hospital hubs and even mass vaccination at sports stadiums.\n\nThousands of extra vaccinators have already been trained - and thousands more are waiting in the wings.\n\nBut the biggest hurdle the UK faces is vaccine supply.\n\nIf it is not available, it cannot be put in arms no matter how good the vaccination network is.\n\nIn the long-term, supply is not likely to be a problem - but in the coming weeks it could be tight.\n\nThere is enough vaccine in the country to offer all those at highest risk a jab by mid-February.\n\nBut it is not yet all ready for the NHS to use, either because the final safety checks have not been done or the vaccine has not been put into vials.\n\nThe former depends on lab work by the medicines regulator, while the latter is the job of a plant in Wrexham.\n\nEach stage takes some time. The target is achievable, but a lot has to go right.\n\nSir Simon Stevens said there were 50% more coronavirus patients in England's hospitals now compared to the peak last April, affecting every region across the country.\n\nHe said: \"That number is accelerating very, very rapidly... the pressures are real and they are growing.\"\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the Belfast Health Trust has said it has no other option but to cancel all of its urgent cancer surgery amid \"highly significant\" demand for bed space.\n\nThe cancelled operations will affect those patients for whom surgery could impact recovery and even survival, the trust said.\n\nBoris Johnson said all parts of government would be throwing everything at the vaccination effort \"round the clock\"\n\nIn one positive development for hospitals, two more life-saving drugs that can cut deaths by a quarter in patients who are sickest with Covid have been cleared for widespread use, with immediate effect.\n\nThe anti-inflammatory medications, given via a drip, save an extra life for every 12 treated, researchers said, following NHS trials.\n\nElsewhere, the UK has implemented restrictions on travellers to England from countries near South Africa to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson and Sir Simon were asked about persistent social media claims that coronavirus does not exist - and that reports of packed hospital wards of people being treated are just a myth.\n\nSir Simon said that such misinformation was an \"insult\" to hard-working critical care staff.\n\n\"There is nothing more demoralising than having that kind of nonsense spouted when it is most obviously untrue,\" he said.", "Vincent Kane - pictured with his grandson Sonny - is facing uncertainty about his operation\n\nThe son of a man with pancreatic cancer has said the last-minute cancellation of his surgery has been \"devastating\".\n\nJodie Kane said his father Vincent was due to have his operation on Friday.\n\nHowever, that procedure was cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust on Tuesday as the worsening coronavirus crisis increases the pressure on hospitals.\n\nThe trust apologised, saying it had faced an 80% rise in the number of patients with Covid-19 admitted to hospitals since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan Show, Jodie said that there was now \"no guarantee\" his 68-year-old father would get the treatment.\n\n\"To be told we had the chance of a very successful surgery on offer and then to have it taken away at the last minute is pretty devastating,\" he said.\n\n\"Even the surgeon himself said they would be concerned if it was to go on more than four weeks.\n\n\"There is an uncertainty hanging over us now that we don't know when he'll actually get that surgery or what the impact on his health is going to be.\"\n\nVincent Kane - pictured with his with wife Karen - has been suffering other health issues arising from his cancer\n\nVincent, from Newtownards, County Down, did not receive treatment for some of his other symptoms as it was planned that the surgery would help with those.\n\n\"Because they were hoping to get him straight into surgery he hasn't had the blockage in his gall bladder addressed so he's jaundiced, he's covered in a rash, can't sleep, he's lost a lot of weight,\" Jodie said.\n\n\"Undoubtedly there are people worse off than us out there but it is still a critical illness that he has got and it is one that we don't have an end in sight for, in terms of treatment.\n\n\"There must be a way of helping all those in need, or I suppose if you were being really honest about it those who stand the best chance of surviving - making the decisions for the benefit of them.\n\n\"There's no guarantee that in six weeks' time surgery is going to be an option because who knows what's going to happen with Covid?\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it had to reduce the number of ill patients on wards to protect them from coronavirus\n\nJodie called on those who were breaking Covid-19 regulations to think about the the \"direct and indirect impacts\" of their actions.\n\n\"We've every sympathy for anyone who has a loved one who needs [intensive] care because of Covid but cancer and Covid are both life-and-death situations.\n\n\"We can minimise the risks of one of them as a collective society just by taking the necessary precautions.\n\n\"It could be someone they love or their neighbour or someone in their community that's in the same situation as us in the very near future.\"\n\nFlo McClements, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in December, found out on Tuesday that her surgery - scheduled for Thursday - had been cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle, her son Gregg said the pressure was \"mounting day by day\" on the the 72-year-old from Ballymoney, County Antrim.\n\n\"She had waited all through Christmas for the date and due to the Covid-19 restrictions we as a family had stayed away from her,\" he added.\n\nFlo McClements' family wants to \"give her a hug\" after her operation was cancelled\n\n\"We left her on her own with my dad just to make sure she didn't catch Covid and risk the operation.\n\n\"When you get the date you like to think it's the next step to recovery but unfortunately that didn't happen.\"\n\nGregg said his mother was \"putting on a brave face\" but it was difficult for the family to not be with her in person during what was a difficult time.\n\n\"That's actually the hardest part that we can't go up and have a cup of tea with her or give her a hug to make her feel a bit better even for a few minutes.\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it \"would like to sincerely apologise\" to those affected by the postponement of surgeries.\n\nIt said the decision was taken to reduce the number of ill patients on wards that would be more at risk from the virus than others.\n\n\"This was an incredibly difficult decision to make and we did not take it without considering all the information available to us,\" said the trust.\n\n\"We do not underestimate the anxiety and distress this causes the patients and families affected and we deeply regret this.\n\nIt said it would do \"everything in our power\" to reschedule their operations \"as soon as possible\".", "Gordy Philip took an icy bike ride on the Great Glen Way between Blackfold and Abriachan in the hills above Loch Ness. He said of his image: \"Could be the light at the end of the road on the first day of another lockdown.\"", "New data from EU satellites shows that 2020 is in a statistical dead heat with 2016 as the world's warmest year.\n\nThe Copernicus Climate Change Service says that last year was around 1.25C above the long-term average.\n\nThe scientists say that unprecedented levels of heat in the Arctic and Siberia were key factors in driving up the overall temperature.\n\nThe past 12 months also saw a new record for Europe, around 0.4C warmer than 2019.\n\nLast December, the World Meteorological Organization predicted that 2020 would be one of the three warmest years on record.\n\nThis new, more complete report from Copernicus says that last year is right at the top of the list.\n\nHigh temperatures saw fires rage in spring and summer in many locations inside the Arctic circle\n\nThe Copernicus data comes from a constellation of Sentinel satellites that monitor the Earth from orbit, as well as measurements taken at ground level.\n\nTemperature data from the system shows that 2020 was 1.25C warmer than the average from 1850-1900, a time often described as the \"pre-industrial\" period.\n\nOne key factor driving up the temperatures was the heating experienced in the Arctic and Siberia.\n\nIn some locations there, temperatures for the year as a whole were 6C above the long-term average.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis exceptional warming led to a very active wildfire season. Fires in the Arctic Circle released a record amount of CO2, according to the study, up over a third from 2019.\n\nThe Copernicus service concludes that while 2020 was very marginally cooler than 2016, the two years are statistically on a par as the differences between the figures for the two years are smaller than the typical differences found in other temperature databases for the same period.\n\nMore data on 2020's temperature will be released in the next week or so from other agencies, including Nasa and the UK Met Office.\n\nThe scientists say that the closeness between the years is all the more remarkable considering the impacts of the El Niño/La Niña weather cycle.\n\nPeople saw their homes burnt down in some parts of Siberia\n\nEurope also saw a new record level of warming for the year, 0.4C warmer than 2019. A major heat wave in July and August was an important factor driving up the mercury across the continent.\n\nGlobally, the 10-year period from 2011-2020 is the warmest decade, with the last six years being the six hottest on record.\n\n\"Twenty-twenty stands out for its exceptional warmth in the Arctic and a record number of tropical storms in the North Atlantic,\" said Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service.\n\n\"It is no surprise that the last decade was the warmest on record, and is yet another reminder of the urgency of ambitious emissions reductions to prevent adverse climate impacts in the future.\"\n\nWhile a strong La Niña may cool temperatures a little in 2021, levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are likely to remain high, contributing to ongoing warming.\n\nNew data from the UK's Met Office suggests that average concentrations of CO2 will reach levels that are 50% higher than they were before the industrial revolution.\n\nResearchers predict that annual average CO2 concentration at the Mauna Loa recording station in Hawaii will be around 2.29 parts per million (ppm) higher in 2021 than in 2020.\n\nDespite the global slowdowns caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the scientists say this rise is being driven by emissions from the use of fossil fuels and from deforestation.\n\nEurope saw a prolonged heat wave in July and August that pushed the year to a new record\n\nWhile weather patterns linked to the La Niña event may boost growth in tropical forests and increase the amount of the gas that's absorbed, it won't be enough to slow the overall rise.\n\nThe Met Office says that CO2 will exceed 417ppm in the atmosphere for several weeks from April to June.\n\nThis is 50% higher than the level of 278ppm that pertained in the late 18th Century as widespread industrial activity was just beginning.\n\n\"The human-caused build-up of CO2 in the atmosphere is accelerating,\" said Prof Richard Betts from the Met Office.\n\n\"It took over 200 years for levels to increase by 25%, but now just over 30 years later we are approaching a 50% increase.\"\n\n\"Reversing this trend and slowing the atmospheric CO2 rise will need global emissions to reduce, and bringing them to a halt will need global emissions to be brought down to net zero. This needs to happen within about the next 30 years if global warming is to be limited to 1.5C.\"", "Lorry drivers crossing the Channel will continue to need a recent negative Covid test result \"until further notice\", the UK government has said.\n\nHauliers have been required to prove they have tested negative since the border with France reopened last month.\n\nThe decision to continue testing comes from the French government, the Department for Transport said.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps urged \"all hauliers to get tested before getting to the border\".\n\nThe decision comes as the introduction of new trading rules between the UK and European Union prompts disruption for some businesses and hauliers.\n\nMr Shapps said the government was \"offering support to businesses to set-up testing facilities at their own premises, assisting the smooth passage of trucks and good across the border, as well as setting up testing at information and advice sites around the country\".\n\nDrivers and crew of heavy goods vehicles (HGVs), drivers of large goods vehicles (LGVs) and van drivers are advised to obtain a negative test before arriving in Kent or at other Channel crossing points.\n\nThere are now 34 testing sites for hauliers situated in key \"stopping spots\" across the UK, with further sites being set up, the DfT said.\n\nTests must be authorised and taken 72 hours before entry into France.\n\nIn addition to a negative Covid test result, some hauliers require a new 24-hour permit to enter Kent since the introduction of the new UK-EU rules.\n\nFrance reported 21,703 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, while the UK reported 52,618.\n\nLast month, the border crisis saw France refuse arrivals from the UK for 48 hours between 20 and 22 December due to a new virus variant initially discovered in Kent.\n\nPassenger ferries and lorry freight bound for France were suspended from Dover, Portsmouth and Newhaven.\n\nAn emergency procedure devised as part of post-Brexit preparations allowed lorries to be \"stacked\" - leaving thousands of foreign drivers stranded throughout southern England.", "A further 1,325 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt means there have been just short of 80,000 deaths by that measure - as another 68,053 new cases were recorded.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) said the number of deaths would \"continue to rise until we stop the spread\".\n\nIt comes as the government launches a new campaign in England urging people to \"act like you've got\" the virus.\n\nThe campaign, including an advert fronted by England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, is intended to remind the public Covid is spreading fast, with large numbers showing no symptoms.\n\nIn the advert, Prof Whitty says: \"Covid-19, especially the new variant, is spreading quickly across the country.\n\n\"This puts many people at risk of serious disease and is placing a lot of pressure on our NHS.\n\n\"Once more, we must all stay home. If it is essential to go out remember, wash your hands, cover your face indoors and keep your distance from others.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Our hospitals are under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic, and infection rates across the entire country continue to soar at an alarming rate.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nHospital leaders have warned of stretched staffing with 31,624 coronavirus patients in UK hospitals on Wednesday - 46% above the peak during the first wave last year.\n\nDr Ian Higginson, vice president of Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said the situation in London and south-east England was \"pretty dire\" and would get worse in the rest of the country before long.\n\n\"We're heading for some really dark times, I fear, in this phase of the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nRichard Mitchell, chief executive of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust, said the increase in patients seen in London was now affecting his area in Nottinghamshire.\n\nHe said: \"Critical care is exceptionally busy and the colleagues who work here are tired, they're fatigued and they're worn out.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a third Covid vaccine received emergency approval for use in the UK with 17 million doses of the jab, made by US firm Moderna, pre-ordered by the UK.\n\nThe vaccine joins the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca jabs in being approved, with close to 1.5 million people now vaccinated in the UK.\n\nDr William Welfare, Covid-19 response director at PHE, said: \"Each life lost to this virus is a tragedy, but sadly we can expect the death toll to continue to rise until we stop the spread.\n\n\"Approximately one in three people who have coronavirus have no symptoms and could be spreading it without realising it.\n\n\"To protect our loved ones it is essential we all stay at home where possible. This will reduce new infections, ease the pressure on the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of Covid in the capital was now \"out of control\", as he declared a \"major incident\".\n\nThis means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response, and allows special arrangements to be implemented.\n\nThe previous highest daily death toll - 1,224 - was recorded on 21 April 2020 during the UK's first lockdown. Daily deaths were in the single figures as recently as September.\n\nThe UK has recorded the fifth-highest number of deaths behind the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nWe are now seeing the record numbers of cases over the Christmas period translate into record numbers of deaths.\n\nAnd with new infections rising rapidly - more than 1.1 million people in England estimated to be infected with Covid-19 last week - these tragic numbers are set to continue for some time.\n\nAnd that is mainly because of the new variant form of the virus which is thought to be between 30-70% more transmissible.\n\nThe administration of the vaccines to at-risk groups should see a reduction in the numbers dying by the end of the month and the numbers having to go into hospital going down sometime after that.\n\nThat is the other way around from what you normally hear - but that it because a successful vaccine programme will initially remove those most likely to die from the path of the virus.\n\nFitter or younger people - who are less likely to die but could still end up occupying hospital beds - won't be getting their jabs for some time yet.\n\nThe advent of spring's better weather should also help cases to fall, but ministers will have to decide what level of risk - and deaths - society is prepared to tolerate.\n\nFriday saw 619,941 tests conducted in the 24 hours to 09:00 GMT - also a new record.\n\nEngland, much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland continue to be under strict national measures, with stay-at-home orders in place for most people.\n\nThe R number - the rate at which an infected person passes on the virus to someone else - is now estimated to be between 1.0 to 1.4, meaning the epidemic is growing between 0% and 6% per day.\n\nCovid infections rose by almost a third between Boxing Day and 3 January, reaching 70,000 new cases a day according to a major study.\n\nIn a different piece of research, an estimated 1.2 million people in total had Covid over a similar time period, the Office for National Statistics said.\n\nBoris Johnson pledged on Thursday to use England's lockdown to implement an \"unprecedented national effort\" to offer vaccination to those at the highest risk from Covid by 15 February.\n\nHe said the Army would be drafted in to use \"battle preparation techniques\" to achieve the goal, which could see up to 15 million people offered a vaccine by the middle of next month.\n\nIn another development, from next week all travellers to the UK will need to show a recent negative test result before they arrive.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Parents and teachers are \"frustrated\" about plans to keep schools closed until the February half term and concerned about the impact on children.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC Radio Wales phone-in, callers said they felt young people were being \"thrown under the bus\".\n\nOthers said they were fed up with \"bitty information\" from the Welsh Government.\n\nKaarina Rutta from Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, told the programme she was having to work at night when her four children had gone to bed after home schooling.\n\n\"It's a challenge trying to help all four at the same time and also having in the back of your mind I should also be working and doing other things,\" she said.\n\n\"I was quite sure that this was going to happen,\" she added.\n\n\"It didn't come as a surprise I have to say, because the situation is just so bad I think there is no other way out of it at the moment.\n\n\"I just wish we had known earlier on and it would have been easier to plan.\"\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said it was the \"best certainty\" he could offer \"in a world which is highly uncertain\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge asked how staff were coping during the pandemic and thanked them for their sacrifice\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has said he talks to his three children about NHS staff \"every day\" to help them to understand the \"sacrifices\" made during Covid.\n\nPrince William's comments were part of a video call to London hospital staff.\n\n\"Catherine and I and all the children talk about all of you guys every day, so we're making sure the children understand all of the sacrifices that all of you are making,\" he said.\n\nIt comes after the London mayor said the virus was \"out of control\".\n\nSadiq Khan declared a major incident on Friday - meaning the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response - after the number of Covid patients in the capital's hospitals surpassed 7,000.\n\nStaff at Homerton University Hospital in east London told the Duke of Cambridge that queues of people waiting to be vaccinated at the hospital offered hope, but that the way out of the crisis was for the public to \"stay at home\" during lockdown.\n\nIn recent days the hospital has seen its highest number of admissions since the pandemic began.\n\nDuring the UK's first national lockdown, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their three children Prince George (left), Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis joined in with the weekly Clap for Carers event\n\nThe duke, who is joint patron of NHS Charities Together, said: \"A huge thank you for all the hard work, the sleepless nights, the lack of sleep, the anxiety, the exhaustion and everything that you are doing, we are so grateful.\n\n\"Good luck, we are all thinking of you.\"\n\nHis video call, which took place on Thursday, is one of many he and the duchess have made to NHS staff during the pandemic.\n\nPrince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis have also shown their support for the health service by getting involved with the weekly Clap for Carers applause during the UK's first national lockdown.\n\nAnd on Saturday, the Duchess's birthday, Kensington Palace said the family's thoughts \"continue to be with all those working on the front line at this hugely challenging time\".\n\nChief nurse Catherine Pelley told the prince her hospital had used funds from NHS Charities Together to set up various support initiatives such as a \"wobble room\" for colleagues to relax in.\n\n\"For us this week, starting vaccinating has been one of the single most significant impacts on people feeling that there is a future out of this, and the queues out the door here where they have been vaccinating have been really hopeful for people,\" she said.\n\n\"But the support we need is stay at home, help us. Because that will get us all out of this, whatever our role is, and we will get society out of this.\"\n\nAfter speaking to Ms Pelley and her colleagues about how they supported one another, the prince said: \"It's good that you and your team are keeping your spirits high and I always find that having some sort of sense of humour through everything is very important, otherwise we all go mad.\"\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge said he wants his children to appreciate the sacrifices made by NHS staff during the pandemic", "Ms Sturgeon has rejected claims made by former first minister Alex Salmond\n\nAlex Salmond has accused Nicola Sturgeon of misleading parliament, calling evidence she gave to an inquiry into the handling of sexual harassment claims against him \"simply untrue\".\n\nMr Salmond's comments emerged in a written submission to a separate investigation into whether the first minister breached the ministerial code.\n\nThe submission has been shared with the Holyrood committee.\n\nMs Sturgeon says she \"entirely rejects Mr Salmond's claims\".\n\nIn the submission, the former first minister said that Ms Sturgeon had misled parliament and broken the ministerial code with breaches including failing to inform the civil service in good time of her meetings with him.\n\nHe claimed she allowed the Scottish government to contest a civil court case against him despite having had legal advice that it was likely to collapse.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the Holyrood inquiry she had become aware of allegations at a meeting with Mr Salmond at her home.\n\nIt since emerged she met his former chief of staff in the days before, but she said she had forgotten about that meeting.\n\nMr Salmond said that claim was untenable.\n\nHis submission said that she misled parliament, and that amounted to a breach of the code. He also said she breached the code by failing to to inform civil servants of the nature of the meetings that took place between the two of them at her home where the allegations were discussed.\n\nAlex Salmond walked free from court in March having been cleared of charges of sexual assault\n\nMr Salmond's statement read: \"The pre-arranged meeting in the Scottish Parliament of 29 March 2018 was \"forgotten\" about because acknowledging it would have rendered ridiculous the claim made by the first minister in parliament that it had been believed that the meeting on 2 April was on SNP Party business and thus held at her private residence.\"\n\nBoth Mr Salmond and Ms Sturgeon are expected to give evidence to the committee in the coming weeks.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross responded to the claims, saying: \"Nobody ever bought Nicola Sturgeon's tall tales to have suddenly turned forgetful, especially about the devastating moment she found out of sexual harassment allegations against her friend and mentor of 30 years.\n\n\"What has been revealed are allegations of shocking, deliberate and corrupt actions at the heart of government. There is now clear evidence of Nicola Sturgeon abusing her power to deceive the Scottish public.\n\n\"If this proves to be correct, it is a resignation matter. No first minister, at any time, can be allowed to get away with repeatedly and blatantly lying to the Scottish Parliament and breaking the ministerial code.\"\n\nScottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie said Alex Salmond's explosive allegations demanded answers from the first minister to the committee.\n\nShe said: \"The bombshell accusation that Nicola Sturgeon has broken the ministerial code has the potential to end her political career and demands a robust and honest answer from the first minister.\n\n\"This committee demands truthfulness and honesty from every witness it calls - it is vital that the first minister tells the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth when she appears.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon has repeatedly dismissed any notion of a conspiracy against Mr Salmond.\n\nHer spokeswoman said: \"The first minister entirely rejects Mr Salmond's claims about the ministerial code.\n\n\"We should always remember that the roots of this issue lie in complaints made by women about Alex Salmond's behaviour whilst he was first minister, aspects of which he has conceded. It is not surprising therefore that he continues to try to divert focus from that by seeking to malign the reputation of the first minister and by spinning false conspiracy theories.\n\n\"The first minister is concentrating on fighting the pandemic, stands by what she has said, and will address these matters in full when she appears at committee.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Any Questions on Friday evening, SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford MP said he did not believe the accusations about the first minister were correct.\n\nHe said: \"I believe that the first minister has acted in an honourable way, she's someone that I've every faith and trust in.\n\n\"I can tell you that the approval ratings for the first minister, the respect that she has right up and down the country of Scotland is enormous and this is something that will pass, when she appears in front of the committee these matters will be dealt with.\"\n\nAlex Salmond has just turned up the heat on his successor with a submission that presents a direct and serious challenge to the reputation of Nicola Sturgeon - who was once his closest political ally.\n\nWhat he no doubt considers as an attempt to secure justice, some others will see as a case of deflection and revenge.\n\nAllegations of breaking the ministerial code of conduct and misleading parliament are serious and, if upheld, potentially career threatening.\n\nYet even some of Ms Sturgeon's fiercest critics at Holyrood do not expect the inquiries into the Scottish government's mishandling of harassment complaints against Mr Salmond to force her from office.\n\nMr Salmond seems to expect the review of the first minister's actions under the ministerial code of conduct to remain narrow enough that it could not possibly find against her.\n\nThe first minister herself appears confident of persuading all comers, including a cross-party committee of MSPs (before which both she and Mr Salmond are due to appear in the coming weeks) that she has acted properly throughout.", "The star thanked fans for their messages of support\n\nThe Wanted's Tom Parker has told fans he is \"responding well\" to treatment for his brain tumour.\n\nThe singer praised the NHS as he wrote on Instagram: \"Significant reduction: These are the words I received today and I can't stop saying them over and over again.\"\n\nSharing a picture with his wife Kelsey Hardwick and their two children, he added: \"Today is a good day.\"\n\nThe 32-year-old was found to have an inoperable brain tumour last year.\n\nThe diagnosis came after he suffered two seizures last summer. Because of Covid-19 restrictions, his wife was not allowed in the hospital during three days of tests and he received the news alone.\n\nAt the time he vowed to fight the cancer \"all the way\". Two weeks later he became a father for the second time after Hardwick gave birth to a baby boy.\n\nThe singer shared a photo of his young family alongside the latest update on his health\n\nSharing an update on his condition on Thursday, Parker said: \"I had an MRI scan on Tuesday and my results today were a significant reduction to the tumour and I am responding well to treatment.\n\n\"I can't thank our wonderful NHS enough,\" he continued. \"You're all having a tough time out there but we appreciate the work you are all doing on the front line.\"\n\nThe star also thanked his wife, calling her \"my rock\", and thanked fans for their support. \"Your love, light and positivity have inspired me,\" he wrote. \"Every message has not been unnoticed they have given me so much strength.\"\n\nParker achieved fame in the early 2010s as part of The Wanted, reaching number one with the singles All Time Low and Glad You Came.\n\nSince the band went on hiatus in 2014, he has played Danny Zuko in a touring production of Grease and reached the semi-finals of Celebrity Masterchef.\n\nHe married Hardwick, an actress, in 2018. As well as Bodhi, the couple have an 18-month-old daughter.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Covid infections rose by almost a third between 26 December and 3 January, reaching 70,000 new cases a day according to a major study.\n\nIn a different piece of research, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimated 1.2 million people in total had Covid over a similar time period.\n\nDaily infections are understood to have risen to about 150,000 since then.\n\nThat would bring daily coronavirus cases above the first peak.\n\nThe R or reproduction number for the virus is now between 1 and 1.4 for the UK, reflecting the sharp rise in cases in recent weeks.\n\nSeparate ONS data suggests just under half (44%) of British adults formed a Christmas bubble.\n\nThese temporary rules let up to three households mix indoors on 25 December - unless they were living in a Tier 4 area.\n\nThe ONS estimated how much of the population had Covid in the week of 27 December- 2 January:\n\nThe ONS data suggests cases rose by three-quarters between its two most recent study periods: 12-18 December and 27 December - 2 January.\n\nThe ZOE Covid Symptom Study was able to track more recent changes since there was no pause in its research for Christmas.\n\nIt found the epidemic is growing throughout the UK.\n\nResearchers estimate the virus's reproduction or R number is currently 1.2 across the UK.\n\nBoth sources indicate London has the most severe epidemic with the highest number of cases.\n\nConfirmed cases, published on the government's dashboard, are always lower than those in surveys because they mainly reflect the test results of people coming in with symptoms.\n\nBoth the ONS and ZOE also look at asymptomatic cases - people who may not otherwise get tests.\n\nSome asymptomatic testing is now available in the community but it is not being widely taken up.\n\nAbout a fifth of people responding to a separate ONS survey looking at the social impacts of the pandemic, said they had found it difficult to follow the Christmas rules.\n\nAnd half of those gave the fact that they had already made plans as the reason.\n\nRules, which were set to allow everyone in the UK to mix in a five-day window, were changed at the last minute, on 19 December.\n\nIn England, people living in Tiers 1-3 were allowed to form a one-day Christmas bubble with a maximum of two other households.\n\nThose in Tier 4, including about 10 million people in Greater London, were not permitted to mix at all.\n\nMixing was permitted in Scotland and Wales for Christmas Day only.\n\nHow has coronavirus affected you? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nOr use this form to get in touch:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your comment or send it via email to HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any comment you send in.", "A former Labour MP has quit the party before disciplinary proceedings against him concerning sexual harassment could be concluded, Labour has said.\n\nKelvin Hopkins was suspended by the party in 2017 after a Labour activist, Ava Etemadzadeh, accused him of inappropriate physical contact.\n\nMs Etemadzadeh said the ex-MP's exit from the party was \"disappointing\".\n\nThe BBC has attempted to contact Mr Hopkins, 79, for a response, but he has previously denied the accusations.\n\nA Labour spokesperson said it \"takes all complaints of sexual harassment extremely seriously and they are fully investigated in line with our rules and procedures, and any appropriate disciplinary action is taken.\n\n\"We are disappointed that the party's disciplinary processes did not reach a conclusion due to Kelvin Hopkins' decision to resign his membership,\" they added.\n\n\"We are establishing an independent process to investigate complaints, including sexual harassment, to ensure complainants can feel confident that in coming forward they will be heard and get the justice they deserve.\"\n\nMr Hopkins, who first won the seat of Luton North from the Conservatives in 1997, stood down ahead of the 2019 election - a decision, he said, which was to do with his wife's health, not the accusations.\n\nHe had originally been referred to the party's National Constitutional Committee following the allegations in 2017 and had expressed frustration at the length of time the hearing was taking.\n\nResponding to his decision to leave the party, Ms Etemadzadeh tweeted: \"This is very disappointing news. I hope Keir Starmer listens to my concerns and fixes this broken system.\"", "David Bowie left his mark with songs like Space Oddity, Let's Dance and Under Pressure\n\nA series of streamed music events, shows and new releases are marking David Bowie's birthday and the fifth anniversary of his death.\n\nThe musician would have turned 74 on Friday, while Sunday is five years since he died of cancer.\n\nA star-studded tribute concert and his 2015 stage musical Lazarus will both be streamed over the weekend.\n\nTwo previously unreleased Bowie tracks have also been released, while his music has now arrived on TikTok.\n\nThe tribute gig, titled A Bowie Celebration: Just For One Day, will feature Bowie's former bandmates alongside stars including Boy George, Duran Duran, Trent Reznor, Adam Lambert, Gary Barlow and actor Gary Oldman.\n\nStarting at 18:00 PT on Friday (02:00 GMT Saturday), the show will be led by Bowie's longtime pianist Mike Garson and will be available for 24 hours.\n\nDuran Duran released a timely cover of Bowie's track Five Years ahead of the show. \"My life as a teenager was all about David Bowie,\" singer Simon Le Bon said.\n\n\"He is the reason why I started writing songs. Part of me still can't believe in his death five years ago, but maybe that's because there's a part of me where he's still alive and always will be.\"\n\nOn Friday, Bowie's previously unreleased covers of Bob Dylan's Tryin' to Get to Heaven and John Lennon's Mother were also put out into the world.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by David Bowie - Topic This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nBBC Four is hosting a Bowie Night on Friday, while there will be special programmes on BBC Radio 4 and 6 Music. They include Bowie: Dancing Out in Space, which will air simultaneously on the two stations on Sunday.\n\nIn it, producer Tony Visconti describes how Bowie and Lennon first met awkwardly in a New York hotel room ahead of their collaborations on the former's cover of The Beatles' Across the Universe and his own 1975 song Fame.\n\n\"He was terrified of meeting John Lennon,\" says Visconti. \"About one in the morning I knocked on the door and for about the next two hours, John Lennon and David weren't speaking to each other.\n\n\"Instead, David was sitting on the floor with an art pad and a charcoal and he was sketching things and he was completely ignoring Lennon.\n\n\"So, after about two hours of that, he [John] finally said to David, 'Rip that pad in half and give me a few sheets. I want to draw you.' So David said, 'Oh, that's a good idea', and he finally opened up. So John started making caricatures of David, and David started doing the same of John and they kept swapping them and then they started laughing and that broke the ice.\"\n\nMeanwhile, next weekend will see the release of Stardust, a film biopic about Bowie's journey to becoming Ziggy Stardust, starring singer and actor Johnny Flynn.\n\nHowever, Bowie's family have not given it their blessing, meaning the film-makers were not allowed to use any of his music. Instead Flynn, as Bowie, is seen performing songs by Jacques Brel, The Yardbirds and one of Flynn's own compositions.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Heads are calling for limits to the number of pupils in school during lockdown in England, with attendance rates surging to 50% in some places.\n\nThe two head teachers' unions, NAHT and ASCL, say the high numbers attending could hamper the fight against the virus.\n\nThe Department for Education has widened the categories of vulnerable and key worker pupils who can attend.\n\nIt is insisting that schools ensure all children who qualify can attend.\n\nThe widened categories not only include vulnerable pupils and children of workers in critical occupations but also those who cannot access remote learning either because they do not have devices or space to study.\n\nChildren of parents working on the Brexit arrangements are also included.\n\nTeachers have described streets around schools being packed with parents dropping off their children and almost all staff having to come in and work despite the lockdown.\n\nHeads say they fear schools could be overwhelmed by children who do not have access to lap tops to learn remotely.\n\nJessica Jane, a learning assistant at a school in Hampshire, told the BBC: \"I work in a primary school where we are having to bring in every single member of staff as the list of key-workers is vast in our area and over 50% of our children are attending.\n\n\"Our community school is not closed and streets are packed with parents morning and afternoon collecting their children from open schools.\"\n\nShe added: \"My colleagues and I are still being put at risk every single day as are our families.\"\n\nA teacher from the Midlands who did not wish to be named said the number had risen from 10 pupils a day in the first lockdown to about 90 a day this week.\n\n\"We're talking just under to just over a third of the usual amount of pupils for our school here.\n\n\"The vast majority are key worker children, not vulnerable.\n\n\"I also know that other primary schools in our area have similar amounts of children in school - one neighbouring school in particular, which is only slightly larger than us, is estimating/averaging 100 to 160 children in school every day.\"\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, called the lack of limits \"bizarre... in a week when the prime minister has told the nation that it is necessary to move schools to remote education in order to suppress coronavirus transmission\".\n\n\"We are hearing reports that attendance in some primary schools is in excess of 50% because of demand from critical workers and families with children classed as vulnerable under criteria which has been significantly widened,\" he said.\n\n\"We are urgently seeking clarification about the maximum number who should be in school while protecting public health.\n\n\"This seems completely illogical given the fact that the government has taken the drastic action of a full national lockdown precisely in order to limit contacts.\"\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of National Association of Head Teachers, said schools could not \"meet the demand created by government and reduce social mixing in the way the prime minister announced\".\n\n\"The government acknowledges that schools do play a role in the transmission of the virus. Therefore, there comes a point when occupancy levels might be so high that they work against the efforts to bring down infection rates in communities, as is the national aim.\n\n\"This could result in prolonging the amount of time pupils are away from the classroom, which we are all anxious to avoid.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesman said: \"Schools are open for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers. We expect schools to work with families to ensure all critical worker children are given access to a place if this is required.\n\n\"If critical workers can work from home and look after their children at the same time then they should do so, but otherwise this provision is in place to enable them to provide vital services.\n\n\"The protective measures that schools have been following throughout the autumn term remain in place to help protect staff and students, while the national lockdown helps reduce transmission in the wider community.\"\n\nBut Emma Knights, chief executive of the National Governance Association, reflected head teachers' concerns, saying between 40 and 60% of pupils were attending schools across England.\n\n\"The real problem is we have got two different national narratives going on,\" she said - with the prime minister saying \"stay at home\" but the DfE telling schools to take all eligible children who turn up.\n\nDr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said the government seemed unable to decide whether schools were safe or unsafe.\n\nCommenting on the latest Coronavirus Infection Survey from the Office for National Statistics, Dr Bousted, said: \"Let this data end their confusion. Schools are clearly driving infection amongst children, and then onto the wider community.\n\n\"This peaked on Christmas Day with one in every 27 secondary-age children and one in 40 primary-age children infected.\n\n\"In London this rises to one in 18 secondary pupils and one in 23 primary pupils. These figures are truly shocking and entirely the result of government negligence.\"\n• None How are Covid rules changing across UK schools?", "Marion Ramsey will be remembered by fans for her notable role in the US comedy series Police Academy\n\nMarion Ramsey, best known for her acting in the American film series Police Academy, has died at the age of 73, her agent has announced.\n\nHer management at Roger Paul Inc told the BBC she died at her Los Angeles home on Thursday morning.\n\nThe agency said Ramsey had recently fallen ill, but did not give a cause of death.\n\nRamsey was adored by fans for her portrayal of the squeaky-voiced Officer Laverne Hooks in Police Academy.\n\nShe also had an illustrious career on Broadway, starring in the 1978 production Eubie!, a biographical musical about celebrated jazz pianist Eubie Blake.\n\n\"Her passion for performing and sharing her heart with the world was immense,\" Roger Paul Inc said in a statement.\n\n\"Marion carried with her a kindness and permeating light that instantly filled a room upon her arrival.\n\n\"The dimming of her light is already felt by those who knew her well. We will miss her, and always love her.\"\n\nRamsey featured in six Police Academy films as Officer Laverne Hooks\n\nBorn in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1947, Ramsey started her career in the theatre, appearing in both the original Broadway and subsequent touring productions of Hello, Dolly!.\n\nShe was prolific on Broadway, co-starring in many shows, including Harold Prince's Grind with Ben Vereen, and Eubie! with Gregory and Maurice Hines.\n\nHer agent said Ramsey was \"particularly proud\" about Broadway's Dreamgirls finally becoming a major motion picture in 2006, because she was one of the singers that the original Broadway show's producer, Tom Eyen, based the three main characters on.\n\nRamsey's career in TV and film career took off after she appeared as a guest on the hit sitcom The Jeffersons in 1976.\n\nFollowing that, she was a regular on Cos, Bill Cosby's sketch show.\n\nShe starred in six Police Academy films in total, making her a familiar face to fans of the franchise.\n\nRamsey's agent said she had an immense passion for performing\n\nAmerican actor Michael Winslow wrote in a tweet that he had \"no words to say or explain the pain\" of losing Ramsey.\n\n\"In the 80s the Police Academy films cast a long shadow over the comedy genre - they were everywhere & everyone watched them,\" British producer Jonathan Sothcott wrote. \"#MarionRamsey was hilarious as Hooks - a fine comedic actress.\"\n\nA message on the Twitter account for the movie When I Sing read: \"It is with great sadness that I share our loss of my friend, and one of the shining stars of When I Sing (her final role), the beautiful, kind, hilarious, #MarionRamsey. I will miss you, my silly sister.\"", "Most pupils will be studying from home for the rest of this half term\n\nSchools and colleges in England are to be closed to most pupils until at least half term, Boris Johnson has announced.\n\nThe prime minister said the new lockdown had to be \"tough enough\" to stop the variant virus from spreading - and teaching will go online.\n\nA-Levels and GCSEs will be cancelled, a government source confirmed to BBC News - although vocational exams will go ahead.\n\nThe National Education Union accused the government of causing \"chaos\".\n\nIn a television address, Mr Johnson announced the biggest changes to schools since the early days of the first lockdown in March.\n\n\"Because we now have to do everything we possibly can to stop the spread of the disease, primary schools, secondary schools and colleges across England must move to remote provision from tomorrow,\" said the prime minister.\n\nThis means a return to online learning for pupils of all ages - apart from vulnerable children and the children of key workers who can continue to go into school.\n\nPrimary schools went back today - and will then close again tomorrow\n\n\"We recognise that this will mean it's not possible or fair for all exams to go ahead this summer, as normal,\" said Mr Johnson.\n\nIt is understood that vocational exams will continue, but GCSEs and A-levels will be cancelled - and that the exam watchdog Ofqual will make \"alternative arrangements\" for delivering results.\n\nAn attempt to produce replacement exam grades last summer turned into one of the biggest U-turns of the pandemic.\n\nTeachers' unions accused the government of failing to react more swiftly to \"mounting evidence\" about Covid transmission in schools and to make preparations for remote teaching and alternatives to written exams.\n\nBut Mary Bousted, co-leader of the National Education Union, said Education Secretary Gavin Williamson had \"become an expert in putting his head in the sand\".\n\nGeoff Barton of the ASCL head teachers' union criticised ministers for having issued legal threats to keep schools open at the end of last term - and then \"made a series of chaotic announcements about the start of this term\".\n\nThe new term, which began on Monday for primary pupils, has only lasted a day before it has been suspended.\n\nThe prime minister said he hoped that schools would be \"reopening schools after the February half term\".\n\nThere have been assurances that there will be a more thorough approach to home learning than in the first lockdown last year.\n\nThe Department for Education has provided hundreds of thousands of computer devices - with the aim of supporting those without the equipment needed to work online from home.\n\nThere have also been suggestions Ofsted inspectors will play a more active role in checking on what support schools are providing to pupils in their online learning.\n\nUniversities in England had already planned a staggered return for this term - but there will now be even fewer students on campus this month.\n\nThe latest lockdown guidance says university students who are taking hands-on courses such as medicine or veterinary science should return for face-to-face lessons as planned.\n\nThese students will be expected to take two Covid tests or self-isolate for 10 days when they return.\n\nBut students on all other courses are being told not to come back to university if possible and to start their term online \"until at least mid-February\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olly Stephens was pronounced dead in Bugs Bottom fields in Emmer Green, Reading\n\nA school says its community has been left \"reeling\" after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nFour boys and a girl, all aged 13 or 14, have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder. They remain in custody.\n\nHighdown School and Sixth Form Centre head teacher Rachel Cave described the boy's death as a \"total tragedy\".\n\nIn a statement, she said: \"This student was part of our community and many students and staff knew him well.\n\n\"Many have been deeply affected by this tragedy.\n\n\"In normal circumstances we would open the school and welcome in students for support before the start of the term.\n\n\"We are currently unable to do this, of course, but are arranging counselling support and will be establishing an electronic book of condolence.\"\n\nFlowers have been left outside Highdown School\n\nMs Cave said the school was \"a supportive and close-knit community\" which would \"work together over the coming days and weeks\".\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown, of Thames Valley Police, said: \"Our thoughts remain with Olly's family at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident which has resulted in the death of a young boy.\"\n\nThe victim's family are being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nThames Valley Police said a \"considerable police presence\" would be in place in the area for several days\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack.\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone who was in the area between 15:00 and 16:30 who might have taken photos or camera footage to contact them if they notice anything suspicious.\n\nDet Supt Brown said he believed there would have been witnesses to the \"dreadful incident\" as the area is popular with dog walkers.\n\nA man said his wife was walking their dog through the park on Sunday afternoon when she saw a boy on the ground with several people around him trying to give him first aid.\n\nAnother dog walker said she saw a group of young people standing in the woods in Bugs Bottom fields at about 15:30 and described it as \"slightly unusual\".\n\nReading East MP Matt Rodda has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to the boy's family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Rodda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSt Barnabas Church in Emmer Green has invited residents to pray and light a candle in memory of the boy.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We've now vaccinated over 1.3m people across the UK\"\n\nSome 1.3 million people in the UK have now received their first dose of a Covid vaccine, says the government.\n\nIn England, that includes nearly a quarter of the most elderly, vulnerable patients.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said it meant that within a two to three weeks they should have a \"significant degree of immunity\" to the virus.\n\nHe said there would be a ramping up to get more people immunised - up to 2 million a week.\n\nThe ambition is to vaccinate all the over-70s, the most clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers by mid-February. That will require around 13 million vaccinations.\n\nHe defended the UK's policy of immunising more people with one dose immediately - rather than holding some stock back to give people a second booster shot - in order to save \"the most lives the fastest\".\n\nUS regulators have questioned the policy, saying it is premature without more trial evidence, but the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency says it is a pragmatic decision to protect more people.\n\nBoth the Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses to provide the best possible protection.\n\nInitially, the strategy for the Pfizer vaccine was to offer people the second dose 21 days after their initial jab - full immunity starts seven days after the second dose.\n\nBut when approval was announced for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on 30 December, it was also announced that the policy would now change - the new priority would be to give as many people a first shot of either vaccine, rather than providing the required two doses in as short a time as possible.\n\nEveryone will still receive their second dose, but this will now be within 12 weeks of their first.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty told the Downing Street press conference that extending the gap between the first and second jabs would mean the number of people vaccinated can be doubled over three months.\n\n\"If over that period there is more than 50% protection then you have actually won. More people will have been protected than would have been otherwise.\n\n\"Our quite strong view is that protection is likely to be lot more than 50%.\"\n\nAsked whether the longer gap could lead to an increase risk of the virus mutating into a version that could escape the vaccine, he said it was a worry, but a small one.\n\nChief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said vaccines would probably need to be changed further down the line to continue to be a good match for the virus - but that this was relatively quick to do.\n\nOne of the exciting things about the science of the RNA vaccines is that they are incredibly fast to make in response to new mutations, he said.", "The homes of Frank and Christine Lampard, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and Tamara Ecclestone and her husband were broken into in December 2019\n\nFour people have been cleared of being involved in a plot to raid the luxury homes of celebrities in west London.\n\nItems belonging to Frank Lampard, Tamara Ecclestone and the family of tycoon Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha were among the items taken during three burglaries in December 2019.\n\nProsecutors said Maria Mester, 48, Emil Bogdan Savastru, 30, Sorin Marcovici, 53, and Alexandru Stan, 49, were a \"supporting cast\" for the burglars.\n\nBut a jury found all four not guilty.\n\nIsleworth Crown Court heard the three burglaries had netted \"big money\" for the raiders, with \"fabulous jewellery\" stolen and the majority of it having never been recovered.\n\nJay Rutland, Tamara Ecclestone and their daughter had left for Lapland on the morning of the burglary\n\nJewellery and cash worth £25m was taken from Ms Ecclestone's Kensington home while she was on holiday in Lapland with her husband Jay Rutland and their daughter.\n\nMr Lampard and his TV presenter wife Christine had about £60,000 in watches and jewellery stolen when they were out, while raiders also ransacked the family home of Mr Srivaddhanaprabha, who died in 2018 in a helicopter crash, the jury was told.\n\nThe four defendants were accused of eight charges including conspiracy to burgle.\n\nHowever, each denied their involvement with the plot, saying they had no knowledge that the alleged burglars were criminals.\n\nJurors were shown an image from Maria Mester's Facebook account, in which she was said to be wearing Tamara Ecclestone's necklace\n\nThe court heard escort Ms Mester had flown into the UK from Italy on 7 December.\n\nPolice described her as the plot's \"matriarch\", but the 48-year-old told jurors she was only in London after being paid £5,000 to accompany one of the alleged burglars for the week.\n\nSavastru was arrested at Heathrow Airport on 30 January as he prepared to leave for Japan, wearing Mr Srivaddhanaprabha's Tag watch and carrying a Louis Vuitton bag stolen from Mr Rutland.\n\nHe told the court he thought the items had been left behind by the alleged burglars at the Airbnb property he had helped them rent.\n\nThe four Romanian nationals were cleared of all charges apart from Savastru, who was convicted of one count of attempting to conceal criminal property.\n\nThe 30-year-old will be sentenced at a later date.\n\nA group of alleged burglars, who cannot be named for legal reasons, are accused of carrying out the raids.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon announces stay at home rules in new lockdown\n\nScots are to be ordered to stay at home amid a fresh Covid-19 lockdown which will see schools remain closed to pupils until February.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said new curbs would be introduced at midnight in a bid to contain the new, faster-spreading strain of the virus.\n\nNew laws will require people to stay at home and work from home where possible.\n\nOutdoor gatherings are also to be cut back, with people only allowed to meet one person from one other household.\n\nPlaces of worship are to be closed, group exercise banned, and schools will largely operate via online and remote learning.\n\nThese rules will apply across the Scottish mainland until at least the end of January, and will be kept under review.\n\nIsland areas will remain in level three - but Ms Sturgeon said they would be monitored carefully.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson later announced similar lockdown measures for the whole of England with all schools and colleges closing to most pupils until mid February.\n\nA further 1,905 new cases were reported in Scotland on Monday - with 15% of tests returning a positive result, something Ms Sturgeon said \"illustrates the severity and urgency of the situation\".\n\nThe first minister said she was \"more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year\", with the new coronavirus strain now accounting for half of new cases.\n\nAnd she said a \"steeply rising trend of infections\" was threatening to put \"significant pressure\" on NHS services, saying hospitals could breach capacity within three to four weeks.\n\nThe new rules - which will be put down in law - mean Scots will only be allowed to leave home for essential purposes, such as shopping for food and medicine, exercise and caring responsibilities.\n\nNo limit is to be put on how many times people can go out to exercise, but outdoor meetings are to be limited to a maximum of two people from two households.\n\nEveryone who can work from home will be required to, and people in the \"shielding\" category are advised not to go in to work at all.\n\nThe construction and manufacturing industries will remain open, but Ms Sturgeon said this would be kept under review.\n\nPlaces of worship are to close, the number of people who can attend weddings is to be cut to five, and funeral wakes will no longer be allowed.\n\nSchools are to remain closed to the majority of pupils until February, with Ms Sturgeon saying community transmission of the virus must be brought to a lower level amid concerns that the new variant of the virus spreads more easily among young people.\n\nShe said she knew remote learning presented \"significant challenges\" for parents, teachers and pupils, adding: \"I want to be clear that it remains our priority to get school buildings open again for all pupils are quickly as possible and then keep them open.\"\n\nThe first minister said she was considering whether teachers could be given the Covid-19 vaccine as a priority.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have been given a first dose of the vaccine in Scotland, and the government expects to have access to just over 900,000 doses by the end of January.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon said the best way to get schools open again was to drive down transmission of the virus - urging Scots to abide by the rules.\n\nThese are the toughest restrictions Scotland has faced since the lockdown of March 2020.\n\nIt is - once again - becoming compulsory to stay at home except for essential purposes like food shopping, exercise and medical care.\n\nThe extended closure of schools to most pupils is something the Scottish government was particularly keen to avoid.\n\nThese decisions are a measure of how worried ministers are about the rapid spread of the new variant of coronavirus, which is fast becoming the dominant strain.\n\nWith 225 cases per 100,000 people, Scotland is thought to be about four weeks behind London, which already has four times as many cases and NHS services under considerable pressure.\n\nThe Scottish government believes that without further action the NHS here would run out of beds for Covid patients within a month.\n\nThis new alert comes at the start of a new year which also brings new hope for a route out of the pandemic with two vaccines now beginning to offer protection.\n\nAround 100,000 doses have already been administered in Scotland but it is likely to take several months to reach all in the most vulnerable groups.\n\nThe first minister said Scotland was now in \"a race between the vaccine and the virus\".\n\nShe said: \"The Scottish government will do everything we can to speed up distribution of the vaccine. But all of us must do everything we can to slow down the spread of the virus.\n\n\"We can already see - by looking at infection rates in the south of England - some of what could happen here in Scotland. To prevent that, we need to act immediately and firmly.\n\n\"For government, that means introducing tough measures - as we have done today. And for all of us, it means sticking to the rules.\"\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson raised concerns about online learning, saying it was vital that pupils had \"equal access to high-quality education\".\n\nAnd Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said teachers and working parents would need support to make the remote learning system work.\n\nMs Sturgeon said her government had \"agonised\" over the decision on schools, and said the \"fundamental priority\" was to re-open them in full as soon as possible.\n\nShe said: \"Just as the last places we ever want to close are schools and nurseries - so it is the case that schools and nurseries will be the first places we want to reopen as we re-emerge from this latest lockdown.\"\n\nThe NHS has coped so far in Scotland - more so than many other parts of the UK.\n\nBut in places like Glasgow and Lanarkshire it has been very, very tight. And here like everywhere else staff are bracing themselves for the post-Christmas effects of rising cases.\n\nThe first minister gave some stark figures on hospital and ICU occupancy - suggesting we are just weeks away from reaching limits.\n\nThere is so little give in the system they will be glad to see everything possible done to prevent stretched services being overwhelmed at a time when we are on our way to getting out the other side.\n\nThere is real anxiety about what the next few weeks might bring.\n• None Covid in Scotland: New lockdown from midnight", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Shaw, from Dundee, was among the first to receive the jab\n\nThe first Scottish recipients of the new Oxford University and AstraZeneca vaccine have received their jabs.\n\nJames Shaw, 82, and his 82-year-old wife Malita were among the first to be vaccinated in Dundee.\n\nThe couple received their first doses at Lochee Health and Community Care Centre.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said she hoped all over-50s and those with underlying health conditions will have been vaccinated by early May.\n\nJames said: \"My wife and I are delighted to be receiving this vaccination. I have asthma and bronchitis and I have been desperate to have it so I am really pleased to be one of the first to be getting it.\n\n\"I know it takes a little while for the vaccine to work but after today I know that I will feel a bit less worried about going out. I will still be very careful and avoid busy places but knowing I have been vaccinated will really help me.\n\n\"All of my friends have said they are going to have the vaccine when it is their turn and I would encourage everyone who is offered this vaccination to take it.\"\n\nJames Shaw, 82, was one of the first people in Scotland to receive the AstraZeneca/Oxford Covid-19 vaccine, administered by advanced nurse practitioner Justine Williams\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine programme is being rolled out less than a week after it was approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). It is the second vaccine approved for use in the UK.\n\nNHS Tayside is rolling out the vaccine through GP practices in the community and will also vaccinate elderly residents and staff in care homes.\n\nIts associate director of public health Dr Daniel Chandleris said: \"The efforts of our vaccination teams have been amazing and it is testament to a real whole team approach that sees the first over-80s in the general population have their jabs today in Tayside.\n\n\"The availability and mobility of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine gives us the opportunity to start to roll out the biggest vaccine programme that the UK has ever seen across our communities.\n\n\"Over-80s are the first priority group and patients will be contacted directly to attend a vaccination session.\"\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack added: \"This is another important moment in our fight against the virus - every vaccination takes us a step closer to getting back to our normal lives as soon as possible.\n\n\"As with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, the UK is the first country in the world to approve and roll out the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, with the UK Government ordering and paying for millions of doses for people in all parts of the UK.\"\n\nThe milestone came as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a new stricter lockdown.\n\nWith the exception of essential travel, people in mainland Scotland will have to remain at home from midnight.\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed a further 1,905 people had contracted Covid-19.\n\nFigures for hospital admissions and deaths over the holiday weekend will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nMs Sturgeon likened the situation to a race between the vaccine and the virus.\n\nShe said: \"In one lane we have vaccines - our job is to make sure they run as fast as possible.\n\n\"But in the other lane is the virus which - as a result of this new variant - has just learned to run much faster and has most definitely picked up pace in the last couple of weeks.\n\n\"To ensure that the vaccine wins the race, it is essential to speed up vaccination as far as possible. But to give it the time it needs to get ahead, we must also slow the virus down.\"\n\nThe new vaccine will initially be available in the hospitals that have been delivering the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine, and new community settings will be able to deliver the jabs from 11 January.\n\nPeople in Scotland will be contacted by their health board when it is their turn to be vaccinated.\n\nThe Oxford vaccination marks a major turning point in the pandemic and will lead to a massive expansion in the UK's immunisation campaign, with enough to vaccinate 50 million people throughout the UK already on order.\n\nIt is easier to transport and store than the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which needs cold storage of about -70C.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine is logistically much easier to distribute\n\nThe UK government has said 530,000 doses of the Oxford vaccine will be available to the UK from Monday, with \"millions due by the beginning of February\".\n\nScotland will ultimately get an 8.2% share of these vaccines, based on its population.\n\nChief Medical Officer Dr Gregor Smith has said he expects the NHS in Scotland to receive 440,360 doses of the vaccine during January.\n\nThe first minister said on Monday about 100,000 people in Scotland have already received a first dose of vaccine.\n\nBoth vaccines require two doses to be administered with an interval of between four and 12 weeks.\n\nPreviously the advice was for the vaccines to have a four-week gap between doses.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) then recommended as many people as possible in the top priority groups should be offered a first dose as the initial priority.", "US intelligence agencies have said they believe Russia was behind the \"serious\" cyber compromise revealed in December.\n\nPresident Trump had previously suggested China might have been behind the hack, although other members of his administration had pointed the finger at Moscow.\n\nIn a joint statement, the intelligence bodies say they currently believe fewer than 10 US government agencies saw their data compromised, although other organisations outside of government were also affected.\n\nThey say work is still going on to understand the scope of the incident, which appears to have been aimed at gathering intelligence and which they say is \"ongoing\" a month after details first emerged.\n\nThe update on the investigation came in a statement from a task force called the Cyber Unified Coordination Group which was set up to deal with the incident. It comprises intelligence and law enforcement agencies including the FBI and NSA.\n\nThe group said it was still working to understand the scope of what had taken place.\n\nEighteen thousand customers who used Orion product from the company Solar Winds were exposed but US intelligence says it believes a much smaller number saw follow-on activity from the hackers in which they stole data. The US Treasury was among those which previously acknowledged being targeted.\n\n\"This is a serious compromise that will require a sustained and dedicated effort to remediate,\" the statement said. Many organisations are having to scour their systems for signs that they may have been compromised.\n\nThe incident sent shockwaves across the US partly because the breach was undiscovered for many months and was potentially far-reaching in terms of who it might have affected. It also suggested a degree of sophistication and stealth which was widely seen as a trademark of hackers from the SVR, Russia's foreign intelligence agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Experts have been warning for years that it's not a matter of if, but when, hackers will kill somebody\n\nSoon after the incident was revealed, President Trump raised the possibility that China might be responsible, but members of his own administration including the secretary of state and attorney general pointed the finger at Moscow. The latest statement shows the assessment of US intelligence agencies is that Russia was behind it, although it does not go so far as accusing the Russian state itself, saying only that the actor was \"likely Russian in origin\". Moscow has denied playing any part.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden has previously said it was important to take \"meaningful steps\" to hold those responsible to account. It is not yet clear, though, what that might involve. While some US politicians suggested the breach might even be compared to an \"act of war\", most cyber-experts disputed this and the US intelligence community has now played down suggestions that it could have had destructive impact.\n\n\"At this time, we believe this was, and continues to be, an intelligence-gathering effort,\" the latest statement says. This is significant since it suggests no evidence has been found that this was preparatory activity for a more destructive cyber-attack which might switch off systems. This may limit the US response since espionage operations do not breach the cyber norms the US itself promotes (largely because it too carries out such intelligence-gathering operations against other nations).\n\nIn December UK officials say they believed a small number of UK organisations were affected but said they did not believe they were in the public sector.", "Queensland in Australia has seen heavy rainfall as an ex-tropical cyclone crosses the state, bringing warnings of “life-threatening\" flash flooding.\n\nMeteorologists say cyclones are more likely in Australia this year because of La Nina weather conditions.", "Singapore's Covid app is widely used across the country\n\nSingapore has admitted data from its Covid contact tracing programme can also be accessed by police, reversing earlier privacy assurances.\n\nOfficials had previously explicitly ruled out the data would be used for anything other than the virus tracking.\n\nBut parliament was told on Monday it could also be used \"for the purpose of criminal investigation\".\n\nClose to 80% of residents are signed up to the TraceTogether programme, which is used to check in to locations.\n\nThe voluntary take up increased after it was announced it would soon be needed to access anything from the supermarket to your place of work.\n\nThe TraceTogether programme, which uses either a smartphone app or a bluetooth token, also monitors who you have been in contact with.\n\nIf someone tests positive with the virus, the data allows tracers to swiftly contact anyone that might have been infected. This prompted concerns over privacy - fears which have been echoed across the world as other countries rolled out their own tracing apps.\n\nTo encourage people to enrol, Singaporean authorities promised the data would never be used for any other purpose, saying \"the data will never be accessed, unless the user tests positive for Covid-19 and is contacted by the contact tracing team\".\n\nBut Minister of State for Home Affairs Desmond Tan told parliament on Monday that it can in fact also be used \"for the purpose of criminal investigation\", adding that \"otherwise, TraceTogether data is to be used only for contact tracing and for the purpose of fighting the Covid situation\".\n\nHowever, the privacy statement on the TraceTogether site was then updated on the same day to state that \"the Criminal Procedure Code applies to all data under Singapore's jurisdiction\".\n\n\"Also, we want to be transparent with you,\" the statement reads. \"TraceTogether data may be used in circumstances where citizen safety and security is or has been affected.\n\n\"The Singapore Police Force is empowered under the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) to obtain any data, including TraceTogether data, for criminal investigations.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, the country's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan, clarified that it was not just TraceTogether data that was used in cases of serious criminal investigations.\n\nHe said under the CPC, \"other forms of sensitive data like phone or banking records\" would also have their privacy regulations overruled in such cases.\n\nMr Balakrishnan added that to his knowledge, police had so far only once accessed contact tracing data, in the case of a murder investigation.\n\nThe minister stressed though that \"once the pandemic is over and there will no longer be a need for contact tracing, we will happily stand down the TraceTogether programme.\"\n\nMonday's announcement though sparked some controversy on social media, with people calling out the government and some users posting that they had now deleted the app.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I'm disappointed, but not at all surprised,\" local journalist and activist Kirsten Han told the BBC. \"This is actually something that I've been flagging as a concern since the earlier days of TraceTogether - and was sometimes told that I was just a paranoid fearmonger undermining efforts to fight Covid-19.\n\n\"It doesn't feel good at all to discover I was right.\"\n\n\"I think why most people are so angry about this is not that they feel like they're constantly being watched,\" one Singaporean, who did not want to be named, told the BBC. \"We already have that through other means like CCTV.\n\n\"It's more that they feel like they've been cheated. The government had assured us many times that TraceTogether would only be used for contact tracing, but now they've suddenly added this new caveat.\"\n\nAnother person told the BBC they wished they could delete the app, but daily life would be impossible without it.\n\n\"So I'm just going to disable my Bluetooth for TraceTogether from now on, unless I have to use it to enter somewhere. If the app is not only going to be used for contact tracing, then it's too much of an invasion of privacy.\"\n\nAustralian privacy watchdog Digital Rights Watch, told the BBC they were \"extremely concerned\" about the news from Singapore.\n\n\"This is the worst case scenario that privacy advocates have warned about since the start of the pandemic,\" Programme Director Lucie Krahulcova told the BBC. \"Such an approach will erode public trust in future health responses and therefore impede their efficacy.\"\n\nLike most countries, Australia has rolled out its own contact tracing app but uptake has been sluggish precisely because of privacy concerns.\n\nSingapore was among the first countries to introduce a contact tracing app nationally in March last year.\n\nThe introduction of the token in June had sparked a rare backlash against the government over concerns the device would be mandatory. An online petition calling for it to be ditched has gathered some 55,000 signatures so far.\n\nSingapore has been been one of the most successful countries in tackling the pandemic. Despite a big outbreak among its foreign workers early on, local infection rates have for months been close to zero.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Singapore rolled out its Covid tracing tokens last June", "Whitty: Priority to vaccinate those who would die from virus\n\nAndy Woodcock from the Independent asks about testing for people arriving into the UK from abroad and why it wasn't done sooner. The prime minister says the government will be bringing in measures to \"ensure that we test people coming into this country and preventing the virus from being readmitted\". Responding to a second question on schools and whether teachers and pupils should be vaccinated, Prof Chris Whitty says there is no evidence of hospitals filling up with children and it appears, that even with the new variant, \"children are relatively much less affected than other groups\". He says from a clinical point of view the real priority is to vaccinate the people that we know \"are by far the most likely to die and by far most likely to end up in hospital\". He adds there will have to be decisions made once the most vulnerable groups are vaccinated but we are not yet at that stage. The chief medical officer adds that neither vaccine currently in use in the UK has been licensed for children yet.", "Dr Radha Modgil from BBC Radio 1’s Life Hacks shares her top five tips on how to stay mentally and emotionally well during the coronavirus lockdown, all beginning with the letter C.\n\nSticking to a routine, making sure we take care of ourselves, and using our creativity in new ways are all ways she suggests we can ease the psychological toll that staying inside is having on all of us.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Enrique Tarrio says his far-right group will turn out in numbers on Wednesday\n\nThe leader of the far-right Proud Boys group has been released after his arrest on suspicion of burning a Black Lives Matter flag last month.\n\nEnrique Tarrio faces destruction of property charges. On Tuesday, a judge ordered him to stay out of Washington.\n\nHe has reportedly admitted torching a banner taken from a black church during a rally in December in the city.\n\nPresident Donald Trump has been urging supporters to gather in the capital this week for another demonstration.\n\nOn Tuesday, a judge released him on his own recognisance pending his trial.\n\nOn Wednesday, members of Congress are due to certify Democratic President-elect Joe Biden's election victory before he takes office on 20 January.\n\nMr Tarrio has said on the social media app Parler that the Proud Boys will \"turn out in record numbers on Jan 6th\", referring to his members as \"the most notorious group of extraordinary gentlemen\".\n\nThe National Guard has been deployed by Washington DC's mayor to assist local authorities. Officials say the troops will not be armed and will be there to assist with crowd management and traffic control.\n\nA spokesman for the Metropolitan Police Department, Dustin Sternbeck, told the Washington Post on Monday that Mr Tarrio had been stopped in a vehicle shortly after it entered the district.\n\nThe 36-year-old was also found during his arrest to be in unlawful possession of two devices that allow guns to hold additional bullets, a source told CBS News.\n\nThe destruction of property charge relates to a protest in Washington DC on 12 December in support of the outgoing Republican president's unsubstantiated claims of systemic election fraud.\n\nThe mostly peaceful demonstration ended in isolated scuffles as confrontations with counter-protesters broke out. Police said more than three dozen people were arrested and four churches were vandalised.\n\nMr Tarrio - who lives in Miami, where he also reportedly runs a grassroots organisation called Latinos for Trump - told the Washington Post at the time that he had burned the Black Lives Matter flag.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Let's make this simple,\" he said. \"I did it.\"\n\nBut he maintained he did not know the Asbury United Methodist Church, where the flag had reportedly flown, was predominantly attended by African American worshippers.\n\nMr Tarrio also said Proud Boy members have had their flags and hats stolen in past demonstrations without anyone being arrested for those alleged incidents.\n\nEarlier on Monday, another black church that was vandalised during December's protest sued Mr Tarrio and the Proud Boys.\n\nCounter-demonstrators were mostly kept at a distance from Trump supporter last month by Washington DC police\n\nThe Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church accused the group of climbing over a fence and tearing down a Black Lives Matter sign.\n\nKristen Clarke, head of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said in a statement: \"Black churches and other religious institutions have a long and ugly history of being targeted by white supremacists in racist and violent attacks meant to intimidate and create fear.\n\n\"Our lawsuit aims to hold those who engage in such action accountable.\"\n\nThe city's police department said last month it had been considering a potential hate crime charge over the incident.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Kate Thistleton will front new content from Bitesize Daily\n\nBBC TV is to help children keep up with their studies during the latest lockdown by broadcasting lessons on BBC Two and CBBC, as well as online.\n\nSchools have been closed to most children across the UK as part of tougher measures to control Covid-19.\n\nThe BBC will show curriculum-based programmes on TV from Monday.\n\nThey will include three hours of primary school programming every weekday on CBBC, and at least two hours for secondary pupils on BBC Two.\n\nDuring the first lockdown in the spring, lessons were available on iPlayer, red button and online, but not on regular TV channels.\n\nThe move comes amid concerns that low-income families may struggle to afford data packages for their children to take part in online learning.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson praised the BBC's \"fantastic\" plans on Tuesday. BBC Director-General Tim Davie said \"education is absolutely vital\".\n\nHe continued: \"The BBC is here to play its part and I'm delighted that we have been able to bring this to audiences so swiftly.\"\n\nThe primary programmes, which will be broadcast on CBBC from 09:00 every day, will include BBC Live Lessons and BBC Bitesize Daily as well as Our School, Celebrity Supply Teacher, Horrible Histories and Operation Ouch.\n\nBBC Two will cater for secondary students with programming to support the GCSE curriculum, including adaptations of Shakespeare plays alongside science, history and factual titles.\n\nBitesize Daily primary and secondary will also air every day on the red button as well as episodes being available on demand on iPlayer.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said the BBC \"has helped the nation through some of the toughest moments of the last century\".\n\n\"And for the next few weeks it will help our children learn whilst we stay home, protect the NHS and save lives,\" he added. \"This will be a lifeline to parents and I welcome the BBC playing its part.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Sea Shepherd is working to protect the endangered vaquita porpoise\n\nA Mexican fisherman has died after his boat collided with a larger vessel used by US conservationist group Sea Shepherd, reports say.\n\nSea Shepherd said the clash happened after fishing boats attacked one of its vessels in the Gulf of California, where it is working to protect the endangered vaquita porpoise.\n\nIt said its vessel was trying to leave when one of the boats smashed into it.\n\nThe man's family allege that his boat was intentionally rammed.\n\nHealth official Alonso Perez told AFP news agency on Monday that one fisherman died after sustaining serious injuries, while a second remained in a stable condition.\n\nSea Shepherd said its Farley Mowat vessel was removing an illegal net from a protected area on 31 December when a group of people on small fishing boats launched a \"violent attack\", including throwing Molotov cocktails.\n\n\"Following routine anti-piracy procedures, the Farley Mowat undertook defensive manoeuvring to avoid the attacks. As the vessel attempted to leave the scene, one of the [boats] aggressively swerved in front of the Farley Mowat, crashing directly into the hull\" and splitting in two, it said.\n\nThe group said it provided emergency first aid to the two men who had been on board the fishing boat.\n\nConservationists working for Sea Shepherd have been attacked several times while patrolling the vaquita refuge.\n\nThe group works with Mexican authorities to remove illegal gillnets used to catch totoaba fish, which are highly valued in Chinese traditional medicine. The nets are designed to trap the heads of fish but not their bodies, but are blamed for trapping and killing the endangered porpoises as well.", "Businesses in retail, hospitality and leisure will receive new grants to help them keep afloat until spring, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said.\n\nThe grants will be worth up to £9,000 per property, the Treasury says.\n\nMr Sunak told the BBC he was \"committed to protecting jobs and supporting businesses\".\n\nBusiness groups welcomed the new help as a good start but warned the money still wouldn't be enough to save many firms from collapse.\n\nThe help is in addition to business rates relief and the furlough scheme, which has been extended until the end of April.\n\nFirms do not have to pay the grant money back.\n\nMr Sunak said he would consider whether or how to extend support packages in its Budget on 3 March.\n\n\"The Budget early in March is an excellent opportunity to take stock of the range of support we have put in place and set out the next stage of our economic response,\" he said.\n\nThe director general of the CBI business group, Tony Danker, earlier warned leaving additional support until the Budget could be too late for many firms, saying. \"the comprehensive restrictions required a new comprehensive response\".\n\nIt was a fear echoed by other business groups, the BCC and the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).\n\nBCC director general, Adam Marshall, warned many smaller firms would not qualify for help and \"will be left struggling to see how this new top-up grant will help them out of their cashflow problems.\"\n\nHe also called for the support to be extended to firms in other sectors \"who are also feeling the devastating impacts of these restrictions.\"\n\nFSB chair Mike Cherry also said the funds would be a lifeline to many, but \"do not go far enough to match the scale of the crisis that small firms are facing.\"\n\nThe British Beer & Pub Association described the grants as a \"lifeline\", but added that companies on which pubs rely, such as breweries, would also need help.\n\nSeb Heeley, owner of distillery Manchester Gin, says he needs dates to plan around\n\nSeb Heeley, owner of distillery Manchester Gin, told the BBC that fixed dates to aim for are crucial for his business.\n\n\"We need a date to work towards and we don't have that so, again, we're in limbo,\" he said. \"It takes three or four weeks\" to prepare, including retraining staff, he added.\n\nHis business has been closed since October because of restrictions in the Manchester area. It borrowed money under the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS).\n\n\"We start repayment in June and there's good chance we won't be open, so they are going to have to extend that,\" he said.\n\nHe said much of the £9,000 grant will be taken up by the £6,000 a month his business owes in pension contributions and national insurance alone.\n\nMr Sunak said the new support would \"help businesses to get through the months ahead - and crucially it will help sustain jobs, so workers can be ready to return when they are able to reopen\".\n\nBusinesses such as cafes, restaurants, leisure centres and shops that do not sell essentials have been particularly hard hit by coronavirus lockdown measures as people are told to stay at home.\n\nAll non-essential shops, leisure and entertainment venues are now closed, with pubs and restaurants allowed to offer takeaway food and non-alcoholic drinks only.\n\nThe new measures contained no additional support for self-employed people.\n\nMel Stride, chair of parliament's Treasury Committee, which scrutinises the finance department's work, warned the chancellor \"must not forget those who have fallen through the gaps around previous support packages.\"\n\nWhile this is welcome and essential support, it is now clear that the most optimistic timetable for economic lift-off from the pandemic is going to be put back.\n\nThis raises questions about the length of the furlough scheme, and government-guaranteed loans.\n\nBefore this, the best-case scenario was that mass vaccination, enabling a confident reopening of the economy, would allow furloughed workers to go straight back to their jobs in late spring.\n\nThis was never the government's central forecast, but looked possible amid optimism about the vaccine last month.\n\nEven if all vulnerable people can be vaccinated by March, the first three months of the year will see school lockdowns which will harm growth, and therefore a possible double dip recession.\n\nBusiness groups which welcomed this support say they now need a clear long-term plan. They want to know that current levels of support will stay in place until most of the population is vaccinated.\n\nHundreds of thousands of self-employed workers who fell through the gaps of support remain under huge pressure, particularly ahead of the self assessment tax deadline.\n\nA decision on extending the £20 a week increase to universal credit will also be required.\n\nEngland's lockdown rules are due to be reviewed on 15 February while Scotland's will be reviewed at the end of January.\n\nIn the UK, the unemployment rate rose to 4.9% in the three months to October, with the jobless total up to 1.7 million people.\n\nThe Office for Budgetary Responsibility, the government's independent forecaster, predicts the UK economy will have shrunk by 11.3% in 2020 - the biggest decline in 300 years. It expects unemployment to peak at 9.7%.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe PM acted \"decisively\" in announcing a new lockdown in England \"in the face of new information\", Rishi Sunak says.\n\nPeople must now stay at home except for a handful of permitted reasons and schools have closed to most pupils.\n\nThe chancellor said the action was \"regrettable\" but it was \"right we take these measures\", which will be reviewed on 15 February, to suppress the virus.\n\nIt came after UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nBoris Johnson said vaccinating the top four priority groups by mid-February could allow restrictions to be eased, with Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove telling Sky News the measures may remain until March.\n\nMeanwhile, the prime minister is due to hold a press conference in Downing Street at 17:00 GMT with chief medical officer for England Prof Chris Whitty and the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance.\n\nTough new lockdown restrictions forbidding people from leaving home for non-essential reasons have also come into force across the Scottish mainland. Wales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nThe UK reported a record 58,784 cases on Monday, as well as a further 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nMr Gove told BBC Breakfast: \"The four chief medical officers of the United Kingdom met and discussed the situation yesterday and their recommendation was that the country had to move to level five, the highest level available of alert that meant there was an imminent danger to the NHS of being overwhelmed unless action was taken.\n\n\"And so in the circumstances we felt that the only thing we could do was to close those primary schools that were open.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gove:\" With a heavy heart but with clear evidence we had to act.\"\n\nHe said the action was taken \"with the heaviest of hearts\" and \"we had to act\" following that advice.\n\n\"It is a very, very difficult time for the whole country, that's why it's so important we do everything we can in government to vaccinate people,\" he said.\n\nHe said a million people had been vaccinated so far \"up until the weekend\" and it was hoped that number would reach more than 13 million in February.\n\nWhen asked about the target of two million vaccines a week and concerns over logistics and the safety systems, Mr Gove said the vaccination process was a \"complicated exercise\" but the NHS \"has more than risen to the challenge\".\n\nThe government was \"looking at further options\" to restrict international travel, he said.\n\nMr Gove told Sky News he could not say exactly when the lockdown in England would end, adding: \"I think it is right to say that as we enter March we should be able to lift some of these restrictions but not necessarily all.\"\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove saying the lockdown may have to last to March may not come as much of a surprise to many.\n\nWhile the government has set a target of offering the most at-risk a jab by mid February, it will take several weeks longer for the full effect to be felt given it takes time for an immune response to kick in.\n\nThe bigger question is whether or not the government could have acted earlier.\n\nIt was clear before Christmas the new variant was pushing up infection rates - and that in turn would mean more hospital admissions.\n\nThe delay looks costly. Since Christmas Day, the number of Covid-19 patients in hospital has risen by 50% alone - enough to fill 18 hospitals.\n\nWhile the government did introduce tier four the weekend before Christmas in parts of the south east of England, which banned mixing over the festive period and led to the closure of non-essential shops and gyms, most of the country were allowed to meet up on Christmas Day.\n\nInfections from Christmas Day are now being felt - the numbers have been rising sharply ever since. Some of these are next week's hospital admissions - and is why the chief medical officers warned of the risk of hospitals becoming overwhelmed, which Mr Gove said persuaded them to act on Monday.\n\nIf lockdown had come earlier, it may well have been shorter.\n\nProf Andrew Hayward - a member of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) - told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the lockdown measures \"will save tens of thousands of lives\".\n\nBut he said \"the virus is different\" and \"it may be that the lockdown measures that we have are not enough\"\n\n\"This lockdown period we need to do more than just stay at home, wait for the vaccine, we need to be actively bearing down on it,\" he said.\n\nAt Scotland's daily briefing, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon called for people to hold on to the fact there was now \"a clear route out of this pandemic\".\n\nShe said there had been urgent discussions between the four home nations about whether border controls should be tightened - and she hoped there would be an announcement soon.\n\nAnnouncing England's lockdown on Monday, Mr Johnson said hospitals were under \"more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic\".\n\nHe ordered people to stay indoors other than for limited exceptions - such as essential medical needs, food shopping, exercise and work that cannot be done at home - and said schools and colleges should move to remote teaching for the majority of students until at least half term.\n\nPeople who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be contacted by letter and should now shield once more, Mr Johnson said.\n\nWhile the rules become law in the early hours of Wednesday, people should follow them now, Mr Johnson added.\n\nMr Johnson said the new variant of coronavirus, which is up to 70% more transmissible, was spreading in a \"frustrating and alarming\" manner and warned that the number of Covid-19 patients in English hospitals is 40% higher than the first peak.\n\nThe House of Commons has been recalled to allow MPs to vote on England's new restrictions on Wednesday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his MPs would \"support the package of measures\", saying \"we've all got to pull together now to make this work\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? What questions do you have? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Quote Message: The return of lockdown for at least the rest of January is a severe blow for much of the Scottish economy. It could be worse: this is not the peak Christmas season for retail and hospitality, though the season they’ve just had was very hard going for many, and non-existent for others. This is also the quietest part of the tourism year, so January is a relatively good month to lose one’s bookings. For many firms, it is better than last spring, because they have infection controls in place. And there is a less harsh closure scheme, meaning construction sites and others can stay open, subject to tight rules. Many employers have settled into patterns of working from home, so this does not carry the shock of last March. There was little expectation of getting staff back into offices for months yet. But that doesn’t make this time any easier for workers who are also parents. They know, from last year, how tough it is to handle childcare and lessons while schools are shut - and this time, they have to manage without good weather. The other, more negative comparison with last spring is that firms now are, typically, deeper in debt and with less spare cash to pay the bills that don’t stop - rent, and utility bills, for instance. Some delayed payments are getting tougher to keep on hold. Their frustration with the slow movement of government grant schemes is showing. They aren’t disputing the case for further lockdown but they are making their own case for support through it, and for a recovery strategy once restrictions are lifted, including a boost to consumer confidence and spending.\" from Douglas Fraser Scotland business & economy editor\n\nThe return of lockdown for at least the rest of January is a severe blow for much of the Scottish economy. It could be worse: this is not the peak Christmas season for retail and hospitality, though the season they’ve just had was very hard going for many, and non-existent for others. This is also the quietest part of the tourism year, so January is a relatively good month to lose one’s bookings. For many firms, it is better than last spring, because they have infection controls in place. And there is a less harsh closure scheme, meaning construction sites and others can stay open, subject to tight rules. Many employers have settled into patterns of working from home, so this does not carry the shock of last March. There was little expectation of getting staff back into offices for months yet. But that doesn’t make this time any easier for workers who are also parents. They know, from last year, how tough it is to handle childcare and lessons while schools are shut - and this time, they have to manage without good weather. The other, more negative comparison with last spring is that firms now are, typically, deeper in debt and with less spare cash to pay the bills that don’t stop - rent, and utility bills, for instance. Some delayed payments are getting tougher to keep on hold. Their frustration with the slow movement of government grant schemes is showing. They aren’t disputing the case for further lockdown but they are making their own case for support through it, and for a recovery strategy once restrictions are lifted, including a boost to consumer confidence and spending.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nProfessional sport in England can continue behind closed doors, despite a new national lockdown announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nIt means Premier League football and elite leagues in other sports are allowed to carry on.\n\nThe sport and leisure rules in England are similar to those announced in Scotland earlier on Monday.\n\nPeople living in England have been told to stay at home and schools will shut for most pupils from Tuesday.\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nFor those in England, exercising outside is allowed once a day. Venues such as gyms, tennis courts and golf courses will be closed.\n\nOrganised outdoor sport for disabled people is exempt from the new measures.\n\nGames and training in non-elite football - which includes all adult and youth grassroots, except for disabled people - have been suspended.\n\nThe Women's FA Cup is among the non-elite competitions placed on hold. All but one of the second-round matches scheduled to take place on Sunday were postponed because of Covid-19 regulations.\n\nTeams from the Women's Super League and Women's Championship enter the draw from the fourth round onwards.\n\nWhich non-elite football has been suspended? Steps three to six of the National League System (all divisions below the National League North and South) Tiers three to seven of the Women's Football Pyramid (all divisions below the Women's Championship) Women's FA Cup (classified as 'non-elite' up to and including the third round) All indoor and outdoor youth and adult grassroots football, including under-18s (except organised outdoor football for disabled people, which is allowed to continue)\n\nFollowing Monday's announcement by the prime minister, this week's sporting fixtures in England are set to go ahead as planned.\n\nIn football, the Carabao Cup semi-finals are being played on Tuesday and Wednesday, while the FA Cup third round - which has 32 fixtures spanning four days - starts on Friday.\n\nThere are also several Women's Super League, English Football League and National League games set to take place, as well as English Premiership and Premier 15s rugby union matches, plus the Masters snooker event in Milton Keynes.\n\nEarlier on Monday, Rochdale chief executive David Bottomley said he believes it is \"inevitable\" that the EFL will have to temporarily suspend fixtures because of rising coronavirus cases.\n\nSeven of last Saturday's EFL games - and 52 across the season - have been called off as teams are affected by the virus.\n\nFour Premier League matches have also been postponed this season because of coronavirus cases.\n\nWhat does the new lockdown mean for sport in England?\n\nThe UK government published its guidance for England's new national lockdown shortly after the prime minister's televised address at 20:00 GMT.\n\nHere are the points relating to sport and physical activity:\n• None Elite sportspeople (and their coaches if necessary, or parents/guardians if they are under 18) - or those on an official elite sports pathway - to compete and train\n• None Outdoor sports courts, outdoor gyms, golf courses, outdoor swimming pools, archery/driving/shooting ranges and riding arenas must also close\n• None Organised outdoor sport for disabled people is allowed to continue\n\nWhile golfing has been allowed to continue in Scotland under strict rules, courses will be closed in England.\n\nEngland Golf said it was \"extremely disappointed\" with the decision, adding it had made a \"strong case\" to keep the sport open in recent months.\n\nWhere can I exercise and who can I exercise with?\n\nYou can exercise in a public outdoor place:\n• None with the people you live with\n• None with your support bubble ( if you are legally permitted to form one)\n• None or, when on your own, with one person from another household\n• None public gardens (whether or not you pay to enter them)\n\nUK Active, a not-for-profit organisation that promotes health and fitness, says the government must act immediately to \"minimise the damaging impact of lockdown\".\n\n\"We know from the millions of people that depend on gyms, pools, and leisure centres to support their physical and mental health, how essential they are,\" said UK Active chief executive Huw Edwards.\n\n\"We cannot afford to wait until the vaccine rollout is advanced before we act, so the government must explore all options at this time and provide a credible plan for maintaining this support to millions of people who rely on these Covid-secure facilities to stay strong and healthy.\n\n\"Furthermore, the UK governments must protect this sector before it becomes too late.\"", "Internet providers are under pressure to do more to help low-income families afford data packages for their children to take part in remote learning.\n\nIt follows a decision to close UK schools to most pupils to enforce new coronavirus lockdowns.\n\nThe children's commissioner for England told the BBC that \"broadband companies really need to step up\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer added he thought the cost of data was \"a big problem\".\n\n\"We're asking people to endure very tough restrictions. And there has to be the other side of that contract,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Everybody needs to try and make this work. And that includes the companies that can take away the charging for data. It's a serious situation.\"\n\nWhen questioned about the topic at a Downing Street press conference, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"We are looking at... the potential costs to parents of online teaching, and we're going to do our best to support them in any way that we can and to work with the internet companies.\"\n\nThere is concern that some disadvantaged pupils are currently dependent on pay-as-you-go or monthly mobile phone subscriptions that only include a small data allowance because their families cannot afford or otherwise obtain a separate fixed broadband connection.\n\n\"There are 25 million pay-as-you go customers in the UK, and about seven million of those struggle with the cost of topping up their data,\" commented Chris Thorpe from the Centre For The Acceleration Of Social Technology charity.\n\nMany schools are using video-chat software including Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Google Meet to live-stream classes, assemblies and other activities, which all benefit from a fast, stable connection and can consume a lot of data.\n\nIn addition, other tools including Google Classroom, Tapestry and Class Dojo are used by pupils to submit schoolwork and receive marks and other feedback.\n\nThe situation became more pressing after the prime minister announced last night that England's lockdown would mean schools and colleges would remain closed to most pupils until at least the February half-term.\n\nTech for UK - a coalition of technologists and other concerned business leaders - has suggested one way forward would be for internet providers to \"zero rate\" edtech apps and websites, so that their data use would be deducted from a mobile subscriber's monthly allowance.\n\nHowever, it acknowledges the challenge in doing so is to pick which platforms to support without giving some providers an unfair advantage over others.\n\nThe Department for Education already runs a scheme for disadvantaged children who do not have access to a home broadband connection to temporarily increase their mobile data allowance.\n\nIn some cases, this involves an extra 20 gigabytes a month. In others - such as Three - it provides an \"unlimited\" data upgrade.\n\nSchools, trusts and local authorities need to request the support on a pupil's behalf.\n\nThe networks involved in the initiative include:\n\nIn cases when this is not available, the government offers 4G wireless routers - which use mobile networks to offer a wi-fi connection - as an alternative.\n\nIn addition, Vodafone provided 350,000 \"free data\" Sim cards to thousands of primary and secondary schools and colleges in November.\n\n\"We are actively considering what to do now about this new situation,\" it said.\n\nO2 pledged in October to donate 10,000 devices and 12 months of free data to \"vulnerable individuals\".\n\nAnd Virgin Media noted it had launched a discounted home broadband service for families facing financial difficulties and receiving universal credit.\n\nBT says it has already removed all caps on its home broadband plans to help ensure children can stay connected to their schools.\n\nAnne Longfield, the children's commissioner for England, said she was also concerned about the provision of devices.\n\n\"A lot of children still don't have laptops. They're surviving on broken phones,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nThe Department for Education said it had delivered more than 560,000 devices to schools and councils in England between the start of the pandemic and the end of last year.\n\nIn addition, it aims to have delivered a further 100,000 laptops and tablets to schools by the end of this week to help get closer to its overall target of one million devices.\n\nHowever, teaching groups have raised concerns about the rollout.\n\nSome children are being provided with tablets to keep them connected to their schools\n\n\"We must hear no more of rationing of equipment, as we did late last year,\" Dr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU) told the BBC.\n\n\"If the stockpiles exist, as the Department for Education claim they do, then they must be distributed urgently. We have heard too many stories of requests from schools not being met, or not being fully met.\"\n\nSteven George of head teachers' union, NAHT added that a website used to order laptops had been inaccessible over the Christmas break, so some members had been unable to make requests.\n\nIn addition, the Association of School and College Leaders suggested the government had \"never really got to grips\" with the issue.\n\n\"It is certainly sending out lots of laptops for disadvantaged children to schools. But there's clearly still a gap, not just in terms of the number of devices that are required but also in terms of whether families have sufficient connectivity,\" said general secretary Geoff Barton.\n\n\"This has happened because it is a crisis situation, and there hasn't been a great deal of time in which to properly assess the level of need that exists, but it does expose the fact that pre-crisis, there hadn't been a properly joined-up national strategy on digital learning.\"\n\nOthers have noted that the device allocation scheme does not extend to printers - which are needed for worksheets and other materials sent by teachers - putting low-income families at a further disadvantage.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eileen Lynch, 94, was the first person in Northern Ireland to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine this week.\n\nThe aim is to ensure everyone in that age group will be offered the vaccine by the end of January.\n\nThirty GP practices will be administering 50,000 doses of the vaccine, which was approved for use in the UK on 30 December.\n\nIt is the second vaccine to be approved in the battle against coronavirus in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes ahead of a UK-wide announcement by the prime minister, set to be made at 20:00 GMT on Monday, in which further restrictions will be announced.\n\nIn a statement, a No 10 spokesman said the new variant of Covid-19 had \"led to rapidly escalating case numbers across the country\" and \"further steps must now be taken to arrest this rise\".\n\nOn Monday, Northern Ireland recorded a further 1,801 Covid-19 cases and 12 more virus-related deaths.\n\nThese latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,366, while 79,873 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic started.\n\nMore than 12,000 cases have been reported in the past seven days, more than double the week before.\n\nThe seven-day rate per 100,000 people is now 660 positive cases, compared to 200 per 100,000 two weeks ago.\n\nMedical experts believe that is down to the two-week easing of restrictions over the Christmas period.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Monday, an additional 6,110 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were announced, with six further deaths linked to the virus.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown in which non-essential retail is closed.\n\nThe first doses of the vaccine were given delivered at a GP surgery on the Falls Road in West Belfast on Monday afternoon.\n\nThe first person in Northern Ireland to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine was 94-year-old Eileen Lynch.\n\nSpeaking after receiving the vaccine, Ms Lynch said she was \"delighted and privileged\" to receive it.\n\n\"I feel like I can really look forward to the year ahead now that I have been vaccinated,\" she said.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has already been used to vaccinate care home residents and staff.\n\nBy mid December, 50,000 doses of that vaccine had been made available and by 30 December, Northern Ireland's Department of Health reported that 33,000 people had been vaccinated.\n\nThis included 8,940 care home residents, 10,484 care home staff and 14,259 health and social care staff.\n\nAccording to the latest NI statistics, for the first time the percentage positive cases in the over 80s is down - an indication the vaccination process is working.\n\nThere are approximately 82,000 people over 80 in NI and BBC News NI understands that if deliveries of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine happen as planned, it is thought that all of those over 80, as well as GPs and their staff, could be vaccinated within three weeks.\n\nWhile 50,000 doses have been delivered to Northern Ireland, a further 23,000 vaccines are expected on 19 January while another 68,000 are due on 24 January.\n\nDr Alan Stout, who is a GP in Belfast, told BBC News NI that members are \"very optimistic\" that 11,000 people can be vaccinated this week.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is the second coronavirus vaccine to be approved in the UK\n\nNI's chief medical officer said the Oxford-AstraZeneca rollout would run alongside the ongoing vaccination programme.\n\nDr Michael McBride said: \"First and foremost we must act to protect those most at risk of severe disease and death.\n\n\"The evidence shows that the initial dose of vaccine offers as much as 70% protection against the effects of the virus.\n\n\"Providing that level of protection on a large scale will have the greatest impact on reducing mortality and hospitalisations, protecting the health and social care system.\"\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has to be kept at an extremely low temperature which complicates handling constraints.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is considered easier to store and distribute.\n\nIts rollout consists of two full doses of the vaccine, with the second dose to be given four to 12 weeks after the first.\n\nGPs are appealing to the public to remain calm and wait to be called for their vaccine either by telephone or by letter.\n\nDr Stout said as demand grows worldwide for the vaccine, that schedule could easily change.\n\n\"The public have to be patient, we have a system and must be allowed to get on with it - it really is 'don't call us - we will call you'.\"\n\nWhile some vaccinations will take place in surgeries others will happen in a drive-through system.\n\nCovid-19 is deadlier than flu, which means January 2021 is going to be even tougher than usual.\n\nAlso, Covid patients tend to stay much longer in hospital with more severe symptoms requiring additional beds and care.\n\nBut those rising patient numbers aren't matched by an increased workforce.\n\nInstead it is expected that the nurse-patient ratio will increase (even though many aren't trained to work in critical care) as there simply aren't enough nurses available.\n\nSome health unions fear this will only add to Northern Ireland's excess mortality rate, which is greater than that in Great Britain.\n\nOnce again, this highlights Northern Ireland's failing health care system, which was already below par well before the start of the pandemic.\n\nCoronavirus infection figures here are expected to peak between 15 and 21 January. That will be felt not only in hospitals but also in GP practices as they continue to roll out the vaccine.\n\nWhile at this stage the six weeks look bleak it's hoped that the additional Astra-Zeneca vaccine and the low incidence of flu will go a long way in not only saving lives, but also protecting the health service.\n\nDr Stout said much planning had gone into ensuring the programme happened as smoothly as possible.\n\n\"People will literally stay in their cars and be asked to roll up their sleeves - it has to be safe and efficient in order for us to get through it and safely.\"\n\nThe UK has ordered 100 million doses of the new vaccine - enough to vaccinate 50 million people.\n\nMeanwhile, Dr Tom Black, chair of the British Medical Association in Northern Ireland, said it was \"appalling\" that the Pfizer vaccine was not to be administered in two doses within 21 days as instructed by the company and threatened legal action.\n\nDr Black was responding to news that the UK will give both parts of the Oxford and Pfizer vaccines 12 weeks apart.\n\n\"They have left care workers in Northern Ireland with a gap in their expected immunity,\" he told BBC NI's Radio Foyle on Monday.\n\n\"In that period doctors, nurses, porters or health care professionals could infect patients because they will not be protected against the transmission of the infection to patients.\"\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers have defended their Covid vaccination plan.\n\nThey said getting more people vaccinated with the first jab was \"much more preferable\" and that the great majority of the initial protection from clinical disease is after the first dose of vaccine.\n\nDr Black is to meet NI Health Minister Robin Swann later to express health care workers' concern over the change in vaccine policy.", "Food banks have seen increased demand during the pandemic\n\nThe UK \"cannot duck\" tackling inequalities of health, ethnicity, education and jobs post-Covid, a major review has warned.\n\nThe report's chairman, Nobel laureate Sir Angus Deaton, says a lot of work to repair and rebuild the damage will be needed after the pandemic.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) Deaton Review of Inequalities warned the fabric of society was under threat.\n\nThe review says there is a \"once-in-a-generation opportunity to tackle the disadvantages faced by many that this pandemic has so devastatingly exposed\".\n\n\"We now face a set of challenges which we cannot duck.\"\n\nSir Angus said: \"As the vaccines should, at some point this year, take us into a world largely free of the pandemic, it is imperative to think about policies that will be needed to repair the damage and that focus on those who have suffered the most.\n\n\"We need to build a country in which everyone feels that they belong.\"\n\nWhile the pandemic had highlighted the disproportionate impact on ethnic minority groups and deprived communities, it also showed that the UK's best-paid and most highly educated have been \"much better able to ride out the crisis\", the report said.\n\nYoung people have been among the worst hit economically\n\nChildren from poorer households found it harder to do schoolwork during lockdown and have been more likely to miss school since September, it noted.\n\nAnd while the biggest risk factor for coronavirus is age, younger people have been hit harder by the economic consequences of the crisis.\n\nThe cost of the pandemic is \"just colossal\" IFS director Paul Johnson told the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"We've seen the biggest reduction in national income, essentially in history, over the last year, we've seen the biggest public deficit in history outside of the two world wars, so there's no getting around the fact that the pandemic and the response to it has had a bigger effect on the economy than anything essentially in the whole of history.\"\n\nThe report highlighted the effects of the pandemic on different groups, including on education, which is \"probably more worrying\" than the overall economic effect, Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"The first lockdown lockdown saw a dreadful impact on the education particularly of poorer children... they were getting less in the way of online lessons from their schools.\n\n\"There's a huge private school/state school divide in this, but also a big divide within state schools between those children who had support at home, had the facilities at home - laptops and internet and so on - but who also had the support from school - so there's a big impact on education but also a very unequal one,\" he added.\n\nThe review is calling for extra support for children who have fallen behind and help for school and university leavers to find jobs.\n\nIt says the welfare safety net must be adapted so it supports non-traditional forms of employment, including insecure and self-employed workers, and minority ethnic groups must be given greater economic opportunities.\n\nProgress in reducing poor mental and physical health could be \"one of the clearest indications of success of economic and social policy\", it adds.\n\nMark Franks, director of welfare at the Nuffield Foundation, which funded the review, said: \"Individuals are subject to a wide range of potential vulnerabilities around dimensions including age, ethnicity, place of birth, education, income and the nature of their employment.\n\n\"Where these vulnerabilities intersect, they can amplify and reinforce one another and play a huge role in driving unequal outcomes.\"\n\nHowever, the government said it was already spending vast sums to support people and the economy through the pandemic.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We're doing everything we can to ensure our coronavirus support reaches those who need it the most, which is why we've invested more than £280bn to protect the incomes, livelihoods and health of millions of people across the UK.\"\n\nThis included an additional £9bn for the welfare system and £2bn for the Kickstart Scheme, tripling traineeships, incentives for firms hiring apprentices and doubling the number of work coaches \"so that nobody is left without hope or opportunity\", the spokesman said.", "Economy Minister Diane Dodds has written to Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove to call for urgent action to be taken on deliveries to NI.\n\nSince Christmas some orders have been cancelled or delayed and some retailers have suspended deliveries.\n\nThe problem is related to uncertainty about post-Brexit transition rules.\n\nHM Customs announced a grace period on New Year's Eve confirming most parcels from GB-NI will not need customs declarations until at least April.\n\nThe problems have not affected all companies with many continuing to take orders and deliver as normal.\n\nHowever, some companies had already suspended deliveries, including John Lewis.\n\nThe government said the three-month grace period \"recognises the unique circumstances of Northern Ireland, the impacts of any disruption to parcel movements in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and specific challenges for operators moving express consignments\".\n\nA government spokesman said further details will be published in the new year, adding: \"Our priority is to have a pragmatic approach that allows us to comply with the [Northern Ireland] Protocol without causing undue disruption to businesses and citizens.\n\n\"HMRC is engaging with operators to finalise arrangements.\"\n\nSome changes have already come into effect.\n\nA Northern Ireland-based business receiving goods valued at £135 or more through an express carrier or Royal Mail will need to submit a customs declaration.\n\nThey will need to do this within three months of receiving the goods and can use the government's Trader Support Service to do so.\n\nExcise goods, which mostly refers to alcoholic drinks, will also need a declaration when being sent from GB to NI.\n\nThe government has advised retailers of those goods to contact their delivery company.\n\nIt said: \"They will then tell you if they carry the type of goods you want to send and, if they do, they will ask you to provide any additional information that they need so that a declaration can be made.\"", "About 10 UK nationals resident in Spain say they were wrongly turned back when their flight landed in Barcelona.\n\nThey left Heathrow on the Saturday morning British Airways flight, but were refused entry on arrival.\n\nThey were stopped by border police and ultimately flown back to the UK.\n\nSpain has banned all but Spanish nationals and residents flying from the UK to Spain since 22 December in the hope of containing the spread of the new UK strain of Covid-19.\n\nOne passenger on the flight, who did not wish to be named, said that those on board had been told repeatedly that only Spanish nationals or residents would be allowed to enter the country and that their residency certificates, also known as green certificates, were shown to airline staff several times.\n\nHowever, on arrival, British passengers with green residency certificates were prevented from entering Spain.\n\nBA has confirmed that about 10 people were denied entry into Barcelona, as they did not meet the Spanish authorities' required criteria.\n\nOne of those affected, Ruth O'Leary, said: \"I was very confused, obviously. I asked them what other documents I could provide.\n\n\"They seemed to be just flat-out refusing anything I had and just wouldn't let me on the flight. Very upsetting really.\n\n\"Quite an awful feeling not to be able to go back to your own house and to not really be given an explanation why you can't go home.\"\n\nOther British expat passengers have also said that they have been stopped from boarding planes to Spain.\n\nOne passenger on board said that seven British citizens were prevented from boarding a British Airways/Iberia flight from Heathrow to Madrid on Saturday evening, despite having their green residency certificates, as well as negative Covid tests.\n\nThe exact number of flights and passengers affected has not been released by the Foreign Office.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, Iberia said that on 1 January, it received an email from the border police saying that registration as a European citizen was no longer considered to be a valid document to prove legal residency in Spain as a British citizen.\n\nHowever, by 19:30 on 2 January, the airline received a second email, confirming that the document could be used if it had not expired.\n\nA British Airways spokesperson said: \"In these difficult and unprecedented times with dynamic travel restrictions, we are doing everything we can to help and support our customers.\"\n\nThe Spanish Embassy in London tweeted a letter stating it was aware that during the current travel restrictions, there had been some problems for British nationals resident in Spain who had not been allowed to return.\n\nThe embassy clarified that green certificates were valid proof of residency.\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said: \"We have worked closely with the Spanish government to resolve these issues.\n\n\"The Spanish Embassy in London has re-confirmed today that both the green residence certificate and the new residence TIE card [Photo-ID card] are equally valid in terms of proving residence in Spain, as set out in the [Brexit] Withdrawal Agreement.\"", "South Wales Police piloted the use of facial recognition in Cardiff - it was later ruled unlawful\n\nPolice should be allowed more access to facial recognition technology, a firm developing it for use in the private sector has said.\n\nLast year, appeal court judges ruled a trial project to scan thousands of faces by South Wales Police was unlawful. The force did not appeal.\n\nWelsh company Credas said laws were not keeping up with the latest technology.\n\nThe Home Office said it wants police to use new crime-reducing technology while \"maintaining public trust\".\n\nCredas believes such facial recognition technology could be a vital tool in fighting crime.\n\n\"Ten years ago it would have felt space age, but now it's everywhere - just logging into my phone or laptop, we're all used to it now,\" said chief executive Rhys David.\n\n\"But the legislation will never keep up with the technological advancements.\"\n\nThe firm, based in Penarth in the Vale of Glamorgan, works with firms to prevent crime in commercial settings, helping them confirm a client's identity.\n\nIt can include estate agents, the legal sector, accountancy or gambling operations - any businesses regulated to reduce fraud and money laundering.\n\n\"There's common stories of people buying houses with someone else's identity and manipulating the paperwork so that the funds get transferred into the wrong account and it's too late then - we can't recover that,\" said Mr David.\n\n\"It's a very difficult position to be in, but technologies like ours are closing the gap.\"\n\nApps can compare people's picture to that on their passport\n\nCredas's app uses facial recognition - people take a selfie and the app compares it to a photograph of their passport to verify they are who they claim to be.\n\nClaire Williams works for FBM estate agent in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, which has been using the software for the past two years.\n\n\"Before we would take people's passports or driver's licence, they would either come into the office and we would photocopy it, or we would even accept a scanned, emailed copy.\n\n\"There would be no way of knowing whether these were legitimate passports and driver's licences.\n\n\"They might have been using fake IDs, trying to launder money through the property industry - putting money into the properties, then reselling them to launder the money.\"\n\nBut scanning faces to confirm details for a mortgage is a very different beast to automated facial recognition, which is what was being trialled by South Wales Police - scanning faces in a crowd, often without people's knowledge.\n\nThat was ruled unlawful after a challenge by civil rights group Liberty and Ed Bridges from Cardiff.\n\n\"Real-time surveillance is considerably more complex than in the commercial space where it's a fairly static, controlled environment. But we should be adopting it and encouraging it to reduce a criminal footprint,\" added Mr David.\n\n\"I find it really sad that the police aren't encouraged to use technology like this to keep our country safe.\n\n\"Let's be honest, the police don't want to sell us trainers. They're not looking to capture our images or biometric footprints to sell us goods. It's to keep us safe, so the police can run very sophisticated facial matching programmes in real time to identify criminals.\"\n\nThe frustration was echoed by the surveillance camera commissioner, Tony Porter, who is the independent regulator appointed to oversee the use of camera systems in England and Wales.\n\nFollowing the appeal court ruling on South Wales Police in August, he said he had been \"fruitlessly and repeatedly\" calling for an updated code the police could follow.\n\nWhile campaigners Liberty felt the court's ruling left little room for the technology to be safely used, Mr Porter disagreed, adding: \"I believe adoption of new and advancing technologies is an important element of keeping citizens safe.\"\n\nHe has issued new guidance on the use of facial recognition in light of the case, but it remains just that - guidance, not law.\n\nIt has left police forces still trying to iron out the problems raised by the Court of Appeal - the potential for gender and ethnic biases and a robust code to cover when, how and where the technology can be used, and in search of whom.\n\nProf Martin Innes, from the Universities' Police Sciences Institute, evaluated the rollout of automatic facial recognition for South Wales Police in 2018, flagging ethical and regulatory challenges facing forces.\n\n\"If you look back at the history of new and innovative technologies in policing this is what always happens. You have to let the law catch up a little bit and find out what matters and where the key points of regulation are,\" he said.\n\nAt present, different standards between the private and public sectors \"could be very, very confusing,\" he added.\n\n\"There is a risk that these technologies get introduced almost by stealth and they start popping up everywhere.\"\n\nPembrokeshire estate agent Claire Williams now uses a facial recognition app to match faces to identity\n\nIn a way, some of that has already happened, from mobile phones that can detect your face to hi-tech doorbells\n\nStopping criminal harm \"seems to be an equally justifiable reason\" to use the technology, argued Prof Innes.\n\n\"But we need to think quite carefully about how far do we want this to go, and where is it appropriate for us to introduce these technologies in our lives.\n\n\"There are issues - but there are potentially opportunities and benefits to be gained if it can be done in the right way, as well.\"\n\nThe Home Office and the police say they will consider any ideas that could improve the way live facial recognition technology is used.\n\n\"We want police to use new technologies, like live facial recognition, in a way that reduces crime while maintaining public trust,\" said a Home Office spokesperson.\n\n\"We are working closely with the police to ensure national College of Policing guidance complies with the Court of Appeal's request to clarify how live facial recognition will be used.\n\n\"The government committed in the Home Office Biometrics Strategy to review the Surveillance Camera Code of Practice and it will be updated in due course.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Virgin Holidays has become the latest travel firm to cancel holidays after new coronavirus lockdown restrictions were imposed.\n\nIt said schedules will be cancelled until mid-February, joining similar moves by Tui, Jet2 and Thomas Cook.\n\nThe companies said customers would be contacted about their future travel options during what Virgin described as \"these extraordinary circumstances\".\n\nThomas Cook said it will call customers to offer refunds or rebooking.\n\nTui said it was \"cancelling all holidays in line with international travel restrictions\". It added that said customers due to depart from England, Scotland and Wales would be contacted to discuss options.\n\nThe company said that customers due to travel from an English airport before mid-February, or from a Scottish or Welsh airport up to 31 January, would not be able to do so.\n\nThose customers will be contacted \"in departure date order to discuss their options\", Tui said, which include rebooking \"with an incentive\", getting a credit note, or a full refund.\n\n\"Customers currently overseas can continue to enjoy their holidays as planned and we will update them directly if there are any changes to their holidays,\" Tui added.\n\nIn a statement, Virgin said: \"In line with the new national lockdown restrictions we have reviewed the upcoming holiday schedule and will be cancelling all holidays up to and including 14 February 2021.\n\n\"To simplify the options and to provide immediate peace of mind for customers whose holidays will no longer be going ahead, we're automatically providing a digital voucher for the value of their trip, redeemable up until 30 September 2021, which they can use to rebook a holiday, departing any time before 31 December 2022.\"\n\nVirgin added that customers \"may also request a refund\".\n\nMeanwhile, Jet2 said it was extending \"the suspension of flights and holidays up to and including 11 February 2021\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"For customers due to travel from 12th February onwards, we will provide another update closer to the time.\"\n\nThomas Cook, which became an online-only travel brand in September after its earlier collapse, said: \"Following the announcement of the latest lockdown, we are calling our customers to offer refunds or move their holidays to a later date.\".\n\nChief executive Alan French said: \"We've seen over the festive period that customers are looking ahead to the summer and beginning to book in earnest for those important summer weeks in the sun.\n\n\"I am sure that after many more weeks spent at home - and with the progress of the vaccine rollout - we will see an even bigger demand for people to escape to the beach this summer.\"\n\nLast month, a number of countries suspended routes to the UK due to the rapid spread of a new variant of coronavirus.\n\nThe blanket travel ban to the EU was then lifted, but with rules varying from country to country. The suspension of flights between the UK and China remains in place.\n\nLast year Tui was investigated by competition authorities after complaints that it had not given prompt refunds.\n\nBritish Airways Holidays, part of Britain's biggest airline, said it would be offering refunds if customers are no longer allowed travel.\n\nThe firm said in a statement: \"We are contacting all affected British Airways Holidays customers following the announcement of new national lockdown restrictions.\n\n\"Customers due to depart by 12 February 2021 will be offered a refund for their holiday. Our teams continue to monitor the situation and update our policy accordingly.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keir Starmer: \"If we pull together as a nation, we can win\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer has called for a \"round the clock\" vaccination programme to tackle the rise in Covid cases.\n\nAs part of a televised speech, the Labour leader said the government needed to deliver \"millions of doses a week by the end of the month\".\n\nHe said there were \"serious questions for the government to answer\" over the timing of the lockdown in England, but Labour would support the restrictions.\n\nBoris Johnson said daily vaccination figures would be published from Monday.\n\nThe prime minister has also said the four most vulnerable groups of people across the UK should receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nBoth the PM and Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, have announced lockdowns this week.\n\nWales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nEngland's lockdown will become law from 00:01 GMT Wednesday and MPs will return to the Commons later that day to vote on the measures retrospectively.\n\nThe restrictions come into force as the number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK topped 60,000 for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\nOn Tuesday, 60,914 had tested positive in the previous 24 hours and a further 830 people had died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIn an address to the nation on BBC One, in response to Boris Johnson's televised address on Monday, Sir Keir said the UK had reached a \"critical moment in our fight against coronavirus\".\n\nThe Labour leader said people were \"angry at the mistakes the government has made\" and ministers needed to answer questions on why they did not act sooner over locking down England.\n\nHe stressed that Labour would continue to hold the government to account, but added: \"Whatever our quarrels with the government and with the prime minister, the country now needs us to come together.\n\n\"At this darkest of moments, we need a new national effort to re-kindle the spirit of last March - to come together and to do everything possible to stay at home [and] to protect the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nSir Keir reiterated that Labour would support the new lockdown when it comes to the retrospective Commons vote on Wednesday and \"join in this national effort\".\n\nBut he called for the government to use the lockdown to establish \"a massive, immediate, and round the clock vaccination programme\" to \"deliver millions of doses a week by the end of the month in every village and town, every high street and every GP surgery\".\n\nThe Labour leader added: \"This is now a race between the virus and the vaccine and if we pull together as a nation, we can win.\n\n\"We need a new contract between the government and the British people: The country stays at home, the government delivers the vaccine.\"\n\nEarlier at a Downing Street press conference, Mr Johnson said more than 1.3 million people across the UK had now been vaccinated with either the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines.\n\nThe figure included 23% of over-80s in England - part of a programme Mr Johnson said aimed to save \"the most lives the fastest\".\n\nThe PM said there will \"still be long weeks ahead\", but that he wanted to give \"maximum possible transparency\" about the vaccination roll-out.\n\nMore details will be announced on Thursday, with daily updates starting on Monday, \"so that you can see day by day and jab by jab how much progress we are making\", he added.\n\nAsked whether the target could be met, Chief Medical Officer for England, Professor Chris Whitty, said the timetable was \"realistic but not easy\".", "Margaret Ferrier admitted travelling back from London to Glasgow after testing positive for coronavirus\n\nScottish MP Margaret Ferrier has been arrested by police after she admitted using public transport while infected with Covid-19.\n\nMs Ferrier apologised for what she called a \"blip\" in September.\n\nShe was suspended from the SNP group at Westminster and leaders, including First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, urged her to quit as an MP over the row.\n\nPolice Scotland said she had been charged in connection with \"alleged culpable and reckless conduct\".\n\nMs Ferrier apologised in September after travelling from London to Glasgow having tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe Rutherglen and Hamilton West MP said she had experienced \"mild symptoms\" and taken a test, but had then decided to travel to Westminster because she was \"feeling much better\".\n\nShe then travelled home again on a train after receiving the positive test result, and said she \"deeply regretted\" her actions.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesman said: \"We can confirm that officers today arrested and charged a 60-year-old woman in connection with alleged culpable and reckless conduct.\n\n\"This follows a thorough investigation by Police Scotland into an alleged breach of coronavirus regulations between 26 and 29 September 2020.\n\n\"A report will be sent to the procurator fiscal and we are unable to comment further.\"\n\nMs Ferrier has been contacted for comment.", "Potentially life-saving cancer operations have been put on hold at a major London NHS trust because of the number of beds taken by Covid patients.\n\nKing's College Hospital Trust has cancelled all \"Priority 2\" operations - those doctors judge need to be carried out within 28 days.\n\nCancer Research UK said such cancellations did not appear to be widespread across the country.\n\nAnd surgery has not been stopped on the same scale as during the first wave.\n\nRebecca Thomas, who has had her bowel cancer surgery at King's College Hospital \"cancelled indefinitely\", told the BBC she felt like she had been left \"in limbo\".\n\nUntil she has surgery her tumour cannot be studied to see how aggressive it is, and so she won't know until then how significant this wait will turn out to be.\n\nA spokesperson for the Trust, which mainly serves patients in south London, said: \"Due to the large increase in patients being admitted with Covid-19, including those requiring intensive care, we have taken the difficult decision to postpone all elective procedures, with the exception of cases where a delay would cause immediate harm.\n\n\"A small number of cancer patients due to be operated on this week have had their surgery postponed, with patients being kept under close review by senior doctors.\"\n\nProf Neil Mortensen, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, said he had heard from members that \"hospitals across London are having to cancel cancer surgeries as a result of the huge number of Covid-19 patients being hospitalised.\"\n\nBut it hasn't yet emerged as an issue affecting hospitals outside London.\n\nWhen Covid-19 hit last March, NHS England developed guidance on prioritising patients who needed operations, with emergency procedures that needed to be carried out within 24 hours coming first.\n\nThese life-saving operations have continued throughout the pandemic and there is no prospect of that stopping.\n\nHowever, patients in the \"priority 2\" category - who should have surgery within 28 days, to save their life or stop their disease progressing \"beyond operability\" - have found their operations being cancelled at King's.\n\nThe 28-day guideline is based on the patient's individual symptoms and the expected growth rate of their particular cancer.\n\n\"Delays further than that could have a negative impact on that person's chance of survival,\" according to Kruti Shrotri at Cancer Research UK.\n\nAnd delays in diagnosis and treatment in general can lead to worsening chances of recovery, she said.\n\nThis will vary dramatically by person and cancer type, but in some cases, a matter of a few weeks can make the difference between a cancer that can be survived or not.\n\nGenevieve Edwards, chief executive at Bowel Cancer UK, said research showed \"even a month's delay to cancer treatment can increase a person's risk of dying by up to 13% - a risk that keeps rising the longer their treatment is delayed\".\n\nWhile this was \"really concerning to hear,\" she said, \"it's not by and large something we've heard is happening widespread across the country\".\n\nThis is an improvement from the first wave of Covid-19 when the NHS had to put a near-blanket ban on non-urgent surgery.\n\nBut for those patients who are affected, this news will be \"incredibly hard,\" and Ms Shrotri stressed that patients with any symptoms that could be cancer should not put off going to see their GP.\n\n\"The NHS is open,\" she said.\n\nSurgery is most at risk because of the shortage of intensive care beds - but other forms of cancer treatment, including radiotherapy, should continue.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents hospital bosses in England, said trusts were doing all they could to \"prioritise on the basis of clinical need\".", "The number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK has topped 60,000 for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\nAccording to government figures on Tuesday, the number of people who tested positive was 60,916.\n\nOne in 50 people in private households in England had Covid last week - and one in 30 in London, according to estimates based on the latest data.\n\nA further 830 people have also died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIt comes as England and Scotland announced new strict lockdowns, with people told to stay at home.\n\nAt a press conference at Downing Street on Tuesday, Boris Johnson said 1.3 million people had now been vaccinated in the UK - including 23% of over 80s in England, some 650,000 people.\n\nBut he said more than one million people were currently infected - with the number of patients in hospitals 40% higher than in the first peak.\n\nThe government's chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty cited the Office for National Statistics' random sampling data for England as showing how widespread the virus is.\n\n\"We're now into a situation where across the country as a whole, roughly one in 50 people have got the virus, higher in some parts of the country, lower in others,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Chris Whitty: \"No evidence\" the new variant is \"more dangerous\"\n\nThe number of new daily cases has consistently been above 50,000 since 29 December.\n\nBack in the first peak of the pandemic in the spring, the number of daily confirmed cases never went above 7,000.\n\nHowever, it is thought the true number of cases then was much higher but not picked up because testing capacity was limited. It was estimated there were about 100,000 new infections a day at the end of March - but there was not the testing to detect it.\n\nHospital admissions of people with Covid-19 in England also reached another record high on Tuesday, NHS England figures show.\n\nAt a hospital in Lincolnshire, a \"critical\" incident has been declared after a sharp rise in patients requiring admission.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How NHS nurses and doctors are struggling to cope with Covid as cases continue to rise in England\n\nAnd potentially life-saving cancer operations have been put on hold at a major London NHS trust because of the number of beds taken by Covid patients.\n\nHowever, Cancer Research UK said such cancellations did not appear to be widespread across the country.\n\nIn a statement after the case numbers were released, Public Health England medical director Yvonne Doyle said the rapid rise in cases was \"highly concerning and will sadly mean yet more pressure on our health services in the depths of winter\".\n\nAfter seven consecutive days of more than 50,000 cases being confirmed, the fact that more than 60,000 have been recorded should not come as a surprise.\n\nIt will take a week, if not more, for the impact of lockdown to be felt.\n\nAnd all the evidence suggests the new variant of coronavirus, which is more transmissible than previous ones, means the impact is likely to be more limited than it was in previous ones.\n\nThe figures are also a warning about what the NHS is facing.\n\nSome of this week's infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nAbout three in 10 beds are now occupied by Covid patients. In some hospitals more than six in 10 are.\n\nHospitals are now busy making more spaces on their wards - that means cancelling planned work, including in some places cancer treatment.\n\nBoris Johnson and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon both announced new lockdowns on Monday.\n\nWales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nRestrictions are also being tightened further in Northern Ireland, and an order for people to stay at home will become legally enforceable from Friday.\n\nIn a televised address to the nation, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer urged the government to use the lockdown to create a \"round the clock\" vaccination programme.\n\nHe also called on people to \"recapture the spirit\" of the beginning of the pandemic.\n\nAt the press conference on Tuesday, Mr Johnson repeated his suggestion that there is a \"prospect\" of the lockdown being eased in mid-February.\n\n\"But you will also appreciate there are a lot of caveats, a lot of ifs built into that, the most important of which is that we all now follow the guidance,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove told Sky News he could not say exactly when the lockdown in England would end, but \"as we enter March we should be able to lift some of these restrictions but not necessarily all\".\n\nMr Whitty said the virus \"is not going to go away, just as flu doesn't go away, just as many other viruses don't go away\".\n\n\"We shouldn't kid ourselves that this just disappears with spring,\" he said.\n\nMr Whitty said although hopefully there would be nearly no measures needed from the spring onwards, the government might have to bring in a few restrictions next winter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We've now vaccinated over 1.3m people across the UK\"\n\nOn Monday the UK's chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nAlthough the new variant is now spreading more rapidly than the original version, it is not believed to be more deadly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given", "Supermarkets' online shopping operations have come under strain with customers rushing to book deliveries as the new coronavirus lockdown began.\n\nWithin a couple of hours of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's speech to the nation on Monday, shoppers reported problems with Sainsbury's and Tesco.\n\nSainsbury's said on Tuesday that earlier it had restricted access to its online services to manage high demand.\n\nThe surge in demand echoes consumers' reaction at the start of the pandemic.\n\nSainsbury's said: \"We temporarily limited access to our groceries online service last night so that we could manage high demand for slots and updates customers were making to existing orders.\n\n\"We're continuing to monitor the situation and are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.\"\n\nA spokeswoman said customers should now be able to use the Sainsbury's app and website \"as usual\".\n\nAfter the first lockdown in March, supermarkets reported panic buying and a rush to book online delivery slots despite grocers insisting there would be no shortages if consumers shopped sensibly.\n\nShoppers used social media to vent their frustration on Monday, with Twitter user Auld Bryan saying: \"Ocado have already introduced their virtual queue process on their app. It's March 2020 all over again.\"\n\nAnother tweet, by Karl Dyson, said of Ocado: \"You'd think ~10 months in to this, they'd have worked on scalable infrastructure for the website?\"\n\nThere were also reports of people having problems with the Tesco app and website, including when trying to check out and complete payment.\n\nHowever, a spokesman for Britain's biggest supermarket said on Monday evening that there had been no reports from Tesco's technical department of any website problems.\n\nThe supermarket had increased the number of slots available for online delivery before the latest lockdown measures.\n\nAn email from Tesco UK boss Jason Tarry already sent to customers said: \"Since March, we have more than doubled home delivery and Click+Collect slots to 1.5 million a week, with over 760,000 vulnerable customers registered with us who are eligible for priority slots.\"\n\nUsers complained that the Sainsbury's app was down following the prime minister's announcement on Monday.\n\nTwitter user Francesca Balgobind wrote: \"What's happening with the Sainsbury's shopping app tonight? Website is down too?\"\n\nAnother social media user, Matt, said some 40 minutes after Mr Johnson had finished speaking: \"Sainsbury's app and website down\".\n\nAsda saw more demand for online shopping after the lockdown announcement, but said it had increased the number of slots available since the first two national lockdowns.\n\nMorrisons also reported a jump in the number of shoppers using its website after the announcement.\n\nHowever, despite the longer waiting queues, the grocer said it continued to have \"good slot availability\" for home deliveries.\n\nThroughout the pandemic, supermarkets have urged people to shop normally.\n\nBefore Christmas, in the run-up to the end of the Brexit transition period, some grocers reported temporary shortages of fresh goods due to congestion at UK shipping ports.", "By 8pm on Monday it felt inevitable.\n\nBut it doesn't mean that a national instruction to close the doors was automatic. Or indeed that new lockdowns in England and Scotland aren't still dramatic and painful.\n\nWith tightening up in Wales and Northern Ireland too, the spread of coronavirus this winter has been faster than governments' attempts to keep up with it - leaving leaders with little choice but to take more of our choices away.\n\nThere is much that's an echo of March. Work, school, life outside the home will be constrained in so many ways, with terrible and expensive side-effects for the economy.\n\nThis time, it's already spluttering - restrictions being turned on and off for months have starved so much trade of vital business.\n\nBut there's a lot that's different too. After so long, the public is less forgiving of the actions taken, and there is frustration particularly over last-minute changes for schools; fatigue too with having to live under such limits.\n\nBy now, Boris Johnson's opponents, inside and outside the Tory party, have plenty of evidence to suggest that he would rather put off difficult decisions.\n\nBut there is another profound change, that the prime minister was unsurprisingly keen to point out on live TV, where the UK, at the moment, has a leading reputation.\n\nVaccines exist, partly due to UK science, and are being injected into willing arms already.\n\nThe scientific triumph still needs to be turned into a logistical victory. But if around 13 million vaccines can be offered over the next six weeks, we may be on the way.\n\nOne member of the cabinet told me: \"We should do absolutely nothing but this, the vaccine - it should be the entire focus of the government; every government shoulder should be put to every government wheel.\"\n\nIt's not just the country's health and economic fortunes riding on hitting that stretching target, but the government's reputation too.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The twins' father says what they have achieved is a 'herculean achievement'\n\nConjoined twins who were expected to die within days when they were born are nearly four years later said to be settling in at their Cardiff school.\n\nMarieme and Ndeye Ndiaye were brought to the UK from Senegal in 2017 by their father Ibrahima for treatment at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nThe girls, now four, are learning to stand and their father said their progress was \"a Herculean achievement\".\n\nTheir head teacher said the girls had made friends and were \"laughing a lot\".\n\nThe girls, who have separate hearts and spines but share a liver, bladder and digestive system, have conditions which put them at higher risk of complications from Covid.\n\nHowever, Mr Ndiaye said he had wanted them to start school for their development.\n\n\"When you look in the rear view mirror, it was an unachievable dream,\" he said.\n\n\"From now, everything ahead will be a bonus to me. My heart and soul is shouting out loud, 'Come on! Go on girls! Surprise me more!'.\"\n\nMr Ndiaye brought the girls to the UK through funding from a charitable foundation run by Senegal's first lady Marieme Faye Sall, before he sought asylum.\n\nIn March 2018, the family were moved by the Home Office to Cardiff as asylum seekers can be moved anywhere in the UK and they now have discretionary leave to remain.\n\nIn 2019, Great Ormond Street surgeons considered attempting separation but it was something Mr Ndiaye did not want because of the risks involved.\n\nThe girls have such complex circulatory systems medics now believe they would not survive being separated\n\nSince then, doctors have found the girls' circulatory systems to be more closely linked than previously thought and neither would survive without the other, making separation now impossible.\n\nThe girls' head teacher Helen Borley said they were learning well since starting reception in September and had made new friends.\n\nShe said: \"Children either say, 'I'm Marieme's friend' or 'I'm Ndeye's friend' - they don't say, 'I'm the twins' friend'. Children very much identify as being one person's friend or another - because the girls are very different characters.\n\n\"They are laughing a lot - which is always a good sign, isn't it? Any child that is laughing a lot is a happy child.\"\n\nMarieme receives oxygen from Ndeye's stronger heart and food via their linked stomachs\n\nFor the twins, school needs to fit around hospital visits.\n\nIn October, the girls needed surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nDr Gillian Body, a paediatric consultant at the Children's Hospital for Wales in Cardiff, said the procedure was important, despite the risks.\n\nShe said: \"The girls have complex anatomies and that makes them prone to infections and potentially sepsis.\n\n\"One of the challenges we had was getting antibiotics into them quickly, and this tube or cannula they've had fitted, means we can get them into them more quickly with less distress to the girls.\"\n\nThe girls have been experiencing the feeling of standing, at children's hospice Ty Hafan\n\nShe said Marieme's heart was complex with lots of abnormalities that cause her problems with doing exercise and can lead to breathlessness.\n\nAt children's' hospice Ty Hafan in Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, the girls have been learning what it feels like to stand.\n\nA special frame gives them the experience of being upright, helping build strength in their legs.\n\nPhysiotherapist Sara Wade-West said it had been hard for them.\n\n\"It's a really different sensation when you're used to being sat down, to be upright can be scary,\" she said.\n\n\"To start with, particularly Ndeye wasn't very keen. We try and sneak the therapy in around the play, encouraging them to reach for toys to make them work a bit harder, but if they know it's therapy it's not so fun.\n\n\"Because of their cardiac function we can't push them too much so it's finding that balance - challenging them to get stronger but not exhausting them.\"\n\nThe twins' father Ibrahima Ndiaye said they were his \"warriors\"\n\nWatching his daughters stand is more than just a breakthrough for their father.\n\n\"They are showing that they don't only want to live, but be active and play their part in society,\" he said.\n\n\"All these achievements bring light and hopes for the future. But I know how fragile, complex and unpredictable their lives can be.\"\n\nMr Ndiaye said his hopes were \"parallel to my fears\" as the girls had \"so many times come close to the worst\".\n\n\"But the very least I can do for the girls is figure out my hopes for them,\" he said.\n\n\"The most I can do is to be beside them and live inside that hope and never allow anything to take that hope away.\n\n\"They are my warriors. They have proved they will never surrender without fighting. It is not yet over.\"", "Former Bond actress and Charlie's Angel Tanya Roberts has died in hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 65.\n\nRoberts appeared with Sir Roger Moore in his final Bond film, 1985's A View To A Kill, and had a recurring role in That '70s Show.\n\nShe also starred in the final series of Charlie's Angels on TV in 1980.\n\nHer death was prematurely announced on Monday, only for doctors to say she was still alive. However, her death was then confirmed on Tuesday.\n\nRoberts had collapsed while walking her dogs on 24 December and was admitted to Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre.\n\nHer partner Lance O'Brien mistakenly thought she had died on Sunday after visiting her in hospital. After getting a call from doctors to say she was deteriorating quickly, he went to her bedside, her eyes closed and she \"faded\", TMZ reported.\n\nDevastated, he walked out of the room and then the hospital without speaking to medical staff before informing Roberts' agent that he had \"just said goodbye to Tanya\".\n\nBut while being interviewed for US TV show Inside Edition on Monday, Mr O'Brien got a call from the hospital to say she was alive.\n\nThe moment was captured on film, as he picked up his phone and said: \"Now you're telling me she's alive? Thank the Lord.\" However, she died on Monday night.\n\nShe appeared in A View To A Kill alongside Sir Roger Moore and singer Grace Jones\n\nBorn Victoria Leigh Blum in 1955, Roberts grew up in New York before moving to Hollywood in 1977.\n\nHer big break came when she replaced Shelly Hack in Charlie's Angels, joining Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd as third 'Angel' Julie.\n\nAfter the show's cancellation, she appeared in such fantasy adventure films as The Beastmaster and Hearts and Armour.\n\nShe also played comic book heroine Sheena in a 1984 film that saw her nominated for a Golden Raspberry award for worst actress.\n\nRoberts received another Razzie nomination for her role as geologist Stacey Sutton in 1985 Bond film A View to a Kill.\n\nRoberts in the title role in Sheena: Queen of the Jungle\n\nShe admitted being \"a little cautious\" about taking the role, but said it would have been \"ridiculous\" to have turned it down.\n\nRoberts' subsequent films included Night Eyes and Inner Sanctum, erotic thrillers that did little to advance her career.\n\nShe went on to play Midge Pinciotti in more than 80 episodes of That '70s Show between 1998 and 2004.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City legend Colin Bell has died, aged 74, after a short illness, the Premier League club have announced.\n\nThe former England midfielder made 501 appearances for City between 1966 and 1979, scoring 153 goals. He won 48 caps for his country.\n\n\"Few players have left such an indelible mark on City,\" said a club statement on Tuesday.\n\nIn 2004, Manchester City fans voted to name one of the stands at Etihad Stadium in Bell's honour.\n\n\"Colin Bell will always be remembered as one of Manchester City's greatest players and the very sad news today of his passing will affect everybody connected to our club,\" said City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak.\n\n\"I am fortunate to be able to speak regularly to his former manager and team-mates, and it's clear to me that Colin was a player held in the highest regard by all those who had the privilege of playing alongside him or seeing him play.\n\n\"The passage of time does little to erase the memories of his genius.\"\n• None 'Bell will always be king of Man City' - tributes paid after death of club great\n\nAfter starting his career at Bury, Bell moved to Manchester City - then in the second tier - midway through the 1965-66 season in a £47,500 deal.\n\nHe helped Joe Mercer's team win promotion that season and was instrumental in the Blues winning the First Division title two years later.\n\nDuring his 13 years as a player at Maine Road, he also won the FA Cup, League Cup and Cup Winners' Cup.\n\nHowever, his career was hampered by a serious knee injury he suffered in a League Cup tie against Manchester United in November 1975, when he was 29.\n\nAfter making a comeback later that season, he was injured again against Arsenal and out for another 18 months.\n\nBell regained fitness and received an emotional ovation on his return at Maine Road on 26 December 1977.\n\nHowever, he did not have the same freedom and mobility as he had done and played only a handful more games.\n\nBell finished his career with a brief spell in the United States playing for San Jose Earthquakes.\n\nIn 2004, he was awarded an MBE for his services to football and remained a regular presence at City games in recent seasons.\n\n'De Bruyne reminds me a lot of Colin' - tributes pour in for the 'King of the Kippax'\n\nFormer City team-mate Mike Summerbee, who was part of their 'Holy Trinity' alongside Bell and Francis Lee in the 1960s and 1970s, described Bell as \"just the greatest footballer\" the club has had.\n\n\"Colin was a lovely, humble man. He was a huge star for Manchester City but you would never have known it,\" said ex-forward Summerbee, 78.\n\n\"He was quiet, unassuming and I always believe he never knew how good he actually was.\n\n\"[Current City midfielder] Kevin de Bruyne reminds me a lot of Colin in the way he plays and the way he is as a person.\"\n\nFormer England forward Lee says he thinks the knee injury curtailed Bell's career \"by a good four or five years\".\n\n\"Colin had tremendous stamina. He was a very good player technically and had the ability to score goals,\" said Lee, 76.\n\n\"He goes into the top five City players of all time - only in the last 10, 15 years has anyone else come along who can take that mantle.\"\n\nSummerbee and Lee were among a number of former and current City players to pay tribute to Bell, along with celebrity fans including former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher.\n\nBell would \"always have a smile\" and \"meet and greet everyone\" he knew, said former City midfielder Michael Brown.\n\n\"He's done lots of charity work and always tried to help people,\" added Brown, who first met Bell as a youngster having come up through City's academy.\n\n\"It's a huge loss. To have done so much and be so low key was admirable.\"\n\nEx-City defender Micah Richards said Bell was \"one of the nicest men ever\", while their former full-back Pablo Zabaleta added he was \"absolutely devastated\" by the news.\n\nFormer England striker Gary Lineker said Bell was one of his favourite players when he was growing up.\n\n\"Terrific box to box midfielder. A real gem for Manchester City and England,\" added the Match of the Day host.\n\nThe Times' chief football writer Henry Winter said Bell \"oozed class, skill and glamour\" as he was \"flowing across rutted pitches, taking people on, creating and scoring\".", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "YouTube has reinstated TalkRadio's channel on its platform hours after saying it had been \"terminated\" for breaking the tech firm's rules.\n\nIt said the broadcaster had posted material that contradicted expert advice about the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut it explained its U-turn saying it sometimes made exceptions to guidelines that state repeat offenders face a permanent ban.\n\nTalkRadio said it had yet to be given a full explanation for the affair.\n\nThe decision to ban TalkRadio had appalled digital rights campaigners, with one group - Big Brother Watch - claiming it was evidence that \"big tech censorship is spiralling out of control\".\n\nThe Google-owned service has issued a brief statement explaining its actions.\n\n\"TalkRadio's YouTube channel was briefly suspended, but upon further review, has now been reinstated,\" it said.\n\n\"We quickly remove flagged content that violate our community guidelines, including Covid-19 content that explicitly contradict expert consensus from local health authorities or the World Health Organization. We make exceptions for material posted with an educational, documentary, scientific or artistic purpose, as was deemed in this case.\"\n\nYouTube has not published details of the offending posts.\n\nBut independent fact-checkers have repeatedly challenged some of the claims made by interviewees featured by the London-based radio station.\n\nYouTube operates a \"three strikes\" policy, whereby channels that break its community guidelines three times within a 90-day period can be permanently banned, but other infractions lead to temporary restrictions.\n\nProhibited content includes \"medically unsubstantiated claims\" relating to Covid-19, and videos that contradict expert consensus from local health authorities such as the NHS.\n\n\"YouTube is making decisions about which opinions the public are allowed to hear, even when they are sourced to responsible and regulated new providers,\" TalkRadio said in a statement this evening.\n\n\"This sets a dangerous precedent and is censorship of free speech and legitimate national debate.\"\n\nThe broadcaster tweeted the statement minutes after YouTube's change of heart. It did not appear to be aware that its channel had been reinstated at the time, but has since acknowledged the move.\n\nTalkRadio has about 424,000 listeners, according to the latest figures from market research provider Rajar.\n\nIt uses YouTube as a means to livestream shows from its studios and to provide an archive of past broadcasts.\n\nIts channel on the platform has 242,000 subscribers.\n\nYouTube's action had meant that TalkRadio's website had featured articles featuring broken embedded clips for most of the day, and that users who had shared its clips would have been unable to view them.\n\nThe US firm has previously imposed a permanent ban against conspiracy theorist David Icke, and a one-week video suspension of right-wing outlet One America News Network's ability to publish new clips - in both cases for breaches of its Covid rules.\n\nIt's pretty clear something has gone wrong at YouTube in the last 24 hours.\n\nIt appeared as though TalkRadio had been banned for good on YouTube - or \"terminated\" as the company put it.\n\nYouTube is now saying it was a short suspension, which certainly seems like a backtrack.\n\nEven now, it's not obvious what the offending material was that caused this action. The whole process reinforces the idea that YouTube's moderation policies - where it draws the line between freedom of expression and clamping down on misinformation - can be messy and inconsistent.\n\nAnd when YouTube takes such an action without giving full details, it rains controversy down on its own head.\n\nThis plays to a broader movement by YouTube and other social media companies to take a harder line on disinformation.\n\nJoe Biden is about to become US President - and he wants social media companies to do more to remove fake news.\n\nBut as they are increasingly finding out, refereeing their own platforms can be hugely difficult, and this highlights the need for greater transparency about moderation decisions.", "Last updated on .From the section Celtic\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says Celtic have questions to answer about their trip to Dubai.\n\nMs Sturgeon says possible breaches of social distancing rules while in the Middle East \"should be looked into\".\n\nHowever, Celtic insist the training camp was approved by the Scottish government, while the Scottish FA have no plans to investigate the trip.\n\n\"For me, the question for Celtic is what is the purpose of them being there,\" Ms Sturgeon said.\n\n\"I've seen comments from the club that it's more for R&R than training.\n\n\"I have also seen some photographs - and I don't know the full circumstances - that would raise a question in my mind about whether all the rules elite players have to follow in their bubble around social distancing are being complied with.\"\n\nPictures have emerged of members of the Celtic party in the UAE not wearing face masks and potentially breaching the social distancing rules that those in Scottish football must adhere to.\n\nIt remains unclear if the Scottish FA will investigate that matter.\n\nCeltic travelled to the United Arab Emirates on Saturday just hours after their 1-0 defeat by Rangers.\n\nTravellers returning from the UAE are exempt from self-isolation protocols in Scotland, with elite athletes in Scotland permitted to travel abroad to compete.\n\n\"Elite sport has been in a privileged position and as long as that is the case it's really important they don't abuse it,\" said Ms Sturgeon at her daily coronavirus briefing on Tuesday.\n\n\"I saw their [Celtic's] statement and have not spent a lot of time looking into it, but as I understand it the government gave advice to the Scottish FA about the rules around training camps in November.\n\n\"The world has changed quite a bit since then but it's not our role to sign off what a club does around these training camps.\n\n\"The rules may have to change, but they were that elite sportspeople and teams can go overseas if it is important in the context of training and competitions.\"\n\nMainland Scotland has been in Tier 4 - the highest level of restrictions - since 26 December, and Ms Sturgeon addressed the nation on Monday ordering people to stay at home where possible.\n\nDeputy first minister John Swinney has accused Celtic of not setting \"a particularly great example\".\n\n\"I don't think it's a good idea,\" he told BBC Radio Scotland on Monday.\n\n\"When we are asking members of the public to take on very, very significant restrictions on the way in which they live their lives, I think we have all got to demonstrate leadership on this particular question.\"\n\nWhen approached for comment on Monday, a Celtic spokesman told BBC Scotland: \"The training camp was arranged a number of months ago and approved by all relevant footballing authorities and the Scottish government through the Joint Response Group on 12 November.\n\n\"The team travelled prior to any new lockdown being in place, to a location exempt from travel restrictions. The camp, the same one as we have undertaken for a number of years, has been fully risk assessed.\n\n\"If the club had not received Scottish government approval, then we would not have travelled.\"\n\nIn November, Celtic requested their fixture with Hibernian, originally scheduled for this weekend, be moved to Monday, 11 January to accommodate the trip.\n\nThe SPFL granted the change, despite objections from the Easter Road side.", "Stationery chain Paperchase is on the brink of administration after most of its stores were forced to close over the Christmas period.\n\nThe firm has filed a notice to appoint administrators, a move that will give it breathing space from its creditors while it works out a rescue plan.\n\nThe company has 127 stores and about 1,500 employees.\n\nThe second lockdown in November came at a crucial period for the firm, which makes a high proportion of sales then.\n\nJust under half its sales, 40%, come from trade in November and December.\n\nPaperchase said: \"The cumulative effects of lockdown one, lockdown two - at the start of the Christmas shopping period - and now the current restrictions have put unbearable strain on retail businesses across the country.\"\n\nThe company went through an insolvency process, known as a Company Voluntary Arrangement or CVA, almost two years ago to cut costs.\n\nThe chain now has 10 working days to find a solution.\n\nPaperchase said its strong online trading had not made it \"immune\" from the impact of shop closures across the country.\n\n\"Out of lockdown we've traded well, but as the country faces further restrictions for some months to come, we have to find a sustainable future for Paperchase,\" it added.\n\n\"We are working hard to find that solution and this [notice of administration] is a necessary part of this work. This is not the situation we wanted to be in.\n\nThe chain is the latest of a string of high-profile retailers to hit trouble in the past year.\n\nThe sector was already battling with the shift to online sales, coupled with rising costs, including rents and higher minimum wages.\n\nCoronavirus restrictions which shut non-essential shops piled on the pressure.\n\nOthers that have run into trouble recently include Debenhams, which last month said it would cease trading putting 12,000 jobs at risk. Arcadia Group, which owns Topshop and Dorothy Perkins, has also gone into administration, putting a further 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nMeanwhile, Edinburgh Woollen Mills' brands Peacocks and Jaeger also fell into administration in November, putting 21,000 jobs at risk.\n\nAnd earlier last year, Oasis and Warehouse fell into administration in mid-April after failing to find buyers, and online fashion group Boohoo said in June it was buying the brands but closing all stores.", "Doctors' leaders have called for urgent improvements in personal protective equipment for health workers.\n\nThe British Medical Association is appealing for a higher grade of face mask to guard against coronavirus infection.\n\nIt says there is 'growing evidence' that the virus is being spread through the air by aerosols.\n\nThese are tiny virus particles that can build up in stuffy rooms and they have been linked to outbreaks of Covid-19.\n\nThis follows an open letter from more than 1,500 health professionals for staff on general wards to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care units.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) has issued guidance on what PPE staff in different settings require. It was last updated in October 2020.\n\nEarly in the pandemic, it was widely believed that to catch the disease you had to either be close to an infected person and hit by droplets from their coughs or sneezes or touch a surface they had contaminated.\n\nBut research during the course of last year highlighted how it is also possible for the virus to be carried in what are called aerosols, drifting and accumulating in the air.\n\nMost infections are thought to have occurred indoors in badly ventilated rooms, and many studies have shown that the 'airborne route' can be an important factor.\n\nAcross the UK, the guidance for hospital staff is to wear surgical masks in most areas.\n\nMore sophisticated masks - a type known as FFP3 that includes an air filter - are only required in intensive care or when certain procedures are carried out that are known to generate aerosols.\n\nIn their letter, the consultants, doctors and nurses say healthcare workers are three to four times more likely to become infected than the general population.\n\nBut they point out that staff in intensive care units, who have the best level of protection, have about half the risk of catching the virus than colleagues on general wards.\n\nThe letter states: \"It is now essential that healthcare workers have their PPE upgraded to protect against airborne transmission\".\n\nBarry McAree, a consultant surgeon in Northern Ireland, is one of many healthcare workers to be ill with Covid.\n\nHe is self-isolating at home right after his testing positive for the second time.\n\nA signatory to the letter, he says his hospital in Antrim followed the guidance about which type of masks should be worn in which areas, but he became infected nonetheless. It is not clear how and when he caught it.\n\n\"There's so much evidence that we are talking about an airborne infection that it has to be said that it is not appropriate just to wear FFP3 in environments when aerosol generating procedures take place.\"\n\nHe believes that with such high levels of the virus in the community and in hospitals, staff should be wearing the higher-grade masks whenever they're close to patients.\n\nSurgical masks can be bought online for about 10p each, while the FFP3 masks are far more expensive about £5.00.\n\nDr Barry Jones, a retired gastroenterologist and leading expert on aerosols, says that's nothing compared to the cost of a patient with Covid,\n\nHe points to data showing that roughly a fifth of people needing hospital treatment for Covid may have acquired the infection in hospital in the first place.\n\n\"We should do everything we can to reduce that possibility - it's the air we share that's killing us.\"\n\nA few hospitals have decided to break with official guidance.\n\nIt's understood that hospitals in Cambridge, Plymouth and Exeter have decided to equip staff with FFP3 masks if they face patients diagnosed with Covid or suspected of having it.\n\nOne consultant, who did not want to be named, said: \"When you realise patients are more infectious at an earlier stage of disease and are presenting at general wards with poorer ventilation than intensive care units and staff are wearing a poorer quality of PPE, you really want those in a position of leadership to listen and to act.\"\n\nRCN General Secretary Dame Donna Kinnair, said: \"Without delay, they must state whether existing PPE guidance is adequate for the new variant.\n\n\"While more research is carried out, we ask for the precautionary principle to be applied and staff to be given a higher level of PPE if working with suspected or confirmed cases.\"\n\nPublic Health England said this was a matter for NHS England to comment on.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"The safety of NHS and social care staff has always been our top priority and we continue to work tirelessly to deliver PPE that protects those on the frontline.\n\n\"UK guidance on the safest levels of PPE is written by experts and agreed by all four chief medical officers. Our guidance is kept under constant review based on the latest evidence and data.\n\n\"Emerging evidence and data, including on variant strains, will be continually monitored and reviewed, and the guidance updated accordingly if needed.\"", "Adamo Canto had worked as a catering assistant at the palace's Royal Mews since 2015\n\nA Buckingham Palace catering assistant who stole medals and photographs from the Queen's residence has been jailed.\n\nAdamo Canto, 37, stole items including signed photos of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and a photo album of US President Donald Trump's UK visit.\n\nPolice said some of the goods, worth between £10,000 and £100,000, had been listed for sale on eBay.\n\nCanto, from Scarborough, North Yorkshire, was jailed for eight months after he admitted stealing the items.\n\nSouthwark Crown Court heard police recovered a \"significant quantity\" of stolen items when they searched his quarters at the palace's Royal Mews, where he had worked as a catering assistant since 2015.\n\nCanto stole an album of photos from US President Donald Trump's visit to the UK\n\nA total of 37 items were offered for sale \"well under\" their true value, with Canto making £7,741.\n\nOne item was a photo album of US President Donald Trump's visit to the UK, worth £1,500.\n\nCanto also took official signed photographs of the Duke of Sussex and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nSome 77 items were taken from the palace shop, while others were stolen from staff lockers, the Queen's Gallery shop and the Duke of York's storeroom.\n\nCanto also admitted stealing a Companion of Bath medal belonging to the Master of the Household, which was sold online for £350, and a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order medal from the locker of former British Army officer Maj Gen Richard Sykes.\n\nCanto pleaded guilty to three counts of theft by an employee at a hearing in November and was jailed on Monday.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vocational exams, including BTEcs, are to go ahead this month in England - despite calls for them to be cancelled alongside GCSEs and A-levels.\n\n\"Schools and colleges can continue with the vocational and technical exams that are due to take place in January, where they judge it right to do so,\" said a Department for Education spokeswoman.\n\nFurther education college leaders had complained this was unfair to students.\n\nThey said students would face \"stress\" from taking exams in the lockdown.\n\nThe Association of Colleges warned the decision, giving schools and colleges the option on whether to carry on with BTecs, would create more confusion.\n\nChief executive David Hughes said some colleges would cancel exams and others would continue - but without any clarity about what would happen to \"students in colleges which do cancel for safety reasons\".\n\n\"A national decision would have allowed for more fairness,\" said Mr Hughes.\n\nThe announcement from the Department for Education has left it open for schools and colleges to decide whether to go ahead with vocational and technical exams.\n\n\"Schools and colleges have already implemented extensive protective measures to make them as safe as possible,\" said the DFE's spokeswoman.\n\nThe Department for Education said it recognised \"this is a difficult time\" but wanted to allow students who had prepared for exams and assessments to continue, including those who needed to take hands-on practical tests for qualifications for jobs.\n\nA joint statement from the mayors of Manchester and Liverpool said it was wrong to go ahead with these vocational exams when other academic exams had been cancelled.\n\n\"It is unfair to ask these students to go into colleges when everyone else is being told to stay at home.\n\n\"This will cause unnecessary anxiety and concern just when they need to be able to focus,\" said the statement from Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram.\n\nThe mayors highlighted that students taking BTecs were more likely to be from \"working-class backgrounds and ethnic minority communities\" and they should not be treated any less well than those following an \"academic route\" in exams.\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Khairi Saadallah admitted three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nA man who stabbed three people to death in a Reading park believed he was carrying out \"an act of religious jihad\", a court has heard.\n\nKhairi Saadallah, 26, stabbed to death James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, during the attack in Forbury Gardens in June.\n\nAs part of his sentencing, a hearing will decide if he was motivated by a religious or ideological cause.\n\nThe prosecution claim the stabbing spree was a terror attack.\n\nSaadallah has admitted three counts of murder and attempted murder, but denies he was motivated by an ideology.\n\nProsecutor Alison Morgan QC told the court he \"executed\" his victims and intended to \"kill as many people as he could\" in the name of violent jihad.\n\nShe said: \"In less than a minute, shouting Allahu Akhbar the defendant carried out a lethal attack with a knife, killing all three men before they had a chance to respond and try to defend themselves.\n\n\"Within the same minute, the defendant went on to attack others nearby, stabbing three more people, Stephen Young, Patrick Edwards and Nishit Nisudan, causing them significant injuries.\"\n\nThe court was shown CCTV footage of Saadallah in Morrisons buying the knife he used in the attack\n\nSaadallah was captured on CCTV leaving his flat on the day of the attack\n\nStating the prosecution's case she said the attack was \"carefully planned and executed\" by the defendant with \"determination and precision\".\n\nShe added: \"The defendant believed that in carrying out this attack he was acting in pursuit of his extreme ideology, an ideology he appears to have held for some time.\n\n\"He believed that in killing as many people as possible that day he was performing an act of religious jihad.\"\n\nAfter the attack Sadallah fled but was chased down by police, and later admitted the attacks in his cell, the court heard.\n\nIn interviews with police he \"howled like a dog\" and claimed to have magic powers, which the prosecution said was a \"disingenuous\" attempt to suggest he had a mental disorder.\n\n\"After a careful period of assessment and treatment at Belmarsh prison, it is clear that he does not have a major mental illness\", a report by a psychiatrist read out in court said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A friend of the victims, Michael Main, said: \"They were always happy\"\n\nSaadallah arrived in the UK as an asylum seeker in 2012, having fled the civil war in his home country of Libya in North Africa.\n\nThe court heard the defendant, who had been refused asylum, had been involved with militias as part of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi.\n\nBetween 2013 and 2020 he was repeatedly arrested and convicted of various offences in the UK.\n\nWhile in HMP Bullingdon, Saadallah was observed to be keen to interact with radical preacher Omar Brooks - associated with banned terror group Al-Muhajiroun - who was also at the jail at the time, the court heard. He was released from the prison in June, days before the attack.\n\nSaadallah had been due to be deported, but was told by the government circumstances in Libya at the time were a \"legal barrier\".\n\nThe court was told he had also searched on the internet \"how to disappear with magic\" and accessed a website with the flag associated with Islamic State.\n\nA probation officer who had contact with Saadallah flagged his concerns about his mental health, but a psychiatrist has since concluded the attack on June 20 was \"unrelated to the effects of either mental disorder or substance misuse\".\n\nSaadallah, of Basingstoke Road in Reading, launched his attack as people enjoyed a summer Saturday evening in Forbury Gardens on 20 June.\n\nEyewitnesses said he walked along a footpath when he suddenly ran towards a group of men sitting on the grass.\n\nHistory teacher Mr Furlong and Mr Ritchie-Bennett, a US citizen, were both stabbed once in the neck, while scientist Mr Wails was stabbed in the back.\n\nAll three were pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nThree others - their friend Stephen Young, as well as Patrick Edwards and Nishit Nisudan, who were sitting in a nearby group - were also injured by Saadallah.\n\nThe sentencing before Mr Justice Sweeney is expected to conclude on January 11.\n\nFloral tributes were left near the entrance to the park where the men were killed\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Zara Holland appeared on the second series of Love Island\n\nLove Island star Zara Holland is to be prosecuted for allegedly breaking Covid rules on holiday in Barbados.\n\nIsland police say the former Miss Great Britain is expected to appear in court on Wednesday, accused of \"breaching quarantine\".\n\nStation Sergeant Michael Blackman told Newsbeat she was \"intercepted\" at the airport and later presented herself at a police station.\n\nIt's not clear whether she will appear in court in person or by video link.\n\nAn apology from the 25-year-old for what she described as \"a massive mix-up and misunderstanding\" was published by the Barbados Today website.\n\nShe told the publication: \"I have been a guest of this lovely island in excess of 20 years and would never do anything to jeopardise an entire nation that I have nothing but love and respect for and which has treated me as a family.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEveryone in England must stay at home except for permitted reasons during a new coronavirus lockdown expected to last until mid-February, the PM says.\n\nAll schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning from Tuesday.\n\nBoris Johnson warned the coming weeks would be the \"hardest yet\" amid surging cases and patient numbers.\n\nHe said those in the top four priority groups would be offered a first vaccine dose by the middle of next month.\n\nAll care home residents and their carers, everyone aged 70 and over, all frontline health and social care workers, and the clinically extremely vulnerable will be offered one dose of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nSchools in Northern Ireland will have an \"extended period of remote learning\", the Stormont Executive said.\n\nSpeaking from Downing Street, Mr Johnson told the public to follow the new lockdown rules immediately, before they become law in the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nAll the new measures in England will then last until at least the middle of February, he said, as a new more infectious variant of the virus spreads across the UK.\n\nThe PM added that he believed the country was entering \"the last phase of the struggle\".\n\nHospitals were under \"more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic\", he said.\n\nAnd he reiterated the slogan used earlier in the pandemic, urging people to immediately \"stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives\".\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nA further 58,784 cases and an additional 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported, though deaths in Scotland were not recorded.\n\nAs of 08:00 GMT, there were 26,626 Covid-19 patients in hospital in England, according to the latest figures.\n\nThis is a week-on-week increase of 30%, and a new record high.\n\nThose who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be contacted by letter and should now shield once more, Mr Johnson said.\n\nSupport and childcare bubbles will continue under the new measures - and people can meet one person from another household for outdoor exercise.\n\nCommunal worship and life events like funerals and weddings can continue, subject to limits on attendance.\n\nWhile Mr Johnson said end-of-year exams would not take place as normal in the summer, he said alternative arrangements would be announced separately.\n\nThe government has published a 22-page document outlining the new rules in detail.\n\nThe House of Commons has been recalled to allow MPs to vote on the new restrictions on Wednesday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his MPs would \"support the package of measures\", saying \"we've all got to pull together now to make this work\".\n\nOnce again it is the threat to the NHS that has forced the hand of ministers.\n\nIn England there has been a 50% rise in the number of patients in hospital with Covid since Christmas day.\n\nTo put that into context, it equates to 18 hospitals being filled.\n\nCurrently around three out of 10 beds are occupied by patients with the disease.\n\nIn some hospitals it is more than six in 10.\n\nBut what is worrying ministers and NHS leaders is that the number is just going to increase.\n\nIn the spring it took nearly three weeks after lockdown for hospital cases to peak.\n\nThe last six days have seen in excess of 50,000 new infections confirmed each day across the UK - a number of these infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nIt is why the UK's chief medical officers were warning there was a \"material risk\" of some hospitals being overwhelmed if something did not change.\n\nMr Johnson spoke after UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nLevel five means the NHS may soon be unable to handle a further sustained rise in cases, the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, said hospitals were at a \"critical point\" and that \"immediate and decisive action\" was needed.\n\nAnnouncing tougher measures in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year.\"\n\nFor pupils who returned for their first day of the new term at primary school on Monday, it's turned out to be an extremely short-lived visit.\n\nBoris Johnson's announcement will see primary, secondary and further education colleges closed for at least the next six weeks, except for vulnerable and key workers' children.\n\nIt's a much bigger shift in policy than had been anticipated, even a few days ago.\n\nEven the return date will depend on the progress in tackling the virus.\n\n\"I hope we can steadily move out of lockdown, reopening schools after the February half term,\" said the prime minister.\n\nKeeping schools open was the government's most definite of red lines, a few weeks ago they were threatening councils that wanted to close them - but it's now been overtaken by the spiking lines on the Covid infection charts.\n\nEven after the chaos of last year's replacement grades, GCSEs and A-levels are being cancelled again - with a replacement system still to be decided. Vocational exams are to continue.\n\nFor parents dreading home schooling, there are plans for it to be better supported this time - with more computer devices available and suggestions that Ofsted inspectors will check what schools are offering.\n\nBut there's no escaping that this will feel like another sudden and chaotic change of direction for schools and parents.\n\nMr Johnson's pledge on vaccinations comes after an 82-year-old retired maintenance manager became the first person in the UK to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab\n\nSome 13.9 million people are among the four priority groups who will receive a vaccine dose by about 15 February, vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? What questions do you have? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill met throughout Monday\n\nThere will be an extended period of remote learning for schools in Northern Ireland, the executive has said.\n\nMinisters met on Monday night as other parts of the UK tightened their coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe Stormont executive also plans to give its stay at home guidance legal force, with new restrictions on travel.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said details would be formalised on Tuesday.\n\nThe health and education ministers will bring separate papers on the issues to the executive at the meeting, she added.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Education Minister Peter Weir had previously announced a staggered return to school for pupils during the month of January.\n\nThe first transfer test, used by many grammar schools to select pupils, is due to take place on Saturday but there have been calls from some teaching unions and political parties for the test to be cancelled this year, in light of the uncertainty with the pandemic.\n\nIn England, all schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning until the middle of February, and end-of-year exams will not take place this summer as normal.\n\nRecommendations on exams in Northern Ireland are also expected to be brought forward by the executive on Tuesday.\n\nIt is understood ministers will update the assembly on Wednesday about their decisions.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said the new restrictions were unfortunate, but necessary.\n\nShe said she believed the stay-at-home message will be in place \"for the rest of January, probably into February\".\n\n\"We will of course review it, as we're legally bound to do every couple of weeks.\"\n\nShe added that ministers would \"much prefer\" for face-to-face education to continue, but said they had to \"take into account the very serious situation that we find ourselves in tonight.\"\n\nBoth organisations which organise transfer tests will be making announcements on Tuesday, she said.\n\n\"We'll wait to hear what they have to say. They do of course have to abide by public health advice, but they are private organisations and they will make their own announcements.\"\n\nThe Irish government is considering a proposal to close schools for the rest of January.\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health reported that a further 1,801 people had tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours.\n\nThere have also been 12 more Covid-19 related deaths.\n\nThese latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,366, while 79,873 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic started.\n\nMore than 12,000 cases have been reported in the past seven days, more than double the week before.\n\nThe seven-day rate per 100,000 people is now 660 positive cases, compared to 200 per 100,000 two weeks ago.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Monday, an additional 6,110 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were announced, with six further deaths linked to the virus.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has already announced a fresh lockdown there from midnight, with schools closed until February.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme, Dr Michael McBride said Scotland's measures were \"prudent and sensible\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine rollout has begun in Northern Ireland.\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the this week, with some of the first doses delivered at a GP surgery on the Falls Road in West Belfast on Monday afternoon.\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca\n\nThe SDLP has called for the assembly to be recalled on Tuesday to discuss the rolling out of the vaccine.\n\nIt can be recalled if at least 30 MLAs sign a petition.\n\nOn Monday, Justice Minister Naomi Long welcomed the opening of Northern Ireland's first Nightingale venue, which will be used for courts and tribunals business.\n\nThe facility was approved by a meeting of the executive on 17 December, and will sit in the International Convention Centre in Belfast (ICC).\n\nActivity at the centre will be phased in, in line with Covid-19 regulations.\n\nIn other coronavirus-related developments on Monday:", "The 90,000 sq ft store is a familiar sight for commuters coming out of Oxford Circus Tube station\n\nThe building that houses Topshop's Oxford Street store is up for sale.\n\nThe High Street chain's owner Arcadia went into administration in November, putting 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nNews of the sale of the three-storey building has prompted an outpouring of emotion on social media, with shoppers recounting how important the flagship store is to them.\n\nThe store, which boasted a DJ booth, nail bar and food stalls, was a retail sensation when it opened in 1994.\n\nHuge crowds gathered at the store for the launch of Kate Moss's Topshop collection in 2014\n\nArcadia - which owns Topshop, Miss Selfridge and Dorothy Perkins - entered administration on 30 November\n\nThe sale of 214 Oxford Street, managed by agents Savills and Eastdil, follows the failure of Sir Philip Green's retail empire to secure funding to pay its debts after sales slumped during the pandemic.\n\nThe Oxford Street building also houses Nike and Vans stores.\n\nArcadia said that although it was in administration, and so all its assets are to be sold, that did not mean the shops in the building would have to close.\n\nPeople have been sharing their feelings about the London landmark, which was often used as a meeting point for friends and was a must-visit for fashion-loving tourists.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nArcadia, which also owns Miss Selfridge, Dorothy Perkins and Burton, had already closed other Topshop stores across the UK, citing the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIts brands were struggling before the pandemic, partly due to competition from online-only fashion retailers such as Asos, Boohoo and Pretty Little Thing.\n\nBeyonce launched her Ivy Park collection at Topshop in 2016\n\nThe flagship store is currently closed, in line with the rules about non-essential retailers\n\nThe Oxford Street store pictured during Pride in 2018", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sturgeon: Vaccination programme needs to win the race\n\nTough new lockdown restrictions forbidding people from leaving home for non-essential reasons have come into force across the Scottish mainland.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the clampdown was necessary to contain the spread of the new strain of Covid-19.\n\nPeople are now required by law to stay in their homes and to work from home.\n\nOutdoor gatherings have been restricted to one-on-one meet-ups, and schools will close to most pupils until February at the earliest.\n\nMs Sturgeon told MSPs on Monday that Scotland faced an \"extremely serious\" situation, with the new, faster-spreading variant of coronavirus \"a massive blow\".\n\nSchools will remain closed to most pupils until at least the beginning of February.\n\nThe first minister has said she cannot guarantee when children will be allowed back in classrooms or when the latest lockdown restrictions will be lifted.\n\nShe also told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme on Tuesday that she hoped 2.7 million people in Scotland would have received one dose of the Covid vaccine by the middle of May.\n\nShe said: \"I can't be definitive right now about when we will lift these restrictions.\n\n\"I have described this as a race - we've got the vaccine in one lane and we are trying to accelerate that.\n\n\"We've got the virus which has learned to run faster in the other lane and we've got to slow it down.\n\n\"Lockdown is about pushing rates of the virus back, and if we manage to do that then hopefully we will be able to start lifting restrictions while the vaccination programme is ongoing.\"\n\nA government document revealed there were now more than 90 patients in intensive care units, with new modelling suggesting that figure could more than double by early February.\n\nThe modelling sets out different scenarios with the most pessimistic predicting hospitals admissions could soar to more than 8,000 with over 700 patients requiring intensive care.\n\nThe document also revealed that Inverclyde - which a few weeks ago had relatively low levels of Covid - now has the highest case rate, almost 550 per 100,000 - while Dumfries and Galloway has seen its rate increase to 475 per 100,000.\n\nDundee City, East Ayrshire, East Renfrewshire, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire and the Scottish Borders all now have case rates exceeding 300 per 100,000.\n\nOnly limited data was released by the government in recent days but a full update on deaths, hospital admissions and local infection rates has now been issued.\n\nCases of Covid have risen sharply in recent days\n\nThe new restrictions came into force at midnight and are, in effect, an enhancement to the level four curbs already in place across the mainland and Skye.\n\nThey will run until at least the end of January and could yet be extended both in scope and duration.\n\nScotland's island communities, with the exception of Skye, are to remain in level three for now, although Ms Sturgeon warned this would also remain under review.\n\nNew regulations mean Scots are prohibited from leaving their homes for anything other than \"essential\" purposes - although the law provides a lengthy list of examples of \"reasonable excuses\".\n\nThese include shopping for food or medical supplies, providing or accessing childcare, exercise, and participation in extended households.\n\nAnyone who can do their job from home must do so, and people in the \"shielding\" category have been advised not to go out to work at all.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon announces stay at home rules in new lockdown\n\nNew restrictions have been placed on outdoor gatherings in level four areas, with only two people from separate households now permitted to meet up.\n\nThese restrictions do not include children under the age of 12, who are still allowed to gather to play, but everyone else must abide by them or face a fixed penalty notice.\n\nTravel restrictions remain in place between local authority areas and in and out of Scotland, and people have been urged to stay as close to home as possible when going out for exercise.\n\nSchools will now operate on a remote-learning basis for the majority of pupils when the new term starts on 11 January, with only the children of key workers and vulnerable children to receive face-to-face teaching.\n\nThis is to run until at least 1 February, with a review on 18 January - with Ms Sturgeon saying her \"fundamental priority\" was still to get children back in school full time as quickly as possible.\n\nThe new measures are a bid to control the spread of the new variant of Covid, which is now thought to be responsible for nearly half of all new cases of the virus in Scotland.\n\nOfficials believe Scotland is roughly four weeks behind London - where health services are coming under increasing pressure - and warn that hospitals could hit capacity within the month without major new curbs.\n\nBetween 23 and 30 December, the average number of cases per 100,000 people in Scotland increased by 65%, from 136 to 225.", "\"It could be something as simple as: 'I don't like what you have got on' - that would end in strangulation\"\n\nA fresh move is under way to make non-fatal strangulation a specific criminal offence in England and Wales, after the House of Lords debated the Domestic Abuse Bill.\n\nThe government has said it has no plans to change the law, arguing that non-fatal strangulation is already covered by existing legislation.\n\nHowever, campaigners say abusers who use non-fatal strangulation are telling their victims: \"I am controlling you and I can kill you\" - but too often are charged only with common assault.\n\nThis is what happened in Jenny's case. Her abusive partner used non-fatal strangulation as a means of control throughout the five years they were together.\n\n\"It was like his favourite thing to do,\" says Jenny, who asked the BBC not to use her real name.\n\n\"That sounds really awful and trivial but that is how it becomes as an abuse victim. You learn to accept that is part of your life. It was like something I had to manage.\"\n\n\"We would wake up in the morning and he would be in one of those moods, and I would see it in his eyes and I would think today's the day I'm going to get it.\n\n\"It could be something as simple as: 'I don't like what you have got on' - that would end in strangulation.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Domestic abuse victim - 'He threw me against the wall and strangled me'\n\nEventually one night she did call the police during an attack.\n\n\"He chased me round the house and every time he caught me he would pin me to the floor and strangle me until I had marks.\n\n\"I had burst blood vessels. I was streaming with tears. I just kept thinking: 'This is how I am going to die.'\n\n\"The doors were locked. He'd smashed my phone. I managed to get to the window and shout and one of the neighbours called the police.\"\n\nHowever, she was dismayed by the police response. \"I thought it was quite lax. They didn't take the strangulation as seriously as they should have.\"\n\nHer partner was charged with common assault. He pleaded guilty and was given a three-month sentence, suspended for 18 months.\n\n\"Strangulation needs to be a specific offence. I think the weak police response contributed to keeping me in the relationship,\" she says.\n\nJenny believed her partner would eventually kill her.\n\n\"I just kept looking in the mirror and thinking: you need to leave and you're the only person who can do it.\n\n\"So one day while he was asleep, I picked up whatever I could carry and I ran and got on a train.\"\n\nBaroness Newlove is bringing forward an amendment to the Domestic Abuse Bill in the House of Lords\n\nPoliticians and campaigners tried and failed to have a new offence of non-fatal strangulation introduced in the Domestic Abuse Bill when it was going through the House of Commons.\n\nDuring Tuesday's debate on the bill in the Lords, the Conservative peer and former victims' commissioner, Baroness Newlove, said she intended to table an amendment to the bill when it reached the committee stage.\n\nShe said non-fatal strangulation was currently not being picked up adequately by the police, as it often left no physical marks on the victim.\n\nShe described it as a terrifying crime, with many victims testifying they felt as though their heads were going to explode and they were about to die.\n\nPeers from other parties also spoke in support of a new offence.\n\nNogah Offer, a lawyer with the Centre for Women's Justice, which has been at the forefront of the campaign for a new offence, says: \"We believe this is a real opportunity to make a difference.\"\n\nCommon assault is a summary offence that can be charged by the police.\n\nBut when it involves domestic abuse, it should be referred to the Crown Prosecution Service, its guidance says.\n\nIn a statement, the Ministry of Justice said: \"Non-fatal strangulation is a serious crime which is already covered by existing laws such as common assault and attempted murder.\"\n\nA spokesperson said the government would keep this area of the law under review, but said a specific offence of attempting to choke, strangle or suffocate a person is included in the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 and, according to the 2015 Serious Crime Act, attempted strangulation can fall under the offence of coercive or controlling behaviour.\n\nDr Catherine White: \"Ultimately it can lead to death\"\n\nDr Catherine White, clinical director of St. Mary's Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Manchester, says: \"Strangulation often ends up being treated the same as a slap or a punch.\n\n\"It's a very different crime. Often there is no external injury to the neck, which is why it's a very powerful tool for the perpetrator.\n\n\"It can cause confusion but ultimately it can lead to death.\"\n\nA research project led by Dr White describes non-fatal strangulation as a \"gendered crime, with nearly all the patients female and the alleged perpetrators male\".\n\nAnd figures from the Femicide Census, which looked at the cases of women killed by men in the UK, found that in 2018, 29% died through strangulation.\n\nCampaigners point to New Zealand and some parts of the United States and Australia, where non-fatal strangulation has become a specific offence.\n\nMeanwhile, after help from a women's centre and counselling, Jenny now feels stronger and happier.\n\nDespite the pandemic, she says, having finally escaped her abuser: \"2020 was one of the best years of my life.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Body Coach says he will be running PE lessons online for children\n\nJoe Wicks is restarting his online PE lessons from next week, to help families keep fit during lockdown.\n\nThe personal trainer told the BBC he wanted to \"give children structure\" and help them feel \"more optimistic\".\n\nHe said live sessions would run on his YouTube channel at 09:00 GMT on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.\n\nSchools across the UK are reopening later than normal, amid tighter measures to curb the spread of coronavirus.\n\nConfirming the return of his \"PE with Joe\" sessions in an Instagram post, Wicks, known as the Body Coach, said: \"We all need this for our mental health more than ever and exercising can help.\"\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he had \"a really emotional moment last night\", after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a new national lockdown for England on Monday evening.\n\n\"I was thinking about all the children in the UK and all around the world that are at home in tiny little flats… and they feel like they miss their friends and they miss school,\" he said.\n\n\"And so PE with Joe three days a week is going to really help them get through those days and give them some structure and hopefully help them feel a little bit happier and a bit more optimistic.\"\n\nWicks first began his free online workouts during the national lockdown in March, with the sessions attracting millions of viewers.", "Boeing's 737 Max plane is safe to return to service in the UK and the European Union, regulators have said.\n\nIt ends a 22-month flight ban for the jet, which followed two crashes which caused 346 deaths.\n\nThe plane had already been cleared to resume flying in North America and Brazil.\n\nBut this week a senior manager at Boeing's 737 plant in Seattle warned that recertification had happened too quickly.\n\nRegulators in the US and Europe insist their reviews have been thorough, and that the 737 Max aircraft is now safe.\n\nThe European Union Aviation Safety Agency (Easa), which regulates aviation in 31 mainly EU countries, said it now had \"every confidence\" in the plane following an independent review.\n\n\"But we will continue to monitor 737 Max operations closely as the aircraft resumes service,\" said executive director Patrick Ky.\n\n\"In parallel, and at our insistence, Boeing has also committed to work to enhance the aircraft still further in the medium term, in order to reach an even higher level of safety.\"\n\nThe UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), which oversees UK aviation now Britain has left the EU, said the work to return the 737 Max to the skies had been \"the most extensive project of this kind\".\n\nIt said it was in close contact with Tui, currently the only UK operator of the aircraft, as it returned the plane to service.\n\n\"As part of this we will have full oversight of the airline's plans including its pilot training programmes and implementation of the required aircraft modifications.\"\n\nThe 737 Max's first accident occurred in October 2018, when a Lion Air jet came down in the sea off Indonesia.\n\nThe second involved an Ethiopian Airlines version that crashed shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa, just four months later.\n\nBoth have been attributed to flawed flight control software, which became active at the wrong time and prompted the aircraft to go into a catastrophic dive.\n\nEasa said it had done a full investigation independent of Boeing or the US Federal Aviation Administration and \"without any economic or political pressure\".\n\nAs a result, it demanded software upgrades, electrical working rework, maintenance checks, operations manual updates and crew training.\n\n\"We asked difficult questions until we got answers and pushed for solutions which satisfied our exacting safety requirements,\" Mr Ky said.\n\nThe CAA said it had based its decision on information from Easa, the US Federal Aviation Agency and Boeing, as well as \"extensive engagement\" with airline operators and pilots.\n\nIt comes days after a report by Ed Pierson, a former Boeing manager, claimed that regulators and investigators had largely ignored factors that may have played a direct role in the accidents.\n\nMr Pierson said that further investigation of electrical issues and production quality problems at the 737 factory in Seattle was badly needed.\n\nOn Wednesday Naoise Connolly Ryan, whose husband Mick died in the Ethiopian Airlines crash, said that the families of victims \"still do not have a full accounting of what happened and why\".\n\n\"Ultimately we are more determined than ever to find out exactly what Boeing knew about this dangerous aircraft, and hold them accountable for the deaths of our loved ones.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Paul Njoroge says his family died because of Boeing's \"negligence\"\n\nBoeing has already agreed to pay $2.5bn (£1.8bn) to settle US criminal charges that it hid information from safety officials about the design of the planes.\n\nThe US Justice Department said the firm chose \"profit over candour\", impeding oversight of the planes.\n\nAbout $500m of that will go to families of the people killed in the tragedies.\n\nHowever, attorneys for the victims of the Ethiopian Airlines crash have said the deal would not end their pending civil lawsuit against Boeing.\n\nOn Wednesday, Boeing posted a record $12bn annual loss after it delayed its all-new 777X jet for the third time, incurring huge charges.\n\nThe coronavirus crisis has caused demand for the industry's largest jetliners to fall, with airline customers shunning deliveries of planes due international travel restrictions.\n\nThe 737 Max has already been cleared to fly in North America and Brazil - now it has the go-ahead from European regulators as well.\n\nIt's a major step for Boeing - although with the current travel restrictions in place, it's likely to be a while before the decision has much practical effect.\n\nBut the controversy won't end there. Relatives of those who died in the Ethiopian Airlines accident have made it clear they haven't heard enough to be sure the aircraft - modified in accordance with regulators' wishes - is truly safe.\n\nAnd this week, a former senior manager at the 737 factory told the BBC why he thought existing planes might still be carrying potentially dangerous manufacturing defects.\n\nThat may explain why Easa has also chosen to publish a report setting out the detailed reasoning behind its decision.\n\nUltimately, the 737 Max may we'll have decades of successful service ahead of it. But for the moment, winning back passenger confidence will be a formidable challenge.", "The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has defended the inclusion of ransomware payments in first-party cyber-insurance policies.\n\nIt said insurance was \"not an alternative\" to doing everything possible to first minimise the risk.\n\nHowever, it added that firms could face financial ruin without the cover.\n\nProf Ciaran Martin, former head of the National Cyber Security Centre, said the UK needed to rethink its policies on ransomware.\n\nRansomware is a form of malware in which infected computers are remotely locked by cyber-criminals, who then demand a ransom, often in the form of Bitcoin, to unlock them and return the data they hold.\n\nThere are many examples of businesses and public bodies which have chosen to pay because they do not have the data backed up, or cannot afford - or do not have time - to rebuild their systems from scratch.\n\nThe Guardian reported that Prof Martin, now at Oxford University's Blavatnik School of Government, said he believed insurers were \"funding organised crime\" by accepting ransomware claims, but he told the BBC the issue of how to tackle ransomware was far broader than just the insurance sector.\n\nWhile official advice is not to pay the demand, it is not illegal to do so in the UK, he said.\n\n\"I have some sympathy with insurers, because as long as it's legal, there are incentives to pay.\"\n\nWhile the ransom demand may be high, the alternative impact can also be devastating.\n\nWhen the global aluminium producer Norsk Hydro was attacked in 2019, it cost the firm around £45m, and its profits in the immediate aftermath plummeted by 82%, reported Reuters.\n\nNorsk Hydro refused to pay the demand, which would arguably have been cheaper - but it did have insurance.\n\nA spokesman for the ABI said insurers do require that \"reasonable precautions\" are taken to prevent cyber-attacks from succeeding in the first place, just as cars and houses require security measures in place to deter thieves.\n\n\"Some might argue that any insurance that covers against a criminal act could lull the policyholder into a false sense of security,\" he said.\n\nProf Martin said he did not think that banning ransomware insurance claims would necessarily solve the problem.\n\n\"But it's worth a serious piece of consultation because if we continue as we are, things will get worse,\" he said.", "Cough, fatigue, sore throat and muscle pain may be more common in people who test positive for the new UK variant of coronavirus, a study by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggests.\n\nThe ONS findings are based on positive tests from a random sample of 6,000 people in England.\n\nLoss of taste and smell may be slightly less likely to affect those with the new form of the virus.\n\nHowever, it is still one of the three main symptoms of the virus.\n\nThe NHS website lists the symptoms as a high temperature, a new continuous cough and a loss or change to sense of smell or taste.\n\nMost people infected with the virus develop at least one of these symptoms.\n\nThe new variant, which was first spotted in Kent in September, spreads more easily than the previous form of the virus and has now spread across the UK, causing a surge in cases which prompted the current lockdown.\n\nThere is some evidence it could be more deadly than other variants, although the data isn't strong enough yet to say for certain.\n\nTwo other variants - one from South Africa and another from Brazil - are also circulating, although at lower levels.\n\nThe ONS analysis looked at the symptoms reported by people up to a week before testing positive for the new variant of coronavirus, compared with those testing positive for the old variant.\n\nThey were tested over two months between mid-November and mid-January.\n\nTest results compatible with the new variant show up as being positive for two genes, rather than three for the other variant.\n\nIn a group of about 3,500 people with the new variant:\n\nIn a group of 2,500 people with the old variant:\n\nThe study found 16% of those with the new variant experienced losing their sense of taste while 15% lost their sense of smell.\n\nThis was slightly lower than reported by people with the old variant (18% for both).\n\nThere was no difference found in levels of headaches, shortness of breath or diarrhoea and vomiting in both groups.\n\nProf Lawrence Young, virologist and professor of molecular oncology at the University of Warwick, said the new variant of the virus had 23 changes compared to the original Wuhan virus.\n\n\"Some of these changes in different parts of the virus could affect the body's immune response and also influence the range of symptoms associated with infection,\" he said.\n\nInfected people appear to produce more virus and this could result in more widespread infection within the body \"perhaps accounting for more coughs, muscle pain and tiredness\", Prof Young added.\n\nThe analysis is part of a long-term study to track coronavirus in the UK population, carried out jointly with Public Health England, the University of Oxford and the University of Manchester.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK nationals and residents returning from \"red list\" countries will be made to quarantine in accommodation such as hotels for 10 days, Boris Johnson has said. While exact details of the policy remain unclear, similar schemes are already in place elsewhere, including in Australia and New Zealand. So how does it work?\n\nAfter finally securing her family's place in Australia's quarantine system, Keri McMenamin prepared for the worst - and ordered a vacuum cleaner.\n\nThe 38-year-old was returning to the country with her husband and two children after securing a job offer - leaving the UK in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic last year.\n\n\"It is literally luck of the draw,\" she says of where her family would spend 14 days together once they arrived. \"You didn't know what to expect.\" Having done some research, Keri discovered Facebook groups busy with people relaying their experiences of quarantine.\n\n\"A lot of people were saying, 'Look, just expect the worst and then whatever you get is a bonus.'\"\n\nKeri's children Quinn and Nyala kept busy with board games\n\n\"There were people who had, like, filthy hotel rooms, appalling food, you know, really sort of tiny spaces, no opening windows, no balconies,\" she adds.\n\nThat's when she ordered the vacuum for a friend to deliver when the time came.\n\nIn the end, the family was taken to a hotel in Surfers' Paradise on the Gold Coast and given an interconnecting room. But still, the windows were sealed and their only time outside was 20-minute stints every two to three days.\n\n\"I think what kept us sane was having a routine,\" she adds. \"Joe Wicks in the morning and our yoga in the evening and sort of keeping up your 12,000 steps a day walking around in loops.\" The vacuum came in useful.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere are strict caps on the numbers travelling to countries using hotels to quarantine arrivals.\n\nBetween July and October 2019, 7.5m people arrived into Australia to live, work and visit. But over the same period last year, when enforced quarantine was in place, just 72,111 people arrived, according to government figures.\n\nPeople like Keri who have been through quarantine in Australia told BBC News that airlines will only confirm seats once a spot in a hotel is secured - leading to last-minute scrambles.\n\nOnline forums suggest expats desperate to get home are facing months of delays, cancellations and uncertainty - around 39,000 have said they want to return.\n\nQuarantine hotel stays themselves are costly - with fees paid for by travellers.\n\nThe quality of food provided to those placed into quarantine in Australia has improved since the start of the pandemic\n\nIn New South Wales, it costs the equivalent of around £1,700 per adult and £2,800 for a family of two adults and two children - billed after the quarantine is completed.\n\nArrivals into New Zealand are charged £1,630 for the first adult, with an extra £500 for each additional adult and £250 for each child.\n\nThe costs include the accommodation and a basic food service and even more basic cleaning - perhaps once per week, or not at all, with one change of linen and towels, depending on the facility.\n\nBut it comes on top of airfares, which have increased due to the pandemic. Fees can be waived for those who cannot pay and there are some exemptions.\n\nEach region has its own rules. In Australia, packages can be brought in from outside, and in New Zealand some of those in quarantine are taken to fields to exercise.\n\nMark Dickinson, from Liverpool, has lived in New Zealand with his wife Lisa for four years but returned to the UK to see their newborn granddaughter in December - he spoke to the BBC 10 days into a 14-day isolation near Auckland.\n\n\"We had to have a test on day zero, then day three, then we're having a test tomorrow on day 11,\" Mark says.\n\n\"The area at the front of the hotel is surrounded by a double-guarded fence. It may have cost us £2,000 but if that means New Zealand stays safe, then we're happy doing it.\"\n\nMark and his wife Lisa added photographs of their newborn granddaughter to a display in a small walking area at their hotel\n\nMany of those isolating found life does not stop in quarantine. Australian Brad Thiele started a new job and celebrated his 51st birthday alone in a 300 sq ft room at the Novotel in central Sydney.\n\nAfter being asked by a person wearing a full hazmat suit at Sydney airport whether he had any concerns about being held in a room for 14 days, Brad was taken to the hotel with a blue-light police escort. On arrival, the military were on hand to ensure he checked in.\n\n\"I quite like practising meditation. So I was able to just sort of just sit and be at peace with the fact this was the first two weeks of the rest of my life having lived abroad in Britain for the past 23 years,\" he says.\n\n\"I had some regimen, it was important to get up in the morning, make the bed, shower, iron a shirt and be smart casual for work. Just finding a rhythm and a pattern in the day.\"\n\nHe's yet to decide whether to take the Novotel up on an offer of a 30% discount on a future stay.\n\nOther countries' experience of setting up a hotel quarantine system provides an insight into the sort of challenges politicians and civil servants in the UK may soon be grappling with.\n\nInitially those in quarantine across the world complained about the quality of food being provided.\n\nThen outbreaks at just two hotels in the Australian state of Victoria were traced to 99% of cases in a second wave across Melbourne that led to around 750 deaths.\n\nA public inquiry found a lack of training, cleaning and contact tracing seeded infections into the local community.\n\nAn urgent review of the hotel quarantine system in New Zealand is under way\n\nReports at the time suggested encounters between private security staff and those staying in quarantine caused the virus to spread. The inquiry did not find evidence to back up the claims.\n\nBut former judge Jennifer Coate criticised a lack of \"health focus\" in the quarantine system in Melbourne, saying risks \"were foreseeable and may have actually been foreseen\".\n\nMeanwhile, New Zealand is investigating after a woman who had served 14 days in quarantine and tested negative twice went on to develop symptoms which were confirmed to be the South Africa variant of Covid-19.\n\nThe 56-year-old woman had recently returned from Europe and is said to have visited almost 30 places in New Zealand before her case was detected. Local officials say she is likely to have been infected by a fellow returnee.\n\nBack in Australia, knowing why the quarantine system is in place and the benefits it brings - the country has largely eradicated the virus - helps motivate people to keep to the rules, Keri McMenamin says.\n\nKeri's family have since been able to enjoy a Christmas with minimal restrictions following their stay in hotel quarantine\n\nShe has just spent a public holiday going about the sort of activities many of us in the UK can but dream of - and her children will be in school this week.\n\n\"We went to a local gym and had a group workout with 30 people,\" she says.\n\n\"And then we went to the countryside, and the kids built little boats out of wood and mingled around and there were families picnicking.\n\n\"I almost feel guilty for having gone through this process and now living a normal life,\" she adds. \"I feel like I don't want to talk to my friends in the UK about how easy our life here is and how normal it is.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the government's actions, saying: \"We truly did everything we could.\"\n\n\"I'm deeply sorry for every life lost,\" he said.\n\nA total of 100,162 deaths have been recorded in the UK, the first European nation to pass the landmark.\n\nEarlier, figures from the ONS, which are based on death certificates, showed there had been nearly 104,000 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nThe government's daily figures rely on positive tests and are slightly lower.\n\nMr Johnson told Tuesday's Downing Street news conference that it was \"hard to compute the sorrow contained in this grim statistic\".\n\nHe gave his \"deepest condolences\" to those who had lost loved ones, including \"fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, and the many grandparents who've been taken\".\n\nThe UK is the fifth country to pass 100,000 deaths, coming after the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nA surge in cases in recent weeks - driven in part by a new, fast-spreading variant of the virus - has left the UK with one of the highest coronavirus death rates globally.\n\nA further 20,089 coronavirus cases were recorded on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days. The number of people in hospital remains high, as do the UK's daily death figures.\n\nMr Johnson said the coronavirus infection rate remained \"pretty forbiddingly high\" despite lockdown restrictions which have been in place in England since 5 January.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons - including for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Johnson said he would set out more detail in \"the next few days and weeks\" about \"when and how we want to get things open again\".\n\nIt's a terrible milestone - and one that represents unimaginable loss.\n\nMost of the deaths have come in two waves - the sharp, sudden surge in the spring followed by a slow and sustained rise throughout autumn and winter.\n\nMistakes have been made - the delay locking down back in March is one that is often cited even by the government's own advisers.\n\nThe UK, like much of Europe, was also woefully underprepared with limited testing and contact tracing systems.\n\nBut the ageing population, high rates of obesity, the fact the UK is a global hub and its inter-connectedness with Europe are also factors that meant we were tragically never going to escape lightly once the virus got a foothold.\n\nSpeaking alongside the prime minister, Prof Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, described it as a \"very sad day\".\n\nHe said the number of people dying \"will come down relatively slowly over the next two weeks - and will probably remain flat for a while now\".\n\nProf Whitty added the new coronavirus variant had changed the UK's situation \"very substantially\" with infection rates \"just about holding\" due to lockdown restrictions.\n\nBut he said the number of people testing positive for Covid-19 in the UK \"has been coming down\" and the number of people in hospital with Covid has \"flattened off\" - including in London, the South East and East of England.\n\nHowever, there were \"some areas\" where the hospital figures were \"still not convincingly reducing\", he said.\n\nNHS chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said there had been \"continuing improvements in hospital treatment for severely sick coronavirus patients\".\n\nHe said he expected more treatments within the next six to 18 months, adding: \"We can see a world in which coronavirus may be more treatable, but for now, it's a combination of reducing infections and getting vaccinations done.\"\n\nOne day there will be a public inquiry - maybe several - seeking to understand why so many died.\n\nLast summer, back when the government was subsidising people to eat out at restaurants, Boris Johnson said there would be an independent inquiry into the government's handling of Covid, but gave no details or dates.\n\nHe still hasn't, despite a recent call from bereaved families, trade unions and charities for lessons to be learnt now.\n\nThe gravest public health crisis for a century would have tested any government.\n\nBut as the pandemic has worsened, the criticisms and questions have mounted - about the timing of lockdowns, the rollout of test and trace and the failure to protect care homes last spring.\n\nThere is now pressure on Boris Johnson from some Tory MPs to ease restrictions as soon as the most vulnerable are vaccinated.\n\nBut this evening a sombre prime minister said the government would first do everything it could to minimise further loss of life.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said it was a \"sobering moment in the pandemic\", saying: \"Each death is a person who was someone's family member and friend.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"national tragedy\" to have reached 100,000 deaths.\n\nThe government had been \"behind the curve at every stage\" of the pandemic and had not learnt lessons over the summer, he added.\n\nThe epidemiologist whose modelling in part prompted the UK's first national lockdown said more action in the autumn of last year could have saved lives.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson told BBC Radio 4's PM programme: \"Had we acted both earlier and with greater stringency back in September when we first saw case numbers going up, and had a policy of keeping case numbers at a reasonably low levels, then I think a lot of the deaths we've seen, not all by any means, but a lot of the deaths we've seen in the last four or five months, could have been avoided.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the death toll was \"heartbreaking\" and warned there was a \"tough period ahead\".\n\n\"The vaccine offers the way out, but we cannot let up now,\" he added.\n\nMore than 6.8 million people in the UK have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, according to the latest figures.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. Upload your pictures here. Don't forget to include your contact details, so we can get in touch with you.\n\nWe would like to respond to everyone individually and include every tribute in our coverage, but unfortunately that may not be possible. Please be assured your message will be read and treated with the utmost respect.\n\nPlease note the contact details you provide will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your tribute.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has suggested that Boris Johnson should not visit Scotland as it is not an \"essential\" journey.\n\nThe prime minister is widely expected to travel to Scotland on Thursday.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said she was \"not ecstatic\" about the plan, saying leaders should abide by the same rules as they ask of the general public.\n\nAsked about the trip, Scottish Secretary Alister Jack said Mr Johnson would go \"wherever he needs to go in his vital work against this pandemic\".\n\nAnd Downing Street has insisted that it is important for the prime minister to be \"visible and accessible\" during the pandemic.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman did not confirm details of the visit, but said: \"It remains the fact that it is a fundamental role of the PM to be the physical representative of the UK government\".\n\nThe spokesman added: \"It is right that he is visible and accessible to businesses, communities and the public across all parts of the UK, especially during the pandemic.\"\n\nReports have suggested Mr Johnson is due to visit Scotland on Thursday to thank staff involved in the fight against Covid-19, despite the \"stay at home\" lockdown in place across the country.\n\nSpeaking at her daily coronavirus briefing, Ms Sturgeon stressed that she was not saying Mr Johnson was unwelcome in Scotland, but added that she was \"not ecstatic\" about the idea of him travelling up from London.\n\nDowning Street says it is important for the prime minister to be \"visible and accessible\" across the UK during the pandemic\n\nShe said: \"We are living in a global pandemic and every day I stand and look down the camera and say 'don't travel unless it is essential, work from home if you possibly can' - that has to apply to all of us.\n\n\"People like me and Boris Johnson have to be in work for reasons people understand, but we don't have to travel across the UK. We have a duty to lead by example.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said her team had suggested she visit a mass vaccination centre in Aberdeen in the coming weeks, but that she had questioned whether the journey was \"genuinely essential\".\n\nShe said: \"If I'm standing here every day saying to all of you watching, don't leave your house unless it is essential, I have a duty to subject myself to that same discipline and decision making.\n\n\"I would say me travelling from Edinburgh to Aberdeen to visit a vaccine centre is not essential - Boris Johnson travelling from London to wherever in Scotland to do the same is not essential.\n\n\"If we're asking other people to abide by that then I'm sorry, I think it's incumbent on us to do likewise.\"\n\nThere are currently cross-border travel restrictions in place for anything other than essential travel, as well as a stay at home order\n\nThe Scottish secretary was asked about the move at Westminster by SNP MP Neale Hanvey, who described the trip as a \"futile\" attempt to bolster the union following a trend of polls suggesting majority support for independence.\n\nMr Jack replied: \"That's ridiculous - the prime minister is the prime minister of the United Kingdom, and wherever he needs to go in his vital work against this pandemic, he will go.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One protester said: \"This is the only way I can effect change\"\n\nPeople campaigning against the HS2 rail project have dug a tunnel near Euston station, in a bid to prevent their eviction from a protest camp.\n\nIn September, members of HS2 Rebellion set up a Tree Protection Camp in Euston Square Gardens in central London to protest against the £106bn scheme.\n\nThey claim the tunnel is 100ft (30m) long and has taken two months to dig.\n\nActivists say the tunnel - codenamed \"Kelvin\" - is their \"best defence\" against being evicted.\n\nOne protester, identified only as Blue, told the BBC: \"It is all very dangerous and life-threatening but it is all worth it. This is the only way I can effect change, I would sacrifice everything for the climate ecological emergency to not be happening.\"\n\nThe 18-year-old added: \"We want to be as safe as possible. It is not about us martyring ourselves, it is about delaying and stopping HS2.\"\n\nDemonstrators have previously built tree houses and scaled cranes near the HS2 Euston site\n\nA spokeswoman for HS2 said tunnel protests were \"costly to the taxpayer\".\n\nShe added: \"These are a danger to the safety of the protesters, HS2 staff, High Court enforcement officers and the general public, as well as putting unnecessary strain on the emergency services during the pandemic.\n\n\"Safety is our first priority when taking possession of land and removing illegal encampments.\"\n\nBritish Transport Police said it was aware of the tunnel but it was a matter for the Met Police, which said no complaint yet had been made.\n\nHS2 is set to link London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It is hoped the 20-year project will reduce rail passenger overcrowding and help to rebalance the UK's economy.\n\nThe campaign group alleges HS2 is the \"most expensive, wasteful and destructive project in UK history\" and that it is \"set to destroy or irreparably damage 108 ancient woodlands and 693 wildlife sites\".\n\nHowever, HS2 bosses have said seven million trees will be planted during phase one of the project and that much ancient woodland will \"remain intact\".\n\nSeasoned activist Daniel Cooper - better known as Swampy - has been at Euston supporting the campaigners\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told MPs in September that the first phase of the high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham would not open until 2028 at the earliest.\n\nThe second phase, to Manchester and Leeds, was due to open in 2032-33 but that has been pushed back to 2035-40.\n\nNetwork Rail, which owns the land, has been approached for a comment about the tunnel.\n\nHS2 protester Dr Larch Maxey said the tunnel was \"warm and quiet\"\n\nTunnelling as a form of environmental protest has a long history in the UK.\n\nIn the 1990s it was one of the ways that pushed environmental concerns into the headlines and changed perceptions.\n\nIn one of the environmental protesters' tunnelling guides, written by \"Disco Dave\", it says:\n\n\"In the world of NVDA (non-violent direct action) there are few defence tactics that can compare with the protest tunnel. Dangerous, laborious and time consuming, tunnelling is the ultimate and desperate tactic of desperate people in desperate times.\"\n\nThe first protest tunnel goes back to the M11 and 1993 but they only really developed during the Newbury Bypass protests in 1996.\n\nProtest tunnels against the A30 in Devon and Manchester Airport's second runway then followed.\n\nNot only did they make household names of environmental campaigners like \"Swampy\" but they arguably changed transport policy - road-building reduced massively.\n\nWe have seen tunnels more recently in 2017 in Coldharbour in Surrey in a protest against fracking so it's not a massive surprise we are seeing tunnels again.\n\nTunnelling in particular as a direct action slows down developers and it is expensive to dig out protesters safely.\n\nDisco Dave wrote: \"That ultimately is the purpose of tunnels and tree houses. To act as a deterrent warning the authorities that should they decide to evict, then it will hurt them where for them it hurts most - in the pocket.\"\n\nWhat will be interesting is if these tunnels have the same impact on HS2 as they did on the road-building programme of the late 1990s.\n\nWill it reframe HS2 so it will be seen in the same way as fracking or road building? Or can the argument still be made that it is a low-carbon form of travel even though it does cause some destruction of habitat?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Baroness Floella Benjamin has spoken of her pride after receiving a first coronavirus vaccine dose.\n\nThe 71-year-old actress said she would wear a badge saying \"I've had the jab\" after being vaccinated.\n\nThe Lib Dem peer, who came to Britain in 1960 and was born in Trinidad, is known for appearing in the children's programme Play School and received a damehood last year.\n\nOver 6.8m people in the UK have now received a first vaccine dose.\n\nAs a member of the House of Lords, Baroness Benjamin has spoken regularly about the disproportionate effect of Covid-19 on black, Asian and minority ethnic communities as well as the knock-on impact of the pandemic.\n\nIn September, she told peers she knew two people who had taken their own lives \"because they could not cope with the uncertainty of the future\".\n\nShe is also a member of the Lords Covid-19 Committee.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Floella Benjamin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe government has set a target for all those in the top four priority groups - around 15 million - to be offered a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nTwo vaccines - developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are being used. A third, from Moderna, has been approved.\n\nAll have been shown to be safe and effective in trials with two doses needed to offer the best protection - now timed 12 weeks apart.\n\nIt comes as British Asian celebrities united to dispel myths about the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nComedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali appear in a video urging people to get a jab.\n\nA study from the Royal Society for Public Health found 57% of black, Asian and minority ethnic people said they would take the vaccine.\n\nThis figure compared with 79% of white people who would do so.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAuthorities who dealt with a benefits claim from a single mother, who took a fatal overdose after her payments were cut, made 28 errors in managing her case, a coroner has found.\n\nPhilippa Day, 27, was found collapsed at her Nottingham home beside a letter rejecting her request for an at-home benefits assessment in August 2019.\n\nShe died after two months in a coma.\n\nNottingham Coroner's Court heard the way her claim was dealt with was the \"predominant factor\" in her overdose.\n\nRecording a narrative conclusion, coroner Gordon Clow said he could not determine whether she intended to die rather than put her life at risk.\n\nMiss Day, who had been diagnosed with unstable personality disorder, had been receiving disabled living allowance (DLA) payments as she had type 1 diabetes.\n\nThose payments stopped in January 2019 after she made an application for a personal independence payment (PIP), reducing her income from £228 a week to £60.\n\nThis, the inquest heard, was because a form she had sent went missing and her payments were not reinstated for months, despite her eligibility.\n\nThis led to her taking out short-term loans and ending up in debt.\n\nThe court heard in June, she called the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to say she was \"starving\" and \"couldn't survive like this for much longer\".\n\nPhilippa Day (left) took a fatal overdose and died in October 2019\n\nShe was then asked to attend a face-to-face assessment despite it being \"distressing\" for her, Mr Clow said.\n\nThe coroner added Miss Day's mental health problems were \"exacerbated\" by the benefits process.\n\nHe accepted it had been \"the last straw\" for Miss Day who was already experiencing a range of stressors.\n\nHe said: \"Were it not for this problem, it is not likely that she would have [overdosed] on the 7th or 8th of August.\"\n\nCall handlers repeatedly failed to flag that the case required \"additional support\" due to her mental health problems, the coroner said.\n\nThe DWP did not tell her community psychiatric nurse that she had not returned the form before refusing her application, which could have resolved the issue.\n\nThe coroner said call handlers received little to no training on personality disorders like Miss Day's - all that was available was a factsheet.\n\nCapita was made aware of the risks to Miss Day's health from a face-to-face interview by her community psychiatric nurse, but did not act on it, he added.\n\nMr Clow said: \"Given the sheer number of problems in the handling of her claim, I am unable to conclude that each of these was attributable to individual human error.\"\n\nHe concluded the failure to administer her benefit claim in a way that avoided exacerbating her mental health problems was the \"predominant factor\" that caused Miss Day to overdose.\n\nMr Clow recommended changes at both the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Capita, the authorities involved.\n\nIn a prevention of future deaths report, Mr Clow said the DWP should consider timely mental health training for call handlers and address \"poor record keeping\".\n\nThe DWP and Capita were also directed to review the change of assessment process so that it does not \"create unnecessary distress\".\n\nA spokesman for the DWP said: \"This is a deeply tragic case. Our sincere condolences are with Miss Day's family and we will carefully consider the coroner's findings.\"\n\nA Capita spokesman said the company also apologised for the mistakes made.\n\n\"We have strengthened our processes over the last 18 months and are committed to continuously working to deliver a high-quality, empathetic service for every claimant,\" he said.\n\n\"In partnership with the DWP, we will act upon the coroner's findings and make further improvements to our processes.\"\n\nThis conclusion amounts to a near dismantling of the process for applying for the main disability benefit for people with psychiatric problems.\n\nWhile around 40% of claimants for personal independence payments have mental health conditions, the inquest found that call handlers for the DWP didn't receive adequate mental health training.\n\nThe coroner found there was an \"institutional assumption\" in the DWP that problems with a claim were the claimants' fault.\n\nLast year a report from the National Audit Office (NAO) found the department had investigated 69 suicides of benefit claimants since 2014-15.\n\nThere were more cases they could have looked into, said the NAO, but in any case the department couldn't demonstrate any improvements from their investigations had actually been implemented.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jane Fonda has had a glittering acting career spanning six decades\n\nUS actress Jane Fonda is to be honoured with a lifetime achievement award at next month's Golden Globes, which celebrate excellence in film and TV.\n\n\"Her undeniable talent has gained her the highest level of recognition,\" said the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) - the ceremony's organiser.\n\n\"While her professional life has taken many turns, her unwavering commitment to evoking change has remained.\"\n\nFonda, 83, has had a glittering acting career spanning six decades.\n\nThe HFPA said she would be given the Cecil B deMille Award at the annual ceremony in Beverly Hills, California, on 28 February.\n\nThe Oscar-winning actress made her debut in 1960, later becoming one of the brightest Hollywood stars with films like Barbarella, Nine to Five and On Golden Pond.\n\nHer most recent performance was in the Netflix comedy series Grace and Frankie.\n\nFonda is also well known as a political activist, most recently as a campaigner against climate change. In 2016, she spent Thanksgiving among the protesters at Standing Rock, demonstrating against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.\n\nIn the 1960s she vocally opposed the Vietnam War.\n\nThe actress - who has written a book about how people can get involved in such activism - has been arrested several times during protests, and hopes her actions have raised awareness.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Labour is calling for juries to be cut from 12 members to seven, to stem the \"gravest crisis\" in the justice system since World War Two.\n\nShadow justice secretary David Lammy said action was needed to clear the backlog of thousands of cases.\n\nHe argued that smaller juries and the use of more temporary courts would allow socially distanced trials.\n\nThe government has not ruled out such a move but insists measures it is taking to clear the backlog are working.\n\nLast week four criminal justice watchdogs warned that courts in England and Wales were straining under pressure from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nJury trials ground to a halt at the start of the first lockdown, when people were advised to stay at home except in limited circumstances.\n\nWhen they resumed, there were severe delays and numerous cancellations due to social-distancing requirements.\n\nRecent figures revealed that the number of unheard cases in crown courts had reached a record 54,000.\n\nThe backlog means some from last year may not go before a jury until 2022, and it could be years before the courts get back on track.\n\nLabour wants the temporary return of so-called \"wartime juries\" of seven rather than 12 members to speed up the process.\n\n\"Victims of rape, murder, domestic abuse, robbery and assault are facing delays of up to four years because of the government's failure to act,\" Mr Lammy said.\n\nHe also urged the government to speed up the rollout of temporary \"Nightingale courts\" to hear civil, family and tribunals work, as well as non-custodial crime cases.\n\nTen of these were announced in July 2020 to help deal with the backlog in court proceedings, and 20 are now in operation across England and Wales.\n\nLeading lawyers are sceptical about Labour's proposal to reach back into wartime history.\n\nThe Criminal Bar Association - representing barristers who prosecute and defend trials - says a panel of seven may allow more courtrooms to be used, but it wouldn't solve what it says is chronic underfunding - and potentially undermines one of the most important safeguards in our society.\n\nThe Law Society, for solicitors, wants to see evidence that smaller panels would ease backlogs without risking injustices.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice's internal modelling calculated last year that reduced juries would lead to a 10% increase in cases - but that was before courtrooms received new Covid-proof screens that have allowed more trials to run.\n\nScotland's courts are using cinemas to host juries - and while that is not being actively discussed in England, it's not been ruled out either.\n\nEven if juries were slimmed, courts would still need to tightly control the number of defendants who can use their cells and courtroom docks to meet Public Health England's guidelines.\n\nIn April last year, the head of judiciary in England and Wales, Lord Burnett, backed the idea of reducing the number of jurors if social distancing continued.\n\nIn June, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland told the BBC he was \"very attracted\" by the idea of smaller juries, as had happened in wartime, and judge-only trials in less serious cases.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice says it has now installed plastic screens in more than 450 courtrooms and jury deliberation rooms to reduce Covid risks.\n\nIt says the safety measures are designed for 12-person juries and that the impact of lowering the number of jurors would be negligible.\n\nHowever, a spokesman said nothing was being ruled out and ministers were continuing to consider every option available to ensure courts recover quickly.\n\n\"This approach is already delivering results, with magistrates' backlogs falling significantly and the number of cases being dealt with in the crown courts reaching pre-Covid levels last month,\" he added.\n\nThe spokesman also said: \"We know more must be done and are investing £110m into a range of measures to drive this recovery further, including opening more Nightingale courts.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Karen Hobbs, from Cardiff, had a heart attack and died, weeks after testing positive for Covid\n\nThe family of a 40-year-old mother-of-five who died with coronavirus have urged people to respect lockdown rules.\n\nKaren Hobbs had a heart attack and died, weeks after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe former EasyJet cabin crew member developed symptoms a week before Christmas, was not able to get out of bed and started struggling to breathe.\n\nShe was taken to hospital and died on 19 January.\n\nKaren's sister Rachel Hobbs said her normally healthy sister became very ill over Christmas.\n\n\"She just looked dreadful, Christmas Day she was laid up in bed, she couldn't do anything,\" she said.\n\n\"I knew she was really bad but I'd never seen anybody like that before, it was shocking, for someone that healthy to be barely able to walk to a car is quite shocking.\"\n\nOn 2 January, Karen was put into an induced coma.\n\n\"She was really terrified, she said 'I need to come out of this and see my children again'. She never came out of it,\" her sister added.\n\nKaren Hobbs' children are now 14, 11, nine, eight and four.\n\nThe family were told Karen's organs were beginning to fail and she was \"going downhill\" about a week before she died, and they were allowed to visit.\n\n\"She did look a little bit better, she had more colour, she was quite puffy - swelling and a bit of a rash on her. Her lungs were struggling, so we came home a little bit shocked.\n\n\"They started feeding her in a tube and were able to move her, I thought perhaps she's recovering a little bit and then I had the phone call to say that she'd gone.\n\n\"Her body just couldn't take it any more. I don't think it's sunk in. I think the children are still in a bit of shock as well, I thought she would come out of it but she just had it so severe. \"\n\nKaren's children made her a get well soon card while she was in hospital\n\nRachel said her sister, from Cardiff, was healthy with no underlying conditions.\n\n\"She didn't go anywhere - she did online shopping, she was in the house - so we don't even know where it could have come from, she was one of the ones who stayed safest.\n\n\"It's just shocking to think a young mum of five is no longer here. They've lost their mum and they lost their grandfather and nan a couple of years ago so they must feel 'who will be next'?\n\nRachel Hobbs says it still has not sunk in that she has lost her sister\n\nRachel said her sister was a fantastic mother to her five children, aged 14, 11, nine, eight and four.\n\n\"I don't think the youngest understands, I think she thinks mummy's still just in the hospital.\n\n\"She was a very hands-on mum, she spent a lot of time with the children. She'd sit and play with them for hours, sit and colour, she was always there for them.\"\n\nRachel says her youngest niece does not yet understand what has happened to her mother\n\nRachel added that Karen had no patience with people who broke lockdown rules: \"She used to get quite annoyed about people who broke the rules and she wasn't slow on coming forward, she'd say it as well.\n\n\"It just goes to show how bad this virus is. She would say 'make sure you follow the rules because nobody is safe, it is real this virus, stay at home and only go out when you need to'.\"\n\nIn the days since Karen's death a fundraising page has been set up by friends to support her children and their dad, and has raised more than £20,000.\n\nKaren spoke of how frightened she was in her final post on Facebook\n\n\"I'm absolutely amazed at how generous people have been and how kind people have been, the community has come together and I think she'd be proud too that it's raising awareness about the pandemic.\n\n\"That'll help the children going forward now. Out of a bad thing, it's been nice people getting in touch, kind words, messages, little things about what she was like.\"\n\nKaren loved colouring and playing with her children, her sister said", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson joined the production line at the Lighthouse Laboratory in Glasgow for the unpacking of Covid tests\n\nBoris Johnson has insisted that Scotland's independence debate is \"irrelevant\" to most people as he urged the country to unite against Covid.\n\nThe PM was speaking during a trip to Scotland to emphasise the strength of the UK working together during the pandemic.\n\nThe SNP said he was panicking as opinion polls show declining support for the union.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon also questioned if his trip is essential.\n\nThe PM started his day-long visit by going to the Lighthouse Laboratory - which processes Covid tests - at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus in Glasgow.\n\nHe later visited troops who are setting up a vaccination centre in the Castlemilk area of the city, and toured the Valneva vaccine factory in Livingston.\n\nThe factory is expected to deliver 60 million doses to the UK by the end of the year if its vaccine is approved.\n\nMr Johnson used the visit to argue that the priority should be \"fighting this pandemic and coming back more strongly together\" rather than arguing about the constitution.\n\nAnd he praised the \"amazing performance\" of Scottish people in the \"national effort\" to fight the pandemic.\n\nThe prime minister said: \"I think endless talk about a referendum without any clear description of what the constitutional situation would be after that referendum is completely irrelevant now to the concerns of most people\".\n\nMr Johnson also criticised the SNP's record in government, and added: \"We don't actually know what the referendum would set out to achieve.\n\n\"We don't know what the point of it would be - what happens to the army, what happens to the Crown, what happens to the pound, what happens to the Foreign Office. Nobody will tell us what it's all meant to be about.\"\n\nHe told reporters that \"the very same people\" who wanted independence \"also said only a few years ago, in 2014, that this was a once-in-a-generation event\".\n\n\"I'm inclined to stick with what they said last time,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nMr Johnson met troops who are setting up a vaccination centre\n\nUnder the current Covid regulations, people are only able to travel between Scotland and England for essential reasons, with similar regulations also in place to stop travel across council boundaries within Scotland.\n\nAsked at her daily coronavirus briefing on Wednesday how she felt about the prime minister's visit while the strict travel restrictions were in place, Ms Sturgeon replied she was \"not ecstatic\" about it.\n\nShe argued that leaders should abide by the same rules they impose on the general public, adding that she had herself rejected a suggested visit to a vaccine centre in Aberdeen for this reason.\n\nDowning Street has insisted it is important for the prime minister to be \"visible and accessible\" across the whole of the UK during the pandemic.\n\nIn response to Ms Sturgeon's criticism, the prime minister's official spokesman said: \"These are Covid-related visits. You've seen the prime minister do a number of them over the past few weeks.\n\n\"It is obviously important that he is continuing to meet and see those who are on the front line in terms of those who are providing tests, in terms of those who are working so hard to deliver the vaccination plan.\"\n\nMr Johnson's visit to Scotland is widely seen as being part of a \"charm offensive\" in response to polls indicating a rise in support for independence.\n\nHowever, polls have also suggested that the independence question is currently a lower priority for many people than other issues such as the pandemic, health and education.\n\nA series of opinion polls have suggested that support for independence is now ahead of support for remaining in the UK\n\nCabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said it was \"only right\" the prime minister visited people on the front line of the vaccine roll-out to make sure it is operating effectively.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast Mr Johnson has visited other crucial locations in the UK's pandemic response, such as the Wrexham plant making the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, adding: \"No one thinks that's illegitimate.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer also said he backed the visit. \"I'm with the prime minister on this one,\" he told LBC Radio.\n\n\"He is the prime minister of the UK. It's important that he travels to see what is going on, on the ground.\"\n\nIt comes as the Scottish government sets out its budget, described as the \"most important in the history of devolution\" in the wake of huge spending increases to support people and businesses during the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson had a clear purpose on his visit to Scotland - to talk up what he calls the power of cooperation across the UK.\n\nDressed in white lab coat and protective gear, he was happy to tell me how the UK government is supporting the fight against coronavirus in Scotland.\n\nThat includes spending lots of money supporting jobs and businesses, building test centres, and procuring vaccine supplies from companies like the one he was visiting in Livingston.\n\nNo matter what the prime minister does, or that the UK and Scottish governments are following broadly similar Covid strategies - the public in Scotland perceives that Nicola Sturgeon and her team are handling the pandemic response better.\n\nThis visit was controversial because it happened during lockdown but it went ahead because the UK government recognises how much work it has to do to make the case for the union in Scotland, with Scottish elections due in May when the question of indyref2 will be to the fore.\n\nOn Sunday, the SNP revealed an 11-point \"roadmap to a referendum\" on Scottish independence, which sets out how the party intends to take forward its plan for another vote on the issue.\n\nIt says a \"legal referendum\" will be held after the pandemic if there is a pro-independence majority at Holyrood following May's election.\n\nAnd it says it will \"vigorously oppose\" any legal challenge from the UK government.\n\nNicola Sturgeon's SNP has published a \"roadmap\" aimed at holding a legal referendum once the pandemic ends\n\nMr Johnson has repeatedly stated his opposition to a referendum, and has suggested that another one should not be held for 40 years.\n\nOpposition parties in Scotland have also accused Ms Sturgeon and the SNP of putting the push for independence ahead of the Covid pandemic.\n\nBut SNP deputy leader Keith Brown said the prime minister's trip was evidence that he is in a \"panic\" about the prospect of another referendum.", "Jonathan Mok posted a selfie and another photo of his injuries on Facebook\n\nA 16-year-old boy has been sentenced for racially attacking a Singapore student who was told \"we don't want your coronavirus in our country\".\n\nJonathan Mok was beaten up on Oxford Street last February by a group of boys in an \"unprovoked attack\".\n\nThe teenager was convicted of racially aggravated grievous bodily harm following a trial at Highbury Corner Youth Court.\n\nThe chair of the bench gave the boy an 18-month youth rehabilitation order.\n\nHe was also ordered to wear an electronic tag, follow a curfew order between 20:00 and 07:00 for 10 weeks and must pay £600 compensation to Mr Mok.\n\nChair of the bench Mervyn Mandell warned that had he been an adult he \"would have gone to jail for a very long time\".\n\n\"This was an unprovoked attack for no reason other than his [Mr Mok's] appearance,\" he said.\n\nJonathan Mok had been walking home after having dinner in central London\n\nMr Mok, 23, suffered a complicated fracture to his nose and cheekbone which required surgery, screws and stitches.\n\nImages of his swollen eye were shared widely on social media following the attack.\n\nThe court heard previously how the UCL law student turned around after a friend of the attacker made a remark about coronavirus towards him.\n\nWitnesses described a \"commotion on the street\" where Mr Mok and his friend were \"confronted by a group of white males\".\n\nThey heard someone shout \"you are diseased don't come near me\".\n\nMr Mok was then punched in the face. The teenager joined the attack and continued to punch and kick Mr Mok.\n\nProsecutor Simon Maughan said the teenager was \"quick to get involved\" in the group attack.\n\nA victim impact statement read out on behalf of Mr Mok said the crime had \"taken a heavy toll\" on him and his family.\n\nHe added: \"My legal education had to be halted for a month due to surgery and follow up medical appointments.\n\n\"I have anxiety and have problems sleeping. I believe the defendant is a threat to Singaporeans and South East Asians. He has shown no remorse.\"\n\nThe teenager's defence barrister Gerard Pitt said the boy handed himself in following a police CCTV appeal last March.\n\nNo-one else has been charged in connection with the attack.\n\nMr Pitt said: \"He has always maintained he did not say anything about coronavirus and that was vindicated at the trial.\"\n\nThe court heard Mr Mok could not be 100% sure the defendant was the boy who said anything about coronavirus.\n\nThe boy had no previous convictions, but had two youth cautions for common assaults, the court was told.\n\nBefore being sentenced the teenager said: \"When I saw the picture I felt disgusted.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Robin Swann says all health workers are valued and have worked tirelessly during the pandemic\n\nHealth workers in Northern Ireland are to get a \"special recognition\" payment for their work during the pandemic.\n\nIt is intended that all staff will receive a payment of £500, said Health Minister Robin Swann.\n\nHowever, it will be subject to approval from the Department of Finance.\n\nThere had been calls from some political parties and health unions for staff to be recognised for their efforts.\n\nScotland has already announced a similar one-off payment and Mr Swann said it would reflect the \"principle of parity\".\n\n\"There are no words to properly convey what health workers have done for us, we will never be able to repay that debt,\" added the minister.\n\nThe development comes as Northern Ireland's Department of Health has recorded 16 more coronavirus-related deaths, taking its toll so far to 1,779.\n\nA further 527 people have tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours.\n\nThere are 775 people in Northern Ireland's hospitals who are being treated for the virus - 68 of them are in intensive care and the number of people requiring ventilators has risen to 56.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 54 more Covid-19 related deaths were recorded on Wednesday. It brings the Republic of Ireland's death toll to 3,120.\n\nThe Irish Department of Health also confirmed 1,335 more Covid-19 cases.\n\nSpeaking at the weekly health news conference on Wednesday, Mr Swann said the pandemic had caused \"destruction\" and left \"heartbreak in its wake\".\n\n\"Staying at home is making a difference. The R-number has been moving in the right direction,\" he said.\n\n\"We have to sustain and build on that progress.\"\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R rate, measures the infection rate of Covid-19 and had risen to about 1.8 after Christmas relaxations.\n\nIt has been falling since lockdown restrictions were introduced on 26 December, and Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride said NI's R-number for hospital admissions has now fallen back below one.\n\nBut he warned that the pressure on the system was still significant and would continue for several more weeks.\n\nHe added that there would need to be a \"sustained\" drop in the figures before relaxations of the lockdown could be considered by the executive.\n\nIt has also been confirmed that the number of people in Northern Ireland who have received their first Covid-19 now stands at 168,140.\n\nMore than 50,000 people aged over 80 have been vaccinated.\n\nOn the payment to health workers, Mr Swann said it would \"not be without its challenges\" but that he valued all staff in the health service.\n\n\"For some people, especially some of our lower paid workers, it may in fact have an adverse impact on their social security payments or supports that recipients may be claiming,\" he added.\n\n\"I have written to the ministers of finance and communities asking them to urgently consider the issue and to engage with the tax and benefit authorities in Great Britain to request that these payments are excluded from consideration in this regard.\"\n\nThere will also be a one-off payment of £2,000 for all non-salaried students on clinical placements in the health service.\n\nMr Swann added that he intends to provide a one-off payment for carers as well, describing them as \"among the greatest unsung heroes\" of the pandemic.\n\nBut he said: \"There is still more work to be done in this regard and it will be significantly more complex to administer than the staff payment.\"\n\nKevin McAdam, who is from Unite the union, said the \"recognition payments\" will be allocated with assurances that this will not affect pay negotiations with healthcare workers.\n\nMr McAdam welcomed that health care workers and non-salaried students on placements will be \"receiving something more tangible than applause\".\n\n\"The student payment is a recognition payment, it does not solve the problems around whether student placements should be paid, I think that is an argument for another day.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a senior Department of Finance official has warned there is \"a higher than usual risk\" of some £430m unspent by the NI Executive being returned to the Treasury.\n\nMinisters must submit further funding bids, or risk it being handed back at the end of the financial year.\n\nA department official, Jeff McGuinness, said the Treasury was being pressed to show flexibility in carrying unspent money over but added that it was \"imperative\" Stormont pressed ahead, rather then rely on agreement from Treasury.\n\nHe said the other devolved administrations were also asking the Treasury for similar levels of carry-forward of unspent fiscal allocations.", "More than 127,000 people in the UK who contracted coronavirus have lost their lives - with the pandemic claiming more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide. As the UK marks a year since the first coronavirus lockdown was called, it's a time for reflection.\n\nWe have gathered tributes to more than 770 of those who have died. Below are words of remembrance from friends, family and colleagues.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nThe tributes are displayed at random, which means that you will see different faces each time you visit this page.\n\nIf we have used your tribute to your friend or family member, it will appear in the carousel above, or you can find it by entering their name in the search box below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Enter a name to search the tributes\n\nFor more on NHS and healthcare workers, please see this page dedicated to 100 people who died while helping to look after others.\n\nFor more on how it has affected people's lives, from family tragedy to its impact on everyday life, we have a collection of personal stories about life in lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The limit on a single payment using contactless card technology could rise to £100 - more than double the current limit.\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic led to larger amounts spent via contactless payments on debit cards, credit cards, and cards connected to smartphones.\n\nIt has been less than a year since the limit was raised from £30 to £45.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said it will consult \"shortly\" on a change in the rules.\n\n\"It is important that payments regulation keeps pace with consumer and merchant expectations,\" the regulator said.\n\n\"Recognising changing behaviour in how people pay, as part of a wider consultation, we will shortly be seeking views on amending our rules to allow for a possible increase in the contactless limit to £100.\"\n\nThe FCA can set the boundaries for payments, under its rules, but the card issuers would have the power to set the actual limits.\n\nThe pandemic has changed the way we pay for things\n\nThe use of contactless technology by consumers has risen sharply in recent years, with more services adopting the technology and most shops offering it as an option.\n\nTo protect workers and consumers during the Covid outbreak, an increase to the current limit of £45 was rushed through by the regulator in April last year.\n\nThe latest figures show that the proportion of contactless payments had fallen slightly compared with pre-pandemic levels, because lockdown measures hit the use of pubs, restaurant, and public transport. They accounted for 41% of card transactions.\n\nHowever, there was a 16% increase in the total value of contactless payments in the UK in October, compared with the same month a year earlier, the latest data from UK Finance - which represents banks - shows.\n\nThe amount spent on contactless hit a monthly record in August, boosted by the Eat Out to Help Out scheme and fewer coronavirus-related restrictions. A total of £8.4bn was spent on credit and debit cards using contactless during that month.\n\n\"The industry believes that a more flexible approach could be merited in future, which takes into account consumer demand, fraud prevention, security and convenience,\" said a spokesman for UK Finance.\n\n\"Contactless is one of a range of payment methods and the industry will also continue to work closely with the regulator to ensure that customers can pay in a way that suits them.\"\n\nHowever, there may be less enthusiasm from some shopkeepers concerned about higher-value theft as a result of the proposed changes.\n\nAndrew Cregan, payments policy advisor at the British Retail Consortium, said: \"We have concerns about raising the contactless limit, with losses from incomplete contactless payments at self-checkouts currently costing retailers millions in lost revenue.\n\n\"Card companies should take measures to reduce incomplete payments and we urge customers to make sure their own transactions always go through. However, the overwhelming priority at the moment must be for the government to address the rocketing card fees.\"", "The UK has identified 77 cases of the coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa, the health secretary has said.\n\nCases are linked to travellers arriving in the UK, rather than community transmission, Matt Hancock added.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr cases were under \"very close\" observation and enhanced contact tracing was under way.\n\nMinisters are due to meet on Monday to consider imposing tougher restrictions on people arriving from abroad.\n\nScientists have said there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock said that \"three quarters of all the 80-year-olds in the country and a similar number of care homes\" have received their first doses of the vaccine.\n\nBoth the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses, and figures so far reflect those given the first dose.\n\nMr Hancock said that it was \"far too early to say\" what proportion of the population needed to be vaccinated before lockdown restrictions could be eased.\n\nAll viruses, including the one that causes Covid-19, mutate, and variants have been first located in the UK, South Africa and Brazil.\n\nThe South Africa variant has been found in at least 20 other countries, including the UK.\n\nMr Hancock said that all the South Africa variant cases in the UK were linked to travel.\n\n\"That's why we have got such stringent border measures in place against movement from South Africa,\" he added.\n\nThe UK closed all travel corridors last week until at least 15 February, with almost all travellers arriving in the country now required to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has not ruled out bringing in tougher measures at UK borders, telling a Downing Street news conference on Friday: \"We don't want to put that (efforts to control Covid) at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nMinisters are set to discuss whether to tighten border restrictions further, including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"We have got to be cautious at the borders.\"\n\nAsked for a date on when lockdown restrictions might end, Mr Hancock said it was \"one of the many things that we don't yet know the answer to\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock on easing restrictions: \"We don't know the answer\"\n\nGovernment data on 14 January showed there were 35 confirmed cases of the South Africa variant identified in the UK, and a further 12 \"probable\" cases.\n\nMr Hancock said nine cases of the Brazil variant had been found in the UK, adding \"we are monitoring each and every one very closely\".\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that Labour had been \"pushing the government to take tougher measures at the border since last spring\".\n\nShe said: \"We would fully expect the government to bring in tougher quarantine measures, we would expect them to roll out a proper testing strategy and we would expect them as well to start checking up on the people who are quarantining.\n\n\"Only three out of every hundred people who are asked to quarantine when they arrive into the UK actually face any checks at all - that's just simply not sufficient.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Johnson said there was \"some evidence\" the UK variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific officer, Sir Patrick Vallance, said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nThe PM said on Friday that there was evidence that both the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine and Oxford-AstraZeneca jab were effective against the variant first detected in the UK.\n\nSir Patrick has warned that the variants in South Africa and Brazil might \"have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines\".\n\nBut he said \"there is no evidence\" that the two variants have transmission advantages over those already in the UK and so having cases here doesn't mean \"they will take off\".\n\nMeanwhile, England's deputy chief medical officer warned that people who have received a Covid-19 vaccine could still pass the virus on to others and should continue following lockdown rules.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam stressed that scientists \"do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission\".\n\nHe said vaccines offer \"hope\" but infection rates must come down quickly.\n\nIt's a key question but the fact is that no one can be sure.\n\nThat's because the trials of the vaccines explored the safety of the drugs and how well they prevent people from becoming ill - with good results for both.\n\nBut they did not investigate whether vaccination also stops infection and therefore whether people who've been immunised can still spread the virus to others.\n\nIf a vaccinated person did become infected, they probably wouldn't realise because they wouldn't have any symptoms. That's why health officials and ministers are so concerned.\n\nIt's possible that the antibodies boosted by the vaccine suppress the effects of the virus but don't eliminate it from the upper airway.\n\nMany scientists are cautiously hopeful that in this scenario, the amount of virus would be reduced but they're waiting for the results of studies under way now.\n\nAnd until there's an answer, it's difficult to calculate how and when it's safe to ease restrictions and allow people to mix again.\n\nA further 610 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Sunday - down from 671 deaths last Sunday - in addition to 30,004 new infections.\n\nThe number of positive cases has fallen for the fourth day in a row and is the lowest figure since before Christmas.\n\nThe death figures tend to be lower on a Sunday and Monday because of weekend lags in reporting of the data.\n\nMeanwhile, more than six million people have had their first dose of a Covid vaccine - with the figure now standing at 6,353,321.\n\nNadhim Zahawi, the minister responsible for the vaccine rollout, said on Twitter that 6,353,321 of the \"most vulnerable and frontline heroes\" had received a first dose of the vaccine, but there was still \"much more to do\".\n\nThere were 4,076 Covid patients in mechanical ventilation beds in UK hospitals as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.", "A banned driver in a stolen car who drove into a police officer on his motorbike has been detained for three years at a young offender's institute.\n\nPC Steve Lovering was deliberately hit by Callum Fellows in Oldbury, West Midlands, after recognising him as a car crime suspect, police said.\n\nFellows, 18, admitted dangerous driving, driving while disqualified and assault at Wolverhampton Crown Court.\n\nFootage from 27 August shows Fellows reversing and knocking Mr Lovering off his bike \"sending him sprawling into the road\" before he sped off on the wrong side of the road and through red traffic lights.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister said he knew pupils and teachers wanted \"nothing more than to get back to the classroom\"\n\nSchools in England will not be able to reopen to all pupils after the February half-term, but could do so from 8 March, the prime minister has said.\n\nBoris Johnson said this was the earliest schools could reopen and \"depends on lots of things going right\".\n\nThe BBC has been told the aim is for all schools and year groups in England to return at the same time.\n\nTheir return would mark the first stage in lifting the lockdown, the PM said.\n\nHe told a Downing Street news conference: \"The date of 8 March is the earliest that we think it is sensible to set for schools to go back and obviously we hope that all schools will go back.\"\n\n\"I'm hopeful, but that's the earliest that we can do it and it depends on lots of things going right, and... it also depends on us all now continuing to work together to drive down the incidence of the disease through the basic methods we've used throughout this pandemic,\" he added.\n\nThere was not enough data yet to decide when to end the lockdown, he said, but intended to set out a plan for how it could be eased - and the criteria involved - in the final week of February\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg described the 8 March date as \"very much a hope and certainly not a guarantee\".\n\nMeanwhile, a further 1,725 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test, according to the latest government figures. The UK's official coronavirus death toll surpassed 100,000 on Tuesday.\n\nMr Johnson told MPs the country remained in a \"perilous situation\" as he said UK nationals and residents arriving from 30 high-risk countries would soon be ordered to quarantine in hotels.\n\nHe revealed a plan for the \"gradual and phased\" lifting of the lockdown in England could come in the week beginning 22 February.\n\nOther restrictions on daily life could be eased after schools reopen, but he explained this would depend on hitting vaccination targets, the capacity of the NHS, and deaths falling.\n\nAn earlier plan for mass testing for pupils and staff remains in place, the BBC has been told.\n\nEngland's schools have been closed to all but vulnerable children and those of key workers since the Christmas break.\n\nIn Scotland, it is hoped schools may begin a phased return in the middle of February.\n\nIn Wales, measures including school and college closures will be reviewed on Friday. In Northern Ireland, a review will take place on Thursday.\n\nThe prime minister said he understood frustration among pupils and teachers \"and for parents and for carers who spent so many months juggling their day jobs, not only with home schooling but meeting the myriad other demands of their children from breakfast until bedtime\".\n\nThe government initially planned to review England's lockdown measures - including school closures - on 15 February, which had raised hopes that pupils could return to classes after half term.\n\nAcknowledging the impact of continued school closures, Mr Johnson pledged to \"work with parents, teachers and schools to develop a long-term plan to make sure that pupils have the chance to make up their learning\" before 2024.\n\nHe said £300m \"of new money to schools\" would fund a catch-up programme over the coming year, with financial incentives for providers to educate pupils who have missed lessons due to the pandemic.\n\nAfter complaints about confusion and drift about when schools in England are going back, Boris Johnson has sought to bring some certainty.\n\nThey won't be going back straight after half term - but the target date will be 8 March.\n\nSources say the aim is for all schools and year groups in England, in primary and secondary, to return back on that date - rather than it being the starting date of a phased or regional return.\n\nAlthough that could be subject to any changes in local Covid-19 levels.\n\nWhen schools do go back it is expected there will be mass testing for pupils and staff, in the scheme initially planned for the start of term.\n\nIt still leaves parents home schooling for another five weeks - and means most of this term will have been without face-to-face lessons.\n\nThis will be a particular worry for pupils heading for whatever replaces GCSEs and A-levels this summer, after almost a full year of stop-start lessons.\n\nHead teachers say the delay is \"no surprise\" - and reopening must be done safely.\n\nAnd Labour says half term should be used to vaccinate teachers to help schools stay open.\n\nBut the prime minister will hope that parents would rather have some clarity about what's happening with schools, even if that means a longer delay.\n\nTeachers' and head teachers' unions said they supported reopening schools but added that it must be safe and not rushed.\n\nMary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said that although the most vulnerable would be protected by March, most parents would not be.\n\n\"It fails completely to recognise the role schools have played in community transmission. The prime minister has already forgotten what he told the nation at the beginning of this lockdown, that schools are a 'vector for transmission',\" she said.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, said the government needs to work with head teachers to review safety measures and create a \"workable plan\" for schools to reopen fully.\n\n\"The government will also have to put effort into reassuring families that it is safe to send their children back to school - there is a confidence test the government must pass to make the return a success,\" he said.\n• None How are Covid rules changing across UK schools?", "Times Radio's Tom Newton-Dunn asked about transmission rates in people given the vaccine Image caption: Times Radio's Tom Newton-Dunn asked about transmission rates in people given the vaccine\n\nTom Newton Dunn from Times Radio asks what we know so far about the rate at which people who have had the vaccine can transmit coronavirus.\n\nJonathan Van Tam says there is no clear data on how the vaccine impacts transmission of coronavirus but there are studies working on finding out and we will have that information in time.\n\nHe said the question is less \"will they\" and more \"to what extent\" do they stop transmission.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance says \"you don't have vaccines of this efficacy without there being some effect on transmission\".\n\nHe says it's an important question as \"it will also determine to what extent these vaccines can be used across wider society to reduce transmission overall\".\n\nNewton Dunn asks how the prime minister came to the date of 8 March to reopen schools and whether it would have been \"wiser to wait until you were sure\".\n\nThe prime minister says the date depends on the vaccines working in reducing mortality and serious disease.... and we need to make sure the infection rate is in the right place.\n\n\"We will keep it all under constant review,\" he says.", "Already 100,000 people in the UK have died with Covid, according to the official count. The idea of 100,000 deaths is hard for many of us to comprehend. But each was a human being who lived and loved in their own unique way. This is the story of one of them.\n\nBy 3:01am, alone in a hospital room, Ann Fitzgerald reached for her phone. This would be her last chance to contact her husband of four decades, the man she'd raised two children with, her Tony - to Ann, he was always her Tony.\n\nThe couple had made a pact. So long as Ann was in hospital with Covid, Tony would spend his nights dozing upright in a chair at their bungalow in Pewfall, Merseyside. That way, he would wake up if there was a message alert.\n\nIt wasn't much of a sacrifice, Tony thought, not when the woman he'd loved for 47 years was all by herself and frightened. And besides, each time his phone bleeped Tony would know she was still alive, and silently he'd thank the stars.\n\nAnd so in the early hours of Tuesday 7 April, Ann's last message arrived. She'd summoned the energy to take a farewell selfie as she lay in bed wearing an oxygen mask. \"She must have thought: 'Here's something so you won't forget me,'\" says Tony.\n\nTwo-and-a-half hours later, Ann was dead. She was 65, a mother, a wife, a neighbour, a colleague and a friend, and one of 999 people in the UK who died that day with the novel coronavirus.\n\nSoon after the hospital rang and told Tony of her death, he was at her bedside, dressed from head to toe in PPE. No visitors had been allowed to see her while she was alive, but now she was gone it was apparently fine - for reasons he didn't understand.\n\nTony wept as he apologised to his wife's lifeless body for letting her go like this, with no loved ones by her side. Then he turned and cursed the sterile white hospital ceiling and walls, because they'd been with her at the end and he hadn't.\n\nBack then, few could have imagined the UK's death toll would reach 100,000, or anything close to it.\n\nAt that point, the tally stood at 10,000; three weeks previously the UK government's Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance had said limiting the final figure to twice that sum would be a \"good outcome\".\n\nNow, 10 months on, the total number of people in the UK who have died within 28 days of a coronavirus diagnosis has increased tenfold, while UK excess deaths in 2020 were at their highest level since World War Two. The UK has had one of the highest rates of recorded coronavirus deaths in the world so far.\n\nBy any measure, 100,000 is a devastating amount, roughly equivalent to two Premier League football grounds, or the number of people who attend the Reading festival every year. For many people, the sheer scale of loss conveyed by the figure will be impossible to grasp.\n\n\"Numbers with lots of zeros are very difficult to interpret, and can be made to look large or small,\" says Sir David Spiegelhalter, a statistician at the University of Cambridge.\n\n\"If I say that 100,000 deaths is two months' worth of normal mortality, then it may not look so bad. If I say that it is more than all the [UK] civilian deaths in WW2, or as if everyone in a city the size of Durham got killed, then it sounds worse. It is challenging to adequately convey such a large number of individual tragedies.\"\n\nBut while many may have become numb to the daily death figures, behind every statistic is a real life lost - a real life like Ann's. \"That is why this arbitrary numerical milestone is important,\" says Hetan Shah, chief executive of the British Academy and a former executive director of the Royal Statistical Society. \"It is a chance to reflect again on the terrible toll this pandemic has taken on so many British families.\"\n\nIn a Manchester nightclub one evening in 1973, 18-year-old Tony felt a tap on his arm. It was Ann, a year his senior, whom he knew by sight as a barmaid in one of the city-centre pubs he sometimes drank in. She'd always stood out to him, with her olive skin and striking good looks, but he'd never dared imagine she might be interested in him romantically.\n\n\"I'm here with that fella over there,\" she told him, gesturing towards across the room. \"But I don't like him and I don't know what to do.\"\n\nTony walked over to Ann's date and told him to clear off. Then Tony returned to Ann, and the two of them had a drink together, and then another. Before long they were a couple and Tony decided he was the luckiest man in the world.\n\nSoon he learned all about Ann's background. Her Lithuanian-born Jewish father had died when she was two years old, and with her mother unable to cope she'd been passed between relatives throughout her childhood. By 16 she was living in a bedsit, supporting herself with waitressing and bar work - she'd also been employed at the legendary art-deco Kardoma café on Market Street and at George Best's nightclub, Oscar's.\n\n\"As a consequence of her upbringing she was really, really independent,\" says Tony. \"She was really good at talking to people, and she was sharp - the sharpest, wittiest person I've ever met.\"\n\nThey rented a flat in Fallowfield together and made it their home. After Ann was offered relief work running bars around Manchester, Tony quit his job as a sales rep to join her. Eventually, in 1981, they took on their own pub. It was in what was then a tough part of Salford, but Ann had grown up nearby and knew how to handle the local characters: \"She could have you in stitches, but she could throw you a look, and you knew you had to behave yourself,\" Tony says.\n\nThe couple were offered the chance to take on another pub in Sale Moor. They thought they were going upmarket, but it turned out to be quite the reverse; Tony would joke that he should take away all the tables and chairs and install a boxing ring instead.\n\nBut Ann wasn't intimidated by anyone. According to Tony, when a notorious local villain turned up and demanded a free drink, Ann stood her ground: \"My husband's name is above the front door, and he pays for his drinks, so you're going to pay for yours,\" she told him. Impressed, the villain ended up buying one for Ann instead.\n\nShe and Tony knew it was time to quit when burglars broke in one night while their baby daughter slept in her cot upstairs. Tony went back on the road as a salesman; Ann worked variously as a debt counsellor, an incident manager for the RAC, and a sales trainer at a cotton firm. Their children, Gary, and Rachel, never once heard them argue, Tony says.\n\nFor six years the couple had a stall at Altrincham Market selling women's clothes. \"People would come, not necessarily to buy something - they just wanted to see Ann,\" says Tony. \"And as a consequence, they'd buy something they didn't really want.\" Each time this happened, Ann would give Tony a wink.\n\nBy the start of 2020, Ann and Tony were looking forward to a long retirement together. Both their children had left home, and they'd recently moved to the bungalow. The news broadcasts had begun describing a deadly pandemic that had spread from China. But Ann wasn't leaving the house much while she recovered from an operation to replace both hips.\n\nThen one Thursday in March she went for a haircut; she asked for the colour to be darkened slightly too, and when he first saw her afterwards Tony told her how much he loved it. Ann mentioned that the hairdresser had been coughing.\n\nThree days later, Ann began coughing too, and soon afterwards so did Tony. But with a fever, she felt worse, and within a few more days she was barely able to stand. She asked Tony to call 999.\n\nThe paramedics helped her to the ambulance. It haunts Tony now that he didn't hug or kiss her as they said goodbye. \"Neither of us thought for one moment that it would be the last day I would ever see her alive,\" he says. She told him they'd probably give her antibiotics and he could come and pick her up in a few hours.\n\nBut later that day she phoned him to say the doctors suspected Covid and they would be keeping her in. As in many hospitals during the first wave, no visiting was allowed.\n\nTony could only stay in touch with her by phone. When a doctor told him the next 24 hours were critical, he didn't tell Ann, because he knew how scared she was already by then.\n\nBut he did pass on something else the medic had said - that they were deeply impressed by her upbeat attitude and fighting spirit. Tony told her, too, that he believed she would be home soon: \"I had to say that to keep her fighting, and fight she did for 10 days.\"\n\nThe last time they spoke was Saturday 4 April. Ann told Tony she thought she'd turned a corner; she'd eaten a sandwich and some yoghurt. After that, talking became too difficult for her; she wasn't in intensive care but the mask she wore to help her breathe was getting in the way.\n\nThree days after their last conversation, Tony was sitting in a white hospital room beside Ann's body. He sat with her there for an hour. He didn't just apologise, he also promised he'd make sure she was remembered properly. When it was time to leave, a nurse gave him a booklet about bereavement and a black bag in which to put Ann's belongings. Tony carried them along a hospital corridor, wondering how he would tell Gary and Rachel their mum was dead.\n\nThere are eight photographs of Ann in Tony's living room. In each of them she looks full of joy. \"Every time I look around, there's a picture of Ann somewhere,\" Tony says. \"She's smiling and I'm thinking, 'If only I could turn back the clock.' But I can't, you know, and nor can all those other families and relations, either.\"\n\nNearly 10 months after Ann's death, Tony finds himself resenting the home he's been left alone inside. If they hadn't moved there, he reasons, Ann wouldn't have gone to that hairdresser's that day and caught the virus - she'd still be alive, perhaps.\n\nHe feels robbed of the 20 additional years he hoped they'd spend together, as surely will thousands of other bereaved relatives. While the impact on the very oldest has been widely recognised, those who might have looked forward to a long retirement have been badly hit, too - during the pandemic, around 15% of all UK fatalities with Covid mentioned on the death certificate have been among those aged 65-74.\n\nTony desperately wishes his life would go back to how it was, but knows it won't.\n\nAnn's funeral didn't give him any closure. Tony would rather she had been buried, but the undertaker warned him to hurry - extra restrictions could be introduced any time - so he took the date that was offered by the crematorium.\n\nAs it was, under the rules that were already in force, only 10 mourners were permitted, spaced out around the chapel. No flowers or photographs on display, no hugging.\n\nTony understood why all this was necessary - but it wasn't the celebration of Ann's bright, gregarious, love-filled life that he thought she deserved. He'd have to plan another one when all this was over.\n\nAs the months went on, Tony joined online Covid support groups. It helped talking to others who understood how it felt to have lost someone. There was the family of a 19-year-old boy. A woman who was mourning both her mum and her dad. Another woman whose husband had died in the car as she drove him to hospital.\n\nHe thought of these stories each time he switched on the news and watched the Covid mortality figures climb higher and higher. Behind these cold statistics were human lives. And each was as unique as Ann, with a personality and backstory entirely of their own.\n\nIt would have been Ann and Tony's 41st wedding anniversary on 6 October, the day before the six-month anniversary of her death. The following month, a few days after the UK's Covid death toll reached 50,000, Tony once again felt Ann's absence bitterly on what would have been her 66th birthday.\n\n\"Christmas was a nightmare for me,\" he says. Under the rules for the festive season, Gary and Rachel and their partners were able to be there with him, and cooking lunch kept him busy most of the day. But afterwards, when he was on his own again, the reality hit that another celebration had gone by without Ann beside him, and Tony sat down and sobbed.\n\nFor millions the arrival of the Covid vaccines has brought hope, but it is a cold comfort for those who have lost someone. If every one of the 100,000 were loved by a dozen people, \"that's a million people in Britain who have been bereaved\", says the bioethicist and sociologist Prof Sir Tom Shakespeare. \"We need a national monument, some form of remembering.\"\n\nTony is not one of those who will find it hard to grasp the significance of this bleak milestone.\n\n\"To me it's 100,000 poor souls fighting for breath, and they've not had a hug from anyone in their family,\" he says. \"There's a name - there's a person behind that number. And then they've passed away, and the family goes through the grief that I've been through - the numbness, the shock, the anguish and the pain to come.\"", "Microsoft has reported booming demand for its Xbox gaming consoles as the pandemic continues to lift the fortunes of the American tech giant.\n\nIts Azure cloud computing services also got a boost due to a surge in working and learning from home.\n\nThe gains helped push the firm's overall revenue up 17% to a record $43.1bn (£31.4bn).\n\nBut its growth came as the virus continues to weigh on other industries.\n\nMicrosoft boss Satya Nadella said the firm is benefiting from a long-term shift in behaviour.\n\n\"What we have witnessed over the past year is the dawn of a second wave of digital transformation sweeping every company and every industry,\" he said.\n\nXbox sales jumped 40% in the three months to 31 December while Azure services soared 50%.\n\nThe virus continues to weigh on industries outside of tech\n\nThe pandemic has prompted many firms to switch to remote working, while keeping many entertainment options outside of the home off-limits.\n\nMicrosoft has seized on the changes, focusing energy on updating its remote work software options.\n\nThe firm also released two new Xbox consoles in November, helping to boost the performance of its personal computing unit.\n\nMicrosoft's gaming business topped $5bn in quarterly sales for the first time ever due to gaming subscriptions and sales as well as new consoles.\n\nThe firm said profits in the quarter rose 33% compared with last year to $15.5bn.\n\nIts shares - which climbed roughly 40% last year - were up another 4% in after-hours trade,\n\n\"These were blow out numbers that will be another feather in the cap for the tech sector as the cloud growth party is just getting started,\" said Dan Ives, an analyst at Wedbush Securities.\n\nBut the gains enjoyed by tech firms like Microsoft stand in contrast to the ongoing struggles seen in other industries such as hospitality, retail and travel.\n\nCoffee chain Starbucks on Tuesday said its sales in the last three months of 2020 fell roughly 5% compared to 2019, driven by a drop in business in the US where concerns about Covid-19 have prompted authorities to urge people to stay at home.\n\nIn China, where the virus is under more control, sales rose 5%, the company said.\n\nThe firm said it expected business to return to growth in the next few months, including in the critical US market.\n\nBut profits in the quarter dropped 30% to $622.2m compared with last year, sending the firm's shares lower in after-hours trade.", "Apple sales have hit another record, as families loaded up on the firm's latest phones, laptops and gadgets during the Christmas period.\n\nSales in the last three months of 2020 hit more than $111bn (£81bn) - up 21% from the prior year.\n\nThe gains come as the pandemic pushes more activity online, fuelling demand for new technology.\n\nApple now counts more than 1.65 billion active devices globally, including more than 1 billion iPhones.\n\nApple's gains follow the release of its new iPhone 12 suite of phones, which executives said had convinced a record number of people to switch to the company or upgrade from older models.\n\nThe firm said growth in China - where the pandemic has already loosened its grip on the economy - was particularly strong, helped in part by demand for phones compatible with new 5G networks.\n\nSales in the firm's greater China region, which includes Hong Kong and Taiwan, jumped 57%. In Europe, sales roles 17%, and they rose 11% in the Americas.\n\n\"The products are doing very well all around the world,\" said Luca Maestri, Apple's chief financial officer. \"As we look ahead into the March quarter, we're very optimistic.\"\n\nAnalyst Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities said he thought the firm was just at the beginning of a \"super-cycle\" as Apple devotees finally trade in old phones, coinciding with upgrades to telecommunications networks.\n\n\"With 5G now in the cards and roughly 40% of its 'golden jewel' iPhone installed base not upgrading their phones in the last 3.5 years, [Apple chief Tim] Cook & Co have the stage set for a renaissance of growth,\" he wrote.\n\nBig Tech is having an exceptionally lucrative pandemic.\n\nIt's hard not to be wowed by some of these figures.\n\nThat Apple recorded more than $100bn in sales in just three months is simply astonishing.\n\nFacebook figures are also well up on where they were last year.\n\nAs other companies have struggled to survive, Big Tech has flourished.\n\nThere are other reasons for some of these incredible figures. Certainly it seems iPhone enthusiasts were holding out for the new 5G enabled iPhone12.\n\nBut it's not just Apple and Facebook, all of the massive tech companies are having a bumper year.\n\nCovid-19 means people are spending more time indoors - buying things online, watching things online and chatting online.\n\nPerhaps then it's no surprise that these companies are posting record breaking figures.\n\nBut others point to these figures as yet more evidence that Big Tech has become too big to fail.\n\nThese figures are impressive. But they also attract the attention of politicians who are increasingly asking difficult questions - like are these tech mega companies operating in a market that is fair and with enough competition?\n\nApple said profits in the quarter reached nearly $28.8bn, up 29% compared with the same quarter last year.\n\nThe gains seen by technology firms like Apple contrast with losses hitting many other economic sectors, as the virus restricts activity and keeps shoppers at home.\n\nOther tech firms, such as Microsoft and Facebook, have also enjoyed strong growth.\n\nFacebook on Wednesday said increased online shopping during the pandemic helped lift ad revenue in the quarter by 30%.\n\nThe number of people active on its apps - which also include WhatsApp and Instagram - also rose to 2.6 billion daily, up 15% compared to 2019.\n\nIt said ad spending could slow as the Covid crisis relaxes and shopper appetite returns for services like travel rather than products.\n\nIt also warned that plans by Apple to change how it shares user data could weigh on growth.", "The ink and watercolour maps are believed to have been created the year after the battle\n\nHand-drawn, Elizabethan-era maps depicting the Spanish Armada have been saved for the nation after £600,000 was raised to buy them.\n\nThe 10 maps, believed to have been drawn the year after the famous battle of 1588, were sold to an overseas buyer in July but an export ban was imposed.\n\nThe National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN) in Portsmouth raised the money in eight weeks.\n\nIt is now seeking further funds to put the maps on display for the first time.\n\nIt is believed the drawings, completed by an unknown draughtsman, possibly from the Netherlands, were based on a set of engravings from the same year by Elizabethan cartographer Robert Adams.\n\nIn the summer of 1588 the Spanish Armada set sail for England after decades of hostility between Spain's Catholic King Philip II and the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I.\n\nIt is regarded as one of the most significant naval battles in history, when the English fleet of 66 ships defeated the Armada, twice its size, by sailing fire ships into its formation off Calais.\n\nThe English fleet defeated the Spanish Armada in the English Channel in 1588\n\nThe ink and watercolour maps were sold for £600,000, but culture minister Caroline Dinenage imposed an export ban until January and called for a museum or institution to raise funds to purchase them.\n\nNMRN director general Prof Dominic Tweddle said members of the public had \"dug deep in extremely difficult times\".\n\nThe target was reached with the help of £212,800 from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and £200,000 from the Art Fund.\n\nMs Dinenage said: \"The export bar system exists so we can keep nationally important works in the country and I am delighted that, thanks to the tireless work of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, the Armada maps will now go on display to educate and inspire future generations.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Chris Whitty said it was a very sad day, as the UK surpassed 100,000 Covid deaths\n\nThe number of daily coronavirus deaths in the UK is likely to come down \"relatively slowly\", England's chief medical officer has warned.\n\nProf Chris Whitty said the UK was going to see \"a lot more deaths\" over the next few weeks before the effects of the vaccination programme were felt.\n\nCurrent restrictions were \"just about holding\" in lowering infection rates, he told a Downing Street briefing.\n\nIt comes as the UK surpassed 100,000 coronavirus deaths on Tuesday.\n\nA further 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nAnd 20,089 coronavirus cases were reported on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days.\n\nProf Whitty told a Downing Street news conference the rolling seven-day average for deaths was 1,242 - \"an incredibly high number\" - and unlikely to come down quickly.\n\n\"I think we have to be realistic that the rate of mortality, the number of people dying a day, will come down relatively slowly over the next two weeks - and will probably be flat for a while now.\"\n\nProf Whitty said the number of people testing positive for coronavirus was \"still at a very high number, but it has been coming down\".\n\nBut he cautioned against relaxing restrictions \"too early\", as Office for National Statistics data showed a \"rather slower\" decrease.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with Covid-19 in the UK had \"flattened off\", he said, but was still an \"incredibly high number\" and \"substantially above the peak in April\".\n\nProf Whitty said the new, more transmissible variant discovered in the south east of England at the end of last year had altered the UK's situation \"very substantially\" and had made it \"much harder\" to bring infection levels down.\n\n\"We were worried two weeks ago that the measures we have at the moment were not enough to hold this new variant,\" he told the news conference.\n\n\"I think what the data I showed you at the beginning of the slide sessions shows is that the rates are just about holding with the new variant, with what everybody's doing.\n\n\"It's going to be much harder because of this new variant and I think we have to be realistic about that.\"\n\nSir Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, said that more than a quarter of a million severely ill coronavirus patients have been looked after in hospital since the pandemic started last year.\n\n\"This is not a year that anybody is going to want to remember nor is it a year that across the health service any of us will ever forget,\" he said.\n\nThe daily Covid figures have seen the number of deaths top 100,000. But they also contain some signs of hope.\n\nJust over 20,000 new infections have been reported - down from 22,000 yesterday.\n\nThis compares to an average of 60,000 at the start of the year.\n\nIt is a sharp fall, although Prof Whitty cautions it may actually be a little slower than that.\n\nNot everyone who is infected comes forward for testing and the government surveillance programme which involves random testing of the population suggests the fall has not been quite so great.\n\nNonetheless, it is clear the infection rate is coming down - and that offers hope.\n\nHospital cases have plateaued and should soon start falling. That will eventually lead to a reduction in the number of deaths.\n\nThen, in February, the vaccination programme should start having an impact, leading, hopefully, to a rapid drop in deaths.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson told the briefing the coronavirus infection rate remained \"pretty forbiddingly high\" to ease lockdown restrictions, which have been in place in England since 5 January.\n\nBut he said \"at a certain stage we will want to be getting things open\".\n\nHe added: \"What I will be doing in the course of the next few days and weeks is setting out in more detail, as soon as we can, when and how we want to get things open again.\"\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons - including for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, the epidemiologist whose modelling prompted the UK government to impose the first lockdown has told BBC Radio 4's PM he believes more action in autumn last year could have \"drastically reduced\" the number of lives lost in the second wave - some 60,000.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson said: \"They couldn't have been eliminated, but they could have been drastically reduced by earlier action, unfortunately.\n\n\"How much is difficult to judge, the new variant was unpredictable and did change our understanding of how much was needed to control spread, but we did just let the autumn wave get to far, far too high infection levels.\"\n\nReacting to the UK's death toll, Mr Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the government's actions, but added: \"We truly did everything we could.\"", "Parents are struggling with the sense of uncertainty, says psychologist\n\nHome schooling can be tough. It's difficult to concentrate, there's emotional exhaustion, boredom, a lack of motivation and it's really hard not going out to see friends. And that's just the parents.\n\nThis winter lockdown is taking its toll on families, now struggling even more on the black ice of uncertainty as no-one can say when schools in England are going to reopen for most pupils again.\n\n\"There's a sense of fatigue,\" says Jacqueline Smallwood, who is at home with three secondary-school children. She says her own \"concentration levels have fallen dramatically\".\n\n\"It's so repetitive that it just makes you feel tired,\" she says of the latest lockdown and the \"silent struggle\" facing both parents and their children to try to get motivated.\n\nHome school shows no sign of coming to an early end\n\nThere might have been some guilty enjoyment at the start of the year when the school term was initially delayed, not having to get up and out on cold January mornings.\n\nUntil it dawned on them that this was becoming something much longer than a few weeks.\n\nIt's morphed from early January to half term in mid-February and now maybe Easter in early April or even later. And Jacqueline says, as a matter of \"respect\", parents need to know what's happening about schools.\n\nThe confusion over a return date seems to have further frayed the nerves of parents.\n\nThe mother, who lives outside Canterbury in Kent, says she worries about the pressures building up on young people.\n\nFor teenagers like her sons, she says this \"should be a pivotal time in their lives,\" when they're beginning to get some independence and when social lives are hugely important - but instead they're stuck inside with their parents.\n\n\"We can't live like the Waltons forever,\" she says, referencing the US TV series of a folksy family relying on each other.\n\nJacqueline says families are finding this latest lockdown tougher than the spring or summer\n\nThe first lockdown created an unexpected sense of togetherness, an \"enforced bonding\" that she says turned out to be a \"massive positive\".\n\nBut Jacqueline, who works as a writer, sees no such upside to the latest lockdown. There is a collective frustration - and she says it has been made even worse by the confusion about when schools will go back.\n\nThe online home-schooling seems to be working, she says, with teachers trying to boost the enthusiasm levels, but it's no real substitute for being in school. And she wants much more clarity about when they will go back.\n\n\"I've tried not to be political about decisions being made, but you can't help but feel disappointed. They don't seem to understand how real people are living,\" she says.\n\nShe says when politicians say maybe schools will or won't be back by Easter, they don't realise how much that uncertainty affects families trying to plan for what comes next.\n\nEducational psychologist Dan O'Hare says the \"key word is 'uncertainty'\".\n\nLiving on a laptop can take its toll on parents having to work and home school their children\n\nNot knowing what is coming next adds to the pressure, he says, and children out of school are already facing big unknowns such as what's going to happen about exams or when will they see their friends and teachers.\n\n\"It's really stressful for children and their families,\" says Dr O'Hare, who is co-chair of the British Psychological Society's division for educational and child psychology. \"They need a sense of a plan.\"\n\nThis lockdown is also in the depths of winter - and he says employers need to think about making sure staff working from home are able to take a break in daylight hours, so that families can get outside.\n\nIt's no use asking parents to answer work emails all day and expect them to go out when it's dark.\n\nSchools have been providing more online lessons in this lockdown\n\nFor some families it has got very difficult.\n\n\"It's affected her emotionally a lot,\" says Dave in Bolton, who is worrying about his six-year-old daughter, who has been crying because she misses her friends.\n\n\"It's awful, you can't put a positive spin on it. She's at that age where she's enjoying her friends, becoming more socialised,\" he told BBC 5 Live.\n\n\"She's quite a confident little girl and I can't help worry that being stuck at home is going to impact her in the longer term.\"\n\nThe father says many of her classmates are still going into school - and that makes it even harder when she sees her friends on school Zoom calls.\n\nEmployers should make sure that parents' working hours allow them to get out in daylight, says psychologist\n\nJen Locke in Newcastle makes the point that women can often be \"the most adversely affected by the decision to keep schools closed\".\n\nShe says home schooling has \"fallen squarely on my shoulders\", helping her children in the day and then shifting her work with an IT company into the evening, so it's an early start through to a very late finish.\n\n\"It's a huge mental strain… I'm knackered from it all,\" she says, right down to trying to get children to bed who aren't tired because they're not going out.\n\nA lockdown weariness seems to be out there, despite the best efforts of schools.\n\nSimon Armstrong in Bristol, whose son is in secondary school, says: \"Virtual lessons, no matter how well delivered, are a woeful substitute for real lessons.\"\n\n\"I am at the end of my tether,\" he says.\n\nThe Department for Education said: \"We are committed to reopening schools as soon as the public health picture allows, and will inform schools, parents and pupils of plans ahead of February half term.\"\n\nBut Labour has accused the government of causing \"chaos and confusion\" for parents and schools.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers said: \"Now is the moment for calm heads to decide on a sustainable return to school, not another chaotic and last-minute set of decisions that could easily result in a yo-yo return to lockdown.\"", "The Army sent a bomb disposal unit to Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine producer Wockhardt's unit\n\nProduction of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine has resumed at a plant after it was suspended when a suspicious package was received.\n\nThe Wockhardt UK plant on Wrexham Industrial Estate was evacuated and the Army sent a bomb disposal unit.\n\nPolice said the package had been made safe and its contents would be \"taken away for analysis\".\n\nWockhardt said staff had been allowed to return and its production schedule had not been affected.\n\nBoth Downing Street and Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford had been receiving updates on the incident since police were called at about 10:40 GMT.\n\nA police cordon was put in place near the plant and the public were asked to keep away. There are no reports of any injuries.\n\n\"There are no wider concerns for public safety, however, some roads on the industrial estate will remain closed whilst we continue our investigations,\" North Wales Police said in a statement.\n\nPolice have asked the public to keep away from the site in Wrexham\n\nForensic police officers were seen examining items on the road outside the plant, which remained closed after the cordon had been lifted.\n\nWockhardt UK said: \"We can confirm that the investigation on the suspicious package received today has been concluded.\n\n\"Given that staff safety is our main priority, manufacturing was temporarily paused whilst this took place safely.\n\n\"We can now confirm that the package was made safe and staff are now being allowed back into the facility.\n\n\"This temporary suspension of manufacturing has in no way affected our production schedule and we are grateful to the authorities and experts for their swift response and resolution of the incident.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn an earlier statement, the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology company confirmed it had \"partially evacuated\" its site to protect staff.\n\nThe Wrexham plant has the capability to produce about 300 million doses of the vaccine a year.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, John Roberts, who runs CMS Wrexham Ltd, next door to the plant, said he heard a \"big bang\" at about 11:35 GMT - although he could not say where the noise came from.\n\n\"We're next door to Wockhardt. Three of us were talking then we heard a hell of an explosion or a bang,\" he said.\n\n\"I went outside, couldn't see anything. I looked the other side and two blokes were on the roof.\n\n\"The next thing the police had blocked off the road and were looking in the bushes.\"\n\nPolice were at the scene on Wrexham Industrial Estate for most of the day\n\nA police cordon had been put in place near the Wockhardt plant\n\nHis son Mark Roberts said: \"The police just closed the road off and we've heard there's a bomb disposal unit.\n\n\"They've been here about an hour or so - we're on tenterhooks.\n\n\"Boris Johnson toured the factory around December time, so I wonder if that's raised the profile, as it's where they make the Oxford vaccine.\"\n\nThe Wrexham plant has the capability to produce about 300 million doses of the vaccine a year\n\nDave Picken, 53, who lives near Wrexham Industrial Estate, said: \"We've seen lots of police cars and a fire engine.\n\n\"Bomb disposal are here with a robot. We were closer to the factory but police told us to move and cordoned off a bigger area.\n\n\"I did ask an officer how big the bomb is but he said he couldn't say it's a bomb.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson saw the production line for vaccines when he visited the factory\n\nVisiting the plant in November, Prime Minister Boris Johnson it could provide \"salvation for humanity\".\n\nWockhardt UK entered an agreement in August to help prepare the vaccine for distribution.\n\nWhen the company's contract was announced, Ravi Limaye, managing director, said: \"We are immensely proud to have been selected to partner with the UK government on this project.\n\n\"We have a sophisticated sterile manufacturing facility and a highly skilled workforce.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Wrexham council leader Mark Pritchard said teams had worked to ensure the vaccine was not lost in the floods.\n\nThe Welsh Government said there had been \"no adverse effects\" on the coronavirus vaccine roll-out.", "Already 100,000 people in the UK have died with Covid, according to the official count. The idea of 100,000 deaths is hard for many of us to comprehend. But each was a human being who lived and loved in their own unique way. This is the story of one of them.\n\nBy 3:01am, alone in a hospital room, Ann Fitzgerald reached for her phone. This would be her last chance to contact her husband of four decades, the man she'd raised two children with, her Tony - to Ann, he was always her Tony.\n\nThe couple had made a pact. So long as Ann was in hospital with Covid, Tony would spend his nights dozing upright in a chair at their bungalow in Pewfall, Merseyside. That way, he would wake up if there was a message alert.\n\nIt wasn't much of a sacrifice, Tony thought, not when the woman he'd loved for 47 years was all by herself and frightened. And besides, each time his phone bleeped Tony would know she was still alive, and silently he'd thank the stars.\n\nAnd so in the early hours of Tuesday 7 April, Ann's last message arrived. She'd summoned the energy to take a farewell selfie as she lay in bed wearing an oxygen mask. \"She must have thought: 'Here's something so you won't forget me,'\" says Tony.\n\nTwo-and-a-half hours later, Ann was dead. She was 65, a mother, a wife, a neighbour, a colleague and a friend, and one of 999 people in the UK who died that day with the novel coronavirus.\n\nSoon after the hospital rang and told Tony of her death, he was at her bedside, dressed from head to toe in PPE. No visitors had been allowed to see her while she was alive, but now she was gone it was apparently fine - for reasons he didn't understand.\n\nTony wept as he apologised to his wife's lifeless body for letting her go like this, with no loved ones by her side. Then he turned and cursed the sterile white hospital ceiling and walls, because they'd been with her at the end and he hadn't.\n\nBack then, few could have imagined the UK's death toll would reach 100,000, or anything close to it.\n\nAt that point, the tally stood at 10,000; three weeks previously the UK government's Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance had said limiting the final figure to twice that sum would be a \"good outcome\".\n\nNow, 10 months on, the total number of people in the UK who have died within 28 days of a coronavirus diagnosis has increased tenfold, while UK excess deaths in 2020 were at their highest level since World War Two. The UK has had one of the highest rates of recorded coronavirus deaths in the world so far.\n\nBy any measure, 100,000 is a devastating amount, roughly equivalent to two Premier League football grounds, or the number of people who attend the Reading festival every year. For many people, the sheer scale of loss conveyed by the figure will be impossible to grasp.\n\n\"Numbers with lots of zeros are very difficult to interpret, and can be made to look large or small,\" says Sir David Spiegelhalter, a statistician at the University of Cambridge.\n\n\"If I say that 100,000 deaths is two months' worth of normal mortality, then it may not look so bad. If I say that it is more than all the [UK] civilian deaths in WW2, or as if everyone in a city the size of Durham got killed, then it sounds worse. It is challenging to adequately convey such a large number of individual tragedies.\"\n\nBut while many may have become numb to the daily death figures, behind every statistic is a real life lost - a real life like Ann's. \"That is why this arbitrary numerical milestone is important,\" says Hetan Shah, chief executive of the British Academy and a former executive director of the Royal Statistical Society. \"It is a chance to reflect again on the terrible toll this pandemic has taken on so many British families.\"\n\nIn a Manchester nightclub one evening in 1973, 18-year-old Tony felt a tap on his arm. It was Ann, a year his senior, whom he knew by sight as a barmaid in one of the city-centre pubs he sometimes drank in. She'd always stood out to him, with her olive skin and striking good looks, but he'd never dared imagine she might be interested in him romantically.\n\n\"I'm here with that fella over there,\" she told him, gesturing towards across the room. \"But I don't like him and I don't know what to do.\"\n\nTony walked over to Ann's date and told him to clear off. Then Tony returned to Ann, and the two of them had a drink together, and then another. Before long they were a couple and Tony decided he was the luckiest man in the world.\n\nSoon he learned all about Ann's background. Her Lithuanian-born Jewish father had died when she was two years old, and with her mother unable to cope she'd been passed between relatives throughout her childhood. By 16 she was living in a bedsit, supporting herself with waitressing and bar work - she'd also been employed at the legendary art-deco Kardoma café on Market Street and at George Best's nightclub, Oscar's.\n\n\"As a consequence of her upbringing she was really, really independent,\" says Tony. \"She was really good at talking to people, and she was sharp - the sharpest, wittiest person I've ever met.\"\n\nThey rented a flat in Fallowfield together and made it their home. After Ann was offered relief work running bars around Manchester, Tony quit his job as a sales rep to join her. Eventually, in 1981, they took on their own pub. It was in what was then a tough part of Salford, but Ann had grown up nearby and knew how to handle the local characters: \"She could have you in stitches, but she could throw you a look, and you knew you had to behave yourself,\" Tony says.\n\nThe couple were offered the chance to take on another pub in Sale Moor. They thought they were going upmarket, but it turned out to be quite the reverse; Tony would joke that he should take away all the tables and chairs and install a boxing ring instead.\n\nBut Ann wasn't intimidated by anyone. According to Tony, when a notorious local villain turned up and demanded a free drink, Ann stood her ground: \"My husband's name is above the front door, and he pays for his drinks, so you're going to pay for yours,\" she told him. Impressed, the villain ended up buying one for Ann instead.\n\nShe and Tony knew it was time to quit when burglars broke in one night while their baby daughter slept in her cot upstairs. Tony went back on the road as a salesman; Ann worked variously as a debt counsellor, an incident manager for the RAC, and a sales trainer at a cotton firm. Their children, Gary, and Rachel, never once heard them argue, Tony says.\n\nFor six years the couple had a stall at Altrincham Market selling women's clothes. \"People would come, not necessarily to buy something - they just wanted to see Ann,\" says Tony. \"And as a consequence, they'd buy something they didn't really want.\" Each time this happened, Ann would give Tony a wink.\n\nBy the start of 2020, Ann and Tony were looking forward to a long retirement together. Both their children had left home, and they'd recently moved to the bungalow. The news broadcasts had begun describing a deadly pandemic that had spread from China. But Ann wasn't leaving the house much while she recovered from an operation to replace both hips.\n\nThen one Thursday in March she went for a haircut; she asked for the colour to be darkened slightly too, and when he first saw her afterwards Tony told her how much he loved it. Ann mentioned that the hairdresser had been coughing.\n\nThree days later, Ann began coughing too, and soon afterwards so did Tony. But with a fever, she felt worse, and within a few more days she was barely able to stand. She asked Tony to call 999.\n\nThe paramedics helped her to the ambulance. It haunts Tony now that he didn't hug or kiss her as they said goodbye. \"Neither of us thought for one moment that it would be the last day I would ever see her alive,\" he says. She told him they'd probably give her antibiotics and he could come and pick her up in a few hours.\n\nBut later that day she phoned him to say the doctors suspected Covid and they would be keeping her in. As in many hospitals during the first wave, no visiting was allowed.\n\nTony could only stay in touch with her by phone. When a doctor told him the next 24 hours were critical, he didn't tell Ann, because he knew how scared she was already by then.\n\nBut he did pass on something else the medic had said - that they were deeply impressed by her upbeat attitude and fighting spirit. Tony told her, too, that he believed she would be home soon: \"I had to say that to keep her fighting, and fight she did for 10 days.\"\n\nThe last time they spoke was Saturday 4 April. Ann told Tony she thought she'd turned a corner; she'd eaten a sandwich and some yoghurt. After that, talking became too difficult for her; she wasn't in intensive care but the mask she wore to help her breathe was getting in the way.\n\nThree days after their last conversation, Tony was sitting in a white hospital room beside Ann's body. He sat with her there for an hour. He didn't just apologise, he also promised he'd make sure she was remembered properly. When it was time to leave, a nurse gave him a booklet about bereavement and a black bag in which to put Ann's belongings. Tony carried them along a hospital corridor, wondering how he would tell Gary and Rachel their mum was dead.\n\nThere are eight photographs of Ann in Tony's living room. In each of them she looks full of joy. \"Every time I look around, there's a picture of Ann somewhere,\" Tony says. \"She's smiling and I'm thinking, 'If only I could turn back the clock.' But I can't, you know, and nor can all those other families and relations, either.\"\n\nNearly 10 months after Ann's death, Tony finds himself resenting the home he's been left alone inside. If they hadn't moved there, he reasons, Ann wouldn't have gone to that hairdresser's that day and caught the virus - she'd still be alive, perhaps.\n\nHe feels robbed of the 20 additional years he hoped they'd spend together, as surely will thousands of other bereaved relatives. While the impact on the very oldest has been widely recognised, those who might have looked forward to a long retirement have been badly hit, too - during the pandemic, around 15% of all UK fatalities with Covid mentioned on the death certificate have been among those aged 65-74.\n\nTony desperately wishes his life would go back to how it was, but knows it won't.\n\nAnn's funeral didn't give him any closure. Tony would rather she had been buried, but the undertaker warned him to hurry - extra restrictions could be introduced any time - so he took the date that was offered by the crematorium.\n\nAs it was, under the rules that were already in force, only 10 mourners were permitted, spaced out around the chapel. No flowers or photographs on display, no hugging.\n\nTony understood why all this was necessary - but it wasn't the celebration of Ann's bright, gregarious, love-filled life that he thought she deserved. He'd have to plan another one when all this was over.\n\nAs the months went on, Tony joined online Covid support groups. It helped talking to others who understood how it felt to have lost someone. There was the family of a 19-year-old boy. A woman who was mourning both her mum and her dad. Another woman whose husband had died in the car as she drove him to hospital.\n\nHe thought of these stories each time he switched on the news and watched the Covid mortality figures climb higher and higher. Behind these cold statistics were human lives. And each was as unique as Ann, with a personality and backstory entirely of their own.\n\nIt would have been Ann and Tony's 41st wedding anniversary on 6 October, the day before the six-month anniversary of her death. The following month, a few days after the UK's Covid death toll reached 50,000, Tony once again felt Ann's absence bitterly on what would have been her 66th birthday.\n\n\"Christmas was a nightmare for me,\" he says. Under the rules for the festive season, Gary and Rachel and their partners were able to be there with him, and cooking lunch kept him busy most of the day. But afterwards, when he was on his own again, the reality hit that another celebration had gone by without Ann beside him, and Tony sat down and sobbed.\n\nFor millions the arrival of the Covid vaccines has brought hope, but it is a cold comfort for those who have lost someone. If every one of the 100,000 were loved by a dozen people, \"that's a million people in Britain who have been bereaved\", says the bioethicist and sociologist Prof Sir Tom Shakespeare. \"We need a national monument, some form of remembering.\"\n\nTony is not one of those who will find it hard to grasp the significance of this bleak milestone.\n\n\"To me it's 100,000 poor souls fighting for breath, and they've not had a hug from anyone in their family,\" he says. \"There's a name - there's a person behind that number. And then they've passed away, and the family goes through the grief that I've been through - the numbness, the shock, the anguish and the pain to come.\"", "The police officers were on duty when they had their hair cut, the Met says\n\nThirty-one Met Police officers who broke coronavirus rules to get haircuts are facing £200 fines.\n\nTwo officers who hired a barber to give the cuts to staff at Bethnal Green Police Station, on 17 January, are also facing misconduct investigations, the Met said.\n\nUnder current lockdown restrictions in England, barbers and hairdressers are not allowed to work.\n\nDet Ch Supt Marcus Barnett said he was \"deeply disappointed\" in the officers.\n\n\"Although officers donated money to charity as part of the haircut, this does not excuse them from what was a very poor decision,\" he said. \"I expect a lot more of them.\n\n\"Quite rightly, the public expect police to be role models in following the regulations, which are designed to prevent the spread of this deadly virus.\"\n\nThe investigation comes after fines were handed out to nine officers who were caught eating breakfast together in a Greenwich café.\n\nAll those officers were issued with a £200 fixed penalty notice.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Actor Elliot Page and choreographer Emma Portner have decided to divorce after three years of marriage.\n\n\"After much thought and careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to divorce following our separation last summer,\" the Canadian couple said in a statement.\n\n\"We have the utmost respect for each other and remain close friends.\" They provided no further details.\n\nPage, the 33-year-old Oscar-nominated actor, came out as transgender in 2020.\n\nThat decision was widely praised by his many fans and fellow actors.\n\nPage said at the time that he could not \"begin to express how remarkable it feels to finally love who I am enough to pursue my authentic self\".\n\nHe also used the occasion to address discrimination towards trans people.\n\nPage received international acclaim for starring as a pregnant teenager in the 2007 film Juno. Other major films include Inception and the X-Men series, while the actor has more recently starred in Netflix series The Umbrella Academy.\n\nPortner, 26, has said she has always supported Page's decision to come out.", "The famous event has been held at London's Royal Hospital Chelsea since 1913\n\nThe Chelsea Flower Show will take place in September for the first time in its history as a result of the pandemic.\n\nOrganisers had planned to hold a six-day show in May but announced it would be postponed as there was no guarantee what tier London would be in then.\n\nA virtual show will take place in May like in 2020, with the physical event taking place later at London's Royal Hospital Chelsea.\n\nThe Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) said it would be a \"moment in history\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chelsea Flower Show exhibitors had to display their gardens online last year\n\nThe world-famous show has been taking place for 108 years but has never happened in September.\n\nThis year's event will go ahead between 21-26 September, with the virtual event showing online from 18-23 May.\n\nIt is usually filled with spring and summer colours but the RHS said it hoped the delay will allow a celebration of autumn horticulture.\n\nThousands of people normally attend the week-long event\n\nThe society, which runs the event, said it had a responsibility to exhibitors, visitors, volunteers and staff to delay the flower show, as more people would be vaccinated and levels of infection may have reduced substantially.\n\nDirector general Sue Biggs said: \"Whilst we are sad to have had to delay RHS Chelsea and are sorry for the disruption this will cause, we are excited that we are still planning to bring the world's best-loved gardening event to the nation at a time when more people are gardening more than ever.\n\n\"We know that the autumn dates may not be suitable for everyone, but with our fantastic industry partners we will do everything we can to support them and create a show that will be a moment in history,\" she added.\n\nThose who bought tickets for the event when it was due to happen in May will be contacted by the RHS.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nadhim Zahawi: \"We have 367m vaccines from seven different manufacturers that we have contracted with\"\n\nSupplies of vaccines are \"tight\" but the UK believes it will receive enough doses to meet its targets, the vaccine minister has said.\n\nNadhim Zahawi told BBC Breakfast manufacturers were \"confident\" they would deliver for the UK amid warnings of production delays.\n\nIt comes as the EU said it might tighten vaccine export controls.\n\nCountries should avoid \"vaccine nationalism\" and ensure a fair global supply, Mr Zahawi said.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nMr Zahawi said the vaccination programme was still on track to deliver a first dose to 15 million of the most vulnerable by mid-February and to offer all adults their first dose by autumn.\n\nHe said the UK had supplies of the Oxford vaccine manufactured domestically by AstraZeneca as well as the Pfizer one, which is made in Belgium.\n\nThe government is also planning to publish figures on the take-up of the vaccine by ethnicity from Thursday, following concerns that some black, Asian and ethnic minority communities were more hesitant to get the jab.\n\n\"I'm confident we will meet our mid-February target and continue beyond that,\" Mr Zahawi told the BBC.\n\n\"Supplies are tight, they continue to be, these are new manufacturing processes,\" he added. \"It's lumpy and bumpy, it gets better and stabilises and improves going forward.\"\n\nBut he declined to say that he had received guarantees about the number of doses the UK would receive from Pfizer or other manufacturers and refused to confirm how many doses had already arrived.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said AstraZeneca had committed to delivering two million doses a week to the UK, and the government was not expecting any changes to that supply.\n\nDowning Street also rejected German media reports claiming a very low efficacy rate for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine among older people, saying they had been denied by Oxford University, AstraZeneca and the German health ministry.\n\nChief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the cabinet the trials showed similar immune responses in younger and older adults.\n\nAnd England's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, has defended the UK's strategy of extending the time between first and second doses of coronavirus vaccines from three to 12 weeks in order to immunise more people.\n\nHe told the Downing Street coronavirus briefing on Tuesday that the \"great majority\" of protection came from the first dose.\n\nHe also said there was \"no evidence\" that immunity waned between three and 12 weeks after the first dose was administered.\n\nProf Whitty said: \"We thought very carefully about what the balance of this is, but the balance of risk in terms of reducing the number of deaths in the community - and I really want to stress that, that is the aim of this - is to maximise the number of people who get that first dose, where the great majority of protection comes from.\"\n\nThe latest tension over supply of the Covid vaccine is another illustration of just how fragile this issue is.\n\nThere are huge global demands for Covid vaccine, limited raw materials and constraints on manufacturing.\n\nThe UK already has enough vaccine to jab all the highest-risk groups by mid-February, although not all of it has been packaged up or been through the final safety checks.\n\nThis explains why ministers are confident about the immediate target for the over-70s, health and care workers and the extremely clinically vulnerable.\n\nBut what is in doubt is how quickly the UK can vaccinate in the medium term.\n\nWith the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured in the UK those supply routes are more guaranteed.\n\nBut the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is made in Belgium. The UK, like the rest of Europe, is affected by the problems with manufacturing that are being experienced with that vaccine.\n\nWith Europe experiencing major problems rolling out its vaccination programme - per head of population five times fewer vaccines have been delivered - this is a story that is going to rumble on for months.\n\nThe UK has placed orders for 367 million doses of vaccines from seven manufacturers, Mr Zahawi said. \"As vaccines come along we will get more volume, millions more in the weeks and months to come,\" he added.\n\nThe tension over vaccine supplies increased after UK-based AstraZeneca warned the EU it would have to reduce planned deliveries because of production problems. Pfizer-BioNTech has also said supplies will be temporarily lower as it works to increase capacity at its Belgian factory.\n\nIt has prompted the EU to accuse AstraZeneca of failing to meet its commitments and to warn that it might require all companies producing Covid vaccines to provide \"early notification\" whenever they planned to export supplies out of the EU.\n\n\"The thing to do now is not to go down the dead end of vaccine nationalism. It's to work together to protect our people,\" Mr Zahawi said.\n\n\"No-one is safe until the whole world is safe.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock subsequently said the UK government \"oppose protectionism in all its forms\" and urged all international partners to \"be collaborative\" and \"work closely together\" on vaccine distribution.\n\nHe added that the EU's warning that it could restrict exports of vaccines made in the bloc was \"unfortunate and especially so in the midst of a pandemic\".\n\nMeanwhile, the head of NHS England earlier told MPs coronavirus could become a \"much more treatable disease\" over the next six to 18 months, with the hope of a return to a \"much more normal future\".\n\nSir Simon Stevens told the Health and Social Care Committee: \"The first half of the year, vaccination is going to be crucial.\n\n\"I think a lot of us in the health service are increasingly hopeful that in the second half of the year and beyond we will also see more therapeutics and more treatments for coronavirus.\"\n\nHe also said it \"would be great\" if the Covid vaccine and flu vaccine were combined into a single jab, if not for next winter then future ones.\n\nAnd he said vaccines were being used as fast as they arrived in the NHS, with more than half of those aged 75-79 having now had their first dose.\n\nThe UK aims to offer Covid vaccination to every adult by autumn.\n\nMr Zahawi said confidence in the vaccines was high, with 85% of people saying they would accept the jab.\n\nBut he said those who were hesitant \"skew heavily\" towards black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.\n\nThe government is providing £23m of funding to 60 local councils and voluntary groups to boost vaccine take-up among groups such as older people, disabled people, and people from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nIt comes as celebrities such as comedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali appeared in a video urging people in their communities to get vaccinated.\n\nMr Zahawi told ITV's Good Morning Britain his uncle had died from Covid-19 last week. He had been eligible for vaccination but caught the virus before he could receive it, the minister said.\n\nThis \"grim and horrible\" experience made him determined to ensure that the most vulnerable were protected as quickly as possible, Mr Zahawi said.\n\nSir Simon said there was concern about vaccine hesitancy in some groups, where there were access problems as well as \"systematic attempts to misinform and lie about the vaccine programme targeted particularly at minority populations, and - in some cases - long-standing mistrust of public services\".\n\nHe said disruption to vaccine deliveries from EU export restrictions was not thought to be likely.\n\nIn other developments, the UK has offered to carry out genomic sequencing for other countries around the world to help identify further new variants.\n\nPublic Health England said it would give \"crucial early warning\" of any mutations that might cause the virus to spread faster, make people more ill or possibly reduce the effectiveness of vaccines.", "\"A legacy of poor decisions\" by the UK before and during the pandemic led to one of the worst death rates in the world, scientists have said.\n\nLabour also criticised \"monumental mistakes\" by the prime minister in delaying acting on scientific advice over lockdowns three times.\n\nAfter UK deaths passed 100,000, Boris Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the actions taken.\n\nBut he said it was too soon to learn the lessons from the pandemic response.\n\nProf Linda Bauld, public health expert from the University of Edinburgh, said the UK's current position was \"a legacy of poor decisions that were taken when we eased restrictions\".\n\nShe told the BBC the lack of focus on test and trace and the \"absolute inability to recognise\" the need to address international travel had also led to a more deadly winter surge.\n\nProf Sir Michael Marmot, who carried out a review of inequalities in Covid-19 deaths, said the UK had entered the pandemic \"in a bad state\" with rising health inequality, a slowdown in life expectancy improvements and a lack of investment in the public sector.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth rejected Mr Johnson's claim that he had done \"everything we could\" to minimise the death toll, adding: \"I do not accept that.\"\n\nHe said the prime minister had been given scientific advice to impose lockdowns and \"pushed that back\" - not only in March but again in September and December.\n\nThe government also failed to create a working contact-tracing system, did not introduce effective health controls at the borders and still did not offer \"proper sick pay\", he said.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"I mourn every death in this pandemic and we share the grief of all those who have been bereaved. I and the government take full responsibility for all the actions we have taken to fight this pandemic.\"\n\nHe said there would be time to reflect on the decisions taken, but he did not think the right time was in the middle of the pandemic when \"37,000 people are struggling with Covid in our hospitals\".\n\nThe government needed to focus on keeping the virus under control and continuing the fastest vaccine roll-out in Europe, he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said his message to grieving families was that he \"deeply, personally\" regretted the loss of life and that the best way to honour the memory of those who had died and honour those who were currently grieving was \"to work together to bring this virus down, to keep it under control in the way that we are\".\n\nAsked about the government's \"legacy of poor decisions\", Mr Johnson said ministers followed scientific advice and did everything they could to minimise suffering. He said there were \"no easy solutions\" but the UK could be proud of its efforts to distribute the vaccine.\n\nAfter leading a minute's silence in the Scottish Parliament, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she was \"truly sorry\" for any mistakes, as Scotland recorded a total of 5,888 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test.\n\nShe said the government did everything it could, but added: \"I don't think any of us, reflecting on numbers like these, can conclude that we have always succeeded.\"\n\nNext month, the prime minister hopes to publish a document giving details of the criteria he will use to start lifting the lockdown, a senior government source told the BBC.\n\nIt will include factors such as the number of hospitalisations and deaths, the progress of the vaccination programme, any changes to the virus and the impact easing restrictions might have on the epidemic - but will be dependent on emerging data about how effectively the vaccine stops the virus spreading.\n\nThe UK is the fifth country to pass 100,000 deaths, coming after the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nA scientist advising the government has warned the UK could face as many as 50,000 more coronavirus deaths.\n\nProf Calum Semple, a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, told the BBC's Newsnight: \"It would really not surprise me if we're looking at another 40-50,000 deaths before this burns out.\n\n\"The deaths on the way up are likely to be mirrored by the number of deaths on the way down in this wave. Each one again is a tragedy and each one represents probably four or five people who survive but are damaged by Covid.\"\n\nHe said the UK had experienced some \"bad luck\" with the emergence of a new, more transmissible variant but had also suffered from \"decades of underinvestment\" in the NHS and \"a public health authority that's been eroded\" .\n\nMeanwhile, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell asked people, regardless of whether they had faith, to reflect on the \"enormity\" of the pandemic and join in a \"prayer for the nation\" at 18:00 GMT every day from 1 February.\n\nThey said the death statistics were were not \"just an abstract figure\", saying: \"Each number is a person: someone we loved and someone who loved us.\"\n\nMuslim leaders backed the call for a daily prayer. Qari Asim, chair of the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board, said Muslims and wider black, Asian and minority ethnic communities had been disproportionately affected by the \"tsunami of pain, grief and devastation\" - with many unable to properly mourn due to Covid restrictions.\n\nOn Tuesday, a further 1,631 coronavirus deaths were recorded, taking the total number of people who had died within 28 days of a positive test to 100,162.\n\nSeparate figures from the Office for National Statistics, which are based on death certificates, show there have been nearly 104,000 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nA further 20,089 coronavirus cases were recorded on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days. The number of people in hospital remains high, as do the UK's daily death figures.\n\nSpeaking alongside the prime minister, England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said the number of people dying would come down \"relatively slowly\" over the next two weeks - and would probably \"remain flat for a while now\".\n\nElsewhere, bereavement support charities have written to the health secretary calling for more funding in the light of what they call \"the terrible toll of 100,000 deaths\".\n\nThe National Bereavement Alliance, representing a range of charities, said many families had been unable to be with loved ones as they died or to support one another.\n\nThey called for £500m allocated to mental health in England to be used to support the bereaved.\n\nMinister for bereavement Nadine Dorries said the government had given more than £10.2m to charities since March to ensure services were available to those who needed them.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. 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Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your tribute.", "Scientists say sharks and rays are disappearing from the world's oceans at an \"alarming\" rate.\n\nThe number of sharks found in the open oceans has plunged by 71% over half a century, mainly due to over-fishing, according to a new study.\n\nThree-quarters of the species studied are now threated with extinction.\n\nAnd the researchers say immediate action is needed to secure a brighter future for these \"extraordinary, irreplaceable animals\".\n\nThey are calling on governments to implement science-based fishing limits.\n\nStudy researcher, Dr Richard Sherley of the University of Exeter, said the declines appear to be driven very much by fishing pressures.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"That's the driver for the 70% reduction in the last 50 years. For every 10 sharks you had in the open ocean in the 1970s, you would have three today, across these species, on average.\"\n\nSharks and rays are caught for their meat, fins and liver oil. They are also captured for recreational fishing and turn up by accident in the catch of fishing boats that are targeting other stocks.\n\nSharks are long-lived species that tend to produce few young\n\nOf the 31 species studied, 24 are now threatened with extinction, and three shark species (the oceanic whitetip shark, and the scalloped and great hammerhead sharks) have declined so sharply they are now classified as critically endangered - the highest threat category, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).\n\nProf Nicholas Dulvy of Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada, said oceanic sharks and rays are at exceptionally high risk of extinction, much more so than the average bird, mammal or frog, despite ranging far from land.\n\n\"Overfishing of oceanic sharks and rays jeopardises the health of entire ocean ecosystems as well as food security for some of the world's poorest countries,\" he said.\n\nThe researchers compiled global data on sharks and rays found in the open oceans (as opposed to reef sharks or those found close to shore).\n\nOf the 1,200 or so species of sharks and rays in the world, 31 are oceanic, travelling large distances across water.\n\n\"These are some of the big, important, open ocean predators that people will be familiar with,\" said Dr Sherley. \"The kind of sharks that people might describe as awe-inspiring or charismatic.\"\n\nHe said political will is needed to reverse the trends.\n\n\"The science is there, there needs to be the desire to do those stock assessments, to implement the measures that are needed to reduce the take of sharks and that political will has to come from pressure from citizens,\" Dr Sherley explained.\n\nDespite this \"gloomy\" picture, the scientists said a few shark conservation stories give cause for hope.\n\nSonja Fordham, president of Shark Advocates International, a non-profit project of The Ocean Foundation, said a couple of species, including the great white, have started to recover through science-based fishing limits.\n\n\"Relatively simple safeguards can help to save sharks and rays, but time is running out,\" she said.\n\n\"We urgently need conservation action across the globe to prevent myriad negative consequences and secure a brighter future for these extraordinary, irreplaceable animals.\"\n\nPopulations can recover with appropriate conservation\n\nSharks are at the top of the food chain, and crucial to the health of the oceans. Their loss impacts other marine animals as well as human livelihoods.\n\n\"Oceanic sharks and rays are vital to the health of vast marine ecosystems, but because they are hidden beneath the ocean surface, it has been difficult to assess and monitor their status,\" said Nathan Pacoureau of Simon Fraser University.\n\n\"Our study represents the first global synthesis of the state of these essential species at a time when countries should be addressing insufficient progress towards global sustainability goals.\n\n\"While we initially intended it as a useful report card, we now must hope it also serves as an urgent wake-up call.\"\n\nThe research is published in the journal, Nature.", "In March 2020, we were told it would be a ‘’good outcome’’ if coronavirus killed 20,000 people across the UK.\n\nNow the bleakest milestone has been reached: 100,000 deaths.\n\nIn a statement, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said \"behind these heart-breaking figures are friends, families and neighbours. The vaccine offers us the way out, but we cannot let up now and we sadly still face a tough period ahead. The virus is still spreading and we're seeing over 3,500 people per day being admitted into hospital.\"\n\nHealth correspondent Catherine Burns looks at the past year of the UK’s epidemic and hears from families who have lost loved ones.\n\nFilmed and edited by Julius Peacock. Additional filming by Emily Brooks", "Enforcement agents have removed protesters from the makeshift camp near Euston station\n\nBailiffs from HS2 have started to evict activists who dug a tunnel near Euston station in protest against the £106bn rail project.\n\nIt comes after the BBC revealed campaigners spent months digging the tunnel they claim is 100ft (30m) long.\n\nSince August, HS2 Rebellion members have been living in tree houses and tents at a camp nearby.\n\nA HS2 spokeswoman said the protesters were \"trespassing\" on land owned by the company.\n\nThe land being occupied is needed for continued building work around Euston, she added.\n\nEnforcement agents from the National Eviction Team have removed some protesters from the makeshift camp in the park.\n\nPolice have arrested five men and a woman at the site, although one male was later de-arrested.\n\nActivists say the tunnel - codenamed \"Kelvin\" - was dug as their \"best defence\" against being evicted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters have filmed themselves inside the tunnels\n\nProtesters said they were continuing to dig tunnels and have vowed to stay for as long as possible.\n\nAn 18-year-old, who gave his name as Al, said the tunnels can only be accessed through a section of the makeshift camp and were about 15ft (4.5m) deep.\n\n\"I will stay as long as I can,\" he said, but he added the activists \"have not got much food and water\".\n\nHS2 Rebellion told the BBC four people had \"locked themselves\" to fixing points inside the tunnels.\n\nOne activist, Blue Sandford, admitted the stunt was \"dangerous\" but felt it was \"worth it\".\n\nHS2 protester Dr Larch Maxey said the tunnel was \"warm and quiet\"\n\nEnforcement agents dismantle the make shift camp where HS2 Rebellion members have been living\n\nThe 18-year-old, who is currently on school strike for climate, said HS2 \"is a waste of money\".\n\n\"I'm in this tunnel because they [the government] are irresponsibly putting my life at risk from the climate and ecological emergency,\" she said.\n\n\"They are behaving in a way that is so reckless and unsafe that I don't feel they are giving us any option but to protest in this way to help save our own lives and the lives of all the people round the world.\n\n\"I shouldn't have to do this - I should be in school - the trouble is they are stealing that future and I have to stop them.\"\n\nEnforcement officers have used aerial platforms to try and coax protesters down from the trees\n\nA protester was brought down from the trees by officers\n\nMartin Andryjankczyk, who was carried out of the camp by enforcement agents earlier, predicted it would take \"at least a week or two\" to evict all the protesters.\n\nThe 20-year-old was taken to Holloway Police Station when he was led away but said he had been \"de-arrested\" and returned to the park.\n\n\"I have been living here for the last four months. They (the remaining demonstrators) aren't going to give up that easily,\" he said.\n\nOne activist used to a rope to tie himself between trees at the camp\n\nThe Met Police confirmed a number of officers were sent to the eviction site at Euston Square Gardens to assist High Court enforcement officers should there be any breach of the peace and to uphold Covid legislation.\n\nThe force said five people who were arrested at the site remain in custody.\n\nA spokeswoman for HS2 said tunnel protests were \"costly to the taxpayer\".\n\nShe added: \"HS2 has taken legal temporary possession of Euston Square Gardens in order to progress with works necessary for the construction of the new Euston station.\n\n\"These protests are a danger to the safety of the protesters, our staff and the general public, and put unnecessary strain on the emergency services during a pandemic.\"\n\nHS2 is set to link London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It is hoped the 20-year project will reduce rail passenger overcrowding and help to rebalance the UK's economy.\n\nThe campaign group alleges HS2 is the \"most expensive, wasteful and destructive project in UK history\" and that it is \"set to destroy or irreparably damage 108 ancient woodlands and 693 wildlife sites\".\n\nHowever, HS2 bosses have said seven million trees will be planted during phase one of the project and that much ancient woodland will \"remain intact\".\n\nThere is a ring of security surrounding the square outside Euston Station and a crowd of journalists reporting on today's event.\n\nEvery now and then there is a burst of singing through a loud hailer and motivational speeches echo from the trees.\n\nMost of the protesters we can see are among the branches, some have cut their safety lines, others are swinging in harnesses.\n\nEarlier, enforcement officers were lifted up in a cherry picker into one of the tree camps . They have spoken with the demonstrators and are now fixing ropes to the high level platforms.\n\nWe've been told at least four people are inside the tunnels HS2 Rebellion have dug under the site.\n\nPeople inside the fence have said they predict the eviction to \"take weeks\".\n\nThe atmosphere is calm but the police have begun to push back people watching, reminding them of Covid-19 regulations and asking to see press passes.\n\nA fence is being erected by officers around the site\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scotland is to initially follow UK travel rules, but could introduce stricter measures next week\n\nScotland could introduce tougher quarantine rules for international travellers than other parts of the UK, the first minister has said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that UK arrivals from regions with new virus variants will be provided accommodation for 10 days to isolate.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said she was \"concerned the proposal does not go far enough\".\n\nScotland will \"initially emulate\" the UK government measures, she said.\n\nBut further Scottish rules will be set out next week if the four nations do not reach an agreement on a UK-wide approach - which Ms Sturgeon said would be preferable.\n\nThe prime minister has said there are 22 countries with the risk of known new variants, including the South American nations, Portugal and South Africa.\n\nMr Johnson said anyone travelling from these countries who cannot be refused entry to the UK - such as British citizens - will be provided accommodation for 10 days to isolate \"without exception\".\n\nThey will be met at the airport and transferred to specific places, such as hotels.\n\nFurther details of the plan are expected to be outlined by Home Secretary Priti Patel later.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon - who was briefed on the UK government proposals in advance - told her daily coronavirus briefing that a \"comprehensive system of supervised quarantine\" was required in the next stage of the pandemic.\n\nAnd she said she was \"seeking urgently\" to persuade the UK government \"to go much further\" while providing additional support to the aviation industry.\n\nThe first minister said: \"Our best route back to greater domestic normality right now, as we continue with the vaccine programme, is firstly to suppress the virus here to as low as level as possible - as we did over the summer - then give ourselves a better chance of controlling it through test and protect, and next by doing much more than we did last year to protect our borders.\"\n\nThe Welsh government has also said the PM's proposals do not go far enough.\n\nWhen questioned by journalists, Ms Sturgeon said she would \"not give arbitrary dates\" on when the travel restrictions might come to an end.\n\nBut she said people \"might not be able to go on holiday overseas\" in order to \"get domestic normality\" back - including the reopening of schools and allowing people more interactions with loved ones.\n\n\"I'm not saying that's easy but maybe that might be a price we all need to be prepared to pay,\" she added.\n\nScottish Conservatives leader Douglas Ross told the BBC that he believed that countries with higher infection rates and strains with quicker transmission should be prioritised.\n\n\"We've got to look at dealing with this in stages,\" he said. \"This doesn't need to be dragged into a Scotland versus England issue or the rest of the UK issue.\n\n\"This is as big an issue within Scotland. We shouldn't be moving around local authority areas so whether it's north or south of the border or within our own communities we've got to reduce travel as much as possible.\"\n\nIt comes as the deaths of a further 92 people who had tested positive for coronavirus were recorded in Scotland - bringing the total to 5,888.\n\nThe total number of deaths across the UK by that measure passed the grim milestone of 100,00 on Tuesday.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she was \"truly sorry\" for any mistakes that had been made in the handling of the pandemic.\n\nShe added: \"She said the death toll should make all political leaders \"think very hard about what more we could have done and what lessons we must continue to learn\".\n\nShe added: \"I know that I, and everyone in my government, have tried every day to do everything we possibly can.\n\n\"But I don't think any of us, reflecting on numbers like these, can conclude that we have always succeeded.\"\n\nA total of 1,330 new cases were recorded in the last 24 hours, representing 6.2% of people tested.\n\nMeanwhile 462,092 people have received the first dose of the vaccine in Scotland - including 56% of the over 80s and 95% of people in care homes.", "The greys were introduced to Britain from North America in the 19th Century\n\nThe UK government has given its support to a project to use oral contraceptives to control grey squirrel populations.\n\nEnvironment minister Lord Goldsmith says the damage they and other invasive species do to the UK's woodlands costs the UK economy £1.8 billion a year.\n\nThe bizarre-sounding plan is to lure grey squirrels into feeding boxes only they can access with little pots containing hazelnut spread.\n\nThese would be spiked with an oral contraceptive.\n\nLord Goldsmith says the damage from squirrels also threatens the effectiveness of government efforts to tackle climate change by planting tens of thousands of acres of new woodlands.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) told BBC News: \"We hope advances in science can safely help our nature to thrive, including through the humane control of invasive species.\"\n\nA partnership of conservation and forestry organisations called the UK Squirrel Accord (UKSA) is behind the proposal.\n\nIt says grey squirrels, which were first introduced from North America in the late 19th century, cause huge damage to woodlands by stripping bark from trees aged between 10-50 years, the younger trees in a forest.\n\nThey particularly target broad-leafed varieties including oak, which are particularly ecologically important because they support so many other species.\n\nIt is estimated the UK is home to some three million of these invasive rodents.\n\nRed squirrels are now confined mainly to Scotland and Ireland\n\nThey have displaced the native red squirrel across most of the UK.\n\nLord Goldsmith says the government supports the plan as well as a longer-term effort to breed infertility into female grey squirrels to reduce their numbers.\n\nInvasive non-native species such as grey squirrels threaten our native biodiversity, he argues.\n\nWhen regulating grey squirrels with oral contraceptive was first proposed in 2017, the government's Animal and Plant Health Agency said it thought it could reduce their numbers by as much as 90%.\n\nThe project also has royal approval.\n\nPrince Charles was instrumental in founding the UK Squirrel Accord with the objective of \"managing the negative impacts of invasive grey squirrels in the UK\".\n\nHe has written of the importance of protecting Britain's remaining red squirrels.\n\n\"These charming and intelligent creatures never fail to delight\", he wrote last week in his capacity as patron of the Red Squirrel Survival Trust, describing red squirrels as the \"symbol and benchmark\" of healthy woods.\n\nJason Gilchrist, an ecologist from Edinburgh Napier University, has written in defence of the grey squirrel but he says he supports the oral contraceptive plan.\n\nHe acknowledges there is a need to manage grey squirrel populations.\n\n\"It is better than the alternative: a shotgun\", he told BBC News.\n\nIt is the same argument the UKSA makes: dosing the animals with contraceptives provides a humane alternative to culling them.\n\nLast week, the Royal Forestry Society, a member of the Squirrel Accord, called for just such a cull.\n\nSimon Lloyd, its chief executive, says efforts to tackle global warming and improve biodiversity will be undermined unless grey squirrel numbers can be reduced.\n\nNew trees will not survive to \"deliver the carbon capture or biodiversity objectives if grey squirrels cannot be controlled\", he told the Daily Telegraph.\n\nThe UKSA has been experimenting with ways to deliver oral contraceptives to squirrels for more than three years now.\n\nLast year, it tested special feeding stations designed so only grey squirrels can gain access in woodland in East Yorkshire.\n\nInstead of contraceptives, the hazelnut paste bait was dosed with a dye that, when ingested, causes squirrel hair to fluoresce under UV light.\n\nThe researchers found that more than 90% of the grey squirrel population being studied visited the traps.\n\nThey concluded that it was possible to deliver repeat doses of a contraceptive to the majority of grey squirrels in a wood.", "Leon Briggs died in hospital after being restrained and detained at Luton police station in November 2013\n\nA man shouted \"help me\" and \"get off me\" as he was restrained face-down by police officers hours before he died, an inquest heard.\n\nLeon Briggs, 39, died in 2013 after being detained under the Mental Health Act at Luton police station.\n\nA jury was told one witness described the father-of-two as \"like a child crying out for a toy\" as he was held down by officers.\n\nAnother said he looked her in the eyes and said \"please help me\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe jury has been shown CCTV of Mr Briggs skipping between shops and across roads, before two Bedfordshire Police officers handcuffed him and placed him in leg restraints on Marsh Road in Luton on 4 November 2013.\n\nMr Briggs was detained in a cell at about 14:25 GMT, but he became unconscious and was pronounced dead in hospital at about 16:15.\n\nThe inquest heard his primary cause of death was \"amphetamine intoxication with prone restraint and prolonged struggling\" with a secondary cause of coronary heart disease.\n\nMr Briggs was described as \"a really good dad\" who loved spending time with his children\n\nThe inquest heard Wendy Hamilton was shopping when she saw one officer restraining Mr Briggs on his lower legs, with another on his shoulders, and a third appeared to be looking through his wallet.\n\nMs Hamilton said she \"thought the amount of pressure being used was not needed\", adding she heard Mr Briggs shout \"get off me\" and \"why are you doing this to me?\".\n\n\"He lifted his head from the pavement, he looked me in the eyes and said 'please help me',\" she said.\n\nShe added when two paramedics arrived \"around 45 minutes\" after she first saw Mr Briggs, she was \"surprised\" they \"did not check Leon at all\".\n\nShe said he was later lifted into a police van \"front first\" and \"face down\", \"like he was a bag of potatoes\" or \"like they were picking up a dog\".\n\n\"They lifted him not in a rough way... but it was not very dignified,\" she said.\n\nFootage showed Mr Briggs walking out of a shop with officers before he was restrained\n\nAnother witness, Raja Khan, said: \"Mr Briggs was crying out... but not in an aggressive manner... in a similar way to a child crying out for a toy.\n\n\"I'm not going to forget what I saw in regard to the restraint... I do not agree with how Mr Briggs was treated... it would have been fair enough if he was being violent but from what I saw, he was not.\"\n\nFormer chairman of the College of Paramedics, Andrew Newton, said paramedics on Marsh Road were likely to have had \"inadequate knowledge\" of dealing with acute behavioural disorder patients like Mr Briggs in 2013, due to a lack of national guidance.\n\nBut Mr Newton added Mr Briggs \"received no meaningful medical care\" because they failed to properly check his vital signs, and this \"fell below the standards of care\".\n\nHe said Mr Briggs should have been taken to hospital in an ambulance.\n\nThe inquest heard part of a statement from Sgt Loren Short, who said he told paramedics Mr Briggs had been detained under the Mental Health Act when they arrived.\n\nPolice Community Support Officer (PCSO) James Collings described Mr Briggs as \"aggressive\" and \"nonsensical\", and \"shouting 'no, no' and snarling\" while in the police van.\n\nPCSO Collings said when he questioned whether Mr Briggs was on drugs, one officer said: \"[He is] mental\", and Mr Briggs replied: \"Don't take the [expletive]\", to which the officer said: \"I'm not taking the [expletive], I just want to get you back and get you some help.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "More than 100,000 people in the UK have died from a virus, that, this time last year, felt like a far-off foreign threat. How did we come to be one of the countries with the worst death tolls?\n\nThere is no quick answer to that question, and there is sure to be a long and detailed public inquiry once the pandemic is over. But there are plenty of clues that, when pieced together, help build a picture of why the UK has reached this devastating number.\n\nSome will point a finger at the government - its decision to lock-down later than much of western Europe, the stuttering start to its test-and-trace network and the lack of protection afforded to care home residents.\n\nOthers will spotlight deeper rooted problems with British society - its poor state of public health, with high levels of obesity, for example.\n\nOthers, still, will note that some of the UK's great strengths - its position as a vibrant hub for international air travel, its ethnically diverse and densely-packed urban populations - exposed its vulnerability to a virus that spreads effortlessly between people.\n\nIn some people's eyes, the UK's island status might have helped it. New Zealand, Australia and Taiwan managed to stop the virus getting a foothold and deaths have been kept to a minimum - Australia has seen fewer deaths throughout the pandemic than the UK is recording every day on average.\n\nAll introduced strict border restrictions immediately and lockdowns to contain the virus before it had spread. The UK did not. It was not until June that quarantine rules were introduced for all arrivals and even then travel corridors were soon set up, relaxing the rules for travellers from certain countries. Only this month were these scrapped.\n\nProf Devi Sridhar, an expert in public health from Edinburgh University, is one of those who has been critical of the approach the UK has taken from the start.\n\nShe says the UK, like much of Europe, was \"complacent\" about the threat of infectious disease - choosing to treat the new coronavirus \"like flu\" and allowing it to spread, while talking about the desire to achieve herd immunity.\n\nThis all changed in late March, when a full lockdown eventually came. But there was a crucial delay of a week which is estimated to have cost more than 20,000 lives, according to government modeller Prof Neil Ferguson, because of how quickly infection rates were doubling at that point.\n\nThis, of course, is said with the benefit of hindsight. Government modellers themselves acknowledge the data was \"really quite poor\" making it difficult to make a decision that would have significant repercussions. It is a point acknowledged by Prof Chris Whitty, the UK's chief medical adviser. Speaking in the summer he said there had been \"very limited information\" in early March.\n\nBy then, the virus was ripping through care homes. Around 30% of deaths in the first wave happened in care homes; 40% if you include care home residents who died in hospital.\n\nThose at the heart of government acknowledge mistakes were made. UK chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said recently: \"The lesson is go earlier than you think you want to, go harder than you think you want to, and go a bit broader than you think you want to in terms of applying the restrictions.\"\n\nBy May, restrictions were beginning to be eased. But was this too soon?\n\nThe government seized on the relative lull to focus on building what the prime minister promised would be a \"world-beating\" test-and-trace system. The idea was that new outbreaks could be nipped in the bud, with comprehensive tracking by a centralised team of tracers.\n\nThe mere fact this had to be done some months after the virus had struck, illustrates another factor behind the high number of deaths - the UK was simply not prepared for a pandemic of this nature in the way some Asian nations had been. Countries such as South Korea and Taiwan had established test-and-trace systems in place that were ready to be activated.\n\nThe UK had a chance to bed in its system in the summer but it was riven with teething problems, with tracers struggling to reach many contacts and the testing capacity slowing down as demand rose.\n\nLow levels of infection over the summer had created a false sense of security.\n\nDesperate to boost the economy, the government launched the Eat Out to Help Out scheme, offering people discounted meals out during August. To what extent it contributed to the rise in the autumn is much argued about but certainly some doctors blame it in part for an increase in patients seen.\n\nThe truth is the virus never went away. Testing in the summer showed even at the lowest levels there were still around 500 cases a day being diagnosed - and random testing in the population subsequently showed the true level may have been twice that.\n\nIn late August around 1,000 people a day were testing positive. By mid-September that had trebled and from there it rose five-fold to 15,000 by mid October. The numbers testing positive have never returned below 10,000 a day on average since.\n\nAnother decision that has been heavily criticised was the refusal of ministers to introduce a short two-week lockdown, or \"circuit breaker\", in September - despite their advisers on Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) recommending such a step. The argument was it would have set the spread of the virus back by at least a month, giving test and trace time to regroup.\n\nWales, however, did introduce its own \"fire-breaker\" - a 17-day lockdown in October. It got infection rates down, but as soon as it was lifted they rebounded. This is, of course, why lockdowns have been criticised.\n\nEdinburgh University infectious diseases expert Prof Mark Woolhouse, one of the modellers who feeds data into Sage, is on the record in the autumn questioning the logic of them for this very reason. It remains up for debate how effective a circuit-breaker would actually have been.\n\nThis after all is the time of year when respiratory illnesses start to increase. Schools had returned as had university students, creating new environments for the novel coronavirus to spread.\n\nWhen a lockdown was eventually introduced in England in November it was to last four weeks, with Sage members lamenting the delay. \"The absence of a decision is a decision in itself,\" says Wellcome Trust director Sir Jeremy Farrar.\n\nBut even before that lockdown was lifted cases had started going up in the south-east of England. Within weeks it became clear what was happening. The virus had mutated and a new faster-spreading variant was on the rise.\n\nBy mid-December the clamour for lockdown was growing again, but the plan for a Christmas relaxation of restrictions had already been announced. In every nation of the UK, ministers waited.\n\nAt the start of 2021, with hospital admissions rising rapidly, the UK's four chief medical officers intervened, issuing a joint statement warning the NHS was at \"material risk\" of being overwhelmed. Within hours the UK was back in lockdown.\n\nWhat has struck some is just how similar the mistakes have been in terms of locking down late.\n\n\"It will take years to unpick why Covid has gone so badly in the UK,\" says University College London infectious diseases expert Dr Neil Stone. \"But the failure to learn from wave one stands out.\"\n\nBut it must also be recognised that there are factors outside the control of the government - certainly in terms of its pandemic response - that have contributed to the high number of deaths.\n\nOne of the reasons the virus was able to take a hold and spread so quickly was because of geography and the fact the UK - and London in particular - is a global hub. Genetic analysis has shown the virus was brought into the UK on at least 1,300 separate occasions, mainly from France, Spain and Italy, by the end of March.\n\nIt was here before we knew it. That's not something Australia or New Zealand had to deal with on such a scale.\n\nDensity of population is also a factor. The UK is among the 10 most densely populated big nations - those with populations of more than 20 million. What is more, our cities are more inter-connected than they are in many places.\n\nIt meant the virus was able to seed everywhere quite quickly. Contrast this with Italy which saw the vast majority of cases in the north of the country in the first wave.\n\nThe ageing population also needs to be taken into account. Once you do this, and adjust for the size of the population - known as age-standardised mortality - deaths have risen, but not by as much as some of the headline figures suggest.\n\nThe health of the nation has also been a factor. The UK has one of the highest rates of obesity in the world. And obesity increases the risk of hospitalisation and death, according to Public Health England. One study found the risk of death was almost double for those who are severely obese.\n\nConditions such as diabetes, kidney disease and respiratory problems also increase the risk - a fifth of Covid deaths have listed diabetes on the death certificate.\n\nAgain the UK has relatively high rates of these illnesses.\n\nBut many have argued that these high levels of ill-health have been compounded by the levels of inequality in the UK.\n\nLevels of ill health and life expectancy have always been worst in the poorest areas, but the pandemic certainly seems to have exacerbated this.\n\nOffice for National Statistics data shows mortality rates have been twice as high in deprived areas as they have been in wealthy areas. The Health Foundation is carrying out its own inquiry into the issue, arguing the Covid death toll needs to be seen through the \"lens\" of inequality to fully understand it.\n\nIt is something that has also been raised by Prof Michael Marmot, one of the country's leading experts on health inequalities. \"The UK's dismal record is telling us something important about our society.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by bereavement, here is a list of organisations that may be able to help.", "Eva Gicain has been celebrating a belated Christmas with her daughter Elleana and husband Limuel Lina after being discharged from Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge\n\nA nurse who gave birth nearly three months ago while seriously ill with Covid-19 has held her daughter for the first time.\n\nEva Gicain, 30, had the long-awaited reunion with her baby after being discharged from Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge earlier this month.\n\nBaby Elleana had to be delivered about a month early by C-section, but Mrs Gicain has no memory of her birth.\n\n\"When I held Elleana for the first time I didn't want to let go,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19: New mum thanks hospitals after recovery\n\nMrs Gicain was taken to her local hospital with a severe case of Covid-19 at the end of October when she was 34 weeks pregnant, and gave birth a week later.\n\nBut the NHS nurse, who was on maternity leave from her job in London, has no recollection of it or the traumatic weeks that followed.\n\nDays later she was transferred 50 miles (80km) away to Royal Papworth Hospital's critical care unit and became one of the youngest patients ever to be put on to its \"artificial lung\" for acute respiratory failure.\n\nThe extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine acted as Mrs Gicain's lungs so they could recover while she was treated for Covid-19.\n\n\"The first thing I remember is just a few days before Christmas and being told where I was, what I had been through and that Elleana was doing well,\" Mrs Gicain said.\n\nMrs Gicain was given a round of applause by hospital staff after spending the first few weeks of her baby's life in a hospital 50 miles away\n\nHer husband Limuel Lina, 30, who also had Covid-19, was unable to visit her and had to wait three weeks to see Elleana, who was in a special care baby unit.\n\n\"It was so horrible the three of us being in separate places at a time when we should all have been together,\" Mr Lina said.\n\nAlthough the couple knew they were having a girl and had discussed her name, Mr Lina, a healthcare assistant, said he did not know his wife's preferred spelling.\n\n\"[It] meant I couldn't yet get her registered,\" he said.\n\n\"Luckily, I found some personalised pyjamas that Eva had bought as a Christmas present and so I managed to get the spelling from there!\"\n\nThe couple and their daughter celebrated a belated Christmas last week at their home in Basildon, Essex.\n\n\"Life is unpredictable and we are now just looking forward to being a little family and spending time together,\" added Mrs Gicain.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The head of AstraZeneca has defended its rollout of the coronavirus vaccine in the EU, amid tension with member states over delays in supply.\n\nPascal Soriot told Italian newspaper La Repubblica that his team was working \"24/7 to fix the very many issues of production of the vaccine\".\n\nHe said production was \"basically two months behind where we wanted to be\".\n\nHe also said the EU's late decision to sign contracts had given limited time to sort out hiccups with supply.\n\nMr Soriot, chief executive of the UK-Swedish multinational, said a contract with the UK had been signed three months before the one with the EU, giving more time for glitches to be ironed out.\n\nHe told La Repubblica that problems in \"scaling up\" vaccine production were being experienced at two plants, one in the Netherlands and one in Belgium.\n\n\"It's complicated, especially in the early phase where you have to really sort out all sorts of issues,\" he said.\n\n\"We believe we've sorted out those issues, but we are basically two months behind where we wanted to be.\"\n\nHe added: \"We've also had teething issues like this in the UK supply chain. But the UK contract was signed three months before the European vaccine deal. So with the UK we have had an extra three months to fix all the glitches we experienced.\n\nAstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot said a vaccine targeting the South African variant was being worked on\n\n\"Would I like to do better? Of course. But, you know, if we deliver in February what we are planning to deliver, it's not a small volume. We are planning to deliver millions of doses to Europe, it is not small.\"\n\nMr Soriot also said AstraZeneca was working on a vaccine with Oxford University that would target the South African variant of the coronavirus.\n\nScientists have warned there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nThe AstraZeneca vaccine is already being used in the UK but has not yet been approved by the EU, although the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is expected to give it the green light at the end of this month.\n\nThe bloc signed a deal in August for 300 million doses, with an option for 100 million more. The EU had hoped that, as soon as approval was given, delivery would start straight away, with some 80 million doses arriving in the 27 nations by March.\n\nThe EU has ordered 600 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which is already being used on patients around the bloc.\n\nBut Pfizer-BioNTech said last week it was delaying shipments for the next few weeks because of work to increase capacity at its Belgian plant.\n\nIn response to the delays, the EU has said it might restrict exports of vaccines made in the bloc.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sofia Bettiza explains why some countries are far ahead of others in the vaccination race\n\nHealth Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said companies making Covid vaccines in the bloc would have to \"provide early notification whenever they want to export vaccines to third countries\".\n\nShe said the 27-member EU bloc would \"take any action required to protect its citizens\".\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, addressing the virtual version of the annual World Economic Forum (WEF), usually held in Davos, said: \"Europe invested billions to help develop the world's first Covid-19 vaccines. And now, the companies must deliver. They must honour their obligations.\"\n\nHave you been affected by vaccine supply issues? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The prime minister has responded to calls that were getting louder for clarity about what might happen next and when.\n\nHe pencilled in a date for the country's diary. But 8 March is the hoped-for beginning of the end of lockdown - far from a guarantee.\n\nPolitical demands for more information from his backbench MPs and the opposition were part of the reason for his announcement. But there was also the relentless march of the clock.\n\nThe government had promised it would give schools in England two weeks' notice of whether they would be able to open after half-term.\n\nWith Boris Johnson not expected in Westminster on Thursday, Wednesday was the last viable moment to keep that vow.\n\nWith cases still so high, and hospitals still so full, in theory the announcement wasn't that much of a surprise.\n\nNorthern Ireland is already in lockdown until 5 March, but will confirm its position on schools on Thursday.\n\nWales and Scotland are reviewing whether to extend closures beyond the middle of February in the next couple of days. Without dramatic falls in case numbers, they seem likely to be in step soon too.\n\nIn practice, though, Mr Johnson's announcement still felt like a big admission: that we're heading for 12 months of limits - starting last March - on our lives in one way or another.\n\nFirms and families around the UK will have had to cope with moving in and out of lockdown for a whole year.\n\nLike Tuesday's terrible 100,000-deaths mark, it's a milestone that at the beginning of all of this simply wouldn't have been imagined.\n\nBut as time as worn on, the pattern has become familiar: push the dates back, confront the worst rather than hope for the best.\n\nThe prime minister altered, maybe, too. You could hear it in his tone when asked what the chances of sticking to his date were. \"That's the earliest,\" he warned, suggesting that a long list of things have to go right.\n\nOne cabinet minister described the government's position: \"The decision making has been more and more cautious as they've been caught out so many times.\"\n\nNo one perhaps would be more delighted than Mr Johnson if the pace of the disease slows dramatically and the promise of the vaccine comes good very soon.\n\nBut at this time, with a buffer of several weeks to keep looking at the information, that's not a commitment that ministers are willing to make.", "Victims lost an average of £45,242 last year after investing with fraudsters imitating genuine investment firms.\n\nMore than £78m was lost in total, according to fraud reporting centre Action Fraud.\n\nReports of clone firm investment scams rose by 29% in April - at the time of the first national lockdown - compared with the previous month.\n\nA UK financial watchdog warned people to be alert, particularly when their finances were stretched.\n\nScammers set up clone firms using the name, address and firm reference number (FRN) of real companies authorised by the regulator - the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).\n\nThey then send out sales materials linking to the websites of legitimate firms, to trick potential investors into thinking they are dealing with the real firm.\n\nThey use their own, similar contact details, so victims still think they are dealing with the genuine firm as they invest money.\n\nLosses can be high as fraudsters tend to encourage large or regular investments before disappearing with the money.\n\nThe ongoing financial impact of Covid-19 may make people more susceptible to clone scams, the FCA said.\n\nMark Steward, executive director of enforcement and market oversight at the FCA, said: \"Fraudsters use literature and websites that mirror those of legitimate firms, as well as encouraging investors to check the firm reference number (FRN) on the FCA Register to sound as convincing as possible.\"\n\nHe said alerts were raised about 1,100 firms, including clones, last year - twice as many as the previous year.\n\nHe said the authorities were taking down clone sites when discovered.\n\n\"When it comes to clones, I cannot emphasise enough how important it is to double check every detail,\" Mr Steward said.\n\nOne victim, called Janet, said: \"After searching the internet for high-return bonds, I received a call the next day about investing in student accommodation.\n\n\"I found legitimate details of the company online - everything seemed genuine, so I invested.\n\n\"A few months later, after a couple more investments, I started to get a bit worried - I still hadn't received confirmation of the latest investment.\n\n\"I tried to call the contacts I had been speaking to, but the numbers were invalid. It was clear I had been scammed.\n\nThe ScamSmart campaign, run by the FCA, has tips to protect yourself from clone investment firms:", "Jagtar Singh Johal, from Dumbarton, is being held under India's anti-terror law\n\nA Scottish man who has been held in an Indian jail without conviction for three years has told the BBC he was tortured to sign a blank confession.\n\nJagtar Singh Johal, from Dumbarton, is being held under India's anti-terror laws, accused of conspiring to murder a number of right-wing Hindu leaders.\n\nCourt documents allege he helped fund the crimes and claim he was a member of a \"terrorist gang\".\n\nMr Johal told the BBC via his lawyer he had been \"falsely implicated\".\n\nIn answers to BBC questions obtained by his lawyer during a virtual prison meeting, the 33-year-old says he was physically tortured into signing a blank confession and forced to record a video which was broadcast on Indian TV.\n\n\"They made me sign blank pieces of paper and asked me to say certain lines in front of a camera under fear of extreme torture,\" he said via his lawyer.\n\nMr Johal's legal team also shared a copy of what they say is a handwritten letter from shortly after his arrest in November 2017 in which he details allegations of how the torture took place.\n\n\"Multiple shocks were administered by placing (the) crocodile clips on my earlobes, nipples and private parts,\" the letter says. \"Multiple shocks were given each day.\n\n\"Two people would stretch my legs, another person would slap and strike me from behind, and the shocks were given by the seated officers.\"\n\n\"At some stages I was left unable to walk and had to be carried out of the interrogation room.\"\n\nThe BBC has been unable to independently verify these allegations of torture.\n\nThe Indian authorities strongly deny them, and have said \"there is no evidence of mistreatment or torture as alleged\".\n\nJagtar got married in India in 2017\n\nMr Johal travelled to India in October 2017 for his wedding.\n\nVideos of the occasion show the new groom jumping enthusiastically to Bhangra music as he celebrated.\n\nIn another he is seen holding his wife's hand, as they perform their first dance in front of friends and family.\n\n\"It was a cheerful day for us, it went exactly as planned,\" recalls his brother Gurpreet Singh Johal.\n\nBut a fortnight later, while on a shopping trip with his new bride in the North Indian state of Punjab, Mr Johal was taken away by police and has been in detention ever since.\n\nHis brother Gurpreet, who lives in Scotland, says Mr Johal was a peaceful activist and is convinced he was arrested because he had written about historical human rights violations against Sikhs in India.\n\n\"I believe my brother is being targeted because he was outspoken,\" Gurpreet says. \"I believe he is innocent and will be proved innocent once the trial starts.\n\n\"Otherwise Indian officials should release him and return him back to his country.\"\n\nJagtar Singh Johal (right) arrives at court in India in November 2017\n\nCharge-sheets from the Indian authorities outline the case against Mr Johal and a group of men whom they believe were involved in a \"series of killings\" of right wing Hindu leaders.\n\nIt is claimed Mr Johal was a member of Khalistan Liberation Front (KLF), described in the documents as an international \"terrorist gang\".\n\nHe is accused of paying £3,000 to the former head of the KLF to help fund the crimes. The documents claim he \"actively participated and had complete knowledge of the conspiracy\".\n\n\"There are very serious charges against him including murder and abetment of terrorism,\" an Indian government official told the BBC.\n\n\"The seriousness of charges against him have been shared with the British authorities,\" they added.\n\nFootage which claims to show Mr Johal in custody was broadcast on Indian TV\n\nMr Johal's lawyer, Jaspal Singh Manjphur, who has represented him since he was first arrested, told the BBC he was concerned by the length of time it was taking for the case to go through the Indian legal system.\n\n\"He has been in custody for over three years,\" Mr Manjphur said. \"Normally, if the prosecution wants, they can complete the case in that much time.\"\n\nMr Manjphur said the authorities had yet to provide any him with any evidence linking his client to the crimes and feared he was being framed, a charge denied by officials.\n\nA few weeks ago, Mr Johal was accused of being involved in another crime. While in prison he has been arrested for helping to plot the murder of a man in October 2020.\n\n\"He is in a high security jail, he is under CCTV surveillance for 24 hours. How can he be in contact with anyone?\", Mr Manjphur said.\n\nMr Johal was last seen in public at court in Delhi earlier this month\n\nMr Johal is being held at Delhi's maximum security Tihar jail.\n\nHe claims he is often forced to stay in solitary confinement and is denied the same facilities as other prisoners, such as hot water.\n\n\"By making me stay in these conditions, they are ensuring that my mental condition remains disturbed,\" he said.\n\n\"It is very tough to live here,\" he said.\n\nThe vast majority of inmates at the prison are, like Mr Johal, held before a conviction in what is known as an \"under-trial\" in India.\n\nAt the end of 2019, 82% of prisoners held in Tihar jail had yet to complete the trial process.\n\nIn India it can take many years before under-trial prisoners ever get to court, especially in terror cases where bail is hard to secure, a concern for Mr Johal's lawyer.\n\n\"He will languish in jail until the trial is completed, in such cases it could take anywhere between five to 10 years,\" Mr Manjphur said.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has raised the case with his Indian counterpart\n\nThe human rights charity Reprieve has written to the UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, asking that he calls for Mr Johal's immediate release.\n\nReprieve is also worried that some of the charges Mr Johal is awaiting trial for carry the death penalty as the maximum punishment. But experts stress that executions in India are extremely rare.\n\nThe UK's Foreign Commonwealth and Development office told the BBC that Mr Raab did raise the case with his Indian counterpart during his trip to India in December.\n\n\"We have consistently raised concerns about his case with the Government of India, including allegations of torture and mistreatment and his right to a fair trial,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"Our staff continue to support Jagtar Singh Johal following his detention in India, and are in regular contact with his family and prison officials about his health and wellbeing.\"\n\nHundreds of people protested outside the Foreign Office\n\nBut Mr Johal's brother Gurpreet said the family was still waiting for a meeting with the foreign secretary.\n\nHe said: \"We are calling for either Jagtar to be charged and a fair trial to take place or to be returned back to his country so he can spend his life with his wife in the UK.\"\n\nIn August last year Gurpreet Singh Johal was joined by dozens who protested outside Downing Street.\n\nJagtar Singh Johal's case has sparked protests around the world, from Westminster to Washington, Geneva to Toronto.\n\nIn his statement to the BBC, Mr Johal had this message for officials back home: \"I plead to the UK government to support me, I'm a British citizen and the government should understand that.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer calls for teachers and support staff to be vaccinated during the February half term\n\nSir Keir Starmer has called on the government to \"use the window\" of the February half-term to vaccinate all teachers and support staff.\n\nSpeaking at Prime Ministers Questions, the Labour leader said reopening schools must be a national priority.\n\nLabour wants to bring forward the vaccination of key workers alongside others in high risk groups.\n\nBut Boris Johnson said the proposal would \"delay our ability to move forward out of lockdown\".\n\nThe PM said teachers in the top nine priority groups would be vaccinated as a \"matter of priority\", adding: \"I know how deeply frustrating it is, the extra burden that we have placed on families by closing the schools.\"\n\nMr Johnson said he remained confident that the top four priority groups - taking in all over-70s, health and care staff and elderly care home residents - would receive a first jab by mid-February \"if we can get the supply\" of vaccines.\n\nBy the end of April those in the next five priority groups, including all over-50s and younger adults with underlying health conditions, should have been offered a jab, under the government's plans.\n\nLabour wants to see workers in critical professions - such as police officers, firefighters and transport workers, as well as teachers - vaccinated alongside these groups.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said: \"The NHS rightly deserve congratulations for their impressive and speedy roll out of vaccinations.\n\n\"But now we need to go further and faster.\n\n\"Not only will vaccination acceleration save lives it will help us to carefully and responsibly reopen our economy and crucially ensure children are back in school as transmission reduces.\"\n\nBut asked about the proposal in the Commons, Mr Johnson said it would \"take vaccines away from the more vulnerable groups and... delay our ability to move forward out of lockdown\".\n\nThe government has said it will prioritise the reopening of schools as it begins the process of lifting lockdown restrictions, but in a Commons statement after PMQs, Mr Johnson indicated that schools would remain closed until early March.\n\n\"We hope it will... be safe to begin the reopening of schools from Monday, 8 March, with other economic and social restrictions being removed thereafter as and when the data permits,\" he told MPs.", "The coronavirus pandemic has forced the cancellation of many much-loved events and traditions but the good people of New Orleans were not going to let it ruin their annual Mardi Gras.\n\nWhen the mayor of the Louisiana city announced that the raucous, crowd-filled street carnival parades would not be going ahead, residents decided to turn their houses into floats instead.\n\nThousands have been transformed for the two-week long carnival that runs until Ash Wednesday on 17 February. In the picture below, you can see The Queen's Jubilee House.\n\nA special project was set up encouraging home-owners to hire the many artists who would normally have months of work preparing for the event.\n\nRené Pierre's company usually looks after 75 floats during Mardi Gras and he has managed to get contracts to build 53 house floats.\n\n\"My wife and I were trying to sleep one night, and we kept hearing notifications coming from the website. It was like instant success. It was incredible,\" he told CNN.\n\nThere were a variety of themes such as this reference to the Bernie Sanders meme from last month's presidential inauguration.\n\nAnd this homage to influential women including Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who died last year.\n\nThe idea for the house floats came from a carnival regular, Megan Joy Boudreaux, who had suggested it in a post on Twitter after the mayor's announcement in November.\n\n\"It doesn't matter if your budget is zero and you're recycling cardboard boxes, or whether your budget is tens of thousands of dollars and you've got a mansion on St Charles. We want everyone who wants to do this to participate,\" she told the New York Times.\n\nShe said she had expected a few friends and neighbours to join in, but by the beginning of January more than 9,000 people had signed up - some as far afield as the UK and Australia, the AP reports.\n\nSome homes were decorated in honour of musicians, like this house below that paid tribute to former New Orleans resident and jazz clarinet payer Pete Fountain.\n\nAnd this house which referenced country music star Dolly Parton.\n\nThere were also tributes to musician Dr John.\n\nAnd others evoked Zydeco music pioneers Boozoo Chavis and Clifton Chenier and the 'Cajun Hank Williams', DL Menard.\n\nAn online map of the decorated houses is being made available for people to visit in their own time and, it is hoped, in a socially-distanced way.", "Starmer: Get a grip on getting laptops to children\n\nSir Keir says he is \"no wiser\" over where the PM stands on vaccinating teachers. But he moves on to the supplies of technology for children at home. \"The government has got a duty to make sure every single child can learn at home,\" says the Labour leader. But he says a third of families say they don't have enough laptops or home computers, and over 400,000 children are still not able to get online at home. He asks if the PM understands the anger of families that the government \"still haven't got to grips with this\". Johnson says he \"fully understands the frustration and impatience across the country.\" He says the government has provided 1.3 million laptops to children and a £1bn catch up fund, but he promises more details in his statement this afternoon on \"what more we propose to do on reopening of schools\".", "Claudia Marsh was a volunteer for an eating disorder charity which had helped her in the past\n\nAn \"incredible\" recently-qualified teacher has died with coronavirus on her 25th birthday.\n\nClaudia Marsh's death was described as \"sudden and unexpected\" by a charity which had helped her recover from an eating disorder several years ago.\n\nShe had gone on to volunteer for the organisation and became a \"beacon of hope\" for others.\n\nHer mother Tina Marsh, from Heswall in Wirral, said she was \"very proud\" and \"blown away\" by the many tributes.\n\nWriting on Facebook, Ms Marsh said she was a \"beautiful daughter and incredible sister\" who was selfless in her work for Merseyside-based charities Talking Eating Disorders (TEDS) and The Whitechapel Centre.\n\nShe said: \"She loved giving back to people less fortunate than herself.\"\n\nFamily friend Leigh Best, who founded TEDS, described the death as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nShe added: \"Claudia was very special, kind, caring and a dedicated teacher.\n\n\"She supported countless families across the UK. Claudia made her own little packs to give out to others with eating disorders with positive affirmations.\n\n\"She was full of positivity, kindness and hope, and had a smile that would brighten up the whole room.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Whitechapel Centre, where Claudia also volunteered, said staff were \"devastated\", adding she would leave behind a \"legacy of care, dedication and enthusiasm\".\n\nThe charity said she put all of her time and energy into providing food and clothing to those who needed it during the pandemic.\n\n\"Claudia always put others before herself and her memory will live on through the impact and contribution she made to our organisation,\" the centre said.\n\n\"She was instrumental in bringing together our volunteer community.\"\n\nMs Marsh has set up an online fundraising page for the two charities, which has already garnered more than £10,000.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Facebook is taking steps to rectify the error that saw posts referring to Plymouth Hoe taken down\n\nFacebook has apologised for removing posts that named part of a city it deemed to contain an offensive word.\n\nPlymouth Hoe is a historic part of the Devon city's seafront but the social media platform wrongly identified it as an offensive term.\n\nFacebook users have recently had posts taken down for breaching bullying rules after innocently using the place name.\n\nThe company said it \"will take steps to rectify the error\".\n\nDawn Lapthorn, who created the 'Don't Dump it, Plymouth and Surrounding areas' page said she was surprised to receive notifications from Facebook telling her \"community standards on harassment and bullying\" had been breached.\n\nPlymouth Hoe is famous as the place where Sir Francis Drake finished off a game of bowls before setting off to fight the Spanish Armada in 1588\n\nShe said: \"One woman on the group had been making hats, and she forgot to say where the collection point was so people asked her and she wrote Plymouth Hoe.\n\n\"Suddenly I started getting notifications asking me to remove the comments.\n\n\"And then her daughter contacted me asking why her mum had been banned from commenting on the group.\"\n\nOther people commenting on the group's posts have also received notifications and had posts taken down.\n\nMs Lapthorn said: \"I've heard that some Facebook groups have been closed down because of this, and with the work we do in the community and 26,000 members, I've worked too hard to have that put at risk.\"\n\nA Facebook company spokesperson said: \"These posts were removed in error and we apologise to those who were affected. We're looking into what happened and will take steps to rectify the error.\"\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It wasn't normal when the prime minister stood at the lectern in Downing Street's wood-panelled State Dining Room and announced that four people had died from coronavirus on 9 March last year.\n\nIt wasn't normal, that day, when he announced the obscure-sounding virus was a global pandemic that, in the 21st Century, the UK government would struggle to contain.\n\nIt was unprecedented, in peacetime, when, on 23 March, Boris Johnson instructed the country to stay at home.\n\nIt was shocking when, on 28 March, official figures reported more than 1,000 cases in a single day.\n\nA few weeks later, there were sharp intakes of breath when the UK government's chief scientific adviser told MPs, and all of us, that keeping the numbers of deaths down to around 20,000 would be a \"good outcome\".\n\nIt wasn't normal when the Treasury started paying the wages of millions of people to prevent hardship on a vast scale.\n\nIt wasn't normal when planes stayed on the ground, roads and trains emptied.\n\nIt certainly wasn't normal when classrooms fell largely silent, or when the nooks and crannies of Westminster, usually full of intrigue, emptied.\n\nBut in that new strangeness it became normal, week after week, for millions of us to stand in the street, on balconies or on doorsteps to express thanks to those who care for us.\n\nAnd there is now an emerging routine of the most vulnerable rolling up their sleeves, sometimes in front of the cameras, for vaccines that offer at least part of the route to the future.\n\nYet the daily publication of the numbers of people who have died because of Covid has become an all-too-familiar rhythm.\n\nIn the middle of the afternoon, every day, the latest total emerges. A previously unimaginable communication has become a regular part of the country's conversation.\n\nBut today that number has reached a terrible height. Every one of those 100,000 lives lost leaves its own story, and sorrow, behind.\n\nThis miserable landmark is a moment to remember, maybe, that what has happened in the last year, to our politics, to us all is not normal at all.", "The Royal Welsh Show - the biggest agricultural show in Europe - has been cancelled for the second year running because of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe board met on Wednesday to discuss holding the show as scheduled in July, but after discussions with Welsh Government decided it wouldn't be feasible.\n\nSteve Hughson, chief executive of the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society, said: “We continue to work alongside the Welsh Government and Public Health Wales to create a road map for the safe re-opening of events.\n\n\"Our events are central to the rural economy and way of life and mean so much to members, exhibitors, traders and visitors.\n\n\"We fully understand the responsibility on all of us to ensure we deliver our events as soon as it is safe to do so.\"\n\nMr Hughson said the society had provided free facilities for a Covid testing centre and a mass vaccination centre at its showground in Llanelwedd, Powys.", "Goldman Sachs' chief executive David Solomon will get a $10m (£7.3m) pay cut for the bank's involvement in the 1MDB corruption scandal.\n\n1MDB was an investment fund set up by the Malaysian government that lost billions due to fraudulent activity.\n\nThe global web of fraud and corruption led to a 12-year jail term for Malaysia's ex-prime minister Najib Razak which he is appealing.\n\nGoldman Sachs called its involvement in the scandal an \"institutional failure\".\n\nGoldman Sachs helped raise $6.5bn for 1MDB by selling bonds to investors, the proceeds of which were largely stolen.\n\nProsecutors alleged that senior Goldman executives ignored warning signs of fraud in their dealings with 1MDB and Jho Low, an adviser to the fund. Two Goldman bankers have been criminally charged in the scandal.\n\nMr Solomon's pay would have been $10m higher but for the actions its board of directors took in response to the 1MDB saga, Goldman Sachs said on Tuesday.\n\nWhile disclosing his salary had dropped to $17.5m for 2020, the bank stressed that Mr Solomon was unaware of the corruption.\n\nHe was not \"involved in or aware of the firm's participation in any illicit activity at the time... the board views the 1MDB matter as an institutional failure, inconsistent with the high expectations it has for the firm\".\n\nMr Solomon's package consists of $2m in cash base pay, a $4.65m cash bonus, and $10.85m in stock-based compensation.\n\nIn October, Goldman agreed to pay nearly $3bn to government officials in four countries to end an investigation into work it performed for 1MDB. The bank collected $600m for arranging the bond sales in 2012 and 2013.\n\nIt has spent years being investigated by regulators across the globe including those in the US, UK, Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong.In total, Goldman's dealings with 1MDB cost the bank more than $5bn.\n\nDespite the costs and fines from the fallout from the 1MDB scandal, 2020 was a bumper year for Goldman's businesses with annual revenue of $44.6bn, its highest since 2009.\n\nThe US-based bank got a huge boost from the recovery in global stock markets from the depths of the coronavirus recession.\n\nIn 2018 Malaysian police raided the home of former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak, as part of their investigation in his involvement with 1MDB.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Handbags and money seized in raids on former Malaysian PM's home (video published in 2018)", "Josh Quigley crashed while cycling at 40mph downhill in Dubai\n\nA record-breaking Scottish cyclist is recovering from his second serious crash in little over a year.\n\nJosh Quigley fractured his spine, pelvis, shoulder, collarbone and elbow after falling off his bike at 40mph while training in Dubai on Tuesday.\n\nThe 28-year-old from Livingston is in hospital awaiting surgery.\n\nLast September he broke the North Coast 500 cycling world record just months after suffering life-threatening injuries while riding across the USA.\n\nMr Quigley told BBC Scotland he was in a lot of pain and unable to walk after his latest crash.\n\nHe said: \"I think a gust of wind took my front wheel out.\"\n\n\"Not sure what the recovery process is looking like yet,\" he added on social media.\n\n\"Very grateful to Ben and Tobias who I was riding with for getting me an ambulance and making sure I got to hospital OK.\n\n\"There's a great cycling community here who have been great to me since I've been here and they're all doing a lot to make sure I am looked after and have what I need in here.\n\n\"Huge thanks also to a few people who stopped at the scene and all of the first responders and medical staff who have helped at the hospital so far.\"\n\nMr Quigley shaved six minutes off the existing North Coast 500 world record when he completed the 516-mile Highland route in 31hrs and 17 minutes last September.\n\nThe route is ranked as one of the world's toughest endurance challenges as it has 34,423ft (10,492m) of ascent - more than Mount Everest, which stands at 29,031ft (8,848m).\n\nHis feat came after he was hit by a vehicle in Texas during a round-the-world-trip in December 2019.\n\nHe had life-threatening injuries and operations on a broken heel and ankle as well as a stent fitted in an artery in his neck, which feeds blood to his brain.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The PM has said he hopes a \"gradual and phased\" relaxation of Covid restrictions can begin in early March.\n\nBoris Johnson told MPs he intended to set out a plan for how the lockdown in England could be eased and the criteria involved in the final week of February.\n\nFactors will include death and hospitalisation numbers, progress of vaccinations and changes in the virus.\n\nHe has ruled out schools in England re-opening after the February half term, instead setting an 8 March target.\n\nIn a statement to Parliament, Mr Johnson said the scientific data was not sufficiently clear to make any decisions now but he hoped to publish a detailed roadmap in just under a month's time as the \"picture became clearer\".\n\nHe also announced plans for tighter border restrictions to combat new variants of Covid, confirming all those arriving from high-risk countries will have to quarantine in hotels and other accommodation for 10 days.\n\nThe PM, who is under pressure from Tory MPs to spell out how the current lockdown will end, said relaxing restrictions would depend on emerging data about how effectively the vaccine stops virus transmission.\n\nHe signalled any easing of restrictions would start with schools, setting a potential re-opening date of 8 March - when he said he hoped the 15 million or so people in the top four vulnerable groups earmarked for vaccinations by mid-February will have had their jabs and have full protection.\n\n\"Our aim will be to set out a gradual and phased approach to easing the restrictions in a sustainable way,\" he said, adding that the \"first sign of normality\" should be pupils returning to school.\n\nHe added: \"We hope it will be safe to begin the re-opening of schools from 8 March with other economic and social restrictions being removed thereafter as the data permits.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said reopening schools should be a national priority and urged the government to vaccinate teachers and support staff during the February half term.\n\nLabour is also calling for the government to prioritise key workers in critical professions, seeing them added to the first phase of the vaccination programme, alongside those might likely to become seriously ill.\n\nCases are falling and the vaccination programme is going well. So why is the government waiting?\n\nFirstly, there are doubts about how fast infections are falling.\n\nWhile the daily figures show they have almost halved in just over a fortnight, the government's surveillance programmes which involve random testing suggest the drop may be slower.\n\nIt is unclear why there is this discrepancy, but understanding the true trajectory is crucial to knowing what will happen to pressures on hospitals.\n\nWhat impact the vaccination programme has will also be vital.\n\nEarly results from Israel, which is leading the world on vaccination, suggest cases in older age groups start falling three weeks after significant numbers are vaccinated. But ministers want to see that pattern repeated here.\n\nThey also want to know what effect vaccination has on transmission - it is possible vaccinated people can still transmit the infection even if they are protected from illness.\n\nThis will not be completely clear by March, but scientists should at least have a better idea.\n\nWhen a plan for exiting lockdown is set out, the government wants to be certain it can be kept to. But given the cost of lockdown the pressure to lift restrictions will grow if progress keeps being made.\n\nLast week, chair of the Covid Recovery Group Conservative MP Mark Harper said if the government meets its 15 February vaccination deadline, then ministers should begin easing lockdown by 8 March.\n\nHe welcomed the announcement from the prime minster.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Harper This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUnder the current lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons such as food shopping and exercise.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland's lockdown laws are due to end on 31 March. Mr Johnson has previously said this date is to allow for a \"controlled\" easing of restrictions back into local tiers.\n\nUnder the tier system, different rules are applied to different parts of the country, depending on factors such as pressure on the NHS, number of cases and rates at which case numbers fall.\n\nPupils in England are not expected to return to school before the February half term. Mr Johnson has said schools will be reopened \"as soon as we can\" but did not guarantee that would happen before Easter.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said restrictions in Scotland will continue until mid-February at the earliest.\n\nIn Wales, the lockdown will be reviewed at the end of January, but the government has previously said it does not see \"much headroom for change\".\n\nNorthern Ireland's lockdown has been extended until 5 March.", "As a family of chemicals, neonicotinoids cause harm to pollinating insects such as bees\n\nThe Wildlife Trusts is to take legal action against the UK government over its decision to allow a pesticide that is almost entirely banned in the EU.\n\nIn 2018, the EU banned the outdoor use of neonicotinoid pesticides, which harm pollinating insects such as bees.\n\nBut following Brexit, the government approved the emergency use of one neonicotinoid to combat a crop disease.\n\nThe charity has told Environment Secretary George Eustice of their intention to challenge the decision.\n\nIn a letter to Mr Eustice, the Trusts says it will push for a judicial review unless the government can \"prove it has acted lawfully\".\n\nMultiple studies, including large-scale field trials, have found that neonicotinoids harm pollinators and aquatic life. Research has also shown that they can be linked to the wider collapse in biodiversity.\n\nThe government says it allowed the use of the neonicotinoid thiamethoxam because of the \"potential danger\" to the sugar beet crop from beet yellows virus, which is spread by aphids.\n\nThe virus can have a severe impact on sugar beet.\n\nIt stressed that use of the chemical would be strictly limited, and the risk to bees was \"acceptable\" because sugar beet doesn't flower. Alternative chemicals should be used to kill any wild flowering plants in and around the crops, the government said.\n\nNeonicotinoids are the most widely-used class of insecticides in the world and they work by disrupting the insect central nervous system.\n\nTwo years ago, the EU's ban was supported by then-Environment Secretary Michael Gove, who said the weight of evidence was \"greater than previously understood\". Unless the evidence changed, he said, the restrictions would be maintained post-Brexit.\n\nThe government says the change in policy is based on \"new evidence\". But, so far, they haven't made this science public.\n\nHowever, Craig Bennett, chief executive of the Wildlife Trusts, said there was no new evidence to justify the change in policy.\n\nHe said: \"The government refused a request for emergency authorisation in 2018 and we want to know what's changed. Where's the new evidence that it's okay to use this extremely harmful pesticide?\n\n\"Using neonicotinoids not only threatens bees but is also extremely harmful to aquatic wildlife because the majority of the pesticide leaches into soil and then into waterways. Worse still, farmers are being recommended to use weedkiller to kill wildflowers in and around sugar beet crops in a misguided attempt to prevent harm to bees in the surrounding area. This is a double blow for nature.\"\n\nIt was the National Farmers' Union (NFU) and British Sugar that applied for the authorisation. Victoria Prentis, a minister with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) told BBC News that it \"wasn't ideal\". But she was \"convinced it was appropriate\" and that the government was \"committed to reducing pesticide use and integrated pest management\".\n\nSugar beet affected by the yellowing disease spread by aphids\n\nThe pesticide will be authorised for use if there is a large enough outbreak of the disease. And it can only be used for a period of up to 120 days. Around a dozen other EU countries, including France and Germany, have also agreed emergency permits.\n\nMs Prentis said the authorisation was very specific, and \"targeted at a non-flowering crop, which bees are not attracted to\".\n\nHowever research, shows that the highly toxic chemicals can persist in the wider ecosystem for some time, potentially to be absorbed by wildflowers that pollinators then visit.\n\nProf Glen Jeffery, from University College London (UCL), said he felt \"horror\" when he learned of the government's decision.\n\n\"We've slowly moved away from it and yet it's creeping back in,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"It's very prevalent in other parts of the world, but then you find in other parts of the world vast numbers of pollinating insects have just vanished and they've just gone through heavy pesticide use. We reach the ridiculous situation where in parts of California thousands of beehives are trucked from Texas and from Florida into California to pollinate crops.\"\n\nThere has been one full sugar beet harvest since outdoor neonicotinoid use was banned. According to the NFU, the 2019-20 harvest was largely unaffected by beet yellows disease. This year's sugar beet harvest is currently underway, and yields are expected to be down by around 25% compared with the five-year average, with some farmers losing as much as 80% of their crop.\n\nAccording to the NFU, there are 3,000 farmers who grow sugar beet, and the wider industry supports around 9,500 jobs in England, largely in the East.\n\nThe NFU has called the situation \"unprecedented\" and its sugar board chairman Michael Sly said: \"I am relieved that our application for emergency use of a neonicotinoid seed treatment for the 2021 sugar beet crop has been granted.\"\n\nNeurobiologist and environmental pharmacologist Dr Chris Connolly said that, since 2018, when neonicotinoids were banned in the EU, around 400 papers had been published looking into thiamethoxam, and none said they were less harmful.\n\nThe peach potato aphid is responsible for spreading the beet yellows virus\n\nHe said he could be in favour of using it: \"But rarely, and when it's really needed - when it's an emergency. It's not an emergency if you apply for it before an emergency.\n\nHe added: \"Is adding pesticides to pesticides the way to go towards better sustainability?\"\n\nWhen they were introduced in 2005, neonicotinoids were seen as a good alternative to traditional pesticides. They are systemic, which means they are absorbed by the plant, so are applied to seeds as a coating - instead of being sprayed. However, it has become clear they are highly toxic to invertebrates such as insects.\n\nThe government recently committed to spending £3bn of international climate finance to \"supporting nature and biodiversity\".\n\nSeveral hundred thousand people have now signed various online petitions against the move. Earlier this month, more than 30 wildlife and environmental organisations, including Pesticide Action Network and the RSPB, wrote a joint letter to Mr Eustice calling on the government to publish the new evidence that led to the derogation being approved.", "The EHIC card is making way for the GHIC card under a new agreement with the EU\n\nUK residents can apply for a Global Health Insurance Card (GHIC) to access emergency medical care in the EU when their current EHIC card runs out.\n\nUnder a new agreement with the EU, both cards will offer equivalent healthcare protection when people are on holiday, studying or travelling for business.\n\nThis includes emergency treatment as well as treatment needed for a pre-existing condition.\n\nThe new GHIC card is free and can be obtained via the official GHIC website.\n\nCurrent European Health Insurance Cards (EHIC) are valid as long as they are in date, and can continue to be used when travelling to the EU.\n\nYou don't need to apply for a GHIC until your current EHIC expires.\n\nPeople should apply at least two weeks before they plan to travel to ensure their card arrives on time.\n\nHealth Minister Edward Argar said: \"Our deal with the EU ensures the right for our citizens to access necessary healthcare on their holidays and travels to countries in the EU will continue.\n\n\"The GHIC is a key element of the UK's future relationship with the EU and will provide certainty and security for all UK residents.\"\n\nIf a UK resident is travelling without a card, they are still entitled to necessary healthcare, and should contact the NHS Business Services Authority (which covers the whole of the UK), which can arrange for payment should they require treatment when abroad.\n\nEHICs from EU member states will continue to be accepted by the NHS.\n\nIt is advised that anyone travelling overseas, whether to the EU or elsewhere in the world, should take out comprehensive travel insurance.", "Khairi Saadallah admitted three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nA killer who stabbed three men to death in a Reading park has been handed a whole-life jail term.\n\nKhairi Saadallah murdered James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and 39-year-old Joe Ritchie-Bennett, in June last year in Forbury Gardens.\n\nLondon's Old Bailey previously heard the 26-year-old \"executed\" the men as an \"act of religious jihad\".\n\nPassing sentence Judge Mr Justice Sweeney said it was a \"ruthless and brutal\" terror attack.\n\nSaadallah, who admitted the murders, had also pleaded guilty to the attempted murders of three other men who were also in the park.\n\nThe judge said the victims \"had no chance to react, let alone defend themselves\".\n\n(L-R) David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong were pronounced dead at the scene\n\nHe said he was sure the attack \"involved a substantial degree of premeditation or planning\" and was carried out \"for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, or ideological cause\".\n\nBBC News correspondent Helena Wilkinson, who was in court, said the families of James Furlong and David Wails were present, while Joseph Ritchie-Bennett's loved ones watched via a link from America.\n\nSaadallah showed no emotion as Mr Justice Sweeney went through his sentencing remarks.\n\nOn the afternoon of 20 June, the park was busy due to the first lockdown restrictions being relaxed in England.\n\nAndrew Cafe, who witnessed the stabbings, said he saw Saadallah wielding the \"biggest kitchen knife\" and charging towards him shouting \"Allahu Akbar\".\n\nPharmaceutical manager Mr Ritchie-Bennett and teacher Mr Furlong died from single stab wounds to their necks, while scientist Mr Wails was stabbed once in the back.\n\nDespite treatment from paramedics and doctors, all three friends, who were members of the LGBT community, died at the scene.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Witness Andrew Cafe visited Forbury Gardens for the first time since the attack\n\nThree other people - Nishit Nisudan, Patrick Edwards and Stephen Young - were also injured, before Saadallah threw away the knife and fled the scene, pursued by police.\n\nFollowing his arrest, Saadallah initially said he wanted to plead guilty to the \"jihad that I done\", but the prosecution claimed he later feigned mental illness in police interviews.\n\nAt a previous hearing, the court heard he had developed an emotionally unstable and anti-social personality disorder, with his behaviour worsened by alcohol and cannabis misuse.\n\nBut the judge said it was \"clear that the defendant did not, and does not, have any major mental illness\".\n\nAn examination of Saadallah's phone revealed an interest in extremist material, including images of the flag of Islamic State and Jihadi John, the court previously heard.\n\nWhile at HMP Bullingdon in 2017, he was seen to associate with radical preacher Omar Brookes, who has connections with banned terrorist organisation Al-Muhajiroun.\n\nThe court heard Saadallah, who arrived in Britain from Libya in 2012, had previously been involved with militias who had been part of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, and was pictured handling weapons, including firearms.\n\nSince seeking asylum in Britain, he had been repeatedly arrested and convicted of various offences, including theft and assault, between 2013 and 2020.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV cameras captured Khairi Saadallah before and after the stabbing\n\nHe briefly came to the attention of MI5 in 2019, but the information provided did not meet the threshold of investigation.\n\nSaadallah had been released from prison on 5 June, days before the attack, the court heard.\n\nOn 17 June, he researched the location for his attack online and carried out reconnaissance in the park.\n\nThe following day his probation officer alerted his mental health team over comments he made about magic.\n\nA day later, Saadallah contacted the crisis team himself, but when they visited he did not answer.\n\nFollowing concerns from his brother, police visited the killer the same day, but he told officers he was \"alright\" while he stood near a knife he bought from a supermarket.\n\nAndrew Wails said losing his brother had been devastating\n\nAfter the sentencing, James Furlong's father, Gary, said: \"The secretary of state needs to tell us why this guy wasn't put into some form of detention centre before they could deport him.\n\n\"He was not safe to be released back on the streets.\"\n\nReferring to the fact that Saadallah had been visited by police the night before the attack, Mr Furlong said: \"Given the volume of crimes he's committed and the information that they had on him, for an assessment to be done the night before to say that he's not a danger to the public - it is beyond me.\"\n\nHe described Mr Furlong, originally from Liverpool, as \"a lovely man, loved by his family, idolised by his mother\".\n\nDavid Wails' brother Andrew said: \"For us as a family it's been devastating to lose our much loved son, brother and uncle.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Bennett family described Mr Ritchie-Bennett as a \"devoted and loving husband\" and \"a man who cared strongly about family\".\n\nThe park had been busy due to the first lockdown restrictions being relaxed in England\n\nDet Ch Supt Kath Barnes, head of Counter Terrorism Policing South East, described Saadallah as \"a committed jihadist\".\n\nShe said: \"He has caused unspeakable hurt and distress to the families of the three men who were brutally murdered as they were relaxing and enjoying socialising with friends on a Saturday evening.\n\n\"I'm sure there will also be lasting effects on those who were injured in the attack, who were fortunate not to have been even more seriously harmed.\"\n\nReading Borough Council leader Jason Brock described the attacks as \"horrific\" and \"senseless\" and said a permanent memorial to the victims was planned.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cardiff\n\nCardiff City defender Sol Bamba is being treated for cancer, the Championship club has announced.\n\nThe 35-year-old Ivory Coast international has been diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and is undergoing chemotherapy.\n\n\"Sol has begun his battle in typically positive spirits and will continue to be an integral part of the Bluebirds family,\" said the Bluebirds.\n\nBamba joined Cardiff in October 2016 under former manager Neil Warnock.\n\nThe National Health Service Wales describes the illness as \"a type of cancer that develops in the lymphatic system, a network of vessels and glands spread throughout your body.\n\n\"The lymphatic system is part of your immune system\".\n\nThe Bluebirds said Bamba is \"universally admired by team-mates, staff and supporters in the Welsh capital\".\n\nThe club's statement added: \"During treatment Sol will support his team mates at matches and younger players within the Academy, with whom he will continue his coaching development.\n\n\"While we request privacy for him and his family at this time, messages of support to be passed on to Sol may be sent to club@cardiffcityfc.co.uk.\"\n\n\"We are all with you Sol.\"\n\nBamba helped Cardiff win promotion to the Premier League in 2018 and has made more than 100 appearances for the club.\n\nThe former Paris St Germain player has been a hugely popular member of the squad, though this season he has been restricted to five Championship substitute appearances and one League Cup start.\n\nHe is a much travelled player who has had spells at Dunfermline, Hibernian, Leicester City, Trazbonspor and Italian club Palermo as well as Leeds United.\n\nFrance-born Bamba has played 46 times for the Ivory Coast, including World Cup appearances and was part of their African Cup of Nations squad when they were runners-up in 2012.", "A video featuring footage of a County Mayo man being consumed by fits of laughter while trying to record a birthday message for his son, has gone viral.\n\nVincent McDonnell was sending the message to his son David, who was celebrating his 40th birthday in Australia.\n\nHis younger son Paul got the video rolling, but the pair could not contain their laughter as they racked up the attempts.\n\nThe video has been viewed more than 1.5m times on Paul's Twitter account.", "Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore said their cars were surrounded by police when they arrived at the reservoir\n\nTwo women who were fined £200 each when they drove five miles for a walk have had the penalties withdrawn.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore were walking at Foremark Reservoir, Derbyshire, when they were \"surrounded\" by officers.\n\nAt the time Derbyshire Police insisted driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of the most recent lockdown.\n\nBut new national guidance for police has led the force to quash the fines, and apologise to the women.\n\nChief Constable Rachel Swann said the fines \"have been withdrawn and we have notified the women directly, apologising for any concern caused\".\n\nThe two friends travelled the short distance to the reservoir from their homes in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThey said their cars were \"surrounded\" by police. They were then questioned on why they were there and told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nIn a statement, the women said: \"This afternoon we both received a phone call from Derbyshire Police.\n\n\"After reviewing our case, our fines have been rescinded and we have received an apology on behalf of the constabulary for the treatment we received.\n\n\"We welcomed this apology and we are pleased to draw a line under this event.\"\n\nAfter the incident gained media attention, the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid: Fined women 'could have been dealt with differently'\n\nDerbyshire Police said: \"Having received clarification of the guidance issued by the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) on Friday, these FPNs as well as a small number of others issued, were reviewed in line with that latest advice, and so it is right that we have taken this action.\"\n\nThe county's police and crime commissioner Hardyal Dhinsda said: \"While the police are doing their absolute best to protect public safety during what is a critical time of the pandemic, the public should rightly expect a proportionate and balanced approach, taking full consideration of individual circumstances.\n\n\"We recognise that errors will occur in the face of complex guidance and legislation and it is important such situations are resolved quickly and fairly, as has been the case here.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK economy will \"get worse before it gets better\" as the country battles the pandemic, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has warned.\n\nThe chancellor told MPs the new national restrictions were necessary to control the spread of coronavirus.\n\nHowever, he said they would have a further significant economic impact,\n\n\"Even with the significant economic support we've provided, over 800,000 people have lost their job since February,\" he said.\n\n\"Sadly, we have not and will not be able to save every job and every business.\n\n\"But I am confident that our economic plan is supporting the finances of millions of people and businesses.\"\n\nThe chancellor said \"the road ahead will be tough\", but maintained that the government was \"taking the difficult but right long-term decisions for our country\".\n\nHe said that fiscal stimulus provided so far amounted to more than £280bn, while 1.2 million employers had furloughed almost 10 million employees.\n\nAt the same time, three million people had benefited from self-employment grants.\n\nMr Sunak said he would \"bear in mind\" calls to extend business rate relief and provide further support for the hospitality sector at the Budget in March.\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds accused Mr Sunak of being \"out of ideas\" and providing \"nothing new\".\n\nShe said: \"The purpose of an update is to provide us with new information, not to repeat what we already know.\"\n\nThe chancellor's words reflect the fact that with a widespread lockdown, the first months of 2021 are likely to see a further contraction in the UK economy and probably an official double-dip recession. This reflects the physical shutdown nationwide of hospitality and retail, as well as the effect in the data of school shutdowns too.\n\nIn addition, consumers and workers are likely to be more cautious as the vaccine starts to be rolled out. So this is a very odd sort of economic tripwire. The challenge in the next weeks and months gets bigger, although not as big as it was last April. But beyond that, there is the hope of something normal.\n\nThe implication for the chancellor as he prepares a vital early March Budget, however, is further delay to the measures, such as tax rises, to deal with historic levels of pandemic government borrowing.", "In his letter to staff, circulated on social media, Chad Wolf said he had hoped to remain as acting secretary to homeland security until the end of the Trump administration.\n\n\"Unfortunately, this action is warranted by the recent events, including the ongoing and meritless court rulings regarding the validity of my authority as acting secretary,\" he said, \"which serve to divert attention and resources away from the important work of the Department in this critical time of a transition of power\".\n\nWolf's resignation comes after he last week called on Trump and all elected officials to \"strongly condemn\" the Capitol riot.\n\nHis exit throws the department into turmoil just as it is gearing up for inauguration of Joe Biden as president on 20 January, which has been designated a national security special event.", "Rules governing the import of personal goods from the UK to the EU changed after Brexit formally came into effect\n\nA Dutch TV network has filmed border officials confiscating ham sandwiches and other foods from drivers arriving in the Netherlands from the UK, under post-Brexit rules.\n\nThe officials were shown explaining import regulations imposed since the UK formalised its separation from the EU.\n\nUnder EU rules, travellers from outside the bloc are banned from bringing in meat and dairy products.\n\nThe rules appeared to bemuse one driver.\n\n\"Since Brexit, you are no longer allowed to bring certain foods to Europe, like meat, fruit, vegetables, fish, that kind of stuff,\" a Dutch border official told the driver in footage broadcast by TV network NPO 1.\n\nIn one scene, a border official asked the driver whether several of his tin-foil wrapped sandwiches had meat in them.\n\nWhen the driver said they did, the border official said: \"Okay, so we take them all.\"\n\nSurprised, the driver then asked the officials if he could keep the bread, to which one replied: \"No, everything will be confiscated - welcome to the Brexit, sir. I'm sorry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK officially finished its formal separation from the EU on 31 December, 2020.\n\nFrom 23:00 GMT on that date, the UK stopped following EU rules, with new arrangements for travel, trade, immigration and security co-operation coming into force.\n\nA trade deal with the EU was agreed on 24 December, and a week later, UK lawmakers voted in favour of the agreement.\n\nThe UK's departure means big changes for business - with the UK and EU forming two separate markets - the end of free movement, and new regulations, including those governing the import of personal goods.\n\nThe UK government has issued guidance to commercial drivers travelling to the EU, warning them to \"be aware of additional restrictions to personal imports\".\n\n\"You cannot bring POAO (products of an animal origin) such as those containing meat or dairy (e.g. a ham and cheese sandwich) into the EU,\" the guidance says. \"There are exceptions to this rule for certain quantities of powdered infant milk, infant food, special foods, or special processed pet feed.\"\n\nOn its website, the European Commission says the ban is necessary because such goods \"continue to present a real threat to animal health throughout the Union\".\n\n\"It is known, for example, that dangerous pathogens that cause animal diseases such as Foot and Mouth Disease and classical swine fever can reside in meat, milk or their products,\" the Commission says.\n\nSeparately, the Dutch customs agency shared a picture of foodstuffs it had confiscated from motorists in the ferry terminal the Hook of Holland.\n\n\"Since 1 January, you can't just bring more food from the UK,\" the agency said. \"So prepare yourself if you travel to the Netherlands from the UK and spread the word. This is how we prevent food waste and together ensure that the controls are speeded up.\"\n\nThe BBC's economics editor Faisal Islam described the confiscation of ham sandwiches and other foodstuffs at the EU's borders with the UK as \"a standard implication of [the] Brexit deal\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Faisal Islam This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Unison, the UK's biggest trade union, has elected a woman as leader for the first time.\n\nChristina McAnea won 47.7% of the vote and takes over as general secretary from Dave Prentis, who has been in the job since 2001.\n\nThe former assistant general secretary beat fellow officials Paul Holmes, Roger McKenzie and Hugo Pierre in the contest, which began in October.\n\nMs McAnea said: \"I become general secretary at the most challenging time in recent history - both for our country and our public services.\n\n\"Health, care, council, police, energy, school, college and university staff have worked throughout the pandemic, and it's their skill and dedication that will see us out the other side.\n\n\"Their union will continue to speak up for them and do all it can to protect them in the difficult months ahead.\"\n\nUnison is promising action against the government's pay freeze for 1.3 million public sector workers, which it has described as an \"attack\" on members' livelihoods.\n\nMs McAnea said: \"Despite the risks, the immense pressures and their sheer exhaustion, the dedication and commitment of our key workers knows no end. I will not let this government, nor any future one, forget that.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has also demanded a U-turn on public sector pay, as he urges ministers to \"protect family incomes\" from the effects of lockdowns and other restrictions in his first speech of the year.\n\nBut Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said he cannot \"justify a significant, across-the-board\" salary increase while the economy and public finances are suffering in the wake of the pandemic.\n\nMs McAnea, an experienced negotiator and former NHS worker, is expected to be broadly supportive of Sir Keir, as Mr Prentis has been.\n\nThe Labour leader welcomed her victory, saying: \"I know you will be a brilliant representative for Unison members.\n\n\"And it's a significant moment for the union to elect its first woman general secretary. I look forward to working with you.\"\n\nHer election comes at a strained time between Sir Keir and several other unions whose general secretaries have spoken out in support of his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn, who is currently suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party.\n\nMr Holmes came second in the Unison contest, with 33.8%, followed by Mr McKenzie, on 10.8%, and Mr Pierre, on 7.8%.\n\nMs McAnea grew up in Glasgow and worked as a housing officer before becoming a union employee.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK is at the \"worst point\" of the pandemic, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has warned, but said the actions of the public \"could make a difference\".\n\nAt a No 10 briefing, Mr Hancock pleaded with people to follow the government's Covid rules until the vaccine could provide a \"way out\" of the pandemic.\n\nThe government earlier published its plan to immunise tens of millions of people by spring.\n\nSo far 2.3 million people in the UK have had a first Covid vaccine shot.\n\nAnd a total of 2.6 million doses have been given out across the country, with some people having received both doses.\n\nMr Hancock said the new variant of coronavirus was putting the NHS under \"significant pressure\", adding it was \"imperative\" that people limit their social contacts.\n\n\"The NHS, more than ever before, needs everybody to be doing something right now - and that something is to follow the rules,\" he said.\n\n\"I know there has been speculation about more restrictions, and we don't rule out taking further action if it is needed, but it is your actions now that can make a difference.\"\n\nThe health secretary said he could \"rule out\" tightening restrictions by removing support and childcare bubbles, however.\n\nHis comments follow similar warnings from Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty, who said that the next few weeks will be \"the worst\" of the pandemic for the NHS.\n\nAccording to the latest figures, there have been another 529 deaths within 28 days of a positive test in the UK, and another 46,169 cases reported. There are also more than 32,000 people in hospital with coronavirus, data shows.\n\nMatt Hancock has previously said he's learned to rule nothing out when it comes to dealing with the pandemic.\n\nBut today he took the unusual step of doing just that.\n\nSupport bubbles and childcare bubbles, hugely valued by so many, will stay.\n\nSenior Whitehall sources have previously told me bubbles were \"untouchable\" but for a minister to say as much, so explicitly and on the record, means there's now very little wriggle room for the government to change its mind.\n\nMinisters will know that scrapping bubbles, for those that rely on them, could have proved deeply unpopular. But this certainty is a rarity.\n\nWhilst the current emphasis is on compliance, the idea of toughening up controls in other areas is not being ruled out.\n\nThe vaccine delivery plan says it is expected to take until spring to give a first dose to all 32 million people in the UK's priority groups, including everyone over 55 and those who are clinically vulnerable.\n\nUnder the plan, the government has pledged to carry out at least two million vaccinations in England per week by the end of January, which it says will be made possible by rolling out jabs at 206 hospital sites, 50 vaccination centres and around 1,200 local vaccination sites.\n\nIt also reiterates the government's aim of offering vaccinations to around 15 million people in the UK - the over-70s, older care home residents and staff, frontline healthcare workers and the clinically extremely vulnerable - by mid-February.\n\nAccording to Mr Hancock, two fifths of over-80s have now received their first dose, and almost a quarter of care home residents have received theirs.\n\nAlso at the briefing, NHS England's national medical director, Prof Stephen Powis, said the NHS was aiming to vaccinate the rest of the top nine priority groups by April, with a final push to offer all adults over 18 a jab by the autumn.\n\nHe stressed it would take until February before there were \"early signs\" that vaccination was leading to a drop in hospitalisations.\n\nThe country has still not seen the full impact of the Christmas loosening of lockdown restrictions, Prof Powis added, although he noted there are now 13,000 more Covid patients in hospital than there were on Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking in Bristol earlier, Mr Johnson warned the vaccination programme was in a \"race against time\" because of pressure on the NHS.\n\nHe said it was \"a very perilous moment because everyone can sense the vaccine is coming in - my worry is that will breed false complacency\".\n\nThe newly-published vaccination plan also says ministers are aiming to offer jabs at more than 2,700 sites across the UK.\n\nAnd it says that daily vaccination figures for England will be published from now on - showing the total number vaccinated to date, including first and second doses.\n\nEarlier, NHS England's chief executive, Sir Simon Stevens, told MPs that there was a \"strong case\" for asking the the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) to consider prioritising \"teachers and other key workers\" for vaccination after the \"first nine [priority] groups have been vaccinated\".\n\nA quarter of coronavirus admissions to hospital are for people under the age of 55, he added.\n\nIn the first four weeks of the vaccination campaign, the NHS did 1.3 million vaccinations.\n\nNews that in the past week almost the same again has been done shows progress is being made - even though there has been some concern rollout to care home residents has been slower than hoped.\n\nHitting two million doses a week is the next target - and is something the NHS is aiming to get close to this week.\n\nWith more vaccination sites opening by the day, it should be achievable as long as there is good supply.\n\nThere is already enough vaccine in the country to vaccinate all 15 million people in the highest at-risk groups that have been promised an offer of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nHowever, not all of it has been through the final safety checks or been packaged up ready for distribution.\n\nChallenges remain, but even at this early stage it is clear there is growing optimism that the programme is on track.\n\nAs seven mass vaccination centres opened across England on Monday, NHS England said hundreds more GP-led and hospital services would also open later this week.\n\nBut with all centres, people will need to wait until they receive an invitation.\n\nTwo vaccines - Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are currently being administered in the UK.\n\nOn Friday, a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use, although supplies are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nVaccine programmes are also progressing in the UK's devolved nations.\n\nAll over-50s and everyone who is at greater risk from Covid in Wales will be offered a vaccine by spring, under new plans.\n\nAnd Scotland's health secretary has said every aged over 80 or over in the nation will be offered a jab by February, while care workers in Northern Ireland who provide services to ill or elderly patients living at home can now book an appointment to get a Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has questioned why there are \"less restrictions in place\" now than there were last March.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he said: \"I do think it's time to hear from the scientists [about] what else could be done and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nMeanwhile, the United Arab Emirates is being removed from the UK list of travel corridors amid a spike in Covid cases.\n\nAnd England's Test and Trace scheme has revised one of its definitions of a \"close contact\" - the people who need to be reached if they have been near to someone who has tested positive for Covid.\n\nThis now refers to anyone who has been within two metres of someone for more than 15 minutes, whether in a single period or cumulatively over the course of one day.\n\nPreviously the definition was just a single period of at least 15 minutes.", "Home Office Minister James Brokenshire, who was diagnosed with lung cancer three years ago, is taking leave to have surgery on a lung tumour.\n\nThe Old Bexley and Sidcup MP resigned as Northern Ireland secretary in 2018 for surgery to remove a lesion on his right lung.\n\nOn Monday he confirmed that \"frustratingly\" there had been a recurrence of a tumour there.\n\nHe said he was in \"good hands\" with the \"fantastic NHS team\" looking after him.\n\n\"[I'm] keeping positive and blessed to have the love of Cathy and the kids to support me through this,\" the 53-year-old wrote on Twitter.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said his thoughts were with Mr Brokenshire and his family.\n\n\"Wishing you all the best for your treatment and looking forward to welcoming you back on the team soon,\" he added.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said she was \"saddened\" by the news, adding: \"All my thoughts and prayers are with James and his family during this time\".\n\n\"All colleagues across government send James our love and best wishes, and we look forward to having him back soon,\" she added.\n\nHealth secretary Matt Hancock was among government colleagues wishing him well, adding he was \"sending my best wishes for a speedy recovery\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"Wishing you all the best for your treatment, James. Get well soon.\"\n\nMr Brokenshire, who was first elected to Parliament in 2005 as MP for the former constituency of Hornchurch, has also previously served as housing secretary under former PM Theresa May.\n\nHe has called for efforts to \"break some of the stigma around lung cancer\" and raise awareness of the disease.\n• None Brokenshire: There were some pretty dark moments", "Medical director Steve Stanaway says numbers of Covid patients are rising at the hospital\n\nHospital staff in Wrexham are under immense pressure after a \"rapid increase\" in seriously ill coronavirus patients, a medical director has warned.\n\nWrexham now has the highest rate of Covid-19 in Wales, with 851.7 cases per 100,000 of the population.\n\nThis is more than double the Welsh average.\n\nSteve Stanaway, medical director at Wrexham Maelor Hospital, pleaded with people to abide by rules.\n\n\"The worry from a staff's point of view is how much more stretching can we take, how many more staff can we deploy?\" he said.\n\nThe hospital - which is part of Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board - was the latest to suspend routine surgery as it tries to deal with rising numbers of Covid patients.\n\n\"That's created more feelings of stress and anxiety, not least to the people who were hoping to get their surgery this week,\" Mr Stanaway said.\n\nThe health board has postponed the majority of surgeries planned for the next two weeks at Wrexham, although some patients will be offered appointments in Bangor instead.\n\nEmergency surgery, upper gastro-intestinal surgery, endoscopy procedures and caesarean sections will continue at the Wrexham hospital.\n\nProf Arpan Guha, acting executive medical director, said: \"There are many patients expecting to undergo an operation in Wrexham over the coming weeks and we recognise how anxious and worried they will already be about having surgery during the current surge of the pandemic.\n\n\"We are sorry for any further distress or inconvenience this decision may cause and would like to reassure those affected that we are doing all we can to prioritise patients in the most urgent need of care.\"\n\nThe spike in cases in communities in north-east Wales has been blamed on the newer \"faster-spreading\" variant.\n\nWhile case rates in many communities have fallen slightly in recent weeks, in Wrexham numbers are continuing to rise.\n\nThe area now has the highest rate in Wales, followed by Flintshire with 754.6 per 100,000 of the population.\n\nBus services in the area have been affected after 28 drivers of Arriva Buses Wales tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nMeanwhile, Gwynedd, has the lowest case rate in the whole of Wales, with 110.\n\nThe average case rate for Wales stands at 435.9, according to the most recent Public Health Wales figures.\n\nThere have been calls for mass testing - as seen in parts of the south Wales Valleys - in the area as case rates continue to rise, but Wrexham council has said it has no plans to offer this to the wider community.\n\nMr Stanaway said the critical care unit and respiratory unit at the Wrexham hospital was now under huge pressure with the number of new patients needing this level of care \"rapidly increasing\" in recent weeks.\n\n\"The numbers are really quite alarming\", he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast on Monday. \"It's a huge amount of disease burden within a community.\"\n\nMr Stanaway said there were 125 inpatients being treated with Covid on Sunday night, which he estimated was an increase of 117% since Christmas.\n\nHe said 14 of them where in critical care, with some on ventilators, while 16 where being treated in the hospital's high care respiratory unit - a 45% increase in just four days.\n\n\"There are now so many in that unit they've had to expand it to a completely different part of the hospital,\" he said.\n\n\"If you look at the graphs of the cases they are going up exponentially, they are terrifying to look at, and I think people are very aware that this is what is happening out in the community around them,\" he said.\n\nMr Stanaway said staff were working tirelessly and under huge amounts of pressure to keep caring for the sickest patients, but it was unclear how much more demand the hospital could take.\n\n\"Our current predictions for admissions coming through the door in January are currently sitting at about 350, if you compare that to April, the height of the pandemic, we had 286 people,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a lot more, we've already had 112 people in the first nine days of January. And the numbers are going up and up.\"\n\nHe pleaded with people to abide by the rules.\n\n\"This virus is hurting, and has hurt, a lot of people within Wrexham and Flintshire,\" he said.\n\n\"I can't say it strongly enough... we will get through this, but you just have to play by the rules.\"\n\nLatest figures show 149 staff were isolating and, with high nursing vacancy rates, staff were under huge pressure and were working tirelessly.\n\n\"Of all the years I've worked in the NHS... the resilience, dedication and professionalism our staff are showing is absolutely unbelievable,\" he said.\n\n\"But you have to bear in mind that people are tired, people are stressed, and it does put a strain,\" he said.\n\n\"We absolutely want to see you if you are unwell, but if you can wait or seek care somewhere else... please do that to give us that little bit of headspace.\"", "Online supermarket Ocado has become the first big retailer to warn of shortages of some products.\n\nIt told customers in an email that there may be \"an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks\".\n\nStaff sickness and self-isolation means some food producers are cutting the number of product lines they offer.\n\nWhile customers might not get their exact product choice, plenty of food should be available, Ocado said.\n\n\"Staff absences across the supply chain may lead to an increase in product substitutions for a small number of customers as some suppliers consolidate their offering to maintain output,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe news comes after a rush of online food orders for supermarkets, as shoppers try to stay at home after the new lockdown started.\n\nWithin a couple of hours of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's speech to the nation on Monday, shoppers reported problems with Sainsbury's and Tesco, while Ocado customers were placed in a virtual queue.\n\nOcado told its customers that from Friday \"changes to the UK supply chain have affected some of our suppliers and may result in an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks.\"\n\nIt added: \"We apologise for any inconvenience caused and we are working hard to mitigate any impact.\"\n\nFood suppliers are grappling with staffing problems, hospitality clients who have closed their doors and delays at the border with the EU.\n\nWholesalers the BBC spoke to this week said they faced throwing away thousands of pounds worth of food because of cancelled orders following new restrictions.\n\nThe UK meat industry has called for the early vaccination of its workers to keep food supplies running smoothly during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt warned earlier this week that absences during the pandemic, coupled with disruption at ports, could hit food supply chains.\n\nAn early vaccination call for supermarket staff was also made by the boss of Sainsbury's on Thursday.\n\nThe government said the food industry remains \"well-prepared\" to make sure people have the food they need.\n\nThe British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) said coronavirus and disruption at ports due to new systems brought in after the Brexit transition period were \"a severe challenge to the industry and to the smooth running of the nation's food supply chain\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Minister Vaughan Gething aims to offer all adults a jab by the autumn.\n\nAll over-50s and everyone who is at greater risk from Covid will be offered a vaccine by spring, under new Welsh Government plans.\n\nA vaccine strategy unveiled by Health Minister Vaughan Gething aims to offer all adults a jab by the autumn.\n\nIt comes after criticism that the rollout of the vaccine has been slower than in other parts of the UK.\n\nThe latest figures show 86,039 doses had been administered by 22:00 GMT on Sunday.\n\nA total of 327,000 doses - 280,000 of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 47,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab - have now been delivered to the Welsh NHS.\n\nThe figures mean 2.7% of Wales population has so far been vaccinated - compared to just over 4% in Northern Ireland, about 3.5% in England and 3% in Scotland.\n\nAcross the UK nearly 400,000 second doses have been administered, including 374,613 in England, 79 in Wales, 13,949 in Northern Ireland and, as of January 3, 36 in Scotland.\n\nMr Gething admitted the rest of the UK had \"gone slightly faster than we have\", but said the latest vaccinations figures showed a \"significant acceleration\" in the rollout.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives accused the government of a \"stuttering start\", while Plaid Cymru said the plan was \"late in the day\".\n\nEveryone over 70, all care home residents and staff, and front-line NHS and social care workers will be offered a jab by mid-February, under similar timescales to other UK nations.\n\nThis 82-year-old woman was one of 100 to receive her vaccine at a special clinic in Swansea on Saturday\n\nThe Welsh Government's vaccination plans aim to cover 2.5 million people by September, with vaccines supplied by the UK government.\n\nMr Gething said: \"Delivering this vaccination programme to the people in Wales is a huge task but an enormous amount of work is going on to make it a success.\n\n\"We are making good progress with thousands more people being vaccinated every day.\"\n\nThe plan sets out a series of \"milestones\" for the vaccine rollout in Wales - all depending on the supply of vaccines approved for use.\n\nAt a press conference, Mr Gething said the government aimed to vaccinate:\n\nMr Gething said 700,000 people would be vaccinated by mid-February.\n\nAccording to the plan, the number of GPs' surgeries delivering vaccines will be increased from around 100 to more than 250 by the end of January.\n\nThe number of mass vaccination centres will increase in the next couple of weeks to 35, according to Welsh Government's plan.\n\nOne of those is Margam Orangery, in Neath Port Talbot, where about 500 people will be vaccinated each day.\n\nAt the press conference, Mr Gething defended the UK-wide decision to increase the gap between giving the two doses of the Pfizer vaccine and said it would \"avoid more deaths\".\n\n\"Each of the vaccines provide a high level of protection against harm from coronavirus. That's really good news for all of us,\" he added.\n\nWelsh Conservative health spokesman Andrew RT Davies said the Welsh Government should have a vaccinations minister who \"gets up in the morning thinking about vaccinations and goes to bed thinking about vaccinations\".\n\nHe said such a move would help the government recover from a \"stuttering start\" to the vaccines programme. Mr Davies said the government needed \"focus and direction to drive this forward\".\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price welcomed the strategy but said it was \"late in the day\".\n\nMr Price said many people, including his own parents, wanted clarity: \"My parents, who are in their 80s, have been told their surgery won't have the ability to vaccinate them for another three weeks, yet the GP surgery next door is starting this week.\"\n\nLarger supplies of the Oxford jab will be needed to speed up vaccinations\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is crucial to ensuring everyone aged over 70 can have at least one jab by Valentine's Day.\n\nHealth boards plan to use reserves of the Pfizer vaccine, but they alone will not reach the Welsh Government's first milestone. To speed things up, bigger supplies of the Oxford vaccine are needed.\n\nUnlike the Pfizer vaccine however, the stock is not held by the Welsh Government. Instead, it is delivered directly to the frontline - including GPs and community pharmacies - by Public Health England.\n\nAround 24,000 Oxford doses arrived in Wales last week; 26,000 are due this week; and another 80 to 100,000 are expected to arrive in four batches next week.\n\nIf the mid-February milestone is reached, attention then turns to the over-50s and younger people whose health puts them at greater risk.\n\nThey can expect a dose by the Spring, but discussions are continuing between the four UK nations to nail down a more specific date.\n\nDr Helen Alefounder is a GP in Colwyn Bay, Conwy county and part of a team that administered 400 vaccines at care comes last week after receiving the vaccine herself on Wednesday.\n\n\"Between us and the surgery next door that we're working with we've got just shy of 20,000 patients to vaccinate,\" she told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"It's an absolutely huge task, it's really scary, but we are really keen and committed to get it done because everybody is sick of lockdown and let's be honest, everybody wants life to return to as normal as possible and the only way we're going to do that is to mass vaccinate people.\"\n\nA mass-vaccination centre has been set up at Margam Orangery near Port Talbot\n\nOther GP surgeries have posted on social media that they have not received as many doses of the vaccine as promised.\n\nVaccination numbers will now be published daily and the number of mass vaccination centres will rise from 22 to 35. The vaccination plan also suggests pharmacies could be used to deploy the vaccine.\n\nDr Gill Richardson, the senior responsible officer for the Covid vaccination programme in Wales, said GPs were \"raring to go\" to get the vaccine distributed.\n\nShe said the model for Wales' vaccination programme was focused around the Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine, which was approved in late December and \"much larger quantities\" were expected.\n\nShe also said: \"I know it's very difficult if you haven't had a letter and you're feeling anxious but you are going to be approached and when you're approached we'd like it to be as soon as possible and as convenient as possible to you.\"\n\nMichael Sullivan, 93, from Radyr, Cardiff, is one of those who is yet to receive his letter.\n\nHe said: \"I hear of all these other people having their second jabs and nobody's even thought of contacting me to say I'm going to have one in the first place. It's a bit depressing. It makes me think somebody's not doing what they should be doing.\n\n\"It gets stressful more easily, that's another thing one has to bare in mind - it's going to save my life.\"\n\nTwo full doses of the Oxford vaccine gave 62% protection, a half dose followed by a full dose was 90% and overall the trial showed 70% protection.\n\nElen Jones, the Wales director of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, said community pharmacists were \"willing and skilled to help deliver the vaccination programme, as they do with flu every year\".\n\nShe added pharmacists could help deliver the vaccine \"at a more local level\".\n\nWelsh ministers have been under intense pressure since it became clear that Wales was lagging behind every other home nation in the initial weeks of vaccine rollout.\n\nIt's still not clear why that should be the case - the logistical challenges of rollout and the change in advice over the time period between first and second doses apply across the UK, not just to Wales.\n\nThe health minister says that there has already been \"a significant step-up in delivery\".\n\nThe test of that will be whether the system in Wales can meet the delivery goals set out in the vaccination strategy - which (as for the other home nations) also rely on a regular and sufficient supply of vaccine.", "Marks & Spencer has announced that it has bought the Jaeger fashion brand, which fell into administration last November.\n\nM&S is taking on the brand, but not Jaeger's scores of shops and concessions.\n\nIt is now in the process of finalising a deal to buy its products and \"supporting marketing assets\".\n\nM&S announced in May 2020 that it planned to stock other complementary brands to boost sales.\n\nSince then, it has started to sell products online from the Early Learning Centre, as well as from two designers, Nobody's Child and Ghost London.\n\nRichard Price, managing director of M&S Clothing & Home, said: \"We have set out our plans to sell complementary third party brands as part of our Never the Same Again programme to accelerate our transformation and turbocharge online growth.\n\n\"In line with this, we have bought the Jaeger brand and are in the final stages of agreeing the purchase of product and supporting marketing assets from the administrators of Jaeger Retail Limited. We expect to fully complete later this month.\"\n\nIn a call with journalists last week, chief executive Steve Rowe said M&S wanted to partner with other brands, largely for its online business, but stressed: \"We have no intention of turning into a department store.\"\n\nJaeger had 244 staff and some 63 stores and concessions. In addition, 13 stores closed after administrators were appointed, with the loss of more than 120 posts across stores, head office and distribution.\n\nIt is unclear if any jobs will be saved. There has been no update from the administrators, FRP.\n\nJaeger was founded in 1884, the same year as Marks & Spencer, which started out as a stall in an open market in Leeds known as Marks' Penny Bazaar.\n\nLast week, M&S unveiled quarterly figures showing that its clothing division had seen sales fall nearly a quarter, although sales of sales of sleepwear had soared.\n\nThe retailer sold 20% more women's pyjamas during the 13 weeks to 26 December. However, UK revenues for the quarter were £2.52bn, 8.2% lower than last year.\n\nM&S blamed \"on-off restrictions and distortions in demand patterns\" due to the coronavirus crisis.", "Stickers supposed to protect users against mobile-phone radiation have no effect, scientists have found.\n\nEnergydots says they \"counteract the harmful energy emitted by wireless and electronic equipment\" to aid sleep, cure headaches and give a clearer mind.\n\nBut University of Surrey tests for BBC News found no evidence of any effect.\n\nThe Devon-based company told BBC News the stickers were programmed with \"scalar energy\", which the scientists' equipment would be unable to detect.\n\nEnergydots markets a range of stickers, including the SmartDot, the SleepDot and even the PetDot.\n\nBBC News bought five SmartDots - a special offer for £55 - and sent them to the university's 6th Generation Innovation Centre.\n\nResearchers tested 4G mobile phones and wi-fi access points with and without the stickers applied to them.\n\nAnd a spokesman for the lab said: \"We could not find any evidence that these products had any effect on frequency or power when used as instructed.\"\n\nAn Energydots spokeswoman told BBC News: \"We state clearly that our products harmonise the fields.\n\n\"And the way to test this is to assess via biological testing.\"\n\nLast November, the company published a press release saying it was extremely proud to announce a partnership with the NHS that would see \"brand-new patient engagement units\" installed in Torbay and Royal College of London hospitals.\n\nAt the time, an Energydots spokeswoman told BBC News adverts for its products would appear in the two hospitals, though she clarified the London hospital was in fact University College Hospital.\n\nBut a Torbay Hospital spokesman then told BBC News it knew nothing of this partnership.\n\nAnd within hours, the press release had disappeared from the company's website.\n\nEnergydots later said there had been a misunderstanding with the agency that had promised to organise the adverts.\n\nIts stickers are among a wide range of products on Amazon from companies offering electric-and-magnetic-field (EMF) protection.\n\nEnergydots also suggests placing its SmartDot stickers on wi-fi routers\n\nThese include protective clothing, canopies to be placed over beds and even devices that block radiation from wi-fi routers - making them effectively useless.\n\nCampaigners claiming radiation from mobile phones and other devices poses a health risk have stepped up protests as 5G networks are rolled out.\n\nBut most scientists say even the higher part of the electromagnetic spectrum that may be used by 5G should not harm humans.\n\nAnd within those limits, there are no known consequences for health, the World Health Organization says.", "The United Arab Emirates is being removed from the UK list of travel corridors amid a spike in Covid cases.\n\nThat means anyone who arrives from the UAE after 04:00 GMT on Tuesday now needs to self-isolate for 10 days, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said.\n\nUK officials say Covid cases have risen 52% in the UAE in the last seven days and cite \"a significant acceleration in the number of imported cases\".\n\nIt comes after Scotland removed the UAE city Dubai from its safe travel list.\n\nThe Foreign Office has also updated its advice to advise against all but essential travel to the emirates.\n\nThe recent lockdown restrictions imposed across the UK mean leisure travel is currently banned.\n\nBut the UAE has been in particular focus in recent weeks after a number of UK reality TV and social media stars posted photographs of themselves holidaying there before the rules came into place.\n\nAnd a Celtic footballer tested positive for Covid-19 after the club took a trip to Dubai for a winter training camp.\n\nCeltic were allowed to go as a group under exemptions for elite athletes. As a result,15 playing and coaching staff are now required to self-isolate.\n\nDubai was added to Scotland's travel quarantine list from 04:00 GMT on Monday - with the rule also applying retrospectively for passengers who have arrived in Scotland from the city since January 3.\n\nThe Department for Transport said the removal of the whole of the UAE from the travel corridor is being adopted by all four UK nations.\n\nArrivals to the UK from most destinations now have to quarantine for 10 days.\n\nHowever, arrivals from some countries are exempt from the rules. Those countries make up the so-called travel corridor list.\n\nFrom this week, passengers arriving by boat, train or plane, including UK nationals, must also take a Covid test up to 72 hours before leaving the country of departure.\n\nAre you affected by the government decision to remove UAE from the UK travel corridor list? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A hospital's oxygen supply has \"reached a critical situation\" due to rising numbers of Covid-19 infections.\n\nA document shared with the BBC showed Southend Hospital has had to reduce the amount it uses to treat patients.\n\nIt said the target range for oxygen levels that should be in patients' blood had been cut from 92% to a baseline of 88-92%.\n\nHospital managing director, Yvonne Blucher, said it was \"working to manage\" the situation.\n\n\"We are experiencing high demand for oxygen because of rising numbers of inpatients with Covid-19 and we are working to manage this,\" she said.\n\n\"The public can play their part by staying home and, where they cannot, following the 'hands, face, space' advice to cut the spread of the virus.\"\n\nIn the document, from the Mid and South Essex Hospitals Foundation Trust, which has been shared with frontline NHS staff, the oxygen supply was said to have \"reached a critical situation\".\n\nIt said it was \"imperative we use oxygen efficiently and safely\" and states patients who are being fed oxygen and have an oxygen saturation of above 92% \"should have their oxygen weaned within the target range\", which is now 88-92%. This means very gradually reducing the saturation level.\n\nIt added that \"maintaining saturations within this target range is safe and no patient will come to harm as a result\".\n\nGPs in Essex have told the BBC that the threshold for sending a patient to hospital for supplemental oxygen is if their oxygen saturation is at 92%. A level of 96-100% is deemed normal.\n\nChris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers which represents hospital trusts in England, said there was \"huge pressure\" on hospital oxygen stocks because giving patients extra oxygen was a \"key part\" of coronavirus treatment.\n\nHe said there were a number of hospitals where this happened in the first phase of coronavirus and over the past few weeks \"similar things have happened\" elsewhere.\n\nChris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers which represents hospital trusts in England, said there was \"huge pressure on oxygen systems\"\n\n\"This is the kind of problem that chief executives and trust leadership teams are having to solve day in, day out,\" he said.\n\n\"If you [a hospital] push your oxygen to an absolutely critical level, then the thing that you can't do is have the oxygen system break down... so effectively you will have to dial it down, in which case you will probably have to transfer patients to the nearest neighbouring hospital for a short period of time.\n\n\"I cannot tell you how much work has been done over the summer and autumn to ensure that people [hospital trusts] have been prepared for this... they knew they would come under pressure if there were to be further waves, as has now proved to be the case.\"\n\nEssex has one of the highest rates of Covid-19 per 100,000 people in the country, with seven of the 14 council areas in the county in the top 20 most infected areas of England.\n\nThe Mid and South Essex Hospitals Foundation Trust said it was \"imperative we use oxygen efficiently and safely\"\n\nNews of oxygen issues is understandably worrying, but not unexpected. Tanks may be full, but flow is a problem.\n\nMany people who are sick with Covid will need extra oxygen to help them breathe. As Covid admissions increase, it can put huge demand on a hospital's piped oxygen supply system to provide this high flow.\n\nHospital bosses have been planning for such scenarios for months, learning from experiences during the first wave of Covid when some trusts ran into difficulties.\n\nMany wards have made improvements to their pipework in preparation for a very busy winter, but there is still a limit to what hospitals can provide.\n\nWhen stretched to the maximum, other steps are needed, such transferring patients elsewhere or limiting how much oxygen is pumped to each patient.\n\nSouthend Hospital has taken this latter measure.\n\nAlthough not ideal, it is not unsafe. Patients will be closely monitored and the trust hopes the situation will improve if new Covid admissions start to go down as people follow the stay at home lockdown rules.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None 'One in 18 have Covid-19' in parts of Essex", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says exemption from quarantine travel requirements for elite sport are to be reviewed\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has urged football clubs not to \"abuse\" the privileges they are afforded while the rest of Scotland is in lockdown.\n\nPlayers and staff from Celtic FC are having to self-isolate after one tested positive for Covid-19 on return from a mid-season training camp in Dubai.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she had doubts about whether the trip was really necessary.\n\nAnd she said \"everyone, including football, should be erring on the side of caution\" amid a rise in infections.\n\nScottish football below Championship level is to be suspended for three weeks in light of the current lockdown, with Scottish Cup and lower league ties to be rescheduled.\n\nTop flight football in Scotland is continuing while most Scots are subject to a \"stay at home\" order due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nCeltic's home fixture against Hibernian went ahead on Monday evening, despite the club having lost 13 players and three staff to Covid-19 issues.\n\nDefender Christopher Jullien tested positive for the virus on return from the club's training camp in Dubai, with others including the club's manager Neil Lennon being forced to isolate as close contacts.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she was \"disappointed and frustrated\" that her daily coronavirus briefing was again being \"dominated by football\".\n\nCeltic trained in Scotland on Saturday after returning from Dubai\n\nShe said she had doubts about whether Celtic's trip \"was really essential\" and whether rules were strictly adhered to, saying it was for the footballing authorities to decide if further action was necessary.\n\nThe first minister issued a warning to clubs that they must stick to the rules set out for them while the rest of the populace is subject to tight restrictions.\n\nShe said: \"Football and elite sport more generally enjoys a number of privileges right now that the rest of us don't have. These privileges include the right to go to overseas training camps and be exempt from quarantine on return.\n\n\"It is really vital, obviously for public health reasons but also I think out of respect for the rest of the population living under really heavy restrictions, that these privileges are not abused.\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross is an assistant referee in the game.\n\nHe said that at a time when people are staying at home football games were something many looked forward to.\n\nMr Ross said: \"We don't want to see the whole of Scottish football affected by the actions of one club.\" He also called for financial support to be made available to clubs in the Scottish lower leagues and Scottish Cup who had had their games suspended for three weeks.\n\nCeltic manager Neil Lennon is among those who are self-isolating\n\nMs Sturgeon said Scotland was currently in \"the most perilous and serious position since the start of the pandemic\", with a record number of people in hospital with Covid-19.\n\nShe said everyone should be doing their utmost not to add to pressure on the health services by following the rules.\n\nShe said: \"This whole episode should underline how serious the situation we are in now is. Everyone including football should be erring on the side of caution.\n\n\"I know fans of other clubs feel very strongly that the whole of football should not pay the price for the actions of any one club, and I agree with that.\n\n\"But of course a situation like this does make it essential for us to review the rules - including those around travel exemptions - and that's what we will be doing. As we do, I do hope that Celtic themselves will reflect seriously on all of this.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon cited photographs which emerged of players socialising in Dubai, but Celtic's assistant manager John Kennedy said these created a \"false picture\" and that there had been \"minor slip-ups\" at worst.\n\nThe club had previously claimed the government had given permission for the trip to go ahead, but Ms Sturgeon said it had only provided guidance to the footballing authorities on the rules.\n\nShe said: \"It's not our role to give approval or not to what a football club is doing.\"\n\nA statement posted on the Celtic website said that \"the reality is that a case could well have occurred had the team remained in Scotland\".\n\nIt added: \"Celtic has done everything it can to ensure we have in place the very best procedures and protocols. From the outset of the pandemic, Celtic has worked closely with the Scottish government and Scottish football and we will continue to do so.\"", "As hospital mortuaries fill up in Surrey, England, some of the dead from the coronavirus pandemic are being brought to an emergency body storage facility.\n\nSurrey currently has one of the highest infection rates in the country, and some are concerned the facility may reach capacity.\n\nBBC home editor Mark Easton paid a visit to the site which has been set up in a Surrey woodland.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nSeven centres begin operating this morning across England, a key part of efforts to vaccinate 15 million in the top four priority groups by mid-February. To begin with, more than 600,000 aged 80 or over are being sent letters inviting them to book an appointment at one of the hubs - but if the journey is too long, they're being told closer options will be available soon. The centres will be open 12 hours a day and more large-scale sites will follow. The health secretary will give more details later, while the Welsh government will publish its own vaccination plan. In Scotland, more clinics should start to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. Here's how vaccines are approved for use, and some of the challenges a rollout on this scale faces.\n\nScientists have warned stricter measures might be needed to curb infections in England but, right now, the government is focusing on an \"all-out public information\" campaign to improve compliance with the existing rules. Chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty is appearing on TV and radio this morning urging the public to \"stay at home\" given what he called the \"appalling situation\" we are in. He told BBC One's Breakfast that getting case numbers down was \"everybody's problem\", and \"every unnecessary contact\" with someone from another household gave the virus an opportunity to be transmitted. \"We need to really double down\", he added, because \"this is the most dangerous time we've had in terms of numbers into the NHS.\" If you've seen videos online claiming some hospital wards and corridors are empty, BBC Reality Check explains what's really going on.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses says a record quarter of a million firms could close over the coming year. The organisation's chairman, Mike Cherry, said financial support provided to businesses during the pandemic had \"not kept pace with intensifying restrictions\". It also wants more help for many self-employed workers who are currently excluded from aid. There's another call for more government support this morning from Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer. He wants teachers, the armed forces and care workers to be left out of a public sector pay freeze, and is urging ministers not to end the temporary £20-a-week boost to Universal Credit.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses said the government had met the latest national lockdown \"with a whimper\"\n\nThe body representing prison staff says courts should cease hearing trials to help stop the spread of coronavirus in jails. Mark Fairhurst, from the Prison Officers' Union, said there had been a \"massive outbreak\" at Cardiff Prison, and the site was struggling to find space for newly-sentenced arrivals. However, others within the criminal justice sector argue courts must be kept open to prevent the case backlog growing further. The rate of spread in prisons is still well below the wider population, and a prison service spokesman said shielding, mass testing and limited regimes were in place at all facilities.\n\nPrimary and secondary schools are closed to most pupils, and the switch to virtual learning presents challenges for many families. The BBC is trying to help, and from today lessons and programmes will be broadcast on TV, on BBC Two and CBBC. They'll also be available on iPlayer, with additional content online. Find out all you need to know here. If you're looking for some inspiration for PE, Joe Wicks is also back today. For many families, he was one of the fixtures of the first lockdown, and live classes start at 09:00 GMT on his YouTube channel.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Dorset Police said officers dispersed dozens of demonstrators from the town centre as they attempted to march\n\nA video shared online apparently showing a woman being arrested in breach of lockdown for sitting on a bench was \"stage-managed\", police said.\n\nDorset Police believe the video was planned and recorded by anti-lockdown protesters during a demonstration in Bournemouth on Saturday.\n\nThree people were arrested for not giving their details so officers could issue fines for breaking Covid rules.\n\nThe BBC has asked one of the protesters who posted the video to comment.\n\nThe force said two of those held were later de-arrested when they confirmed their details in police custody and a third was released when his details were verified - all three were then issued fixed penalty notices.\n\nOfficers also issued at least seven other fines and 10 dispersal notices.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mark Callaghan, from Dorset Police, said: \"We believe this video was planned, stage-managed and recorded by members of the protest group who turned up in multiple areas, several of whom refused to engage or provide their details.\n\n\"If people refuse to give their details in such circumstances then it leaves officers with little option, but to arrest until the details are established. Our officers would only arrest as a last resort.\n\n\"It was clear that the group was deliberately organising their activities, walking around in twos and then trying to come together in a 'flash mob'-style approach, as they have done previously. This activity went on for a couple of hours.\"\n\nThe force's chief constable James Vaughan earlier said: \"I condemn the actions of these selfish individuals who knowingly flouted the lockdown restrictions.\"\n\nThe force said there were \"repeated attempts\" to engage with the organisers to stop the planned protest and found a number of the protesters had \"travelled considerably\" from out of the Dorset area.\n\nMr Vaughan added: \"Our county is gripped with infections and yet these irresponsible individuals have ignored what is being asked of them and have left their homes to protest. Shame on them.\"\n\nSam Crowe, director of public health for Dorset, said its hospital services were \"close to being overwhelmed\".\n\nMr Crowe said: \"Infection rates locally have been doubling in less than a week. If this carries on, our hospitals will not be able to cope with caring for those needing life-saving treatment. Stay at home means exactly that.\"\n\nLatest figures show Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole has reached 745.2 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nAlso on Saturday, 16 people were also arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pupils across Scotland have been experiencing problems accessing Microsoft Teams as the majority move to home learning.\n\nA number of schools, pupils and parents have reported the technology running slowly or not at all.\n\nIt is one of the main platforms being used for remote learning with schools shut to most pupils until at least the beginning of February.\n\nMicrosoft Teams tweeted that the issue was being investigated.\n\nA Microsoft spokesperson said: \"Our engineers are working to resolve difficulties accessing Microsoft Teams that some customers are experiencing.\"\n\nWhen pressed on whether demand as a result of home schooling was causing the issue, Microsoft declined to comment.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon highlighted the problem during her daily coronavirus briefing.\n\n\"This is not an issue that is unique to Scotland or indeed unique to schools, but I understand Microsoft is currently working to address it,\" she said.\n\n\"More generally I don't underestimate how difficult this is both for young people learning away from friends… and for parents to juggle home schooling with working.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon was also asked about problems which were being experienced by users of digital learning platform Glow.\n\nShe replied: \"It is not an issue with Glow. It is affecting Glow, but the core issue is not with Glow… the issue is with Microsoft Teams.\"\n\nTwo schools in Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, said the problem was a \"national issue\" although Renfrew High School urged pupils experiencing difficulties not to panic.\n\nClyde Valley High School tweeted: \"Our online learning provision begins today for all of our pupils. Due to the very high demand for Microsoft Teams across Scotland, there may be issues initially getting logged on or accessing some files.\n\n\"This is a national issue on the site and may take a little time to rectify.\"\n\nColtness High School said: \"Unfortunately it appears Microsoft Teams is struggling to cope with the traffic this morning.\n\n\"This is across Scotland and not isolated to Coltness. Pupils and staff are having difficulty loading files. We have reported the issue and hopefully this will be resolved soon.\"\n\nEdinburgh City Council have texted all parents saying: \"There is a city-wide problem with Microsoft Teams this morning. Please be patient as the council is working to resolve it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by RHS Digital Learning This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by D&G Council This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said: \"Microsoft has confirmed that this issue is affecting users in the UK and elsewhere in northern Europe. Education Scotland is working closely with the company to resolve the issues.\"\n\nAfter one teacher complained to Microsoft Teams on Twitter, a staff member said: \"We're currently investigating an issue where some users in the UK region are unable to access Microsoft Teams. We will provide further information as soon as this is available.\"\n\nAccording to an Ofcom report in December, about 34,000 (1.2%) premises in Scotland were without a decent broadband connection, while superfast broadband coverage had increased to 94% of homes.\n\nIt also said that fixed and mobile networks in Scotland had \"generally coped well\" with increased demands during the pandemic.\n\nIt comes as plans for remote learning during the latest lockdown reveal big disparities between Scotland's 32 councils.\n\nNot all pupils will be offered live lessons - instead the decision on the best approach has been left to individual schools and teachers.\n\nGuidance on remote learning published by the Scottish government on Friday recommended a \"a balance of live learning and independent activity\".\n\nThe Scottish government said it had invested £25m to address digital exclusion in schools with funding allocations for digital devices and connectivity solutions made to all 32 local authorities.\n\nMore than 50,000 devices such as laptops have been distributed to children and young people to help with remote learning and the programme in total is expected to deliver about 70,000 devices for disadvantaged children and young people across Scotland.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Asymptomatic testing for Covid can help \"break the chains of transmission\", Matt Hancock says\n\nRegular rapid testing for people without coronavirus symptoms will be made available across England this week, the government has said.\n\nThe community testing regime - expanded to cover all 317 local authorities - uses rapid lateral flow tests, which can return results in 30 minutes.\n\nLocal councils are being encouraged to prioritise tests for those who cannot work from home during the lockdown.\n\nThe health secretary said asymptomatic testing can help break transmission.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England has invited tens of thousands of people over 80 to book vaccinations.\n\nA further 563 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 54,940 cases reported, according to government figures on Sunday.\n\nThe total number of deaths in the UK after a positive test passed 80,000 on Saturday.\n\nThe government has launched a campaign telling people to act like they have got the virus in a bid to tackle the rise in infections.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said expanding the Community Testing Programme to more people without symptoms was \"crucial given that around one in three people\" who contract Covid-19 show no symptoms.\n\nIt said regular community testing using the rapid tests had already identified more than 14,800 positive Covid-19 cases.\n\nSo far, 131 local authorities in England have enrolled in the government's community testing programme, with Milton Keynes, Slough, Doncaster and Essex the latest to join.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said targeted asymptomatic testing and subsequent isolation was \"highly effective in breaking chains of transmission\".\n\nBut Angela Raffle, a consultant in public health at the University of Bristol Medical School, said increasing lateral flow testing was \"very worrying\" and warned the benefits of finding symptomless cases \"will be outweighed by the many more infectious cases that are missed by these tests\".\n\nDefending lateral flow tests on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme Mr Hancock said mass asymptomatic testing in Liverpool had seen the case rate drop \"more sharply than it did in other similar areas where only restrictions were brought in\".\n\nNHS Test and Trace will also work closely with other government departments to scale up workforce testing, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nMany are already piloting regular workforce testing, with 15 large employers having taken up this offer already across 64 sites, \"including organisations operating in the food, manufacturing, energy and retail sectors, and within the public sector including job centres, transport networks and the military\".\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said plans were already in place for rapid testing of staff and students in schools and colleges and staff in primary schools.\n\nAsked when schools could reopen by the BBC's Andrew Marr, Mr Hancock said there were four conditions: that there is not a major new variant, the vaccine rollout is proceeding effectively, the number of deaths is falling and there is an easing of pressure on the NHS.\n\nMatthew Fell, of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), which represents 190,000 UK businesses, said: \"This expansion of testing will help more critical workers and those unable to work from home to operate safely, while also catching new cases more swiftly.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the safety of the workforce had been an \"absolute priority\" and said the expansion of testing means \"we can keep our economy on the move while giving individuals in key sectors complete confidence that their workplace is safe\".\n\nBut Prof Susan Michie, professor of health psychology at University College London, told BBC Breakfast the country would continue a \"yo-yoing of lockdown\" without a \"test, trace and isolate system that actually works\" and warned there needed to be tighter restrictions and tougher messaging than in March to prevent \"tens of thousands of avoidable deaths in the next few weeks\".", "Luke Evans plays police officer Steve Wilkins who reopened and solved the two double murders\n\nHollywood actor Luke Evans says telling the true story of the murder of four people was a \"huge responsibility\".\n\nEvans, who was brought up in Aberbargoed, Caerphilly county, returned to Wales to star in ITV drama The Pembrokeshire Murders.\n\nHe plays Dyfed-Powys Police officer Steve Wilkins who in 2006 reopened two unsolved double murders from the 1980s.\n\n\"I just wanted to tell it right and show justice for the victims, which is the most important part,\" Evans said.\n\n\"This is a very serious, sad story where four people lost their lives and their families have struggled and suffered greatly because of it,\" he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"So you do feel a huge sense of responsibility.\"\n\nThe Pembrokeshire Murders has been adapted from a book about the case written by Mr Wilkins and ITV journalist Jonathan Hill.\n\nIn 1985 brother and sister Richard and Helen Thomas were shot at their remote mansion near Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, before the property was set alight.\n\nThen in 1989, Peter and Gwenda Dixon were shot dead at close range on the Pembrokeshire coastal path near Little Haven.\n\nThe drama also stars Newport actress Alexandria Riley as Det Insp Ella Richards\n\nBut it was only years later that microscopic DNA and fibres linked the murders to John Cooper, who was already in prison for a string of burglaries.\n\nIn 2011 he was jailed for life.\n\nThe Dracula Untold star said he had not been aware of the notorious case: \"I knew almost nothing about these murders, to the point where when I read what was a treatment two or three years ago… I couldn't believe what I was reading.\n\n\"So I did my own research into it and realised that the story was completely true - it hadn't been embellished, none of this was fiction and it sort of blew my mind.\"\n\nHe said being able to speak to Mr Wilkins while filming was invaluable: \"Me and Steve had a dialogue almost every week for a few hours.\n\n\"We had a lot of conversations before we started shooting where I would speak to him and ask him, not just about the case - obviously that that was very important - but about things like how was it standing in front of John Cooper, having to interview John Cooper, having to deal with his family.\n\n\"You see both sides of the effect of these terrible crimes, you see what the aftermath of what it does to people and how they suffer and you meet Cooper's family as well.\n\n\"Steve has his own family and that also is played into the storyline very powerfully.\"\n\nEvans said the only other time he has worked in Wales was when filming Visit Wales commercials: \"Being Welsh and not getting to work in Wales very often - that certainly was an attraction for me,\" he said.\n\n\"I've done them [the commercials] for a few years - one of them was about the coastal walks of Wales and our beautiful coastline... and then right in this beautiful place I was there back there, portraying a character and trying to find the killer of somebody who murdered people on this coastal path.\"\n\nBut he said he enjoyed playing a Welsh character: \"To go right back to my roots with my accent and that was a really, really exciting to do.\n\nThe series, made by World Productions, the makers of Line of Duty and Bodyguard, finished filming just before Wales' first coronavirus lockdown.\n\n\"When we started The Pembrokeshire Murders it was January so we didn't hear anything really, and then just before we finished there was rumblings of this virus,\" he said.\n\n\"We were very lucky in a way, we wrapped basically on the Friday then on the Monday everything closed.\n\n\"So it was a big sigh of relief when we got to the final wrap of that day and it was very special.\"\n\nThe three-part series also stars Keith Allen, Owen Teale, Alexandria Riley, Caroline Berry, Oliver Ryan and David Fynn.\n\nThe Pembrokeshire Murders in on ITV at 21:00 GMT on 11, 12 and 13 January", "Flexing the coronavirus lockdown rules could be fatal, the health secretary has warned as hospital admissions soar.\n\nMatt Hancock did not rule out strengthening current restrictions and told the BBC's Andrew Marr the NHS was under \"very serious pressure\".\n\nIt comes after almost 55,000 new cases of coronavirus were reported in the UK and the number of deaths after a positive test passed 80,000.\n\nScientist Prof Peter Horby warned the UK was in \"the eye of the storm\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the rules were tough but \"may not be tough enough\" and called for the government to hold daily press conferences to avoid \"mixed messages\".\n\nThe UK recorded another 563 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test on Sunday, down from 1,065 deaths on Saturday.\n\nHowever, there tends to be fewer deaths reported on Sundays, due to a reporting lag over the weekend. There were also a further 54,940 daily cases.\n\nMr Hancock told Andrew Marr \"every time you try to flex the rules that could be fatal\" and said staying at home was the \"most important thing we can do collectively as a society\".\n\nThe health secretary said he did not want to speculate on whether the government would further strengthen restrictions, after warnings from scientists on Saturday that they may need to be stricter.\n\n\"People need to not just follow the letter of the rules but follow the spirit as well and play their part,\" he said.\n\nHis comments came after Home Secretary Priti Patel defended police over enforcing lockdown rules following the case of two women who were fined for going for a walk five miles from their homes - a decision which is now under review.\n\nThe government has launched a campaign telling people to act like they have got the virus in a bid to tackle the rise in infections.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said that if the virus continued on its current trajectory \"many hospitals will be in real difficulties, and very soon\".\n\nIn a statement released on Sunday, he said that unless people started to follow the rules more strictly, emergency patients will have to be turned away from hospitals, causing \"avoidable deaths\".\n\nProf Horby, chairman of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), said there may be \"early signs that something is beginning to bite\" due to the restrictions - but if they did not then stricter measures would be needed.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: \"I really hope people take this very seriously. It was bad in March, it's much worse now.\n\n\"We've seen record numbers across the board, record numbers of cases, record numbers of hospitalisations, record numbers of deaths.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Peter Horby explains why the new Covid-19 variant is up to 70% more transmissible\n\nProf Horby said tougher measures might include those during the March lockdown, such as people only being able to exercise once a day and stricter rules about meeting people.\n\n\"We are in a situation where everything that was risky in the past is now more risky,\" he said.\n\nProf Horby said early signs were encouraging that the vaccines would be effective against the new Covid variants - first identified in the UK and in South Africa - and he did not want people to \"hide under the duvet\".\n\n\"We can see the end game now,\" he said.\n\nHigher cases inevitably mean more hospitalisations and more deaths.\n\nThe most recent figures show that, on average, 894 people per day are now dying within 28 days of a positive Covid test, up from 438 at the start of December.\n\nThe spike in cases since Christmas means that figure is almost certain to get worse before the most recent lockdown measures can start to have any effect.\n\nScientists think the new variant of the disease is more \"transmissible\", possibly because each infected individual produces more of the actual virus - sometimes referred to as the viral load.\n\nVaccination should help to protect the most vulnerable from serious symptoms but we don't yet know if receiving the jab stops an individual contracting the virus and passing it on to others.\n\nScientists say that may mean even tougher restrictions will be needed to bring the R-number below one and start to reduce the overall size of the pandemic.\n\nMass community testing is to be rolled out this week, the government has said, and the health secretary said around two million people had been vaccinated in the UK, with some 200,000 jabs being given in England daily.\n\nMr Hancock said by autumn every adult in the UK would be offered a vaccine.\n\nHe said the government was on course to reach its target of 15 million people vaccinated by mid-February, with the opening of seven mass vaccination centres this week likely to increase the rate of jabs.\n\nMr Hancock told Sky News' Sophy Ridge he hoped coronavirus could be treated like seasonal flu with an annual vaccination programme in the future.\n\nProf Horby said the vaccines may have to be updated \"every few years\" as the virus mutates and said it was unlikely the virus would go away completely.\n\n\"We're going to have to live with it,\" he said. \"But that may change significantly.\n\n\"It may well become more of an endemic virus that's with us all the time and may cause some seasonal pressures and some excess deaths but is not causing the huge disruption that we're seeing now.\"", "Spain is in a race against time to clear roads covered by heavy snow, and get Covid vaccines and food supplies to areas affected by Storm Filomena.\n\nUp to 50cm (20 inches) of snow fell on the capital Madrid, one of the worst hit areas, between Friday and Saturday.\n\nAt least four people died and thousands of travellers were left stranded.\n\nOvernight, temperatures plunged to -8C (18F) in parts of Spain, amid warnings by meteorologists that the snow was turning to perilous ice.\n\nThe unusual cold wave on the Iberian peninsula is expected to last until Thursday.\n\nThe Spanish government said it had taken extra steps - including police-escorted convoys - to ensure its expected shipment of some 300,000 coronavirus vaccines can be distributed as planned to regional health authorities later on Monday.\n\n\"The commitment is to guarantee the supply of health, vaccines and food. Corridors have been opened to deliver the goods,\" Transport Minister Jose Luis Abalos said on Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Madrid has been hit by heavy snowfall after Storm Filomena\n\nSoldiers have been deployed to clear some of the 700 major roads.\n\nSome 3,500 tonnes of salt were later brought on lorries to the capital, Spain's El Mundo website reported on Monday.\n\nThe record-breaking snowfall has triggered some unprecedented scenes here in Madrid. People have skied along the city's main commercial street, Gran Vía, and one man was pictured being pulled through the district of Hortaleza on a sled by five huskies.\n\nBut other responses to the snow have been more controversial due to concerns about Covid-19. Dozens of young people had a snowball fight in Callao square, for example, and many of them were without facemasks.\n\nNearby, in Puerta del Sol, others celebrated the snow by dancing a conga. The daily Marca newspaper branded it \"the conga of shame\".\n\nAlthough the snowfall has now stopped, low temperatures have left snow and ice piled up across the capital and the surrounding region. And with residents advised to avoid using their cars, public transport has seen a surge in demand.\n\nThis has compounded coronavirus concerns as many metro train carriages were packed at rush hour on Monday morning, making social distancing impossible.\n\nMadrid's international airport began gradually resuming operations on Sunday afternoon, having cancelled all flights on Friday.\n\nSome 500 people across the Madrid region were forced to spend the night in temporary shelter, including sports centres, after they were trapped by the whiteout.\n\nAbout 100 shoppers and staff spent two nights at a shopping centre in Majadahonda, a town north of the capital. \"There are people sleeping on the ground on cardboard,\" one restaurant employee told TVE television.\n\nSpain's Meteorological Agency said Saturday's snowfall was the heaviest in Madrid since 1971\n\nBut there were stories of heroism too, including doctors and medical workers who abandoned their cars and walked for hours to get to work. One doctor, Alvaro Sanchez, said on social media he had walked 17km (10 miles) over nearly two hours to get to work, while two nurses, Paco and Monica, said they had walked 22km to their hospital.\n\nThey were praised by Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa, who tweeted: \"The commitment that the entire group of health workers is showing is an example of solidarity and dedication.\"\n\nSome 4x4 vehicle owners offered to transport medical workers, while other volunteers helped to clear hospital entrance ways.\n\n\"Health staff have been working (hard) for more than a year and this is just a short moment for us, so as citizens, we are trying to help; it is everyone's responsibility,\" said Fernando de la Fuente, 60, who helped clear the entrance to Madrid's Gregorio Maranon Hospital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpaniards in large parts of the country have been warned to take care in the coming days as temperatures could fall to -12C (10F) in some areas until Thursday.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nCrawley Town delivered one of the FA Cup third round's most emphatic upsets as the League Two underdogs tore apart Marcelo Bielsa's Leeds.\n\nThree second-half goals rewarded a fantastic performance from John Yems' side as they made light of the 62 places between themselves and their Premier League visitors.\n\nNick Tsaroulla, playing only his seventh game in senior football, set the ball rolling, beating three Leeds defenders to fire home a superb solo opener.\n\nUnited keeper Kiko Casilla's error allowed Ashley Nadesan to double the lead before Jordan Tunnicliffe added a third for Crawley, who could have won by more.\n• None Watch all of the goals from the FA Cup third round\n• None Can Mark Wright make it as a pro at Crawley?\n\nBielsa made seven changes to his side but Leeds fielded England midfielder Kalvin Phillips among several regular top-flight starters including Pablo Hernandez, Ezgjan Alioski and club record signing Rodrigo.\n\nHowever, after an even first half, they were completely outplayed in the second period by a Crawley side who have reached the fourth round for only the third time, having spent most of their 125-year existence in non-league football.\n\nCrawley even had the luxury of bringing on reality TV celebrity Mark Wright in stoppage time for the former The Only Way Is Essex star's debut, having signed for the club on non-contract terms in December.\n\nLeeds' loss is the first time in 34 years a top-flight side has lost to a fourth-tier team by three or more goals and only the second ever instance since a fourth division was added to the Football League in 1958.\n\nThey may be the lesser-known of the two Red Devils but Crawley's efforts were no less impressive than Manchester United's 6-2 dissection of Leeds last month.\n\nWhile Bielsa rested first-choice stars such as Patrick Bamford, Luke Ayling, Stuart Dallas and Mateusz Klich, there was still plenty of experience mixed in with the youth in Leeds' line-up.\n\nBut the hosts, sixth in League Two after an eight-game unbeaten run, never gave them the chance to settle and while neither side could break the deadlock before the interval, it was Crawley who went closest as Casilla kept out Tom Nichols' close-range header.\n\nHe was helpless, however, to prevent Tsaroulla - a former Tottenham trainee who spent a year out of the game because of injuries sustained in a car crash - firing Crawley ahead after a twisting run into the area that beguiled the Leeds back-line.\n\nRather than protect their lead, Crawley went for the jugular and Nadesan soon doubled their advantage, although his strike owed much to a bobble that beat Casilla at his near post.\n\nTunnicliffe then fired into the roof of the net after Casilla parried from Nadesan and Crawley could have had a fourth after top scorer Max Watters came off the bench to round the keeper, only to be denied by a covering defender.\n\nThe win marked the first time in four attempts that Crawley have beaten a Premier League side in the FA Cup and so comfortable was the victory that TV personality Wright was given his late cameo.\n\nAnother name added to Leeds' list of cup woes\n\nBielsa was left to mull over back-to-back 3-0 defeats, albeit this one coming in a much different context to Leeds' Premier League loss at Tottenham on 2 January.\n\nThis was the former Argentina manager's first taste of an FA Cup shock, after far more mundane exits against Arsenal and QPR in Bielsa's two previous campaigns since taking the Elland Road reins in 2018.\n\nBut it was not unfamiliar ground for Leeds as Crawley - who have finished in the bottom half of League Two for five successive seasons - emulated non-league pair Histon and Sutton United, as well as lower-league clubs Rochdale and Newport, in upsetting the Whites this century.\n\nThe visitors only forced one real save from Crawley keeper Glenn Morris, who reacted well to push away Ian Poveda's strike from an acute angle in the first half.\n\nLeeds might point to a penalty they perhaps should have had before the interval when Crawley defender Tony Craig got away with pulling back Rodrigo as he attempted to meet Helder Costa's volleyed cross.\n\nBut there was no video assistant referee system at the game, and they offered very little going forward after Rodrigo was substituted at half-time.\n\nIt was a fourth successive third-round exit in a competition they could have looked to with some hope, given their relatively comfortable position in the Premier League.\n\n\"We've got 11 star men\" - what they said\n\nCrawley manager Yems to BBC Sport: \"You have to enjoy these games - you work hard enough for it. It was a really good team performance and it's clear that we've got 11 star men.\n\n\"These players have got a lot to prove to the clubs who have released them and we've showed what we can do against a really good side.\n\n\"Let's see who we get in the next round and enjoy the moment.\"\n\nLeeds midfielder Alioski to BBC Radio 5 Live: \"We are really disappointed and it wasn't the result that we wanted. We took the game really seriously and we wanted to win and go on a run, so it is disappointing.\n\n\"Crawley played the game of their lives, and congratulations. To beat us 3-0 - I still can't believe it.\n\n\"The manager said what he wanted to say. It's important for every player to know what this means. He is sad and the players are sad.\"\n• None Attempt blocked. Sam Greenwood (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Raphinha (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Pablo Hernández.\n• None Jake Hessenthaler (Crawley Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Hélder Costa (Leeds United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Pablo Hernández.\n• None Jamie Shackleton (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Max Watters (Crawley Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tom Nichols. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None All the goals and highlights from a huge Saturday of third-round matches are", "A 78-year-old French woman received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in France\n\nA global race is on to vaccinate people against Covid-19 - and with infections soaring in Europe many have complained that the roll-out is too slow in the EU.\n\nMember states decide individually who to vaccinate, when and where, but the EU is coordinating strategy and buying vaccines in bulk. On Friday, the EU Commission agreed to buy an extra 300 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine - that would give the EU nearly half of the firm's global output for 2021.\n\nBBC reporters in seven European capitals explain how the vaccinations are going on their patch.\n\nIn an election year, the vaccine has become a political battleground, writes Jenny Hill, in Berlin.\n\nThe fact it was German scientists who developed the first effective Covid vaccine has been the source of great national pride. And, by and large, Germans appear to be reasonably comfortable with the idea of immunisation.\n\nA recent survey found 65% were prepared to have the vaccine. Other research indicates that less than a quarter of those surveyed would not. But politically - and perhaps unsurprisingly, given this is an election year - Germany's vaccination programme has become a battleground.\n\nVaccinations began here just under two weeks ago and prioritise the over 80s and care home workers. By Thursday evening, more than 477,000 first doses had been administered.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered.\n\nBut some of the hundreds of specially prepared vaccination centres are still not in use and even the government has admitted there simply isn't enough to go around. Angela Merkel and her health minister Jens Spahn have been accused of failing to secure enough doses.\n\nMuch of the criticism has come from Mrs Merkel's own coalition partners but some within the scientific community have echoed their concerns - that Germany put European interests above its own by insisting on a joint EU procurement process. The scientists who developed the vaccine have said publicly that the EU originally turned down an offer for a further order.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered and it's thought that by the end of the month a further 2.68 million will have followed.\n\nMr Spahn, whose assured performance through the pandemic led some to wonder whether he might be a potential successor to Mrs Merkel, has blamed the shortage on the inability of the manufacturers of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to meet global demand.\n\nGermany has now ordered an extra 30 million doses and, following the recent European approval of the Moderna vaccine, expects to start rolling that out next week. The government is sticking to its pledge that the vaccination programme will be complete by the end of the summer.\n\nThe Czech prime minister has hit out at apparent delays in distributing the vaccine, writes Rob Cameron, in Prague.\n\nThe Czech vaccination effort began on 27 December, when the prime minister, Andrej Babis, became the first person in the country to receive the jab. Mr Babis, who is 66, had previously questioned whether he would be eligible, as he'd had his spleen removed as a teenager.\n\nBut the country's programme has got off to a sluggish start. Mr Babis - a billionaire businessman who has been dogged by both European and Czech investigations into alleged misuse of EU funds - has lost no time venting his (figurative) spleen at the European Commission over the delay. \"We believed when we contributed €12m to the European fund in November that we'd receive the vaccine,\" he told a newspaper this week.\n\nThe health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups will take months.\n\nThe country has received 30,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. So far, it has managed to administer it to 19,918 people. The government says it is ready to roll out the jab en masse as soon as supplies arrive from the manufacturers.\n\nIt has also published a strategy, which envisages a three-stage process. The first will see targeted vaccination of high-risk groups. This will gradually give way to mass vaccination in 31 centres, using an online reservation system that will be open to all from 1 February. And the final stage will see the country's GPs deployed, hopefully to administer the Oxford-AstraZeneca and other jabs, which unlike the previous two can be stored and transported at fridge temperature.\n\nHowever, the timing in the original strategy document now appears optimistic. The health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups - all health and social care staff, teachers, everyone over 65, all those with serious health conditions - will take months. GPs may not begin vaccinating young, healthy members of society until late spring, or summer.\n\nA sluggish start is being blamed on bureaucracy and vaccine scepticism, writes Hugh Schofield, in Paris.\n\nFrance's boast of a big, effective state apparatus has been badly exposed by the sluggish start to the Covid vaccination programme. After the first week, when neighbouring Germany had inoculated around 250,000 people, France was on a mere 530. By Friday, the figure had gone up to 45,500 - still so small as to be statistically meaningless.\n\nSo why has it taken so long for France to put the plan into action? It is not as if the authorities did not have time to prepare. And it is certainly not a question of a lack of vaccine. In fact, more than a million Pfizer doses are already in cold storage, waiting to be used.\n\nPolls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab.\n\nThe primary reason for the delay seems to be the cumbersome, over-centralised nature of France's health bureaucracy. A 45-page dossier of instructions issued by the ministry in Paris had to be read and understood by staff at old people's homes.\n\nEach recipient then had to give informed consent in a consultation with a doctor, held no less than five days before injection. The lengthy procedure is in theory to save lives - those of patients who might have an adverse reaction. But as the critics have been arguing, delay in inoculating the population is also costing lives.\n\nAnother problem in France is the high level of scepticism towards vaccination - product of a more general suspicion of government. Polls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab. The effect - critics say - has been to make the government unduly cautious. When urgency was required, the authorities were reluctant to move fast for fear of galvanising the anti-vaxxers.\n\nAfter President Emmanuel Macron communicated his anger at the delays at the weekend, the pace is picking up. The procedure for consent is being simplified. By the end of January, the plan is to have 500-600 vaccination centres open across the country - either in hospitals or other big public buildings.\n\nPolitically a lot is at stake. The government has already come under fire for failings in providing masks and tests. With opposition voices calling the vaccine delay a \"state scandal\", President Macron needs a roll-out that is fast and problem-free.\n\nNational pride accelerated Russia's rollout, but one man is conspicuously absent from the list of people vaccinated, writes Sarah Rainsford, in Moscow.\n\nRussia registered its main Covid vaccine for domestic use way back in August, before mass safety and efficacy trials had even begun. In December, with those trials still underway, it began rolling out Sputnik V to the public ahead of mass vaccination launches everywhere else in Europe. The rush was driven by national pride as well as medical necessity.\n\nSputnik was initially offered to front line health and education workers but early take-up of the two-dose vaccination was slow and the list of those eligible soon expanded.\n\nA poll by the Levada Centre in late December showed only 38% of respondents were willing to get the jab: wary of domestic healthcare and medicines, Russians were sceptical of bold early claims made for the vaccine and nervous about possible adverse reactions. Even so, and despite similar delays scaling-up production as in other countries, Sputnik's backers announced this week that more than a million people had been vaccinated.\n\nRussia began rolling out its Sputnik V vaccine in December\n\nBut one man still conspicuously absent from the list of the vaccinated is Vladimir Putin, despite the Kremlin saying he will - eventually - get the jab. In the meantime, those who meet him in person are obliged to test for Covid first and even quarantine. The president may need to lead by example, though. Mr Putin has said repeatedly that protecting the economy is his priority so he's banking on mass vaccination to avoid a return to national lockdown.\n\nRussia has built giant, temporary hospitals since the start of the pandemic and the health minister said this week that 25% of Covid beds remain free. There's also been a fall in the number of new daily cases reported - around 25,000 for the past 5 days. But that's not down to the vaccine yet. The country is nearing the end of a 10-day New Year holiday period and the number of Covid tests has also dropped.\n\nAs infection rates grow in a country praised by many for its no-lockdown approach, a successful vaccine programme is crucial writes Maddy Savage, in Stockholm.\n\nAlmost two weeks since 91-year-old care home resident Gun-Britt Johnsson became the first Swede to get the initial dose of a Pfizer jab, there is still no official tally of how many others have received the vaccination.\n\nThe Public Health Agency of Sweden says it's in the process of compiling data from the country's 21 regional health authorities tasked with vaccinating the entire adult population - around eight million people - by 26 June. The date isn't arbitrary, it's the biggest public holiday weekend of the year, when Swedes traditionally hold Midsummer celebrations. Karin Tegmark, a senior manager at the agency, says the date remains \"feasible\". But she says it depends on the delivery of vaccines to the country.\n\nAfter months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled.\n\nAlongside 4.5 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Sweden has ordered 3.6 million jabs from Moderna, the first of which are expected to arrive next week. The country also plans to roll-out the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as soon as possible after it is approved by the EU - ideally by February.\n\nSwedes initially appeared lukewarm to the idea of taking a speedily-developed coronavirus vaccine, although a poll at the end of December found 71% would take one. A key driver of the initial scepticism is thought to be the failure of a voluntary mass vaccination programme for swine flu in 2009. Hundreds of Swedish children and young adults under 30 developed the sleeping disorder narcolepsy, which was found to be a side effect of the Pandemrix vaccine.\n\nA successful vaccination programme will be crucial, not least because it comes at a time when Swedish authorities are struggling to maintain public confidence. After months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled as Sweden has struggled with the second wave of coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile, several high profile officials have faced heavy criticism for breaching their own recommendations - including the head of the civil contingencies agency (pictured), who resigned after spending Christmas with his daughter in the Canary Islands.\n\nA new government in Belgium seems unified on the vaccine rollout - for now at least, writes Nick Beake, in Brussels.\n\nIt seemed fitting that the first person in Belgium to receive a Covid jab lives in the place where the world's first approved Covid vaccine is being produced. Jos Hermans, a 96-year-old from the municipality of Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December, in his care home. A further 700 elderly residents were also administered a dose in what was a small, initial trial.\n\nThe mass vaccination programme in Belgium began on 5 January, but has been criticised for starting slowly. Federal Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke had promised in November that the rollout would be \"seamless and fast\", tweeting: \"If that does not work, shoot me.\"\n\nThe first phase looks to vaccinate up to 200,000 nursing home residents by the end of this month, or early February. Healthcare professionals will be next in line and the aim was for the whole population to be inoculated by the end of September.\n\nJos Hermans, a 96-year-old from Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December\n\nYou may think the country would be at an advantage being the epicentre of the Pfizer-BioNTech production. While this clearly helps with distribution, Belgium cannot receive more doses - relative to its population - than other EU countries under strict Commission rules. That didn't stop the minister-president of the Flanders region, who admitted this week that he had contacted Pfizer directly in the hope of procuring more doses, only to be rebuffed.\n\nAfter getting a guarantee from Pfizer over supply of the jab, the federal Belgian authorities have adapted their strategy: they now propose giving as many available doses to as many people as they can - and no longer reserving vials for patients' second dose, given three weeks after the first. In general, the federal government, rather than the European Commission has faced any criticism for a delay and has defended its \"careful\" approach.\n\nAnd there appears to be an interesting regional or cultural discrepancy when it comes to whether people are willing to take the vaccine. Of the Flemish population interviewed in a poll, half have said they wanted the vaccine as soon as possible. Among French speakers - it was 20% fewer, which chimes with the deeper scepticism over the border in France.\n\nIn a country where politics are notoriously complicated and fractious - they've only recently agreed a government, after a 500-day vacuum - the Federal Coalition appears unified on its Covid vaccine strategy. For now, at least.\n\nRegional variances and political rows have marked the beginning of Spain's vaccination programme writes Guy Hedgecoe, in Madrid.\n\nSpain started administering the vaccine on 27 December. So far, 743,925 doses have been distributed to regional administrations, with 277,976 people vaccinated, according to the health ministry. The objective of the coalition government is to immunise 2.3 million people within 12 weeks. Priority is being given to elderly residents of care homes, those who look after them, and healthcare personnel.\n\nEach of the country's 17 regions has a high degree of control over healthcare and should receive the number of doses that corresponds to their populations. However, already there has been substantial geographical disparity.\n\nGovernment data showed, for example, that while the northern region of Asturias had used 55% of the doses it had received by 3 January, the Madrid region had only administered 5% by the same date. Some regions are holding back doses to administer a second follow-up jab to the same person in several weeks' time, and some have been vaccinating on national holidays while others have not.\n\nThe pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of incompetence.\n\nAlthough vaccination is voluntary, the government has said it is making a register of those who do not wish to be inoculated. That initiative has generated controversy, although the government has insisted the register will merely seek to clarify why people refuse the vaccination.\n\nHowever, the pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of Pedro Sánchez of incompetence, lack of transparency and using coronavirus to accumulate power.\n\nThe arrival of a vaccine has not stopped the rancour. Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the conservative Popular Party (PP) president of Galicia, warned the number of doses being distributed to each region was being dictated by \"political affiliations or parliamentary needs\", a claim the central government has rejected.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nPremier League rivals Manchester United and Liverpool will meet at Old Trafford in the fourth round of the FA Cup later this month.\n\nNon-league Chorley will host Premier League Wolverhampton Wanderers after beating a depleted Derby County in the third round.\n\nLeague Two Cheltenham Town are set to welcome Pep Guardiola's Manchester City to Whaddon Road.\n\nThe fourth-round ties will be played the weekend of 23-24 January.\n\nCrawley Town, who celebrated a famous 3-0 win over Leeds United on Sunday, will travel to Championship side Bournemouth in the next round.\n\nJose Mourinho's Tottenham will face Wycombe Wanderers at Adams Park, while Fulham take on Burnley in an all-Premier League tie.\n\nChorley would face 14-time winners Arsenal in the fifth round - if the National League North side overcome Wolves and the Gunners beat Southampton.\n\nDavid Moyes could return to former club Manchester United in the last 16 if West Ham beat League One Doncaster Rovers and United seal victory over Liverpool in the fourth round.\n\nThe fifth-round ties will be played 9-11 February.\n• None Watch all the goals and highlights from the FA Cup third round\n• None Goals, highlights and knockouts. All the action from Sunday's third-round ties are", "Seven new mass vaccination centres have opened up across England to help deliver the Coronavirus vaccine, as the Prime Minister says we are facing a \"perilous moment\" in the fight against the virus.\n\nThe Centre of Life in Newcastle is home to one of them, with others in Bristol, Epsom, London, Manchester, Stevenage and Birmingham.\n\nInitially they will be used to vaccinate the over 80's, alongside NHS staff and health and social care workers. It's part of a drive that the government hopes will see 15 million people vaccinated against the virus by mid-February.", "Caroline Rice couldn't afford the ink to print off her child's maths homework\n\nThere are few benefits from lockdown, but one often touted is that people are managing to save a little money: lower transport costs, fewer shop-bought office lunches, cheaper childcare costs and no foreign holidays.\n\nSingle mum Caroline Rice gives a wry smile when asked if she's managed to squirrel away extra cash over the past few months during pandemic restrictions.\n\n\"My spending is up,\" she says. \"The heating costs are higher because it's very cold. I'm having to shop locally because of lockdown, where the prices are slightly higher. The nearest Asda is 12 miles away.\"\n\nThe small savings on little luxuries that many people are making - fewer coffees or restaurant meals - were never an option for her in the first place.\n\nHer meagre finances meant the registered child minder, who lives in rural County Fermanagh, was already living week-to-week. Now it seems like day-to-day, she says.\n\n\"There's a mental stress, fatigue, in having to check the bank balance every day to see how much I'm down,\" she says. \"My child and I haven't bought any clothes in almost a year.\"\n\nShe's having to home-school her child. Many people wouldn't think twice about printing off their child's maths homework project. Caroline had to write it out by hand because they could not afford the ink.\n\nAnd she is not alone. A new report on the finances of low-income families during the pandemic says they are twice as likely to have increased their spending.\n\nIt says extra costs for food, energy and remote learning equipment have piled financial pressure on the poor.\n\nThe study - Pandemic Pressures - was a collaboration between the Resolution Foundation and the Nuffield Foundation-funded Covid Realities research project at the University of York.\n\nDr Ruth Patrick, a social policy lecturer at the University of York, says talk of saving money during the pandemic is \"worlds away\" from the experiences of many low-income parents and carers.\n\n\"Parents have found their spending increases, as some of the usual strategies they use to get by on a low income - shopping around for the best deal, going to families and friends for a meal when the cupboards are empty - have become suddenly impossible,\" she said.\n\nFor Shirley Widdop, an increase in food costs has been one of the biggest issues. The disabled single parent, who lives in Keighley, now has to shield for health reasons. That means using online deliveries a lot.\n\nShe says: \"There's a minimum basket size [with online orders]. You often have to bulk buy in case there's a problem getting delivery slots.\"\n\nShirley Widdop has not saved on life's little luxuries - because she could not afford them in the first place\n\nWhen not shielding, Shirley would seek out food in her supermarket's reduced-price section. \"There used to be just a couple of people. Now there are crowds,\" she says. \"Not everyone has easy access to the internet. And not everyone has a functioning bus service.\"\n\nThe report notes that the pandemic has been marked by a huge reduction in overall spending, with entertainment and social activities restricted by lockdown.\n\nHigher-income households have been the main beneficiaries of this \"enforced saving\", as they spend 40% more of their income on recreation and leisure activities than the poorest fifth of households.\n\nThe report says that in contrast to this overall picture, the pandemic has in many cases made it more expensive to live on a low income with children.\n\nMore than one in three (36%) low-income households with children have increased their spending during the pandemic so far, compared with about one in six (18%) who have reduced their spending.\n\nAmong high-income households without children, 13% have increased their spending, compared with 40% who have reduced it.\n\nUse of food banks has increased significantly during the pandemic\n\nThe report highlights three main reasons for these extra pressures:\n\nIt should also be noted, the report says, that these extra spending pressures are squeezing living standards that had stagnated even before the pandemic.\n\nTo ease the burden, the report says the government should be seeking to maintain the £20-a-week rise in Universal Credit (UC) into next year. Otherwise, six million households face having their incomes cut by more than £1,000.\n\nMike Brewer, chief economist at the Resolution Foundation, said: \"The pandemic has forced society as a whole to spend less and save more. But these broad spending patterns don't hold true for everyone.\n\n\"The extra cost of feeding, schooling and entertaining children 24/7 means that, for many families, lockdowns have made life more expensive to live on a low income.\"\n\nHowever, a government spokesperson said measures had been put in place to \"ensure that nobody is left behind\", including extra welfare payments, job protection safeguards, the £170m Covid Winter Grant Scheme, and equipment for home-schooling.\n\n\"We are committed to supporting the lowest-paid families through the pandemic and beyond,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nSometimes the overall economic figures can not capture the actual on-the-ground financial reality.\n\nThe pandemic lockdowns have led to a \"K-shaped\" recovery. Across the entire economy, staying at home has meant less capacity to spend on going out and a surge in savings. But the economic picture is both up and down at the same time, depending on which household.\n\nThe average picture is composed of wealthier people saving a huge amount and poorer families more squeezed than ever. This report shows how children staying at home have increased food and energy bills. The cost of buying food has increased with fewer store promotions and a requirement to use more expensive local shops. The furlough scheme has kept people paid, but not necessarily on full pay.\n\nSo the chancellor hopes that the vaccine rollout could unleash pent up demand in the form of huge levels of savings from the already well-off. And yet at the same time, will continue to face pressure over extending support - for example, the £20-a-week increase to universal credit.", "A Sex and the City revival is heading to the small screen, more than 20 years after the hit series made its debut.\n\nThe original HBO show followed the lives of four New York women negotiating work and relationships in the late 90s and early 2000s.\n\nBut only three of the fab four are returning for the new TV series - Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis.\n\nKim Cattrall, who played the popular character Samantha, will not feature.\n\nThe US network did not say why Cattrall wasn't cast in the revival, titled And Just Like That - a nod to one of the show's original catchphrases.\n\nHowever, Cattrall has had a strained relationship with the show in recent years, and in particular with her former co-star Parker.\n\nThe new series will consist of 10 half-hour episodes. Production will begin in late spring.\n\nThe trailer for the HBO Max show gives nothing away; It features numerous shots of New York, but none of the characters is seen on screen.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kristin Davis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I grew up with these characters, and I can't wait to see how their story has evolved in this new chapter, with the honesty, poignancy, humour and the beloved city that has always defined them,\" Sarah Aubrey, head of original content at HBO Max, said in a statement.\n\nThe original Sex and the City series, created by Darren Star, was based on Candace Bushnell's 1997 book of the same name. It premiered on HBO in 1998 and ran for six seasons until 2004.\n\nThe show inspired two films, Sex and the City in 2008 and Sex and the City 2 in 2010. A prequel series titled The Carrie Diaries, starring Anna Sophia Robb, aired on The CW in 2013/14.\n\nStar also created Netflix show Emily in Paris, and many have drawn inevitable comparisons between that show and SATC.\n\nWhen it first burst on to our TV screens, Sex and the City was seen as revolutionary - four women talking openly about their love and sex lives, not to mention the sex scenes themselves.\n\nThe first series of SATC began filming in 1998\n\nCosmopolitans and rabbit vibrators were trending before trending was a thing.\n\nWhile it was praised by many for its liberating female-led content, it also attracted criticism from some quarters who felt Carrie's ongoing pursuit of Mr Big (Christopher Noth) was not exactly an advert for female independence.\n\nIt was also accused of trivialising issues such as sexual harassment and for its lack of diversity, a criticism levelled at many older shows including Friends.\n\nFashion was a hugely influential part of the series - the tutu worn by Sarah Jessica Parker in the opening credits, teamed with a fur coat and heels, was described as \"an ensemble rich in cultural resonance\".\n\nAnd Manolo Blahnik could never have dreamed of attracting so much publicity for his designer footwear.\n\nIt was a ratings smash, with the hotly anticipated finale in 2004 drawing an audience of 10.6 million viewers in the US.\n\nIn the UK, the final episode was watched by 4.1m on Channel 4.\n\nThe series was predictably most popular in the 18-34 age group.\n\nMany SATC fans will be disappointed that larger-than-life favourite Samantha Jones - played by Kim Cattrall - will not be returning for the sequel series.\n\nSamantha was Sex and the City's most outlandish character and arguably, the star of the show.\n\nWhile Miranda was juggling a career and motherhood, Charlotte was focused on marriage and motherhood and Carrie poured her neuroses into her New York Star column, Samantha was the character perhaps harder to relate to but someone we all wanted to be (at least a little).\n\nShe was fiercely independent and while caring for her friends, she always put her own needs before men.\n\nBut news Cattrall won't reprise the role in And Just Like That comes as no surprise after years of feud rumours which were later confirmed by the British-born Canadian actress.\n\nIn 2017, Cattrall told Piers Morgan she had \"never been friends\" with her co-stars.\n\nShe said there was a \"toxic relationship\" and ruled out appearing in a third Sex and the City movie, denying that her decision was down to pay or \"diva\" demands.\n\nCattrall commented that former co-star Parker \"could have been nicer\" about the situation.\n\nA different actress could play Samantha in the future, she suggested.\n\n\"I played it past the finish line and then some and I loved it and another actress should play it,\" she said. \"Maybe they could make it an African-American Samantha Jones or a Hispanic Samantha Jones, or bring in another character.\"\n\nShe later criticised Parker for being \"cruel\" after she sent condolences following the death of Cattrall's brother.\n\nIn an interview with People magazine shortly afterwards, SJP acknowledged Cattrall \"said things that were really hurtful about me\".\n\nParker said: \"So there was no fight; it was completely fabricated, because I actually never responded.\"\n\nOn Monday, Parker replied on Instagram to someone posting that SJP \"didn't tag Samantha Jones\" into her post announcing the new series.\n\n\"I don't dislike her. I've never said that. Never would. Samantha isn't part of this story. But she will always be part of us. No matter where we are or what we do. x.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Flat owners applying to a fund to help pay to remove flammable building cladding will be told not to talk to the press without government approval.\n\nA draft agreement, uncovered by the Sunday Times, says that even where there is \"overwhelming public interest\" in speaking to journalists, the government must be told first.\n\nThe government said the wording was \"standard\".\n\nIt set up a £1.6bn fund last year to repair the most dangerous buildings.\n\nBut it warned that the fund might not cover all the costs of removing the cladding.\n\nThe clause might affect building owners and professional managing agents but also residents who manage their building.\n\nSome types of the covering, often added to newer blocks of flats, have been proven to be a fire hazard.\n\nAfter the 2017 Grenfell fire, the government pledged that safe alternatives to dangerous cladding would be provided on all buildings in England taller than 18m.\n\nIt set up the £1.6bn fund to help foot the costs.\n\nThe agreement, between the building owner or leaseholder and the government, says: \"The Applicant shall not make any communication to the press or any journalist or broadcaster regarding the Project or the Agreement (or the performance of it by any Party) without the prior written approval of Homes England and [the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government ]\" and its press offices.\n\nIt says an exception can be made \"where such disclosure is in the overwhelming public interest (in which case disclosure will not be made without first allowing Homes England and MHCLG to make representations on such proposed disclosure).\"\n\nThe UK Cladding Action Group tweeted that it was \"clearly a matter of public interest\" that these issues were aired in public.\n\n\"No department should be hiding behind non-disclosure agreements to stop scrutiny of their actions,\" the group said.\n\nAnother campaign group, Manchester Cladiators, said the existence of the \"gagging clause\" was \"shocking but not necessarily that surprising\".\n\nSpokesperson Rebecca Fairclough said residents would feel \"intimidated\" by it, adding: \"We ask the government to remove this unfair clause immediately and focus on the priority of solving this institutional failure, which still exists and is only growing over three and a half years after the Grenfell tragedy.\"\n\nThe government insists that the wording in the agreement, under the heading \"Marketing material\", is there to ensure applicants come to the government first.\n\n\"The terms set out are standard in commercial agreements and are not specific to this fund - to suggest otherwise is misleading and inaccurate,\" the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) said in a statement.\n\n\"We want a constructive working relationship with building owners who apply to the fund and applicants are asked to work with the department on public communications relating to the project.\"", "Small business owner Jon Wilding is facing a dilemma: his livelihood is on hold because of Covid restrictions and he has a big tax bill to settle.\n\nIf his company supplying marquees to outdoor events goes bust, the taxman will get paid, but his reputation as a businessman will be ruined forever.\n\n\"If I shut the business down, I then become director of a business that's gone bankrupt, at which stage getting loans in the future becomes nigh-on impossible,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"I feel like I'm one of those people who's been left out. We don't need a lot to keep going,\" said Mr Wilding, of Cannock in the West Midlands.\n\n\"The government say their support system is the best in the world, we've done furlough, this that and whatever, but it's not getting to all the people that need it.\"\n\nApart from the Bounce Back Loan scheme, his two-person business has received no government assistance.\n\nHis colleague was furloughed in March last year, but because Mr Wilding is the director, he is not allowed to furlough himself.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is particularly concerned about people like Mr Wilding.\n\nIt says directors of small companies, who pay themselves in dividends rather than drawing a salary, are not receiving any help from the government.\n\nThe FSB says somewhere between 700,000 and 1.1 million people fall into this category.\n\nIt has put forward ideas to help some of those firms, which it hopes ministers will adopt.\n\nThe FSB's proposed Directors Income Support Scheme would pay them grants of up to £7,500 to cover three months of lost trading profits. It would be limited to those who earn less than £50,000 a year.\n\n\"Company directors, the newly self-employed, those in supply chains and those without commercial premises are still being left out in the cold,\" said FSB national chairman Mike Cherry.\n\nWithout further government help to cope with the effects of the pandemic, a record 250,000 small businesses could be lost in the next 12 months, the FSB said.\n\n\"The development of business support measures has not kept pace with intensifying restrictions,\" Mr Cherry added.\n\n\"As a result, we risk losing hundreds of thousands of great, ultimately viable small businesses this year, at huge cost to local communities and individual livelihoods.\"\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses said the government had met the latest national lockdown \"with a whimper\"\n\nThe FSB based its prediction on a survey of 1,400 small firms, 5% of which said they expected to close this year.\n\nIf those figures were replicated across the country, some 250,000 of the UK's 5.9 million small firms could disappear, it said.\n\nMr Cherry said the government had met the latest national lockdown \"with a whimper\" and called for help that went beyond the retail, leisure and hospitality businesses.\n\nThe FSB said it had submitted its support scheme proposals to the Treasury and was expecting a decision this month.\n\nThe Treasury said nothing was planned at present, but added: \"Our support schemes are designed to get help to those who need it most whilst protecting the taxpayer from fraud, but of course we keep everything under review and are always open to further ideas.\"", "But it delivered a fascinating look behind the scenes at two cutting-edge ways the firm is creating video content.\n\nThe first involved the use of a giant screen which is matched with movement-sensors on a camera to create a fake backdrop that shifts in turn with the lens.\n\nA similar technique was pioneered by Industrial Light & Magic and used in the Star Wars spin-off series The Mandalorian, but this opens the door to other filmmakers.\n\nThe screens involved use Sony's Crystal LED technology, which the firm first unveiled at CES in 2012, but has been unable to bring low down enough in price to take mainstream.\n\nIn effect, this is its version of micro-LED tech, using millions of tiny light emitting diodes (LEDs) to match the number of pixels. The result is much greater brightness and contrast than a normal LCD or OLED display would be capable of.\n\nThe background footage moves in time with the camera to aid the illusion Image caption: The background footage moves in time with the camera to aid the illusion\n\nUntil now, the firm has marketed the tech at building owners wanting the ultimate video walls. But this has the potential to help film and advert-makers place actors within environments they can see, rather than relying on greenscreen effects.\n\nThe second innovation was the creation of an \"immersive reality\" performance, which uses body sensors to create a highly-detailed animated version of an artist.\n\nIt was demoed by the singer-songwriter Madison Beer.\n\nMotion capture has been used for years to add special effects to characters in movies and to place real-world actors into video games.\n\nBut the aim here is to create a lifelike representation of a performer on stage at a concert.\n\nThe footage shown didn't quite escape the \"uncanny valley\" - there's still some way to go before we can't tell the difference between a real person and even a highly detailed avatar.\n\nBut it's easy to imagine that the tech being more impressive when viewed in virtual reality, where users can move about and choose their view.\n\nThe computer-generated image looks less real the closer you get to the performer Image caption: The computer-generated image looks less real the closer you get to the performer\n\nUntil now, VR apps of concerts have either offered a pick of different static camera locations or involved much lower-resolution characters.\n\nWith Covid meaning it's impossible for artists to tour, this second-best experience could be very timely when it's offered to PlayStation VR headsets and other devices soon.", "Many hospitals are still under intense pressure with the increasing number of Covid patients arriving.\n\nDoctors say they are seeing more younger patients in their thirties and forties compared to the first wave.\n\nThe overall pattern of those at risk of becoming seriously ill or dying has not changed significantly and the older someone is, the greater their risk from Covid-19 - particularly those over the age of 65.\n\nThe BBC's Health Editor Hugh Pym was given access to film at Croydon University Hospital in South London.", "Boris Johnson - pictured here in 2013 - has long been a fan of cycling\n\nBoris Johnson has been criticised for travelling seven miles from Downing Street to go cycling during lockdown.\n\nThe Evening Standard reported the prime minister had been spotted in the Olympic Park in East London on Sunday.\n\nGovernment advice allows people to exercise outside, but says you should not travel outside your local area.\n\nA No 10 spokesman would not confirm if Mr Johnson had been driven to the park or cycled there, but said the PM had complied with Covid-19 guidelines.\n\nLabour's Andy Slaughter said: \"Once again it is do as I say, not as I do, from the prime minister.\"\n\nThe Hammersmith MP added: \"London has some of the highest infection rates in the country. Boris Johnson should be leading by example.\"\n\nIn response to the criticism, a Downing Street source told the BBC: \"The PM has exercised within the Covid rules and any suggestion to the contrary is wrong.\"\n\nA woman told the PA news agency she had seen the prime minister in the park: \"He was leisurely cycling with another guy with a beanie hat and chatting, while around four security guys, possibly more, cycled behind them.\n\n\"Considering the current situation with Covid I was shocked to see him cycling around looking so care-free.\n\n\"Also, considering he's advising everyone to stay at home and not leave their area, shouldn't he stay in Westminster and not travel to other boroughs?\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock was asked at Monday's Downing Street press conference whether travelling seven miles for a cycle ride was within the rules.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"It is OK, if you went for a long walk and ended up seven miles from home, that is OK, but you should stay local.\n\n\"It is OK to go for a long walk or a cycle ride or to exercise, but stay local.\"\n\nThe issue of travelling for exercise was highlighted at the weekend after two women said they were surrounded by police and fine £200 after driving five miles from home to take a walk.\n\nDerbyshire Police have now dropped the fine and apologised to the women, but the incident led to a debate over the guidance.\n\nGovernment advice for England says you can leave your home to exercise, but adds: \"This should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area.\"\n\nThe guidance adds: \"Stay local means stay in the village, town, or part of the city where you live.\"\n\nIn Scotland, the advice is more precise, saying exercise can be taken if it \"starts and finishes at the same place, which can be up to five miles from the boundary of your local authority area\".\n\nFormer Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, who represents a constituency in the Lake District, has written to the PM calling for clearer guidance on exercise similar to that in Scotland.\n\nHe wrote: \"On the one hand, our local police force here in Cumbria are reporting that people... have travelled hundreds of miles to take their exercise in the Lake District.\n\n\"And on the other hand, I have constituents writing to me, worried whether they will be punished for driving five minutes up the road to go for a walk in their local park.\"\n\nMr Farron added: \"We need a solution that clearly deters people from making lengthy trips and potentially spreading the virus, but also that doesn't discourage people from keeping fit and healthy.\"", "Douglas Ross: 'All of Scottish football should not be affected by the actions of one club'\n\nScottish Conservatives leader Douglas Ross tells viewers he thinks politics should be put aside and the UK and Scottish governments should work together to get the vaccinations out as quickly as possible. He is reluctant, as an assistant referee, to comment on the Celtic Dubai situation, but he does say that people have to look at the message it sends out. He points out that for many people at home alone at the moment, football is something they look forward to and \"we don't want to see the whole of Scottish football affected by the actions of one club\". He adds that financial support should be made available to clubs in the Scottish lower leagues & Scottish Cup who have had their games suspended for three weeks.", "Terry Irving, 83, from Dumfries, was given the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on Monday\n\nEveryone aged 80 or over in Scotland will be given the Covid vaccine by February, the health secretary has said.\n\nJeane Freeman also said care home staff and residents, as well as front-line health and social care staff would be vaccinated in the next few weeks.\n\nAs of Sunday, 163,377 Scots had been given a first dose of vaccine.\n\nMs Freeman told BBC Scotland that just under 560,000 people will have been vaccinated by the end of the month.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine will be available at more than 1,100 locations from Monday.\n\nScotland has been given an initial allocation of more than 500,000 doses to use in January.\n\nMs Freeman told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"We intend that by the end of this month, the very beginning of February, we will have vaccinated all residents in care homes and staff, all front-line health and social care workers and all those aged 80 or over.\n\n\"So that's just under 560,000. We've already vaccinated about 70% of people in care homes and about half of the health and social care workforce.\"\n\nShe said the Scottish government was on course to match the UK government's commitment to offer a vaccine jab to everyone in the top four priority groups by the middle of February.\n\nThe health service will be able to vaccinate people as supplies of the jabs arrive, she said, with over-80s being contacted by their GPs.\n\nThe government has now started publishing vaccination figures on a daily basis, with 163,377 Scots having been given a first dose as of Sunday.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the health authorities in Scotland now had enough supplies to give jabs to all over-80s over the coming four weeks.\n\nShe said the aim was to get through the priority list as quickly as possible.\n\nThis had been expected to be complete by mid-May, but Ms Sturgeon said she was \"very, very hopeful we will be able to accelerate that to an earlier point\".\n\nA total of 1,664 people are in hospital being treated for Covid-19, the highest number since the pandemic began - with Ms Sturgeon saying the country was in a \"dangerous situation\".\n\nThe Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine has already been administered in the Tayside, Lothian, Orkney and Highlands health board areas but this week will see it being used at vaccination centres across the whole country.\n\nRecent figures suggest a slight fall in the average positivity rates for Covid in many parts of Scotland, but pressures on the NHS have intensified.\n\nThe number of patients in hospital in with Covid rose to new highs at the weekend, and Sunday saw a sharp increase in the number of patients requiring treatment in intensive care.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said there were few signs that the threat was \"abating\" and that a tightening of restrictions could not be ruled out.\n\nThe majority of Scotland's schools are closed until at least February with pupils now learning from home as the new term begins this week..\n\nOnly vulnerable pupils and the children of key workers will receive face-to-face teaching.\n\nLocal authorities said schools were better prepared to roll out digital learning than they were during the first lockdown.\n\nBut one parents' group has raised concerns about \"equal and fair access to home learning\".", "The Prince of Wales is urging firms to back a more sustainable future and do more to protect the planet, as he marks 50 years of environmental campaigning.\n\nPrince Charles wants companies to join what he is calling \"Terra Carta\" - or Earth charter.\n\nThe charter is being launched alongside a fund run by the Natural Capital Investment Alliance.\n\nIt aims to mobilise $10 billion towards natural capital by 2022.\n\nTerra Carta will harness the \"irreplaceable power of nature\", the prince said in his virtual address to the One Planet Summit on Monday.\n\nHe hopes the new charter will help \"reunite people and planet\".\n\nHe said: \"I can only encourage, in particular, those in industry and finance to provide practical leadership to this common project, as only they are able to mobilise the innovation, scale and resources that are required to transform our global economy.\"\n\nIn his foreword to Terra Carta, the prince writes: \"If we consider the legacy of our generation, more than 800 years ago, Magna Carta inspired a belief in the fundamental rights and liberties of people.\n\n\"As we strive to imagine the next 800 years of human progress, the fundamental rights and value of nature must represent a step-change in our 'future of industry' and 'future of economy' approach.\"\n\nCharles has previously said that people thought he was \"completely dotty\" when he started talking about environmental issues in the 1970s.", "A number of positive cases have been identified among passengers who had flown into Glasgow from Dubai since the new year\n\nDubai has been added to Scotland's travel quarantine list with anyone coming from the country told to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe rule, which came into effect at 04:00, will also apply retrospectively for passengers who have made the journey since 3 January.\n\nCeltic confirmed one of their players tested positive for the virus less than 48 hours after the squad returned from a training trip to Dubai on Friday.\n\nIt is not known if he was on the trip.\n\nThe Scottish government said clinicians and the local NHS health protection team were in contact with Celtic providing advice. It also confirmed that quarantine rules did not apply to sports people who had attended \"elite training\" abroad.\n\nHowever, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon last week questioned the purpose of Celtic's trip and whether they were following social-distancing rules after seeing photos from their Dubai base.\n\nShe warned that professional sport's privileges could be lost if protocols were not followed by all participants.\n\nThe government said the change was due to a number of positive cases being identified in passengers who had flown into Glasgow from Dubai since the new year.\n\nIt said the \"preventative action\" would help stem the rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nTransport Secretary Michael Matheson said: \"It is evident, both in Scotland and in countries across the world, that the virus continues to pose real risks to health and to life and we need to interrupt the rise in cases.\"\n\nHe added: \"Imposing quarantine requirements on those arriving in the UK is our first defence in managing the risk of imported cases from communities with high risks of transmission. That is why we have made the decision to remove Dubai from the country exemptions list.\n\n\"Whether or not an overseas destination has been designated for quarantine restrictions, our message remains clear that people should not currently be undertaking non-essential foreign travel.\n\n\"People need to stay at home to help suppress the virus, protect our NHS and save lives.\"\n\nJoanne Dooey, president of the Scottish Passenger Agents' Association (SPAA), said: \"Removing Dubai from the safe list is understandable. We believe that there has been a cluster of infections around Scots who travelled to Dubai over the Christmas and New Year period.\n\n\"Whilst we're keen to see a return to increased international travel, protecting the health of the whole country remains our key concern and we are supportive of this move.\"", "Morrisons will bar customers who refuse to wear face coverings from its shops amid rising coronavirus infections.\n\nFrom Monday, shoppers who refuse to wear face masks offered by staff will not be allowed inside, unless they are medically exempt.\n\nSainsbury's also said it would challenge those not wearing a mask or who were shopping in groups.\n\nThe announcements come amid concerns that social distancing measures are not being adhered to in supermarkets.\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said the government is \"concerned\" shops are not enforcing rules strictly enough.\n\n\"Ultimately, the most important thing to do now is to make sure that actually enforcement - and of course the compliance with the rules - when people are going into supermarkets are being adhered to,\" Mr Zahawi told Sky News.\n\n\"We need to make sure people actually wear masks and follow the one-way system,\" he said.\n\nMorrisons said it had \"introduced and consistently maintained thorough and robust safety measures in all our stores\" since the start of the pandemic.\n\nBut it said: \"From today we are further strengthening our policy on masks.\"\n\nSecurity guards at the UK's fourth-biggest supermarket chain will be enforcing the new rules.\n\nMorrisons' chief executive, David Potts, said: \"Those who are offered a face covering and decline to wear one won't be allowed to shop at Morrisons unless they are medically exempt.\n\n\"Our store colleagues are working hard to feed you and your family, please be kind.\"\n\nFollowing Morrisons' announcement, Sainsbury's said that it was also putting trained security guards at the front of its stores to challenge shoppers who did not comply.\n\nChief executive Simon Roberts said: \"I've spent a lot of time in our stores reviewing the latest situation over the last few days and on behalf of all my colleagues, I am asking our customers to help us keep everyone safe.\n\n\"The vast majority of customers are shopping safely, but I have also seen some customers trying to shop without a mask and shopping in larger family groups.\n\n\"Please help us to keep all our colleagues and customers safe by always wearing a mask and by shopping alone. Everyone's care and consideration matters now more than ever.\"\n\nEarlier on Monday, Mr Zahawi stopped short of saying that supermarket staff should be responsible for enforcing rules on face masks.\n\nEnforcement of face coverings is the responsibility of the police, not retailers. Wearing face masks in supermarkets and shops is compulsory across the UK.\n\nIn England, the police can issue a £200 fine to someone breaking the face covering rules. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, a £60 fine can be imposed. Repeat offenders face bigger fines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nHowever, retail industry body the British Retail Consortium said that, workers have faced an increase in incidents of violence and abuse when trying to encourage shoppers to put them on.\n\nAndrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the British Retail Consortium, added: \"Supermarkets continue to follow all safety guidance and customers should be reassured that supermarkets are Covid-secure and safe to visit during lockdown and beyond.\n\n\"Customers should play their part too by following in-store signage and being considerate to staff and fellow shoppers.\"\n\nUnder current lockdown restrictions across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, people must only leave home for essential reasons, such as buying food or medicine.\n\nIn a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus, supermarkets introduced social distancing measures during the UK's first nationwide lockdown last March. They included limits on the numbers of customers in the shops at any one time, protective plastic screens at tills and \"marshals\" to ensure shoppers were maintaining a two-metre distance.\n\nBut amid rising numbers of infections, some have expressed concerns about a \"lack of visible protections\" implemented by supermarkets in recent weeks.\n\nThe First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, said on Saturday that he wanted to see stores policed as they were during the first lockdown as people were worried the strict enforcement of rules did not \"appear to be there this time\".\n\n\"Given the fact the new variant is so much easier to catch... we are looking at supermarkets and other places where people leave their homes, to make sure they are organised in a way that keeps their staff and customers safe,\" he said.\n\nSupermarket Waitrose said that it was taking a \"cautious approach\" to the virus, with marshals checking that customers are wearing face coverings on the door, hand sanitiser stations at its entrances and written communications to shoppers reminding them to maintain their distance.\n\nTesco said it was limiting the number of customers in store and was also reminding customers to wear masks.\n\n\"We have clear signage explaining this, and we have packs of face coverings available for purchase near the front of our stores for any customers who have forgotten them.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Asda announced last week that it would extend its marshals' hours to 08:00 to 20:00 and increase how often baskets and trollies are cleaned.\n\nShop workers' union Usdaw has also called for firms to apply more stringent measures again.\n\nThe union's general secretary, Paddy Lillis, said that it had received reports that \"too many customers are not following necessary safety measures like social distancing, wearing a face covering and only shopping for essential items\".\n\n\"It is going to take some time to roll out the vaccine and we cannot afford to be complacent in the meantime, particularly with a new strain sweeping the nation,\" Mr Lillis said.\n\nThe trade union also suggested that \"'one-in one-out\" policies and proper queuing systems should be reintroduced in supermarkets.\n\nIt added that these systems should be managed by trained security staff where necessary.", "The number of patients in intensive care with Covid has risen sharply, amid warnings that tougher lockdown measures may be needed.\n\nLatest Scottish government figures show 1,877 new cases of Covid were reported in the last 24 hours\n\nThe number of people in intensive care has risen from 109 to 123, the highest daily jump since October.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said a tightening of restrictions could not be ruled out.\n\nA total of 1,598 people are currently in hospital with recently-confirmed Covid, up from Saturday's figure of 1,596 patients which was the highest number since the outbreak began.\n\nThe daily test positivity rate was10%, up from 8.7% on Saturday, when 1,865 positive cases were recorded.\n\nThe deputy first minister said the country was facing \"a very alarming situation\" with the virus.\n\nSpeaking on Politics Scotland, Mr Swinney said coronavirus does not show much sign of \"abating\" and he would not rule out tougher lockdown measures.\n\nHe said: \"We're seeing case numbers which are hovering around 2,000 per day... so we've got an accelerating situation on our hands and we have to constantly review whether more restrictions are required.\"\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs in recent days with average positivity rates falling, a possible indicator that the lockdown is having an impact, but Prof Linda Bauld, of Edinburgh University, urged caution.\n\nShe said: \"The numbers are not reducing at the rate which we want them to, so [it is] still a very fragile situation.\n\n\"The measures we have now I hope are working but it's not clear whether they are tough enough.\n\n\"I think the key change the government could make is in the sectors which are still open, particularly workplaces but also things like takeaways and click and collect.\"\n\nMr Swinney said the Scottish government is \"open to considering further restrictions if they are necessary\"\n\nProfessional sport, along with manufacturing and construction work have been allowed to continue in this lockdown, whereas they were not in the first wave in March.\n\nThe deputy first minister said the meeting of the cabinet which agreed the latest lockdown saw ministers wondering if they had gone far enough to stop the spread.\n\nMr Swinney added: \"I don't think I'm revealing a state secret when I say that the debate within cabinet was not whether we were going too far but whether we were going far enough.\"\n\nA total of three deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours but these figures are lower at weekends because register offices are generally closed.", "Last updated on .From the section Scottish Premiership\n\nCeltic's only regret about their Dubai trip was Chris Jullien contracting Covid-19, said coach Gavin Strachan, after the draw with Hibernian.\n\nThirteen Celtic players missed the game as they self-isolate after being deemed close contacts of Jullien.\n\nThe hosts led through David Turnbull's free-kick, but are now 21 points behind Scottish Premiership leaders Rangers after Kevin Nisbet's late Hibs strike.\n\n\"There's regret that one person has caught the virus,\" said Strachan.\n\n\"But there's not a regret in terms of the permission we got to go and the protocols that we followed, which we have done the whole season.\"\n• None 'Celtic's lack of remorse over Dubai farce is risible'\n• None Trouble in paradise? Timeline of Dubai bid to Covid crisis\n\nStrachan, who managed the team against Hibs as Neil Lennon and assistant John Kennedy are also in enforced quarantine, defended the decision to take Jullien - who is out injured for up to four months - on last week's controversial training trip.\n\n\"It was to maintain his treatment with the backroom staff, he went over there so we can get him back as fast as we can,\" Strachan added.\n\n\"Yeah, I can understand the frustration from everybody, because we end up playing with a weaker team, but that could have happened if we were training at home as well.\"\n\nCeltic, who still have three games in hand, fielded an unfamiliar line-up showing six changes, though one of those was enforced by Nir Bitton's suspension, and teenage American forward Cameron Harper was handed a debut.\n\nHibs' request for Celtic players to be retested pre-match was turned down and Jack Ross gave a first appearance to on-loan Arsenal goalkeeper Matt Macey.\n\nAnd it was the visitors who tried to stamp their authority on the game early on with Nisbet heading over and later testing Conor Hazard with a shot after Joe Newell's strike had been pushed out by the Celtic keeper.\n\nHarper shot instead of passing from a promising position in Celtic's first incisive move and long-range efforts from Ismaila Soro and Diego Laxalt drew fine saves from Macey.\n\nTurnbull's superb chip found Callum McGregor in behind the Hibs defence but he could not make the right connection.\n\nLewis Stevenson made his 500th Hibernian appearance as a half-time replacement for Josh Doig and Harper limped off to be replaced by another Celtic debutant Armstrong Oko-Flex on the hour.\n\nChances were at a premium and Hazard was quick off his line to snuff out a chance for Melker Hallberg and Drey Wright's replacement Christian Doidge could not get a header on Jamie Murphy's teasing corner.\n\nMikey Johnston claimed unsuccessfully for a penalty after going down in the Hibs box following Ryan Porteous' challenge and soon made way for Karamoko Dembele.\n\nHibs also made a change with Stephen McGinn replacing Hallberg and the midfielder fouled Turnbull to give the Celtic midfielder the chance to put Celtic ahead, and he did. It was a fantastic strike by Turnbull and his fifth goal for Celtic.\n\nHibs went back on the attack and won a free-kick of their own after Laxalt's foul on Paul McGinn and the latter's header from Stevie Mallan's delivery was cleared on the line only for Nisbet to fire high into the net for parity. A point took Hibs to within two of Aberdeen in third.\n\nWhat did we learn?\n\nUnsurprisingly, Celtic took a while to settle into the match and lacked a focal point in the absence of Leigh Griffiths and Odsonne Edouard.\n\nFor long spells in the second half, the hosts did not look likely to win but took their chance when it came. Defensively, though, they were caught out badly at a set play.\n\nHibs may rue not throwing more caution to the wind at 0-0 but, after three league defeats, a point in Glasgow is a positive result.\n\nWhat did they say?\n\nCeltic coach Gavin Strachan: \"The players put a lot into the game and we thought we did enough to nick it. The sucker punch at the end was frustrating. We were hoping we would have enough bodies back to see that out.\n\n\"There's a lot of football still to be played and you never know what's going to happen. Obviously it's a frustrating time just now but we need to get the win on Saturday, keep racking up the points and see what happens.\"\n\nHibernian head coach Jack Ross: \"We wanted to come and win the game. I certainly think we merited taking something from it. It's good for us to stop the bleeding. It hopefully just propels our side in the right direction again.\n\n\"Kevin Nisbet's goalscoring return has been excellent. The accuracy of the finish and the trust in his finishing ability with the goal has to be like that otherwise I don't think he scores it.\"\n\nCeltic will still be without their isolating players when they host Livingston on Saturday (15:00 GMT). Hibs are at home to Kilmarnock at the same time.\n• None Attempt blocked. Stephen Mallan (Hibernian) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin Nisbet.\n• None Goal! Celtic 1, Hibernian 1. Kevin Nisbet (Hibernian) left footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the top right corner following a set piece situation.\n• None Attempt blocked. Paul McGinn (Hibernian) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Stephen Mallan with a cross.\n• None Paul McGinn (Hibernian) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Stephen Mallan (Hibernian) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Paul McGinn with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt blocked. Christian Doidge (Hibernian) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Paul McGinn with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Jamie Murphy (Hibernian) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Paul McGinn.\n• None Goal! Celtic 1, Hibernian 0. David Turnbull (Celtic) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the top left corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Wales' health minister has acknowledged it was \"entirely understandable people are concerned\" about when they will receive their vaccine.\n\nBut Vaughan Gething also stressed that supplies will increase over the coming weeks.\n\n\"I think a number of people are are anxious because this is a worrying time. And it's entirely understandable on a human level why people are concerned\", he said.\n\nMr Gething admitted that other UK nations had made a better start in rolling out the vaccine.\n\nBut he said that he believed Wales had still made a \"good start\" and \"that's evidenced by the figures\".\n\nWhen asked about the concerns made by some GP practices, Mr Gething said he understands why some of them \"will be frustrated\".\n\nHe added: \"But we're delivering the AstraZeneca vaccine in supplies that we have to keep it going.\n\n\"And as I said, the availability of that vaccine is the current rate limiting step and significantly increasing our delivery because we know there are a range of general practices and others who could deliver more if we had more supply.\n\n\"The supply they're being given is supplied for the week - it's not to stretch through for the whole population that they're covering.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Domestic abuse victim - 'He threw me against the wall and strangled me'\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland has said he hopes to make non-fatal strangulation a specific offence after a call by domestic abuse campaigners.\n\nToo many violent offenders' sentences are not tough enough, he said.\n\nAnd he added that strangulation can be a precursor to even more serious crimes against women.\n\nCampaigners argue that perpetrators are often only charged with common assault, which carries a maximum of six months in prison.\n\nBecause non-fatal strangulation may not leave any marks on the victim, prosecutors do not bring more serious charges, they say.\n\nMr Buckland said: \"There are too many violent offenders not getting sentences proportionate to the seriousness of their crimes because in many cases, prosecutors don't have adequate charging options where the victim has been strangled.\n\n\"The vast majority of these crimes are committed against women and they are often a precursor to even more serious violence.\"\n\nThe justice secretary hopes the new offence can be included in the Police and Sentencing Bill, although discussions are at an early stage.\n\nCampaigners had called for a new offence to be part of the Domestic Abuse Bill. The Conservative peer Baroness Newlove was planning to table an amendment to this bill as it goes through the House of Lords. She won cross-party support during a debate in the Lords last week.\n\nBut the Ministry of Justice believes that as non-fatal strangulation can be used in situations other than domestic abuse, the legislation should have a broader context.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland said strangulation was often a precursor to even more serious attacks on women\n\nWelcoming the move, Nogah Ofer, a lawyer with the Centre for Women's Justice, which has been at the forefront of the campaign for a new offence said: \"It is time that as a society we stopped normalising and ignoring strangulation.\n\n\"We look forward to police, prosecutors and medical professionals working together to address this with the seriousness it deserves, and hope that survivors of domestic abuse will have greater confidence to seek justice.\"\n\nCampaigner Rachel Williams, who suffered strangulation during an abusive relationship, tweeted that it was \"a great victory\". She was shot and severely injured by her violent partner in 2011, who then killed himself.\n\nLast week, the government said that non-fatal strangulation was already covered by existing legislation from common assault to attempted murder.\n\nIt is now looking at how a new offence was introduced in New Zealand. Parts of Australia and the US have also brought in similar measures.\n\nDuring the Lords debate, crossbench peer Lord Anderson of Ipswich, a QC and former Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, warned that \"hurried law can be bad law\".\n\nHe asked whether a more generic offence of aggravated assault or recklessly endangering life might cover these circumstances and questioned how strangulation and suffocation would be defined in the law.", "Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who deserved mercy. Her victim's community said otherwise.\n\nThis story was first published on 11 January - before Lisa Montgomery's execution on 13 January.\n\nFor Diane Mattingly, there is one moment from her childhood for which she feels both enormous gratitude and guilt.\n\nShe credits this moment for her \"fairly normal\" life - a house on eight peaceful acres, a loving relationship with her children, nearly two decades at a job working for the state of Kentucky.\n\nAt the same time, she blames it for the fate of her younger half-sister, Lisa Montgomery.\n\nMontgomery was sentenced for the murder of a 23-year-old woman who was eight months pregnant. In December 2004, Montgomery, who was 36 at the time, strangled Bobbie Jo Stinnett before cutting the baby out of her womb and kidnapping it. Stinnett bled to death.\n\nMattingly and Montgomery lived together until Mattingly was eight and her half-sister was four. It was a terrifying household, she says, where physical, psychological and sexual abuse at the hands of Judy Shaughnessy, Montgomery's mother, and her boyfriends was routine.\n\nThe girls' biological father left the home, and after a while, Mattingly was whisked away to foster care. Montgomery was left behind with her mother.\n\nLisa Montgomery and her half-sister Diane Mattingly as children\n\nIt would be 34 years before the half-sisters would see each other again. And that would be from across a courtroom, where lawyers for the US government were trying to persuade a jury to sentence Montgomery to death.\n\n\"One sister got taken out and got put into a loving home and was nurtured and had time to heal,\" says Mattingly. \"The other sister stayed in that situation, and it got worse and worse and worse. And then at the end, she was broken.\"\n\nIn late December, Montgomery's legal team submitted a petition to President Donald Trump that makes the case that after a lifetime of abuse - which they characterise as torture - she is too mentally ill to be executed and deserves mercy.\n\nHowever, in the tiny town of Skidmore, Missouri, where the crime was committed, there is little sympathy for that argument. Many there believe the final moments of Bobbie Jo Stinnett were so horrific, the death sentence is warranted.\n\nLisa Montgomery and Bobbie Jo Stinnett got to know each other online through a shared love of dogs. They had corresponded for weeks on an online forum for rat terrier breeders and enthusiasts called \"Ratter Chatter\". Montgomery told Stinnett that she was also expecting, and the pair shared pregnancy stories.\n\nIn December 2004, Montgomery drove 281.5 km (175 miles) from her home in Kansas to Skidmore, where she had an appointment to look at some puppies owned by Stinnett.\n\nBut it wasn't Montgomery that Stinnett was expecting, it was a woman who went by the name of Darlene Fischer. But Fischer was a name that Montgomery had been using when she separately began messaging Stinnett from a different email address inquiring about buying one of her puppies.\n\nWhen Stinnett answered the door, Montgomery overpowered the pregnant woman, strangled her with a piece of rope, and cut the baby out of her womb.\n\nInvestigators quickly realised that \"Darlene Fischer\" did not exist, and tracked Montgomery down the next day using her emails and computer IP address. They found her cradling a new-born girl she claimed to have given birth to the previous day. Her story quickly fell apart and she confessed to the killing.\n\nSince 2008, Montgomery has been held in a federal prison in Texas for female inmates with special medical and psychological needs, where she has been receiving psychiatric care. Since receiving her execution date, she's been placed on suicide watch in an isolated cell.\n\nMontgomery is scheduled to be put to death by a lethal injection of pentobarbital at Terre Haute prison in Indiana. It is the only federal prison with an active death chamber.\n\nMontgomery's lawyers argue that because of a combination of years of horrific abuse, and a raft of psychological issues, she should never have been given the death penalty. They believe that at the time of the crime, Montgomery was psychotic and out of touch with reality. They have been joined by a chorus of supportive voices from the legal field, including 41 former and current prosecutors, as well as human rights entities like the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.\n\nHowever, calls for Trump to be merciful are hardly unanimous. According to Gallup, while support for the death penalty in the US is at its lowest level in more than 50 years, 55% of Americans still believe it is an appropriate punishment for murder. And nowhere is that support more palpably felt in this case than in Skidmore.\n\n\"Bobbie deserves to be here today. Bobbie's family deserves her,\" says Meagan Morrow, a high school classmate of Stinnett's. \"And Lisa deserves to pay.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know needs support for issues about emotional distress, these organisations may be able to help.\n\nLisa Montgomery's current legal team has conducted some 450 interviews with family members, friends, case workers, doctors and social workers. Stitched together, they form a tapestry of family dysfunction, abuse, neglect, professional negligence, substance abuse and untreated mental illness.\n\n\"The whole story is tragic,\" says Kelley Henry, one of Montgomery's federal defence lawyers. \"But one of the things that the president can do is say - to women who have been trafficked, and who have been sexually abused - 'Your abuse matters'.\"\n\nFor Montgomery, her lawyers argue, it began before she was born. According to an interview with her father, Montgomery's mother Judy Shaughnessy drank heavily throughout her pregnancy, and their daughter was born with foetal alcohol syndrome. Multiple medical experts have given statements agreeing with that diagnosis.\n\nWhen Mattingly and Montgomery were young, Shaughnessy beat them and doled out cruel forms of punishment, like taping Montgomery's mouth shut, or pushing Mattingly out into the snow, naked. After their biological father left the home, Mattingly says they were left alone with Shaughnessy's boyfriends, at least one of whom started raping Mattingly.\n\n\"Judy was manipulative and - I hate to use this word, but - evil. She enjoyed torturing the people around her,\" says Mattingly. \"She got joy out of it.\"\n\nAfter Mattingly was removed from the home by social services, Montgomery fell prey to her mother's new husband, who according to statements from his other children, was a violent alcoholic who began sexually abusing Montgomery when she was a pre-teen. The family moved from place to place dozens of times, but it was in a trailer in Sperry, Oklahoma, where her lawyers say the abuse turned into something more akin to torture.\n\nAccording to interviews with her half-siblings and others who spent time with the family, Montgomery's stepfather built a shed onto the trailer where he, and eventually his friends, raped and beat her. Her mother also began trafficking her, allowing handymen like electricians and plumbers to sexually abuse Montgomery in exchange for work on the house.\n\nAs a teenager, Montgomery confided in a cousin, telling him the men would tie her up, beat her and even urinate on her afterwards.\n\nBut the cousin, a sheriff's deputy, confessed to Montgomery's current legal team that he did nothing. In fact, he drove her back home and dropped her off in the hands of her abusers.\n\nLawyer Kelley Henry says one of the things that disturbs her most is that adults in positions of authority were told about what was going on but did nothing.\n\nWhen Shaughnessy eventually split from her second husband, she and Montgomery testified in divorce proceedings about the sexual assaults. The judge in the case scolded Shaughnessy for not reporting the abuse - but did not report the abuse himself.\n\n\"There were so many opportunities where people could have intervened and prevented this,\" says Henry.\n\nMontgomery's cousin told her legal team that he lived with \"regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa\".\n\nWhen she was 18, Montgomery married her stepbrother. The couple had four children in five years, but the relationship was not the escape from violence that Montgomery might have hoped it would be. At one point, one of Montgomery's brothers found a home movie that showed Montgomery's husband raping and beating her.\n\n\"It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie,\" he said in a statement. \"I felt sick watching the video. I didn't know what to do or how to talk to my sister about it.\"\n\nFriends and family began noticing Montgomery's tendency to slip into \"a world of her own\". Her children were disturbed by it. Henry says this was an early sign of her mental illnesses, which include bipolar disorder, complex post-traumatic stress disorder, dissociative disorder and traumatic brain injury.\n\nMontgomery eventually divorced her first husband and married Kevin Montgomery. Around this time, she repeatedly claimed to be pregnant again, although she had undergone sterilisation after her fourth baby was born.\n\nOne theory her lawyers put forward regarding the chain of events that led to the murder, is that Montgomery feared her ex-husband would expose her lies about being pregnant and use it against her as he sought custody of their children.\n\n\"There was so much pressure on her at that point,\" says Henry. She describes Montgomery's ex-husband as cruel and harassing. \"She was completely detached from reality.\"\n\nHer lawyers say that as she lost touch with reality, she fantasised about being pregnant.\n\nHenry says Montgomery's original legal defence after she was arrested and charged with murder was woefully inadequate, and presented few of the details about her abuse, trauma and mental illness.\n\nHer lawyers at the time also presented an alternative theory of the crime, which was that Montgomery's brother had actually committed the murder, even though he had an alibi. That was ultimately dropped in favour of an insanity defence, but Henry believes the damage to Montgomery's credibility was already done.\n\nAfter five hours of deliberation, the jury found Montgomery guilty. They recommended a sentence of death.\n\nDiane Mattingly has been speaking publicly for the first time in the hope it can make a difference.\n\n\"I would say, 'President Trump, I want you to look at the life that Lisa had led, I want to look at all the people that have failed her, I want you to look at the rape, the torture, the mental abuse, the physical abuse that this woman had endured,'\" she says. \"I'm asking him to have compassion on her as a person that has been failed over and over and over again. And to not fail her.\"\n\nThe tiny farming town of Skidmore sits in the far northwest corner of Missouri. A generation ago, it was the kind of place where you could \"get your hair cut, see a show, buy rabbit feed and eat dinner\" - but those days are long gone. Today there is a single restaurant and few of the streets are paved.\n\nThe population hovers around just 250, and everyone knew Bobbie Jo Stinnett and her family. Friends recall her as a good student with a love of horses and dogs. She liked going down to the Nodaway River to swim, and playing Nintendo games at slumber parties. She was quiet and kind, they say.\n\nAt the time of her murder, she was newly married and pregnant with her first child.\n\nAlthough the alumni have scattered somewhat, in recent years, the Nodaway-Holt R-VII High School graduating class of 2000 - which had only 22 members - has a tradition to mark the anniversary of the death of their classmate Bobbie Jo Stinnett.\n\nThey hold a collection and try to do something nice for Stinnett's mother. \"Last year, we got flowers, and gave her a $100-plus gift card and then paid her water bill,\" says Jena Baumli.\n\nThe murder 16 years ago is never far from the minds of the town's residents.\n\nFor one thing, the wider world won't let them forget. It has been the subject of two books, multiple true crime television shows, documentaries and countless podcast episodes. And though there's been much recent debate over the fairness of Montgomery's sentence in courthouses and in the opinion pages of newspapers like the New York Times, a similar debate does not exist here.\n\n\"I think that in a lot of the opinion pieces that are being posted, in a lot of things that people are sharing, Bobbie Jo and her daughter, and her mother and her husband and other friends and family, are kind of being forgotten,\" says Tiffany Kirkland, another member of the class of 2000.\n\n\"She always wanted to be a mom,\" says Baumli. \"She was really the first one to have a decent marriage, you know, and I guess looking at Bobbie Jo was like, what your dreams were when you were younger.\"\n\nBecause of Stinnett's easy-going reputation, Morrow remembers instantly dismissing the initial reports of her murder.\n\n\"I was like, 'Oh, she was not.' You know, like, that doesn't happen to Bobbie,\" Morrow says.\n\nBut what happened at the modest clapboard house where Stinnett lived with her husband still haunts some of those involved in the investigation.\n\nNodaway County Sheriff Randy Strong says that the scene that he and his four colleagues found that day was so bloody, they are still traumatised by it. It makes him even angrier that it was Stinnett's mother who discovered her that way.\n\n\"The people that are defending [Montgomery], I wish I could take them back in time, and put them in that room,\" he says. \"And then go, 'Look at this body'. And then go, 'Stand there and listen to the 911 call of [Stinnett's mother]. This is the stuff of nightmares.\"\n\nMany of the residents of Skidmore cite the details of the crime, and the amount of planning that went into it, as evidence that Montgomery was a calculating killer.\n\nShe had catfished Stinnett online under a fake name. She had bought supplies, including a home birth kit, and searched online for how to perform a caesarean section. Sheriff Strong insists that the crime was meticulously planned and that the woman he arrested continued to lie until backed into a corner.\n\nDr Katherine Porterfield, a clinical psychologist who evaluated Montgomery and spent about 18 hours with her, says that psychosis does not always look the way people expect it to.\n\n\"Being psychotic, it does not mean you are not intelligent, nor that you cannot act in a planful way,\" she says. \"We've seen crime for years and years in our country in which people enact terrible violence coming out of a psychotic set of beliefs or thought process. Lisa Montgomery is no different. She enacted this in the grip of a very broken mind.\"\n\nThe baby was returned to her father, after being recovered from Montgomery.\n\nBobbie Jo's mother and husband have have not spoken publicly in many years. But Strong says this is the first year he's heard directly from Stinnett's husband. He thanked the sheriff for recovering his daughter and allowing him to be the parent that his wife couldn't be.\n\n\"I cried,\" says Strong. \"The whole community over there's traumatised by this.\"\n\nSchool friend Baumli says she's read the descriptions of Montgomery's abuse, but it mostly just makes her angry. She says it's not as if all the other people of Skidmore lead idyllic lives free from abuse, poverty and other destructive tragedies. She gives herself as an example - when Stinnett was murdered, Baumli was in rehab for a drug addiction. She missed the funeral because of it.\n\n\"Let's say I didn't stay clean very long,\" she says.\n\n\"I'm sick of hearing about Lisa Montgomery and what she went through. And it's never about what my friend went through,\" she adds. \"I get these images in my head of [Bobbie Jo's mother] finding her daughter that way.\"\n\nThree federal inmates - Orlando Hall, Alfred Bourgeois and Brandon Bernard - have been put to death since the 3 November presidential election. Several high-profile figures had appealed for clemency in Brandon's case but Mr Trump did not heed those calls.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden has already pledged to end death penalty proceedings, although he hasn't said when.\n\nUntil July 2020, there had been no federal executions for 17 years. At state level, the number of sentences and executions continues a historic decline. Only 18 death sentences were handed down in 2020 and the number of executions carried out hit a 30-year low. More recently, the states that have been carrying out executions, such as Texas and Tennessee, have halted and delayed executions because of the pandemic.\n\nHowever, the executions ordered by President Trump are continuing. If they all go ahead, the federal government will have executed more people than any administration in nearly 100 years.\n\nProtest against federal executions of death row inmates - outside the US Justice Department, Washington DC, December 2020\n\nTwo other inmates are scheduled to die at Terre Haute prison before Mr Trump's presidency ends. Recently, there has been a virus outbreak on death row at the institution, and previous executions have been linked to outbreaks among the execution team and prison staff.\n\n\"They made this a priority at the risk of the health and lives of corrections officials, of the prisoners on death row, and the communities that all of those Bureau of Prisons officials who flew in from across the country were returning to,\" says Ngozi Ndulue, senior director of research and special projects at the Death Penalty Information Center.\n\n\"This was a very coordinated and determined plan to ensure that as many people could be executed on federal death row as possible before the end of this administration term.\"\n\nMontgomery's lawyers want her sentence commuted to a life sentence, which would allow her to remain under psychiatric care in prison for the rest of her days.\n\nMattingly says looking back to the moment life changed for her as an eight-year-old, she feels guilty that when the social workers came for her, she didn't tell them what was going on in that house.\n\n\"If I had, would they have taken Lisa out of the home also?\" she says. \"There's so many people that failed her throughout her whole life. And I am just asking for somebody - once - not to fail her.\"", "Wales has received 275,000 doses of the two Covid-19 vaccines to deal with the pandemic.\n\nAbout 70,000 people received a first dose after the first month of the vaccine rollout.\n\nThe Welsh Government confirmed it has had more than 250,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 25,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab.\n\nThe health minister promised a \"really significant step-up\" in the roll-out after opponents criticised its speed.\n\nThe Pfizer jabs were first administered in early December at seven sites across Wales as part of the UK-wide immunisation programme.\n\nThis 82-year-old woman was one of 100 to receives her vaccine at a special clinic in Swansea on Saturday\n\nApproximately 1.6% of people were vaccinated up to 3 January - fewer than all other UK nations.\n\nIn England, about 1.9% of the population had received the first dose, while 2.1% of people in both Scotland and Northern Ireland had received their first jab.\n\nThe Welsh Government has dismissed criticism it is lagging behind, with health officials saying the new Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine would help speed up the programme \"considerably\".\n\nTwo full doses of the Oxford vaccine gave 62% protection, a half dose followed by a full dose was 90% and overall the trial showed 70% protection.\n\nThe rollout of the Oxford vaccine started on Monday, with 25,000 doses received this week, according to the Welsh Government.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said on Friday that Wales would receive another 25,000 Oxford doses next week and 80,000 the week after that.\n\nWhen asked how many doses of the Pfizer vaccine Wales had received, he said he could not recall the exact figure but further deliveries had been received \"on the 23rd and the 27th of December\".\n\nPressed on a figure, he said: \"It's the low hundreds of thousands\", adding: \"The Pfizer vaccine has particular challenges in terms of the conditions that it's got to be stored in and in parts of Wales that is a very particular challenge because it is a hard vaccine to transport over long distances to relatively scattered and remote communities.\n\n\"But the fact that we've got it and the fact that we're able to use more of it than we originally anticipated means we'll be able to accelerate the use of it over the next couple of weeks.\"\n\nThese were the latest comparative weekly totals - daily updates are promised from this week onwards in Wales\n\nOn Sunday, the Welsh Government confirmed it had received 25,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the first week but the quantity would increase, allocated to Wales based on a population share on a weekly basis.\n\n\"We are confident in the assurances we have been given that this will increase over the next few weeks to around 100,000 per week,\" they said.\n\n\"We are delivering all the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine allocated to Wales directly to GPs, other primary care providers and hospitals as soon as it is available.\"\n\nConservative MP for the Vale of Clwyd, Dr James Davies, said: \"We all know that the Pfizer vaccine is difficult to transport and store and needs to be stored at -70 degrees, that's understood.\n\n\"But the issue is that actually, if you look at the rest of the UK, including very rural areas, they've managed to deal with it... and it is difficult to see why they haven't been in a position to be organised earlier and to ramp-up the delivery.\"\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru's health spokesman, called for transparency: \"It is very worrying to find out that we have had in Wales more than 250,000 doses but only a relatively small proportion of that have yet ended up in people's arms, protecting people, because that's what we want to happen.\"\n\nHe has written an open letter to Health Minister Vaughan Gething calling for greater clarity on the vaccine deployment programme, asking for a dashboard of information which would allow the public to track the rollout's progress for themselves, including volume of doses delivered and administered by health board and by the nine priority groups.\n\nDr Olwen Williams, vice-president for Wales at the Royal College of Physicians, also called on health boards and Welsh Government to publish regular data showing which groups of people have been vaccinated, with patient-facing health workers prioritised over other colleagues.\n\n\"I think that would give assurance to people working in the NHS and the population in general, that the programme is progressing as planned,\" she said.\n\nAll data will be published daily from Monday but Mr Gething conceded that Wales, from last week's figures, was \"slightly behind on the population share and I'm not getting away from that.\"\n\nHe said the race was not \"necessarily against other UK nations\" but against the virus.\n\nHe also told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement that, in the next two to three weeks, he expected to see a \"really significant step-up in the delivery of the vaccine\" as more GP practices and community pharmacies help.\n\n\"We're going to get through many more people, giving them significant protection with a first vaccine,\" he said.\n\n\"And that will mean that we're going to be able to prevent most of the avoidable deaths.\"\n\nIt is hoped the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will speed up the process.\n\nBy the end of last week, it was being offered to patients aged over 80 at 73 GP practices.\n\nMore than 100 are expected to be offering the jabs next week, Mr Gething said, \"and then we get into several hundred thereafter and we'll bring community pharmacies on board.\"\n\nThe UK and Scottish governments did not provide the numbers of Pfizer vaccines supplied to England and Scotland. BBC Wales is still waiting for a response from the Northern Irish Executive.\n\nMeanwhile, regular rapid testing for people without coronavirus symptoms will be made available in England.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would evaluate its mass testing pilots in Merthyr Tydfil and lower Cynon Valley, as well as elsewhere in the UK, to inform its approach to community testing.\n\nA spokesman added: \"We have announced regular asymptomatic testing of health and social care workers, in education and daily contact testing in South Wales Police.\n\n\"A pilot has also started at the Tata Port Talbot site. We are also exploring other opportunities for regular testing to support critical services.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer calls for families to be put \"at the heart of our recovery\" from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has urged the government to \"protect family incomes\" as it deals with the economic effects of coronavirus.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he demanded teachers, the armed forces and care workers are left out of the public sector pay freeze.\n\nSir Keir also called for tougher restrictions to be considered for tackling coronavirus.\n\nNo 10 said the government had \"shown it is prepared to act\".\n\nWith coronavirus restrictions and lockdowns shutting thousands of businesses, the economy was 7.9% smaller in October last year than it had been six months earlier.\n\nAnd the government's independent forecaster, the Office for Budgetary Responsibility, predicts that unemployment will rise to 2.6 million by the middle of this year.\n\nIn his speech, Sir Keir attacked the government for \"having been found wanting at every turn\", accusing Boris Johnson of being \"indecisive\" and acting \"too slow\" over further lockdowns and support for business and families.\n\nHe said: \"The British people will forgive many things. They know the pandemic is difficult.\n\n\"But they also know serial incompetence when they see it - and they know when a prime minister simply isn't up to the job.\"\n\nBut the PM's official spokeswoman rejected the criticism, saying: \"This government has shown it is prepared to act. When given evidence in the morning it has taken action that evening.\"\n\nAsked by the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg whether the government should tighten restrictions, such as closing nurseries, Sir Keir said there \"probably is more that we could do [and we] may have to get tougher\".\n\nBut he did not outline what measures he would recommend, instead saying it was \"time to hear from the scientists what else can be done - and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nThe Labour leader said ministers must \"protect family incomes and support businesses\" from the economic effects of previous restrictions and the current lockdown.\n\nHe added policies must \"make a real difference to millions of people across the country\" and \"put families at the heart of our recovery\".\n\nSir Keir argued the £20-a-week rise given to Universal Credit claimants last April must continue beyond this April's cut-off point.\n\nCouncil tax increases in England of up to 5% this April must not happen, he said, while calling for the ban on evictions and repossessions to be extended.\n\nThe government's pay freeze for at least 1.3 million public sector workers - which does not apply to NHS frontline staff and those earning below £24,000 a year - must not go ahead, said Sir Keir.\n\n\"I know this isn't everything that's needed,\" he added, \"and after so much suffering we can't go back the status quo.\n\n\"We cannot return to an economy where over half our care workers earn less than the living wage, where childcare is among the most expensive in Europe, where our social care system is a national disgrace and where over four million children grow up in poverty.\"\n\nAn opposition leader has no policy leavers to pull. They have to rely on words to persuade the public they are worthy of power.\n\nWith the next general election an eternity away, Sir Keir Starmer knows the question of competence matters far more to voters than ideology right now.\n\nThe Labour leader was unsparing in his criticism of the government's handling of the pandemic - accusing the prime minster of serial incompetence, dithering and delay.\n\nSir Keir said the government could reverse planned changes to council tax and universal credit to ease the financial pressure on families.\n\nBut pressed on how lockdown might be different today if he was in No 10, the Labour leader mirrored the government's messaging.\n\nHe said there was \"probably\" more that could be done around nurseries and estate agent viewings, but Sir Keir's mantra was listen to the scientists.\n\nIt's what ministers say endlessly too.\n\nSir Keir argued that, just as a Labour government \"built the welfare state from the rubble\" of World War Two, a future one can \"secure our economy, protect our NHS and rebuild our country so that Britain is the best country to grow up in and the best country to grow old in\".\n\nBut Conservative Party co-chairman Amanda Milling accused Sir Keir of \"calling for actions the Conservatives are already taking in government\".\n\n\"We have delivered an unprecedented £280bn package of support to protect jobs, livelihoods and public services through this pandemic,\" she added, including the furlough scheme, the temporary increase to Universal Credit and extra funding for councils.\n\n\"The Conservatives will continue to put families and communities at the heart of every decision we take as we deliver on our promises to the British people,\" Ms Milling said.\n\nIn his Spending Review in November, Chancellor Rishi Sunak warned that the \"economic emergency\" caused by the pandemic had only begun.\n\nHe promised to take \"extraordinary measures to protect people's jobs and incomes\".", "Parler has hit back after Amazon pulled support for its so-called \"free speech\" social network.\n\nParler is suing the tech giant, accusing it of breaking anti-trust laws by removing it.\n\nParler had been reliant on the tech giant's Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing service to provide its alternative to Twitter.\n\nThe platform was popular among supporters of Donald Trump, although the president is not a user.\n\nAmazon took the action after finding dozens of posts on the service that it said encouraged violence.\n\nIn response, the platform has asked a federal judge to order Amazon to reinstate it.\n\n\"AWS's decision to effectively terminate Parler's account is apparently motivated by political animus,\" the complaint reads.\n\n\"It is also apparently designed to reduce competition in the microblogging services market to the benefit of Twitter.\"\n\n\"There is no merit to these claims,\" it said.\n\n\"AWS provides technology and services to customers across the political spectrum, and we respect Parler's right to determine for itself what content it will allow. However, it is clear that there is significant content on Parler that encourages and incites violence against others, and that Parler is unable or unwilling to promptly identify and remove this content, which is a violation of our terms of service.\n\n\"We made our concerns known to Parler over a number of weeks and during that time we saw a significant increase in this type of dangerous content, not a decrease, which led to our suspension of their services Sunday evening.\"\n\nExamples Amazon had provided included posts calling for the killing of Democrats, Muslims, Black Lives Matter leaders, and mainstream media journalists.\n\nGoogle and Apple had already removed Parler from their app stores towards the end of last week saying it had failed to comply with their content-moderation requirements.\n\nHowever, it had still been accessible via the web - although visitors had complained of being unable to create new accounts over the weekend, without which it was not possible to view its content.\n\nParler has been online since 2018, and may return if it can find an alternative host.\n\nHowever, chief executive John Matze told Fox News on Sunday that \"every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers all ditched us too\".\n\n\"We're going to try our best to get back online as quickly as possible, but we're having a lot of trouble because every vendor we talk to says they won't work with us because if Apple doesn't approve and Google doesn't approve, they won't,\" he added.\n\nAWS's move is the latest in a series of actions affecting social media following the rioting on Capitol Hill last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Capitol riots: ‘We would have been murdered’\n\nFacebook and Twitter have also banned President Trump's accounts on their platforms, citing concerns that he might incite further violence.\n\nParler's users included the Republican Senator Ted Cruz, who had led an effort in the Senate to delay certifying Joe Biden's electoral college victory.\n\nHe had about five million followers on the platform - more than his tally on Twitter.\n\nParler's app now shows an error message and its website is offline\n\n\"Why should a handful of Silicon Valley billionaires have a monopoly on political speech?\" he tweeted over the weekend.\n\nParler's downfall appears to have benefited Gab - another \"free speech\" social network that is popular with far-right commentators.\n\nIt has claimed to have \"gained more users in the past two days than we did in our first two years of existing\".\n\nParler has long been a home for what you might call untouchables, people who had been excluded from mainstream services for offences such as blatant racism or incitement to violence.\n\nDuring a brief excursion onto the site over the weekend, I observed plenty of examples of such behaviour, with users exhibiting vile anti-Semitism, displaying Nazi symbols such as the swastika and uttering incoherent threats against those they perceive to be enemies of America.\n\nBut as Amazon's deadline approached something like panic took hold, with users desperately urging their followers to join them on other platforms.\n\nMost seemed to accept that Parler was doomed, while vowing to continue their fight elsewhere.\n\n\"Well this is the end,\" wrote one user, who proclaimed his support for the American Nazi Party.", "An ambulance had to be lifted out of the mud\n\nRescuers searching for victims of a landslide in Indonesia were buried by a second mudslide just hours later, officials say.\n\nThe first landslide, in Cihanjuang village, West Java, was triggered by torrential rain.\n\nAnother struck as survivors were still being evacuated. At least 12 people died and dozens more are missing.\n\nLandslides are common in Indonesia during rainy season, and often blamed on deforestation.\n\nThe latest disasters hit the villagers in Sumedang regency, about 150km (95 miles) southeast of the capital Jakarta, three and a half hours apart on Saturday.\n\nThe first happened at 16:00 (09:00 GMT) and the second at 19:30 (12:30 GMT), disaster agency spokesman Raditya Jati said in a statement.\n\n\"The first landslide was triggered by high rainfall and unstable soil conditions. The subsequent landslide occurred while officers were still evacuating victims around the first landslide area,\" he added.\n\nRescuers are believed to be among those killed, he added. A six-year-old boy was also among the dead, according to AFP news agency.\n\nSome 27 people were believed to be missing late on Sunday, local media quoted Deden Ridwansah, the head of the local search and rescue agency as saying. About 46 were known to have survived.\n\nBad weather had forced the search to be suspended, he said, but it was expected to resume on Monday.\n\nIndonesia frequently suffers floods and landslides. Thousands of people had to be evacuated in the capital Jakarta this time last year as the city was inundated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n• None The fastest-sinking city in the world", "There are concerns about the cost of education for families reliant on mobile connections\n\nCustomers using BT Mobile, EE, and Plusnet Mobile can use BBC Bitesize content from the end of January without eating into their data allowance.\n\nBitesize provides structured lessons in maths and English for all year groups, as well as offering other curriculum material.\n\nContent from other providers is likely to be made free in the coming days.\n\nMore mobile companies are expected to follow suit in making such content free to use.\n\nThe current UK lockdowns mean most children are now learning from home.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson has mandated that schools must provide between three and five hours of online content per day.\n\nThis has led to concerns that children in families without access to broadband could fall behind.\n\nSchools remain open for children classed as vulnerable and those whose parents are key workers.\n\nAll contract and pay-as-you-go customers of BT Mobile, EE and Plusnet Mobile will be eligible and the free package will continue while schools remain closed. No registration is required - the free access will happen automatically.\n\nBT has also asked the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish administrations to each suggest one online resource for schoolchildren in its regions, which it will also zero-rate, as the curriculums differ from English schools.\n\nAccording to UK media watchdog Ofcom, some 880,000 families are reliant solely on mobile connections, and many of those will have data limitations.\n\nBBC director general Tim Davie said: \"With the pandemic forcing schools to close again, we should not allow a lack of digital access to further impact children's education.\n\n\"The BBC will continue to do all we can to ensure every child, whatever their circumstances, can continue to access vital educational materials during this time.\"\n\nThe corporation is also running three hours of curriculum-based TV programmes alongside the BBC Bitesize collection of educational resources. Primary school programming will be on CBBC, with two hours for secondary pupils on BBC Two.\n\nDuring the first lockdown, content was available on iPlayer, Red Button services and online, but not on regular TV channels, although viewers in Scotland did have some programming.\n\nBT said the move was part of its wider Lockdown Learning programme.\n\nBT consumer brands chief executive Marc Allera said: \"We want to ensure that no child is left behind in their education as a result of this pandemic and recognise that we all have a role we can play to help families and carers continue their children's education while schools are closed.\"", "Kay and Kenneth Hayward said they felt the journey was too unsafe\n\nPeople waiting to receive the Covid-19 vaccine say they are confused by NHS letters inviting them to travel to centres miles away from their homes.\n\nThe first 130,000 letters have been sent to people aged 80 or older who live about 30 to 45 minutes' drive away from one of seven new regional centres.\n\nBut patients, many of whom are shielding, questioned why they had to travel so far in a pandemic.\n\nLocal jabs are available to people if they wait, the NHS said.\n\nThe seven centres include Ashton Gate in Bristol, Epsom racecourse in Surrey, London's Nightingale hospital, Newcastle's Centre for Life, the Manchester Tennis and Football Centre, Robertson House in Stevenage and Birmingham's Millennium Point.\n\nPeople will not miss out on their vaccination if they do not use the letters to make an appointment at one of the centres, the NHS said.\n\nTwo Labour MPs tweeted about their concerns about the letters being delayed in getting out to people due to coronavirus affecting Royal Mail staff.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMary McGarry from Leamington Spa in Warwickshire told BBC News that her letter points to an NHS online booking page which suggests she would have to take her husband, who has cancer and a lung disease, 20 miles to Birmingham.\n\n\"We're very reluctant to go into Birmingham city centre,\" she said.\n\n\"If we can't get somebody to take us, we'd have to go on the train but we're shielding because my husband's got poor health.... we want to know why we've got to travel that far?\"\n\nKay Hayward, from Whitwick in Leicestershire, said she went online to book an appointment for her 85-year-old husband Kenneth and was offered five different places including Widnes in Cheshire and Stevenage in Hertfordshire.\n\n\"I thought they must be joking... we talked about it and we thought it was actually safer to stay here and for him not not have it.\n\n130,000 letters have been sent out by NHS England so far\n\n\"But we were worried if we turned this down, we'd be off the list.. the letter doesn't say anything about having the vaccines anywhere else locally.\"\n\nAndrea Eaton, from Coventry, said she was so angry that her 81-year-old mother, who has heart problems and leukaemia, was offered Birmingham for her appointment that she attempted to ring Downing Street on Saturday night to complain.\n\nShe said she reached the press office and said: \"I want you to give Boris a message please that he has lied to the British public.\n\n\"He has told them they never need to go more than 10 miles... they were really rude and just put the phone down on me.\"\n\nAndrea Eaton said she wanted to get a message to Boris Johnson so rang Downing Street on Saturday evening\n\nA spokesperson from Number 10 told BBC News that they did not wish to comment, but wanted to remind the public to use the government website to write to the prime minister or contact their constituency MP.\n\nCouncillor Shaun Davies, the Labour leader at Telford and Wrekin Council in Shropshire, said he had been contacted by dozens of people who have found the letters misleading, thinking this is their only chance to get the vaccine.\n\nHe said he had spoken to Trafford Council and was aware of people in Shropshire being sent to Manchester and residents there being directed to Birmingham to get their jabs.\n\n\"For many people they have been told consistently to wait for the NHS to contact you in order to get a vaccine and that's what they've had for the first time as a piece of communication.\n\n\"This is really, really concerning for people in their 80s or 90s because of the importance of getting the vaccine.\"\n\nThe letters are not \"going to the heart\" of the public health message which is staying home and staying local, he said.\n\nMore than 500,000 letters will be sent out to homes offering people appointments at the centres over the next seven days\n\nDr Sarah Raistrick, from Coventry and Rugby Clinical Commission group (CCG), said people did not have to travel to the centres but admitted the letter did not make that clear.\n\n\"You can wait and be contacted by your local GP service and have it locally if you'd prefer.\n\n\"If you sit tight, you will be contacted and I'm hopeful that if you're 80 or over, by the end of this month you will have had your vaccination whether that is locally or whether you have chosen to travel,\" she said.\n\nWork will be done with the NHS locally and nationally to make that message clearer, she added.\n\nThe seven centres were chosen to give a geographical spread covering as many people as possible and are capable of delivering thousands of jabs per week, NHS England has said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hancock: We are willing to tighten the rules\n\nThe health secretary stresses the importance of the public following the restrictions of the current lockdown. Asked by Emily Morgan of ITV whether it was time to make the rules stricter amid reports of people not sticking to them at the weekend, Matt Hancock says: \"We keep these things under review and we have demonstrated that we're willing to tighten the rules if they need to be tightened. \"But the thing that really matters right here, right now is that everybody follows the rules as they are today. \"And everybody can play their part in doing that.\" He adds he applauds the action supermarket Morrisons has taken in enforcing the wearing of masks by its customers unless they have a medical reason. \"I want to see all parts of society playing their part in this,\" he says.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Whitty: \"We need to really double down – this is everybody’s problem\"\n\nThe UK will go through the \"most dangerous time\" of the pandemic in the weeks before vaccine rollout has an impact, England's chief medical officer has warned.\n\nProf Chris Whitty urged people to minimise all unnecessary contact with others.\n\nThe next few weeks will be \"the worst\" of the pandemic for the NHS, he said.\n\nThousands more people are due to receive a vaccine this week after seven mass centres opened across England.\n\nNHS England said hundreds more GP-led and hospital services would also open later this week.\n\nBut with all centres, people will need to wait until they receive an invitation.\n\nThe government is aiming to offer vaccinations to around 15 million people in the UK - the over-70s, older care home residents and staff, frontline healthcare workers and the clinically extremely vulnerable - by mid-February.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock will set out the government's vaccine delivery plan at a news conference later.\n\nHe said the proposals would be the \"keystone of our exit out of the pandemic\".\n\nOutlining the vaccine rollout in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirmed that ministers aim to give all over-80s the first dose of the vaccine over the next four weeks.\n\nThe Welsh Government plans to offer a vaccine to all over-50s and everyone who is at greater risk by spring.\n\nMr Hancock said on Sunday about two million people in the UK had been vaccinated so far.\n\nOver the weekend, the UK passed the milestone of 80,000 deaths with coronavirus since the start of the pandemic.\n\nCurrently, around one in 50 people across the UK is infected and Prof Whitty told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"There's a very high chance that if you meet someone unnecessarily they will have Covid.\"\n\nIn a separate interview with BBC One's Breakfast, he said: \"This is everybody's problem. Any single unnecessary contact you have with someone is a potential link in a chain of transmission that will lead to a vulnerable person.\"\n\nHe said there were over 30,000 people [in English hospitals alone] with Covid-19 - compared to about 18,000 [in England] at the peak last April.\n\nHe added that \"anybody who is not shocked\" by the number of people in hospital \"has not understood this at all\".\n\n\"This is an appalling situation,\" he said.\n\nIn Essex, Southend Hospital has had to reduce the amount of oxygen used to treat patients after supply \"reached a critical situation\", according to a document shared with the BBC.\n\nIn Surrey, a temporary mortuary has been opened as hospital mortuaries have reached capacity.\n\nAlmost 200 bodies are being stored at the emergency site, which is a former military hospital, and other local authorities have told the BBC they expect to open similar facilities soon.\n\nProf Stephen Powis, NHS England national medical director, said \"this is much bigger than the first wave back in April\".\n\n\"I don't think anyone in the NHS has known anything like this, this is a once-in-a-century pandemic,\" he said.\n\nProf Rupert Pearse, an intensive care doctor, told BBC Breakfast that in a \"normal\" winter it would be \"unlikely\" that more than three of four flu patients would need intensive care at any one time, but his unit is now running 130 intensive care beds because of the effects of Covid.\n\n\"To compare this to a normal winter flu epidemic is out of all proportion, it's orders of magnitude larger,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMinisters held two meetings on Sunday to discuss how to enforce the current lockdown measures more strictly and whether even tighter restrictions may be needed.\n\nBBC political correspondent Iain Watson said no decisions on further restrictions were taken as there was a desire within government to wait until reliable data on existing measures becomes available in 10 days.\n\nHowever, he added there had been a discussion on better enforcement of existing regulations, including at shops and workplaces.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer questioned why there are \"less restrictions in place\" now than there were last March.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he said \"we need to see the evidence behind nurseries\" remaining open.\n\nAsked whether tighter restrictions were needed, he said: \"I do think it's time to hear from the scientists [about] what else could be done and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nThere is a lot of debate about whether the lockdown restrictions need to be tightened.\n\nThere are certainly some anomalies. For example, we are told to only leave the home for essential purposes, but coffee shops remain open for takeaways and retail shops for click-and-collect in England and Wales.\n\nHowever, even if those elements are tightened up, there is a limit to what the government can do. It is why, in his round of media interviews on Monday, Prof Whitty repeatedly talked about individual decision-making.\n\nThe mixing of different households continues. Some of it is allowed under the support bubble exemptions, but undoubtedly some of it is taking place outside of this. It is, after all, virtually impossible to police what goes on in people's homes.\n\nIt is why messaging is so important - and so ministers and officials are stressing the pressure the NHS is under. A further tightening of the restrictions could also help make the point.\n\nBut there is also a recognition this is hard. People are fatigued. A further crackdown could also erode goodwill.\n\nThe vaccination programme is described as the biggest in NHS history.\n\nThe seven mass testing sites, which NHS England said were chosen to give a geographical spread, are:\n\nThe new centres will each be capable of delivering thousands of vaccinations each week and will be followed by \"dozens more\" large-scale sites, NHS England said.\n\nThere will be about 1,200 vaccination sites when more GP-led and hospital services open later this week, along with the first pharmacy-led pilot sites, it added.\n\nSome vulnerable people have questioned why they have been asked to travel to centres miles away from their homes during a pandemic, but the NHS has said people would not miss out on their vaccination if they wait for an appointment at a centre closer to home in the coming weeks.\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said nobody should be asked to travel more than 10 miles to get a vaccine once more centres open.\n\nAsked on Today why the centres were not open 24 hours a day, he said it was \"more convenient\" for older people to attend during the day.\n\n\"If we need to go to 24-hour work we will absolutely go to 24 hours a day to make sure we vaccinate as quickly as we can,\" he said.\n\nBut he cautioned: \"We are limited by the amount of vaccine that is coming through the system.\"\n\nPharmaceutical firm Boots said its first vaccination site was due to open later this week to offer the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab to the people most vulnerable.\n\nIt said sites in Huddersfield and Gloucester were planned to open in the coming weeks.\n\nTwo vaccines - Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are currently being administered in the UK.\n\nOn Friday a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use, although supplies are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nAre you due to have a vaccination today? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "US president-elect Joe Biden has been given his new official presidential Twitter account, but has been forced to start it with zero followers.\n\nThe Biden campaign is unhappy with the move, which marks a change from the previous transition from Barack Obama.\n\nThe new account, @PresElectBiden, will transform into the official @POTUS (President of the United States) one on inauguration day on 20 January.\n\nIn its first six hours online it gained nearly 400,000 followers.\n\nHis team has also registered new accounts - @FLOTUSBiden for the future first lady, Jill Biden, and for the first time, @SecondGentleman, for Ms Harris's husband Doug Emhoff.\n\nDonald Trump inherited the Potus account's 13 million or so followers when it moved to him from Mr Obama - but that will not happen this time.\n\nMr Biden's team was told about the move less than a month ago, and said it meant \"the administration will have to start from zero\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTwitter has not explained why the decision was made, and said it had nothing further to add beyond an official blog post laying out transition plans.\n\nIn that post it said: \"These institutional accounts will not automatically retain the followers from the prior administration,\" without a reason why.\n\nBut it said that people who previously followed the official @POTUS and @VP (Vice-President) accounts, or the personal accounts of Mr Biden and Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris - would receive notifications giving them the option to follow the new official ones.\n\nMr Obama was the first US leader to have an official Twitter account. The @POTUS account was set up during his tenure in 2015.\n\nAt the end of his second term, a transition plan for handing over the official accounts to Mr Trump was drawn up - with @POTUS going to the new administration.\n\nAll of Mr Obama's official tweets were archived for posterity on a separate account, @POTUS44 (where they can still be read today).\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by President Obama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTwitter said that the official @POTUS account under Mr Trump will be archived in a similar way, under @POTUS45. But Mr Trump rarely used that account, favouring his own Twitter handle.\n\nTwitter notably omitted any mention of the now-suspended @realDonaldTrump account, and declined to answer questions about whether its contents would be archived.\n\nThat is despite a declaration by the White House in 2017 that tweets from that account are considered official statements by the President.\n\nHowever, the US National Archives has already announced - through a tweet - that it will archive all social media content from that account, despite Twitter's lack of a commitment to doing so.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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End of twitter post 4 by US National Archives\n\nIt said that the White House has been using a special archiving tool to capture all content, including deleted tweets, because of the Presidential Records Act.\n\nThat is likely to result in a record system similar to The Obama White House Social Media Archive, built after the last transition.\n\nA key goal of the Obama transition was to preserve social media posts \"on the platforms where they were created\".\n\nBut Twitter has permanently suspended Mr Trump from its platform and it remains unclear if it will ever archive his account for posterity.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UK weather: Will it snow where you are?\n\nSnow and ice weather warnings are in place for much of England and Scotland after widespread recent snowfall.\n\nThe Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings across England and Scotland for Saturday and warned of possible travel disruption.\n\nParts of England and Scotland could see as much as 5-10cm of snow in higher areas, the weather service said.\n\nIt comes as hundreds of schools remain closed after heavy snow hit the north of England on Thursday.\n\nA snow warning is in place for south-east England, including London, the east of England and the East Midlands. The Met Office said East Anglia and parts of Kent and Sussex are most at risk of snow.\n\nSome 1-3 cm of snow may fall fairly widely over these areas, with 5-10 cm possible in places, mostly over parts of East Anglia and any higher ground.\n\nA snow and ice warning is in place for most of Scotland, north-west and north-east England, Yorkshire and Humber, the East Midlands and parts of the West Midlands.\n\nSnow is likely to fall to low levels over east Scotland and northern England.\n\nThe Met Office said 1-3 cm is possible at low levels in these areas but is more likely at higher elevations, where 5-10 cm of snow is possible above 200m - and even 20cm at the highest places.\n\nFog is also forecast for parts of the Midlands and the North, along with mist around Glasgow which may pose hazards for motorists.\n\nPolice forces in Yorkshire have urged people to stay at home unless their travel is essential\n\nTwo girls took their sledge to a golf course near Penicuik, Midlothian\n\nThe coronavirus vaccine rollout has been affected by the weather.\n\nOver-80s who were due to receive their jab at Newcastle's Centre for Life were told they could re-book rather than risk making a trip in the icy conditions.\n\nNewcastle Hospitals tweeted: \"There's enough vaccine for everyone, so don't worry about making a trip to Newcastle.\"\n\nAnd Leeds University has delayed the opening of its asymptomatic Covid-19 test centre.\n\nHeavy snowfall has already caused travel disruption across sections of northern England and Scotland.\n\nTemperatures were as low as -6C on Friday morning in parts of Yorkshire and Cumbria, with yellow warnings set to last through most of Friday.\n\nThere was a loss of gas supply to approximately 700 homes in the Hebden Bridge area after water got into the local gas network and froze.\n\nThe Met Office has published advice from the Department for Transport advising people to clear snow and ice from footpaths outside their homes, preferably in the morning.\n\n\"You can then cover the path with salt before nightfall to stop it refreezing overnight,\" the advice says.\n\nTemperatures in the Greater London area are expected to drop to 1C on Friday and parts of the South East could fall to -2C.\n\nIt comes after \"hazardous\" conditions on Thursday caused problems for the ambulance service in Yorkshire, which struggled to keep up with the high demand, while Covid vaccinations were also affected.\n\nMark Millins, of Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust, said the bad weather was having a \"severe impact\" on its operations and urged people to \"take extra care\" when out walking or driving.\n\nIn Scotland, heavy snow in some areas resulted in road closures.\n\nThe deepest snow on Thursday was in Bingley, West Yorkshire, and Strathallan in Perth, Scotland, both of which recorded 11cm.", "The Daily Telegraph must publish a correction over a \"significantly misleading\" column written by Toby Young, press regulator Ipso has ruled.\n\nThe July 2020 article claimed the common cold could provide \"natural immunity\" to Covid-19 and London was \"probably approaching herd immunity\".\n\nBut on Thursday Ipso found the paper had \"failed to take care not to publish inaccurate and misleading information\".\n\nIpso said the paper \"did not accept it has breached the [Editors] Code\".\n\nIt said the newspaper said that Young's comments on immunity referred to \"cross-reactive T-cells\" that work to combat the virus.\n\nHowever, the media watchdog sided with the complainant, James Whitehead, in its decision, who said that while these cells \"may lessen the impact of Covid-19\" after infection, they \"would not confer 'natural immunity'\"\n\nThe ruling added Young's statement \"misrepresented the nature of immunity\".\n\nIpso also found Young's suggestion that \"London is probably approaching herd immunity, even though only 17% tested positive [for antibodies] in the most recent seroprevalence survey\" could be misleading.\n\nThere is an antibody response and a cellular response to the coronavirus\n\nThe Telegraph referred to surveys listed in an article on Young's own Lockdown Sceptics website in its defence, but the Ipso committee judged these did not accurately reflect \"how herd immunity is reached and whether it exists in London\".\n\nThe ruling concluded that the paper had breached accuracy standards on a topic of \"public importance\", but deemed a correction an appropriate sanction, given the level of \"significant scientific uncertainty\" at the time of publication.\n\nYoung told the BBC: \"I think Ipso has been put in a difficult position because our scientific understanding of the virus is constantly evolving and there is a great deal about it that scientists still disagree about.\n\n\"While some of the things I wrote in that article would be contested by some scientists, they would be confirmed by others... Have we achieved herd immunity in London? I think that's an open question and the 'case' data is unreliable because of the well-documented shortcomings of the PCR test.\n\n\"I may have been over-emphatic in putting the anti-lockdown case, but it's not as if the advocates of a pro-lockdown position are any less emphatic.\n\n\"Don't forget the WHO initially estimated the global IFR [infection fatality rate] of Covid-19 at 3.4%. The consensus now is that it's less than 1% and almost certainly a lot less. Lots of journalists faithfully reported that alarmist figure. Why hasn't Ipso reprimanded them?\"\n\nLast week Young told BBC Newsnight that some of his claims from an article he wrote in June had been \"wrong\", where he had said a second spike of Covid-19 had \"refused to materialise\" and that one-metre rule is \"unnecessary\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt the start of the year, Young, an associate editor at The Spectator and general secretary of the Free Speech Union, installed an app that auto-deletes tweets more than a week old.\n\nHe said he did so to protect against \"politically-motivated offence archaeologists\" - a move unrelated to the Ipso ruling.\n\nReacting to criticism of his past comments on coronavirus from Neil O'Brien, Conservative MP for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston, after the deletion, Young then tweeted a defence of his stance against lockdowns.\n\n\"This is an important public debate to have,\" he wrote, \"both because it helps us assess the present government's management of the pandemic and because it will help us prepare better for the next one.\"\n\nThe UK entered a second national lockdown last week in a bid to control spiralling virus infection rates. On Wednesday, the UK saw its biggest daily death figure since the start of the pandemic, with 1,564 deaths.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The TikTok clip was reported to police by Network Rail\n\nA TikTok stunt featuring a car parked on a level crossing has been branded \"staggeringly stupid\".\n\nThe \"reckless\" social media post, recorded on the line at Bromley Cross, Bolton, showed a camera and tripod set up on the railway to record the scene.\n\nAn accompanying caption asked viewers: \"Would you take the risk to get the shot no-one else would?\"\n\nInsp Becky Warren, from British Transport Police, said: \"No picture or video is worth risking your life for.\"\n\nNetwork Rail, which reported the footage after it appeared on the video-sharing app, blasted the \"staggeringly stupid and dangerous\" clip.\n\nIt issued a reminder that trespassing on railway lines is against the law.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ManchesterPiccadilly This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth West route director Phil James said using the tracks \"as a backdrop for a photo shoot beggars belief\".\n\n\"Lives could so easily have been lost by this reckless behaviour,\" he said.\n\nInsp Warren added: \"There is simply no excuse for not following safety procedures at level crossings. The behaviour shown by the individuals in this video is incredibly dangerous and reckless.\"\n\nMany instances of trespass involve people using railway lines as backdrops for selfies and even wedding photos.\n\nLast year, Network Rail and British Transport Police launched a You vs. Train campaign to highlight the issue of young people trespassing.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pre-departure Covid-19 testing will now be required for everyone travelling to England from 04:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThe rules had been due to come into force on Friday, but the government said people needed time \"to prepare\".\n\nThose arriving by plane, train or boat, including UK nationals, will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country they are in.\n\nAnyone arriving from places not on the UK's travel corridor list must still self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe Scottish government is planning to impose the same rules and has had to defer them coming into effect as a result of changes in England.\n\n\"This meant Scotland was also obliged to delay implementation as we need sight of their final regulations in order to properly draft and approve the relevant Scottish regulations,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nIt is expected the requirement will come into force in Scotland at 04:00 GMT on Monday as well. Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce plans for pre-arrival testing in the coming days.\n\nAnnouncing the deferral on Twitter, Transport Secretary Mr Shapps said: \"To give international arrivals time to prepare, passengers will be required to provide proof of a negative Covid-19 test before departure to England from Monday 18 January at 4am.\"\n\nHe also reminded travellers to fill out the Passenger Locator Form - used in track and trace - and added that those without proof of a negative test faced a fine of £500.\n\nProblems with testing availability and capacity mean some countries will initially be exempt.\n\nFor instance, the requirement will not apply to travellers from St Lucia, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda until 04:00 GMT on 21 January.\n\nTravellers from Falkland Islands, Ascension Islands and St Helena are exempted permanently.\n\nHauliers are exempt to allow the free flow of freight, as are air, international rail and maritime crew.\n\nThe government has said all forms of PCR test will be accepted, as will other forms of test with \"97% specificity, 80% sensitivity\".\n\nThe move comes as a further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nWednesday's figure brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there had now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nMeanwhile on Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil.\n\nHe acknowledged it was not yet clear how effective existing vaccines would be against the latest new variant.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was taking steps to make sure it was not brought into the country.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from Brazil? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Post-primary schools have been given extra time to decide how they will admit pupils in 2021 following the cancellation of transfer tests.\n\nOn Wednesday the AQE said it would not hold any transfer tests in the 2020-21 school year.\n\nThey had originally planned to go ahead with a test in late February after cancelling tests in January.\n\nThe other test provider, PPTC, had also previously announced it would not hold tests this year.\n\nAttention will now focus especially on what criteria grammar schools will use to select pupils.\n\nSome have already published what criteria they would use in the event transfer tests were cancelled but it is not clear if those will now change.\n\nAll post-primaries were to submit their admissions criteria to the Education Authority (EA) by this Friday.\n\nBut following the AQE's move the Department of Education (DE) has written to schools to tell them they do not have to provide criteria to the EA until Friday 22 January.\n\n\"This will allow them to meet the statutory deadline for publication on their website of 2 February 2021,\" the DE letter said.\n\n\"I would also remind you that boards of governors should ensure that any admissions criteria are robust and are able to clearly and objectively rank order applicants.\"\n\nIt is unclear how most grammar schools who have used transfer tests to select pupils in previous years will admit children in 2021.\n\nPatrick Allen, principal of Foyle College in Londonderry, said his school's board of governors was now working to determine this year's admissions criteria.\n\n\"This is and continues to be an exceptional year. It is a very difficult circumstance,\" he said.\n\n\"We are trying to do the best and what is right for as many pupils as possible in looking at various permutations and combinations of criteria\".\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir said it was \"a very disappointing day\" for many families.\n\n\"The transfer test, while it has never been about being compulsory for either a school or indeed an individual parent, does enable a level of parental choice and that has been dramatically reduced as a result of that,\" he told Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"But sadly what we have seen is for this year, the pandemic has prevented those transfer tests taking place, and I am very disappointed and entirely understand the disappointment and frustration of many families today.\"\n\nMr Weir said there had been \"a lack of consistency\" from AQE.\n\n\"I don't think the way things have worked out from AQE's point of view, particularly over the last couple of weeks, have been particularly helpful,\" he said.\n\nThe minister also apologised for \"clumsy language\" in a statement he issued on Wednesday night.\n\nWriting on Twitter about the cancellation of the transfer test, Mr Weir said: \"This severely limits parental choice and children's opportunities.\"\n\n\"There was no adverse intention towards non-selective schools,\" he said in relation to his tweet.\n\n\"I think both selective and non-selective schools have got excellent records in Northern Ireland.\"\n\n\"But once the opportunities for entry to any school is reduced then that is a reduction in opportunities for all.\"\n\nUUP MLA Robbie Butler has proposed that pupils' results in tests in primary schools could be given to parents and then used by grammar schools to decide which children get a place.\n\nMr Butler said that he had some favourable responses from some grammars and some primary schools to that proposal.\n\n\"Whilst I don't think my solution is absolutely perfect I do believe it to be absolutely fair and absolutely compassionate,\" he told MLAs on the committee.\n\n\"We have the genesis of a solution for these P7 pupils.\"\n\nBut, speaking on Wednesday, Mr Weir replied that there were issues with that approach.\n\n\"There are very major problems, I'm being honest with you, in terms of the models that have been put forward for academic selection without the test,\" he said.\n\nThe minister said it would be difficult to get comparable information for pupils across all primaries.\n\n\"While it's not entirely ruling out those and there is the option for schools to do it, it does leave them in a very difficult position making comparability between pupils on a fair basis,\" he said", "Police said Graeme Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass when he was stabbed\n\nPlastic surgeons have expressed shock at the stabbing of \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons\" in their profession.\n\nGraeme Perks, 65, was stabbed in his abdomen and chest during a break-in at his house in Halam, a village near Southwell in Nottinghamshire.\n\nPolice said the attack on Thursday morning had left him \"fighting for his life\" and left his family, who were upstairs at the time, \"extremely upset\".\n\nGraeme Perks has been described as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\"\n\nMr Perks previously served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS).\n\nCurrent president Ruth Waters said BAPRAS had been contacted by colleagues all around the world as news of the attack spread.\n\n\"All have expressed their shock at what has happened and also their deep concern for his wellbeing and their hope for his speedy recovery,\" she said.\n\n\"It has been my good fortune and honour to know Graeme for many years. I have benefited from his kindness, generosity and extensive knowledge throughout my career in plastic surgery.\"\n\nBAPRAS described him as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\".\n\nAs well as being a leading plastic surgeon, Mr Perks and his wife have raised thousands of pounds for charity by opening their garden to visitors. They were previously featured on BBC Radio Nottingham after raising more than £34,000.\n\nPolice were still outside the house in Halam more than 24 hours later\n\nPolice said Mr Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass at about 04:15 GMT, after an intruder is believed to have smashed his way into the house.\n\nThey said Mr Perks was stabbed and the suspect ran off.\n\nMr Perks was taken to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham for surgery, where he remains in a serious condition.\n\nDet Insp Gayle Hart, who is leading the investigation, said: \"The swift arrest of this suspect we hope will provide some reassurance to local residents.\n\n\"This is a horrific incident which has left a man fighting for his life and his family who were upstairs at the time are extremely shocked and upset by the ordeal.\"\n\nMr Perks has served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS)\n\nMr Perks has previously worked in London, Sheffield, Newcastle and Melbourne, Australia.\n\nHe returned to the UK in the mid-1990s and started working in Nottingham, with a special interest in microsurgical reconstruction after cancer surgery.\n\nHe later became head of the department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Burns Surgery at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.\n\nOutgoing BAPRAS president Mark Henley said: \"Graeme is an amazing colleague who it has been my pleasure and privilege to work with over the last 26 years.\n\n\"His dedication to patients, family and friends is an inspiration to us all and with his wisdom, kindness and humanity he has enabled us to achieve many things that I would never have thought possible. We are all willing him on.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scottish fishermen have resorted to sailing to Denmark to land their catch as Brexit red tape continues to delay exports, an industry body has said.\n\nThe Scottish Fishermen's Federation, which campaigned to leave the EU, also said the Brexit trade deal was the worst of both worlds for the industry.\n\nMany fishermen \"now fear for their future\", it said.\n\nThe UK government said the deal would \"bring immediate gains to our fishermen and women across the whole UK\".\n\nLate last year, the Scottish Fishermen's Federation (SFF) said it was \"deeply aggrieved\" by the Brexit deal.\n\nFishing firms have also warned of impending bankruptcy as delays continue at ports following the introduction of post-Brexit regulations.\n\nOn Friday, the SFF kept up the pressure on the UK government.\n\nIn a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, it said some fishermen \"are now making a 72-hour round trip to land fish in Denmark, as the only way to guarantee that their catch will make a fair price and actually find its way to market while still fresh enough to meet customer demands\".\n\nQuotas are used by many countries to manage shared fish stocks. They determine how many fish of each species each country's fleets are allowed to catch.\n\nThe SFF said that Brexit quota gains \"can hardly be claimed as a resounding success\" and that the Brexit deal \"actually leaves the Scottish industry in a worse position on more than half of the key stocks\".\n\n\"This industry now finds itself in the worst of both worlds,\" said SFF chief executive Elspeth Macdonald, accusing Prime Minister Boris Johnson of broken promises on quotas.\n\nThe \"desperately poor deal\" reached on quotas, under which the EU \"have full access to our waters\" means that the UK has \"no ability to leverage more fish from the EU\", she said.\n\n\"This, coupled with the chaos experienced since 1 January in getting fish to market, means that many in our industry now fear for their future, rather than look forward to it with optimism and ambition,\" Ms Macdonald added.\n\nThe Scottish National Party said the letter was \"an utterly devastating verdict on Brexit from Scotland's fishing industry\".\n\nAn SNP spokesperson said the Scottish fishing industry was \"right to be angry\" about the Brexit deal, which it said was costing Scotland's fishing communities millions of pounds.\n\nThe spokesman called on the prime minister to deliver \"a multi-billion pound package of Brexit compensation for Scotland\", adding: \"Communities across Scotland will never forgive the Tories for the damage they are doing to our country with their extreme Brexit obsession.\"\n\nA UK government spokesperson said the Prime Minister would respond to the SFF letter in due course.\n\nThe spokesperson said: \"We have now taken back control of our waters and the agreement we have reached with the EU secures a 25% transfer of quota from EU to UK vessels over five years, starting with 15% this year.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said the government was looking at providing additional financial support for the Scottish fishing industry, which it recognised was facing \"some temporary issues\".\n\n\"The Prime Minister has already committed to investing £100m in the UK's fishing industry and provided the Scottish government with nearly £200m to minimise disruption for businesses,\" the spokesperson added.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 8 and 15 January. Send your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you follow current coronavirus guidelines and take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nThe hills are alive: This impressive shot of 11-year-old Hamish at sunrise up the Pentland Hills, with the snow starting to be blown off the peak, was captured by dad Andy Dryden.\n\nMinus coo degrees: \"Hardy Highlander at Abriachan\" is how Gordon Bain described his photo.\n\nRed sky thinking: \"I always walk the dog to catch the sunrise and to gather my thoughts before attempting to juggle home schooling of my two primary school kids with working from home and looking after a toddler\", says Mairi Brittan at Cammo Estate, Edinburgh.\n\nRobin red brrr-east: Graham Laird spotted a little feathered friend not looking entirely delighted while taking a breather in the cold in his garden in Wishaw.\n\nUp at the crack of dawn: \"The Beveridge Park pond in Kirkcaldy looking rather icy\", says John Pow.\n\nAn uphill struggle: It's all downhill from here - but in a fun way - for three-year-old Zachary in King's Park, Glasgow.\n\nFire and ice: \"Taken at Dunbar harbour, East Lothian, in the snowfall on the way to work\", says Rowan Davies.\n\nAbbey thoughts: \"Jedburgh Abbey on a crisp January morning\", says Alan Morrison. \"The sun was captured just as it shone through\".\n\nSon rise: Jeanette Taylor says her two boys loved the adventure of getting up early to see the sun come up at Aberdeen beach. \"A chilly visit but oh so worth it\", she says.\n\nLight on her feet: \"As keen figure skaters my daughter Ada (pictured) and I have had an amazing week skating outdoors on our local frozen pond near Glasgow\", says Helen Campbell. \"I was very careful to check it is safe to skate on first; the ice was absolutely solid\".\n\nFlagging up a beautiful sunrise: An Aberdeen morning, from Finlay Gray.\n\nWell-trained eye: \"My husband Kris took this picture of our 12-year-old son Finlay at our local running track in a Falkirk park with the Ochils in the background\", says Emma Horne. \"Finlay can’t play his beloved rugby at the moment due to Covid but is keeping as fit as he can in other ways\".\n\nA strange light in the sky: Joe Gillies captured this Glasgow scene, complete with reflected light shade, on his phone.\n\nSmiles more fun: First sledging experience for the happy pair of 16-month-old Annabel and 21-month-old Hugh in granny's garden, Isle of Skye, courtesy of Hermione Lamond.\n\nThe gloves are off: \"A walk up Culter Fell (near Biggar), in near-Arctic conditions\", says Chris Green.\n\nPark life: Mark McGuire captured Queen's Park in Glasgow looking like a winter wonderland.\n\nSpecial branch: \"I have seen the Kingfisher darting by on the River Carron over the last two years\", says Paul Ross. \"This is the first time I have managed to get a sharpish image\".\n\nTrees frame: Carole Brunton captured this calming, if cold, scene at home in East Neuk, Fife.\n\nCold feet: \"A coot on one of Dundee's frozen Stobsmuir ponds\", from Sandy Forbes.\n\nHaving the foggiest idea: \"An image of atmospheric fog as it envelops Paisley\", says Gary Chittick. \"Hardly a single recognisable part of Glasgow could be seen\".\n\nSniffer dog: \"Ollie, our 12-week-old cockapoo pup, experiences snow for the first time\" says Iain Clow. \"Lockdown garden fun in East Kilbride\".\n\n... and it seems they never learn! \"Zizou enjoying his sunny snowy morning walk at the river Spey in Knockando\", says Colin Coutts.\n\nI love Arran: \"My wife and I stopped at the top of Fairlie Moor Road, looked back, and this is what we saw\", explains Phil Cowling.\n\nOutstanding in its field: \"Look who we spotted on our walk\", says Ruth Moss. \"He was very bold - wish we’d had something to feed him\".\n\nWatercolour art: \"This is a photo of the Ythan in the centre of Ellon\", says Andy Leonard. \"The colour of the sky is reflected in the water - I used a slow shutter speed to emphasise the water movement.\"\n\nHatman and robin: \"After an overnight fall of snow, Frosty and his friendly robin return to a Glasgow garden\", says John McQueeney.\n\nSmall wonder: \"These mini snowmen on the Prince of Wales Bridge in Kelvingrove Park brightened up a dull and foggy day\", says Geoff Der.\n\nOne man and his dog: \"Snowy walk with my husband and rescue dog Nico\", says Laura Johnstone in Airdrie.\n\nSpot the ball: \"Haggs Castle golf course is closed - maybe!\", says Alan Crozier.\n\nSolar energy: Robert Young's sunset shot from Chapelton looking towards Whitelee wind farm features all sorts of power.\n\nTwo for the price of one: \"Duck!\" could have been the cry from this heron in flight over a fellow bird at the River Avon, Hamilton, as seen by Wilma Phillips.\n\nRoom with a view: A nicely-framed sunset from Audrey Philpott of Skene, Aberdeenshire.\n\nBonnie picture: Sharon Donald was walking Bonnie the collie when she took this shot near Spean Bridge.\n\nKeep it in the family: Derek Warrander making sure lockdown learning is music to the ears of Jessica, 11, and three-year-old Matthew in Aberdeenshire, courtesy of Caseydee Warrander.\n\nFeeling on top of the world: The Cobbler sunset, from Tomasz Zajac.\n\nIce to see you: \"A photo of my husband, Stephen, and Sophie, through a sheet of ice which they then had great fun smashing\", says Leigh Titterington in Menstrie, Clackmannanshire.\n\nSpace station: All quiet outside Glasgow Central, courtesy of Eva Brodie.\n\nSnow angel: \"Exploring a winter wonderland with my daughter Cora at Tyrebagger woods just outside Aberdeen\", says Katherine Blum.\n\nTaps aff: \"Hope this brings a smile to your face\", says Stewart Paul in Cruden Bay. It certainly did!\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Doctors fear the impact of the lockdown and school closures could worsen child obesity\n\nThe health board with the worst child obesity rates in Wales is setting up a unit to tackle the issue.\n\nData from the Child Measurement Programme showed 30.3% of four and five-year-olds in north Wales measured as overweight or obese.\n\nThe Welsh average is 26.4%, but doctors fear this could worsen in the pandemic.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr University Health Board is recruiting a dietetic lead for a new children's healthy weight management service.\n\nThe service is not being launched directly because of the pandemic, but there are fears lockdowns and school closures could compound the problem.\n\nDr Naomi Simmons, consultant paediatrician at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, said: \"I do fear that the pandemic will contribute to an exacerbation of what's already a really, really significant problem.\n\n\"Whilst we're pleased that children are not suffering the acute effects of Covid in the same way as older patients are, on the whole, it's the long-term effects of the country being in this pandemic that we're worried about in terms of the long-term health of these children.\n\n\"It's that lack of routine, it's being out of school, and not being able to access their usual forms of physical activity.\"\n\nDaniel, from Denbighshire - not his real name - is the father of a six-year-old girl who was referred to Dr Simmons's clinic when a GP became concerned about her weight two years ago. She is still under the care of the clinic.\n\nHe said: \"We presumed we were feeding her correctly. She was getting fruit, veg, home-cooked meals. But I think our issue was, we kind of let her have treats, like chocolates and sweets.\n\n\"To be told the news [that she was obese], it was horrible. We were very upset. We were kind of angry about it - we didn't see a problem in her, we didn't believe she was overweight or obese. We were both asking what we had done wrong as parents - we gave her fruit, vegetables, home-cooked meals... we were asking ourselves, 'how have we failed as parents?'\"\n\nWith support from Dr Simmons, his daughter made \"great progress\" and lost weight, he said. Previous signs of health issues such as liver problems had improved. Then the pandemic struck and the country went into its first lockdown, followed by the firebreak, then the current lockdown.\n\nExperts said they feared the impact of children not being able to take part in their usual physical activity\n\nDespite making efforts to keep active and eat healthily, Daniel has seen the gradual effects on his daughter, both physically and mentally.\n\n\"It had a bad effect on her, and not just the weight - mental health-wise it's also affected her. She's six years old and is worried about being around other people in the street,\" he said.\n\n\"In years to come, Covid will be gone, we'll have control of it. But obesity, that's the issue that's going to be prolonged.\n\n\"The long-term mental health impact really scares me - not just for my daughter, but for so many other children.\"\n\nDr Simmons said increasing rates of childhood obesity in recent years meant experts were treating more children with conditions normally associated with adults.\n\n\"Even children as young as primary school age, I'm seeing those children with fatty liver changes for example, as a result of their obesity. We're seeing them with high blood pressure and we're seeing children and young people developing type 2 diabetes and many more with pre-diabetic states because of their obesity.\"\n\nDoctors said they were seeing primary school children with high blood pressure\n\nShe revealed her youngest patient was only a year old and encouraged families to get their children \"used to being fit and healthy and consuming a healthy diet\".\n\n\"It's lack of exercise, it's the sedentary lifestyle that we as a nation are sadly embracing these days,\" she added.\n\nIf children remain overweight and remain obese into adolescence, they have an 80% chance of being obese into adulthood, said Dr Simmons.\n\nShe said she hoped the new service would give \"the very best chance of turning things around\".\n\nSteven Grayston, Betsi Cadwaladr health board's assistant area director of therapy services, said the health board had been working for the past five years to develop its obesity services.\n\n\"This is a specialist weight management service for children who are already obese,\" he said.\n\n\"We want to stop them becoming obese, therefore we want to develop preventative services as well as treatment services.\n\n\"We're very concerned about the impact of Covid and the pandemic on children's activity levels, certainly in terms of team-based sports and access to leisure facilities - particularly things like swimming, which we know children enjoy.\n\n\"We're concerned that children just aren't getting out of the house and doing things, and the impact that'll have and the knock-on effect on obesity levels in the future, as children are just less active and less interested in doing those activities.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"We will shortly be publishing a revised delivery plan for Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales for 2021-22, which will focus on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on children and families.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gerry and Barbara Jarrett were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 two weeks ago\n\nAn elderly couple with coronavirus have been helped by a hospital to say their last goodbyes to each other after the wife's condition deteriorated.\n\nGerry and Barbara Jarrett, from Bracknell, Berkshire, are in separate wards at Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey.\n\nTheir daughter Chloe, who posted a picture of one reunion on Twitter, said her mother \"looked to be at the end\".\n\nShe said her parents had \"precious\" extra time together thanks to the hospital's \"incredible\" efforts.\n\nMrs Keljarrett said her 79-year-old father and mother, 76, who have been together for 50 years, were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 two weeks ago.\n\nOn Tuesday she posted: \"In the midst of a pandemic peak, staff (namely a consultant, a surgeon and a HCA) at FPH just made sure my dad saw my mum for what is likely the last time.\"\n\nShe said another meeting happened on Wednesday when \"mum looked to be at the end\".\n\nFrimley Park Hospital said the reunions were the sort of \"care that matters the most\"\n\nShe said: \"Dad was wheeled in, crying, touched her hand and her eyes flew open. She was awake and bright and could talk.\n\n\"We got a precious extra hour or two before her breathing got worse again and got to say what we wanted.\n\n\"All thanks to the staff who made these meetings possible. In current times I just find that incredible.\"\n\nMrs Keljarrett, a teacher at The Brakenhale School, said her father was \"showing signs of improvement but has a very long journey to complete\".\n\n\"He has a number of other health issues that will make recovery that bit trickier, but I have to remain positive that he will overcome this horrendous virus,\" she added.\n\nShe said she had met hospital workers who were \"pulling unexpected double shifts\" due to short-staffing.\n\n\"How they are managing such compassion when they are stretched to their emotional and physical limits I do not know,\" she added.\n\nResponding to Mrs Keljarrett's Twitter post, the hospital wrote: \"Our hearts go out to you and your family.\n\n\"We are so glad that our staff managed to make this time just a little bit easier for you all.\n\n\"This truly is some of the care we give that matters the most.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK meat exporters have claimed post-Brexit customs systems are \"not fit for purpose\", with goods delayed for hours, sometimes days, at the border.\n\nThe British Meat Processor Association said even experienced exporters were struggling with the system.\n\nIt said meat exports to the EU were 25% of normal levels for this time of year.\n\nOne large French meat importer told the BBC that he and his competitors were starting to look at alternative suppliers in Spain and Ireland.\n\nThe BBC has contacted the government for comment.\n\nNick Allen, chief executive of the British Meat Processor Association, said: \"Fundamentally, this is not a system that was designed for a 24/7, just-in-time supply chain.\n\n\"The export health certification process was designed for moving containers of frozen meat around the world where you have a bit of leeway on time.\n\n\"No matter how much better we get at filling in the forms, it's really not fit for purpose. This is going back to the dark ages in terms of a process really, in this digital age.\"\n\nHe added \"It's going to be a problem for quite a time until we move forward and hopefully get a better digital system in place and can make it work a bit better, but until then, we've got to put up with all this paperwork and lorries arriving in Ireland with box files full of paper.\"\n\nRizvan Khalid, a lamb exporter based in Shropshire, cannot afford to get the paperwork wrong.\n\nHis company, Euro Quality Lambs, exports 70% of its meat to the EU, including France, Germany, Belgium and Portugal. He says what was once a once well-oiled machine now has a spanner in it.\n\n\"What used to take us 15 minutes is now taking us three or four hours on average before we can get the paperwork completed for one particular load,\" he says.\n\n\"It's taking them [on the French side] up to six hours to go through the health certificates, to open up the lorry and check the goods.\n\n\"All of that is adding time and costs. It's now an extra day before our product gets into the markets of Paris.\"\n\nMeanwhile, some buyers in the EU are losing patience and are beginning to consider other options.\n\nFrancis Ochoa's meat company, Fory Viandes, is based in one of the world's biggest fresh produce markets - the Rungis market, south of Paris.\n\n\"The delays and extra costs mean me and my competitors in the market are obliged to start looking for other solutions,\" he says.\n\n\"One of the solutions unfortunately is to try produce from other countries, Spain for instance. Some of our competitors are ordering lambs from Ireland instead of the UK, so the consequences for UK meat and UK lambs could be disastrous.\"\n\nDown at the international freight checkpoint in Ashford, near the entrance to the Eurotunnel, customs consultant Steve Cocks gave a downbeat assessment.\n\n\"The temporary border post lorry park is full, roads are being closed off and lorries are being sent back to the Covid testing site to hold them there,\" he said.\n\n\"Last week wasn't much to write home about as it was very quiet, but volumes are building and it's just going to get worse. Exports are grinding to a halt and that will affect imports, but if you are a haulier. you don't want to get a lorry stuck on this side of the Channel.\"\n\nAfter decades of friction-free trade, there are bound to be teething problems. Indeed, the government predicted that there would be \"significant additional disruption\" as traders, officials and customers became accustomed to new procedures.\n\nHowever, some things cannot \"bed in\" and will become permanent features. HMRC estimates the additional cost to UK business of bog-standard customs declarations alone at £7bn.\n\nWhen buyers and sellers want to trade, they will find a way, but significant additional cost and complexity is here to stay.", "Patients have been arriving in a steady flow at a community pharmacy in Llanbedrog, Gwynedd, the first in Wales to offer coronavirus vaccines by appointment.\n\nRosie Bennett, who lives in the village Pwllheli, said: “I’m 82 and don’t have a car, so it was a huge relief to know that I wouldn’t have to travel a long distance to have the vaccine.\n\n“Here in the village, we know the staff at the chemists. They’ve been doing a great job during the pandemic and it’s reassuring to have the vaccine from someone you know.\n\n“And it’s a huge relief to be vaccinated. The last few months haven’t been easy for any of us and hopefully today is another small step towards a better future.”\n\nSteffan John, pharmacist on duty, gave Rosie the vaccine and said: “as pharmacists, we give out flu vaccines regularly, so we’re used to organising clinics like this.\n\n“We’re really pleased to do our bit for our community.\n\n“We have had extra training for today, and we also have to make sure there are enough appointments on the list.\n\n\"The vaccine comes in vials of ten doses, so it’s important to vaccinate that many people at a time and not to waste any.”", "Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has denied reports that his department is planning to dilute UK workers' rights.\n\nIt comes after the Financial Times said some protections brought in under EU law - such as the 48-hour limit on the working week - could be scrapped.\n\nNew rules on rest breaks and changes to how holiday pay is calculated from overtime could be proposed, it added.\n\nBut Mr Kwarteng insisted he wanted to \"protect and enhance workers' rights going forward, not row back on them\".\n\nIn a social media post, he said that the UK \"has one of the best workers' rights records in the world - going further than the EU in many areas.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kwasi Kwarteng This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour said the newspaper report suggested the government was out of step with public feeling on workplace rules.\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband said: \"These proposals are not about cutting red tape for businesses but ripping up vital rights for workers. They should not even be up for discussion.\"\n\nThe FT said the proposals were being drawn up with the approval of Downing Street, but that they hadn't yet been approved by ministers or cabinet.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We have absolutely no intention of lowering the standards of workers' rights.\n\n\"The UK has one of the best workers' rights records in the world, and it is well known that the UK goes further than the EU in many areas.\n\n\"Leaving the EU allows us to continue to be a standard setter and protect and enhance UK workers' rights.\"\n\nWhen the UK left the EU it retained many of its laws, but it is now able to change them.\n\nOne aspect of EU employment regulation is the EU's Working Time Directive.\n\nIt governs the hours employees in the EU can be asked to work. This must not exceed 48 hours on average, including any overtime.\n\nBut employees can choose to opt out of the 48-hour week, if they often work overtime in roles in the emergency services, for example.\n\nIn the 2019 Queen's Speech outlining the government's agenda for the coming parliamentary session, changes in employment law were promised.\n\nA new Employment Bill is expected to be published in 2021. One issue it is thought it will address is over the distribution of tips.\n\nTUC General Secretary Frances O'Grady urged the prime minister to \"make good on his promises to his voters\" on Friday.\n\n\"The best way to do that is to bring forward the long-awaited Employment Bill, to make sure everyone is treated fairly at work,\" she said.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 GMT.\n\nA ban on travellers from South America entering the UK has come into force, amid fears over a potentially more contagious coronavirus variant identified in Brazil. The ban also applies to Portugal and Cape Verde - off West Africa - because of their links to Brazil, along with Panama in southern Central America. British and Irish citizens, and foreign nationals with residence rights, are exempt but must isolate for 10 days on entering the UK. Find out which other countries are subject to a UK travel ban.\n\nThe UK economy shrank by 2.6% in November as lockdown restrictions reduced economic activity, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics. The closure of businesses such as pubs, hairdressers and many shops meant the services sector shrank by 3.4%. The setback came after sixth consecutive months of growth, with the ONS saying UK gross domestic product at the end of November was 8.5% below its pre-pandemic peak.\n\nConcerns over child poverty have been raised throughout the pandemic, with a focus on school food vouchers, holiday meal provision and food parcels. Now campaigning Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford has been joined by celebrity chefs Jamie Oliver, Tom Kerridge and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, and actress Dame Emma Thompson, in backing charities' calls for a review to \"fix\" the free school meals policy. Downing Street insists \"no child will ever go hungry\" because of the pandemic.\n\nFalse claims are likely to be causing people from ethnic minorities to reject Covid vaccines, warns a doctor leading an NHS campaign. Dr Harpreet Sood says much of the disinformation surrounds the contents of the vaccines. \"We need to be clear and make people realise there is no meat in the vaccine, there is no pork in the vaccine, it has been accepted and endorsed by all the religious leaders and councils and faith communities,\" he says.\n\nA surprise delivery of pizza from sixth-formers who clubbed together left staff at a hospital critical care unit \"lost for words\". Nurse Tina Waltho says the gift came as a welcome boost to deflated staff at the Royal Stoke University Hospital. \"The nurse who had been in charge on the day shift was in tears,\" Mrs Waltho says. \"She had barely eaten all day and was a little emotional.\" While the act drew praise on social media, the identity and school of the pupils remains a mystery.\n\nIf you're wondering how concerned we should be about the new virus variants, our health editor Michelle Roberts examines what we know so far.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prime Minister Boris Johnson: \"We will temporarily close all travel corridors from 0400 on Monday\"\n\nThe UK is to close all travel corridors from Monday morning to \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid, the PM has said.\n\nAnyone flying into the country from overseas will have to show proof of a negative Covid test before setting off.\n\nIt comes as a ban on travellers from South America and Portugal came into force on Friday over concerns about a new variant identified in Brazil.\n\nBoris Johnson said the new rules would be in place until at least 15 February.\n\nA further 1,280 people with coronavirus have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive test, taking the total to 87,291.\n\nThe latest government figures on Friday also showed another 55,761 new cases had been reported - up from 48,682 the previous day.\n\nMeanwhile, more than two million people around the world have now died with the virus since the pandemic began, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street press conference, the prime minister said it was \"vital\" to take extra measures now \"when day by day we are making such strides in protecting the population\".\n\n\"It's precisely because we have the hope of that vaccine and the risk of new strains coming from overseas that we must take additional steps now to stop those strains from entering the country.\"\n\nAll travel corridors will close from 04:00 GMT on Monday. After that, arrivals to the UK will need to quarantine for up to 10 days, unless they test negative after five days.\n\nMr Johnson, who said the rules would apply across the UK after talks with the devolved administrations, added that the government would be stepping up enforcement at the border and in the country.\n\nTravel corridors were introduced in the summer to allow people travelling from some countries with low numbers of Covid cases to come to the UK without having to quarantine on arrival.\n\nTrade body Airlines UK said it supported the latest restrictions \"on the assumption\" that the government would remove them \"when it is safe to do so\".\n\nChief executive Tim Alderslade said travel corridors were \"a lifeline for the industry\" last summer but \"things change and there's no doubting this is a serious health emergency\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was the \"right step\" but called the timing of the decision \"slow again\", adding that the public would be thinking \"why on earth didn't this happen before\".\n\nThe prime minister warned that the NHS was facing \"extraordinary pressures\", having had the highest number of hospital admissions on a single day of the pandemic earlier this week.\n\nHe said that came on Tuesday when there were 4,134 new admissions, while the UK currently has more than 37,000 Covid patients in hospitals.\n\nMr Johnson said that once the most vulnerable have been vaccinated by mid-February \"we will think about what steps we could take to lift the restrictions\".\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAlso speaking at the No 10 briefing, England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said the restrictions would need to be lifted gradually by \"testing what works, and then if that works going the next step\".\n\nHe said the peak of people entering hospital would be in the next week to 10 days for most places, but \"we hope\" the peak of infections \"already has happened\" in the south-east, east and London.\n\n\"The peak of deaths I fear is in the future, the peak of hospitalisations in some parts of the country may be around about now and beginning to come off the very, very top,\" he said.\n\nA ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde entering the UK came into force on Friday morning as a result of a new, potentially more infectious variant of coronavirus linked to Brazil.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the press briefing that some of the new variants may be able to \"get round\" the Covid vaccines but it was \"really quite easy\" to adjust the vaccines to deal with mutations in the virus.\n\nNew variants causing concern have previously been identified in the UK and South Africa, with many countries imposing restrictions on arrivals from both nations.\n\nPublic Health England said a total of 35 genomically confirmed and 12 genomically probable cases of the Covid-19 variant which originated in South Africa have been identified in the UK as of 14 January.\n\nEarlier, a leading scientist said one of the two variants first detected in Brazil had been found in the UK - but not the variant that was causing concern.\n\n\"I think it is likely that the vaccine we have now is going to protect against the UK variant and is going to provide protection I suspect against the other variants as well,\" said Sir Patrick. \"The question is to what degree.\"\n\nLatest figures show that more than three million people in the UK have now received the first dose of a vaccine - 3,234,946 - an increase of 316,694 from the previous day.\n\nSir Patrick said he expected the vaccines would reduce transmission of the virus but that \"we shouldn't go mad\" as jabs are rolled out because a risk would remain.\n\n\"Just because you've been vaccinated doesn't mean you can't catch this and pass it on, it means you're protected against severe disease,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest estimate of the UK's R number - which is the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to on average - is 1.2 to 1.3, compared with 1-1.4 last week.\n\nBut in London, where tight restrictions came in earlier, the R number is lower - between 0.9 and 1.2.\n\nIn Wales, new laws for shoppers and staff are to be introduced after \"significant evidence\" coronavirus is being spread in supermarkets.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from overseas? Share your experiences. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The guitarist also contributed songwriting and piano to the band's explosive debut album\n\nSylvain Sylvain, guitarist with trailblazing 1970s rock band New York Dolls, has died at the age of 69.\n\nOne of the group's founding members, his visceral riffs bridged the divide between punk and glam, and helped kick-start the punk and new wave movements.\n\n\"As most of you know, Sylvain battled cancer for the past two and 1/2 years,\" his wife, Wanda O'Kelley Mizrahi, wrote in a statement on his Facebook page.\n\n\"Though he fought it valiantly, yesterday he passed away.\"\n\nShe added: \"While we grieve his loss, we know that he is finally at peace and out of pain. Please crank up his music, light a candle, say a prayer and let's send this beautiful doll on his way.\"\n\nSylvain's death leaves only one surviving member of the New York Dolls' original line-up from their 1973 debut album, frontman David Johansen. The singer posted his own tribute on Instagram.\n\n\"My best friend for so many years, I can still remember the first time I saw him bop into the rehearsal space/bicycle shop with his carpetbag and guitar straight from the plane after having been deported from Amsterdam, I instantly loved him,\" he wrote.\n\n\"I'm gonna miss you old pal. I'll keep the home fires burning.\"\n\nThe New York Dolls bridged the gap between glam rock and punk\n\nBorn Sylvain Mizrahi in Cairo, Egypt, on Valentine's Day 1951, the musician lived in France as a child before moving to New York with his family.\n\nAfter playing in several bands as a teenager, he co-founded the New York Dolls in 1971, taking the name from a doll repair shop called the New York Doll Hospital (Sylvain had worked across the street before becoming a musician).\n\nLike the punk movement they helped inspire, the band wanted to shake up the self-indulgent state of 70s rock.\n\n\"The reason why the Dolls got together was because of the boredom with the norm of the day, which was like the stadium-rock era,\" Sylvain told Brooklyn Vegan in 2006. \"The 20-minute drum solos, songs that were a big operetta. They were sort of boring, they'd lost their sex appeal.\"\n\nThe Dolls cut through with urgent, punchy songs about sex, drugs, alienation and dysfunction.\n\nThe band's provocative and vulgar live shows gained them a huge following in New York, but many record labels were reluctant to sign them. That situation not helped by their androgynous look - shocking at the time - with their wardrobe sourced from cheap women's clothing stores on New York's Lower East Side.\n\nLate in 1972, tragedy struck when, during a tour of England, Dolls drummer Billy Murcia died in a drug-related accident. He was replaced by Jerry Nolan, after which the Dolls finally secured a contract with Mercury Records.\n\nTheir debut album, simply called New York Dolls, stalled at number 113 in the US chart but is now regarded as a classic, full of sleazy, raucous anthems like Personality Crisis and Trash.\n\nRolling Stone magazine recently named it one of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, writing: \"Glammed-out punkers the New York Dolls snatched riffs from Chuck Berry and Fats Domino and fattened them with loads of attitude and reverb.\n\n\"It's hard to imagine the Ramones or the Replacements or a thousand other trash-junky bands without them.\"\n\nSylvain worked in fashion before becoming a musician\n\nHowever, the band's lack of commercial success saw them dropped after two albums and, despite hiring Sex Pistols guru Malcolm McLaren as a manager, eventually fell apart.\n\nOutside the Dolls, Sylvain toured and recorded with several bands and led various solo projects as his former band's reputation grew.\n\nArtists from the Sex Pistols to Guns N' Roses cited them as an influence, and Morrissey was famously president of their UK fan club before forming The Smiths. In 2004, the singer reunited his idols for a show at London's Meltdown Festival, adding an unexpected second act to their career.\n\nOver the subsequent decade, Sylvain and Johansen, the only remaining members, released three well-received albums.\n\nIn 2019, Sylvain announced his cancer diagnosis, and a GoFundMe was set up to pay his medical bills, raising $79,500 (£58,000).\n\nThe band are cited as an influence by hundreds of musicians\n\nGuitarist Lenny Kaye, best known for playing with Patti Smith, paid tribute to Sylvain's \"heart, belief, and the way you whacked that E chord\".\n\n\"His onstage joy, his radiant smile as he chopped at his guitar, revealed the sense of wonder he must have felt at the age of 10, emigrating from his native Cairo with his family in 1961, the ship pulling into New York Harbor and seeing the Statue of Liberty for the first time.\n\n\"His role in the band was as lynchpin, keeping the revolving satellites of his bandmates in precision.\n\n\"Though he tried valiantly to keep the band going, in the end the Dolls' moral fable overwhelmed them, not before seeding an influence that would engender many rock generations yet to come.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Travellers from South America are no longer allowed to come into the UK, amid fears over a new coronavirus variant first identified in Brazil.\n\nThe UK's new travel ban - which also applies to Portugal and Cape Verde - came into force at 04:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nLike variants discovered in the UK and South Africa, it is thought the Brazil variant could be more contagious.\n\nVirologist Prof Wendy Barclay said one Brazilian variant had already been detected in the UK.\n\nHowever, she said this was not \"the variant of concern\", which is thought to be more infectious.\n\nProf Barclay, head of G2P-UK National Virology Consortium, which is studying the effects of emerging coronavirus mutations, said: \"There are two different types of Brazilian variants and one of them has been detected and one of them has not.\"\n\nShe added: \"The new Brazilian variant of concern, that was picked up in travellers going to Japan, has not been detected in the UK.\n\n\"Other variants that may have originated from Brazil have been previously found.\"\n\nEarlier, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps had told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the Brazilian variant of concern was not \"as far as we are aware\" already in the UK, adding that he did not believe there had been any flights from Brazil in the last week.\n\nIt comes as a further 1,248 people with coronavirus have died in the UK.\n\nLatest government figures on Thursday also showed another 48,682 new cases had been reported.\n\nMeanwhile, the number of people in the UK to have received the first dose of a vaccine is now approaching three million.\n\nThe UK's new travel ban applies to people who have travelled from, or through, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela in the last 10 days.\n\nIt also applies to Portugal - because of its strong links to Brazil - and the former Portuguese colony of Cape Verde off the coast of west Africa, as well as Panama in central America.\n\nBritish and Irish citizens and foreign nationals with residence rights are still allowed to return - but must isolate for 10 days.\n\nAlso exempt are hauliers who are travelling from Portugal to transport essential goods.\n\nBrazil has seen more than 200,000 deaths and there is concern about the impact the new mutation could have on its health system.\n\nHowever, the UK's travel ban was prompted by fears of how quickly the new variant could spread through the region - since Brazil borders 10 countries.\n\nMr Shapps has said the ban is \"precautionary\", adding he \"can't provide an end date\" to the new rules.\n\n\"We're so close now, we've got three million of these vaccines in people's arms in the UK,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"We want to make sure we don't fall at this last hurdle.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBecause holidays are not currently allowed, Mr Shapps said he did not \"expect a large number of Brits to have jaunted off to South America\", and the government was \"not expecting to see a big repatriation issue as a result\".\n\nOne family, who live in Wolverhampton, told the BBC they feared being stuck out in Brazil.\n\n\"I don't know if the government will organise flights,\" said Jon Dent, 31. He and his wife Carla travelled to the Brazilian city of Goiania in October to introduce their baby daughter to Carla's family.\n\n\"I think it's a long shot,\" he said. \"I hope we can get home and not be stranded out here for months. We've got to be patient but at the same time flexible.\"\n\nJon, pictured here with wife Carla and daughter Luiza, said his initial reaction to the news was worry\n\nMany countries imposed travel restrictions after new variants of Covid-19 were identified in the UK and South Africa.\n\nSeveral Central and South American nations - including Brazil - had already restricted travel from the UK before the latest ban on arrivals.\n\nThere is currently no evidence to suggest that any of the variants cause more serious illness, and scientists are confident that vaccines should work against them.\n\nAccording to Felipe Naveca, deputy director of research at the Brazilian state-run Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, the new variant's origin was \"undoubtedly\" from the Amazon region.\n\nHe told the BBC's South America correspondent Katy Watson the new variant showed some of the same mutations as the UK and South Africa variants - and \"some of these mutations have been linked to increased transmission and that is of concern\".\n\nMr Shapps also announced Qatar and the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba were being removed from the UK's travel corridor list, meaning arrivals from those places will need to self-isolate for 10 days from 04:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nMeanwhile, France has cracked down on the type of tests that travellers can take to show they are negative.\n\nFrom Monday, travellers will need to show a negative PCR test. Antigen tests - which are the rapid lateral flow tests - will no longer be accepted.\n\nHowever, Mr Shapps said arrangements allowing hauliers to use rapid lateral flow tests before crossing the border from the UK into France remained in place at the moment.\n\nFrom Monday, everyone travelling to England and Scotland will also have to show proof of a negative test. Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce their own plans in the coming days.\n\nHow have you been affected by the travel ban? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Northern Ireland's statistics agency has recorded its highest weekly Covid-19 related registered deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nNisra said 145 deaths were registered in the first week of 2021, although administrative delays over Christmas may have affected the number.\n\nThat brings the agency's death toll to 1,976 by 8 January.\n\nThe figures come as the chief medical officers from NI and the Republic issued a joint stay-at-home plea.\n\nDr Michael McBride and Dr Tony Holohan said they were \"gravely concerned\" about the \"unsustainably high level of Covid-19 infection\" across the island of Ireland.\n\nConcern was raised in the Republic of Ireland this week as figures showed it has the world's highest number of confirmed new Covid-19 cases per million people.\n\nOn Friday evening, the Irish Department of Health reported 50 further deaths with Covid-19 and 3,498 new cases of the virus. More than half (54%) of those newly diagnosed are under the age of 45.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nOf the 2,019 deaths recorded by Nisra by 8 January, 1,247 (62%) occurred in hospital, 622 (31%) in care homes, 12 (0.6%) in hospices and 138 (7%) at residential addresses or other locations.\n\nPeople aged 75 and over account for just over three-quarters of all Covid-19 related registered deaths (77.6%) between 19 March 2020 and 8 January 2021.\n\nJust over a fifth (22.2%) of all Covid-19 related registered deaths have been of people with an address in the Belfast council area.\n\nMeanwhile, the Department of Health reported 26 further Covid-related deaths on Friday.\n\nFive of these deaths did not occur in the past 24 hours.\n\nThe Department of Health bases its figures on a positive test result being recorded, whereas Nisra figures are based on mentions of the virus on death certificates, so people may or may not have been confirmed to have contracted the virus prior to death.\n\nA further 1,052 individuals have tested positive for Covid-19 and 63 patients are being treated in intensive care units, 47 of whom are on ventilators.\n\nThe chief medical officers warned the high infection rate was having a \"significant impact\" on the health of the population and the \"safe functioning\" of the healthcare systems.\n\nThey said the public should avoid all unnecessary journeys, including cross-border travel.\n\nPointing out that many of the patients admitted to hospital in January have been younger than 65, they warned coronavirus could affect anyone, \"regardless of age or underlying condition\".\n\n\"It highlights the need for us all to protect one another by staying at home,\" said the medical officers.\n\nNorthern Ireland's spike in infections has been put down to an easing of restrictions over Christmas.\n\nAsked if he regretted being part of the decision to ease restrictions, Health Minister Robin Swann said the executive had tried to be balanced in its approach.\n\n\"I regret the pressures we see now in our hospitals, but let's remember it's caused by this virus, we have it in our power to bring it back under control and get us back to where we were in the summer,\" he told BBC News NI on Friday.\n\nMr Swann pleaded with people to follow the current restrictions.\n\n\"We're in the middle of a very tough six-week scenario, and how we come out of this will be a more graduated approach to make sure we get the benefits of what we've already done, and also the benefits of the vaccine.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kim Jong-un has been overseeing a huge military showcase broadcast by state media in North Korea\n\nNorth Korea has unveiled a new type of submarine-launched ballistic missile, described by state media as \"the world's most powerful weapon\".\n\nSeveral of the missiles were displayed at a parade overseen by leader Kim Jong-un, reported state media.\n\nThe weapon's actual capabilities remain unclear, as it is not known to have been tested.\n\nThe show of military strength comes days before the inauguration of Joe Biden as US president.\n\nIt also follows a rare political meeting where Mr Kim decried the US as his country's \"biggest enemy\".\n\nImages released by North Korean state media showed at least four large black-and-white missiles being driven past flag-waving crowds.\n\nAnalysts noted it was a previously unseen weapon. \"New year, new Pukguksong,\" tweeted North Korea expert Ankit Panda, using the North Korean name for their submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs).\n\nClad in a leather coat and fur hat, Mr Kim is pictured smiling and waving as he watched the display in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square, which also included infantry troops, artillery and tanks.\n\nThe missile was debuted at a military parade which came at the end of an important and rare political meeting\n\n\"The world's most powerful weapon, submarine-launch ballistic missile, entered the square one after another, powerfully demonstrating the might of the revolutionary armed forces,\" the official Korean Central News Agency said.\n\nThe event on Thursday did not showcase North Korea's largest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which was unveiled at a much larger military parade in October. That colossal weapon is believed to be able to deliver a nuclear warhead to anywhere in the US, and its size had surprised even seasoned analysts when it was put on show last year.\n\nThe country's latest display of its arsenal comes at the end of a five-yearly congress of the ruling Workers' Party.\n\nIn his address to members last week, Mr Kim had pledged to expand North Korea's nuclear weapons and military potential, outlining a list of desired weapons including long-range ballistic missiles capable of being launched from land or sea and \"super-large warheads\".\n\nHe also said that the US was Pyongyang's \"biggest obstacle for our revolution and our biggest enemy... no matter who is in power, the true nature of its policy against North Korea will never change\".\n\nUnder Mr Kim's leadership North Korea has made rapid progress in its weapons programme, which it says is necessary to defend itself against a possible US invasion.\n\nThe unveiling of the new missiles appears designed to send the incoming Biden administration a message of the North's growing military prowess, say experts.\n\n\"They'd like us to notice that they're getting more proficient with larger solid rocket boosters,\" Mr Panda tweeted, noting what appeared to be new solid-fuel short-range ballistic missiles on display too. These missiles can be launched more quickly than liquid-fuelled varieties.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un: From enemies to frenemies\n\nOver the last four years, Pyongyang has had an erratic relationship with the US under President Donald Trump's administration. Mr Kim and Mr Trump engaged in mutual insults and threats of war before an unprecedented summit in Singapore in 2018 and declarations of love by the outgoing US leader.\n\nDespite the apparent warming of relations, little concrete progress was made on negotiations over North Korea's nuclear programme and a second summit in Hanoi in 2019 broke down after the US refused Pyongyang's demands for sanctions relief.\n\nKim Jong-un has had a busy week. In this rare party congress at the start of a new year he's earned a new title, pledged to build new nuclear weapons and now he's shown the world some new missiles.\n\nThe general secretary, the title posthumously awarded to his father by which he is now known, had been pretty quiet in 2020 and appeared very few times in state media.\n\nBut 2021 is looking rather different. The party congress has offered him a grand daily domestic platform - even if it is not getting the international attention it may have done due to events in the United States and a global pandemic.\n\nThe parading vehicles include a new submarine-launched ballistic missile and new short-range ballistic missiles. This is a show of strength - flexing the military muscle once more to show the people of North Korea that despite the current bleak economic outlook, this impoverished country is capable of designing and building new strategic weapons.\n\nIt also offers a direct challenge to the incoming US administration.\n\nNorth Korea appears willing to continue with its self-imposed isolation and being subject to strict economic sanctions, and the state has vowed to continue to build nuclear weapons in defiance of the international community.\n\nDuring the transfer of power, President Obama told Donald Trump that North Korea should be his top national security concern.\n\nIn the last four years a combination of US and UN sanctions, so-called \"maximum pressure\" policies and three summits between Mr Trump and Mr Kim have done nothing to alleviate those concerns.\n\nKim Jong-un has shown the new US president this week that he faces the daunting prospect of coming up with new solutions for this decades-old problem.", "Craig Ross had been quoted making comments about food bank users on a podcast\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives have dropped a Holyrood candidate over what they called \"unacceptable comments\".\n\nCraig Ross recorded a podcast last year in which he described food bank users as being more at risk of diabetes than starvation.\n\nHe also questioned the influence footballer Marcus Rashford has on UK government welfare policy.\n\nThe Conservatives suspended Mr Ross, then later announced he was \"no longer a candidate or a member of the party\".\n\nThe party had launched an investigation after the comments came to light, saying: \"These unacceptable comments do not reflect the views of the party.\"\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf had called for Mr Ross to be thrown out the party and dropped as the Conservative candidate in Glasgow Pollok.\n\nThe Holyrood elections are due to be held on 6 May.\n\nMr Ross, a former lecturer at Langside College, runs a podcast in which he delivers reaction to pieces in The Guardian newspaper \"from the centre-right\".\n\nIn one episode recorded in June 2020, Mr Ross talked about the percentage of body fat of \"ordinary people\".\n\nOriginally reported in the Daily Record, his comments were in response to a Channel 4 News piece featuring foodbanks.\n\nHe said: \"We have no real grasp of just how ridiculously overweight the population is.\n\n\"I'm not saying that every single person who claims to be really hungry and is reliant on charity is also very overweight.\n\n\"But what I am saying is if Channel 4 News is having a reasonable go at showing the reality of food bank usage, then we know the people that they filmed are far from starving. If anything their biggest risk is not starvation, it's diabetes.\"\n\nOn Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford, who has called on Boris Johnson to review the UK government's free school meals policy, Mr Ross said: \"Has Marcus Rashford stood for election to anything? Not that I'm aware of.\"", "The government is assessing the impact of a \"technical issue\" that led to 150,000 records being deleted from police databases.\n\nThe error, first reported in the Times, saw data including fingerprint, DNA and arrest histories wiped after being accidentally flagged for deletion.\n\nThe Home Office said the lost entries related to people who were arrested and then released without further action.\n\nBut Labour said it presented \"huge dangers\" for public safety.\n\nThe data was lost from the Police National Computer - a system that stores and shares criminal records information across the UK.\n\nIt is used to help police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nA coding error resulted in records that had been flagged for deletion being lost from the database before checks had been carried out to determine whether they could be lawfully held or not.\n\nThe data loss could hinder future police investigations because the fingerprint or DNA evidence would not be able to be cross-checked against evidence from other crime scenes.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse said the problem had been identified and the process corrected so \"it cannot happen again\" - with the Home Office, National Police Chiefs' Council and other law enforcement partners working \"at pace\" to recover the data.\n\n\"While the loss relates to individuals who were arrested and then released with no further action, I have asked officials and the police to confirm their initial assessment that there is no threat to public safety,\" he said.\n\nThe Home Office said no records of criminal or dangerous persons had been deleted.\n\nThe records are linked to police investigations that were terminated before charge (No Further Action or NFA cases) or to those where an individual had been acquitted at court.\n\nIt is not yet known how many records of each type were lost and full extent of deletions is still being investigated.\n\nThe loss of the data means that officers on the ground may get an incomplete search result when interrogating the system.\n\nShadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Home Secretary Priti Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\n\"She must urgently make a statement about what has gone wrong, the extent of the issue, and what action is being taken to reassure the public. Answers must be given.\"\n\n\"This is an extraordinarily serious security breach that presents huge dangers for public safety.\"\n\nFormer Cumbria Police chief constable Stuart Hyde told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the \"very large\" loss of arrest records presented a \"risk to public safety\".\n\nHe said: \"In order to understand the scale, if you think that about between 6-700,000 people are arrested every year in the UK, that's a very large proportion of those people.\"\n\nIt comes after around 40,000 alerts relating to European criminals were removed from the same database, the PNC, following Britain's post-Brexit deal with the EU.", "Despite the huge need to free up space in hospitals, some care homes say insurance issues make it impossible for them to accept Covid-19 patients.\n\nIn October, the government launched a scheme for designated care homes to take patients recovering from the virus but insurance is a stumbling block.\n\nSir David Behan, head of the UK's largest care home company, HC-One, says insurance has become a major concern.\n\nThe government says it is working to resolve the issue.\n\n\"We are aware the adult social care insurance market is changing in response to the pandemic, and recognise some care providers may encounter difficulties as their policies come up for renewal,\" said a Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson.\n\nOne Hampshire care home says it will have to stop taking patients within days because its insurance will expire.\n\nWaterside House in Netley, Hampshire usually provides holidays and respite care for people with disabilities.\n\nBut since the autumn it has been taking Covid-positive patients discharged from hospitals on the south coast.\n\nThey are looked after on a separate floor from other residents, and the home has had to meet high infection control standards.\n\nHome manager Sarah Knight said demand for the 31 beds is unparalleled and added: \"I've been in nursing a long, long time, and I have never known anything like this.\n\n\"People end up in an ambulance sat outside hospitals for hours and hours, or they end up on a trolley in A&E in a corridor for hours and hours.\n\n\"By offering the best that we've got here, we can reduce some of that burden.\"\n\nJan Tregelles is chief executive of the charity Revitalise which runs Waterside House\n\nThe government originally hoped there would be 500 designated care homes taking in Covid-positive patients.\n\nBut Waterside House is one of only 129 which have been set up to take those who have not completed 14 days in isolation.\n\nHowever, its public indemnity insurance protection, which it needs in case someone contracts Covid there, runs out at the end of January.\n\nWaterside House is run by the charity Revitalise, whose chief executive, Jan Tregelles, said they have tried everything, but will soon have to start turning away people.\n\n\"It's shocking,\" she says. \"We are truly helpless. We have a fantastic team of nurses and colleagues already.\n\n\"The facilities are here, everything's arranged and we can't step up to support our communities at this time.\"\n\nOne resident, Alan Washbourne, who has been living at Waterside House since he was discharged from hospital during the first wave of the pandemic, said: \"I feel quite safe here.\"\n\nHe is not on the Covid floor of the home, and added: \"If I were to go to somewhere else, which is possible, I might not feel quite so safe.\"\n\nAlan Washbourne has been at Waterside House since April last year\n\nAfter so many deaths last spring, many care homes will not consider taking patients who are Covid-positive, even with extra infection control measures.\n\nMeanwhile, growing numbers of staff are off sick or self-isolating, leaving care homes facing shortages.\n\nAnd many are also finding it difficult to get the public indemnity insurance.\n\nSir David Behan is chairman of HC-One, the UK's largest care home provider\n\nSince November, HC-One, which is the UK's largest care home provider, has had to cover its own Covid risks because it cannot get the insurance.\n\nSir David said it is one of the reasons why they have not taken part in the designated places scheme.\n\n\"You've got solicitors' firms advertising, taking cases up against care companies,\" he says.\n\n\"So, this isn't a theoretical risk that there may be proceedings, it's an actual risk, and therefore we need cover.\n\n\"The NHS wouldn't operate without similar liability cover and that's what we need to see, and I think governments have a role to play working with the insurance industry to work to find a solution.\"\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care said it was making efforts to determine what actions it could take.\n\n\"Our priority is to ensure everyone receives the right care, in the right place, at the right time,\" said a spokesperson.", "The licence fee is the \"least worst\" way of funding the BBC, its incoming chairman Richard Sharp has said.\n\nBut Mr Sharp told MPs he had an \"open mind\" about how the corporation should be funded in the future, and it \"may be worth reassessing\" the current system.\n\nHe also said he didn't think the BBC's Brexit coverage was biased overall, but \"there were some occasions when the Brexit representation was unbalanced\".\n\nQuestion Time \"seemed to have more Remainers than Brexiteers\", he said.\n\nBBC Three's Normal People was one of the corporation's biggest hits last year\n\nThe £157.50 licence fee is due to stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends, with a debate about how the broadcaster should be funded after that.\n\nMr Sharp, who spent 23 years working as a banker for Goldman Sachs, told the House of Commons digital, culture, media and sport select committee: \"At 43p a day, the BBC represents terrific value.\"\n\nThe government is currently reviewing whether its cost should continue rising with inflation from 2022, and whether non-payment should remain a criminal offence. Mr Sharp said he was \"not in favour of decriminalisation\".\n\nHe said other possible options for funding the BBC in the future could include a household tax like the one used in Germany, \"which amounts to the same amount of money\".\n\nHe added: \"So when we next get the chance to review the structure of this then it may be worth reassessing.\"\n\nAsked whether he believed the BBC's coverage of Brexit had been unbalanced, he replied: \"No, actually I don't.\n\n\"I believe there were some occasions when the Brexit representation was unbalanced.\n\n\"So if you ask me if I think Question Time seemed to have more Remainers than Brexiteers, the answer is yes, but the breadth of the coverage I thought was incredibly balanced, in a highly toxic environment that was extremely polarised.\"\n\nQuestion Time has said it has robust processes in place to ensure balance on its panels.\n\nMr Sharp said he was \"considered to be a Brexiteer\" and had donated around £400,000 to the Conservative Party over the past 20 years.\n\nHe said the biggest issue now facing the BBC is impartiality, and that \"trust in leadership and trust in processes\" must be rebuilt after high-profile equal pay cases with journalists such as Carrie Gracie and Samira Ahmed.\n\n\"Clearly some of the problems it's had recently are really rather terrible and reflect a culture that needs to be rebuilt, so everybody who cherishes the BBC and works at the BBC feels proud and happy to work there,\" he said. \"Then in my view that would produce a better output inevitably.\"\n\nMr Sharp also told the committee he would give his £160,000 salary as BBC chairman to charity.\n\nWhen asked \"what's in it for you?\" Mr Sharp, whose heritage is Jewish, said: \"We're all a product of our upbringing and I was very fortunate with the parents I have, my great grandparents came to this country escaping tyranny.\n\n\"I think I won the lottery in life to be British and if I can make a contribution, I couldn't be happier to.\n\n\"The BBC is part of the fabric of all our national identities, it offers education and enrichment and is also important for our position in the world... It is a massive privilege to be chair of the BBC.\"\n\nSir David Clementi, the current BBC chairman, steps down in February. The post-holder is officially appointed by the Queen on the recommendation of the government.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "It's likely there are variants all over the world - Vallance\n\nITV's Libby Wiener asks if the move to put restrictions in at the borders is too late. The PM says the government is taking steps to protect against the new variants. \"We have a situation now where we have a very high rate of domestic infection in the UK combined with a vaccination programme,\" he says. \"There will come a point in the next weeks and months where the vaccination programme will take effect... and you will see a decline in the death rate. \"What you can't have is a situation where you have new variants with unknown qualities coming in from abroad and that's why we have set up the system to stop arrivals where new variants are a concern.\" Sir Patrick Vallance says the virus is changing all the time and he suspects there are variants \"all over the world of different types\". \"The countries which have detected them first have got good sequencing,\" he says.", "The UK economy shrank by 2.6% in November as England was placed in lockdown for a second time, official figures show.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics said it meant gross domestic product was 8.5% below its pre-pandemic peak.\n\nNovember's decline came after six consecutive months of growth.\n\nPubs and hairdressers were badly hit as the service sector suffered, the ONS said, but some manufacturing and construction activity improved.\n\nThe hit to the service sector - which accounts for about three-quarters of the UK economy - meant it contracted by 3.4% in November, and is now 9.9% below the level of February 2020.\n\nSome economists said the November figure was better than expected, and it appeared many companies were better prepared for the second lockdown, with some sectors staying open for business and many firms having already put in place plans to expand online operations.\n\n\"Steps taken by businesses earlier in the year to Covid-proof their operations - combined with the time-limited nature of the restrictions, and schools remaining open - meant more companies were able to continue trading safely,\" said Alpesh Paleja, lead economist at the CBI employers' group.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said the figures showed \"it's clear things will get harder before they get better and today's figures highlight the scale of the challenge we face\".\n\nBut he said the vaccine roll-out and economic support measures meant there were reasons to be hopeful. \"With this support, and the resilience and enterprise of the British people, we will get through this,\" he said.\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds said the figures showed the UK has an economic \"mountain to climb\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, she said it would be a \"serious mistake\" if Mr Sunak waited until the Budget in March before providing more support and confidence for business.\n\nONS director for economic statistics Darren Morgan said: \"The economy took a hit from restrictions put in place to contain the pandemic during November, with pubs and hairdressers seeing the biggest impact.\"\n\nHowever, he said many firms adjusted to the new pandemic working conditions, such as by expanding click and collect and other online operations.\n\nHe added: \"Manufacturing and construction generally continued to operate, while schools also stayed open, meaning the impact on the economy was significantly smaller in November than during the first lockdown.\n\n\"Car manufacturing, bolstered by demand from abroad, housebuilding and infrastructure grew and are now all above their pre-pandemic levels.\" Construction activity grew by 1.9% during the month.\n\nGross domestic product (GDP) is the sum (measured in pounds) of the value of goods and services produced in the economy.\n\nBut the measurement most people focus on is the percentage change - the growth of the country's economy over a period of time, typically a quarter (three months) or a year.\n\nIf the GDP measure is up on the previous three months, the economy is growing. That generally means more wealth and more new jobs.\n\nIf it is negative, the economy is shrinking.\n\nDespite the GDP figure being better than some analysts had forecast, there are still concerns that the UK could be heading back into recession.\n\nEconomists have warned the UK could see a double-dip recession if restrictions remain in place in the first three months of 2021.\n\nRory Macqueen, from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, said the November figures confirm a significant slowdown in the last quarter of 2020, \"despite November's lockdown in England clearly having a far smaller effect than the first\".\n\nJames Smith, research director of the Resolution Foundation, said there would be a lot of comment about whether these figures point to the UK heading for only its second-ever double-dip recession on record.\n\nBut, he said, the real \"story of the year will be a vaccine-driven bounce back in economic activity for sectors like hospitality and leisure\".\n\n\"The chancellor must do everything he can to support that recovery once public health restrictions ease,\" he added.\n\nAnalysts at Capital Economics also said there was cause for optimism, saying that the current third lockdown could have less impact than feared.\n\n\"The economy has built up a fair bit of immunity to lockdowns, as November's lockdown was much less painful for the economy than the first lockdown.\n\n\"As a result, the Covid-19 economic hole is smaller than we thought, the economy may get back to its pre-crisis crisis level a bit sooner and it makes us more confident that the Bank of England probably won't resort to negative interest rates.\"\n\nThe fall in the economy in November was still considerable, but the figures show businesses adapting to difficult conditions. The hit was a fraction of what occurred in the first lockdown last April, and was mainly confined to the service sector, with pubs and hairdressing for example in sharp decline.\n\nManufacturing and construction largely remained open, as did previously shut public services such as schools. By November car manufacturing and house building were back above the level of output before the pandemic.\n\nThe trade figures also showed a £7bn increase in EU imports in the three months to November as traders stockpiled car parts, medicines and other goods ahead of the end of the Brexit transition period.\n\nThe renewed regional tiered restrictions in December, and more severe national lockdowns this month, still indicate a possible return to overall recession in this tough winter.\n\nBusiness groups continue to argue that extra support is required to support jobs and cash flow well before the Budget in March. But a more sustained lifting of restrictions as vaccines are rolled out should see growth return after the spring.", "Black people are four more times more likely than white people to be sectioned under the Mental Health Act, according to NHS figures.\n\nWhen Antonio Ferreira was sectioned he says he felt he was discriminated against because of his skin colour.\n\nNow a student at Essex University, he hopes to improve police understanding of mental health problems.\n\nIf you are experiencing emotional stress, help and support is available via BBC Action Line.", "The governor of Amazonas state warned of a \"critical\" moment and has implemented a curfew\n\nHospitals in the Brazilian city of Manaus have reached breaking point while treating Covid-19 patients, amid reports of severe oxygen shortages and desperate staff.\n\nThe city, in Amazonas state, has seen a surge of deaths and infections.\n\nHealth professionals, quoted by local media, warned \"many people\" could die due to lack of supplies and assistance.\n\nBrazil has recorded more than 205,000 virus deaths - the second-highest tally in the world, behind the US.\n\nA new coronavirus variant has recently emerged in Brazil, with several cases in travellers arriving in Japan traced back to the Amazonas region.\n\nAmazonas suffered heavy losses in the first wave of the pandemic but is also being badly hit by a new rise in infections.\n\nRefrigerated containers were brought to hospitals to help store bodies last week, as authorities declared a state of emergency.\n\nJessem Orellana, from the Fiocruz-Amazonia scientific investigation institute, told the AFP news agency that some hospitals in Manaus had \"run out of oxygen\" with some centres becoming \"a type of suffocation chamber\" for patients.\n\nThe researcher told Brazilian media she had received reports from the front-line of \"dramatic\" scenes playing out in some hospitals.\n\nReports in the daily Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper described desperate staff having to try to keep patients alive through manual ventilation.\n\nIn a widely shared video from the region, a female medical worker asks the internet for help: \"We're in an awful state. Oxygen has simply run out across the whole unit today.\"\n\n\"There is no oxygen and lots of people are dying,\" she says in the clip. \"If anyone has any oxygen, please bring it to the clinic. There are so many people dying.\"\n\nThe UK has banned travellers from much of Latin America over a new variant detected in Brazil\n\nAmazonas Governor Wilson Lima said the state was \"in the most critical moment of the pandemic\" and has announced a nightly curfew will begin at 19:00 local time (23:00 GMT) on Friday to try to stem the spread.\n\nMarcellus Campelo, a local health secretary, said the state needed three times the amount of oxygen it can produce locally and appealed for help.\n\nBrazil's vice-president shared images on Twitter of the air force transporting hospital supplies, including oxygen cylinders and stretchers, to the city as reports of the situation spread throughout the country.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHealth officials also say some patients will be airlifted to other states for treatment due to the demand for intensive care units, Reuters reports.\n\nFelipe Naveca, deputy director of research at the state-run Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, told the BBC's South America correspondent Katy Watson that the new variant had evolved separately from those in the UK and South Africa, but that it showed some of the same characteristics: \"Some of these mutations have been linked to increased transmission and that is of concern.\"\n\nMr Naveca said that they did not yet have any data to suggest that existing vaccines would be any less effective against the new variant. \"We have to do a lot more sequencing of samples to answer that question,\" he said.\n\nHowever, on Thursday UK officials announced a ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde due to the new strain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. At Fullwell Cross Medical Centre, north London, they are now vaccinating almost 1,000 people a week\n\nFake news is likely to be causing some people from the UK's South Asian communities to reject the Covid vaccine, a doctor has warned.\n\nDr Harpreet Sood, who is leading an NHS anti-disinformation drive, said it was \"a big concern\" and officials were working \"to correct so much fake news\".\n\nHe said language and cultural barriers played a part in the false information.\n\nA GP in the West Midlands told the BBC some of her South Asian patients had refused the vaccine when offered it.\n\nDr Sood, from NHS England, said officials were working with South Asian role models, influencers, community leaders and religious leaders to help debunk myths about the vaccine.\n\nMuch of the disinformation surrounds the contents of the vaccine.\n\nHe said: \"We need to be clear and make people realise there is no meat in the vaccine, there is no pork in the vaccine, it has been accepted and endorsed by all the religious leaders and councils and faith communities.\"\n\n\"We're trying to find role models and influencers and also thinking about ordinary citizens who need to be quick with this information so that they can all support one another because ultimately everyone is a role model to everyone\", he added.\n\n\"There's a big piece of work happening where we're translating information, we're making sure the look and feel of it reaches the populations that matter.\"\n\nSome of the disinformation seen by the BBC on social media and on WhatsApp is religiously targeted. Messages falsely claim the vaccines contain animal produce - eating pork goes against the religious beliefs of Muslims, as does eating beef for Hindus.\n\nDr Samara Afzal has been vaccinating people in Dudley, West Midlands. She said: \"We've been calling all patients and booking them in for vaccines but the admin staff say when they call a lot of the South Asian patients they decline and refuse to have the vaccination.\n\n\"Also talking to friends and family have found the same. I've had friends calling me telling me to convince their parents or their grandparents to have the vaccination because other family members have convinced them not to have it\".\n\nWe need to be clear and make people realise there is no meat in the vaccine, there is no pork in the vaccine, it has been accepted and endorsed by all the religious leaders\n\nReena Pujara is a beauty therapist in Hampshire and a practising Hindu. She said she's been bombarded with false information.\n\n\"Some of the videos are quite disturbing especially when you actually see the person reporting is a medic and telling you that the vaccine is going to alter your DNA,\" she said.\n\n\"For a layman it is very confusing. And also when you read that the ingredients in the vaccine derive from a cow - and as Hindus the cow is sacred to us - it is disturbing.\"\n\nAbout 100 mosques have a joined a campaign to counter vaccine disinformation and persuade their communities to take the vaccine. They've said they'll use their Friday sermons to urge people to have the jab.\n\n\"There should be no hesitation in taking [the vaccine] from a moral perspective,\" said Qari Asim, chair of the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board (MINAB), which has organised the campaign. \"It is our ethical duty to protect ourselves and others from harm.\"\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi told the BBC's Asian Network that faith and community leaders had a big role to play in ensuring a high take-up of the vaccine. He said he had met with more than 150 leaders from Sikh, Hindu, Jewish and Muslim communities who were taking the message out \"that it's the right thing to do\".\n\nHe added that the government was taking steps to tackle online disinformation around the vaccine, as well as making sure vaccine guidance was available in many different languages.\n\nA recent poll, commissioned by the Royal Society of Public Health, suggested just over half of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people would be happy to have the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nIt found 57% said they would take the vaccine - compared with 79% of white people.", "Exam results are likely to appear before the end of the summer term\n\nExam results for A-levels and GCSEs in England could be published in early July this year, according to proposals for replacing cancelled exams.\n\nA consultation launched by the exams watchdog and the Department for Education confirmed that grades will be decided by teacher assessment.\n\nBut results this summer are likely to be released much earlier than usual.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said pupils would receive \"a grade that reflects their ability\".\n\nThere are also likely to be written test papers set by exam boards, but marked by teachers, with some later checks if there are concerns about fairness.\n\nFor vocational qualifications, exams which use mostly written papers are also likely to use teachers' grades - but qualifications which need a test of practical, hands-on skills will have separate arrangements.\n\nOfqual and the Department for Education have formally launched a two-week consultation on a system for how results will be decided, after disruption from the pandemic forced the cancellation of exams.\n\nThis is the second year of exam results being disrupted by the pandemic\n\nFor A-levels and GCSEs this could see the scrapping of the traditional results days in August, with a proposal to publish the results in \"early July\", increasing the time for appeals and adding more time before the start of the university term.\n\nLast year the process of replacement results ended with U-turns and confusion, as an algorithm initially used for deciding grades was abandoned and teachers' assessments used instead.\n\nThis time there will be no algorithm, but from the outset the process will rely on the judgement of teachers, who will be asked to use evidence such as coursework, essays, homework and mock exams.\n\nThere are also proposals for test papers, or mini-exams, which would be set by examiners but which would be likely to be marked within schools by teachers.\n\nThese would inform teachers' decisions rather than be a fixed proportion of the final grade - and could be used as evidence for any scrutiny of the reliability of a school's results or if there were appeals over grades.\n\nThere is also a recognition they might have to be taken by some pupils at home.\n\nBut it has still to be decided whether it would be mandatory to take these exams, and whether there would be a single paper per subject or the option to take more.\n\nThe Department for Education has said pupils will not face tests in subject areas they have not covered.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said the proposals seemed \"sensible\".\n\nBut he said the written tests would have to be \"exceptionally well designed\" to make them fair between students \"whose learning has been disrupted by the pandemic to greatly varying extents\".\n\n\"There are still many questions left unanswered,\" said the National Education Union's co-leader Kevin Courtney, about how tests could be flexible enough and how appeals will be decided.\n\nThere will be a process of training teachers in how the grading system will operate and be consistent between different schools.\n\nFor vocational qualifications, the proposals say those closer to written A-level and GCSE exams will be graded in a similar way to the academic exams, using teacher assessment to replace written papers.\n\nThere will be different approaches for qualifications requiring proof of practical skills, but there will be arrangements to make this possible.\n\nSome BTec exams have already gone ahead this month and IGCSE exams are still planned to continue this summer.\n\nA-levels and GCSEs have been cancelled in Wales and Northern Ireland, and in Scotland the Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers have also been scrapped.\n\nEngland's Education Secretary, Mr Williamson, said: \"Fairness to young people has been and will continue to be fundamental to every decision we take on these issues.\"", "Men who had already had the virus were asked to donate blood plasma for the trial\n\nA potential treatment for Covid using blood plasma does not reduce deaths among hospital patients, trials show.\n\nThe results are a blow to researchers and the NHS, which led the drive to collect plasma donations.\n\nThis arm of the Recovery trial, which is investigating a number of promising Covid treatments, has now been closed.\n\nThe Oxford researchers involved say they are \"incredibly grateful\" for the contribution of patients across the country.\n\nDonations of plasma were temporarily suspended, according to NHS Blood and Transplant.**\n\nThere had been huge international interest in the role of convalescent plasma as a possible treatment for hospital patients with Covid-19.\n\nThe treatment involves blood plasma being taken from people who have recovered from the disease - which contains antibodies to coronavirus - and transfused into seriously ill patients.\n\nIt was hoped the plasma donation would give the recipient's struggling immune system a boost to fight off Covid.\n\nThe NHS had been urging people to donate, particularly men who are thought to have higher levels of antibodies in their blood.\n\nBut early analysis of 1,873 deaths in a study of 10,400 UK patients shows the treatment made \"no significant difference\".\n\nIn the group treated with convalescent plasma, 18% of patients died within 28 days - the same figure for the group given standard treatment.\n\nPatients in the study are still being followed up and the final results will be published shortly.\n\nEarlier this week, a separate study showed no evidence that the same treatment improved outcomes for patients in intensive care.\n\nMartin Landray, chief investigator and professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, said the Recovery trial showed \"the value of large randomised trials to properly assess the role of potential treatments\".\n\nThe trial is still investigating other treatments, including tocilizumab, aspirin and an antibody cocktail.\n\nProf Peter Horby, who also worked on the trial, said the largest ever trial of convalescent plasma \"was only possible thanks to the generous donation of plasma by recovered patients and the willingness of current patients to contribute to advancing medical care\".\n\n\"While the overall result is negative, we need to await the full results before we can understand whether convalescent plasma has any role in particular patient sub-groups,\" he said.\n\n**NHS Blood and Transplant restarted donations of blood plasma on 20 January. They could be used to see whether particular groups of patients, such as those with low antibody levels, could benefit.\n\nInternational trials are also testing if plasma helps people when it's used much earlier in the disease, before people get to hospital.", "One of two coronavirus variants first detected in Brazil has been found in the UK, says a leading scientist advising the government.\n\nBut the version discovered is not the \"variant of concern\", Prof Wendy Barclay clarified.\n\nThe \"variant of concern\" from Brazil, detected in travellers to Japan, is thought to be more infectious.\n\nIt led to travellers from South America and Portugal being banned from entering the UK on Friday.\n\nProf Wendy Barclay, who is heading a newly-launched project to study the effects of emerging coronavirus mutations called the G2P-UK National Virology Consortium, said: \"There are two different types of Brazilian variants and one of them has been detected and one of them has not.\"\n\nProf Barclay, who also sits on Nervtag, a committee which advises government on new and emerging respiratory virus threats, said the variant was \"probably introduced some time ago\" and it \"will be being traced very carefully\".\n\nShe added: \"The new Brazilian variant of concern, that was picked up in travellers going to Japan, has not been detected in the UK.\n\n\"Other variants that may have originated from Brazil have been previously found.\"\n\nThe body which collects and analyses the genomes of virus samples - Covid-19 Genomics UK Consortium (Cog-UK) - said this variant seen in the UK contained one of the mutations found in the Brazilian \"variant of concern\".\n\nThe mutation, also found in the South African variant, has been linked to a reduced antibody response meaning our bodies might be less able to fight it off.\n\nCog-UK said this alone was not enough to qualify it as a \"variant of concern\", thought it acknowledged \"no internationally agreed definition of a variant of concern has yet been agreed\".\n\nIn other variants of concern, the mutation sits alongside a \"constellation\" of others which together amount to a high chance of making the virus more transmissible.\n\nIt comes as a further 1,248 people with coronavirus have died in the UK.\n\nThe latest government figures on Thursday also showed another 48,682 new cases had been reported.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest estimate for the reproduction (R) number in the UK - which represents the average number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to - is between 1.2 and 1.3.\n\nLast week it was estimated at between 1 and 1.4 by the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies.\n\nWhen the figure is above 1, the number of cases increases exponentially.\n\nDespite other variants entering the country since, the Kent variant remains dominant in the UK and is believed to be 30-50% more infectious than the previous form of the virus.\n\nViruses acquire random changes to their genes constantly as they replicate.\n\nMany are neutral or even hurt the virus's ability to spread, but those that give it an advantage will become more common.\n\nMutations are being detected now because enough time has passed for those random changes to take hold.\n\nEven though there is no evidence any of these mutations make the virus more deadly, a virus that infects more people is likely to have a higher death toll.\n\nWhen the virus gets better at sticking onto and breaking into human cells, in theory someone exposed to the same dose is more likely to become ill.\n\nThe use of masks and personal protective equipment, social distancing and hand washing remain the best defences against the virus's spread.\n\nDowning Street said current evidence did not suggest the concerning Brazilian variant affected vaccines or treatment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Shapps described the travel ban, which came into force at 04:00 GMT on Friday, as a \"precautionary\" measure.\n\nIt covers people who have travelled from or through, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela in the last 10 days.\n\nThe ban also applies to Portugal - because of its strong links to Brazil - and the former Portuguese colony of Cape Verde off the coast of west Africa, as well as Panama in central America.\n\nBritish and Irish citizens and foreign nationals with residence rights are still allowed to return - but must isolate for 10 days.\n\nAlso exempt are hauliers who are travelling from Portugal to transport essential goods.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, an epidemiologist who is part of the government's Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling, said the travel ban should minimise the risk from a \"more transmissible\" variant.\n\n\"We always have this issue with travel bans, of course, that we're always a little bit behind the curve,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"My understanding is that there haven't really been any flights coming from Brazil for about the past week, so hopefully the immediate travel ban should really minimise the risk.\"\n\nDowning Street said it acted \"as quickly as possible\" to impose the travel ban because the concerning Brazilian variant \"could pose a significant risk to the UK\".\n\nHowever, Portugal's government has described the ban as \"absurd\" and illogical\".\n\nThe country's minister of foreign affairs Augusto Santos Silva said he had requested a conversation with his British counterpart after the \"sudden and unexpected\" suspension of flights.\n\nHe added Portugal was already restricting flights from Brazil and there was \"no evidence\" the new variant existed in his country.", "Police investigations have been compromised by an error that led to hundreds of thousands of records being deleted from UK-wide databases, according to a letter seen by the BBC.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said 213,000 records were deleted - more than the 150,000 first reported.\n\nThis resulted in a couple of \"near misses\" for serious crimes when trying to identify an offender, it said.\n\nThe Home Office has said it is assessing the impact of the mistake.\n\nData including fingerprint, DNA, and arrest histories was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nThe Home Office said the lost entries related to people who were arrested and then released without further action.\n\nBut the letter from the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) says officers are aware of at least one instance where the DNA profile from a suspect in custody did not generate a match to a crime scene as expected, potentially impeding the investigation.\n\nIt says that some of the records had been marked for indefinite retention following earlier convictions for serious offences.\n\nAnd it reveals that a \"weeding system\", developed and deployed by a Home Office PNC team, started to delete records wrongly last November.\n\nThe process was only brought to a halt at the start of this week.\n\nThe letter was sent on Friday afternoon by Deputy Chief Constable Naveed Malik of the NPCC to chief constables and police and crime commissioners.\n\nThe deletion of the records has been blamed on a coding error.\n\nThis resulted in records that had been flagged for deletion being lost from the database before checks had been carried out to determine whether they could be lawfully held or not.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse said the problem had been identified and the process corrected so \"it cannot happen again\".\n\nHe said the Home Office, National Police Chiefs' Council and other law enforcement partners were working \"at pace\" to recover the data.\n\nThe Home Office said no records of criminal or dangerous persons had been deleted.\n\nBut Labour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Home Secretary Priti Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he described the situation as \"extraordinarily serious\", adding: \"Priti Patel will be responsible for criminals walking free. We're not going to be able to link suspects to crime scenes without the DNA and fingerprint evidence.\"\n\nA home office source said the accusation was \"scaremongering and irresponsible\".\n\nFormer Cumbria Police Chief Constable Stuart Hyde told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Friday the \"very large\" loss of arrest records presented a \"risk to public safety\".\n\nThe records are linked to police investigations that were terminated before charge (No Further Action or NFA cases) or to those where an individual had been acquitted at court.\n\nIt is not yet known how many records of each type were lost and full extent of deletions is still being investigated. A minister is expected to update the House of Commons on Monday.\n\nIt comes after about 40,000 alerts relating to European criminals were removed from the PNC following the UK's post-Brexit security deal with the EU.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The pharmacy in Gwynedd is offering the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab\n\nA pharmacy has become the first in Wales to offer Covid jabs, as community vaccine trials begin.\n\nFifty people with appointments are to visit the pharmacy near Pwllheli, Gwynedd, on Friday to receive their first shot of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThe pilot has begun in pharmacies in Betsi Cadwaladr health board.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said community pharmacists can help with vaccinations \"in more than one way\".\n\nIt follows a letter from Community Pharmacy Wales to Wales' health minister which said there was an \"urgent need\" to use pharmacies in Wales to help roll out coronavirus vaccines.\n\nUK Government figures show 126,375 people in Wales, 4% of the population, have received their first coronavirus jab so far.\n\nThat compares with 4.1% (224,840) in Scotland, 4.9% in England (2,769,164) and 6% (114,567) in Northern Ireland.\n\nHundreds more pharmacies in Wales will offer the jab in the next two weeks.\n\nRosie Bennett, one of the patients to receive a vaccination at Fferyllwyr H L Taylor Pharmacy in Llanbedrog, said getting her vaccine was a \"small step to a better future\".\n\nThe 82-year-old said: \"I don't have a car, so it was a huge relief to know that I wouldn't have to travel a long distance to have the vaccine.\n\n\"Here in the village, we know the staff at the chemists. They've been doing a great job during the pandemic and it's reassuring to have the vaccine from someone you know.\"\n\nSteffan John, the pharmacist who administered the vaccine to Rosie, said the staff are \"really pleased to do their bit for the community\".\n\nPharmacist Llyr Hughes, who runs four pharmacies, including Fferyllwyr H L Taylor Pharmacy, said \"vaccinating at scale\" was the \"only way out of the pandemic\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Wales Breakfast, Mr Hughes said he expected the rollout to happen \"very quickly across all community pharmacies in Wales\".\n\n\"I don't forsee any big problems,\" he said.\n\n\"Community pharmacists have a wealth of experience in delivering flu vaccinations.\n\n\"We will tailor our work model to accommodate for this, as we did for the flu vaccine.\"\n\nMr Hughes said his pharmacy will have vaccinated in the region of more than 100 people by Saturday afternoon.\n\nHe added: \"If we can deliver locally we can provide easier access to older patients.\"\n\nHe explained local patients would be contacted about an appointment for the vaccine at the pharmacy.\n\nMr John said that the vaccine comes in vials of ten doses which means it's \"important to vaccinate that many people at a time and not to waste any\".\n\nLlyr Hughes who runs Fferyllwyr H L Taylor Pharmacy said 50 patients will be vaccinated today\n\nHowever, Mr Drakeford told Friday's Welsh Government press briefing that not all pharmacy premises would be suitable to deliver the Covid vaccines.\n\nHe said some community pharmacists could be asked to administer vaccinations at mass vaccination centres instead, in cases where spaces for vaccinations are small at pharmacies with high volumes of people.\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the rollout was still in the \"early stages\" of the \"largest vaccination programme Wales has ever seen\".\n\n\"People can be expected to be asked to attend either a mass or community centre, hospital, GP practice, pharmacy or mobile unit,\" he added.\n\nMr Gething said a mix of vaccination sites and centres were chosen so \"everyone across the country has equal access to a vaccination\".\n\nHe added that people will be notified for an appointment, and before that they should not call GPs or health services to request a vaccine and \"add undue pressure\" to their workloads.\n\nPlaid Cymru's health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said Wales' vaccination programme was \"improving far, far too slowly\".\n\n\"As important as it is that we have one pharmacy doing it, what's happening in all the others?\"\n\nPaul Davies, leader of the Conservatives in the Senedd, said it was clear Wales was \"lagging behind\" the rest of the UK on delivering the vaccinations.\n\n\"It's certainly not happening quickly enough, we need to see the Welsh Government stepping up to the plate,\" he said.\n\nThe Welsh Government has said more pharmacists and other primary care services, such as dentists and opticians - are being invited to help with the rollout, subject to vaccine supply.", "The UK's epidemic is still officially estimated to be growing, according to the latest R number, but data suggests new cases are beginning to fall.\n\nThe R number - which takes into account cases, hospitalisations and deaths - is estimated to be between 1.2 and 1.3, compared with 1 and 1.4 last week.\n\nThis suggests the total number of people with the virus is still rising across the UK.\n\nBut in London, where tight restrictions came in earlier, the R number is lower.\n\nIn the capital, the estimate - based on data up until 11 January - is between 0.9 and 1.2, compared with 1.1 and 1.4 the previous week.\n\nIt comes as a further 1,280 people with coronavirus have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive test, taking the total to 87,291.\n\nThe latest government figures on Friday also showed another 55,761 new cases had been reported.\n\nMeanwhile, more than three million people in the UK have now received the first dose of a vaccine - latest figures show the number at 3,234,946.\n\nAlthough the number of people sick with coronavirus is growing in the UK, data from various sources suggests new infections are declining.\n\nThis provides early signs that lockdown restrictions may be taking effect.\n\nThe government's scientific advisory group Sage, which calculates the R number, said areas that have been under tougher restrictions for a longer period of time - including east of England, London, and the south east - are showing \"a slight decline in the number of people infected\".\n\nHowever, they warned that regions such as north-west and south-west England continue to see infections rise, where the spread of the new UK variant may be playing a role.\n\nThe R number is a way of rating coronavirus or any disease's ability to spread. In theory, it describes the number of people that one infected person will pass the virus onto, on average.\n\nIn reality, though, the government's estimate of R gives a wider view of the epidemic's general trend since it also looks at what is happening in hospitals.\n\nCases, hospitalisations and deaths from Covid-19 have been alarmingly high since the beginning of the year and the latest estimate of the R number indicates that the pandemic is continuing to grow.\n\nBut because of the way the data to estimate R is collected - it reflects the situation a week ago. More up to date indicators suggest that there's a slight decline in infections in the east of England, London, and the South East.\n\nThese areas have had the highest prevalence and therefore the toughest restrictions the longest but infections are continuing to rise in the North West and South West probably because of the spread of the new variant of the virus.\n\nDespite this there's some relief at these figures among the government's scientific advisors. They were not sure whether the current restrictions would be enough to prevent the more contagious variant getting out of control. Now they expect Covid-related deaths to level off in a week or so and then decline as the benefits of the vaccine programme begin to take effect.\n\nCases should also begin to decrease in the coming weeks. But all this depends on people continuing to observe the government's social distancing guidelines - and come into contact with others only if it is essential.\n\nProf Sir David Spiegelhalter, a statistician at the University of Cambridge, said coronavirus deaths were likely to peak in the next week to 10 days.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's The World At One that the lockdown measures were having an impact, with the peak in infections having passed \"a good few days ago\" which would lead to a reduction in the numbers dying from the disease.\n\n\"They are likely to level off in a week - 10 days maybe - at a peak which is probably going to be bigger than the first wave peak of 1,000-a-day, but then should decline due the reductions in cases that we are seeing and, of course, the vaccine programme.\"\n\nData from the ZOE Covid Symptom Study app gives its own estimate of 0.9 for the virus's R or reproduction number. This is based on cases alone, rather than a wider number of data sources included in the official estimate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the R number and what does it mean?\n\nWhile this leaves out the fact that hospitals are still filling up, looking at cases on their own allows assessment of whether lockdown restrictions are working.\n\nBut the large number of infections recorded at the end of December and the beginning of January means, despite receding cases, hospitalisations and deaths will inevitably continue to rise for some time.\n\nMeanwhile, a ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde entering the UK came into force on Friday as a result of a new, potentially more infectious strain linked to Brazil.\n\nProf Wendy Barclay, a scientist at Imperial College London advising the government, said this \"variant of concern\" had not been detected in the UK but another variant from Brazil was already in circulation.\n\nIt is not clear whether this second strain is more contagious or not.", "Ambulances were lined up outside the Royal London Hospital on Thursday\n\nCovid patients have been transferred to hospitals in Newcastle from over-stretched London intensive care units.\n\nA small number, fewer than five, have been moved hundreds of miles from the south east, the BBC has been told.\n\nHospitals with the largest critical care capacity have been asked to take patients from other areas to ease pressures.\n\nHowever, NHS England has denied that patients have been transferred to Newcastle from London.\n\nThe patient transfers were first reported by The Guardian.\n\nIt is not uncommon for patients to be transferred from one busy hospital to another within the region, but moving the sick from out of their areas is unusual.\n\nThe North of England Critical Care Network, which co-ordinates provision in the North East, north Cumbria and North Yorkshire, confirmed patients had been moved from other parts of England.\n\nIn statement, director Lesley Durham said: \"During this pandemic and at these times of unprecedented pressures, we have ensured equity of patient access to critical care though mutual aid between units in the form of critical care patient transfers.\n\n\"We are also working with our colleagues and networks further afield.\n\n\"Whilst not ideal, it is correct to ensure that every person, regardless of location, has access to a critical care bed if they require one.\"\n\nOne medical expert described transferring people across the country as \"a challenge\"\n\nElsewhere, Northampton General Hospital - which is about 70 miles from London - has been receiving critical care patients from outside its area.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Some patients have been transferred to our critical care unit in recent weeks from other parts of the country, including London.\n\n\"We currently have one 'out-of-area' patient, but they are not from London.\"\n\nNHS England said in a statement: \"The NHS has tried and tested plans in place to manage significant pressure either from high Covid-19 infection rates and non-Covid winter demands and this has always included mutual aid practices whereby hospitals work together to manage admissions.\"\n\nIt added that no patients had been transferred from London to Newcastle, Birmingham, Northampton or Sheffield.\n\nAcross England in the week to 12 January, there were 32,202 patients in hospital with Covid-19, a rise of 5,735 on the previous week.\n\nIn the week up to 10 January there were 330,616 new cases.\n\nHospitals across the North East are already seeing many more patients than the first wave of the pandemic, and the next few weeks are likely to be the toughest yet.\n\nBut right now some - like Newcastle - have room in intensive care and are being asked to take patients from critical care units in the south which have become overwhelmed and run out of room.\n\nNewcastle and Northumbria NHS trusts have already been taking in patients from across their own patch - most notably from Cumbria where there are not nearly enough intensive care beds for the soaring numbers of Covid patients.\n\nBut patient numbers are growing in the North East's hospitals too, and many are already struggling.\n\nThey expect next week will be the worst week they have experienced yet.\n\nTo prepare, elective work is being postponed, wards are being cleared to take in new patients, and intensive care units are being expanded.\n\nConcerns have been raised about seriously-ill patients travelling such long distances.\n\nDr Uwe Franke, intensive care lead at Middlesbrough's James Cook Hospital, said: \"The critical care networks work regionally and nationally and are trying to spread the workload about the country without pushing other units to their limits or out of the durability of their capacity.\n\n\"But there is a difficulty in this; we know that Covid patients are incredibly ill, they are dependent on breathing machines, they are dependent on other machines that need organ support.\n\n\"To transfer these people across the country is quite a challenge.\"\n\nDr Franke added that while hospitals in the North were keen to support colleagues across the country, some - like his own - were already reaching their limit.\n\nHis hospital currently has in excess of 200 Covid patients, with 32 of those in intensive care.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "Dustin Diamond made his name as the studious \"Screech\" in the US sitcom Saved by the Bell\n\nSaved by The Bell actor Dustin Diamond has been diagnosed with cancer, his representative has said.\n\nThe 44-year-old, who played Samuel \"Screech\" Powers in the popular 1990s US school-based sitcom, fell ill last week and was taken to hospital.\n\nHis representative, Roger Paul, said the actor is now waiting for further details.\n\n\"We will know the severity of it when the tests are done,\" Paul said, adding they expect an update next week.\n\nSaved by the Bell ran for four seasons from 1989 to 1993 and followed a group of high school friends and their principal.\n\nDiamond reprised his role in follow-up series Saved by the Bell: The New Class, and Saved by the Bell: The College Years. But he did not appear in the recent revival series.\n\nThe American was also a contestant on Celebrity Big Brother in 2013.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A 24m section of the bridge parapet collapsed one mile from where a fatal crash took place\n\nPart of a rail bridge has collapsed near the site of the fatal Stonehaven train derailment.\n\nA 24m (79ft) section of the side wall has fallen from the bridge, about a mile north of where three people died when a train left the track and crashed last August.\n\nNetwork Rail said it was a \"structural fault\" and not caused by a landslip.\n\nThe line between Aberdeen and Dundee remains closed while structural engineers assess the fault.\n\nThe structure is located three miles north of Carmont signal box. The collapse was discovered just before 10:00 on Friday.\n\nThe rail company said the damage to the parapet was \"extensive\" and that the line was expected to be closed for a \"significant\" period of time while repairs to the bridge take place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Network Rail Scotland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Network Rail Twitter account told followers engineers would be working around the clock to complete repairs.\n\nSpecialist staff are also checking similar bridges as a precaution.\n\nThe line between Aberdeen and Dundee had just reopened in November, nearly three months after the Stonehaven derailment.\n\nThe driver, a conductor and a passenger died when the Aberdeen to Glasgow service derailed near Stonehaven on 12 August after heavy rain.\n\nNetwork Rail Scotland carried out \"complex\" repairs at the scene of the derailment\n\nAn interim report said the train hit washed-out rocks and gravel.\n\nA Network Rail spokesman said: \"The line is currently closed while our engineers repair a damaged side wall on a bridge between Carmont and Stonehaven.\n\n\"Specialist structural engineers are currently assessing the fault and putting plans in place for its repair.\n\n\"Our engineers will be working around-the-clock to complete this work as quickly as possible.\"", "Passengers will need to provide a negative Covid-19 test taken within 72 hours before departure\n\nPassengers arriving into NI from outside the UK and Republic of Ireland will soon have to produce a negative Covid-19 test before departure.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster confirmed the executive had agreed the plan on Thursday.\n\nPeople arriving from countries not on the government's travel corridors list will also still have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe move has already been agreed in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nPassengers arriving there will be subject to the new rules from Saturday, with the measure taking effect in England and Scotland from Monday.\n\nNegative tests 72 hours prior to arrival are already a requirement in the Republic of Ireland for passengers travelling from Great Britain and South Africa.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's press conference on Thursday, the first minister said Northern Ireland's R-number had also fallen to between 0.7 and 0.9 for new cases of the virus.\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R rate, measures the infection rate of Covid-19 and had risen to about 1.8 due to Christmas relaxations.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said the drop showed the \"very real\" effect of lockdown restrictions imposed on 26 December, but she warned there was still \"no room for complacency\".\n\nShe said she still believed there needed to be an \"two-island approach\" to travel restrictions, including discussions with the British and Irish governments as a \"matter of urgency\".\n\nMrs Foster said Stormont ministers had also expressed frustration at the executive meeting over a lack of data-sharing from authorities in the Republic of Ireland, and called for it to be escalated.\n\nPSNI Chief Constable (centre) Simon Byrne attended Stormont's press briefing on Thursday with the first and deputy first ministers\n\nPSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne said 40 penalty notices a day are being handed out to those who breach the Covid-19 regulations.\n\nHe told the press briefing that if people continued flouting rules, they could expect \"firm and swift enforcement\".\n\n\"We won't turn a blind eye when people break the rules.\"\n\nOn Thursday, 16 more deaths related to Covid-19 were reported by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland, bringing its total to 1,533.\n\nThere have been 973 new cases diagnosed in the past 24 hours, while 58 Covid-19 patients are being treated in ICUs across Northern Ireland, of which 44 are on ventilators.\n\nMrs Foster said she found it \"incredible and frankly unbelievable\" that some people were still holding house parties and gatherings, despite the pandemic rates and the lockdown.\n\nOn Wednesday, health officials warned that levels of the new, more transmissible variant of the virus are rising.\n\nMr Swann said that meant more \"difficult decisions\" on lockdown restrictions could be required.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThe executive is due to review the current restrictions on 21 January.\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers said they would take evidence from health officials before deciding whether an extension of the lockdown would be required.\n\nMinisters have expressed concerns about keeping non-essential parts of businesses open\n\nMinisters have also expressed concerns about some larger retailers \"gaming\" the regulations and keeping open non-essential parts of their businesses.\n\nA meeting between the first and deputy first ministers and representatives of the retail sector is due to happen on Friday afternoon.\n\nElsewhere, the Chief Medical Officer has confirmed that unpaid carers looking after Clinically Extremely Vulnerable individuals should receive the first dose of their vaccine when phase two of the vaccination programme begins next month.\n\nDr Michael McBride told Stormont's Health Committee they are provided for on a list of prioritisation provided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which decides the order of vaccination delivery.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Department of Health This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Department of Health\n\nMr Swann was asked if his department was \"putting all its eggs in the vaccine basket\".\n\nHe said it was \"not the entirety of the answer\", adding: \"It will take time for the benefits of it to bed in.\n\n\"And while it is doing it, we still have to follow those restrictions that are in place.\n\n\"We may actually have to introduce more.\"\n\nOn Thursday afternoon the department tweeted that 121,711 vaccines have been administered in Northern Ireland.\n\nMrs Foster said that by end of this month, it is hoped all care home residents, health staff and those aged over 80 in Northern Ireland will have received their first vaccination.\n\nShe said that would be an \"incredible achievement\" and make Northern Ireland one of the top-performing countries in rolling out its vaccination programme.\n\nMeanwhile, the chairman of the Police Federation for NI (PFNI) has said officers need more powers to enforce Covid-19 regulations.\n\nAt present officers can only issue guidance and advice on the public health regulations.\n\nPFNI chairman Mark Lindsay said that puts officers in a \"difficult position\".\n\nThe federation represents thousands of rank and file PSNI officers.\n\n\"I think we are well past the stage where police officers are the people that should be giving advice around the guidance,\" Mr Lindsay told BBC Radio Foyle.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rescuers pull a woman from the rubble after the 6.2 magnitude earthquake\n\nA powerful earthquake has rocked Indonesia's Sulawesi island, killing at least 42 people, with more feared dead as rescuers search for survivors.\n\nThe 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck on Friday morning, just hours after an earlier, smaller tremor.\n\nHundreds of people were injured and thousands displaced by the quake.\n\nIndonesia has a history of devastating earthquakes and tsunamis, with more than 2,000 killed in a 2018 Sulawesi quake.\n\nEight people died when the five-storey Mitra Manakarra Hospital in Mamuju partially collapsed on Friday, officials said. About 60 people were safely evacuated from the hospital.\n\n\"It happened so quickly, around 10 seconds,\" Syamsu Ridwan, a local police spokesman, told the BBC. He said the power in the hospital cut out during the earthquake.\n\nOfficials fear the death toll will increase as rescue efforts continue. Rescuers were still searching for survivors late on Friday, but they have been hampered by power cuts and poor mobile phone service.\n\nIndonesian President Joko Widodo offered condolences to the victims, urging people to stay calm and for the authorities to step up search efforts.\n\nThe epicentre of Friday's quake was six kilometres (3.73 miles) northeast of Majene city at a depth of 10km.\n\nVideo footage on social media showed collapsed houses and a girl pinned under rubble calling for help.\n\nThe situation was \"pretty bad\", Dr Gayatri Marliyani, of the geology department at Gajah Mada University in Yogyakarta, told the BBC. She said the governor's office was among the collapsed buildings and confirmed that several hospitals and one hotel had also been damaged.\n\nShe also warned that getting response teams to the area could be hampered by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nTremors were felt at around 01:00 local time on Friday (17:00 Thursday GMT) for about seven seconds.\n\nNo tsunami warning was issued but thousands are reported to have left their homes, fleeing to safety.\n\nAuthorities have warned that strong aftershocks could follow the two main quakes and that they could still trigger a tsunami.\n\nIndonesia is prone to earthquakes because it lies on the so-called Ring of Fire - a line of frequent quakes and volcanic eruptions on the Pacific rim.\n\nIn 2004, a tsunami triggered by an earthquake off the Indonesian island of Sumatra killed 226,000 people across the Indian Ocean, including more than 120,000 in Indonesia.\n\nThe Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 killed 170,000 people on the Indonesian island of Sumatra after a quake of magnitude 9.1.\n\nAre you in the area? If it is safe to do so, share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Police officers who were targeted by a pro-Trump mob have been speaking out about the \"medieval battle\" that unfolded on the steps of the Capitol and inside the halls of American democracy last week.\n\nPolice faced off against rioters equipped with clubs, shields, pitchforks, firearms, and metal poles stripped from seating set up for next week's inauguration.\n\nHere's what we've learned from their interviews with US media.\n\nMichael Fanone, a 40-year-old DC plainclothes narcotics detective who was told to wear his uniform that day, rushed to the West Terrace of the Capitol where he took turns holding back the crowd, and resting to rinse his face of the the chemical irritants that that crowd was spraying on police.\n\n\"We weren't battling 50 or 60 rioters in this tunnel,\" the MPD (Metropolitan Police Department of District of Columbia) veteran told the Washington Post. \"We were battling 15,000 people. It looked like a medieval battle scene.\"\n\nAfter he was grabbed by his helmet and dragged face-first down several steps, he said the crowd started stripping gear from his vest, including spare ammo, his radio and his badge - all while chanting \"USA!\".\n\nMichael Fanone, a DC detective, was dragged into the crowd and beaten\n\n\"We got one! We got one!\" Mr Fanone said he heard people shout, with others chanting: \"Kill him with his own gun!\"\n\nSome members of the crowd protected him after he started yelling that he has children, the father of four told CNN. He sustained only minor injuries but later found out in hospital that he had suffered a mild heart attack during the brawl.\n\nMPD Officer Daniel Hodges, 32, had already been on shift for several hours before the rioting began.\n\n\"We were battling, you know, tooth and nail for our lives,\" he told ABC News.\n\nIn one viral video, Mr Hodges is seen pinned in a glass doorway between officers and the crowd, as rioters strip his gas mask from his face and beat him with his own police-issued baton. One rioter tried to gouge his eyes.\n\n\"That was one of the three times that day where I thought: Well, this might be it,\" said Mr Hodges. \"This might be the end for me.\"\n\nAs he choked on tear gas, he is seen on video gasping for air to call out for help. Enough police were eventually able to push through the melee to extract him.\n\n\"I had conspiracy theorists and everyone you could think of yelling at me, saying, 'Why are you doing this, you're the traitor,'\" Mr Hodges told radio station WAMU.\n\n\"We're not the traitors. We're the ones who saved Congress that day, and we'll do it as many times as necessary.\"\n\nDespite fearing for his life, Mr Hodges says he decided not to use his gun on the crowd.\n\n\"I didn't want to be the guy who starts shooting, because I knew they had guns - we had been seizing guns all day,\" he told the Post.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRobert Glover, the commander on scene for MPD, declared a riot at 13:50 local time, nearly two hours after Trump's speech at the White House where he instructed his followers to go to the Capitol.\n\nHe quickly told officers to retake the inauguration bleachers, to stop the crowd from raining down heavy objects on officers from above.\n\nMr Glover told the Post that some rioters may have been caught up in the moment, but others seemed to be moving in \"military formation\" as if they had prepared for the assault. He said that some appeared to be using hand signals to co-ordinate tactics.\n\nSeveral US military veterans, as well as off-duty police officers from Virginia, Maryland and Texas, have since been suspended or arrested for participating in the riot.\n\nMPD Officer Christina Laury, 32, was among the first city police officers to arrive on the scene. When she got to the Capitol, officers were already being brutally attacked by rioters attempting to storm the building.\n\n\"They had bear mace, which is literally used for bears. I got hit with it plenty of times that day and it just seals your eyes shut. You just would see officers going down trying to douse themselves with water, trying to open their eyes up so they can see again.\"\n\n\"The bravery and the heroism that I saw in these officers - the second they were able to open their eyes, they were back up front and they were just trying to stop these individuals from coming in.\"\n\nOne officer being lauded as a hero has yet to speak about his experience - Officer Eugene Goodman, a member of Congress' 2,100 member Capitol Police force.\n\nMr Goodman, an African American Iraq War veteran, was seen singlehandedly distracting a rampaging mob, giving lawmakers enough time to clear the chamber and get to safety.\n\nOn Thursday, a cross-party group of lawmakers introduced a bill calling for him to receive the Congressional Gold Medal for his effort to defend democracy.\n\nThe Capitol Police have been criticised over their response and preparation.\n\nSeveral top Capitol security officials, including the Capitol Police chief and the sergeants-at-arms for the House and Senate, resigned in the wake of the siege amid claims from lawmakers that they had not done enough to prepare for the mob.\n\nProtesters climbed the bleachers that were erected for Biden's inauguration\n\nOn Friday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced General Russel Honoré would be leading an immediate investigation of the Capitol's security infrastructure.\n\nVideo footage has also emerged showing an officer taking a selfie with a rioter inside the Capitol. Some officers reportedly gave directions to rioters telling them how to get to the offices of Democratic lawmakers.\n\nSeveral Capitol Police officers have been suspended for allegedly violating policies as the agency conducts an internal probe.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA respiratory doctor at Belfast's Mater Hospital has warned that hospital oxygen supplies are under \"extreme pressure\".\n\nDr Nick Magee also said more younger patients were now being treated in hospital than during the first and second waves of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nHe said in the past they did not have to consult other NI hospitals about how much oxygen they had.\n\n\"That was never a thing in previous January flu problems,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"But that is something we are now having to think of,\" he added.\n\nEarlier this week Northern Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride said there is enough oxygen to cope with the current demand.\n\nBut according to Dr Magee the current level of oxygen being used in \"bays\" at the Mater means patients cannot charge their mobile phones by their bedside because of the \"fire risk\".\n\n\"It is all well controlled and we are making sure that we can share out that oxygen burden. That is something we are having to think about,\" he said.\n\n\"I can't say specifically about other regional hospitals but I know that they are under extreme pressure and it's just something we have to think of as a region.\n\n\"Can we supply oxygen adequately for the amounts of oxygen we are using in hospitals?\"\n\nThe number of Covid positive hospital in-patients has increased significantly since last week - up from 599 a week ago to 850 on Thursday.\n\nThe number of people in ICU has also risen from 44 to 58 in the past week.\n\nDr Magee said staff were concerned about having to cope with \"large volumes\" of patients requiring respiratory support.\n\nHe said the number of younger patients becoming increasingly sick with the virus was growing.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Mater Hospital moved six patients who had been on wards into ICU and also took patients from the Southern Health Trust.\n\n\"Recently I saw a 29-year-old patient, also three who were in their mid 30s that all required respiratory support on a ward,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"They are frightened they are wearing specialist masks CPAP masks that help them breathe. They are scared.\"\n\nThe relentless pressure of the past 10 months and the prospect of a further surge in admissions over the next fortnight is weighing heavily on the minds of medics.\n\n\"We are really worried about next week,\" said Dr Magee.\n\n\"It's very busy this week, we are coping well but we are particularly concerned about next week.\n\n\"Normally, if we had somebody who needed a lot of respiratory support we would involve a high dependency unit but all the respiratory wards are becoming like high dependency units.\n\n\"Volume of sicker, younger patients is much greater and it's not something that I would [have] ever seen before,\" he added.\n\nThe Southern Health and Social Care Trust said its hospitals had limited infrastructure to manage high numbers of patients requiring oxygen so a regional agreement was in place to share resources across Trusts to support Covid-positive patients.\n\n\"As a result some patients have been diverted to Belfast or SE Trust to help reduce pressure on the Southern Trust hospital system,\" a statement said.\n\n\"Craigavon and Daisy Hill hospitals remain very busy with high numbers of Covid-19 positive patients who are dependent on oxygen therapy.\n\n\"These protocols are in place as part of regional surge planning to ensure that we can safely manage the current high volume of Covid-19 patients needing hospital care.\n\n\"Patients who are currently being treated in Craigavon and Daisy Hill have secure supplies of oxygen.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Derby\n\nChampionship side Derby County have appointed England's record goalscorer Wayne Rooney as their new manager on a two-and-a-half-year contract.\n\nThe 35-year-old, who had been in interim charge since Phillip Cocu was sacked on 14 November, has now also officially retired as a player.\n\nRooney has overseen nine games so far, winning three and drawing four.\n\n\"The opportunity to follow Brian Clough, Jim Smith, Frank Lampard and Phillip Cocu is an honour,\" he said.\n\n\"I knew instinctively Derby County was the place for me.\"\n\nLiam Rosenior takes up the role of assistant manager, with former England boss Steve McClaren continuing as technical director and advisor to the board of directors.\n\nShay Given will become first-team coach and Justin Walker will remain as first-team development coach.\n\nThe Rams are third from bottom in the Championship, level on points with fourth-from-bottom Sheffield Wednesday.\n\nA takeover for the club is expected to go through this week, with a deal between current owner Mel Morris and the Derventio Holdings Group having been agreed in November.\n\nRams chief executive Stephen Pearce said in an interview with BBC Radio Derby on Thursday that there were no problems with the takeover, despite the delays meaning players have not been paid their December wages.\n\n\"Our recent upturn in results under Wayne was married together with some positive performances, notably the 2-0 home win over Swansea City and the 4-0 victory at Birmingham City,\" said Pearce.\n\n\"During that nine-game run we also dramatically improved their defensive record and registered five clean sheets in the process, while in the attacking third we became more effective and ruthless too.\n\n\"Those foundations have provided a platform for the club to build on in the second half of the season.\"\n\nRooney made his professional debut for boyhood club Everton in August 2002 aged just 16 and became the Premier League's youngest scorer with a superb long-range goal against Arsenal before his 17th birthday.\n\nAfter a strong Euro 2004 he moved to Manchester United for £27m, then a world record fee for a teenager.\n\nDuring 13 years with United he won the Premier League five times, the Champions League, the FA Cup and three League Cups.\n\nHis time with England was less successful in terms of team honours, although he did break Sir Bobby Charlton's long-standing record of 49 goals before retiring from international football in August 2017.\n\nHe made a farewell appearance for the Three Lions against the United States in a friendly in November 2018 to finish with 53 goals in 120 appearances.\n\nAfter a second stint at Everton and a spell with American side DC United, Rooney joined Derby in January 2020 as a player-coach on an initial 18-month contract.\n\nHe retires as the second-highest goalscorer in Premier League history, with 208 goals.\n\nWayne Rooney's presence at Derby County was felt on that hot August evening in 2019 when Phillip Cocu won his first match as manager at Huddersfield, a result overshadowed by the announcement of his signing.\n\nRooney's ambition to become a manager was there for all to see when chairman Mel Morris afforded him the opportunity to be a player-coach on arrival in January. He in fact arrived a few months before that but was unable to play, and stayed low key, observing from the sidelines.\n\nA year ago this month he made an instant impact to Derby's fortunes on the field. Players who were underachieving and perhaps found the grind of the Championship a little hard to handle, were taken up a notch by his presence.\n\nSome would say Rooney saved the Rams' season, but this term he struggled on the field and so did Derby.\n\nI am told it was written into his contract that he would have a chance to take control one day and he has already shown in his nine games in interim charge that he can get the squad playing in his image. Gone is the side-to-side, slow build-up possession game, it is a better product to watch.\n\nThe people around him have good pedigree in the game. Shay Given, Liam Rosenior, Justin Walker and Jason Pearcey have experience at all levels - but his relationship with Steve McClaren will be the most important of all.\n\nDerby fans have been calling out for a positive piece of news. Rooney's appointment is the first duck in a row with the takeover expected to be completed any time now and then Championship survival is the hope.\n• None Hear how David Bowie always managed to stay ahead of his time\n• None Joe Wicks and guests are here to bring positivity to your day", "A man accused of allegedly tricking a 92-year-old woman out of £160 for a fake coronavirus vaccination has been charged with fraud and common assault.\n\nDavid Chambers is accused of administering the fake vaccine at her Surbiton home in London last month.\n\nThe 33-year-old, also from Surbiton, is charged with five offences including fraud and going outside in a tier four area without a good reason.\n\nHe denied the charges when he appeared before magistrates on Friday.\n\nMr Chambers was remanded in custody until a hearing on 12 February.\n\nIn the UK, coronavirus vaccines are free of charge and available via the NHS.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marcus Rashford and a group of celebrity chefs and campaigners have called on Boris Johnson to review the government's free school meals policy.\n\nThe group, including Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Tom Kerridge, have written to the PM asking him to \"fix\" the system long-term.\n\nThey called for a strategy to help \"end child food poverty\" before the summer holidays.\n\nNo 10 said \"no child will ever go hungry\" because of the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe call for a wide review comes after another row over free school meals during February half-term.\n\nThe government has said food will be provided to children by councils under the Covid Winter Grant Scheme while schools are closed for the holiday.\n\nCouncils and unions say the government should provide food vouchers instead, with the Local Government Association's Councillor Richard Watts telling BBC Radio 4's PM programme the grant had already been allocated for other support.\n\nBut Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We are down to semantics whether it is the school delivering the meal or whether it is the local authority - fortunately there is quite a lot of different support available.\"\n\nAs well as getting the backing of Rashford - who has led campaigns around child poverty over the course of the pandemic - the letter has been signed by chefs Oliver, Kerridge and Fearnley-Whittingstall, along with actor Dame Emma Thompson and over 40 charities and education leaders.\n\nOrganised by the Food Foundation charity, the letter said it was time to \"step back and review the policy in more depth\".\n\nThey called for an \"urgent comprehensive review into free school meal policy across the UK\" to feed into the government's next Spending Review, saying it should look at:\n\nThe signatories praised the Department for Education's \"swift response\" to reports earlier this week of inadequate food parcels sent to families, saying the \"robustness of the message from you and the secretary of state on this issue was very welcome\".\n\nBut, they added that \"following the series of problems which have arisen over school food vouchers, holiday provision and food parcels since the start of the pandemic\", now was the time for a review.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Kerridge: There has to be a solution to free school meals\n\nAnna Taylor, executive director of the Food Foundation charity, said the last few months had seen \"crisis after crisis with the provision of free school meals\".\n\n\"The result of that is disadvantaged children have often paid the price,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Our view is that really unless we do a root and branch review these problems are going to still keep appearing.\"\n\nChef Fearnley-Whittingstall also called for a more consistent, long-term response to the issue of food poverty.\n\n\"We need to get out of this fire-fighting, highly reactive series of actions by the government,\" he told the same programme.\n\nThe signatories want a review to be published and debated in Parliament before the 2021 summer holidays.\n\n\"We are ready and willing to support your government in whatever way we can to make this review a reality and to help develop a set of recommendations that everyone can support,\" the letter said.\n\n\"School food is essential in supporting the health and learning of our most disadvantaged children.\n\n\"Now, at a time when children have missed months of in-school learning and the pandemic has reminded us of the importance of our health, this is a vital next step.\"\n\nAnti-poverty campaigner and food writer Jack Monroe welcomed the letter to the PM, but told the BBC: \"We need to be feeding children right now.\"\n\nShe added: \"While it is great to be looking longer term... having an underpinning strategy that means that children aren't put into poverty in the first place, we need to also immediately be putting resources in to ensure people aren't going hungry, today, tonight, next week and in the February half-term.\n\n\"This isn't a rhetorical thing. It isn't a dinner party discussion. We need to be doing this now.\"\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said: \"It is great that celebrities and groups across society see the importance of school food. The PM thanks Marcus Rashford for his letter and will reply soon.\n\n\"School food is essential in supporting the health and learning of the most disadvantaged pupils. The prime minister has been clear that no child will ever go hungry as a result of the pandemic\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRichard Leonard has resigned as Scottish Labour leader, saying it is in the best interests of the party for him to stand down.\n\nMr Leonard said he believed speculation about his leadership had become a \"distraction\".\n\nAnd he said he would be stepping down with immediate effect.\n\nHis resignation comes just months ahead of the Scottish Parliament election, which is scheduled to be held in May.\n\nMr Leonard had been leader of the party for three years after succeeding Kezia Dugdale.\n\nThe former union official had faced open calls to quit from some of his own MSPs last year amid concerns that his leadership style could damage the party in the forthcoming Scottish Parliament election.\n\nPolls have suggested that many Scottish Labour supporters struggle to recognise him, and he is closely associated with former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nScottish Labour had dominated politics in Scotland for decades, but is currently the third largest party at Holyrood behind the SNP and Conservatives.\n\nAnd Mr Leonard's critics had questioned whether he was capable of turning the party's fortunes around.\n\nMr Leonard was seen as a close ally of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn\n\nIn a statement, Mr Leonard said the decision to resign had not been easy - but he felt it was the right one for him and his party.\n\nHe said: \"I have thought long and hard over the Christmas period about what this crisis means, and the approach Scottish Labour takes to help tackle it.\n\n\"I have also considered what the speculation about my leadership does to our ability to get Labour's message across. This has become a distraction.\n\n\"I have come to the conclusion it is in the best interests of the party that I step aside as leader of Scottish Labour with immediate effect.\"\n\nHe also insisted that Scotland now needs a Labour government more than ever, and accused both the Scottish and UK governments of mishandling the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Leonard added: \"While I step down from the leadership today, the work goes on - and I will play my constructive part as an MSP in winning support for Labour's vision of a better future in a democratic economy and a socialist society.\"\n\nHis decision leaves Scottish Labour looking for its fifth leader since the independence referendum in 2014 - with Johann Lamont, Jim Murphy and Kezia Dugdale all having held the job since then.\n\nA Procedures Committee, to oversee the election of Mr Leonard's successor, has been formed and will have its first meeting on Friday.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's Scottish Executive Committee will also meet in the coming days to agree a timetable for the process.\n\nMSP Jackie Baillie, who was Scottish Labour's deputy leader, has taken charge of the party on an interim basis.\n\nThis sudden resignation four months from the Holyrood elections seems to have taken Scottish Labour by surprise.\n\nMSPs I've spoken to said they did not see it coming.\n\nThere have been times when Richard Leonard has been under severe pressure from some in his party to stand down.\n\nWhen several MSPs publicly called for him to quit because the party had gone backwards at successive elections on his watch, he stood firm.\n\nHis critics seemed to have accepted that he would lead them and a divided party into the Holyrood election.\n\nThat has now changed and interim leader Jackie Baillie has to quickly organise a contest to replace him.\n\nIt's a contest in which Anas Sarwar, if he stands, would be an obvious frontrunner - even although he lost last time to Mr Leonard, who was seen as much closer to the then UK party leader, Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Leonard should be \"very proud\" of his achievements as leader of the party in Scotland.\n\nSir Keir added: \"I would like to thank Richard for his service to our party and his unwavering commitment to the values he believes in.\n\n\"Richard has led Scottish Labour through one of the most challenging and difficult periods in our country's history, including a general election and the pandemic.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Neil Findlay MSP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Leonard had been due to face a confidence vote at the party's ruling Executive Committee last September - but the motion was withdrawn at the last minute.\n\nIt came after four Scottish Labour MSPs called for him to go, warning that the party faced \"catastrophe\" at the ballot box under his leadership.\n\nThey pointed to the party's dismal performance in previous elections under Mr Leonard.\n\nScottish Labour finished fifth in the European election in May 2019, and then lost all but one of its MPs in the general election in December of the same year.\n\nMr Leonard insisted at the time that he intended to lead the party into this year's Holyrood election, and accused his opponents of waging \"internal war\" against him.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who faced Mr Leonard in her weekly question session in the Scottish Parliament, tweeted that she had \"always liked Richard Leonard\" despite their political difference.\n\nShe added: \"He is a decent guy and I wish him well for the future.\"\n\nRuth Davidson, who quit as leader of the Scottish Tories in 2019 before returning to lead the party at Holyrood, said she had always found Mr Leonard to be a \"thoroughly decent man and a committed campaigner.\"\n\nAnas Sarwar, who was defeated by Mr Leonard in the leadership contest in 2017 and is seen as one of the favourites to replace him, said he was sure Mr Leonard would \"continue to fight for a fairer, more just and more equal society today, tomorrow and long into the future.\"\n\nBut Labour MSP Neil Findlay, an outspoken supporter of Mr Leonard, took aim at those who had sought to oust him last year - describing them as \"flinching cowards\" and \"sneering traitors\".", "A rejuvenated Northumberland Line will help connect local communities to Newcastle city centre, say supporters\n\nTwo railway lines, closed to passengers since the 1960s, are to get almost £800m funding from the government.\n\nEast West Rail, which will eventually connect Oxford and Cambridge, will get £760m to open new parts of the line.\n\nThe Northumberland Line, which still carries freight, will get £34m for initial work aimed at reintroducing passenger services.\n\nReopening closed lines like these would help connect \"left-behind\" communities, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said.\n\n\"Restoring railways helps put communities back on the map and this investment forms part of our nationwide effort to build back vital connections and unlock access to jobs, education and housing,\" he said.\n\nThese investments would return these routes \"to their former glory\" and was part of the government's \"levelling up\" agenda, Mr Shapps added.\n\nDiesel engines will initially run on the lines, but Mr Shapps said he hoped more environmentally friendly trains, for example powered by hydrogen or new battery technology, would replace them in the future.\n\nWhen asked by the BBC why the lines wouldn't be electrified, he said these lines might potentially bypass the overhead wire technology altogether.\n\n\"We're building it in such a way that we can use, probably, the very latest technology, potentially, in the future,\" he said.\n\n\"The most important thing is the infrastructure,\" he said. \"It's about building the stations, things you need to do no matter what kind of train you're going to run on there, if it's going to take passengers.\"\n\nBut Labour MP Daniel Zeichner, who represents Cambridge, said: \"Every rail expert will tell you it will cost more later to electrify a line.\"\n\n\"In a time of climate emergency, we really shouldn't be building railway lines for diesel, it's got to be electric.\"\n\nThe line connecting Oxford and Cambridge would serve new housing developments, he said, and rail was \"the right way to get people in and out of a city like Cambridge\".\n\n\"It's very important for the UK economy, but it's got to be done in an environmentally sustainable way,\" he said. \"It seems crazy to be building new railways which aren't electrified in the first place, and I really hope the government will reconsider.\"\n\nThe East West Rail investment will rebuild a train line between Bicester and Bletchley which was closed in 1968.\n\nThe project is being delivered by a publicly-owned body called the East West Company.\n\nThe first phase of East West Rail, which was completed in 2016, connected Oxford and Bicester.\n\nBut at the moment, rail passengers wishing to go from Oxford to Bletchley have to take a detour via Coventry.\n\nThe aim is to get trains running between Oxford and Bletchley by 2025, with new stations at Winslow and Bletchley.\n\nThe Department for Transport said the works will create 1,500 jobs, and have a wider economic benefit for the area.\n\nThe eventual aim of the project, which the government expects to be completed by the end of the decade, is to connect Oxford and Cambridge by rail via Bedford, taking in Milton Keynes and Aylesbury on branches.\n\nThe Northumberland Line was closed to passengers in 1964 as part of a rationalisation of the railway network known as the Beeching cuts.\n\nHenri Murison, director of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, said the Northumberland Line was \"a really critical piece of local infrastructure\" that would help bring people in south east Northumberland and north Tyneside closer to Newcastle city centre, and closer to well-paid jobs.\n\nPassengers would be able to take the train between Ashington and Newcastle\n\n\"Having better connectivity will help attract businesses to that area, and it will help to deliver genuine levelling-up,\" he said.\n\nThe new £34m investment, which aims to reopen the line between Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Ashington, will include funds for preparatory works and land acquisition.\n\nThere are plans for new stations at at Ashington, Bedlington, Blyth, Bebside, Newsham, Seaton Delaval, and Northumberland Park, in North Tyneside, as well as upgrades to the track and changes to level crossings where new bridges or underpasses were needed, the Department for Transport said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Supporters of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny protest against his arrest across Russia\n\nRussian police have detained more than 3,000 people in a crackdown on protests in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, monitors say.\n\nTens of thousands of people defied a heavy police presence to join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years.\n\nIn Moscow, riot police were seen beating and dragging away protesters.\n\nMr Navalny, President Putin's most high-profile critic, called for protests after his arrest last Sunday.\n\nHe was detained after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Russia last August.\n\nOn his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. He says it is a trumped-up case designed to silence him.\n\nOVD Info, an independent NGO that monitors rallies, said about 3,100 people had been detained, more than 1,200 of them in Moscow alone. The Kremlin has not commented.\n\nThe unauthorised demonstrations were held in about 100 cities and towns from Russia's Far East and Siberia to Moscow and St Petersburg. Protesters ranged from teenage students to elderly people who demanded Mr Navalny's release.\n\nAt least 40,000 people joined a rally in central Moscow, Reuters news agency estimated. But Russia's interior ministry put the number of protesters at 4,000.\n\nObservers say the scale of the demonstrations across the country was unprecedented while the protest in the capital was the largest in almost a decade.\n\nRiot police used batons against protesters in Moscow\n\nIn the city's Pushkin square, some protesters chanted \"Freedom to Navalny\" and \"Putin go away!\" One woman told the BBC she had decided to join the demonstration because \"Russia has been turned into a prison camp\".\n\nSergei Radchenko, a 53-year-old protester in Moscow, told Reuters: \"I'm tired of being afraid. I haven't just turned up for myself and Navalny, but for my son because there is no future in this country.\"\n\nLyubov Sobol, a prominent aide of Mr Navalny who had already been fined for urging Russians to join the protests, tweeted a video of police roughly pulling her away from an interview with reporters.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Соболь Любовь This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Navalny's wife, Yulia, was briefly held at the rally. She posted an image on her Instagram account with the caption: \"Apologies for the poor quality. Very bad light in the police van.\"\n\nSome protesters marched on the high-security prison where Mr Navalny is being held, and many were arrested.\n\nMeanwhile, one independent news source, Sota, said at least 3,000 people had joined a demonstration in the city of Vladivostok, but local authorities there put the figure at 500.\n\nAFP footage showed riot police running into a crowd, and beating some of the protesters with batons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police used batons to break up protests in Vladivostok\n\nIn the Siberian city of Yakutsk, attendees at a small protest saw temperatures dip as low as -50C (-58F).\n\nPrior to the rallies, Russian authorities had promised a tough crackdown. Several of Mr Navalny's close aides, including his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh, were arrested earlier in the week.\n\nHis supporters called for more protests next weekend.\n\nThere were reports of disruption to mobile phone and internet coverage on Saturday, though it is not known if this was related to the protests.\n\nThe social media app TikTok had been flooded with videos promoting the demonstrations and sharing viral messages about Mr Navalny.\n\nIn response, Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, demanded that TikTok take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\", threatening large fines. The education ministry had told parents not to allow their children to attend any demonstrations.\n\nProtesters ignored extreme cold and threats of arrest in Moscow and other cities and towns\n\nIn a push to gain support ahead of the protests, Mr Navalny's team released a video about a luxury Black Sea resort that they allege belongs to President Putin - an accusation denied by the Kremlin. The video has been watched by more than 65 million people.\n\nThe UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, condemned the \"use of violence against peaceful protesters and journalists\" on Saturday, calling on the authorities to release those detained during peaceful demonstrations.\n\nThe US state department condemned what it called \"harsh tactics\" used against protesters and journalists, saying: \"We call on Russian authorities to release all those detained for exercising their universal rights and for the immediate and unconditional release of Aleksey Navalny\".\n\nThe EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said the bloc's foreign ministers would discuss the Russian crackdown on Monday. \"I deplore widespread detentions, disproportionate use of force, cutting down internet and phone connections.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic. We'll have another update for you on Sunday morning.\n\nSenior doctors have asked England's chief medical officer to halve the current 12-week gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-Biontech Covid-19 vaccine. The wait was originally three weeks but was then extended, a decision which Prof Chris Whitty said would double the number of people receiving jabs. But, in a letter seen by the BBC, the British Medical Association said the delay was \"difficult to justify\". It comes after the prime minister revealed the UK variant of Covid-19 may be more deadly.\n\nEfforts to distribute the jab in the European Union have faced another setback after UK drug-maker AstraZeneca warned of supply issues. Vaccinations have already been halted in some parts of Europe due to a cut in deliveries of the Pfizer vaccine. Cases in many European countries are surging. Germany has reached 50,000 Covid deaths and Spain has seen record infections in recent weeks.\n\nElizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien were engaged to be married when they were taken to hospital in the same ambulance with Covid-19. As his condition worsened, staff at Milton Keynes University Hospital rallied to arrange a wedding for them - and they were able to marry moments before he was sedated and put on a ventilator. Mrs Kerr said she was told it could be their only chance.\"Those are words I never, ever want to hear again,\" she said.\n\nElizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien were married moments before he was put on a mechanical ventilator\n\nOn 23 January last year, the Chinese authorities severed transport links out of Wuhan and confined the city's population to their homes. Wuhan has long since recovered from the world's first outbreak of Covid-19. Its streets are bustling again. A year on, John Sudworth explores how it is now being remembered not as a disaster but as a victory, and with an insistence that the virus came from somewhere - anywhere - else.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Robin Brant visits the Wuhan market where Covid-19 was first traced\n\nMillions of us are less physically active than we were before Covid-19. For those working from home, days on end can be spent hunched over a laptop without ever leaving the house. A survey of people working remotely, by Opinium for the charity Versus Arthritis, found 81% of respondents were experiencing some back, neck or shoulder pain. Here are some tips that could help.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWondering when you might be able to get a vaccine? Health reporter Philippa Roxby takes you through what you need to know.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Questions should be asked if politicians who drank on Welsh Parliament premises during a pub alcohol ban can stand for re-election, an ex-standards official has said.\n\nSenedd Tory leader Paul Davies, Darren Millar and Labour's Alun Davies have apologised - they are not thought to have broken the rules, but the two Tories admitted it would not be seen as in their spirit.\n\nA fourth Senedd Member Nick Ramsay has denied being part of the gathering.", "Amy says her flat isn't worth anything until it is made safe\n\nThe government's fund to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding is woefully inadequate, oversubscribed and taking too long to make buildings safe, campaigners say.\n\nMore than three and a half years since the Grenfell Tower fire which killed 72 people, an estimated 700,000 people are still living in high-rise blocks with flammable cladding.\n\nThe £1.6bn Building Safety Programme was set up in 2019. Concerns have emerged about the contract that the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government requires applicants to the fund, usually managing agents or building owners, to sign.\n\nA clause in the contract, seen by the BBC, indicates applicants will be financially liable for any repair work not covered by the fund.\n\nThe BBC has learnt that some managing agents are refusing to sign the document, further delaying the repair work, and have written to the government asking ministers to clarify the position.\n\nChristian Hansen, a solicitor at Bindmans LLP specialising in housing law and fire safety claims, said the contract showed that \"there's going to be a significant shortfall between the costs of the [repair] works that are required and the funding provided under the scheme\".\n\n\"Someone is going to need to pick up the bill and pay the difference. This contract makes clear it's going to be the leaseholders and for many, this could be tens of thousands of pounds, potentially ruinous costs,\" he warned.\n\nMr Hansen said that leaseholders wanted the focus of government action \"to be on the manufacturers of the defective materials and construction companies who built these buildings\".\n\n\"At the moment, they are the ones profiting from putting people's lives at risk.\"\n\n\"It is absolutely terrifying knowing that you are stuck here,\" says Amy\n\nFirst-time buyer Amy Cottenden, who is 28, bought a one-bed flat in Metis Tower in the centre of Sheffield for £85,000 in 2017.\n\nInspections of the 14-storey building in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy revealed it had the same type of flammable ACM cladding and other safety faults.\n\nWork to remove the cladding started last month, but Ms Cottenden, who is a frontline NHS health worker, is frustrated at what she describes as a lack of progress.\n\n\"The pace of work is extremely slow. So far, they've put scaffolding up and removed three panels. They have told us it's going to take between 12 and 24 months just to take the cladding off,\" she said.\n\n\"It is absolutely terrifying knowing that you are stuck here. With lockdown, they are saying not to go out, but you are in a building where all you want to do is not be in it. You can't leave. You can't sell. My flat isn't worth anything until it is made safe.\"\n\nWhile the government's Building Safety Fund is paying for the Grenfell-style cladding to be removed, the building has other fire safety faults, including missing fire breaks, that aren't covered by the scheme.\n\nIt could cost up to £6m to fix. Flat owners fear they may face huge bills of up to £50,000 each.\n\n\"We can't pay it and we shouldn't have to pay it. It is not our fault. We could all go bankrupt because of this,\" Ms Cottenden said.\n\nA spokesperson for Rendall & Rittner, the company which manages Metis Tower, said government funding to remove ACM cladding had been approved totalling £6.3m.\n\nHowever, an application to the same fund to pay for the removal of other types of unsafe cladding was rejected and the company has appealed against that decision.\n\nThe company added: \"We understand and sympathise with residents and owners about the uncertainty that this situation is causing and will do all we can to assist.\"\n\nWhat started as a cladding scandal has now become a much wider building safety crisis, exposing decades of regulatory failure.\n\nSafety inspections have revealed that many buildings have other serious faults, including missing fire breaks, flammable balconies and defective insulation. None of that is covered by the government's Building Safety Fund.\n\nDr Nigel Glen, the chief executive of ARMA, the trade association for residential leasehold management, said the additional costs that leaseholders were currently facing for non-cladding-related issues remained a huge concern.\n\n\"In the longer term, the draining of reserve funds will also mean that in the years to come, any major works that were being saved up for, such as a new roof or lift repairs, will have to be funded anew by the leaseholders,\" he added.\n\nA spokesperson for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said that despite the pandemic, significant progress had been made to remove dangerous cladding, but \"building safety remains the responsibility of the building owner and we expect them to ensure any necessary work is carried out safely and effectively\".\n\n\"All applicants to the Building Safety Fund are told the amount of funding they have been awarded before being asked to sign contracts - this is clearly explained in the guidance,\" the spokesperson added.", "Scientists say signs a new coronavirus variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson has said there is \"some evidence\" the variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut the co-author of the study the PM was referring to said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open question\".\n\nAnother adviser said he was surprised Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nA third top medic said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\nAt a Downing Street coronavirus news conference on Friday, the prime minister said: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the South East - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\"\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, Sir Patrick said if 1,000 men in their 60s were infected with the old variant, roughly 10 of them would be expected to die - but this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThe announcement followed a briefing by scientists on the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) which concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the variant was associated with an increased risk of death.\n\nBut one of the briefing's co-authors, Prof Graham Medley, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The question about whether it is more dangerous in terms of mortality I think is still open.\"\n\n\"In terms of making the situation worse it is not a game changer. It is a very bad thing that is slightly worse,\" added Prof Medley, who is a professor of infectious disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nThere is huge uncertainty in the evidence on how lethal the variant is.\n\nThe scientific experts that reviewed the data used a precise phrase saying it was a \"realistic possibility\" the new variant is more deadly.\n\nThat means there's a roughly 50-50 chance it will turn out to be true.\n\nWith time, and sadly more deaths, the picture will become clearer.\n\nWhile people debate the uncertainties though, we already know this variant has the ability to kill more people than the old ones.\n\nA virus that spreads faster (this one is 30-70% faster) will infect more people, more quickly, putting a greater strain on hospitals and leading to a sharper spike in deaths.\n\nIt is why viruses becoming more transmissible can be a bigger problem than ones becoming more deadly.\n\nNervtag's chairman Prof Peter Horby defended the government's \"transparency\" in making the announcement.\n\n\"Scientists are looking at the possibility that there is increased severity... and after a week of looking at the data we came to the conclusion that it was a realistic possibility,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to be transparent about that. If we were not telling people about this we would be accused of covering it up.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nBut Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), agreed it was too early to draw \"strong conclusions\" as the suggested increased mortality rates were based on \"a relatively small amount of data\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he was \"actually quite surprised\" Mr Johnson had made the early findings public rather than monitoring the data \"for a week or two more\".\n\n\"I just worry that where we report things pre-emptively where the data are not really particularly strong,\" Dr Tildesley added.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle also said it was not \"absolutely clear\" the new variant was more deadly than the original.\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nMeanwhile, senior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".", "In 2002 Julienne created a motor stunt show that ran for many years at Disney theme parks in Paris and Florida. Image caption: In 2002 Julienne created a motor stunt show that ran for many years at Disney theme parks in Paris and Florida.\n\nRémy Julienne, one of the world's best-known stuntmen, has died in France with coronavirus, aged 90.\n\nOver a 50-year career, Julienne devised the crashes, crunches and collisions witnessed in more than 1,400 films.\n\nHe also starred in many of them, albeit anonymously.\n\nThe legendary cascadeur (stunt performer) appeared as a body double for a host of stars, including Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Charles Bronson and Jean-Paul Belmondo.\n\nIn wig and appropriate clothing, he also took on the form of Sophia Loren, Carole Bouquet and Gina Lollobrigida.\n\nAmong his most famous works are the chase scenes in 1969's The Italian Job, in which a fleet of Mini-Coopers in Turin cross a river, dive into the metro and jump from the roof of the Fiat factory.\n\nHe also worked on six Bond films, notably going behind the wheel of a battered yellow Citroën 2CV in For Your Eyes Only.\n\nA life-long lover of motorbikes and anything driven at speed, Julienne specialised in spectacular destruction. But he was committed to the maximum elimination of risk and calculated his stunts with extreme precision.\n\n\"What is beautiful about the job is that you can never be 100% certain,\" he said. \"If you could, then frankly it wouldn't be interesting.", "Keon Lincoln died after being subjected to \"inconceivable violence\"\n\nA second boy has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 15-year-old who was attacked by a group of youths.\n\nKeon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital, police said.\n\nA 14-year-old boy was arrested at a Birmingham address on Friday and is in custody, said West Midlands Police.\n\nAnother 14-year-old, arrested earlier on Friday, also remains in custody.\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, who is leading a murder inquiry, said Keon died \"in the most violent of circumstances\".\n\nThe latest arrest was \"another step forward and Keon's family have been fully updated with this latest development,\" he said.\n\n\"This is a challenging investigation given the number of offenders we believe were involved, but I have a dedicated team of officers working 24/7 to identify those involved and we are making swift progress.\"\n\nKeon was attacked on Linwood Road, a residential street in the Handsworth area of Birmingham\n\nThe attackers fled the scene in a car which crashed into a house a short distance away. Police have seized the vehicle.\n\nCordons placed at the scene in Linwood Road and Wheeler Street, where the car was abandoned, have now been lifted, said the West Midlands force.\n\nPolice confirmed Keon, who lived locally, was attacked with weapons but did not specify which sort.\n\nDetectives say they are unable to say how he died before a post-mortem examination takes place.\n\nAnyone who could identify the attackers has been urged to contact the force.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police released body-worn camera footage of people streaming from the premises\n\nTwo officers were injured as they broke up an \"incredibly selfish\" party, involving about 200 people, in one of London's most expensive neighbourhoods.\n\nOfficers investigated an address on Beauchamp Place, Kensington, at about 03.30 GMT on 17 January, following reports of a mass gathering.\n\nAttendees became hostile and pushed through to avoid being fined, injuring two officers, police said.\n\nThe owner has previously been issued with a £1,000 fine, police said.\n\nPolice discovered about 200 guests at a party on Beauchamp Place, Kensington\n\nSupt Michael Walsh said: \"Attending or organising such parties during this critical period is an incredibly selfish decision to make.\n\n\"While the majority of breaches have been resolved without incident, it deeply saddens me that some individuals have chosen to assault police who are simply doing their part in the collective battle against this deadly virus.\"\n\nPolice said the event was one of a string of late-night parties uncovered in Kensington over the last month.\n\nOn 20 December, police shut down an illegal gathering at a commercial property on Montpelier Street. The property has since been closed.\n\nAn owner of a venue on Harrow Road is facing a £10,000 fine after police found more than 30 socialising during a raid on 16 January.\n\nOn Thursday, police also broke up a wedding party in north London.\n\nThe Met Police originally claimed about 400 guests were at the gathering, but then on Friday said 150 people were present at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The number of coronavirus patients on mechanical ventilation in the UK has passed 4,000 for the first time in the pandemic.\n\nA total of 4,076 Covid patients were in ventilator beds as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.\n\nIt comes as another 1,348 deaths and 33,552 new infections were reported on Saturday.\n\nThe UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told a Downing Street news briefing on Friday: \"The death rate's awful and it's going to stay, I'm afraid, high for a little while before it starts coming down.\"\n\nMeanwhile, new figures show that a record number of seriously-ill Covid patients are being transferred from over-stretched hospitals because of a lack of bed space.\n\nAbout 1 in 10 patients admitted to intensive care are being sent to a different site, according to the body which audits critical care services.\n\nIn a series of reports in the past week, the BBC's Clive Myrie has been to a mortuary and the Royal London Hospital, where 12 out of 15 floors are occupied by Covid patients and staff are struggling to cope.\n\nMartin Freeborn's wife Helen, 64, died with Covid-19 at the hospital shortly before he spoke to the BBC.\n\nMr Freeborn urged people to \"be over-careful\" in taking precautions to stay safe from the virus because \"you don't want this to happen\".\n\n\"Nobody wants to go through this... Don't end up like us, please,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Freeborn's wife, Helen, died from Covid at the Royal London Hospital: 'Don't end up like us, please'\n\nThe number of people in mechanical ventilation beds has climbed every day since 18 December when it was 1,364 and now stands at 4,076.\n\nIt is one of the key figures the government considers when deciding its policy on when to ease coronavirus lockdown restrictions.\n\nWhen the pandemic first struck the UK, the government saw what had happened in hospitals in China and Italy and prioritised the provision of ventilators in British hospitals.\n\nIt set about buying as many ventilators as possible, and encouraged British manufacturers to design the machines to build stocks to cope with the worst-case Covid scenario. In September last year, a report found the NHS now had 30,000 ventilators available - about one for every 2,200 people in the UK.\n\nPeople in hospital are also being treated differently from the early days of the pandemic - which may explain why figures suggest slightly more people go on to recover after being on ventilation than back in March, April and May.\n\nA number of drugs are being tested as possible treatments for people with the disease, the BBC's health and science correspondent James Gallagher has said.\n\nThey include the steroid dexamethasone, which has been shown to reduce the risk of death by a third for ventilated patients and by a fifth for those on oxygen. Encouraging results have also been reported from two anti-inflammatory medications, tocilizumab and sarilumab.\n\nDr Ami Jones, intensive care consultant at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, in Wales, said there had been \"carnage\" for the \"last few weeks\".\n\nSpeaking whilst on shift, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We're maybe at 150% capacity and I know London are much worse than that.\n\n\"We've a steady stream of fit, young patients requiring critical care and sadly we're losing some of those patients.\n\n\"We lost a patient overnight and I've replaced them with a patient of similar age.\n\n\"It's heartbreaking - and it's been going on for weeks and weeks and we haven't seen any kind of stop yet.\"\n\nDr Jones said the average Covid patient stays in hospital between two to four weeks \"and it really puts them through it\".\n\nShe added: \"You really want people who are going to be able to survive that three or four weeks and actually come out the other end and make a good recovery.\n\n\"We're not stopping people having care but we're giving it to the people we feel have the best chance of getting through what is a horrific situation we're going to put them through.\"\n\nDr Jones said nurses are \"broken\", both physically, from months of long shifts in personal protective equipment (PPE), and emotionally - partly due to the impact of the virus on them, their families and the community.\n\nDr Rupert Pearse, consultant in intensive care medicine at a London hospital, speaking on behalf of the Intensive Care Society, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that a \"huge number\" of patients were still attending hospital.\n\nHe said: \"Whilst we know the infection rate has probably now peaked, and we can be hopeful to soon be sure we've hit a hospital admissions peak, admissions to ICU [the intensive care unit] usually lag 48 hours behind that.\n\n\"So we're still very very worried that we're being pushed right up to the wire in terms of the resources we're able to deliver for patient care.\"\n\nDr Pearse added that there were three or four times more critical care beds in some hospitals than they would usually have.\n\nHe said: \"I can remember a time when it would take years for an intensive care unit to negotiate one extra bed on a complement of 14 or 15 beds.\n\n\"We, within a few weeks, have massively increased the number of beds and finding the staff - most importantly of all - to deliver that has been a huge logistical exercise.\"\n\nReacting to the ventilation figures, Dr Charlotte Hopkins, deputy chief medical officer for Barts Health NHS trust in east London, said on Twitter there had been a \"fast-paced increase\" since 18 December, and that more than a third of the 4,076 ventilated patients were in London.\n\nIt comes as some scientists said that signs a new Covid variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday that there was \"some evidence\" the variant that emerged in the UK may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut Prof Graham Medley, the co-author of the study the PM was referring to, said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open\" question.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), said he was \"surprised\" Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nUp to and including 22 January, 5,861,351 people have now had their first Covid jab and 468,617 have had their second dose.\n\nSenior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".\n\nThe UK's four chief medical officers have previously defended the delay to the second jab in a letter to medical staff, saying: \"unvaccinated people are far more likely to end up severely ill, hospitalised [or] in some cases dying\".", "Even while posted at the US Capitol, many troops have been seen sleeping on the floor\n\nUS President Joe Biden has apologised after some members of the National Guard stationed at the Capitol were pictured sleeping in a car park.\n\nMore than 25,000 troops were deployed to Washington DC for his inauguration after violence earlier this month.\n\nImages spread on Thursday showing them forced to rest in a nearby parking garage after lawmakers returned.\n\nThe conditions sparked anger among politicians, and some state governors recalled troops over the controversy.\n\nMr Biden called the chief of the National Guard Bureau on Friday to apologise and ask what could be done, according to US media reports.\n\nFirst Lady Jill Biden also visited some of the troops to thank them personally, bringing biscuits from the White House as a gift.\n\n\"I just wanted to come today to say thank you to all of you for keeping me and my family safe,\" she said.\n\nThe photographs showing hundreds of troops in a parking garage went viral on Thursday and sparked outrage, including from members of Congress.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMany voiced concerns about the conditions, with guardsmen exposed to car fumes and without proper access to facilities like toilets after having been on alert for days.\n\nImages of the cramped conditions also sparked fears about the spread of coronavirus.\n\nA US official, speaking anonymously to Reuters news agency, said on Friday that between 100 and 200 of those deployed had tested positive for Covid-19. The figure - which would represent a small proportion of the more than 25,000 deployed, has not been publicly confirmed.\n\nChuck Schumer, a Democrat and the new Senate majority leader, said that the move was \"an outrage\" and pledged it \"will never happen again\".\n\nRon DeSantis, Florida's governor, was among those who said he had ordered guards from his state to return home following the controversy.\n\n\"This is a half-cocked mission at this point and the appropriate thing is to bring them home,\" he told Fox News on Friday.\n\nThe Senate Rules Committee is also investigating the issue, Senator Roy Blunt told Politico.\n\nThere are conflicting reports about why the troops were moved from the Capitol.\n\nA National Guard spokesman told US media they were moved on Thursday afternoon at the request of the Capitol Police because of \"increased foot traffic\" as Congress came back into session.\n\nThe acting chief of the Capitol Police, Yogananda Pittman, later said her agency \"did not instruct the National Guard to vacate the Capitol Building facilities\", while two officers contradicted her statement in comments to the Associated Press news agency.\n\nThe decision was reversed later on Thursday, when the troops were allowed to return to the Capitol.\n\nA joint statement from the US National Guard and US Capitol Police on Friday said they had worked together to make sure those in the Capitol Complex had \"appropriate spaces\" to take on-duty breaks.\n\nThey also said off-duty troops were being housed in hotel rooms or other accommodation and thanked members of Congress for their concern.\n\nSome 19,000 guardsmen will return to their home states in the coming days with about 7,000 expected to stay on in Washington, according to the New York Times.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Relatives of older people in Wales called the vaccinations \"poorly organised\"\n\nRural GPs are to run new community vaccination centres after concerns over the speed of the roll-out in Wales.\n\nFrom Saturday, three new vaccination hubs will open to give over-80s and those with mobility issues the jab.\n\nIt comes after some living in rural areas said they had been told to travel miles to get the jab or wait weeks to have their first dose.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said it would help immunise hundreds of over-80s this weekend.\n\nThere has been criticism of the speed of the roll-out in Wales, with some telling the BBC elderly and housebound relatives had been told there would be a wait if they could not get to their GP surgery.\n\nA total of 212,317 people have been given their first dose of vaccine in Wales, up to 21 January - just over 6.7% of the population.\n\nThe Welsh Government hopes to have 70% of over-80s immunised by the end of this weekend.\n\nBy 21 January, 30% of the over-80s and 60% of care home residents had been given the first dose.\n\nOn Saturday, the Welsh Government announced doctors surgeries in rural areas would join forces to help administer the jab to the elderly and vulnerable.\n\nThe first of the new community centres, run by clusters of GP practices, are to open on the Llyn Peninsula, in Buckley in Flintshire, and Bridgend.\n\nThey will be able to administer both the Pfizer-BioNTech and the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccines.\n\nUntil now, the Pfizer vaccine could only be administered at special mass-vaccination centres, due to the low temperatures it needs to be stored at.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it hoped 3,000 people would get the vaccine administered at the centres this weekend.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said: \"Vaccination is our top priority so I want to thank all the GP practices right across Wales that are working in unison to set up these new community vaccination centres.\n\n\"This enables GPs to use both of the vaccines available to us and will help more people to be vaccinated somewhere that is much closer to home than the large vaccination centres.\n\n\"Every week, our vaccination programme speeds up as more centres are opened and more vaccines are available for the small army of healthcare professionals administering vaccines.\"\n\nIn north Wales, a group of GPs have formed a group to deliver about 1,000 vaccines to elderly and vulnerable people.\n\nDr Eilir Hughes, a GP at Ty Doctor Surgery, Gwynedd, said rural GPs had faced a \"real challenge\" to get the most vulnerable patients vaccinated as soon as possible.\n\nThe surgery is about 50 miles away from the nearest vaccination centre in north-west Wales.\n\nHe said bringing three GP practices together to vaccinate hundreds of patients in two days was a \"Herculean effort\".", "Helen White's lighting business is struggling to absorb a six-fold increase in freight costs.\n\n\"We were paying £1,600 per container in November, this month we've been quoted over £10,000,\" says Helen White.\n\nThe founder of start-up Houseof.com, which imports lighting from China, says the rise in shipping costs means she's making a loss on what she sells.\n\nShe's one of many UK importers facing soaring freight costs amid a global shipping crisis that may last months.\n\nA shortage of empty shipping containers in Asia and bottlenecks at the UK's deep sea ports are behind the problems.\n\nIt was hoped the backlogs could be cleared during the Chinese New Year holiday in February, but instead a coronavirus outbreak in China is adding to the uncertainty facing firms.\n\nIn the UK the difficulties in international shipping have coincided with problems faced by businesses trading with the EU after Brexit.\n\nOne Manchester-based freight forwarder said the logistics industry is facing the most challenging conditions he's seen in the 17 years he's been in the business.\n\nCraig Poole from Cardinal Maritime said during lockdowns, people have been turning to online shopping, and that's causing a surge in demand for goods from China.\n\nFreight forwarder Craig Poole says the logistics industry is facing hugely challenging conditions\n\nBut some companies can't absorb the skyrocketing freight costs that shipping lines are charging. That could lead to higher prices for consumers or businesses having to close.\n\n\"The really unfortunate thing is, the small businesses who can't afford to pay those rates are going to go under as a result,\" Mr Poole said.\n\nHelen White's lighting range is designed in the UK and manufactured in Guangzhou, China.\n\nShe said the six-fold increase in shipping costs is hard to take, especially when getting hold of a container \"is like gold dust\".\n\n\"It's really hard for a small business to absorb those costs. We'll be making a loss on the goods we're selling.\"\n\nLighting seller houseof.com is struggling to import stock from China\n\nAt the other end of the supply chain, Chinese manufacturers and logistics firms say they are equally frustrated.\n\nJohnny Tseng is the owner and director of Hong Kong-based J&B Clothing Company Ltd., which manufactures garments for some of the UK's most popular fashion sites including Boohoo and Pretty Little Thing.\n\nHe's been supplying clothes to British retailers for more than 40 years, but he says his family-run firm won't be able to absorb inflated shipping rates for much longer.\n\n\"To be honest I don't even know how we can survive if we carry on shipping things at this kind of cost.\"\n\nJohnny Tseng says sky-high shipping rates are putting his business at risk.\n\nHe says he's now being quoted $14,000 to ship a container to the UK, when the usual price is $2,500.\n\nThe shortage of empty containers in China and congestion at UK ports caused some of his stock to miss the busy Christmas trading period. Now some customers are holding orders for their Autumn-Winter collections until next year.\n\n\"It's chaos,\" he said. \"We are making a loss. We take it as a loss leader and keep our fingers crossed it will go back to normal after Chinese New Year, but it is a major issue if it persists this way.\"\n\nUsually during the Chinese New Year holiday, factories in China shut down for two weeks. There were hopes the pause in production would give UK ports a chance to clear the backlog of ships waiting to dock, and encourage shipping lines to move more empty containers back to Asia, which is a less profitable journey.\n\nChinese workers usually travel home for the Chinese New Year holiday.\n\nBut rising numbers of coronavirus cases have prompted the Chinese authorities to stagger factory closing dates so that not all workers are travelling to their home regions at the same time. A worsening outbreak could lead to travel restrictions, in which case some factories may not stop production at all.\n\nCraig Poole says some companies have been caught out by factories closing earlier than planned.\n\n\"A lot of businesses that can't get those goods away are delaying orders until after Chinese New Year, so this situation could continue 'til March,\" he said.\n\nPatrick Lee from the Hong Kong-based Unique Logistics International said it could be even longer than that.\n\n\"Middle of the year at the earliest is what we're hearing from end customers in the UK, and also from some of our people in the industry. Some of the carriers as well,\" he said.\n\nMr Lee has called on the shipping lines to add more ships to help ease the backlog of stock orders building up at warehouses across China.\n\n\"They are increasing sailing but can increase a lot more. There are idle ships out there that they can reactivate without too much difficulty,\" he said.\n\nThe disruption could last for several months, according to logistics specialist Patrick Lee\n\nBut a spokeswoman for the World Shipping Council said carriers are using all available capacity.\n\n\"The demand for transportation service far exceeds supply. As in any free market, this puts upward pressure on rates,\" she said.\n\nShipping lines have been trying to drive down demand from British importers by charging a premium for deliveries to the UK, or bypassing the country's ports altogether.\n\nOne shipping line recently offered freight rates of $12,050 for a 40ft container from China to Southampton, but charged just $8,450 for the same container to travel from China to Rotterdam, Hamburg, or Antwerp.\n\nThe UK's largest container port at Felixstowe has been experiencing long delays since October. Congestion has also been a problem at the Port of Southampton, albeit to a lesser extent.\n\nThe bottlenecks were initially caused by a surge in imports as business activity picked up after the first wave of the pandemic. Huge shipments of PPE and the usual Christmas rush added to container volumes and ports struggled to cope.\n\nThe UK's largest container port at Felixstowe has been experiencing bottlenecks for months\n\n\"Most of the carriers just don't want UK cargo because of the issues when the vessels dock, so mainly they're favouring European ports and we are having to truck containers over,\" said freight forwarder Craig Poole.\n\nHe said that adds a cost of up to £2,000 per container, and takes an extra seven to ten days to reach the delivery point in the UK.\n\nFor business-owners like Helen White, the difficulties affecting the shipping industry can't be solved quickly enough.\n\n\"Lots of little start-ups are really hurting,\" she said. \"It has been paired with logistical nightmares across Europe as well. It just feels like logistics is falling apart at the moment. It's hard to see where the resolution is.\"", "Paul Davies had been preparing to lead his party's Senedd election campaign in the coming months\n\nPaul Davies has been something of an understated figure leading the Welsh Conservative group in Cardiff Bay since he won the race to succeed Andrew RT Davies in September 2018.\n\nThe Senedd member for Preseli Pembrokeshire tried to move the party group in the direction of being more sceptical of devolution.\n\nBut a row over drinking on Senedd premises ended his ambitions to be the first Conservative first minister of Wales.\n\nBorn in 1969, Paul Davies grew up in the village of Pontsian in Ceredigion.\n\nHe attended Llandysul Grammar School and Newcastle Emlyn Comprehensive School before working for a bank for 20 years.\n\nMr Davies entered Cardiff Bay politics in 2007 when he was elected to the then National Assembly for Wales. He was appointed deputy leader of the Welsh Conservative group in 2011 before becoming interim leader and then leader in 2018.\n\nPaul Davies backed Boris Johnson in the UK Conservative leadership campaign in 2019\n\nPresented as a safe pair of hands during his leadership campaign he has, at times, almost appeared to have been overshadowed by his predecessor Andrew RT Davies, who sometimes seems to enjoy media appearances more than his leader.\n\nFaced with the potential rise of the Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party, Paul Davies attempted to steer the Welsh Tories towards a more devo-sceptic, if not anti-devolution, approach.\n\nHe pledged a future Conservative Welsh Government would not \"tread on Westminster's turf\", and \"respect what is not devolved\" by \"unpicking\" the Welsh Government's international relations department.\n\nThere were also promises to halve the current number of Welsh ministers to seven, freeze civil servant recruitment and not increase the budget of the body which runs the Senedd if he became first minister.\n\nWelsh political structures need a \"dose\" of Dominic Cummings, Paul Davies has said\n\nBut the coronavirus pandemic has, arguably, made it even harder for opposition party leaders in the Senedd to cut through to the wider electorate.\n\nThe crisis has given Labour First Minister Mark Drakeford a much bigger profile, on a Wales and UK stage, making it more difficult for other Welsh party leaders to get onto the news agenda.\n\nLast July, there were raised eyebrows when Paul Davies suggested \"a dose of Dom\" was needed in Wales to \"shake up\" its governance.\n\nThe reference to the prime minister's now departed chief advisor and brutal political operator Dominic Cummings was interesting, given the criticism heaped on Mr Cummings a couple of months earlier for driving his family 260 miles from his London home to Durham during lockdown, and a subsequent 25-mile trip to check his eyesight before a return trip.\n\nBacking Remain at the 2016 referendum on EU membership, Paul Davies aimed to steer a steady course during a fractious period for a Conservative Party dealing with the polarising issue of Brexit.\n\nHe has been loyal to the UK party leader of the day, and often stuck to the Westminster line rather than try to carve an independent stance.\n\nDespite this, Mr Davies had wanted the Tory Senedd group leader to be given the title Welsh Conservative leader.\n\nIt is something the party has never formally agreed to do despite a review of its Welsh structures.", "Up to 500 new prison cells are to be built in women's jails, the Ministry of Justice has announced.\n\nThese will be built in existing women's prisons to increase the number of single cells available and improve conditions.\n\nThey will include in-cell showers, and some will enable women to have overnight visits with their children to prepare for life at home after release.\n\nIn future, older cells could also be shut if the prison population reduces.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has also pledged almost £2m in funding to 38 charities so their \"vital work in steering women away from crime can continue\".\n\nThis may include addressing mental health problems and drug use, both of which affect around half of women in prison.\n\nPrisons minister Lucy Frazer said: \"This funding boost will allow frontline services to continue the incredible work they do with some of the most vulnerable women in our society to prevent them being drawn into crime.\"\n\nAnnouncing the funding, the government reiterated its promise to cut the number of women in custody and provide effective support to deal with problems which could lead to crime in the first place or reoffending.\n\nBut it admitted there could be a temporary rise of inmates in the near future as the number of investigations and prosecutions is expected to increase amid the hiring of 20,000 more police officers.\n\nIt added that the number of women in custody has fallen by 10% since 2010 and stressed that government investment in community services should see this trend continue in the long-term.\n\nIf the number of women in prison falls longer term, the MoJ says the new modern facilities will allow the Prison Service to close old accommodation.\n\nCampaigners largely welcomed the announcement, but warned the efforts do not go far enough to tackle longstanding problems.\n\nKate Paradine, chief executive of charity Women in Prison, said: \"This pledge and funding are just the start, and a far cry from what is needed in order to provide stability for women who face the sharp end of our society.\"\n\nShe called on the government in its upcoming Budget to safeguard the future of women's centres, which she described as an \"anchor that stop women being swept up into crime\" but warned were \"facing a funding cliff edge in April\".\n\nEmily Evison, policy officer at the Prison Reform Trust, said the plans would need to be backed up by \"action on the ground to prove effective\", adding: \"Instead of planning for a rise (in women prisoners), the government should redouble its efforts to ensure women are not being sent to prison to serve pointless short sentences.\"\n\nAndrew Neilson, director of campaigns at the Howard League for Penal Reform, said: \"If the goal is to reduce the number of women entering the criminal justice system, then today's announcement shows that ministers are looking at the issue down the wrong end of a telescope\", claiming the funding promised was \"dwarfed\" by the cost of the extra prison places.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\nFlood victims will not be able to return to their homes until their safety can be assured, a council leader has said.\n\nThe Coal Authority has said initial checks suggested water built up in a mine shaft causing a \"blow out\" that flooded properties in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated as water rushed through the village on Thursday.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones said it was unlikely residents could return Monday.\n\nHe said underground investigations would begin on Saturday and the work could take two to three days.\n\n\"Safety is the paramount concern for us,\" he said.\n\n\"Because we can't guarantee the site safety - that's the reason why people will remain away from their properties until such time as we can give the all clear.\n\n\"We don't know what the water has done underground.\"\n\nThe fire service said on Saturday morning the pumping operation was \"making good progress\".\n\nMr Jones told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast people may be able to return next week but \"did not want to raise hopes\" it will be Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said the flooding was \"more than likely\" related to old mine workings with six mines known about in area. He said the industry dated back 300 years.\n\nSkewen resident John Thomas returned home from a funeral with wife Lynne on Thursday to find their house had turned into \"a lake\".\n\nHe said: \"The water was around the level of the bottom of the doors so we couldn't go in, so we just had to stand there and watch this orange-coloured water just piling up and up and up.\n\n\"Other people who were evacuated had the chance to move things upstairs, I didn't have a chance to do that because I couldn't get in to it.\"\n\nAt least 80 people had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nLocal MP Stephen Kinnock said affected residents were staying in \"lots of different places\" across the region.\n\nAnd he praised the \"extraordinary\" generosity of the community and the support of the Salvation Army with donations of food, clothing and toiletries.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said officers were continuing to look at how to minimise the risk of pollution to nearby rivers, and investigating any impacts on the River Neath.\n\nThe Coal Authority, which manages the effects of past coal mining, is investigating the incident.\n\nChief executive Lisa Pinney said equipment, due on site on Saturday, would be used to drill into mine workings to \"fully investigate what has happened\".\n\n\"The blow out is likely to have been caused by a blockage underground which has caused water to back up and to break out using the easiest path,\" she said.\n\n\"The excessive rainfall of the past few days and the prolonged rainfall this winter, will have put additional pressure on the system.\n\n\"We know that people will want to get back to their homes and we will continue to progress these works as soon as possible, but public safety has to come first.\"\n\nThere are a number of historical mine workings in Skewen dating back beyond 1850.\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Jones said water was still pouring out of the affected site so workers were diverting it, while machines cleared gulleys and drains to give the water the chance to enter drainage systems.\n\nA residents' incident support centre has been set up at Abbey Primary School to offer help and information over the weekend, between 09:00-17:00 GMT.\n\nThe council has asked residents to be \"patient as the investigation continues\" and has set up a helpline. Tel. 01639 686868.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is not clear if anyone not entitled succeeded in getting a Covid jab\n\nA health board boss has criticised council staff for potentially sharing Covid vaccine invites with colleagues.\n\nThe board meeting in North Wales heard some council staff, not within groups currently being vaccinated, booked appointments by following a link in an email only intended for the recipient.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board's chairman Mark Polin said such actions could deprive someone else of a jab.\n\nDenbighshire council said it had warned staff the emails were not to be abused.\n\nIt is not clear if anyone not entitled succeeded in getting a Covid jab, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.\n\nOnly front-line social care and health workers, those over 80 and 70 years old, care home residents and their carers are currently being vaccinated.\n\nIndependent member Jackie Hughes spoke about the matter at Thursday's monthly health board meeting.\n\nAnswering her query, Dr Chris Stockport, the health board's executive director of primary care and community services, said: \"We are very clear with our local authority partners and teams of what frontline means in the same way we are elsewhere.\n\n\"When you arrive [for a vaccine] there's a process of validation.\n\n\"The likelihood is they will experience some difficulties working through the booking system [if they try to get into a higher vaccination cohort].\n\n\"It adds complications for a busy team and I would ask them not to do that when it's a clear effort to circumvent the cohort.\"\n\nAt Thursday's daily press briefing the UK Government Home Secretary Priti Patel said people who jumped the queue for the vaccine were \"morally reprehensible\" as they were putting the lives of vulnerable people at risk.\n\nShe said all the UK Government's measures were under review but \"our focus is getting that vaccine to the most vulnerable to make sure we can protect them and obviously protect others in the community\".\n\nMr Polin added: \"Whilst we understand the concerns people should not be doing what they are doing.\n\n\"The priority groups have been identified with clear medical guidance and sound reasoning behind it.\n\n\"So people jumping the queue are depriving someone else, potentially, of receiving the vaccine at the point at which they should.\"\n\nHe said it was a temporary problem, adding: \"We are changing the booking system, so this opportunity is not going to last much longer.\"\n\nHe said staff were looking out for any inappropriate bookings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nNon-league Chorley were unable to emulate the heroes from 1986 by causing an FA Cup sensation against Wolves - but the National League North side came away with all the credit from their fourth-round tie at Victory Park.\n\nVitinha's superb 30-yard shot after 12 minutes proved enough to secure an all-Premier League tie against Arsenal or Southampton at Molineux in the fifth round.\n\nBut Nuno Espirito Santo's side were less than impressive against their part-time opponents.\n\nChorley had the first shot of the match through Elliot Newby, and after Vitinha had struck his first Wolves goal with the visitors' only shot on target, it was the hosts who had the best chances.\n\nCrucially, they also pocketed around £120,000 in prize money, plus TV fees, to sustain them through what could be a difficult period after their league was suspended for two weeks amid funding concerns earlier in the day.\n\n\"If you are going to lose, I would prefer to lose to a goal like that than a scruffy goal,\" said Chorley boss Jamie Vermiglio.\n\n\"I am proud of what we have done for our community, my kids at school will remember that their head teacher got this far in the FA Cup. Hopefully it can inspire some of them.\n\n\"We are approaching up to half a million [in earnings from the cup run], we have people who are isolating, and those players have given them a little bit of happiness.\n\n\"If it is 2-0 or 3-0 at half-time the game is done and people are turning their TVs off. That did not happen. I felt we were in the game. Every player was outstanding.\"\n• None How to follow FA Cup fourth round on the BBC\n\nIf this does end up being Chorley's last game of the season, it is one they will remember for some time, not only for the action on the pitch but also for the huge volley of fireworks that went off behind the main stand minutes into the contest.\n\nFor visiting Wolves, it was a step into the unknown. Their starting line-up got changed in the away dressing room, while their substitutes - European Championship winner Rui Patricio and Spain international Adama Traore among them - readied themselves in a sponsors' lounge.\n\nSeemingly those starting the game on the bench got the better deal.\n\nWolves boss Nuno paid Chorley the compliment of picking a strong starting line-up, including £35.6m record signing Fabio Silva and England international Conor Coady.\n\nAnd had this match been played in more imposing surroundings, it could have been mistaken for one of those Premier League games where one side sits back, challenges the opposition to break them down and then hits them on the counter.\n\nWolves' return of 76% possession and one shot on target, set against Chorley's five shots on target, suggests home manager Vermiglio got his tactics spot on.\n\nIndeed, had Andy Halls, a personal trainer by day, not had his goal-bound header tipped over by John Ruddy after an hour, Chorley might have forced a different outcome.\n\n\"The scene was set for us to lose this game,\" said Nuno. \"John Ruddy did his job, everybody knows his quality. He helped us to win the game.\"\n\nIt was nevertheless a typically English FA Cup tie, enlivened by Vermiglio yelling \"nothing wrong with that\" when two Wolves players went down under agricultural challenges, and then laughing in Traore's face amid a brief skirmish.\n\nIt was fantastic knockabout stuff. Sadly, the enduring disappointment was that other than staff, media and stewards, no-one was there in person to witness it.\n• None Wolves have reached the FA Cup fifth round in three of the last five seasons, as many as in the 21 seasons prior to this.\n• None Premier League teams have progressed from 45 of their 47 FA Cup ties against non-league teams (96%), with only Norwich vs Luton in 2013 and Burnley vs Lincoln in 2017 failing to progress.\n• None Separated by 120 years and 362 days, Chorley have lost both of their FA Cup games against top-flight opponents, losing against Notts County in January 1900 and Wolves.\n• None Vitinha became the 32nd different Wolves player to score a goal for Nuno Espirito Santo in all competitions and the 11th different Portuguese player to do so, with what was his third shot in his 12th appearance.\n• None Since the start of 2017-18, Wolves have had 11 different Portuguese scorers - more than twice as many as any other English league team in that time (Nottingham Forest, five).\n\nWolves are next in action against Chelsea in the Premier League at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday, 27 January (18:00 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Rayan Aït-Nouri (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Rúben Neves.\n• None Harry Cardwell (Chorley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Pedro Neto (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Rúben Neves.\n• None Arlen Birch (Chorley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fábio Silva (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Pedro Neto. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "A restaurant worker in Lisbon, where benefits to those with symptoms, and those without, are generous\n\nThe idea of a flat £500 payment to anyone who tests positive for Covid-19 has been dismissed by the UK government. Health officials had come up with the suggestion in the hope of encouraging people with the illness to self-isolate.\n\nThere are concerns the virus is continuing to spread because some people are ignoring the instruction to stay home when they show symptoms or test positive. Downing Street has said there is already a £500 sum for those on low incomes who could not work from home and had to isolate. But this must be applied for and there have been high rejection rates in England at least, A behaviour expert who advises the government, told the BBC just 18% of people with symptoms were self-isolating for the full 10 days they were meant to.\n\nSo how do other countries handle the question of paying people to stay at home, or just trusting they will do the right thing? Here, BBC correspondents from Prague to New York, offer an insight.\n\nIn Portugal, even those who are just at-risk of contracting Covid - having been in direct contact with a confirmed case - are entitled to 100% of their basic salary, for 14 days, writes Alison Roberts, in Lisbon.\n\nFor those who show symptoms, or have tested positive, the same is available for up to 28 days. And the normal waiting times people are used to when claiming while ill have also been done away with - these Covid payments kick in on day one of isolation.\n\nThose not on permanent work contracts tend to be treated as self-employed and are eligible for benefits based on income declared. But there are a lot of people, including many immigrants, who lack the necessary paperwork, and are therefore not eligible to claim.\n\nNevertheless, it's perhaps not surprising that, because people are able to claim full basic pay, there hasn't been much, if any, debate about people obeying self-isolation. If there are reports of people not seeking tests, or not isolating, it seems to be more out of ignorance, which is certainly rather worrying.\n\nSlovenia has been offering compensation to people forced to self-isolate after exposure to coronavirus since it first introduced emergency measures in March, writes Guy De Launey in Ljubljana.\n\nDepending on the circumstances, this covers anything from 80% to the full amount of usual earnings. The payments may be made directly to people in quarantine, or as compensation to employers. A government official told the BBC that with its socialist past, it was normal for Slovenia to take care of people in quarantine by providing payments - and that without compensation, it would be impossible to deal with coronavirus.\n\nWhen the measures were first introduced, they enjoyed broad public support. But the second wave of the epidemic has seen case numbers skyrocket - Slovenia's per capita death-rate is now the third highest in the world - and public confidence overall has dipped.\n\nBy the end of 2020, market research company Valicon said that only 12% of Slovenians viewed the government's measures as \"appropriate\", adding that people were \"worried and dissatisfied with the social situation\", suggesting compensation is not a panacea.\n\nIn March last year, the US agreed to pay for some workers to stay at home - a big change for a country that had never paid sick leave requirement before, writes Natalie Sherman in New York.\n\nThe measure guaranteed up to 14 days of pay for workers forced to isolate because they had symptoms, had received medical advice to self-quarantine, or were under government lockdown orders. It also said it would guarantee two-thirds of pay for people caring for someone with the virus for up to two weeks. One study suggested it helped prevent hundreds of news cases a day.\n\nBut the assistance - paid by employers which were then reimbursed by the government via tax credits - expired on 31 December. And even before that, analysts estimated that loopholes meant roughly half of the country's workforce, including many grocery workers and medical staff were potentially excluded.\n\nAs part of his $1.9tn stimulus plan, President Joe Biden is pushing to renew the law, and end the exemptions. But the proposal - which his team estimates would expand the benefit to as many as 106 million more Americans - faces stiff resistance from Republicans and key business lobbies.\n\nIn Germany financial support is generous for people ordered to self-isolate by the authorities because of infection risk, writes Damien McGuinness in Berlin.\n\nAs a result there hasn't been a debate in Germany about breaking self-isolation rules because of financial need. Fines can be huge - tens of thousands of euros - and are strictly enforced. Overall there's no great issue with compliance and Germany's financial package has widespread cross-party backing, and is supported by voters.\n\nEmployees who are unable to work at home receive full pay for up to six weeks. This is paid by the employer, who is then reimbursed by the state. After that, workers may be eligible for sick-pay.\n\nFreelancers and self-employed people are generally also entitled to full pay for six weeks. But they would apply directly to their regional government. The exact rules and level of efficiency for payments vary from region to region. For those in the gig economy - Germany has it, though less so than Britain - this should be covered by state aid, based on tax returns.\n\nThe level of state support was agreed by Germany's national parliament in Berlin. But payments are administered and funded by regional governments.\n\nThere's been some discussion here about paying people to stay home if they test positive for Covid, writes Rob Cameron, in Prague.\n\nThe idea is advocated by at least one independent expert group. But it would be expensive, and the Czech state coffers are already stretched from keeping employees on furlough and paying compensation.\n\nInstead, salaried employees who receive a positive diagnosis are left with two choices: work from home - if they're up to it, if their job allows it and if their employer agrees, or go on sick leave for 10 days and receive 60% salary.\n\nFor the self-employed it's worse. Only those who have chosen to pay state sickness insurance will receive anything. Most opt out - the benefits are marginal. So most continue working from home - if their health and profession allows it.\n\nFor many workers, in other words, a positive Covid test can be a real blow to the wallet. It's an open secret that many people - especially freelancers in creative professions - beg friends and colleagues who test positive not to declare them as contacts, to avoid having to go into quarantine. For some the fear of losing work and money outweighs social responsibility.\n\nMoves to compensate people for taking time off work have largely been well received, writes Maddy Savage in Stockholm.\n\nTo encourage people to stay at home from the moment they develop coronavirus symptoms, the government changed the rules to allow Swedish employees and the self-employed to claim sick pay from the first day they are off, rather than the second. Employees receive about 80% of their salary while they isolate (capped at SEK 700 or £61.88 per day), and the self-employed are entitled to payments capped at 804 SEK or £71.05. The government has also introduced an allowance for people isolating because they live with someone who has coronavirus.\n\nWhile Sweden has largely kept primary schools open throughout the pandemic, parents have been able to make use of a pre-existing benefit which allows them to take state-funded time off work if their children are ill (with the virus or any other illness), and an additional benefit has been introduced for parents who are forced to take time off work to look after children affected by school closures as a result of a local outbreak.\n\nBut these measures have also stirred debates about welfare inequality. There are concerns that workers who are paid by the hour or on temporary contracts aren't entitled to the same level of sickness benefits as permanent staff - there are reports that this has encouraged some to keep working despite developing Covid-19 symptoms.", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "The Black Country Living Museum normally gives visitors a taste of ordinary life in the Victorian era\n\nA venue that has doubled as a set for TV series Peaky Blinders is to operate as a Covid-19 vaccination centre.\n\nUsing Black Country Living Museum, a largely open-air site, to deliver jabs is said to be a \"game-changer\" for the local community.\n\nThe Dudley attraction, which is closed to tourists during lockdown, is expected to help administer thousands of injections a week.\n\nPeople are reminded they need an NHS letter of invitation before turning up.\n\nThe formal appointments will initially prioritise doses for people most at risk of complications from the virus.\n\nThe latest figures from NHS England showed 97,310 Covid jabs had been administered in Dudley and the surrounding area by Thursday - the second highest amount in the Midlands.\n\nBut rollout at the museum - which begins on Monday - will see it become Dudley's first vaccination centre.\n\nIt will complement existing GP-led vaccination services which are already up and running locally.\n\nCillian Murphy stars in Peaky Blinders, a Birmingham-set drama filmed in part at the museum\n\nThe museum normally gives visitors a taste of life in the Black Country during bygone days and has been used as a location for Peaky Blinders, the BBC TV series set in nearby Birmingham in the early 20th Century.\n\nSaying the step was a game-changer, Nicholas Barlow, Dudley Council member for health, said: \"Having the Black Country Living Museum on board as a vaccination centre will greatly increase the amount of jabs we can deliver, and the speed at which we can administer them.\n\n\"It will make people safer from this deadly virus more quickly.\"\n\nSally Roberts, Black Country and West Birmingham Clinical Commissioning Group chief nurse, said: \"Our progress [in the area] to date has been incredible and I am delighted that our first vaccination centre, which will be capable of delivering thousands more vaccines each week, is going live.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Appointments were brought forward or rescheduled for safety reasons\n\nFour vaccination centres were shut as snow caused some travel disruption in Wales.\n\nSunday appointments in Bridgend, Rhondda, Abercynon and Merthyr Tydfil were rescheduled for safety reasons, but centres will reopen on Monday, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said.\n\nThe Met Office has extended a yellow weather warning to midnight on Sunday for all of Wales except Anglesey.\n\nA yellow warning for ice runs from midnight until 11:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nPolice have warned of difficult conditions due to snow and ice.\n\nUp to 3cm of snow is forecast to fall in most areas, with 10 to 15cm expected in the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board urged anyone with queries about Sunday's vaccination appointments to call the number on their appointment letters.\n\nSnow volunteers cleared pathways so a Covid vaccine pilot in Maesteg could keep running\n\n\"We can confirm that no vaccines have been wasted as a consequence of this temporary Sunday closure and we are grateful to all those who were able to turn up at such short notice yesterday as we brought forward a significant number of Sunday appointments during the course of Saturday,\" it said.\n\n\"Additionally, our 4x4 arrangements are enabling us to continue to reach care homes to vaccinate the staff and residents there.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth Wales Police tweeted there was \"widespread snow this morning, particularly in some higher areas, making driving conditions difficult\".\n\nAnd Dyfed-Powys Police said some roads were \"impassable\" and advised people to \"stay home\".\n\nIn Bridgend, officers from South Wales Police were pelted with snowballs as they helped an injured sledger on Heol y Nant.\n\nNorth Wales Police warned of difficult conditions due to \"widespread snow\", particularly on high ground.\n\nIt said the A499 near Pwllheli had received heavy snowfall overnight.\n\nWelsh Ambulance Service boss Jason Killens tweeted, thanking the public for helping crews continue to work despite the conditions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVillages were dusted with snow, such as in Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire\n\nNick Rolfe shared this garden view in Nercwys, near Mold, Flintshire\n\nThe Met Office warned travellers that \"longer journey times by road, bus and train services\" could be expected, although Wales is in a level four lockdown with all but essential travel banned.\n\nIt also said the snow could lead to power cuts and other services, such as mobile phone coverage, may be affected.\n\nThose going out for daily exercise have been warned there could be icy patches on some untreated roads, pavements and cycle paths.\n\nIn Powys, this was the view over Newtown on Sunday\n\nThe hills around Llangollen, Denbighshire, were covered in snow on Saturday\n\nPower cuts and travel delays are possible, the Met Office says\n\nThe drop in temperatures is likely to exacerbate problems after widespread flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nTwo flood warnings issued by Natural Resources Wales remain in place, meaning flooding is expected.\n\nThese cover the River Ritec at Tenby in Pembrokeshire, which could affect the Kiln Park caravan site, and the lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows.\n\nPretty as a picture... Suzy shared this garden view in Snowdonia\n\nSun up: Heath in Cardiff awakes to a covering of snow\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Larry King, giant of US broadcasting who achieved worldwide fame for interviewing political leaders and celebrities, has died at the age of 87.\n\nKing conducted an estimated 50,000 interviews in his six-decade career, which included 25 years as host of the popular CNN talk show Larry King Live.\n\nHe died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to Ora Media, a production company he co-founded.\n\nEarlier this month, he was treated in hospital for Covid-19, US media say.\n\nThe talk show host, famous for his braces and rolled-up sleeves, had faced several health problems in recent years, including heart attacks.\n\nKing was married eight times to seven women and had five children. Two of them died last year within weeks of each other - daughter Chaia died from lung cancer and son Andy of a heart attack.\n\nKing carried out interviews with every sitting US president from Gerald Ford to Barack Obama and a number of world leaders. His other high-profile guests included Dr Martin Luther King, the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Lady Gaga.\n\n\"For 63 years and across the platforms of radio, television and digital media, Larry's many thousands of interviews, awards, and global acclaim stand as a testament to his unique and lasting talent as a broadcaster,\" Ora Media said in a statement, without giving the cause of death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Larry King: \"I like spontaneity. That's the kind of broadcaster I am\".\n\nBorn Lawrence Harvey Zeiger in Brooklyn, New York, in 1933, King rose to fame in the 1970s with his radio programme The Larry King Show, on the commercial network Mutual Broadcasting System.\n\nIn 1985 he launched Larry King Live on the fledgling CNN, and became one of the network's biggest stars. The programme, broadcast around the world, was a success with audiences, with King answering thousands of phone calls from viewers.\n\nHe earned a number of honours, including two Peabody awards, but was also criticised for his non-confrontational approach and open-ended questions. King boasted of not doing much research for the interviews so, he said, he could learn along with viewers.\n\nBy 2010 his ratings had dropped significantly, with critics saying King's approach felt outdated in an era of more aggressive interviewing styles. King then announced his retirement, saying: \"It's time to hang up my nightly suspenders.\"\n\nIn his final programme on CNN, he told his viewers: \"I don't know what to say, except to you, my audience, thank you. Instead of goodbye, how about so long?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by CNN Communications This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCNN replaced him with British journalist and broadcaster Piers Morgan, whose programme King criticised for being \"too much about him\".\n\nMorgan, whose programme was cancelled three years later, said on Twitter on Saturday: \"Larry King was a hero of mine until we fell out after I replaced him at CNN & he said my show was 'like watching your mother-in-law go over a cliff in your new Bentley.' (He married 8 times so a mother-in-law expert).\"\n\nIn a statement, CNN president Jeff Zucker said: \"The scrappy young man from Brooklyn had a history-making career spanning radio and television. His curiosity about the world propelled his award-winning career in broadcasting, but it was his generosity of spirit that drew the world to him.\"\n\nMost recently, King hosted another programme, Larry King Now, broadcast on Hulu and RT, Russia's state-controlled international broadcaster.\n\nA Kremlin spokesman was quoted as saying by state RIA Novosti news agency: \"King repeatedly interviewed Putin. The president has always appreciated his great professionalism and unquestioned journalistic authority.\"\n\nOutside broadcasting, King founded the Larry King Cardiac Foundation in 1988, a charity which helps to fund heart treatment for those with limited financial means or no medical insurance.", "Pavithra Wanniarachchi (L) has become the fourth Sri Lankan minister to test positive\n\nSri Lanka's health minister, who endorsed herbal syrup to prevent Covid, has tested positive for the virus.\n\nPavithra Wanniarachchi tested positive on Friday, a media secretary at the Ministry of Health told the BBC.\n\nShe had promoted the syrup, manufactured by a shaman who claimed it worked as a life-long inoculation against the virus.\n\nSri Lanka recorded 56,076 cases and 276 deaths since the pandemic began, with cases surging in recent months.\n\nMs Wanniarachchi is the fourth minister to test positive. A junior minister, who also took the potion, tested positive earlier this week.\n\nThe health minister had publicly consumed and endorsed the syrup as a way of stopping the spread of the virus. The shaman who invented the syrup, which contains honey and nutmeg, said the recipe was given to him in a visionary dream.\n\nDoctors in the country have quashed claims the herbal syrup works, but AFP news agency reports thousands have travelled to a village to obtain it.\n\nMs Wanniarachchi took two Covid-19 tests and both returned positive results, Viraj Abeysinghe, media secretary at the Ministry of Health told the BBC.\n\nThe minister has been asked to self-isolate and all of her immediate contacts have gone into isolation.\n\nNews of Ms Wanniarachchi's positive test came hours after Sri Lanka approved the emergency use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. The first doses are expected to arrive in the country next week.\n\nSri Lanka isn't the only place where people in positions of power have promoted unproven treatments for Covid.\n\nLast year, Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina was criticised for promoting a herbal concoction that he claimed could prevent the virus. He was pictured distributing the tonic to poor communities in the capital.\n\nSince the pandemic began, a number of world leaders and cabinet members have contracted Covid. French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and former President Donald Trump all caught the virus at various points last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The people who think Coronavirus is caused by 5G", "Skewen in Neath Port Talbot has been badly hit by flooding over the past two days\n\nThere have been \"no adverse effects\" on the coronavirus vaccine roll-out caused by recent flooding, the Welsh Government has said.\n\nHomes were evacuated in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, on Thursday as heavy rain caused issues across the country.\n\nSwansea Bay health board said none of its mass vaccination centres or GP surgeries had been affected by floods.\n\nIt added anyone struggling to get to a vaccination appointment because of the flooding would be able to rearrange.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr University Health Board also said it was not aware of flooding in north Wales causing any issues for the vaccine roll-out.\n\nWrexham council leader Mark Pritchard said on Thursday that teams worked to ensure the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, made on Wrexham Industrial Estate, was not lost in the floods.\n\nThe latest figures released on Friday showed 212,317 people in Wales had received their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, with a further 415 receiving a second dose.\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nAbout 80 people in Skewen had to be evacuated from their homes after streets were left under water.\n\nFire crews returned to the scene on Friday to continue to pump floodwater away from houses.\n\nMeanwhile, a family in Rossett, Wrexham county, had to be rescued by helicopter after their home became surrounded by floodwater on Thursday night.\n\nNorth Wales has also been hit by floods\n\nOn Friday, Health Minister Vaughan Gething told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that efforts to rehouse those affected by the floods were being done in \"as Covid-secure a way as possible\".\n\nDorothy Edwards, Covid-19 vaccination programme director for Swansea Bay health board, said: \"None of our mass vaccination centres have been impacted by flooding and we're not aware of any particular issues in primary care.\n\n\"Of course we will be sympathetic if there are people struggling to get to their appointment and if they are booked in at an mass vaccination centres they need to ring the booking line and the appointment will be rearranged.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"There have been no adverse effects on the vaccine roll-out due to flooding.\"", "Mr Johnson raised the benefits of a UK-US trade deal during his phone call with Mr Biden\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has spoken to Joe Biden for the first time since the new US president was inaugurated.\n\nMr Johnson said on Twitter that he looked forward to \"deepening the longstanding alliance\" between the UK and the US as they drove a \"green and sustainable recovery from Covid-19\".\n\nMr Biden was sworn in as president and Kamala Harris as vice-president in a ceremony in Washington on Wednesday.\n\nThe PM said their inauguration was a \"step forward\" for the US.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said Mr Johnson \"warmly welcomed\" the president's decision to rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change and the World Health Organization - both abandoned by Mr Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump.\n\n\"The prime minister praised President Biden's early action on tackling climate change and commitment to reach net zero by 2050,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe spokesman added that, in building on the two nations' \"long history of cooperation in security and defence, the leaders \"re-committed to the Nato alliance and our shared values in promoting human rights and protecting democracy\".\n\nThe two leaders also talked about \"the benefits of a potential free trade deal\" between the UK and the US, with Mr Johnson reiterating his intention \"to resolve existing trade issues as soon as possible\".\n\nAfter the inauguration of any American president, a political spectator sport immediately begins: the order in which the new occupant of the White House speaks to other world leaders.\n\nIt is a crude metric of relative importance, but a metric nonetheless.\n\nI understand the call lasted for around 35 minutes and was the first conversation Joe Biden has had with a European leader as president.\n\nThe focus on climate change makes political and diplomatic sense. It's a topic where a Conservative prime minister and Democrat president can agree, and it matters particularly to the UK as the host of the COP26 UN Climate Change Summit in Glasgow in November.\n\nBut when you compare what Downing Street said about the call and what the White House said, one thing leaps out.\n\nNo 10's readout refers to a conversation about a trade deal. President Biden's does not.\n\nIt's widely expected there'll be no such agreement any time soon.\n\nMr Johnson and Mr Biden \"looked forward to to meeting in person as soon as the circumstances allow\" and to working together during the forthcoming G7, G20 and COP26 summits, the spokesman added.\n\nA White House statement said Mr Biden \"conveyed his intention to strengthen the special relationship\" between the US and UK and \"revitalize transatlantic ties\".\n\nCongratulating Mr Biden and Ms Harris - who is the first woman and first black and Asian-American person to serve as vice-president - the PM said earlier that their inauguration was a \"step forward\" for the US, which had \"been through a bumpy period\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"It's a big moment for us - we have things we want to do together.\"\n\nMr Johnson said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and the US and their \"joint common agenda\".\n\nThe BBC's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg has said the Biden Presidency \"brings some hope to government\" because No 10 believes \"there is a lot of overlap\" between what Mr Biden and Mr Johnson want to do.\n\nThe US president has previously said that he does not want a \"guarded border\" between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland following Brexit, and that any UK-US post-Brexit trade deal had to be \"contingent\" on respect for the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nThe PM and Mr Biden have never met in real life, but the new US president once referred to Mr Johnson as a \"physical and emotional clone\" of Mr Trump.\n\nAfter winning the presidential election, Mr Biden phoned Mr Johnson ahead of other European leaders and expressed his desire to strengthen the historic \"special relationship\" between the two countries.", "Elizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien were married moments before he was put on a mechanical ventilator\n\nAn engaged couple taken to hospital in the same ambulance with Covid-19 were able to marry moments before the man was sedated and put on a ventilator.\n\nElizabeth Kerr, 31, and Simon O'Brien, 36, were taken to Milton Keynes University Hospital with breathing difficulties on 9 January.\n\nStaff rallied to arrange a wedding as the groom's condition worsened.\n\nThey held off intubating Mr O'Brien so the ceremony could go ahead. The couple are now recovering in hospital.\n\nMrs Kerr, a nurse, and Mr O'Brien had planned to marry in June.\n\nBoth contracted the disease and were taken to hospital together when their oxygen levels fell dangerously low.\n\nThey were placed on separate wards but when Mrs Kerr told nurse Hannah Cannon about their wedding plans, she asked her if they would like to marry in the hospital.\n\nMrs Kerr said she was told it could be their only chance.\n\n\"Those are words I never, ever want to hear again,\" she said.\n\nA photo on Mrs Kerr's phone shows the wedding took place in the beds of the intensive care unit\n\nHowever, while staff were securing the wedding licence, Mr O'Brien's condition further deteriorated and on 12 January he was placed on the intensive care unit, to be put on a ventilator.\n\nThey waited to intubate him just long enough for the ceremony to go ahead.\n\nMs Cannon said: \"With lots of teamwork... we were able to give them a wedding, not necessarily the wedding that they would have initially intended, but certainly something positive, remarkable and memorable for them to really hold on to.\"\n\nShe filmed the marriage for the couple's families and friends, and catering staff at the hospital provided a cake.\n\nShortly after saying \"I do\", Mr O'Brien was placed on the ventilator.\n\nThe couple have now been reunited on a recovery ward and were able to kiss for the first time since being married.\n\nMrs Kerr said having the wedding meant \"everything\" to them.\n\n\"If we hadn't had each other and we hadn't been given that opportunity to get married, I don't think both of us would be here now,\" she added.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Early evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.\n\nHowever, there remains huge uncertainty around the numbers - and vaccines are still expected to work.\n\nThe data comes from mathematicians comparing death rates in people infected with either the new or the old versions of the virus.\n\nThe new more infectious variant has already spread widely across the UK.\n\nMr Johnson told a Downing Street briefing: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the south east - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\n\n\"It's largely the impact of this new variant that means the NHS is under such intense pressure.\"\n\nPublic Health England, Imperial College London, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Exeter have each been trying to assess how deadly the new variant is.\n\nTheir evidence has been assessed by scientists on the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag).\n\nThe group concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the virus had become more deadly, but this is far from certain.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser, described the data so far as \"not yet strong\".\n\nHe said: \"I want to stress that there's a lot of uncertainty around these numbers and we need more work to get a precise handle on it, but it obviously is a concern that this has an increase in mortality as well as an increase in transmissibility.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nPrevious work suggests the new variant spreads between 30% and 70% faster than others, and there are hints it is about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, with 1,000 60-year-olds infected with the old variant, 10 of them might be expected to die. But this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThis difference is found when looking at everyone testing positive for Covid, but analysing only hospital data has found no increase in the death rate. Hospital care has improved over the course of the pandemic as doctors get better at treating the disease.\n\nThe new variant was first detected in Kent in September. It is now the most common form of the virus in England and Northern Ireland, and has spread to more than 50 other countries.\n\nThe Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are both expected to work against the variant that emerged in the UK.\n\nHowever, Sir Patrick said there was more concern about two other variants that had emerged in South Africa and Brazil.\n\nHe said: \"They have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines.\n\n\"They are definitely of more concern than the one in the UK at the moment and we need to keep looking at it and studying this very carefully.\"\n\nThe prime minister said the government was prepared to take further action to protect the country's borders to prevent new variants from entering.\n\n\"I really don't rule it out, we may need to take further measures still,\" he said.\n\nLast week the government extended a travel ban to South America, Portugal and many African countries amid concerns about new variants, while all international travellers must now test negative ahead of departure to the UK and go into quarantine on arrival.", "An exhibition now celebrates Wuhan's success in controlling the outbreak\n\nWuhan has long since recovered from the world's first outbreak of Covid-19. It is now being remembered not as a disaster but as a victory, and with an insistence that the virus came from somewhere - anywhere - but here.\n\nFrom the moment a new, pandemic coronavirus emerged in the same city as a laboratory dedicated to the study of new coronaviruses with pandemic potential, Prof Shi Zhengli has found herself the focus of one of the biggest scientific controversies of our time.\n\nFor much of the past year she has met the suggestion that Sars-Cov-2 might have escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology with angry denial.\n\nNow though, she has offered her own thoughts on how the initial outbreak may have begun in the city.\n\nIn an article in this month's edition of Science Magazine she referred to a number of studies that, she said, suggest the virus existed outside of China before Wuhan's first known case in December 2019.\n\n\"Given the finding of Sars-Cov-2 on the surface of imported food packages, contact with contaminated uncooked food could be an important source of Sars-Cov-2 transmission,\" she wrote.\n\nFrom one of the world's leading experts on coronaviruses, even the discussion of such a possibility seems unusual.\n\nCould a spiralling outbreak of infection that almost destroyed Wuhan's health system, sparked the world's first Covid lockdown and spawned a global catastrophe really have arrived on imported food without any signs of similarly devastating outbreaks elsewhere?\n\n\"The virus came from America,\" this fishmonger told the BBC\n\nBut with the virus vanquished, the idea that it is a foreign import is repeated with almost unanimity across this city of 11 million people.\n\n\"It came here from other countries,\" one woman running a hotpot stall in a busy street tells me. \"China is a victim.\"\n\n\"Where did it come from?\" the next-door fishmonger repeats my question aloud, and then answers: \"It came from America.\"\n\nOn 23 January last year, the Chinese authorities severed transport links out of Wuhan and confined the city's population to their homes.\n\nThe tough lockdown coincided with the annual spring festival celebrations and came too late to prevent the global spread of the disease - five million people had already left the city ahead of the holiday.\n\nDoctors' warnings had gone unheeded and, in an outpouring of anger on the Chinese internet, the authorities stood accused of covering up the initial outbreak in the interests of political stability.\n\nOne year on, there's little sign of that anger in Wuhan today. In fact it's the humdrum normality that is striking - the traffic jams, the bustling markets and busy restaurants.\n\nIts success in eventually bringing the virus under control is now being celebrated in a giant exhibition hall, complete with models of medical workers in hazmat suits, installations of hospital beds and - everywhere you look - giant portraits of President Xi Jinping.\n\nThe accompanying texts mention his \"all-out war\" against the pandemic, his \"resolute decision making\" and how he has been willing to share \"China's solutions\" with the world.\n\nThere can be no doubting the success of China's mass testing programmes, its tracing apps and the widespread mask wearing.\n\nBut its strict enforcement of lockdowns, with little hand-wringing over the impact on individual rights, may be far less easy for democratic countries to emulate.\n\n\"The strategic success achieved in this battle fully manifested the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China and the significant advantages of the socialist system of our country,\" the exhibition proclaims.\n\nDespite China's promise of international co-operation, the world is still no closer to an answer to the biggest question of them all - where did the virus come from?\n\nMany prominent scientists believe that - based on past outbreaks - the most likely source of the coronavirus is a natural one, a \"zoonotic\" leap from bats - known to harbour such viruses - to humans, possibly via an intermediate species.\n\nBut China has produced very little evidence to show the work that's been done in its search for the source, in particular the testing of historic human samples stored by hospitals to determine where and when the virus really started spreading.\n\nThose scientists who argue that the possibility of an accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology should also be included as part of any investigation are curious about this apparent silence.\n\n\"I find it very unlikely that such investigations would not have already occurred,\" Alina Chan, a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, told me.\n\n\"It's a serious risk to resume life as usual without knowing where a dangerous human pathogen came from.\"\n\nWuhan's exhibition also has a display of hospital beds\n\nInstead of publishing its own evidence though, China appears to be taking an anywhere-but-Wuhan approach, with state media cheerleading the idea that the virus may have arrived in Wuhan on frozen food imports or talking cryptically of \"multiple origins\".\n\nAt a recent daily press briefing, I asked China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Hua Chunying, why such narratives were being promoted in the absence of real scientific evidence.\n\n\"Your question reveals your prejudice against China,\" she replied. \"Reports have emerged from Australia, Italy and many other countries that the coronavirus was found in multiple places in the autumn of 2019.\"\n\n\"Aren't these all facts?\" she asked.\n\nNot according to Alina Chan, who told me that such studies \"lack validation\" and some have been conducted without \"the most basic controls\".\n\n\"They do not present persuasive scientific evidence that the virus was circulating outside of China before the late 2019 outbreak in Wuhan,\" she said.\n\n\"The earliest detected cases and outbreak were in Wuhan. Early cases outside of China were found to have travelled from Wuhan. The most similar viruses have been found inside China.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Robin Brant visits the Wuhan market where Covid-19 was first traced\n\nInterestingly, scientists who have found themselves disagreeing strongly about the likelihood of the lab-leak theory, suddenly find themselves very much aligned on whether the virus came from abroad.\n\n\"I do not find the data linking Sars-Cov-2 to frozen foods to be credible,\" Kristian Andersen, a professor of immunology and microbiology at the Scripps Research Institute in the US, told me.\n\nAs someone who is a firm supporter of China's insistence that the virus could not have escaped from a lab, he gives its latest position much shorter shrift.\n\n\"All the available evidence points to an emergence of the virus somewhere in China in late 2019,\" he said.\n\nChinese virologist Shi Zhengli, seen here inside the laboratory in Wuhan\n\nProf Shi Zhengli recently told the BBC in an exchange of emails that she'd welcome \"any form of visit\" by an inquiry team to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to rule out the possibility of a lab leak.\n\nBut to a follow-up email asking about the alignment of her discussion of possible foreign origins with the Chinese government's own narrative, she sent another reply.\n\n\"Your question is not friendly,\" she wrote.\n\nAfter months of delay and wrangling with China about access, a World Health Organization team has arrived in Wuhan to begin its inquiry into the origins of the virus.\n\nTheir terms of reference hint at the politics behind the scenes, with the document mentioning many of China's talking points, including foreign origins and food-chain transmission.\n\nLast year Wuhan endured one of the strictest lockdowns the world has seen\n\nDr Daniel Lucey, a physician and infectious disease professor at the Georgetown Medical Centre in Washington, suggests the stage is being set for a foregone conclusion.\n\n\"In my view, if you line up side-by-side the WHO's terms of reference with the Shi Zhengli Science article,\" he told me, \"then it is clear that the overarching strategic narrative is that the origin of the virus is outside of China.\"\n\nThe crisis that began in Wuhan is now the world's crisis and, with so many lives and livelihoods lost, answers are desperately needed.\n\nIf the virus came naturally from bats, an understanding of that pathway is important to protect humanity from the risk of repeated \"spillover\" events from the same source.\n\nIf it leaked from a lab, an urgent review of safety protocols is needed - not just in China but globally.\n\nBoards in Wuhan say the virus broke out \"in multiple places around the world\"\n\nScientists are beginning to wonder if those answers will ever be forthcoming.\n\n\"It's undeniable now that politics have gotten in the way of science,\" Alina Chan said.\n\n\"I just hope that the WHO team will relay the details of their experience so that the public can understand what the limitations of their investigation are.\"\n\nIn Wuhan's giant exhibition hall, the city's place in history is again called into question by one of the concluding sign boards which says Covid-19 broke out \"in multiple places around the world\".\n\nFor China, this city's past is now propaganda and the truth, like the virus, is being brought under tight control.", "Guests fled when officers arrived at the Stamford Hill school, where the windows had been covered\n\nPolice broke up a wedding party in north London, where they now say about 150 people had gathered.\n\nOfficers found the windows at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School, in Stamford Hill, had been covered when they arrived at 21:15 GMT on Thursday.\n\nGuests fled from the strictly Orthodox Charedi Jewish school when the police arrived. The organisers face a £10,000 fine for breaking lockdown rules.\n\nThe Met originally claimed that about 400 guests were at the gathering.\n\nIn a statement, the school said its hall had been leased out.\n\nA spokesman for the school, whose principal Rabbi Avrahom Pinter died in April after contracting coronavirus, said \"we had no knowledge that the wedding was taking place\".\n\nHe added: \"We are absolutely horrified about last night's event and condemn it in the strongest possible terms.\"\n\nBoris Johnson supports the police for \"taking action against people who flagrantly and selfishly ignore the rules\", according to the prime minister's official spokesman.\n\nThe spokesman said: \"Large gatherings such as that pose a health risk, not just to those who attend but those who they live with or others who they may come into contact with.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, meanwhile, said the \"overwhelming majority\" of the Jewish community would be appalled at the event.\n\nRabbi Mirvis, who serves as the head of the UK's orthodox Jewish community but is not the leader of the Charedi group, called the wedding party \"a most shameful desecration of all that we hold dear\".\n\nFive guests were issued with £200 fixed penalty notices, according to police, who said their inquiries had established those present at the school had gathered for a wedding.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A video shared with the Jewish Chronicle shows officers in Stamford Hill\n\nVideo shared with the Jewish Chronicle shows officers in Stamford Hill speaking with a man to explain why they are there, although he is not accused of any wrongdoing.\n\nThey are then seen arriving at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School.\n\nDet Ch Sup Marcus Barnett of the Met Police said: \"This was a completely unacceptable breach of the law.\n\n\"People across the country are making sacrifices by cancelling or postponing weddings and other celebrations and there is no excuse for this type of behaviour.\n\n\"My officers are working tirelessly with the community and we will not hesitate to take enforcement action if that is required to keep people safe.\"\n\nOn Friday morning, a security guard at the school told the BBC there were more like 100 guests at the party than the much higher number given out by police.\n\nThe Met later said in a statement: \"Although initial calls suggested some 400 people had attended the wedding, it is now believed that approximately 150 people were in attendance.\"\n\nStamford Hill is part of the borough of Hackney, which has a Covid-19 infection rate of 625.43 cases per 100,000 people. The England average rate is 471.31 per 100,000 people.\n\nThe mayor of Hackney, Philip Glanville, said he was \"deeply disappointed\" that the wedding party had taken place, despite \"the number of lives that have already been lost in the Charedi community and across the borough\".\n\nHe added: \"Unfortunately, similar events have taken place even at this venue before and we need to be really clear how unacceptable it is.\n\n\"We will be meeting with the Rabbinate and our community partners over the coming days to see how we can prevent further incidents of this nature.\"\n\nLondon is under an England-wide lockdown, which prevents social mixing between households.\n\nLondoners are asked to only leave home for limited reasons such as shopping, going to work, seeking medical assistance, or avoiding domestic abuse.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nDo you have any information to share about this incident? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Senior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nProf Chris Whitty said extending the maximum wait from three to 12 weeks was a \"public health decision\" to get the first jab to more people across the UK.\n\nBut the British Medical Association said that was \"difficult to justify\" and should be changed to six weeks.\n\nIt comes as early evidence suggests the UK virus variant may be more deadly.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson told a Downing Street briefing on Friday: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the south east - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\"\n\nPrevious work suggests the new variant spreads between 30% and 70% faster than others, and there are hints it is about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said if 1,000 men in their 60s were infected with the old variant, roughly 10 of them would be expected to die - but this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nThe government's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) says unpublished data suggests the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is still effective with doses 12 weeks apart - but Pfizer has said it has tested its vaccine's efficacy only when the two doses were given up to 21 days apart.\n\nThe World Health Organization has recommended a gap of four weeks between doses - to be extended only in exceptional circumstances to six weeks.\n\nGovernment minister Robert Jenrick said the current strategy ensured \"millions more people can get the first jab\" and the \"high level of protection\" which it offered.\n\nHe said the BMA's concerns would be taken into account but that the government was following the \"very clear advice\" of the medicines regulator and the UK's four chief medical officers who, he said, \"could not have been clearer that this is the right thing to do for this country\".\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Social Care added: \"Our number one priority is to give protection against coronavirus to as many vulnerable people as possible, as quickly as possible.\"\n\nIn the letter to Prof Whitty, seen by the BBC, the British Medical Association (BMA) said it agreed that the vaccine should be rolled out \"as quickly as possible\" - but called for an urgent review and for the gap to be reduced.\n\nThe doctors' union said the UK's strategy \"has become increasingly isolated internationally\" and \"is proving evermore difficult to justify\".\n\n\"The absence of any international support for the UK's approach is a cause of deep concern and risks undermining public and the profession's trust in the vaccination programme,\" the letter said.\n\nDr Chaand Nagpaul, chair of the BMA, said there were \"growing concerns\" that the vaccine could become less effective with doses 12 weeks apart.\n\n\"Obviously the protection will not vanish after six weeks, but what we do not know is what level of protection will be offered [after that point],\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"We should not be extrapolating data when we don't have it.\"\n\nHe said while he understands the rationale behind the decision, \"no other nation has adopted the UK's approach\".\n\n\"We think the flexibility that the WHO offers of extending to 42 days is being stretched far too much to go from six weeks right through to 12 weeks,\" he added.\n\nThere has been understandable enthusiasm over a promising start to the hugely ambitious UK vaccination rollout.\n\nBut there has been some tension over the decision to lengthen the time between doses for the Pfizer vaccine to 12 weeks.\n\nProf Whitty and other health leaders and experts say this will allow many more people to get vaccinated quickly and the first dose gives most of the protection.\n\nBut critics argue this goes against Pfizer's recommendation of a three-week gap and there is no data to back up the long delay.\n\nThe intervention of the BMA is significant as it shows senior doctors now have widespread concerns, including worries about reliability of supplies if people have to wait longer for a second jab.\n\nThis is a private letter to Chris Whitty seen by the BBC and not a grandstanding press release. The BMA wants to have talks with the chief medical adviser about moving to six weeks.\n\nProf Whitty will no doubt restate his case, but it will be interesting to see whether the BMA argument gains traction in the wider medical world.\n\nThe BMA also suggested second doses might not be guaranteed after a 12-week delay \"given the unpredictability of supplies\".\n\nHowever, Public Health England's medical director said people would get their second dose.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that she backed the current strategy, saying it was \"about bearing down on transmission\" to reduce deaths and reduce the chance of more dangerous variants of the virus emerging.\n\n\"The more people that are protected against this virus, the less opportunity it has to get the upper hand,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOther issues highlighted in the letter include:\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers have said the \"great majority\" of initial protection comes from the first jab, while the second dose is likely to help that protection last longer.\n\nIn total, the UK has ordered 100 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and 40 million of the Pfizer vaccine.\n\nBoth vaccines are expected to work against the variant of Covid-19 that emerged in the UK.\n\nWhat has been your experience of receiving the vaccine? Are you waiting for your second dose? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Nurses are calling for all UK staff to be given a higher grade of face mask to protect them against new variants of coronavirus.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing warns that inadequate PPE may be putting the lives of nursing staff at risk.\n\nIt has written to the workplace safety watchdog detailing its concerns, soon after a similar appeal from doctors.\n\nEngland's Department of Health says there is no reason to change current guidance.\n\nIt follows a comprehensive review of all the evidence around the new variants and the impact on PPE.\n\nAt present, most nurses working outside of intensive care wear standard surgical masks.\n\nBut the RCN says they may not protect them against the new variant of the virus, and very small airborne viral particles spread in hospitals.\n\nInstead, it wants all NHS staff to be given the kinds of high-grade face masks used in intensive care units, called FFP2 or FFP3 masks.\n\nThe UK guidance on infection prevention and control has recently been updated, but nurses say it allows individual trusts to decide what PPE to use.\n\nAs a result, some hospitals are offering staff high-grade PPE while many are not - and that is leading to unequal levels of protection depending on where nurses work.\n\nMany nurses wear standard surgical masks outside of intensive care\n\nDame Donna Kinnair, chief executive and general secretary of the RCN, said: \"The government's silence on this issue is creating a postcode lottery for nursing staff.\n\n\"It must stop dragging its feet on this issue. Nursing staff need to have full confidence that they are protected.\"\n\nShe added: \"Staff picking up this virus at work are angered at any suggestion they have stopped following the rules - this is down to the new variant and the dangerous shortage of adequate protection.\"\n\nNHS England data shows a 22% rise in the average number of healthcare staff off sick because of Covid-19 in the first week of January, compared with the last week in December.\n\nA spokesman from the Department of Health and Social Care in England said the safety of NHS and social care staff was \"top priority\" but the current guidance did not need changing.\n\n\"In response to the new Covid-19 variants, the UK Infection Prevention Control Cell conducted a comprehensive review of all available evidence and concluded that current guidance and PPE recommendations remain the right ones.\n\n\"New and emerging evidence is continually scrutinised and evaluated by the government, in conjunction with our world-leading scientists,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing is asking the governments of the UK to:\n\nIt is also calling for the Health and Safety Executive to review the guidance on appropriate use of PPE in all health and care settings.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nCheltenham Town came within nine minutes of one of the biggest shocks in recent FA Cup history before Manchester City staged a dramatic late rally to crush the dreams of the gallant League Two side.\n\nThe Robins, 72 places below City who sit second in the Premier League, threatened huge embarrassment for Pep Guardiola's side after Alfie May put Cheltenham ahead on the hour after a trademark long throw from captain Ben Tozer caused chaos in the area.\n\nCity, who made ten changes to the team that beat Aston Villa in the Premier League on Wednesday, spared their embarrassment when Phil Foden, the game's outstanding player, arrived at the far post to turn in substitute Joao Cancelo's long cross in the 81st minute.\n\nAnd the turnaround was complete three minutes later when a rare moment of slackness in the outstanding Cheltenham defence, with goalkeeper Josh Griffiths superb, switched off and Gabriel Jesus scored from Fernandinho's delivery.\n\nFerran Torres scored Manchester City's third with the last kick of the game to give the scoreline a cruel reflection on Cheltenham's heroic efforts.\n\nIt was so cruel on manager Michael Duff and his players, who now go back the battle for promotion from League Two, while City will be away at Swansea in the fifth round.\n\n\"I'm incredibly proud,\" the Robins boss said of his side's display. \"The players they brought on from the bench and they way they celebrated the goals tells you something. They know they've been in a game. They've done that to better teams than us.\"\n\nThe sight of Manchester City manager Guardiola disputing where Cheltenham could take a throw-in said everything about the way the League Two underdogs gave their mighty opponents a serious fright.\n\nTozer's throw-ins were causing all manner of problems and led to Cheltenham's goal but there was so much more to their performance than that set-piece weapon, a threat any manager in the game would utilise.\n\nCheltenham tried to play football when they got the chance, with goalscorer May, who has done the hard yards in non-league before playing for Doncaster and now Cheltenham, a leading light.\n\nRobins keeper Griffiths, who suffered the ignominy of being beaten from 71 yards by his Newport County opposite number Tom King in midweek, was in defiant form as he saved well from Riyad Mahrez and Torres, showing command throughout. Tozer's headed goalline clearance from Benjamin Mendy in the first half was also symbolic of their 'they shall not pass' approach.\n\nThere may have been no fans inside this compact stadium but there was still a real sense of occasion, the game being halted in the first half because of a firework display nearby.\n\nIn the end this will be a bitter disappointment to Cheltenham but they can be rightly proud and take huge confidence into their League Two promotion battle.\n\nDuff highlighted how financially important the cup run was for his club.\n\n\"It's essential,\" he added. \"Every pound coming in is probably worth a tenner in normal times.\n\n\"These games don't come around very often. It's a shame because [with fans] the place would've been bouncing. Would that have seen us through in the last 10 minutes? I'm not so sure - but the key is to enjoy it.\"\n\nGuardiola made 10 changes to his line-up to give Manchester City's shadow squad a chance to impress.\n\nSome, like the erratic Mendy, did not take that opportunity and it was someone establishing himself in City's side that spared the blushes of this expensively assembled squad.\n\nFoden was magnificent, so light on his feet with glorious ball control, endless creativity and the man pulling the strings for City even when they were struggling to break down resilient Cheltenham.\n\nThe 20-year-old was head and shoulders above his City team-mates. He was the one who was going to pull them out of their grim predicament if anyone was, and so it proved when he popped up with the crucial late equaliser that lifted Guardiola's team and deflated Cheltenham.\n\nFoden had already carved out chances for Mahrez and Gabriel Jesus that were not taken so it was a case of 'do it yourself' when he was the player on target.\n\nThe fact Guardiola was forced to use three subs in Ruben Dias, Ilkay Gundogan and Joao Cancelo once Cheltenham went ahead proved how worried the Premier League giants were.\n\nThis was an unimpressive, scratchy display from City's much-changed team, with Guardiola resting so many of the players who are giving them such an ominous look in the Premier League - luckily they had the brilliance of Foden to pull them out of a deep hole.\n\nGuardiola praised the England attacking midfielder for his impressive performance.\n\n\"Foden is in a great moment and with great confidence,\" he said.\n\n\"He is clinical in front of goal and he had a similar chance to the goal we scored at [Chelsea's] Stamford Bridge - he is playing really well.\"\n\nThe City manager suggested he was confident in the players he put out on the pitch.\n\n\"I didn't have regrets even when we were 1-0 down, we had clear chances from the first minute,\" he added.\n\n\"When they take advantage it gets complicated, but we got it to 1-1 and it was tight. We came here with humility and had the quality to make the difference.\"\n• None Cheltenham have lost all nine of their competitive meetings with Premier League sides, by an aggregate score of 6-23.\n• None City have won 10 consecutive games in all competitions for the first time since a run of 11 from August to October 2017.\n• None May's opener for Cheltenham was the first goal City had conceded in 509 minutes of action in all competitions, since Callum Hudson-Odoi's strike for Chelsea at the start of the month.\n• None Foden is City's top scorer in all competitions this season with nine goals in 25 appearances, one more than he netted in 38 games last season.\n• None Jesus has been involved in 12 goals in 13 FA Cup appearances for City, scoring eight and assisting four.\n• None May has scored four goals in his four FA Cup games for Cheltenham, with each of his eight goals in total in the competition coming in home games.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 3. Ferran Torres (Manchester City) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Attempt missed. Matty Blair (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high following a corner.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 2. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Fernandinho with a through ball.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 1. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by João Cancelo with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. João Cancelo (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.\n• None Attempt missed. Phil Foden (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by João Cancelo with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Hear from the former US president as he reflects on his time in office\n• None How can you eat well for £1 a portion?", "The 39 people who died in the back of a trailer as it crossed the North Sea between Zeebrugge and the UK\n\nFour men have been jailed for the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants found dead in a lorry trailer in Essex.\n\nThe migrants died \"excruciatingly painful\" deaths, having suffocated in the container en route from Belgium to Purfleet in October 2019, a judge said.\n\nRonan Hughes, 41, and Gheorghe Nica, 43, played \"leading roles\" in the smuggling conspiracy and were jailed for 20 and 27 years respectively.\n\nAt the Old Bailey, two lorry drivers were also jailed for manslaughter.\n\n[Left to right] Eamonn Harrison, Ronan Hughes, Gheorghe Nica and Maurice Robinson were all jailed for manslaughter\n\nEamonn Harrison, 24, who towed the trailer to the Belgian port of Zeebrugge before their journey to the UK, was sentenced to 18 years.\n\nMaurice Robinson, 26, was given 13 years and four months, having collected the trailer and opened it in an industrial estate to find the migrants dead.\n\nThree others members of the people-smuggling gang were also sentenced for conspiracy to facilitate unlawful immigration.\n\nChristopher Kennedy, 24, from County Armagh, was jailed for seven years; Valentin Calota, 38, of Birmingham, for four-and-a-half years; and Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Hobart Road, Tilbury, Essex, was given a three-year sentence.\n\n[Left to right] Valentin Calota, Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga and Christopher Kennedy were also sentenced on Friday\n\nSentencing, Mr Justice Sweeney said: \"I have no doubt that the conspiracy was a sophisticated, long-running and profitable one to smuggle mainly Vietnamese people across the channel.\"\n\nHe said on the fatal trip the temperature had been rising along with the carbon dioxide levels throughout, hitting 40C (104F) while the container was at sea on 22 October 2019.\n\n\"There were desperate attempts to contact the outside world by phone and to break through the roof of the container,\" the judge said.\n\n\"All were to no avail and, before the ship reached Purfleet, [the victims] all died in what must have been an excruciatingly painful death.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video evidence showed how the trainer containing 39 Vietnamese migrants made its way to the UK\n\nThe victims had used a metal pole to try to punch through the roof but only managed to dent the interior.\n\nThe court heard some of their final desperate phone messages, including one where a man spoke with ragged breaths as he apologised to his family.\n\n\"I can't breathe,\" he said. \"I want to come back to my family. Have a good life.\"\n\nJustice Sweeney added: \"The willingness of the victims to try and enter the country illegally provides no excuse for what happened to them.\"\n\nThe bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer on 23 October 2019\n\nDuring the trial, jurors were given a snapshot of the victims - who included a bricklayer, a university graduate and a nail bar technician - and their dreams of a better life.\n\nMany of their families borrowed heavily to fund their passage, relying on their potential future earnings once they got into the UK.\n\nThe father of Nguyen Huy Tung, one of two 15-year-olds in the container, later learned of his son's death via social media.\n\nHarrison, of Newry, County Down, claimed he did not know there were people in the trailer when he towed it to the Belgian port, and that he watched \"a wee bit of Netflix\" in bed as they were loaded on.\n\nAfter receiving this message from his boss, Robinson got out of his cab, opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies\n\nRobinson, from County Armagh, collected the trailer when it arrived on UK shores just after midnight on 23 October.\n\nHis boss, Hughes, had messaged him: \"Give them air quickly don't let them out.\"\n\nRobinson gave a thumbs-up in reply. When Robinson stopped on a nearby industrial estate, he found that the migrants were all dead.\n\nHis barrister said Robinson, who admitted manslaughter, being part of the trafficking plot and money laundering, was \"horrified by what he saw\".\n\nThe moment lorry driver Maurice Robinson opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies inside was captured on CCTV\n\nThe trial examined three smuggling attempts by the gang - two that were successful on 11 and 18 October, and the final trip on 23 October.\n\nOn all three runs, Nica, of Basildon, Essex, had arranged cars and a van to transport the migrants at the UK end.\n\nWhen Robinson discovered the bodies, there was a series of telephone conversations between him and Nica and Hughes, of Tyholland, County Monaghan, Ireland, before the driver eventually dialled 999.\n\nIn his evidence, Nica said Robinson told him: \"I have a problem here - dead bodies in the trailer.\"\n\nWhile Hughes admitted manslaughter, both Nica and Harrison were convicted by a jury.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney said that in the conspiracy \"two played leading roles, namely - in order of importance - Hughes and Nica\".\n\nHe accepted Hughes was \"not at the very top of the conspiracy\" but said his role was \"pivotal... in that he ran a haulage business and supplied the trailers and drivers used to transport the migrants\".\n\nThe judge said Nica \"recruited and paid the drivers whose job it was to collect the migrants when they reached the drop-off site in this country and to drive them to the safe house(s) where they were to be held until payment\".\n\nHe added at the top of the conspiracy was a Vietnamese man called \"Fong\", who was based in London.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney told the defendants jailed for manslaughter they would serve two-thirds of the term in custody, instead of the usual half.\n\nEarlier this month, Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Barclay Road, Tottenham, north London, was sentenced, having admitted his limited role in the people-smuggling operation. It was accepted he was not a member of the organised crime group behind the smuggling operation.\n\nDet Ch Insp Daniel Stoten said: \"May this serve as a warning to those who think it's OK to prey on the vulnerabilities of migrants and their families, transporting them in a way worse than we would transport animals.\n\n\"My message to you is that we will find you and we will stop you.\"\n\nHe said the victims died in an \"unimaginable way, because of the utter greed of these criminals\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Police warned that unsanctioned protests would be \"immediately suppressed\"\n\nRussian police have detained close aides of the jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny, as a string of nationwide protests gets under way.\n\nPolice have broken up demonstrations in the eastern Khabarovsk region, amid stern warnings for people to stay home.\n\nMr Navalny's supporters flooded social media with calls to rally at protests expected in dozens of cities later.\n\nHe is Russian leader Vladimir Putin's most high-profile critic.\n\nHe was arrested last Sunday after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Russia last August.\n\nOn his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. He says it is a trumped-up case designed to silence him.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alexei Navalny was filmed by the BBC saying goodbye to his wife and then being led away by authorities\n\nMore than 60m people have watched his new video about President Vladimir Putin's alleged luxury Black Sea palace.\n\nThe Kremlin denies the property belongs to the president.\n\nAmong those detained in Moscow on Thursday were his spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, and one of his lawyers, Lyubov Sobol. They face fines or short jail terms.\n\nMs Sobol, who has a young child, was later released. But Ms Yarmysh has now been jailed for nine days.\n\nProminent Navalny activists are also being held in the cities of Vladivostok, Novosibirsk and Krasnodar.\n\nUnauthorised rallies are being planned in more than 60 cities across Russia for Saturday. Moscow police say any unauthorised demonstrations and provocations will be \"immediately suppressed\".\n\nA thousand people were reported to have come onto the streets in the Khabarovsk region, with some of them already detained.\n\nMr Navalny's wife Yulia, who travelled back to Russia with him from Germany, said she would demonstrate in Moscow \"for myself, for him, for our children, for the values and the ideals that we share\".\n\nAlexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) has drawn millions of followers on social media, through slickly produced videos alleging large-scale official corruption. He has long denounced Mr Putin's administration as \"feudal\" and full of \"crooks and thieves\".\n\nFor a long time the Russian authorities made out that Alexei Navalny was irrelevant. Just a blogger. With a tiny following. No threat whatsoever.\n\nRecent events suggest the opposite. First Mr Navalny was targeted with a nerve agent, allegedly by a secret group of FSB state security hitmen. Instead of investigating the poisoning, Russia is investigating him: on his return from Germany the Kremlin critic was arrested.\n\nHaving put Mr Navalny behind bars, the authorities are putting pressure on his supporters. The Kremlin's greatest fear is of a Ukraine-style revolution in Russia that would sweep away those in power.\n\nThere's no indication that such a scenario is imminent. But with economic problems growing, the Kremlin will worry that Mr Navalny could act as a lightning rod for protest sentiment. That explains the police crackdown on Navalny allies ahead of Saturday's potential protests.\n\nPlus, this is getting personal. Mr Navalny's video about \"Putin's Palace\" on the Black Sea was designed to cause maximum embarrassment to the Russian president.\n\nIn the \"Putin's palace\" video Mr Navalny alleges that rich businessmen close to Mr Putin paid for a sumptuous 17,691sq m (190,424sq ft) palace for him at Gelendzhik, by the Black Sea.\n\nIt is alleged to have a casino, a theatre and many other comforts, including a vineyard and tea house in the sprawling grounds. The Kremlin dismissed the YouTube video as a \"pseudo-investigation\" aimed at earning money for Mr Navalny.\n\nProsecutors have warned people against protesting in support of Mr Navalny on Saturday. Russia's education ministry has told parents not to allow their children to attend.\n\nSome Russian celebrities in the arts and sports have pledged support for Mr Navalny. They include ice hockey star Artemi Panarin.\n\nFormer world chess champion Garry Kasparov - now a leading anti-Putin activist based in the US - tweeted that pro-Navalny posts were being widely blocked in Russia.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Garry Kasparov This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a phone call to President Putin on Friday, EU Council President Charles Michel voiced \"grave concern\" about the jailing of Mr Navalny.\n\nMr Michel said the EU was \"united in its call on Russia to swiftly release Mr Navalny and proceed with the investigation into the assassination attempt on him, in full transparency and without further delay\".\n\nIn October, the EU imposed sanctions on six top Russian officials and a Russian chemical weapons research centre over the Novichok poisoning of Mr Navalny.\n\nThe Kremlin retaliated with tit-for-tat sanctions, denying any role in the attack and rejecting the expert finding that the Russian nerve agent had been used.\n\nThe Black Sea palace allegedly features a casino, an ice rink and a vineyard\n\nThe social media app TikTok has a flood of videos from Russians promoting the protests planned for Saturday. The messages about Mr Navalny have been going viral for several days.\n\nA well-known Russian TikTok user, Slava Varfolomeyev, told BBC Russian: \"I go on TikTok and find that every third video is about 'Putin's palace', the detention of Navalny and the 23 January rally!\"\n\nHe said that on Thursday \"this swelled to a maximum: practically seven out of every 10 videos were on that topic [Navalny]\". TikTok's popularity is based on short-form videos.\n\nOn Wednesday Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, demanded that TikTok take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\", threatening large fines.", "Police said they had been in contact with the family before the funeral took place \"in an attempt to ensure safety\"\n\nA funeral director has been fined £10,000 after police were called to a funeral with close to 150 people in attendance.\n\nHertfordshire Police said the large gathering in Welwyn Garden City on Thursday was reported to them by members of the public.\n\nCoronavirus rules mean a maximum of 30 people can attend a funeral.\n\nA second person was fined, by Bedfordshire Police, for when the gathering was in Arlesey, Bedfordshire.\n\nSupt Nick Caveney, of Hertfordshire Police, said: \"This was a clear and blatant breach of the current restrictions.\"\n\nHe said the fine was given to the funeral director \"for not managing this event correctly and advising their clients of the rules\".\n\n\"We implore all business owners to ensure they are following the restrictions safely and responsibly,\" he said.\n\n\"Flagrant breaches such as this will not be tolerated.\"\n\nThe force said it had worked with other agencies and the family in advance of the funeral \"in an attempt to ensure the safety of those attending and that of the wider public\".\n\nBut when officers attended they found the large number of people at the church, and a 41-year-old man from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, was handed the £10,000 fine after police served a fixed penalty notice.\n\nSeveral members of the public had contacted the force about the funeral at the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady, Queen of Apostles on Woodhall Lane.\n\nBedfordshire Police said a man in his 30s was issued with the fine over the gathering.\n\nCh Supt John Murphy from the force said: \"Fines and enforcement are a last resort for us, and we will always engage and work with families in the first instance.\n\n\"But we need to take firm action against those who brazenly decide to go against the guidelines outlined by the government and put a large number of people at risk.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Ministers will discuss at a meeting on Monday whether to tighten restrictions at UK borders - including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers, the BBC has been told.\n\nAt a Downing Street news conference on Friday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson did not rule out taking further action.\n\nIt comes amid increased concerns over the spread of new coronavirus variants.\n\nUnder current travel curbs, almost all people arriving in the UK must test negative for Covid to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the 72 hours before travelling and anyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nAll passengers are also required to quarantine for up to 10 days, although the isolation period can be cut short with a second negative test after five days in England.\n\nThe only people not subject to the conditions are children under 11, hauliers, air, international rail and maritime crew, and passengers from the Common Travel Area - comprised of the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own quarantine rules, which differ slightly.\n\nAs of Monday, travel corridors, which exempted passengers arriving from some countries from quarantine, were suspended throughout the UK.\n\nAsked whether the government would bring in further measures at UK borders, Mr Johnson said: \"I really don't rule it out, we may need to take further measures still.\n\n\"We may need to go further to protect our borders.\n\n\"We don't want to put that [efforts to control Covid] at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nOne more infectious variant , which was first identified in Kent, has already spread widely across the UK.\n\nAnd, at the briefing, the prime minister announced that early evidence suggests this variant may be more deadly.\n\nOther new variants causing concern have been identified in South Africa and Brazil in the weeks since the Kent variant was discovered.\n\nThose discoveries led to direct flights to the UK from all South American countries and several southern African countries being suspended.\n\nScientists fear these variants discovered in other countries may interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines and evade parts of the immune system.\n\nWhile those travelling into the UK are asked to abide by the 10-day isolation and told they can be subject to checks, London mayor Sadiq Khan is among those who have called for the UK to adopt the use of enforced quarantine in hotel rooms.\n\nThe policy is among the measures in Australia that has limited the country to just 28,750 positive cases during the entire pandemic, fewer than the UK currently has every day.\n\nTravellers who choose to go to Australia have to pay for their rooms at one of a number of selected quarantine facilities - and have all their meals delivered to their room throughout a stay of at least 14 days. They get tested twice for Covid during that period and if they test positive their quarantine is extended for a further 14 days.\n\nMeanwhile, passengers arriving into London's Heathrow airport this week have complained of queues at passport control and what they described as poor social distancing, after the latest travel restrictions - requiring travellers to show proof of their negative Covid tests - came into force.\n\nOn Friday, former British ambassador Peter Westmacott posted a picture on Twitter of long queues at the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Peter Westmacott This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA government spokesman said people \"should not be travelling unless absolutely necessary\".\n\nThe statement added: \"You must have proof of a negative test and a completed passenger locator form before arriving.\n\n\"Border Force have been ramping up enforcement and those not complying could be fined £500.\n\n\"It's ultimately up to individual airports to ensure social distancing on site.\"\n\nWith all parts of the UK under strict virus rules amid high levels of infection, only essential foreign travel is permitted in the current advice from the Foreign Office.\n\nA further 40,261 cases, and 1,401 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported on Friday in the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some of the volunteers are working to prepare bodies for burial\n\nA mosque in east London has closed for all communal prayer. Instead it is serving two purposes - providing funerals and feeding the local community. Michael Buchanan finds a team of volunteers there battling to deal with the pandemic.\n\nThe family shuffled quietly past a crate of milk cartons. They came through the small porch, towards the open coffin. Inside was a woman - a loved one - who died of Covid two days ago. The coffin sat feet away from tins and packets to be distributed by the local food bank. The milk was the latest delivery.\n\nIt is impossible to capture the enormous consequences of the pandemic. But last Saturday lunchtime, this tragic image - one of grief and hardship coming together - came close, for me at least.\n\nCovid-19 has made extraordinary demands of so many different people, but what is currently happening at the Masjid Ibrahim and Islamic Centre in east London is truly remarkable. Situated on a busy road, with the noise of ambulance sirens regularly shattering its peaceful interior, the mosque has closed to communal prayer and is open for two other purposes - to provide a funeral service and a food bank to the local community. Both are inundated.\n\n\"We've had so many bodies coming in. It's quite shocking. It's one after another after another. We've never had that situation before,\" says Sofia Bhatti. Alongside her friend, Tabassum Khokhar - known as Tabs - the pair are unheralded heroes. They volunteer to wash the bodies of Covid-positive women prior to burial.\n\nThe practice, called Ghusl, is a sacred Islamic ritual and is usually performed by the deceased's relatives, who cleanse and shroud the body. But Covid restrictions mean families are currently denied that religious honour, so volunteers like Sofia and Tabs are taking on what they consider to be a privileged task.\n\n\"We actually believe that when we are shrouding here, that God is shrouding the soul at the same time,\" says Tabs, standing by a coffin. By day, she works as a teaching support worker in a local school, so the PPE that the mosque provides - bodysuit, footwear, two sets of gloves, masks and visors - is crucial for her. \"I make sure my PPE is secure because it's not just about me, it's about my family. I have an 81-year-old mother.\"\n\nThe women are seeing first hand - and in graphic detail - the pressure the NHS is under. \"Very often we see bodies coming in with a lot of medical equipment still attached to them,\" says Sofia. \"Tubes and pipes and catheters still attached. So it makes our job a little bit harder.\" One of the women they washed during my visit had died in the ambulance, never actually reaching hospital.\n\nVery often we see bodies coming in with a lot of medical equipment still attached to them. Tubes and pipes and catheters\n\nThere are far more bodies than during the first peak and there is a larger age range. One day this week, the mosque was handling seven bodies. A few days earlier they said they'd processed 10 funerals, all arranged for free and paid for by donations. Before the pandemic, they'd handled two to three funerals a week. The two local hospital trusts in east London have each had more than 1,000 Covid deaths since the start of the pandemic. More have died at home.\n\nThe borough of Newham, where the mosque sits, has suffered a disproportionate number of deaths. Home to the Olympic Park, the 2012 London games were meant to regenerate this area. Yet it retains high levels of poverty and overcrowded housing. Add in a diverse population, rich in south Asian culture, and large numbers of people who can't work from home and the virus has sadly ripped through its residents.\n\nIsfand Aslam said he's shocked by what's going on. His father, Mohammad, died on 3 January, a week after falling ill. His positive Covid test result arrived two days after his death. The 85-year-old was a committee member at the Masjid Ibrahim and despite his age had been in good health. \"It took a week between him passing away and getting buried. Initially I was getting a lot of condolences from friends. But by the end of that week I am giving condolences to three friends because their fathers had passed away. It's now got to the stage where everybody we know knows somebody who has passed away.\"\n\nThe sheer number of deaths is impacting the area's main Muslim cemetery. Normally, the Gardens of Peace buries three to four people each day. They're currently carrying out an average of 15 funerals daily. Overall, they are about 50% busier than usual. They can no longer promise burials within 24 hours, as per Muslim custom.\n\nDespite this, there is still a concerning number of people in the local area who either don't think Covid is real or are resistant to taking a vaccine. There was anger among some community leaders before Christmas when it emerged the Bangladeshi High Commission in London held a cultural evening to celebrate its independence. Photos from the event, on 16 December, showed a group - including the High Commissioner herself - standing close together with no masks or social distancing. The High Commission said performers had been Covid tested and it had issued 10 videos in Bangla urging British-Bangladeshis to adhere to UK government guidance.\n\nIt's now got to the stage where everybody we know knows somebody who has passed away\n\nTo counter disinformation among its members, an imam at the Masjid Ibrahim, Mohammad Ammar, filmed a short video of himself being injected with the vaccine and urged his congregation to follow suit. Imam Ammar has actually been furloughed by the mosque as it focusses all its resources on battling the pandemic, including feeding its local community.\n\nThe virus forced the mosque to open a food bank in March. It is still running 10 months on. On Monday night, I watched a steady stream of people gather in the gloom at the rear of the mosque to fill their bags. Most were collecting on behalf of a larger household, and the mosque says they're currently feeding 350 families each week, including students, refugees, people with no access to public funds and those who've lost income.\n\nAmong those collecting food on Monday was Mohammad Rahman. A 42-year-old chef, he lost his job in an Indian restaurant three months ago. The married father of two boys - aged eight and six - told me he was already in rent arrears and struggling to pay his energy bills. \"My son says 'where is the pizza'? But I have no money. He says '[can I have] chicken and chips'? But I have no money. The shops are open, but no money\", he adds, taking his hands from his pockets.\n\nIn normal times, the Masjid Ibrahim would attract about 1,100 worshippers over three floors for Friday prayers, and there has been some pressure on the leadership to reopen for communal worship. But Asim Uddin, chairman of the mosque, says now is not the time. \"Prayers, yes, it's important. But right now what is the need? The need of the community is they want to be fed and they want a place where they can respectfully bury their loved ones. And the demand is overwhelming. Right now, it's better they stay home, and they can pray at home until the situation goes back to normal.\"\n\nMichael Buchanan is the BBC's social affairs correspondent and has been reporting on the impact of the pandemic on communities in the UK. Last year, he visited the town of Pontypool to find out what impact coronavirus restrictions were having in Wales.", "Reports suggest AstraZeneca may have warned of a 60% cut to doses available\n\nA second coronavirus vaccine manufacturer has warned of supply issues to the European Union, compounding frustration in the bloc.\n\nAstraZeneca said a production problem meant the number of initial doses available would be lower than expected.\n\nThe fresh blow comes after some nations' inoculation programmes were slowed due to a cut in deliveries of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nThe EU Health Commissioner expressed \"deep dissatisfaction\" at the news.\n\nOfficials have not confirmed publicly how big the shortfall will be, but an unnamed EU official told Reuters news agency that deliveries would be reduced to 31m - a cut of 60% - in the first quarter of this year.\n\nThe drug firm had been set to deliver about 80 million doses to the 27 nations by March, according to the official who spoke to Reuters.\n\nThe AstraZeneca vaccine, developed with Oxford University, has not yet been approved by the EU's drug regulator but is expected to get the green light at the end of this month, paving the way for jabs to be given.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA spokesman for AstraZeneca said on Friday that \"initial volumes will be lower than originally anticipated\" without giving further details.\n\nHis written statement blamed the discrepancy on \"reduced yields at a manufacturing site within our European supply chain\" and said the firm was continuing to ramp up production volumes.\n\nNews of the delay comes amid criticism and frustration across the region about the speed of vaccination roll-outs.\n\nIsrael, the United Arab Emirates, the UK, and the US are all well ahead of EU nations in terms of doses given per capita so far.\n\nThe European Commission has co-ordinated orders for all member states, with vaccines then distributed based on their population size.\n\nVaccines are increasingly seen by experts as the only way out of the Covid-19 crisis, with many European nations struggling to cope with a deadly surge of the virus over the winter period.\n\nAustrian media have reported that only 600,000 of two million AstraZeneca doses promised by the end of March will arrive in the country on time, with the remaining 1.4m now being delivered in April.\n\nA delay would be \"completely unacceptable\", Austrian Health Minister Rudolf Anschober said on Friday.\n\nAs for Pfizer, the US firm said it had to cut shipments for the next few weeks while it worked to increase capacity at its Belgian processing plant. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome regions, including Germany's most populous state North-Rhine Westphalia and parts of Italy, said earlier this week that they were suspending giving first jabs of the two-dose vaccine because of the shortages.\n\nItaly and Poland have threatened to take legal action in response to the reduction in vaccine supply.\n\nMeanwhile Hungary's government, which has complained over the time it is taking EU regulators to approve the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, has reached a deal with Russia to buy up large quantities of its Sputnik V vaccine, even though it has not received EU approval.\n\nEuropean Council President Charles Michel, who led a call of EU leaders this week, said Thursday that officials were considering all ideas to try and stop future vaccine delays.\n\n\"All possible means will be examined to ensure rapid supply, including early distribution to avoid delays,\" he said.\n\nEuropean Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Mr Michel both say they are still aiming for the target of 70% of the EU population being vaccinated by summer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid vaccine safety: How does a vaccine get approved?\n\nThe total number of German Covid deaths climbed above 50,000 on Friday - a day after the country warned that it could close its borders if other EU countries were less strict in controlling the virus. Berlin sounded the alarm amid rising concern about new variants.\n\nEU leaders agreed late on Thursday to keep their internal borders open but warned non-essential travel might need to be restricted to curb the spread of the virus.\n\nMs von der Leyen said Thursday that more testing and \"targeted measures\" were needed throughout the EU in order to keep internal and external borders open.\n\nFor its part, France said it would impose tighter travel restrictions for European arrivals from Sunday, requiring a negative PCR Covid test within three days of travel.\n\nIn the Netherlands, a ban on all flights from the UK, South Africa and South American countries came into effect on Saturday to try and prevent new coronavirus variants gaining a foothold.\n\nLooking forward to the future, officials from EU nations reliant on tourism - including Spain and Greece - have floated the possibility of using vaccination certificates to allow for cross-border travel but there has been scepticism within the bloc.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Infection level \"very, very high\" and \"extremely precarious\" - Prof Whitty\n\nThe UK is at an \"extremely precarious\" point, according to the chief medical adviser, despite signs Covid infections are beginning to fall.\n\nThe virus's reproduction rate is estimated to be at or below one for the first time since early December.\n\nAnything below one means the epidemic is shrinking.\n\nBut cases are falling from a \"very, very high level\", Prof Chris Whitty said - and may still be increasing in some areas.\n\n\"A very small change and it could start taking off again from an extremely high base,\" he warned.\n\nSpeaking at a Number 10 press conference on Friday evening, the UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, said the \"awful\" death rate would stay high \"for a little while before it starts coming down\".\n\n\"That was always what was predicted...and I think the information about the new variant doesn't change that\".\n\nEarly evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, although findings are preliminary and there is a high level of uncertainty.\n\nDr Susan Hopkins at Public Health England said there was \"evidence from some but not all data sources which suggests that the variant of concern which was first detected in the UK may lead to a higher risk of death than the non-variant.\n\n\"Evidence on this variant is still emerging and more work is under way to fully understand how it behaves.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said while the UK's R or reproduction number, might be below one - meaning a shrinking epidemic - overall, \"cases remain dangerously high and...it is essential that everyone continues to stay at home, whether they have had the vaccine or not.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures suggested cases were decreasing slightly or levelling off across Britain.\n\nBut infections are falling more slowly than they did during the first lockdown - by somewhere around a quarter every fortnight compared with a halving back in April.\n\nA further 40,261 cases, and 1,401 deaths were recorded on Friday in the UK.\n\nMore than five million people had been given a first dose of the vaccine by 21 January, and about half a million had received their second dose.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has previously said it is \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions will be able to end in the spring.\n\nWhile cases are falling or stable across the rest of the UK, in Northern Ireland cases have continued to rise and the new, more infectious strain has overtaken the older variant of the virus as of the start of January.\n\nDuring the week ending 16 January, about one in 55 people in England had the virus, the ONS estimated, with one in 35 in London testing positive.\n\nOne in 100 people had the virus in Scotland and one in 70 in Wales.\n\nBut in Northern Ireland infections have shot up from an an estimated one in 200 people testing positive in the week to 2 January, to one in 60 last week.\n\nONS statistician Sarah Crofts said while fewer people were testing positive in England, \"rates remain high and we estimate the level of infection is still over one million people\".\n\nAnd, she pointed out, \"the picture across the UK is mixed\".\n\nA survey by tech company ZOE and King's College London, based on swabs of people with and without symptoms, also suggested the R number could be at 0.8.\n\nAnd it estimated symptomatic cases had fallen by a quarter since last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the R number and what does it mean?\n\nMeanwhile, the proportion of people testing positive for the new Covid variant has risen considerably in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, ONS data suggest.\n\nBut the new strain, which remains by far the main source of infections in England, has yet to overtake the old strain in Scotland and Wales.\n\nWithin England, the proportion of infections that appear to be due to the new variant remained stable, but the gap between the regions is narrowing.\n\nIn the figures covering 2 January, 80% of infections looked like the new variant in London compared to 30% in the North East.\n\nTwo weeks later, that gap had narrowed to 70% in London versus 50% in the North East.\n\nIt is not clear what is behind the small fall in London, but it may be down to behaviour change, or other variants like the South Africa strain now in circulation and diluting the numbers.", "Morriston is seeing \"unprecedented\" numbers of people die in intensive care\n\nAn intensive care consultant said as many as five patients are dying with Covid during a single 12-hour shift.\n\nDr John Gorst said the number was \"unprecedented\" at his unit in Swansea's Morriston Hospital that would normally only see one person die.\n\nHe said the second wave of the pandemic was more challenging with patients more severely unwell.\n\nIn Wales, there has been an average of about 34 deaths a day during the pandemic up to 19 January.\n\nNew Year's Day saw the most Covid-related deaths in a single day in Wales - 55 - since the pandemic began.\n\n\"In some 12-hour periods we have lost up to five coronavirus patients,\" said Dr Gorst.\n\n\"Usually we expect to see, on average, one patient a day dying in the intensive care unit. To have five die on one day is unprecedented.\n\n\"That's been a real struggle for their families and for the staff dealing with it.\"\n\nFour additional medical wards have opened to cope with the impact of coronavirus at Morriston, with about 300 patients being treated.\n\nDr John Gorst and senior matron Carol Doggett say Covid patients are sicker and younger in the second wave\n\nDr Gorst said: \"If it wasn't for the treatment given on the wards, intensive care would have been completely overwhelmed.\n\n\"However, when patients have failed on these treatments, sadly the safety net of the intensive care unit [and] getting them on an invasive ventilator, largely doesn't work.\n\n\"Most patients who come to intensive care to go on an intensive ventilator, sadly, will not survive.\n\n\"These patients are mostly of working age. They don't have any significant medical conditions.\"\n\n\"This is alien to us as an intensive care unit. We expect far more patients to survive. Now they are not.\"\n\nMorriston's senior matron Carol Doggett agreed that the \"number of sicker patients has definitely increased\", and she said they were younger than had been experienced in the first wave of the pandemic.\n\n\"That should be a stark warning to anyone not to take chances with this,\" she said.\n\nOn Friday, First Minister Mark Drakeford said there was cause for concern over new variants of Covid-19.\n\n\"We know the new highly contagious strain - sometimes called the Kent variant - is now widespread across Wales,\" he said.\n\nHe also said the government was closely monitoring three new variant variants: one from South Africa and two from Brazil.\n\nSix cases of the South African variant have been identified in Wales.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police tweeted this photo, which appears to show the vehicle severely damaged in the crash\n\nFour ponies have been killed in a collision with a vehicle in the New Forest National Park.\n\nThe animals were hit on Thursday night while licking freshly laid salt on Roger Penny Way, Hampshire Constabulary said.\n\nThree ponies died at the scene while a fourth was found dead later a short distance away.\n\nIn December, three donkeys were killed on the road, which is a black spot for animal accidents.\n\nMark Ferrett, whose daughter owned the ponies, said the deaths were \"unacceptable\"\n\nThe crash happened at about 21:00 GMT on a 40mph (64km/h) section of the road north of Brook.\n\nThe car, a Land Rover Discovery, appears to have been severely damaged in the collision, according to a police tweet, which gave no further details.\n\nMark Ferrett, whose daughter owned the ponies, said the deaths were \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe said: \"I would favour a reduction in the speed [limit]. Please, everyone needs to slow down and stop this carnage.\"\n\nThe New Forest is one of the largest remaining areas of unenclosed land where commoners' cattle, ponies and donkeys roam throughout the open heath.\n\nIn 2019, 58 animals were killed and 32 were injured, according to the New Forest National Park Authority.\n\nThe crash happened on Roger Penny Way, where donkeys, cattle and horses roam freely\n\nAndrew Napthine, a New Forest Agister who helps manage the area's free-roaming animals, attended the scene of the crash, and said the male driver was not injured.\n\nHe said three of the ponies were killed on the road while a fourth fled the scene and died behind a bush.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK has reported another 55,892 daily cases of coronavirus, the highest figure on record.\n\nAnd another 964 people died within 28 days of a positive test, only slightly down on the 981 on Wednesday.\n\nIt comes as Health Secretary Matt Hancock appealed to everyone to \"take personal responsibility this New Year's Eve and stay at home\".\n\nHe said he knew how much had been sacrificed this year but, with the NHS under pressure, \"we cannot let up\".\n\nOn Thursday, just after midnight, 20 million more people in England were placed under the toughest restrictions and told to stay at home.\n\nThe new restrictions mean 44 million people, or 78% of the population of England, are now in tier four, where non-essential shops, gyms, cinemas and hairdressers have to stay shut.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle said Christmas week had seen a worrying rise in cases - particularly among adults in their 20s and 30s.\n\n\"We have all had to make huge sacrifices this year, but please ensure that you keep your distance from others, wash your hands and wear a mask,\" she said.\n\n\"A night in at new year will mean you are significantly reducing your social contacts and can help stop the spread of the virus.\"\n\nThe 981 deaths recorded on Wednesday was the highest daily figure since April.\n\nMuch of the rise in cases has been blamed on the spread of a new variant, which scientists believe is able to transmit more easily.\n\nIt was initially concentrated in the London, the South East and eastern England, but Mr Hancock has said it is now responsible for the \"majority\" of new cases across the UK.\n\nWith the number of Covid patients in hospitals increasing, some are being moved long distances for intensive care.\n\nDr Michael Marsh, NHS England medical director for the south-west region, said patients had come from Kent to Plymouth and Bristol, where services were \"less stretched\".\n\nThe latest NHS Test and Trace figures show 232,169 people tested positive for Covid in England at least once in the week to 23 December, up 33% on the previous week and the highest weekly rise on record.\n\nCovid case rates are continuing to rise in all regions of England - with London's rate at 735.5 per 100,000 people in the seven days to 27 December, up from 711.9 the previous week, the latest Public Health England report showed.\n\nEastern England saw the second highest rate, 551.3 up from 510.8, followed by south-east England at 450.6, up from 427.4.\n\nMeanwhile, Scotland recorded 2,622 new Covid cases in the past 24 hours - a record high for the third day in a row.\n\nPublic Health Wales reported a further 1,831 cases in Wales, with the highest case rates in Bridgend (825.6 for every 100,000 people) and Merthyr Tydfil (754.2).\n\nAnd Northern Ireland has seen another 1,929 cases in the last 24 hours, as hospitals come close to capacity with latest figures showing only six empty beds.\n\nSome hospital trusts in the south of England have also been reporting that they are under extreme pressure because of increasing numbers of Covid patients.\n\nOn Wednesday, Essex and Buckinghamshire declared major incidents, while an intensive care doctor at London's Whittington Hospital said they were facing a \"tsunami\" of Covid cases.\n\nProf Hugh Montgomery said people who did not follow social distancing rules or wear masks \"have blood on their hands\".\n\nThe NHS said London's Nightingale Hospital had been \"reactivated\" and was ready to admit patients, in anticipation of rising pressures from the spread of the new variant.", "Officers dispersed the party at the Grade II* listed church before midnight\n\nA 500-year-old church was damaged during an illegal New Year's Eve party at the venue.\n\nAll Saints' Church in East Horndon, near Brentwood, was broken into before crowds entered, Essex Police said.\n\nOfficers were threatened and had objects thrown at them as they dispersed hundreds of people and seized equipment, the force said.\n\nTwo men from Harlow, aged 27 and 22, and a 35-year-old from Southwark were arrested.\n\nThey were held on suspicion of public order and drugs offences.\n\nAstrid Gillespie, a volunteer with the Friends of All Saints', said event organisers had smashed a window to put in an extractor fan unit and wired sound equipment into the church's fuse box.\n\nShe said: \"It was a professional set-up, they'd hired portable loos, they had a bar area where you had to exchange tokens... obviously it's a mess.\n\n\"It's such a beautiful church, to find out it's been damaged is devastating.\"\n\nThe conservation group believes it will cost at least £1,000 to repair the Tudor building.\n\nEquipment was seized and fines issued over three illegal parties broken up by officers\n\nPolice later dispersed about 100 people at an illegal party at an abandoned warehouse in Brentwood and made two arrests.\n\nA woman was also fined £10,000 for organising a house party with 100 guests at Bury Road, Sewardstonebury, in Epping Forest.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Andy Prophet said: \"Unfortunately, there were [those] who decided to blatantly flout the coronavirus rules and regulations and, ultimately, they decided that partying was more important than protecting other people.\n\n\"We've seized their equipment, arrested five people, and issued a large number of fines to those who think this behaviour is acceptable.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Father (left) and son have had divergent views on Brexit in the past\n\nThe father of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he is applying for French citizenship now that Britain has severed ties with the European Union.\n\nStanley Johnson told France's RTL radio he had always seen himself as French as his mother was born in France.\n\nThe 80-year-old former Conservative Member of the European Parliament voted Remain in the 2016 Brexit referendum.\n\nHis son Boris spearheaded the Leave campaign and later took the UK out of the EU as prime minister.\n\nStanley Johnson explained his reasons for seeking French citizenship in an interview broadcast on Thursday, hours before the UK was due to leave EU trading rules.\n\n\"It's not about becoming French,\" he told RTL. \"It's about reclaiming what I already have.\"\n\nHe pointed out that his mother was born in France to a French mother. \"I will always be European,\" he added.\n\nStanley Johnson won a seat in the European Parliament when direct elections were first held in 1979, and later worked for the European Commission. As a result, Boris spent part of his childhood in Brussels.\n\nBrexit issues have divided the Johnson family. The prime minister's sister, the journalist Rachel Johnson, left the Conservative Party to join the Liberal Democrats ahead of the 2017 election in protest against Brexit.\n\nTheir brother, the Conservative MP Jo Johnson, resigned from the cabinet in 2018 to highlight his support for closer links with the EU.", "Tampon tax activist Laura Coryton says scrapping the tampon tax is an important move ‘ending a symptom of sexism’\n\nThe 5% rate of VAT on sanitary products - referred to as the \"tampon tax\" - will be abolished in the UK from 1 January.\n\nEU law required members to tax tampons and sanitary towels at 5%, treating period products as non-essential.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak committed to scrapping the tax in his March Budget.\n\nCampaigners welcomed the end to what they called a \"sexist tax\" with activist Laura Coryton saying it was \"about ending a symptom of sexism\".\n\nThe UK was able to get rid of the tax now because it is no longer subject to European Union rules on sanitary products.\n\nThe EU is itself in the process of abolishing the tampon tax. In 2018 the European Commission published proposals to change the VAT rules, which would give countries the right to stop taxing tampons and other period products, but the move has not yet been agreed by all members. The Republic of Ireland has zero VAT on sanitary products as the rate was in place prior to EU legislation imposing the 5% minimum VAT rate on EU members.\n\nMs Coryton, 27, who began campaigning to end the tampon tax when she was 21, told the BBC the move \"challenged the negative message that this tax sent to society about women\".\n\nThe move follows Scotland becoming the first in the world to make period products free in November.\n\nFelicia Willow, chief executive of women's rights charity the Fawcett Society, agreed, saying: \"It's been a long road to reach this point, but at last the sexist tax that saw sanitary products classed as non-essential, luxury items can be consigned to the history books.\"\n\nThe Treasury has estimated the move will save the average woman nearly £40 over her lifetime, with a cut of 7p on a pack of 20 tampons and 5p on 12 pads.\n\nIt's been a long road to getting the tampon tax abolished in the UK. Campaigning and debates in parliament by then-MP for Dewsbury Ann Taylor led to the Labour government moving sanitary products to a reduced rate of 5% from January 2001- the lowest rate possible under the EU's VAT rules.\n\nAnd following more campaigning in 2014 by Ms Coryton and lobbying in parliament by former Dewsbury MP Paula Sherriff in 2016, the Conservative government announced that all VAT collected on sanitary products would henceforth be given to charities working with vulnerable women and girls.\n\nAt the same time, the government enshrined in legislation that it would abolish the tampon tax.\n\n\"I'm just so happy and relieved and excited at the same time for this tax to finally be axed,\" said Ms Coryton.\n\n\"It will mean a reduction in prices for period products, and that reduction in cost will be important for the increasing number of people who are battling with poverty, especially due to the pandemic.\"\n\nGemma Abbott is a lawyer and campaigner with the Free Periods group, which successfully campaigned for the government to provide free sanitary products to schools and colleges across England in 2019. The scheme launched in January.\n\nGemma Abbott wants clarity from the government on why the free sanitary products for schools scheme is not mandatory\n\n\"I think it's great news and a real testament to the determined campaigning of many people, like Paula Sheriff and Laura Coryton,\" she said.\n\n\"I think we can agree that any tax that characterises period products as non-essential is absurd and it has no place in a society that is seeking genuine gender equality.\"\n\nFree Periods is now campaigning to ensure that schools and colleges know that the free sanitary products scheme exists and that they sign up for them.\n\nMs Abbott said: \"The latest statistics we have are from last term - at that point only 40% of schools had signed up for the scheme.\"\n\nMs Coryton has set up a social enterprise called Sex Ed Matters with her sister Julia, providing talks in schools and toolkits for teachers to help them deliver the mandatory new sex education curriculum for primary and secondary schools issued in early 2020.\n\nThey did an online survey of 150 teachers and students across the UK, and 100% of respondents said that there is still a stigma attached to periods.\n\n\"If there is a stigma attached to periods, then you're unlikely to speak up when you need period products, or to talk about the free sanitary products scheme that exists,\" stressed Ms Coryton.\n\nBut Free Periods' Ms Abbott is also concerned about the charities supporting women and girls, who will no longer benefit from the proceeds of the previous 5% tax on sanitary products.\n\n\"The tampon tax fund has provided much needed support and funding to a chronically underfunded area,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm worried that the removal of the tampon tax will spell the end of the ring-fenced funding for charities to address really vital issues like domestic violence and rape.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Olympics\n\nThe delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead this summer despite concern over rising coronavirus cases, says Japan's prime minister.\n\nThe Olympics are due to begin on 23 July with the Paralympics following a month later from 24 August.\n\nCases have surged in Japan in recent days with Tokyo reporting over 1,000 daily infections for the first time.\n\nBut prime minister Yoshihide Suga said the \"Games will be held this summer\" and be \"safe and secure\".\n\nJapan is responding to cases of the new variant of coronavirus first found in the UK, with Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike warning the number of infections could \"explode\".\n\nThere were a record 1,337 cases in Tokyo on 31 December with 783 new infections announced on Friday.\n\nJapan has recorded 239,041 coronavirus cases and 3,337 deaths during the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nCosts for the Games have increased by $2.8bn (£2.1bn) because of measures needed to prevent the spread of coronavirus but organisers have ruled out a delay.\n\nThe Games could be the most expensive summer Olympics in history.\n\nA poll by national broadcaster NHK showed that the majority of the Japanese general public oppose holding the Games in 2021, favouring a further delay or outright cancellation of the event.\n\nSuga said the Games going ahead could serve as a \"symbol of global solidarity\".", "The next few weeks will be \"nail-bitingly difficult\" for the NHS, hospital bosses have warned.\n\nStaff absences and the new Covid variant are creating a \"challenging situation\", Saffron Cordery, of NHS Providers, which represents hospital trusts in England, said.\n\nDoctors are urging the public to \"take it seriously and follow the rules\" to protect the health service.\n\nThe year started with 53,285 more Covid cases and 613 deaths being reported.\n\nThe day's figures do not include data from Northern Ireland or Wales, or the numbers of deaths from Scotland - as these are not being published on certain days during the Christmas and New Year period.\n\nIt comes after the UK reported its highest daily cases on Thursday, with a record 55,892 infections.\n\nOn Friday evening, the government confirmed that all primary schools in London would remain closed for the start of the new term, following a review of Covid transmission rates.\n\nFrom Monday, all schools in the capital will now be required to provide remote learning.\n\nPrimaries in nine London boroughs and the City of London district had been set to reopen - while those in the remaining 23 boroughs would have stayed closed from 4 January.\n\nMeanwhile, new analysis by Imperial College London has confirmed the new variant of coronavirus has a much quicker rate of transmission than the original strain.\n\nAnd an analysis of NHS England data from 23 hospital trusts by the Health Service Journal shows that Covid-19 is putting intense pressure on adult acute care and general beds, as well as those in intensive care.\n\nIt found that more than a third of these beds were occupied by patients with Covid-19 on Tuesday, and in three trusts - North Middlesex in London, and Medway and Dartford and Gravesham in Kent - the figure was more than half.\n\nBased on the recent rise in numbers, the analysis suggests that all acute and general beds might soon be filled with Covid-19 patients.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, Ms Cordery said the surging transmission and death rates were \"incredibly hard to deal with\".\n\n\"When we are seeing major London trusts saying they are under pressure, that's when we know we're in a very challenging space,\" she said.\n\nA leading intensive care doctor has urged people to follow restrictions until the vaccination programme is fully rolled out.\n\nProf Anthony Gordon, of Imperial College, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"There is light at the end of the tunnel so I would urge people to hold on for these few more months while the vaccination programme makes that difference and then we can truly get back to normal.\n\n\"But we can't overrun the health service because this will just lead to thousands more deaths.\"\n\nAdrian Boyle, vice-president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, urged people to follow guidance on hand washing, social distancing and face coverings to stop the \"entirely preventable\" spread of the virus.\n\nDr Boyle said staff are \"tired\" and at risk of \"burnout\", having \"worked really hard over the summer\" and \"put up with a lot of disruption\".\n\n\"This time people are frustrated, this is now an entirely preventable disease, we know what we did in spring made a lot of this go away. There's also now a vaccine,\" he added.\n\nMore than three-quarters of England is currently under the strictest tier four - \"stay at home\" - coronavirus measures, and other parts of the country have joined higher tiers.\n\nMainland Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are under lockdown.\n\nThere are also concerns the added pressures of rising numbers of Covid patients seen at London hospitals have begun to spread across the country.\n\nSpeaking on Today, Dr Alison Pittard, of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, said it was \"only a matter of time before it starts to spread to other parts of country\", adding that \"we're already starting to see that\".\n\nShe stressed it was \"really important that we try and stop the transmission in the community because that translates into hospital admissions\".\n\nIt comes as almost half the major hospital trusts in England are said to be dealing with more Covid-19 patients than at the peak of the first wave in April.\n\nAnd pressure has been so great on some hospitals in London and south-east England that some patients have been moved out of the area.\n\nLondon's Nightingale emergency hospital is ready to admit patients, the NHS has said, while other sites currently not in use are being readied.\n\nHowever, Mike Adams, director of the Royal College of Nursing, questioned whether there were the staff available to run the hospital.\n\n\"Nursing is already stretched beyond capacity so there is no magic pile of nurses we can call upon,\" he told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\n\"I think the real battle is reducing the spread of the virus and getting the vaccine rolled out.\"\n\nThe new coronavirus variant has driven a big rise in cases, with the worst effects felt so far in London.\n\nResearchers at Imperial College London have confirmed it increases the R number - the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to - by about 0.4 to 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy, from the statistic section of Imperial College London, told the Today programme this higher rate of infection means that transmission of the disease would have tripled even during England's November lockdown conditions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains how to wear your mask correctly and help stop coronavirus spreading\n\nThe hunt is now on to find new ways to slow the spread of coronavirus, with the rules on mask wearing potentially coming up for review.\n\nBehavioural science group SPI-B (Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours), which reports to the Sage group of government advisers, has said that mandatory face coverings may be necessary in a wider number of settings, such as in workplaces and possibly outdoors.\n\nHowever, Dr Simon Clarke, associate professor of cellular microbiology at the University of Reading, told BBC Radio 4's World at One he was not convinced a move towards making the wearing of face coverings mandatory outdoors would make \"much difference\" to transmission rates.\n\nHe said the \"bigger problem\" was people touching their face covering or wearing it incorrectly, adding ministers should focus on ensuring people knew how to wear them and to change and wash them regularly.\n\nThe rollout of the newly approved Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will begin on Monday, almost a month after the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.\n\nSecond doses of either will now take place within 12 weeks rather than 21 days as had been initially planned with the Pfizer vaccine.", "After years of silence, The KLF have uploaded a selection of their most famous songs to streaming services like Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music.\n\nThe band's music has been officially unavailable since 1992, when they deleted their entire back catalogue.\n\nBut eight songs, including dance anthems like 3AM Eternal and What Time Is Love, are now available on an eight-track compilation, Solid State Logik.\n\nFly posters in London suggested The KLF would release more music this year.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by KLF This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nSolid State Logik collects all of the band's biggest hits - including the Tammy Wynette collaboration Justified & Ancient, and the Gary Glitter-sampling Doctorin' The Tardis.\n\nIt comes 29 years after founders Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond turned their backs on music, with a provocative performance at the 1992 Brit Awards - where they tied for best group with Simply Red.\n\nThe duo made their disdain for the industry clear by performing 3AM Eternal while firing blanks from a machine gun into the stunned audience, before an announcer said: \"The KLF have left the music business.\"\n\nDriving the point home, they later dumped a dead sheep on the steps of an after-show party with a note reading, \"I died for ewe\".\n\nCauty and Drummond later burned £1m of their royalties in bundles of £50 notes, on the remote Scottish island of Jura.\n\nIn recent decades the duo have concentrated on book and art projects, including plans to build a \"people's pyramid\", inspired by the death of Cauty's brother and constructed from bricks, each containing 23 grams of human ashes.\n\nBut fans have clamoured for their music - with bootleg clips of their videos and performances achieving tens of millions of views on YouTube, and several \"sound-alike\" versions of their biggest hits appearing on Spotify.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by KLF This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nWhen other streaming holdouts like AC/DC and Neil Young relented and made their back catalogues available, The KLF still held out. In 2018, Billboard named their absence as one of the eight most significant gaps on streaming services, alongside records by De La Soul and Aaliyah.\n\nThe band announced their surprise resurrection in two posters pasted under a railway bridge in Shoreditch, East London, alongside graffiti referencing The KLF.\n\nThe Instagram account of Cauty's girlfriend showed a figure creating the graffiti creating the graffiti on New Year's Eve.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by sistersofperpetualresistance This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAccording to a statement on the band's YouTube page, Solid State Logik (named after the mixing desk the band used to create their biggest hits) is the first of five planned releases, covering all of the band's releases, under a variety of names.\n\nIt read: \"KLF have appropriated the work done between 1 January 1987 and 31 December 1991 by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The Timelords [and] The KLF.\n\n\"This appropriation was in order to tell a story in five chapters using the medium of streaming. The name of the story is Samplecity Thru Transcentral.\"\n\nThe text goes on to name several projects that are being prepared for release, some of which have never been heard before, including Kick Out The Jams, the Pure Trance Series, and a second volume of Solid State Logik.\n\n\"If you need to know more about the work done by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The Timelords or The KLF, you can find truths, rumours and half-truths scattered across the internet,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"From these truths, rumours and half-truths, you can form your own opinions.\n\n\"The actual facts were washed down a storm drain in Brixton some time in the late 20th Century.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The UK celebrated the start of 2021 with a fireworks and light display over London that included tributes to NHS staff and the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nRevellers were not able to gather to celebrate the London mayor's display in the usual way because of the coronavirus pandemic, with people instead told to stay at home.\n\nThe new year celebrations also featured a message of hope from David Attenborough.\n\nWatch the full display on the BBC iPlayer", "The star started filming his role in secret last year\n\nComedian John Bishop is to join Jodie Whittaker for the 13th series of Doctor Who, the BBC has revealed.\n\nThe 54-year-old, who recently tested positive for coronavirus, said boarding the Tardis was a \"dream come true\".\n\nHe will play a character called Dan, who \"becomes embroiled in the Doctor's adventures\" and faces \"evil alien races beyond his wildest nightmares\".\n\nBishop fills the gap left by Bradley Walsh and Tosin Cole, who bowed out in a special New Year's Day episode.\n\nHe began filming his role last November, but the BBC kept the signing under wraps until the broadcast of Revolution Of The Daleks on Friday night.\n\nBishop, who grew up on a Merseyside council estate, had a brief career as a professional footballer before turning his hand to comedy.\n\nHe has previously acted in the Channel 4 drama Skins and the Ken Loach film Route Irish.\n\nEarlier this week, the comedian revealed that he and his wife had tested positive for Coronavirus over Christmas, saying he had been \"flattened\" by \"the worst illness I have ever had\".\n\nWriting on Instagram, he described his symptoms as including \"incredible headaches, muscle and joint point, no appetite, nausea, dizziness [and] chronic fatigue like I didn't know existed\".\n\nHe updated fans on New Year's Eve, saying he and his wife were \"getting a little stronger\" every day, and promising he would return to work in January.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by johnbish100 This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not thought his illness will disrupt production on Doctor Who. The show is on a scheduled break for Christmas and not due to resume filming until later this month.\n\nThe 13th series of the rebooted sci-fi stalwart will see Whittaker return as the extra terrestrial Time Lord, alongside Mandip Gill, who returns as Yaz.\n\nIn a statement, Bishop said: \"If I could tell my younger self that one day I would be asked to step on board the Tardis, I would never have believed it.\n\n\"It's an absolute dream come true to be joining Doctor Who and I couldn't wish for better company than Jodie and Mandip.\"\n\nJodie Whittaker became the first female actress to play The Doctor in 2017\n\nProgramme boss Chris Chibnall added: \"It's time for the next chapter of Doctor Who, and it starts with a man called Dan. Oh, we've had to keep this one secret for a long, long time.\n\n\"Our conversations started with John even before the pandemic hit.\n\n\"The character of Dan was built for him, and it's a joy to have him aboard the Tardis.\"\n\nDoctor Who will return to BBC One later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson is one of five men who have been rebailed by police\n\nLiverpool Mayor Joe Anderson says he will not fight for re-election in May due to an ongoing bribery and witness intimidation investigation.\n\nMr Anderson, 62, made the announcement after Merseyside Police said he had been rebailed until February following his arrest earlier this month.\n\nHe tweeted he was \"disappointed\" with the police decision as he had \"provided all of the information they asked for\".\n\nHe said it was in the Labour Party's best interests to pick a new candidate.\n\nMr Anderson was arrested on 4 December, along with four other men, on suspicion of conspiracy to commit bribery and witness intimidation.\n\nThe year-long investigation, Operation Aloft, has focused on a number of building and development contracts in Liverpool.\n\nFollowing his arrest, Mr Anderson said he was \"stepping away from decision-making\" and would take unpaid leave while the police investigation continued.\n\nThe Labour Party also suspended Mr Anderson pending its outcome.\n\nMr Anderson said he would \"continue to fight to demonstrate that I am innocent of any wrongdoing [and] also to protect my legacy as mayor of this city of which I am proud\".\n\nHe said the timing of the police investigation meant \"it would be in the best interests of the Labour Party to select a new candidate for the mayoral election\".\n\nMr Anderson also wrote: \"I have dedicated my life to this city with loyalty and passion and I am not prepared to throw that away.\"\n\nRichard Kemp, leader of the Liberal Democrat opposition on Liverpool City Council, called on Mr Anderson to immediately resign from the local authority.\n\nMr Kemp said his Labour opponent was a \"lame duck mayor\" who was \"preventing the city from moving on\".\n\nMr Anderson said he hoped the police investigation would be completed \"long before\" the expiry of his term of office.\n\nHe said it would confirm he had \"done nothing wrong\" and his name and reputation \"will be exonerated\".\n\n\"I have never done anything that would harm this city,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Merseyside Police said five men had been rebailed until 19 February.\n\nThe Labour Party has been contacted by the BBC for a comment.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer Manchester United and Scotland manager Tommy Docherty has died at the age of 92 following a long illness.\n\nAs a player, Glasgow-born Docherty made more than 300 appearances for Preston and won 25 caps for Scotland.\n\nHe went on to manage 12 clubs, leading Chelsea to League Cup success in 1965 and United to a 2-1 win over Liverpool in the 1977 FA Cup final.\n\n\"Tommy passed away peacefully surrounded by his family at home,\" his family said in a statement.\n\n\"He was a much-loved husband, father and papa and will be terribly missed.\n\n\"We ask that our privacy be respected at this time.\"\n• None Docherty - manager of many clubs, quicks and one-liners\n\nDocherty - affectionately known by his nickname 'The Doc' - died at home in the north west of England on 31 December.\n\nAfter spells managing Chelsea, Rotherham, QPR, Aston Villa and Porto, he took over as Scotland boss in September 1971 on a temporary basis before getting the job full-time two months later.\n\nBut he was best known for his five-year spell at Manchester United, who approached him to succeed Frank O'Farrell in December 1972 while Scotland were on course to qualify for the 1974 World Cup finals.\n\nUnited were relegated in 1974 under Docherty but they kept the Scot and returned to the top flight at the first time of asking. Two years later, they won the FA Cup with victory over Bob Paisley's Liverpool, who had won the league and would go on to also win the European Cup that year.\n\nDocherty's time at Old Trafford also saw George Best fail to revive his United career, the retirement of Bobby Charlton, and the departure of Denis Law.\n\nIn 2014, he told the BBC he still regretted his decision to leave the Scotland job for United.\n\n\"I was stupid,\" he said. \"I should have stayed with Scotland. [It was] partly the money, I have to be honest about that.\"\n\nDocherty was sacked shortly after the Wembley triumph for having an affair with Mary Brown, the wife of United physiotherapist Laurie Brown.\n\nThe pair later married and they remained together until his death.\n\nDocherty returned to management with First Division side Derby in September 1977, then rejoined QPR two years later. A turbulent time at Loftus Road saw him sacked in May 1980, reinstated after just nine days, then sacked again the following October.\n\nSpells at Sydney Olympic, Preston, South Melbourne and Wolves followed, with Docherty's final managerial job coming at non-league Altrincham in 1987-88.\n\nPost-retirement, he worked as an after-dinner speaker and media pundit.\n\nDocherty was inducted into the Scottish Football Hall of Fame in November 2013.\n\n\"He was tenacious on the park and a great leader off it,\" Petrie added.\n\n\"Tommy was a regular in the Scotland side in the 1950s that qualified for two World Cups, and his record as Scotland manager was impressive, albeit cut short.\n\n\"Looking at the results and performances he inspired, it is hard not to wonder what might have been had he remained.\n\n\"His charisma and love for the game shone even after he stopped managing and it was entirely fitting Tommy should be inducted into the Scottish Football Hall of Fame for his lifelong service.\"", "Cases have reached record highs in the past week\n\nThe next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid, the first minister has warned.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\n\"If you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others and the NHS at risk,\" she tweeted.\n\nA further 2,539 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed on Friday.\n\nThe number is slightly down on Thursday's figure, but Ms Sturgeon said cases numbers were still \"worryingly high\".\n\nDaily confirmed cases have reached record highs on each of the previous three days, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted: \"Today's case numbers are worryingly high again. The new variant is accelerating spread.\n\n\"PLEASE do not visit other people's homes just now, even today - if you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others & the NHS at risk.\"\n\nShe said the \"vaccine cavalry\" was on the way, offering \"real hope for 2021\", but she added: \"With this new variant, the next few weeks may be the most dangerous we've faced since Mar/April.\n\n\"We must act together to suppress it, to save lives and protect the NHS. Folded hands stick with it.\"\n\nThe number of daily confirmed cases has reached record highs this week\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1.\n\nEmma Thomson, a professor of infectious disease at the University of Glasgow, said it was important to get people vaccinated quickly.\n\nThe professor, who has been working on the sequencing of the new Covid mutation, told the BBC that lockdown was not controlling the infection \"on its own\".\n\n\"At least we come in armed into the new year with two vaccines which are highly effective at preventing severe disease. We have that,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to roll it out now to add to the public health measures.\"\n\nParties, traditional \"first-footing\" and social events were banned this Hogmanay, with all of mainland Scotland and Skye being under the highest level of Covid restrictions.\n\nAll official events were cancelled, but police had to disperse a crowds of people who gathered at Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill to see in the new year.\n\nIt has also emerged that 32 people were charged with reckless conduct after police found them gathered at a rented property in Aberfoyle on 27 December.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"As the first minister has pointed out, the sharp rise in cases is evidence that the new strain seems to be speeding up transmission.\n\n\"This is why we are asking people to please stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\n\n\"There is light at the end of the tunnel, but we ask everyone to be patient as we work our way through the vaccination programme, and continue to follow FACTS to keep us all safe.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United moved level on points with Premier League leaders Liverpool as a Bruno Fernandes penalty saw off stubborn Aston Villa.\n\nFernandes drilled his 11th league goal this season - and his fifth from the spot - into the bottom corner to punish Douglas Luiz's clip on Paul Pogba and hand United an eighth win in 10 games.\n\nBertrand Traore's calm finish underneath David de Gea had deservedly drawn Villa level, cancelling out Anthony Martial's stooping first-half header for the hosts.\n\nBut Fernandes' penalty extended United's hold over Villa - they have now won 32 and lost just one of the past 44 league meetings between the sides - and leaves Liverpool top only by virtue of goal difference.\n\nThe spot-kick award angered Aston Villa boss Dean Smith who claimed Pogba \"tripped himself\" and that the video assistant referee should have asked on-pitch official Michael Oliver to review his decision.\n\n\"I don't see why Michael couldn't have looked at it. That's what VAR is for isn't it?\" Smith told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I thought it was a penalty at the time, but I looked at it after the game and saw he tripped himself. I don't think it's a penalty.\n\n\"I think there's enough doubt there to send the referee over to the screen.\"\n\nSmith's side were perhaps unfortunate not to have left Old Trafford with at least a point from a thoroughly entertaining game but they also needed several fine saves from Emiliano Martinez to keep them in it.\n\nAfter Fernandes' spot-kick put United back in front, Martinez superbly tipped a stinging 25-yarder from the Portuguese on to the crossbar as well as denying Martial a second.\n\nMartinez's counterpart David de Gea was just as busy, with a late save from Matty Cash's long-range strike preserving the points, not long after Tyrone Mings had headed wide a glorious chance to level.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's side have displayed their ability to grind out points at Old Trafford in recent weeks, as evidenced in 1-0 home wins over both West Bromwich Albion and Wolves.\n\nBut they have also shown a willingness to go toe-to-toe with teams who are happy to open up the game and, while this was not quite the shootout of the 6-2 win over Leeds, it was just as easy on the eye.\n\nA number of fluid first-half moves produced chances before Martial's opener as the France forward saw a curler tipped over by Martinez, while Fernandes and Wan-Bissaka were narrowly off target with similar efforts.\n\nMartial stole between Mings and Ezri Konsa to nod the Red Devils ahead from Wan-Bissaka's inviting cross for only his second league goal of the season on his return to Solskjaer's starting line-up.\n\nWhile Luiz was unfortunate to be penalised for what might have been an accidental clip on Pogba, there was enough contact for the penalty to be given and Fernandes continued his excellent record from the spot.\n\nUnited were nine points behind Liverpool after a 1-0 defeat by Arsenal at Old Trafford on 1 November but have made up that gap in just two months to set an intriguing title race into motion.\n\nA minute's silence before the game paid tribute to former boss Tommy Docherty, who famously prevented Liverpool claiming the treble by leading United to an FA Cup win over the Reds in 1977.\n\nAnd while talk of foiling a second successive Liverpool title might be premature, moving alongside them at the Premier League's summit will give Solskjaer's side even more confidence as they eye up a trip to Anfield on 17 January.\n\nWhile Villa were ultimately outgunned by their hosts, their brave display was further evidence of the progress Smith's side have made this season.\n\nThey held their own in the first half, causing United a number of problems down the flanks, with playmaker Jack Grealish prompting and probing to show why the hosts have long considered a move for the Villa captain.\n\nBut they were even more impressive in the early stages of the second period, Grealish crossing for an Ollie Watkins header that was saved by De Gea before collecting a quick free-kick and finding Traore to tuck home the equaliser.\n\nLuiz's foul on Pogba came with Villa very much in the ascendancy and while they then had to ride a storm the visitors still came close to pinching a point as Mings beat fellow England centre-half Harry Maguire to a free-kick only to nod wide.\n\nWith Ross Barkley's return from a hamstring injury imminent, this performance should keep Villa optimistic even if defeat halted a five-game unbeaten run and saw them slip a place to sixth, behind Chelsea on goal difference.\n\nAnd while their rotten record at Old Trafford continues - just one win in 34 visits since 1983, which came courtesy of a Gabriel Agbonlahor header in 2009 - they have still only conceded five times in eight away games this campaign.\n\n'We have improved a lot in a year' - what they said\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer told BBC Sport: \"You are always delighted with three points. The performance was good and we created chances.\n\n\"It was maybe a little too open and we wasted chances. We tried to play the Hollywood pass instead of securing the first one and using the space that was there.\n\n\"We are happy with what we are doing. We have shown we have improved a lot in a year. We lost to Arsenal away last New Year's Day. We have improved immensely.\"\n\nAston Villa boss Dean Smith told BBC Sport: \"I wasn't happy with the first half. We were miles off the levels where we have been. It felt like a testimonial pace then they deservedly had the lead at half-time. I told the players we needed to be upping our levels.\n\n\"We competed a lot better [in the second half], showed more quality and created chances. I'd take the second-half performance all day long. A dubious penalty has lost us the game.\n\n\"When you look at our performances and results, it shows we are very competitive in this league now, which is what we wanted it to be.\"\n\nUnited's hold over Villa goes on - the stats\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their past 16 Premier League matches against Aston Villa (W12 D4).\n• None Aston Villa have lost 13 of their past 15 away Premier League games against Manchester United at Old Trafford (W1 D1).\n• None In Premier League history, the only player to be directly involved in more goals in their first 30 appearances in the competition than Bruno Fernandes (33 - 19 goals, 14 assists) is Andrew Cole (37 - 28 goals, nine assists).\n• None Anthony Martial has now scored on all seven days of the week in the Premier League for Manchester United, becoming the fifth player to do so, after Ryan Giggs, Andrew Cole, David Beckham and Wayne Rooney.\n• None Only Tottenham's Harry Kane (10) has assisted more Premier League goals this season than Jack Grealish (7), while the last Aston Villa player to assist more than seven Premier League goals in a season was Ashley Young in 2010-11 (10).\n• None Since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's first Premier League match in charge of Manchester United in December 2018, the Red Devils have taken (27) and scored (21) the most Premier League penalties.\n\nManchester United host local rivals Manchester City in the Carabao Cup semi-finals on Wednesday (19:45 GMT) and welcome Watford in the FA Cup on Saturday 9 January (20:00 GMT). Their next Premier League game is away at Burnley on Tuesday 12 January (20:15 GMT).\n\nAston Villa host Liverpool in the FA Cup next Friday (19:45 GMT) before returning to Premier League action at home to Tottenham on Wednesday 13 January (20:15 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ollie Watkins with a cross.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Paul Pogba tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Matthew Cash (Aston Villa) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jack Grealish.\n• None Nemanja Matic (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Luke Shaw (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "London's Nightingale Hospital is ready to admit patients as hospitals in the capital struggle, the NHS has said.\n\nThe Excel Centre site in east London has been \"reactivated\" amid a rise in the number of Covid-19 patients.\n\nOther Nightingale hospital sites across England are also being readied, with the UK recording a record daily rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nAn NHS spokesman said hospitals in London remain under \"significant pressure\".\n\nHe said: \"In anticipation of pressures rising from the spread of the new variant infection, NHS London were asked to ensure the London Nightingale was reactivated and ready to admit patients as needed, and that process is under way.\"\n\nSeveral NHS hospitals in London and the south-east are now reporting they are under extreme pressure as a result of a surge in the number of people falling seriously ill with Covid-19.\n\nAn email to staff at the Royal London Hospital says they are operating in disaster medicine mode - warning they can no longer provide high-standard critical care.\n\nNightingale hospitals in Manchester, Bristol and Harrogate are in use currently for non-Covid patients, the spokesman added.\n\nThe Exeter site received its first Covid patients in November when it began accepting those transferred from the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, which was described as \"very busy\".\n\nHe said: \"Covid inpatient numbers are rising sharply so the remaining Nightingales are being readied to admit patients once again should they be needed, in line with best clinical practice developed over the first and second waves of coronavirus.\"\n\nSenior intensive care doctor Prof Hugh Montgomery warned those who fail to follow the rules on social distancing, hand washing and wearing a face covering \"have blood on their hands\".\n\nNHS England medical director Stephen Powis has described the Nightingale hospitals as \"our insurance policy, there as our last resort\".\n\nLondon's Nightingale hospital was built in nine days, with the help of hundreds of soldiers\n\nHe told a Downing Street press conference on Wednesday: \"We asked all the Nightingale hospitals a few weeks ago to be ready to take patients if that was required.\n\n\"Indeed, some of them are already doing that, in Manchester taking step-down patients, in Exeter managing Covid patients, and in other places managing diagnostics, for instance.\n\n\"Our first steps though, in managing the extra demands on the NHS, are to expand capacity within existing hospitals - that's the best way to use our staff.\"\n\nLondon's Nightingale Hospital was opened on 3 April and placed on standby weeks later after fewer than 20 patients were treated there.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA £2,500 reward has been offered after a nativity scene was petrol-bombed on Christmas Eve.\n\nThe scene in Raglan, Monmouthshire, had been installed in a bus shelter for families to enjoy over Christmas.\n\nThe fire destroyed statues of a shepherd, Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus - with only the three wise men surviving as they stood outside the shelter.\n\nMiguel Santiago, of the Beaufort Hotel which funded the £10,000 scene, said the attack was \"really disappointing\".\n\n\"I was in the hotel when I saw the fire and I went into panic mode,\" he said.\n\n\"It was about 21:45 on Christmas Eve when it all happened and I ended up using nine extinguishers to put it out.\"\n\nThe wooden nativity was funded by the hotel and put together by retired theatre design lecturer Liz Friendship.\n\nMs Friendship said the festive scene had also been targeted by thieves in the past.\n\n\"In 2018 Mary was taken, in 2019 two shepherds were stolen and never came back, and in 2020 it's burnt down.\n\n\"It's now just three kings staring at the bus stop. It's very sad.\"\n\nThe scene was in ruins following the petrol bomb attack\n\nVillagers are now appealing for help to catch the suspects responsible for the Christmas crime.\n\nMr Santiago added: \"It's a shame because so much effort went into putting it together this year.\n\n\"We added three kings which really made it a great sight, we made sure the figures couldn't be taken by fixing them down.\n\n\"It's really disappointing that this has happened but the locals have been great and we will be back next year with a bigger and better nativity.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for Gwent Police said: \"Officers are investigating a report of criminal damage to a nativity scene on the High Street, in Raglan on Christmas Eve.\n\n\"It has been reported that fire damage was caused to the set at approximately 9.45pm on the evening of Thursday 24th December 2020.\n\n\"The scene that belonged to the Beaufort Hotel was totally damaged as a result.\"\n\nAnyone with information should contact police on 101, she said.", "The crowd at Edinburgh Castle dispersed after police arrived\n\nCrowds of several hundred people gathered at Edinburgh Castle to see in the new year despite police and government warnings to stay away.\n\nPeople sang and danced before dispersing when several police vans and cars drove on to the castle esplanade.\n\nMost Scots heeded warnings to hold Hogmanay celebrations at home with household members.\n\nThere were no midnight fireworks at the castle, but a display was held at the Wallace Monument in Stirling.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesperson said: \"We were aware of gatherings at Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill around midnight on Hogmanay.\n\n\"Officers safely engaged with those in attendance and explained the current government regulations resulting in the groups dispersing without incident.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Thursday that there should be \"no gatherings, no house parties and no first footing\" at Hogmanay.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland and Skye are under level four restrictions, while the other islands are in level three.\n\nDetails have meanwhile emerged of another police enforcement action against a group who gathered at a rented property in Aberfoyle during the festive period.\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed that 32 people were charged with culpable and reckless conduct after officers were called out on 27 December.\n\nAccording to the Scottish Sun, the group had travelled from Glasgow but police were tipped off by locals who spotted vehicles parked outside the property.\n\nPeople in Scotland were urged to stay at home and celebrate the new year with their families\n\nAt Edinburgh Castle, one Hogmanay tradition endured as a lone piper played in the new year at midnight.\n\nWith the capital's traditional new year party cancelled, the organisers of its annual Hogmanay celebration instead released a series of \"drone swarm\" videos titled Fare Well.\n\nThe display featured a swarm of 150 illuminated drones forming symbols and animals in a \"beautiful ode to Scotland\".\n\nEach video was narrated by actor David Tennant and included verses written by Scotland's official poet, makar Jackie Kay.\n\nWhile they appear to be flying above landmarks like Edinburgh Castle, the drones were flown elsewhere before being edited into other footage.\n\nDrones write a message in the sky above the Forth Bridge\n\nThe streets of central Edinburgh were quiet, in contrast to last year's Hogmanay celebrations when about 100,000 visitors attended the street party with live performances from Idlewild and Mark Ronson in Princes Street Gardens.\n\nElsewhere in the UK this year a fireworks and light display, including tributes to NHS staff, was held over the River Thames in London, but people were also told to stay at home rather than go out and celebrate.\n• None UK sees in 2021 with fireworks and light show", "All primary schools in London will remain closed for the start of the new term, the government has confirmed.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said the government had \"finally seen sense and U-turned\" on its plan to allow pupils in some areas to return on Monday.\n\nLeaders of nine London local authorities had written to Education Secretary Gavin Williamson urging him to rethink the decision.\n\nMr Williamson said the city-wide closures were \"a last resort\".\n\nThe government said it had decided all primary schools in the capital would be required to provide remote learning after a further review of coronavirus transmission rates.\n\nVulnerable pupils and the children of key workers will continue to attend school, the government said.\n\nEarly years care, alternative provision and special schools will remain open, it added.\n\nSchools in nine London boroughs and the City of London district had been set to reopen - while those in the remaining 23 boroughs would have stayed closed from 4 January.\n\nThe decision was criticised and branded \"illogical\" by councillors and residents in the affected areas, who called for primary schools across the capital to move to online learning until 18 January.\n\nThey pointed out that Covid-19 infection rates were higher in some boroughs told to reopen schools than in others where they were not.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Khan said a city-wide closure was \"the right decision\" and thanked education minister Nick Gibb for \"our constructive conversations over the past two days\".\n\n\"The government's original decision was ridiculous and has been causing immense confusion for parents, teachers and staff across the capital,\" Mr Khan said.\n\n\"It is right that all schools in London are treated the same, and that no primary schools in London will be forced to open on Monday\".\n\nDan Thorpe, leader of Greenwich council, said he was \"absolutely delighted\" to hear Mr Williamson had \"finally climbed down and reversed his decision\".\n\nKingston Council leader Caroline Kerr said she was \"dismayed\" at the government's handling of situation while a council statement added: \"It never made sense that neighbouring boroughs were being instructed to have different arrangements despite having similar rates of infection.\"\n\nIslington council leader Richard Watts said waiting until New Year's day to announce the further closures was \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe said the decision \"should have been made weeks ago, as the public health situation became clear\".\n\nMary Bousted, of the National Education Union, said the government was right to reverse its \"obviously nonsensical position\".\n\n\"What is right for London is right for the rest of the country,\" she said, and she called on ministers to \"do their duty\" by closing all primary and secondary schools nationwide for at least two weeks.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, accused the government of damaging public confidence with a \"confusing and last-minute approach\".\n\n\"Just at the moment when we need some decisive leadership, the government is at sixes and sevens,\" he said.\n\nShadow education secretary Kate Green said the move was \"yet another government U-turn creating chaos for parents just two days before the start of term\".\n\n\"Gavin Williamson must still clarify why some schools in tier 4 are closing and what the criteria for reopening will be,\" she said.\n\nGavin Williamson said closing schools across London was a \"last resort\"\n\nIn a statement, Mr Williamson said children's education and wellbeing remained \"a national priority\" and moving the whole of London to remote education \"really is a last resort and a temporary solution\".\n\n\"We will continue keep the list of local authorities under review, and reopen classrooms as soon as we possibly can,\" he said.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the situation in London had continued to worsen in the past week and infections and hospital admissions had risen sharply.\n\n\"While our priority is to keep as many children as possible in school, we have to strike a balance between education and infection rates and pressures on the NHS,\" he said.\n\nThe Department for Education had previously said decisions on school closures and openings were based on new infections, positivity rates, and pressures on the NHS.\n\nA spokeswoman for the department said: \"In response to concerning data about the spread of coronavirus, we have implemented the contingency framework for education in a small number of areas of the country, requiring schools to provide remote learning to all but vulnerable and critical worker children and exam years.\n\n\"Decisions on which areas will be subject to the contingency framework are based on close work with PHE, the NHS, the Joint Biosecurity Centre and across government.\"\n\nAre you a parent or teacher who will be affected by the London primary school closures? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bodycam footage shows the moments before a black man was killed by a police shooting in Minneapolis\n\nMinneapolis police have released bodycam footage of a fatal shooting by officers, the first death at the hands of police in the US city since that of George Floyd, a black man, in May.\n\nThe victim, Dolal Idd, 23, was a suspect in a felony and was stopped by police on Wednesday. He was also black.\n\nInitial witness statements and police say Mr Idd fired first and was shot dead when the officers returned fire.\n\nMinneapolis saw months of unrest after Mr Floyd's death in police custody.\n\nThe protests spread across the US amid allegations of police brutality.\n\nMr Floyd died after a police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nThe footage from Wednesday's fatal shooting, from the bodycam of one of the officers involved, was released late on Thursday.\n\nIt shows the officers' cars blocking a white vehicle at a petrol station on the city's south side, not far from where Mr Floyd died.\n\nThe police are heard shouting \"Stop your car, hands up, hands up!\" before shots are fired, including by the officers.\n\nA female passenger in the car with Mr Idd was not hurt, police said, nor were the officers.\n\nMinneapolis police chief Medaria Arradondo said a gun was found at the scene.\n\n\"When I viewed the video that everyone else is viewing - and certainly the real-time slow-down version - it appears the individual inside the vehicle fired his weapon at the officers first,\" he said.\n\nPeople including Mr Idd's father Bayle Gelle gathered at the scene the following day, prompting fears of renewed protests.\n\n\"He was just sitting in the car, and bullets were shot at him, and no reason,\" he said, quoted by CBS News.\n\n\"Why are we here?... Because of colour. He is a black man. We want to know why my sweet son gets shot and killed.\"\n\nGeorge Floyd's death led to violent protests in the city, including this police station set on fire in May\n\nCity mayor Jacob Frey said he was committed to getting the facts and pursuing justice.\n\n\"We know a life has been cut short tonight and that trust between communities of colour and law enforcement is fragile,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"Rebuilding that trust will depend on complete transparency.\"\n\nMr Floyd's death in May led to calls for reform or even abolition of the city's police department, but those efforts have stalled.", "Much of England has been placed in a new top tier of restrictions - tier four - as the new variant spreads Image caption: Much of England has been placed in a new top tier of restrictions - tier four - as the new variant spreads\n\nEarlier we reported that a study by Imperial College had concluded the new coronavirus variant is \"hugely\" more transmissible. Now some experts are saying that means even tougher restrictions will soon be needed.\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said: \"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread - more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person passes the virus onto. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nEarly data suggested that the virus was spreading more quickly among the under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children, but the latest results indicate that it is more infectious in all age groups.\n\nProf Axel Gandy, part of the research team, suggested that it may have appeared to spread more easily among school children simply because the early data was collected during the November lockdown, when adults' movements were restricted but schools remained open.", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parents and teachers have criticised the closure decisions\n\nNine London boroughs have written to the education secretary asking him to reverse plans to reopen primary schools in some areas.\n\nAbout a million primary school pupils will not return to lessons next week in a bid to cut Covid transmission rates.\n\nHowever, schools in 10 London boroughs are due to remain open.\n\nIn the letter, the leaders said they were \"struggling to understand the rationale\" behind the idea as pupils and teachers moved between boroughs.\n\nThe government has said the measure would be reviewed fortnightly.\n\nAll primary schools had been due to fully reopen on 4 January but under government plans those in 23 London boroughs will remain closed.\n\nHowever, schools in the City of London, Camden, Greenwich, Hackney, Haringey, Harrow, Islington, Kingston, Lambeth and Lewisham will open.\n\nThe letter to Gavin Williamson has been signed by leaders of all of those boroughs apart from Kingston. It has also been signed by the City of London's policy chair.\n\nIt calls for primary school pupils across the capital to \"move to online learning until 18 January\", apart from vulnerable children and those of key workers.\n\n\"The omission of 10 boroughs ignores the deep interconnectedness of our city, and the many thousands of teachers and students that study or teach in one borough and live in another,\" the letter states.\n\nThe councils also said they had received legal advice that omitting some councils from the list of areas told to take teaching online \"is unlawful on a number of grounds and can be challenged in court\".\n\nRichard Watts, leader of Islington Council, told the BBC there \"seems to be no reason at all to look at this on a borough by borough basis\".\n\n\"The entirety of the rest of the government's handling of the pandemic has rightly treated London as a single entity and this is the first time anyone... has tried to implement different public health measures in different boroughs,\" he said.\n\nIn a statement Dan Thorpe, leader of the Royal borough of Greenwich, accused the government of providing \"a lack of clarity and answers\", adding that the situation was \"causing uncertainty and concern among our schools, families, carers, and undoubtedly children and young people\".\n\nAlthough Kingston Council did not sign the letter, leader Caroline Kerr said reopening primary schools in the borough \"doesn't make any sense\" and that they were \"urgently seeking clarity on the reasoning for the decision\".\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan has called the plans \"nonsensical\" and has also written to the government calling for a \"delay to all London schools opening until mid-January\".\n\nKevin Courtney, joint leader of the National Education Union, said the education secretary \"must listen to the leaders of the community, he must listen to school staff and he must listen to the general public who are all telling him that it is not safe to reopen schools on Monday\".\n\nThe Department for Education has previously said decisions on school closures and openings were based on new infections, positivity rates, and pressures on the NHS.\n\nA spokeswoman for the department said: \"In response to concerning data about the spread of coronavirus, we have implemented the contingency framework for education in a small number of areas of the country, requiring schools to provide remote learning to all but vulnerable and critical worker children and exam years.\n\n\"Decisions on which areas will be subject to the contingency framework are based on close work with PHE, the NHS, the Joint Biosecurity Centre and across government.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The musician was known for his performances in which he always wore a mask\n\nHip-hop star MF Doom has died at the age of 49, his family confirmed on social media.\n\nThe London-born musician, real name Daniel Dumile, was known for his sharp, intricate rhymes and his signature mask, which he never removed in public.\n\nIn a post on the rapper's Instagram account on Thursday, his wife Jasmine confirmed that he died on 31 October.\n\nA number of artists have paid tribute to MF Doom including Run The Jewels and Tyler, The Creator.\n\nIn a note addressed to the rapper, his wife paid tribute to \"the greatest husband, father, teacher, student, business partner, lover and friend I could ever ask for\".\n\nHis representatives confirmed his death to Rolling Stone magazine. No cause of death was disclosed.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by mfdoom This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMF Doom was born in London but moved to New York as a child.\n\nAs a teenager he performed in hip-hop group KMD. Following the loss of his younger brother and bandmate DJ Subroc, he disappeared from music becoming, in his own words, \"damn near homeless\".\n\nBut in 1997, he remerged at open mic events in Manhattan, wearing tights over his face. He protected his anonymity for the rest of his career, adopting a mask based on the Marvel villain Doctor Doom for all his public appearances.\n\nHis debut as MF Doom, Operation: Doomsday, was released in 1999, and he followed it up with an almost non-stop outpouring of music.\n\nAs well as six solo albums, he produced a wealth of bootlegs, compilations, collaborations, mixtapes and instrumental albums - including the influential, 10-part Special Herbs series.\n\nHe may be best known for 2004's Madvillainy, which was recorded with crate-digging producer Madlib under the moniker Madvillain, and gave the rapper his first entry on the US album chart.\n\nAnother of his high-profile collaborations was Danger Doom alongside DJ Danger Mouse, and he appeared with Damon Albarn's Gorillaz on their UK number one album Demon Days. Other collaborators included Ghostface Killah, Flying Lotus, The Avalanches and Radiohead.\n\nOne of hip-hop's most respected MCs, he made appearances on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 1 in which he discussed his own music and projects with other artists.\n\nMany of them lined up to pay tribute after news of his death broke on New Year's Eve.\n\n\"RIP to another Giant, your favourite MC's MC... MF DOOM,\" wrote A Tribe Called Quest's Q-Tip on Twitter. \"Crushing news.\"\n\n\"He was a writer's writer,\" added El-P of Run The Jewels. \"Grateful I got to know you a little, king. Proud to be your fan. Thank you for keeping it weird and raw always. You inspired us all and always will.\"\n\n\"All u ever needed in hip-hop was this record,\" Flying Lotus tweeted alongside the album cover to Madvillainy. \"My soul is crushed.\"\n\nApple Music presenter Zane Lowe said: \"Rest In Peace to the great MF Doom. A true artist who gifted us with eternal innovation and creativity.\"\n\nWhile the Sleaford Mods said: \"RIP MF DOOM. Sleep well mate.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. London's new year celebrations featured a message of hope from David Attenborough\n\nThe UK has seen off 2020 and celebrated the dawn of 2021 with a fireworks and light display over London that included tributes to NHS staff.\n\nRevellers were not able to ring in the New Year in the usual way because of the coronavirus pandemic, with people instead told to stay at home.\n\nPolice had to break up various parties and events across England overnight.\n\nForces have handed out hundreds of fines, with several issuing the maximum £10,000 to event organisers.\n\nMuch of the UK saw in the new year while under lockdown rules, with about 44 million people in England - or 78% of the population - in tier four, the top level of Covid restrictions.\n\nMainland Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are also under lockdown.\n\nAlthough people were warned not to attend any parties outside their own homes, there were many around the country who ignored the rules.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said police attended 58 parties and unlicensed music events in breach of tier four rules across London overnight, the vast majority of which ended when police intervened, they added.\n\nFixed penalty fines were given to 217 people while five others could be fined £10,000 for organising large gatherings. The police force said four other people were arrested for breaching Covid regulations by gathering in central London.\n\nElsewhere, other forces also broke up parties and handed out hundreds of fines. They included Greater Manchester Police, which issued 105 fixed penalty notices at house parties and larger gatherings. And Leicestershire Police had to issue six on-the-spot £10,000 fines to party organisers.\n\nIn Essex, hundreds of people were dispersed from an illegal New Year's Eve party at a church, while Lancashire Police broke up a party in Hyndburn, near Blackburn, attended by 80.\n\nMeanwhile, in Scotland, Edinburgh's traditional Hogmanay street party was cancelled, with videos of a drone display released instead.\n\nThe series of videos showed a swarm of 150 lit-up drones over the Scottish Highlands and Edinburgh were released, which organisers said it was the largest drone show ever produced in the UK.\n\nDespite the cancellation of Edinburgh's traditional Hogmanay celebration - which normally attracts 100,000 people on the city's streets - there were some people who ignored the pleas to stay at home.\n\nCrowds of several hundred people gathered at Edinburgh Castle to see in the new year. They sang Auld Lang Syne and danced before eventually dispersing when several police vans and cars pulled on to the castle esplanade.\n\nAn anti-lockdown protest and New Year's Eve celebration was also held in London\n\nPeople cross Hungerford Bridge in London on New Year's Eve\n\nOn New Year's Eve, Health Secretary Matt Hancock called on people to take \"personal responsibility\" and stay at home to avoid spreading Covid-19.\n\nLondon's 10-minute display over the Thames aired on the BBC at midnight, and began with a poem which addressed the pandemic, that said: \"In the year of 2020 a new virus came our way; We knew what must be done and so to help we hid away.\"\n\nLight projections lit up the sky over the O2 Arena, including the NHS logo in a heart accompanied by a child's voice saying: \"Thank you NHS heroes\".\n\nThe show also recognised Captain Sir Tom Moore, who raised £33m for the NHS by walking laps of his garden and the Black Lives Matter movement. One 2020 phenomena - working from home - was represented with a mute logo backed by a voiceover saying \"You're on mute\".\n\nThe display ended with a call from Sir David Attenborough about the need for action on climate change.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said the display had reflected the resolve of Londoners to endure\n\n300 drones were used in the display to create images in the sky\n\nIn a speech being broadcast on BBC One between Doctor Who and EastEnders this evening, Sir David will say that this \"could be a year for positive change - for ourselves, for our planet and for the wonderful creatures with which we share it\".\n\nDespite the \"challenging\" times we live in, \"the reactions to these extraordinary times has proved that when we work together there is no limit to what we can accomplish\", he will say, as he looks ahead to the United Nations Climate Change Conference later this year.\n\nThe sounds of a video conference call starting up were played\n\nMuch of London was far quieter than usual\n\nEdinburgh's streets were largely empty, with Police Scotland warning against Hogmanay gatherings\n\nOfficial figures showed 10.75 million viewers watched the 2021 New Year celebrations on BBC One. It's down from the 11.18m who saw in the start of 2020 on the channel.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said he was proud of the show, which he said \"paid tribute to our NHS heroes and the way that Londoners continue to stand together\".\n\n\"We showed how our capital and the UK have made huge sacrifices to support one another through these difficult times, and how they will continue to do so as the vaccine is rolled out.\"\n\nUsually, around 100,000 people pack into the streets around Victoria Embankment to watch the New Year's Eve fireworks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn his New Year's message, the Archbishop of Canterbury said he saw \"reasons to be hopeful for the year ahead\" despite the \"tremendous pain and sadness\" brought by 2020.\n\nThe Most Reverend Justin Welby spoke of his experience volunteering as an assistant chaplain at St Thomas' hospital during the pandemic, saying: \"Sometimes the most important thing we do is just sit with people, letting them know they are not alone.\"\n\nIn his message, filmed at the London hospital and broadcast on BBC One on Friday afternoon, he said: \"This crisis has shown us how fragile we are. It has also shown us how to face this fragility.\n\n\"Here at the hospital, hope is there in every hand that's held, and every comforting word that's spoken.\n\n\"Up and down the country, it's there in every phone call. Every food parcel or thoughtful card. Every time we wear our masks.\"\n\nDid you make a special effort to celebrate this New Year? How did you mark it? Share your experiences and pictures of what you got up to by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "For months, the government has been urging businesses to get ready for a new era in trading with the EU. But it was only on Boxing Day that details of all the new rules were actually published.\n\nBusiness groups are relieved that the threat of a no-deal Brexit, which would have meant tariffs (or taxes) on goods crossing the border with the EU, has been removed. But companies that trade with the EU are still facing a lot of new bureaucracy.\n\nAnd the disruption in mid-December, caused by border closures related to the new variant of Covid-19, was a reminder of how dependent the UK economy is on trade across the English Channel.\n\nFrom 1 January 2021, goods entering the EU from Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) face large amounts of new paperwork and checks, including:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHauliers will also need to make sure they have the right transportation paperwork before they drive to the border.\n\nThere is particular focus on the \"short straits\" route between Dover and Calais, and the nearby Channel Tunnel, which taken together handle about four million lorries a year.\n\n\"This is the biggest imposition of red tape that businesses have had to deal with in 50 years,\" says William Bain from the British Retail Consortium.\n\nFull controls on British exports to the EU began on 1 January. The first day of the new regime appears to have gone relatively smoothly.\n\nBut it's feared that later in the year, the new controls could cause disruption, even though new border infrastructure has been built at ports such as Calais, to help process vehicles more efficiently.\n\nThere are some mitigating measures though.\n\nIn response to the Covid crisis, the government is delaying full controls on goods entering Great Britain from the EU for a further six months.\n\nThere will be checks from 1 January on controlled substances such as alcohol and tobacco, and traders deemed to be a risk will also be asked to fill in customs declarations.\n\nBut most checks on goods coming in from the EU will be delayed until 1 July, a deadline that could in theory be extended.\n\n\"I think we will want to monitor it,\" the chief executive of HM Revenue and Customs, Jim Harra, told MPs in November. \"Hopefully we will not still be in a situation where Covid-19 is consuming as much of people's attention.\"\n\nOther measures to tackle potential disruption include diverting trade to other ports around the country and opening lorry parks in Kent, to avoid gridlock on the roads.\n\nSome of these contingencies were put into action early, to deal with the Covid border closures in December.\n\nOperation Brock, for example, involved changing the layout of a section of the M20, using a concrete barrier to allow lorries heading for mainland Europe to queue safely on the motorway.\n\nThousands of lorries were also diverted to temporary parking at a disused airport at Manston.\n\nFrom 1 January drivers of lorries weighing more than 7.5 tonnes will need to acquire a Kent Access Permit before they enter the county. They will have to show that they have all the paperwork they need to ferry goods to Europe.\n\nBut that doesn't deal with the challenge of the thousands of vans that cross the Channel every week.\n\n\"What has been serially misunderstood by various parts of government is the scale of the complexity for people on the ground dealing with the paperwork,\" says Duncan Buchanan, the Policy Director of the Road Haulage Association.\n\nThat could mean that instead of queues on motorways, many traders won't be able to leave their depots.\n\n\"Either they won't be able to get vets to sign off on their meat exports, or they won't be able to get their permit because they don't have the right bits of paper,\" says Shane Brennan, chief executive of the Cold Storage Federation.\n\n\"We might see a quite significant holding off of trading - people just not moving stuff in the first few weeks.\"\n\nEighty-five per cent of the volume of trade between the EU and Great Britain is carried by EU hauliers, who are often paid not by the hour, but by the kilometre. If they think there will be too many delays, many may simply not come.\n\nThe government says the readiness of traders to deal with the new system remains its biggest concern.\n\nLorries parked on the M20 in Kent\n\n\"The sheer scale of the overall operation means there are literally many millions of moving parts,\" permanent secretary of the cabinet office Alex Chisholm told MPs. \"Inevitably there are going to be some difficulties for some individual people as they adjust to the new regime.\"\n\nThe government has also announced a new Border Operations Centre as part of plans \"for the UK to have the world's most effective border by 2025\".\n\nQuestions have been asked about how changes at the border might affect food supply. The short answer is no-one can say for sure, but nearly 30% of all the food consumed in the UK is imported from the EU.\n\nThe good news is that there is a deal, which makes a big difference. But the challenge is particularly acute because the UK grows relatively small amounts of fruit and vegetables in January and February and is most dependent on supplies from southern Europe at this time of year.\n\nSo, if there are delays, they could cause some shortages on the shelves.\n\n\"Some gaps are possible but we're not going to run out of food - that's not going to happen\" says Ian Wright.\n\nWhen it comes to non-perishable items, there had been some stockpiling in preparation for either outcome, but extra supplies won't last forever.\n\n\"The crunch point is probably not going to be in the first few days or weeks of January,\" William Bain argues. \"Towards the end of the month, when new orders start being placed and delivered, we will start to see the processes in Kent and the other ports really tested.\"\n\nAnd it's not only about food.\n\nOther retailers, which are used to moving their stock freely around the EU customs union, have had to create separate supply chains for the UK. That is costing them more money, and their new systems have yet to be tested properly.\n\nIt's not just about trade across the English Channel.\n\nTrade across the Irish Sea between Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland will be subject to the same pressures, while Northern Ireland will be a special case under the terms of the Northern Ireland protocol in the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nNorthern Ireland will remain in the EU single market for goods, and unlike the rest of the UK it will continue to enjoy frictionless trade with the EU with no checks of any kind at the land border with the Republic.\n\nBut there is a price to pay for that - new bureaucracy within the UK between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe EU, for example, has strict rules on products of animal origin: meat, milk, fish and eggs.\n\nThese products must enter the single market (and, from 1 January, Northern Ireland) through a border control post where paperwork is checked, and a proportion of goods physically inspected.\n\nThere will be a grace period of three months for supermarkets and their suppliers, but some smaller traders may have to get used to the new rules straight away.\n\nAll shipments from Great Britain to Northern Ireland will also need a safety and security declaration, and a customs declaration from a new IT system which none of the traders have used before.\n\nThe government has set up a Trader Support Service to help.\n\nThe details of the new trading arrangements for Northern Ireland were announced separately in early December, and provided some clarity. They include an agreement which means the vast majority of goods being shipped from GB to NI will not be at risk of having tariffs imposed.\n\nBut there are plenty of unresolved issues.\n\nTraders are seeking answers about how to send parcels from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, and some online retailers have already suspended deliveries.\n\nThe trade from British to Northern Irish ports often involves multiple small shipments on a single lorry - all of which will need the right paperwork.\n\n\"We need clear rules for everyone in the supply chain,\" says Duncan Buchanan, \"and when you scratch the surface it is just not ready.\"\n\nIt is expected that many checks will be carried out on a 'light touch' basis to begin with.\n\nBut anyone trading between Great Britain and Northern Ireland is going to have to get used to a new way of working very quickly.", "Nearly half a century of the UK's membership of the European Union and its predecessor organisations ended in January of course.\n\nWhat has now ended is the UK's economic membership of the bloc. Forty-eight years in the European customs union, basically the Common Market, and 28 years in the single market.\n\nThe Single Market was a creation for which the UK has paternity rights. It was Margaret Thatcher's rallying call for European reform, her calling card to unleash a wave of Japanese investment in post-industrial Britain and shepherded into existence by her appointee as commissioner Arthur Cockfield.\n\nIts creation served the UK's economic interests, as it grew the home domestic market available for British exporters without tariff or non-tariff barriers, eventually to nearly half a billion Europeans. It was not without irony that the tortuous negotiations of the past four years were made tougher by the EU's insistence on defending what it calls the \"internal market\", itself created by the British.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIndeed the institutional underpinning of this huge marketplace became too much for Mrs Thatcher. Famously she became suspicious of Commission President Delors turning up to tell the TUC that through the European Union workers could reassert rights rolled back by the Conservative Government.\n\nAt her 1988 Bruges speech PM Thatcher replied: \"We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at European level, with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.\"\n\nThe car industry was the prototype for the single market\n\nPerhaps this was the beginning of the path to Brexit, carried along by the push to monetary union and resentment at the overreach of the European Court of Justice and the considerable impact of the \"direct effect\" of community and then union law.\n\nThe car industry was the prototype for the single market. Mrs Thatcher's campaigning for EEC membership was quickly followed by a charm offensive that began as opposition leader to get Japanese investors to build high tech factories to sell cars tariff-free across Europe.\n\nFor the UK it would provide employment, technology, capital and competition for the languishing nationalised UK-owned auto sector.\n\nOngoing membership of the EEC, restrictions on union activity and investment tax breaks were part of the deal communicated in writing to the then chairman of Nissan.\n\nThe Datsun Bluebird was being developed in Sunderland and around the same time the Italians and the French threatened to slap tariffs on what they saw as a Japanese ruse to avoid tariffs and undercut their industry.\n\nThe UK government quickly communicated that it was willing to take this matter to the European Court of Justice. The attempt to kill the Nissan factory at birth was fended off.\n\nFrom this, the UK car industry and other advanced manufacturing prospered from being plugged into rapid continent-wide supply chains, delivering each part just in time and just in sequence.\n\nAll of that was enabled by conformity of regulations, standards, zero tariffs and the eradication of non-tariff barriers, for sale, but also within the manufacturing process.\n\nThe UK became the financial centre for the euro\n\nSimilar stories could be told about the pharmaceutical industry, chemicals, the food industry, aerospace, and financial services.\n\nWithin the EU, the UK even became the financial centre for a new currency, the euro, which it did not participate in.\n\nThe single market itself, with regulations set and enforced in Brussels, became a player on the world stage. And yet there was a balancing act. The UK could influence the direction of one of the biggest tankers in the sea but was restricted in acting more nimbly in new industries. In some sectors, the UK's trade dealings with the US or Asia were more important than with Europe.\n\nAnd so this tension led to breaking point. And for the Conservative Party in particular the single market's institutions it created and championed, became something akin to Frankenstein's monster.\n\nThe EU has agreed an investment deal with China\n\nSome Brexiteers had hoped that the edifice would collapse once the UK left. But it has proven more robust than that. Indeed, Brexit has proven a catalyst of the EU to sign trade and investment deals far more quickly, including even with China.\n\nSo now the UK finds itself outside of the machine it created as its strategic competitor. The trade negotiation wasn't primarily about trade. Great Britain has declared regulatory independence, or to be more specific, has declared as much regulatory independence as is compatible with a zero-tariff trade deal.\n\nThe EU retains levers and switches to turn off some of these tariff advantages should the UK use the deal to turn into an offshore tariff free assembly hub for US and Asian manufacturing to be traded into the single market. Unlike with Nissan four decades ago, the European Court of Justice will no longer be there.\n\nThe global pharmaceutical industry offers an opportunity for the UK\n\nThe PM wants regulatory competition but his own deal contains disincentives, if not actual restrictions, on competing \"unfairly\" or too much.\n\nSo the strategy matters. Britain is free, but to do what exactly? To level up? Well the regions that need levelling up are the ones that are actually most dependent on exports to Europe. Exports to Europe will be spared tariffs, thanks to the deal, but there will be literally millions of non-tariff barriers, that the economists calculate matter more, from health checks, customs formalities, origin paperwork, assessments of standards etc.\n\nEven to qualify for tariff-free treatment means, according to new government guidance on \"rules of origin\", analysis of how complicated is the process of grating cheese, of the shelling of nuts, and formalities on where the eyes of a doll come from. Most apply legally from tonight, having been absent for decades.\n\nThe sweet spot for UK will now be to deploy regulatory freedom in sectors that are truly global, where we are not already overly dependent on EU markets.\n\nCertain sub-sectors within technology, finance and pharmaceuticals, for example. In each of these sectors the UK is likely to have to offer more friendly regulation to the multinational private sector, than the EU.\n\nIt doesn't necessarily mean lower standards: It could be that UK medicines regulators, for example, build on the record of rapid approval for Covid vaccines in other medical areas.\n\nThe deployment of massive scientific networks within the National Health service, used for rapid clinical testing, could become the envy of the world.\n\nBrexit Britain is likely to become a laboratory for the global economy. Car companies will need to be attracted with more permissive rules on data and, say autonomous driving testing. Some tech companies are already porting their UK customers to be served under US data privacy laws rather than more restrictive EU ones.\n\nBut the government will also have to be very active and judicious. We are already \"picking winners\" again, at least in the satellite business. What about electric power, where the EU will fight aggressively, versus hydrogen power?\n\nThere are a number of structural economic problems, from poor training, declining productivity and low investment that were not caused by EU membership which, in terms of non-tariff barriers, are made immediately worse by this type of Brexit, for which the UK has no option but to deal with.\n\nNorthern Ireland is mostly left in the EU single market\n\nThat process of looking outwards may not come quickly. Holyrood and Stormont rejected the Brexit trade deal. The UK has replaced a single market of 500 million Europeans free of non-tariff barriers with a single market smaller than the size of the UK.\n\nThere is a trade border in the Irish Sea. Northern Ireland is mostly left in the EU single market. There are non-tariff barriers between Great Britain and Northern Ireland as a result of this deal.\n\nLastly there are some big unknowns and unknowables.\n\nThe inadvertent diplomatic consequences of changes in trade patterns can be profound. If, for example, the eminent historian RW Johnson is to be believed, the UK's accession to the EEC in the first place created the conditions for the fall of South Africa's apartheid regime which was \"hurt in several ways\".\n\nBritish trade was remodelled away from the Commonwealth to Europe, the EEC offered favourable trade with all of Africa except Pretoria. And then when Portugal followed its ally the UK into the EEC, its African colonies and white rule quickly lost to revolutions by black liberation movements in Angola and Mozambique.\n\n\"Thus the seeds of the 1976 Soweto uprising were sown\" in part by the UK joining the EEC. Which is obviously not to suggest the reverse would be true. It is merely to say that events such as these can have very unpredictable knock on effects.\n\nThe Prime Minister has succeeded in taking the UK out of the Single Market created by his heroes. The UK now stands outside a system that it helped invent. For now its new single market is not the size of the country.\n\nThe test of all of this, is to make the UK's new single market the size of the globe.", "Some lorries have been turned away for not having the correct paperwork\n\nPlans are in place to minimise disruption at Welsh ports - especially Holyhead - as the UK enters a post-Brexit new year.\n\nThe EU Brexit transition period is over, and lorry drivers heading to and from the Republic of Ireland require additional paperwork to travel.\n\nOfficials at Holyhead said some lorries have already been turned away because they had the wrong documentation.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it was doing what it could to \"protect\" the port.\n\nTransport Minister Ken Skates said it was \"imperative\" contingency plans were in place for the island, as it wakes up to the new customs regime.\n\nFerry operators in Wales will now require freight customers to link customs information to their booking as they head for the Irish Republic.\n\nWithout that paperwork, port access will be refused.\n\n\"We've had the first few rejects, which is not unexpected,\" said Stena Line's Head of UK Ports, Ian Davies.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wales from Holyhead on New Year's Day, he said it showed the new system was working.\n\n\"We've had people that have been passed and allowed to be shipped, and we've had a few failures as well, so it will be a learning curve for these customers.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said a \"worst case scenario\" published by the UK suggested 40% to 70% of heavy goods vehicles arriving at ports after transition ended on New Year's Eve may not have the right documentation to travel.\n\nThe peak period for turning vehicles away is expected to be mid-January.\n\n\"We simply don't know whether things are going to work,\" said Rod McKenzie, who is managing director of policy for the body representing lorry drivers and operators, the Road Haulage Association.\n\n\"There is no question there will be problems, even if all the IT works, things could go wrong, and given traders' unfamiliarity with it there is the potential for a lot of mistakes to be made.\"\n\nA contraflow will allow lorries to be \"stacked\" on parts of the A55 if traffic builds\n\nThe association said it was more worried about \"invisible delays\" in the supply chain, rather than queues at ferry ports.\n\n\"Lorries might not leave their factory gate or depot because the paperwork isn't done,\" he said.\n\n\"It's really, really important that people try to get their paperwork right. The consequences of any mistakes will be a disruption of the supply chain.\"\n\nHe said the sector would know in about a week \"how it's going\".\n\nPembrokeshire council said it had been working to ensure any vehicles turned away from Pembroke Dock and Fishguard were dealt with away from the ports.\n\nIt has arranged overflow locations at Goodwick and Pembroke Dock for its own version of Dover's \"Operation Stack\", where lorries queue along the M20.\n\n\"The importance of Pembrokeshire's ports to the county, Wales and UK as a whole cannot be overestimated,\" said council leader David Simpson.\n\nHolyhead is the UK's second busiest roll-on roll-off ferry port\n\nOn Anglesey, a temporary contraflow is in force on the A55 expressway, eastbound between junctions two and four, allowing any traffic turned away from the port to be redirected back.\n\nIt will be moved to parking locations at Parc Cybi on the outskirts of the town, and if necessary, lorries will be parked on the cordoned-off A55 sections.\n\n\"We will monitor the situation carefully and as soon as it's safe to do so we will remove the temporary contraflow,\" said Mr Skates.\n\n\"While the next few days are expected to be quiet, we know it will become busier as we approach mid-January.\n\n\"Our aim is to do what we can to protect the port, town of Holyhead and wider community from any possible disruption.\"\n\nOn Friday, port authorities on Anglesey said freight traffic has been quiet, as expected over the bank holiday period.\n\nIt follows an steep rise in lorry crossings in the run up to Christmas and the end of the transition period.\n\nFerry operator Stena Line is also responsible for running Holyhead Port.\n\n\"We can't get complacent over the next few days,\" said a Stena spokesman.\n\n\"It's when freight levels come back up that we'll know whether the systems are really working and whether the hauliers are ready. That will be the real test.\"", "More than 35,000 people have received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in Wales\n\nThe Covid vaccine programme is at the \"very beginning\" and vaccination rates are increasing, Wales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething has insisted.\n\nIt follows concerns raised by some politicians over the speed of Welsh vaccine rollout.\n\nInitial figures on how many people have received the first Pfizer-BioNTech jab show Wales is slightly behind those vaccinated elsewhere in the UK.\n\nMr Gething said there were likely to be \"small differences between nations\".\n\n\"Comparisons are naturally being made on the number of vaccinations administered by the four nations of the UK,\" he said in a ministerial statement to Senedd members.\n\n\"Whilst I recognise the data indicates there are other nations ahead of us, the national data presented at this very early stage of the vaccination roll out should be considered provisional and a snapshot of ongoing activity.\"\n\nHe said there would be \"lags\" in data being entered, and local factors affecting vaccinations.\n\n\"For example the vaccination centre in Cardiff and the Vale was unable to operate for two days because of a virus outbreak linked to the site,\" he added.\n\nMore than 35,000 people have now received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in Wales, including healthcare workers who work in Wales but live over the border in England.\n\nAlmost 13,000 of these vaccines were given in the past week.\n\nThe number of vaccinations in Wales up until 27 December account for 1.12% of the Welsh population.\n\nIn England, 1.4% have received a jab, while in Scotland it is 1.7%, and 1.6% in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Welsh Conservative health spokesman Andrew RT Davies flagged his concerns about the vaccine delivery programme on Thursday.\n\n\"Three weeks ago, the first Covid-19 vaccine was given in Wales, and since that time we have sadly seen confusion and hope drop away,\" he said.\n\n\"Many people over 80 in Wales were desperately waiting for their appointment to do their bit and have the vaccine but as we quickly learnt they would have to wait longer,\" he said.\n\nBut the health minister said daily vaccination rates were \"increasing across Wales\".\n\nThe focus is on delivering vaccines effectively and safely, says Vaughan Gething\n\n\"Looking ahead, all health boards are preparing for significant expansion in capacity from the beginning of January,\" added Mr Gething.\n\nHe said the new Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine approved earlier this week would be available from some GPs in Wales from Monday.\n\n\"This is only the very beginning of what will be a programme spanning many months,\" he said.\n\n\"Whilst the urgency and priority required is clear to all, we must also have some patience and allow the NHS to do what it does so well.\n\n\"My focus, and that of the NHS, is on delivering the vaccine programme quickly but also effectively, safely and equitably.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government has also confirmed it will be following the latest advice from medical advisers on introducing a 12-week gap between the two doses of vaccines needed, for both types of approved jabs.\n\nAll four chief medical officers in the UK have supported the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which said the focus should be on giving at-risk people the first dose of whichever vaccine they receive.\n\n\"It will ensure that more at-risk people are able to get protection from a vaccine in the coming weeks and months, reducing deaths and starting to ease pressure on our NHS,\" said Mr Gething.\n\nVaccinations started earlier in December after regulators approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine\n\nPlaid Cymru has called on the Welsh Government to ask the UK government to publish evidence to justify increasing the period for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nIn a letter to Mr Gething, the party's health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said the \"sudden switch\" represented \"a very significant departure\" from previous guidelines.\n\nHe added there were \"very real concerns\" that a longer delay between doses \"could significantly decrease the effectiveness of the vaccine\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I wish I could switch place with my daughter\" - Odd Steinar Sørengen's daughter is missing\n\nA body has been found shortly after rescuers and dog handlers began a risky ground search for 10 people missing in a hillside collapse in Norway.\n\nInitially it was thought too dangerous to send rescuers on to the site, after flowing mud sent homes toppling into a giant chasm in the village of Ask.\n\nHelicopters and drones spent two days searching the scene.\n\nBut on Friday police commander Roy Alkvist said one or two houses appeared safe to enter.\n\nRescuers, who included a Swedish specialist team, began moving into the danger zone on Styrofoam boards. The bright orange boards were laid down on the mud in a domino-effect as rescuers tried to reach one of the wrecked homes, which are 25km (15 miles) north-east of the capital Oslo.\n\nA missing Dalmatian dog was rescued on Thursday and police believe there is still a chance survivors could be found.\n\nHowever, on Friday afternoon an air ambulance helicopter landed near the site and police said a body had been found at 14:30 (13:30 GMT) without giving further details.\n\nRescuers are using orange Styrofoam boards to move around the landslide area\n\nPrime Minister Erna Solberg said her thoughts went out to the victim's family, and to those waiting for news of the other nine people who were missing.\n\nIn Friday's operation the rescuers also prepared a giant army vehicle called a \"paver\", which has a giant steel bridge on which rescuers can move.\n\nHowever, conditions were not yet good enough for the 50-tonne machine to be deployed.\n\nThe plan is to deploy a Norwegian army bridge-laying vehicle as soon as conditions are good enough\n\nFriday's search was a race against time, as the rescuers only had a few hours of daylight in the Norwegian winter. Medics and geologists were reportedly part of the ground rescue team.\n\nThe ground search was called off for the night at 17:30 and police said drones and heat-seeking cameras would continue overnight until rescue crews could return on Saturday morning.\n\nAbout 1,000 people have been evacuated from Gjerdrum municipality, which contains Ask village. Dozens more were moved out of their homes on New Year's Eve.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows the scale of the landslide\n\nAlthough police have not given details of the missing, they are believed to include men, women and children.\n\nAmong them is a woman who was talking to her husband on the phone while walking the dog when the line went dead, according to Bergens Tidende newspaper.\n\nFurther reports say a couple and their small child are also missing, as well as a woman in her 50s and her adult son.\n\nMore than 30 homes have been destroyed, but officials say more could be lost as the edges of the crater left by the landslide are still breaking away.\n\nThe conditions have proved challenging, with temperatures dropping to -1C (30F) and the clay ground proving too unstable for emergency workers to walk on.\n\nThe scale of the landslide is shown by this aerial view of the disaster site\n\nThe landslide began early on Wednesday, with residents calling emergency services and telling them that their houses were moving, police said.\n\n\"There were two massive tremors that lasted for a long while and I assumed it was snow being cleared or something like that,\" Oeystein Gjerdrum, 68, told broadcaster NRK.\n\n\"Then the power suddenly went out, and a neighbour came to the door and said we needed to evacuate, so I woke up my three grandchildren and told them to get dressed quickly.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) told AFP that the landslide was a so-called \"quick clay slide\" measuring about 300m by 700m (985ft by 2,300ft).\n\n\"This is the largest landslide in recent times in Norway, considering the number of houses involved and the number of evacuees,\" Laila Hoivik said.\n\nQuick clay is a kind of clay found in Norway and Sweden that can collapse and behave as a fluid when it comes under stress.\n\nBroadcaster NRK said heavy rainfall may have made the soil unstable, but questions have since emerged over why construction was permitted in the area.\n\nA 2005 geological survey labelled the area as at high risk of landslides, according to a report seen by the broadcaster TV2. Despite this, the homes were built three years later in 2008.", "Ontario Premier Doug Ford has announced the resignation of his finance minister who took a trip to the Caribbean while the province remained under lockdown.\n\nMr Ford on Thursday said Mr Phillips' departure showed his government \"takes seriously our obligation to hold ourselves to a higher standard\".\n\nCanada's most populous province has discouraged all non-essential travel amid record-high new case counts.\n\nMr Phillips, who is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party, had taken a personal trip to St Barts on 13 December and returned on Thursday morning.\n\nAhead of the holiday season, Ontario health officials had urged residents to stay at home when possible amid an ongoing rise in Covid-19 cases.\n\nPeople line up on Christmas Day at a Covid test site in Ontario\n\nMr Phillips told reporters when he arrived at Toronto Pearson Airport he hoped to keep his job, but would respect the premier's decision.\n\n\"Obviously, I made a significant error in judgment, and I will be accountable for that,\" Mr Phillips said. \"I do not make any excuses for the fact that I travelled when we shouldn't have travelled.\"\n\nLater on Thursday, Mr Ford said in a statement he had accepted Mr Phillips' resignation following a conversation with him. Mr Ford has asked Peter Bethlenfalvy, currently president of the treasury board, to step into the finance minister role.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Ford had said he learned of Mr Phillips travel two weeks ago, but said the minister \"never told anyone\" he was going to St Barts, according to CBC.\n\nOntario's New Democratic Party leader Andrea Horwath on Wednesday had pushed for Mr Phillip's firing, saying it was unacceptable for him to \"ignore public health advice\" while the government \"demands sacrifice from everyday Ontarians\".\n\n\"It's not believable that a senior member of cabinet didn't tell the premier's office he was leaving the country for weeks during the height of a global emergency,\" she said in a statement. \"If he didn't, that in itself would be enough reason to demote him.\"", "The UK's chief medical officers have defended the Covid vaccination plan, after criticism from a doctors' union.\n\nThe UK will give both parts of the Oxford and Pfizer vaccines 12 weeks apart, having initially planned to leave 21 days between the Pfizer jabs.\n\nThe British Medical Association said cancelling patients booked in for their second doses was \"grossly unfair\".\n\nBut the chief medical officers said getting more people vaccinated with the first jab \"is much more preferable\".\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first jab approved in the UK, and 944,539 people have had their first jab.\n\nThe first person to get the jab on 8 December, Margaret Keenan, has already had her second jab.\n\nPfizer has said it has tested the vaccine's efficacy only when the two vaccines were given up to 21 days apart.\n\nBut the chief medical officers said the \"great majority\" of initial protection came from the first jab.\n\n\"The second vaccine dose is likely to be very important for duration of protection, and at an appropriate dose interval may further increase vaccine efficacy,\" they said.\n\n\"In the short term, the additional increase of vaccine efficacy from the second dose is likely to be modest; the great majority of the initial protection from clinical disease is after the first dose of vaccine.\"\n\nThe decision to delay the second dose has, understandably, caused concern.\n\nThere is some evidence regulators say - at least for the Oxford vaccine - that it will actually boost immunity.\n\nBut for those who are due to get a second dose soon it will undoubtedly be upsetting that they now have to wait.\n\nBut the move is about practicalities. The UK is in the middle of a public health crisis and despite the fact that millions of doses are pre-ordered, there is concern the supply of the vaccine will not be as smooth as everyone would ideally want.\n\nThere is a global demand for these vaccines and there are bound to be times when supply does not meet demand.\n\nSo the logic of the move is that by spreading this thin resource the most widely, it will have the greatest benefit - not only to the vulnerable but to everyone.\n\nLives have been put on hold and livelihoods lost.\n\nThis is the quickest way back to some degree of normality.\n\nEven if it does leave some of the vaccinated susceptible to infection, it should in theory at least protect them from serious illness.\n\nGiven where we are now, the argument is that that is a price worth paying.\n\nAs well as approving the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on Wednesday - the second approved for use in the UK - regulators also said that doctors could wait longer between the two courses.\n\nThis means more people will get the first jab sooner, even if they have to wait longer for their second jab.\n\nExperts advising the government, including the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), said the focus should be on giving at-risk people the first dose of whichever vaccine they receive.\n\nDefending the move, the UK's four chief medical officers - including England's Prof Chris Whitty - said in a statement released on New Year's Eve: \"In terms of protecting priority groups, a model where we can vaccinate twice the number of people in the next two to three months is obviously much more preferable.\"\n\nThey said they recognised that rescheduling second appointments was \"operationally very difficult\" and would \"distress patients who were looking forward to being fully immunised\".\n\nHowever, they said that for every 1,000 patients booked in for a second dose, which will \"gain marginally on protection from severe disease\", that would mean 1,000 more people missing out on \"substantial initial protection\".\n\nThe chief medics said that, while one million people had already been vaccinated, approximately 30 million UK patients and health and social care workers eligible in the first phase \"remain totally unprotected and many are distressed or anxious about the wait for their turn\".\n\nThey added that the JCVI was \"confident\" 12 weeks was a reasonable interval between doses \"to achieve good longer-term protection\".\n\n\"We have to follow public health principles and act at speed if we are to beat this pandemic which is running rampant in our communities, and we believe the public will understand and thank us for this decisive action.\"\n\nEarlier, the BMA's Dr Richard Vautrey said GPs were unhappy they were being asked to cancel appointments that had already been made for second doses.\n\nHe said the BMA would support practices who honour the existing appointments for the follow-up vaccination, calling for the government to do the same.", "The first lorries to transport freight under the new arrangements arrived in Belfast on Friday afternoon\n\nThe first goods have crossed the new trade border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.\n\nThe 'Irish Sea border' is a consequence of Brexit and means that most commercial goods entering NI from GB require a customs declaration.\n\nAbout a dozen lorries arrived on a ferry from Cairnryan in Scotland to Belfast at 14:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nThey were met by officials, with some vehicles directed to new border control posts.\n\nMany food products from GB now have to enter NI through these border posts where they can be inspected by the Department of Agriculture.\n\nThese products also need health certificates, though some of the new certification processes will be phased in over the next three months.\n\nThe UK government also announced a three-month \"grace period\" for parcels, meaning those sent by online retailers will be exempt from customs declarations until at least April.\n\nIt said the grace period was necessary to avoid disruption to deliveries at a time when many shops are closed due to pandemic restrictions.\n\nMeanwhile the secretary of state for Northern Ireland has continued to insist the new range of checks, controls and paperwork is not actually a sea border.\n\nBrandon Lewis tweeted: \"There is no 'Irish Sea Border'. As we have seen today, the important preparations the government and businesses have taken to prepare for the end of the Transition Period are keeping goods flowing freely around the country, including between GB and NI.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Brandon Lewis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTransport companies are not expecting significant volumes of freight over the next few days.\n\nThere has been significant stockpiling ahead of the changes and it may take one or two weeks before freight volumes are at normal seasonal levels.\n\nSome businesses, particularly haulage companies, are anxious about the new IT systems which are necessary for the border to function.\n\nThey have had less than two weeks to familiarise themselves with the new systems.\n\nPolice officers carried out random vehicle checks near Larne Port on New Year's Eve\n\nSeamus Leheny from Logistics UK said: \"With any reconfiguration of supply chains and new systems there will be teething problems and we expect that.\"\n\nThere will be no new processes or checks for the vast majority of goods leaving NI for GB.\n\nThe new arrangements flow from the Northern Ireland Protocol, a deal reached by the UK and EU in 2019.\n\nIts purpose is to prevent a hard land border in Ireland.\n\nThat is achieved by keeping Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods and by having Northern Ireland apply EU customs rules at its ports.\n\nThis will allow goods to flow from NI to the Republic of Ireland and the rest of the EU as they do now, without customs checks or new paperwork.\n\nThe Protocol is opposed by Northern Ireland's unionist parties who fear it will weaken Northern Ireland's position in the UK.\n\nThe arrangement does not change Northern Ireland's constitutional position.\n\nHowever, it does mean a significant new economic barrier within the UK.\n\nUnionist parties fear the sea border will weaken NI's position in the UK\n\nThe UK government has allocated more than £300m for a Trader Support Service to help businesses deal with the new customs arrangements.\n\nThe government is also covering the costs of the new certification requirements for food products.\n\nA Movement Assistance Scheme will pay vets up to £150 to complete the Export Health Certificates which will need to accompany all live animals and products of animal origin entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain.\n\nTrucks pass through a customs post at Dublin Port on Friday morning\n\nThere are also new checks and controls on freight arriving at Dublin Port from GB.\n\nOn Friday morning, the first ferry to arrive in Dublin from Holyhead had about 12 lorries on board.\n\nWhile they all cleared customs checks for the first time without delays, Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney said the change in trading arrangements with the UK would inevitably cause disruption.\n\n\"We have avoided the kind of dramatic disruption of a no trade deal Brexit, but that doesn't mean that things aren't changing very fundamentally, because they are,\" he said.\n\n\"We're now going to see the €80b (£71.2bn) worth of trade across the Irish Sea between Britain and Ireland disrupted by an awful lot more checks and declarations, and bureaucracy and paperwork, and cost and delay.\"\n\nOn Saturday new freight sailings will begin between Rosslare in the Republic of Ireland and Dunkirk in France, allowing cargo to bypass GB and go straight to mainland Europe.\n\nThe six-times weekly service will take 24 hours, which is longer than the \"landbridge\" route via GB.", "A new era has begun for the United Kingdom after it completed its formal separation from the European Union.\n\nThe UK stopped following EU rules at 23:00 GMT, as replacement arrangements for travel, trade, immigration and security co-operation came into force.\n\nBoris Johnson said the UK had \"freedom in our hands\" and the ability to do things \"differently and better\" now the long Brexit process was over.\n\nBut opponents of leaving the EU maintain the country will be worse off.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, whose ambition it is to take an independent Scotland back into the EU, tweeted: \"Scotland will be back soon, Europe. Keep the light on.\"\n\nBBC Europe editor Katya Adler said there was a sense of relief in Brussels that the Brexit process was over, \"but there is regret still at Brexit itself\".\n\nThe first lorries arriving at the borders entered the UK and EU without delay.\n\nOn Friday evening, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps tweeted that border traffic had been \"low due to [the] bank holiday\" but there had been no disruption in Kent as \"hundreds\" of lorries crossed the Channel with a \"small\" number turned back.\n\nSix freight loads travelling from Holyhead in Wales to Ireland had to be turned away due to not having the correct paperwork, the Stena Line ferry and port group said on Friday morning.\n\nBut later on Friday, the group said freight traffic was flowing well through its ports and government customs systems were working well.\n\nIt added that the fall in freight traffic after the Christmas and Brexit stockpiling period meant \"it is too early to draw any conclusions\", but the company remained \"cautiously optimistic that, as freight volumes begin to rise again, we will be able to ensure the continued free movement of goods\".\n\nUK ministers have warned there will be some disruption in the coming days and weeks, as new rules bed in and British firms come to terms with the changes.\n\nBut officials have insisted new border systems are \"ready to go\".\n\nAs the first customs checks were completed after midnight, Eurotunnel spokesman John Keefe said: \"It all went fine, everything's running just as it was before 11pm.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland has different arrangements from other parts of the UK, meaning there will be some customs checks on goods moving between Great Britain and the province.\n\nOn Friday afternoon, the first ferry from Great Britain operating under the terms of Northern Ireland trading protocol docked in Belfast, on schedule at 13:45 GMT.\n\nSeamus Leheny, policy manager at Logistics UK, said six out of the 15 lorries that were on the first ship to arrive into Belfast were brought in for inspection, with one being kept at the port for more than three hours.\n\n\"Inevitably there are going to be teething problems because with such a new, complex system as this there are going to be issues in the first few days,\" he told BBC Radio 4's PM programme.\n\nThe first lorry loads on to the Eurotunnel shuttle after the UK left the single market and customs union\n\nMandy Ridyard, whose aerospace components company makes daily shipments to Northern Ireland, told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme she was \"filling in the same declaration to send goods to the Philippines that I am sending them within the UK\".\n\n\"And obviously that all adds a lot of cost to my business.\"\n\nThe UK officially left the 27-member political and economic bloc on 31 January, three and half years after the UK public voted to leave in the 2016 Brexit referendum.\n\nBut it stuck to the EU's trading rules for 11 months while the two sides negotiated their future economic partnership.\n\nA treaty was finally agreed on Christmas Eve, and became law in the UK on Wednesday.\n\nUnder the new arrangements, UK manufacturers will have tariff-free access to the EU's internal market, meaning there will be no import taxes on goods crossing between Britain and the continent.\n\nBut it does mean more paperwork for businesses and people travelling to EU countries, while there is still uncertainty about what will happen to banking and services.\n\nThe UK and Spain have also reached an agreement meaning the border between Gibraltar and Spain will remain open.\n\nFabian Picardo, Gibraltar's chief minister, said the deal still needed to be formalised, but by abolishing controls between Gibraltar and the EU's passport-free Schengen area, he said it would prevent queues at the border \"which make people's lives a misery and make business difficult\".\n\nIt is a moment that some will regard with huge optimism, others with deep regret.\n\nAnd while this historic move happens at a moment in time, the impact, in some areas, may be less instant or obvious than others - for example, it's expected there'll be relatively little traffic at Dover on the first day of 2021 as new border checks kick in.\n\nNevertheless, significant changes are here - whether on trade, travel, security or immigration - and those changes could well become more apparent in the months ahead.\n\nMr Johnson - who took the UK out of the EU in January six months after becoming prime minister - said it was an \"amazing moment\" for the UK in his New Year message.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, he added that the combination of the Brexit deal and rollout of the Oxford vaccine means \"we are creating the potential trampoline for the national bounceback\".\n\nLord Frost, the UK's chief negotiator, tweeted that Britain had become a \"fully independent country again\".\n\nAnd the deputy chairman of the pro-Brexit European Research Group of Tory backbench MPs, David Jones, told the BBC: \"We can now say clearly Britain is a sovereign and independent state.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut opponents of Brexit say the country will be worse off than it was while it was a member of the EU.\n\nIreland's Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said it was \"not something to celebrate\" and the UK's relationship with Ireland will be different from now on, but \"we wish them well\".\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron said the UK remained a \"friend and ally\", but he added that the choice to leave the EU was \"the child of European malaise and many lies and false promises\".\n\nIn Brussels, there is a sense of relief the Brexit process is over, but there is regret still at Brexit itself.\n\nBasically, the European Union thinks that Brexit makes it - the EU - and the UK weaker.\n\nBut the EU view is this is less bye-bye Britain and more au revoir, because there are so many loose ends between the two sides.\n\nFor example, there are the ongoing practicalities surrounding Gibraltar, the UK is still waiting to find out what access Brussels is going to give its financial services to the single market, there is cooperation on climate change, and there is a reviewal mechanism written into the treaty for every five years.\n\nFor all of those reasons and more, this is not the end of the EU-UK conversation for the foreseeable future.\n\nThe culmination of the Brexit process means major changes in different areas. These include:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Countries around the world welcomed 2021 with fireworks, but crowds were only allowed at some displays\n\nMillions around the world have been seeing out 2020 and marking the start of 2021, although the coronavirus pandemic has forced many celebrations to take place in muted form behind closed doors.\n\nWith lockdowns or other restrictions in place in many countries, would-be New Year partygoers were told to have a quiet night in.\n\nOthers have attended ceremonies or festivals wearing masks or taking other precautions.\n\nIn Tokyo, below, people visited the Kanda Myojin Shrine to offer prayers. The popular Shinto shrine reduced the number of visitors allowed, as Japan faces another wave of Covid-19 infections.\n\nIn Wuhan, China, crowds gathered in the city with balloons and festive outfits to count down to midnight on New Year's Eve.\n\nFireworks lit up the night sky in Taiwan to mark the beginning of 2021, witnessed by thousands of spectators who gathered in the centre of Taipei.\n\nLike this family in Seoul, South Korea, many globally have marked the celebration in a small way and often at home.\n\nIt was a chilly celebration in Yekaterinburg, Russia, as people gathered at the city hall, waving sparklers in the 1905 Square.\n\nWhile in the United Arab Emirates, one of the largest New Year fireworks displays saw spectacular colours light up the sky over the emirate of Ras al-Khaimah.\n\nPyrotechnics also illuminated the sky around the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa, as the clock struck midnight in Dubai.\n\nThe New Year's Eve party at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin is usually one of Europe's biggest street parties. But this year revellers were told to stay at home and watch the fireworks and music performances on TV or online instead.\n\nThese worshippers in Abuja, Nigeria, marked the end of 2020 with a gospel service.\n\nMeanwhile, people in the city of Abidjan in the Ivory Coast were able to watch the fireworks display outside with friends and family.\n\nBut in New York City, just a handful of people were allowed into Times Square to watch confetti rain down and the traditional crystal ball drop.\n\nBrazilian authorities closed Copacabana Beach, in Rio de Janeiro, but that did not stop some people enjoying celebrations.\n\nA fireworks and light show was held across various locations in London. A number of drones filled the sky close to the O2 Arena in East London forming messages referencing the pandemic, including the NHS logo.", "The Archers returned to BBC Radio 4 in May with \"a new style\" forced upon the show by the coronavirus lockdown\n\nBBC Radio 4 will mark 70 years of The Archers with a series of features across its output on Friday.\n\nAs well as broadcasting episode number 19,343 of the world's longest-running serial drama, stars from it will appear on the station's other programmes.\n\nThis will include inserts into Woman's Hour, Farming Today, and a quiz.\n\nThe Archers, set in the fictional village of Ambridge, began in 1951 with the original purpose of educating farmers on modern agricultural methods.\n\nThe show's editor, Jeremy Howe, said its achievements over the years, coming up to the modern day, are incomparable.\n\n\"Almost daily and in real time The Archers has tracked life in the village of Ambridge across years and more than 19,000 episodes,\" he said.\n\n\"No work of fiction or drama can truly compare to that. As I look back on this incredible legacy, I am looking forward to the next 70 years of The Archers.\"\n\nBack in May, The Archers returned to BBC Radio 4 on Monday, with a \"new style\" forced upon the show by the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nLarge cast recordings with interaction between multiple characters were scrapped in favour of monologues recorded at the actors' homes.\n\nThe storyline of Friday's anniversary episode remains a secret, but celebratory programming on Radio 4 on the day will also include a special edition of With Great Pleasure at Christmas, where cast members from the series share their favourite prose and poetry.\n\nHowe, meanwhile, will appear alongside actor Timothy Bentinck (David Archer) and agricultural story advisor Sarah Swadling in an Archers-flavoured edition of Farming Today.\n\nWoman's Hour will focus on the female characters and storylines that have shaped the show.\n\nFinally, on the day, listeners will be invited to head over to The Bull pub - not literally of course - for the The Archers Anniversary Quiz, hosted by landlords Jolene (Buffy Davis) and Kenton Archer (Richard Attlee).\n\nOn Saturday 2 January, historian David Kynaston will then delve into the history of the programme further documentary feature entitled A Social History of The Archers.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Spain has reached a deal with the UK to maintain free movement to and from Gibraltar once the UK formally leaves the EU on Friday.\n\nTo avoid a hard border, Gibraltar will join the EU's Schengen zone and follow other EU rules, while remaining a British Overseas Territory.\n\nThe deal was announced by Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha González Laya, just hours before the UK exits the EU.\n\nThe Rock voted Remain in 2016 and about 15,000 Spanish workers go there daily.\n\n\"With this [agreement], the fence is removed, Schengen is applied to Gibraltar... it allows for the lifting of controls between Gibraltar and Spain,\" said Ms González Laya.\n\nThe Gibraltar deal will mean the EU sending Frontex border guards to facilitate free movement to and from Gibraltar. Their role is planned to last four years.\n\nGibraltarians are British citizens. They elect their own representatives to the territory's parliament, while the British monarch appoints a governor.\n\nThe territory - home to a British military garrison and naval base - is self-governing in all areas except defence and foreign policy.\n\nMs González Laya did not say whether Spanish border guards would eventually be posted at Gibraltar's airport and/or seaport which, under the deal, will be de facto part of the EU's external border.\n\nThe Gibraltar deal would also mean the territory complying with EU fair competition rules in areas such as financial policy, the environment and the labour market, Ms González Laya said.\n\nTwenty-two EU states are in the passport-free Schengen zone, as are Norway, Switzerland, Iceland and Liechtenstein, but the UK has never been in it.\n\nOnce Gibraltar joins it, EU citizens arriving from Spain or another Schengen country will avoid passport checks, while arrivals from the UK will have to go through passport control, as is already the case.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab called Thursday's deal a \"political framework\" to form the basis of a separate treaty with the EU regarding Gibraltar.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why Gibraltar is British - in 60 secs\n\nThe deal does not address the thorny issue of sovereignty. Spain has long disputed British sovereignty over the Rock which was ceded to Britain in 1713 and which is now home to about 34,000 people. The Remain vote there was an overwhelming 96% in the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nThe plan is to have a six-month transition period and then formalise the new arrangements with a treaty.\n\nUnder the current tight Covid rules, there are restrictions on UK citizens arriving via Gibraltar's airport, the UK Foreign Office says.\n\nDominic Raab said \"all sides are committed to mitigating the effects of the end of the [Brexit] Transition Period on Gibraltar, and in particular ensure border fluidity, which is clearly in the best interests of the people living on both sides.\n\n\"We remain steadfast in our support for Gibraltar, and its sovereignty is safeguarded.\"", "Omar Elabdellaoui is receiving treatment in hospital after an accident with a firework\n\nNorway and Galatasaray footballer Omar Elabdellaoui has been injured by a firework during a New Year's Eve celebration.\n\nThe Norwegian vice-captain's club said he was taken to hospital after \"an unfortunate accident at his home\".\n\nHe suffered burns to his face and damage to his eyes, the club said, adding that further tests would assess the extent of his injuries.\n\nThe New Year's Eve incident was one of many involving fireworks in Europe.\n\nIn Elabdellaoui's case, Turkish reports say a firework exploded in the hand of the 29-year-old defender.\n\nTurkish newspaper Hurriyet said the former Manchester City player may have lost vision, without giving further details.\n\nBut in a statement cited by the newspaper, Galatasaray said Elabdellaoui was conscious, in a stable condition and had not undergone surgery.\n\nGalatasaray's manager Fatih Terim and the team captain Arda Turan went to the hospital to visit Elabdellaoui, who joined the club in 2020 from the Greek side Olympiacos FC.\n\nTurkish clubs - including Galatasaray's Turkish Super Lig rivals Fenerbahce, Besiktas and Trabzonspor - took to social media to wish Elabdellaoui a speedy recovery.\n\nTurkish reports say a firework exploded in the hand of 29-year-old Omar Elabdellaoui\n\nElsewhere in Europe, at least four people were killed by fireworks during events to mark the new year.\n\nPolice in Alsace in eastern France said a 25-year-old man died after being hit by a rocket in the village of Boofzheim.\n\nA statement said the device beheaded him and severely injured the face of another young man standing next to him.\n\nA similar incident cost the life of a 28-year-old man in Pulle, a village east of Antwerp in Belgium.\n\nFireworks exploded over Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate to usher in the new year\n\nMeanwhile in Italy's north-western province of Asti, a 13-year-old boy died shortly after midnight of injuries to his abdomen caused by a firecracker.\n\nThere were fireworks casualties in Germany as well. In the state of Brandenburg, police said a 24-year-old man died after setting alight \"self-made pyrotechnics\" while a 63-year-old man lost his hand when handling a firecracker.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Countries around the world welcomed 2021 with fireworks, but crowds were only allowed at some displays\n\nInjuries and deaths from fireworks are not unknown over the New Year period. But fewer public fireworks displays than usual were held on New Year's Eve 2020, as coronavirus restrictions placed limits on gatherings worldwide.\n\nSome European countries had moved to limit the use of fireworks ahead of 31 December, with Germany imposing a ban on the sale of pyrotechnics.", "Rachael Powell is \"angry and upset\" about her daughter Emmeline missing out during lockdown Image caption: Rachael Powell is \"angry and upset\" about her daughter Emmeline missing out during lockdown\n\nNew parents missing baby classes and playdates due to lockdown say their children's development has been hit by the impact of coronavirus.\n\nWhen Rachael Powell's one-year-old daughter Emmeline met her grandparents for the first time she \"absolutely screamed the place down\" as she \"didn't know who they were\".\n\n\"I was really looking forward to going to coffee shops, meeting other mums and going to baby classes and then everything stopped,\" says the 39-year-old from Greater Manchester.\n\n\"I felt guilty that she didn't get any of that and have that interaction.\"\n\nEducation consultant and child psychologist Paul Kelly says Covid is having a \"massive impact\" on babies.\n\n\"We are social creatures, social beings - it is pre-programmed in our brains,\" he says. \"When children's brains are stimulated, they grow.\"\n\nDr Kelly says there is also an impact on parents, who are missing out on \"mutual support\".\n\nHe says people should \"grab what they can, when they can\" during these uncertain times and focus on \"how you can enhance [your baby's] development... rather than spending time thinking about how your child might be behind\".", "The number of people being treated in Scotland's hospitals for coronavirus has reached another record daily high.\n\nLatest Scottish government figures show a total of 1,596 people are in hospital with recently confirmed Covid.\n\nThis is up from Friday's figure of 1,530 patients.\n\nThe deaths of a further 93 people who had tested positive for the virus have been recorded in the past 24 hours, the same tally as Friday which was the highest daily figure of the pandemic.\n\nIt is the second day in a row there has been a record figure for Covid hospital patients.\n\nOf the 1,596 people in hospital, a total of 109 are in intensive care, up seven on Friday's figure.\n\nNational clinical director Prof Jason Leitch said Scotland's hospitals were \"very busy and fragile\" but coping so far.\n\nHe said: \"People should not be worried we have reached capacity but the best way of getting those numbers down is to reduce the prevalence of the virus.\"\n\nProf Leitch said the NHS could create more intensive care capacity if needed but \"all of that has a cost in what we won't be able to do\" elsewhere in the health service.\n\nThe NHS Louisa Jordan temporary hospital in Glasgow can be used to care for the sickest of Covid patients if the spike in admissions continues, but officials are trying to avoid this \"if we can manage without it\", Prof Leitch added.\n\nThis is because it is better for patients and staff for Covid patients to be in traditional intensive care units, he explained.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has described the latest Covid figures as \"a big concern\".\n\nOn Twitter, she said: \"Covid case numbers still a big concern and putting huge pressure on the NHS, as hospital and ICU cases increase.\n\n\"Also, 93 further deaths remind us just how dangerous the virus can be - my thoughts are with all those grieving.\"]\n\nThe Scottish government data shows a further 1,865 new cases of Covid have been reported in the last 24 hours, down from the 2,309 cases reported on Friday.\n\nHowever, the daily test positivity rate is 8.7%, up from 8.1% on the previous day.\n\nThis breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.\n\nYou can receive Breaking News on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts.", "North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said US policy towards his country would \"never change\"\n\nNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said the US is his country's \"biggest enemy\" and that he does not expect Washington to change its policy toward Pyongyang - whoever is president.\n\nAddressing a rare congress of his ruling Workers' Party, Mr Kim also pledged to expand North Korea's nuclear weapons arsenal and military potential.\n\nHe said that plans for a nuclear submarine were almost complete.\n\nHis comments come as US President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take office.\n\nAnalysts suggest Mr Kim's remarks are an effort to apply pressure on the incoming government, with Mr Biden set to be sworn in on 20 January.\n\nMr Kim enjoyed a warm rapport with outgoing US President Donald Trump, even if little concrete progress was made on negotiations over North Korea's nuclear programme.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn his latest address to the Workers' Party - only the eighth congress in its history - Mr Kim said Pyongyang did not intend to use its nuclear weapons unless \"hostile forces\" were planning to use them against North Korea first.\n\nHe said the US was his country's \"biggest obstacle for our revolution and our biggest enemy... no matter who is in power, the true nature of its policy against North Korea will never change,\" state news agency KCNA reported.\n\nHis speech outlined a list of desired weapons including long-range ballistic missiles capable of being launched from land or sea and \"super-large warheads\".\n\nNorth Korea has managed to significantly advance its arsenal despite being subject to strict economic sanctions.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Kim admitted that his five-year economic plan for the isolated country failed to meet its targets in \"almost every sector\".\n\nNorth Korea closed its borders last January to prevent Covid from entering the country.\n\nIts authorities say the country has not had a single Covid case since the pandemic began but experts say this is highly unlikely due to North Korea's cross-border trade with China.\n\nTrade with China has plummeted by about 80%. Typhoons and floods have devastated homes and crops in North Korea, which remains under strict international sanctions, including over its nuclear programme.\n\nThe speech is likely to be Mr Kim's way of setting the stage for talks with President-elect Joe Biden who will take office in less than two weeks' time.\n\nThe aim is perhaps to put pressure on Washington to show that Pyongyang has no intention of being cowed by sanctions and will continue to expand its nuclear arsenal.\n\nMr Kim had three summits with Donald Trump - but they failed to reach a deal. However, North Korea is in a difficult and bleak economic position caused by strict sanctions, border blockades to prevent the spread of Covid-19 and devastating floods.\n\nThis message may seem threatening, but some analysts believe that there is still room for diplomacy.", "Jessica Allen (left) and Eliza Moore are now sticking to walks nearer their homes\n\nA police force that was criticised for its \"intimidating\" approach to two walkers is to review its lockdown fines policy.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore said they were surrounded by police after driving five miles from their home for a walk on Wednesday, and fined £200 each.\n\nDerbyshire Police initially said driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of lockdown.\n\nBut it now says new national guidelines mean it will review its position.\n\nIn a statement, the force said all of its fixed penalties issued during the new national lockdown will be reviewed.\n\nMs Allen, from Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire, said she assumed \"someone had been murdered\" when she arrived at Foremark Reservoir on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nWhen she and her friend were questioned by police, they were also told by officers the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nShe said: \"The next thing, my car is surrounded. I got out of my car thinking 'There's no way they're coming to speak to us'. Straight away they start questioning us.\n\n\"I said we had come in separate cars, even parked two spaces away and even brought our own drinks with us. He said 'You can't do that as it's classed as a picnic'.\"\n\nMs Allen said the experience was \"very intimidating\" and had left her feeling scared of police in general.\n\nForemark Reservoir is five miles away from where Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore live\n\nHer friend, Ms Moore, said she was \"stunned at the time\" so did not challenge police and gave her details so they could send a fixed penalty notice.\n\nAt the time Derbyshire Police said that driving to a location to exercise \"is clearly not in the spirit of the national effort to reduce our travel, reduce the possible spread of the disease and reduce the number of deaths\".\n\nThe force added: \"Where there are cases of blatant breaches of the regulations then fines will be issued by officers.\"\n\nDerbyshire Police has also been giving fixed penalty notices to people who visit Calke Abbey and Elvaston Castle.\n\nFixed penalty notices have been given to people who visit Calke Abbey, a National Trust property\n\nBut in a statement, the force said further guidance issued by the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) had \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nThe NPCC added that rather than issue fines for people who travel out of their local area \"but are not breaching regulations, officers will encourage people to follow the guidance\".\n\nThe force has now said it will be \"aligning to adhere to this stance\".\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Kem Mehmet said: \"We are grateful for the guidance from the NPCC.\n\n\"The actions of our officers continues to be to protect the public, the NHS and to help save lives.\"\n\nIt is not the first time the force has been accused of being overzealous in enforcing alleged lockdown breaches.\n\nIn the country's first lockdown in March the use of a drone to film people walking in the Peak District was labelled \"nanny policing\".\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Andy Stonely is not eligible for the UK government Covid support scheme\n\nA father who has lived on Universal Credit since the Covid-19 pandemic started has called on the UK government to be \"more flexible\" with its support.\n\nDriving instructor and dad-of-three Andy Stonely is not eligible for the government's Covid support scheme.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses Wales has also asked for changes ahead of the next round of grants.\n\nThe Treasury said its Self-Employment Income Support Scheme was \"one of the most generous in the world\".\n\nThis scheme requires claimants to show accounts for the 2018-19 year as well as 2019-20.\n\nHowever, Mr Stonely from Newport hasn't been self-employed for long enough to qualify - so the 35-year-old has had to rely on financial support from his parents.\n\n\"I count myself somewhat lucky because I have been able to claim for Universal Credit,\" he said.\n\n\"But obviously it's minimal and luckily through the help of parents I've been able to keep afloat.\n\n\"It's been tough. It would have been ideal if the government was just slightly more flexible.\"\n\nMr Stonely, who hasn't been able to work for much of the past year due to lockdown restrictions, said Universal Credit was worth \"less than half\" of his normal earnings.\n\nDriving school firm owner Gareth Denny said almost a quarter of his drivers can't claim Covid help\n\nThe coronavirus crisis forced his wife to give up her job to look after their three children, aged three, six and 17, when Mr Stonely was able to work for a short period at the end of the initial lockdown period.\n\nAsked how much longer his family could sustain itself if the current restrictions continue, Mr Stonely told the BBC's Politics Wales show: \"Not too much longer… we're going to be in a very tough situation.\"\n\nMr Stonely is part of a local driving school franchise managed by Gareth Denny, who said 11 of his 43 instructors were in this position.\n\n\"If you imagine that somebody lives their life to their income and suddenly there's absolutely no income to pay their mortgage and their bills, Universal Credit simply doesn't pay most people's mortgage,\" Mr Denny said.\n\nRecent research commissioned by the Community and Prospect trade unions and the Federation of Small Businesses found 53% of self-employed people across the UK had lost more than 60% of their income since the pandemic began.\n\nIn addition, 64% of people said they were now either \"unsure\" or \"less likely\" to want to be self-employed or freelance in the future.\n\n\"These are normal people who have mortgages, families to support, who've just had to fund a Christmas for the families,\" said Ben Francis of Federation of Small Businesses Wales.\n\n\"All those bills are now mounting up the other side of Christmas, and after having an already extremely difficult 12 months, they've now got to see how they manage through the months ahead.\n\n\"We would ask UK government to be flexible in their approach to verifying the statuses of these newly self-employed businesses.\"\n\nThe Community union warns with small businesses \"struggling to get back on their feet\", more people will leave self-employment.\n\nAll non-essential businesses shut in Wales just before Christmas\n\n\"That will be a disaster for our economy, for local economies, for their livelihoods and their families,\" said Kate Dearden of Community.\n\n\"This section of the UK workforce plays a fundamental role and should be properly supported to continue to do so.\"\n\nThe Treasury has already committed to extending the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme until April 2021, although the eligibility criteria for the next round of grants is yet to be published.\n\nA spokesman said the scheme had \"helped more than 2.7 million people so far, claiming over £13.7bn\".\n\nHe added: \"Funding is designed to target those who need it most and protect the taxpayer against fraud and abuse.\n\n\"Those not eligible may still be able to access our loans schemes, tax deferrals, mortgage holidays and business support grants.\"\n• None What extra help will the self-employed get?", "The US is reeling after supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC on the day Congress was meeting to confirm Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nLawmakers were forced to take shelter, the building was put into lockdown and four people died in the chaos that followed a pro-Trump rally near the White House.\n\nHere's a breakdown of how events unfolded on Wednesday.\n\nJust before midday local time (17:00 GMT) thousands of people gather at the Ellipse, near the White House, to hear the president speak at a \"Save America\" rally.\n\nHe tells them: \"We're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue... and we're going to the Capitol and we're going to try and give… our Republicans, the weak ones... the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.\"\n\nAs the speech ends, crowds start to drift towards the Congress building, about a mile and a half away, where they are met by police barriers.\n\nThe Capitol is home to the two chambers of the US government that make up Congress - the House of Representatives and the Senate.\n\nChanting crowds start to gather on both sides of the building at around 13:10, grappling with police at the metal barricades.\n\nTear gas and pepper spray are used to try to keep the protesters at bay.\n\nPolice officers struggle to maintain control of the situation as protesters advance on the building on multiple fronts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nOn the east side, the crowd force their way through barricades on the Capitol Plaza and move on the main entrance, quickly gaining access to the Great Rotunda.\n\nOnce inside, they head for the House and Senate chambers.\n\nIgor Bobic, a journalist for the Huffington Post, captures a group of men forcing a police officer to retreat up a set of stairs as they continue their advance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Igor Bobic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenators are forced to abandon the process of confirming President-elect Biden's victory and the building goes into lockdown.\n\nThe doors of the House chamber are locked and a makeshift barricade is erected in front of them. Security officials guard the entrance, guns drawn.\n\nWithin an hour, protesters have also broken police lines on the west side of the Capitol, scaling walls to reach the building itself before smashing windows and forcing doors open.\n\nOther videos and images show rioters storming through the building's ornately-decorated corridors and chambers chanting \"USA!\" and \"Stop the steal\".\n\nShortly before 15:00, gunshots are reportedly heard inside the building.\n\nPhotos and video footage later show a female protester being shot as she tries to break through the barricaded doors of the Speakers' Lobby.\n\nDespite efforts by police and others at the scene to save her, she is later reported to have died.\n\nOn the other side of the building, protesters break into the Senate chamber, one taking seat in the Speaker's chair.\n\nAnother protester is photographed nearby sitting in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, with his foot on the table.\n\nAfter growing condemnation of the riots, President Trump eventually calls for calm, telling the protesters to leave peacefully: \"Go home. We love you, you're very special.\"\n\nBy 17:40, the building is cleared and made secure ahead of the 18:00 curfew ordered by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.\n\nSeveral thousand National Guard troops, FBI agents and US Secret Service are deployed to help.\n\nMore than six hours after the storming of the building, senators return and resume the day's business of certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.\n\nAt 03:41 on Thursday, Congress confirms President-elect Joe Biden will succeed President Trump on 20 January.", "Vincent Kane - pictured with his grandson Sonny - is facing uncertainty about his operation\n\nThe son of a man with pancreatic cancer has said the last-minute cancellation of his surgery has been \"devastating\".\n\nJodie Kane said his father Vincent was due to have his operation on Friday.\n\nHowever, that procedure was cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust on Tuesday as the worsening coronavirus crisis increases the pressure on hospitals.\n\nThe trust apologised, saying it had faced an 80% rise in the number of patients with Covid-19 admitted to hospitals since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan Show, Jodie said that there was now \"no guarantee\" his 68-year-old father would get the treatment.\n\n\"To be told we had the chance of a very successful surgery on offer and then to have it taken away at the last minute is pretty devastating,\" he said.\n\n\"Even the surgeon himself said they would be concerned if it was to go on more than four weeks.\n\n\"There is an uncertainty hanging over us now that we don't know when he'll actually get that surgery or what the impact on his health is going to be.\"\n\nVincent Kane - pictured with his with wife Karen - has been suffering other health issues arising from his cancer\n\nVincent, from Newtownards, County Down, did not receive treatment for some of his other symptoms as it was planned that the surgery would help with those.\n\n\"Because they were hoping to get him straight into surgery he hasn't had the blockage in his gall bladder addressed so he's jaundiced, he's covered in a rash, can't sleep, he's lost a lot of weight,\" Jodie said.\n\n\"Undoubtedly there are people worse off than us out there but it is still a critical illness that he has got and it is one that we don't have an end in sight for, in terms of treatment.\n\n\"There must be a way of helping all those in need, or I suppose if you were being really honest about it those who stand the best chance of surviving - making the decisions for the benefit of them.\n\n\"There's no guarantee that in six weeks' time surgery is going to be an option because who knows what's going to happen with Covid?\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it had to reduce the number of ill patients on wards to protect them from coronavirus\n\nJodie called on those who were breaking Covid-19 regulations to think about the the \"direct and indirect impacts\" of their actions.\n\n\"We've every sympathy for anyone who has a loved one who needs [intensive] care because of Covid but cancer and Covid are both life-and-death situations.\n\n\"We can minimise the risks of one of them as a collective society just by taking the necessary precautions.\n\n\"It could be someone they love or their neighbour or someone in their community that's in the same situation as us in the very near future.\"\n\nFlo McClements, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in December, found out on Tuesday that her surgery - scheduled for Thursday - had been cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle, her son Gregg said the pressure was \"mounting day by day\" on the the 72-year-old from Ballymoney, County Antrim.\n\n\"She had waited all through Christmas for the date and due to the Covid-19 restrictions we as a family had stayed away from her,\" he added.\n\nFlo McClements' family wants to \"give her a hug\" after her operation was cancelled\n\n\"We left her on her own with my dad just to make sure she didn't catch Covid and risk the operation.\n\n\"When you get the date you like to think it's the next step to recovery but unfortunately that didn't happen.\"\n\nGregg said his mother was \"putting on a brave face\" but it was difficult for the family to not be with her in person during what was a difficult time.\n\n\"That's actually the hardest part that we can't go up and have a cup of tea with her or give her a hug to make her feel a bit better even for a few minutes.\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it \"would like to sincerely apologise\" to those affected by the postponement of surgeries.\n\nIt said the decision was taken to reduce the number of ill patients on wards that would be more at risk from the virus than others.\n\n\"This was an incredibly difficult decision to make and we did not take it without considering all the information available to us,\" said the trust.\n\n\"We do not underestimate the anxiety and distress this causes the patients and families affected and we deeply regret this.\n\nIt said it would do \"everything in our power\" to reschedule their operations \"as soon as possible\".", "The company offered to pay surgeries a £5,000 charitable donation \"or to the staff member directly\" in emails\n\nThe Hacking Trust's medical division approached surgeries in Bristol and Worthing offering to pay the money to charity \"or the staff member directly\".\n\nRobyn Clark, from the Institute of General Practice Management, said it was \"just appalling\".\n\nThe company, based in London, has apologised, saying its \"good intentions\" were \"misinterpreted\".\n\nNHS England said people \"will rightly take a dim view of anyone who tries to jump the queue\".\n\n\"The NHS is free at the point of access for everyone who needs it,\" said Mrs Clark.\n\n\"What we felt this company was trying to do was jump the queue.\"\n\nThe Bristol-based manager said she worried it could \"create more health inequality\".\n\nShe said: \"The JCVI [Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation] is trying to prioritise the vaccine based on the vulnerability to Covid.\"\n\nThe e-mail sent to the GP surgery in Worthing said The Hacking Trust was aware that \"many appointments\" for vaccinations are not kept, and that it would be interested in being informed of \"any no-shows\".\n\nA donation of £5,000 would be paid to a staff member or given to charity for each dose it could secure, the e-mail said.\n\nIn a statement, the Battersea-based company said it \"offered charitable donations to staff or surgeries in this difficult time for any vaccines which were unused\".\n\nIt added: \"We had heard that some vaccines were being unused due to missed appointments. We would apologise that our good intentions have been misinterpreted.\"\n\nNHS England said it knew \"these particular emails were received across the country\".\n\nDr Nikki Kanani, GP and NHS medical director for primary care, said hundreds of NHS teams across the country were \"working hard to deliver vaccines quickly to those who would benefit most\".\n\n\"NHS staff will never ask for, or accept, cash for vaccines,\" she said.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said vaccinations were available from the NHS \"for free\" and \"cannot be sold privately in the UK\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA nurse felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued at her hospital's A&E department - in the Welsh region currently hardest hit by Covid deaths.\n\nTo date Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board, which runs Royal Glamorgan Hospital, has reported 1,091 deaths of patients with coronavirus.\n\nBBC Wales was granted access to A&E at the hospital in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nSenior doctor Amanda Farrow said the whole hospital had faced \"unrelenting\" pressure last Saturday.\n\nSarah Fogarasy was the senior nurse on duty as 13 ambulances queued up outside her A&E department\n\nSenior A&E nurse Sarah Fogarasy, who was on shift as the ambulances arrived, said there was no capacity at the unit - a situation that left her wanting \"to leave\".\n\n\"We had to escalate it to our site manager and deputy head of nursing who were liaising with the executive team on call,\" she said.\n\n\"And then it got to 13 patients outside - I had no capacity in this unit, no resuscitation capacity, no capacity to put a patient on CPAP [continuous positive airway pressure] should they require that and no physical areas to put a patient in.\n\nOn Saturday, 13 ambulances queued outside the hospital's A&E department\n\nShe said she found it hard to keep going.\n\n\"This bit makes me quite emotional… for the first time I was sat trying to coordinate this department and I had that overwhelming fear that I just wanted to leave,\" Ms Fogarasy continued.\n\n\"I was just - 'I'm done. I'm done with this'... and it's scary, it fills you full of fear when you have got 13 ambulances outside, queuing around the carpark. Where do you go from that?\"\n\nShe said it was the team that kept her going: \"I started looking around to all the staff working tirelessly and just trying to remember what we're here for and why I became a nurse.\n\n\"I know it sounds soppy but it's literally the humanitarian effort that has gone into [fighting] this pandemic that has kept people going.\n\n\"It's the sheer determination and guts of the staff working in these times that is so powerful, that keeps the shift going.\"\n\nEmergency Medicine Consultant Amanda Farrow said it was a \"very emotional time for everyone\"\n\nDr Farrow, emergency medicine consultant, said staffing and bed numbers were of particular concern.\n\n\"In the emergency department the challenge we have is with regards to flow, so that is our daily challenge,\" she explained.\n\n\"And we say it's like playing a game of Tetris trying to work out which patient you can put where.\"\n\nStaff reported feeling overwhelmed as they work through the second Covid wave\n\nShe said the second wave of the virus had also seen more staff off sick with Covid and isolating - with some becoming very ill.\n\n\"We've had staff in as patients and one of my colleagues - I saw them when they were critically ill and ended up going to intensive care,\" continued Dr Farrow.\n\n\"So it's very emotional time for everyone as well you know, looking after the sick patients and looking after your colleagues.\n\n\"There's a level of anxiety still around - will you be the next person to get this disease?\"\n\nShe said although fewer people were attending A&E, they were seeing more people arriving by ambulance and presenting with more complex needs.\n\n\"The group of patients we are seeing this time I think is different, we're definitely having more younger people with Covid that are becoming sick, the volume is very high in the community.\n\n\"I think people are afraid of come into the hospital as well, so there are still quite a lot of patients who leave it maybe a bit too late before they're seeking hospital attention.\"\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, Helen Whatmore said she was extremely grateful to staff\n\nHelen Whatmore, 45, from Beddau, has been hospital since early December after developing Covid symptoms.\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, she said she had been unwell in February so assumed she had already caught the virus.\n\n\"I honestly didn't believe it was as bad until I caught [Covid] this time,\" she said.\n\n\"This time it's absolutely knocked the socks off me. It's nearly killed me.\n\n\"A friend of mine passed away as I came into hospital and I came down very rapidly with Covid, kidney problems and pneumonia.\"\n\nShe said she was grateful for the care she had received: \"The nurses are coming in [working] all shifts, they're fighting for your loved ones, from the time they enter right until the time they leave, then they're changing over and doing the same again.\n\n\"People are passing away… how much more have they got to do? We're asking them to protect our children and our families. Why are we not protecting them ourselves? Saving our families and our own children.\"", "People in England are being told to act like they have got Covid as part of a government advertising campaign aimed at tackling the rise in infections.\n\nBoris Johnson said the public should \"stay at home\" and not get complacent.\n\nOn Friday 1,325 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were recorded in the UK - the highest daily figure yet - along with 68,053 new cases.\n\nGovernment sources say there is likely to be more focus from police on enforcing rather than explaining rules.\n\n\"With over 1,000 people dying yesterday it's more important than ever everyone sticks to rules,\" a source told the BBC.\n\nAs cases and deaths soar, the government is releasing its advertising campaign, which will be shared across television, radio, newspapers and on social media.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, says in the advert: \"Vaccines give clear hope for the future, but for now we must all stay home, protect the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson says hospitals are \"under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic\", with infection rates increasing at an \"alarming rate\" across the country and the NHS under \"severe strain\".\n\nIt comes after London's mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of coronavirus was \"out of control\" as he declared a \"major incident\" in the capital on Friday.\n\nSuch an incident is an emergency that requires the implementation of special arrangements by one or all of the emergency services, the NHS or the local authority.\n\nIt means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response.\n\nWhile the government seeks to reinforce its \"stay at home\" message, some police forces have faced criticism for their approaches to tackling potential breaches of coronavirus restrictions.\n\nDerbyshire Police has said it will review fixed penalties issued during the new national lockdown after two women were ordered to pay £200 each after driving five miles from their home for a walk on Wednesday.\n\nSusan Michie, a professor of health psychology at University College London, said \"more support and enablement\" was needed for people to adhere to the regulations, for example support to help people self-isolate, rather than punishment.\n\nProf Michie, who sits on a subcommittee of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, also said the current restrictions were \"too lax\".\n\n\"When you look at the data, it shows that almost 90% of people are overwhelmingly adhering to the rules despite the fact that we're also seeing more people out and about,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nHowever, she said in comparison to the first lockdown last spring the restrictions were less strict, with more people allowed to go out to work and children's nurseries open, meaning public transport is busier.\n\nThe number of people travelling by public transport in London has decreased since the latest national lockdown began, with tube journeys now at 18% pre-pandemic demand and bus journeys at 30%, according to figures from Transport for London.\n\nHowever, during the first lockdown passenger numbers fell below 10% at some points.\n\nProf Michie added that the winter season posed extra challenges because the virus survives longer in the cold and people spend more time indoors, where the virus can spread more easily.\n\nCombined with the more transmissible new variant, she said \"we should have a stricter rather than less strict lockdown than we had back in March\".\n\nDr Adam Kucharski, another scientist advising the government and an associate professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said that because the new variant was more transmissible \"each interaction we have has become riskier than it was before\".\n\n\"So even if we went back to that kind of last spring level of reduction in contacts we couldn't be confident that we would see the same effect that we saw last year because of this increased transmission,\" he said.\n\nEngland, much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland continue to be under strict national measures, with stay-at-home orders in place for most people.\n\nThere is considerable concern in government about the continued spread of the virus.\n\nNo 10 believes more needs to be done to emphasise how severe the current situation is - which is why we are getting some very stark warnings from the medical experts.\n\nMinisters continue to praise the public - but there is also more emphasis on people taking the rules seriously, as was the case last spring when the first lockdown was imposed.\n\nThe prime minister warns people against complacency, saying: \"Your compliance is now more vital than ever\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Staff at Portsmouth's Queen Alexandra Hospital are struggling to cope with an increase in the number of Covid-19 patients\n\nLatest figures from Public Health England reveal the coronavirus infection rate in London has exceeded 1,000 per 100,000 people.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 30 Londoners has coronavirus.\n\nLondon councils have urged places of worship to close and the bishop of London Sarah Mullally said churches should \"consider the seriousness of the situation\" before holding in person services this weekend.\n\nDr Simon Walsh, an emergency care doctor in London, told BBC Breakfast all London hospitals had \"effectively been working in major incident mode for the last couple of weeks\".\n\n\"Most hospitals have expanded their intensive care capacity to somewhere in the region of three times their normal capacity. Obviously we don't have three times the number of staff so our staff are being spread more thinly,\" he said.\n\nHospitals in other parts of the UK are also under pressure.\n\nIn Wales, senior A&E nurse Sarah Fogarasy said she felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued at Royal Glamorgan Hospital last Saturday, with no capacity at the unit.\n\nAnd Dr Justin Varney, director of public health in Birmingham, said he was \"very worried\" about the situation in the city, where hospital bosses have warned they don't have enough intensive care nurses to deal with the growing case load.\n\nHe warned the NHS had still not seen the impact of the rise in cases following the relaxation of restrictions over Christmas \"so it is going to get a lot, lot worse unless we really get this under control\".", "Marks & Spencer has temporarily stopped selling hundreds of items in its Northern Ireland stores due to Brexit red tape.\n\nThe retailer said it feared its food would be blocked due to new rules governing shipments between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nA growing number of firms have spoken out about paperwork delays at ports.\n\nThe government said traders and hauliers need to take steps to comply with new border rules.\n\nM&S took the decision to temporarily drop hundreds of products, including chocolate fudge pudding and sweet and sour chicken, from its Northern Ireland stores after it saw competitors' lorries barred from travelling between the mainland and Northern Ireland.\n\nAn entire consignment in a lorry can be held up if only one item in the truck doesn't have the correct customs forms filled out.\n\nThe retailer said it aimed to get the products back up for sale soon.\n\nAn M&S spokesperson said: \"We have served customers in Northern Ireland for over 50 years and our priority is to make sure we continue to deliver the same choice and great quality range that our loyal customers have always enjoyed.\n\n\"Stores have been receiving regular deliveries this week, however following the UK's recent departure from the EU, we are transitioning to new processes and we're working closely with our partners and suppliers to ensure customers can continue to enjoy a great range of products.\"\n\nIn addition to problems shipping goods internally in the UK, the new Brexit trade rules are creating problems for exporters and traders transporting goods to and from the EU, say firms.\n\nThe UK sealed a trade deal with the European Union (EU) on 24 December that was billed as preserving its zero-tariff and zero-quota access to the bloc's single market.\n\nBut in addition to red tape causing delays, major retailers that use the UK as a distribution hub for European business could face possible tariffs if they re-export goods to the EU.\n\nOn Friday, M&S chief executive Steve Rowe warned of more red tape and a rise in export costs to some countries.\n\n\"The best example I can give you of that is Percy Pig,\" he said,\n\n\"Percy Pig is actually manufactured in Germany. If it comes to the UK and we then send it to Ireland, in theory it would have some tax on it,\" he added.\n\nM&S said it was \"actively working to mitigate\" the effects of the \"rules of origin\" regulations, under which products are taxed differently depending on which country they come from.\n\nOther firms have also been hit by the confusion caused by new Brexit trading rules.\n\nParcels giant DPD has suspended some services, while seafood exporter John Ross said the chaos was like being \"thrown in the cold Atlantic without a lifejacket\".\n\nShane Brennan, chief executive of the Cold Chain Federation, which represents chilled transport and storage companies, said the emerging problems had come despite the amount of cross-border traffic still being quite low.\n\n\"Trade flows are still only about 50% of what we would expect, but even at those levels we are seeing levels of confusion and delays,\" he told the BBC's Today programme. \"The feeling is we are building to quite a significant potential disruption.\"\n\nA government spokesman acknowledged that there had been \"some issues\", but said ministers had always been clear there would be some disruption at the end of the transition period.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said in a statement that the volume of border crossings had been low so far this year, but that it expected crossings to steadily increase to normal levels.\n\nThis brings the potential for \"significant disruption if traders and hauliers have not taken the necessary steps to comply with the new rules,\" the Cabinet Office said.\n\nOut of about 1,500 lorries per day trying to get from Great Britain to the EU in the new year, 700 have been turned away - mainly due to a lack of a negative Covid test for drivers, it said.\n\n\"We have always been clear there would be changes now that we are out of the customs union and single market, so full compliance with the new rules is vital to avoid disruption,\" said Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove.\n\nHowever, anger is growing among companies whose livelihoods depend on export trade.\n\nIn a letter on Friday to Business Secretary Alok Sharma, Scottish salmon producer John Ross Jr launched a stinging attack on the government's handling of the situation.\n\nThe firm's sales director, Victoria Leigh-Pearson, wrote that the company had in recent months \"had to endure the government issuing a barrage of useless information\" and an \"absence of factually correct information from all government agencies.\" It amounted, she said, to \"gross incompetence\".\n\nJohn Ross exports to 36 countries and has won the Queen's Award twice\n\nPart of the letter to Alok Sharma:\n\nAs I write, perishable goods that were dispatched from our facility five days ago, headed for France following a process that your department advised, have still not crossed the border. This usually takes only 24 hours because they are consolidated with the produce of other companies, which have not been able to follow the correct procedures due to a knowledge gap directly attributable to your department.\n\nEntire trucks are currently being rejected without explanation by the French customs authority. Our hauliers have now pulled their services as such a backlog has been created. Other hauliers are not taking on new customers. Today, we've even had confirmation that the IT systems of the UK and France are incompatible. After four years you only establish this now?\n\nYour so-called 'deal' is worthless if this situation is not fixed immediately, and unless you put in place measures to address the issues that continue to unfold on a daily basis. Moreover, as a seafood exporter, it feels as though our own government has thrown us into the cold Atlantic waters without a lifejacket.\n\nJohn Ross is not the only Scottish seafood exporter suffering. The industry says it has been hit by a \"perfect storm\" of Brexit disruption, which could sink a centuries-old industry.\n\n\"These businesses are not transporting toilet rolls or widgets. They are exporting the highest quality, perishable seafood which has a finite window to get to markets in peak condition,\" said Donna Fordyce, chief executive of Seafood Scotland.\n\n\"If the window closes, these consignments go to landfill.\"\n\nShe said the sector has already been weakened by Covid-19, the closure of the French border before Christmas as well as \"layer upon layer\" of problems associated with Brexit.\n\nThe group fears that without exports, the fishing fleet will have little reason to go out.\n\n\"In a very short time, we could see the destruction of a centuries-old market which contributes significantly to the Scottish economy,\" added Ms Fordyce.\n\nUK government Minister for Scotland David Duguid blamed Scottish leaders for the issues.\n\n\"The Scottish Government has persistently refused to accept the democratic vote to leave the EU, but that does not allow them to abdicate their responsibilities to Scottish businesses,\" he said.\n\n\"Over the past 18 months they have assured the fishing industry that the systems they were putting in place would be adequate. They clearly are not.\"\n\nParcel delivery service DPD UK said it had paused its European Road Service because of the '\"increased burden\" of customs paperwork for packages heading to the EU, including the Republic of Ireland.\n\nDPD said 20% of parcels had \"incorrect or incomplete data attached\", which meant they would have to be returned.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What Brexit means for Britons travelling, shopping, studying or owning properties in the EU.\n\nIn an email to its business customers, the company said that it had been a \"challenging few days\" for its international operation, and that it would \"pause and review\" its service. It plans to restart on 13 January.\n\n\"It has now become evident that we have an increased burden with the new, more complex processes, and additional customs data we require from you for your parcels destined to Europe\" the firm wrote.\n\nThe boss of one of Wales' largest hauliers said logistical problems have emerged at the Irish border too.\n\nAndrew Kinsella, managing director of Gwynedd Shipping, said his company has a backlog of 60 lorries waiting to be shipped to Dublin.\n\nHe said many hauliers are finding that their customers are not able to generate the special declarations that are needed to ultimately enable a lorry to get onto a ferry.\n\n\"Whilst you don't see queues at ports and terminals the reality is that these queues are developing elsewhere in our depot in Holyhead, in our depot in Deeside and in our depot in Newport in South Wales, and lots of hauliers have depots in the proximity of ports,\" he said.\n\n\"There are a lot of issues about demarcation about who is going to arrange the export declaration with the UK revenue authorities, who's going to arrange the import declaration, the hauliers then trying to arrange the import safety and security declaration to create an ENS number which helps you generate a PBN number so there has been a lot of everyone finding their feet\".\n\nCorrection 9th April 2021: An earlier version of this article included a photo showing queues of lorries at Dover Port. This photo was replaced in the hours after publication after it was established that it had been taken months earlier.", "The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have received Covid-19 vaccinations, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nA royal source said the vaccinations were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe source added the Queen decided to let it be known she had the vaccination to prevent further speculation.\n\nThe Queen, 94, and Prince Philip, 99, are among around 1.5 million people in the UK to have had at least one dose of a Covid vaccine so far.\n\nPeople aged over 80 in the UK are among the high-priority groups who are being given the vaccine first.\n\nThe couple have been spending the lockdown in England at their Windsor Castle home after deciding to have a quiet Christmas at their Berkshire residence, instead of the traditional royal family gathering at Sandringham.\n\nLast month, the Queen appeared alongside several other senior members of the royal family for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began.\n\nIn 2020 she went seven months - between March and October - without carrying out public engagements outside of a royal residence.\n\nDuring that time, her eldest child, Prince Charles, 72, contracted coronavirus and displayed mild symptoms.\n\nPalace sources also told the BBC that her grandson Prince William tested positive in April - although Kensington Palace refused to comment officially.\n\nThe Queen made a private pilgrimage to the grave of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey in November\n\nThe Queen used her Christmas Day message to reassure anyone struggling without friends and family this year that they \"are not alone\".\n\nShe said the pandemic had \"brought us closer\" despite causing hardship, adding that the Royal Family has been \"inspired\" by people volunteering in their communities.\n\nOn Friday a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use in the UK, joining the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines already approved by UK regulators.\n\nIt is not known which vaccine the Queen and Prince Philip have received.\n\nAll the approved vaccines require two doses to provide the best possible protection, with the second dose being given up to 12 weeks after the first.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said the aim is to vaccinate 15 million people in the UK by mid-February, including care home residents and staff, frontline NHS staff, everyone over 70 and those who have been categorised as clinically extremely vulnerable.", "The Welsh Government is in discussions about bringing in \"more visible\" coronavirus regulations.\n\nStricter enforcement of coronavirus rules could return to supermarkets in Wales, Mark Drakeford has said.\n\nThe first minister said he had heard concerns from people \"expressing anxiety\" about a lack of \"visible protections\" in supermarkets.\n\nThe Welsh Government is now in talks with stores about social-distancing measures.\n\nMr Drakeford said he wanted to see stores policed as they were during the first lockdown.\n\nAmong the measures previously used was a strict limit of the numbers of people allowed in a store however Mr Drakeford said people were worried the rules \"don't appear to be there this time\".\n\n\"Given the fact the new variant is so much easier to catch... we are looking at supermarkets and other places where people leave their homes, to make sure they are organised in a way that keeps their staff and customers safe,\" he said.\n\nHe said previously sanitising arrangements had been \"very visible\", one-way markings were prominently displayed, regular reminders were announced to customers and staff were also posted at the front entrance of supermarkets\n\n\"That person was carefully controlling the numbers of people going in, to make sure that they were no more than a certain number of people in the store at any one time,\" he said.\n\n\"There was somebody directing people to the checkout, to make sure people weren't queuing next to each other over prolonged periods, and markings on the floor so people kept at a two-metre distance\".\n\nHowever the first minister said some of those measures are no longer as apparent to people.\n\n\"I want to make sure that those visible signs of the protections that are being offered to the public and the shop workers are in place again.\"\n\nFederation of Small Businesses Wales said has called for clarity on what support would be available and the possible new measures required of shops.\n\nPolicy Chair, Ben Francis, said: \"We've already asked to see more information on the technical data that informs the decisions that Welsh Government are making.\n\n\"It seems clear that businesses will require funding support for longer than was originally anticipated if they are to survive this troubling period.\n\n\"Welsh Government should urgently give clarity on what additional funding will be made available to support businesses beyond this next three week period to allow them to plan.\"", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "A further 1,325 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt means there have been just short of 80,000 deaths by that measure - as another 68,053 new cases were recorded.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) said the number of deaths would \"continue to rise until we stop the spread\".\n\nIt comes as the government launches a new campaign in England urging people to \"act like you've got\" the virus.\n\nThe campaign, including an advert fronted by England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, is intended to remind the public Covid is spreading fast, with large numbers showing no symptoms.\n\nIn the advert, Prof Whitty says: \"Covid-19, especially the new variant, is spreading quickly across the country.\n\n\"This puts many people at risk of serious disease and is placing a lot of pressure on our NHS.\n\n\"Once more, we must all stay home. If it is essential to go out remember, wash your hands, cover your face indoors and keep your distance from others.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Our hospitals are under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic, and infection rates across the entire country continue to soar at an alarming rate.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nHospital leaders have warned of stretched staffing with 31,624 coronavirus patients in UK hospitals on Wednesday - 46% above the peak during the first wave last year.\n\nDr Ian Higginson, vice president of Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said the situation in London and south-east England was \"pretty dire\" and would get worse in the rest of the country before long.\n\n\"We're heading for some really dark times, I fear, in this phase of the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nRichard Mitchell, chief executive of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust, said the increase in patients seen in London was now affecting his area in Nottinghamshire.\n\nHe said: \"Critical care is exceptionally busy and the colleagues who work here are tired, they're fatigued and they're worn out.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a third Covid vaccine received emergency approval for use in the UK with 17 million doses of the jab, made by US firm Moderna, pre-ordered by the UK.\n\nThe vaccine joins the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca jabs in being approved, with close to 1.5 million people now vaccinated in the UK.\n\nDr William Welfare, Covid-19 response director at PHE, said: \"Each life lost to this virus is a tragedy, but sadly we can expect the death toll to continue to rise until we stop the spread.\n\n\"Approximately one in three people who have coronavirus have no symptoms and could be spreading it without realising it.\n\n\"To protect our loved ones it is essential we all stay at home where possible. This will reduce new infections, ease the pressure on the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of Covid in the capital was now \"out of control\", as he declared a \"major incident\".\n\nThis means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response, and allows special arrangements to be implemented.\n\nThe previous highest daily death toll - 1,224 - was recorded on 21 April 2020 during the UK's first lockdown. Daily deaths were in the single figures as recently as September.\n\nThe UK has recorded the fifth-highest number of deaths behind the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nWe are now seeing the record numbers of cases over the Christmas period translate into record numbers of deaths.\n\nAnd with new infections rising rapidly - more than 1.1 million people in England estimated to be infected with Covid-19 last week - these tragic numbers are set to continue for some time.\n\nAnd that is mainly because of the new variant form of the virus which is thought to be between 30-70% more transmissible.\n\nThe administration of the vaccines to at-risk groups should see a reduction in the numbers dying by the end of the month and the numbers having to go into hospital going down sometime after that.\n\nThat is the other way around from what you normally hear - but that it because a successful vaccine programme will initially remove those most likely to die from the path of the virus.\n\nFitter or younger people - who are less likely to die but could still end up occupying hospital beds - won't be getting their jabs for some time yet.\n\nThe advent of spring's better weather should also help cases to fall, but ministers will have to decide what level of risk - and deaths - society is prepared to tolerate.\n\nFriday saw 619,941 tests conducted in the 24 hours to 09:00 GMT - also a new record.\n\nEngland, much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland continue to be under strict national measures, with stay-at-home orders in place for most people.\n\nThe R number - the rate at which an infected person passes on the virus to someone else - is now estimated to be between 1.0 to 1.4, meaning the epidemic is growing between 0% and 6% per day.\n\nCovid infections rose by almost a third between Boxing Day and 3 January, reaching 70,000 new cases a day according to a major study.\n\nIn a different piece of research, an estimated 1.2 million people in total had Covid over a similar time period, the Office for National Statistics said.\n\nBoris Johnson pledged on Thursday to use England's lockdown to implement an \"unprecedented national effort\" to offer vaccination to those at the highest risk from Covid by 15 February.\n\nHe said the Army would be drafted in to use \"battle preparation techniques\" to achieve the goal, which could see up to 15 million people offered a vaccine by the middle of next month.\n\nIn another development, from next week all travellers to the UK will need to show a recent negative test result before they arrive.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Bernard Thomas was interviewed by BBC Wales at the time of the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster\n\nA survivor of the Aberfan disaster has died after contracting Covid-19.\n\nAs a nine-year-old Bernard Thomas was rescued from the rubble of Pantglas primary school after one of the biggest tragedies in Welsh history.\n\nA total of 144 people were killed in the disaster on 21 October, 1966, after thousands of tonnes of coal slurry slid from a tip. Of those 116 were primary school pupils.\n\nLater Bernard was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress.\n\nHe told S4C he \"still heard the sounds of children screaming.\"\n\nPaying tribute to Mr Thomas, 63, who died on Wednesday, his brother Andrew told BBC's Newyddion: \"Bernard was a real character and his death has come as a shock to us as a family and the community of Aberfan.\"\n\n\"We can't be sure where he caught Covid, but he had an eye appointment at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital on 21 December.\n\n\"A few days later, he became ill and at Prince Charles Hospital, he tested positive for Covid-19.\"\n\n\"Although he had been receiving oxygen through a mask, we spoke regularly on the phone and he told us he was getting better.\n\n\"But on Wednesday morning he removed his mask to eat his breakfast, and 10 minutes after eating he faded away.\"\n\n\"It's a huge shock but I don't blame anybody.\"\n\nOn the 50th anniversary of the disaster Bernard told the BBC: \"I still wonder what the others would have been doing if it hadn't happened. Who would have got married to who, you know.\"\n\nBernard is survived by his 90-year-old mother Gwen, with whom he shared a home, and brothers Andrew and Robert.", "Three people were found inside the gym in Stean Street in Hackney on Friday\n\nThe owners of a London gym have been fined for breaching Covid-19 rules by remaining open during lockdown.\n\nPolice were called to the fitness centre in Stean Street, Hackney, on Friday to reports of a regulation breach.\n\nThree people were found inside the gym at 09:30 GMT. The owners were given a £1,000 fixed penalty notice.\n\nIt comes as a \"major incident\" was declared as the spread of Covid-19 threatens to \"overwhelm\" its hospitals.\n\nCity Hall said Covid-19 cases in London had exceeded 1,000 per 100,000, while there are 35% more people in hospital with the virus than in the peak of the pandemic in April.\n\nNHS England figures published on Friday showed the number of Covid patients in London hospitals stands at 7,277, up 32% on the previous week.\n\nCh Insp Pete Shaw said: \"Whilst there are certain rules around people being allowed to exercise in public under this lockdown, nowhere in the legislation does it allow people to go to gyms to work out.\n\n\"Those found to be flouting the rules, as with this instance, should expect necessary enforcement action to be taken against them.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jessica Allen (left) and Eliza Moore said their cars were \"surrounded\" by police\n\nTwo women who criticised a police force for its \"intimidating\" approach to lockdown fines have welcomed a review.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore were walking at a reservoir five miles from their home when they were stopped by officers and fined £200 each.\n\nDerbyshire Police insisted driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of lockdown but later said new guidance meant it would look again at the issue.\n\nBoth women said they were pleased the force had decided to think again.\n\nDerbyshire Police and Crime Commissioner Hardyal Dhindsa said an \"urgent review\" was under way about how fines had been issued.\n\nLongstanding guidance from the College of Policing says officers should follow the \"Four Es\" and only give fixed penalty notices as a last resort.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore said their cars were surrounded by police when they arrived\n\nMs Allen said: \"We are happy to hear that Derbyshire Police have been told to not be so heavy handed with fines and return to the Four Es they were originally doing.\n\n\"We are yet to hear anything regarding our fine but if we have managed to save somebody the worry of going for a walk and fearing they would be fined then we have done what we set out to do.\"\n\nMs Allen and Ms Moore drove separately from Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire the five miles to Foremark Reservoir on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThey said their cars were \"surrounded\" by police, questioned on why they were there and told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nMs Allen said the experience was \"very intimidating\" and had left her feeling scared of police in general.\n\nInitially Derbyshire Police defended its actions, saying legislation said trips should be \"local\" and driving to a location to exercise \"is clearly not in the spirit of the national effort to reduce our travel, reduce the possible spread of the disease and reduce the number of deaths\".\n\nDerbyshire police also fined visitors to other beauty spots like Calke Abbey\n\nDerbyshire Police has also been giving fixed penalty notices to people who visit beauty spots at Calke Abbey and Elvaston Castle.\n\nBut later, the force said new guidance from the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) had \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nMr Dhindsa said: \"It would appear that the force has been a little over-zealous in its interpretation of the guidance.\n\n\"While the police can enforce the regulations, guidance is just that which can make this a very challenging and complex situation to police.\"\n\nThe chief constable of neighbouring Nottinghamshire, Craig Guildford, said: \"We are not out and about telling people they have gone too far from home. We trust the public to take these regulations seriously.\n\n\"Derbyshire to be fair to them have some unique places that people may want to go to from a load of counties.\n\n\"But our approach is around reasonableness. If someone has gone 50 miles, we will take action, if someone has gone a couple of miles we are very sensible.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harley Watson's mother Jo described him as a \"kind, caring, selfless, intelligent and comical young man\"\n\nA man who killed a 12-year-old boy by driving into schoolchildren in a \"deliberate\" hit and run has been detained in a secure hospital.\n\nHarley Watson died after he was hit by a car outside Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, on 2 December 2019.\n\nTerence Glover, 52, pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility at an earlier hearing.\n\nHe also admitted 10 counts of attempted murder and has been detained under the Mental Health Act indefinitely.\n\nAt the sentencing hearing at Snaresbrook Crown Court, Harley's mother Jo described her son as a \"kind, caring, selfless, intelligent and comical young man\".\n\nHe was hit by Glover's Ford Ka as he left school with friends and died later in Whipps Cross University Hospital.\n\nTerence Glover has been sentenced indefinitely under the Mental Health Act\n\nChristine Agnew, prosecuting, said eye-witnesses saw Glover's car \"ploughing through and hitting children from behind\".\n\nShe said he \"deliberately mounted the pavement... and drove directly at a group of people, mostly children, intending to kill them\".\n\nGlover, previously of Newmans Lane, Loughton, also pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of 23-year-old Raquel Jimeno and six boys and three girls aged between 12 and 16 who were outside the school.\n\nThe court heard he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and medical experts agreed his \"significant\" mental illness \"provided an explanation for his conduct\".\n\nHe was given a hospital order under the Mental Health Act 1983, meaning if his illness was treated successfully, he would be transferred to prison.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harley Watson's classmates paid tribute to him in 2019\n\nJudge Andrew Edis said if transferred, Glover must serve a life sentence with a minimum of 15 years.\n\nIn his sentencing statement, Judge Edis noted his history of mental illness and cocaine use, but said Glover's actions were \"appalling\".\n\n\"He caused the death of a much-loved and admired 12-year-old boy who had done no harm to anyone,\" he said.\n\nHe added that Glover's behaviour \"requires punishment as well as treatment\" and there was \"no doubt that this defendant is dangerous\".\n\nHe also ordered that Glover be banned from driving for life and that the car should be destroyed.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "9 January A Boeing 737, operated by Sriwijaya Air, crashes into the Java Sea minutes after taking off from Jakarta. All 62 people on board are killed, including seven children and three babies. Officials say a problem with the aircraft's autothrottle had been reported a few days before the crash.\n\n22 May An Airbus A320 carrying 91 passengers and eight members of crew crashes in a residential area of the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, killing more than 90 people. At least two passengers survive the crash.\n\nFlight PK8303 crashed just short of the perimeter at Karachi's Jinnah International Airport\n\n8 January Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 crashes shortly after taking off from the Iranian capital Tehran, killing all 176 passengers and crew members on board. The incident took place amid escalating tensions between the US and Iran, and the Iranian government eventually admitted it had downed the plane \"unintentionally\".\n\n10 March An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max crashes six minutes after take-off from Addis Ababa. All 157 people onboard are killed. The victims come from more than 30 countries.\n\n29 October A Boeing 737 Max, operated by Lion Air, crashes into the Java Sea shortly after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia. All 189 passengers and crew are killed, and a volunteer diver dies in the subsequent recovery operation. Investigators said the plane - which had had technical problems on previous flights - should have been grounded.\n\n18 May A Boeing 737 passenger plane crashes shortly after take-off from Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, killing 112 people. One passenger survives.\n\n11 April A military plane crashes shortly after take-off near the Algerian capital Algiers, killing all 257 people on board, including 10 crew members. Most of the dead are soldiers and their families.\n\n12 March A plane carrying 71 passengers and crew crashes on landing at Kathmandu airport. More than 50 people are killed when the Bombardier Dash 8 turboprop comes down.\n\n18 February A passenger plane crashes into the Zagros mountains in Iran killing all 66 people on board. The Aseman Airlines ATR turboprop crashes about an hour after taking off in the capital, Tehran, heading for the south-western city of Yasuj.\n\n11 February A Russian passenger plane crashes minutes after leaving Moscow's Domodedovo airport with 71 people on board. The Antonov An-148 belonging to Saratov Airlines was en route to the city of Orsk in the Ural mountains when it crashed near the village of Argunovo, about 80km (50 miles) south-east of Moscow.\n\nThere were no passenger jet crashes in 2017 - the safest year in the history of commercial airlines.\n\n25 December A Russian military Tu-154 jet airliner crashes in the Black Sea, with the loss of all 92 passengers and crew. The plane came down soon after take-off from an airport near the city of Sochi. It was carrying artistes due to give a concert for Russian troops in Syria, along with journalists and military.\n\nBereaved residents of the Black Sea resort of Sochi must now come to terms with the latest air disaster\n\n7 December All 48 people on board a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane were killed when it crashed in the north of the country. The national airline - accused of safety failures in the past - insisted this time that strict checks on Flight PK-661 from Chitral to Islamabad left \"no room for any technical error\".\n\nAll 48 people on board the Pakistan International Airlines plane were killed when it crashed in the north of the country on 7 December\n\n28 November The plane carrying the football team of the Brazilian club Chapecoense runs out of fuel and crashes near Medellin, Colombia, killing 71 people, including most of the players and management. Three players were among the six survivors, while nine did not travel.\n\n19 May French President Francois Hollande confirms that an EgyptAir flight reported missing between Paris and Cairo has crashed, with 66 people on board.\n\n19 March A FlyDubai Boeing 737-800 crashes in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, killing all 62 people on board.\n\n31 October An Airbus A321, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia, crashes over central Sinai some 22 minutes after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh, killing all 224 people on board. The Islamic State group's local affiliate later says it brought down the plane in response to Russian intervention in Syria.\n\n30 June Indonesian Hercules C-130 military transport plane crashes into a residential area of Medan. The army says all 122 people on board died, along with at least 19 on the ground.\n\n24 March: Germanwings Airbus A320 airliner crashes in the French Alps near Digne, on a flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf. All 148 people on board were feared dead.\n\n28 December: AirAsia QZ8501 flying from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore goes missing over the Java sea. The pilot radioed for permission to divert around bad weather but no mayday alert was issued. There were 162 passengers and crew on board.\n\n24 July: Air Algerie AH5017 disappears over Mali amid poor weather near the border with Burkina Faso. The McDonnell Douglas MD-83 was operated by Spain's Swiftair, and was heading from Ouagadougou to Algiers carrying 116 passengers - 51 of them French. All are thought to have died.\n\n23 July: Forty-eight people die when a Taiwanese ATR-72 plane crashes into stormy seas during a short flight. TransAsia Airways GE222 was carrying 54 passengers and four crew to the island of Penghu. It made an abortive attempt to land before crashing on a second attempt.\n\nMalaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was believed to have been shot down over conflict-hit Ukraine\n\n17 July: Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashes near Grabove in eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board, 193 of them Dutch. Pro-Russian rebels are widely accused of shooting the plane down using a surface-to-air missile - they deny responsibility.\n\n8 March: The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines MH370 during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing leads to the largest and most expensive search in aviation history. Despite vast effort, notably in the hostile South Indian Ocean, nothing was found until July 2015, when an aircraft wing part washed up on Reunion Island. French officials confirmed the debris was from MH370.\n\n11 February: A military transport plane - a Hercules C-130 - carrying 78 people crashes in a mountainous part of north-eastern Algeria. Reports suggest there is one survivor from among the military personnel, family members and crew.\n\n17 November: Tatarstan Airlines Boeing 737 crashes on landing in Kazan, Russia, killing all 50 people on board.\n\n16 October: Forty-nine people, including foreigners from some 10 countries as well as Laotian nationals, die when a Lao Airlines ATR 72-600 plunges into the Mekong River as it came in to land.\n\n3 June: A Dana Air passenger plane with about 150 people on board crashes in a densely populated area of Nigeria's largest city, Lagos.\n\n20 April: A Bhoja Air Boeing 737 crashes on its approach to the main airport in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, killing all 121 passengers and six crew.\n\n26 July: Some 78 people are killed when a Moroccan military C-130 Hercules crashes into a mountain near Guelmim in Morocco. Officials blamed bad weather.\n\nThe pilot of the IranAir Boeing 727 which crashed near the north-western city of Orumiyeh reported a technical failure before trying to land\n\n8 July: A Hewa Bora Airways plane crash-lands in bad weather in Democratic Republic of Congo, killing 74 of the 118 people on board.\n\n9 January: An IranAir Boeing 727 breaks into pieces near the city of Orumiyeh, killing 77 of the 100 people on board. The pilots had reported a technical failure before trying to land.\n\n5 November: An Aerocaribbean passenger turboprop crashes in mountains in central Cuba, killing all 68 people on board.\n\n28 July: A Pakistani plane on an Airblue domestic flight from Karachi crashes into a hillside while trying to land at Islamabad airport, killing all 152 people on board.\n\n22 May: An Air India Express Boeing 737 overshot a hilltop airport in Mangalore, southern India, and crashed into a valley, bursting into flames and killing 158.\n\n12 May: An Afriqiyah Airways Airbus 330 crashes while trying to land near Tripoli airport in Libya, killing more than 100 people.\n\n10 April: A Tupolev 154 plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski crashes near the Russian airport of Smolensk, killing more than 90 people on board.\n\n25 January: Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet crashes into the sea with 89 people on board shortly after take-off from Beirut.\n\n15 July: A Caspian Airlines Tupolev plane crashes in the north of Iran en route to Armenia. All 168 passengers and crew are reported dead.\n\n30 June: A Yemeni passenger plane, an Airbus 310, crashes in the Indian Ocean near the Comoros archipelago. Only one of the 153 people on board survives.\n\n1 June: An Air France Airbus 330 travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashes into the Atlantic with 228 people on board. Search teams later recover some 50 bodies in the ocean.\n\nAll 168 passengers and crew were reported dead when a Caspian Airlines Tupolev plane crashed in the north of Iran en route to Armenia\n\n20 May: An Indonesian army C-130 Hercules transport plane crashes into a village on eastern Java, killing at least 97 people.\n\n12 February: A passenger plane crashes into a house in Buffalo, New York, killing all 49 people on board and one person on the ground.\n\n14 September: A Boeing-737 crashes on landing near the central Russian city of Perm, killing all 88 passengers and crew members on board.\n\n20 August: A Spanair plane veers off the runway on take-off at Madrid's Barajas airport, killing 154 people and injuring 18.\n\n30 November: All 56 people on board an Atlasjet flight are killed when it crashes near the town of Keciborlu in the mountainous Isparta province, about 12km (7.5 miles) from Isparta airport.\n\n16 September: At least 87 people are killed after a One-Two-Go plane crashed on landing in bad weather at the Thai resort of Phuket.\n\n17 July: A TAM Airlines jet crashes on landing at Congonhas airport in Sao Paulo, in Brazil's worst-ever air disaster. A total of 199 people are killed - all 186 on board and 13 on the ground.\n\n5 May: A Kenya Airways Boeing 737-800 crashes in swampland in southern Cameroon, killing all 114 on board. The official inquiry is yet to report on the cause of the disaster.\n\n1 January: An Adam Air Boeing 737-400 carrying 102 passengers and crew comes down in mountains on Sulawesi Island on a domestic Indonesian flight. All on board are presumed dead.\n\n29 September: A Boeing 737 carrying 154 passengers and crew crashed into the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, killing all on board, after colliding with a private jet in mid-air.\n\n22 August: A Russian Tupolev-154 passenger plane with 170 people on board crashes north of Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine.\n\n9 July: A Russian S7 Airbus A-310 skids off the runway during landing at Irkutsk airport in Siberia. A total of 124 people on board die, but more than 50 survive the crash.\n\n3 May: An Armavia Airbus A-320 crashes into the Black Sea near Sochi, killing all 113 people on board.\n\n10 December: A Sosoliso Airlines DC-9 crashes in the southern Nigerian city of Port Harcourt, killing 103 people on board.\n\n6 December: A C-130 military transport plane crashes on the outskirts of the Iranian capital Tehran, killing 110 people, including some on the ground.\n\nA mass funeral was held for those who died when a Mandala Airlines plane with 112 passengers and five crew on board crashed after take-off in the Indonesian city of Medan\n\n22 October: A Bellview airlines Boeing 737 carrying 117 people on board crashes soon after take-off from the Nigerian city of Lagos, killing everyone on board.\n\n5 September: A Mandala Airlines plane with 112 passengers and five crew on board crashes after take-off in the Indonesian city of Medan, killing almost all on board and dozens on the ground.\n\n16 August: A Colombian plane operated by West Caribbean Airways crashes in a remote region of Venezuela, killing all 160 people on board. The airliner, heading from Panama to Martinique, was packed with residents of the Caribbean island.\n\n14 August: A Helios Airways flight from Cyprus to Athens with 121 people on board crashes north of the Greek capital Athens, apparently after a drop in cabin pressure.\n\n16 July: An Equatair plane crashes soon after take-off from Equatorial Guinea's island capital, Malabo, west of the mainland, killing all 60 people on board.\n\n3 February: The wreckage of Kam Air Boeing 737 flight is located in high mountains near the Afghan capital Kabul, two days after the plane vanished from radar screens in heavy snowstorms. All 104 people on board are feared dead.\n\n21 November: A passenger plane crashes into a frozen lake near the city of Baotou in the Inner Mongolia region of northern China, killing all 53 on board and two on the ground, officials say.\n\n3 January: An Egyptian charter plane belonging to Flash Airlines crashes into the Red Sea, killing all 141 people on board. Most of the passengers are thought to be French tourists.\n\n25 December: A Boeing 727 crashes soon after take-off from the West African state of Benin, killing at least 135 people en route to Lebanon.\n\n8 July: A Boeing 737 crashes in Sudan shortly after take-off, killing 115 people on board. Only one passenger, a small child survived.\n\nThe Benin air crash happened when a Boeing 727 dropped out of the sky soon after take-off, killing at least 135 people travelling to Lebanon\n\n26 May: A Ukrainian Yak-42 crashes near the Black Sea resort of Trabzon in north-west Turkey, killing all 74 people on board - most of them Spanish peacekeepers returning home from Afghanistan.\n\n8 May: As many as 170 people are reported dead in DR Congo after the rear ramp of an old Soviet plane, an Ilyushin 76 cargo plane, apparently falls off, sucking them out.\n\n6 March: An Algerian Boeing 737 crashes after taking off from the remote Tamanrasset airport, leaving up to 102 people dead.\n\n19 February: An Iranian military transport aircraft carrying 276 people crashes in the south of the country, killing all on board.\n\n8 January: A Turkish Airlines plane with 76 passengers and crew on board crashes while coming in to land at Diyarbakir.\n\n23 December: An Antonov 140 commuter plane carrying aerospace experts crashes in central Iran, killing all 46 people aboard. The delegation had been due to review an Iranian version of the same plane built under licence.\n\n27 July: A fighter jet crashes into a crowd of spectators in the west Ukrainian town of Lviv, killing 77 people, in what is the world's worst air show disaster.\n\n1 July: Seventy-one people, many of them children die when a Russian Tupolev 154 aircraft on a school trip to Spain collides with a Boeing 757 transport plane over southern Germany.\n\n25 May: A Boeing 747 belonging to Taiwan's national carrier - China Airlines - crashes into the sea near the Taiwanese island of Penghu, with 225 passengers and crew on board.\n\n7 May: China Northern Airlines plane carrying 112 people crashes into the sea near Dalian in north-east China.\n\n7 May: On the same day, an EgyptAir Boeing 735 crash lands near Tunis with 55 passengers and up to 10 crew on board. Most people survive.\n\n4 May: A BAC1-11-500 plane operated by EAS Airlines crashes in the Nigerian city of Kano, killing 148 people - half of them on the ground.\n\n15 April: Air China flight 129 crashes on its approach to Pusan, South Korea, with over 160 passengers and crew on board.\n\n12 February: A Tupolev 154 operated by Iran Air crashes in mountains in the west of Iran, killing all 117 on board.\n\n29 January: A Boeing 727 from the Ecuadorean TAME airline crashes in mountains in Colombia, killing 92 people.\n\n12 November: An American Airlines A-300 bound for the Dominican Republic crashes after takeoff in a residential area of the borough of Queens, New York, killing all 260 people on board and at least five people on the ground.\n\n8 October: A Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) airliner collides with a small plane in heavy fog on the runway at Milan's Linate airport, killing 118 people.\n\nThe crashed American Airlines flight of November 2000 left much of the Rockaway neighbourhood of New York enveloped by smoke\n\n4 October: A Russian Sibir Airlines Tupolev 154,en route from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk in Siberia, explodes in mid-air and crashes into the Black Sea, killing 78 passengers and crew.\n\n3 July: A Russian Tupolev 154,en route from Yekaterinburg in the Ural mountains to the Russian port of Vladivostok, crashes near the Siberian city of Irkutsk, killing 133 passengers and 10 crew.\n\n30 October: A Singapore Airlines Boeing 747 bound for Los Angeles crashes after take-off from Taipei airport in Taiwan, killing 78 of the 179 people on board.\n\n23 August: A Gulf Air Airbus crashes into the sea as it comes in to land in Bahrain, killing all 143 people on board.\n\n25 July: Air France Concorde en route for New York crashes into a hotel outside Paris shortly after takeoff, killing 113 people, including four on the ground.\n\nThe Singapore Airlines Boeing 747 heading for Los Angeles crashed soon after take-off from Taipei airport in Taiwan\n\n17 July: Alliance Air Boeing 737-200 crashes into houses attempting to land at Patna, India, killing 51 people on board and four on the ground.\n\n19 April: Air Philippines Boeing 737-200 from Manila to Davao crashes on approach to landing, killing all 131 people on board.\n\n31 January: Alaska Airlines MD-83 from Mexico to San Francisco plunges into ocean off southern California, killing all 88 people on board.\n\n30 January: Kenya Airways A-310 crashes into Atlantic Ocean shortly after takeoff from Abidjan, Ivory Coast, en route for Lagos, Nigeria. All but 10 of the 179 people on board die.\n\n31 October: EgyptAir Boeing 767 crashes into Atlantic Ocean after taking off from John F. Kennedy Airport in New York on flight to Cairo, Egypt, killing all 217 on board.\n\n24 February: China Southwest Airlines plane crashes in a field in China's coastal Zhejiang province after a mid-air explosion. All 61 people on board the Russian-built TU-154 flying from Chongqing to the south-eastern city of Wenzhou are killed.\n\n11 December: Thai Airways International A-310 crashes on a domestic flight during its third attempt to land at Surat Thani, Thailand, killing 101 people.\n\n2 September: Swissair MD-11 from New York to Geneva crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Canada killing all 229 people on board.\n\n16 February: Airbus A-300 owned by Taiwan's China Airlines crashes near Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek airport while trying to land in fog and rain after a flight from Bali, Indonesia. All 196 on board and seven people on ground are killed.\n\n2 February: Cebu Pacific Air DC-9 crashes into mountain in southern Philippines, killing all 104 people aboard.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section West Ham\n\nFootballers \"can get things wrong\" but must not be \"picked on\" despite several breaches of coronavirus guidelines, says West Ham manager David Moyes.\n\nHammers midfielder Manuel Lanzini was one of numerous Premier League players to attend a party over Christmas.\n\nMore than 60 games in England have been called off because of coronavirus outbreaks at clubs.\n\n\"We have to be careful that everybody isn't picking on football players,\" said Moyes.\n\n\"We will all know people who have broken the rules in their own way.\n\n\"The players have followed the protocols. Every day at the training ground they have to go through rituals just to get into the building. They know what their job is. Like most human beings at times, they can get things wrong.\"\n\nArgentina international Lanzini was reminded of his responsibilities by the club and later apologised for his actions on Twitter.\n\nOn Friday, he announced he would be donating to a local foodbank as he wanted \"something good\" to come of his actions.\n\nMoyes praised Lanzini for his \"really good gesture\" but does not want to see players treated unfairly.\n\n\"If you are going to take tough measures on players, then you might as well take on the government people as well who have broken the rules because it's certainly not just football players who have done it,\" he said.\n\n\"You have got to be careful. A lot of people are throwing stones in glass houses at the moment regarding this. We all know what the protocols are, we all know we have to be ever-vigilant and make sure we're doing the right things.\"\n\nThe Premier League has implemented stronger coronavirus protocols in light of a recent surge in cases, including reminding players and managers to avoid handshakes and high fives.\n\nCompliance officers will also apply more robust policies to reporting breaches of protocols and will be tasked with checking hotel stays, travel plans and behaviour in dressing rooms.\n\nThe number of staff attending training grounds will also be reduced, social distancing will be enforced more strictly and the use of canteens will be further limited.\n\nStricter matchday protocols include avoiding unnecessary contact at all times, and substitutes wearing face masks.\n\nIn a note sent to clubs, the Premier League has warned it may take disciplinary action if they fail to to ensure people who breach the rules are \"appropriately investigated and sanctioned\".", "Kevin Hughes was treated at Wrexham Maelor Hospital before he died with coronavirus\n\nA man has died with Covid-19 less than a month after the funeral of his mother, who also died with the virus.\n\nFlintshire councillor Kevin Hughes, 63, was being treated at Wrexham Maelor Hospital but died on Friday morning, the authority said.\n\nHe had previously spoken of his sadness at missing his mother's funeral last month after he tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nCouncil colleague Chris Dolphin said he was a \"big man with a big heart\".\n\nThe independent councillor, also a former policeman and journalist, sat with the Liberal Democrat group.\n\nHe said missing the funeral of his mother, June Margaret Hughes, was one of the \"darkest days\" of his life.\n\nGroup leader, Mr Dolphin, called him a \"friend, fellow councillor, above all, a good man. Not one to stand on the side-lines - a doer. A man of enthusiasm, who was in life to be really involved.\"\n\nCouncil chief executive, Colin Everett, said: \"Kevin was a wonderful person with a big heart. Kevin was one of the most thoughtful and generous people I have worked with in my long career.\n\n\"I will miss him so much as both a councillor and as a friend.\"\n\nThe politician (left) will be remembered by the council at a meeting on 26 January\n\nAuthority leader, Ian Roberts, called Mr Hughes a \"special person and friend who will be very sadly missed by all\".\n\nHe added: \"His contribution as a councillor has been considerable and he was highly respected by his community, members of the council and officers.\n\n\"He was an active local member and represented his community with integrity and in a positive and engaging way.\"\n\nMr Hughes will be remembered by the council at a meeting on 26 January.\n\nThe authority's chairwoman, Marion Bateman, said: \"Our sincere condolences go to his wife Sally, along with his family and friends, at this very sad time.\"", "Mike Pompeo said the US-Taiwan relationship should not be \"shackled\" (file photo)\n\nThe US is lifting long-standing restrictions on contacts between American and Taiwanese officials, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says.\n\nThe \"self-imposed restrictions\" were introduced decades ago to \"appease\" the mainland Chinese government, which lays claim to the island, the US state department said in a statement.\n\nThese rules are now \"null and void\".\n\nThe move is likely to anger China and increase tensions between Washington and Beijing.\n\nIt comes as the Trump administration enters its final days ahead of the inauguration of Joe Biden as president on 20 January.\n\nThe Biden transition team have said the president-elect is committed to maintaining the long-standing US policy towards Taiwan.\n\nAnalysts say they will be unhappy with such a policy decision being made in the final days of the Trump administration, but that the move could be reversed easily by Mr Pompeo's successor Antony Blinken.\n\nChina regards Taiwan as a breakaway province, but Taiwan's leaders argue that it is a sovereign state.\n\nRelations between the two are frayed and there is a constant threat of a violent flare up that could drag in the US, an ally of Taiwan.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday, Mr Pompeo said the US state department had introduced complicated restrictions limiting the communication between American diplomats and their Taiwanese counterparts.\n\n\"Today I am announcing that I am lifting all of these self-imposed restrictions,\" he said. \"Today's statement recognises that the US-Taiwan relationship need not, and should not, be shackled by self-imposed restrictions of our permanent bureaucracy.\"\n\nHe added that Taiwan was a vibrant democracy and a reliable US partner, and that the restrictions were no longer valid.\n\nFollowing the announcement, Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu thanked Mr Pompeo, saying he was \"grateful\".\n\n\"The closer partnership between Taiwan and the US is firmly based on our shared values, common interests and unshakeable belief in freedom and democracy,\" he wrote in a tweet.\n\nLast August, US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar became the highest-ranking US politician to hold meetings on the island for decades.\n\nIn response, China urged the US to respect what it calls its \"one China\" principle.\n\nThe US also sells arms to Taiwan, though it does not have a formal defence treaty with the country, as it does with Japan, South Korea and the Philippines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChina and Taiwan have had separate governments since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949.\n\nBeijing has long tried to limit Taiwan's international activities and both have vied for influence in the Pacific region.\n\nTensions have increased in recent years and Beijing has not ruled out the use of force to take the island back.\n\nAlthough Taiwan is officially recognised by only a handful of nations, its democratically-elected government has strong commercial and informal links with many countries.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "Google has suspended \"free speech\" social network Parler from its Play Store over its failure to remove \"egregious content\".\n\nParler styles itself as \"unbiased\" social media and has proved popular with people banned from Twitter.\n\nBut Google said the app had failed to remove posts inciting violence.\n\nApple has also warned Parler it will remove the app from its App Store if it does not comply with its content-moderation requirements.\n\nOn Parler, the app's chief executive John Matze said: \"We won't cave to politically motivated companies and those authoritarians who hate free speech!\"\n\nLaunched in 2018, Parler has proved particularly popular among supporters of US President Donald Trump and right-wing conservatives. Such groups have frequently accused Twitter and Facebook of unfairly censoring their views.\n\nWhile Mr Trump himself is not a user, the platform already features several high-profile contributors following earlier bursts of growth in 2020.\n\nTexas Senator Ted Cruz boasts 4.9 million followers on the platform, while Fox News host Sean Hannity has about seven million.\n\nIt briefly became the most-downloaded app in the United States after the US election, following a clampdown on the spread of election misinformation by Twitter and Facebook.\n\nHowever, both Apple and Google have said the app fails to comply with content-moderation requirements.\n\nFor months, Parler has been one of the most popular social media platforms for right-wing users.\n\nAs major platforms began taking action against viral conspiracy theories, disinformation and the harassment of election workers and officials in the aftermath of the US presidential vote, the app became more popular with elements of the fringe far-right.\n\nThis turned the network into a right-wing echo chamber, almost entirely populated by users fixated on revealing examples of election fraud and posting messages in support of attempts to overturn the election outcome.\n\nIn the days preceding the Capitol riots, the tone of discussion on the app became significantly more violent, with some users openly discussing ways to stop the certification of Joe Biden's victory by Congress.\n\nUnsubstantiated allegations and defamatory claims against a number of senior US figures such as Chief Justice John Roberts and Vice-President Mike Pence were rife on the app.\n\nGoogle and Apple say they are taking necessary action to ensure violent rhetoric is not promoted on their platforms.\n\nHowever, to those increasingly concerned about freedom of speech and expression on online platforms, it represents another example of draconian action by major tech companies which threatens internet freedom.\n\nThis is a debate which is certain to continue beyond the Trump presidency.\n\nIn a statement, Google confirmed it had suspended Parler from its Play Store, saying: \"Our longstanding policies require that apps displaying user-generated content have moderation policies and enforcement that removes egregious content like posts that incite violence.\n\n\"In light of this ongoing and urgent public safety threat, we are suspending the app's listings from the Play Store until it addresses these issues.\"\n\nApple has warned Parler it will be removed from the App Store on Saturday in a letter published by Buzzfeed News.\n\nIt said it had seen \"accusations that the Parler app was used to plan, coordinate, and facilitate\" the attacks on the US Capitol on 6 January.\n\nMr Matze said Parler had \"no way to organise anything\" and pointed out that Facebook groups and events had been used to organise action.\n\nBut Apple said: \"Our investigation has found that Parler is not effectively moderating and removing content that encourages illegal activity and poses a serious risk to the health and safety of users in direct violation of your own terms of service.\"\n\n\"We won't distribute apps that present dangerous and harmful content.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a related development, Google has kicked Steve Bannon's War Room podcast off YouTube, saying it had repeatedly violated the platform's rules.\n\nThe ex-White House aide's channel had more than 300,000 subscribers.\n\nSteve Bannon served as President Trump's chief strategist for eight months in 2017\n\n\"In accordance with our strikes system, we have terminated Steve Bannon's channel 'War room' and one associated channel for repeatedly violating our Community Guidelines,\" Google said in a statement.\n\n\"Any channel posting new videos with misleading content that alleges widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 US Presidential election in violation of our policies will receive a strike, a penalty which temporarily restricts uploading or live-streaming. Channels that receive three strikes in the same 90-day period will be permanently removed from YouTube.\"\n\nThe action was taken shortly after the channel posted an interview with Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, in which he blamed the Democrats for the rioting on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.\n\nOne anti-misinformation group said the action was long overdue after \"months of Steve Bannon calling for revolution and violence\".\n\n\"The truth is YouTube should have taken down Steve Bannon's account a long time ago and they shouldn't rely on the labour of extremism researchers to moderate the content on their platform,\" said Madeline Peltz, Senior Researcher at Media Matters for America.", "A 78-year-old French woman received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in France\n\nA global race is on to vaccinate people against Covid-19 - and with infections soaring in Europe many have complained that the roll-out is too slow in the EU.\n\nMember states decide individually who to vaccinate, when and where, but the EU is coordinating strategy and buying vaccines in bulk. On Friday, the EU Commission agreed to buy an extra 300 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine - that would give the EU nearly half of the firm's global output for 2021.\n\nBBC reporters in seven European capitals explain how the vaccinations are going on their patch.\n\nIn an election year, the vaccine has become a political battleground, writes Jenny Hill, in Berlin.\n\nThe fact it was German scientists who developed the first effective Covid vaccine has been the source of great national pride. And, by and large, Germans appear to be reasonably comfortable with the idea of immunisation.\n\nA recent survey found 65% were prepared to have the vaccine. Other research indicates that less than a quarter of those surveyed would not. But politically - and perhaps unsurprisingly, given this is an election year - Germany's vaccination programme has become a battleground.\n\nVaccinations began here just under two weeks ago and prioritise the over 80s and care home workers. By Thursday evening, more than 477,000 first doses had been administered.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered.\n\nBut some of the hundreds of specially prepared vaccination centres are still not in use and even the government has admitted there simply isn't enough to go around. Angela Merkel and her health minister Jens Spahn have been accused of failing to secure enough doses.\n\nMuch of the criticism has come from Mrs Merkel's own coalition partners but some within the scientific community have echoed their concerns - that Germany put European interests above its own by insisting on a joint EU procurement process. The scientists who developed the vaccine have said publicly that the EU originally turned down an offer for a further order.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered and it's thought that by the end of the month a further 2.68 million will have followed.\n\nMr Spahn, whose assured performance through the pandemic led some to wonder whether he might be a potential successor to Mrs Merkel, has blamed the shortage on the inability of the manufacturers of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to meet global demand.\n\nGermany has now ordered an extra 30 million doses and, following the recent European approval of the Moderna vaccine, expects to start rolling that out next week. The government is sticking to its pledge that the vaccination programme will be complete by the end of the summer.\n\nThe Czech prime minister has hit out at apparent delays in distributing the vaccine, writes Rob Cameron, in Prague.\n\nThe Czech vaccination effort began on 27 December, when the prime minister, Andrej Babis, became the first person in the country to receive the jab. Mr Babis, who is 66, had previously questioned whether he would be eligible, as he'd had his spleen removed as a teenager.\n\nBut the country's programme has got off to a sluggish start. Mr Babis - a billionaire businessman who has been dogged by both European and Czech investigations into alleged misuse of EU funds - has lost no time venting his (figurative) spleen at the European Commission over the delay. \"We believed when we contributed €12m to the European fund in November that we'd receive the vaccine,\" he told a newspaper this week.\n\nThe health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups will take months.\n\nThe country has received 30,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. So far, it has managed to administer it to 19,918 people. The government says it is ready to roll out the jab en masse as soon as supplies arrive from the manufacturers.\n\nIt has also published a strategy, which envisages a three-stage process. The first will see targeted vaccination of high-risk groups. This will gradually give way to mass vaccination in 31 centres, using an online reservation system that will be open to all from 1 February. And the final stage will see the country's GPs deployed, hopefully to administer the Oxford-AstraZeneca and other jabs, which unlike the previous two can be stored and transported at fridge temperature.\n\nHowever, the timing in the original strategy document now appears optimistic. The health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups - all health and social care staff, teachers, everyone over 65, all those with serious health conditions - will take months. GPs may not begin vaccinating young, healthy members of society until late spring, or summer.\n\nA sluggish start is being blamed on bureaucracy and vaccine scepticism, writes Hugh Schofield, in Paris.\n\nFrance's boast of a big, effective state apparatus has been badly exposed by the sluggish start to the Covid vaccination programme. After the first week, when neighbouring Germany had inoculated around 250,000 people, France was on a mere 530. By Friday, the figure had gone up to 45,500 - still so small as to be statistically meaningless.\n\nSo why has it taken so long for France to put the plan into action? It is not as if the authorities did not have time to prepare. And it is certainly not a question of a lack of vaccine. In fact, more than a million Pfizer doses are already in cold storage, waiting to be used.\n\nPolls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab.\n\nThe primary reason for the delay seems to be the cumbersome, over-centralised nature of France's health bureaucracy. A 45-page dossier of instructions issued by the ministry in Paris had to be read and understood by staff at old people's homes.\n\nEach recipient then had to give informed consent in a consultation with a doctor, held no less than five days before injection. The lengthy procedure is in theory to save lives - those of patients who might have an adverse reaction. But as the critics have been arguing, delay in inoculating the population is also costing lives.\n\nAnother problem in France is the high level of scepticism towards vaccination - product of a more general suspicion of government. Polls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab. The effect - critics say - has been to make the government unduly cautious. When urgency was required, the authorities were reluctant to move fast for fear of galvanising the anti-vaxxers.\n\nAfter President Emmanuel Macron communicated his anger at the delays at the weekend, the pace is picking up. The procedure for consent is being simplified. By the end of January, the plan is to have 500-600 vaccination centres open across the country - either in hospitals or other big public buildings.\n\nPolitically a lot is at stake. The government has already come under fire for failings in providing masks and tests. With opposition voices calling the vaccine delay a \"state scandal\", President Macron needs a roll-out that is fast and problem-free.\n\nNational pride accelerated Russia's rollout, but one man is conspicuously absent from the list of people vaccinated, writes Sarah Rainsford, in Moscow.\n\nRussia registered its main Covid vaccine for domestic use way back in August, before mass safety and efficacy trials had even begun. In December, with those trials still underway, it began rolling out Sputnik V to the public ahead of mass vaccination launches everywhere else in Europe. The rush was driven by national pride as well as medical necessity.\n\nSputnik was initially offered to front line health and education workers but early take-up of the two-dose vaccination was slow and the list of those eligible soon expanded.\n\nA poll by the Levada Centre in late December showed only 38% of respondents were willing to get the jab: wary of domestic healthcare and medicines, Russians were sceptical of bold early claims made for the vaccine and nervous about possible adverse reactions. Even so, and despite similar delays scaling-up production as in other countries, Sputnik's backers announced this week that more than a million people had been vaccinated.\n\nRussia began rolling out its Sputnik V vaccine in December\n\nBut one man still conspicuously absent from the list of the vaccinated is Vladimir Putin, despite the Kremlin saying he will - eventually - get the jab. In the meantime, those who meet him in person are obliged to test for Covid first and even quarantine. The president may need to lead by example, though. Mr Putin has said repeatedly that protecting the economy is his priority so he's banking on mass vaccination to avoid a return to national lockdown.\n\nRussia has built giant, temporary hospitals since the start of the pandemic and the health minister said this week that 25% of Covid beds remain free. There's also been a fall in the number of new daily cases reported - around 25,000 for the past 5 days. But that's not down to the vaccine yet. The country is nearing the end of a 10-day New Year holiday period and the number of Covid tests has also dropped.\n\nAs infection rates grow in a country praised by many for its no-lockdown approach, a successful vaccine programme is crucial writes Maddy Savage, in Stockholm.\n\nAlmost two weeks since 91-year-old care home resident Gun-Britt Johnsson became the first Swede to get the initial dose of a Pfizer jab, there is still no official tally of how many others have received the vaccination.\n\nThe Public Health Agency of Sweden says it's in the process of compiling data from the country's 21 regional health authorities tasked with vaccinating the entire adult population - around eight million people - by 26 June. The date isn't arbitrary, it's the biggest public holiday weekend of the year, when Swedes traditionally hold Midsummer celebrations. Karin Tegmark, a senior manager at the agency, says the date remains \"feasible\". But she says it depends on the delivery of vaccines to the country.\n\nAfter months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled.\n\nAlongside 4.5 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Sweden has ordered 3.6 million jabs from Moderna, the first of which are expected to arrive next week. The country also plans to roll-out the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as soon as possible after it is approved by the EU - ideally by February.\n\nSwedes initially appeared lukewarm to the idea of taking a speedily-developed coronavirus vaccine, although a poll at the end of December found 71% would take one. A key driver of the initial scepticism is thought to be the failure of a voluntary mass vaccination programme for swine flu in 2009. Hundreds of Swedish children and young adults under 30 developed the sleeping disorder narcolepsy, which was found to be a side effect of the Pandemrix vaccine.\n\nA successful vaccination programme will be crucial, not least because it comes at a time when Swedish authorities are struggling to maintain public confidence. After months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled as Sweden has struggled with the second wave of coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile, several high profile officials have faced heavy criticism for breaching their own recommendations - including the head of the civil contingencies agency (pictured), who resigned after spending Christmas with his daughter in the Canary Islands.\n\nA new government in Belgium seems unified on the vaccine rollout - for now at least, writes Nick Beake, in Brussels.\n\nIt seemed fitting that the first person in Belgium to receive a Covid jab lives in the place where the world's first approved Covid vaccine is being produced. Jos Hermans, a 96-year-old from the municipality of Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December, in his care home. A further 700 elderly residents were also administered a dose in what was a small, initial trial.\n\nThe mass vaccination programme in Belgium began on 5 January, but has been criticised for starting slowly. Federal Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke had promised in November that the rollout would be \"seamless and fast\", tweeting: \"If that does not work, shoot me.\"\n\nThe first phase looks to vaccinate up to 200,000 nursing home residents by the end of this month, or early February. Healthcare professionals will be next in line and the aim was for the whole population to be inoculated by the end of September.\n\nJos Hermans, a 96-year-old from Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December\n\nYou may think the country would be at an advantage being the epicentre of the Pfizer-BioNTech production. While this clearly helps with distribution, Belgium cannot receive more doses - relative to its population - than other EU countries under strict Commission rules. That didn't stop the minister-president of the Flanders region, who admitted this week that he had contacted Pfizer directly in the hope of procuring more doses, only to be rebuffed.\n\nAfter getting a guarantee from Pfizer over supply of the jab, the federal Belgian authorities have adapted their strategy: they now propose giving as many available doses to as many people as they can - and no longer reserving vials for patients' second dose, given three weeks after the first. In general, the federal government, rather than the European Commission has faced any criticism for a delay and has defended its \"careful\" approach.\n\nAnd there appears to be an interesting regional or cultural discrepancy when it comes to whether people are willing to take the vaccine. Of the Flemish population interviewed in a poll, half have said they wanted the vaccine as soon as possible. Among French speakers - it was 20% fewer, which chimes with the deeper scepticism over the border in France.\n\nIn a country where politics are notoriously complicated and fractious - they've only recently agreed a government, after a 500-day vacuum - the Federal Coalition appears unified on its Covid vaccine strategy. For now, at least.\n\nRegional variances and political rows have marked the beginning of Spain's vaccination programme writes Guy Hedgecoe, in Madrid.\n\nSpain started administering the vaccine on 27 December. So far, 743,925 doses have been distributed to regional administrations, with 277,976 people vaccinated, according to the health ministry. The objective of the coalition government is to immunise 2.3 million people within 12 weeks. Priority is being given to elderly residents of care homes, those who look after them, and healthcare personnel.\n\nEach of the country's 17 regions has a high degree of control over healthcare and should receive the number of doses that corresponds to their populations. However, already there has been substantial geographical disparity.\n\nGovernment data showed, for example, that while the northern region of Asturias had used 55% of the doses it had received by 3 January, the Madrid region had only administered 5% by the same date. Some regions are holding back doses to administer a second follow-up jab to the same person in several weeks' time, and some have been vaccinating on national holidays while others have not.\n\nThe pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of incompetence.\n\nAlthough vaccination is voluntary, the government has said it is making a register of those who do not wish to be inoculated. That initiative has generated controversy, although the government has insisted the register will merely seek to clarify why people refuse the vaccination.\n\nHowever, the pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of Pedro Sánchez of incompetence, lack of transparency and using coronavirus to accumulate power.\n\nThe arrival of a vaccine has not stopped the rancour. Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the conservative Popular Party (PP) president of Galicia, warned the number of doses being distributed to each region was being dictated by \"political affiliations or parliamentary needs\", a claim the central government has rejected.", "Dozens of demonstrators were walking and chanting along Clapham High Street as police attempted to keep them contained to the area\n\nSixteen people have been arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nPolice officers clashed with some of the maskless protesters who arrived in Clapham Common, some shouting \"take your freedom back\".\n\nSix police vans were deployed to the scene while officers moved the crowd of about 30 people away from the area.\n\nGathering for the purpose of a protest is not an exemption to the rules, the Met Police said.\n\nOne woman shouted from her car at the protesters \"there's a pandemic going\", while another bystander shouted \"idiots\".\n\nOne anti-lockdown protester, who was detained at Clapham Common park, said \"I stand under common law, not maritime law and this is assault\" as he was put into handcuffs by police officers.\n\nA large police presence remains around Clapham Common station, but almost all protesters had left the area as of 14:00 GMT.\n\nIt comes as a \"major incident\" was declared as the spread of Covid-19 threatens to \"overwhelm\" London hospitals.\n\nCity Hall said Covid-19 cases in the capital had exceeded 1,000 per 100,000, while there were 35% more people in hospital with the virus than in the peak of the pandemic in April.\n\nPolice could be seen questioning several people at the demonstration\n\nPolice battled to disperse the protestors gathering in Clapham Common\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One floral tribute had Dame Barbara's photograph in the centre\n\nThe funeral of EastEnders and Carry On actress Dame Barbara Windsor has taken place in London.\n\nRoss Kemp, who played her on-screen son in the soap, was among the 30 mourners and gave a reading, as did actor and friend Christopher Biggins.\n\nDame Barbara died in December at the age of 83, having had dementia.\n\nThere were floral arrangements spelling Babs, The Dame and Saucy, and a mock pub sign showing her as The Queen Peggy in the style of the soap's Queen Vic.\n\nDame Barbara played pub landlady Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders for more than two decades.\n\nA version of the EastEnders Queen Vic pub sign was painted in tribute\n\nScott Mitchell, who was married to Dame Barbara for 20 years, was joined at Golders Green Crematorium by family and friends including comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams.\n\n\"As Covid has denied so many of Barbara's family, friends and fans a chance to say farewell properly, I wanted to share the order of service to let people be a small part of it,\" Mr Mitchell told the PA news agency.\n\n\"My heart goes out to every family who have experienced the same restrictions at their loved ones' funerals.\"\n\nLeft-right: Christopher Biggins, Ross Kemp and David Walliams were among the mourners\n\nHe added: \"I would again like to thank my family, friends, the media and the public for their incredible support and well wishes since Barbara's passing.\"\n\nDame Barbara's coffin was brought into the crematorium to sound of Frank Sinatra's On The Sunny Side Of The Street, and the service featured a recording of Sparrows Can't Sing from the actress's 1963 film of the same.\n\nIt finished with the famous topless photo of Dame Barbara from the film Carry On Camping, alongside her quote: \"That picture will follow me to the end.\"\n\nLong-time friend Anna Karen, who played Dame Barbara's on-screen sister Aunt Sal in EastEnders, also paid tribute during the service.\n\nThe funeral was also attended by Loose Women's Jane Moore and EastEnders actor Jamie Borthwick. However, the numbers were limited due to coronavirus social distancing.\n\nAlzheimer's Research UK recently said it had seen a spike in donations since Dame Barbara's death, and a JustGiving page set up as a tribute to her and in aid of the charity has raised more than £150,000 (including Gift Aid).\n\nMr Mitchell said that was \"beyond anything we may have dreamed of\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Ben Jackson said the closure of the farm's bulk-buyers like hotels and schools has left thousands of eggs unsold\n\nA fall in bulk egg orders due to the lockdown could lead to chickens being culled, a poultry-farmer has warned.\n\nFluffetts Farm near Fordingbridge had been supplying free range eggs to 350 Hampshire schools, but orders stopped when schools suddenly closed.\n\nFarm owner, Ben Jackson said: \"If you can't sell the eggs you can't still keep feeding the chickens and therefore something has to give.\"\n\nHe said he hoped to work out a local delivery system to avoid culling birds.\n\nMr Jackson, who has been selling some of the surplus eggs off on social media, has more than 13,000 chickens laying 12,000 eggs each day.\n\nThe cancellation of his school orders has left him with about 4,000 spare eggs a day. The farm has also been hit by restaurants and pubs closing again.\n\nThe farm has a surplus of about 4,000 eggs each day from its 13,000 chickens\n\nHe said: \"If we can't find a home for the eggs the worst-case scenario is that we may have to look to get rid of some of our chickens, but that's what we're trying to avoid.\n\n\"Other chicken farmers are in the same situation - they are talking about potentially having to cull birds in the next week or so - it's not a decision that anyone wants to make.\n\n\"We just want to get through this dark time - we're just taking it a day at time.\"\n\nChickens at the farm are currently in a bird lockdown.\n\nSince 14 December strict biosecurity regulations have been in place following a number of outbreak of avian influenza throughout England.\n• None 'I'll have to throw away £6,000-worth of milk'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge asked how staff were coping during the pandemic and thanked them for their sacrifice\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has said he talks to his three children about NHS staff \"every day\" to help them to understand the \"sacrifices\" made during Covid.\n\nPrince William's comments were part of a video call to London hospital staff.\n\n\"Catherine and I and all the children talk about all of you guys every day, so we're making sure the children understand all of the sacrifices that all of you are making,\" he said.\n\nIt comes after the London mayor said the virus was \"out of control\".\n\nSadiq Khan declared a major incident on Friday - meaning the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response - after the number of Covid patients in the capital's hospitals surpassed 7,000.\n\nStaff at Homerton University Hospital in east London told the Duke of Cambridge that queues of people waiting to be vaccinated at the hospital offered hope, but that the way out of the crisis was for the public to \"stay at home\" during lockdown.\n\nIn recent days the hospital has seen its highest number of admissions since the pandemic began.\n\nDuring the UK's first national lockdown, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their three children Prince George (left), Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis joined in with the weekly Clap for Carers event\n\nThe duke, who is joint patron of NHS Charities Together, said: \"A huge thank you for all the hard work, the sleepless nights, the lack of sleep, the anxiety, the exhaustion and everything that you are doing, we are so grateful.\n\n\"Good luck, we are all thinking of you.\"\n\nHis video call, which took place on Thursday, is one of many he and the duchess have made to NHS staff during the pandemic.\n\nPrince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis have also shown their support for the health service by getting involved with the weekly Clap for Carers applause during the UK's first national lockdown.\n\nAnd on Saturday, the Duchess's birthday, Kensington Palace said the family's thoughts \"continue to be with all those working on the front line at this hugely challenging time\".\n\nChief nurse Catherine Pelley told the prince her hospital had used funds from NHS Charities Together to set up various support initiatives such as a \"wobble room\" for colleagues to relax in.\n\n\"For us this week, starting vaccinating has been one of the single most significant impacts on people feeling that there is a future out of this, and the queues out the door here where they have been vaccinating have been really hopeful for people,\" she said.\n\n\"But the support we need is stay at home, help us. Because that will get us all out of this, whatever our role is, and we will get society out of this.\"\n\nAfter speaking to Ms Pelley and her colleagues about how they supported one another, the prince said: \"It's good that you and your team are keeping your spirits high and I always find that having some sort of sense of humour through everything is very important, otherwise we all go mad.\"\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge said he wants his children to appreciate the sacrifices made by NHS staff during the pandemic", "Ms Sturgeon has rejected claims made by former first minister Alex Salmond\n\nAlex Salmond has accused Nicola Sturgeon of misleading parliament, calling evidence she gave to an inquiry into the handling of sexual harassment claims against him \"simply untrue\".\n\nMr Salmond's comments emerged in a written submission to a separate investigation into whether the first minister breached the ministerial code.\n\nThe submission has been shared with the Holyrood committee.\n\nMs Sturgeon says she \"entirely rejects Mr Salmond's claims\".\n\nIn the submission, the former first minister said that Ms Sturgeon had misled parliament and broken the ministerial code with breaches including failing to inform the civil service in good time of her meetings with him.\n\nHe claimed she allowed the Scottish government to contest a civil court case against him despite having had legal advice that it was likely to collapse.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the Holyrood inquiry she had become aware of allegations at a meeting with Mr Salmond at her home.\n\nIt since emerged she met his former chief of staff in the days before, but she said she had forgotten about that meeting.\n\nMr Salmond said that claim was untenable.\n\nHis submission said that she misled parliament, and that amounted to a breach of the code. He also said she breached the code by failing to to inform civil servants of the nature of the meetings that took place between the two of them at her home where the allegations were discussed.\n\nAlex Salmond walked free from court in March having been cleared of charges of sexual assault\n\nMr Salmond's statement read: \"The pre-arranged meeting in the Scottish Parliament of 29 March 2018 was \"forgotten\" about because acknowledging it would have rendered ridiculous the claim made by the first minister in parliament that it had been believed that the meeting on 2 April was on SNP Party business and thus held at her private residence.\"\n\nBoth Mr Salmond and Ms Sturgeon are expected to give evidence to the committee in the coming weeks.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross responded to the claims, saying: \"Nobody ever bought Nicola Sturgeon's tall tales to have suddenly turned forgetful, especially about the devastating moment she found out of sexual harassment allegations against her friend and mentor of 30 years.\n\n\"What has been revealed are allegations of shocking, deliberate and corrupt actions at the heart of government. There is now clear evidence of Nicola Sturgeon abusing her power to deceive the Scottish public.\n\n\"If this proves to be correct, it is a resignation matter. No first minister, at any time, can be allowed to get away with repeatedly and blatantly lying to the Scottish Parliament and breaking the ministerial code.\"\n\nScottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie said Alex Salmond's explosive allegations demanded answers from the first minister to the committee.\n\nShe said: \"The bombshell accusation that Nicola Sturgeon has broken the ministerial code has the potential to end her political career and demands a robust and honest answer from the first minister.\n\n\"This committee demands truthfulness and honesty from every witness it calls - it is vital that the first minister tells the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth when she appears.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon has repeatedly dismissed any notion of a conspiracy against Mr Salmond.\n\nHer spokeswoman said: \"The first minister entirely rejects Mr Salmond's claims about the ministerial code.\n\n\"We should always remember that the roots of this issue lie in complaints made by women about Alex Salmond's behaviour whilst he was first minister, aspects of which he has conceded. It is not surprising therefore that he continues to try to divert focus from that by seeking to malign the reputation of the first minister and by spinning false conspiracy theories.\n\n\"The first minister is concentrating on fighting the pandemic, stands by what she has said, and will address these matters in full when she appears at committee.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Any Questions on Friday evening, SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford MP said he did not believe the accusations about the first minister were correct.\n\nHe said: \"I believe that the first minister has acted in an honourable way, she's someone that I've every faith and trust in.\n\n\"I can tell you that the approval ratings for the first minister, the respect that she has right up and down the country of Scotland is enormous and this is something that will pass, when she appears in front of the committee these matters will be dealt with.\"\n\nAlex Salmond has just turned up the heat on his successor with a submission that presents a direct and serious challenge to the reputation of Nicola Sturgeon - who was once his closest political ally.\n\nWhat he no doubt considers as an attempt to secure justice, some others will see as a case of deflection and revenge.\n\nAllegations of breaking the ministerial code of conduct and misleading parliament are serious and, if upheld, potentially career threatening.\n\nYet even some of Ms Sturgeon's fiercest critics at Holyrood do not expect the inquiries into the Scottish government's mishandling of harassment complaints against Mr Salmond to force her from office.\n\nMr Salmond seems to expect the review of the first minister's actions under the ministerial code of conduct to remain narrow enough that it could not possibly find against her.\n\nThe first minister herself appears confident of persuading all comers, including a cross-party committee of MSPs (before which both she and Mr Salmond are due to appear in the coming weeks) that she has acted properly throughout.", "Fishing \"clears the mind of other worries\" says John Ellis from the Canal and Rivers Trust\n\nAnglers have hailed the mental health benefits of the sport after it was given the all-clear to continue, despite lockdown.\n\nThe government said it would be treated as a form of exercise, but subject to restrictions such as social distancing.\n\nRegulations mean people in England must stay at home except for specific purposes, including exercise, shopping for essentials and childcare.\n\nFigures show thousands more people have taken up fishing during the pandemic.\n\nJohn Ellis, national fisheries and angling manager for the Canal and Rivers Trust, said rod licence sales increased by 17% over the last year, the equivalent of about 100,000 people - some new to the sport and others returning.\n\nHe said, despite the colder weather which usually causes a drop in fishing, there are more people out than in a typical January.\n\n\"It is certainly one of few things people can do legally, can do locally,\" he said.\n\nSpencer Moore said it was easy to maintain social distance while fishing\n\nUnder current restrictions in England, anglers must fish alone, or with members of their household, and must not travel outside their local area.\n\nThe government regulations permit people to meet for exercise, but not \"for recreational or leisure purposes\".\n\nThe Department for Culture Media and Sport told the BBC while angling could continue, overarching government guidance meant people should minimise time spent outside their homes.\n\nMr Ellis said he had received emails from parents pleased their children could go fishing at the weekend, adding that for some people it was linked to their mental wellbeing.\n\n\"When you are focussing on fishing, it is very hard to think about anything else, it clears the mind of other worries, at least temporarily,\" he said.\n\nHeadway said fishing was one of its most popular sporting activities for clients\n\nHeadway Birmingham & Solihull, a charity which helps people living with brain injuries, runs regular fishing sessions, which were very popular with its clients.\n\n\"It encourages them to be more active and get some fresh air out in the countryside,\" she said.\n\n\"It also helps their motivation and mental wellbeing, giving them something to look forward to each week, something to talk about and a chance to form friendships with others who enjoy fishing too.\"\n\nSpencer Moore, a bailiff for Blackfords Progressive Angling Society, based in South Staffordshire, said the sport was perfect for social distancing.\n\n\"There are people furloughed, sitting in their house or working from home, but at least they can fish and can get out and wind down,\" he said.\n\n\"Being a fisherman, you are on your own on your peg. Someone might be on another peg, but they can be 20 to 30ft away, so you are nowhere near anyone else.\"\n\nChris Wood advised people to speak to their local angling club before going fishing for the first time\n\nChris Wood, from Shrewsbury Anglers Club, said the group had seen a definite \"upsurge\" in interest during the pandemic.\n\nBut, he said, it had also seen an increase in illegal fishing by people who were not aware of the proper permits needed.", "Edwin Poots said he has asked senior UK government figures to consider unilaterally revoking the NI Protocol\n\nThe Stormont minister whose officials are responsible for the new Irish Sea border has said some food will be unavailable if changes are not made.\n\nDUP Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has also said jobs could be at risk.\n\nHe said problems at the ports were being caused by new rules applied on imports of food and other products from Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nEarlier Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said trade from GB to NI \"will get worse before it gets better\".\n\nMr Gove said that \"work is ongoing\" and it is \"all part of the process of leaving the European Union\".\n\nHe added that he had spoken to ministers from all parties in the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nAfter speaking with hauliers, supermarkets and processors this week, Mr Poots predicted the loss of jobs and rising costs.\n\n\"A wide range of frozen and chilled foods will be unavailable after the temporary exemption period ends,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThat exemption period applies to supermarkets and other food importers and runs out in April.\n\nAfter that they will have to comply with all the paperwork required to ship food in, or find suppliers on the island of Ireland or elsewhere in the EU.\n\nNew rules - called the Northern Ireland Protocol - were introduced because while the UK has left the EU, Northern Ireland has remained in the Single Market for goods and is continuing to apply EU customs rules.\n\nThe arrangement was agreed between the UK and the EU to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nMr Poots said he had spoken to senior UK government figures to ask them to consider unilaterally revoking the protocol as it was \"damaging Northern Ireland at the economic and societal level\".\n\nAnd he hit out at members of Sinn Fein, the SDLP, and Alliance Party who he claimed had supported it.\n\nMembers of those parties have countered similar claims from other DUP politicians in recent days.\n\nThey said DUP MPs had voted against alternative arrangements that would have been simpler to manage before the government pushed ahead with the protocol plan.\n\nResponding to Mr Poot's tweet on Friday evening, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood wrote: \"You broke it, you own it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) has called for the assembly to be recalled to discuss difficulties over trading between Great Britain and Northern Ireland due to Brexit.\n\nUUP MLA Roy Beggs said: \"The impact of the Irish Sea border is causing horrendous difficulties for hauliers and this is being seen in shops and businesses across Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It is damaging the Northern Ireland economy and the situation is escalating.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, Michael Gove said it had been expected that there would be \"some initial disruption\" to trade between GB and NI, but that the government is \"ironing\" issues out.\n\nHe said discussions with the executive in Northern Ireland were \"in order to make sure that the [Northern Ireland] protocol works\".\n\n\"[To make sure] that businesses in Northern Ireland can continue to have access to the rest of the UK market, and that Northern Ireland businesses can have the goods that they need on the shelves, that they have access to at the moment,\" he said.\n\nNorthern Ireland has remained a part of the EU's single market for goods while the rest of the UK has left.\n\nThis means food products from Great Britain are subject to checks when they enter Northern Ireland.\n\nSimilar processes and checks also apply when moving food products from Great Britain into the Republic of Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, an organisation representing haulage firms has called on the UK and Irish government to relax some of the new Irish Sea trade border rules.\n\nThe Road Haulage Association (RHA) said there is serious disruption to freight movements into the island of Ireland.\n\nThe RHA said relaxing the controls on food products and customs declarations \"would help traders to ship goods that have struggled to move over recent days.\"\n\n\"The problems have led to gaps in supermarket shelves and lorries delayed at ports because of problems with red-tape and the situation is worsening,\" the organisation added.\n\n\"We are facing an inflexible, cumbersome and time consuming process just to move goods.\"\n\nThe UK government said the flow of goods \"between GB and NI has been smooth overall and arrivals of freight have continued to increase substantially over this week\".\n\n\"There are no significant queues at NI ports and supermarkets are reporting healthy supplies into their Northern Ireland stores,\" a spokesperson added.\n\n\"We recognise the need to provide as much support to the haulage sector as possible as industry adapts to new processes. That's why hauliers can benefit from the Trader Support Service, which provides free advice and support to businesses of all sizes moving goods under the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\n\"We have been engaging intensively with the Irish authorities and hauliers on the issues that have been encountered for goods transiting through Dublin port.\"\n\nOn Thursday customs authorities in the Republic of Ireland announced a temporary relaxation of one customs process.\n\nHauliers will be able to use an override code to complete a piece of administration known as ENS.\n\nThe letters ENS refer to an entry summary declaration, an online form which goods carriers are now legally obliged to submit to Irish customs when transporting goods from Great Britain into Ireland.\n\nLorries arriving in Ireland from Great Britain have faced new checks since 1 January\n\nOn Thursday night the Irish Revenue Commissioners said it recognised that \"some businesses are experiencing difficulties on lodging their safety and security ENS declarations\".\n\nIt said that in response it was providing a \"temporary easement\" which would allow an ENS to be produced without all the normally required information.\n\nAn Irish government spokesperson said it is \"absolutely essential that Ireland fulfils its obligations as a member of the EU and that we protect the integrity of the single market and the customs union\".\n\n\"We appreciate that the new requirements and customs formalities present significant challenges and impose additional burdens on businesses.\"\n\nMeanwhile Stena, the ferry company, said it was cancelling a dozen sailings between Wales and Ireland next week due to \"a decline in freight volumes during the first week of Brexit.\"", "Covid infections rose by almost a third between 26 December and 3 January, reaching 70,000 new cases a day according to a major study.\n\nIn a different piece of research, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimated 1.2 million people in total had Covid over a similar time period.\n\nDaily infections are understood to have risen to about 150,000 since then.\n\nThat would bring daily coronavirus cases above the first peak.\n\nThe R or reproduction number for the virus is now between 1 and 1.4 for the UK, reflecting the sharp rise in cases in recent weeks.\n\nSeparate ONS data suggests just under half (44%) of British adults formed a Christmas bubble.\n\nThese temporary rules let up to three households mix indoors on 25 December - unless they were living in a Tier 4 area.\n\nThe ONS estimated how much of the population had Covid in the week of 27 December- 2 January:\n\nThe ONS data suggests cases rose by three-quarters between its two most recent study periods: 12-18 December and 27 December - 2 January.\n\nThe ZOE Covid Symptom Study was able to track more recent changes since there was no pause in its research for Christmas.\n\nIt found the epidemic is growing throughout the UK.\n\nResearchers estimate the virus's reproduction or R number is currently 1.2 across the UK.\n\nBoth sources indicate London has the most severe epidemic with the highest number of cases.\n\nConfirmed cases, published on the government's dashboard, are always lower than those in surveys because they mainly reflect the test results of people coming in with symptoms.\n\nBoth the ONS and ZOE also look at asymptomatic cases - people who may not otherwise get tests.\n\nSome asymptomatic testing is now available in the community but it is not being widely taken up.\n\nAbout a fifth of people responding to a separate ONS survey looking at the social impacts of the pandemic, said they had found it difficult to follow the Christmas rules.\n\nAnd half of those gave the fact that they had already made plans as the reason.\n\nRules, which were set to allow everyone in the UK to mix in a five-day window, were changed at the last minute, on 19 December.\n\nIn England, people living in Tiers 1-3 were allowed to form a one-day Christmas bubble with a maximum of two other households.\n\nThose in Tier 4, including about 10 million people in Greater London, were not permitted to mix at all.\n\nMixing was permitted in Scotland and Wales for Christmas Day only.\n\nHow has coronavirus affected you? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nOr use this form to get in touch:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your comment or send it via email to HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any comment you send in.", "The president says he hates Big Tech. Yet he has loved using Twitter.\n\nHe's used it as a way, for more than 10 years, to bypass the media and speak directly to voters.\n\nThe 280 characters fits neatly with his style of political engagement - broad brushstrokes rather than details.\n\nAnd Twitter has undoubtedly benefited from President Trump too, the place to go to hear the latest musings from the most powerful person on the planet.\n\nThat decade-long symbiosis has been ended with a shuddering halt.\n\nImmediately after the deadly riots, Twitter locked the President's Twitter feed and asked Mr Trump to delete three tweets for violations around its Civic Integrity policy., which he promptly did.\n\nAfter the suspension he tweeted as a new man, the nonsense claims of mass voter fraud replaced with a more conciliatory tone.\n\nPrivately though Twitter was pondering whether it had gone far enough. Facebook had already acted, banning Donald Trump \"indefinitely\".\n\nAfter more than 48 hours of consideration, Twitter acted. It made unquestionably the most important moderation decision in its history. It banned the president of the United States.\n\nSome have asked why he wasn't kicked off sooner.\n\nMr Trump or one of his associates appears to have deleted some of his most recent tweets\n\nWell, Twitter has very specific rules about world leaders.\n\n\"We recognise that sometimes it may be in the public interest to allow people to view tweets that would otherwise be taken down,\" Twitter's rules say.\n\n\"At present, we limit exceptions to one critical type of public-interest content - tweets from elected and government officials.\"\n\nChief executive Jack Dorsey had felt it was in the public interest to keep the account active, albeit with warning messages.\n\n\"No one is turning a blind eye,\" a senior source told the BBC before the ban.\n\nIn short, Mr Trump had been allowed to remain on Twitter - despite numerous breaches of its rules - because he is the president.\n\nWith less than two weeks to go of Trump's presidency, many social media companies have now decided enough is enough.\n\nCritics say the outgoing president's words on social media, for years, helped to incite Wednesday's storming of Capitol Hill.\n\nAll the big social media companies have made it clear that - as a private citizen - if you continually look to peddle conspiracy theories and promote extremism, you should expect to be kicked out. With just a few days of his presidency left, Mr Trump is already being held to a different standard - his privileges stripped.\n\nWhat's driving this? To be cynical, social media companies are acutely aware that President-elect Joe Biden believes Big Tech hasn't done enough to quell fake news and hate speech on their platforms.\n\nRioters broke into Congress after a speech by Mr Trump on Wednesday\n\nThey are now desperate to show that they can, in fact, police their own platforms without the need for stringent legal reforms.\n\nWhat better way to show you're serious than to act on Mr Trump's misinformation?\n\nWhat will Mr Trump do next? Well he's already said he's looking into the possibility of building his own platform in the future.\n\nBut for now he's consigned to the fringes of the internet. Can Trumpism survive without Big Tech? We're about to find out.\n\nJames Clayton is the BBC's North America technology reporter based in San Francisco. Follow him on Twitter @jamesclayton5.", "Fashion student Mhari Thurston-Tyler posted an advert for the \"crop top\" (right) on Depop after she says she found some discarded Chiltern Railways seat covers (like those on the left)\n\nA fashion student has been warned not to sell prohibited items on the clothes app, Depop, after she posted an advert for a top made from a train seat cover.\n\nMhari Thurston-Tyler made the bandeau out of a Chiltern Railways seat cover designed to promote social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe 20-year-old sold the top for £15 but later refunded her customer and took the advert down.\n\nDepop said the item \"clearly violates our terms of service\".\n\nThe app for buying and selling second-hand clothes said the sale of stolen goods was banned - but Ms Thurston-Tyler denied stealing.\n\nShe told BBC News she found two of the blue seat covers \"balled up on the floor\" outside Marylebone station in London in September.\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler, who is a fashion student at Central Saint Martins, re-sewed one of the covers to make it fit her, before deciding to advertise the second cover on Depop.\n\n\"I have no money at the moment so decided to put the second one on Depop to see if anyone would buy it,\" she said, adding that the app had become her main source of income as she has struggled to find other work during the pandemic.\n\n\"I have to resort to little things like this to make ends meet, to pay the bills.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler's advert went viral on social media after being shared by Depop Drama's Instagram and Twitter accounts.\n\nMhari Thurston-Tyler said she has been unable to find a job during the coronavirus pandemic and sells clothes on Depop \"to make ends meet\"\n\nIn the advert, Ms Thurston-Tyler models the seat cover and describes it as a \"social distancing crop\", adding: \"Got a few of these can do different sizes.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler, from Kenilworth in Warwickshire, said a Depop customer paid her £15 and ordered a crop top \"in extra small\".\n\nBut realising she should not be making money out of Chiltern Railways' property, Ms Thurston-Tyler refunded the customer 15 minutes later and took the advert down shortly afterwards.\n\n\"I didn't steal it but I understand it's not right to re-sell it,\" she said.\n\nA Depop spokesperson said Ms Thurston-Tyler would be banned from the platform if she listed any other prohibited goods.\n\n\"We explicitly prohibit the sale of illegal and unlawful content on the app, including any stolen goods,\" they said.\n\n\"This item clearly violates our terms of service, but as it has been removed by the seller and is no longer for sale on the platform, we will not be taking immediate steps to ban this user.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler said she hopes to make her own line of crop tops with the words \"children railways\" on the design, while \"the hype\" of the viral moment continues.\n\nChiltern Railways said it has been using the social distancing \"seat sashes\" since the beginning of the UK's Covid epidemic.\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"Whilst we appreciate this new take on railway memorabilia, these items are there to help customers travel with confidence and we would respectfully ask that they are left in place.\"", "A former Labour MP has quit the party before disciplinary proceedings against him concerning sexual harassment could be concluded, Labour has said.\n\nKelvin Hopkins was suspended by the party in 2017 after a Labour activist, Ava Etemadzadeh, accused him of inappropriate physical contact.\n\nMs Etemadzadeh said the ex-MP's exit from the party was \"disappointing\".\n\nThe BBC has attempted to contact Mr Hopkins, 79, for a response, but he has previously denied the accusations.\n\nA Labour spokesperson said it \"takes all complaints of sexual harassment extremely seriously and they are fully investigated in line with our rules and procedures, and any appropriate disciplinary action is taken.\n\n\"We are disappointed that the party's disciplinary processes did not reach a conclusion due to Kelvin Hopkins' decision to resign his membership,\" they added.\n\n\"We are establishing an independent process to investigate complaints, including sexual harassment, to ensure complainants can feel confident that in coming forward they will be heard and get the justice they deserve.\"\n\nMr Hopkins, who first won the seat of Luton North from the Conservatives in 1997, stood down ahead of the 2019 election - a decision, he said, which was to do with his wife's health, not the accusations.\n\nHe had originally been referred to the party's National Constitutional Committee following the allegations in 2017 and had expressed frustration at the length of time the hearing was taking.\n\nResponding to his decision to leave the party, Ms Etemadzadeh tweeted: \"This is very disappointing news. I hope Keir Starmer listens to my concerns and fixes this broken system.\"", "Film director Michael Apted, best known for the Up series of TV documentaries following the lives of 14 people every seven years, has died aged 79.\n\nHe also directed Coal Miner's Daughter, Gorillas In The Mist and the 1999 Bond movie The World Is Not Enough.\n\nThe original 7 Up in 1964 set out to document the life prospects of a range of children from all walks of life.\n\nThe show was inspired by the Aristotle quote \"give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man\".\n\nThe first 7 Up show was followed by 14 Up at the start of the next decade, which interviewed the same children as teenagers - and the pattern was set right up until 63 Up in 2019.\n\nThroughout all those intervening years ITV viewers became engrossed with the stories of private school trio Andrew, Charles and John, of Jackie who went through two divorces, of Neil who went from jobless and homeless to Liberal Democrat councillor, and of working class chatterbox Tony, whose life ambition was to become a jockey.\n\nApted's shows - which won three Bafta awards - have often been described as the forerunner of modern-day reality TV series, giving its participants the time to tell their own stories on screen.\n\nBut unlike their modern counterparts, the original Up children tended to fade away from the limelight in the seven years between each chapter.\n\nIn 2008, Apted was made a companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to the British film and television industries.\n\nThomas Schlamme, president of the Directors Guild of America, said Apted was a \"fearless visionary\" whose legacy would live on.\n\nHe said Apted, who was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, \"saw the trajectory of things when others didn't and we were all beneficiaries of his wisdom and lifelong dedication\".\n\nITV's managing director Kevin Lygo said the director's six-decade career was \"in itself truly remarkable\".\n\nHe said the Up series \"demonstrated the possibilities of television at its finest in its ambition and its capacity to hold up a mirror to society and engage with and entertain people while enriching our perspective on the human condition\".\n\nApted directed the 19th James Bond film The World Is Not Enough\n\n\"The influence of Michael's contribution to film and programme-making continues to be felt and he will be sadly missed,\" Lygo added.\n\nMichael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, producers of the James Bond film franchise, said Apted \"was a director of enormous talent\" and \"beloved by all those who worked with him\".\n\n\"We loved working with him on The World Is Not Enough and send our love and support to his family, friends and colleagues,\" they said.\n\nA post on the Twitter account of the band Garbage, who performed the theme for The World Is Not Enough, labelled Apted a \"delightful, charming soul\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Garbage This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nComposer David G Arnold, who composed the Bond theme and worked with Apted on three other non-Bond movies, said he felt \"lucky\" to work with him.\n\n\"A more trusting, funny, friendly and, most importantly, kind, person you'd never meet. So pleased to have known him and so sad that he's gone,\" Arnold wrote on Twitter.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eva's father, Paul Slapa, says the generosity of strangers has been \"amazing\"\n\nA 10-year-old girl who needed to travel to the United States for treatment on an inoperable brain tumour has died.\n\nFamily of Eva Williams raised £250,000 needed for a new life-extending trial.\n\nBut the schoolgirl, from Marford, Wrexham, was unable to travel due to coronavirus lockdown measures.\n\nAt the start of 2020, she was diagnosed with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) and died on Friday. Her father said in a tribute: \"We love you Eva - more than you'll have ever known.\"\n\nPaul Slapa, said on social media that his daughter was surrounded by all of her family when she died.\n\nHe posted: \"Over the past week, Eva had lost the ability to speak, eat and swallow fluids, and she has suffered more than any child should ever have to suffer.\n\n\"Watching her still fight each day has been heart-breaking.\n\n\"Eva is an inspiration to many, certainly to me, and I cannot begin to imagine how we will go forward from here.\n\n\"How do we wake up each day and go on? How do we face the world without our baby girl with us? Why did this happen to the most caring and loving of little girls?\n\n\"Every single part of us is in pain and I can't see how that can change. We love you Eva - more than you'll have ever known - and we will keep you with us every day for the rest of our lives.\"\n\nAfter Eva was diagnosed with a high-grade DIPG she had been undergoing radiotherapy treatment to shrink the tumour.\n\nHer father and mother Carran Williams started a fundraising campaign to access the trial treatment in the US, and managed to raise the money in the space of three weeks.\n\nThey had been originally due to take part in the trial in New York in April.\n\nBut then Covid-19 measures saw international flight bans and travel restrictions imposed.\n\nHer plight was raised by the Wrexham MP Sarah Atherton during Prime Minister's Questions in July and Boris Johnson said he would look at what help can be offered to get her to the United States.\n\nEva also had radiotherapy as part of her treatment", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Madrid has been hit by heavy snowfall after Storm Filomena\n\nStorm Filomena has blanketed parts of Spain in heavy snow, with half of the country on red alert for more on Saturday.\n\nRoad, rail and air travel has been disrupted and interior minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said the country was facing \"the most intense storm in the last 50 years\".\n\nMadrid, one of the worst affected areas, is set to see up to 20cm (eight inches) of snow in the next 24 hours.\n\nFurther south the storm caused rivers to burst their banks.\n\nFour deaths have been reported so far as a result of Filomena. Officials said two people had been found frozen to death - one in the town of Zarzalejo, north-west of Madrid, and the other in the eastern city of Calatayud. Two people travelling in a car were swept away by floods near the southern city of Malaga.\n\nAs snow fell on Madrid on Friday evening, a number of vehicles became stranded on a motorway near the capital.\n\nThe city's Barajas airport has closed, along with a number of roads, and all trains to and from Madrid have been cancelled.\n\nFirefighters were called in to assist drivers who had become stuck. In some areas the military were called in to help clear roads.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez urged people to stay at home and to follow the instructions of emergency services. King Felipe and Queen Letizia took to Twitter to urge \"extreme caution against the risks of accumulation of ice and snow\".\n\nThe country's AEMET weather agency said the snowfall was \"exceptional and most likely historic\".\n\nA number of people were seen making the most of the snowy scenery, walking through Madrid's Puerta del Sol square.\n\nLarge parks in Madrid have since been closed as a precaution, AFP news agency reports.\n\nOne man was pictured skiing along the Gran Via, the capital's famous shopping street.\n\nIn Cañada Real, the largest shanty town in western Europe, residents were seen creating a bonfire to keep warm.\n\nThe cold weather is set to continue beyond the weekend with temperatures in Madrid predicted to hit -12C on Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Bez in training for his new exercise classes in a park in Manchester\n\nHappy Mondays star Bez is to launch his own lockdown fitness classes to inspire the nation like Joe Wicks.\n\nThe former maraca-shaking dancer, 56, wants to rival Joe Wicks with his online YouTube classes \"Get Buzzin' With Bez\" to be launched on 17 January.\n\nBez, whose on-stage \"freaky dancing\" made him an icon of the 'Madchester' music scene, has admitted he also wants to budge his own lockdown bulge.\n\nHe won Celebrity Big Brother in 2005 and even made a bid to become an MP.\n\nBez, whose real name is Mark Berry, will be shown being trained in the fitness classes rather than acting as the instructor himself.\n\nHe said: \"I'd like to think I'm somewhere between Joe Wicks and Mr Motivator.\n\n\"I've started this new year seriously unfit, with a fat belly and creaky hips, and I can't stop eating chocolate.\n\n\"Last lockdown I got unfit, fat, lazy and into some seriously bad eating habits.\n\nBez being put through his paces with a personal trainer\n\n\"This year, this lockdown, I need to sort it out sharpish.\"\n\nHe said that people can join him on \"on this mad journey or just sit on the sofa and have a good laugh at me\".\n\nBez said he has \"started this new year seriously unfit, with a fat belly and creaky hips\"\n\nThe former dancer added: \"At the very least, I know I'll be making people smile, at best I'll be helping people get fit and mentally happier alongside me.\"\n\nThe Happy Mondays, along with bands like The Stone Roses and Inspiral Carpets, spearheaded the indie music 'Madchester' scene of the late 80s and early 90s.\n\nBez dancing with his maraca on BBC One's Top of the Pops as the band perform Step On in 1989\n\nBez's bug-eyed dance routines were said to have inspired the group's song Freaky Dancin' and made him one of the best-known members of the group, alongside frontman Shaun Ryder.\n\nTheir hits included Step On, Kinky Afro, Hallelujah and 24 Hour Party People.\n\nHowever, serious drug habits and infighting led to the Salford band's breakup in 1993.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lockdown measures in England need to be stricter to achieve the same impact as the March shutdown, scientists advising the government have said.\n\nProf Robert West said the current rules were \"still allowing a lot of activity which is spreading the virus\".\n\nProf Susan Michie also said the spread of the new more infectious variant meant the restrictions were \"too lax\".\n\nThe government said it had adapted its approach and taken \"swift action\" to try and stop the spread of the virus.\n\nThe warnings come after ministers launched a new campaign urging people to act like they have the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, Buckingham Palace has said the Queen, 94, and the Duke of Edinburgh, 99, received Covid-19 vaccinations on Saturday.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can only go out for essential reasons. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf West, a participant in the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours (SPI-B), which advises the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said the new variant of Covid is around 50% more infectious compared to the virus that infected people last March.\n\n\"That means that if we were to achieve the same result as we got in March we would have to have a stricter lockdown, and it's not stricter,\" he said\n\nThe professor of health psychology at University College London, also told the BBC more children were going to school, compared to the first lockdown and he said schools were \"a very important seed of community infection\".\n\nMore people are in schools, after the Department for Education has widened the categories of vulnerable and key worker pupils allowed to attend, with attendance rates surging to 50% in some places.\n\nProf Michie, who is also a member of Sage, agreed the current lockdown was \"too lax\".\n\n\"When you look at the data, it shows that almost 90% of people are overwhelmingly adhering to the rules - despite the fact that we're also seeing more people out and about,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShe said in comparison to the first lockdown last spring more people were allowed to go out to work and children's nurseries were open, making public transport busier.\n\nThe number of people travelling by public transport in London has decreased since the latest national lockdown began, with tube journeys now at 18% of the pre-pandemic demand and bus journeys at 30%, according to figures from Transport for London.\n\nHowever, during the first lockdown passenger numbers fell below 10% at some points.\n\nProf Michie, a professor of health psychology at University College London, added that the winter season posed extra challenges because the virus survives longer in the cold and people spend more time indoors, where the virus can spread more easily.\n\nCombined with the more transmissible new variant, she said \"we should have a stricter rather than less strict lockdown than we had back in March\".\n\nScientists believe the new variant spreads between 50 and 70% faster compared to previous forms of the virus.\n\nDr Adam Kucharski, another scientist advising the government and an associate professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said that because the new variant was more transmissible \"each interaction we have has become riskier than it was before\".\n\nHe said that even if people reduced their contacts to levels seen last spring, it would not have the same effect on virus transmission.\n\nProf Kevin Fenton, London regional director for Public Health England, said there were \"things we could do better\" to reduce the number of infections, including greater compliance with mask wearing and social distancing when shopping and using public transport.\n\nOn Friday 1,325 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were recorded in the UK - the highest daily figure yet - along with 68,053 new cases.\n\nAs cases and deaths soar, the government has launched an advertising campaign, which will be shared across television, radio, newspapers and on social media, urging people to stay at home and not to get complacent.\n\nGovernment sources say there is also likely to be more focus from police on enforcing rather than explaining rules.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson says hospitals are \"under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic\", with infection rates increasing at an \"alarming rate\" across the country and the NHS under \"severe strain\".\n\nIt comes after London's mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of coronavirus was \"out of control\" as he declared a \"major incident\" in the capital on Friday.\n\nDr Simon Walsh, an emergency care doctor in London, told BBC Breakfast the \"unprecedented\" numbers of patients requiring intensive care treatment meant staff were spread \"more and more thinly\".\n\nHospitals in other parts of the UK are also under pressure.\n\nDr Justin Varney, director of public health in Birmingham, said he was \"very worried\" about the situation in the city, where hospital bosses have warned they do not have enough intensive care nurses to deal with the growing case load.\n\nHe warned that the NHS had still not seen the impact of the rise in cases following the relaxation of restrictions over Christmas and added: \"It is going to get a lot, lot worse unless we really get this under control\".\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Our priority from the outset has been to protect the NHS to save lives and we have taken advice from scientific and medical experts throughout. As new evidence has emerged, we have adapted our approach and taken swift action to try and stop the spread of the virus.\"\n\nTell us how you have been affected by coronavirus by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "More than 80,000 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test since the start of the pandemic, official figures have shown.\n\nA further 1,035 deaths in the UK were reported on Saturday, taking the total by that measure to 80,868.\n\nThe number of daily cases of people who tested positive for coronavirus increased by 59,937.\n\nOnly the US, Brazil, India and Mexico have recorded more Covid deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nIt is the fourth day in a row that the UK has reported more than 1,000 daily deaths.\n\nIt comes as scientists advising the government have warned that lockdown measures in England need to be stricter to achieve the same impact as the March shutdown.\n\nMinisters have launched a new campaign urging people to act like they have the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, Buckingham Palace has said the Queen, 94, and the Duke of Edinburgh, 99, received Covid-19 vaccinations on Saturday.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 50 people in England had coronavirus between 27 December and 2 January, while in London it was one in 30.\n\nOn Friday, mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of Covid in the capital was \"out of control\".\n\nOfficial figures from Public Health England showed London had the highest regional case rate in the UK, exceeding 1,000 per 100,000 people.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can only go out for essential reasons. Similar measures are in place across most of Scotland, in Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf Robert West, a participant in the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours (SPI-B), which advises the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said the current rules were \"still allowing a lot of activity which is spreading the virus\".\n\nHe said the new variant of Covid was around 50% more infectious compared to the virus that infected people last March.\n\n\"That means that if we were to achieve the same result as we got in March we would have to have a stricter lockdown, and it (the current regime) is not stricter,\" he added.\n\nThe professor of health psychology at University College London also told the BBC more children were going to school, compared to during the first lockdown.\n\nHe said schools were \"a very important seed of community infection\".\n\nMore children are at school, after the Department for Education widened the categories of vulnerable and key worker pupils allowed to attend. Attendance rates have risen to 50% in some places.\n\nProf Susan Michie, who is also a member of Sage, said the spread of the new, more infectious variant meant current restrictions were \"too lax\".\n\n\"When you look at the data, it shows that almost 90% of people are overwhelmingly adhering to the rules - despite the fact that we're also seeing more people out and about,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShe said, in comparison to the first lockdown in spring 2020, more people were allowed to go out to work and children's nurseries were open, making public transport busier.\n\nThe number of people travelling by public transport in London has decreased since the latest national lockdown began, with tube journeys now at 18% of the pre-pandemic demand and bus journeys at 30%, according to figures from Transport for London.\n\nHowever, during the first lockdown passenger numbers fell below 10% at some points.\n\nScientists believe the new variant spreads between 50 and 70% faster compared to previous forms of the virus.\n\nProf Kevin Fenton, London regional director for Public Health England, said there were \"things we could do better\" to reduce the number of infections, including greater compliance with mask wearing and social distancing when shopping and using public transport.\n\nTorsten Bell, chief executive of the Resolution Foundation think tank, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that the UK's statutory sick pay system was \"not fit for purpose for a pandemic\" and more effective measures to encourage people to isolate were needed.\n\nAs cases and deaths soar, the government has launched an advertising campaign, which will be shared across television, radio, newspapers and on social media, urging people to stay at home and not to get complacent.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"I know the last year has taken its toll - but your compliance is now more vital than ever.\"\n\nGovernment sources say there is also likely to be more focus from police on enforcing rather than explaining rules.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, 12 people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. Upload your pictures here. Don't forget to include your contact details, so we can get in touch with you.\n\nWe would like to respond to everyone individually and include every tribute in our coverage, but unfortunately that may not be possible. Please be assured your message will be read and treated with the utmost respect.\n\nPlease note the contact details you provide will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your tribute.\n• None Lockdown needs to be stricter, scientists warn", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. London mayor Sadiq Khan: \"Unless the virus reduces... we could run out of beds\"\n\nThe spread of Covid in London is \"out of control\" according to Sadiq Khan, who has declared a \"major incident\".\n\nThe coronavirus infection rate in London has exceeded 1,000 per 100,000 people, based on the latest figures from Public Health England.\n\nHowever, the Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 30 Londoners has coronavirus.\n\nMr Khan told BBC political reporter Karl Mercer that the figure is as high as one in 20 in some parts of London.\n\nMajor incidents have previously been called for the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017 and the terror attacks at Westminster Bridge and London Bridge.\n\nA major incident is any emergency that requires the implementation of special arrangements by one or all of the emergency services, the NHS or the local authority.\n\nIt means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response.\n\nCurrently, there are more than 7,000 people in hospital with Covid-19, the mayor said.\n\nThis is a 35% increase compared to last April's peak of the pandemic, he added.\n\nDr Samantha Batt-Rawden, an ICU registrar and President of the Doctors' Association UK, tweeted: \"We tried. We really tried. NHS staff pleaded with people that Christmas is not worth it. Now one in 30 people in London have Covid and ICUs are overwhelmed. My heart is broken.\"\n\nAn analysis of Public Health England figures show in the week to 3 January, the number of cases rose across all of the London's boroughs compared with the previous week, with 17 individually recording more than 1,000 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nTesting increased in parts of the city after a drop over the Christmas period but positivity was high among people taking lab-based tests - suggesting more testing is needed to find undiagnosed cases in the community.\n\nIn the past week, many parts of the capital saw a rise in deaths where a person had tested positive for coronavirus in the previous 28 days - with some areas recording more than double the number of deaths compared with the previous week.\n\nHowever, reporting over the Christmas period may have affected this.\n\nOut of the 18 acute hospital trusts in London providing figures to the government, all of them recorded having more beds being filled by coronavirus patients than in the previous week.\n\nBarts NHS Health, one of London's largest trusts, saw a 30% increase in coronavirus patients between 29 December and 5 January, to 830.\n\nThe London Ambulance Service is now taking up to 8,000 emergency calls a day, the mayor says\n\nThe mayor of London's announcement comes after the counties of Sussex and Surrey declared similar major incidents on Thursday.\n\nHe said the London Ambulance Service was currently taking up to 8,000 emergency calls a day, compared to 5,500 on a typical busy day.\n\nThe London Fire Brigade said more than 100 firefighters had been drafted in to drive ambulances to help cope with the demand.\n\nEvery frontline agency involved in protecting the public has a legal duty to prepare for emergencies by devising and testing major incident plans.\n\nThese public bodies declare a major incident when the situation they're confronting is so big or terrible that it's not only likely to cause serious harm, but it will also compromise their ability to respond effectively.\n\nIn general terms, that means public bodies can legally stop delivering some everyday services, so that their personnel, attention and resources can be diverted to the emergency confronting them.\n\nAt other times, the plans will lead to the military sending soldiers to aid the civilian effort, as we have seen already during the pandemic.\n\nPrevious major incidents include the Grenfell Tower disaster in London, the Salisbury Novichok poisonings and the 2017 terrorism attacks.\n\nLondon's regional director for Public Health England Kevin Fenton said the current wave of coronavirus was \"the biggest threat\" the capital has faced in this pandemic to date.\n\nHe added: \"The emergence of the new variant means we are setting record case rates at almost double the national average, with at least one in 30 people now thought to be carrying the virus.\n\n\"We know this will sadly lead to large numbers of deaths, so strong and immediate action is needed.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nMr Khan is warning that London is \"at crisis point\".\n\n\"If we do not take immediate action now, our NHS could be overwhelmed and more people will die,\" he said.\n\n\"Londoners continue to make huge sacrifices and I am today imploring them to please stay at home unless it is absolutely necessary for you to leave. Stay at home to protect yourself, your family, friends and other Londoners and to protect our NHS.\"\n\nHe said he had written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking for more financial support for Londoners who need to self-isolate and are unable to work, and for daily vaccination data.\n\nMr Khan also called for the closure of places of worship and for face masks to be worn routinely outside the home, including in crowded places and supermarket queues, in a bid to curb case numbers.\n\nTwo hospital trusts in London have recorded more than 1,000 coronavirus deaths\n\nThe mayor of London was in a sombre mood when I spoke to him earlier this afternoon. One in 20 Londoners in some areas now has Covid, and there is a real fear that hospitals will simply be overwhelmed in the next two weeks.\n\nDeclaring a major incident is a real indication of the levels of concern felt not just at City Hall but across London's emergency services and the NHS.\n\nMore Londoners are now in hospital with coronavirus than at the peak of the first wave last April - and those numbers are growing by more than 800 every day.\n\nIt's believed the last mayor to declare a London-wide major incident was Boris Johnson in response to the 2011 riots.\n\nThe coming days will be some of the most challenging in the city's recent history.\n\nKatie Sanderson, a junior doctor working in London, said she is worried how long medical staff can cope with the surge of patients.\n\n\"[Staff] are working on wards and spending long amounts of time with patients who need high-intensive oxygen therapy,\" she said.\n\n\"It is technically challenging and the emotional burden is enormous. I see it in a flatness in their demeanour, like we've all got used to doing things which before were totally inconceivable.\"\n\nGeorgia Gould, chair of London Councils, described London's rising coronavirus rate as \"dangerous\".\n\nShe added: \"One in 30 Londoners now has Covid. This is why public services across London are urging all Londoners to please stay at home except for absolutely essential shopping and exercise.\n\n\"This is a dark and difficult time for our city but there is light at end of the tunnel with the vaccine rollout. We are asking Londoners to come together one last time to stop the spread - lives really do depend on it.\"\n\nEarlier this week as the prime minister introduced an England-wide lockdown, the Met Police said officers were going to be \"more inquisitive\" towards Londoners seen outside.\n\nThe Met handed out 1,761 fines for breaches of coronavirus laws between 27 March and 20 December.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said the major incident was a \"stark reminder\" of the point London is at in the pandemic.\n\nHe said: \"These rule-breakers cannot continue to feign ignorance of the risk that this virus poses or listen to the false information and lies that some promote downplaying the dangers.\n\n\"Every time the virus spreads it increases the risk of someone needlessly losing their life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'One of the worst shifts of my life - it's overwhelming'\n\nIn response to Mr Khan's announcement the government said the NHS is continuing to \"face a huge challenge\"\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"It is absolutely paramount people in London, and the rest of the country, follow the rules and stay at home to protect the NHS and save lives.\n\n\"We are working closely with NHS England to support hospitals in the capital, including additional bed capacity at the London Nightingale.\n\n\"Financial support is in place for workers who need to self-isolate - including a £500 payment for those on the lowest incomes who have been contacted by NHS Test and Trace.\"\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nHave any of the issues raised in this article had an impact on you? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This car was one of many turned away by police at Moel Famau on Saturday\n\nPeople are \"blatantly\" ignoring rules on lockdown restrictions despite repeated warnings, police have said.\n\nMore than 100 cars had been turned away from Moel Famau on the Flintshire border by Saturday lunchtime, with some driving past \"road closed\" signs.\n\nIn Snowdonia, Gwynedd, a warden said a group from Leicester would have \"probably ignored our advice\" if police had not arrived and told them to leave.\n\nLevel four restrictions mean travelling for exercise is not allowed in Wales.\n\nKeith Ellis, a warden at Pen y Pass in Snowdonia, said while it had been much quieter this weekend, people were still travelling, despite the restrictions.\n\n\"We've had three from Leicester first thing this morning and if the police hadn't turned up they would have probably ignored our advice and carried on up the mountain,\" he said.\n\n\"What they were wearing was totally inappropriate and they would have probably got into danger.\n\n\"We've had people also from Liverpool and some locals turning up knowing full well what the rules are, but just trying it on.\n\n\"Luckily there are a lot more police officers around and all these people have been spoken to and advised by the police as well.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Cases of coronavirus are very high in Wales at the moment and there is a new strain of the virus circulating, which is highly infectious and moving quickly.\n\n\"At alert level four, exercise should always be undertaken from home, unless you have special circumstances which requires some flexibility - such as disability or autism.\n\n\"The more people gather, the greater the risk of spreading or catching the virus.\"", "A further 1,610 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt means the total number of deaths by that measure is now above 90,000.\n\nA total of 4,266,577 people have now received the first dose of a vaccine, according to the latest government figures.\n\nAnother 33,355 positive Covid cases have been recorded - less than half the peak figure of 68,053 on 8 January.\n\nIt is the lowest number of daily cases seen since 27 December - before the start of England's third nationwide lockdown.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said: \"Whilst there are some early signs that show our sacrifices are working, we must continue to strictly abide by the measures in place.\"\n\nShe said reducing contact with others and staying at home will lead to \"a fall in the number of infections over time\".\n\nThe figures come as new estimates from the Office for National Statistics show about one in 10 people across the UK tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies in December - roughly double the October figure.\n\nThe rising number of deaths was to be expected, sadly, after the surge in cases during December.\n\nAnd it is likely that the coming weeks will see figures even higher than this.\n\nToday's numbers are, though, inflated by the fact that delays in registering deaths over the weekend tends to lead to higher figures being reported on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.\n\nOn average, the UK is recording more than 1,100 deaths a day.\n\nTo put that in context, at Christmas it was less than half of that.\n\nBut there are two rays of hope in the daily update.\n\nFirstly, the number of cases is below 40,000 for a third day in a row. Just two weeks ago we saw a few days above 60,000.\n\nThat means in the coming weeks we should start to see fewer people in hospital and eventually fewer deaths.\n\nThe number of vaccinations also continues to rise.\n\nIt seems unlikely the NHS will manage its target of two million doses a week just yet.\n\nBut each increase at least takes us one step closer to getting on top of the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England said 400 military personnel were now assisting in hospitals in London and the Midlands, as wards face \"unprecedented pressure\".\n\nOn Monday, Prof Stephen Powis, national medical director for NHS England, said it would be \"some time\" before the vaccination programme begins to reduce pressures on hospitals.\n\nAnd in other developments, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said he is self-isolating after being alerted by the UK's NHS Covid-19 app .that he had been in close contact with somebody who tested positive.\n\nHe said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\" and urged others to do the same if contacted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Freeborn's wife, Helen, died from Covid at the Royal London Hospital: 'Don't end up like us, please'\n\nThe previous highest number of daily deaths was last Wednesday, when 1,564 deaths were recorded.\n\nTuesday's figure brings the total number of deaths recorded during the pandemic in the UK to 91,470.\n\nThese government figures count people who died within 28 days of testing positive, but there are other ways of measuring the total number of deaths.\n\nAnother method is to count all deaths where coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate. That figure has now officially reached 95,829, although that is only measured up to 8 January.\n\nThe UK has recorded the fifth-highest number of deaths globally, according to Johns Hopkins University - behind the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"British people are paying the price for the government's serial incompetence.\"", "In 2009, Spector was convicted of the 2003 murder of Hollywood actress Lana Clarkson\n\nThe BBC has apologised for the original headline in its reporting of the death of the convicted murderer Phil Spector.\n\nThe former music producer died on Saturday at the age of 81, while serving a prison sentence for the murder of Lana Clarkson in 2003.\n\nThe first version on the breaking news story on the BBC News website carried the headline: \"Talented but flawed producer Phil Spector dies aged 81\".\n\nThe BBC said the headline \"did not meet our editorial standards\".\n\nThe text was quickly changed to: \"Pop producer jailed for murder dies at 81.\"\n\n\"This was changed within minutes and we also deleted a tweet that had gone out automatically with the original headline,\" a statement issued by the BBC read.\n\n\"We apologise for this error.\"\n\n\"Our coverage of the story across BBC News has been clear that Phil Spector was convicted of the murder of Lana Clarkson and had a long history of violence and abuse,\" it continued.\n\nSpector was convicted of murdering Clarkson, an actress, in 2009.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\n\nReacting to the original version of the BBC's story, pop star Lily Allen tweeted: \"Rolling eyes at all the journos deliberately downplaying Phil Spector being a murderer in their headlines, so everyone points this out while linking to their articles resulting in lots of clicks.\"\n\n\"How about 'Murderer, Phil Spector dies aged 81'?\" offered author and historian Hallie Rubenhold.\n\nThe headline was also discussed on TV and radio programmes on Monday, including Loose Women and Radio 4's Woman's Hour, and prompted an article in the Guardian.\n\nThe phrasing of the BBC's article - and others like it - were \"a reflection of how a man's 'genius' is often viewed as more important than a woman's humanity,\" said columnist Arwa Mahdawi.\n\nSpector, who transformed pop with his \"wall of sound\" recordings, worked with The Beatles, The Righteous Brothers and Tina Turner.\n\nBut after the commercial failure of Tina Turner's River Deep, Mountain High, he largely withdrew from public life, and entered a long decline, marked by erratic behaviour, heavy drinking, and a fondness for guns.\n\nHis turbulent marriage to Ronettes singer Veronica Bennett, known as Ronnie Spector, ended in divorce.\n\n\"Unfortunately Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio,\" she wrote after his death was announced. \"Darkness set in, many lives were damaged.\"\n\nSinger Darlene Love, who sang on several songs Spector produced, said he \"changed the sound of rock 'n' roll\" but likened their relationship to \"a bad marriage\".\n\n\"The problem I have with Phil is that he wanted to control Darlene Love's talent,\" she told Variety. \"If he couldn't do that, he was going to do everything in his power to keep my talent from shining.\"\n\nWeeks before Lana Clarkson was shot dead, Spector gave a rare interview to British broadsheet The Telegraph.\n\n\"I would say I'm probably relatively insane, to an extent,\" he told the paper, adding that he had \"devils inside that fight me\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "In Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, residents have prepared their homes and businesses ahead of the heavy rain\n\nEmergency services in the north of England are preparing for widespread flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nThe Environment Agency has warned of a \"volatile situation\" as heavy rain combines with melting snow, while police in South Yorkshire and Greater Manchester declared major incidents.\n\nAn amber rain warning is in place for Yorkshire, the North West, East Midlands and the east of England.\n\nA yellow rain warning was issued for the rest of the country.\n\nGreater Manchester Police Assistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey said the force had declared a major incident to ensure it was \"as prepared as possible\".\n\n\"The safety of the public is our number one priority and we're continuing to work alongside partner agencies across the region,\" he said.\n\nA government spokesperson said it had provided additional advice to local agencies to help them manage any evacuations and shelter provision in a Covid-secure way.\n\n\"The government has robust plans in place to support any areas affected by extreme weather this winter,\" they added.\n\nSandbags were laid in at-risk areas, with up to 70mm (2.75in) of rain due.\n\nIn isolated spots, particularly in the northern Peak District and parts of the southern Pennines, 200mm (7.87in) could be possible.\n\nNorthern Rail said buses were being used instead of trains on services between Bolton and Blackburn due to flooding at Darwen.\n\nSome motorists attempted to drive through floodwater on Derby Road in Hathern, Leicestershire\n\nIn the amber warning area, the Met Office said there was a \"danger to life\" due to fast-flowing or deep floodwater, and told some communities they might be \"cut off\" by flooded roads.\n\nIt also predicted delays and cancellations to public transport, with the amber warning in place until 12:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nRos Jones, mayor of Doncaster, said key risk areas had been inspected over the past 36 hours, with the delivery of sandbags continuing on Tuesday.\n\n\"I do not want people to panic, but flooding is possible so please be prepared,\" she said.\n\nResidents of Fishlake, South Yorkshire, which saw severe flooding hit 160 homes and businesses in November 2019, said they felt much better prepared this time round.\n\nFlood warden and parish councillor Peter Trimingham said the arrival of sandbags had been a welcome sight.\n\n\"It gives us confidence,\" he said.\n\nResidents in Fishlake, near Doncaster, say they are better prepared than when flooding hit in 2019\n\nMr Trimingham added: \"We're absolutely hoping it doesn't rise to the same level. But, if it does, we're reasonably comfortable we've still got a chance because the Environment Agency have done tremendous work here along with Doncaster Council.\"\n\nHe said new defences had been built and their team of flood wardens had been expanded to 22 people.\n\nOn Yarlborough Terrace in Bentley, Doncaster, many residents were out of their homes for months after the 2019 floods.\n\nAnna Booth, 37, who was forced to live in a caravan on her drive, said residents were worried about it happening again.\n\n\"Being in the pandemic doesn't help either. Morale's a bit down but I think we'll all pull together again like last time,\" she said.\n\n\"It breaks your heart, it's really sad, but we can't stop the weather.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Environment Agency issued more than 30 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, covering parts of Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Merseyside, Staffordshire and Northamptonshire as of 03:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nThere are also more than 150 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible, issued across northern England, the Midlands and the east.\n\nRiver levels in the Ouse, which flows through York in North Yorkshire, are high before the arrival of Storm Christoph\n\nCatherine Wright, acting executive director for flood and coastal risk management at the Environment Agency, said: \"That rain is falling on very wet ground and so we are very concerned that it's a very volatile situation and we are expecting significant flooding to occur on the back of that weather.\"\n\nShe said the agency would be working with local authorities to help with evacuation efforts should a severe flood warning be issued, adding: \"If you do need to evacuate then that is allowed within the Covid rules.\"\n\nWork took place on Tuesday morning to increase defences near the River Ouse\n\nDiscussing the different levels of flood warnings, she said: \"If you receive a flood alert, please pack valuables like medicines and insurance documents in a bag ready to go.\n\n\"If you receive a flood warning, please move valuables and precious possessions upstairs and be ready to turn off gas, electricity and water.\n\n\"If you receive a severe flood warning, which means you will be evacuated, please listen out and take heed of the advice from the local emergency services.\"\n\nSandbags have been used to help defend homes in Fishlake, Doncaster, which suffered devastating floods in November 2019\n\nBarry Greenwood, from the Upper Calder Valley Flood Prevention Group in West Yorkshire, has been \"sick\" with worry.\n\n\"I went round after the last [flood], people were there with their heads in their hands, thinking 'what am I going to do now?',\" he said.\n\nFlood sirens were sounded in Walsden on Tuesday evening after a flood warning was issued for the area.\n\nIn a tweet, Calderdale Council asked residents to put their flood plan into action and move valuables to a safe place.\n\n\"River levels across the Upper River Calder have risen and are now approaching levels where we expect properties to flood,\" it warned.\n\nEarlier it had said staff were on standby to respond overnight.\n\nThe amber rain warning is in place until Thursday, with yellow warnings covering most of the UK coming in over the next three days\n\nA yellow rain alert is also in place for Wales, Northern Ireland, central and northern England and southern Scotland on Tuesday.\n\nThis yellow warning extends to the rest of England from Wednesday, with a yellow alert for snow and ice in north east Scotland.\n\nHighways England advised drivers to take extra care on motorways and major A roads, while the RAC breakdown service said motorists should only drive if absolutely necessary.\n\nDrivers faced wet road conditions and reduced visibility on the A1(M) near Boston Spa, West Yorkshire, on Tuesday morning\n\nHebden Bridge's volunteer flood warden Keith Crabtree has been monitoring the river levels of Hebden Beck closely\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sheku Bayoh death: Eyewitness says stamping attack on officer 'never happened'\n\nTwo police officers involved in the death of a black man they were restraining may have provided false statements, the BBC can reveal.\n\nThey said Sheku Bayoh carried out a stamping attack on a female PC before he was brought to the ground and restrained by up to six officers.\n\nBut now an eyewitness has spoken publicly for the first time about the 2015 incident.\n\nHe told a Panorama investigation that the stamping attack \"never happened\".\n\nThe Scottish Police Federation said its officers had cooperated truthfully with investigators.\n\nMr Bayoh, a 31-year-old father of two, died in the incident in the Fife town of Kirkcaldy in 2015.\n\nA public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding his death has recently got under way. One of its tasks is to examine whether his race was a factor.\n\nSheku Bayoh was restrained on the ground for five minutes before falling unconscious\n\nOn the night of 2 May 2015, Sheku Bayoh had taken drugs, which friends said dramatically altered his behaviour.\n\nPolice were called early the following morning after he was spotted behaving erratically with a knife in the streets of his home town.\n\nAccording to police statements, by the time the officers arrived at the scene Mr Bayoh no longer had the knife but he failed to obey instructions to get down on the ground.\n\nEach of the officers used force on Mr Bayoh within seconds of encountering him, including CS Spray and batons.\n\nHe then punched PC Nicole Short, who went to the ground.\n\nTwo officers, PCs Craig Walker and Ashley Tomlinson, would later tell investigators that Mr Bayoh then carried out a violent stamping attack on PC Short while she lay on the ground, a claim reported widely in the media.\n\nThe stamping attack was widely reported in the newspapers\n\nPC Walker told investigators: \"I had a clear view of him… he had his arms raised up at right angles to his body and brought his right foot down in a full-force stamp on to her lower back.\"\n\nPC Tomlinson said: \"I thought he had killed her. He stomped on her back again.\"\n\nNow, evidence obtained by Panorama suggests these accounts may be false.\n\nMr Bayoh was restrained on the ground for five minutes before falling unconscious. He was pronounced dead at hospital a short time later.\n\nA post-mortem examination report revealed 23 separate injuries to Mr Bayoh's body, including a broken rib and gashes to his head. The cause of death was recorded as \"sudden death in a man intoxicated [with drugs] whilst under restraint\".\n\nIn 2018, the Crown Office in Scotland decided there would be no prosecutions against any officers involved.\n\nKevin Nelson gave evidence to investigators two days after the incident\n\nKevin Nelson was in a nearby house and saw events unfold over a garden hedge.\n\nHe gave his account to investigators from Pirc (Police Investigations and Review Commissioner), which investigates deaths in custody, two days after the incident.\n\nSpeaking publicly for the first time, Mr Nelson told Panorama he saw Mr Bayoh attempt to walk away from the officers, ignoring their commands, before being sprayed with CS spray. He said Mr Bayoh retaliated and punched PC Short.\n\nAsked if there had been any further contact with PC Short, he said, \"No. He was running off… after the punch, there was no more attack on her at all.\"\n\nMr Nelson said Mr Bayoh ran off from where PC Short went down and was quickly intercepted by the other officers.\n\nAsked about PC Walker's claim that Mr Bayoh had \"his arms raised up… and brought his right foot down in a full force stamp\", Mr Nelson said: \"That never happened. I didn't see him stamping at all or, other than the punch, any raised arms.\n\n\"After the punch, that was it. There was no more attack on her at all. That's not right.\"\n\nThe officers provided their accounts to investigators 32 days after Mr Bayoh's death.\n\nMr Nelson said no-one from Pirc returned to ask about the discrepancy between their account and his.\n\nThe eyewitness said he decided to speak out because it was unfair on Mr Bayoh's family that the officers had \"made the incident worse than it actually was to justify what had happened and… that's not right\".\n\nMr Nelson's account is supported by CCTV footage of the incident, obtained by the BBC.\n\nIt is poor quality but appears to show that once PC Short is knocked down by Mr Bayoh, the action moves away from her, and he is brought down within five seconds.\n\nPC Short did not mention in her statement she had been stamped on. Now retired, she later said she was unsure if she was conscious, and only learned about the alleged stamping attack when her colleagues told her about it afterwards.\n\nIn the CCTV, PC Short appears to get to her feet a few seconds after Mr Bayoh is brought down.\n\nMike Franklin says conflicts of evidence should have been resolved\n\nMike Franklin, former commissioner for the body which investigated police complaints in England and Wales, looked at Panorama's evidence.\n\nHe said: \"I think there's nothing more serious than a police officer who gives false information in an investigation where somebody has died. So without accusing them of lying, I simply say that there's a big conflict.\n\n\"Two officers who were there say that it did happen. The person to whom it happened didn't mention it. And an eyewitness says it didn't happen.\n\n\"I would've been reluctant to sign off the investigation as complete, without resolving those… conflicts of evidence.\"\n\nMr Bayoh's sister, Kadi Johnson, told Panorama the new allegations had made her \"really angry\".\n\nShe said the way her brother was \"painted\" by the accounts given after his death was not who he was.\n\nMr Bayoh's sister, Kadi Johnson, said the new allegations had made her really angry\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish Police Federation, which represents rank and file officers, said serving officers were unable to comment on matters \"to which they may be called upon to give sworn evidence\" but that they had \"co-operated fully and truthfully with the investigations that have taken place\".\n\nIt added it had seen \"compelling material that Mr Bayoh did violently stamp on the back of a policewoman as she lay unconscious\".\n\nThe BBC asked for this material to be produced but was told the inquiry was the \"proper forum\" for such matters.\n\nThe Crown Office, which directed the Pirc Inquiry, told Panorama it had examined \"eye-witness accounts of police and civilian witnesses\" and instructed \"appropriate investigation\".\n\nIt said after careful consideration it was decided there should be no prosecutions but reserved the right to prosecute should evidence become available.\n\nPirc told Panorama its investigation was \"detailed and extensive\" but could not comment further because of the public inquiry.\n\nPolice Scotland Chief Constable Iain Livingstone expressed his condolences to the Bayoh family and said the force would \"participate fully\" in the inquiry.\n\nKevin Clarke died after being restrained in London by up to nine officers\n\nPanorama's \"I Can't Breathe: Black and Dead in Custody\" also investigates the case of Kevin Clarke, 35, who died in 2018 after being restrained in London by up to nine officers.\n\nAn inquest into his death resulted in a damning verdict on the police and ambulance services.\n\nMr Clarke's sister Tellecia told the programme that if the officers \"hadn't used excessive force he would still be here today… treat him like a human being, and not just see him as a big scary black man\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commander Bas Javid apologised to Mr Clarke's family and accepted the restraint had not been appropriate.", "Protests against China's alleged abuse of the Muslim Uighur community\n\nThe government has narrowly seen off a rebellion by 33 Tory MPs, who want to outlaw trade deals with countries judged to be committing genocide.\n\nMPs voted by 319 to 308 to remove an amendment to the Trade Bill which would have forced ministers to withdraw from deals with nations the UK High Court ruled guilty of mass killings.\n\nIt comes amid condemnation of China's treatment of the Uighur people.\n\nThe rebels believe they have enough support to secure another vote soon.\n\nAmong those to defy the government were ex-Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith, former cabinet ministers David Davis and Damian Green and Tom Tugendhat, chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee.\n\nThe rebellion is one of the largest on an issue not related to the Covid-19 pandemic during Boris Johnson's time as prime minister.\n\nThe government has a Commons majority of 80 but this was whittled down to just 11 as prominent ex-ministers such as Tobias Ellwood, Caroline Nokes and Nusrat Ghani, as well as a number of MPs first elected last year, sided with the opposition.\n\nMPs have been debating proposals, tabled by cross-bench peer Lord Alton, to give British courts the right to decide if a country is committing genocide, a decision currently left to the jurisdiction of international courts.\n\nThe proposals, also backed by Labour, would mean that ministers would have to revoke post-Brexit trade deals with countries that were ruled to be carrying out systematic mass killings.\n\nThe issue is expected to resurface when the Trade Bill returns to the House of Lords.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Conservative rebels, led by former leader Iain Duncan Smith, were unable to force a vote on a separate amendment they had proposed.\n\nEvery speaker in today's debate - from the front and back benches - said genocide was abhorrent. The worst of crimes. There was united criticism of China's brutal treatment of the Uighurs too.\n\nBut the question Parliament has been wrestling with is whether the High Court should have the right to decide if a country is committing genocide. And if they did judge a country has been carrying out mass killings, should the High Court be able to compel the government to revoke any trade treaty it has with that country?\n\nMinisters insist it should be the job of elected governments, not judges, to determine trade policy. But opposition parties and a large cohort of Tory backbenchers argue it's essential the High Court can rule on genocide and ensure the UK's new trade-making freedom has an obligation to uphold human rights too.\n\nThis also is an argument about where power lies after Brexit and what role Parliament should have in shaping trade policy after decades in the EU.\n\nBut BBC Newsnight political editor Nick Watt said that by securing large, but not overwhelming, support for Lord Alton's amendment in the Commons, the rebels hope the government will accept Mr Duncan Smith's own amendment - which would give the Commons the right to debate whether trade deals can be halted if genocide is proven.\n\nThe debate came as the US government formally declared that China was committing genocide in its repression of Uighur muslims in Xinjiang.\n\nThe UK government has been critical of China's treatment of the Uighurs and last week announced measures to cut UK business links with forced labour camps in the region.\n\nBut some MPs suspect the government is pulling its punches to avoid antagonising Beijing.\n\nMr Duncan Smith said the debate was \"all about simply shining a light of hope to all those out there who have failed to get their day in court and failed to be treated properly\".\n\n\"If this country doesn't stand up for that then I want to know what would it ever stand up for again?,\" he added.\n\nBut Trade Minister Greg Hands said it was unprecedented and unacceptable to give the courts powers to revoke trade deals agreed by elected governments.\n\nAnd he argued that no one would benefit from the proposal because the UK currently had no free trade deal with China.", "Lisbet Stone is stranded at Madrid Airport due to having an out-of-date coronavirus test result\n\nPassenger Lisbet Stone says she is stuck in Madrid Airport after airline officials said her coronavirus test result was out of date.\n\nFrom Monday, travellers arriving in the UK, whether by boat, train or plane, have to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the three days before travelling.\n\nFor those with connecting flights, the test must be 72 hours before your final departure point to England.\n\nAnyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nMrs Stone originally travelled to Cuba in February 2020 to see family. The British Cuban dual national was unable to fly home to the UK when Cuba closed its borders in March.\n\nThe family say she had several previous flights cancelled before finally being able to leave this weekend. She hasn't been able to see her four children or her husband Trevor in 11 months.\n\nThe government are understood to be speaking to Air Europa to try to get Mrs Stone home. Carriers have been told that they should permit stranded passengers to board and will not be fined for doing so.\n\nWhile Mrs Stone has been caught out by the new restrictions for incoming travellers, the first day of the new regulations appeared to go smoothly.\n\nMrs Stone left Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba, on Sunday night to fly back to the UK via Madrid.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\nShe took a Covid test on Thursday to be guaranteed a result by Saturday. It was negative and Mrs Stone was able to board the plane from Cuba.\n\nHowever, on arrival at Madrid-Barajas Airport, Mrs Stone says she was stopped from boarding the next leg of her journey to London Gatwick by Air Europa staff, because her test had been taken more than 72 hours before the final flight.\n\n\"She's crying her eyes out,\" says Trevor Stone, her husband. \"I feel absolutely helpless. She doesn't have any Euros as she wasn't meant to stay in Spain. The authorities have given her no help whatsoever, we are just trying to understand what to do.\n\n\"She took her test 72 hours before the start of her journey, but had to take a connecting flight onwards. There would be no other way to do it, it is not physically possible.\"\n\nIn the meantime, Mr Stone says he has been home-schooling their four children on his own through the pandemic.\n\nTrevor Stone (left) has been caring for the couple's four children on his own for 11 months since Lisbet Stone was unable to leave Cuba\n\n\"We are just desperate to get her home - I'm so worried about her and after 11 months, she really wants to see her children,\" he added. \"We haven't done anything wrong, I don't know what to do or who to turn to.\"\n\nA Department for Transport spokesman said: \"Passengers travelling to the UK must provide proof of a negative coronavirus test which meets the performance standards set out by the government in the guidance published on gov.uk.\n\n\"The type of test could include a PCR test or antigen test, including a lateral flow test. Anyone who cannot provide the necessary documentation may not be allowed to board their flight.\"\n\nAir Europa and Madrid Airport have been approached by the BBC for comment.", "US tariffs have hit the Scotch whisky industry hard\n\nThe UK and US have failed to do a much hoped for \"mini-deal\" over trade in the last days of the Trump administration.\n\nThere were hopes the US would lift tariffs on imports of Scotch whisky and cashmere imposed last year as part of the Boeing-Airbus trade dispute.\n\nBut those duties will now stay in place while President-elect Biden awaits confirmation of his trade team.\n\nThe talks were revealed in a BBC interview with US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer in December.\n\nAt the time he said he was hopeful that he and his UK counterpart, International Trade Secretary Liz Truss, could \"get some kind of an agreement out\".\n\nBut the BBC understands that a broad offer from the US was rejected last week by the UK after concerns were expressed by the Business Department about the impact on Airbus' business in the UK.\n\nSince 2019, the EU and US have both imposed tariffs on each others' goods amid a long-running trade dispute between the planemakers Boeing and Airbus.\n\nThe tariffs centre on a long-running dispute between Boeing and Airbus\n\nEarlier last month the UK's Trade Department announced it would unilaterally break from the EU's position of levying tariffs on imports of Boeing aeroplanes, after the end of the Brexit transition period.\n\nIt was, said Ms Truss, an attempt to create goodwill to solve the 16-year old dispute.\n\nBut the UK aerospace industry was furious with what it saw as the government reneging on promises made in early 2020 to support Airbus in the dispute, even after Brexit.\n\nThese concerns were the main block to a deal, but the chaos in Washington DC over the past week also played a part.\n\nThe US was also looking for tariffs on its exports of bourbon to the UK - part of a separate trade dispute over steel - to be settled.\n\nA government source said: \"Ultimately we came close to resolving an intractable 16-year dispute, but didn't quite get there. Any deal must be balanced and work for the whole UK and all of UK industry.\"\n\nThey added: \"No one has fought harder on this than Liz, and she's going to continue pushing it with the Biden administration. She absolutely understands the pain of affected businesses and is determined to get these tariffs lifted and support jobs.\"\n\nThe source said the government had pursued a \"clear de-escalation strategy\" with the Trump administration over the dispute which meant it had avoided being hit with further US tariffs, unlike the EU.\n\nMs Truss still hopes to settle the dispute quickly and has committed to meet Katherine Tai, the new US Trade Representative, in Washington DC as soon as she assumes office, the source added.\n\nKaren Betts, head of the Scotch Whisky Association, said her industry was \"very frustrated\" a deal was not reached.\n\n\"There is deep disappointment across the Scotch whisky industry that distillers are still paying the price for an aerospace dispute that has nothing to do with us.\n\n\"The tariff on single malt Scotch whisky, now in place for 15 months, has caused us to lose over £450m in exports to the US, and our losses continue to mount.\"", "Marion Dawson is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.\n\nA 108-year-old woman has received the Covid vaccination on her birthday.\n\nMarion Dawson, from Houston in Renfrewshire, is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.\n\nShe received her jab at Houston and Killellan Kirk, which is being used by the local GP surgery to deliver vaccinations to the community.\n\nBorn in 1913, Mrs Dawson has lived through two world wars and the Spanish flu pandemic.\n\nDr Diane Fisher, who gave the injection said: \"We are so excited to be starting vaccinations of our over-80s, and that our first patient to be vaccinated is doing so on her birthday.\"\n\nMrs Dawson is the most senior person in NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde to be given the vaccine.\n\nAfter receiving her injection, she said: \"I'm glad it's passed. I never felt a thing.\"\n\nKirk minister, Rev Gary Noonan said: \"Mrs Dawson is a local treasure in Houston, until the lockdown she never missed a week at church.\n\n\"It's fitting she can get her vaccine in the Kirk, a place she loves.\"\n\nDr Mark Storey, partner at Strathgryffe Medical Practice, added: \"It's been a very difficult year in general practice and society as a whole.\n\n\"In our practice we have a family of 10,000 patients, so we are delighted to start vaccinating, especially with Mrs Dawson.\"", "The pace of Europe's Covid-19 vaccination campaign has picked up and in many countries infection rates have been falling.\n\nLockdowns are gradually being eased as the summer tourist season gets under way, and there are plans for an EU-wide digital vaccination certificate to be in place by 1 July.\n\nNationwide curfew ended on 20 June, 10 days earlier than planned. Face masks are no longer required outdoors.\n\nRestaurants, cafes and bars can serve customers indoors, with 50% capacity and up to six people per table.\n\nStanding concerts will resume on 30 June and nightclubs on 9 July (with 75% capacity). People attending will need a health pass which shows either full vaccination, a negative test within the previous 72 hours, or else a previous coronavirus infection.\n\nMedical grade masks are compulsory in shops and on public transport.\n\nFrom 30 June, working from home will no longer be compulsory.\n\nOn 21 June, Italy's curfew was scrapped and the whole country, except for the northwest region of Valle d'Aosta, became \"white zone\" - the country's lowest-risk category.\n\nAmong the measures still in place are social distancing (1m) and the wearing of masks indoors (and in crowded outdoor places), and a ban on house parties and large gathering.\n\nNightclubs and discos are also closed.\n\nAll indoor businesses, with the exception of nightclubs, are open.\n\nThe government introduced a \"corona pass\" in April, the first to do so in Europe.\n\nThis shows - either on a phone or on paper - that you have been vaccinated, previously infected or that you have had a negative test within 72 hours.\n\nPeople need to show it for entry to cinemas, museums, hairdressers or indoor dining.\n\nThe Greek government is welcoming tourists from many countries, if they are fully vaccinated or can provide a negative coronavirus test.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in all public places and there is a curfew from 01:30-05:00, but bars, restaurants, museums and archaeological sites are all open.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Greek island of Milos is aiming to become \"Covid-free\" so it can welcome back tourists\n\nCinemas, theatres, museums and restaurants are open at 50% capacity. From 26 June, this increases to 75%.\n\nNightclubs and discos will also be allowed to reopen, with a limit of 150 people.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in enclosed spaces and 1.5m social distancing observed.\n\nShops, bars, restaurants and museums are open, although face coverings remain compulsory in most public places.\n\nNightclubs can now reopen in parts of Spain with low infection rates.\n\nIn Barcelona, they are restricted to 50% of capacity and can stay open until 03:30 - dancers have to wear masks.\n\nSpain began welcoming vaccinated tourists from 7 June. Most European travellers still have to present a negative Covid test on arrival.\n\nBrussels: Outdoor dining resumed in Belgium on 8 May\n\nShops, cinemas, gyms, cafes and restaurants are open, with restrictions. Households can invite up to four people inside.\n\nFrom 1 July, working from home will no longer be mandatory, if the situation continues to improve.\n\nCultural performances, shows and sports competitions can also go ahead, with limited numbers, and more people will be allowed at weddings and other ceremonies and parties.\n\nPortugal has lifted many of its restrictions but face coverings must still be worn in indoor public spaces and some outdoor settings.\n\nBars and nightclubs remain closed, and it's illegal to drink alcohol outdoors in public places, except for pavement cafés and restaurants.\n\nAlcohol cannot be sold after 21:00 unless it is with a meal.\n\nRestaurants, cafes and cultural venues have to close at 01:00 and have capacity limits.\n\nA weekend travel ban is in force in the Lisbon area, starting at 15:00 on Friday, with residents only allowed to leave for essential journeys.\n\nIn Lisbon and in Albufeira (Algarve), cafes, restaurants and non-essential shops have to close by 15:30 at the weekend and 22:30 on weekdays.\n\nPortugal's summer season looks uncertain, yet its Covid figures have improved\n\nRestaurants, cafes, museums and historic buildings have reopened with capacity limits.\n\nFrom 26 June, a number of restrictions are being lifted.\n\nAlcohol can be sold after 22:00, and nightclubs can open, with an entry pass system.\n\nEvents held in public venues such as cinemas, conference centres and concert halls will be allowed, subject to social distancing.\n\nMasks will no longer be compulsory except on public transport, airports and in secondary schools.\n\nOutdoor services in restaurants and bars returned in June. Theme parks, funfairs, cinemas and theatres, gyms and swimming pools, have reopened as well.\n\nFrom 5 July, restaurants and bars will be able to serve customers indoors. Weddings and other indoor events for up to 50 people will be permitted and the numbers at outdoor organised events will increase.\n\nSince June, pubs have been able to stay open until 22:30 and more people are now allowed at sports events, outdoor concerts, cinemas and markets.\n\nOn 1 July, limits on private gatherings will be raised, and the recommendation to interact with a small circle of people removed.\n\nFurther easing is planned on 15 July and in September.", "'Paul' was accused of committing a domestic burglary in June 2018.\n\nIn early 2019 he was told by police that no further action would be taken against him. However, he was subsequently charged.\n\nLast week - over two years since the alleged offence - he appeared at Inner London Crown Court.\n\nBut his barrister told the court that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) had still not served the sole evidence - DNA - in the case on the defence.\n\nPaul (not his real name) is on bail and had his trial put on provisional \"warned\" list - for December 2021.\n\nIt means there is no guarantee it will take place at that time - just that it might.\n\nThe judge explained apologetically that priority is being given to cases where defendants are being held in custody.\n\nSo, three and a half-years from the date of the alleged offence, there has been no justice for the alleged burglary victim - or the accused.\n\nPaul's was one of a number of cases I saw on a visit to Inner London with the chair of the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) James Mulholland QC. He told me it was typical.\n\n\"This is justice 2020, but it has been like this for the last 10 years, delay after delay, inbuilt into the system. These cases are being pushed back continuously.\n\n\"Lack of investment is at the heart of it and government needs to understand that you don't create a proper justice system without proper investment.\n\n\"What we are seeing here are the fruits of a lack of interest.\"\n\nThat apparent \"lack of interest\" is reflected in the state of some court buildings. Outside Inner London I saw a dead pigeon decaying on netting, vast weeds growing up the side of the building and old pipes leaking water.\n\nMeanwhile, a court official told me that some court centres are now listing trials for 2023.\n\nThe delays are caused by a range of factors.\n\nLawyers point to huge cuts to the police, CPS and other agencies such as probation.\n\nThere are a range of things malfunctioning within the system. They include long initial delays caused by police \"releasing suspects under investigation\" - sometimes for years - before a charging decision is made.\n\nSystemic problems continue with the CPS serving evidence late on the defence, meaning lawyers cannot advise their clients in a timely manner.\n\nAnd perhaps most significantly - the decisions by government to cut thousands of crown court sitting days. That has meant that courts have been mothballed while trials stack up in a growing backlog.\n\nNone of these problems are caused by the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown, but they are of course exacerbated by it. Pre-lockdown the crown court backlog in England and Wales stood at some 37,000.\n\n\"Adam\" - not his real name - was accused of rape in March 2018. He denies the charge. His trial has been put back twice, once because of the pandemic.\n\nHe is now on a \"warned\" list for November, while his chosen career in one of the public services is on hold.\n\n\"I have suffered really bad with my mental health through it,\" he says. \"I've had to up my dosage of anti-depressants. It's affected my potential career.\n\n\"The hard work I have done at university and everything to get me there it's all basically going out of the window now. I haven't got any trust or hope that it will be anywhere near the end of this year.\n\n\"I think it will be more like April next year.\"\n\nThe next case I saw involved two young men charged with possession of drugs with intent to supply. The alleged offence took place in December 2017.\n\nNo one in court could explain the delay.\n\nIt was followed by a case in which the judge needed a pre-sentence report from the probation service in order to sentence the defendant. Despite repeated requests, no one was available.\n\nIn order to achieve a conclusion of the case, the judge had to devise a sentence which did not require a report. It was not ideal, but it showed professionals trying to do their best in the face of a lack of resources.\n\n\"Defendants are suspended from their jobs with trial dates one to two years away. Some are losing university places with dates from the alleged offence to trial of four years.\n\n\"And some who are awaiting trial for 18-24 months on bail, can be on electronic tagged curfew from 7-7 every day, for up to two years.\"\n\nTo help deal with the situation, the government has announced that the period of time an accused person can be held before a trial - known as the Custody Time Limit (CTL) - will be increased from six to eight months.\n\nBut the government admitted - in response to a Freedom of Information request from the group Fair Trials - that it did not know how many people had been held in prison beyond the time limit since lockdown.\n\nLawyers fear some accused will spend more time in custody awaiting trial than the sentence they would eventually receive if they pleaded guilty - and that some might falsely plead guilty simply to bring an end to their case.\n\nLife is bleak for those in custody awaiting trial, says Ms Fenn,\n\n\"There are often no visits from family or in-person visits from lawyers. Defendants can be locked up for 23.5 hours a day, education classes and courses are suspended, jobs within the prison restricted, and there are reports of showers being limited to 1-2 a week.\"\n\nCovid has also removed a \"huge amount of mental health, drug and alcohol agency support\", she says.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said justice had been kept moving \"despite the unprecedented challenges posed by the pandemic\" and overall, cases are falling.\n\nHowever, they acknowledged that \"more needs to be done\".\n\nThe government has launched an £80 million Criminal Courts Recovery plan which includes:\n\nHowever, only three of the new Nightingale Courts are dealing with crime.\n\nI visited one, Prospero House, a short walk from Inner London. It is a state of the art commercial building with three large courtrooms allowing ample room for social distancing. Every desk has hand sanitiser and protective gloves.\n\nBut Mr Mulholland says: \"We need 60 criminal Nightingale Court buildings. At the moment we have just three.\"\n\nThe CBA says there are around 460 crown courtrooms in England and Wales. Currently around 100 are able to hear trials, though not all are hosting them.\n\nThe government says its plan will bring on stream another 250 of the existing rooms to hear jury trials by the end of October. The CBA believes that simply will not cut into the backlog.\n\nLawyers believe that the Treasury has long seen justice as a poor relation to health and education in terms of public spending.\n\n\"Investing in the criminal justice system is investing in the wealth and prosperity of the country,\" says Mr Mulholland.\n\n\"It is an empty and insulting promise for any minister to declare a war on crime if a government can't fund a system that keeps us safe - and ensures crimes are swiftly investigated and cases come to court on time.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows the 130-car pile-up on the Tohoku Expressway\n\nA huge snowstorm has struck a highway in Japan, causing a 130-vehicle pile-up, killing one person and injuring 10.\n\nThe storm blanketed a stretch of the Tohoku Expressway in Miyagi prefecture at around noon (03:00 GMT) on Tuesday.\n\nSome 200 people have been caught up in the pile-up and rescuers are currently at the scene, officials said.\n\nJapan has been hit by severe snow storms in recent weeks with some parts of the country seeing double the average expected snowfall.\n\nImages from the expressway in the north of the country show the sheer scale of the pile-up.\n\nOne person died and at least 10 were injured after the vehicles collided\n\nAuthorities had already enforced a 50km/h (31mph) speed limit on the road due to visibility.\n\nThere was a maximum wind speed of about 100km/h (62mph) at the time of the incident, local weather officials said.\n\nThose who were involved have been given drinking water and food, and have been provided with blankets to keep warm, NHK News reports (in Japanese).\n\nThose stuck behind the vehicles have been given food, water and blankets\n\nThe snow has affected some of Japan's high-speed railway network, with a number of train services in the Tohoku region cancelled.\n\nAccording to local media, the region is expected to record up to 40cm (15 inches) of snow in the next 24 hours.\n\nThe country has been experiencing a large amount of snowfall this winter.\n\nLast month, heavy snow left more than 1,000 vehicles stranded on the Kanetsu expressway for two days.\n\nThe weather was so bad that an emergency meeting was called and the country's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga called on members of the public to be cautious.", "Pupils are currently learning remotely from home\n\nSchools in England may reopen region by region after half term, the government's deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries has said.\n\nSpeaking to the Commons education committee, Dr Harries suggested there would be different rates of infection across the country when lockdown ends.\n\nThis would mean a \"differential application\" of restrictive measures would be required, she said.\n\nSchools were closed at the start of January to stem the spread of Covid-19.\n\nAlthough schools remain open to vulnerable children and those of keyworkers, all others are due to learn remotely from home until after the February half term holiday.\n\nBut the Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, has suggested they may not return fully then.\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said the department was continuing to keep plans for the return to school under review and that it would inform schools, parents and pupils of the plans ahead of February half term.\n\nCommittee chairman Robert Halfon said he suspected schools would be closed for quite \"a few weeks yet\", but there has been no formal confirmation of this.\n\nMedical and science advisers were warning the government before Christmas that the NHS would not be able to manage the number of Covid-19 cases if schools remained open.\n\nThe new, more transmissible variant of the virus had been increasing exponentially in London and the south-east before Christmas.\n\nBut in some parts of the north and north-east saw rates of increase were reducing.\n\nDr Harries said: \"It is highly likely that when we come out of this national lockdown we will not have consistent patterns of infection in our communities across the country.\n\n\"And therefore, as we had prior to the national lockdown, it may well be possible that we need to have some differential application.\"\n\nBut Dr Harries said schools would be at the top of the priority to ensure that the balance of education and wellbeing were \"right at the forefront\" of consideration.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries says schools in England might reopen ''region by region''\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: \"Although the government intends that schools will fully reopen after the February half-term holiday, it is clearly in the balance when this happens and whether there will be any sort of regional approach.\n\n\"We expect that it will depend on coronavirus infection rates and the pressure on the NHS, and that the government will make a call on this issue nearer the time.\n\n\"What is important is that when schools fully reopen, everything possible is done to keep them open and to keep disruption to a minimum.\n\n\"This is why we are calling for education staff to be prioritised for vaccinations as soon as possible, and for schools to be given more support in the use of rapid turnaround mass testing.\"\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said if the government was planning to stagger opening of schools by region, it needed to \"provide clarity sooner rather than later\".\n\n\"This will give vital time to prepare for a smoother reopening of schools and business,\" he said.\n\nOn calls for vaccination of teachers, Dr Harries suggested the safe re-opening of schools did not depend on this.\n\nBut members of the committee suggested education would be less disrupted by teachers needing to go home and isolate when infected.\n\nThe vaccination programme had been worked out in order of vulnerability to the disease, she stressed.\n\nAnd Dr Harries added that although pupils could and did transmit the virus, she did not have evidence of them being \"a significant driver\" of \"large-scale community infections\".", "The publication of a letter from the Duchess of Sussex to her father was a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of her privacy, the High Court has been told.\n\nMeghan is suing the publisher of the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online over articles that reproduced parts of the private handwritten letter.\n\nShe claims her privacy and copyright were breached by the newspaper group.\n\nHer lawyers are asking for summary judgement - a dismissal of Associated Newspapers' defence instead of a trial.\n\nMeghan's lawyers argue Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) has \"no prospect\" of defending the privacy and copyright claims being brought against them.\n\nThey claim the publication of extracts from the private, handwritten letter to Thomas Markle was \"self-evidently... highly intrusive\".\n\nMeghan, 39, sent the letter to her father in August 2018, following her marriage to Prince Harry in May that year, which Mr Markle did not attend. The couple are now living in the US with their son Archie.\n\nThe five articles, published in February 2019, were a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of the duchess's privacy, correspondence and family, the lawyers claim.\n\nMr Markle said in a witness statement provided to the remote hearing, which started on Tuesday, that he wanted the letter published to \"set the record straight\" about his relationship with his daughter - but one of Meghan's lawyers described this claim as \"ridiculous\".\n\nMeghan is seeking damages from the newspaper group for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act over the articles.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex now live in the US with their son\n\nHer lawyers told the court the letter was written in sorrow rather than anger and was an attempt to get her father to stop talking to the press.\n\nBut the newspaper group said in its response to the court that Meghan had written the letter \"with a view to it being disclosed publicly at some future point\" in order to \"defend her against charges of being an uncaring or unloving daughter\".\n\nIn written submissions, the newspaper group's barrister Antony White said \"she must, at the very least, have appreciated that her father might choose to disclose it\" and pointed out that the Kensington Palace communications team had been shown the letter before it was sent.\n\n\"No truly private letter from daughter to father would require any input from the Kensington Palace communications team,\" said Mr White.\n\nBut Meghan's lawyers also pointed out the articles themselves had emphasised the private nature of the correspondence - and dismissed any argument that it was in the public interest for the newspaper to reproduce the letter, saying the public interest was at the \"very end of the bottom end of the scale\".\n\nJustin Rushbrooke, representing the duchess, described the handwritten letter as \"a heartfelt plea from an anguished daughter to her father\".\n\nHe said the \"contents and character of the letter were intrinsically private, personal and sensitive in nature\" and that Meghan \"had a reasonable expectation of privacy in respect of the contents of the letter\".\n\nThe effect of publishing the letter was \"self-evidently likely to be devastating for the claimant\", said Mr Rushbrooke.\n\nThe barrister argued that, even if ANL was justified in publishing parts of the letter, \"on any view the defendant published far more by way of extracts from the letter than could have been justified in the public interest\".\n\nMr White said that the newspaper group would argue that Meghan's status as a member of the royal family was relevant to the case.\n\nIn response to that point, Mr Rushbrooke said: \"Yes, she is in some senses a public figure, but that does not reduce her expectation of privacy in relation to information of this kind.\"\n\nIn Thomas Markle's evidence, he said the letter \"signalled the end\" of his relationship with his daughter, and instead of a reconciliation attempt, the letter was a \"criticism\" of him.\n\nHe said that he had to \"defend himself\" against an article in People magazine. It carried an interview with a \"long-time friend\" of his daughter, who suggested Meghan sent the letter to repair her relationship with her father - something he claimed was false.\n\nThe People article, he claimed, made him appear \"dishonest, exploitative, publicity-seeking, uncaring and cold-hearted\".\n\nHe said he had \"never intended to talk publicly about Meg's letter\" until he read the People magazine piece which, he claimed, suggested he was \"to blame for the end of the relationship\".\n\nThe full trial of the duchess's claim had been due to be heard at the High Court this month, but last year the case was adjourned until autumn 2021.\n\nThis interim remote hearing - to consider the request for summary judgement - is due to last two days. Mr Justice Warby, who is hearing the case, is expected to reserve his judgement to a later date.", "Most people who have had Covid-19 are protected from catching it again for at least five months, a study led by Public Health England shows.\n\nPast infection was linked to around a 83% lower risk of getting the virus, compared with those who had never had Covid-19, scientists found.\n\nBut experts warn some people do catch Covid-19 again - and can infect others.\n\nAnd officials stress people should follow the stay-at-home rules - whether or not they have had the virus.\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, who led the study, said the results were encouraging, suggesting immunity lasted longer than some people feared, but protection was by no means absolute.\n\nIt was particularly concerning some of those reinfected had high levels of the virus - even without symptoms - and were at risk of passing it on to others, she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Susan Hopkins from Public Health England said immunity from having Covid-19 is \"not 100% protective\"\n\n\"This means even if you believe you already had the disease and are protected, you can be reassured it is highly unlikely you will develop severe infections but there is still a risk that you could acquire an infection and transmit to others,\" she added.\n\n\"Now more than ever, it is vital we all stay at home to protect our health service and save lives.\"\n\nFrom June to November 2020, almost 21,000 healthcare workers across the UK were regularly tested to see whether they:\n\nOf those who had no antibodies to the virus, suggesting they may have never had it, 318 developed potential new infections within this timeframe.\n\nBut among the 6,614 with antibodies, this figure was just 44 potential new infections.\n\nResearchers received various different pieces of evidence suggesting these people had become re-infected - including new symptoms more than 90 days after their first infection, new positive swab tests and blood tests.\n\nSome tests are still being run and researchers say their results will be updated as they come in.\n\nScientists will continue to monitor the healthcare workers for 12 months to see how long immunity lasts.\n\nThey will also look closely at cases with the new variant - which was not widespread at the time of this first analysis - and observe the immunity of participants who receive the vaccine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Can you become immune to coronavirus?\n\nDr Julian Tang, a virus expert at the University of Leicester, said the results were reassuring for healthcare workers.\n\n\"Having the vaccine after recovering from Covid-19 is not an issue... and will likely boost the natural immunity,\" he added.\n\n\"We also see this with the seasonal flu vaccine.\n\n\"So hopefully the results from this paper will reduce the anxiety of many healthcare-worker colleagues who have concerns about getting Covid-19 twice.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Only 155 out of more than 23,000 university professors in the UK are black, according to official figures.\n\nIt remains below 1%, the same as for the past five years, and is an increase of only 50 posts despite the number of professorships rising by more than 3,000 in that time.\n\nAt this senior academic level, women hold 28% of professorships, up from 23% five years ago.\n\n\"The pace of change is glacial,\" said lecturers' union leader Jo Grady.\n\n\"Universities must do more to ensure a more representative mix of staff at a senior level and stop this terrible waste of talent,\" said Dr Grady, general secretary of the UCU university union.\n\nThe figures on black professors were \"disappointing\" and \"inexplicable\", said Halima Begum, chief executive of the Runnymede Trust race equality think tank, \"given the symbolic importance of education as the foundation of our values.\"\n\n\"Around a quarter of British postgraduates are from ethnic minorities, there is clearly no shortage of qualified black and minority academics seeking elevation to senior teaching and research roles in our universities,\" said Dr Begum.\n\nShe called on vice chancellors to take action over a problem they can \"literally discern with their own eyes every single day they are on campus\".\n\nThe annual figures, published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency, provide a breakdown of the UK's academic workforce - and show while there has been a focus on widening access for students, there are still few black academic staff.\n\nAt the level of professor, the number of black professors rose from 105 to 155 between 2014-15 to 2019-20.\n\nBut new higher education providers included in the figures meant an additional 3,200 staff at professor grade, with the proportion of black professors only increasing marginally from 0.5% to 0.7% over five years.\n\nThis compared to 7% of professors who are Asian and 89% white in the figures for 2019-20.\n\nKehinde Andrews, professor of black studies at Birmingham City University, said that rather than universities being \"progressive dreamlands\", the \"make-up of professors is the perfect reflection of the narrow Eurocentric views still produced by universities\".\n\n\"I have seen very few genuine attempts to address the issues of racism at any level across the sector,\" said Prof Andrews.\n\nAmong all academic staff, 2% are black, 10% are Asian, 75% are white, with the remainder under categories of \"mixed\", \"other or not known\".\n\nThere is still a significant gender gap in professorships, among a group that is also heavily skewed to older age groups, with most in their fifties, sixties and above.\n\nFive years ago, more than 4,500 professors were women, which has risen to 6,300 - from 23% to 28% of these senior posts.\n\nThis is despite women representing 46% of all academic staff.\n\nBaroness Amos, who was the UK's first black female university head, has previously warned of \"deep-seated prejudices and stereotypes which need to be overcome\" in the recruitment of senior staff in higher education.\n\nUniversities UK said \"the evidence is clear that black and minority ethnic staff continue to be under-represented\" at these senior academic levels.\n\n\"More needs to be done to address this inequality which exists within higher education, which mirrors inequalities evident in wider UK society and which will require an unequivocal commitment to change,\" said the universities' organisation.", "Many think the courts system needs to invest more in technology\n\nWhen Louise Westra and her partner decided to adopt a child in November 2018, they were aware of the long process that was ahead of them, but they were not to know that the coronavirus pandemic would hold them back from completing the adoption of their son.\n\nOn 27 March, their petition was due in court. As lockdown had taken effect, telephone conferencing would be used instead of going to court.\n\nHowever, after the phone call, Ms Westra received an email from her solicitor explaining that the papers had not been served to the biological parents of the child. This continued every month after lockdown, as it wasn't possible for the papers to be physically served.\n\n\"It's farcical because one of them is the biological father who lives with the biological mother who has had her petition but the biological father hasn't and they live in the same premises,\" Ms Westra says.\n\nServing papers has to be completed by post via Royal Mail or in some cases lawyers would instruct a process server to physically take the papers and hand them to the person.\n\n\"It sounds very archaic but if [the person] won't take them by hand, the processor can drop the papers near them and tell them what the document contains and that's technically counted as full service,\" says Rebecca Ranson, a solicitor for Maguire Family Law.\n\nUnless a judge approves it, emailing or any other forms of digital communication are not considered valid - even though the majority of people in the UK have access to email and the internet. It is this kind of process, in need of a digital upgrade, that is frustrating for Ms Westra.\n\nMs Westra's case is one of many that have been delayed. The number of outstanding Crown court cases was 43,676 on 26 July, and the entire backlog across magistrates' and Crown courts is more than 560,000. The Commons Justice Committee has announced an inquiry into how these delays could be addressed.\n\nThe reality, however, is that there was already a huge backlog back in December, and Covid-19 has just exacerbated an existing problem. Cases like Ms Westra's have been affected by the pandemic, but many lawyers believe that the legal system could have been better prepared through technology investment over the years.\n\n\"We've got people being held for longer than they otherwise would be, and for every person in custody waiting for trial or waiting on bail for trial, there are witnesses, and complainants and their families awaiting a resolution. Whether it's the lack of technology links in prison, using Skype and improvising or not having enough Nightingale courts - it all boils down to a lack of investment,\" says Joanna Hardy, a London-based barrister.\n\nIn 2016 HM Courts & Tribunals Service began a £1bn court reform programme. This included a video-conferencing tool called the Cloud Video Platform (CVP), which allows for a dedicated private conference area, so criminal lawyers can speak to their clients without visiting prison.\n\nA programme for testing and adopting video technology was planned out until 2022, but in the pandemic, the government had to get CVP up and running in 10 weeks. This has since been extended to civil courts. But this implementation has been challenging, as there are only a restricted number of physical video links allowed.\n\n\"As we weren't ready for this huge technological revolution no-one had manned the tech rooms or built enough rooms on the other end in the prison. We can have as many laptops as we like, as much software as we like but if we can't put a prisoner into a room with a screen, the other end is pointless,\" Ms Hardy says.\n\nAccording to Ms Hardy, the waiting times to get these slots have been \"completely unacceptable\", and it has meant that sometimes hearings had to go ahead without the defendant present.\n\n\"It's like human beings failing where technology could have bridged the gap,\" she says.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said that it had offered more than 400 CVP meeting rooms since the outbreak of coronavirus, but added that it is taking steps to increase the available capacity of video conferencing at some locations by extending operating hours. The spokesperson said that the MoJ is also undertaking urgent action to increase the physical number of video link outlets at critical sites.\n\nAt the moment, criminal trials are going ahead using social distancing - meaning sometimes a second courtroom is linked by technology, but this is creating further backlogs, as it means one case is occupying the same space as two.\n\nJustice, the all-party law reform and human rights organisation, has trialled a virtual jury trial with a mock case, and suggested it should be considered as a possible option, but this hasn't been taken on by the courts.\n\nThe issue with virtual jury trials is whether or not they could affect the outcome of a trial. Some lawyers feel like juries should see a witness, feel an exhibit and dispense justice to a fellow human being in the confines of a court room.\n\nJodie Hill says it is more difficult to cross-examine people in video hearings\n\n\"You can lose the impact of cross examination. When you're challenging their evidence in person it's easier to get them to trip up if they're not being honest, whereas if they're on video it might be easier for them to cover it up,\" says Jodie Hill, solicitor and managing director of Thrive Law, an employment law specialist.\n\nFor smaller hearings, online alternatives could be here for the long term, as it means lawyers don't have to travel all over the UK unnecessarily. This doesn't mean that every hearing that can be done remotely, should be done remotely.\n\n\"We don't want overkill. We think some cases still need to be in the room, particularly if you're dealing with vulnerable people or sensitive cases. It has to be a balancing act of harnessing the benefits of technology and thinking about the specific case,\" says Ms Hardy.", "The UK is forging its post-Brexit path as a \"confident, independent nation - and an energetic force for good\", according to the government.\n\nIt's free to set trade on its own terms, pursue opportunities and higher living standards. But can it square profit with principle?\n\nIs turning a blind eye to human rights violations worth it to have a trade deal that knocks a couple of quid off the price of an imported shirt?\n\nThat New Year's resolution is already being tested, as China falls increasingly out of favour.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab has referred to conditions, under which over a million Uighur Muslims are being held in camps and forced into work, as \"at the worst... torture and inhumane and degrading treatments\".\n\nHe warned that British companies will face fines, if they can't show that their supply chains are free from forced labour.\n\nIn December, a BBC investigation revealed thousands of Uighurs and other minorities have been compelled to toil in the cotton fields of Xinjiang. The region accounts for a fifth of the world's crop - it's not always easy to tell where your t-shirt hails from.\n\nThe UK and Canada have led the charge here, but one wonders how much further can it go.\n\nMr Raab told the BBC that the UK should not be engaging in free trade negotiations with countries whose record was \"well below the level of genocide\".\n\nThere are several issues with this: first, working out who gets to decree human rights abuses.\n\nAmendments to the Trade Bill currently going through Parliament would oblige the government to assess the human rights records of potential partners.\n\nIn July, Dominic Raab accused China of \"gross and egregious\" human rights abuses against its Uighur population\n\nOne amendment proposes allowing the High Court to declare a genocide in other countries, and forcing the immediate cancellation of trade deals with said nations.\n\nMr Raab, however, says the decision to declare a genocide can't, and shouldn't be, delegated to the courts. Rather, it's for MPs to hold the government to account over trade deals.\n\nBut Labour MPs, who have written to their Conservative counterparts urging them to support the amendments, say they've already been denied powers of scrutiny.\n\nThey highlight trade deals rolled over with Egypt, Cameroon and Turkey, with whom the UK previously enjoyed similar deals the EU had struck.\n\nThese three countries, they argue, have questionable records on human rights.\n\nAnd then there's China. The UK is not planning a deal with Beijing and has indicated it won't do a deal with countries that don't share its democratic values.\n\nBut both nations have their eye on joining the wider Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement.\n\nWith imports and exports worth almost £80bn in 2019, China already scores as one of the UK's largest trading partners, and it's not just about frocks and financial services crossing borders.\n\nSince Xi Jinping and David Cameron famously sipped a pint in a Buckinghamshire pub in 2015, Chinese investment in the UK has exploded, backing everything from football clubs to restaurant chains.\n\nNow China's appeal has soured, but it may not be easy to back away from encouraging investment, or a trade deal which touts lower import prices and greater opportunities for exporters, when the UK economy is already reeling.\n\nThe Wolverhampton Wanderers are owned by Chinese investors Fosun International\n\nTake textiles - a free trade deal would do away with a 12% tariff on clothes hailing from China. Ultimately, trade deals build on an existing - in this case very lucrative - relationship.\n\nCritics argue it's not enough to refrain from boosting ties with nations with chequered records - they should be lessened.\n\nBut it's even harder to snub countries that are already providing jobs for thousands, or items from the frivolous, such as smartphones, to the vital, like billions of PPE items.\n\nSome say the UK has its own issues elsewhere. It resumed the sales of arms to Saudi Arabia last year, after the government said the method for licensing had been reformulated to ensure they wouldn't be used in Yemen. Human rights groups are less sure.\n\nBalancing its quest to be a responsible citizen, together with exploring fresh fortunes, is just one dilemma the UK faces, as it shapes its new identity on the global stage.", "Boris Johnson will be glad Donald Trump has not been re-elected for a second term as US president, ex-Civil Service head Lord Sedwill has suggested.\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, Lord Sedwill said those who believed Boris Johnson would have preferred Mr Trump to win again were \"mistaken.\"\n\nHe said he \"would not have been to the benefit\" of British or European security, trade or environment issues.\n\nDowning Street said Mr Johnson looked forward to working with Joe Biden.\n\nThis month he said Mr Trump was \"completely wrong\" to cast doubt on the US election and encourage supporters to storm the Capitol.\n\nAnd in 2015, when he was Mayor of London, Mr Johnson accused him of \"stupefying ignorance\" over his comments about violence in the city.\n\nBut after Mr Trump's victory in the US election in 2016, then Foreign Secretary Mr Johnson said there was a \"lot to be positive about\", and while running for the Conservative leadership in 2019, he said the President had \"many good qualities\".\n\nMr Trump later praised Mr Johnson, saying: \"they call him Britain Trump\".\n\nMr Johnson congratulated Mr Biden in a phone call after his US election win, saying he looked forward to \"strengthening the partnership\" between the US and UK.\n\nBut BBC political correspondent Chris Mason said Lord Sedwill's remarks would not be unhelpful to Downing Street as any perception in Washington that Mr Johnson was like Mr Trump becomes a liability with the arrival of President Biden.\n\nIn his Daily Mail article, Lord Sedwill, who was the UK's most senior civil servant until he stood down in September, said there was \"relief in Western capitals\" that normal diplomatic relationships will be restored once Mr Biden is inaugurated on Wednesday.\n\nThe former Cabinet Secretary said: \"Those of us who regard ourselves as close American allies have badly missed US leadership over the past four years.\n\n\"Based on my time working for Boris Johnson in Downing Street, I believe those who have said he would have preferred a second Trump term are mistaken. That would not have been to the benefit of British or European security, to transatlantic trade, let alone the environmental agenda to which the prime minister is so committed.\"\n\nLord Sedwill added: \"With Brexit accomplished and the Biden administration ready to re-engage, this is the moment for Global Britain to step up.\"", "Evelyn Jones was one of the care home residents whose family raised concerns\n\nSix care home residents died after suffering dehydration and malnourishment because of alleged neglect, an inquest has been told.\n\nStanley James, 89, June Hamer, 71, Stanley Bradford, 76, Edith Evans, 85, Evelyn Jones, 87, and William Hickman, 71 all died between 2003 and 2005.\n\nThey were residents at Brithdir Nursing Home in New Tredegar, Caerphilly.\n\nThe inquest in Newport follows Operation Jasmine, an £11.6m inquiry into alleged neglect at six homes.\n\nOne of Wales' biggest inquiries, it was launched after the death of an 84-year-old patient at a nursing home in Newbridge, Caerphilly.\n\nOpening the inquest, Assistant Coroner for Gwent Geraint Williams said police started investigating in 2005 following the death of an 84-year-old \"mentally infirm\" woman at another care home in Newbridge.\n\nMr Williams said it led to officers uncovering a \"pattern of concerns linked to other deaths in other care homes\".\n\nJune Hamer went into Brithdir in 2003\n\nIn relation to the Brithdir inquiry, Mr Williams said: \"Operation Jasmine uncovered evidence suggesting poor care of residents, including allegations of poor pressure sore and peg [percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy] feed management, malnourishment, and general neglect of the residents' long-term needs, together with deficient standards of care and nursing practice.\"\n\nThe inquest heard resident Mr James, who had dementia and was not mobile, developed several pressure sores in the 18 months before he died in August 2003.\n\nMr Bradford, who had schizophrenia, was admitted to the Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil on several occasions for complaints of \"dehydration, chest and urine infections\".\n\nBefore he died in August 2005 he was \"observed to be seriously malnourished\", by doctors.\n\nDementia patient Mrs Evans was admitted to the same hospital in September 2005, where nurses found the site around her feeding tube \"infected\", while broken skin was found on her buttocks and she appeared \"unkempt and dirty, and her mouth and lips were dry and her tongue was thick\".\n\nThe trial of the late Dr Prana Das for care home neglect collapsed after he suffered brain damage in an attack\n\nDr Prana Das, who owned and ran the nursing home along with several other facilities in Wales, faced a string of charges relating to failings in care.\n\nHe suffered a brain injury during a burglary at his home in 2012 and was declared medically unfit to stand trial.\n\nDr Das died in January 2020 aged 73, but his widow and co-owner of the home, Dr Nishebita Das, who is said not to have taken part in running it, is expected to give evidence at the inquest.\n\nMr Williams told the hearing that, even before the couple purchased the home in April 2002 under their company Puretruce Health Care Limited, \"serious concerns\" were raised by state agencies regarding the number of residents who had suffered pressure ulcers.\n\n\"Those issues continued, even after Dr Das assumed ownership of the home,\" he said.\n\nMr Williams said the inquest will consider the actions of nurses and carers at the home, \"many of whom came to this country from abroad to work and have since returned there, and are now not available to participate in the inquest\".\n\nThe inquest is set to last until March.\n\nA hearing into the death of a seventh resident, Matthew Higgins, 86, will be held following the conclusion of this inquest.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said he is self-isolating after being alerted by the UK's NHS Covid-19 app.\n\nThe West Suffolk MP said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\" and urged others to do the same if contacted.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Hancock said he would be working from home until Sunday, adding \"we all have a part to play in getting this virus under control\".\n\nHe contracted coronavirus in March 2020 and suffered \"mild symptoms\".\n\nMr Hancock said he learned from the app he had been \"in close contact with somebody who's tested positive\" and so self-isolating was \"how we break the chains of transmission\".\n\n\"So you must follow these rules like I'm going to,\" he said. \"I've got to work from home for the next six days, and together, by doing this, by following this, and all the other panoply of rules that we've had to put in place, we can get through this and beat this virus.\"\n\nMr Hancock said he was alerted by the app on Monday night, having earlier led a Downing Street press conference alongside NHS England medical director Prof Stephen Powis and Public Health England's Dr Susan Hopkins.\n\nThe NHS app tells a person if they have been in close contact with someone who has later tested positive for coronavirus and tells them to isolate for 10 full days from their last contact.\n\nWhile it is not clear from Mr Hancock's statement if his isolation ends on Sunday or Monday, his period of quarantine suggests he was last in contact with the person who was infected on Wednesday or Thursday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDowning Street confirmed that Mr Hancock would not receive the vaccine early because he is leading the pandemic response.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said: \"The PM and the rest of the cabinet will take the vaccine when it's their turn to do so based on the priority lists that have been published.\n\n\"We don't think it's right that the PM or other members of cabinet take the vaccine in place of somebody who is at higher clinical risk.\"\n\nIn March, the health secretary revealed he had tested positive for Covid-19 shortly after Prime Minister Boris Johnson had confirmed he too had the virus.\n\nWhile the health secretary recovered fairly swiftly, and was able to work from home during his illness, Mr Johnson required hospital treatment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid symptoms: What are they and how long should I self-isolate for?\n\nSelf-isolation, which means staying at home and not leaving, is a legal requirement for anybody who has Covid symptoms, has tested positive for the virus, lives with someone who has symptoms, has arrived from abroad or has been contacted by NHS Test and Trace.\n\nIn December, the self-isolation period required was cut from 14 days to 10 days.\n\nUsing Bluetooth technology the NHS app makes contact between mobile phones when they are near each other, if an owner of a phone later tests positive for the virus and shares that with the app, alerts are sent to anyone who is deemed to have been a close contact.", "More than 127,000 people in the UK who contracted coronavirus have lost their lives - with the pandemic claiming more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide. As the UK marks a year since the first coronavirus lockdown was called, it's a time for reflection.\n\nWe have gathered tributes to more than 770 of those who have died. Below are words of remembrance from friends, family and colleagues.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nThe tributes are displayed at random, which means that you will see different faces each time you visit this page.\n\nIf we have used your tribute to your friend or family member, it will appear in the carousel above, or you can find it by entering their name in the search box below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Enter a name to search the tributes\n\nFor more on NHS and healthcare workers, please see this page dedicated to 100 people who died while helping to look after others.\n\nFor more on how it has affected people's lives, from family tragedy to its impact on everyday life, we have a collection of personal stories about life in lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Britain's climate change leadership is being undercut by a government decision to allow a new coal mine in Cumbria, MPs have warned.\n\nThe UK is hosting a UN climate summit in November, where it will urge other nations to phase out fossil fuels.\n\nThe MPs say the government's decision to allow a new colliery at home will make it harder to secure a deal.\n\nThe Woodhouse mine was approved by Cumbria County Council because it will create jobs in an area of high unemployment.\n\nThe planning minister Robert Jenrick could have overruled it, but said the issue was best decided at a local level.\n\nThat verdict was derided by environmentalists, who pointed out that climate change from fossil fuel burning is a global problem.\n\nAlok Sharma, who is leading the COP26 climate summit and who co-ordinates UK policies on climate change, was asked by the Commons business select committee whether the mine approval was \"an embarrassment\". He replied: \"I take your point\".\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng told the committee there was a \"slight tension\" between approving the mine, near Whitehaven, and broader attempts to clean up the economy.\n\nBut he said ministers decided to allow the pit because it will produce coking coal for steel-making, which otherwise would have to be imported.\n\nHe said: \"There's a slight tension between the decision to open this mine and our avowed intention to take coal off the grid… there was a debate in the government about what we could do about this, but this was a local planning decision.\n\n\"If we don't have sources of coking coal in the UK we would be importing those anyway\".\n\nThis appears to run counter to advice from the Climate Change Committee which has said all coal - including coking coal - should be phased out by 2035. Doubts have been raised about investors in the mine being left with a \"stranded asset\" if the pit is forced to close on climate grounds.\n\nThe mine approval is even more poignant because the UK founded the 'Powering Past Coal Alliance\" - a global club to persuade nations to leave coal in the ground.\n\nA source close to the Alliance secretariat told BBC News that staff were enraged by the decision. They believed the decision had been made to help secure so-called \"Red Wall\" votes in areas which previously voted Labour .\n\nMohamed Adow, from a pressure group, Powershift Africa, told BBC News: \"It is quite bizarre that the UK government, in the year it hosts the biggest global climate talks since the signing of the Paris Agreement, has approved a new coal mine.\"\n\nThe young campaigner Greta Thunberg said the decision showed pledges to achieve net zero emissions targets by 2050 \"basically mean nothing\".\n\nDarren Jones, chair of the business committee, told BBC News it would be hard for the UK to persuade countries like Poland to abandon coal whilst building a mine.\n\nHe argued that the government should have found another way to bring jobs to Cumbria. He said: \"Carbon-intensive industries are looking to the government for leadership on the transition to a green future.\n\n\"Backing coal at home doesn't look in line with the recent Energy White Paper and certainly makes our efforts to secure international agreement on ambitious decarbonisation harder to achieve.\"\n\nThe Environmental Audit Committee Chairman, Philip Dunne, told BBC News: \"If the UK is to achieve its ambition to be an environmental world leader, the government must offer clear guidance on how we can take every industry to net-zero, and offer a pipeline of investable projects.\n\n\"The steel sector needs to develop alternatives to importing coking coal. This could also support the next generation of green jobs - which are urgently needed.\"\n\nThe cross-bench peer Baroness Worthington told BBC News: \"This decision is real laziness of thinking from the government. Just think of signal it sends to all those countries who want to cling on to coal.\n\n\"The government doesn't yet have a cohesive strategy that makes sense. It's crazy. Absolute madness.\"", "Medical staff are expected to \"face pressures unlike any other they have faced before\" as NI approaches its toughest week so far in the pandemic.\n\nThe British Medical Association has said while its doctors are \"coping\", many feel they are unable to give care to the \"standard they would want\".\n\nThe peak in intensive care is predicted to happen next weekend.\n\nThe head of the BMA in NI, Dr Tom Black has been critical of the way this wave of the pandemic has been managed.\n\nHe said: \"Staff will do their best in a very difficult situation, where many decisions in this pandemic were made too late.\"\n\nWhile it is expected the number of hospital admissions will peak sometime over the next eight to 10 days, the number requiring intensive care treatment is likely to continue increasing for at least another fortnight.\n\nDr Black said he was concerned for both patients and staff.\n\nHe said: \"It is likely that over the next few weeks doctors will be asked to work in a new location or provide support to areas that are already overstretched.\n\n\"Many have already had planned annual leave cancelled.\"\n\nThere were a further 19 virus-related deaths and 640 more Covid-19 cases reported in Northern Ireland on Monday.\n\nThe latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,625, while 96,001 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic began.\n\nSome 65 patients are in ICU, down two from the last report, and 51 patients are being ventilated.\n\nSince the vaccine rollout began in NI, 146,733 people have been vaccinated, according to the Department of Health.\n\nOf that number, 125,717 were first doses and 21,016 were second jabs.\n\nA total of 31,393 people from the over-80 age group have been vaccinated.\n\nEarlier the BMA told BBC News NI that more than 90,000 doses the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine had arrived in Northern Ireland but the Department of Health has said it is anticipated separate deliveries will arrive by this weekend.\n\nDr Black said many staff members had reported feeling \"exhausted and demoralised\" and he warned that when it came to reviewing how the pandemic was handled \"this phase will stand out as one where we could have planned better\".\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said the next seven days is \"when we will see that real intense pressure coming on our inpatients and intensive care units\".\n\n\"Our worst case scenario has modelling up to 1,200 inpatients - and that's a serious pressure that comes on our system,\" he told Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme.\n\n\"We can go up into nearly 200 ICU capacity but that comes at a stretch, that comes with putting our staff under severe pressure in ICU units.\n\n\"It also comes by having to shift the ICU specialist nurse from a ratio of one-to-one to a ratio of one-to-two or even one-to-three in extreme pressures.\n\n\"That's not something we want to do,\" he added.\n\nThe past week saw hospitals across Northern Ireland coming together in order to cope with the strain.\n\nOn 10 January, the Southern Health Trust was on the cusp of declaring a major incident amid the mounting pressures across the health service.\n\nThat was avoided as many off-duty staff answered a call to come into work and the health trusts pulled together to provide a regional response to the crisis.\n\nPatients were diverted to those hospitals which could take them and where infrastructure could cope with supplying additional oxygen to the very ill.\n\nOver the weekend of 9/10 January the Southern Health Trust - the smallest of the health trusts - was dealing with the highest number of patients who required oxygen.\n\nIn the past week the Northern and Southern Health Trusts have seen the highest number of patients.\n\nThat reflects the high rate of community transmission in some areas those trusts cover.\n\nMeanwhile, no resolution has been reached between Stormont leaders and the Irish Government over the sharing of passenger data.\n\nLast week, First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill criticised Dublin for failing to share information on travellers arriving there during the pandemic.\n\nMichelle O'Neill said it was \"regrettable\" the issue has not been resolved\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said repeated efforts to access data on passenger locator forms filled out by people arriving in the Republic of Ireland had failed.\n\nMrs Foster and Ms O'Neill indicated on Thursday that they planned to raise the matter directly with Taoiseach (Irish prime minsiter) Micheál Martin.\n\nMs O'Neill told the Northern Ireland Assembly on Monday that no resolution has been found yet.\n\nShe told MLAs the issue had been raised \"on every occasion we have had the opportunity\" and that it was \"regrettable\" that the issue had not been resolved.\n\nThe travel issue will be discussed at a meeting on Wednesday involving the first minister, the deputy first minister, Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney and NI Secretary of State Brandon Lewis.\n\n\"I hope that perhaps Wednesday's meeting will allow some opportunity for there to be a way forward,\" the deputy first minister added.\n\nIt was announced on Sunday that all travellers who have returned from Portugal or transited through 16 South American countries in the past 14 days will have to - along with their household - self-isolate for 10 days upon return to Northern Ireland.\n\nThis includes travellers who entered these countries en route to another destination. All travellers returning home from South America are advised to be tested, whether or not they have symptoms.\n\nFrom Thursday, all international travellers will be required to present a negative Covid-19 test result before arriving in Northern Ireland.\n\nThis rule comes into effect in England, Scotland and Wales on Monday.\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health in the Republic of Ireland reported eight more coronavirus-related deaths.\n\nIt brings its death toll to 2,616.\n\nThe department said 2,121 new cases of the virus had been reported, with a cumulative total of 174,843 infections.\n\nIt said that as of 14:00 local time on Monday, 1,975 Covid-19 patients are in hospital, of which 200 are in ICU (intensive care units).\n\nIrish Chief Medical Officer, Dr Tony Holohan, said: \"This third wave of the pandemic has seen higher level of hospitalisations across all age groups.\n\n\"There are now more sick people in hospital than any time in the course of this pandemic\".", "Staff gathered outside a supermarket to pay their respects to a colleague who died with coronavirus.\n\nJohn Deacy, 81, worked the Christmas Eve shift at the Tesco Extra store in Gabalfa, Cardiff, died just two weeks later.\n\nFriends and colleagues clapped as the funeral procession went by the store.\n\nFormer members of a jazz band, formed by Mr Deacy in the 1970s, marched in front of the hearse.\n\nHis son, Wayne, 56, said: “My dad put everyone above himself. He’d do anything for anyone.\n\n\"He’d help anyone and would never speak badly of people.”\n\nMr Deacy was in the Royal Marines for seven years and was a semi-professional boxer before starting a career at the industrial gas company BOC.\n\nHe went on to work for the supermarket for 16 years.\n\n“We’ve had loads and loads of messages from hundreds of staff who said he will leave a massive gaping hole,\" his son said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Schools to stay closed until mid-February at least\n\nScotland's Covid-19 lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon told MSPs that transmission of the virus appeared to be declining but was still too high to ease restrictions.\n\nBut she hopes schools will be able to at least begin a phased return to the classroom in the middle of next month.\n\nThe level four restrictions have been in place since Boxing Day.\n\nMeanwhile the islands of Barra and Vatersay are being moved into the top level of restrictions due to a \"significant outbreak\" there.\n\nThe current restrictions, which have closed non-essential shops and seen a \"stay at home\" message put down in law, had been due to expire at the end of this month.\n\nBut Scottish government ministers agreed they should be extended after a cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning.\n\nMs Sturgeon told MSPs that lockdown was \"beginning to have an impact\" on the number of new infections, but said Scotland remained in a \"very precarious position\".\n\nShe added: \"We need to be realistic that any improvement we are seeing is down, at this stage, to the fact that we are staying at home and reducing our interactions.\n\n\"Any relaxation of lockdown while case numbers, even though they might be declining, nevertheless remain very high, could quickly send the situation into reverse.\"\n\nThe vast majority of Scottish pupils have been home learning since the Christmas holiday\n\nThe announcement came as 1,165 new cases of Covid-19 were registered in Scotland, representing 11.1% of tests carried out.\n\nA total of 1,989 people are in hospital with the virus while a further 71 deaths of people who recently tested positive have been logged.\n\nMs Sturgeon said there was \"real and severe\" pressure on health services, with around 30% more patients in hospital than at the peak of the first wave in April 2020, and that this was \"almost certain to rise for a further period yet\".\n\nSchool buildings and nurseries have been closed to most pupils since the start of term, with all but the children of some key workers and vulnerable pupils learning from home.\n\nNot only will schools remain closed to most pupils until at least mid-February, they are unlikely to return to normal at that point.\n\nThe first minister has indicated that her aim is to begin a phased return, if coronavirus allows. So what might that mean?\n\nThe groups that will get back into class first are likely to include secondary school exam year pupils, the youngest primary school children and those in P7 getting ready to move to high school.\n\nFor others, online learning is likely to last a bit longer.\n\nBoth the return to school and the continuation of the wider lockdown will be reviewed again in a fortnight on 2 Feb.\n\nBy that week, first doses of vaccine should have been offered to all over 80s in Scotland as well as frontline NHS and social care staff and care home residents.\n\nWith only 15-20% of the over 80s reached so far, opposition parties think the programme is slipping behind schedule, which the first minister denies.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she knew how \"challenging and stressful\" home schooling was for families, but said community transmission was \"too high\" to allow a safe return to classrooms.\n\nShe said: \"If it is at all possible, as I very much hope it will be, to begin even a phased return to in-school learning in mid-February, we will.\n\n\"But I also have to be straight with families and say that it is simply too early to be sure about whether and to what extent this will be possible.\"\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed that Scotland had vaccinated 6% of its adult population so far - the same percentage as Wales, but lower than the 8% that have been vaccinated in England and 8.7% in Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland has also given a second dose of the vaccine to 427,386 people, compared to only 3,698 in Scotland.\n\nMs Sturgeon said approximately 100,000 people were being vaccinated per week in Scotland, and that health teams were \"on track\" to expand this to 400,000 per week by the end of February.\n\nStatistics have suggested the vaccination programme in Scotland is currently lagging behind England\n\nMore than 90% of care home residents have now been given a first dose, along with 70% of care home staff and 70% of all frontline health and care workers.\n\nThe first minister said the focus on care homes - where it is \"time consuming and labour intensive\" to give out jabs - was \"why overall figures are at this stage lower than in England\", where more over-80s have received the vaccine.\n\nShe said the \"pace of progress in the over-80s group is also now picking up\", and that the government remained on track to hit its target of completing everyone on the priority list by early May.\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson said the Scottish government were \"lagging behind their own targets\" on vaccination, saying the focus on care homes \"doesn't explain how slowly the vaccine is reaching GP surgeries and the public\".\n\nShe read out a series of letters from elderly people who had not been contacted about getting a jab, saying they were \"anxious they don't get left behind\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said she would not apologise for \"prioritising the most vulnerable first\", saying all four UK nations were \"working to the same targets\".\n\nScottish Labour's interim leader Jackie Baillie asked if Ms Sturgeon was confident the government could hit its \"critical\" targets, saying GPs were still complaining about \"patchy\" distribution of vaccines.\n\nThe first minister replied that her government would hit its goals, saying it was \"always the intention\" to increase the pace of vaccination as infrastructure and supplies became available.\n\nThis would see care home residents, healthcare staff and all over-80s get a first dose by the start of February, with over-70s and those deemed \"extremely vulnerable\" by mid-February and all over-65s by the beginning of March.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday evening. We'll have another update for you on Wednesday morning.\n\nScotland's Covid-19 lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home at least until then. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said transmission of the virus appeared to be declining but was still too high to ease restrictions, which have been in place since Boxing Day. It comes as England's deputy chief medical officer said schools may reopen region by region after February half term.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has said he is self-isolating after being alerted by the UK's NHS Covid-19 app. He urged others to do the same if \"pinged\" by the app and said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\". Mr Hancock, who is MP for West Suffolk, suffered \"mild symptoms\" when he contracted coronavirus in March 2020.\n\nA group of politicians drank alcohol on Welsh Parliament premises, days after a coronavirus rule banning pubs from serving drinks took effect. BBC Wales has been told Conservative Senedd leader Paul Davies, Darren Millar and Nick Ramsay were drinking together in early December, with Labour Senedd member Alun Davies also involved. Senedd authorities said they are investigating an \"incident\". Elsewhere, an internal investigation has began after railway workers allegedly held a surprise baby shower in a closed Patisserie Valerie bakery at London's Marylebone station during lockdown.\n\nHeadlines about footballers and Covid have been hard to miss lately - with questions about dressing room distancing, off-pitch partying and all those post-goal hugs. But what's football in lockdown actually like for players and their families? BBC Newsbeat has found out by speaking to Wycombe Wanderers footballer Joe Jacobson and his wife Louise.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has confirmed the government is looking at scrapping some EU labour laws now it is no longer bound by the bloc's rules.\n\nBut he promised there would be no dilution of workers' rights.\n\nMeasures under consideration include relaxing the working time directive which enshrines a 48-hour week.\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband warned the government wanted to take a \"wrecking ball\" to hard-won rights.\n\nEarlier this week Mr Kwarteng said he wanted to \"protect and enhance\" labour law after the Financial Times reported that some rules could be weakened.\n\nThe minister later told business leaders the UK had an opportunity to reform regulation derived from EU law, but would not deliberately antagonise the EU - its biggest trading partner - immediately after the Brexit deal.\n\nConfirming the review on Tuesday, Mr Kwarteng told MPs there would be no \"bonfire of rights\".\n\n\"I think the view was that we wanted to look at the whole range of issues relating to our EU membership and examine what we wanted to keep, if you like,\" he said.\n\nBut he said \"the idea that we are trying to whittle down standards, that's not at all plausible or true\".\n\nAppearing before MPs, the business secretary said: \"I'm very struck as I look at EU economies how many EU countries - I think it's about 17 or 18 - have essentially opted out of the working time directive.\n\n\"So even by just following that we are way above the average European standard and I want to maintain that. I think we can be a high-wage, high-employment economy, a very successful economy, and that's what we should be aiming for.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kwasi Kwarteng This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Miliband said that after denying the FT's report, Mr Kwarteng had now \"let the cat out of the bag\" in admitting the government was conducting a review.\n\nHe warned that opting out of the 48-hour week would harm workers in key sectors like the NHS, road haulage and airlines from working excessive hours.\n\n\"A government committed to maintaining existing protections would not be reviewing whether they should be unpicked. This exposes that the government's priorities for Britain are totally wrong.\"\n\nDrew Hendry, the SNP's business spokesman, echoed the criticism, accusing the government of planning an \"assault\" on workers' rights.\n\nMeanwhile the boss of the UK's biggest recruitment firm, Reed, told the BBC's Today programme that there was \"no wish\" among employers to see \"a so-called bonfire of workers' rights.\n\n\"They must be protected because fair treatment is the bedrock of good workplace relations,\" James Reed said.\n\nThe chairman of the firm said the government should instead focus on lower-paid workers and measures that could be taken to improve unemployment, which is set to rise further into mid-2021.\n\n\"I would suggest two things are looked at before any EU rules: The apprenticeship levy, which is clearly failing... and also National Insurance on jobs. It's a tax on jobs - how can that be improved? Especially to help the low-paid back into work.\"\n\nUnder the post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, the UK has agreed to conditions that maintain fair competition, or a level playing field, between the two sides.\n\nHowever, the EU's ambassador to the UK, Joao Vale de Almeida, said Brussels could retaliate if Boris Johnson's government went too far in with deregulation.\n\n\"It will be for us to judge the extent to which it violates this principle of 'level playing field' and if that is the case there are mechanisms in the treaty, in the agreement, that allow us to discuss and eventually to come to an understanding,\" he said on Tuesday.\n\n\"If no understanding there are retaliation measures that can be applied on both sides.\"", "The death happened in the alpine resort of Verbier, in Switzerland\n\nA British man has been killed in an avalanche in the Swiss Alps, police have said.\n\nThe man was among 10 people swept away at the alpine resort of Verbier, to the east of Geneva, on Monday morning.\n\nPolice said the skier, who has not been named, lived in Verbier and died at the scene.\n\nOne person was flown to hospital with serious injuries, while eight others were uninjured, local police said.\n\nA police spokesman said: \"The avalanche occurred outside the piste between the Verbier ski area and 'Les Attelas'.\n\n\"At around 10:20, a skier was driving down a corridor below the 'Attelas' area.\n\n\"A snow drift came loose and carried the skier as well as another person who had been further down at the time.\"\n\nAn investigation has been launched.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was offering support to the British man's family and was in contact with the authorities in Switzerland.\n\nThe death comes after several days of heavy snowfall across Switzerland, which led to the death of another skier who was killed in an avalanche while skiing in Gstaad.\n\nIt takes the total deaths due to avalanches in the country to seven since last weekend.\n\nMore than 200 British skiers left the popular Verbier resort in December after Switzerland imposed a coronavirus quarantine following the discovery of a new variant of the virus.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lorry drivers have been holding up the traffic in Westminster.\n\nBoris Johnson has pledged £23m to help businesses affected by Brexit delays amid protests by fishing firms.\n\nDemonstrations took place outside government departments in central London by exporters who are warning their livelihoods are under threat.\n\nExports of fresh fish and seafood have been severely disrupted by new border controls since the UK's transition period ended earlier this month.\n\nThe PM said firms would be compensated for delays that were not their fault.\n\nIndustry associations have complained that extra paperwork has made it difficult to deliver fresh produce to mainland Europe before it goes off.\n\nThey have warned that if the situation continues, jobs could soon be at risk.\n\nPressed on what he would do in response, Mr Johnson said the government would step in to support firms which \"through no fault of their own have experienced bureaucratic delays, difficulties getting their goods through, where there is a genuine willing buyer on the other side of the channel\".\n\n\"There's a £23m compensation fund we've set up and we'll make sure they get help,\" he said.\n\nDetails of the scheme are expected later this week.\n\nAfter a day of protests in central London, which saw 20 lorries drive up Whitehall, the Metropolitan Police said 14 people had been reported for Covid-related offences, but no arrests were made.\n\nMark Moore, manager of the Dartmouth Crab Company, said his business and others were protesting to \"raise awareness\" of the impact of new border checks.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live his company had faced delays of up to eight and a half hours when delivering produce into the European Union.\n\nHe added that the situation was \"especially difficult\" for the shellfish sector, where goods were at risk of going off before reaching customers.\n\n\"It's not about the increased documentation per se,\" he said.\n\n\"We have taken that on board, and we ourselves - and I know many others - have had no issues with producing the actual paperwork.\n\n\"It's the volume required and the timeframe in which to produce it, which doesn't lend itself to live shellfish and fish generally.\"\n\nThere are 24 lorries in total, overwhelmingly from seafood exporters in Scotland. Businesses taking part say the Brexit trade deal has left their industry high and dry.\n\nAnd although one haulier from Aberdeenshire I spoke to was keen to stress that their coordinated protest was peaceful, it is clear that they all feel that direct action is now necessary to make the government sit up and take notice.\n\nGood natured though their action was, it did for a time cause serious traffic congestion along Whitehall and Parliament Square.\n\nHowever, low levels of traffic perhaps caused by the Covid lockdown meant the roads around Whitehall didn't grind to a complete halt.\n\nAt stake, they believe, is an industry, but also thousands of livelihoods. Exporters say they are backed by fishermen who are struggling to land their catches.\n\nAnd although the rural Scottish communities which are sustained by fishing might seem like a long way from the streets of SW1, the hauliers certainly made their presence felt this morning.\n\nHaving left the EU's customs union and the single market, UK exports are subject to new customs and veterinary checks which have caused problems at the border.\n\nSome Scottish fishermen have been landing their catch in Denmark to avoid the \"bureaucratic system\" involved in exporting to Europe, according to Scotland's rural economy secretary.\n\nLast week, Boris Johnson told a committee of MPs that fishing firms impacted by disruption would be compensated for \"temporary frustrations\".\n\nBut the BBC was told that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) did not know about the promise of compensation before it was made by Mr Johnson.\n\nSpeaking to reporters, the prime minister said he understood the \"frustrations\" of the fishing industry, noting its plight had been \"exacerbated by the Covid pandemic\".\n\n\"Unfortunately, the demand in restaurants on the continent for UK fish has not been what it was before the pandemic, just because the restaurants have been closed for so long,\" he added.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused ministers of trying to \"blame fishing communities\" for problems \"rather than accepting it's their failure to prepare\".\n\n\"The government has known there would be a problem with fishing and particularly the sale of fish into the EU for years,\" he told reporters.\n\nMuch media attention has been focussed on Scotland as this export crisis has unfolded.\n\nBut exactly the same problem is rearing its head in the UK's other great fishing stronghold - at the other end of the UK in Devon and Cornwall.\n\nA virtual Who's Who of South West fishing leaders wrote to the environment secretary back in November warning that the new post-Brexit export requirements would have a \"seriously detrimental effect\" on the industry, claiming this \"could be the final straw for many businesses\".\n\nHere, too, many fish exports have now ground to a halt and others have encountered obstacles and long delays.\n\nAnd exporters have reacted angrily to the government's repeated insistence that the issues they've been experiencing over the last two weeks are just \"teething problems\".", "Not all parents have found it easy to home school their children during coronavirus lockdowns\n\nLevels of stress, depression and anxiety among parents and carers have increased with the pressures of the lockdowns, suggests research from the University of Oxford.\n\nMany parents, especially those of secondary-age pupils, say they are worried about their children's futures.\n\nThe government has said it is aware how challenging it is for parents to support children with home learning.\n\nThe research, based on responses from 6,246 parents and carers between mid-March and the end of December 2020, found problems including:\n\nOn an established scale of depression, anxiety and stress, parents' depression scores increased from April through to June from an average of 9.03 to 9.71, says the study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.\n\nWhile these average scores decreased over the summer, when Covid-19 restrictions were eased, to a low of 8.23 in September, they rose again over the course of the autumn term to a high of 10.1 points in December.\n\nParents' stress scores were at their lowest in August and September at 11.4 points, but increased to a high of 13.2 in December, following the pre-Christmas lockdown.\n\nThe researchers said higher levels of stress were detected particularly in low-income families, as well as single-parent households and those with children with special educational needs.\n\nWhile average anxiety scores were relatively stable throughout the whole period - ranging from a 4.71 points in April to 4.24 in July - they hit a high of 5 points in December.\n\nThe study also found just over a third (36%) of parents with young children (10 years or younger) said they were \"substantially worried\" about their children's behaviour, in contrast to just over a quarter (28%) of parents who had older children only (11 years or older).\n\nHowever, nearly half (45%) of those with secondary-age children were worried about their children's education and future, compared to 32% of those with young children.\n\nLeticea, a parent who took part in the study, said: \"I think that UK leaders should have access to this data to see what is going on with the mental health of families and how they are being affected by Covid-19 with increased levels of stress, depression and anxiety - we need something to look forward to.\n\n\"I am also worried that the next three months will show a sharper increase in anxiety and stress where parents are having to do more teaching at home.\n\n\"Children are more worried as their teachers are becoming ill - the 'new variant' sounds more scary, my daughter keeps commenting on an increasing worry of catching Covid-19 which she didn't do so much before.\"\n\nAnother parent, Madiha, said: ''Current times are hard enough as they are.\n\n\"As a working parent, the most important thing for me is to ensure my family's wellbeing, their safety, and their continued development.\n\n\"Prolonged screen time, disruption to daily routine, frequent arguments, lack of exercise, and stress of exams have all been contributing factors to our mental health and wellbeing.\n\nMadiha said she hoped the study would play a part in informing policy and developing interventions to help families.\n\nCathy Creswell, professor of clinical developmental psychology at Oxford University and co-leader of the study, said the findings showed parents were particularly vulnerable to distress during the first lockdown.\n\n\"Our data highlight the particular strains felt by parents during lockdown when many feel that they have been spread too thin by the demands of meeting their children's needs during the pandemic, along with home-schooling and work commitments.\"\n\nSchools were first closed to most pupils in March\n\nJohn Jolly, head of the charity Parentkind, said the research highlighted \"the additional stress and pressure that partial school closures place on parents\".\n\n\"Given the disruption to family life, it is vital that policymakers consult and listen to the concerns of parents on issues that directly impact them and their children's futures.\n\n\"This includes the safety and reopening of schools, the fair allocation of grades in the absence of exams, and remote learning provision.\"\n\nThe Oxford researchers are tracking children's and parents' mental health throughout the current crisis, to help them identify what protects young people from deteriorating mental health and how this may vary according to child and family characteristics.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ms Davies-Jones wanted to highlight how \"vitally important\" smear tests are\"\n\nAn MP has described how she had to have most of her cervix removed after putting off a smear test for several months.\n\nPontypridd MP Alex Davies-Jones, 31, said she was invited for her first routine screening in December 2015 and \"like so many others, I put it off\".\n\nFollowing a reminder in April 2016 she went for the cervical screening.\n\nShe wrote in the i newspaper it led to her being diagnosed with CIN3, abnormal cells and had to have surgery.\n\nIf left untreated, CIN3 can have a high chance of becoming cancerous.\n\nMs Davies-Jones wrote in the paper she was left \"without the majority of my cervix\" after the surgery.\n\nShe said she used her article to urge others \"don't delay in booking\" and said she felt compelled to write about her experiences for Cervical Cancer Prevention Week.\n\nA cervical screening checks the health of your cervix.\n\nA small sample of cells is taken from the cervix and checked for certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV) that can cause changes to the cells.\n\nIf present the sample is then checked for any changes in the cells which can be treated before they get a chance to turn into cervical cancer.\n\nThe NHS advises women between the ages of 25 to 49 to have a smear test every three years.\n\nAlex Davies-Jones became the Labour MP for Pontypridd in the 2019 General Election\n\nShe wrote: \"I used all of the usual excuses that you may have heard before.\n\n\"I was simply too busy, I couldn't get an appointment and I had no symptoms or abnormalities that were worrying me.\"\n\nMs Davies-Jones wrote she thought the routine screening would \"just be five minutes of awkward conversation with the nurse at my local GP whilst taking my knickers off\".\n\n\"I didn't ever think that there could be a chance that my cells would be 'abnormal' and that the next few months of my life would leave me terrified and constantly contemplating my own mortality.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chloe Delevingne had a smear test live on the Victoria Derbyshire programme to show what the procedure involved\n\nIf she had put off the screening any longer \"the situation could have been different\", the MP wrote.\n\nShe said she first received a type of laser treatment to \"burn off the abnormal cells from my cervix\" but more treatment was needed after the doctor told her the abnormal cells on her cervix were \"embedded deeper and looked more challenging than expected\".\n\nThen she had to have surgery, a \"cold knife biopsy\".\n\n\"I was without the majority of my cervix, but my life was saved. It was over,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Sadly, for many this isn't the case. For the next few years, I attended screenings every six months to ensure the abnormal cells didn't return.\n\n\"My last screening was in April 2018. Thankfully again all was fine but the anxiety and fear that surrounded me as I awaited those results has stayed with me even now.\"\n\nShe went on to give birth to her son Sullivan in March 2019.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Expert’s report finds eight-year-old Saffie \"could have been saved\" if treated properly for her injuries\n\nA man has described how he tried to help the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena attack as she lay badly injured after the explosion.\n\nPaul Reid, 46, was the first person to reach eight-year-old Saffie-Rose Roussos after the bomb was detonated.\n\nHe said she asked for her mum and said he tried to keep her awake by talking about the Ariana Grande gig.\n\nIt comes after a new report found Saffie could have survived if she had received better medical help.\n\nTwenty-two people were murdered and hundreds more injured when Salman Abedi detonated a bomb in the arena foyer as fans left the concert on 22 May 2017.\n\nMr Reid, who was selling posters at the concert, told the BBC he ran into the foyer seconds after the bomb went off.\n\n\"There was a big bang and I could see up on to the foyer, and there was smoke and you could hear things pinging off the wall,\" he said.\n\n\"I still had the posters in my hand. It was mad because it was like I wasn't there, like I was watching myself.\n\n\"People were just screaming and running in every direction you could think of.\"\n\nSaffie-Rose Roussos was the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena bombing\n\nMr Reid said he tried to help two other people before he noticed Saffie lying on the floor.\n\n\"She was still conscious. I asked her her name and I thought she said Sophie,\" he said.\n\n\"She just got a little bit upset. She asked me for her mum and I said not to worry, we're going to find her in a minute.\n\n\"And I sat there trying to keep her calm. I had to talk to her about the concert, and did she enjoy it.\n\n\"All the time I was sat there, I just thought hundreds of people are just going to come running in here and help us. And, well, hardly anybody came in.\"\n\nThe public inquiry into the attack, which started in September, began to examine the emergency response to the atrocity on Monday.\n\nMr Reid said he began watching the inquiry but said some details given in the opening days did not marry up with his recollection of what happened, and he switched it off.\n\nHe told the BBC after a while another person came to help, but after cutting away some of Saffie's clothing they left and went to the aid of someone else.\n\n\"I gave her [Saffie] a sip of water, because in all this madness there's somebody handing water out,\" he said.\n\n\"So you can imagine in the foyer now, all this is going on and there's a man walking about with water.\"\n\nPaul Reid said he was still haunted by what happened that night\n\nMr Reid said a police officer suggested moving Saffie out of the foyer, but with no stretchers to lift her they had to use a piece of plastic hoarding.\n\n\"The policeman came and said 'she's got to go, I'll take her in my car',\" he added.\n\n\"There was a plastic sheet under somebody's leg who was injured, I started pulling the sheet from under his leg. We put her on it and I started to carry her out, but the board was slippy.\"\n\nHe said they could not get the makeshift stretcher into the officer's car, so they flagged down an ambulance.\n\nMr Reid said he then returned to the foyer, where he went back to the man who he had taken the hoarding from.\n\n\"He had a gash in his stomach, and a paramedic was sitting there holding something against his stomach,\" he said.\n\n\"I held his hand. He had a Liverpool accent so I talked to him about football to take his mind off things, and my mind off things.\"\n\nMr Reid said he was still haunted by what happened that night.\n\n\"It's like yesterday. I can still smell the smoke in that foyer. Still hear the alarms when I go to sleep, when I close my eyes,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm first aid trained, but the most I'd done is put a plaster on.\n\n\"To step in that foyer, it was carnage. It was a war zone.\"\n\nSaffie's parents have said they would not have expected member of the public to have known how to treat her injuries.\n\nHer father Andrew Roussos told the BBC: \"There was a member of the public with her, I can't expect him to tourniquet her, splint her legs and so on.\n\n\"But the medically trained people that were with her, and were with her throughout and didn't apply basic first aid to give Saffie a chance.\"\n\nThe inquiry has previously heard it is important to acknowledge the enormous pressure which those who responded that night came under.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "News of the extended lockdown has not been welcomed by business leaders.\n\nLast month, the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) estimated that each week of lockdown meant non-essential stores missing out on £135m of lost sales.\n\nSince then, garden centres and homeware shops have been compelled to close too, and the government has placed curbs on retailers’ click and collect services.\n\nThe SRC says today's extension is a further blow to non-food stores who have already borne a lot during the pandemic.\n\nIt said Scottish stores were set to miss out on almost £950m of lost revenues during the current lockdown period.\n\nQuote Message: The extended lockdown will serve to make it harder for some retailers to emerge from this crisis. Even when we do eventually emerge from enforced hibernation the stark reality is that shops will be unable to trade at capacity due to physical distancing restrictions and caps on the number of customers in stores. This means that April’s abrupt ‘reverse cliff edge’ - which is set to see a 100% re-instatement of business rates – is simply not sustainable. from David Lonsdale Director of the Scottish Retail Consortium The extended lockdown will serve to make it harder for some retailers to emerge from this crisis. Even when we do eventually emerge from enforced hibernation the stark reality is that shops will be unable to trade at capacity due to physical distancing restrictions and caps on the number of customers in stores. This means that April’s abrupt ‘reverse cliff edge’ - which is set to see a 100% re-instatement of business rates – is simply not sustainable.", "On his final full day in office, outgoing president Donald Trump delivered a farewell speech from the White House.\n\nCurrently locked out of his personal social media accounts, Trump struck a concilatory yet defiant tone in the video released via the government's official social media accounts.\n\n\"We did what we came here to do - and so much more,\" he said. \"I took on the tough battles, the hardest fights, the most difficult choices – because that’s what you elected me to do.\"\n\nHe warned that \"the greatest danger\" now facing the country was \"a loss of confidence in our national greatness\".\n\nThe 45th president ran through actions taken by his administration - from \"stand[ing] up to China like never before\" to \"a series of historic peace deals in the Middle East\".\n\nHe added: \"I am especially proud to be the first president in decades who has started no new wars.\"\n\nReferring to the riot at the US Capitol on 6 January, he said: \"All Americans were horrified by the assault on the Capitol... It can never be tolerated.\"\n\nTrump acknowledged that a new administration would take office, but said: \"I want you to know that the movement we started is only just beginning.\"", "It is not known when the artwork was taken as no one reported it missing\n\nA 500-year-old painting has been discovered in a flat in Italy and returned to a museum - where staff were unaware it had even been stolen.\n\nThe copy of Salvator Mundi, which is believed to have been painted by Leonardo da Vinci, was found in a bedroom cupboard in Naples on Saturday.\n\nThis copy is thought to have been painted by one of da Vinci's students.\n\nThe 36-year-old owner of the flat was arrested on suspicion of receiving stolen goods, police said.\n\n\"The painting was found on Saturday thanks to a brilliant and diligent police operation,\" Naples prosecutor Giovanni Melillo told the AFP news agency.\n\nThe artwork is usually part of the Doma Museum collection at the San Domenico Maggiore church in the city.\n\nBut Mr Melillo said officials were not aware it had been stolen because \"the room where the painting is kept has not been open for three months\" due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt is not known when the artwork was taken as no one had reported it missing, but the museum said it was in its possession as recently as last January.\n\nSome experts believe Leonardo's student Giacomo Alibrandi may have painted the artwork\n\nPolice are now investigating the circumstances of the theft, but there was no sign of a break-in at the museum.\n\n\"It is plausible that it was a commissioned theft by an organisation working in the international art trade,\" Mr Melillo said.\n\nIt is not known who painted the artwork, but some experts believe Leonardo's student Giacomo Alibrandi may have done so in the early 1500s.\n\nIt shows Christ with one hand raised, with the other holding a glass sphere.\n\nAnd to add to the mystery - whether or not the original painting is an authentic Leonardo da Vinci is disputed. Leonardo died in 1519 and there are fewer than 20 of his paintings in existence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The original painting was cleaned and restored from the image on the left to the one on the right\n\nThe original Salvator Mundi has had major cosmetic surgery - its walnut panel base has been described as \"worm-tunnelled\" and at some point it seems to have been split in half. Efforts to restore it have also resulted in abrasions.\n\nThis did not detract buyers, however, and the painting became the most expensive ever sold when it was auctioned for a record $450m (£341m) in 2017.\n\nThe unidentified buyer was involved in a bidding contest, via telephone, that lasted nearly 20 minutes.", "A refusal to accept cash is \"creeping into the wider UK economy\", an expert has said, after a survey suggested coronavirus had hastened a shift towards a cashless society.\n\nConsumer group Which? said that 34% of people asked said they had been unable to pay with cash at least once since March when trying to buy something.\n\nGrocery stores, pubs and restaurants were most likely to refuse.\n\nNatalie Ceeney, who wrote a report on the issue, called for ministers to act.\n\n\"The figures show that it's not simply the odd coffee shop going cashless, but this is creeping into the wider economy,\" said Ms Ceeney, who wrote the Access to Cash Review.\n\n\"We can't just blame individual businesses - many are going cashless because they can't easily bank cash takings because their local branch is closed or some distance away. The government needs to urgently legislate to protect the viability of cash - as it promised to do so last year. Time is running out.\"\n\nWhich? said the lack of cash access was a problem for those who relied on notes and coins - such as people with certain health conditions or without computer access.\n\nSome shops are still keen to accept cash\n\nJenny Ross, Which? Money editor, said: \"We have repeatedly warned about the consequences that coronavirus will have on what was an already fragile cash system, but nowhere near enough action has been taken by the government or the regulator to understand the scale of this issue.\"\n\nThe Treasury has proposed giving the City regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority, control of overseeing future access to cash and has thrown its weight behind the idea of cashback in shops, without the requirement to buy anything.\n\nDavid Fagleman, director at financial consultancy Enryo, said: \"Our own research shows that despite a decline in use for day-to-day purchases, nearly three-quarters of people think the move to a cashless society is happening too fast and risks leaving some people, particularly the vulnerable, behind.\"", "Cillian Murphy stars in Peaky Blinders, a drama which follows Tommy Shelby and his family\n\nPeaky Blinders creator Steven Knight has confirmed the hit BBC crime drama will conclude with a film following the show's final TV series.\n\nOn Monday, Knight said the upcoming sixth series would be the last but teased that \"the story will continue in another form\".\n\nHe has now confirmed to Deadline: \"My plan from the beginning was to end Peaky with a movie.\n\n\"This is what is going to happen,\" he added.\n\nHe explained that \"Covid had changed our plans\" but did not elaborate.\n\nHelen McCrory, who plays Polly, is the Shelby family matriarch\n\nThe final BBC TV series has resumed filming after being hit by Covid-related production delays.\n\nOn Monday, Knight described the show as being \"back with a bang\" and warned fans that the mobsters would face \"extreme jeopardy\" in the sixth season.\n\nKnight had previously planned for a seven-season run of the drama, which is set in post-World War One Birmingham.\n\n\"My ambition is to make it a story of a family between two wars,\" he said in 2018 ahead of season five. \"I've wanted to end it with the first air raid siren in Birmingham in 1939. It'll take three more series to reach that point.\"\n\nIt now looks like the film might be replacing his plan for series seven.\n\nKnight, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, previously revealed he had been \"approached\" to take the Shelby crime family universe to the big-screen.\n\nSam Claflin as Tommy's political rival Oswald Mosley was a central figure in series five\n\nThe sixth series of the show, which follows Tommy Shelby and his family, will see Anthony Byrne return as director and Nick Goding produce.\n\nTommy Bulfin, executive producer for the BBC, said he was \"very excited\" filming had begun and promised a \"truly remarkable... fitting send-off that will delight fans\".\n\nHe added he was \"so grateful to everyone for all their hard work to make it happen\".\n\nThe production team have developed comprehensive safety protocols to ensure that the series will be produced responsibly and in accordance with government guidelines during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nExecutive producer Caryn Mandabach said the \"safety of our cast and crew is always our priority\" and that they had been \"working diligently\" to get safely back into production since filming was halted last March.\n\n\"Thank you to all the Peaky fans who have been so unwaveringly supportive and patient,\" she added.\n\nPeaky Blinders, which stars Cillian Murphy, first aired on BBC Two eight years ago to widespread critical acclaim.\n\nRatings quickly grew from over two million for the first series to over four million by series four and it found further popularity on Netflix.\n\nIt made the transition to BBC One for the fifth series in 2019, achieving audiences of over five million.\n\nThroughout its run, a host of awards have followed, including NTAs, which are voted for by the public, and a Bafta for best drama series in 2018.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Scientists are a step closer to being able to reverse the damage caused by motor neurone disease (MND).\n\nUniversity of Edinburgh experts have found a problem with MND patients' nerve cells which could be repaired by repurposing drugs approved for other diseases.\n\nThe study has been welcomed by charities including the foundation set up by Scots rugby legend Doddie Weir.\n\nMy Name'5 Doddie foundation described it as \"a very exciting breakthrough\".\n\nMore than 1,500 people are diagnosed with the degenerative condition in the UK every year.\n\nThere is no known cure and more than half die within two years of diagnosis.\n\nThe research found that the damage to nerve cells caused by MND could be repaired by improving the energy levels in mitochondria - the power supply to the motor neurons.\n\nThey discovered in human stem cell models of MND, the axon - the long part of the motor neuron cell that connects to the muscle - was shorter than in healthy cells.\n\nAnd the movement of the mitochondria, which travel up and down the axons, was impaired\n\nThe scientists showed that this was caused by a defective energy supply from the mitochondria and that by boosting the mitochondria, the axon reverted back to normal.\n\nDr Arpan Mehta, who led the study at Euan MacDonald Centre for MND research said: \"The importance of the axon in motor nerve cells cannot be overstated.\n\n\"Our data provides hope that by restoring the cell's energy source we can protect the axons and their connection to muscle from degeneration.\n\n\"Work is already under way to identify existing licensed drugs that can boost the mitochondria and repair the motor neurons. This will then pave the way to test them in clinical trials.\"\n\nThe research centre was established by Euan MacDonald, who was 29 years old when he was diagnosed with MND in 2003\n\nCraig Stockton, the chief executive of MND Scotland, said the \"exciting\" results of the research were another piece of the puzzle to finding an effective treatment for the degenerative condition.\n\n\"We look forward to seeing if these positive results can be replicated for patients,\" he said.\n\n\"Once researchers have identified a drug they believe could have the desired effect, this treatment could then be fast-tracked for human trials using the pioneering MND-SMART clinical trial platform - into which MND Scotland has invested £1.5m.\n\n\"Researchers, clinicians, charities and supporters are all working hard to take us closer to finding a cure and by joining together we'll get to that day even sooner.\"\n\nThe researchers used stem cells taken from people with the C9orf72 gene mutation that causes both MND and frontotemporal dementia.\n\nThey used the stem cells to generate motor neuron cells in the lab.\n\nThe study also used human post-mortem spinal cord tissue from people with MND.\n\nAlthough the research focused on the people with the commonest genetic cause of MND, the researchers said they were hopeful the results would also apply to other forms of the disease.\n\nThe results of the study are now being used to look for existing drugs that boost mitochondrial function.\n\nThe study was funded by the Medical Research Council, Motor Neurone Disease Association, Euan MacDonald Centre for MND Research, My Name'5 Doddie Foundation, UK Dementia Research Institute and Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Protests against China's alleged abuse of the Muslim Uighur community\n\nThe government is facing a rebellion over the Trade Bill, and opposition proposals to give British courts the right to decide if a country is committing genocide.\n\nRebel Tory MPs want to allow Parliament to debate ending trade deals with countries responsible for genocide.\n\nThe government says trade policy should not be set by the courts.\n\nBut some MPs think the proposal would be a good way of targeting China and its treatment of the Uighur people.\n\nOn Tuesday, America's top diplomat Mike Pompeo, in his last day in the role, said the US had determined that China's persecution of the Muslim group and other minorities in Xinjiang province represented genocide and crimes against humanity under international law.\n\nThe UK has repeatedly condemned the actions of the Chinese authorities but stopped short of describing them as genocide - saying only international courts should determine this.\n\nAnd ministers also argue that trade deals are matters for governments, not the courts, to decide upon.\n\nThe MPs' amendment to the Trade Bill is a watered-down version of an earlier proposal from the House of Lords, which would force the government to withdraw from any free trade agreement with any country found guilty of genocide by the High Court of England and Wales.\n\nThe new proposal is signed by 10 Conservative MPs, one of whom described their amendment as \"tidier\" than the Lords version and designed to attract more support.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, Sir Edward Leigh asked \"is there any way we can acknowledge that genocide is taking place in a discussion on a trade deal\".\n\nIn response, International Trade minister Greg Hands said ministers were prepared to have further discussions but not within the scope of the current legislation.\n\nHe told MPs the government was \"answerable to Parliament, not the courts\" and the Lords version would have led to an \"unacceptable erosion\" of its authority.\n\nThe UK, he added, had \"no plans\" to negotiate a bilateral trade agreement with China due to concerns about its human rights record, particularly its persecution of the Muslim Uighur community.\n\nNusrat Ghani urged ministers to consider the \"compromise\" proposal, which she said recognised the \"separation of powers\" between the executive, Parliament and the courts.\n\nThe Conservative ex-minister said the UK should \"never let economic concerns trump ethical ones by dealing with genocidal states\".\n\n\"Why would we want to use our newfound freedom to trade with states that commit and profit from genocide? Britain is better than that.\"\n\nSpeaking to Politics Live, former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith said it is currently \"impossible\" for international courts to rule on whether there has been genocide, as other countries can block hearings in the UN.\n\nHe argued it is therefore important to allow British courts to make the judgement.\n\nThe MP insisted he is not \"anti-China\" but said the Chinese government need to be \"reasonable and behave in a way that is acceptable\" if it wanted to be part of global trading organisations.\n\nShadow international trade secretary Emily Thornberry said Labour would be supporting the new amendment arguing that the government \"does not consider human rights abuses enough before signing up to trade deals\".\n\nThis is an interesting story in its own right because of the issues involved but it's also a neat metaphor for Brexit.\n\nThe government has taken back control of trade policy from the EU but is already having to share it with the House of Lords, Tory MPs and potentially with the High Court.\n\nDuring the passage of the Trade Bill, the government also had to beef up the powers of the Trade and Agriculture Commission - an independent body of experts - in response to lobbying from farmers who were worried about the dilution of food standards.\n\nSoon trade disputes with other countries will partly be overseen by the new Trade Remedies Authority, another organisation that reports to ministers but is independent of them.\n\nAnd of course, everything has to be compatible with World Trade Organisation rules, anyway.\n\nThe government has control of trade. It's just not total.", "19 January is a special day for Orthodox Christians across Russia, including President Vladimir Putin. It's a day reserved for commemorating the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan, and it's called Epiphany. Though temperatures are as low as -20 Celsius, some celebrated this by submerging themselves in ice-cold water.", "A team of Nepalese climbers has become the first ever to summit the world’s second highest mountain, K2, in winter.\n\nK2, along the Pakistan-China border, is notoriously challenging - with high winds and sub-zero temperatures.\n\nOne of the leading members of the team is a former Gurkha and British special forces soldier, Nirmal Purja. He spoke to BBC Pakistan correspondent Secunder Kermani.", "Theresa May has accused her successor Boris Johnson of \"abandoning\" the UK's moral leadership on the world stage.\n\nThe ex-prime minister said Mr Johnson's decision to cut the overseas aid budget below 0.7% of national income had reduced the UK's global \"credibility\".\n\nShe wrote in the Daily Mail the UK had to \"live up to its values\" and would be judged by its actions not its rhetoric.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was \"embarking on a quite phenomenal year\" of global leadership.\n\nQuestioned about Mrs May's comments by the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"I think it's very important the prime minister of the UK has the best possible relationship with the president of the United States.\n\n\"That's part of the job description.\"\n\nHe cited the UK's hosting of a global vaccine summit, the upcoming COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, as well as the G7 summit of leading industrial nations, in Cornwall, and his pledge to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 as examples of the UK's global leadership.\n\nMr Blackford called on the PM to reverse \"his cruel policy of cutting international aid for the world's poorest\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The SNP Westminster leader called in the PM to reverse his \"cruel\" international aid policy\n\nLater on Wednesday, Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States, succeeding Donald Trump.\n\nIn advance of the event, Mr Johnson said he looked forward to working \"hand-in-hand\" with the new administration and that post-Covid challenges could only be tackled by \"international co-operation\".\n\nBut, in an article in the Daily Mail, Mrs May suggested Mr Johnson had squandered international goodwill by choosing not to meet the longstanding UN target of spending 0.7% of income on international development.\n\nThe government says it cannot meet the figure - enshrined in UK law - this year because of the strain placed on the public finances by the pandemic.\n\nTheresa May has made these criticisms - on overseas aid and the threat by the government to override international law - before.\n\nQuite often she gets a dig in when she stands up in the House of Commons.\n\nBut packaging it all up in this way, on this day, is, in the words of one of her close former advisers, \"quite punchy\".\n\nThe government would rather focus on the relationship it is going to forge with the new US president.\n\nMinisters feel they have quite a lot in common with Joe Biden when it comes to working together on the world stage, fighting climate change and co-operating on global security.\n\nMrs May also criticised Mr Johnson's support for legislation which could have allowed the UK to go back on parts of its Withdrawal Agreement with the EU, had it been passed.\n\nControversial clauses were ultimately removed from the Internal Market Bill in December, after the UK and EU reached an agreement.\n\nBut Mr Johnson's threat to break international law was criticised in Europe and the US - where Mr Biden warned it could imperil peace in Northern Ireland.\n\nMrs May said the UK was \"well placed to play a decisive role in shaping this more co-operative world but to lead we must live up to our values\".\n\n\"Other countries listen to what we say not simply because of who we are, but because of what we do. The world does not owe us a prominent place on its stage,\" she added.\n\n\"Whatever the rhetoric we deploy, it is our actions which count. So, we should do nothing which signals a retreat from our global commitments.\"\n\nMrs May suggested the end of the Trump presidency could be a catalyst for a change in world politics\n\nMrs May, who had a sometimes strained relationship with Mr Trump, said Mr Biden's election presented the UK with a \"golden opportunity\" for Western democracies to reverse the trend towards \"absolutism\" - and a \"few strongmen facing off against each other\" - in global affairs.\n\nThe UK holds the presidency of the G7 this year and hosts the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.\n\nMr Johnson said he looked forward to welcoming Mr Biden to the UK at least twice in 2021.\n\n\"In our fight against Covid and across climate change, defence, security, and in promoting and defending democracy, our goals are the same and our nations will work hand-in-hand to achieve them,\" he added.", "LAS received almost 200,000 calls in December - up 50,000 on November, when London was in the second national lockdown\n\nLast week London exceeded the grim milestone of 10,000 deaths linked to Covid-19. Thousands of people are critically ill in hospital, and as many as 5% of Londoners are thought to have the virus in some parts of the city. As coronavirus continues to circulate silently around the capital, staff at the London Ambulance Service (LAS) are under immense pressure.\n\nThe service is currently taking up to 8,500 calls a day, compared with a pre-Covid figure of 5,000 to 6,000, according to its chief executive Garrett Emmerson.\n\nLizzie Cooke is one of the workers at LAS's south London headquarters who are dealing with strangers at what is a distressing time.\n\nI covered the London Bridge terror attacks and Grenfell but this is a different scale\n\nCalmly, the 30-year-old answers the phone and usually asks first if the patient is breathing.\n\n\"In the first wave we were getting a lot of calls of [people seeking] reassurance,\" Lizzie says. \"But now there are more and more who have symptoms, and family members are really frightened.\"\n\nIt is a fear that Lizzie knows all too well, having been hospitalised with Covid-19 in March. She spent a week receiving treatment for the virus.\n\n\"I was at work taking calls and struggling to concentrate,\" the call-handling supervisor says. \"At times I would just have my head on the desk in between calls.\n\n\"I started to develop chest pains five days later so my parents took me to Royal County Hospital, in Hampshire, and an X-ray showed a lot of fluid in my lungs. It was quite horrible.\n\n\"Luckily, I wasn't on a ventilator but I had the oxygen hood, and the nurses were so rushed off their feet. I didn't have my phone with me or know my parents' numbers off by heart so for that week I was quite alone and isolated.\n\n\"It was just a mixture of the unknown and not knowing when it was going to stop that was so daunting.\"\n\nThe unprecedented volume of calls means waiting times for patients are increasing\n\nLizzie's personal battle with coronavirus has helped her to empathise with people who call up with breathing problems.\n\nIt's something she says she's having to do more and more.\n\n\"Just before Christmas we were getting a lot of respiratory and cardiac arrest calls,\" she says. \"You could just hear colleagues counting to four [for chest compressions] and it was echoing around the room. It has been tough.\n\n\"We are getting calls from family members who are really frightened. I covered the London Bridge terror attacks and Grenfell but this is a different scale.\n\n\"I did get one call for toothache, but that's part of the job.\"\n\nLizzie, who lives in Hampshire, says that because the coverage of coronavirus is everywhere, it is \"difficult to escape\".\n\nWhen she's not at work she binge-watches Line of Duty on Netflix, but she says winding down isn't easy.\n\nLizzie sometimes thinks about the people who aren't following the rules aimed at helping stop the spread of the virus, and those who deny Covid-19 even exists.\n\n\"It's a kick in the teeth,\" she says. \"It is frustrating on the way to work when you see people not wearing masks or even posting stuff on social media not believing the virus is real.\n\n\"I just don't know where the disconnect is coming from; there are many people in hospital, many people dying, and I don't know what more needs to be said to make them realise how dangerous the illness is.\"\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nSitting a few metres away from Lizzie is 24-year-old Louise Essam, who has been in the job for two years.\n\n\"Every call we take at the moment is coronavirus,\" she says. \"My record was 108 calls in a day back in March during the first wave.\n\n\"But easily in the last few weeks I've been taking around 100 a day at times,\" Louise adds.\n\n\"We are just doing the best we can,\" says emergency call co-ordinator Louise Essam\n\n\"Sometimes I'll come in for a shift and can just hear colleagues counting one, two, three, four, for the compressions, and you just know what kind of shift it is going to be.\n\n\"It has been tough and quite frustrating, really. We are trying to help people. We are under so much pressure as there are high waiting times, but we are just doing the best we can.\"\n\nHelp is at hand though from the LAS workers' fellow emergency services personnel.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick visited Wembley Stadium on Wednesday, where her officers are being trained to drive ambulances\n\nSeventy-five Met Police officers are currently being trained at Wembley Stadium to drive ambulances.\n\nThey will start work as drivers from 20 January, joining the 200 firefighters who are already helping LAS.\n\n\"It came as a huge relief when they announced it,\" says 37-year-old paramedic Ben West.\n\nBen West has been with the London Ambulance Service for 13 years\n\nAs is the case with many frontline workers, Ben says he is concerned about the dangers of exposure to coronavirus.\n\nHe has lost four colleagues to Covid-19, including Ian Reynolds, a paramedic based in Croydon, and Melonie Mitchell, a member of the NHS 111 team. They both died during the first wave in April.\n\n\"I wouldn't be a normal person if I said I wasn't scared,\" he says.\n\n\"I am scared and I do worry but we take every day as it comes, take our precautions and we just see where we go with that.\n\n\"We know the virus is out there in the community and we are not immune.\"", "A non-binding Labour motion calling for the universal credit top-up to be kept in place beyond 31 March passed by 278 votes to none after a Commons debate.\n\nSix Tory MPs defied party orders to abstain and voted with Labour, adding to the pressure on the PM on the issue.\n\nThe prime minister said the government had provided £280bn worth of support during the pandemic but all measures would be kept under \"constant review\".\n\nThe motion, which will not automatically lead to a change in policy, was put forward by Labour as a way to put additional pressure on the government to continue the increase, worth £1,000 a year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carl, a roofer, describes going from \"not having enough to barely having enough\" on universal credit.\n\nFormer Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb was among six Conservative MPs to rebel, along with Peter Aldous, Robert Halfon, Jason McCartney, Anne Marie Morris and Matthew Offord.\n\nAhead of the vote, Mr Crabb told the BBC that although there were \"difficult pressures on the chancellor\" extending the increase for 12 months was \"the right thing to do\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there were dozens of Conservative MPs who were \"deeply uneasy\" about ending the £20 weekly increase to universal credit.\n\nShe added that it was also understood the cabinet minister with responsibility for benefits, Therese Coffey, was arguing that the uplift should not be dropped in April.\n\nCharities and anti-poverty campaigners are pleading with the government to keep the support in place, describing it as a lifeline for more than 5.5 million families who receive the standard universal credit allowance.\n\nFood poverty campaigner and chef Jack Monroe told the BBC that the £20 increase \"has been a lifeline\" for millions of people who have needed to top up their income or rely on universal credit payments in order to get by.\n\nSir Keir said the increase was a vital safety net for those who had lost their jobs, seen their working hours slashed or who were not eligible for the government's wage subsidy furlough scheme.\n\n\"If we don't give a helping hand to families through this pandemic, then we are going to slow our economic recovery as we come out it.\n\n\"We urge Boris Johnson to change course and give families certainty today that their incomes will be protected.\"\n\nSix billion pounds of the benefits bill - the difference between poverty or not for 1.2 million families, according to a think tank.\n\nThe £1,040 a year increase to universal credit is a very emotive issue.\n\nThere's even a battle over what to call it.\n\nTo the government, its introduction was a one-off boost to cope with a crisis. For Labour, taking it away is a cut.\n\nMinisters would prefer we looked at the overall level of support they've provided for workers and businesses during the pandemic. The opposition say the £20 a week boost is a powerful symbol of the state's willingness to help.\n\nEven the act of debating it today is disputed. Labour say they've got the right occasionally to set the agenda in Parliament. Boris Johnson said his MPs risk abuse from campaigners and protestors if they engage.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has suggested about 16 million people will be directly affected if the £20 is rolled back.\n\nIt says 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty, including 200,000 children, while a further 500,000 of those already in poverty will find themselves in even worse hardship.\n\nHowever, free market think tank the Institute for Economic Affairs has argued that \"across-the-board benefit increases are a wasteful use of taxpayers' money\" at a time when the government is borrowing \"a hair-raising amount of money\".\n\nUniversal credit is a single payment replacing old benefits such as housing benefit and child tax credits.\n\nYou can claim universal credit if you are on a low income or are out of work.\n\nThe standard allowance varies from around £340 to just under £600 a month, depending on your age or whether you are single.\n\nYou may be eligible to receive more money on top of the standard allowance if, for example, you have children or a health condition.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the Northern Research Group, Conservative MP John Stevenson said the £1,000 increase had been \"a real life-saver for people throughout this pandemic\".\n\n\"To end it now would be devastating for the 6 million individuals and families who are already struggling to stay afloat,\" he added.\n\nWhile the vote is not binding, and will not lead to a change in policy, it will increase pressure on the government to keep the increase or come up with an alternative.\n\nLabour said the Conservatives' decision to abstain created \"unnecessary uncertainty\" but minister Nadhim Zahawi described the vote as \"a political stunt\".\n\nThe government says it has strengthened the welfare system with an extra £7bn of funding during the pandemic while families struggling with food and household bills can get help through the £170m Winter Grant Scheme.\n\nMinisters also point to extra support for housing costs, through an increase in local housing allowance for those on housing benefits and hardship payments worth £670m next year for those unable to pay their council tax bills.", "How has the justice system responded to the pandemic? Stories from inside prisons and courts, where lawyers fear delays are creating miscarriages of justice. Helen Grady reports.\n\nAre court backlogs creating miscarriages of justice? When the UK locked down, so did its court system, adding to a backlog that’s left defendants, witnesses and victims facing long waits for trials. Helen Grady speaks to people inside the justice system to find out how it’s coped with the pandemic - from delays in making courts covid-secure to a lack of PPE and overcrowding in prisons. We hear stories from prisons under lockdown and talk to lawyers who fear delays are leading to abuses of the criminal justice system.\n\nProducer: Rob Cave", "New legislation has been passed to protect Scottish shop workers from abuse from customers.\n\nThe Protection of Workers Bill will make it a new specific offence to assault, abuse or threaten staff.\n\nIncidents involving an age-restricted product, such as alcohol or cigarettes, could be treated more seriously.\n\nThe MSP behind the bill, Labour's Daniel Johnson, said attacks on retail workers had increased during the Covid pandemic.\n\nHe told Holyrood: \"Shop staff have been spat at for asking customers to socially distance, and stock has been smashed in retaliation for item limits being imposed.\n\n\"Violence, threats and abuse should not be just part of anyone's job.\"\n\nMr Johnson said that staff requesting age ID could be a \"trigger factor\" in many incidents of abuse.\n\nThe new legislation will also cover people working in bars, restaurants and hotels, and those delivering items bought online who may have to ask for proof of age.\n\nThe bill was supported by all parties at Holyrood, despite the government initially arguing that its provisions were already covered by existing criminal laws.\n\nThe Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service told MSPs that further legislation was not needed, noting that \"violence, threats and abuse against retail workers, or indeed any other person, are prosecuted every day in the courts in Scotland using offences which are commonly understood\".\n\nPolice Scotland meanwhile said there would be \"no significant change in how we go about our business\" as a result of it.\n\nCommunity safety minister Ash Denham said that while there was a \"wide range of existing criminal laws\" currently in place to protect staff, the new legislation could \"make the general public think more about their behaviour when they interact with retail workers\".\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives also backed the bill, although they argued that the presumption against short sentences in Scotland meant anyone convicted under the new law would ultimately not be jailed.\n\nPaul Gerrard, public affairs director for the Co-Op, told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime that the retailer had seen a 450% rise in violent incidents in the last few years.\n\n\"It is a huge problem,\" he said. \"We've seen an explosion in violence and abuse toward my colleagues.\n\n\"Now across 350 stores in Scotland we have someone attacked every day. And 10 colleagues are threatened or abused every day.\n\n\"Increasingly we have seen knives, syringes and axes all used against shopworkers.\"\n\nMr Gerrard added that previous incidents were centred on shoplifting or age-restricted sales, but staff were now facing more abuse around enforcing Covid shopping rules.\n\nThe new legislation was passed by 118 votes to 0 in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nThe Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) is now urging the UK government to introduce similar legislation to protect retail staff in England - something Labour MP Alex Norris is pursuing at Westminster.\n\nUsdaw general secretary Paddy Lillis said: \"It is a great result for our members in Scotland, who will now have the protection of the law that they deserve.\n\n\"So we are looking for MPs to support key workers across the retail sector and help turn around the UK government's opposition.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nIndia pulled off an astonishing run-chase to inflict Australia's first defeat at the Gabba since 1988, win the fourth Test by three wickets and take one of the all-time great series. Needing 328, a Brisbane record run-chase, the injury-hit tourists got home with three overs to spare. Shubman Gill made 91 and Rishabh Pant was unbeaten on 89. They win the series 2-1, keeping the Border-Gavaskar they won in Australia two years ago. It is perhaps one of the finest Test series wins by any away side, especially given the list of players unavailable to India by the time the final match was played. That included captain and talisman Virat Kohli, who only played in the first Test before departing to be at the birth of his first child, a host of fast bowlers and first-choice spin pair Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja. In addition to the absent players, India somehow recovered from being bowled out for 36 - their lowest total in Test cricket - in losing the series opener by eight wickets. What followed were three Tests of the highest quality and drama, with India producing a stunning comeback to win the second Test by eight wickets, then defiantly batting through the final day to earn a draw in the third. But they saved their best performance for last, a superb contest that ensured the series went down to the final hour of the last day, with the shadows lengthening and a near-empty Gabba filled with the sound of a smattering of raucous India supporters. The tourists were 4-0 overnight and, for them to even get to the point where victory might be possible, Cheteshwar Pujara had to come through a barrage of hostile bowling from the Australia quicks - he was hit 10 times in his 56. He added 114 for the second wicket with the free-scoring Gill, while stand-in captain Ajinkya Rahane, who has presided over India's fightback, signalled their intent with 24 off only 22 balls. Tireless Australia fast bowler Pat Cummins was a threat throughout, removing Pujara, Rahane and Rohit Sharma. Fast bowler Pat Cummins took four wickets for Australia Still, even though India knew a draw would see them retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, they never lost sight of the chance of victory and promoted wicketkeeper Pant to number five. At the beginning of the final hour, India were 259-4, meaning they needed 69 runs and Australia six wickets from the final 15 overs. Though Cummins had Mayank Agarwal caught at cover for his fourth wicket, Pant attacked in the company of debutant Washington Sundar. Runs came with increasing freedom and, although Sundar was bowled trying to reverse-sweep Nathan Lyon and Shardul Thakur miscued Josh Hazlewood, Pant could not be stopped. The left-hander's drive down the ground off Hazlewood secured a famous win and sparked joyous India celebrations. 'One of the top three series of all time' - reaction India captain Rahane: \"I don't know how to describe this victory. I'm really proud of all the boys. We didn't talk about anything after Adelaide, we just wanted to show good character and express ourselves. It was all about a team effort.\" Australia captain Tim Paine: \"In the key moments we were found wanting and completely outplayed by India, who fully deserved their series win.\" Man of the match Pant: \"This is one of the biggest things in my life. It has been a dream series.\" Player of the series Cummins: \"The whole India side played fantastically and deserved to win. The game was there for to win, but we didn't take the wickets.\" Former Australia fast bowler Stuart Clark on ABC: \"What a victory that is by India. They have been absolutely outstanding. The man of the moment is Rishabh Pant. He played some of the most insane shots you will ever see. Australia bowled their hearts out, but it wasn't enough.\" Former Australia captain Ian Chappell: \"It had everything. It was an absolutely amazing day. This has been one of top three Test series of all time.\"\n• None Can this British team make an impact on the global scene?\n• None The show must go on in lockdown:", "Nicola Sturgeon is to announce later whether Scotland's Covid-19 lockdown is to continue past the end of January.\n\nThe first minister said Tuesday's statement at Holyrood would concern the \"duration\" of restrictions rather than whether any new ones would be imposed.\n\nMinsters will also decide at a cabinet meeting whether schools will be allowed to re-open in full from 1 February.\n\nEducation Secretary John Swinney has suggested it would be a \"tall order\" for pupils to return to classrooms.\n\nMs Sturgeon said on Monday that she did not want to \"raise parents' expectations\", saying transmission of the virus \"is still higher than we would want it to be\".\n\nThe whole Scottish mainland and several islands have been in a strict lockdown since early January, with a \"stay at home\" message in force.\n\nThis was initially due to run until February, but this will be reviewed by ministers on Tuesday morning with a view to having the restrictions last longer.\n\nWhile Ms Sturgeon has warned that the government would consider further measures if necessary, she said \"it is the duration rather than the content of restrictions that we will be looking at\" on Tuesday.\n\nThe outcome of this review will then be announced to MSPs in a statement at Holyrood in the afternoon.\n\nNicola Sturgeon will announce the result of the latest review in a Holyrood statement\n\nThe review will also cover the situation in schools, with the majority learning remotely from home and only some children of key workers and vulnerable pupils being allowed into school buildings.\n\nOn Monday, the first minister said she did not want to \"raise expectations\" about classes returning to normal, but added that she was \"not going to make any assumptions\" ahead of the cabinet meeting.\n\nShe said: \"I am not going to raise parents' expectations, you can see from the numbers we are seeing some positive signs in the numbers that lockdown is starting to stabilise things and tip them into decline, but transmission is still higher than we would want it to be.\n\n\"We want to get schools back as quickly as we possibly can, it is not in the interests of kids to be out of school for any longer than is absolutely necessary, but community transmission has always been a key factor in these decisions.\"\n\nThis echoed comments from Mr Swinney, who had previously said it would be \"a tall order\" for schools to fully re-open with \"the virus still at a very high level in general within society\".\n\nI am expecting continuity rather than change from today's announcement on coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe continuation of the current lockdown and presumably the extension of remote learning for most school pupils into the February break at least.\n\nBoth decisions are likely to be reviewed again next month. But it's not clear if the first minister will feel able to suggest a target date for restrictions to ease.\n\nCabinet will also be giving special attention to the serious Covid outbreak on Barra and considering if the level three restrictions that apply in the Western Isles remain appropriate.\n\nWhile there are signs the pace at which the current wave of coronavirus is spreading is starting to slow, evidence of much greater suppression will be required before the stay at home lockdown in place across mainland Scotland is lifted.\n\nThe review comes less than a week after restrictions in Scotland were tightened, with some click and collect services ordered to close and outdoor alcohol consumption banned.\n\nThe entire Scottish mainland has been in the top level of restrictions - level four - since Boxing Day, with level three measures in place in Orkney, Shetland, the Western Isles and some islands in Argyll and Bute and the Highlands.\n\nScots are subject to a legal requirement not to leave home for anything other than essential purposes, such as shopping for essentials, exercise and caring responsibilities.\n\nThe number of new cases reported each day on average has begun to fall, but the number of people in hospital with the virus continues to rise and is now \"significantly\" above that seen in the first wave in 2020.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the \"position overall is very precarious, very concerning in terms of the level of transmission\", but said there were \"some early signs to be optimistic that measures are having an effect\".\n\nThe first minister will take questions from opposition leaders following her statement.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives have voiced concerns that Covid-19 vaccines are not being rolled out quickly enough, saying the Scottish government are \"trailing their own targets\".\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed that Scotland has vaccinated 264,991 people so far - 6% of its adult population.\n\nThis is lower than the figure for England, where 8% of the adult population - 3,520,056 people - have been vaccinated, and Northern Ireland, which has the highest vaccination rate in the UK at 8.7%.\n\nWales has a similar figure to Scotland at 6%.\n\nEngland has also given a second dose of the vaccine to 427,386 people, compared to only 3,698 in Scotland.\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon has insisted that all parts of the UK are \"working to the same targets\" to vaccinate priority groups, and said her government is \"on track\" to hit them subject to supplies arriving.\n\nThis would see care home residents, healthcare staff and all over-80s get a first dose by the start of February, with over-70s and those deemed \"extremely vulnerable\" by mid-February and all over-65s by the beginning of March.\n\nBy that time the government aims to be vaccinating up to 400,000 people a week on average, with all priority groups getting a first jab by early May and the rest of the adult population in line thereafter.", "About one in 10 people across the UK tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies in December, roughly double the October figure, data has shown.\n\nEstimates from the Office for National Statistics suggest between 8% of people in Northern Ireland and 12% of people in England showed signs of past Covid infection.\n\nIn October, antibody positivity ranged from 2% to 7% around the UK.\n\nAnd 6,586 Covid deaths were registered in the UK in the week to 8 January.\n\nThat brings the total registered so far close to 96,000.\n\nNearly a quarter of deaths were people living in care homes - a disproportionate impact on a group of people which accounts for less than 1% of the population.\n\nBack in July, though, care home residents accounted for 40% of deaths.\n\nThe ONS regularly tests a representative sample of the population, both for current infection and for antibodies indicating a past infection.\n\nPeople taking part in the survey are tested whether or not they have had symptoms.\n\nThis is used to estimate how common both the virus and antibodies are in the population as a whole.\n\nAntibodies are proteins in the blood which fight off specific infections.\n\nThey are developed if somebody catches an infection and their body fights it off, or if they have been vaccinated.\n\nYorkshire and the Humber topped the chart with 17% of people having positive antibodies, followed by London.\n\nProf Lawrence Young, a virologist at Warwick Medical School, said: \"This study shows that infection with the Sars-Cov-2 virus is much more widespread in the UK than previously realised, with around 1 in 10 people estimated to have been infected by December 2020.\n\n\"The implications are that infection rates increased significantly between November and December.\"\n\nBut Scotland had a considerably smaller growth in antibodies than the rest of the UK, rising from 7% to 9% of the population.\n\nThe fact that more people show signs of having at least some protection against Covid-19 is consistent with the dramatic rise in infections during that period.\n\nBut we know that antibodies from natural infection can fade.\n\nIn England, the ONS said, positive antibody tests equated to 5.4 million people aged over 16 having signs of past infection.\n\nThat does not tell you the total number of people infected, however, but acts as a snapshot in time.\n\nIn London, about 16% of people had antibodies in December, up from 11% in October. But at the last peak in May, an estimated 15% of the population had antibodies. This proportion fell, as detectable antibodies recede with time.\n\nExactly what this means for someone's likelihood to become infected again, however, is not fully known.\n\nIt also remains to be seen how long vaccines will protect people for, before they need a booster jab.\n\nBut Public Health England data suggests natural immunity provides at least five months' protection on average, and vaccines often give better protection than natural immunity.\n\nMore than 4 million people in the UK have been given their first dose of the vaccine.\n\nProf Janet Lord, director of the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing at the University of Birmingham, urged caution among those who have already been vaccinated.\n\nAsked whether people who have received the jab can hug their children, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I would certainly advise not to do that at the moment because, as you probably know, with the vaccines they take several weeks before they are maximally effective.\n\n\"It's really important that people stay on their guard even if they've had that first vaccination.\"", "Alexandru Murgeanu (l) and Jason Mercer were killed in the crash on the M1 in South Yorkshire\n\nA coroner has called for a review of smart motorways after an inquest heard the deaths of two men on a stretch of the M1 could have been avoided.\n\nJason Mercer, 44, and Alexandru Murgeanu, 22, died when Prezemyslaw Szuba crashed his lorry into their vehicles near Sheffield on 7 June 2019.\n\nCoroner David Urpeth said smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths\".\n\nHighways England said it was \"addressing many of the points raised\".\n\nMr Urpeth recorded a verdict of unlawful killing at Sheffield Town Hall. He added he would be writing to Highways England and the transport secretary asking for a review.\n\nThe inquest heard the deaths of the two men may have been avoided had there had been a hard shoulder.\n\nOn the stretch of the M1 where the crash took place, the hard shoulder has been replaced by an active lane.\n\nSzuba, 40, from Hull, was jailed last year after admitting causing their deaths by careless driving.\n\nHe was speaking from prison to the inquest.\n\nPrezemyslaw Szuba was jailed over the deaths\n\nAnswering questions over the phone, Szuba told the hearing he accepted he was driving without paying proper attention.\n\n\"I have already accepted that at my trial,\" he said, but added: \"If there had been a hard shoulder on this bit of motorway, the collision would have been avoidable.\n\n\"I would have driven past these two cars as it would be safer and they would have been able to come home safely and I would be able to come back home.\"\n\nSzuba said he had only three to five seconds to react, and asked if he would have avoided the crash had he been paying attention, he said: \"It's difficult to say after everything now.\"\n\nSgt Mark Brady, who oversees major collision investigations for South Yorkshire Police, told the hearing: \"Had there been a hard shoulder, had Jason and Alexandru pulled on to the hard shoulder, my opinion is that Mr Szuba would have driven clean past them.\"\n\nBut he accepted the primary cause of the crash was Szuba's inattention to the road.\n\nThe crash happened after a collision between a Ford Focus driven by Mr Mercer, from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, and a Ford Transit driven by Mr Murgeanu, who was living in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, but was originally from Romania.\n\nWhen Mr Mercer and Mr Murgeanu got out to exchange details they were hit by the lorry, and both died at the scene.\n\nMr Mercer's wife Claire has campaigned against smart motorways since her husband's death, and was at the hearing on Monday.\n\nClaire Mercer has campaigned against the use of smart motorways since her husband's death\n\nIn a statement, Highways England said it was \"determined\" to do everything it could to make roads as safe as possible and was already addressing many of the points raised by the coroner \"as published in the Government's Smart Motorway Evidence Stocktake and Action Plan of March 2020\".\n\n\"We will carefully consider any further comments raised by the coroner once we receive the report,\" it added.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Today's rising number of UK deaths was to be expected, sadly, after the surge in cases during December.\n\nAnd it is likely that the coming weeks will see figures even higher than this.\n\nToday’s numbers are, though, inflated by the fact that delays registering deaths over the weekend tend to lead to higher figures being reported on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.\n\nOn average, the UK is recording more than 1,100 deaths a day.\n\nTo put that in context, at Christmas it was less than half that.\n\nBut there are two chinks of light in the daily update.\n\nFirstly, the number of cases is below 40,000 - for a third day in a row. At the turn of the year it was touching 60,000 new diagnoses.\n\nThat means, in the coming weeks, we should start to see fewer hospitalisations and, eventually, deaths.\n\nThe number of vaccinations also continues to rise.\n\nIt seems unlikely the NHS will manage its target of two million doses a week just yet.\n\nBut each increase at least takes us one step closer to getting on top of the virus.", "Campaigners are bringing a judicial review for indirect sexual discrimination on Thursday.\n\nThey say the way the self-employed income support scheme or SEISS is calculated- by averaging out profits between 2016 to 19 - is unfair to to around 75,000 women who’ve taken time off in that period for maternity leave. The government insists using a three-year average is the best way of reflecting a self-employed worker’s income.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health workers can book an appointment at seven vaccination centres in operation across NI\n\nDoctors have insisted there is no postcode lottery when it comes to rolling out the coronavirus vaccines.\n\nNorthern Ireland's vaccination plan means all those over 80 should receive their first dose by the end of January.\n\nMore than 154,000 doses of a vaccine have now been administered, health officials said.\n\nDr Frances O'Hagan, deputy chairwoman of NI's GP committee, said practices had their own rollout plans but she expected them to meet official targets.\n\n\"As soon as we get the vaccine, we will get it to you,\" she told BBC News NI. \"But please, please wait until we contact you.\"\n\n\"We tailor our programmes to our individual patients and to our geography and to our surroundings.\n\n\"It's not actually a postcode lottery. It's the best way of doing it because we know what suits our patients.\"\n\nDr O'Hagan said she had not heard reports of some practices holding back vaccines until they received bigger amounts to allow for a larger number of vaccinations to be done.\n\nShe said rolling out the programme was a logistical challenge which fell on top of an already heavy workload but the jab would be given out in a \"safe and timely\" fashion.\n\nSinn Féin MP Órfhlaith Begley said doctors in her West Tyrone constituency were working above and beyond to administer the vaccine to as many people as possible.\n\n\"But unfortunately I am hearing that some GPs cannot access supplies of the vaccine,\" she said.\n\n\"There does appear to be, and it is a consistent message from GPs in my own constituency, a feeling the distribution of the vaccine has been unequal to date.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Health Minister Robin Swann has welcomed a further delivery of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine into Northern Ireland on Tuesday morning.\n\nIn a tweet, Robin Swann said: \"We now have the supply to complete all our over 80s and when that group is finished, there will be enough to start into the over 75 programme.\"\n\nPatricia Donnelly, the head of NI's vaccination programme said there had been 154,436 doses of the vaccine administered here, with 132,857 of those being first doses.\n\nOn Tuesday, she said three quarters of care home residents had already received both doses.\n\n\"With the arrival of additional vaccine today, which have been issued this afternoon and tomorrow to GPs, there will be enough to complete the over 80 population and to commence in the over 70 population,\" she added.\n\nA further 24 virus-related deaths and 713 more Covid-19 cases were reported in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths recorded by the Department of Health to 1,649.\n\nThere are currently 842 people in hospital with the virus, 70 people in intensive care units (ICU) and 57 being ventilated.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, a further 93 Covid-19 related deaths were reported on Tuesday, bringing the country's death toll to 2,708.\n\nA further 2,001 positive cases were also recorded in the latest figures from the Republic's Department of Health.\n\nNorthern Ireland's rate of Covid-19 infection is now below one and has been at that level for a couple of weeks, according to the chief medical officer.\n\nHowever, Dr Michael McBride warned the reproduction (R) number for hospital transmission remains above one.\n\nDr McBride said new variants of the virus had made the job of curtailing the spread even more difficult, and warned he did not foresee any relaxation of restrictions any time soon.\n\n\"We need to ensure that we have as many people who remain at risk of severe disease vaccinated and prioritised with the first dose as possible before we consider significant relaxations in the current restrictions,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile concerns have been raised that \"social media myths\" are encouraging some care home staff to reject the Covid vaccine.\n\nPauline Shepherd, from the Independent Health and Care Providers, said young women were especially vulnerable to misinformation about the vaccine and fertility.\n\nLast week, the Department of Health said there had been an uptake level of about 80% among care home staff.\n\n\"We are very keen obviously that everyone takes the vaccine, that is really the only way that we are going to get through this,\" she told BBC Radio Foyle.\n\n\"Obviously there are myths going around on social media about the vaccine and some are opting not to take it.\n\n\"Particularly younger females seem to have the view through social media that it may impact fertility\".\n\nA consultant anaesthetist says there is a \"reluctance\" among members of the black, Asian and minority ethnic communities to take Covid-19 vaccines\n\nThere are currently 139 confirmed Covid-19 outbreaks in NI's 483 care homes.\n\nThe Public Health Agency (PHA) and Department of Health were now exploring how \"to dispel the myths\", Ms Shepherd added.\n\nDr Mukesh Chugh, a consultant anaesthetist at Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry, said there had been a \"reluctance\" among black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people to take Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nDr Chugh says this is because of \"anti-vaccine messages\" posted across various social media platforms and messenger apps \"targeted at certain ethnic and religious groups\".\n\n\"I encourage them not to believe the messages they are getting on WhatsApp - these are not scientific messages,\" he said.\n\nOn Tuesday, Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots said a number of groups of key workers should be given priority access to vaccinations.\n\nPrioritisation was decided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises UK health departments on immunisation.\n\nEdwin Poots said meat plant workers should be among those given priority vaccine access\n\nAsked if he supported prioritisation for food workers in meat plants, Mr Poots told the assembly he did and had raised it with the executive.\n\n\"It's been identified as an essential service - those people working in them are there in cold, wet conditions where we have had a number of outbreaks,\" he said.\n\n\"We should seek to introduce those people somewhat earlier than is currently the case - I will continue to endeavour to press that case.\"\n\nHe said other groups of workers who should be prioritised included \"teachers and police officers\".", "An Instagram post said the alleged baby shower was a \"lovely surprise\"\n\nA rail company has begun an internal investigation after staff allegedly held a surprise baby shower in a closed Patisserie Valerie bakery at London's Marylebone station during lockdown.\n\nChiltern Railways workers told BBC News up to 20 colleagues, including some who were on shift, attended the gathering.\n\nThey claim some party-goers then had positive Covid tests, forcing most of the team to self-isolate.\n\nChiltern said \"appropriate action\" would be taken after its investigation.\n\nMembers of Chiltern Railways customer services staff based at the station told BBC News that about 30 people had been invited to the baby shower on the afternoon of 23 November - both via WhatsApp before the alleged gathering, and face to face on the day of the event.\n\nA national coronavirus lockdown was in place in England in November, so people were banned from meeting anyone indoors who was not part of their household.\n\nOne worker, David [not his real name], said he declined an invitation to the event but walked past the bakery later in his shift to see about 20 colleagues gathered inside.\n\nHe said he was \"shocked and alarmed\" to see people hugging each other, with most of them not wearing masks.\n\nPhotos of the alleged gathering, seen by the BBC, show a table inside a Patisserie Valerie outlet covered with dozens of cupcakes, mince pies, crisps and sandwiches, bunting saying \"it's a boy!\" and handmade flags reading \"happy baby shower\".\n\nOne photo appears to show a group of eight colleagues posing in front of the table of party food, without socially distancing from one another.\n\nSome images were shared on Instagram on 23 November with the caption: \"What a lovely surprise being thrown a baby shower at work today!\"\n\nA Patisserie Valerie spokesman said the company had not been informed of any such event and that none of its team members had access to the Marylebone station cafe, which has remained closed since March due to Covid restrictions.\n\nHe added it was normal for a member of station staff to have keys to the premises for \"security reasons\".\n\nDavid and another colleague claimed three people who allegedly attended the event tested positive over the following four days.\n\nThe positive tests meant 16 members of staff out of the team of about 26 people had to self-isolate for 14 days, David said.\n\nHe said colleagues who lived with, or cared for, vulnerable people were \"petrified\" to hear there had been a staff outbreak, with some \"scared to go home\" for fear of endangering loved ones.\n\nDavid added that he had been caring for his elderly grandmother so self-isolation was \"a real nightmare\" as he had to arrange alternative care for her.\n\nChiltern Railways confirmed a \"small number\" of workers tested positive for Covid or had to self-isolate in the 14-day period after 23 November, but a spokeswoman said \"none of the staff who were alleged to have attended [the baby shower] tested positive\".\n\nShe said Chiltern Railways was investigating and was \"making every effort\" to maintain a Covid-secure environment for staff and customers.\n\nChiltern Railways staff members congratulated their colleague using information boards at the station\n\nIn an email seen by the BBC, which was sent to Chiltern Railways employees on 24 November, a manager said one team member had tested positive and added: \"It is disappointing that social distancing measures do not appear to have been followed and I will be investigating this further.\"\n\nDavid's colleague Peter (not his real name) said he was one of about 10 team members who had to work while the rest of the team was self-isolating.\n\nPeter said the outbreak left those at work feeling \"stretched\" and \"raised the anxiety levels of everyone\" as they worried they might have caught Covid as a result of having worked alongside the alleged party's attendees.\n\n\"A lot of us don't want to be at work during this time, for obvious reasons. We're doing a job where we do come into contact with a lot of people - it's stressful enough with your own family, who are a bit worried about you going in to work at a train station and asking if you're getting the proper protection,\" Peter said.\n\nHe added he felt \"demoralised\" to hear about the alleged party when he spends his shifts encouraging customers to wear masks and socially distance.\n\nThe Department for Transport said it had been made aware of the incident and had contacted Chiltern Railways for a \"full explanation\".\n\nA spokesman for the Office of Rail and Road - which protects the interests of rail and road users - said it had investigated \"an issue relating to Covid-19 concerns\" and had taken action, jointly with Westminster City Council, to \"ensure Chiltern Railways tightens its risk assessment for workers and to revise working arrangements\".", "When Amelia Strike, 21, was logged out of her Depop social shopping app account in October, nothing seemed out of the ordinary.\n\n\"I thought I had just forgotten my password when I couldn't get back in, but a couple of days passed and I realised something wasn't right,\" says the Birmingham-based law student.\n\nShe then received a message from a stranger on Instagram, alerting her to the fact that her account had been taken over by a scammer advertising Apple AirPod headphones for £50.\n\nShe immediately used her brother's Depop account to comment on the offending post and contact the app. It was removed by the firm in a few hours and her password was reset.\n\nBut when Ms Strike logged back in, she was shocked by what she found.\n\n\"I felt sick - I scrolled and scrolled through hundreds of messages people had sent the scammer,\" she says.\n\nThe fraudster had been instructing shoppers to pay them directly through PayPal's \"Friends and Family\" option, which sidesteps Depop's fees and doesn't offer any protection for buyers.\n\nThe scammer sent messages like this one to other Depop users from Amelia's account\n\nMs Strike counted at least three Depop users who made unauthorised payments of £50 to the scammer.\n\nIn Ms Strike's situation, to get users to trust scam listing, the hacker had also uploaded a photo of her name on a post-it note next to the headphones that were supposedly for sale.\n\nThis is a common tactic used by people selling second-hand items online, to prove that the photos were not stolen from another listing.\n\n\"I just felt so violated,\" she says.\n\nShe is not alone - 14 other users have told BBC News that their Depop accounts have been hacked in recent months. In all cases, the fraudsters demanded to be paid directly, rather than through the app.\n\nBlending the look and social elements of Instagram with the buy-and-sell format of eBay, 90% of Depop's users are aged 26 or under.\n\nEmily Goold, 21, a journalism student in Tewkesbury, was scared when her account was hacked and a fraudster posted a listing for a £350 jacket.\n\nEmily Goold, 21, told the BBC a fraudster hacked her Depop account and advertised a £350 Moncler jacket\n\nDepop took the listing down within 12 hours and reset her password, but Ms Goold says such incidents are becoming commonplace.\n\n\"You always know somebody who's had a Depop horror story. It's such a widespread problem now.\"\n\nScammers have continued to plague many online services through the pandemic.\n\nOne \"have a go\" method called \"credential stuffing\" involves using automated tools to repeatedly log into accounts, entering usernames and password information previously exposed from data breaches of other popular online services.\n\nIf a user doesn't use the same password on multiple services or has changed their passwords after being exposed in a data breach, this won't work.\n\nAccording to Liv Rowley, a threat intelligence analyst at cyber-security firm Blueliv, cyber criminals are now targeting Depop accounts on an \"industrial scale\" using this method, capitalising on the fact that people often use similar passwords.\n\nBlending the look and social elements of Instagram with the buy-and-sell format of eBay, 90% of Depop's users are aged 26 or under\n\nDepop told the BBC that the safety and security of its community is its \"number one priority\", and that the service has never had a data breach or had its infrastructure compromised.\n\nThe firm confirmed that credential stuffing is a big part of the problem.\n\n\"Weak passwords and the use of the same password across multiple accounts is the greatest source of account takeover, which is why we have initiated a campaign in the second half of 2020 to force some users to strengthen their passwords and to remind others of the importance of strong and unique passwords,\" says Depop's chief operating officer Dominic Rose.\n\nDepop has started resetting passwords for some 12 million users that have not changed them in over a year and told the BBC it had sent reminders to a similar number to make sure their log-in details are unique.\n\n\"We will continue to remind our community about the importance of account security and updating their passwords.\"\n\nThe firm, founded in 2011, told the BBC that although the number of its users increased nearly two-fold to 26 million last year, it had seen a 50% decrease in account \"takeovers\" since its campaign began.\n\nBut Blueliv found that login details for several thousand hacked Depop accounts are being advertised for as little as $1.05 (77p) each on the dark web - a part of the internet that is only accessible using specialised tools.\n\nWhile a Vice investigation first highlighted the problem in May, there is now evidence that account logins are being sold across multiple dark web \"marketplaces\".\n\nThe information for sale includes usernames and passwords, with extra charged for details such as follower count, the number of sales completed by a user and their ratings by other shoppers.\n\nOn the dark net marketplace White House Market, \"premium\" Depop accounts are being sold for $5\n\n\"The accounts are being compromised and that definitely is concerning,\" Ms Rowley says. \"While it's not a Depop-specific problem, I think [credential stuffing] is one we're going to see expand in the next five years.\"\n\nOne Depop user told the BBC they would feel \"much more comfortable\" if the app introduced two-factor authentication, where users enter a one-time code sent to them via email or text, for example, after attempting to sign in.\n\nDepop confirmed that it intends to implement multi-factor authentication in 2021.\n\nBut Aman Johal, director at law firm Your Lawyers, which specialises in consumer action claims, says the platform needs to act urgently, \"particularly given its relatively young user base, where the duty of care is greater\".\n\n\"The fact that this has been going on for months...is unacceptable. Given the volume of compromised accounts for sale, the horse has already bolted,\" he added.\n\nFor some users, trust in the company has been dented.\n\n\"I feel like their security measures need to be amped up because it's just not good enough,\" says Ms Strike, who has been a Depop user since 2015.\n\n\"I've used [Depop] for a long time but I'm reluctant to continue because it just doesn't feel safe anymore.\"", "HSBC is to close 82 branches in the UK between April and September this year, claiming customers are turning to digital banking.\n\nThe company will have 511 branches across the country following the closure programme.\n\nManagers said they did not expect to make any redundancies, with staff moved to nearby branches instead.\n\nCoronavirus and changing customer habits have altered the way we bank, but there are concerns over closures.\n\nCampaigners say that local branches provide a lifeline for those who need access to cash and face-to-face services, and allow small businesses to bank without too much disruption to their own trade.\n\nHSBC said all but one of the branches earmarked for closure were within one mile of a Post Office, where these day-to-day transactions could be carried out.\n\nIt said - even stripping out the effects of the pandemic - the number of customers using branches had fallen by a third in the past five years, and 90% of all customer contact was over the phone, internet or smartphone, in addition to contacts on social media.\n\nJackie Uhi, HSBC UK's head of network, said: \"The Covid-19 pandemic has emphasised the need for the changes that we are making.\n\n\"It hasn't pushed us in a different direction but reinforces the things that we were focusing on before and has crystallised our thinking. This is a strategic direction that we need to take to have a branch network fit for the future.\"\n\nThis would include changing some branches to concentrate on cash access, as well as the use of \"pop-up\" branches in some areas by the end of the year. It means some remaining branches will offer fewer services.\n\nThe branches to close are:\n\nMay: Brighton, Ditchling Road; Hull, Merit House; Wednesbury; Sutton Coldfield, Four Oaks; Hull, Holderness Road; Pontyclun, Talbot Green; London, Fleet Street; London, Fenchurch Street; London, Old Broad Street; London, Charing Cross; Sheffield, Darnall; Oxford, Summertown; Leeds, Chapel Allerton; Cardiff, Rumney; Torquay, Strand; Staines", "The Met Office warned heavy rain combined with melting snow on higher ground was likely to cause flooding\n\nAn amber rain warning has been issued for parts of northern and central England as Storm Christoph approaches.\n\nThe Met Office told people in Yorkshire and the Humber, the North West, East Midlands and the east of England to expect heavy rain and potential floods.\n\nYellow warnings have been issued for England, Wales, Northern Ireland and southern Scotland.\n\nUp to 70mm (2.75in) of rain is forecast to fall within 48 hours in the worst-hit areas from Tuesday.\n\nThe Met Office said the downpours, set to last throughout Tuesday and Wednesday, were likely to cause flooding when combined with melting snow on higher ground.\n\nIt said there was a \"danger to life\" due to fast-flowing or deep floodwater, and warned some communities there was a good chance they would be \"cut off\" by flooded roads.\n\nIt also predicted delays and cancellations to public transport, with the amber warning in place until 12:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nCouncils and emergency services have warned people to prepare for potential flooding.\n\nMayor of Doncaster Ros Jones declared a major incident in South Yorkshire ahead of possible flooding.\n\nIn a tweet, she said emergency protocols were instigated on Sunday, with sandbags handed out in flood-risk areas, and told people not to panic but to be prepared.\n\nCalderdale councillor Scott Patient urged residents and businesses to \"take all the steps they can to protect themselves and their property\".\n\nDue to Covid-19 restrictions, Mr Patient said, the authority was preparing \"virtual community support hubs\" to help people if there was flooding.\n\n\"The virtual hubs work similarly to the physical ones, but everything will be done remotely to reduce the need for face-to-face contact and to protect staff, volunteers, those affected by flooding and vulnerable people in our communities,\" he said.\n\nThe Environment Agency has 14 flood warnings - meaning \"immediate action\" is required - in place across England, stretching from the south east to the north east.\n\nThe Met Office amber rain area initially covered parts of the north, but has since been expanded to include some central areas\n\nMet Office forecaster Jon Griffiths said about 40-70mm (1.57-2.75 in) of rain was expected in the north-west over three days, potentially rising to 100-120mm (3.93-4.72 in) in hilly areas.\n\nMr Griffiths said river systems in some areas were already close to capacity.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" in the US, after supporters of President Donald Trump stormed Congress and clashed with police.\n\nRioters breached the Capitol building where lawmakers met to confirm Joe Biden's presidential election victory.\n\nThe PM said it was \"vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nAnd Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"direct attack on democracy\".\n\n\"The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power,\" Mr Johnson tweeted.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, meanwhile, called the events \"utterly horrifying\".\n\nFriend of President Trump and leader of Reform UK - formerly the Brexit Party - Nigel Farage tweeted: \"Storming Capitol Hill is wrong. The protesters must leave.\"\n\nThe US Congress has now reconvened after the violence - spurred on by Mr Trump's unproven claims of electoral fraud - to certify Mr Biden's victory in the US election in November\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol, and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nFour people died on Capitol grounds during the violence, including a woman shot by police and three others, who died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nUK MPs from across the political spectrum have criticised the events in the US.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said there was \"no justification for these violent attempts to frustrate the lawful and proper transition of power\", while Home Secretary Priti Patel called the scenes \"unacceptable and undemocratic\".\n\nShe added: \"There is no justification for this violence and Donald Trump must condemn it.\"\n\nHer Conservative colleague, and former Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt directly addressed President Trump for telling the crowd to march on Congress, tweeting: \"He shames American democracy tonight and causes its friends anguish - but he is not America.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner said: \"The violence that Donald Trump has unleashed is terrifying, and the Republicans who stood by him have blood on their hands.\"\n\nAnd shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said the events were \"the legacy of a politics of hate that pits people against each other and threatens the foundations of democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey has defended the prime minister's response to the rioting.\n\nAsked on ITV's Peston programme why Mr Johnson hadn't criticised Mr Trump, she said: \"The prime minister has been clear tonight that we need a peaceful and orderly transition.\"\n\nMs Coffey added that events in the US were a \"reminder that democracy is something precious - and will only continue to thrive as long as we protect institutions that make this country important and not demean each other when the majority of what we want to achieve is similar outcomes\".\n\nDonald Trump and Boris Johnson at a Nato summit in 2019\n\nMeanwhile, the SNP's leader in Westminster, Ian Blackford, said the end of Mr Trump's presidency \"cannot come quick enough\".\n\nHe tweeted: \"What a legacy the events of today are to his time in office. Shameful, shocking, an affront to democracy.\"\n\nLeader of the Liberal Democrats, Ed Davey, called the scenes \"absolutely horrendous\", while his party's foreign affairs spokeswoman, Layla Moran, said: \"The scenes coming out of Washington tonight are an attack on democracy.\"", "An ambulance service has experienced its busiest day of calls on record.\n\nOn Monday, West Midlands Ambulance Service dealt with 5,383 calls in 24 hours. The previous record was 5,001 calls in March 2018.\n\nSeven hundred of those calls came from London as its calls system struggled, according to BBC health correspondent Michele Paduano.\n\nThe ambulance service said Covid-19 and winter weather had resulted in hospitals being \"extremely busy\".\n\nAt the hosptials, the longest a patient waited was five hours and 39 minutes, with two of the longest waits at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham.\n\nA combination of Covid-19 and winter weather has resulted in hospitals being \"extremely busy\"\n\nAt one point on Monday night, 15 ambulances were waiting to hand over patients outside New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton.\n\nA source told the BBC it was \"a very challenging day\" and in total, handovers had accounted for 759 hours of crews' time, equivalent to taking 63 ambulances off the road.\n\nWhile another said at 06:00 GMT on Tuesday, ambulances were still responding to emergency calls from the night before.\n\nTraditionally, the first Monday after New Year is always busy. GP surgeries have been closed and people wait until after the festivities to get medical treatment.\n\nThis year, the number of calls was exacerbated by the service taking about 700 calls for the London ambulance service after its system struggled.\n\nThere was also the perfect storm of snow and ice coupled with coronavirus - made worse because many of our trusts, particularly University Hospitals Birmingham have been struggling with capacity for many months. Usually hospitals would put patients on corridors, they can't because of Covid risks.\n\nThey also have fewer beds due to wider spacing to prevent infection and fewer staff on duty. Hence patients left for hours on ambulances outside.\n\nWest Midlands Ambulance Service is the best performing in the country, but even with near to 500 ambulances a day on the road, it cannot keep up with demand.\n\nProf David Loughton, the chief executive of the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, warned its capacity would \"soon be compromised\".\n\n\"The numbers are ramping up enormously and I don't think we've seen the full impact of what happened on Christmas Day yet, that will take time to come through,\" Prof Loughton said.\n\nHe added a two-week \"lag\" meant things could get worst before they get better.\n\n\"As I always say today's Covid rate is my order book for intensive care in two weeks' time.\"\n\nA West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: \"A combination of Covid-19 and winter weather has resulted in hospitals being extremely busy which unfortunately resulted in hospital handover delays.\n\n\"We work closely with the hospitals to try and ensure our crews are able to handover patients quickly and safely, but due to the extremely high demand some patients did wait longer to be handed over than we would normally see.\"\n\nIn a statement London Ambulance Service NHS Trust said : \"As is standard practice during periods of high demand and high levels of staff sickness, ambulance services provide support for each other, which includes answering 999 calls.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dickey emerged during a boom for African-American literature in the 1990s\n\nAuthor Eric Jerome Dickey, whose novels of romance, mystery and adventure were best-selling page-turners over more than 20 years, has died aged 59.\n\nThe US writer wrote 30 novels about breathless relationships and thrilling adventures involving young African American characters.\n\nThey included Friends & Lovers, Milk In My Coffee, Cheaters and Finding Gideon.\n\nHe also wrote a series of Marvel comics about a love story between Storm from the X-Men and the Black Panther.\n\n\"His work has become a cultural touchstone over the course of his multi-decade writing career, earning him millions of dedicated readers around the world,\" his publicist Becky Odell told USA Today in a statement.\n\nWriter Roxane Gay was among those paying tribute, describing him as \"a great storyteller\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by roxane gay This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOther authors to add their voices included Luvvie Ajayi, who described him as \"a literary legend\", and ReShonda Tate Billingsley, who said he was \"an amazing author and an even better friend\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Luvvie is the #ProfessionalTroublemaker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 2 by Luvvie is the #ProfessionalTroublemaker\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by ReShonda Tate Billingsley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Wesley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBorn in Memphis, Tennessee, Dickey started out as a software developer in the aerospace industry. Being laid off from that job gave him a chance to take writing classes and see whether he could make it as an author.\n\nHe emerged during a boom for African-American literature in the 1990s, and his 1996 debut Sister, Sister - about the lives and loves of three siblings - was recently named one of the 50 Most Impactful Black Books of the Last 50 Years by Essence magazine.\n\nHe was particularly praised for his ability to write \"believable\" female characters, and many of his readers were women.\n\nWhen the New York Times profiled him in 2004, it billed him as the \"chick lit king\". Patrik Henry Bass, Essence's books editor, told the paper: \"He is singular in the way he is tapping into the African-American female psyche.\"\n\nAnd Calvin Reid, an editor at trade magazine Publishers Weekly, said: \"He captures black language and black middle-class characters with more depth than you often see in commercial fiction.\"\n\nBy that time, he was selling 500,000 books a year. He was nominated four times for the NAACP Image Award for best work of fiction, winning in 2015 for A Wanted Woman.\n\nBy then, he had branched out into stories of crime, suspense, thrills and spills as well as the steamy and tangled relationships with which he made his name.\n\nHe had four daughters, but said he never based his plots on his own life. \"I avoid my life,\" he once said. \"It bores me. Trust me. A book about me would be a snoozefest.\"\n\nHis final novel, The Son of Mr Suleman, will be published in April.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We've now vaccinated over 1.3m people across the UK\"\n\nSome 1.3 million people in the UK have now received their first dose of a Covid vaccine, says the government.\n\nIn England, that includes nearly a quarter of the most elderly, vulnerable patients.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said it meant that within a two to three weeks they should have a \"significant degree of immunity\" to the virus.\n\nHe said there would be a ramping up to get more people immunised - up to 2 million a week.\n\nThe ambition is to vaccinate all the over-70s, the most clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers by mid-February. That will require around 13 million vaccinations.\n\nHe defended the UK's policy of immunising more people with one dose immediately - rather than holding some stock back to give people a second booster shot - in order to save \"the most lives the fastest\".\n\nUS regulators have questioned the policy, saying it is premature without more trial evidence, but the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency says it is a pragmatic decision to protect more people.\n\nBoth the Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses to provide the best possible protection.\n\nInitially, the strategy for the Pfizer vaccine was to offer people the second dose 21 days after their initial jab - full immunity starts seven days after the second dose.\n\nBut when approval was announced for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on 30 December, it was also announced that the policy would now change - the new priority would be to give as many people a first shot of either vaccine, rather than providing the required two doses in as short a time as possible.\n\nEveryone will still receive their second dose, but this will now be within 12 weeks of their first.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty told the Downing Street press conference that extending the gap between the first and second jabs would mean the number of people vaccinated can be doubled over three months.\n\n\"If over that period there is more than 50% protection then you have actually won. More people will have been protected than would have been otherwise.\n\n\"Our quite strong view is that protection is likely to be lot more than 50%.\"\n\nAsked whether the longer gap could lead to an increase risk of the virus mutating into a version that could escape the vaccine, he said it was a worry, but a small one.\n\nChief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said vaccines would probably need to be changed further down the line to continue to be a good match for the virus - but that this was relatively quick to do.\n\nOne of the exciting things about the science of the RNA vaccines is that they are incredibly fast to make in response to new mutations, he said.", "Former Goldman Sachs banker Richard Sharp is set to be named the BBC's next chairman, the corporation's media editor Amol Rajan says.\n\nMr Sharp spent 23 years working for the banking giant and was reportedly Chancellor Rishi Sunak's boss there.\n\nHe has recently been acting as an unpaid economic adviser to Mr Sunak during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHis new role will see him lead negotiations with the government over the future of the licence fee.\n\nThe licence fee is due to stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends, with a debate about how the broadcaster should be funded after that.\n\nThe government is currently reviewing whether its cost, currently £157.50, should continue rising with inflation from 2022, and whether non-payment should remain a criminal offence.\n\nMr Sharp's career at Goldman Sachs culminated as chairman of its principal investment business in Europe before his departure in 2007. He was then on the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee for six years until 2019.\n\nAs an advisor to the Treasury about its pandemic response, the 63-year-old reportedly played a key role in the £1.57bn arts rescue package, and the film and television production restart scheme.\n\nMr Sharp is a former donor to the Conservative party.\n\nHe was chairman of the Royal Academy of Arts from 2007 to 2012, and founded the charity London Music Masters.\n\nSir David Clementi, the current BBC chairman, steps down in February. The post-holder is officially appointed by the Queen on the recommendation of the government.\n\nJulian Knight, the chair of the DCMS Committee, said in a statement: \"It is disappointing to see this news about the next BBC chairman has leaked out ahead of a formal announcement from the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. The Committee previously expressed some concerns over the appointments process, calling for it to be fair and transparent.\n\n\"The DCMS Committee looks forward to questioning the preferred candidate for the post in a pre-appointment hearing next week on their views at a critical time for the BBC about its role and the future of public service broadcasting more generally.\"\n\nHis views on the BBC itself are unknown. But like new director general Tim Davie, who he met a few weeks before Christmas, he has a commercial background. Just as the relationship between Lord Hall, Davie's predecessor, and Sir David was strong, so the bond between the new DG and chair will be critical.\n\nWhether Sharp supports the licence fee as the pillar of a future BBC settlement is unclear.\n\nThe last time the BBC's future was negotiated with a sceptical Conservative government, the relationship between the director general and the chancellor - then George Osborne - was critical, as Lord Hall explained to me in his exit interview.\n\nThis time, Davie will go into that negotiation with a very close ally of the current chancellor - though Sharp's first duty is to support Davie, and the BBC, and not his old mentee.", "New car registrations fell to their lowest level in nearly three decades last year, according to preliminary figures from the industry's trade body.\n\nIt was also the biggest one-year fall since World War Two, when factories were being turned over to military production, the Society for Motor Manufacturers and Traders said.\n\nAbout 1.63 million new cars were registered in 2020, compared with 2.3 million in 2019 - a decline of 29%.\n\nIt was the lowest total since 1992.\n\nThe bulk of the lost sales occurred during the first lockdown in the Spring, when showrooms were forced to close, and factories shut down.\n\n\"We lost half a million units from March, April, May - and we never recovered them,\" said the SMMT's chief executive, Mike Hawes.\n\nThe restrictions introduced later in the year were less damaging, largely because dealers were able to sell cars remotely, using 'click and collect' services.\n\nThat remains the case during the new lockdown, announced on Monday.\n\n\"We can still do click and collect, which is important, because that's the very minimum we need,\" said Mr Hawes. \"Not just to keep retail going, but also to keep manufacturing going.\"\n\nOverall, the SMMT said the Covid crisis has cost the car industry some £20bn - and cost the exchequer nearly £2bn in lost VAT.\n\nThere are also serious questions about the extent to which the car market can recover this year. Previous forecasts, which had suggested new registrations could rise to about 2 million in 2021, have been thrown into doubt by the latest restrictions.\n\nBut while the market as a whole has suffered over the past year, sales of electric cars have risen dramatically, increasing their share of the market from 1.5% to 6.5%. Sales of plug-in hybrids also rose sharply.\n\nCar showrooms re-opened from the first lockdown in June\n\n\"If we see this continued level of uptake in electric vehicles, then we anticipate that sales of new EVs and plug-in hybrids will overtake diesel cars in 2021,\" said Ian Plummer, commercial director of motoring website Auto Trader. \"Then, pure EVs will overtake those of their internal combustion engine counterparts in 2026.\"\n\nWith the pandemic continuing to inflict serious damage on the industry, Mr Hawes says the trade deal between the UK and the EU came as a \"massive relief\".\n\nIt confirmed that cars and car parts could continue to move between the two regions, without tariffs - or taxes - being imposed, provided certain conditions are met.\n\nThe SMMT had previously warned that failing to reach a deal could have cost the industry £55bn over five years - and add £2,000 to the cost of each vehicle\n\nBut manufacturers still face potentially significant additional costs due to so-called non-tariff barriers - including border formalities, and the need to obtain extra regulatory approvals for new designs.\n\n\"This is not a free deal\", said Mr Hawes.\n\nAnother consequence of the trade deal is that the UK will need to focus on battery production, if it is to maintain its car industry while phasing out petrol and diesel engines.\n\nThat's because in order to qualify for tariff-free access to the European market, the value of car components made outside the UK and the EU will have to be strictly limited.\n\nSpecific rules relating to batteries effectively mean that from 2027, they themselves will have to be made in the EU or the UK.\n\nThe SMMT believes that, based on current investment plans, UK battery factories will have a capacity of 15 gigawatt-hours (GWh) by 2024.\n\nThat is more than seven times the current level, and would be enough to produce 250,000 electric cars per year.\n\nBut the SMMT insists much more is needed: 60GWh in order to produce 1 million cars per year by 2030, and 120GWh to produce 2mby 2040.\n\nThat, says Mr Hawes, will require \"massive investment\".", "Greggs expects up to a £15m loss for the year, which would be its first annual loss since it listed its shares on the stock exchange in 1984.\n\nThe bakery chain said it does not expect profits to return to pre-Covid levels until 2022 at the earliest.\n\nIt has been battling a sales slump due to the coronavirus pandemic, but sales declines have been lessening.\n\nGreggs made 820 job cuts at the end of last year, after its sales were hit by coronavirus lockdowns and restrictions.\n\nChief executive Roger Whiteside said the impact of the Covid-19 crisis had been \"enormous\" and that a fresh lockdown meant \"significant uncertainties remain in the near term\".\n\nCoronavirus restrictions towards the end of last year led to \"variable trading conditions across the UK\", he said.\n\nSales in the final three months of the year fell by nearly a fifth, but this decline was less than its sales slump in the third quarter.\n\nIn September, Greggs, which is based in Newcastle, said it was in talks with staff to cut hours in an effort to minimise job losses.\n\nBut it still decided to cut 820 jobs because of \"lockdown levels of business\" as High Streets were hit by the crisis.\n\n\"Looking ahead, the significant uncertainty over the duration of social restrictions, along with the impact of higher unemployment levels, makes it difficult to predict performance,\" the firm said.\n\n\"However, we do not expect that profits will return to pre-Covid levels until 2022 at the earliest.\"\n\nGreggs said on Wednesday that total sales for the year were down nearly a third to £811m, but government support had helped to limit pre-tax losses.\n\nIt said it had developed its takeaway business and a delivery tie-up with Just Eat, and had also seen \"strong sales\" through its partnership with retailer Iceland.\n\n\"We have taken action to position Greggs to withstand further short-term shocks and are optimistic about our prospects for growth once social restrictions are lifted,\" Mr Whiteside added.\n\nGreggs wants to open about 100 new stores, on a net basis, over the year ahead.\n\nJulie Palmer, a partner at insolvency consultants Begbies Traynor, said: \"The latest national lockdown will be unwelcome news for Greggs, which has operated shrewdly during the past year in spite of a lack of footfall, with non-essential stores forced to close and millions working from home.\n\n\"The bakery chain has had to adapt its business model and invest digitally to accommodate for the rapid change in shopping habits, offering click-and-collect purchases, as well as a nationwide delivery service through its partnership with Just Eat.\n\n\"This should provide a solid base for the business to expand when government restrictions are eased and the world returns to some normality.\"", "US intelligence agencies have said they believe Russia was behind the \"serious\" cyber compromise revealed in December.\n\nPresident Trump had previously suggested China might have been behind the hack, although other members of his administration had pointed the finger at Moscow.\n\nIn a joint statement, the intelligence bodies say they currently believe fewer than 10 US government agencies saw their data compromised, although other organisations outside of government were also affected.\n\nThey say work is still going on to understand the scope of the incident, which appears to have been aimed at gathering intelligence and which they say is \"ongoing\" a month after details first emerged.\n\nThe update on the investigation came in a statement from a task force called the Cyber Unified Coordination Group which was set up to deal with the incident. It comprises intelligence and law enforcement agencies including the FBI and NSA.\n\nThe group said it was still working to understand the scope of what had taken place.\n\nEighteen thousand customers who used Orion product from the company Solar Winds were exposed but US intelligence says it believes a much smaller number saw follow-on activity from the hackers in which they stole data. The US Treasury was among those which previously acknowledged being targeted.\n\n\"This is a serious compromise that will require a sustained and dedicated effort to remediate,\" the statement said. Many organisations are having to scour their systems for signs that they may have been compromised.\n\nThe incident sent shockwaves across the US partly because the breach was undiscovered for many months and was potentially far-reaching in terms of who it might have affected. It also suggested a degree of sophistication and stealth which was widely seen as a trademark of hackers from the SVR, Russia's foreign intelligence agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Experts have been warning for years that it's not a matter of if, but when, hackers will kill somebody\n\nSoon after the incident was revealed, President Trump raised the possibility that China might be responsible, but members of his own administration including the secretary of state and attorney general pointed the finger at Moscow. The latest statement shows the assessment of US intelligence agencies is that Russia was behind it, although it does not go so far as accusing the Russian state itself, saying only that the actor was \"likely Russian in origin\". Moscow has denied playing any part.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden has previously said it was important to take \"meaningful steps\" to hold those responsible to account. It is not yet clear, though, what that might involve. While some US politicians suggested the breach might even be compared to an \"act of war\", most cyber-experts disputed this and the US intelligence community has now played down suggestions that it could have had destructive impact.\n\n\"At this time, we believe this was, and continues to be, an intelligence-gathering effort,\" the latest statement says. This is significant since it suggests no evidence has been found that this was preparatory activity for a more destructive cyber-attack which might switch off systems. This may limit the US response since espionage operations do not breach the cyber norms the US itself promotes (largely because it too carries out such intelligence-gathering operations against other nations).\n\nIn December UK officials say they believed a small number of UK organisations were affected but said they did not believe they were in the public sector.", "South Vietnam flags were seen during the unrest Image caption: South Vietnam flags were seen during the unrest\n\nOn Wednesday, as protesters gathered outside before swarming the Capitol building, the yellow flags of the old South Vietnam regime could be seen.\n\nIn fact, the yellow flags of the former South Vietnam are a common sight at pro-Trump rallies across the United States.\n\nVietnamese Americans, especially those of the older generation who fled Vietnam after Saigon fell in 1975, are known for their support for the Republican party and Donald Trump.\n\nA pre-election survey by the group Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote found that Vietnamese Americans are the only major East Asian ethnic community that favoured Trump over Biden . Trump’s anti-China and anti-communist rhetoric resonated greatly with the former refugees who risked their lives to escape communism.\n\nBut the support for President Trump has also become an increasingly divisive issue amongst the Vietnamese American community.\n\nHours after the Capitol riot, there are still calls on pro-Trump internet forums like the \"ABC Trump\" Facebook page for Vietnamese Americans to “take to the streets in support of President Trump” as “the battle continues”.\n\nBut there have also been condemnations.\n\n“This is embarrassing,” one young Vietnamese American wrote on Twitter, adding: “They’ve brought shame to the flag”.", "The US is facing another huge election - one that could define how much new president Joe Biden can get done in his first term.\n\nMore than 100 people are gathered in the grey and damp cold in Stone Mountain.\n\nIt's a miserable start to the New Year but this city near Georgia's capital, Atlanta, feels anything but sleepy or hung over.\n\n\"The energy we get here in Georgia is something I've never seen before,\" says Mr Gardner, who was born and raised in local DeKalb County.\n\n\"We've had other Senate races and I'm just excited.\"\n\nHe is joined by fellow Democratic supporters who are singing and dancing outside a house-turned-campaign centre.\n\nIt's to rally support for the two men who are probably President-elect Joe Biden's most important friends right now: Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock.\n\nThis traditionally Republican state was won by Mr Biden in November's election - but there were no clear winners for the state's two Senate seats. Now there is a run-off between the top candidates in each race.\n\nIf the two Democrats, Mr Ossoff and Rev Warnock, beat incumbent Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, Mr Biden's party effectively controls the Senate.\n\nShirley Shepphard is handing out stickers, with a smile and confidence.\n\n\"The Democrats can win! Yes we can, yes we can, yes we can!\" she says.\n\nThere's a huge cheer as Mr Ossoff's large blue bus makes its way down the road and pulls up opposite the house.\n\nHe is only 33 years old and, in case his youth wasn't clear enough, he makes a point of jogging on to the small stage.\n\nDuring a polished speech he exclaims: \"The place we demand better is at the ballot box.\"\n\nIf Mr Ossoff wins, he'd be the youngest member of the Senate - a title once held by Joe Biden himself.\n\nNo pressure, but I put to him that the fate of Mr Biden's presidency is in his hands.\n\nIf he loses, is Mr Biden a weakened president before he's even begun?\n\nWithout missing a beat, Mr Ossoff says: \"We will win.\"\n\nFellow Democrat and Senate candidate Mr Warnock could make history alongside him.\n\nHe could become Georgia's first black senator, in a state that has a higher proportion of black people than any other in the US.\n\nRallies have been held for all four candidates, including this one featuring the US vice-president\n\nGeorgia has also found itself becoming the final battleground for an aggrieved President Donald Trump.\n\nThe Republican Senate candidates here - Mr Perdue and Ms Loeffler - are his last foot soldiers.\n\nBoth appeared at his rally the previous night, where he focused on repeating his unsubstantiated claims of election fraud.\n\n\"There's no way we lost Georgia, that was a rigged election,\" were the first words out of his mouth.\n\n\"We run all over the world telling people how to run their elections and we don't even know how to run ours.\"\n\nMr Trump has also gone after Georgia's Republican governor and begged another official here, in an astonishing phone call, to find votes to overturn Mr Biden's victory.\n\nThe president has also called the Georgia Senate races \"invalid and illegal\" without any evidence.\n\nThere are concerns from some Republicans he's putting people off voting on Tuesday.\n\nI asked supporters at Trump's rally why they would take part in an election process if they didn't believe it was fair. Some hesitated and suggested it was their civic duty.\n\nFor those who won't vote, it's an advantage that may work for the Democrats.\n\nWhen I ask two Ossoff and Warnock supporters about the claims of election fraud, both women throw their heads back, burst into a long laugh in perfect unison and shake their heads bemused: \"Yeah, that's a good one.\"\n\nThere's another factor in this runoff - teenagers.\n\nSince the 3 November presidential election, more than 23,000 people will have turned 18 in the state and can now vote in this Senate race.\n\nMany young voters have been holding live-streaming events in counties across Georgia.\n\nValerie Ponomarev just turned 18 and is very excited at getting to vote. She was upset she couldn't cast a ballot in the recent presidential election.\n\n\"I did the math in my head and was short by a month as I was born in December,\" she says.\n\n\"I was mad at my mum that I hadn't been born sooner!\"\n\nShe said at first, she didn't even realise the Senate runoff was so crucial in Georgia.\n\nShe's voting for the Democrats, Ms Ponomarev says, adding that a lot of younger people have shown support for Mr Ossoff.\n\n\"I think the youth finally want representation in government because we're so often underrepresented and now that we have Jon Ossoff who is closer to our age,\" she says.\n\nMichael Guisto found himself in the same situation as Ms Ponomarev - too young to cast a ballot in November - and says missing out on that vote was painful.\n\n\"It feels like a redemption,\" he says of this Senate race.\n\nThe polls are suggesting it's a very tight race. But this state knows that whatever it decides, it will have an impact on the country as a whole.\n\nMr Guisto says even though he missed out on the November election, this vote matters.\n\n\"I get to in some ways influence the country but this time it's a bit closer to home.\"", "The deaths of a further 68 people who tested positive for Covid have been recorded in Scotland in the past 24 hours.\n\nIt comes as official figures show 33,381 people received their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine in the week to 27 December.\n\nThat takes the total number of people to get a vaccine in Scotland since 8 December to 92,188.\n\nPatients in hospital with coronavirus rose from 1,347 on Tuesday to 1,384.\n\nHospital admissions have been rising sharply but are still 136 short of the peak figure of 1,520 recorded on 20 April last year.\n\nThe latest statistics show 2,039 new cases of the virus, which is 10.5% of those recently tested, a slightly lower figure than in recent days.\n\nA total of 95 people are in intensive care - a slight increase but significantly lower than the April peak of 208.\n\nHealth officials have expressed concern about the situation in Inverclyde, Dumfries & Galloway and the Scottish Borders, in particular, which have seen sharp rises in positive tests.\n\nWeekly figures show Inverclyde recorded 538.5 cases per 100,000, Dumfries & Galloway 538.1 and the Scottish Borders 435.5.\n\nThere were a further 603 confirmed coronavirus cases in the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde area in the past 24 hours, with an additional 296 in NHS Lanarkshire, 206 in NHS Grampian and 164 in the NHS Lothian area.\n\nSince the start of the pandemic, there have been 141,066 cases in Scotland, with a total of 4,701 people dying within 28 days of first testing positive.\n\nThe latest vaccine figures were released after doctors in Scotland raised concerns about plans to delay the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.\n\nAll four UK nations will now leave up to 12 weeks between the first and second doses of the jab rather than giving both within 21 days.\n\nDr Lewis Morrison, head of the BMA in Scotland, said members had concerns about the potential impact of leaving such a big gap between the two doses.\n\nBut the UK's chief medical officers have defended the move, saying the first dose will give people substantial protection against the virus within two to three weeks.", "Doctors are calling for a significant ramping up of the vaccination programme following approval of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThe first patients are expected to receive the jab - the second approved for use in the UK - on Monday.\n\nBut with just over 500,000 doses available to use next week, experts are worried there may be a bottleneck in the system.\n\nThere are more than 25m people in the nine priority groups identified so far.\n\nThis includes all those over 50 and younger adults with health conditions, as well as frontline health and care staff.\n\nMeanwhile, GPs have questioned the wisdom of cancelling patients already booked in for their second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, the first jab that was approved and has been used since early December.\n\nAs well as approving the Oxford vaccine on Wednesday, regulators also said that doctors could wait longer between the two courses needed, to ensure faster rollout of vaccination.\n\nBut the British Medical Association's Dr Richard Vautrey said GPs were unhappy they were being asked to cancel appointments that had already been made for second doses. The original advice said they should be given three weeks apart.\n\nHe said it was \"grossly unfair\" and would waste staff time.\n\nOne of those who has been affected is Stella Joseph, who is 82 and has a chronic lung condition.\n\n\"The thing I feel most is utterly helpless, that there's nobody to appeal to, that you can't get any assistance with this at all.\n\n\"I think it is so hard that those of us who were in this first wave were obviously people who are at high risk and we're the ones who have been left high and dry.\"\n\nThe move has also prompted some debate about how strong the evidence is for delaying the second dose.\n\nProf Peter Openshaw, of Imperial College London, said there was \"pretty convincing\" data showing it would enhance the effect of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nBut he said because the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine had not been tested in the same way, there was no comparable evidence.\n\nSo far nearly 950,000 people have received a first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nThe hope was that when the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was approved, it would lead to a significant increase in the rate of vaccination.\n\nThe jab is easier to store and distribute as it can be kept at normal fridge temperature, unlike the Pfizer-BioNTech one that has to be kept in ultra-cold storage.\n\nThere are thought to be more than five million doses of the Oxford vaccine in the UK, but only just over 500,000 are ready for use.\n\nThat is because vaccines have to be put into vials and batched and certified.\n\nSources at the NHS expressed frustration at the situation. \"The NHS is ready to go, but we can only go as quickly as supply allows,\" one said.\n\nQueen Mary University epidemiologist Deepti Gurdasani said there appeared to be a \"bottleneck\", and the government looked like it was still going to be under its target of two million doses a week.\n\n\"We really need to speed up rollout,\" she said.\n\nThere are currently more than 700 vaccination sites up and running, with several hundred more thought to be ready to go once vaccines are available.\n\nBut the limited supply of the Pfizer vaccine, which has to be shipped in from Belgium, has meant some centres have not been able to vaccinate people every week.\n\nDame Clare Gerada, a former chair of the Royal College of GPs, said: \"We really now need a massive operational system. We need a 24/7 system with GPs, mass vaccination centres and hospitals - this needs to be scaled up.\n\n\"It's got to be football stadia, all these large venues that we've got currently lying dormant.\n\n\"If we can really get a mass operational system up and running, then I can't see why we can't be getting the whole population immunised by the spring.\"\n\nNHS England's medical director for primary care, Dr Nikki Kanani, promised there would be a significant expansion of the vaccination programme in the coming weeks.\n\nShe predicted the majority of care home residents would be protected by the end of January, and frontline staff would start to get a vaccination in large numbers.\n\nShe also praised the progress made so far, thanking the \"tireless efforts of staff\".\n\nEngland Health Secretary Matt Hancock also praised staff, adding the numbers being vaccinated would \"rapidly increase in the months ahead\".", "The 19-year-old victim was attacked on Canonbury Road in Islington shortly before 19:00 GMT on 29 December\n\nA man was left partially blind after he was repeatedly hit in the face during a street robbery in north London.\n\nThe 19-year-old had been walking along Canonbury Road in Islington on 29 December when he was approached by two men, one of whom stole his bag and hit him with a \"baton-style weapon\".\n\nThe Met said he had suffered \"life-changing injuries\" in the \"vicious and unprovoked attack\".\n\nNo arrests have been made and the detectives have appealed for witnesses.\n\nThe attacker has been described by police as black, aged in his late teens with spikey hair and of a skinny build.\n\nDet Con Faisal Issaouni said the 19-year-old victim had been \"left with injuries that will affect him for the rest of his life\".\n\n\"We're reviewing CCTV from the area and have spoken to a number of witnesses as we try to track down the man responsible,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Clap for Carers is to return under a new name of Clap for Heroes, the initiative's founder has said.\n\nThe weekly applause for front-line NHS staff and other key workers ran for 10 weeks during the UK's first coronavirus lockdown last spring.\n\nFounder Annemarie Plas tweeted that it would return at 20:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nMs Plas said she hoped the initiative would \"lift the spirit of all of us\" including \"all who are pushing through this difficult time\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Annemarie This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe idea of clapping and banging pots from doorsteps originally began as a one-off to support NHS staff on 26 March - three days after the UK went into lockdown for the first time.\n\nAfter proving popular it was expanded to cover all key workers and continued every Thursday for 10 weeks, with millions of people across the UK taking part.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family and politicians including Prime Minister Boris Johnson also joined in with the show of support.\n\nHowever, the event later faced criticism for becoming politicised, with some suggesting the NHS would benefit more from extra funding than applause.\n\nLast May, Ms Plas, a Dutch national living in south London, said the weekly applause should end after its 10th week and instead become an annual event.\n\nAt the time, she said the public had \"shown our appreciation\" and it was now up to ministers to \"reward\" key workers.\n\n\"Without getting too political, I share some of the opinions that some people have about it becoming politicised,\" she told the PA news agency ahead of the final clap in May.\n\n\"I think the narrative is starting to change and I don't want the clap to be negative.\"", "YouTuber JoJo Siwa has said she had \"no idea\" that \"gross\" and \"inappropriate\" questions were featured in a board game bearing her image.\n\nIt follows a parental backlash about the Nickelodeon-branded game, marketed to children aged six and over.\n\nThe \"Truth or Dare\" category contained questions like: \"Have you ever gone outside without underwear?\" and \"Have you ever been arrested?\".\n\nParents have expressed disapproval on social media in recent days.\n\nIn response to the online outcry, the 17-year-old internet star said she was \"really upset\" to discover the content of the game, which is called JoJo's Juice.\n\nShe added she was working with Nikelodeon to have removed it from the shops.\n\n\"Over the weekend, it has been brought to my attention by my fans and followers on TikTok that my name and my image have been used to promote this board game that has some really inappropriate content,\" said Siwa, in an Instagram video message.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by itsjojosiwa This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"When companies make these games, they don't run every aspect by me and so I had no idea of the types of questions that were on these playing cards.\"\n\nShe added: \"Now when I first saw this, I was really really really upset at how gross these questions were. And so I brought it to Nickelodeon's attention immediately and since then, they have been working to get this game stopped being made, and also pulled from all shelves wherever it's being sold.\"\n\nShe went on to say that she would have \"never approved or agreed to be associated with this game,\" if she had seen the cards beforehand.\n\nOther questions featured in the board game included: \"Have you ever stolen from a store?\" and \"Have you ever walked in on someone naked?\"\n\nThe US teenager posts videos of her day-to-day life on her YouTube channel, Its JoJo Siwa.\n\nShe is also a singer and dancer, having appeared on the reality TV series Dance Moms, alongside her mother, Jessalynn Siwa.\n\nHer musical offerings so far include the singles Boomerang and Kid in a Candy Store.\n\nLast year, she was included on Time magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Teachers' estimated grades will be used to replace cancelled GCSEs and A-levels in England this summer, says Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nHe told MPs he would \"trust in teachers rather than algorithms\", a reference to the U-turn over last year's exams.\n\nFor primaries, he confirmed there would be no Year 6 Sats tests this year.\n\nMr Williamson promised parents it would be \"mandatory\" for schools to provide \"high-quality remote education\" of three to five hours per day.\n\nHe said this would be \"enforced\" by Ofsted, with inspections where there were \"serious concerns\" about what was provided for children now studying at home.\n\nLabour's Shadow Education Secretary, Kate Green, accused Mr Williamson of \"chaos and confusion\" - and said he had failed to listen to the \"expertise of professionals on the front line\".\n\nShe said he had given a \"cast-iron commitment\" that exams would go ahead - and Ms Green said: \"At that moment, we should have known they were doomed to be cancelled.\"\n\nMr Williamson, in a statement to the House of Commons, said there would be \"training and support\" for teachers in estimating grades, \"to ensure these are awarded fairly and consistently\".\n\nHe also told MPs there would be no Sats tests for those at the end of primary school.\n\n\"I can absolutely confirm that we won't be proceeding with Sats this year. We do recognise that this will be an additional burden on schools\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said rather than a \"vague statement\" of how A-levels and GCSEs would be graded, ministers should already have a system ready in place - and it was a \"dereliction of duty\" that it was not already prepared.\n\nAnd he warned against repeating the \"shambles\" of last summer's cancelled exams.\n\nThe education secretary confirmed to MPs that GCSEs and A-levels are not going ahead - after this week's decision that it was no longer feasible with so much time lost in the Covid pandemic and the latest lockdown.\n\nThe exams watchdog Ofqual will draw up proposals for an alternative way of deciding results, for qualifications that could be used for jobs, staying on in school or university places.\n\nSimon Lebus, the watchdog's interim head, said evidence for replacement grades could include tests, homework, mock exams and teachers' observations - and would take into account how much of the syllabus had been covered.\n\nA consultation is expected to begin next week, with plans to be decided by the end of February or possibly sooner.\n\nLast year's attempts to find an alternative approach to exam results, which initially used an algorithm, descended into chaos - and eventually switched to using teachers' grades.\n\nAnd without any exam papers or standardised mock exams, the use of teachers' assessments, with some process of moderation between schools, will be used for this summer's candidates.\n\nOn vocational qualifications, Labour's Ms Green said the education secretary was \"failing to show leadership on exams in January\".\n\nVocational exams, such as BTecs, are carrying on, if schools and colleges decide to continue with them - but college leaders had complained that there needed to be a national decision to avoid confusion.\n\nIf students cannot take BTec exams this month as planned, they will still be awarded a grade, if they have \"enough evidence to receive a certificate that they need for progression\", says the awarding body Pearson.\n\nAn Ofqual spokeswoman said they would consider options for replacement exam results, academic and vocational, \"to ensure the fairest possible outcome in the circumstances\".\n\nThe exams watchdog's decisions will face much scrutiny - with the previous head of Ofqual resigning after last summer's U-turns over grades.\n\nMr Williamson's statement in the Commons came as all GCSE, AS and A-level exams in Northern Ireland were cancelled due to the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir announced the decision in the Stormont assembly on Wednesday.\n\nScotland has already cancelled its Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers.\n\nGCSEs and A-levels in Wales were scrapped in November.", "Dr Dre, seen here in 2018, is one of hip-hop's most successful stars\n\nRapper and producer Dr Dre, one of hip-hop's most successful and influential stars, is being treated in hospital after suffering a brain aneurysm.\n\nThe 55-year-old was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Monday, TMZ reported.\n\nIn a post on Instagram, he said: \"I'm doing great and getting excellent care from my medical team.\"\n\nHe is \"resting comfortably\" after the aneurysm, his lawyer told Billboard.\n\nIn his post, Dr Dre also wrote: \"I will be out of the hospital and back home soon. Shout out to all the great medical professionals at Cedars. One Love!!\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by drdre This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFriends and fellow stars have sent their well wishes after the reports of his ill health emerged.\n\nIce Cube, his former bandmate in trailblazing 1980s hip-hop group NWA, tweeted: \"Send your love and prayers to the homie Dr. Dre.\"\n\nSnoop Dogg, who was discovered by Dr Dre in the early 1990s, wrote on Instagram: \"GET WELL DR DRE WE NEED U CUZ.\"\n\nMissy Elliott wrote: \"Prayers up for Dr. Dre and his family for healing & Strength over his mind & body.\" And singer Ciara tweeted: \"Praying for you Dr. Dre. Praying for a full recovery.\"\n\nWith NWA and then as a solo artist, leading producer and record label mogul, Dr Dre shaped west coast rap and was instrumental in the careers of other stars like Eminem, 50 Cent and Kendrick Lamar.\n\nAn aneurysm is a bulge in a weakened blood vessel where the blood pressure causes a small area to bulge outwards.\n\nMost brain aneurysms only cause noticeable symptoms if they burst, leading to bleeding on the brain, which can cause a very serious condition and can be fatal.", "(L-R) David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong were pronounced dead at the scene\n\nA man who stabbed three people to death in a Reading park was suffering from psychosis \"right up to the day\" of the killings, a court has heard.\n\nKhairi Saadallah, 26, attacked James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, in the Forbury Gardens in June.\n\nA hearing to decide if he was motivated by a religious or ideological cause has been told he was \"no radical Islamist\".\n\nThe hearing at the Old Bailey is part of his sentencing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV cameras captured Khairi Saadallah before and after the stabbing\n\nSaadallah, of Basingstoke Road, Reading, has pleaded guilty to three murders and three attempted murders.\n\nAn examination of his mobile phone revealed extremist material, including an image of the Islamic State flag and the 9/11 Twin Towers attack, the court was told.\n\nThe prosecution is seeking a whole-life prison order, meaning he would never be considered for release.\n\nRossano Scamardella QC, defending, said the sentence should be one of life imprisonment with a starting point of 30 years, due to a lack of serious premeditation, the \"fleeting\" strength of his commitment to Islamist jihad, and his mental health issues.\n\nKhairi Saadallah previously admitted three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nHe said while the attack in Reading was \"terrifying\" and \"senseless\", it did not justify the failed Libyan asylum seeker being jailed for more than 30 years.\n\nHe added that \"as brutal as these killings were\", the suggestion they were \"ruthlessly efficient\" had been \"exaggerated\".\n\nSaadallah took \"certain steps to facilitate the killings\", he said, but \"significant planning or premeditation simply does not exist\".\n\nHe told the hearing Saadallah had \"come to the attention of the authorities on hundreds of occasions\", and had a history of frequent interactions with the police, criminal justice system and mental health services.\n\nHe said Saadallah had developed an emotionally unstable and anti-social personality disorder and \"right up until the day of killing he was plainly suffering from episodes of psychosis\".\n\nMr Scamardella said there is no suggestion this caused his offending but insisted his \"culpability [for the attack] is reduced\".\n\nThe court heard earlier that a psychiatrist has since concluded the attack on June 20 was \"unrelated to the effects of either mental disorder or substance misuse\".\n\nKhairi Saadallah was visited and filmed by police during a welfare check the day before the attack\n\nThe court was shown CCTV footage of Saadallah in Morrisons buying the knife he used in the attack\n\nSaadallah had described himself in interview as \"part Muslim and part Catholic\", said Mr Scamardella, adding: \"No radical Islamist would countenance adoption of another faith, it's inconceivable.\"\n\nHe said portraying Saadallah as a committed jihadist was a \"superficially attractive proposition\" based on \"pieces of evidence that exist that demonstrate or at least might demonstrate a fleeting interest\".\n\nThree others - Stephen Young, Patrick Edwards and Nishit Nisudan - were also injured by Saadallah.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Epsom Racecourse in Surrey will be one of seven mass vaccination hubs announced by the government\n\nSeven new mass Covid vaccination hubs across England have been announced by the government.\n\nCentres in London, Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Surrey and Stevenage are due to begin operations next week.\n\nVarious venues will be converted into regional centres in a bid to meet the government's target of vaccinating 14 million people in the UK by February.\n\nIt is expected the hubs will be staffed by NHS staff and volunteers.\n\nThe seven sites announced by Downing Street are:\n\nAshton Gate Stadium, home to Bristol City FC, will be used to help the government meet its vaccination target\n\nSupermarket chain Morrisons has confirmed car parks at its stores in Yeovil, Wakefield and Winsford would be used to drive-through vaccinations from Monday. It has also offered an additional 47 sites to the government.\n\nPremier League club Tottenham Hotspur has also offered the use of its stadium to the NHS as a venue to provide the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe sites across England will begin operations next week", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nI'm standing in what should be an operating theatre - but instead it's been converted into an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients on ventilators.\n\nThis is the first time I have seen it full of patients like this. Normally this theatre would be busy with major cancer surgery, but that's been transferred to another building.\n\nA children's recovery area, still decorated with colourful stickers of cartoons, is once again filled with desperately sick adults. Every day, more wards are being transformed into ICU - ready for the next influx of patients.\n\nWe have been given access to University College Hospital, in central London. This is the same intensive care unit that I first visited in April, during the first peak.\n\nIt is one of the busiest hospitals in the capital and intensive care here is expanding across a hospital that is under pressure like never before, from a relentless rise in Covid admissions.\n\nI am struck by the toll the pandemic is taking on staff. It's immense - both physically and mentally. They are shell-shocked. \"My emotions are all over the place. Scared, sad, petrified, worried,\" one ICU nurse tells me.\n\nI asked one of the consultants who I've met several times in the last year, Dr Jim Down, how long they can keep going like this - and the answer was stark. \"At this rate, about a week. After that we really need to see it slow down or we're going to see the care we can deliver suffering.\"\n\nThey have got three times as many critically ill patients in the hospital as normal. The number of Covid admissions to London hospitals has doubled in just two weeks - they're more stretched now than at the peak last April. Senior staff are worried.\n\nDr Alice Carter compares it to an elastic band that is close to snapping. \"It gets to a point where you stretch so far it never returns back to its baseline. I think that's probably where we are now. It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break, and that's the real fear for us at the moment.\"\n\nDr Alice Carter: 'It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break'\n\nThat could have very serious consequences, she adds. \"If we get to that point, we can't offer anyone ICU, not just Covid patients, but anyone who has a traffic accident or a heart attack or a stroke - whatever it is, to take them in.\"\n\nFor 38-year-old Rachel Arfin, one of the three pregnant women in intensive care with Covid-19, treatment is more complicated. Her baby is due in five weeks and the staff have to monitor them both.\n\n\"They can't do anything that will harm the baby,\" she says. \"All the time [they are] checking, monitoring the baby.\" She is reassured by the \"beautiful sound\" of her baby's heartbeat.\n\n\"They are looking after two people in one. They're saving lives,\" says Rachel. But her children - she has seven - keep asking when she's coming home.\n\nRachel Arfin's baby is due in five weeks - both are doing well\n\nI've reported from here several times during the pandemic and am always struck by the professionalism and dedication of staff. It's always quiet and calm, but that belies what's actually happening. This is a system under strain like never before.\n\nThe warning signs are clear, the NHS is on the brink. Unless infection rates fall, soon it will have a serious impact. The pressure on staff is unrelenting. I saw two nurses in tears.\n\nCompared to when I visited in April, it's a lot busier. In some ways, it's more structured - they now know what they're dealing with. They've got new treatments, such as the drug dexamethasone, which they didn't have last time. And many of the staff have now had the first dose of the vaccine.\n\nBut other aspects don't get any easier, such as the emotional burden of breaking bad news over a telephone or video call. It is very different to being able to hold someone's hand.\n\nStaff say they don't know which patients to help first\n\nICU staff have incredibly high standards. They're used to doing everything meticulously and perfectly. And they're doing all they can. But sometimes they go home and feel guilty that they can't do more. The impact on nurses - the bedrock of care in intensive care - is visible.\n\nThe highly specialised staff are usually one-to-one with patients. Deputy sister Ashleigh Shillingford is looking after three or four ventilated patients at a time, with one other junior member of staff. It's emotional and often devastating work.\n\n\"We are so stretched we have to prioritise and prioritising care is not the NHS that I grew up in - we shouldn't have to choose which patient gets what care first.\" She says she's never had to make decisions like these before.\n\n\"You just don't know who to help first. The patients are losing their lives at a dramatic speed, we're not just getting old people,\" she says, \"these are young people that we're getting.\"\n\nGerald Williams, 58, is awaiting chemotherapy for lung cancer and had been shielding, but he still caught coronavirus. \"All of a sudden, out of the blue, Covid came knocking on my door and it's frightening - you don't know how you're getting your next breath,\" he says.\n\nGerald Williams had been shielding but he still caught coronavirus\n\nHe wants to get home to his daughters, the youngest of whom is 13. And he's annoyed at those who don't take it seriously. \"People are moaning and groaning. Even in A&E. They need to get a life. Don't be idiots, forget about meeting your mate, stay home. No-one is invulnerable.\"\n\nFor now the Trust is coping better than many others in London and is still taking Covid patients from other hospitals. But the next few weeks could be the biggest challenge the NHS has ever faced - and it will be its doctors and nurses who will bear the brunt for all of us.\n\nAs the BBC's medical editor, Fergus Walsh has been reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic and its immense impact on the UK.", "Kate Thistleton will front new content from Bitesize Daily\n\nBBC TV is to help children keep up with their studies during the latest lockdown by broadcasting lessons on BBC Two and CBBC, as well as online.\n\nSchools have been closed to most children across the UK as part of tougher measures to control Covid-19.\n\nThe BBC will show curriculum-based programmes on TV from Monday.\n\nThey will include three hours of primary school programming every weekday on CBBC, and at least two hours for secondary pupils on BBC Two.\n\nDuring the first lockdown in the spring, lessons were available on iPlayer, red button and online, but not on regular TV channels.\n\nThe move comes amid concerns that low-income families may struggle to afford data packages for their children to take part in online learning.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson praised the BBC's \"fantastic\" plans on Tuesday. BBC Director-General Tim Davie said \"education is absolutely vital\".\n\nHe continued: \"The BBC is here to play its part and I'm delighted that we have been able to bring this to audiences so swiftly.\"\n\nThe primary programmes, which will be broadcast on CBBC from 09:00 every day, will include BBC Live Lessons and BBC Bitesize Daily as well as Our School, Celebrity Supply Teacher, Horrible Histories and Operation Ouch.\n\nBBC Two will cater for secondary students with programming to support the GCSE curriculum, including adaptations of Shakespeare plays alongside science, history and factual titles.\n\nBitesize Daily primary and secondary will also air every day on the red button as well as episodes being available on demand on iPlayer.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said the BBC \"has helped the nation through some of the toughest moments of the last century\".\n\n\"And for the next few weeks it will help our children learn whilst we stay home, protect the NHS and save lives,\" he added. \"This will be a lifeline to parents and I welcome the BBC playing its part.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Two US police officers linked to a notorious raid in which young black medic Breonna Taylor was fatally shot have been fired, authorities have said.\n\nDetectives Myles Cosgrove and Joshua Jaynes are the latest officers to be dismissed over the shooting in March last year.\n\nThe incident in Kentucky caused outrage, spurring protests against racism and police brutality.\n\nMs Taylor, 26, died when police raided her home in connection to a drug case.\n\nThe FBI said Mr Cosgrove fired the shot that killed Ms Taylor at her home in Louisville.\n\nLouisville police dismissed Mr Cosgrove for violating procedures for use of force and failing to use a body camera during the search, the Louisville Courier Journal reported on Wednesday.\n\nMr Jaynes, the newspaper said, was fired for violating the police force's policy for truthfulness and search warrant preparation.\n\nDuring the raid, Ms Taylor's boyfriend fired at the officers who he said he believed were attackers breaking into their home.\n\nPolice say they knocked on the door to announce their presence before breaking down the door with a battering ram.\n\nMs Taylor's boyfriend said police did not make their presence known, and he fired out of self-defence. Three officers returned fire with 32 shots, six of which hit Ms Taylor.\n\nMs Taylor's name became a global rallying cry as people demanded a thorough investigation into her death.\n\nBlack Lives Matter activists in the US have demanded that Louisville police take stronger action against the officers in the case and say that police too often escape unpunished after killing members of the public.\n\nBut despite the outcry against Ms Taylor's shooting, no criminal charges were sought relating to her death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Questions still aren't answered\": Breonna Taylor's family are worried about a \"cover-up\"", "Paul Trauberman from Rainbow Smiles said it was hard to give reassurance without knowing the facts about the new variant\n\nNursery staff say they are being \"treated like the bottom of the rung\" after schools in England were told to shut to reduce the virus transmission.\n\nPaul Trauberman, of Rainbow Smiles in Weston-super-Mare, said despite his staff being \"scared\" about the new Covid-19 variant they had come to work.\n\nThe government announced a strict lockdown across the country on Monday.\n\nIt was after the UK moved to Covid-19 threat level five, meaning there is a risk the NHS could be overwhelmed.\n\nMr Trauberman, who took over Rainbow Smiles nursery in 2016, said he felt conflicted.\n\n\"I've come in this morning and I've got staff crying and saying they are scared of this new variant.\"\n\n\"We don't have PPE, we can't social distance, on the other hand we still have a business that is operational and we are not going bankrupt.\"\n\nHe said prolonged closure also carried the risk of going out of business but it was difficult to reassure staff when \"you don't have any of the facts\".\n\n\"One minute it is fine and the schools are going back, and two days later they are sending everyone home.\n\n\"It makes the staff feel insecure and... they just feel like they are being treated like the bottom of the rung.\n\nSchools are expected to remain closed until after the February half-term\n\n\"With this new variant ... they are having to deal with very close contact with children, with a virus around, which they are saying is very, very bad, but with no more information than that.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said: \"Early years settings remain low risk environments for children and staff and there is no evidence that the new variant of coronavirus disproportionately affects young children.\"\n\nIt said keeping nurseries open supported parents and delivered crucial education for children as Bristol mother-of-three Eleni Franklin has found.\n\nShe said she \"really valued\" Acorns Nursery in Henbury Hill, being open as she and her husband are both key workers - so their children, Allegra, five, Aria, two and Rafe nine-months-old, will attend school and nursery throughout the lockdown.\n\n\"I can see that nurseries are different to schools. There has been one case at Aria's nursery during this whole period, whereas in school there has been quite a few,\" she said.\n\nEleni Franklin said she could see why nurseries were being treated differently to schools\n\n\"The nursery have been pretty good and although I understand there is a risk to staff, they have put a lot of measures in place to keep people safe.\"\n\nOne of the biggest challenges for nurseries - with some staff now unable to work because of their own childcare responsibilities - is maintaining child-to-staff ratios.\n\nMr Trauberman said they worked on a basis of one-to-three for babies, one-to-four for under-three's and one-to-eight with under five-year-olds.\n\n\"We are trying to maintain these bubbles, but normally we would move staff around to accommodate highs and lows of staff and children, to balance it out, but we are unable to do that to enable these bubbles,\" he said.\n\nHis nursery is now identifying families that could potentially keep their children at home if they were unable to meet those ratios.\n\nMr Trauberman, who is a member of an online group for nursery owners, said some people were calling for nurseries to shut, but said if that happened they risked \"not having a business to come back to\".\n\n\"Small businesses are the backbone of the country and if a lot of those go under, the financial implications for the whole country are going to be catastrophic.\"\n\nMother-of-two Kara Willetts, from Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, said she felt it was important her daughter Isobel continued going to nursery as she noticed her behaviour had changed when she had to stop going during the first lockdown in March.\n\n\"Isobel is a really sociable, outgoing child and she really suffered with not going in and seeing her friends during the first lockdown. Her mental health suffered and she displayed behaviour I had never seen from her before,\" she said.\n\nKara Willetts said her daughter Isobel's mental health suffered when nurseries closed during the first lockdown\n\nMrs Willetts said she had full confidence in the measures introduced at the nursery three-and-a-half-year-old Isobel attends in Cheltenham.\n\nShe said that with her husband working from home and a seven-month-old son also at home, the option of Isobel going to nursery was \"beneficial to the whole family\".\n\n\"It is quite difficult for my husband to concentrate on work with two kids at home. Transmission rates in young children are very low and if I had any safety concerns I wouldn't send Isobel there,\" she added.\n\nTom Shea, a former advisor to the Early Year's minister, said: \"The biggest issue is that as a society we regard childcare as something like babysitting, rather than the start of the early year's development of learning.\n\n\"Sadly it seems the main reason for keeping us open is for protecting employment rather than protecting children.\"\n\nMr Shea owns Child First Nursery in Worksop and said he thought there was a \"hierarchy\" among key workers in terms of vaccination priorities. He said \"sensibly\" the first priority was NHS staff, followed by social carers for the elderly. He said teachers ranked a \"reasonable\" third, but that Early Years workers did not feature at all.\n\n\"They are expected just to work, and I am not sure if the government thinks that we are invisible,\" he said.\n\nHe called for early vaccination of Early Years workers to allow them to stay open and be protected.\n\n\"The irony now is that we are being told to keep open even though we are private businesses, we are dictated to about the funding we can receive and how we receive it… and if parents are frightened of their children going into the childcare setting then suddenly we don't get paid for that, so you find nurseries half empty being forced to open and it is not economical to do that.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said: \"We are funding nurseries as usual and all children are able to attend their early years setting in all parts of England.\n\n\"Working parents on coronavirus support schemes will still remain eligible for childcare support even if their income levels fall below the minimum requirement.\"", "An investment firm has bought 50% of the rights to all Neil Young's songs.\n\nHipgnosis Songs Fund spent an estimated $150m (£110m) on 1,180 songs written by the Canadian folk rocker.\n\nThe fund, which lets people invest in hit songs, has previously splashed out about £1bn snapping up rights to songs from the likes of Mark Ronson, Chic, Barry Manilow and Blondie.\n\nFounded by music industry veteran Merck Mercuriadis, Hipgnosis turns music royalties into an income stream.\n\n\"This is a deal that changes Hipgnosis forever,\" said Mr Mercuriadis.\n\n\"I bought my first Neil Young album aged seven. Harvest was my companion and I know every note, every word, every pause and silence intimately.\n\n\"Neil Young, or at least his music, has been my friend and constant ever since.\"\n\nHipgnosis has been listed on the London Stock Exchange since July 2018. When songs owned by the fund get played on the radio or placed in a film or TV show, it makes money.\n\nBefore setting up Hipgnosis, Mr Mercuriadis managed artists such as Beyoncé, Elton John, Iron Maiden and Guns 'N' Roses.\n\nIn his view, songs are \"as investible as gold or oil\".\n\nHe says hit songs are a stable investment because their revenue is unaffected by fluctuations in the economy.\n\nThe sale of song catalogues has become a booming business during the Covid-19 pandemic, with investors seeing music as a relatively stable asset in an otherwise turbulent market.\n\nEarlier this week, Hipgnosis bought 100% of the rights to Lindsey Buckingham's 161 songs for an undisclosed amount.\n\nThe songs include hits that Buckingham wrote or co-wrote for Fleetwood Mac, including Go Your Own Way and The Chain.\n\nThe group's Stevie Nicks sold 80% of her publishing rights last year to Hipgnosis rival Primary Wave for about $80m.\n\nLast month, Universal Music Group announced it had bought 100% of Bob Dylan's 600 songs for between an estimated $200m and $450m (£150m-£340m).\n\nThe singer-songwriter was the latest of a number of artists to join up with the Los Angeles-based Universal, following other big names such as Bruce Springsteen, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar and Post Malone.\n\nNeil Young rose to prominence in the 1960s and 70s and is one of the most influential songwriters of all time.\n\nHe is known not only for his work as a solo artist, but also with the bands Buffalo Springfield, Crazy Horse and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.\n\nYoung has released almost 50 studio albums and more than 20 live albums, of which 18 have been certified gold, seven are platinum and three are multi-platinum.\n\nSeven of his albums were included on Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time chart: Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, After The Gold Rush, Déjà Vu (with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young) Harvest, On The Beach, Tonight's the Night and Rust Never Sleeps.\n\n\"I built Hipgnosis to be a company Neil would want to be a part of,\" said Mr Mercuriadis.\n\n\"We have a common integrity, ethos and passion born out of a belief in music and these important songs.\n\n\"There will never be a 'Burger of Gold', but we will work together to make sure everyone gets to hear them on Neil's terms.\"", "US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning transactions with eight Chinese apps.\n\nThe apps include popular payments platform Alipay, as well as QQ Wallet and WeChat Pay.\n\nThe order, which takes effect in 45 days, says that the apps are being banned because they are a threat to US national security.\n\nIt flags the possibility that the apps could be used to track and build dossiers on US federal employees.\n\nTencent QQ, CamScanner, SHAREit, VMate and WPS Office are also included within the order, which only kicks in after Mr Trump has left office.\n\n\"The United States must take aggressive action against those who develop or control Chinese connected software applications to protect our national security,\" the order said.\n\nPresident Trump's order says \"by accessing personal electronic devices such as smartphones, tablets, and computers, Chinese connected software applications can access and capture vast swaths of information from users, including sensitive personally identifiable information and private information.\"\n\nThe Trump administration has ratcheted up pressure on Chinese companies in its final months in office, including those it considers a national security risk.\n\nPresident Trump has signed executive orders against a range of Chinese firms arguing they could share data with the Chinese government.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Panorama: How safe is TikTok for young users?\n\nChinese social media app TikTok and telecoms giant Huawei have been among the casualties of Washington's crackdown.\n\nLast month, the Commerce Department added dozens of Chinese companies, including the country's top chipmaker SMIC and drone manufacturer DJI Technology, to a trade blacklist.\n\nThe administration also restricted a number of Chinese and Russian companies with alleged military ties from buying sensitive US goods and technology.\n\nChina has consistently denied claims that these firms share their data with the Chinese government and has responded by imposing its own export laws restricting the export of military technology.\n\nIn August, the US ordered ByteDance, the owner of social media app TikTok, to either shut down or sell off its US assets.\n\nDespite missing a deadline to complete the sale, the US is yet to shut down the app and negotiations continue over its future.\n\nThe latest ban comes as the White House quietly pushed the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to consider a second U-turn on its decision to delist three Chinese telecoms giants.\n\nLast week the NYSE announced it would delist the China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom in line with another executive order.\n\nOn Monday, however, the NYSE reversed that decision, announcing it had decided not to delist the three companies after further consultation with US regulators.\n\nThe NYSE made the decision based on ambiguity about whether the securities were actually covered by the order.\n\nHowever, the exchange has come under pressure over its decision.\n\nThe US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin called the NYSE President Stacey Cunningham to tell her he disagrees with the decision, according to Reuters.\n\nRepublican Senator and China hardliner Marco Rubio has also spoken out, saying that the NYSE's refusal to delist the companies was an \"outrageous effort\" to undermine the President's executive order.\n\nThe NYSE is owned by Atlanta-based Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), which is run by billionaire Jeffrey Sprecher.\n\nHis wife Kelly Loeffler is one of two Republican senators facing run-off elections on Tuesday in Georgia.", "The new \"highly infectious\" variant of coronavirus is spreading rapidly throughout Wales, the health minister has said.\n\nGiving the first coronavirus briefing of the year, Vaughan Gething said cases of the virus remained very high.\n\nHowever, the case rate across Wales has fallen from a high of 636 per 100,000 people on 17 December to 446 on Monday.\n\nBut cases are rising quickly in north Wales, which Mr Gething believed was due to the new variant.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nThe measures announced on Monday have now become law, but MPs will actually vote retrospectively to approve them later today. They're expected to pass with ease - Labour has pledged its support, but said ministers must deliver a round-the-clock vaccination programme. The regulations allow restrictions to potentially be in place until mid-March. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have all imposed lockdowns too, but will they be enough? An estimated one in 50 people in private households in England had coronavirus last week - one in 30 in London, while the number of daily confirmed cases topped 60,000 for the first time. Our health correspondent has more - as we've come to understand, the R number is everything. This graph shows how the R number could drop this time (in red), compared with how it fell during the first lockdown - the slower decline is down to the new, more transmissible variant.\n\nStudents have been anxiously waiting for news after the cancellation of A-Level and GCSE exams in England - not least because of the chaos that surrounded last year's results. Exams had already been cancelled elsewhere in the UK. Education Secretary Gavin Williamson will reveal more in a statement to MPs later. He'll also give more details of support for pupils following the switch by schools and colleges to remote learning. There are fears a digital divide will mean some children are excluded. We've got some advice for parents on virtual learning, and BBC Bitesize will be broadcasting lessons on BBC Two, CBBC and online from Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parents spoke to the BBC after Monday's announcement about school closures in England\n\nPeople arriving in the UK from abroad could soon be required to prove they've had a negative coronavirus test before setting off. The Department for Transport says it's one of several measures being considered to prevent new cases arriving from abroad. Full details are still to be agreed, but it's thought hauliers coming through ports would be exempt. Currently, arrivals from countries not exempt under the travel corridor programme have to isolate for 10 days. See more on the existing rules. Travel firms have been cancelling trips since the latest lockdowns were imposed.\n\n2020 was a dreadful year for the UK car industry and preliminary figures from the industry's trade body show just how bad it was. New car registrations dropped to levels not seen since 1992, and saw the biggest one-year fall since World War Two when factories were turned over to military production. Showrooms and even factories were forced to close in the spring, and the switch to working from home means fewer of us need a vehicle on a daily basis. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said firms were desperately trying to minimise redundancies.\n\nUnable to leave Taiwan due to the pandemic, Peter Lowe decided to get a boat to pass the time. A leisurely hobby soon turned into a quest to clear the country's waterways, river banks and mangrove forests of plastic. His efforts have inspired local volunteers to join in the clean-up, and even prompted the government to take notice. Peter has some advice for all of us feeling trapped right now: \"Do something positive, do something meaningful, particularly towards saving and protecting the earth.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, when lockdown was imposed last Spring, some of life's most basic household tasks suddenly got a lot harder. What are they like now?\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "A Joint Session of Congress to certify the election of Joe Biden has gone into an unexpected recess, and the Capitol building into lockdown, after Trump supporters breached security lines.\n\nEarlier, President Trump addressed supporters at a rally outside the White House and encouraged them to protest the election result.", "It was initially believed that Covid-19 originated at a market in Wuhan\n\nA World Health Organization (WHO) team due to investigate the origins of Covid-19 in the city of Wuhan has been denied entry to China.\n\nTwo members were already en route, with the WHO saying the problem was a lack of visa clearances.\n\nHowever, China has challenged this, saying details of the visit, including dates, were still being arranged.\n\nThe long-awaited probe was agreed upon by Beijing after many months of negotiations with the WHO.\n\nThe virus was first detected in Wuhan in late 2019, with the initial outbreak linked to a market.\n\nWHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was \"very disappointed\" that China had not yet finalised the permissions for the team's arrivals \"given that two members had already begun their journeys and others were not able to travel at the last minute\".\n\n\"I have been assured that China is speeding up the internal procedure for the earliest possible deployment,\" he told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday, explaining that he had been in contact with senior Chinese officials to stress \"that the mission is a priority for WHO and the international team\".\n\nChinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying told the BBC \"there might be some misunderstanding\" and \"there's no need to read too much into it\".\n\n\"Chinese authorities are in close co-operation with WHO but there has been some minor outbreaks in multiple places around the world and many countries and regions are busy in their work preventing the virus and we are also working on this,\" she said.\n\n\"Still we are supporting international co-operation and advancing internal preparations. We are in communication with the WHO and as far as I know with dates and arrangements we are still in discussions.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19: How everyday life has changed in Wuhan\n\nThe WHO has been working to send a 10-person team of international experts to China for months with the aim of probing the animal origin of the pandemic and exactly how the virus first crossed over to humans.\n\nLast month it was announced that the investigation would begin in January 2021.\n\nThe two members of the international team that had already departed for China had set off early on Tuesday, said the WHO. According to Reuters news agency, WHO emergencies chief Mike Ryan said one had turned back and one was in a third country.\n\nCovid-19 was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan in central Hubei province in late 2019.\n\nIt was initially believed the virus originated in a market selling exotic animals for meat. It was suggested that this was where the virus made the leap from animals to humans.\n\nBut the origins of the virus remain deeply contested. Some experts now believe the market may not have been the origin, and that it was instead only amplified there.\n\nSome research has suggested that coronaviruses capable of infecting humans may have been circulating undetected in bats for decades. It is not known, however, what intermediate animal host transmitted the virus between bats and humans.", "US President Donald Trump and others have made new unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud following the rerun of two crucial Senate races in the state of Georgia.\n\nWith the Democrats looking likely to win both seats and with them control of the US Senate, we've debunked some of the theories that have been widely shared on social media.\n\nSince the November election, the president has repeatedly made baseless allegations that Dominion voting machines have been manipulated to engineer electoral fraud.\n\nReferring to the vote in Georgia, Mr Trump said these machines had stopped working in Republican strongholds for \"over an hour\".\n\nThe official in charge of Georgia's voting systems, Gabriel Sterling, said there has been an issue in one county due to \"a programming error on security keys\" but that it was resolved hours before the president made his comments.\n\nMr Sterling tweeted: \"The, votes of everyone will be protected and counted. Sorry you received old intel Mr President.\"\n\nGeorgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger also clarified in a statement that there had been some issues but they did not stop people from voting, Reuters news agency reports.\n\n\"At no point did voting stop as voters continued casting ballots on emergency ballots, in accordance with the procedures set out by Georgia law,\" said Mr Raffensperger.\n\nAn image that has been shared thousands of times on Twitter purported to show a pile of destroyed ballots in Georgia on election day.\n\n\"Our team is in Georgia. They took a little walk. They found shredded ballots in Dell boxes,\" the tweet said.\n\nAlthough the post provided no detail as to where exactly the picture had been taken, we were able to geolocate it to the absentee ballot processing centre at the Georgia World Congress Center in Fulton County, which includes Atlanta.\n\nFulton County elections director Richard Barron told the BBC that the papers in the picture were \"definitely not ballots\", but waste from a letter-opening machine used to cut ballot envelopes.\n\nWe've reported on similar claims about alleged ballot shredding in Georgia before.\n\nIn November, an investigation into the shredding of papers in Cobb County concluded that it was part of a \"routine clean-up operation\" and the documents disposed of were not actual votes \"relevant to the election or the re-tally\".\n\nIn a tweet generating some 300,000 likes and retweets, President Trump claimed there was a \"voter dump\" planned against Republican candidates.\n\nBut there's no evidence of wrongdoing.\n\nIt's not clear exactly what he means by a \"voter dump\", but he may be referring to the fact that large batches of votes are released at once.\n\nThis is standard practice and a valid part of the vote-counting process.\n\nIn Georgia, as in the presidential elections, larger districts, often including cities that may lean Democrat, take longer to report their results.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Trump has falsely claimed on multiple occasions that millions of genuine votes in November's presidential election that were counted after polls closed were \"fake\".\n\nIn Georgia, election official Gabriel Sterling noted after the polls closed that some 171,000 early, in-person ballots from DeKalb County, which is Democrat-leaning, were yet to be counted.\n\nAuthorities knew how many of these \"advanced\" votes were coming.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gabriel Sterling This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA number of Republican officials and activists, including White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and the founder of conservative activist group Turning Point USA, claimed workers at the Chatham county count had suddenly stopped counting for the rest of the night and gone home, raising the prospect of foul play.\n\n\"They're doing this again. You can't make this up,\" Charlie Kirk tweeted.\n\nSimilar claims of fraud or suspicious activity were made during the presidential election count in the county, after it took a few days for all the absentee and mail-in ballots to be tabulated.\n\nBut Gabriel Sterling, Georgia's voting systems implementation manager, took to Twitter to say the count \"didn't just stop\".\n\nWorkers had finished counting all the ballots they had except absentee ballots received on election day, Mr Sterling, a Republican, added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Gabriel Sterling This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe county's board of elections chairman, Tom Mahoney, confirmed later that about 3,000 to 4,000 election day absentee ballots were left to count.", "Protesters in support of US President Donald Trump swarmed the Capitol building, forcing officials to order lawmakers to shelter in place and halting debate in both the House and Senate. Congress was meeting to confirm President-elect Joe Biden's electoral college victory.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keir Starmer: \"If we pull together as a nation, we can win\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer has called for a \"round the clock\" vaccination programme to tackle the rise in Covid cases.\n\nAs part of a televised speech, the Labour leader said the government needed to deliver \"millions of doses a week by the end of the month\".\n\nHe said there were \"serious questions for the government to answer\" over the timing of the lockdown in England, but Labour would support the restrictions.\n\nBoris Johnson said daily vaccination figures would be published from Monday.\n\nThe prime minister has also said the four most vulnerable groups of people across the UK should receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nBoth the PM and Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, have announced lockdowns this week.\n\nWales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nEngland's lockdown will become law from 00:01 GMT Wednesday and MPs will return to the Commons later that day to vote on the measures retrospectively.\n\nThe restrictions come into force as the number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK topped 60,000 for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\nOn Tuesday, 60,914 had tested positive in the previous 24 hours and a further 830 people had died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIn an address to the nation on BBC One, in response to Boris Johnson's televised address on Monday, Sir Keir said the UK had reached a \"critical moment in our fight against coronavirus\".\n\nThe Labour leader said people were \"angry at the mistakes the government has made\" and ministers needed to answer questions on why they did not act sooner over locking down England.\n\nHe stressed that Labour would continue to hold the government to account, but added: \"Whatever our quarrels with the government and with the prime minister, the country now needs us to come together.\n\n\"At this darkest of moments, we need a new national effort to re-kindle the spirit of last March - to come together and to do everything possible to stay at home [and] to protect the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nSir Keir reiterated that Labour would support the new lockdown when it comes to the retrospective Commons vote on Wednesday and \"join in this national effort\".\n\nBut he called for the government to use the lockdown to establish \"a massive, immediate, and round the clock vaccination programme\" to \"deliver millions of doses a week by the end of the month in every village and town, every high street and every GP surgery\".\n\nThe Labour leader added: \"This is now a race between the virus and the vaccine and if we pull together as a nation, we can win.\n\n\"We need a new contract between the government and the British people: The country stays at home, the government delivers the vaccine.\"\n\nEarlier at a Downing Street press conference, Mr Johnson said more than 1.3 million people across the UK had now been vaccinated with either the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines.\n\nThe figure included 23% of over-80s in England - part of a programme Mr Johnson said aimed to save \"the most lives the fastest\".\n\nThe PM said there will \"still be long weeks ahead\", but that he wanted to give \"maximum possible transparency\" about the vaccination roll-out.\n\nMore details will be announced on Thursday, with daily updates starting on Monday, \"so that you can see day by day and jab by jab how much progress we are making\", he added.\n\nAsked whether the target could be met, Chief Medical Officer for England, Professor Chris Whitty, said the timetable was \"realistic but not easy\".", "Fraudsters are sending out bogus text messages about the coronavirus vaccine in an attempt to steal bank details.\n\nThe scam tells recipients they are \"eligible to apply for your vaccine\" with a link to a bogus NHS website, trading standards officers have warned.\n\nThat, in turn, asks for personal information and - crucially - bank details \"for verification\".\n\nThe warning comes the same day as MPs heard that Covid is leading some people into the net of pension fraudsters.\n\nThe fake NHS message is one of a range of scams which have sought to take advantage of the pandemic and the isolation and legitimate worries of potential victims, according to the Chartered Trading Standards Institute.\n\nOthers have included people travelling door-to-door selling counterfeit or useless protection equipment, or fraudsters claiming to be from the official test and trace service and demanding payments.\n\nThe latest scam is preying on those elderly or vulnerable people who are fully expecting to receive legitimate information about their vaccine.\n\nHealth authorities have stressed they would never ask for an individual's banking details.\n\nKatherine Hart, lead office at the CTSI, said: \"I have been tracking and warning the public about Covid-related scams since the beginning of the pandemic, and at every stage of response, unscrupulous individuals have modified their campaigns to defraud the public.\n\n\"The vaccine brings great hope for an end to the pandemic and lockdowns, but some only wish to create even further misery by defrauding others. The NHS will never ask you for banking details, passwords, or PIN numbers and these should serve as instant red flags.\"\n\nShe urged people to report the scams to Action Fraud or Police Scotland.\n\nPensions have been stolen or put into high-risk schemes\n\nThe warning came as MPs on the Work and Pensions Select Committee heard how fraudsters were seizing on victims' financial uncertainty during the pandemic to draw them into pension scams.\n\nRules allowing people to withdraw cash from their pension pot from the age of 55 have led some people to move money into investment schemes which look generous, but are simply vehicles to steal money.\n\n\"Household finances are stretched and so the temptations to use savings or to be tempted by offers of 'free pension reviews', for example, which we've warned about, are very real,\" Mark Steward, from the Financial Conduct Authority told the committee.\n\n\"Of course, a 'free pension review' is hardly free. It is the first step on a process that will lead someone to investing in something that is too good to be true.\"\n\nHe said that fraudsters had used social media advertising to \"industrialise\" this kind of fraud.\n\nWhereas previously, fraudsters had to produce sophisticated glossy brochures and office fronts, they could now operate in anonymity on social media, sending fake information to millions of people.\n\nMillions of pounds have been lost to pension scams in recent years, but it is a crime considered to be widely under-reported by victims and pension companies.\n\nGraeme Biggar, director general of the National Economic Crime Centre, told the committee that fraudsters were continuing to use new avenues to reach potential victims.\n\n\"What we're looking to do next is to move on to fake comparison websites, which is this new gateway into investment frauds, to spot those and take them down at source,\" he said.", "Dr Anil Mehta, a GP at Fullwell Cross Medical Centre in North London, told the BBC that staff were working from 7 in the morning until 10pm at night during the three days of their weekly Covid-19 vaccine rollout, describing the process as a 'full team effort.\n\nDr Mehta was also keen to encourage people who might be nervous about the vaccine to take up the offer, emphasising that the evidence behind the vaccine 'was very strong'.\n\nThis message was echoed by Zahin Ahmed, whose grandfather Shafiquz Zaman has now received both doses of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine at the clinic. Mr Ahmed, who is from the Bangladeshi community, also said it was important that minority communities took up the offer of the vaccine when called upon to do so.", "Albert Roux pictured in the kitchen of Le Gavroche in 1989\n\nChef and restaurateur Albert Roux, who brought great French cooking to the UK with his brother Michel, has died at the age of 85.\n\nThe pair made gastronomic history in 1982 when their London restaurant, Le Gavroche, became the first in Britain to earn three Michelin stars.\n\nAlbert's death comes almost a year after Michel died at the age of 78.\n\nGordon Ramsay, one of many leading chefs who earned their stripes in Le Gavroche's kitchen, led the tributes.\n\n\"So so sad the hear about the passing of this legend, the man who installed Gastronomy in Britain,\" Ramsay wrote on Instagram.\n\nMarco Pierre White, Marcus Wareing, Pierre Koffman and Monica Galetti are among the other chefs who rose through the ranks at Le Gavroche.\n\nIn his tribute, TV chef James Martin described Albert Roux as \"a true titan of the food scene in this country [who] inspired and trained some of the best and biggest names in the business\".\n\nA family statement said: \"The Roux family has announced the sad passing of Albert Roux, OBE, KFO, who had been unwell for a while, at the age 85 on 4th January 2021.\n\n\"Albert is credited, along with his late brother Michel Roux, with starting London's culinary revolution with the opening of Le Gavroche in 1967.\"\n\nHis son Michel Roux Jr, who now runs Le Gavroche and is a former judge on MasterChef: The Professionals, said: \"He was a mentor for so many people in the hospitality industry, and a real inspiration to budding chefs, including me.\"\n\nFood critic Jay Rayner described Albert Roux as \"an extraordinary man who left a massive mark on the food story of his adopted country\".\n\nHe added: \"The roll call of chefs who went through the kitchens of Le Gavroche alone, is a significant slab of a part of modern UK restaurant culture.\"\n\nChef Tom Kitchin wrote that \"one of the true culinary greats has left us\", and baker and food writer Dan Lepard said it was the \"end of an era\".\n\nAlbert and Michel Roux came from a family of butchers in eastern France, and trained to be patissiers before moving to the UK.\n\nAlbert arrived in the mid-1950s, and in 1967 put his £3,000 savings with money borrowed from friends to open the first Gavroche off Sloane Square in Chelsea.\n\nWith uncompromising standards, elaborate presentation and first-rate service, it raised the standards of haute cuisine in a then-limited English restaurant scene.\n\nIt moved to Mayfair in 1981, and soon became the first British-based establishment to carry the maximum three Michelin stars.\n\n\"An Olympic gold medal,\" Albert said at the time. \"I have had no other ambition.\"\n\nThe Roux dynasty (left-right): Alain Roux, Michel Roux Jnr, Michel Roux and Albert Roux in 2009\n\nIts kitchen would also become the training ground for a new, enlightened generation of British chefs.\n\n\"If cooking is an art form, Le Gavroche was the Royal College of Music, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, Rada and the Courtauld and Warburg institutes all rolled up into one, poached, wrapped in a puff pastry shell with foie gras and served with truffle sauce,\" The Guardian wrote in 2010.\n\nThe brothers also launched the Roux Scholarship, an annual chef competition, in 1983, with many scholars having gone on to win Michelin stars themselves.\n\nAlbert and Michel opened a string of other restaurants, fronted a 13-part TV series on BBC Two in 1990, and published a series of best-selling books about French cookery.", "Shows like Tiger King kept people entertained during the first UK lockdown\n\nNetflix is raising the cost of some of its UK subscriptions from next month, its customers have been told.\n\nThe streaming service said the price rises reflected money spent on content.\n\nIts standard monthly package will go up from £8.99 to £9.99 and its premium one will rise from £11.99 to £13.99, but its basic plan remains at £5.99.\n\nHowever, comparison site Uswitch said the timing of the price rises was unfortunate with UK citizens living under new national lockdowns.\n\nThe streaming service's subscriber numbers have jumped during the pandemic, with almost 16 million new customers added worldwide in the first three months of 2020 alone.\n\nIn the UK, during the first national lockdown which started in March 2020, the amount of streaming content watched by consumers rose by a third compared with the previous year.\n\nBut Netflix faces tough competition from rivals, such as Disney+, which has also announced price rises of £2 per month up to £7.99 or £79.90 for a full year.\n\nNetflix said: \"This year we're spending over $1bn [£736m] in the UK on new, locally-made films, series and documentaries, helping to create thousands of jobs and showcasing British storytelling at its best - with everything from The Crown, to Sex Education and Top Boy, plus many, many more.\n\n\"Our price change reflects the significant investments we've made in new TV shows and films, as well as improvements to our product.\"\n\nA standard Netflix subscription gives users HD streaming on two devices at the same time with the ability to download to two phones or tablets. The premium service allows streaming on up to four screens at once, as well as offering 4K streaming and downloading to four phones or tablets.\n\nSubscribers who do not want to pay the extra can cancel their plan at any time without penalty or simply shift to the basic package, which allows users to watch movies and TV shows in standard definition on one device only and download to one mobile or tablet.\n\nNick Baker, streaming and TV expert at Uswitch.com, said: \"Netflix has been a lifeline for many people during lockdown, so this price rise is an unwanted extra expense for households feeling the financial pressure.\n\n\"It's unfortunate timing that this price hike coincides with another national lockdown, when all of us will be streaming more television and films than ever.\"", "The number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK has topped 60,000 for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\nAccording to government figures on Tuesday, the number of people who tested positive was 60,916.\n\nOne in 50 people in private households in England had Covid last week - and one in 30 in London, according to estimates based on the latest data.\n\nA further 830 people have also died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIt comes as England and Scotland announced new strict lockdowns, with people told to stay at home.\n\nAt a press conference at Downing Street on Tuesday, Boris Johnson said 1.3 million people had now been vaccinated in the UK - including 23% of over 80s in England, some 650,000 people.\n\nBut he said more than one million people were currently infected - with the number of patients in hospitals 40% higher than in the first peak.\n\nThe government's chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty cited the Office for National Statistics' random sampling data for England as showing how widespread the virus is.\n\n\"We're now into a situation where across the country as a whole, roughly one in 50 people have got the virus, higher in some parts of the country, lower in others,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Chris Whitty: \"No evidence\" the new variant is \"more dangerous\"\n\nThe number of new daily cases has consistently been above 50,000 since 29 December.\n\nBack in the first peak of the pandemic in the spring, the number of daily confirmed cases never went above 7,000.\n\nHowever, it is thought the true number of cases then was much higher but not picked up because testing capacity was limited. It was estimated there were about 100,000 new infections a day at the end of March - but there was not the testing to detect it.\n\nHospital admissions of people with Covid-19 in England also reached another record high on Tuesday, NHS England figures show.\n\nAt a hospital in Lincolnshire, a \"critical\" incident has been declared after a sharp rise in patients requiring admission.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How NHS nurses and doctors are struggling to cope with Covid as cases continue to rise in England\n\nAnd potentially life-saving cancer operations have been put on hold at a major London NHS trust because of the number of beds taken by Covid patients.\n\nHowever, Cancer Research UK said such cancellations did not appear to be widespread across the country.\n\nIn a statement after the case numbers were released, Public Health England medical director Yvonne Doyle said the rapid rise in cases was \"highly concerning and will sadly mean yet more pressure on our health services in the depths of winter\".\n\nAfter seven consecutive days of more than 50,000 cases being confirmed, the fact that more than 60,000 have been recorded should not come as a surprise.\n\nIt will take a week, if not more, for the impact of lockdown to be felt.\n\nAnd all the evidence suggests the new variant of coronavirus, which is more transmissible than previous ones, means the impact is likely to be more limited than it was in previous ones.\n\nThe figures are also a warning about what the NHS is facing.\n\nSome of this week's infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nAbout three in 10 beds are now occupied by Covid patients. In some hospitals more than six in 10 are.\n\nHospitals are now busy making more spaces on their wards - that means cancelling planned work, including in some places cancer treatment.\n\nBoris Johnson and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon both announced new lockdowns on Monday.\n\nWales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nRestrictions are also being tightened further in Northern Ireland, and an order for people to stay at home will become legally enforceable from Friday.\n\nIn a televised address to the nation, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer urged the government to use the lockdown to create a \"round the clock\" vaccination programme.\n\nHe also called on people to \"recapture the spirit\" of the beginning of the pandemic.\n\nAt the press conference on Tuesday, Mr Johnson repeated his suggestion that there is a \"prospect\" of the lockdown being eased in mid-February.\n\n\"But you will also appreciate there are a lot of caveats, a lot of ifs built into that, the most important of which is that we all now follow the guidance,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove told Sky News he could not say exactly when the lockdown in England would end, but \"as we enter March we should be able to lift some of these restrictions but not necessarily all\".\n\nMr Whitty said the virus \"is not going to go away, just as flu doesn't go away, just as many other viruses don't go away\".\n\n\"We shouldn't kid ourselves that this just disappears with spring,\" he said.\n\nMr Whitty said although hopefully there would be nearly no measures needed from the spring onwards, the government might have to bring in a few restrictions next winter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We've now vaccinated over 1.3m people across the UK\"\n\nOn Monday the UK's chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nAlthough the new variant is now spreading more rapidly than the original version, it is not believed to be more deadly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"", "Supermarkets are seeking to reassure shoppers that there is no need to bulk-buy products as new lockdown restrictions come into force.\n\nAsda asked its customers to \"continue to shop considerately and not buy more than they normally would.\"\n\nThere was a surge in online grocery shopping after new lockdown restrictions were announced on Monday, but demand has since dropped back.\n\nStores said they have good availability and have increased delivery slots.\n\nTesco and Sainsbury's have doubled the number of delivery slots since March.\n\nWhen fresh lockdown restrictions were announced on Monday there was a rush online by supermarket shoppers to book delivery slots.\n\nThat surge has since calmed down, but big supermarkets were keen on Wednesday to reassure customers that there is no need to bulk-buy, as stores would like to avoid a repeat of the panic-buying that was triggered by the first lockdown.\n\nAsda said it \"currently has strong product availability across its stores and depots and its colleagues are working around the clock to keep the shelves stocked.\"\n\nSainsbury's said it had \"good availability and encourage customers to shop as normal. We aren't currently restricting products.\"\n\nTesco has had buying limits on various products since the first lockdown, and most recently limited items including eggs, rice, soap and toilet roll after freight delays in December as ports got snarled up.\n\nTesco said on Wednesday that it had \"good availability in stores and online, with plenty of stock to go round, and we would encourage our customers to shop as normal.\"\n\nDuring the first lockdown supermarkets saw a huge spike in demand for online shopping as people tried to avoid mixing in shops.\n\nThe big chains have all increased their capacity to deliver food.\n\nTesco, the biggest UK supermarket chain, has more than doubled the number of online delivery slots available since the start of the crisis, and now has 1.5 million slots per week.\n\nNot all of these get used across the UK at present, so Tesco has no plans at the moment for further slots.\n\nSainsbury's, the second biggest, has also more than doubled the number of its online delivery slots since March, and can meet more than 800,000 orders per week.\n\nAsda, the third biggest chain, has upped the number of available weekly slots by 90% since March to 850,000, and by the start of April it's planning to offer 900,000 slots per week.\n\nMorrison's, the fourth largest UK supermarket chain, said it had increased its online operation fivefold since March.\n\nAsda said on Wednesday that it was also doubling the size of its partnership with Uber Eats. From February Asda will offer a 30-minute delivery service from 200 stores.\n\nAsda is also stepping-up Covid safety measures, including doubling safety marshal hours, more sanitation stations, increasing cleaning, and \"adding a protective antimicrobial coating to customer 'touch points' in stores such as fridge and freezer handles, checkout areas, plus all trolley and basket handles\".\n\nThe chain also has a virtual queueing app called \"Quidini\" whereby customers can sit in their car to wait for a slot in a store if it is busy.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The twins' father says what they have achieved is a 'herculean achievement'\n\nConjoined twins who were expected to die within days when they were born are nearly four years later said to be settling in at their Cardiff school.\n\nMarieme and Ndeye Ndiaye were brought to the UK from Senegal in 2017 by their father Ibrahima for treatment at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nThe girls, now four, are learning to stand and their father said their progress was \"a Herculean achievement\".\n\nTheir head teacher said the girls had made friends and were \"laughing a lot\".\n\nThe girls, who have separate hearts and spines but share a liver, bladder and digestive system, have conditions which put them at higher risk of complications from Covid.\n\nHowever, Mr Ndiaye said he had wanted them to start school for their development.\n\n\"When you look in the rear view mirror, it was an unachievable dream,\" he said.\n\n\"From now, everything ahead will be a bonus to me. My heart and soul is shouting out loud, 'Come on! Go on girls! Surprise me more!'.\"\n\nMr Ndiaye brought the girls to the UK through funding from a charitable foundation run by Senegal's first lady Marieme Faye Sall, before he sought asylum.\n\nIn March 2018, the family were moved by the Home Office to Cardiff as asylum seekers can be moved anywhere in the UK and they now have discretionary leave to remain.\n\nIn 2019, Great Ormond Street surgeons considered attempting separation but it was something Mr Ndiaye did not want because of the risks involved.\n\nThe girls have such complex circulatory systems medics now believe they would not survive being separated\n\nSince then, doctors have found the girls' circulatory systems to be more closely linked than previously thought and neither would survive without the other, making separation now impossible.\n\nThe girls' head teacher Helen Borley said they were learning well since starting reception in September and had made new friends.\n\nShe said: \"Children either say, 'I'm Marieme's friend' or 'I'm Ndeye's friend' - they don't say, 'I'm the twins' friend'. Children very much identify as being one person's friend or another - because the girls are very different characters.\n\n\"They are laughing a lot - which is always a good sign, isn't it? Any child that is laughing a lot is a happy child.\"\n\nMarieme receives oxygen from Ndeye's stronger heart and food via their linked stomachs\n\nFor the twins, school needs to fit around hospital visits.\n\nIn October, the girls needed surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nDr Gillian Body, a paediatric consultant at the Children's Hospital for Wales in Cardiff, said the procedure was important, despite the risks.\n\nShe said: \"The girls have complex anatomies and that makes them prone to infections and potentially sepsis.\n\n\"One of the challenges we had was getting antibiotics into them quickly, and this tube or cannula they've had fitted, means we can get them into them more quickly with less distress to the girls.\"\n\nThe girls have been experiencing the feeling of standing, at children's hospice Ty Hafan\n\nShe said Marieme's heart was complex with lots of abnormalities that cause her problems with doing exercise and can lead to breathlessness.\n\nAt children's' hospice Ty Hafan in Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, the girls have been learning what it feels like to stand.\n\nA special frame gives them the experience of being upright, helping build strength in their legs.\n\nPhysiotherapist Sara Wade-West said it had been hard for them.\n\n\"It's a really different sensation when you're used to being sat down, to be upright can be scary,\" she said.\n\n\"To start with, particularly Ndeye wasn't very keen. We try and sneak the therapy in around the play, encouraging them to reach for toys to make them work a bit harder, but if they know it's therapy it's not so fun.\n\n\"Because of their cardiac function we can't push them too much so it's finding that balance - challenging them to get stronger but not exhausting them.\"\n\nThe twins' father Ibrahima Ndiaye said they were his \"warriors\"\n\nWatching his daughters stand is more than just a breakthrough for their father.\n\n\"They are showing that they don't only want to live, but be active and play their part in society,\" he said.\n\n\"All these achievements bring light and hopes for the future. But I know how fragile, complex and unpredictable their lives can be.\"\n\nMr Ndiaye said his hopes were \"parallel to my fears\" as the girls had \"so many times come close to the worst\".\n\n\"But the very least I can do for the girls is figure out my hopes for them,\" he said.\n\n\"The most I can do is to be beside them and live inside that hope and never allow anything to take that hope away.\n\n\"They are my warriors. They have proved they will never surrender without fighting. It is not yet over.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A BBC team came across roadblocks as they tried to report on research into viruses that bats carry\n\nA Chinese scientist at the centre of unsubstantiated claims that the coronavirus leaked from her laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan has told the BBC she is open to \"any kind of visit\" to rule it out.\n\nThe surprise statement from Prof Shi Zhengli comes as a World Health Organization team prepares to travel to Wuhan next month to begin its investigation into the origins of Covid-19.\n\nThe remote district of Tongguan, in China's south-western province of Yunnan, is hard to reach at the best of times. But when a BBC team tried to visit recently, it was impossible.\n\nPlain-clothes police officers and other officials in unmarked cars followed us for miles along the narrow, bumpy roads, stopping when we did, backtracking with us when we were forced to turn around.\n\nWe found obstacles in our way, including a \"broken-down\" lorry, which locals confirmed had been placed across the road a few minutes before we arrived.\n\nAnd we ran into checkpoints at which unidentified men told us their job was to keep us out.\n\nAt first sight, all of this might seem like a disproportionate effort given our intended destination, a nondescript, abandoned copper mine in which, back in 2012, six workers succumbed to a mystery illness that eventually claimed the lives of three of them.\n\nBut their tragedy, which would otherwise almost certainly have been largely forgotten, has been given new meaning by the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThose three deaths are now at the centre of a major scientific controversy about the origins of the virus and the question of whether it came from nature, or from a laboratory.\n\nAnd the attempts of Chinese authorities to stop us reaching the site are a sign of how hard they're working to control the narrative.\n\nFor more than a decade, the rolling, jungle-covered hills in Yunnan - and the cave systems within - have been the focus of a giant scientific field study.\n\nChinese virologist Shi Zhengli is seen here inside the laboratory in Wuhan\n\nIt has been led by Prof Shi Zhengli from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).\n\nProf Shi won international acclaim for her discovery that the illness known as Sars, which killed more than 700 people in 2003, was caused by a virus that probably came from a species of bat in a Yunnan cave.\n\nEver since, Prof Shi - often referred to as \"China's Batwoman\" - has been in the vanguard of a project to try to predict and prevent further such outbreaks.\n\nBy trapping bats, taking faecal samples from them, and then carrying those samples back to the lab in Wuhan, 1,600km (1,000 miles) away, the team behind the project has identified hundreds of new bat coronaviruses.\n\nBut the fact that Wuhan is now home to the world's leading coronavirus research facility, as well as the first city to be ravaged by a pandemic outbreak of a deadly new one, has fuelled suspicion that the two things are connected.\n\nI would personally welcome any form of visit, based on an open, transparent, trusting, reliable and reasonable dialogue. But the specific plan is not decided by me.\n\nThe Chinese government, the WIV, and Prof Shi have all angrily dismissed the allegation of a virus leak from the Wuhan lab.\n\nBut with scientists appointed by the World Health Organization (WHO) scheduled to visit Wuhan in January for an inquiry into the origin of the pandemic, Prof Shi - who has given few interviews since the pandemic began - answered a number of BBC questions by email.\n\n\"I have communicated with the WHO experts twice,\" she wrote, when asked if an investigation might help rule out a lab leak and end the speculation. \"I have personally and clearly expressed that I would welcome them to visit the WIV,\" she said.\n\nTo a follow-up question about whether that would include a formal investigation with access to the WIV's experimental data and laboratory records, Prof Shi said: \"I would personally welcome any form of visit based on an open, transparent, trusting, reliable and reasonable dialogue. But the specific plan is not decided by me.\"\n\nThe BBC subsequently received a call from the WIV's press office, saying that Prof Shi was speaking in a personal capacity and her answers had not been approved by the WIV.\n\nThe BBC denied a request to send the press office a copy of this article in advance.\n\nDr Peter Daszak: \"I've yet to see any evidence at all of a lab leak or a lab involvement in this outbreak\"\n\nMany scientists believe that by far the most likely scenario is that Sars-Cov-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, jumped naturally from bats to humans, possibly via an intermediary species. And despite Prof Shi's offer, for now there appears to be little chance of the WHO inquiry looking into the lab-leak theory.\n\nThe terms of reference for the WHO inquiry make no mention of the theory, and some members of the 10-person team have all but ruled it out.\n\nPeter Daszak, a British zoologist, has been chosen as part of the team because of his leading role in a multimillion dollar, international project to sample wild viruses.\n\nIt has involved close collaboration with Prof Shi Zhengli in her mass sampling of bats in China, and Dr Daszak previously called the lab-leak theory a \"conspiracy theory\" and \"pure baloney\".\n\n\"I've yet to see any evidence at all of a lab leak or a lab involvement in this outbreak,\" he said. \"I have seen substantial evidence that these are naturally occurring phenomena driven by human encroachment into wildlife habitat, which is clearly on display across south-east Asia.\"\n\nAsked about seeking access to the Wuhan lab to rule the lab-leak theory out, he said: \"That's not my job to do that.\n\n\"The WHO negotiated the terms of reference, and they say we're going to follow the evidence, and that's what we've got to do,\" he added.\n\nThe Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was linked to early cases of the new coronavirus\n\nOne focus of the inquiry will be a market in Wuhan which was known to be trading in wildlife and was linked to a number of early cases, though the Chinese authorities appear to have already discounted it as a source of the virus.\n\nDr Daszak said the WHO team would \"look at those clusters of cases, look at the contacts, look at where the animals in the market have come from and see where that takes us\".\n\nThe deaths of the three Tongguan workers following exposure to a mineshaft full of bats raised suspicions that they'd succumbed to a bat coronavirus.\n\nIt was exactly the kind of animal-to-human \"spillover\" that was driving the WIV to sample and test bats in Yunnan.\n\nIt is no surprise then that, following those deaths, the WIV scientists began sampling bats in the Tongguan mineshaft in earnest, making multiple visits over the next three years and detecting 293 coronaviruses.\n\nBut apart from one brief paper, very little was published about the viruses they collected on those trips.\n\nIn January this year, Prof Shi Zhengli became one of the first people in the world to sequence Sars-Cov-2, which was already spreading rapidly through the streets and homes of her city.\n\nShe then compared the long string of letters representing the virus's unique genetic code with the extensive library of other viruses collected and stored over the years.\n\nAnd she discovered that her database contained the closest known relative of Sars-Cov-2.\n\nRaTG13 is a virus whose name has been derived from the bat it was extracted from (Rhinolophus affinis, Ra), the place it was found (Tongguan, TG), and the year it was identified, 2013.\n\nSeven years after it was found in that mineshaft, RaTG13 was about to become one of the most hotly contested scientific subjects of our time.\n\nChina imposed tough restrictions on Wuhan to stop the spread of the virus\n\nThere have been many well-documented cases of viruses leaking from labs. The first Sars virus, for example, leaked twice from the National Institute of Virology in Beijing in 2004, long after the outbreak had been brought under control.\n\nThe practice of genetically manipulating viruses is also not new, allowing scientists to make them more infectious or more deadly, so they can assess the threat and, perhaps, develop treatments or vaccines.\n\nAnd from the moment it was isolated and sequenced, scientists have been struck by the remarkable ability of Sars-Cov-2 to infect humans.\n\nThe possibility that it acquired that ability as a result of manipulation in a laboratory was taken seriously enough for an influential group of international scientists to address it head on.\n\nIn what has become the definitive paper ruling out the possibility of a lab leak, RaTG13 has a starring role.\n\nPublished in March in the magazine Nature Medicine, it suggests that if there had been a leak, Prof Shi Zhengli would have found a much closer match in her database than RaTG13.\n\nWhile RaTG13 is the closest known relative - at 96.2% similarity - it is still too distant to have been manipulated and changed into Sars-Cov-2.\n\nSars-Cov-2, the authors concluded, was likely to have gained its unique efficiency through a long, undetected period of circulation in humans or animals of a natural and milder precursor virus that eventually evolved into the potent, deadly form first detected in Wuhan in 2019.\n\nMedics and scientists in Wuhan battled to control the early stages of the pandemic\n\nWhere though, some scientists are beginning to wonder, are those reservoirs of earlier natural infection?\n\nDr Daniel Lucey is a physician and infectious disease professor at the Georgetown Medical Centre in Washington DC and a veteran of many pandemics - Sars in China, Ebola in Africa, Zika in Brazil.\n\nHe is certain that China has already conducted thorough searches for evidence of precursor viruses in stored human samples in hospitals and in animal populations.\n\n\"They have the capability, they have the resources and they have the motivation, so of course they've done the studies in animals and in humans,\" he said.\n\nFinding the origin of an outbreak was vital, he said, not just for wider scientific understanding, but also to stop it emerging again.\n\n\"We should search until we find it. I think it's findable and I think it's quite possible it's already been found,\" he said. \"But then the question arises, why hasn't it been disclosed?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19: How everyday life has changed in Wuhan\n\nDr Lucey still believes that Sars-Cov-2 is most likely to have a natural origin, but he does not want the alternatives to be so readily ruled out.\n\n\"So here we are, 12, 13 months out since the first recognised case of Covid-19 and we haven't found the animal source,\" he said. \"So, to me, it's all the more reason to investigate alternative explanations.\"\n\nMight a Chinese laboratory have had a virus they were working on that was genetically closer to Sars-Cov-2, and would they tell us now if they did? \"Not everything that's done is published,\" Dr Lucey said.\n\nIt's a point I put to Peter Daszak, the member of the WHO origins study team.\n\n\"You know, I've worked with the WIV for a good decade or more,\" he said. \"I know some of the people there pretty well and I have visited the labs frequently, I've met and had dinner with them over 15 years.\n\n\"I'm working in China with eyes wide open, and I'm racking my brain back in time for the slightest hint of something untoward. And I've never seen that.\"\n\nAsked if those friendships and funding relationships with the WIV presented a conflict of interest with his role on the inquiry, he said: \"We file our papers; it's all there for everyone to see.\"\n\nAnd his collaboration with the WIV, he said, \"makes me one of the people on the planet who knows the most about the origins of these bat coronaviruses in China\".\n\nThe conclusion [of the Kunming Hospital University thesis] is neither based on evidence nor logic. But it’s used by conspiracy theorists to doubt me\n\nChina may have provided only limited data about its hunt for the origin of Sars-Cov-2, but it has begun to promote a theory of its own.\n\nBased on a few inconclusive studies conducted by scientists in Europe that suggest Covid-19 may have been circulating earlier than previously thought, state propaganda is full of stories suggesting the virus didn't start in China at all.\n\nIn the absence of proper data, speculation is only likely to grow, much of it focused on RaTG13 and its origins in a Tongguan mineshaft. Old academic papers have been dug up online that appear to differ from the WIV's statements about the sick mine workers - among them a thesis by a student at the Kunming Hospital University.\n\n\"I've just downloaded the Kunming Hospital University student's masters thesis and read it,\" Prof Shi told the BBC.\n\n\"The narrative doesn't make sense,\" she said. \"The conclusion is neither based on evidence nor logic. But it's used by conspiracy theorists to doubt me. If you were me, what you would do?\"\n\nProf Shi has also faced questions about why the WIV's online public database of viruses was suddenly taken offline.\n\nShe told the BBC that the WIV's website and the staff's work emails and personal emails had been attacked, and the database taken offline for security reasons.\n\n\"All our research results are published in English journals in the form of papers,\" she said. \"Virus sequences are saved in the [US-run] GenBank database too. It's completely transparent. We have nothing to hide.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Can you become immune to coronavirus?\n\nThere are important questions to be asked in the Yunnan countryside, not just by scientists, but by journalists too.\n\nAfter a decade of sampling and experimenting on viruses collected from bats, we now know that back in 2013 the closest known ancestor was discovered of a future threat that would claim well over a million lives and devastate the global economy.\n\nYet the WIV, according to the published information, did nothing with it, except sequence it and enter it into a database.\n\nOught that to call into question the very premise on which the expensive, and some would say risky, mass sampling of wild viruses is based?\n\n\"To say that we didn't do enough is absolutely correct,\" Peter Daszak told the BBC. \"To say that we failed is not fair at all. What we should have been doing is 10 times the amount of work on these viruses.\"\n\nBoth Dr Daszak and Prof Shi are adamant that pandemic prevention research is vital, urgent work.\n\n\"Our research is forward-looking, and it's difficult for non-professionals to understand,\" Prof Shi wrote by email. \"In the face of countless micro-organisms that exist in nature, we humans are very small.\"\n\nThe WHO is promising an \"open-minded\" inquiry into the origins of the novel coronavirus, but the Chinese government is not keen on questions, at least not from journalists.\n\nAfter leaving Tongguan, the BBC team tried to drive a few hours north to the cave where Prof Shi carried out her ground-breaking research on Sars almost a decade ago.\n\nStill being followed by several unmarked cars, we hit another roadblock, and were told there was no way through.\n\nA few hours later, we discovered that local traffic had been diverted onto a dirt track that skirted the obstruction, but as we attempted to use the same route, we met yet another \"broken down\" car in our path.\n\nWe were trapped in a field for over an hour, before finally being forced to head for the airport.", "The low temperature was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch\n\nThe UK has had its coldest night of the winter so far after a temperature of -12.3C was recorded in the north west Highlands.\n\nThe temperature was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch, near Garve, south of Ullapool in Wester Ross.\n\nThe record lowest temperature in the UK is -27.2C, which was recorded in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, in 1895 and 1982.\n\nThe same temperature was recorded at Altnaharra in the Highlands in 1995.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe coldest night of the winter so far has come amid days of freezing temperatures in Scotland, and more widely across the UK.\n\nThe Met Office has issued yellow \"be aware warnings\" for snow and ice for Scotland for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.\n\nForecasters said a band of sleet and snow was expected arrive across north west Scotland on Wednesday afternoon and move south east across most parts of Scotland overnight.\n\nThe Met Office said up to 2cm, almost an inch, of snow was likely to settle at low levels \"quite widely\" with up to 6cm (2in) above 200m (656ft) and as much as 10cm (4in) above 300m (984ft).", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City legend Colin Bell has died, aged 74, after a short illness, the Premier League club have announced.\n\nThe former England midfielder made 501 appearances for City between 1966 and 1979, scoring 153 goals. He won 48 caps for his country.\n\n\"Few players have left such an indelible mark on City,\" said a club statement on Tuesday.\n\nIn 2004, Manchester City fans voted to name one of the stands at Etihad Stadium in Bell's honour.\n\n\"Colin Bell will always be remembered as one of Manchester City's greatest players and the very sad news today of his passing will affect everybody connected to our club,\" said City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak.\n\n\"I am fortunate to be able to speak regularly to his former manager and team-mates, and it's clear to me that Colin was a player held in the highest regard by all those who had the privilege of playing alongside him or seeing him play.\n\n\"The passage of time does little to erase the memories of his genius.\"\n• None 'Bell will always be king of Man City' - tributes paid after death of club great\n\nAfter starting his career at Bury, Bell moved to Manchester City - then in the second tier - midway through the 1965-66 season in a £47,500 deal.\n\nHe helped Joe Mercer's team win promotion that season and was instrumental in the Blues winning the First Division title two years later.\n\nDuring his 13 years as a player at Maine Road, he also won the FA Cup, League Cup and Cup Winners' Cup.\n\nHowever, his career was hampered by a serious knee injury he suffered in a League Cup tie against Manchester United in November 1975, when he was 29.\n\nAfter making a comeback later that season, he was injured again against Arsenal and out for another 18 months.\n\nBell regained fitness and received an emotional ovation on his return at Maine Road on 26 December 1977.\n\nHowever, he did not have the same freedom and mobility as he had done and played only a handful more games.\n\nBell finished his career with a brief spell in the United States playing for San Jose Earthquakes.\n\nIn 2004, he was awarded an MBE for his services to football and remained a regular presence at City games in recent seasons.\n\n'De Bruyne reminds me a lot of Colin' - tributes pour in for the 'King of the Kippax'\n\nFormer City team-mate Mike Summerbee, who was part of their 'Holy Trinity' alongside Bell and Francis Lee in the 1960s and 1970s, described Bell as \"just the greatest footballer\" the club has had.\n\n\"Colin was a lovely, humble man. He was a huge star for Manchester City but you would never have known it,\" said ex-forward Summerbee, 78.\n\n\"He was quiet, unassuming and I always believe he never knew how good he actually was.\n\n\"[Current City midfielder] Kevin de Bruyne reminds me a lot of Colin in the way he plays and the way he is as a person.\"\n\nFormer England forward Lee says he thinks the knee injury curtailed Bell's career \"by a good four or five years\".\n\n\"Colin had tremendous stamina. He was a very good player technically and had the ability to score goals,\" said Lee, 76.\n\n\"He goes into the top five City players of all time - only in the last 10, 15 years has anyone else come along who can take that mantle.\"\n\nSummerbee and Lee were among a number of former and current City players to pay tribute to Bell, along with celebrity fans including former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher.\n\nBell would \"always have a smile\" and \"meet and greet everyone\" he knew, said former City midfielder Michael Brown.\n\n\"He's done lots of charity work and always tried to help people,\" added Brown, who first met Bell as a youngster having come up through City's academy.\n\n\"It's a huge loss. To have done so much and be so low key was admirable.\"\n\nEx-City defender Micah Richards said Bell was \"one of the nicest men ever\", while their former full-back Pablo Zabaleta added he was \"absolutely devastated\" by the news.\n\nFormer England striker Gary Lineker said Bell was one of his favourite players when he was growing up.\n\n\"Terrific box to box midfielder. A real gem for Manchester City and England,\" added the Match of the Day host.\n\nThe Times' chief football writer Henry Winter said Bell \"oozed class, skill and glamour\" as he was \"flowing across rutted pitches, taking people on, creating and scoring\".", "A polar bear cub playing in a snow drift in the area of the proposed oil lease sales\n\nThe Trump administration is pushing ahead with the first sale of oil leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.\n\nThe giant Alaskan wilderness is home to many important species, including polar bears, caribou and wolves.\n\nNow, after decades of dispute, the rights to drill for oil on about 5% of the refuge will go ahead.\n\nOpponents have criticised the rushed nature of the sale, coming just days before President Trump's term ends.\n\nCovering some 19 million acres (78,000 sq km) the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is often described as America's last great wilderness.\n\nIt is a critically important location for many species, including polar bears.\n\nIn the winter months, pregnant bears build dens in which to give birth.\n\nAs temperatures have risen and sea ice has become thinner, these bears have started building their dens on land.\n\nMany indigenous groups with strong links to the ANWR have opposed oil exploration\n\nThe coastal plain of the ANWR now has the highest concentration of these dens in the state.\n\nThe refuge is also home to Porcupine caribou, one of the largest herds in the world, numbering around 200,000 animals.\n\nIn the spring, the herd moves to the coastal plain region of the ANWR as it is their preferred calving ground.\n\nThe same coastal plain is now the subject of the first ever oil lease sale in the refuge.\n\nThe push for exploration in the park has been a decades long battle between oil companies supported by the state government and environmental and indigenous opponents.\n\nMany of Alaska's political representatives believe that drilling in the refuge could lead to another major oil find, like the one in Prudhoe Bay, just west of the ANWR.\n\nPrudhoe Bay is the largest oil field in North America and supporters believe the ANWR shares the same geology, and potential reserves of crude oil.\n\nOil revenues are critical for Alaska, with every resident getting a cheque for around $1,600 every year from the state's permanent fund.\n\nIn 2017, the Trump administration's tax cutting bill contained a provision to open up the ANWR coastal plain for drilling. It was seen as a way of offsetting the costs of the tax cuts.\n\nThe US Bureau of Land Management is now selling the drilling rights to 22 tracts of land covering about one million acres. These oil and gas leases last for 10 years.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Bernadette Demientieff This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA last-minute attempt to stop the sale in the courts failed but opponents say it will not be the end of their efforts to protect the refuge from drilling.\n\n\"The Trump administration is barrelling forward without doing the careful, legally required analyses of the impacts such activity will have on the environment or the Gwich'in people who have relied on this land for millennia,\" said Kristen Monsell, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, which is headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, who had sought an injunction against the sale.\n\n\"That's why we've taken them to court. We can't let Trump turn this amazing landscape into an oil field.\"\n\nReports indicate that interest in the lease sales has been low.\n\nThinning ice has seen more polar bears make their dens on land\n\nWhile estimates suggest around 11 billion barrels of oil lie under the refuge, it has no roads or other infrastructure, making it a very expensive place to drill for oil.\n\nSeveral large US banks have said they will not fund oil and gas exploration in the area.\n\nThere is also the matter of a change of leadership in the White House. The Biden team have nominated Deb Haaland as Secretary of the Interior. She is on record as being strongly opposed to drilling in the ANWR.\n\nWith climate change set to be a central focus for the Biden administration, it's likely that efforts to extract new fossil fuels in Alaska will be subject to review and delay.\n\nThis could ultimately limit the interest and opportunity for oil exploration in the refuge.\n\nYou might also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Climate change: The woman watching the ice melt from under her feet", "Stephen Stennett had a head on collision with a van on the B9157 near Kirkcaldy in Fife\n\nA driver who caused a crash in Fife that led to his passenger losing her baby has admitted causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nStephen Stennett, 23, had a head-on collision with a van on the B9157 near Kirkcaldy on 3 October 2018.\n\nThe High Court in Glasgow heard he had attempted a \"dangerous\" overtaking manoeuvre.\n\nJudge Lady Stacey deferred sentence until next month for background reports.\n\nPassenger, Shannon Myers, 18, who was 30 weeks pregnant, had to have an emergency caesarean section due to her injuries in the crash.\n\nHowever, her son Luke Myers died 32 minutes later.\n\nProsecutor Murdoch McTaggart said: \"The accused pulled out and drove into the path of an oncoming van.\n\n\"The accused's vehicle ended up in a ditch on the side of the road.\"\n\nMs Myers, who was in the front passenger seat, complained about pain in her abdomen and was taken to hospital.\n\nA scan showed the baby had a heartbeat of 60 beats per minute.\n\nMr McTaggart said this was regarded as low and gave cause for concern, prompting doctors to perform an emergency C-section.\n\nLuke's cause of death was recorded as \"complications of traumatic abruption due to road traffic collision\".\n\nPathologists said the baby had red marks on his face as well as fractures to his collarbone and four ribs.\n\nA 15-year-old girl, who was also a passenger in the car, sustained a fractured spine, collarbone and sternum.\n\nA fourth passenger, a boy also aged 15, suffered a fractured spine and eye bone as well as a minor head injury.\n\nVan driver Ian Baker, his wife Clara and their 10-year-old daughter had minor injuries.\n\nThe baby's mother paid tribute to Luke on Facebook shortly after his death.\n\nShe said: \"I love you so much my handsome little boy.\"\n\nThe judge Lady Stacey said: \"You will understand you pleaded guilty to a serious crime which had tragic results.\n\n\"When a life is lost, the court will almost always impose a period of imprisonment.\"\n\nStennett said: \"I'm sorry\" before being bailed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former Bond actress and Charlie's Angel Tanya Roberts has died in hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 65.\n\nRoberts appeared with Sir Roger Moore in his final Bond film, 1985's A View To A Kill, and had a recurring role in That '70s Show.\n\nShe also starred in the final series of Charlie's Angels on TV in 1980.\n\nHer death was prematurely announced on Monday, only for doctors to say she was still alive. However, her death was then confirmed on Tuesday.\n\nRoberts had collapsed while walking her dogs on 24 December and was admitted to Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre.\n\nHer partner Lance O'Brien mistakenly thought she had died on Sunday after visiting her in hospital. After getting a call from doctors to say she was deteriorating quickly, he went to her bedside, her eyes closed and she \"faded\", TMZ reported.\n\nDevastated, he walked out of the room and then the hospital without speaking to medical staff before informing Roberts' agent that he had \"just said goodbye to Tanya\".\n\nBut while being interviewed for US TV show Inside Edition on Monday, Mr O'Brien got a call from the hospital to say she was alive.\n\nThe moment was captured on film, as he picked up his phone and said: \"Now you're telling me she's alive? Thank the Lord.\" However, she died on Monday night.\n\nShe appeared in A View To A Kill alongside Sir Roger Moore and singer Grace Jones\n\nBorn Victoria Leigh Blum in 1955, Roberts grew up in New York before moving to Hollywood in 1977.\n\nHer big break came when she replaced Shelly Hack in Charlie's Angels, joining Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd as third 'Angel' Julie.\n\nAfter the show's cancellation, she appeared in such fantasy adventure films as The Beastmaster and Hearts and Armour.\n\nShe also played comic book heroine Sheena in a 1984 film that saw her nominated for a Golden Raspberry award for worst actress.\n\nRoberts received another Razzie nomination for her role as geologist Stacey Sutton in 1985 Bond film A View to a Kill.\n\nRoberts in the title role in Sheena: Queen of the Jungle\n\nShe admitted being \"a little cautious\" about taking the role, but said it would have been \"ridiculous\" to have turned it down.\n\nRoberts' subsequent films included Night Eyes and Inner Sanctum, erotic thrillers that did little to advance her career.\n\nShe went on to play Midge Pinciotti in more than 80 episodes of That '70s Show between 1998 and 2004.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Julian Assange will remain in jail as he continues to fight against extradition to the United States.\n\nDistrict Judge Vanessa Baraitser said there were substantial grounds to believe he would abscond.\n\nOn Monday, she ruled the Wikileaks founder cannot be extradited to the US because he might kill himself.\n\nThe US is now appealing that decision - and had opposed releasing the 49-year-old from a maximum security prison before the case is heard.\n\nMr Assange, who was wearing a dark suit and face mask, was not seen to react to the decision at Westminster Magistrates Court.\n\nHe's been held in prison since 2019, after hiding for seven years inside the Ecuadorian Embassy to avoid extradition.\n\nUS prosecutors want to put him on trial for hacking and disclosing classified information - including the identities of informants who were helping intelligence agencies in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.\n\nIn her ruling, DJ Baraitser said Mr Assange still had the incentive to abscond.\n\n\"He is willing to flout the order of this court,\" she said. \"As a matter of fairness, the US must be allowed to challenge my decision and if Mr Assange absconds during this process they will lose the opportunity to do so.\"\n\nDuring the bail application, Mr Assange's barrister Ed Fitzgerald QC said his client had been offered a London home by a supporter, where he could be with his partner and their two young children - but also compelled to remain under the strictest bail conditions.\n\n\"Your decision [on Monday] changes everything and it certainly changes any motive to abscond,\" said Mr Fitzgerald.\n\n\"On any view... [Mr Assange] would be safer isolating with his family in the community, subject to severe restrictions, than if he were in Belmarsh which has, very recently, had a severe outbreak...(of coronavirus). He wishes to live a sheltered life with his family.\"\n\nBut Clair Dobbin, for the USA, told the court Mr Assange had the \"resources, abilities and the sheer wherewithal\" to secretly arrange a flight to another country.\n\n\"[Mr Assange] regards himself as above the law and no cost is too great, whether that cost be to himself or others,\" said the barrister.\n\nJulian Assange's partner, Stella Moris, was among a large group of his supporters who had gathered at court.\n\n\"This a huge disappointment,\" she said. \"Julian should not be in Belmarsh prison in the first place. I urge the [US] Department of Justice to drop the charges and the President of the United States to pardon Julian.\"\n\nDistrict Judge Baraitser blocked Julian Assange's extradition on Monday, ruling that that while he had a case to answer, he was so mentally unwell that the US authorities could not guarantee he would not kill himself once inside a maximum security prison in the country.\n\nThe USA's appeal against that ruling - which will go to more senior judges later this year - will challenge that finding.", "McDonald's is pausing walk-in takeaway services in the UK as new lockdown restrictions come into force.\n\nDine-in meals and walk-in takeaways will not be available temporarily while it reviews safety procedures, it said.\n\nIts UK boss said it will be testing \"additional measures that may further enhance the safety of our takeaway service.\"\n\nRival food chains Burger King, Subway, KFC and Pret A Manger are still offering takeaways in-store.\n\nMcDonald's UK and Ireland chief executive Paul Pomroy said that safety measures across the firm's 1,300 restaurants will be reviewed by an independent health and safety body.\n\nHe added that customers would be kept updated via the restaurant's app and its website. Drive-through and delivery services across the fast food chain will remain open.\n\nUnder new lockdown restrictions which came into force in England and Scotland this week, hospitality firms are allowed to offer takeaways and deliveries.\n\nBut rules which previously allowed takeaways or click-and-collect services for alcoholic drinks have been scrapped.\n\nWales and Northern Ireland were already in lockdown, which meant that pubs, restaurants and cafes were restricted to takeaway-only too.\n\nAfter the first nationwide lockdown in March, many chains including McDonald's, Burger King and Pret closed their doors to hungry customers.\n\nThey gradually reopened with additional safety measures in place, such as plastic screens in front of the tills, hand sanitiser dispensers and restrictions on the number of customers allowed in at any one point. Some also pared back the number of dishes on offer.\n\nA Burger King spokesperson said that takeaway was still available in some branches and that it would continue to offer click-and-collect and delivery services \"in line with guidance issued\".\n\nSandwich chain Pret A Manger told the BBC that it is keeping some outlets open for both takeaways and delivery, but it would keep the number under review in the coming months.\n\n\"Last year we shifted our business to focus on delivery and expanded our delivery platform partnerships, to make Pret available to a wider customer base\", a spokesperson said.\n\n\"Since then, we have seen a significant increase in the use of delivery.\"\n\nSubway and KFC also confirmed that they remain open for in-store takeaways, deliveries and click-and-collect orders across the UK.\n\nFast food firm Leon, which has 65 outlets, said that 28 of their sites will remain open for takeaways and deliveries.\n\n\"We will continue to keep as many restaurants open as possible, as we did in the previous two lockdowns in line with government guidelines,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nDespite adapting their business models, many casual dining chains have been forced to make job cuts in the last year as lockdown restrictions hit sales. Pret, for example, announced 3,000 job cuts in August, while Greggs made 820 job cuts at the end of 2020.", "There are warnings that replacement grades must avoid the problems that saw protests and U-turns last summer\n\nHead teachers have warned a replacement system for cancelled exams in England must avoid the \"shambles\" of last year's results.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson is to make a statement on \"alternative arrangements\" for GCSE and A-level exams cancelled in the pandemic.\n\nThis could include using teachers' estimated grades.\n\nA replacement system must not \"inflict further disadvantage on students\", says the exams watchdog Ofqual.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said there were \"no easy answers\" in picking an approach - but it had to avoid repeating the \"disaster\" of last summer's cancelled exam season.\n\nHe said there was a \"real need for urgency\" to allow schools time to plan - and that any system for grading had to show \"fairness and consistency\".\n\nWritten papers for GCSEs and A-levels are not going ahead - after this week's decision that it was no longer feasible with so much time lost in the Covid pandemic and the latest lockdown.\n\nMr Williamson will instruct the exams watchdog to come up with proposals for an alternative way of deciding results, which could be used for jobs, staying on in school or university places.\n\nLast year's attempts to find an alternative approach to exam results, which initially used an algorithm, descended into chaos - and eventually switched to using teachers' grades.\n\nAnd without any exam papers or standardised mock exams, the use of teachers' grades, with some process of moderation, is likely to be a key option once again.\n\nVocational exams, such as BTecs, are carrying on, if schools and colleges decide to continue with them.\n\nBut if students cannot take BTec exams this month as planned, they will be able to take them at a later date or otherwise still be awarded a grade, if they have \"enough evidence to receive a certificate that they need for progression\", says the awarding body Pearson.\n\nAn Ofqual spokeswoman said they could consider options for replacement exam results, academic and vocational, \"to ensure the fairest possible outcome in the circumstances\".\n\nAlthough the process is only formally beginning, with a consultation likely on proposals, it is understood that contingency planning had already started to find a back-up if exams were cancelled.\n\nThe exams watchdog's decisions will face much scrutiny - with the previous head of Ofqual resigning after last summer's U-turns over grades.\n\n\"We are discussing alternative arrangements with the Department for Education. We know that many are seeking clarity as soon as possible,\" said Simon Lebus, Ofqual's interim chief regulator.", "Supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday\n\nWorld leaders have condemned violent scenes in Washington after supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol building on Wednesday.\n\nThe riot forced the suspension of a joint session of Congress to certify Joe Biden's electoral victory.\n\nMany leaders called for peace and an orderly transition of power, describing what happened as \"horrifying\" and an \"attack on democracy\".\n\n\"The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nOther UK politicians joined him in criticising the violence, with opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer calling it a \"direct attack on democracy\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel told the BBC that Mr Trump's comments \"directly led\" to his supporters storming Congress and clashing with police.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted that the scenes from the US Capitol were \"utterly horrifying\".\n\nIn Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said those who stormed the US legislature were \"attackers and rioters\" and that she felt \"angry and also sad\" after seeing pictures from the scene.\n\nShe told a meeting of German conservatives: \"I regret very much that President Trump has still not admitted defeat, but has kept raising doubts about the elections.\"\n\nChina meanwhile attempted to draw comparisons between the rioters who entered Congress to try and subvert the US election result and pro-democracy protesters who stormed Hong Kong's Legislative Council last year.\n\nForeign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying claimed events in Hong Kong were more \"severe\" than those in Washington but \"not one demonstrator died\".\n\nThe comparisons between the two incidents has caused outrage among Hong Kong's pro-democracy activists and their supporters.\n\nRussia blamed the \"archaic\" US electoral system and the politicisation of the media for Wednesday's unrest in Washington.\n\n\"The electoral system in the United States is archaic, it does not meet modern democratic standards, creating opportunities for numerous violations, and the American media have become an instrument of political struggle,\" foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.\n\nElsewhere in Europe, a chorus of leaders condemned the scenes in Washington as an attack on democracy.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said: \"I have trust in the strength of US democracy. The new presidency of Joe Biden will overcome this tense stage, uniting the American people.\"\n\nIn a video on Twitter, French President Emmanuel Macron said: \"When, in one of the world's oldest democracies, supporters of an outgoing president take up arms to challenge the legitimate results of an election, a universal idea - that of 'one person, one vote' - is undermined.\n\n\"What happened today in Washington DC is not American, definitely. We believe in the strength of our democracies. We believe in the strength of American democracy\" he added.\n\nSwedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven described the incident as \"worrying\" and said it was \"an assault on democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by SwedishPM This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTop EU leaders have also made their views known. European Council President Charles Michel said he trusted the US \"to ensure a peaceful transfer of power\" to Mr Biden, while European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she looked forward to working with the Democrat, who \"won the election\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Charles Michel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLike many other global figures, the Secretary-General of the Nato military alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, said that the outcome of the election \"must be respected\".\n\nFor his part, UN Secretary-General António Guterres was \"saddened\" by the events at the US Capitol, his spokesman said.\n\nThe events also shocked America's close ally and neighbour to its north. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canadians were \"deeply disturbed and saddened by the attack on democracy\".\n\n\"Violence will never succeed in overruling the will of the people. Democracy in the US must be upheld - and it will be,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nFrom New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, tweeted that \"democracy - the right of people to exercise a vote, have their voice heard and then have that decision upheld peacefully - should never be undone by a mob\".\n\nMeanwhile Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia - another close US ally - condemned the \"distressing scenes\" and said he looked forward to a peaceful transfer of power.\n\nIn India, the world's largest democracy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi - who has enjoyed a good relationship with President Trump - said he was \"distressed to see news about rioting and violence\" in Washington.\n\n\"Orderly and peaceful transfer of power must continue,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTurkey, an ally through Nato, said it invited \"all parties\" to show \"restraint and common sense\".\n\nThe Venezuelan government, which the US does not recognise as legitimate, said \"with this regrettable episode, the United States suffers the same thing that it has generated in other countries with its policies of aggression\".\n\nIn statements on Twitter, Argentina's President Alberto Fernández and Chile's President Sebastián Piñera also condemned the scenes in Washington. Mr Piñera said Chile \"trusts in the solidity of US democracy to guarantee the rule of law\".\n\nIn Japan, one of America's closest allies and partners, Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said the government hoped for a \"peaceful transfer of power\" in the United States.\n\nFrom Fiji, Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, who led a coup in 2006, also expressed outrage at the events that took place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Frank Bainimarama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd in Singapore, Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean said he had watched as the \"shocking\" scenes took place, adding: \"Its a sad day.\"", "YouTube has reinstated TalkRadio's channel on its platform hours after saying it had been \"terminated\" for breaking the tech firm's rules.\n\nIt said the broadcaster had posted material that contradicted expert advice about the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut it explained its U-turn saying it sometimes made exceptions to guidelines that state repeat offenders face a permanent ban.\n\nTalkRadio said it had yet to be given a full explanation for the affair.\n\nThe decision to ban TalkRadio had appalled digital rights campaigners, with one group - Big Brother Watch - claiming it was evidence that \"big tech censorship is spiralling out of control\".\n\nThe Google-owned service has issued a brief statement explaining its actions.\n\n\"TalkRadio's YouTube channel was briefly suspended, but upon further review, has now been reinstated,\" it said.\n\n\"We quickly remove flagged content that violate our community guidelines, including Covid-19 content that explicitly contradict expert consensus from local health authorities or the World Health Organization. We make exceptions for material posted with an educational, documentary, scientific or artistic purpose, as was deemed in this case.\"\n\nYouTube has not published details of the offending posts.\n\nBut independent fact-checkers have repeatedly challenged some of the claims made by interviewees featured by the London-based radio station.\n\nYouTube operates a \"three strikes\" policy, whereby channels that break its community guidelines three times within a 90-day period can be permanently banned, but other infractions lead to temporary restrictions.\n\nProhibited content includes \"medically unsubstantiated claims\" relating to Covid-19, and videos that contradict expert consensus from local health authorities such as the NHS.\n\n\"YouTube is making decisions about which opinions the public are allowed to hear, even when they are sourced to responsible and regulated new providers,\" TalkRadio said in a statement this evening.\n\n\"This sets a dangerous precedent and is censorship of free speech and legitimate national debate.\"\n\nThe broadcaster tweeted the statement minutes after YouTube's change of heart. It did not appear to be aware that its channel had been reinstated at the time, but has since acknowledged the move.\n\nTalkRadio has about 424,000 listeners, according to the latest figures from market research provider Rajar.\n\nIt uses YouTube as a means to livestream shows from its studios and to provide an archive of past broadcasts.\n\nIts channel on the platform has 242,000 subscribers.\n\nYouTube's action had meant that TalkRadio's website had featured articles featuring broken embedded clips for most of the day, and that users who had shared its clips would have been unable to view them.\n\nThe US firm has previously imposed a permanent ban against conspiracy theorist David Icke, and a one-week video suspension of right-wing outlet One America News Network's ability to publish new clips - in both cases for breaches of its Covid rules.\n\nIt's pretty clear something has gone wrong at YouTube in the last 24 hours.\n\nIt appeared as though TalkRadio had been banned for good on YouTube - or \"terminated\" as the company put it.\n\nYouTube is now saying it was a short suspension, which certainly seems like a backtrack.\n\nEven now, it's not obvious what the offending material was that caused this action. The whole process reinforces the idea that YouTube's moderation policies - where it draws the line between freedom of expression and clamping down on misinformation - can be messy and inconsistent.\n\nAnd when YouTube takes such an action without giving full details, it rains controversy down on its own head.\n\nThis plays to a broader movement by YouTube and other social media companies to take a harder line on disinformation.\n\nJoe Biden is about to become US President - and he wants social media companies to do more to remove fake news.\n\nBut as they are increasingly finding out, refereeing their own platforms can be hugely difficult, and this highlights the need for greater transparency about moderation decisions.", "Helen Mort was told no action could be taken over the deepfake porn images\n\nA woman who has been the victim of deepfake pornography is calling for a change in the law.\n\nLast year, Helen Mort discovered that non-sexual images of her had been uploaded to a porn website.\n\nUsers of the site were invited to edit the photos, merging Helen's face with explicit and violent sexual images.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 5 Live's Mobeen Azhar, Helen said she wanted to see the creation and distribution of these images made an offence.\n\n\"This is a crime which in many cases is going on invisibly,\" Helen said. \"Those images of me had been out there for years and I didn't know about them, and I'm still having nightmares about some of them now. It's an incredibly serious form of abuse.\"\n\nDeepfakes are realistic computer-generated images or video, based on a real person.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Actress Bella Thorne opens up about her experience of deepfake abuse\n\nHelen, a poet and writer from Sheffield, was alerted to the deepfake images by an acquaintance.\n\nThe original images were taken from her social media and included holiday pictures and photos from her pregnancy.\n\nShe said although some of the images were clearly manipulated, there were a few more \"chilling\" examples that were a \"lot more plausible'.\n\n\"You go through different phases with things like this,\" she said. \"There was one point where I was just trying to laugh about the almost ridiculous nature of some of it.\n\n\"But obviously, the underlying feeling was shock and actually I initially felt quite ashamed, as if I'd done something wrong. That was quite a difficult thing to overcome. And then for a while I got incredibly anxious about even leaving the house.\"\n\nShe alerted the police to the images but was told that no action could be taken.\n\nDr Aislinn O'Connell, a lecturer in law at Royal Holloway University of London, explained that Helen's case fell outside the current law.\n\n\"In England and Wales, under section 33 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015, it is an offence to non-consensually distribute a private sexual photograph or film with the intent to cause distress to the person depicted,\" she said.\n\n\"But this only applies where the original photo or video was private and sexual.\n\n\"In Helen's situation, where non-sexual photos were merged with sexual photos, this isn't covered by the criminal offence.\n\n\"Furthermore, as the photos were not shared with Helen directly, nor did the intention seem to be to cause distress to Helen, the second element is not fulfilled - even though it did, evidently, cause distress. The other potential criminal offence would be harassment, but given the perpetrator here did not direct it at Helen herself, this didn't apply either.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Deepfake videos: Can you really believe what you see?\n\nThe independent Law Commission is currently reviewing the law as it applies to taking, making and sharing intimate images without consent. The outcome of the consultation is due to be published later this year.\n\nHowever, Dr O'Connell said the process of changing the law would take years which she says is \"too long\".\n\nHelen hopes to use her experience to raise awareness around deepfake pornography and has launched a petition calling for a change in the law.\n\nIt has received more than 3,400 signatures.\n\nShe has also written a poem in response to the images.\n\n\"I'm a writer by trade,\" she said. \"And I thought the only thing that is going to allow me to reclaim any sense of agency here is to say something about it using my art form. That's the only power that I have.\n\n\"The intention of this person, as they said in their post, was to humiliate. They said they wanted to see this person humiliated, and I thought well actually I'm not humiliated, and I'm going to speak out about it because I shouldn't be the one who feels ashamed.\"\n\nThe Home Office said it was taking steps to tackle new and emerging forms of violence against women and girls, including intimate image abuse, \"whether this be cyber flashing, revenge porn or deep fake videos.\"\n\n\"We are currently consulting on the development of our new strategy to tackle violence against women and girls and we encourage people to give their views,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"This new strategy will ensure victims and survivors are supported, and that perpetrators are identified and brought to justice.\"", "Vocational exams, including BTEcs, are to go ahead this month in England - despite calls for them to be cancelled alongside GCSEs and A-levels.\n\n\"Schools and colleges can continue with the vocational and technical exams that are due to take place in January, where they judge it right to do so,\" said a Department for Education spokeswoman.\n\nFurther education college leaders had complained this was unfair to students.\n\nThey said students would face \"stress\" from taking exams in the lockdown.\n\nThe Association of Colleges warned the decision, giving schools and colleges the option on whether to carry on with BTecs, would create more confusion.\n\nChief executive David Hughes said some colleges would cancel exams and others would continue - but without any clarity about what would happen to \"students in colleges which do cancel for safety reasons\".\n\n\"A national decision would have allowed for more fairness,\" said Mr Hughes.\n\nThe announcement from the Department for Education has left it open for schools and colleges to decide whether to go ahead with vocational and technical exams.\n\n\"Schools and colleges have already implemented extensive protective measures to make them as safe as possible,\" said the DFE's spokeswoman.\n\nThe Department for Education said it recognised \"this is a difficult time\" but wanted to allow students who had prepared for exams and assessments to continue, including those who needed to take hands-on practical tests for qualifications for jobs.\n\nA joint statement from the mayors of Manchester and Liverpool said it was wrong to go ahead with these vocational exams when other academic exams had been cancelled.\n\n\"It is unfair to ask these students to go into colleges when everyone else is being told to stay at home.\n\n\"This will cause unnecessary anxiety and concern just when they need to be able to focus,\" said the statement from Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram.\n\nThe mayors highlighted that students taking BTecs were more likely to be from \"working-class backgrounds and ethnic minority communities\" and they should not be treated any less well than those following an \"academic route\" in exams.\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Travellers to the UK from abroad could soon be required to prove they have had a negative coronavirus test.\n\nThe Department for Transport (DfT) said the measure is one of several being considered to \"prevent the spread of Covid-19 across the UK border\".\n\n\"Additional measures, including testing before departure, will help keep the importation of new cases to an absolute minimum,\" the department added.\n\nIt is thought that haulage drivers coming through ports would be exempt.\n\nHowever, the DfT said full details are still to be agreed and will be set out in \"due course\".\n\nAny such measure would be a devolved issue, so the the DfT would need to agree a path forward with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to make it UK-wide.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"With a new strain of the virus on the loose in South Africa and a more infectious variant already widespread in the UK we need to do more.\"\n\nThe measures were being discussed as Boris Johnson imposed the third national lockdown in England to prevent the NHS being overwhelmed.\n\nThe prime minister has faced some calls to strengthen border protections to prevent the arrival of new cases, particularly of new and concerning strains.\n\nHowever, there was no mention of tougher border controls during his address to the nation on Monday, or press conference on Tuesday.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove said announcements will come in the days ahead on \"how we will make sure that our ports and airports are safe\".\n\n\"It is already the case that there are significant restrictions on people coming into this country and of course we're stressing that nobody should be travelling abroad,\" he told ITV.\n\nCurrently, international arrivals from countries that are not exempt under the travel corridor programme have to isolate for 10 days.\n\nBut under the test and release scheme introduced in December, this can be shortened if they have a private test five days after their departure and it comes back negative.\n\nIt is possible lorry drivers could be exempt, but no final decision has been made\n\nDuring the first lockdown, the government argued against introducing border restrictions while the prevalence was so high in the UK, with experts arguing it would do little to bring down infection rates.\n\nA quarantine period, however, was introduced in June after the first peak, when cases were more under control.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel was accused of leaving the \"nation's doors unlocked\" to new coronavirus variants coming to Britain from overseas.\n\nLabour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds wrote to Ms Patel calling for an \"urgent review and improvement plan\" as he raised concerns over checks on the arrival of people who are meant to go into quarantine.\n\nHe wrote: \"It is especially worrying given the concerns regarding mutation of the virus that emerged in South Africa, which the health secretary rightly said is 'incredibly worrying'.\n\n\"However, the lack of a robust quarantine system as a result of shortcomings from the government mean that it is virtually impossible to keep a grip on this spread or other variants that may come from overseas, leaving the UK defenceless, and completely exposed, with the nation's doors unlocked to further Covid mutations.\"\n\nThe Home Office defended its \"stringent measures\", and pointed to its move to stop direct flights from South Africa to the UK amid concerns over a new coronavirus variant in high prevalence there.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEveryone in England must stay at home except for permitted reasons during a new coronavirus lockdown expected to last until mid-February, the PM says.\n\nAll schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning from Tuesday.\n\nBoris Johnson warned the coming weeks would be the \"hardest yet\" amid surging cases and patient numbers.\n\nHe said those in the top four priority groups would be offered a first vaccine dose by the middle of next month.\n\nAll care home residents and their carers, everyone aged 70 and over, all frontline health and social care workers, and the clinically extremely vulnerable will be offered one dose of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nSchools in Northern Ireland will have an \"extended period of remote learning\", the Stormont Executive said.\n\nSpeaking from Downing Street, Mr Johnson told the public to follow the new lockdown rules immediately, before they become law in the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nAll the new measures in England will then last until at least the middle of February, he said, as a new more infectious variant of the virus spreads across the UK.\n\nThe PM added that he believed the country was entering \"the last phase of the struggle\".\n\nHospitals were under \"more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic\", he said.\n\nAnd he reiterated the slogan used earlier in the pandemic, urging people to immediately \"stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives\".\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nA further 58,784 cases and an additional 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported, though deaths in Scotland were not recorded.\n\nAs of 08:00 GMT, there were 26,626 Covid-19 patients in hospital in England, according to the latest figures.\n\nThis is a week-on-week increase of 30%, and a new record high.\n\nThose who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be contacted by letter and should now shield once more, Mr Johnson said.\n\nSupport and childcare bubbles will continue under the new measures - and people can meet one person from another household for outdoor exercise.\n\nCommunal worship and life events like funerals and weddings can continue, subject to limits on attendance.\n\nWhile Mr Johnson said end-of-year exams would not take place as normal in the summer, he said alternative arrangements would be announced separately.\n\nThe government has published a 22-page document outlining the new rules in detail.\n\nThe House of Commons has been recalled to allow MPs to vote on the new restrictions on Wednesday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his MPs would \"support the package of measures\", saying \"we've all got to pull together now to make this work\".\n\nOnce again it is the threat to the NHS that has forced the hand of ministers.\n\nIn England there has been a 50% rise in the number of patients in hospital with Covid since Christmas day.\n\nTo put that into context, it equates to 18 hospitals being filled.\n\nCurrently around three out of 10 beds are occupied by patients with the disease.\n\nIn some hospitals it is more than six in 10.\n\nBut what is worrying ministers and NHS leaders is that the number is just going to increase.\n\nIn the spring it took nearly three weeks after lockdown for hospital cases to peak.\n\nThe last six days have seen in excess of 50,000 new infections confirmed each day across the UK - a number of these infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nIt is why the UK's chief medical officers were warning there was a \"material risk\" of some hospitals being overwhelmed if something did not change.\n\nMr Johnson spoke after UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nLevel five means the NHS may soon be unable to handle a further sustained rise in cases, the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, said hospitals were at a \"critical point\" and that \"immediate and decisive action\" was needed.\n\nAnnouncing tougher measures in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year.\"\n\nFor pupils who returned for their first day of the new term at primary school on Monday, it's turned out to be an extremely short-lived visit.\n\nBoris Johnson's announcement will see primary, secondary and further education colleges closed for at least the next six weeks, except for vulnerable and key workers' children.\n\nIt's a much bigger shift in policy than had been anticipated, even a few days ago.\n\nEven the return date will depend on the progress in tackling the virus.\n\n\"I hope we can steadily move out of lockdown, reopening schools after the February half term,\" said the prime minister.\n\nKeeping schools open was the government's most definite of red lines, a few weeks ago they were threatening councils that wanted to close them - but it's now been overtaken by the spiking lines on the Covid infection charts.\n\nEven after the chaos of last year's replacement grades, GCSEs and A-levels are being cancelled again - with a replacement system still to be decided. Vocational exams are to continue.\n\nFor parents dreading home schooling, there are plans for it to be better supported this time - with more computer devices available and suggestions that Ofsted inspectors will check what schools are offering.\n\nBut there's no escaping that this will feel like another sudden and chaotic change of direction for schools and parents.\n\nMr Johnson's pledge on vaccinations comes after an 82-year-old retired maintenance manager became the first person in the UK to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab\n\nSome 13.9 million people are among the four priority groups who will receive a vaccine dose by about 15 February, vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? What questions do you have? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "I'm standing in what should be an operating theatre - but instead it's been converted into an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients on ventilators. This is the first time I have seen it full of patients like this.\n\nNormally this theatre would be busy with major cancer surgery, but that's been transferred to another building.\n\nA children's recovery area, still decorated with colourful stickers of cartoons, is once again filled with desperately sick adults. Every day, more wards are being transformed into ICU - ready for the next influx of patients.\n\nWe have been given access to University College Hospital, in central London. This is the same intensive care unit that I visited in April, during the first peak.\n\nIt is one of the busiest hospitals in the capital and intensive care here is expanding across a hospital that is under pressure like never before, from a relentless rise in Covid admissions.\n\nI am struck by the toll the pandemic is taking on staff. It's immense - both physically and mentally. They are shell-shocked. \"My emotions are all over the place. Scared, sad, petrified, worried,\" one ICU nurse tells me.\n\nThey have got three times as many critically ill patients in the hospital as normal. The number of Covid admissions to London hospitals has doubled in just two weeks - they're more stretched now than at the peak last April. Senior staff are worried.", "Bosses of Britain's biggest companies will earn more in the first three days of this week than the average worker's annual wage, research claims.\n\nBy 17:30 GMT on Wednesday, the pay of FTSE 100 chiefs will have overtaken the £31,461 annual median wage for full time workers, the High Pay Centre says.\n\nBosses' pay was flat last year, while average wages generally rose slightly.\n\nThat meant that FTSE chief executives had to work 34 hours to beat median annual pay, not the 33 hours in 2020.\n\nThe High Pay Centre think-tank based its annual calculations on analysis of disclosures in companies' annual reports, combined with government statistics.\n\nHigh Pay Centre director Luke Hildyard said chief executive pay is about 120 times that of the typical UK worker, up significantly from two decades ago.\n\n\"Estimates suggest it was around 50 times at the turn of the millennium or 20 times in the early 1980s,\" he said.\n\n\"Factors such as the increasing role played by the finance industry in the economy, the outsourcing of low-paid work and the decline of trade union membership have widened the gaps between those at the top and everybody else over recent decades.\"\n\nHe said the figures should raise concern about the governance of Britain's biggest companies. \"They should also prompt debate about the effects that high levels of inequality can have on social cohesion, crime, and public health and wellbeing,\" he said.\n\nMedian FTSE 100 chief executive pay was £3.61m in 2019, the last year for which a full set of data is available, the High Pay Centre said.\n\nThe centre said its analysis was based on chief executives' average working day being 12 hours.\n\nHowever, critics said such analysis just fuels the politics of envy without looking at why chief executives matter and the contribution they make.\n\nDaniel Pryor, head of programmes at the Adam Smith Institute, said: \"Good management is more important than ever in a globalised world and small differences in top talent make a big impact on a business' bottom line.\n\n\"That bottom line makes a big difference to workers across the UK, anyone with a private pension, and shareholders.\"\n\nHe pointed out that there is strong, if morbid, evidence about chief executive deaths that shows why the corporate and investment world believe leadership makes a huge difference to the fortunes of their companies.\n\n\"In the past 60 years, unexpected CEO deaths have consistently affected stock price, profitability, investment and sales growth - for better or worse,\" he said, adding: \"Which is why it makes sense for firms to open their wallets to attract the best talent.\"", "Doctors in Scotland have raised concerns about plans to delay the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.\n\nAll four UK nations will now leave up to 12 weeks between the first and second doses of the jab rather than giving both within 21 days.\n\nDr Lewis Morrison, head of the BMA in Scotland, said members had concerns about the potential impact of leaving such a big gap between the two doses.\n\nBut the UK's chief medical officers have defended the move.\n\nThey said that the first dose of either the Pfizer or the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines - the only two so far approved for use in the UK - will give people substantial protection against the virus within two to three weeks of being administered.\n\nAnd they said that the second dose was \"likely to be very important for duration of protection, and at an appropriate dose interval may further increase vaccine efficacy\".\n\nThe Joint Committee of Vaccination and Immunisation, which advises UK health departments and recommended the new strategy, said data showed that one dose of the Pfizer vaccine would be \"90% effective\".\n\nBut the World Health Organization (WHO) has said it would not recommend following the UK's decision to delay giving the second Pfizer dose, saying there was no evidence to support the decision.\n\nPfizer has said it has tested the vaccine's efficacy only when the two doses were given up to 21 days apart.\n\nThe Pfizer vaccine was the first to be approved for use in the UK, with more than a million people having already been given the first dose.\n\nThe change to the vaccination strategy has meant health boards have had to change plans and cancel people booked in for their second doses of the Pfizer jabs.\n\nThis includes medics who are among the priority groups for Covid vaccinations.\n\nDr Lewis Morrison, chairman of the British Medical Association's Scottish Council, raised concerns about the logistical impact of changing the vaccination strategy\n\nDr Morrison told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that some doctors had told him they would have waited for the AstraZeneca jab, which has been proven to work in the longer timetable, if they had known the second Pfizer dose was going to be delayed.\n\nHe said: \"We are concerned because there's clearly disagreement about the effectiveness of the second dose of Pfizer after that period of time.\n\n\"Furthermore I think if you give more people the first dose when you don't know what vaccine supplies are going to be within that 12-week window, that's a worry that has been expressed to me by a lot of doctors.\n\n\"If we give more people the first dose, do we definitely know that the second one is coming?\n\n\"The announcement about this before a four-day NHS holiday weekend left many places with great difficulty in reorganising vaccinations, with a real risk that vaccination numbers might perversely drop because of the organisational issues.\"\n\nOpposition parties want the Scottish government to publish daily figures for how many people have been vaccinated\n\nIt comes as NHS staff were left queueing for hours outside Glasgow Royal Infirmary on Tuesday after an \"scheduling error\" meant vaccination staff did not turn up.\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has apologised to those affected and said it was rearranging the appointments.\n\nThe Scottish government has said it aims to have given at least one vaccine dose to everyone over the age of 50 and younger people with underlying health conditions by the start of May.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Tuesday that the timetable could be accelerated if there were sufficient supplies of the jab.\n\nThe Scottish government is being pressured to provide daily figures on the number of people being vaccinated, as the UK government has already pledged to do.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said: \"There are now no excuses left for the SNP government to dodge publishing daily vaccination rates alongside the daily infection numbers as soon as possible.\n\n\"The SNP's evasion to try and avoid scrutiny is nothing new but on something so important, the Scottish public must have the same information as will be provided across the UK.\"\n\nHis call was echoed by Scottish Labour health spokeswoman Monica Lennon, who added: \"It is simply unacceptable that scores of NHS staff were left queueing outside in the cold for hours, and well into the evening.\n\n\"It's time for Health Secretary Jeane Freeman to get to grips with the vaccination programme, publish daily figures on the number of vaccinations available and administered, and ensure that our NHS staff do not pay the price of a bungled rollout.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister says schools will be the first places to reopen\n\nThe end of England's lockdown will not happen with a \"big bang\" but will instead be a \"gradual unwrapping\", Boris Johnson has told MPs.\n\nThe prime minister made the comments in the Commons ahead of a retrospective vote later on the lockdown measures.\n\nHe said the legislation runs until 31 March to allow a \"controlled\" easing of restrictions back into local tiers.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the government's decisions \"have led us to the position we're now in\".\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said there were now 30,074 patients with coronavirus in UK hospitals.\n\nAll of the UK is now under strict virus curbs, with Wales, Northern Ireland and most of Scotland also in lockdown.\n\nIt came as the UK reported a further 1,041 people have died with coronavirus, the highest daily death toll since April.\n\nIn a statement to the Commons, Mr Johnson said the new variant had \"led to more cases than we've seen ever before\" and that this had left the government with \"no choice but to return to national lockdown\".\n\nHe said the legislation ran until the end of March \"not because we expect the full national lockdown to continue until then, but to allow a steady, controlled and evidence-led move down through the tiers on a regional basis\".\n\nHe said this would happen \"brick-by-brick... without risking the hard-won gains that protections have given us\".\n\nBut in response to MPs' questions, he said there was a \"cautious presumption\" that restrictions could start being eased from mid-February.\n\n\"And as was the case last spring, our emergence from the lockdown cocoon will be not a big bang but a gradual unwrapping,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We need a plan\", Keir Starmer told MPs while declaring Labour would support new lockdown\n\nUnder the measures, which came into force legally on Wednesday, people in England will only be able to go out for essential reasons, for exercise outdoors only once a day, and outdoor sports venues must close.\n\nPolice have the powers to enforce the new restrictions with a £200 fine for each breach, doubling on every offence up to a maximum of £6,400 - and a £10,000 penalty for mass gatherings.\n\nOfficers in London arrested at least a dozen people in Parliament Square after a protest against the new measures on Wednesday.\n\nThe need to debate and vote on the restrictions means the Commons has been recalled from its Christmas break for the second time - the first being for the post-Brexit trade deal with the EU.\n\nWith Sir Keir saying Labour will support the motion, the measures are expected to pass with ease.\n\nThe restrictions will be kept under \"continuous review\", Mr Johnson added, with a statutory requirement to reconsider them every two weeks.\n\nAddressing the closure of schools, the PM said \"we did everything in our power to keep them open as long as possible\" and that was why schools were the \"very last thing to close\".\n\nThey would be the \"very first thing to reopen\" after lockdown - that could be after the February half term - but \"we must be very cautious\" about the timetable, he said.\n\nMeanwhile, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson told the Commons that GCSEs, A-level and AS-level exams would be cancelled this year in England, replaced by a form of teacher-assessed grades.\n\n\"This year, we're going to put our trust in teachers, rather than algorithms,\" he said, referencing controversy over the way exam grades were awarded to some students last year.\n\nAll national curriculum tests for primary school children, often known as Sats, are now cancelled, Mr Williamson confirmed.\n\nHe said every school will be expected to provide between three and five hours of virtual teaching each day and that 750,000 laptop and tablet devices will have been distributed by the end of next week.\n\nThe prime minister wasted no time in emphasising the \"fundamental difference\" between this and previous lockdowns.\n\nTo keep opposition from his own MPs at bay he needs to demonstrate that the government's aim to vaccinate the most at-risk groups by mid-February is viable.\n\nHe is also under pressure to give a sense of how quickly restrictions might be lifted after that.\n\nThe course of the pandemic has changed swiftly at times, though, and may do so again, so it's unlikely we'll get any firm new timelines from Boris Johnson today.\n\nMost Conservative backbenchers seem resigned to the need for this new national lockdown and agree the prime minister had \"no choice\" but to act.\n\nBut MPs on all sides are impatient to hear how soon things may start returning to something like life as normal at last.\n\nMr Johnson said unlike in March last year, during the first lockdown, vaccines offered \"the means of our escape\".\n\nBut he said there was now a race to vaccinate vulnerable people quickly, with the government setting a target of immunising the four most vulnerable groups - some 13 million people - by mid-February.\n\n\"After the marathon of last year, we are indeed now in a sprint, a race to vaccinate the vulnerable faster than the virus can reach them,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"Every needle in every arm makes a difference.\"\n\nEarlier, Covid vaccine deployment minister Nadhim Zahawi said he was \"confident\" the government would meet its \"ambitious\" target, adding that community pharmacies would be brought in to assist the vaccination programme.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that new daily vaccination figures for the UK - which will be released for the first time on Monday - will show there has been a \"significant increase\" in the number of people who have received the jab.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Johnson said 1.3 million people in the UK had been vaccinated so far.\n\nMr Zahawi also said nursery schools presented \"very little risk\", are Covid-safe and he defended the decision to keep them open during England's lockdown.\n\nResponding to the prime minister's statement, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his party will support the new restrictions and urged people to comply with them.\n\n\"The virus is out of control, over a million people in England now have Covid, the number of hospital admissions is rising, tragically so are the numbers of people dying,\" he said.\n\n\"It's only the early days of January and the NHS is under huge strain. In those circumstances, tougher restrictions are necessary.\"\n\nBut he added \"this is not just bad luck, it's not inevitable, it follows a pattern\" of the government being slow to respond.\n\n\"These are the decisions that have led us to the position we're now in - and the vaccine is now the only way out and we must all support the national effort to get it rolled out as quickly as possible.\"\n\nHow have you been affected by Covid? What will lockdown mean for you? Please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police raided an illegal rave in a railway arch attended by 300 people.\n\nPolice have issued more than £15,000 in fines after 300 people attended an illegal rave in a railway arch.\n\nOfficers raided an unlicensed music event in Nursery Road, Hackney, at 01.30 GMT on Sunday.\n\nMany people fled the scene, while organisers padlocked the doors from the inside to stop officers getting in, police said.\n\nNo arrests were reported, but 78 fines of up to £200 for breaching lockdown restrictions were issued.\n\nA dog unit and helicopter were deployed to the scene, with police saying they made numerous attempts to contact the organisers.\n\nOrganisers padlocked the door from the inside to prevent officers getting in, police said\n\nCh Supt Roy Smith said: \"This was a serious and blatant breach of the public health regulations and the law.\n\n\"Officers were forced, yet again, to put their own health at risk to deal with a large group of incredibly selfish people who were tightly packed together in a confined space - providing an ideal opportunity for this deadly virus to spread.\n\n\"Not just organisers, but all those present at such illegal parties can expect to be issued a fine.\"\n\nOfficers surrounded the property as dozens of guests scaled fences at the rear of the arch to escape\n\nThere is an England-wide lockdown in place which prevents any social mixing between households.\n\nUnder these restrictions people are asked to only leave home for limited reasons such as shopping, going to work, seeking medical assistance or avoiding domestic abuse.\n\nThe Met Police has broken up several large gatherings in London over the last month including a 150-person wedding at a north London school.\n\nTwo officers were injured as police broke up a party involving about 200 people in Kensington on 17 January.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former Brexit Party MEP Robert Rowland was described as a larger than life character\n\nA former Brexit Party MEP has died in a diving accident near his home in the Bahamas.\n\nRobert Rowland, 54, represented the south east of England at the European Parliament from July 2019 until January 2020.\n\nNigel Farage paid tribute to the \"larger than life character\" and \"enthusiastic\" Brexit supporter.\n\nHe announced the death of his former colleague in a statement on Sunday.\n\nThe Royal Bahamas Police Force said it had \"received reports of a drowning incident\" on Saturday and was \"conducting inquires\".\n\nMr Farage said: \"It is with great sadness that I have to announce the death of Robert Rowland, after a diving accident near his home in the Bahamas.\n\n\"Following a successful career in the City, Robert was an enthusiastic Brexit Party MEP and larger than life character.\"\n\nHe said he wished to extend his \"sincerest condolences\" to Mr Rowland's family, including his wife and four children.\n\nFormer Brexit Party MEP David Bull said he was \"beyond devastated,\" adding: \"Robert was a wonderful friend and colleague.\"\n• None Farage's Brexit Party officially changes its name\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: 'It's right that I am properly scrutinised'\n\nScotland's first minister has insisted she did not mislead parliament about when she learned harassment allegations had been made against her predecessor Alex Salmond.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said \"false conspiracy theories were being spun\" about her involvement by Mr Salmond's supporters.\n\nA Holyrood inquiry into how the government handled the allegations against Mr Salmond is under way.\n\nShe said she expects to give evidence to the inquiry in the coming weeks.\n\nThe BBC's Andrew Marr asked Ms Sturgeon how she responded to Mr Salmond saying that parliament had been repeatedly misled, and that evidence she gave to the inquiry was \"simply\" and \"manifestly untrue\".\n\nMs Sturgeon replied that she would \"refute that vigorously\".\n\nHer interview came after the inquiry announced it would use legal powers to seek documents from the Crown Office.\n\nIn response to Ms Sturgeon's interview, a spokeswoman for Mr Salmond said: \"The evidence, if published, will speak for itself\".\n\nA committee of MSPs is investigating the government's handling of two harassment claims against the former first minister, after he successfully challenged the complaints process in court.\n\nShe said it was right that she was scrutinised and that she had hoped to appear before the committee on Tuesday but that this had been delayed by \"a couple of weeks\".\n\nAsked if Alex Salmond was \"spinning false conspiracy theories\", Nicola Sturgeon said: \"There are false conspiracy theories being spun about this... by Alex Salmond, by people around him - you can draw your own conclusions around that.\"\n\nShe added: \"What I certainly reflect on is that at times I appear to be simultaneously accused of colluding with Mr Salmond to somehow cover up accusations of sexual harassment on the one hand.\n\n\"And then on the other hand, being part of some dastardly conspiracy to bring him down.\n\n\"Neither of those are true.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"I didn't collude with Alex Salmond and I didn't conspire against him.\"\n\nThe first minister reiterated that Mr Salmond had told her about the allegations during a meeting at her home on 2 April 2018.\n\nHowever, Mr Salmond has insisted that she already knew about the allegations as she had been told about them four days earlier by one of his aides.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has previously acknowledge that she initially \"forgot\" about this meeting.\n\nIn evidence to the Holyrood inquiry which was published in October, she said: \"From what I recall, the discussion [with Mr Salmond's aide] covered the fact that Alex Salmond wanted to see me urgently about a serious matter, and I think it did cover the suggestion that the matter might relate to allegations of a sexual nature.\"\n\nSpeaking to The Andrew Marr Show, she added: \"I, at the time I became aware of all of this, just tried hard not to interfere with what was going on and not to do anything that would see these swept aside rather than properly investigated.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon conceded that the Scottish government had made mistakes in how it handled the allegations.\n\n\"What I will never do is apologise for doing everything I could to make sure that complaints about sexual harassment were investigated, and not simply swept under the carpet because of the seniority and powerful position of the person who was subject to them,\" she added.\n\nLast March, Mr Salmond was cleared of 13 charges of sexual assault at the High Court in Edinburgh.\n\nA spokeswoman for Mr Salmond said: \"The two inquiries under way are into why Nicola Sturgeon's government acted unlawfully.\n\n\"Alex has submitted his evidence as requested and the parliamentary committee is now challenging the Crown Office to produce some of the text messages which they believe are being suppressed.\n\n\"The evidence, if published, will speak for itself\"", "Asos says it is in \"exclusive\" talks to buy Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands out of administration.\n\nBut the online retailer said it only wanted the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.\n\nThe current owner of the brands, Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group, fell into administration last November putting 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nAsos said it was \"a compelling opportunity\" to buy \"strong brands that resonate well with its customer base\".\n\n\"However, at this stage, there can be no certainty of a transaction and Asos will keep shareholders updated as appropriate,\" it added.\n\nLast week, a consortium including fashion chain Next dropped its bid to buy Topshop and Topman because it could not meet the price tag.\n\nOthers interested in some or all of Arcadia - which also owns Dorothy Perkins and Burton - include Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, a consortium including JD Sports, and the online retailer Boohoo.\n\nIn addition, the Issa brothers, who recently bought supermarket chain Asda, and Chinese fast fashion giant Shein are said to have made bids for Topshop.\n\nAsos has seen strong sales in the pandemic and is already one of the biggest wholesalers for Topshop, Topman, Burton and Miss Selfridge.\n\nAdministrators from Deloitte requested that final bids be submitted last Monday, with the auction expected to conclude at the end of January.\n\nSir Philip Green is under pressure to use his own money to plug an estimated £350m hole in Arcadia's pension fund, which has about 10,000 members.\n\nLast year the retail tycoon had an estimated fortune of £930m, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nArcadia employed about 13,000 people and had 444 shops at the time of its collapse.", "27 of the 29 miners that died in tragedy\n\nThe Pike River mining disaster was a tragedy that shocked the world. Twenty-nine men who were in the New Zealand coal mine died when it collapsed in a series of explosions. The BBC's Phil Mercer covered the accident 10 years ago and has been talking to families of victims still coming to terms with their loss.\n\nThe day after his 17th birthday, Joseph Ray Dunbar began his first shift underground at the Pike River coal mine in New Zealand.\n\nHe was a \"strong-minded boy\" who wanted to carve his own path in life, but on that day in November 2010 he became the youngest victim of a mining disaster that killed 29 men.\n\nTheir bodies have never been recovered, and a decade later the teenager's father Dean is still looking for answers.\n\n\"In a modern society you don't wipe out 29 men and just walk away,\" he told the BBC. \"Joseph's legacy is righting the wrongs of the past whether it be by government agencies, police or politicians.\"\n\nJoseph Dunbar was the youngest among the victims\n\nIn 2012, a Royal Commission found the miners and contractors were exposed to \"unacceptable risk\" and that \"there were numerous warnings of a potential catastrophe at Pike River,\" but there have been no prosecutions.\n\nThe inquiry concluded the men \"died immediately, or shortly afterwards\" from a methane gas blast or the \"toxic atmosphere\". Two workers did manage to escape the blast and survived.\n\nNews of an accident at the mine in the Paparoa Ranges began to emerge in the middle of the afternoon on Friday, 19 November, 2010.\n\nFamily members soon gathered, and in the hours and days that followed, there was hope that the men might still be alive, although the authorities said a rescue mission was too dangerous. A nation prayed for another mining miracle.\n\nOn the right, the tags of the 29 miners who never made it out\n\nA few months earlier, 33 miners in Chile's Atacama Desert had been pulled out alive after being trapped underground for 69 days.\n\n\"That was totally on my mind the whole time,\" explained Anna Osborne, whose husband, Milton, died at Pike River.\n\n\"I saw how successfully those Chilean miners were rescued and I thought if they can all come out alive, it can happen to us. But little did I know that that mine (in Chile) wasn't a gassy one.\"\n\nFor five long days the families waited. As a reporter sent to cover the story at the time, it was excruciating for me to watch their anguish and frustration grow.\n\nThere would be no rescue, and on 24 November another explosion ripped through the mine, and all hope was gone.\n\nFire at the entrance to the mine\n\nMs Osborne told the BBC that she is \"still fighting to get the truth and still wondering why our guys were allowed underground when the mine was so volatile (and) was a ticking time bomb.\"\n\nNot all of the families want the men's remains to be recovered, but she said it would be a great comfort to bring her husband home.\n\n\"He was working in the south (part of the mine), which was flooded. My husband couldn't swim, so he hated the water and I close my eyes every night and visualise him floating in this water that he hated so much and I just thought I can't have him down there. If we can, I would like as many men to be retrieved,\" she added.\n\nI close my eyes every night and visualise him floating in this water\n\nThe Pike River Recovery Agency is a government department that has re-entered the so-called drift, a 2.3km (1.4 miles) tunnel that connects the entrance of the mine to the working areas and coal seams.\n\nIt is looking for clues that might help explain the explosions and to \"help prevent future mining tragedies.\" Re-entering the mine was delayed by safety concerns.\n\nThe end of the drift is blocked by a huge mass of fallen rock. This roof collapse was caused by the ignition of methane, and there are no plans for the agency to move further into the mine where most, if not all, of the bodies remain.\n\nRecovery teams only made it into an initial tunnel but not the mine proper\n\n\"The Agency's mandate from the government did not include recovering beyond the drift access tunnel,\" said a PRRA spokesperson. \"It remains less likely that we will recover human remains.\"\n\n\"That rockfall is impenetrable,\" said Tony Kokshoorn, the former mayor of the local Grey District. \"The 29 miners are in the coal mine proper. At least they are all together and that is their final resting place.\"\n\n\"Many of the families want them to be together in there because it would have been pretty tough on a lot of families if some had come out and the others couldn't come out.\"\n\nThe police inquiry into the disaster is continuing, with a spokesperson saying they \"remain committed to a full and thorough investigation into events\" and will everything they can to \"provide answers\".\n\nThe grief was felt far beyond New Zealand's rugged West Coast by bereaved families in Australia, Scotland and South Africa.\n\nThe mine will almost certainly never reopen, but Bernie Monk, whose 23-year old son Michael died in the disaster, wants one, final push to bring the men out.\n\n\"The times that I went up to the mine portal with anniversaries, I swore and declared and I looked down that tunnel, and I said to them, 'we're coming to get you guys out'. It was an emotional day for me when I first went down into the mine,\" he said.\n\n\"We're are only 50 to 100 metres away from them. I think we've got a right to go and get those men,\" Mr Monk told the BBC.\n\nOut of tragedy comes pain, anger and calls for accountability and change. It is 10 years since Anna Osborne's husband, affectionately known as Milt, never came home, and she continues to agitate for stronger health and safety laws, and for employers to be prosecuted when things go wrong.\n\n\"We have had 700 people lose their lives in workplace accidents since Pike River. That is like a Pike River every five months in New Zealand,\" she said.\n\nBut above all else there is a sadness that may never fade.\n\n\"I love him so much. It still hurts. It is still very, very raw.\"", "National Museum of the Royal New Zealand Navy Philip Gannaway (left) on the SS Demosthenes in 1916, when it was being used as a troop ship\n\nAn appeal has been made to trace the family of a sailor from New Zealand buried more than a century ago on an island off Anglesey.\n\nLt Philip Gannaway had recently married his wife Muriel when he enlisted during World War One.\n\nHe joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, serving on motor launches on the Menai Strait.\n\nBut he died aged 32 during the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918, and is buried on Church Island in the strait.\n\nLocal historian Bridget Geoghegan says she has already had responses following a story about Lt Gannaway on the New Zealand news website Stuff.\n\nHowever, she is still waiting to hear from his direct relatives.\n\n\"I have met family members of some people I have researched, and that is always a delight - a bonus,\" she said.\n\nThe grave notes Lt Gannaway's military service with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve\n\nLt Gannaway's funeral took place on 9 November 1918 with full naval honours, just two days before the armistice that brought fighting to an end.\n\nNewspaper reports found by Ms Geoghegan said more than 200 men and officers joined the procession, with shipyard work pausing as a mark of respect.\n\n\"I found he had married his sweetheart not long before volunteering and coming over to UK,\" she said.\n\n\"It seemed like a bitter end to a love story.\"\n\nHe is buried at St Tysilio's on Church Island, which is linked to the rest of Anglesey by a short causeway.\n\nThe Australian and New Zealander are both remembered on the war memorial\n\nBut Lt Gannaway is not the only man on the island buried so far from home.\n\nRemembered alongside him on the war memorial is William Connington, a 23-year-old corporal in the Australian Flying Corps who died with flu in Buckinghamshire.\n\n\"Connington had family in the area - his father must have emigrated to Australia,\" Ms Geoghegan said.\n\n\"His aunt and cousin lived in Menai Bridge. I think it likely that he had been up to stay with the family and when he died his aunt brought him back to Menai Bridge from Aylesbury so that he would be buried amongst friends.\"\n\nSt Tysilio's sits on Church Island in the Menai Strait\n\nFor several years Ms Geoghegan has joined others in researching and commemorating the people named on local war memorials and graves.\n\nBefore the latest lockdown restrictions, she created a walk for Church Island with the stories behind the names.\n\n\"I devised a walk round St Tysilio to include the graves of those lost and the family commemorations for their loved-ones buried elsewhere or lost at sea - the pain is almost palpable,\" she said.\n\nThe inscription from Lt Gannaway's parents to their \"beloved son\" reads simply: \"In peace he lived, in peace he died\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Supporters of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny protest against his arrest across Russia\n\nRussian police have detained more than 3,000 people in a crackdown on protests in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, monitors say.\n\nTens of thousands of people defied a heavy police presence to join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years.\n\nIn Moscow, riot police were seen beating and dragging away protesters.\n\nMr Navalny, President Putin's most high-profile critic, called for protests after his arrest last Sunday.\n\nHe was detained after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Russia last August.\n\nOn his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. He says it is a trumped-up case designed to silence him.\n\nOVD Info, an independent NGO that monitors rallies, said about 3,100 people had been detained, more than 1,200 of them in Moscow alone. The Kremlin has not commented.\n\nThe unauthorised demonstrations were held in about 100 cities and towns from Russia's Far East and Siberia to Moscow and St Petersburg. Protesters ranged from teenage students to elderly people who demanded Mr Navalny's release.\n\nAt least 40,000 people joined a rally in central Moscow, Reuters news agency estimated. But Russia's interior ministry put the number of protesters at 4,000.\n\nObservers say the scale of the demonstrations across the country was unprecedented while the protest in the capital was the largest in almost a decade.\n\nRiot police used batons against protesters in Moscow\n\nIn the city's Pushkin square, some protesters chanted \"Freedom to Navalny\" and \"Putin go away!\" One woman told the BBC she had decided to join the demonstration because \"Russia has been turned into a prison camp\".\n\nSergei Radchenko, a 53-year-old protester in Moscow, told Reuters: \"I'm tired of being afraid. I haven't just turned up for myself and Navalny, but for my son because there is no future in this country.\"\n\nLyubov Sobol, a prominent aide of Mr Navalny who had already been fined for urging Russians to join the protests, tweeted a video of police roughly pulling her away from an interview with reporters.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Соболь Любовь This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Navalny's wife, Yulia, was briefly held at the rally. She posted an image on her Instagram account with the caption: \"Apologies for the poor quality. Very bad light in the police van.\"\n\nSome protesters marched on the high-security prison where Mr Navalny is being held, and many were arrested.\n\nMeanwhile, one independent news source, Sota, said at least 3,000 people had joined a demonstration in the city of Vladivostok, but local authorities there put the figure at 500.\n\nAFP footage showed riot police running into a crowd, and beating some of the protesters with batons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police used batons to break up protests in Vladivostok\n\nIn the Siberian city of Yakutsk, attendees at a small protest saw temperatures dip as low as -50C (-58F).\n\nPrior to the rallies, Russian authorities had promised a tough crackdown. Several of Mr Navalny's close aides, including his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh, were arrested earlier in the week.\n\nHis supporters called for more protests next weekend.\n\nThere were reports of disruption to mobile phone and internet coverage on Saturday, though it is not known if this was related to the protests.\n\nThe social media app TikTok had been flooded with videos promoting the demonstrations and sharing viral messages about Mr Navalny.\n\nIn response, Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, demanded that TikTok take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\", threatening large fines. The education ministry had told parents not to allow their children to attend any demonstrations.\n\nProtesters ignored extreme cold and threats of arrest in Moscow and other cities and towns\n\nIn a push to gain support ahead of the protests, Mr Navalny's team released a video about a luxury Black Sea resort that they allege belongs to President Putin - an accusation denied by the Kremlin. The video has been watched by more than 65 million people.\n\nThe UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, condemned the \"use of violence against peaceful protesters and journalists\" on Saturday, calling on the authorities to release those detained during peaceful demonstrations.\n\nThe US state department condemned what it called \"harsh tactics\" used against protesters and journalists, saying: \"We call on Russian authorities to release all those detained for exercising their universal rights and for the immediate and unconditional release of Aleksey Navalny\".\n\nThe EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said the bloc's foreign ministers would discuss the Russian crackdown on Monday. \"I deplore widespread detentions, disproportionate use of force, cutting down internet and phone connections.\"", "British employers made plans to cut 795,000 jobs last year, a record number, as Covid lockdowns took their toll on the economy.\n\nMore than 10,000 firms planned job cuts, however the pace of planned cuts slowed at the end of the year.\n\nWithout the government's furlough scheme, designed to protect jobs, the numbers might have been higher still.\n\nThe figures were obtained in response to a BBC Freedom of Information request to the Insolvency Service.\n\nEmployers must notify the Insolvency Service when they plan to cut 20 or more jobs, giving an earlier indication of changes in the labour market than waiting for official joblessness statistics.\n\nLarge parts of the British economy were brought to a standstill for weeks on end during 2020 by the measures imposed to contain Covid-19, and many employers were forced to cut staff as a result.\n\nThe number of job cuts proposed through the year was well above the 530,000 seen the last time the UK was in recession, in 2010, and higher than any year in the records which go back to 2006.\n\nHowever, in recent months the pace of layoffs has slowed, even though the new Covid variant has seen surging case numbers and new lockdowns imposed across the UK.\n\nLast month employers notified government of plans to cut 23,100 job cuts, which is the lowest monthly figure for 2020, though still a third higher than December 2019.\n\nThe decision to extend the furlough scheme, where government pays most of a worker's wages if their employer can't, will have enabled more firms to keep their staff, believes Tony Wilson, Director of the Institute for Employment Studies.\n\n\"The question now though is where redundancy figures go next,\" he says.\n\n\"If they start to stabilise around these levels, then [job cuts] would be at least one third higher than what we've seen over most of the last decade, and it's possible that a combination of this lockdown and then furlough unwinding from May could see numbers creeping up.\"\n\nDespite that, Mr Wilson sees the situation as \"pretty positive\".\n\nEmployers planning to cut 20 or more staff have to notify the Insolvency Service of their plans at the start of the process.\n\nThese notifications give an earlier indication of the state of the labour market than data published by the Office for National Statistics, which appear with a time lag of a few months.\n\nInsolvency Service figures showed record levels in redundancies in June and July, which was confirmed when the ONS published its own figures three months later.\n\nThe latest figures, for the period from August to October, saw a new record of 370,000 redundancies across the UK.\n\nAs redundancy processes covering fewer than 20 workers aren't included, the total number of job cuts planned will be higher than the Insolvency Service totals.\n\nBut individual firms often make fewer cuts than the number they first propose to government.\n\nEmployers in Northern Ireland file HR1 forms with the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and they are not included in these figures.", "Boohoo is set to buy the Debenhams brand and website, the BBC understands.\n\nHowever, the fast fashion retailer will not be taking on any of the company's remaining 118 High Street stores or its workforce.\n\nThe announcement could come as early as Monday morning.\n\nThe 242-year-old chain is already in the process of closing down, after administrators failed to secure a rescue deal for the business, with the likely loss of 12,000 jobs.\n\nA closing down sale at 124 Debenhams stores began in December, as administrators continued to seek offers for all, or parts of the business.\n\nIn the last week or so, the company announced that six shops would not reopen after lockdown, including its flagship department store on London's Oxford Street.\n\nBoohoo has already bought a number of High Street brands out of administration. It snapped up Oasis, Coast and Karen Millen, but not the associated stores.\n\nDebenhams has struggled for years with falling profits and rising debts, as more shopping has moved online. It called in administrators twice in two years, most recently in April.\n\nMike Ashley has bought other struggling businesses including House of Fraser and Evans Cycles\n\nHowever, its position became untenable during the coronavirus pandemic as non-essential retailers were forced to close for prolonged periods.\n\nThe firm had already trimmed its store portfolio and cut about 6,500 jobs since May, as it struggled to stay afloat.\n\nBusinessman Mike Ashley, who founded Sports Direct and also owns House of Fraser, had already made an offer for Debenhams after it was initially put up for sale in April.\n\nHowever the takeover offer, thought to be in the region of £125m, was rejected as being too low, leaving JD Sports as the last remaining bidder.\n\nMr Ashley had previously built up a 29% stake in the chain, but saw his £150m holding wiped out in 2019, when the company fell into administration and then ended up in the hands of its lenders - a consortium led by hedge fund Silverpoint.\n\nIn early December, the Frasers Group confirmed that it was working on a possible last minute rescue of Debenhams.\n\nThe announcement came five days after staff were informed and liquidators moved in to Debenhams' stores to start clearing stock, after a potential rescue deal with JD Sports fell through.\n\nBut Frasers said there was \"no certainty\" it could save the chain.\n\nOne of the biggest issues, it said, was the collapse into administration last week of another High Street giant, Arcadia, which is the biggest concession holder in Debenhams department stores.", "The UK has identified 77 cases of the coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa, the health secretary has said.\n\nCases are linked to travellers arriving in the UK, rather than community transmission, Matt Hancock added.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr cases were under \"very close\" observation and enhanced contact tracing was under way.\n\nMinisters are due to meet on Monday to consider imposing tougher restrictions on people arriving from abroad.\n\nScientists have said there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock said that \"three quarters of all the 80-year-olds in the country and a similar number of care homes\" have received their first doses of the vaccine.\n\nBoth the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses, and figures so far reflect those given the first dose.\n\nMr Hancock said that it was \"far too early to say\" what proportion of the population needed to be vaccinated before lockdown restrictions could be eased.\n\nAll viruses, including the one that causes Covid-19, mutate, and variants have been first located in the UK, South Africa and Brazil.\n\nThe South Africa variant has been found in at least 20 other countries, including the UK.\n\nMr Hancock said that all the South Africa variant cases in the UK were linked to travel.\n\n\"That's why we have got such stringent border measures in place against movement from South Africa,\" he added.\n\nThe UK closed all travel corridors last week until at least 15 February, with almost all travellers arriving in the country now required to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has not ruled out bringing in tougher measures at UK borders, telling a Downing Street news conference on Friday: \"We don't want to put that (efforts to control Covid) at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nMinisters are set to discuss whether to tighten border restrictions further, including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"We have got to be cautious at the borders.\"\n\nAsked for a date on when lockdown restrictions might end, Mr Hancock said it was \"one of the many things that we don't yet know the answer to\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock on easing restrictions: \"We don't know the answer\"\n\nGovernment data on 14 January showed there were 35 confirmed cases of the South Africa variant identified in the UK, and a further 12 \"probable\" cases.\n\nMr Hancock said nine cases of the Brazil variant had been found in the UK, adding \"we are monitoring each and every one very closely\".\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that Labour had been \"pushing the government to take tougher measures at the border since last spring\".\n\nShe said: \"We would fully expect the government to bring in tougher quarantine measures, we would expect them to roll out a proper testing strategy and we would expect them as well to start checking up on the people who are quarantining.\n\n\"Only three out of every hundred people who are asked to quarantine when they arrive into the UK actually face any checks at all - that's just simply not sufficient.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Johnson said there was \"some evidence\" the UK variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific officer, Sir Patrick Vallance, said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nThe PM said on Friday that there was evidence that both the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine and Oxford-AstraZeneca jab were effective against the variant first detected in the UK.\n\nSir Patrick has warned that the variants in South Africa and Brazil might \"have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines\".\n\nBut he said \"there is no evidence\" that the two variants have transmission advantages over those already in the UK and so having cases here doesn't mean \"they will take off\".\n\nMeanwhile, England's deputy chief medical officer warned that people who have received a Covid-19 vaccine could still pass the virus on to others and should continue following lockdown rules.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam stressed that scientists \"do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission\".\n\nHe said vaccines offer \"hope\" but infection rates must come down quickly.\n\nIt's a key question but the fact is that no one can be sure.\n\nThat's because the trials of the vaccines explored the safety of the drugs and how well they prevent people from becoming ill - with good results for both.\n\nBut they did not investigate whether vaccination also stops infection and therefore whether people who've been immunised can still spread the virus to others.\n\nIf a vaccinated person did become infected, they probably wouldn't realise because they wouldn't have any symptoms. That's why health officials and ministers are so concerned.\n\nIt's possible that the antibodies boosted by the vaccine suppress the effects of the virus but don't eliminate it from the upper airway.\n\nMany scientists are cautiously hopeful that in this scenario, the amount of virus would be reduced but they're waiting for the results of studies under way now.\n\nAnd until there's an answer, it's difficult to calculate how and when it's safe to ease restrictions and allow people to mix again.\n\nA further 610 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Sunday - down from 671 deaths last Sunday - in addition to 30,004 new infections.\n\nThe number of positive cases has fallen for the fourth day in a row and is the lowest figure since before Christmas.\n\nThe death figures tend to be lower on a Sunday and Monday because of weekend lags in reporting of the data.\n\nMeanwhile, more than six million people have had their first dose of a Covid vaccine - with the figure now standing at 6,353,321.\n\nNadhim Zahawi, the minister responsible for the vaccine rollout, said on Twitter that 6,353,321 of the \"most vulnerable and frontline heroes\" had received a first dose of the vaccine, but there was still \"much more to do\".\n\nThere were 4,076 Covid patients in mechanical ventilation beds in UK hospitals as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.", "Simon Spurrell (C) from the Cheshire Cheese Company says he was advised to set up an EU hub\n\nUK firms that export to the EU say they are being encouraged by the government to set up subsidiaries in the bloc to avoid disruption under new trade rules.\n\nFirms have been hit by extra charges, taxes and paperwork, leading some to stop exporting to the EU altogether.\n\nBut several say they have been told that setting up hubs in Europe would minimise the disruption, even if it means moving investment out of the UK.\n\nThe Department for International Trade said it was \"not government policy\".\n\n\"The Cabinet Office have issued clear guidance, available at www.gov.uk/transition, and we encourage all businesses to follow that guidance.\"\n\nThe Cheshire Cheese Company said it had been advised by an official to set up in the EU after it was forced to stop its exports to the bloc due to trade rules that came in on 1 January.\n\nThe firm, which sold £180,000 of cheese to the EU last year, found that every £25-30 gift box of cheese it sends to consumers on the Continent now needs a veterinary-approved health certificate costing £180.\n\n\"I spoke to someone at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs for advice. They told me setting up a fulfilment centre in the EU where we could pack the boxes was my only solution,\" co-founder Simon Spurrell told the BBC.\n\nThe firm, which had been optimistic about Brexit, is now looking at setting up a hub in France where it would \"test the water\".\n\nBut it has also scrapped plans to build a new £1m warehouse in Macclesfield employing 20-30 people.\n\n\"Instead we might end up employing French workers and paying tax to the EU,\" Mr Spurrell said.\n\n\"I left the EU as a UK citizen but now they are suggesting I rejoin my company to the EU, so what was Brexit for?\"\n\nThe issue, he said, was that the under the post-Brexit trade deal, a vet must approve every consignment of fresh food that his company ships to the EU.\n\nIt is a complex and costly process that has hit exporters of fresh meat and fish as well, and was partly why the government set up a £23m support fund for UK fishing companies.\n\nUK retailers who export to the EU have also complained about being hit with unsustainable costs when customers in the bloc return goods bought online. This is due to new customs clearance charges incurred by shipping firms.\n\nSome retailers have even warned they could burn clothes stuck at borders as it is cheaper than bringing them home.\n\nUlla Vitting Richards, who runs her sustainable fashion brand Vildnis from the UK, told the BBC last week she had stopped exporting to the EU, which was her fastest growing market, because of the new processes.\n\nShe also said that she had been advised - this time by a Department for International Trade (DIT) representative - that setting up a subsidiary distribution hub might help.\n\n\"He told me we'd be best off moving stock to a warehouse in Germany and get them to handle it,\" she said.\n\nAs early as last October, trade consultants Blick Rothenberg warned that thousands of UK businesses might need to set up an EU presence in order to keep exporting to European markets.\n\nHowever, experts say EU firms exporting to the UK - which currently enjoy a grace period over the imposition of some rules - will soon face the same issues.\n\nIndeed, some EU exporters have already stopped deliveries to the UK because of new VAT related charges.\n\nThe DIT said it was not government policy to advise UK firms to set up EU hubs and that it was \"ensuring all officials are properly conveying\" the right information.", "Scientists say signs a new coronavirus variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson has said there is \"some evidence\" the variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut the co-author of the study the PM was referring to said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open question\".\n\nAnother adviser said he was surprised Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nA third top medic said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\nAt a Downing Street coronavirus news conference on Friday, the prime minister said: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the South East - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\"\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, Sir Patrick said if 1,000 men in their 60s were infected with the old variant, roughly 10 of them would be expected to die - but this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThe announcement followed a briefing by scientists on the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) which concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the variant was associated with an increased risk of death.\n\nBut one of the briefing's co-authors, Prof Graham Medley, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The question about whether it is more dangerous in terms of mortality I think is still open.\"\n\n\"In terms of making the situation worse it is not a game changer. It is a very bad thing that is slightly worse,\" added Prof Medley, who is a professor of infectious disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nThere is huge uncertainty in the evidence on how lethal the variant is.\n\nThe scientific experts that reviewed the data used a precise phrase saying it was a \"realistic possibility\" the new variant is more deadly.\n\nThat means there's a roughly 50-50 chance it will turn out to be true.\n\nWith time, and sadly more deaths, the picture will become clearer.\n\nWhile people debate the uncertainties though, we already know this variant has the ability to kill more people than the old ones.\n\nA virus that spreads faster (this one is 30-70% faster) will infect more people, more quickly, putting a greater strain on hospitals and leading to a sharper spike in deaths.\n\nIt is why viruses becoming more transmissible can be a bigger problem than ones becoming more deadly.\n\nNervtag's chairman Prof Peter Horby defended the government's \"transparency\" in making the announcement.\n\n\"Scientists are looking at the possibility that there is increased severity... and after a week of looking at the data we came to the conclusion that it was a realistic possibility,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to be transparent about that. If we were not telling people about this we would be accused of covering it up.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nBut Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), agreed it was too early to draw \"strong conclusions\" as the suggested increased mortality rates were based on \"a relatively small amount of data\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he was \"actually quite surprised\" Mr Johnson had made the early findings public rather than monitoring the data \"for a week or two more\".\n\n\"I just worry that where we report things pre-emptively where the data are not really particularly strong,\" Dr Tildesley added.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle also said it was not \"absolutely clear\" the new variant was more deadly than the original.\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nMeanwhile, senior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".", "The number of coronavirus patients on mechanical ventilation in the UK has passed 4,000 for the first time in the pandemic.\n\nA total of 4,076 Covid patients were in ventilator beds as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.\n\nIt comes as another 1,348 deaths and 33,552 new infections were reported on Saturday.\n\nThe UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told a Downing Street news briefing on Friday: \"The death rate's awful and it's going to stay, I'm afraid, high for a little while before it starts coming down.\"\n\nMeanwhile, new figures show that a record number of seriously-ill Covid patients are being transferred from over-stretched hospitals because of a lack of bed space.\n\nAbout 1 in 10 patients admitted to intensive care are being sent to a different site, according to the body which audits critical care services.\n\nIn a series of reports in the past week, the BBC's Clive Myrie has been to a mortuary and the Royal London Hospital, where 12 out of 15 floors are occupied by Covid patients and staff are struggling to cope.\n\nMartin Freeborn's wife Helen, 64, died with Covid-19 at the hospital shortly before he spoke to the BBC.\n\nMr Freeborn urged people to \"be over-careful\" in taking precautions to stay safe from the virus because \"you don't want this to happen\".\n\n\"Nobody wants to go through this... Don't end up like us, please,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Freeborn's wife, Helen, died from Covid at the Royal London Hospital: 'Don't end up like us, please'\n\nThe number of people in mechanical ventilation beds has climbed every day since 18 December when it was 1,364 and now stands at 4,076.\n\nIt is one of the key figures the government considers when deciding its policy on when to ease coronavirus lockdown restrictions.\n\nWhen the pandemic first struck the UK, the government saw what had happened in hospitals in China and Italy and prioritised the provision of ventilators in British hospitals.\n\nIt set about buying as many ventilators as possible, and encouraged British manufacturers to design the machines to build stocks to cope with the worst-case Covid scenario. In September last year, a report found the NHS now had 30,000 ventilators available - about one for every 2,200 people in the UK.\n\nPeople in hospital are also being treated differently from the early days of the pandemic - which may explain why figures suggest slightly more people go on to recover after being on ventilation than back in March, April and May.\n\nA number of drugs are being tested as possible treatments for people with the disease, the BBC's health and science correspondent James Gallagher has said.\n\nThey include the steroid dexamethasone, which has been shown to reduce the risk of death by a third for ventilated patients and by a fifth for those on oxygen. Encouraging results have also been reported from two anti-inflammatory medications, tocilizumab and sarilumab.\n\nDr Ami Jones, intensive care consultant at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, in Wales, said there had been \"carnage\" for the \"last few weeks\".\n\nSpeaking whilst on shift, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We're maybe at 150% capacity and I know London are much worse than that.\n\n\"We've a steady stream of fit, young patients requiring critical care and sadly we're losing some of those patients.\n\n\"We lost a patient overnight and I've replaced them with a patient of similar age.\n\n\"It's heartbreaking - and it's been going on for weeks and weeks and we haven't seen any kind of stop yet.\"\n\nDr Jones said the average Covid patient stays in hospital between two to four weeks \"and it really puts them through it\".\n\nShe added: \"You really want people who are going to be able to survive that three or four weeks and actually come out the other end and make a good recovery.\n\n\"We're not stopping people having care but we're giving it to the people we feel have the best chance of getting through what is a horrific situation we're going to put them through.\"\n\nDr Jones said nurses are \"broken\", both physically, from months of long shifts in personal protective equipment (PPE), and emotionally - partly due to the impact of the virus on them, their families and the community.\n\nDr Rupert Pearse, consultant in intensive care medicine at a London hospital, speaking on behalf of the Intensive Care Society, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that a \"huge number\" of patients were still attending hospital.\n\nHe said: \"Whilst we know the infection rate has probably now peaked, and we can be hopeful to soon be sure we've hit a hospital admissions peak, admissions to ICU [the intensive care unit] usually lag 48 hours behind that.\n\n\"So we're still very very worried that we're being pushed right up to the wire in terms of the resources we're able to deliver for patient care.\"\n\nDr Pearse added that there were three or four times more critical care beds in some hospitals than they would usually have.\n\nHe said: \"I can remember a time when it would take years for an intensive care unit to negotiate one extra bed on a complement of 14 or 15 beds.\n\n\"We, within a few weeks, have massively increased the number of beds and finding the staff - most importantly of all - to deliver that has been a huge logistical exercise.\"\n\nReacting to the ventilation figures, Dr Charlotte Hopkins, deputy chief medical officer for Barts Health NHS trust in east London, said on Twitter there had been a \"fast-paced increase\" since 18 December, and that more than a third of the 4,076 ventilated patients were in London.\n\nIt comes as some scientists said that signs a new Covid variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday that there was \"some evidence\" the variant that emerged in the UK may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut Prof Graham Medley, the co-author of the study the PM was referring to, said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open\" question.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), said he was \"surprised\" Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nUp to and including 22 January, 5,861,351 people have now had their first Covid jab and 468,617 have had their second dose.\n\nSenior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".\n\nThe UK's four chief medical officers have previously defended the delay to the second jab in a letter to medical staff, saying: \"unvaccinated people are far more likely to end up severely ill, hospitalised [or] in some cases dying\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video filmed in Tacoma, Washington, shows a police car apparently ploughing through a crowd of people\n\nA police officer is under investigation in the US after his vehicle ploughed into a group of people, running over at least one, in Tacoma, Washington.\n\nNobody was killed in the incident, although one person was rushed to hospital with injuries.\n\nA video shows a large group of people surrounding the police car as it revs its engine in an apparent effort to drive off.\n\nThe group refuses to move, and police say people started hitting the car.\n\nThe police officer then speeds through the group, hitting numerous people. One person is dragged under the car.\n\nTacoma Police Department said multiple vehicles and approximately 100 people were blocking an intersection when officers arrived on the scene. The group was apparently watching street racers doing \"burnouts\".\n\n\"During the operation, a responding Tacoma police vehicle was surrounded by the crowd. People hit the body of the police vehicle and its windows as the officer was stopped in the street,\" police said in a statement.\n\n\"The officer, fearing for his safety, tried to back up, but was unable to do so because of the crowd,\" it said.\n\n\"While trying to extricate himself from an unsafe position, the officer drove forward striking one individual and may have impacted others,\" it said.\n\nThe person who was run over was rushed to hospital. Their condition is as yet unclear.\n\nThe Pierce County Force Investigation Team is investigating the incident, the statement said. The police officer has not been identified.\n\n\"I am concerned that our department is experiencing another use of deadly force incident,\" Interim Police Chief Mike Ake said in the statement.\n\n\"I send my thoughts to anyone who was injured in tonight's event, and am committed to our department's full co-operation in the independent investigation and to assess the actions of the department's response during the incident.\"\n\nThe incident comes at a time of rising anger over the use of excessive force by police in the US.\n\nPeople across the world took to the streets last year to demonstrate their anger at the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis, and to demand an end to police brutality and what they see as systemic racism.", "It is hoped that vaccinating teenagers will allow them to sit exams\n\nIsrael has started vaccinating 16 to 18-year-olds against Covid-19, in an effort to enable them to sit exams.\n\nMore than a quarter of Israel's population of nine million have received at least one dose of the Pfizer vaccine since 19 December, its health ministry says.\n\nIt started with the elderly and others at high risk, but people aged 40 and over can also now get the jab.\n\nIsrael hopes to start reopening its economy in February.\n\nThe inclusion of 16 to 18-year-olds - with parental permission - is meant \"to enable their return (to school) and the orderly holding of exams\", an education ministry spokeswoman said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe matriculation exams that Israeli students sit at the end of high school play an important role in deciding where they will go to university. Their results can also affect their placement in the military, where many young Israelis do compulsory service.\n\nThe education ministry has said it is too early to say whether schools will reopen next month.\n\nIsrael started its rapid vaccination drive - the fastest in the world - on 19 December, reaching 10% of its population by the end of 2020.\n\nIsrael has recorded more than 596,000 cases and 4,392 deaths with Covid-19, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.\n\nOn Sunday, the government said it would ban passenger flights in and out of the country from Monday night for the rest of January, in an effort to halt the spread of new virus variants.\n\n\"Other than rare exceptions, we are closing the sky hermetically to prevent the entry of the virus variants and also to ensure that we progress quickly with our vaccination campaign,\" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.\n\nForeigners have largely been blocked from entering Israel during the pandemic.", "The Department for Transport said \"smart motorways are as safe as, or safer than, the conventional ones\"\n\nA police and crime commissioner (PCC) has written to the government to say smart motorways are \"inherently unsafe and dangerous and should be abandoned\".\n\nSouth Yorkshire PCC Dr Alan Billings wrote his open letter to Grant Shapps, the Secretary of State for Transport.\n\nHis comments come after a coroner found two men had been unlawfully killed on a \"smart\" section of the M1.\n\nThe Department for Transport said \"smart motorways are as safe as, or safer than, the conventional ones\".\n\nOn 19 January coroner David Urpeth called for a review of the road schemes.\n\nMr Urpeth said smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths\".\n\nHe was speaking following the inquests for Jason Mercer, 44, from Rotherham and Alexandru Murgeanu, 22, of Mansfield, who died when a lorry crashed into their vehicles near Sheffield on 7 June 2019.\n\nNow Labour's Dr Billings has told Grant Shapps: \"I believe smart motorways of this kind - where what would be a hard shoulder is a live lane with occasional refuges - are inherently unsafe and dangerous and should be abandoned.\n\n\"The relevant test for us is whether someone who breaks down on this stretch of the motorway, where there is no hard shoulder, would have had a better chance of escaping death or injury had there still been a hard shoulder - and the coroner's verdict makes it clear that the answer to that question is - Yes.\"\n\nAlexandru Murgeanu (l) and Jason Mercer were killed in the crash on the M1 in South Yorkshire\n\nJason Mercer's widow, Claire, had previously told Nicky Campbell on BBC Radio 5Live she considered a government review of the smart motorway system \"was just a paperwork exercise and a PR exercise.\"\n\nTalking to BBC Look North Yorkshire after publishing the letter on Sunday, Dr Billings said: \"The Department for Transport and Highways England have argued all along that these sorts of motorways are actually safe, they even go as far as to say they are safer than ordinary motorways, now I think that whatever formula they are using to come to that conclusion is wrong.\n\n\"The coroner in his verdict has made it pretty clear that these two particular lives in South Yorkshire would not have come to such a sad end if there had been a hard shoulder there, so I think this is new evidence they have to take into account.\"\n\nHe added: \"If they thought this type of motorway was even smarter, or safer, than a conventional motorway, then why not convert the entire system to smart motorways, making it safer? As soon as you say it, I think you realise it's absurd.\n\n\"I think they (smart motorways) were done originally not because it was a safer way of doing a motorway, I think it was done in order to expand the capacity, get the traffic flowing by having an extra lane, but to do it cheaply, and I think we're trading cost - cheapness - for other people's lives.\"\n\nIn response to Dr Billings' open letter, the Department for Transport said: \"The stocktake [of smart motorways] showed that in most ways smart motorways are as safe as, or safer than, the conventional ones.\n\n\"The Transport Secretary has tasked Highways England with delivering an 18-point action plan to ensure they are safer still, and he has called an urgent meeting with the company to discuss their progress.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "As high risk groups continue to be immunised there are growing concerns that people with learning disabilities have been missed out.\n\nDespite a recent Public Health England report warning they are six times more likely to die from coronavirus, as a group, they have not been prioritised for a vaccine.\n\nLegal action is being taken against the Department of Health and Social Care, which says it is working hard to vaccinate all those at risk.", "A Covid outbreak was declared at the DVLA's contact centre in December\n\nStaff are scared to work at the UK vehicle licensing agency's contact centre in Swansea where 500 workers have contracted coronavirus since the pandemic began, a union says.\n\nThe PCS union has urged ministers to intervene and described the numbers as a \"scandal\".\n\nA DVLA spokesperson insisted safety was a priority and it followed guidance to \"help keep our offices Covid secure\".\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had been \"worried about the DVLA for a while\".\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said he has repeatedly raised concerns over case numbers at the offices.\n\nMinister Eluned Morgan said the decision to introduce tougher Covid regulations for workplaces in Wales was made, in part, due to the situation at the DVLA.\n\nIn December, a coronavirus outbreak was declared at the centre at Swansea Vale in Llansamlet after 352 cases of Covid-19 in the space of four months.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe DVLA has about 6,000 staff based in Swansea but said it was currently operating on a \"far reduced capacity\".\n\nA DVLA worker, who did not want to be identified, told BBC Wales News that close contacts of people testing positive are not always sent home to self-isolate, social-distancing is not being followed and homeworking is not always possible because of \"archaic\" systems.\n\n\"There are certain elements within management who are trying to bend the rules and regulations,\" they said.\n\n\"It has been mentioned that you don't need your track and trace [contact tracing app] on. If someone's off with Covid, the people who haven't had their app on haven't been sent home.\n\n\"They'll say 'your app hasn't pinged, you're not going home'.\"\n\nThe worker said it was difficult for staff to adhere to the two-metre distancing rule because of the way the office was laid out and some staff had resigned.\n\n\"The atmosphere sucks, people are scared. I have heard of some people walking out,\" they said.\n\nOne worker said two-metres distancing was not always being observed\n\n\"I think they have been raising concerns. They probably didn't get the answer they wanted. It's not necessarily the manager's fault, the managers are struggling too.\"\n\nPCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka said: \"It is a scandal that DVLA are not doing more to reduce numbers in the workplace when Covid infections are on the rise.\n\n\"Our members are telling us they are scared to enter the workplace for fear of catching Covid 19.\n\n\"Minsters must intervene and ensure DVLA are doing their utmost to enable staff to work from home and temporarily cease non-critical services.\"\n\nEluned Morgan told Radio Cymru the Welsh Government has been keeping an eye on the situation at the Swansea offices.\n\nEluned Morgan said the Welsh Government has been concerned at the situation at the DVLA for \"some time\".\n\nThe wellbeing minister said: \"We've been worried about the DVLA for a while, now. We've been putting pressure on them.\n\n\"It comes up time and again from the people who represent Swansea, and we're worried the pressure on people working there hasn't helped.\n\n\"The situation is one of the reasons why we've introduced new rules, new legislation, to tighten the restrictions on people at work.\"\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething added: \"We're concerned about anecdotal reports we've heard from the trade union side, individuals, that all of the requirements weren't being followed.\"\n\nHe said there would be questions for management to answer if there had been a breach of the rules.\n\nThe DVLA said some staff have been able to work from home \"in line with government advice\", though others were required to be in the office due to their roles\n\n\"In view of the essential nature of the public services we provide, some operational staff are required to be in the office where their role means they cannot work from home,\" said a spokesman.\n\nThe DVLA said it has worked closely with Public Health Wales, Swansea council's environmental health staff and union officials to try to make its buildings Covid safe, including opening an additional site in Swansea.\n\nHowever, there were currently four Covid cases across its estate, with none at its contact centre.\n\n\"Before Christmas, when transmission infection rates were extremely high in the local community where most of our staff live, we saw a rise in staff testing positive for Covid,\" he said.\n\nSwansea MP Carolyn Harris said, during the first lockdown, she was in \"constant contact\" with the DVLA due to concerns raised by workers.\n\n\"Since Christmas, I've not been able to get hold of anyone from the DVLA,\" she told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement.\n\n\"Last night I spent a long time trying to hold of the chief executive.\n\n\"Some of the stuff that I am now reading, and some of the stuff I've had in over the last 24 hours, really worries me.\"\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said its inspector had been tackling \"a series of concerns\" since August and had spoken to the PCS, which it said was \"broadly supportive of DVLA's approach\".\n\nA spokesperson added: \"Most recently HSE joined Swansea Environmental Health Officers and Public Health Wales for some joint visits to premises, in our role to assist public health to assess the potential of work place transmission as part of their wider work to contain outbreaks.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is not clear if anyone not entitled succeeded in getting a Covid jab\n\nA health board boss has criticised council staff for potentially sharing Covid vaccine invites with colleagues.\n\nThe board meeting in North Wales heard some council staff, not within groups currently being vaccinated, booked appointments by following a link in an email only intended for the recipient.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board's chairman Mark Polin said such actions could deprive someone else of a jab.\n\nDenbighshire council said it had warned staff the emails were not to be abused.\n\nIt is not clear if anyone not entitled succeeded in getting a Covid jab, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.\n\nOnly front-line social care and health workers, those over 80 and 70 years old, care home residents and their carers are currently being vaccinated.\n\nIndependent member Jackie Hughes spoke about the matter at Thursday's monthly health board meeting.\n\nAnswering her query, Dr Chris Stockport, the health board's executive director of primary care and community services, said: \"We are very clear with our local authority partners and teams of what frontline means in the same way we are elsewhere.\n\n\"When you arrive [for a vaccine] there's a process of validation.\n\n\"The likelihood is they will experience some difficulties working through the booking system [if they try to get into a higher vaccination cohort].\n\n\"It adds complications for a busy team and I would ask them not to do that when it's a clear effort to circumvent the cohort.\"\n\nAt Thursday's daily press briefing the UK Government Home Secretary Priti Patel said people who jumped the queue for the vaccine were \"morally reprehensible\" as they were putting the lives of vulnerable people at risk.\n\nShe said all the UK Government's measures were under review but \"our focus is getting that vaccine to the most vulnerable to make sure we can protect them and obviously protect others in the community\".\n\nMr Polin added: \"Whilst we understand the concerns people should not be doing what they are doing.\n\n\"The priority groups have been identified with clear medical guidance and sound reasoning behind it.\n\n\"So people jumping the queue are depriving someone else, potentially, of receiving the vaccine at the point at which they should.\"\n\nHe said it was a temporary problem, adding: \"We are changing the booking system, so this opportunity is not going to last much longer.\"\n\nHe said staff were looking out for any inappropriate bookings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than five million people in the UK have now received the first dose of a coronavirus vaccine - thanks to an army of more than 80,000 volunteers and NHS workers who have been trained to give the jabs.\n\nMany of the vaccine volunteers have had no previous medical training and come from all walks of life. So why did they sign up? And how does it feel to stick a needle into a stranger's arm?\n\nYou could see their relief. A lot of them have been waiting 10 months without leaving the house\n\nCallum Finnegan, 23, has been juggling his 40-hour week as a Tesco delivery driver with giving Covid jabs at Manchester's Etihad tennis centre. A St John Ambulance volunteer, he completed extensive online and face-to-face training, which included practising administering jabs on silicon arms before giving them to patients. He says he'd never given an injection before.\n\nThe biomedical science graduate wanted to get involved in the vaccination effort as soon as the call was put out and says he feels \"grateful and privileged\" to be helping the rollout - an effort he hopes will save as many lives as possible.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Radio 5 Live This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCallum, who volunteered for four weeks at London's Nightingale hospital at the beginning of the pandemic, says his first shift giving jabs was \"one of the best days\" he's had since Covid hit.\n\n\"They were incredibly emotional,\" he says of the people he has given the jab to. \"You could see their relief. A lot of them have been waiting 10 months without leaving the house, or seeing only one or two people. One of those could have been a Tesco delivery driver - there's a lot of people I deliver to who tell me that I'm the only person they're seeing face-to-face at the minute.\"\n\nIt just makes me feel better about the world, especially when it can get you down. It's nice to do something good for other people\n\nKate Donaghy, who runs an IT team for a travel company, was inspired to train as a vaccinator after seeing the impact of the disease first hand. A St John Ambulance volunteer for four years, Kate, 28, spent time at a London hospital last year helping to care for recovering Covid patients - before volunteering at an A&E department.\n\nAfter seeing just how desperate the situation was, she switched her focus to becoming a vaccinator. \"I just thought how can we stop this happening to people in the first place? If we can vaccinate people, that feels like a better way forward to solve the problem, and a great use of my time.\"\n\nShe says she overcame her initial nerves in giving the jabs thanks to some supportive colleagues and has already signed up for shifts at London's ExCel centre most weekends going forward.\n\nHer elderly patients were \"so happy it was the beginning of the end to their isolation\". \"It just makes me feel better about the world, especially when it can get you down. It's nice to do something good for other people.\"\n\nIt did feel good - it felt good to be fighting back\n\nDr Andy Bates, a 57-year-old dentist from North Yorkshire, recently gave his first vaccinations at Long Lee surgery, in Keighley. He is used to giving injections - albeit in the mouth - but he says helping to protect people against this virus \"did feel good - it felt good to be fighting back\".\n\nDr Bates is working as a paid vaccinator alongside a four-day week at his dental practice. He says both roles have served as a reminder that he could be the first person a patient has seen for months. And he says his day job - particularly calming people who are nervous about lying back in his dentist's chair - has helped him.\n\nHe says he managed to relax a \"very nervous\" lady in her 90s, who hadn't left the house since last March, by talking about their shared love of alpine cycling.\n\nAnd it's not just Dr Bates and his fellow vaccinators that have stepped up. He says after a \"huge dump\" of snow in the area, the community sprang into action to ensure elderly patients could safely come for their jabs - with a local farmer towing the van delivering the vaccines up the hill to the surgery, and volunteers clearing snow and ice from the car park.\n\nI just thought this is enough, this has got to stop. I wanted to help all the other elderly people who are so vulnerable to this virus\n\nWhen theatres closed last year, Amanda Baldwin's career as a full-time chorus member at London's Royal Opera House came to a \"heartbreaking\" standstill.\n\nStuck at home in south-east London with nothing to do, Amanda and her husband Julian Johnson, 55 - a freelance theatre stage manager - decided to volunteer for the NHS through the GoodSam app, which later connected them with the vaccinator training run by St John Ambulance.\n\nAmanda applied shortly after her 84-year-old mother tested positive for the virus - just before she was due to have the vaccine. \"Luckily she came through it, and she wasn't hospitalised. But I just thought this is enough, this has got to stop. I wanted to help all the other elderly people who are so vulnerable to this virus.\"\n\nAmanda recently passed her full SJA training in London and is now waiting for her first shift as a vaccinator. She thinks her performance background will help keep her nerves in check for when she administers her first jabs - joking that she hopes her patients \"don't wriggle about as much\" as her pet cat did when she had to give it injections for its diabetes.\n\nAfter feeling \"like a part of [her] soul was missing\" when theatres closed, she says training as vaccinator has given her a \"purpose\" again. \"I feel like I've now got [another] skill that can really help people.\"", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "Appointments were brought forward or rescheduled for safety reasons\n\nFour vaccination centres were shut as snow caused some travel disruption in Wales.\n\nSunday appointments in Bridgend, Rhondda, Abercynon and Merthyr Tydfil were rescheduled for safety reasons, but centres will reopen on Monday, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said.\n\nThe Met Office has extended a yellow weather warning to midnight on Sunday for all of Wales except Anglesey.\n\nA yellow warning for ice runs from midnight until 11:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nPolice have warned of difficult conditions due to snow and ice.\n\nUp to 3cm of snow is forecast to fall in most areas, with 10 to 15cm expected in the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board urged anyone with queries about Sunday's vaccination appointments to call the number on their appointment letters.\n\nSnow volunteers cleared pathways so a Covid vaccine pilot in Maesteg could keep running\n\n\"We can confirm that no vaccines have been wasted as a consequence of this temporary Sunday closure and we are grateful to all those who were able to turn up at such short notice yesterday as we brought forward a significant number of Sunday appointments during the course of Saturday,\" it said.\n\n\"Additionally, our 4x4 arrangements are enabling us to continue to reach care homes to vaccinate the staff and residents there.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth Wales Police tweeted there was \"widespread snow this morning, particularly in some higher areas, making driving conditions difficult\".\n\nAnd Dyfed-Powys Police said some roads were \"impassable\" and advised people to \"stay home\".\n\nIn Bridgend, officers from South Wales Police were pelted with snowballs as they helped an injured sledger on Heol y Nant.\n\nNorth Wales Police warned of difficult conditions due to \"widespread snow\", particularly on high ground.\n\nIt said the A499 near Pwllheli had received heavy snowfall overnight.\n\nWelsh Ambulance Service boss Jason Killens tweeted, thanking the public for helping crews continue to work despite the conditions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVillages were dusted with snow, such as in Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire\n\nNick Rolfe shared this garden view in Nercwys, near Mold, Flintshire\n\nThe Met Office warned travellers that \"longer journey times by road, bus and train services\" could be expected, although Wales is in a level four lockdown with all but essential travel banned.\n\nIt also said the snow could lead to power cuts and other services, such as mobile phone coverage, may be affected.\n\nThose going out for daily exercise have been warned there could be icy patches on some untreated roads, pavements and cycle paths.\n\nIn Powys, this was the view over Newtown on Sunday\n\nThe hills around Llangollen, Denbighshire, were covered in snow on Saturday\n\nPower cuts and travel delays are possible, the Met Office says\n\nThe drop in temperatures is likely to exacerbate problems after widespread flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nTwo flood warnings issued by Natural Resources Wales remain in place, meaning flooding is expected.\n\nThese cover the River Ritec at Tenby in Pembrokeshire, which could affect the Kiln Park caravan site, and the lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows.\n\nPretty as a picture... Suzy shared this garden view in Snowdonia\n\nSun up: Heath in Cardiff awakes to a covering of snow\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "DUP leader Arlene Foster said people in NI need to \"come together to fight against Covid\"\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster has said a potential vote on a united Ireland would be \"absolutely reckless\".\n\nShe was speaking after a poll commissioned by the Sunday Times in NI found 51% of people want a referendum on Irish unity in the next five years.\n\nSpeaking to Sky News, the first minister said \"we all know how divisive a border poll would be\".\n\nSinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said there was an \"unstoppable conversation under way\" on the issue.\n\nThe deputy first minister called on the Irish government \"to step up preparations\" for a border poll.\n\nProvisions for a possible border poll on Irish reunification are included in the the Good Friday Agreement - the deal which led to peace in Northern Ireland after decades of violence.\n\nIt states that the Northern Ireland Secretary must call a border poll if it at any time it appears \"likely\" to that a majority of people in Northern Ireland would vote for a united Ireland.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMrs Foster said she thought it was \"very disappointing\" that some nationalist parties in the UK were focusing on \"constitutional politics\" during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\n\"We all know how divisive a border poll would be, and for us in Northern Ireland what we have to do is come together to fight against Covid, and not be distracted by what would be absolutely reckless at this time,\" she said.\n\nShe added if there was a vote on Irish unity, the arguments for the union are \"rational, logical, and they will win through\".\n\nThe polling was carried out by Lucidtalk in Northern Ireland, with similar polling in England, Scotland and Wales to gauge attitudes towards the union.\n\nIt found that in Northern Ireland, 47% still want to remain in the UK, with 42% in favour of a united Ireland and 11% undecided.\n\nHowever for those aged under 45, supporters of Irish reunification outnumber those who want to stay in the UK by 47% to 46%.\n\nRespondents also said they believed there would be a united Ireland within 10 years, by a margin of 48% to 44%.\n\nPolls like this come with the usual health warning - they are a snapshot in a moment in time.\n\nNonetheless there is some interesting reading here - not least the fact that it paints a picture of a disunited kingdom.\n\nWe shouldn't really be surprised about that because we have had very different approaches to the global Covid-19 pandemic with different outcomes.\n\nWe know that Brexit is starting to bite and there is a lot of frustration out there and uncertainty and that, I'm sure, has fed into these figures.\n\nThe big question for NI, unsurprisingly, is around constitutional change.\n\nIt shows that 51% of those polled would want to see a border poll within the next five years, compared to 44% who would not.\n\nHowever, if they flip that question around it's interesting to see that 42% would want to see a united Ireland, but 47% would want to remain, with 11% of don't knows.\n\nSo according to these figures there may be an appetite for a border poll - but if that question was posed the majority are saying they would stay in the UK.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said the poll placed a \"solemn obligation\" on those seeking a united Ireland \"to engage with every community, sector and generation\".\n\n\"The United Kingdom may be coming to an end but we are all called to build a new future together. That's the work the SDLP is engaged in,\" said the Foyle MP.\n\nThe polling found 47% of people in Northern Ireland wish to remain in the UK, with 42% in favour of a united Ireland, and 11% undecided\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken said \"all political energy should be focused on making Northern Ireland a better place to live and work rather than a divisive border poll\".\n\n\"We need to concentrate on the here and now, fostering better relationships and plotting a way through and out of the Covid-19 pandemic,\" he added.\n\n\"As Northern Ireland enters its second century, we should be talking about recovery, renewal and reconciliation.\"\n\nThe polls also found across the UK, respondents believed Scotland would become independent within the next 10 years.\n\nIn Scotland, it found a large poll lead for the Scottish National Party, with them potentially being on course to win 70 of 129 seats in Holyrood.\n\nThe SNP is set to reveal its 'roadmap to a referendum' to its national assembly on Sunday.\n\nIt outlines plans to pursue a vote after the pandemic if there is a pro-independence majority at Holyrood following May's election.\n\nThe research was carried out by Lucidtalk in Northern Ireland, Panelbase in Scotland, and YouGov in England and Wales.\n\nThe polling was carried out between 15 and 22 of January, with 2,392 people polled in Northern Ireland, 1,206 in Scotland, 1,416 in England, and 1,059 in Wales.", "Larry King, giant of US broadcasting who achieved worldwide fame for interviewing political leaders and celebrities, has died at the age of 87.\n\nKing conducted an estimated 50,000 interviews in his six-decade career, which included 25 years as host of the popular CNN talk show Larry King Live.\n\nHe died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to Ora Media, a production company he co-founded.\n\nEarlier this month, he was treated in hospital for Covid-19, US media say.\n\nThe talk show host, famous for his braces and rolled-up sleeves, had faced several health problems in recent years, including heart attacks.\n\nKing was married eight times to seven women and had five children. Two of them died last year within weeks of each other - daughter Chaia died from lung cancer and son Andy of a heart attack.\n\nKing carried out interviews with every sitting US president from Gerald Ford to Barack Obama and a number of world leaders. His other high-profile guests included Dr Martin Luther King, the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Lady Gaga.\n\n\"For 63 years and across the platforms of radio, television and digital media, Larry's many thousands of interviews, awards, and global acclaim stand as a testament to his unique and lasting talent as a broadcaster,\" Ora Media said in a statement, without giving the cause of death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Larry King: \"I like spontaneity. That's the kind of broadcaster I am\".\n\nBorn Lawrence Harvey Zeiger in Brooklyn, New York, in 1933, King rose to fame in the 1970s with his radio programme The Larry King Show, on the commercial network Mutual Broadcasting System.\n\nIn 1985 he launched Larry King Live on the fledgling CNN, and became one of the network's biggest stars. The programme, broadcast around the world, was a success with audiences, with King answering thousands of phone calls from viewers.\n\nHe earned a number of honours, including two Peabody awards, but was also criticised for his non-confrontational approach and open-ended questions. King boasted of not doing much research for the interviews so, he said, he could learn along with viewers.\n\nBy 2010 his ratings had dropped significantly, with critics saying King's approach felt outdated in an era of more aggressive interviewing styles. King then announced his retirement, saying: \"It's time to hang up my nightly suspenders.\"\n\nIn his final programme on CNN, he told his viewers: \"I don't know what to say, except to you, my audience, thank you. Instead of goodbye, how about so long?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by CNN Communications This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCNN replaced him with British journalist and broadcaster Piers Morgan, whose programme King criticised for being \"too much about him\".\n\nMorgan, whose programme was cancelled three years later, said on Twitter on Saturday: \"Larry King was a hero of mine until we fell out after I replaced him at CNN & he said my show was 'like watching your mother-in-law go over a cliff in your new Bentley.' (He married 8 times so a mother-in-law expert).\"\n\nIn a statement, CNN president Jeff Zucker said: \"The scrappy young man from Brooklyn had a history-making career spanning radio and television. His curiosity about the world propelled his award-winning career in broadcasting, but it was his generosity of spirit that drew the world to him.\"\n\nMost recently, King hosted another programme, Larry King Now, broadcast on Hulu and RT, Russia's state-controlled international broadcaster.\n\nA Kremlin spokesman was quoted as saying by state RIA Novosti news agency: \"King repeatedly interviewed Putin. The president has always appreciated his great professionalism and unquestioned journalistic authority.\"\n\nOutside broadcasting, King founded the Larry King Cardiac Foundation in 1988, a charity which helps to fund heart treatment for those with limited financial means or no medical insurance.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA new world record has been set for the number of satellites sent to space on a single rocket.\n\nThe 143 payloads, of all shapes and sizes, rode to orbit on a SpaceX Falcon rocket that launched out of Florida.\n\nThe number beats the previous record of 104 satellites carried aloft by an Indian vehicle in 2017.\n\nIt's further evidence of the major structural changes taking place in space activity that are allowing many more actors to get involved.\n\nThis shift is the result of a revolution in robust, miniaturised, low-cost components - many taken direct from consumer electronics such as smartphones - that mean pretty much anyone can now build a capable satellite in a very small package.\n\nAnd with SpaceX offering to transport those packages to orbit for just $1m, the commercial opportunities will continue to open up.\n\nGuatemala's Santa María volcano: Planet is imaging the entire Earth daily with its Dove satellites\n\nSpaceX itself had 10 satellites on the Falcon - the latest additions to its Starlink telecommunications mega-constellation, which is going to deliver broadband internet connections around the globe.\n\nSan Francisco's Planet company had the most satellites of all on the flight - 48.\n\nThese were another batch of its SuperDove models that image the Earth's surface daily at a resolution of 3-5m. The new spacecraft take the firm's operational fleet now in orbit to more than 200.\n\n\"Internet of things\": SpaceBees will connect to all manner of objects on the ground\n\nThe SuperDoves are the size of a shoebox. Many of the other payloads on the Falcon rocket were little bigger than a coffee mug, however; and some were smaller even than a paperback book.\n\nSwarm Technologies is rolling out what it calls the SpaceBees. They're just 10cm by 10cm by 2.5cm.\n\nThey'll act as telecommunications nodes to connect devices that are attached to all manner of objects on the ground, from migrating animals to shipping containers.\n\nThe satellites were mounted on a dispenser that ejected them in sequence\n\nSome of the larger items on the Falcon rocket were suitcase-sized. Among these were several radar satellites. Radar has been one of the major beneficiaries of the revolution in componentry.\n\nTraditionally, radar satellites were big, multi-tonne objects that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to fly, which essentially meant only the military or major space agencies could afford to operate them.\n\nBut the adoption of new materials and compact \"off the shelf\" parts have dramatically shrunk the size (to under 100kg) and price (a couple of million dollars) of these spacecraft.\n\niQPS artwork: The radar satellites unfurl large antennas once they are in space\n\nIceye from Finland, Capella from the US, and iQPS of Japan all took the ride to orbit on Sunday. These start-ups are establishing constellations in the sky that will return rapid, repeat imagery of the Earth.\n\nRadar has the advantage over standard optical cameras of being able to pierce cloud, and to sense the Earth's surface whether it is day or night. We're entering an age when any change on the planet, wherever it happens, will be picked up almost immediately.\n\nThe Falcon carried the 143 satellites into a 500km-high path that runs from pole to pole. This is one of the drawbacks of a big rideshare mission: you go where the rocket goes, and for some that might not be ideal.\n\nA number of satellite missions will want an orbit that's higher or lower in the sky, or on a different inclination to the equator.\n\nThis can be achieved by mounting the satellites on \"space tugs\" which, after coming off the top of the rocket, modify the final parameters for their \"passengers\" over the course of several weeks. Sunday's Falcon carried two such tugs.\n\nBut for some missions a bespoke ride is going to be the only satisfactory solution. It's why we're now witnessing a rush to produce small rockets that can run dedicated flights.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket blasts its way to space\n\nThese smaller rockets will not be able to compete on cost with the big vehicles, such as SpaceX's Falcon-9, but they should attract the custom of those with very specific or urgent needs.\n\nDan Hart, the CEO of Virgin Orbit, which has developed a small rocket that can be launched from under the wing of a Boeing 747, says the start-ups are becoming more discerning.\n\n\"These small satellites used to be points of fascination and interest, and it was a case of finding the cheapest way possible to get into space,\" he explained.\n\n\"That's rapidly changing. These are now businesses with critical missions that risk losing revenue if they have to wait on others or go into an unsuitable orbit. And that's why you're going to see people who will pay that little bit more to get to where they want to go when they absolutely need to go there,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will Marshall: \"Our satellites 'phoned home' and they are healthy\"\n\nWith the roll call of satellites going into orbit now accelerating rapidly, the issue of traffic management is becoming a hot topic.\n\nFull-on collisions are currently rare, but a surprisingly large number (10%) of satellites will even now experience sudden, unexpected momentum changes, most probably the result of being hit by some small fragment from a previous mission.\n\nThe space sector needs to find smarter ways to track objects in orbit and to command timely avoidance manoeuvres, otherwise certain altitudes could ultimately become unusable because of the presence of dangerously dense debris fields.\n\nJonathan McDowell from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is a noted historian of astronautics.\n\nHe commented: \"There are now over 3,000 working satellites in orbit. The number of satellites launched last year at over 1,200 is over twice as many as in any previous year. And the ones launched today - that used to be the number you'd launch in a whole year. So it's getting really crowded up there.\"\n\nWill Marshall, the CEO of Planet, said his company, and indeed all of the companies on Sunday's flight, were accutley aware of the issue.\n\n\"We are seeing crowded areas in certain orbits,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"Most of the crowded piece that is in danger of what they call Kessler Syndrome (runaway collisions) is quite high up. So one of the tricks that all of these satellites that were launched today use is to just stay really low where there's still a lot of atmospheric drag and eventually those satellites just come down.\"", "Pavithra Wanniarachchi (L) has become the fourth Sri Lankan minister to test positive\n\nSri Lanka's health minister, who endorsed herbal syrup to prevent Covid, has tested positive for the virus.\n\nPavithra Wanniarachchi tested positive on Friday, a media secretary at the Ministry of Health told the BBC.\n\nShe had promoted the syrup, manufactured by a shaman who claimed it worked as a life-long inoculation against the virus.\n\nSri Lanka recorded 56,076 cases and 276 deaths since the pandemic began, with cases surging in recent months.\n\nMs Wanniarachchi is the fourth minister to test positive. A junior minister, who also took the potion, tested positive earlier this week.\n\nThe health minister had publicly consumed and endorsed the syrup as a way of stopping the spread of the virus. The shaman who invented the syrup, which contains honey and nutmeg, said the recipe was given to him in a visionary dream.\n\nDoctors in the country have quashed claims the herbal syrup works, but AFP news agency reports thousands have travelled to a village to obtain it.\n\nMs Wanniarachchi took two Covid-19 tests and both returned positive results, Viraj Abeysinghe, media secretary at the Ministry of Health told the BBC.\n\nThe minister has been asked to self-isolate and all of her immediate contacts have gone into isolation.\n\nNews of Ms Wanniarachchi's positive test came hours after Sri Lanka approved the emergency use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. The first doses are expected to arrive in the country next week.\n\nSri Lanka isn't the only place where people in positions of power have promoted unproven treatments for Covid.\n\nLast year, Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina was criticised for promoting a herbal concoction that he claimed could prevent the virus. He was pictured distributing the tonic to poor communities in the capital.\n\nSince the pandemic began, a number of world leaders and cabinet members have contracted Covid. French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and former President Donald Trump all caught the virus at various points last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The people who think Coronavirus is caused by 5G", "Mr Johnson raised the benefits of a UK-US trade deal during his phone call with Mr Biden\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has spoken to Joe Biden for the first time since the new US president was inaugurated.\n\nMr Johnson said on Twitter that he looked forward to \"deepening the longstanding alliance\" between the UK and the US as they drove a \"green and sustainable recovery from Covid-19\".\n\nMr Biden was sworn in as president and Kamala Harris as vice-president in a ceremony in Washington on Wednesday.\n\nThe PM said their inauguration was a \"step forward\" for the US.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said Mr Johnson \"warmly welcomed\" the president's decision to rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change and the World Health Organization - both abandoned by Mr Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump.\n\n\"The prime minister praised President Biden's early action on tackling climate change and commitment to reach net zero by 2050,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe spokesman added that, in building on the two nations' \"long history of cooperation in security and defence, the leaders \"re-committed to the Nato alliance and our shared values in promoting human rights and protecting democracy\".\n\nThe two leaders also talked about \"the benefits of a potential free trade deal\" between the UK and the US, with Mr Johnson reiterating his intention \"to resolve existing trade issues as soon as possible\".\n\nAfter the inauguration of any American president, a political spectator sport immediately begins: the order in which the new occupant of the White House speaks to other world leaders.\n\nIt is a crude metric of relative importance, but a metric nonetheless.\n\nI understand the call lasted for around 35 minutes and was the first conversation Joe Biden has had with a European leader as president.\n\nThe focus on climate change makes political and diplomatic sense. It's a topic where a Conservative prime minister and Democrat president can agree, and it matters particularly to the UK as the host of the COP26 UN Climate Change Summit in Glasgow in November.\n\nBut when you compare what Downing Street said about the call and what the White House said, one thing leaps out.\n\nNo 10's readout refers to a conversation about a trade deal. President Biden's does not.\n\nIt's widely expected there'll be no such agreement any time soon.\n\nMr Johnson and Mr Biden \"looked forward to to meeting in person as soon as the circumstances allow\" and to working together during the forthcoming G7, G20 and COP26 summits, the spokesman added.\n\nA White House statement said Mr Biden \"conveyed his intention to strengthen the special relationship\" between the US and UK and \"revitalize transatlantic ties\".\n\nCongratulating Mr Biden and Ms Harris - who is the first woman and first black and Asian-American person to serve as vice-president - the PM said earlier that their inauguration was a \"step forward\" for the US, which had \"been through a bumpy period\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"It's a big moment for us - we have things we want to do together.\"\n\nMr Johnson said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and the US and their \"joint common agenda\".\n\nThe BBC's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg has said the Biden Presidency \"brings some hope to government\" because No 10 believes \"there is a lot of overlap\" between what Mr Biden and Mr Johnson want to do.\n\nThe US president has previously said that he does not want a \"guarded border\" between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland following Brexit, and that any UK-US post-Brexit trade deal had to be \"contingent\" on respect for the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nThe PM and Mr Biden have never met in real life, but the new US president once referred to Mr Johnson as a \"physical and emotional clone\" of Mr Trump.\n\nAfter winning the presidential election, Mr Biden phoned Mr Johnson ahead of other European leaders and expressed his desire to strengthen the historic \"special relationship\" between the two countries.", "Keon Lincoln died from a gunshot and stab wounds police said\n\nThree more teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 15-year-old who was attacked by a group of youths.\n\nKeon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital, police said.\n\nA post mortem examination has revealed Keon died from a gunshot and stab wounds.\n\nDetectives have been granted extra time to question a 14-year-old boy arrested on Friday morning.\n\nAnother 14-year-old boy arrested later on Friday has been released under investigation.\n\nA boy, also aged 14, was arrested from his home in Birmingham on Saturday night, the force said.\n\nTwo other boys aged 15 and 16 were arrested from an address in Walsall in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nThe attackers fled the scene in a car which crashed into a house a short distance away\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, who is leading the murder inquiry, described the arrests as \"significant\".\n\n\"We are gathering a substantial amount of evidence which will take time to analyse, but we must be thorough to get justice for Keon's family.\n\n\"They have been fully updated with the latest developments.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Andrew RT Davies has taken over as leader of the Welsh Conservatives for the second time\n\nAndrew RT Davies has been named as the new leader of the Welsh Conservatives in the Senedd for a second time.\n\nMr Davies succeeds Paul Davies who resigned from his post on Saturday after drinking with other politicians in the Senedd, four days into a Wales-wide alcohol ban in licensed premises.\n\nIn a statement, Andrew RT Davies said it was \"a great honour and privilege\".\n\nHe has already announced his shadow cabinet, which includes four women.\n\nThere are no responsibilities for Paul Davies or Darren Millar, who also previously apologised for being part of the group who were drinking at the Senedd.\n\nMr Davies said his party \"will put forward a positive plan to get Wales moving again\" and \"unleash our country's potential\" at the Senedd election, scheduled for May.\n\n\"I'm pleased to have moved quickly this afternoon and announce my Welsh Conservative shadow cabinet which is built on the strong foundations of experience, talent and vision,\" he said.\n\n\"We are in a moment like no other, and the Covid-19 pandemic has sadly only served to shine a spotlight on the challenges in people's everyday lives.\n\n\"We shouldn't doubt our country's potential. Wales is full of ambitious people and communities that crave the opportunity to succeed.\"\n\nThe Conservatives' shadow cabinet reshuffle sees Angela Burns MS replace the new leader as shadow health minister and Mark Isherwood MS replace Darren Millar MS as chief whip.\n\nDavid Melding MS has been appointed shadow minister for mental health, wellbeing, culture and sport.\n\nJanet Finch-Saunders MS remains as shadow minister for environment, energy and rural affairs, and Suzy Davies MS in education, skills and Welsh language.\n\nLaura Anne Jones MS stays as shadow minister for equalities, children and young people, but with extra responsibilities for housing and local government.\n\nRussell George MS remains in the shadow cabinet, responsible for the economy, transport and mid Wales.\n\nIn 2018, Mr Davies, the Member of the Senedd for South Wales Central, quit as leader of the Conservative group after seven years in charge.\n\nHe was given the unanimous backing of fellow Welsh Conservatives in the Senedd.\n\nWelsh secretary Simon Hart, MP for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, tweeted his congratulations to \"a formidable campaigner\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAndrew RT Davies faced criticism earlier this month from former Tory politicians and Labour after comparing rioting in the US Congress to people who backed a second referendum on Brexit.\n\nThe deputy leader of the UK Labour Party said it was was a \"disgrace that the Welsh Conservatives\" had appointed \"this Donald Trump tribute act\" as leader.\n\nAngela Rayner MP said: \"Just weeks ago, Labour called on the Conservatives to suspend Andrew RT Davies and remove him as a candidate over his disgraceful and dangerous comments equating peaceful democratic debate in the UK with deadly violence at the US Capitol.\n\n\"The Conservative Party failed to act and he has refused to apologise.\n\n\"It is a disgrace that the Welsh Conservatives have just appointed him leader and their candidate for first minister of Wales.\n\n\"The people of Wales deserve so much better than this Donald Trump tribute act.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price MS said: \"After a car crash the backseat driver returns to put Wales in reverse.\n\n\"Once rejected by his own Senedd team, he will now embark on his pet project of stripping our Senedd of powers and setting Welsh democracy back decades.\"\n\nHis appointment comes just a day after Paul Davies stood down along with Tory MS Darren Millar, who was chief whip, in connection with the same incident.\n\nBoth have apologised for drinking alcohol with their meals on 8 and 9 December but both deny having broken the Covid-19 rules in place at the time.\n\nWelsh Conservatives chairman Glyn Davies said: \"They've both been friends of mine a long time but I could see the way the story was developing and I must say I think it was inevitable in the end.\n\n\"Obviously, I've been pretty disappointed with the position that we find ourselves in but this is politics and it's a challenge.\"\n\nAn investigation by the Senedd's authorities found five people, including four members of the Welsh Parliament, drank alcohol on its premises during the Wales-wide alcohol ban.\n\nA third member of the Senedd, Labour's Alun Davies, apologised earlier in the week and has been suspended by his party.\n\nBBC Wales has asked for clarification as to the identity of the fourth Senedd member investigators have referred to.\n\nPaul Smith, the Tory group chief of staff, was the fifth person involved.\n\nThe Senedd has referred the \"possible breach\" of Covid rules to Cardiff council and its own standards watchdog.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Mixed Martial Arts\n\nDustin Poirier (left) has had nine mixed martial arts fights since November 2016, while Conor McGregor has had just three Former two-weight world champion Conor McGregor was left stunned on his return to the UFC as Dustin Poirier claimed victory in their rematch at UFC 257. McGregor came out of retirement for a third time to face fellow 32-year-old Poirier at Abu Dhabi's Fight Island. And although the Irishman edged the first round, Poirier unleashed a flurry of punches to seal a technical knockout two minutes 32 seconds into round two. \"I'm gutted, it's a tough one to swallow,\" said McGregor. \"I felt stronger than him, but his leg kicks were good. I didn't adjust. My leg was badly compromised, I've never experienced those low calf kicks, and I wasn't as comfortable as I needed to be. \"I have no excuses. It was a phenomenal performance by Dustin. I have to dust it off and come back. I need activity, you don't get away with being inactive in this business.\"\n• None Trilogies, Pacquiao or YouTuber - what next for beaten McGregor?\n• None UFC 257 - All the action as it happened When the pair first met in a featherweight bout in September 2014, McGregor stopped the American inside 106 seconds, setting \"the Notorious\" on course for global stardom. He became the UFC's first simultaneous two-weight champion before facing Floyd Mayweather in one of the richest bouts in boxing history in 2017. Poirier, meanwhile, had to gradually work his way back into title contention and is now the number-two ranked lightweight contender, losing just two of his 13 fights since 2014. McGregor now has a 22-5 mixed martial arts record having lost three of his past six UFC fights McGregor has been relatively inactive though. Since losing to Khabib Nurmagomedov in 2018, he has had just 40 seconds in the octagon - beating Donald 'Cowboy' Cerrone in style last January. But McGregor seemed to start well in front of about 2,000 fans at the new 18,000-capacity Etihad Arena. He survived an early takedown and pinned Poirier against the fence for most of the first round, landing a few shoulder strikes like those that did so much damage against Cerrone. McGregor said before the fight that what motivates him now is building a \"highlights reel like a movie\", and he tagged Poirier with a couple of right-hand shots. But, unlike their first fight, Poirier was unmoved. Poirier admitted McGregor won the mind games before they met in 2014. This time round, instead of swapping verbal barbs before the fight, McGregor pledged to donate $500,000 (£367,000) to Poirier's charity and at the weigh-in Poirier presented McGregor with a bottle of his own brand of Louisiana hot sauce. And it was the American southpaw that brought the heat midway through the second round. Having replied to that early pressure with a series of leg kicks, he pounced to inflict the first TKO/KO defeat of McGregor's MMA career and take his own record to 27-6. \"It was a lot of things, but it wasn't payback. That wasn't the driving force,\" said Poirier. \"The first time I was a deer in the headlights. This time I was just fighting another man who bleeds like me. \"The goal was to be technical, pick my shots and not brawl at all. Then I had him hurt so I went a little crazy.\" What now for Poirier? Poirier's first world title shot - against Nurmagomedov - came 31 fights into his MMA career Since beating McGregor in 2018, lightweight champion Nurmagomedov won unification bouts against Poirier and Justin Gaethje to stay undefeated, announcing his retirement immediately after beating Gaethje in October. Nurmagomedov's title is yet to be vacated and UFC president Dana White said this week that the Russian may consider returning for a rematch with McGregor or Poirier if he \"saw something spectacular\". But speaking after UFC 257, White said: \"He said to me, 'be honest with yourself, I'm so many levels above these guys. I've beaten these guys'. \"I don't know, it doesn't sound very positive, but he won't hold the division up.\" In the co-main event, former Bellator world champion Michael Chandler marked his UFC debut with an impressive first-round knockout of sixth-ranked lightweight Dan Hooker, who Poirier beat last time out. Poirier said: \"It was a great win, but to come in and beat a guy I just beat and get a title shot? I've had more than 20 UFC fights, fighting the toughest of the toughest guys to get my hands on gold [a belt]. \"Let Chandler and Charles Oliveira go at it. That [Chandler] doesn't interest me at this point - or I'll go and sell hot sauce. A rematch with Conor interests me, and I've always wanted to beat Nate Diaz.\" \"Conor McGregor's not an old dog, he's definitely ready to keep going. \"Going around doing other things is not what Conor needs. He's young, fit and still ready to go. He'll 100% be back.\"\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Saturday's fourth-round ties are", "Watch: Vaccine plea to prioritise those with learning disabilities\n\nAs high risk groups continue to be immunised, there are growing concerns that people with learning disabilities have been missed out. \"Just because we've got a learning disability, doesn't mean we should sit in the corner and rot,\" says Amanda. \"We need help now.\" \"There are so many people that are going to die, and it's not fair.\" \"Even before Covid, more than four in 10 people with a learning disability died of a lung condition like pneumonia,\" says Professor Tuffney-Wijne, of Kingston University. \"As a group of people, they really are at risk.\" Legal action is being taken against the Department of Health and Social Care, which says it is working hard to vaccinate all those at risk. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation said it had made \"a clinical decision to prioritise those with profound and severe learning disabilities within our first six categories\".", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nBruno Fernandes' superb 78th-minute free-kick gave Manchester United victory in a thrilling FA Cup tie with old rivals Liverpool at Old Trafford.\n\nLiverpool led a fantastic contest through Mohamed Salah, who then equalised after Mason Greenwood and Marcus Rashford had struck for the hosts either side of the break.\n\nBut in a game which had everything last week's drab stalemate between this pair at Anfield lacked, Fernandes came off the bench to have the final word after Fabinho had fouled Edinson Cavani on the edge of the area.\n• None Don't worry about us, says Reds boss Klopp\n\nFernandes might have been slightly off the pace in recent games but when Ole Gunnar Solskjaer needed his £47m inspiration to come up with another special moment, the Portuguese delivered, bending his shot round the wall and beyond Allison's reach.\n\nThe victory earns United a home meeting with an in-form West Ham side managed by former boss David Moyes in the fifth round.\n\nBut the search for form goes on for Liverpool, whose only win in seven games since that seven-goal hammering of Crystal Palace came against Aston Villa's kids in the last round, and who have a meeting with Jose Mourinho's Tottenham looming on Thursday.\n• None Watch all the goals from the FA Cup fourth round\n\nIt was not quite the ending Solskjaer served up when he won a previous fourth-round meeting between these sides but, as in 1999, they had to come from behind.\n\nAnd while Fernandes applied the devastating finish, that goal should not be allowed to overshadow Rashford's contribution to United's victory.\n\nSo much has been said about the England forward as a social crusader it is sometimes easy to forget he also needs to be judged as a footballer.\n\nAt only 23, he is still a long way off his prime but he is developing into an outstanding forward, with vision to match his speed and finishing ability.\n\nThe pass that created Greenwood's equaliser was superb. Taking possession just inside his own half, Rashford delivered a 60-yard pass with such accuracy all Greenwood needed to do was take one touch to control with his chest before drilling low into the far corner.\n\nRashford's raw pace put Liverpool's defence under constant stress and the delicate touch that took him past Rhys Williams by the touchline in a move that ended with Paul Pogba curling wide was sensational.\n\nAnd then there was his goal, which needed a perfectly-timed run to go beyond the Liverpool defence and reach Greenwood's through ball, and then a cool head to apply the finish.\n\nAt that point, it seemed United had the game under control. It did not quite work out that way and once again, Fernandes, who has won four Premier League player of the month awards out of the seven he has been eligible for since leaving Sporting Lisbon less than 12 months ago, underlined his credentials as English football's most influential player at present.\n\nSalah's effort was the first time Liverpool had been ahead at Old Trafford since January 2017, since when Liverpool have won both the Champions League and Premier League, a clear indication that whatever issues Jurgen Klopp is wrestling with at the moment, they are not insurmountable.\n\nThe finish for the striker's 18th goal of the season did not hint at a lack of confidence as he raced on to Roberto Firmino's precise through ball, having escaped the attentions of Victor Lindelof, and lifted his shot beyond the reach of Dean Henderson.\n\nEvidently, what Klopp needs is to find a solution in defence. Williams was shaky and at fault for Rashford's goal, while Fabinho was exposed by United in this game and Cavani exploited the Brazilian's defensive inexperience to earn the free-kick that won the game.\n\nEven so, after Salah equalised from close range after United had lost possession to James Milner and never recovered their position after working their way up-field from a short goal-kick, the visitors did have chances to win it themselves.\n\nBut Dean Henderson saved from Trent Alexander-Arnold and Salah before Fernandes struck - so Liverpool's wait for a first FA Cup win since 1921 at Old Trafford, and Jurgen Klopp's for a first win at United full stop, goes on.\n\nManchester United are next in action against Sheffield United in the Premier League at Old Trafford on Wednesday, 27 January (20:15GMT). Liverpool play at Tottenham on Thursday, 28 January (20:00GMT).\n• None Manchester United have eliminated Liverpool from the FA Cup proper for the 10th time; in the competition's history, only Liverpool themselves (12 v Everton) have knocked a particular side out more times (including finals).\n• None Liverpool have won just one of their past 15 matches at Old Trafford in all competitions (D4 L10), and are winless in their last eight at the ground (D4 L4).\n• None Manchester United have won each of their past eight home games in the FA Cup; only from 1908 to 1912 have they had a better winning run on home soil in the competition (9 games).\n• None Liverpool are the first reigning Premier League champion to be eliminated from the FA Cup as early as the fourth round since Manchester City in 2014-15.\n• None Liverpool have lost back-to-back games in all competitions for the first time since March 2020.\n• None Roberto Firmino has assisted Mohamed Salah for 18 goals in all competitions for Liverpool, the most any player has set up another for the Reds under Jurgen Klopp. Since they first played together in 2017-18, this is the most one player has assisted another for all Premier League sides in all competitions.\n• None Mason Greenwood scored his first goal for Man Utd in 11 appearances in all competitions, ending his longest run of games without a goal for the club. Aged 19 years and 115 days, he was the youngest Man Utd player to score against Liverpool since Wayne Rooney in January 2005 in the Premier League (19y 83d).\n• None Marcus Rashford has scored more goals at Old Trafford against Liverpool than he has against any other opponent on home soil for Manchester United (4).\n• None Since his Man Utd debut in February 2020, Bruno Fernandes has scored more goals than any other player for Premier League clubs (28).\n• None No player has scored more goals for Premier League clubs in all competitions this season than Salah for Liverpool (19, level with Harry Kane).\n• None Attempt missed. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right following a set piece situation.\n• None Paul Pogba (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Victor Lindelöf (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Edinson Cavani (Manchester United) hits the right post with a header from the centre of the box. Assisted by Bruno Fernandes with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Aaron Wan-Bissaka.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 3, Liverpool 2. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Saturday's fourth-round ties are", "A protester holds a poster that reads \"One for all and all for one\" in support of opposition leader Navalany\n\nTens of thousands of people rallied across Russia on Saturday in some of the largest demonstrations held against President Vladimir Putin in years.\n\nCrowds defied police to show support for opposition leader Alexei Navalny - who was arrested last weekend after returning to the country following a near-fatal nerve agent attack last year.\n\nMonitors say more than 3,000 were arrested for taking part in rallies in dozens of cities across the country.\n\nReuters estimated that some 40,000 gathered in Moscow alone, but authorities played down the figure and said only a tenth of that number showed up.\n\nRiot police were pictured dragging away and beating some protesters. The US and UK have condemned the heavy-handed response and called for the release of peaceful protesters.\n\nJosep Borrell, the EU foreign policy chief, also expressed concern and said foreign ministers would discuss \"next steps\" on Monday.\n\nOVD Info, an independent NGO that monitors rallies, said more than 1,200 had been detained in Moscow alone.\n\nDemonstrations, held from Russia's Far East to St Petersburg, were some of the biggest seen in years.\n\nIn Omsk protesters braced freezing temperatures of almost -30C (-22F) to protest against Mr Navalny's detention.\n\nAnd conditions were even colder, -52C (-62F), at another protest held in Yakutsk in Siberia.\n\nMr Navalny, a lawyer and blogger, has long been a thorn in the side of the Kremlin. He forged reputation as an anti-corruption campaigner and has become the most prominent face of the country's opposition.\n\nHe was arrested immediately on arrival into the country last Sunday after flying home from Germany, where he had been recovering from an attempted assassination attempt which he and investigative journalists have blamed on Russian authorities - a claim officials deny.\n\nPolice said Mr Navalny had violated parole conditions and have kept him in custody pending further hearings.\n\nMuch of the international community have condemned his arrest and called for his immediate release.\n\nMr Navalny called for street protests and his team further galvanised support this week after releasing an investigative documentary about an opulent Black Sea property allegedly owned by President Putin.\n\nThe investigation, now watched more than 70m times, alleges the property cost £1bn ($1.37bn) and was paid for \"with the largest bribe in history\" but the Kremlin denies it belongs to the president.\n\nRussian authorities had warned in advance of Saturday that any unauthorised demonstrations would be \"immediately suppressed\".\n\nSome demonstrators were pictured with injuries, including wounds to the head, following the promised crackdown.", "Vaccination appointments for people aged 70-79 are being delivered from Monday - but plans to use distinctive blue envelopes in some parts of the country have been delayed.\n\nThe aim is to have this group receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nOn Sunday morning, the Scottish government said some letters would be sent out in blue envelopes and given Royal Mail priority.\n\nBut in a statement published later it said the envelopes were not yet ready.\n\nIt added that the change has no impact on the vaccination programme timetable.\n\nVaccinations for over-80s are continuing, with Nicola Sturgeon revealing on Sunday that about 40% of this age group had received a first dose of the vaccine.\n\nAll appointments will initially be sent out in white envelopes which will have a window and a black NHS logo on the right hand side.\n\nThe blue envelopes were due to be sent out in Fife, Forth Valley, Ayrshire and Arran, Lanarkshire, Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and Lothian as part of a new booking system.\n\nUnder the system, patients are scheduled in order of priority and more boards are expected to make use of the technology as the vaccination programme expands.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said the blue envelopes would be introduced \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nHe added: \"The blue envelopes we hoped to use were not ready in time for the first tranche of vaccine appointment invitations so distinctive NHS branded white envelopes are being used as a temporary measure.\n\n\"The absolute priority remains the roll-out of vaccinations and this temporary change to the envelope colour has absolutely no impact to our timetable.\n\n\"We continue to strongly urge everyone in the 70-79 age group to check all their post in the coming weeks and take up the offer of the vaccine when it is received,\" he added.\n\nAccording to the Scottish government's vaccine deployment plan, the 470,000 people aged in the 70 and 79 age bracket should receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nSome patients may receive a phone call from their local health board as part of the appointment process.\n\nAnd all patients aged 75 to 79 in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde will be invited via phone.\n\nA Royal Mail spokesman said \"clearly marked envelopes\" would be used to make it easier for the postal service to identify and prioritise this mail during sorting and delivery process.\n\nHe added: \"We are poised to make these letters even more noticeable in the coming weeks as we have agreed.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish government has said it is on track for all those aged 80 and over to have received their first dose of the vaccine by the end of the first week in February.\n\nThis age group are being contacted by telephone or another form of letter.\n\nMinisters have faced criticism over the pace of the vaccine rollout, and accusations that Scotland is \"lagging behind\" England on the vaccine roll-out.\n\nOpposition parties say vaccines are not being supplied to GPs' surgeries fast enough.\n\nAnd they point to the latest official figures which show that 13% of over 80s in Scotland had their first dose by Sunday 17 January, while 56.3% of same age group had been vaccinated in England.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that, a week on, the figure had reached about 40%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says the over 70s are to receive their vaccine date\n\nThe UK government Health Secretary Matt Hancock told Andrew Marr on Sunday that 75% of over-80s and three-quarters of UK care homes had received a first Covid vaccine in England.\n\nAbout 95% of Scottish care home residents have received their first dose, Ms Sturgeon told the Scottish government briefing on Friday.\n\nShe said the over-80s roll-out has been slower because the Scottish government has \"very deliberately\" concentrated on vaccinating care home residents first, which is \"more time consuming and labour intensive\".\n\nThis was designed to target the most vulnerable and was in line with the priority list compiled by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises on vaccine rollout across the UK, she said.\n\nScotland's national clinical director Prof Jason Leitch has defended the plan, which has been challenged by the British Medical Association (BMA) for not getting second doses out quickly enough.\n\nProf Leitch told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"The difficulty with the BMA's position is that we would have to de-prioritise another group, either care home residents or the over-80s, in order to give a second dose to younger people.\n\n\"And that's what the Joint Committee on Vaccination have told us not to do.\n\n\"They have told us in very clear terms - give the first dose to as many vulnerable people as you can and that gives us the best chance of saving the most lives.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Deputy First Minister John Swinney told Politics Scotland that the Scottish government was \"actively exploring\" the possibility of stricter rules around facemasks.\n\nHe said the issue was being \"looked at\" after new rules announced in Germany last week required people to wear medical-grade facemasks on public transport and in shops.\n\nMr Swinney said progress was being made in reducing cases but hospitals were still under \"enormous pressure\" and it would be \"foolish\" to rule out strengthening restrictions further in the future.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nCheltenham Town came within nine minutes of one of the biggest shocks in recent FA Cup history before Manchester City staged a dramatic late rally to crush the dreams of the gallant League Two side.\n\nThe Robins, 72 places below City who sit second in the Premier League, threatened huge embarrassment for Pep Guardiola's side after Alfie May put Cheltenham ahead on the hour after a trademark long throw from captain Ben Tozer caused chaos in the area.\n\nCity, who made ten changes to the team that beat Aston Villa in the Premier League on Wednesday, spared their embarrassment when Phil Foden, the game's outstanding player, arrived at the far post to turn in substitute Joao Cancelo's long cross in the 81st minute.\n\nAnd the turnaround was complete three minutes later when a rare moment of slackness in the outstanding Cheltenham defence, with goalkeeper Josh Griffiths superb, switched off and Gabriel Jesus scored from Fernandinho's delivery.\n\nFerran Torres scored Manchester City's third with the last kick of the game to give the scoreline a cruel reflection on Cheltenham's heroic efforts.\n\nIt was so cruel on manager Michael Duff and his players, who now go back the battle for promotion from League Two, while City will be away at Swansea in the fifth round.\n\n\"I'm incredibly proud,\" the Robins boss said of his side's display. \"The players they brought on from the bench and they way they celebrated the goals tells you something. They know they've been in a game. They've done that to better teams than us.\"\n\nThe sight of Manchester City manager Guardiola disputing where Cheltenham could take a throw-in said everything about the way the League Two underdogs gave their mighty opponents a serious fright.\n\nTozer's throw-ins were causing all manner of problems and led to Cheltenham's goal but there was so much more to their performance than that set-piece weapon, a threat any manager in the game would utilise.\n\nCheltenham tried to play football when they got the chance, with goalscorer May, who has done the hard yards in non-league before playing for Doncaster and now Cheltenham, a leading light.\n\nRobins keeper Griffiths, who suffered the ignominy of being beaten from 71 yards by his Newport County opposite number Tom King in midweek, was in defiant form as he saved well from Riyad Mahrez and Torres, showing command throughout. Tozer's headed goalline clearance from Benjamin Mendy in the first half was also symbolic of their 'they shall not pass' approach.\n\nThere may have been no fans inside this compact stadium but there was still a real sense of occasion, the game being halted in the first half because of a firework display nearby.\n\nIn the end this will be a bitter disappointment to Cheltenham but they can be rightly proud and take huge confidence into their League Two promotion battle.\n\nDuff highlighted how financially important the cup run was for his club.\n\n\"It's essential,\" he added. \"Every pound coming in is probably worth a tenner in normal times.\n\n\"These games don't come around very often. It's a shame because [with fans] the place would've been bouncing. Would that have seen us through in the last 10 minutes? I'm not so sure - but the key is to enjoy it.\"\n\nGuardiola made 10 changes to his line-up to give Manchester City's shadow squad a chance to impress.\n\nSome, like the erratic Mendy, did not take that opportunity and it was someone establishing himself in City's side that spared the blushes of this expensively assembled squad.\n\nFoden was magnificent, so light on his feet with glorious ball control, endless creativity and the man pulling the strings for City even when they were struggling to break down resilient Cheltenham.\n\nThe 20-year-old was head and shoulders above his City team-mates. He was the one who was going to pull them out of their grim predicament if anyone was, and so it proved when he popped up with the crucial late equaliser that lifted Guardiola's team and deflated Cheltenham.\n\nFoden had already carved out chances for Mahrez and Gabriel Jesus that were not taken so it was a case of 'do it yourself' when he was the player on target.\n\nThe fact Guardiola was forced to use three subs in Ruben Dias, Ilkay Gundogan and Joao Cancelo once Cheltenham went ahead proved how worried the Premier League giants were.\n\nThis was an unimpressive, scratchy display from City's much-changed team, with Guardiola resting so many of the players who are giving them such an ominous look in the Premier League - luckily they had the brilliance of Foden to pull them out of a deep hole.\n\nGuardiola praised the England attacking midfielder for his impressive performance.\n\n\"Foden is in a great moment and with great confidence,\" he said.\n\n\"He is clinical in front of goal and he had a similar chance to the goal we scored at [Chelsea's] Stamford Bridge - he is playing really well.\"\n\nThe City manager suggested he was confident in the players he put out on the pitch.\n\n\"I didn't have regrets even when we were 1-0 down, we had clear chances from the first minute,\" he added.\n\n\"When they take advantage it gets complicated, but we got it to 1-1 and it was tight. We came here with humility and had the quality to make the difference.\"\n• None Cheltenham have lost all nine of their competitive meetings with Premier League sides, by an aggregate score of 6-23.\n• None City have won 10 consecutive games in all competitions for the first time since a run of 11 from August to October 2017.\n• None May's opener for Cheltenham was the first goal City had conceded in 509 minutes of action in all competitions, since Callum Hudson-Odoi's strike for Chelsea at the start of the month.\n• None Foden is City's top scorer in all competitions this season with nine goals in 25 appearances, one more than he netted in 38 games last season.\n• None Jesus has been involved in 12 goals in 13 FA Cup appearances for City, scoring eight and assisting four.\n• None May has scored four goals in his four FA Cup games for Cheltenham, with each of his eight goals in total in the competition coming in home games.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 3. Ferran Torres (Manchester City) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Attempt missed. Matty Blair (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high following a corner.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 2. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Fernandinho with a through ball.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 1. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by João Cancelo with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. João Cancelo (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.\n• None Attempt missed. Phil Foden (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by João Cancelo with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Hear from the former US president as he reflects on his time in office\n• None How can you eat well for £1 a portion?", "Some of the party-goers have travelled from Newcastle and London, police said\n\nA student party that attracted people from up to 200 miles away has been broken up by police.\n\nSome of the guests were found hiding in cupboards when officers raided the gathering in Lower Loveday Street, Birmingham, on Friday night.\n\nOne officer was assaulted as one guest made off but was not hurt, West Midlands Police said.\n\nParty-goers had travelled to the event from places such as Newcastle, Nottingham and London.\n\nThe flats are private accommodation but predominantly used by students from Aston University and University College Birmingham, West Midlands Police said.\n\nInsp Steve Barnes added: \"We understand that young people are frustrated at not being able to enjoy themselves and I do feel their pain, but we have to stick to the rules so that we can get back to some sort of normality sooner rather than later.\n\n\"People are dying and we have to prevent the spread of this virus.\"\n\nOfficers were also called to a party on Soho Road where shop owners had set up a sound system, and a 30th birthday party attended by about 20 people in Kingstanding.\n\nAcross 32 breaches of Covid-19 lockdown rules on Friday night, the force issued 58 fines of £200 and five of £1,000.\n\nThe West Midlands is under an England-wide lockdown with people not allowed to leave home to meet others socially.\n\nOn Thursday, the government said fines of £800 would be introduced in England this week for anyone attending a house party of more than 15 people.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People made the most of the snowy slopes of Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, Dorset\n\nSevere weather warnings are in place across much of the UK after large parts of the country saw heavy snowfall.\n\nThe blanket of snow drew people outside for sledging and winter walks, but motorists have been warned to take extra care on icy roads with sub-zero temperatures forecast overnight.\n\nSeveral coronavirus vaccination and testing centres were closed in England and Wales due to the conditions.\n\nPolice reminded the public to keep to lockdown rules while out in the snow.\n\nOfficers in Wandsworth, south-west London, encouraged people with gardens to play in the snow at home.\n\nAnd police in Rutland, Leicestershire, were among several forces questioning why people were leaving their homes to go sledging.\n\nContinuing coronavirus lockdowns across the four UK nations mean most of the population must stay at home, except for a limited number of reasons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. For cats Bonny and Freddy, the snow is a chance to explore. Credit: Rachel Prew\n\nAs well as four vaccination centres in Wales, six Covid testing centres in the West Midlands had to close due to heavy snow on Sunday.\n\nHighways England warned that the snow had caused collisions on the M3, M27 and M25 in southern England, with the agency urging drivers to only travel if absolutely necessary.\n\nThose using the roads for essential journeys have been urged to allow plenty of extra time for their travel and pedestrians and cyclists are also advised to be cautious.\n\nThe Met Office put a yellow weather warning for snow in place on Sunday, stretching from coast to coast in southern England and ending just south of Manchester.\n\nIt is also in place for western and northern areas of Scotland, most of Northern Ireland and all of Wales apart from Anglesey.\n\nAn amber warning for snow in Nottingham and Stoke meant travel disruption and power cuts were likely on Sunday evening.\n\nYellow weather warnings for ice are in place until 11:00 GMT Monday for all of Wales and Northern Ireland, northern and eastern Scotland and much of southern England and the Midlands.\n\nMany people swapped their usual daily bout of exercise for sledging on Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath, north London, but police urged people to stay at home\n\nGritters leapt into action near Touchen-end in Berkshire\n\nIn Wales, appointments at the Bridgend, Rhondda, Abercynon and Merthyr Tydfil coronavirus vaccination centres were rescheduled for safety reasons, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said.\n\nUp to 1in (3cm) of snow was forecast to fall in most areas of Wales, with 4-6in (10-15cm) expected in the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia.\n\nIn the West Midlands, coronavirus testing centres at Castle Vale Stadium, the Arcadian Centre and Maypole Youth Centre were closed, Birmingham City Council said.\n\nFacilities in Moat Street, Coventry and The Place in Oakengates in Shropshire also closed, along with one in Lichfield, Staffordshire, local MP Michael Fabricant said.\n\nAnd in Devon, a gritting lorry overturned on Dartmoor. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMet Office forecaster Simon Partridge said a band of hail, sleet, snow and rain moved in through Wales and south-west England in the early hours before sweeping across the UK and stalling over the Midlands, which saw some of the heaviest snow.\n\nColeshill, near Birmingham, had seen had 3.5in (9cm) by Sunday lunchtime.\n\nThe snow clouds eased away on Sunday evening but overnight temperatures could be as low as -4C to -6C (25F to 21F) for a lot of the south of the UK, the forecaster added.\n\n\"Some localised spots, likely in the Midlands, could see it as low as -10C (14F),\" he said.\n\nSnowmen popped up in the grounds of Guildford Castle, Surrey\n\nAs shown on the M1 in Bedfordshire, the wintry showers have caused hazardous driving conditions\n\nChris Fawkes of BBC Weather said some stretches of the M4 and M5 had been completely covered in snow at some points on Sunday morning.\n\nHe said this was partly because traffic has been low due to lockdown restrictions - and vehicles are needed to help grit mix into snow to make it melt.", "People who have received a Covid-19 vaccine could still pass the virus on to others and should continue following lockdown rules, England's deputy chief medical officer has warned.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam stressed that scientists \"do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission\".\n\nHe said vaccines offer \"hope\" but infection rates must come down quickly.\n\nMatt Hancock said 75% of over-80s in the UK have now had a first virus jab.\n\nBoth the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses, and figures so far reflect those given the first dose.\n\nThe health secretary told the BBC's Andrew Marr that around three quarters of care homes had also been vaccinated.\n\nProf Van-Tam said \"no vaccine has ever been\" 100% effective, so there is no guaranteed protection.\n\nIt is possible to contract the virus in the two- to three-week period after receiving a jab, he said - and it is \"better\" to allow \"at least three weeks\" for an immune response to fully develop in older people.\n\n\"Even after you have had both doses of the vaccine you may still give Covid-19 to someone else and the chains of transmission will then continue,\" Prof Van-Tam said.\n\n\"If you change your behaviour you could still be spreading the virus, keeping the number of cases high and putting others at risk who also need their vaccine but are further down the queue.\"\n\nLast week, the person coordinating Israel's Covid response reportedly suggested a single dose of the Pfizer vaccine might not be as effective as reported.\n\nIsrael has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world against coronavirus, with scientists keenly watching data shared by the country for signs of how effective the vaccine is when given to the whole population.\n\nThe country's health minister Yuli Edelstein told the Andrew Marr Show that some people \"still get sick\" with coronavirus after getting the first dose of the vaccine, but said there were \"some encouraging signs of less severe diseases, less people hospitalised after the first dose\".\n\nSenior doctors have called on health officials in England to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nThe maximum wait was extended from three to 12 weeks in order to get the first jab to more people across the UK.\n\nBut the British Medical Association said the policy was \"difficult to justify\" and the gap should be reduced to six weeks.\n\nIts chair, Dr Chaand Nagpaul, told the BBC there were \"growing concerns\" that the vaccine could become less effective with doses 12 weeks apart.\n\nResponding to the criticism, Prof Van-Tam said: \"What none of these (who ask reasonable questions) will tell me is: who on the at-risk list should suffer slower access to their first dose so that someone else who's already had one dose (and therefore most of the protection) can get a second?\"\n\nA further 32 vaccine sites are set to open across England this week.\n\nMore than 5.8 million people in the UK have received their first dose of a vaccine, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nNHS England said new vaccine sites were preparing to open across England from Monday.\n\nThey include Dudley's Black Country Living Museum, which doubled as a set for TV series Peaky Blinders, Plymouth Argyle FC's stadium Home Park and an old Ikea store in Stratford, London.\n\nThe 32 sites will prioritise health and social care staff on Monday, and other priority patients from Tuesday.\n\nThey will bring the number of mass vaccination sites across England to 49 - as well as 70 pharmacies, more than 1,000 GP surgeries and 250 hospitals offering the jab.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Friday that more than a third of over-80s had received their first dose of a vaccine.\n\nMore than half of over-80s in Northern Ireland have had the jab, though Health Minister Robin Swann said \"it will take time\" for the programme to have a \"major effect.\"\n\nIn Wales, four vaccination centres have been shut as officials brace for more snowy weather.\n\nProf Van-Tam stressed that the UK needs to \"bring the number of cases down as soon as we can whilst we vaccinate our most vulnerable\".\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections.\n\nThere were 4,076 Covid patients were on hospital ventilators in the UK as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.\n\nHow has coronavirus affected you? What have been your experiences of vaccination, lockdown, work or travel? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Rescuers in China have freed the first of a group of miners who have been trapped 600m underground for two weeks, state media report.\n\nAn explosion closed the entrance tunnel to the Hushan gold mine in Shandong province on 10 January.\n\nTV footage from China has shown the first miner being brought to the surface, as emergency workers applaud.", "Jim Haynes was both an icon and a relic of the Swinging Sixties, an American in Paris who was famous for inviting hundreds of thousands of strangers to dinner at his home. He died this month.\n\nLast February, I took my last trip abroad before lockdown closed in on us. I bought a last-minute ticket and jumped on the Eurostar to Paris, motivated by a sudden urge to have dinner with a friend. Jim Haynes had entered his late 80s and his health was declining, yet I knew he would welcome a visit. Jim always welcomed visitors.\n\nThe essence of that trip now feels like the antithesis of Covid times. I was far from the only guest wandering into the warm glow of his atelier in the 14th arrondissement on a wet winter's night. Inside, people were squeezing, shoulder to shoulder, through the narrow kitchen. Strangers struck up conversations, bunched together in groups, balancing their dinners on paper plates and reaching over each other to press the plastic spout on a communal box of wine.\n\nJim had operated open-house policy at his home every Sunday evening for more than 40 years. Absolutely anyone was welcome to come for an informal dinner, all you had to do was phone or email and he would add your name to the list. No questions asked. Just put a donation in an envelope when you arrive.\n\nThere would be a buzz in the air, as people of various nationalities - locals, immigrants, travellers - milled around the small, open-plan space. A pot of hearty food bubbled on the hob and servings would be dished out on to a trestle table, so you could help yourself and continue to mingle. It was for good reason that Jim was nicknamed the \"godfather of social networking\". He led the way in connecting strangers, long before we outsourced it all to Silicon Valley.\n\nA ballet dancer staying with Jim in the late 1970s suggested cooking for him and friends to repay the hospitality; the dinners became weekly for 40-plus years\n\nI only knew Jim in his later years, but his entire life was extraordinary. Born in Louisiana in 1933, he had lived in Venezuela as a teenager; founded the alternative culture centre Arts Lab in London, where he mixed with David Bowie, John Lennon and Yoko Ono; ran a sexual liberation magazine in Amsterdam, and all before becoming a university lecturer in sexual politics in Paris, his home since 1969.\n\nAnd yet he was often seen as a son of Scotland, following an influential stint there in the late '50s and late '60s, when he established Edinburgh's first paperback bookshop, co-founded the Traverse Theatre and helped kickstart the Fringe festival.\n\nWhen Jim died, at 87, earlier this month, a Herald obituary called him \"the unofficial agent for the beat generation in Scotland\".\n\nWhile a lot of highly regarded people tend to retreat into their own circles after finding success, Jim never stopped reaching out to new people. The first time I heard from him was an email out of the blue in 2008.\n\nI had written a newspaper article from Barcelona - not the one in Spain but the one on the coast of Venezuela - and it had brought back memories for him. His father worked in the oil business and had moved the family there when Jim was in his early teens.\n\nMy article was about meeting people through the Couchsurfing website, where locals opened their homes to strangers for free around the world. This was before AirBnB worked out how to monetise the idea, and the concept of non-commercial cultural exchange was right up Jim's street. \"When you are back in Europe, come to dinner,\" he wrote, promising to tell me about an old travel project of his own that he thought I might like.\n\nIntrigued, I headed to Paris soon after my return. I had imagined some sort of intimate dinner party with cultural elites, but what I found was more like a student house party - albeit with more mature attendees and only moderate alcohol consumption. (Jim was teetotal and proceedings ended strictly by 23:00.)\n\nJim never cooked himself, instead he invited guest cooks\n\nJim instantly greeted me like an old friend and, as we chatted, he reached up on to his living room shelves to offer me a book. People to People read the cover line. It was the project he had wanted to tell me about.\n\nHe explained that, in the late 1980s, he had founded a guidebook series for countries behind the Iron Curtain. Instead of the standard descriptions of sights and hotel listings, the format was like an address book, including the contact details for hundreds of in-country hosts. The idea was that if people could not easily see the Western world themselves, he would bring it to them via travellers. It was \"couchsurfing\", but offline.\n\nThe hand-sized copy he pressed into my palm centred on Poland. I loved it and decided to travel there to see if the participants were still up for receiving random visitors, even though so much had changed.\n\nJim created the People to People guidebooks for multiple Eastern European countries\n\nEach person was filed under the town where they lived, followed by two or three lines, including their address, date of birth, phone number and hobbies. Through a combination of Google and snail-mail, I managed to get hold of several of them. Most had all known Jim either personally or through friends of friends. All had fond memories of the project and all were still willing to act as local guides to show me around.\n\nIn Gdansk, I asked civil servant Krystyna Wróblewska why she had signed up originally. She told me she had been working as a media fixer, helping reporters cover the anti-communist shipyard strikes. \"They [the media] went looking for women with handkerchiefs on their heads and horses with carts, perpetuating the same old picture. I suppose I wanted to meet people to subvert stereotypes and show that not all the pictures you have in your head are real.\"\n\nKrystyna Wroblewska signed up in the late 1980s to show travellers around Gdansk\n\n\"It surprised me how easy it was,\" Jim insisted to me. He produced guides for Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, the Baltics and Russia, featuring thousands upon thousands of locals. Some of his contacts came from his personal, multi-volume address books, and he got new sign-ups after placing interviews in local papers and jazz magazines.\n\n\"Some of the older people in Russia were scared about being put on a Western list, because they thought it would be easier to be rounded up and carted away,\" he said. \"But a lot of younger people wanted to be in the book… I was getting sackfuls of mail. I'm sure the local postman wondered what the hell was going on.\"\n\nOver the years, the authorities often wondered what was going on at Jim's place. Not least during the period when he started issuing fake passports. It was back in the 1970s, after he had caught wind of an American traveller, who, 20 years before, had renounced his American citizenship and created his own \"world passport\".\n\nFor Jim, non-national passports seemed to encapsulate his ideals of peace and global freedom. So he turned his home into an \"embassy\" and started producing world passports for anyone who wanted one. The documents were so convincing that some people used them to cross borders.\n\n\"Look, you can't do this any more. You have to stop making passports,\" exasperated French police would say when they came to his door. But Jim continued until he ended up in court. Though he was eventually acquitted of fraud and counterfeiting, he was found guilty of \"confusing the public\".\n\nJim always dismissed the idea that it was a naïve undertaking, but he was trusting to a fault, according to some of his friends, and this led to financial mistakes and legal troubles over the years. He wouldn't deal with problems, waiting until they blew up instead.\n\n\"I often had to stop him signing things. Sometimes he didn't even read them,\" says Jesper, his son, who was born during Jim's marriage to Viveka Reuterskiold in the 1960s.\n\nJesper grew up in Stockholm after they separated, but visited Paris every summer from the age of 10.\n\n\"There were mattresses on every spare bit of floor, people sleeping everywhere,\" he says, as he recalls his earlier visits. \"It was exciting and fun, but sometimes I felt jealous. Lots of people did. People were very possessive of him. People wanted to claim him, but he was unclaimable.\"\n\nJesper credits his father with opening the world to him. He used Jim's contacts books extensively as he travelled and he is currently living with his own family in Bangkok, where he briefly replicated the Sunday dinners. \"Just for six months... It was a lot of work.\"\n\nDuring the 1990s, the crowds started to dwindle at the Paris dinners, as the original hippy crowd aged. But then a new wave of younger visitors started to get in touch. The bloggers had discovered him.\n\n\"The internet both ruined and saved the dinners,\" says Seamas McSwiney, a close friend who helped on Sunday evenings for decades. \"It became less spontaneous as people tried to book six months ahead - which was anathema to how Jim travelled and also annoying as those people were more likely to do a no-show - but at the same time, these online articles re-energised the idea. There was a younger crowd and new momentum.\"\n\nAt the dinners' peak, Jim would welcome up to 120 guests, filling his atelier and spilling out into the cobbled back garden. An estimated 150,000 people have come over the years.\n\n\"The door was always open,\" says Amanda Morrow, an Australian journalist who stayed with Jim for a year-and-a-half. \"It was a revolving door of guests - some who wanted to stay over, and others who just wanted to say hello. Jim never said no to anyone.\"\n\nThe only thing that really got Jim down was people leaving,\" says Jesper. \"He struggled with that. He didn't like being on his own... Though fortunately there was usually a new person to distract him.\"\n\nIn the final years, Jim would sit quietly, as others gravitated into his orbit. On my last visit, he looked frail and pained by his various ailments, but he also had an air of contentment, clearly never tiring of being the conduit for human interactions.\n\n\"I was wondering when you'd come back,\" he said to me, in the rasping American accent he somehow had never lost.\n\nHere was a man who had spent time with Lennon and Bowie, who was once friends with Sonia Orwell and used to walk round Paris with Samuel Beckett. And yet he made everyone feel special. Every connection mattered.\n\n\"It felt like politician's trick, but it was natural,\" says Seamas.\n\nIn very recent times, Covid restrictions reduced the dinners' clockwork schedule, but his friends say he was not depressed by the pandemic. He had figured the get-togethers would resume and, until then, had enjoyed a smaller stream of visiting carers and, whenever possible, friends.\n\nAmid the outpouring of online tributes since his death in his sleep on 6 January, these words from Jesper stand out: \"His goal from early on was to introduce the whole world to each other. He almost succeeded.\"\n\nYou may also be interested in:", "The EHIC card is making way for the GHIC card under a new agreement with the EU\n\nUK residents can apply for a Global Health Insurance Card (GHIC) to access emergency medical care in the EU when their current EHIC card runs out.\n\nUnder a new agreement with the EU, both cards will offer equivalent healthcare protection when people are on holiday, studying or travelling for business.\n\nThis includes emergency treatment as well as treatment needed for a pre-existing condition.\n\nThe new GHIC card is free and can be obtained via the official GHIC website.\n\nCurrent European Health Insurance Cards (EHIC) are valid as long as they are in date, and can continue to be used when travelling to the EU.\n\nYou don't need to apply for a GHIC until your current EHIC expires.\n\nPeople should apply at least two weeks before they plan to travel to ensure their card arrives on time.\n\nHealth Minister Edward Argar said: \"Our deal with the EU ensures the right for our citizens to access necessary healthcare on their holidays and travels to countries in the EU will continue.\n\n\"The GHIC is a key element of the UK's future relationship with the EU and will provide certainty and security for all UK residents.\"\n\nIf a UK resident is travelling without a card, they are still entitled to necessary healthcare, and should contact the NHS Business Services Authority (which covers the whole of the UK), which can arrange for payment should they require treatment when abroad.\n\nEHICs from EU member states will continue to be accepted by the NHS.\n\nIt is advised that anyone travelling overseas, whether to the EU or elsewhere in the world, should take out comprehensive travel insurance.", "A video featuring footage of a County Mayo man being consumed by fits of laughter while trying to record a birthday message for his son, has gone viral.\n\nVincent McDonnell was sending the message to his son David, who was celebrating his 40th birthday in Australia.\n\nHis younger son Paul got the video rolling, but the pair could not contain their laughter as they racked up the attempts.\n\nThe video has been viewed more than 1.5m times on Paul's Twitter account.", "The UK economy will \"get worse before it gets better\" as the country battles the pandemic, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has warned.\n\nThe chancellor told MPs the new national restrictions were necessary to control the spread of coronavirus.\n\nHowever, he said they would have a further significant economic impact,\n\n\"Even with the significant economic support we've provided, over 800,000 people have lost their job since February,\" he said.\n\n\"Sadly, we have not and will not be able to save every job and every business.\n\n\"But I am confident that our economic plan is supporting the finances of millions of people and businesses.\"\n\nThe chancellor said \"the road ahead will be tough\", but maintained that the government was \"taking the difficult but right long-term decisions for our country\".\n\nHe said that fiscal stimulus provided so far amounted to more than £280bn, while 1.2 million employers had furloughed almost 10 million employees.\n\nAt the same time, three million people had benefited from self-employment grants.\n\nMr Sunak said he would \"bear in mind\" calls to extend business rate relief and provide further support for the hospitality sector at the Budget in March.\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds accused Mr Sunak of being \"out of ideas\" and providing \"nothing new\".\n\nShe said: \"The purpose of an update is to provide us with new information, not to repeat what we already know.\"\n\nThe chancellor's words reflect the fact that with a widespread lockdown, the first months of 2021 are likely to see a further contraction in the UK economy and probably an official double-dip recession. This reflects the physical shutdown nationwide of hospitality and retail, as well as the effect in the data of school shutdowns too.\n\nIn addition, consumers and workers are likely to be more cautious as the vaccine starts to be rolled out. So this is a very odd sort of economic tripwire. The challenge in the next weeks and months gets bigger, although not as big as it was last April. But beyond that, there is the hope of something normal.\n\nThe implication for the chancellor as he prepares a vital early March Budget, however, is further delay to the measures, such as tax rises, to deal with historic levels of pandemic government borrowing.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK is at the \"worst point\" of the pandemic, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has warned, but said the actions of the public \"could make a difference\".\n\nAt a No 10 briefing, Mr Hancock pleaded with people to follow the government's Covid rules until the vaccine could provide a \"way out\" of the pandemic.\n\nThe government earlier published its plan to immunise tens of millions of people by spring.\n\nSo far 2.3 million people in the UK have had a first Covid vaccine shot.\n\nAnd a total of 2.6 million doses have been given out across the country, with some people having received both doses.\n\nMr Hancock said the new variant of coronavirus was putting the NHS under \"significant pressure\", adding it was \"imperative\" that people limit their social contacts.\n\n\"The NHS, more than ever before, needs everybody to be doing something right now - and that something is to follow the rules,\" he said.\n\n\"I know there has been speculation about more restrictions, and we don't rule out taking further action if it is needed, but it is your actions now that can make a difference.\"\n\nThe health secretary said he could \"rule out\" tightening restrictions by removing support and childcare bubbles, however.\n\nHis comments follow similar warnings from Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty, who said that the next few weeks will be \"the worst\" of the pandemic for the NHS.\n\nAccording to the latest figures, there have been another 529 deaths within 28 days of a positive test in the UK, and another 46,169 cases reported. There are also more than 32,000 people in hospital with coronavirus, data shows.\n\nMatt Hancock has previously said he's learned to rule nothing out when it comes to dealing with the pandemic.\n\nBut today he took the unusual step of doing just that.\n\nSupport bubbles and childcare bubbles, hugely valued by so many, will stay.\n\nSenior Whitehall sources have previously told me bubbles were \"untouchable\" but for a minister to say as much, so explicitly and on the record, means there's now very little wriggle room for the government to change its mind.\n\nMinisters will know that scrapping bubbles, for those that rely on them, could have proved deeply unpopular. But this certainty is a rarity.\n\nWhilst the current emphasis is on compliance, the idea of toughening up controls in other areas is not being ruled out.\n\nThe vaccine delivery plan says it is expected to take until spring to give a first dose to all 32 million people in the UK's priority groups, including everyone over 55 and those who are clinically vulnerable.\n\nUnder the plan, the government has pledged to carry out at least two million vaccinations in England per week by the end of January, which it says will be made possible by rolling out jabs at 206 hospital sites, 50 vaccination centres and around 1,200 local vaccination sites.\n\nIt also reiterates the government's aim of offering vaccinations to around 15 million people in the UK - the over-70s, older care home residents and staff, frontline healthcare workers and the clinically extremely vulnerable - by mid-February.\n\nAccording to Mr Hancock, two fifths of over-80s have now received their first dose, and almost a quarter of care home residents have received theirs.\n\nAlso at the briefing, NHS England's national medical director, Prof Stephen Powis, said the NHS was aiming to vaccinate the rest of the top nine priority groups by April, with a final push to offer all adults over 18 a jab by the autumn.\n\nHe stressed it would take until February before there were \"early signs\" that vaccination was leading to a drop in hospitalisations.\n\nThe country has still not seen the full impact of the Christmas loosening of lockdown restrictions, Prof Powis added, although he noted there are now 13,000 more Covid patients in hospital than there were on Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking in Bristol earlier, Mr Johnson warned the vaccination programme was in a \"race against time\" because of pressure on the NHS.\n\nHe said it was \"a very perilous moment because everyone can sense the vaccine is coming in - my worry is that will breed false complacency\".\n\nThe newly-published vaccination plan also says ministers are aiming to offer jabs at more than 2,700 sites across the UK.\n\nAnd it says that daily vaccination figures for England will be published from now on - showing the total number vaccinated to date, including first and second doses.\n\nEarlier, NHS England's chief executive, Sir Simon Stevens, told MPs that there was a \"strong case\" for asking the the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) to consider prioritising \"teachers and other key workers\" for vaccination after the \"first nine [priority] groups have been vaccinated\".\n\nA quarter of coronavirus admissions to hospital are for people under the age of 55, he added.\n\nIn the first four weeks of the vaccination campaign, the NHS did 1.3 million vaccinations.\n\nNews that in the past week almost the same again has been done shows progress is being made - even though there has been some concern rollout to care home residents has been slower than hoped.\n\nHitting two million doses a week is the next target - and is something the NHS is aiming to get close to this week.\n\nWith more vaccination sites opening by the day, it should be achievable as long as there is good supply.\n\nThere is already enough vaccine in the country to vaccinate all 15 million people in the highest at-risk groups that have been promised an offer of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nHowever, not all of it has been through the final safety checks or been packaged up ready for distribution.\n\nChallenges remain, but even at this early stage it is clear there is growing optimism that the programme is on track.\n\nAs seven mass vaccination centres opened across England on Monday, NHS England said hundreds more GP-led and hospital services would also open later this week.\n\nBut with all centres, people will need to wait until they receive an invitation.\n\nTwo vaccines - Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are currently being administered in the UK.\n\nOn Friday, a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use, although supplies are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nVaccine programmes are also progressing in the UK's devolved nations.\n\nAll over-50s and everyone who is at greater risk from Covid in Wales will be offered a vaccine by spring, under new plans.\n\nAnd Scotland's health secretary has said every aged over 80 or over in the nation will be offered a jab by February, while care workers in Northern Ireland who provide services to ill or elderly patients living at home can now book an appointment to get a Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has questioned why there are \"less restrictions in place\" now than there were last March.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he said: \"I do think it's time to hear from the scientists [about] what else could be done and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nMeanwhile, the United Arab Emirates is being removed from the UK list of travel corridors amid a spike in Covid cases.\n\nAnd England's Test and Trace scheme has revised one of its definitions of a \"close contact\" - the people who need to be reached if they have been near to someone who has tested positive for Covid.\n\nThis now refers to anyone who has been within two metres of someone for more than 15 minutes, whether in a single period or cumulatively over the course of one day.\n\nPreviously the definition was just a single period of at least 15 minutes.", "Rani has co-hosted BBC One's Countryfile since 2015\n\nCountryfile host Anita Rani is to join Emma Barnett as a presenter of BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.\n\nShe will present the Friday and Saturday editions of the long-running programme, beginning on 15 January.\n\nRani, 43, said she had \"long been a fan\" of the programme and that she was \"really looking forward to getting to know the listeners and discussing issues that matter to them the most\".\n\nLong-time hosts Jane Garvey and Dame Jenni Murray left the show last year.\n\nBarnett, 35, who made her name on Radio 5 Live and Newsnight, made her Woman's Hour debut on 4 January. She hosts the show from Monday to Thursday.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Rani said it was \"an honour\" to be joining Radio 4's \"mothership\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by anita rani This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRani joined the BBC's Asian Network in 2005 and is a regular presenter on BBC Radio 2. She is also known for her appearances on The One Show and Watchdog, and for competing on the 2015 series of Strictly Come Dancing.\n\n\"Woman's Hour has always given a voice to people who may not be heard elsewhere and I want to continue that important tradition,\" she said.\n\nRadio 4 controller Mohit Bakaya said he wanted the station to \"better reflect and be relevant to the audience across the UK\". Rani will bring \"a wealth of broadcasting experience\" as well as a \"valuable\" perspective and insight, he added.\n\nComedian Shappi Khorsandi was among those to welcome her new role, saying she would be \"listening even more\".\n\nRani's appointment means the new Woman's Hour presenters are considerably younger than their predecessors. Dame Jenni was 70 when she left on 1 October, while Garvey was 56 when she signed off last month.\n\nEmma Barnett took the reins of Woman's Hour earlier this month\n\nBefore leaving, Garvey expressed a hope that whoever joined Barnett would be closer to her own age.\n\n\"Emma is in her 30s and that's great,\" she told the Daily Telegraph. \"It will give the programme a real energy, which I think is brilliant.\n\n\"So I think the person working alongside her should be somebody nearer my age to make sure we give the audience as broad a range of life experience and interests as possible. I would prefer it if the other presenter were in her 50s.\"\n\nBarnett had an eventful first week on the Radio 4 institution, opening her stint by reading out a message from The Queen.\n\nTwo days later, one of her guests dropped out of a discussion after objecting to remarks the presenter made about her off air.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A twenty-year-old from Cambridgeshire who spent a week in intensive care with Covid-19 says he can't believe so many young people are in denial about the virus.\n\nJay Clack fell ill on December 27th and within five days, 80% of his lungs has stopped functioning.\n\nWhile in intensive care he had a goodbye phone call with his family.\n\nBut now, he's showing signs of recovery and spoke to the BBC's Jon Ironmonger.", "The police are stepping up enforcement because they believe many people breaking the Covid regulations are doing so because they are stubborn, not because they don’t understand what is allowed.\n\nThe public, police, and legal experts do struggle to keep up with the ever-changing rules.\n\nBut the organisers of a party on a boat in Hertfordshire, the passengers on a minibus heading for Wales, and the couple who travelled 120 miles to \"watch seals\" would have struggled to explain to the officers issuing them with fines that they were confused.\n\nThose were clear breaches. More complicated is the fine line between the law - which police officers can enforce - and the government guidance, which they can’t.\n\nNo law says exercise can only be conducted once a day, or for a specific duration. These are pieces of firm guidance, along with the request to \"stay local\", which resulted in criticism of the prime minister after his bike ride in east London.\n\nIt would be difficult to set a distance limit which would work for both people living in rural areas and inner cities. Impossible to prove that a 65-minute run was in breach of the law.\n\nWhich is why the success of the measures will rely on personal responsibility in the end.\n\nAnd why some experts are saying that different messages such as \"act like you’ve got it\" or \"thanks for doing the right thing\" might cut through better than a list of regulations to be obeyed.", "Seven new mass vaccination centres have opened up across England to help deliver the Coronavirus vaccine, as the Prime Minister says we are facing a \"perilous moment\" in the fight against the virus.\n\nThe Centre of Life in Newcastle is home to one of them, with others in Bristol, Epsom, London, Manchester, Stevenage and Birmingham.\n\nInitially they will be used to vaccinate the over 80's, alongside NHS staff and health and social care workers. It's part of a drive that the government hopes will see 15 million people vaccinated against the virus by mid-February.", "But it delivered a fascinating look behind the scenes at two cutting-edge ways the firm is creating video content.\n\nThe first involved the use of a giant screen which is matched with movement-sensors on a camera to create a fake backdrop that shifts in turn with the lens.\n\nA similar technique was pioneered by Industrial Light & Magic and used in the Star Wars spin-off series The Mandalorian, but this opens the door to other filmmakers.\n\nThe screens involved use Sony's Crystal LED technology, which the firm first unveiled at CES in 2012, but has been unable to bring low down enough in price to take mainstream.\n\nIn effect, this is its version of micro-LED tech, using millions of tiny light emitting diodes (LEDs) to match the number of pixels. The result is much greater brightness and contrast than a normal LCD or OLED display would be capable of.\n\nThe background footage moves in time with the camera to aid the illusion Image caption: The background footage moves in time with the camera to aid the illusion\n\nUntil now, the firm has marketed the tech at building owners wanting the ultimate video walls. But this has the potential to help film and advert-makers place actors within environments they can see, rather than relying on greenscreen effects.\n\nThe second innovation was the creation of an \"immersive reality\" performance, which uses body sensors to create a highly-detailed animated version of an artist.\n\nIt was demoed by the singer-songwriter Madison Beer.\n\nMotion capture has been used for years to add special effects to characters in movies and to place real-world actors into video games.\n\nBut the aim here is to create a lifelike representation of a performer on stage at a concert.\n\nThe footage shown didn't quite escape the \"uncanny valley\" - there's still some way to go before we can't tell the difference between a real person and even a highly detailed avatar.\n\nBut it's easy to imagine that the tech being more impressive when viewed in virtual reality, where users can move about and choose their view.\n\nThe computer-generated image looks less real the closer you get to the performer Image caption: The computer-generated image looks less real the closer you get to the performer\n\nUntil now, VR apps of concerts have either offered a pick of different static camera locations or involved much lower-resolution characters.\n\nWith Covid meaning it's impossible for artists to tour, this second-best experience could be very timely when it's offered to PlayStation VR headsets and other devices soon.", "John Lewis is suspending its click and collect services and tightening safety measures after a \"change in tone\" from the government over the virus.\n\nThe department store will also pause in-home services, unless they are \"essential to customers' wellbeing\".\n\nThe retailer said it felt the changes were right with the country at a \"critical point in the pandemic\".\n\nHowever customers will be able to collect John Lewis orders from Waitrose stores.\n\nWaitrose, which belongs to the John Lewis Partnership, is also tightening rules over face coverings, following moves from the other supermarkets to make face masks mandatory for shoppers unless they have a medical exemption.\n\n\"We've listened carefully to the clear change in tone and emphasis of the views and information shared by the UK's governments in recent days,\" said Andrew Murphy, Executive Director, Operations.\n\n\"While we recognise that the detail of formal guidance has not changed, we feel it is right for us - and in the best interests of our Partners and customers - to take proactive steps to further enhance our Covid-security and related operational policies.\"\n\nJohn Lewis said click and collect from its department stores would be switched off for new orders from the end of Tuesday.\n\nExisting orders and bookings for services, such as installing washing machines, will still be carried out, if customers wish to proceed, but there will be no further bookings for non-essential services.\n\nMany other shops from coffee chains to craft suppliers are offering click and collect services. However, with the continued rise in coronavirus cases the government is examining ways to reduce social contact further.\n\nThe book chain Waterstones stopped offering click and collect services from its shops at the start of the current lockdown.\n\nMarks and Spencer said it was continuing to offer customers the opportunity to collect other items at its food halls, which are still open for grocery shopping.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gary Furlong described his son as \"an amazing, kind boy\"\n\nThe father of one of three men murdered in a park terror attack has called on the home secretary to \"tell us why\" the killer was deemed safe to be free.\n\nGary Furlong, whose son James, 36, was killed in Reading's Forbury Gardens attack in June, said it was \"beyond\" him why Khairi Saadallah was considered \"not a danger to the public\".\n\nSaadallah was jailed for the rest of his life over the murders.\n\nThe Home Office has not yet responded to a BBC request for comment.\n\nAt the time of the attack Home Secretary Priti Patel said: \"We must learn the lessons from what has happened... to prevent anything like this from happening again.\"\n\nDuring his trial, London's Old Bailey heard Saadallah \"executed\" James Furlong, David Wails, 49, and Joe Ritchie-Bennett, 39, as an \"act of religious jihad\" on the afternoon of 20 June.\n\nHe was jailed on Monday having previously admitted the three murders and the attempted murders of three other men.\n\nKhairi Saadallah admitted three counts of murder and three of attempted murder\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said a Serious Further Offence (SFO) review had been completed into how Saadallah was managed by the National Probation Service.\n\nThe victims' families would be offered a meeting to discuss the findings of the review, it added.\n\nIt comes after the killer had been subject to licence conditions at the time of the attack.\n\nThe court previously heard on the 18 June, two days before the attack, Saadallah's probation officer had emailed his mental health team as he had been talking about \"magic\".\n\nSaadallah also contacted the mental health crisis team himself, but he did not not open the door when they visited on 19 June.\n\nThe court heard Saadallah, who arrived in Britain from Libya in 2012, had previously been involved with militias who had been part of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, and was pictured handling weapons, including firearms.\n\nSince seeking asylum in Britain, he had been repeatedly arrested and convicted of various offences, including theft and assault, between 2013 and 2020.\n\nAnalysis of Saadallah's phone revealed an interest in extremist material and the court heard while at HMP Bullingdon in 2017, he was seen to associate with radical preacher Omar Brookes, who has connections with banned terrorist organisation Al-Muhajiroun.\n\nSpeaking after the sentencing, Gary Furlong, from Liverpool, said Ms Patel needed to \"tell us why this guy wasn't put into some form of detention centre before they could deport him\".\n\n\"He was not safe to be released back on the streets,\" he added.\n\nSaadallah, 26, had been told just before his release from prison that the Home Office wanted to deport him, but it was not legally possible due to the situation in Libya.\n\nIn law, what are known as the Hardial Singh principles place certain limits on the government's power to detain people ahead of deportation.\n\nThe Prime Minister's spokesman said the government \"always tries to remove foreign national offenders where possible\".\n\nHe was released from custody on 5 June, and proceeded to research the location for his attack online and carry out reconnaissance in the park.\n\n(L-R) David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong were pronounced dead at the scene\n\nFollowing concerns from his brother, police visited the killer on 19 June, but he told officers he was \"alright\" while he stood near to a knife he bought from a supermarket.\n\nSaadallah's brother, Aiman, said he had asked for police to detain him under the Mental Health Act, and added \"lives would have been saved\" if more had been done.\n\nThames Valley Police has been contacted for comment.\n\nReading Refugee Support Group's (RRSG) also said it had raised concerns about his potential for radicalisation over three years and the possibility of a \"London Bridge\" scenario.\n\nIn a statement, it said Saadallah had a \"known, significant mental health problem\".\n\n\"This in no way excuses what he did. He murdered three innocent people. But there must be accountability on the part of services that should have supported him,\" it said.\n\nBut passing sentence Mr Justice Sweeney said it was \"clear that the defendant did not, and does not, have any major mental illness\".\n\nGary Furlong said: \"Given the volume of crimes he's committed and the information that they had on him, for an assessment to be done the night before to say that he's not a danger to the public - it is beyond me.\n\n\"How was he ever allowed to stay in this country? How was he allowed in, in the first place?\"\n\nHistory teacher James Furlong and pharmaceutical manager Mr Ritchie-Bennett each died from a single stab wound to the neck, while scientist Mr Wails was stabbed once in the back.\n\nDespite treatment from paramedics and doctors, all three friends, who were members of the LGBT community, died at the scene.\n\nGary Furlong described his son as \"an amazing, kind boy\" who was loved by family, friends and students.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Royal Mail has published a list of areas where there have been delivery delays due to its workforce being affected by the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe postal service said some areas will see a reduced service due to workers being off sick or self-isolating.\n\nRoyal Mail listed 28 areas where post might be late, with 27 in England and one in Northern Ireland.\n\nProblems with deliveries over Christmas had prompted shoppers to complain about parcels not arriving on time.\n\nRoyal Mail said: \"Despite our best efforts and significant investment in extra resource, some customers may experience slightly longer delivery timescales than our usual service standards.\n\n\"This is due to the exceptionally high volumes we are seeing, exacerbated by the coronavirus-related measures we have put in place in local mail centres and delivery offices to keep our people and customers safe.\"\n\nMany of the affected areas are in or near London, while others include Chelmsford in Essex, Leeds in West Yorkshire, Margate in Kent, and Widnes in Cheshire.\n\nLabour MP Wes Streeting, whose Ilford constituency is one of the areas affected, tweeted on Sunday that he was concerned about vaccination invitations getting caught up in Royal Mail delays.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Wes Streeting MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Covid vaccine deployment minister Nadhim Zahawi replied that the government would work with Royal Mail to ensure that vaccine invitations were prioritised.\n\nCustomers have taken to Twitter to complain about delays to their postal service.\n\n\"Unfortunately I live in one of these areas.,\" wrote Matt S. \"N8 has been receiving an absolutely dreadful service since April 2020 - @RoyalMail what are you going to do to improve the situation?\"\n\nMark Harrison wrote: \"We could manage and expect a bit of disruption - but we've had only 2 deliveries in a month. Nothing for a fortnight. SE11 not even on the list of disrupted areas. Royal Mail need to get a grip.\"\n\nIn a service update on Tuesday, Royal Mail said: \"Due to resourcing issues, deliveries in the following areas are likely to be limited.\"", "Khairi Saadallah admitted three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nA killer who stabbed three men to death in a Reading park has been handed a whole-life jail term.\n\nKhairi Saadallah murdered James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and 39-year-old Joe Ritchie-Bennett, in June last year in Forbury Gardens.\n\nLondon's Old Bailey previously heard the 26-year-old \"executed\" the men as an \"act of religious jihad\".\n\nPassing sentence Judge Mr Justice Sweeney said it was a \"ruthless and brutal\" terror attack.\n\nSaadallah, who admitted the murders, had also pleaded guilty to the attempted murders of three other men who were also in the park.\n\nThe judge said the victims \"had no chance to react, let alone defend themselves\".\n\n(L-R) David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong were pronounced dead at the scene\n\nHe said he was sure the attack \"involved a substantial degree of premeditation or planning\" and was carried out \"for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, or ideological cause\".\n\nBBC News correspondent Helena Wilkinson, who was in court, said the families of James Furlong and David Wails were present, while Joseph Ritchie-Bennett's loved ones watched via a link from America.\n\nSaadallah showed no emotion as Mr Justice Sweeney went through his sentencing remarks.\n\nOn the afternoon of 20 June, the park was busy due to the first lockdown restrictions being relaxed in England.\n\nAndrew Cafe, who witnessed the stabbings, said he saw Saadallah wielding the \"biggest kitchen knife\" and charging towards him shouting \"Allahu Akbar\".\n\nPharmaceutical manager Mr Ritchie-Bennett and teacher Mr Furlong died from single stab wounds to their necks, while scientist Mr Wails was stabbed once in the back.\n\nDespite treatment from paramedics and doctors, all three friends, who were members of the LGBT community, died at the scene.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Witness Andrew Cafe visited Forbury Gardens for the first time since the attack\n\nThree other people - Nishit Nisudan, Patrick Edwards and Stephen Young - were also injured, before Saadallah threw away the knife and fled the scene, pursued by police.\n\nFollowing his arrest, Saadallah initially said he wanted to plead guilty to the \"jihad that I done\", but the prosecution claimed he later feigned mental illness in police interviews.\n\nAt a previous hearing, the court heard he had developed an emotionally unstable and anti-social personality disorder, with his behaviour worsened by alcohol and cannabis misuse.\n\nBut the judge said it was \"clear that the defendant did not, and does not, have any major mental illness\".\n\nAn examination of Saadallah's phone revealed an interest in extremist material, including images of the flag of Islamic State and Jihadi John, the court previously heard.\n\nWhile at HMP Bullingdon in 2017, he was seen to associate with radical preacher Omar Brookes, who has connections with banned terrorist organisation Al-Muhajiroun.\n\nThe court heard Saadallah, who arrived in Britain from Libya in 2012, had previously been involved with militias who had been part of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, and was pictured handling weapons, including firearms.\n\nSince seeking asylum in Britain, he had been repeatedly arrested and convicted of various offences, including theft and assault, between 2013 and 2020.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV cameras captured Khairi Saadallah before and after the stabbing\n\nHe briefly came to the attention of MI5 in 2019, but the information provided did not meet the threshold of investigation.\n\nSaadallah had been released from prison on 5 June, days before the attack, the court heard.\n\nOn 17 June, he researched the location for his attack online and carried out reconnaissance in the park.\n\nThe following day his probation officer alerted his mental health team over comments he made about magic.\n\nA day later, Saadallah contacted the crisis team himself, but when they visited he did not answer.\n\nFollowing concerns from his brother, police visited the killer the same day, but he told officers he was \"alright\" while he stood near a knife he bought from a supermarket.\n\nAndrew Wails said losing his brother had been devastating\n\nAfter the sentencing, James Furlong's father, Gary, said: \"The secretary of state needs to tell us why this guy wasn't put into some form of detention centre before they could deport him.\n\n\"He was not safe to be released back on the streets.\"\n\nReferring to the fact that Saadallah had been visited by police the night before the attack, Mr Furlong said: \"Given the volume of crimes he's committed and the information that they had on him, for an assessment to be done the night before to say that he's not a danger to the public - it is beyond me.\"\n\nHe described Mr Furlong, originally from Liverpool, as \"a lovely man, loved by his family, idolised by his mother\".\n\nDavid Wails' brother Andrew said: \"For us as a family it's been devastating to lose our much loved son, brother and uncle.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Bennett family described Mr Ritchie-Bennett as a \"devoted and loving husband\" and \"a man who cared strongly about family\".\n\nThe park had been busy due to the first lockdown restrictions being relaxed in England\n\nDet Ch Supt Kath Barnes, head of Counter Terrorism Policing South East, described Saadallah as \"a committed jihadist\".\n\nShe said: \"He has caused unspeakable hurt and distress to the families of the three men who were brutally murdered as they were relaxing and enjoying socialising with friends on a Saturday evening.\n\n\"I'm sure there will also be lasting effects on those who were injured in the attack, who were fortunate not to have been even more seriously harmed.\"\n\nReading Borough Council leader Jason Brock described the attacks as \"horrific\" and \"senseless\" and said a permanent memorial to the victims was planned.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vogue editor Anna Wintour said images of Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris were meant to celebrate her achievements\n\nUS Vogue editor Anna Wintour has defended the magazine following criticism of its front-cover portrait of Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris.\n\nThe image shows Ms Harris wearing an informal outfit including jeans and a pair of Converse trainers.\n\nSocial media users have criticised Vogue for the photo's \"washed out\" lighting and styling, saying it does not reflect Ms Harris's achievements.\n\nBut Ms Wintour said the photos were intended to highlight her success.\n\n\"We want nothing but to celebrate Vice-President-elect Harris's amazing victory and the important moment this is for America's history and particularly women of colour all over the world,\" Ms Wintour said in a statement to the New York Times' Kara Swisher.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Vogue Magazine This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe also defended Vogue's decision to use the picture for the print cover of its February issue, rather than an alternative portrait of her in a more formal suit.\n\nA member of Ms Harris's team told AP news agency that Vogue staff, including Ms Wintour, agreed to feature the blue-suited image on cover. But Ms Wintour denied that any formal agreement had been made.\n\n\"All of us felt very, very strongly that the less formal portrait of the vice-president-elect really reflected the moment that we were living in,\" said Ms Wintour.\n\n\"We felt to reflect this tragic moment in global history, a much less formal picture... really reflected the hallmark of the Biden/Harris campaign and everything they were trying to - and I'm sure they will - achieve,\" the editor - herself an influential supporter of the Democratic Party - added.\n\nSources at Vogue told the New York Times that the second, more formal image may be used as a cover for a separate print edition.\n\nBoth pictures were taken by Tyler Mitchell who, in 2018, became the first black photographer to shoot a Vogue cover.\n\nThe magazine has been criticised in the past over issues relating to race.\n\nSeveral former employees previously shared experiences of alleged racism in the workplace with the New York Times.\n\nEarlier this year, British Vogue editor Edward Enninful spoke out after he was allegedly \"racially profiled\" by a security guard at the magazine's UK offices.\n\nYou might also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. HBO's Insecure is making sure lighting people of colour is not an afterthought", "A deal has been agreed for the sale of the Edinburgh Woollen Mill, Ponden Home and Bonmarché chains, which were on the brink of closure.\n\nThe businesses went into administration last year after a collapse in sales due to the pandemic.\n\nAlmost 2,000 staff will be kept on but as many as 260 stores could close.\n\nThe buyers are a consortium of international investors who will inject fresh funds into the business, led by the existing management team.\n\nEdinburgh Woollen Mill, which sells mid-price knitwear and other clothing to older shoppers, is part of a stable of retail brands owned by billionaire businessman, Philip Day.\n\nIt is understood that Mr Day will effectively lend the group the money to buy the businesses which will be paid back over a number of years.\n\nThe deal also covers two other brands in the group, value retailer Bonmarché, and Ponden Home, an interiors chain based in the south east of England.\n\nThe new owners plan to operate 246 stores across both the Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home brands, retaining 1,453 staff in those stores, the head office and distribution centres in Carlisle.\n\nHowever, 85 Edinburgh Woollen Mill stores and 34 Ponden Home stores have been closed permanently, with the loss of 485 jobs.\n\nWakefield-based Bonmarché will retain 72 of its stores and 531 staff including head office and distribution centre staff.\n\nThe majority of its stores, 148 outlets, remain under review with staff on furlough.\n\nAdministrators representing Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home said the deal represented the best chance to save stores and jobs, given the difficult outlook for UK retail.\n\n\"We regret that not all of Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home could be rescued,\" said Tony Wright, partner at FRP. \"This has resulted in a significant number of redundancies at a particularly challenging time of year and period of economic uncertainty.\"\n\nRetail has been particularly hard hit by measures to curb the spread of Covid-19. Even when shops have been open many shoppers stayed away, wary of the health risks.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium said consumers bought 5% less last year than the year before (not including food). Much of that custom switched from the High Street to online, making it harder for chains whose customers usually shop in person. Physical stores saw sales drop by a quarter, the BRC said.\n\nOther major brands including Topshop-owner Arcadia and Debenhams have also gone into administration, costing hundreds of jobs.\n\n\"Lockdowns have proved hugely damaging for mid-range fashion chains like Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Bonmarché whose traditional customer base has not adapted so quickly to online shopping as younger shoppers,\" said Susannah Streeter, analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"The backers of this rescue deal clearly believe there is pent-up demand amongst core customers which will be released once the doors are flung open once more,\" she added.\n\nOn Monday, Marks & Spencer announced it was buying Jaeger, another brand that had belonged to Philip Day's portfolio.\n\nPeacocks, another High Street fashion brand in the EWM group remains in administration.", "As major social media platforms crack down on accounts promoting US election conspiracy theories, many conspiracy and far-right groups in the US are looking for a new home online.\n\nTwitter hasn’t just kicked the president off the platform. It’s also closed down some 70,000 accounts associated with the QAnon conspiracy, while Facebook said it is continuing efforts to shut down “Stop the Steal” groups which allege, with no evidence, that Donald Trump was cheated of the presidency.\n\nOne of the most popular alternatives had been the self-styled “free speech” social media outlet Parler, but then over the weekend that was banned too for posts inciting violence.\n\nThen there’s Gab, a Twitter-like platform popular with right-wing groups, which is awash with extreme content and welcomes QAnon followers with open arms. It claims to have added 600,000 new users since the riots.\n\nIt’s thought Gab’s user base is far smaller than that of the now-closed Parler, which had around 16m users.\n\nOthers seem to be moving to MeWe, which is similar to Facebook.\n\nThere are some parallels with online jihadists, who also found their voices silenced after the rise of Islamic State in the Middle East.\n\nThe Islamic State group and al-Qaeda frequently have to re-establish their online presence after social media companies identify and close their accounts, leading to a nomadic online existence.\n\nThey have already adapted to life outside the big social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook and have exploited less well known platforms and apps to get their messages out.\n• 65 days that led to chaos at the Capitol", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Lockdown likely to extend to February\n\nScotland's first minister has said the country's current lockdown is \"very unlikely\" to be lifted at the end of the month.\n\nNicola Sturgeon was speaking as she confirmed that more than 5,000 people have now died after testing positive for the virus.\n\nA review of the current restrictions is due to be carried out at the end of January.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was possible that there would be no easing at that point.\n\nA further 54 deaths have been recorded in the past 24 hours - bringing the total by that measure to 5,023.\n\nBut the most recent figures from the National Records of Scotland - which record all deaths registered in Scotland where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate - put the total at 6,686.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily briefing that the figures were a reminder of the toll the virus had taken.\n\nAnd she said every death had caused heartbreak to friends, families and loved ones across the country.\n\nThe first minister also said Scotland's NHS would be under far greater pressure if the current restrictions had not been put in place on Boxing Day.\n\nAnd she urged people not to raise their expectations about what will be announced when the lockdown review is completed in a fortnight as wholesale lifting of the restrictions was \"very unlikely\".\n\nShe added: \"There may not even be any lifting of these restrictions as soon as the end of January - we will have to consider all of that carefully and set it out in due course.\"\n\nAll of mainland Scotland and some islands were placed into level four restrictions on 26 December, with schools remaining closed to most pupils until at least the end of the month.\n\nA further 1,875 positive cases of the virus were recorded on Monday, bringing the total since the pandemic began to 153,423.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with the virus stands at 1,717 - an increase of 53 since yesterday and higher than the peak of about 1,500 in the first wave in April.\n\nOf these, 133 patients are intensive care units, with Ms Sturgeon saying that the virus was putting \"very acute pressure\" on hospitals.\n\nThe first minister also said that 175,942 people in Scotland had received their first vaccine dose by Monday.\n\nOpposition parties have claimed that the rollout of the vaccine has been \"sluggish\" in Scotland compared to south of the border - a charge that the government denies.\n\nAnd they have called for greater transparency over how many people are being given the jab every day.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said on Monday that the government was aiming to vaccinate about 560,000 people in Scotland by 31 January.\n\nNon-essential shops have been closed in Scotland since 26 December\n\nThe Scottish government has previously said it is concerned that too many people have not been following the \"stay at home\" rules that are in place across the whole of the mainland and some islands.\n\nMinisters have been discussing the possibility of imposing tougher rules on click and collect shopping and takeaway food, with an announcement expected to be made on Wednesday.\n\nRetail industry representatives have described click and collect services as a \"lifeline\" for struggling businesses amid the forced closure of all non-essential shops.\n\nAnd they said they had not been shown any evidence that click and collect was driving transmission of the virus.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily coronavirus briefing that the government may not stop click and collect services altogether.\n\nBut she added: \"If we are saying to people right now that you should not be out of your home for shopping unless it is essential, then do we need to have click and collect for non-essential services instead of having that for delivery?\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross told BBC Scotland that he did not want to see further restrictions put in place unless there was evidence that they would have the desired effect.\n\nHe also suggested that restricting click and collect would simply result in more people going back into supermarkets to do their shopping.\n\nThe Scottish government is also under pressure to lift the the current ban on public Sunday worship, with a group of 500 church leaders from across the UK - including 200 in Scotland - insisting that there is \"no evidence of any tangible contribution to community transmission through churches in Scotland\".\n\nIn a letter to the first minister, they claim that the ban may be unlawful and accuse the government of failing to understand that \"Christian worship is an essential public service, and especially vital to our nation in a time of crisis\".\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"Test and Protect tells us where people were in their 48-hour infectious period.\n\n\"So we know that on one day last week the seven-day number for places of worship was 120, and data from yesterday shows the seven-day number for places of worship is 38, underlining the essential decision to require places of worship to close for public health reasons.\"\n\nMeanwhile, it has been confirmed that everyone arriving in Scotland from overseas will need to show proof of a negative test from Friday.\n\nThe test will need to be \"highly reliable\", the first minister said, and will need to have been from the previous three days - although young children may be exempt from the restriction.\n\nThose travelling from countries not on the quarantine exemption list will still need to self-isolate on arrival.\n\nThe new rules, which will also come into force in England, were first outlined last week.", "Sir David Attenborough has previously spoken of his support for the Covid-19 vaccines\n\nSir David Attenborough has become the latest well-known name to receive the Covid-19 vaccine, his representative has confirmed.\n\nThe news about the 94-year-old natural historian comes a few days after it was revealed the Queen had been vaccinated.\n\nIt's not known which vaccine Sir David has been given or exactly when he had it.\n\nThe Perfect Planet host is one of several stars to receive the first of two doses of the vaccine.\n\nThey include The Great British Bake Off's Prue Leith, actor Sir Ian McKellen, choreographer Lionel Blair, actor Brian Blessed and actress Dame Joan Collins.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere are currently three vaccines approved for administration in the UK - Oxford-AstraZeneca, Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, although supplies of the latter are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nSir David, who has been isolating at his London home, has previously talked about his support for the work in developing a means of protection from Covid-19.\n\nIn an interview with The Telegraph last month he said he would definitely accept an invitation to be vaccinated when his time came.\n\n\"At 94, I think I'm entitled!\" he told the newspaper.\n\n\"I'm sufficient of a scientist still, I hope, to realise this is the thing to do.\"\n\nHe added that the work that had gone into developing the vaccines showed the positive effects of international cooperation in combating global problems, such as the climate crisis.\n\n\"It (the virus) has drawn attention to the fact we aren't as omnipotent and all-controlling as we think we are,\" he told the paper.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The United Arab Emirates is being removed from the UK list of travel corridors amid a spike in Covid cases.\n\nThat means anyone who arrives from the UAE after 04:00 GMT on Tuesday now needs to self-isolate for 10 days, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said.\n\nUK officials say Covid cases have risen 52% in the UAE in the last seven days and cite \"a significant acceleration in the number of imported cases\".\n\nIt comes after Scotland removed the UAE city Dubai from its safe travel list.\n\nThe Foreign Office has also updated its advice to advise against all but essential travel to the emirates.\n\nThe recent lockdown restrictions imposed across the UK mean leisure travel is currently banned.\n\nBut the UAE has been in particular focus in recent weeks after a number of UK reality TV and social media stars posted photographs of themselves holidaying there before the rules came into place.\n\nAnd a Celtic footballer tested positive for Covid-19 after the club took a trip to Dubai for a winter training camp.\n\nCeltic were allowed to go as a group under exemptions for elite athletes. As a result,15 playing and coaching staff are now required to self-isolate.\n\nDubai was added to Scotland's travel quarantine list from 04:00 GMT on Monday - with the rule also applying retrospectively for passengers who have arrived in Scotland from the city since January 3.\n\nThe Department for Transport said the removal of the whole of the UAE from the travel corridor is being adopted by all four UK nations.\n\nArrivals to the UK from most destinations now have to quarantine for 10 days.\n\nHowever, arrivals from some countries are exempt from the rules. Those countries make up the so-called travel corridor list.\n\nFrom this week, passengers arriving by boat, train or plane, including UK nationals, must also take a Covid test up to 72 hours before leaving the country of departure.\n\nAre you affected by the government decision to remove UAE from the UK travel corridor list? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A Scottish earl has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman at his ancestral home in Angus.\n\nThe Earl of Strathmore, Simon Bowes-Lyon, forced his way into the sleeping woman's room during a weekend event he was hosting at Glamis Castle.\n\nHe repeatedly assaulted the 26-year-old victim and tried to pull off her nightdress during the 20-minute attack.\n\nBowes-Lyon, 34 - who is the Queen's first cousin twice removed - has been placed on the sex offenders register.\n\nHe was granted bail at Dundee Sheriff Court and sentence was deferred.\n\nSheriff Alistair Carmichael also ordered Glamis Castle be assessed for its suitability to house Bowes-Lyon while under a tagging order.\n\nThe court heard the woman fled the castle the morning after the attack on 13 February last year and flew home to report the matter to police.\n\nBoth Police Scotland and the Metropolitan Police were involved in the investigation.\n\nGlamis Castle was the childhood home of the Queen Mother\n\nOutside court, Bowes-Lyon said he was \"greatly ashamed\" of his actions.\n\nHe added: \"Clearly I had drunk to excess on the night of the incident. I should have known better. I recognise, in any event, that alcohol is no excuse for my behaviour.\n\n\"I did not think I was capable of behaving the way I did but have had to face up to it and take responsibility.\n\n\"My apologies go, above all, to the woman concerned, but I would also like to apologise to family, friends and colleagues for the distress I have caused them.\"\n\nGlamis Castle, near Forfar, has been the seat of the Bowes-Lyon family since 1372.\n\nIt was the childhood home of the Queen Mother, and the Queen's sister Princess Margaret was born there.\n\nBowes-Lyon was a great-great nephew of the Queen Mother.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid lockdown: Are supermarkets following the rules?\n\nSupermarket workers are facing abuse for challenging shoppers not wearing masks during the pandemic, staff say.\n\nOne Mold supermarket worker said she was challenging people every day and seeing \"loads of people walking around\" the store without masks and in groups.\n\nThe Welsh Government has hinted rules will be tightened amid concerns Covid-19 rules are not being followed.\n\n\"This is not a social event, come in on your own, not as a family of five,\" the supermarket worker said.\n\nSupermarket workers spoke to BBC Radio Wales as Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the \"onus\" was on supermarkets to make sure shoppers abided by the rules.\n\nThere has been an \"escalation of abuse\" towards supermarket staff in the last nine months, and the role of policing such rules must not fall on those on the shop floor, Nick Ireland Divisional Officer of the Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) said.\n\nHe said measures in stores had \"rolled back\", with many no longer enforcing systems, and people walking the wrong way down one-way systems, and \"whole families\" shopping with just one basket.\n\nMeanwhile Bally Auluk, an area organiser in Cardiff and Barry for Usdaw, said abuse towards shopworkers was happening on \"a daily and weekly basis\".\n\nHe said retailers and the Welsh Government should \"start protecting shop workers\" after dealing with members himself who were \"threatened with physical violence and spat on\".\n\n\"Customers now are treating it almost like it was last year, that it's not a problem, that is where the big issues arises,\" he said.\n\nThe Welsh Government is in discussions about bringing in \"more visible\" coronavirus regulations.\n\nMorrisons and Sainsbury's had pledged to challenge shoppers not wearing face coverings in store, unless they have a medical exemption.\n\nTesco, Asda and Waitrose are the latest supermarkets to follow the move and challenge those who flout the rules.\n\nUnder coronavirus rules, people must wear face coverings in order to enter shops across the UK, while supermarkets should have social distancing and strict hygiene measures in place.\n\nThe Welsh Government has been in talks with retailers on how to improve safety and return to the strict observance of social distancing from the first lockdown, although no new guidance has been issued.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said he had heard concerns from people \"expressing anxiety\" about a lack of \"visible protections\" in supermarkets, such as limited numbers allowed in store, hand sanitiser and security on doors.\n\nThe Mold supermarket worker said staff had been told not to challenge people not wearing masks, and had seen people being yelled at.\n\nJane, who did not give her last name, told BBC Wales customers were offered a mask on the way in, but many did not want them.\n\n\"You do see a lot of customers walking around without a mask on,\" she said.\n\n\"Of course there are people with hidden disabilities who can't wear a mask but there can't be that many of them.\"\n\nJane said enforcement needed to be greater, but it should not be led by the shopfloor staff.\"We're told not to challenge people as we don't know someone's personal situation and we don't want to face any abuse if they don't want to wear it or don't agree with it,\" she said.\n\n\"At the moment people will ask politely, but I have witnessed quite a few occasions where customers have been verbally abusive to the person greeting them on their way in.\n\n\"There needs to be someone enforcing this, it can't be left to retail staff: whether its a police officer or a security guard.\"\n\nSupermarket aisles carrying non-essential items are closed off again, as they were during the firebreak lockdown\n\nOne security guard at a supermarket in Aberdare said he had had more \"hassle\" working in the past 10 months at the store, than from drinkers while working as a nightclub doorman for more than 20 years.\n\n\"The attitude towards yourself... they don't appreciate that you're standing there for 12 hours a day, they don't understand how hard it is to try and keep people distancing,\" he told Dot Davies on BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"When they go inside the shop it all goes out the window... we keep the two metres outside, but we've got people coming outside to tell us we should be in there sorting it out.\"\n\nOne supermarket manager said the lengths people were going to in order to shop together were \"ridiculous\", with families coming in with a number of trolleys or baskets in order not to be challenged.\n\n\"We've seen families turning up to go shopping for a basket shop, it's just not on,\" said Mr Ireland, who called on supermarket staff to be prioritised for vaccines.\n\nHe suggested those who do not observe the rules should be banned and fined.\n\nBut one mother said that she had no choice but to shop with her children, and she had been unable to get a click and collect or delivery slot.\n\n\"It's easy to get caught up in the fear of it, but some people are at the shops as they have no choice,\" she said.\n\nOthers have spoken of shop staff themselves not wearing masks.\n\nJames Lowman, chief executive of the Association of Convenience Stores, said it was \"everyone's responsibility\" to abide by the rules, rather than for shop workers to enforce.\n\n\"Doing that [enforcement of rules] in a small store, where you don't have lots of colleagues around, has been a trigger for more abuse and even violence,\" he said.\n\nMr Lowman said making businesses Covid secure was down to the local authority, while individuals' behaviour was a matter for police, but \"in practicality\" it is everyone's responsibility.\n\nBut Mr Gething said the \"onus\" for getting shoppers to follow Covid-19 rules, such as wearing masks, social-distancing and cordoning off non-essential items, was on the supermarket managers.\n\n\"[It needs to be made] clear that you do need to wear a mask unless you can demonstrate that you have a particular exemption,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't think there's any lack of understanding. We've been through this before and I do think a number of supermarkets are going to go and make clear there are a range of items that are off-limits for shoppers coming in.\n\n\"Supermarkets understand what they need to do.\"", "London's Nightingale hospital was built in nine days, with the help of hundreds of soldiers\n\nLondon's Nightingale hospital has been reopened and is admitting patients to help with the coronavirus spread in the capital.\n\nMedical director Dr Vin Diwakar said the facility at London's ExCeL Centre also had a vaccination centre on site.\n\nIt was placed on standby in May after fewer than 20 patients were treated following a grand opening on 3 April.\n\nDr Diwakar said the Nightingale was being used to treat non-coronavirus patients.\n\nIn the Downing Street press conference, he explained it was taking non-Covid patients to help free up beds in London's hospitals.\n\nHe said: \"This means that hospitals have more beds to care for Covid-19 patients and for our very sickest patients. We cannot do this indefinitely.\n\n\"There comes a point where if the infection gets further out of control, more and more patients from London will need to be transferred elsewhere.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nAt the start of November, he said, London had 1,000 Covid-19 patients.\n\nThis increased four-fold to 4,000 on Christmas Day and has doubled to just under 8,000 today, with more than 1,000 of those on critical care, he told the press conference.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC News (UK) This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Dr Diwakar said there was \"hope\", with one hall of the ExCel Centre having opened as London's first mass vaccination centre.\n\n\"I can tell you Covid-19 is a horrible, horrible disease that leaves so many, including young people, breathless and gasping for life,\" he said.\n\nOn Friday, the Mayor of London declared a \"major incident\" as he described the coronavirus spread in the capital as \"out of control\".\n\nMore than 120 firefighters and 75 Met Police officers have been drafted in to help the London Ambulance Service cope with demand.", "The data showed men were more likely to be admitted to intensive care units\n\nAround half of patients admitted to Welsh intensive care units during the second wave of the pandemic have died, a study has found.\n\nThe Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre (ICNARC) found men aged in their 60s were more likely to need intensive care.\n\nIt also found those from Asian backgrounds and deprived areas were disproportionately affected.\n\nBut a leading doctor said, overall, people were more likely to survive now.\n\nIntensive care consultant Matt Morgan said new treatments meant only the sickest patients were reaching intensive care, where outcomes were poorer.\n\nICNARC collected information on 431 Welsh patients who were critically ill with coronavirus from 1 September to 31 December 2020 as part of a UK-wide audit of intensive care patients.\n\nOf the patients who were admitted, 68% were men and 32% women. The average age of a patient was 59.5 years.\n\nIntensive care consultant Matt Morgan said, overall, patients were more likely to survive Covid now\n\nWhile the vast majority of patients were white (91.6%), the number of patients of Asian ethnicity was more than double the proportion of the Asian population, with 6.3% of patients recorded as being Asian, compared to an average of 2.4% in their local population.\n\nThe audit of patients found that, excluding those still being treated at the unit, half had died while half had been discharged.\n\nAlthough the numbers of patients surveyed is relatively low for statistical purposes, Dr Morgan said the survival rate reflected the situation in hospitals.\n\n\"We are putting fewer people, who are in the first stage of their illness, on to life support machines. And that is because we have treatments now that we know can help,\" he said.\n\n\"Overall, you are more likely now to survive Covid than ever before, and that is in every age group - sometimes by as much as 10% more.\n\n\"What we do know is that overall, out of every ten people who come to intensive care with Covid about six of them will survive and will leave the intensive care unit. Which means sadly four of them won't, four of them will die.\n\n\"That's similar overall to the first wave but that data is based on some patients who are still in the intensive care unit. So that may change and it's more likely to get worse rather than better.\"\n\n\"We also know patients who are on life support machines in the intensive care unit will do worse than those who come to the intensive care unit and are not on life support machines.\n\n\"For those people, it's probably five out of 10 people who will survive and five who will sadly die and that may be worse when we have the data on those who are still there.\n\n\"And there's a big effect of age. So for those over the age of 70 it may be as little as four people out of 10 who survive, maybe less. And for those over the age of 80 it may be as low as one or two people out of ten who survive.\n\nThe figures from ICNARC also highlight how people from poorer backgrounds were more likely to need treatment in intensive care.\n\nUsing a deprivation score from 1 to 5, more than half of patients scored 4 or 5, representing the most deprived postcodes in Wales.\n\nDr Morgan said: \"Sadly, disease is an illness of deprivation.\n\n\"And so that's why we feel it, particularly in Wales where the industrial scars of our past are still very much there - and our health is there.\"", "The men were arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance at hospitals in Birmingham and Worcestershire\n\nFour men have been arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance at hospitals in the West Midlands.\n\nThe men, aged between 31 and 37, were held in relation to incidents in Birmingham and Worcestershire between 31 December and 9 January.\n\nEarlier this month, police said they were investigating after people posted videos of supposedly empty hospital corridors on social media.\n\nThe videos claiming Covid-19 was a hoax sparked an outcry from medical workers.\n\nWest Mercia Police launched a joint investigation with West Midlands Police, after incidents were reported at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the Alexandra in Redditch.\n\nHospitals in Worcester and Kidderminster also featured, before the footage was deleted.\n\nThe West Mercia force confirmed it had arrested two men from Bromsgrove aged 31 and 34 as well as a 37 year-old man from Kidderminster and a fourth man, aged 34, from Droitwich.\n\nThey were also detained relating to incidents in a park in Bromsgrove as well as the town centre.\n\nAll four men have since been bailed with conditions not to enter any hospital in England unless they have a medical reason to do so.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Birmingham has one of the largest intensive care capacities in the whole country\n\nTwo hundred doctors will be redeployed to one of England's largest intensive care units amid fears it could be \"overwhelmed\".\n\nA leaked memo warned hospitals in Birmingham were \"in a position of extremis\" as Covid-19 cases rise.\n\nElective surgeries at the city's main Queen Elizabeth Hospital will stop as staff move to critical care duties.\n\nA spokesperson said the approach ensured \"the greatest good for the greatest numbers of people\".\n\nThe trust's decision to redeploy doctors was revealed in a leaked email to the Health Service Journal, which has been verified by the BBC.\n\nSent by consultant Peter Hewins, it said hospitals in Birmingham risked being \"overwhelmed\" amid a \"period of absolute emergency\".\n\nThe University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) said there were 873 patients with Covid-19 across its sites, with 125 in intensive care.\n\nThis was significantly more than in April 2020, it said, as it announced plans to double its intensive care capacity to more than 250 beds.\n\nTime-critical surgery, including cancer operations, will continue, the trust said, but elective procedures at the Queen Elizabeth will be paused, and reduced elsewhere.\n\nThere will also be a \"further reduction of outpatient activity\", a spokesperson said, adding: \"Every member of staff will be supported by the Trust in delivering the best care wherever they are working.\"\n\nThere are currently 873 Covid-19 patients being treated at the trust\n\nNeighbouring University Coventry and Warwickshire Hospitals Trust confirmed it had started taking Covid patients from Birmingham.\n\nUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England.\n\nIt runs several hospitals, including Birmingham Heartlands, the Queen Elizabeth, Solihull Hospital and Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield. It also runs Birmingham Chest Clinic.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson - pictured here in 2013 - has long been a fan of cycling\n\nBoris Johnson has been criticised for travelling seven miles from Downing Street to go cycling during lockdown.\n\nThe Evening Standard reported the prime minister had been spotted in the Olympic Park in East London on Sunday.\n\nGovernment advice allows people to exercise outside, but says you should not travel outside your local area.\n\nA No 10 spokesman would not confirm if Mr Johnson had been driven to the park or cycled there, but said the PM had complied with Covid-19 guidelines.\n\nLabour's Andy Slaughter said: \"Once again it is do as I say, not as I do, from the prime minister.\"\n\nThe Hammersmith MP added: \"London has some of the highest infection rates in the country. Boris Johnson should be leading by example.\"\n\nIn response to the criticism, a Downing Street source told the BBC: \"The PM has exercised within the Covid rules and any suggestion to the contrary is wrong.\"\n\nA woman told the PA news agency she had seen the prime minister in the park: \"He was leisurely cycling with another guy with a beanie hat and chatting, while around four security guys, possibly more, cycled behind them.\n\n\"Considering the current situation with Covid I was shocked to see him cycling around looking so care-free.\n\n\"Also, considering he's advising everyone to stay at home and not leave their area, shouldn't he stay in Westminster and not travel to other boroughs?\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock was asked at Monday's Downing Street press conference whether travelling seven miles for a cycle ride was within the rules.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"It is OK, if you went for a long walk and ended up seven miles from home, that is OK, but you should stay local.\n\n\"It is OK to go for a long walk or a cycle ride or to exercise, but stay local.\"\n\nThe issue of travelling for exercise was highlighted at the weekend after two women said they were surrounded by police and fine £200 after driving five miles from home to take a walk.\n\nDerbyshire Police have now dropped the fine and apologised to the women, but the incident led to a debate over the guidance.\n\nGovernment advice for England says you can leave your home to exercise, but adds: \"This should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area.\"\n\nThe guidance adds: \"Stay local means stay in the village, town, or part of the city where you live.\"\n\nIn Scotland, the advice is more precise, saying exercise can be taken if it \"starts and finishes at the same place, which can be up to five miles from the boundary of your local authority area\".\n\nFormer Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, who represents a constituency in the Lake District, has written to the PM calling for clearer guidance on exercise similar to that in Scotland.\n\nHe wrote: \"On the one hand, our local police force here in Cumbria are reporting that people... have travelled hundreds of miles to take their exercise in the Lake District.\n\n\"And on the other hand, I have constituents writing to me, worried whether they will be punished for driving five minutes up the road to go for a walk in their local park.\"\n\nMr Farron added: \"We need a solution that clearly deters people from making lengthy trips and potentially spreading the virus, but also that doesn't discourage people from keeping fit and healthy.\"", "Retailers suffered their worst annual sales performance on record in 2020, driven by slump in demand for fashion and homeware products, figures show.\n\nWhile food sales growth rose 5.4% on 2019, non-food fell about 5%, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) said.\n\nIt meant an overall fall of 0.3% in a year dominated by the Covid-19 impact, the worst annual change since the BRC began collating the figures in 1995.\n\nChristmas offered little cheer, with much of the High Street still closed.\n\n\"Physical non-food stores, including all of non-essential retail, saw sales drop by a quarter compared with 2019,\" said Helen Dickinson, BRC chief executive.\n\n\"Christmas offered little respite for these retailers, as many shops were forced to shut during the peak trading period,\" she said.\n\nThe 5.4% rise in food sales was fuelled by shoppers flocking to supermarkets and online grocers to ensure they were stocked up during the pandemic.\n\nIn December, total retail sales increased by 1.8% as shoppers spent more in the run-up to Christmas. Like-for-like sales for the month were up 4.8% as overall shop takings were still affected by restrictions and temporary closures.\n\nOnline non-food sales jumped by 44.8% in December, according to the new figures, as a higher proportion of shopping took place online.\n\nThe BRC's sales monitor is collated with the consultancy KPMG, whose UK head of retail, Paul Martin, said: \"In the most important month for the retail industry, there was some positive growth due to the ongoing shift of expenditure from other categories such as travel and leisure.\n\n\"Once again we saw big swings in the types of products being purchased and the channels used for shopping, with much of the growth taking place online, where nearly half of all non-food purchases were made.\"\n\nBut he warned that the new lockdown would worsen conditions for many non-essential shops and the High Street generally.\n\nLast week, a report from the Centre for Retail Research (CRR) said that 2020 was the worst for High Street job losses in more than 25 years, as the coronavirus accelerated the move towards online shopping.\n\nNearly 180,000 retail jobs were lost last year, up by almost a quarter from 2019, the CRR said.", "The Covid pandemic has caused excess deaths to rise to their highest level in the UK since World War Two.\n\nThere were close to 697,000 deaths in 2020 - nearly 85,000 more than would be expected based on the average in the previous five years.\n\nThis represents an increase of 14% - making it the largest rise in excess deaths for more than 75 years.\n\nWhen the age and size of the population is taken into account, 2020 saw the worst death rates since the 2000s.\n\nThis measure - known as age-standardised mortality - takes into account population growth and age.\n\nThe data is only available until November - so the impact of deaths in December have not yet been taken into account - but it shows the death rate at that stage was at its highest in England since 2008.\n\nThe data on deaths can be confusing.\n\nOn one hand, excess deaths are at their highest since World War Two, while on the other, death rates, once age and size of population are taken into account, are at their worst level for a little over a decade 'only'.\n\nHow should that be interpreted?\n\nExcess deaths are basically a measure of how many more people are dying than would be expected based on the previous few years.\n\nClearly, 2020 saw a huge and unexpected rise in deaths because of the pandemic, just as World War Two led to a sudden jump.\n\nBut in determining how much those jumps affected the chances of dying, a measure known as age-standardised mortality, which takes into account the age and size of the population, is important.\n\nIt shows the pandemic has undone the progress made in the last decade or so. That is significant - especially given this has happened despite lockdowns and social-distancing measures to stop the spread of the virus.\n\nBut it also helps put the death toll over the past 12 months in a wider context.\n\nKing's Fund chief executive Richard Murray said the picture was likely to worsen, given Covid deaths were rising following the surge in infections over recent weeks.\n\n\"The UK has one of the highest rates of excess deaths in the world, with more excess deaths per million people than most other European countries or the US,\" he said.\n\n'It will take a public inquiry to determine exactly what went wrong, but mistakes have been made.\n\n\"In a pandemic, mistakes cost lives. Decisions to enter lockdown have consistently come late, with the government failing to learn from past mistakes or the experiences of other countries.\n\n\"The promised 'protective ring' around social care in the first wave was slow to materialise and often inadequate, a contributing factor to the excess deaths among care home residents last year.\n\n'Like many countries, the UK was poorly prepared for this type of pandemic.\"\n\nMatthew Reed, of the end-of-life care charity Marie Curie said the focus on Covid should not hide the fact there has been a \"silent crisis\" of deaths at home.\n\nHe said people have died prematurely in 2020 from other causes - with a big jump in deaths at home.\n\n\"We are concerned many have not had the care they needed,\" he added.\n• None Lockdown needs to be stricter, scientists warn", "Officer Eugene Goodman is being celebrated for his heroics\n\nCapitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman is being called a hero for a second time after footage shown at the impeachment trial shows him directing Mitt Romney away from an advancing mob.\n\nIn the video, the officer is seen notifying Mr Romney that the rioters were heading in his direction and guiding him away.\n\nThe Utah senator, an unpopular figure among Trump supporters, said he looked forward to thanking the police officer for his actions.\n\nOfficer Goodman was already being praised for his bravery that day, after singlehandedly steering a mob away from the Senate chambers.\n\nVideo footage showed him just steps ahead of rioters as they chase him up a flight of stairs.\n\nMr Goodman is then seen glancing towards the Senate entrance before luring the men in the opposite direction.\n\nFive people, including a police officer, died as a result of the riots.\n\nThe officer was seen confronting a pro-Trump rioter during the attack\n\nMembers of the 2,000-person Capitol police department are tasked with protecting the Capitol building and those inside, it.\n\nA group of senators has introduced a bill to award Officer Goodman with the Congressional Gold Medal.\n\nNews of his additional heroics involving Senator Romney will only amplify calls for him to be recognised.\n\nThe senator said he was unaware of the danger he was in until he saw the footage at the trial on Wednesday.\n\nSenator Mitt Romney said he was looking forward to thanking Officer Goodman\n\nIt formed part of the Democratic prosecution in trying to underline the peril the heart of US government was under as Trump supporters ransacked the Capitol.\n\nSenator Romney said it was \"overwhelmingly distressing and emotional\" to see the violence again, six weeks after the attack.\n\nAnd reflecting on his own narrow escape, he added he was looking forward to thanking Officer Goodman \"when I next see him\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. See how close the mob got to Mike Pence, Mitt Romney and other lawmakers\n\nNew York Law School criminal law professor and 20-year veteran of the New York City Police Department Kirk Burkhalter called Mr Goodman's response to the rioters \"tremendous\".\n\n\"I don't think there was any type of training that would prepare you for that situation,\" Mr Burkhalter told the BBC, speaking days after the attack.\n\nIn the video shot by Huffington Post reporter Igor Bobic, Mr Goodman, who is black, is antagonised by the group of Trump supporters - who are all white men.\n\nThe man at the front of the pack, wearing a QAnon T-shirt, has been identified as Doug Jensen of Iowa. He was later arrested by local police and the FBI for his role in the riots.\n\nFootage shows Mr Jensen leading the mob that chased Mr Goodman up a flight of stairs - just a few feet away from the entrance to the Senate floor. As he is pursued, Mr Goodman shouts \"second floor!\" into his radio, seemingly alerting other officers of the group approaching the chamber.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Igor Bobic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfter Mr Goodman glances toward the Senate chamber entrance, he shoves Mr Jensen - a move seemingly designed to draw attention on to himself, luring the mob away from the chambers and those hiding inside.\n\nThe image of Mr Goodman trailed by a mob - some armed with Confederate flags, others with allusions to the Nazi flag - was extremely disturbing, Mr Burkhalter said.\n\n\"Police officer, not a police officer, to see a black man being chased by someone carrying a Confederate flag - there is something wrong with that picture. That should never happen again,\" he said.\n\n\"It just reeks of everything we need to correct.\"\n\nMr Goodman's standoff with the mob came just minutes before authorities were able to seal the chamber, according to reporting from the Washington Post.\n\nHis heroics were noted at the highest level - he was invited to the inauguration as a guest of Vice-President Kamala Harris.", "Naomi Campbell and Kenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala sealed the deal over the weekend\n\nThe appointment of British supermodel Naomi Campbell as Kenya's tourism ambassador has caused a Twitter storm in the East African nation.\n\nMany queried why it had not been given to a prominent Kenyan like Hollywood actress Lupita Nyong'o.\n\nOthers leapt to her defence, saying the debate already justified her role.\n\nKenya's tourism sector has been badly hit by coronavirus, with visitor numbers down by 72% between January and October last year.\n\n\"The sector hence lost over 110bn Kenyan shillings [$1bn, £738m] of direct international tourists' revenue due to the Covid-19 pandemic,\" Kenya's Tourism Research Institute reported last month.\n\nThe country is famous for its wildlife safaris and beach resorts.\n\nKenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala said the deal with Ms Campbell was done over the weekend after he met the model, who is currently on holiday in Kenya.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Ministry of Tourism & Wildlife-Kenya\n\nThe 50-year-old style icon and philanthropist has been posting images of her stay on Instagram, where she has 10 million followers.\n\n\"We welcome the exciting news that Naomi Campbell will advocate for tourism and travel internationally for the Magical Kenya brand,\" Mr Balala said, without giving further deals of the contract.\n\nBut the statement, posted on Twitter on Tuesday, prompted instant outrage from some, and the supermodel's name has since been trending in the country.\n\nOne tweeter cited other Kenyan celebrities better suited to the ambassadorial role, including models Ajuma Nasenyana and Debra Sanaipei, as well as Nyong'o.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Syombua A. Kibue 🇰🇪 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne tweeter said the backlash revealed an unhealthy attitude in Kenya: \"At the end of the day, it's all about who will get the job done. This mentality is what causes nepotism and tribalism in Kenyan institutions, it should be about the most suitable candidate not 'one of our own' thing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Campbell's defenders praised her for visiting Kenya several times and said it was not only the model's social media following that made her the perfect appointment.\n\nHer circle of friends were equally important as she would attract wealthy tourists willing to spend money.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mlolwa🐬 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe tourism industry usually contributes about 8.8% to Kenya's annual Gross domestic product (GDP), according to Kenya's East African newspaper.\n• None The supermodel and the warlord", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nPolice patrols were stepped up around the Scotland-England border around Christmas\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nSo many of us are spending more time staring at a screen right now and an eye health charity is recommending we learn the \"20-20-20\" rule to protect our sight. Fight for Sight advises looking at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds, every 20 minutes you're working at a screen, in order to reduce eye strain. The charity also commissioned a survey of 2,000 people which found more than a third believed their eyesight had worsened in the past year. It says the number of us getting regular eye tests is also down and is urging people not to miss their appointments.\n\nIt sadly comes as no surprise to learn that 2020 was the worst year on record for UK retailers, especially those focused on clothing and homeware. Food bucked the trend, particularly over Christmas, with the highest ever festive spending on groceries. But overall, retail sales declined by 0.3% across the year, and non-food by nearly a quarter, the biggest annual dip since the British Retail Consortium began collating the figures in 1995. The BRC says many retailers are struggling to survive and the government should extend the business rates holiday to save jobs.\n\nA father who'd campaigned for a change in the coronavirus rules to make life easier for non-resident parents to see their children has welcomed a government rethink. Previously, parents could visit children they don't live with during lockdown, but restrictions prevented them from staying overnight in a hotel. Ex-BBC journalist Tom De Castella said the ban \"had a massive bearing on seeing my daughter\", who lives a three-and-a-half hour drive away from his home. Now the rules have been rewritten, he's relieved. \"This is about building a bond with your child, it's crucial to their development,\" he added.\n\nTom De Castella said the rethink was \"great news\" for parents like him\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, three vaccines are now approved for use in the UK, but there are many differences between them. BBC health correspondent Laura Foster explains.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Lockdown rule-breakers are more likely to be fined as Covid laws will be enforced \"more quickly\", the UK's most senior police officer has said.\n\nLondon's Metropolitan Police commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said her officers have had to break up parties, despite hospitals struggling to cope with rising patient numbers.\n\nA minister confirmed her pledge that fines were \"increasingly likely\".\n\nKit Malthouse said people have a \"duty\" to make this lockdown \"the last one\".\n\n\"We are urging the small minority of people who aren't taking this seriously to do so now, and [are illustrating] to them that if they don't they are much more likely to get fined by the police,\" Mr Malthouse, the policing minister, told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"These current measures should in theory, if we all stick by them, be enough to drive the numbers down so that we can start to move through the gears of tiers from mid-February,\" he added.\n\nAsked if tighter restrictions for England were on the way - something the health secretary has refused to rule out - Mr Malthouse said ministers were \"on tenterhooks\" watching the daily figures for Covid deaths, new cases and hospital admissions, as rules continue to be kept under review.\n\nHe said the government's ramped-up efforts to give vulnerable people the coronavirus vaccine should help the UK to \"get back to some sort of normality later this year\".\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there was currently no expectation that Westminster will impose more extensive restrictions.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she discussed possible tighter restrictions with members of her cabinet on Tuesday morning.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel and chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council, Martin Hewitt, will hold a coronavirus press conference at Downing Street later.\n\nThe latest figures on Monday showed a further 529 people had died within 28 days of a positive test in the UK, while another 46,169 cases were reported.\n\nThere are also more than 32,200 people in hospital in the UK with coronavirus, data shows.\n\nDame Cressida told BBC Radio 4's Today programme some 75 police officers are joining 185 firefighters in being trained to drive ambulances in the capital, to help London Ambulance Service as the number of cases of the virus continues to rise.\n\nAnd writing in the Times, she said her officers had found people hosting raves, house parties and basement gambling events, despite clear laws that ban social gatherings.\n\n\"It is preposterous to me that anyone could be unaware of our duty to do all we can to stop the spread of the virus,\" she said, adding that people breaking Covid laws were \"increasingly likely to face fines\".\n\nPolice chiefs in other parts of England have also warned \"patience is running out\" with rule-breakers, with the public increasingly willing to report alleged rule breaches.\n\nSince March, some 32,000 penalties for breaching Covid laws have been issued in England and Wales - with a sharp rise in penalties during England's November lockdown.\n\nAlmost 6,500 penalty tickets were handed out in the weeks up to Christmas as police began moving more quickly from \"engage\", \"explain\" and \"encourage\" to the fourth \"e\" - \"enforcement\".\n\nExpect the rate of fines to continue upwards during January, given the scale of the emergency and the pressure from government on constabularies to enforce the law.\n\nBut there is also a tension here. Police chiefs have told their officers they will often have to use their own judgement because the list of \"reasonable excuses\" in the law for why someone can be outside is not fixed in stone.\n\nThere is a lot of wriggle room in the law to allow daily lives to continue.\n\nWhile ministers, scientists and health experts are all hammering home the message that people should stay at home as much as possible, the law is more liberal - for instance, there is no restriction on exercise in England.\n\nAnd that's why some police officers believe they are stuck between a rock and a hard place as people who don't want to be locked down find more and more creative ways to stretch the rules to breaking point.\n\nFines start at £200 in England and Northern Ireland, and £60 in Wales and Scotland. Large parties can be shut down by the police, with fines of up to £10,000.\n\nDame Cressida told the Today programme the move towards greater enforcement was \"common sense\" rather than a show of \"dictatorial policing\".\n\nShe also said Prime Minister Boris Johnson's cycle in east London at the weekend was \"not against the law\", but added the \"stay local\" guidance on exercise for England could be made more clear.\n\nUnder Scotland's lockdown restrictions, people must start and finish their exercise in the same place - and to do so, they may travel up to five miles from the boundary of their local authority area. People in Wales should start and finish exercising from their home, while those in Northern Ireland are advised not to go more than 10 miles from home when exercising.\n\nAsked if she would like to see similar detail in England's guidance, Dame Cressida said: \"That is certainly something the government could consider.\n\n\"Anything that brings greater clarity, for officers and the public, in general, will be a good thing.\"\n\nDame Cressida also said she was delighted that a proposal to prioritise frontline officers for vaccines was being discussed\n\nPolice chiefs have been under increasing pressure to enforce the lockdown laws - with a number of news reports about breaches of Covid rules in recent days.\n\nIn one case, Derbyshire Police withdrew penalties for two women who had been fined £200 each when they drove five miles for a walk together - following widespread media attention.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has defended the way police have handled breaches, saying there is a need for \"strong enforcement\".\n\nFour people were arrested in Edinburgh on Monday after anti-lockdown protesters clashed with police\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - which are in charge of making their own coronavirus restrictions.\n\nIn her article, Dame Cressida said she was \"delighted to hear\" that a proposal to prioritise frontline officers to get vaccinated was being \"actively discussed\", as the rate of officers self-isolating has risen.\n\nSo far 2.3 million people in the UK have had a first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, as part of the government's plan to vaccinate tens of millions of people by the spring.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said members of the armed forces were working \"hand in hand with the NHS\" to help with the response to the UK's epidemic.\n\nSome 5,300 members of the armed forces are currently involved in the Covid response including personnel to help with vaccinations and community testing across the UK, he said.", "Rules governing the import of personal goods from the UK to the EU changed after Brexit formally came into effect\n\nA Dutch TV network has filmed border officials confiscating ham sandwiches and other foods from drivers arriving in the Netherlands from the UK, under post-Brexit rules.\n\nThe officials were shown explaining import regulations imposed since the UK formalised its separation from the EU.\n\nUnder EU rules, travellers from outside the bloc are banned from bringing in meat and dairy products.\n\nThe rules appeared to bemuse one driver.\n\n\"Since Brexit, you are no longer allowed to bring certain foods to Europe, like meat, fruit, vegetables, fish, that kind of stuff,\" a Dutch border official told the driver in footage broadcast by TV network NPO 1.\n\nIn one scene, a border official asked the driver whether several of his tin-foil wrapped sandwiches had meat in them.\n\nWhen the driver said they did, the border official said: \"Okay, so we take them all.\"\n\nSurprised, the driver then asked the officials if he could keep the bread, to which one replied: \"No, everything will be confiscated - welcome to the Brexit, sir. I'm sorry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK officially finished its formal separation from the EU on 31 December, 2020.\n\nFrom 23:00 GMT on that date, the UK stopped following EU rules, with new arrangements for travel, trade, immigration and security co-operation coming into force.\n\nA trade deal with the EU was agreed on 24 December, and a week later, UK lawmakers voted in favour of the agreement.\n\nThe UK's departure means big changes for business - with the UK and EU forming two separate markets - the end of free movement, and new regulations, including those governing the import of personal goods.\n\nThe UK government has issued guidance to commercial drivers travelling to the EU, warning them to \"be aware of additional restrictions to personal imports\".\n\n\"You cannot bring POAO (products of an animal origin) such as those containing meat or dairy (e.g. a ham and cheese sandwich) into the EU,\" the guidance says. \"There are exceptions to this rule for certain quantities of powdered infant milk, infant food, special foods, or special processed pet feed.\"\n\nOn its website, the European Commission says the ban is necessary because such goods \"continue to present a real threat to animal health throughout the Union\".\n\n\"It is known, for example, that dangerous pathogens that cause animal diseases such as Foot and Mouth Disease and classical swine fever can reside in meat, milk or their products,\" the Commission says.\n\nSeparately, the Dutch customs agency shared a picture of foodstuffs it had confiscated from motorists in the ferry terminal the Hook of Holland.\n\n\"Since 1 January, you can't just bring more food from the UK,\" the agency said. \"So prepare yourself if you travel to the Netherlands from the UK and spread the word. This is how we prevent food waste and together ensure that the controls are speeded up.\"\n\nThe BBC's economics editor Faisal Islam described the confiscation of ham sandwiches and other foodstuffs at the EU's borders with the UK as \"a standard implication of [the] Brexit deal\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Faisal Islam This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The NHS Louisa Jordan was built in two weeks in April response to concerns over hospital capacity\n\nA shortage of NHS staff could prevent the opening of the NHS Louisa Jordan to Covid patients if capacity is exceeded elsewhere, a leading doctor has said.\n\nPresident of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, Prof Mike Griffin, said the increasing numbers off work was a \"major problem\".\n\nThe Scottish government says the NHS is not being \"overwhelmed\" and staffing plans are in place to deal with demand.\n\nThe NHS Louisa Jordan is currently being used for outpatient services.\n\nThe temporary hospital at the SEC in Glasgow was set up in April in response to concerns over hospital capacity.\n\nIt was not used for Covid care during the first surge of the pandemic and has since been made available for outpatient services, such as orthopaedics, plastic surgery and dermatology.\n\nIt is also being used for Covid vaccinations.\n\nProf Mike Griffin told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that the pressure on the NHS workforce was particularly acute in the west of Scotland, where the number of cases was high.\n\n\"Particularly in Glasgow and Lanarkshire, there's been significant increases recently because of the new variant. Without any doubt, that new variant is increasing transmissibility, and therefore increasing infection rates and increasing hospital admissions,\" he said.\n\n\"But it's not just the admissions that's the problem. Our doctors, surgeons, nurses and everyone are really working extremely hard - but there is an increase in absenteeism because of illness and because of self-isolation amongst nursing staff.\"\n\nTwo of Scotland's health boards - NHS Ayrshire and Arran and NHS Lanarkshire - are currently over their capacity for Covid patients.\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has reached 85% capacity and NHS Tayside is at 81% capacity, according to the latest Scottish government figures.\n\nThe NHS Louisa Jordan has capacity for 1,000 Covid patients if it is needed, but Prof Griffin said that using it as a Covid facility could be dependent on retired or former staff returning to work for NHS Scotland.\n\n\"Opening the Louisa Jordan as a Covid institution without staff is impossible,\" he said.\n\n\"It is equipped to be able to do it. And if the staffing is there, if we get returners and so on, then perhaps that might happen.\"\n\nThe number of Covid patients in hospital across Scotland is now higher than it was in April, although the numbers in intensive care are lower.\n\nNumbers initially appeared to be declining in November, but never reached low levels and began to climb sharply again at the end of the year.\n\nProf Griffin added that it was likely that better treatments for Covid patients were also reducing mortality and so keeping those patients in hospital for longer.\n\nNHS Scotland has an overall capacity for 13,000 beds, with 2,400 assigned to Covid patients.\n\nThis is down from a capacity of about 3,600 in the autumn because of additional seasonal pressures on the NHS, including weather-related issues and increased staff absence.\n\nScotland's national clinical director, Prof Jason Leitch, accepted that having around 1,500 patients in hospital with Covid had forced the cancellation of procedures such as cataract operations and hip replacements.\n\nBut he said that ability to \"flex\" within the system meant that the NHS remained within capacity.\n\nProf Leitch also pointed to the situation in England where there have been reports of limits being put on the amount of oxygen that patients can receive and some intensive care patients having to be treated in non-ICU beds.\n\nSpeaking at the first minister's coronavirus briefing, he said: \"People shouldn't be scared that the health service is full or overwhelmed - it isn't.\n\n\"It is fragile, and you just have to look a few hundred miles south to see what happens when it is even more fragile.\n\n\"So we need to avoid that as much as we can in Scotland.\"", "The Northern Lights from Munlochy on the Black Isle in the Highlands\n\nDisplays of the Aurora Borealis were visible from north and north east Scotland overnight.\n\nAlso known as the Northern Lights, the aurora appear as shimmering waves of light when atoms in the Earth's high-altitude atmosphere collide with energetic charged particles from the sun.\n\nBBC Weather Watchers photographed the \"lights\" from Shetland, the Highlands and Moray.\n\nBrae, Shetland, was among the vantage points for observing the aurora overnight on Monday into Tuesday\n\nA view of the aurora from Hopeman on the Moray Firth coast\n\nA colourful scene at Nairn on the Highlands' Moray Firth coast\n\nThe aurora from Glenelg in the west Highlands\n\nThis stunning image was captured at Durness by Andy Walker\n\nClear skies over Moray offered opportunities to see the lights, including from Elgin\n\nFreck Fraser's image of the aurora from a snowy Belladrum near Beauly\n\nThe green glow of the aurora from Portmahomack in the Highlands\n\nAnother image of the aurora from Brae in Shetland\n\nBright lights of the aurora from Uig in the Highlands", "Meddyg Care Dementia Home was due to receive vaccinations last week\n\nA care home manager is \"frightened\" for the residents after its delivery of Covid vaccinations failed to arrive.\n\nLorna Jones said Meddyg Care Dementia Home in Criccieth, Gwynedd, was due to have a delivery of the new Oxford-AstraZeneca jab a week ago.\n\nHowever the vaccine has not arrived amid claims other people in the area have already had the jab.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr University Health Board admitted there had been \"logistical problems\" in north west Wales.\n\nThe health board insisted it is \"committed\" to vaccinating those most vulnerable.\n\nOn Monday, it was announced that all over-50s in Wales are to be offered jab by spring, after criticism the rollout of the vaccine in Wales has been slower than in other parts of the UK.\n\nWith family visits suspended, the care home has not recorded a single Covid-19 case and a phone call on New Year's Eve to say it was to receive the vaccine was met with \"glee and happiness\".\n\nUnder the Welsh Government's vaccination rollout plan, care home residents and staff are first in line to get the immunisation - or priority one - ahead of elderly people within communities across Wales.\n\nHowever the vaccine has not arrived while, the home claimed, local GP surgeries have been administering the vaccine to over 80s in the community.\n\nLorna Jones is demanding answers as to why the vaccine has not arrived\n\nMs Jones said: \"I can't understand why Betsi Cadwaladr have veered away from the priority list.\n\n\"It's very clear. If there are vaccines coming into the local community, which there are, why have our residents not been vaccinated?\n\n\"I know some care homes have had it in Caernarfon, so why haven't we. What's the difference?\"\n\nMs Jones said the delay is causing concern among staff, residents and families.\n\n\"I'm frightened for our residents. I'm getting a lot of contact from families and I just can't give them anything,\" she said.\n\nThe home's owner said he had now taken matters into his own hands.\n\nKevin Edwards, managing director of Meddyg Care, said he had spent hours ringing around GP surgeries \"begging\" for spare vaccines.\n\nHe said the residents would now be vaccinated on Tuesday.\n\n\"We're a specialist dementia home, you can't just turn up one day and give the vaccine to the residents, there needs to be an element of preparation,\" he told BBC Radio Wales.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board said it was working to ensure those with the highest priority are vaccinated.\n\nTeresa Owen, the health board's executive director of public health, said: \"Last week we vaccinated nearly 10,000 people in north Wales.\n\n\"This week, staff from primary care practices will be going into the local nursing and residential homes to administer the Oxford-Astra Zeneca vaccination to residents.\n\n\"The initial supply of vaccinations to the west of BCUHB has caused some logistical problems with commencing this programme, but vaccines have now been allocated for all the nursing and residential homes in the locality.\"", "Boris Johnson - pictured here in 2013 - is a keen cyclist\n\nDowning Street has defended Boris Johnson for riding his bicycle seven miles from home, saying he complied with Covid rules during his trip.\n\nLabour accused the prime minister of having double standards, after it was reported he had been spotted in the saddle at east London's Olympic Park.\n\nGovernment guidance says daily outdoor exercise is allowed but people should not travel outside their local area.\n\nThe PM's spokesman said any suggestion he had broken the rules was \"wrong\".\n\nBut he did not confirm whether Mr Johnson had been driven to the Olympic Park from Downing Street or cycled there.\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the trip had not been \"against the law - that's for sure\".\n\nPeople should go for exercise \"from your front door and come back to your front door\", she said, adding: \"That's my view of local.\"\n\nThe prime minister's press secretary said the Commissioner's words were \"wise\".\n\n\"The instruction is to stay local and for her a reasonable interpretation was to exercise from their front door but for some people it's more complicated. Everyone needs to exercise their own judgement\", she added.\n\nThe Evening Standard reported that the prime minister had been seen in the Olympic Park, with his security detail, on Sunday.\n\nThere's nothing in English lockdown law that says Boris Johnson shouldn't have pedalled around London's Olympic park on Sunday, seven miles from Downing Street.\n\nBut this comes at a time when the government is desperately pleading with people to take Covid-19 seriously and follow the rules.\n\nIn England that means leaving home only for essential work, shopping and exercise. The guidance also says \"stay local\" without defining how far people can roam.\n\nTravel for exercise is allowed \"a short distance within your area\" to access an open space.\n\nNumber 10 will insist that's precisely what Mr Johnson did.\n\nBut his ride highlights the problem everyone faces trying to interpret rules, and relying on people using common sense.\n\nThe outing certainly doesn't help ministers straining to tell the public - in clear, consistent, easy-to-understand terms - to stay at home.\n\nAndy Slaughter, Labour MP for Hammersmith, west London, criticised the prime minister for having a \"do-as-I-say, not-as-I-do\" attitude.\n\nSpeaking to Today, Policing Minister Kit Malthouse said: \"What we are asking people to do is when they exercise to stay local.\n\n\"Now local is, obviously, open to interpretation, but people broadly know what local means.\n\n\"If you can get there under your own steam and you are not interacting with somebody... then that seems perfectly reasonable to me.\"\n\nThe PM's official spokesman added: \"We have always trusted the public to exercise good judgement. We did throughout the first lockdown and continue to do so.\"\n\nDame Cressida Dick said Boris Johnson had not broken the law\n\nThe issue of travelling for exercise was highlighted at the weekend after police in Derbyshire fined two women £200 after they drove five miles from home to take a walk - a penalty that was later dropped.\n\nGovernment advice for England says people can leave home to exercise, but adds: \"This should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area.\"\n\nThe guidance adds: \"Stay local means stay in the village, town, or part of the city where you live.\"\n\nThe government also states: \"The law is what you must do; the guidance might be a mixture of what you must do and what you should do.\"\n\nIn Scotland, the advice is that exercise can be taken if it \"starts and finishes at the same place, which can be up to five miles from the boundary of your local authority area\".\n\nIn Wales, exercise also has to start from and finish at home. There no limits on distance travelled, although the advice is that \"the nearer you stay to your home, the better\".\n\nPeople in Northern Ireland are advised not to go more than 10 miles from home when exercising.", "Fans of the University of Alabama football team gathered in the streets of Tuscaloosa in Alabama, ignoring social distancing.\n\nThey were celebrating the university's third national championship in the past six years.", "More than 12,500 people have died with coronavirus, since the first reported death in Scotland on 13 March 2020.\n\nHere are the stories of some of those who have lost their lives.\n\nIf you would like to pay tribute to a loved one lost to Covid, please use the form below or email newsonline-scotland@bbc.co.uk and ensure you have read our terms and conditions and privacy policy.\n\nJean was born in 1937 Maryhill and spoke often and fondly of her childhood in \"the Butney\". This involved real hardships - including war-time evacuation to Holytown - though Jean's memories were all good and Maryhill became a touchstone when dementia became a factor in recent years.\n\nWorking at Rolls-Royce Hillington, Jean was transferred to its Derby HQ where, as a young woman, she made small component parts for jet engines. Even in her 80s, Jean could still perform all the machinist actions (with sound effects).\n\nShe loved to paint landscapes and had a life-long passion for music, especially jazz (with Frankie and Ella being constants). She was a great singer and dancer, always up for fun and laughs, brightening up any party.\n\nHer family said Jean was a fabulous mum to two daughters, a brilliant friend, and a warm-hearted women with kindness for everyone and anyone. She died on 27 October 2020.\n\nRashelle Baird's family describe her as \"kind, bubbly, and always the life and soul of the party\".\n\nThe 27-year-old mother-of-three from Brechin had put off appointments to get the vaccine because she was busy with her children.\n\nHer family stressed she was not anti-vaccine. \"She wanted to get her vaccine but she put her kids first,\" her father Stephen said.\n\nRashelle, who had asthma, initially thought she had caught a cold from her children, but her symptoms worsened and she was admitted to hospital.\n\nShe died in November 2021 after several days in Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, having been placed in an induced coma in the intensive care unit.\n\nDavid Trower worked as a clerical officer in the A&E department of University Hospital Monklands in Airdrie before retiring in 2016.\n\nBut he was committed to the NHS and even in retirement he chose to continue to work shifts, through NHS Lanarkshire's staff bank, right up until February. He died on 9 March 2021, aged 67.\n\nHis colleagues thought highly of him, saying: \"We have many happy memories of shifts together, laughs, nights out, and listening to all his stories of his many holidays abroad. We will miss him.\"\n\nBernadette White, his sister, said he was a caring, gentle and loving man with a wicked sense of humour.\n\nShe added: \"The last seven years, I would say, is when David started to live his life, doing the things that made him happy without having to worry about anyone else.\"\n\nStephen Stewart met his future wife, Heather, at a youth club when he was just 14. They got engaged on his 17th birthday and he had just turned 20 when they married.\n\nThe couple, who lived in Motherwell, came from \"very different\" backgrounds but they grew up together during their 25-year marriage while raising their only child.\n\nStephen took pride in his work for concrete manufacturer FP McCann, latterly as a lab technician working out what strength the concrete needed to be for certain projects.\n\nOutside work, he loved fishing, computer games, gadgets and during the first lockdown he managed to build a hot tub shelter with the help of a series of YouTube videos.\n\nHe died of Covid pneumonia at University Hospital Wishaw on 19 February 2021, aged 45.\n\nNan Douglas worked her way up from shorthand typist to headteacher during a remarkable career.\n\nShe was already a mother of three when she left her job as a school secretary at West Calder High School to enrol at Moray House in Edinburgh where she qualified as a primary school teacher.\n\nAfter losing her husband John when she was just 43, she found solace in working with disabled children and went on to be appointed head of Pinewood Special School in Blackburn, West Lothian.\n\nFollowing a spell living in Cornwall during her retirement, she returned to Scotland where she hosted a \"living wake\" with 80 friends and family on her 90th birthday.\n\nShe lived independently in Milnathort, Kinross, and was admitted to hospital for a minor issue just before Christmas 2020. But she picked up Covid and never left. She died on 19 February 2021, aged 95.\n\nGraeme McGrath's greatest passions were rowing and the River Clyde.\n\nOn the day of his funeral, fellow rowers held oars in a guard of honour at Glasgow Green in a tribute appreciated by his wife Anne and their three sons.\n\nFor 40 years Graeme volunteered with the Glasgow Humane Society and was often called on to row rescue boats on the Clyde, or to help evacuate families during floods.\n\nAfter undergoing a kidney transplant in his 50s, he was unable to get out on the river as much. He retired from his job as a Thomas Cook travel agent and moved to Prestwick in Ayrshire.\n\nBut he still felt the pull of the Clyde and regularly returned to the city to meet friends and row safety boats at regattas.\n\nHe died with Covid on 15 February 2021 at Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock, aged 66, after being admitted for an infection affecting his heart.\n\nTommy Morrow spent most of his life in the Maryhill area of Glasgow, where he met his partner Jackie and raised their children, Demi and Mark.\n\nHis family described him as a character and not a day went by without them laughing at his jokes.\n\nHe loved camping and fishing in places like Stornoway with his friends but the most important people in his life were his family, including grandchildren, Lacey and Louden.\n\nDuring his career he worked in various well-known hotels and restaurants in Glasgow but he had not worked for some years due to poor health, including COPD.\n\nHe died with Covid on 15 February 2021, aged 53. \"It was so cruel - he was so close to getting the vaccine,\" his family said.\n\nTommy Rooney was a bus driver for 36 years and hugely popular with colleagues at First Bus in Larbert.\n\nOn the day of his funeral they were among dozens of people who lined the streets and applauded as his cortege passed the depot.\n\nFirst Bus operations manager Jason Hackett told the Falkirk Herald that Tommy was the \"heart and soul\" of the Larbert station.\n\nMarried to Margaret, the Bonnybridge man had two daughters and a granddaughter who described him as a \"humble but proud family man who put everyone else's needs before his own\".\n\nAn avid Celtic fan, he spent much of the pandemic driving key workers to their essential duties. He died on 12 February 2021, aged 57.\n\nDavid Gray's first grandchild - a girl called Islay - was born in July 2020. The proud \"papa\" used to say that she was the love of his life and she gave him a reason to wake up in the morning.\n\nTragically, the 62-year-old only got to spend five months with her before falling ill with Covid. He died on 3 February 2021.\n\nDavid lived in Erskine and worked for BAE Systems for 20 years, first as a mechanical fitter then as records manager dealing with secret files for the Ministry of Defence.\n\nHis family describe him as \"music daft\" - he played guitar and he was performing a gig with his band in Glasgow when he met his wife, Joyce, 40 years ago.\n\nThey went on to have two children - Darren and Danielle - as well as his beloved Cocker Spaniels, Buster and Shimmer, who he described as his \"bairns\".\n\nHarry Osborne was a Dunkirk veteran whose life was full of adventures - his daughter said he was still able to recall stories until just a few days before he died.\n\nMr Osborne was deployed to France months after joining the Territorial Army in Glasgow, served with the 77th Highland Field Regiment of the Royal Artillery and later became a surveyor.\n\nFriends recall how upon joining, he promised his mother he would not swear and instead would say \"cricky jings\", which became his nickname in the forces.\n\nHe was also known as a keen golfer with a \"wicked sense of humour\".\n\nMr Osborne died from Covid-19 on 25 January, nine months after celebrating his 100th birthday.\n\nConnie Simpson's grandchildren say she was more like a pal than a granny - she was full of fun and laughter, and was always the first up to dance at a party.\n\nBorn in Kinning Park, Glasgow, she moved to the east end after marrying John who she met at the Barrowlands when they were teenagers.\n\nWhile John was away with the Merchant Navy, she brought up their four children in a house \"surrounded by love\", before taking work as a curtain consultant.\n\nShe was fabulous even in her 80s - she loved getting her hair, eyebrows and manicure done, meeting friends at Mecca Bingo in Parkhead and at a local pensioners' club.\n\nConnie died on 23 January 2021 at Stobhill Hospital in Glasgow, aged 82.\n\nSheila Gartly was as \"bright as a button\" and the \"heart of our family\", her loved ones said.\n\nShe was born and brought up in Deskford, Moray, before marrying and moving to Keith in 1954. Widowed in 1975, she remarried but lost her second husband in 2005.\n\nDuring her working life she had jobs in a florist and in a fish shop - both of which she thoroughly enjoyed.\n\nShe loved to watch the birds in her garden, read her daily newspaper, listen to traditional Scottish music, and the spring and summer when the nights were lighter and flowers bloomed.\n\nIn 2019 she had surgery on a broken leg but she was recovering well. She died with Covid on 19 January 2021, aged 86.\n\nAlex Goldie was an electrical engineer who latterly worked as a lecturer at Stow College in Glasgow before his retirement.\n\nHis family said he was a gregarious man, always interested in other people, who took great delight and pride in the antics and education of his two great-grandsons, Charlie and Joe.\n\nDuring his long life he enjoyed skiing, tennis, pottery, sailing, golf, holidays in Europe, Australia and North America, single malts and red wine.\n\nHe had been well cared for by Randolph Hill nursing home in Dunblane for 19 months after developing dementia. Covid restrictions meant he had not seen his family, other than by Skype, for a year.\n\nHe is thought to have contracted the virus on a trip to A&E after a fall. He died on 14 January, aged 100.\n\nVincent Logan became one of the youngest bishops in the world when he was ordained Bishop of Dunkeld in 1981, aged 39.\n\nHe served the Roman Catholic diocese for almost 32 years before his retirement in 2012.\n\nThe Scottish Catholic Church said he was \"dedicated and energetic\" and had \"an energy and zeal in all he did\".\n\nBorn in Bathgate in 1941, he was ordained a priest in Edinburgh in 1964. He died on 14 January, aged 79, the day after his friend the Archbishop of Glasgow, Philip Tartaglia.\n\n\"Both bishops succumbed to the lethal effects of the coronavirus,\" the current Bishop of Dunkeld, Stephen Robson, added.\n\nThe Archbishop of Glasgow, the Most Reverend Philip Tartaglia, died suddenly at his home in the city on 13 January - the Feast of St Mungo, the Patron Saint of Glasgow.\n\nHe had been self-isolating after testing positive for Covid shortly after Christmas.\n\nBorn in Glasgow in 1951, he was ordained a priest in 1975 and had served as leader of Scotland's largest Catholic community since 2012.\n\nScotland's Catholic bishops described Archbishop Tartaglia as a \"gentle, caring and warm-hearted pastor who combined compassion with a piercing intellect\".\n\nAmong those who paid tribute were First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken, who described the archbishop as \"a true Glaswegian\".\n\nLiz Shingleston was a well-known figure in the village of Dunragit and her death on 13 January had a big impact on the small community near Stranraer.\n\n\"Her hearse passed the bottom of the village and the amount of people who turned out to pay their respects was overwhelming,\" said her daughter, Lisa.\n\nLiz spent her early childhood in New Luce but moved to the railway station cottage in Dunragit where her father worked as a signalman.\n\nDuring a varied working life, Liz left school to work in the laboratory of the nearby Nestle factory and later replaced her own mother as the local school's dinner lady.\n\nThe 73-year-old was devoted to her grandchildren and great-grandson but she also liked to treat herself to afternoon tea (with Prosecco) at Trump Turnberry.\n\nHugh Polland, who was known as Shug to his friends and family, was born and raised in Glasgow's Easterhouse.\n\nHe was well known in the area where he ran the Casbah Pub for many years during the 1980s and early 90s.\n\nA huge Celtic fan, he loved to play golf and took up photography later in life - becoming \"unofficial photographer\" at many friends' weddings, christening and parties.\n\n\"Everyone wanted him at their party not just to take photos but because of his personality,\" said his son, Tony McAllister. \"Everyone loved him because what you seen is what you got.\"\n\nShug died at Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 5 January, aged 70. His sudden death has left his family heartbroken.\n\nFor more than 75 years George Wight lived on his dairy farm in the village of Drumoak in Aberdeenshire.\n\nBut he had more than one string to his bow - as well as being a dairy farmer, for 25 years he was also the publican of his local, the Irvine Arms.\n\nA loyal Aberdeen FC fan, he was one of the lucky ones - he was in Gothenburg in 1983 to see the his beloved Dons lift the European Cup Winners Cup.\n\nHe was devoted to his family, including wife Claire and their four children, and despite suffering a series of bereavements and health setbacks, he always bounced back.\n\n\"He was an inspiration and a hardy soul who kept going no matter what life threw at him,\" they said. George died at a nursing home on 4 January 2021, aged 85.\n\nHugh Bell loved to dance. As a young man, when he doing his national service with the RAF, he was a regular at the dancing at the YMCA in Paisley.\n\nIt was there he met the love of his life, Margaret. They were married for 63 years and had two children Alan and Stuart. Margaret passed away in 2013.\n\nA keen ballroom dancer, Hugh was often first on the dance floor and in his later years he enjoyed dancing to the entertainment at Southerness caravan park, near Dumfries, where Stuart and his friend had a holiday home.\n\nHe was a bright, bubbly sociable man who spent a career in logistics before working as a lollipop man in his retirement.\n\nHugh died on 31 December at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, aged 92.\n\nDavid Warnock was a keen sportsman who loved squash, tennis, rugby, football, cycling and climbing munros.\n\nIn fact, it was on the tennis courts in Aberdeen that he met his teenage sweetheart, Zena. He was 17 and she was 14 - they were married for 62 years.\n\nAn electrical engineer, he worked for Pye Communications, moving first to Cambridge and then Edinburgh.\n\nHe was a quiet man who never complained about anything and was happiest around his family - including four children, 11 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.\n\nHis second great-grandchild was born shortly after he died in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary on 31 December. He was 85.\n\nHenry Anderson, an SNP councillor on Perth and Kinross Council, died with Covid on 27 December.\n\nHe had represented the Almond and Earn ward since 2012 and colleagues said he would be \"hugely missed\".\n\nAmong those who paid tribute to the 68-year-old was Deputy First Minister John Swinney, who described him as \"a good, decent man and a faithful councillor\".\n\nMurray Lyle, the leader of Perth and Kinross Council, said Mr Anderson was an excellent advocate for his ward and \"passionate about local issues\".\n\n\"I had the pleasure of working with Henry for several years on the Local Review Body and always his enjoyed his company, good humour and sense of fun when we were out visiting planning sites.\"\n\nTeenage sweethearts Bryson Mitchell and his wife Irene were due to celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary in January,\n\nThey met when he was an 18-year-old apprentice electrician and was assigned to a contract with the company where Irene, who was 16, was working.\n\nAfter marrying in 1961, Bryson spent his adult life in Paisley and 35 years working as an aircraft electrician with British Airways.\n\nThe couple had two children and four grandchildren, who described him as a quiet man with a great sense of humour. \"He was kind and generous, very hardworking, and he lived for his family,\" they said.\n\nHe was in hospital being treated for an acute illness when he contracted Covid. He died on Christmas Eve, aged 82.\n\nAs a child, Sandy Adam survived pioneering surgery to remove his voice box - an operation that left him unable to speak normally.\n\nInstead he learned a different way to communicate - oesophageal speech (swallowing air) - by drinking lots of lemonade. He had a life-long hatred of the fizzy drink after that.\n\nAfter training to be a dentist in Dundee, he returned to his hometown of Aberdeen. In addition to surgeries around the city, at one time he worked at Craiginches Prison one afternoon a week.\n\nA father and a grandfather, he loved tinkering with cars, pranking his two children and sitting in the sun with a glass of red wine.\n\nThe 81-year-old, who had dementia, died on 16 December, shortly after testing positive for Covid.\n\nDavid Barr was born and grew up in Paisley and for more than 40 years he worked in the town's Anchor Mill.\n\nAs well as being a keen bowler, a church elder, and an active member of Martyrs Church Men's Club, he had a gift for carpentry.\n\nThe dolls houses and garages that he made for his children and grandchildren were much loved and they are still treasured.\n\nHis favourite place in the world was the East Neuk of Fife, where he spent many happy holidays.\n\nDavid had an underlying respiratory condition and he was admitted to hospital with shortness of breath in December. He died within days of being diagnosed with Covid on 16 December, aged 86.\n\nAna Lisa Sayson was a nurse who moved from the Philippines to work for the NHS in Scotland.\n\nShe was a staff nurse at Stobhill Hospital in Glasgow before she moved to Glasgow Royal Infirmary during the Covid crisis. The mother-of-two died on 15 December after testing positive for the virus.\n\n\"Ana Lisa was a much-loved member of the team and an incredibly compassionate nurse who was devoted to the care of her patients,\" said John Stuart, the chief nurse at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.\n\n\"Ana Lisa came to our country from the Philippines to care for our loved ones and my heart goes out to her family and especially her husband and children.\n\n\"My thoughts, and the thoughts of all of her NHS family here in Glasgow, are with them at this terribly sad time.\"\n\nBilly and May Fannin were married for 62 years after meeting at a ballroom in Glasgow in 1955.\n\nMay was a bookkeeper who gave up her job to look after her grandchildren in the 1980s. \"Her life revolved around her four grandchildren,\" their younger daughter Jennifer told BBC Scotland.\n\nBilly was a joiner by trade but his real passion was singing, performing under the name Scott Allan. And as a member of Equity, he also took on work as an extra on TV programmes like Take the High Road and Taggart.\n\nHe loved being the centre of attention and \"if he was chocolate he would have eaten himself\", Jennifer joked.\n\nWhen the couple from Barrhead caught Covid, their two daughters also fell ill with the virus and had to self-isolate. They were heartbroken they could not be with their 84-year-old mother when she died in hospital on 6 December.\n\nBut they chose not tell their 88-year-old father about her death, as he was also in hospital and had dementia. Jennifer was able to visit him to say goodbye before he slipped away just eight days after the passing of his wife.\n\nShe was president of the city's Bangladesh Association, a civil servant at Glasgow City Council and, according to her family, \"a pillar of the community\".\n\nThey said she was a \"devoted mother, daughter, aunt and friend [but] she would prefer to be remembered as a social activist, volunteer and community advocate\".\n\nBoth Mridula and her husband, Sarwar Hassan, were admitted to hospital with Covid in November. He was discharged but Mridula was moved to Aberdeen for specialist treatment.\n\nHer husband and two sons were able to spend time with her before she died at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on 12 December, aged 50.\n\nBridget Turner and her husband Alan worked for years in the window blinds industry before setting up their own business, A&B Window Blinds, in 1992.\n\nThey lived next door to the shop in Paisley, where Bridget worked in the office and Alan went out to do the measuring. Their years of hard work paid off and the family business remains successful.\n\nThe mother-of-three \"loved a good gab and a good catch-up with friends\", according to her daughter, Lisa. \"She was amazing, such a good friend to lots of people.\"\n\nWhen the children were young, family holidays were spent at the Isle of Whithorn but later the couple, who moved to Greenock, spent winters in Gran Canaria where they made friends from around the world.\n\nBridget was treated for Covid at Inverclyde Royal Hospital, where she received \"amazing care\". She died, aged 71, on 7 December after saying goodbye to her family.\n\nAndrew Slorance was a civil servant in charge of the Scottish government's planning and response to crisis situations - including the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe grew up in Hawick and became a journalist before joining the Scotland Office. He led the new Scottish Parliament's media team when it opened in 1999, then became the official spokesman for First Minister Alex Salmond.\n\nA father-of-five, he was diagnosed with Mantle Cell Lymphoma in 2015. He documented his experience of the rare cancer - including six rounds of chemotherapy - in a blog he called \"The fight of my life\".\n\nHe relapsed in 2019 and a stem cell transplant scheduled for Easter 2020 was delayed by Covid. While shielding at home in Edinburgh, he spent the first part of the pandemic working on the government's response from a spare room.\n\nMr Slorance was finally admitted to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow for his stem cell transplant in October. He tested positive for Covid shortly after that and died on 5 December, aged 49.\n\nTributes from across the political spectrum, including First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, have been paid to Mr Slorance. His wife, Louise, told BBC Scotland: \"He was a proud family man who was the life and soul of any party, loving and loyal.\"\n\nAllan Harper was a salesman at Topps Tiles for 23 years, mainly in the Hillington branch.\n\nHe met Caroline through a dating website 21 years ago. They were due to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary in July.\n\nA father-of-one, he lived in Craigton, in the south-west of Glasgow, where he enjoyed computer games and playing pool with work colleagues.\n\nCaroline said they would spend their days off and holidays together with their three cats \"who sometimes got more attention than me\".\n\nHe was a kind man, a \"true gentleman\" and her \"forever love\", she added. He died on 1 December 2020, aged 60.\n\nEileen Terry was born and brought up in Renfrew before marrying Bob and moving to Milngavie in 1968.\n\nHe was a keen golfer and when their sons, Robert and David, reached secondary school she decided the time was right to join him on the golf course.\n\nIt led to a lifetime's love of the sport and she became the ladies captain of Clober Golf Club in 2001 - the club's centenary year.\n\nHer family say she was a kind and generous lady who was well-known in her local community, where she worked as a home help until her retirement.\n\nShe spent her final years in Mavisbank Nursing Home in Bishopbriggs after developing vascular dementia. She died in hospital on 25 November 2020, aged 84.\n\nDavie Burgess was one of 10 siblings born in the Townhead area of Glasgow, but he had a lifelong love of the fresh air and the scenery of the Scottish countryside.\n\nAs a young man, he worked as a fireman on the steam train to Crianlarich - a trip which included a two-hour stopover allowing him to explore the hills.\n\nLater in life he loved driving up to Acharacle to visit his son and his family, where he could go for long walks with his grandchildren and their dog, Mac.\n\nMarried for 60 years to May, the father-of-three worked for the Milk Marketing Board at Hogganfield Loch. He was a hard worker who even after he \"retired\" took on three jobs, including running a caravan park.\n\nHis family described him as a \"gentleman\" and a \"man of pride\". He died on 25 November, aged 86.\n\nRod Moore spent 40 years with the ambulance service, working as a technician, a paramedic, a trainer and then in managerial roles before returning to the front line and the job he loved.\n\nThe football fan from Falkirk was married to Clare for 31 years and they had a son, Craig.\n\n\"He was my best friend, he was always happy, joking around all the time, he was so funny... he made me laugh every day,\" Clare told BBC Scotland.\n\nAnd he was so close to their son \"you wouldn't have got a sheet of paper between them\", she added.\n\nAlthough they were not able to see Rod for four weeks while he was treated in hospital for Covid, they we allowed one final visit to say goodbye before he died on 21 November, aged 63.\n\nTom Kenmure was a manager at the Tesco distribution centre in Livingston, where he had worked for 28 years.\n\nThe 51-year-old was a friendly, sociable man and in normal times he liked nothing better than driving around the country exploring \"any little shop he could find\".\n\nAfter the restrictions came into force, the father-of-two from Carluke did everything he could to keep himself and his family safe from Covid.\n\nBut on the 6 October he felt a tightness in his chest on his way to work and had to get tested. It came back positive the next day.\n\nHe spent two weeks in Wishaw General before being transferred to an ECMO machine at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. He died on 17 November.\n\nAndrew, or \"Andra\", Kettrick was a porter at Stirling Royal Infirmary for 28 years.\n\nHe would take patients out on \"mystery tours\" in a \"big blue hospital ambulance bus\" his son, also Andrew, told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"The old people loved my dad as he would often stop and buy them all fish and chips or ice cream - all this was paid for out of his pocket,\" he said.\n\nMr Kettrick's work was recognised by hospital bosses and they put him forward for a British Empire Medal which he received in 1991.\n\nThe father-of-three, from Cowie, Stirling, died at Caledonia Court care home in Larbert on 17 November. He was 86.\n\nJim - Flocky - Flockhart was the public face of the firefighters' strike in Glasgow in 1973.\n\nA leading figure in the Fire Brigade Union, he regularly appeared on TV and in newspapers during the controversial 10-day strike over pay.\n\nFirefighting was a dangerous - sometimes fatal - job in the \"tinderbox city\" and Jim was hailed a hero by colleagues after the dispute ended with a famous victory for the strikers.\n\nHe retired to Darvel in Ayrshire where he enjoyed a pint in the Black Bull and spent many years driving friends and local elderly men on trips around Scotland and to Ireland.\n\nA father and grandfather, he died with Covid on 13 November with his daughters Yvonne and Julie by his side. He was 77.\n\nTom Maley never wanted for anything, but after enduring months of Covid restrictions this year the 73-year-old retired joiner set his heart on a big Christmas tree.\n\nIt had been a tough year for the normally sociable pensioner who was renowned for his jokes (good and bad) and was devoted to his wife of 53 years, Georgina, and their family.\n\nThey usually decorate a small table-top tree for the festive season, but this year Mr Maley ordered a 5ft showstopper illuminated with multi-coloured stars to fill the window of their Grangemouth home.\n\nThe great-grandfather will never get to see the tree in its full glory. He died at Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert on 12 November, shortly after falling ill with Covid-19.\n\nHis granddaughter Claire Taylor told BBC Scotland, said: \"My gran has made sure that the tree he ordered will go up and it will shine bright for Granda.\"\n\nTracey Donnelly was born and brought up in Edinburgh but she moved to the north-east of England after meeting her husband, George.\n\n\"I loved her the first time I saw her, and I always will,\" he said. \"She was so loving and kind - just an extra-special person in every way.\"\n\nTracey had four children, three step-children and eight grandchildren, and she worked as a support worker for the North East Autism Society.\n\nCare manager Michael Ross, said: \"She loved her family, and she loved the service-users in her care. This tragic news has ripped the heart out of the team and her colleagues are absolutely devastated.\"\n\nShe died at Sunderland General Hospital in mid-November after testing positive for coronavirus. She was 53.\n\nJim Grant was originally from Bo'ness but he spent most of his life in Grangemouth where he brought up two daughters, Margaret and Senga, with his wife Mary.\n\nHe worked as a labourer at BP before taking early retirement when he was 60.\n\nThe 88-year-old great-grandfather spent his last months at the Caledonian Court care home in Larbert before his death on 8 November. He was one of 20 residents who died in the space of a month after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nHis granddaughter, Nicole Ritchie, said he was a gentleman who always had a huge smile on his face, and his death had had a huge impact on the family.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland \"As a family, we would like to thank Caledonian Court from the bottom of our hearts. They looked after my grandad for the last 11 months of his life and they couldn't have done a better job, he was so happy and very well looked after.\"\n\nFor more than 20 years until her retirement in February 2020, Liz Khan was a support worker for adults with learning and physical disabilities.\n\nShe also ran a drama group for them - it was always more than a job to her, her family said.\n\nLiz was also an elder at her local church, St Margaret's Parish Church in the Muirhouse area of Motherwell, North Lanarkshire.\n\n\"She devoted her life to her work, church and family,\" her children Stephen, Sonia and Lorraine told BBC Scotland.\n\nLiz died in hospital with Covid on 26 October 2020, aged 67 - eight months into her retirement.\n\nWhen Marie Ward broke her wrist in 2019, she asked her consultant whether she would be able to play the piano once it had healed.\n\nHe assured her she would, but when she replied \"that's great because I couldn't before\", the previously serious and solemn medic cracked up.\n\nShe was always laughing and joking, according to her granddaughter, Abby McNicol, and she enjoyed nothing more than knitting, shopping and a \"good blether\".\n\nMarried to Robert for 53 years, they started life together in a single-end tenement in Househillwood in Glasgow. Moving to a three-bedroom council house in Johnstone was \"like winning the lottery\".\n\nThe mother-of-three and grandmother-of-11 died on 18 October 2020, aged 83.\n\nFrances Brown spent lockdown shielding in her room in the Glasgow care home where she had lived for almost 10 years.\n\nAfter months of keeping in touch via video calls, the 76-year-old was finally able to meet up with her sister, Anne Turnbull, in August.\n\nMs Turnbull said her sister, who had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and bi-polar disorder, had a special bond with staff at the David Cargill care home.\n\nAnd she praised the home which remained Covid-free until a staff member tested positive on 4 October. Frances contracted the virus and died in hospital on 13 October.\n\nIn a statement, the care home described Frances as \"the most incredible woman, a real character, and an absolute pleasure to know and care for\".\n\nAfter a long battle against illness throughout the year, great grandfather Charlie Armstrong died on 10 October.\n\nThe 82-year-old retired property manager from Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, had been allowed home after receiving treatment at Glasgow Royal Infirmary for chest problems.\n\nEight days later he was readmitted to the hospital and tested positive for coronavirus. The family say they were told he must have contracted Covid during his earlier stay at the Infirmary.\n\nHis wife, Joyce, who was also treated in hospital for the virus, said: \"He was very generous, very loving and very funny and he hated seeing anybody being put down. He didn't like to see injustice. He would stand up for people.\n\n\"We were together for 40 years and he was a very good father and a very good husband to me.\"\n\nMargaret Kerrigan was a \"force to be reckoned with\", according to her family - a matriarch who commanded respect.\n\nShe was born in Plymouth but her family moved to Glasgow when she was young. Growing up in Govan in the 1950s, she learned to be a \"tough cookie\".\n\nIt meant she must have been perfectly suited to her job as bar manager at Curlers in Byres Road in the 1960s. And it was there she met Joe, a customer at the pub, who she married in 1970.\n\nHe worked as a school janitor during many of their 50 years of marriage, and they had four sons, 12 grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.\n\nClydebank Bowling Club provided Joe with a good social life, while Margaret loved having her family around her and going to the bingo.\n\nJoe had dementia and he died at Hill View care home in Dalmuir on 19 April 2020, aged 78. Margaret fell ill during the second wave and died in hospital on 8 October, aged 73.\n\nFormer ambulance technician George Cairns was a resident at LittleInch Care Home in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire.\n\nHis family said the move from his Renfrew flat to the home in January had reinvigorated him and brought out his mischievous sense of humour.\n\nDuring the lockdown period Mr Cairns, who was bipolar, even joked about topping up his tan in the garden.\n\nThe 71-year-old tested positive for Covid-19 on 8 May despite displaying no symptoms, but his condition deteriorated and he died in the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley nine days later.\n\nHis daughter, Gillian, paid tribute to his caring nature, saying: \"Even if you only met him once he would tell you a story, a terrible joke or offer a supportive ear when you needed it the most.\"\n\nRetired farmer Jock Brown was a keen ice hockey player in his youth, and he represented Scotland for six years in the 1950s.\n\nHe told his family that he was selected for the team because he was the only Scotsman who played as goal tender (goalkeeper) at the time. They insist this is not true.\n\nMarried to Mary for 48 years, they had two children and four grandchildren.\n\nHe farmed near Falkirk - on land next to what is now home to The Kelpies - until his retirement in the 1980s.\n\nMr Brown's family said he was a quiet man with a great sense of humour. He had dementia and he died with Covid-19 at Burnbrae care home in Falkirk on 14 May. He was 89.\n\nIna Beaton was a well-known figure on the Isle of Skye and she lived in her own home in Balmaqueen until two years ago.\n\nShe died on 11 May aged 103, the seventh resident of Home Farm care home in Portree to die after contracting Covid-19.\n\nIna lived through the Great War and the 1919 Spanish Flu outbreak. During World War Two she moved to Glasgow to work as a conductress on the trams and survived the Clydebank blitz.\n\nHer grandson, Ailean Beaton, said his loss was shared across the island, especially the north end \"where she was mum, granny, friend to more than just the Beatons.\n\n\"Her crystal memory and broad experience of life in Skye over several generations meant that she contributed to our shared knowledge of the place we're from, its language and culture,\" he added.\n\nBetty Steele grew up in Paisley but later moved to Corby, Northamptonshire - the town known as \"little Scotland\".\n\nShe had seven children, 11 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren, and she lived for her family, according to her granddaughter, Debbie Smiley.\n\nHer house was always the meeting point, and she was the life and soul of the party.\n\n\"She had such a zest for life, and anything she did it was done with care and love for others,\" Debbie added.\n\nJohn Angus Gordon, 83, spent the last few years of his life at the Home Farm care home in Portree on Skye.\n\nHe had dementia and the sense of touch reassured him - he liked to shake a hand or hold the hand of the person he was talking to.\n\nUnable to visit the home, his family spoke to him for the last time in a video-call a few hours before he died on 5 May.\n\nAs he listened to their voices, he reached out to the hand of the carer sitting with him, dressed in full personal protective equipment.\n\n\"We found it quite poignant that my dad put out his hand to hers and she was wearing these blue protective gloves,\" said his son, John.\n\nPaul McCaffrey was an \"amazing dad\" of two children and two step-children who was always busy, according to his partner Caroline McNultry.\n\n\"He was always helping someone, whether he was in someone's house helping them out or just on-the-go in work all the time,\" she said.\n\nThe healthy 49-year-old from Glasgow fell ill after returning home from work at a care home where he was a highly-regarded maintenance manager.\n\nRather than the traditional coronavirus symptoms, he complained of a headache and aching limbs but he was eventually admitted to hospital in Glasgow where he tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nHe was transferred to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary where he could be hooked up to an ECMO machine, which performs the tasks of the lungs. After three weeks, he died on 4 May.\n\nHGV driver Jim Russell kept his lorries so spotlessly clean he was known as \"Big Gorgeous\" by colleagues who joked that he must have worn his slippers in his cab.\n\nHe was a big character who loved cars, trucks, motorbikes, lorries and going to Truckfest with his fiancée Connie McCready, who he affectionately nicknamed \"Isa\" after the Still Game character.\n\nThis photograph was taken at the last concert the couple attended together on 8 March 2020.\n\nThey met online in 2014 and were due to get married last summer but Mr Russell fell ill with Covid three weeks after the concert. He died on 4 May, aged 51.\n\n\"Everyone is talking about life getting back to normal when coming out of lockdown, however for myself and many many others we are terrified as our lives will never be normal again,\" Connie said.\n\nClive Andrews was born in Trinidad and in 1967 he moved to Edinburgh where he \"immediately felt like he belonged\", according to his daughter, Nadine.\n\nThe father-of-six worked as a senior lecturer in ergonomics at Napier College, but he was also committed to the arts.\n\nDevoted to promoting and supporting artists and musicians, he held committee roles with groups including Theatre Alba and the Scottish Arts Council.\n\nHe helped establish the Edinburgh International Harp Festival and volunteered every year for decades with the Edinburgh International Jazz Festival.\n\nClive was a lover of life (and of salsa dancing), his family said. He died at The Elms Care Home in Edinburgh on 3 May 2020, aged 86.\n\nRobert Black was a paramedic but he was also a talented musician and part of the team behind Argyll FM.\n\nPaying tribute to him on social media, the community radio station said he was \"a genuine good guy... everyone was his pal\".\n\nThe Mull of Kintyre Music Festival described him as \"one of our pals\" and a \"true gent, wonderful musician\".\n\nHe was a well-known and loved character in Campbeltown, according to Kintyre Community Resilience Group.\n\nThe father-of-two died in hospital in Glasgow on 2 May.\n\nKaren Hutton was a \"much-loved\" care home nurse who died with coronavirus days after her granddaughter was born.\n\nThe 58-year-old was a staff nurse in the dementia unit at Lochleven Care Home in Broughty Ferry, Dundee.\n\nHer only daughter, Lauren, gave birth to a girl just two weeks ago, according to care home operators Thistle Healthcare.\n\nCare home manager Andrew Chalmers-Gall said: \"Karen was a tenacious advocate for her residents and she always put their needs first.\"\n\nShe died at home in Carnoustie, Angus, on 28 April after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nMark McCarron Gillan bought his wife, Jan, flowers every Friday - a small gesture but something that she still misses following his death on 27 April.\n\nThey were married for 23 years, after first meeting as teenagers, and they have three daughters - twins Ebony and Hope, who are 20, and Brenna, 19.\n\nWhen his colleagues at a soap factory in Queenslie, Glasgow, learned of his death, they stopped production for the first time since opening.\n\nThey were among dozens of people - including friends and neighbours - who lined the streets on the day of his funeral to say a final farewell to the 53-year-old.\n\nMark loved golf, football and hill walking but he was also a family man. \"There is a such a void left in each of us and every life that he touched,\" his wife said.\n\nAlastair Sinclair split his younger years between Reay in Caithness and Lanark before being called up for national service.\n\nBut his army career was cut short when he stood on a mine in Korea and lost a foot.\n\nHis son told BBC Scotland that he was persuaded to pursue a career in developing artificial limbs as he was being fitted for his own prosthetic.\n\nIn retirement, the father-of-three moved with his wife from Newtown Mearns in East Renfrewshire to Wishaw in North Lanarkshire.\n\nHe moved into Erskine Park care home in Bishopton shortly before lockdown and died, aged 87, five weeks later on 27 April.\n\nPearl Paterson grew up in Dennistoun in the east end of Glasgow and was just 10 years old when World War II broke out.\n\nShe was a teenager when she joined the Women's Land Army but it wasn't until she was in her 80s that she received official recognition - and a badge - for her efforts from the UK government.\n\nPearl spent much of her working life employed as a domestic assistant in hotels across Scotland, before settling in Largs, Ayrshire, with her daughter, Fiona.\n\nAn animal lover, she had a special Chihuahua called Flash, and she read the People's Friend magazine every week.\n\nOn her 91st birthday in March, her family was able wave to her in the conservatory at her care home in Glasgow. She died with Covid-19 on 26 April.\n\nAnnie Munro's home was always filled with people - her husband, six children and many nieces and nephews who would often come to visit.\n\nHer family used to joke that the house in Eaglesham must have \"rubber walls\" and they often had to share beds and would \"wake up with somebody's feet up their nose\".\n\nShe was a real homemaker who could as easily run up a set of curtains as make a batch of jam from fruit she had grown in her own garden. She never turned anyone away who needed help.\n\nA mild-mannered woman, she never had any need to raise her voice - a look over the top of her spectacles was enough to keep her children under control.\n\nIn later life she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and her daughter, Linda, became her main carer before she moved into a care home. Annie died on 25 April, aged 84.\n\nKnown to all as Gogs, Gordon Reid was a taxi driver from Edinburgh who loved football, played golf, enjoyed a pint and doted on his grandchildren.\n\nHe stopped working as a precaution four days before the lockdown came into force but within a week had fallen ill with Covid-19.\n\nHis wife, Elaine, and daughter Leemo Goudie, were able to spend some time with him in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary before he died on 24 April, aged 68.\n\nLeemo said: \"My dad was a normal guy, no health issues, a non-smoker, fairly fit. It can happen to anyone.\"\n\nAs only a small number of mourners could attend his funeral, people stood and applauded as his hearse passed some of his favourite places in the city.\n\nDavid Allan joined a local running club in Edinburgh in retirement, after spending 36 years as a science technician at the city's Trinity Academy.\n\nThe fit and healthy 64-year-old was training for a half marathon and was planning to take part in some Park Runs in Sydney during a trip to visit his nephew in Australia this year.\n\nWhen the holiday - including a trip to Fiji - was cancelled due to coronavirus restrictions, David was pragmatic and told his wife, Glenda, they could rearrange for a later date.\n\nIt was a shock when he tested positive for Covid-19 after being admitted to hospital with a chest infection. He died on 24 April after more than four weeks in ICU.\n\nGlenda took comfort from the funeral, when neighbours lined the streets, running club friends and former colleagues stood outside the crematorium, and hundreds watched the service online.\n\nAngie Cunningham worked for NHS Borders for more than 30 years before her death.\n\nThe 60-year-old from Tweedbank was a much-respected and valued colleague who provided \"amazing care\" to her patients, the health board said.\n\nAs well as being a much-loved mother, sister, granny and great-granny, she was proud to be a nurse, her family added.\n\nShe died in the intensive care unit at Borders General Hospital from Covid-19 on 22 April, NHS Borders confirmed.\n\nKirsty Jones, a healthcare support worker with NHS Lanarkshire, was a bubbly, larger than life character, according to her colleagues.\n\nShe joined the health board after leaving school at 17 and spent much of her career working with older patients.\n\nBut the 41-year-old recently took up a role on the frontline of the pandemic, working at an assessment centre in Airdrie.\n\nHer husband, Nigel, said she devoted her life to caring for others and was a wonderful wife and mother to their two sons.\n\nAndy McGinley used to say he didn't need to win the lottery - his family meant he was already a millionaire.\n\nHe was brought up by adoptive parents in Glasgow's Maryhill area during World War Two and went on to become a carpenter at John Brown's Shipyard.\n\nAlthough he first met his wife, Margaret, at primary school they lost touch and got together after meeting at the Barrowland Ballroom years later.\n\nThey spent almost all of their 62 years of married life in the same house in Barmulloch, where they had five children. They also had 15 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.\n\nHe loved his garden, bowls, and a sing-song at family gatherings - his party piece was \"I'm glad that I was born in Glasgow\". He died on 29 April 2020, aged 84.\n\nEvelyn Brown dedicated her life to her family and her community. Born and bred in Peterhead, she was married to Charles for 50 years and they had two children.\n\nShe gave up her job as a bank manager to care for her son Craig after he was born with Down's syndrome in the 1970s.\n\nHer daughter Emma, who was born two years later, said her mother was a selfless woman who loved spoiling her grandchildren with \"gifts and love\".\n\nMrs Brown was an adult Guide leader and later a district commissioner, she volunteered with Barnardo's and was an active member of the Church of Scotland.\n\nAfter her death at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on 19 April, aged 75, her family raised £3,000 in her name for the hospital's staff garden.\n\nWaqar Hussain Choudhry was a popular shopkeeper in the north of Glasgow.\n\nThe 65-year-old ran a convenience store on Skerray Street in Milton where he was affectionately known as Wacca.\n\nFollowing his death on 17 April 2020, well-wishers left flowers outside the shop he ran for almost 40 years.\n\nThey told The Glasgow Times that the father-of-three served generations of school children and put an extra sweet in their bags.\n\nHis son Zeeshan Chaudhry told the BBC: \"My beloved father was the most amazing hardworking human and parent.\"\n\nJane Murphy was known as \"Mama Murphy\" by close friends and colleagues at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.\n\nShe worked at the city hospital for almost 30 years, first as a cleaner before retraining as a clinical support worker.\n\nThe 73-year-old, from Bonnyrigg, was placed on sick leave due to her age when the pandemic broke out.\n\nIt's understood the mother-of-two died on 16 April.\n\nHer friend Gerry Taylor said: \"She wasn't afraid to tell nurses, doctors or consultants if they were not pulling their weight and they loved her for it.\"\n\nMary McCann, 70, was a \"strong, wonderful woman\" who was dedicated to her family, according to her son, David.\n\nShe spent the last three months of her life in an East Kilbride care home, having being diagnosed with cancer last year.\n\nThe grandmother was doing well in the Whitehills home, where she was putting on weight and smiling again, David said.\n\nBut in early April she developed a urinary tract infection. Her condition deteriorated quickly and within days she was struggling to breathe.\n\nShe died in the care home on 16 April with her son, Derek, by her side.\n\nVerity Watson met her husband Adam (Adie) in a bible class and together they raised three sons, Alan, Gordon and Adam.\n\nThey lived in South Africa for a few years but returned to their beloved home of Rutherglen in 1970.\n\nShe worked at the local Coulls Bakers until retiring aged 72 but in her spare time she enjoyed bowls, knitting and - best of all - a cream cake with a cup of tea.\n\nHer family were unable to be with her when she died at Roger Park Care Home on 15 April 2020, after a short stay in hospital.\n\nHer son Adam said he couldn't thank staff enough for their \"invaluable support\", sitting with his mother in her final moments. She was 98.\n\nDavid Whittick joined the Royal Navy as a pilot on his 18th birthday in the midst of World War Two. Aged 19, as part of 835 Naval Air Squadron, he was flying off aircraft carrier HMS Nairana in the Arctic.\n\nAlmost 70 years later he received the Arctic Star for his role in Arctic Convoys - described by Sir Winston Churchill as \"the worst journey in the world\".\n\nHe survived two serious accidents during his long civilian career with Scottish Airways and later British Airways, before dedicating himself to supporting the Riding for the Disabled charity in his retirement.\n\nHis work - including helping to raise funds for a purpose-built facility at Summerston in Glasgow - led to him being appointed an OBE by the Queen for his services to charity.\n\nHe was married to Joyce for more than 60 years and they had four children. His son, Peter, said he lived a full and active life, even enjoying a trip on a seaplane in January this year. He died at Erskine care home in Bishopton on 14 April, aged 95, after falling ill with coronavirus.\n\nHer daughter Linda, a lawyer for the BBC, had hoped she would survive the virus as she was from \"strong stock\".\n\nShe last saw her mother in March when she travelled from London to warn her they may not be able to visit her during the pandemic.\n\nThe pensioner had been \"extremely distressed\" afterwards, Ms Duncan said.\n\nShe was taken to Edinburgh's Western General Hospital on 12 April and died three days later.\n\nDerek Wilkie worked for 27 years as a firefighter before retiring in December 2017.\n\nHe had senior roles in Badenoch and Strathspey, and Shetland before becoming station commander for Inverness and Nairn District.\n\nColleagues said he was a \"diligent and capable firefighter... with a larger than life personality\".\n\nHis wife and two sons - who all work for the NHS - thanked those who cared for Mr Wilkie and urged people to stay at home.\n\nHe died at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness on 12 April.\n\nFormer Merchant Navy engineer Bill Campbell died of suspected Covid-19 at Erskine Park care home in Bishopton.\n\nThe 86-year-old had dementia and carers initially thought he had a chest infection but he developed a cough and a high temperature.\n\nHis condition deteriorated and he died on Easter Sunday, with his daughter, Linda Verlaque - in full protective clothing - by his side.\n\nShe praised the work of carers at the home but she said his death was \"horrific\" as undertakers came to take away his body in full hazmat gear and goggles.\n\n\"Instead of having people surrounding me and giving me a hug to say everything was all right, everyone was just standing there and we were watching my dad being taken away, which was traumatic,\" she said.\n\nProud Welshman Glyn Edwards did not learn to speak English until he was five years old, but in adulthood he made Edinburgh his home.\n\nA contemporary of Neil Kinnock at Cardiff University, he worked as a civil servant in London before marrying and moving to Scotland.\n\nHe was a regular at Robbie's Bar on Leith Walk where he was known as \"McTaffy\" but he could be a solitary character who could easily lose himself in a book or a concert.\n\nClassical music, politics and poetry were his passions - as a teenager he won a major Welsh poetry contest and his daughter, Mhairi Jarvie, treasures a ring-binder full of his poems.\n\nShe affectionately described her father as a cross between Coronation Street's Ken Barlow and Victor Meldrew - \"intelligent, opinionated, political, but grumpy and a tad anti-social\".\n\nMaths teacher Gerry McHugh was a \"true gentleman\", able to inspire every single student who walked through his door.\n\nHis death would have a \"devastating effect\" on the Notre Dame High School community in Greenock, head teacher Katie Couttie said.\n\nUnable to attend his funeral due to the lockdown, past and current pupils found a unique way to pay tribute to the 58-year-old.\n\nThey wore red and posted images on social media in memory of the lifelong Manchester United fan.\n\nEileen McCarron died in Glasgow Royal Infirmary less than 24 hours after falling ill. She had no underlying health concerns.\n\nA mother of three daughters, she spent 18 years working as a nursery teacher at Save the Children's Charles Street playgroup in Glasgow's Germiston.\n\nShe gave up the job to look after her only grandson, Patrick. Her husband of more than 35 years, also Patrick, died suddenly in 1997, aged just 57.\n\nAs well as volunteering at a Barnardo's charity shop, she liked shopping, knitting, going out for coffees and lunches, and holidays with her family.\n\nShe was 79 when she died on 9 April, leaving her family devastated and unable to comfort each other during lockdown. They had still not been able to hold a memorial service nine months later.\n\nHelen McMillan was 10 days short of her 85th birthday when she died at Almond Court care home in Glasgow's Drumchapel on 9 April.\n\nShe spent most of her life in Summerston, where she widely known as \"Auntie Ellen\" - even to those she wasn't related to.\n\n\"Everybody loved my mum,\" her daughter, Jackie Marlow, told BBC Scotland. \"She knew everybody in the community and was the life and soul of the party.\"\n\nHelen worked in McLellan's rubber factory in Maryhill until she was in her 50s.\n\nA grandmother to Hayley and Josh, she developed dementia in later life but she was still \"pretty agile and loving life\", her daughter said.\n\nMary Martin and her husband, Alex, were keen ballroom dancers.\n\nAlthough their roots were firmly in Glasgow, they spent seven years in Dunblane where they were tasked with encouraging people on to the dancefloor at the Dunblane Hydro.\n\nBefore that, Mrs Martin brought up her family in Mount Vernon, later moving to Bearsden. She had three children, six grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and a great-great grandchild.\n\nHer daughter, Sandra O'Neill, told BBC Scotland she was \"just a wonderful person - gentle and kind\".\n\nIn her later years she had vascular dementia and she lived at the Almond Court care home in Drumchapel. She died there on 8 April, aged 88.\n\nVic and Maureen Sharp, who were both 74, had been together since they were teenagers.\n\nUnderlying health conditions meant the couple from Oakley in Fife were both asked to shield themselves during lockdown.\n\nBut their daughter, Yvonne Sharp, believes the letter came too late and they caught the virus during a weekly trip to the supermarket.\n\nMaureen died in hospital on 8 April and then, Yvonne said, her father \"just gave up\". He died the following day.\n\nOnly six members of the family could attend their funeral but a piper led the funeral cortege through Oakley, where locals lined the streets.\n\nWhen Ann Tonner left the Nazareth House orphanage in Glasgow as teenager, she was one of the few women of colour in the city, according to her son, Tony McCaffery.\n\nShe was \"exotic-looking and quite glamourous\" and was soon in demand as a model for local shops and boutiques before working as a celebrated hot-dog girl in an Odeon cinema.\n\nHer first husband tragically died and her second was largely absent, leaving her to bring up six children and - at times - hold down five jobs at once.\n\nShe was a \"remarkable, formidable woman with a strong work ethic\", Mr McCaffery told BBC Scotland, but she was also a \"gentle soul with an incredibly child-like sense of humour\".\n\nA grandmother and great-grandmother, Mrs Tonner died at a nursing home in Glasgow where she was living with Alzheimer's, on 8 April. She was 84.\n\nMary Nixon was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when she was just 18 but she was determined to never let it hold her back.\n\nBorn and raised in Greenock, she was a lone parent to four children who described her as a \"strong, independent woman who lived life to the full\".\n\n\"My mum made being a single parent look easy\", her daughter Alexis said. \"We were very happy kids growing up. Everyone loved her and always said she was a 'wee gem'.\"\n\nWhen she fell seriously ill in 2014, her family was told to prepare for the worst, but their \"invincible\" mum rallied, though she lost her mobility.\n\nShe died with Covid on 7 April 2020, aged 66. After everything she had been through in life, her family said they felt \"robbed... that this awful virus has taken her from us\".\n\nJanice Graham was the first NHS worker to die with coronavirus in Scotland.\n\nThe health care support worker and district nurse died at Inverclyde Royal Hospital on 6 April.\n\nOne colleague said she had a \"bright and engaging personality and razor sharp wit\".\n\nAnother said the 58-year-old was the \"most kind, caring and compassionate HCA I have had the privilege to work with\".\n\nHer son, Craig, told STV News he would miss everything about her.\n\nNewly-wed Andy Wyness developed a high temperature and a cough following a trip to Wales.\n\nWhen his symptoms worsened the 53-year-old drove himself from his Wishaw home to an appointment at an assessment centre.\n\nThat was the last time his wife, Sandra, saw him.\n\nThe grandfather, who was a keen bowler, was taken straight to hospital by ambulance. He died on 6 April.\n\n\"Even walking out the house that night, although I knew he wasn't well, I never imagined he would never walk back in,\" Sandra said.\n\nRita Hawthorn spent the first 35 years of her life in Hamilton, where she was born, grew up and had her own family.\n\nBut when her husband, Robert, lost his job as a miner the couple and their three children re-located from the west of Scotland to the far north in 1973.\n\nWhile Robert took up a new job at the Scottish Instruments Factory in Wick, she worked as a cleaner at a nearby job centre and became secretary of the Highlands and Islands Civil Service Union.\n\nShe was sadly widowed at 51 but she was \"fiercely independent\" and went on to fulfil her dreams of travelling - a trip up the Nile, a safari in South Africa, and solo bus tours to Austria and Paris.\n\nRita, who was a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, fell ill during the first week of lockdown. She died at Caithness General Hospital on 6 April, aged 82.\n\nBill Paul grew up in Giffnock on the south side of Glasgow and did his national service as a radar operator with the RAF in Malta.\n\nIn his youth he was an extremely accomplished tennis player and it was through the sport that he met his first wife, Frances, who died in 1984.\n\nWith his second wife, Liz, he loved to play golf and travel - hobbies that he continued after her death in 2012.\n\nAn extremely active man, he loved to go on cruises with a group of like-minded friends. However his last cruise to the Caribbean was cut short by the pandemic in March.\n\nHe returned home to Arran and fell ill with Covid within a week. He died at Lamlash Hospital on 5 April, aged 81.\n\nMofizul Islam was beginning a new life in Scotland after relocating from Bangladesh when he fell ill with coronavirus.\n\nHis family believe the 49-year-old caught the virus on his daily three-hour journeys between their Edinburgh home and his job at a pizza outlet in Midlothian.\n\nHe died on 5 April and was buried in the Muslim section of a city cemetery but his wife and children were in isolation and unable to attend.\n\nHis death has left the family \"completely helpless\", according to a family friend as they have no documents, no bank account and they are struggling for money.\n\n\"We are very worried about our future because we don't have our father,\" said Mofizul's 19-year-old son, Azahural. \"He was everything for us. And now we are just hopeless.\"\n\nCatherine Sweeney was a \"wonderful mother, sister and beloved aunty\", her family said after her death on 4 April.\n\nBorn and raised in Dumbarton, she worked as a home carer for more than 20 years.\n\nHer family said she would be sorely missed after a \"lifetime of service\" to the community.\n\nAnd they praised the medics at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley who \"heroically\" looked after her in her final days.\n\nJimmy Andrews was 17 years old when began his career in Glasgow Corporation's finance department in 1955.\n\nBy the turn of the century, he had risen to become chief executive of Glasgow City Council and in 2001 he was appointed CBE for services to local government - a \"career highlight\".\n\nHe was born in Kilsyth but spent much of his life living in Strathblane, Stirlingshire, with his wife of 52 years, Mary.\n\nIn retirement, he \"enjoyed life to the full\", spending time with his three children and six grandchildren, and visiting horse racing courses throughout the country.\n\nA gentle, intelligent man with a great sense of humour, he died at Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 3 April 2020, aged 81.\n\nLord Gordon of Strathblane was a former political editor of STV and he founded Radio Clyde.\n\nHe died at Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 31 March after contracting coronavirus, Radio Clyde reported. He was 83.\n\nHis family paid tribute to his \"generosity, his kindness and his enthusiasm for life\".\n\nFormer First Minister Jack McConnell said Lord Gordon had \"an outstanding career in business and public service\".\n\nRyan Storrie was in Scotland to celebrate his 40th birthday with a trip to a Rangers match when he fell ill.\n\nThe father-of-two was from Ardrossan but lived in Dubai.\n\nWhen he developed symptoms, the asthmatic isolated in his hotel room and waited for the virus to run its course.\n\nHis condition deteriorated but he wouldn't let his wife, Hilary, phone 999 as he was convinced he would recover and didn't want to bother the NHS.\n\nShe found him dead in his room on 31 March.\n\nMary and Andy Leaman began self-isolating at the end of March after falling ill with flu-like symptoms.\n\nTheir son, Andy, told the Glasgow Evening Times the couple were married 50 years and doted on their only granddaughter, nine-year-old Anna.\n\nMrs Leaman died at home in Castlemilk on 30 March - four days after the death of Anna's maternal grandfather, Dougie Chambers.\n\nThe schoolgirl lost her third grandparent almost three weeks later when Mr Leaman died in hospital on 19 April.\n\nHer mother, Lynsey Chalmers, told BBC Scotland: \"For a nine-year-old girl whose three grandparents were her world... why does a wee girl need to get punished like that over and over again?\"\n\nRobert Tarbet was \"self-opinionated and witty\", according to his daughter, Paula Karoly, but also \"hardworking, loyal and beautiful\".\n\nHe spent his working life as a plumber with Glasgow City Council before retiring in the early 2000s.\n\nIn his spare time, the sociable man was a mason who was a keen follower of Rangers FC. He loved country and western music and watching musicals in the theatre.\n\nA father and a grandfather-of-three, he was being treated for cancer when he contracted coronavirus.\n\nHe died on 29 March at Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, aged 76.\n\nSchool janitor Ian Wilson was at home in Coatbridge for two weeks with a high temperature and delirium before being admitted to hospital.\n\nDespite his worsening condition, doctors initially told his wife, Sandra, she would not be able to visit the 72-year-old who had a heart condition and diabetes.\n\nStaff eventually granted access provided she wore protective equipment - a decision which meant she could be at her husband's side when he died on 29 March.\n\nAlthough nurses were unable to comfort her with a hug due to social distancing protocols, Mrs Wilson is grateful they allowed her to be with her partner at the end.\n\n\"I was able to talk to him and just say goodbye. I've got strength from that,\" she said.\n\nDougie Chambers was one of several people who fell ill after the 40th birthday party of his daughter, Wendy, on 7 March.\n\nWithin days, the 66-year-old, who had an underlying health condition, went into hospital and tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nMr Chambers, who was from Castlemilk in Glasgow, died two weeks later, on 26 March.\n\nTwo other members of his extended family - Andy and Mary Leaman - also contracted the virus and later died.\n\nWendy said: \"If we knew then what we know now, we wouldn't have had the party. It wouldn't have happened.\"\n\nDanny Cairns was a healthy 68-year-old before he fell ill with coronavirus, according to his brother, Hugh.\n\nWhen he developed a cough and sore throat at the end of March, he isolated at home in Greenock.\n\nBut within days he was so ill he had to be taken to hospital by ambulance.\n\nIn a video call from his hospital bed, his last words to his brother were: \"I'm on my way out, mate\".\n\nHe died on 26 March, three days after arriving in hospital.\n\nMargaret Innes lived with her daughter, Sally McNaught, in Edinburgh for four years before her death at the very beginning of the pandemic.\n\nShe was housebound and very frail but she loved sitting with their pet cat and dog, doing crosswords and watching quiz shows.\n\nHer favourite soap was Neighbours and she used to say \"I'm off to Australia now\".\n\nMs McNaught said they stopped visitors coming to the house a week before lockdown, they washed their hands, cleaned everything and thought they would be safe.\n\nBut Ms Innes woke up on Mother's Day with severe breathing difficulties. She died on 25 March, three days after going into hospital. She was 93.\n\nHas one of your loved ones died recently after contracting Covid? We would like to pay tribute to some of them on the BBC Scotland website.\n\nIf you would like to see your relative or friend featured, use the form below to send us your details and we could be in touch.\n\nIn some cases your details will be published, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "England is currently under a third national lockdown, in an attempt to keep hospitals from being overwhelmed by coronavirus cases.\n\nBut there has been speculation that ministers could be considering tightening restrictions, amid concerns the \"stay-at-home\" message isn't being followed by enough people.\n\nAt Monday evening's Downing Street briefing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock urged people to follow the existing rules but added, \"we won't rule out taking further action if it's needed\". Other ministers have struck a similar tone.\n\nBut what is the case for more changes?\n\nIn March, nurseries closed to all but vulnerable children and those whose parents were key workers.\n\nBut so far this lockdown, early-years provision has remained open in England.\n\nScotland and Northern Ireland have chosen to keep nurseries closed to most children for now.\n\nBut England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said keeping them open \"would allow people who need to go to work, or need to do particular activities, to do so\".\n\nYounger children carry a lower risk of transmission than adolescents, scientists say.\n\nBut according to Public Health England, 10% of coronavirus outbreaks or clusters in educational settings since September have been in early-years provision.\n\nEngland's three main nursery organisations have called on the government to provide clear scientific evidence on the risks to early-years staff now there is a more transmissible variant of Covid-19.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show he too would like to hear more from scientists about the risks - and nurseries should \"probably\" close.\n\nGoing out to exercise once a day is one of the \"reasonable excuses\" for leaving home during lockdown.\n\nPeople can walk, run, cycle or swim with those they live - or are in a support bubble - with.\n\nIn addition, they can exercise, on their own, with one person, each time, from another household - as long as they stay 2m (6ft) apart.\n\nHowever, Mr Hancock said, \"we've been seeing large groups and that is not acceptable\" and warned that, \"if too many people keep breaking this rule, then we are going to have to look at it\".\n\nThe rules say exercise should be \"local\" - in the village, town, or part of the city where you live - but do not currently specify how far people can travel.\n\nDerbyshire Police recently fined two women £200 each for driving five miles to meet for a walk, saying driving for exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of lockdown. They were told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed, either, as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nThe penalties have now been withdrawn.\n\nProf Whitty, meanwhile, has urged people to \"double down\", avoid unnecessary contact and stick to the rules.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 5 Live about coffee shops remaining open for takeaways, he advised against meeting up there.\n\n\"Really, please don't,\" he said.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in almost all public indoor settings - including shops - unless people are exempt.\n\nPremises \"should take reasonable steps to promote compliance with the law\", government guidance says.\n\nLast summer, when customer face coverings became law, many supermarkets said they would not make their staff responsible for enforcing the rules.\n\nHowever, Morrisons has now updated its policy to bar shoppers who refuse to cover their faces, unless they are medically exempt. Sainsbury's says security guards at its stores will challenge customers who do not comply.\n\nTesco, Asda and Waitrose have followed suit and say they too will deny entry to shoppers who do not wear face masks unless they have an exemption.\n\nThere have been suggestions face coverings should be required in outdoor public places.\n\nHowever, Sage has previously suggested it would have a \"very low impact\" on community transmission\n\nProf Whitty told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the risk posed by joggers, for example, was \"very low\" - but there \"might be some logic\" to people wearing masks in a busy outdoor queue or crowded around a market stall.\n\nOne change the government has ruled out is to support bubbles - which allow people living alone and single, or new parents to mix with another household of any size, without having to socially distance.\n\nAt the government briefing, Mr Hancock said: \"I can rule out removing the bubbles.\"\n\nThe official guidance says it's best if a support bubble is formed with a household who live locally.\n\nBut there is currently no limit to how far people can travel to visit their bubble, meaning they could go from areas with high infection rates to those with lower ones, potentially spreading the virus.\n\nWhen \"bubbling\" was first suggested, in May, Sage rejected it as too dangerous, because the reproduction (R) number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - was close to one.\n\nCurrently, the R number in England is between 1.1 and 1.4. Sage says stopping all indoor contact between different households could lower this by as much as 0.2.\n\n\"Active contract tracing should be a precondition of introducing bubbling\", Sage added.\n\nUnlike in March, places of worship are allowed to open in England, although they are closed in Scotland.\n\nThey provide spiritual leadership for many and bring communities together - but their \"communal nature\" also makes them \"vulnerable to the spread of coronavirus\", the government guidance for England says.\n\nWhen the latest lockdown was announced, the Archbishop of Canterbury tweeted: \"The government hasn't suspended public worship - but some may feel it better not to attend in person and some parishes are expected to offer online services only for now.\"\n\nSage has previously suggested places of worship pose a high risk to vulnerable groups but closing them would have a low to moderate impact on overall coronavirus transmission.", "Isabella Curry urged others to get the jab and said it was just a little \"prick in the arm\"\n\nA woman has celebrated her 100th birthday by getting a covid vaccination at home.\n\nIsabella Curry, known as Ella, from Cramlington, was among some of the most vulnerable people in Northumberland to receive the vaccine.\n\nMs Curry, who lives alone, urged others not to be afraid to get the jab and said it was just a little \"prick in the arm\" and she now felt safe.\n\nHer birthday was also marked by the arrival of a card from the Queen.\n\nShe said: \"This vaccine means I'll be able to go out, meet my friends soon and feel safe.\"\n\nIsabella Curry's nephew Neil Curry thanked the \"army\" of helpers who cared for his aunt\n\nMs Curry's nephew, Neil Curry from Bristol, said he was delighted she had had the vaccination but sad the whole family could not get together for the milestone birthday.\n\n\"We had a family reunion for Ella's 90th - we all got together in Newcastle. We would have all got together again to mark this occasion, but we couldn't,\" he said.\n\nHe also said he wanted to thank the \"army\" of people who looked after his aunt including Noreen and Jim Hutchinson, who did her shopping and cut her grass.\n\nHe also thanked June and Peter Marshall and all the other people who collected her prescriptions and mobile library books.\n\nKate Fraser, the community nurse who administered the vaccination, said: \"It's been an emotional time being able to give Isabella her vaccination.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "People's reaction to a sonic boom heard across the East of England has been caught on camera.\n\nIt happened after a Typhoon aircraft took off from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire to escort a plane to Stansted Airport because it had lost communications at about 13:05 GMT.\n\nPeople in Cambridgeshire, Essex and parts of London posted videos on social media, with one person heard asking if it was thunder.\n\nHeather Eastlake, who was filming herself exercising near Cambridge, described her reaction as being like \"a deer in the highlights\".", "The three main Covid-19 vaccines are from Pfizer-BioNTech, the University of Oxford and Astra-Zeneca and Moderna.\n\nThe Pfizer, Oxford and Moderna vaccines each require two doses and you are not fully vaccinated until you have had both shots.\n\nBut there are many differences between them.\n\nThe BBC's Laura Foster looks at how much immunity they give, how they prevent infection and how they compare.", "Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore said their cars were surrounded by police when they arrived at the reservoir\n\nTwo women who were fined £200 each when they drove five miles for a walk have had the penalties withdrawn.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore were walking at Foremark Reservoir, Derbyshire, when they were \"surrounded\" by officers.\n\nAt the time Derbyshire Police insisted driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of the most recent lockdown.\n\nBut new national guidance for police has led the force to quash the fines, and apologise to the women.\n\nChief Constable Rachel Swann said the fines \"have been withdrawn and we have notified the women directly, apologising for any concern caused\".\n\nThe two friends travelled the short distance to the reservoir from their homes in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThey said their cars were \"surrounded\" by police. They were then questioned on why they were there and told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nIn a statement, the women said: \"This afternoon we both received a phone call from Derbyshire Police.\n\n\"After reviewing our case, our fines have been rescinded and we have received an apology on behalf of the constabulary for the treatment we received.\n\n\"We welcomed this apology and we are pleased to draw a line under this event.\"\n\nAfter the incident gained media attention, the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid: Fined women 'could have been dealt with differently'\n\nDerbyshire Police said: \"Having received clarification of the guidance issued by the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) on Friday, these FPNs as well as a small number of others issued, were reviewed in line with that latest advice, and so it is right that we have taken this action.\"\n\nThe county's police and crime commissioner Hardyal Dhinsda said: \"While the police are doing their absolute best to protect public safety during what is a critical time of the pandemic, the public should rightly expect a proportionate and balanced approach, taking full consideration of individual circumstances.\n\n\"We recognise that errors will occur in the face of complex guidance and legislation and it is important such situations are resolved quickly and fairly, as has been the case here.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rhondda Cynon Taf has the highest death rate from coronavirus in Wales - with another 34 hospital deaths in the latest week\n\nThere have now been more than 5,100 deaths in Wales involving Covid-19 since the pandemic began.\n\nThe latest weekly figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show 310 deaths in the week ending 1 January, which is 32 more than the week before.\n\nThis is nearly 42.6% of all deaths.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg saw the highest numbers of weekly deaths in Wales, the most since the end of April at the peak of the first wave of the pandemic.\n\nThere were 76 deaths in the area - including 66 in hospitals and six in care homes.\n\nLooking at council areas, Rhondda Cynon Taf had the second highest number of hospital deaths across England and Wales, with 34. The London borough of Newham had 35.\n\nThe ONS again urged caution when interpreting this week's figures, due to the Christmas and new year holidays, which will affect the number of registrations.\n\nThe total number of Covid deaths in Wales, up to and registered by 1 January, was 4,963.\n\nBut when deaths registered over the following few days are included, there was a total of 5,169.\n\nThe Aneurin Bevan health board, with 68 deaths registered involving Covid, also had its highest number in a single week since the end of April.\n\nHywel Dda health board reported 37 deaths - its highest weekly figure since the pandemic began. Of these, 18 were patients in hospital from Carmarthenshire and 10 were hospital patients from Pembrokeshire.\n\nSwansea Bay health board had 61 deaths in this week. The Swansea council area itself had the seventh highest number of hospital deaths across England and Wales.\n\nThere were 36 deaths in Cardiff and Vale, 25 deaths in Betsi Cadwaladr in north Wales - 10 of which were hospital deaths in Wrexham - and seven in Powys.\n\nAll counties recorded at least one death involving Covid-19.\n\nThis map shows three valleys areas in south Wales among the highest for crude mortality rates involving Covid in the pandemic so far\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf, with 685 deaths, has the largest number of Covid-19 deaths in Wales up to the latest week, followed by Cardiff with 578.\n\nWhen looking at crude death rates - based on the number of deaths compared to local populations - Wales has three of the five worst across England and Wales.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf has 283 deaths per 100,000 in total so far in the pandemic.\n\nMerthyr Tydfil is second with 253.6 and Blaenau Gwent is ranked fourth.\n\nSo-called excess deaths, which compare all registered deaths with previous years, continue to be above the five-year average.\n\nLooking at the number of deaths we would normally expect to see at this point in the year is seen as a useful measure of how the pandemic is progressing.\n\nIn Wales, the number of deaths fell from 825 to 727 in the latest week, but this was still 209 deaths (40.3%) higher than the five-year average for that week. This is the second highest proportion after London.\n\nThe ONS figures report where doctors mention Covid-19 on death certificates, including confirmed and suspected cases.\n\nThey include deaths occurring in all places, not only hospitals and care homes but also people's own homes.\n\nIt has been estimated that Covid is the underlying cause in around 90% of these deaths and not just a contributory factor.", "An eye health charity is recommending people learn the \"20-20-20\" rule to protect their sight, as lockdown has increased people's time using screens.\n\nFight for Sight advises looking at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds, every 20 minutes you look at a screen.\n\nOut of 2,000 people, half used screens more since Covid struck and a third (38%) of those believed their eyesight had worsened, a survey suggested.\n\nOpticians remain open for those who need them, the charity said.\n\nThe representative survey of 2,000 adults suggested one in five were less likely to get an eye test now than before the pandemic, for fear of catching or spreading the virus.\n\nRespondents reported difficulty reading, as well as headaches and migraines and poorer night vision.\n\nThe research charity, which commissioned a survey from polling company YouGov, said it wanted to emphasise the importance of having regular eye tests and to remind people \"the majority of opticians are open for appointments throughout lockdown restrictions\".\n\nFight for Sight chief executive Sherine Krause said: \"More than half of all cases of sight loss are avoidable through early detection and prevention methods. Regular eye tests can often detect symptomless sight-threatening conditions.\"\n\nBut even simple screen breaks can help to prevent eye strain, the charity suggested.\n\nGovernment guidance states that under lockdown people can leave home for medical appointments and to \"avoid injury, illness or risk of harm\".\n\nThe College of Optometrists said its members should continue to provide eye care under lockdown for people who experience any eyesight changes or problems.\n\nOptometrists are the professionals who will carry out your eye test when you visit an optician's practice.\n\nRoutine appointments can also be provided \"if capacity permits, and if it is in the patients' best interests\", the guidance states.\n\nClinical adviser Paramdeep Bilkhu said the college's own research suggested just under a quarter of people noticed their vision deteriorate during the first lockdown.\n\n\"Our research showed us that many people believe that spending more time in front of screens worsened their vision,\" he said.\n\n\"The good news is that this is unlikely to cause any permanent harm to your vision. However, it is very important that if you feel your vision has deteriorated or if you are experiencing any problems with your eyes, such as them becoming red or painful, you contact your local optometrist by telephone or online.\"\n\nUK health and safety legislation states employers must pay for eye tests for their employees if they have to use a screen for work for more than one hour a day.\n\nIn the summer, the UK Ophthalmology Alliance and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists calculated that at least 10,000 people had missed out on essential eye care in Britain.\n\nIn the most extreme cases, the Royal National Institute of Blind People said it feared some people were at risk of losing their sight because of a fear of attending hospital during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nA Royal College of Ophthalmologists spokesperson said: \"It is important that people who have found significant changes in their vision seek the advice of an optometrist who will examine, and determine if the changes require further investigation by an ophthalmologist - a medically-trained eye doctor.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel: \"Our selfless police officers... will enforce the regulations and I will back them to do so\"\n\nPeople have been urged to \"play your part\" and follow Covid rules by Home Secretary Priti Patel, who says she will back police to enforce laws.\n\nAt a No 10 briefing, Ms Patel said a minority were \"putting the health of the nation at risk\" by flouting rules.\n\nPolice are \"moving more quickly to issuing fines\", she added, with nearly 45,000 fixed penalty notices issued across the UK.\n\nAnother 1,243 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid.\n\nAnd there have been a further 45,533 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nMeanwhile, another 145,076 people have received a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, and 20,768 a second dose, bringing the totals respectively to 2,431,648 and 412,167.\n\nAt the briefing, Ms Patel said: \"My message today to anyone refusing to do the right thing is simple: if you do not play your part, our selfless police officers - who are out there risking their own lives every day to keep us safe - they will enforce the regulations.\n\n\"And I will back them to do so, to protect our NHS and to save lives.\"\n\nIt comes after the UK's most senior police officer said lockdown rule-breakers were more likely to be fined as Covid laws would be enforced \"more quickly\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said her officers had been forced to break up parties, despite hospitals in London struggling to cope with rising patient numbers.\n\nChairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council Martin Hewitt, who also spoke at the Downing Street briefing, said people should be asking themselves whether their reason for leaving home was \"truly essential\".\n\nHe stressed that police officers had been \"putting themselves at risk in order to keep people safe\", and said it had been \"disappointing\" to see some of the behaviour by rule-breakers.\n\nHe said examples of recent breaches included:\n\nMr Hewitt said he made \"no apology\" for police issuing fines, and warned people breaking rules - such as by organising parties or not wearing face coverings on public transport - to \"expect\" a fine.\n\nAsked if there needed to be more clarity on the guidance around exercise and staying local, Mr Hewitt said it would be wrong to put a \"particular distance\" on how far people could exercise from their home - as it would be too difficult for police to enforce.\n\nHe said it was right there was an exception to allow people to exercise, but insisted it was the public's responsibility to make sure they were doing so safely.\n\nThere is a big focus on adherence to lockdown rules. But what has almost gone unnoticed is the fact that cases may have actually started falling.\n\nThere has now been two consecutive days where newly diagnosed cases have hovered around the 46,000 mark. Up to the weekend, the average was close to 60,000.\n\nThe drop has largely been driven by falls in new cases in London, the south east and east of England.\n\nIn some regions, cases are still going up. The north west of England is causing particular concern.\n\nIt is too early for the vaccination programme to be having any significant impact, so a combination of the national lockdown on top of the tier four restrictions that were imposed in some areas before Christmas look like they may be beginning to have an impact.\n\nCare must be taken in reading too much into a couple of days' data.\n\nHospital cases are still rising - patients being admitted at the moment are the ones who were infected a week or so ago - but it does at least offer a glimmer of hope.\n\nLater in the news conference, NHS medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar said the capital's Nightingale hospital has reopened and was admitting patients to help with the coronavirus spread.\n\nHe told reporters it was taking non-Covid patients to help free up beds in London's hospitals.\n\nDr Diwakar warned that if levels of hospitalisation in the capital continued to rise then more patients would need to be transferred out of London, adding that the NHS across the country was under pressure.\n\nIn Birmingham, 200 doctors are being redeployed to one of the country's largest intensive care units as it nears capacity.\n\nThe University Hospitals Birmingham Trust said there were 873 patients with Covid-19 in their hospitals, with 125 in intensive care.\n\nEarlier, crime and policing minister Kit Malthouse said people have a \"duty\" to make this lockdown \"the last one\".\n\n\"We are urging the small minority of people who aren't taking this seriously to do so now, and [we say] to them that, if they don't, they are much more likely to get fined by the police,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nDame Cressida told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the move towards greater enforcement was \"common sense\" rather than a show of \"dictatorial policing\".\n\nFines start at £200 in England and Northern Ireland, and £60 in Wales and Scotland. Large parties can be shut down by the police, with fines of up to £10,000.\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - all of which are in charge of deciding and enforcing their own coronavirus restrictions.\n• None Could I be fined for exercising?", "New England Patriots's Bill Belichick is considered one of the most successful coaches in NFL history\n\nTop NFL coach Bill Belichick says he will not accept President Donald Trump's offer of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, citing the US Capitol riot.\n\nBelichick, of the New England Patriots, said he was flattered when he was first offered the medal - the top award given to civilians in the US.\n\nBut he said he changed his mind after a mob of Trump supporters stormed Congress last week. Five people died.\n\nThe celebrated coach had previously spoken of his friendship with Mr Trump.\n\n\"Recently, I was offered the opportunity to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which I was flattered by out of respect for what the honour represents and admiration for prior recipients,\" Belichick said in a statement.\n\n\"Subsequently, the tragic events of last week occurred and the decision has been made not to move forward with the award.\"\n\nBelichick, who has won a record six Super Bowl titles, is considered one of the most successful coaches in NFL history.\n\nThe Presidential Medal of Freedom recognises individuals who have made outstanding contributions to \"the security or national interests of America\".\n\nIn 2019 Mr Trump gave the award to golfer Tiger Woods, as well as radio personality Rush Limbaugh and posthumously Elvis Presley.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Super Bowl: How Tom Brady and Bill Belichick built a New England Patriots dynasty\n\nDonald Trump may only have recently made a career of politics, but he's always loved sport.\n\nHe owns 17 golf courses and once bought and ran the New Jersey Generals of the US Football League.\n\nJust last week, he awarded three presidential medals of freedom to professional golfers. This week he was planning to honour the most successful professional football coach in modern times, Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots.\n\nThe president seems to particularly enjoy the company of sport figures and revel in their achievements and prowess.\n\nSo for Belichick, a personal friend of the president's, to decline the award is a stinging rebuke.\n\nThe coach's decision reflects the depth of the political crisis president has created in the past week. It also highlights the troubled relationship Trump has had with the National Football League and its players, who he has disparaged for Black Lives Matter protests during the US national anthem.\n\nBelichick, a sometimes bristling, controversial figure with more than a few detractors, is used to public animosity. A coach can't win without the commitment of his players, however, and Belichick clearly believed his relationship with his team would be jeopardised by associating himself with Trump at this point.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of people have joined a march organised following claims a man died hours after being released by police in Cardiff.\n\nThe family of Mohamud Mohammed Hassan, 24, claim he was assaulted in custody.\n\nMore than 300 people took part in a march from the city centre to Cardiff Bay police station.\n\nSouth Wales Police said it found no evidence of excessive force. The police watchdog said initial tests showed Mr Hassan was not killed by any injuries.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said toxicology tests were now being carried out and it was awaiting the full post-mortem results.\n\nEarlier, First Minister Mark Drakeford said the reports of Mr Hassan's death were \"deeply concerning\".\n\nMr Hassan was arrested at his Roath home on Friday on suspicion of breach of the peace but released without charge on Saturday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Hassan's aunt Zainab Hassan told BBC Wales she had seen Mr Hassan within an hour of his release.\n\n\"He was released on Saturday morning with lots of wounds on his body and lots of bruises,\" she said.\n\n\"He didn't have these wounds when he was arrested and when he came out of Cardiff Bay police station, he had them.\"\n\nIn a virtual session of the Welsh Parliament on Monday, Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price said: \"Every effort should be made to seek the truth of what happened.\"\n\nHe said he wanted to know why Mr Hassan was arrested and what happened during his arrest.\n\nMr Hassan's aunt Zainab Hassan said she saw him after his release\n\n\"Why did this young man die?,\" he added.\n\nMr Price said any inquiry should not be prejudged, but asked if the first minister would \"help the family find those answers\".\n\nIn response, Mr Drakeford said reports of the story were \"deeply concerning\".\n\n\"Our thoughts must be with the family of a young man who was... a fit and healthy individual,\" the Cardiff West MS said.\n\nMark Drakeford said he was deeply concerned by the reports\n\nMr Drakeford, who said the death must be \"properly investigated\", said the first step in any inquiry would be to allow the IOPC to carry out their work, which he said he expected \"to be done rigorously and with full and visible independence\".\n\nHe added that if there were things the Welsh Government could do \"I will make sure that we attend properly to those\".\n\nProtesters on Tuesday afternoon chanted \"no justice, no peace\" and called for the police force to release CCTV of Mr Hassan's time in custody.\n\nProtesters on Tuesday afternoon marched from the city centre to Cardiff Bay\n\nIn a statement on Monday, South Wales Police said Mr Hassan was arrested at his home in Newport Road on Friday night and taken to Cardiff Bay police station.\n\nHe was released at 08:30 GMT on Saturday and officers returned to the property at about 22:30 following his death.\n\nIt added: \"As part of the South Wales Police investigation CCTV and body-worn video has already been, and will continue to be, examined.\n\n\"This will assist in establishing and understanding the events that took place.\n\n\"Early findings by the force indicate no misconduct issues and no excessive force.\"\n\nProtesters were heard chanting \"no justice, no peace\"\n\nCatrin Evans, the IOPC's director for Wales, said its investigation would focus on Mr Hassan's arrest, the journey in a police van to custody and his time at Cardiff Bay police station, including whether relevant assessments were made before he was released.\n\nShe said they would be \"urgently examining the extensive relevant CCTV footage and body-worn video\" and would be speaking to the officers involved as well as witnesses who saw his arrest on Friday evening and his movements the next day after leaving custody.\n\nShe added: \"I send my condolences to Mr Hassan's family and friends, and to everyone affected by his sad death.\n\n\"We are aware of concerns being expressed and questions being asked about use of force by police officers. We will look carefully at the level of force used during the interaction and I would urge people show patience while our inquiries, which will take some time, are made.\"\n\nMs Evans added: \"An interim report from a post-mortem examination is awaited.\n\n\"Preliminary indications are that there is no physical trauma injury to explain a cause of death, and toxicology tests are required.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A 78-year-old French woman received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in France\n\nA global race is on to vaccinate people against Covid-19 - and with infections soaring in Europe many have complained that the roll-out is too slow in the EU.\n\nMember states decide individually who to vaccinate, when and where, but the EU is coordinating strategy and buying vaccines in bulk. On Friday, the EU Commission agreed to buy an extra 300 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine - that would give the EU nearly half of the firm's global output for 2021.\n\nBBC reporters in seven European capitals explain how the vaccinations are going on their patch.\n\nIn an election year, the vaccine has become a political battleground, writes Jenny Hill, in Berlin.\n\nThe fact it was German scientists who developed the first effective Covid vaccine has been the source of great national pride. And, by and large, Germans appear to be reasonably comfortable with the idea of immunisation.\n\nA recent survey found 65% were prepared to have the vaccine. Other research indicates that less than a quarter of those surveyed would not. But politically - and perhaps unsurprisingly, given this is an election year - Germany's vaccination programme has become a battleground.\n\nVaccinations began here just under two weeks ago and prioritise the over 80s and care home workers. By Thursday evening, more than 477,000 first doses had been administered.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered.\n\nBut some of the hundreds of specially prepared vaccination centres are still not in use and even the government has admitted there simply isn't enough to go around. Angela Merkel and her health minister Jens Spahn have been accused of failing to secure enough doses.\n\nMuch of the criticism has come from Mrs Merkel's own coalition partners but some within the scientific community have echoed their concerns - that Germany put European interests above its own by insisting on a joint EU procurement process. The scientists who developed the vaccine have said publicly that the EU originally turned down an offer for a further order.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered and it's thought that by the end of the month a further 2.68 million will have followed.\n\nMr Spahn, whose assured performance through the pandemic led some to wonder whether he might be a potential successor to Mrs Merkel, has blamed the shortage on the inability of the manufacturers of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to meet global demand.\n\nGermany has now ordered an extra 30 million doses and, following the recent European approval of the Moderna vaccine, expects to start rolling that out next week. The government is sticking to its pledge that the vaccination programme will be complete by the end of the summer.\n\nThe Czech prime minister has hit out at apparent delays in distributing the vaccine, writes Rob Cameron, in Prague.\n\nThe Czech vaccination effort began on 27 December, when the prime minister, Andrej Babis, became the first person in the country to receive the jab. Mr Babis, who is 66, had previously questioned whether he would be eligible, as he'd had his spleen removed as a teenager.\n\nBut the country's programme has got off to a sluggish start. Mr Babis - a billionaire businessman who has been dogged by both European and Czech investigations into alleged misuse of EU funds - has lost no time venting his (figurative) spleen at the European Commission over the delay. \"We believed when we contributed €12m to the European fund in November that we'd receive the vaccine,\" he told a newspaper this week.\n\nThe health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups will take months.\n\nThe country has received 30,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. So far, it has managed to administer it to 19,918 people. The government says it is ready to roll out the jab en masse as soon as supplies arrive from the manufacturers.\n\nIt has also published a strategy, which envisages a three-stage process. The first will see targeted vaccination of high-risk groups. This will gradually give way to mass vaccination in 31 centres, using an online reservation system that will be open to all from 1 February. And the final stage will see the country's GPs deployed, hopefully to administer the Oxford-AstraZeneca and other jabs, which unlike the previous two can be stored and transported at fridge temperature.\n\nHowever, the timing in the original strategy document now appears optimistic. The health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups - all health and social care staff, teachers, everyone over 65, all those with serious health conditions - will take months. GPs may not begin vaccinating young, healthy members of society until late spring, or summer.\n\nA sluggish start is being blamed on bureaucracy and vaccine scepticism, writes Hugh Schofield, in Paris.\n\nFrance's boast of a big, effective state apparatus has been badly exposed by the sluggish start to the Covid vaccination programme. After the first week, when neighbouring Germany had inoculated around 250,000 people, France was on a mere 530. By Friday, the figure had gone up to 45,500 - still so small as to be statistically meaningless.\n\nSo why has it taken so long for France to put the plan into action? It is not as if the authorities did not have time to prepare. And it is certainly not a question of a lack of vaccine. In fact, more than a million Pfizer doses are already in cold storage, waiting to be used.\n\nPolls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab.\n\nThe primary reason for the delay seems to be the cumbersome, over-centralised nature of France's health bureaucracy. A 45-page dossier of instructions issued by the ministry in Paris had to be read and understood by staff at old people's homes.\n\nEach recipient then had to give informed consent in a consultation with a doctor, held no less than five days before injection. The lengthy procedure is in theory to save lives - those of patients who might have an adverse reaction. But as the critics have been arguing, delay in inoculating the population is also costing lives.\n\nAnother problem in France is the high level of scepticism towards vaccination - product of a more general suspicion of government. Polls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab. The effect - critics say - has been to make the government unduly cautious. When urgency was required, the authorities were reluctant to move fast for fear of galvanising the anti-vaxxers.\n\nAfter President Emmanuel Macron communicated his anger at the delays at the weekend, the pace is picking up. The procedure for consent is being simplified. By the end of January, the plan is to have 500-600 vaccination centres open across the country - either in hospitals or other big public buildings.\n\nPolitically a lot is at stake. The government has already come under fire for failings in providing masks and tests. With opposition voices calling the vaccine delay a \"state scandal\", President Macron needs a roll-out that is fast and problem-free.\n\nNational pride accelerated Russia's rollout, but one man is conspicuously absent from the list of people vaccinated, writes Sarah Rainsford, in Moscow.\n\nRussia registered its main Covid vaccine for domestic use way back in August, before mass safety and efficacy trials had even begun. In December, with those trials still underway, it began rolling out Sputnik V to the public ahead of mass vaccination launches everywhere else in Europe. The rush was driven by national pride as well as medical necessity.\n\nSputnik was initially offered to front line health and education workers but early take-up of the two-dose vaccination was slow and the list of those eligible soon expanded.\n\nA poll by the Levada Centre in late December showed only 38% of respondents were willing to get the jab: wary of domestic healthcare and medicines, Russians were sceptical of bold early claims made for the vaccine and nervous about possible adverse reactions. Even so, and despite similar delays scaling-up production as in other countries, Sputnik's backers announced this week that more than a million people had been vaccinated.\n\nRussia began rolling out its Sputnik V vaccine in December\n\nBut one man still conspicuously absent from the list of the vaccinated is Vladimir Putin, despite the Kremlin saying he will - eventually - get the jab. In the meantime, those who meet him in person are obliged to test for Covid first and even quarantine. The president may need to lead by example, though. Mr Putin has said repeatedly that protecting the economy is his priority so he's banking on mass vaccination to avoid a return to national lockdown.\n\nRussia has built giant, temporary hospitals since the start of the pandemic and the health minister said this week that 25% of Covid beds remain free. There's also been a fall in the number of new daily cases reported - around 25,000 for the past 5 days. But that's not down to the vaccine yet. The country is nearing the end of a 10-day New Year holiday period and the number of Covid tests has also dropped.\n\nAs infection rates grow in a country praised by many for its no-lockdown approach, a successful vaccine programme is crucial writes Maddy Savage, in Stockholm.\n\nAlmost two weeks since 91-year-old care home resident Gun-Britt Johnsson became the first Swede to get the initial dose of a Pfizer jab, there is still no official tally of how many others have received the vaccination.\n\nThe Public Health Agency of Sweden says it's in the process of compiling data from the country's 21 regional health authorities tasked with vaccinating the entire adult population - around eight million people - by 26 June. The date isn't arbitrary, it's the biggest public holiday weekend of the year, when Swedes traditionally hold Midsummer celebrations. Karin Tegmark, a senior manager at the agency, says the date remains \"feasible\". But she says it depends on the delivery of vaccines to the country.\n\nAfter months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled.\n\nAlongside 4.5 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Sweden has ordered 3.6 million jabs from Moderna, the first of which are expected to arrive next week. The country also plans to roll-out the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as soon as possible after it is approved by the EU - ideally by February.\n\nSwedes initially appeared lukewarm to the idea of taking a speedily-developed coronavirus vaccine, although a poll at the end of December found 71% would take one. A key driver of the initial scepticism is thought to be the failure of a voluntary mass vaccination programme for swine flu in 2009. Hundreds of Swedish children and young adults under 30 developed the sleeping disorder narcolepsy, which was found to be a side effect of the Pandemrix vaccine.\n\nA successful vaccination programme will be crucial, not least because it comes at a time when Swedish authorities are struggling to maintain public confidence. After months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled as Sweden has struggled with the second wave of coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile, several high profile officials have faced heavy criticism for breaching their own recommendations - including the head of the civil contingencies agency (pictured), who resigned after spending Christmas with his daughter in the Canary Islands.\n\nA new government in Belgium seems unified on the vaccine rollout - for now at least, writes Nick Beake, in Brussels.\n\nIt seemed fitting that the first person in Belgium to receive a Covid jab lives in the place where the world's first approved Covid vaccine is being produced. Jos Hermans, a 96-year-old from the municipality of Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December, in his care home. A further 700 elderly residents were also administered a dose in what was a small, initial trial.\n\nThe mass vaccination programme in Belgium began on 5 January, but has been criticised for starting slowly. Federal Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke had promised in November that the rollout would be \"seamless and fast\", tweeting: \"If that does not work, shoot me.\"\n\nThe first phase looks to vaccinate up to 200,000 nursing home residents by the end of this month, or early February. Healthcare professionals will be next in line and the aim was for the whole population to be inoculated by the end of September.\n\nJos Hermans, a 96-year-old from Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December\n\nYou may think the country would be at an advantage being the epicentre of the Pfizer-BioNTech production. While this clearly helps with distribution, Belgium cannot receive more doses - relative to its population - than other EU countries under strict Commission rules. That didn't stop the minister-president of the Flanders region, who admitted this week that he had contacted Pfizer directly in the hope of procuring more doses, only to be rebuffed.\n\nAfter getting a guarantee from Pfizer over supply of the jab, the federal Belgian authorities have adapted their strategy: they now propose giving as many available doses to as many people as they can - and no longer reserving vials for patients' second dose, given three weeks after the first. In general, the federal government, rather than the European Commission has faced any criticism for a delay and has defended its \"careful\" approach.\n\nAnd there appears to be an interesting regional or cultural discrepancy when it comes to whether people are willing to take the vaccine. Of the Flemish population interviewed in a poll, half have said they wanted the vaccine as soon as possible. Among French speakers - it was 20% fewer, which chimes with the deeper scepticism over the border in France.\n\nIn a country where politics are notoriously complicated and fractious - they've only recently agreed a government, after a 500-day vacuum - the Federal Coalition appears unified on its Covid vaccine strategy. For now, at least.\n\nRegional variances and political rows have marked the beginning of Spain's vaccination programme writes Guy Hedgecoe, in Madrid.\n\nSpain started administering the vaccine on 27 December. So far, 743,925 doses have been distributed to regional administrations, with 277,976 people vaccinated, according to the health ministry. The objective of the coalition government is to immunise 2.3 million people within 12 weeks. Priority is being given to elderly residents of care homes, those who look after them, and healthcare personnel.\n\nEach of the country's 17 regions has a high degree of control over healthcare and should receive the number of doses that corresponds to their populations. However, already there has been substantial geographical disparity.\n\nGovernment data showed, for example, that while the northern region of Asturias had used 55% of the doses it had received by 3 January, the Madrid region had only administered 5% by the same date. Some regions are holding back doses to administer a second follow-up jab to the same person in several weeks' time, and some have been vaccinating on national holidays while others have not.\n\nThe pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of incompetence.\n\nAlthough vaccination is voluntary, the government has said it is making a register of those who do not wish to be inoculated. That initiative has generated controversy, although the government has insisted the register will merely seek to clarify why people refuse the vaccination.\n\nHowever, the pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of Pedro Sánchez of incompetence, lack of transparency and using coronavirus to accumulate power.\n\nThe arrival of a vaccine has not stopped the rancour. Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the conservative Popular Party (PP) president of Galicia, warned the number of doses being distributed to each region was being dictated by \"political affiliations or parliamentary needs\", a claim the central government has rejected.", "The US has placed Cuba back on a list of state sponsors of terrorism, citing the communist country's backing of Venezuela.\n\nPresident Donald Trump's administration made the announcement just days before he leaves the White House.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden, who takes office on 20 January, has previously said he wants to improve US-Cuban relations.\n\nMr Biden has said he is seeking closer ties between the long-term adversaries but Mr Trump's decision is likely to hinder a quick repair of relations.\n\nCuba's place on the list will require a formal review that could take months, analysts say.\n\nThe Caribbean island was removed from the list by President Barack Obama in 2015, but Mr Trump has taken a harder line towards the country.\n\nIn 2016 Barack Obama became the first US president to visit Cuba since 1928\n\nWhen explaining the decision, officials cited Cuba's support of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro who the US refuses to recognise.\n\n\"With this action, we will once again hold Cuba's government accountable and send a clear message: the Castro regime must end its support for international terrorism and subversion of US justice,\" US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement on Monday.\n\nIn response, Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister Bruno Rodriguez tweeted: \"We condemn the cynical and hypocritical qualification of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, announced by the United States.\"\n\nIn advance of the announcement, House Democrat Gregory Meeks called it \"another stunt by President Trump and Pompeo, trying to tie the hands of the incoming Biden administration on their way out the door.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPresident Obama began to normalise relations with Cuba in 2015. He called the decades-long US efforts to isolate the country \"a failure\".\n\nSince the Cold War era, the US had pursued various policies to undermine Cuba which it saw as a great threat.\n\nCuba now rejoins countries including Iran and North Korea on the list of sponsors of terrorism. The impact on the island country include severe limits on foreign investment.", "Mr Williamson says his department is doing all it can to support remote learning\n\nAn extra 300,000 laptops and tablets have been bought to help disadvantaged children in England learn at home, says Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nMr Williamson said the devices would be delivered to schools.\n\nHe also pledged to publish a remote education framework to support schools and colleges with delivering lessons during the latest national lockdown.\n\nIt comes as research says children from poorer families are likely to struggle more with remote learning.\n\nThe Department for Education said its data showed that over 700,000 devices had been delivered to schools in England so far during the pandemic - 100,000 of which were delivered last week.\n\nThe department says the additional 300,000 laptops and tablets lifts government investment by another £100m, meaning over £400m will have been invested in supporting disadvantaged children who need help with access to technology during the pandemic.\n\nBut the department has faced mounting criticism over huge percentages of pupils not having access to digital devices, nine months into the pandemic.\n\nMr Williamson said the DfE was \"doing everything in our power to support schools with high-quality remote education\".\n\nHe said: \"These additional devices, on top of the 100,000 delivered last week, add to the significant support we are making available to help schools deliver high-quality online learning, as we know they have been doing.\"\n\nOn top of this, the remote education framework would support schools and colleges with delivering education for pupils who are learning from home, he said.\n\nThe frameworks, which are voluntary and should be adapted for schools' individual circumstances, will \"help them to identify the strengths and areas for improvement in the lessons and teaching they provide remotely\".\n\nBut Geoff Barton, head of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: \"While we welcome the extra laptops and tablets announced, it is pretty poor that nearly a year after this crisis began we are only now inching up to the number of devices that are needed.\n\n\"The reality is that this extra provision is coming when we are already well into the new lockdown and after a heavily disrupted autumn term in which many children had to self-isolate in line with coronavirus protocols,\" he said.\n\n\"The government was slow off the mark to address the digital divide early in the crisis and is now trying to make up for lost time.\"\n\nMr Williamson's laptop announcement comes as research by the University of Sussex found that nearly one in five less advantaged parents said they struggled with home-learning during the first lockdown.\n\nThe research surveyed 3,409 parents in the UK between 5 May until 31 July last year and found families of lower socioeconomic status were more likely to report their home environment made it harder for pupils to complete schoolwork from home.\n\nThe study says secondary school pupils eligible for free school meals (39%) were more likely to report that a lack of technology - such as laptops and computers - made learning from home more difficult, compared to 19% of pupils who are not eligible for free school meals.\n\nThere are concerns poorer children will fall further behind\n\nPrimary school pupils from struggling households were found to be more likely to find home learning learning harder than their more comfortable off peers due to the environment - such as noise levels (59% to 50%), lack of space (45% to 22%), lack of technology (45% to 26%) and lack of internet (35% to 16%).\n\nThe researchers warned that educational inequalities were likely to increase due to further school closures this year.\n\nLead researcher Dr Matthew Easterbrook said: \"These results show that school closures disproportionately disrupt the education of those who are most economically disadvantaged, suggesting that educational inequalities are likely to rise because of the pandemic.\n\n\"The results show that parents of pupils from disadvantaged families - those who are eligible for free school meals, who have lower levels of education, or who are financially struggling - are much more likely to report that learning from home is challenging.\"\n\nReport co-author Lewis Doyle, doctoral researcher at the University of Sussex, added: \"School closures, while clearly necessary during this public health crisis, risk entrenching inequality.\"\n\nOn Tuesday the government also published figures on how many pupils were physically in schools across England before the Christmas holidays.\n\nThe data shows 79% of pupils in state schools were in class on Wednesday16 December - down from 85% on Thursday 10 December.\n\nIn secondary schools, attendance fell from 80% to 72% on 16 December, while pupil attendance in primary schools fell from 89% to 86%, the figures show.\n\nBetween 9% and 11% of pupils - up to 872,000 children - did not attend school for Covid-19 related reasons on 16 December.", "Tesco, Asda and Waitrose have become the latest supermarkets to say they will deny entry to shoppers who do not wear face masks unless they are medically exempt.\n\nIt follows a similar move by Morrisons, while Sainsbury's says it will challenge those who flout the rules.\n\nRetailers have been criticised for not doing enough to stop people breaking Covid rules as infections spread.\n\nBut enforcement of face coverings is officially a police responsibility.\n\nHowever, supermarkets can deny entry to their premises which is private property, and can call the police if someone refuses to follow the rules or becomes abusive.\n\nSenior police figures have reportedly said there is little officers can do to enforce the rules in shops because they are so busy.\n\nBut policing minister Kit Malthouse said that they would offer \"backup if things go seriously wrong\".\n\n\"What we hope is that in the vast majority of cases the enforcement, or the reminders if you like, put in place by the store owners will be enough,\" he told BBC News.\n\nA Tesco spokeswoman said the supermarket chain had decided to strengthen its policies.\n\n\"To protect our customers and colleagues, we won't let anyone into our stores who is not wearing a face covering, unless they are exempt in line with government guidance,\" she said.\n\n\"We are also asking our customers to shop alone, unless they're a carer or with children. To support our colleagues, we will have additional security in stores to help manage this.\"\n\nAn Asda spokesman said if customers had forgotten their face coverings, it would continue to offer them one free of charge.\n\nBut he added: \"Should a customer refuse to wear a covering without a valid medical reason and be in any way challenging to our colleagues about doing so, our security colleagues will refuse their entry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nAndrew Murphy, executive director of operations at Waitrose, said: \"We've listened carefully to the clear change in tone and emphasis of the views and information shared by the UK's governments in recent days.\n\n\"By insisting on the wearing of face coverings, over and above the social distancing measures we already have in place, we aim to make our shops even safer for customers.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Sainsbury's told the BBC it did not have the power to deny entry to shoppers without masks. However, trials showed customers complied more when asked to wear masks by security guards at the door, it said.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Sainsbury's boss, Simon Roberts, said \"we are not going to ban customers\".\n\nBut he urged shoppers to wear a mask and shop alone.\n\n\"By doing that we will help keep everybody safe,\" he said.\n\nThe Co-op also said it would not ban shoppers without masks from entering, and instead urged customers to take responsibility for wearing a face covering when visiting its stores, as it was mandatory by law.\n\nBoss of Co-op Food Jo Whitfield said: \"We've increased our in-store messaging to remind customers and government guidance does state that the police can take measures if members of the public don't comply with this law.\"\n\nIceland said it would take a similar approach, adding the vast majority of its customers continued to shop in compliance with the law.\n\n\"In view of the rising tide of abuse and violence being directed at our store colleagues, we do not expect them to confront the small minority of customers who aggressively refuse to comply with the law,\" a spokesman added.\n\nIn England, the police can issue a £200 fine to someone breaking the face covering rules. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, a £60 fine can be imposed. Repeat offenders face bigger fines.", "Many hospitals are still under intense pressure with the increasing number of Covid patients arriving.\n\nDoctors say they are seeing more younger patients in their thirties and forties compared to the first wave.\n\nThe overall pattern of those at risk of becoming seriously ill or dying has not changed significantly and the older someone is, the greater their risk from Covid-19 - particularly those over the age of 65.\n\nThe BBC's Health Editor Hugh Pym was given access to film at Croydon University Hospital in South London.", "Morrisons will bar customers who refuse to wear face coverings from its shops amid rising coronavirus infections.\n\nFrom Monday, shoppers who refuse to wear face masks offered by staff will not be allowed inside, unless they are medically exempt.\n\nSainsbury's also said it would challenge those not wearing a mask or who were shopping in groups.\n\nThe announcements come amid concerns that social distancing measures are not being adhered to in supermarkets.\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said the government is \"concerned\" shops are not enforcing rules strictly enough.\n\n\"Ultimately, the most important thing to do now is to make sure that actually enforcement - and of course the compliance with the rules - when people are going into supermarkets are being adhered to,\" Mr Zahawi told Sky News.\n\n\"We need to make sure people actually wear masks and follow the one-way system,\" he said.\n\nMorrisons said it had \"introduced and consistently maintained thorough and robust safety measures in all our stores\" since the start of the pandemic.\n\nBut it said: \"From today we are further strengthening our policy on masks.\"\n\nSecurity guards at the UK's fourth-biggest supermarket chain will be enforcing the new rules.\n\nMorrisons' chief executive, David Potts, said: \"Those who are offered a face covering and decline to wear one won't be allowed to shop at Morrisons unless they are medically exempt.\n\n\"Our store colleagues are working hard to feed you and your family, please be kind.\"\n\nFollowing Morrisons' announcement, Sainsbury's said that it was also putting trained security guards at the front of its stores to challenge shoppers who did not comply.\n\nChief executive Simon Roberts said: \"I've spent a lot of time in our stores reviewing the latest situation over the last few days and on behalf of all my colleagues, I am asking our customers to help us keep everyone safe.\n\n\"The vast majority of customers are shopping safely, but I have also seen some customers trying to shop without a mask and shopping in larger family groups.\n\n\"Please help us to keep all our colleagues and customers safe by always wearing a mask and by shopping alone. Everyone's care and consideration matters now more than ever.\"\n\nEarlier on Monday, Mr Zahawi stopped short of saying that supermarket staff should be responsible for enforcing rules on face masks.\n\nEnforcement of face coverings is the responsibility of the police, not retailers. Wearing face masks in supermarkets and shops is compulsory across the UK.\n\nIn England, the police can issue a £200 fine to someone breaking the face covering rules. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, a £60 fine can be imposed. Repeat offenders face bigger fines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nHowever, retail industry body the British Retail Consortium said that, workers have faced an increase in incidents of violence and abuse when trying to encourage shoppers to put them on.\n\nAndrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the British Retail Consortium, added: \"Supermarkets continue to follow all safety guidance and customers should be reassured that supermarkets are Covid-secure and safe to visit during lockdown and beyond.\n\n\"Customers should play their part too by following in-store signage and being considerate to staff and fellow shoppers.\"\n\nUnder current lockdown restrictions across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, people must only leave home for essential reasons, such as buying food or medicine.\n\nIn a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus, supermarkets introduced social distancing measures during the UK's first nationwide lockdown last March. They included limits on the numbers of customers in the shops at any one time, protective plastic screens at tills and \"marshals\" to ensure shoppers were maintaining a two-metre distance.\n\nBut amid rising numbers of infections, some have expressed concerns about a \"lack of visible protections\" implemented by supermarkets in recent weeks.\n\nThe First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, said on Saturday that he wanted to see stores policed as they were during the first lockdown as people were worried the strict enforcement of rules did not \"appear to be there this time\".\n\n\"Given the fact the new variant is so much easier to catch... we are looking at supermarkets and other places where people leave their homes, to make sure they are organised in a way that keeps their staff and customers safe,\" he said.\n\nSupermarket Waitrose said that it was taking a \"cautious approach\" to the virus, with marshals checking that customers are wearing face coverings on the door, hand sanitiser stations at its entrances and written communications to shoppers reminding them to maintain their distance.\n\nTesco said it was limiting the number of customers in store and was also reminding customers to wear masks.\n\n\"We have clear signage explaining this, and we have packs of face coverings available for purchase near the front of our stores for any customers who have forgotten them.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Asda announced last week that it would extend its marshals' hours to 08:00 to 20:00 and increase how often baskets and trollies are cleaned.\n\nShop workers' union Usdaw has also called for firms to apply more stringent measures again.\n\nThe union's general secretary, Paddy Lillis, said that it had received reports that \"too many customers are not following necessary safety measures like social distancing, wearing a face covering and only shopping for essential items\".\n\n\"It is going to take some time to roll out the vaccine and we cannot afford to be complacent in the meantime, particularly with a new strain sweeping the nation,\" Mr Lillis said.\n\nThe trade union also suggested that \"'one-in one-out\" policies and proper queuing systems should be reintroduced in supermarkets.\n\nIt added that these systems should be managed by trained security staff where necessary.", "Parler has hit back after Amazon pulled support for its so-called \"free speech\" social network.\n\nParler is suing the tech giant, accusing it of breaking anti-trust laws by removing it.\n\nParler had been reliant on the tech giant's Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing service to provide its alternative to Twitter.\n\nThe platform was popular among supporters of Donald Trump, although the president is not a user.\n\nAmazon took the action after finding dozens of posts on the service that it said encouraged violence.\n\nIn response, the platform has asked a federal judge to order Amazon to reinstate it.\n\n\"AWS's decision to effectively terminate Parler's account is apparently motivated by political animus,\" the complaint reads.\n\n\"It is also apparently designed to reduce competition in the microblogging services market to the benefit of Twitter.\"\n\n\"There is no merit to these claims,\" it said.\n\n\"AWS provides technology and services to customers across the political spectrum, and we respect Parler's right to determine for itself what content it will allow. However, it is clear that there is significant content on Parler that encourages and incites violence against others, and that Parler is unable or unwilling to promptly identify and remove this content, which is a violation of our terms of service.\n\n\"We made our concerns known to Parler over a number of weeks and during that time we saw a significant increase in this type of dangerous content, not a decrease, which led to our suspension of their services Sunday evening.\"\n\nExamples Amazon had provided included posts calling for the killing of Democrats, Muslims, Black Lives Matter leaders, and mainstream media journalists.\n\nGoogle and Apple had already removed Parler from their app stores towards the end of last week saying it had failed to comply with their content-moderation requirements.\n\nHowever, it had still been accessible via the web - although visitors had complained of being unable to create new accounts over the weekend, without which it was not possible to view its content.\n\nParler has been online since 2018, and may return if it can find an alternative host.\n\nHowever, chief executive John Matze told Fox News on Sunday that \"every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers all ditched us too\".\n\n\"We're going to try our best to get back online as quickly as possible, but we're having a lot of trouble because every vendor we talk to says they won't work with us because if Apple doesn't approve and Google doesn't approve, they won't,\" he added.\n\nAWS's move is the latest in a series of actions affecting social media following the rioting on Capitol Hill last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Capitol riots: ‘We would have been murdered’\n\nFacebook and Twitter have also banned President Trump's accounts on their platforms, citing concerns that he might incite further violence.\n\nParler's users included the Republican Senator Ted Cruz, who had led an effort in the Senate to delay certifying Joe Biden's electoral college victory.\n\nHe had about five million followers on the platform - more than his tally on Twitter.\n\nParler's app now shows an error message and its website is offline\n\n\"Why should a handful of Silicon Valley billionaires have a monopoly on political speech?\" he tweeted over the weekend.\n\nParler's downfall appears to have benefited Gab - another \"free speech\" social network that is popular with far-right commentators.\n\nIt has claimed to have \"gained more users in the past two days than we did in our first two years of existing\".\n\nParler has long been a home for what you might call untouchables, people who had been excluded from mainstream services for offences such as blatant racism or incitement to violence.\n\nDuring a brief excursion onto the site over the weekend, I observed plenty of examples of such behaviour, with users exhibiting vile anti-Semitism, displaying Nazi symbols such as the swastika and uttering incoherent threats against those they perceive to be enemies of America.\n\nBut as Amazon's deadline approached something like panic took hold, with users desperately urging their followers to join them on other platforms.\n\nMost seemed to accept that Parler was doomed, while vowing to continue their fight elsewhere.\n\n\"Well this is the end,\" wrote one user, who proclaimed his support for the American Nazi Party.", "The disease is still spreading. There are more people in hospital with Covid-19 in the UK than at any other point in the pandemic.\n\nProf Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, hit the airwaves on Monday morning to tell us it's \"everyone's problem\".\n\nAnd a possible further increase in the numbers from those get-togethers that did take place over Christmas is yet to filter through.\n\nIt is cheering, and crucial, to see the elderly and vulnerable attending vaccine super-centres in huge numbers for their injections.\n\nBut there is no getting away from it: at this moment, the coronavirus situation seems pretty dire. And there is real concern in government that the public, this time round, is just not paying attention to the rules as closely as they did back in the spring.\n\nWhat is the government's answer? It is not, at least not yet, despite calls from the opposition, another big clampdown.\n\nIt might not feel like it, but it is only seven days since Boris Johnson took what used to be the rare step of making a national address, live on primetime TV, telling us, across the UK, once more to \"stay at home\".\n\nThere is hardly any political appetite to go even further.\n\nAs one senior minister said today: \"We have gone as far as we possibly can in terms of shutting things down\".\n\nThe prime minister was reluctant to go this far, only moving back to a lockdown in England when the evidence put forward by the government's top medics got worse, and worse and worse.\n\nThere are in fact even more limits that ministers, not just in Westminster but in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast too, could introduce.\n\nSchools could be forcibly closed to all pupils. Nurseries could shut.\n\nGovernment sources say the nurseries policy isn't going to change. Number 10 firmly denies they would ever take such a drastic step on schools which have always been open to key workers' children and it is hard to imagine that ever happening.\n\nIn extremis though there are measures that could be taken - in theory the government does not want to do any of this, but in practice there are other potential steps.\n\nBuilding sites could be made to lock their gates. Factories where machines are still whirring because they are operating under Covid guidelines could be made to pause.\n\nEngland, Scotland and Northern Ireland could follow Wales and ban people from seeing anyone they don't live with even outdoors.\n\nPlaygrounds, launderettes and chiropractors, could, along with many others on the list of premises allowed to stay open, have to shut up shop after all.\n\nBut while ministers have talked about squeezing the advice for takeaways to try to prevent big queues gathering at popular places, encouraged the supermarkets to make sure they are doing as much as they can to be safe, and even discussed the prospect of asking for masks to be worn outdoors, there is no expectation, at least at the start of this week, that a more extensive clampdown is coming from Westminster.\n\nAlthough, it's worth noting that the Scottish cabinet will discuss restrictions again on Tuesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On Monday Matt Hancock ruled out getting rid of support bubbles.\n\nOne reason for the reluctance to go much further is that every step that affects a business affects jobs and livelihoods too.\n\nThe chancellor told MPs on Monday that 800,000 people have lost their jobs since February, admitting the economy will get worse before it gets better.\n\nSo trying to preserve activity that can be done safely matters to the government too.\n\nThere's also a question in government circles about whether cranking up different rules bit by bit is really what would help.\n\nChris Whitty this morning bluntly suggested there was limited value in \"tinkering\" with the rules, and what is required instead is for all of us to realise how grave the situation really is.\n\nInstead of worrying about whether we are allowed to sit on a park bench at all, (and yes, this has been a lively conversation in Westminster today) , perhaps we should be asking ourselves whether we really need to be out at all.\n\nThe NHS has been under huge pressure dealing with a surge in Covid cases this winter.\n\nBut when what happens next will be in large part shaped by our behaviour as individuals, working out the dos and don'ts can get sticky fast.\n\nTwo women who hit the headlines for driving five miles to go for a snowy walk with a takeaway cuppa had their fines withdrawn today, just as the prime minister caused a stir when a newspaper revealed he'd gone seven miles to the other side of London for a cycle in the Olympic Park.\n\nYou might be a reader who feels, 'so what?'. In both cases they were exercising outside, within the law, so who cares?\n\nBut you might feel when the firm instruction is to stay at home, and stay local, that is pushing the rules.\n\nFor now though, with grimmer and grimmer medics' warnings ringing in our ears, and reminders about enforcement from the police coming too, ministers seem resolved to encourage the public to comply rather than crack down further.\n\nBut it is however, only a week since the lockdown the prime minister had so hoped to avoid returned. By now, it's not surprising, Boris Johnson would never quite rule anything out.\n\nP.S. In all the gloom, the cheerier news is that the vaccination programme across the UK is certainly getting going, with 2.3 million people having had their first jab.\n\nThe number of people getting vaccinated has been added to the list of statistics that the government publishes every day. The targets the government has set are tough, but the numbers so far, are growing fast.", "RAF Typhoons, similar to the aircraft pictured, took off from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire and escorted the civilian aircraft to London Stansted Airport\n\nA sonic boom has been heard across the East of England after RAF Typhoon aircraft were launched to intercept a plane that had lost communications.\n\nThe Typhoons took off from RAF Coningsby and \"safely escorted\" the civilian aircraft to Stansted Airport in Essex, an RAF spokesman said.\n\nThe boom, at about 13:05 GMT, was reported by people across social media.\n\n\"The Typhoon aircraft were authorised to transit at supersonic speed for operational reasons,\" the RAF said.\n\nPeople in Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire and parts of London heard the boom.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People's reaction to the sonic boom was caught on camera\n\n\"We have received numerous calls from the public with reports of a sonic boom... between Huntingdon and Cambridge,\" Cambridgeshire police said, in a Facebook post.\n\n\"Nobody has been injured. Some callers reported the incident had shaken properties but no major damage is thought to have occurred.\"\n\nAn image from a police officer's body-worn camera captured the RAF Typhoon aircraft flying over Cambridgeshire\n\nCommunications with the aircraft were re-established after the Typhoons were launched and it was intercepted before being escorted to Stansted.\n\nA spokesman for the airport said the \"private jet\" was believed to have been flying from Germany to Birmingham.\n\nHe confirmed the plane had been brought into land at about 13:40.\n\nWhen an aircraft approaches the speed of sound, the air in front of the nose of the plane builds up a pressure front because it has \"nowhere to escape\", said Dr Jim Wild of Lancaster University.\n\nA sonic boom happens when that air \"escapes\", creating a ripple effect which can be heard on the ground as a loud thunderclap.\n\nThe speed of sound varies. It is about 770mph (1,200km/h) at sea level, but slower at higher altitudes. A plane flying at 30,000ft would reach the speed of sound at about 675mph (1,085km/h), according to NASA's educational website.\n\nIt can be heard over such a large area because it moves with the plane, rather like the wake of a boat spreading out behind the vessel.\n\nRAF jets are only given permission to go supersonic over populated areas in emergencies, usually when they are required to intercept another aircraft.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLeicester City climbed to second in the Premier League as they won a keenly contested encounter with fellow top-four hopefuls Southampton at King Power Stadium.\n\nJames Maddison fired in from a tight angle after 37 minutes, the Foxes midfielder instructing his team-mates to stand back as he performed a socially distanced celebration, before Harvey Barnes added a second deep into second-half stoppage-time.\n\nVictory takes Leicester within one point of leaders Manchester United, who travel to third-placed Liverpool on Sunday, while Southampton are eighth, three points outside the top four.\n• None How Leicester followed guidance on celebrations - and others didn't\n• None Reaction to Leicester v Southampton, plus the rest of Saturday's Premier League action\n\nThe Saints dominated in the opening stages and created the first opening when Che Adams stretched the home defence on the counter-attack, while Leicester's Barnes' powerful drive forced Alex McCarthy into action with the game's first shot after 19 minutes.\n\nThe visitors, without talisman Danny Ings after the striker tested positive for Covid-19 last week, went close to a response through Ryan Bertrand and Will Smallbone either side of half-time but neither could find a way past Kasper Schmeichel.\n\nIn an entertaining conclusion, Stuart Armstrong rattled the Leicester crossbar with an excellent strike from the edge of the penalty area, while Jan Bednarek produced a superb goalline clearance to deny Barnes and the returning McCarthy saved from Jamie Vardy as both sides pushed for a late goal.\n\nIt took Leicester until the 95th minute to seal the three points, Barnes calmly slotting past McCarthy on the break.\n\nLeicester manager Brendan Rodgers challenged his side to \"disrupt the Premier League hierarchy\" after a 2-1 win over Newcastle in their last league outing maintained their top-four hopes.\n\nVictory in this stern test ensured they continue to do just that.\n\nEnjoying their longest unbeaten run of the season, their streak now at six matches in all competitions since defeat by Everton a month ago, Rodgers' side delivered an assured performance to remain firmly in contention at the top.\n\nDespite their lofty position as the halfway stage approaches, Leicester have struggled at home this campaign - their four defeats at King Power Stadium in 2020-21 is as many as they suffered in the entirety of last season.\n\nThough largely frustrated in the early exchanges as the visitors retained possession, Leicester's superior quality in attack eventually ensured that record was improved with Maddison turning sharply to meet Youri Tielemans' through-ball before drilling home.\n\nThe in-form Barnes once again impressed and eventually got the goal his performance deserved to equal his best season tally of 10 after just 24 games.\n\nUnlike last season's post-Christmas collapse, the Foxes are yet to show signs of falling away. Maddison - involved in six of Leicester's last 12 league goals - and Barnes are easing the pressure on Vardy to deliver every week and there appears the strength in depth to better maintain this challenge.\n\nThe only concern for Rodgers at the end of a pleasing night was the sight of Vardy appearing to limp off as he was replaced by Kelechi Iheanacho in the final minutes.\n\nWhen Southampton claimed victory in the corresponding fixture last January, the 2-1 win marked a remarkable short-term recovery from a club-record defeat by the Foxes less than three months earlier.\n\nOne year on, this match served as another reminder of how quickly the Saints are progressing under Ralph Hasenhuttl.\n\nThey were, however, unable to set a club top-flight record of seven consecutive away games without defeat in the absence of frontman Ings. That was despite their relative freshness, having not played for 12 days after their FA Cup tie against Shrewsbury Town was postponed last weekend because of a Covid-19 outbreak at the League One club.\n\nFollowing their impressive 1-0 victory over Liverpool on 4 January, a triumph which left Hasenhuttl with tears in his eyes, Southampton once again applied themselves with commendable determination but ultimately failed to produce in the final third.\n\nAdams ran out of space at the byeline after breaking clear from the halfway line in the game's first opening, and neither Bertrand nor Smallbone were able to place past Schmeichel as the equaliser their hard work perhaps deserved evaded them.\n\nAt the back, Bednarek produced the heroics to keep his side in the game and full-back Kyle Walker-Peters provided a regular outlet on the right, but Southampton, who named four teenagers on their bench because of an injury crisis, have now scored only once in five league games.\n\nThat is an obvious concern for Hasenhuttl as he looks to ensure his side do not fade after their promising start.\n\n'We took social distancing to the letter' - what the managers said\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers told BBC Sport: \"It's a very good win against a good team. We were too passive at the start, we took social distancing to the letter and didn't get close to them. After that we had some sustained attacks and ended up getting a brilliant goal.\n\n\"At half-time we had to reiterate the importance of fighting, you have to fight for every result and Southampton keep going. We were outstanding second half and should have scored more goals. We did the dirty work much better and Harvey Barnes showed again that he is a finisher now.\"\n\nOn Maddison's celebration: \"I said to them there is lots of negativity around it but see it as a positive and be creative. Supporters still want to see players celebrate, the happiness, so be creative with it.\"\n\nSouthampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl said: \"It's never nice to lose a game but we had chances. We hit the bar, we fought with everything we have. We are definitely a team that is never giving up. The quality of the opponent was better than ours today.\n\n\"The first goal, you don't shoot at goal like that every day, it was fantastic from Maddison. We had good chances but we couldn't finish and that was the difference.\n\n\"It doesn't look good at the moment, we have a lot of injuries and not many alternatives. The good news is we have 29 points and they don't take them away from us. We did our best with the options we have. We have nine injured but we are fighting for everything.\"\n• None Leicester earned their first home league victory against Southampton since April 2016, ending a run of four without a win against the Saints at King Power Stadium.\n• None Southampton's first 12 Premier League games in 2020-21 witnessed 41 goals (24 scored) at an average of 3.4 per game. Their past six games have seen just six goals (two scored).\n• None Jamie Vardy had seven shots for Leicester, his highest tally without scoring in a single Premier League match in his career.\n• None Vardy has faced Southampton seven times at home in the Premier League, more than any other side at King Power Stadium without scoring in the competition.\n• None James Maddison scored in consecutive Premier League games for Leicester for the first time since October 2019, matching his goal tally at home from each of the previous two campaigns (three).\n\nBoth sides return to action on Tuesday. Leicester host Chelsea in the Premier League at 20:15 GMT, while Southampton welcome Shrewsbury to St Mary's in their postponed FA Cup third-round tie (20:00).\n• None Goal! Leicester City 2, Southampton 0. Harvey Barnes (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Youri Tielemans following a fast break.\n• None Attempt missed. Stuart Armstrong (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right following a corner.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Marc Albrighton tries a through ball, but Ayoze Pérez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Wilfred Ndidi (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Marc Albrighton.\n• None Attempt saved. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by James Justin.\n• None Attempt missed. Daniel N'Lundulu (Southampton) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Kyle Walker-Peters with a cross.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Timothy Castagne tries a through ball, but Ayoze Pérez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ayoze Pérez with a cross.\n• None Marc Albrighton (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Stuart Armstrong. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Hear how David Bowie always managed to stay ahead of his time\n• None Joe Wicks and guests are here to bring positivity to your day", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health workers are the first in line to get Covid jabs\n\nA sanitation worker became the first Indian to receive a Covid vaccine as the country began the world's largest inoculation drive.\n\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi launched the programme, which aims to vaccinate more than 1.3 billion people against Covid.\n\nHe paid tribute to front-line workers who will be the first to receive jabs.\n\nIndia has recorded the second-highest number of Covid-19 infections in the world after the United States.\n\nMillions of doses of two approved vaccines - Covishield and Covaxin - were shipped across the country in the days leading up to the start of the drive.\n\n\"We are launching the world's biggest vaccination drive and it shows the world our capability,\" Mr Modi, said, addressing the country on Saturday morning.\n\nA sanitation worker is the first Indian to receive a Covid vaccine\n\nHe added that India was well prepared to vaccinate its population with the help of an app, which would help the government track the drive and ensure that nobody was left out.\n\nMr Modi spoke at length about doctors, nurses and other front-line workers \"who showed us the light\" in \"dark times\".\n\n\"They stayed away from their families to serve humanity. And hundreds of them never went home. They gave their life to save others. And that is why the first jabs are being given to healthcare workers - this is our way of paying respect to them.\"\n\nDoctors and medical staff at Delhi's Max hospital tell me a lot of hope is being pinned on the vaccination drive. One official described it \"as a new dawn\" and said \"it's the beginning of Covid's end\".\n\nInside the waiting room, there are posters on the wall with information about the documents one needs to bring, how safe the vaccine is, and the precautions that need to be taken even after one's been vaccinated. Among those being vaccinated on Saturday are doctors, nurses and front-office staff from all departments.\n\nThe names have been been chosen alphabetically so those getting jabs are mostly those with names starting with the letter A.\n\n\"The pandemic has played havoc in the country. I hope the vaccine will rid us of the fears and we will be able to breathe easy,\" Dr Anil Dass said after getting the jab.\n\nAshutosh Chaturvedi, a 31-year-old male nurse described as a \"Covid warrior\" by hospital officials, became the first recipient of the vaccine at Max.\n\n\"I'm fine, I feel good,\" he told reporters as he came down the hospital ramp, which has been decorated with blue, green and white balloons.\n\nSince April, he told me, he's worked in the emergency wing of the Covid ward, tending to those afflicted with the coronavirus.\n\n\"I haven't seen my wife and nine-month-old daughter since then. A month later, once I've received the second dose, I'll visit my family,\" he said.\n\nMr Modi also appealed to people to continue adhering to Covid-19 safety protocols like wearing masks and following social distancing. He said the country cannot afford to be complacent as vaccinating the entire population will take time.\n\nHe also urged people not to believe any \"propaganda and rumours about the safety of the vaccines\".\n\n\"I want to tell people that the approval to these vaccines was given only after scientists and experts were satisfied about its safety,\" he said.\n\nAn estimated 10 million health workers will be vaccinated in the first round, followed by policemen, soldiers, municipal and other front-line workers.\n\nHealth workers have been queuing up at vaccination centres for their turn\n\nNext in line will be people aged over 50 and anyone under 50 with serious underlying health conditions. India's electoral rolls, which contain details of some 900 million voters, will be used to identify eligible recipients.\n\nThe government plans to vaccinate 300 million people by early August. This will happen in state-run health care centres, schools, colleges, community halls, municipal offices and wedding halls.\n\nSeveral hospitals across India are giving the first doses of the vaccine.\n\nThe government plans to vaccinate 300 million people by early August\n\nDr Atul Peters was among those who got the jab at Max hospital.\n\n\"It's a very big day. I'm grateful to those who worked hard to make this a reality. I was very very happy when I got a call informing me that my name was on the list.\n\n\"We worked hard during the pandemic to save lives and we are also taking the jab first to dispel fears in people's minds that the vaccine is not safe,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMillions of vaccine doses have been shipped across India\n\nIndia's drug regulator has given the green light to two vaccines - Covishield (the local name for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine developed in the UK) and Covaxin, locally-made by pharma company Bharat Biotech.\n\nBut concerns have been raised over the efficacy of Covaxin because the regulator's emergency approval came before the completion of Phase 3 clinical trials. The regulator and the manufacturer have said the vaccine is safe, and that the efficacy data would be available by February.\n\nBoth vaccines will be given as two injections, 28 days apart, with the second dose being a booster. Immunity would begin to kick in after the first dose but reaches its full effect 14 days after the second dose.\n\nThe status of the vaccines and recipients will be electronically tracked in real time - some 8 million people who will receive the early jabs have been already registered. More than 600,000 people have been trained for the drive.\n\nThe jabs will be voluntary, and recipients will be given a certificate of vaccination after they complete both doses.\n\n\"I expect India's vaccination programme will be run much better than most countries because of the considerable government investment and early preparedness,\" Dr Gagandeep Kang, one of India's best-known vaccine experts, told the BBC.\n\nWith more than 10 million cases, India has recorded the second-highest number of Covid-19 infections in the world, after the US.\n\nThe largest vaccination drive in the country, however, begins at a time when infections have fallen sharply, and much of life has returned to normal. A limited availability of doses in the initial phase, therefore, is not likely to pose a problem.\n\nMost scientists feel India is primed for the challenge as it is a vaccine-making powerhouse and has run, for decades, a well-oiled immunisation programme for tens of millions of new-borns and mothers-to-be.\n\nBut the real challenges will begin when the general population starts receiving the jabs.\n\nIndia will use its formidable election machinery to deliver and track doses to recipients in far corners of the country. It is also likely to use digital platforms and apps to enable people to register for the doses.\n\nHowever, not every Indian owns a smart phone or knows how to operate an app, so it will be interesting to see what the government does to make sure that there are no inadvertent exclusions.\n\nVaccine hesitancy is the other concern.\n\nHealth activists Seema Pal and Rama Negi say they have been busting misinformation about the vaccine\n\nThe recent controversy over the hurried approval of Covaxin, many feel, could undermine confidence. There's a history of hesitancy about receiving the polio vaccine in parts of northern India, triggered by rumours about vaccines being impure and affecting fertility. Similar disinformation is now circulating about Covid vaccines on social networking apps, such as WhatsApp.\n\nThe government will need consistent, clear-eyed communication to bolster vaccine acceptance and community perception of the programme.\n\nVaccines come with side effects for some people. India has a 34-year-old surveillance programme for monitoring such \"adverse events\" following immunisation.\n\nBut researchers have found that benchmarks for reporting side effects still remain weak. A failure to transparently report adverse effects could easily lead to fear-mongering around vaccines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The number of reported incidents of children dying or being seriously harmed after suspected abuse or neglect rose by a quarter after England's first lockdown last year, figures indicate.\n\nThe Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel received 285 serious incident notifications from April to September.\n\nThis is an increase of 27% from 225 in the same period the previous year.\n\nThe data also includes children who were in care and died, regardless of whether abuse or neglect was suspected.\n\nThe Children's Society described the figures as \"shocking\".\n\nThe serious incident notification system requires councils in England to report all incidents of death or serious harm involving children in their area to the Department for Education, which publishes the data.\n\nThey are also required to inform the education secretary and Ofsted if a looked-after child dies, regardless of whether they suspect abuse or neglect.\n\nChild deaths increased from 89 to 119 and those seriously harmed rose from 132 with 153 compared with the same period in 2019, according to the data.\n\nThe number of serious incidents involving children under one increased by 30% as did the harm suffered by those aged 16 and over.\n\nThe majority (54%) of incidents related to boys, and almost two thirds related to white children.\n\nIn two-thirds of the 285 cases reported, the harm occurred while children were living at home.\n\nThe number of serious incident notifications had fallen in 2019-20 compared with 2018-19 when there were 274 such notifications.\n\nIryna Pona, policy manager at the Children's Society, said the increase in incidents last year happened at a time when Covid-19 was having a \"huge impact on the well-being of children and families and disrupted help available to those who needed it most\".\n\nEngland's first lockdown began at the end of March last year and ended on 4 July.\n\nMs Pona said: \"During the first lockdown many vulnerable children were stuck at home in difficult, sometimes dangerous situations, often isolated from friends and support networks.\n\n\"Sadly, children also continued to be targeted and groomed by people outside their families for sexual and criminal exploitation like county lines drug dealing operations, which can lead to serious violence or death.\n\n\"At the same time, they were often hidden from view of professionals like social workers and teachers who are best placed to spot the signs if they may be in danger.\"\n\nShe added that in the current lockdown it was \"vital\" that social care and schools work together closely to ensure all vulnerable children, including those in care, have regular contact with a trusted professional.\n\nA government spokeswoman said: \"Every single incident of this nature is a tragedy and we are working to understand the impact the pandemic may be having.\n\n\"Throughout the past months, we have prioritised the most vulnerable children and their families and put in place support to protect babies.\n\n\"We've maintained vital frontline services because we know it has been a challenge for many, especially for new parents, and we've invested thousands of pounds in charities working with vulnerable children and their families.\n\n\"Today we have launched a wholescale review of children's social care to reform the system and think afresh about how we support the most vulnerable. This data will provide important information to the care review to help address major challenges.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UK weather: Will it snow where you are?\n\nSnow and ice weather warnings are in place for much of England and Scotland after widespread recent snowfall.\n\nThe Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings across England and Scotland for Saturday and warned of possible travel disruption.\n\nParts of England and Scotland could see as much as 5-10cm of snow in higher areas, the weather service said.\n\nIt comes as hundreds of schools remain closed after heavy snow hit the north of England on Thursday.\n\nA snow warning is in place for south-east England, including London, the east of England and the East Midlands. The Met Office said East Anglia and parts of Kent and Sussex are most at risk of snow.\n\nSome 1-3 cm of snow may fall fairly widely over these areas, with 5-10 cm possible in places, mostly over parts of East Anglia and any higher ground.\n\nA snow and ice warning is in place for most of Scotland, north-west and north-east England, Yorkshire and Humber, the East Midlands and parts of the West Midlands.\n\nSnow is likely to fall to low levels over east Scotland and northern England.\n\nThe Met Office said 1-3 cm is possible at low levels in these areas but is more likely at higher elevations, where 5-10 cm of snow is possible above 200m - and even 20cm at the highest places.\n\nFog is also forecast for parts of the Midlands and the North, along with mist around Glasgow which may pose hazards for motorists.\n\nPolice forces in Yorkshire have urged people to stay at home unless their travel is essential\n\nTwo girls took their sledge to a golf course near Penicuik, Midlothian\n\nThe coronavirus vaccine rollout has been affected by the weather.\n\nOver-80s who were due to receive their jab at Newcastle's Centre for Life were told they could re-book rather than risk making a trip in the icy conditions.\n\nNewcastle Hospitals tweeted: \"There's enough vaccine for everyone, so don't worry about making a trip to Newcastle.\"\n\nAnd Leeds University has delayed the opening of its asymptomatic Covid-19 test centre.\n\nHeavy snowfall has already caused travel disruption across sections of northern England and Scotland.\n\nTemperatures were as low as -6C on Friday morning in parts of Yorkshire and Cumbria, with yellow warnings set to last through most of Friday.\n\nThere was a loss of gas supply to approximately 700 homes in the Hebden Bridge area after water got into the local gas network and froze.\n\nThe Met Office has published advice from the Department for Transport advising people to clear snow and ice from footpaths outside their homes, preferably in the morning.\n\n\"You can then cover the path with salt before nightfall to stop it refreezing overnight,\" the advice says.\n\nTemperatures in the Greater London area are expected to drop to 1C on Friday and parts of the South East could fall to -2C.\n\nIt comes after \"hazardous\" conditions on Thursday caused problems for the ambulance service in Yorkshire, which struggled to keep up with the high demand, while Covid vaccinations were also affected.\n\nMark Millins, of Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust, said the bad weather was having a \"severe impact\" on its operations and urged people to \"take extra care\" when out walking or driving.\n\nIn Scotland, heavy snow in some areas resulted in road closures.\n\nThe deepest snow on Thursday was in Bingley, West Yorkshire, and Strathallan in Perth, Scotland, both of which recorded 11cm.", "CBBC star Archie Lyndhurst, the son of Only Fools and Horses actor Nicholas Lyndhurst, died in his sleep from a brain haemorrhage, his mother has said.\n\nLucy Lyndhurst said a second post-mortem exam had revealed his death was caused by a condition called Acute Lymphoblastic Lymphoma/Leukaemia.\n\nShe described Archie as \"the most magical human being we have ever met\".\n\nThe 19-year-old's death on 22 September had had a \"catastrophic effect\" on their family, she wrote on Instagram.\n\nArchie with his father Nicholas and mother Lucy Smith in 2017\n\nLucy said she and husband Nicholas were assured by the doctor who explained the post-mortem results to them that there \"wasn't anything anyone could have done as Archie showed no signs of illness\". She said it was \"not leukaemia as we know it\" and that acute in medical terms meant \"rapid\".\n\nThe couple were \"utterly floored\" to think something like this could happen, she wrote, adding: \"It's very rare and around only 800 people a year die from it.\"\n\nShe said that just days earlier he had been celebrating his birthday with \"the love of his life Nethra\".\n\n\"Life is fragile, precious and sometimes incredibly cruel,\" Lucy wrote.\n\nShe also criticised some media outlets for attempting to garner information about how her son had died from the coroner, before they knew the results of the post mortem themselves.\n\n\"To have a coroner call you a few days after your child has died to say the press have been calling for the results of Archie's post mortem, I think stoops to an all time low for us,\" she noted.\n\n\"What gives the press the right to badger a coroner's office solely to find the cause of death before the parents? The complete lack of empathy is astounding. We released no information at the time as we had no idea what he had died from.\"\n\nNicholas appeared alongside his son in an episode of So Awkward in 2019\n\nArchie began his acting career at the Sylvia Young Theatre School at the age of 10 and was best known for playing Ollie Coulton in the CBBC comedy show So Awkward.\n\nHe appeared in the sitcom, which followed the lives of a group of friends in secondary school, from its first series in 2015.\n\nNicholas appeared alongside his son in a 2019 episode of the programme.\n\nArchie's other roles included recurring appearances as a younger incarnation of comedian Jack Whitehall in various TV programmes.\n\nThese included BBC Three sitcom Bad Education, in which he was seen as a younger version of Whitehall's Alfie Wickers character.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Irish hauliers have been bypassing ports in Wales because of Brexit, say industry leaders\n\nIrish hauliers are bypassing Welsh ports to avoid Brexit bureaucracy, industry leaders say.\n\nSo-called \"teething problems\" with new export rules are causing \"enormous strain on staff\", according to one haulage company.\n\nBut others warn of a longer-term shift by truck firms from using Holyhead, Fishguard and Pembroke Dock.\n\nGwynedd Shipping said it was operating at 65% normal volumes and the pressure of extra paperwork was challenging.\n\nAndrew Kinsella, the firm's managing director, said: \"It's an enormous strain on our staff in terms of processing bookings.\n\n\"We process around 400 or 500 bookings a week, the reality is we're operating at 65-70% of previous volumes.\n\n\"Whilst we see recovery in the number of clients and we're starting to get to a better pattern in terms of shipments I still think it's going to take several weeks for things to return to normal. Whether things return to pre-Christmas, pre-Brexit volumes remains to be seen.\"\n\nMr Kinsella thinks there will be long-term consequences for the ports.\n\nStena Line is among firms that have made changes to the routes its uses\n\n\"You can already see the shift in terms of the number of sailings,\" he said.\n\n\"I think you're seeing a shift away from Holyhead particularly in terms of weekend, off-peak traffic. I think longer term, the viability of all of these services will be something those ferry services will continue to scrutinise.\"\n\nThis week Stena Line moved its new ship to the route from Rosslare, in the Republic of Ireland, to Cherbourg, France.\n\nAccording to Irish public broadcaster RTÉ, a new weekend sailing from Dublin to Cherbourg will also begin on 23 January, resulting in a temporary reduction in weekend capacity on the Dublin to Holyhead route.\n\nIt also intends to sail the Belfast-to-Liverpool route.\n\n\"Due to the current Brexit-related shift for direct routes and increasing customer demand, Stena Line has decided to temporarily deploy the Stena Embla on Rosslare-Cherbourg,\" Stena Line said.\n\nAt Rosslare Europort, business is booming, says general manager Glenn Carr.\n\n\"We've seen unprecedented demand in the first two weeks of trading compared to last year,\" Mr Carr said.\n\n\"On our European routes there's a 500% increase in freight volume going through the port compared to last year.\"\n\nHe added that 18 months ago they would have had three sailings a week directly to mainland Europe from Rosslare Europort: \"Today we have 15.\"\n\nMr Carr says his customers want to bypass the UK because of Brexit.\n\n\"I think that's testament to demand, particularly from our exporters and importers, on the island of Ireland and the need to unfortunately bypass the UK because of Brexit to trade directly with the EU,\" he added.\n\nHe believes this change in operations will not be temporary.\n\nHe said decisions by ferry companies and businesses who trade with the EU to re-direct freight, have been made based on market analysis.\n\n\"The business case for the extra services out of Rosslare were not based on the first two weeks of this year,\" Mr Carr said.\n\n\"They were based on analysis of the market and conversations with our exporters and importers who were switching.\n\n\"So there is a genuine switch and we foresee services being maintained out of Rosslare.\"\n\nUK government ministers have played down concerns about the long term viability of Welsh ports.\n\nGiving evidence to the Welsh Affairs Select Committee this week, Wales Office Minister David TC Davies MP, said former haulage industry colleagues referred to the issues as \"teething problems\".\n\nSecretary of State for Wales Simon Hart MP, said: \"There is some evidence that things aren't looking necessarily, permanently bleak.\n\n\"It's one of those areas where we have to keep a very wary eye on it, but I think and hope that it is a temporary dip in the graph.\"\n\nBut transport expert Prof Stuart Cole, of the University of South Wales, thinks Brexit delays will be the incentive Irish companies needed to switch permanently to trading directly with the European mainland.\n\nProf Cole said the EU wanted to reduce congestion and pollution in parts of Europe.\n\nOne solution was to move freight by sea rather than road.\n\nThere have been problems with paperwork for drivers travelling to the European mainland\n\nUntil now there was no reason for Irish hauliers to move from using Welsh ports and Dover, Prof Cole said.\n\n\"The route worked perfectly, there was a predictable journey time and that's important for food and component parts going to factories,\" he said.\n\n\"That kind of change required a significant shift, and that's what's there now.\"\n\nBangor University economics lecturer, Dr Edward Thomas Jones, believes it is too soon to predict longer term changes.\n\n\"Because businesses stockpiled before Christmas in anticipation of Brexit, there is of course less use of the port [at Holyhead] since Brexit,\" he said.\n\n\"On top of that, coronavirus means there are fewer tourists going on holiday to Ireland.\n\n\"We'll have a better idea of the future of the port in six months when these businesses who have stockpiled start buying again.\n\n\"Hopefully, by the second half of the year coronavirus will have been resolved and tourists will once again be able to travel back and forth.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru warned if traffic continued to be diverted away from the UK then Wales would suffer.\n\n\"I urge the UK government to work with the Welsh Government to provide substantial investment into Welsh ports to secure their viability into the future,\" said MP Hywel Williams, Plaid's Cabinet Office spokesman.\n\n\"If the trend of rerouting traffic through direct routes continues, I fear that our local economies both in the north west and south west of Wales will suffer enormously.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The four main engines were fired in unison for the first time, but had to be shut down early\n\nA critical engine test for Nasa's new \"megarocket\" has ended early, but the agency denied it amounted to a failure.\n\nShortly before 22:30 GMT (17:30 EST) on Saturday, the four engines ignited, burning for more than a minute before the event was aborted.\n\nThe core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) was being evaluated at Stennis Space Center, in Mississippi.\n\nThe engines were supposed to fire for eight minutes to simulate the rocket's climb to orbit.\n\nThe SLS is part of Nasa's Artemis programme, which aims to put Americans back on the lunar surface in the 2020s.\n\nWhen it makes its maiden flight - possibly later this year - the SLS will become the most powerful rocket ever to have flown to space.\n\nTeams at Stennis are still poring over the data to find out what happened. John Honeycutt, SLS program manager at Nasa's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, said there were \"a lot of dynamics going on\" when the engine shut down.\n\nThe engines' power levels were being throttled down and up again; they were also being prepared to pivot - or gimbal. This movement allows the rocket to be steered during flight.\n\nThe RS-25 engines are the same type that powered the space shuttle orbiter\n\n\"We did see a little bit of a flash come from around the interface between the thermal protection blanket on engine four at the time when we had initiated the gimbal,\" Honeycutt told reporters at a post-test briefing at Stennis.\n\nThe as-yet unknown problem triggered what Nasa calls a failure identification (Fid), followed by a major component failure (MCF). As a result of the fault, an onboard computer known as the engine controller sent a message to another computer called the core stage controller, which took a decision to shut down the vehicle.\n\n\"Any parameter that went awry on the engine could have sent that failure ID,\" said John Honeycutt.\n\nIt was the first time all four RS-25 engines had been ignited together, in a test known as a \"hotfire\".\n\nThe core stage of the rocket was anchored to a massive steel structure called the B-2 test stand on the grounds of the Stennis facility.\n\nTo prepare the core stage, engineers filled its tanks with more than 700,000 gallons (2.6 million litres) of super-cold liquid hydrogen and oxygen propellant.\n\nThis was the eighth and final test in the Green Run, a programme of evaluation carried out by engineers from Nasa and Boeing - the rocket's prime contractor.\n\nAlthough the test was intended to run for eight minutes, engineers would have received all the data required to certify the rocket for flight after 250 seconds.\n\nThey wanted to iron out any problems before the core stage is used for the first SLS launch, in which it will send Nasa's next-generation Orion spacecraft on a loop around the Moon.\n\nNasa's outgoing administrator Jim Bridenstine declined to call Saturday's event a failure: \"This is why we test,\" he said, adding: \"Before we put American astronauts on American rockets, that's when we need it to be perfect.\"\n\nOfficials have not yet decided whether to re-run the hotfire, or proceed with shipping the core stage to Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida to prepare it for the rocket's uncrewed maiden flight, a mission called Artemis-1.\n\n\"It depends what the anomaly was and how challenging it's going to be to fix it,\" said Bridenstine.\n\nNasa administrator Jim Bridenstine said perfection wasn't a realistic expectation for the first engine test\n\nAsked whether a launch this year was still feasible, he added: \"I think it's too early to tell. As we figure out what went wrong, we're going to know what the future holds.\"\n\nHowever, if one or more of the engines needs to be replaced, there are spares waiting to be used at Stennis Space Center.\n\nThe Artemis-1 mission will evaluate how both the SLS and Orion capsule perform prior to Nasa staging a repeat of this lunar loop with astronauts in 2023.\n\nThis will be followed by the first landing on the Moon by humans since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.\n\nThe SLS consists of the 65m (212 ft) -long core stage with two smaller solid rocket boosters (SRBs) attached to the sides. Engineers at KSC have begun stacking the individual SRB segments for Artemis-1.\n\n\"This powerful rocket is going to put us in a position to be ready to support the agency and the country in deep space missions to the Moon and beyond,\" John Honeycutt said during a media briefing on Tuesday.\n\nArtwork: The initial version of the SLS - known as Block 1 - during the climb to orbit\n\nOfficials have been planning to ship the core stage to Florida in February.\n\nIts engines are of the same type that powered the spaceplane-like shuttle orbiter - America's crewed space vehicle for 30 years from 1981-2011.\n\nNasa is re-using flown hardware: the RS-25 engines used in this test helped launch 21 shuttle missions. Two were used on the last shuttle flight - STS-135 in 2011.\n\nThe four RS-25s can generate 1.6 million lbs (7 Meganewtons) of thrust - the force that propels a rocket through the air.\n\nWhen the solid rocket boosters are added to the core stage, the combined system will produce 8.8 million pounds (39.1 Meganewtons) of thrust. This will make it 15% more powerful than the giant Saturn V rocket that sent astronauts to the Moon in the 1960s and 70s.\n\nPrior to Saturday's test, John Shannon, vice president and SLS program manager at Boeing praised teams at Stennis for keeping the Green Run on track despite the pandemic and this year's particularly active hurricane season.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHomes have been evacuated as Storm Christoph batters Wales with a three-day rainstorm.\n\nNorth Wales Police were called to help some residents in Ruthin who were being told to leave their homes.\n\nThey tweeted that \"people who do not live locally are driving to the area to 'see the floods'\".\n\nA rain warning issued by the Met Office is in place until midday on Thursday, with an ice warning for parts of north and mid Wales.\n\nSouth Wales fire crews pumped out water from homes in Pontypridd and Porth, in Rhondda, and roads were blocked in Powys and Flintshire.\n\nVehicles were pulled from floods by firefighters in Tenby, Llandovery, Llandeilo and Whitland, Mid and West Wales fire service said.\n\nUp to 20cm (8in) of rain is expected to fall, with the heaviest rain forecast for the north west of Wales.\n\nThere were flood warnings in 58 areas as forecasters warned heavy rain and melting snow could affect roads. There were also 57 flood alerts - meaning flooding is possible.\n\nA yellow warning for ice was issued for the north and parts of mid Wales, starting at 01:00 on Thursday and lasting until 10:00, as rain clears.\n\nA minor landslip was reported on the mountainside above Pentre in Rhondda Cynon Taf. Natural Resources Wales, who have responsibility for the land, said there is no immediate threat after an initial inspection, but the council urged residents to keep away from the area.\n\nThe River Taf at Llanglydwen in Carmarthenshire\n\nFlood warnings are in Carmarthenshire - the River Towy and isolated properties between Llandeilo and Abergwili, the River Gwendraeth Fawr at Pontyates and Ponthenry, the River Hydfron at Llanddowror and the River Taf at Trevaughan in Whitland.\n\nThe other flood warnings cover the River Ely at Peterston-Super-Ely in Vale of Glamorgan, the River Vyrnwy in the Meifod area in Powys, the River Rhyd Hir at Riverside Terrace in Gwynedd, two for the River Wye at Glasbury and Builth Wells, the Lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows, the River Dyfi at Pont ar Dyfi, the River Usk from Brecon to Glangrwyne, two at the River Severn at Abermule to Fron and Aberbechan and the River Lower Clydach at Clydach Bridge, Swansea.\n\nIn River Aeron at Aberaeron, in Ceredigion, the River Loughor at Ammanford and Llandybie and the River Wye at Builth Wells, Powys, are also covered by the warning.\n\nA person had to be saved from a car stuck in floodwater in Corwen, Denbighshire, North East Wales Search and Rescue tweeted.\n\nRest centres have been opened in St Asaph and Ruthin after some localised flooding following heavy rainfall throughout the day. Denbighshire council invited affected residents to use the facilities at the towns' main leisure centres.\n\nAnd Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said crews were called to help a motorist whose vehicle had become stuck in 3ft of water in Machynlleth.\n\nThe waters lapped the doors of Ruthin's Ocean Pearl restaurant\n\nIn Broughton, Flintshire, Ray and Jacqui Littler said they and their daughter waited all afternoon for help at their flooded bungalow after emergency services told them they were \"flat out\".\n\nThey eventually decided to leave their home on Main Road, which was under 10 inches of water, to stay with friends.\n\nNeighbours blamed a blocked culvert on the fields opposite the road. Police closed the road at about 16:00 GMT and Flintshire council attended, after three houses were affected, with the gardens of two pensioners' bungalows also under water.\n\nOverflowing banks of the River Usk at Brecon\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had been called to two incidents overnight with reports of water entering properties in Pontycymmer in Bridgend and Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, it dealt with flooding at properties in Tyfica Road, Pontypridd, and Trebanog Road in Porth, Rhondda, where a crew was helping residents divert and pump out water.\n\nFirefighters also had to rescue 46 sheep from land surrounded by water at Merthyr Road, Llanfoist, Monmouthshire.\n\nCrews from Abergavenny and Ebbw Vale were called to help the stricken animals near the River Usk.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWater in the grounds of Gwydir Castle in Llanrwst\n\nJudy Corbett, owner of 16th Century Gwydir Castle in Llanrwst, Conwy, which flooded last year, told BBC Radio Wales things were \"looking pretty dire here this morning\".\n\nShe said: \"We've been obviously monitoring the levels overnight so we've had another sleepless night worrying about the weather but the levels are rising and the water is very violent this morning and of course, we've got another a whole day ahead of us.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Sabrina Lee This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSeveral roads have been hit by flooding, including the B5106 between Llanrwst and Trefriw\n\nThe Met Office warned spray and flooding could lead to \"difficult driving conditions and some road closures\" and the downpours could cause delays.\n\nTraffic Wales said restrictions were in place on the M48 Severn Bridge where traffic is coming off eastbound at junction two or westbound at junction one before being directed back on to cross the bridge, which remains open.\n\nIn Flintshire, the A548 Coast Road has been closed at Tan Lan and Mostyn, the A5118 at Padeswood, the A541 between Llong to Pontblyddyn, Bagillt High Street and the B5101 between Treuddyn and Llanfynydd.\n\nThe A485 in Garreg is also closed from the Brondaw Arms to Pont Aberglaslyn.\n\nThe Dyfi Bridge near Machynlleth is closed\n\nIn Powys, the A487 over the Dyfi Bridge, near Machynlleth, is closed while the A458 at Llanfair Caereinion is blocked in both directions from Bridge Street to Guilsfield turn-off because of flooding.\n\nThe A483 in Builth Wells at the station is also closed along with the bridge over the River Wye.\n\nCapel Bangor in Ceredigion has temporary traffic lights on the A44 at Lovesgrove Roundabout due to flooding, which is affecting traffic between Aberystwyth and Llangurig.\n\nIn Bridgend, New Inn Road has been closed in both directions at The Dipping Bridge, affecting traffic between Ewenny village and the A48.\n\nSouth Wales Police warned people not to attempt driving through floodwater after the A4118 at Llanddewi on Gower became blocked.\n\nIn Gwynedd, the council tweeted that Ffordd Siliwen, Bangor, had been closed following a landslip.\n\nA section of the A470 Dolgellau Bypass has also been closed along with the A4085 at Garreg.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNational Rail said some lines between North Llanrwst, Conwy, and Blaenau Ffestiniog in Gwynedd were blocked due to heavy rain while services were also disrupted between Shrewsbury and Machynlleth in Powys.\n\nAlterative road transport will run in place of cancelled services, it said.\n\nThe Met Office said 56mm (2.2in) of rain had fallen at Capel Curig in Snowdonia by 18:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nA yellow warning for rain is in place for virtually the whole of Wales until Thursday\n\nForecasters also said fast flowing and deep floodwater \"could cause a danger to life\".\n\nThe Met Office warned flooding could lead to some communities being cut off and possible power cuts.\n\nStrong winds will also follow the torrential rain, with forecasters predicting this may cause \"travelling difficulties across areas higher and more exposed routes\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Douglas Jones was fulfilling a lifelong dream when he became a pilot\n\nThe aviation industry has been among those hardest hit by the Covid pandemic.\n\nPilot Douglas Jones was working for Aegean Airlines, flying out of Athens, when it began.\n\nIt cost him his job and also prompted him to return to the small Scottish town where he grew up.\n\nNow he is now turning his hand to a very different line of work producing PPE, in a sector which is enjoying something of a boom.\n\nMr Jones saw much of Europe in his work with Easyjet and Aegean Airlines\n\nThe 27-year-old, who was born in Haywards Heath in Sussex but raised in Moffat in Dumfries and Galloway, was enjoying his dream job at the start of 2020.\n\nHaving gained a commercial pilot's licence, he was based in Berlin with Easyjet before landing a position in Greece.\n\n\"It is definitely what I have always wanted to do,\" he said.\n\n\"With Aegean I have flown a good way across all the major airports of Europe.\"\n\nHowever, life changed \"very quickly\" as coronavirus spread across the continent.\n\n\"I flew to Copenhagen and I flew back from Copenhagen and I was on unpaid leave when I landed back in Athens,\" he explained.\n\nFearing being stranded in Greece, he booked a flight home to Scotland and within a couple of weeks he received confirmation that his job was gone.\n\nMr Jones returned to Moffat amid fears of being stranded in Greece\n\nMr Jones said it took some time for him to fully appreciate that he would not be returning to the skies any time soon.\n\n\"Half of my stuff is still in Greece because we came back to our home countries thinking this will only be three to six months and that will be that,\" he said.\n\n\"We had just no concept of how bad this was ever going to be.\"\n\nIt meant he was back home in a region where he admits there are \"not a huge amount of options career-wise in normal times\".\n\n\"When you have been used to living in Berlin and Athens and you move back to Moffat, living with your dad, it is a bit of slowdown,\" he said.\n\n\"I was just desperate to do something, to have work.\"\n\nAlpha Solway is producing millions of masks for NHS Scotland\n\nIt was a relative of a friend who spotted south of Scotland firm Alpha Solway was hiring new workers to meet demand for personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nAfter interview, he was offered a job in June which proved to be something of a change of pace from day one.\n\n\"I came in and I sat and cut elastic for visors for most of the day - I think I cut like something like 3km worth of elastic because one of the machines had a fault,\" he said.\n\nSince then he has helped make filter units for masks, developed standard work procedures and become a \"jack of all trades\" for the business.\n\nMr Jones said of his abilities as a pilot were useful at the PPE factory\n\nHe said he had been \"surprised\" by what parts of his old job he could bring to his new post.\n\n\"A lot in commercial aviation is about awareness - situational awareness - and a lot of that can be built into manufacturing as well,\" he said.\n\n\"When you are talking health and safety around large automated machinery you have to be aware of what things are doing and when and who is doing what.\n\n\"As a pilot - as you might like to think - we have quite a logical way of looking at things. The way we are trained to look at problems is very applicable to manufacturing.\"\n\nAn \"incredible\" summer helped ease the transition from Greece to Moffat\n\nSo how has the transition back to rural Scotland gone?\n\n\"We are so lucky that the summer we had here was quite incredible,\" said Mr Jones.\n\n\"To be out in Moffat, even during lockdown, you can access the hills, you don't have to drive outside a five-mile radius.\n\n\"You can just go out and walk and you will never see a soul.\"\n\nSome things, however, take more getting used to, like his more conventional nine to five day.\n\n\"I think that has probably been the biggest shock to my system, getting into that working routine,\" he said.\n\nAlpha Solway is taking in large numbers of new staff to cope with demand\n\nAlpha Solway secured a major contract to supply the NHS in Scotland earlier this year which has helped to keep Mr Jones \"extremely busy\".\n\nHowever, flying gets \"into your blood\" and he hopes to get back into a plane at some time in the future.\n\n\"My goal is when the jobs start to come - which they will - I will return to the sky in some capacity,\" he said.\n\n\"But it will be a double-edged sword in that I have learned a huge amount here and I have met a lot of very good people.\n\n\"I'm working with a really good team of people here - there are good people here doing a good job and I am helping at least with that.\"", "Disabled workers at one of the UK's oldest charitable enterprises, Clarity, have allegedly been denied £200,000 in wages by the new owner.\n\nThe company produces toiletries and beauty products under the Clarity, Beco and Soap Co brands.\n\nActress Joanna Lumley and Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP have spoken out strongly over the claims.\n\nNicholas Marks, who bought the company last year, says all currently employed staff have been paid.\n\nCommunity, the union which represents Clarity's workers, claims that a number of disabled employees at the firm have not been paid wages and furlough payments.\n\nStephen Steppens says he has received no money since September\n\nStephen Steppens, 60, has been blind since birth, and has worked at Clarity since 1985. He is officially on furlough until his redundancy is completed at the end of January.\n\nHe says he has received no money since September and has been relying on his savings to get by.\n\n\"I loved it,\" he says of working there. Losing the job, and the fight over the organisation's future, have taken a toll on his mental health, he says.\n\n\"I want to see justice done, not just for me, but also for my friends who are visiting food banks.\"\n\nA number of employees have brought successful employment tribunal claims for unauthorised deduction of wages against Clarity, including Mr Steppens. Clarity was ordered to pay him £706. A number of other employment tribunal claims are ongoing, according to Community.\n\nJoanna Lumley, who had been a supporter of Clarity, called it \"the best of the best\" and said she was \"shocked\" to learn of the allegations over treatment of workers. \"Justice must be done as soon as possible,\" she told BBC News.\n\nClarity was founded in 1854 by a wealthy blind woman, Elizabeth Gilbert, as the Association for Promoting the General Welfare of the Blind, to provide opportunities for workers whom other employers overlooked because of their disabilities. Before the takeover, three-quarters of its staff were disabled people.\n\nA factory in London run by General Welfare of the Blind, about 1901\n\nIts supporters and patrons in the past have included Winston Churchill, Charles Dickens and Queen Victoria.\n\nClarity went into administration last year, as it was losing money and unable to fund the hole in its pension scheme, according to a spokesman for the administrators, FRP. In January, it was bought by Nicholas Marks.\n\nSir Iain Duncan Smith, whose London constituency is home to Clarity's headquarters, raised the issue in the House of Commons on 12 January.\n\n\"Staff have failed to receive national insurance contributions, with many failing to receive their wages or support while undertaking childcare,\" he told MPs.\n\n\"The total amount that these decent but very vulnerable people have failed to receive is now around £200,000. They cannot claim benefits because they are essentially employed.\"\n\nCommunity estimates that about 60 former employees of Clarity are still awaiting payment of their wages and furlough payments, most of them disabled workers.\n\nA spokesman for Nicholas Marks said that Sir Iain's remarks were \"highly inaccurate\" and the company \"does not recognise\" the £200,000 figure.\n\n\"The grievances echoed by Sir Iain Duncan Smith simply reflect disgruntled ex-employees. All employees currently working have been paid in full up-to-date and the company is dealing with redundancies and gross misconduct of former employees,\" he said.\n\nCommunity says it is not aware of any staff who have been dismissed for gross misconduct.\n\nThe spokesman for Mr Marks said that Mr Marks had \"saved this historic company from permanent failure\".\n\nHowever, other bids for Clarity were made, including one from the well-known social entrepreneur, Cemal Ezel, who runs the Change Please coffee business, which creates opportunities for homeless people.\n\nHe is still interested in buying the brands, he told BBC News.\n\nThough Mr Ezel's final bid was slightly higher, the administrators' report says they chose to sell to Mr Marks because he was in a better position to complete the deal by 31 January.\n\nMr Marks's spokesman said that he had to make \"some sensible commercial decisions to place it on to a proper business footing and regrettably some staff had to be let go\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Clarity's website was still running the Certified Social Enterprise mark, denoting an organisation devoted to \"creating positive social change\".\n\nThe spokesman said Clarity Products was not a social enterprise and was not \"purporting to clients\" that it was, though it retained the \"social enterprise ethos through the continued employment of fully paid disabled staff\".\n\nWrongly using the logo for nearly a year was \"simply an oversight\", and it is being removed. On Thursday morning, the website was unavailable - the company spokesman said he was not aware why.\n\nIn a response to Sir Iain's query, Treasury Minister Jesse Norman wrote that he had \"specifically asked HMRC to note the circumstances you describe, and to consider whether and how there may be a case for early intervention\".\n\nAnother company owned by Mr Marks, a Preston-based caravan maker called Lunar Automotive, was reported to HMRC by the local MP, Sir Mark Hendrick, for allegedly refusing to pay wages and pension contributions for its workers.\n\nThis company was also bought out of an administration run by FRP.\n\nMr Marks's spokesman was not able to comment in detail on the Lunar Automotive case, but said the company had not heard back from HMRC.", "The Daily Telegraph must publish a correction over a \"significantly misleading\" column written by Toby Young, press regulator Ipso has ruled.\n\nThe July 2020 article claimed the common cold could provide \"natural immunity\" to Covid-19 and London was \"probably approaching herd immunity\".\n\nBut on Thursday Ipso found the paper had \"failed to take care not to publish inaccurate and misleading information\".\n\nIpso said the paper \"did not accept it has breached the [Editors] Code\".\n\nIt said the newspaper said that Young's comments on immunity referred to \"cross-reactive T-cells\" that work to combat the virus.\n\nHowever, the media watchdog sided with the complainant, James Whitehead, in its decision, who said that while these cells \"may lessen the impact of Covid-19\" after infection, they \"would not confer 'natural immunity'\"\n\nThe ruling added Young's statement \"misrepresented the nature of immunity\".\n\nIpso also found Young's suggestion that \"London is probably approaching herd immunity, even though only 17% tested positive [for antibodies] in the most recent seroprevalence survey\" could be misleading.\n\nThere is an antibody response and a cellular response to the coronavirus\n\nThe Telegraph referred to surveys listed in an article on Young's own Lockdown Sceptics website in its defence, but the Ipso committee judged these did not accurately reflect \"how herd immunity is reached and whether it exists in London\".\n\nThe ruling concluded that the paper had breached accuracy standards on a topic of \"public importance\", but deemed a correction an appropriate sanction, given the level of \"significant scientific uncertainty\" at the time of publication.\n\nYoung told the BBC: \"I think Ipso has been put in a difficult position because our scientific understanding of the virus is constantly evolving and there is a great deal about it that scientists still disagree about.\n\n\"While some of the things I wrote in that article would be contested by some scientists, they would be confirmed by others... Have we achieved herd immunity in London? I think that's an open question and the 'case' data is unreliable because of the well-documented shortcomings of the PCR test.\n\n\"I may have been over-emphatic in putting the anti-lockdown case, but it's not as if the advocates of a pro-lockdown position are any less emphatic.\n\n\"Don't forget the WHO initially estimated the global IFR [infection fatality rate] of Covid-19 at 3.4%. The consensus now is that it's less than 1% and almost certainly a lot less. Lots of journalists faithfully reported that alarmist figure. Why hasn't Ipso reprimanded them?\"\n\nLast week Young told BBC Newsnight that some of his claims from an article he wrote in June had been \"wrong\", where he had said a second spike of Covid-19 had \"refused to materialise\" and that one-metre rule is \"unnecessary\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt the start of the year, Young, an associate editor at The Spectator and general secretary of the Free Speech Union, installed an app that auto-deletes tweets more than a week old.\n\nHe said he did so to protect against \"politically-motivated offence archaeologists\" - a move unrelated to the Ipso ruling.\n\nReacting to criticism of his past comments on coronavirus from Neil O'Brien, Conservative MP for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston, after the deletion, Young then tweeted a defence of his stance against lockdowns.\n\n\"This is an important public debate to have,\" he wrote, \"both because it helps us assess the present government's management of the pandemic and because it will help us prepare better for the next one.\"\n\nThe UK entered a second national lockdown last week in a bid to control spiralling virus infection rates. On Wednesday, the UK saw its biggest daily death figure since the start of the pandemic, with 1,564 deaths.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Police said Graeme Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass when he was stabbed\n\nPlastic surgeons have expressed shock at the stabbing of \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons\" in their profession.\n\nGraeme Perks, 65, was stabbed in his abdomen and chest during a break-in at his house in Halam, a village near Southwell in Nottinghamshire.\n\nPolice said the attack on Thursday morning had left him \"fighting for his life\" and left his family, who were upstairs at the time, \"extremely upset\".\n\nGraeme Perks has been described as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\"\n\nMr Perks previously served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS).\n\nCurrent president Ruth Waters said BAPRAS had been contacted by colleagues all around the world as news of the attack spread.\n\n\"All have expressed their shock at what has happened and also their deep concern for his wellbeing and their hope for his speedy recovery,\" she said.\n\n\"It has been my good fortune and honour to know Graeme for many years. I have benefited from his kindness, generosity and extensive knowledge throughout my career in plastic surgery.\"\n\nBAPRAS described him as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\".\n\nAs well as being a leading plastic surgeon, Mr Perks and his wife have raised thousands of pounds for charity by opening their garden to visitors. They were previously featured on BBC Radio Nottingham after raising more than £34,000.\n\nPolice were still outside the house in Halam more than 24 hours later\n\nPolice said Mr Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass at about 04:15 GMT, after an intruder is believed to have smashed his way into the house.\n\nThey said Mr Perks was stabbed and the suspect ran off.\n\nMr Perks was taken to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham for surgery, where he remains in a serious condition.\n\nDet Insp Gayle Hart, who is leading the investigation, said: \"The swift arrest of this suspect we hope will provide some reassurance to local residents.\n\n\"This is a horrific incident which has left a man fighting for his life and his family who were upstairs at the time are extremely shocked and upset by the ordeal.\"\n\nMr Perks has served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS)\n\nMr Perks has previously worked in London, Sheffield, Newcastle and Melbourne, Australia.\n\nHe returned to the UK in the mid-1990s and started working in Nottingham, with a special interest in microsurgical reconstruction after cancer surgery.\n\nHe later became head of the department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Burns Surgery at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.\n\nOutgoing BAPRAS president Mark Henley said: \"Graeme is an amazing colleague who it has been my pleasure and privilege to work with over the last 26 years.\n\n\"His dedication to patients, family and friends is an inspiration to us all and with his wisdom, kindness and humanity he has enabled us to achieve many things that I would never have thought possible. We are all willing him on.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The international community has missed previous deadlines on ensuring access to school\n\nBoris Johnson says it is his \"fervent belief\" that improving girls' education in developing countries is the best way to \"lift communities out of poverty\".\n\nThe prime minister has announced MP Helen Grant as a special envoy for efforts to support girls' education.\n\nIt is expected to be a key theme of the UK's presidency this year of the G7 group of major industrial countries.\n\n\"It can change the fortunes of not just individual women and girls, but communities and nations,\" says the PM.\n\nEven before the pandemic, millions of children in developing countries did not have any access to school - and girls from disadvantaged families are particularly vulnerable to missing out on education. whether through poverty or prejudice.\n\nThe Covid pandemic has created even more barriers to education, with a peak of 1.6 billion children around the world having faced school closures.\n\nBoris Johnson wants girls' education to be a focus of the UK's G7 presidency\n\nMr Johnson, as foreign secretary and prime minister, has previously highlighted girls' education as a key to improving the health, wealth and security of the poorest countries.\n\nHe once described it as the \"Swiss army knife\" of development, as getting girls to stay in education could avoid early marriage, improve their chances of getting a job and provide more income for children to be better fed.\n\nThe prime minister said the international target of ensuring all girls can have 12 years of good quality education would be the \"simplest and most transformative thing we can do\" to tackle poverty and to \"end the scourge of gender-based violence\".\n\n\"The benefits of educating girls are enormous - a child whose mother can read is 50% more likely to live past the age of five and twice as likely to attend school themselves. With just one additional school year, a woman's earnings can increase by up to a fifth,\" said Mr Johnson.\n\nHelen Grant, now the special envoy for girls' education, said: \"High quality female education empowers women, reduces poverty and unleashes economic growth.\n\n\"I will be making it my mission to encourage a more ambitious approach to girls' education from the international community.\"\n\nThere has been a series of pledges from the international community over the past three decades to provide at least a primary school education for all children - all of which have been missed.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said hosting the G7 should be a chance for the UK to act as a \"moral force for good in the world\", but accused the Conservatives of engaging in \"a decade of global retreat\".\n\n\"We need to seize this chance to lead again, just as Blair and Brown did over global poverty and the financial crisis.\"", "Everyone has heard about doctors and nurses catching Covid-19 but some of the worst affected hospital staff have been cleaners and porters. Dr John Wright of Bradford Royal Infirmary tells the story of a cleaner who became ill, and is now stricken with guilt for taking the virus home.\n\nThe first person I see early each morning when I arrive at the hospital is our cleaner, Karen Smith. During 10 months of uncertainty, Karen has been the one constant, apart from a few weeks in spring, when she was ill with Covid-19.\n\nUsually Karen cleans the offices of the hospital's Institute for Health Research, but in the first wave of the pandemic she was called to the Covid wards. It was a frightening time for everyone, but Karen volunteered for an extra shift on Good Friday as there was a staff shortage - and on that day she thinks she was infected.\n\nWe know that working in hospitals increases your risk of infection by a factor of three, but this risk is not evenly spread. Antibody tests carried out in many NHS hospitals over the summer showed it was not the ICU consultants or infectious \"red zone\" clinical staff who had the highest rate of infection, but porters and cleaners working in those areas. Their risk of infection was double that of their clinical colleagues.\n\nThis heightened risk for hospital staff also applies to their household contacts.\n\nAs she cleaned the hospital in April, Karen was scared not for herself, but for her family. She and her husband, Mal, had moved into a caravan in Mal's parents' garden, while his mother was ill with cancer - and they stayed on after she died, to support Mal's 80-year-old father, Malcolm. Mal, a hospital porter, was shielding because he has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and Malcolm senior was clearly vulnerable because of his age.\n\nStopping work, however, was not a luxury Karen could afford. And unlike some hospital staff who were housed in hotels to protect their families, she went back home every night.\n\nShe became ill towards the end of April, followed by Mal at the beginning of May. The weather was hot, she remembers, as they coughed and wheezed in the caravan.\n\n\"It was like being in a tin box,\" she says. \"I got Covid and couldn't get over it properly. And then Mal got it and his was on another level compared to mine - and then his dad got ill, and that was a different ball game altogether.\"\n\nProf John Wright, a doctor and epidemiologist, is head of the Bradford Institute for Health Research, and a veteran of cholera, HIV and Ebola epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa. He is writing this diary for BBC News and recording from the hospital wards for BBC Radio.\n\nThe couple had to go inside the house to cook and to use the bathroom but did their best to keep away from the elderly Malcolm, who would go into a different room whenever they entered.\n\n\"We tried so, so hard not to give it to him - but then he got ill and he just went to his bed. Honestly, he was just like a little child, under the quilt looking all bewildered. He started with the shivers and we rang 111. They said to bring him to Accident and Emergency to get him tested, and we couldn't believe it when it came back positive,\" Karen says.\n\nLater, he was brought into hospital. I have fond memories of meeting Malcolm on the ward after he was admitted, acutely struggling with symptoms of cough and shortness of breath from his Covid infection. He was a kind and gentle man, stoical and patient.\n\nHe was adamant that he had been careful to keep his distance from Karen and Mal in the house, but admitted wandering over to show them articles in the Telegraph and Argus - Bradford's daily newspaper - whenever I was mentioned in it. I felt strangely culpable that I might have been the cause of the transmission.\n\nMalcolm made a good recovery and was eager to be discharged. But Covid is an unpredictable illness, and it can happen that improvements in a patient's condition are followed by a sharp deterioration. And this is what happened with Malcolm soon after he arrived home.\n\n\"He didn't want to go back into hospital - he said to get him some Tunes because they would help him breathe,\" says Karen. \"But nothing could help him, he was so, so ill. We had to say to him, 'No, you've got Covid and you need proper medical care.' He was such a lovely man, bless him.\"\n\nMalcolm was readmitted after two nights at home and died on 28 May.\n\nMalcolm as he turned 80, visiting his brother in Canada\n\nKaren returned to work. But like many people who have had this illness, she has been suffering the after-effects, both physically and mentally. She's now on an inhaler for breathlessness, can barely taste anything seven months later, and is constantly tired. She is also receiving medication for anxiety because of the fear that she will have to return to the Covid wards, where potentially she could get ill again.\n\nAnd in her case there is the added pain of having lost a loved one, mixed with feelings of guilt.\n\n\"When I start to think about him the tears come and sometimes I'll be crying almost all day - cleaning and crying. If I'm having a bad day, I won't be able to talk,\" she says.\n\n\"The guilt is always there, as I'll never know for sure where he picked it up. Mal's dad didn't set foot out of the door, and so in my head I feel such guilt, because we had to go into the house, we didn't have any choice. I go over it all but it's hard to escape from, because I got it, Mal got it and then his Dad got it. Deep down I think that's what's happened, and it will take time to come to terms with.\"\n\nKaren has been referred for counselling, but there is a long waiting list.\n\nBoth Karen and Mal also had to wait for the vaccine, though both had it on Wednesday. This was a huge relief for Karen, as anything that reduces her chance of reinfection also helps her cope with her anxiety. If NHS trusts are serious about following the science then arguably they should be vaccinating cleaners and porters first.\n\nThe fear of transmitting the virus to our loved ones at home is the ghost that haunts all front-line staff. Many went into isolation during the first wave, but this was never a sustainable approach, and with a virus that is so contagious and an environment in which it is so prevalent, transmission to family members is unfortunately common.\n\nKaren and Mal personify this occupational risk, and its potential deadly impact.", "Doctors and nurses need protection from prosecution over Covid-19 treatment decisions made under the pressures of the pandemic, medical bodies have said.\n\nGroups including the British Medical Association have written to ministers saying medical workers fear they could be at risk of unlawful killing charges.\n\nIt comes as the UK's chief medical officers said the NHS could be overwhelmed in weeks.\n\nThe government said staff should not have to fear legal action.\n\nThe letter from the health organisations points out that the prime minister warned in November that the NHS being overwhelmed would be a \"medical and moral disaster\", where \"doctors and nurses could be forced to choose which patients to treat, who would live and who would die\".\n\nIt said: \"With the chief medical officers now determining that there is a material risk of the NHS being overwhelmed within weeks, our members are worried that not only do they face being put in this position but also that they could subsequently be vulnerable to a criminal investigation by the police.\"\n\nCo-ordinated by the Medical Protection Society (MPS), the letter was signed by the British Medical Association, the Doctors' Association UK, the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin and Medical Defence Shield.\n\nIt calls for emergency legislation to protect doctors and nurses from \"inappropriate\" legal action when dealing with circumstances outside their control.\n\nExisting guidance for doctors and nurses on when to administer or withdraw treatment does not give legal protection, the letter says.\n\nIt also says the guidance does not consider the circumstances of the pandemic where demand for healthcare may outstrip supply.\n\n\"The first concern of a doctor is their patients and providing the highest standard of care at all times,\" the medical bodies said.\n\n\"We do not believe it is right that healthcare professionals should suffer from the moral injury and long-term psychological damage that could result from having to make decisions on how limited resources are allocated, while at the same time being left vulnerable to the risk of prosecution for unlawful killing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nThe medical organisations said no healthcare professional should be \"above the law\" and that the emergency legislation should only apply to decisions made \"in good faith\" and \"in circumstances beyond their control and in compliance with relevant guidance\".\n\nThey said the change in the law should be temporary and should apply retrospectively from the start of the pandemic.\n\nMedical staff in the NHS are protected financially from clinical negligence claims by indemnity schemes where the state pays the costs of claims.\n\nBut if someone dies as a result of a lack of treatment, doctors and nurses fear prosecutors could bring charges such as gross negligence manslaughter, which can carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.\n\nEarlier this month, a survey by the MPS of 2,420 of its members found that 61% were concerned about facing an investigation following a decision made in a high-pressure situation.\n\nAbout 36% were concerned about being investigated for a decision to withdraw or withhold life-prolonging treatment due to pressure on resources during the pandemic.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: \"Dedicated frontline NHS staff should be able to focus on treating patients and saving lives during the pandemic without fear of legal action.\"\n\nNHS staff have been told that existing indemnity arrangements will continue and will cover \"the vast majority of liabilities\", the spokesman said.", "Scottish fishermen have resorted to sailing to Denmark to land their catch as Brexit red tape continues to delay exports, an industry body has said.\n\nThe Scottish Fishermen's Federation, which campaigned to leave the EU, also said the Brexit trade deal was the worst of both worlds for the industry.\n\nMany fishermen \"now fear for their future\", it said.\n\nThe UK government said the deal would \"bring immediate gains to our fishermen and women across the whole UK\".\n\nLate last year, the Scottish Fishermen's Federation (SFF) said it was \"deeply aggrieved\" by the Brexit deal.\n\nFishing firms have also warned of impending bankruptcy as delays continue at ports following the introduction of post-Brexit regulations.\n\nOn Friday, the SFF kept up the pressure on the UK government.\n\nIn a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, it said some fishermen \"are now making a 72-hour round trip to land fish in Denmark, as the only way to guarantee that their catch will make a fair price and actually find its way to market while still fresh enough to meet customer demands\".\n\nQuotas are used by many countries to manage shared fish stocks. They determine how many fish of each species each country's fleets are allowed to catch.\n\nThe SFF said that Brexit quota gains \"can hardly be claimed as a resounding success\" and that the Brexit deal \"actually leaves the Scottish industry in a worse position on more than half of the key stocks\".\n\n\"This industry now finds itself in the worst of both worlds,\" said SFF chief executive Elspeth Macdonald, accusing Prime Minister Boris Johnson of broken promises on quotas.\n\nThe \"desperately poor deal\" reached on quotas, under which the EU \"have full access to our waters\" means that the UK has \"no ability to leverage more fish from the EU\", she said.\n\n\"This, coupled with the chaos experienced since 1 January in getting fish to market, means that many in our industry now fear for their future, rather than look forward to it with optimism and ambition,\" Ms Macdonald added.\n\nThe Scottish National Party said the letter was \"an utterly devastating verdict on Brexit from Scotland's fishing industry\".\n\nAn SNP spokesperson said the Scottish fishing industry was \"right to be angry\" about the Brexit deal, which it said was costing Scotland's fishing communities millions of pounds.\n\nThe spokesman called on the prime minister to deliver \"a multi-billion pound package of Brexit compensation for Scotland\", adding: \"Communities across Scotland will never forgive the Tories for the damage they are doing to our country with their extreme Brexit obsession.\"\n\nA UK government spokesperson said the Prime Minister would respond to the SFF letter in due course.\n\nThe spokesperson said: \"We have now taken back control of our waters and the agreement we have reached with the EU secures a 25% transfer of quota from EU to UK vessels over five years, starting with 15% this year.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said the government was looking at providing additional financial support for the Scottish fishing industry, which it recognised was facing \"some temporary issues\".\n\n\"The Prime Minister has already committed to investing £100m in the UK's fishing industry and provided the Scottish government with nearly £200m to minimise disruption for businesses,\" the spokesperson added.", "Louis Godwin said receiving the vaccine was \"no trouble at all\" and encouraged others to have it as soon as they could\n\nSalisbury Cathedral has been transformed into a vaccination centre with an RAF veteran being one of the first to receive the Covid-19 jab.\n\nFormer Flight Sergeant Louis Godwin, 95, gave a thumbs-up after being vaccinated in the cathedral, which dates back more than 800 years.\n\n\"I was so pleased to get it, especially in a setting like this,\" he said.\n\nOrganisers were aiming to vaccinate 1,000 people aged over 80 with the Pfizer/BioNTech jab on Saturday.\n\nPeople queuing to receive their vaccines at Salisbury Cathedral on Saturday\n\nMr Godwin, a great-grandfather of 12, joined the RAF aged 18 in 1943 and served as an air gunner during World War Two.\n\n\"I've had many jabs in my time, especially in the RAF. After the war, I was sent to Egypt and I had a couple of jabs which knocked me over for a week,\" he said.\n\n\"This one, the doctor said to me 'well that's done' and I thought he hadn't started. So it's no trouble at all and no pain.\"\n\nA health worker prepares the vaccine to be administered at the cathedral\n\nStella Bennett, 88, said she felt \"safer\" after receiving the jab.\n\n\"It was easy. I live on my own so it has been hard but I've managed. At least I'm at home and not in hospital with it,\" she said.\n\nDerek Burnett was also among those inoculated against the virus on Saturday.\n\n\"I feel unbelievably relieved as lockdown has been a big strain. It takes a big weight off my mind,\" said the 81-year-old.\n\nOrganisers hoped to vaccinate 1,000 people aged over 80 during the day\n\nThe Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury described the vaccines as \"a real sign of hope for us at the end of this very, very difficult year\".\n\n\"I doubt that anyone is having a jab in surroundings that are more beautiful than this so I hope it will ease people as they come into the building,\" he said.\n\nThe Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury, described hosting the event as \"absolutely wonderful\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Parts of the UK were blanketed in snow on Saturday as forecasters warned of the potential for disruption.\n\nEast Anglia woke up to a thick layer that had settled overnight and there were warnings that rural communities could be \"cut off\", with up to 8cm (3in) of snow forecast.\n\nPeople in eastern England were warned to expect power cuts and travel delays.\n\nHowever, by midday snow had stopped falling across most parts of the UK, replaced by rain and sleet in places.\n\nSome further light snow is still expected in the hills and mountains of Scotland.\n\nParts of Wales and Northern Ireland were mostly cloudy, with some bands of rain in the northern regions.\n\nThe Met Office had predicted between 4-8cm (1.5-3in) of snow could fall in the worst-affected regions, and warned drivers to accelerate their cars \"gently\" and leave a large gap between surrounding vehicles.\n\nBut the worst of the wintry weather has passed and earlier amber and yellow weather warnings have been cancelled.\n\nA man trekking through the snow at a golf course in Gleneagles\n\nGreg Dewhurst, a Met Office forecaster, said earlier that Saturday was expected to be the colder of the two days over the weekend.\n\nHe said: \"Temperatures are unlikely to rise above 10C, with a lot of areas closer to freezing.\"\n\nThere were also 25 flood warnings across England on Saturday\n\nLuke Miall, meteorologist at the Met Office, said earlier patches of snow could reach parts of Greater London.\n\nHe said the snow had the potential to cause some \"fairly significant disruption\".\n\nThere were also 22 flood warnings across England on Saturday, stretching from the South East to the North East, meaning \"immediate action is required\", according to the Environment Agency.\n\nThis is expected to clear up in the evening, going into Sunday, when southern and eastern parts of the UK will see dry, sunny spells.\n\nNorth-western regions are expected to see showers, with a \"spell of more persistent rain\" later on in the day.\n\nThe coronavirus vaccine rollout has been affected by the weather.\n\nOn Friday, over-80s who were due to receive their jab at Newcastle's Centre for Life were told they could rebook rather than risk making a trip in the icy conditions.\n\nAnd Leeds University has delayed the opening of its asymptomatic Covid-19 test centre.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prime Minister Boris Johnson: \"We will temporarily close all travel corridors from 0400 on Monday\"\n\nThe UK is to close all travel corridors from Monday morning to \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid, the PM has said.\n\nAnyone flying into the country from overseas will have to show proof of a negative Covid test before setting off.\n\nIt comes as a ban on travellers from South America and Portugal came into force on Friday over concerns about a new variant identified in Brazil.\n\nBoris Johnson said the new rules would be in place until at least 15 February.\n\nA further 1,280 people with coronavirus have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive test, taking the total to 87,291.\n\nThe latest government figures on Friday also showed another 55,761 new cases had been reported - up from 48,682 the previous day.\n\nMeanwhile, more than two million people around the world have now died with the virus since the pandemic began, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street press conference, the prime minister said it was \"vital\" to take extra measures now \"when day by day we are making such strides in protecting the population\".\n\n\"It's precisely because we have the hope of that vaccine and the risk of new strains coming from overseas that we must take additional steps now to stop those strains from entering the country.\"\n\nAll travel corridors will close from 04:00 GMT on Monday. After that, arrivals to the UK will need to quarantine for up to 10 days, unless they test negative after five days.\n\nMr Johnson, who said the rules would apply across the UK after talks with the devolved administrations, added that the government would be stepping up enforcement at the border and in the country.\n\nTravel corridors were introduced in the summer to allow people travelling from some countries with low numbers of Covid cases to come to the UK without having to quarantine on arrival.\n\nTrade body Airlines UK said it supported the latest restrictions \"on the assumption\" that the government would remove them \"when it is safe to do so\".\n\nChief executive Tim Alderslade said travel corridors were \"a lifeline for the industry\" last summer but \"things change and there's no doubting this is a serious health emergency\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was the \"right step\" but called the timing of the decision \"slow again\", adding that the public would be thinking \"why on earth didn't this happen before\".\n\nThe prime minister warned that the NHS was facing \"extraordinary pressures\", having had the highest number of hospital admissions on a single day of the pandemic earlier this week.\n\nHe said that came on Tuesday when there were 4,134 new admissions, while the UK currently has more than 37,000 Covid patients in hospitals.\n\nMr Johnson said that once the most vulnerable have been vaccinated by mid-February \"we will think about what steps we could take to lift the restrictions\".\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAlso speaking at the No 10 briefing, England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said the restrictions would need to be lifted gradually by \"testing what works, and then if that works going the next step\".\n\nHe said the peak of people entering hospital would be in the next week to 10 days for most places, but \"we hope\" the peak of infections \"already has happened\" in the south-east, east and London.\n\n\"The peak of deaths I fear is in the future, the peak of hospitalisations in some parts of the country may be around about now and beginning to come off the very, very top,\" he said.\n\nA ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde entering the UK came into force on Friday morning as a result of a new, potentially more infectious variant of coronavirus linked to Brazil.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the press briefing that some of the new variants may be able to \"get round\" the Covid vaccines but it was \"really quite easy\" to adjust the vaccines to deal with mutations in the virus.\n\nNew variants causing concern have previously been identified in the UK and South Africa, with many countries imposing restrictions on arrivals from both nations.\n\nPublic Health England said a total of 35 genomically confirmed and 12 genomically probable cases of the Covid-19 variant which originated in South Africa have been identified in the UK as of 14 January.\n\nEarlier, a leading scientist said one of the two variants first detected in Brazil had been found in the UK - but not the variant that was causing concern.\n\n\"I think it is likely that the vaccine we have now is going to protect against the UK variant and is going to provide protection I suspect against the other variants as well,\" said Sir Patrick. \"The question is to what degree.\"\n\nLatest figures show that more than three million people in the UK have now received the first dose of a vaccine - 3,234,946 - an increase of 316,694 from the previous day.\n\nSir Patrick said he expected the vaccines would reduce transmission of the virus but that \"we shouldn't go mad\" as jabs are rolled out because a risk would remain.\n\n\"Just because you've been vaccinated doesn't mean you can't catch this and pass it on, it means you're protected against severe disease,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest estimate of the UK's R number - which is the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to on average - is 1.2 to 1.3, compared with 1-1.4 last week.\n\nBut in London, where tight restrictions came in earlier, the R number is lower - between 0.9 and 1.2.\n\nIn Wales, new laws for shoppers and staff are to be introduced after \"significant evidence\" coronavirus is being spread in supermarkets.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from overseas? Share your experiences. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The French government has imposed a nationwide curfew from 6pm - 6am to fight the surge in cases of coronavirus.\n\nWhile some departments were already under these restrictions, the majority of France was under an 8pm - 6am curfew.\n\nFrench Prime Minister Jean Castex said the measures would be in place for at least 15 days.", "Northern Ireland's statistics agency has recorded its highest weekly Covid-19 related registered deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nNisra said 145 deaths were registered in the first week of 2021, although administrative delays over Christmas may have affected the number.\n\nThat brings the agency's death toll to 1,976 by 8 January.\n\nThe figures come as the chief medical officers from NI and the Republic issued a joint stay-at-home plea.\n\nDr Michael McBride and Dr Tony Holohan said they were \"gravely concerned\" about the \"unsustainably high level of Covid-19 infection\" across the island of Ireland.\n\nConcern was raised in the Republic of Ireland this week as figures showed it has the world's highest number of confirmed new Covid-19 cases per million people.\n\nOn Friday evening, the Irish Department of Health reported 50 further deaths with Covid-19 and 3,498 new cases of the virus. More than half (54%) of those newly diagnosed are under the age of 45.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nOf the 2,019 deaths recorded by Nisra by 8 January, 1,247 (62%) occurred in hospital, 622 (31%) in care homes, 12 (0.6%) in hospices and 138 (7%) at residential addresses or other locations.\n\nPeople aged 75 and over account for just over three-quarters of all Covid-19 related registered deaths (77.6%) between 19 March 2020 and 8 January 2021.\n\nJust over a fifth (22.2%) of all Covid-19 related registered deaths have been of people with an address in the Belfast council area.\n\nMeanwhile, the Department of Health reported 26 further Covid-related deaths on Friday.\n\nFive of these deaths did not occur in the past 24 hours.\n\nThe Department of Health bases its figures on a positive test result being recorded, whereas Nisra figures are based on mentions of the virus on death certificates, so people may or may not have been confirmed to have contracted the virus prior to death.\n\nA further 1,052 individuals have tested positive for Covid-19 and 63 patients are being treated in intensive care units, 47 of whom are on ventilators.\n\nThe chief medical officers warned the high infection rate was having a \"significant impact\" on the health of the population and the \"safe functioning\" of the healthcare systems.\n\nThey said the public should avoid all unnecessary journeys, including cross-border travel.\n\nPointing out that many of the patients admitted to hospital in January have been younger than 65, they warned coronavirus could affect anyone, \"regardless of age or underlying condition\".\n\n\"It highlights the need for us all to protect one another by staying at home,\" said the medical officers.\n\nNorthern Ireland's spike in infections has been put down to an easing of restrictions over Christmas.\n\nAsked if he regretted being part of the decision to ease restrictions, Health Minister Robin Swann said the executive had tried to be balanced in its approach.\n\n\"I regret the pressures we see now in our hospitals, but let's remember it's caused by this virus, we have it in our power to bring it back under control and get us back to where we were in the summer,\" he told BBC News NI on Friday.\n\nMr Swann pleaded with people to follow the current restrictions.\n\n\"We're in the middle of a very tough six-week scenario, and how we come out of this will be a more graduated approach to make sure we get the benefits of what we've already done, and also the benefits of the vaccine.\"", "Holiday firms say they are expecting more people to take holidays in the UK this year\n\nStaycations are expected to boom in 2021 after lockdown ends, UK holiday firms have said.\n\nBosses at the Caravan and Motorhome Club said the lifting of restrictions would be like \"a cork popping from a bottle\".\n\nDirector general Nick Lomas said although coronavirus had hit the industry hard, they were optimistic about the coming season.\n\nOther firms said they also expected more people to holiday in the UK.\n\nMr Lomas said: \"2020 was a very difficult year for the tourism and hospitality sector.\"\n\nThe West Sussex-based Caravan and Motorhome Club had suffered \"significant financial losses\", he said.\n\nHowever, he added: \"When our campsites were allowed to be open last year we actually saw record levels of bookings, with new memberships up by 14%.\n\n\"Sadly, this surge does not make up for the losses we suffered during nearly six months of lockdown.\"\n\nDuring the first lockdown popular resorts like Skegness were largely deserted\n\nBut, despite the current restrictions, Mr Lomas said he had every reason to believe this year could finish as one of \"the best and busiest yet\", due to the appetite for outdoor UK holidays.\n\n\"In fact, we think that 2021 is going to be like a cork popping from a bottle,\" he said.\n\nOperators say people are keen to experience the \"great outdoors\" once restrictions are lifted\n\nExperience Freedom, which operates glamping holidays in the UK, said bookings for 2021 were already up as people looked to spend more time in the \"great outdoors\".\n\nLincoln-based Anne's Vans said they were expecting a \"bumper year\"\n\nSmaller operators such as Anne's Vans, based in Lincoln, are also expecting to benefit.\n\nOwner Anne Davies said so far they had no bookings, saying \"uncertainty over when lockdown will end\" was putting people off at the moment.\n\nHowever, she said: \"Based on last year's experience we are expecting a bumper year in 2021... once this latest lockdown is over.\"\n\nThe Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority said it was inundated with visitors after restrictions were lifted last year\n\nThe chief executive of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority, David Butterworth, said visitor numbers after the first lockdown ended were \"unprecedented\".\n\n\"The challenge for 2021 is to capitalise on this trend, and capture the hearts and minds of the people who have experienced the Dales for the first time to make sure they keep coming back,\" he added.", "Boris Johnson has said there is still a very substantial risk of intensive care units in hospitals being overwhelmed by the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes on a day when the UK has recorded the highest number of deaths in a single day in Europe.\n\nFergal Keane last visited the Imperial Healthcare Trust’s St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospital in London last April.\n\nHe's been back to see how they're coping.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Saturday morning. We'll have another update for you on Sunday.\n\nThe UK will face short-term delays in delivery of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, as the pharmaceutical company makes modifications to its plant in Belgium. But the government says it still plans on achieving its target of vaccinating all top four priority groups by 15 February. Six EU nations have called the situation \"unacceptable\" and warned it \"decreases the credibility of the vaccination process\". Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia urged the EU to apply pressure on Pfizer-BioNTech. Pfizer says the reduced deliveries are a temporary issue, and the changes being made to its plant will speed up production in the longer term. So will a vaccine give us our old lives back?\n\nNew tighter Covid restrictions have come into force in Scotland with changes for takeaway outlets and click and collect shopping. Among the six new rules announced by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, customers buying takeaway food and coffee are no longer allowed inside premises, and staff must serve from a hatch or doorway. Plus, only retailers selling essential items - clothing, footwear, baby equipment, homeware and books - can now provide click and collect services. Customer collections can only be made outdoors, with staggered pick-up times to avoid queues.\n\nEveryone has heard about doctors and nurses catching Covid-19, but some of the worst affected hospital staff have been cleaners and porters. Dr John Wright of Bradford Royal Infirmary tells the story of a cleaner who became ill while doing her job, and is now stricken with guilt for taking the virus home.\n\nIt is almost a month since Christmas was \"downsized\" across the country. But in most parts of the UK, people did meet in Christmas \"bubbles\" if only for just one day. So what impact did this have? The overall picture shows a sharp increase in cases around this time. However, a closer look at the numbers suggests this trend was already happening and was probably caused by the new, more infectious variant of the virus rather than increased contact between people. Take a closer look at what happened over Christmas.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nAnd if you're wondering whether you can catch the virus outside, our science editor David Shukman considers the risks.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Louis Godwin descibed the vaccine as \"no trouble at all\" Image caption: Louis Godwin descibed the vaccine as \"no trouble at all\"\n\nAn RAF veteran has been among hundreds of people over 80 to receive the Covid-19 vaccine at Salisbury Cathedral, in Wiltshire, today.\n\nFormer Flight Sergeant Louis Godwin described receiving the Pfizer/BioNTech jab as \"absolutely marvellous\".\n\nThe landmark cathedral is hosting a vaccination hub for five GP surgeries in the area, with the aim of vaccinating more than 1,000 elderly residents and staff.\n\nMr Godwin recalled having jabs in Egypt after the war \"which knocked me over for a week\".\n\n\"This one, the doctor said to me 'well that's done' - and I thought he hadn't started!\"\n\nThe veteran pilot, who has 12 great-grandchildren, said the pandemic could not be compared to the war.\n\n\"It was entirely different because this has divided people.\n\n\"The vaccine is nothing, you don't feel a thing... so anybody that needs one and can get one, I would say go ahead and do it quickly.\n\n\"It's the only way we're going to beat the virus.\"\n\nPatients queued for a short time around the cloisters on Saturday, before going into the cathedral where they were treated to a programme of music on the famous Father Willis organ.\n\n\"It is a bonus to be in such a iconic, wonderful place,\" said Dr Dan Henderson, co-clinical director for the Sarum South Primary Care Network.\n\n\"It's great to be getting the vaccine out there and getting them in people's arms and knowing that this is hopefully the start of some sort of normality again.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nLahiru Thirimanne's unbeaten 76 frustrated England as Sri Lanka fought back on the third day of the first Test in Galle.\n\nBowled out for 135 in the first innings, Sri Lanka showed great spirit to reach 156-2 - trailing by 130 - after England had posted 421.\n\nJoe Root progressed to a magnificent fourth Test double century before he was last man out for 228 as England lost their last six wickets for 49 runs.\n\nSam Curran and Jack Leach took a wicket apiece in Sri Lanka's second innings, but off-spinner Dom Bess rarely threatened on a pitch that has offered assistance to spin since day one.\n\nKusal Perera contributed 62 to an opening stand of 101 with the patient Thirimanne, who was dropped on 51 by Dom Sibley at gully as he compiled his highest Test score since 2013.\n\nThe left-hander will resume alongside nightwatchman Lasith Embuldeniya at 04:15 GMT on Sunday.\n\nEngland all-rounder Moeen Ali, who tested positive for coronavirus upon arrival in Sri Lanka, spent time at the ground in the afternoon after finishing his quarantine period.\n\nFor the first time in two years, England failed to take a wicket in the first 30 overs - with seamers Curran, Stuart Broad and Mark Wood finding the going tough given the minimal swing or seam movement on offer.\n\nHowever, credit must be paid to the Sri Lanka openers. Thirimanne and Perera were criticised for their first-innings failures, but their century stand was the first time in six Tests that a Sri Lanka opening pair had survived longer than 10 overs.\n\nPerera showed restraint - he scored at a strike-rate of 57, compared to 74 over his Test career - but hit Leach over mid-wicket for six and swept and also drove well before slapping a Curran long hop to wide third man.\n\nThirimanne, who averaged 22 in 70 Test innings before this match, was happy to play second fiddle to Perera, although he did find the leg-side boundary with flicks and sweeps.\n\nHaving taken 5-30 in the first innings, Bess failed to maintain a consistent length and allowed Thirimanne and Perera to play off the back foot too often.\n\nLeft-arm spinner Leach, who bowled more accurately, failed with a review for lbw against Thirimanne on 61 before having Kusal Mendis caught behind off a beautiful delivery that turned and bounced in what proved to be the penultimate over of the day.\n\nResuming on 168, Root reached his fourth Test double century with the minimum of fuss.\n\nHe showed more intent than on day two - when he was happy for debutant Dan Lawrence to take more risks - hitting the third ball of the day to the cover boundary before driving down the ground for six.\n\nIt was almost fitting that Root reached 200 with a sweep for four - it was a productive shot throughout his innings, with 88 runs coming via sweeps and reverse sweeps.\n\nIn his 321-ball innings Root became the eighth Englishman to pass 8,000 Test runs - in 178 innings, two more than Kevin Pietersen, who holds the record.\n\nEngland passed 400 in the first innings for the sixth time in their past 12 Tests, having failed to do so in their previous 23.\n\nBut they lost their last six wickets in 13 overs as they chased quick runs, possibly with an eye on the rain forecast later in the game.\n\nSri Lanka were much more disciplined than on the previous two days, with pace bowler Asitha Fernando impressing, while off-spinner Dilruwan Perera mopped up the tail to finish with 4-109.\n• 372-6: Sam Curran is bowled first ball as Fernando gets one to nip back and crash into off stump.\n• 382-7: Dom Bess disagrees and is well short of his ground, a third wicket to fall in 12 balls.\n• 398-8: Jack Leach is trapped lbw for four by Dilruwan Perera.\n• 406-9: Mark Wood toe-ends a sweep straight up in the air to be caught by Niroshan Dickwella off Dilruwan Perera.\n• 421 all out: Joe Root holes out on the mid-wicket boundary.\n\n'Chasing anything will be tricky' - reaction\n\nEngland captain Joe Root on BBC Test Match Special: \"It feels good to be in the position we are.\n\n\"It would have been nice to get a couple more wickets tonight but that one late on is a real bonus for us.\n\n\"It gives us a great opportunity in morning to apply a lot of pressure and hammer home what is a strong advantage in this game.\"\n\nEngland all-rounder Sam Curran: \"It is a strange looking wicket. It played a bit better than we thought this evening.\n\n\"It didn't offer much for the seamers and there was real slow turn for the spinners. The two openers played really well.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"Sri Lanka came back really well - they have shown fight and discipline.\n\n\"If Sri Lanka bat the whole day tomorrow things will get interesting. Chasing anything on last day becomes tricky.\n\n\"I expect England will take eight wickets tomorrow and win the game.\"\n\nFormer England batter Ebony Rainford-Brent: \"Sri Lanka really have fought back well. It is good to see.\n\n\"If weather plays a factor and there is some resistance from the lower order this could bubble into an exciting finish.\"\n• None Hear how David Bowie always managed to stay ahead of his time\n• None Joe Wicks and guests are here to bring positivity to your day", "The funeral of Gerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden has been held at a church near his beloved River Mersey.\n\nMarsden died, aged 78, in hospital on 3 January following a blood infection.\n\nAs the frontman in the band Gerry and the Pacemakers, his hits included Ferry Cross The Mersey and a cover version of You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nEx-Liverpool boss Sir Kenny Dalglish was among the mourners at the funeral which had to remain small because of Covid restrictions.\n\nSir Kenny managed the club at the time of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, which led to the deaths of 96 fans who were attending an FA Cup game between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.\n\nGerry Marsden sings You'll Never Walk Alone before an Anfield match in 2010\n\nSir Kenny said: \"You'll Never Walk Alone has huge meaning to the lives of Liverpool supporters around the world and is synonymous with the club.\n\n\"He will be sadly missed by those who knew him and the millions he never got to meet.\"\n\nYou'll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for Marsden's hometown club soon after it topped the charts in 1963.\n\nThe song was played during the funeral by a guitarist while a version of Marsden singing Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying, a song he wrote for his wife Pauline, also featured.\n\nShe said: \"We, his family, are totally devastated and have been so moved and amazed at the extent of the respect, love and affection received from all over the world.\n\n\"When the time is right and we have come out of this terrible pandemic we hope a fitting memorial can be held for him in the city he loved so much.\"\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers was one of the biggest British bands in the 1960s\n\nReferring to the lyrics from Ferry Cross the Mersey, close friend Arthur Johnson said: \"He lived close to the banks of the Mersey for all his life and as the words of his song say: 'This land's the place I love and here I'll stay'.\"\n\nLiverpool City Region mayor Steve Rotheram said: \"I feel privileged he let me into his life, although that makes his passing even more painful.\"\n\nIn 1962, Beatles manager Brian Epstein signed up Gerry and the Pacemakers and, a year later, they became the first band to have their first three songs top the charts - How Do You Do It, I Like It and You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nA flag on the Royal Iris Mersey ferry flew at half mast after the death of Gerry Marsden\n\nThey were one of the successes of the Merseybeat era, with former Beatles star Sir Paul McCartney saying at the time of Marsden's death that: \"Gerry was a mate from our early days in Liverpool\".\n\n\"He and his group were our biggest rivals on the local scene.\"", "Work to restore hundreds of thousands of fingerprint, DNA and arrest records accidentally wiped from police databases is ongoing, the Home Office has said.\n\nAround 400,000 records were lost, according to The Times, which first reported the story.\n\nThe Home Office did not comment on how many records were likely to be restored, or how long it would take.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the issue was \"a result of human error\".\n\nData was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nThe coding that caused the problem was introduced in November 2020, and the deletions started earlier this week.\n\nInitially, it was thought some 150,000 records were lost, but it since has emerged the number could be significantly higher.\n\nCommenting on the error, Ms Patel said: \"Engineers continue to work to restore data lost as a result of human error during a routine housekeeping process earlier this week.\n\n\"I continue to be in regular contact with the team, and working with our policing partners, we will provide an update as soon as we can.\"\n\nEarlier, Labour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Ms Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he described the situation as \"extraordinarily serious\", adding: \"Priti Patel will be responsible for criminals walking free.\n\n\"We're not going to be able to link suspects to crime scenes without the DNA and fingerprint evidence.\"\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said the lost data had resulted in a couple of \"near misses\" for serious crimes when trying to identify an offender.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse insisted the affected records \"apply to cases where individuals were arrested and then released with no further action\".\n\nHe added: \"We are working to recover the affected records as a priority. While we do so, the Police National Computer is functioning and the police are taking steps to mitigate any impact.\"", "Mr Laschet is now in a good position to stand for German chancellor\n\nCentrist Armin Laschet has been elected leader of Germany's Christian Democrats (CDU), the party of Chancellor Angela Merkel.\n\nMr Laschet, premier of North Rhine-Westphalia state, defeated two rivals in the party's virtual conference.\n\nHe is now in a good position in the race to succeed Mrs Merkel when she steps down as German chancellor in September, after 16 years in office.\n\nBut he faces a changed political landscape following the Covid pandemic.\n\nMr Laschet, 59, defeated conservative businessman Friedrich Merz in a run-off vote by 521 votes to 466. A third candidate, Norbert Röttgen, was eliminated in the previous round.\n\nHe replaces as chair of the party Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, who failed to live up to her billing as Mrs Merkel's appointed successor after taking office more than two years ago.\n\nGermany goes to the polls in September, but the CDU leader is not guaranteed to become its candidate for chancellor.\n\nHealth Minister Jens Spahn, who has been elected as one of Mr Laschet's deputies, and Markus Söder, leader of the CDU's Bavarian sister party the CSU, could also step into the ring, though neither has yet said that they want the job.\n\nA final decision will be made in the spring.\n\nMr Laschet is a loyal supporter of Mrs Merkel, and said during the campaign that a change of direction for the party would \"send exactly the wrong signal\".\n\nIn his victory speech, he said: \"I want to do everything so that we can stick together through this year... and then make sure that the next chancellor in the federal elections will be from the [CDU/CSU] union.\"\n\nArmin Laschet is a short, cheerful chap. The popular premier of Germany's most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia, he throws himself with gusto into traditional carnival celebrations.\n\nHe touts himself as a continuity candidate and, for a time at least, was thought to have been Angela Merkel's preferred candidate. He defended her stance during the 2015 refugee crisis and is known for his liberal politics, passion for the EU and ability to connect with immigrant communities.\n\nBut his call for an early relaxation of Covid restrictions last spring surprised many and reportedly infuriated Mrs Merkel. He has since retreated from that position but he's had to work to repair the damage to his political credibility.\n\nThe big question now is whether the CDU will put him up as their chancellor candidate in September's general election.\n\nGerman Health Minister Jens Spahn - who supported Mr Laschet in his leadership bid - is thought to harbour ambitions to the chancellory. And recent opinion polls suggest that Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder would be a popular choice too.", "The US is in a race to vaccinate its population amid a winter surge\n\nA highly contagious coronavirus variant first detected in the UK could become the dominant strain in the US by March, health officials have said.\n\nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned of \"rapid growth\" of the variant in coming weeks.\n\nIt said such a spike could further threaten health systems already strained by a winter Covid surge.\n\nThe warning came on Friday as President-elect Joe Biden unveiled an ambitious plan to ramp up vaccinations.\n\nTo meet his target of inoculating 100 million Americans within his first 100 days in office, Mr Biden said his administration would take a more active role in accelerating the distribution of vaccines.\n\nHe outlined a plan to set up new mass vaccination centres, hire extra health workers, and ensure the shot is available to everyone, including minority communities that have been hit hardest by the epidemic.\n\nOfficial data shows that, so far, 12.2 million vaccine doses of have been administered in the US - a figure Mr Biden has criticised as insufficient. More than 30 million doses have been distributed to states.\n\nIn a speech on Friday, Mr Biden told Americans that \"we remain in a very dark winter\", admitting that \"things will get worse before they get better\".\n\n\"This is going to be one of the most challenging operational efforts ever undertaken by our country,\" Mr Biden, who takes office on 20 January, said of the vaccination drive.\n\nHis address came a day after he announced a $1.9tn (£1.4tn) stimulus package for the battered US economy that included a further $20bn for the vaccine roll-out. The plan will need to pass Congress.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Biden: \"I promise we will not forget you\"\n\nThe US has recorded the highest number of confirmed coronavirus infections - 23.5 million - of any country in the world. At about 391,000, the country's coronavirus deaths account for a fifth of the global total, which passed the two-million mark on Friday.\n\nThe crisis is particularly acute in the state of California, where deaths have surged by more than 1,000% since November.\n\nIn its report, the CDC said that the UK variant would spread quickly in the coming weeks.\n\nThe latest research by Public Health England (PHE) suggests the variant - now dominant in much of Britain - is between 30% and 50% more transmissible than previous strains. There is currently no evidence to suggest it causes any more serious illness.\n\nExperts have also played down the possibility that the current vaccines will not be as effective against it.\n\nSo far, 76 people from 10 US states have been confirmed to have been infected with the UK variant, known as B.1.1.7.\n\nBut the CDC said: \"The modelled trajectory of this variant in the US exhibits rapid growth in early 2021, becoming the predominant variant in March.\"\n\nTwo other variants - one from South Africa and one from Brazil - are also thought to be more contagious than the original one that started the pandemic. Studies are under way to assess the threat they pose.", "Exam results are likely to appear before the end of the summer term\n\nExam results for A-levels and GCSEs in England could be published in early July this year, according to proposals for replacing cancelled exams.\n\nA consultation launched by the exams watchdog and the Department for Education confirmed that grades will be decided by teacher assessment.\n\nBut results this summer are likely to be released much earlier than usual.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said pupils would receive \"a grade that reflects their ability\".\n\nThere are also likely to be written test papers set by exam boards, but marked by teachers, with some later checks if there are concerns about fairness.\n\nFor vocational qualifications, exams which use mostly written papers are also likely to use teachers' grades - but qualifications which need a test of practical, hands-on skills will have separate arrangements.\n\nOfqual and the Department for Education have formally launched a two-week consultation on a system for how results will be decided, after disruption from the pandemic forced the cancellation of exams.\n\nThis is the second year of exam results being disrupted by the pandemic\n\nFor A-levels and GCSEs this could see the scrapping of the traditional results days in August, with a proposal to publish the results in \"early July\", increasing the time for appeals and adding more time before the start of the university term.\n\nLast year the process of replacement results ended with U-turns and confusion, as an algorithm initially used for deciding grades was abandoned and teachers' assessments used instead.\n\nThis time there will be no algorithm, but from the outset the process will rely on the judgement of teachers, who will be asked to use evidence such as coursework, essays, homework and mock exams.\n\nThere are also proposals for test papers, or mini-exams, which would be set by examiners but which would be likely to be marked within schools by teachers.\n\nThese would inform teachers' decisions rather than be a fixed proportion of the final grade - and could be used as evidence for any scrutiny of the reliability of a school's results or if there were appeals over grades.\n\nThere is also a recognition they might have to be taken by some pupils at home.\n\nBut it has still to be decided whether it would be mandatory to take these exams, and whether there would be a single paper per subject or the option to take more.\n\nThe Department for Education has said pupils will not face tests in subject areas they have not covered.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said the proposals seemed \"sensible\".\n\nBut he said the written tests would have to be \"exceptionally well designed\" to make them fair between students \"whose learning has been disrupted by the pandemic to greatly varying extents\".\n\n\"There are still many questions left unanswered,\" said the National Education Union's co-leader Kevin Courtney, about how tests could be flexible enough and how appeals will be decided.\n\nThere will be a process of training teachers in how the grading system will operate and be consistent between different schools.\n\nFor vocational qualifications, the proposals say those closer to written A-level and GCSE exams will be graded in a similar way to the academic exams, using teacher assessment to replace written papers.\n\nThere will be different approaches for qualifications requiring proof of practical skills, but there will be arrangements to make this possible.\n\nSome BTec exams have already gone ahead this month and IGCSE exams are still planned to continue this summer.\n\nA-levels and GCSEs have been cancelled in Wales and Northern Ireland, and in Scotland the Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers have also been scrapped.\n\nEngland's Education Secretary, Mr Williamson, said: \"Fairness to young people has been and will continue to be fundamental to every decision we take on these issues.\"", "Men who had already had the virus were asked to donate blood plasma for the trial\n\nA potential treatment for Covid using blood plasma does not reduce deaths among hospital patients, trials show.\n\nThe results are a blow to researchers and the NHS, which led the drive to collect plasma donations.\n\nThis arm of the Recovery trial, which is investigating a number of promising Covid treatments, has now been closed.\n\nThe Oxford researchers involved say they are \"incredibly grateful\" for the contribution of patients across the country.\n\nDonations of plasma were temporarily suspended, according to NHS Blood and Transplant.**\n\nThere had been huge international interest in the role of convalescent plasma as a possible treatment for hospital patients with Covid-19.\n\nThe treatment involves blood plasma being taken from people who have recovered from the disease - which contains antibodies to coronavirus - and transfused into seriously ill patients.\n\nIt was hoped the plasma donation would give the recipient's struggling immune system a boost to fight off Covid.\n\nThe NHS had been urging people to donate, particularly men who are thought to have higher levels of antibodies in their blood.\n\nBut early analysis of 1,873 deaths in a study of 10,400 UK patients shows the treatment made \"no significant difference\".\n\nIn the group treated with convalescent plasma, 18% of patients died within 28 days - the same figure for the group given standard treatment.\n\nPatients in the study are still being followed up and the final results will be published shortly.\n\nEarlier this week, a separate study showed no evidence that the same treatment improved outcomes for patients in intensive care.\n\nMartin Landray, chief investigator and professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, said the Recovery trial showed \"the value of large randomised trials to properly assess the role of potential treatments\".\n\nThe trial is still investigating other treatments, including tocilizumab, aspirin and an antibody cocktail.\n\nProf Peter Horby, who also worked on the trial, said the largest ever trial of convalescent plasma \"was only possible thanks to the generous donation of plasma by recovered patients and the willingness of current patients to contribute to advancing medical care\".\n\n\"While the overall result is negative, we need to await the full results before we can understand whether convalescent plasma has any role in particular patient sub-groups,\" he said.\n\n**NHS Blood and Transplant restarted donations of blood plasma on 20 January. They could be used to see whether particular groups of patients, such as those with low antibody levels, could benefit.\n\nInternational trials are also testing if plasma helps people when it's used much earlier in the disease, before people get to hospital.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge shared his own experiences of seeing \"death and so much bereavement\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been told the pandemic will leave many emergency workers \"broken\".\n\nMany police and NHS workers are too concerned with battling the pandemic to look after their mental health, they were told.\n\nInsp Phil Spencer from Cleveland Police said staff did not engage enough with counselling \"because we don't want to take anybody else's valuable time\".\n\nPrince William said he \"really worries\" about the effect on front-line workers.\n\n\"When you're surrounded by that level of intense trauma and sadness and bereavement, it really does, it stays with you at home, it stays with you for weeks on end,\" he said.\n\nInsp Spencer said emergency workers \"run towards danger, run towards a terrorist attack, we run towards the pandemic\".\n\n\"Perhaps further down the line when all this is gone we're going to have some broken police officers and emergency services staff, because we're too busy focusing on protecting the most vulnerable,\" he said.\n\nThe couple also spoke to counsellors from Hospice UK's Harrogate-based Just B support line for NHS staff, social care workers, carers and emergency services, which their foundation helps financially.\n\nThe prince said he feared \"you're all so busy caring for everyone else that you won't take enough time to care for yourselves\".\n\nHe and Catherine said the stigma surrounding seeking help for mental health issues must end.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n• None The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police investigations have been compromised by an error that led to hundreds of thousands of records being deleted from UK-wide databases, according to a letter seen by the BBC.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said 213,000 records were deleted - more than the 150,000 first reported.\n\nThis resulted in a couple of \"near misses\" for serious crimes when trying to identify an offender, it said.\n\nThe Home Office has said it is assessing the impact of the mistake.\n\nData including fingerprint, DNA, and arrest histories was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nThe Home Office said the lost entries related to people who were arrested and then released without further action.\n\nBut the letter from the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) says officers are aware of at least one instance where the DNA profile from a suspect in custody did not generate a match to a crime scene as expected, potentially impeding the investigation.\n\nIt says that some of the records had been marked for indefinite retention following earlier convictions for serious offences.\n\nAnd it reveals that a \"weeding system\", developed and deployed by a Home Office PNC team, started to delete records wrongly last November.\n\nThe process was only brought to a halt at the start of this week.\n\nThe letter was sent on Friday afternoon by Deputy Chief Constable Naveed Malik of the NPCC to chief constables and police and crime commissioners.\n\nThe deletion of the records has been blamed on a coding error.\n\nThis resulted in records that had been flagged for deletion being lost from the database before checks had been carried out to determine whether they could be lawfully held or not.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse said the problem had been identified and the process corrected so \"it cannot happen again\".\n\nHe said the Home Office, National Police Chiefs' Council and other law enforcement partners were working \"at pace\" to recover the data.\n\nThe Home Office said no records of criminal or dangerous persons had been deleted.\n\nBut Labour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Home Secretary Priti Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he described the situation as \"extraordinarily serious\", adding: \"Priti Patel will be responsible for criminals walking free. We're not going to be able to link suspects to crime scenes without the DNA and fingerprint evidence.\"\n\nA home office source said the accusation was \"scaremongering and irresponsible\".\n\nFormer Cumbria Police Chief Constable Stuart Hyde told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Friday the \"very large\" loss of arrest records presented a \"risk to public safety\".\n\nThe records are linked to police investigations that were terminated before charge (No Further Action or NFA cases) or to those where an individual had been acquitted at court.\n\nIt is not yet known how many records of each type were lost and full extent of deletions is still being investigated. A minister is expected to update the House of Commons on Monday.\n\nIt comes after about 40,000 alerts relating to European criminals were removed from the PNC following the UK's post-Brexit security deal with the EU.", "A 24m section of the bridge parapet collapsed one mile from where a fatal crash took place\n\nPart of a rail bridge has collapsed near the site of the fatal Stonehaven train derailment.\n\nA 24m (79ft) section of the side wall has fallen from the bridge, about a mile north of where three people died when a train left the track and crashed last August.\n\nNetwork Rail said it was a \"structural fault\" and not caused by a landslip.\n\nThe line between Aberdeen and Dundee remains closed while structural engineers assess the fault.\n\nThe structure is located three miles north of Carmont signal box. The collapse was discovered just before 10:00 on Friday.\n\nThe rail company said the damage to the parapet was \"extensive\" and that the line was expected to be closed for a \"significant\" period of time while repairs to the bridge take place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Network Rail Scotland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Network Rail Twitter account told followers engineers would be working around the clock to complete repairs.\n\nSpecialist staff are also checking similar bridges as a precaution.\n\nThe line between Aberdeen and Dundee had just reopened in November, nearly three months after the Stonehaven derailment.\n\nThe driver, a conductor and a passenger died when the Aberdeen to Glasgow service derailed near Stonehaven on 12 August after heavy rain.\n\nNetwork Rail Scotland carried out \"complex\" repairs at the scene of the derailment\n\nAn interim report said the train hit washed-out rocks and gravel.\n\nA Network Rail spokesman said: \"The line is currently closed while our engineers repair a damaged side wall on a bridge between Carmont and Stonehaven.\n\n\"Specialist structural engineers are currently assessing the fault and putting plans in place for its repair.\n\n\"Our engineers will be working around-the-clock to complete this work as quickly as possible.\"", "Police officers who were targeted by a pro-Trump mob have been speaking out about the \"medieval battle\" that unfolded on the steps of the Capitol and inside the halls of American democracy last week.\n\nPolice faced off against rioters equipped with clubs, shields, pitchforks, firearms, and metal poles stripped from seating set up for next week's inauguration.\n\nHere's what we've learned from their interviews with US media.\n\nMichael Fanone, a 40-year-old DC plainclothes narcotics detective who was told to wear his uniform that day, rushed to the West Terrace of the Capitol where he took turns holding back the crowd, and resting to rinse his face of the the chemical irritants that that crowd was spraying on police.\n\n\"We weren't battling 50 or 60 rioters in this tunnel,\" the MPD (Metropolitan Police Department of District of Columbia) veteran told the Washington Post. \"We were battling 15,000 people. It looked like a medieval battle scene.\"\n\nAfter he was grabbed by his helmet and dragged face-first down several steps, he said the crowd started stripping gear from his vest, including spare ammo, his radio and his badge - all while chanting \"USA!\".\n\nMichael Fanone, a DC detective, was dragged into the crowd and beaten\n\n\"We got one! We got one!\" Mr Fanone said he heard people shout, with others chanting: \"Kill him with his own gun!\"\n\nSome members of the crowd protected him after he started yelling that he has children, the father of four told CNN. He sustained only minor injuries but later found out in hospital that he had suffered a mild heart attack during the brawl.\n\nMPD Officer Daniel Hodges, 32, had already been on shift for several hours before the rioting began.\n\n\"We were battling, you know, tooth and nail for our lives,\" he told ABC News.\n\nIn one viral video, Mr Hodges is seen pinned in a glass doorway between officers and the crowd, as rioters strip his gas mask from his face and beat him with his own police-issued baton. One rioter tried to gouge his eyes.\n\n\"That was one of the three times that day where I thought: Well, this might be it,\" said Mr Hodges. \"This might be the end for me.\"\n\nAs he choked on tear gas, he is seen on video gasping for air to call out for help. Enough police were eventually able to push through the melee to extract him.\n\n\"I had conspiracy theorists and everyone you could think of yelling at me, saying, 'Why are you doing this, you're the traitor,'\" Mr Hodges told radio station WAMU.\n\n\"We're not the traitors. We're the ones who saved Congress that day, and we'll do it as many times as necessary.\"\n\nDespite fearing for his life, Mr Hodges says he decided not to use his gun on the crowd.\n\n\"I didn't want to be the guy who starts shooting, because I knew they had guns - we had been seizing guns all day,\" he told the Post.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRobert Glover, the commander on scene for MPD, declared a riot at 13:50 local time, nearly two hours after Trump's speech at the White House where he instructed his followers to go to the Capitol.\n\nHe quickly told officers to retake the inauguration bleachers, to stop the crowd from raining down heavy objects on officers from above.\n\nMr Glover told the Post that some rioters may have been caught up in the moment, but others seemed to be moving in \"military formation\" as if they had prepared for the assault. He said that some appeared to be using hand signals to co-ordinate tactics.\n\nSeveral US military veterans, as well as off-duty police officers from Virginia, Maryland and Texas, have since been suspended or arrested for participating in the riot.\n\nMPD Officer Christina Laury, 32, was among the first city police officers to arrive on the scene. When she got to the Capitol, officers were already being brutally attacked by rioters attempting to storm the building.\n\n\"They had bear mace, which is literally used for bears. I got hit with it plenty of times that day and it just seals your eyes shut. You just would see officers going down trying to douse themselves with water, trying to open their eyes up so they can see again.\"\n\n\"The bravery and the heroism that I saw in these officers - the second they were able to open their eyes, they were back up front and they were just trying to stop these individuals from coming in.\"\n\nOne officer being lauded as a hero has yet to speak about his experience - Officer Eugene Goodman, a member of Congress' 2,100 member Capitol Police force.\n\nMr Goodman, an African American Iraq War veteran, was seen singlehandedly distracting a rampaging mob, giving lawmakers enough time to clear the chamber and get to safety.\n\nOn Thursday, a cross-party group of lawmakers introduced a bill calling for him to receive the Congressional Gold Medal for his effort to defend democracy.\n\nThe Capitol Police have been criticised over their response and preparation.\n\nSeveral top Capitol security officials, including the Capitol Police chief and the sergeants-at-arms for the House and Senate, resigned in the wake of the siege amid claims from lawmakers that they had not done enough to prepare for the mob.\n\nProtesters climbed the bleachers that were erected for Biden's inauguration\n\nOn Friday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced General Russel Honoré would be leading an immediate investigation of the Capitol's security infrastructure.\n\nVideo footage has also emerged showing an officer taking a selfie with a rioter inside the Capitol. Some officers reportedly gave directions to rioters telling them how to get to the offices of Democratic lawmakers.\n\nSeveral Capitol Police officers have been suspended for allegedly violating policies as the agency conducts an internal probe.", "A man accused of allegedly tricking a 92-year-old woman out of £160 for a fake coronavirus vaccination has been charged with fraud and common assault.\n\nDavid Chambers is accused of administering the fake vaccine at her Surbiton home in London last month.\n\nThe 33-year-old, also from Surbiton, is charged with five offences including fraud and going outside in a tier four area without a good reason.\n\nHe denied the charges when he appeared before magistrates on Friday.\n\nMr Chambers was remanded in custody until a hearing on 12 February.\n\nIn the UK, coronavirus vaccines are free of charge and available via the NHS.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nóra Quoirin went missing from her room on 4 August 2019\n\nAn inquest into the death of a teenager who went missing during a holiday in Malaysia has left several questions unanswered, her family has said.\n\nNóra Quoirin, whose mother is from Belfast, disappeared from her room at the Dusun resort on 4 August 2019.\n\nHer body was found 10 days later about 1.6 miles (2.5km) away.\n\nEarlier this month a coroner ruled that she died as a result of misadventure, but her family said they were \"utterly disappointed\" with the verdict.\n\nIn an interview with Irish broadcaster RTÉ, Nóra's mother Meabh said there is \"compelling evidence\" that her daughter was abducted.\n\nSearch and rescue teams were deployed in an effort to locate Nóra\n\nNóra, who was born to Irish-French parents, lived with her family in London and was understood to be in Malaysia on an Irish passport.\n\nShe was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder which affects brain development.\n\nSince her disappearance, her parents have believed that she was abducted. They have always maintained that wandering off was not something they could imagine their daughter doing.\n\nMeabh Quoirin told RTÉ: \"One of the most compelling things that we found out was that in a relatively small area, the plantation where Nóra was eventually found, there was vast numbers of specialist personnel deployed to find Nóra.\n\n\"Not only that, on four different occasions, trained personnel went to the plantation area and searched it and, in fact, some officers were even in the precise location Nóra's body was recovered.\n\n\"They had all reported that there were no signs of human life at any point. That for us is compelling evidence to say that she was not there by herself.\"\n\nNóra went missing the day after she and her family arrived in Malaysia in August 2019\n\nMrs Quoirin added that \"there was a lack of evidence around DNA and prints\".\n\nShe said that when the family went to the inquest, \"we had a lot of unanswered questions and while many of those questions cannot be answered, we actually found out a great deal about what went on during those 10 days when Nóra was missing\".\n\nMeabh and Sebastien Quorin, pictured during the search for Nóra\n\n\"In fact we felt it really strengthened our case, our belief, that Nóra was abducted and we found some compelling evidence to support our view on that.\"\n\nMrs Quoirin added that her daughter \"was not physically or mentally capable\" of leaving the chalet via the window.\n\n\"Not only that - we also learned that none of her fingerprints could be found on the window and yet other unidentifiable prints were found on that window.\"", "Smoke rises from Mount Semeru, the highest volcano on the Indonesian island of Java\n\nIndonesia's Mount Semeru has erupted, pouring ash an estimated 5.6km (3.4 miles) into the sky above Java, the country's most densely populated island.\n\nNo evacuation orders have so far been issued, and no casualties reported.\n\nThe National Disaster Mitigation Agency (NDMA) warned villagers living on the mountain's slopes to be alert for ongoing volcanic activity.\n\nFootage showed ash from the 3,676m (12,060ft) volcano looming over homes.\n\n\"The villages of Sumber Mujur and Curah Koboan [in Lumajang municipality] are located in the trajectory of the hot clouds,\" local official Thoriqul Haq said on Saturday.\n\nResidents of the Curah Kobokan river basin have been urged to watch for possible \"cold lava\" mudflow, which can be triggered by intense rainfall combining with volcanic material.\n\nMount Semeru erupted at about 17:24 local time (10:24 GMT), authorities said.\n\nA picture from the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management shows ash rolling over the landscape\n\nIndonesia sits on the Pacific \"Ring of Fire\" where tectonic plates collide, causing frequent volcanic activity as well as earthquakes.\n\nSemeru - also known as \"The Great Mountain\" - is the highest volcano in Java and one of the most active. It is also one of Indonesia's most popular tourist hiking destinations.\n\nThe volcano previously erupted in December, when about 550 people were evacuated.", "A further 1,295 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test have been reported in the UK, the third-highest daily total since the pandemic began.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths by this measure to 88,590.\n\nThere have also been a further 41,346 lab-confirmed cases, and 4,262 more people have been admitted to hospital.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director for Public Health England, said the \"continuous rise in cases and deaths should be a bitter warning for us all\".\n\n\"We must not forget the basics,\" she added. \"The lives of our friends and family depend on it.\n\n\"Keep your distance from others, wash your hands and wear a mask.\"\n\nThe latest figures come ahead of Monday's change in travel rules for the UK, with all travel corridors closing, meaning arrivals from every country will have to quarantine.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced the changes at Downing Street on Friday, saying they would \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid.\n\nWhile daily figures can fluctuate due to delays in reporting, the seven-day average of Covid deaths in the UK has now risen slightly to 1,103.\n\nFor cases, however, there has been a drop in the seven-day average, with the figure now at 48,565.\n\nThere are currently 37,475 people in hospital with the virus, government figures show, while a further 324,233 people have received their first vaccine dose.\n\nThe government has promised all the over-70s, the extremely clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers - about 15 million people - will be offered a jab by mid February.\n\nCurrently, just over 3.5 million doses have been administered.\n\nThe government has also announced £120m in funds for the social care sector to be used by local authorities to increase staffing levels.\n\nStaff absence rates have risen in care homes and among home care staff, due to them testing positive or having to self-isolate.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the money would bolster staffing numbers in a \"controlled and safe way, whilst ensuring people continue to receive the highest quality of care\".\n\nA further £149m funding was announced in December to support rapid testing of care home staff.\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM on Friday, England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said the number of patients being admitted to hospital with coronavirus was set to peak within the next 10 days, while the peak for deaths was also yet to come.\n\nHe added, however, that he hoped the peak in infections had already happened in the South East, East and London, where there was a surge in the new, more transmissible variant.\n\n\"The peak of deaths I fear is in the future, the peak of hospitalisations in some parts of the country may be around about now and beginning to come off the very, very top,\" he said.\n\n\"Because people are sticking so well to the guidelines we do think the peaks are coming over the next week to 10 days for most places in terms of new people into hospital.\"\n\nHowever, chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance stressed it was a \"suppressed peak\" that would \"boil over for sure\" if controls were eased.\n\nHe said: \"This is not the natural peak that's going to come down on its own, it's coming down because of the measures that are in place.\n\n\"Take the lid off now and it's going to boil over for sure and we're going to end up with a big problem.\"\n\nMeanwhile, on Saturday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer suggested he would back further coronavirus measures, as \"the tougher the restrictions now the quicker we get the virus back under control\".\n\nSir Keir said he was \"still worried\" by the number of infections, despite signs they are falling - and that the \"sense that we are through the worst\" of the third wave was wrong.\n\n\"Nobody likes restrictions but the tougher the restrictions now the quicker we get the virus back under control, the quicker we reduce the number of hospital admissions and the quicker we get that number of deaths, tragically, down,\" he added.", "A further 1,610 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt means the total number of deaths by that measure is now above 90,000.\n\nA total of 4,266,577 people have now received the first dose of a vaccine, according to the latest government figures.\n\nAnother 33,355 positive Covid cases have been recorded - less than half the peak figure of 68,053 on 8 January.\n\nIt is the lowest number of daily cases seen since 27 December - before the start of England's third nationwide lockdown.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said: \"Whilst there are some early signs that show our sacrifices are working, we must continue to strictly abide by the measures in place.\"\n\nShe said reducing contact with others and staying at home will lead to \"a fall in the number of infections over time\".\n\nThe figures come as new estimates from the Office for National Statistics show about one in 10 people across the UK tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies in December - roughly double the October figure.\n\nThe rising number of deaths was to be expected, sadly, after the surge in cases during December.\n\nAnd it is likely that the coming weeks will see figures even higher than this.\n\nToday's numbers are, though, inflated by the fact that delays in registering deaths over the weekend tends to lead to higher figures being reported on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.\n\nOn average, the UK is recording more than 1,100 deaths a day.\n\nTo put that in context, at Christmas it was less than half of that.\n\nBut there are two rays of hope in the daily update.\n\nFirstly, the number of cases is below 40,000 for a third day in a row. Just two weeks ago we saw a few days above 60,000.\n\nThat means in the coming weeks we should start to see fewer people in hospital and eventually fewer deaths.\n\nThe number of vaccinations also continues to rise.\n\nIt seems unlikely the NHS will manage its target of two million doses a week just yet.\n\nBut each increase at least takes us one step closer to getting on top of the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England said 400 military personnel were now assisting in hospitals in London and the Midlands, as wards face \"unprecedented pressure\".\n\nOn Monday, Prof Stephen Powis, national medical director for NHS England, said it would be \"some time\" before the vaccination programme begins to reduce pressures on hospitals.\n\nAnd in other developments, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said he is self-isolating after being alerted by the UK's NHS Covid-19 app .that he had been in close contact with somebody who tested positive.\n\nHe said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\" and urged others to do the same if contacted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Freeborn's wife, Helen, died from Covid at the Royal London Hospital: 'Don't end up like us, please'\n\nThe previous highest number of daily deaths was last Wednesday, when 1,564 deaths were recorded.\n\nTuesday's figure brings the total number of deaths recorded during the pandemic in the UK to 91,470.\n\nThese government figures count people who died within 28 days of testing positive, but there are other ways of measuring the total number of deaths.\n\nAnother method is to count all deaths where coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate. That figure has now officially reached 95,829, although that is only measured up to 8 January.\n\nThe UK has recorded the fifth-highest number of deaths globally, according to Johns Hopkins University - behind the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"British people are paying the price for the government's serial incompetence.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video footage showed the aftermath of the deadly explosion\n\nAt least three people have died following an explosion that caused a building to partially collapse in centre of the Spanish capital, Madrid.\n\nA fourth person was missing and several others were hurt, officials said.\n\nCity officials said the blast, which destroyed four floors of the building, had been caused by a gas leak.\n\nMayor José Luis Martínez Almeida told reporters after the blast that a fire was raging inside the building, which belongs to the Catholic Church.\n\nThe blast happened shortly before 15:00 local time (14:00 GMT) as gas workers were repairing a boiler at the back of the building in the central Puerta de Toledo area of Madrid.\n\nAn 85-year-old woman passer-by and two men were killed while a third man who had been working on the boiler was missing, Spanish media reported. One of the injured was in a serious condition and taken to hospital, according to officials.\n\nSpanish reports said the upper floors affected were being used to house local priests.\n\nRescue workers evacuated more than 50 people from a care home next-door to the building in Caille de Toledo, but a school on the other side was closed at the time of the blast.\n\nFour floors of the building were destroyed in the explosion, which could be heard in many areas of Madrid. Images shared on social media showed billowing smoke and debris strewn along the street.\n\nEmergency services said nine fire crews and 11 ambulances were at the scene and some of those caught up in the blast were treated on the street.\n\nFour floors of the building were destroyed in the explosion\n\nPolice officers cleared the area, closing it to all traffic and pedestrians, and appealed to local residents not to come near.\n\n\"The noise was very loud, very loud, really,\" Lorenzo Fomento, who was working from home at a nearby apartment, told AFP news agency. \"I never heard anything so loud before,\" he added.\n\nThe director of the nursing home, Antonio Berlanga, said all the elderly residents were fine and places were being found for them to spend the night.", "In Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, residents have prepared their homes and businesses ahead of the heavy rain\n\nEmergency services in the north of England are preparing for widespread flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nThe Environment Agency has warned of a \"volatile situation\" as heavy rain combines with melting snow, while police in South Yorkshire and Greater Manchester declared major incidents.\n\nAn amber rain warning is in place for Yorkshire, the North West, East Midlands and the east of England.\n\nA yellow rain warning was issued for the rest of the country.\n\nGreater Manchester Police Assistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey said the force had declared a major incident to ensure it was \"as prepared as possible\".\n\n\"The safety of the public is our number one priority and we're continuing to work alongside partner agencies across the region,\" he said.\n\nA government spokesperson said it had provided additional advice to local agencies to help them manage any evacuations and shelter provision in a Covid-secure way.\n\n\"The government has robust plans in place to support any areas affected by extreme weather this winter,\" they added.\n\nSandbags were laid in at-risk areas, with up to 70mm (2.75in) of rain due.\n\nIn isolated spots, particularly in the northern Peak District and parts of the southern Pennines, 200mm (7.87in) could be possible.\n\nNorthern Rail said buses were being used instead of trains on services between Bolton and Blackburn due to flooding at Darwen.\n\nSome motorists attempted to drive through floodwater on Derby Road in Hathern, Leicestershire\n\nIn the amber warning area, the Met Office said there was a \"danger to life\" due to fast-flowing or deep floodwater, and told some communities they might be \"cut off\" by flooded roads.\n\nIt also predicted delays and cancellations to public transport, with the amber warning in place until 12:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nRos Jones, mayor of Doncaster, said key risk areas had been inspected over the past 36 hours, with the delivery of sandbags continuing on Tuesday.\n\n\"I do not want people to panic, but flooding is possible so please be prepared,\" she said.\n\nResidents of Fishlake, South Yorkshire, which saw severe flooding hit 160 homes and businesses in November 2019, said they felt much better prepared this time round.\n\nFlood warden and parish councillor Peter Trimingham said the arrival of sandbags had been a welcome sight.\n\n\"It gives us confidence,\" he said.\n\nResidents in Fishlake, near Doncaster, say they are better prepared than when flooding hit in 2019\n\nMr Trimingham added: \"We're absolutely hoping it doesn't rise to the same level. But, if it does, we're reasonably comfortable we've still got a chance because the Environment Agency have done tremendous work here along with Doncaster Council.\"\n\nHe said new defences had been built and their team of flood wardens had been expanded to 22 people.\n\nOn Yarlborough Terrace in Bentley, Doncaster, many residents were out of their homes for months after the 2019 floods.\n\nAnna Booth, 37, who was forced to live in a caravan on her drive, said residents were worried about it happening again.\n\n\"Being in the pandemic doesn't help either. Morale's a bit down but I think we'll all pull together again like last time,\" she said.\n\n\"It breaks your heart, it's really sad, but we can't stop the weather.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Environment Agency issued more than 30 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, covering parts of Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Merseyside, Staffordshire and Northamptonshire as of 03:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nThere are also more than 150 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible, issued across northern England, the Midlands and the east.\n\nRiver levels in the Ouse, which flows through York in North Yorkshire, are high before the arrival of Storm Christoph\n\nCatherine Wright, acting executive director for flood and coastal risk management at the Environment Agency, said: \"That rain is falling on very wet ground and so we are very concerned that it's a very volatile situation and we are expecting significant flooding to occur on the back of that weather.\"\n\nShe said the agency would be working with local authorities to help with evacuation efforts should a severe flood warning be issued, adding: \"If you do need to evacuate then that is allowed within the Covid rules.\"\n\nWork took place on Tuesday morning to increase defences near the River Ouse\n\nDiscussing the different levels of flood warnings, she said: \"If you receive a flood alert, please pack valuables like medicines and insurance documents in a bag ready to go.\n\n\"If you receive a flood warning, please move valuables and precious possessions upstairs and be ready to turn off gas, electricity and water.\n\n\"If you receive a severe flood warning, which means you will be evacuated, please listen out and take heed of the advice from the local emergency services.\"\n\nSandbags have been used to help defend homes in Fishlake, Doncaster, which suffered devastating floods in November 2019\n\nBarry Greenwood, from the Upper Calder Valley Flood Prevention Group in West Yorkshire, has been \"sick\" with worry.\n\n\"I went round after the last [flood], people were there with their heads in their hands, thinking 'what am I going to do now?',\" he said.\n\nFlood sirens were sounded in Walsden on Tuesday evening after a flood warning was issued for the area.\n\nIn a tweet, Calderdale Council asked residents to put their flood plan into action and move valuables to a safe place.\n\n\"River levels across the Upper River Calder have risen and are now approaching levels where we expect properties to flood,\" it warned.\n\nEarlier it had said staff were on standby to respond overnight.\n\nThe amber rain warning is in place until Thursday, with yellow warnings covering most of the UK coming in over the next three days\n\nA yellow rain alert is also in place for Wales, Northern Ireland, central and northern England and southern Scotland on Tuesday.\n\nThis yellow warning extends to the rest of England from Wednesday, with a yellow alert for snow and ice in north east Scotland.\n\nHighways England advised drivers to take extra care on motorways and major A roads, while the RAC breakdown service said motorists should only drive if absolutely necessary.\n\nDrivers faced wet road conditions and reduced visibility on the A1(M) near Boston Spa, West Yorkshire, on Tuesday morning\n\nHebden Bridge's volunteer flood warden Keith Crabtree has been monitoring the river levels of Hebden Beck closely\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Israel is currently in its third lockdown since the pandemic began there last year Image caption: Israel is currently in its third lockdown since the pandemic began there last year\n\nA nationwide lockdown in Israel is to be extended until the end of the month amid a spike in cases - despite an intense vaccination campaign, with more than two of the nine million population already having received their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nIt takes time for immunity to build up, so its expected to take several weeks for vaccines to have an impact on cases\n\nThe man coordinating Israel’s pandemic response, Nachman Ash, has warned that a single dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the country has been “less effective than we thought”.\n\nAccording to Israeli Army Radio, Prof Ash told cabinet members on Tuesday the data on the protective effect of a first dose against the virus was “lower than Pfizer presented”. Pfizer said its vaccine was roughly 52% effective two weeks after the first dose and reaches maximum efficacy of 95% after the second.\n\nIt’s not clear what data he is referring to, but a not-yet published study from Israel’s largest healthcare provider suggested a 33% fall in infections by day 14, at which point, full immunity would not have been reached.\n\nInfections continued to fall in the following days but the numbers were too small to put a percentage on it.\n\nIsrael saw its highest daily case figure on Monday with 10,000 new infections Image caption: Israel saw its highest daily case figure on Monday with 10,000 new infections\n\nThe health ministry said on Tuesday more than 12,400 Israelis had tested positive for Covid-19 ten days after being vaccinated – 69 of these had already received a second dose.\n\nThis was 6.6% of the 189,000 people who took Covid tests after being vaccinated, roughly tallying with the reported efficacy.\n\nHealth experts say they are analysing the new Israeli data closely but warn it may be too early to draw any conclusions on the single dose efficacy of the vaccine based on the initial data gathered in Israel, which began vaccinating its population on 19 December.", "Drug treatment services in England are to receive an extra £80m as part of government's efforts to cut crime.\n\nThis will mean more places for people released from prison and criminals handed community sentences.\n\nIt comes after warnings last year over government cuts to help for addicts.\n\nA further £40m is being earmarked for law enforcement to target drug gangs including so-called county lines operations in which young and vulnerable people act as couriers.\n\nThe investment will also see another £28m put into a three-year pilot project called ADDER - Addiction, Diversion, Disruption, Enforcement and Recovery - which will combine policing with treatment and recovery services.\n\nThe funding will see police target dealers, and local councils and health services help people with addictions, in five areas with high rates of drug use - Blackpool, Hastings, Middlesbrough, Norwich and Swansea Bay.\n\nAnnouncing the £148m package, Home Secretary Priti Patel said: \"The government's work to tackle county lines drugs gangs has already resulted in thousands more people being arrested and hundreds more vulnerable people being safeguarded, but we must do more to tackle the underlying drivers behind serious violence.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock added: \"Addiction and crime are inextricably linked and to truly break the cycle we must make sure people can access the help they need to get their lives back on track for good.\"\n\nMs Patel told BBC Breakfast the government wanted to focus on rehabilitation and treatment for drug addicts as well as law enforcement, saying this was \"something we've not been doing enough of\".\n\n\"We have to do much more to support individuals whose lives have been blighted by years and years of drug abuse,\" she said.\n\nA Home Office-commissioned review into the drugs trade by Prof Dame Carol Black released last February put the total cost to society of illegal drugs at about £20bn a year in England and said treatment services have been curtailed by local government funding cuts.\n\nDame Carol welcomed the funding, saying: \"Drug treatment has a vital role to play in helping people to come off drugs and thereby reduce crime, from minor acquisitive crime right through to homicide.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"It's a big moment for us - we have things we want to do together.\"\n\nThe inauguration of President Joe Biden is a \"step forward\" for the United States, which has \"been through a bumpy period\", Boris Johnson has said.\n\nCongratulating Mr Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris, the UK PM said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and the US and their \"joint common agenda\".\n\nMr Johnson said he looked forward to working with the US on tackling climate change and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMaking his inaugural address, Mr Biden said \"democracy has prevailed\".\n\nHe promised to be a president \"for all Americans\" and said his \"whole soul is in putting America back together again\".\n\nOutgoing President Donald Trump, who has not formally conceded to Mr Biden, did not attend the ceremony.\n\nPresident Biden began work straight away on reversing a number of his predecessor's policies, including rejoining the Paris climate change agreement - gaining the praise of Mr Johnson.\n\nThe PM tweeted it was \"hugely positive news\", adding: \"I look forward to working with our US partners to do all we can to safeguard our planet.\"\n\nEarlier this week the former head of the civil service Lord Sedwill suggested Mr Johnson would be glad Mr Trump had not been re-elected for a second term as US president.\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, Lord Sedwill said those who believed Boris Johnson would have preferred Mr Trump to win again were \"mistaken\".\n\nThe former cabinet secretary - who stepped down in September - said a second term for Mr Trump \"would not have been to the benefit of British or European security, to transatlantic trade, let alone the environmental agenda to which the prime minister is so committed\".\n\nBoris Johnson with Donald Trump at the G7 summit in 2019\n\nMr Johnson's public stance toward the former president has varied over the years.\n\nIn 2015, when he was Mayor of London, Mr Johnson accused Mr Trump of \"stupefying ignorance\" over his comments about violence in the city.\n\nBut as foreign secretary, following Mr Trump's election as president, he said there was a \"lot to be positive about\", and in 2019, praised his \"many good qualities\".\n\nFor his part, Mr Trump has appeared largely supportive of Mr Johnson, backing his flagship Brexit policy and at one point saying of the British PM: \"They call him Britain Trump.\"\n\nAnd echoing his predecessor, in 2019 Mr Biden described the UK prime minister as a \"physical and emotional clone\" of Mr Trump.\n\nAfter winning the presidential election Mr Biden phoned Mr Johnson ahead of other European leaders and expressed his desire to strengthen the historic \"special relationship\" between the two countries.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said it was the job of all UK prime ministers to have a \"good, close working relationship\" with US presidents but, right now, there were many things the two countries \"wanted to do together\".\n\n\"When you look at the issues which unite me and Joe Biden, the UK and the US right now, there is a fantastic joint common agenda,\" he said. \"For us and America, it is a big moment.\"\n\nHe said he hoped the UK could help the US commit to a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 in the run up to the climate change conference COP 26, to be held in Glasgow this year.\n\nUK prime ministers like to consider American presidents as their best diplomatic friend.\n\nThat relationship, particularly when it comes to security and defence, is unusually close.\n\nWhen, as with Donald Trump, that friend has been unpredictable and unconventional, that has made for some very awkward political moments.\n\nSo for the government, this a really important and positive turning of the page.\n\nThe terribly over-used phrase the 'special relationship', which provokes neurotic behaviour on this side of the Atlantic, has meant the most when there has been a genuine personal chemistry between the two leaders - whether Thatcher and Reagan, or Bush and Blair.\n\nThere is nothing automatic about Mr Biden and Mr Johnson developing that kind of political friendship.\n\nBut in the words of one former senior minister, for the UK Biden means \"we will lose exclusivity but gain predictability: easier to work with, less cringeworthy and more dependable, but we may not be the only girlfriend on speed dial\".\n\nSpeaking to the Guardian, shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy described Mr Biden as \"a woke guy\".\n\nAsked if he agreed, Mr Johnson said: \"I can't comment on that. What I know is that he's a firm believer in the transatlantic alliance and that's a great thing.\"\n\nHe added that there was \"nothing wrong with being woke - I put myself in the category of people who believe that it's important to stick up for your history, your traditions and your values, the things you believe in.\"\n\nOpposition leader Sir Keir Starmer also sent his congratulations to the new president and vice-president.\n\n\"The US begins a new chapter in its history, one of hope, decency, compassion and strength,\" the Labour leader said, adding \"together, our two nations can build a better, more optimistic future for our world.\"\n\nAnd First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: \"Warm congratulations and best wishes to President Biden and Vice President Harris.\n\n\"Scotland and the USA share long-standing bonds of friendship and co-operation. We look forward to building on these in the years ahead.\"\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, former UK Prime Minister Theresa May said Mr Biden's election presented the UK with a \"golden opportunity\" for Western democracies to reverse the trend towards \"absolutism\" - and a \"few strongmen facing off against each other\" - in global affairs.\n\nThe Queen sent a private message to Mr Biden before his inauguration, Buckingham Palace has said.", "Marion Dawson is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.\n\nA 108-year-old woman has received the Covid vaccination on her birthday.\n\nMarion Dawson, from Houston in Renfrewshire, is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.\n\nShe received her jab at Houston and Killellan Kirk, which is being used by the local GP surgery to deliver vaccinations to the community.\n\nBorn in 1913, Mrs Dawson has lived through two world wars and the Spanish flu pandemic.\n\nDr Diane Fisher, who gave the injection said: \"We are so excited to be starting vaccinations of our over-80s, and that our first patient to be vaccinated is doing so on her birthday.\"\n\nMrs Dawson is the most senior person in NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde to be given the vaccine.\n\nAfter receiving her injection, she said: \"I'm glad it's passed. I never felt a thing.\"\n\nKirk minister, Rev Gary Noonan said: \"Mrs Dawson is a local treasure in Houston, until the lockdown she never missed a week at church.\n\n\"It's fitting she can get her vaccine in the Kirk, a place she loves.\"\n\nDr Mark Storey, partner at Strathgryffe Medical Practice, added: \"It's been a very difficult year in general practice and society as a whole.\n\n\"In our practice we have a family of 10,000 patients, so we are delighted to start vaccinating, especially with Mrs Dawson.\"", "That's where we'll end our coverage of this week's PMQs.\n\nAs events get underway in Washington DC ahead of the Joe Biden's swearing in as the 46th President of the USA, our colleagues will bring you all the details of the inauguration here.\n\nOur coverage of this week's PMQs was brought to you by Gavin Stamp, Justin Parkinson, and Sinead Wilson. The editor was Johanna Howitt.\n\nThanks for joining us.", "The publication of a letter from the Duchess of Sussex to her father was a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of her privacy, the High Court has been told.\n\nMeghan is suing the publisher of the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online over articles that reproduced parts of the private handwritten letter.\n\nShe claims her privacy and copyright were breached by the newspaper group.\n\nHer lawyers are asking for summary judgement - a dismissal of Associated Newspapers' defence instead of a trial.\n\nMeghan's lawyers argue Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) has \"no prospect\" of defending the privacy and copyright claims being brought against them.\n\nThey claim the publication of extracts from the private, handwritten letter to Thomas Markle was \"self-evidently... highly intrusive\".\n\nMeghan, 39, sent the letter to her father in August 2018, following her marriage to Prince Harry in May that year, which Mr Markle did not attend. The couple are now living in the US with their son Archie.\n\nThe five articles, published in February 2019, were a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of the duchess's privacy, correspondence and family, the lawyers claim.\n\nMr Markle said in a witness statement provided to the remote hearing, which started on Tuesday, that he wanted the letter published to \"set the record straight\" about his relationship with his daughter - but one of Meghan's lawyers described this claim as \"ridiculous\".\n\nMeghan is seeking damages from the newspaper group for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act over the articles.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex now live in the US with their son\n\nHer lawyers told the court the letter was written in sorrow rather than anger and was an attempt to get her father to stop talking to the press.\n\nBut the newspaper group said in its response to the court that Meghan had written the letter \"with a view to it being disclosed publicly at some future point\" in order to \"defend her against charges of being an uncaring or unloving daughter\".\n\nIn written submissions, the newspaper group's barrister Antony White said \"she must, at the very least, have appreciated that her father might choose to disclose it\" and pointed out that the Kensington Palace communications team had been shown the letter before it was sent.\n\n\"No truly private letter from daughter to father would require any input from the Kensington Palace communications team,\" said Mr White.\n\nBut Meghan's lawyers also pointed out the articles themselves had emphasised the private nature of the correspondence - and dismissed any argument that it was in the public interest for the newspaper to reproduce the letter, saying the public interest was at the \"very end of the bottom end of the scale\".\n\nJustin Rushbrooke, representing the duchess, described the handwritten letter as \"a heartfelt plea from an anguished daughter to her father\".\n\nHe said the \"contents and character of the letter were intrinsically private, personal and sensitive in nature\" and that Meghan \"had a reasonable expectation of privacy in respect of the contents of the letter\".\n\nThe effect of publishing the letter was \"self-evidently likely to be devastating for the claimant\", said Mr Rushbrooke.\n\nThe barrister argued that, even if ANL was justified in publishing parts of the letter, \"on any view the defendant published far more by way of extracts from the letter than could have been justified in the public interest\".\n\nMr White said that the newspaper group would argue that Meghan's status as a member of the royal family was relevant to the case.\n\nIn response to that point, Mr Rushbrooke said: \"Yes, she is in some senses a public figure, but that does not reduce her expectation of privacy in relation to information of this kind.\"\n\nIn Thomas Markle's evidence, he said the letter \"signalled the end\" of his relationship with his daughter, and instead of a reconciliation attempt, the letter was a \"criticism\" of him.\n\nHe said that he had to \"defend himself\" against an article in People magazine. It carried an interview with a \"long-time friend\" of his daughter, who suggested Meghan sent the letter to repair her relationship with her father - something he claimed was false.\n\nThe People article, he claimed, made him appear \"dishonest, exploitative, publicity-seeking, uncaring and cold-hearted\".\n\nHe said he had \"never intended to talk publicly about Meg's letter\" until he read the People magazine piece which, he claimed, suggested he was \"to blame for the end of the relationship\".\n\nThe full trial of the duchess's claim had been due to be heard at the High Court this month, but last year the case was adjourned until autumn 2021.\n\nThis interim remote hearing - to consider the request for summary judgement - is due to last two days. Mr Justice Warby, who is hearing the case, is expected to reserve his judgement to a later date.", "Low-deposit mortgages have made a return as the market emerges from a Covid-related slowdown.\n\nMortgage products for homeowners with a deposit of 10% of their property's value have risen more than fourfold compared with last summer's low.\n\nThe increase, based on figures from financial information service Moneyfacts, could offer some relief to first-time buyers.\n\nBut the cost of mortgages will remain an issue for many.\n\nIn early September last year, there were only 44 mortgage products available for those able to offer a 10% deposit. At the same time, first-time buyers putting money aside for a deposit were faced with pressures of poor savings rates and rising house prices.\n\nThat choice has now risen to 197 products, according to the Moneyfacts figures, with some big lenders returning in recent weeks.\n\nMortgage products for those able to offer a 15% deposit have also risen sharply, although the choice was already much greater.\n\n\"First-time buyers who may have been concerned that with record low savings rates and increasing house prices, their homeownership dreams may have had to be shelved, may have been pleased to note that we are now seeing some providers return products for those with 10% deposits,\" said Eleanor Williams, from Moneyfacts.\n\nLenders had been grappling with the practical effects that the coronavirus pandemic brought to their business.\n\nWhile some new businesses targeted first-time buyers on social media, many traditional lenders withdrew products from the market.\n\nStaff shortages, and employees working from home, meant they were unable to process applications as fast as they had before the pandemic.\n\nThere were also concerns among lenders that, despite strong activity in the housing market, riskier - and younger - first-time buyers could find it difficult to make mortgage repayments during an economic slowdown caused by the pandemic.\n\nResearch has shown that younger workers are more at risk of redundancy.\n\nAaron Strutt, from mortgage broker Trinity Financial, said lenders were now working more efficiently despite staff still being at home.\n\nHe said that some of the biggest mortgage lenders had returned to the market. Some of the mortgage rates they were offering were not as attractive as they had been, but competition would help push down costs.\n\n\"If you are planning to purchase a property and have a 10% deposit the mortgage rates are not as cheap as they used to be, but they are getting better,\" he said.\n\nMany thousands of existing mortgage-holders who had struggled to make their repayments during the pandemic had taken payment \"holidays\", which are deferrals on payments.\n\nThe latest figures from UK Finance, which represents lenders, show that 130,000 mortgage payment holidays were in place at the end of December 2020, down from a peak of 1.8 million in June last year.", "Mr Trump referred to his \"complete power to pardon\" in a tweet\n\nUS President Donald Trump has insisted he has the \"complete power\" to pardon people, amid reports he is considering presidential pardons for family members, aides and even himself.\n\nThe US authorities are probing possible collusion between the Trump team and Russia. Intelligence agencies think Russia tried to help Mr Trump to power.\n\nRussia denies this, and the president says there was no collusion.\n\nThe Washington Post reported on Thursday that Mr Trump and his team were looking at ways to pardon people close to him.\n\nPresidents can pardon people before guilt is established or even before the person is charged with a crime.\n\nDescribing the reports as disturbing, Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat who sits on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said \"pardoning any individuals who may have been involved would be crossing a fundamental line\".\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Trump tweeted: \"While all agree the U. S. President has the complete power to pardon, why think of that when only crime so far is LEAKS against us. FAKE NEWS.\"\n\nMr Trump also attacked \"illegal leaks\" following reports his attorney general discussed campaign-related matters with a Russian envoy.\n\nThe Washington Post gave an account of meetings Attorney General Jeff Sessions held with the Russian ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak. The newspaper quoted current and former US officials who cited intelligence intercepts of Mr Kislyak's version of the encounter to his superiors.\n\nOne of those quoted said Mr Kislyak spoke to Mr Sessions about key campaign issues, including Mr Trump's positions on policies significant to Russia.\n\nDuring his confirmation hearing earlier this year, Mr Sessions said he had no contact with Russians during the election campaign. When it later emerged he had, he said the campaign was not discussed at the meetings.\n\nAn official confirmed to Reuters the detail of the intercepts, but there has been no independent corroboration.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Commander in tweets: What we can learn from Trump's Twitter\n\nThe officials spoken to by the Post said that Mr Kislyak could have exaggerated the account, and cited a Justice Department spokesperson who repeated that Mr Sessions did not discuss interference in the election.\n\nBut the Post's story was the focus of one of many tweets the US president fired off on Saturday morning.\n\n\"A new INTELLIGENCE LEAK from the Amazon Washington Post, this time against A.G. Jeff Sessions. These illegal leaks, like Comey's, must stop!\" Mr Trump said.\n\nThe Washington Post is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who has been an occasional sparring partner for Mr Trump. \"Comey\" refers to James Comey, the former FBI boss Mr Trump fired.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Trump told the New York Times he regretted hiring Mr Sessions because he had stepped away from overseeing an inquiry into alleged Russian meddling in the US election.\n\nMr Sessions recused himself in March amid pressure over his meetings with Mr Kislyak. He says he plans to continue in his role as attorney general.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sessions said he loved the job and the department\n\nSeveral other regular targets for Mr Trump featured in his series of tweets.\n\nHe accused the \"failing\" New York Times of foiling an attempt to assassinate the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.\n\nIt is not clear what Mr Trump was referring to, but on Saturday a US general complained on Fox News that a \"good lead\" on Baghdadi was leaked to a national newspaper in 2015.\n\nA New York Times report at the time revealed that valuable information had been extracted from a raid, but the paper stressed on Saturday that no-one had taken issue with their reporting until now.\n\nAnd Mr Trump again urged Republicans to \"step up to the plate\" and repeal and replace President Obama's healthcare reforms, a key campaign pledge of his that has collapsed in Congress.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDoris Hobday and her twin sister Lilian Cox, known as the Tipton Twins, were admitted to hospital after testing positive earlier this month.\n\nHer family said Mrs Hobday had died on 5 January, adding they were \"totally heartbroken to lose Doris in this way\".\n\nMrs Cox has since been discharged from hospital and is continuing to recover, the family said. The siblings were among the UK's oldest living twins.\n\nDoris Hobday died in hospital on 5 January, her family has announced\n\n\"We are so grateful for all the special memories we have created and got to share with you all,\" the family said in a statement.\n\nThe twins, from Tipton, West Midlands, became popular figures online with their positive outlook on life and sense of humour.\n\nTipton Twins Doris and Lilian both tested positive for Covid-19 earlier this month\n\nThey appeared on BBC Breakfast, ITV's Good Morning Britain and This Morning, charming presenters with jokes about wearing their drawers inside out and their love for actor Jason Statham.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dan Walker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Piers Morgan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter���s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLilian and Doris said they did everything together. They lived in the same street after getting married, worked together at an ale-making factory in Birmingham and more recently lived next to one another at sheltered accommodation in Tipton.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC on their 95th birthday, Lilian revealed her sister's secret to a long life was \"no sex and plenty of Guinness\" - her own being simply \"lemonade\".\n\nDoris Hobday's family said she had passed away peacefully and they were grateful for all their memories with her\n\n\"Doris will be laid to rest with her husband who she lost 11 years ago after 65 years of happy marriage,\" her family said.\n\nA crowdfunding page has been set up in Mrs Hobday's memory, with funds raised being donated to The Beacon Centre for the Blind, which supported her late husband Raymond for 20 years.\n\nDoris will be buried next to her husband Ray, who, along with half a Guinness, was \"her favourite thing\"\n\nThe family said Mrs Cox had only been told of her sister's death on Monday, \"once she was strong enough to take the news\".\n\n\"She is now being comforted by family and staying with her daughter Vivien while she fully regains her strength.\"\n\n\"Both were determined to live until 100, they had so much to look forward to,\" their family said. \"It's just so cruel that Covid has stopped Doris like this.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Bannon was once considered among the most influential men in Mr Trump's administration\n\nPresident Trump's former top advisor, Steve Bannon, has been suspended from Twitter over the \"glorification of violence\" amid the election aftermath.\n\nMr Bannon said a re-elected Mr Trump should fire the top infectious disease expert and the FBI director, and called for violence against them.\n\nIt comes as the tech firms continue a clampdown on misinformation.\n\nFacebook has shut down a large group which alleges fraud, and announced new measures to amplify genuine results.\n\nMr Bannon, once widely thought of as one of the most powerful men in Washington, served as the boss of Mr Trump's 2016 campaign, and as a top presidential advisor for the first several months of his presidency.\n\nOn Thursday, he posted a video podcast to Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, in which he said both Dr Anthony Fauci - the face of the country's fight against coronavirus - and FBI Director Christopher Wray, should be fired after Mr Trump's re-election, but also said they should be subjected to violence.\n\nPresident Trump has expressed frustration with both men, clashing with Dr Fauci over the pandemic, and with Mr Wray over what he sees as a failure to investigate his opponent, Joe Biden.\n\nFacebook and YouTube both removed the video, but Twitter issued an outright suspension of Mr Bannon's \"war room pandemic\" account, for violating its policy on the glorification of violence.\n\nThe account has been permanently suspended, rather than banned for a limited amount of time, Twitter said in a statement.\n\nPresident Trump, meanwhile, had another of his tweets hidden and labelled by Twitter after falsely claiming victory and alleging the existence of \"illegal votes\".\n\nThe President responded by tweeting: \"Twitter is out of control\".\n\nThe Stop the Steal Facebook group had about 350,000 members when the social media giant removed it, something the social network admitted was an \"exceptional\" measure. It did so because it was \"creating real-world events\" and \"we saw worrying calls for violence from some members of the group\", Facebook said.\n\nThe social network is now taking further measures to restrict the flow of \"inaccurate claims\" in order \"to keep this content from reaching more people\".\n\n\"These include demotions for content on Facebook and Instagram that our systems predict may be misinformation, including debunked claims about voting. We are also limiting the distribution of live videos that may relate to the election on Facebook,\" the firm said in a statement.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Facebook Newsroom This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs President Trump continues to allege, without evidence, that widespread voter fraud took place, Facebook also said it would alter its election banner notifications and spread news of the projected winner, once a majority of independent outlets projected the result.\n\nThe same notice will be put on posts from both candidates.\n\nSeparately, Bloomberg reports that Twitter will remove the \"special treatment\" it affords President Trump as a world leader, in the event of Joe Biden winning the presidency.\n\nTwitter has specific rules for world leaders, which means it will not ordinarily ban them for the same offences for which it would ban ordinary users. Twitter argues that such posts - even when violating its rules - are sufficiently newsworthy to stay up, with a handful of exceptions.\n\nInstead, Twitter can label the post of a world leader, hiding it from view and restricting engagement - but leaving it viewable to anyone who clicks through a warning message about the content.\n\nIt has repeatedly done this to Mr Trump's tweets, leading to high-profile arguments with the president and his supporters.\n\nBut Mr Trump would return to the status of a regular user if he loses the election, Bloomberg reported - meaning that his tweets could be deleted outright or his account suspended, for policy violations.", "Liam Gallagher, Sir Elton John and Nicola Benedetti have put their names to the letter\n\nSome of the UK's biggest music stars have written to the government demanding action to ensure visa-free touring in the European Union.\n\nSir Elton John, Liam Gallagher and Nicola Benedetti are among 110 artists who have signed the open letter.\n\nIt said they had been \"shamefully failed\" by the government over post-Brexit travel rules for UK musicians.\n\nThe government said the signatories should be asking the EU why they \"rejected the sensible UK proposal\".\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden will meet music industry representatives on Wednesday to address their concerns.\n\nEarlier this week, culture minister Caroline Dinenage said the EU's \"very broad\" offer \"would not have been compatible with the government's manifesto commitment to take back control of our borders\".\n\nHowever, she said \"the door is open\" if the EU was willing to consider the UK's proposals to reach an agreement for musicians.\n\nIn the meantime, she confirmed, musicians and artists touring the continent \"will be required to check domestic immigration and visitor rules for each member state in which they intend to tour\".\n\nThat may require them to have multiple visas or work permits, which some industry experts say will be expensive and potentially prohibitive - especially for musicians at the start of their careers.\n\nOther names on the open letter include Ed Sheeran, Sir Simon Rattle, Sting, Radiohead, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Kim Wilde, Roger Daltrey, Glastonbury organisers Michael and Emily Eavis, and Judith Weir, Master of the Queen's Music.\n\nThe letter was organised by the Incorporated Society of Musicians and the Liberal Democrats, and published in The Times.\n\n\"The reality is that British musicians, dancers, actors and their support staff have been shamefully failed by their government,\" it said.\n\n\"The deal done with the EU has a gaping hole where the promised free movement for musicians should be. Everyone on a European music tour will now need costly work permits for many countries they visit and a mountain of paperwork for their equipment.\"\n\nThe extra costs will \"tip many performers over the edge\", it claimed.\n\n\"We call on the government to urgently do what it said it would do and negotiate paperwork-free travel in Europe for British artists and their equipment,\" it added.\n\n\"For the sake of British fans wanting to see European performers in the UK and British venues wishing to host them, the deal should be reciprocal.\"\n\nThe Who frontman Daltrey signed despite telling the BBC Radio 4's Front Row programme in 2018: \"It's nothing that can't be solved. I mean, we used to work in Europe before the EU was even thought about. We had the golden period of the 60s and the 70s.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Who frontman Roger Daltrey gave his take on Brexit in 2018\n\nOn Wednesday, the veteran rocker said the two positions were compatible. \"I have not changed my opinion on the EU,\" he said in a statement to the PA news agency. \"I'm glad to be free of Brussels, not Europe.\n\n\"I would have preferred reform, which was asked for by us before the referendum and was turned down by the then president of the EU. I do think our government should have made the easing of restrictions for musicians and actors a higher priority.\n\n\"Every tour, individual actors and musicians should be treated as any other 'goods' at the point of entry to the EU with one set of paperwork. Switzerland has borders with five EU countries, and trade is electronically frictionless. Why not us?\"\n\nDeborah Annetts, chief executive of the Incorporated Society of Musicians, said: \"World-renowned performers, emerging artists from every genre and the most respected figures from leading organisations within our sector are now sending a clear message.\n\n\"It is essential for the government to negotiate a new reciprocal agreement that allows performers to tour in Europe for up to 90 days, without the need for a work permit.\"\n\nResponding to the letter, a UK government spokesperson said that musicians' concerns were being taken seriously.\n\n\"We absolutely agree that musicians should be able to work across Europe,\" they said in a statement.\n\n\"The UK Government put forward a proposal, based on feedback from the music sector, that would have allowed musicians to tour - but the EU repeatedly rejected this.\n\n\"The EU's offer in the negotiations would not have worked for touring musicians: it did not deal with work permits at all, and would not have allowed support staff to tour with artists. The signatories of this letter should be asking the EU why they rejected the sensible UK proposal.\"\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden is due to host a roundtable discussion with representatives from the music industry, addressing their concerns, on Wednesday.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Joe Biden has spent 50 years in politics working towards this moment, but he could never have expected such huge challenges would be facing him on his first day at the helm. What are his priorities?\n\nHe'll get started with a 10-day flurry of executive orders.\n\nThese are presidential directives that don't require congressional approval.\n\nTop of the list are rescinding a controversial travel ban, imposed by his predecessor Donald Trump against countries he viewed as a security threat, and rejoining the Paris climate deal.\n\nHere's what else we know about what will demand the new president's immediate attention.\n\nThe coronavirus has killed more than 400,000 people in the US - and the pandemic and its wide-ranging impact will be the new administration's top priority.\n\nMr Biden has called it \"one of the most important battles our administration will face\" and has vowed to implement his Covid strategy straight away.\n\nOne of his first moves will be executive action requiring social distancing and the wearing of masks on federal property nationwide and by federal employees and contractors.\n\nStill, there's no guarantee the state governors who've so far opposed mask mandates will suddenly change their minds - there appears to be no legal authority that grants a president the power to bring in a nationwide mask rule.\n\nMr Biden seems to have conceded that point, and says he'll personally try to persuade governors to come around.\n\nIf they're not receptive, he's vowed to make calls to mayors and municipal officials to recruit them to the cause. There's also no word yet on how a mandate will be enforced.\n\nMr Biden wants to speed up the vaccine rollout with the ultimate goal of vaccinating 100 million people with at least a first dose against Covid in his first 100 days in office.\n\nOne part of the acceleration plan is to release all available vaccine doses instead of holding some in reserve for the necessary second jab.\n\nHe is also expected to take executive action on efforts to develop and deploy rapid testing and to put in place a national supply chain for equipment, medications and personal protective equipment, or PPE.\n\nOn his agenda is a pledge to reverse the decision to have the US leave the World Health Organization (WHO).\n\nMr Trump announced plans over the summer to pull the country out of the WHO, accusing it of mismanaging Covid after the virus emerged in China and saying it failed to make \"greatly needed reforms\".\n\nMr Biden's team has said he has immediate plans to extend a moratorium on evictions and on foreclosures on home mortgages - both of which were paused early in the pandemic - as well as the current pause on federal student loan payments and interest.\n\nMr Biden's transition team said he plans to direct Cabinet agencies this week to \"take immediate action to deliver economic relief to working families\", though they did not offer more detail.\n\n$1.9tn for the US coronavirus economy\n\nLast week, Mr Biden announced a $1.9tn (£1.4tn) stimulus plan for the coronavirus-sapped US economy, saying that \"a crisis of deep human suffering is in plain sight and there's no time to waste\".\n\nIf passed by Congress, it would include direct payments of $1,400 to all Americans. He has also included funding to help schools safely reopen, which he wants to happen in the first 100 days.\n\nIt'll be in addition to a long-awaited $900bn stimulus package Congress passed in December, which Mr Biden had called a \"down payment\" on the larger proposed package.\n\nRepublicans lawmakers are likely to object to parts of the bill, which will add more debt to what the US has already spent dealing with the pandemic - and Mr Biden will need bipartisan support for the plan.\n\nDemocrats currently control both chambers of Congress, but only by narrow margins.\n\nCovid aid isn't the only priority on the incoming president's economic agenda. He has pledged to get rid of Mr Trump's signature tax cuts as soon as he takes office.\n\nMr Trump passed the cuts in 2017, early in his presidency, and the Biden team says they unfairly reward the wealthiest Americans and favour corporations over small businesses.\n\nMr Biden has also said he would swiftly double the taxes that US firms pay on foreign profits - part of his Made in America push - which would come in addition to a rise in corporate taxes.\n\nHis tax policy legislation will need to pass Congress.\n\nAnother move Mr Biden says he will make on his first day in office is to rejoin the Paris climate agreement, a global accord that includes the goal to keep temperatures below 2.0C (3.6F) above pre-industrial times and \"endeavour to limit\" them even more, to 1.5C.\n\nHis predecessor pulled the US out of the 2015 accord - it became official on 4 November - making it the first nation in the world to do so.\n\nThe US will officially be part of the agreement again within 30 days.\n\nMr Biden has also pledged to \"up the ante\" and aim for higher standards on climate mitigation measures, and to convene a climate world summit within the first 100 days in office.\n\nMr Biden has said he wants to work with Congress to enact legislation this year that will allow the US to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.\n\nIn a move that has already sparked alarm with his northern neighbours, Mr Biden is reportedly planning to immediately rescind the cross-border permit for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, a planned project from the oil sands of Canada's Alberta province, through Montana and South Dakota, to rejoin an existing pipeline to Texas.\n\nA further agenda item is a U-turn on much of Mr Trump's legacy of climate and energy deregulation, like the easing of vehicle emissions targets.\n\nMr Biden has said he will negotiate \"rigorous\" new emissions limits on cars and heavy-duty vehicles, to conserve 30% of US lands and waters by 2030, to ban new drilling on public lands, and to close the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling.\n\nThe new administration says it plans also to bring in \"aggressive\" methane pollution limits for oil and gas operations and to ban new oil and gas leasing on public lands and waters.\n\nThe travel ban, signed by Mr Trump just seven days after taking office in January 2017, will be among the first policies to be discarded.\n\nThe ban initially excluded people from seven majority-Muslim countries, but the list was modified following a series of court challenges.\n\nIt now restricts citizens of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Venezuela and North Korea.\n\nIn another major immigration pledge, Mr Biden has said he'll swiftly send a bill to Congress laying out a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented immigrants.\n\n\"And all of those so-called dreamers, those Daca [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme] kids, they're going to be immediately certified again to be able to stay in this country and put on a path to citizenship,\" he said in late October.\n\nLate in the election, the campaign announced Mr Biden would create a task force to reunite some 545 migrant children separated from their parents at the US southern border.\n\nIn December, the Biden team conceded it would need more time to roll back one of Mr Trump's policies, the Migrant Protection Protocols that force thousands of asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for US immigration court hearings.\n\nOnce a \"Day One\" pledge, officials now say it could take about six months to address.\n\nMr Biden has vowed to halt construction of a project synonymous with Mr Trump's presidency - the border wall between the US and Mexico. His campaign had called it \"a waste of money\" that \"diverts critical resources away from the real threats\".\n\nThe administration says it will instead divert the federal funds towards efforts like new border screening measures.\n\nUS President Donald Trump tours and signs a section of the US-Mexico border wall\n\nThe national reckoning with race is the fourth crisis - alongside Covid, the economy and climate - Mr Biden says he must tackle quickly.\n\nSome of those policies - like addressing racial disparities in housing and healthcare - overlap with his other plans.\n\nMr Biden will sign an executive order on racial equality and call on all US agencies to create a plan to tackle any unequal barriers to opportunity. It will also rescind Mr Trump's executive order limiting the ability of federal government agencies to implement diversity and inclusion training.\n\nMr Biden has promised to set up a national police oversight body to assist in reforming police departments in his first 100 days in office, though details of that plan are scarce.\n\nHe has said he wants swift passage by Congress of the \"Safe Justice Act\", which includes measures on reforming mandatory minimum sentences and increasing funding for community based policing.\n\nHe has made commitments to the LGBT community as well, like directing resources towards helping prevent violence against transgender people, ending the ban on transgender people serving in the military, and restoring guidance for transgender students in schools.\n\nOne other priority is passing the Equality Act, which would add sexual orientation and gender identity to existing federal civil rights laws, though how fast he can pass that legislation remains unclear.\n\nThe incoming president says he plans to quickly reach out to US allies to smooth ruffled feathers and promise that \"America has your back\", saying the US must \"prove to the world that [it] is prepared to lead again - not just with the example of our power but also with the power of our example\".\n\nHe has said on his first day in the Oval Office he would reach out to Nato allies with the message \"we're back and you can count on us again\".\n\nThough Mr Trump was not the first president to pressure other North Atlantic Treaty Organisation members to spend more on defence, he threatened at times to withdraw from the alliance that Mr Biden has called the \"bulwark of the liberal democratic ideal\".", "More than 127,000 people in the UK who contracted coronavirus have lost their lives - with the pandemic claiming more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide. As the UK marks a year since the first coronavirus lockdown was called, it's a time for reflection.\n\nWe have gathered tributes to more than 770 of those who have died. Below are words of remembrance from friends, family and colleagues.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nThe tributes are displayed at random, which means that you will see different faces each time you visit this page.\n\nIf we have used your tribute to your friend or family member, it will appear in the carousel above, or you can find it by entering their name in the search box below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Enter a name to search the tributes\n\nFor more on NHS and healthcare workers, please see this page dedicated to 100 people who died while helping to look after others.\n\nFor more on how it has affected people's lives, from family tragedy to its impact on everyday life, we have a collection of personal stories about life in lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many were taken by surprise by the events in Washington, but to those who closely follow conspiracy and extreme right groups online, the warning signs were all there.\n\nAt 02:21 Eastern Standard Time on election night, President Trump walked onto a stage set up in the East Room of the White House and declared victory.\n\n\"We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we did win this election.\"\n\nHis speech came an hour after he'd tweeted: \"They are trying to steal the election\".\n\nHe hadn't won. There was no victory to steal. But to many of his most fervent supporters, these facts didn't matter, and still don't.\n\nSixty five days later, a motley coalition of rioters stormed the US Capitol building. They included believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory, members of \"Stop the Steal\" groups, far-right activists, online trolls and others.\n\nOn Friday 8 January - some 48 hours after the Washington riots - Twitter began a purge of some of the most influential pro-Trump accounts that had been pushing conspiracies and urging direct action to overturn the election result.\n\nThen came the big one - Mr Trump himself.\n\nThe president was permanently banned from tweeting to his more than 88 million followers \"due to the risk of further incitement of violence\".\n\nThe violence in Washington shocked the world and seemed to catch the authorities off guard.\n\nBut for anyone who had been carefully watching the unfolding story - online and on the streets of American cities - it came as no surprise.\n\nThe idea of a rigged election was seeded by the president in speeches and on Twitter, months before the vote.\n\nOn election day, the rumors started just as Americans were going to the polls.\n\nA video of a Republican poll watcher being denied entry to a Philadelphia polling station went viral. It was a genuine error, caused by confusion about the rules. The man was later allowed into the station to observe the count.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Will Chamberlain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Will Chamberlain\n\nBut it became the first of many videos, images, graphics and claims that went viral in the days that followed, giving rise to a hashtag: #StopTheSteal.\n\nThe message behind it was clear - Mr Trump had won a landslide victory, but dark forces in the establishment \"deep state\" had stolen it from him.\n\nIn the early hours of Wednesday 4 November, while votes were still being counted and three days before the US networks called the election for Joe Biden, President Trump claimed victory, alleging \"a fraud on the American public\".\n\nMr Trump did not provide any evidence to back up his claims. Studies carried out for previous US elections have shown that voter fraud is extremely rare.\n\nBy mid-afternoon a Facebook group called \"Stop the Steal\" was created and quickly became one of the fastest-growing in the platform's history. By Thursday morning, it had added more than 300,000 members.\n\nMany of the posts focused on unsubstantiated allegations of mass voter fraud, including manufactured claims that thousands of dead people had voted and that voting machines had somehow been programmed to flip votes from Mr Trump to Mr Biden.\n\nBut some of the posts were more alarming, speaking of the need for a \"civil war\" or \"revolution\".\n\nBy Thursday afternoon, Facebook had taken down Stop the Steal, but not before it had generated nearly half a million comments, shares, likes, and reactions.\n\nDozens of other groups quickly sprang up in its place.\n\nThe idea of a stolen election continued to spread online and take hold. Soon, a dedicated Stop the Steal website was launched in a bid to register \"boots on the ground to protect the integrity of the vote\".\n\nOn Saturday 7 November, major news organisations declared that Joe Biden had won the election. In Democratic strongholds, throngs of people took to the streets to celebrate. But the reaction online from Mr Trump's most ardent supporters was one of anger and defiance.\n\nThey planned a rally in Washington DC for the following Saturday, dubbed the Million MAGA (Make America Great Again) March.\n\nTrump tweeted that he might try to stop by the demonstration and \"say hello\".\n\nPrevious pro-Trump rallies in Washington had failed to attract large crowds. But thousands gathered at Freedom Plaza that sunny morning.\n\nOne extremism researcher called it the \"debut of the pro-Trump insurgency\".\n\nAs Trump's motorcade drove through the city, supporters screaming with delight rushed to catch a glimpse of the president, who beamed at them wearing a red MAGA hat.\n\nWhile mainstream conservative figures were present, the event was dominated by far-right groups.\n\nDozens of members of the far-right, anti-immigrant, all-male group Proud Boys, who have repeatedly been involved in violent street protests and were among those who would later break into the US Capitol, joined the march. Militia groups, far-right media figures and promoters of conspiracy theories were also there.\n\nAs night fell, clashes between Trump supporters and counter-protesters broke out, including a brawl about five blocks from the White House.\n\nThe violence - although largely contained by police on this occasion - was a clear sign of things to come.\n\nBy now, President Trump and his legal team had invested their hopes in dozens of legal cases.\n\nAlthough a number of courts had already dismissed fraud allegations, many in the pro-Trump online world became fascinated with two lawyers with close ties to the president - Sidney Powell and L Lin Wood.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood promised they were preparing cases of voter fraud so comprehensive that when released, they would destroy the case for Mr Biden having won the presidency.\n\nMs Powell, 65, a conservative activist and former federal prosecutor, told Fox News that the effort would \"release the Kraken\" - a reference to a gigantic sea monster from Scandinavian folklore that rises up from the ocean to devour its enemies.\n\nThe \"Kraken\" quickly became an internet meme, representing sprawling, unsubstantiated claims of widespread election fraud.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood became heroes to followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory - who believe President Trump and a secret military intelligence team are battling a deep state made up of Satan-worshipping paedophiles in the Democratic Party, media, business and Hollywood.\n\nThe lawyers became a conduit between the president and his most conspiracy-minded supporters - a number of whom ended up inside the Capitol on 6 January.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood were successful in whipping up sound and fury online, but their legal efforts came to nothing.\n\nWhen they released almost 200 pages of documents in late November, it became clear that their lawsuit consisted predominantly of conspiracy theories and debunked allegations that had already been rejected by dozens of courts.\n\nThe filings contained simple legal errors - and basic misspellings and typos.\n\nStill, the meme lived on. The terms \"Kraken\" and \"Release the Kraken\" were used more than a million times on Twitter before the Capitol riot.\n\nDeath threats were made against a Georgia election worker, and Republican officials in the state - including Governor Brian Kemp, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and the official in charge of the state's voting systems, Gabriel Sterling - were branded \"traitors\" online.\n\nMr Sterling issued an emotional and prescient warning to the president in a press conference on 1 December.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"This has to stop... someone's gonna get killed\": Mr Sterling calls on President Trump to condemn the threats\n\n\"Someone's going to get hurt, someone's going to get shot, someone's going to get killed, and it's not right,\" he said.\n\nIn Michigan in early December, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, had just finished trimming her Christmas tree with her four-year-old son when she heard a commotion outside her Detroit home.\n\nAbout 30 protesters with banners stood outside, shouting \"Stop the steal!\" through megaphones.\n\n\"Benson, you are a villain,\" one person yelled.\n\nOne of the demonstrators live-streamed the protest on Facebook, stating that her group was \"not going away\".\n\nIt was just one of a rash of protests targeting people involved in the vote.\n\nIn Georgia, a constant stream of Trump supporters drove past Mr Raffensperger's home, honking their horns. His wife received threats of sexual violence.\n\nIn Arizona, demonstrators gathered outside of the home of Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, at one point warning: \"We are watching you.\"\n\nOn 11 December, the Supreme Court rejected an attempt by the state of Texas to throw out election results.\n\nAs the president's legal and political windows continued to close, the language in pro-Trump online circles became increasingly violent.\n\nOn 12 December, a second Stop the Steal rally was held in the capital. Once again, thousands attended, and once again prominent far-right activists, QAnon supporters, fringe MAGA groups and militia movements were among the demonstrators.\n\nMichael Flynn, Mr Trump's former national security advisor, likened the protesters to the biblical soldiers and priests breaching the walls of Jericho. This echoed the rally organisers' call for \"Jericho Marches\" to overturn the election result.\n\nNick Fuentes, the leader of Groypers, a far-right movement that targets Republican politicians and figures they deem too moderate, told the crowd: \"We are going to destroy the GOP!\"\n\nThe march once again turned violent.\n\nThen two days later, the Electoral College certified Mr Biden's victory, one of the final steps required for him to take office.\n\nOn online platforms, supporters were becoming resigned to the view that all legal avenues were dead ends, and only direct action could save the Trump presidency.\n\nSince election day, alongside Mr Flynn, Ms Powell and Mr Wood, a new figure had rapidly gained prominence among pro-Trump circles online.\n\nRon Watkins is the son of Jim Watkins, the man behind 8chan and 8kun - message boards filled with extreme language and views, violence and extreme sexual content. They gave rise to the QAnon movement.\n\nIn a series of viral tweets on 17 December, Ron Watkins suggested President Trump should follow the example of Roman leader Julius Caesar, and capitalise on \"fierce loyalty of the military\" in order to \"restore the Republic\".\n\nRon Watkins encouraged his more than 500,000 followers to make #CrossTheRubicon a Twitter trend, referring to the moment when Caesar launched a civil war by crossing the Rubicon river in 49BC. The hashtag was also used by more mainstream figures - including the chairwoman of Arizona Republican Party, Kelli Ward.\n\nIn a separate tweet, Ron Watkins said Mr Trump must invoke the Insurrection Act, which empowers the president to deploy the military and federal forces.\n\nMr Trump met Ms Powell, Mr Flynn and others at a strategy meeting at the White House the following day, 18 December.\n\nDuring the meeting, according to the New York Times, Mr Flynn called on Mr Trump to impose martial law and deploy the military to \"rerun\" the election.\n\nThe meeting further stoked online chatter about \"war\" and \"revolution\" in far-right circles. Many came to see the joint session of Congress on 6 January, normally a formality, as a last roll of the dice.\n\nA wishful story began to take hold among QAnon and some MAGA supporters. They hoped that Vice-President Mike Pence, who was set to preside over the 6 January ceremony, would ignore the electoral college votes.\n\nThe president, they said, would then deploy the military to quell any unrest, order the mass arrest of the \"deep state cabal\" who had rigged the election and send them to Guantanamo Bay military prison.\n\nBack in the land of reality, none of this was remotely feasible. But it launched a movement for \"patriot caravans\" to organise ride shares to help transport thousands from around the country to Washington DC on 6 January.\n\nLong processions of vehicles flying Trump flags and sometimes towing elaborately decorated trailers gathered in car parks in cities including Louisville, Kentucky, Atlanta, Georgia, and Scranton, Pennsylvania.\n\n\"We are on our way,\" one caravaner posted on Twitter with a picture of about two dozen supporters.\n\nAt an Ikea parking lot in North Carolina, another man showed off his truck. \"The flags are a little tattered - we'll call them battle flags now,\" he said.\n\nAs it became clear that Mr Pence and other key Republicans would follow the law and allow Congress to certify Mr Biden's win, the language towards them became vicious.\n\n\"Pence will be in jail awaiting trial for treason,\" Mr Wood tweeted. \"He will face execution by firing squad.\"\n\nOnline discussion reached boiling point. References to firearms, war and violence were rife on self-styled \"free speech\" social platforms such as Gab and Parler, which are popular with Trump supporters, as well as on other sites.\n\nIn Proud Boys groups, where members had once supported police, some turned against authorities, whom they deemed to no longer be on their side.\n\nHundreds of posts on a popular pro-Trump site, TheDonald, openly discussed plans to cross barricades, carry firearms and other weapons to the march in defiance of Washington's strict gun laws. There was open chatter about storming the Capitol and arresting \"treasonous\" members of Congress.\n\nOn Wednesday 6 January, Mr Trump addressed a crowd of thousands at the Ellipse, a park just south of the White House, for more than an hour.\n\nEarly on he encouraged supporters to \"peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard\", but he ended with a warning. \"We fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.\n\n\"So we're going to, we're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue… and we're going to the Capitol.\"\n\nTo some observers, the potential for violence that day was clear from the outset.\n\nMichael Chertoff, former secretary of homeland security under President George W Bush, blamed the Capitol Police, who reportedly turned down offers of assistance from the much larger National Guard ahead of time. He characterised it as \"the worst failure of a police force I can think of\".\n\n\"I think it was a very foreseeable potential negative turn of events,\" Mr Chertoff said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"To be blunt, it was obvious. If you read the newspaper and were awake, you understood that you've got a lot of people who have been convinced there was a fraudulent election. Some of them are extremists, and violent. Some of the groups openly said, 'Bring your guns'.\"\n\nStill, many Americans were astonished by Wednesday's scenes, like James Clark, a 68-year-old Republican from Virginia.\n\n\"I find it absolutely shocking. I didn't think it would come to this,\" he told the BBC.\n\nBut the signs were there for weeks. A hodgepodge of extreme and conspiratorial groups were convinced that the election was stolen. Online, they repeatedly talked about arming themselves, and violence.\n\nPerhaps the authorities didn't think their posts were serious, or specific enough to investigate. They now face pointed questions.\n\nFor Joe Biden's inauguration on 20 January, Mr Chertoff is expecting a \"much stronger showing\" by security services than last Wednesday night.\n\nBut that hasn't stopped many on extreme platforms calling for further violence and disruption on the day.\n\nThere are questions, too, for the major social media platforms, which enabled conspiracy theories to reach millions of people.\n\nLate on Friday, Twitter deleted the accounts of Mr Flynn, the former Trump advisor, the \"Kraken\" lawyers Ms Powell and Mr Wood, and Mr Watkins. Then Mr Trump himself.\n\nArrests of those who stormed the Capitol continue. But most of the rioters still live in a parallel online universe - a subterranean world filled with alternative facts.\n\nThey have already come up with fanciful explanations to dismiss Mr Trump's video statement, posted on Twitter the day after the riots, in which he acknowledged for the first time that \"a new administration will be inaugurated on 20 January\".\n\nHe can't possibly be giving up, they contend. Among their new theories - it's not really him in the video but a computer-generated \"deep fake\". Or perhaps the president is being held hostage.\n\nMany still believe Mr Trump will prevail.\n\nThere's no evidence behind any of this, but it does prove one thing.\n\nNo matter what happens to Donald Trump, the rioters who stormed the US Capitol are not backing down anytime soon.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Schools to stay closed until mid-February at least\n\nScotland's Covid-19 lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon told MSPs that transmission of the virus appeared to be declining but was still too high to ease restrictions.\n\nBut she hopes schools will be able to at least begin a phased return to the classroom in the middle of next month.\n\nThe level four restrictions have been in place since Boxing Day.\n\nMeanwhile the islands of Barra and Vatersay are being moved into the top level of restrictions due to a \"significant outbreak\" there.\n\nThe current restrictions, which have closed non-essential shops and seen a \"stay at home\" message put down in law, had been due to expire at the end of this month.\n\nBut Scottish government ministers agreed they should be extended after a cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning.\n\nMs Sturgeon told MSPs that lockdown was \"beginning to have an impact\" on the number of new infections, but said Scotland remained in a \"very precarious position\".\n\nShe added: \"We need to be realistic that any improvement we are seeing is down, at this stage, to the fact that we are staying at home and reducing our interactions.\n\n\"Any relaxation of lockdown while case numbers, even though they might be declining, nevertheless remain very high, could quickly send the situation into reverse.\"\n\nThe vast majority of Scottish pupils have been home learning since the Christmas holiday\n\nThe announcement came as 1,165 new cases of Covid-19 were registered in Scotland, representing 11.1% of tests carried out.\n\nA total of 1,989 people are in hospital with the virus while a further 71 deaths of people who recently tested positive have been logged.\n\nMs Sturgeon said there was \"real and severe\" pressure on health services, with around 30% more patients in hospital than at the peak of the first wave in April 2020, and that this was \"almost certain to rise for a further period yet\".\n\nSchool buildings and nurseries have been closed to most pupils since the start of term, with all but the children of some key workers and vulnerable pupils learning from home.\n\nNot only will schools remain closed to most pupils until at least mid-February, they are unlikely to return to normal at that point.\n\nThe first minister has indicated that her aim is to begin a phased return, if coronavirus allows. So what might that mean?\n\nThe groups that will get back into class first are likely to include secondary school exam year pupils, the youngest primary school children and those in P7 getting ready to move to high school.\n\nFor others, online learning is likely to last a bit longer.\n\nBoth the return to school and the continuation of the wider lockdown will be reviewed again in a fortnight on 2 Feb.\n\nBy that week, first doses of vaccine should have been offered to all over 80s in Scotland as well as frontline NHS and social care staff and care home residents.\n\nWith only 15-20% of the over 80s reached so far, opposition parties think the programme is slipping behind schedule, which the first minister denies.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she knew how \"challenging and stressful\" home schooling was for families, but said community transmission was \"too high\" to allow a safe return to classrooms.\n\nShe said: \"If it is at all possible, as I very much hope it will be, to begin even a phased return to in-school learning in mid-February, we will.\n\n\"But I also have to be straight with families and say that it is simply too early to be sure about whether and to what extent this will be possible.\"\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed that Scotland had vaccinated 6% of its adult population so far - the same percentage as Wales, but lower than the 8% that have been vaccinated in England and 8.7% in Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland has also given a second dose of the vaccine to 427,386 people, compared to only 3,698 in Scotland.\n\nMs Sturgeon said approximately 100,000 people were being vaccinated per week in Scotland, and that health teams were \"on track\" to expand this to 400,000 per week by the end of February.\n\nStatistics have suggested the vaccination programme in Scotland is currently lagging behind England\n\nMore than 90% of care home residents have now been given a first dose, along with 70% of care home staff and 70% of all frontline health and care workers.\n\nThe first minister said the focus on care homes - where it is \"time consuming and labour intensive\" to give out jabs - was \"why overall figures are at this stage lower than in England\", where more over-80s have received the vaccine.\n\nShe said the \"pace of progress in the over-80s group is also now picking up\", and that the government remained on track to hit its target of completing everyone on the priority list by early May.\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson said the Scottish government were \"lagging behind their own targets\" on vaccination, saying the focus on care homes \"doesn't explain how slowly the vaccine is reaching GP surgeries and the public\".\n\nShe read out a series of letters from elderly people who had not been contacted about getting a jab, saying they were \"anxious they don't get left behind\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said she would not apologise for \"prioritising the most vulnerable first\", saying all four UK nations were \"working to the same targets\".\n\nScottish Labour's interim leader Jackie Baillie asked if Ms Sturgeon was confident the government could hit its \"critical\" targets, saying GPs were still complaining about \"patchy\" distribution of vaccines.\n\nThe first minister replied that her government would hit its goals, saying it was \"always the intention\" to increase the pace of vaccination as infrastructure and supplies became available.\n\nThis would see care home residents, healthcare staff and all over-80s get a first dose by the start of February, with over-70s and those deemed \"extremely vulnerable\" by mid-February and all over-65s by the beginning of March.", "The last vestiges of the Trump presidency will be swept away on Wednesday, as the Bidens move into the White House. Desks will have been cleared out, rooms scrubbed clean and the president's aides will be replaced by a new team of political appointees. It's part of the massive transformation that a new presidency brings to the heart of government.\n\nOne evening last week, Stephen Miller, a policy adviser and central figure in the Trump White House, was lounging in the West Wing.\n\nMiller, who has crafted speeches and policies for the president since his early days in office, is also one of the few members of the president's initial team still with him at the end.\n\nLeaning against a wall and chatting with colleagues about a meeting scheduled for later that day, he seemed in no hurry to leave.\n\nThe West Wing usually hums with activity but it seemed deserted. The phones were quiet. Desks in empty offices were cluttered with papers and unopened letters, as if people had left in a hurry and would not be coming back. Dozens of senior officials and aides quit in the wake of the Capitol riots on 6 January. A handful of loyalists, like Miller, remain.\n\nAs the conversation began to wind down, he broke away from his colleagues. When I asked him where he was headed next, he smiled. \"Back to my office,\" he said and sauntered down the hall.\n\nOn inauguration day, Miller's office will have been cleaned out, swept of signs that he and his colleagues had ever been there, ready for the Biden team to move in.\n\nThe cleaning out of West Wing offices, and the transition between presidents, is part of a tradition that dates back centuries. It's a process that has not always been imbued with warmth.\n\nAnother impeached president, Andrew Johnson, a Democrat, snubbed Republican Ulysses S Grant in 1869 and skipped the inauguration. Grant, who had backed Johnson's removal from office, was hardly surprised.\n\nStaff have started moving paperwork and pictures out of the White House\n\nThis year, however, the transition stands out for its acrimony. The process usually starts straight after the election, but it started weeks late after Trump refused to accept the result. And the president has said he will not attend the inauguration. Most likely, he will instead travel to his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.\n\nStill, the handover is taking place, just as it has in the past. \"The system is holding,\" says Sean Wilentz, a professor of American history at Princeton University. \"It's very rocky, it's very bumpy, but nevertheless the transition is going to occur.\"\n\nEven in the best of times, the logistics of a transition are daunting, involving the transfer of knowledge and employees on a massive scale.\n\nStephen Miller is just one of 4,000 political appointees hired by the Trump administration who will lose their job and be replaced by individuals hired by Mr Biden.\n\nDuring an average transition, between 150,000-300,000 people apply for these jobs, according to the Center for Presidential Transition, a nonpartisan organisation based in Washington. About 1,100 of the positions also require Senate confirmation. Filling all of these positions takes months, even years.\n\nFour years of policy papers, briefing books and artefacts relating to the president's work will be carted off to the National Archives where they will be kept secret for 12 years, unless the president himself decides that portions may be released early.\n\nOn a weekday evening during Trump's last week in office, the door to the office of Kayleigh McEnany, the president's press secretary, was partly open.\n\nMcEnany has been one of the president's most high-profile defenders. Impeccably groomed, she is a precise speaker who maintains her composure amidst chaos.\n\nKayleigh McEnany has packed up her office in the White House\n\nHer office, too, was organised in a meticulous manner, even as she prepared to leave. A mirror stood on her desk, and several fireplace logs were wrapped in clear plastic and packed up.\n\nGenerally, the last few days are \"controlled chaos,\" says Kate Andersen Brower, who has written a book about the White House, The Residence.\n\nFurniture in the White House, such as the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, most of the artwork, china and other objects, belong to the government and will remain on the premises.\n\nBut other items, like photos of the president that hang in the hallway, will be taken down as the White House is transformed for its new occupants.\n\nStaffers are already moving some items out of the building. One White House staffer, a woman in sturdy heels, was lugging several images of First Lady Melania Trump out of the East Wing. The pictures are known as \"jumbos\" because of their extra-large size, she says, and they will be taken to the National Archives.\n\nThe Trumps' personal belongings, such as clothes, jewellery, and other items will be moved to their new residence, most likely at Mar-a-Lago in Florida.\n\nAnd this year, the place will be deep cleaned.\n\nPresident Biden is expected to make decorative changes to the Oval Office\n\nThe president, as well as Mr Miller and dozens of others at the White House, were infected with the coronavirus over the past several months, and the six-floor building, with its 132 rooms, will be thoroughly scrubbed down. Everything from handrails to elevator buttons to restroom fixtures will be wiped and sanitised, according to a spokeswoman for the General Services Administration, the federal agency that oversees the housekeeping effort.\n\nIncoming first families usually do some redecoration. Within days of arriving at the White House, Mr Trump had chosen a portrait of populist president Andrew Jackson for the Oval Office. He also replaced the drapes, couches and a rug in the office with ones that were gold-coloured.\n\nOn inauguration day, Vice-President Pence and his wife will also make way for Kamala Harris, and her husband, Doug Emhoff. They will be settling into their official residence, a 19th Century residence on the Naval Observatory grounds, a couple of miles from the White House.\n\nPolicy adviser Stephen Miller may have lingered in the West Wing, but others were ready to go. At the White House, people were lugging thick manila envelopes, framed photos and bags from a gift shop. \"It's my last day,\" says one man, smiling as he took a photo of his sons on the north lawn. A bulging backpack was slung over his shoulder.\n\nA group of National Security officials posed in front of the West Wing, asking me to take their picture. \"Make sure you get the marine guard,\" says one of the officials, referring to a marine who stands in front of the doorway when the president is in the Oval Office. The officials were in high spirits, joking and vamping for the camera.\n\nThe political appointees at the White House were in a good mood for a reason. For weeks, they had been caught in an in-between world. Their boss was denying the validity of the election, but they knew that their days were numbered. Now they could plan openly for their future, and they seemed almost giddy.\n\nOne political appointee, a man dressed in a dark suit, was already making plans. He ran into a colleague outside the Palm room, a reception area on the ground floor. \"See you on the flip side,\" he said, brightly. He was referring to the time after the inauguration, when they will both be out of their White House jobs. He mused about where they might meet again. \"Hopefully in the Greek isles or somewhere.\"\n\n\"Oh, yes. That is for sure,\" said his colleague, laughing. They smacked a high-five and then parted ways.", "Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has confirmed the government is looking at scrapping some EU labour laws now it is no longer bound by the bloc's rules.\n\nBut he promised there would be no dilution of workers' rights.\n\nMeasures under consideration include relaxing the working time directive which enshrines a 48-hour week.\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband warned the government wanted to take a \"wrecking ball\" to hard-won rights.\n\nEarlier this week Mr Kwarteng said he wanted to \"protect and enhance\" labour law after the Financial Times reported that some rules could be weakened.\n\nThe minister later told business leaders the UK had an opportunity to reform regulation derived from EU law, but would not deliberately antagonise the EU - its biggest trading partner - immediately after the Brexit deal.\n\nConfirming the review on Tuesday, Mr Kwarteng told MPs there would be no \"bonfire of rights\".\n\n\"I think the view was that we wanted to look at the whole range of issues relating to our EU membership and examine what we wanted to keep, if you like,\" he said.\n\nBut he said \"the idea that we are trying to whittle down standards, that's not at all plausible or true\".\n\nAppearing before MPs, the business secretary said: \"I'm very struck as I look at EU economies how many EU countries - I think it's about 17 or 18 - have essentially opted out of the working time directive.\n\n\"So even by just following that we are way above the average European standard and I want to maintain that. I think we can be a high-wage, high-employment economy, a very successful economy, and that's what we should be aiming for.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kwasi Kwarteng This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Miliband said that after denying the FT's report, Mr Kwarteng had now \"let the cat out of the bag\" in admitting the government was conducting a review.\n\nHe warned that opting out of the 48-hour week would harm workers in key sectors like the NHS, road haulage and airlines from working excessive hours.\n\n\"A government committed to maintaining existing protections would not be reviewing whether they should be unpicked. This exposes that the government's priorities for Britain are totally wrong.\"\n\nDrew Hendry, the SNP's business spokesman, echoed the criticism, accusing the government of planning an \"assault\" on workers' rights.\n\nMeanwhile the boss of the UK's biggest recruitment firm, Reed, told the BBC's Today programme that there was \"no wish\" among employers to see \"a so-called bonfire of workers' rights.\n\n\"They must be protected because fair treatment is the bedrock of good workplace relations,\" James Reed said.\n\nThe chairman of the firm said the government should instead focus on lower-paid workers and measures that could be taken to improve unemployment, which is set to rise further into mid-2021.\n\n\"I would suggest two things are looked at before any EU rules: The apprenticeship levy, which is clearly failing... and also National Insurance on jobs. It's a tax on jobs - how can that be improved? Especially to help the low-paid back into work.\"\n\nUnder the post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, the UK has agreed to conditions that maintain fair competition, or a level playing field, between the two sides.\n\nHowever, the EU's ambassador to the UK, Joao Vale de Almeida, said Brussels could retaliate if Boris Johnson's government went too far in with deregulation.\n\n\"It will be for us to judge the extent to which it violates this principle of 'level playing field' and if that is the case there are mechanisms in the treaty, in the agreement, that allow us to discuss and eventually to come to an understanding,\" he said on Tuesday.\n\n\"If no understanding there are retaliation measures that can be applied on both sides.\"", "At 12:01, in the midst of his inaugural address, Joe Biden officially became the 46th president of the United States.\n\nHe was already well into outlining exactly how daunting a task he - and the nation - have ahead in what he called its \"winter of peril\".\n\nAmerica is facing a devastating pandemic which has resulted in massive job losses and business closures, a threatened environment, urgent cries for racial justice and resurgence in \"political extremism, white supremacy and domestic terrorism\".\n\nHis speech was not a laundry list of proposals and solutions. Those were reserved for his first 17 executive actions as president - on immigration, climate change, transgender rights and public health, among others.\n\nThe Biden administration has also frozen all of Trump's last-minute regulations pending further review.\n\nInstead, Biden used his speech to offer hope - and to argue, at times forcefully, that the nation must be united in facing the challenges ahead; that it has to move past its current \"uncivil war\".\n\n\"Without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury,\" he said. \"No progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos.\"\n\n\"This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge,\" he continued. \"And unity is the path forward\".\n\nAt times, Biden's speech seemed a direct rebuttal to his predecessor's administration, although he did not mention Donald Trump by name.\n\nWhere Trump frequently spoke of American greatness and glorified its founders, Biden noted that the nation's history has been a \"constant struggle\" between its ideals and sometimes harsh realities.\n\nWhere Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway spoke of \"alternative facts\" almost four years ago, Biden said: \"There is truth and there are lies - lies told for power and for profit.\"\n\nBiden wrapped up his inaugural address by warning that America must not \"turn inward\" - both as individuals retreating into \"competing factions\" and as a nation on the world stage.\n\n\"We will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again,\" he said.\n\nRhetorically, Biden turned the page from Trump's days of \"America first\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first 100 days of any administration are always important to a new president. What are his priorities? What will he try to accomplish when his political capital is at its highest?\n\nJoe Biden and his presidential team have had nearly three months to plan out his first actions upon taking the oath of office, but executive action is the (relatively) easy part.\n\nHis speech reflected the reality that he enters office with his top priorities already determined for him.\n\nHis government will be responsible for distributing the coronavirus vaccine in an efficient and equitable way. After that, he will have to focus on the societal and economic disruptions caused by the pandemic.\n\nThe virus has exacerbated income inequality and pushed many households to the brink of economic ruin. It's devastated the travel and hospitality industries and placed incredible strain on the finances of state and local governments.\n\nHis pledge to seek unity will be tested early, as he pushes a sharply divided Congress to pass another, massive round of pandemic stimulus aid. If he wants to enact it quickly, he will need Republican support in the Senate, and already there are signs that some on the right may be lining up in opposition to more spending.\n\nThen there's Trump's Senate impeachment trial, which will present yet another challenge to national unity. It will keep Trump's name in the news for weeks, as his defenders rally to his side and his detractors call for consequences for his actions.\n\nAfter that, Biden's potential political paths diverge. He has said he wants to improve healthcare in the US, address growing college debt, make new investments in infrastructure and tackle climate change.\n\nHe's pledged to push immigration reform legislation that includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented migrants - a political lightning rod that helped fuel Trump's first presidential run.\n\nWhat he prioritises, and how successful his first efforts are, could determine the overall success of his administration. To make lasting change - policies that can't be undone by future presidents - he will have to work with Congress.\n\nThe inauguration ceremony is over. But, as Biden noted in his speech, the American people face one of the most challenging times in their nation's history.\n\n\"We will be judged by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era,\" he said.\n\nBiden campaigned against Trump for the opportunity to face those crises. Now he has his chance.", "Anyone going on a Saga holiday or cruise in 2021 must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the tour operator has said.\n\nSaga, which specialises in holidays for the over-50s, said it wanted to protect customers' health and safety.\n\nThe firm said it would delay restarting its travel packages until May to give customers enough time to get jabs.\n\nPeople over 50 in the UK have been rushing to book holidays as vaccinations boost confidence.\n\n\"The health and safety of our customers has always been our number one priority at Saga, so we have taken the decision to require everyone travelling with us to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19,\" Saga said in a statement.\n\n\"Our customers want the reassurance of the vaccine and to know others travelling with them will be vaccinated too.\"\n\nThe firm's holidays were due to restart in March and its cruises in April after a long hiatus, but they will now both be delayed.\n\nSaga said that meant all trips before May would no longer go ahead as planned, acknowledging it would be \"a huge disappointment\" to customers.\n\n\"We will be contacting all guests affected to discuss their options,\" it said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Singapore's 'cruises to nowhere' set back by Covid scare\n\nThe firm said its vaccination policy added to stronger safety processes already planned for when its holidays resume.\n\nThese include requiring cruise passengers to have a Covid-19 test before their trip, as well as a full medical screening.\n\nCapacity on its ships will also be kept to a maximum of 800 people.\n\nThere were some severe covid outbreaks on cruise ships early on the pandemic, before coronavirus restrictions were imposed.\n\nBritish-registered ship the Diamond Princess, owned by the company Carnival, was quarantined for nearly a month in February in the Port of Yokohama in Japan.\n\nMore than 700 of its 3,711 passengers and crew were infected, and 14 died.\n\nThe UK has embarked on a mass vaccination programme as Covid-19 cases surge.\n\nPeople in England are being vaccinated at a rate of 140 jabs per minute, NHS England boss Sir Simon Stevens said this week.\n\nExperts believe in future that airlines, concert venues and restaurants could routinely ask customers to prove that they have been vaccinated.\n\nAnd last week, London plumbing firm Pimlico Plumbers said that all of its staff would be contractually obliged to get the jab.", "The government does not know how many cases might be affected by hundreds of thousands of police records being accidentally wiped, the PM has said.\n\nBoris Johnson told the House of Commons the police were working \"round the clock\" to rectify the error.\n\nAround 400,000 fingerprint, DNA and arrest records were deleted from the police database.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel said it was not yet known whether any of the data had been permanently lost.\n\nSpeaking during Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"The Home Office is actively working to assess the damage and... they believe that they will be able to rectify the results of this complex incident and they hope very much that they'll be able to restore the data in question.\"\n\nAsked by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer how many convicted criminals had had their records wrongly deleted, Mr Johnson said: \"We don't know how many cases might be frustrated as a result of what has happened.\"\n\nHe added: \"Of course it is outrageous that any data should have been lost.\"\n\nLast week it was revealed that the information was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nAn estimated 213,000 offence records, 175,000 arrest records and 15,000 records on people were potentially incorrectly deleted as a result of a defective code.\n\nMs Patel, who has launched an internal investigation, told ITV's Good Morning Britain that criminals would not get away with serious crimes as a result of the error.\n\n\"It is not about serious criminals getting away with anything. Multiple records are held on the same individuals on the same crimes on other profiling systems as well.\"\n\nShe told the BBC that officials could be instructed to re-submit the entries manually.\n\n\"I'm also clear with Home Office engineers and technicians that if we have to do manual uploads from other systems, that is effectively what we will do and that will potentially take time, but that is another option for us right now.\n\n\"We will absolutely provide updates once we know what has happened in terms of retrieving data. This will take time because it is a coding error.\"\n\nThe Home Office previously said that the faulty script was introduced in November 2020, but it did not run until earlier this month when the error within it immediately became apparent.", "After vowing to uphold and defend the Constitution of United States, Joe Biden has been officially sworn in as the 46th US president.\n\nThe new president's oath of office was administered by Chief Justice John G Roberts.\n\nRead more:Joe Biden becomes the 46th US president", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Hill We Climb: Watch 22-year-old Amanda Gorman's poem reading at Joe Biden's inauguration\n\nAmanda Gorman has become the youngest poet ever to perform at a presidential inauguration, calling for \"unity and togetherness\" in her self-penned poem.\n\nThe 22-year-old delivered her work The Hill We Climb to both the dignitaries present in Washington DC and a watching global audience.\n\n\"When day comes, we ask ourselves where can we find light in this never-ending shade?\" her five-minute poem began.\n\nShe went on to reference the storming of the Capitol earlier this month.\n\n\"We've seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it, would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy,\" she declared.\n\n\"And this effort very nearly succeeded. But while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated.\"\n\nThe poet was applauded by Vice President Kamala Harris\n\nIn her poem, Gorman described herself as \"a skinny black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother [who] can dream of becoming president, only to find her self reciting for one\".\n\nAmerica's first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate did her job, which was to find the right words at the right time.\n\nIt was a beautifully paced, well-judged poem for a special occasion, but it will live long beyond the time and space of the moment.\n\nAmanda Gorman delivered her piece with grace, the words it contained will resonate with people the world over: today, tomorrow, and far into the future.\n\nThe writer and performer, who became the country's first National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017, followed in the footsteps of such famous names as Robert Frost and Maya Angelou.\n\n\"I really wanted to use my words to be a point of unity and collaboration and togetherness,\" Gorman told the BBC World Service's Newshour programme before the ceremony.\n\n\"I think it's about a new chapter in the United States, about the future, and doing that through the elegance and beauty of words.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS broadcaster and actress Oprah Winfrey tweeted that she had \"never been prouder to see another young woman rise\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Oprah Winfrey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlso on Twitter, Joanne Liu, the former head of aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières, described the poem as \"the most inspiring 5:43 minutes for the longest time\".\n\nFormer First Lady Michelle Obama praised Gorman's \"strong and poignant words\" adding: \"Keep shining, Amanda!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Michelle Obama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUS politician and rights activist Stacey Abrams said the poem was \"an inspiration to us all\".\n\nFormer presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tweeted that Gorman had promised to run for president in 2036 and added: \"I for one can't wait.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIllinois poet laureate Angela Jackson said the recitation was \"so rich and just so filled with truth\".\n\n\"I was stunned that she was so young and so wise,\" Jackson told the Chicago Sun-Times.\n\nGorman said she \"screamed and danced her head off\" when she found out she had been chosen to read at President Biden's swearing-in ceremony.\n\nShe said she felt \"excitement, joy, honour and humility\" when she was asked to take part, \"and also at the same time terror\".\n\nAnd she added that she hoped her poem, completed on the day supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol, would \"speak to the moment\" and \"do this time justice\".\n\nGorman, pictured with actor Morgan Freeman in 2018, became LA's youth poet laureate at 16\n\nBorn in Los Angeles in 1998, Gorman had a speech impediment as a child - an affliction she shares with America's new president.\n\n\"It's made me the performer that I am and the storyteller that I strive to be,\" she said in a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times.\n\n\"When you have to teach yourself how to say sounds [and] be highly concerned about pronunciation, it gives you a certain awareness of sonics, of the auditory experience.\"\n\nGorman became LA's youth poet laureate at 16. Three years later, while studying sociology at Harvard, she became National Youth Poet Laureate.\n\nShe published her first book, The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough, in 2015 and will publish a picture book, Change Sings, later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kamala Harris was sworn into office by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.\n\nKamala Harris has made history as the first female, first black and first Asian-American US vice-president.\n\nShe was sworn in just before Joe Biden took the oath of office to become the 46th US president.\n\nMs Harris, who is of Indian-Jamaican heritage, initially ran for the Democratic nomination.\n\nBut Mr Biden won the race and chose Ms Harris as his running mate, describing her as \"a fearless fighter for the little guy\".\n\nPrior to taking the oath at the US Capitol, Ms Harris paid tribute to the women who she says came before her.\n\n\"I stand on their shoulders,\" she said in a video.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kamala Harris This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEugene Goodman, the Capitol police officer who was hailed as a hero for steering a pro-Trump mob away from Senate chambers during the 6 January riot, escorted Ms Harris at the inauguration.\n\nMs Harris, 56, was born in Oakland, California, to two immigrant parents: an Indian-born mother and Jamaican-born father.\n\nKamala, left, as child with her mother and younger sister Maya\n\nShe went on to attend Howard University, one of the nation's preeminent historically black colleges and universities. She has described her time there as among the most formative experiences of her life.\n\nMs Harris says she's always been comfortable with her identity and simply describes herself as \"an American\".\n\nAfter four years at Howard, Ms Harris went on to earn her law degree at the University of California, Hastings, and began her career in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.\n\nShe became the district attorney - the top prosecutor - for San Francisco in 2003, before being elected the first female and the first African American to serve as California's attorney general, the top lawyer and law enforcement official in America's most populous state.\n\nIn her nearly two terms in office as attorney general, Ms Harris gained a reputation as one of the Democratic party's rising stars, using this momentum to propel her to election as California's junior US senator in 2017. She was only the second black woman ever elected to the US senate.\n\nShe launched her candidacy for president to a crowd of more than 20,000 in Oakland at the beginning of 2019.\n\nBut Ms Harris failed to articulate a clear rationale for her campaign, and gave muddled answers to questions in key policy areas like healthcare.\n\nShe was also unable to capitalise on the clear high point of her candidacy: debate performances that showed off her prosecutorial skills, often placing Mr Biden in the line of attack, most notably criticising his praise for the \"civil\" working relationship he had with former senators who favoured racial segregation.\n\nShe dropped out of the presidential race in December 2019.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut Mr Biden chose her as his number two in August, calling her \"one of the country's finest public servants\".\n\nAfter Mr Biden was announced as the next president in November, Ms Harris tweeted a video of her congratulating her running mate.\n\n\"We did it, we did it Joe. You're going to be the next president of the United States!\" she beamed.", "Sophie Davies, from Shropshire, recovering from cervical cancer, says delays to screening could be a matter of life and death\n\nSmear-test delays during lockdown have prompted calls for home-screening kits.\n\nCervical cancer screening has restarted across the UK - but some women say they will not attend their appointments for fear of catching Covid.\n\nJo's Cervical Cancer Trust is urging \"faster action\" on home tests for HPV, which causes 99% of cervical cancers.\n\nAn NHS official said GP practices should continue screening throughout lockdown, and \"anyone invited for a cervical smear test should attend\".\n\nCancer Research UK said it was not yet known how effective and accurate self-sampling could be in cervical screening.\n\nScreenings in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have restarted after being halted during the first lockdown.\n\nIn England, the NHS told GPs and clinics not to halt smear tests - but, as the prime minister heard last week, some patients were experiencing cancellations and long waiting times.\n\nAbout 600,000 tests had failed to go ahead in the UK in April and May, Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust said, in addition to a backlog of 1.5 million appointments missed annually.\n\nIn March, Sophie Davies was told she needed a hysterectomy \"within the month\" but had to wait until December for surgery\n\nA survey by gynaecological cancer charity the Eve Appeal indicates nearly one in three missed smear tests are the result of people being \"put off\" by coronavirus.\n\nAnd a Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust survey during the pandemic suggests the same proportion would prefer to take their own human-papillomavirus (HPV) test rather than go to a GP.\n\nActing chief executive Rebecca Shoosmith said coronavirus had added \"more barriers\" to going for a smear test.\n\n\"Sadly those who found it difficult before are likely to be no closer to getting tested,\" she said.\n\nBoth charities emphasise smear tests are for \"women and anyone with a cervix\" and transgender and non-binary people may have additional barriers to going.\n\nJo's Cervical Cancer Trust said DIY tests could also help people who had been sexually assaulted and those with disabilities or from backgrounds where smear tests were taboo.\n\nSamantha Renke felt anxious about catching coronavirus when she went for her smear test\n\nSamantha Renke had received an abnormal test result and needed to go for a follow-up test during the pandemic.\n\nThe broadcaster and campaigner, who has brittle bones and uses a wheelchair, said a home-testing kit would have made things easier.\n\n\"I am at very high risk of getting seriously ill from Covid-19,\" the 35-year-old, from Lancashire, said.\n\n\"So I was incredibly anxious sitting in the waiting room for my test.\n\n\"Women with a physical disability are so much more likely to find cervical screening difficult, to the point where it can sometimes be impossible just to get through the door.\n\n\"We shouldn't have to fight to get this life-saving test.\n\n\"Self-sampling would be so much easier for people like me.\n\n\"It would allow me to take my health into my own hands.\"\n\nIshita Ranjan said talk of smear tests was taboo in traditional South Asian families\n\nIshita Ranjan finally went for her smear test in August, having put it off for a \"really long time\".\n\n\"In most traditional South Asian families, women's sexual health is not something you talk about openly,\" the 31-year-old, from London, said.\n\n\"Young women are left to figure this stuff out.\n\n\"Until you get married, older female relatives find it problematic to share that kind of information.\"\n\nA fear of catching coronavirus could be also stopping people belonging to ethnic minorities attending appointments.\n\n\"We have seen high Covid infection and death rates and people are genuinely scared,\" Ms Ranjan said.\n\n\"And it's really important that you do still go and do it.\n\n\"I was in and out in five minutes, no sitting around waiting rooms.\"\n\nHelen Austin founded At your Cervix, a support network for people who find smear tests difficult\n\nAfter experiencing sexual violence, it took Helen Austin 10 years to work up the courage to go for her smear test.\n\n\"When my first invite arrived through the post, years ago, my body froze, and I then ripped it up,\" she said.\n\nSelf-sampling would have given her time and privacy, the 35-year-old, from Lincolnshire, said.\n\n\"If my appointment had been during the pandemic and I could not have brought someone I trust with me to help me, I would never have gone,\" she said.\n\n\"Other trauma survivors I speak to find wearing a mask triggering and are putting off attending their test partly for this reason too.\"\n\nSophie Davies, 32, saw in the new year alone in hospital, after having a hysterectomy\n\nAfter developing a rare form of cervical cancer, Sophie Davies had a trachelectomy to remove her cervix, in April 2018, allowing doctors to save her ovaries and two-thirds of her womb.\n\nBut in March 2020, she was told the risk of cancer coming back meant she needed a hysterectomy and the removal of both ovaries.\n\n\"I was advised the operation needed to be done 'the sooner the better' and 'within the month',\" the 32-year-old, from Shropshire, said.\n\nAnd she had an \"agonising\" wait, until 30 December, for her surgery.\n\n\"I'm still awaiting my results, more than three weeks on, and praying I have not been left for the best part of a year with cancer growing inside me,\" Ms Davies said.\n\n\"These months of delay could be the difference in saving fertility or losing fertility.\n\n\"It could be the difference in needing chemotherapy or radiotherapy or not needing it, or could be the difference of life or death.\"\n\nCancer Research UK early diagnosis head Dr Jodie Moffat said research was under way to understand how effective and accurate self-sampling could be in cervical screening.\n\nBut getting more people screened \"is not the only hurdle to overcome\".\n\n\"The NHS is under immense pressure and would need more staff and equipment to ensure patients receive their results and any follow-up treatment as quickly as possible,\" she said.\n\nAn NHS official said: \"The NHS guidance that cervical screening should continue has not changed, which has been communicated to GP practices, which have adjusted the way they work to remain open and safe, while local NHS services across the country have put extra measures in place to protect people from coronavirus and so anyone invited for a cervical smear test should attend.\"", "The government has unveiled details of a £23m fund to support fishing firms as it tries to quell industry anger over Brexit border delays.\n\nThe money will help firms whose exports to the EU have fallen sharply since rules changed on 1 January.\n\nFishing firms say extra paperwork has made it difficult to deliver fresh produce to the EU before it goes off, hammering their businesses.\n\nOne trade group called the fund \"welcome\" but a \"sticking plaster\".\n\nOn Monday, fish exporters held demonstrations outside government departments in central London, warning their livelihoods were under threat.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson admitted many had experienced \"bureaucratic delays [and] difficulties getting their goods through\" to buyers on the other side of the channel.\n\nHaving left the EU's customs union and the single market, UK exports are subject to new customs and veterinary checks which have caused problems at the border.\n\nCovid has worsened the issue, with the industry also facing lower market prices and demand from restaurants due to the pandemic.\n\nThe government said the scheme would be targeted at small and medium-sized fishing businesses who will be able to claim a maximum of £100,000 to cover losses.\n\nChief Secretary to the Treasury Steve Barclay said: \"This further £23m package of support will help our hardworking fishing sector navigate the challenges of the next few months.\n\n\"It is vital that no community nor region within our United Kingdom is left behind as we continue to support British jobs and build back better from the coronavirus pandemic.\"\n\nIn addition to funding, the government will provide further training to help fishing businesses adapt to the new export processes.\n\nSeparately, the prime minister committed to providing a further £100m to help modernise UK fishing fleets and the fish processing industry.\n\nDonna Fordyce, chief executive of Seafood Scotland, said: \"After almost three weeks of voicing their concerns and frustrations, we welcome the fact that the Scottish seafood sector has been heard and action is being taken.\n\n\"This [fund] will offer a ray of light to some small and medium-sized companies that have experienced crippling losses over the past few weeks.\"\n\nHowever, while the money was \"a much-needed sticking plaster\", she said it would not \"completely staunch the wound\".\n\n\"The sector still needs a period of grace during which the [new trade] systems must be overhauled so they are fit for purpose.\"", "Under current rules, cafes and restaurants are only allowed to provide a takeaway service.\n\nNine Met Police officers have been fined for breaching lockdown rules to meet at a cafe while on duty.\n\nPictures emerged online showing the officers, from the South East Basic Command Unit, eating at The Chef House Kitchen Cafe, Greenwich, on 9 January.\n\nAll nine officers have been issued with a £200 fixed penalty notice.\n\nCh Supt Rob Atkin, said: \"It is right that they will pay a financial penalty and that they will be asked to reflect on their choices.\n\n\"Police officers are tasked with enforcing the legislation that has been introduced to stop the spread of the virus and the public rightly expect that they will set an example through their own actions.\n\n\"It is disappointing that on this occasion, these officers have fallen short of that expectation.\"\n\nThe group were spotted by a member of the public in the Greenwich cafe while their patrol vehicles were parked outside.\n\nUnder current rules, cafes and restaurants are only allowed to provide a takeaway service.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPaul Pogba scored a superb winner as Manchester United reclaimed top spot in the Premier League by coming from behind for a club-record equalling away win at Fulham.\n\nIn what is becoming a familiar pattern for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side outside Manchester this season, they fell behind early in the game, with Ademola Lookman beating the offside trap before firing in an angled drive.\n\nBut for the seventh time away from Old Trafford in 2020-21, United found a winning response - taking their run to 17 games unbeaten away in the Premier League - courtesy of a gift from their opponents and a bit of magic from their French midfielder.\n\nGoalkeeper Alphonse Areola has been a good addition for the Cottagers but in dropping Bruno Fernandes' cross at the feet of Edinson Cavani, he gifted his former Paris St-Germain team-mate the simplest of equalisers.\n\nAnd on the hour mark, Pogba stepped up to decide the contest, firing a superb angled drive across the diving Areola and into the far corner from 20 yards.\n\nThe France international has come in for criticism at times this season but received nothing but praise from his manager after his winner.\n\n\"I am very happy with his performances,\" said Solskjaer.\n\n\"I know what he can do. He does everything. Now he is putting all the elements together in his performances and it is great to see.\n\n\"It was about getting him fit. He is enjoying his football, he is happy and physically in a good shape.\"\n\nThe win takes United to 40 points, two more than both Leicester and Manchester City, who had briefly taken top spot from the Foxes with a 2-0 win over Aston Villa on Wednesday.\n\nSolskjaer, though, was reluctant to get drawn into discussing his side's title credentials with so much of the campaign to go.\n\n\"It is always going to be talked about that when you are halfway through and top of the league, but we are not thinking about this, we just have to go one game at a time,\" he added. \"It is such an unpredictable season.\"\n\nFulham remain in the bottom three, four points behind 17th-placed Burnley.\n• None Man Utd or Man City to end day top? Cassia bassist Lou Cotterill takes on Lawro\n\nSolskjaer felt his side missed a big opportunity to fully assert their title credentials in failing to make the most of their chances in Sunday's 0-0 draw at champions Liverpool.\n\nUnited were clearly in no mood to repeat such a mistake at a wet and windy Craven Cottage on Wednesday against a less daunting and defining opposition, but one that is far more robust now than they were in the season's first month.\n\nThe visitors fell behind, but this is par for the course for this side, who once again did not panic, wrestled control of the game away from their opponents and took the win.\n\nIt is a handy trick for a title-challenging side to have in their locker, although one they would rather not have to repeatedly pull.\n\nIn truth, they should have won more handsomely.\n\nThey had the far greater share of possession and territory and were well ahead of their opponents on shots taken until a frantic finale in which the Cottagers threw in all they had in pursuit of a point.\n\nFred felt he should have had a penalty in the first half courtesy of being caught in the box by a loose challenge from Ruben Loftus-Cheek, but both on-field and VAR officials disagreed.\n\nHarry Maguire twice headed wide from corners, the first from a far less forgivable, unmarked position than the second.\n\nEqually, though, it is a game that could have seen them drop points, especially in light of Fulham's late barrage, which saw David de Gea save superbly with his legs to deny Loftus-Cheek, and the ball pinballing around the United box on more than one occasion.\n\nThe Cottagers demonstrated that they are no pushover, but they are making of habit of being on the rough end of fine margins.\n\nFive straight draws followed by two defeats by a single goal suggests their battle against the drop will go right down to the wire.\n\n\"I'm really pleased but I'm disappointed at the same time, which shows how far we've come,\" said Cottagers boss Scott Parker.\n\n\"I saw a team today that looked threatening and tried their hardest to get back into the game, but we go again. The next challenge is to maintain where we are and don't let defeat sink us.\n\n\"No doubt we can win and operate in this division and we just need to push on and keep improving.\"\n\nUnited lead the way in early concessions\n• None No side has conceded more goals in the opening five minutes of Premier League games this season than Manchester United (4). Manchester United have won seven Premier League games having gone behind this season - only Newcastle in 2001-02 (10) and Man Utd themselves in 2012-13 (9) have done so more in a single campaign.\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their last 17 Premier League away games (W13 D4), equalling their longest ever unbeaten run on the road in top-flight history (17 between December 1998 and September 1999).\n• None This was the 41st different game in which Fulham had led in all competitions under Scott Parker, but the first time they had lost such a game (W34 D6).\n• None Edinson Cavani became the first Man Utd player whose first four Premier League goals for the club were all scored away from home.\n• None Since his return to the club in 2016, no Man Utd player has scored more league goals from outside the box than Paul Pogba (6).\n• None Ademola Lookman has been involved in more Premier League goals than any other Fulham player this season (6 - 3 goals, 3 assists).\n• None Bruno Fernandes has gone three Premier League games without a goal or assist for the first time since his Manchester United debut in February 2020.\n\nFulham's next game is in the FA Cup, against Burnley on Sunday (14:30 GMT). Their next league fixture, an away game on Wednesday, 27 January, is a big one. Opponents Brighton are two places and five points above them in the table.\n\nManchester United host Liverpool in the FA Cup on Sunday at 17:00, live on the BBC. They are also in league action the following Wednesday hosting the league's bottom club Sheffield United in a 20:15 kick-off.\n• None Attempt missed. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Fulham) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Kenny Tete with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ademola Lookman (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mario Lemina.\n• None Offside, Fulham. Aboubakar Kamara tries a through ball, but Kenny Tete is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Mario Lemina (Fulham) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Aboubakar Kamara.\n• None Attempt blocked. Joe Bryan (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Fulham) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right following a fast break.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fred (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Maguire with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis is America's day. This is democracy's day. A day of history and hope, of renewal and resolve. Through a crucible for the ages, America has been tested anew and America has risen to the challenge. Today we celebrate the triumph not of a candidate but of a cause, a cause of democracy. The people - the will of the people - has been heard, and the will of the people has been heeded.\n\nWe've learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile and, at this hour my friends, democracy has prevailed. So now on this hallowed ground where just a few days ago violence sought to shake the Capitol's very foundations, we come together as one nation under God - indivisible - to carry out the peaceful transfer of power as we have for more than two centuries.\n\nAs we look ahead in our uniquely American way, restless, bold, optimistic, and set our sights on a nation we know we can be and must be, I thank my predecessors of both parties for their presence here. I thank them from the bottom of my heart. And I know the resilience of our Constitution and the strength, the strength of our nation, as does President Carter, who I spoke with last night who cannot be with us today, but who we salute for his lifetime of service.\n\nI've just taken a sacred oath each of those patriots have taken. The oath first sworn by George Washington. But the American story depends not on any one of us, not on some of us, but on all of us. On we the people who seek a more perfect union. This is a great nation, we are good people. And over the centuries through storm and strife in peace and in war we've come so far. But we still have far to go.\n\nWe'll press forward with speed and urgency for we have much to do in this winter of peril and significant possibility. Much to do, much to heal, much to restore, much to build and much to gain. Few people in our nation's history have been more challenged or found a time more challenging or difficult than the time we're in now. A once in a century virus that silently stalks the country has taken as many lives in one year as in all of World War Two.\n\nMillions of jobs have been lost. Hundreds of thousands of businesses closed. A cry for racial justice, some 400 years in the making, moves us. The dream of justice for all will be deferred no longer. A cry for survival comes from the planet itself, a cry that can't be any more desperate or any more clear now. The rise of political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism, that we must confront and we will defeat.\n\nTo overcome these challenges, to restore the soul and secure the future of America, requires so much more than words. It requires the most elusive of all things in a democracy - unity. Unity. In another January on New Year's Day in 1863 Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. When he put pen to paper the president said, and I quote, 'if my name ever goes down in history, it'll be for this act, and my whole soul is in it'.\n\nMy whole soul is in it today, on this January day. My whole soul is in this. Bringing America together, uniting our people, uniting our nation. And I ask every American to join me in this cause. Uniting to fight the foes we face - anger, resentment and hatred. Extremism, lawlessness, violence, disease, joblessness, and hopelessness.\n\nWith unity we can do great things, important things. We can right wrongs, we can put people to work in good jobs, we can teach our children in safe schools. We can overcome the deadly virus, we can rebuild work, we can rebuild the middle class and make work secure, we can secure racial justice and we can make America once again the leading force for good in the world.\n\nI know speaking of unity can sound to some like a foolish fantasy these days. I know the forces that divide us are deep and they are real. But I also know they are not new. Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal, that we are all created equal, and the harsh ugly reality that racism, nativism and fear have torn us apart. The battle is perennial and victory is never secure.\n\nThrough civil war, the Great Depression, World War, 9/11, through struggle, sacrifice, and setback, our better angels have always prevailed. In each of our moments enough of us have come together to carry all of us forward and we can do that now. History, faith and reason show the way. The way of unity.\n\nWe can see each other not as adversaries but as neighbours. We can treat each other with dignity and respect. We can join forces, stop the shouting and lower the temperature. For without unity there is no peace, only bitterness and fury, no progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos. This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge. And unity is the path forward. And we must meet this moment as the United States of America.\n\nIf we do that, I guarantee we will not failed. We have never, ever, ever, ever failed in America when we've acted together. And so today at this time in this place, let's start afresh, all of us. Let's begin to listen to one another again, hear one another, see one another. Show respect to one another. Politics doesn't have to be a raging fire destroying everything in its path. Every disagreement doesn't have to be a cause for total war and we must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured.\n\nMy fellow Americans, we have to be different than this. We have to be better than this and I believe America is so much better than this. Just look around. Here we stand in the shadow of the Capitol dome. As mentioned earlier, completed in the shadow of the Civil War. When the union itself was literally hanging in the balance. We endure, we prevail. Here we stand, looking out on the great Mall, where Dr King spoke of his dream.\n\nHere we stand, where 108 years ago at another inaugural, thousands of protesters tried to block brave women marching for the right to vote. And today we mark the swearing in of the first woman elected to national office, Vice President Kamala Harris. Don't tell me things can't change. Here we stand where heroes who gave the last full measure of devotion rest in eternal peace.\n\nAnd here we stand just days after a riotous mob thought they could use violence to silence the will of the people, to stop the work of our democracy, to drive us from this sacred ground. It did not happen, it will never happen, not today, not tomorrow, not ever. Not ever. To all those who supported our campaign, I'm humbled by the faith you placed in us. To all those who did not support us, let me say this. Hear us out as we move forward. Take a measure of me and my heart.\n\nIf you still disagree, so be it. That's democracy. That's America. The right to dissent peacefully. And the guardrail of our democracy is perhaps our nation's greatest strength. If you hear me clearly, disagreement must not lead to disunion. And I pledge this to you. I will be a President for all Americans, all Americans. And I promise you I will fight for those who did not support me as for those who did.\n\nMany centuries ago, St Augustine - the saint of my church - wrote that a people was a multitude defined by the common objects of their love. Defined by the common objects of their love. What are the common objects we as Americans love, that define us as Americans? I think we know. Opportunity, security, liberty, dignity, respect, honour, and yes, the truth.\n\nRecent weeks and months have taught us a painful lesson. There is truth and there are lies. Lies told for power and for profit. And each of us has a duty and a responsibility as citizens as Americans and especially as leaders. Leaders who are pledged to honour our Constitution to protect our nation. To defend the truth and defeat the lies.\n\nLook, I understand that many of my fellow Americans view the future with fear and trepidation. I understand they worry about their jobs. I understand like their dad they lay in bed at night staring at the ceiling thinking: 'Can I keep my healthcare? Can I pay my mortgage?' Thinking about their families, about what comes next. I promise you, I get it. But the answer's not to turn inward. To retreat into competing factions. Distrusting those who don't look like you, or worship the way you do, who don't get their news from the same source as you do.\n\nWe must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal. We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts, if we show a little tolerance and humility, and if we're willing to stand in the other person's shoes, as my mom would say. Just for a moment, stand in their shoes.\n\nBecause here's the thing about life. There's no accounting for what fate will deal you. Some days you need a hand. There are other days when we're called to lend a hand. That's how it has to be, that's what we do for one another. And if we are that way our country will be stronger, more prosperous, more ready for the future. And we can still disagree.\n\nMy fellow Americans, in the work ahead of us we're going to need each other. We need all our strength to persevere through this dark winter. We're entering what may be the darkest and deadliest period of the virus. We must set aside politics and finally face this pandemic as one nation, one nation. And I promise this, as the Bible says, 'Weeping may endure for a night, joy cometh in the morning'. We will get through this together. Together.\n\nLook folks, all my colleagues I serve with in the House and the Senate up here, we all understand the world is watching. Watching all of us today. So here's my message to those beyond our borders. America has been tested and we've come out stronger for it. We will repair our alliances, and engage with the world once again. Not to meet yesterday's challenges but today's and tomorrow's challenges. And we'll lead not merely by the example of our power but the power of our example.\n\nFellow Americans, moms, dads, sons, daughters, friends, neighbours and co-workers. We will honour them by becoming the people and the nation we can and should be. So I ask you let's say a silent prayer for those who lost their lives, those left behind and for our country. Amen.\n\nFolks, it's a time of testing. We face an attack on our democracy, and on truth, a raging virus, a stinging inequity, systemic racism, a climate in crisis, America's role in the world. Any one of these would be enough to challenge us in profound ways. But the fact is we face them all at once, presenting this nation with one of the greatest responsibilities we've had. Now we're going to be tested. Are we going to step up?\n\nIt's time for boldness for there is so much to do. And this is certain, I promise you. We will be judged, you and I, by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era. We will rise to the occasion. Will we master this rare and difficult hour? Will we meet our obligations and pass along a new and better world to our children? I believe we must and I'm sure you do as well. I believe we will, and when we do, we'll write the next great chapter in the history of the United States of America. The American story.\n\nA story that might sound like a song that means a lot to me, it's called American Anthem. And there's one verse that stands out at least for me and it goes like this:\n\n'The work and prayers of centuries have brought us to this day, which shall be our legacy, what will our children say?\n\nLet me know in my heart when my days are through, America, America, I gave my best to you.'\n\nLet us add our own work and prayers to the unfolding story of our great nation. If we do this, then when our days are through, our children and our children's children will say of us: 'They gave their best, they did their duty, they healed a broken land.'\n\nMy fellow Americans I close the day where I began, with a sacred oath. Before God and all of you, I give you my word. I will always level with you. I will defend the Constitution, I'll defend our democracy.\n\nI'll defend America and I will give all - all of you - keep everything I do in your service. Thinking not of power but of possibilities. Not of personal interest but of public good.\n\nAnd together we will write an American story of hope, not fear. Of unity not division, of light not darkness. A story of decency and dignity, love and healing, greatness and goodness. May this be the story that guides us. The story that inspires us. And the story that tells ages yet to come that we answered the call of history, we met the moment. Democracy and hope, truth and justice, did not die on our watch but thrive.\n\nThat America secured liberty at home and stood once again as a beacon to the world. That is what we owe our forbearers, one another, and generations to follow.\n\nSo with purpose and resolve, we turn to those tasks of our time. Sustained by faith, driven by conviction and devoted to one another and the country we love with all our hearts. May God bless America and God protect our troops.", "Father Lee Taylor said people have \"really missed communal singing\"\n\nOnline \"Pimm's and Hymns\" singalong sessions at a north Wales church have attracted people from as far away as South Africa, Brazil and Canada.\n\nFather Lee Taylor, from St Collen's Church, Llangollen, set up the Facebook Live shows when his pews fell silent due to Covid restrictions.\n\nThe former bartender said: \"People started to share it and the online audience just exploded.\"\n\nIt adds \"a real light in the darkness\" of lockdown and a \"few drinks\".\n\nThe sessions, which have been running since last March, are a homage to the summer garden party known as 'Pimm's and Hymns' Mr Taylor, 43, hosts each year.\n\n\"I get phone calls, emails and letters from people all over the world, saying, 'You've lifted my spirits', and asking me to pray for their loved ones who are sick with the virus,\" he said.\n\n\"I started the sessions as I was trying to think of ways to bring comfort reassurance and cheer to people at home.\n\n\"While I can't hear people joining in, I feel them there with me in the room.\"\n\nFather Lee Taylor hosted annual 'Pimm's and Hymns' garden parties before Covid restrictions came in last March\n\nBelting out everything from Abide With Me to Pack Up Your Troubles, the vicar, who lives with his partner of 14 years, Fabiano Duarte, is known for pouring a glass of wine or a cocktail before performing for his Facebook congregation.\n\n\"I like to keep a libation on the piano,\" he said.\n\n\"When we started, people tuning in could see a glass of wine one week and a gin and tonic the next, so began to join in and have a drink with me.\n\n\"Soon, this became a discussion in the Facebook comments and people would send in photos of themselves with a tipple, singing along.\n\n\"I've got a bit carried away on the piano after a few drinks and played all the wrong notes a couple of times - which is always quite funny. It's joyful, really.\"\n\nHe said \"losing the churches and restricting the number at funerals\" was painful and people were \"missing communal singing\".\n\n\"[So] I got some elderly people set up on the internet and sent out instructions via email, so they could watch the live stream singalongs,\" he said.\n\n\"People were soon chatting through the comments and it felt like we were all connected.\n\n\"I wanted to raise spirits through music and it's been a real light in the darkness.\"", "Louise worries about her prospects for the next 12 months\n\nFreelance TV and film sound editor Louise Burton is one of those who are unable to benefit from government pandemic support schemes, despite being out of work.\n\nLouise, 28, of St Albans, in Hertfordshire, has not had a single penny of assistance since her last job ended eight months ago.\n\n\"With the last production that I was on, I was hired as a PAYE freelancer, which means that I essentially do exactly the same job as what I do as a freelancer, but I was paying tax at source,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"What often happens with film is that production companies are made for the sole purpose of the film. So they create these companies and everything goes through the company - and then once the film is completed, they then shut the company.\"\n\nThat means Louise fell foul of tax rules relating to self-employed people. And she could not go on furlough, because the company that had employed her no longer existed.\n\n\"I always feel guilty saying that I am one of the people who is suffering, because actually, I still have a roof over my head and I can just about put food on my table, but it's not easy,\" she says, adding that she fears for her prospects in the next 12 months.\n\nAccording to MPs, whole groups of people like Louise are falling through the cracks of Covid-19 support schemes because of out-of-date tax systems.\n\nSome freelancers and self-employed people have been particularly excluded, despite lockdowns and restrictions meaning they cannot work, the Public Accounts Committee said.\n\nOthers, meanwhile, are able to abuse the system, it said.\n\nThe government said its \"top priority\" was helping those who are struggling.\n\nSince March, HM Revenue and Customs has provided more than £80bn in support to companies and individuals through government coronavirus support schemes, the committee said.\n\nThey are also supporting the incomes of many of the self-employed.\n\nBut despite this, a report from the MPs says \"quirks in the tax system\" have meant that groups of workers - including freelancers and self-employed people who recently moved onto company payrolls or work on a series of short-term employment contracts with gaps in between - have been ineligible for furlough payments.\n\n\"As public spending balloons to unprecedented levels in response to the pandemic, out-of-date tax systems are one of the barriers to getting help to a significant number of struggling taxpayers who should be entitled to support,\" said MP Meg Hillier, chair of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).\n\nBy contrast, she said some large companies that had used government support schemes had continued to pay dividends to shareholders and high salaries to executives.\n\nShe added that HMRC was in many cases failing \"to capture or deal with those wrongly claiming\" support.\n\nThe tax agency should explain to freelancers and other groups why they have been excluded from receiving support and set out steps to fix the problem within six weeks, the MPs said.\n\nThe PAC also said that a lack of certainty about government coronavirus support schemes had made it difficult for businesses to plan effectively.\n\nFor example, HMRC could not provide clarity on whether the Job Retention Bonus scheme had been delayed or scrapped, the committee said.\n\nThe scheme was meant to pay employers an incentive for every worker they brought back from furlough and kept in employment until January.\n\n\"Such lack of clarity may lead to unnecessary hardships for some businesses, who in good faith were relying on the payments from the scheme to meet some of their needs,\" the MPs said.\n\nA government spokesperson said it had done \"all it can to help as many people as possible\".\n\n\"HMRC delivered Covid-19 support schemes at unprecedented speed, protecting the livelihoods of millions of people.\n\n\"We do not underestimate the challenges faced by individuals and businesses during the pandemic, and our top priority is getting financial support to those struggling... while protecting the taxpayer against fraud.\n\n\"Those not eligible for support through these schemes can still benefit from the strengthened welfare safety net, accessing help like universal credit.\"\n• None What extra help will the self-employed get?", "19 January is a special day for Orthodox Christians across Russia, including President Vladimir Putin. It's a day reserved for commemorating the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan, and it's called Epiphany. Though temperatures are as low as -20 Celsius, some celebrated this by submerging themselves in ice-cold water.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dame Louise Casey: \"The country has been torn to shreds by the pandemic\"\n\nThe government has been urged by its former homelessness adviser to extend benefit increases worth £20 a week beyond the end of March.\n\nDame Louise Casey said ending the universal credit top-up, introduced during the Covid pandemic, would be \"too punitive a policy right now\".\n\nShe said people would view the Tories as the \"nasty party\" if they did so.\n\nThe government said it was committed to supporting the lowest-paid families through the pandemic and beyond.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"No decisions have yet been made on a range of Covid support measures that run through until the end of March and April, and it is right to wait until we know more about where we are in the vaccination process before making any decisions.\"\n\nLabour and anti-poverty campaigners are pressing for the increase, worth £1,000 a year, to remain in place beyond its scheduled end date of 31 March.\n\nOn Monday they were joined by six Conservative MPs, who defied party orders to abstain and backed a symbolic motion calling for an extension.\n\nIn an interview with BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, Dame Louise said the £20-a-week increase had proved a \"lifeline\" to poorer families.\n\n\"The Treasury need to step back and not feel this constant responsibility to close the books all the time, and fight and fight and fight,\" she said.\n\nOn the idea the top-up could end in March, she added: \"It's not the right thing to do.\"\n\nReferencing a phrase coined by Theresa May in 2002 about how the Conservatives were sometimes perceived, she added they would \"go back to being the nasty party\" if they did so.\n\nDame Louise added that the country had been \"torn to shreds\" by the pandemic, with an impact \"far deeper and greater than anything I've ever seen in my lifetime\".\n\n\"I think we will have to have a big plan to deal with the wounds inflicted by this pandemic once everybody's vaccinated,\" she added.\n\n\"And I think the government needs to turn its attention to that now, and not leave it until the summer.\"\n\nDame Louise, who was made a crossbench peer by the prime minister in July, also urged ministers to think about long-term reforms to the welfare system.\n\n\"Everybody is focused on the NHS and vaccinations, that I think everything else we see is incredibly reactive,\" she said.\n\nShe called on the government to take inspiration from the World War Two-era Beveridge report, which laid the foundations for the UK's welfare state, and draw up a long-term strategy for recovery after the pandemic.\n\n\"We're all in this storm, everybody's experienced it, just some people are in decent boats and some people are in rafts that are sinking.\n\n\"And that gives the prime minister the moment to say 'I am going to step into the shoes of a Beveridge moment'.\n\n\"If there's any reason for government to decide to actually rebuild Britain, so the divide between the rich and the poor isn't as big as it is... it's this pandemic\".\n\nUniversal credit can be claimed by both people who are in and out of work\n\nUniversal credit is a working-age benefit claimed by around 6m people, replacing six benefits and merging them into a single payment.\n\nPoverty campaign charity the Joseph Rowntree Foundation says 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty if the temporary £20 top-up is rolled back.\n\nHowever the Institute for Economic Affairs think tank has argued that \"across-the-board benefit increases are a wasteful use of taxpayers' money\".\n\nThe top-up, estimated to cost around £6bn a year, was brought in at the start of the pandemic as a temporary response due to lockdown.\n\nA government spokesperson said that support was being targeted by raising the living wage, spending on the furlough scheme, boosting welfare spending and introducing the £170m Covid Winter Grant Scheme.", "There is a photograph of Kamala Harris, taken in 1986, while she was a student at Howard University.\n\nShe and two other friends, all shoulder pads and plaid, are smiling and laughing, a crowd behind them. It's a picture brimming with energy and hope.\n\nIt's been used a lot in telling the extraordinary story of her rise to become the first black and Asian American woman to be vice-president and the first person who attended one of America's HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) to get to such a position.\n\nBut this is the story of the other women in the photograph, her two best friends - Valarie Pippen and Karen Gibbs - as well as of others who might have been milling about in the background there.\n\nThis was the 1980s, when the children of America's civil rights generation came of age. Being at Howard University, an HBCU at a time when solidarity with the global anti-apartheid movement was reaching fever pitch and at the height of Reaganism, was a formative experience for many of them.\n\nNow they are about to witness one of their own become vice-president. What have their journeys been like and what does this moment feel like?\n\nHistorically Black Colleges, like Howard University, were founded in order to educate African Americans who were otherwise prohibited from attending college, after slavery.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAlthough that has now changed, a core part of the Howard message remains its focus on cultivating black leaders - it is not just about academic achievement, but social activism too.\n\nKamala Harris has made clear the influence Howard University had on her career and life goals. Last week, on the anniversary of her sorority's founding date, she posted on Instagram, paying homage to her Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, and referring to her days at Howard, attending anti-apartheid marches and being part of the debate team: \"Howard taught me that while you will often find that you're the only one in the room who looks like you, or who has had the experiences you've had, you must remember: you are never alone.\"\n\nLike Ms Harris, I also went to Howard University and became a member of that same sorority decades later.\n\nI became intrigued by the stories of the other women and graduates who ventured out into the same world during the same time as Kamala.\n\nIn that photograph, Valarie Pippen is on the right and smiling with confidence at the camera.\n\nHer parents attended historically black colleges after moving north with the great migration, which was the movement over decades of millions of African Americans to the North from the South, where economic uncertainty and segregation prevailed. They settled in the Chicago region and forged successful careers.\n\nShe was led to Howard, specifically, after her older brother attended and brought home a yearbook that intrigued her.\n\nHoward had a festive celebratory atmosphere that the friends made the most of while they were there\n\n\"The culture was festive and lively yet focused on academic and cultural advancement of oppressed people,\" says Ms Pippen. \"We knew that our generation would make a difference with our success.\"\n\nMs Pippen says that at Howard University \"we all had more of a striving to do well, a striving to live with integrity and to make your mark on the world\".\n\nComing from a high-achieving and proud black family with high expectations of their children, she was brought up knowing that her college experience was going to be important.\n\nShe is now a healthcare consultant, and after graduating from Howard she attended medical school at Yale.\n\nShe recalls the commitment to academic excellence, the need to prove your worth out there in the world and how that also translated into many nights studying with her good friend Kamala.\n\n\"There was one year at Howard, we both stayed for summer school. We worked during the day, did night classes and we studied together afterwards. We did that for the whole summer and we had fun.\n\n\"She was born for the job. Her dedication - like mine - was to academics, being an all around good person and to integrity.\"\n\nIn the 1990s, 52% of black pharmacy recipients, 30% of dentistry degree recipients, and 27% of theology degree recipients were all educated at HBCUs.\n\nToday, the two oldest HBCU medical schools - Meharry Medical College and Howard University - are responsible for more than 80% of black doctors and dentists practising in the US.\n\nHBCUs have educated three-quarters of all black people holding a doctorate; three-quarters of all black officers in the armed forces; and four-fifths of all black federal judges, according to the US Department of Education.\n\nThe culture they fostered was hugely important for many ambitious and successful middle- and upper-class class black families going out into a world to become leaders in their field, within one generation of getting the right to vote.\n\nKaren Gibbs, pictured on the left in that photo, remains best friends with the vice-president elect and Valarie Pippen.\n\nShe is now an attorney and speaks of her time at Howard in the same way Kamala Harris has in the past.\n\nThere was \"a lot of black pride and a lot of black love\" in the Howard community, says Ms Gibbs.\n\n\"We had black professors who loved us. That was the beauty of going to Howard. They nurtured us, they groomed us. They were realistic to tell us what we would confront when we left Howard - but they equipped us to realise and achieve our dreams.\"\n\nThat environment was especially important as an escape from the realities of society.\n\n\"I was raised in a rural area in Delaware, and the people there were really racist. I had been called bad names by a lot of people, despite having a black family and smaller community filled with educators and proud of their roots,\" says Ms Gibbs.\n\nThat is one of the reasons that she wanted to attend Howard University, to become a civil rights lawyer. She made the move so that she could be surrounded by \"love\" and \"support\".\n\n\"It was never a matter if I would go to an HBCU,\" it was just a matter of which she would go to.\n\nMs Gibbs and Ms Pippen's experience at Howard University strikes a chord with others who were also there in the 1980s.\n\nThey speak of the open fostering of social awareness and political activism in movements happening off campus.\n\nBeing in the nation's capital, Howard in particular had a front-row seat to some memorable episodes in politics.\n\nThe debate team in 1981 at Howard University. Kamala Harris was one of the few women to join the club.\n\nDexter Cole, a Howard alumnus and now top executive at TV One, told the BBC that \"our parents actively participated in the civil rights movements and were at the forefront, and we came to Howard with a sense of commitment to not only improve the lives of ourselves, but others as well\".\n\nAcross the nation, HBCUs were training a generation who would have a large impact on the world, and the progression of the broader African-American community.\n\n\"We understood that we were agents of change.\"\n\nMr Cole explained that \"social unrest was very prevalent, but as a student body we knew that we had a seat at the table because of those we saw who went before us\".\n\n\"I remember marching on Capitol Hill on the National Mall. There was a group of students going to protest to make Martin Luther King Jr's birthday a national holiday, and now I look there is a memorial just where I marched.\n\n\"We knew what our rights were and we were determined to invoke our right. That's why there were so many of us active in the anti-apartheid movement - we saw it play out in the US,\" says Ms Gibbs.\n\n\"It was a time when a lot of people from the era transcended into important places in different parts of society,\" says Lita Rosario-Richardson.\n\nMs Rosario-Richardson is currently an entertainment lawyer. On campus, she recruited Ms Harris on to the debate team.\n\n\"The election of Kamala Harris has really made crystal clear that Howard prepares you for anything,\" she adds.\n\nAlthough it is no surprise to those who knew Kamala Harris that she is now the vice-president of the United States, it feels like a vindication for their own personal journeys and the philosophy they took forward with them into the wider world.\n\n\"It was instilled that with your education comes a responsibility to improve the world - specifically our own people. And, we see that that has benefited everyone in America.\n\n\"Kamala is a child of desegregation, like myself. Her nomination seemed historically fit, and she's the right person for it,\" Ms Rosario-Richardson adds.\n\nDexter Cole is now a top executive at TV One\n\n\"Alumni like Thurgood Marshall - the first black Supreme Court Justice - who attended Howard laid the framework.\"\n\nEven during their time as students, these alumni felt that they were connected to greatness and expected to make big strides in the world.\n\nIt was not a feeling confined to Kamala Harris. The stories of these women show many have become movers and shakers in their own fields.\n\n\"All this has come full circle,\" says Andrea Holmes, a graduate who is now a marketing executive.\n\n\"The vice-presidency is where she belongs. She is the role model of the world and to all women and little girls.\"\n\nThe original photograph of Kamala, Valarie and Karen was taken in 1986 at Howard University's famous Homecoming.\n\nAt most schools in the US, homecoming is an annual tradition marked by an American football game and partying. At Howard University, homecoming is marked by a football game as well as a week of events where all generations come back to meet and celebrate. Notable graduates as well as celebrities and artists come to perform, join discussions, and be part of the week.\n\nAs a graduate, I know Homecoming remains a highly anticipated annual event, an experience like no other. That picture captures the energy, friendship and ambition of a group of women, at Howard in an electric era, who felt capable of anything.\n\nValarie Pippen remembers the moment: \"The weekend was truly exhilarating, and you can see from the looks and smiles on our faces we were having the time of our lives.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 2,000 homes in parts of Manchester are being evacuated due to flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nThe Environment Agency (EA) has issued two severe flood warnings, which means danger to life, for the Didsbury and Northenden areas.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey of Greater Manchester Police has warned some of those affected would \"be Covid-positive or isolating at home\".\n\nHe said the government was working to ensure it was \"totally prepared\" for floods \"in every part of the UK\".\n\nA major incident was earlier declared for the Greater Manchester area where up to 3,000 properties were feared to be at risk.\n\nMr Johnson urged people not to stay in their homes if they were told to evacuate.\n\n\"If you are told to leave your home then you should do so.\n\n\"People may think this is a minor issue at the moment, still relevantly minor by standards of previous floods, but never underestimate the suffering, the misery, that floods can cause people.\"\n\nUnder government restrictions due to the current national lockdown people are allowed to leave their homes to escape harm.\n\nIn an alert to those affected, ACC Bailey said: \"A basin at Didsbury to take water from the Mersey is full. It will over-top in the next few hours. As a result we will be issuing a flood warning to homes.\n\n\"This will be through texted flood alerts to some people, and police officers, PCSOs, firefighters, and volunteers will be knocking on doors.\"\n\nHe said police will be supported by North West Ambulance, the British Red Cross and St John Ambulance.\n\n\"I think it's important to stress that if you are contacted and advised to evacuate then we would strongly urge you to do so,\" he added.\n\nWater levels in the area were expected to peak at about 23:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nA major incident has also been declared in Derbyshire, where authorities believe a small number of evacuations are \"likely\" on Thursday morning, when the River Derwent is expected to peak.\n\nCounty council leader Barry Lewis said it could rival levels seen in November 2019, depending on the weather overnight.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says the government is making sure it is “totally prepared in every part of the UK” for flooding after Storm Christoph.\n\nSpeaking after a Cobra emergency meeting on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said work was under way to ensure transport and energy networks, and local council services, were prepared.\n\nHe added that work was also taking place to ensure the necessary numbers of sandbags were available.\n\n\"We want to make sure that we are totally prepared in every part of the UK for flooding, because it is coming on top of the stress people are already under fighting Covid,\" he said.\n\n\"We looked at particularly Manchester, we've got a situation potentially developing there,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"We are looking at a pattern of rainfall possibly not as bad at the end of this week, maybe worse next week.\"\n\nPeople in Greater Manchester have also been advised not to travel.\n\nStephen Rhodes, from Transport from Greater Manchester, said there was disruption across the network.\n\n\"Let's work together and not put our emergency services and the NHS - who are already working extremely hard due to the Covid-19 pandemic - under any more pressure,\" he said.\n\nIn Merseyside, the M57 has been closed in both directions between junction 6 and 7 due to flooding.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued more than 100 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, while there are also more than 200 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible.\n\nRiver levels have risen rapidly in parts of northern England\n\nThe North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands have been preparing for widespread flooding following the Met Office's amber weather warning for heavy rain until midday Thursday.\n\nThe Met Office said some isolated areas could see up to 200mm (7.8in).\n\nSandbags have been distributed as Storm Christoph batters parts of England\n\n\"Once again the government's response to inevitable flood events has been slow and uncoordinated,\" the Barnsley East MP said.\n\n\"We must ensure councils are supported to protect people, businesses, and local communities, and that all of the necessary precautions are also in place to protect those fighting the floods in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Gender Identity Service is based at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust\n\nThe NHS's child gender-identity service has been rated \"inadequate\" after inspectors identified \"significant concerns\".\n\nThe Care Quality Commission inspected the Gender Identity Development Service (Gids) at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust in October.\n\nMore than 4,600 young people were on the waiting list and some had waited over two years for a first appointment.\n\nThe trust said it took the CQC report \"very seriously\".\n\nEngland and Wales' only children's gender-identity service was inspected after healthcare professionals and the children's commissioner for England raised concerns around \"clinical practice, safeguarding procedures, and assessments of capacity and consent to treatment\".\n\nThe children's commissioner had been provided evidence of staff concerns by BBC Newsnight.\n\nThe CQC's previous inspection, in 2016, had resulted in an overall \"good\" rating.\n\nBut in the latest inspection at clinics run by the trust in north London and Leeds, Gids was rated:\n\nOverall, the service is now rated as \"inadequate\".\n\nAnd the CQC has begun enforcement action, demanding monthly updates of the numbers on the waiting list and actions to reduce them.\n\nThe inspectors found Gids \"difficult to access\" and raised concerns over managing the risk to those on the waiting list, saying many of those waiting for or receiving a service were \"vulnerable and at risk of self-harm\".\n\n\"The size of the waiting list meant that staff were unable to proactively manage the risks to patients waiting for a first appointment,\" they added.\n\nRecord-keeping at Gids was also criticised, with the CQC noting that \"staff had not consistently recorded the competency, capacity and consent of patients referred for medical treatment before January 2020\".\n\nThis had changed since, but the CQC noted that in an audit of 10 records of young people referred for hormone blockers in March 2020, \"only three contained a completed consent form and checklist for referral\".\n\nA rating of inadequate is the lowest a healthcare provider can receive from the Care Quality Commission. It means that a service is \"performing badly\".\n\nGids had been rated good at its last inspection in 2016, but since then a number of concerns have been raised about the service.\n\nThe number of young people referred to Gids has increased significantly in recent years - leading to some of the delays in care highlighted by the inspection.\n\nBBC Newsnight has explored the standard of healthcare received by young people questioning their gender identity for the last 18 months.\n\nIn that time, NHS England has changed its guidance on the use of puberty blockers to treat gender dysphoria, saying little is known about the long-term side effects, and an independent review of this area of health is under way.\n\nLast June we revealed how some Gids staff had raised serious concerns about safeguarding at the service, the speed of assessments, and whether patients' traumatic backgrounds and other difficulties were always adequately explored.\n\nThe comments were made as part of an official internal review into Gids, which also described how staff felt they had been \"shut down\". We also discovered that some of these concerns dated back to 2005.\n\nFurthermore, it was not possible to clearly understand why clinical decisions had been made.\n\nAfter reviewing 35 care records, the CQC found there was \"no clearly defined assessment process\" and \"many records did not demonstrate good practice\".\n\nThe records also appeared to be \"insufficient\" in considering the needs of young people with autism spectrum disorders.\n\nIn a sample of 22 records, the CQC found more than half mentioned autistic spectrum disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), but \"records did not demonstrate consideration of the relationship between autistic spectrum disorder and gender dysphoria\".\n\nSignificant variation in the clinical approach of different staff members was also noted. Assessments of young people ranged from \"two or three sessions\" in some cases to over 25, or even more than 50.\n\nCQC deputy chief inspector of hospitals Kevin Cleary said his team continued to monitor the trust \"extremely closely\" and inspected the service again because \"we were extremely clear that there were improvements needed in providing person-centred care, capacity and consent, safe care and treatment, and governance\".\n\n\"In addition, vulnerable young people were not having their needs met as they were waiting too long for treatment.\"\n\nThe leadership at the trust knew \"exactly what improvements are needed\", he added.\n\nThe trust said: \"We take the CQC's report very seriously and would like to say sorry to patients for the length of time they are waiting to be seen, which was a critical factor in arriving at this rating.\"\n\nAccepting there was a \"need for improvements in our assessments, systems and processes\", the trust said it agreed with the CQC that the \"growth in referrals has exceeded the capacity of the service\".\n\nIt added improvements were being made, saying: \"We are already finalising plans to bring in senior clinical and operational expertise from outside the service to help us implement the necessary changes and consider how we can improve on current processes and practice - including how we standardise our assessment process.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned there will be \"tough weeks to come\" as the UK reported another all-time high of daily coronavirus deaths.\n\nA further 1,820 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to government figures.\n\nIt means the total number of deaths by that measure is now 93,290.\n\nMr Johnson said there was now a \"race against time\" to vaccinate the vulnerable but he hoped there would be a \"real difference\" by spring.\n\nIn an interview with broadcasters, he said the high number of deaths was \"appalling\" and a reflection of the peak infection rates seen a couple of weeks ago.\n\nHe said: \"I must warn people there will be tough weeks to come, but as the vaccine goes in and that programme accelerates, there will be, I think, a real difference by spring.\"\n\nJust under half of the newly reported deaths occurred on Tuesday, while a further quarter took place on Monday or Sunday with the remainder last week or even earlier.\n\nThe previous highest number of daily deaths was the 1,610 reported on Tuesday.\n\nSome 4,609,740 people have now received the first dose of a vaccine - a rise of 343,163 from yesterday.\n\nThere were also a further 38,905 cases, with 3,887 more patients admitted into hospital.\n\nIt is the second consecutive day deaths have hit a new high.\n\nThat, sadly, was to be expected as it is a reflection of the surge in cases seen during December.\n\nIt takes a week or two from the point of infection for someone to become seriously ill - and they can then spend some time in hospital. The high number is also a result of delays reporting deaths - a quarter happened last week or even before.\n\nBut make no mistake the death toll is going up. If you look at the average over the course of a week, the numbers being reported at the moment are twice what they were just two weeks ago.\n\nHowever, we also know they should soon start coming down. Daily infections are falling, with signs lockdown is taking effect. For four days in a row new diagnoses have been below 40,000 - after averaging 60,000 at the start of year.\n\nIt could be another week or so before we start to see the impact of that in the death figures. The hope then would be that within a few weeks we could start seeing a more rapid fall as the impact of the vaccination programme begins to bite.\n\nBut before that happens the daily totals reported could, sadly, go even higher.\n\nNew coronavirus cases are down by 21.5% over the last seven days. But the number of patients being admitted into hospital in the same period has not yet fallen (up by 0.5%).\n\nThe prime minister said it looked as though infection rates across the country overall might now be peaking or flattening, but he cautioned that \"they're not flattening very fast\".\n\nAsked if daily deaths would continue to rise, he said it was \"difficult to predict\".\n\nHe added: \"We must hope that by getting the numbers of daily infections down in the way that perhaps has been happening since the lockdown that will feed through into a reduction in deaths as well.\n\n\"But I must stress that we have tough weeks to come now as we roll out the vaccine.\n\n\"The light will only really begin to dawn as we get those vaccination numbers up.\"\n\nEarlier, the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told Sky News: \"This is very, very bad at the moment, with enormous pressure, and in some cases it looks like a war zone in terms of the things that people are having to deal with.\"\n\nHe said there was \"light at the end of the tunnel\" in the form of the vaccination programme.\n\nBut he said vaccines were \"not going to do the heavy lifting for us at the moment, anywhere near it\".\n\nMilitary personnel are going to be deployed to a number of hospitals to help staff cope with high numbers of cases, including in Northern Ireland and Exeter.\n\nAnd this week 10 hospital trusts across England consistently reported having no spare adult critical care beds.\n\nIn other developments, Home Secretary Priti Patel said ministers were working to ensure police and other frontline workers were moved up the priority list for the Covid vaccine.\n\nMr Johnson said the government must rely on advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, but wanted front-line workers to be immunised \"as soon as possible\".\n\nHe also said the vaccination programme remained \"on track\" despite \"constraints on supply\".", "Theresa May has accused her successor Boris Johnson of \"abandoning\" the UK's moral leadership on the world stage.\n\nThe ex-prime minister said Mr Johnson's decision to cut the overseas aid budget below 0.7% of national income had reduced the UK's global \"credibility\".\n\nShe wrote in the Daily Mail the UK had to \"live up to its values\" and would be judged by its actions not its rhetoric.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was \"embarking on a quite phenomenal year\" of global leadership.\n\nQuestioned about Mrs May's comments by the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"I think it's very important the prime minister of the UK has the best possible relationship with the president of the United States.\n\n\"That's part of the job description.\"\n\nHe cited the UK's hosting of a global vaccine summit, the upcoming COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, as well as the G7 summit of leading industrial nations, in Cornwall, and his pledge to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 as examples of the UK's global leadership.\n\nMr Blackford called on the PM to reverse \"his cruel policy of cutting international aid for the world's poorest\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The SNP Westminster leader called in the PM to reverse his \"cruel\" international aid policy\n\nLater on Wednesday, Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States, succeeding Donald Trump.\n\nIn advance of the event, Mr Johnson said he looked forward to working \"hand-in-hand\" with the new administration and that post-Covid challenges could only be tackled by \"international co-operation\".\n\nBut, in an article in the Daily Mail, Mrs May suggested Mr Johnson had squandered international goodwill by choosing not to meet the longstanding UN target of spending 0.7% of income on international development.\n\nThe government says it cannot meet the figure - enshrined in UK law - this year because of the strain placed on the public finances by the pandemic.\n\nTheresa May has made these criticisms - on overseas aid and the threat by the government to override international law - before.\n\nQuite often she gets a dig in when she stands up in the House of Commons.\n\nBut packaging it all up in this way, on this day, is, in the words of one of her close former advisers, \"quite punchy\".\n\nThe government would rather focus on the relationship it is going to forge with the new US president.\n\nMinisters feel they have quite a lot in common with Joe Biden when it comes to working together on the world stage, fighting climate change and co-operating on global security.\n\nMrs May also criticised Mr Johnson's support for legislation which could have allowed the UK to go back on parts of its Withdrawal Agreement with the EU, had it been passed.\n\nControversial clauses were ultimately removed from the Internal Market Bill in December, after the UK and EU reached an agreement.\n\nBut Mr Johnson's threat to break international law was criticised in Europe and the US - where Mr Biden warned it could imperil peace in Northern Ireland.\n\nMrs May said the UK was \"well placed to play a decisive role in shaping this more co-operative world but to lead we must live up to our values\".\n\n\"Other countries listen to what we say not simply because of who we are, but because of what we do. The world does not owe us a prominent place on its stage,\" she added.\n\n\"Whatever the rhetoric we deploy, it is our actions which count. So, we should do nothing which signals a retreat from our global commitments.\"\n\nMrs May suggested the end of the Trump presidency could be a catalyst for a change in world politics\n\nMrs May, who had a sometimes strained relationship with Mr Trump, said Mr Biden's election presented the UK with a \"golden opportunity\" for Western democracies to reverse the trend towards \"absolutism\" - and a \"few strongmen facing off against each other\" - in global affairs.\n\nThe UK holds the presidency of the G7 this year and hosts the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.\n\nMr Johnson said he looked forward to welcoming Mr Biden to the UK at least twice in 2021.\n\n\"In our fight against Covid and across climate change, defence, security, and in promoting and defending democracy, our goals are the same and our nations will work hand-in-hand to achieve them,\" he added.", "(From left to right) Janet Yellen, Lloyd Austin, Deb Haaland\n\nPresident Joe Biden's first cabinet is being described as the most diverse ever. The latest historic first is an openly gay cabinet secretary.\n\nWhen George Washington convened the first cabinet meeting two centuries ago - though he didn't call it by that name - he enshrined the idea of promoting diverse perspectives at the heart of US government. Of course, back in 1791, all the voices in the room were white and male.\n\nYou won't find the cabinet mentioned in the lines of the Constitution, but the first president saw the value of advisers who could guide him on major issues while bringing different viewpoints to the table.\n\nIn 2021, America has seen its first openly gay cabinet secretary in Pete Buttigieg - the latest Biden confirmation - as well as its first female treasury secretary, first black Pentagon chief and more.\n\nMr Biden has been under pressure from all sides to deliver on his promises of a cabinet that truly reflects the country rather than a line-up of familiar political faces.\n\nThe graphic above shows all of Mr Biden's nominees - those with black and white photos are white men, while those with colour photographs are in one or more of these categories: women; people belonging to ethnic minorities; member of the LGBT community.\n\n\"This cabinet will be more representative of the American people than any other cabinet in history,\" Mr Biden told reporters in December.\n\nIf approved by the Senate, it will include Congresswoman Deb Haaland as the first Native American cabinet secretary in US history and Miguel Cardona, who is of Puerto Rican heritage, as his education chief.\n\nMr Biden's first cabinet is even more diverse than that put together by Barack Obama, who came close to truly reflecting the country but fell short with seven women to 16 men, and just one black secretary.\n\nBut not everyone has been pleased with his choices. When Mr Biden chose General Lloyd Austin to lead the Pentagon - the first black man to do so - other activists were upset that the position was yet again denied to a woman. And Mr Biden picked two white men to head the state and agriculture agencies - Anthony Blinken and Tom Vilsack - when progressive groups would rather have seen him nominate black women to the roles.\n\nProgressive liberals have also criticised Mr Biden's selections as too safe, too moderate, too establishment and too old. For many of the supporters who delivered Mr Biden the presidency, he's not there just yet.\n\nSince 1933, only 11 presidents have named women to cabinet-level positions. No cabinets have ever matched the gender or racial balance of the country.\n\nThe cabinet size can vary depending on administration, but they're roughly composed of around 15 executives. In the last 30 years, the trend has been towards greater representation - or at least it was, until the Trump administration.\n\nOn the day of President Bill Clinton's inauguration, the Washington Post wrote that the new Democratic leader had assembled \"the most diverse Cabinet in history: five women, four blacks and two Latinos\".\n\nMr Clinton's small business administrator Aida Alvarez was the first-ever Latina appointed to a cabinet-level position.\n\nPresident George W Bush's first cabinet was lauded by the New York Times as \"a governing team every bit as ethnically and racially diverse as President Clinton's\".\n\nMr Bush chose Colin Powell, the son of Jamaican immigrants, to become the country's first black secretary of state. He also tapped Norman Mineta - a Democrat who became the first Asian American to hold a cabinet-level spot under Mr Clinton - to head his transportation department.\n\nLater on, the Bush administration made history again with the appointment of Condoleezza Rice: the first black woman to serve as secretary of state and then as national security adviser. Mr Bush also placed the first Pacific Islander and Asian American woman, Elaine Chao, in a cabinet role as labour secretary.\n\nPresident Barack Obama's history-making first cabinet was dubbed a \"majority-minority\". Mr Obama's inner circle had seven women, nine minorities and just eight white men.\n\nUnder Mr Obama, Susan Rice became the first black woman to serve as US ambassador to the United Nations, and Eric Holder became the first black US attorney general.\n\nIn a throwback to the Reagan era, President Donald Trump's inner circle was notably white, affluent and male - though he had more women in his White House than previous Republicans.\n\nAnd Mr Trump did appoint women to other roles in the administration. He named the first Indian-American, Nikki Haley, as UN ambassador.\n\nBut why has it taken this long for women and minorities to make it into the room where decisions happen?\n\n\"When we think about how you get to these roles, one way is to come through elected office,\" says Professor Kelly Dittmar of the Rutgers University Center for American Women and Politics.\n\n\"So if you have a dearth of women and women of colour in elective office, and that's where presidents are looking, in part, to identify cabinet officials, then you already start with an uneven pool.\"\n\nWe saw the first woman in US Congress in 1916, she explains, but it took nearly two more decades before President Franklin Roosevelt appointed the first woman to a cabinet role (that was Labor Secretary Frances Perkins).\n\nThe story for black and other ethnic minority Americans has taken even longer. The first black man took a seat in Congress in 1870, but we didn't see a black man in the cabinet until President Lyndon Johnson appointed Robert Weaver in 1966. It took until 1968 for the first black woman to be elected to Congress. The first black woman in the cabinet followed in 1977 (Patricia Roberts Harris, Housing Secretary).\n\nThe US has no formal rules requiring equal representation for these groups in government, either.\n\nCountries with quotas in government or at the political party level have made strides towards equality at leadership levels. For example, Rwanda in 2018 saw 61% women in its lower chamber.\n\nIn three key posts, the Defence, Treasury, and Veteran's Affairs departments, there has never been a woman in the job - until now.\n\nOn 25 January, Janet Yellen was confirmed as Treasury Secretary, breaking that particular glass ceiling.\n\nOld time stereotypes have given way in this sector. Surveys show people nowadays are more likely to rate the genders equal when it comes to handling the economy.\n\nProf Dittmar says there are more persistent stereotypes about men versus women's expertise when it comes to defence and national security matters, and public opinion polls have shown this divide. Women weren't allowed in the military until 1948.\n\n\"Even though we have certainly seen greater diversification, these fields are among the most male dominant, especially at the highest levels,\" says Prof Dittmar. \"There's all sorts of biases going on within those structures to prevent women's advancement, I'm sure. That helps explain why those gaps have been there at least historically.\"\n\nOhio State University political science and gender studies Professor Wendy Smooth says these appointments are a way of signalling broader initiatives and values - inextricably tied to policy, but also indicators of identity.\n\n\"One of the early ways that a presidential administration expresses that willingness to be accountable is through cabinet picks,\" Prof Smooth says.\n\n\"These are the first acts that demonstrate the will of the administration, the spirit of the administration, the values of the administration. It's an identity moment. It's going to be the who we are as the Biden administration and who we are interested in connecting with in the American public.\"\n\nIt may be difficult to directly measure the importance of symbolism, but turning preconceived notions of leadership upside down can have very tangible implications.\n\n\"If you see a woman as secretary of defence for the first time, does that start to disrupt expectations that men are better and more expert in areas of defence? Yes, inevitably it does,\" Prof Dittmar says.\n\nShe says the same is true for Vice-President Kamala Harris and her history-making appointment.\n\n\"I hope that after her tenure as vice-president, the next time we have women running for president that these questions about electability or qualifications or capability will be at least fewer than they were.\"\n\nAnd research from an increasingly diverse Congress has shown that women bring priorities and issues to the table that may otherwise have been ignored. \"And that, ultimately, is better for making policy that better speaks to the experiences of the population that they serve,\" Prof Dittmar explains.\n\n\"Unless you can tell me that living your life as a woman or as a black woman or as a South Asian woman in the United States is the same as living your life as a white man, then I don't at all understand why we wouldn't expect that to make a difference in the lens through which they see policy.\"", "Joy Morgan was a second year midwifery student at the University of Hertfordshire\n\nA student murdered by a fellow church member may have been given drugs without her knowing, an inquest heard.\n\nThe body of Joy Morgan, 20, was found in Hertfordshire woodland in October 2019, two months after Shohfah-El Israel was convicted of her murder.\n\nTraces of MDMA were found in her body and the inquest was told there was no evidence that Ms Morgan would have taken the drug herself voluntarily.\n\nIsrael, of Fordwych Road, north-west London, was jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum term of 17 years for Ms Morgan's murder in August 2019, despite the fact her body had not been found.\n\nDuring sentencing, Judge Michael Soole said Israel's \"cruel and cowardly\" refusal to reveal her whereabouts caused \"continuing distress and suffering\" to her family.\n\nShohfah-El Israel was convicted by a jury at Reading Crown Court\n\nTwo months later, the remains of Ms Morgan were found in woodland off Chadwell Road, Norton Green, near Stevenage.\n\nPart of the police evidence showed the killer had been in the area of the woods shortly after Ms Morgan's disappearance in December 2018.\n\nShe was reported missing on 7 February 2019 after failing to return to her studies.\n\nBoth Israel and Ms Morgan, who was in her second year at the University of Hertfordshire studying midwifery, were worshippers at the Israel United in Christ Church in Ilford.\n\nAn inquest at Hatfield Coroner's Court heard her body was found badly decomposed, and wrapped in black plastic bin liners and gaffer tape.\n\nThe court heard toxicology tests showed MDMA in her body, and Det Insp Justine Jenkins said there was no evidence to indicate she would have voluntarily or knowingly taken illegal drugs.\n\n\"She was a church-goer, there is nothing to suggest [she took drugs] at all.\n\n\"We did, however, find MDMA in Israel's car, and it is likely that he was responsible for giving her these drugs.\"\n\nJoy Morgan's remains were found in woodland at Norton Green\n\nForensic pathologist Dr Charlotte Randall said there were three possible minor bruises on Ms Morgan's limbs. She added there was no evidence that Ms Morgan had been stabbed or shot, or restrained or suffered injuries consistent with a sexual assault.\n\nShe found evidence of a possible fracture to her hyoid bone, but there was nothing to suggest she had suffered compression of the neck.\n\nDr Randall said there was no evidence the student had suffered a head injury, but said she could have been rendered unconscious by a blow to the head that was \"non-fatal\".\n\nShe could not rule out suffocation as a cause of death, potentially following milder blunt force trauma to the head.\n\nCoroner Geoffrey Sullivan said: \"[The MDMA] is not something that she would have taken and one can't exclude that she was given that, and it in some way rendered her incapable or unconscious.\"\n\nHe said the cause of Ms Morgan's death could not be ascertained.\n\nAfter the inquest, her mother Carol Morgan described her daughter as \"an amazing person\".\n\n\"She's been cremated, I haven't decided where to put her ashes so at the moment she's still at home with me,\" she said.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "In the end, the master provocateur ended up provoking the wrong person in the wrong way at the wrong time.\n\nUntil August 2017, Steve Bannon was arguably the second most powerful man in Washington. The president's one-time chief strategist was the puller of strings, the Trump-whisperer, revelling in his role as an agent of chaos.\n\nAfter the 2016 election, he was among \"the best talent in politics\" - in Trump's words.\n\nThen he became \"Sloppy Steve\", a derogatory nickname used by the US president after Bannon was quoted in a book saying several things that appear to have made his former boss unhappy.\n\nOne example that made headlines was that the president's son, Donald Trump Jr, had committed a \"treasonous\" act in talking to Russians.\n\nBannon's backers cut their ties with him, he left the powerful right-wing media empire Breitbart, and the future of the man behind some of Trump's most headline-grabbing policies was left up in the air.\n\nAnd then in August 2020, more bad news. Bannon was arrested and charged with fraud over an online fundraising scheme to build a wall on the US-Mexico border.\n\nProsecutors said he received more than $1m - and used some of it to pay off personal expenses. He pleaded not guilty.\n\nEven in a White House where political careers have the life expectancy of a house fly, Bannon's sudden rise and fall over four years is remarkable. Here's how it came about.\n\nAs executive chairman of Breitbart - a combative conservative site with an anti-establishment agenda - Bannon was an early cheerleader for Trump and Trumpism.\n\nBut it was not until 15 months into the property tycoon's presidential race that Bannon joined his team.\n\nBy that point he was already, according to a profile on the Bloomberg website, \"the most dangerous political operative in America\", a man with Democrats and establishment Republicans in his crosshairs, and a knack for well-timed confrontation. A disruptive Trump presented Bannon with a golden opportunity.\n\nWithout Seinfeld, there is no Steve Bannon - it will become clear, don't worry\n\nBannon was born into a family of Irish Catholics - all Kennedy Democrats - in Virginia in November 1953.\n\nHe was not political, he said, until an eight-year stint with the Navy starting in 1977, when he became a Reagan Republican in response to President Carter's handling of the Iran conflict.\n\nA master of reinvention, he went on to work as an executive with the Goldman Sachs bank, before helping finance and produce Hollywood films and later emerging as a political Svengali.\n\nHis record in Hollywood can be described as patchy at best (\"The business runs on talent relationships,\" one former colleague told the New Yorker. \"He had this real will-to-power vibe that was so off-putting.\")\n\nBut Bannon did strike gold in one big way - by negotiating a share of the profits in a new television show, Seinfeld, in 1993. The show ran for nine seasons and was widely syndicated - in November 2016, Forbes estimated that Bannon, if he owned only a 1% share in the show's profits, would have earned $32.6m (£24m) by that point.\n\nAfter returning to the US from the Chinese city of Shanghai in 2008 feeling the Bush administration was a \"disaster\", Bannon was struck by what he described to the New Yorker as \"this phenomenon called Sarah Palin\". Bannon warmed to the brand of populism employed by the Alaskan governor picked as John McCain's Republican running mate in the 2008 presidential race.\n\nThat populist wave would come crashing to shore with Trump's participation in the 2016 election, a wave Bannon proudly rode the whole way. In Trump, he recognised a willing outlet for his idea that, according to Wolff, \"the new politics was not the art of compromise, but the art of conflict\".\n\nBannon had long talked up Trump's chances on Breitbart News Network, which he took over in 2012 after the death of its founder, Andrew Breitbart. Bannon considered Trump, according to Wolff's book, \"a big warm-hearted monkey\".\n\nLike many of the businessman's cheerleaders, Bannon was eventually invited into his inner circle, becoming the CEO of the Trump campaign in August 2016.\n\nDishevelled, regularly unshaven, and prone to wearing two shirts at the same time, he was an unlikely candidate to work closely with Trump, who places a high value on appearance. But somehow it worked.\n\nBannon's economic nationalist outlook and his eagerness for a \"deconstruction of the administrative state\" - a tearing apart of the system of taxes and regulations that he believed had hindered the US over years - chimed with Trump's \"Make America Great Again\" plea.\n\nTwo days after his arrival, Bannon replaced Paul Manafort as campaign chairman.\n\nBannon's counterpart in the Democratic camp, Robby Mook, responded furiously: \"Donald Trump has decided to double down on his most small, nasty and divisive instincts by turning his campaign over to someone who is best known for running a so-called news site that peddles divisive, sometimes racist... sometimes anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.\"\n\nThe provocateur in Bannon will almost certainly have enjoyed the reaction to his appointment. Less than three months later, he'd have even more to celebrate.\n\nTrump and Bannon thought as one in the last weeks of the campaign, to the extent that the Republican candidate would often demand: \"Where's my Steve? Where's my Steve?\", according to one former Trump aide.\n\nIn interviews after the event, Bannon said he always believed Trump would win. But not everyone else did, according to Michael Wolff's book. Indeed, in the weeks after the billionaire won, \"he had come to credit Bannon with something like mystical powers\" for having predicted the victory.\n\nWhite House appointments aren't often met with wide protests - but then Steve Bannon's was no ordinary appointment\n\nDays after the election, Trump named his trusted lieutenant as \"chief strategist\" - a newly created role - in his cabinet.\n\nThere were wide protests against the decision, and 169 members of the House - all Democrats - sent a letter to the president-elect asking him to withdraw Bannon's nomination, saying \"bigotry, anti-Semitism, and xenophobia should have no place in our society, and they certainly have no place in the White House\".\n\nBannon's vision was made clear in Trump's bleak inaugural address, which he wrote. Wolff says in his book it was \"a Bannon-driven message to the other side that the country was about to undergo profound change... his take-back-the-country, America-first, carnage-everywhere vision of the country\".\n\nThe \"American carnage\" speech painted a vision of a US with \"mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation\".\n\nThe full ramifications of Bannon's America First policy were made clear a week later, with Trump signing an executive order dreamt up by his chief strategist that banned people from seven Muslim-majority countries from travelling to the US. It caught many White House staff unaware.\n\nBannon, Wolff writes, was \"satisfied\" at the move and the subsequent outrage. \"He could not have hoped to draw a more vivid line between the two Americas - Trump's and liberals',\" Wolff writes, adding that the timing of its release before a busy weekend was deliberate - so it could cause as much chaos as possible.\n\nOne word that regularly features in interviews with Bannon is \"war\". Trump HQ on election night was \"the war room\", the same name he gave to the Oval Office when Trump took over. When Bannon would go on to leave the White House, he said he was going to \"war\" on Trump's behalf.\n\nFor Bannon, disorder was the new order in the White House. He and Trump were creating conflict and confusion, and that suited Bannon just fine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steve Bannon's three goals for the Trump presidency\n\nA day after Trump's executive order on immigration was signed, there was another controversial announcement - the US president downgraded military chiefs of staff from his National Security Council and gave a regular seat to Bannon instead.\n\nOnly career diplomats and generals usually join the council, the main group advising the president on national security and foreign affairs. By being invited to be a member, Bannon - in his first government job, aged 63 - was allowed to join high-level discussions about national security.\n\nThe reaction was, predictably, one of shock.\n\nDemocrat former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders called the move \"dangerous and unprecedented\", and Obama's former national security adviser Susan Rice tweeted: \"This is stone-cold crazy. After a week of crazy.\"\n\nThe White House, of course, defended their man as being more than capable enough to be on the council, pointing out his Navy service.\n\nBut in retrospect, this promotion is about as good as it got for Bannon in the White House.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some of the people who have resigned or been fired under President Trump\n\nIn the end, Bannon lasted a little over two months on the National Security Council, leaving in April.\n\nIt was not a demotion, White House officials said, but the reasons for the change were not clear. Perhaps, just by shaking up the old order, the appointment had done its job.\n\nBut this change in his responsibilities became an indication of what was to come.\n\nAfter a summer of reports that Bannon was less and less visible in a White House suffering infighting and leaks, he left his position last August.\n\nIt was sold as a strategic move - Bannon would head back to Breitbart, where he would fight for Trump's agenda. \"I've got my hands back on my weapons,\" he said. \"It's Bannon the Barbarian.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBreitbart welcomed back what it called its \"populist hero\", with editor-in-chief Alex Marlow saying Bannon had \"his finger on the pulse of the Trump agenda\".\n\nBut his departure from the White House came at the end of a week in which Bannon had come under fire from a number of quarters, and amid reports of tension with key aides including National Security Adviser HR McMaster.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Charlottesville was the culmination of months of protests by white supremacists\n\nClashes had taken place the previous weekend between far-right and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, after which Trump blamed \"both sides\" for the violence - Bannon had once said his Breitbart site was \"a platform for the alt-right\" who were responsible for the violence.\n\nTwo days before he left his job, an interview with Bannon in the American Prospect, a liberal magazine, reportedly infuriated the president. Bannon was quoted as dismissing the idea of a military solution in North Korea, undercutting Trump.\n\nThen, a day later, a BuzzFeed report that said that Trump was unhappy with the credit his adviser was taking for the election victory.\n\n\"He undermined Trump's ego,\" Joshua Green, the author of a book on Bannon's relationship with Trump, Devil's Bargain, told the BBC.\n\n\"Trump can't abide the thesis of my book and Michael Wolff's book, which is that Bannon is the brains of the operation and Trump is an erratic charlatan. That's what Trump won't abide.\"\n\nBannon backed Roy Moore in the Alabama senate race - it didn't end well for them\n\nNow on the outside looking in, Bannon was more than happy to tell Trump where he thought he was going wrong. He attacked him through Breitbart for reversing course and sending more troops to Afghanistan, and called Trump's firing of FBI director James Comey the biggest mistake in \"modern political history\".\n\nBut Bannon was back in his natural habitat as he gunned for the Republican establishment, putting his weight behind ultra-conservative populist candidate Roy Moore in a senate race in Alabama.\n\nMoore comfortably won the primary against Luther Strange, the incumbent backed by Trump and the Republican machine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut Moore went on to face allegations of sexual misconduct with teenage girls, which he denied, and in December he lost the race to Doug Jones, who became the first Democrat to win a Senate seat in Alabama in 25 years.\n\nBannon's man, one eventually backed by Trump and the Republican party, had suffered a humiliating loss in what was supposed to be Bannon's first big victory. A win would have given him momentum in his campaign to field populist candidates against Republican senators in the 2018 mid-terms. A loss made that much harder.\n\nBannon - humbled, surprised - credited Democrats for having worked hardest, but the defeat risked grounding his populist movement to a halt.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump harsher on Bannon than he is on his 'worst enemies'\n\nTrump may once have been Bannon's \"big warm-hearted monkey\". But even cuddly monkeys can bite.\n\nAs details of Michael Wolff's book emerged, one key line stood out - Bannon described a meeting Donald Trump Jr held in New York with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 presidential election campaign as \"treasonous\".\n\n\"They're going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV,\" he told Wolff.\n\nThe reaction from the White House - reeling from a special-counsel investigation into possible collusion between the Trump team and Russia - was swift. Bannon had \"lost his mind\" after losing his White House position, the president said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSoon after, Rebekah Mercer, a wealthy benefactor of Bannon's, said she had ended her support for his political efforts.\n\nBannon, left with fewer and fewer allies, insisted his comments were not directed at Mr Trump's son but at another former aide, Paul Manafort, who was also present at the meeting in Trump Tower.\n\nBut there was only one way left to go. The goodbye from Breitbart was polite, and Bannon was out.\n\nSomewhere, somehow, Bannon the master string-puller will re-emerge - possibly in a different guise.\n\nCould he and Trump ever reconcile?\n\n\"Trump has fired people before and then let them back in,\" Joshua Green, the author of Devil's Bargain, said.\n\n\"But I've never seen Trump bury somebody as forcefully as he did Bannon, both in his statement and the parade of White House officials who have come out to heap scorn and derision on Bannon.\n\n\"It's awfully hard to imagine how Bannon could recover from that.\"\n\nAn unexpected twist unfolded ahead of the November 2020 election when Bannon and three other people were arrested and charged with fraud over a fundraising campaign to build a wall on the US-Mexico border.\n\nYou'll remember that building this wall was a key pledge of Trump's 2016 campaign, which Bannon played a leading role in.\n\nBannon, Brian Kolfage, Andrew Badolato and Timothy Shea defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors in connection with the \"We Build the Wall\" campaign, which raised $25m (£19m), the Department of Justice (DoJ) said.\n\nBannon received more than $1m, at least some of which he used to cover personal expenses, the DoJ said.\n\nEach of the two charges - conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering - carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.", "New legislation has been passed to protect Scottish shop workers from abuse from customers.\n\nThe Protection of Workers Bill will make it a new specific offence to assault, abuse or threaten staff.\n\nIncidents involving an age-restricted product, such as alcohol or cigarettes, could be treated more seriously.\n\nThe MSP behind the bill, Labour's Daniel Johnson, said attacks on retail workers had increased during the Covid pandemic.\n\nHe told Holyrood: \"Shop staff have been spat at for asking customers to socially distance, and stock has been smashed in retaliation for item limits being imposed.\n\n\"Violence, threats and abuse should not be just part of anyone's job.\"\n\nMr Johnson said that staff requesting age ID could be a \"trigger factor\" in many incidents of abuse.\n\nThe new legislation will also cover people working in bars, restaurants and hotels, and those delivering items bought online who may have to ask for proof of age.\n\nThe bill was supported by all parties at Holyrood, despite the government initially arguing that its provisions were already covered by existing criminal laws.\n\nThe Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service told MSPs that further legislation was not needed, noting that \"violence, threats and abuse against retail workers, or indeed any other person, are prosecuted every day in the courts in Scotland using offences which are commonly understood\".\n\nPolice Scotland meanwhile said there would be \"no significant change in how we go about our business\" as a result of it.\n\nCommunity safety minister Ash Denham said that while there was a \"wide range of existing criminal laws\" currently in place to protect staff, the new legislation could \"make the general public think more about their behaviour when they interact with retail workers\".\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives also backed the bill, although they argued that the presumption against short sentences in Scotland meant anyone convicted under the new law would ultimately not be jailed.\n\nPaul Gerrard, public affairs director for the Co-Op, told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime that the retailer had seen a 450% rise in violent incidents in the last few years.\n\n\"It is a huge problem,\" he said. \"We've seen an explosion in violence and abuse toward my colleagues.\n\n\"Now across 350 stores in Scotland we have someone attacked every day. And 10 colleagues are threatened or abused every day.\n\n\"Increasingly we have seen knives, syringes and axes all used against shopworkers.\"\n\nMr Gerrard added that previous incidents were centred on shoplifting or age-restricted sales, but staff were now facing more abuse around enforcing Covid shopping rules.\n\nThe new legislation was passed by 118 votes to 0 in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nThe Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) is now urging the UK government to introduce similar legislation to protect retail staff in England - something Labour MP Alex Norris is pursuing at Westminster.\n\nUsdaw general secretary Paddy Lillis said: \"It is a great result for our members in Scotland, who will now have the protection of the law that they deserve.\n\n\"So we are looking for MPs to support key workers across the retail sector and help turn around the UK government's opposition.\"", "Donald Trump won a surprise victory in 2016 partly because he promised to shake things up. He leaves office with two impeachments and the nation on edge. But his supporters say he kept his promises.", "More than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed\n\nMembers of the military are to be brought in to help medical staff in Northern Ireland in the fight against Covid-19.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has asked the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to help out, primarily at a number of hospitals across NI.\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed.\n\nThose brought in will assist nursing staff and help on the wards in a move designed to ease the pressure on staff.\n\nIn the past, the use of the military in Northern Ireland has provoked controversy.\n\nWhile military help has already been used during the pandemic to transport equipment and patients, this is the first time military staff will be used in hospitals.\n\nIt is thought the first military staff will be made available as early as next week.\n\nMr Swann said it would have been an abdication of responsibility if he did not avail of help from the military.\n\nHe said while coronavirus cases were lower than two weeks ago, the challenge posed remained \"intense\" and intensive care pressures were expected to increase further in the next eight to 10 days.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Brandon Lewis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe confirmed that a request for military assistance for NI's health service had been accepted by the MoD.\n\nThe health minister thanked the MoD for the Military Aid to the Civil Authorities agreement, which is being provided in other UK regions.\n\n\"The armed forces have provided invaluable support in this pandemic, including aeromedical evacuation, real-estate and ongoing logistical planning,\" he said.\n\n\"Our hospitals are under immense pressure and an additional staffing complement will be very welcome on the front line.\n\n\"This is a health decision and I am confident it will be supported on that basis.\"\n\nNI Secretary Brandon Lewis tweeted: \"Battling #COVID19 is a national effort. I'm pleased that 110 medically-trained personnel from our Armed Forces will support health and social care teams across Northern Ireland in their vital work on the frontline against coronavirus.\"\n\nThe move has been welcomed by the Democratic Unionist Party.\n\nWhen it was announced last April that the health minster had made requests for military help, Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said Mr Swann had taken that decision unilaterally.\n\nHowever, she later said her party would not rule out any measure necessary to save lives.\n\nReacting to the latest request for help, Sinn Féin said its priority throughout the pandemic had been to save lives, keep people safe and protect the health service.\n\n\"The Minister of Health has made a request for staffing support from the British Ministry of Defence,\" the party said.\n\n\"We do not rule out any measures to do so, and any effort to make the threat posed by Covid-19 into a green and orange issue is divisive and a distraction.\"\n\nAs of Wednesday, there were 832 people in hospital in Northern Ireland with coronavirus, of whom 67 were in intensive care, with 57 ventilated.\n\nA further 22 people with coronavirus died, bringing the Department of Health's total to 1,671 while there were 905 new cases.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 61 new Covid-19-related deaths were recorded on Wednesday, bringing the country's death toll to 2,768.\n\nA further 2,488 new cases of the virus were also confirmed by the Irish Department for Health.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's press briefing on Wednesday, Mr Swann confirmed the executive would review the current lockdown regulations on Thursday.\n\nNorthern Ireland began a six-week lockdown on 26 December, in a bid to bring the virus under control.\n\nMinisters promised to review the regulations after four weeks.\n\nMr Swann said he would not pre-empt the outcome of Thursday's meeting but confirmed he would bring recommendations from his officials to the meeting.\n\n\"This is not the time to open floodgates or take premature decisions that would lead to another spike in cases,\" he added.\n\n\"We must stay the course.\"\n\nThe minister also provided the latest update on the number of vaccinations - 160,396 doses have now been administered in NI, with 21,690 of those second doses.\n\nHe said he understood the frustration of some people that they were still waiting to hear when their elderly or vulnerable relatives would receive their vaccine, but he urged patience.\n\n\"We cannot go faster than supplies allow,\" he said.", "The National Audit Office has had full access to the BBC's accounts since 2010\n\nThe BBC faces \"significant\" uncertainty over its financial future due to changes in viewing habits, a National Audit Office report has found.\n\n\"While the BBC remains the most used media brand in the UK, its share of younger audiences has been under pressure,\" the spending watchdog said.\n\n\"Falling audience share poses a financial risk as people are less likely to pay the licence fee.\"\n\nThe BBC said it had already set out plans for \"urgent\" reforms.\n\nAccording to the NAO report, the BBC has seen \"a notable drop\" in audience viewing while its income from the licence fee has also declined.\n\nThe BBC \"faces considerable uncertainty\" about its licence fee income and should produce \"a long-term financial plan... as soon as possible\", it states.\n\nSuch a plan, the report recommends, should \"set out the detail for the next stage of its savings, and how it will fund its new strategic priorities\".\n\nIn 2019-20, the BBC generated total income of £4.94bn, of which £3.52bn was public funding from the licence fee. That was £310m less than the corporation received from the licence fee between 2017-18.\n\nThe current cost of an annual television licence is £157.50\n\nThe report also highlighted a 30% decline in BBC TV viewing over the past decade. On average, the amount of time an adult spent watching broadcast BBC television fell from 80 minutes a day in 2010 to 56 minutes in 2019.\n\nAnd the NAO said the BBC's financial health had been \"unexpectedly weakened\" by the impact of the coronavirus response.\n\nLast November, the BBC began negotiations with the government about the future funding it will receive from the licence fee. The fee, which is currently £157.50 annually, is due to stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends.\n\nIn response, the BBC said it had made \"significant savings and increased efficiencies, while maintaining our spending on content, and continuing to be the UK's most-used media organisation\".\n\nIt added: \"We have set out plans for urgent reforms focused on providing great value for all audiences and we will set out further detail on this in the coming months.\n\n\"The report also stresses the importance of stable funding for the future, which we welcome as we begin negotiations with government over the licence fee.\"\n\nThe National Union of Journalists said the report's findings \"come as no surprise\" and that the BBC needs \"a financially secure long-term deal that will guarantee its future.\"\n\nThe NAO scrutinises the finances of government departments and other public sector bodies. Last week Richard Sharp, the BBC's incoming chairman, said the licence fee was the \"least worst\" way of funding the corporation, but it \"may be worth reassessing\" in future.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "At noon on Wednesday, President Donald Trump's term will end. It's been a whirlwind four years, so what might the legacy be of such a history-making president?\n\nThere's a lot to consider, so we asked the experts to break it down for us.\n\nResponses have been edited for length and clarity.\n\nMatthew Continetti is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, focusing on the development of the Republican Party and the American conservative movement.\n\nDonald Trump will be remembered as the first president to be impeached twice. He fed the myth that the election was stolen, summoned his supporters to Washington to protest the certification of the Electoral College vote, told them that only through strength could they take back their country, and stood by as they stormed the US Capitol and interfered in the operation of constitutional government.\n\nWhen historians write about his presidency, they will do so through the lens of the riot.\n\nThey will focus on Trump's tortured relationship with the alt-right, his atrocious handling of the deadly Charlottesville protest in 2017, the rise in violent right-wing extremism during his tenure in office, and the viral spread of malevolent conspiracy theories that he encouraged.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nIf Donald Trump had followed the example of his predecessors and conceded power graciously and peacefully, he would have been remembered as a disruptive but consequential populist leader.\n\nA president who, before the pandemic, presided over an economic boom, re-oriented America's opinion of China, removed terrorist leaders from the battlefield, revamped the space program, secured an originalist (conservative) majority on the US Supreme Court, and authorised Operation Warp Speed to produce a Covid-19 vaccine in record time.\n\nLaura Belmonte is a history professor and dean of the Virginia Tech College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. She is a foreign relations specialist and author of books on cultural diplomacy.\n\nHis attempt to surrender global leadership and replace it with a more inward-looking, fortress-like mentality. I don't think it succeeded, but the question is how profound has the damage to America's international reputation been - and that remains to be seen.\n\nThe moment I found jaw-dropping was the press conference he had with Vladimir Putin in 2018 in Helsinki, where he took Putin's side over US intelligence in regard to Russian interference in the election.\n\nI can't think of another episode of a president siding full force with a non-democratic society adversary.\n\nIt's also very emblematic of a larger assault on any number of multilateral institutions and treaties and frameworks that Trump has unleashed, like the withdrawal from the Paris climate accord, the withdrawal of the Iranian nuclear framework.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nTrump's applauding Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, really turning himself inside out to align the US with regimes that are the antithesis of values that the US says it wants to promote. That is something that I think was really quite distinctive.\n\nAnother aspect is extricating the US from any really assertive role in promoting human rights throughout the world, and changing the content of the annual human rights reports from the State Department and not including many topics, like LGBT equality, for instance.\n\nKathryn Brownell is a history professor at Purdue University, focusing on the relationships between media, politics, and popular culture, with an emphasis on the American presidency.\n\nBroadly speaking: Donald Trump, and his enablers in the Republican Party and conservative media, have put American democracy to the test in an unprecedented way. As a historian who studies the intersection of media and the presidency, it is truly striking the ways in which he has convinced millions of people that his fabricated version of events is true.\n\nWhat happened on 6 January at the US Capitol is a culmination of over four years during which President Trump actively advanced misinformation.\n\nJust as Watergate and the impeachment inquiry dominated historical interpretations of Richard Nixon's legacy for decades, I do think that this particular post-election moment will be at the forefront of historical assessments of his presidency.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nKellyanne Conway's first introduction of the notion of \"alternative facts\" just days into the Trump administration when disputing the size of the inaugural crowds between Trump and Barack Obama.\n\nPresidents across the 20th Century have increasingly used sophisticated measures to spin interpretation of policies and events in favourable ways and to control the media narrative of their administrations. But the assertion that the administration had a right to its own alternative facts went far beyond spin, ultimately foreshadowing the ways in which the Trump administration would govern by misinformation.\n\nTrump harnessed the power of social media and blurred the lines between entertainment and politics in ways that allowed him to bypass critics and connect directly to his supporters in an unfiltered way.\n\nFranklin Roosevelt, John F Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan also used new media and a celebrity style to connect directly to the people in this unfiltered way, ultimately transforming expectations and operations of the presidency that paved the path for Trump.\n\nMary Frances Berry is a professor of American history and social thought at the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on legal history and social policy. From 1980 to 2004, she was a member of the US Commission on Civil Rights.\n\nIn what he did with judges, Trump has made a long lasting change over the next 20 years, 30 years in how policies will stand up to legal tests and how they're able to be implemented - no matter what any particular president or administration proposes.\n\nThe courts are controlled by the Republican appointees. Sometimes judges surprise us, but for the most part, the historical evidence is that they pretty much do what their politics and their backgrounds say they will do.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nWhen he supported that package of measures that helped particular people in the black community, like First Step, pardoning people at the same time that he supported an amendment in the appropriations bill that gave a whole bunch of money to historically black colleges and universities for the first time.\n\nHe put all of these things together, as well as having the first stimulus programme making sure that black businessman and entrepreneurs get some of those loans they've had trouble getting before.\n\nThe effect of all of that, which we will see over time, was in the midterms, a lot more young black men voted for Trump than before. And if that's a trend, it may help the Republican party.\n\nTrump also made egregious comments about black people and other people of colour, tried to have protests against police abuse disrupted and in other ways appealed to his white supremacist base.\n\nHis lasting impact on race relations depends on what the Biden administration does on policy, and on healing and how long the pandemic and economic downturn lasts.\n\nMargaret O'Mara is history professor at the University of Washington, focusing on the political, economic, and metropolitan history of the modern US.\n\nContesting a very constitutionally and numerically clear election victory by Joe Biden.\n\nWe've had plenty of really unpleasant transitions. Herbert Hoover was incredibly unpleasant about his loss, but he still rode in that car down Pennsylvania Avenue at inauguration. He didn't talk to Franklin Roosevelt the whole time, but there still was a peaceful transfer of power.\n\nTrump is a manifestation of political forces that have been in motion for a half century or more. A culmination of what was not only going on in the Republican party, but also the Democratic party and more broadly in American politics - a kind of disillusionment with government and institutions and expertise.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nTrump is exceptional in many ways, but one of the things that really makes him stand out is that he is one of the rare presidents who was elected without having held any elected office before.\n\nTrump may go away, but there is this great frustration with the establishment, broadly defined. When you feel powerless, you vote for someone who's promising to do everything differently and Trump indeed did that.\n\nA presidency is also made by the people that the president appoints, and a great deal of experienced Republican hands were not invited to join the administration the first go round.\n\nOver time, his administration has diminished to a band of loyalists who are really not very experienced and are ideologically uninterested in wise governance of the bureaucracy. What has happened within the bowels of the bureaucracy is going to be a slow slog to rebuild.\n\nSaikrishna Prakash is a University of Virginia Law School professor focusing on constitutional law, foreign relations law and presidential powers.\n\nThe last gasps of his administration are the most consequential, as he exerts a control over his most devoted followers and he's talking about running again.\n\nHe forced people to consider what the presidency has become in a way that wasn't true I think either during the Bush or Obama administrations. Issues like the 25th Amendment and impeachment hasn't been thought of since Bill Clinton, really.\n\nIt's possible that people now when they think of the presidency are perhaps going to adopt a different stance going forward, knowing that someone like Trump could come along.\n\nIt's possible that Congress will delegate less to the president and take away some authority.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nThe president has demonstrated that there's a constituency who's opposed to a lot of these trade deals and that there are people willing to vote for those who will either extricate us from these trade deals or \"make them fairer\".\n\nThe president has also suggested that China has been taking advantage of the United States in ways that are deleterious to our economic and national security - and I think there's a consensus behind this view. No one wants to be accused of being soft on China, whereas no one cares if you're \"soft\" on Canada, right?\n\nI think people are going to fall all over themselves to be tougher or at least say they're tougher on China.\n\nDomestically the president had a populous tone to him. It wasn't ever fully realised in his policies, but we see more Republicans adopting populist ideas.", "Testing of close contacts of identified cases was due to start in secondary schools and colleges in England\n\nThe government has paused plans to roll out rapid daily coronavirus testing of close contacts, in all but a small number of secondary schools and colleges.\n\nTesting close contacts of a positive case as an alternative to isolation showed some benefits in trials.\n\nBut the emergence of a new variant means the risk of missing infections has risen, health officials say.\n\nRegular testing of staff will now increase to twice a week.\n\nMore research is needed on how daily contact testing would work given the new, more transmissible, coronavirus variant, Public Health England and NHS Test and Trace say.\n\nIn the meantime, routine testing to pick up asymptomatic cases in staff and pupils remains a key part of the government's plans.\n\nMass testing in schools, using pregnancy-style lateral flow tests to detect the virus, had been due to start in January.\n\nHowever, under new lockdown restrictions, schools have had to switch to providing online teaching until February - although children of key workers are still allowed to attend - and plans were postponed.\n\nHow testing of pupils will be organised once schools reopen is still not clear.\n\nThe original plan for rapid Covid testing in all secondary schools and colleges included:\n\nThe aim was to keep as many children in schools as possible by avoiding a whole bubble, class or year having to be sent home, and to reduce disruption from staff having to isolate.\n\nBut some scientists have consistently expressed concerns about the accuracy of the rapid tests, which do not need to be sent to a lab for the results.\n\nThey say the high number of false negatives means close contacts may wrongly think they are not infectious and go on to mix with more vulnerable people.\n\nAnd now PHE and NHS Test and Trace say the new variant, which \"increases the risk of transmission everywhere, including in school settings\", has made this a risk no longer worth taking.\n\n\"The balance between the risks (transmission of virus in schools and onward to households and the wider community) and benefits (education in a face-to-face and safe setting) for daily contact testing is unclear,\" their statement adds.\n\nA government spokesman said: \"NHS Test and Trace and Public Health England have reviewed their advice and concluded that, in light of the higher prevalence and rates of transmission of the new variant, further evaluation work is required to make sure it is achieving its aim of breaking chains of transmission and reducing cases of the virus in the community.\n\n\"There is no change to the main rollout of regular testing using rapid lateral flow tests in schools and colleges, which is already proving beneficial in finding teachers and students with coronavirus who do not have symptoms.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'You wouldn’t want to give this to anybody'\n\nI was last here at University Hospital Monklands on 1 May when those dealing with the first wave of an unknown disease were already tired.\n\nAt that time, the deaths of 29,059 people had been registered in the UK within 28 days of a positive test for Covid-19.\n\nI returned 259 days later with the number of deaths at 89,230 to find that the staff are exhausted.\n\n\"We're all physically, mentally and emotionally drained now,\" says Fiona Bauld, an intensive care unit (ICU) staff nurse.\n\nIn the first wave, the Lanarkshire hospital was almost empty except for patients being treated for Covid or other critical and emergency needs.\n\nThis time there are just a handful of spare beds in the entire building. Staff who had helped out with critical care last year are back in their own departments, and the ICU specialists are alone once more.\n\n\"There's not really enough extra nurses to account for the extra patients so the amount of work everyone is doing is much more,\" says intensive care consultant Daniel Silcock.\n\nThe patients are changing too.\n\nIn the first wave, most patients were old and often ill before they contracted the virus, says ICU ward manager Margaret Harkins.\n\n\"This time the patients are a much younger age group and some have no underlying health conditions,\" she adds.\n\n\"We are getting people in in their 20s, 30s and 40s,\" Ms Bauld says. \"Younger people are catching this virus and becoming really critically ill with it.\"\n\nMae Mamaril (right) and her parents Jaramias and Sonia tested positive\n\nMae Mamaril is one of them. She is 26 and has no underlying health conditions.\n\nMae and her parents Jaramias and Sonia, from Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, tested positive for Covid within days of being vaccinated for their jobs.\n\nAll three ended up in Monklands but Mae was the sickest and the only member of her family admitted to intensive care.\n\nShe had to wear an oxygen mask and lie face down on a bed for three days, a treatment called proning which medics say can improve lung function in many patients.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mae Mamaril, 26, was moved to intensive care at the start of the year\n\n\"I couldn't breathe,\" she says. \"It was really bad because they moved so quickly to give me oxygen and told me to lie on my stomach.\n\n\"All I could think about was wanting to come home, but then at the same time, I knew that if I didn't have enough oxygen, even if I went home, I would never survive.\"\n\nNot only is the hospital busy with younger people in this wave but senior doctors say a third of all patients here now have the virus.\n\nThere is another big difference outside the building.\n\nIn May, when I drove from Glasgow to the hospital in Airdrie the roads were empty, the streets silent.\n\nThat is no longer the case. Heading east to Monklands again, the M8 is the busiest I have seen it since the pandemic began.\n\nDoctors and nurses have noticed the increase in traffic too - and they are worried.\n\n\"Without a lockdown, I think it would just be a disaster,\" Dr Silcock says.\n\n\"We've had twice as many admissions this time as we did in the first wave.\"\n\nDr Sanjiv Chohan, who runs the intensive care department, says he too is worried.\n\nBut what about the many harmful side effects of lockdown - on other medical conditions, especially mental health, as well as the impact on education and the economy?\n\n\"I sympathise completely,\" says Dr Chohan, pointing out that the ICU staff are also affected by these issues.\n\n\"It's a really difficult balancing act. It's choosing the least harmful options,\" he says, adding: \"We have to preserve some ability to have functioning hospitals.\"\n\nAt times, Monklands has not been able to function normally.\n\nSince the autumn, around a third of all intensive care patients here have had to be transferred out of the hospital to other facilities — primarily to Wishaw and Hairmyres but sometimes out of Lanarkshire entirely.\n\nChief nurse Karen Goudie says she is worried about the coming weeks\n\nThe chief nurse at Monklands, Karen Goudie, says that was necessary to reduce pressure and create capacity for incoming patients.\n\nThere has not yet been a point when all Scotland's hospitals have been overwhelmed at the same time.\n\n\"No, not yet but we're worried about the coming weeks,\" says Ms Goudie. \"The projections look - scary, I guess, is the right word to use. \"\n\nStaff here believe a current increase in cases is attributable to families mixing at Christmas and to people not sticking to the current lockdown rules.\n\nStill, they have coped. Patients are now less likely than in the first wave to need the dangerous intervention of a ventilator as knowledge of how to treat the disease develops.\n\nFor many though, a Covid diagnosis can remain frightening and perilous.\n\nJim McShane, 56, works for a gas company in Motherwell. I leave intensive care to meet him on the Covid ward where he is being treated.\n\n\"You just don't know what's ahead,\" he tells me. \"It just destroys you sometimes. Brings you right down.\"\n\n\"I would tell people to stay out the road of one another,\" he says.\n\nAfter I leave, Jim is transferred to intensive care. He is now on a ventilator.\n\nThere may be some signs that Scotland's latest surge in hospital admissions may be easing.", "Gabriel is an ardent 'Latino for Trump' who is active in New York Republican circles. He wishes the Biden/Harris administration well but doesn't believe Democrats really want unity and thinks they'll reverse a lot of good Trump policies.\n\nHow did Joe Biden's inaugural speech on unity sit with you?\n\nI caught bits and pieces of the inauguration, but I did not watch the speech. I'll give it a watch when I'm not as busy. Hopefully, his message is not like what we saw on 6 January, when he tried to lambast people as white supremacists for showing up at the Capitol, because that will just alienate people.\n\nThis country has come a long way in terms of race relations and, if we really want unity, let's regain the sense of what an American is. An American isn't white, black or Jewish; it is a person within the United States that takes part in our republic.\n\nWhat do you think of the executive actions he is taking today?\n\nI knew Biden would come out swinging while he stills holds the majority in the legislative branch. It's certainly a statement in the same vein as President Trump's first few days of office, but I think it's horrible. As someone of Hispanic descent, the idea of potentially granting 11 million immigrants citizenship is a slap in the face to everyone who came through the legal process.\n\nJoining the Paris climate agreement again is widely regarded as a farce, even by some ecologists, because nations that are members in the agreement didn't actually hit their targets. The removal of the Keystone Pipeline is not only going to cost people jobs but it could potentially increase our carbon footprint. When it comes to the WHO, they failed us during the Covid pandemic. It's all just smoke and mirrors to undo what President Trump did and stick it in the face of Republicans.", "The former Western Daily Press journalist lived in the property from 1970 until 1994\n\nAn \"inspiring\" house previously owned by fantasy writer Sir Terry Pratchett has been put on the market.\n\nThe creator of the Discworld series lived in the 18th Century property, called Gaze Cottage, in the village of Rowberrow, Somerset, from 1970 until 1994.\n\nSir Terry died aged 66 in 2015, eight years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.\n\nHe wrote more than 70 books during his career and completed his final book in 2014.\n\nAt the turn of the century, Sir Terry was Britain's second most-read author, beaten only by JK Rowling.\n\nIn August 2007, it was reported he had suffered a stroke, but the following December he announced that he had been diagnosed with a very rare form of early-onset Alzheimer's disease.\n\nThe fitted kitchen is in the older half of the house\n\nRuth Treasure-Smith, from Robin King Estate Agent, said: \"He wrote most of his most famous novels in that house in the 80s.\n\n\"The house must have been inspiring. The current owner purchased the property from Terry Pratchett and has lived at the house since.\"\n\nShe said he had received letters to the house addressed to the \"Hogfather\", a quirky and satirical character from the Death collection in the Discworld series.\n\nThe sitting room has an inglenook fireplace complete with bread oven\n\nThe house is being sold at a guide price of £800,000\n\nThe first floor houses the master bedroom which overlooks the garden\n\nThe property has four bedrooms\n\nThe cottage sits on a plot comprising almost a third of an acre\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "The driver sat on his overturned van until rescuers arrived\n\nA supermarket delivery driver had to be rescued from his overturned van after he careered off the road and ended up in a fast-flowing ford, police said.\n\nFirefighters and police were called to the River Wear, Westgate, in Weardale, after reports that a Morrisons van was stuck at 17:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nPolice said the van had \"careered\" off the road and the man sat on top of the vehicle before being rescued.\n\nCounty Durham Fire and Rescue Service said the rescue was \"challenging.\"\n\nWater specialists from the fire service braved the river in a raft attached to a nearby footbridge and gave the man a life jacket.\n\nPolice said the driver was not injured but was taken to hospital as a precaution.\n\nThe fire service tweeted a video of the scene, and said they were \"so proud\" of the water rescue team.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nScott Bisset, who lives nearby, went to see if he could help after he was called by people who heard the driver shouting for help.\n\nMr Bisset, a member of the local mountain rescue team, said he thought the driver may have ended up there after being directed by his sat-nav.\n\nHe said: \"There's not a vehicle in the world that could have got through.\n\n\"The river was in flood - the snow here has melted and there was rain, so there was a lot of water in the river.\n\n\"The van was washed off and turned over on its side, luckily the front was pointing upstream, so it acted like a boat.\n\n\"If the water had been hitting the side of the van or the back, the driver would unfortunately have drowned.\n\n\"When I got there the driver was extremely distressed.\"\n\nThe van has not yet been recovered from the water\n\nHe also said that rescuers had put their lives at risk.\n\n\"I know they practice for this but in those conditions, with that freezing water travelling at great speed, in the dark and the pouring rain, it was very dangerous and they were very brave,\" he said.\n\nThe van has not yet been recovered from the water.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US President Joe Biden has officially announced his bid for re-election, asking Americans to help him \"finish the job\" he started more than two years ago.\n\nMr Biden, 80, faced a turbulent first two years in office marked by the Covid-19 pandemic, economic woes and geopolitical challenges including the US pull-out from Afghanistan and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nOn the campaign trail, Mr Biden - who served as Vice-President under Barack Obama - is likely to focus on his efforts to prop up the US economy after the pandemic, as well as his successes pushing through legislation focused on infrastructure, climate change and prescription drugs.\n\nBut a key argument for a second term will be what he has described as a turn towards authoritarianism from Donald Trump and his supporters in the \"Make America Great Again\" movement.\n\n\"The question we are facing is whether in the years ahead we have more freedom or less freedom, more rights or fewer,\" he said in a video launching his new campaign. \"I know what I want the answer to be. This is not a time to be complacent. That's why I'm running for re-election.\"\n\nThe President, however, is also likely to face questions about his age and ability to serve, as well as about his handling of inflation, immigration and other issues that worry Americans.\n\nThe upcoming campaign is likely the last in a career in politics that has spanned more than four decades, and may again see him square off against Donald Trump.\n\nSo who is Joe Biden and how did he get to the White House?\n\nMr Biden ran for the Democratic 2008 nomination before dropping out and joining the Obama ticket.\n\nHis eight years in the Obama White House - where he frequently appeared at the president's side - has allowed Mr Biden to lay claim to much of Mr Obama's legacy, including passage of the Affordable Care Act, as well as the stimulus package and reforms enacted in response to the financial crisis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A look back at Joe Biden's life and political career\n\nAs a long-time Washington insider, Mr Biden had solid foreign affairs credentials, and helped balance Mr Obama's comparative lack of executive experience.\n\nThe so-called \"Middle Class Joe\" was also brought on board to help woo the blue-collar white voters who had proved a difficult group for Mr Obama to win over.\n\nHe made headlines in 2012 by saying he was \"absolutely comfortable\" with same-sex marriage, comments that were seen to undercut the president, who had yet to give full-throated support for the policy. Mr Obama ultimately did so, just days after Mr Biden.\n\nMr Biden's two terms supporting the first black president followed a long political career.\n\nThe six-term senator from Delaware was first elected in 1972. He ran for president in 1988 but withdrew after he admitted to plagiarising a speech by the then leader of the British Labour Party, Neil Kinnock.\n\nHis lengthy tenure in the nation's capital has given critics ample material for attacks.\n\nEarly in his career, he sided with southern segregationists in opposing court-ordered school bussing to racially integrate public schools.\n\nAnd, as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991, he oversaw Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court confirmation hearings and has been sharply criticised for his handling of Anita Hill's allegations that she was sexually harassed by the nominee.\n\nIn 1974, Biden was the youngest US senator\n\nMr Biden was also a fierce advocate of a 1994 anti-crime bill that many on the left now say encouraged lengthy sentences and mass incarceration.\n\nThe record made Mr Obama's moderate vice-president a sometimes uncomfortable fit for the modern Democratic Party.\n\nMr Biden's life has been dogged by personal tragedy.\n\nIn 1972, shortly after he won his first Senate race, he lost his first wife, Neilia, and baby daughter, Naomi, in a car accident. He famously took the oath of office for his first Senate term from the hospital room of his toddler sons Beau and Hunter, who both survived the accident.\n\nIn 2015, Beau died of brain cancer at the age of 46. The younger Biden was seen as a rising star of US politics and had intended to run for Delaware state governor in 2016.\n\nMr Biden garnered considerable goodwill following Beau's death, which served to highlight one of Mr Biden's central strengths: a reputation as a kind and relatable family man.\n\nThis perceived warmth is not without its pitfalls. After entering the 2020 race, he faced accusations of unwelcome physical contact during interactions with female voters - complete with uncomfortable accompanying footage.\n\nBut the avuncular politician responded by saying he was an empathetic person, though he accepted standards had changed. The episode, however, stoked a perception for some that he was out of touch.\n\nMr Biden's return to the White House came at a difficult time in US politics, with the country still reeling from the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nJust two weeks before his inauguration, the country had also seen supporters of former President Donald Trump storm Congress in a bid to thwart the certification of his election victory after Mr Trump falsely claimed that the election had been rigged.\n\nMr Biden's new campaign is likely to focus heavily on the fight against the ideology on display during the 6 January riot. The video announcing his re-election bid opens with images of a mob of Trump supporters storming the Capitol.\n\n\"Every generation of Americans has faced a moment when they've had to defend democracy,\" he said. \"This is ours. Let's finish the job.\"\n\nAs he campaigns, Mr Biden is likely to point to a number of accomplishments during his tenure, including job creation, efforts to prop up the economy in the wake of the pandemic and the passing of a bipartisan infrastructure law billed as a \"once-in-a-generation\" investment by the White House.\n\nBut he will face tough questions on his handling of immigration and the US-Mexico border, as well as on the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan.\n\nMr Biden has also acknowledged that many Americans have raised \"legitimate\" questions about his age and ability to serve as President.\n\n\"And the only thing I can say is, watch me,\" he said earlier this year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health workers can book an appointment at seven vaccination centres in operation across NI\n\nDoctors have insisted there is no postcode lottery when it comes to rolling out the coronavirus vaccines.\n\nNorthern Ireland's vaccination plan means all those over 80 should receive their first dose by the end of January.\n\nMore than 154,000 doses of a vaccine have now been administered, health officials said.\n\nDr Frances O'Hagan, deputy chairwoman of NI's GP committee, said practices had their own rollout plans but she expected them to meet official targets.\n\n\"As soon as we get the vaccine, we will get it to you,\" she told BBC News NI. \"But please, please wait until we contact you.\"\n\n\"We tailor our programmes to our individual patients and to our geography and to our surroundings.\n\n\"It's not actually a postcode lottery. It's the best way of doing it because we know what suits our patients.\"\n\nDr O'Hagan said she had not heard reports of some practices holding back vaccines until they received bigger amounts to allow for a larger number of vaccinations to be done.\n\nShe said rolling out the programme was a logistical challenge which fell on top of an already heavy workload but the jab would be given out in a \"safe and timely\" fashion.\n\nSinn Féin MP Órfhlaith Begley said doctors in her West Tyrone constituency were working above and beyond to administer the vaccine to as many people as possible.\n\n\"But unfortunately I am hearing that some GPs cannot access supplies of the vaccine,\" she said.\n\n\"There does appear to be, and it is a consistent message from GPs in my own constituency, a feeling the distribution of the vaccine has been unequal to date.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Health Minister Robin Swann has welcomed a further delivery of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine into Northern Ireland on Tuesday morning.\n\nIn a tweet, Robin Swann said: \"We now have the supply to complete all our over 80s and when that group is finished, there will be enough to start into the over 75 programme.\"\n\nPatricia Donnelly, the head of NI's vaccination programme said there had been 154,436 doses of the vaccine administered here, with 132,857 of those being first doses.\n\nOn Tuesday, she said three quarters of care home residents had already received both doses.\n\n\"With the arrival of additional vaccine today, which have been issued this afternoon and tomorrow to GPs, there will be enough to complete the over 80 population and to commence in the over 70 population,\" she added.\n\nA further 24 virus-related deaths and 713 more Covid-19 cases were reported in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths recorded by the Department of Health to 1,649.\n\nThere are currently 842 people in hospital with the virus, 70 people in intensive care units (ICU) and 57 being ventilated.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, a further 93 Covid-19 related deaths were reported on Tuesday, bringing the country's death toll to 2,708.\n\nA further 2,001 positive cases were also recorded in the latest figures from the Republic's Department of Health.\n\nNorthern Ireland's rate of Covid-19 infection is now below one and has been at that level for a couple of weeks, according to the chief medical officer.\n\nHowever, Dr Michael McBride warned the reproduction (R) number for hospital transmission remains above one.\n\nDr McBride said new variants of the virus had made the job of curtailing the spread even more difficult, and warned he did not foresee any relaxation of restrictions any time soon.\n\n\"We need to ensure that we have as many people who remain at risk of severe disease vaccinated and prioritised with the first dose as possible before we consider significant relaxations in the current restrictions,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile concerns have been raised that \"social media myths\" are encouraging some care home staff to reject the Covid vaccine.\n\nPauline Shepherd, from the Independent Health and Care Providers, said young women were especially vulnerable to misinformation about the vaccine and fertility.\n\nLast week, the Department of Health said there had been an uptake level of about 80% among care home staff.\n\n\"We are very keen obviously that everyone takes the vaccine, that is really the only way that we are going to get through this,\" she told BBC Radio Foyle.\n\n\"Obviously there are myths going around on social media about the vaccine and some are opting not to take it.\n\n\"Particularly younger females seem to have the view through social media that it may impact fertility\".\n\nA consultant anaesthetist says there is a \"reluctance\" among members of the black, Asian and minority ethnic communities to take Covid-19 vaccines\n\nThere are currently 139 confirmed Covid-19 outbreaks in NI's 483 care homes.\n\nThe Public Health Agency (PHA) and Department of Health were now exploring how \"to dispel the myths\", Ms Shepherd added.\n\nDr Mukesh Chugh, a consultant anaesthetist at Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry, said there had been a \"reluctance\" among black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people to take Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nDr Chugh says this is because of \"anti-vaccine messages\" posted across various social media platforms and messenger apps \"targeted at certain ethnic and religious groups\".\n\n\"I encourage them not to believe the messages they are getting on WhatsApp - these are not scientific messages,\" he said.\n\nOn Tuesday, Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots said a number of groups of key workers should be given priority access to vaccinations.\n\nPrioritisation was decided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises UK health departments on immunisation.\n\nEdwin Poots said meat plant workers should be among those given priority vaccine access\n\nAsked if he supported prioritisation for food workers in meat plants, Mr Poots told the assembly he did and had raised it with the executive.\n\n\"It's been identified as an essential service - those people working in them are there in cold, wet conditions where we have had a number of outbreaks,\" he said.\n\n\"We should seek to introduce those people somewhat earlier than is currently the case - I will continue to endeavour to press that case.\"\n\nHe said other groups of workers who should be prioritised included \"teachers and police officers\".", "Four royal aides say they do not wish to \"take sides\" over a letter from the Duchess of Sussex to her father, the High Court has been told.\n\nIn a letter lawyers for the four said they believed their clients could \"shed some light\" on the letter's drafting but the four were \"strictly neutral\".\n\nMeghan is suing the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online publisher over articles that reproduced parts of the letter.\n\nShe claims her privacy and copyright were breached by the newspaper group.\n\nHer lawyers are asking for summary judgement - a dismissal of Associated Newspapers' (ANL) defence instead of a trial.\n\nThe five articles, published in February 2019, were a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of the duchess's privacy, correspondence and family, the lawyers claim.\n\nShe is seeking damages from the newspaper group for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act over the articles.\n\nANL claims Meghan wrote her letter \"with a view to it being disclosed publicly at some future point\" in order to \"defend her against charges of being an uncaring or unloving daughter\", which she denies.\n\nOn the second day of the hearing on Wednesday, ANL's barrister Antony White QC told the court that a letter from the so-called \"palace four\" showed that \"further oral evidence and documentary evidence is likely to be available at trial which would shed light on certain key factual issues in this case\".\n\nHe said it was \"likely\" there was also further evidence about whether Meghan \"directly or indirectly provided private information\" to the authors of an unauthorised biography of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Finding Freedom.\n\nThe four aides are: Jason Knauf, former communications secretary to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Christian Jones, their former deputy communications secretary, Samantha Cohen, formerly the Sussexes' private secretary, and Sara Latham, their ex-director of communications.\n\n\"None of our clients welcomes his or her potential involvement in this litigation, which has arisen purely as a result of the performance of his or her duties in their respective jobs at the material time,\" their lawyers said in a letter sent on their behalf.\n\n\"Nor does any of our clients wish to take sides in the dispute between your respective clients. Our clients are all strictly neutral.\n\n\"They have no interest in assisting either party to the proceedings. Their only interest is in ensuring a level playing field, insofar as any evidence they may be able to give is concerned.\"\n\nTheir letter said that their lawyers' \"preliminary view is that one or more of our clients would be in a position to shed some light\" on \"the creation of the letter and the electronic draft\".\n\nIt also said they may be able to shed light on \"whether or not the claimant anticipated that the letter might come into in the public domain\" and whether or not the duchess \"directly or indirectly provided private information, generally and in relation to the letter specifically, to the authors of Finding Freedom\".\n\nBut Justin Rushbrooke QC, representing the duchess, said the letter from the four \"contains no information at all that supports the defendant's case on alleged co-authorship (of Meghan's letter), and no indication that evidence will be forthcoming that will support the defendant's case should the matter proceed to trial\".\n\nMeghan, 39, sent a handwritten letter to her father in August 2018, following her marriage to Prince Harry in May that year, which Mr Markle did not attend. The couple are now living in the US with their son Archie.\n\nThe full trial of the duchess's claim had been due to be heard at the High Court this month, but last year the case was adjourned until autumn 2021.\n\nAt the conclusion of the hearing on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Justice Warby reserved his judgement, which he said he would deliver \"as soon as possible\".", "When Joe Biden becomes US president on 20 January plenty of change is expected under his new administration.\n\nFor those who want to put Donald Trump in the rear view mirror, there's a lot to look forward to.\n\nOthers are not sure if he can bring unity to a divided country and enact lasting change.\n\nHere's what members of our BBC voter panel told us.\n\nPeyton Forte is a recent college graduate who now works as a reporter. She was not the big supporter of Biden and Kamala Harris, but says getting rid of Donald Trump is an urgent and necessary first step towards change.\n\nWhat are you hopeful the Biden administration can accomplish?\n\nFor starters, easing the pandemic and ensuring more collaboration between federal and state governments on vaccine distribution. I'm looking forward to his stimulus packages to kickstart the economy and make sure people are actually alive to reap the benefits of it. We can also look forward to a president whose main mode of communication is not Twitter. The biggest thing is undoing the damage of the prior administration, from immigration laws to our relationships with foreign allies.\n\nWhat are your fears for the Biden presidency?\n\nTo be honest, I haven't really gotten to that point because I'm so ready for the Trump administration to be gone. So ask me that question again in a few weeks. I'm really encouraged by Biden's financial and economic cabinet picks because I think he is trying to stunt the racial wealth gap. There will be a time and place to nitpick his choices, but not yet. As somebody who is black, I know he rejected calls to defund the police. The phrase is inflammatory, but that money is redirected into our communities, so I'd like for him to take another look at it and maybe he'll reconsider.\n\nWith so much talk of the need for unity and healing, where does the country go from here?\n\n'Unity and healing' is the new 'thoughts and prayers'. I know it has been kind of a calling card for Biden to contrast himself with Trump, but I'm going to have to see it to believe it. Are you just faking it or are you doing the work to actually unify people? Time will tell if people actually want unity or if some are just mad that their candidate lost.\n\nJim is a property manager and conservative Republican who no longer supports President Trump since his refusal to accept the results of the election. He wants the incoming administration to find common ground rather than be too left wing.\n\nWhat are your hopes for Biden?\n\nI'm hopeful for some stability and less drama. America's standing in the world, particularly in the last couple of weeks, has really diminished and I would hope they would be able to return us to our traditional position in the world. I would like to see the bill he puts forward on Covid relief. If we're going to put money into people's hands, we need to make sure it actually makes a difference. Six hundred dollars is a slap in the face when you look at how we're giving away billions of dollars to other countries.\n\nWhat are your fears about his presidency?\n\nI am worried they're going to overreach and placate the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, and create deeper polarisation. I worry they will try to pack the Supreme Court. I am concerned about immigration policy. I would hope they have the courage to be more moderate in tone, action and policy, at least for the first few years. That way, things can level off and then we can have reasonable debate about issues on a case-by-case basis. One side is really having a hard time accepting the reality of [Trump's] loss; that's too many people to just ignore and it seems like there's a real mood for retaliation.\n\nCompromises will need to happen and both sides on the extreme right and left will not be happy with it. In the immediate moment, we need to have a good tone from the top that is conciliatory and respectful. I'm looking for Biden to reassure Americans their vote was secure and legitimate, restore a sense of public confidence and competence to the US government and spend serious time on rebuilding unity.\n\nLesley is a small business owner and an immigrant from Canada. Joe Biden was not her first choice for president by a long shot, but she now says he is \"the best person\" for this moment in the country's history and she hopes he can follow through.\n\nWhat are your hopes for Biden?\n\nI'm looking forward to real leadership and an administration that actually cares about getting things done. We need to get the virus under control. They have an actual plan; I hate that it's going to cost another $2tn, but it wouldn't have cost that if we had taken the time to do the hard work early. From climate change and fire management to infrastructure and renewable energy, they'll get us back on track. From a civil rights perspective, we have the greatest opportunity. The administration is diverse and he's trying to give everyone a seat at the table.\n\nWhat are your fears about his presidency?\n\nNothing comes to mind. I feel like this administration is going to reset, refocus and prioritise things that should be prioritised. There's so much that needs to be addressed at once, but like the rest of the world, they have to learn to multitask and do their jobs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do countries around the world want from Joe Biden?\n\nWe need our elected officials, when doing their jobs, to not just represent one segment of the population. They can see what has happened by turning a blind eye and not listening. For the Democrats, they need to find a way to communicate so the concerns they've raised are taken seriously but without turning off the other side. For the Republicans, they need to pay attention not just to the loudest people - just being loud doesn't mean they're right. Moving forward, everybody has to do their part to prioritise what is best for the country. We're never going to get rid of the element that attacked the Capitol, but it's like herd immunity. The only people who were surprised by what happened last week were the ones who were not paying attention.\n\nJazmin is a writer and youth voting rights activist who says the past four years have damaged the psyche of young people. She wants the new administration to rebuild trust and show people like her that government can be a force for good in their lives.\n\nWhat are your hopes for Biden?\n\nI hope that the Biden administration is bold on climate, an equitable Covid economic recovery and racial justice. Personally though, I think we fundamentally need to look at our broken system. Restoring voting rights, stronger ethics and anti-corruption measures, as well as campaign finance reform can restore balance and transparency within our government, so we can trust in our elections and elected officials.\n\nWhat are your fears about his presidency?\n\nI've been thinking a lot about the pace of change. There's so much that needs to be done but we're also looking at departments that have been gutted. The damage of the past three years has been so deep and the rolling back of it will take a lot of time, so we have to practise patience and we have to be realistic.\n\nOur government only works when people decide not to disengage and be cynical, but instead step up and figure out how to get involved. The events of the Capitol work were horrific and traumatising for so many people, but the day before it was a Georgia election with incredibly high youth voter turnout. There is a lot of vitriol and hate, but the majority of folks believe in working to ensure our country is serving the best interests of everyone.\n\nGabriel is a writer and the activism chair for the New York Young Republicans. He wishes the Biden administration good luck, but is concerned it will sow more division in a vulnerable moment for the country.\n\nWhat are your hopes for Biden?\n\nAs an American, I am hopeful that things go well under this administration. I don't wish for Joe Biden to fail because the president is like the pilot of a plane: if he goes down, so do we. I hope he can answer the renewable energy debate, create more nuclear power plants and allow the United States to remain the number one exporter of energy. Hopefully, we'll see some sort of voter ID laws enforced, for greater election integrity. I hope he doesn't fuel more divisions.\n\nWhat are your fears about his presidency?\n\nMy fear is that he will listen to people like AOC [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] and Bernie Sanders, who are trying to push him to accept more far left policies that will do more harm than good to the US in an economic sense. He may continue the harsh lockdowns and ignore censorship of conservatives. Under the Trump administration, we decreased our presence in the Middle East and were stopping the forever wars, so I really hope we don't return there.\n\nAfter what happened at the Capitol, Biden came out and started very well, then devolved into race-baiting rhetoric - that's not something our country needs right now. There are millions of people who feel as though they were cheated and did not get a fair election, and some of them might not even recognise Biden as president, so it's very important that he treads lightly and focuses on unity. Don't lump them together as insurgents or other labels because you're going to further alienate people. Speak to every American and say that it is time to come together.", "As Donald Trump comes towards the end of his presidency, we've put together a selection of striking moments from his four years in office.\n\nCrowds are seen gathered at Mr Trump's inauguration ceremony on 20 January 2017.\n\nJust days later, the new president accused the media of lying about the attendance. He was said to be angry that images appeared to show the crowds were lower than for Barack Obama's first inauguration in 2009.\n\nWhite House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told the media it had been \"the largest audience to ever see an inauguration, period\".\n\nFar-right supporters and white nationalists took part in a torch-lit rally through Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017.\n\nThe following day a woman was killed and 19 were injured when a car ploughed into a crowd of counter-protesters in the city.\n\nIn response, President Trump condemned violence by \"many sides\", prompting a wave of criticism. Some 48 hours later, he denounced far-right extremists calling \"KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists repugnant to everything we hold dear\".\n\nJoe Biden has said it was the president's response to the tragedy that prompted his own decision to run against him.\n\nMr Trump's attendance at the G7 summit in Canada in June 2018 did not get off to a good start, when prior to the event, the president announced import tariffs on steel and aluminium from the EU, Mexico and Canada.\n\nOther images from the meeting showed more friendly relations between the leaders - but this photo was considered by many to reflect the underlying tensions of the gathering.\n\nMr Trump left the summit before other leaders and claimed that America was \"like the piggy bank that everybody is robbing\".\n\nFirst Lady Melania Trump is pictured wearing a jacket in June 2018 which reads \"I really don't care, do you?\" on the back, during a trip to a migrant child detention centre.\n\nThere was speculation over what message Mrs Trump intended to send by wearing the jacket on that trip, which came as the president was under fire for his policy of separating children from their parents at the border.\n\nThe First Lady later admitted it had been a message \"for the people and for the left-wing media who are criticising me. I want to show them I don't care. You could criticise whatever you want to say. But it will not stop me to do what I feel is right\".\n\nMr Trump called for compromise in politics during his State of the Union address in February 2019 but Nancy Pelosi was pictured giving what many saw as a sarcastic clap.\n\nHe broke protocol by not waiting for the customary introduction from the House Speaker before beginning his speech.\n\nThe image, termed the \"Pelosi clap\" quickly went viral and appeared to show the political rivalry between the two.\n\nMr Trump walks into the northern side of the military demarcation line that divides North and South Korea in June 2019. In doing so, he became the first US sitting president to cross the line.\n\nHis decision to meet Kim Jong-un without pre-conditions stunned the world.\n\nDespite the apparent warming of relations, little concrete progress was made on negotiations over North Korea's nuclear programme.\n\nKim Kardashian West speaks at a White House event about prison reform in June 2019.\n\nIn 2018, the celebrity activist lobbied the Trump administration on behalf of a grandmother jailed for life. Alice Johnson was later granted clemency in a high-profile decision by Mr Trump.\n\nPresident Trump has already given pardons to 94 people and there is speculation he may pardon 100 others before he leaves office.\n\nMr Trump holds a bible in front of St John's Episcopal Church, just across the road from the White House in June 2020.\n\nPeaceful anti-racism demonstrators had been cleared from nearby Lafayette Square with pepper spray and flash-bang grenades so that the president and his entourage could walk to the church.\n\nHis actions prompted shock and anger from many religious leaders, who accused him of using religion for political purposes.\n\nThe Trump family watch as Donald Trump debates with Joe Biden at their first presidential debate in Cleveland, Ohio, on 29 September 2020.\n\nThey broke debate rules that all spectators wear masks - sparking the same criticism often aimed at their father for taking a cavalier attitude to the virus.\n\nA few days after the debate, the president tested positive himself.\n\nHe spent three nights in a hospital receiving treatment before returning to the White House and declaring he felt \"really good\" and urging others not to be afraid of the virus.\n\nCrowds of Trump supporters climb on the US Capitol in DC earlier this month following a \"Stop the Steal\" rally.\n\nIt followed a 70-minute address by the president in which he exhorted them to march on Congress where politicians were meeting to certify Democrat Joe Biden's win. The mob ransacked the Capitol building and attempted to enter the chambers where lawmakers were hiding.\n\nMr Trump has since been impeached, becoming the first president ever to be impeached twice. But he denies charges that he incited the mob to attack the Capitol.", "A tearful President-elect Joe Biden says goodbye to his home state before departing for Washington on the eve of his inauguration.", "Joe Biden has been sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, at a low key inauguration ceremony outside the US Capitol in Washington DC.\n\nIn his maiden speech as president, Mr Biden said: \"We've learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile, and at this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed.\"\n\nRead more: Joe Biden replaces Trump as US president", "More than 60 flood warnings remain in place in northern, central and eastern England\n\nResidents have been evacuated, roads closed and rail services were suspended as Storm Christoph batters England.\n\nHouseboat residents were moved from Northwich, Cheshire, for their safety as Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to hold an emergency meeting later.\n\nNorthern, central and eastern England are braced for flooding which will be discussed at the Cobra meeting.\n\nMore than 60 flood warnings remain in place and three police forces have declared major incidents.\n\nThe North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands have been preparing for widespread flooding following the Met Office's amber weather warning for heavy rain until midday Thursday.\n\nPeople living in houseboats in Cheshire have been moved to hotels for their safety, say police\n\nCheshire Police has declared a major incident - along with forces in Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire - and moved 33 people from Hayhurst Marina for their safety as water levels rise.\n\nIn Greater Manchester up to 3,000 properties could be affected by flooding near the River Mersey where a peak is expected at 23:00 GMT.\n\nDowning Street said Covid-secure evacuation centres would be made available to those forced to leave their homes as a result of flooding.\n\n\"Preparations to create Covid-secure rest centres have been made by relevant agencies as a precautionary measure,\" the Prime Minister's official spokesman said.\n\n\"The important message for the public now is to continue to monitor the information the Environment Agency are providing and sign-up for flood alerts if they haven't already.\"\n\nThe River Eden has flooded Rickerby Park in Carlisle\n\nMore than 120mm (nearly 5in) of rain has already fallen in some parts of England, with 123.4mm at Honister Pass in Cumbria in the 24 hours up to 06:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nNearby Seathwaite saw the second highest total, with 107.2mm (4.2in), and some isolated spots could see up to 200mm (7.8in), the Met Office said.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued more than 60 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, while there are also more than 180 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible.\n\nA road in Lancashire was shut by police after six vehicles got stuck in surface water\n\nIn North Yorkshire, York is currently predicting the River Ouse could rise above 4m (13.1ft) but that is a level the defences can cope with.\n\nHowever, if people are forced out of their homes due to flooding they can stay with friends or family without the risk of a Covid fine during Storm Christoff, North Yorkshire Police has said.\n\nGreater Manchester Police Assistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey said the force declared it a major incident on Tuesday to ensure it was \"as prepared as possible\".\n\nHe believes up to 3,000 properties in the region could be affected by flooding in Didsbury, Northenden and Sale near the River Mersey.\n\nFlood sirens were sounded in Walsden, Todmorden on Tuesday\n\n\"This is a significant incident in terms of disruption to people and those people have been advised with regard to action to take,\" he said.\n\nThe Prime Minister's spokesman added: \"The Environment Agency is on the ground now working with local partners and stand ready to respond to any flooding.\n\n\"They have already ensured there are 40km (25 miles) of temporary barriers, which they are ready to deliver anywhere in the country and that is alongside high-powered pumps and trained staff who are ready to assist and provide information to local communities.\"\n\nWhen asked if local authorities would be given further financial support to deal with flooding, the Prime Minister's spokesman said: \"We have a number of flood recovery schemes that can be made available to those who are affected by flooding.\"\n\nFlood warden Keith Crabtree from Todmorden, West Yorkshire, said he was hoping improved flood defences had \"done the trick\" after checking river levels in Mytholmroyd.\n\n\"There appears to be plenty of rain about but it does not seem to be having and serious impact on the river levels,\" he said.\n\n\"We will see over the years to come how it performs in reducing the flood risk for the village. Things can change very quickly in the Calder Valley and we are not out of the woods yet.\"\n\nHow have you been affected by the floods? Email your experiences: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Biden took his oath on a Bible that has been in his family since 1893 and was also used each time he was sworn in as Delaware senator. The book itself is five inches (12.5cm) thick with a Celtic cross on the cover", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe fluttering flight patterns of butterflies have long inspired poets but baffled scientists.\n\nResearchers have struggled to understand how these delicate creatures can fly with their large but inefficient wings.\n\nNow, a new study shows that butterflies evolved an effective way of cupping and clapping their wings to generate thrust.\n\nThe scientists say that this ability helps them avoid dangerous predators.\n\nFlying species have evolved various methods of evading death. Some have developed powerful and efficient wings to speed them to safety.\n\nOthers survive by tasting awful when eaten.\n\nBut what about the slow-moving, meandering butterfly?\n\nThe problem for these creatures is that they have unusually large wings relative to their body size, which are aerodynamically inefficient for flight.\n\nBack in the 1970s, researchers developed a theory that their big wings allowed the butterfly to clap them together on the upstroke to power their take off.\n\nBut no one has shown how this works in natural flying conditions.\n\nNow, Swedish scientists, using a wind tunnel and high-speed cameras, have captured the butterfly's unique flying skill.\n\n\"The wings are behaving in quite an interesting way,\" co-author Dr Per Henningsson, from Lund University, in Sweden, told BBC News.\n\n\"The leading and the trailing edge are meeting before the central part, forming this pocket shape.\n\n\"We think that sort of behaviour is going to improve the clap because it forms an air pocket between the wings which, when the wings collapse, that makes the jet even stronger and more efficient.\"\n\nA butterfly in the wind tunnel for the experiment\n\nAs well as recording slow-motion video of the butterflies in flight, the researchers constructed two simple pairs of mechanical clappers to test their ideas. One was rigid, the other flexible and more akin to the butterfly wings observed in the wind tunnel tests.\n\nThe team found that the flexible wings dramatically increased the force created by the clap.\n\nIt also improved the efficiency by 28%, which the authors describe as a huge amount for a flying animal.\n\nThis leads them to conclude that the large wings and cupped, clapping action were an evolutionary advantage for butterflies when faced with predators.\n\n\"If you are a butterfly that is able to take off quicker than the others, that gives you an obvious advantage,\" said Per Henningsson.\n\n\"It's a strong selective pressure then, because it's a matter of life and death.\"\n\nA silver washed fritillary , one of the creatures used to show the mechanics of butterfly flight\n\n\"I don't really know if they use it in free flight, but I think they typically don't flap their wings together.\n\n\"But in the take-off phase, they definitely do it a lot.\"\n\nThe authors believe that their research might prove useful in other spheres.\n\nSome drone devices and underwater vehicles already use propulsion systems based on wing clapping motion, but with limitations.\n\nThe incorporation of the approach used by butterflies might bring major improvements, the scientists say.\n\n\"We're suggesting that the people that are working on these designs, they should look into this cup-shape behaviour, since there are lots of efficiency and effectiveness to be gained from it,\" said Per Henningsson.\n\n\"It's certainly something that would be worthwhile looking into.\"\n\nThe report has been published in the journal of the Royal Society Interface.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nRelegation-threatened Fulham lost some of the momentum built up by their win at Everton but showed battling qualities to claim a point at Burnley.\n\nOf the three sides currently adrift at the bottom of the Premier League, the Cottagers seem the most capable of clawing their way to safety, as illustrated by their impressive win at Goodison Park on Sunday.\n\nBut they failed to repeat that bright and incisive display at Turf Moor against a typically hard-working and competitive Clarets side, who married their industry with the game's main moments of attacking ingenuity.\n\nIt was the visitors, though, who took the lead, as much through fortune as design, with Ola Aina's chested effort from a corner finding the net despite an attempted clearance from Robbie Brady on the line.\n\nCrucially, the visitors were denied the time to draw confidence from the opener, with Burnley hitting back three minutes later through a well-taken Ashley Barnes finish, following a superb low ball from Jay Rodriguez.\n\nThe same two strikers had both narrowly failed to get a goal-bound touch on a superb low cross from James Tarkowski in the first half, while Rodriguez saw a low drive kicked away by Alphonse Areola shortly after his side had levelled the score.\n\nThe draw represents an opportunity missed for Burnley to put further ground between themselves and the London side, with the gap between the two a sizeable but not yet entirely comfortable eight points.\n\nScott Parker's side remain six points shy of safety, with Newcastle the 17th-placed side most in danger of being reeled in.\n• None Follow live text commentary of Burnley v Fulham in the Premier League\n\nA point gained, or two lost for Fulham?\n\nEarning a result at Burnley against a side built to expose the mental and physical weaknesses in an opponent, especially a newly promoted one, is not an easy task.\n\nIn doing so, Fulham have further demonstrated their growth into a top-flight side, after claiming a number of creditable draws earlier in the campaign and then dispatching an aspiring big-hitter in Everton last weekend.\n\nUnfortunately, the Cottagers' development could have come too late.\n\nOnly wins will really eat into the gap between themselves and safety and they cannot afford to let one slip from their grasp when it is there to be had.\n\nIt is why Parker and his side will be so disappointed at the speed and manner with which they conceded the equaliser at Turf Moor, throwing away the lead and momentum they had seized by allowing Barnes a free run in on goal to finish.\n\nThey had been on the back foot for large periods before that and were indebted to a bit of fortune for their goal, but aesthetics come a distant second to actual points right now.\n\nThe biggest positive for Burnley will be that their advantage over the Cottagers remains the same as it was before kick-off.\n\nWith the likes of Newcastle and Palace in far worse form than they are, and Brighton a point worse off, they will feel relatively calm about their situation.\n\nWhat will worry manager Dyche is further injuries to his already depleted squad, with Johan Berg Gudmundsson having to depart, and his replacement Robbie Brady also needing to be replaced.\n\nThere is no respite for either side, with both facing further important fixtures at the weekend.\n\nBurnley host West Brom, the side a place below Fulham in the table, while Parker's men welcome bottom club Sheffield United to Craven Cottage.\n\n'When we get ahead we need to weather something'\n\nBurnley boss Sean Dyche talking to Sky Sports: \"Another point on the board, we are stripped to the bare bones. A committed performance.\n\n\"The reaction to their goal was excellent and I thought we defended well. It's remarkably unfortunate how many injuries we have had.\"\n\nFulham boss Scott Parker talking to Sky Sports: \"It is a tough place to come, the ball is in play not a lot, it is scrappy. We got our noses in front and disappointed with the goal we have conceded.\n\n\"We take the point though. That is four points so far this week. When we get ahead we need to weather something. There were a couple of mistakes for their goal.\n\n\"I thought we were solid, dealt with the threat of balls coming in but were not able to get our identity on it.\n\n\"We regroup, it has been a busy week. Every game is big for us. Six points. This team has honest belief and confidence.\"\n• None Burnley are unbeaten in their past 31 home meetings with Fulham in all competitions (W25 D6), extending their longest ever unbeaten run against an opponent at Turf Moor in their history. Their last such defeat was back in April 1951 (2-0).\n• None Fulham's 31-game winless streak away from home against Burnley in all competitions is their longest run without a victory on the road against an opponent in their history.\n• None There have been just 24 Premier League goals scored at Turf Moor this season (Burnley scoring 10 and conceding 14) - the joint-lowest total at a top-flight ground in 2020-21 (level with Craven Cottage).\n• None Fulham have gone six consecutive away games without defeat in the Premier League (W1 D5), their joint longest such run in the competition (also in August 2004 under Chris Coleman).\n• None Burnley have conceded the first goal of the game in eight of their 12 Premier League matches at Turf Moor this season, including each of the past five - only Sheffield United (10) have done so more often on home soil in the competition this campaign.\n• None There were just 224 seconds between Ola Aina's opener for Fulham and Ashley Barnes' equaliser for Burnley.\n• None Burnley's Jay Rodriguez has assisted in back-to-back Premier League games for the first time in his career, with this his 196th appearance in the competition.\n• None Burnley's Robbie Brady is the only player to have been substituted on and off in two separate Premier League games this season.\n• None Attempt missed. Ashley Barnes (Burnley) header from very close range misses to the left following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Ademola Lookman (Fulham) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Josh Maja.\n• None James Tarkowski (Burnley) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Josh Maja (Fulham) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ruben Loftus-Cheek with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Fulham) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ivan Cavaleiro with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Lifting the lid on the former president's 'America First' foreign policy\n• None Romesh returns with celebrity guests, a virtual nation and his mum...", "The editor of the British Medical Journal has asked the New York Times to correct an article that says UK guidelines allow two Covid-19 vaccines to be mixed.\n\nThe US publication reported that UK health officials would allow patients to be given a second dose that is a different vaccine to their first.\n\nFiona Godlee pointed out in her letter to the NYT that it was not a recommendation.\n\nShe said the NYT's headline claiming UK guidelines say such substitutions \"may happen\" was \"seriously misleading\".\n\nThe UK has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab - but both require two doses which are now to be administered 12 weeks apart\n\nMs Godlee said the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) does not make any recommendation to mix and match - in other words, having a shot of one vaccine and then a different one 12 weeks later.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, Public Health England's head of immunisations, said: \"We do not recommend mixing the Covid-19 vaccines - if your first dose is the Pfizer vaccine you should not be given the AstraZeneca vaccine for your second dose and vice versa.\"\n\nDr Ramsay added that on the \"extremely rare occasions\" where the same vaccine is unavailable or it is unknown which jab the patient received, it is \"better to give a second dose of another vaccine than not at all\".\n\nMs Godlee urged the New York Times to print a \"highly visible correction\" as soon as possible.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath was among the hospitals receiving a delivery\n\nMeanwhile, health staff have criticised the paperwork needed to gain NHS approval to give the coronavirus vaccine, with some medics being asked for proof they are trained in areas such as preventing radicalisation.\n\nThe first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are due to be given on Monday after the jab was approved for use in the UK last week.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first vaccine approved in the UK, and 944,539 people have had their first jab.", "Police tweeted this photo, which appears to show the vehicle severely damaged in the crash\n\nFour ponies have been killed in a collision with a vehicle in the New Forest National Park.\n\nThe animals were hit on Thursday night while licking freshly laid salt on Roger Penny Way, Hampshire Constabulary said.\n\nThree ponies died at the scene while a fourth was found dead later a short distance away.\n\nIn December, three donkeys were killed on the road, which is a black spot for animal accidents.\n\nMark Ferrett, whose daughter owned the ponies, said the deaths were \"unacceptable\"\n\nThe crash happened at about 21:00 GMT on a 40mph (64km/h) section of the road north of Brook.\n\nThe car, a Land Rover Discovery, appears to have been severely damaged in the collision, according to a police tweet, which gave no further details.\n\nMark Ferrett, whose daughter owned the ponies, said the deaths were \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe said: \"I would favour a reduction in the speed [limit]. Please, everyone needs to slow down and stop this carnage.\"\n\nThe New Forest is one of the largest remaining areas of unenclosed land where commoners' cattle, ponies and donkeys roam throughout the open heath.\n\nIn 2019, 58 animals were killed and 32 were injured, according to the New Forest National Park Authority.\n\nThe crash happened on Roger Penny Way, where donkeys, cattle and horses roam freely\n\nAndrew Napthine, a New Forest Agister who helps manage the area's free-roaming animals, attended the scene of the crash, and said the male driver was not injured.\n\nHe said three of the ponies were killed on the road while a fourth fled the scene and died behind a bush.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Officers dispersed the party at the Grade II* listed church before midnight\n\nA 500-year-old church was damaged during an illegal New Year's Eve party at the venue.\n\nAll Saints' Church in East Horndon, near Brentwood, was broken into before crowds entered, Essex Police said.\n\nOfficers were threatened and had objects thrown at them as they dispersed hundreds of people and seized equipment, the force said.\n\nTwo men from Harlow, aged 27 and 22, and a 35-year-old from Southwark were arrested.\n\nThey were held on suspicion of public order and drugs offences.\n\nAstrid Gillespie, a volunteer with the Friends of All Saints', said event organisers had smashed a window to put in an extractor fan unit and wired sound equipment into the church's fuse box.\n\nShe said: \"It was a professional set-up, they'd hired portable loos, they had a bar area where you had to exchange tokens... obviously it's a mess.\n\n\"It's such a beautiful church, to find out it's been damaged is devastating.\"\n\nThe conservation group believes it will cost at least £1,000 to repair the Tudor building.\n\nEquipment was seized and fines issued over three illegal parties broken up by officers\n\nPolice later dispersed about 100 people at an illegal party at an abandoned warehouse in Brentwood and made two arrests.\n\nA woman was also fined £10,000 for organising a house party with 100 guests at Bury Road, Sewardstonebury, in Epping Forest.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Andy Prophet said: \"Unfortunately, there were [those] who decided to blatantly flout the coronavirus rules and regulations and, ultimately, they decided that partying was more important than protecting other people.\n\n\"We've seized their equipment, arrested five people, and issued a large number of fines to those who think this behaviour is acceptable.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nFormer Tottenham and Southampton boss Mauricio Pochettino has been appointed head coach of Paris St-Germain.\n\nThe Argentine, 48, who succeeded Thomas Tuchel, has signed a deal until 30 June 2022, with the option of an extra year.\n\nPochettino, who played for PSG between 2001 and 2003, has been out of work since being sacked by Spurs in November 2019.\n\nPSG are third in Ligue 1 and will face Barcelona in the last 16 of the Champions League in February and March.\n\nGerman Tuchel was sacked on 29 December after two and a half years in charge.\n• None Pochettino is back - but why has he chosen PSG? Read Guillem Ballague's column\n\nPochettino will take his first training session on Sunday following the French league's winter break.\n\nHe said he was \"happy and honoured\" to take on the role and that the club \"has always held a special place in my heart\".\n\n\"I return to the club today with a lot of ambition and humility, and am eager to work with some of the world's most talented players,\" said Pochettino.\n\n\"This team has fantastic potential and my staff and I will do everything we can to get the best for Paris St-Germain in all competitions. We will also do our utmost to give our team the combative and attacking playing identity that Parisian fans have always loved.\"\n\nPSG chairman and chief executive Nasser Al-Khelaifi said Pochettino's return \"fits perfectly with our ambitions\", adding: \"It will be another exciting chapter for the club and one I am positive the fans will enjoy.\"\n\nPochettino began his managerial career at Espanyol and spent 18 months at Southampton before joining Tottenham in May 2014.\n\nHe guided them to the League Cup final in his first full season, while two third-placed finishes sandwiched a runners-up spot in the Premier League in 2016-17.\n\nA former Argentina defender, Pochettino led Spurs to the Champions League final in 2019, where they lost to Liverpool.\n\nHe was sacked five months later, with the club 14th in the Premier League, and replaced by Jose Mourinho.\n\nTuchel's final game in charge of PSG was a 4-0 win over Strasbourg on 23 December, which moved the reigning champions to within a point of Ligue 1 leaders Lyon and second-placed Lille before a two-week winter break.\n\nPSG have been linked with a January loan move for Tottenham's Dele Alli, who made his Premier League debut under Pochettino.\n\nWe all wanted to see him back and we all thought he was waiting for the Manchester United job. PSG is a massive job. There's a massive expectation there.\n\nWith the squad he can pick from and the players he can attract, it's a match made in heaven.\n\nPochettino has got the best out of Dele Alli in the past and it would probably be a clever move all round to get him out there with with the Euros looming.\n\nYou have to have success [at PSG]. They have moved Thomas Tuchel on because PSG are actually in a title race rather than winning at a canter. It's a great opportunity for Pochettino.\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Arwel Morris said national park staff and police had been engaging with visitors\n\nBeauty spots have been \"disappointingly busy over the last few days\" despite restrictions meaning all but essential travel should be avoided.\n\nSnowdonia park warden Arwel Morris reiterated the message that people should not be driving to visit places.\n\nOn Saturday, police stopped people from Milton Keynes attempting to walk up Snowdon in breach of Covid rules.\n\nMr Morris blamed a \"perfect storm\" of good weather and people being off work for the number of visitors in the area.\n\n\"We try and enforce the fact that exercise should begin and end at home, meaning people should not try and drive to a location where they plan to exercise,\" he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"And this has been really difficult over the last few days.\n\n\"We have dealt with people from London, Birmingham… numerous people from north Wales travelling to beauty spots.\"\n\nMr Morris, a warden for Snowdonia National Park, said police had been doing their \"absolute best\" dealing with visitors despite other pressures, as wardens could not enforce breaches in lockdown rules.\n\nA breach of Covid rules can incur a £60 fine, which rises to £120 for a second breach.\n\nOn Saturday, North Wales Police said officers had \"turned away\" people who wanted to walk up Snowdon in breach of stay-at-home rules, including some some from Milton Keynes and London.\n\nOn New Year's Day, the force tweeted to say people had been reported for breaching travel restrictions.\n\nWales has been in a nationwide level four lockdown since 20 December.\n\nWales is in a tier four lockdown\n\nTravelling is only allowed for essential purposes, such as for work and for caring responsibilities. International travel is also not allowed.\n\nPeople are still allowed out of their homes to exercise for unlimited periods each day, but must maintain social distancing and not exercise with anyone outside their household.\n\nMore than three quarters of England is also under the strictest tier four coronavirus measures, putting restrictions on people's daily lives.", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has started to arrive in hospitals, with the first doses due to be given on Monday.\n\nThe Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath in West Sussex was one of the hospitals taking a delivery on Saturday.\n\nThe UK has ordered 100 million doses of the new vaccine - enough to vaccinate 50 million people.", "Last updated on .From the section Olympics\n\nThe delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead this summer despite concern over rising coronavirus cases, says Japan's prime minister.\n\nThe Olympics are due to begin on 23 July with the Paralympics following a month later from 24 August.\n\nCases have surged in Japan in recent days with Tokyo reporting over 1,000 daily infections for the first time.\n\nBut prime minister Yoshihide Suga said the \"Games will be held this summer\" and be \"safe and secure\".\n\nJapan is responding to cases of the new variant of coronavirus first found in the UK, with Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike warning the number of infections could \"explode\".\n\nThere were a record 1,337 cases in Tokyo on 31 December with 783 new infections announced on Friday.\n\nJapan has recorded 239,041 coronavirus cases and 3,337 deaths during the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nCosts for the Games have increased by $2.8bn (£2.1bn) because of measures needed to prevent the spread of coronavirus but organisers have ruled out a delay.\n\nThe Games could be the most expensive summer Olympics in history.\n\nA poll by national broadcaster NHK showed that the majority of the Japanese general public oppose holding the Games in 2021, favouring a further delay or outright cancellation of the event.\n\nSuga said the Games going ahead could serve as a \"symbol of global solidarity\".", "The next few weeks will be \"nail-bitingly difficult\" for the NHS, hospital bosses have warned.\n\nStaff absences and the new Covid variant are creating a \"challenging situation\", Saffron Cordery, of NHS Providers, which represents hospital trusts in England, said.\n\nDoctors are urging the public to \"take it seriously and follow the rules\" to protect the health service.\n\nThe year started with 53,285 more Covid cases and 613 deaths being reported.\n\nThe day's figures do not include data from Northern Ireland or Wales, or the numbers of deaths from Scotland - as these are not being published on certain days during the Christmas and New Year period.\n\nIt comes after the UK reported its highest daily cases on Thursday, with a record 55,892 infections.\n\nOn Friday evening, the government confirmed that all primary schools in London would remain closed for the start of the new term, following a review of Covid transmission rates.\n\nFrom Monday, all schools in the capital will now be required to provide remote learning.\n\nPrimaries in nine London boroughs and the City of London district had been set to reopen - while those in the remaining 23 boroughs would have stayed closed from 4 January.\n\nMeanwhile, new analysis by Imperial College London has confirmed the new variant of coronavirus has a much quicker rate of transmission than the original strain.\n\nAnd an analysis of NHS England data from 23 hospital trusts by the Health Service Journal shows that Covid-19 is putting intense pressure on adult acute care and general beds, as well as those in intensive care.\n\nIt found that more than a third of these beds were occupied by patients with Covid-19 on Tuesday, and in three trusts - North Middlesex in London, and Medway and Dartford and Gravesham in Kent - the figure was more than half.\n\nBased on the recent rise in numbers, the analysis suggests that all acute and general beds might soon be filled with Covid-19 patients.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, Ms Cordery said the surging transmission and death rates were \"incredibly hard to deal with\".\n\n\"When we are seeing major London trusts saying they are under pressure, that's when we know we're in a very challenging space,\" she said.\n\nA leading intensive care doctor has urged people to follow restrictions until the vaccination programme is fully rolled out.\n\nProf Anthony Gordon, of Imperial College, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"There is light at the end of the tunnel so I would urge people to hold on for these few more months while the vaccination programme makes that difference and then we can truly get back to normal.\n\n\"But we can't overrun the health service because this will just lead to thousands more deaths.\"\n\nAdrian Boyle, vice-president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, urged people to follow guidance on hand washing, social distancing and face coverings to stop the \"entirely preventable\" spread of the virus.\n\nDr Boyle said staff are \"tired\" and at risk of \"burnout\", having \"worked really hard over the summer\" and \"put up with a lot of disruption\".\n\n\"This time people are frustrated, this is now an entirely preventable disease, we know what we did in spring made a lot of this go away. There's also now a vaccine,\" he added.\n\nMore than three-quarters of England is currently under the strictest tier four - \"stay at home\" - coronavirus measures, and other parts of the country have joined higher tiers.\n\nMainland Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are under lockdown.\n\nThere are also concerns the added pressures of rising numbers of Covid patients seen at London hospitals have begun to spread across the country.\n\nSpeaking on Today, Dr Alison Pittard, of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, said it was \"only a matter of time before it starts to spread to other parts of country\", adding that \"we're already starting to see that\".\n\nShe stressed it was \"really important that we try and stop the transmission in the community because that translates into hospital admissions\".\n\nIt comes as almost half the major hospital trusts in England are said to be dealing with more Covid-19 patients than at the peak of the first wave in April.\n\nAnd pressure has been so great on some hospitals in London and south-east England that some patients have been moved out of the area.\n\nLondon's Nightingale emergency hospital is ready to admit patients, the NHS has said, while other sites currently not in use are being readied.\n\nHowever, Mike Adams, director of the Royal College of Nursing, questioned whether there were the staff available to run the hospital.\n\n\"Nursing is already stretched beyond capacity so there is no magic pile of nurses we can call upon,\" he told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\n\"I think the real battle is reducing the spread of the virus and getting the vaccine rolled out.\"\n\nThe new coronavirus variant has driven a big rise in cases, with the worst effects felt so far in London.\n\nResearchers at Imperial College London have confirmed it increases the R number - the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to - by about 0.4 to 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy, from the statistic section of Imperial College London, told the Today programme this higher rate of infection means that transmission of the disease would have tripled even during England's November lockdown conditions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains how to wear your mask correctly and help stop coronavirus spreading\n\nThe hunt is now on to find new ways to slow the spread of coronavirus, with the rules on mask wearing potentially coming up for review.\n\nBehavioural science group SPI-B (Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours), which reports to the Sage group of government advisers, has said that mandatory face coverings may be necessary in a wider number of settings, such as in workplaces and possibly outdoors.\n\nHowever, Dr Simon Clarke, associate professor of cellular microbiology at the University of Reading, told BBC Radio 4's World at One he was not convinced a move towards making the wearing of face coverings mandatory outdoors would make \"much difference\" to transmission rates.\n\nHe said the \"bigger problem\" was people touching their face covering or wearing it incorrectly, adding ministers should focus on ensuring people knew how to wear them and to change and wash them regularly.\n\nThe rollout of the newly approved Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will begin on Monday, almost a month after the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.\n\nSecond doses of either will now take place within 12 weeks rather than 21 days as had been initially planned with the Pfizer vaccine.", "The star started filming his role in secret last year\n\nComedian John Bishop is to join Jodie Whittaker for the 13th series of Doctor Who, the BBC has revealed.\n\nThe 54-year-old, who recently tested positive for coronavirus, said boarding the Tardis was a \"dream come true\".\n\nHe will play a character called Dan, who \"becomes embroiled in the Doctor's adventures\" and faces \"evil alien races beyond his wildest nightmares\".\n\nBishop fills the gap left by Bradley Walsh and Tosin Cole, who bowed out in a special New Year's Day episode.\n\nHe began filming his role last November, but the BBC kept the signing under wraps until the broadcast of Revolution Of The Daleks on Friday night.\n\nBishop, who grew up on a Merseyside council estate, had a brief career as a professional footballer before turning his hand to comedy.\n\nHe has previously acted in the Channel 4 drama Skins and the Ken Loach film Route Irish.\n\nEarlier this week, the comedian revealed that he and his wife had tested positive for Coronavirus over Christmas, saying he had been \"flattened\" by \"the worst illness I have ever had\".\n\nWriting on Instagram, he described his symptoms as including \"incredible headaches, muscle and joint point, no appetite, nausea, dizziness [and] chronic fatigue like I didn't know existed\".\n\nHe updated fans on New Year's Eve, saying he and his wife were \"getting a little stronger\" every day, and promising he would return to work in January.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by johnbish100 This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not thought his illness will disrupt production on Doctor Who. The show is on a scheduled break for Christmas and not due to resume filming until later this month.\n\nThe 13th series of the rebooted sci-fi stalwart will see Whittaker return as the extra terrestrial Time Lord, alongside Mandip Gill, who returns as Yaz.\n\nIn a statement, Bishop said: \"If I could tell my younger self that one day I would be asked to step on board the Tardis, I would never have believed it.\n\n\"It's an absolute dream come true to be joining Doctor Who and I couldn't wish for better company than Jodie and Mandip.\"\n\nJodie Whittaker became the first female actress to play The Doctor in 2017\n\nProgramme boss Chris Chibnall added: \"It's time for the next chapter of Doctor Who, and it starts with a man called Dan. Oh, we've had to keep this one secret for a long, long time.\n\n\"Our conversations started with John even before the pandemic hit.\n\n\"The character of Dan was built for him, and it's a joy to have him aboard the Tardis.\"\n\nDoctor Who will return to BBC One later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal continued their Premier League resurgence with a ruthless victory over strugglers West Brom at The Hawthorns.\n\nDefender Kieran Tierney's excellent solo run and curling finish put the Gunners in front in the first half, before the impressive Bukayo Saka rounded off a stunning passing move to make it 2-0.\n\nAlexandre Lacazette added the third and fourth goals after the break - smashing in a rebound from Emile Smith Rowe's shot before he was set up by Tierney.\n\nIt was Arsenal's third league victory in a row after they had failed to win their previous seven.\n\nWest Brom, playing their fourth match under new manager Sam Allardyce, remain second from bottom and six points from safety.\n• None Confidence? Youth? How have Arsenal turned relegation talk into European hopes?\n\nArsenal boss Mikel Arteta said he wanted his players to \"show confidence\" at The Hawthorns, and they certainly did that in a dominant and eye-catching display.\n\nHector Bellerin forced Sam Johnstone into a save within two minutes after Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang broke down the left, and Saka tormented full-back Dara O'Shea on the opposite wing constantly during the opening half.\n\nIt was Saka's ball that fizzed past the back post, inches away from the toe of Aubameyang, after the 19-year-old had got the better of O'Shea and hit it straight at Johnstone.\n\nWest Brom were being suffocated and Tierney's burst of pace to get around Darnell Furlong, before bending it into the far corner, was the perfect way to open the scoring.\n\nSaka made it 2-0 by rounding off a slick, one-touch passing move that former Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger would have been proud of.\n\nWest Brom could offer no response after the break either and Arsenal were 3-0 up on the hour when Lacazette eventually blasted in the rebound from a catalogue of errors by defender Semi Ajayi.\n\nThat was game over but Lacazette was allowed to add a fourth when he was left unmarked to divert Tierney's cross into the roof of the net four minutes later.\n\nArteta, knowing the job was done, was able to bring off Saka and Emile Smith Rowe following impressive performances from both youngsters, while Arsenal continued to create chances to round off a very enjoyable evening in the snow.\n\nAllardyce's first match in charge of West Brom - a 3-0 drubbing by Aston Villa after captain Jake Livermore had been sent off - was a sign of just how tough this job was going to be.\n\nThen that 1-1 draw with Liverpool at Anfield provided hope. The Baggies were resilient, organised and tireless.\n\nBut heavy back-to-back defeats by Leeds United and now Arsenal at home have brought things back down to earth.\n\nWest Brom were overawed in defence, out-run in midfield and frustrated by a lack of opportunities in attack throughout this confidence-crushing defeat.\n\nTheir rare sniffs at goal came from a Granit Xhaka error in the first half - Matheus Pereira chipping it through to Matt Phillips who struck it straight at Bernd Leno - before Callum Robinson's finish was ruled out for offside in the second half.\n\nSubstitute Rekeem Harper's long-range strike deep in stoppage time was also comfortably turned behind by Leno.\n\nIt was West Brom's third home loss in three under Allardyce and they have conceded 12 goals with no reply in those games.\n\n'Everything looks much better' - what they said\n\nWest Brom manager Sam Allardyce: \"Another game gone by where we learn more about the players we have. We have learnt an awful lot about what we can and cannot do.\n\n\"We need to work out a way of not trying to be as sloppy as we have been at conceding goals. It appears when we try to open up we leave opportunities for the opposition and we cannot cope.\"\n\nArsenal manager Mikel Arteta: \"We had a big week, three games in seven days, and we managed to win them and everything looks much better. It was difficult conditions but the team looked sharp from the start. It's a big win.\n\n\"After the results we had before we had to lift things straight away. Now we have got some discipline back. We look more creative in the final third and we look solid at the back.\"\n\nThe best of the stats\n• None West Brom are the first side to lose consecutive home Premier League games by at least four goals since Wigan in August 2010.\n• None Arsenal have scored in all 25 of their Premier League meetings with West Brom, the best 100% scoring record by one side against an opponent in the competition's history.\n• None There were 20 passes in the build-up to Arsenal's first goal scored by Kieran Tierney - since Mikel Arteta's first game in charge on Boxing Day 2019, the Gunners have scored more goals following a sequence of 20+ passes than any other Premier League side (3).\n• None Tierney became the first Scottish player to score an away Premier League goal for Arsenal and the first to do so in the top flight since Charlie Nicholas against Ipswich Town in March 1986.\n• None Alexandre Lacazette has scored five away Premier League goals in 2020-21, his best such tally in a single season in the competition.\n\nWest Brom travel to Blackpool for an FA Cup third-round tie on Saturday, 9 January (15:00 GMT kick-off), before returning to Premier League action on Saturday, 16 January against Wolves (12:30 GMT).\n\nArsenal host Newcastle in their FA Cup match on the same day (17:30 GMT), before facing Crystal Palace at home in the league on Thursday, 14 January (20:00 GMT).\n• None Offside, West Bromwich Albion. Charlie Austin tries a through ball, but Kyle Bartley is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Rekeem Harper (West Bromwich Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Matheus Pereira.\n• None Attempt saved. Willian (Arsenal) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Dani Ceballos.\n• None Attempt missed. Joseph Willock (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Willian with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Conor Gallagher (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Callum Robinson.\n• None Attempt blocked. Charlie Austin (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Dara O'Shea.\n• None Dani Ceballos (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kieran Tierney.\n• None Attempt missed. Charlie Austin (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Matt Phillips. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United moved level on points with Premier League leaders Liverpool as a Bruno Fernandes penalty saw off stubborn Aston Villa.\n\nFernandes drilled his 11th league goal this season - and his fifth from the spot - into the bottom corner to punish Douglas Luiz's clip on Paul Pogba and hand United an eighth win in 10 games.\n\nBertrand Traore's calm finish underneath David de Gea had deservedly drawn Villa level, cancelling out Anthony Martial's stooping first-half header for the hosts.\n\nBut Fernandes' penalty extended United's hold over Villa - they have now won 32 and lost just one of the past 44 league meetings between the sides - and leaves Liverpool top only by virtue of goal difference.\n\nThe spot-kick award angered Aston Villa boss Dean Smith who claimed Pogba \"tripped himself\" and that the video assistant referee should have asked on-pitch official Michael Oliver to review his decision.\n\n\"I don't see why Michael couldn't have looked at it. That's what VAR is for isn't it?\" Smith told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I thought it was a penalty at the time, but I looked at it after the game and saw he tripped himself. I don't think it's a penalty.\n\n\"I think there's enough doubt there to send the referee over to the screen.\"\n\nSmith's side were perhaps unfortunate not to have left Old Trafford with at least a point from a thoroughly entertaining game but they also needed several fine saves from Emiliano Martinez to keep them in it.\n\nAfter Fernandes' spot-kick put United back in front, Martinez superbly tipped a stinging 25-yarder from the Portuguese on to the crossbar as well as denying Martial a second.\n\nMartinez's counterpart David de Gea was just as busy, with a late save from Matty Cash's long-range strike preserving the points, not long after Tyrone Mings had headed wide a glorious chance to level.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's side have displayed their ability to grind out points at Old Trafford in recent weeks, as evidenced in 1-0 home wins over both West Bromwich Albion and Wolves.\n\nBut they have also shown a willingness to go toe-to-toe with teams who are happy to open up the game and, while this was not quite the shootout of the 6-2 win over Leeds, it was just as easy on the eye.\n\nA number of fluid first-half moves produced chances before Martial's opener as the France forward saw a curler tipped over by Martinez, while Fernandes and Wan-Bissaka were narrowly off target with similar efforts.\n\nMartial stole between Mings and Ezri Konsa to nod the Red Devils ahead from Wan-Bissaka's inviting cross for only his second league goal of the season on his return to Solskjaer's starting line-up.\n\nWhile Luiz was unfortunate to be penalised for what might have been an accidental clip on Pogba, there was enough contact for the penalty to be given and Fernandes continued his excellent record from the spot.\n\nUnited were nine points behind Liverpool after a 1-0 defeat by Arsenal at Old Trafford on 1 November but have made up that gap in just two months to set an intriguing title race into motion.\n\nA minute's silence before the game paid tribute to former boss Tommy Docherty, who famously prevented Liverpool claiming the treble by leading United to an FA Cup win over the Reds in 1977.\n\nAnd while talk of foiling a second successive Liverpool title might be premature, moving alongside them at the Premier League's summit will give Solskjaer's side even more confidence as they eye up a trip to Anfield on 17 January.\n\nWhile Villa were ultimately outgunned by their hosts, their brave display was further evidence of the progress Smith's side have made this season.\n\nThey held their own in the first half, causing United a number of problems down the flanks, with playmaker Jack Grealish prompting and probing to show why the hosts have long considered a move for the Villa captain.\n\nBut they were even more impressive in the early stages of the second period, Grealish crossing for an Ollie Watkins header that was saved by De Gea before collecting a quick free-kick and finding Traore to tuck home the equaliser.\n\nLuiz's foul on Pogba came with Villa very much in the ascendancy and while they then had to ride a storm the visitors still came close to pinching a point as Mings beat fellow England centre-half Harry Maguire to a free-kick only to nod wide.\n\nWith Ross Barkley's return from a hamstring injury imminent, this performance should keep Villa optimistic even if defeat halted a five-game unbeaten run and saw them slip a place to sixth, behind Chelsea on goal difference.\n\nAnd while their rotten record at Old Trafford continues - just one win in 34 visits since 1983, which came courtesy of a Gabriel Agbonlahor header in 2009 - they have still only conceded five times in eight away games this campaign.\n\n'We have improved a lot in a year' - what they said\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer told BBC Sport: \"You are always delighted with three points. The performance was good and we created chances.\n\n\"It was maybe a little too open and we wasted chances. We tried to play the Hollywood pass instead of securing the first one and using the space that was there.\n\n\"We are happy with what we are doing. We have shown we have improved a lot in a year. We lost to Arsenal away last New Year's Day. We have improved immensely.\"\n\nAston Villa boss Dean Smith told BBC Sport: \"I wasn't happy with the first half. We were miles off the levels where we have been. It felt like a testimonial pace then they deservedly had the lead at half-time. I told the players we needed to be upping our levels.\n\n\"We competed a lot better [in the second half], showed more quality and created chances. I'd take the second-half performance all day long. A dubious penalty has lost us the game.\n\n\"When you look at our performances and results, it shows we are very competitive in this league now, which is what we wanted it to be.\"\n\nUnited's hold over Villa goes on - the stats\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their past 16 Premier League matches against Aston Villa (W12 D4).\n• None Aston Villa have lost 13 of their past 15 away Premier League games against Manchester United at Old Trafford (W1 D1).\n• None In Premier League history, the only player to be directly involved in more goals in their first 30 appearances in the competition than Bruno Fernandes (33 - 19 goals, 14 assists) is Andrew Cole (37 - 28 goals, nine assists).\n• None Anthony Martial has now scored on all seven days of the week in the Premier League for Manchester United, becoming the fifth player to do so, after Ryan Giggs, Andrew Cole, David Beckham and Wayne Rooney.\n• None Only Tottenham's Harry Kane (10) has assisted more Premier League goals this season than Jack Grealish (7), while the last Aston Villa player to assist more than seven Premier League goals in a season was Ashley Young in 2010-11 (10).\n• None Since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's first Premier League match in charge of Manchester United in December 2018, the Red Devils have taken (27) and scored (21) the most Premier League penalties.\n\nManchester United host local rivals Manchester City in the Carabao Cup semi-finals on Wednesday (19:45 GMT) and welcome Watford in the FA Cup on Saturday 9 January (20:00 GMT). Their next Premier League game is away at Burnley on Tuesday 12 January (20:15 GMT).\n\nAston Villa host Liverpool in the FA Cup next Friday (19:45 GMT) before returning to Premier League action at home to Tottenham on Wednesday 13 January (20:15 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ollie Watkins with a cross.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Paul Pogba tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Matthew Cash (Aston Villa) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jack Grealish.\n• None Nemanja Matic (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Luke Shaw (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "London's Nightingale Hospital is ready to admit patients as hospitals in the capital struggle, the NHS has said.\n\nThe Excel Centre site in east London has been \"reactivated\" amid a rise in the number of Covid-19 patients.\n\nOther Nightingale hospital sites across England are also being readied, with the UK recording a record daily rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nAn NHS spokesman said hospitals in London remain under \"significant pressure\".\n\nHe said: \"In anticipation of pressures rising from the spread of the new variant infection, NHS London were asked to ensure the London Nightingale was reactivated and ready to admit patients as needed, and that process is under way.\"\n\nSeveral NHS hospitals in London and the south-east are now reporting they are under extreme pressure as a result of a surge in the number of people falling seriously ill with Covid-19.\n\nAn email to staff at the Royal London Hospital says they are operating in disaster medicine mode - warning they can no longer provide high-standard critical care.\n\nNightingale hospitals in Manchester, Bristol and Harrogate are in use currently for non-Covid patients, the spokesman added.\n\nThe Exeter site received its first Covid patients in November when it began accepting those transferred from the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, which was described as \"very busy\".\n\nHe said: \"Covid inpatient numbers are rising sharply so the remaining Nightingales are being readied to admit patients once again should they be needed, in line with best clinical practice developed over the first and second waves of coronavirus.\"\n\nSenior intensive care doctor Prof Hugh Montgomery warned those who fail to follow the rules on social distancing, hand washing and wearing a face covering \"have blood on their hands\".\n\nNHS England medical director Stephen Powis has described the Nightingale hospitals as \"our insurance policy, there as our last resort\".\n\nLondon's Nightingale hospital was built in nine days, with the help of hundreds of soldiers\n\nHe told a Downing Street press conference on Wednesday: \"We asked all the Nightingale hospitals a few weeks ago to be ready to take patients if that was required.\n\n\"Indeed, some of them are already doing that, in Manchester taking step-down patients, in Exeter managing Covid patients, and in other places managing diagnostics, for instance.\n\n\"Our first steps though, in managing the extra demands on the NHS, are to expand capacity within existing hospitals - that's the best way to use our staff.\"\n\nLondon's Nightingale Hospital was opened on 3 April and placed on standby weeks later after fewer than 20 patients were treated there.", "Owen Thomas says metal detecting has been his escape from the stresses of the pandemic.\n\nThe writer from Tongwynlais, Cardiff started metal detecting after bumping into his long-time friend Bob Wiseman - an avid detectorist - during lockdown.\n\nAside from his first outing, when he followed his metal toe cap boots thinking he had found treasure, he has discovered artefacts dating back to the 13th Century.\n\nOwen says he has fallen in love with his new-found hobby and it is \"the link with a life that's gone” that appeals to him so much.", "A UK ticket-holder has started the new year by winning the EuroMillions jackpot of nearly £40m.\n\nOne ticket matched all five regular numbers and two lucky stars in the draw on Friday night to win the £39,774,466.40 prize.\n\nCamelot's Andy Carter, senior winners' adviser at the National Lottery, said: \"What an amazing start to 2021 for UK EuroMillions players.\"\n\nA ticket-holder has now come forward to claim their prize.\n\nCamelot, which operates the lottery, said checks were being made on the claim.\n\nMr Carter said: \"It is fantastic news that the jackpot winning lucky ticket-holder has now claimed this enormous prize. We will now focus on supporting the ticket-holder through the process.\"\n\nThe winning numbers were 16, 28, 32, 44 and 48 with the lucky stars 01 and 09.\n\nTen other ticket-holders each won £1m in the UK Millionaire Maker New Year's Day event.\n\nIn 2019, a UK ticket-holder won the full £170m EuroMillions jackpot, making them Britain's richest ever lottery winner.\n\nAnd last year, a £57m EuroMillions prize claim was validated just before the deadline. The ticket had been bought in South Ayrshire.\n\nThe winning ticket holder's newfound cash means they are now wealthier than former One Direction singer Zayn Malik, who is worth £36m, according to the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nAnd if they have a bit more money in the bank, they could buy one of the UK's most expensive homes, which went on the market last year.\n\nNobody won the EuroMillons Hotpicks jackpot on Friday, which uses the same numbers as the main draw, but one winner scooped the Thunderball top prize of £500,000.\n\nThe Thunderball numbers were 13, 17, 30, 34, 35 and the Thunderball was 01.", "Lisa Montgomery is scheduled for execution in January 2021\n\nA US appeals court has lifted a stay of execution on the only woman awaiting a federal death penalty.\n\nLisa Montgomery strangled a pregnant woman in Missouri before cutting out and kidnapping the baby in 2004.\n\nIf the execution goes ahead, she will be the first female federal inmate to be put to death in almost 70 years.\n\nMontgomery's execution date was originally set for last month but a stay was put in place after her attorneys contracted Covid-19.\n\nIt was then rescheduled for 12 January by the Justice Department. But Montgomery's lawyers argued that the date could not be set while a stay was in place.\n\nA court sided with her attorneys, stopping an order from the director of the Bureau of Prisons scheduling her death.\n\nBut on Friday, a panel of judges concluded that the director had acted under the law, allowing the execution to take place.\n\nMontgomery's legal team said they will file a petition for the judges to reconsider their ruling.\n\nThe last woman to be executed by the US government was Bonnie Heady, who died in a gas chamber in Missouri in 1953, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.\n\nFederal executions had been on pause for 17 years before President Donald Trump ordered them to resume earlier last year.\n\nIf the remaining executions go ahead, Mr Trump will have overseen the most executions by a US president in more than a century.\n\nMontgomery's execution date is just days before President-elect Joe Biden takes office.\n\nMr Biden, who for decades was a fierce supporter of the death penalty as a Delaware senator, has now said he will seek to end federal executions once he takes office.\n\nIn December 2004, Montgomery drove from Kansas to the home of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, in Missouri, purportedly to purchase a puppy, according to a Department of Justice press release.\n\n\"Once inside the residence, Montgomery attacked and strangled Stinnett - who was eight months pregnant - until the victim lost consciousness,\" it says.\n\nMontgomery cut into Stinnett's body to remove the baby, which she took with her in an attempt to pass it off as her own.\n\nIn 2007, a jury found Montgomery guilty of federal kidnapping resulting in death, and unanimously recommended a death sentence.\n\nBut Montgomery's lawyers say she experienced brain damage from beatings as a child and is mentally unwell, so should not face the death penalty.\n\nUnder the US justice system, crimes can be tried either in federal courts, at a national level, or in state courts, at a regional level.\n\nCertain crimes, such as counterfeiting currency or mail theft, are automatically tried at a federal level, as are cases in which the US is a party or those which involve constitutional violations.\n\nThe death penalty was outlawed at state and federal level by a 1972 Supreme Court decision that cancelled all existing death penalty statutes.\n\nA 1976 Supreme Court decision allowed states to reinstate the death penalty and in 1988 the government passed legislation that made it available again at federal level.\n\nAccording to data collected by the Death Penalty Information Center, 78 people were sentenced to death in federal cases between 1988 and 2018 but only three were executed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What's in store for US President-elect Biden in 2021? Senior North America reporter Anthony Zurcher looks ahead\n\nThe latest in a series of attempts by allies of President Donald Trump to overturn the November US election result has failed.\n\nA Texas judge rejected the case, brought by Republican Louie Gohmert, seeking to stop Vice-President Mike Pence from certifying the final result.\n\nLawyers for Mr Pence had asked for the case to be thrown out on Thursday.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden is due to take office on 20 January. Mr Trump is yet to concede.\n\nMr Gohmert, a Republican congressman, told Newsmax TV that he planned to appeal against the verdict.\n\nMr Trump's friends and colleagues in the Republican party have presented dozens of legal challenges to the November outcome which delivered a decisive win to Mr Biden.\n\nHis victory was announced after days of vote-counting that took longer than in recent years because of the huge number of postal ballots cast due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Trump has made numerous unsubstantiated claims that Mr Biden's win, which saw the president-elect gain 306 electoral college votes to his rival's 232, was fraudulent.\n\nThe electoral college is a system whereby each US state has an allocated number of points that is granted to the overall winner in each state. The candidate who gains the majority wins the presidency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Explaining the Electoral College and which voters will decide who wins\n\nCongressman Gohmert's case sought to allow Vice-President Mike Pence to reject some electoral college votes when they are ratified by Congress on 6 January.\n\nThe vice-president presides over the vote certification in Congress in a ceremonial role that involves opening and tallying the envelopes containing electoral college votes before announcing the result.\n\nMr Gohmert's case aimed to expand that role to allow Mr Pence to cast judgement on the validity of the votes and potentially replace votes for Mr Biden with ones for Mr Trump.\n\nBut Judge Jeremy Kernodle, who was appointed to the Texas court in 2018 by Mr Trump, rejected the case, saying it was based on speculative events.\n\nOn Thursday a lawyer from the US Justice Department representing Mr Pence urged Mr Gohmert to drop the case, suggesting that it was not the vice-president's office that should be scrutinising the outcome.\n\nAlthough most Republicans in Congress are expected to vote in favour of certifying the results, a small number including Senator Josh Hawley, say they plan to object. But their vote is not expected to change the outcome.\n\nMr Biden is due to be sworn in as president on 20 January at a scaled-back ceremony with just 1,000 tickets available due to Covid-19 precautions.", "All primary schools in London will remain closed for the start of the new term, the government has confirmed.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said the government had \"finally seen sense and U-turned\" on its plan to allow pupils in some areas to return on Monday.\n\nLeaders of nine London local authorities had written to Education Secretary Gavin Williamson urging him to rethink the decision.\n\nMr Williamson said the city-wide closures were \"a last resort\".\n\nThe government said it had decided all primary schools in the capital would be required to provide remote learning after a further review of coronavirus transmission rates.\n\nVulnerable pupils and the children of key workers will continue to attend school, the government said.\n\nEarly years care, alternative provision and special schools will remain open, it added.\n\nSchools in nine London boroughs and the City of London district had been set to reopen - while those in the remaining 23 boroughs would have stayed closed from 4 January.\n\nThe decision was criticised and branded \"illogical\" by councillors and residents in the affected areas, who called for primary schools across the capital to move to online learning until 18 January.\n\nThey pointed out that Covid-19 infection rates were higher in some boroughs told to reopen schools than in others where they were not.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Khan said a city-wide closure was \"the right decision\" and thanked education minister Nick Gibb for \"our constructive conversations over the past two days\".\n\n\"The government's original decision was ridiculous and has been causing immense confusion for parents, teachers and staff across the capital,\" Mr Khan said.\n\n\"It is right that all schools in London are treated the same, and that no primary schools in London will be forced to open on Monday\".\n\nDan Thorpe, leader of Greenwich council, said he was \"absolutely delighted\" to hear Mr Williamson had \"finally climbed down and reversed his decision\".\n\nKingston Council leader Caroline Kerr said she was \"dismayed\" at the government's handling of situation while a council statement added: \"It never made sense that neighbouring boroughs were being instructed to have different arrangements despite having similar rates of infection.\"\n\nIslington council leader Richard Watts said waiting until New Year's day to announce the further closures was \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe said the decision \"should have been made weeks ago, as the public health situation became clear\".\n\nMary Bousted, of the National Education Union, said the government was right to reverse its \"obviously nonsensical position\".\n\n\"What is right for London is right for the rest of the country,\" she said, and she called on ministers to \"do their duty\" by closing all primary and secondary schools nationwide for at least two weeks.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, accused the government of damaging public confidence with a \"confusing and last-minute approach\".\n\n\"Just at the moment when we need some decisive leadership, the government is at sixes and sevens,\" he said.\n\nShadow education secretary Kate Green said the move was \"yet another government U-turn creating chaos for parents just two days before the start of term\".\n\n\"Gavin Williamson must still clarify why some schools in tier 4 are closing and what the criteria for reopening will be,\" she said.\n\nGavin Williamson said closing schools across London was a \"last resort\"\n\nIn a statement, Mr Williamson said children's education and wellbeing remained \"a national priority\" and moving the whole of London to remote education \"really is a last resort and a temporary solution\".\n\n\"We will continue keep the list of local authorities under review, and reopen classrooms as soon as we possibly can,\" he said.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the situation in London had continued to worsen in the past week and infections and hospital admissions had risen sharply.\n\n\"While our priority is to keep as many children as possible in school, we have to strike a balance between education and infection rates and pressures on the NHS,\" he said.\n\nThe Department for Education had previously said decisions on school closures and openings were based on new infections, positivity rates, and pressures on the NHS.\n\nA spokeswoman for the department said: \"In response to concerning data about the spread of coronavirus, we have implemented the contingency framework for education in a small number of areas of the country, requiring schools to provide remote learning to all but vulnerable and critical worker children and exam years.\n\n\"Decisions on which areas will be subject to the contingency framework are based on close work with PHE, the NHS, the Joint Biosecurity Centre and across government.\"\n\nAre you a parent or teacher who will be affected by the London primary school closures? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bodycam footage shows the moments before a black man was killed by a police shooting in Minneapolis\n\nMinneapolis police have released bodycam footage of a fatal shooting by officers, the first death at the hands of police in the US city since that of George Floyd, a black man, in May.\n\nThe victim, Dolal Idd, 23, was a suspect in a felony and was stopped by police on Wednesday. He was also black.\n\nInitial witness statements and police say Mr Idd fired first and was shot dead when the officers returned fire.\n\nMinneapolis saw months of unrest after Mr Floyd's death in police custody.\n\nThe protests spread across the US amid allegations of police brutality.\n\nMr Floyd died after a police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nThe footage from Wednesday's fatal shooting, from the bodycam of one of the officers involved, was released late on Thursday.\n\nIt shows the officers' cars blocking a white vehicle at a petrol station on the city's south side, not far from where Mr Floyd died.\n\nThe police are heard shouting \"Stop your car, hands up, hands up!\" before shots are fired, including by the officers.\n\nA female passenger in the car with Mr Idd was not hurt, police said, nor were the officers.\n\nMinneapolis police chief Medaria Arradondo said a gun was found at the scene.\n\n\"When I viewed the video that everyone else is viewing - and certainly the real-time slow-down version - it appears the individual inside the vehicle fired his weapon at the officers first,\" he said.\n\nPeople including Mr Idd's father Bayle Gelle gathered at the scene the following day, prompting fears of renewed protests.\n\n\"He was just sitting in the car, and bullets were shot at him, and no reason,\" he said, quoted by CBS News.\n\n\"Why are we here?... Because of colour. He is a black man. We want to know why my sweet son gets shot and killed.\"\n\nGeorge Floyd's death led to violent protests in the city, including this police station set on fire in May\n\nCity mayor Jacob Frey said he was committed to getting the facts and pursuing justice.\n\n\"We know a life has been cut short tonight and that trust between communities of colour and law enforcement is fragile,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"Rebuilding that trust will depend on complete transparency.\"\n\nMr Floyd's death in May led to calls for reform or even abolition of the city's police department, but those efforts have stalled.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. More than 2,500 people take part in an illegal rave in northern France, despite the nationwide curfew\n\nAn illegal warehouse rave that began on New Year's Eve in France in defiance of coronavirus precautions has been shut down by police after arrests and clashes.\n\nSome of the 2,500 ravers in Lieuron near Rennes in Brittany had planned to party until Tuesday.\n\nPolice issued fines to revellers found leaving and the organisers were being identified as the party ended.\n\nA number of party-goers were from the UK and Spain, police said.\n\nAttendees clashed with police, setting fire to a car and throwing objects at officers attempting to shut the event down. At least three officers were injured.\n\nPolice broke up the three-day party that defied a nationwide curfew\n\nA driver was apprehended with turntables, speakers and a generator in the boot of the vehicle, according to French TV station BFM TV.\n\nPolice trying to stop the event faced \"fierce hostility from many partygoers\", a statement from local authorities said.\n\nBut at 05:30 local time on Saturday the ravers began to accept the party was over and started to leave the two disused warehouse hangars, the local prefecture said.\n\nSome revellers said they were hoping to stay until Tuesday\n\nInterior Minister Gérald Darmanin said on Twitter that trucks, sound equipment and generators were seized at the scene and an investigation has been opened.\n\nMore than 1,200 fines were issued for non-compliance with the curfew, not wearing a mask and attending an illegal gathering, Mr Darmanin said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gérald DARMANIN This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Friday authorities said they had opened a sanitary cordon around the party and anyone leaving the event was urged to self-isolate for seven days.\n\nOne of the party-goers, who gave his name as Jo, told the AFP news agency that \"very few had respected social distancing\" at the event.\n\nA number of people slept in their cars before returning to dance, Le Monde newspaper reports.\n\nOne reveller told Le Monde that the rave was \"very well organised\" with food stalls inside.\n\nAnother, who came with four friends from Finisterre in north-west France, told the newspaper that she had wanted to \"escape\" for a few hours.\n\nOn Friday an interior ministry crisis meeting was held and all vehicle exits from the rave were blocked as police sought to shut down the party.\n\nFrance introduced strict rules ahead of the New Year including a curfew from 20:00 until 06:00.\n\nMore than 100,000 police officers were deployed across the country to break up parties and enforce the curfew.\n\nOfficers were instructed to break up underground parties as soon as they were reported, fine participants and identify the organisers.\n\nFrance has recorded more than 2.6 million coronavirus cases and 64,892 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nOfficers elsewhere in Europe have also had to break up events in recent days.\n\nPolice dispersed a mass gathering near the Spanish city of Barcelona on Saturday where 300 people had been partying for more than 40 hours.\n\nThree footballers from London-based football team Tottenham Hotspur were photographed at a Christmas party last week in breach of coronavirus regulations.\n\nAnd in Essex, an illegal New Year's Eve party damaged All Saints Church near Brentwood. Church authorities have since received hundreds of pounds to pay for repairs.\n\nOfficers in Spain broke up the rave near Barcelona, which had been going on for more than 40 hours", "Officers dispersed the party at the Grade II* listed church before midnight\n\nThousands of pounds has been raised to pay for repairs to a 500-year-old church that was \"trashed\" during an illegal New Year's Eve party.\n\nHundreds of revellers attended the party at All Saints Church in East Horndon, near Brentwood, after the building was broken into.\n\nThree people were arrested on suspicion of public order and drugs offences.\n\nVolunteer group Friends of All Saints said it was \"completely overwhelmed\" by peoples' \"support and generosity\".\n\nChurch volunteer Astrid Gillespie said the damage was \"devastating\"\n\nThe fundraising page was set up on Friday and aimed to raise £2,000, but in less than 24 hours it had raised more than £8,700.\n\nIt said a \"massive clean-up\" was needed at the \"much-loved\" church after \"hundreds of revellers trashed the place\".\n\nEquipment was seized by police at the illegal party\n\nAstrid Gillespie, a volunteer with the Friends of All Saints, said event organisers had smashed a window to put in an extractor fan unit and wired sound equipment into the church's fuse box.\n\nShe said: \"It was a professional set-up. They had a bar area where you had to exchange tokens.\n\n\"It's such a beautiful church. To find out it's been damaged is devastating.\"\n\nReferring to the money that was raised, she said: \"Faith in humanity restored\".\n\nThe church, which is owned and maintained by the Churches Conservation Trust, has not been used for religious services since 1970, but regularly houses community events.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "Amanda Quinn, who has early onset dementia, is cared for by her 23-year-old daughter Bethany\n\n\"It feels like you're being punished for something you didn't do.\"\n\nAmanda Quinn describes living through lockdown with early onset dementia as \"scary\" and \"feeling lost\".\n\nTwo years ago, she was diagnosed with the condition aged 49, and said the disease was a \"ticking time bomb\" for her husband and four children.\n\nAlzheimer's Society Cymru support worker Lorraine Davies said lockdown had brought a \"great sense of loss\" to many families.\n\nSince her diagnosis, Amanda says she has lost her sense of what day it is, her concentration, and she struggles with speech occasionally and suffers more with incontinence.\n\nWhen Wales went into a UK national lockdown on 23 March, Amanda said she did not leave her home in Treorchy, Rhondda Cynon Taf, for weeks.\n\nShe said her children have noticed a \"big change\" in her.\n\n\"I used to have a wicked sense of humour - I still have one, but it's not how I used to be,\" she said.\n\nBut for Amanda one of the worst parts of her condition is \"losing so many friends\" whom she said \"would rather cross the road\" than talk to her.\n\n\"They don't know how to interact with me anymore,\" she said.\n\nAmanda says her children have noticed a \"big change\" since she was diagnosed aged 49\n\nHer 23-year-old daughter Bethany Kingsley, who cares for her, said the pandemic has caused caring work to increase ten-fold.\n\n\"I have to keep an eye on mum a lot more now, because she doesn't know what to do with herself.\n\n\"But I have also got to look after my mental health side of it as well. There are days where I'm struggling,\" she said.\n\nNow Amanda does activities at home such as adult colouring books, baking with Bethany, and watches movies.\n\n\"It is like being a child,\" Amanda explained.\n\n\"My daughter says it's like we've switched roles and she has become the adult as she holds my hand when we cross the road.\n\n\"Although I can see a car, it doesn't register to me that it is not safe to walk out, all I can think is that I need to be on the other side of the road.\"\n\nBefore the pandemic, she attended dementia support groups in person, such as Memoria, a theatrical group of people with dementia and carers, whereas now she does this virtually.\n\nBethany says Covid has had a big impact on caring for her mother\n\nLast year, before the pandemic, Bethany put off moving away to study midwifery at university in Bristol.\n\nAlthough she said it was a \"difficult\" decision as she had wanted to do it for years, she said she was glad she was home to care for her mother during the pandemic.\n\nInstead she chose to study for an Open University course in health and social care from home.\n\n\"I thought my mother is the only person I've got at the end of the day and I would rather make sure she is safe and happy, rather than go off and leave her,\" she said.\n\nBut Amanda said she was concerned about how her condition will progress and affect her family more.\n\nThe 51-year-old said it was \"not fair\" that her daughter had to stay home because of her condition.\n\n\"It worries me how it will affect my children. I'm fortunate, I suppose, that I'm not going to know.\n\n\"I say I don't want to go into a care home but that wouldn't be fair on them - they have still got their whole lives to lead\".\n\nAmanda was still in her 40s when she was diagnosed\n\nAlzheimer's Society Cymru support adviser for younger people Lorraine Davies said there was a stigma attached to younger people with the disease and a \"lack of public awareness\".\n\n\"Some have mortgages, some have young families, and often they also care for older adults - so it has a different impact on them, and their social network of people.\n\n\"A lot of people living with dementia don't always feel they will have next year, so 2020 has been a great sense of loss to them because of the lockdown and restrictions,\" she said.\n\nThe charity estimates that there are between 2,000 to 3,000 people with young onset dementia in Wales, according to 2018 figures from the first Welsh Government national dementia action plan.\n\nHowever Lorraine said the figure was likely to be higher as getting a dementia diagnosis can be harder for younger people, and can take more than a year to have it confirmed.\n\n\"It is also more common for younger people to have rarer forms of dementia, so rather than being a typical Alzheimer's disease, associated with memory loss, a patient might have behavioural changes, but you might just think they are upset, stressed, or put it down to mood swings.\n\n\"Some people have been accused of being drunk, because they have slurred speech, but actually that is a symptom.\"\n\nShe said the Alzheimer's Society has organised virtual support groups for people with the condition and their carers during lockdown.\n\n\"Often younger people want to meet people like them, because it helps them not to feel so alone in this. Knowing that brings people comfort.\"\n\nSimon Hatch, the director of Carers Trust Wales, said the pandemic had highlighted the \"crucial role unpaid carers play both in providing exceptional, expert care to family and friends\".\n\nMr Hatch said the trust found that 44% of young adult carers it spoke to felt overwhelmed by the pressures they were facing.\n\nHe said although there was support available to carers they would need \"sustainable\" forms of this in the future.\n\nThere are about 45,000 people with dementia in Wales, according to the Alzheimer's Society.\n\nThe disease is considered \"early onset\" when it affects people under 65, according to Young Dementia UK.\n\nLorraine said the age distinction was made to mark the difference in financial support, as 65 was state pension age at the time.\n\nDementia itself refers to a set of symptoms caused by many diseases of the brain. The most common symptom is memory loss and difficulty concentrating.\n\nOther symptoms can include struggling to remember recent events, changes to behaviour, mood, becoming lost in familiar places or being unable to find the right word in a conversation.\n\nSpecific symptoms will depend on the parts of the brain that are damaged and the disease that is causing the dementia.", "Police made 17 arrests at the demonstration in Hyde Park\n\nPolice have made arrests at an anti-lockdown demonstration in central London.\n\nCrowds of between 200 to 300 people began to gather in Hyde Park, which is in a tier four coronavirus area, at about 13:30 GMT on Saturday, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nSeventeen people were arrested on suspicion of breaching public health regulations.\n\nMost demonstrators had left the park by 16:45, police said.\n\nThe Met tweeted: \"Officers continue to engage with groups of people who have gathered in the Hyde Park area.\n\n\"A number of people have been arrested under health protection regulations and taken into custody.\n\n\"We urge those in the area to leave immediately.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMore than two people are generally not allowed to meet in public under tier four rules.\n\nThe police force added: \"Officers will take enforcement action where we see clear breaches of the tier four rules.\n\n\"It's up to all of us to make the right choices and slow the spread of the virus.\"\n\nA group called The People's Lockdown, Stand For Your Human Rights, had said it was going to hold a event at Hyde Park on Saturday afternoon.\n\nIn an online post, it called on people to \"stand with your loved ones\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I wish I could switch place with my daughter\" - Odd Steinar Sørengen's daughter is missing\n\nA body has been found shortly after rescuers and dog handlers began a risky ground search for 10 people missing in a hillside collapse in Norway.\n\nInitially it was thought too dangerous to send rescuers on to the site, after flowing mud sent homes toppling into a giant chasm in the village of Ask.\n\nHelicopters and drones spent two days searching the scene.\n\nBut on Friday police commander Roy Alkvist said one or two houses appeared safe to enter.\n\nRescuers, who included a Swedish specialist team, began moving into the danger zone on Styrofoam boards. The bright orange boards were laid down on the mud in a domino-effect as rescuers tried to reach one of the wrecked homes, which are 25km (15 miles) north-east of the capital Oslo.\n\nA missing Dalmatian dog was rescued on Thursday and police believe there is still a chance survivors could be found.\n\nHowever, on Friday afternoon an air ambulance helicopter landed near the site and police said a body had been found at 14:30 (13:30 GMT) without giving further details.\n\nRescuers are using orange Styrofoam boards to move around the landslide area\n\nPrime Minister Erna Solberg said her thoughts went out to the victim's family, and to those waiting for news of the other nine people who were missing.\n\nIn Friday's operation the rescuers also prepared a giant army vehicle called a \"paver\", which has a giant steel bridge on which rescuers can move.\n\nHowever, conditions were not yet good enough for the 50-tonne machine to be deployed.\n\nThe plan is to deploy a Norwegian army bridge-laying vehicle as soon as conditions are good enough\n\nFriday's search was a race against time, as the rescuers only had a few hours of daylight in the Norwegian winter. Medics and geologists were reportedly part of the ground rescue team.\n\nThe ground search was called off for the night at 17:30 and police said drones and heat-seeking cameras would continue overnight until rescue crews could return on Saturday morning.\n\nAbout 1,000 people have been evacuated from Gjerdrum municipality, which contains Ask village. Dozens more were moved out of their homes on New Year's Eve.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows the scale of the landslide\n\nAlthough police have not given details of the missing, they are believed to include men, women and children.\n\nAmong them is a woman who was talking to her husband on the phone while walking the dog when the line went dead, according to Bergens Tidende newspaper.\n\nFurther reports say a couple and their small child are also missing, as well as a woman in her 50s and her adult son.\n\nMore than 30 homes have been destroyed, but officials say more could be lost as the edges of the crater left by the landslide are still breaking away.\n\nThe conditions have proved challenging, with temperatures dropping to -1C (30F) and the clay ground proving too unstable for emergency workers to walk on.\n\nThe scale of the landslide is shown by this aerial view of the disaster site\n\nThe landslide began early on Wednesday, with residents calling emergency services and telling them that their houses were moving, police said.\n\n\"There were two massive tremors that lasted for a long while and I assumed it was snow being cleared or something like that,\" Oeystein Gjerdrum, 68, told broadcaster NRK.\n\n\"Then the power suddenly went out, and a neighbour came to the door and said we needed to evacuate, so I woke up my three grandchildren and told them to get dressed quickly.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) told AFP that the landslide was a so-called \"quick clay slide\" measuring about 300m by 700m (985ft by 2,300ft).\n\n\"This is the largest landslide in recent times in Norway, considering the number of houses involved and the number of evacuees,\" Laila Hoivik said.\n\nQuick clay is a kind of clay found in Norway and Sweden that can collapse and behave as a fluid when it comes under stress.\n\nBroadcaster NRK said heavy rainfall may have made the soil unstable, but questions have since emerged over why construction was permitted in the area.\n\nA 2005 geological survey labelled the area as at high risk of landslides, according to a report seen by the broadcaster TV2. Despite this, the homes were built three years later in 2008.", "Hospitals across the UK are being told to prepare to face the same Covid pressures as the NHS in London and south-east England.\n\nSenior doctor Prof Andrew Goddard said the virus's highly infectious new variant was spreading nationwide.\n\nCase numbers were \"mild\" compared with where he expected them to be next week, he said, with doctors \"really worried\".\n\nIt comes as a further 57,725 people have tested positive for Covid - a new daily high.\n\nThis is the fifth day in a row new daily cases have been over 50,000 and brings the total number of cases to 2,599,789.\n\nAnother 445 deaths, of people who had tested positive within the previous 28 days, were reported on Saturday - bringing the total number of deaths to 74,570, according to government figures.\n\nThe UK-wide total for people in hospital with Covid has already passed the spring peak.\n\nHalf of the major hospital trusts in England are said to be dealing with more Covid-19 patients than at the worst point of the first wave in April, with the NHS facing its \"busiest winter ever\".\n\nProf Goddard, of the Royal College of Physicians, told BBC Breakfast: \"There's no doubt that Christmas is going to have a big impact, the new variant is also going to have a big impact, we know that is more infectious, more transmissible, so I think the large numbers that we're seeing in the South East, in London, in south Wales, is now going to be reflected over the next month, two months even, over the rest of the country.\"\n\nHe said: \"It seems very likely that we are going to see more and more cases, wherever people work in the UK, and we need to be prepared for that.\"\n\nPressure has been so great on hospitals in London and south-east England that some patients have been moved out of the area.\n\nLondon's weekly rate of coronavirus cases is 858 per 100,000 people, double the UK figure.\n\nDominic Harrison, director of public health for Blackburn and Darwen, said a decision on a new lockdown had to be decided \"in the next week\" - instead of waiting for the North to get to the same rates as the capital \"and 'call it late' which has been our pattern of response too often\".\n\nThe most recent UK-wide statistics, from 28 December, showed there were 23,823 people in hospital with Covid. That was already significantly higher than the spring peak, which saw 21,683 in hospital on 12 April.\n\nOnly English hospitals have released figures for the final three days of December - and these show that a further 2,302 Covid patients were occupying hospital beds on 31 December.\n\nLondon's Nightingale emergency hospital is ready to admit patients, the NHS has said, while other sites currently not in use are being readied.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nProf Goddard said it was vital the public did not \"let their guard down\" and continued to follow government guidelines, including wearing a face mask, maintaining social distancing and washing hands.\n\n\"Until the vaccination hits and does its job - that's what our best defence is going to be,\" he said.\n\nDr Ami Jones, an intensive care consultant in Wales, told BBC Breakfast that \"hospitals are absolutely bursting\", adding that a quarter of her staff were currently off sick or self-isolating, making managing patients even more challenging.\n\n\"When we see the daily figures - we know that will sting us in about 10-12 days' time in the hospital,\" she said. \"We are not even at day 10 post-Christmas yet and it's already exceedingly busy.\n\n\"We are going to get to the point where we physically don't have the staff to look after people safely anymore.\"\n\nDr Jones also urged the public to \"please just obey the rules\", adding: \"Stop mixing with other households because it is spreading like wildfire - and we haven't got much more space in the hospitals left.\"\n\nDo you work in a hospital? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Tottenham\n\nTottenham manager Jose Mourinho says he is \"disappointed\" after three of his players breached coronavirus rules by attending a party over Christmas.\n\nA picture on social media showed Argentina forward Erik Lamela, Spain defender Sergio Reguilon and Argentina midfielder Giovani lo Celso at a party.\n\n\"We are not happy - it was a negative surprise for us,\" said Mourinho.\n\nIn a statement, Tottenham said they were \"extremely disappointed\" and \"the matter would be dealt with internally\".\n\nWest Ham reminded Argentina forward Manuel Lanzini, who also attended the party, of his responsibilities.\n\nLanzini apologised in a tweet on Saturday, saying he made a \"bad mistake\".\n\n\"I take full responsibility for my actions,\" he said. \"I know people have made difficult sacrifices to stay safe and I should be setting a better example.\"\n\nLamela and Lo Celso were not involved in Saturday's 3-0 Premier League win at home to Leeds, while Reguilon, who joined from Real Madrid in September, was on the bench.\n\n\"I gave an amazing gift to Reguilon - Portuguese piglet,\" Mourinho said. \"Amazing for Portuguese and Spanish. I was told he would spend Christmas on his own. He was not alone as you could see.\n\n\"We, the club, feel disappointed because we gave the players all the education and conditions. We know what we are internally. We don't need to open the door to you and let you know what is going on internally.\n\n\"What are going to be the consequences and how deeply we approach that negative surprise? I feel disappointed.\"\n\nThe Spurs statement added: \"We strongly condemned the image showing some of our players with family and friends together at Christmas, particularly as we know the sacrifices everybody around the country made to stay safe over the festive period.\n\n\"The rules are clear, there are no exceptions, and we regularly remind all our players and staff about the latest protocols and their responsibilities to adhere and set an example.\"\n\nLamela has made two league starts and Lo Celso four this season.\n\nLanzini has featured in nine of West Ham's 17 league games, coming on as a substitute in Friday's 1-0 win at Everton.\n\nA West Ham spokesperson said: \"The club has set the highest possible standards with its protocols and measures relating to Covid-19 so we are disappointed to learn of Manuel Lanzini's actions.\n\n\"The matter has been dealt with internally and Manuel has been strongly reminded of his responsibilities.\"\n\nTottenham's home league game with Fulham, scheduled to take place on 30 December, was called off three hours before kick-off after a number of Fulham players tested positive for coronavirus or showed symptoms.\n\nMeanwhile, Fulham told BBC Sport they are looking into claims Aleksandar Mitrovic broke coronavirus rules by attending a New Year's party with Crystal Palace midfielder Luka Milivojevic.\n\nImages on social media, reported in the Sun , allegedly show the Serbia team-mates celebrating in London with at least seven other adults.\n\nThe mixing of households indoors is banned in London under the UK government's tier four restrictions.\n\n'Mourinho must be so angry'\n\nMourinho has been so critical and vocal of how the Premier League handled their situation [the Fulham postponement], which I totally disagree with him.\n\nYou have to accept we're in strange and difficult times - if it has to be called off at whatever time then it has to be called off.\n\nTo then see some of his players breaking the rules and laws, particularly when millions of people are sacrificing so much not only in this country but around the world, Mourinho must be so angry.\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Liam Reilly fronted Bagatelle for more than 40 years\n\nIrish Eurovision singer and frontman of the rock band Bagatelle, Liam Reilly, has died aged 65.\n\nA family statement confirmed that Mr Reilly \"passed away suddenly but peacefully at his home\" on 1 January.\n\nMr Reilly fronted Bagatelle for more than 40 years and they had success with songs including Summer in Dublin and Second Violin.\n\nHe also came joint second at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1990 with the song Somewhere in Europe.\n\nThe song finished on 132 points, joint with France's entry sung by Joëlle Ursull, in the contest in Zagreb.\n\nMr Reilly, from Dundalk, County Louth, also composed Ireland's Eurovision entry for the contest in Rome in 1991, when Kim Jackson performed his song Could It Be That I'm In Love, which was placed 10th.\n\n\"We know that his many friends and countless fans around the world will share in our grief as we mourn his loss, but celebrate the extraordinary talent of the man whose songs meant so much to so many.\" the family statement added.\n\nJoe Gallagher, the band's promoter from Strabane, County Tyrone, told BBC Radio Ulster \"the talent that Liam brought to the music industry in Ireland is second to none\".\n\n\"Some of the songs that he has written are up there with some of the better songs written in Ireland,\" he said.\n\n\"He is one of the best singer-songwriters Ireland has ever seen or produced.\"\n\nMr Reilly also wrote songs for others, including The Wolfe Tones. The Irish group paid tribute to him on social media, describing him as \"a master songwriter\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪\n\nStephen Travers, a member of the Miami Showband, said Mr Reilly was a \"national treasure\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bitcoin's value has soared over the past year\n\nBitcoin's value surged above $34,000 (£24,850) for the first time on Sunday as the leading cryptocurrency continued to soar.\n\nIt put the gain this year at almost $5,000, although by 17:00 GMT the price had drifted lower to about $33,000, according to the Coindesk website.\n\nThe rise was put down to interest from big investors seeking quick profits.\n\nIt comes after Bitcoin soared 300% last year, with the price of many other digital currencies also rising sharply.\n\nEthereum, the second biggest cryptocurrency, gained 465% in 2020\n\nSome analysts think Bitcoin's value could rise even further as the US dollar drops further.\n\nWhile the value of the US currency rose in March at the start of the coronavirus pandemic as investors sought safety amid the uncertainty, it has since dropped due to major stimulus from the US Federal Reserve. The currency ended last year with its biggest annual loss since 2017.\n\nBitcoin is traded in much the same way as real currencies like the US dollar and pound sterling.\n\nRecently it has won growing support as a form of payment online, with PayPal among the most recent adopters of digital currencies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut the cryptocurrency has also proved to be a volatile investment.\n\nThe soaring price has raised concerns that Bitcoin is due for a dramatic correction, as happened three years ago when the value collapsed after a bull run.\n\nDuring the rally in 2017 Bitcoin came close to breaking through the $20,000 level, only to hit extreme lows and fall below $3,300.\n\nIt passed $19,000 in November last year before dropping sharply again.\n\nIn October, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey cautioned over Bitcoin's use as a payment method.\n\n\"I have to be honest, it is hard to see that Bitcoin has what we tend to call intrinsic value,\" he said. \"It may have extrinsic value in the sense that people want it.\"\n\nMr Bailey added that he was \"very nervous\" about people using Bitcoin for payments pointing out that investors should realise its price is extremely volatile.", "The aftermath of an attack in August in Niger, which has suffered a number claimed by jihadist groups\n\nSuspected Islamist militants have attacked two villages in Niger, with reports of dozens of civilians killed.\n\nAround 49 died and 17 were injured in the village of Tchombangou, while another 30 died in Zaroumdareye - both near Niger's western border with Mali, Reuters reports.\n\nThere have been several recent violent incidents in Africa's Sahel region, carried out by militant groups.\n\nFrance said on Saturday that two of its soldiers were killed in Mali.\n\nHours earlier, a group with links to al-Qaeda said it was behind the killing of three French troops in a separate attack in Mali on Monday.\n\nFrance has been leading a coalition of West African and European allies against Islamist militants in the Sahel.\n\nBut the region continues to be affected by ethnic violence, banditry, and human and drug trafficking.\n\nIn light of Saturday's attacks, Interior Minister Alkache Alhada said soldiers had been sent to the area, according to French outlet RFI. But Mr Alhada did not say how many casualties there had been across the two villages.\n\nA local official, quoted by AFP news agency, said many people were killed, and a local journalist spoke of up to 50 deaths.\n\nNiger's Tillabéri region, where the villages are situated, lies within the so-called tri-border area between Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, which has been plagued by jihadi attacks in recent years.\n\nTravel by motorbike has been banned in the region for a year, as part of efforts to stop incursions by Islamic militants, who often launch attacks from the vehicles.\n\nAreas of Niger are also facing repeated attacks by jihadists from Nigeria, where the government is fighting an insurgency by Boko Haram.\n\nLast month, members of the group killed at least 27 people in Niger's south-eastern Diffa region.\n\nThe latest attacks in Tillabéri come amid national elections in Niger, as President Mahamadou Issoufou steps down after two five-year terms.\n\nElection officials announced 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"Public borrowing hit £35.9bn last month as the pandemic forces the government to borrow more money.", "Tariffs could add £3bn to the cost of importing food and drink from the EU, a leading retail body warns.", "Three times as many children under nine were tested in early September as in the previous two weeks.", "Scotland's first minister writes to Boris Johnson saying further action is needed urgently.", "Margot Dukes-Eddy dived into the water to save her husband \"without hesitation\", police say.", "The fatal shooting of a police officer at the Croydon Custody Centre has left colleagues stunned.", "The star's soul-searching, self-titled album is named the best British record of the past 12 months.", "Lord Wolfson says hundreds of thousands of jobs may not survive in the wake of the coronavirus crisis.", "The new jobs support scheme is \"a fraction of what we have seen\", writes the BBC's Faisal Islam.", "The pop star says he deleted his account after \"hateful videos\" affected his mental health.", "The impact of lockdown on visitors to the Queen's official residences contributes to a fall in income.", "Climate change is behind the scale and impact of recent wildfires in the western US, scientists say.", "Academy leader Steve Chalke says the government must act before poor children suffer \"irrevocable damage\".", "British Asian weddings are traditionally lavish affairs that tend to have hundreds of guests.", "The long-serving sergeant was an \"inspiration to all who knew him\", says one colleague.", "Students should be able to cancel accommodation and study from home, says lecturers' union.", "Minister Matt Warman says memorials which \"teach us about the past\" should not be removed from view.", "The Bafta Film Awards will have an overhaul after this year's event had an all-white acting line-up.", "Students at a Manchester university said \"police and security were outside\" and morale was low.", "Met Commissioner Cressida Dick says all police \"are mourning a great loss\" after an officer was shot dead.", "Indecision over civil servants coming into the office has wasted time and goodwill, a union says.", "Every case is estimated to result in between 1.2 and 1.5 further infections, government estimates find.", "Local authorities sound alarm as restrictions are extended in several cities in England and Wales.", "The supermarket chain restricts sales of some ranges, including toilet rolls and disinfectants.", "The broadcaster will help launch rival GB News after 25 years at the heart of the BBC's political coverage.", "The broadcaster gains a million followers within five hours of joining the platform.", "It capitalised from lockdown but took no responsibility for those making its clothes, a report says.", "Caroline Nokes calls for extra support for the beauty sector and others with large female workforces.", "Jeffrey Plevey died when a derelict church collapsed in Cardiff in 2017.", "It is only the second vaccine to enter large scale trials in the UK and early signs suggest it can trigger an immune response.", "The bus tour employee used Kat Kingsley's personal details to contact her without good cause.", "City council leader Huw Thomas warns of restrictions on travel and households mixing.", "More officers are deployed this weekend to ensure the 22:00 closure of hospitality law is upheld.", "Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and Home Secretary Priti Patel joined Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick at New Scotland Yard.", "Alexandra Wilson says she was challenged by court staff who assumed she was there to face charges.", "Police said enforcement in the form of fixed penalty notices was only used as a \"last resort\".", "Two suspects are arrested after the incident near the scene of the deadly 2015 attack on the magazine.", "Magawa the African giant pouched rat has won a PDSA Gold Medal for his work detecting landmines.", "Latest figures show 6,634 new coronavirus cases across the UK, taking the total to 416,363.", "Students caught up in a spate of Covid outbreaks question why university residences were allowed to open.", "They have been told to avoid pubs and parties and hundreds are self-isolating amid campus outbreaks.", "The PM will call on world leaders to set aside differences as he sets out plans to prevent future pandemics.", "A deputy went down the stairs head first trying to catch the defendant as he made a run for it.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Class A drugs, £526,000 in cash and 200 weapons are seized in raids across England and Wales.", "The UK prime minister says the UK holds extraordinary potential for wind power.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Updates and reaction from the health minister's announcement of an extension to local lockdowns.", "One privacy campaign group says it is Amazon's \"most chilling home surveillance product\" yet.", "Mayor Sadiq Khan says the city is at \"a worrying tipping point\" as cases rise across the boroughs.", "Limits on loo roll and flour are back as supermarkets act to prevent a repeat of March's panic buying.", "Tributes are paid to the \"much-loved\" and \"talented officer\" who was killed in a London custody centre.", "She says she and her husband, Jack Brooksbank, are \"so excited\" about the child, due early next year.", "Furlough's going, but what does its replacement say about the future?", "Backbenchers raise concerns that measures are being brought in without Parliament having a say.", "EU court ruling that the tech giant does not have to pay hefty back taxes to Ireland goes back to court.", "Governor Andrew Bailey suggests that some sectors may benefit from further targeted help.", "Amid a pandemic and economic crisis, minority communities turn to traditional saving methods to help.", "A convicted terrorist and a \"radicalised\" inmate deny attempting to murder a prison officer.", "About 500kg of cocaine, heroin and other drugs have been seized as well as guns.", "The PM resists taking more draconian steps against coronavirus - at least for now.", "China's surprise announcement of a long-term goal to curb emissions boosts UN climate talks.", "The prime minister says coronavirus is \"the single biggest crisis the world has faced in my lifetime\".", "Leyton Orient's chairman says they \"can't be punished\" after their EFL Cup tie against Tottenham was called off because of Covid-19 cases.", "Deaths remain low - but government advisers warn they are set to rise again.", "A round up of reaction to Wales' new coronavirus rules announced by the first minister.", "Drivers and unions raise concerns about a lack of social distancing on school services.", "The British Geological Survey says there was a 3.0-magnitude tremor followed by a 2.1-magnitude one.", "Boris Johnson calls for unity in a TV address but says too many people have breached the rules.", "One in four people in the UK is currently subject to local interventions to prevent the spread of Covid.", "Additional measures will \"almost certainly\" be announced in the next 48 hours, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says.", "Some 93 of its properties have such connections, a new report commissioned by the charity shows.", "President Trump blames China for the Covid-19 outbreak amid warnings of a Cold War between the two.", "More than 100 sports bodies write to the prime minister to ask for emergency funding amid the Covid-19 crisis, warning of \"a lost generation of activity\".", "The Belfast-born author is best known for the children's classic book about two nutbrown hares.", "An inspection at HMP Erlestoke found cases of violence and self-harm and bad discipline being rewarded.", "The former PM argues the legislation will \"damage trust\", but ministers say it will protect the UK.", "Three funeral directors reflect on the human toll of the pandemic, as the US hits a milestone.", "Labour leader tells his party “it’s time to get serious about winning”.", "One in five species of maple is threatened in their natural habitats, an extinction study says.", "An earlier last orders in pubs and restaurants will be brought in and the visiting ban in the west of Scotland will be extended to all parts of the country.", "The US space agency (Nasa) formally outlines its $28bn plan to return astronauts to the Moon by 2024.", "The appetite inside the Conservative party for sweeping new Covid-19 restrictions has dimmed.", "People and businesses react to lockdown for Newport, Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Blaenau Gwent.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "School attendance figures for England show big rise in pupils sent home because of Covid-19 incidents.", "Sports are told not to expect fans to be able to return to watch live events in England until the end of March at the earliest.", "Gold from a refiner used by criminals to launder drug money has entered supply chains for smartphones and cars.", "City firms SocGen and Lloyd's of London also tell staff to stop coming into the office after new guidance.", "A barrister questions whether the retailer has any checks in place after spotting the racist hats.", "Ministers decide existing laws are adequate to help trans people have their gender legally recognised.", "The driver of the lorry which crashed into a house in Kidbrooke is pronounced dead at the scene.", "The new restrictions on gatherings have public support, the Cabinet Office minister insists.", "People are drinking more during the pandemic and addiction services may not cope, experts warn.", "The deal concludes a four-year investigation of the firm in the United States.", "The firm dismisses claims pubs are \"dangerous\" after some workers contract the virus after reopening.", "Motorists face a 59-mile (95km) diversion after the A83 is closed for the second time in six weeks.", "Big families react as they are told gatherings of more than six will be banned in England from Monday.", "A big chunk of ice breaks away from the Arctic's largest remaining ice shelf - 79N, or Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden.", "Roderick Walker was a passenger in a car pulled over for a broken rear light in Atlanta, Georgia.", "Frank Lampard says Chelsea \"have to have intentions to be up there\" with champions Liverpool after they begin their season with victory at Brighton.", "Bernadette Walker, 17, was reported missing from Peterborough on 21 July.", "The daily statistics show that 244 people tested positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours.", "At least 400 people are arrested, as the latest of several weeks of mass rallies takes place.", "Jo Malone London reshot a John Boyega advert he made for them with a Chinese actor for the Chinese market.", "Relatives share a \"moving\" personal insight into those who died in the Manchester bombing.", "Over 307,000 new cases are reported in 24 hours, with the biggest rises in India, the US and Brazil.", "Full PPE, 'red zones' and cleaning the room between patients are now part of everyday practice.", "More than 1.75m people are covered by the tougher lockdown restrictions in Glasgow and the surrounding area.", "The American database specialist says a tie-up plan has been submitted to the US government.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday evening.", "But a GPs' body responds, saying it is an \"insult\" to suggest they haven't been doing their jobs.", "Lewis Hamilton faces the possibility of an FIA investigation after he wore a T-shirt which displayed a message about the shooting of Breonna Taylor.", "The Labour leader will not speak in the Commons Brexit debate as he follows coronavirus guidelines.", "The Chain Home Tower at Great Baddow is the only one of its kind surviving in the British Isles.", "A consultant warns new rules and lockdowns are \"shutting the door after the horse has bolted\".", "An email exchange uncovered by the BBC reveals disharmony in the top ranks of decision makers.", "What Health Minister Vaughan Gething said at today's government briefing on the new restrictions.", "Stay 2m from the blowing of the shofar, the government advises UK Jews.", "The West Midlands car parts firm blames conditions in the automotive sector and Covid-19.", "He was driving a lorry on the M5 that crashed into another lorry that had stopped to protect a car.", "Don Fear became the first person to win the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire jackpot in 14 years.", "But Labour accuses PM of \"trashing\" the UK's international reputation as MPs debate post-Brexit bill.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.", "The group of about 50 young people left the beach in St Andrews when asked to by police officers.", "Firms face challenges preparing for a potential no-deal Brexit because of debt dealing with Covid-19, say leaders.", "Google, YouTube's parent company, is facing a landmark claim over the use of children's data in the UK.", "The head of the Trades Union Congress is warning that time is running out to prevent job losses.", "Everybody's Talking About Jamie and Six will be the first musicals back in the West End in November.", "A new offence of causing serious injury by careless driving is also being proposed under new legislation.", "Scotland's first minister says she has \"very serious concerns\" about an apparent delay in processing tests.", "The new owner of the Cambridge-based chip designer has promised to keep its headquarters in the UK.", "Dominic Thiem clinches his first Grand Slam title after fighting back from two sets down to beat Alexander Zverev in the US Open final.", "England claim an astonishing 24-run victory as Australia crumble in the second one-day international at Old Trafford.", "The ship has been surveying energy drilling prospects in disputed waters, sparking a diplomatic row.", "MPs back the Internal Market Bill by 77 votes despite criticism it risks breaching international law.", "The Labour leader also warns of the \"scarring effect\" of \"mass unemployment\" on communities.", "The British Geological Survey says the 2.1-magnitude quake was felt just after midnight on Monday.", "Schools will face staff shortages and disruption unless Covid testing is improved, say head teachers.", "David Cameron says he has \"misgivings\" about the proposed law to override the withdrawal agreement.", "With interest in the possibility of life at Venus, there's an imperative to get more spacecraft to the planet.", "The head of the industry body is urging government to create new green jobs to lift productivity.", "Southampton's BOATS2020 and another show were expected to attract 20,000 visitors over 10 days.", "The leader of the House of Commons was absent from business questions on Thursday.", "Medical experts raise doubts about plans to have \"millions\" of coronavirus tests processed every day.", "Six-year-old Ayaan Moosa and Mikaeel Ishaaq have been raising money to help people in Yemen.", "An inquiry hears how suicide bomber Salman Abedi discussed martyrdom in messages found by police.", "Drop plans to rewrite withdrawal agreement by end of month or risk scuppering trade deal, UK is told.", "After weeks trying to roll back measures, the 'rule of six' marks quite the change in tone.", "Some children in care are being groomed to sell drugs, the children’s commissioner for England says.", "British boxing legend Alan Minter, who won a world title and an Olympic bronze medal, dies at the age of 69.", "The EU is furious about the UK's latest Brexit move - but there is no chance of the government backing down.", "Only 8% of home tests in Wales were processed within a day in the final week of August.", "The parents of the 19-year-old are told prosecutors were \"actively considering\" a virtual trial.", "The pandemic has left a 43,000-backlog of defendants awaiting trial, with many on remand.", "Plans to reopen theatres and live music venues are pushed back to October after a rise in coronavirus cases.", "The firm's Maybelline brand has set up recycling points in shops including Tesco and Superdrug.", "The housing secretary says evictions will not be permitted over the festive period.", "Lawyers for Anne Sacoolas say the American was \"otherwise driving cautiously\".", "Serena Williams keeps alive her hopes of a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam singles title by fighting back to beat Tsvetana Pironkova in the US Open quarter-finals.", "The Chinese UK ambassador's account liked an adult clip as well as posts critical of Beijing.", "Councils in two areas have issued the voluntary advice in a bid to avoid a local lockdown.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "More than 32,000 tonnes of the chemicals were approved for export by the UK in 2018, says Greenpeace.", "Storm Francis uncovers evidence of a further petrified forest off the coast of Cardigan Bay.", "Two health board areas in the south Wales valleys see a rise in Covid-19 hospital admissions.", "Plans for spectators to attend sporting events in England from 1 October will be reviewed, Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirms.", "The government publishes a bill which overwrites key parts of the Withdrawal Agreement with the EU.", "Faithless musician and DJ Sister Bliss says the dormant dance music scene needs more protection.", "Restrictions to curb Covid-19 affect Belfast, Ballymena and parts of Glenavy, Lisburn and Crumlin.", "Travellers arriving in England from mainland Portugal must self-isolate for two weeks from Saturday.", "Pupils say they started screaming when the double-decker hit a railway bridge in Winchester.", "The company's director says he made a \"wrong\" assumption about what materials were approved for use.", "Shipping a coronavirus vaccine will be \"largest transport challenge ever\" says the airline industry.", "The government hopes to process millions of daily tests, but is criticised for not meeting demand sooner.", "Kellogg's redesigns the snackfood container that was dubbed the \"number one villain\" for recycling.", "The health secretary says 'inappropriate' use was making it harder for people to get tested.", "New guidance requires universities to do all they can to limit the risk of outbreaks among students.", "The exercise bike firm's revenues jumped 172% amid gym closures due to the pandemic.", "He started the soul band that had hits like Celebration and Jungle Boogie with his brother Robert.", "A Health and Safety Executive inspection found staff congregating around a desk at the Leeds office.", "The US secretary of state declines to say how the Trump administration will respond.", "The scheme should be targeted to avoid mass unemployment, the Treasury Select Committee says.", "BA has also reached the outline of a deal with the Unite union to end a bitter row over pay and job cuts.", "A rise in infection rates sees the city added to Public Heath England's coronavirus watchlist.", "The Sputnik V vaccine produced antibodies in patients taking part in early trials, the Lancet reports.", "Researchers say the \"Caliphate Cache\" is used to continually replenish extremist content on the net.", "Britain's Johanna Konta is knocked out of the US Open in three sets by Romanian Sorana Cirstea.", "A quadcopter was seen releasing small bags, believed to contain illegal drugs, over Tel Aviv, Israel.", "The pop star \"welcomes and appreciates the informed support of her many fans\", says her lawyer.", "Grocery chain the Co-op is opening 50 new stores and creating 1,000 new jobs this year", "Christopher Killick filmed Emily Hunt while she was naked and unconscious in a London hotel room.", "Most of the passengers onboard and waiting at the terminal returned to the mainland last night.", "Work on the controversial rail line formally starts on Friday, with Boris Johnson saying it will \"fire up growth\".", "England pull off a remarkable fightback to beat Australia by two runs in a thrilling first Twenty20 international at the Ageas Bowl.", "New travel restrictions sow confusion as Wales and Scotland differ from England and Northern Ireland.", "It comes after specialists said a Novichok nerve agent was used on the Russian opposition figure.", "Travellers arriving in Scotland from Portugal and French Polynesia will have to isolate for 14 days.", "Some Covid-19 restrictions will ease next week in Greater Manchester, Lancashire and West Yorkshire.", "Ten wagons containing diesel derailed and spilled oil into the Loughor Estuary.", "Those travellers arriving in Scotland from Portugal or French Polynesia must now self-isolate.", "The paddle steamer was damaged as it collided with the pier at Brodick with more than 200 passengers on board.", "Nato cites \"proof beyond doubt\" that Mr Navalny was poisoned, but Russia has dismissed the claim.", "The transport secretary admits varying approaches to international travel restrictions are frustrating.", "Caerphilly has recorded 56 coronavirus cases over the past week, the highest total in Wales.", "TV presenter Emily Hartridge was thrown under a lorry and killed in the accident, a coroner says.", "Britain's Andy Murray is beaten in straight sets in the US Open second round by Felix Auger-Aliassime.", "The loss of an appeal by a man who filmed sex workers will have a wider impact, campaigners say.", "UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps also claims adding Portugal to the self-isolation list did not take all data into account.", "Scottish Opera is beginning live performances again with a string of pop-up shows across the country.", "Songs that went viral on TikTok dominate the Top 10, alongside hits by Lady Gaga and Harry Styles.", "Lionel Messi says he is staying at Barcelona as it is \"impossible\" for any team to pay his release clause and he does not want to go to court.", "Police say they are investigating a crime in the city of Solingen and the mother is a suspect.", "The bodies of Henriett Szucs and Mihrican Mustafa were discovered at Zahid Younis's flat.", "Restaurants. pubs and cafes claimed £522m under the discount scheme in August, Treasury figures show.", "The former politician will join the likes of Bill Bailey, Clara Amfo, and HRVY on this year's show.", "The airline, which has just completed a rescue deal, says it has to make cuts in order to survive.", "The ex-Australian PM has faced criticism over past comments about women and LGBT people.", "Brett Savage, who had served in Afghanistan, was found dead at his home in Newtownards.", "Lead actor Robert Pattinson has tested positive for coronavirus, according to US media reports.", "Other experts say more research is needed now all children are back at school in England and Wales.", "Boris Johnson says testing travellers arriving in the UK would only identify 7% of coronavirus cases.", "Despite local outbreaks, household tests suggest the level of the virus was stable during August.", "Scientists say a positive coronavirus result does not guarantee that someone is infectious.", "The government tells Whitehall bosses to get more staff to come in, but unions say this focus is wrong.", "Hundreds of mammals will go extinct if we do not act now to address biodiversity loss, say scientists.", "Daniel Prude died in March after suffocating while in police custody.", "Dan Evans succumbs to Corentin Moutet in four sets as British interest in the US Open singles ends.", "About 200 people are evacuated from the area and residents say they heard \"two massive bangs\".", "The ex-PM said coronavirus vaccination records kept by government would help \"restore confidence\".", "Pret a Manager will allow customers to buy up to five drinks each day for a £20 monthly subscription.", "The County Fermanagh man is the first person in NI to be penalised under Covid-19 travel rules.", "Emily Hunt is seeking what is thought to be the UK's first crowdfunded private rape prosecution.", "A Council of Europe committee also wants to know how the UK intends to deal with other NI legacy cases.", "Former Undertones front man Feargal Sharkey hit out at Thames Water on Twitter.", "After Silvio Berlusconi tests positive for coronavirus he is taken to hospital for checks.", "Colleagues, mourners and well-wishers pay their respects to a police officer shot dead in Croydon.", "A quarter of people had vouchers that expired when shops were shut, a survey by Which? suggests.", "Students should be able to cancel accommodation and study from home, says lecturers' union.", "The head of the Confederation of British Industry urges a \"spirit of compromise\" as trade talks resume.", "An investigation has been launched and police are working with the Health and Safety Executive.", "The PM will call on world leaders to set aside differences as he sets out plans to prevent future pandemics.", "Protesters and counter-protesters demonstrate outside a centre which could house 230 asylum seekers.", "Sir David presented Prince George with a fossilised shark tooth at a screening of his new programme.", "Thousands of students are made to isolate following outbreaks, amid a \"shambolic\" return to university.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced the UK will give £500m to a new global vaccine-sharing scheme.", "The story of the chemist and the crofter who tackled some of Britain's toughest climbing.", "The bus tour employee used Kat Kingsley's personal details to contact her without good cause.", "A deputy went down the stairs head first trying to catch the defendant as he made a run for it.", "Students at a Manchester university said \"police and security were outside\" and morale was low.", "Three times as many children under nine were tested in early September as in the previous two weeks.", "You might have heard of drive-in cinemas, but how about watching opera from your car?", "Llanelli has had 85 Covid cases in a week, compared to 24 across the rest of Carmarthenshire.", "Met Commissioner Cressida Dick says all police \"are mourning a great loss\" after an officer was shot dead.", "Officers were called to the University of Edinburgh's main halls of residence complex on Friday.", "It means 1.5m people - almost half of Wales' population - are now living under tighter restrictions.", "More tributes are paid to Sgt Matiu Ratana as police continue their investigation into his death.", "More officers are deployed this weekend to ensure the 22:00 closure of hospitality law is upheld.", "Every case is estimated to result in between 1.2 and 1.5 further infections, government estimates find.", "Many users in England who booked a test outside of the app had been unable to share a positive test result.", "Students at Manchester Metropolitan University are isolating after more than 100 tested positive for Covid-19.", "The 14-year-old killed herself in 2017 after viewing graphic images on social media.", "Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and Home Secretary Priti Patel joined Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick at New Scotland Yard.", "Problems getting to an away game were down to a safety device on the club's bus, the head coach says.", "It comes as the number of new cases in the UK topped 6,000 for the fourth consecutive day.", "A song about the ex-MP has topped the best-seller charts ahead of Kylie Minogue and Bruce Springsteen.", "Tributes are paid to the \"much-loved\" and \"talented officer\" who was killed in a London custody centre.", "The broadcaster gains a million followers within five hours of joining the platform.", "Police said enforcement in the form of fixed penalty notices was only used as a \"last resort\".", "At least three protesters and nine officers are injured in London, while 16 people are arrested.", "The airline disputes the claims made in a leaked recording obtained by the BBC.", "The Scottish government confirms 714 more people have tested positive in the past 24 hours.", "A Scottish sailor's boat is badly damaged after being targeted by orcas off the coast of Spain.", "Academy leader Steve Chalke says the government must act before poor children suffer \"irrevocable damage\".", "The British perfumer says removing actor John Boyega from his own advert was \"utterly despicable\".", "The amount of retail sales continued to climb in August, but some sectors are still struggling.", "Control of certain struggling franchises could be handed back to the government, sources say.", "A man is found guilty of a racially aggravated public order offence for sending the fruit to a black man.", "NI Health Minister Robin Swann says the Belfast-born artist should sing songs about saving lives.", "One of Wales' biggest schools sends home most of its sixth form.", "The European Union's highest court rules in favour of the footballer after a nine-year legal battle.", "Prosecutors say Jerry Harris enticed an underage boy to produce sexually explicit videos and photos.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 11 and 18 September", "Woman dies being transferred from German hospital which is hit by hackers.", "Faced with a large drop, some people re-entered the smoke-filled cabin to find another escape route.", "The device is already being used in some hospitals to identify Covid patients.", "No further action will be taken against the boyfriend of Louella Fletcher-Michie, the CPS says.", "\"Saying thank you to all Admiral staff in this way is the right thing to do,\" says David Stevens.", "Mayor Sadiq Khan says \"we simply can't afford to have numbers of people congregating\".", "Europe is gradually easing lockdown measures ahead of the tourist season.", "Early pub closures and restrictions on households mixing came into force at midnight.", "The first minister says some \"hard but necessary\" decisions will need to be taken in the coming days.", "The musician attacks the government and \"scientists making up crooked facts\" in his latest music.", "Public health official warns older people are being infected in Caerphilly and Rhondda Cynon Taf.", "Some 62% reported commuting to work last week, according to the Office for National Statistics.", "But those coming from Slovenia and Guadeloupe to England and Scotland will now have to quarantine.", "Boris Johnson believes it is 'inevitable' that a second wave would reach the UK at some stage.", "His book was made into the hugely successful Oscar-winning 1994 film starring Tom Hanks.", "Schools in disadvantaged areas could be \"badly placed\" for funding, says Institute for Fiscal Studies.", "Torrential rains could bring damaging floods to the Carolinas, Georgia and Virginia.", "St Andrews University's principal has asked students to stay in their rooms as much as possible this weekend.", "One victim was duped into sending nude photographs to someone she later found out was an adult.", "The government's winter plan says staff should watch to ensure visitors maintain social distancing.", "A judge says officers did not breach a woman's rights when they put her in clean, dry clothes.", "People from England are being directed to the centre in locked-down Rhondda Cynon Taf, an MP says.", "Scientists are warning about the consequences of vast swathes of ground thawing in Siberia.", "The department does not know what its £400m-a-year immigration enforcement unit achieves, MPs warn.", "German club Ripdorf stepped onto the pitch, kicked the ball away and then stood on the sidelines.", "People in the city have been warned to look out for symptoms if they visited certain pubs and bars.", "A rule change means about 100 more of those who served with British forces will be able to live in the UK.", "A few weeks of nationwide restrictions to slow a second coronavirus surge could be introduced.", "Adnan Ahmed was jailed last October for targeting young women in Glasgow and South Lanarkshire.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "The number of under-17s seeking Covid-19 tests has doubled, the head of NHS Test and Trace tells MPs.", "Canadian police said both front seats were fully reclined as the car drove at 150km/h.", "Woolton Picture House says the outpouring in response to its closure was \"beyond expectation\".", "The 2020 Ig Nobel prizes honour crocodilian vocalisations, narcissistic eyebrows and vibrating worms.", "The CDC caused controversy in August by saying that anyone without symptoms should not be tested.", "The human rights lawyer says she is \"dismayed\" by the UK being prepared to break international law.", "Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale nears a return to Tottenham after visit to the club's training ground.", "The actor's lawyer dismisses the charges as politically motivated at a court hearing in Los Angeles.", "A 15-year-old is charged with attempted murder and possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life.", "Kim Darroch quit his Washington post last year after being branded \"stupid\" by the US president.", "Salman Abedi was reported as acting suspiciously to police before the blast, an inquiry hears.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says three people who tested positive for the virus have died in the last 24 hours.", "Lord Frost says there is \"still time\" to do a trade deal with the bloc as the latest talks begin.", "England labour their way to an uninspiring Nations League draw in Denmark.", "The latest figures include the deaths of three more people who had tested positive - the highest since 30 June.", "The firm's director accuses the supplier of the material of misleading his company about its safety.", "Brandon Lewis says a new post-Brexit law will go against agreements in a \"specific and limited way\".", "Kirsty Coy-Martin says teaching her therapy dog, Scooter, to surf has helped her deal with PTSD.", "Doctors say people are having to travel for miles to get tests.", "Maria Kolesnikova was driven by officials to the border with Ukraine but managed to halt her expulsion.", "It would be the first time in 45 years shots were fired, breaking an agreement barring firearm use.", "A Freedom of Information request shows a sixfold increase in the number of firms planning job cuts.", "The health secretary is among those warning the virus is on the increase, especially amongst the young.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "The film credits thank a Chinese state agency linked to camps where human rights abuses are alleged", "A director of the government's test and trace scheme in England says lab capacity is the issue.", "The famous composer and theatre owner says socially distanced audiences are not financially viable.", "Trump accuses Biden of \"reckless rhetoric\" while the Democrat questions whether the president can be trusted.", "The government says it's taking a sharp rise in confirmed cases \"extremely seriously\".", "The government says returning travellers can be treated differently from those from the mainland.", "The supermarkets say the staff are needed as demand for online shopping continues to rise.", "The weekly mass participation Parkrun events are set to resume England by the end of October.", "Tracy Higginbottom says she has never experienced such aggression in more than 20 years of service.", "All hospitality venues will close between 22:00 BST and 05:00 in the Greater Manchester town.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "The fires have burned through more than two million acres in California so far this year, fire officials say.", "England forward Mason Greenwood says he \"only has himself to blame\" after being dropped for breaching Covid-19 guidelines in Iceland.", "Westminster says it is replacing EU funds but Welsh ministers accuse it of \"stealing powers\".", "Students are finding out their course this term will be online but many have already paid for rent.", "There's deep concern in Number 10 that the statistics could flag the start of a second wave.", "The airline expects to fly fewer passengers because it says consumer confidence has been dented.", "What the health minister said at the weekly Covid briefing about the first local lockdown in Wales.", "More than 1.1 million people are affected by the measures after the inclusion of two more areas.", "A teenage boy has been arrested in connection with the shooting of the Year 11 student.", "Seven patients remain \"very unwell\" at Craigavon Area Hospital, with more than 50 staff self-isolating.", "The Merseyside salon said masks were not worn by staff as \"you can't catch what doesn't exist\".", "Fifty-seven experts write a letter to the health minister raising their worries about patient safety.", "Harry Harvey spent three nights wild camping after getting lost in the Yorkshire Dales on Saturday.", "Jacob Billington's family say he was \"such a special person\" and they are \"devastated by his loss\".", "The tech giant said its dispute with the firm behind the game was a \"basic disagreement over money\".", "The Manchester attack inquiry hears victims were taken from the venue on makeshift stretchers.", "Police say a \"long-barrelled\" gun was recovered in connection with the shooting of a schoolboy.", "HMRC is reviewing 27,000 \"high risk\" cases that could have been paid out wrongly or fraudulently.", "Only allowing takeaways and curtailing nightlife are among the new rules for the Greater Manchester town.", "It comes after he and the Duchess of Sussex agreed a production deal with media company Netflix.", "Zephaniah McLeod is charged with the murder of 23-year-old Jacob Billington.", "England's deputy chief medical officer says the UK must start taking Covid-19 \"seriously again\".", "The government faces a backlash from senior Tories after admitting the bill breaks international law.", "The British Geological Survey says a 3.3 magnitude quake hits the Leighton Buzzard area.", "Sir Jonathan Jones is understood to have been unhappy with plans which could modify the UK's Brexit deal.", "The British-Iranian woman is nearing the end of her five-year jail sentence for spying, which she denies.", "Former Roadchef workers and their families have been fighting for their money for 25 years.", "A quadcopter was seen releasing small bags, believed to contain illegal drugs, over Tel Aviv, Israel.", "Raheem Sterling scores a 90th-minute penalty as 10-man England earn a late Nations League win at Iceland, who also finish the game a man down.", "The firm, which manages London's congestion charge, is attempting to simplify its business.", "England pull off a remarkable fightback to beat Australia by two runs in a thrilling first Twenty20 international at the Ageas Bowl.", "Groups wanting tighter immigration restrictions and those supporting migrants gather in Dover.", "Alain Cocq wanted to start Facebook livestreaming his final days on Saturday morning.", "Capacity levels at the venue had been \"continually exceeded\" according to the council.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Those travellers arriving in Scotland from Portugal or French Polynesia must now self-isolate.", "The vehicle belonging to goalkeeper Allan McGregor was deliberately set on fire whilst parked on his driveway.", "A hospital in Jerusalem is recruiting recovered Covid-19 patients to visit people who would otherwise be in isolation.", "The restaurant on Pollokshaws Road in Glasgow is shut for two weeks after the outbreak of Covid-19.", "Local businesses and jobs will suffer if workers do not return to the office, says the head of the CBI.", "The president says any training sessions for government staff on \"white privilege\" are propaganda.", "The ex-Australian PM has faced criticism over past comments about women and LGBT people.", "Other experts say more research is needed now all children are back at school in England and Wales.", "Despite local outbreaks, household tests suggest the level of the virus was stable during August.", "Protesters opposed to Covid restrictions gather in Edinburgh as figures show the highest weekly rise in cases since May.", "People are asked to reduce public transport use and avoid mixing outside their social bubble.", "The John Cage piece, As Slow As Possible, began 19 years ago and is to last 639 years.", "Scientists say a positive coronavirus result does not guarantee that someone is infectious.", "Eighty people are arrested in protests targeting printing presses owned by Rupert Murdoch.", "The ex-Australian PM says he is \"only too keen\" to help the UK, after criticism of his appointment.", "A Covid test centre opens following a spike in cases in a county, as care homes close to visitors.", "The government tells Whitehall bosses to get more staff to come in, but unions say this focus is wrong.", "Hundreds of mammals will go extinct if we do not act now to address biodiversity loss, say scientists.", "Daniel Prude died in March after suffocating while in police custody.", "Dan Evans succumbs to Corentin Moutet in four sets as British interest in the US Open singles ends.", "Figures show the number of newly detected coronavirus infections is highest among young adults.", "A top Bank of England official casts doubt on government moves to get workers back to the office faster.", "Last weekend seven £10,000 fines were handed out to the organisers of illegal raves in Leeds.", "Protests are held for a seventh straight weekend, days after Alexander Lukashenko's secret inauguration.", "Students should be able to cancel accommodation and study from home, says lecturers' union.", "Prince Charles led a national service days after the death of Sgt Matiu Ratana in south London.", "The former quarterback and his wife stopped a home intruder from kidnapping their grandchild.", "Shadow justice secretary David Lammy says drinkers are likely to continue their night together at home.", "Customs officials said hospital material and plastic was found in the shipment, in breach of rules.", "The head of the Confederation of British Industry urges a \"spirit of compromise\" as trade talks resume.", "New grants are being offered to businesses as three more counties are placed under local lockdown measures.", "An investigation has been launched and police are working with the Health and Safety Executive.", "Andy Murray loses in straight sets to Stan Wawrinka in the French Open first round, following Dan Evans out of the tournament.", "John Swinney says it is appropriate to look at what would happen if the May vote is \"not practical\".", "Neath Port Talbot, Torfaen and Vale of Glamorgan will all have extra restrictions imposed on Monday.", "Sir David presented Prince George with a fossilised shark tooth at a screening of his new programme.", "Thousands of students are made to isolate following outbreaks, amid a \"shambolic\" return to university.", "Manny Pacquiao's special assistant says that the eight-weight world champion hopes to fight Conor McGregor in 2021.", "At least 150 specialists will target child sexual abuse, fraud, and the sharing of indecent images.", "Students at a Manchester university said \"police and security were outside\" and morale was low.", "Llanelli has had 85 Covid cases in a week, compared to 24 across the rest of Carmarthenshire.", "First-year halls were known to be at risk and outbreaks were \"inevitable\", top scientist says.", "They are a response to the Covid crisis and can deal with up to 500 people each day.", "A statue will honour Solitude, a black woman involved in a 1802 uprising in the French West Indies.", "Officers were called to the University of Edinburgh's main halls of residence complex on Friday.", "Labour hints it could back Conservatives trying to increase MP scrutiny over lockdown restrictions.", "It means 1.5m people - almost half of Wales' population - are now living under tighter restrictions.", "A look back on more than 50 years of BBC Wales broadcasting from Llandaff.", "More tributes are paid to Sgt Matiu Ratana as police continue their investigation into his death.", "Andy Murray says he will not \"just brush aside\" a comprehensive defeat by Stan Wawrinka in the French Open first round.", "Students at Manchester Metropolitan University are isolating after more than 100 tested positive for Covid-19.", "Jamie Vardy's hat-trick inspires visitors Leicester City to a stunning 5-2 victory over Manchester City at Etihad Stadium.", "Louis De Zoysa remains critically ill in hospital after the fatal shooting of Sgt Matiu Ratana.", "Problems getting to an away game were down to a safety device on the club's bus, the head coach says.", "A deal for the Premier League to support lower-league clubs during the coronavirus pandemic \"could be reached this week\", says Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden.", "It comes as the number of new cases in the UK topped 6,000 for the fourth consecutive day.", "Countries must act now to reverse biodiversity loss, Boris Johnson tells a UN event.", "The coronavirus pandemic means it is a \"particularly difficult time to be young\", says Prince Charles.", "Silvana Tenreyro said evidence from countries that have introduced the policy was “encouraging”.", "World champion Josh Taylor knocks out Apinun Khongsong in an incredible first round to defend his WBA and IBF light welterweight titles.", "At least three protesters and nine officers are injured in London, while 16 people are arrested.", "The coronavirus crisis is changing the dynamic in the UK housing market, researchers suggest.", "People in Lake Jackson, Texas, are urged to take precautionary measures amid contamination concerns.", "Plastic pollution experts say the pandemic is making it hard for people to cut down on single use plastics.", "The award-winning actress and mother of two is believed to have taken her own life at the age of 40.", "Southampton's BOATS2020 and another show were expected to attract 20,000 visitors over 10 days.", "Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is seen leaving court after a pre-trial hearing.", "Households in the city and nearby Sandwell and Solihull are banned from mixing as cases rise.", "The naturalist warns that a million species are at risk but says it is not too late to save them.", "Drop plans to rewrite withdrawal agreement by end of month or risk scuppering trade deal, UK is told.", "Jean-Sébastien Jacques and other top executives will step down after the miner blew up sacred sites.", "The 26-year-old's aunt says she is worried about a \"cover-up\" in the case of her killing by police.", "A BBC investigation finds scammers on social media claiming to sell full driving licences.", "The EU is furious about the UK's latest Brexit move - but there is no chance of the government backing down.", "The actor and wrestler appeared in Johnny Knoxville's 2010 reality comedy film Jackass 3D.", "Donald Fear is the first person to win the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire jackpot in 14 years.", "Matt Hancock describes it as a \"defining moment\" in the effort to control the spread of Covid-19.", "How the first minister explained the reasons for new rules on face masks and indoor gatherings.", "The pandemic has left a 43,000-backlog of defendants awaiting trial, with many on remand.", "The housing secretary says evictions will not be permitted over the festive period.", "After years of denial, former King Albert accepted he was the father of artist Delphine Boël.", "Lawyers for Anne Sacoolas say the American was \"otherwise driving cautiously\".", "The PM calls for no return to \"squabbling\", but the EU ramps up opposition to UK government plans.", "Last-minute agreements have been reached before, but right now it feels like a long shot.", "The US president and his political rival both visit the Flight 93 memorial, but at different times.", "More than 1.75 million people in the west of Scotland are now covered by the curbs on home visits.", "It comes as the reproduction number, or R value, of coronavirus transmission across the UK rises above 1.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "The tech firms are ramping up measures ahead of the US elections to block false or misleading content.", "Some male voice choirs fear they will never sing again amid safety concerns and social distancing.", "Drone footage shows streets of houses destroyed by fires in the US state of Oregon.", "The 37-year-old man was detained in Cookstown after the footage was shared on social media.", "There are now worrying signs of infections in older as well as younger people, officials say.", "Eighteen people have been jailed for their part in a group that flooded north Wales with drugs.", "Police say the alleged attack happened in a villa during a party in southern Italy.", "But Ben Wallace admits a security review will mean \"letting go\" of some military equipment.", "A scammer explains to Kafui Okpattah how the fake licence scheme works.", "Scientists are investigating the role played by schoolchildren in spreading the virus.", "Kellogg's redesigns the snackfood container that was dubbed the \"number one villain\" for recycling.", "Hajar Al Fahad learned the victim was wealthy after striking up a conversation with her on a train.", "The exercise bike firm's revenues jumped 172% amid gym closures due to the pandemic.", "A 30-year-old man from Newquay is arrested on suspicion of the attempted murder of a police officer.", "A Health and Safety Executive inspection found staff congregating around a desk at the Leeds office.", "The scheme should be targeted to avoid mass unemployment, the Treasury Select Committee says.", "Serbia's president was furious over a Facebook post that likened him to Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct.", "Symbolic trade deal will cover 99% of UK exports to Japan but boost economy by just 0.07%.", "One ex-minister says it was \"outrageous\" new rules were made \"without consultation\" of Parliament.", "Grants will promote ideas to detect, characterise and track the millions of objects moving overhead.", "The defendants were paid $22,000 by one victim for the illegal journey to Britain, state media report.", "Families share a personal insight into the lives of those who died in the Manchester Arena bombing.", "Charlie Elphicke, the ex-Tory MP for Dover, was convicted of sexually assaulting two women.", "One centre told people with appointments to come back later as there were no tests available.", "People are drinking more during the pandemic and addiction services may not cope, experts warn.", "The deal concludes a four-year investigation of the firm in the United States.", "Japan's Hitachi is suspending work on the Wylfa Newydd plant in Wales amid concerns over rising costs.", "Despite cancelled orders, the online grocer says its move to delivering M&S goods is going well.", "An advert asking for information on the star's ex-husband was shown during Dancing With The Stars.", "He was not told for nearly four weeks his stalker - a former patient - had been freed from custody.", "The health worker was fatally shot by police, leading to widespread protests against police violence.", "The tech firm also showed off new smartwatches with blood-oxygen sensors and new iPads.", "Junior staff told what to do if they are uncomfortable with ministers' demands, BBC Newsnight learns.", "Frank Lampard says Chelsea \"have to have intentions to be up there\" with champions Liverpool after they begin their season with victory at Brighton.", "The justice secretary hails changes to criminal tariffs as a \"fundamental shift\" to punish offenders.", "Overwhelming demand has meant many workers - including NHS staff - have had to go without a test.", "All the adults in the Coombes family from Liverpool have lost jobs due to coronavirus.", "Jo Malone London reshot a John Boyega advert he made for them with a Chinese actor for the Chinese market.", "Stephen Donnelly reported feeling unwell, leading to disruption at the Irish parliament.", "After a court case awarded home carers more than £100,000, a union has called for intervention.", "Ukraine's coronavirus restrictions thwart a pilgrimage of Hasidic Jews, with hundreds stuck.", "Dozens of celebrities announce they will freeze their accounts to protest against hate speech.", "The scheme should be targeted to avoid mass unemployment, the Treasury Select Committee says.", "A 35-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman are arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter.", "Stay 2m from the blowing of the shofar, the government advises UK Jews.", "Campaigners say women born in the 1950s have been treated unfairly by rapid pension age changes.", "The West Midlands car parts firm blames conditions in the automotive sector and Covid-19.", "Don Fear became the first person to win the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire jackpot in 14 years.", "But Labour accuses PM of \"trashing\" the UK's international reputation as MPs debate post-Brexit bill.", "Plaid Cymru's request came ahead of an NHS plan on how to deal with coronavirus in the winter.", "The firm is pulling out of what would have been Wales' biggest energy project, a council says.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel has said delays in testing for the public are \"unacceptable\".", "The health secretary says testing policy will be updated to prioritise the most urgent cases.", "Most parents sent their children back to school but now Covid test shortages threaten attendance.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning.", "Official figures undercount the real numbers waiting for social housing by 500,000, a study claims.", "Ministers face a 'classic government problem' of supply and demand.", "Schools will face staff shortages and disruption unless Covid testing is improved, say head teachers.", "Travel restrictions have cut down maritime travel, bringing vulnerable dolphins back to the waters around Hong Kong.", "Even stopping to talk in the street could breach the rules, the home secretary says.", "The pop star is also co-writing the script with Oscar-winner Diablo Cody.", "The £13bn nuclear project on Anglesey was put on hold last year because of rising costs.", "Securing the future of energy: What happens next after the Wylfa decision?", "Some mobile testing units will be transferred to the Welsh NHS after issues with Lighthouse labs.", "The Labour leader also warns of the \"scarring effect\" of \"mass unemployment\" on communities.", "Many workers can expect a \"miserable Christmas\" without targeted support for employers, Unite says.", "MPs back the Internal Market Bill by 77 votes despite criticism it risks breaching international law.", "The sportswear giant has seen digital sales soar and says few customers will revert back to stores.", "\"Now is not the right time to outline long-term plans,\" the Treasury says.", "Governor Andrew Bailey suggests that some sectors may benefit from further targeted help.", "But the Labour leader says another \"divisive\" vote on Scotland's position in the near future is \"not needed\".", "Her career spanned eight decades and she charmed audiences in France and beyond.", "Liverpool v Arsenal on Monday is brought forward by 15 minutes, with all future midweek Premier League games to finish before the new UK pub curfew.", "Boris Johnson was questioned on coronavirus testing and the government's furlough scheme", "China's surprise announcement of a long-term goal to curb emissions boosts UN climate talks.", "A further 486 test positive for coronavirus - the biggest single day's number since mass testing began.", "Sean Ono Lennon will interview Sir Paul McCartney and his half-brother Julian Lennon for Radio 2.", "The prime minister says coronavirus is \"the single biggest crisis the world has faced in my lifetime\".", "Owners in areas under lockdown fear they will not be able to travel to a hibernation facility.", null, "Hollywood star Ryan Reynolds believed to be involved in a takeover bid of National League side, the club says.", "The appetite inside the Conservative party for sweeping new Covid-19 restrictions has dimmed.", "The government plans to create an internal border to prevent gridlock on the county's motorways.", "Products will be labelled Ben's Original and will no longer show the bow-tied black man on packaging.", "Olivia Campbell-Hardy's family say the 15-year-old lived for music and was a keen singer and dancer.", "President Trump blames China for the Covid-19 outbreak amid warnings of a Cold War between the two.", "Newsbeat followed young people from the moment life changed back in March.", "The government has clarified new guidelines designed to slow the spread of coronavirus.", "The idea is one of a number being trialled to help improve access to cash in remote areas.", "School attendance figures for England show big rise in pupils sent home because of Covid-19 incidents.", "Inspectors say CCTV footage appeared to show episodes of \"physical and emotional abuse\".", "The British Geological Survey says there was a 3.0-magnitude tremor followed by a 2.1-magnitude one.", "Dave Clark was an \"enormous character\" and \"the heart and soul\" of Richmond School.", "It's not just the flings with colleagues, BlackRock wants to know who you are dating outside the office too.", "All 500 residents at Parker House in Dundee are asked to self-isolate until contact tracing is completed.", "Stella Moris gave birth to the couple's two sons while he was in hiding in the Ecuadorean embassy.", "The cases involve 17 victims, the majority of whom were children when the offences occurred.", "The UK hospitality industry is \"losing thousands upon thousands\" of jobs, the founder of Pret a Manger warns.", "The Law Commission recommends treating misogyny like other forms of discrimination.", "Pascale Ferrier, a Canadian computer programmer, is also accused of mailing poison to Texas authorities.", "Instead of inventing a job support scheme for the pandemic, Germany already had one oven-ready.", "Plans for lower-cost batteries and a $25,000 car failed to excite investors and firm's value fell by $50bn.", "Three funeral directors reflect on the human toll of the pandemic, as the US hits a milestone.", "Watchdog rejects claims helicopters fanned the flames and led people to think they would be rescued.", "One police officer was charged but not directly for the death of the young black woman in her home.", "The trust that runs the venue did not want it to remain as a monument to slave trader Edward Colston.", "City firms SocGen and Lloyd's of London also tell staff to stop coming into the office after new guidance.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning.", "Exactly six months since Scotland's first lockdown, tougher restrictions apply to every household in the country.", "A group of officers involved in a drugs raid in Barnet, north London, are taken to hospital.", "Ministers decide existing laws are adequate to help trans people have their gender legally recognised.", "Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance were alarmed by questions over the controversial concept, emails show.", "The pair had been embracing near a seafront wall when they toppled on to the beach in Alicante.", "Six men, including two princes, are arrested as part of the country's latest anti-corruption drive.", "A major operation continues after the derailment spilled oil into a nearby estuary.", "Formal identification has yet to take place but police believe the body to be that of Seesha Dack.", "With the furlough support scheme now starting to unwind, many firms are poised for job cuts.", "Schools are preparing to reopen but uncertainty remains over breakfast clubs and after-school care.", "The foreign secretary dismisses claims money will be diverted to defence spending as \"tittle tattle\".", "The tech firm has created a way to spot computer-manipulated videos and photos.", "Workers renovating a fountain in the Belgian city of Verviers find the organ preserved in a casket.", "The festivals' organisers said it was their \"most epic plan yet\" to help ensure they can go ahead.", "First Minister Arlene Foster pays tribute to Samantha Gamble, from Loughbrickland, County Down.", "Education Minister Kirsty Williams says talks are taking place about 2021's timetable.", "Critics say the free Covid-19 programme is ineffective and could be misused for surveillance.", "Fourteen alleged accomplices to the deadly 2015 attack on the French magazine go on trial on Wednesday.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says residents in three of the country's biggest council areas will be unable to make indoor visits to other households.", "The tragedy comes amid rising anger in Mauritius at the government's handling of the July spill.", "Thousands more people in England will be encouraged to try the weight loss plan.", "Two carpet pythons found slithering about a house in Queensland, Australia, may have been love rivals.", "The popular video conferencing app has seen a 458% jump in customer growth compared with last year.", "The social media giant is preparing for a new law that would force it to pay publishers for news articles.", "The film, Boseman's last screened performance, is due out later this year.", "As schools in England return, researchers warn pupils had fallen behind by the end of last term.", "Emily Lewis was one of 12 people taken to hospital after a boat collided with a buoy.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Andy Murray stages a remarkable comeback to beat Yoshihito Nishioka in the US Open on his long-awaited return to Grand Slam singles tennis.", "More than 100,000 pupils are not in class - mostly for non-Covid reasons, official figures show.", "Richard Morris, the British High Commissioner to Fiji, was last seen running in Hampshire in May.", "Scotland's first minister voices concerns about a fresh increase in coronavirus cases.", "University students in Minsk were protesting against Belarus's long-time leader, Alexander Lukashenko.", "But Labour attacks a summer of \"chaos, incompetence and confusion\" for England's schools.", "Boris Johnson is expected to announce Prince William's former aide as cabinet secretary on Tuesday.", "The singer tells fans his wife has given birth to daughter Lyra, their first child.", "The former politician will join the likes of Bill Bailey, Clara Amfo, and HRVY on this year's show.", "Bosses in Bolton and Trafford say local measures should remain in place after a rise in cases.", "The 67-year-old, one of the biggest pornography stars, is accused of attacking a total of 17 women.", "Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford speaks to BBC Breakfast about forming a taskforce with some of the UK's biggest food brands in a bid to help reduce child food poverty.", "The internationally acclaimed DJ was facing charges of sexually assaulting a woman in Miami.", "Ministers say there has been a \"significant rise\" in Covid cases being brought into Scotland from Greece.", "The first minister reintroduces restrictions on visiting other households in the Glasgow area after an increase in coronavirus cases.", "Britain's Cameron Norrie fights back to beat ninth seed Diego Schwartzman, while Kyle Edmund also wins on day one of the US Open.", "The lone man had been trying to swim to Calais but was eventually found 500m off the coast of Dover.", "Protesters block a road near Parliament and are planning a \"walk of shame\" near the Bank of England.", "One reveller admitted being taken aback by the scale of the event, likening it to a festival.", "The move comes after 66 new cases of coronavirus were recorded in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area.", "Ministers are deciding whether to reimpose measures for people returning from Portugal, sources say.", "The BBC newsreader and presenter visits the remains of the German POW camp where his grandfather was held.", "A 15-year-old is charged with attempted murder and possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life.", "Firm wants £20m to boost performance in global online games Fortnite, CS:GO, Rocket League and Fifa.", "England labour their way to an uninspiring Nations League draw in Denmark.", "Brandon Lewis says a new post-Brexit law will go against agreements in a \"specific and limited way\".", "Passengers have been told they had accepted vouchers for cancellations so cannot get their cash back.", "Emily Bendell argues men-only membership rules are a breach of equality legislation.", "Annie Besala Ekofo and her nephew Bervil Kalikaka-Ekofo were shot dead in East Finchley in 2016.", "Zephaniah McLeod is charged with the murder of 23-year-old Jacob Billington.", "The British Geological Survey says a 3.3 magnitude quake hits the Leighton Buzzard area.", "Harry Harvey spent three nights wild camping after getting lost in the Yorkshire Dales on Saturday.", "The number of people who died in Scotland at the height of the coronavirus outbreak was a third higher than usual.", "The problem is worsening for some and strategies have been too sluggish to keep up, a report warns.", "An inquiry hears how suicide bomber Salman Abedi discussed martyrdom in messages found by police.", "Golda Barton called Salt Lake City police to help with her 13-year-old son's mental health crisis.", "Doctors say people are having to travel for miles to get tests.", "Kirsty Coy-Martin says teaching her therapy dog, Scooter, to surf has helped her deal with PTSD.", "The parents of the 19-year-old are told prosecutors were \"actively considering\" a virtual trial.", "Surfer Nick Slater is the first victim of a fatal shark attack on the city's beaches in 62 years.", "The Chinese UK ambassador's account liked an adult clip as well as posts critical of Beijing.", "The prime minister said the public needs to remember to take preventative measures to stop the spread of Covid-19.", "Plans for spectators to attend sporting events in England from 1 October will be reviewed, Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirms.", "The government publishes a bill which overwrites key parts of the Withdrawal Agreement with the EU.", "The Women's Prize for Fiction judges say Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet is an \"exceptional\" winner.", "EasyJet apologises after one of its pilots was filmed threatening to remove the passenger from the flight.", "The company's director says he made a \"wrong\" assumption about what materials were approved for use.", "Keeping Up With The Kardashians, which ran for 14 years, made the family global mega-stars.", "Scottish and UK ministers clash over whether Holyrood will gain or lose powers after Brexit.", "The Manchester attack inquiry hears victims were taken from the venue on makeshift stretchers.", "The government faces a backlash from senior Tories after admitting the bill breaks international law.", "Kim Darroch quit his Washington post last year after being branded \"stupid\" by the US president.", "After weeks trying to roll back measures, the 'rule of six' marks quite the change in tone.", "Some children in care are being groomed to sell drugs, the children’s commissioner for England says.", "Zephaniah McLeod, 27, is charged with murder and seven counts of attempted murder.", "Boris Johnson says it will be a \"giant collaborative effort\" and hopes it will be widespread by spring.", "Radio 1 Newsbeat speaks to young people after the health secretary's \"don't kill your gran\" warning.", "The app has been piloted at Network Rail and is now ready for use in other workplaces.", "Westminster says it is replacing EU funds but Welsh ministers accuse it of \"stealing powers\".", "There's deep concern in Number 10 that the statistics could flag the start of a second wave.", "The health secretary says 'inappropriate' use was making it harder for people to get tested.", "The tech giant said its dispute with the firm behind the game was a \"basic disagreement over money\".", "Boris Johnson has been pushed on problems with availability of coronavirus testing", "The British-Iranian woman in jail in Iran is facing a new trial as she nears the end of her sentence.", "Regarded as one of Britain's great post-war dramatists, he died of natural causes, his agent says.", "The tech giant has faced scrutiny over its UK tax bill, but says it pays \"all taxes required\".", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning.", "A rise in cases has been blamed on house parties and people failing to social distance.", "Doncaster Racecourse is told by local health officials to stop spectators attending its St Leger meeting after Wednesday's opening day.", "The first minster leads the daily Scottish government coronavirus briefing.", "A union urges Labour's leader not to \"retreat\" on the environment and workers' rights promises.", "Tadej Pogacar is poised to win the Tour de France ahead of strong favourite Primoz Roglic in one of the most dramatic turnarounds in the race's history.", "Deputy Leader Angela Rayner says thousands of staff deserve a \"real living wage\" to get by.", "A rule change means about 100 more of those who served with British forces will be able to live in the UK.", "Fraser Cameron calls the claims \"ridiculous\" and says he has no access to sensitive information.", "The US Supreme Court justice talks to the BBC about impeachment, impartiality and presidential tweets.", "The unidentified woman was caught while attempting to cross the US-Canada border and is awaiting charges.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Wales forward Gareth Bale returns to Tottenham from Spanish champions Real Madrid on a season-long loan.", "The measures are brought in due to concern over rising cases of Covid-19 in parts of south Wales.", "Indoor dining at restaurants is barred as part of new measures to curb the spread of the virus.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "The foreign secretary was returning to London when the incident is reported to have happened.", "The actor's lawyer dismisses the charges as politically motivated at a court hearing in Los Angeles.", "People were going to A&E for virus testing as they could not get into test centres, a trust says.", "It is \"only by luck\" the passenger wasn't seriously injured or killed, police say.", "Thousands of devices are being distributed to vulnerable groups such as the elderly.", "A passenger is told she had accepted vouchers but BA's website did not list them as an option.", "The government's winter plan says staff should watch to ensure visitors maintain social distancing.", "US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a trailblazer to women of all stripes.", "The ex-prime minister, who has died aged 91, famously led his Liberal Party to a big defeat in 1984.", "The CDC caused controversy in August by saying that anyone without symptoms should not be tested.", "The human rights lawyer says she is \"dismayed\" by the UK being prepared to break international law.", "First ministers of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland call for a task force to help the industry.", "People enjoying the sun yards from No 10 say there's a feeling of resignation about new virus measures.", "Energy companies stand accused of trying to downplay their contribution to global warming.", "According to Scottish government figures, a further three people who tested positive for the virus have died.", "A trader says he had one customer in four hours amid new Covid-19 measures in Newcastle.", "A US official says the move sends a \"signal to Russia\" to avoid \"provocative actions\" in Syria.", "A holidaymaker who did not self-isolate and went on a night out spread the virus, a councillor says.", "The city has been under pressure over the death of Daniel Prude, a black man restrained by police.", "Top seed Novak Djokovic is disqualified from his US Open fourth-round match after accidentally hitting a ball at a line judge.", "The incident happened in Sousse, where 38 people, mostly Britons, were killed in a 2015 attack.", "Raheem Sterling scores a 90th-minute penalty as 10-man England earn a late Nations League win at Iceland, who also finish the game a man down.", "Austrian Josef Koeberl lasted over two hours in a box of ice, wearing only swimming trunks.", "The largest daily number of positive tests since 22 May is \"concerning\", the health secretary says.", "The jury will decide whether to bring charges against officers who used a hood to restrain Daniel Prude.", "The spate of stabbings in the city centre has sparked a massive police manhunt.", "Ruling out masks, Sir Lindsay Hoyle calls for daily tests so packed Parliamentary scenes can return.", "Groups wanting tighter immigration restrictions and those supporting migrants gather in Dover.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Thousands of Americans have received unsolicited packets of seeds this year, mostly from China.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "A staff member has tested positive for Covid-19, prompting a class to self-isolate.", "Jacob Billington, 23, dies and seven others are injured in city centre attacks.", "Travel rules should be reviewed in light of \"dire warnings\" from the industry, the opposition says.", "Matthew Robson's quirky collection of presents is now worth £40,000.", "Pierre Gasly takes a stunning upset win in the Italian Grand Prix for Red Bull's Alpha Tauri team in one of the most remarkable races in history.", "Some of the people trapped at a reservoir in California's Sierra National Forest have suffered burns.", "A hospital in Jerusalem is recruiting recovered Covid-19 patients to visit people who would otherwise be in isolation.", "The parents of the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena attack on their quest for answers.", "Jos Buttler guides England to a six-wicket victory over Australia in the second Twenty20 international to clinch the three-match series.", "Police believe victims were chosen at random and there is no suggestion the attacks are terror related.", "About 30 horses have been attacked in France in recent months, prompting public outcry.", "Protesters opposed to Covid restrictions gather in Edinburgh as figures show the highest weekly rise in cases since May.", "The John Cage piece, As Slow As Possible, began 19 years ago and is to last 639 years.", "Train operators bring back 90% of pre-Covid service but safety measures mean a different look.", "Video posted on social media shows emergency service vehicles, and parts of the city centre have now been cordoned off.", "People are asked to reduce public transport use and avoid mixing outside their social bubble.", "Eighty people are arrested in protests targeting printing presses owned by Rupert Murdoch.", "Barristers warn thousands may wait until 2022 for justice despite a pledge to speed up the Crown Courts.", "Gunner Sgt Leonard Shrubsall's son Richard thought his father's plane had been lost over the sea.", "One person suffers life-threatening injuries in an attack in Bexley, south-east London, police say.", "Figures show the number of newly detected coronavirus infections is highest among young adults.", "Olympian Elinor Barker says some people are turned off by team sports like football and rugby.", "Britain will leave the transition arrangement in December \"come what may\", says David Frost.", "Kevin Hollinrake wrote on social media it was a \"parent's job to feed their children\".", "Maj Robert Campbell says he has \"finally been exonerated\" after 17 years of repeated investigations.", "Boris Johnson will urge leaders to \"look ahead to how we will rebuild\" after the global pandemic.", "A further 486 test positive for coronavirus - the biggest single day's number since mass testing began.", "The government plans to create an internal border to prevent gridlock on the county's motorways.", "The ex-One Direction singer shares a picture with the couple's \"healthy and beautiful\" daughter.", "Scotland's first minister writes to Boris Johnson saying further action is needed urgently.", "The renowned journalist, who has died aged 92, was best-known for his campaigns against injustice.", "World champion Ronnie O'Sullivan is knocked out of the European Masters by Irish teenager Aaron Hill.", "Spotify, Epic Games and others unite to campaign against the tech giant's app policies.", "A large number of the workforce at the Bridgend engine plant are expected to finish on Thursday.", "Margot Dukes-Eddy dived into the water to save her husband \"without hesitation\", police say.", "It's the part of the UK that is most reliant on EU exports. So why are businesses there so underprepared?", "Rules in Wales are different to England, where pubs and restaurants must close at 22:00.", "A leading chain, facing unprecedented demand, suspends its appointment booking system.", "Parks Australia had requested user-generated images from the sacred site be immediately removed.", "The star's soul-searching, self-titled album is named the best British record of the past 12 months.", "The new jobs support scheme is \"a fraction of what we have seen\", writes the BBC's Faisal Islam.", "A group of officers involved in a drugs raid in Barnet, north London, are taken to hospital.", "Former Australia batsman Dean Jones dies in India, where he has been working as a television commentator, at the age of 59.", "Fourteen coronavirus cases were linked to an awards ceremony at Drefach Cricket and Football Club.", "But the Labour leader says another \"divisive\" vote on Scotland's position in the near future is \"not needed\".", "Thousands of British expats living in the EU have been told their bank accounts are being closed.", "The Bafta Film Awards will have an overhaul after this year's event had an all-white acting line-up.", "The shadow chancellor says half of her 40 requests for targeted wage support for workers were “rebuffed” by the government.", "Police had been pursuing a speeding car when it crashed with two other vehicles in Salford.", "Banham Poultry, based in Attleborough in Norfolk, had to close on 27 August, but reopened last week.", "The UK chancellor said the Job Support Scheme would start in November and last for six months.", "The cinema chain warns it may need to raise more money in the event of further coronavirus restrictions.", "The supermarket chain restricts sales of some ranges, including toilet rolls and disinfectants.", "Opposition parties press Nicola Sturgeon on why she was not better prepared for outbreaks at universities.", "Some viewers of Britain's Got Talent were unhappy with the judge's reference to Black Lives Matter.", "The chancellor says it is \"impossible\" to predict the jobs market due to the coronavirus pandemic.", "Products will be labelled Ben's Original and will no longer show the bow-tied black man on packaging.", "Rishi Sunak has announced a six-month scheme, beginning in November, which will see the government pay part of workers' wages who have lost hours.", "Demonstrations have continued in Belarus since the president declared victory in last month's election.", "City council leader Huw Thomas warns of restrictions on travel and households mixing.", "Plans to resume weekly mass participation Parkrun events in October have been scrapped due to the coronavirus pandemic.", "Zhong Shanshan’s net worth reached $58.7bn thanks to his water and vaccine firms.", "KitKats and Babybel are among other big brands that did badly in the Which? recycling test.", "Alexandra Wilson says she was challenged by court staff who assumed she was there to face charges.", "The 54-year-old construction worker ate a bag-and-a-half of black liquorice every day, doctors say.", "Latest figures show 6,634 new coronavirus cases across the UK, taking the total to 416,363.", "The broadcaster gained more than 200,000 followers within an hour of posting his first video.", "The company's oversight board - which can overrule Mark Zuckerberg - begins work in mid-October.", "A health charity wants to know how well England and Wales' contact-tracing app fared in tests.", "\"Now is not the right time to outline long-term plans,\" the Treasury says.", "Matt Hancock refuses to rule out stopping students returning home, to limit spread of coronavirus.", "Hollywood star Ryan Reynolds believed to be involved in a takeover bid of National League side, the club says.", "The British-American journalist, publisher and author was best-known for his campaigns against injustice.", "The UK prime minister says the UK holds extraordinary potential for wind power.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Under a third of tests done in community testing centres in England are processed within 24 hours.", "One privacy campaign group says it is Amazon's \"most chilling home surveillance product\" yet.", "Ministers have \"over-promised and under-delivered\", former civil service head Lord O'Donnell says.", "Instead of inventing a job support scheme for the pandemic, Germany already had one oven-ready.", "A charity helping male victims of domestic abuse receives 60% more pleas for help than a year ago.", "The pair had been embracing near a seafront wall when they toppled on to the beach in Alicante.", "Blagovest Hadjigueorguiev has appeared before magistrates in Truro.", "Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is seen leaving court after a pre-trial hearing.", "The new restrictions on gatherings have public support, the Cabinet Office minister insists.", "The National Crime Agency investigation into a suspected NI crime group was supported by the PSNI.", "The naturalist warns that a million species are at risk but says it is not too late to save them.", "The marine working for the CIA had weapons and large amounts of cash, the Venezuelan president says.", "Contestants will not physically go to Blackpool but they will \"celebrate\" the venue, the BBC says.", "Michael Gove backs the PM over the Internal Market Bill as the EU ramps up opposition to it.", "The late-stage trials were paused due to a reported side effect in a patient in the UK.", "The EU is furious about the UK's latest Brexit move - but there is no chance of the government backing down.", "Donald Fear is the first person to win the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire jackpot in 14 years.", "The warning comes as a scientist says the UK is \"on the edge of losing control\" of the virus.", "Debutants Callum Wilson and Jeff Hendrick both score as Newcastle make a winning start to the 2020-21 Premier League season against an uninspiring West Ham.", "The Department of Education and Ofqual will face public scrutiny to explain the exam confusion, the colossal U-turn and resignations. What went wrong?", "More than 200 people are arrested as anti-government demonstrators clash with police in the French capital.", "Warning that some surgeries are struggling, and patients will have \"nowhere to go\" if they close.", "The latest statistics show there were 221 confirmed cases in the last 24 hours - but there were no Covid deaths.", "Last-minute agreements have been reached before, but right now it feels like a long shot.", "The 22-year-old Slovenian woman was found guilty of cutting off her hand to make an insurance claim.", "The US president and his political rival both visit the Flight 93 memorial, but at different times.", "The PM calls for no return to \"squabbling\", but the EU ramps up opposition to UK government plans.", "Boris Johnson calls for no return to \"squabbling\", but the EU ramps up opposition to UK plans.", "Navid Afkari, 27, was accused of murder but he said he was tortured into confessing.", "Counter-terrorism police arrest a man after a suspicious package was posted to a London property.", "There are now worrying signs of infections in older as well as younger people, officials say.", "A man is arrested on suspicion of murder after a fatal stabbing at a flat in Wembley.", "Several MSPs had called on Richard Leonard to quit, warning the party faced \"disaster\" at the Holyrood election.", "Police say the alleged attack happened in a villa during a party in southern Italy.", "But Ben Wallace admits a security review will mean \"letting go\" of some military equipment.", "The find shows the wealth of the Iceni tribe in the centuries after Boudicca's rebellion.", "Frederick Nathaniel \"Toots\" Hibbert was the front man of reggae band Toots & the Maytals.", "Naomi Osaka fights back against Victoria Azarenka in a gripping US Open final to claim her third Grand Slam title with a 1-6 6-3 6-3 victory.", "Bernadette Walker, 17, was reported missing from Peterborough by her parents in July.", "The speed limit will be reduced in Witton, Rotherham, Eccles and Oldbury.", "Police said they had been made aware of small gathering but were told it was for a wedding party.", "The founder of Habitat \"revolutionised the way we live in Britain\", his family say in a statement.", "The charity supporting wounded veterans says its income dropped by a third as demand for support rose.", "Grants will promote ideas to detect, characterise and track the millions of objects moving overhead.", "The safety driver of an Uber autonomous car is charged with negligent homicide.", "The prime minister answered MPs' questions at PMQs and a committee of senior MPs.", "The health worker was fatally shot by police, leading to widespread protests against police violence.", "The health minister says people must not enter or leave the county without good reason.", "Boris Johnson defends the UK's testing system as people struggle to get tests and results are delayed.", "Lego is investing £310m to make its products more sustainable after letters from young customers.", "Schools in England can now order testing kits from the NHS directly, says the education secretary.", "The government of Barbados says the time has come to leave the colonial past behind.", "The move comes after North East local authorities reported \"extremely worrying\" spikes in new cases.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning.", "Many patients are at the risk of suffering from PTSD, but India lacks infrastructure to treat them.", "A 35-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman are arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter.", "People were going to A&E for virus testing as they could not get into test centres, a trust says.", "The health secretary says testing policy will be updated to prioritise the most urgent cases.", "The National Cyber Security Centre warns that universities face a rising wave of cyber-attacks.", "Ministers face a 'classic government problem' of supply and demand.", "Normal coughs and fevers alone will lead to high demand for coronavirus tests over winter, it says.", "Richard Morris, the British High Commissioner to Fiji, was last seen running in Hampshire in May.", "The leaders of seven local authorities issue a statement as positive cases increase.", "Details and reaction as extra restrictions are announced for Rhondda Cynon Taf.", "Doctors say people are having to travel for miles to get tests.", "The justice secretary hails changes to criminal tariffs as a \"fundamental shift\" to punish offenders.", "Stephen Donnelly reported feeling unwell, leading to disruption at the Irish parliament.", "The firm has confirmed it is pulling out of what would have been Wales' biggest energy project.", "Two officers posted clips of themselves \"shouting offensive language\" and dancing \"inappropriately\".", "British Airways boss Alex Cruz says cabin crew should not have to move onto inferior contracts.", "Up to 300 people who attended a football match are told to self-isolate after 28 tested positive.", "Many workers can expect a \"miserable Christmas\" without targeted support for employers, Unite says.", "Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the rescue mission was \"the right thing to do\".", "The tech firm also showed off new smartwatches with blood-oxygen sensors and new iPads.", "Junior staff told what to do if they are uncomfortable with ministers' demands, BBC Newsnight learns.", "A fresh round of violence between Palestinian militants and Israel follows a ceremony in Washington.", "The slow-moving storm has hovered over the US Gulf coast, dumping \"four months of rain in four hours\".", "Education secretary tells MPs replacement grades was right idea, but system had too many errors.", "The former transport secretary's part-time job is with the owner of Harwich and Felixstowe terminals.", "Measures to stop households mixing and early pub closures are expected to be introduced on Friday.", "Introducing Covid marshals across England is \"unlikely\" and \"almost impossible\", some authorities say.", "Richard Burns stops physical contact with family because of his 'extreme vulnerability' to Covid-19.", "Boris Johnson says the government is doing \"everything in our power\" to prevent another lockdown.", "Families share a personal insight into the lives of those who died in the Manchester Arena bombing.", "Logistics trade body says the smart freight system is 'unlikely to be ready' by year end.", "Sony opts not to undercut its rival this time round but instead will rely on exclusives to woo gamers.", "A bus, a van, a large goods vehicle and several cars are all involved in the crash.", "Officers in North Rhine-Westphalia sent Hitler photos and a depiction of a refugee in a gas chamber.", "Glenn Maxwell and Alex Carey lead Australia to a three-wicket win over England to claim the one-day series 2-1.", "The pilots aim to help hospitals cope with winter pressures, including coronavirus and flu.", "A council has urged people only to turn up at the walk-through facility if they have an appointment.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Dozens of celebrities announce they will freeze their accounts to protest against hate speech.", "Moorfields Eye Hospital quadruples operations in week-long \"cataract drive\".", "Cases of \"revenge porn\" have risen by a fifth this year, with lockdown to blame, say campaigners.", "Although marketed as a green option, the cars cause more polluting than is claimed, campaigners say.", "Child protection referrals will rise now schools are back, police chiefs tell BBC Newsnight.", "Diego Méntrida realised the athlete ahead had made a mistake and slowed as he approached the finish.", "The shadow chancellor repeats calls for more targeted support for firms in an online speech.", "Covid-19 provides an opportunity to \"reset\" the economy for a more sustainable future, he says.", "That would be tricky, despite the UK government's new spending power plans.", "The holiday camp firm expects workers to take paid or unpaid leave once the government scheme ends.", "People reported queues for attractions and traffic was gridlocked in Blackpool on Saturday.", "A union urges Labour's leader not to \"retreat\" on the environment and workers' rights promises.", "The coin, bearing the head of a Scottish king and turned into jewellery, was found in a field.", "Tadej Pogacar is poised to win the Tour de France ahead of strong favourite Primoz Roglic in one of the most dramatic turnarounds in the race's history.", "What have been the major financial disclosures and what action has been taken?", "Hopes are rising after the badly-hit state of Victoria reports just 14 new infections in 24 hours.", "Fraser Cameron calls the claims \"ridiculous\" and says he has no access to sensitive information.", "Janusz Walus killed anti-apartheid leader Chris Hani in 1993, sparking fears of a racial civil war.", "The unidentified woman was caught while attempting to cross the US-Canada border and is awaiting charges.", "Wales forward Gareth Bale returns to Tottenham from Spanish champions Real Madrid on a season-long loan.", "Children's Commissioner suggests hundreds of thousands pupils are at home with pandemic-related issues.", "It is \"only by luck\" the passenger wasn't seriously injured or killed, police say.", "The musician, who was also part of heavy metal band Uriah Heep, had been diagnosed with prostate cancer.", "Emergency services were called to reports of a car going over a cliff on to a footpath.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Sunday morning.", "Bryson DeChambeau produces a wonderful final-round display to win the US Open and claim the first major title of his career.", "Thousands of devices are being distributed to vulnerable groups such as the elderly.", "Matt Hancock's warning comes as the government introduces £10,000 fines for people who fail to self-isolate.", "Over 80,000 firms have returned furlough scheme payments they did not need or took in error.", "A passenger is told she had accepted vouchers but BA's website did not list them as an option.", "Welsh Government may have to consider stricter enforcement if people break Covid-19 rules, says minister.", "Westminster says it is replacing EU funds but Welsh ministers accuse it of \"stealing powers\".", "The ex-prime minister, who has died aged 91, famously led his Liberal Party to a big defeat in 1984.", "The tourist attraction will shut for the foreseeable future due to the effects of coronavirus.", "People enjoying the sun yards from No 10 say there's a feeling of resignation about new virus measures.", "Energy companies stand accused of trying to downplay their contribution to global warming.", "It followed a Westminster Abbey service which was \"reduced in stature but not in spirit\", organisers say.", "A man has been arrested after the 20-year-old died of injuries sustained in a \"disturbance\", police say.", "The account was used to avoid US financial restrictions, a leak of bank documents suggest.", "The Labour leader tells the BBC testing problems make further Covid-19 restrictions \"more likely\".", "The use of a nerve agent tends to point the finger of suspicion at the Russian state, Frank Gardner writes.", "Robert Wilson died after he was attacked by the youths using a samurai sword.", "He overcame controversy to become one of a handful of architects credited with shaping modern cities.", "Andy Murray stages a remarkable comeback to beat Yoshihito Nishioka in the US Open on his long-awaited return to Grand Slam singles tennis.", "A spokesman said the US did not want to be \"constrained\" by the \"corrupt\" WHO and China.", "The former politician will join the likes of Bill Bailey, Clara Amfo, and HRVY on this year's show.", "Eight lives would be saved for every 100 critically ill patients given steroids.", "The first minister reintroduces restrictions on visiting other households in the Glasgow area after an increase in coronavirus cases.", "John Swinney responds to criticism that pubs will remain open despite a surge in Covid cases in Greater Glasgow and Clyde.", "The US House speaker, who has called Mr Trump a coward for not wearing a mask, claimed ignorance of rules.", "Ministers are deciding whether to reimpose measures for people returning from Portugal, sources say.", "Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer faced each other at first PMQs after parliament's summer break", "There had been fierce criticism after the lyrics were dropped for The Last Night of the Proms.", "August saw the highest monthly rise in prices since 2004 as the recovery continued, the lender says.", "Residents living in these areas can now socialise in groups of up to two households indoors.", "Ruben Bousquet had eaten popcorn at the same Odeon cinema many times before, an inquest hears.", "A review finds 'gaps' in the powers used to monitor people convicted of terror-related offences.", "The world's largest company has seen its value leap as demand for tech goods surged during lockdown.", "Christopher Nolan's time-bending spy thriller takes £5.33 million in its first week on release.", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer clashes with Boris Johnson over U-turns at prime minister's questions.", "Plans to ease restrictions in Bolton and Trafford are scrapped following a spike in Covid-19 cases.", "The internationally acclaimed DJ was facing charges of sexually assaulting a woman in Miami.", "Ministers say there has been a \"significant rise\" in Covid cases being brought into Scotland from Greece.", "Websites aimed at children, connected toys and online games must be designed with privacy at heart.", "Olympic boxer Nicola Adams will form Strictly Come Dancing's first competitive same-sex pairing.", "Nerve agent was apparently used on Putin critic Alexei Navalny – and Russia has a history of poisonings.", "A survey of 40,000 officers also finds that nearly nine in ten have been attacked 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Anneliese Dodds says the government should be “focussed on job, job, jobs” in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds has accused the government of mismanaging billions of pounds spent in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nIn a speech to party members on Monday, she accused ministers of a \"cavalier\" approach to public spending during the crisis.\n\nBut she called for firms in struggling sectors to get extra support to retain workers, or provide training.\n\nMs Dodds called for a change in approach to managing the economic downturn during a speech to Labour's online conference, which ends on Tuesday.\n\nShe unveiled proposals for a jobs recovery scheme targeted at sectors that have been closed or on reduced capacity because of social distancing rules.\n\nThe party's annual four-day gathering looks a lot different this year.\n\nThe event, rebranded as Labour Connected, is taking place entirely online rather than in a conference venue.\n\nAs a result, there will be no scenes of packed halls and delegates hoping to speak waving items of clothing and other props to try and get themselves noticed.\n\nPolicy won't be decided on the floor of the conference but there are members' discussions and policy panels - on issues such as the future of work, communities, support for young people and the green economy.\n\nThere is the usual packed fringe programme and there will also be speeches, which will be streamed online.\n\nAs well as Anneliese Dodds, we'll also be hearing later on Monday from shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds. Each speaker is expected to use Labour's recently unveiled New Leadership slogan as their backdrop.\n\nYou'll have to wait to hear more about leader Sir Keir Starmer's keynote speech on Tuesday, although - unlike his address to the TUC last week when he was self-isolating - he won't be speaking from his own home.\n\nIn a bid to stem job losses, she also called for £3bn in funding to be brought forward to retrain the unemployed or those at risk of losing their jobs.\n\nShe urged ministers to provide additional support to viable but indebted firms due to start repaying government loans from next spring.\n\nAnd she vowed to \"restore trust\" with the private sector, adding that she understands the \"critical role business plays in creating jobs\".\n\n\"Recover jobs, retrain workers and rebuild business. Three steps to a better, more secure future,\" she said.\n\n\"This is an ambitious Labour vision - where security and fairness aren't just aspirations, but where they are a reality for families and communities across our country.\"\n\nLabour has called for the furlough scheme to be extended in sectors such as hospitality.\n\nIn her first conference speech since being appointed shadow chancellor in April, Ms Dodds also accused the Conservatives of mismanaging public funds in response to the crisis.\n\nShe pointed to actions, including the recall of unused testing kits and a decision not to use 50m face masks bought for the NHS, as examples of waste.\n\nShe also unveiled party analysis which claims the government's job retention bonus scheme will hand £2.6bn to firms who would have retained staff anyway.\n\n\"You're only as cavalier with public money as our current chancellor, if you don't know the value of it,\" she said.\n\n\"As chancellor, I would ensure that public money was always spent wisely. Targeted where it's needed most. Not splurged where it isn't.\"\n\nLabour has previously called for the scheme, which will pay firms £1,000 for each employee brought back from furlough and employed until January, to be reviewed.\n\nThe CBI said it agreed that a more targeted approach was needed but it could not be overly bureaucratic as firms needed \"simple and quick\" solutions.\n\n\"Labour clearly recognise the unrelenting pressure firms are facing,\" the employer group's chief economist Rain Newton-Smith said.\n\n\"All parties agree that saving good jobs today is far better than picking up the pieces tomorrow. That needs bold action as the UK heads into a challenging autumn.\"\n\nFor the government, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Steve Barclay said Labour was offering nothing more than former leader Jeremy Corbyn's \"recycled economic plans\".\n\nHe said they would hold the UK back and \"hinder our recovery from coronavirus\".\n\n\"This Conservative government is getting on with delivering its plan for jobs - creating, supporting and protecting employment across every corner of our country,\" he said.", "The financial secrets of hundreds of world leaders, politicians and celebrities has been exposed in another huge leak of financial documents.\n\nDubbed the Pandora Papers it features almost 12 million files from companies providing offshore services in tax havens around the world.\n\nThe data was obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) in Washington DC, which has organised the biggest ever global investigation, spanning 117 countries and involving more than 600 journalists. In the UK the investigation has been led by BBC Panorama and the Guardian.\n\nThe files are the latest in a series of whistleblower-led investigations that have rocked the world of finance in recent years.\n\nSo let's round up the other major leaks of the past decade.\n\nIn September 2020 the FinCEN Files exposed the failure of major global banks to stop money laundering and financial crime. They also revealed how the UK is often the weak link in the financial system and how London is awash with Russian cash.\n\nThe files included more than 2,000 suspicious activity reports (SARs), filed by financial institutions to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Agency, or FinCEN, a part of the US Treasury Department. They also include 17,641 records obtained through Freedom of Information (FOI) requests and other sources.\n\nThey were obtained by BuzzFeed News which shared them with the ICIJ and 400 journalists around the world, including BBC Panorama, which led the investigation in the UK.\n\nA huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which revealed the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nWho leaked the data? The BBC does not know the identity of the source. The 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the ICIJ. Panorama led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries.\n\nA confidential settlement was later reached between the BBC, the Guardian and Appleby over the reporting of the leaked documents, which Appleby said were taken by hackers. The Guardian and BBC said the reports were in the public interest but did not give more detail about the settlement.\n\nUntil Pandora this leak was seen as the daddy of them all in data size. If you thought the Wikileaks dump of sensitive diplomatic cables in 2010 was a big deal, this carried 1,500 times more data.\n\nSüddeutsche Zeitung's \"brothers\". Despite surnames that sound exactly the same, these two leading lights of the Panama Papers investigation, Frederik Obermaier (L) and Bastian Obermayer, are not related\n\nThe Panama Papers came about after an anonymous source contacted reporters at German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung in 2015 and supplied encrypted documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca. It sells anonymous offshore companies that help the owners hide their business dealings.\n\nOverwhelmed by the scale of the dump, which eventually grew to 2.6 terabytes of data, the Süddeutsche Zeitung called in the ICIJ, which led to the involvement of about 100 other partner news organisations, including the BBC's Panorama.\n\nAfter more than a year of scrutiny, the ICIJ and its partners jointly published the Panama Papers on 3 April 2016, with the database of documents going online a month later.\n\nWho was named? Where do we start? A few of the news partners focused on how associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin shuffled cash around the globe. Not that the Russians cared much. The prime ministers of Iceland and Pakistan came to far stickier ends, the former quitting and the latter being thrown out of office by the Supreme Court. Overall the financial dealings of a dozen current and former world leaders, more than 120 politicians and public officials and countless billionaires, celebrities and sports stars were exposed.\n\nWho leaked the data? John Doe. Yes, we know. It's not a real name. In US crime series it is mostly used to label anonymous victims but Mr (or Ms) Doe's manifesto, released a month after publication, reveals a self-styled revolutionary. The real identity is still unknown.\n\nFive months after the Panama Papers, the ICIJ published revelations from the Bahamas corporate registry. The 38GB cache revealed the offshore activities of \"prime ministers, ministers, princes and convicted felons\", it said. Former EU competition commissioner Neelie Kroes admitted an \"oversight\" in failing to disclose her interest in an offshore company.\n\nThis ICIJ investigation, involving hundreds of journalists from 45 countries, including BBC Panorama, went public in February 2015.\n\nIt focused on HSBC Private Bank (Suisse), a subsidiary of the banking giant, and so lifted the lid on dealings in a country where banking secrecy is taken for granted.\n\nThe leaked files covered accounts up to the year 2007, linked with more than 100,000 individuals and legal entities from more than 200 countries.\n\nThe ICIJ said the subsidiary had served \"those close to discredited regimes\" and \"clients who had been unfavourably named by the United Nations\".\n\nHSBC admitted that the \"compliance culture and standards of due diligence\" at the subsidiary at the time were \"lower than they are today\".\n\nWho was named? The ICIJ said HSBC had profited from \"arms dealers, bag men for Third World dictators, traffickers in blood diamonds and other international outlaws\".\n\nIt also cited those close to the regimes of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, former Tunisian President Ben Ali and Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.\n\nWho leaked the data? Actually, we know this one. The ICIJ investigation was based on data originally leaked by the French-Italian software engineer and whistleblower Hervé Falciani, though the ICIJ got it later from another source. From 2008 onwards he passed information on HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) to French authorities, who in turn passed them to other relevant governments. Mr Falciani was indicted in Switzerland. He was held in detention in Spain but was later released and now lives in France.\n\nOr LuxLeaks for short. Another extensive ICIJ investigation, which revealed its findings in November 2014.\n\nIt centred on how professional services company PricewaterhouseCoopers helped multinational companies gain hundreds of favourable tax rulings in Luxembourg between 2002 and 2010.\n\nThe ICIJ said multinationals had saved billions by channelling money through Luxembourg, sometimes at tax rates of less than 1%. One address in Luxembourg was home to more than 1,600 companies, it said.\n\nThe leak of documents was first exposed in 2012 after a joint investigation between Panorama and France2 which lifted the lid on the tax agreements of UK pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline and media company Northern & Shell.\n\nWho was named? Pepsi, IKEA, AIG and Deutsche Bank were among those named.\n\nA second tranche of leaked documents said the Walt Disney Co and Skype had funnelled hundreds of millions of dollars in profits through Luxembourg subsidiaries. They and the other firms denied any wrongdoing.\n\nJean-Claude Juncker had been PM of Luxembourg when it enacted many of its tax avoidance rules. He had been appointed president of the European Commission just a few days before the leak came out. He said he had not encouraged avoidance.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jean-Claude Juncker says he is \"politically responsible for what happened\"\n\nEurosceptics went to town and pushed a censure motion against him and his commission. It was rejected. But the EU did investigate, and by 2016 had proposed a yet-to-be realised common tax scheme for the EU.\n\nWho leaked the data? Frenchman Antoine Deltour, a former PricewaterhouseCoopers employee, was the main man, saying he had acted in the public interest. Another PwC employee, Raphael Halet, helped him.\n\nThe pair, along with journalist Edouard Perrin, were all charged in Luxembourg after a PwC complaint. A first verdict was later revisited, watering down sentences, with Deltour given a six-month suspended jail term which was later quashed. Halet received a small fine and Mr Perrin was acquitted.\n\nThis was about a tenth of the size of the Panama Papers but was seen as the biggest exposé of international tax fraud ever when the ICIJ and its news partners went public in November 2012 and April 2013.\n\nSome 2.5 million files revealed the names of more than 120,000 companies and trusts in hideaways such as the British Virgin Islands and the Cook Islands.\n\nBBC Panorama exposed a flourishing tax evasion industry in the UK in an undercover investigation based on the files.\n\nWho was named? The usual suspects. A mix of politicians, government officials and their families, with the Russians notable, but also those in China, Azerbaijan, Canada, Thailand, Mongolia and Pakistan. The Philippines - in the form of the family of late strongman Ferdinand Marcos - get a dishonourable mention. To be fair, the ICIJ does point out that the leaks are not necessarily evidence of illegal actions.\n\nWho leaked the data? The ICIJ cites \"two financial service providers, a private bank in Jersey and the Bahamas corporate registry\" as the sources, but says nothing more other than it was \"data obtained\".\n\nThe Pandora Papers is a leak of almost 12 million documents and files exposing the secret wealth and dealings of world leaders, politicians and billionaires. The data was obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in Washington DC and has led to one of the biggest ever global investigations.\n\nMore than 600 journalists from 117 countries have looked at the hidden fortunes of some of the most powerful people on the planet. BBC Panorama and the Guardian have led the investigation in the UK.\n\nPandora Papers coverage: follow reaction on Twitter using #PandoraPapers, in the BBC News app, or watch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "The government has scrapped rail franchising and announced plans to extend support for train firms.\n\nAfter passenger numbers fell during lockdown, taxpayer money was used to plug the shortfall in ticket revenues.\n\nSo far, the bill has run to more than £3.5bn and the Department for Transport has said \"significant\" support will still be needed.\n\nAlthough passenger numbers have edged up since lockdown, they are still less than half pre-pandemic levels.\n\nAs a result, emergency measures to cover the losses of train firms have been extended by 18 months. They reduce the fees that can be earned by the companies but will mean that trains are still able to run, even with fewer passengers.\n\nThroughout that period ministers hope to carry out broader reforms to Britain's railways.\n\nThey will consider adopting a concessions-based system in the longer term, whereby train companies are paid a fixed fee to run services.\n\nIt marks the end of rail franchises, which have been in place since the 1990s.\n\nIn a statement, Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps said: \"The model of privatisation adopted 25 years ago has seen significant rises in passenger numbers, but this pandemic has proven that it is no longer working.\"\n\nHe said the move to a new system would end \"uncertainty and confusion about whether you are using the right ticket or the right train company\".\n\nThe government and the train companies are painting this as a good deal. But in reality, because of Covid, it's a fairly unsatisfactory scenario for all those concerned.\n\nThe taxpayer will be liable for the losses on the railways for a much longer period of time. And with the virus spreading, passenger levels might remain suppressed - so the losses could continue for some time to come.\n\nMeanwhile, train companies who operated franchises that were losing money before the pandemic, still owe money to the Department for Transport from those contracts. Although that thorny issue has been kicked down the road and the negotiations over past payments now need to be resolved by December.\n\nThe emergency deals keep them in the game but they're a metaphorical straitjacket, which make them commercially un-enticing.\n\nFor now, no train company has \"handed back the keys\", which would force the government to take on the running of a route. Doing so carries financial penalties and does nothing for a firm's reputation.\n\nInstead, all of them have, in the short-term, opted for the least bad option there is.\n\nAnd there is still no consensus within government over what the railways will look like after the pandemic so the detail on that is pretty thin.\n\nTrain companies have welcomed the plans to replace Britain's often-criticised system of rail franchising.\n\nPaul Plummer, the boss of the Rail Delivery Group, which represents train firms, called for a simpler-to-use fare system.\n\nHe said: \"These transitional contracts should be a stepping-stone to a better railway.\"\n\nBut rail expert Sir Michael Holden, who used to run South West Trains, said: The big issue is, what is that something else to look like?\"\n\nHe told the BBC's Today programme that the current emergency measures were \"the worst possible arrangement to run the railways\".\n\n\"We've got the dead hand of the government on the helm... controlling all of the detailed decisions of the railway.\"\n\n\"And yet, they're still paying for public sector operators to run the railway for them.\"\n\nLabour said the government was trying to \"paper over the cracks of a broken rail system\".\n\nShadow rail minister Tan Dhesi said: \"Today's agreements mean taxpayers are set to continue paying hundreds of millions of pounds in profit to private rail companies to run the network. This is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nBut Royal Mail chairman Keith Williams, who was commissioned to carry out a review of the railways, said the companies would have to give more value under the new agreements, which represented the end of the \"complicated\" franchising arrangement.\n\nHe said they demanded \"more from the expertise and skills of the private sector\" and \"ensure passengers return to a more punctual and co-ordinated railway\".\n\nHowever, Rail, Maritime and Transport union general secretary Mick Cash claimed \"private rail companies are a waste of time and a waste of money\". He insisted that \"public ownership is the only model that works\".\n\nAnd Unite's national officer for rail Harish Patel said: \"Instead of the proposed new model which will allow privateers a renewed opportunity to feed off the taxpayer and passengers, the government should be permanently re-nationalising rail services to increase services, improve punctuality and reduce tickets prices.\"", "Ellen: \"The truth is that I am the person that you see on your TV. I am also a lot of other things.\"\n\nEllen DeGeneres has opened the new series of her talk show with an apology and an admission that \"things happened here that never should have happened\".\n\nOn Monday, The Ellen DeGeneres Show returned to US screens for the first time since allegations emerged about a toxic work environment on set.\n\n\"I take this very seriously and I want to say I'm so sorry to the people it affected,\" the host said.\n\nShe said an investigation had led to \"the necessary changes\" being made.\n\nThree top show producers were recently fired amid claims of misconduct.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ellen DeGeneres This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDeGeneres opened with a typically deadpan comedic tone, saying to the camera: \"If you're watching because you love me, thank you. If you're watching because you don't love me, welcome.\"\n\nThrough gritted teeth, she said she had had a \"great summer - super terrific\".\n\nBut she soon turned serious as she addressed the misconduct and sexual harassment allegations that emerged earlier this year.\n\n\"I learned that things happened that should never have happened,\" she said.\n\n\"If I've ever let someone down, if I've ever hurt their feelings, I am sorry for that.\"\n\nShe added that as a person in a position of power and privilege, the show and what happened within it was her responsibility.\n\n\"We have made the necessary changes and today we're starting a new chapter,\" she told viewers.\n\nThat included announcing that studio DJ Twitch had been promoted to co-executive producer.\n\nShe joked that becoming known as the \"be kind lady\", from the show's sign-off quote, was \"a tricky position to be in\".\n\n\"If you want to give yourself a new nickname or title, don't go with the 'be kind' lady. Don't do it.\"\n\nBut she said that contrary to reports in \"the press and social media... the truth is that I am the person that you see on your TV\". She continued: \"I am also a lot of other things. Sometimes I am sad, I get mad, I get anxious, I get frustrated, I get impatient and I am working on all of that. I am a work in progress.\"\n\nShe said she wanted \"every single one\" of the 270 staff working on her show to \"be happy and proud to work here\".\n\nDeGeneres already apologised in an email to staff back in July, saying she was \"committed to ensuring this does not happen again\", and made a further apology in a video meeting with her team in August.\n\nA spokesperson for Warner Brothers confirmed the show \"parted ways\" with executive producers Ed Glavin and Kevin Leman, and co-executive producer Jonathan Norman, in August.\n\nIn a story published earlier this year, several former employees told Buzzfeed News they had experienced racism while working on the show and some said they had been fired for taking bereavement days.\n\nThe show has won over 60 Emmy Awards since it first aired in 2003.", "The new exemption allows grandparents, for example, to look after their grandchildren\n\nPeople subject to tighter coronavirus regulations will be allowed to look after children from other households.\n\nThe restrictions prohibit people in affected areas from meeting other households.\n\nBut after complaints from parents, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said people looking after children under 14 or vulnerable adults would be exempt.\n\nThe rules apply to 11 million people in England, in the North East, North West and West Midlands.\n\nMr Hancock told the House of Commons: \"I've heard the concerns about the impact of local action on childcare arrangements. For many, informal childcare arrangements are a lifeline, without which they couldn't do their jobs.\n\n\"So, today I'm able to announce a new exemption for looking after children under the age of 14 or vulnerable adults where that is necessary for caring purposes.\n\n\"This covers both formal and informal arrangements. It does not allow for play-dates or parties, but it does mean that a consistent childcare relationship that is vital for somebody to get to work is allowed.\n\n\"I hope this change will provide clarity and comfort to many people who are living with these local restrictions.\"\n\nPeople in the following areas are currently banned from mixing with other households at private homes:\n\nThe new restrictions will come into force in the following places on Tuesday:\n\nKieron and Michelle McDaid said the exemption would allow Mrs McDaid's parents to look after the couple's children while they work\n\nThe move has been welcomed by families with one mother, Michelle McDaid, from Solihull, saying she was \"over the moon\".\n\nShe relies on her parents Angela and Fred Dale to care for her two year-old son Alfred while she works two days a week as an accounts assistant.\n\nShe also said her parents would have missed seeing Alfred and her eight-year-old son Finley.\n\nMrs McDaid said: \"It is amazing, it will make my life so much easier.\n\n\"It has been a juggling act this past week trying to fit work in where I can.\n\n\"My parents have missed them incredibly because they see them so often, it has just been really sad for them.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Anne-Marie Trevelyan #HandsFaceSpace This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnne-Marie Trevelyan, the Conservative MP for Berwick who was name-checked by Mr Hancock as being one of the North East MPs who contacted him over the issue, said she was \"delighted\" and the exemption was \"vital for working parents\".\n\nNewcastle City Council's Labour leader Nick Forbes said: \"This is a victory for common sense.\n\n\"I know parents and carers will be breathing a huge sigh of relief.\"\n• None UK 'could see 50,000 cases a day by mid-October'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK's coronavirus alert level is being upgraded from 3 to 4, meaning transmission is \"high or rising exponentially\", its chief medical officers have said.\n\nIt comes after the government's scientific adviser warned there could be 50,000 new coronavirus cases a day by mid-October without further action.\n\nOn Monday, a further 4,368 daily cases were reported in the UK, up from 3,899.\n\nThe prime minister will make a statement in the Commons on Tuesday.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said it sounded \"very likely\" that pubs and other venues in England will be forced to have 22:00 closing times, alongside other measures.\n\nIn a statement confirming their recommendation on moving to level 4, the chief medical officers for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland said cases were now \"rising rapidly and probably exponentially in significant parts of all four nations\".\n\nThey urged people to follow government guidelines \"to avoid significant excess deaths and exceptional pressure in the NHS\" over the autumn and winter.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the move reflected \"the significant shift in the current threat posed by coronavirus\".\n\n\"This country now faces a tipping point in its response and it is vital everybody plays their part now to stop the spread of the virus and protect lives,\" he said.\n\nThe alert level, which is recommended by the Joint Biosecurity Centre, was reduced from level 4 to 3 on 19 June - which indicated the virus was \"in general circulation\" but there could be a \"gradual relaxation of restrictions\".\n\nThe proposed upgrading comes as the PM prepares to chair a Cobra emergency meeting on Tuesday morning - which will be attended by the leaders of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAmid data showing London was \"catching up\" with Covid-19 hotspots in northern England, the capital's Mayor Sadiq Khan said he believed acting early, \"rather than having to impose more stringent measures later\", was the right thing to do both for public health and the economy.\n\nSpeaking at Downing Street earlier, alongside chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, Sir Patrick Vallance said: \"At the moment we think the epidemic is doubling roughly every seven days.\n\n\"If, and that's quite a big if, but if that continues unabated, and this grows, doubling every seven days... if that continued you would end up with something like 50,000 cases in the middle of October per day.\n\n\"Fifty-thousand cases per day would be expected to lead a month later, so the middle of November say, to 200-plus deaths per day.\n\n\"The challenge, therefore, is to make sure the doubling time does not stay at seven days.\n\n\"That requires speed, it requires action and it requires enough in order to be able to bring that down.\"\n\nThe move to level 4 should not come as a surprise given the warning from the UK's two most senior pandemic advisers this morning.\n\nInfections are rising - although some experts question whether the situation is as dire as Prof Chris Witty and Sir Patrick Vallance set out when they raised the prospect of 50,000 cases a day by mid-October.\n\nCases were always expected to increase at this time of year when respiratory viruses tend to circulate more coupled with the continued re-opening of society.\n\nCertainly the trajectory of countries like France and Spain is not as sharp as the worst-case scenario put forward.\n\nBut it is clear the government wants to act early this time - one of the big criticisms is that they were slow to introduce lockdown in March, which resulted in more deaths.\n\nLevel 4 paves the way for extra restrictions to be introduced with an announcement expected on Tuesday.\n\nOfficials are very aware a fine balance needs to be navigated, which is why a full lockdown is not on the cards.\n\nSchools will certainly be protected.\n\nBut any restrictions have a cost to society. Go too far and the risk is the cure becomes worse than the disease.\n\nProf Whitty and Sir Patrick also said:\n\nOn Sunday, the prime minister held a meeting in Downing Street with Prof Whitty, Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Matt Hancock to discuss possible further measures for England, ahead of an expected announcement on Tuesday.\n\nShadow health secretary Jon Ashworth said Labour did not want to see another lockdown but it would be understandable if new measures were introduced as the \"exponential growth of the virus cannot be ignored\".\n\nIt is not a question of \"if\".\n\nDowning Street will have to introduce extra restrictions to try to slow down the dramatic resurgence of coronavirus.\n\nYou would only have to have dipped into a minute or two of the sober briefing from the government's most senior doctor and scientist on Monday morning to see why.\n\nWhat is not yet settled however, is exactly what, exactly when, and indeed, exactly where these restrictions will be.\n\nHere's what it is important to know:\n\nThe government is not considering a new lockdown across the country right now.\n\nThe prime minister is not about to tell everyone to stay at home as he did from the Downing Street desk in March.\n\nMinisters have no intention at all to close schools again.\n\nNor, right now, are they planning to tell every business, other than the essential, to close again.\n\nWhat is likely is some kind of extra limits on our huge hospitality sector.\n\nRestrictions on households mixing indoors will be extended to all of Northern Ireland from 18:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nAreas in north-west England, West Yorkshire, the Midlands and four more counties in south Wales will also face further local restrictions from Tuesday.\n\nAnd additional lockdown restrictions will \"almost certainly\" be put in place in Scotland in the next couple of days, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\n\"Hopefully this will be with four-nations alignment, but if necessary it will have to happen without that,\" she said.\n\nWelsh Health Minister Vaughan Gething added: \"It may be the case that UK-wide measures will be taken but that will require all four governments to exercise our varying share of power and responsibility to do so.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson spoke with leaders of the devolved administrations on Monday afternoon.\n\nMeanwhile, the health secretary announced a new exemption to local restrictions in England for formal and informal childcare arrangements, covering those looking after children under the age of 14 or vulnerable adults.", "Artwork: GHGSat is aiming for a constellation of greenhouse-gas monitors in the sky\n\nThere is a powerful new satellite in the sky to monitor emissions of methane (CH4), one of the key gases driving human-induced climate change.\n\nKnown as Iris, the spacecraft can map plumes of CH4 in the atmosphere down to a resolution of just 25m.\n\nThis makes it possible to identify individual sources, such as specific oil and gas facilities.\n\nIris was launched by the Montreal, Canada-based GHGSat company on 2 September.\n\nIt's the pathfinder in what the firm hopes will be a 10-spacecraft constellation by the end of 2022.\n\nThe image at the top of this page is Iris's \"first light\" - its first attempt to sense a significant emission of methane.\n\nThe observation was made over Turkmenistan, in a region where large plumes from oil and gas infrastructure have been noted before.\n\nThe detection, overlaid on a standard aerial image, shows the concentration of methane in the air in excess of normal background levels.\n\n\"Let me tell you there was a big hurrah from the team when the data came down because we could see the spectroscopy was there, the resolution was there - everything was as it should be,\" recalled GHGSat CEO Stéphane Germain.\n\n\"We still need to work on the calibration, which will then allow us to verify the detection threshold and the final performance of the satellite. But as a first-light image - by any standard it's phenomenal,\" he told BBC News.\n\nMethane's global warming potential is 30 times that of carbon dioxide, so it's imperative any unnecessary releases are constrained or curtailed.\n\nHuman-produced sources are many and varied, including not only oil and gas facilities, but agriculture, landfills, coal mines and hydro-electric dams.\n\nAlready, GHGSat is working with operators, regulators and other interested parties to characterise these emissions using a prototype satellite called Claire that it launched in 2016. The presence in orbit of Iris provides an additional stream of data for the company that it now intends to interpret at a brand new British analytics hub, to be set up in Edinburgh and London in the coming weeks.\n\n\"There's world-class capability in what we do in the UK,\" Dr Germain said, \"not only in analytics but also in the spacecraft systems that we're interested in.\n\n\"The UK is a jurisdiction where climate change is important to people, and we want to be where people are willing to participate in the growth of an enterprise that wants to address that worldwide.\"\n\nArtwork: Sentinel-5P makes daily global maps of specific gases in the atmosphere\n\nGHGSat has recently been strengthening its ties with the European Space Agency, which operates the EU's Sentinel-5P satellite.\n\nThis also monitors methane, taking a global daily snapshot of the gas. But at a resolution of 7km, its data is much less resolved than that of Iris, or indeed Claire which senses the atmosphere at scales of 50m.\n\nPut them all together, however, and they form something of a dream team for investigating CH4.\n\n\"They (Sentinel-5P) can see the whole world every day. We can't do that. But we can see individual facilities. They can't do that. So, really, it's a fantastic combination, and it's making for a very good relationship with the European Space Agency that I think we're just at the beginning of growing into something much, much bigger.\"\n\nGHG's next satellite, Hugo, is in testing and is expected to launch at the end of this year.\n\nThe company recently secured $30m (£23m) in extra financing, which enables it to build the three spacecraft that will follow Hugo into orbit.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer says he will support any new measures, but warned failings in the test and trace system are undermining efforts to combat the surge. His shadow chancellor will use a speech to party members later to call for a jobs recovery scheme targeted at hardest-hit sectors, like hospitality. Anneliese Dodds will also accuse the Conservatives of mismanaging public funds in response to the crisis - for example, paying furlough money to firms who would have retained staff anyway. According to HMRC this morning, UK firms have voluntarily returned more than £215m paid out by the scheme.\n\nAbout one in every 20 children in England is out of school because of issues linked to the pandemic, according to the children's commissioner. Anne Longfield said the number of schools who'd sent pupils home because of a Covid-19 case was still very small, but there were many other children, including those with special needs or emotional problems, who had not yet returned. She praised the heroic efforts of teachers and other staff who made reopening possible, but warned there was a danger their goodwill - and that of parents - would be lost if testing troubles meant separating colds from Covid couldn't be done quickly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A cold, flu or coronavirus - which one do I have?\n\nThe government has agreed new emergency deals with train companies, meaning the taxpayer will continue to cover any losses on the railways, caused by low passenger numbers, for another 18 months. So far, those losses have run to about £3.5bn. During that 18-month period, ministers hope to carry out broader reforms to Britain's railways, including potentially a shift to a concessions-based system. Under that, train companies are paid a fixed fee to run services, rather than face the risk of big wins or losses under a franchise model.\n\nThe Taj Mahal has reopened its doors to visitors after six months. The 17th-Century marble mausoleum was closed when India went into a stringent lockdown, having previously welcomed as many as 70,000 people every day. It will now allow only 5,000 visitors daily and enforce Covid-19 safety measures. The country has the second-highest confirmed case count in the world, but the government is opening up - workplaces, public transport, eateries, gyms - to try to repair the battered economy.\n\nThe Taj Mahal is located in the northern Indian city of Agra\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nMore than two million students are about to go off to UK universities, but who can they socialise with when they get there? Find out the rules.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday evening. We'll have another update for you on Tuesday morning.\n\nThe UK is upgrading its Covid alert level, amid a rising number of cases, the country's chief medical officers have said. They are moving the level from 3 - meaning an epidemic is in general circulation - to 4, to signify an \"epidemic is in general circulation; transmission is high or rising exponentially\". It comes after Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance warned the UK could see 50,000 new coronavirus cases a day by mid-October without further restrictions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chief Scientific Officer Sir Patrick Vallance says measures must be taken to stop the spread of Covid-19\n\nTighter restrictions are to be extended to all of Northern Ireland from 18:00 BST on Tuesday. Health Minister Robin Swann said there would be no mixing of households indoors, with some exceptions. Four more areas in Wales are also to face local lockdowns. Meanwhile, additional restrictions will \"almost certainly\" be put in place in Scotland this week, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said.\n\nLocal lockdown restrictions in England will be eased to allow people to look after children under the age of 14, or vulnerable adults, from outside their household. Announcing the change, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"For many, informal childcare arrangements are a lifeline without which they couldn't do their jobs.\" The move will, for example, allow grandparents to look after grandchildren, even in areas where households can't mix.\n\nEuropean and US stock markets have fallen sharply amid growing concerns about the continuing impact of the pandemic. Share prices in London, Paris and Frankfurt all dropped by about 3%, while the Dow Jones in the US was trading lower. In London, airlines, travel firms, hotel groups and pubs all suffered.\n\nMost big events have been held virtually this year - and the Emmy Awards for TV shows were no exception. Comedian Jimmy Kimmel hosted the ceremony from an empty Staples Centre in Los Angeles - and most winners accepted their awards by dialling in from home. Entertainment reporter Steven McIntosh has picked out seven highlights from the \"Pandemmys\".\n\nKimmel announced many of the winners as the nominees stayed at home\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nThe reproduction number, or R value, for Covid-19 is now officially averaging above one across the UK once again. But what does that mean?\n\nColds, flu and Covid-19 are caused by different viruses, but can have similar symptoms. It can be hard to judge which one you may have.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Xbox-owner Microsoft has acquired the games company behind blockbuster titles including Doom, Fallout, Skyrim and Wolfenstein.\n\nIt is paying $7.5bn (£5.85bn) for Bethesda's parent ZeniMax Media.\n\nXbox has said that the publisher's franchises would be added to its Game Pass subscription package for consoles and PCs.\n\nThis could help make the forthcoming Xbox Series X more attractive than the PlayStation 5 to some players.\n\nBoth machines are due to launch in November.\n\nGame Pass already gives players access to more than 200 games. Microsoft includes first-party titles at point of launch to those signed up to its \"ultimate\" package without further cost.\n\nBy contrast, Sony has opted to charge players up to £70 for its own major releases and does not intend to include new titles in its PlayStation Plus Collection service.\n\nIt is not yet clear how the takeover affects Bethesda's plans to create The Elder Scrolls 6, Starfield and other unfinished games as cross-platform titles.\n\nIn a statement, Xbox chief Phil Spencer said the two firms \"shared similar visions for the opportunities for creators and their games to reach more players in more ways\".\n\nPete Hynes, senior vice president at Bethesda Softworks, said the deal offered \"access to resources that will make us a better publisher and developer\".\n\n\"We're still working on the same games we were yesterday, made by the same studios we've worked with for years, and those games will be published by us,\" he wrote in a blog.\n\nIn addition to the games titles, Microsoft will now also own the id Tech games engine, developed by Bethesda's sister firm id Software.\n\nDoom Eternal, which was released this year and received praise for the quality of its graphics, was built using the most recent version of id Tech.\n\nPiers Harding-Rolls, research director from Ampere Analysis, described the deal as \"a major coup\".\n\n\"Microsoft has often been criticised for its lack of heavy-hitting first-party games franchises when compared to Sony and Nintendo. This deal catapults Microsoft's games portfolio into a much stronger position,\" he told the BBC.\n\nLegendary games developer John Carmack - who pioneered some of the technologies behind the original Doom, Wolfenstein and Quake games - has also suggested the acquisition could bring him back to some of those franchises.\n\nUntil recently, he had served as the chief technology officer of Facebook's Oculus virtual reality division.\n\nHis return would build further excitement for future Xbox games, and thus benefit the brand.", "If Boris Johnson had decreed a year ago that he was going to call last orders on the pub at 10pm, the ravens might have left the Tower.\n\nBut given the terrible warnings from the government's top scientists on Monday, the kind of strict measures that ministers had been discussing - and the extent of restrictions that many people are already living with in some of our towns and cities - you might wonder if what the prime minister has ended up deciding is less stringent than it might have been.\n\nAs we have talked about many times, Downing Street is all too aware of the economic havoc the restrictions around the pandemic have caused.\n\nLogically, therefore, it has always only wanted to take action when it has felt absolutely urgent. It is also the case that, as we enter a second surge, more is understood about the virus itself.\n\nThat means the government ought to be able to take a more sophisticated approach to managing the spread, rather than blunt, blunderbuss nationwide measures.\n\nAt least for now, the prime minister has concluded there is a narrow but real chance to put the brakes on the outbreak before taking more draconian steps.\n\nSomething else has changed, though. There were strong voices in government arguing for more immediate action, wondering whether it was right to take steps rather than strides towards tougher controls.\n\nBut the political mood has shifted. It's not just that the chancellor worked to persuade Mr Johnson to stop short of full closures of anything yet, evidently with some success.\n\nNot just that, as one cabinet minister worried, dramatic restrictions would be \"hellishly unpopular\".\n\nAnd the atmosphere among Conservative MPs has changed too, with prominent backbenchers urging more caution, and complaining fiercely about how decisions have been made.\n\nFrom the broad smile of one of them, strolling in the sunshine outside Parliament on Monday, \"they seem to have started to listen\", confident that after a bumpy few weeks, MPs' pushing had started to have an effect.\n\nYet the prime minister, by his own admission, accepts the government did not understand enough, quickly enough at the start.\n\nUltimately the results of the decisions taken at the start of this second surge will be chalked up by his name.", "Anglo-French actor Michael Lonsdale, who played the villain opposite Roger Moore's James Bond in the 1979 film Moonraker, has died at the age of 89.\n\nIn the film, he played Hugo Drax, an industrialist planning to poison all humans on Earth then repopulate the planet from his space station.\n\nIt was one of more than 200 roles he played in both English and French over a career that spanned six decades.\n\nHis other film credits included The Day of the Jackal, Ronin and Munich.\n\nBond producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli called Lonsdale an \"extraordinarily talented actor and a very dear friend\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by James Bond This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe official Twitter account for the late Sir Roger Moore described his character as \"a smooth-tongued and cultured adversary to 007\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Sir Roger Moore (Legacy) This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn an interview with Mi6 HQ in 2012, Lonsdale was asked whether he had been concerned that playing a Bond villain might have a negative impact on his career.\n\n\"On the contrary!\" he replied. \"Because, I made so many films that were not really very popular or didn't make much money, and I only made poor films, so I thought I might like to be in a rich film.\"\n\nIn the same interview, he said: \"My teacher, when I was at school for the theatre, told me that 'One day you will have to play someone very nasty.'\n\n\"But really, he is such a terrible character, a sort of Nazi. I mean, Drax is like Hitler. He wanted to destroy everybody and rain down a new order of very athletic, young people... He was mad completely.\"\n\nLonsdale had a varied career on film, TV, radio and stage. Before becoming a Bond villain, he played the Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel in 1973 political thriller The Day of the Jackal.\n\nHe later appeared as Jean-Pierre in 1998 US action film Ronin, alongside Robert De Niro, and as Papa in Steven Spielberg's 2005 historical thriller Munich.\n\nWriter and film-maker Jesse Hawken was among those paying tribute, writing on Twitter: \"RIP to one of my favs, the great Michael Lonsdale, one of the best Bond villains.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Richard Brody This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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Prince Charles says millions of people are desperate for more action, rather than words\n\nThe Prince of Wales has warned the climate crisis will \"dwarf\" the impact of coronavirus.\n\nIn a recorded message, to be played at the virtual opening of Climate Week on Monday, Prince Charles said \"swift and immediate action\" was needed.\n\nThe prince said Covid-19 provided a \"window of opportunity\" to reset the economy for a more \"sustainable and inclusive future\".\n\nHe added that the pandemic was \"a wake-up call we cannot ignore\".\n\nIn his message, recorded from Birkhall in the grounds of Balmoral, Prince Charles said: \"Without swift and immediate action, at an unprecedented pace and scale, we will miss the window of opportunity to 'reset' for... a more sustainable and inclusive future.\"\n\n\"[The environmental] crisis has been with us for far too many years - decried, denigrated and denied,\" he said.\n\n\"It is now rapidly becoming a comprehensive catastrophe that will dwarf the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.\"\n\nHis comments come as a new poll suggests there is growing concern among citizens all over the world about climate change, although there are big differences about the level of urgency required to tackle the issue.\n\nCharles, 71, tested positive for coronavirus in March after displaying mild symptoms.\n\nHe has been championing environmental causes for decades and has previously called for members of the Commonwealth to work together to tackle climate change.\n\nIn January, he urged business and political leaders to embrace a sustainable future at the Davos summit, where he also met teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg.\n\nThe global lockdown led to a dramatic drop in greenhouse gases and air pollutants but a study last month suggested this would have a \"negligible\" impact on rising temperatures.\n\nThe analysis suggested that by 2030, global temperatures would only be 0.01C lower than expected.\n\nBut the researchers, led by the University of Leeds, stressed that a green recovery could significantly alter the long term outlook and keep the world from exceeding 1.5C of warming by the middle of this century.", "The bomb blast occurred in the capital Honiara\n\nTwo men working for an aid agency which helps dispose of unexploded bombs have been killed in an explosion in the Solomon Islands.\n\nBriton Stephen Atkinson and Australian Trent Lee were employees of Norwegian People's Aid.\n\nThe blast took place in a residential part of the capital Honiara on Sunday.\n\nThe Solomon Islands, a WW2 battleground in the South Pacific, are littered with thousands of unexploded bombs.\n\nThe Norwegian People's Aid (NPA) described the explosion as a \"tragic accident\".\n\nIts Deputy Secretary General Per Nergaard said an \"investigation needs to be completed before there can be a conclusion on the cause of events\".\n\nThe organisation's Secretary General Henriette Killi Westhrin added that it was \"devastated by what has happened\".\n\nLee had described himself as a Chemical Weapons Advisor on his Facebook page, adding that his role was \"to survey and locate the items, then hand information over [to] the Solomon Islands Police Explosive Ordnance Disposal team\".\n\nThis was confirmed by a statement from the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force who said that the survey team typically goes out first to confirm the location of unexploded ordnances before relaying the information to them.\n\nAccording to the NPA, they were assisting the government in developing a centralised database \"that gives an overview of the extensive amounts of explosive remnants of war contamination dating from the Second World War\".\n\nWorkers had been in the capital Honiara clearing sites of bombs ahead of the 2023 Pacific Games.", "Suite 2B is on floor two of this building in Potters Bar\n\nLeaked banking documents have given a glimpse into international money-laundering. They show that it happens in some unlikely places.\n\nNo one answers the door when you press the buzzer for suite 2B on the second floor of 175 Darkes Lane.\n\nIt is a red brick building, just off the High Street in the Hertfordshire commuter town of Potters Bar.\n\nAnd suite 2B is the official home of more than 1,000 UK-registered companies. Many were set up to move billions of dollars' worth of ill-gotten gains around the globe in such a way as to make them near-impossible to trace.\n\nThe firms are part of what has been described as a \"global money-laundering conveyor belt\". Criminals' money passes through a labyrinthine network of tax havens and bank accounts en route from being \"dirty\" to \"clean\". It ends up in financial centres such as New York, where the crooks can spend it without fear of prosecution.\n\nThe banks make money from the transactions and often not enough questions are asked about who owns and runs the companies, or where the money has come from.\n\nOn Friday, the UK government announced reforms designed to clamp down on this type of fraud and money laundering.\n\nA leak of more than 2,000 \"suspicious activity reports\" sent by banks to the US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) names more than 100 companies registered to suite 2B. Unbeknown to the shoppers frequenting the nearby Superdrug or buying a pasty at Greggs, the room is a virtual thoroughfare for international financial crime.\n\nThe US Treasury, which houses FinCEN, believes it is one of the dodgiest addresses in the world.\n\n\"If I were in charge of money laundering [detection] at a UK bank, all systems would be instructed that we do not process any payments to or from companies registered at that address,\" said financial crime consultant Martin Woods.\n\nThe way the schemes work is intentionally complex. Criminals in Russia and other countries who want to launder their money take advantage of limited partnerships (LPs) and limited-liability partnerships (LLPs). These are UK companies, used perfectly legitimately by thousands of businesses, that require the owners to file very limited information about their operations.\n\nCriminals can use them to move large amounts of money anonymously.\n\nThey pay \"formation agents\" as little as £50 to register the LPs and LLPs with Companies House, where all UK firms are registered on their behalf. Doing so gives a UK address through which to move their money - such as suite 2B, floor two, 175 Darkes Lane.\n\nBut LPs and LLPs can be managed from abroad, with the criminals' details very difficult to detect. Often information given about the person setting up the company is not checked, so criminals can hide behind false names and aliases.\n\nUsing businesses registered in the UK helps legitimise the money on its way to being \"clean\".\n\nLPs and LLPs have hugely multiplied in number. In 2004 there were 20,000 in the UK. By 2017 there were 100,000.\n\nTwo of the firms registered at suite 2B were Ergoinvest and Chadborg Trade. Both had accounts with Danske Bank in Estonia, which was involved in one of the world's biggest money-laundering scandals between 2005 and 2017. Ergoinvest and Chadborg Trade reported identical income of just £21,353 for one year. They also reported the same figures as each other for operating expenses and profit.\n\nThese were fictitious figures. The difference between these accounts and reality is revealed in documents seen by the BBC's Panorama, showing that $700m (£535m) went through Ergoinvest and $2.6bn (£1.99bn) went through Chadborg.\n\nAleksej Strukov, who runs suite 2B, said he had no access to companies' financial records and could not verify the information filed with Companies House.\n\n\"Our only role is the provision of the Darkes Lane address as their nominated registered office address, and in doing so, ensure we comply with the AML [anti-money laundering] regulations for that service,\" he said.\n\nMr Strukov also said he conducted standard due diligence checks to verify the identities of company directors, shareholders and beneficial owners.\n\nWhat happens in suite 2B is just one particularly large-scale example of the part the UK plays in global money laundering.\n\nA total of 3,282 British companies were named in the leaked suspicious activity reports - that's more than any other country in the world. And the flood of dirty money is damaging the UK's international reputation. A leaked US Treasury report describes Britain as a \"higher-risk jurisdiction\" and compares it to notorious financial centres \"such as Cyprus\" in its role.\n\nBanks around the world are supposed to ask the \"source of funds\" handled by them. But in recent years, they have been criticised for not doing so properly and governments, their resources stretched, have struggled to detect wrongdoing.\n\n\"Money-laundering schemes are put together to make that difficult,\" said Graham Barrow, author of Dark Money. \"Money launderers know this, and complexity is their friend.\n\n\"If it's gone through 17 bank accounts before you see it, it's hard [to track]. And that's what they do: they have multiple companies in multiple countries with multiple accounts and move the money backwards and forwards between them.\"\n\nThe United Nations estimates the annual value of international money laundering to be between $800bn (£607bn) and $1trillion (£760bn). That is between 2% and 5% of everything produced in every economy in the world.\n\nFacing these revelations last week, the UK announced reforms to Companies House. Under the plans, directors will not be able to be appointed until their identity has been verified. Companies House will also be given greater powers to query, investigate and remove false information, with the aim of increasing the reliability of the data showing who is behind each company.\n\nThe changes will give \"law enforcement and the private sector more accurate information to crack down on dirty money and financial exploitation\", said Security Minister James Brokenshire. In 2018, the UK government promised to bring in stronger controls over registering LPs and to give officials powers to ask for more information while they are operating.\n\nBut the use of these companies in money laundering is \"vanishingly difficult to investigate\", said Mr Barrow.\n\nAnd much of it happens in places like suite 2B in leafy Potters Bar.\n\nThe FinCen Files is a leak of secret documents which reveal how major banks have allowed criminals to move dirty money around the world. They also show how the UK is often the weak link in the financial system and how London is awash with Russian cash.\n\nThe files were obtained by BuzzFeed News which shared them with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and 400 journalists around the world. Panorama has led research for the BBC.\n\nFinCEN Files: full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #FinCENFiles; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"FinCEN Files; Watch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only).", "For some of those sunning themselves in London's St James's Park on Saturday afternoon, discussions ongoing just yards away at Downing Street on the tightening of national restrictions in England are at once both \"worrying\" and \"inevitable\".\n\nCouples and friends meeting for picnics and catch-ups told BBC News conflicting and confusing advice on what they can and cannot do during the pandemic runs alongside a general feeling of resignation over the prospect of national measures being tightened.\n\nRuth and Chris Parker, from Wigan but on a week's holiday after working non-stop since March, think the difference between social distancing in the north and south of England has been \"stark\".\n\n\"We were queuing for a pub in Putney last night and we had to just leave it,\" Chris, 48, says.\n\n\"There was no social distancing at all,\" Ruth, 49, adds. \"We ended up in Wagamamas, which was pretty well organised.\"\n\nThe couple say they think there has been a change in attitudes in the North West since a marked rise in coronavirus cases led to tighter local restrictions.\n\nWigan is one of the few areas in Greater Manchester to see local restrictions on households and movement lifted.\n\n\"People are now taking it pretty seriously there,\" says Chris, who conducted much of his work as a church minister virtually during the first lockdown.\n\n\"We do seem a bit better at social distancing,\" Ruth, a former music teacher, adds.\n\nA second lockdown has them worried, but Chris believes \"if it has to happen, it has to happen\".\n\n\"I think a national two-week lockdown is coming but not quite the full lockdown we had.\"\n\nRuth and Chris Parker described a \"stark\" difference in social distancing between the north and south of England\n\n\"It's not ideal,\" is Tom Duncan's view as he enjoys a meal deal with his partner Aisha.\n\nThe 21-year-old finance workers say they do not want to see another full lockdown with just a few permitted reasons for leaving home.\n\n\"Closing pubs and bars early seems fine,\" Tom says, \"But not being unable to see anyone again.\"\n\n\"It's going to have to happen as people don't care - people don't see it as a threat,\" Aisha adds.\n\n\"You can see when people have had a drink they don't socially distance.\"\n\nThe pair say they are now able to go back to their offices if they book a slot - but working from home has its advantages.\n\nIt also means a second lockdown \"doesn't really affect us,\" Aisha says. \"There's pros and cons to it.\"\n\nFinance workers Tom and Aisha said closing pubs and bars seemed reasonable but not a return to full restrictions on daily life\n\nNicola Evans, 24, who works for an engineering firm, says a second lockdown might not be the worst thing if it helps protect vulnerable people.\n\n\"I feel like, why not? If it's keeping people safe,\" she says.\n\n\"It's the way it is. Though I'd rather be able to see people.\n\n\"I'm working from home so it doesn't really affect me - as long as I'm able to get out of the house during the day.\n\n\"I've not gone back to the office yet, it keeps being postponed.\"\n\nBut for her friend Emmelia Georgio, 24, from Cyprus, the prospect of a second lockdown would throw a spanner into the final year of her Masters in dance movement psychotherapy.\n\n\"This year is already going to be very different,\" she says of her studies.\n\n\"It's a mix of online and in-person learning now, but I worry what would happen in a second lockdown.\n\n\"If there is a second lockdown it's hard to see how it is managed.\"\n\n\"We still have to pay fees and rent - and you think, 'what's the point in paying' if a lockdown happens,\" she adds.\n\nEmmelia, left, said a second lockdown would heavily impact her studies but Nicola said it would be worth it to keep people safe\n\nThere is little doubt about what will happen next for Antonia Brown and Ioanna Gkoutna - a second lockdown is \"inevitable\".\n\nIoanna, 21, arrived a week ago from her native Greece to begin a Masters at the University of Oxford.\n\n\"Compared to home, nobody here is taking things seriously,\" she says. \"I was really surprised when I came here. You're in Tescos, say, and so many people are not wearing masks and nobody is challenging them. The staff are not wearing masks.\"\n\nIoanna - from a part of Greece not covered by quarantine rules - thinks enforcement is crucial to any future lockdown.\n\n\"In Greece there is lots of enforcement of the rules,\" she says. \"I myself phoned the police when a man refused to wear a mask at the beach - if I did that here, what would even happen?\"\n\nAntonia, 22, from London, says \"London needs to wake up\" to the coronavirus once more.\n\n\"We're now talking about locking down harder but they had the audacity to say 'get back to work'.\"\n\nIoanna, left, said she felt lockdown was better enforced in her native Greece and Antonia said London needed to \"wake up\"\n\n\"We're running before we can walk,\" she adds.\n\n\"They're telling us to get out and spend money, and now the rates are going back up.\"\n\n\"Unless they enforce it, it won't make a difference,\" Ioanna adds, \"I've been [in the UK] for a week and haven't seen the police once.\"\n\nJust as Ioanna finishes speaking, a police officer passes on a bicycle taking a keen interest in those gathered for picnics in the park.\n\n\"Well, he's here now I guess.\"", "Bridgend has been warned it could follow Caerphilly and RCT in adopting stricter measures\n\nThe leader of Bridgend council has warned that the county is facing its \"last chance\" to avoid further measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19.\n\nIt follows a sharp rise in positive cases - up from 17% to 37.4% in less than a week.\n\nCouncil leader Huw David said cases \"appear to be down to community transmission\", rather than any specific event or day trips.\n\nThe sudden increase was \"of huge concern\", he added.\n\n\"In areas where lockdowns are already in place such as Caerphilly and Rhondda Cynon Taf, the vast majority of cases could be traced back to specific events, but that's not what is happening in Bridgend County Borough,\" he said.\n\n\"The data is currently being analysed carefully, and people should make no mistake that it is very possible further action may now be required in Bridgend County Borough to keep people safe and reverse the trend in rising cases.\n\n\"If we want to prevent further action from being taken, this is our last chance.\"\n\nThe council said it was \"monitoring events very closely\" alongside the Welsh Government, South Wales Police, Public Health Wales and Cwm Taf Morgannwg Health Board.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Witnesses capture the moments that followed the explosion\n\nA man has suffered serious injuries after an explosion in a house in Monmouthshire.\n\nGwent Police said homes had been evacuated following the incident on Lower Church Street, Chepstow.\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had sent a large number of resources to a property after being called just before 18:30 BST on Monday.\n\nGwent Police said the man, who was inside the house, was taken to Morriston Hospital in Swansea.\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service said an air ambulance, two rapid response vehicles, an emergency ambulance and the hazardous area response team - a group of paramedics trained to go into the \"hot zone\" of incidents - had also been sent to the scene.\n\nA cordon is in place, with police advising people to stay away from the area.\n\nSmoke could be seen rising from the area\n\nFootage, filmed from Tutshill Cliff, showed fire engines either side of the house spraying jets of water on the building to try and put the fire out.\n\nBen Powell lives opposite and was wearing headphones when he heard \"a massive bang\".\n\n\"It shook my flat,\" said the 27-year-old chef.\n\n\"I looked out my window and there were literally bits of the house opposite everywhere and people were screaming.\n\n\"The house looked like a bomb had gone off inside but then there was a little flame - and within two minutes the whole house had caught fire.\n\n\"It's dreadful. I just hope everyone is OK.\"\n\nWales and West Utilities said it attended the house following the explosion and was working with the emergency services to make the area safe and to investigate the cause.\n\nFirefighters were on the scene at Lower Church Street\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had sent a large number of resources to tackle the blaze", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: FM says tighter restrictions expected 'within days'\n\nAdditional lockdown restrictions will \"almost certainly\" be put in place in Scotland in the next couple of days, Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nSpeaking at her daily briefing, the first minister said \"fast and urgent action\" was needed to tackle the growth of the virus.\n\nMs Sturgeon indicated that a package of new restrictions would be announced within the next 48 hours.\n\nA total of 255 new cases were recorded in the past 24 hours.\n\nThat represented 6.3% of those tested, the third day running the \"positivity rate\" has exceeded 5% - which the World Health Organization has said is a key benchmark for a virus to be considered under control.\n\nWhile no new deaths were reported, the number of people treated in hospital rose to 73, an increase of 10.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"I need to be absolutely straight with people across Scotland, that additional restrictions will almost certainly be put in place in Scotland over the next couple of days.\n\n\"Hopefully this will be with four-nations alignment, but if necessary it will have to happen without that.\"\n\nShe said a meeting of the UK government's Cobra emergency committee would take place, and that she would be speaking to Prime Minister Boris Johnson directly after the briefing.\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"In that call, I will impress upon the prime minister my view that we need decisive, urgent and, as far as possible given our individual responsibilities, co-ordinated action across the UK.\n\n\"I will be clear that I am willing to allow a bit more time for four-nations discussions to take place before making final decisions for Scotland, but I will be equally clear that the urgency of this situation will mean that we cannot, must not and will not wait too long.\"\n\nLater on Monday the UK's chief medical officers said the coronavirus alert level should move to Level 4, meaning that transmission of the virus was \"high or rising exponentially\".\n\nDowning Street confirmed Boris Johnson had spoken on the phone to the first ministers of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and that they would be taking part in a Cobra meeting scheduled for Tuesday morning.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"They all agreed to act with a united approach, as much as possible, in the days and weeks ahead.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted that she would make a statement to the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nIt is indeed a critical time in the trajectory of this virus. Cases are going up at a time when we are heading towards winter and the NHS will also have to deal with seasonal flu.\n\nThe first minister says \"difficult decisions\" are to be made in this trade-off. We are being told to prepare for further restrictions on daily life.\n\nThe government says keeping schools open and protecting the NHS are priorities, so what else will have to give?\n\nOne of the government's own advisers has said travel restrictions and pub curfews could feature.\n\nWe are in uncharted waters and no-one can predict what the winter will bring.\n\nWhat is clear is that we are all going to have to find ways to live with this virus for much longer than the next six months.\n\nMs Sturgeon gave no detail of what new restrictions would be introduced, but said the government was \"very close to a point of decision\".\n\n\"At the heart of this decision is a simple truth - the longer we wait to introduce new measures, the longer these measures are likely to be in place,\" she said.\n\n\"If we move sharply now to get the virus back under control we can minimise the time we all spend under any new restrictions.\"\n\nPublic health expert Prof Linda Bauld said the likely options could include travel restrictions and curfews or restrictions on hospitality.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Sturgeon added that there would be financial support for people required to self-isolate, particularly those on low incomes.\n\nWhile larger fines for non-compliance were under consideration, she said a better approach was to \"remove barriers\" to self-isolation.\n\nShe said: \"Nobody should be forced to choose between self-isolating for the collective good and paying their rent and feeding their families.\n\n\"If that is the choice people face, then it shouldn't be a surprise to us that compliance levels will be lower than we need them to be.\"\n\nThe first minister added that the \"collective action\" of the summer months had not been in vain, and without it the number of deaths would have been \"significantly higher\".\n\n\"We are in a much stronger position now than we would have been without that - but none of it was a magic wand that made the virus go away,\" she said.\n\n\"So as we face winter, as we face an acceleration of cases again, we must act to keep that under control.\"\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance earlier warned that without further restrictions there could be 50,000 new coronavirus a day by mid-October. This could lead to about 200 deaths a day UK-wide by the middle of November.\n\nScotland's interim chief medical officer, Gregor Smith, said cases in Scotland were roughly doubling every seven to nine days.\n\nAsked about suggestions that new restrictions might last for six months, Mr Sturgeon said this was \"the length of time we all likely to be living with some restrictions, but it is not necessarily going to be the same restrictions, of the same severity, for that period\".\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said people needed to heed the \"stark warnings\" about the virus.\n\n\"It is right that our governments work together to tackle this, because this is an issue that we need to get on top of,\" he said.", "Aerospace giant Airbus has unveiled plans for what it hailed as the first commercial zero-emission aircraft.\n\nThe company said its hydrogen-fuelled passenger planes could be in service by 2035.\n\nAirbus chief executive Guillaume Faury said the three ZEROe concept designs marked \"a historic moment for the commercial aviation sector\".\n\nThe use of hydrogen had \"the potential to significantly reduce aviation's climate impact\", he added.\n\nThe concept of emissions-free aviation relies heavily on finding ways to produce large quantities of hydrogen from renewable or low-carbon sources.\n\nMost large-scale production at the moment relies on fossil fuels, particularly methane, and is not considered to be low-carbon.\n\nAnalysts point out that it is not the first time that hydrogen has been touted as the saviour of modern air travel..\n\nIts use in aviation goes back to the days of airships in the early 20th Century, but the Hindenburg disaster in 1937 brought that era to an end.\n\nMore recently, from 2000 to 2002, Airbus was involved in the EU-funded Cryoplane project, which studied the feasibility of a liquid hydrogen-fuelled aircraft.\n\nAfter that, the idea fell out of favour again - until now.\n\nUnveiling its latest blueprints, Airbus said its turbofan design could carry up to 200 passengers more than 2,000 miles, while a turboprop concept would have a 50% lower capacity and range.\n\nA third, \"blended-wing body\" aircraft was the most eye-catching of the three designs.\n\nAll three planes would be powered by gas-turbine engines modified to burn liquid hydrogen, and through hydrogen fuel cells to create electrical power.\n\nHowever, Airbus admitted that for the idea to work, airports would have to invest large sums of money in refuelling infrastructure.\n\n\"The transition to hydrogen, as the primary power source for these concept planes, will require decisive action from the entire aviation ecosystem,\" said Mr Faury.\n\n\"Together with the support from government and industrial partners, we can rise up to this challenge to scale up renewable energy and hydrogen for the sustainable future of the aviation industry.\"\n\nThe new Airbus designs are the fruit of a joint research project that Airbus launched with EasyJet last year to consider hybrid and electric aircraft.\n\nThe airline's chief executive, Johan Lundgren, said: \"EasyJet remains absolutely committed to more sustainable flying and we know that technology is where the answer lies for the industry.\"", "People reported queues for attractions, gridlocked traffic and little social distancing in Blackpool on Saturday\n\nVisitors have flocked to Blackpool despite police warning against having a \"last blast\" in the resort before tighter restrictions come into force.\n\nPeople reported queues for attractions, heavy traffic, little social distancing and few people wearing masks indoors.\n\nLancashire will be subject to tighter restrictions from Tuesday after significant increases in Covid-19 cases, but Blackpool is exempt.\n\nPolice had said they were preparing for large crowds over the weekend.\n\nGem Concannon, 36, from Northwich, Cheshire, said she had visited the resort on Saturday with her family.\n\nShe said: \"It was heaving, hardly anyone was wearing masks or social distancing. It was shocking.\n\n\"I've never seen it that busy before.\"\n\nPolice had said they were preparing for large crowds in Blackpool over the weekend\n\nOn Friday, Lancashire Police deputy chief constable Terry Woods appealed for people not to have one \"last blast\" before the restrictions come into place.\n\nHe said: \"Going to Blackpool this weekend if you're not from [there] and mingling in any large crowds - that wouldn't be looking after your family.\n\n\"Make sensible decisions to protect yourselves, going to Blackpool in mass numbers is quite the opposite of protecting yourselves.\"\n\nBlackpool's director of public health Dr Arif Rajpura said: \"It is absolutely critical that residents and businesses adhere to the new 'rule of six' restrictions and follow all Covid guidelines around social distancing and wearing of face coverings.\n\n\"The same advice goes to those visiting our resort. The only way to stop the spread of the virus is to respect the rules which are there for a reason.\"\n\nThe new restrictions across other parts of Lancashire ban households from meeting each other at home or in private gardens.\n\nPubs and restaurants must also shut at 22:00 BST.\n\nInfection rates in Blackpool are lower than in some parts of the county but the area has seen an increase in positive cases.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n• None New Covid-19 rules for North West and Midlands", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Schitt's Creek wins first of six awards at the Emmys\n\nSchitt's Creek, Succession and Watchmen were the big winners at this year's Emmy Awards, which were held virtually amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSchitt's Creek won nine prizes - breaking the Emmys record for most wins in a single season for a comedy.\n\nIt was a glowing send-off for the Canadian series, which broadcast its sixth and final season this year.\n\nSuccession took home the night's top prize, best drama series, as well as best actor for Jeremy Strong.\n\nThe HBO series also won prizes in the drama categories for best writing and best directing during the virtual ceremony.\n\n\"This is such a very nice moment,\" said the show's British creator Jesse Armstrong from London. \"But it's sad not to be with the cast and crew to share it.\"\n\nArmstrong listed a number of \"un-thank yous\" during his acceptance speech, criticising President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Boris Johnson for their respective responses to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nEugene Levy received his best comedy actor award from a presenter in a hazmat suit\n\nAnother HBO series, Watchmen, won best limited series, as well as acting gongs for its stars Regina King and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.\n\nZendaya, 24, became the youngest ever winner of best drama actress for her performance in Euphoria, a teen drama which follows a group high school students as they grapple with issues of love, sex, drugs and identity.\n\nIt was a significantly lower-key event this year, with most winners dialling in to make their acceptance speeches from home.\n\nJimmy Kimmel hosted the show, with the nominees dialling in from home\n\nThe ceremony was presented from an eerily empty Staples Center in Los Angeles by comedian Jimmy Kimmel, with only a few guest presenters joining him in the studio.\n\nSchitt's Creek won the best comedy series prize, with the show's creators, father and son Eugene and Daniel Levy, picking up best comedy actor and best supporting comedy actor respectively.\n\nCatherine O'Hara was named best comedy actress, with Annie Murphy winning best supporting actress in a comedy series.\n\nThe show, which is on Netflix in the UK, follows the wealthy Rose family, who are forced to move to a motel in a small town after losing their fortune.\n\nIt launched on CBC in 2015 but developed a strong fan following around the world after later being added to Netflix.\n\nIts wins also included outstanding directing for a comedy series for Andrew Cividino and Daniel Levy, with the latter also winning outstanding writing for the finale episode Happy Ending.\n\n\"Our show, at its core, is about the transformational effects of love and acceptance, and that is something we need more of now than we've ever needed before,\" said Dan Levy as he accepted the prize for best comedy series.\n\nPaying tribute to his son, Eugene Levy added: \"I want to thank this young man who took our fish-out-of-water story and transformed it into a story of inclusivity, a castigation of homophobia, and a declaration of the power of love, so thank you Daniel.\"\n\nZendaya beat stiff competition from the likes of Jennifer Aniston, Laura Linney and Olivia Colman in her category.\n\nRegina King was named best actress in a limited series for her performance in Watchmen.\n\n\"This is freakin' weird!\" joked the star as the Emmy was presented to her at her home.\n\nIn her acceptance speech, she paid tribute to US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died over the weekend, and encouraged viewers to register vote in the forthcoming presidential election.\n\nKing wore a T-shirt bearing the image of Breonna Taylor, a black woman shot and killed by police in Kentucky in March.\n\nUzo Aduba, who won best supporting actress in a limited series for Mrs America, also wore a shirt displaying Taylor's name during her speech.\n\nKing's co-star Yahya Abdul-Mateen II was also named best supporting actor for his performance in the show.\n\nWatchmen, an innovative reimagining of a superhero graphic novel that tackled racism in America, scored the most nominations this year.\n\nIt won a loyal following and critical acclaim last year during its nine-episode run.\n\nElsewhere, Ozark's Julia Garner won best supporting drama actress while Billy Crudup won in the male category for his portrayal of a conniving network executive in Apple TV's The Morning Show.\n\nSuccession's Jeremy Strong was named best drama actor for his portrayal of Kendall Roy\n\nSuccession's creator Jesse Armstrong also won best writing for a drama, while Andrij Parekh won best directing.\n\n\"I want to dedicate this award to all the kids whose names, like mine, are difficult to pronounce,\" Parekh said in his acceptance speech.\n\n\"To those who don't look like their classmates, and are defined as outsiders... This is proof that you belong, and this Emmy is ours.\"\n\nSeveral winners used their acceptance speeches to encourage Americans to register to vote in November's election, including Mark Ruffalo, who won best actor in a limited series for I Know This Much Is True.\n\n\"Get out and vote, and vote for love and compassion and kindness,\" the Hollywood star said.\n\nAfter the huge success of Fleabag in 2019, this year's ceremony was a disappointing night for British and Irish talent.\n\nOlivia Colman, Jodie Comer, Brian Cox, Jeremy Irons, Helena Bonham Carter and Paul Mescal all ended up empty handed in their respective acting categories.\n\nThis year marked Kimmel's third time hosting the Emmys, after he fronted the ceremony in 2012 and 2016.\n\nThe in memoriam section honoured stars including Chadwick Boseman, Naya Rivera, Caroll Spinney, Kirk Douglas, Sir Ian Holm and Dame Diana Rigg.\n\nThe Creative Arts Emmys took place earlier this week, with winners announced in categories such as casting, hair, make-up, lighting and sound design.\n\nMore than 25,000 members of the Television Academy vote for the awards, which were first presented in 1949.\n\nThe name Emmy derives from an early piece of TV equipment called the image orthicon camera tube - or the Immy.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Sir Graham said any new measures must be directly approved by Parliament\n\nParliament must directly approve any new coronavirus restrictions before they come into force, a leading Conservative MP has told the BBC.\n\nSir Graham Brady said ministers had \"got into the habit of ruling by decree\", citing the \"imposition\" of the rule of six limit on social gatherings\n\nHe told Radio 4's Today public opinion was \"moving\" and the government could not take its backing for granted.\n\nHis warning comes as further measures are considered to address rising cases.\n\nIn a televised briefing, the UK government's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty said the number of new infections was doubling roughly every seven days and risked \"taking off\" in all adult age groups.\n\nUnless the UK \"changed course\" soon, he warned there could potentially be 50,000 new cases a day by the middle of next month, resulting in about 200 deaths every day by the middle of November.\n\nMPs will vote next week on whether to continue to allow the government to use powers contained in the Coronavirus Act, an emergency piece of legislation fast-tracked through Parliament in late March.\n\nIt gives the government a wide range of emergency powers, although most of the Covid lockdown laws have been imposed using regulations under the 1984 Public Health Act, which take effect prior to a parliamentary vote.\n\nThe PM is due to make a statement to MPs on Tuesday, in which he is expected to announce a tightening of the rules on social interaction and leisure activities.\n\nSir Graham, who is chair of the powerful 1922 committee of Conservative backbenchers, said the six-month review of March's Act was welcome but Parliament needed to be much more involved in scrutinising and approving what he said were \"really quite extreme emergency powers\".\n\nWhile he accepted the current situation was \"serious\", he said this did not absolve government from acting without recourse to Parliament - as he suggested had happened when it \"imposed\" the rule of six limit in England.\n\nIf there had been a debate on the measures, he said ministers would have been forced to justify why children were included in the maximum number, unlike in Scotland, and what the criteria would be for relaxing the strictures.\n\n\"The government has got into the habit, in respect of the coronavirus issue, of ruling by decree without the usual, debate, discussion and votes in Parliament that we would expect on any other matter,\" he said.\n\n\"The British people aren't used to being treated as children.\n\n\"We expect in this country to have a parliamentary democracy where our elected representatives on our behalf can require proper answers to these not just have some imposed.\"\n\nMany MPs are concerned Parliament has been marginalised during the pandemic while the UK's most senior former judge, Lady Hale, has suggested it had \"surrendered its role\" when it allowed \"sweeping and draconian\" laws to be passed with only a few hours of debate.\n\nIn an essay published on Monday, the former president of the Supreme Court said she hoped the UK could return \"to a properly functioning constitution as soon as we possibly can\".\n\nSir Graham said there was no excuse for lack of Parliamentary debate, adding that \"governments find it entirely possible to put things to Parliament quickly when it is convenient for them to do so\".\n\nHis comments were echoed by a number of Conservative MPs during a statement in the Commons.\n\nFormer Cabinet minister Chris Grayling said the \"case had not been made\" for more stringent nationwide measures while Sir Edward Leigh suggested the government's increasingly \"authoritarian\" approach was un-Conservative.\n\nBut Health Secretary Matt Hancock rejected this, saying the government was following the \"Conservative principle\" of protecting people from harm.\n\nHowever, he said he agreed with Sir Graham that the more scrutiny of government decisions, the better.\n\nLabour has signalled it would back further restrictions in the coming days, shadow minister Wes Streeting telling BBC Politics Live it was not the time to \"muck about\".\n\nMeanwhile, MPs are urging the government not to repeat some of the \"mistakes\" it made when the pandemic first struck at the start of the year.\n\nThe Commons Human Rights Committee said \"confusion over what is law and what is merely guidance has left citizens open to disproportionate and unequal levels of punishment for breaking the rules\".\n\n\"Unfortunately it seems that once again, this is overtly affecting BAME individuals,\" it said in a new report.\n\n\"The government must learn from these mistakes to ensure that any additional lockdowns do not unfairly impact specific groups.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nThe leaders of more than 100 sports bodies have written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to ask for emergency funding, warning of \"a lost generation of activity\" because of coronavirus.\n\nThe coalition of organisations says they are \"united in our concern that at a time when our role should be central to the nation's recovery, the future of the sector is perilous\".\n\nIn a letter seen by BBC Sport, the group urges the government to provide a \"sports recovery fund\" so the sector can \"survive and stabilise\".\n\nThe government announced on Tuesday that plans for spectators to be allowed to return to stadiums and venues from 1 October will not go ahead.\n\nThe letter written by the organisations, which include the Football Association, Premier League, Rugby Football Union, England and Wales Cricket Board and Lawn Tennis Association, adds: \"We require a comprehensive support package for the sport and physical sector to aid its recovery.\n\n\"This package must combine investment, tax incentives, and regulatory reform.\n\n\"Covid-19 has undermined our commercial revenue streams with both stadiums and leisure facilities closed or greatly reduced in capacity.\n\n\"The impact of this will potentially lead to a lost generation of sport and activity.\n\n\"We are particularly concerned about the impact on those whose participation has been limited during the pandemic. Physical activity levels, especially in the most vulnerable groups, are significantly below where they were tracking pre-Covid-19.\"\n\nThe arts industry was given a £1.57bn support package by the government in July.\n\nAlthough Sport England has handed out £200m for emergency cases, many in the sector believe more is needed.\n\nA series of sports bodies have announced job losses in recent weeks and warned they face major mounting losses if turnstiles are not opened soon.\n\nThe government is to ask sports bodies to assess the financial impact of several more months without paying spectators, and is understood to be preparing to work with organisations on what support might be needed to help them survive.\n\nIn the letter, the prime minister is told that sport and physical activity contributes more than £16bn and 600,000 jobs to the UK economy.\n\n\"Our sector will be at the forefront of your plans to improve the health and wellbeing of all communities…to solving societal issues…including reducing health inequalities, tackling obesity, cutting crime, easing loneliness, and enhancing social cohesion,\" the group adds.\n\n\"But to do so effectively, we require your government's backing.\"\n\nLisa Wainwight, chief executive of the Sport and Recreation Alliance, said: \"The strength of this coalition from the sports, recreation and activity sector cannot be ignored in its public call to the prime minister.\n\n\"The pandemic has put an incredible strain on our sector, which was forced to close for a prolonged period.\n\n\"It is imperative that our sector gets the support it requires from the government to get back to business, in order to ease the pressures on the NHS and play a central role in our nation's recovery.\"\n\nSwim England has reported that 22% of public pools remain closed and all those that are open have reduced capacity. Some 36% of clubs remain without access to pools.\n\nIndustry bodies Community Leisure UK and UK Active estimate leisure centres, swimming pools and community services face a shortfall of more than £800m this year.\n\nFormer sports minister Tracey Crouch added: \"This isn't just about the number of people on a pitch, field, court or in a pool or gym.\n\n\"This is about the whole ecosystem that supports sport, fitness and leisure and, if we're not careful, historic clubs and the jobs that support them will be lost, potentially for good. If government is going to shut sport down then it needs to provide a package of support to stop its decimation.\"\n• None Has cancel culture gone too far?", "Pupils are back in schools but they face safety measures against the spread of Covid-19\n\nAround one in 20 children in England are out of school due to issues linked to the pandemic and lockdown, the Children's Commissioner has suggested.\n\nAnne Longfield stressed the number of schools who have sent pupils home due to a Covid-19 case was very small.\n\nThere were many others, she said, with special needs or emotional problems, who had not yet returned from lockdown.\n\nBut getting Covid tests to schools quickly was a test the government could not afford to fail, she added.\n\nSome eight million children attend England's schools and colleges, so 5% is about 400,000 pupils.\n\nMs Longfield told BBC News that the number of children back in school was good, thanks to the heroic efforts of teachers and school staff.\n\nAnd the number of schools forced to close due to an outbreak, or having to send pupils or class groups home, was very small, she said.\n\nThis is despite numerous reports of schools sending children home.\n\nShe urged parents and schools to \"hold their nerve\".\n\nHowever, quoting official figures, she added: \"We know that 10% of children are away from the classroom, not necessarily with Coronavirus,\n\n\"We think 5% of children are out of the classroom on average on a regular day - outside of the pandemic.\n\n\"But there will be children with SEND [Special Educational Needs and Disabilities], and there will be children, often troubled teens, who haven't been in school over this period of time who will need extra help to get them back into school.\"\n\n\"We also know there are a lot of the children that aren't in school don't have symptoms themselves, but are in year groups with children who might.\"\n\nShe stressed: \"So there needs to be extra clarity from the government in terms of who does need to not be in school if there are symptoms.\n\n\"Also teachers need that help from public health officials locally, to be able to make those really difficult decisions, and really difficult risk assessments of how they can keep their schools going.\n\n\"This is a test for government that they cannot afford not to pass,\" she said.\n\nThere was a danger that the goodwill of parents and teachers that had seen a successful return to school would be lost by the lack of access to testing, she warned.\n\n\"A lot of problems come because teachers are showing symptoms and therefore need to be tested and this affects the schools, especially small ones, because there comes a point when you can't run a school because there aren't enough staff.\"\n\nTeachers and schools needed to be prioritised for testing along with health care professionals, she said.\n\nShe warned that the situation with suspected Covid cases would worsen when children get the usual rounds of seasonal colds and flu.\n\n\"That's going to be really difficult for teachers to be able to manage if they don't have the test and don't have the back-up they need to make those really difficult decisions.\"\n\nHer comments come after a snapshot survey of heads, mainly in primary schools in England, painted a worrying picture of schools struggling to get tests for pupils or staff.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers survey, which had 736 responses from its 30,000 members, suggested that, where a suspected Covid case had hit a school, the system of public health support was not working well.\n\nOf those who replied, 82% had children not attending because they could not get a test, while 87% had children not attending while waiting for results.\n\nThis compared to 14% with confirmed cases of Covid-19.\n\nNAHT general secretary Paul Whiteman said: \"Tests for Covid-19 need to be readily available for everyone so that pupils and staff who get negative results can get back into school quickly.\n\n\"But we are hearing the same thing repeatedly from our members across the country. Chaos is being caused by the inability of staff and families to successfully get tested when they display symptoms.\n\n\"This means schools are struggling with staffing, have children missing school, and ultimately that children's education is being needlessly disrupted.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said 99.9% of schools were open with the vast majority of pupils attending.\n\n\"Where staff or children have symptoms of Covid-19, testing capacity is the highest it has ever been, and we are working to provide further priority access for teachers.\n\n\"Schools only need to identify close contacts and ask them to self-isolate if and when a case is confirmed from a positive test result.\n\n\"Close contacts of confirmed cases must follow the full 14 day self-isolation period and should only seek a test if they have symptoms.\"", "The musician had been undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.\n\nHe is best known for his performances on the Black Sabbath frontman's critically-acclaimed debut album, Blizzard of Ozz, and was also the drummer in heavy metal band Uriah Heep.\n\nOsbourne wrote on Facebook: \"It's been 39 years since I've seen Lee but he lives for ever on the records he played on for me.\"\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by Ozzy Osbourne This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nIn a tribute posted on the band's Twitter page, fellow Uriah Heep member Mick Box wrote: \"Lee was one of the kindest men on earth, as well as being a brother he was an incredible drummer, singer and song writer!\n\n\"He had a passion for life bar none and was much loved by the fans, as well as anyone who crossed his path! Rock in peace my friend.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Uriah Heep This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBorn in Bournemouth in 1947, Kerslake joined Uriah Heep in 1971.\n\nIn the early 1980s he recorded Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman with Ozzy Osbourne.\n\nLee Kerslake (second left) was a drummer in heavy metal band Uriah Heep\n\nIn 2004, alongside bassist Robert Daisley, Kerslake lost a US Supreme Court appeal to claim royalties for their work on the two albums.\n\nIn December 2018 Kerslake revealed he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer but the same month joined Uriah Heep on stage for a performance in London.", "Guess How Much I Love You was translated into 57 languages and sold more than 50 million copies worldwide\n\nSam McBratney, author of the children's classic book Guess How Much I Love You, has died at the age of 77.\n\nThe author, who was born in Belfast, died on 18 September, his publisher Walker Books announced on Monday.\n\nThe tale of two nutbrown hares, who try to express their affection for each other, became a children's classic.\n\nThe book is best remembered for ending with the now well-known phrase \"I love you to the moon and back\".\n\nThe illustrated children's book, which was first published in 1994, was translated into 57 languages and sold more than 50 million copies worldwide.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKaren Lotz, managing director of Walker Books Group, described McBratney as a \"profoundly lovely human being\".\n\n\"You could recognise his voice in a moment, he was an exceptionally talented wordsmith and always knew exactly what children would enjoy hearing the most,\" Ms Lotz said.\n\n\"His legacy of kindness and humour will burn bright and carry on through his stories,\" she added.\n• None Why is a children's book about rabbits being read at weddings?", "The prison, near Devizes, was inspected in August\n\nA prison's response to the Covid-19 pandemic led to it being \"less safe\" and \"less purposeful\", a report found.\n\nInspectors found \"troubling\" conditions at HMP Erlestoke, including violence, indiscipline and cases of self-harm.\n\nA scrutiny visit took place last month to assess how conditions had changed, since heavy restrictions were imposed at the start of the pandemic.\n\nA Prison Service spokesman said it had taken \"immediate action\" to address the issues identified in the report.\n\nSome inmates in the segregation unit were held in cells without running water or toilets for weeks at a time, the report found.\n\n\"We are urgently working to identify additional improvements we can make to prisoner safety, and Erlestoke will receive additional staff training and specialist support to help drive down violence,\" the Prison Service spokesman added.\n\nHM Chief Inspector of Prisons, Peter Clarke, said the response to the pandemic at the category C prison, near Devizes in Wiltshire, had \"led to a less safe, less decent and less purposeful prison\".\n\n\"Although the amount of time prisoners could spend out of their cells had been increased in the early stages of lockdown, during our visit... most prisoners still only received 45-minute sessions in the morning and the afternoon, and an additional half an hour one evening a week,\" he said.\n\n\"Prisoners reported being frustrated about daily delays in the delivery of this limited regime, and about the lack of activity.\"\n\nThe chief inspector of prisons has received a response which is \"in effect\" an action plan to address the issues\n\nOther concerns raised in the report included:\n\nMr Clarke said it was \"a very troubling visit\" with some issues \"systemic, arising from the apparent inflexibility of the recovery programme\".\n\n\"Well-led and properly supported local innovation and flexibility are now urgently needed to restore the acceptable treatment and conditions of the prisoners held there,\" he added.\n\nHe said he had raised concerns in a letter to Justice Secretary, Robert Buckland, and had received a response which was \"in effect\" an action plan to address the issues.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This summer's Arctic sea-ice shrank to its second lowest ever extent in the era of satellite observation.\n\nThe floes withdrew to just under 3.74 million sq km (1.44 million sq miles) last week, preliminary data indicates.\n\nThe only time this minimum has been beaten in the 42-year spacecraft record was 2012 when the pack ice was reduced to 3.41 million sq km.\n\nShorter autumn days and encroaching cold mean the floes are now starting to regrow.\n\nIt's normal for Arctic sea-ice to expand through the winter each year and then melt back again in the summer, but the September minima, accounting for some variability, are getting deeper and deeper as the polar north warms.\n\nThe downward trend since satellites started routinely monitoring the floes is about 13% per decade, averaged across the month.\n\nComputer models project the summer sea-ice will regularly be below one million sq km later this century.\n\nThat's bad news for the climate. Extensive sea-ice helps cool the Arctic and the rest of the planet. In its absence, more sunlight will be absorbed by the darker surface waters of the ocean, which will promote further warming and further loss of ice.\n\nProf Stroeve was in the Arctic when it was at its coldest and darkest\n\n\"The way I look at it now is that we're always going to have low sea-ice; it's never going to go back to the way it was in the 1980s or 1990s,\" said Prof Julienne Stroeve from the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling (CPOM) at University College London (UCL), UK.\n\n\"But whether or not we get a new record low from one year to the next - that really depends a lot on whatever happens in the summer weather patterns,\" she told BBC News.\n\nTwenty-twelve was notable for some late storms that helped break up diffuse ice going into its September low. Twenty-twenty didn't have that, but there were some very warm conditions, especially on the Siberian side of the ocean, that drove much of the early season melting.\n\nProf Stroeve spent four-and-a-half months working on the ice this past winter, studying conditions with an international team based on the German research vessel Polarstern.\n\nThe ship had set itself the task last October of drifting with the floes for an entire year, although resupply and crew-exchange difficulties as a consequence of the Covid-19 crisis interrupted this plan somewhat.\n\nThe CPOM-UCL scientist used the Polarstern's Mosaic expedition to investigate how accurately spacecraft sensors see the ice.\n\nArtwork: The plan is to fly the Cristal satellite system towards the end of this decade\n\nOf particular interest to her are the radar altimeters that gauge the thickness of the floes by measuring the difference in height between the top surface of the sea-ice and the surface of the ocean - the ice freeboard.\n\nSatellites, such as the European Space Agency's Cryosat-2 platform, can use this observation to infer the depth of the submerged portion of a floe - the ice draft - and thus get a 3D view of the pack ice, not just its 2D extent.\n\nThe complication in this approach is taking account of any snow that might be sitting on the ice. This will change the horizon from which radar measurement signals bounce back to the satellite.\n\nFrom Prof Stroeve's winter experiments, it appears Esa's Cryosat mission has a tendency to gauge the sea-ice as being thicker than it really is.\n\nThe space agency, in collaboration with the European Union, is now developing a new spacecraft called Cristal that would operate with two different radar frequencies.\n\n\"This would give you the opportunity then to retrieve both ice thickness and snow depth on the same satellite system. Snow depth on top of the ice has always been one of those big unknowns that has contributed to our inability to really map sea-ice thickness as well as we'd like,\" said Prof Stroeve.\n\nEsa announced the award on Monday of a €300m (£275m) contract to the aerospace manufacturer Airbus to begin development of Cristal.\n\nInvestigations on the ice should improve the measurements made from space\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Former Prime Minister Theresa May has said she \"cannot support\" the government's plan to override parts of its Brexit agreement with the EU.\n\nShe told MPs the move, which breaks international law, would damage \"trust in the United Kingdom\".\n\nThe Internal Market Bill will be voted on in the Commons on Tuesday, having passed its first hurdle last week.\n\nMinisters say it contains vital safeguards to protect Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.\n\nThe bill is designed to enable goods and services to flow freely across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland when the UK leaves the EU's single market and customs union on 1 January.\n\nBut it gives the government the power to change aspects of the EU withdrawal agreement, a legally binding deal governing the terms of the UK's exit from the EU earlier this year.\n\nMinisters say this is a failsafe mechanism in case the EU interprets the agreement, in particular the section on Northern Ireland, in an \"extreme and unreasonable\" way. The section - know as the protocol - is designed to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland,\n\nAs well as Mrs May, the other four living former prime ministers - Sir John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron - have spoken out against the bill.\n\nLabour is opposing it and some Conservative MPs have raised concerns over its legal implications.\n\nAmid all this, Prime Minister Boris Johnson last week agreed to amend the bill so that the Commons would get a vote before he could use the powers involved in breaking international law.\n\nBut Mrs May, whose own withdrawal agreement with the EU was repeatedly rejected by the Commons when she was prime minister, told MPs: \"Frankly, my view is to the outside world it makes no difference as to whether a decision to break international law is taken by a minister or by this Parliament - it is still a decision to break international law.\n\n\"This can only weaken the UK in the eyes of the world.\"\n\nShe added that, if the Internal Market Bill were passed, \"our reputation as a country that sticks by its word will have been tarnished\".\n\nThe Conservative MP for Maidenhead added that governments around the world had \"trust in the United Kingdom\", asking: \"Where will that trust be in future if they see a United Kingdom willing to break its word and break international law?\"\n\nMrs May also said there would be \"untold damage to the United Kingdom's reputation\".\n\nNorthern Ireland Minister Robin Walker said the government still hoped to reach a trade agreement with the EU.\n\nHe added: \"Through this bill, we are acting to uphold those priorities and deliver commitments we made in our election manifesto that we will provide unfettered access between Northern Ireland and Great Britain, and maintain and strengthen the integrity and smooth operation of our internal market.\"\n\nMr Walker also said there were \"harmful legal defaults in some interpretations\" of the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\n\"The consequences of this for Northern Ireland in that scenario would be very damaging,\" he told MPs. \"We cannot and will not run that risk.\"\n\nFor Labour, shadow Cabinet Office minister Paul Blomfield said giving MPs the power to decide whether to use measures in the bill the Commons did not \"resolve the issue\", which was \"the breach of international law\".\n\nSNP Westminster deputy leader Kirsten Oswald called the legislation \"a grubby power-grab which we cannot and will not support\" and that sections of it hung \"like a badge of dishonour around this prime minister's term of office\".", "Toxins made by microscopic algae in water caused the previously unexplained deaths of hundreds of elephants in Botswana, wildlife officials say.\n\nBotswana is home to a third of Africa's declining elephant population.\n\nThe alarm was raised when elephant carcasses were spotted in the country's Okavango Delta between May and June.\n\nOfficials say a total of 330 elephants are now known to have died from ingesting cyanobacteria. Poaching has been ruled out as a cause of death.\n\nCyanobacteria are toxic bacteria which can occur naturally in standing water and sometimes grow into large blooms known as blue-green algae.\n\nScientists warn that climate change may be making these incidents - known as toxic blooms - more likely, because they favour warm water.\n\nWarning: Some people may find an image below upsetting\n\nThe findings follow months of tests in specialist laboratories in South Africa, Canada, Zimbabwe and the US.\n\nMany of the dead elephants were found near watering holes, but until now the wildlife authorities had doubted that the bacteria were to blame because the blooms appear on the edges of ponds and elephants tend to drink from the middle.\n\n\"Our latest tests have detected cyanobacterial neurotoxins to be the cause of deaths. These are bacteria found in water,\" the Department of Wildlife and National Parks' Principal Veterinary Officer Mmadi Reuben told a press conference on Monday.\n\nThe deaths \"stopped towards the end of June 2020, coinciding with the drying of [water] pans\", AFP quotes him as saying.\n\nReports in June noted that tusks had not been removed, meaning poaching was not seen as a likely explanation.\n\nAnthrax poisoning has also been ruled out, according to senior wildlife department official Cyril Taolo.\n\nBut questions still remain about the deaths, Mr Reuben told reporters.\n\n\"We have many questions still to be answered such as why the elephants only and why that area only. We have a number of hypotheses we are investigating.\"\n\nHundreds of carcasses were spotted with the help of aerial surveys earlier this year.\n\nDr Niall McCann, of the UK-based charity National Park Rescue, previously told the BBC that local conservationists first alerted the government in early May, after they undertook a flight over the delta.\n\n\"They spotted 169 in a three-hour flight,\" he said. \"To be able to see and count that many in a three-hour flight was extraordinary.\"\n\nTwenty-five elephants recently died in a group in neighbouring Zimbabwe. Test samples have been sent to the UK for analysis.", "Maples are known by the scientific name, Acer\n\nOne in five maple species is threatened in the wild, according to the first full assessment of extinction risks.\n\nKnown for the vivid colour of their autumn leaves, the trees are popular in parks and gardens.\n\nBut in their natural habitats, they face a myriad of threats, including unsustainable logging, climate change, deforestation and forest fires.\n\nBotanists are calling for urgent action to protect rare maple trees.\n\nAnd they say seeds should be stored as an insurance policy against extinction.\n\nThe assessment of all 158 species of maple is part of an effort to map the conservation status of all tree species by the end of 2020. It was carried out by the group, Botanic Gardens Conservation International.\n\nConservation manager Dan Crowley told BBC News: \"Maples are some of our most familiar trees, particularly in autumn when they give us those wonderful displays of yellow, orange, red and purple colours.\n\n\"And whilst they are common in some of our open spaces, spaces where they are highly valued, several species are also highly threatened in the wild.\"\n\nMost wild maple species are found in China\n\nThe scientists say action is needed to ensure there is active conservation in protected forests where maples grow.\n\nAnd as a back-up, rare seeds should be collected and stored in botanic gardens.\n\nWhat we see in gardens and parks is just a small selection of the vast number found in the wild.\n\nAnd many of the specimens seen in urban spaces are grown from a small number of seeds collected by early plant hunters, with only limited genetic diversity.\n\nCurrently, 14 species of maple tree, including four that are critically endangered, are missing from arboretums and botanical gardens.\n\nDan Crowley added: \"We're highly responsible for the threats that some of these species face including urban development, agriculture and timber harvesting and we have the capabilities to conserve the species in the wild and also in our living collections, and we should act to do. \"\n\nThe paperbark maple has ornamental leaves and bark\n\nChina holds the greatest diversity of maple trees, with a total of 92 species. But threatened species also occur in other parts of Asia and the Americas.\n\nThe North American sugar maple is famous for giving us maple syrup, a favourite pancake topping for many.\n\nTwo little-known close relatives of the tree can be found in Mexico, where they are threatened by grazing, logging and forest fires.\n\nCommenting on the study, Kathy Willis, professor of biodiversity at the University of Oxford, said: \"These trees provide a number of important ecosystem services and their loss is not just a loss of a pretty iconic tree but also all the important benefits they provide to humans - maple syrup being but one of them.\"", "The UK is at a \"critical point\" in the coronavirus pandemic and \"heading in the wrong direction\", the government's chief medical adviser will warn.\n\nProf Chris Whitty believes the country is facing a \"very challenging winter period\" and is to hold a televised briefing at 11:00 BST.\n\nIt comes after the prime minister spent the weekend considering whether to introduce further measures in England.\n\nOn Sunday, a further 3,899 daily cases and 18 deaths were reported in the UK.\n\nThe prime minister is understood to be considering a two-week mini lockdown in England - being referred to as a \"circuit breaker\" - in an effort to stem widespread growth of the virus.\n\nHe held a meeting at Downing Street on Sunday, along with Prof Whitty, Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Matt Hancock, to discuss possible measures.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the view from No 10 was that while doing nothing \"was not an option\", neither was a full national lockdown, and that whatever measures are imposed could be turned \"off and on\" throughout the winter.\n\nAsked about reports of disagreements among cabinet ministers about whether or not to impose a second lockdown, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Breakfast: \"A conversation, a debate, is quite proper and that is exactly what you'd expect.\n\n\"Everyone recognises there is a tension between... the virus and the measures we need to take, and the economy and ensuring people's livelihoods are protected.\"\n\nHe added it was \"very clear when you follow the data\" that the UK is \"at this tipping point where we may need to go further\".\n\nAt the briefing later, Prof Whitty will be joined by the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance, to present the latest data.\n\nProf Whitty is expected to say: \"The trend in the UK is heading in the wrong direction and we are at a critical point in the pandemic.\n\n\"We are looking at the data to see how to manage the spread of the virus ahead of a very challenging winter period.\"\n\nThe two scientists are expected to explain how the virus is spreading and the potential scenarios as the winter approaches.\n\nThey are also expected to share data on other countries who are experiencing a second wave, and explain how the UK could face similar situations.\n\nCommenting on the upcoming announcement, Mr Shapps said: \"I've heard their briefing and it is very stark.\"\n\nProf Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance were the mainstays of the Downing Street press conferences when the virus was at its peak.\n\nSo you can assume that their briefing on the latest data will not convey good news.\n\nThe two men spent much of Sunday afternoon behind Downing Street's black door, poring over the data with the health secretary, the chancellor, senior officials and the prime minister himself.\n\nWhat has been concerning some of those inside No 10 are predictions that there could be a significant number of deaths a day from Covid by the end of next month unless further action is taken.\n\nMinisters agree that there should not be a full national lockdown, but there are tensions around the cabinet table over precisely which, more limited measures, to take.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Hancock said that with hospital admissions for the disease doubling \"every eight days or so\", further action was needed to prevent more deaths.\n\nHe warned the country was facing a \"tipping point\", as the government considers further restrictions.\n\n\"If everybody follows the rules then we can avoid further national lockdown,\" he said.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he would support any new measures but warned that a second national lockdown was becoming more likely because the Test and Trace programme was in a state of \"near collapse\".\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said he would meet council leaders on Monday and then recommend any London-specific measures to ministers.\n\nHe believes the capital city may be just \"two or three days\" behind the hotspots of the North West and North East of England.\n\nMore areas in north-west England, West Yorkshire and the Midlands, will face further local restrictions from Tuesday, taking the number of people affected by increased local measures in the UK to around 13.5 million.\n\nThe development comes as, nationally, daily case numbers approach the 5,000 new cases a day the UK saw in April, at the peak of the epidemic.\n\nHowever, back then, there was no mass testing so it is not known exactly how many cases there really were. Best estimates suggest there were actually around 100,000 new infections a day at the end of March.\n\nOver the weekend the government announced that people in England who refuse an order to self-isolate could be fined up to £10,000 from 28 September.\n\nHowever, the government is facing resistance from some senior Conservative MPs who are concerned that ministers are imposing new coronavirus restrictions without giving Parliament a say.\n\nThe Coronavirus Act 2020, which became law in March, gave the government wide-ranging powers in order to manage the pandemic.\n\nBut Sir Graham Brady, who represents Tory backbenchers, said he would table an amendment which would require the government to put any new measures to a vote of MPs.\n\nSir Graham said ministers had \"got into the habit of ruling by decree\" on the issue, citing the \"imposition\" of the rule of six limit on social gatherings.\n\nMeanwhile, Lady Hale, the former president of the Supreme Court, said Parliament had \"surrendered\" control to ministers during the pandemic, in an essay seen by the Guardian.", "The incident happened in the Santander Triathalon last weekend\n\nA Spanish athlete is being applauded on social media after he sacrificed a top tier win in the 2020 Santander Triathlon to give it to a competitor who took a wrong turn on the course.\n\nBritish athlete James Teagle was on course to win third place in the competition in Spain last weekend when he made a mistake metres from the finish.\n\nDiego Méntrida overtook him but noticed the error and stopped to allow Teagle to cross first.\n\n\"He deserved it,\" Méntrida said later.\n\nThe race took place on 13 September but footage from the race has spread on social media in the past day, as many congratulate 21-year-old Méntrida for his show of sportsmanship.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by diegomentrida This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Friday Méntrida was awarded honorary third place by the organisers and the same €300 (£274) prize money as Teagle, according to Spanish newspaper El Mundo.\n\n\"This is something my parents and my club taught me since I was a child. In my view it should be a normal thing to do,\" Méntrida wrote on Instagram on Saturday where he thanked followers for applauding him.\n\nTeagle's wrong turn happened less than 100m from the end of the race when he mistakenly ran towards spectators in a fenced area.\n\n\"He didn't notice the signs or they were misaligned,\" Méntrida told Eurosport after the race.\n\nMéntrida had been behind Teagle and overtook him to continue on the final stretch - but then slowed his pace to allow his competitor to catch up.\n\nTeagle shook hands with Méntrida in gratitude and stepped over the finishing line.\n\n\"When I saw that he had missed the route, I just stopped. James deserved this medal,\" Méntrida told Eurosport, adding that he would do the same a second time.\n\nThe race winner Javier Gomez Noya described his gesture as \"the best in history\".\n\nFootballer Adrián San Miguel said on Twitter that it demonstrated \"the real values of sport\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adrián San Miguel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The move to level 4 should not come as a surprise given the warning from the UK's two most senior pandemic advisers this morning.\n\nInfections are rising - although some experts question whether the situation is as dire as Prof Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance set out when they raised the prospect of 50,000 cases a day by mid-October.\n\nCases were always expected to increase at this time of year when respiratory viruses tend to circulate more coupled with the continued re-opening of society.\n\nCertainly the trajectory of countries like France and Spain is not as sharp as the worst-case scenario put forward.\n\nBut it is clear the government wants to act early this time - one of the big criticisms is that they were slow to introduce lockdown in March, which resulted in more deaths.\n\nLevel 4 paves the way for extra restrictions to be introduced with an announcement expected on Tuesday.\n\nOfficials are very aware a fine balance needs to be navigated, which is why a full lockdown is not on the cards.\n\nSchools will certainly be protected.\n\nBut any restrictions have a cost to society. Go too far and the risk is the cure becomes worse than the disease.", "The Emotions in 1977 (left-right): Pamela, Wanda and Sheila Hutchinson\n\nPamela Hutchinson, a member of the Grammy-winning R&B group The Emotions, has died at the age of 61.\n\nShe was the youngest sister of the band's core members Sheila, Wanda and Jeanette Hutchinson, and sang on their biggest hit single Best Of My Love.\n\nNews of her death was confirmed on The Emotions' Facebook page.\n\n\"In loving memory, we are saddened to announce the passing of our sister, Pamela Rose Hutchinson, on Friday, September 18, 2020,\" a statement read.\n\n\"Pam succumbed to health challenges that she'd been battling for several years. Now our beautiful sister will sing amongst the angels in heaven in perfect peace.\n\n\"Thank you and as always, You Got The Best of Our Love. The Emotions.\"\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by The Emotions This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. End of facebook post by The Emotions\n\nThe band emerged from Chicago in the 1960s, where the sisters had been gospel singers as children.\n\nAfter achieving local success, they signed with the legendary R&B label Stax, working with the likes of Isaac Hayes and David Porter.\n\nWhen Stax folded, the group were taken under the wing of Maurice White from Earth, Wind & Fire, who produced two of their albums and co-wrote Best Of My Love.\n\nThe Emotions returned the favour by lending their harmonies to Earth, Wind & Fire's disco anthem Boogie Wonderland in 1979.\n\nPamela joined her sisters just in time for their crossover pop success - although she only appeared on one album, before becoming a permanent member in the early 2000s.\n\nThat incarnation of the band collaborated with rapper Snoop Dogg on a song called Life, from the 2006 album Tha Blue Carpet Treatment.\n\nIn their statement, The Emotions added: \"We appreciate all kind words, photos, and videos you may want to post for our beloved Pamela and of course your loving prayers.\n\n\"A life so beautifully lived deserves to be beautifully remembered. We love you, Pamela!\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Two theatres in The Lowry arts centre in Salford are being converted into makeshift courtrooms to help clear the current backlog of cases.\n\nIt's one of the latest venues to be taken over as a so-called Nightingale Court by the Ministry of Justice.\n\nThe arts venue will host trials in three temporary courtrooms during the daytimes from Monday to Fridays.\n\nIn the evenings and weekends, the venue will stage shows and open its galleries again using funds from the court deal.\n\nThe Lowry saw about 95% of its income disappear overnight when it shut in March, and has now lost £16m income, chief executive Julia Fawcett told BBC News.\n\nThe Lowry will be a courthouse during weekdays, and an arts centre in the evenings and weekends\n\nThe real-life courtroom drama will subsidise socially-distanced performances, which wouldn't be otherwise financially viable, she said.\n\nTwo shows - Six, the musical about Henry VIII's wives, and The Gruffalo - will be on the main stage at evenings over Christmas. During the day, trials will take place in the building's two smaller auditoria, the Quays and the Studio, as well as a conference suite.\n\n\"We won't be having everyone sitting in the stalls and the judge being up on stage, it won't be like that,\" Fawcett said. The building also houses art galleries dedicated to LS Lowry.\n\n\"Being able to enter into this partnership with the courts is absolutely key to us being able to begin the engagement with our audiences, to be able to put work back on the stages, to open up our galleries,\" Fawcett said.\n\n\"That would not be possible without this partnership at this point in time.\"\n\nFrom 28 September, The Lowry's temporary courts will host non-custodial criminal cases plus civil, family and tribunal hearings. Pre-lockdown, the crown court backlog in England and Wales stood at some 37,000. It is now over 46,000.\n\nThe venue approached the Ministry of Justice several months ago after realising full audiences would not be able to return for some time, meaning \"we had to consider very seriously the financial sustainability of our organisation\", Fawcett said.\n\n\"Although it sounds unlikely at first pass, it seemed to us that the courts have a need for capacity because of social distancing, we have a desire to get our buildings and programmes open, and taking the two challenges together allows us to begin to see the building reopened.\"\n\nThe first 10 Nightingale Courts were announced in July. The Lowry is one of a further eight revealed on Monday. The others are:\n\nMeanwhile, The Lowry is planning its own job retention scheme after furlough ends at the end of October, under which staff will have the option to stay on in a reduced capacity, working only 20% of their contracts on 20% of their pre-pandemic pay. That will avoid mass redundancies, Fawcett said.", "One user found that Twitter seemed to favour showing Mitch McConnell's face over Barack Obama's\n\nTwitter is investigating after users discovered its picture-cropping algorithm sometimes prefers white faces to black ones.\n\nUsers noticed when two photos - one of a black face the other of a white one - were in the same post, Twitter often showed only the white face on mobile.\n\nTwitter said it had tested for racial and gender bias during the algorithm's development.\n\nBut it added: \"It's clear that we've got more analysis to do.\"\n\nTwitter's chief technology officer, Parag Agrawal, tweeted: \"We did analysis on our model when we shipped it - but [it] needs continuous improvement.\n\n\"Love this public, open, and rigorous test - and eager to learn from this.\"\n\nThe latest controversy began when university manager Colin Madland, from Vancouver, was troubleshooting a colleague's head vanishing when using videoconference app Zoom.\n\nThe software was apparently mistakenly identifying the black man's head as part of the background and removing it.\n\nBut when Mr Madland posted about the topic on Twitter, he found his face - and not his colleague's - was consistently chosen as the preview on mobile apps, even if he flipped the order of the images.\n\nHis discovery prompted a range of other experiments by users, which, for example, suggested:\n\nTwitter's chief design officer, Dantley Davis, found editing out Mr Madland's facial hair and glasses seemed to correct the problem - \"because of the contrast with his skin\".\n\nResponding to criticism, he tweeted: \"I know you think it's fun to dunk on me - but I'm as irritated about this as everyone else. However, I'm in a position to fix it and I will.\n\n\"It's 100% our fault. No-one should say otherwise.\"\n\nZehan Wang, a research engineering lead and co-founder of the neural networks company Magic Pony, which has been acquired by Twitter, said tests on the algorithm in 2017, using pairs of faces belonging to different ethnicities, had found \"no significant bias between ethnicities (or genders)\" - but Twitter would now review that study.\n\n\"There are many questions that will need time to dig into,\" he said.\n\n\"More details will be shared after internal teams have had a chance to look at it.\"\n\nLate last year, a US government study suggested facial-recognition algorithms were much less accurate at identifying black and Asian faces than white ones.\n\nIn the UK, police officers last year raised concerns about algorithms \"amplifying\" prejudices and called for clearer guidelines on using the technology.\n\nAnd, in June this year, similar concerns led IBM to announce it would no longer offer facial-recognition software for \"mass surveillance or racial profiling\".", "American Bryson DeChambeau produced a wonderful final-round display to win the US Open by six shots and claim the first major title of his career.\n\nThe 27-year-old was the only player to break par at the notoriously difficult Winged Foot, in New York.\n\nRenowned for his big-hitting approach, the world number nine showed maturity and composure to card an impressive three-under 67 to win on six under par.\n\nMatthew Wolff faded on the back nine, shooting 75 to finish second at level.\n\nSouth Africa's Louis Oosthuizen, who finished third at two over, and Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy were the only non-Americans to place inside the top 10.\n\nWorld number four McIlroy ended joint eighth at six over after a final-day 75 that included two double bogeys, while England's Lee Westwood was a stroke further back.\n\nDeChambeau dedicated the win to his parents, who he said had \"given up so much for me\".\n\nHe began the day two behind 21-year-old overnight leader Wolff and was the only player to shoot an under par round on Sunday.\n\nDeChambeau was firmly in control by the time they hit the final stretch after playing the front nine in 33 shots - two under par - and he then had one birdie and eight pars in his final nine holes.\n\nWolff, who was hoping to become the first debutant to win the championship since Francis Ouimet in 1907, dropped four shots on the run-in as the pressure built.\n\nDeChambeau becomes only the second player to win the men's US Open at Winged Foot with a score under par, joining 1984 champion Fuzzy Zoeller.\n\n\"It's just an honour, it has been a lot of hard work,\" he said\n\n\"At nine, that was when I first thought this could be a reality. I made an eagle, I had shocked myself to do that, and I thought 'I can do it'.\n\n\"Then I said 'no, you have to focus on each and every hole'. Throughout the back nine I kept saying 'no, you still have three, four, five holes to go', whatever it was.\n\n\"I had to keep focused and make sure I executed each shot the best I could do.\"\n• None How DeChambeau bulked up in major hunt\n\nDeChambeau's unique methods have divided opinion since he turned professional in 2016. Fans find them innovative, critics call them irritating.\n\nThe former physics student's experiments have seen him dubbed 'The Scientist', tinkering with oversized grips, cutting all his clubs to the same length and most recently piling on more than 40lbs in the past year.\n\nThat helped turn him into the longest average driver on the PGA Tour last season and he said in the build-up to the US Open he would look to overpower the difficult West Course at Winged Foot.\n\nDeChambeau claims to have been fuelling his muscle growth with a 3,000-3,500 calorie daily diet that packs in 400g of protein, and his length off the tee has helped fuel the debate around whether tournament balls should be introduced.\n\nBut for all the tinkering, chuntering and pursuit of power, the American showed great composure and an air of calmness to execute his game plan on a superb final day at Mamaroneck.\n\nThe obsessive DeChambeau, who makes extensive calculations before each shot, was at the practice range under the floodlights on Saturday night after only hitting three fairways during a third-round 70, and the work paid off.\n\nHe wiped out Wolff's two-shot lead within four holes. Wolff bogeyed the par-three third before DeChambeau rolled in his opening birdie of the day at the fourth.\n\nWhen Wolff dropped another shot at five, DeChambeau was the sole leader.\n\nBoth then bogeyed the eighth to give the rest of the field a sniff, only to card a pair of eagles on the par-five ninth to turn it into a two-horse race.\n\nIt soon became a DeChambeau procession.\n\nA frustrated Wolff, who carded a superb 65 on Saturday to lead on five under, fell away with bogeys at 10 and 14, before a double bogey at 16 ended any slim hopes he held of victory in only his second major appearance.\n\n\"I battled hard. Things just didn't go my way,\" said Wolff. \"But first US Open, second place is something to be proud of.\"\n\nDeChambeau, who finished tied fourth with Wolff at last month's US PGA Championship, rolled in another birdie at 11 and proceeded to complete a bogey-free back nine.\n\nIt meant, as he headed to the 18th tee with a six-shot lead, there would be none of the drama that accompanied the last US Open to be staged at Winged Foot, when Geoff Ogilvy won by one stroke at five over after Phil Mickelson and Colin Montgomerie double-bogeyed the last.\n\nInstead, DeChambeau was able to look into the camera and send love to his family as he walked up the final fairway, before rolling in a par putt and throwing his arms in the air in delight.\n\nHe becomes just the third player after Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods to win an NCAA individual title, the US Amateur title and a US Open.\n\n\"There were times that I went to school without any lunch money, and we had to make baloney sandwiches and didn't have anything to eat,\" DeChambeau added.\n\n\"We had some very, very difficult times, but every single day they always wanted the best for me, and they always gave me the opportunity to go golf, go practise, and go get better.\n\n\"This one's for my parents, it's for my whole team. All the work, all the blood, sweat, and tears we put into it, it just means the world to me.\"\n\nMcIlroy's hopes over on the first\n\nFour-time major champion McIlroy said he felt he had a chance if he was within six shots heading into the final day.\n\nThat was the gap to leader Wolff when he teed off on Sunday, but his hopes of winning a second US Open title and first major in six years quickly unravelled with a double bogey at the first.\n\nMcIlroy's tee shot found the fairway and he was on the green in two, only to four-putt from 90 feet after his first attempt failed to get over a ridge in the putting surface and rolled back towards him.\n\nThe 31-year-old added two more bogeys before clawing shots back at the ninth and 11th but a bogey on the 15th and a second double bogey at the 16th saw him fade again.\n\nMcIlroy's was not the only drama on the first, as Harris English, who started the day at level par, lost his ball in the rough to the left of the opening fairway and had to return to the tee.\n\nClub members had been employed as spotters throughout the week, but despite their efforts and those of English and playing partner Xander Schauffele, the ball could not be found within the three-minute time limit.\n\nEnglish recovered to finish in fourth place at three over with Schauffele, one of the favourites before the tournament, a stroke further back.\n\nWorld number one Dustin Johnson, who came into the week with two wins and two second-placed finishes in his past four events, carded a final-round 70 to climb into a tie for sixth on five over par.\n• None Delicious recipes and food hacks that won't break the bank\n• None How well do you know your coffee?", "UK firms have voluntarily returned more than £215m to the government in furlough scheme payments they did not need or took in error.\n\nAccording to HMRC figures, some 80,433 employers have returned cash they were given to help cover workers' salaries.\n\nThe money returned is a tiny part of the £35.4bn claimed under the scheme up until 16 August, the latest date for which statistics are available.\n\nOfficials believe £3.5bn may have been paid out in error or to fraudsters.\n\nHMRC said it welcomed employers who have voluntarily returned grants.\n\nUnder the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) - or furlough scheme - workers placed on leave have received 80% of their pay, up to a maximum of £2,500 a month.\n\nAt first this was all paid for by the government, but firms are now having to make a contribution to wages as well.\n\nAs of 15 September, companies and other bodies had returned £215,756,121 in grants, according to data obtained by the PA news agency through a freedom of information request.\n\nSome of the money was returned, while other firms simply claimed smaller payouts the next time they were given furlough cash.\n\nHMRC said: \"HMRC welcomes those employers who have voluntarily returned CJRS grants to HMRC because they no longer need the grant, or have realised they've made errors and followed our guidance on putting things right.\"\n\nThe CJRS was launched in April to support businesses that could not operate, or had to cut staffing levels, during lockdown. But companies have been urged to repay the taxpayer cash they receive if they feel they can afford to do so.\n\nHousebuilders Redrow, Barratt and Taylor Wimpey have both returned all the furlough money they have claimed. So too have Games Workshop, distribution giant Bunzl and the Spectator magazine.\n\nOthers such as Primark and John Lewis have said they will not claim money under the Jobs Retention Bonus, which pays firms £1,000 for every employee they bring back from furlough and keep employed until the end of January.\n\nThe government has rejected calls to extend the furlough scheme when it ends on 31 October, despite warnings that it could trigger a wave of job cuts.\n\nHMRC said: \"To tackle the impact the pandemic had on people's jobs, businesses and livelihoods, the government introduced one of the most generous and comprehensive packages of support in the world, including the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.\n\n\"So far, the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme has helped 1.2 million employers across the UK furlough 9.6 million jobs, protecting people's livelihoods.\"\n• None Rightmove and Compass say no to job retention bonus", "Welsh Health Minister Vaughan Gething said a regional approach to lockdowns could be considered\n\nA second national coronavirus lockdown in Wales is \"not imminent, but always possible,\" Health Minister Vaughan Gething has said.\n\nIt comes as the UK government has warned of tougher restrictions after a sharp rise in cases across all four nations.\n\nTwo counties in Wales - Caerphilly and Rhondda Cynon Taf - have been placed under local lockdowns.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Wales Breakfast, he said: \"I don't think that's [national lockdown] imminent, but it's always possible.\n\n\"We have to make choices each and every day about whether local restrictions are required.\n\n\"If we get to the point where we have a significant group of local restrictions we need to think about whether a regional approach is needed or whether actually we need to take a national approach.\"\n\nCaerphilly was the first Welsh county to go under a local lockdown\n\nMr Gething added there was an \"increasing tide\" of cases and most were in the south-eastern part of Wales.\n\nHe said: \"Every day we have to consider the picture across Wales, comparing where we start this week to where we started last week and the week before.\n\n\"We'll have to make more choices this morning, there'll be more figures available and I'll have to take on board the advice and make a decision, together with the first minister, but it's entirely possible more restrictions could happen this week.\"\n\nMr Gething also criticised a lack of communication between the UK and Welsh governments after England's health secretary Matt Hancock announced people there could be fined up to £10,000 if they failed to self-isolate.\n\nHe said: \"I'm really disappointed that announcement didn't come after a proper four-nation engagement around it.\n\n\"I'd seen briefings in the papers but that's not the same as having a proper grown-up conversation with ministers across all four nations of the UK. That's the way I think business should be done.\"\n\nThe UK government said: \"We have confronted this virus as one United Kingdom, working with the devolved administrations and local partners to get through the pandemic.\n\n\"There have been hundreds of meetings and calls with the devolved administrations and local partners since the pandemic began. This has included Cobr meetings, committees and dozens of other meetings involving UK government ministers and officials. This will continue to be a key part of the planning and communication of the overall response.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock warned of more stringent rules in England on The Andrew Marr Show\n\nMr Gething said the Welsh Government would \"consider\" imposing similar fines, but would also look at ways to support people to self-isolate.\n\nLater on Monday, Chris Whitty, the UK government's chief medical adviser, is expected to say the trend of coronavirus cases in the UK is \"heading in the wrong direction\".\n\nMr Gething said on Monday morning he had not seen a copy of what Prof Whitty would be saying.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chief Scientific Officer Sir Patrick Vallance says measures must be taken to stop the spread of Covid-19\n\nThe UK could see 50,000 new coronavirus cases a day by mid-October without further action, the government's chief scientific adviser has warned.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance said that would be expected to lead to about \"200-plus deaths per day\" a month after that.\n\nIt comes as the PM prepares to chair a Cobra emergency committee meeting on Tuesday morning, then make a statement in the House of Commons.\n\nOn Monday, a further 4,368 daily cases were reported in the UK, up from 3,899.\n\nA further 11 people have also died within 28 days of a positive test, although these figures tend to be lower over the weekend and on Mondays due to reporting delays.\n\nSpeaking at Downing Street alongside chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, Sir Patrick stressed the figures given were not a prediction, but added: \"At the moment we think the epidemic is doubling roughly every seven days.\n\n\"If, and that's quite a big if, but if that continues unabated, and this grows, doubling every seven days... if that continued you would end up with something like 50,000 cases in the middle of October per day.\n\n\"Fifty-thousand cases per day would be expected to lead a month later, so the middle of November say, to 200-plus deaths per day.\n\n\"The challenge, therefore, is to make sure the doubling time does not stay at seven days.\n\n\"That requires speed, it requires action and it requires enough in order to be able to bring that down.\"\n\nProf Whitty added that if cases continued to double every seven days as Sir Patrick had set out, then the UK could \"quickly move from really quite small numbers to really very large numbers because of that exponential process\".\n\n\"So we have, in a bad sense, literally turned a corner, although only relatively recently,\" he said.\n\nProf Whitty and Sir Patrick also said:\n\nThe government's most senior science and medical advisers are clearly concerned about the rise in cases that have been seen in recent weeks.\n\nThe warning about 50,000 cases a day by mid-October is stark. We don't know for sure how many cases there were at the peak in spring (as there was very limited testing in place) although some estimates put it at 100,000.\n\nHowever, they were also at pains to point out it was not a prediction - for one thing the 'rule of six' which came in just a week ago has not had time to have an impact.\n\nEven among the government's own advisers there is disagreement over whether what we are seeing is the start of an exponential rise or just a gradual increase in cases, which is what you would expect at this time of year as respiratory viruses tend to circulate more with the reopening of society.\n\nSpain and France, which both started seeing rises earlier than the UK, have not seen the sort of rapid trajectory that was presented by the advisers.\n\nInstead, what was quite telling was the clear social messaging. Even those who are not at a high risk of complications should, they say, play their part in curbing the spread of the virus - because if it spreads then difficult decisions will be needed that have profound societal consequences.\n\nBut the big unanswered question is what ministers will do next. There is talk of further restrictions being introduced.\n\nA couple of things are in our favour that were not in the spring. Better treatments for those who get very sick are now available, while the government is in a stronger position to protect the vulnerable groups.\n\nShould ministers wait and see what happens? Or should they crack down early, knowing that will have a negative impact in other ways?\n\nProf Whitty also said that even though different parts of the UK were seeing cases rising at different rates, and even though some age groups were affected more than others, the evolving situation was \"all of our problem\".\n\nHe added that evidence from other countries showed infections were \"not staying just in the younger age groups\" but were \"moving up the age bands\".\n\nHe said mortality rates from Covid-19 were \"significantly greater\" than seasonal flu, which killed around 7,000 annually or 20,000 in a bad year.\n\nMeanwhile, restrictions on households mixing indoors will be extended to all of Northern Ireland from 18:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nAreas in north-west England, West Yorkshire, the Midlands and four more counties in south Wales will also face further local restrictions from Tuesday.\n\nAnd additional lockdown restrictions will \"almost certainly\" be put in place in Scotland in the next couple of days, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\n\"Hopefully this will be with four-nations alignment, but if necessary it will have to happen without that,\" she said.\n\nWelsh Health Minister Vaughan Gething added: \"It may be the case that UK-wide measures will be taken but that will require all four governments to exercise our varying share of power and responsibility to do so.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson spoke with leaders of the devolved administrations on Monday afternoon.\n\nMeanwhile, Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced a new exemption to local restrictions in England for formal and informal childcare arrangements, covering those looking after children under the age of 14 or vulnerable adults.\n\n\"It does not allow for play-dates or parties, but it does mean that a consistent childcare relationship that is vital for somebody to get to work is allowed,\" he told the Commons.\n\nIt is not a question of \"if\".\n\nDowning Street will have to introduce extra restrictions to try to slow down the dramatic resurgence of coronavirus.\n\nYou would only have to have dipped into a minute or two of the sober briefing from the government's most senior doctor and scientist on Monday morning to see why.\n\nWhat is not yet settled however, is exactly what, exactly when, and indeed, exactly where these restrictions will be.\n\nHere's what it is important to know:\n\nThe government is not considering a new lockdown across the country right now.\n\nThe prime minister is not about to tell everyone to stay at home as he did from the Downing Street desk in March.\n\nMinisters have no intention at all to close schools again.\n\nNor, right now, are they planning to tell every business, other than the non-essential, to close again.\n\nWhat is likely is some kind of extra limits on our huge hospitality sector.\n\nOn Sunday, the prime minister held a meeting in Downing Street with Prof Whitty, Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Matt Hancock to discuss possible further measures for England.\n\nAsked about reports of disagreements among cabinet ministers about whether or not to impose a second lockdown, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Breakfast: \"A conversation, a debate, is quite proper and that is exactly what you'd expect.\n\n\"Everyone recognises there is a tension between... the virus and the measures we need to take, and the economy and ensuring people's livelihoods are protected.\"\n\nProf Peter Horby, a member of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said there was a risk the UK could face a repeat of the \"catastrophic events\" around the world early this year, with intensive care units \"rammed full of very sick patients\".\n\n\"I really don't buy that argument that we should slow down... the mistakes that were made in March were nearly all being too cautious and too slow,\" he told BBC Radio 4's World at One.\n\nHowever, Prof Karol Sikora, from the University of Buckinghamshire and former director of the World Health Organization's cancer programme, said blanket restrictions were \"not the way forward\".\n\n\"The most important thing is to target the groups that we need to protect and to let everybody else get on with their business - schools, shops and so on,\" he told the programme.\n\nLabour, meanwhile, has also urged the government to avoid a second national lockdown.\n\n\"This rapid spike in infections was not inevitable, but a consequence of the government's incompetence and failure to put in place an adequate testing system,\" shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said.\n\n\"The government must do what it takes to prevent another lockdown, which would cause unimaginable damage to our economy and people's wellbeing.\"", "Vladimir Putin and Arkady Rotenberg have been friends since childhood\n\nOne of Vladimir Putin's closest friends may have used Barclays Bank in London to launder money and dodge sanctions, leaked documents suggest.\n\nBillionaire Arkady Rotenberg has known the Russian president since childhood.\n\nFinancial restrictions, or sanctions, were imposed on Mr Rotenberg by the US and the EU in 2014, which means Western banks could face serious consequences for doing business with him.\n\nBarclays says it met all its legal and regulatory duties.\n\nA leak of confidential files - banks' \"suspicious activity reports\" - reveal how companies believed to be controlled by Mr Rotenberg kept the secret accounts.\n\nThe documents, known as the FinCEN Files, have been seen by the BBC's Panorama programme.\n\nIn March 2014 the US hit Russia with economic sanctions following the annexation of Crimea in Ukraine.\n\nThe Treasury Department designated Mr Rotenberg, 68, and his brother Boris, 63, \"members of the Russian leadership's inner circle\".\n\nThe pair had sparred and trained in the same judo gym as Putin when they were young.\n\nThe businessman and Russian president attending judo training in Sochi last year\n\nIn recent years, Arkady Rotenberg's companies built roads, a gas pipeline and a power station through contracts awarded by the Russian state.\n\nThe US Treasury said the brothers \"provided support to Putin's pet projects\" and \"made billions of dollars in contracts for Gazprom and the Sochi Winter Olympics awarded to them by Putin\".\n\nIn 2018, the US added Arkady Rotenberg's son Igor to its list of sanctioned individuals.\n\nThe aim of the sanctions is to cut off named people from the entire Western financial system.\n\nYet the Rotenbergs appear to have continued moving cash through the UK and US.\n\nIn 2008, Barclays opened an account for a company called Advantage Alliance.\n\nThe leaked documents show the company moved £60m between 2012 and 2016. Many of the transactions occurred after the Rotenberg brothers had been sanctioned.\n\nIn July this year, an investigation by the US Senate accused the Rotenbergs of using secretive purchases of expensive art to evade sanctions - one of the companies involved in the scheme was Advantage Alliance.\n\nUS investigators concluded there was strong evidence that Advantage Alliance was owned by Arkady Rotenberg, and that the company had used its Barclays account in London to buy millions of dollars of art for him.\n\nA report noted how \"secrecy, anonymity, and a lack of regulation create an environment ripe for laundering money and evading sanctions\". Auction houses in the US and UK \"failed to ask basic questions\" about the buyers of the art.\n\nDespite the sanctions, Arkady appears to have paid $7.5m to acquire the René Magritte painting La Poitrine.\n\nIn 17 June 2014 a company linked to Arkady sent the cash from Moscow to Alliance's Barclays account in London. The following day Barclays sent the cash to the seller in New York.\n\nIn April 2016, Barclays began an internal investigation of multiple accounts it suspected of being linked to the Rotenbergs.\n\nSix months later, the bank closed Advantage's account after becoming concerned that it was being used to move suspect funds.\n\nBut the leaked suspicious activity reports (SARs) show that other Barclays accounts with suspected links to the Rotenbergs remained open until 2017.\n\nOne such company was Ayrton Development Limited.\n\nAccording to the files, Barclays were suspicious of Ayrton's activities and concluded that \"[Arkady] Rotenberg is the true owner of Ayrton\".\n\nBarclays did not comment when asked by Panorama about how many accounts it suspects were owned by the Rotenbergs.\n\nA spokesperson for Barclays said: \"We believe that we have complied with all our legal and regulatory obligations including in relation to US sanctions.\"\n\n\"Given the filing of a SAR is not itself evidence of any actual wrongdoing, we would only terminate a client relationship after careful and objective investigation and analysis of the evidence, balancing potential financial crime suspicions with the risk of 'de-banking' an innocent customer.\"\n\nThe FinCen Files is a leak of secret documents which reveal how major banks have allowed dirty money around the world. They also show how the UK is often the weak link in the financial system and how London is awash with Russian cash.\n\nThe files were obtained by BuzzFeed News which shared them with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and 400 journalists around the world. Panorama has led research for the BBC.\n\nFinCEN Files: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #FinCENfiles; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"FinCEN Files\" Watch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only).", "Alexei Navalny was flown to Berlin for treatment in August after falling ill\n\nThe German government's announcement on Wednesday that Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny has been poisoned by a sophisticated nerve agent known as a Novichok makes this case even more serious than it already was.\n\nMost importantly, it will increase suspicions that, despite its denials, the Russian state was behind his poisoning.\n\nNovichok - meaning \"newcomer\" in Russian - applies to a group of synthetically produced nerve agents originally developed by the Soviet Union in a laboratory in Uzbekistan before the USSR disintegrated in 1991.\n\nWestern intelligence agencies believe that Novichok has since been refined into a hard-to-detect assassination weapon in covert techniques practised by operatives of the GRU, Russian military intelligence, including being smeared on to door handles.\n\nNovichok can be deployed in both liquid and solid forms.\n\nTwo of those operatives were widely believed to have poisoned the Russian defector Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury in 2018 using Novichok. A local Wiltshire resident, Dawn Sturgess, subsequently died after handling the contents of the discarded perfume bottle used to disguise the nerve agent.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On the trail of Russians Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, who UK police believe carried out a nerve agent attack in Salisbury in March 2018\n\nWestern governments reacted forcefully to this failed assassination attempt on British soil. In a co-ordinated move, 20 countries expelled more than a hundred Russian diplomats and spies, dealing a huge blow to Moscow's intelligence-gathering networks in the West.\n\nEven covert agents in deep cover inside Britain, whom Moscow believed were operating undetected by MI5, the security service, were ordered to leave.\n\nThis was all in marked contrast to the mild British government response - since criticised - to the poisoning of former KGB officer and defector Alexander Litvinenko in 2006. After the agonising death in a London hospital by radioactive Polonium poisoning of this former Russian colonel, branded as a traitor by the Kremlin, an investigation dragged on for years while the two Russian suspects remained at large in Russia.\n\nCritics believe the lack of a forceful response by the West encouraged hardliners in the Kremlin to sanction the targeting abroad of those considered traitors to the Russian state.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alexei Navalny: 'Putin is the tsar of corruption'\n\nToday, Alexei Navalny has no shortage of enemies. As a vigorous campaigner against corruption, he has amassed millions of young followers but also angered those people whose nefarious activities have been exposed in his popular videos. There are plenty of people both in government and in business circles who would like to see him removed from the public sphere.\n\nBut Novichok, unlike naturally occurring toxins that can be refined from natural products found in the countryside, is not something casually cooked up by amateurs. It is a military-grade chemical weapon that tends to point the finger of suspicion towards the Russian state.\n\nAlthough Mr Navalny appeared to be poisoned on Russian soil, rather than in a Nato member country, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel said \"there were now very serious questions which only the Russian government could and must answer\".\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab echoed that comment, saying that the Russian government had a clear case to answer about what happened to Mr Navalny. He said Britain would now work closely with Germany and other allies to show there were consequences for using banned chemical weapons. In Washington, the White House National Security Council issued a statement saying it would work with allies to hold those in Russia accountable.\n\nThe former British Army officer and chemical weapons expert, Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, has been warning for years that the unchecked use of chemical weapons against rebels and civilians alike in populated areas by the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria sends a dangerous signal.\n\nHow governments now react to this latest use of a Novichok nerve agent against a public political figure will be influenced in part by the findings of the global chemical watchdog, the Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons, the OPCW.\n\nThe chairman of Britain's Parliamentary Defence Committee, Tobias Ellwood MP, tweeted: \"Russia/Novichok - again. A test for the West on how we collectively respond.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Coffee chain Costa Coffee has said that up to 1,650 roles are at risk of being cut, as it is forced to reduce costs because of the impact of coronavirus.\n\nIt says there are still \"high levels of uncertainty\" as to when trade will regain pre-pandemic volumes.\n\nThe firm is consulting with staff to try to find roles in other parts of the business for those facing redundancy.\n\nCosta Coffee said the decision to cut jobs was an \"extremely difficult\" one to make.\n\n\"Our baristas are the heart of the Costa business and I am truly sorry that many now face uncertainty following today's news,\" said Neil Lake, managing director for Costa Coffee UK and Ireland.\n\nThe company is suggesting the role of assistant store manager will be removed in branches across the UK.\n\nMost of its UK coffee shops that were closed during lockdown have now reopened, but the impact of Covid-19 remains \"challenging\", the company said in a statement.\n\nDespite benefiting from measures such as the government's cut in VAT for the hospitality industry and the \"eat out to help out\" scheme, the company said, \"there remain high levels of uncertainty as to when trade will recover to pre-Covid levels\".\n\nIt added that it had already frozen all pay increases within its support centre and cut all non-essential expenditure.\n\nCosta employs 16,000 people in its wholly owned coffee shops, and there are a further 10,500 people working in its franchise network.\n\n\"We have had to make these difficult decisions to protect the business and ensure we safeguard as many jobs as possible for our 16,000 team members, whilst emerging stronger, ready for future growth\", the company said.\n\nIt is the latest food and drink company to make cuts following the lockdown and the resulting lack of shoppers and office workers in town centres.\n\nBusinesses that rely on lunchtime or after-work trade from offices have been particularly hard hit.\n\nLast week, sandwich chain Pret A Manger announced it would be cutting 3,000 jobs, a third of its workforce.\n\nJulie Palmer, partner at the business recovery firm, Begbies Traynor, said many firms were currently trying to cut costs.\n\n\"Attempts are being made by some businesses to work with local councils in order to utilise outside spaces where consumers feel more comfortable, but with winter approaching, they are running out of time\", she commented.\n\n\"It's likely that as businesses try to recoup their losses from the past few months, many others will follow a similar suit to Costa Coffee.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Selected live radio and text commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, BBC Sounds, the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nBriton's Kyle Edmund lost to US Open top seed Novak Djokovic, while compatriot Cameron Norrie advanced to the third round of a Grand Slam for the first time.\n\nEdmund, 25, unexpectedly won the first set but ultimately struggled to keep up with the world number one's intensity.\n\nThe 33-year-old maintained the level that has helped him stay unbeaten in 2020 and won 6-7 (5-7) 6-3 6-4 6-2.\n\nThe world number 76 upset ninth seed Diego Schwartzman in the first round and will face Spanish world number 99 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina next.\n\nDjokovic is seeking his 18th Grand Slam title and plays German 28th seed Jan-Lennard Struff in the third round.\n\nDjokovic has looked imperious all year, winning January's Australian Open, February's Dubai Tennis Championships, and, more recently, the Western & Southern Open on Saturday.\n\nBut British number two Edmund looked unfazed and used his characteristically powerful forehand on Arthur Ashe Stadium.\n\nDjokovic repeatedly turned to drop-shots, but the tactic was fruitless as the Briton saw them coming every time in a high-quality first set.\n\nA 100mph forehand winner and an ace down the middle were two highlights for the world number 44 en route to winning the set with compatriots Andy Murray and Dan Evans watching from the stands.\n\nDjokovic handles the heat to turn the tide\n\nThe world number one did not look as commanding as usual, perhaps due to fatigue from just one day of rest after the previous tournament or distraction from plans to front a new association aiming to increase the power of the players.\n\nBut Edmund looked increasingly uncomfortable in the heat, changing between games as his kit had become soaked because of the humidity in New York.\n\n\"You could see how much both of us were sweating.,\" Djokovic said. \"That's Grand Slam, best-of-five matches.\"\n\nThe top seed kept his cool nevertheless. A double fault put him a break up and he went on to serve for the set, sealing it with an ace out wide.\n\nBoth players' levels dropped in an error-strewn third set. Edmund fought to save one break point early on, but his backhand sailed long to give Djokovic a 2-1 lead.\n\nDjokovic won 11 points in a row to break a second time, though Edmund took advantage of a short second serve to claw a game back.\n\nThe top seed ran forward to pick up a drop-shot and tapped it past Edmund to go 5-2 up and eventually held to love to win a second set.\n\nWorld number one 'brings the energy' to seal victory\n\nLooking increasingly like the player who has now won 25 matches in a row this year, Djokovic roared as Edmund sent the ball into the net to lose his first service game in the fourth set.\n\nThe eight-time Australian Open winner's volume continued to increase as he shouted \"there's so much energy in here\" to an empty stadium after holding serve to take a 3-1 lead.\n\n\"We miss the fans. We miss the noise and the energy,\" Djokovic explained. \"I like to bring the energy on court.\"\n\nA backhand wide gave Djokovic another break and he served two aces and landed an easy smash for yet another hold to love and victory.\n\nEdmund's exit leaves three British men in the draw, with Murray and Evans in second-round action on Thursday.\n\nNorrie will face Davidovich Fokina, an easier prospect than expected in the third round after the Spaniard claimed a shock win against 24th seed Hubert Hurkacz.\n\nThe British number three will be glad to have come through in straight sets after a five-set epic against Schwartzman on Monday.\n\nAfter swiftly taking the first two sets, Coria briefly looked as though he would make things more challenging with a string of break points in the third.\n\nBut Norrie held his nerve and eventually broke to take a 5-4 lead as Coria's forehand flew into the net before the Briton served out the match.\n\n\"I'm pleased to be through to the third round,\" Norrie told Amazon Prime. \"I felt great. I had a lot of time over lockdown to prepare and get myself physically ready.\n\n\"To get through that match today was good, especially having such a big win against Schwartzman - I was pleased to back it up.\"\n\nIn the men's doubles, Britain's Joe Salisbury - seeded third alongside American Rajeev Ram - reached the second round with a 6-2 6-7 (5-7) 6-3 win against Austin Krajicek and Franko Skugor.\n\nFellow Briton Luke Bambridge lost in the first round with Japanese partner Ben McLachlan, as did Ken Skupski, who was playing with Mexico's Santiago Gonzalez.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Should we be concerned?", "Earlier this week Apple's value reached $2.3tn (£1.7tn), more than the combined worth of the FTSE 100\n\nUS and Asian stock markets have gone into reverse after shares in America's biggest technology firms tumbled.\n\nCompanies that have powered US markets to record highs - Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft and Facebook - fell between 4% and 8%.\n\nAnalysts said fears about the economic shock of coronavirus and a possible second wave prompted the sell-off.\n\nThe tech-heavy Nasdaq closed down 5%, the Dow Jones fell almost 3%, and the broad-based S&P 500 lost 3.5%.\n\nIn Asian trading Tokyo's Nikkei index was 1% lower, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng was down by 1.4%.\n\nCarmaker Tesla, whose shares have soared this year, tumbled 9% on Thursday after falling sharply in the previous two sessions. Another tech heavyweight, Nvidia, ended 9.3% down. Apple's 8% fall meant $150bn (£113bn) was wiped off the value of the iPhone maker.\n\nThe sell-off came after mixed US economic data on Thursday that included a report showing slower services sector growth in August, bigger-than-expected drop in new jobless claims, record job cuts this year and an unexpectedly big trade deficit for July.\n\nWhile the latest weekly initial jobless claims fell more than anticipated, they remain high amid growing worries that employment growth could stall without further economic stimulus.\n\nChicago Federal Reserve president Charles Evans said on Thursday that Congress would need to deliver more fiscal aid. And he indicated that US monetary policy would be eased further and interest rates kept at ultra-low levels for years to help the economy recover its pre-pandemic strength.\n\nGrowing worries about US economic health were underlined by the Vix index, also known as the \"fear gauge\". This reached its highest since mid-July.\n\nSentiment wasn't helped by a warning from US infectious diseases expert Dr Anthony Fauci who said there is doubt a Covid-19 vaccine will be developed by the end of October.\n\nThe downturn in the US hit European markets. London's FTSE 100 ended down 1.5% at 5,850 points, and Germany's Dax fell 1.4%.\n\nWall Street had reached fresh highs this week on what Connor Campbell, financial analyst at Spreadex, called \"a combination of relatively unfounded vaccine and stimulus speculation\". Markets were now seeing a \"sharp turnaround\", he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Despite the economy shrinking, US stocks had rallied\n\nOn Wednesday, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq closed at record levels, and the Dow came within 1.5% of its February peak.\n\nEmily Roland, co-chief investment strategist at John Hancock Investment Management, said markets were due a reality check.\n\n\"Think about the mounting number of risks the market has been shrugging off over the last couple of months. We're 60 days away from the election. That may be an area where investors are getting a bit spooked,\" she said.", "Two-year-old Grace tested negative for coronavirus after attending a centre in Cardiff\n\nA father says he was asked to travel more than 200 miles to get a Covid-19 test for his unwell toddler.\n\nTV presenter Will Millard used the UK government website on 27 August after his daughter Grace, two, developed a high temperature.\n\nMr Millard, from Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, was offered a test in Blackburn, Lancashire, before his health board booked a test in Cardiff.\n\nThe UK government has said areas with outbreaks are being made a priority.\n\nThe 37-year-old said: \"I didn't think she had coronavirus but the rules are dead clear - if someone has a temperature then you get a test.\"\n\nHe added he was keen for her to be tested as his father, who had been shielding, was due to visit and health visitors were also due to visit his new baby son.\n\nHe was surprised when told the closest available test was so far away: \"I thought it was a mistake,\" he said.\n\n\"I assumed there was something wrong with the website so I rang 111, who directed me to 119 but they said they were getting the same.\n\n\"I said 'can you post me one' and they said there were no postal tests available.\"\n\nWill Millard says he found the experience had \"frustrating\"\n\nHe decided to tweet Public Health Wales about his predicament.\n\n\"I noticed on Twitter there were people from Bristol complaining they had been sent to Cardiff for their test,\" he said.\n\nHe continued searching and at 17:00 was offered a test in Nottingham, and at about 20:00 he found a test in Weston-Super-Mare in Somerset, which he booked.\n\nThen Fiona Kinghorn, executive director of Cardiff and Vale health board, contacted him on Twitter and arranged for him to go to one of the community testing centres in Cardiff the next day.\n\n\"We turned up at 09:05 and had test result by 16:50 that night. It couldn't have been easier.\"\n\nTesting in priority areas has led to shortages elsewhere\n\n\"The government are putting a lot of pressure on people to follow the rules,\" he said.\n\n\"People can go to do the right thing but if the government aren't keeping up their end of the bargain - you can't expect people to get in the car with a sick child and drive to Manchester.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"The UK government experienced a spike in demand for testing through their lighthouse labs over the weekend, which led to reduced capacity for processing tests across the UK.\n\n\"The UK government has assured us they are working on increasing capacity and expect these issues to be resolved shortly.\"\n\nThe UK government has said prioritising coronavirus testing in high-risk areas has led to shortages in other places, leading to some people with symptoms being asked to drive more than 100 miles for a swab.\n\nIt said areas with fewer Covid-19 cases have had their testing capacity reduced to cope with outbreaks elsewhere.\n\nBut Paul Hunter, a public health expert at the University of East Anglia, said these issues could act as \"big disincentive to being tested\" and result in missing local increases \"early enough to maybe stop more widespread infection\".\n\nPeople in Wales, like the rest of the UK, can make a booking for a coronavirus test at a drive-through centre or a mobile unit.\n\nWales also has community testing units, which are operated by the local health boards, where health care workers have priority\n\nThere are also eight mobile units in Wales operated by the military.", "Leading figures in UK aviation have expressed frustration that the government has still not given backing for Covid-19 testing at airports.\n\nThe head of Southampton, Aberdeen and Glasgow airports accused ministers of \"overseeing the demise of UK aviation\".\n\nAnd the bosses of Virgin Atlantic and Heathrow Airport said \"leadership\" was needed on the testing issue, warning of the huge number of jobs at stake.\n\nThe Department for Transport said it had given huge support to the sector.\n\nThe aviation industry sees airport testing as a way for passengers to leave quarantine early, and also help the travel industry get back on its feet after lockdown.\n\nForeign travel was paralysed for several months by the pandemic, with airlines, airports and tour firms shedding thousands of jobs.\n\nDerek Provan, chief executive of AGS Airports, which runs Southampton, Aberdeen and Glasgow, said the sector was seeing more job losses than the demise of the coal industry in the 1980s.\n\n\"That's surely not an accolade any government would like to have,\" he said.\n\nMr Provan said the government was \"overseeing the demise of UK aviation\".\n\nFrance and Germany are already using testing at airports for passengers arriving from countries with a higher infection rate.\n\nMinisters in the UK have for months been considering whether to back testing at UK airports.\n\nThey are said to be looking at a two-test system to reduce the risk of someone who recently contracted the virus giving a \"false negative\" result.\n\nUnder that system two negative results, several days apart, would mean someone would not have to quarantine for the full 14-day period.\n\nShai Weiss, chief executive of Virgin Atlantic, said testing was \"essential\" to help kick-start the economy.\n\n\"Without free and fast travel with the US, we won't see a rebound of aviation and this will stall the economic recovery of the UK, which of course is already in recession,\" he said.\n\nA pilot project was set up at Heathrow to trial coronavirus testing but it is currently not in operation because the tests have not been endorsed by the government.\n\nWith the list of countries on the UK's quarantine list changing every week, the boss of Heathrow said travellers to and from Britain were facing \"quarantine roulette\".\n\nHolidaymakers returning from countries on the UK's quarantine list are required to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nCountries are normally added to the list when they record more than 20 cases per 100,000 people in the past week.\n\nLast week, Switzerland, Jamaica and the Czech Republic joined France, Spain and a number of others on the list.\n\nMinisters are expected to decide later whether Portugal and Greece should be added.\n\nScotland put Greece on its quarantine list following reports of people in the UK testing positive after holidaying on the island of Zakynthos.\n\nJohn Holland-Kaye said the government needed to change its approach. \"I think the government has been very cautious, really focusing on the health crisis and yet we have an unemployment crisis looming.\n\n\"The UK government needs to get behind testing as an alternative to quarantine to save millions of jobs in this country,\" he said.\n\nThe impact of air travel crisis was underlined on Wednesday when Heathrow said it was in talks with unions about pay cuts for about 2,500 staff. The move was needed to protect jobs, the airport said.\n\nAviation bosses also want \"regional travel corridors\" when certain parts of a country have a low infection rate.\n\nMr Provan said calls for regional travel corridors and testing at airports were falling on deaf ears. \"We are not getting any response back from the government.\"\n\nAnd he said that this was causing \"huge frustration\" across an industry that was already having to shed tens of thousands of jobs.\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Transport said: \"We provided unprecedented support to the aviation industry - taking early action on airport slots, loans, tax deferrals, and paying people's wages through the furlough scheme.\n\n\"While protecting public health remains our priority, we are working closely with experts to keep our approach to quarantine under constant review,\" the spokesman said.", "Online retail giant Amazon has said it will create a further 7,000 UK jobs this year to meet growing demand.\n\nAmazon said it had already added 3,000 roles so far in 2020, and so by the end of the year it will have created a total of 10,000 new jobs.\n\nThis will take its total permanent UK workforce to more than 40,000.\n\nAmazon says the new jobs will be permanent and pay a minimum of £9.50 an hour. It is also recruiting 20,000 seasonal posts for the festive period.\n\nThe company has faced criticism in the past from unions over the way it treats staff and health and safety.\n\nThe coronavirus crisis and lockdowns, which saw many High Street shops temporarily closed, prompted massive growth in online shopping, benefiting online giants such as Amazon.\n\nThe latest retail sales figures showed that UK online sales in July were more than 50% higher than pre-pandemic levels in February.\n\nOnline sales as a proportion of all UK retail sales hit a record high of more than 30% in May, before falling back to more than 28% in July.\n\nAmazon took on thousands of temporary workers during the pandemic, and it says many of them will now be able to move into these new permanent roles.\n\nThe company is recruiting at more than 50 sites. It said the creation of the new roles, which will include engineers, graduates, human resources, IT, health and safety and finance specialists, as well as the teams who will pick, pack and ship customer orders, was in response to growing customer demand.\n\n\"At the centre of the job creation programme are three new, state-of-the-art fulfilment centres in Darlington, Durham and Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, each fitted out with advanced Amazon Robotics technology and each creating more than 1,000 new permanent roles,\" the firm said in a statement.\n\n\"Construction of these new fulfilment centres began last year. Darlington started operations in May and the sites in Durham and Sutton-in-Ashfield will launch later this autumn.\"\n\nAmazon's \"huge expansion\" in the UK \"comes as little surprise, given the massive surge in sales the tech giant has experienced, as the e-commerce sector boomed during the pandemic,\" said Susannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"Despite spending billions of dollars gearing itself up to operate through the coronavirus crisis, Amazon still delivered a huge increase in profits during the second quarter.\n\n\"With expansion planned right across the UK, High Street retailers are going to have to deliver some dramatic changes if they're to compete with the king of e-commerce,\" she added.\n\nThe news that Amazon is creating another 7,000 permanent jobs should perhaps come as no surprise. Amazon has now quadrupled its workforce from 10,000 to 40,000 in the last five years and the onset of COVID-19 has accelerated a very clear trend towards online rather than physical retail.\n\nJust last week, Tesco announced it was creating 16,000 new permanent posts as they reported that online sales which had taken 20 years to reach 9% of their sales took just 20 weeks to nearly double to 16%.\n\nBoth Amazon and Tesco had hired thousands of temporary workers to cope with that demand - both clearly feel this shift is permanent.\n\nAt a time when many people are losing their jobs - announcements of thousands of new jobs are welcome. But the rise and rise of Amazon has been mirrored by the decline and recent fall in overall retail employment.\n\nAs Amazon has added 30,000 jobs in five years, The Office for National Statistics says there are 106,000 fewer total retail jobs over the same period which doesn't even include the COVID impact.\n\nAmazon is often criticised for paying too little tax but taxes are levied on profits and Amazon's retail business works on close to zero profit margins. That is very hard to compete with.\n\nBusiness Secretary Alok Sharma said the pandemic had been a \"challenging time for many businesses\" but that the new Amazon jobs were \"hugely encouraging\".\n\nMany firms - especially High Street retailers - have been cutting jobs in recent months, due to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and as the government's jobs retention scheme starts to wind down.\n\nThe number of employees on UK payrolls fell by 730,000 between March to July, according to the most recent figures.\n\nHowever, while many sectors have been hit hard, some companies have been recruiting.\n\nCourier firm DPD and B&Q owner Kingfisher said in June that they would be hiring thousands more staff.\n\nSupermarkets, which saw a surge in demand for online deliveries due to the pandemic, have also been hiring.\n\nTesco said in August that it would create 16,000 permanent jobs after lockdown led to \"exceptional growth\" in its online business.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "French authorities are \"just as committed\" as the UK to stopping migrants crossing the Channel in small boats, MPs have been told.\n\nThe Home Affairs Select Committee heard evidence from Dan O'Mahoney, the Home Office's clandestine Channel threat commander, who said France had stopped 3,000 people crossing in 2020.\n\nOn Wednesday, a record 416 migrants crossed the Channel from France.\n\nMr O'Mahoney said almost 200 were stopped by the French on the same day.\n\nCiting one example from Wednesday, he told the committee: \"[They] stopped a very large Rib [rigid inflatable boat] with unbelievably 63 people on it from leaving the beach.\n\n\"There is a lot of joint working and it is delivering results.\"\n\nHowever, the former Royal Marine who reports directly to the Home Secretary, conceded: \"It's nowhere near the level we'd like it to be and that is frustrating.\"\n\n\"Their professionalism and skill is notable and the humanity with which they treat migrants is genuinely impressive,\" he said.\n\nThe committee was also told many migrants are forced on to small boats and some who arrive in England \"don't even want to come to the UK\".\n\nMr O'Mahoney said: \"We hear a lot of stories about migrants who are literally forced on to boats, have no idea where they are when they get to the UK, because the facilitators don't get paid until they've done that last leg of the journey.\"\n\nTravel restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic, better security at the Channel Tunnel and recent good weather \"has had a significant impact in the increase in crossings [in small boats],\" he added.\n\nMore than 7,400 migrants have crossed the Channel in small boats since January 2019.\n\nAbi Tierney, director general of UK visas and immigration at the Home Office, said the numbers of those seeking asylum had dropped from more than 10,000 in the first three months of the year to 5,789 in the second three months.\n\n\"France, Germany, Italy and Greece accept a much larger proportion of asylum seekers - they stay there, and a small number come to us,\" she said.\n\nShe said of the 5,000 migrants arriving so far this year, 98% had claimed asylum.\n\nAbout half of those applications have been considered so far, she said, with 71% rejected because the UK was not the responsible country - the migrants had travelled through a safe country before arriving in the UK.\n\nFrench authorities have stopped 3,000 people making the crossing this year, Mr O'Mahoney said\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The owners of Millers of Speyside took the decision to close the factory for 14 days\n\nAn abattoir in the Highlands has been shut down after an increase in cases in a Covid-19 cluster.\n\nTwenty-nine of the 31 cases in the Grantown on Spey area are linked to the town's Millers of Speyside meat processing factory.\n\nA nursery in Boat of Garten has closed and visiting to local care homes has also been suspended due to the rise from five cases earlier in the week.\n\nNHS Highland said its health protection team was carrying out contact tracing.\n\nHighland Council has offered support to people who are having to self-isolate.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said an investigation was ongoing to find any \"themes\" to the outbreak and whether any additional measures were required to tackle it.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Highland Council This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Highland Council\n\nNHS Highland said the owners of Millers of Speyside had taken the decision to shut for two weeks, and were assisting in an investigation of the outbreak.\n\nHighland Council said Deshars Primary's nursery was closed until 8 September on the advice of NHS Highland's public health team as part of its test and protect investigation. The primary school remains open.\n\nA council spokeswoman said: \"All Highland Council educational settings are following rigorous controls including enhanced cleaning, and hand hygiene, and the wearing of face coverings in secondary schools in corridors and at break-out times.\"\n\nThe cluster in the Grantown on Spey area has increased from five earlier this week\n\nNHS Highland said there was currently no evidence that food was a source of Covid-19, and it was \"very unlikely\" it could be transmitted through the consumption of food.\n\nDr Tim Allison, director of public health at NHS Highland, said: \"NHS Highland and partners are working together to manage this community outbreak.\n\n\"Our health protection team is following up with contacts and the appropriate advice is being given to those identified.\n\n\"We would also like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that the virus can recur even in rural communities and so everyone should continue to adhere to physical distancing guidelines, wear a face-covering when in enclosed spaces, clean your hands and surfaces regularly and immediately self-isolate if you develop symptoms.\"\n\nSandy Milne, managing director at Millers of Speyside said the company had \"worked tirelessly\" through the pandemic to ensure continued food production.\n\nHe said: \"To prevent further spread of the virus among both our employees and the local community, we have opted to close our facility for 14 days.\"\n\nAlan Clarke, chief executive at Quality Meat Scotland, said the red meat industry had taken precautions to tackle Covid-19.\n\nShe said: \"Millers of Speyside, like other Scottish food businesses, has whole-heartedly embraced these measures and has followed all guidelines, to isolate the spread of infection, protecting the health and wellbeing of their workforce and the local community.\"\n\n\"We wish those who have been infected a speedy recovery.\"", "[L-R] Bill Bailey, Clara Amfo, HRVY and Jacqui Smith will all hit the dancefloor\n\nFormer home secretary Jacqui Smith has been confirmed as the 12th and final celebrity contestant on this year's Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nSmith will join with stars including Bill Bailey, Clara Amfo, and HRVY.\n\nThe 2020 series will begin in October but will be shorter than usual, and judge Bruno Tonioli will have a reduced role amid coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe contestants will be staying in a hotel for two weeks ahead of pre-recording all the group dances.\n\nThe BBC also confirmed they will be able to rehearse, perform and go home to their family each night - following government guidelines.\n\nJacqui Smith was confirmed as the final celebrity dancer on Steve Wright's Radio 2 show on Friday afternoon.\n\nThe former Labour politician became the UK's first female home secretary in 2007 - under then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown - and has since worked as a political broadcaster.\n\n\"I was speechless with excitement at being asked to join Strictly - and that's very rare for me,\" said Smith.\n\n\"Fifty years ago, I got a bronze medal for Scottish Highland Dancing and it feels about time to return to dancing.\"\n\n\"I couldn't be in better hands with the Strictly team and I'm going to throw myself into the challenge. Watch out!\" she added.\n\nSmith is now the chair of the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and Sandwell Children's Trust. She also has a podast, called For the Many, that she presents with broadcaster Iain Dale.\n\nHRVY has a social media following of more than 10 million\n\nHRVY was revealed as a contestant on the Kiss breakfast show and said he was \"so thankful to be taking part\".\n\nThe pop singer, whose real name is Harvey Leigh Cantwell, has more than a billion combined streams to his name.\n\nHe has a social media following of more than 10 million and performed at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend in Middlesbrough last year.\n\nThe 21-year-old rose to fame after uploading his music videos to Facebook. He has since sold out UK and European tours and his debut album will be out later this year.\n\n\"Being on Strictly is going to be such an amazing experience and I'm so thankful to be taking part this year,\" he said.\n\n\"I think my mum is more excited that she'll be able to see me every Saturday night now!\"\n\nMaisie Smith is an actress and singer is best known for playing Tiffany Butcher-Baker in EastEnders.\n\n\"Get me in those sequins,\" she said, reacting to the news of her announcement.\n\n\"I can't wait to dive into the Strictly fancy dress box this winter!\"\n\nBefore storming into Albert Square as Bianca's daughter, Tiffany, Smith made her acting debut in the 2008 film, The Other Boleyn Girl - alongside Scarlett Johansson and Eddie Redmayne.\n\nHer role in the long-running BBC soap saw her scoop the award for best dramatic performance from a young actress, at the 2009 British Soap Awards.\n\nJamie Laing returns to the show this year, after having to pull out of last year's series before it began due to an injury.\n\nHe became a household name in 2011 on the Channel 4 reality show, Made in Chelsea, and this year launched his own podcast, 6 Degrees from Jamie and Spencer, alongside Spencer Matthews.\n\nHe also founded the sweets brand, Candy Kittens, in 2012.\n\n\"Here we go again, hopefully this time I can last long enough so my mum can see me dance,\" said Laing.\n\nHe added: \"The reason I'm doing it, is to make my mum proud but all I did last year was make her even more disappointed. Let's change that this year, can't wait!!\"\n\nJJ Chalmers' career as a Royal Marine Commando was cut short after he suffered life-changing injuries following an IED explosion in Afghanistan.\n\nThe blast crushed an eye socket, burst his eardrums, destroyed his right elbow, blew off two fingers on his left hand and left holes in his legs.\n\nAfter years of rehabilitation, including more than 30 operations, he went on to compete in the 2014 Invictus Games where he captained the Trike Cycling team and took home three medals.\n\nHe later embarked on a career in broadcasting, presenting coverage of the Rio Paralympics and anchoring BBC One's coverage of the Invictus Games.\n\nComparing Strictly to his military experience, he told ITV's Lorraine: \"I'm always looking for a challenge, I'm always looking to push myself outside of my comfort zone.\"\n\nDespite his injuries, Chalmers said he wanted to be treated like \"any other contestant\" and didn't want any \"special treatment\".\n\n\"Whoever I partner with they've got their work cut out,\" he added.\n\nBill Bailey is an comedian, actor and musician is known for appearances on TV shows like QI, Black Books and Never Mind the Buzzcocks.\n\n\"In these strange times we're living through, it feels right to do something different and take on a new challenge,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"I haven't been to stage school and learnt to dance. I haven't lived for the dance... I'm not really Lord of the Dance. I'm caretaker of the dance,\" he joked. \"It's going to be quite a challenge but then that's what this is about, taking on a new skill.\"\n\nBailey, 55, made his name on the stand-up circuit before becoming a regular panel show guest, TV and film actor, documentary presenter, and host of the BBC sketch show Is It Bill Bailey?\n\nHe is also a classically-trained musician and has published a guide to British birds. On Wednesday, in a review of his first live gig for six months, The Daily Telegraph said he \"remains one of the funniest, most brilliantly original comedians in the UK\".\n\nClara Amfo, who hosts BBC Radio 1's late morning slot, aid she \"couldn't wait to fully embrace\" the experience of Strictly.\n\nIn recent years, Amfo has presented coverage of Glastonbury, the Brit Awards, Radio 1's Big Weekend, the Bafta TV Awards and The Proms.\n\n\"As we know this year has been a real challenge and escapism through dancing is something I know we all enjoy,\" she said.\n\n\"So to be taught by a pro and live a fantasy is something that I can't wait to fully embrace, see you on the dancefloor!\"\n\nRanvir Singh is Good Morning Britain's political editor and occasional host, and also appears on other ITV programmes including Loose Women, Tonight and Eat, Shop, Save. She is about to start co-hosting a new Sunday morning show, All Around Britain.\n\nSingh said she felt \"complete terror\" at the idea of taking part, likening it to \"embarking on a rollercoaster\".\n\nShe previously worked as a producer and reporter for the BBC for 12 years, and presented BBC North West Tonight.\n\nSingh said: \"The initial feeling of being confirmed for Strictly is one of complete terror - feels like embarking on a rollercoaster, where you really want to do it but you are equally scared.\n\n\"Hopefully after the first dance I will feel exhilarated rather than sick!\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOlympic boxer Nicola Adams will make Strictly Come Dancing history by becoming the first contestant to be part of a same-sex pairing.\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast she was the one who suggested having a female partner when producers asked her to take part.\n\n\"I think it's really important,\" she said. \"It's definitely time for change.\n\nAdams won a gold medal for Great Britain at the London 2012 Olympics, and again in Rio in 2016. She retired from the sport last year.\n\nAward-winning actress and presenter Caroline Quentin is known for a range of acting roles, including Maddie in Jonathan Creek and DCI Janine Lewis in Blue Murder.\n\nShe has also starred in Kiss Me Kate, Life Begins and Life of Riley.\n\nHowever, arguably her most famous role was playing Dorothy in the hit 90s sitcom Men Behaving Badly.\n\nShe recently presented the documentary series Extraordinary Homes for BBC Two.\n\nQuentin said she was \"thrilled and terrified in equal measure to be taking part\" in this year's Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nHe played as a cornerback/safety in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys.\n\nBell then played for the Houston Texans, where he was named a recipient of the Ed Block Courage Award, one of the league's highest honours. He finished his professional career with the New York Giants.\n\nBell now co-hosts The Jason & Osi Podcast with another former NFL star, Osi Umenyiora, and the pair appear as pundits on the NFL Show on the BBC.\n\n\"Strictly is the epitome of British television and this year, more than ever, I'm so proud and humbled to be participating,\" he said.\n\n\"Strictly was the first show I ever watched when I moved to the UK and I'm a massive fan. My six-year-old daughter never got the chance to see me run out on the field at an NFL game but she is very excited about me taking to the dance floor. I hope I can do her proud.\"\n\nSinger and actor Max George shot to fame as a member of boy band The Wanted.\n\nHis former bandmate, Jay McGuiness, previously won Strictly Come Dancing in 2015.\n\nGeorge said he was \"buzzing to be on Strictly this year\", joking: \"I'm not really one for the dance floor, but I take a lot of comfort in the fact that Jay McGuiness set The Wanted's bar so low.\"\n\nThe Wanted had two number one singles in the UK - All Time Low and Glad You Came - with the latter reaching the top three in the US Billboard chart.\n\nAfter The Wanted took a break, Max moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career and starred in the sixth season of Glee as Clint. He recently returned to music as a solo artist.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "Cheap steroids can save the lives of patients who are critically ill with Covid-19, studies show.\n\nThe findings confirm the results of an earlier trial, which has already led to steroids being used widely for Covid patients in intensive care.\n\nThe new results, published in JAMA, show eight lives would be saved for every 100 patients treated.\n\nThe researchers said the findings were impressive, but stressed steroids were not a coronavirus cure.\n\nIn June, the UK's Recovery trial found the first drug - a steroid called dexamethasone - that could save the lives of people with severe Covid.\n\nThe latest study brings together all clinical trials involving steroids on coronavirus patients around the world.\n\nIt confirms dexamethasone works and that another steroid, hydrocortisone, is equally effective.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Katherine Millbank spent 15 days in hospital and was part of the Recovery trial\n\n\"At the beginning of the year, at times it felt almost hopeless knowing that we had no specific treatments,\" said Prof Anthony Gordon, from Imperial College London.\n\n\"It was a very worrying time, yet less than six months later we've found clear, reliable evidence in high quality clinical trials of how we can tackle this devastating disease.\"\n\nThe studies were on only the sickest hospital patients. Most people recover having only experienced mild symptoms.\n\nSteroids calm down inflammation and the immune system, which is why they are already used in conditions like arthritis and asthma, as well as in some severe infections.\n\nThe drugs are not thought to be helpful in the early stages of a coronavirus infection - when symptoms include a cough, fever or a sudden loss of taste or smell.\n\nBut as the disease develops, the immune system can go into overdrive, damaging the lungs and other organs.\n\nIt is this stage of Covid that steroids are thought to help with.\n\n\"At the point at which you reach for an oxygen cylinder for a patient with Covid, you probably should be reaching for the prescription for corticosteroids,\" said Prof Martin Landray, from the University of Oxford.\n\n\"These results are instantly useable; they are widely available, cheap, well-understood drugs that reduce mortality.\"\n\nDoctors are already using dexamethasone after the results earlier in the year, but the hope is that having the choice of different drugs will increase access to the treatment around the world.\n\nThe drugs can either be swallowed as tablets or given via intravenous drip.\n\nThe research so far has focused on low doses of steroids. There is no evidence that higher doses would be more effective.\n\nNew guidelines for doctors are expected to be released by the World Health Organization.\n\nIn the UK, NHS chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said: \"Just as we did with dexamethasone, the NHS will now take immediate action to ensure that patients who could benefit from treatment with hydrocortisone do so, adding a further weapon in the armoury in the worldwide fight against Covid-19.\"", "This Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Star Trek on CBS All Access This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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End of twitter post by Star Trek on CBS All Access\n\nSci-fi franchise Star Trek is set to introduce its first transgender and non-binary characters.\n\nThe characters are to appear in the third series of Star Trek: Discovery, producers said on Wednesday.\n\nThe trans character, Gray, will be played by trans actor Ian Alexander, and likewise non-binary Adira will be portrayed by Blu del Barrio.\n\n\"Star Trek has always made a mission of giving visibility to underrepresented communities,\" said a producer.\n\nThe show's co-runner and executive producer Michelle Paradise added: \"It believes in showing people that a future without division on the basis of race, gender, gender identity or sexual orientation is entirely within our reach.\"\n\nThe programme, which will begin again next month on US TV network CBS, previously featured the first married gay characters in the franchise's history; while Sonequa Martin-Green also became the first Black woman to lead a Star Trek TV series.\n\nIn an interview with GLAAD del Barrio said: \"When I got the call that I'd been cast as Adira, I hadn't yet told the majority of my friends and family that I was non-binary.\n\n\"So when this happened, it felt like the universe saying 'go ahead'.\"\n\nAnthony Rapp, one of the show's stars, tweeted: \"I cannot wait for you all to meet these beautiful souls and wonderful artists. I am so so so proud of them and happy that they are a part of our show\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "The Prime Minister visited an HS2 construction site on Friday\n\nConstruction work on HS2 officially begins on Friday, with companies behind the controversial high-speed rail project expecting to create 22,000 jobs in the next few years.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said HS2 would \"fire up economic growth and help to rebalance opportunity\".\n\nHe endorsed the rail link in February, with formal government approval granted in April despite lockdown.\n\nBut critics said HS2 will also cost jobs, and vowed to continue protesting.\n\nHS2 is set to link London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It is hoped the 20-year project will reduce passenger overcrowding and help rebalance the UK's economy through investment in transport links outside London.\n\nHS2 Ltd chief executive Mark Thurston said the reality of high-speed journeys between Britain's biggest cities had moved a step closer.\n\nWhen the project was mooted in 2009, it was expected to cost an estimated £37.5bn and when the official price tag was set out in the 2015 Budget it came in at just under £56bn.\n\nBut an official government report has since warned that it could cost more than £100bn and be up to five years behind schedule.\n\nSome critics of HS2 describe it as a \"vanity project\" and say the money would be better spent on better connections between different parts of northern England. Others, such as the Stop HS2 pressure group, say it will cause considerable environmental damage.\n\nThe prime minister said HS2 was at the heart of government plans to \"build back better\" and would form \"the spine of our country's transport network\".\n\n\"But HS2's transformational potential goes even further,\" he added. \"By creating hundreds of apprenticeships and thousands of skilled jobs, HS2 will fire up economic growth and help to rebalance opportunity across this country for years to come.\"\n\nHS2's main works contractor for the West Midlands, the Balfour Beatty Vinci Joint Venture, has said it expects to be one of the biggest recruiters in the West Midlands over the next two years.\n\nUp to 7,000 skilled jobs would be required to complete its section of the HS2 route, it said, with women and under-25s the core focus for recruitment and skills investment.\n\nHS2 Ltd's Mr Thurston said the railway would be \"transformative\" for the UK.\n\n\"With the start of construction, the reality of high speed journeys joining up Britain's biggest cities in the North and Midlands and using that connectivity to help level up the country has just moved a step closer,\" he added.\n\nSpecial tunnelling machines will be needed for sections of the line\n\nCampaign group Stop HS2 said Boris Johnson and others who hail the creation of 22,000 jobs are \"rather less keen to mention that HS2 is projected to permanently displace almost that many jobs\".\n\nStop HS2 campaign manager Joe Rukin said: \"Trying to spin HS2 as a job creation scheme is beyond desperate. Creating 22,000 jobs works out at almost £2m just to create a single job.\"\n\nBut speaking on the BBC's Breakfast programme, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps disputed those figures.\n\n\"I can't see how there's an argument that making it easier to get about this country is somehow going to destroy jobs, quite the opposite in fact. It's clearly going to make the economy level up\", he said.\n\n\"Find those left behind areas, that have found themselves too disconnected before and join it together.\"\n\nStop HS2 chairwoman Penny Gaines called the project \"environmentally destructive\" to wildlife: \"This is why there are currently hundreds of activists camped out along the HS2 route. We don't expect them to go away any time soon.\"\n\nHowever, the Northern Powerhouse Partnership (NPP), which fights for investment in the regional economy, said such major infrastructure projects are transformative and called for the planned extensions of HS2 to be started as soon as possible.\n\n\"Increasing capacity on the North's rail network and better connecting our towns and cities will be vital in the economic regeneration of the Northern Powerhouse - both now and long in the future,\" said Henri Murison, director of the NPP.\n\nThis is an important symbolic move for HS2, but in the real world it changes very little.\n\nWork preparing for the new line - demolishing buildings and clearing sites for example - has already been going on for the past three years. And in some areas, construction work has also begun.\n\nBut the arguments over whether or not the railway should actually be built are continuing to rage.\n\nThe government has long insisted that it will help re-balance the country's economy, by promoting investment outside London. It now says the jobs created by the scheme will support the post-Covid recovery.\n\nBut opponents claim that lockdown has undermined the case for HS2 - by showing how easily people can work remotely, and how little business travel is really needed.\n\nSame dispute, new arguments. But now shovels are - officially - in the ground.\n\nThe government has also defended itself against criticism that the new line will no longer be needed, as people travel less as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Shapps acknowledged more people are working at home, but said the government was looking at the country's long term transport needs:\n\n\"We're not building this for what happens over the next couple of years or even the next 10 years, whilst we're building it. We're building this, as with the west coast and the east coast main lines, for 150 years and still going strong.\n\n\"I think it actually shows a lot of faith in the future of this country,\" he added.", "Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt were killed by a knifeman who had been released from jail on licence\n\nA catalogue of failings have been found in the way people convicted of terror-related offences are monitored by the authorities in England and Wales.\n\nAn independent review found \"gaps\" in the powers used to check up on such offenders.\n\nAnd it highlighted an \"unreliable\" flow of information about their behaviour, such as remarks \"glorifying\" terrorism.\n\nThe review was launched after convicted terrorist Usman Khan killed two people in an attack in London in November.\n\nKhan had been on licence from prison when he fatally stabbed Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt at Fishmongers' Hall near London Bridge on 29 November last year.\n\nJustice Minister Chris Philp said the government was legislating to require terrorism offenders to take lie detector tests - a measure the report endorses - and said other proposals were being considered.\n\nJonathan Hall QC, who conducted the review, said the authorities tended to \"over-focus\" on the impact of restrictions on offenders when they were let out - rather than considering the \"overall risk\" they posed.\n\nHe said meetings involving different public protection agencies, such as the police, the prison service and probation officers, were \"dominated by information exchange rather than active management\", with a single case taking two hours to discuss.\n\nMr Hall criticised a risk assessment tool used by the Prison and Probation Service in England and Wales, which he said \"seriously minimised\" the severity of terrorism offences and \"accepted the offender's characterisation (and in some cases denials)\" of their crimes.\n\n\"It was suggested to me that one possible reason was that [the risk assessment tool] is often completed by a prison psychologist, in a therapeutic context in which the offender's 'buy-in' to the process is deemed to be particularly important,\" he said.\n\nAmong other problems the report found a \"significant gap\" in the authorities' ability to monitor the risk of terrorism posed by \"dangerous\" offenders convicted of non-terror related offences.\n\nIt also said opportunities to reduce the risk offenders posed was \"lost\" because of an \"unreliable\" flow of information about their behaviour in prison, such as comments \"glorifying\" terrorism, overheard by jail staff.\n\nMr Hall added that there was a \"surprisingly limited\" circle of knowledge about terrorism offenders in the community, with police borough commanders in London \"not always aware\" of the identity of such individuals in their area.\n\nHe called for a \"cultural shift\" so that information was shared more widely.\n\nThe report, which makes 45 recommendations, was completed in May - three months after a second attack involving a released terrorism prisoner.\n\nSudesh Amman, had recently been freed from prison when he stabbed two people on Streatham High Road, in south London in February.", "Nicola Sturgeon has warned that coronavirus is spreading again in Scotland as she defended restrictions that have been imposed in the Glasgow area.\n\nA further 101 cases have been confirmed in Scotland - 53 of them in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board area.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the transmission rate of the virus had increased slightly over the past week.\n\nAnd she said doing nothing to stop the spread was not an option.\n\nThe first minister warned that the recent increase in cases \"should be a wakeup call for all of us\" in sticking to rules and helping to suppress the spread of Covid-19.\n\nRestrictions on visiting other households were reintroduced in Glasgow, West Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire earlier this week in response to concerns about a rising number of cases in the area.\n\nHowever, the 53 new cases in Greater Glasgow and Clyde on Thursday was lower than the previous day's figure of 86.\n\nAt her daily coronavirus briefing, Ms Sturgeon said the \"R number\" - effectively the reproduction rate of the virus - was now above one, and potentially as high as 1.4.\n\nShe said this \"is of slightly less concern when the overall prevalence of the virus is low\".\n\nBut she added: \"Nevertheless, this is a reminder that the virus is spreading again just as it is elsewhere in the UK and Europe and across the world.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said the recent rise in cases should be a wake-up call for the country\n\nThe first minister said: \"The situation in these parts of Greater Glasgow and Clyde I really think should be a wake up call for all of us.\n\n\"Numbers of new cases are high in those areas and that's why we've had to impose some restrictions, but new cases have been increasing in many parts of Scotland in the past fortnight.\n\n\"All of us, wherever we live, have to be more careful than ever about sticking to all of the rules and guidance and trying to minimise the chances we're giving the virus to spread.\"\n\nThere has been some criticism of the decision to impose restrictions on household meetings in the Glasgow area while leaving hospitality venues like bars and restaurants open.\n\nPubs across Aberdeen were closed last month and travel restrictions imposed in response to an outbreak in the city - leading to claims of a \"west coast bias\".\n\nPubs in Aberdeen were closed in response to a cluster of cases in the city - but have remained open in Glasgow\n\nThe first minster said she knew it could appear \"counter-intuitive and difficult for people to understand\" why similar measures had not been introduced in Glasgow.\n\nBut said she was now able to pursue a \"much more targeted and much more proportionate\" response to local clusters.\n\nShe said: \"What we know from the analysis so far is that there is not - as there was in Aberdeen - an obvious connection between positive cases and pubs and clubs. It appears that it is more household transmission.\n\n\"I want to be clear that it is not just house parties. There might be an element of that, but it is also family transmission in smaller gatherings, where the virus spread from one household to another but it might just be an extended family coming in.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was this information that led to the decision to impose household restrictions but not close pubs.\n\nThe first minister added: \"The analysis we now get through test and protect enables us to be much more targeted and proportionate rather than what we were faced with earlier in the year of simply imposing a blanket lockdown everywhere that really meant everybody had to stay at home.\n\n\"Because these decisions have been guided by the analysis that has been done, hopefully these measures are effective - but of course we can't know that for sure.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon insisted that \"nobody is being punished\" by the measures, and said she has had to cancel a visit to her own parents as a result of the new restrictions.\n\nShe said: \"I wish we could say we have a cluster here that was caused definitively by one person, and we put them under restrictions, but that's not how a virus operates.\n\n\"The risk is that it spreads in all sorts of different ways and unfortunately it is population-based measures we have to use to stop that happening.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keir Starmer says Boris Johnson must extend the job retention scheme as it was “desperately needed”.\n\nBoris Johnson was accused of \"governing in hindsight\" over a series of U-turns, as he appeared before MPs at PMQs for the first time since July.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer claimed the prime minister was \"making it up as he goes along\".\n\nAnd he said even Mr Johnson's own MPs had \"run out of patience\" after what he claimed was 12 U-turns over the summer.\n\nThe PM hit back by calling Sir Keir \"captain hindsight\" over the exam results debacle.\n\nHe accused the Labour leader of \"leaping on a bandwagon, opposing a policy that he supported two weeks ago\".\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford claimed Mr Johnson had made eight U-turns this year - and he called for a ninth to extend the government's job retention scheme, which ends next month, echoing a call made by Sir Keir.\n\nThe PM insisted \"indefinite furlough\" was not the answer to help the economy through the pandemic.\n\nWith grumblings on the Tory benches about the government's recent performance Boris Johnson needed a good PMQs to mark the return to parliament.\n\nHis political opponents - perhaps unsurprisingly - criticised the number of policy U-turns in recent months.\n\nWhile ministers have repeatedly said they're responding to changing science as the pandemic progresses, the speed and frequency of policy shifts is the crux of concern among some Conservative backbenchers.\n\nKeir Starmer returned to what some supporters have called a \"forensic\" style of questioning in pushing the prime minister for detail on the exam results crisis.\n\nBoris Johnson responded with a wide-ranging attack on the Labour leader which led to a tetchy exchange.\n\nBut with another shift in policy - this time on local lockdowns in Trafford and Bolton - taking place as the prime minister was at the dispatch box, it seems unlikely his performance was enough to silence critics - including those within his own party.\n\nIn heated exchanges, Sir Keir told the PM: \"This has been a wasted summer. The government should have spent it preparing for the autumn and winter.\n\n\"Instead, they have lurched from crisis to crisis, U-turn to U-turn.\"\n\nHe accused the government of \"serial incompetence\", and asked: \"Will the prime minister take responsibility and finally get a grip?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ian Blackford calls on the government to “change tack for a ninth time” and extend the job retention scheme.\n\nMr Johnson hit back by citing a series of alleged U-turns made by Sir Keir in the past and - in a reference to his predecessor as Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn - accusing him of supporting \"an IRA-condoning politician who wanted to get out of Nato\".\n\nSpeaker Sir Lindsey Hoyle intervened to warn the prime minster \"to answer the questions that have been put\" to him.\n\nA clearly angry Sir Keir said: \"As Director of Public Prosecutions, I prosecuted serious terrorists for five years, working with the intelligence and security forces and with the police in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"I ask the prime minister to have the decency to withdraw that comment.\"\n\nSpeaking afterwards, Labour sources said they would not be taking the matter further, but added that the PM had supported a peerage for former Brexit Party MEP, Claire Fox, who had once been a member of a far left party which defended an IRA attack,", "Mark Zuckerberg wrote that the election would not \"be business as usual\"\n\nFacebook has announced that it will not take on any new political ads in the seven days prior to the US election on 3 November.\n\nHowever, the firm will still allow existing ads to continue to be promoted and targeted at different users.\n\nHe said that he was \"worried\" about divisions in the country potentially leading to civil unrest.\n\nHe added that Facebook would also label posts from candidates attempting to declare victory before the votes had been counted.\n\nThe social network has faced criticism for allowing political ads to be \"micro-targeted\" on its platform so that they are only seen by small communities rather than debated more widely in the days after they appear.\n\nThe Mozilla Foundation has claimed that this makes it easier for politicians and their supporters to parade fiction as fact and avoid being called out on it until it is too late, particularly as Facebook has previously said ads placed by candidates would not be fact-checked.\n\nThe new steps could serve as a precedent for how the firm handles elections elsewhere in the future.\n\nFacebook also revealed that it would remove videos of President Trump encouraging voters in North Carolina to vote twice, which is illegal.\n\nAny videos of Mr Trump's comments without contextualising information would be taken down, the firm said in a statement: \"This video violates our policies prohibiting voter fraud and we will remove it unless it is shared to correct the record.\"\n\nPresident Trump has repeatedly claimed the election could be \"rigged\" due to voter fraud.\n\nHowever, there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in previous polls.\n\n\"This election is not going to be business as usual,\" Mr Zuckerberg wrote.\n\n\"With our nation so divided and election results potentially taking days or even weeks to be finalised, there could be an increased risk of civil unrest across the country,\" he added.\n\nIn an effort to stymie the spread of rumours and deliberate falsehoods on Facebook, the firm has said it will implement a series of measures:\n\nMr Zuckerberg also said that Facebook had also \"strengthened\" its enforcement policies against movements known to spread conspiracy theories, such as QAnon.\n\nThousands of Facebook groups associated with these movements had already been removed, he said.\n\nThe moves have, however, attracted criticism.\n\nThe chief of Media Matters for America - a liberal media monitoring body - described it as being a pointless PR stunt.\n\n\"They will still let political ads be rerun and targeted to new groups during [the last] week so long as the ad was run and had one impression before 27 October,\" tweeted Angelo Carusone.\n\n\"So, you can run a bad ad now, pause it and then reuse it that week.\"\n\nAn academic who specialises in how tech and politics interact made a related point.\n\n\"Campaigns will produce and run thousands of pieces of creative in the days before the cut off so they can run the final week,\" said Daniel Kreiss, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.\n\nWhat Mark Zuckerberg is really concerned about here is system lag.\n\nHe knows the period before - and after - the US elections are likely to be toxic on Facebook.\n\nPaid political adverts usually take time to analyse. Decisions around placing warnings on ads, or even taking them down, can take days.\n\nAnd close to election day that could cause an enormous headache for Facebook, as the heat ratchets up.\n\nWe already knew of his worries about fake news and voter suppression.\n\nBut what's also interesting here is the period he's flagged between voting and the declared result. As he acknowledges, it could take days for a winner to be announced.\n\nZuckerberg has identified this potential legitimacy vacuum as a great danger for the US. He believes it could be the setting for civil unrest in America.\n\nThat's why he's flagging up early that anyone looking to delegitimise the vote will be targeted by Facebook moderators.\n\nConsidering Trump is already questioning the legitimacy of the election that could get very, very messy.", "Eyewitnesses say the paddle steamer struck the pier\n\nA total of 24 people have been injured after the paddle steamer Waverley collided with Brodick Pier in Arran.\n\nThe Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said \"a number have been taken to hospital\" following the incident.\n\nPeople stranded in Arran were later due to be returned to the mainland by an emergency sailing of a CalMac ferry.\n\nPolice, paramedics, coastguards and rescue helicopters were scrambled to the scene after the alarm was raised at about 17:15 on Thursday.\n\nMCA said 213 passengers and 26 crew were on board the vessel when it struck the pier.\n\nOne passenger, Graham McWilliams, told BBC Scotland's The Nine about the moment of collision.\n\nHe said: \"As we came into the pier, everything seemed quite normal.\n\n\"Then there was a sudden crash, a loud bang, and the boat stopped very quickly. I saw people falling and it was quite distressing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Waverley crash: 'I saw one lady fly past the window'\n\nHe added: \"There was a lady that I saw who literally flew past the window.\"\n\nMr McWilliams said that, several hours after the accident, passengers were still milling about the ferry terminal at Brodick.\n\nHe said it was unclear if they would be able to leave the island or whether accommodation could be found for them.\n\nTransport Secretary Michael Matheson later tweeted to say arrangements had been made for CalMac to operate an emergency sailing to take the Waverley passengers back to the mainland.\n\nRita McLeod, who was waiting to board the Waverley, said she saw people being taken away in ambulances.\n\n\"We were actually queued up waiting to get in when it crashed,\" she said. \"It came in bow first. It came in far too fast.\"\n\n\"We saw a lot of people falling, a few people fell over. There were people taken away in ambulances.\n\n\"We saw a lot of people, pretty badly shaken, coming off.\"\n\nThe ship was due to into Brodick at about 17.00 after leaving Greenock in the morning.\n\nA fire engine and other emergency services were visible from the terminal building\n\nAnother eyewitness saw the crash from the departure terminal as she waited to board.\n\nAnne Cochrane from Bishopbriggs near Glasgow, said: \"It just crashed into the pier when it was coming back from the Holy Isle. We're just stuck in the departure terminal. We've had no information.\"\n\nThe Marine Accident Investigation Branch has been informed of the incident.\n\nThe Waverley has just returned to service after undergoing repairs\n\nThe Waverley set sail for the first time in two years less than two weeks ago, an event which was itself delayed due to an \"unexpected technical and administration issue\".\n\nThe ship, described as the world's last seagoing paddle steamer, missed the 2019 season as it waited for urgent repairs.\n\nA funding appeal was launched in June 2019 and it hit its target in December after receiving a £1m grant from the Scottish government to help with the restoration.\n\nThis paddle steamer, built by A & J Inglis of Glasgow and first launched in October 1946, has been involved in accidents before.\n\nIt struck the breakwater at Dunoon with 700 passengers on board, 12 of whom suffered minor injuries, in June 2009\n\nIn July 1977 it was badly damaged when it struck rocks near Dunoon.\n\nIn 2017, it was involved in another incident when it crashed into the pier at Rothesay.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said \"swift and decisive action\" had been needed\n\nParts of Greater Manchester will not have lockdown restrictions eased as planned following a government U-turn.\n\nMeasures in Bolton and Trafford were due to be eased overnight after a fall in cases earlier in August.\n\nBut they will \"now remain under existing restrictions\" following \"a significant change in the level of infection rates over the last few days\", the government announced.\n\nThe region's mayor Andy Burnham said the U-turn had been \"complete chaos\".\n\nThe boroughs had been due to allow people from different households to meet indoors and businesses to offer close contact services such as facials, but that has now been halted.\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said the decision was made \"in collaboration with local leaders after reviewing the latest data\" which showed infection rates had more than trebled in Bolton in under a week and doubled in Trafford since the last review.\n\n\"We have always been clear we will take swift and decisive action where needed to contain outbreaks,\" he added.\n\nA spokesman for Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer described the U-turn as \"utterly chaotic\" and it gave people \"no confidence in the government's approach\".\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Mr Burnham compared the government's weekly announcements on local coronavirus restrictions as \"like waiting for the white smoke out of the Vatican\".\n\n\"It's not working, it's confusing people, it's causing anger and resentment,\" he added.\n\n\"In my view, it's local councils that need to be in the driving seat here, working then in consultation with the government.\"\n\nTrafford's Labour council leader Andrew Western tweeted: \"We should never have been put in this mess in the first place; this has massively damaged public confidence in measures.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Andrew Western This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBolton Council leader David Greenhalgh said it would have been \"irresponsible not to recognise the unpredicted spike we have seen in Bolton\".\n\nHe said he recognised \"many people will be extremely frustrated and annoyed by this decision\" but the borough had recorded the second highest increase in positive cases in the country.\n\nA Covid-19 spike in Bolton and Trafford prompted council bosses to ask for restrictions to remain in place a day before they were due to be lifted.\n\nBolton currently has one of the highest rates of new virus cases per 100,000 residents in England.\n\nChris Green, Conservative MP for Bolton West, had argued that restrictions should be eased in his constituency.\n\nBut, following the U-turn, he said the government had based its decision on recent data which he hadn't seen.\n\nHe has since tweeted to say he was \"disappointed at how this important decision has been communicated because of the impact this will have on people's lives\".\n\nLockdown restrictions were eased on Wednesday in Stockport, Burnley, Hyndburn, parts of Bradford, excluding Bradford city and Keighley town, parts of Calderdale, excluding Halifax, and parts of Kirklees, excluding Dewsbury and Batley.\n\nAccording to government rules, people living in these areas can now:\n\nMeasures were imposed at the end of July amid a rise in cases.\n\nStockport has joined Wigan in being allowed to have two households socialise indoors.\n\nBut in Bolton, Trafford, Manchester, Salford, Rochdale, Bury and Tameside it is still banned. In Oldham people are advised not to meet up with other households outdoors as well.\n\nThe rise in cases in Trafford and Bolton shows how quickly the situation with coronavirus can change.\n\nOn Friday the government announced it was easing the localised lockdown restrictions in parts of Greater Manchester from Wednesday - a decision it has now reversed in those two areas.\n\nPointing to data for the week to 20 August, it said \"cases in Bolton and Stockport fell from 25.6 (per 100,000 residents) to 18.9, and 23 to 15.1 respectively, and Trafford fell from 27.1 to 17.8.\"\n\nYet even then, there was concern that the rate was rising. The Labour leader of Trafford Council, Andrew Western, said the more recent data had shown a \"slight increase\".\n\nBy Tuesday, the spike in Bolton had also become apparent and council leaders in both areas were calling for the easing of restrictions to not go ahead.\n\nAccording to data released on Tuesday evening, Trafford's rate for the week to 29 August was more than 35 cases per 100,000.\n\nIn Bolton it was 59 cases per 100,000, driven in particular by high numbers of cases on 27, 28 and 29 August.\n\nCatalina Sastra, who runs the Party and Play, funhouse in Bolton was planning to re-open next week but said the changes were confusing.\n\n\"We're teetering on the edge... we are due to open with an online booking system, temperature reading, we've had all the screens put up... but it's just if it's on or if it's off\", she said.\n\n\"It's a bit like playing hokey-cokey. Are we in or are we out?\"\n\nBolton has had its highest seven-day rate since late May\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokeswoman said: \"We are working closely with leaders and local authorities across Greater Manchester and Lancashire in response to the changing situation and we keep all local restrictions under constant consideration.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "California state legislator Buffy Wicks was denied a request to vote by proxy after giving birth to her daughter on 26 July.\n\nAssembly members at risk for Covid-19 were given the choice to vote remotely during the pandemic, but Ms Wicks was denied the option because maternity leave was deemed not to be a high-risk category.\n\nAssembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, who denied the request, has apologised.", "Ministers have defended former Australian PM Tony Abbott amid reports that he is being lined up for a role in post-Brexit trade talks.\n\nTrade Minister Greg Hands told MPs he welcomed Mr Abbott's desire to \"help this country out\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he had \"real concerns\" and \"wouldn't appoint\" Mr Abbott if he were PM.\n\nMr Abbott says he has had talks with UK ministers about a role but it has yet to be officially confirmed.\n\nOpposition and some Tory MPs say he is unfit to represent the UK due to his views on climate change and past \"misogynist\" and \"homophobic\" comments.\n\nA group of equality activists - including actor Sir Ian McKellen and Doctor Who writer Russell T Davies - have also written an open letter against Mr Abbott's appointment, saying: \"This man is not fit to be representing the UK as our trade envoy.\"\n\nMr Abbott's position would be as a member of the UK board of trade, a panel of experts that is being put together to advise International Trade Secretary Liz Truss.\n\nAsked about the potential appointment in the Commons, Mr Hands said: \"No appointments have been confirmed, but personally I welcome the fact that a former prime minister of Australia is willing to help this country out.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock was asked on Sky News about concerns surrounding Mr Abbott's attitude towards women and homosexuality.\n\nMr Hancock said he did not believe Mr Abbott is homophobic or misogynistic, and when pushed, he added: \"He is also an expert on trade.\"\n\nReports that Mr Abbott, who was Australia's prime minister between 2013 and 2015 is being lined up to work alongside Liz Truss have been met with anger from UK opposition parties and some Conservative MPs.\n\nLabour MPs Chris Bryant and Wes Streeting, who are both gay, accused Mr Hancock of hypocrisy after the health secretary tweeted about the \"fantastic\" new LGBT-inclusive relationships and sex education programme introduced in schools.\n\nMr Bryant said: \"So why on earth would you countenance Tony Abbott as a trade envoy?\"\n\nMr Streeting tweeted: \"Matt, we know you're a social liberal with a decent voting record on LGBT equality. That's why your defence of Tony Abbott was even more nauseating.\"\n\nSir Keir said: \"I have real concerns about Tony Abbott, I don't think he's the right person for the job. If I was prime minister, I wouldn't appoint him.\"\n\nLabour MP Marie Rimmer added: \"Surely there's trade experts who aren't homophobic and misogynists? Britain deserves better than Tony Abbott representing us on the world stage.\"\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Abbott's coronavirus views were \"deeply offensive and wrong\" and he was not fit to be a trade envoy.\n\n\"But Tony Abbott, before these comments, is a misogynist, he's a sexist, he's a climate change denier,\" she told Sky News.\n\n\"Trade, in many respects, should reflect our values - there should be ethics attached to any country's trading profile.\"\n\nLiz Truss is in charge of negotiating trade deals with other countries\n\nInternational Trade Secretary Liz Truss was later asked in the Commons about the possible appointment.\n\nFollowing criticism from Labour MP Ruth Cadbury, Ms Truss said: \"I think it's absolute hypocrisy to hear this type of argument from the Labour Party.\n\n\"This is a party that has never elected a female leader despite having the opportunity time and time again.\n\n\"The reality is they'd rather virtue signal and indulge in tokenism rather than take real action to improve the lives of women.\"\n\nLabour's Christian Matheson said: \"The appointment of the sexist and homophobic Tony Abbott is also the appointment of a climate change denier.\n\n\"So does this indicate the government is moving away from any commitment in trade deals to maintain environmental protection? And if not, why have you put him in the job?\"\n\nMs Truss replied: \"The reality is that those on the left of politics are always intolerant of anyone who doesn't agree with them but are prepared to defend anything from their own friends.\"\n\nConservative MP and chair of the Commons foreign affairs committee Tom Tugendhat was asked about the criticism of Mr Abbott.\n\nSpeaking on BBC News, he said: \"I would like to see people from the United Kingdom representing the regions and nations.\n\n\"Businessmen, politicians and industry leaders from Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and the different regions from Cornwall and Kent and wherever else in between, making the case that isn't simply trade based on a few narrow industries.\"\n\nMr Abbott who led Australia's Liberal Party between 2009 and 2015, was challenged about some of his past comments at a hearing of Mr Tugendhat's select committee on Tuesday.\n\nLabour MP Claudia Webbe quoted remarks attributed to him in 2012, that men were by physiology or temperament, more adapted than women to exercise authority and issue commands, and asked if, in the light of that opinion, he would have difficulty accepting the authority of Liz Truss.\n\nMr Abbott said he \"wasn't sure\" he had ever used those words, and that it \"doesn't sound like anything I've said\".\n\nThe former Australian prime minister is said to have struck up a friendship with Boris Johnson when he was foreign secretary.", "An emergency airlift to Berlin from Omsk was organised for Mr Navalny\n\nSeveral prominent critics of Kremlin policies - ex-spies, journalists and politicians - have been poisoned in the past two decades.\n\nIn the UK, two Russian ex-secret service agents were targeted: Alexander Litvinenko fatally with radioactive polonium-210 in 2006, and Sergei Skripal with the toxic nerve agent Novichok in 2018. The Kremlin denied any involvement.\n\nAlexei Navalny, who has been physically attacked before, appears to be the latest victim. Yet much remains unclear.\n\nMysterious poisonings involving Russians often remain mysterious - a distinct advantage for assassins, compared with say an old-fashioned shooting in the street.\n\nProf Mark Galeotti, a Russia expert at the Royal United Services Institute, told the BBC that \"poison has two characteristics: subtlety and theatricality\".\n\n\"It's so subtle that you can deny it, or make it harder to prove. And it takes time to work, there's all kinds of agony, and the poisoner can deny it with a sly wink, so everyone gets the hint.\"\n\nAlexei Navalny is Russia's best-known anti-corruption campaigner and opposition activist. His slick, hard-hitting videos on social media have drawn many millions of views, and made him a thorn in the side of the Kremlin.\n\nFor years Mr Navalny has rallied his supporters across Russia\n\nA victim poisoned before a long flight can be stuck in the air long enough for the assassin to make an easy getaway. Mr Navalny, 44, fell acutely ill on a flight from Tomsk in Siberia on 20 August - so ill that it had to be diverted to Omsk.\n\nRussian investigative reporter and Putin critic Anna Politkovskaya, shot dead in 2006, claimed to have been poisoned on a flight to the North Caucasus in 2004, when she felt sick and fainted.\n\nSimilarly, a slow-acting poison - polonium-210 - killed Litvinenko excruciatingly and it was weeks before the rare toxin was identified. As an alpha-particle emitter its radiation was not detected by a Geiger counter.\n\nThe two alleged Russian killers - state agents, according to the subsequent UK inquiry - had plenty of time to fly home unsuspected.\n\nMr Navalny has accumulated many enemies in Russia, not just among supporters of President Vladimir Putin, whose United Russia party he labels \"the party of crooks and thieves\". Mr Putin was a secret service officer in the Soviet KGB before becoming president in 2000.\n\nMr Galeotti says that in this case \"the Russian state seems to have been caught off-balance, which implies it wasn't a centrally planned operation\". \"This suggests it was the act of a powerful Russian, but not necessarily the state.\"\n\nNow fighting for his life in Berlin's Charité hospital, Mr Navalny is in an induced coma, being treated for \"poisoning with a substance from the group of cholinesterase inhibitors\".\n\nThe hospital says the specific toxin remains unknown - tests are being done to identify it. But the poison's effect - inhibition of the enzyme cholinesterase in the body - \"was confirmed by multiple tests in independent laboratories\".\n\nThat is the effect of military nerve agents, such as sarin, VX or the even more toxic Novichok. They interfere with the brain's chemical signals to the muscles, causing spasms, shortness of breath, heart palpitations and collapse.\n\nMr Navalny's spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh suspects that poison was slipped into the cup of black tea he drank at a Tomsk airport cafe. He had not eaten anything before the flight, she says.\n\nThat ominously echoes the case of Litvinenko, who drank poisoned tea in a London hotel.\n\nA prominent anti-Putin activist based in the US, Vladimir Kara-Murza, says he suffered similar symptoms to Mr Navalny's in 2015 and 2017. His alleged poisoning remains a mystery.\n\nPoison, he told the BBC, \"is becoming sort of a favoured tool of Russian security services\" and \"a sadistic tool\".\n\n\"It is excruciating to go through this... I had to learn to walk again after the first poisoning and coma.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vladimir Kara-Murza on the dangers to President Putin's critics\n\nWhen the plane landed in Omsk on 20 August medics rushed Mr Navalny into intensive care already comatose, and put him on a ventilator.\n\nMr Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov says the Berlin doctors' diagnosis of poisoning is not yet conclusive, so it is too early to launch an official investigation. Earlier he said the Kremlin wished Mr Navalny well, when permission was granted to fly him to Berlin.\n\nThere is speculation that the delay in Omsk, before Mr Navalny's transfer to Berlin, could have helped erase traces of the poison.\n\nThe Omsk doctors have also been criticised for suggesting that the problem was a \"low blood sugar level\" and apparently failing to spot nerve agent symptoms.\n\nDr Konstantin Balonov, a US-based anaesthesiologist, told BBC Russian that that failure was \"strange, to say the least\". Moscow toxicologists also consulted the Omsk doctors and \"they must have concluded that it was a toxin from that [chemical] group\".\n\nThere are suspicions of a cover-up, as unidentified police were quickly on the scene, blocking access. The doctors insisted that no poison was detected in Mr Navalny's urine.\n\nIt has emerged that atropine - an antidote to nerve agent - was administered in Omsk.\n\nBut Mikhail Fremderman, previously an intensive care specialist in St Petersburg, said that \"in poisoning cases such as this, atropine must be given intravenously, for a long period\". That may not have happened in Omsk, he told BBC Russian, adding that the medical data has not been released.\n\nProf Alastair Hay, a leading British toxicologist and chemical weapons expert, says this type of nerve agent is at the \"extremely toxic\" end of a broad spectrum of organophosphates.\n\nThat large group of possible poisons makes the agent already hard to identify. Some much milder organophosphates are used in insecticide and in medical therapies.\n\n\"It only requires a small dose to kill someone, which can be effectively disguised in a drink,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Work carried out at Porton Down is normally highly classified\n\nThere are yet more advantages, from the assassin's point of view. \"A simple blood test doesn't tell you what the agent is - you need a more sophisticated test, very expensive equipment. Many hospital labs don't have that expertise,\" Prof Hay said.\n\nIn the UK, that capability is restricted to Porton Down, a high-security chemical and biological research centre.\n\nThe UK and Russia are among 190 signatories to the global Chemical Weapons Convention, which bans chemical weapons use and research, beyond small quantities allowed for developing antidotes and protective equipment.\n\nAfter the Cold War Russia destroyed its vast chemical weapons stockpile - about 40,000 tonnes - under international supervision, Prof Hay noted.\n\nA biopsy on Georgi Markov revealed this tiny pellet, believed to have contained ricin\n\nExotic chemicals were also used in some Cold War \"hits\" - for example the notorious umbrella killing of Bulgarian anti-communist journalist Georgi Markov in London in 1978. At the time Bulgaria was an ally of the Soviet Union.\n\nThe suspected poison was ricin, released from a tiny pellet found in the autopsy. The killer had stabbed it straight into Markov's bloodstream with the umbrella - a far more potent delivery method than if he had swallowed it.", "A County Fermanagh man has been fined £1,000 for breaching Covid-19 travel rules - the first person in NI to be sanctioned in this way.\n\nIt is understood he went out socialising in Enniskillen on Sunday after returning from holiday in Spain, before later testing positive.\n\nPolice confirmed the fine was issued on Tuesday.\n\nIt comes as it emerged 23 prohibition notices have been issued to bars since they were allowed to reopen on 3 July.\n\nThe notices are issued if a premises breaks coronavirus regulations, and mean the business must rectify the breaches identified by police.\n\nIt does not necessarily mean a premises has to close.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Alan Todd said the notices were served at premises across all counties in Northern Ireland, and had been issued between 8 July and 2 September.\n\nBars with outside areas are able to serve alcohol on a table-service basis, while inside alcohol has to be served along with a meal, also on a table-service basis.\n\nAt the end of August Health Minister Robin Swann said there had been a \"blatant disregard\" for the regulations by some in the hospitality sector.\n\nThe reopening date for indoor pubs which only serve alcohol, theatres and private members' clubs has been pushed back due to the rise in cases of the virus.\n\nAnyone travelling to Northern Ireland from countries not on the so-called green list of exemptions is required to self-isolate for two weeks on arrival.\n\nIt is understood the man who was fined had recently returned from the Balearic Islands, as first reported by the Belfast Telegraph.\n\nACC Alan Todd said the management of Covid-19 travel rules was a matter for UK Border Force, and police acted on its recommendation about potential breaches.\n\nHe said police would also \"act on any significant concerns raised by members of the public\".\n\n\"As always, our approach remains to engage, explain and encourage and, only where necessary, enforce,\" he said.\n\n\"Everyone needs to continue to follow the government's guidance to help suppress the transmission of the virus and support our NHS.\"\n\nHe added it was \"encouraging to see\" that there had been a high level of compliance with the mandatory quarantine on travellers to Northern Ireland.\n• None Could police fine me for exercising?", "Shaun Ennis says there has been an increase in demand from newcomers to caravanning\n\nCaravan dealers in Wales say they have seen an increase in sales since lockdown was eased.\n\nHolidays in self-contained accommodation have been allowed in Wales since 13 July, while shared-facility sites opened two weeks later.\n\nWith quarantine restrictions imposed on several European countries, one caravan park owner said staycations were \"certainly\" up.\n\nDealers said lots of customers were first-time buyers.\n\nShaun Ennis, who runs Ennis Caravans in Cross Hands, Carmarthenshire, said he would normally have 100 unsold caravans in his depot at this time of year, but only has 20 left.\n\n\"Sales have trebled in the short time we've been open since the end of June,\" he said.\n\n\"We've made back the lost four months that we had, and the majority of that is from newcomers into the industry, which is lovely to see. It's been terrific, but also hard work and quite stressful.\"\n\nAngharad Rees, who runs the 3As dealership in Carmarthen, said: \"There's just so much demand.\"\n\nA recent survey by the National Caravan Council, the trade association, said caravan registrations in July were up 20% on the previous year across the UK.\n\nAngharad Rees says there has been \"so much demand\" for caravans\n\nA caravan park owner has also reported an increase in bookings.\n\nHywel Davies, who runs Llwynifan Farm South Wales Touring Park in Llangennech, Carmarthenshire, said he was much busier than usual in September.\n\nHe said: \"Bookings are certainly up on previous years. More people are renting motor homes and caravans now as well to try them out.\n\n\"We've had quite a few people who originally booked to go abroad but that's been cancelled due to the current situation, and many of them are then looking for places so they come to somebody like us instead. Staycations are certainly on the up from what I can see.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rachel Murray, seven, took part in the trial\n\nDiarrhoea, vomiting and abdominal cramps in children could be a sign of coronavirus infection, UK researchers say.\n\nThe Queen's University Belfast team have been studying children and say this may be worth adding to the checklist of symptoms.\n\nCurrently, the officially recognised symptoms in the UK are a fever, cough and loss of smell or taste.\n\nAnyone with any of these should isolate and get tested for the virus.\n\nThe US Centers for Disease Control already lists nausea or vomiting and diarrhoea among possible Covid-19 symptoms.\n\nIn the trial, nearly 1,000 children had their blood tested to see if they had recently caught coronavirus.\n\nThe results, published but not yet peer-reviewed at medRxiv, revealed 68 of the 992 children had antibodies to the virus, suggesting they had been infected with Sars-Cov-2 at some point.\n\nHalf of those who tested positive reported having symptoms.\n\nFever was the most common - reported by 21 of the 68 children who tested positive for coronavirus antibodies.\n\nCough was also common but less specific, being reported as commonly by children who tested negative as those who tested positive.\n\nGastrointestinal symptoms - such as diarrhoea, vomiting and abdominal cramps - were reported by 13 of the 68 children who tested positive for antibodies, and appeared to be significantly associated with coronavirus infection.\n\nLoss of smell or taste was less common - reported by six of the children with antibodies.\n\nNone of the children in the study was seriously ill or needed to be admitted to hospital.\n\nLead researcher Dr Tom Waterfield said: \"We know that, thankfully, most children who get the virus will not be very ill with it - but we still do not know how much children may be spreading it.\"\n\nIn the study, testing only those children with fever, cough or changes in smell or taste would have identified 26 out of 34 or 76% of the symptomatic cases.\n\nAdding gastrointestinal symptoms would have identified nearly all - 33 out of 34 or 97% - of the symptomatic cases, he explained.\n\n\"We are finding that diarrhoea and vomiting is a symptom reported by some children and I think adding it to the list of known symptoms is worth considering,\" Dr Waterfield said.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care official said: \"An expert scientific group keeps the symptoms of Covid-19 under review as we increase our understanding of the virus.\n\n\"Anyone in England experiencing the main symptoms of coronavirus - a high temperature, a new continuous cough, or a loss or change to sense of smell or taste - should get a test as soon as possible.\"", "A dementia charity is seeking a judicial review of the government guidance on care home visits.\n\nJohn's Campaign says many care homes in England are still refusing regular face-to-face visits, often essential for people with severe dementia.\n\nDr Angela McIntyre, a retired doctor backing the campaign, has not seen her 92-year-old mother since March.\n\nA Department of Health spokesman said: \"We know limiting visits in care homes has been difficult for many families.\"\n\nHe added: \"Our first priority is to prevent infections in care homes, and this means that visiting policy should still be restricted with alternatives sought wherever possible.\n\n\"Visiting policies should be tailored by the individual care home and take into account local risks in their area.\"\n\nBut John's Campaign believes the guidance does not take into account how important visits from family members are for dementia patients and believes it could be in breach of the law.\n\nIt cites the case of Dr McIntyre's mother, Joan, who is bed-bound and isolated in her top-floor room.\n\nThe charity said: \"Her daughter's visits [were] previously her only comfort. It's now six months since Angela has been allowed to visit Joan despite advising that she would take all infection-control precautions and only enter her room via the fire exit stairs.\n\n\"Instead she has been told that she will only be permitted when her mother is dying.\"\n\nJohn's Campaign co-founder Julia Jones, whose mother June spent the last two-and-a-half years of her life in a care home, said: \"We know we're speaking for thousands who are experiencing extraordinary bewilderment and anguish.\n\n\"We can only hope that the government will waste no more of these people's precious time and will give clear direction and the necessary support for their needs and wishes to be respected.\"\n\nRosie, pictured as a child with her mother, says she used to have visitors every day\n\nWhen Rosie was finally allowed to visit her mother in her care home in June, after months of lockdown, she was shocked to see her dementia had worsened.\n\nDuring the August heatwave, and after a spell of not eating, Rosie's mother had begun refusing liquids - a grim sign which led carers to allow Rosie to spend more time with her mother, as long as she wore PPE.\n\nBeing able to hold her mother's hand in her final days \"felt really important\" and Rosie was \"really grateful I could be there\".\n\n\"But at the same time, 30 minutes and a carer would come and say 'you need to leave now',\" she told BBC Radio 4's Sanchia Berg.\n\nWhile Rosie was grateful to the carers who allowed her longer visits in the last days before her mother's death, Rosie said she felt like the months of lockdown where no visits were allowed had led to her mother's decline.\n\nIn comparison with paid carers on varied shifts, Rosie says her family \"were the constant in understanding my mum's needs\" - and that family members should therefore be \"considered equal to paid care staff\" when it comes to access to care homes.\n\nJohn's Campaign has instructed two legal firms who, it says, are \"in the process of preparing a pre-action letter, the first stage of a legal challenge\" against the government's advice.\n\nIn July, other leading charities, including Dementia UK and the Alzheimer's Society, wrote to the health secretary demanding relatives of care home residents with dementia should be treated as key workers.\n\nThe letter also noted the \"inconsistency\" of the visiting guidance across the UK nations.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harry and Meghan at the Commonwealth Service at Westminster Abbey in March\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex have reached a deal with streaming giant Netflix to make a range of programmes, some of which they may appear in.\n\n\"Our focus will be on creating content that informs but also gives hope,\" said Prince Harry and wife Meghan.\n\n\"As new parents, making inspirational family programming is also important to us,\" they continued.\n\nNetflix chief Ted Sarandos said he was \"incredibly proud\" the royal couple had made the company \"their creative home\".\n\nThe multi-year deal will encompass documentaries, docu-series, feature films, scripted shows and children's programming.\n\nIt comes six months on from the couple stepping down from royal life and moving to California to live away from the media spotlight.\n\n\"Our lives, both independent of each other, and as a couple have allowed us to understand the power of the human spirit: of courage, resilience, and the need for connection,\" said the couple in a statement.\n\n\"Through our work with diverse communities and their environments, to shining a light on people and causes around the world, our focus will be on creating content that informs but also gives hope.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Harry can currently be seen in Paralympics documentary Rising Phoenix\n\n\"As new parents, making inspirational family programming is also important to us, as is powerful storytelling through a truthful and relatable lens.\"\n\nThe pair said they were \"pleased to work with Netflix, saying its \"unprecedented reach\" would \"help us share impactful content that unlocks action\".\n\nSarandos said Netflix was \"excited about telling stories\" with the couple \"that can help build resilience and increase understanding for audiences everywhere\".\n\nAccording to Deadline, projects already in development include \"an innovative nature docu-series and an animated series that celebrates inspiring women\".\n\nThe royal couple will make their shows for Netflix under the banner of an as yet unnamed production company.\n\nThe Duke of Sussex can currently be seen on the streaming service in Rising Phoenix, a documentary about the Paralympic Games.\n\nMeghan previously partnered with Disney to narrate Elephant, a documentary about the species for its Disneynature outlet.\n\nThis week's announcement follows the recent publication of Finding Freedom, a book about the couple's life in the Royal Family.\n\nA spokesman for the Sussexes said they had not been interviewed for the book, which describes a culture of increasing tension between the Sussexes and other family members.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ignition: This solid rocket booster will be used for missions to the Moon\n\nEngineers have fired a booster rocket that will help send Americans back to the Moon in 2024.\n\nAt 20:05 BST (15:05 EDT) the booster, which was secured to the ground, expelled an immense column of flame for two minutes.\n\nTwo of these booster types will form part of Nasa's huge Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, the biggest launcher built since the Saturn V in the 1960s.\n\nWednesday's rocket firing was carried out at a test site in Promontory, Utah.\n\nThe facility is operated by aerospace giant Northrop Grumman.\n\nThe huge Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) provide most of the thrust in the first two minutes of the SLS's ride to space.\n\nThe test was designed to investigate the performance and manufacturing quality of the booster's rocket motor. It will also help teams evaluate potential new materials, processes, and improvements for the boosters beyond the first landing on the Moon in 2024.\n\nMeasuring 54m (177ft) long and 4m (12ft) wide, the SLS booster is the largest and most powerful solid propellant booster ever built.\n\nTwo SRBs sit on either side of the SLS core stage\n\nIt burns around six tonnes of propellant every second, generating more thrust than 14 four-engine jumbo commercial airliners.\n\nCharles Precourt, vice president, propulsion systems at Northrop Grumman and a former Nasa astronaut, said: \"It's important to me to ensure we have what is necessary to establish a presence on the Moon and then go on to Mars.\n\n\"Testing our rocket boosters is how we can help ensure astronauts can explore space safely.\"\n\nThe SLS consists of a huge core stage with four engines at its base. Two SRBs are attached on each side of the core and provide 75% of the thrust during the first two minutes of the ascent to space.\n\nBoth the core and boosters are derived from technology used in the space shuttle, which was retired in 2011.\n\nAble to produce a total thrust of more than eight million pounds, the SLS will supply the power necessary to launch crewed missions to the Moon, and eventually - it is hoped - Mars.\n\nNasa plans to launch the giant rocket on its maiden flight next year. This mission, called Artemis 1, will see an unpiloted Orion capsule sent on a loop around the Moon.\n\nTeams at Nasa's Kennedy Space Center are already assembling the solid rocket boosters for this mission.\n\nFor Artemis 2, four astronauts will travel around the Moon in 2023, followed a year later by the first crewed landing since 1972.\n\nMeanwhile, engineers in Mississippi have resumed their \"Green Run\" testing of the massive SLS core stage, after operations were paused in response to the threat from tropical storms Marco and Laura.\n\nThe B-2 test stand at Nasa's Stennis Space Center, where the SLS core stage is being put through its paces\n\nThe Green Run consists of eight tests, four of which have been completed since the core stage arrived at Nasa's Stennis Space Center near Bay St Louis in January. The fifth, which has just started, will aim to check out rocket controls and hydraulics.\n\nNasa's head of human spaceflight Kathy Lueders said she hoped the programme could stay on track for a \"hot fire\" test in October.\n\nDuring the hot fire, all four of the powerful RS-25 engines at the base of the core stage are fired for about eight minutes - the time it takes for the SLS to get from the ground to orbit.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Oliver Gard, known as Ollie, was born on the day after what would have been his brother Charlie's fourth birthday\n\nThe parents of Charlie Gard, who was at the centre of a legal row over his treatment before he died, have said they have been \"blessed\" by the birth of another son.\n\nOliver Gard was born the day after what would have been Charlie's fourth birthday and has not inherited his brother's rare genetic condition.\n\nCharlie died in 2017 after a legal bid for experimental treatment was refused.\n\nConnie Yates and Chris Gard said: \"We never thought we'd be happy again.\"\n\n\"As soon as I found out I was pregnant I felt happier, like I could smile again,\" Ms Yates told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"I think before, I would plaster a smile on and say 'yeah I am OK' all the time. But now I feel I can smile and mean it.\"\n\nCharlie had encephalomyopathic mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome - a rare genetic condition - and died in a hospice aged 11 months.\n\nCharlie Gard appeared perfectly healthy at birth but his health soon began to deteriorate\n\nDoctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital said he could not see, hear or move and had irreversible brain damage.\n\nThey argued it was not clear if he could feel pain and said he should be allowed to die with dignity, but Charlie's parents fought for him to be given an experimental treatment in the US.\n\nTheir battle attracted worldwide attention and drew support from Donald Trump and Pope Francis but ended in defeat with a High Court ruling.\n\nMr Gard said: \"After we lost Charlie I just felt like a part of us died with him.\"\n\n\"We will always live the 'what if Charlie was given the treatment?'\n\n\"After I lost Charlie I didn't think I could love another boy like I did him.\n\n\"So when he [Oliver] was born a lot of it was relief, because I felt like I did with Charlie and just this instant rush of love.\"\n\nConnie Yates and Chris Gard raised more than £1.3m for experimental treatment for Charlie\n\nThere was a chance Oliver, who was born on 5 August, might also have Charlie's rare genetic condition but he was born healthy.\n\nMs Yates' contractions began on what would have been Charlie's birthday at about the time Charlie was born, Mr Gard said.\n\n\"I just feel that Charlie has had a massive part to play in making his brother healthy.\"\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.", "Portugal has been added to Scotland's quarantine list\n\nPassengers arriving in Scotland from Portugal after 04:00 on Saturday will have to self-isolate for 14 days, the Scottish government has confirmed.\n\nFrench Polynesia has also been added to Scotland's quarantine list.\n\nAnd travellers from Gibraltar have been warned that the territory was \"high up our watch list\" by Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf.\n\nEarlier this week Scotland announced similar quarantine restrictions for travellers from Greece.\n\nMinisters said they considered targeting regions of Portugal with the quarantine rule but ultimately decided a \"whole country approach\" was necessary.\n\nMr Yousaf said people should \"think very hard\" before embarking on non-essential travel during the pandemic.\n\n\"With Scotland's relatively low infection rate, importation of new cases is a significant risk to public health,\" he added.\n\n\"I would also encourage people who have returned to Scotland from Portugal or French Polynesia in the last few days to be particularly careful in their social contacts and to ensure they stick to the FACTS.\n\n\"I am also concerned by the level of infections in Gibraltar and we will be monitoring the situation there very carefully.\"\n\nHe said they were in regular discussions with the other three governments in the UK.\n\n\"We continue to closely monitor the situation in all parts of the world and base the decisions we make on the scientific evidence available,\" he said.\n\n\"The requirement for travellers to quarantine for 14 days on arrival from a non-exempt country is vital to help prevent transmission of the virus and to suppress it - not doing so poses a significant risk to wider public health across Scotland.\"\n\nWhen Derek Burt's mother was diagnosed with MND six weeks ago, she asked for \"one more trip\" - a holiday with her family.\n\nWith trips to Florida and Croatia already cancelled, when quarantine restrictions were lifted two weeks ago they settled on Portugal.\n\nAlthough the virus rates seemed on the high-side, he \"assumed the government knew what they were doing\" and would not return the country to the quarantine list.\n\n\"How stupid was I to show any faith in our countries' decision-makers?\" he said.\n\nThey have had an amazing week, and his mother was able to fulfil her wish to watch her grandchildren playing in the pool of their villa.\n\nBut now the family from Dunfermline in Fife is racing to get home to beat the new restrictions that come into force at 04:00 on Saturday.\n\nMr Burt said he is \"incredibly frustrated\" by the decision of the Scottish and Welsh governments, describing it as a \"complete shambles\".\n\nThe Scottish government will monitor the situation in Gibraltar carefully\n\nThe decision follows the Welsh government's announcement that travellers to Wales from six Greek islands and mainland Portugal would have to isolate from 04:00 on Friday.\n\nHowever, arrivals to England and Northern Ireland from Portugal and Greece will not be subject to the same restrictions.\n\nUK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Breakfast that the different rules across the UK were confusing for travellers, and said it was similar to the way lockdown had been applied across the four nations.\n\nHe added: \"We look at the data and then we do speak - but I'm afraid quite often come to slightly different outcomes which I appreciate is confusing for people\".\n\nHe described Portugal as being on a \"borderline\", adding that \"the opinion of England and Northern Ireland is that it did not justify quarantine this week\".\n\nThe seven-day infection rate in Portugal has increased from 15.3 to 23 per 100,000 people.\n\nA seven-day rate of 20 per 100,000 is the threshold above which the UK government generally considers triggering quarantine conditions.\n\nHolidaymakers have only been able to travel from Scotland to Portugal without quarantine restrictions since 22 August, when it was added to the government \"exemptions\" list..\n\nIt follows the addition of Greece to Scotland's quarantine list, which came into force on Thursday;\n\nMinisters blamed the decision on a \"significant rise\" in coronavirus cases being brought into Scotland from people who had been to Greece.\n\nThe moves have been criticised by leading figures in the aviation industry, who have compared job losses in the industry to the demise of the coal industry in the 1980s.\n\nThey want to see Covid-19 testing at airports so passengers can leave quarantine early.", "The Rock made the announcement in an Instagram video\n\nDwayne \"The Rock\" Johnson says he and his family had all contracted Covid-19.\n\nThe former wrestler, who is now the world's highest-paid actor, said he, his wife and two daughters caught the virus despite being \"disciplined\" about health protection.\n\nHe said the positive tests were \"a kick in the gut\".\n\nNow, he added: \"We're on the other end of it and no longer contagious. Thank God, we're healthy.\"\n\nJohnson and his family live in the US, which has recorded more than 6.1 million coronavirus cases and over 185,700 deaths linked to the disease.\n\nThe actor, 48, said he and his wife Lauren, 35, and their daughters Jasmine and Tiana, aged four and two, contracted the virus about two-and-a-half weeks ago.\n\nThe American-Canadian actor said his daughters had exhibited mild symptoms, explaining they \"had a sore throat for the first couple of days, but other than that they bounced back and it's been life as normal\".\n\n\"But it was a little bit different for Lauren and I,\" Johnson said. He said he and his wife \"had a rough go\" - without detailing his exact symptoms - but together they \"got through it as a family\".\n\nJohnson said they caught the virus from \"very close family friends\" who, in turn, had no idea how they had been infected.\n\n\"I can tell you that this has been one of the most challenging and difficult things we have ever had to endure as a family,\" Johnson said in a video posted to his Instagram account.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by therock This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Testing positive for Covid-19 is much different than overcoming nasty injuries, or being evicted or even being broke, which I have been more than a few times.\n\n\"My number one priority is to always protect my family.\n\n\"We are counting our blessings right now because we're well aware that it isn't always the case that you get on the other end of Covid-19 stronger and healthier.\"\n\nHe suggested several ways his fans could mitigate the risks of coronavirus, including leading a healthy lifestyle and wearing a face mask.\n\n\"It baffles me that some people out there, including some politicians, will take this idea of wearing masks and make it part of a political agenda,\" Johnson said.\n\n\"It has nothing to do with politics. Wear your mask. It is a fact. And it is the right thing to do.\"\n\nPresident Donald Trump, and other conservative politicians in the US, have been criticised for downplaying the need to wear masks and politicising the idea.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains how to wear your mask correctly and help stop coronavirus spreading\n\nJohnson followed his father Rocky to become a professional wrestler and a World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) star.\n\nHe became a huge success in the sport before turning to acting, starring in blockbuster movies such as The Scorpion King, Fast & Furious 6 and the Jumanji franchise.\n\nLast month, he was named the highest-paid male actor for a second year in a row, earning $87.5m (£67m) between June 2019 and June 2020, including $23.5m for the Netflix thriller Red Notice, according to Forbes magazine.", "Security camera footage from eSalon SF shows Nancy Pelosi without a mask over her face\n\nUS House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said her visit to a San Francisco hair salon in breach of coronavirus rules was a \"setup\".\n\n\"I take responsibility for trusting the word of a neighbourhood salon,\" the top Democrat told reporters on Wednesday. \"It turns out it was a setup.\"\n\nShe visited the eSalon SF on 31 August, despite a ban on such services indoors in the Californian city.\n\nMrs Pelosi was also pictured in the salon without a mask over her face.\n\nThe California lawmaker has often criticised President Donald Trump for refusing to wear a mask.\n\n\"I take responsibility for trusting the word of a neighbourhood salon that I've been to over the years many times,\" Mrs Pelosi said in a testy press conference in San Francisco when asked about the incident.\n\nShe said eSalon SF had told her they could accommodate one guest at a time.\n\n\"I trusted that - as it turns out it was a setup,\" Mrs Pelosi said. \"So I take responsibility for falling for a setup and that's all I'm going to say on that.\"\n\nMrs Pelosi has herself previously cited US Centers for Disease Control guidelines recommending that Americans wear face masks in public, especially when physical distancing measures are difficult.\n\n\"I think this salon owes me an apology for setting up,\" she added.\n\n\"We have to get our country moving again and I will not let this subject take away from the fact that we have 185,000 plus people who have died from this virus.\"\n\nMrs Pelosi was seen on security camera footage, obtained by Fox News, wearing a face mask around her neck rather than over her mouth and nose.\n\nDuring the pandemic, she has always worn masks in public and has chastised Republicans for not listening to US health agency guidance.\n\nMr Trump weighed in on Twitter, saying Mrs Pelosi was \"being decimated for having a beauty parlour opened when all others are closed and for not wearing a mask - despite constantly lecturing everyone else\".\n\nA spokesman for the speaker earlier issued a statement saying the business told Mrs Pelosi they were allowed to have one customer inside at a time.\n\nThe salon's owner, Erica Kious, told Fox News a stylist informed her Mrs Pelosi wanted to come in for a wash and blow dry.\n\n\"It was a slap in the face that she went in, you know, that she feels that she can just go and get her stuff done while no-one else can go in, and I can't work.\"", "Henriett Szucs (left) and Mihrican Mustafa were subjected to \"very significant violence\", the trial heard\n\nA convicted sex offender has been found guilty of murdering two women whose bodies were found in his freezer.\n\nThe remains of Henriett Szucs and Mihrican Mustafa were discovered at Zahid Younis's flat in Canning Town, east London, in April 2019.\n\nProsecutors at Southwark Crown Court said Younis preyed on the vulnerable women, subjecting them to \"very significant violence\".\n\nHe received a life sentence, with a minimum jail term of 38 years.\n\nThe four-week trial heard police made the \"grim discovery\" when looking for the defendant at his home following a call about his welfare.\n\nHe was not in but officers gained entry and noticed the lockable freezer, around which flies were gathering.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After Younis refused to return from the cells for sentencing, Ms Mustafa's family spoke outside the court\n\nMs Szucs, 32, originally from Hungary, was last seen alive in 2016 and was killed shortly before the defendant bought the freezer in November that year, the court heard.\n\nYounis's second victim, 38-year-old Ms Mustafa, was last heard from in May 2018.\n\nMs Szucs and Ms Mustafa were \"vulnerable women living somewhat chaotic lives\", including periods of homelessness and drug addiction, the court heard.\n\nJurors were told Younis purchased the freezer shortly after killing Ms Szucs \"for the sole purpose\" of concealing her body.\n\nZahid Younis was in an abusive relationship with Henriett Szucs, the court heard\n\nThe nature of the crime scene meant a cause of death could not be established, but the scientific evidence showed that the women had been subjected to serious violence before their deaths.\n\nThey had both suffered numerous rib fractures while Ms Szucs had sustained \"dreadful\" head injuries and Ms Mustafa's sternum and larynx had been fractured.\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Harding said the freezer had been forced open by one of the officers on \"an old-fashioned police hunch\" about what was inside it.\n\nHe said: \"He broke open the freezer and discovered what could only be seen, at the time, as only one body.\n\n\"It actually took the freezer being taken away and X-rayed for it to be seen there was another body underneath that. It was a gruesome discovery for the officers.\"\n\nThe Met's missing person inquiry into Mihrican Mustafa - which started in 2018 - did not examine vital phone evidence, which would have shown contact with Younis around the time she vanished\n\nDet Ch Insp Harding described Ms Szucs as someone who had been in abusive relationships before and was preyed upon by Younis.\n\nShe moved in with him - although Younis denied having a long-term relationship with her - and \"we have shown that she was really in love with him in her own way\", the detective said.\n\n\"She wrote him letters that we found. Unfortunately to him, she did not mean anything.\"\n\nThe court heard that Younis has several previous convictions for assaulting partners.\n\nA BBC investigation has identified a series of issues relating to the case:\n\nYounis, known as \"Boxer\", denied murder but did admit putting the women in the freezer, pleading guilty to two counts of preventing the lawful and decent burial of a body.\n\nHe claimed he was out when Ms Szucs died at his flat and did not tell police because he was \"panicking\".\n\nThe jury was told he paid a man to help him get Ms Szucs' body into the freezer and that his accomplice later blackmailed him into putting Ms Mustafa's corpse in the same place.\n\nJurors deliberated for over 16 hours before returning majority verdicts.\n\nYounis showed no emotion as the verdicts were read out while members of Ms Mustafa's large family, who attended every day of the three-week trial, said \"yes\" in the public gallery.\n\nHer older sister, Mel Mustafa, said: \"Thank you God, thank you.\"\n\nThe defendant refused to return to court from the cells for sentencing, during which Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb described him as an \"arch deceiver\" who had \"spent a lifetime destroying lives\".\n\nShe added he had shown no remorse about killing \"two beautiful and creative women\" and he might never be released from prison.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n• None How warnings about Heni and Jan's killer were missed\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nThree Paris St-Germain players have tested positive for coronavirus, the Ligue 1 club said on Wednesday.\n\nThe French champions, who lost in the Champions League final last month, have not revealed the players involved.\n\n\"All of the players and coaching staff will continue to undergo tests in the coming days,\" a club statement said.\n\nThe French league is already under way but PSG are due to start their title defence at Racing Lens on 10 September after being given an extended break.\n\nThe opening game of the Ligue 1 season between Marseille and Saint-Etienne had to be postponed last month after four home players tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe French league told clubs last week its protocol for dealing with coronavirus meant more than three positive cases at a club was likely to lead to a postponement.\n\nThe 2019-20 campaign was curtailed in April because of the Covid-19 pandemic, with Paris St-Germain, 12 points clear at the top, awarded the title.", "Tim Davie took over as director general on Tuesday\n\nThe BBC's new director general has said he doesn't support any switch from the licence fee to a subscription service.\n\nIn his first speech since taking over, Tim Davie said such a change \"would make us just another media company\" that serves only \"the few\".\n\nBut he told staff there must be \"a radical shift in our focus\" so everyone gets value from the licence fee.\n\nHe warned that the BBC currently faces a \"significant risk\" and has \"no inalienable right to exist\".\n\nHe said: \"If current trends continue, we will not feel indispensable enough to all our audience. We must evolve to protect what we cherish.\"\n\nThe licence fee is currently guaranteed until 2027, but there is a debate about the BBC's funding beyond that.\n\nThe Gavin and Stacey Christmas special was the most-watched programme of 2019\n\n\"For the avoidance of doubt, I do not want a subscription BBC that serves the few,\" Davie said during the speech in Cardiff.\n\n\"We could make a decent business out of it, and I suspect it could do quite well in certain postcodes, but it would make us just another media company serving a specific group.\"\n\nDescribing the BBC as \"a brilliant national success\", he said: \"We all recognise when someone says, 'I would pay my licence fee for Radio 4, for Strictly, or for the website'.\n\n\"But this kind of connection is under pressure and cannot be taken for granted. Across the UK, across all political views, across all of society, and across all age groups, people must feel their BBC is here for them, not for us.\"\n\nThat would not be achieved by beating rivals at their own game, but by being \"more rather than less BBC, more distinctive, and committed to our unique public service mission\", he explained.\n\nThe top priority would be to \"renew our commitment to impartiality\", he said.\n\nImpartiality is \"the very essence of who we are\" and is possible to achieve even in polarised times.\n\n\"It is not simply about left or right. This is more about whether people feel we see the world from their point of view. Our research shows that too many perceive us to be shaped by a particular perspective.\"\n\nHe added: \"If you want to be an opinionated columnist or a partisan campaigner on social media then that is a valid choice, but you should not be working at the BBC.\"\n\nNew social media guidelines for presenters and staff will be \"rigorously enforced\", he said.\n\n\"Value for all\", the phrase Tim Davie says will define his tenure as DG, is clever. \"Value\" is a commercial idea, and therefore alludes to his background in the private sector and the ferocious competition the BBC faces globally today. And \"all\" connotes the idea of a universal public service.\n\nIn three words, that phrase captures both Davie's heritage and challenge, and the \"enlightened blend\", to borrow his phrase, of free market and public service sensibilities he embodies.\n\nPrint headlines will likely focus on his warning shot, especially but not exclusively to those on air, about impartiality. He thinks social media activism and column-writing don't mix with working for the BBC. The big, as yet unanswered, question is whether he will clamp down on the tweeting of BBC contributors who don't work for BBC News, such as Gary Lineker.\n\nDavie is undoubtedly energetic and decisive, and of the two dozen staff I've spoken to in the past 24 hours, there was unanimous excitement and positive feeling. But as he himself acknowledged, talking about change is easy. Actually delivering it in a post-pandemic world is very hard. He'll be judged on the latter.\n\nAfter his speech, Davie was interviewed by BBC head of creative diversity June Sarpong, who later described his vision for \"a truly inclusive BBC\" as \"a daunting and difficult task but one he is committed to achieving\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "CCDH says tech firm's failure to act may limit take-up of Covid-19 vaccines when they become available\n\nSocial networks are failing to tackle coronavirus-related anti-vaccination posts containing \"clearly harmful information\" even after the material is brought to their attention, according to a campaign group.\n\nIt flagged more than 900 examples to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube via a team of volunteers.\n\nIt said the firms did not remove or otherwise deal with 95% of the cases.\n\nThe four platforms each have policies designed to restrict such content.\n\nThe Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) said UK lawmakers should accelerate existing plans to hold the companies to account as a consequence.\n\nThe US firms were shown a copy of the report ahead of its publication.\n\nIt contains selected examples. But CCDH has yet to disclose the full list of links of the posts involved, although it has pledged to do so on request now that the report is out.\n\nCCDH said many of the posts it flagged had made reference to the philanthropist Bill Gates\n\nThis has limited the US companies' ability to address the specific cases. But the firms have said they have removed and labelled millions of other items since the virus was declared a public health emergency.\n\nNone of the tech firms involved forbid users from posting inaccurate information about vaccinations.\n\nHowever, after a series of measles outbreaks in 2019, Facebook - which owns Instagram - said it would start directing users to reliable information from the World Health Organization (WHO) when they searched or visited relevant content.\n\nTwitter and YouTube also took measures the same year to steer users away from related conspiracy theories.\n\nHowever, the platforms tightened their rules after the outbreak of Covid-19.\n\nFacebook said it would remove posts that could lead to physical harm, and would apply warning labels to other relevant posts debunked by fact-checkers.\n\nTwitter said it would remove coronavirus-related posts that could cause widespread panic and/or social unrest, and add warning messages to other disputed or misleading information about the pandemic.\n\nAnd YouTube said it had banned content about Covid-19 that posed a \"serious risk of egregious harm\" or contradicted medical information given by the WHO and local health authorities.\n\nCCDH said a total of 912 items posted by anti-vaccine protesters that it had judged to have fallen foul of the companies' Covid-19 rules were flagged to the firms between July and August.\n\nAmong the examples of material that CCDH said was not tackled were:\n\nCCDH added that about one in 10 of all examples made reference to conspiracy theories involving Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, including suggestions that he wanted people to be fitted with microchips that would cause them to starve if they refused a vaccine.\n\nFacebook responded by saying it had taken \"aggressive steps to limit the spread of misinformation\" about Covid-19, including the removal of more than seven million items and the addition of warning labels to a further 98 million pieces of misinformation.\n\nCCDH said that a number of posts claimed that Covid was a \"false flag\" or \"plandemic\" created to force mass vaccinations\n\nTwitter said that while it did not take action on every tweet containing disputed information about the virus, it did prioritise those that had a call to action that could cause harm.\n\n\"Our automated systems have challenged millions of accounts which were targeting discussions around Covid-19 with spammy or manipulative behaviours,\" it added.\n\nAnd Google said that it had taken a number of steps to \"combat harmful misinformation\", including banning some clips and displaying fact-checking panels alongside others.\n\nBut CCDH's chief executive said politicians and regulators in the US and UK must now force the firms into tougher action.\n\n\"This is an immediate crisis, with a ticking time bomb about to go off in our societies,\" said Imran Ahmed.\n\n\"Social media companies... do not listen to polite requests for change. Given the acute nature of the coronavirus crisis, their failure to act must now be met with real consequences.\"\n\nLondon-based CCDH is funded by the Pears Foundation, Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust and Barrow Cadbury Trust, as well as others the group says do do not want to be named in case they are targeted as a result.\n\nPublic health experts warn that coronavirus vaccine conspiracy theories spread quickly online and pose a grave threat to all of us.\n\nIf a significant number of people decide not to take a safe and approved vaccine, our ability to suppress the disease will be limited.\n\nIt's legitimate to have concerns that a vaccine is safe and properly tested. It's also legitimate to want to discuss this in private chats or online.\n\nBut claims a coronavirus vaccine will be a tool for mass surveillance or genocide only do harm.\n\nThe theories are often spread by popular pseudo-science figures and large Facebook pages notorious for promoting disinformation.\n\nThey then drip into the average person's feeds and are sometimes amplified by celebrities, sowing seeds of doubt.\n\nThe social media firms say they are taking action, but critics say that if they don't do more - whether voluntarily or under compulsion - they could contribute to a public health disaster.", "Breonna Taylor's name has become a rallying cry at anti-racism protests\n\nDemocratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has urged charges against police who shot two black Americans, Jacob Blake and Breonna Taylor.\n\nSpeaking in Delaware, Mr Biden did not specify what counts should be brought in the cases, which have fuelled racial justice protests nationwide.\n\nThe Democrat spoke after notching up a record fundraising haul in August.\n\nHe has a lead over President Donald Trump, a Republican, in opinion polls ahead of November's election.\n\nDuring a news conference in his hometown of Wilmington on Wednesday, Mr Biden was asked whether he agreed with his running mate, Kamala Harris, that the officers in the Blake and Taylor cases should be charged.\n\n\"I think we should let the judicial system work its way,\" he said. \"I do think at a minimum, they need to be charged, the officers.\"\n\nMr Blake, 29, was shot seven times in the back and paralysed during an arrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on 23 August.\n\nNo action has so far been taken against the officer involved, pending investigations by the Wisconsin and US departments of justice.\n\nMs Taylor, 26, was fatally shot in her home during a drug raid in Louisville, Kentucky, on 13 March.\n\nOne of the officers is losing his job; two others have been placed on administrative leave as the investigation into their actions proceeds.\n\nMr Biden also mentioned the gunman, identified in US media as a far-left activist, who fatally shot a Trump supporter on the streets of Portland, Oregon, last weekend.\n\nThe Democratic nominee stopped short of calling for charges in that case, but said: \"They should be investigated and it should follow through on what needs to be done.\n\n\"Let the judicial system work. Let's make sure justice is done.\"\n\nMr Biden had been delivering remarks about how to open schools safely in light of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHis comments came a day before he travels to Kenosha, where he says he wants to help \"heal\" the city after it was rocked by days of violent protests.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A look back at Joe Biden's life and political career\n\nMr Biden said he had received \"overwhelming requests\" to visit this latest flashpoint in America's racial reckoning over law enforcement shootings.\n\nThe Democrat will meet Mr Blake's father and other members of the family during the visit.\n\nPresident Trump, a Republican, did not meet the family during his own visit to Kenosha on Tuesday, saying he decided not to because of plans to have lawyers attend with the relatives.\n\nMr Biden's visit to Wisconsin comes four years after the previous Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, overlooked the Midwestern state during her campaigning, and it turned out to be pivotal in Mr Trump's against-all-odds 2016 election victory.\n\nAt his own event in North Carolina on Wednesday, Mr Trump continued to talk tough about \"violent mobs\" at protests.\n\n\"These people know one thing - strength,\" he said.\n\nThe president also directed his administration to look into stripping federal funding for \"anarchist jurisdictions\" including New York City, Seattle, Washington DC and Portland, Oregon.\n\nEarlier in the day, the Biden campaign announced a $364m (£272m) fundraising haul for August, more than both he and Mr Trump pulled in in the previous month.\n\nThe Democrat will splurge $45m of his war chest on a single ad rebutting opposition claims he will not stand up to rioters and looters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt will splice clips of him condemning violence at protests, which he has done several times since the demonstrations began with the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in May.\n\nMr Trump, meanwhile, will air a duelling ad in Minnesota with the message: \"Communities not criminals. Jobs not mobs.\"\n\nMr Biden has a clear single-digit lead in opinion polls nationally and is ahead by a somewhat smaller margin in the handful of swing states that will actually decide this election.\n\nA new survey covering the critical state of Pennsylvania, by Monmouth University on Wednesday, showed Mr Biden's lead over Mr Trump had shrunk from 10 points in July to three points now.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The government “cannot carry on doing exactly what we did this year forever”, says the chancellor\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has reassured recently-elected Tory MPs there will not be a \"horror show of tax rises with no end in sight\", as the government deals with the costs of coronavirus.\n\nHe urged the 2019 Conservative intake to show trust to overcome the \"short-term challenges\" the party faces.\n\nSome MPs have expressed fears U-turns are hurting the government's standing.\n\nMr Sunak accidentally revealed the wording of his statement while holding his notes outside 11 Downing Street.\n\nThe Conservative Party, which won an 80-seat majority at December's general election, has seen its opinion poll lead over Labour cut in recent weeks.\n\nThis has led to concerns among some MPs who won seats in traditional Labour heartlands in the Midlands and northern England, known previously as its \"red wall\".\n\nAn unnamed \"red wall\" Conservative told the Press Association MPs in these areas, and others in marginal seats, were \"jittery\" following a series of U-turns on subjects including exam results, the wearing of face coverings and school meal funding. They described the situation as a \"megadisaster\".\n\nAnd Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, treasurer of the 1922 Committee of Tory MPs, warned against \"own goals\", saying: \"We may have a big majority but that still doesn't mean to say that we shouldn't be as competent as possible as a government.\"\n\nA photographer picked up the words in Rishi Sunak's statement\n\nIt was reported at the weekend that substantial corporation tax rises and capital gains tax changes are being considered by the Treasury to deal with the enormous costs of coronavirus. But the government dismissed this as \"speculation\".\n\nThe wording of Mr Sunak's statement, read out during a meeting in Parliament on Wednesday with Tory MPs first elected in 2019, which the prime minister also attended, was revealed when a photographer noticed the chancellor holding a script sheet while leaving 11 Downing Street.\n\nIt read: \"We will need to do some difficult things, but I promise you, if we trust one another we will be able to overcome the short-term challenges.\"\n\nReferring to the reports that there could be tax increases to pay for costs incurred during the pandemic, including the furlough scheme, it added: \"Now this doesn't mean a horror show of tax rises with no end in sight.\"\n\nIt continued: \"But it does mean treating the British people with respect, being honest with them about the challenges we face and showing them how we plan to correct our public finances and give our country the dynamic, low-tax economy we all want to see.\"\n\nWith more MPs back at Westminster, the prime minister and his chancellor took the opportunity to reassure restless Tory backbenchers about the government's strategy.\n\nHow to pay for the huge package of interventions to deal with the pandemic and its effects is at the forefront of Rishi Sunak's mind ahead of the Budget later this autumn.\n\nBorrowing has ballooned and the prime minister has already promised there will be no return to austerity.\n\nBut there is nervousness among Tory MPs about rumours of tax rises and about the government's decision-making and messaging more broadly.\n\nMr Sunak told his Conservative colleagues that ministers needed to show people the plan for correcting public finances. He faces difficult choices while devising it.\n\nGovernment sources denied the revelation of the chancellor's words in this way was \"embarrassing\", adding that they would have become a matter of public record anyway.\n\nDiscussing the coronavirus crisis, Boris Johnson told the MPs: \"I know it's been tough. I've got to warn you, it's about to get tougher. The waters are about to get choppier. But we are going to deal with it.\"\n\nThe prime minister later addressed a meeting of all backbench Conservative MPs, with the 1922 Committee getting together for the first time since Parliament's summer recess.\n\nOne MP present said he had been \"full of beans\", while a minister added that both the day's meetings had been about \"calming the troops\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tony Blair: “People give a lot more information probably to their supermarkets than they will to the government.”\n\nFormer Prime Minister Tony Blair has said it is \"common sense to move in the direction of digital IDs\" as part of efforts to fight coronavirus.\n\nMr Blair said there should be a record kept by the government of those vaccinated against the virus.\n\nThe government recently set out plans to change laws to enable the use of digital identity across the UK.\n\nAs prime minister, Mr Blair launched a compulsory ID card scheme, but it was scrapped by the coalition government.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Newscast podcast, he said that once a coronavirus vaccine is in use \"you're going to want a record of the fact you've been vaccinated\".\n\n\"You'll want a record kept by the government of who's been vaccinated - this will be essential, again, to restoring confidence,\" he added.\n\nThe former PM argued that improvements in technology meant privacy issues \"can be dealt with\".\n\n\"You don't need a large amount of information,\" he said adding: \"People give a lot more information to their supermarkets than they do to the government.\"\n\nResponding to Mr Blair's comments, Silkie Carlo, Director of Big Brother Watch - a civil liberties campaign group - said: \"The idea of digital ID and vaccination checks could easily lead to a health apartheid that few would expect of a democratic country.\n\n\"Digital IDs would lead to sensitive records spanning medical, work, travel, and biometric data about each and every one of us being held at the fingertips of authorities and state bureaucrats.\n\n\"This dangerous plan would normalise identity checks, increase state control over law abiding citizens and create a honey pot for cybercriminals.\"\n\nMr Blair's comments come after the government announced plans to update existing laws on identity checking to allow digital identity \"to be used as widely as possible\".\n\nIt is does not propose resurrecting the ID card scheme, but is \"exploring how secure checks could be made against government data,\" according to the government announcement.\n\nDigital Infrastructure Minister Matt Warman said: \"Digital technology is helping us through the pandemic and continues to improve the way we live, work and access vital services.\n\n\"We want to make it easier for people to prove their identity securely online so transactions can become even quicker - it has the potential to add billions to our economy.\"\n\nMr Blair was a keen advocate of ID cards for all UK citizens, as a way of combating terrorism after 9/11, but it was later billed as an \"entitlement card\" to combat benefit fraud and illegal workers.\n\nThe former PM has argued since leaving office that ID cards are the only way to combat illegal immigration.\n\nThe ID card scheme began its rollout in November 2009, under Gordon Brown's premiership, but was scrapped in 2010 by the Conservative/Lib Dem coalition government which saw it as an infringement of civil liberties.\n\nDuring his interview with Newscast, Mr Blair also argued that coronavirus quarantine policies were \"killing\" international travel.\n\nHe said he didn't think the 14 day quarantine period for those returning from certain countries abroad was \"necessary\".\n\n\"The question is not how you eliminate the risk, it is how you contain it,\" he added.\n\nMr Blair also said it was a \"mystery\" to him why there hadn't been a more coordinated international effort to tackle the virus. \"I honestly don't understand the reason for that not happening,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking of poorer countries in Africa, he said: \"They can't do lockdown, it's just not possible, but as a result of the global crisis they're facing real food security problems, real supply problems.\"\n\nOn vaccines, he said he hoped we \"do not end up in a situation where wealthy countries get the vaccines and poor countries are scrabbling for them. This wouldn't just be morally wrong, it would be totally against our own interests\".", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Selected live radio and text commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, BBC Sounds, the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nBritain's Johanna Konta was knocked out of the US Open in three sets by Sorana Cirstea.\n\nNinth seed Konta led by a set and a break but the Romanian world number 77 fought back to win 2-6 7-6 (7-5) 6-4 at Flushing Meadows.\n\nIt is a second early exit in a Grand Slam in 2020 for 29-year-old Konta, who lost in the first round of the Australian Open in January.\n\n\"My opponent played better than me, that's really about it,\" said Konta.\n\n\"She obviously raised her level and then we were battling toe-to-toe. She was better in the end.\n\n\"I did the best that I could. I really fought hard.\"\n• None Follow radio and text updates from day four\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nKonta, a quarter-finalist in 2019 at Flushing Meadows, had won their two previous meetings, including a controversial Fed Cup rubber in 2017 when Romania captain Ilie Nastase was sent off after swearing at the umpire and abusing Konta and Great Britain captain Anne Keothavong.\n\nKonta was visibly upset and the umpire halted the match for 25 minutes, with Cirstea later claiming the Briton had \"overreacted\".\n\nThere was no hint of controversy about their meeting in New York with Konta seemingly set for a routine win as she broke Cirstea's serve three times in the first set and then again to lead 2-1 in the second set.\n\nHowever, Cirstea broke back immediately and upped her level to turn the match around.\n\nKonta had break points at 4-4 and 5-5 in the second set but could not convert and was taken to a tie-break.\n\nCirstea dominated it and although Konta saved three set points, Cirstea levelled the match with an ace on her fourth opportunity.\n\nPoorly executed drop shots were an issue for Konta in the final set, and one particularly feeble effort helped Cirstea get the first break for 2-1.\n\nKonta levelled immediately but was now routinely having to fight to hold her own service games, winning only 34% of points on her second serve during the match.\n\nShe fought back from 0-30 down to go 3-2 up but a gripping seventh game - which lasted more than 10 minutes - proved pivotal, Cirstea converting her sixth break point by superbly picking up a volley.\n\nKonta had three break-back points in the next game but they were quickly snuffed out as Cirstea held for 5-3. Excellent serving allowed the Briton to stave off two match points in her next service game, but Cirstea was not fazed as she coolly sealed victory with an ace in two hours and 49 minutes.\n\nJohanna Konta does not tend to dwell on missed opportunities, but there will be plenty of frustration this match slipped away from such a promising position.\n\nMuch of that frustration can be directed at Sorana Cirstea for playing so well.\n\nThe Romanian served superbly, and from the middle of the second set onwards was able to sustain a level far above her ranking.\n\nKonta was unable to throw her off course, which will give new coach Thomas Hogstedt some food for thought as they head on to the clay.\n\nJamie Murray and fellow Briton Neal Skupski made an impressive start to their men's doubles campaign, beating fourth seeds Ivan Dodig and Filip Polasek 6-3 7-5.\n\nBriton Dom Inglot and Pakistan's Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi lost to Americans Jack Sock and Jackson Withrow with all three sets decided by tie-breaks.\n\nJonny O'Mara and Marcelo Arevalo of El Salvador were beaten in three sets by Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau.", "Low-deposit mortgage deals available to borrowers have plummeted in recent months as lenders play safer during the economic fall-out from coronavirus.\n\nBorrowers able to offer 10% of the value of a home as a deposit could have chosen from 779 deals at the start of March, data from Moneyfacts shows.\n\nSix months later, the choice was now down to around 60, the financial information company said.\n\nLenders are being stricter about who they lend to amid fears of defaults.\n\nSome large lenders have already said they would not currently consider applications from people on furlough and who did not have a return to work date.\n\nFirst-time buyers are at particular risk from the squeeze on mortgages, as they usually have less in savings to use as a deposit.\n\nRachel Springall, from Moneyfacts, said the situation was \"hugely frustrating\" for these potential buyers.\n\n\"Product availability has plummeted since March, when there were hundreds of deals to choose from. There are now very few. Those who had expected to get a foot onto the property ladder may now hold their plans, particularly if they only have a 5% deposit,\" she said.\n\nAmy is relocating from Glasgow and had a mortgage agreed in principle, but has now been told she needs to offer more upfront.\n\n\"I now need to make the difference up with another £20,000,\" the 38-year-old said.\n\n\"It was all totally manageable, I don't understand, it just seems ludicrous. I'm employed in social services so my job isn't in threat, I've been working as a key worker throughout this pandemic. I've had a mortgage since I was 21.\n\n\"I've moved my daughter's schools, so I just had to go forward with it. It's not ideal for a five-year-old, it's not very fair.\"\n\nHSBC became the latest lender to temporarily restrict lending on 90% loan-to-value deals in what one mortgage broker described as a \"sign of the times\".\n\nAaron Strutt, of Trinity Financial, said that lenders had to balance the books, and that meant a spread of borrowers ranging from first-time buyers - who might be more risky if house prices fell - to those borrowing a far smaller proportion of the value of a property.\n\nSelf-employed people were also being asked for more information, including bank statements and accounts, when they applied for a mortgage.\n\nMortgage lending has still picked up since lockdown, with many people trying to secure mortgages after a relatively swift agreement to buy a property during a post-lockdown pick-up in house-buying and prices.\n\nHowever, there is an expectation that this mini-boom will not last as job losses mount and finances are stretched as government support schemes are wound down.", "We've been hearing about the long journeys people have been asked to take to access a coronavirus test in the UK.\n\nAfter BBC revelations that some people have been required to drive long distances, there has been renewed debate about whether there is sufficient capacity.\n\nThere has apparently been an increase of more than 60% in demand for tests since June and it appears that laboratories have struggled to keep up in some parts of the country.\n\nThere has been an apology to those who were told to go a hundred miles or more for a test.\n\nOfficials acknowledge that resources are stretched and have to be targeted at areas with local outbreaks.\n\nBut they point out that a new mega lab is set to come on stream in the East Midlands soon.\n\nThey argue that trials of new rapid testing techniques will be expanded, which could prove to be game-changers.\n\nFor now though, the system is stretched, even though the official numbers suggest capacity is running ahead of demand.\n\nQuestions will continue to be asked about whether the system can cope with the challenges ahead as schools return and winter approaches.", "A top ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned that the EU risks becoming irrelevant if it fails to act against Russia over the poisoning of opposition politician Alexei Navalny.\n\nNorbert Röttgen said a major gas deal with Russia must now be reconsidered.\n\nThe Russian government has been widely condemned after Germany confirmed on Wednesday that Mr Navalny had been poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent.\n\nHe is gravely ill in intensive care in Berlin's Charité hospital.\n\nMr Navalny was flown to the German capital after collapsing in pain on a flight in Siberia on 20 August. His supporters believe poison was put in his tea at Tomsk airport.\n\nMr Röttgen, chair of the German parliament's foreign affairs committee, demanded a tough EU response in the Navalny case. Novichok is an extremely toxic, military-grade weapon that experts say must have come from a state facility.\n\n\"Now, again, we are brutally confronted with the reality of the Putin regime, which treats people with contempt,\" Mr Röttgen told German public broadcaster ARD.\n\nHe noted that President Vladimir Putin had projected Russian power in Syria, Libya and Belarus, and said: \"The question is, are the Europeans always going to end up doing nothing? If so, then we'll become irrelevant, we won't be taken seriously.\"\n\nMembers of the Nato defence alliance will discuss the poisoning at a special meeting on Friday.\n\nMrs Merkel earlier said Mr Navalny was a victim of attempted murder and the world would look to Russia for answers.\n\nShe said there would be an \"appropriate joint response\" by the EU and Nato, describing the poisoning of Mr Navalny as \"an attack on the fundamental values and basic rights to which we are committed\".\n\nThe Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said poisoning someone with a nerve agent \"is considered a use of chemical weapons\". It called the alleged attack \"a matter of grave concern\" and pledged to help any state that asks for its help.\n\nThe Kremlin has not accepted the diagnosis in Germany, saying it has not seen German data on Mr Navalny's condition.\n\n\"There are no grounds to accuse the Russian state,\" Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for President Putin, told reporters, adding that Germany and other EU nations should not \"hurry with their assessments\".\n\nMr Röttgen warned that Germany would risk becoming dependent on Russia by completing Nord Stream 2, a controversial 1,225km (760-mile) gas pipeline owned by Russia's Gazprom.\n\nHe also warned that doing so would encourage Mr Putin to ignore Western protestations over the Navalny case and other attacks on his political opponents. Mr Röttgen is a candidate to succeed Mrs Merkel as chancellor next year.\n\nOn Tuesday Mrs Merkel reiterated her wish to see Nord Stream 2 completed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPresident Donald Trump has imposed sanctions on any firm that helps Gazprom to complete the project.\n\nHowever, his critics are asking why he has not commented on the targeting of Mr Navalny.\n\nHis rival in the presidential race, Joe Biden, accused the Kremlin of \"an outrageous and brazen attempt on Mr Navalny's life\".\n\n\"Donald Trump has refused to confront Putin, calling him a 'terrific person',\" Mr Biden said.\n\nMr Navalny was flown to Berlin on an emergency flight from Omsk in Siberia\n\nMr Navalny was put into a medically induced coma after falling ill. His team says he was poisoned on President Putin's orders. The Kremlin has dismissed the allegation.\n\nA team of German specialists has found \"unequivocal proof\" that a Novichok nerve agent was used.\n\nThe Charité hospital says it expects Mr Navalny's recovery to take a long time and cannot rule out long-term after-effects, but the agent's blockage of his cholinesterase enzyme is declining.\n\nOn Wednesday the Kremlin spokesman called on Germany for a full exchange of information and foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova complained the Novichok allegations were not backed up by evidence.\n\nNovichok has been in the news before. It was used to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the UK in 2018. While they survived, a British woman later died in hospital. The UK accused Russia's military intelligence of carrying out that attack.\n\nIn a co-ordinated move, 20 countries expelled more than 100 Russian diplomats and spies.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson condemned the latest attack as \"outrageous\". \"The Russian government must now explain what happened to Mr Navalny - we will work with international partners to ensure justice is done,\" he tweeted.\n\nThe EU has demanded a \"transparent\" investigation by the Russian government. \"Those responsible must be brought to justice,\" a statement read.\n\nThe US National Security Council (NSC) said the suspected poisoning was \"completely reprehensible\".\n\n\"We will work with allies and the international community to hold those in Russia accountable, wherever the evidence leads, and restrict funds for their malign activities,\" an NSC spokesman said.\n\nAlexei Navalny is a name President Putin refuses to say out loud.\n\nIt's an attempt to diminish his political significance, but the endless prosecutions, police detentions and giant fines Mr Navalny has faced over the years tell a different story about his impact.\n\nHe's certainly annoyed a lot of people, from those targeted by his anti-corruption investigations to Vladimir Putin himself. So it is possible someone wanted to resolve the \"Navalny problem\" for good.\n\nThe timing is largely irrelevant. Why now? Well, why not. But if whoever did this hoped to contain the fallout - a mysterious collapse, never explained by Russian doctors - the fact Navalny's team got him to Germany has blown that calculation.\n\nThe \"collapse\" is now a deliberate attack, and a major international scandal. The Kremlin response so far is familiar: deny, obfuscate, demand proof. Mr Putin's spokesman has even hinted that if Mr Navalny had been poisoned, then it must have happened in Germany because doctors here detected nothing suspicious.\n\nExpect to hear a lot more along those lines in the days to come.", "People arriving in Wales and Scotland from Portugal must now self-isolate for 14 days, but the rules covering England and Northern Ireland are unchanged.\n\nThe difference between the nations has been criticised as confusing.\n\nThe rules for Wales apply from 04:00 BST on Friday, while in Scotland they begin 24 hours later on Saturday.\n\nCases in Portugal have risen in the past week beyond the threshold at which ministers generally consider imposing 14-day mandatory self-isolation.\n\nThe Department for Transport said decisions around adding or removing countries from the quarantine list \"take into account a range of factors\" - including how many people are being tested.\n\n\"Portugal has drastically increased its testing capacity, as well as taking measures to control the spread of the virus,\" said a spokesperson, adding it would closely monitor the situation.\n\nThe latest quarantine rules introduced in Wales apply to travellers from Portugal, Gibraltar, six Greek islands and French Polynesia.\n\nThe six islands are Crete, Mykonos, Zakynthos (or Zante), Lesvos, Paros and Antiparos.\n\nScotland has already reintroduced self-isolation measures for arrivals from Greece and has now added Portugal and French Polynesia to its list of countries requiring quarantine.\n\n\"This week's data shows an increase in test positivity and cases per 100k in Portugal,\" said Scottish justice minister Humza Yousaf.\n\nChanges to the rules for arrivals from Greece coming to England have been considered - but Greece will stay on its safe list for now.\n\nIn Portugal, the seven-day infection rate has increased from 15.3 to 23 per 100,000 people. This is above the threshold of 20 which is when the UK government generally considers triggering quarantine conditions.\n\nGreece's rate overall is below the threshold at 13.8 coronavirus cases per 100,000 people in the seven days to 2 September, down from 14.9 a week earlier.\n\nUK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said on Thursday: \"There are no English additions or removals today. We continue to keep the travel corridor list under constant review and won't hesitate to remove countries if needed.\"\n\n\"Nonetheless, holidaymakers are reminded - 14-day quarantine countries can and do change at very short notice.\"\n\nHe said the government takes several factors into account, including the prevalence of the virus as well as the level and rate of change, how many tests the country is doing, the extent of the contained outbreak and the government's actions.\n\nNorthern Ireland's department of health also confirmed that NI would not make any further changes at present.\n\nThe changes have drawn criticism from industry experts as well as holidaymakers.\n\n\"The quarantine policy is in tatters and dividing the United Kingdom,\" said Paul Charles, chief executive of travel consultancy firm The PC Agency.\n\n\"Consumers are totally confused by the different approaches and it's impossible to understand the government's own criteria any more on when to add or remove a country.\n\n\"The current strategy has to change. The weekly reviews have been causing anxiety and financial pain for so many consumers and travel firms,\" he added.\n\nRory Boland, editor of Which? Travel, said: \"Days of speculation around this announcement meant many people rushed to pay extortionate prices for flights back to England to avoid having to quarantine on their return - only to now find out there was no need.\n\n\"The government knows this and yet it continues to offer no clarity around how these decisions are made.\"\n\nOne aviation boss described travelling abroad right now as \"quarantine roulette\" because the list of destinations which are affected keeps changing.\n\nBut the governments in Westminster, Edinburgh and Cardiff are now clearly at odds over which countries pose a clear risk.\n\nPortugal's infection rate is above the UK government's benchmark of 20 cases of the virus for every 100,000 people.\n\nBut the UK government has surprised us all and not added Portugal to the list for England. It's not clear why.\n\nGreece is even more complicated as the Welsh government is opting for a policy where only people arriving from certain Greek islands have to self-isolate while Scotland has introduced a quarantine for arrivals from across Greece.\n\nFor months the travel industry has been lobbying the UK government for an approach where they consider particular regions in a country but ministers in London are not keen on the idea.\n\nThe quarantine was already hard or impossible to police.\n\nBut discrepancies between different UK nations makes it even harder as someone could, theoretically, fly into Newcastle from Greece and drive into Scotland. That person should self-isolate for 14 days, but no-one will be checking.\n\nSome holidaymakers have told the BBC they have paid as much as £1,000 for flights to get home from Portugal in anticipation of the rules changing.\n\nKelly, from Birmingham, and her family changed their flights home from the Algarve from Saturday to Friday at a cost of £900 to avoid potential quarantine because she did not want her children to miss out on two weeks of school.\n\nThe 45-year-old said the situation was \"absolutely disgusting\".\n\n\"It's cost us a lot more money and it's money we didn't need to spend now. We've lost an extra night in our villa - we won't get that back - we've got a hire car, so we're taking that back a day early.\"\n\nShe added: \"The government just change the goalposts left, right and centre at the moment. It's embarrassing.\"\n\nDamian Martin from Swansea - who is currently on holiday in Lagos, Portugal - said he only arrived earlier on Thursday.\n\n\"Work had been full on so I decided to go,\" said Damian\n\n\"I had already switched my holiday from Spain and I won't be able to come back early,\" he said. \"I will be able to self-isolate, I think, but I work for a supermarket so will have to check in with them.\"\n\nHe added: \"I'm supposed to be here eight nights. I might as well try to enjoy it.\n\nEvery year, more than two million Britons visit Portugal. Most head to the Algarve in the south, drawn by sunny Atlantic beaches, picturesque fishing villages and golf courses.\n\nDuring May and June, the Portuguese government reopened its restaurants, coffee shops, museums and beaches. Hotels have mainly reopened, but nightclubs remain closed.\n\nAre you currently on holiday in Portugal or Greece? Have you made plans to travel there? Share your thoughts by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Simon Johnson from The Telegraph says he spoke to Professor Linda Bauld who said she does not think the elimination strategy is going well, given the rise in cases.\n\nHe says he asked the professor if Scotland had adopted a Wack-A-Mole tactic and she said absolutely.\n\nThe first minister says she thinks a great deal of Linda Bauld who she says is an expert who talks a lot of sense.\n\nMs Sturgeon adds that she is advised by experts on how to keep this virus to the lowest possible level and eliminate it if possible.\n\nWhen outbreaks occur the government will try to hit them hard, but \"elimination is my objective\".", "The Mansion House is available to rent online\n\nPolice have launched an investigation after more than 300 people attended a party at a house in Midlothian.\n\nOfficers were called to The Mansion House of Kirkhill in Gorebridge at 00:20 on Sunday.\n\nThe party was being run as a commercial event, with those attending ordered to leave and a 29-year-old man being issued with a fixed penalty.\n\nOrganisers have been accused of showing \"blatant disregard\" for rules aimed at limiting the spread of coronavirus.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon described the incident as \"utterly irresponsible\" and urged people not to attend house parties.\n\nThe 12-bedroom property is said to be able to sleep up to 34 guests and is advertised on Airbnb for £1,600 a night - although the company said it had not been booked through them.\n\nIn a statement published on Facebook, the owners of the property said the man who made the booking for the entire weekend \"seemed very pleasant\".\n\n\"We were then sadly as owners contacted at 1.30am Sunday morning by our old neighbours to say there was a huge rave and police were in attendance,\" they added.\n\n\"We are seeking legal action against the organisers of this event and are devastated as a family that our trust was broken.\"\n\nThe statement added: \"It is after all our family home and we did not feel safe being there after so many people had been.\"\n\nPolice are now investigating the possibility of bringing culpable and reckless conduct charges against the people behind the party.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSocial distancing rules mean indoor gatherings are limited to no more than eight people from three households, and police can issue £60 fines at gatherings of more than 15 people.\n\nRepeat offenders can be fined up to a maximum of £960.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Malcolm Graham, said: \"Those attending this organised event showed a blatant disregard for the regulations in place to help save lives and prevent the spread of coronavirus.\n\n\"Anyone attempting to hold such an event, or any party in clear breach of the law, should be aware they will be met with a robust response from Police Scotland.\"\n\nThere are still discarded bottles littering the grounds of the house\n\nCouncillor Stephen Curran said: \"Those 300 or so people didn't just put themselves at risk of contracting coronavirus, they put residents across Midlothian and beyond at risk.\n\n\"We realise it can be challenging following the guidance but if the majority of us can do it then so can they.\"\n\nThe Midlothian party was one of about 300 reported to police across the country last weekend, with officers issuing about ten fixed penalties in total.\n\nFive of those were issued after officers were called to a house party in Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, at about 20:00 on Saturday.\n\nTwo men were also arrested in connection with a fight at the property.\n\nAlison McCallum, director of public health at NHS Lothian said: \"We must continue to help prevent the spread of coronavirus which is why it is critical we don't socialise in the same way we did in pre-Covid times.\n\n\"This is also why nightclubs are currently closed and larger gatherings such as house parties are not permitted.\"", "DaBaby, Lady Gaga and The Weeknd had some of the summer's biggest-selling songs\n\nDaBaby's Rockstar was the UK's biggest-selling song of the summer, says the Official Charts Company.\n\nNotching up 654,000 combined sales and streams over the summer, the brooding, guitar-driven rap song outsold hits by Lady Gaga and Harry Styles.\n\nIt was one of several best-sellers this summer to be boosted by TikTok, where it triggered a viral dance challenge.\n\nThe UK's second-biggest summer song, Jason Derulo's Savage Love, also started life on the video sharing app.\n\nOriginally an instrumental by New Zealand teenager Joshua Stylah (aka Jawsh 685), it was spotted by Derulo after it took off on TikTok.\n\nThe US star added vocals to the track, initially without crediting Stylah or obtaining permission for the sample. After Stylah signed a record deal with Columbia records, the song was released as a collaboration and climbed to the top of the charts.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Jason Derulo This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nSavage Love achieved 566,000 chart sales over the summer, closely followed by Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande's Rain On Me, which had 515,000 sales.\n\nThe pop divas were closely followed by The Weeknd, whose hit single Blinding Lights continued to sell over the summer after reaching number one earlier in the year.\n\nAn even longer-standing hit was Harry Styles' mouth-watering Watermelon Sugar, which was the seventh most popular song of the summer, despite making its chart debut last November.\n\nThe Official Charts combined sales and downloads with video and audio streams to compile its list.\n\nDaBaby's Rockstar had previously been named the most-streamed song of the summer by Spotify, while on YouTube, the top performers were Korean pop band Blackpink, whose single How You Like That was played more than 450 million times in June, July and August.\n\nDaBaby, who comes from North Carolina, has proved to be a master of meme-based marketing, achieving early attention by walking around the South by Southwest festival in Texas wearing only jewels and an adult-sized nappy.\n\nInitially, his \"internet presence was definitely bigger than the music,\" he told the New York Times last year, boasting, \"I'm so good at marketing\".\n\n\"Once I knew I had them looking, I turned up with the music,\" he added. \"I knew what I was doing - it was premeditated.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by DaBabyVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nRockstar was his first UK hit, propelled by a dance craze focusing on the song's hook on TikTok.\n\nThe platform, which allows users to make 15-second videos set to music, has become an increasingly powerful tool for marketing music.\n\nHits like Doja Cat's Say So, Megan Thee Stallion's Savage, and Lil Nas X's Grammy-winning Old Town Road all gained early attention on the app.\n\nTik Tok's music team actively promotes trending songs, scouring submissions for undiscovered talent, and facilitating collaborations among musicians and prominent creators.\n\nFourteen of the UK's top 20 best-selling songs this summer were popular on TikTok before hitting the charts, boosting the profile of lesser-known artists like Gracey, Powfu and Beabadoobee alongside more established acts such as Drake.\n\nHowever, while record companies increasingly look to the app to seed new hits, the Chinese-owned firm has been accused of being a threat to US national security by the Trump administration.\n\nTikTok was given 90 days to be sold to an American firm or face a ban in the US, leading to the resignation of chief executive Kevin Mayer.", "The children, aged between one and eight, were found in a family home\n\nThe bodies of five children have been found in a flat in a large housing block in the western German city of Solingen, police say.\n\nPolice say they suspect the 27-year-old mother of killing the children before attempting to take her own life at a train station in nearby Düsseldorf.\n\nFew details have been provided, with no information about the cause of death.\n\nEmergency services were called to the residential block in the Hasseldelle area of the city on Thursday afternoon.\n\nResponding to call at about 13:45 local time (11:45 GMT), police said they arrived at the building in Solingen, in North Rhine-Westphalia state, to discover the bodies of five children - three girls and two boys - aged from one to eight.\n\nA sixth child, reportedly an 11-year-old boy, was said to have survived.\n\nThe children's grandmother, who lives 60km (37 miles) away in the city of Mönchengladbach, had alerted the emergency services, the German news website Bild reported.\n\nThe entrance to the block of flats has been sealed off and forensic officers are at the scene\n\nPolice spokesman Stefan Weiand said the children's mother had been \"seriously injured\" after throwing herself in front of a train in Düsseldorf and was being treated in hospital under police guard.\n\n\"Background and further details are not known at this point and that is what we are trying to find out,\" Mr Weiand told journalists, adding that police investigators were at the scene \"in full force\".\n\nPolice said they were hoping to learn more about the \"incredibly tragic occurrence\" after speaking with the mother.\n\nThe entrance to the block of flats in Solingen has been sealed off and images show police cars and ambulances lining the streets, with forensic officers also at the scene.\n\nA woman places a candle alongside a teddy at the residential building in Solingen, Germany\n\nThe mayor of Solingen, Tim Kurzbach, wrote on Facebook that he had visited the housing block where \"this terrible act took place\" after hearing the news.\n\n\"For me it is still incomprehensible,\" he wrote in the post, adding: \"Today is a day of mourning for all of Solingen.\"\n\nLater on Thursday, residents began leaving flowers and candles at the entrance to the building as a tribute.", "France has unveiled a 100bn-euro (£89bn) economic stimulus package to help repair the economic damage caused by coronavirus.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron's government said the investment would include big spending on green energy and transport.\n\nDubbed \"France re-launch\", it is aimed at reversing rising unemployment, and includes tax cuts for business.\n\nThe economy shrank by 13.8% between April and June, the biggest quarterly fall since the Second World War.\n\nUnveiling the plan, whose €100bn price tag is the equivalent of 4% of France's annual economic output, Prime Minister Jean Castex said it was almost four times bigger than the rescue strategy implemented after the financial crisis of 2008.\n\nIts goal is to move away from the emergency funding of the coronavirus crisis and to make long-term investments in employment and training, as well as in France's transformation to a green economy.\n\nAbout €40bn of the funding will come from the new European Union recovery fund.\n\nAbout €35bn has been earmarked for projects to make the economy more competitive, and €30bn will be used on greener energy policies. About €6bn is slated for making public buildings and homes better insulated. The hydrogen industry, a sector which is receiving huge investment in Germany, will get €2bn.\n\nThe rest of the investment package will go on supporting jobs, training and broader social initiatives with the aim of creating at least 160,000 jobs next year.\n\nMr Castex said the money would be spent over the next two years, and he hoped the investment would return the economy to its pre-pandemic levels by 2022. The next French presidential election is due to get under way in April 2022.\n\n\"Economically and socially it is infinitely better to temporarily worsen the pubic finances to invest, re-arm the economy and move forward than to sink into austerity and let unemployment and human drama explode,\" Mr Castex told a media briefing.\n\nMathieu Orphelin, who left Mr Macron's party last year to set up a more environmentally-focused party, told Reuters.\"It [the plan] is good, but this can't be limited to two years, we need to keep it up for 10 years.\"\n\nThierry Drilhon, president of the Franco-British Chamber of Commerce, told the BBC he thought the stimulus package would help those industries that had suffered \"significantly\" in the coronavirus crisis, as long as the investment was properly implemented.\n\n\"Obviously execution will be key to make sure that investment will be well utilised,\" he said. \"We all know that you can have the right vision, but vision without execution is just hallucination.\"\n\nFrance is on course for one of Europe's worst recessions, with an 11% drop in economic output forecast for 2020 as a whole.\n• None Eurozone recession 'will be deeper than forecast'", "Small children were among those arriving in Dover after crossing the English Channel\n\nMore than 400 migrants have crossed the English Channel in small boats - a record for a single day.\n\nBorder Force has intercepted 416 people, including young children, on board 28 boats, the Home Office has confirmed.\n\nSome of the migrants were carrying children too young to walk.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson earlier on Wednesday said the UK had become \"a target and a magnet for those who would exploit vulnerable people in this way\".\n\nMore than 100 migrants arrived in Dover after being picked up by Border Force and RNLI vessels\n\nA further 53 people were rescued by French authorities after getting into difficulties before reaching British waters.\n\nSome 145 people had crossed the Channel in 18 small boats on Tuesday.\n\nRough seas brought on by Storm Francis made crossings impossible at the end of August, but conditions have improved in the first two days of September.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons during Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"I have a great deal of sympathy with those who are desperate as to put their children in dinghies or in children's paddling pools and try to cross the channel.\n\n\"But I have to say what they're doing is falling prey to criminal gangs and they are breaking the law.\"\n\nHe added: \"It also undermines the legitimate claims of others who seek asylum in this country.\n\n\"We will address the rigidities in our laws that make this country, I'm afraid, a target and a magnet for those who would exploit vulnerable people in this way.\"\n\nOne group landed at Shakespeare Beach in Dover\n\nMore than 1,468 migrants made the crossing by small boat in August despite a vow from Home Secretary Priti Patel to make the dangerous route \"unviable\".\n\nThe Home Office does not provide information on how many children are making the crossing on small boats.\n\nHome Office minister Chris Philp told the Commons on Wednesday the government was attempting to return 1,000 people who had arrived in the UK, having \"previously claimed asylum in European countries, and under the regulations legally should be returned there\".\n\nMore than 7,400 migrants have crossed the Channel in small boats since January 2019.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Teacher Simon Flynn was described by his former school as a \"firm favourite\"\n\nA man who died after falling from a paddleboard and getting tangled in moorings in a \"freak accident\" has been named as Simon Flynn.\n\nThe 42-year-old teacher from Cheltenham fell into the water near the sailing club at Rock beach in Cornwall at about 13:30 BST on Monday.\n\nHe was rescued by a local boat but died at the scene.\n\nIn a letter to parents, his former school Kingsholm Primary described him as a \"firm favourite\" of the students.\n\nPosting on the Facebook page of Mr Flynn's tutoring service, his family said: \"It is with immeasurable sadness that we, Simon's family must announce that he tragically passed away in a freak accident while having the time of his life in Cornwall.\n\n\"He loved his job, he loved working and developing his students and for this we thank you all for supporting him.\"\n\nMany of the comments on the page are from parents of former pupils, describing him as an \"amazing human being and teacher\", \" a one-off\" and a \"caring and enthusiastic tutor\".\n\nRock beach is a popular spot for locals and visitors\n\nMr Flynn was paddleboarding while on holiday in Cornwall when he fell off and \"got tangled in moorings\" at Rock beach.\n\n\"Despite the best efforts that were put in by paramedics, the lifeboat crew and others, he was declared deceased at the scene,\" James Instance from Falmouth Coastguard said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The charity hopes to reopen Tedworth House in Wiltshire as a recovery centre for wounded, injured and sick service veterans\n\nMilitary charity Help for Heroes says 142 staff roles are at risk, as its income has dropped by nearly a third during the pandemic.\n\nThe charity, which supports wounded veterans and their families, says there are likely to be about 80 redundancies.\n\nIt relies on donations for 97% of its funding, but its fundraisers have been cancelled or postponed since March.\n\nCharity chief Melanie Waters said: \"These tough decisions have been made to protect the future of the charity.\"\n\nThree Help for Heroes recovery centres - in Yorkshire, Devon and Essex - will remain closed indefinitely as Help for Heroes focuses on face-to-face community and online-based support.\n\nThe charity said demand for its services rose by 33% during May and June - compared to the same period last year - as the consequences of the national lockdown impacted on veterans' mental health.\n\nRequests for help with physical conditions also increased by nearly a third over the same period.\n\nMeanwhile, the charity - which furloughed 130 staff at the start of the pandemic - said it anticipates funding will remain down by around a third for the foreseeable future, as the economy struggles to recover.\n\nMs Waters said a major restructure was the only way the charity could continue with its work.\n\n\"In 2007, we made a promise on behalf of the nation to provide lifetime support to wounded veterans, and their families, and we are striving to keep that promise,\" she said in a statement on their website.\n\n\"The crisis has had a devastating impact on the whole UK charity sector, with lasting consequences, and it has hit us hard.\"\n\nThe charity said it was working closely with the Ministry of Defence \"to provide core recovery activities for wounded, injured or sick service personnel\" and hoped to reopen its Tedworth House recovery centre in Wiltshire, with social distancing measures in place - as well as their community office in Wales.\n\nLast year, the charity - which was set up in 2007 by former Army Captain Bryn Parry and wife Emma - raised around £27m.\n\n\"We remain absolutely committed to our wounded and their families and will continue fighting for, and changing the lives of, those we support for as long as they need it,\" said Ms Waters.\n• None BBC apologises to Help for Heroes", "Prosecutors say Jerry Harris could face up to 30 years in prison\n\nJeremiah \"Jerry\" Harris, one of the stars of the Netflix documentary series Cheer, has been arrested and charged with producing child sex images.\n\nMr Harris, 21, allegedly enticed an underage boy to produce sexually explicit videos and photos of himself, the US attorney's office said.\n\nAccording to court records, Mr Harris admitted to soliciting and receiving explicit images from the minor.\n\nBut a spokesperson for the star has denied the allegations.\n\nMr Harris was arrested on Thursday morning and later appeared in court in Chicago.\n\nHe did not enter a plea. A judge said a hearing would be held on Monday to determine if he will stay in custody or be released on bail, according to US media reports.\n\nMr Harris featured prominently in the popular series Cheer, which followed a cheerleading team from Navarro College in Texas as they sought a national title.\n\nMr Harris is accused of soliciting images from the minor from December 2018 to March 2020.\n\nThe victim informed Mr Harris during their initial online encounter that he was 13 years old, a criminal complaint says.\n\nIf convicted on the federal child pornography charge, Mr Harris faces up to 30 years in prison.\n\nThe charge comes after a lawsuit was filed earlier this week, in which Mr Harris was accused of child sexual exploitation and abuse of two alleged male victims.\n\nA spokesperson told CNN at the time that \"we categorically dispute the claims\" and \"are confident that when the investigation is completed the true facts will be revealed\".\n\nBut court documents say Mr Harris admitted during an interview with law enforcement officials to soliciting and receiving explicit images from one of the minors and \"at least between 10 to 15 other individuals he knew were minors\".\n\nOfficials say investigations are ongoing and have called for anyone with more information to come forward.\n\nCheer was an instant success when it was released on streaming service Netflix in January, and recently won two Emmy Awards.\n\nMr Harris gained popularity for his enthusiastic \"mat talk\" - when cheerleaders on the sidelines shout encouragement to teammates during difficult stunts.\n\nEarlier this year, he interviewed celebrities on the Oscars red carpet for The Ellen DeGeneres Show.\n• None Inside the world of the UK's student cheerleaders", "Migrants have been sleeping rough for a week since the Moria blaze\n\nPolice on the Greek island of Lesbos are moving thousands of migrants and refugees from the fire-gutted Moria camp to a new tent city nearby.\n\nSeventy female officers in protective suits were flown in to organise the transfer of women and children to the temporary Kara Tepe camp.\n\nOn Wednesday four Afghan asylum seekers were charged with starting the fire that destroyed Moria last week.\n\nA government official said 1,800 had moved into Kara Tepe by early Thursday.\n\nBut many migrants and refugees remain reluctant to stay on Lesbos, as Moria was overcrowded and squalid. They hope to go elsewhere in Europe, especially Germany.\n\nMany migrants are reluctant to enter a new camp on Lesbos\n\nMore than 12,000 people fled the Moria blaze and most have been sleeping rough since then, short of food, water and shelter.\n\nOfficers began waking families early on Thursday to move them to the new camp. Footage from the scene shows female officers dressed in white speaking to the migrants.\n\nThe migrants are being tested for coronavirus before entering Kara Tepe. Reuters news agency reports that 56 have been found Covid-19 positive, and the authorities are striving to keep those infected isolated. A police spokesman told AFP the operation aimed \"to safeguard public health\".\n\nThe fire broke out last week after 35 people tested positive for coronavirus and some objected to being put into isolation after months of lockdown.\n\nDuring the operation to move migrants to the temporary camp, the NGO Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) tweeted that it had been denied access to its new clinic in Lesbos by Greek police.\n\nAfter several hours the group said they were finally allowed to reopen their site, but said it was \"highly concerning\" that their medical care was interrupted during the move.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Jean Mackenzie spoke to people at the Moria camp months before it was destroyed and reflects on her experiences there\n\nPeople from 70 countries had been sheltered at Moria, most from Afghanistan.\n\nThe German government has now agreed to take in 1,553 migrants from Moria - they are from 408 families who have received refugee status.\n\nEarlier, Germany also said it would take in up to 150 unaccompanied minors. Greece flew 400 children to the mainland last week, and EU countries have agreed to receive them, though the details are not yet clear.\n\nSince the 2015 migrant crisis the numbers arriving on Greek islands near Turkey have fallen considerably, but Greek camps, like those in Italy, remain overcrowded.\n\nGreece and Italy have accused wealthier northern nations in the EU of failing to share the burden, as irregular migrants - including refugees from war zones - continue to seek a new life in Europe.", "A heavily-pregnant woman has told of the \"misery\" of trying to get a coronavirus test for her ill daughter.\n\nVerity Ward from South Shields booked for her three-year-old daughter Romilly to be tested at Doxford Park in Sunderland at 13:30 today after the youngster became ill overnight.\n\nMs Ward is 38 weeks pregnant and due to have a Caesarean operation in the next few days so needs to know if the virus has infected her household.\n\nBut she and her partner got stuck in a queue on the A19 which had backed up from the testing centre.\n\n\"We saw some police cars go up past us, and then eventually a man came down and told each car that the computers at the centre had crashed and they weren't going to be able to do any tests,\" she said.\n\n\"As we did a three-point-turn to leave, we saw police stopping other cars from joining the queue so at least those people didn't have to endure the misery.\n\n\"As for us, I guess we try again tomorrow. I've got a lot of hospital appointments coming up and I really can't be doing 14 days isolation. I want to know if I'm safe.\"", "Ripdorf fielded the minimum number of players needed to avoid paying a fine\n\nA German football team lost 37-0 to their local rivals after fielding only seven players who socially distanced throughout the match.\n\nRipdorf fielded the minimum number of players on Sunday because their opponents SV Holdenstedt II came into contact in a previous game with someone who tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nTheir team tested negative but Ripdorf said the conditions were not safe.\n\nIf Ripdorf had not played, they would have faced a €200 (£182) fine.\n\nThey had asked for the match - in the 11th tier of German football - to be postponed but the local association refused.\n\nRipdorf said they did not feel safe as at the time of the game 14 days had not yet passed since Holdenstedt players had come into contact with the person who tested positive.\n\nHoldenstedt's first team did not play in the match and the club fielded their second team.\n\nAt the beginning of the match, one of Ripdorf's players stepped onto the pitch, passed the ball to an opponent and the team then walked to the sidelines.\n\nRipdorf co-chair Patrick Ristow told ESPN: \"The Holdenstedt players did not understand. But we did not want to risk anything.\"\n\nHe added of his players: \"They did not go into direct duels and observed the social distancing rules, keeping two metres between them and Holdenstedt players.\"\n\nHoldenstedt did not hold back, scoring a goal every two or three minutes.\n\n\"There was no reason not to play this game,\" Holdenstedt coach Florian Schierwater said.", "The government says there is high demand for coronavirus tests\n\nPeople are waiting longer for coronavirus test results from England's community testing centres, figures show.\n\nOnly a third of tests carried out in these venues came back in 24 hours in the week up to 9 September.\n\nThat is down from two-thirds the week before, NHS Test and Trace said.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock admitted there was \"a challenge in testing\" as he faced criticism in the Commons.\n\nHe also announced new lockdown restrictions for most of the north east of England, where infections are on the rise.\n\nAccess to community testing has had to be rationed because labs are struggling to keep up with demand, but this is the first evidence tests which do happen are taking longer to process.\n\nThere are three types of community testing centres - drive-throughs, walk-in centres and mobile units that are deployed to hotspot areas.\n\nAll three saw rises in turnaround times.\n\nOver the week, 360,000 tests were carried out in these three settings, up from around 320,000 the week before.\n\nThe release of the turnaround times comes as growing numbers of people complain they cannot access tests at all.\n\nBooking slots at testing sites, as well as the availability of kits that are posted out to people's homes, have been restricted across the UK because labs are not able to keep up with demand.\n\nIt has meant tests have had to be prioritised for high-risk areas, including care homes and areas where there are local outbreaks.\n\nShadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth said the government must urgently fix test and trace to \"avoid further restrictions\", adding: \"It's become not so much test and trace, more like trace a test.\"\n\nAnd a succession of MPs raised the cases of constituents who had struggled to access tests.\n\nMr Hancock admitted there was \"a challenge in testing\", but said capacity was \"at record levels\" and had increased week on week but demand had \"gone up faster\".\n\nHe said it was important to prioritise testing in areas where cases are rising, as well as in care homes, saying \"we must do everything in our power to protect residents in social care\".\n\nThe government has announced care homes in England will receive extra funding of £546m to try to reduce transmission of coronavirus this winter.\n\nExperts are warning that testing problems will limit the UK's ability to contain spread of the virus.\n\nHospital labs, which process tests for patients and NHS staff, are not affected by the problems. Nearly nine in 10 tests there are turned around in 24 hours.\n\nThe government said testing capacity would be increasing. Currently 375,000 tests a day can be processed - although only around 160,000 of these are in the labs that process community tests.\n\nFor days software developers have been discussing what they described as a coding error on the government's Covid test booking site.\n\nNow a senior source has confirmed that there is such an error although it is described as small and not a major factor in the issues with booking tests.\n\nThe problem, says the source, is that when the site is overwhelmed by the sheer volume of traffic - and \"the load this week has been way higher than anything seen before\" - users are getting the wrong error message.\n\nIt should read \"the service is busy\" but instead it says \"there are no sites available\".\n\nNow, the reality is that mostly that is true, there are no testing sites free - but some people who might be successful if they tried later when the site traffic was lower may assume they can't get a test at all.\n\nTwo new labs are due to open soon, which would bring overall capacity to 500,000 by the end of October, with another two planned for early in 2021, the government said.\n\nBut NHS Test and Trace boss Baroness Dido Harding said it was important that \"only those with symptoms book tests\".\n\nShe added: \"The service is there for those experiencing a high temperature, new continuous cough or loss or change in sense of taste or smell.\n\n\"If you don't have symptoms but think, or have been told by NHS Test and Trace that you have been in contact with someone with the virus, please stay at home but do not book a test.\n\n\"We need everyone to help make sure that tests are there for people with symptoms who need them.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Minister Vaughan Gething issues the threat of another national lockdown\n\nA bank holiday weekend party appears to be \"at the heart\" of a rapid rise in cases in Newport, ministers believe.\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the party led to 18 new cases of coronavirus, with infected people then visiting other venues on nights out.\n\nPeople in Newport have been warned to look out for symptoms if they visited seven pubs and bars in the city on specific dates in September.\n\nNow health experts have warned people against parties during the hot weather.\n\nA spell of sunny weather has been forecast for the next week to 10 days after highs of 31C (88F) in the UK on Monday - with Wales' hottest spot in Aberystwyth as the temperature hit 27C (80F).\n\nNewport now has the third highest coronavirus rate in Wales after a surge in cases as Wales recorded its highest daily Covid-19 case rate since 19 May.\n\nThe health minister warned Wales could have to go into national lockdown if people's behaviour does not change.\n\nMr Gething said the rise in cases in Newport had been similar to that seen in Caerphilly county, which is now in a local lockdown.\n\n\"At the heart of it appears to be a party over the bank holiday weekend, which led to 18 new cases of coronavirus, many of whom visited other venues on nights out while infectious.\"\n\nThe outbreak in Caerphilly had also been pinned in part on individuals socialising in people's homes.\n\nPeople descended on Cardiff Bay during the sunny spell in August\n\nBarry Island was packed during the last heatwave in Wales\n\nMr Gething said it could be two weeks before a peak is seen in Caerphilly, and more people in their 40s and 50s were testing positive there.\n\nNow Public Health Wales (PHW) has called on people not be \"tempted\" into having a party in the sunshine this week.\n\n\"The warm and sunny weather forecast for this week may be a temptation to throw a party or meet up with friends and acquaintances,\" said Kelechi Nnoaham, chairman of PHW's incident management team.\n\n\"Please, don't be tempted and keep working with us by sticking to social distancing guidelines, so that we can protect older and vulnerable people from coronavirus.\"\n\nPeople in Newport have been warned of a local lockdown if Covid-19 cases continue to rise\n\nPeople in Rhondda Cynon Taff and Merthyr Tydfil have been warned they face a lockdown unless the number of Covid-19 cases start to drop and PHW has revealed it is \"starting to see small numbers of hospital admissions of people with coronavirus\" across the Cwm Taf health board area.\n\nThe wearing of face masks has become compulsory in shops in Wales as the infection rate has surged, while no more than six people from extended households can meet indoors at any one time.\n\nBut rules to curb a rise in the number of coronavirus cases could be \"shutting the door after the horse has bolted\", an intensive care doctor in Newport has warned.\n\nPubs in Newport could be closed or have their opening hours restricted if they are linked to more Covid-19 cases\n\nIt comes after people who attended several bars in the city were told by PHW they should isolate and book a test immediately if they started to feel unwell.\n\nMr Gething said the Welsh Government could order pubs in Newport to close or restrict opening hours to stamp out transmission of the virus.\n\nHe said the situation in Merthyr Tydfil, which has also seen a rise in cases along with Rhondda Cynon Taff, was \"more complex\".\n\n\"There is a cluster of cases linked to people working in a company, we are also seeing cases linked to Caerphilly borough, as well as those associated with socialising without social distance and imported cases from holiday travel,\" he said.\n\nA lack of social distancing has been blamed for covid clusters in the Rhondda\n\nIn Rhondda Cynon Taff, the cases are \"largely centred on the lower Rhondda valley and are again linked to people socialising without social distancing and returning from holidays\".\n\nA small cluster of cases have also been linked to a caravan park.\n\nLast week people in the two areas were asked to take extra precautions, including only using public transport for essential purposes.\n\nStaying out of lockdown \"depends on the choices that each one of us is prepared to make\", the health minister said.\n\n\"The challenge is that we've seen some people relaxing too much perhaps and small instances where people know that they're breaking the rules and, in particular, larger social gatherings in people's homes, and a couple of businesses that have not enforced the rules in terms of where their customers behave.\"", "The Bank of England has warned that the rising rate of coronavirus infections and a lack of clarity over the UK's future trade relationship with the EU could threaten the economic recovery.\n\nIt said much of output lost during lockdown had been recovered but the outlook remained \"unusually uncertain\".\n\nThe UK is still in a deep recession, while Covid-19 infections are at their highest level since mid May.\n\nCiting the uncertainty, the Bank held interest rates at 0.1%, a historic low.\n\nIt added that it would continue its monetary support for the economy, but stopped short of increasing its bond-buying programme or reducing interest rates further.\n\nIf you borrow money you usually have to pay a small fee set by the person lending to you. How high that fee - or interest rate - is depends on a \"base rate\" that is set by the Bank of England at meetings throughout the year.\n\nThe rate determines how much banks have to pay to borrow money, and that has a knock-on effect on how much the bank charges consumers to borrow.\n\nWhen the economy is growing quickly the Bank tries to stop it overheating by raising interest rates, making it more expensive to borrow.\n\nWhen the economy is sluggish, cutting the Bank's base rate lowers the cost of borrowing and can encourage businesses and consumers to spend more.\n\nThe Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), which sets interest rate policy, said previous projections of economic recovery were \"on the assumption of an immediate, orderly move to a comprehensive free trade agreement with the European Union on 1 January 2021\".\n\nEconomic recovery would also depend on the evolution of the pandemic and measures taken to protect public health, the MPC said.\n\n\"The recent increases in Covid-19 cases in some parts of the world, including the United Kingdom, have the potential to weigh further on economic activity, albeit probably on a lesser scale than seen earlier in the year,\" it said.\n\nNo change from the Bank of England on record low interest rates, nor on its wider support for the economy. On the face of it, the economy is less weak than it expected even last month, but profound uncertainties remain.\n\nThe Bank in particular pointed to \"recent increases in Covid-19\", including in the UK, that \"have the potential to weigh further on economic activity\", as well as a recent fall in sterling partly \"reflecting recent Brexit developments\".\n\nGiven rates are at rock bottom already, sterling was further hit from the fact that the Bank's deliberations over rates included a presentation over how \"negative interest rates\" might work.\n\nThe Bank had been concerned of the impact of, in effect, lenders paying borrowers for the health of parts of the banking system. It is, as it has previously signalled, looking at how this could be achieved in practice. Should the uncertainties visible to all materialise in the coming weeks for the UK, that extraordinary and unprecedented tool is being prepared as an option.\n\nThe government has had to impose new social distancing restrictions across England, as rising cases have forced many areas into local lockdowns.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Prime Minister said the government was doing \"everything in our power\" to prevent another nationwide lockdown, which could have \"disastrous\" financial consequences for the UK.\n\nThe Bank of England said despite a stronger than expected recovery in the last few months, the economy was still about 7% smaller than at the end of last year.\n\nUsually if the economy is not growing strongly enough, the Bank of England considers lowering interest rates to encourage firms to invest and savers to spend.\n\nHowever, interest rates are already close to zero after two emergency rate cuts in March.\n\nMinutes from this month's meeting show that the MPC discussed the use of negative interest rates to stimulate the economy. Last month, the Bank's governor, Andrew Bailey, appeared to rule that out, though he said negative interest rates remained in the \"tool box\".\n\nIf interest rates are negative the Bank of England charges for any deposits it holds on behalf of the banks. That encourages banks to lend the money to business rather than deposit it.\n\nThe Bank also signalled that it had no intention of raising interest rates until \"significant progress\" had been made in getting inflation back to the Bank's 2% target. It is currently at a five-year low of 0.2%.\n\nThe Bank said it did not expect inflation to return to target levels for another two years.\n\n\"We expect interest rates to be no higher than 0.1% for the next five years,\" said Andrew Wishart, UK economist at Capital Economics.", "Broadcasting watchdog Ofcom has said it will not formally investigate a performance by Diversity on Britain's Got Talent.\n\nThe dance troupe's Black Lives Matter routine on 5 September received about 24,500 complaints.\n\nBut the organisation concluded the programme did not raise issues which warranted investigation under its broadcasting rules.\n\n\"Its central message was a call for social cohesion and unity\", it noted.\n\nDiversity's routine included a white performer kneeling on Banjo's neck, a reference to George Floyd's death in police custody, and dancers dressed as riot police. It also featured themes about the coronavirus pandemic, poverty and capitalism.\n\nCritics complained that ITV's prime-time Saturday night entertainment show was an inappropriate platform for a political statement.\n\nAn Ofcom spokeswoman said: \"We carefully considered a large number of complaints about this artistic routine, an area where freedom of expression is particularly important.\n\n\"Diversity's performance referred to challenging and potentially controversial subjects, and in our view, its central message was a call for social cohesion and unity.\n\n\"Any depictions of violence by the performers were highly stylised and symbolic of recent global events, and there was no explicit reference to any particular political organisation - but rather a message that the lives of black people matter,\" she added.\n\nDiversity star and BGT judge Ashley Banjo responded to the Ofcom decision on Instagram, saying: \"Creativity is always a leap of faith.\n\n\"All I did what was what felt right and I'd do it 100 times over... Sending love to everyone that stood by us.\"\n\nEarlier this week he said they had have received \"hundreds of thousands\" of messages of support, after news of the complaints was made public.\n\n\"Trust me. I'm right in the centre of it,\" said Banjo. \"The negativity is the minority...\n\n\"We stand by every single decision we made with that performance.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jacob Rees-Mogg: \"endless carping saying\" it's difficult to get a coronavirus test.\n\nSenior Minister Jacob Rees-Mogg has been criticised after he described concern over coronavirus testing shortages as \"carping\".\n\nThe Commons leader told MPs people should instead celebrate the \"phenomenal success\" of increasing test capacity.\n\nLabour's shadow health minister Alex Norris said he should \"immediately apologise\" for his comments.\n\nA No 10 spokesman said the government was increasing test capacity.\n\nOn Wednesday Prime Minister Boris Johnson defended the coronavirus testing system, saying it is trying to meet a \"colossal spike\" in demand.\n\nAnd on Thursday figures revealed that people using community coronavirus testing centres in England are waiting longer for their results than in previous weeks.\n\nOnly a third of tests carried out in community venues came back in 24 hours in the week up to 9 September - down from two-thirds the week before, NHS Test and Trace said.\n\nAsked about testing by Labour's shadow leader of the House Valerie Vaz, Mr Rees-Mogg said: \"The issue of testing is one where we have gone from a disease that nobody knew about a few months ago to one where nearly a quarter of a million people a day can be tested.\n\n\"And the prime minister is expecting that to go up to half a million people a day by the end of October.\n\n\"And instead of this endless carping saying it's difficult to get them, we should be celebrating this phenomenal success of the British nation in getting up to a quarter of a million tests for a disease that nobody knew about until earlier in the year.\n\n\"That is a success of our scientists or health experts and of our administration.\"\n\nMr Rees-Mogg acknowledged that demand was exceeding supply but added that supply was growing.\n\n\"What has been done, is really rather remarkable and something we should be proud of,\" he said.\n\nResponding to his comments, Mr Norris said: \"For weeks, people across the country have been struggling to get coronavirus tests but rather than fixing problems, the government have instead resorted to a blizzard of blame shifting and excuses.\n\n\"Now, out-of-touch ministers have got a new message to those who can't get tests: 'stop complaining and praise us'.\n\n\"Jacob Rees-Mogg should immediately apologise - whining about the public not being grateful enough won't sort anything - only his government can fix the testing shambles they are presiding over.\"\n\nAsked about Mr Rees-Mogg's comments, a Downing Street spokesman said the prime minister was clear about the need to increase testing capacity.", "Why the WHO is sticking to 14 days quarantine\n\nThe World Health Organization has repeated its plea for countries not to shorten the quarantine period for people who have been exposed to coronavirus. The global health body recommends anyone who has been in close contact with someone who has definitely got coronavirus or probably has, should stay at home or somewhere similar for two weeks. The idea is simple - to monitor people in case they get ill and spot Covid-19 cases early on, preventing the virus from spreading further. The Centrers for Disease Control and Prevention in the US, for example, says based on the best current studies, it is likely that the time from someone being exposed to getting symptoms is between two and 14 days. It's evidence like this that is behind the WHO's advice. And in the UK if you are told by the Test and Trace system that you have had close contact with someone who has coronavirus, you must isolate for 14 days. But France is reportedly taking a different approach. It is slashing its isolation time from 14 fourteen days to seven. That's because health experts there say the majority of people find it too difficult to isolate for a whole two weeks. They also say this is when people are most likely to be infectious. There are also some small studies that suggest people are most likely to pass on the virus in the first week they have symptoms. But the science is still emerging and scientists across the globe agree there are still many uncertainties. That's why different countries have different approaches - each has to balance the evidence, the unknowns and the chance for citizens to get back to a more normal life.", "People arriving from Singapore and Thailand in England and Scotland will not need to quarantine from Saturday morning, the government has said.\n\nThey have been added to the list of \"travel corridor\" countries.\n\nBut travellers coming from Slovenia and Guadeloupe will have to self-isolate for two weeks.\n\nBoth have also been added to Wales' quarantine list, while arrivals there from Gibraltar and Thailand will not need to self-isolate.\n\nThe changes come into force at 04:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nThe Department for Transport (DfT) said there had been \"a significant change in both the level and pace of confirmed cases of coronavirus\" in both Slovenia and Guadeloupe.\n\nData from Slovenia shows that its seven-day rate of cases is 29.1 per 100,000 people, up from 14.4 in the previous seven days.\n\nThe rate for Guadeloupe has risen more than six-fold in the past four weeks, the DfT said.\n\nWhen a country's rate rises above 20, the UK government considers imposing quarantine restrictions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do I quarantine after returning from abroad?\n\nTravellers who do not self-isolate when they are supposed to can be fined £1,000 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, or £480 in Scotland.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps reminded passengers they were required by law to fill in a passenger locator form.\n\nThe form asks travellers to provide their contact details and UK address. Passengers can be fined up to £3,200 in England if they do not provide accurate contact details, or £1,920 in Wales.\n\n\"This is vital in protecting public health and ensuring those who need to are complying with self-isolation rules,\" Mr Shapps said.\n\nThe decision to remove quarantine restrictions for arrivals from Thailand and Singapore is unlikely to lead in a surge of people from England visiting as both countries are only allowing people to enter for a limited number of reasons, such as if they have a work permit or are the spouse or child of a resident.\n\nDenmark retained its quarantine exemption, despite its seven-day case rate being 33.8.\n\nThe DfT urged employers to be \"understanding\" of people returning from Slovenia and Guadeloupe, as they will need to self-isolate.\n\nThe statement gave no update on the possible introduction of testing at airports as a way of reducing quarantine requirements.\n\nThe travel industry has demanded this should take place urgently to avoid further job losses.\n\nEarlier this week, British Airways boss Alex Cruz called for trials to be held for passengers flying between London and New York.\n\nHe said \"this is imperative\", adding that the airline is \"still fighting for our own survival\".\n\nLast week, Sweden was made exempt from quarantine for Wales, England and Scotland.\n\nAt the same time, Portugal was placed back on England's quarantine list after a rise in infections.\n\nIt comes as coronavirus cases in the UK rose by 3,395 on Thursday, government figures showed, while deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test increased by 21.", "Pubs and restaurants could be shut for a few weeks as part of stricter measures across England to slow the surge of coronavirus cases.\n\nThe government is considering a short period of tighter rules which could be announced in the next week, BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said.\n\nSchools and most workplaces would be kept open during those weeks.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told the BBC the government is \"prepared to do what it takes\" against Covid-19.\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded a further 4,322 confirmed cases of coronavirus - the first time the daily total of positive tests has exceeded 4,000 since 8 May.\n\nAnother 27 deaths were reported within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nDescribed by the government as a \"circuit-break\", the measures being considered could involve re-introducing restrictions in public spaces for a period of a few weeks. Schools and workplaces would stay open.\n\nIdeas suggested by the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) include closing some parts of the hospitality sector.\n\nNo 10 is also considering limiting the opening hours of pubs and restaurants across the country, as has already happened in some areas.\n\nMr Hancock said there had been an \"acceleration\" in cases in the last couple of weeks, with the number of people admitted to hospital doubling about every eight days.\n\nHe stressed it was \"critical\" that people followed social distancing guidelines and local lockdown rules, where they applied, to \"avoid having to take serious further measures\".\n\nThe Office for National Statistics' weekly infections survey for England and Wales, used by the government to base its decisions, estimates there were about 6,000 new cases a day in England in the week to 10 September.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said the next few days will be \"critical\" to avoid another full-scale lockdown in Scotland.\n\nMs Sturgeon, Welsh First Minister, Mark Drakeford, and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer have all asked Boris Johnson for an emergency Cobra meeting to be called.\n\nAt a meeting on Wednesday night, the UK government's chief scientific adviser and medical adviser said they were forecasting a significant number of deaths by the end of October if there were no further interventions.\n\nBasic maths shows us how quickly coronavirus cases can, theoretically, soar.\n\nAround 4,000 infections a day, doubling every eight days, would be 128,000 new daily cases by the end of October.\n\nThat is not guaranteed to happen, and a change in our behaviour, the \"rule of six\" or restrictions like those in north-east England could improve the situation.\n\nThe point of a national \"circuit-break\" would be to achieve a controlled drop in the levels of coronavirus without needing a full lockdown.\n\nThis does two things, obviously it helps avoid having very high levels of the virus that could overwhelm hospitals.\n\nBut it also gives us more options. Any contact tracing programme or system of local lockdowns is far easier to implement when levels of the virus are low. The higher the number of cases, the fewer targeted measures the government has to use.\n\nThe problem is once the circuit-break is over, cases would begin to rise again and it may take multiple circuit breaks to get us through winter.\n\nMeanwhile, new rules have been announced for north-west England, the Midlands and West Yorkshire, to come into force from Tuesday, in an effort to control the spread of the virus.\n\nSimilar restrictions have already come into force in north-east England, affecting almost two million people, banning them from meeting people from other households and requiring restaurants and pubs to shut at 22:00 BST.\n\nBut it is understood the government turned down down a request from the local council in Leeds to bring in early closing for bars and pubs there.\n\nOther parts of the UK under local lockdown conditions include - including Birmingham, Greater Manchester, Caerphilly, and the Belfast council area.\n\nThe four nations of the UK are in charge of their own lockdown restrictions, with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland implementing slightly different rules to England.\n\nThe health secretary said the government's current approach was \"targeted interventions\" and stressed \"a national lockdown was the last line of defence\".\n\n\"The strategy is to keep the virus down as much as is possible whilst protecting education and the economy,\" Mr Hancock added.\n\n\"And throw everything at the science which eventually is the way we're going to spring out of this.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson is understood to be deeply reluctant to order another national lockdown, where everyone would be asked to stay at home and businesses to close.\n\nEarlier this week he described the potential impact of this on the economy as \"disastrous\". Chancellor Rishi Sunak is also understood to have warned ministers of the potential damage to the economy.\n\nThe government is also concerned about the impact of more restrictions on daily life on those who need treatment for non-Covid related illnesses.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this article? Do you have any questions? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Police, pictured here in Edinburgh in June, now can break up groups larger than six\n\nPeople should speak to those who are breaking the rule of six limits on social gatherings before reporting them to police, the prime minister has said.\n\nIn an interview with the Sun, Boris Johnson said he had \"never much been in favour of sneak culture, myself\".\n\nIt comes after policing minister Kit Malthouse, called on people to report neighbours breaking the coronavirus rules.\n\nThe new measures came into force in England, Scotland and Wales this week.\n\nSpeaking to the Sun, Mr Johnson said: \"What people should do in the first instance is obviously if they are concerned is raise it with their friends and neighbours.\n\n\"But I think what is reasonable for anyone to do is if they think there is a serious threat to public health as a result of their neighbour's activities - if there is some huge kind of Animal House party taking place, as I am sure, hot tubs and so forth - and there is a serious threat to public health then it's reasonable for the authorities to know.\"\n\nThe prime minister was referring to the 1978 film National Lampoon's Animal House which featured a large toga party.\n\nThe new measures ban social gatherings of more than six people but vary in the different nations - for example in England and Scotland the law applies both indoors and outdoors, but indoors in Wales.\n\nIt applies to all ages in England, but not to those aged 12 and under in Scotland and those under 11 in Wales in those households.\n\nPolice have the power to break up groups larger than six and people who ignore officers could be fined £100 - doubling with each offence to a maximum of £3,200.\n\nMr Johnson's comments differ to what his Conservative colleagues have previously said.\n\nEarlier this week, Home Secretary Priti Patel was asked whether she would alert the police about her neighbours if they broke the rules, replying: \"I don't spend my time looking into people's gardens.\"\n\nBut pressed further on the topic in the BBC Radio 4 Today interview, she said: \"I think anybody would want to take responsibility and ensure we're not spreading this awful disease and therefore if I saw gatherings of more than six people clearly I would report that.\"\n\nShe also said families stopping for a chat in the street was considered \"mingling\" and would also be breaking the rules.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel explains why \"mingling\" is against the latest Covid-19 restrictions\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Malthouse said the public should ring the non-emergency number 101 and pass on details of suspected law-breakers.\n\nHe was asked whether a person should report a gathering of seven or more in a neighbour's garden, and said: \"It is open to neighbours to do exactly that through the non-emergency number.\n\n\"And if they are concerned and they do see that kind of thing, then absolutely they should think about it.\"\n\nAlso earlier this week, the chairman of the Police Federation, which represents rank-and-file officers in England and Wales, called for guidance over how to enforce the measures.\n\nBritish Transport Police officers have been patrolling Tube carriages to check people are wearing masks\n\nA further 3,991 new cases were announced by the government on Wednesday.\n\nTougher lockdown restrictions are expected to be brought in in north-east England in the coming days - but Mr Johnson has told MPs the government would do \"everything in our power\" to avoid a second national lockdown.\n\nMr Johnson also addressed the lockdown in his interview with the Sun, saying: \"The only way to make sure the country is able to enjoy Christmas is to be tough now.\"\n\nHe said ministers \"will be looking at\" the possibility of telling pubs and restaurants to close earlier.\n\nPeople should be \"both confident and cautious\", he added.\n\nThere are several local hotspots in the UK which have seen a spike in cases since the nationwide lockdown ended.\n\nParts of north-west England, West Midlands, West Yorkshire, Leicester, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are currently under local lockdown.\n\nPublic Health England also produces a weekly watchlist of areas of concern.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"That's my car... submerged\": Video shows flooded streets in Pensacola, Florida\n\nTropical Storm Sally has left more than half a million Americans without power as its torrential rains and storm surges lashed the US Gulf coast.\n\nSally weakened after it made landfall as a Category 2 hurricane on Wednesday, but the slow-moving storm continues to batter Florida and Alabama.\n\nOne person was killed and hundreds were rescued from flooded areas.\n\nPensacola, in Florida, was badly hit, with a loose barge bringing down part of the Bay Bridge.\n\n\"Catastrophic and life-threatening flooding continues over portions of the Florida Panhandle and southern Alabama,\" the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.\n\nThe wind ripped the roof off this house in Perdido Key, Florida\n\nThe storm has brought \"four months of rain in four hours\" to the city, Pensacola fire chief Ginny Cranor told CNN.\n\nOne person died and another was missing in the town of Orange Beach, Alabama, the mayor said without giving further details.\n\nSally made landfall at Gulf Shores, Alabama, at 04:45 local time on Wednesday, with maximum wind speeds of 105mph (169 km/h).\n\nAccording to the NHC, Category 2 hurricanes have sustained winds of 96 to 110 mph. The NHC says a Category 2 storm's \"extremely dangerous winds\" usually cause damage to homes and shallowly rooted trees.\n\nThe storm later become a tropical depression with winds decreasing to 35mph, but it has been the torrents of rainfall and high storm surges that have caused most damage.\n\nAs the storm moved north from the coast, some 550,000 residents in affected areas were left in the dark on Wednesday night, according to local reports.\n\nSally is one of several storms in the Atlantic Ocean, with officials running out of letters to name the hurricanes as they near the end of their annual alphabetic list.\n\nRainfall is being measured in feet rather than inches in some places, but 18in (45cm) has been recorded across many areas.\n\nFlooding to a depth of 5ft hit central Pensacola. The storm surge was the third worst ever to hit the city. Police there told people not to go out to look at the damage, saying: \"It's slowing our progress down. Please stay at home!\"\n\nAlthough the winds did not have the devastating power of the deadly Hurricane Laura, which struck last month, they still ripped boats from moorings and sent one barge careering into the under-construction Bay Bridge. They were certainly high enough to topple high-sided vehicles.\n\nOne of the barges that broke free in Pensacola, Florida\n\nAnother barge got loose and headed for the Escambia Bay Bridge but luckily ran ashore.\n\nThe sheriff of Escambia County said it had not been expecting the devastation wrought by Sally.\n\nOverturned vehicle in Mobile, Alabama. Many roads there were hit by falling trees\n\nCavin Hollyhand, 50, who lives in Mobile, Alabama, told Reuters: \"The rain is what stands out with this one: It's unreal.\"\n\nThere remains \"a danger of life-threatening inundation\" on the Florida-Alabama border, the NHC said.\n\nAlabama Governor Kay Ivey said many areas around Mobile were seeing historic flood levels and urged people to heed warnings.\n\nThe pier at Gulf State Park in Alabama suffered significant damage.\n\nGulf Shores in Alabama hosted Sally's landfall and its torrential rain\n\nThe latest on power cuts from the poweroutage.us website lists some 290,000 customers without electricity in Alabama and 253,000 more in Florida.\n\nAs well as pylons being brought down, many trees were uprooted.\n\nRain appeared to fall sideways in Alabama, which led to submerged roads as the storm inched ashore. Other areas along the coast were also affected, with beaches and highways swamped in Mississippi and low-lying properties in Louisiana covered by the rising waters.\n\nAlabama, Florida and Mississippi all declared states of emergency ahead of the storm.\n\nJohn De Block, at the National Weather Service in Birmingham, Alabama, told the New York Times that Sally was drifting \"at the speed of a child in a candy shop\".\n\nSally's pace may be linked to climate change, according to experts. A 2018 study in Nature magazine found that the speed at which hurricanes and tropical storms move over an area had decreased by 10% between 1949 and 2016, a drop that was linked to an increase in total rainfall.\n\n\"Sally has a characteristic that isn't often seen, and that's a slow forward speed and that's going to exacerbate the flooding,\" NHC deputy director Ed Rappaport told the Associated Press.\n\nIn addition to Sally, there are four other tropical cyclones - Paulette, Rene, Teddy and Vicky - swirling in the Atlantic Ocean basin.\n\nIf only one more storm is officially named - Wilfred has already been chosen - meteorologists will run out of preselected names for the rest of the year and so will begin naming new storms after the Greek alphabet.\n\nHave you been affected by Hurricane Sally? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Staff working from home for fashion retailer Next have been \"stultified\" by boring online presentations and missed out on office camaraderie, the company said.\n\nNext said that overall, the impact of the pandemic on business had been \"expensive and miserable\".\n\nBut it had also seen some advantages from the upheaval, it added.\n\nNext said it expected some home working to continue and that the balance would \"evolve over time\".\n\nAlong with all \"non-essential\" retailers, Next was forced to close its doors when the pandemic struck. But it continued to meet online orders after overhauling work practices at its warehouses to allow for social distancing.\n\nAnnouncing its financial results for the first six months of the year, including a 34% drop in sales over the worst of the lockdown, the fashion chain said some good had come from the experience.\n\n\"It is remarkable what can be learnt from shutting down your entire operation and slowly, department by department, store by store, warehouse by warehouse, bringing it back to life,\" Next said in a statement.\n\nWarehouses and call centres had become more efficient, while staff in other areas had been forced to make more of new technology, it said.\n\nHowever, it said having staff \"sitting in their spare bedrooms, kitchens and conservatories\" had had pros and cons.\n\nVideo calls for large groups had proved \"unwieldy, frustrating and inefficient\".\n\n\"Worst of all, perhaps, large video calls have encouraged the proliferation of one of the business world's most damaging practices - death by deck,\" it said.\n\nExplaining further, it said this meant \"slideshow presentations that transform meetings from productive exchanges of ideas into boring, one-way lectures, with the 'presenters' rattling through bullet points already visible to their stultified audience\".\n\nOnline sales held up during lockdown, with childrens' wear and sportswear performing strongly\n\nNext said the biggest problem with home working was the lack of spontaneous conversations and the chance to learn from colleagues. On the other hand, it had allowed people to focus more effectively on some solitary tasks, including systems coding and product design.\n\nNext said that had empowered individuals and been liberating.\n\nMillions of UK workers switched to working partly or completely from home when the country went into lockdown in March.\n\nMany welcomed the break from the daily commute and office politics, but the government is keen to encourage workers back into the office to revive city centres.\n\nFirms have taken a mixed approach. Some, such as Twitter, say employees might continue to work from home even after the threat from the virus subsides. Netflix boss Reed Hastings, however, wants staff to return to the office \"12 hours after a vaccine is approved\".\n\nNext's 34% fall in sales saw wedding outfits and work clothes particularly badly hit.\n\nHowever, it said the business had been \"more resilient than we expected\", with pre-tax profit totalling £9m for the first half of the year.\n\nIt said it was fortunate that half of its revenues were already coming from online sales before the onset of the pandemic.\n\nIt has revised its profit forecast for the full year from £195m to £300m.\n\nBut it said that current rules to limit the spread of the virus, including the \"rule of six\", would depress demands for gifts and clothing, if still in force in December.", "Ex-Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has landed a £100,000 job advising the owner of some of the UK's top ports.\n\nThe Conservative MP is working for Hutchison Ports, which operates Harwich and Felixstowe among other terminals.\n\nAccording to the MPs' register of financial interests, he will be paid for seven hours work a week for a year.\n\nThe appointment has been approved by a Whitehall watchdog despite it raising concerns of a \"perceived risk\" that it may give the firm an unfair advantage.\n\nThe Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (ACOBA) said Mr Grayling had reassured them he would not be advising the company on its commercial maritime activities or risks and opportunities associated with Brexit.\n\nThe watchdog said the role would be limited to advising the firm, which also operates London Thamesport, on its environmental strategy and its engagement with local enterprise bodies.\n\nIt said the MP must comply with these and other conditions, including a ban on him lobbying ministers on behalf of the company or giving advice on UK government tenders, until July 2021, two years after he left the cabinet.\n\nMr Grayling stepped down as transport secretary when Boris Johnson became PM in July 2019, having served under his predecessor Theresa May for three years.\n\nMPs are allowed to take on second jobs - and while some have argued that representing constituents should be a full-time occupation, others say working in \"the real world\" keeps members of Parliament grounded in reality.\n\nFor ex-members of the government, however, taking on paid work is slightly trickier - particularly if they have only recently given up their ministerial red boxes.\n\nThere are rules on appointments set by the government, with compliance overseen by ACOBA.\n\nFormer ministers and ex-senior civil servants are are expected to seek advice from the watchdog and follow its advice if they want to start a job less than two years after leaving government.\n\nHowever although the watchdog has the power to put information about appointments into the public domain, it has no formal enforcement powers.\n\nIn 2017, a committee of MPs described ACOBA as \"a toothless regulator\".\n\nAnd in the same year, Labour's then shadow cabinet office minister Jon Trickett said it was \"populated with establishment figures\".\n\nCritics of Mr Grayling say he made a series of poor decisions during his time in the job, including awarding a contract to a group of ferry operators to provide extra capacity after the UK left the EU - one of which had never sailed a vessel.\n\nThe contracts, which Mr Grayling described as an insurance policy, were later cancelled. The National Audit Office estimated that the costs incurred to the taxpayer could be as high as £56.6m.\n\nMr Johnson sought to install the MP for Epsom and Ewell as chair of the powerful Commons Intelligence and Security Committee in July.\n\nBut MPs on the committee voted to back his colleague Julian Lewis instead. Mr Grayling has since quit the committee.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "People requiring A&E will be urged to book an appointment through NHS 111 under a trial in parts of England.\n\nThe aim is to direct patients to the most clinically-appropriate service and to help reduce pressure on emergency departments as staff battle winter pressures, such as coronavirus and flu.\n\nThe pilots are live in Cornwall, Portsmouth, Hampshire and Blackpool and have just begun in Warrington.\n\nIf they are successful, they could be rolled out to all trusts in December.\n\nHowever, people with a life-threatening condition should still call 999.\n\nUnder the new changes, patients will still be able to seek help at A&E without an appointment, but officials say they are likely to end up waiting longer than those who have gone through 111.\n\nMore NHS 111 call handlers are being brought in to take on the additional workload, alongside extra clinicians, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nA campaign called Help Us Help You will launch later in the year to urge people to use the new service.\n\nThe government has also pledged an extra £150m of funding to expand and upgrade 25 more A&Es to reduce overcrowding and improve infection control ahead of winter. This was in addition to the £300m announced for a number of trusts to upgrade their facilities, it said.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"During the peak of the pandemic we saw millions of people using NHS 111 to get the best possible advice on Covid-19, and other urgent NHS services.\n\n\"These pilots will build on this and test whether we can deliver quicker access to the right care, provide a better service for the public and ensure our dedicated NHS staff aren't overwhelmed.\"\n\nThis trial scheme, which seems likely to be adopted at hospitals across England, will see big changes to what people are familiar with at A&E.\n\nPeople who are not seriously ill will be actively discouraged from arriving at emergency departments without an appointment.\n\nThey won't be turned away, but they have been warned there could be even longer waits than before.\n\nOn the other hand, those who have called NHS 111 first and been directed to A&E will get a confirmed time to see an appropriate clinician.\n\nThey could just as easily be directed to an urgent treatment centre or a mental health professional.\n\nThere's the understandable aim of cutting unnecessary visits, so reducing overcrowding in waiting areas at a time when hospitals want to reduce the risk of Covid-19 transmission.\n\nBut for the plan to work, a big public information campaign is required and people will need to have confidence they can get through quickly to an NHS 111 call handler when they need to.\n\nData from the Department for Health and Social Care suggests there are 14.4 million A&E attendances in England that have not gone through NHS 111, a GP or via an ambulance.\n\nIt said 2.1 million attendances do not result in admission or treatment.\n\nChris Hopson, the chief executive of NHS Providers, said trusts will welcome the funding, as it will \"enable them to provide better care for their patients this winter\", adding that the 111 proposals were the \"right approach\".\n\nCaroline Abrahams, charity director at Age UK, said the 111 scheme could have advantages for many older people, including avoiding waiting in crowded A&Es.\n\n\"However, it is important to stress that older people who have difficulty using the phone will not be turned away if they go straight to A&E as before,\" she said.\n\nThe government also announced a consultation on new targets for waiting times in A&E is being launched as ministers prepare to scrap the current four-hour target.\n\nDr Katherine Henderson, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said: \"Expansion of NHS 111 will help patients to be seen more quickly by the service most appropriate to their needs.\n\n\"We are pleased to have reached the consultation phase of how A&E performance is measured with a focus on the safe, timely care of the very sickest patients, and look forward to the publication of the proposals.\"", "A woman takes a photo of her relative during the lockdown in May, when visits were banned\n\nCare homes in England will receive extra funding of £546m to try to reduce transmission of coronavirus during the winter, the government has announced.\n\nThe money helps to pay workers full wages when they are self-isolating, and ensures carers only work in one care home, reducing the spread of the virus.\n\nThe fund was set up in May and has been extended until March 2021.\n\nIn an interview with the Sun, the PM warned family visits to care homes may also need to be restricted.\n\n\"I'm afraid it's an incredibly difficult thing, but we are going to have to place some restrictions on people - visitors - being able to go into care homes,\" Boris Johnson said.\n\nThe funding allows for money to be made available to help care workers reduce their use of public transport, and stock up on personal protective equipment, according to Mr Johnson.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told the House of Commons the government would do \"whatever is humanly possible\" to protect care homes \"so they are a place of sanctuary this winter\".\n\nIn an earlier statement, he said that the extra funding would bring \"peace of mind\" to many in the social care sector.\n\nThe most recent figures show there were 35 homes that were dealing with coronavirus outbreaks - defined as having at least one positive case - during the first week of September. During April, the number of homes with outbreaks was about 20 times that rate.\n\nThe announcement brings the total funding for infection control measures in care homes in England to more than £1.1bn, after the sector received £600m in May.\n\nThe devolved nations were each allocated funding for care homes in May totalling £113m.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lynn hasn't seen her husband, who has dementia, for six weeks due to care home restrictions\n\nThe announcement comes as new coronavirus restrictions are expected to be announced in north-east England, where cases have been on the rise.\n\nLater in the Commons, Labour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth asked Mr Hancock to guarantee care homes \"won't face the same shortages\" of personal protective equipment (PPE) and raised concerns about the \"huge harm\" caused to residents by restrictions on family visits.\n\nThe health secretary said the government had a plan to ensure care homes can get PPE, which would be set out in its Adult Social Care Winter Plan this week.\n\nIn July, care homes in England were allowed to reopen again for family visits - as long as local authorities and public health teams said it was safe. There went on to be a similar reopening of homes in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nHowever, many care homes have not yet fully reopened - including with strict rules over visitors and or banning them completely.\n\nIn Edinburgh, families have protested about \"cruel\" care home visiting rules\n\nMinisters have also promised to make people in care homes a priority for coronavirus tests - along with the NHS - amid ongoing issues with the UK's testing system.\n\nA surge in demand for coronavirus tests has led to local shortages, with many people reporting problems securing online bookings and being directed to test sites hundreds of miles from home.\n\nThe large Lighthouse laboratories, run by the government to analyse test swabs from all the UK nations, have been under strain to process them all.\n\nMr Hancock will announce who will be prioritised for tests in the coming days.\n\nHis government colleague, health minister Edward Argar, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the official guidance \"will prioritise frontline NHS care workers, teachers and similar\".\n\n\"It is possible that there are people with symptoms who apply for a test who have to wait longer because we are prioritising those key frontline workers we need to keep our NHS and care system working,\" he said.\n\nThere has been a sharp decline in test turnaround speed in England, the latest Test and Trace figures show, with only a third of people (33%) getting their results back within 24 hours of taking a test - down from two-thirds last week.\n\nA total of 18,371 new people tested positive for coronavirus in England in the week to 9 September.\n\nCoronavirus swept through UK care homes during the peak of the outbreak, with tens of thousands of deaths.\n\nAlmost 30,000 more care home residents in England and Wales died during the coronavirus outbreak than during the same period in 2019, Office for National Statistics figures published in July show. But only two-thirds were directly attributable to Covid-19.\n\nAccording to the figures, there were just over 66,000 deaths of care home residents in England and Wales between 2 March and 12 June this year, compared to just under 37,000 deaths last year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Manchester Arena Inquiry: Georgina Callander 'had heart as big as the moon'\n\nThe father of Georgina Callander said she had a \"heart as big as the moon\" while her mother described her as \"one in many millions\".\n\nFor two weeks, the relatives of the 22 people killed in the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing will provide a personal insight into the lives of their loved ones and how their lives were changed forever.\n\nIn a moving video Simon Callander, who was at the hearing, described how \"her laughter echoed all over the house\".\n\n\"Every day I hear her laugh,\" he said.\n\nThe 18-year-old's mother Lesley Callander said in separate film played to the inquiry on Wednesday: \"She was like a beautiful melody who lit up the room with her famous smile.\"\n\nShe said she was \"my whole world\".\n\nMr Callander opened his \"pen portrait\" by saying Georgina was born on April Fools' Day \"but I was the fool for not spending more time with her and not telling her he loved her every day\".\n\n\"Compassion was her hallmark. She didn't have a bad bone in her body,\" he said.\n\n\"She had so much love - and so much love to give.\"\n\nHe recalled how the teenager from Tarleton, Lancashire used to \"squeal with excitement\" opening her Christmas presents, kept her brothers Daniel and Harry out of trouble and her talent for art and how she loved taekwondo, ballet and football, playing for Bolton Wanderers Girls Football team.\n\nHe said he still looked out of the window every day to see her walking home from school.\n\n\"I would give anything to see her smiling face again.\"\n\nImages of Georgina growing up were shown to the court accompanied by Lukas Graham's Love Someone, which features the line \"I'd stop the world if it gave us time\".\n\nMr Callander recalled her part-time job at Booths, spending her wages on concerts and her pride at passing her driving test first time.\n\nShe named her first car 'Peggy' which she drove to the concert on \"that horrific day\", he said.\n\nGeorgina had been due to study children's nursing at Edge Hill University, but never got to go, he said.\n\n\"All that potential snatched away.\"\n\nMr Callander said: \"My life is unrecognisable [from] what it was. Ill health. Divorce. A black cloud that follows me constantly.\"\n\nHe said Georgina had been \"the glue that held the family together\".\n\nHis recording ended with more family photographs including one of Georgina with her idol Ariana Grande as Rod Stewart's Love Has No Pride played.\n\nGeorgina's mother Lesley Callander her daughter was \"my whole world\"\n\nGeorgina's mother had earlier described her daughter as was \"one in many millions\" in her powerful tribute.\n\nShe said she would have attended the hearing in person but ever since the attack she \"could not bear\" to be in Manchester.\n\nAlongside a painting of her daughter dressed in her favourite colour yellow, Mrs Callander described her as an \"extremely caring person with a lovely soul\" who offered an \"abundance of hugs for everyone\".\n\n\"She was like a beautiful melody who lit up the room with her famous smile,\" she said.\n\nHer mother said she was passionate about music and Disney films as well as the colour yellow, joking she hardly took her yellow coat off.\n\nGeorgina Callander shared a love of Marvel comics with her older brothers Daniel and Harry\n\nShe spoke of her \"unbearable pain\" as she relived holding Georgina in her arms during her final moments.\n\nShe said it had been a \"daily living nightmare\" since the \"senseless and pointless\" murder of her \"beautiful, innocent daughter\".\n\n\"I find it excruciatingly hard to live without Georgina. I'm nothing without my Georgina. I wish it would have been me and not her.\"\n\nShe added: \"My heart is shattered.\"\n\nHer brothers also paid tribute in a statement to their \"geeky\" sister who shared their interest in Marvel comics.\n\n\"She was like a ray of sunshine on the darkest of days,\" said Daniel.\n\n\"It was infectious how she made you feel.\"\n\nHarry said: \"The one grievance that stains me the most is the life she will never ever get to experience.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Baroness Harding: It is “quite hard to give you an accurate figure” on the level of demand for coronavirus tests\n\nDemand for coronavirus testing is \"significantly outstripping the capacity we have\", head of NHS Test and Trace Baroness Harding has told MPs.\n\nShe told the science and technology committee that the return to school meant test demand in England from under-17s had doubled.\n\nShe also acknowledged that results were also taking \"slightly longer\".\n\nBut she said she was \"very confident\" of raising capacity to 500,000 tests a day by the end of October.\n\n\"I am certain we will need more as we go beyond the end of October. We have plans to go beyond 500,000 a day,\" Baroness Harding said, before adding there was no formal target beyond the October deadline.\n\nThe test and trace programme has come under increasing pressure in recent days, with reports of people unable to access tests or being directed to test centres many miles away.\n\nFigures published on Thursday also showed the turnaround time for community tests was getting longer. Only a third of these tests came back in 24 hours in the week up to 9 September, compared to two-thirds a week earlier.\n\nIt comes as the UK reported another 3,395 confirmed cases of coronavirus, and a further 21 deaths were recorded within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nThe number of people calling 119 and visiting the website to book tests was three to four times the number of available tests, Baroness Harding told the committee - although she said that may exaggerate the problem as some people call repeatedly from different numbers.\n\nCommittee chairman Greg Clark said it was \"dispiriting\" that despite the \"entirely predictable\" circumstances of the return to schools and offices \"we haven't had the right capacity put in place\".\n\nBaroness Harding said they built the testing capacity for this autumn - which is now 242,817 a day - based on modelling from the Sage scientific advisory group.\n\n\"I don't think anybody was expecting to see the really sizable increase in demand that has happened over the last few weeks,\" she said.\n\nProf Carl Heneghan, a GP and epidemiologist at Oxford University, told the committee that the testing strategy was \"utter chaos\" at the moment because other illnesses with Covid-like symptoms such as colds and flu had risen by 50% in children in September.\n\nHe said there was only a \"slight increase\" in hospital admissions and deaths, however, and increased testing may explain some of the rise in cases.\n\n\"What's happening at the moment is the language and the rhetoric is making people so fearful and terrorised that they're going beyond the guidance because they're so fearful of what's coming next,\" he said.\n\nAn unpublished study suggested that coughs and fevers from other winter viruses could rise to 445,000 a day in December, overwhelming test capacity.\n\nIn Sunderland, meanwhile, more than 100 people were left waiting at an empty car park where they said they had been booked in for Covid-19 testing, although no staff or equipment was there.\n\nBolton Council, which faces the highest levels of infection nationally, said it was \"incredibly frustrated\" after problems with the national booking system led to long queues and people with appointments being turned away.\n\nSimilar problems were reported in Lewisham, south London, where the approach to the centre was \"gridlocked\".\n\nBaroness Harding said testing was limited by the laboratory processing capacity, and that they had to restrict the number of people at centres because it would be \"very dangerous\" to send too many samples to the laboratory that would then go untested.\n\nAn NHS Test and Trace survey showed 27% of people seeking tests had no symptoms but had only been in contact with an infected person. Tests should only be provided for members of the public with a continuous cough, a high temperature or a change in sense of smell or taste.\n\n\"We don't want to push away people who are scared,\" Baroness Harding said. But she added that they must \"protect the capacity we have for the people who most need it\".\n\nThe current priorities for testing are NHS patients, NHS staff and care home residents and staff. Together these account for 50% of testing, she said.\n\nAfter that, areas with serious outbreaks are given priority. Baroness Harding said they were looking at putting key workers next, particularly teachers, \"but work is still ongoing\".", "Germany has announced plans to take more than 1,500 migrants following the fire at a detention centre on the Greek Island of Lesbos which left thousands without refuge.\n\nThe tragedy was a reminder of the scale of a crisis which has seen vast movements of people fleeing war and poverty.\n\nFive years ago at the height of the migrant crisis the BBC’s Fergal Keane reported the extraordinary story of Nujeen Mustafa, a Syrian refugee, who crossed Europe in a wheelchair.\n\nFive years on, Fergal has met up with Nujeen to hear how her life has changed.", "Almost two million people in north-east England are expected to face restrictions as coronavirus cases rise.\n\nNorthumberland, Newcastle, Sunderland, North and South Tyneside, Gateshead and County Durham council areas are in discussions to get the measures.\n\nThese may include pubs closing earlier and restrictions on households mixing.\n\nIt comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the Sun: \"The only way to make sure the country is able to enjoy Christmas is to be tough now.\"\n\nHe previously said the government was doing \"everything in our power\" to avoid another nationwide lockdown.\n\nThe PM also told the newspaper the government is promising £546m as part of a plan to help protect care homes from coronavirus this winter.\n\nA full announcement detailing the new measures for the North East is expected later on Thursday.\n\n\"The number of cases has been rising rapidly in many parts of the country, but in particular in the North East, and so a decision has been made to impose further restrictions there,\" Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick told ITV's Peston programme on Wednesday.\n\n\"And a full announcement will be made tomorrow and so people living in that part of the country should watch out for that. And the measures will come into play at midnight on Thursday evening.\"\n\nMPs from the area met with Health Minister Nadine Dorries on Wednesday evening.\n\nBBC Newsnight political editor Nicholas Watt said a Labour MP told him measures would include pubs closing at 22:00 BST, no mixing with other households and public transport only for essential travel.\n\nNewcastle City Council leader Nick Forbes said the temporary measures would mainly be a restriction on social gatherings.\n\n\"The evidence we've found from local testing is that it's spreading in three main areas: in pubs, in people's homes and in grassroots sports,\" he said.\n\n\"So [council leaders] have put together a series of requests to government for additional restrictions around these areas for a fixed period of time to try to prevent a damaging full lockdown.\"\n\nThe council leaders had also requested additional funding for policing to enforce the measures, as well as additional local testing facilities, Mr Forbes added.\n\n\"All of the testing facilities in our region are more or less at full capacity every day - we're hearing stories of people being sent 200 miles to get a test and that's not acceptable.\n\n\"That's why we've asked as council leaders for more resources immediately, because we need to make sure anyone with symptoms gets an immediate test and gets the result back straight away.\"\n\nGateshead is among the areas due to face tougher local restrictions\n\nThe North East has seen a resurgence of coronavirus in recent weeks and four boroughs were last week placed on the government's watchlist for areas needing \"enhanced support\".\n\nOn Monday, councils in the seven areas of Newcastle, Northumberland, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Gateshead, County Durham and Sunderland called for new restrictions.\n\nBBC analysis of the government's figures shows that, as of Wednesday, Bolton had the highest rate in England at 204.1 per 100,000 people in the week to 13 September.\n\nSunderland's rate was 82.1 per 100,000 people, South Tyneside was 93.4, Gateshead was 81.7, Newcastle was 64.1, North Tyneside was 46.7, with County Durham at 37.4 and Northumberland at 25.7.\n\nIn total there were 1,106 new cases in a seven-day period.\n\nA spokesman for the Department of Health and Social Care said: \"We constantly monitor infection rates across the country and keep all measures under review in consultation with local leaders.\n\n\"Any changes to local restrictions will be announced in the usual way.\"\n\nOther parts of the UK, including Birmingham and Greater Manchester, are already subject to increased measures.\n\nIn an interview with the Sun on Thursday, Mr Johnson compared the graph showing UK virus cases to the humps on a camel's back, saying the aim is to \"stop the surge\" in cases and \"flatten the second hump\".\n\nHe said he did not want to lock down sections of the economy, but that the government \"will be looking at\" requiring pubs to close early.\n\nOn Wednesday, the prime minister told a committee of MPs a second national lockdown would be potentially \"disastrous\" for the UK.\n\nHe admitted there was not enough testing capacity - amid widespread reports of difficulties obtaining them - and said new nationwide restrictions such as the \"rule of six\" were necessary to \"defeat\" the disease.\n\nCoronavirus cases across the UK increased by 3,991, taking the total to 378,219, according to figures from the government.\n\nWhile parts of north-west England have consistently had the highest rates of new infections for some time now, areas of the North East have also been reporting big increases.\n\nIn the week to 30 August Sunderland had 24 cases. Two weeks later it was 228.\n\nThe rise in South Tyneside was also very large, up from 70 cases in the last week of August to 141 in the week to 13 September.\n\nParts of the region are recording rates they haven't seen since May, when the country was still subject to most of the full lockdown measures.\n\nTesting capacity has increased since then but there have been shortages due to the recent surge in demand.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nDo you live in one of the areas where restrictions are being reintroduced? How will you be affected? Do you have any questions? Share your views and experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:", "New restrictions aimed at halting the rise in coronavirus cases in north-east England have come into force, affecting almost two million people.\n\nThe temporary measures, which started at midnight, are to tackle \"concerning rates of infection\" in the region.\n\nThe rules affect Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland, Northumberland, South Tyneside, North Tyneside and the County Durham council area.\n\nPubs and restaurants must shut early and household-mixing has been limited.\n\nResponding to the rise in infections, Newcastle City Council leader Nick Forbes said: \"The evidence we've found from local testing is that it's spreading in three main areas - in pubs, in people's homes and in grassroots sports.\"\n\nMeanwhile, new rules banning separate households from meeting each other at home or in private gardens have been introduced in Lancashire, Merseyside, parts of the Midlands and West Yorkshire.\n\nThe measures, due to take effect from Tuesday, will also mean shorter opening hours for pubs and restaurants in parts of Lancashire and Merseyside.\n\nNorthumberland, Newcastle, Sunderland, North and South Tyneside, Gateshead and County Durham council areas are affected\n\nThe new measures for north-east England include:\n\nIt had been hoped that grandparents helping with childcare would be excluded from the restrictions - but they are not.\n\nMr Forbes tweeted that Newcastle City Council had \"specifically\" asked for this to be allowed.\n\nNorthumbria Police said it would provide a \"proportionate response\" to reports the rules being broken, and would assess the situation to determine the most appropriate course of action.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We will look to engage with people in the first instance, explaining the restrictions and encouraging them to follow the regulations.\n\n\"However, where necessary, we will take enforcement action.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'These decisions have a real impact': Health Secretary Matt Hancock confirms local lockdown in north-east England.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons on Thursday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"The data says that we must act now.\"\n\nHe said Sunderland currently had an infection rate of 103 cases per 100,000 people. In South Tyneside and Gateshead the latest published rates were 93.4 and 83.6 respectively.\n\nConcern has been raised about increased waiting times for coronavirus test results for people using community testing centres.\n\nIn Sunderland, drivers queued outside a Covid test centre, only to later find out it was empty.\n\nCouncils have requested additional funding to police the local lockdown\n\nCouncil leaders have also requested additional funding for policing, as well as extra testing facilities.\n\nShadow health secretary Jon Ashworth echoed the need for more testing capacity to be available in areas where there were tightened restrictions.\n\nHe said it was urgent the government \"fixes testing, fixes tracing\" or we face a \"very bleak winter indeed\".\n\nCounty Durham's director of public health Amanda Healy said: \"If we do want to be able to continue to go to work, to schools, to keep in contact with relatives but stop an increase in the cases we have seen, we are really urging people to adhere to the guidance coming out today.\"\n\nGateshead Council leader Martin Gannon said: \"Nobody welcomes these things but I would think the vast majority of people recognise these are extremely difficult times and we all need to act and pull together.\"\n\nSmall businesses broadly welcomed the lockdown but called for more support to adapt to the new measures.\n\nSimon Hanson, North East development manager for the Federation of Small Businesses, said it was \"absolutely critical\" that small and micro businesses were given grant support quickly to help them adapt and provide cashflow.\n\nIt is estimated than 10 million people in the UK currently face additional coronavirus restrictions, with local lockdowns covering parts of Scotland, south Wales, the north west and north east of England, Yorkshire and the Midlands.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nDo you live in one of the areas where restrictions are being reintroduced? How will you be affected? Share your views and experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Launched in early 2011, the 3DS went through several redesigns\n\nNintendo has discontinued its 3DS handheld after about 76 million sales over a nine-and-a-half year period.\n\nA notice on the Japanese firm's site says \"manufacturing of the Nintendo 3DS family of systems has ended\".\n\nThe device had the ability to trick the human eye into seeing 3D images like those in some cinema screenings - but without special glasses.\n\nHowever, its launch received a lukewarm reception and it only gained popularity later.\n\nThe console's demise has long been expected. Last year, the company said it no longer planned to make any new first-party games for the system.\n\nIt means the original Nintendo DS retains the title of being the bestselling mobile console.\n\nAnd the Nintendo Switch - a hybrid handheld-and-home machine - is the current focus of Nintendo's efforts.\n\nThe unique selling point of the 3DS was its stereoscopic 3D effect coming from the screen itself, turned on with a simple slider.\n\nThe optical illusion only works when the screen is in a very specific spot in front of the face - but exactly where gamers tend to hold handheld consoles.\n\nIt was impossible to showcase on video or photo but impressed many who tried it.\n\nIn its 2011 review, game site IGN wrote: \"Once you're in the 3D sweet spot... the 3DS looks amazing; graphics look clean, characters and objects are sharp, and ghosting effects are limited, creating a rich, immersive gameplay experience unlike anything we've seen on a handheld before.\"\n\nThe console was packed with experimental features - augmented reality games, dual 3D cameras, and the the ability to detect nearby consoles while in low-power standby, called \"Streetpass\" - which allowed players to connect with strangers without exchanging any information.\n\n\"The 3DS and its StreetPass functionality were driving factors for the founding of many of the groups now found in [Nintendo Players UK],\" said player John Edwards. \"Without the 3DS I doubt we'd have such a thriving community.\"\n\nDespite all the bells and whistles, the 3DS did not start well. A high asking price for the time of over £200, coupled with a lacklustre list of initial games, hurt sales. The fact that the key feature of 3D had to be tried in person was another obstacle.\n\nOn top of that, some users reported that the 3D effect made them feel sick. Nintendo even advises to this day that children under six should not use the facility as it could cause vision damage.\n\nWithin six months of the launch, Nintendo announced a major price cut to between £100 and £150. Coupled with more games - including a beloved remake of the classic Ocarina of Time - the fortunes of the handheld started to change.\n\nIn 2012, a new version with a larger screen was launched, and Nintendo debuted digital downloads of games for the first time. That online store allowed Nintendo to re-release many of its best-loved classics on the handheld.\n\n\"It became a fantastic Nintendo machine for legacy content,\" recalls games writer Nathan Ellingsworth.\n\n\"It was how I experienced Majora's Mask, Earthbound, Minish Cap and many more for the first time and it had its own steady stream of incredible titles.\"\n\nThe 3DS quickly came into its own, with dedicated Mario titles and new Pokemon games in addition to its growing back catalogue.\n\nIt was revamped and relaunched several times - on top of the \"XL\" models, the \"New 3DS\" had increased horsepower, while the 2DS dropped the standout 3D feature entirely for those who saw it as a gimmick.\n\nBy June 2020, the entire system family had sold nearly 76 million units, Nintendo says - far outclassing its home console of the same era, the WiiU, which sold less than 14 million.\n\nThe higher-resolution, more powerful Switch has largely taken the place of the 3DS\n\nBut the modern Nintendo Switch, released in 2017, has already sold more than 60 million units, and can be played as a handheld.\n\nWhile Nintendo initially insisted it was not a \"replacement\" for the 3DS, declining support and sales meant the venerable handheld's time was limited. In the year to March 2020, only 69,000 3DS consoles were sold.", "Brenda Silverman was one of the first patients to be treated as part of Moorfields' \"cataract drive\"\n\nOne of the world's largest eye hospitals is quadrupling its number of cataract operations, in an attempt to tackle the backlog caused by Covid-19.\n\nMoorfields Eye Hospital, in London, is aiming to perform nearly 1,000 cataract removals in six days\n\nWaiting lists for all planned procedures in England are at record levels after many services were paused.\n\nOver two million people have waited over 18 weeks for surgery, the highest number since records began in 2007.\n\nIn July, NHS trusts in England were told they should get back to about 80% of last year's levels of in-patient procedures by the end of September.\n\nCataracts are cloudy patches on the lens that cause loss of sight.\n\nAnd surgery to replace the affected lens with an artificial one is the most commonly performed operation in the UK.\n\nIt usually takes about 20-40 minutes under local anaesthetic.\n\nAnd Moorfields aims to have patients in and out within 90 minutes.\n\nOne of more than 100 patients being operated on at the specialist hospital in a single day, Brenda Silverman, 77, had to isolate for three days, and take a coronavirus test, before her surgery could go ahead.\n\nBefore the operation, she said: \"I haven't been seeing so well.\n\n\"The glare and the blinding at night is awful.\"\n\nAnd afterwards, she said: \"Everything is in focus.\n\n\"There's nothing I can't see.\n\n\"Everything is bright and cheerful.\"\n\nCataract service director Vincenzo Maurino said Moorfields had had to rethink \"almost everything to make this possible\".\n\n\"Doing four times more what we were doing will ensure our waiting list, which has gone up to four months, will come down significantly,\" he said.\n\n\"Also, we don't know what the future has ahead so we want to learn from this experience, repeat it or find other ways or be adaptable.\"\n\nThe \"cataract drive\" will use eight operating theatres, including those at Moorfields's private facility.\n\nAnd 80 St John Ambulance volunteers will assist with pre-operative assessments and accompanying patients.\n\nAn NHS official said: \"Elective surgery has already rebounded from around a third of its usual rate during the peak of Covid to well over two-thirds in August, with further increases since then.\n\n\"Staff are working hard to ensure that clinics, diagnostic facilities and theatres are as safe as possible.\n\n\"So if you or a loved one have worrying symptoms, please don't put off seeing your GP.\n\n\"And if you're then asked to attend a hospital appointment, please do.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "'Paul' was accused of committing a domestic burglary in June 2018.\n\nIn early 2019 he was told by police that no further action would be taken against him. However, he was subsequently charged.\n\nLast week - over two years since the alleged offence - he appeared at Inner London Crown Court.\n\nBut his barrister told the court that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) had still not served the sole evidence - DNA - in the case on the defence.\n\nPaul (not his real name) is on bail and had his trial put on provisional \"warned\" list - for December 2021.\n\nIt means there is no guarantee it will take place at that time - just that it might.\n\nThe judge explained apologetically that priority is being given to cases where defendants are being held in custody.\n\nSo, three and a half-years from the date of the alleged offence, there has been no justice for the alleged burglary victim - or the accused.\n\nPaul's was one of a number of cases I saw on a visit to Inner London with the chair of the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) James Mulholland QC. He told me it was typical.\n\n\"This is justice 2020, but it has been like this for the last 10 years, delay after delay, inbuilt into the system. These cases are being pushed back continuously.\n\n\"Lack of investment is at the heart of it and government needs to understand that you don't create a proper justice system without proper investment.\n\n\"What we are seeing here are the fruits of a lack of interest.\"\n\nThat apparent \"lack of interest\" is reflected in the state of some court buildings. Outside Inner London I saw a dead pigeon decaying on netting, vast weeds growing up the side of the building and old pipes leaking water.\n\nMeanwhile, a court official told me that some court centres are now listing trials for 2023.\n\nThe delays are caused by a range of factors.\n\nLawyers point to huge cuts to the police, CPS and other agencies such as probation.\n\nThere are a range of things malfunctioning within the system. They include long initial delays caused by police \"releasing suspects under investigation\" - sometimes for years - before a charging decision is made.\n\nSystemic problems continue with the CPS serving evidence late on the defence, meaning lawyers cannot advise their clients in a timely manner.\n\nAnd perhaps most significantly - the decisions by government to cut thousands of crown court sitting days. That has meant that courts have been mothballed while trials stack up in a growing backlog.\n\nNone of these problems are caused by the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown, but they are of course exacerbated by it. Pre-lockdown the crown court backlog in England and Wales stood at some 37,000.\n\n\"Adam\" - not his real name - was accused of rape in March 2018. He denies the charge. His trial has been put back twice, once because of the pandemic.\n\nHe is now on a \"warned\" list for November, while his chosen career in one of the public services is on hold.\n\n\"I have suffered really bad with my mental health through it,\" he says. \"I've had to up my dosage of anti-depressants. It's affected my potential career.\n\n\"The hard work I have done at university and everything to get me there it's all basically going out of the window now. I haven't got any trust or hope that it will be anywhere near the end of this year.\n\n\"I think it will be more like April next year.\"\n\nThe next case I saw involved two young men charged with possession of drugs with intent to supply. The alleged offence took place in December 2017.\n\nNo one in court could explain the delay.\n\nIt was followed by a case in which the judge needed a pre-sentence report from the probation service in order to sentence the defendant. Despite repeated requests, no one was available.\n\nIn order to achieve a conclusion of the case, the judge had to devise a sentence which did not require a report. It was not ideal, but it showed professionals trying to do their best in the face of a lack of resources.\n\n\"Defendants are suspended from their jobs with trial dates one to two years away. Some are losing university places with dates from the alleged offence to trial of four years.\n\n\"And some who are awaiting trial for 18-24 months on bail, can be on electronic tagged curfew from 7-7 every day, for up to two years.\"\n\nTo help deal with the situation, the government has announced that the period of time an accused person can be held before a trial - known as the Custody Time Limit (CTL) - will be increased from six to eight months.\n\nBut the government admitted - in response to a Freedom of Information request from the group Fair Trials - that it did not know how many people had been held in prison beyond the time limit since lockdown.\n\nLawyers fear some accused will spend more time in custody awaiting trial than the sentence they would eventually receive if they pleaded guilty - and that some might falsely plead guilty simply to bring an end to their case.\n\nLife is bleak for those in custody awaiting trial, says Ms Fenn,\n\n\"There are often no visits from family or in-person visits from lawyers. Defendants can be locked up for 23.5 hours a day, education classes and courses are suspended, jobs within the prison restricted, and there are reports of showers being limited to 1-2 a week.\"\n\nCovid has also removed a \"huge amount of mental health, drug and alcohol agency support\", she says.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said justice had been kept moving \"despite the unprecedented challenges posed by the pandemic\" and overall, cases are falling.\n\nHowever, they acknowledged that \"more needs to be done\".\n\nThe government has launched an £80 million Criminal Courts Recovery plan which includes:\n\nHowever, only three of the new Nightingale Courts are dealing with crime.\n\nI visited one, Prospero House, a short walk from Inner London. It is a state of the art commercial building with three large courtrooms allowing ample room for social distancing. Every desk has hand sanitiser and protective gloves.\n\nBut Mr Mulholland says: \"We need 60 criminal Nightingale Court buildings. At the moment we have just three.\"\n\nThe CBA says there are around 460 crown courtrooms in England and Wales. Currently around 100 are able to hear trials, though not all are hosting them.\n\nThe government says its plan will bring on stream another 250 of the existing rooms to hear jury trials by the end of October. The CBA believes that simply will not cut into the backlog.\n\nLawyers believe that the Treasury has long seen justice as a poor relation to health and education in terms of public spending.\n\n\"Investing in the criminal justice system is investing in the wealth and prosperity of the country,\" says Mr Mulholland.\n\n\"It is an empty and insulting promise for any minister to declare a war on crime if a government can't fund a system that keeps us safe - and ensures crimes are swiftly investigated and cases come to court on time.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boats have been swept ashore and homes flooded by the storm\n\nStorm Sally has brought heavy rain and flooding to the Carolinas and Georgia, as it continues its path of destruction north from the US Gulf Coast.\n\nIt has already battered Florida and Alabama with rain and storm surges, downing power lines, turning roads into rivers and leaving homes submerged.\n\nOne person was killed, and hundreds of thousands are without power.\n\nSally has now weakened to a post-tropical cyclone, but meteorologists warn that tornadoes are still possible.\n\nThe wind ripped the roof off this house in Perdido Key, Florida\n\nBesides the fatality reported in Orange Beach, Alabama, one person is also missing from the small coastal city in south-west Alabama, according to Mayor Tony Kennon.\n\n\"It was an unbelievably freaky right turn of a storm that none of us ever expected,\" he told the Washington Post.\n\nPensacola, Florida, 30m (48 km) east of Orange Beach, was also badly hit, with a loose barge bringing down part of the city's Bay Bridge.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"That's my car... submerged\": Video shows flooded streets in Pensacola, Florida\n\nDowntown Pensacola was hit with up to 5ft of flooding and saw the highest storm surge on record. The storm brought \"four months of rain in four hours\" to the city, Pensacola fire chief Ginny Cranor told CNN.\n\nPictures show residents wading through waist-deep water, cars stranded in flooded streets, and homes entirely swamped by Wednesday's deluge.\n\nIn Gulf Shores, Alabama - near where Sally first made landfall as a hurricane on Wednesday - the storm sheared off the face of a beachside apartment complex. And 50 miles (80km) north-west in Mobile, Alabama, photos show the large steeple of El-Bethel Primitive Baptist Church toppled after the storm.\n\nSally hit Gulf Shores, Alabama, at 04:45 local time on Wednesday, with maximum wind speeds of 105mph (169 km/h).\n\nAccording to the National Hurricane Center (NHC), Category 2 hurricanes have sustained winds of 96 to 110 mph. The NHC says a Category 2 storm's \"extremely dangerous winds\" usually cause damage to homes and shallowly rooted trees.\n\nAs the storm moved north from the coast, some 550,000 residents in affected areas were left in the dark on Wednesday night, according to local reports.\n\nNow a post-tropical cyclone, the storm is expected to deposit up to 10in (25cm) of rain in Virginia and the Carolinas. It will likely cause widespread flash flooding, the NHC said on Thursday.\n\nMaximum wind speeds have decreased to 25mph as the storm moves north-east.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Armondo Moralez This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSally is one of at least five storms in the Atlantic Ocean. Officials are running out of letters to name the hurricanes as they near the end of their annual alphabetic list.\n\nHave you been affected by Hurricane Sally? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The new rules cover Newcastle Sunderland, Northumberland, North and South Tyneside, Gateshead and the Durham County Council area\n\nNew rules have been introduced across large swathes of north-east England in an attempt to stop the spread of the coronavirus. What has the reaction in the region been?\n\nThe seven affected councils have identified people socialising as a key common factor in the rise of coronavirus cases across the area.\n\nSo since midnight on Thursday, almost two million people have been banned from meeting with other households, while pubs and restaurants and restaurants can only offer table service and have to shut at 22:00.\n\nThe move has promoted a mixture of confusion, concern and incredulity among many.\n\nNick Greaves, who runs The Patricia restaurant in Jesmond, Newcastle, said the new measures, which were a mixture of rules and guidelines, must nots and should nots, were confusing, worrying and \"a bit of a nightmare\".\n\n\"It's a bit of a shock,\" he said. \"We have come so far to get back on our feet and now we are back down in this saga again.\"\n\nHe said the 22:00 curfew put the restaurant \"in an awkward position\".\n\n\"We have changed the restaurant to have people much more spaced out time wise, in three sittings almost,\" Mr Greaves said.\n\n\"It's going to take out that 20:30 table sitting.\"\n\nThe Patricia now effectively has three sittings for meals\n\nHe said the restaurant offered a six-course menu that took about two-and-a-half hours to work through.\n\nMr Greaves also said he couldn't understand how the rules would help stop the spread of the coronavirus.\n\n\"It could even be a little bit dangerous with people going to the pub, necking as much as they can and then they end up drunk and are like 'let's go to a house or something'.\n\n\"I can't get my head around that's going to help anything. The virus is still as dangerous before 22:00 as it is afterwards.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThat's a concern shared by Spencer Hughes who lives in Sunderland and whose wife Jaci is a waitress at a social club in South Hylton which is open from 11:00 to 23:00.\n\n\"I don't see how closing an hour earlier will make any difference to the chances of getting the coronavirus,\" Mr Hughes said.\n\n\"As for other pubs which would normally be open later, I think people are just going to change their drinking habits.\n\n\"They will go out drinking earlier and once they've had a few, how much are they really going to be adhering to the social distancing as they were when they had their first pint?\"\n\nHe said there was too much confusion over what was a rule and what was a guideline, with people able to interpret the latter to suit their own needs.\n\nBecci Nye is manager of the Fifteas Vintage tearoom in Bishop Auckland\n\nBecci Nye, manager of Fifteas Vintage tearoom in Bishop Auckland, also said the confusion between what you must not do and what you were advised not to do was posing a problem.\n\nThe regulations ban people from visiting another household, including going to private gardens, apart from within a support bubble.\n\nAnd they advise people not to meet with other households at public venues, although Newcastle director of public health Eugene Milne said it would be alright in parks if people adhered to social distancing guidelines.\n\n\"I think people just need clear instructions,\" Ms Nye said, adding: \"Like right, 'you can mix, you can't mix'.\n\n\"Can you come with your neighbour, can you meet your mam in a tearoom rather than your house?\"\n\nShe said she did not expect to see much of a change.\n\n\"I don't think the big tables will be booked any more but other than that I think it will be quite samey,\" she said.\n\nMr Hughes in Sunderland also wasn't sure how well the rules would be followed.\n\n\"When we first went into lockdown and people didn't know much about the virus then everyone went with it,\" he said.\n\n\"Now there is a split, some people haven't been affected by it and don't even think it's real or claim it's the government trying to control them.\n\n\"But others like me have lost friends to it, we know it's there and what it does.\n\n\"What's needed are clear definitive rules that are scientifically proven that everybody sticks to.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Newcastle, Mr Milne said it would be \"very hard\" to enforce rules about people mixing in public places, saying: \"How would a pub know if people coming in together did actually live together or not?\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Who can still get free Covid tests?", "The car had been driving along a highway near Ponoka in Alberta\n\nA Canadian man has been charged with dangerous driving for allegedly taking a nap while his self-driving Tesla car clocked up more than 90mph (150km/h).\n\nPolice said both front seats were fully reclined, and the driver and passenger were apparently asleep when they were alerted to the incident in Alberta.\n\nWhen police turned on emergency lights and other vehicles moved out of the way, the Tesla Model S sped up.\n\nThe 20-year-old driver from British Columbia is due in court in December.\n\nHe had initially been charged with speeding and handed a 24-hour licence suspension for fatigue, but was subsequently charged with dangerous driving.\n\nThe incident happened near Ponoka, some 100km south of Edmonton, in July.\n\n\"Nobody was looking out the windshield to see where the car was going,\" Police Sgt Darri Turnbull told CBC News.\n\nHe said that when they put on their emergency lights the Tesla accelerated, with vehicles ahead of it moving out of the way.\n\n\"Nobody appeared to be in the car, but the vehicle sped up because the line was clear in front.\"\n\nHe added: \"I've been in policing for over 23 years, and the majority of that in traffic law enforcement, and I'm speechless. I've never, ever seen anything like this before but of course the technology wasn't there.\"\n\nTesla cars currently operate at a level-two Autopilot, which requires the driver to remain alert and ready to act, with hands on the wheel.\n\nTesla founder Elon Musk has said he expects his vehicles to be completely autonomous, with little driver input needed, by the end of the year.\n\nHowever, he added that there were \"many small problems\" that would need solving through real-world testing.", "The memoir will be released on 17 November, two weeks after the US presidential election\n\nFormer US President Barack Obama has announced the publication date of the first half of his memoirs.\n\nMr Obama - the first black president and husband of Michelle Obama - said the book would \"try to provide an honest account of my presidency\".\n\nA Promised Land is set for release on 17 November, just two weeks after the US presidential election.\n\nThe Democratic leader won two elections and served as president between 2009 and 2017.\n\nJoe Biden - his vice-president for those two terms - is challenging Mr Obama's successor, Republican leader Donald Trump, for the presidency on 3 November.\n\n\"There's no feeling like finishing a book, and I'm proud of this one,\" Mr Obama wrote on Twitter.\n\nThe 768-page memoir will be simultaneously issued in 25 languages, according to publisher Penguin Random House.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Barack Obama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Obama writes about the response to the global financial crisis, his landmark healthcare reform legislation known as the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare, and the 2011 US raid in Pakistan that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.\n\nThe 44th president of the US has written three previous books, including Dreams From My Father and The Audacity of Hope as well as the children's book Of Thee I Sing.\n\nHis wife, lawyer and former First Lady Michelle Obama, has published her own memoir. Within five months of publication, Becoming had sold more than 10 million copies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Author Viv Groskop looks at Michelle Obama's power as a public speaker\n\nMr Obama may struggle to outshine his wife, but this would not be the first time spouses have bested presidents. Both Nancy Reagan and Betty Ford's memoirs outsold their husbands' works.\n\nPresident Ronald Reagan however may not have minded. His work, An American Life, was ghost written by the journalist Robert Lindsey. At the book's launch Mr Reagan said: \"I hear it's a terrific book. One of these days I'm going to read it myself.\"\n\nThere were rumours in the 19th century that the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S Grant by the post-Civil War president was in fact penned by the famous US writer Mark Twain, whose company published the work.\n\nMr Twain however denied the allegation, and editors of Mr Grant's papers have dismissed the claim as \"completely baseless\", as much of what was published still survives as notes handwritten by Mr Grant himself.\n\nPresident Grant's 584-page tome eventually became one of the highest-selling books of the 19th century.\n\nBut for those looking for a lighter read, the record for shortest memoir goes to President Calvin Coolidge. The famously laconic leader's work is a succinct 247 pages.\n\nThe US presidential election is in November - and the BBC wants to answer your questions about everything from policies to the voting process.\n\nPlease submit your questions below. If you can't see the form, you may need to view the site on a desktop.\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.", "A second national lockdown would be likely to have \"disastrous\" financial consequences for the UK, the prime minister has said.\n\nAppearing at a committee of MPs, Boris Johnson said the government was doing \"everything in our power\" to prevent another nationwide lockdown.\n\nThis was why new restrictions - such as the \"rule of six\" - were necessary to \"defeat\" the disease, he said.\n\nThe PM also admitted there was not enough testing capacity.\n\nEarlier, he blamed a \"colossal spike\" in demand for ongoing problems in accessing tests and results being delayed.\n\nOn Wednesday, coronavirus cases in the UK increased by 3,991, taking the total to 378,219, according to figures from the government.\n\nA further 20 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19. This brings the UK death total by this criterion to 41,684.\n\nAmid the increase in coronavirus cases, Mr Johnson was asked by the Commons Liaison Committee whether the UK could afford another national lockdown.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"I don't want a second national lockdown - I think it would be completely wrong for this country and we are going to do everything in our power to prevent it.\n\n\"And can we afford it? I very much doubt that the financial consequences would be anything but disastrous, but we have to make sure that we defeat the disease by the means that we have set out.\n\n\"So when I see people arguing against the rule of six or saying that the government is coming in too hard on individual liberties and so on - I totally understand that and I sympathise with that, but we must, must defeat this disease.\"\n\nFrom Monday, new rules came into force, restricting indoor and outdoor gatherings in England and Scotland, and indoor groups in Wales.\n\nA second national lockdown is extremely unlikely for two reasons.\n\nFirstly, it is hugely damaging - to the economy, to education and to wider health for reasons other than Covid.\n\nYou only need to look at the latest figures for falling cancer referrals, the hours spent out of school and the rising unemployment to see the cost of the UK's spring lockdown.\n\nSecondly, the government and its medical advisers have a much better grasp of the virus.\n\nCurrent infection rates and hospitalisations remain much lower than they were in the spring and, despite the problems with testing, there is pretty rich data on exactly where the virus is and how quickly it is spreading.\n\nEven if things get worse, officials are quite confident the NHS will cope.\n\nBut that does not mean there won't be further restrictions - or that it won't be a very difficult winter with a high number of deaths.\n\nThe ban of gatherings of more than six people could be just the first step.\n\nThere is also talk of curfews, forcing hospitality venues to close at 22:00 BST.\n\nThis tactic was used in Belgium to curb the rise in cases, and has been deployed to tackle the outbreak in Bolton.\n\nAt this stage, it is unlikely this will be used nationally.\n\nInstead, expect it to be an option for virus hotspots, along with banning visits to other people's housing which has been used in the North West and West Yorkshire.\n\nShielding could, though, be re-introduced across the country at some point, along with bans on visits to care homes, in an attempt to protect the most vulnerable groups.\n\nMr Johnson also admitted there was not enough coronavirus testing capacity amid reports of people struggling to get tests and results being delayed.\n\nHe told the committee: \"We don't have enough testing capacity now because, in an ideal world, I would like to test absolutely everybody that wants a test immediately.\"\n\nHe promised there would be capacity for 500,000 tests a day by the end of October.\n\nBut he urged people without symptoms to stay away from testing centres - although he acknowledged why they may want to find out if they had Covid-19.\n\n\"What has happened is demand has massively accelerated just in the last couple of weeks,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Labour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner, who stood in for Sir Keir Starmer at Prime Minister's Questions, said Mr Johnson had \"time and again\" made pledges on testing, but \"then breaks those promises\".\n\n\"They've had six months to get this right and yet the prime minister still can't deliver on his promises,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Angela Rayner stood in for Keir Starmer at Prime Minister's Questions\n\nMPs at the liaison committee also asked the prime minister about his aim of having a \"pregnancy-style test\" in place within months, which would have a role in fulfilling his \"Operation Moonshot\" ambition for mass testing.\n\nThe government has said it £500m has been set aside to invest in its mass testing plans.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"I am going to be cautious and say that I can't sit here today and say that we have such a 'pregnancy-style test'... today.\n\n\"It is right for government to invest in such a project.\"\n\nCommittee chairman Sir Bernard Jenkin told Mr Johnson musicians, singers and performers had \"fallen through the cracks of the support schemes available\".\n\nMr Johnson said the best way to help the sector was to \"get these businesses going again and to get the theatres lit again, by having the virus down and having a testing regime that allows us to do that\".\n\nHe also said an inquiry into the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic would \"look at everything that has gone wrong and gone right\".\n\nBut he said it would not be a \"good use of official time at the moment\" and declined to indicate when the inquiry could begin.\n\nEarlier, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland said plans to put the NHS top of the list for coronavirus tests will be published in the coming days,.\n\nPeople in care homes would also be a priority, while schools could be considered, Mr Buckland said.\n\nResolving delays with testing was \"the number one issue\", he added.", "Universities and colleges are facing a wave of cyber-attacks\n\nUniversities and colleges are being warned by the UK's cyber-security agency that rising numbers of cyber-attacks are threatening to disrupt the start of term.\n\nThe National Cyber Security Centre has issued an alert after a recent spike in attacks on educational institutions.\n\nThese have been \"ransomware\" incidents which block access to computer systems.\n\nPaul Chichester, the NCSC's director of operations, says such attacks are \"reprehensible\".\n\nThe return to school, college and university, already facing problems with Covid-19, now faces an increased risk from cyber-attacks, which the security agency says could \"de-rail their preparations for the new term\".\n\nThe cyber-security body, part of the GCHQ intelligence agency, says attacks can have a \"devastating impact\" and take weeks or months to put right.\n\nNewcastle University and Northumbria have both been targeted by cyber-attacks this month, and a group of further education colleges in Yorkshire and a higher education college in Lancashire faced attacks last month.\n\nThe warning from the NCSC follows a spate of ransomware attacks against academic institutions - in which malicious software or \"malware\" is used to lock out users from their own computer systems, paralysing online services, websites and phone networks.\n\nThe security agency says this is often followed by a ransom note demanding payment for the recovery of this frozen or stolen data - sometimes with the added threat of publicly releasing sensitive information.\n\nUniversities have frequently been targets of cyber-attacks - with up to a thousand attacks per year in the UK.\n\nAttacks can be attempts to obtain valuable research information that is commercially and politically sensitive. Universities also hold much personal data about students, staff and, in some cases, former students who might have made donations.\n\nEarlier this summer more than 20 universities and charities in the UK, US and Canada were caught up in a ransomware cyber-attack involving a cloud computing supplier, Blackbaud.\n\nA Freedom of Information inquiry in July, carried out by the TopLine Comms digital public relations company, found 35 UK universities, out of 105 responses, had faced ransomware attacks over the past decade. There were 25 which had not had attacks - and a further 43 which declined to answer.\n\nThe warning from the NCSC highlights the vulnerability of online systems for remote working, as increased numbers of staff are working from home.\n\n\"Phishing\" attacks, where people are tricked into clicking on a malicious link such as in an email, also remains a common pathway for such ransomware attempts, says the advice.\n\nMr Chichester of the NCSC says: \"The criminal targeting of the education sector, particularly at such a challenging time, is utterly reprehensible.\"\n\n\"I would strongly urge all academic institutions to take heed of our alert.\"\n\nUniversities UK says data security has had to become a priority for higher education - and that \"protections are in place to manage threats as much as possible\".\n\nThe universities body also says it is working with the NCSC to produce \"robust guidance on cyber-security\" which will be released later this academic year.", "Rhondda residents have expressed their concerns about coronavirus as the county returns to lockdown\n\nThere is a \"high risk\" that a spike in covid cases will lead to more hospital admissions and deaths in locked down areas of Wales, it has been warned.\n\nDr Robin Howe, of Public Health Wales, said older people are being infected in Caerphilly and Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT).\n\nIt comes as people in Rhondda expressed frustration at becoming the second area in Wales to return to lockdown after Caerphilly on Thursday.\n\nStrict rules came into force at 18:00 BST for RCT's 240,000 residents.\n\nUnder the lockdown, they will not be able to enter or leave the county without a reasonable excuse, such as travel for work or education.\n\nPeople will be banned from meeting those outside their own households indoors and pubs, bars and restaurants will have to shut by 23:00.\n\nFigures released on Thursday reveal more than half of all Covid-19 hospital admissions in Wales are in the Aneurin Bevan health board area, which covers Caerphilly and Newport, and Cwm Taf Morgannwg, which covers RCT.\n\n\"There is a high risk that with the level of cases in Caerphilly and RCT we will see increased hospital admissions,\" Dr Howe told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"And we are seeing older age groups now being infected and there is obviously a sad risk that we may be seeing deaths.\n\n\"We would expect that hospital admissions would be increasing around about now and we are perhaps starting to see that in Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board, and there may be deaths in the coming days.\"\n\nOn Thursday, residents could be seen forming a long queue outside a new mobile testing centre in Abercynon.\n\nIt follows an announcement on Wednesday by Wales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething, who pledged up to five extra mobile testing units for Covid-19 hotspots in Wales this week.\n\nColin Edrop, who owns The Bear Inn, in Llantrisant, said of the local lockdown: \"I'm not surprised, but it is frustrating because Llantrisant has been safe enough recently and other areas in RCT have made things worse.\n\n\"Shutting at 11 doesn't make a difference in my opinion, If people are going to get drunk they'll do it regardless.\n\n\"I would rather pubs be asked to close for two or three weeks so we can sort this all out.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rhondda Cynon Taf lockdown: 'It's got to happen'\n\nMr Edrop said he would be \"happy to close if asked\", but added: \"We need to be making money, so I will remain open with strict safety measures.\n\n\"We're definitely not seeing groups of youngsters in our local area, certainly not seeing that - we have a much older crowd thankfully.\n\n\"But it is a nightmare to maintain social distancing, people have forgotten about social distancing.\"\n\nThe lockdown will be reviewed by the Welsh Government in two weeks' time\n\nMum-of-two Victoria Vaughan, from Pontypridd, said she thought the move was \"too little too late\".\n\n\"I'm not surprised that a local lockdown is coming, as I think the guidance over the past few weeks has been too relaxed and people have been complacent,\" she said.\n\n\"The guidance is very unclear, there's confusion over what we can and can't do, but at the moment it's still not firm enough in my view.\"\n\nMs Vaughan said it made \"no sense\" she could not see family but could go to the pub.\n\n\"Pubs should close, that's where the problem is, the guidance needs to be black or white - at the moment it's grey,\" she said.\n\n\"I rely heavily on my mum for childcare, she lives in Cardiff. If we can't see her, that will have a detrimental impact on my ability to work from home.\"\n\nTeleri Jones, who owns The Old Library Cafe in Porth, welcomed the announcement despite it being \"bad news for business\".\n\nShe said she had noticed a change in people's behaviour recently: \"People have been worrying, especially those with health issues.\n\n\"They had been staying away, then gradually we saw them come back. But last week was much quieter, and with all the talk on the news I can see it being even quieter this week.\"\n\nRhondda MP Chris Bryant said some people not following Covid-19 guidelines had led to the spike.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales: \"There must be some people who think they have got some kind of magic cloak of invisibility which means the virus won't touch them or anyone they know or love... and we've got some people who go into anarchy mode and decided they're going to do whatever they want to do.\n\n\"If the UK government doesn't get on top of this testing issue we will lose control of the virus… if we lose control then we lose control of the NHS... as we go into the winter that could be very dangerous.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru councillor for Ystrad, Elyn Stephens, said there was an \"overwhelming sense of frustration with the pubs remaining open\".\n\nPeople formed a long queue at the new Abercynon mobile testing unit on Thursday\n\nHe said some residents were now in their second lockdown after being flooded four times this year.\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said there had been a \"rapid\" rise in cases in RCT, with 82.1 infections per 100,000 people over the past seven days.\n\nThe latest equivalent figure across Wales was 21.4 per 100,000.\n\nWednesday's rate of positive tests for the past week in RCT was 5.1% - the highest in Wales. Mr Gething previously warned a positive rate of 4% across Wales would trigger a national lockdown.\n\nFigures on Wednesday showed RCT's case rate had almost caught up with Caerphilly, which had 83.4 per 100,000 people over the past seven days.\n\nThe restrictions have been imposed despite people in RCT having been asked to take extra precautions last week.\n\nA review of the lockdown will be held in two weeks.", "Richard Morris's family said they were \"devastated by his loss\"\n\nThe family of a British high commissioner found dead in a Hampshire forest have said they are \"devastated by his loss\".\n\nRichard Morris, from Bentley, was last seen running in Alton in the county on 6 May.\n\nHampshire Constabulary has formally identified a body found in Alice Holt Forest on 31 August as Mr Morris.\n\nIn a statement relatives described him as \"a loving and loyal husband, father, son and brother\".\n\nThey went on to say he was \"described as funny, kind and smart by his diplomatic colleagues\" and had worked for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) \"with professionalism and integrity for nearly 30 years\".\n\n\"His empathy and kindness to those around him earned him respect wherever he went, evidenced by the messages of love, friendship and support we have received from all over the world,\" they said.\n\nPolice said 50 officers and volunteers took part in initial searches of Alice Holt Forest\n\nFather-of-three Mr Morris, originally from Worcestershire, was the UK ambassador to Nepal for four years until 2019.\n\nBefore his disappearance he was appointed British High Commissioner to Fiji.\n\nMr Morris had also worked as head of the Pacific department at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), consul general in Sydney as well as director general of trade and investment in Australasia.\n\nPolice previously said the death was not being treated as suspicious.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Newcastle, Sunderland, North and South Tyneside, Gateshead, Northumberland and the County Durham council area are affected by the new restrictions\n\nAlmost two million people in north-east England will be banned from meeting other households as Covid cases rise.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock announced the temporary restrictions will be in place from midnight due to \"concerning rates of infection\".\n\nThe rules affect Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland, Northumberland, South Tyneside, North Tyneside and the County Durham council area.\n\n\"The data says that we must act now,\" Mr Hancock told the House of Commons.\n\nHe said Sunderland currently had an infection rate of 103 cases per 100,000 people. In South Tyneside and Gateshead the latest published rates were 93.4 and 83.6 respectively.\n\nThe government was taking \"swift action\" after concerns were raised by the councils covering the affected areas, he said.\n\nThe restrictions, which will be reviewed weekly, also mean restaurants will only be able to offer table service and restaurants, bars and pubs will have to shut between 22:00 BST and 05:00.\n\nThe latest measures come as figures showed people using community coronavirus testing centres in England were waiting longer for their results.\n\nIn Sunderland, drivers queued outside a Covid test centre only to eventually find it was empty.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'These decisions have a real impact': Health Secretary Matt Hancock confirms local lockdown in north-east England.\n\nNewcastle City Council leader Nick Forbes said the temporary measures would hopefully \"head off the potential of any further damaging full lockdown across the region\".\n\n\"The evidence we've found from local testing is that it's spreading in three main areas - in pubs, in people's homes and in grassroots sports,\" he said.\n\nHowever, Mr Forbes said, as of 17:00 BST, the regulations still had not been published despite being announced at 11:30 and coming into effect at midnight.\n\n\"The longer this goes on the greater the info vacuum and the more alarmed people are getting. We need clarity, now,\" he said.\n\nDiscussions between the council and the government were still continuing on Thursday over whether to exclude grandparents helping with childcare from the restrictions.\n\nMr Forbes tweeted the authority had \"specifically\" asked for this to be allowed and was \"hoping\" for government confirmation.\n\nMr Forbes said council leaders had requested additional funding for policing to enforce the measures, as well as additional local testing facilities.\n\nCounty Durham's director of public health Amanda Healy said: \"If we do want to be able to continue to go to work to schools, to keep in contact with relatives but stop an increase in the cases we have seen, we are really urging people to adhere to the guidance coming out today.\"\n\nThe health secretary said there were \"concerning rates of infection in the North East\"\n\nMaking sense of positive cases is fraught with difficulties. In recent weeks, the North East has seen a marked increase in the amount of testing being done.\n\nThat in itself will lead to an increase in infection being detected. The more you look for it, the more you are likely to find.\n\nBut the rise in the North East is more than just that.\n\nWe can see from the community testing done in the early part of September the proportion of tests returning a positive result has also gone up.\n\nBut that is the case for much of the country.\n\nWhat marks the North East out is the fact positive cases in hospitals have also started rising.\n\nThat is the case in the North West and Yorkshire and Humber too and helps to explain why restrictions have been targeted in these places.\n\nPubs in the affected areas in the North East will be made to shut at 22:00 BST\n\nGateshead Council leader Martin Gannon said: \"Nobody welcomes these things but I would think the vast majority of people recognise these are extremely difficult times and we all need to act and pull together.\"\n\nMr Hancock said he knew these \"decisions have a real impact on families, on businesses and on local communities and I can tell everyone affected that we do not take these decisions lightly\".\n\nShadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth called for more testing capacity to be available in areas where there were tightened restrictions.\n\nHe said it was urgent the government \"fixes testing, fixes tracing\" or we face a \"very bleak winter indeed\".\n\nSmall businesses broadly welcomed the approach but called for more support to adapt to the new measures.\n\nMr Hancock said the people of the North East would \"come together\" to beat the virus\n\nSimon Hanson, North East development manager for the Federation of Small Businesses, said it was \"absolutely critical\" that small and micro businesses were given grant support quickly to help them adapt and provide cashflow.\n\nHowever, the owner of The Patricia restaurant in Jesmond described the new measures as a \"bit of a nightmare\".\n\nNick Greaves said it would lose one of its later sittings if it shut at 22:00 and the virus \"is still as dangerous before 10pm as it is afterwards\".\n\n\"We have come so far to get back on our feet and now we are back down in this saga again,\" he said.\n\n\"It could even be a little bit dangerous with people going to the pub, necking as much as they can and then they end up drunk and are like 'let's go to a house or something'.\"\n\nWhile the rates of new coronavirus infections in the affected parts of the north-east England are lower than those in places like Bolton, this is not a simply a case of rankings.\n\nRates of new infections in areas like South Tyneside and Sunderland are at their highest since spring and have been climbing for the past few weeks.\n\nOther areas affected by the new restrictions, such as Northumberland, have much lower rates per 100,000 population but it is clear that infections have been climbing there too.\n\nNorthumberland's rate of 29.8 cases per 100,000 in the week to 14 September is lower than some of the other areas now affected by restrictions.\n\nHowever, when the government imposed tighter restrictions on Greater Manchester, the east of Lancashire and West Yorkshire in the summer, areas with lower rates were also included.\n\nAt the time, Wigan in Greater Manchester and Rossendale in Lancashire were not seeing the same rates of infection as their neighbouring boroughs and districts, but Public Health England included them because they were \"part of an area in which overall infection rates are high, with household transmission a key pathway\".\n\nIt will be the same for Northumberland, with people travelling to and from work in other areas of the North East.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "Sony has matched the price of the forthcoming flagship PlayStation 5 to that of Microsoft's Xbox Series X.\n\nLast time round, the PS4 significantly undercut the Xbox One at launch.\n\nSony also confirmed the PS5's \"digital edition\" - which does not have a disc drive - would cost about 40% more than the low-end Xbox Series S.\n\nBoth PS5 consoles are set to be released on 19 November in the UK, and 12 November in the US, Japan and Australia.\n\nThat puts them slightly later than Microsoft's 10 November launch date.\n\nMarvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales will be one of the PS5's exclusive titles\n\nSony was the clear leader in the previous generation of the so-called console wars.\n\nThe various PlayStation 4 consoles outsold the Xbox One range by a factor of more than two to one.\n\nBut the £449/$500/€500 cost of the Japanese firm's new top-end machine and £360/$400/€400 price of the digital edition means it may be a closer battle this time, at least to begin with.\n\nSome industry-watchers believe Microsoft's combination of a £250 price for the XBox Series S and the value offered by the Xbox Game Pass subscription service could give the US firm an advantage.\n\nMicrosoft offers members its first-party blockbuster games at launch in its games library, unlike Sony's existing PlayStation Now services, which is limited to older major releases.\n\nSony's decision to price some of its first PS5 releases at £70 - including the \"ultimate edition\" of a new Spider-Man game, and Demon's Souls - represents a rise, and will also have to be taken into consideration.\n\nIt showed off a new subscription service called the PlayStation Plus Collection for the PS5.\n\nPS5 owners will be able to play the PS4's God of War and are being promised a sequel of their own\n\nBut it appeared to focus on the PS4's greatest hits - including Last of Us Remastered, God of War and Bloodborne - rather than any of the PS5's forthcoming releases.\n\n\"Microsoft has a really appealing offering with the Xbox Series S pricing at just £250, and Sony doesn't really have an answer to that for people who just want the cheapest possible entry point to next-generation gaming,\" video games journalist Laura Dale told the BBC.\n\n\"However, people who want to play any of Sony's first-party franchises are unlikely to be swayed to Xbox just because it's cheaper.\"\n\nOne key difference between the two companies' strategies is that the Xbox Series S delivers lower-resolution graphics than the Series X because it has less powerful components, while Sony has opted only to remove the Blu-ray drive from its entry-level machine.\n\nOn that basis, its marketers may still argue it provides a better-value way to experience the full power of what next-generation games can deliver.\n\nThe trailer for the new Final Fantasy game said it would only be released on the PS5 and PCs\n\nEven so, it is likely Sony will instead focus its appeal on the draw of its \"console exclusive\" titles.\n\nTo that end, during its latest virtual event it showed trailers and gameplay for:\n\nSony also teased its forthcoming God of War sequel Ragnarok, which it said would be released next year, but only showed off an animated logo.\n\n\"It is possible that PS5 will have launched three console-exclusive titles before Xbox Series X manages to launch its first - Halo Infinite, with no date in 2021 specified as of yet,\" said Louise Shorthouse, a games analyst at Omdia.\n\n\"Consumers also tend to stick with the same console brands across generations, so Sony is in an incredibly strong position.\"\n\nMany of the games on show had been previewed at an earlier event in June.\n\nHogwarts Legacy is an open-world game set more than 100 years before Harry Potter was born\n\nBut there was also a first look at the much anticipated Harry Potter spin-off Hogwarts Legacy. The role-playing game will be a cross-platform release in 2021.\n\n\"The two higher-spec consoles are close to each other in terms of specification - the Xbox has more storage, but the PS5's is slightly faster,\" said Nicky Danino, a gaming expert at the University of Central Lancashire.\n\n\"But there are still reasons why people will pick a specific console. What platform your friends play on, for example, is highly influential.\"\n\nIt looks like Sony is almost trolling arch-rival Microsoft by matching the PS5's price to that of the Xbox Series X.\n\nThe gambit will have surprised many industry observers.\n\nXbox felt forced to reveal its prices last week following a leak. And this seemed to gift PlayStation a second-mover advantage.\n\nBut when I spoke to PlayStation's chief executive Jim Ryan, he was adamant that the PS5's price points had been set since the beginning of the year. Likewise, he said, today's announcement had been in his diary for some time.\n\nOn paper the Xbox Series X is the more powerful machine.\n\nBut PlayStation has a solid line-up of platform-exclusive titles.\n\nAnd the delay to Halo Infinite - after fans complained that footage shown earlier in the year was underwhelming - has been a big blow to Microsoft's original launch plans.\n\nBut is the PS5 fighting the last generation's console war?\n\nXbox has a compelling offer with its Game Pass Ultimate subscription service. So even if Xbox doesn't sell as many physical consoles as PlayStation, it may still prove to be at least as profitable.\n\nWhen I questioned Mr Ryan about the possibility of a similar service, he said PlayStation was about big blockbuster games that cost a lot to make, so a similar subscription service model would not make financial sense.\n\nWe will find out whether he sticks to that strategy in 2021 or beyond once supply meets demand.", "There has been a surge in reports of so-called revenge porn this year, with campaigners saying the problem has been exacerbated by lockdown.\n\nAround 2,050 reports were made to a government-funded helpline, a 22% rise from last year.\n\nAs cases have remained high despite coronavirus restrictions easing, those that run the service fear this is \"the new normal\".\n\nSharing pornography without consent is illegal in England, Scotland and Wales.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Laura Bullock talks about how her ex-boyfriend shared naked pictures of her\n\nRecent research by domestic violence charity Refuge found that one in seven young women has received threats that intimate photos will be shared without their consent.\n\nThere have been more cases of non-consensual pornography reported to a dedicated UK helpline so far this year than in all of 2019.\n\nAround two-thirds of cases reported to the helpline involve women.\n\nHelpline manager Sophie Mortimer said the sustained rise is evidence of behaviour triggered by the lockdown, and greater awareness of the crime and support.\n\nThe helpline is run by the charity South West Grid for Learning (SWGfL), part of the UK Safer Internet Centre.\n\nThe charity has helped remove 22,515 images this year - 94% of those reported by victims.\n\nDavid Wright, director of the UK Safer Internet Centre, said: \"The lockdown produced an extreme set of circumstances which are bringing a lot of problems.\n\n\"What we are seeing here, however, suggests something more long-term has happened which could mean we will be busier than ever before. It's worrying to think this could be the new normal.\"\n\nResearch by domestic violence charity Women's Aid found that more than 60% of survivors living with their abuser reported that the abuse they experienced got worse during the pandemic.\n\nCampaign and policy manager Lucy Hadley said: \"Disclosing private sexual images - or threatening to do so - is a common form of abuse, and is particularly harming young women.\"\n\n\"Image based forms of abuse - such as so-called revenge porn - must be taken just as seriously as abuse in 'real life',\" she added.\n\nFolami Prehaye's former partner posted explicit pictures of her online in 2014.\n\nHe was given a six-month suspended sentence for harassment and distributing indecent images.\n\nMiss Prehaye founded the website Victims of Internet Crime: Speak Out! to provide ongoing emotional support for victims of these kinds of offences.\n\nShe said: \"There is no wonder that there has been an increase of cases during lockdown as more and more people have been forced to build relationships online.\n\n\"The problem has always been there, its just that lockdown made it more apparent, and an easier place for predatory sexual exploitation.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by domestic abuse or violence, the following organisations may be able to help.", "John Lewis has confirmed that staff will not receive a bonus for the first time since 1953 after it was hit by lockdown store closures.\n\nThe retailer - which also owns Waitrose - posted a huge £635m pre-tax loss for the six months to 25 July after higher costs offset a 1% rise in sales.\n\nIts chairwoman told staff on Thursday the announcement \"will come as a blow\".\n\nEven before Covid-19 hit, the chain had warned it might not pay the usual staff bonus as competition ate into profits.\n\nThe group's first-half loss was £635m once exceptional items were taken into account, including a £470m write-down in the value of its stores.\n\nExcluding those one-off costs, the group's loss in those six months stood at £55m.\n\nThe last time that the chain, which operates as a partnership, decided not to pay a bonus to its staff was in the aftermath of World War Two.\n\nChairwoman Dame Sharon White said: \"We came through then to be even stronger and we will do so again.\"\n\nShe added: \"I know this will come as a blow to partners who have worked so hard this year. The decision in no way detracts from the commitment and dedication that you have shown.\"\n\nThe payment of bonuses will only resume once annual profits rise to above £150m and debt falls, she said.\n\nThe retailer said store closures during lockdown and customers buying less profitable items, such as toilet paper or laptops, had hit trade.\n\nIt estimated that in its first half, John Lewis shops saw a £200m drop in sales, while the wider group saw additional coronavirus-related costs total about £50m.\n\nBut in a statement, it said that its Waitrose supermarkets had seen \"a return to the weekly shop\", with like-for-like sales up 10% year-on-year.\n\nJohn Lewis has had a whopping half-year loss. But it was mainly down to some big one off costs, including a £470m impairment charge against the value of its department stores, reflecting the fact that they don't play as big a role as they used to.\n\nStores have a halo effect in boosting online sales. Many shoppers browse before going home and ordering online. Before the crisis, John Lewis thought its department stores helped generate around £6 of every £10 spent online. John Lewis now thinks that figure is nearer £3.\n\nEight John Lewis stores have closed, costing the business another £105m.\n\nThese results lay bare the impact of the pandemic. But the the company says this is better than what it expected in April. John Lewis makes most of its profits in the second half of the year. Christmas is key. With the outcome still very uncertain, it now thinks the most likely outcome is a \"small loss or small profit\" for the full year.\n\nDame Sharon said the pandemic had brought forward changes in consumer shopping habits \"which might have taken five years into five months\".\n\nAt John Lewis stores, online sales surged by 73% in the six months to 25 July, \"helping to offset the impact of shop closures\". They now account for more than 60% of sales overall for the department store chain, up from 40% before the pandemic hit.\n\nThe group added that a shift towards increased home working had affected people's purchases, with increased sales of tablets and TVs, while sales of trousers had declined.\n\nThe chain also said that Waitrose was now delivering about 170,000 weekly food orders - up from 60,000 pre-lockdown - and the demand had risen since its partnership with online grocer Ocado ended in August.\n\nWaitrose has seen a \"return to the weekly shop\", the John Lewis group said\n\nHaving struggled to manage competition from online rivals and slower consumer spending, the group has, however, recently announced plans to shut stores.\n\nIn July, it said it would close eight John Lewis stores, in a move which put 1,300 jobs at risk. And this week it announced it would close four of its Waitrose supermarkets, with the loss of 124 jobs.\n\nIt also recently said it was reviewing its famous \"never knowingly undersold\" price pledge, which has been in place since 1925. The commitment never applied to sales from internet-only retailers, which have lower costs and often undercut the High Street on price.\n\nLooking ahead, Dame Sharon said that the outlook for the second half was \"clearly uncertain\", given the wider coronavirus crisis.\n\nShe also emphasised that the Christmas trading period would be \"particularly important to profits\" for the group.\n\nOn Thursday, John Lewis also confirmed that it had opened its Christmas shop early this year. Sales of Christmas trees and baubles were both \"markedly\" up on last year, it said.", "Nearly two in three workers are now commuting again, as some employers ask their staff to return to offices during the pandemic.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that 62% of adult workers reported travelling to work last week.\n\nThat compares with 36% in late May, soon after the ONS began compiling the figures during lockdown.\n\nThe government has been encouraging workers to return to offices to help revive city centres.\n\nWhile the proportion of people travelling to work has increased, the ONS said 10% of the workforce remained on furlough leave.\n\nIt added that 20% of workers continued to do so exclusively from home.\n\nThe commuter data includes people who may be travelling to work exclusively, or they may be doing a mixture of commuting and working from home, the ONS said.\n\nBusiness groups have warned city centres could become \"ghost towns\" if more staff do not return, damaging small businesses that rely on passing trade from office workers.\n\nHowever, new research released on Thursday by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) suggests that working from home could be a permanent fixture for many, following the pandemic.\n\nAccording to the survey of 1,000 employers, 37% believe staff will regularly avoid the journey into the office following Covid-19 - up from just 18% before the pandemic.\n\nCIPD chief executive Peter Cheese said: \"The step-change shift to home working to adapt to lockdowns has taught us all a lot about how we can be flexible in ways of working in the future.\n\n\"Employers have learnt that, if supported and managed properly, home working can be as productive and innovative as office working and we can give more opportunity for people to benefit from better work-life balance.\"\n\nHowever, he said it did not suit everyone and that organisations would have to design working arrangements around people's needs while \"also meeting the needs of the business\".\n\nThe ONS also found that about one in 10 workers are still furloughed under the government's job retention scheme. Under the scheme, workers placed on leave have been able to receive 80% of their pay, up to a maximum of £2,500 a month.\n\nThat level is likely to fall in coming weeks as the government has started to scale back the amount of money it pays out to furloughed workers.\n\nCompanies who want to furlough their staff have had to pick up at least 10% of the bill since the beginning of September. In October, they will have to pay 20%.\n\nAlmost 10 million workers have been furloughed since March, but the scheme is set to end entirely on 31 October.", "Footballer Lionel Messi can register his name as a trademark after a nine-year legal battle, the EU's top court has ruled.\n\nThe European Court of Justice dismissed an appeal from Spanish cycling company Massi and the EU's intellectual property office, EUIPO.\n\nThe Barcelona footballer first applied to trademark his surname as a sportswear brand in 2011.\n\nBut Massi argued the similarity between their logos would cause confusion.\n\nThe European Court of Justice (ECJ) said that the star player's reputation could be taken into account when weighing up whether the public would be able to tell the difference between the two brands.\n\nIn doing so, it upheld a ruling by the EU's General Court in 2018 that the footballer was too well known for confusion to arise.\n\nMassi, which sells cycle clothing and equipment, was successful in its initial challenge to the Barcelona striker's application. But it lost out when Lionel Messi brought an appeal to the General Court, which ruled in his favour.\n\nMessi, 33, who wears the number 10 shirt, has been crowned world football player of the year a record six times and is the world's highest-paid soccer player, according to Forbes. It puts his total earnings for 2020 at $126m (£97m).\n\nIn August, he made headlines by sending a fax to his club declaring his intention to leave.\n\nBut when Barcelona responded by insisting that any team that took him on would have to honour a €700m (£624m) release clause, he changed his mind, saying he did not want to face \"the club I love\" in court.", "New Zealand is in its deepest recession in decades, following strict measures in response to the Covid-19 pandemic which were widely praised.\n\nThe country's GDP shrank by 12.2% between April and June as the lockdown and border closures hit.\n\nIt is New Zealand's first recession since the global financial crisis and its worst since 1987, when the current system of measurement began.\n\nBut the government hopes its pandemic response will lead to a quick recovery.\n\nThe nation of nearly five million was briefly declared virus free, and although it still has a handful of cases, it has only had 25 deaths.\n\nThe economy is likely to be a key issue in next month's election, which was delayed after an unexpected spike in Covid-19 cases in August.\n\nStats NZ spokesman Paul Pascoe said the measures implemented since 19 March have had a huge impact of some sectors of the economy.\n\n\"Industries like retail, accommodation and restaurants, and transport saw significant declines in production because they were most directly affected by the international travel ban and strict nationwide lockdown,\" he said.\n\nPrime Minister Jacinda Ardern's government has said the success in suppressing the virus is likely to help recovery prospects.\n\nFinance Minister Grant Robertson said the GDP numbers were better than expected, and suggested a strong recovery ahead.\n\n\"Going hard and early means that we can come back faster and stronger,\" he said.\n\nSome economists are also predicting a swift recovery, because of New Zealand's strong response to the virus.\n\n\"We expect the June quarter's record-breaking GDP decline to be followed by a record-breaking rise in the September quarter,\" said Westpac Senior Economist Michael Gordon.\n\nMs Ardern said she backs the economy's ability to rebound.\n\n\"I think one of the key questions here is not just about what's happened over that June quarter in terms of the effect of lockdown. It's actually about the rebound - and I back New Zealand's rebound,\" she said.\n\nMs Ardern said activity is already picking up as the country has been able to open up a lot more quickly compared with other nations.\n\n\"Even with some of the more recent restrictions, we've seen a return to activity, whereas compared to Australia we are in a much better position,\" she added.\n\nHowever Treasury forecasts released yesterday suggested massive debt and continuing disruptions are likely to delay a full recovery.\n\nThe opposition National party accused the government of a lack of pragmatism that made the impact worse than it needed to be.\n\nNew Zealand recorded a steeper drop than neighbouring Australia, where the lockdown was less severe.\n\nBut the state of Victoria has faced a second lockdown, which is likely to weigh on Australia's economic recovery.", "Almost 17,000 people are taking part in the virtual event\n\nAlmost 17,000 people will be taking part in a virtual Great North Run across 57 countries and six continents, organisers have said.\n\nThe official event was cancelled because of coronavirus and a virtual run is taking its place later with a free app to accompany runners.\n\nRun founder Brendan Foster said the aim was to recoup money for charities.\n\nMore than 60,000 runners were due to take part in the half-marathon in what would have been its 40th year.\n\nBig pink dress man Colin Burgin-Plews will walk around South Shields in his costume to raise money for charity\n\nMr Foster said: \"This year has been testing for everyone so we had to re-imagine the event and take it out to the people.\n\n\"At least we will be able to keep people active and that's our mission.\n\n\"Thousands of charities have lost their income in recent times and we want to address this.\n\n\"Through the app those taking part can experience the sights and sounds of previous runs and hear encouraging words from the likes of Ant and Dec and Mo Farah.\"\n\nHe said he would do the run setting off from Bamburgh Castle and along the Northumberland coast taking breaks and walking part of the way.\n\nFounder Brendan Foster said participants will be \"together in spirit\"\n\nHe added: \"I want to urge people to take their time and experience the day on the app and wherever you are, there are thousands of others from every postcode in the UK.\n\n\"We won't be physically together but we will be in spirit.\"\n\nOrganisers said they had not taken the decision to cancel the run, from Newcastle to South Shields, lightly and participants could apply for refunds or transfer their entry to next year.\n\nBig pink dress man Colin Burgin-Plews, who has raised thousands of pounds for charity, was due to take part but will now walk roughly 13 miles around South Shields in his costume.\n\nHe is raising money for St Benedict's Hospice in Sunderland and the Kayaks club for children and young adults in South Tyneside.\n\nHe said: \"I'm going to set off in the morning - no idea what route I'll take. Hopefully I'll meet people on the way socially-distancing obviously.\n\n\"I feel good about it, but it's going to be weird and different not seeing thousands of people.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In the letter sent to his neighbours, the party host said the \"foolish gathering\" was a \"major lapse of judgement\"\n\nA student who was fined £10,000 for an illegal house party of more than 50 people has apologised.\n\nThe 19-year-old was issued with the fixed penalty notice after ignoring warnings to shut down the party at his Nottingham home on Friday night.\n\nIn a letter sent to his neighbours, he said the \"foolish gathering\" was a \"major lapse of judgement\".\n\nNottinghamshire Police said the group was breaking social distancing rules and the fine should serve as a warning.\n\nIt said about 50 people found at the address on Harlaxton Drive, in Lenton, refused to leave and the host was issued with the fine.\n\nAbout 50 people were found at an address on Harlaxton Drive, in Lenton\n\nThe party host wrote in the letter that friends were hoping to have a party of 25 people - adhering to Covid-19 restrictions - to celebrate two housemates recently turning 21.\n\n\"However, it quickly became out of hand,\" he said.\n\n\"It was never our intention to disrupt your evening. It was a major lapse in judgement on our end.\n\n\"We are eager to make amends.\"\n\nThe force said it used its full powers to deal with the \"reckless\" organiser who \"deliberately flouted\" the rules.\n\nBut one neighbour told the BBC the £10,000 fine was \"absolutely ridiculous... fine the guys, but we were all students once\".\n\nAnother resident said there had been large student parties in the Lenton area during the coronavirus pandemic and hoped lessons had been learned.\n\nChief Constable Craig Guildford said fines were issued as a last resort\n\nChief Constable Craig Guildford said: \"The individual had their chance and that chance wasn't heeded.\n\n\"In extremes, if people aren't following the rules, after we've tried our best... we will enforce and issue fines as a last resort.\"\n\nPeople were warned not to treat this weekend as a \"party\" after one scientist warned the UK was \"on the edge of losing control\" of the virus.\n\nThe new \"rule of six\" coronavirus restrictions, limiting gatherings to six people indoors and outdoors in England, come into force on Monday.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police were called to the M5 between Gloucester and Tewkesbury at about 05:20 BST\n\nA stretch of the M5 has been closed in Gloucestershire after a serious crash involving several vehicles.\n\nPolice were called at about 05:20 BST following reports of a Ford Fiesta leaving the northbound carriageway between junctions 9 and 11.\n\nPolice said as a lorry parked behind the Fiesta to offer help, a second lorry crashed into the first one.\n\nHighways England (HE) reported a vehicle on fire. Details of any casualties were not disclosed.\n\nRay Knight's farm is about two miles from the M5 and he said he heard a \"great big bang\" before 06:00 BST\n\nFarmer Ray Knight, who lives near to the M5, said he heard \"a great big bang\" at about 05:40 BST when he was feeding his cattle.\n\n\"I looked outside, didn't know what it was so carried on as normal and then a few minutes later, there was a second one.\"\n\nMr Knight said his son said \"there's something strange going on\" and mentioned \"black smoke billowing up in the distance\".\n\n\"Ten minutes later we heard a third one [bang] and by that point you could see the black smoke and there was a glow in the sky, which I presume was a fire,\" Mr Knight added.\n\nThe crash happened on a stretch of the motorway near Tewkesbury and Gloucester.\n\nBoth carriageways between junctions 9 and 11 were affected.\n\nHE said the southbound lanes between junctions 9 and 11 had reopened \"with a lane-three closure past the scene\". It asked drivers to \"please approach with care\".\n\nIt added the northbound lanes were expected to remain closed until \"at least 6am\" on Monday.\n\nIt said the surface of the road had been \"extensively damaged and must be resurfaced\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The A83 at the Rest and Be Thankful has been hit by another landslide\n\nA trunk road through Argyll has been closed by a \"significant landslide\" for the second time in six weeks.\n\nThe A83 at the Rest and Be Thankful was covered in earth and debris as 75mm (3in) of rain fell in 24 hours.\n\nRoad operator Bear Scotland said the A83 and the nearby old military road would remain closed on Sunday night.\n\nIt added that the landslide had continued through the day and engineers were unable to conclude safety assessments.\n\nThe route only reopened on Monday following a 10,000 tonne landslide at the beginning of August.\n\nAbout 1,000 tonne of debris is thought to have moved down the hillside on Sunday morning, according to Bear Scotland.\n\nThe roads firm said it happened at the same place as the earlier landslide.\n\nMuch of it was \"caught\" in temporary mitigation measures including a pit and a rockfall barrier.\n\nEddie Ross, the road operator's north west representative, said: \"This is another major landslide event and the on-going nature of it and the continued heavy rain has meant we are unable to conclude a full safety assessment.\"\n\nHe said the roads have been closed because a \"safety-first approach\" was required.\n\nThe closures mean motorists will have to follow a 59-mile (95km) diversion.\n\nA Met Office yellow warning for rain is in place across parts of the west of Scotland until midnight on Sunday.\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) said 75mm (3in) of rain fell in 24 hours at the Rest and Be Thankful over the weekend.\n\nThere were similar levels of rainfall across the country and a series of flood warnings and alerts were in place.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows the extent of a landslip at the A83 Rest and Be Thankful\n\nSepa duty flood manager Mark Franklin said Scotland had been \"battered\" by another weekend of wet weather and there had been flooding in the west, central, north of and south of Scotland.\n\n\"Whilst Sunday sees an improving picture for central and southern Scotland, we'll see continued heavy rainfall across the day for the north west,\" he added.\n\n\"This is likely to result in further localised flooding of land and roads, as well as some transport disruption before improving on Monday.\n\n\"People living, working and travelling in these areas are advised to ensure they have signed up to Floodline and are prepared to take action to protect property.\"", "The annual Strictly Come Dancing special in Blackpool will not take place this year, the BBC has confirmed.\n\nA BBC spokesman said while contestants would not physically go to Blackpool's Tower Ballroom in 2020, they would still be \"celebrating the iconic venue\" from Elstree studio.\n\nIt follows changes made to the show due to coronavirus restrictions.\n\nBeginning on 12 October, the forthcoming BBC One series will be shorter than usual.\n\nThere will be no red carpet launch show or Christmas special, either.\n\nContestants will be staying in a hotel for two weeks ahead of pre-recording all the group dances.\n\nStrictly's annual special at Blackpool, filmed in one of the country's most historic ballrooms, is seen by contestants and the professional dancers alike as one of the highlights of the series.\n\nThe show has filmed at the venue since 2004, taking regular breaks. However, since 2013 there has been a Blackpool special annually.\n\nBlackpool is renowned for being a home for ballroom dancing, having hosted the Blackpool Dance Festival since 1920. That event is taking place online this year as a result of coronavirus.\n\nA BBC spokesman said: \"Blackpool is a milestone moment in every series of Strictly that our audience, our celebs and professional dancers look forward to.\n\n\"Whilst we'll be unable to physically go to Blackpool this series, we'll still be celebrating this iconic venue and bringing it to life from our studio in Elstree.\"\n\nIt comes after former home secretary Jacqui Smith was confirmed as the 12th and final celebrity contestant for 2020.\n\nSmith will join with stars including Bill Bailey, Clara Amfo, and HRVY.\n\nThis year, fans have been asked to apply for tickets for the live shows in groups of four so they can attend as a family bubble.\n\nThey will be placed at socially distanced cabaret-style tables and in balcony seating.\n\nSuccessful applicants have also been asked to provide their own plain black face coverings.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove: \"What we can't have... is the EU disrupting or putting at threat the integrity of the UK\"\n\nMichael Gove has defended plans to override parts of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement as a means of protecting the \"integrity\" of the UK.\n\nThe Cabinet Office minister said the UK was being \"generous\" with the EU over the Brexit negotiations.\n\nThe EU has threatened legal action over the Internal Market Bill, which ministers say will break international law in a \"specific and limited way\".\n\nPM Boris Johnson is urging Tory MPs to back it, after some raised concerns.\n\nThe bill, which will be formally debated in the House of Commons for the first time on Monday, addresses the Northern Ireland Protocol - the part of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement designed to prevent a hard border returning to the island of Ireland.\n\nIf this became law it would give UK ministers powers to modify or \"disapply\" rules relating to the movement of goods between Britain and Northern Ireland that will come into force from 1 January, if the UK and EU are unable to strike a trade deal.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis told the Commons the bill, which would go against the Withdrawal Agreement signed by the UK and EU, would \"break international law in a very specific and limited way\".\n\nBut Mr Gove said the attorney general had said the proposal would be consistent with the rule of law - and that it was important to have an \"insurance policy\".\n\nHe insisted the government was being \"proportionate and generous\" in its approach to the EU talks.\n\nMr Gove said: \"These steps are a safety net, they're a long-stop in the event, which I don't believe will come about but we do need to be ready for, that the EU follow through on what some have said they might do which is, in effect, to separate Northern Ireland from the rest of the United Kingdom.\"\n\nWhile admitting it was a \"crunch moment\", he insisted \"we have got the support of our own MPs\".\n\nThe EU and UK have less than five weeks to agree a deal before Mr Johnson's 15 October deadline - after which he says he is prepared to \"walk away\".\n\nInformal talks are due to resume on Monday, with the next official round of talks - the ninth since March - starting in Brussels on 28 September.\n\nThe EU says the planned changes must be scrapped or they risk jeopardising the UK-EU trade talks and the European Parliament says will \"under no circumstances ratify\" any trade deal reached between the UK and EU if the \"UK authorities breach or threaten to breach\" the Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nBoris Johnson said he would not countenance \"the threat of a border down the Irish Sea\"\n\nOn Friday Mr Johnson had a Zoom call with about 250 of his MPs, in which he said the party could not return to \"miserable squabbling\" over Europe.\n\nConservative backbencher Sir Bob Neill, who chairs the Commons Justice Committee, said he was not reassured by the prime minister's Zoom call. He is tabling an amendment to the bill to try to force a separate parliamentary vote on any changes to the Withdrawal Agreement.\n\n\"I believe it is potentially a harmful act for this country, it would damage our reputation and I think it will make it harder to strike trade deals going forward,\" he said.\n\nAnd on Saturday, Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood - who is chairman of the Defence Select Committee - also voiced his concern.\n\n\"I don't want us to lose our way, to lose our reputation as a force for good, as an exemplar holding up the international rule of law,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm afraid that's where I find myself not wishing to support this particular bill, because it does mean that we would be challenging unilaterally a Treaty. And that goes against the principle of everything we stand for.\"\n\nFormer Conservative party leaders Theresa May, Lord Howard and Sir John Major are also among senior figures urging Mr Johnson to think again.\n\nBoth Ireland and the EU have warned that Mr Johnson's plans pose a serious risk to the peace process rather than protecting the Good Friday Agreement, as the government claims.\n\nWriting that it had become clear there might be a \"serious misunderstanding\" between the UK and EU over the Withdrawal Agreement, Mr Johnson said the UK must be protected from what he called a \"disaster\" of the EU being able to \"carve up our country\" and \"endanger peace and stability in Northern Ireland\".\n\nHe said there was still a \"very good chance\" of the UK and EU striking a deal by mid-October similar to that previously agreed between the EU and Canada - which got rid of most, but not all, tariffs on goods.\n\nBut in a column in the Daily Telegraph, he accused the EU of adopting an \"extreme\" interpretation of the Northern Ireland Protocol to impose \"a full-scale trade border down the Irish Sea\" that could stop the transport of food from Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Gove told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it would be \"irrational\" not to allow the transportation of food in such a way, which would happen if the UK was not granted third-country listing. Such a listing is needed for the export of food.", "Former tennis star Barker has hosted the show for 24 years\n\nA Question of Sport host Sue Barker is leaving the BBC quiz show after 24 years, as part of a major shake-up at the programme.\n\nThe former professional tennis player said she was \"sad to say goodbye\" to her \"dream job\".\n\nTeam captains Matt Dawson and Phil Tufnell will also depart the long-running sports quiz show.\n\nTheir final series together will be broadcast next year. The new line-up is yet to be announced.\n\nBarker, 64, who took over as presenter from commentator David Coleman, said: \"I've absolutely loved my 24 years fronting A Question of Sport, it's been my dream job.\n\n\"But I understand the BBC want to take the show in a new direction and I'm sad to say goodbye.\"\n\nEx-England rugby player Dawson, 47, and former England international cricketer Tufnell, 54, have led their teams on the show for 16 and 12 years respectively.\n\nThey were recording the new series together as recently as a week ago, according to a post on Tufnell's social media.\n\nTufnell wrote on Twitter that it had been a \"great part of life\" and that he was \"going to miss it hugely\" as he thanked fans for their messages.\n\nDawson also said he would miss the show \"immensely\" but admitted he did not know yet how to respond to the news.\n\nA BBC spokeswoman said: \"We would like to thank Sue for her enormous contribution as the show's longest reigning host over the last 24 years, and Matt and Phil for their excellent team captaincy.\"\n\n\"Together they have ensured A Question of Sport remains a firm favourite with the BBC One audience.\"\n\nThe first episode was broadcast on 5 January 1970 and the series has only had three hosts in the last 50 years - David Vine, David Coleman and Sue Barker.\n\nOver 3,000 different sports stars have appeared on the programme over the years, including Jessica Ennis Hill, Chris Hoy, Anthony Joshua, Sebastian Coe and Tanni Grey-Thompson.", "Trials of a Covid-19 vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University will resume after being paused due to a reported side effect in a patient in the UK.\n\nOn Tuesday, AstraZeneca said the studies were being paused while it investigated whether the adverse reaction was linked with the vaccine.\n\nBut on Saturday, the university said it had been deemed safe to continue.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock welcomed the news that the trials would resume.\n\n\"This pause shows we will always put safety first. We will back our scientists to deliver an effective vaccine as soon as safely possible,\" he added.\n\nThe university said in a statement that it was \"expected\" that \"some participants will become unwell\" in large trials such as this one.\n\nIt added that the studies could now resume following the recommendations of an independent safety review committee and the UK regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency.\n\nIt would not disclose information about the patient's illness for confidentiality reasons, but the New York Times reported that a volunteer in the UK trial had been diagnosed with transverse myelitis, an inflammatory syndrome that affects the spinal cord and can be caused by viral infections.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) says nearly 180 vaccine candidates are being tested around the world but none has yet completed clinical trials.\n\nHopes have been high that the vaccine might be one of the first to come on the market, following successful phase 1 and 2 testing.\n\nIts move to Phase 3 testing in recent weeks has involved some 30,000 participants in the US as well as in the UK, Brazil and South Africa. Phase 3 trials in vaccines often involve thousands of participants and can last several years.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told the Downing Street press conference on Wednesday what had happened in the Oxford trial was not unusual.\n\nThe news comes after Prof Sir Mark Walport, a member of the government's scientific advisory group Sage, warned the UK was \"on the edge of losing control of the virus\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"You've only got to look across the Channel to see what is happening in France and what's happening in Spain.\"\n\nOfficial figures released on Saturday showed a further 3,497 people have tested positive with the virus in the UK. It is the second day in a row that number of daily reported cases has exceeded 3,000.\n\nIt brings the overall number of confirmed cases so far to 365,174. Meanwhile, the government figures revealed that a further nine people have died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19, bring the UK death toll to 41,623.\n\nOfficial figures indicate the UK's coronavirus epidemic is growing again, after the R number - the reproduction rate of the virus - was raised to between 1 and 1.2 for the first time since March.\n\nMeanwhile, daily coronavirus cases in Scotland have reached a four-month high, according to the Scottish government's latest data.\n\nA total of 221 people tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours - the highest daily figure since 8 May, when there were 225 positive tests.\n\nNew \"rule of six\" restrictions intended to halt the rises are due come into force on Monday.\n\nIn England indoor and outdoor gatherings of more than six people will be banned, except in certain circumstances such as for work or school. Those breaking the rules could be fined.\n\nIn Scotland, socialising will be limited to a maximum of six people inside and outside - but unlike England they must be from two households, and children under 12 are exempt.\n\nIn Wales, also from Monday, it will be illegal for more than six people from an extended household to meet indoors - but up to 30 can still meet outdoors.\n\nLocalised restrictions for parts of Northern Ireland, including Belfast and Ballymena, are to come into force on Monday, aimed at reducing contacts between people in homes in the affected areas.\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove agreed fines might be necessary to ensure people self-isolate when required.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I don't want to see fines being levied, but even more I do not want to see people behaving in a way that puts the most vulnerable at risk.\"", "People in the UK must not treat this weekend as a \"party\" before the new \"rule of six\" coronavirus restrictions come into force on Monday, a police union has warned.\n\nThe Police Federation said there was a \"real risk\" that the public would \"take advantage of the current situation\".\n\nThe new rules limit gatherings to six people indoors and outdoors in England.\n\nIt comes as one scientist warned the UK was \"on the edge of losing control\" of the virus.\n\nEngland's new rule of six applies to all ages, although there are some exemptions, such as gatherings for work. Those who fail to follow the new rules can be fined by police - £100 for a first offence, doubling on each further offence up to £3,200.\n\nIn Scotland, socialising will be limited to a maximum of six people inside and outside - but unlike England they must be from two households, and children under 12 are exempt.\n\nIn Wales, also from Monday, it will be illegal for more than six people from an extended household to meet indoors - but up to 30 can still meet outdoors.\n\nIn Northern Ireland last month, meanwhile, the number of people who could gather indoors in a private home was reduced from 10 people from four households to six people from two households.\n\nWith the introduction of the new rules in England and Wales delayed until Monday, John Apter, the chairman of the Police Federation for England and Wales, said: \"There is a real risk some members of the public will take advantage of the current situation and treat this weekend as a party weekend ahead of the tighter restrictions being introduced on Monday.\n\n\"Using the current situation as an opportunity and excuse to party would be incredibly irresponsible and put pressure not only on policing, but potentially on the ambulance service and NHS.\"\n\nTim Robson, the North East's representative on the National Pubwatch scheme, said he expected police officers would strictly monitor bars over the weekend to ensure they are operating safely.\n\n\"There is an anticipation that everyone is going to have a big last binge, but people are starting to get fearful and a lot of licensed premises have already been clamped down on by the police,\" he said.\n\nMr Robson, a former police officer, said it would be up to licensees to manage their premises and break up large groups from gathering together unsafely.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"If the restrictions are urgent why are they waiting until Monday? Why aren't they coming in now?\"\n\nOn Saturday, the government announced there were a further 3,497 coronavirus cases in the UK.\n\nIn Scotland, daily coronavirus cases have hit a four-month high, with a total of 221 people testing positive for the virus in the past 24 hours - the highest daily figure since May 8.\n\nThe virus is still at much lower levels across the UK than at the peak in April, but a study of thousands of people in England found cases are doubling every seven to eight days.\n\nProf Sir Mark Walport, a member of the government's Sage scientific advisory group, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"One would have to say that we're on the edge of losing control.\n\n\"You've only got to look across the Channel to see what is happening in France and what's happening in Spain.\"\n\nIt comes as the final clinical trials for a vaccine, developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, are set to resume. They were put on hold last weekend after a participant became unwell.\n\nThe AstraZeneca-Oxford University vaccine - in which 18,000 people from around the world are taking part - is seen as a strong contender among dozens being developed globally.\n\nMeanwhile, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove said the rule of six was \"well-understood\" as a public health message and had the public's support.\n\n\"As ever, the important thing is balance - eating out, seeing friends - that is fine, provided we do so in a way that is socially responsible, that's what the rule of six is about,\" he told the BBC.\n\nHe added that there needed to be \"a degree of self-discipline and restriction\" in order to deal with the challenges posed by the rising number of coronavirus cases across England - and the escalating R number, which measures the rate at which the virus is transmitted.\n\nHowever, Mr Gove also conceded fines could be necessary to enforce regulations.\n\n\"I don't want to see fines being levied, but even more I do not want to see people behaving in a way that puts the most vulnerable at risk,\" he said.\n\nThe R number has been raised to between 1 and 1.2 for the first time since March. Any number above one indicates the number of infections is increasing.\n\nAnd in addition to a general rise in cases in the community, the government's latest coronavirus surveillance report shows a sharp rise in people over the age of 85 testing positive.\n\nAsked about Prof Walport's statement that the UK was \"losing control\", Mr Gove said it was \"a warning to us all\".\n\n\"There's a range of scientific opinion but one thing on which practically every scientist is agreed is that we have seen an uptick in infection and therefore it is appropriate we take public health measures.\"\n\nIt comes after people across England told BBC News they are struggling to access coronavirus tests.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said last week that no-one should have to travel more than 75 miles for a test, after the BBC revealed some were being sent hundreds of miles away.\n\nBut some have now reported being unable to book a swab at all.\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) said testing capacity was targeted at the hardest-hit areas.", "The daily count of people testing positive for coronavirus in Scotland has risen for the fourth day in a row.\n\nA total of 244 tested positive for Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, according to the Scottish government.\n\nIt is the second day in a row that the figure has exceeded 200 and the highest number of confirmed cases since 6 May.\n\nHowever, there were far fewer tests being carried out at that stage of the pandemic meaning many people with the virus did not appear in the statistics.\n\nOn Saturday there were 221 cases reported - the highest daily figure since 8 May.\n\nThe latest daily figures issued by the Scottish government reveal that:\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the statistics \"underline the need for all of us to be careful and abide by public health rules\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe statistics have been published ahead of the introduction of new rules forbidding groups of more than six people - and then from only two separate households - meeting up either inside or outside in Scotland.\n\nChildren under 12 from the two households are not counted in \"rule of six\" which comes into force on Monday.\n\nBut more than 1.75m people in Scotland are also constrained by further restrictions following a spike in cases in the greater Glasgow area.\n\nPeople in Glasgow city, Lanarkshire, East and West Dunbartonshire, Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire cannot meet other households at their own homes.\n\nThe latest figures show there were 104 new cases in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board area in the last 24 hours.\n\nThere were also 62 in Lanarkshire, 25 in Lothian, 12 in the Borders and 11 in Ayrshire and Arran.\n\nThe remaining positive cases were recorded in all of the remaining mainland health board areas.\n\nMeanwhile more than 868,000 have downloaded the Protect Scotland contact tracing app.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police made dozens of arrests as opposition supporters gathered for the march\n\nTens of thousands of people have been marching in the capital Minsk and other cities, in the latest of several weeks of mass protest against President Alexander Lukashenko.\n\nLarge numbers of police have been deployed, blocking key areas.\n\nPolice said they arrested about 400 people ahead of and during the protests, dubbed the March of Heroes.\n\nThe protests have been triggered by a widely disputed election a month ago and subsequent brutal police crackdown.\n\nDemonstrators want Mr Lukashenko to resign after alleging widespread ballot-rigging.\n\nBut the Belarusian leader - in power for 26 years - has denied the allegations and accuses Western nations of interfering.\n\nThe 66-year-old has promised to defend Belarus.\n\nMost opposition leaders are now under arrest or in exile.\n\nIt is the fifth successive Sunday of mass protests, with about 100,000 rallying each week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Jonah Fisher reports from Minsk as police turn their sights on female protesters\n\nEyewitnesses said the centre of Minsk was flooded with people. They marched on the elite residential area of Drozdy, where the country's top officials including President Lukashenko live, but were blocked by police.\n\nRallies are also being held in Brest, Gomel, Mogilyev and other cities.\n\nHowever, the Interior Ministry said that as of 15:00 local time (12:00 GMT) the protests involved no more than 3,000 people across the country.\n\nMr Lukashenko has refused to make any concessions to the opposition\n\nThe ministry said arrests were made in various districts of the capital, and that those detained were carrying flags and placards \"of an insulting nature\".\n\nIn many ways Sunday's demonstration was similar to previous weeks.\n\nWhen the march was at full strength the riot police had little choice but to watch on as the protesters filled the streets and waved their red and white flags.\n\nThe now famous \"Goose for a free Belarus\" was there, a bow tie round its neck, flapping its wings and posing for selfies. Plenty of families came too, determined to enjoy the warm weather.\n\nIt's on the side streets, and in the exposed moments when people arrive and disperse in smaller groups that the security forces strike.\n\nIt's not dignified or disciplined. The police, their faces usually covered, launch crude tackles at the protesters before dragging them kicking and screaming into waiting minivans.\n\nAfter five Sundays of huge demonstrations there's still no sign of enthusiasm dwindling or that the threat of violence is stopping people from coming.\n\nVideo footage showed men in balaclavas pulling people out of the crowds gathering for the start of the march and taking them to unmarked minibuses.\n\nProtests were triggered by elections on 9 August, in which Mr Lukashenko was handed an overwhelming victory amid widespread reports of vote-rigging.\n\nViolent clashes on several nights following the poll led to thousands of arrests, and details emerged of severe beatings by police and overcrowding in detention centres.\n\nThis produced a new wave of demonstrations, with weekend rallies drawing tens of thousands.\n\nMr Lukashenko has said he may establish closer ties with Russia, his main ally.\n\nOn at least two occasions in the past few weeks, he has been photographed near his residence in Minsk carrying a gun and being surrounded by his heavily armed security personnel.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nDebutants Callum Wilson and Jeff Hendrick both scored as Newcastle made a winning start to the 2020-21 Premier League season against an uninspiring West Ham.\n\nWilson, a £20m summer signing from Bournemouth, was a threat throughout as the Magpies won their opening game for the first time since 2012.\n\nSteve Bruce's side were well worth their victory despite the Hammers twice hitting the crossbar.\n\nWilson prodded in Hendrick's flick-on to open the scoring, while the Republic of Ireland midfielder, who joined on a free transfer, sealed victory with a late effort into the top-left corner.\n\nWhile Pablo Fornals and Angelo Ogbonna both hit crossbar for the hosts, too often their attacks lacked the cutting edge to trouble a resolute Newcastle defence.\n\nAnd it ensured their miserable recent starts to Premier League campaigns continued, as they became the first club to lose their opening match for the fifth consecutive season.\n\nMagpies manager Steve Bruce had said he was pleased to see owner Mike Ashley \"flex his muscles\" with the summer arrivals of Wilson and Jamal Lewis, plus free agents Ryan Fraser and Hendrick.\n\nAnd even more pleasingly for Bruce, Wilson, Lewis and Hendrick all made an immediate impression for their new employers.\n\nWilson, who appears to thrive when facing the Hammers, was undoubtedly the pick of the bunch.\n\nThe 28-year-old's pace and movement caused problems well before he scored his eighth goal in nine outings against West Ham, twice going close from Lewis deliveries from the left and teeing up Jonjo Shelvey after a surging run from his own half.\n\nHe also appeared to benefit from the freedom and flicks that Andy Carroll's robust presence provided alongside him.\n\nNewcastle had the fourth worst goal-scoring record in the top flight last term and Bruce will hope that combination can help to remedy that problem.\n\nWilson's goal was a result of his opportunism after Carroll had got across the near post to flick on Javier Manquillo's cross, and Hendrick's late right-foot shot put the seal on a fine night for Newcastle's new boys.\n\nWest Ham were bottom of the Premier League after the opening round of fixtures in each of the past three seasons.\n\nAnd despite this performance not being as humbling as their heavy defeats against both Manchester clubs and Liverpool, it did highlight the need for manager David Moyes to bring in some reinforcements.\n\nWhile they have been able to complete the permanent signing of Tomas Soucek, the Czech international has not exactly provided any fresh impetus, having spent the second half of last term on loan at the club.\n\nYoung winger Grady Diangana was controversially sold and three of the club's most expensive players, including record signing Sebastien Haller, started as substitutes.\n\nWhile Andriy Yarmolenko, Felipe Anderson and Haller were all brought off the bench, there was little suggestion that the Hammers, who only managed three shots on target, were going to mount a comeback.\n\n'Callum will give us something different' - what they said\n\nWest Ham boss David Moyes speaking to BBC MOTD: \"I think you are always trying to improve the squad but that wasn't the reason we lost tonight. We have to analyse that.\n\n\"We had a good pre-season, we were feeling good after finishing the season well so we were disappointed with tonight.\n\n\"We need to get better with the players we have and they can be better, undoubtedly.\"\n\nNewcastle manager Steve Bruce told Sky Sports: \"I wouldn't say best week but when you come away from the Premier League and win 2-0 with two new signings scoring, it helps the cause.\n\n\"There was not much in it and we have a striker who scored typical striker's goal. Callum Wilson enjoys playing against West Ham and it was good to see them two get off the mark. We were worthy winners.\n\n\"We have been missing the goals, Callum will give us something different and makes the squad better. He can only help the situation.\n\n\"We have made progress, it is a long season and cannot get carried away but the last week has been a positive week for everybody, the impact the signings have made, the supporters in particular will like the look of them,\n\n\"That is certainly the best I have seen of Andy Carroll since the year he has been back. He has scored a coupe goals in pre-season and when he plays like that and he stays well, we know what sort of competitor he is.\"\n• None Newcastle United have won 10 Premier League away games against West Ham United - their joint-best such tally in the competition (10 vs Tottenham Hotspur).\n• None West Ham have lost more season openers in the Premier League than any other team in the competition's history (14).\n• None Newcastle recorded their first opening weekend victory in the Premier League since beating Tottenham Hotspur in August 2012.\n• None West Ham manager David Moyes has lost nine of his last 13 matchday one fixtures in the Premier League (W4), including his last two (also for Sunderland in 2016-17).\n• None Newcastle's Jeff Hendrick scored and assisted in a single Premier League game for the first time in his career (123rd appearance).\n• None Newcastle's Callum Wilson has scored eight goals in nine league games against West Ham, more than he has netted against any other side in his league career.\n• None West Ham midfielder Declan Rice made his 100th appearance for the club in the Premier League.\n\nWest Ham host Charlton in the second round of the Carabao Cup on Tuesday (19:30 BST) before travelling to Arsenal in the Premier League on Saturday, 19 September (20:00 BST).\n\nNewcastle are also in EFL Cup action on Tuesday (19:30 BST) when they welcome Blackburn to St James' Park before facing Brighton at home in their next Premier League game on Sunday, 20 September (14:00 BST)\n• None Attempt blocked. Miguel Almirón (Newcastle United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Andriy Yarmolenko (West Ham United) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Tomas Soucek.\n• None Offside, Newcastle United. Javier Manquillo tries a through ball, but Joelinton is caught offside.\n• None Offside, West Ham United. Aaron Cresswell tries a through ball, but Sébastien Haller is caught offside.\n• None Goal! West Ham United 0, Newcastle United 2. Jeff Hendrick (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Miguel Almirón.\n• None Offside, Newcastle United. Miguel Almirón tries a through ball, but Joelinton is caught offside.\n• None Andy Carroll (Newcastle United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Sébastien Haller (West Ham United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Ryan Fredericks with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Michail Antonio (West Ham United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Andriy Yarmolenko (West Ham United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Comedians try to make sense of 2020\n• None Go behind the scenes with West Ham Women", "The government has been urged to do more to get people to switch from disposable masks to reusable coverings.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats said single-use surgical masks caused \"enormous\" plastic waste and that environmentally friendly alternatives must be promoted.\n\nAnd the Green Party wants ministers to push the media to show them less, to stop their use becoming \"normalised\".\n\nDisposable masks contain plastics which pollute water and can harm wildlife who eat them or become tangled in them.\n\nThe UK government said it was investigating whether personal protective equipment (PPE) could be \"reused in safe ways\".\n\nTo help prevent the spread of coronavirus, face coverings - disposable or reusable - are now mandatory on public transport, in shops and in some other enclosed spaces in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe rule only applies on public transport in Wales, but it will be extended to shops and other indoor spaces from Monday.\n\nThe latest figures for Britain from the Office for National Statistics suggested 96% of adults who had left their homes in the past week had worn a face covering.\n\nThe official guidance for England is to wear a reusable, washable one where possible.\n\nIt also states that used disposable face coverings - often containing the plastic polypropylene - should be put in \"black bag\" waste bins \"or a litter bin if you're outside\".\n\nIt adds that people should \"not put them in a recycling bin as they cannot be recycled through conventional recycling facilities\" and \"take them home... if there is no litter bin - do not drop them as litter\".\n\nSea birds can become tangled up in masks\n\nBut with the public being told to cover their faces, environmental groups say hundreds of thousands, even millions, of single-use masks are being dumped outdoors, blighting towns and the countryside.\n\nAs part of its Great British Beach Clean, running from 18 to 25 September, the Marine Conservation Society is asking volunteers to record how many they pick up.\n\nLaura Foster, the organisation's head of clean seas, said: \"Just look at rivers such as the Thames and you'll see them floating by.\n\n\"When they're whole, wildlife's going to get tangled in it or the plastic's going to be ingested. They aren't going to biodegrade either, although they will break up, introducing more microplastics into the sea and the food chain.\"\n\nThe RSPCA is encouraging people with disposable masks to \"snip the straps\" after use to prevent animals getting caught in them.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats are calling on UK ministers to do more to \"encourage people to use reusable masks, as well as provide guidance about how best to keep them clean\".\n\nClimate and business spokeswoman Sarah Olney told the BBC: \"As we face the Covid-19 crisis, we all want to do our bit to keep others safe. Wearing face coverings is a vital part of that, but it shouldn't cost the earth.\n\n\"It's clear that single-use face masks are creating an enormous amount of waste. Outside of essential clinical settings, there are plenty of environmentally friendly, reusable alternatives that people can choose to use.\"\n\nThe Lib Dems say disposable masks should be reserved mostly for people working in healthcare\n\nAmelia Womack, deputy leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, said the surge in disposable mask use came \"at a time when we are clearly drowning in plastic\".\n\nShe called for \"stronger government guidance\", with the public potentially being asked to wear coverings \"for years\" if the pandemic continues.\n\nThe media should be discouraged from showing masks in \"normal\", non-clinical, situations, Ms Womack added, also arguing that the government should impose a ban on its own websites, leaflets and films doing so.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Our priority is rightly to protect public health, but government and the NHS are actively looking at how PPE can be reused in safe ways, including decontamination.\"\n\nThey added: \"We have published guidance on how to wear and make a cloth face covering and how to safely dispose of PPE.\n\n\"Over the next couple of months, we are considering how we can inform the UK's longer-term PPE use strategy into the future, including taking into account environmental concerns.\"", "Frances McDormand (left) and Chloé Zhao (centre) accepted the Golden Lion prize via Zoom from California\n\nUS film Nomadland has won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival, the first such event held with live audiences since the Covid-19 outbreak.\n\nThe film, by Chinese-born Chloé Zhao, stars Frances McDormand as a widow living as a nomad after the 2008 financial crisis.\n\nMexican director Michel Franco's thriller New Order and historic drama Wife of a Spy by Japan's Kiyoshi Kurosawa were also recognised.\n\nGuests had to wear masks at screenings.\n\nAbout half of the seats at the venues on the Lido waterfront were left empty, and few celebrities made the trip to the world's oldest film festival.\n\nCate Blanchett was the jury president in the lagoon city\n\nAustralian actress Cate Blanchett, who headed the jury at the 77th edition of the festival, said the winner had been chosen after \"healthy and robust\" deliberations by the jury members.\n\n\"Good discussion is good discussion with a mask or not,\" she said.\n\nZhao, who is the first woman to win the festival's top award, the Golden Lion, in 10 years, and McDormand were speaking via Zoom from California.\n\n\"Thank you so much for letting us come to your festival in this weird, weird, weird world and way,\" McDormand said.\n\nChloé Zhao at the drive-in premier of Nomadland on Friday\n\nThe festival's Grand Jury prize went to Franco's film, while Kurosawa was named the best director. They were jointly given the Silver Lions.\n\nRussian director Andrei Konchalovsky was given the Special Jury prize for Dear Comrades!, a film about the massacre of protesters in the USSR in 1962.\n\nBritain's Vanessa Kirby won the best actress award, while the best actor prize went to Italy's Pierfrancesco Favino.\n\nThe annual gathering in the Italian city is one of the \"big three\" film festivals, alongside Cannes and Berlin.\n\nThe Berlin festival took place as scheduled from 20 February to 1 March.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Debbie Noland wears full PPE when seeing patients and cleans the examination room between patients\n\nCovid-19 has transformed how GPs work - from having to wear full PPE instead of ordinary clothes, to seeing a huge decline in the number of patients they are seeing. Here's how one practice in Liverpool has adapted.\n\nDr Debbie Noland is living with a new reality.\n\nA few months ago, the Liverpool GP would have dressed relatively casually for a day seeing patients at the Ropewalks Practice in the city centre.\n\nNow she is in medical scrubs and full protective clothing - face mask, visor, gloves and apron.\n\n\"Now we are completely clinical, I look like I did when I was a medical student working in the hospital in surgery,\" says Dr Noland.\n\n\"It's definitely far more challenging - and the job is challenging enough without the extra stress.\n\n\"Having to go home and put your scrubs into a 60-degree wash, so you don't pass it on to your family. It's a completely different world than pre-Covid, that's for sure.\"\n\nEven when she is seeing patients with no Covid symptoms, Dr Noland needs to balance the risk of infection while, simultaneously, being able to check out potentially dangerous conditions.\n\n\"If you need to listen to somebody's chest or you need to listen to somebody's heart - you need to do that.\n\n\"I feel like I am as covered and protected as I possibly can be. I would much prefer to make sure that I am doing things properly than miss something.\"\n\nPatients are assessed in advance over the phone, including questions on whether or not they have coronavirus symptoms.\n\nBut since chest pain is exactly the type of thing that might indicate the development of another serious condition, some patients have to attend the surgery for an examination.\n\nIn between each appointment, Dr Noland must clean the room and change her personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\n\"When the patient has left, I'll clean down the room before anyone else comes in and change all my(PPE) so it is as safe as it possible can be. It may not be as approachable, but we are doing our best to make sure everyone can feel safe coming into a GP surgery.\"\n\nAll this means a much slower trickle of patients.\n\nThis time last year the surgery was seeing around 130 patients a day for GP appointments, blood tests or just to pick up a prescription.\n\nBut on the day we visited, just 24 patients attended the surgery, all by appointment only.\n\nThe surgery had previously introduced an online booking and assessment system last September, so most patients were accustomed to a more remote way of working.\n\nBut still, the change is stark: a normally busy waiting room now has just one patient at a time.\n\nDr Noland has to wipe down the consultation room between patients\n\nSome patients are happy to come to the surgery. But Dr Noland says there are growing fears over those who are too worried about the risk of infection to come in.\n\n\"The amount of people I have spoken to on the phone with anxiety and depression... They were probably keeping it together, but it's the last straw that broke the camel's back.\n\n\"They can't cope now. It has been a massive impact.\n\n\"People are still having heart attacks, they are still having strokes, they are still having cancer, unfortunately.\n\n\"And there are a lot of other people that are dying of other things that seem to have been forgotten a little bit.\n\n\"It's a massive hidden cost of lockdown and that is really worrying for all of us - because we think there is an epidemic [of non-Covid illnesses] and we are just waiting for it to come.\".\"\n\nThe surgery is divided into two zones, with Dr Noland seeing her Covid-free patients in the 'green zone' on the first floor of the building.\n\nDownstairs is the 'red zone, for those patients who are displaying Covid-19 symptoms, with a separate entrance to the rest of the surgery.\n\nThe receptionist, as well as the GP, wears full PPE.\n\nTina Atkins, the practice management partner, says the whole idea is to minimise exposure to infected patients.\n\n\"We don't have anything other than an examination couch and a chair - we don't use any of the IT equipment.\n\n\"We also say to patients if they arrive early: 'please stay in your car outside' because the slots are timed, so we don't cross-contaminate patients.\"\n\nRopewalks is a \"hub\" for nine practices in Liverpool. Each one directs coronavirus patients to the Ropewalks General Practice so the surrounding practices can maintain a Covid-free environment.\n\nAt the height of the pandemic, the surgery saw around 5-8 cases a day, but on the day we visited, no-one needed to be seen.\n\nPhone consultations are part of the new norm, especially when checking up on those who are shielding.\n\nPractice nurse Moira Cain says: \"With not going out at all, you're worried about people's mental health and their wellbeing. So the fact they're getting a phone call from someone who cares must be some reassurance.\n\n\"It's reassuring for us to know that they are eating, they are having food taken into them, they are sleeping ok - they haven't got any other symptoms.\"\n\nBut she adds: \"What we have found is the footfall to primary care, as well as A&E, is really reduced.\n\n\"Are people sitting at home with chest pain? With shortness of breath? Have they got swollen ankles? Because if they have, they should really come in.\"\n\nSocial distancing, PPE, the fear of infection - all are making an already tough job more challenging.\n\nBut GPs want their patients to know that, despite appearances - the empty waiting rooms, the 'red zone', they are still very much open for business.", "A-level results day started terribly for Grace Kirman. The sixth former in Norwich had been waiting anxiously to hear whether she would get the grades needed for her dream university place.\n\nBut it was bad news and a rejection email had arrived. The grades produced by the exam algorithm had been lower than her teachers predicted - and the offer to study biochemistry at Oxford University was disappearing before her eyes.\n\n\"It wasn't my fault and it was really unfair,\" said the student from Notre Dame High School.\n\nShe'd worked extremely hard for her A-levels, it had been her big ambition, she'd been on a university outreach scheme for disadvantaged youngsters, and she'd been quietly confident of getting the A* and two A grades needed.\n\nBut this summer's exams had been cancelled by the Covid-19 pandemic - and England's exam watchdog Ofqual had produced an alternative way of calculating grades.\n\nHer teachers had expected three A*s - but the algorithm produced results of three As. It might be a small margin for a statistician, but it was a difference that she said \"could change her life\".\n\n\"I was so disappointed, I knew I was equally intelligent,\" she said. And she was angry too at the way doors suddenly seemed to be closing.\n\nBrian Conway, chief executive of the St John the Baptist academy trust responsible for the school, was beginning to see other inexplicable results arriving.\n\n\"The tragedy of results day was when people you would bet your house on getting a grade C were given a U grade,\" he said.\n\nSomething was going badly wrong - and the school decided to challenge the results, and in Grace's case, to get in touch with Oxford to try to overturn the rejection.\n\nThere were problems with exams across the UK this summer, but in England it's the Department for Education and Ofqual which will face public scrutiny to explain the confusion, the colossal U-turns and resignations.\n\nThe algorithm for replacement grades mostly relied on two key pieces of information - how pupils had been ranked in order of ability and the results of schools and colleges in previous years.\n\nOf less influence were teachers' predictions and how individual pupils themselves had done in previous exams.\n\nIt was designed to stop grade inflation and in effect replicated the results of previous years - but it meant a serious risk of disadvantage for talented individuals in schools that had a history of low results.\n\nIt would be like being told you'd failed a driving test on the grounds that people from where you lived usually failed their driving test. That might be the case, but it's hard to take when you hadn't even started the car.\n\nBut if the aim was to keep grades in line with previous years, the opposite happened. There were stratospheric increases particularly at A-level - with more than half of students getting A*s and As in some subjects.\n\nWhile the scrutiny will focus on what went wrong in past weeks, the bigger fallout could be from what it changes in the future. A major unintended consequence could be a radical shake-up of England's university admissions, with plans believed to be in the pipeline.\n\nThis summer has shown the problems with estimated grades - raising the issue of whether such predictions should still be used for university offers, rather than waiting until students have their actual results.\n\nSchools Minister Nick Gibb this week described as \"compelling\" the argument made by former universities minister Chris Skidmore that the \"entire admissions system to university should now be reformed\". Also expect in the forthcoming months to hear some big questions about the future role of Ofqual.\n\nEngland's Education Secretary Gavin Williamson, facing calls for his resignation over the exams fiasco, will have to defend himself in front of the Education Select Committee this week.\n\nThe committee's chairman, Robert Halfon, likened the exam problems to the Charge of the Light Brigade, where no-one, particularly Ofqual, seemed able to heed the warnings to stop.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson, who originally called the results \"robust\" and then blamed a \"mutant algorithm\", has accused critics of relying on \"Captain Hindsight\". But more evidence of foresight in warnings is emerging too.\n\nBarnaby Lenon, chairman of the Independent Schools Council, told the BBC he had warned in stakeholder meetings with Ofqual about the dangers of attaching so much weight to schools' previous results, and so little to teachers' estimates. \"It was always going to be a hashed job,\" he said.\n\nHe thinks Ofqual and the Department for Education had begun to prioritise sounding publicly confident rather than being open about the shortcomings. Mr Lenon, a former head teacher of Harrow School and former Ofqual board member, had made his concerns public.\n\nOn 7 July, at the Festival of Higher Education at the University of Buckingham, he predicted unreliability and unfairness in the results and warned Ofqual was being asked to do a \"terrible thing\" in producing these calculated grades.\n\nDanger signals couldn't be dismissed as politically motivated. On 26 May, a warning was sent from the New Schools Network, which supports free schools and has strong ties to Conservative education policy.\n\nThe group's director Unity Howard, wrote to Sally Collier, the now resigned head of Ofqual, and to Gavin Williamson: \"It is easy to bury these arrangements in scientific modelling, but the issues here will affect at least a generation of children, but more likely those that come after it too.\"\n\nIt included warnings from seven schools and trusts - and it's understood the group held a meeting with Ofqual.\n\nThe Northern Powerhouse, a lobby group for the north of England chaired by former Tory chancellor George Osborne, had also been flagging concerns about BTec vocational exams as well as A-levels and GCSEs.\n\nFrank Norris, working with the Northern Powerhouse on education, told the BBC the \"proposed algorithm design was always going to put the average performance of schools above individual merit\".\n\nWith worries not allayed, the Northern Powerhouse wrote to Sally Collier on 9 August, drawing attention to their high level of concern about a disproportionate impact on poorer communities. On 11 July, the Education Select Committee pointed to unanswered questions about the fairness of how grades would be calculated.\n\nOfqual was not unaware of these worries, not least because the regulator says it was giving its own advice to ministers about the risks - and right to the top.\n\nJulie Swan, Ofqual's executive director of general qualifications, said 10 Downing Street had been briefed on 7 August, highlighting risks over so-called \"outlier students\" - the bright pupils whose grades might be reduced because they were in low-performing schools.\n\nThere were also weekly meetings with education minister Nick Gibb. Kate Green, Labour's Shadow Education Secretary, said in the House of Commons this week the exam controversy had caused \"huge distress to students and their parents\" - and asked Mr Gibb why he had failed to respond to warnings. \"These warnings were not ignored,\" said Mr Gibb. \"Challenges that were made by individuals were raised with Ofqual and we were assured by the regulator that overall the model was fair,\" he told MPs. It was only when grades were published that \"anomalies and injustices\" became apparent, said Mr Gibb.\n\nA common thread to the warnings was although the results might work smoothly in terms of national statistics, maintaining a similar pattern to previous years, this would be at the cost of individual unfairness. The standardisation process, which tended to push down teachers' grades, would also not apply to subjects with smaller numbers of entries, such as classics and modern languages - with accusations this would benefit independent schools.\n\nGrace Kirman was one of these \"anomalies\" - her future hanging in the balance. But when had this year's exams really begun to go into tailspin? If you wanted to pinpoint a moment, it might be about 36 hours before Grace and hundreds of thousands of young people were finding out their results.\n\nThat was the heatwave night of Tuesday 11 August, ahead of A-level results being released on Thursday. In Scotland there had been a U-turn on grades, and pressure was building for a response in England.\n\nWhen it came, it left Ofqual completely wrong-footed and unable to explain how it would work. The Department for Education had informed them of a major change that would allow schools to appeal over grades on the basis of their mock test results. It was announced late in the evening as an extra \"safety net\" and \"triple lock\", but was eventually ditched within the week.\n\nBut head teachers, who had been on a low-boil all summer, went into volcanic mode - attacking this last-minute change as \"panicked and chaotic\". This sudden rule change meant a school could appeal for an upgrade if a mock test had been higher than the calculated grade about to be issued.\n\nThis infuriated head teachers who said mocks were carried out in many different and inconsistent ways. Sometimes they had been deliberately marked down as a scare tactic and some schools had not taken them at all. Therefore, they said, they could not be used to decide such important results.\n\nHeads' leader Geoff Barton said at that point he knew this approach to exams had become \"unsustainable\". It had been \"fatally undermined\" by an unworkable decision, which he said represented a \"complete failure of leadership\". Mr Halfon said it also raised the fundamental question about who was really in charge - and if Ofqual wasn't really acting independently, then what was its purpose?\n\nResults day on 13 August added to the confusion. These calculated grades produced the highest results in the history of A-levels - but in the background was a growing volume of protest over the algorithm reducing 40% of grades below teachers' predictions. MPs saw emails arriving in their in-trays, upset parents took to Twitter, lawyers warned of multiple legal challenges, universities didn't know if grades were going to be changed on appeal and marchers were waving placards demanding a U-turn.\n\nOn Saturday 15 August, matters became even more bizarre. Ofqual published plans for appeals over mock tests - but in the evening Gavin Williamson rang Sally Collier disagreeing with the guidance and it was taken down again from the website.\n\nAccording to Ofqual chairman Roger Taylor, the situation was \"rapidly going out of control\" - and on Sunday the watchdog took the momentous decision to switch to centre assessed grades - the results estimated by schools.\n\nThis biggest U-turn of the summer was made public the next day and the education secretary told students he was \"incredibly sorry\".\n\nSally Collier, who has talked of her admiration for Edith Cavell, the nurse executed during the First World War, later stepped down as chief regulator and has made no comment since.\n\nAt the Department for Education, it was the senior civil servant, Jonathan Slater, who lost his job, with accusations that he had been \"scapegoated\". The blame game had begun almost immediately. Ofqual's argument has been they knew the risks of the iceberg ahead, but they had warned ministers and been told not to change direction.\n\nThe politicians in turn say they had heard the iceberg warnings, but Ofqual had assured them it would be safe. \"The finger of blame is pointed at everyone else,\" says heads' leader Mr Barton.\n\nWhat has baffled school leaders is why, with almost five months between the cancellation of exams and the issuing of calculated grades, there wasn't a more thorough attempt to test the reliability of results in advance, including with real schools. Ofqual's defence to all of this, according to Mr Halfon, could be summed up as: \"Not me, guv.\"\n\nThere are also questions about the delays for results for BTec students - and MP Shabana Mahmood said it was disgraceful how they had been \"left languishing at the back of the queue\". There is another uncomfortable truth from the U-turn, which Barnaby Lenon said will have created a \"different kind of injustice\". Schools which were over-generous in their predictions will have got better grades than those which were more painstaking.\n\nThings eventually turned out well for Grace\n\nMr Conway, leader of Notre Dame's academy trust where Grace was at school, said his staff had put a \"huge effort\" into making sure every estimated grade was accurate and evidence based - and carried out their own moderation process to guard against grade inflation. But there are persistent rumours of other exam centres which have ended up with implausibly high grades for many of their students.\n\nPupils could have unfairly been \"bumped off\" university places as a result, said Mr Lenon. When Mr Williamson faces the select committee this week he is likely to argue that no-one wanted to cancel exams, but the pandemic forced them to find an alternative - and when there were problems his department took swift action.\n\n\"It was not a decision that was taken lightly. It was taken only after serious discussions with a number of parties, including, in particular, the exam regulator, Ofqual,\" he told MPs this week. \"We have had to respond, often at great speed, to find the best way forward, given what we knew about the virus at the time.\"\n\nOther education ministers around the UK faced similar problems and eventually came up with similar answers, said Mr Williamson.\n\nAnd Grace got her place back at Oxford. \"I just couldn't believe it. It's been a dream of mine for so long. \"I wish I could have woken up to an acceptance - but I appreciate it now even more. \"It was a flawed system,\" she said. \"And they could have been kinder, especially after everything over the summer.\"", "GP practices are being told they must make sure patients can be seen face to face when they need such appointments.\n\nNHS England is writing to all practices to make sure they are communicating the fact doctors can be seen in person if necessary, as well as virtually.\n\nIt's estimated half of the 102 million appointments from March to July were by video or phone call, NHS Digital said.\n\nThe Royal College of GPs said any implication GPs had not been doing their job properly was \"an insult\".\n\nNHS England said research suggested nearly two thirds of the public were happy to have a phone or video call with their doctor - but that, ahead of winter, they wanted to make sure people knew they could see their GP if needed.\n\nNikki Kanani, medical director of primary care for NHS England, said GPs had adapted quickly in recent months to offer remote consultations and \"safe face-to-face care when needed\".\n\nShe added: \"While many people, particularly those most vulnerable to Covid-19, want the convenience of a consultation over the phone or video, the NHS has been and will continue to offer face-to-face appointments and I would urge anyone who feels they need medical support to come forward so they can get the care, support and advice they need - the NHS is here for you.\"\n\nNHS England said it would be reminding GPs they faced enforcement action if they failed to offer face-to-face appointments when necessary on medical grounds. Failure to do so was a breach of their contract, it said.\n\nProf Martin Marshall, chair of the Royal College of GPs, said general practice was \"open and has been throughout the pandemic\", with a predominantly remote service to help stop the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Debbie Noland wears full PPE when seeing patients and cleans the examination room between patients\n\nHe said: \"The college does not want to see general practice become a totally, or even mostly, remote service post-pandemic.\n\n\"However, we are still in the middle of a pandemic. We need to consider infection control and limit footfall in GP surgeries - all in line with NHS England's current guidance.\"\n\nHe said most patients had understood the changes and that clinical commissioning groups had been asked to work with GP practices where face-to-face appointments were not possible - for example, if all GPs were at a high risk from coronavirus.\n\n\"Any implication that they have not been doing their job properly is an insult to GPs and their teams who have worked throughout the pandemic, continued delivering the vast majority of patient care in the NHS and face an incredibly difficult winter ahead,\" he said.\n\nResearch from the college indicated that routine GP appointments were back to near-normal levels for this time of year, after decreasing at the height of the pandemic.\n\n\"Each and every day last week an estimated third of a million appointments were delivered face to face by general practices across the country,\" added Prof Marshall.\n\nIt comes as thousands of doctors say a second peak is likely this winter - and is their greatest fear.\n\nThe British Medical Association survey of more than 8,000 doctors and medical students found that 86% of them believed a second peak was likely, or very likely, in the next six months.\n\nThe survey indicated doctors thought the two most important measures to help prevent such a peak were having a fit-for-purpose test-and-trace system and a \"coherent, rapid and consistent approach to local outbreaks\".\n\nBMA council chair Dr Chaand Nagpaul said: \"We, as a profession, want, above all, to avoid a return to the scenes we saw in April, when hospitals were full with Covid-19 patients, and hundreds were dying every day. Meanwhile, thousands of others missed out on vital appointments and procedures as routine care was put on hold.\n\n\"But while the forecast in this survey may be bleak, it is not an inevitability if the government takes decisive, robust and timely action to stamp down the spread of the infection.\"\n\nHe called on the government to focus on \"sorting out the test-and-trace debacle once and for all\", adding: \"We are at a critical crossroads in the fight against this deadly virus.\"", "EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier is in London this week for Brexit talks\n\nWhen it comes to Brexit, all negotiations are inter-linked: EU-UK trade talks, the process to implement their divorce deal, negotiations on fishing rights and Brussels' deliberation on UK financial service.\n\nWhat happens in one area very much affects progress in the others. You cannot separate them entirely.\n\nWhich is why this week, as the war of words and wills between Brussels and Downing Street raged over the government's threat to throw a grenade at key parts of the divorce deal, everyone's thoughts turned immediately to the trade talks between the two sides.\n\nIn fact, they limp on. Negotiations are set to resume in Brussels on Monday. This, despite the EU ending the week by threatening Downing Street with legal action unless it rowed back on its threats to the Withdrawal Agreement by the end of the month.\n\nThe government insists it will not budge. So it is significant that the EU stopped short of threatening to press the nuclear button - shutting down trade talks altogether.\n\nWhy is that, when we know the EU is furious?\n\nFirst of all, Brussels still wants a deal with the UK, if at all possible, this autumn.\n\nSecondly, the sense in Brussels is that the government is trying to provoke the EU into abandoning the trade negotiations.\n\n\"We're not going to give them that satisfaction,\" a high-level EU diplomat told me. \"We refuse to be manipulated.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UK vs EU: Johnson and Michel Barnier set out competing visions on trade\n\nSo, despite bitter arguments over legislation on the one hand, and a huge list of outstanding issues still to be ironed out in bilateral trade talks; despite time and trust running out on both sides; neither the EU nor the UK seem to want to be the first ones to walk out the door.\n\nIt is still possible, of course, that the government's bill is stopped in the House of Lords or even beforehand by rebel MPs.\n\nIt is possible for the EU and UK to iron out their differences over the divorce deal and in trade talks. Concessions can always be \"dressed-up\" to look like victories, after all.\n\nIt has been done before. Remember last autumn? Finding agreement on the divorce deal seemed nigh on impossible - until it was not and a deal was signed.\n\nBut, right now that feels like a long shot. The chatter on both sides of the Channel is that \"no deal\" is becoming more likely by the day.", "Sir Philip Green's Arcadia retail empire has apologised after claims it would pay some head office staff only half of their notice pay.\n\nArcadia, whose High Street brands include Topman, Topshop and Dorothy Perkins, said it was \"extremely sorry\".\n\nAll affected employees would get full pay, the firm said.\n\nThe Unite union, which had threatened legal action, said billionaire Sir Philip should not have allowed the situation to happen in the first place.\n\nHigh Street retail is one sector of the UK economy that has been hit hard by the coronavirus crisis, with shop closures during lockdown followed by reduced footfall in shops.\n\nWhile retail sales rebounded in July, rising above pre-pandemic levels, the ONS said clothing shops had been the worst hit during the pandemic and the volume of sales remained 25.7% lower than in February.\n\nArcadia, which is cutting 300 jobs from its head office in response to the effects of the pandemic, said on Saturday:\n\n\"We recently implemented a policy for those employees who are working their notice on furlough to receive their furlough pay instead of their full pay.\n\n\"We got this decision wrong and the board has today amended this policy to ensure all affected employees will receive their full pay.\n\n\"We are extremely sorry to all those individuals [affected] for the distress that we have caused and apologise unreservedly.\"\n\nTo try to soften the coronavirus blow to the economy, in March the government put in place the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, which paid 80% of the wages of workers placed on leave, up to a maximum of £2,500 a month.\n\nThat scheme has been winding down and, from the beginning of September, companies using the scheme have had to start contributing to workers' wages.\n\nArcadia Group became part of Taveta Investments, owned by Sir Philip and his family, in 2002.\n\nThe statement said it had been forced to make \"many tough decisions\" during the coronavirus pandemic, including the restructuring of its offices.\n\nThe Unite union had threatened legal action on behalf of more than 40 head-office staff over pay after claims it was paying them only 50% of their notice pay. It hailed the \"U-turn\" by Arcadia as a victory for employees.\n\nUnite regional officer Debbie McSweeney said it was \"almost without precedent for Arcadia to apologise for such behaviour towards employees\".\n\n\"But this situation should have never been allowed to happen in the first place by Sir Philip Green, one of the country's richest men,\" she said.\n\nUnite said it would examine the Arcadia statement in detail before finally deciding to withdraw its legal action.", "The proposals also incude longer sentences for 15 to 17-year-olds who commit murder\n\nTeenagers convicted of murder in England and Wales could receive whole-life terms under sentencing reforms described by the government as the most radical in almost 20 years.\n\nCurrently, a whole-life tariff can only be given to someone aged over 21 but ministers plan to reduce this to 18 for exceptional cases, such as terrorism.\n\nA White Paper outlining further details will be published this week.\n\nBut Labour said the Tories had pushed the justice system \"to the brink\".\n\nThe proposals will also include whole-life sentences for those who kill children.\n\nAnd there would be new powers to prevent the automatic release of offenders who have become radicalised behind bars while serving non-terror related sentences.\n\nA whole-life - or so-called \"life means life\" - order means the criminal is in prison for the rest of their life without ever becoming eligible for parole. It differs from a life sentence, under which the prisoner is given a number of years they must spend in jail after which they will be eligible to apply for parole.\n\nWhole-life tariffs are reserved for offenders judged to be the most dangerous to society.\n\nThe planned reforms come after Hashem Abedi, who helped his brother Salman plan the Manchester Arena bombing, was jailed in August for life and ordered to serve at least 55 years in prison.\n\nHe was under the age of 21 at the time of the murders so a whole-life order was not an option open to the courts.\n\nSentencing Abedi, Mr Justice Jeremy Baker said a whole-life order would have been a \"just sentence\" in the \"exceptional circumstances\" but said he still \"may never be released\".\n\nWriting in the Sunday Express, Boris Johnson cited Abedi's case, saying if someone plots to deliberately kill dozens of people \"then it doesn't matter if you're 'only' 18, 19 or 20 when you do so\".\n\n\"We're going to remove a loophole that lets some truly despicable criminals avoid such a sentence because they're under 21 at the time of their crime,\" Mr Johnson added.\n\nUnder the proposals, there will also be longer sentences for 15 to 17-year-olds who commit murder.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland said: \"From longer jail time for dangerous criminals to new measures to improve rehabilitation and cut reoffending - we are delivering a system that is more equipped than ever to crack down on crime, which the public can have confidence in to keep them safe.\"\n\nBut shadow justice secretary David Lammy accused the government of failures, citing a Prison Reform Trust report which stated there was a reoffending rate of 64% for those who spend fewer than 12 months in prison.\n\nAnd shadow Northern Ireland secretary Louise Haigh said increasing sentences for younger terrorist offenders was \"quite low down the list\" of issues facing the criminal justice system.\n\nSpeaking on Sky's Ridge On Sunday, she added: \"The criminal justice system is in complete disarray because of years of cuts, of privatisation of the probation system and of undermining of the courts and of the police.\"\n\nA White Paper is expected to be published mid-week before legislation is laid before parliament in the new year.", "Iran has executed a wrestler accused of murder, defying international appeals for him to be spared.\n\nNavid Afkari, 27, was sentenced to death over the murder of a security guard during a wave of anti-government protests in 2018.\n\nHe said he had been tortured into making a confession.\n\nHuman rights organisation Amnesty International described Afkari's execution as a \"travesty of justice\".\n\nIn a leaked recording released by the group, Afkari says: \"If I am executed, I want you to know that an innocent person, even though he tried and fought with all his strength to be heard, was executed.\"\n\nAfkari was executed by hanging in the southern city of Shiraz, according to state media.\n\nHis lawyer said his client had been prevented from seeing his family before his death, as required under Iranian law.\n\n\"Were you in such a hurry to carry out the sentence that you deprived Navid of a last visit?\" Hassan Younesi said on Twitter.\n\nThere had been many calls to stop the execution, including from a union representing 85,000 athletes worldwide.\n\nThe World Players Association said he had been \"unjustly targeted\" for taking part in the protests, and called for Iran's expulsion from world sport if it went ahead with the execution.\n\nUS President Donald Trump also appealed for mercy, saying the wrestler's \"sole act was an anti-government demonstration on the streets\".\n\nThe International Olympic Committee (IOC) called his execution \"very sad news\" and said their thoughts were with his family and friends.\n\n\"It is deeply upsetting that the pleas of athletes from around the world and all the behind-the-scenes work of the IOC... did not achieve our goal,\" their statement said.\n\nAfkari's brothers Vahid and Habib were sentenced to 54 and 27 years in prison in the same case, according to human rights activists in Iran.\n\nIn an audio recording leaked from the prison where he was being held, Afkari had said he had been tortured. His mother said her sons were forced to testify against each other.\n\nHis lawyer had said on Twitter that, contrary to Iranian news reports, there was no video of the moment of the security guard's killing. He added that footage used as evidence in the case was taken an hour before the crime took place.\n\nThe Iranian authorities have denied accusations of torture.\n\nAfkari was a national champion in wrestling, a sport that has a long history and is hugely popular in Iran.\n\nIn 2018, protesters in cities across Iran took to the streets over economic hardship and political repression.", "Big Pink Dress man collects for charity during his virtual Great North Run and walk\n\nAlmost 17,000 people have taken part in a virtual Great North Run across 57 countries and six continents.\n\nThe official event was cancelled because of coronavirus and a virtual run has been taking place with a free app to accompany runners.\n\nRun founder Brendan Foster said the aim was to recoup money for charities and keep people active.\n\nMore than 60,000 runners were due to take part in the half-marathon in what would have been its 40th year.\n\nBig pink dress man Colin Burgin-Plews, who has raised thousands of pounds for charity, walked roughly 13 miles around South Shields in his costume to collect money for St Benedict's Hospice in Sunderland and the Kayaks club for children and young adults in South Tyneside.\n\nHe said: \"It was amazing lots of people came out. I've a headache from all the honking of horns from cars.\"\n\nRunners were able to download an app to listen to words of encouragement\n\nOrganiser Brendan Foster said the aim of the virtual event was to raise money for charity\n\nMr Foster said: \"This year has been testing for everyone so we had to re-imagine the event and take it out to the people.\n\n\"At least we will be able to keep people active and that's our mission.\n\n\"Thousands of charities have lost their income in recent times and we want to address this.\"\n\nHe completed the run setting off from Bamburgh Castle and along the Northumberland coast taking breaks and walking part of the way.\n\nMore than 60,000 runners were due to take part in the cancelled half-marathon\n\nOrganisers said they had not taken the decision to cancel the run, from Newcastle to South Shields, lightly and participants could apply for refunds or transfer their entry to next year.\n\nThe actual run was cancelled because of the coronavirus\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Typhoon in the foreground intercepting the Russian Bear F aircraft off the Scottish coast\n\nUK fighter jets have intercepted two Russian aircraft off the Scottish coast, defence chiefs have said.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said the RAF Typhoons were scrambled after the Russian aircraft \"entered the UK's controlled zone of international airspace\".\n\nThe Russian planes were identified as TU-142 Bear F maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare aircraft.\n\nThe RAF aircraft are currently operating from Leuchars in Fife.\n\nAn MoD spokesman said monitoring of the controlled zone ensured safe passage for other aircraft, including civilian transatlantic liners.\n\nThe Russian Bear F aircraft are used for maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare\n\nThe former Leuchars RAF base is now a British Army station, home to the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards.\n\nHowever, the Typhoons have temporarily relocated from their base at RAF Lossiemouth while part of a runway is resurfaced.", "Three hours before the death, police attended the same location following a noise complaint and reports a smoke alarm had been activated\n\nA man has been stabbed to death at a flat in London, with another arrested on suspicion of murder following a stand-off with police.\n\nThe victim, believed to be in his 60s, was found with multiple stab wounds in Priestley House, Wembley, at about 10:00 BST.\n\nPolice said while paramedics attempted to save him, a man, aged 45, barricaded himself into a nearby address.\n\nAfter negotiations, a Taser was deployed and he was arrested.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said the victim and suspect were known to each other.\n\nThree hours before the death, police had attended the same location following a noise complaint and reports a smoke alarm had been activated.\n\nThe Met said a man inside the property was spoken to and officers left.\n\nDue to the previous police attendance, the Met's Directorate of Professional Standards has been informed.\n\nThe victim was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police were called to the M5 between Gloucester and Tewkesbury at about 05:20 BST\n\nA lorry driver died when he crashed into another HGV that had stopped to protect a stationary car on the M5.\n\nThe 37-year-old from Bristol died at the scene of the crash, near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, on Sunday morning.\n\nThe car driver, a 21-year-old man, was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and driving under the influence of drink and/or drugs.\n\nHe has since been released while inquiries continue.\n\nThe M5 was closed in both directions after the crash\n\nPolice were called to reports a car had lost control on the northbound carriageway between junctions 9 and 11 near Tewkesbury and Gloucester.\n\nA lorry had stopped to protect the vehicle from passing traffic and to check on the driver when another lorry crashed into it, police said.\n\nThe noise of the impact was heard several miles away by people in areas including Gotherington, Fiddington and Bishops Cleeve.\n\nFarmer Ray Knight, who lives near the M5, said he heard \"a great big bang\" at about 05:40 BST when he was feeding his cattle.\n\n\"I looked outside, didn't know what it was so carried on as normal and then a few minutes later, there was a second one.\n\n\"Ten minutes later we heard a third one [bang] and by that point you could see the black smoke and there was a glow in the sky, which I presume was a fire,\" Mr Knight said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe motorway was closed in both directions following the crash.\n\nThe southbound carriageway reopened later on Sunday, with the northbound lanes fully reopening at about 02:52 BST on Monday.\n\nPolice are appealing for witnesses and dashcam footage.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The opposition made gains in Novosibirsk and Tomsk\n\nOpposition candidates have won council seats in two Siberian cities where anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny campaigned before being poisoned.\n\nThe pro-Kremlin United Russia party lost its majorities on the city councils in Novosibirsk - Russia's third largest city - and in Tomsk.\n\nBut it has claimed a clear win overall in the local polls, seen as a big test of its popularity.\n\nMr Navalny collapsed on a flight from Tomsk on 20 August.\n\nMost results in the elections have now been counted. But there have been many reports of irregularities. The independent monitoring group Golos said observers had been obstructed by officials at some polling stations and there were reports of ballot-stuffing.\n\nVoting was spread across three days; this was defended by the organisers as necessary to curb coronavirus infections. The opposition, however, argued that the extra time made it easier for results to be fabricated.\n\nEconomic hardship, exacerbated by the pandemic, has eroded support for United Russia in opinion polls.\n\nThe party did get its candidates elected governor in most of the regions where elections took place.\n\nBut in Novosibirsk, the party dropped to 44% on the city council, with 22 seats out of 50, whereas before it had 33.\n\nSergei Boiko and four other allies of Mr Navalny won seats there, along with nine other independent candidates.\n\nHis team had been urging Russians to vote tactically against United Russia.\n\nThe Anti-Corruption Foundation had pledged support for candidates it saw as best placed to unseat incumbents of the ruling party, which it describes as the \"party of crooks and thieves\".\n\nMr Navalny's camp believes this campaign could be why he was attacked, the BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Moscow says.\n\nHis team allege he was poisoned on the orders of President Vladimir Putin - the Kremlin denies any involvement.\n\nThe German government says labs in France and Sweden have confirmed that the poison was Novichok nerve agent.\n\nHe remains in intensive care in Berlin's Charité hospital, but is no longer in a medically induced coma and he has been reacting to speech, the doctors say.\n\nThese are the first elections since controversial constitutional reforms were approved in a July referendum allowing Mr Putin to stay in power until 2036.\n\nThey are also seen as a dry run for elections to the national parliament next year.\n\nLast year, mass protests were held in the capital Moscow, following the exclusion of many opposition candidates from a local election.\n\nThe authorities were then accused of a heavy-handed response to the rallies, which saw some of more than 1,000 people arrested receive sentences of up to four years in prison.\n\nThe far-eastern city of Khabarovsk has seen regular anti-Putin rallies since July, after the arrest of a popular governor fuelled resentment against Moscow's rule.", "YouTube is facing a legal battle for allegedly breaching the privacy and data rights of under-13s in the UK.\n\nA claim lodged with the High Court against parent company Google accuses the firm of collecting children's data without parental consent.\n\nPrivacy expert Duncan McCann, who is bringing the action, argues this is a breach of UK and European (EU) law.\n\nA YouTube spokesperson said it does not comment on pending litigation and the platform is not for use by under-13s.\n\nMr McCann, a father of three children under the age of 13, believes that if the case is successful, damages of between £100 and £500 could be payable to those whose data was breached.\n\n\"When the internet first emerged, we used to be worried about how children used the internet, said Mr McCann.\n\n\"That is still a problem, but now it's a two-way street. We need to focus on how the internet is using our children, and ask ourselves if we're comfortable with them becoming a product for these digital platforms?\"\n\n\"That's the future I don't want,\" he added.\n\nHe told the BBC that the class action is the first in Europe brought against a technology firm on behalf of children. He says that estimated damages of more than £2bn are being sought for about five million British children as well as their parents or guardians.\n\nHe will argue that YouTube and Google have breached the UK's Data Protection Act and the EU's General Data Protection Regulations.\n\nThe case will focus on children who have watched YouTube since May 2018, when the new Data Protection Act became law.\n\n\"I think we're at the stage, where the only way we can move forward and hold these companies accountable is through the legal process,\" Mr McCann said.\n\nA YouTube spokesperson said: \"We don't comment on pending litigation. YouTube is not for children under the age of 13.\n\n\"We launched the YouTube Kids app as a dedicated destination for kids and have made further changes that allow us to better protect kids and families on YouTube,\" they added.\n\nThe video platform has also previously said that it does not sell its users' personal information to advertising companies.\n\nThe case is not expected before next autumn.\n\nMr McCann also told the BBC that it will also depend on the outcome of another data and privacy case being brought against Google.\n\nCampaign group Foxglove and law firm Hausfeld have also said they would support Mr McCann's case.", "Officers were called to the beach at St Andrews Castle\n\nA gathering of about 50 young people on a Fife beach sparked a police response.\n\nOfficers were called to the beach at St Andrews Castle at about 21:50 on Friday.\n\nIt is understood that the group was made up of students who were adhering to social distancing guidelines and left the area when requested.\n\nA spokeswoman for Police Scotland said: \"Officers attended, gave advice and the group dispersed.\" No fines were issued or arrests made.\n\nCurrent Scottish government coronavirus guidance limits outdoor gatherings to 15 people from five other households.\n\nHowever, restrictions are due to change on Monday when people will only be able to meet in groups of no more than six.\n\nChildren aged under 12 will not be subject to the new \"rule of six\".\n\nA spokesman for the University of St Andrews said students, local young people and visitors often held parties and barbecues on local beaches at this time of year.\n\nHe said the vast majority were observing public health guidelines, remaining in small household groups and behaving responsibly.\n\n\"This is an incredibly difficult period for students, not just in St Andrews but across the country,\" he added.\n\n\"They have experienced a year like no other, far more than their fair share of disruption, and are facing a very different university experience from the one which tradition might have liked to promise.\n\n\"It is so important that while we remain cautious and prudent, and encourage our students to observe safe behaviour, we empower and support them to show what they can do during these enormously restrictive times. \"", "Businesses in Wales face challenges preparing for a potential no-deal Brexit because of debt taken on to deal with coronavirus, according to leaders.\n\nNine out of 10 members report cashflow problems over the pandemic, says the Federation of Small Businesses Wales.\n\nIt comes as tensions in the trade talks between the UK and the EU increased this week - leading some to believe a no-deal Brexit is more likely.\n\nJoshua Miles from FSB Wales said cashflow was firms' \"main issue\".\n\n\"One in five of our members have had government backed loans, others have gone into debt, used credit cards, some borrowed money from friends and relatives, and others have used their own life savings,\" he said.\n\n\"All of that means they just haven't had the time or money to prepare for something like a no-deal Brexit.\n\n\"That's going to be a real challenge for us going forward.\n\n\"It puts us in a very vulnerable position.\"\n\nGym boss Wendy Morris said she was worried about the economic impact of a no-deal Brexit\n\nCarwyn Jones, the Labour MS for Bridgend and former first minister, said Brexit makes the UK economy particularly vulnerable.\n\n\"Every other country in the world has to deal with Covid, but the UK is the only country that has to deal with Brexit.\n\n\"It means the UK as a whole is uniquely disadvantaged.\"\n\nBridgend Conservative MP Dr Jamie Wallis said: \"A Brexit deal is still a priority for the government, however, it must centre around free trade with other EU states.\n\n\"What's important is that any deal that we strike does not sacrifice the promise we made to the British to take back control of our money, borders and laws.\n\n\"That is what the people who voted to leave the European Union expect.\"\n\nWendy Morris, who runs Energie Fitness gym in Bridgend, said she was worried about the economic impact of a no-deal Brexit but just wants the government to \"get on with it\".\n\n\"I think quite honestly that any kind of deal, including a no-deal is better than the state of flux we're in at the moment,\" she said.\n\n\"We need certainty. It impacts on everybody and I'm concerned that because of coronavirus the government is looking in two different directions.\"\n\nViews are mixed among her clients.\n\nLisa Driscoll said: \"I know Brexit's coming but I think we should focus on coronavirus.\"\n\nDaniel Bayliss said: \"If, hopefully, we can get coronavirus under control, get some kind of certainty on the negotiations for Brexit, then things can start to look a bit more hopeful.\n\n\"At the moment I don't think many people feel hopeful.\"", "The Trades Union Congress made a direct appeal to the chancellor on Monday\n\nThe TUC's leader is asking for government action to avert \"mass unemployment\" amid the pandemic.\n\nTrades Union Congress general secretary Frances O'Grady has told its annual meeting the chancellor must \"stand by working families\" as the furlough scheme nears its end.\n\nShe said: \"If the government doesn't act, we face a tsunami of job losses.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said supporting jobs was \"an absolute priority\".\n\nUnder the government's furlough scheme, workers placed on leave have been able to receive 80% of their pay, up to a maximum of £2,500 a month.\n\nTake-up has been significant, with 9.6 million workers furloughed since March.\n\nThe scheme is due to finish at the end of October and Chancellor Rishi Sunak has repeatedly ruled out an extension to it.\n\nSpeaking at the trade union body's congress in London on Monday, Ms O'Grady said time is running out to prevent huge job losses as the job retention scheme (JRS) comes to a close: \"Millions of livelihoods were saved [by the scheme] - both employees and the self-employed. From this Thursday, it will be just 45 days before the JRS ends.\n\n\"That's the notice period that companies have to give if they intend to make mass redundancies.\n\nThe TUC also called for a new \"job protection and skills deal\"\n\n\"Rishi Sunak, stand by working families - don't walk away. It's so much better to keep people working, paying their taxes, spending and helping to rebuild the economy.\"\n\nThe trade unions body is also calling for a new \"job protection and skills deal\", which would include mandatory training and \"up-skilling\" for workers placed on furlough, for example.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Supporting jobs is an absolute priority which is why we've set out a comprehensive 'Plan for Jobs' to protect, create and support jobs across the UK by providing significant, targeted support where it is needed the most.\n\n\"We are continuing to support livelihoods and incomes through our £2bn Kickstart scheme, creating incentives for training and apprenticeships, a £1,000 retention bonus for businesses that can bring furloughed employees back to work, and doubling the number of frontline work coaches to help people find work.\n\n\"We are also supporting and protecting jobs in the tourism and hospitality sectors through our VAT cut and last month's Eat Out to Help Out scheme.\"", "Taoiseach (Irish PM) Micheál Martin has cautioned against \"playing politics\" with the Brexit negotiations\n\nTaoiseach (Irish PM) Micheál Martin has said the UK should expect a \"firm and strong\" response from the EU to the proposed Internal Markets Bill.\n\nSpeaking on Sunday, Mr Martin also cautioned against \"playing politics\" with negotiations.\n\nThe proposed bill would go against the Withdrawal Agreement, signed by the UK and EU earlier this year.\n\nMr Martin also stated categorically there would be \"no return of a hard border\" on the island of Ireland.\n\nDuring the week, Boris Johnson said part of the reason for the Internal Markets Bill was to protect the Good Friday Agreement and Northern Ireland peace process.\n\n\"There's a very firm and strong view emanating from Brussels in how to manage and deal with this,\" said Mr Martin, speaking to Irish broadcaster RTÉ's Week in Politics programme.\n\n\"Whatever ploy or strategic approach is intended for the UK side, will be met with a very measured, firm and strong response from the European Union side,\" he said.\n\nHe described the way the proposed law had been introduced as \"no way to do business\".\n\nSpeaking earlier in the week, Mr Martin said he was not optimistic of a Brexit deal in light of the UK proposal to override parts of the Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nHis comments followed earlier remarks by Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney, who said said the UK government was behaving in an \"extraordinary way\" over Brexit.\n\nDespite this, Mr Coveney said a free trade deal was still a possibility.\n\nSpeaking to BBC's Andrew Marr programme, he suggested it would be difficult for trade talks between the two sides to continue if the Internal Markets Bill passes through parliament.\n\n\"How then can the EU proceed with these negotiations, and put a new agreement in place, which will be the basis for a new relationship, if existing agreements, which aren't even a year old, are being legislated against?\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Simon Coveney: \"The reputation of the UK... is being damaged in a very serious way\"\n\nBoris Johnson has said the European Union is threatening to impose a customs border in the Irish Sea, separating Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK.\n\nMr Coveney rejected the suggestion that the EU's position on having a customs border between Northern Ireland and Britain had hardened after the agreement was signed, calling this a \"completely bogus argument\".\n\nPrime Minister Johnson has said an agreement on trade must be done by 15 October, to be ready in time for the conclusion of the transition period at the end of this year.\n\n\"In my view it is possible to get a trade agreement, it will probably be a basic, pretty thin trade agreement, but it is possible to do that,\" said Mr Coveney.\n\nPeople protesting between Newry and Dundalk about a possible hard border, in March 2019\n\nOn Sunday there was further local and international reaction.\n\nAlliance MP Stephen Farry said the UK's admission it could breach international law was \"completely outrageous\" and that the proposed legislation could be damaging to Northern Ireland.\n\nSinn Féin MLA Caoimhe Archibald said the British government was \"acting in bad faith and shows clear intent to disregard the protocol in the withdrawal agreement\".\n\nThe EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, said the EU could not have been \"clearer\" when the two sides agreed the Brexit withdrawal agreement last year what the implications would be for Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.\n\nResponding to Mr Barnier's comments, the UK's chief Brexit negotiator, David Frost, tweeted: \"On the Protocol, we indeed negotiated a careful balance in order to preserve peace and the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement.\n\n\"It is precisely to ensure this balance can be preserved in all circumstances that the government needs powers in reserve to avoid it being disrupted.\"\n\nEarlier on Sunday, former Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Sir John Major urged Parliament to reject Boris Johnson's attempt to override parts of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Times, Sir John and Mr Blair - former Conservative and Labour prime ministers respectively - said the government's actions were \"irresponsible, wrong in principle and dangerous in practice\"\n\nThe DUP's East Antrim MP Sammy Wilson dismissed their claims as \"nonsense\", but said his party will table amendments to the Internal Markets Bill.\n\n\"The Internal Market Bill as published is not the finished product but it is a massive step forward for business in Northern Ireland,\" he added.\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken described the Irish government and EU concerns as \"self-serving hypocrisy\".\n\nHe said they were \"content to raise the spectre of a land border as anti-Belfast Agreement, whilst at the same time ignoring the anti-agreement reality of an Irish Sea Border\".", "Lewis Hamilton took his 90th career victory by beating Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas in a chaotic, incident-strewn Tuscan Grand Prix.\n\nThe race was punctuated by two red flags, the first caused by a pile-up on the pit straight, the second by a high-speed crash for Lance Stroll.\n\nIn one of the most dramatic races for years, six cars had retired before a lap of racing had completed.\n\nRed Bull's Thai-British driver Alex Albon took a maiden podium in third.\n\nHamilton's win was his sixth in nine races this season and, coupled with a fastest lap secured on the penultimate tour, it extended his championship lead to 55 points as the season passes halfway, and puts him just one behind Michael Schumacher's all-time record of wins.\n\nAt the pre-race anti-racism demonstration, as he did his post-race interviews, and on the podium, Hamilton wore a T-shirt saying: \"Arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor.\"\n\nIt refers to one of a number of controversial cases in the US in which police officers have shot and killed black civilians.\n• None 'Today was not particularly safe' - Hamilton critical of F1's re-start approach\n• None Hamilton steps up anti-racism protests with 'Say her name' T-shirt\n\nAmid the sequence of incidents and crashes, the victory hinged on three standing starts between the Mercedes drivers.\n\nIn the first, Hamilton got away poorly from pole position and lost the lead to Bottas, but racing lasted only three corners because of a crash between Kimi Raikkonen's Alfa Romeo, Alpha Tauri's Pierre Gasly and Haas driver Romain Grosjean.\n\nThe incident also took out Red Bull's Max Verstappen, who had been struck by engine problems as he accelerated away from third on the grid.\n\nThat led to a safety car, and at the restart, as Bottas bunched up the field down the pit straight, there was a massive crash towards the back of the field.\n\nHaas' Kevin Magnussen accelerated and then slowed, he said because of cars doing the same in front of him. Williams driver Nicholas Latifi swerved to avoid him and Alfa Romeo's Antonio Giovinazzi then cannoned into Magnussen.\n\nMcLaren's Carlos Sainz then hit the back of the cars of both Giovinazzi and Magnussen, pitching the Alfa 90 degrees into the air before it came down on all four wheels.\n\nHow Hamilton got the lead\n\nAt the restart, the positions of the Mercedes drivers was reversed. Hamilton drafted Bottas down to Turn One and took the lead around the outside, controlling the race from there.\n\nThe Mercedes drivers disappeared off into the distance and appeared untroubled, but Bottas developed problems with excessive wear of his front tyres and began to drop dramatically away from Hamilton.\n\nBottas had to pit earlier than expected for fresh tyres. Hamilton followed him in next time around and the two drivers were instructed to stay off the kerbs to protect their tyres.\n\nThe race appeared done, but that was counting without another development.\n\nRacing Point's Stroll was in the middle of a three-way fight for third with Renault's Daniel Ricciardo in front and Albon behind when his left rear tyre exploded as he entered the second of the two 170mph Arrabbiata corners.\n\nThat led to a second red flag, to repair the barrier.\n\nThe final part of the race\n\nAt the restart, with just 12 laps remaining, Bottas again got away slowly and lost second place to Ricciardo.\n\nBut the Finn was able to pass the Renault next time around and secure second place.\n\nThat left Ricciardo defending from Albon for third, which would have been the first podium for Renault since they returned to the sport in 2016.\n\nBut Albon had too much pace in the Red Bull and passed the Renault with a lovely move around the outside of the first corner with three laps to go to take his maiden F1 podium.\n\nAlbon made hard work of the result. Starting fourth, he dropped back to seventh at the second start and had to fight his way back up, which he did with some excellent passes.\n\nRicciardo took fourth, ahead of Racing Point's Sergio Perez and McLaren's Lando Norris.\n\nWilliams driver George Russell just missed out on his first points, finishing 11th, behind Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel.\n\nFerrari had a difficult day as they celebrated their 1,000th F1 Grand Prix. Charles Leclerc was running third early on, but dropped down the field, lacking pace and straight-line speed and finished eighth.\n\nA welcome two-week break after nine races in 11 weeks before the Russian Grand Prix, where Hamilton can equal a record some felt might never be broken - Schumacher's haul of 91 victories.\n\nWhat they said\n\nLewis Hamilton: \"It was all a bit of daze. It was like three races in one day. Just incredibly tough today. This track is phenomenal and the heat and keeping Valtteri behind was not easy. All those restarts total focus was needed. It was really, really hard. Valtteri appeared out of nowhere when I saw Danny was behind. I didn't want him to have DRS. My heart is racing. It is crazy to be here and to have 90 grands prix wins.\"\n\nValtteri Bottas: \"Disappointing. It was a dream start for me. The start was really good and I managed to hold my position at the safety car restart. It seemed like there was never an opportunity once I lost the position at the second start. That is how it goes. I will just keep pushing and keep trying to get better. It has to turn out well for me at some point.\"\n\nAlex Albon: \"It was good obviously it is a while to get here but it was a tough one. I had to work for it. I am happy. I can breathe. It is nice to be here. It was brutal, especially the high-speed in sector two. It is more adrenaline going in my body than anything else. I am happy.\"\n• None Nine interesting facts about the famous chef", "Drivers who kill others after speeding, racing or using a phone could receive life sentences under new legislation.\n\nThose who cause death by careless driving under the influence of drink or drugs could also get a life sentence.\n\nThe current maximum sentence for each crime is 14 years.\n\nThe sentencing reforms announced this week will be introduced in Parliament early next year. A new offence of causing serious injury by careless driving is also being proposed.\n\nCurrently, without that specific offence, drivers who cause injuries under such circumstances can only be convicted of careless driving - which has the maximum penalty of a fine.\n\nThe proposed law change was first announced in 2017, with Monday's announcement setting a timescale for when the legislation would come into force.\n\nThe increase will apply to offences in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, which has separate road safety laws.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland - also the Lord Chancellor - said: \"This government has been clear that punishments must fit the crime, but too often families tell us this isn't the case with killer drivers.\n\n\"So, today I am announcing that we will bring forward legislation early next year to introduce life sentences for dangerous drivers who kill on our roads, and ensure they feel the full force of the law.\"\n\nThe new legislation forms part of major sentencing reforms being announced in a White Paper this week.\n\nTeenagers convicted of murder in England and Wales could also receive whole-life terms under the proposals. This order means the criminal is kept in prison for the rest of their life without ever becoming eligible for parole.\n\nWith a life sentence, a prisoner is given a number of years they must spend in jail after which they will be eligible to apply for parole.\n\nLast year, 174 people were sentenced for causing death by dangerous driving\n\nA consultation carried out in 2016 gave support for the new driving offence measures from victims, road safety campaigners and people who had lost loved ones.\n\nOf the 9,000 who responded, 90% thought there should be a new offence of causing serious injury by careless driving.\n\nIn addition, 70% of those who responded agreed the maximum penalty for causing death by dangerous driving should be increased to life imprisonment.\n\nLast year, 174 people were sentenced for causing death by dangerous driving, and another 19 for causing death by careless driving while under the influence.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLeeds United made a dramatic return to the Premier League after a 16-year absence as they produced a magnificent display only to lose to a late penalty in a thriller against champions Liverpool at Anfield.\n\nLiverpool, back in action after winning their first title in 30 years, led three times but were pegged back on each occasion by Marcelo Bielsa's fearless side before this superb match was settled by hat-trick hero Mohamed Salah's spot-kick.\n\nLeeds looked to be leaving Anfield with a fully deserved point only for new £30m striker Rodrigo, on as a substitute, to produce a shocking challenge on Fabinho in the 88th minute, leaving Salah to give Liverpool victory after a serious scare.\n\nSalah made it a nightmare start for last season's Championship winners when he drilled home a penalty in the fourth minute after his shot was handled by another Leeds new boy, Germany defender Robin Koch.\n\nLeeds produced the perfect response as Jack Harrison drilled a low right-foot shot past Alisson only for poor defending to allow Virgil van Dijk to restore Liverpool's advantage as he headed in Andy Robertson's corner.\n\nVan Dijk was badly at fault when he gifted Patrick Bamford Leeds' second before a searing strike from Salah completed the scoring in a chaotic first half.\n\nIn a game which also contained four disallowed goals, Leeds were not to be brushed aside and were level again after 66 minutes when a perfect first touch and volley from Mateusz Klich flashed past Alisson.\n\nMan of the match Salah had the final word, however, after that reckless late challenge from Rodrigo.\n• None How you rated the players\n\nThe presence of manager Bielsa alone will add to the theatre of the Premier League and his vibrant, attacking Leeds United side already promise to decorate the top flight.\n\nLeeds could have feared the worst when Liverpool capped a rampant opening spell by scoring from the spot even before the visitors had secured possession in the opposition half.\n\nNot a bit of it.\n\nLeeds got on the ball, were bursting with energy and attacked Liverpool every time they had the chance, playing with confidence and self-belief.\n\nThree times they went behind but not for one moment did their heads drop or was their positive intent diminished, as proved by the manner in which they fought their way back into the game.\n\nThe final injury was cruel but self-inflicted, Rodrigo's ludicrous challenge on Fabinho drawing the inevitable penalty that cost Leeds a point.\n\nThere was so much to admire about Leeds in an attacking sense but there is also an air of naivety which they must address otherwise plenty of teams will fancy scoring goals against them.\n\nLeeds conceded two penalties and from two set-pieces, although Salah scored a quite brilliant volley when they failed to clear a free-kick.\n\nBielsa and Leeds have created a hugely positive impression from what was arguably the toughest test of all, away to the champions on the opening day.\n\nIn the end, however, they had only Rodrigo to blame for giving Liverpool the chance to gratefully snatch victory.\n\nLiverpool got the job done courtesy of Salah's late penalty but this was an uncharacteristically sloppy display from the champions that relied on that Rodrigo challenge to get three points.\n\nSalah was in imperious mood up front but elsewhere Leeds were able to hurry Liverpool out of their stride and run through their midfield in a manner which would have disturbed manager Jurgen Klopp.\n\nLiverpool were also occasionally shambolic at the back, cut open far too easily with even the normally unflustered Van Dijk knocked out of his stride, committing an awful error for Leeds' second goal, while Trent Alexander-Arnold had a game he will want to forget.\n\nAlexander-Arnold was rescued by the offside flag when he bizarrely headed Harrison's lob into his own net and he will lead Liverpool's relief at getting three points.\n\nIn attack, though, Liverpool have players such as Salah who can rescue them from any hazardous situation and so it proved again here.\n\nUp and down for Van Dijk - all the stats\n• None Liverpool extended their unbeaten home league run to 60 games (W49 D11) - only the third run of 60-plus unbeaten home games by a side in the English top flight, after Chelsea's run of 86 ending in October 2008 and Liverpool's run of 63 ending in December 1980.\n• None This was only the second Premier League game played on the opening matchday of a season to see five goals scored before half-time, after Manchester United 5-1 Fulham in August 2006 (4-1 at half-time).\n• None Liverpool have conceded three or more goals in back-to-back home league games for the first time since September 1982.\n• None Liverpool have now won the past 35 Premier League games in which Mohamed Salah has scored - he has now overtaken Wayne Rooney's competition record of 34 consecutive wins when scoring from September 2008 to February 2011.\n• None Virgil van Dijk scored his 10th Premier League goal for Liverpool - more than any other centre-back in the competition since his club debut in January 2018. His past nine such goals have been headed.\n• None Van Dijk has made two errors leading directly to a goal in his past four Premier League games, more than he registered in his first 154 appearances.\n• None Jack Harrison, Patrick Bamford and Mateusz Klich were the first players to score on their Premier League debut for Leeds United since Nick Barmby in August 2002 against Manchester City, and the first to do so in an away game since Alan Smith in November 1998 - which was also at Anfield against Liverpool.\n\nLiverpool have a full week to prepare for their next game at Chelsea in the Premier League on Sunday, 20 September (16:30 BST), while Leeds are in Carabao Cup second-round action at home to Hull on Wednesday (19:45).\n• None Attempt blocked. Robin Koch (Leeds United) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kalvin Phillips with a cross.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 4, Leeds United 3. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom left corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Rodrigo Moreno (Leeds United) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt blocked. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sadio Mané.\n• None Attempt blocked. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Curtis Jones.\n• None Attempt blocked. Georginio Wijnaldum (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mohamed Salah.\n• None Attempt missed. Kalvin Phillips (Leeds United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left from a direct free kick. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Nine interesting facts about the famous chef", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic on Sunday. We'll have another update for you on Monday morning.\n\nNearly a third of people in Wales should be working at or near home, even when coronavirus restrictions have eased, the Welsh Government has said. The move could reduce congestion and pollution, and improve work-life balance, ministers suggested. If you do have to return to the office, find out what your boss has to do to keep you safe.\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic is creating an \"enormous strain\" on relationships, an advice charity has warned, with family lawyers predicting a \"post-lockdown divorce boom\". Citizens Advice said views on its divorce webpage on the first weekend of September were up 25% compared with the same date in 2019.\n\nA pared-down version of the BBC Symphony Orchestra played to an empty Royal Albert Hall on Saturday for The Last Night of the Proms. The 2020 Proms season was drastically curtailed by the coronavirus epidemic, with the usual six-week season cut down to a fortnight of live shows, performed without an audience.\n\nAlthough the official Great North Run event had to be cancelled this year, almost 17,000 people will be taking part virtually across 57 countries and six continents, organisers have said.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page. With the UK's travel rules frequently changing, here's a reminder of which countries are on the UK's various quarantine lists.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The temple would have been a \"major landmark in the region\", according to archaeologist Will Bowden\n\nA dig has revealed \"one of the largest\" temple buildings in Roman Britain.\n\nThe 2nd Century temple site at Caistor St Edmund, near Norwich, has been known about since 1957, but its true scale has only just emerged.\n\nIt was built by the Iceni tribe, best known for their leader Boudicca who rebelled against the Romans in AD61.\n\nArchaeologist Prof Will Bowden said its size, 20m by 20m (65ft by 65ft), showed \"how important this cult was to the Iceni\".\n\nThe depth of the foundations indicates a substantial masonry building up to 15m (49ft) high\n\nThe community archaeology group Caistor Roman Project spent three weeks at the temple site in 2019, working in partnership with the University of Nottingham.\n\nProf Bowden, the project director, said the post-excavation process had since been completed and this \"confirmed that we were looking at a building that was exceptional\".\n\nHe said it was \"one of the largest of its type in Roman Britain\" which \"indicates not only the importance with which the site was regarded but also that the Iceni had the resources to construct major public buildings should they choose to\".\n\nIt has remained unknown which gods were worshipped there. Evidence of the worship of Roman gods has been found but the Iceni could have also dedicated the temple to a local deity, as happened at Bath.\n\nThe 2nd Century building, which was built on the site of an earlier Romano-Celtic temple, was surrounded by a precinct with two gates\n\nBoudicca led her Iceni tribe in a revolt against the Romans between AD60 and AD61\n\nCaistor was the site of Venta Icenorum, the smallest Roman regional capital in Britain.\n\nIts forum - the main public building - was less than a quarter of the size of Verulamium, now known as St Albans.\n\nHistorians saw its small scale as a sign of the Iceni's impoverishment after Queen Boudicca led the Iceni tribe against the Romans.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police described video of the incident which shows a figure approach the officers' car, before opening fire\n\nTwo Los Angeles police officers are recovering in hospital after being shot in what police are calling an ambush.\n\nVideo of the incident shows a figure approach the officers' vehicle, before opening fire and running away.\n\nLos Angeles Sheriff Alex Villanueva called the act \"cowardly\". The suspect remains at large.\n\nThe Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has announced a $100,000 (£78,000) reward for any information leading to the gunman's arrest.\n\nAlmost 40 US police officers were killed in the line of duty in 2020, FBI statistics show - eight of them were victims of an ambush.\n\nProtesters shouted anti-police slogans and blocked the entrance to the emergency room where the two officers were being treated, police and witnesses said.\n\nTwo people were arrested, including a journalist who police said tried to interfere with the arrest of the other detainee and did not identify herself as a member of the press.\n\nThe reporter, Josie Huang, tweeted she had \"thoughts and videos\" to share, while her employer, NPR, said they were \"appalled\" by her arrest.\n\nThe officers involved in the shooting have not been named but were described as a 31-year-old woman and a 24-year-old man.\n\nThe female officer was shot in the jaw and arms and was in a critical but stable condition after undergoing surgery, authorities said on Sunday. The male officer was hit in the forehead, an arm and a hand and was described as alert, ABC News reported.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Alex Villanueva This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"This is just a sombre reminder that this is a dangerous job. Actions, words have consequences and our job does not get easier because people don't like law enforcement,\" Sheriff Villanueva said.\n\nBoth candidates in this year's presidential election weighed in on the shooting.\n\nSharing the footage of the incident, US President Donald Trump, tweeted: \"Animals that must be hit hard.\"\n\nHis Democratic rival, Joe Biden, said he was praying the officers recover.\n\n\"This cold-blooded shooting is unconscionable and the perpetrator must be brought to justice,\" he tweeted. \"Violence of any kind is wrong; those who commit it should be caught and punished.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Man Utd\n\nManchester United forward Mason Greenwood says it was \"poor judgement\" to inhale nitrous oxide, after \"historical pictures\" of him doing so were published by the Sun.\n\nIt comes after Greenwood and Manchester City's Phil Foden were sent home from England duty on Monday for breaching coronavirus quarantine guidelines.\n\n\"I strongly urge others not to follow my example,\" said Greenwood, 18.\n\nNitrous oxide is also known as laughing gas or 'hippy crack'.\n\nIn a statement, Greenwood said: \"I have now been made aware of the health risks associated with this practice and accept that even trying it, as shown in these historical pictures, was poor judgement on my part.\n\n\"As an 18-year-old, I am learning all the time. However, this week I have also learned I will be judged to a higher standard because of my career as a footballer and I must respect that in future.\n\n\"I am determined to repay the faith shown in me by my manager and coaches.\"\n\nSold legally, nitrous oxide is used for medical and commercial uses. While it is not illegal to possess the substance, it is illegal to give away or sell as a psychoactive drug.\n\nNitrous oxide slows down the brain and the body's responses, giving users a feeling of euphoria and can cause hallucinations, but it can also lead to headaches, dizziness and paranoia.\n\nHowever, large doses can starve the body and brain of oxygen, according to UK government drug advice service Frank.\n\nGreenwood made his senior international debut in the 1-0 Nations League victory over Iceland in Reykyavik on 5 September.\n\nHis call-up followed a breakout season under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer at United, in which he scored 17 goals.\n\nGreenwood said he \"only has himself to blame\" after being dropped from Gareth Southgate's England squad over the incident in Iceland.\n\nHe is now back at United and training on his own, in accordance with Covid-19 protocols.\n• None Nine interesting facts about the famous chef", "Food firms have written to the government asking for support as a stand-off with landlords looms over rent holidays.\n\nCompanies such as Deliveroo called for a targeted extension of the commercial evictions ban, which was introduced at the height of the pandemic.\n\nRevo, which represents landlords, said well-known firms were \"getting away with not paying their rent\".\n\nThe government said it was \"working closely\" with landlords and tenants.\n\nIn April the government introduced a moratorium on evictions for non-payment of rent, which was then extended until 30 September.\n\nIn a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, chief executives of these firms called for a targeted extension of the rent holiday for restaurants in city centres and for those in areas under lockdown.\n\n\"There is a critical risk that many restaurants will face eviction proceedings from 1 October,\" the signatories said.\n\nThe bosses, including Will Shu of Deliveroo, Alasdair Murdoch, the UK chief executive of Burger King, and Julian Metcalfe of Itsu, also said landlords should not be able to claim full back-rent when the moratorium ends.\n\nInstead, rent arrears repayments should be spread across 12 months, they said.\n\nWill Shu of Deliveroo was one of the signatories of the letter\n\n\"From our experiences of negotiations with landlords, around 30% have indicated their intention to evict, issue final demands for full payment, or otherwise indicated they will not support any restructure of Covid-19-incurred rent debt,\" the signatories said.\n\nIn addition, they asked for tax breaks for empty properties to be changed to discourage evictions.\n\nBut Revo, an industry body for commercial landlords, said: \"The blanket moratorium means strongly backed, well known High Street companies are getting away with not paying their rent.\"\n\nVivienne King, chief executive of Revo, said that \"this is at the cost of vulnerable occupiers, since the revenue shortfall makes it that much harder for property owners to support those occupiers in genuine need.\"\n\nShe added that any extensions to rent holidays should not be funded by the private sector.\n\n\"The moratoria were meant to be short-term, emergency measures to protect businesses at a time when they could not trade. They too have served their purpose,\" she said.\n\nWho should foot the rent bill during the pandemic is a Mexican stand-off between the businesses who are struggling and their landlords who've got bills to pay, including mortgage payments to their banks.\n\nWill Shu - the founder and chief executive of Deliveroo, which delivers food from 35,000 UK restaurants - says the pandemic means restaurants and landlords are \"in it together\" and that \"landlords understand that without these tenants it's a very different situation on the High Street\".\n\nRent negotiations are incredibly complex, especially for restaurant chains with multiple outlets and thus multiple landlords.\n\nThis is because landlords come in all shapes and sizes, from the big funds which use property to pay our pensions to individuals who rely on the rental income.\n\nLandlords argue that without the stick of eviction, tenants have a free pass to not pay up, even when they can, and that changing the rules in this way undermines the UK's reputation as a safe place to invest.\n\nAs the next quarter's rent bill looms and the eviction ban expires at the end of this month, this debate is a ticking time bomb.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We recognise the huge challenges faced by commercial tenants and landlords during this period and we're working closely with them to ensure they are supported.\n\n\"We've taken unprecedented action to protect jobs and livelihoods, with a package of around £160bn of support, including loans, rates relief and grants for businesses.\"\n\nSome landlords and commercial tenants have managed to come to agreements, and tenants should pay what they can under a government code of practice.\n\nGovernment loans are available to landlords along with VAT and rates deferrals, the spokesperson added.", "UK-based computer chip designer ARM Holdings is being sold to the American graphics chip specialist Nvidia.\n\nThe deal values ARM at $40bn (£31.2bn), four years after it was bought by Japanese conglomerate Softbank for $32bn.\n\nARM's technology is at the heart of most smartphones, among many other devices.\n\nNvidia has promised to keep the business based in the UK, to hire more staff, and to retain ARM's brand.\n\nIt added that the deal would create \"the premier computing company for the age of artificial intelligence\" (AI).\n\n\"ARM will remain headquartered in Cambridge,\" said Nvidia's chief executive Jensen Huang.\n\n\"We will expand on this great site and build a world-class AI research facility, supporting developments in healthcare, life sciences, robotics, self-driving cars and other fields.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Nvidia chief explains why he wants to buy ARM\n\nA number of business leaders have signed an open letter calling on the Prime Minister to stop the merger.\n\nA senior government source told the BBC that it would not block the sale, but said conditions could be imposed on the takeover.\n\nSoftbank made commitments to secure jobs and keep ARM's headquarters in the UK until September next year.\n\n\"So far, when you read the announcement coming from Nvidia they said they will honour that Softbank has made at the time,\" said Sonja Laud, chief investment officer at Legal & General Investment Management.\n\n\"But with the expiry about to happen and obviously the Brexit negotiations under way it will be very interesting to see how this develops in the future.\"\n\nThis appears to address concerns that British jobs would be lost and decision-making shifted to the US. Last week, the Labour Party had urged the government to intervene.\n\nBut two of ARM's co-founders have raised other issues about the takeover.\n\nHermann Hauser and Tudor Brown had suggested ARM should remain \"neutral\", rather than be owned by a company like Nvidia, which produces its own processors.\n\nThe concern is that there would be a conflict of interest since ARM's clients would become dependent on a business with which many also compete for sales.\n\nMoreover, the two co-founders also claimed that once ARM was owned by an American firm, Washington could try to block Chinese companies from using its knowhow as part of a wider trade clash between the countries.\n\nHermann Hauser (left) and Tudor Brown (right) have warned the takeover would have negative consequences\n\n\"If ARM becomes a US subsidiary of a US company, it falls under the Cfius [Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States] regulations,\" Mr Hauser told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"[That] means that if hundreds of UK companies that incorporate ARM's [technology] in their products, want to sell it, and export it to anywhere in the world including China - which is a major market - the decision on whether they will be allowed to export it will be made in the White House and not in Downing Street.\"\n\nHe added that he believed the pledge to retain and increase the number of UK jobs was \"meaningless\" unless UK ministers stepped in to make it legally enforceable.\n\nBut ARM's chief executive played down the threat of export bans.\n\n\"It isn't to do with the ownership of the company, it's all to do with analysis of the product itself,\" Simon Segars told the BBC.\n\n\"The majority of our products are designed in the UK or outside the US, and the majority of our products don't fall under much of the US export control set of rules.\"\n\nMr Huang added that ARM had \"some of the finest computer scientists in the world\" in Cambridge and he intended to both retain them and attract others to what would become Nvidia's largest site in Europe.\n\nThe UK prime minister's spokesman said \"ministers have spoken to both companies\", adding that the government would be scrutinising the deal \"including what it means for the Cambridge HQ\".\n\nARM creates computer chip designs that others then customise to their own ends. It also develops instruction sets, which define how software controls processors.\n\nIt is based in Cambridge but also has offices across the world, including a joint venture in Shenzhen, China.\n\nHundreds of companies license its innovations including Apple, Samsung, Huawei and Qualcomm. To date, ARM says 180 billion chips have been made based on its solutions.\n\nWhen Softbank acquired ARM, it promised to keep the company's headquarters in the UK and to increase the number of local jobs, which it did.\n\nSoftbank's founder Masayoshi Son described the firm as being a \"crystal ball\" that would help him predict where tech was heading. But losses on other investments, including the office rental company WeWork, prompted a rethink.\n\nCalifornia-headquartered Nvidia overtook Intel to become the world's most valuable chipmaker in July.\n\nUntil now, it has specialised in high-end graphics processing units (GPUs). These are commonly used by gamers to deliver more detailed visuals, as well as by professionals for tasks including scientific research, machine learning, and cryptocurrency \"mining\".\n\nNvidia is also one of ARM's clients, using its designs to create its line-up of Tegra central processing units (CPUs).\n\nUnder the terms of the deal, Nvidia will pay Softbank $21.5bn in its own stock and $12bn in cash. It will follow with up to a further $5bn in cash or stock if certain targets are met.\n\nNvidia will also issue $1.5bn in equity to ARM's employees.\n\nMr Huang has already said that one of the changes he wants to make is to accelerate development of ARM's designs for CPUs used in computer servers - a rapidly growing sector.\n\nAmazon is among companies that are already betting on the tech.\n\nThe use of internet-based services has led to ever-growing demand for computer servers\n\nBut experts say one risk Nvidia faces is that the takeover could encourage ARM's wider client list to shift focus to a rival type of chip technology, which lags behind in terms of adoption but has the benefit of not being controlled by one company.\n\n\"ARM is facing growing competition from RISC-V, an open-source architecture,\" wrote CCS Insight's Geoff Blaber in a recent research note.\n\n\"If its partners believed that ARM's integrity and independence was compromised, it would accelerate the growth of RISC-V and in the process devalue ARM.\"\n\nMr Blaber also suggested regulators might block the deal.\n\n\"This process will take months if not years with a high chance of failure,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMr Huang has said that he expects it to take more than a year to \"educate\" regulators and answer all their questions, but said he had \"every confidence\" they would ultimately approve the investment.\n\nIt's a deal which the man who founded ARM says is a disaster.\n\nAnd many in the UK's technology industry will agree with Hermann Hauser.\n\nHe opposed the 2016 sale of the chip designer to Softbank but accepted that the Japanese firm stood by its guarantees to boost employment and research in Cambridge.\n\nBut a takeover by Nvidia, one of the many firms that licences ARM's designs, appears to pose a threat to its business model - why will its hundreds of other customers now have faith that they will have equal access to its technology?\n\nIn recent days leading figures in the Cambridge technology sector have lobbied Downing Street, calling for ministers to intervene to bring ARM back under UK ownership. There have been signs that the government is considering a more active industrial policy.\n\nDominic Cummings, who has talked of the need for the UK to have a trillion dollar tech company, is leading the drive for a more interventionist approach.\n\nNow, with Hermann Hauser and others warning that this deal will make Britain a US vassal state, the government is under pressure to step in and ensure that control over vital home-grown technology is not lost to a foreign power.", "World champions England claimed an astonishing 24-run victory as Australia crumbled in the second one-day international at Emirates Old Trafford.\n\nChasing 232 to win the series, Australia were cruising at 144-2 before Chris Woakes and Jofra Archer induced a collapse of four wickets for three runs in 21 balls.\n\nA reeling Australia lost their final eight wickets for 63 runs as they were bowled out for 207, despite a valiant last-wicket partnership of 31 between Alex Carey and Josh Hazlewood.\n\nEngland earlier collapsed to 149-8, with leg-spinner Adam Zampa taking 3-36 before Adil Rashid and Tom Curran pushed them to 231-9.\n• None 'We've got the belief we can win from any position'\n\nCaptain Eoin Morgan said he wanted his side to learn how to \"win ugly\" and will be pleased with how they dragged themselves back into the game.\n\nArcher was as hostile as he has been for England, disrupting the opening batsmen first up before returning to the attack with Woakes and triggering a collapse.\n\nAs good as England were, this was an almost unbelievable collapse from Australia, who gifted wickets with poor shots, no foot movement and a generally bewildered air.\n\nEngland now have a chance to keep their five-year unbeaten run in home one-day series in the final match of the series at the same ground on Wednesday.\n\nWhen Archer and Woakes returned to the attack, with Marnus Labuschagne and Aaron Finch sharing a 107-run stand, it felt like the game was over.\n\nHowever, the two stifled the run-rate before Woakes trapped Labuschagne lbw, and six balls later Mitchell Marsh chopped Archer on to his stumps.\n\nWhen captain Finch, who had led the way with 73, was bowled by Woakes in the next over, England upped their intensity, and it paid off as Glenn Maxwell played a wild slog and was bowled.\n\nIt was the speed with which the collapse happened that was so surprising, with Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc falling to consecutive Sam Curran deliveries as the left-armer used all his variations.\n\nAustralia had this match within their grasp and, for the second time on this tour, they let it slip.\n\nAustralia created their own downfall, as the partnership between Finch and Labuschagne had highlighted England's struggle to take middle-order wickets - a skill that Liam Plunkett led the way in for so long.\n\nRashid could not find the right length on a pitch that offered some turn, while the Curran brothers, replacing Moeen Ali and Mark Wood, could not make the breakthrough.\n\nFinch and Labuschagne countered a tricky pitch with aggression and calm running, although Finch was dropped on 58 by Rashid in his follow-through.\n\nBut Australia twice had the chance to close this match out, the first coming with the ball when they failed to clean up England's tail, and secondly as they cruised past the halfway stage with the bat.\n\nThey will hope that Steve Smith, who again missed this match as a precaution following a blow to the head in the nets on Friday, will return to offer some stability to a slightly fragile line-up.\n\nThis was a far from vintage performance with the bat by England, who were suffocated by Australia's bowlers.\n\nRoot epitomised the struggles. He was hit three times by the pace bowlers - at one point requiring treatment after a blow to the knee from Starc - and in his desperation to rotate the strike, ran out Jason Roy via a superb throw from Marcus Stoinis at cover.\n\nDespite looking uncomfortable, Root and Morgan guided England to 90-2, Root just beginning to cut loose with back-to-back boundaries before he edged Zampa to slip in his first over.\n\nWith the run-rate going nowhere, wickets fell regularly. Jos Buttler was trapped lbw by Pat Cummins, Morgan fell in similar fashion to Zampa, Sam Billings chopped the leg-spinner on to his stumps and Sam Curran edged Starc behind.\n\nChris Woakes played a handy cameo but it was Rashid and Tom Curran who helped England finish strongly.\n\nThe final six overs went for 67 runs, including 18 off the otherwise excellent Cummins. Rashid slapped Cummins over deep mid-wicket for just the second six of England's innings as the two shared a 72-run stand.\n\nAustralia were clearly frustrated as they left the field, but that was nothing compared to how they will feel after the batting performance that was to follow.\n\n'England never know when they are beaten' - what they said\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan on BBC Test Match Special: \"It was an outstanding win - not from nowhere but having the bowlers execute plans as well as we did, particularly when Australia started to gather momentum in the Aaron Finch and Marnus Labuschagne partnership.\n\n\"Once we broke into partnerships it was very tough for batsmen to come in and get going. That was certainly the case when we were batting.\"\n\nOn his decision to bowl Jofra Archer and Chris Woakes out early: \"The game was getting away from us - there was no point Jofra having two or three overs left, and the same with Chris Woakes, if Australia are going to chase it down in the 42nd over. We went all in and the plan was to bowl Australia out.\"\n\nAustralia captain Aaron Finch: \"At the end of the day England were just too good. England scored 81 runs in the last 10 overs, which wasn't ideal.\n\n\"It was getting more difficult as the match went on but that's no excuse for the collapse. It probably wasn't the greatest viewer match but it was good to see an equal match between bat and ball.\"\n\nEngland bowler Chris Woakes: \"It's great to have someone like Jofra Archer in your team because when you're up against it you can give him the ball and you get that little bit of X-factor from him, which is brilliant.\"\n\nEx-England spinner Phil Tufnell on TMS: \"England never know when they are beaten. They always feel like they can drag it out of the fire.\"\n• None Nine interesting facts about the famous chef", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nNaomi Osaka demonstrated her growing maturity to fight back against Victoria Azarenka in a compelling US Open final and claim her third Grand Slam title.\n\nJapanese fourth seed Osaka, 22, won 1-6 6-3 6-3 for her second US Open title.\n\nOsaka was overwhelmed in the first set and in danger of trailing 3-0 in the second but then won 10 of the next 12 games to seize the momentum.\n\nThe Belarusian, 31, in her first major final since 2013, was broken for 5-3 in the decider before Osaka served out.\n\nOsaka shrieked with joy as she took her second match point, then calmly lay on the court and stared at the New York sky as she contemplated her latest achievement.\n\nOsaka's level raised considerably as Azarenka was unable to maintain the intensity she showed in a one-sided opening set.\n\nThe fightback ensured Osaka, who won the 2018 US Open and 2019 Australian Open, maintained her record of winning every Grand Slam final she has played in.\n\n\"I don't want to play you in any more finals, I didn't really enjoy that, it was a really tough match for me,\" Osaka jokingly told Azarenka.\n\nShe added: \"It was really inspiring for me because I used to watch you play here when I was younger. I learned a lot, so thank you.\"\n• None Re-live how Osaka won her second US Open title\n• None 'I've tried to mature' - Osaka on how coronavirus break helped her win US Open\n\nAnother US Open title for Osaka - but a contrasting occasion\n\nOsaka's maiden victory at Flushing Meadows two years ago came in straight sets against Serena Williams in a hostile environment following the American's infamous argument with umpire Carlos Ramos.\n\nIt left Osaka in tears as she stood on the podium waiting to collect her first Grand Slam trophy.\n\nThis second success could not have been more different.\n\nHere she had to fight back from a set down against an inspired Azarenka - and navigate a tricky decider which could have swung either way - on an Arthur Ashe Stadium left virtually empty because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAnd even in what were still strange circumstances, Osaka could this time enjoy the moment with a beaming smile as she lifted the prize in the company of her team and rapper boyfriend Cordae - even if she had to take the trophy from the table herself rather than be presented with it because of social distancing rules.\n\nOsaka looked a little lost as Azarenka overwhelmed her in a fast start, hitting 13 unforced errors and struggling to cope with the Belarusian's proactive play and controlled aggression.\n\nDraping a towel over her head at changeovers was a sign of Osaka's concerns. Her attempts to collect her thoughts and regain her composure did not initially work, however.\n\nAnother wayward forehand prompted a frustrated Osaka to throw her racquet to the floor in disgust.\n\nEventually, though, the mental resilience which she says she has developed over recent months came to the fore.\n\n\"I just thought it would be embarrassing to lose this under an hour,\" said Osaka, who will rise to third in the world after her win.\n\nThat resulted in a major momentum shift in her favour as Azarenka threatened to move 3-0 ahead in the second set.\n\nA rasping forehand by Osaka at 40-30 proved pivotal, not only in the game, but ultimately in the whole match as she seized control to level.\n\nThe former world number one maintained that level in the decider to earn a 4-1 lead, but was unable to convert one of four break points to move 5-1 ahead.\n\nThat might have proved costly when Azarenka immediately put the set back on serve, only for Osaka to battle back again by winning what proved to be the final two games.\n\nNot only has Osaka impressed on court during the Cincinnati Masters-US Open bubble in the past month, she has also won many admirers for her activism in the fight against racism and police brutality in the United States.\n\nA few days before the start of the US Open, Osaka pulled out of her Western and Southern Open semi-final in protest at the shooting of Jacob Blake, a black man, by police in Wisconsin.\n\nBefore her US Open first-round match, she wore a face mask with the name of Breonna Taylor, a black woman who was shot dead by a policeman in March.\n\nOsaka, who has Japanese and Haitian parents and was brought up in the United States, said she had seven masks with seven different names.\n\nHer target was to reveal all of them by reaching Saturday's final and that provided her with extra motivation to win the title, according to her coach Wim Fissette.\n\n\"I felt the point was to make people start talking,\" Osaka said after her victory.\n\n\"I've been inside the bubble and not sure what's going on in the outside world. The more retweets it gets, the more people talk about it.\"\n\nAzarenka wins hearts but falls short of another Slam\n\nFormer world number one Azarenka was aiming to complete a remarkable renaissance by landing her first Grand Slam title since defending her Australian Open crown in 2013.\n\nFew had predicted she would compete for the sport's biggest prizes again after a turbulent past few years.\n\nAzarenka took time away from the sport to give birth in December 2016 and had her comeback stalled by a lengthy custody battle over son Leo.\n\nLast week she admitted she had thought about quitting when the WTA Tour was suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nShe had won only one match in the previous year going into last month's restart, but came back from the enforced break reinvigorated and possessing a fresh perspective on life.\n\nThat enabled her to win a first WTA title in four years when Osaka pulled out of their scheduled Western & Southern Open final with a hamstring injury - and she continued her form in the Grand Slam.\n\nUltimately though, she could not become the fourth mother to win a major title as Osaka consigned her to a third defeat in a US Open final.\n\nWhen Osaka won the title two years ago, boos rang around the Arthur Ashe Stadium as Serena Williams had been docked a game.\n\nThis time virtual silence greeted her triumph - but again she had to do it the hard way.\n\nAzarenka played an almost flawless first set, and it was only when four games from defeat that Osaka found her range and some serious power.\n\nThe 22-year-old has taken some knocks over the past 18 months as she came to terms with life as one of the world's highest profile athletes.\n\nA first-round defeat at last year's Wimbledon was perhaps the hardest to take - but look at her now.\n\nNot only is she playing with supreme confidence once again, but is also able to use her influence to promote social justice in a very assured and unassuming way.\n• None Comedians try to make sense of 2020\n• None Go behind the scenes with West Ham Women", "Police said the man who hosted the party in Harlaxton Drive \"deliberately flouted\" the rules\n\nA man has been fined £10,000 for hosting a large house party in Nottingham.\n\nThe 19-year-old was issued with the fixed penalty notice after he allowed more than 50 people into his home on Harlaxton Drive, in Lenton, on Friday.\n\nNottinghamshire Police said it used its full powers to deal with the \"reckless\" organiser who \"deliberately flouted\" the rules after an initial warning.\n\nThe new \"rule of six\" coronavirus restrictions come into force on Monday.\n\nThe tighter laws limit gatherings to six people indoors and outdoors in England.\n\nPeople have been warned not to treat this weekend as a \"party\" after one scientist warned the UK was \"on the edge of losing control\" of the virus.\n\nNottinghamshire Police said officers attended the house party after Nottingham City Council officers were met with \"hostility from the organiser\" at 22:20 BST.\n\nAbout 50 people were found at the address, who were all ordered to leave, and the host was issued with the fine, it added.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Steve Cooper said: \"This party was a clear example of a householder who deliberately flouted the rules without a care for anyone else and as a result we have used the full powers we have to deal with this.\n\n\"Under current rules we can issue fines to anyone hosting gatherings of more than 30 people which can result in fines of up to £10,000. And now we are on the eve of rules becoming even tighter so there can be gatherings of no more than six.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Richard Ratcliffe has campaigned for Nazanin's release for several years\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman jailed in Iran, has not been taken to court to face new charges as expected, her husband has said.\n\nIranian state media had said she would be required to face fresh charges four years after her initial conviction.\n\nHer husband Richard Ratcliffe said: \"For Nazanin, the uncertainty is deeply traumatic, as we await the next move.\n\n\"This remains a game of cat and mouse between governments, with us living life as a piece of bait.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office reacted to the news of the postponement by calling on Iran to permanently release Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe.\n\nDirector of Amnesty International UK Kate Allen said it was \"a nonsense\" she had ever faced the new court date.\n\nMs Allen said there had already been a \"deeply unfair trial\" leading to her being \"unjustly convicted\".\n\nShe added: \"It appears the Iranian authorities are playing cruel political games with Nazanin. The situation has gone on long enough. Nazanin has continued to suffer in Iran away from her husband and young daughter.\n\n\"The UK government has had four and a half years to secure her unconditional release and have failed to do so. Securing Nazanin's release should be an absolute priority.\n\n\"As a matter of urgency, ministers now need to step up their efforts to get Nazanin home in time for Christmas and provide a clear plan on how they will do this.\"\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested in Tehran in April 2016. She had been visiting her parents with her young British-born daughter, Gabriella, who is now six.\n\nThe dual national was sentenced to five years in prison over allegations of plotting against the Iranian government, which she denies, and no official charges have ever been made public.\n\nGabriella has now returned to the UK.\n\nEarlier this year, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was given temporary leave from prison because of the coronavirus outbreak and has been living at her parents' house in Tehran with an ankle tag.\n\nIn a statement, the Foreign Office said: \"We welcome the deferral of this groundless court hearing, and call on Iran to make Nazanin's release permanent so that she can return to her family in the UK.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband describes how his daughter Gabriella is coping without her mother\n\nHer husband, Richard Ratcliffe, said she had been \"terrified\" about the expected court appearance and had suffered the latest in a series of panic attacks.\n\nExplaining the process surrounding Sunday's postponed court appearance, he said: \"Nazanin's lawyer went to court early this morning as appointed. When he got there, he was told by the Court Office that there would be no hearing today.\n\n\"He had been given no indication that the trial would not be happening until this point. We have not been given a rescheduled date for the court hearing. It is perhaps early to understand why today's sudden postponement happened, or what it means.\"\n\nHe said he believed the postponement might been to do with efforts made by the British Embassy to attend the hearing.\n\nMr Ratcliffe added: \"The Foreign Office had been requesting access to attend Nazanin's trial.\n\n\"The Iranian authorities were clearly reluctant to say yes, though likely mindful of the legal consequences of saying no in the context of diplomatic protection having been invoked.\n\n\"The current uncertainty of this period, on the back of all that has happened these past four years, is a kind of psychological torture.\"\n\nHe believes his wife and other dual nationals are being held hostage because Iran wants the UK to pay a decades-old debt over an arms deal that was never fulfilled.\n\nThe UK owes Iran about £400m for Chieftain tanks ordered by the former Shah of Iran which were never delivered because of the 1979 Islamic revolution.\n\nThe UK government says it will repay the money, but it cannot do so until a legal path is found because of international sanctions against Iran that currently make payment impossible.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Oruc Reis seismic research ship was surveying drilling prospects in disputed waters\n\nA Turkish research ship at the centre of a row with Greece over oil and gas exploration in a disputed area of the Eastern Mediterranean has returned to waters near southern Turkey.\n\nGreek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis welcomed the move as a \"positive first step\".\n\nTurkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said the move did not mean Turkey was \"giving up on our rights there\".\n\nTensions flared when Ankara sent the research ship to survey an area claimed by Greece, Turkey and Cyprus.\n\nAnkara has since faced potential sanctions from the European Union, which supports Greece and Cyprus.\n\nRatcheting pressure up further on Saturday, Mr Mitsotakis announced Greece was \"reinforcing its armed forces\" and would buy 18 French Rafale fighter jets, four frigates and four navy helicopters. He said the Greek military would increase by troop numbers by 15,000 over the next five years.\n\nGreece and Turkey are both Nato members, but have a history of border disputes and competing claims over maritime rights.\n\nOn 10 August, Turkey sent the seismic research ship Oruc Reis, accompanied by two auxiliary vessels, to search for potentially rich oil and gas deposits south of the Greek island of Kastellorizo. At the time, the Greek foreign ministry called the move a \"new serious escalation\" which \"exposed\" Turkey's \"destabilising role\".\n\nThere are also tensions around Cyprus over rival exploration rights. The Republic of Cyprus and Greece do not accept any such rights for Turkish-controlled northern Cyprus in the region.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Akar confirmed that the Oruc Reis had returned to Turkish waters. Ship-tracking websites showed it near the port of Antalya.\n\n\"There will be planned movements backwards and forwards,\" Mr Akar told state news agency Anadolu.\n\nLast week, Turkey's navy said that the Oruc Reis would continue operations in the area until 12 September. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said exploratory work would continue but there were no plans so far for an extension to the ship's mission.\n\nThe Turkish pro-government newspaper, Yeni Safak, said the decision not to extend the ship's mission was \"a step towards giving diplomacy a chance\".\n\nFrance has deployed Rafale fighters to the Eastern Mediterranean\n\n\"This is a positive first step. I hope there will be more of them,\" Greek PM Mitsotakis told a news conference in Thessaloniki on Sunday.\n\nFrance - which is at odds with Turkey over the crisis in Libya - recently deployed two Rafale fighter jets and a naval frigate in the Eastern Mediterranean because of the tensions between Greece and Turkey.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron said the French military would monitor the situation. He also urged Turkey to halt oil and gas exploration in disputed waters.", "Bernadette Walker, 17, has been missing since 21 July\n\nPolice investigating the disappearance of a teenage girl have arrested a second person on suspicion of murder.\n\nBernadette Walker, 17, was reported missing from Peterborough on 21 July by her parents after she had not been seen for three days.\n\nA murder investigation was declared even though a body has not been found.\n\nPolice said a woman in her 30s from Peterborough was arrested on Saturday night. A man in his 50s, also from the town, remains in custody.\n\nPolice urged anyone with information on Bernadette Walker's whereabouts to get in touch\n\nDet Supt Jon Hutchinson from the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Major Crime Unit said: \"Due to the length of time Bernadette has been missing and concerns she may have come to some harm, we made the decision to declare this a murder investigation.\n\n\"Whilst we hope we do find Bernadette alive and well, there is every possibility this may not be the case therefore my team and I will do everything possible to find out what has happened to her and bring any offenders to justice.\"\n\nPolice urged anyone with information on her whereabouts to get in touch.\n\nA man and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of Bernadette's murder\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir John Major and Tony Blair have joined critics opposing the government's proposed Internal Market Bill\n\nEx-Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Sir John Major have urged MPs to reject the \"shameful\" attempt to override parts of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nThe two have accused the government of \"embarrassing\" the UK by seeking the power to change the details of a treaty agreed last year with the EU.\n\nMPs will begin debating the contentious Internal Market Bill on Monday.\n\nA senior minister said the ex-PMs weren't \"close\" to the process and the UK was in a unprecedented situation.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland said the powers being sought by ministers to amend aspects of the Northern Ireland Protocol were an \"insurance policy\" to be used only if attempts to settle differences in other ways failed.\n\nThe Protocol, a key part of the Withdrawal Agreement signed by both sides last year, is designed to prevent a hard border returning to the island of Ireland.\n\nIf the bill becomes law it would give UK ministers powers to modify or \"disapply\" rules relating to the movement of goods between Britain and Northern Ireland that will come into force from 1 January, if the UK and EU are unable to strike a trade deal.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Times, Sir John and Mr Blair - former Conservative and Labour prime ministers respectively - said the government's actions were \"irresponsible, wrong in principle and dangerous in practice\".\n\n\"It raises questions that go far beyond the impact on Ireland, the peace process and negotiations for a trade deal - crucial though they are. It questions the very integrity of our nation,\" they said.\n\nThe former leaders, both vehement opponents of Brexit, said that respecting treaty obligations was \"just as important\" as domestic law, and called for MPs to reject the legislation.\n\n\"As the world looks on aghast at the UK - the word of which was once accepted as inviolable - this government's action is shaming itself and embarrassing our nation,\" they added.\n\nTony Blair and Sir John Major say Boris Johnson knew the full consequences of the Brexit divorce deal he struck with Brussels last year - that new barriers to trade would arise between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.\n\nThey say the government's plans to now override parts of the deal would imperil the Good Friday Agreement, undermine the UK's credibility in future trade deals and could prompt a damaging retaliation from the EU.\n\nThey accuse ministers of embarrassing the UK, by negotiating with what they call \"cavalier bombast posing as serious diplomacy\" - an approach they say questions the very integrity of the nation.\n\nTheir intervention is, however, unlikely to sway Mr Johnson, who's insisted the Internal Market Bill is a necessary safety net to protect the union and peace process - and has defied EU demands to withdraw the contentious clauses before the end of the month.\n\nThe prime minister's appealed to MPs to back the legislation - his predecessors say it's Parliament's job to stop his plan going any further.\n\nThe two former leaders were in office during key periods of the Northern Ireland peace process.\n\nIn December 1993, Sir John helped negotiate the Downing Street Declaration in an attempt to secure paramilitary ceasefires in Northern Ireland. Less than a year later, the IRA called its first ceasefire.\n\nIt helped pave the way for all-party talks which culminated with the Good Friday Agreement in April 1998 when Tony Blair was in No 10 - a deal that is widely seen as marking the effective end of Northern Ireland's \"Troubles\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove: \"What we can't have... is the EU disrupting or putting at threat the integrity of the UK\"\n\nThe EU has warned the UK it could face legal action if it does not ditch controversial elements of the Internal Market Bill by the end of the month.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist MP Sammy Wilson, whose party opposed the Withdrawal Agreement, said Mr Blair and Sir John were talking \"utter bunkum\".\n\nHe said the former leaders should be focusing on the risk of a \"trade border\" between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK and the damage this would do to NI's economy.\n\n\"The suggestion by the hero of the peace process brigade that the bill rips apart the Belfast Agreement is complete and utter bunkum without any factual basis,\" he said.\n\n\"They need to explain how making it easier for Northern Ireland to do business with our biggest market undermines the Belfast Agreement.\n\n\"They need to explain how Northern Ireland companies having less paperwork undermines the Belfast Agreement.\"", "State for International Trade Liz Truss speaking to Japan\"s Minister for Foreign Affairs Toshimitsu Motegi at the Department for International Trade\n\nThe UK has struck its first major post-Brexit trade pact after signing a deal with Japan that aims to boost trade between the countries by about £15bn.\n\nInternational Trade Secretary Liz Truss said it was a \"historic moment\".\n\nShe said it would bring \"new wins\" for British businesses in manufacturing, food and drink, and tech industries.\n\nCritics said while the deal may be of symbolic importance it would boost UK GDP by only 0.07%, a fraction of the trade that could be lost with the EU.\n\nFriday's deal still needs approval by Japan's parliament, which the country's Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi forecast would be passed by January.\n\nMs Truss said the UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement means 99% of exports to Japan will be tariff-free.\n\n\"The agreement we have negotiated - in record time and in challenging circumstances - goes far beyond the existing EU deal, as it secures new wins for British businesses in our great manufacturing, food and drink, and tech industries,\" she said.\n\n\"From our automotive workers in Wales to our shoemakers in the North of England, this deal will help build back better as we create new opportunities for people throughout the whole of the UK and help level up our country.\"\n\nShe added that, strategically, the deal was an important step towards joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership and placing Britain at the centre of a network of free trade agreements.\n\nMajor Japanese investors in the UK such as Nissan and Hitachi would benefit from reduced tariffs on parts coming from Japan and streamlined regulatory procedures, the UK's trade department statement said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said Brexit gives Britain the freedom to strike trade deals with other countries around the world.\n\nBusiness leaders welcomed the agreement, but stressed that securing a deal with the EU remained the most important goal.\n\nThe director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, Adam Marshall, called the announcement a milestone, but added: \"Whilst this agreement is undoubtedly cause for celebration, securing a Free Trade Agreement with the EU remains critical to the future of businesses in the UK.\n\n\"We urge ministers to redouble their efforts to reach a comprehensive partnership with our largest trading partner at a crucial time in the negotiations.\"\n\nThe CBI also hailed the agreement, with director general Carolyn Fairbairn saying this \"breakthrough moment\" can be the first of many.\n\n\"It's a huge opportunity to secure new Japanese investment across a wider range of sectors and UK regions,\" she said.\n\nYou can almost hear the sighs of relief echoing around Westminster and within the business community.\n\nAfter weeks of wrangling, the first deal of the Brexit era has been struck, which ensures that 99% of British goods can enter Japan without tariffs, or extra charges.\n\nBut ultimately, this deal largely mirrors the agreement which already exists between the EU and Japan. And with trade with Japan accounting for just 2% of the UK's total, the expected boost to GDP of 0.07% over the long term is a tiny fraction of what might be lost from leaving the EU.\n\nAnd there is good reason for Japan cooperating to ensure this deal was secured in record time. It stands to get the lions share, 80%, of the total estimated £15bn boost to trade for both countries.\n\nEven then, the talks haven't been as speedy or straightforward as initially hoped - which may not bode well for negotiations elsewhere.\n\nAbout 99% of exports between the two nations will be tariff-free under the deal, with a particular focus on the food and drink, finance and tech sectors.\n\nManufacturing parts coming from Japan will benefit from reduced tariffs, as will British pork, beef and salmon travelling in the opposite direction.\n\nJapan's Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said: \"It was a very tough negotiation, but we reached the agreement in principle in about three months, at an unusually fast pace.\n\n\"While maintaining the high levels of access to the British market under the Japan-EU EPA, we improved our access to the British market on train cars and some auto parts.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The names of the 22 victims were read out at the start of the inquiry\n\nSeveral people raised suspicions about the Manchester Arena suicide bomber in the minutes before he killed 22 people.\n\nSalman Abedi was reported to police and security ahead of the attack but one witness felt he was \"fobbed off\", a public inquiry has heard.\n\nThe witness had approached Abedi and asked him what was in his backpack while another said he thought he saw the suicide bomber praying.\n\nHundreds were injured in the bombing at the end of an Ariana Grande concert.\n\nInquiry proceedings began with Paul Greaney QC, counsel to the hearing at Manchester Magistrates' Court, reading the names of the 22 people who died on 22 May 2017.\n\n\"What happened that night was the most devastating terrorist attack in the UK for many years,\" he said.\n\n\"The inquiry will leave no stone unturned.\"\n\nFamilies, lawyers and chairman of the inquiry Sir John Saunders, a retired High Court judge, stood with heads bowed for a minute's silence before Mr Greaney's opening.\n\nSir John then formally opened the inquiry, adding \"this is an exercise in establishing the truth\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lisa Roussos: ''It should be about transparency''\n\n\"If I conclude things went wrong then I shall say so, but we are not looking for scapegoats. We are searching for the truth,\" he said.\n\n\"The explosion killed 22 people, including children, the youngest was eight years old.\n\n\"Salman Abedi blew himself up in the explosion but he intended as many people as possible would die with him.\"\n\nThe most sensitive evidence is likely to be heard at closed hearings, with both press and public excluded because of the risk to national security.\n\nThe public inquiry follows a trial in which a jury found Hashem Abedi guilty of helping his older sibling to plan the atrocity.\n\nHe was jailed for at least 55 years on 20 August for the 22 murders.\n\nThe inquiry will, among other things, look at the emergency response to the attack\n\nIn his opening statement, Mr Greaney told the inquiry \"experts consider that on 22 May there were missed opportunities to identify Salman Abedi as a threat and take mitigating action\".\n\nWhile there is evidence that suspicions were raised by members of the public in the minutes before the attack, \"no steward or British Transport Police (BTP) officer appear to have identified him as suspicious\", the inquiry heard.\n\nMr Greaney said experts concluded: \"If the presence of a potential suicide bomber had been reported, it is very likely that mitigating actions would've been taken that could have reduced the impact of the attack.\n\n\"This is because there was sufficient time between Abedi first being spotted by, and also reported to staff and his attack to effectively react.\"\n\nPaul Greaney QC read the names of each of those murdered by suicide bomber Salman Abedi during the first day of the inquiry\n\nOne member of the public, William Drysdale, spotted Salman Abedi and thought he was praying, less than an hour before he detonated his bomb.\n\nA second witness, Julie Merchant, approached BTP officer Jessica Bullough around 32 minutes before the deadly bombing to point out Abedi.\n\nMr Greaney said Ms Merchant cannot recall the details of the conversation with the officer but that it was \"to do with praying and political correctness\".\n\nThe officer cannot remember the conversation taking place, the hearing was told.\n\nShe was the first police officer to enter the City Rooms, where the bomb was detonated, after the attack, showing considerable bravery, Mr Greaney added.\n\nCCTV caught Salman Abedi in the arena foyer just seconds before he blew himself up\n\nTwo more witnesses, known only as A and B, also saw a man matching Salman Abedi's description acting suspiciously.\n\nMr A challenged Abedi, asking him what he had in his backpack.\n\nThe witness then spoke to a Mohammed Agha, an employee of Showsec which provided security to the Arena on behalf of the venue's owners SMG, at 22.14, some 17 minutes before the detonation but said he was \"fobbed off.\"\n\nMr Agha spoke to colleague Kyle Lawler about the matter, eight minutes before the bomb went off.\n\nBut neither security control nor anyone else was informed about the suspicious activity, the hearing was told, although Mr Lawler said in a statement he tried to contact control but could not get through.\n\nHe then spotted the man get up and start walking towards the arena entrance.\n\nHis statement continued: \"I just froze and did not get anything out on the radio. I knew at that point it was too late.\"\n\nThe hearings will take place in a room specially converted from two courtrooms at Manchester Magistrates' Court\n\nMr Greaney also said expert evidence would be heard about risk assessments at the Arena.\n\n\"There was no effective risk assessments that considered the threats from terrorism at Manchester Arena in early 2017, despite the severe threat level,\" he said.\n\nThe possible role of Salman Abedi's family in radicalising the suicide bomber and his brother needs to be assessed, the inquiry also heard.\n\nHashem Abedi was arrested in Libya the day after the bombing\n\nMr Greaney told the inquiry: \"Ismail Abedi, the brother of the killers, has been required by the inquiry legal team to answer a series of questions relating to what might, in general terms, be described as the issue of radicalisation.\n\n\"To date, he has declined to answer these questions on the basis that he maintains that his answers may tend to incriminate him.\"\n\nHe said similar requests to the brothers' parents, Ramadan and Samia, who are believed to be in Libya, \"have not been responded to, at least not in any substantive way\".\n\nThe chairman will make a report and recommendations once all the evidence has been heard by the inquiry, which is expected to take up to six months.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Selected live radio and text commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, BBC Sounds, the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nTop seed Novak Djokovic was disqualified from the US Open for accidentally hitting a ball at a line judge in his fourth-round match.\n\nDjokovic, 33, showed his frustration after losing serve to trail 6-5 against Spain's Pablo Carreno Busta.\n\nThe Serbian world number one took a ball out of his pocket and hit it behind him, striking the female line judge in her throat.\n\nAfter a lengthy discussion, he was defaulted by tournament officials.\n• None 'Djokovic will win again - hopefully with a little more humility'\n• None 'Sad and empty' Djokovic 'extremely sorry' for hurting line judge\n• None Right decision to disqualify Djokovic, says Henman\n\nA United States Tennis Association statement said: \"In accordance with the Grand Slam rulebook, following his actions of intentionally hitting a ball dangerously or recklessly within the court or hitting a ball with negligent disregard of the consequences, the tournament referee defaulted Novak Djokovic from the 2020 US Open.\n\n\"Because he was defaulted, Djokovic will lose all ranking points earned at the US Open and will be fined the prize money won at the tournament in addition to any or all fines levied with respect to the offending incident.\"\n\nOops you can't see this activity! To enjoy Newsround at its best you will need to have JavaScript turned on.\n\nDjokovic was the heavy favourite to win the men's singles title at the US Open, which is being played behind closed doors and is the first Grand Slam to take place since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nGoing into the encounter with 20th seed Carreno Busta, Djokovic had not lost a singles match in 2020.\n\nHe was aiming for an 18th Grand Slam triumph to move closer to rivals Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, who are not playing in New York, in the race to finish with the most men's major titles of all time.\n\nDjokovic's exit means there will be a new male Grand Slam champion for the first time since Marin Cilic won at Flushing Meadows in 2014.\n\nA player outside of Djokovic, Federer and Nadal will win a major for the first time since Stan Wawrinka won the US Open in 2016.\n\nCarreno Busta, who reached the US Open semi-finals in 2017, will play Denis Shapovalov in the quarter-finals after the 21-year-old Canadian 12th seed beat Belgium's David Goffin 6-7 (0-7) 6-3 6-4 6-3.\n\nDjokovic's costly moment of frustration - how the drama unfolded\n\nDjokovic had been playing well up until the game where he lost serve and had three set points at 5-4 before Carreno Busta fought back from 0-40 down.\n\nHowever, the world number one also showed a flash of his temper during that ninth game by whacking a ball into an advertising board after the Spaniard brought it back to deuce.\n\nLeon Smith, Great Britain's Davis Cup captain, said he was \"surprised\" Djokovic did not get a warning for that incident, and felt one might have prevented the controversy which followed.\n\nAfter Djokovic was defaulted, Smith told BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra: \"There has to be consistency, if someone hits a ball with that much venom and temper, call a warning.\n\n\"The second one can be dangerous and so it proved to be.\"\n\nIn what proved the final game, Djokovic fell and hurt his shoulder, immediately calling for a medical timeout when trailing 0-30. Following treatment, the match resumed with Carreno Busta sealing the game three points later.\n\nIt was then that Djokovic hit the ball away, striking the line judge.\n\nDjokovic appeared to plead his case to tournament referee Soeren Friemel and Grand Slam supervisor Andreas Egli during a long conversation at the net.\n\nEventually, however, he accepted his fate and shook hands with Carreno Busta, who looked shocked by what had happened as he waited for a decision in his chair.\n\nDjokovic left Flushing Meadows without doing his news conference and later posted an apology on his Instagram page.\n\n'The officials had no choice' - reaction\n\nDjokovic's opponent Pablo Carreno Busta: \"I didn't see the moment, I was looking at my coach, celebrating the break and then I saw the line judge on the floor. I was in shock.\n\n\"When they were talking at the net I was focused in case I had to continue playing. This moment was so long. Finally Novak gave me the hand.\n\n\"I think it was not intentional. I don't think anyone of us do this intentionally. It's just the moment. It was bad luck.\n\n\"Of course you can't do this. The rules are the rules. The referee and the supervisor did the right thing but it isn't easy to make this decision.\"\n\nGB Davis Cup captain Leon Smith on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra: \"It's a habit. He did it five minutes beforehand, with much more venom, and he was just lucky it hit the advertising board. It could have hit one of the ball kids.\"\n\nMartina Navratilova, winner of 18 Grand Slam singles titles: \"Unbelievable what just happened on the court at the US Open - Novak Djokovic defaulted for inadvertently but stupidly hitting a lineswoman in the throat with a ball and the officials had no choice but to default. Wow. Glad the woman is OK - we must do better than that.\"\n\nIf Novak Djokovic hadn't have been defaulted in that situation, can you imagine the outrage? What sort of light would that have shone on tennis neutrality and the decisions that these officials make?\n\nIt was an open and shut case to me.\n\nI don't see how you could argue that was not a disqualification. It doesn't matter how hard you hit the ball. I don't think he has any defence at all.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Is Tom Hanks' Captain Sully all he appears?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: \"We are concerned about this rise in cases\"\n\nA further 2,988 cases of coronavirus have been reported in the UK in the past 24 hours, government data showed.\n\nIt is the highest number reported on a single day since 22 May and a rise of 1,175 on Saturday, according to the UK government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said he was \"concerned\" about a rise in cases \"predominantly among young people\".\n\nTwo further deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded, taking the total number of UK deaths to 41,551.\n\nMr Hancock added: \"It's so important that everybody does their bit and follows the social distancing because it doesn't matter how old you are, how affected you might be by this disease, you can pass the disease on to others.\"\n\n\"So don't pass the disease on to your grandparents if you're a young person, everybody needs to follow the social distancing.\"\n\nDespite the sharp rise in cases, Mr Hancock said the government was right to reopen schools \"because of the impact on children of not getting an education\", adding that workplaces which have reopened are \"Covid-secure\".\n\nScotland recorded 208 new cases on Sunday, its highest daily increase for more than 17 weeks.\n\nWales recorded a further 98 cases, its highest daily rise since 30 June, and Northern Ireland recorded 106 new cases, its highest rise since 25 April.\n\nOverall, since the start of the pandemic, 347,152 cases have been confirmed in the UK.\n\nThe number of daily reported cases has been rising steadily and some of that has been put down to an increase in the number of people being tested.\n\nPut simply, the more you test the more new cases you will find. But the jump of more than one thousand in a day is a significant new spike.\n\nThe health secretary says the government is concerned and has renewed official calls for more vigilance on social distancing.\n\nWhat Matt Hancock and health officials are worried about is that the UK might follow the same path as France and Spain, where increases in infections amongst younger adults led after a few weeks to higher numbers of admissions to hospitals for older and more vulnerable patients.\n\nThe number of people seriously ill in hospital with Covid-19 has fallen and there were just two new daily reported deaths.\n\nMedical leaders and ministers can only hope that the spread of the virus amongst younger people does not get passed on to the elderly and those with underlying health problems.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said ministers needed to \"set out what is being done to get testing back on track and bring case numbers down\".\n\nHe said the increase in cases came on top of \"the ongoing testing fiasco where ill people are told to drive for miles for tests, and the poor performance of the contact tracing system\".\n\nIncreased demand led bosses in charge of the coronavirus testing system to apologise after it emerged UK labs were struggling to keep up.\n\nScreening capacity was described last week as being \"maxed out\" - 170,000 tests a day are being processed, up from 100,000 in mid June.\n\nProf Paul Hunter, an expert in outbreak response at the University of East Anglia, said some of the rise may be due to the system catching up after delays when it struggled to keep up with demand, but added it was still a \"marked increase\".\n\n\"Sadly it is beginning to look like we are moving into a period of exponential growth in the UK epidemic, and if so we can expect further increases over coming weeks,\" he said.\n\nBirmingham had the single largest increase in cases overnight, and the majority of new cases were in the north of England, said Yvonne Doyle, Public Health England's medical director.\n\nBut she said no single area accounted for the overnight change, with broad increases in Covid-19 cases across England.\n\nThe rise in positive tests came as tougher measures limiting household contacts were introduced in Bolton in an effort to stop coronavirus cases rising and prevent a full local lockdown.\n\nThe infection rate in the area has risen to 99 cases per 100,000 people per week - the highest in England.\n\nCommenting on Scotland's increase, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"While this reflects the substantial opening up of the economy, it reminds us of the need to deploy counter measures.\"\n\nShe added that the \"first line of defence\" is to \"take greater care on face coverings, hygiene and distance\".\n\nMeanwhile, speaking earlier on Sunday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the economy \"needs to have people back at work\".\n\nMr Raab acknowledged there was likely to be a \"bit more\" remote working in future.\n\nHowever, he added: \"It is important to send a message that we need to get Britain back up and running, the economy motoring on all cylinders.\"\n\nMr Raab also played down suggestions that coronavirus testing at airports would help travellers avoid mandatory quarantine.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City winger Riyad Mahrez and defender Aymeric Laporte have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nAlgeria's Mahrez, 29, and Frenchman Laporte, 24, will not train with their team-mates while they self-isolate in line with UK government and Premier League rules.\n\nManchester City say neither player was displaying symptoms of coronavirus.\n\nPep Guardiola's side play Wolverhampton Wanderers in their first fixture of the new league season on 21 September.\n\nBoth players are in the United Kingdom and with the self-isolation period being 10 days, Mahrez and Laporte should be available for City's game with Wolves in two weeks' time.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police are looking for this man after an attacker killed one victim and wounded seven other people\n\nPolice hunting a man suspected of killing one person and injuring seven others in stabbings across Birmingham city centre say they have had a \"strong response\" after releasing CCTV footage.\n\nThe attacks in the early hours of Sunday sparked a massive manhunt.\n\nImages of the man officers want to find were published on Sunday evening.\n\nDetectives have been working through the night following leads from the public to identify and find the suspect, West Midlands Police tweeted.\n\nThe attacks happened at four different locations across the city centre during a 90-minute spell.\n\nA 23-year-old man was killed in Irving Street at 01:50 BST on Sunday, while a man and a woman, aged 19 and 32, suffered critical stabbing injuries.\n\nFive other people, aged between 23 and 33, were injured and taken to hospital. Two have since been discharged.\n\nThe public are urged to remain vigilant and not to approach the man pictured\n\nCCTV footage released on Sunday evening shows a man wearing a baseball cap, a dark hoodie with white drawstrings, dark-coloured trousers and shoes.\n\nHe is seen standing and walking on a street corner.\n\nThree hours after the images were published, West Midlands Police tweeted: \"We've had a strong response following our appeal to trace the #BirminghamStabbings suspect.\n\n\"Our detectives are following up several new lines of enquiry. This man is wanted on suspicion of murder.\n\n\"We've got a team of detectives working through the night to identify and trace the suspect.\"\n\nIt added that a special hotline has been set up for members of the public to pass on information.\n\nEarlier in the day, Ch Supt Steve Graham told reporters: \"At this stage we believe that the attacks were random and we have no indication of a motive.\"\n\nHe urged the public to remain vigilant, and call 999 if they spotted anything suspicious.\n\nWest Midlands Police were first called to Constitution Hill where a man sustained a superficial injury just after 00:30 BST.\n\nTwenty minutes later they were called to Livery Street, near to Snow Hill railway station, where the 19-year-old man was critically injured and a woman was also hurt.\n\nAn hour later at 01:50 BST, police were sent to Irving Street, where the 23-year-old died and another man suffered serious injuries.\n\nTen minutes later, they were called to Hurst Street, in the city's Gay Village, where the 32-year-old woman was critically injured and two men suffered lesser injuries.\n\nThe stabbings do not appear to be terrorism related or gang related, police said.\n\nMr Graham added: \"We do not underestimate the impact that these incidents have had on the city of Birmingham.\n\n\"We declared this a major incident at the earliest opportunity and we have drafted in scores of officers to help with the investigation and patrol the city to reassure residents and visitors that we are doing all we can to apprehend the person responsible.\"\n\nA cordon remains in place at the scenes of the stabbings\n\nMultiple witnesses saw the attacks, including Nikita Denton who was out celebrating her 29th birthday and helped stop one of the women bleeding in the street.\n\nRestaurant owner Savvas Sfrantzis described seeing the \"cold\" attacker walk calmly away after stabbing a woman repeatedly.\n\n\"I looked at him, facing him, and I can see he had a blade, not very big, and he was stabbing her in the neck.\n\n\"He wasn't panicking and he wasn't reacting or anything. After he stabbed her between five and seven times... he walked off as if nothing has happened.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nikita Denton told the BBC the victim she helped was alone and in a state of shock\n\nOfficers have recovered a knife from a drain but Mr Graham said it was \"way too early\" to say if it was connected to the case.\n\nWhen asked how the knifeman was able go for more than two hours without being caught, he described the suspect's route through the city was \"relatively unusual\".\n\nHe added: \"There was no suggestion people had seen him running out, area searches were being made at the time, unfortunately the subject wasn't caught.\"\n\nThe attacks happened as city centre revellers were enjoying a night out\n\nKhalid Mahmood, Labour MP for Perry Barr, reportedly said the dead man's life could \"potentially\" have been saved if the police response had been swifter.\n\n\"We've got to look at the fact [the suspect] had two hours to run around the city centre, which has a huge amount of CCTV cameras in place,\" Mr Mahmood told The Times.\n\n\"Where was the monitoring? Both the public and police were put at further risk. There is a person dead. How was this man able to go on a two-hour spate?\"\n\nThe force's police and crime commissioner David Jamieson labelled the assaults \"disturbing\", with the violence unfolding as revellers had been enjoying the night.\n\nWest Midlands Police said extra officers had \"flooded\" the city centre and forensic experts had examined four scenes.\n\nA heavy police presence remained throughout Sunday, with armed officers, patrols, riot vans and squad cars visible.\n\nWere you in the area? Did you witness what happened? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands joined the human chain in Budapest on Sunday\n\nThousands of people have formed a chain in the streets of the Hungarian capital Budapest in protest at what they say is a takeover of a top arts university by the country's nationalist government.\n\nDemonstrators fear a new board at the University of Theatre and Film Arts, led by an ally of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, will ruin its autonomy.\n\nStudents have occupied the campus for the past week.\n\nOrban supporters say the arts are dominated by liberals and left-wingers.\n\nThe university is the seventh institution to be transferred to the control of private foundations where the board of directors are selected by the government.\n\nThe government denies claims that it is limiting freedom of expression, and says the privatisation of this and other universities will make them more competitive.\n\nThe human chain on Sunday took in four other institutions and linked around 8,000 protesters from parliament to the university. Demonstrators demanded autonomy for the school and freedom for artistic endeavour and education.\n\nMarta Barbarics, who attended the rally, told Reuters news agency: \"For a university to be able to operate autonomously is the foundation of democracy.\"\n\nShe added: \"If a university can't teach in a way as its citizens deem appropriate then there are serious problems, and the leadership of a university doesn't quit for no reason.\"\n\nThe chain went from the university to parliament\n\nThe University of Theatre and Film Arts has nurtured some of the great names of Hungarian cinema. Graduates of the university include the Oscar-winning director István Szabó - whose credits include Mephisto - and the actress Alexandra Borbély.\n\nStudents have occupied the university since last Sunday.\n\nThe new head of the board, Attila Vidnyanszky, said on Tuesday they were open to dialogue. However he also said he wanted a \"different kind of thinking\" at the university, adding that existing classes would be kept with some emphasis placed on patriotism and Christianity.\n\nFears for artistic and academic freedom in the country have escalated in recent years.\n\nIn 2019, the Central European University in Budapest moved most of its courses to Vienna after a legal battle launched by Mr Orban. The university said it could no longer \"operate as a free institution\" in Budapest.\n\nIn July, more than 70 journalists and staff at Hungary's top news site Index resigned.", "Queuing to get a socially-distanced sunbathing spot on the beach. Wearing your face mask to the hotel bar. Finding out halfway through your trip that you'll have to quarantine when you get home. People are going abroad for holidays for the first time in months, but as the coronavirus pandemic rages on, is it worth the hassle?\n\nSeveral plans have fallen through for Grace Wilding so far this summer. The 19-year-old trainee teacher had been looking forward to a big family holiday in a villa in Spain, but they postponed the trip for fears her baby nephew could catch the virus.\n\nGrace and her boyfriend Alfie Archer, 18, had also booked a trip to Cape Verde, but it was cancelled due to the pandemic. The couple didn't want to lose the opportunity to soak up some sun on their first summer holiday together, and they felt that the virus posed a low risk to them as young and healthy people - so they began hunting for a last-minute deal.\n\n\"I'd say I feel safer here than home definitely. The same rules are applied but everyone actually follows them here,\" says Grace from her hotel in Playa de las Americas, Tenerife. The Liverpool Hope University student from Halton, Cheshire, says she was glad to hear flight attendants reminding people to wear face masks on the plane, and that she waited patiently in line for temperature checks at the airport in Tenerife, and happily shared her details with local contact tracers.\n\nIn Grace and Alfie's hotel, everyone wears face coverings at all times until they reach their rooms, sun loungers, or dinner tables. \"Wearing the masks in the heat can be a bit of a nuisance at times, but this is the climate we've decided to put ourselves in so we will abide by the rules like everyone else,\" she says.\n\nGrace Wilding says everyone's following coronavirus rules at her hotel in Playa de las Americas\n\nIn restaurants \"you're greeted with hand sanitiser before you sit down\", she says. And the couple has mostly steered clear of going to the beach, where officials make people queue up to get a sunbathing spot that's a safe distance from other holidaymakers.\n\nIn keeping with the theme of the summer so far, more of Grace's plans were scuppered when the UK's quarantine rules changed for Spain - including the Canary Islands - while they were away. Grace and Alfie are now having to self-isolate for 14 days after returning to the UK.\n\nGrace admits the couple wouldn't have gone to Tenerife if they had known they would have to quarantine when they came back. Alfie worries about the two weeks of income he will lose, because he is a joiner so cannot work while isolating. But Grace remains upbeat. She says the news meant they enjoyed the holiday \"probably even more\" as they made the most of their last days of relative freedom before flying home.\n\n\"I wouldn't hold back on booking another holiday,\" Grace adds. \"The world can't stop for any longer, in my opinion.\"\n\nAs Ben Osborne describes his family holiday over the phone, his voice is partly drowned out by the sound of his sons shouting and playing at their rented apartment in Lake Como, Italy. \"They're having a fantastic time,\" he laughs.\n\nThe family of five, from Hereford, have been to water parks, on day trips, and spent a lot of time at the pool they share with others in the apartment block. Ben, who works for Vodafone as a customer solutions architect, says the pandemic hasn't got in the way of their holiday at all.\n\nThey've even taken a mini-break from social distancing. Ben, 39, and his wife Nadia, 37, decided they wouldn't be too strict on their children adhering to Italy's one-metre rule during the 11-day holiday, so they have mixed with other young families staying in the complex.\n\nBen says this doesn't mean they have completely given up on social distancing and the adults are remaining wary around each other. But he says three-year-old Cooper has \"absolutely no concept of staying away from people\" and so the rules have also been relaxed for his older brothers Ashton, 10, and Carter, eight.\n\nThe Osbornes found Lake Como to be much quieter than on their previous trips\n\nHygiene rules such as mandatory swimming caps didn't stop Ashton and Carter enjoying the pool\n\nThe only time the pandemic brought the mood down was during the Osbornes' journey to their idyllic destination. The worst part was navigating the not-so-idyllic Luton Airport, which Ben describes as a \"nightmare\". He recalls only one shop was open - Boots - and that it was difficult to find any empty seats in the airport because so many were cordoned off. But the flight itself \"wasn't too bad\", he says. The family wore face coverings but did have to sit next to strangers, without any social distancing.\n\nThe Osbornes have been to Lake Como before, and are enjoying the fact there are far fewer Brits than usual. \"We quite like to go away to experience different cultures, [so] what's really nice is I've not heard any English language,\" Ben says.\n\nHe adds that it's a blessing to not have to queue for the supermarket, as we have grown used to in the UK. The only visible signs of the virus, to Ben, were people wearing face coverings in shops, and mandatory swimming caps in the pool. \"If someone had plonked us here and we didn't know about coronavirus, we wouldn't know the difference. You honestly wouldn't know that there's a pandemic.\"\n\nJulie Grinter's friends told her she was \"completely mad\" for deciding to go ahead with her three-week holiday to Portugal, after the country failed to make it on to the UK government's quarantine-free list. But Julie, 50, points out that you could catch coronavirus in the supermarket at home, let alone on a plane. \"You can't stay inside for the rest of your life so you've got to take the precautions and get on with life,\" she says.\n\nThe choice of destination might have horrified Julie's friends, but she and her partner Matthew Boulden, 52, felt extremely safe. After flying to Lisbon they went on a road trip to the Algarve and enjoyed being almost the only tourists, wherever they went. \"It's just absolutely deserted. There's just nobody there,\" says Julie, who works for a consultancy firm in the City of London.\n\nThe couple ate out regularly, and while most dining was outside to help reduce the spread of the virus, Julie points out that the Portuguese climate meant that was never a problem. Impeccable service, high hygiene standards, free drinks from grateful waiters, and chats with less-than-busy chefs all added to the couple's feeling that they'd stumbled into a luxurious private dining experience.\n\nRestaurants owners on Julie's road trip told her they were struggling with a lack of customers\n\nJulie, who says many beaches were deserted, took this photo of the popular Praia da Rainha in Cascais\n\nCrowds at Praia da Rainha in Cascais, in the pre-coronavirus world of August 2016\n\nBut Julie from Surbiton, south-west London, admits the solitude wasn't always a relief. Tourism is a major industry in Portugal and is popular with British holidaymakers, with almost three million UK visitors a year. The restaurants often lacked \"a bit of atmosphere\", she says, adding that the staff were anxious for the future, and owners were \"hacked off\" and \"obviously devastated\" that their country still has not made it on to the UK's quarantine-free lists. \"You do feel massively sorry for them because they are just desperate for business,\" she says.\n\nPortugal's border is open to British citizens, but the UK government advises against travel to most parts unless the trip is essential. On arrival to the mainland, travellers have to do a health screening, and those going to Madeira, Porto Santo or the Azores must take a coronavirus test on arrival or before travelling.\n\nCheap flights, deserted beaches and a free cocktail or two mean now that Julie is home, she's spending her 14 days of isolation persuading her previously horrified friends that Portugal is the place to be in a pandemic. \"If you can just work from home when you get back, it's ideal.\"\n\nFor Adam Welch, a self-imposed month of minimal social contact at home in Kirkham, Lancashire, is the price he's paying for a five-night getaway to Croatia.\n\nThe 18-year-old and three friends have formed a temporary household bubble at an Airbnb in Split. In order to reduce the chance of spreading the virus to one another, or to anyone else on their return to the UK, the friends agreed to minimise their social contact with anyone for 14 days before going away and 14 days after getting back. \"I just think it comes down to thinking of other people,\" Adam says.\n\nThe pandemic led to exams and celebrations being cancelled in Adam's final year of college, so the sacrifice of semi-quarantine will be worth it to \"let my hair down\" on holiday, he says. \"If someone said to me at the start of the year, 'if you go on holiday you have to isolate for 14 days afterwards in your house', I'd be like: 'no way. I can't do that, it sounds so hard'. But now it just sounds easy.\"\n\nSo far in Split, the four friends have enjoyed eating out, going out for drinks, exploring the city, and snorkelling off picture-perfect beaches. People have to wear masks in shops and on public transport in Croatia but locals aren't observing social distancing at all, Adam says. While it's weird to see, he adds, it's a nice break from the rules and regulations in place in the UK.\n\nAdam Welch says he's happy to give up Croatia's nightclubs in favour of its beaches\n\nIn the hiatus between finishing college and starting university in York in September, Adam admits he's tempted by Croatia's nightclubs, which are open albeit with some additional cleaning measures to combat the spread of the virus. But Adam says the \"lads' holiday\" will be a more muted affair than it would have been in normal times. \"At the end of the day, we're in a nice apartment, we can just get some drinks from a shop and stuff like that, and chill out with each other. We can definitely have a really good time and we don't have to go clubbing.\"\n\nEngland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland have separate, albeit similar, lists of destinations that are exempt from the quarantine rule.\n\nFor some of the most popular warm weather hotspots among Brits, we've got more details of what to expect when you're there.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Selected live radio and text commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, BBC Sounds, the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nNovak Djokovic has apologised for hitting a line judge with a ball at the US Open, saying he is \"extremely sorry for creating her such stress\".\n\nThe world number one was disqualified from his fourth-round match against Spain's Pablo Carreno Busta.\n\nThe Serb, 33, who had just had his serve broken, took a ball out of his pocket and hit it behind him, striking the woman in her throat.\n\n\"This whole situation has left me really sad and empty,\" said Djokovic.\n\n\"I checked on the linesperson and the tournament told me that thank God she is feeling OK.\n\n\"I'm extremely sorry to have caused her such stress. So unintended. So wrong. I'm not disclosing her name to respect her privacy.\"\n• None 'Djokovic will win again - hopefully with a little more humility'\n• None Right decision to disqualify Djokovic, says Henman\n\nAfter a lengthy discussion, Djokovic was defaulted by tournament officials at Flushing Meadows.\n\nHe will lose all ranking points earned at the US Open and will forfeit the prize money he had won at the tournament. He could also be fined for the incident.\n\n\"As for the disqualification, I need to go back within and work on my disappointment and turn this all into a lesson for my growth and evolution as a player and human being,\" Djokovic added in a statement on Instagram.\n\n\"I apologise to the US Open tournament and everyone associated for my behaviour. I'm very grateful to my team and family for being my rock support, and my fans for always being there with me.\n\n\"Thank you and I'm so sorry.\"\n\nHis exit ended his hopes of winning an 18th Grand Slam title and narrowing the gap on Rafael Nadal (19) and Roger Federer (20) in the race to finish with the most men's major wins.\n\nOops you can't see this activity! To enjoy Newsround at its best you will need to have JavaScript turned on.\n\nDjokovic showed his frustration after losing serve to trail 6-5 against Carreno Busta in the first set.\n\nHe also showed a flash of temper two games earlier at 5-4 - whacking a ball into an advertising board after the Spaniard saved three set points.\n\nLeon Smith, Great Britain's Davis Cup captain, said he was \"surprised\" Djokovic did not get a warning for that incident, and felt one might have prevented the controversy which followed.\n\nAfter Djokovic was defaulted, Smith told BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra: \"There has to be consistency, if someone hits a ball with that much venom and temper, call a warning.\n\n\"The second one can be dangerous and so it proved to be.\"\n\nDjokovic pleaded his case with tournament referee Soeren Friemel and Grand Slam supervisor Andreas Egli during a long conversation at the net.\n\nEventually, however, he accepted his fate and shook hands with Carreno Busta, who looked shocked by what had happened as he waited in his chair for a decision.\n\nFriemel said that there was not \"any chance of any opportunity of any other decision other than defaulting Novak because the facts were so clear, so obvious\" and that there was \"no discretion involved\".\n\nThe tournament referee added: \"His point was that he didn't hit the line umpire intentionally. He said 'yes, I was angry, I hit the ball, I hit the line umpire, the facts are very clear, but it wasn't my intent, I didn't do it on purpose, so I shouldn't be defaulted for that'.\n\n\"We all agreed that he didn't do it on purpose but the facts are still that he hit the line umpire and that the line umpire was clearly hurt.\"\n\nDjokovic left Flushing Meadows without doing his news conference.\n\nMore controversy for Djokovic in a contrasting 2020\n\nGoing into the fourth-round match against Carreno Busta, Djokovic was aiming to extend his unbeaten run in 2020 to a 27th victory.\n\nInstead of receiving more plaudits for his on-court performances, he made an undignified exit in what became the latest controversy involving him this summer.\n\nIn June, Djokovic was one of several players - along with Grigor Dimitrov, Borna Coric and Viktor Troicki - who tested positive for coronavirus after playing at the world number one's Adria Tour competition.\n\nDjokovic apologised for staging the exhibition event in the Balkans, which was held in front of fans and without social distancing rules being observed.\n\nThe first leg in Serbia attracted 4,000 fans, and players were later pictured dancing close together in a Belgrade nightclub.\n\nIn Croatia's second leg, players were pictured taking part in a basketball match.\n\nDjokovic said they had \"met all health protocols\" in the two countries, which had relatively low levels of recorded Covid-19 cases at the time.\n\nAfter announcing his positive test, he conceded it had been \"too soon\" to stage the event.\n\nIn the midst of the pandemic, Djokovic was accused of being opposed to vaccines - something which he later denied - and also drew criticism for saying water could be purified by positivity.\n\nOn the eve of the US Open, he found himself at the centre of more controversy after driving the creation of a new players' union.\n\nDjokovic and Canadian Vasek Pospisil led about 70 players in forming the Professional Tennis Players' Association, with those joining unhappy at the ATP's governance and wanting to increase the power of the players.\n\nNadal and Federer were among those who opposed the new union and questioned its timing, while Britain's former number one Andy Murray called for WTA players to be involved.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Behind the scenes of their title triumph\n• None Can you truly be one or the other?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police are looking for this man after an attacker killed one victim and wounded seven other people\n\nFootage of a man suspected of killing one person and injuring seven others in a spate of stabbings across Birmingham city centre has been released.\n\nThe attacks in the early hours sparked a massive police manhunt for the suspect.\n\nA 23-year-old man was killed in Irving Street at 01:50 BST, West Midlands Police said. A man and a woman, aged 19 and 32, suffered critical injuries.\n\nFive other people, aged between 23 and 33, were also hurt.\n\nThey were taken to hospital and so far two have been discharged.\n\nThe public are urged to remain vigilant and not to approach the man pictured\n\nThe CCTV footage shows a man wearing a baseball cap and a dark hoodie with white drawstrings.\n\nAlso wearing dark-coloured trousers and shoes, he can be seen standing and walking on a street corner.\n\n\"At this stage we believe that the attacks were random and we have no indication of a motive,\" said Ch Supt Steve Graham, who urged the public to remain vigilant.\n\n\"We are appealing for anyone who recognises the man in the footage to contact us urgently. If you see him, please do not approach him, but dial 999 immediately.\"\n\nWest Midlands Police were first called to Constitution Hill where a man sustained a superficial injury just after 00:30 BST, then to Livery Street 20 minutes later, where the 19-year-old man was critically injured and a woman was also hurt.\n\nAn hour later at 01:50 BST, police were sent to Irving Street, where the 23-year-old died and another man suffered serious injuries.\n\nTen minutes later, they were called to Hurst Street where the 32-year-old woman was critically injured and two men suffered lesser injuries.\n\nThe stabbings do not appear to be terrorism related or gang related, police said.\n\nMr Graham added: \"We do not underestimate the impact that these incidents have had on the city of Birmingham today.\n\n\"We declared this a major incident at the earliest opportunity and we have drafted in scores of officers to help with the investigation and patrol the city to reassure residents and visitors that we are doing all we can to apprehend the person responsible.\"\n\nA cordon remains in place at the scenes of the stabbings\n\nMultiple witnesses saw the attacks, including Nikita Denton who was out celebrating her 29th birthday and helped stop one of the women bleeding in the street.\n\nAnother, restaurant owner Savvas Sfrantzis, described seeing the attacker walk calmly away after stabbing a woman repeatedly.\n\n\"I looked at him, facing him, and I can see he had a blade, small, not very big, and he was stabbing her in the neck.\n\n\"He was like very cold and he wasn't panicking and he wasn't reacting or anything. After he stabbed her between five and seven times... he walked off as if nothing has happened.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nikita Denton told the BBC the victim she helped was alone and in a state of shock\n\nOfficers have recovered a knife from a drain but Mr Graham said it was \"way too early\" to say if it was connected to the case.\n\nAt an earlier press conference he was asked how the knifeman was able to move through the city centre for more than two hours without being caught.\n\nMr Graham said the suspect's route through the city was \"relatively unusual\".\n\nHe added: \"There was no suggestion people had seen him running out, area searches were being made at the time, unfortunately the subject wasn't caught.\"\n\nAreas of the city centre have been cordoned off\n\nThe force's police and crime commissioner David Jamieson labelled the assaults \"disturbing\", with the violence unfolding as revellers had been enjoying the night.\n\nJulia Robinson, from the Southside Business Improvement District, said businesses were in \"shock\" and had worked through the night to provide police with CCTV footage from the area.\n\nWest Midlands Police said extras officers had \"flooded\" the city centre and forensic experts had examined four scenes.\n\nA heavy police presence remained throughout the day, with armed officers, patrols, riot vans and squad cars visible.\n\nWere you in the area? Did you witness what happened? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The owner of High Street fashion chain Primark has said sales have been higher than expected since stores reopened after lockdown, but are still lower than last year.\n\nAssociated British Foods said sales since reopening would hit £2bn by the end of the year.\n\nHowever, that would be 12% lower on a like-for-like basis than in 2019.\n\nPrimark's four biggest stores, in Birmingham, Manchester and London, were especially hard hit, it said.\n\n\"If the four large UK destination city centre stores are excluded, the decline is 5%,\" it added.\n\nPrimark's biggest UK store is in Birmingham and has 160,000 sq ft of floorspace. The next largest, in Manchester, is 155,000 sq ft.\n\nIts two stores on London's Oxford Street are 82,000 sq ft and 70,000 sq ft respectively.\n\n\"After a period of store closure, we are encouraged by the strength of our sales,\" AB Foods said in its latest trading update.\n\n\"In the latest four-week UK market data for sales in all channels, Primark achieved our highest-ever value and volume shares for this time of year.\"\n\nThe firm said trading in its food divisions had also been better than predicted so far in the fourth quarter.\n\n\"Since reopening Primark stores, we have seen increasing numbers of transactions driven by footfall,\" it added.\n\n\"The average basket size was initially significantly higher than last year, reflecting some pent-up demand, and while this out-performance has reduced in recent weeks, it remains higher than a year ago.\n\n\"We have continued our policy of offering the best prices, and markdowns for the period since reopening have been low.\"\n\nPrimark had made it clear before its stores reopened on 15 June that there would be no special discounts to shift stock.\n\nAB Foods said full-year profits at Primark in the year to 12 September would be at least at the top end of its previously advised £300m to £350m range.\n\nLast year, the equivalent figure was £913m.\n\nAB Foods said its grocery revenues would be bigger than last year, with growth in brands such as Twinings tea and Ryvita crispbread.\n\nHowever, it said sales of Ovaltine were held back by the impact of coronavirus on impulse sales, particularly in Thailand and Vietnam.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People arriving in Wales and Scotland from Portugal must now self-isolate for 14 days, but the rules covering England and Northern Ireland are unchanged.\n\nThe difference between the nations has been criticised as confusing.\n\nThe rules for Wales apply from 04:00 BST on Friday, while in Scotland they begin 24 hours later on Saturday.\n\nCases in Portugal have risen in the past week beyond the threshold at which ministers generally consider imposing 14-day mandatory self-isolation.\n\nThe Department for Transport said decisions around adding or removing countries from the quarantine list \"take into account a range of factors\" - including how many people are being tested.\n\n\"Portugal has drastically increased its testing capacity, as well as taking measures to control the spread of the virus,\" said a spokesperson, adding it would closely monitor the situation.\n\nThe latest quarantine rules introduced in Wales apply to travellers from Portugal, Gibraltar, six Greek islands and French Polynesia.\n\nThe six islands are Crete, Mykonos, Zakynthos (or Zante), Lesvos, Paros and Antiparos.\n\nScotland has already reintroduced self-isolation measures for arrivals from Greece and has now added Portugal and French Polynesia to its list of countries requiring quarantine.\n\n\"This week's data shows an increase in test positivity and cases per 100k in Portugal,\" said Scottish justice minister Humza Yousaf.\n\nChanges to the rules for arrivals from Greece coming to England have been considered - but Greece will stay on its safe list for now.\n\nIn Portugal, the seven-day infection rate has increased from 15.3 to 23 per 100,000 people. This is above the threshold of 20 which is when the UK government generally considers triggering quarantine conditions.\n\nGreece's rate overall is below the threshold at 13.8 coronavirus cases per 100,000 people in the seven days to 2 September, down from 14.9 a week earlier.\n\nUK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said on Thursday: \"There are no English additions or removals today. We continue to keep the travel corridor list under constant review and won't hesitate to remove countries if needed.\"\n\n\"Nonetheless, holidaymakers are reminded - 14-day quarantine countries can and do change at very short notice.\"\n\nHe said the government takes several factors into account, including the prevalence of the virus as well as the level and rate of change, how many tests the country is doing, the extent of the contained outbreak and the government's actions.\n\nNorthern Ireland's department of health also confirmed that NI would not make any further changes at present.\n\nThe changes have drawn criticism from industry experts as well as holidaymakers.\n\n\"The quarantine policy is in tatters and dividing the United Kingdom,\" said Paul Charles, chief executive of travel consultancy firm The PC Agency.\n\n\"Consumers are totally confused by the different approaches and it's impossible to understand the government's own criteria any more on when to add or remove a country.\n\n\"The current strategy has to change. The weekly reviews have been causing anxiety and financial pain for so many consumers and travel firms,\" he added.\n\nRory Boland, editor of Which? Travel, said: \"Days of speculation around this announcement meant many people rushed to pay extortionate prices for flights back to England to avoid having to quarantine on their return - only to now find out there was no need.\n\n\"The government knows this and yet it continues to offer no clarity around how these decisions are made.\"\n\nOne aviation boss described travelling abroad right now as \"quarantine roulette\" because the list of destinations which are affected keeps changing.\n\nBut the governments in Westminster, Edinburgh and Cardiff are now clearly at odds over which countries pose a clear risk.\n\nPortugal's infection rate is above the UK government's benchmark of 20 cases of the virus for every 100,000 people.\n\nBut the UK government has surprised us all and not added Portugal to the list for England. It's not clear why.\n\nGreece is even more complicated as the Welsh government is opting for a policy where only people arriving from certain Greek islands have to self-isolate while Scotland has introduced a quarantine for arrivals from across Greece.\n\nFor months the travel industry has been lobbying the UK government for an approach where they consider particular regions in a country but ministers in London are not keen on the idea.\n\nThe quarantine was already hard or impossible to police.\n\nBut discrepancies between different UK nations makes it even harder as someone could, theoretically, fly into Newcastle from Greece and drive into Scotland. That person should self-isolate for 14 days, but no-one will be checking.\n\nSome holidaymakers have told the BBC they have paid as much as £1,000 for flights to get home from Portugal in anticipation of the rules changing.\n\nKelly, from Birmingham, and her family changed their flights home from the Algarve from Saturday to Friday at a cost of £900 to avoid potential quarantine because she did not want her children to miss out on two weeks of school.\n\nThe 45-year-old said the situation was \"absolutely disgusting\".\n\n\"It's cost us a lot more money and it's money we didn't need to spend now. We've lost an extra night in our villa - we won't get that back - we've got a hire car, so we're taking that back a day early.\"\n\nShe added: \"The government just change the goalposts left, right and centre at the moment. It's embarrassing.\"\n\nDamian Martin from Swansea - who is currently on holiday in Lagos, Portugal - said he only arrived earlier on Thursday.\n\n\"Work had been full on so I decided to go,\" said Damian\n\n\"I had already switched my holiday from Spain and I won't be able to come back early,\" he said. \"I will be able to self-isolate, I think, but I work for a supermarket so will have to check in with them.\"\n\nHe added: \"I'm supposed to be here eight nights. I might as well try to enjoy it.\n\nEvery year, more than two million Britons visit Portugal. Most head to the Algarve in the south, drawn by sunny Atlantic beaches, picturesque fishing villages and golf courses.\n\nDuring May and June, the Portuguese government reopened its restaurants, coffee shops, museums and beaches. Hotels have mainly reopened, but nightclubs remain closed.\n\nAre you currently on holiday in Portugal or Greece? Have you made plans to travel there? Share your thoughts by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ian Cottrell said he was \"shocked\" at the lack of social distancing\n\nFive bars in Cardiff city centre have been ordered to improve the way they operate in order to comply with social distancing guidance.\n\nIt follows \"concern\" raised by health officials about a video which showed crowds of clubbers appearing to ignore guidelines at Coyote Ugly bar.\n\nCardiff council said Coyote Ugly, along with Peppermint, Mocka Lounge, Rum and Fizz, and Gin and Juice had 48 hours to make changes.\n\nThey could otherwise face closure.\n\n\"It is the responsibility of businesses to ensure that social distancing is maintained and their premises can be used in a way that is safe for customers and staff and minimises the potential for Covid-19 to spread,\" said the council's cabinet member for environment, Michael Michael.\n\n\"Ensuring the city centre is safe to visit is a priority and scenes like those seen on St Mary Street at the weekend are simply unacceptable.\n\n\"Businesses should be in no doubt that we will take action against any premises that aren't operating in a safe manner.\n\n\"Officers will be returning to the businesses issued with improvement notices, and visiting others across the city, and will not hesitate to issue closure notices if needed.\"\n\nThe footage was captured by Ian Cottrell on lower St Mary Street in Cardiff and was posted on social media.\n\nIt shows crowds outside the Coyote Ugly bar at about 00:30 BST on Saturday, but the venue said it adhered to coronavirus rules and turned away large crowds.\n\nDr Giri Shankar, from Public Health Wales, said people needed to be responsible.\n\n\"I saw the videos and I was really concerned,\" he told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"It is disappointing that people are congregating in large numbers without having any regard to social distancing.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's more about people taking more individual and collective responsibilities. We all have to do our part.\"\n\nThe council said its officers visited Coyote Ugly over the weekend and the venue \"acted quickly to resolve a number of identified issues\".\n\nSouth Wales Police said officers spoke with staff at the venue on Friday evening, and the venue was also visited on Saturday \"to try and prevent similar issues this evening and in the future\".\n\nSouth Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Alun Michael said the issue was for councils but police \"can intervene\" if people break the law.\n\nBut he added: \"I don't think it's a policing issue. The alternative is to shut the night-time economy.\n\n\"If you have crowds behaving in an irresponsible way... they are not just an issue for the police, they are an issue of public health. The problem has to be solved collectively.\"\n\nCoyote Ugly said it was \"very careful\" to comply with all the rules.\n\nMeanwhile, Carmarthenshire council is asking people to comply with rules after a cluster of cases which, it said, centred around a presentation evening held on Saturday August 29 at Drefach Cricket and Football Club, organised in \"breach of coronavirus regulations\".\n\nIt said 12 people who are linked to the evening have tested positive for Covid-19 and other attendees will be required to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nIn a statement, the club said some senior players had tested positive and it \"immediately advised Public Health Wales and are liaising with them on a continuing basis\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grant Shapps says the government now has the “data and capacity” to add and remove islands from quarantine list.\n\nTravellers arriving in England from seven Greek islands will have to self-isolate for 14 days from 04:00 BST on Wednesday, Grant Shapps has said.\n\nThe islands affected are Crete, Lesvos, Mykonos, Santorini, Serifos, Tinos, and Zakynthos (also known as Zante).\n\nThe government says islands can be treated differently from their mainland countries if infection rates differ.\n\nBut airlines have been critical of the time it has taken - Easyjet's boss said the change was \"too little, too late\".\n\nSpeaking to MPs in the Commons, Transport Secretary Mr Shapps said the government would use better data to pinpoint risks on popular islands.\n\nHe said that would provide \"increased flexibility\" to add or remove them from the quarantine list for England - distinct from mainland destinations - as infection rates change.\n\nHe said this would \"help boost\" the UK's travel industry while continuing to keeping the travelling public safe.\n\nMr Shapps said the coronavirus infection rate was still too high in Spain's Balearic and Canary Islands to remove them from the list of destinations from where travellers returning to England must quarantine.\n\nTravellers returning to England from Santorini must self-isolate for 14 days\n\nHe said the government was \"working actively on the practicalities\" of using coronavirus testing to cut the 14-day quarantine period for people arriving in the UK from high-risk countries.\n\nPurely testing people on arrival \"would not work\", Mr Shapps said, but quarantine combined with testing was \"more promising.\"\n\n\"My officials are now working with health experts with the aim of cutting the quarantine period without adding to infection risk or infringing our overall NHS test capacity,\" he said.\n\nHe added that if someone was unable to quarantine for 14 days after returning to the UK \"it might be best not to travel\".\n\nBeth Maybury, who is on holiday is Crete, says she feels more comfortable there than in the UK because it is \"less crowded\".\n\nThe 24-year-old from Leeds, who will return to England before the quarantine deadline, said: \"Bars etc just seem a lot quieter, the hotel seems not even at half capacity so there's plenty of room round the pool or beach. There just seems to be a lot more awareness in terms of masks too.\"\n\nKarl Brown, who is on holiday in Santorini with partner Lauren, says he \"can't believe\" it is on the quarantine list because the island is \"quiet\" and social distancing is in place.\n\nThe couple are due to fly back on Wednesday and say they are trying to change their flight as they are due back at work.\n\nDevolved governments set their own travel rules and there are variations across the UK nations on some countries, including Greece.\n\nTravellers arriving in Wales from six Greek islands must already quarantine - these islands are Crete, Lesvos, Mykonos, Paros and Antiparos and Zakynthos.\n\nThe Scottish government has imposed quarantine restrictions on the whole country of Greece. Northern Ireland currently has Greece on its list of countries exempt from quarantine.\n\nFor months, the UK government has been lukewarm about the idea of only applying travel quarantine on a regional basis.\n\nLast week it came under sustained pressure from bosses in the aviation sector.\n\nThey're desperate to know when international travel might recover in a meaningful way.\n\nOne airport boss was scathing, accusing the government of \"overseeing the demise of UK aviation\".\n\nThe Welsh government also then decided its travel quarantine would, in the case of Greece, be managed on a regional level, with six Greek islands added to its list.\n\nThe UK government says its decision to regionalise quarantine now for England is driven by improved availability of data at a regional level in countries abroad.\n\nBut the change isn't silencing the critics.\n\nEasyjet is the latest big name in travel to lay into the government. Its boss told me the situation is too confusing and much of the damage has already been done.\n\nHis warning to ministers: come-up with a substantial recovery plan for UK aviation or much of the damage to the sector will be permanent.\n\nLabour's shadow transport secretary Jim McMahon described the government's handling of the pandemic as \"chaotic\", saying that \"for months\" there had been no restrictions on travellers entering the UK.\n\n\"By the time restrictions were introduced, we were one of only a handful of countries in the world who had failed to take action,\" he said.\n\nJohan Lundgren, the boss of airline Easyjet, told the BBC the government's latest change to its quarantine rules was \"too little, too late\", as the peak of the summer holiday season had passed.\n\n\"This is something we have argued for a long time - it should not have been a blanket instrument when it comes to quarantine. It should be based on risk and on a much more targeted approach,\" he said.\n\nHe urged the government to devise a plan for UK aviation, warning that the sector would not recover in a meaningful way without one.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do I quarantine after returning from abroad?\n\nA spokesman for British Airways' owner IAG said it was \"evident\" in July that islands should be treated separately and the government was \"too slow in making obvious decisions\".\n\n\"For most families, summer is now over and the damage to the industry and the economy is done,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to get on with (testing). We are way behind other countries on what has to be a more nuanced approach.\"\n\nAirport Operators Association chief executive Karen Dee welcomed the change in approach but said it was unlikely to significantly improve consumer confidence, while quarantine was \"devastating the UK aviation industry\".\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK, which represents UK carriers, said a testing regime was \"urgently required\".\n\nHeathrow Airport welcomed the announcement that testing to shorten quarantine was being considered by the government and that air bridges to islands would be used where appropriate.\n\n\"If introduced, these vital policy changes would show the government understands how critical the restoration of air travel is to this country's economic recovery,\" a statement said.", "The 2020 Games Olympics are scheduled to start on 23 July next year\n\nThe postponed Tokyo Olympic Games will go ahead next year \"with or without Covid\", the vice-president of the International Olympic Committee says.\n\nJohn Coates confirmed to news agency AFP that the Olympics would start on 23 July next year, calling them the \"Games that conquered Covid\".\n\nThey were originally scheduled to start in July 2020, but were postponed due to Covid-19 fears.\n\nThe IOC had earlier said they would not delay the Games beyond 2021.\n\n\"The Games were going to be their theme, the Reconstruction Games after the devastation of the tsunami,\" Mr Coates told AFP, referring to 2011 catastrophic earthquake and tsunami in Japan.\n\n\"Now very much these will be the Games that conquered Covid, the light at the end of the tunnel.\"\n\nIn July, Tokyo 2020 chief executive Toshiro Muto said it was possible that the Games be held to a \"limited\" audience, but said they wanted to avoid the possibility of having no spectators at all.\n\nInstead, he added that the Games could potentially \"simplify\" its opening and closing ceremonies, as well as reduce the number of staff and delegations from each country.\n\nJapan had spent years preparing for the Tokyo Games\n\nMore than 11,000 athletes from around 200 countries were scheduled to take part in the 2020 Games. It is not clear how travel restrictions might impact their participation as Japan's borders are currently largely closed to foreign visitors.\n\nMr Muto also said a vaccine was not a prerequisite for the Games, though health experts had cast doubt over whether the Games could be held without a vaccine.\n\n\"If a vaccine is ready, that will be a benefit, but we're not saying we can't hold the event without it - it's not a precondition,\" he said.\n\nIn April, Games chief Yoshiro Mori said the Tokyo Games would have to be cancelled if there were not held in 2021.\n\nExplaining this decision, IOC President Thomas Bach said: \"You cannot forever employ 3,000 to 5,000 people in an organising committee. You cannot every year change the entire sports schedule worldwide of all the major federations.\"\n\nBefore the pandemic, the Games had only ever been cancelled because of war, but never postponed.", "The attacks happened at four locations across Birmingham city centre\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after one person died and seven others were injured in stabbings across Birmingham city centre.\n\nThe 27-year-old suspect was arrested at an address in the Selly Oak area of the city at about 04:00 BST, West Midlands Police said.\n\nOfficers said he was also being held over seven counts of attempted murder.\n\nThe attacks happened at four Birmingham locations over a period of 90 minutes in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Forensic officers seen at property in Selly Oak\n\nForensic officers have been seen conducting searches at an end-of-terrace house in a cul-de-sac in Selly Oak, where neighbours said a police raid took place in the early hours.\n\nEyewitness Robert McLeod, who said he saw two men and a woman walking, stated: \"He looked like he just wanted to walk through them.\n\n\"But the three people obviously stopped, cos... when someone's walking in, you sort of get out the way.... He just launched at her chest and neck and started stabbing at her chest and neck.\n\n\"The armed response... comes to me and I say 'look, he's gone down there, it's a dead-end street' so they went down, but they couldn't find him.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSelly Oak resident John Astley said he was woken by a loud bang during the night and saw a police van parked outside the neighbouring property.\n\nHe said: \"I think there were three people living there. They have only been there a few months, since July or something like that.\n\n\"I had a look out of the front bedroom window and I just noticed there was a police van. I could hear a lot of noise coming from next door and it sounded like they were doing a search.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nikita Denton told the BBC how she helped a victim\n\nOfficers were first called out just after 00:30 on Sunday at Constitution Hill, where a man sustained a superficial injury.\n\nAbout 20 minutes later they were called to Livery Street, near Snow Hill railway station, where a 19-year-old man was critically injured and a woman was also hurt.\n\nAt 01:50, police were sent to Irving Street, where a 23-year-old man suffered fatal injuries and another man was seriously hurt.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. West Midlands Police released CCTV footage on Sunday evening of a man they wanted to trace\n\nTen minutes later, they were called to Hurst Street, in the city's Gay Village, where a 32-year-old woman was critically injured and two men were less badly hurt.\n\nPolice say they are treating the attacks as \"random\" at this stage.\n\nCh Supt Steve Graham said: \"Officers worked through yesterday and into the early hours of this morning in a bid to trace the man we believe responsible for these terrible crimes.\n\n\"We issued CCTV footage of the suspect and had a strong response from the public. I'd like to thank everyone who shared our appeal and who provided information to the investigation.\n\n\"Clearly this is a crucial development but our investigation continues.\"\n\nPolice cordons around the crime scenes are being lifted\n\nA hotline number and website have been set up for members of the public to provide information, while some streets remain closed on Monday as investigations continue.\n\nJulia Robinson, the manager of Birmingham Southside Business Improvement District, described the \"chaos\" she saw as events unfolded on Sunday.\n\n\"I run a warden service in the city and they stand down at about midnight but that night it had been quite busy so we were getting them taxis from a local venue at about 1:30 to 1:45.\n\n\"We heard the screaming then a lot of people running and went outside to see what was going on.\n\n\"There was a man and a couple that had been injured, a man covered in blood, there was a girl on the ground who appeared to be bleeding quite profusely, people trying to help her.\n\n\"Then it was a case of standing back and we were doing our bit really to help with crowd control and to try and get everyone out of the area so the emergency services could do their job.\"\n\nQuestions have been raised about how the suspect was able to move around the city for 90 minutes.\n\nBirmingham MP Shabana Mahmood said she \"shares the same concerns as everybody else\", but the priority was supporting the police with their investigation.\n\nShe said: \"There will be a more appropriate stage to have a more forensic sort of detail about the way that the incident unfolded, and also the police response, and I will certainly be asking those questions as well.\n\n\"But for now I'm encouraged... the police have described a strong response to their CCTV footage appeal.\"\n\nWest Midlands mayor Andy Street told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was not right to say the police response was too slow.\n\n\"It's very easy to comment on a police investigation while it's live. I don't intend to fall into that trap,\" he said.\n\n\"[There are] lots of questions as to what happened during that two-hour period, but there's people making lots of assumptions from things that they quite frankly don't know.\"\n\nHe also said what happened in the early hours of Sunday \"does not define Birmingham\".\n\n\"We have to see it as a one-off random [incident], and what will define the city is our response to it now,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video posted on social media shows a number of emergency service vehicles at the scene\n\nWest Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson said the events had left the city \"in shock\".\n\n\"I'm pleased officers moved so quickly to compile and analyse the evidence available to track down the suspect and make an arrest. I hope this offers some comfort to the people of the West Midlands who have been so understandably worried.\n\n\"I'd also like to place on record my sincere thanks to the brave and hardworking police, hospital and ambulance staff who have acted so quickly to help the victims of this atrocity. My thoughts are with all those affected.\"\n\nExtra officers from the neighbouring Staffordshire and West Mercia forces were deployed in the city centre on Monday.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nThe weekly mass participation Parkrun events are set to resume in England by the end of October.\n\nParkrun events were suspended worldwide in March because of the global coronavirus pandemic.\n\nEvents will operate within Parkrun's government-approved Covid-19 framework, though there have been \"minimal changes\" to its operating model.\n\nParkrun said it was a \"watershed moment to drive change\" in creating a \"healthier and happier planet\".\n\nParkrun's chief executive Nick Pearson said they \"are not able to commit to the same timeline across the other Home Nations\" due to current restrictions across Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.\n\n\"However, we are aware of the implications of only opening in England and are continuing our work to overcome the challenges that this presents,\" he added.\n\nThe Parkrun movement was founded in Bushy Park, London in 2002 by Paul Sinton-Hewitt and is now in 22 countries.\n\nRunners or walkers can take part in 5km events on Saturday mornings while 2km junior events take place on Sunday mornings. Events are free and are run by volunteers.\n\nThere are 729 different locations across the UK staging the weekly events and more than two million runners have taken part.\n\nPearson added: \"Everything in life comes with a risk, and we know and accept that we cannot remove all risks from the Parkrun environment. However, it is also important to balance the public health benefits of reopening our events, against the associated public health risks.\n\n\"We now believe, having spent considerable time gathering and understanding the evidence, that the benefits to reopening Parkrun far outweigh the risks.\"", "People who break quarantine restrictions after returning to the UK will face tougher enforcement measures, the transport secretary has said.\n\nSpeaking to MPs, Grant Shapps stressed that failing to self-isolate for 14 days is a criminal offence that endangers \"the people you love and others that you've never even met\".\n\n\"We absolutely will be stepping up measures and I'm working with the home secretary and others to secure that, and I again will say more about it very soon,\" he said.\n\nMr Shapps also suggested it was more important for testing capacity to be made available for schools and universities rather than recent arrivals from overseas.\n\n\"Schools have gone back, universities have gone back, pressure on testing is very real at this particular moment in time,\" he said.\n\n\"I am not sure that we should be prioritising holidaymakers returning in the testing system over, for example, children going back to school.\"\n\nAsked whether passengers could be tested before they fly, he said it is \"worth additional examination\".\n\n\"A sort of pre-quarantine is something that other countries are using ... it's not an entirely straightforward solution, but I do think it is worth additional examination, and again I look to the scientists to help advise on this and they're being very forthcoming with that advice,\" he said.", "Netflix's chairman has said working from home has no positive effects and makes debating ideas harder.\n\nBut Reed Hastings, who founded the platform, also said its 8,600 employees would not have to return to the office until most of them had received an approved coronavirus vaccine.\n\nAnd he predicted most people would continue to work from home on one day a week even after the pandemic was over.\n\nA new UK government ad campaign is now asking workers to return to workplaces.\n\nThe Wall Street Journal newspaper asked Mr Hastings if he had seen any benefits from staff working from home.\n\n\"No. I don't see any positives,\" he replied\n\n“Not being able to get together in person, particularly internationally, is a pure negative,” Mr Hastings told the Wall Street Journal.\n\nNetflix is used by almost 200 million households worldwide.\n\nAnd it has already resumed producing its own series, documentaries and films.\n\n“We’re up and running in much of Europe and much of Asia,\" Mr Hastings said.\n\n\"And we’ve got a few things going on already in [Los Angeles],” he added.\n\n“The hope is that, through September and October, we can really get - with proper testing - a lot more running.”\n\nOther leading technology companies, however, have suggested employees may never return to the office.\n\nIn May, Twitter said staff could work from home \"for ever\".\n\nFujitsu has also made plans to allow staff to work from home permanently.\n\nAnd Facebook and Google have said employees can work remotely until at least the end of the year.", "A man who was stabbed to death in Birmingham has been described as \"the light of our life\" by his family who said he \"lit up every room\".\n\nWest Midlands Police said Jacob Billington, 23, was out with school friends from Liverpool visiting one of their group in Birmingham when he was attacked on Irving Street on Sunday morning.\n\nAnother friend, also 23, was seriously hurt and remains in a critical condition in hospital.\n\nHis family added Jacob was \"a funny, caring and wonderful person who was loved by every single person he met\" and \"we have been devastated by his loss\".\n\nThe force said another man, aged 30, who was stabbed in Livery Street and a 22-year-old woman, attacked in Hurst Street, remain in hospital in a critical condition.\n\nA 27-year-old man, arrested at his home in Selly Oak, remains in custody on suspicion of murder and seven counts of attempted murder.\n\nOfficers said three others, two men and a woman, were arrested from the same address on suspicion of assisting an offender.", "Pierre Gasly took a stunning upset win in the Italian Grand Prix for Red Bull's Alpha Tauri team in one of the most remarkable races in history.\n\nLewis Hamilton was dominating until he was penalised for being called in for a stop when the pit lane was closed.\n\nTwo safety cars in quick succession mixed up the order and Gasly took the lead after Hamilton served his penalty.\n\nMcLaren's Carlos Sainz closed him down but the Frenchman just held him off to take his first grand prix victory.\n\nHamilton fought back from last place, 18 seconds off the back of the pack, to seventh, just two places behind team-mate Valtteri Bottas.\n• None Wolff to stay at Mercedes next year\n\nHow on earth did that happen?\n\nGasly's win sealed an amazing turnaround in fortunes for the likeable 24-year-old, who just over a year ago was demoted from the senior Red Bull team to what was Toro Rosso and was renamed over the winter.\n\nGasly has been outstanding ever since, including taking a second place in Brazil last year, and few will begrudge him this win.\n\nIt is the junior team's second grand prix victory - their first also coming at Monza, with Sebastian Vettel in 2008.\n\nBut it was a cruel twist of fortune for Sainz, who had been running in a superb second place to Hamilton and should have been in a position to benefit from the world champion's penalty.\n\nBut the timing of the pit stops around two mid-race safety cars and then a red flag effectively ended Sainz's hopes.\n\nHe, along with all the leaders, pitted during the first safety-car period, triggered by a breakdown for Kevin Magnussen's Haas.\n\nThis was when Mercedes made the error that cost Hamilton his 90th grand prix win, calling him in as soon as the safety car was thrown and not noticing that race director Michael Masi had closed the pit lane because marshals were dealing with Magnussen's car close to the entry.\n\nGasly had made his stop a couple of laps before the first safety car so did not stop again, and this promoted him to third behind Hamilton and Racing Point's Lance Stroll for a mixed-up field at the restart.\n\nFerrari's Charles Leclerc was soon into fourth place, passing both Alfa Romeo cars into the first chicane on the first lap of racing, but the Monegasque then lost control at the Parabolica and crashed heavily, causing the race to be reflagged for repairs to be made to the barriers.\n\nThe race was restarted with a standing start with Hamilton ahead of Stroll, Gasly, the Alfa Romeos of Kimi Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzi and Sainz.\n\nHamilton missed the pre-race anti-racism demonstration because of a timing mix-up following his return to the garage for a pre-race comfort break, and once the race started, what had been looking like a routine win turned on its head on Mercedes' fateful decision.\n\nThe race surrendered to him at the start, when Bottas was slow away and had a dreadful first lap, passed by car after car as he slipped down to sixth place.\n\nFrom then on, Hamilton was untouchable until Mercedes made their mistake.\n\nHamilton went to see the stewards during the stoppage to check the penalty was fair. He took the restart from pole, but stopped at the end of the first lap, and his penalty demoted him to last.\n\nHe soon started lapping three seconds faster than anyone else and caught the field in no time, scything past car after car for a useful haul of points.\n\nBottas, his car struggling with overheating and uncertain handling in right-hand corners, could not make progress and became stuck behind other cars all race.\n\nHis fifth place moves him ahead of Red Bull's Max Verstappen in the championship after the Dutchman retired with collision damage, but Hamilton is 47 points ahead - almost two clear wins - with the season close to its halfway point.\n\nStroll threw away his opportunity for a maiden win with a poor start, and Gasly moved into second behind Hamilton, who pitted at the end of the first lap of racing to serve his penalty.\n\nSainz then fought past Stroll into Turn One at the start of the second lap but took another four laps to catch and pass Raikkonen, by which time Gasly had a four-second lead.\n\nThe Spaniard closed that down to be right on his tail at the start of the last lap but Gasly managed to hold him off.\n\nHe is the first Frenchman to win a race since Olivier Panis won the Monaco Grand Prix for Ligier in similarly unlikely circumstances in 1996.\n\nWhat happens next?\n\nAnother race in Italy next weekend - this time the Tuscany Grand Prix, also named for Ferrari's 1,000th race. It is a prospect to savour on a new track to F1. Mugello is renowned as a challenging, fast and flowing circuit and all the drivers are looking forward to it.", "Few commuters took the service on Monday morning\n\nThe metro in the Indian capital, Delhi, has reopened more than five months after it was shut down to prevent the spread of coronavirus.\n\nIt's India's largest rapid transport system - it carried 2.7 million passengers a day before the lockdown.\n\nMasks, social distancing and temperature checks are mandatory according to the new rules.\n\nThe move comes as case numbers continue to climb in India, with daily tallies of more than 80,000.\n\nThe country has so far reported more than 4.1 million cases, and 70,000 deaths.\n\nDespite the risks, India continues to reopen because the economy is still reeling from the effects of a prolonged lockdown.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt least 12 other metro services across the country are also reopening today.\n\nDelhi has reported a recent uptick in cases and fatalities after the numbers dipped briefly. But the city has been steadily reopening, with bars set to open next week.\n\nThe metro, however, is especially risky given the volume of passengers, and the fact that it covers large swathes of the sprawling capital.\n\nBut officials have released detailed rules to curb the spread of the virus.\n\nFor one, the 389km (247 mile)-long metro will open in a phased manner over the week, eventually servicing all 285 stations.\n\nThe yellow line, which connects 37 stations between north Delhi and the satellite city of Gurgaon, is the first to reopen. It's the oldest line and also the busiest, with a daily footfall of around 1.45 million.\n\nIn the first phase starting Monday, trains will run for four hours in the morning, beginning 07:00 IST, and for four hours in the evening, ending at 20:00 IST. Service hours will be extended from Friday onwards.\n\nPassengers will be allowed to sit on alternate seats or stand, maintaining adequate social distancing, according to the rules.\n\nThe trains will stop for an increased 10-20 seconds at stations to allow passengers sufficient time to board and alight without crowding around the doors.\n\nThe coaches are expected to be warmer than usual as more fresh air will be pumped in from outside to ensure increased air circulation and prevent the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nOnly a limited number of station gates will open to avoid a rush of passengers - stations usually have four entry and exit gates.\n\nSecurity guards wearing face shields will enforce rules in the stations\n\nSome 800 people will be deployed at all stations to \"ensure the cleanliness and orderliness inside stations\", and to regulate entry and exit of passengers, Metro officials said.\n\nAll passengers will be screened and have to sanitise their hands before entering the stations. Forty five stations have been provided with machines, which will screen commuters and sanitise their hands. Masks will be provided to passengers not wearing them.\n\nMetro authorities say the concourse, passages, platforms, stairs, escalators, hand rails and toilets will be disinfected every four hours.\n\nTrains will skip stations in areas with rising coronavirus cases\n\nOnly passengers carrying smart cards that can be digitally recharged will be allowed to travel. Many passengers used plastic travelling tokens before the lockdown.\n\nTrains will skip stations in areas with a high number of coronavirus cases, and where commuters are violating social distancing norms, they added.\n\n\"If we find that resumption of operations is not resulting in social distancing, then, we might have no option but to review these arrangements,\" Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri said recently.", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nPhil Foden and Mason Greenwood are to leave the England camp after an \"unacceptable\" breach of coronavirus quarantine guidelines in Iceland.\n\nThe Football Association is investigating the breaches after Saturday's 1-0 Nations League victory.\n\nManchester City midfielder Foden, 20, and Manchester United forward Greenwood, 18, both made their senior international debuts in the game.\n\nManager Gareth Southgate said they had been \"naive\" and had apologised.\n\nA Reykjavik Metropolitan Police spokesperson told BBC Sport that both players were fined 250,000 Icelandic krona (£1,360).\n\n\"It's a very serious situation and we have treated it that way and have acted as quickly as we have been able to,\" added Southgate.\n\n\"We have dealt with it appropriately. I recognise their age but the whole world is dealing with this pandemic.\"\n\nIn a social media post on Monday evening Foden said missing England's next game on Tuesday against Denmark \"hurts\" and he will \"learn a valuable lesson from this error in judgement.\"\n\n\"I made a poor decision and and my behaviour didn't meet the standards expected of me,\" he wrote.\n\n\"I apologise to Gareth Southgate, to my England team-mates, to the staff, supporters and also to my club and my family.\"\n\nAccording to reports in Icelandic and other media, Foden and Greenwood allegedly met two women in a separate part of the hotel away from where the England team were staying.\n\nWhen asked about the reports, Southgate said: \"Nothing has happened in the areas we occupy in the team hotel.\n\n\"We are still getting to the depths of all the information because it was only brought to my attention only a couple of hours before training.\n\n\"We had to decide very quickly that they couldn't have any interaction with the rest of the team, wouldn't be able to travel to training.\n\n\"Given the procedures that we have to follow now, they'll have to travel back to England separately.\"\n\nLater on Monday, an FA spokesperson said: \"Whilst in Iceland, both Phil Foden and Mason Greenwood spent time outside of our private team area, which was a breach of our Covid-19 rules.\n\n\"While they did not leave the team hotel, it was an unacceptable breach of our protocol. They have both apologised for their serious lack of judgement.\"\n\nThe FA has launched a \"full investigation\" and apologised to the Football Association of Iceland, saying it is \"taking the appropriate steps\". It has also assured the Danish Football Union \"that all other players and staff members have been isolated within our group throughout this period\".\n\nSouthgate has not chosen to call up any replacements and will have a 21-man squad to choose from for the match against Denmark in the Nations League on Tuesday (19:45 BST kick-off).\n\nGreenwood's England call-up followed a breakout season at United, in which he scored 17 goals, while Foden became a regular starter in Pep Guardiola's City side in 2019-20.\n\nA Manchester City spokesman said Foden's behaviour was \"totally inappropriate\" and \"fell well below the standard expected of a Manchester City player and England international\".\n\nA Manchester United statement said the club are \"liaising with the Football Association and are disappointed with the actions of Mason Greenwood\".\n\n'They have let Southgate, the team and fans down' - analysis\n\nA big part of being a footballer is discipline. These young lads made their debuts and have bright futures ahead of them. They are wonderfully talented footballers and will probably go on to make a lot of caps and he [Gareth Southgate] has done the right thing sending them home.\n\nThey have been irresponsible. They haven't just let Gareth down; they have let the group down and the fans. They are young lads and unfortunately they have to learn.\n\nI'm sure when they get going again next year, they will get themselves back in if they're playing well for their clubs. It's a horrible lesson to learn at a young age, when they have just got into the squad. That's what will upset Gareth.\n\nThey are young and naive. These are players that are just starting out their careers and it will stick with them for a long time.", "Uist in the Western Isles has been suggested as the location for a property trial\n\nCommunity figures have warned that rising property prices in the Hebrides and Skye are preventing locals from buying a home.\n\nIn an open letter they described the situation as akin to an \"economic clearance\" that was threatening the sustainability of the islands.\n\nThey said young islanders could not compete with offers made by buyers from elsewhere in the UK.\n\nIt follows claims parts of Scotland are seeing a post-lockdown property boom.\n\nThe uptick in interest has been put down to previously office-based staff being able to work from home and perceived lower rates of Covid-19.\n\nThe letter's signatories - which includes crofters, development officers and Gaelic campaigners - said 40% of housing stock on both Tiree in the Inner Hebrides and West Harris in the Western Isles were holiday homes.\n\nThey said the availability of affordable properties for young islanders had been a long-running problem, but was expected to worsen post-lockdown.\n\nThey pointed to reports of people across the UK looking to relocate to the Highlands and Islands, and having the means to make higher offers than local buyers.\n\nThe average purchase price for residential properties in the Western Isles have increased from £65,189 in 2004 to £123,048 last year, according to the Registers of Scotland.\n\nFor Argyll and Bute - which includes the Inner Hebrides - the prices over the same period have risen from £110,691 to £173,470. In the Highlands, which includes Skye, prices rose from £107,639 to £185,178.\n\nThe Scottish average prices were £113,289 in 2004 and £181,339 last year.\n\nThe Western Island and Argyll and Bute also saw the highest proportion of cash sales of all Scotland's local authority areas in 2019-20, where about 50% of all residential sales were cash sales.\n\nThe letter said: \"Part-time residencies do not sustain our communities and we should therefore ensure that houses are bought with the intention of being a primary residency.\n\n\"Inaction will allow this economic clearance to be consolidated in history.\"\n\nChristina Morrison and her husband moved back to the Western Isles from the mainland for a \"rare job interview\" and to raise a young family.\n\nBut they faced an uphill struggle finding a place in Uist to call their own.\n\n\"We were about to start a family and we wanted our family to grow up here on the islands and have the nice upbringing we had,\" she said.\n\n\"When we first moved over we had a really difficult time. We stayed in a hotel at one point and family helped out with temporary accommodation.\"\n\nThe couple lost out twice in bids for homes and Christina said the buyers in both instances were planning to use the properties as holiday homes.\n\nShe said: \"It was just pure luck we got the house we are in now.\"\n\nThe couple, who were just about to become parents, were told the owners of a house down the road from where they were staying had been seen packing up their household possessions.\n\nThe house had not yet gone on the market, but the sellers were keen for a quick sale and agreed to sell it Christina her husband.\n\nThe use of the term \"clearance\" echoes back to the Highland clearances when tenants were evicted from land in the 18th and 19th Centuries so landlords could increase their income.\n\nThe letter suggests Uist in the Western Isles be used as a trial location where properties are advertised locally in the first instance prior to being listed on the national market.\n\nThe letter said 40% of property on Tiree was used as a second home\n\nThe letter said: \"A recent example of a house in Uist becoming available for rental shows the scope for positive action.\n\n\"The owner agreed that the house should first be advertised to young locals, and a number of applications were received.\n\n\"They seized this opportunity to invest in the community by offering the house to a returning young couple with three children.\"\n\nThe letter comes after concerns were raised that Gaelic speakers among the islands' communities could vanish within 10 years.\n\nResearchers said daily use of Gaelic was currently too low to sustain it as a community language in the future.\n\nThe letter's signatories include Pàdruig Morrison, a Uist crofter, researcher and musician and architect and Gaelic campaigner Martin Baillie, from Skye.\n\nUist businesswoman Emma Axelsson and crofter Fiona NicÌosaig have also signed it.\n\nA lack of affordable housing for islanders is recognised in the Scottish government's National Plan for Scotland's Islands, which was published last year.\n\nThe plan's consultation process had \"highlighted that the availability of affordable, fit-for-purpose housing on Scottish islands presents a challenge for island communities\".\n\nThe challenges include young people deciding to leave island communities and a lack of accessible and affordable housing being a \"barrier\" to attracting families to island communities.\n\nIn the plan, the government made a commitment to support affordable housing projects.\n\nGordon Macrae, of homeless people's charity Shelter Scotland, said the solution to providing housing for islanders and meeting demand from people living elsewhere in the UK wanting to move to rural areas was to \"build more homes\".\n\nHe added: \"The problem for many parts of the Highlands, and the Borders as well, is that they have gone under-invested for so long.\"\n\nHousing Minister Kevin Stewart said the Scottish government recognised good quality, affordable homes were \"essential to help attract and retain\" people in Scotland's remote rural and island communities.\n\nHe said the government had committed record levels of investment as part of its efforts to deliver 50,000 affordable homes, with more than 4,800 homes delivered in rural and islands areas in the first four years of the current parliament and over £50m spent on affordable housing on islands in that time.\n\nMr Stewart said: \"While promoting rural properties to local people in the first instance clearly has merits in supporting local people to access housing, it would need to operate on a voluntary basis as the way in which an owner chooses to market their property is a matter entirely for them.\n\n\"However, we remain committed to affordable local housing solutions that allow people to stay, live and work in their communities.\"", "Production of Wagon Wheels and Jammie Dodger biscuits could be halted at an Edinburgh factory this month as staff strike over pay, a union has warned.\n\nThe GMB union accused Burton's Biscuits, which also makes Maryland cookies, of making a \"derisory\" pay offer that had \"insulted\" workers.\n\nIt said staff would stage three 24-hour walkouts, with the first on Wednesday.\n\nA Burton's Biscuits spokesman said it was \"shocked\" at GMB's request for a 7% pay rise but keen to resume talks.\n\nMore than 400 workers are employed at its Edinburgh factory, which makes around 7.5 million biscuits a day.\n\nGMB members at the plant voted by a majority of 91% for industrial action after management refused to increase a 1.6% annual pay rise offer.\n\nThe union said indefinite work to rule and an overtime ban will start tomorrow from 2pm, followed by strikes on 9, 16 and 23 September.\n\nGMB Scotland organiser Benny Rankin said: \"Burton's stubborn stance on this year's pay offer is an insult to staff that have worked throughout the lockdown at management's insistence.\n\n\"Their refusal to meaningfully engage with a workforce that deserve so much better means we have been left with little choice but to strike for a decent pay offer.\"\n\nBurton's Biscuits, which is owned by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan investment company, said the union was being unreasonable.\n\n\"Against the backdrop of growing economic uncertainty, the country entering a depression and rising levels of unemployment, we have made what we consider to be a series of very fair and reasonable offers, enabling us to provide job security alongside increased earnings.\n\n\"Alongside the challenging environment, this action may only serve to jeopardise our employees' ongoing job security.\"\n\nHe said the firm wanted to find a \"mutually acceptable solution\" and was willing to resume talks with the union.\n\n\"We also hope that we can return to full production as soon as possible and move forward in a spirit of unity and co-operation in a safe, enjoyable and productive working environment.\"\n\nBurtons, which also makes Cadbury biscuits under a perpetual licence, has three sites in the UK employing 2,200 workers.", "More than 30 horses have been killed or mutilated around France in recent months\n\nPolice in France have launched a manhunt for two suspects after the latest in a spate of horse mutilations.\n\nForty officers have flown by helicopter to the town of Losne, near Dijon, after a horse was attacked on Sunday morning.\n\nDozens of horses have been killed or maimed around the country this year, prompting public outcry.\n\nPolice do not know why the animals are being targeted, nor whether it is the work of one person, or if initial attacks have inspired copycat killings.\n\nDuring the latest incident, the horse's owner called police at around 02:00 local time (01:00 BST) on Sunday after seeing lamp lights in his meadow.\n\nThe Dijon prosecutor's office told local media that the horse had been injured in its flank, although the injury was not very severe.\n\nMore than 30 other cases have been reported in France, with horses being left with their ears and genitals cut off. Another was found disembowelled.\n\nAs part of their investigation into one attack in Yonne, north-west of Dijon, last month, police released an artist's impression of an alleged perpetrator spotted at the scene.\n\nAgriculture Minister Julien Denormandie later pledged that those responsible for the attacks would be brought to justice.\n\n\"All branches of the state are mobilising to get justice done,\" said Mr Denormandie during a visit to Saint-Eusèbe, in central France, where a horse's ear had recently been cut off.\n\n\"There is clearly a professionalism, people acting with a certain level of technique,\" he added.\n\nSerge Lecomte, president of the French Equestrian Federation, accompanied Mr Denormandie during the visit.\n\n\"It is cruel savagery of a kind we have rarely seen before,\" he told AFP. \"Is it a cult? Cruelty towards animals is the precursor to cruelty towards humans\".", "More than 1.1 million people are now affected by tougher restrictions on home visits after they were extended to two more areas in the west of Scotland.\n\nThe measures came into force in East Dunbartonshire and Renfrewshire at midnight after a rise in cases.\n\nThe rules had already been reimposed in Glasgow city, West Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire last week.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said acting quickly now could \"stem the tide of transmission\" in the area.\n\nBut she has warned that there is a \"definite trend\" of rising case numbers across Scotland.\n\nMeasures were reimposed in parts of the greater Glasgow area last week in response to a rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nPeople are being told not to host people from other households inside their own homes, or visit another person's home.\n\nMeetings in pubs and restaurants and outdoor areas are still permitted - although the Scottish government said the hospitality sector would be monitored in the coming days to see whether restrictions should be extended.\n\nA further 78 positive cases were reported in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board on Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: \"The hope is that we will stem the tide\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was \"too early\" to say whether the fresh lockdown had had any effect on cases.\n\nThe measures are targeted at household meetings, with Ms Sturgeon saying it was \"still the view of public health teams that the significant factor driving transmission is people meeting up in their own homes\".\n\nShe said local authorities in the area would \"pay close attention to hospitality\" and would encourage people to act responsibly while using bars and restaurants.\n\nThe widened restrictions - which also mean there should only be \"essential\" visits to people in hospitals and care homes - will be reviewed in a week's time.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the measures are not yet being extended to Lanarkshire or Inverclyde - noting that levels of infection were \"significantly lower\" in Inverclyde.\n\nThe restrictions will now apply to apply to 179,000 people living in Renfrewshire and 108,000 in East Dunbartonshire.\n\nThe city of Glasgow has a population of 633,120, while there are 95,530 people in East Renfrewshire and 88,930 in West Dunbartonshire.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was \"regrettable we are in this position\", but that the measures banning household visits were \"considered proportionate but also the most effective\".\n\nShe added: \"If we act quickly and preventatively now, we can stem the tide of transmission and avoid having other restrictions put in place.\"\n\nThe first minister had earlier warned that a continuing rise in Covid-19 cases in Scotland could see her government \"put the brakes\" on the planned easing of some restrictions.\n\nAn average of 152 positive tests have been recorded each day over the past week - compared to 14 per day six weeks ago.\n\nThe number of hospital admissions and deaths has not risen as sharply, although Ms Sturgeon warned that \"this may just be a matter of time\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. An air ambulance was called to the scene\n\nA 15-year-old boy is in a critical condition after he was shot on the way to school.\n\nOfficers were called just after 08:40 BST to the Grange Farm estate in Kesgrave, Suffolk, where a person was later seen receiving medical treatment.\n\nKesgrave High School said it had been told the incident involved one of its Year 11 students. The victim, who was shot once, was flown to hospital.\n\nSuffolk Police have arrested a boy, 15, in connection with the shooting.\n\nThe suspect, who is said to be from the Woodbridge area, was arrested by armed police on suspicion of attempted murder.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police cordons remain in place around the Grange Farm estate\n\nAn Essex and Herts Air Ambulance landed on an area of grass and took off just before 10:00.\n\nPolice said they were treating the shooting \"as an isolated incident\" and do \"not believe there is any wider threat to the local community\". The Suffolk force said it was thought a single shot was fired in the incident.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Rob Jones said: \"Following this serious incident our priority is to keep everyone safe.\"\n\n\"There will be more police officers on patrol and to provide reassurance in the area and I would ask for anyone with information about this incident to come forward,\" he added.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson told the House of Commons: \"I think we're all shocked and saddened to learn about the incident in which a young person was seriously hurt on their way to school in Suffolk today.\n\n\"Our thoughts are very much with the young person, their family and the whole school community at this very difficult time.\"\n\nEyewitness Andy Watts told the BBC he was out walking his dog when he heard \"a gunshot and then I heard a great big scream\".\n\n\"It sounded like scaffolding falling down originally because it was a big, big crash,\" he said.\n\n\"I saw them working on the young lad over on the green; he was over there for quite a while while they were attending to him, a lot of ambulance staff and paramedics working on him.\"\n\nPhil Bennett, 38, said his father lived near the scene in Kesgrave and heard a gunshot.\n\nMr Bennett said he drove to check on his parents at their home in Lyon Close after seeing vague details of the incident on Facebook and becoming concerned.\n\n\"My dad heard a gunshot,\" he said. \"He's a retired paramedic - he's heard a lot of gunshots in his time, so he stayed indoors.\n\n\"The next thing he knew there were police piling in, then it's a scene of crime.\n\n\"It's hard to believe this has happened 100 metres from my mum's front door, that someone's been shot. It's terrible what's going on.\"\n\nKesgrave is a small town on the edge of Ipswich that has grown rapidly over the past 20 years.\n\nIt has two primary schools and a high school and is packed with families. I've been to the scene of the shooting, in the heart of the town's Grange Farm estate, and the sense of shock about what's happened is palpable.\n\nThis is a tight-knit community where many people know and look out for each other. The police have reassured people that this is an \"isolated incident\" but the feeling of concern remains.\n\nKesgrave High, which said the pupil was on his way to school at the time of the incident, said in a statement: \"Students in school are safe and we are managing the situation in constant, close communication with the police.\"\n\nIt is understood Monday was the first day back at school for its Year 11 pupils following the coronavirus lockdown and the summer holiday.\n\nFriends Walk and Through Jollys have been closed off and there is a partial closure in Ropes Drive. Police have urged the public to avoid these areas.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The first minister said a resurgence of cases could see some restrictions being re-imposed\n\nA rise in coronavirus cases could see the Scottish government \"put the brakes\" on further changes to lockdown restrictions, Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nA total of 146 new cases of the virus were reported on Monday.\n\nThe first minister said the continued rise must be taken \"really seriously\".\n\nThe restrictions will be reviewed on Thursday, but Ms Sturgeon said it was unlikely Scotland would move to the next phase in her government's route map out of lockdown.\n\nAnd she said a \"resurgence\" of cases could see restrictions being re-imposed.\n\nAn average of 152 positive tests have been recorded each day over the past week - compared to 14 per day six weeks ago.\n\nHowever, this has not yet resulted in a spike in hospital admissions, with 256 people currently being treated for Covid-19.\n\nMs Sturgeon said there was a \"very definite trend\" of increasing case numbers over recent weeks.\n\nMore than 200 cases were recorded on Sunday - the highest number since May - with a particular increase in the Greater Glasgow area, where fresh restrictions on household visits has been imposed.\n\nThe new cases reported on Monday represented 2.4% of people tested, having regularly been below 1% two weeks ago.\n\nThe first minister said the figures should not come as a surprise and had echoed the way cases had increased in other countries as they reopened.\n\nShe said the virus currently seemed to be spreading among younger people, who were \"less likely\" to become seriously ill, and that this may be why hospital admissions have not risen as sharply.\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon said this context \"cannot and really must not be a source of complacency\".\n\nShe said the virus can still be a \"really nasty disease\" for young people, and that it will \"eventually seep into older and more vulnerable groups\".\n\nMs Sturgeon will reveal the outcome of the next review of lockdown measures at Holyrood on Thursday.\n\nShe said Scotland would not move to phase four of the \"route map\" until the virus \"is no longer considered a significant threat to public health\".\n\nAnd she warned: \"It may be that we have to put the brakes on some further changes too\".\n\nThe government had previously indicated that from 14 September, soft play areas and entertainment venues such as theatres and music venues could reopen, along with a limited reopening of stadiums.\n\nThe first minister added: \"The current situation in Greater Glasgow and Clyde is a reminder that if we see a resurgence in cases then restrictions may have to be re-imposed rather than being relaxed.\"\n\nLater this week the Scottish government will roll out a coronavirus contact tracing app, which will help track down people who have been in close proximity to those who test positive.\n\nMs Sturgeon said everyone would be encouraged to download the Protect Scotland app, stressing that it does not track people's location and that \"your data is not passed on and remains private and confidential\".\n\nShe said downloading the app was \"a small but really important individual step we can take for our collective wellbeing\".", "For the last few days India has added more than 75,000 daily infections daily\n\nIndia has recorded more than 90,000 new cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, taking its total above that of Brazil.\n\nThe country now has the second-largest number of confirmed cases in the world, 4,204,613. It has reported 71,642 deaths, the third-highest in the world.\n\nThe surge in reported infections has mostly come from five states.\n\nThe rise comes as the government continues to lift restrictions to try to boost an economy that lost millions of jobs when the virus hit in March.\n\nFor the last seven days India's caseload has galloped, adding more than 75,000 daily infections per day.\n\nMore than 60% of the active cases are coming from the states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state.\n\nCases have also begun spiking in the capital, Delhi, as well, with more than 3,200 infections recorded on Sunday, the city's highest in more than two months.\n\nAn upsurge of Covid-19 in many rural areas has also led to an uptick in numbers.\n\nThe virus has struck a remote tribe in India's Andamans islands, with 10 members of the Greater Andamanese testing positive over the past month.\n\nThe rise in cases is also partly a reflection of increased testing - the number of daily tests conducted across the country has risen to more than a million.\n\nAlthough India has a low death rate from the disease, nearly 1,000 deaths have been recorded every day from across the country for the last seven days.\n\nIn early August India became the third country in the world to pass two million cases.\n\nIndia went into a stringent lockdown in March in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus, whose numbers were only in the hundreds then.\n\nIt began to ease out of it in phases in June to promote economic activity, even as cases continued to spike.\n\nThe pandemic and the lockdown caused massive disruptions to economic activity during the quarter.\n\nIndia's economy shrank by 23.9% in the three months to the end of June, the worst slump since the country started releasing quarterly data in 1996.", "Rail firms are reassuring travellers major efforts have been taken to ensure their safety as services increase.\n\nTrains in England, Wales and Scotland were up to 90% of normal levels by Monday as schools reopen and people are encouraged to return to work.\n\nRail firms said anecdotal evidence suggested a slight increase in numbers but it was too soon for exact figures.\n\nWest Midlands Trains' Francis Thomas said there were \"big changes\", such as sanitising gel and one-way systems.\n\n\"If you haven't been to the railway station in the last couple of months you might find there's a one-way system at your local station, there's hand gel available and we've invested in anti-fogging machines that can spread an anti-viral on trains,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"And there's plenty of space. We reckon we can carry about 40% of normal loads before we start to breach social distancing.\"\n\nOne passenger told the BBC: \"I think you just have to get out… and then once you get out you kind of get rid of your fears.\"\n\nAnother reported there was plenty of space: \"I come in on the Chiltern Railways line into Marylebone and the trains were a lot, lot longer, and they've, barriered off certain seats. It wasn't too packed.\"\n\nJacqueline Starr, head of the Rail Delivery Group, which represents train operators and Network Rail, said rail services were \"doing everything they can\" to reassure people travel was safe.\n\nThe group said no service was reported as \"close to social distancing capacity\".\n\nTrain operators across the country have designed the new timetable, taking into consideration potentially busy stations and parts of routes that will experience higher demand for travel by schoolchildren.\n\nWhere possible, more frequent services will be put on or extra carriages added to create more room.\n\nStaff will also be on hand to explain the rules on wearing face coverings and maintaining social distancing to older children.\n\n\"Some train times will change so we're asking people to check before they travel and plan their journeys for quieter times if possible,\" said Ms Starr.\n\nOver the coming weeks, rail bosses have a delicate balance to strike.\n\nThey want more passengers back on the network, but they don't want a flood of commuters crowding trains and stations.\n\nUp to now, passenger numbers have remained low - on average, about a third of what it was before the pandemic.\n\nThe railways are not going back to where they were before the pandemic. Some services won't return. But in places, at certain times, more capacity will be created.\n\nDuring the pandemic, the government has been covering the huge cost of running the railways without passengers.\n\nSo there is also a financial incentive for ministers that passengers return.\n\nTrain companies are now working to manage passenger flows by warning people if a particular service is busy.\n\nSome modern trains, like those running on Southeastern and on Govia Thameslink, can monitor the weight load in carriages, allowing them to estimate the number of people on board.\n\nSoutheastern plans to share the data with passengers so they can avoid a specific train.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group said that reducing the timetable during the coronavirus lockdown and then gradually increasing services again in phases had led to improvements in punctuality.\n\nPassengers are advised to check before they travel and plan their journeys for quieter times\n\nIn particular, train operators and Network Rail had learned lessons about the effects of \"wear and tear\" on railway infrastructure, the effects \"knock-on delays\" caused to intensely-used routes, and the time trains take at each station.\n\n\"Before Covid one train was leaving a station at every second - we were congested. Obviously what this has allowed us to do is to look at the timetable and its resilience and to see where we can improve and increase punctuality and build and maintain that as we build back up the timetable,\" Robert Nisbet, regional director at the Rail Delivery Group, told the BBC.\n\nMr Nisbet added that the crisis had prompted another look at the way fares are structured: \"The need for reform has never been stronger, specifically when it comes to fares.\"\n\nHe said the regulations that governed fares needed changing and that talks were being held with government on this issue - including changes to make season tickets more flexible.\n\nAt the end of August, the government launched an advertising campaign encouraging people to go back to the workplace.\n\nBusiness leaders have warned of damage being done to city centres as people stay away from offices.\n\nHowever, many employers have no plans to return workers to the office.\n\nThe BBC questioned 50 big employers ranging from banks to retailers to get a sense of when they expected to ask employees to return to the office.\n\nOne of the main reasons given for the lack of a substantial return was that firms could not see a way of accommodating large numbers of staff while social distancing regulations were still in place.", "Hundreds of thousands of people may wait until 2022 for justice despite a government announcement to speed up work in the Crown Courts, lawyers warn.\n\nMinisters unveiled measures - including holding suspects for longer in England and Wales - in an attempt to manage pressure on courts amid the pandemic.\n\nBut critics say delays in criminal courts are entirely of the government's making and pre-date coronavirus.\n\nMore than 9,000 trials have been put back since the UK went into lockdown.\n\nOn Sunday, the Ministry of Justice announced that it wants Parliament to pass temporary legislation to extend the time that defendants can be held in custody in England and Wales while awaiting trial.\n\nThe law is one of the most important wheels of the criminal justice machine because it ensures that justice is as swift as possible for both suspects and victims.\n\nAt present, defendants can only be held for 182 days after their first appearance in court, before there has to be an application to a judge to keep them inside for longer.\n\nUnder the government's proposal, from the end of this month that will be two months longer.\n\nIn practice, this decision builds more time into the court system - and it is part of a package of measures to manage the impact of coronavirus on the courts.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice's main offices in Westminster will house a temporary court to ease the backlog\n\nJudges and court managers are struggling to find enough space to safely manage the social distancing of hundreds of people who would normally come into their buildings every day.\n\nBut criminal barristers say that the government's case is disingenuous. They say the delays to justice are of the government's own making, not because of coronavirus.\n\nThey accuse ministers of taking a political decision to introduce yet more delay - which could lead to cases collapsing if witnesses withdraw cooperation - rather than finding the cash to get more courts operational.\n\nAccording to official figures, more than 37,000 Crown Court cases were outstanding before the pandemic struck the UK.\n\nThe Criminal Bar Association (CBA), which represents barristers who prosecute and defend across the country, says the backlog is now 43,000.\n\nIn recent years, the number of courtrooms in regular use has fallen as part of cuts to the courts budget - and as the number of sitting days has fallen, the backlog of cases has grown.\n\nJames Mulholland QC, chairman of the CBA, said that the delays to justice were damaging to suspects, victims and witnesses.\n\n\"You don't resolve the delays by incorporating further delays into the system,\" he said. \"The people you punish unfairly by this mechanism are not only those wrongly accused of crime, because not everyone in custody is guilty - but the witnesses who will have to wait even longer to be heard.\"\n\n\"The backlog could have gone away if the government had allowed judges to sit. Then along comes Covid, and the crisis that they've created, they can't properly address.\"\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland said the government's wider package of measures will get the criminal courts system \"back to where it needs to be\".\n\n\"This temporary extension to custody time limits will keep victims and the public safe, and we should not apologise for making that our priority,\" he said.\n\n\"At the same time, the measures I have announced today will get the criminal courts system back to where it needs to be - reducing delays and delivering speedier justice for all.\"\n\nThe latest plan includes installing plastic screens in often cramped and confined courtrooms to help reduce the risk of virus spread.\n\nThe government has already opened 10 \"Nightingale\" court sites - additional facilities to help manage the burden. But only two are dedicated to criminal work.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice has now pledged an extra 1,600 court staff and £80m towards more Nightingale courts for crime.\n\nBut barristers say the money being spent on warehousing defendants could be better spent on getting existing courts operational.", "There are fears that customs tariffs could lead to big queues in Dover\n\nEU diplomats in Brussels wake up this morning with a sore head. The government has thrown a number of political grenades across the Channel over the space of a few hours.\n\nFirst: a defiant-sounding interview with David Frost, the UK chief negotiator in the troubled trade talks with the EU. Next came a leak about government plans to introduce domestic legislation which would partially undermine the Brexit divorce deal, the Withdrawal Agreement, signed last year with the EU. Also affecting the Irish Protocol, designed at the time by Brussels and the UK to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nFinally, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that if no trade deal is agreed by mid-October, there will be no trade deal at all with the EU. And that - by the way - a no-deal scenario would actually be good for the UK, giving it full control over its \"laws, rules and fishing waters\".\n\nEU reaction? Not at all happy.\n\nBang on cue, irritated European diplomatic sources described the Frost interview as sabre rattling and \"unsurprising muscle flexing\" ahead of the last tough rounds of trade negotiations with the EU.\n\nAs regards the domestic legislation affecting the Irish Protocol (the precise details of which have not yet been revealed), Ireland's Foreign Minister Simon Coveney tweeted that would be \"a very unwise way for the government to proceed\".\n\nWhile a high level EU diplomat from a country traditionally close to the UK slammed the planned legislation as, not only a trust or credibility issue, but \"something that could lead to the unravelling of the already fraught EU-UK trade negotiations\".\n\nIt was a self-defeating move by the Johnson government, he said.\n\nSo self-defeating, in EU eyes, that I have now begun to hear musings amongst Brussels contacts that maybe they were not the government's main target audience after all.\n\nBecause, say EU figures, if the Frost interview, the legislation leak and the prime minister's words were all designed as a negotiating tactic, to put pressure on the EU, then it was a terrible tactic, they insist, as it simply serves to \"raise European hackles\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UK vs EU: Johnson and Michel Barnier set out competing visions on trade\n\nSome in the EU think the government's intended audience was actually ardent Brexiters. More specifically: backbench Tory MPs, already annoyed with the government's handling of domestic issues, like the exam chaos this summer, and worried the prime minister may be about to agree a compromise deal with the EU.\n\nCould this mean, wonders the EU, that Boris Johnson is throwing what one Twitter commentator described as \"red meat\" to the backbench Brexiters - talking up the no-deal scenario and giving Brussels ultimatums - because he is actually preparing to \"get pragmatic\" and make concessions in trade talks?\n\nIs the prime minister preparing the ground to declare that no deal can be reached and that the UK and EU will instead trade on World Trade Organization terms - with the accompanying tariffs to pay - come the new year?\n\nAccess to fishing grounds has become a key issue in the trade talks\n\nBrussels diplomats say they are willing to make concessions, including on key issues like state aid and fishing but that the UK must do the same, including - and this is as much a bottom line for the EU as it is hard to swallow for the UK - signing up to safeguards for the EU's single market.\n\nPushing him towards a compromise deal: cost of no deal for UK business, Scottish elections loom and no deal will likely boost the fortunes of the anti-Brexit SNP who are calling for another referendum on Scottish independence, manufacturing towns among new Conservative \"red wall\" seats would suffer from no-deal paperwork and disruption to supply chains.\n\nPushing him away from such a deal: strong opposition from Brexiter Conservative MPs, concerns over ceding post-Brexit sovereignty and remaining tied to Brussels apron strings.\n\nThe EU is not at all sure what Boris Johnson will decide. But it is convinced of one thing: deal or no deal, the decision ultimately lies in Downing Street, not here in Brussels.\n\nIf there is a deal, it is highly unlikely to be struck by mid-October, as the prime minister wishes. The EU thinks November is a more realistic bet. It still believes a deal can be done and that Boris Johnson would prefer a deal over no deal. But time is tight, tempers are frayed and Covid-19 continues to distract leaders across Europe.\n\nAt least one emergency Brexit summit is likely before the autumn is over.", "Beauty blogger and influencer Ethan Peters, known as Ethan Is Supreme, has died at the age of 17.\n\nEthan's father Gerald told Fox News: \"He was a kind soul, who accepted everyone for who they were.\"\n\nHis friend, fellow influencer Ava Louise, also posted saying she'd lost her \"best friend in the entire world\".\n\nBoth have said that Ethan was struggling with addiction, but his official cause of death is not yet known.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ava Louise (ig @avalouiise) This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEthan had over half a million Instagram followers and 139,000 YouTube subscribers.\n\nA Vice article last year described his makeup style as \"characterised by its desire to catch your attention\" and \"dramatic, emotional and, at times, gory.\"\n\nHe started young, saying that by the summer of 2017 he'd hit 100,000 followers and left his private Christian school because his social media activity \"[violated] their moral conduct code.\"\n\nHe moved to an online school instead and had recently started his own clothing line called Hellboy.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere was some negative response on social media after news of Ethan's death broke.\n\nHe had been accused of racism and transphobia in the past.\n\nBut fans also spoken in his defence - including one of his inspirations, fellow makeup artist Manny MUA, who posted: \"He's made many many mistakes... but to say he deserved to pass away is horrible and inhuman.\"\n\nHis friend Ava Louise blamed his death on addiction.\n\n\"If anyone talks negatively about my friend and his actions over the past year he was battling addiction,\" she tweeted.\n\n\"Speak positively of Ethan. He was an artist & inspiration. So talented.\"\n\nBBC Action Line has links to resources to help with addiction.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Jacob Billington was out with friends when he was stabbed on Sunday\n\nA 23-year-old man who was stabbed to death in Birmingham city centre has been named as Jacob Billington.\n\nMr Billington was attacked in Irving Street in the early hours of Sunday while he was out with old school friends, police said.\n\nSeven other people were injured at four locations over a period of 90 minutes.\n\nA 27-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder.\n\nWest Midlands Police said Mr Billington, from Crosby, Merseyside, was on a school reunion night out with friends.\n\nOne of the group, also 23, was seriously injured and remains in hospital in a critical condition.\n\nIn a statement Mr Billington's family said: \"Jacob was the light of our life and we have been devastated by his loss.\n\n\"He was a funny, caring and wonderful person who was loved by every single person he met.\n\n\"He lit up every room with his boundless energy and witty humour and the loss of such a special person will be felt by all who knew him for years to come.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolice were first called out just after 00:30 BST on Sunday at Constitution Hill, where a man sustained a superficial injury.\n\nAbout 20 minutes later they were sent to Livery Street, near Snow Hill railway station, where they found a 30-year-old man with critical injuries and a woman who was also hurt.\n\nAt 01:50, officers were despatched to Irving Street, where Mr Billington was found with fatal injuries and his friend seriously hurt.\n\nAbout 10 minutes later, police were called to Hurst Street, in the city's Gay Village, to find a 22-year-old woman had been critically injured and two men less badly hurt.\n\nPolice initially reported the critically injured man's age as 19 and the critically injured woman's as 32.\n\nThe attacks happened at four locations across Birmingham city centre\n\nThe suspect was arrested at an address in the Selly Oak area of the city at about 04:00 on Monday and remains in custody.\n\nThree other people, two men and a woman, from the same property were arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.\n\nCh Supt Steve Graham said: \"Our thoughts and sympathies are with Jacob's family and friends after receiving such shocking news, particularly for those who were sharing their night out with him.\n\n\"It's utterly shocking that a friends' reunion should end so brutally.\n\n\"Equally the families of the other victims have been left devastated by the events of Sunday morning and we are working hard to discover what led to the apparently random attacks.\"\n\nQuestions have been raised about how the suspect was able to move around the city for 90 minutes.\n\nResponding to this, Chief Constable Dave Thompson said: \"Engaging in an ill-informed critique of this investigation, particularly at such an early stage, is both unhelpful and simply makes the job of the police harder.\"\n\nMr Thompson described the knife attacks as \"extraordinary\", adding: \"These are events quite unlike anything I have seen on our streets before.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kieran Amos scored a hat-trick in the first league game of the season\n\nA man who lost 7st (44kg) in lockdown so he could return to football notched a hat-trick in the first league game of the season.\n\nKieran Amos, 24, tipped the scales at 21st 6lb (136kg) in March and had not played competitively since an ankle injury seven years ago.\n\nBut he signed for Sawbridgeworth Town FC after completing a challenge to lose 5st (32kg) by the manager.\n\nThe centre-half said his three-goal haul on Saturday was \"crazy\".\n\nAmos's goals helped fire his side to a 5-2 victory against Southend Manor.\n\nFour days earlier he netted a 91st-minute winner against higher division side Romford in the FA Cup extra preliminary round.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAmos, from Bishop's Stortford, played football throughout his childhood and in the Essex Senior League before suffering an injury aged 17.\n\n\"I snapped my ankle and had to have reconstruction surgery,\" he said.\n\n\"After that I went off to university and that's where it all started in terms of the weight gain.\n\n\"I'd be going out, having a kebab after a night out and not really looking after myself or eating correctly.\n\n\"Before I knew it I'd kind of ballooned over a period of time.\"\n\nAmos said he \"ballooned\" to more than 21st after an ankle injury and going to university\n\nSawbridgeworth manager Lee Mackman told Amos if he managed to lose 5st he could start training with the Essex Senior League side.\n\nDuring lockdown, Amos took up running with his brother who was training to join the Marines.\n\n\"The first run I only did 1km and I stopped about four or five times,\" he said,\n\n\"I started calorie counting and was running about six or seven times a week.\"\n\nThe centre-half was Sawbridgeworth Town FC's first signing of the new season\n\nBy the time pre-season came around Amos had hit his weight loss target and started training with the team.\n\nHe is now down to 14st 6lb (91.6kg) and said he felt \"mentally and physically in the best shape I've been in for a very long time\".\n\nAmos said it was \"unbelievable\" to score the winner in an FA Cup game and he \"didn't think the week could be topped\" until he scored a hat-trick four days later.\n\n\"It was a crazy moment,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Restrictions on home visits in the west of Scotland have been expanded to Renfrewshire and East Dunbartonshire after a rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nThe move comes the week after measures were re-imposed in Glasgow city, West Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire.\n\nThe restrictions now apply to more than 1.1 million people living in the five areas.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said acting quickly now could \"stem the tide of transmission\" in the area.", "Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange appeared in the dock at London's Old Bailey as his fight against extradition to the US resumed.\n\nThe 49-year-old, who has been in Belmarsh Prison for 16 months, is wanted over the publication of classified documents in 2010 and 2011.\n\nHe told the judge at the start of Monday's hearing he does not consent to extradition - as new charges emerged.\n\nIf convicted in the US, he faces a possible penalty of 175 years in jail.\n\nDuring Monday's hearing, the court heard Mr Assange, an Australian national, was re-arrested minutes earlier on a new indictment issued in June, during lockdown, by the US government.\n\nIt contained 18 charges, including plotting to hack computers and conspiring to obtain and disclose national defence information.\n\nEdward Fitzgerald QC, representing Mr Assange, said he had not seen his client in person for six months in part due to the pandemic - and he told the court the latest indictment had been made \"at the 11th hour\" without warning.\n\nBut a bid to rule out the new charges failed, with District Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruling they must be heard in the context of the extradition request.\n\nA separate request for an adjournment to allow Mr Assange's lawyers to respond to the new charges was also refused.\n\nMeanwhile, crowds of supporters gathered outside the Old Bailey, including Mr Assange's father John Shipton and the fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood.\n\n\"I'm an activist, I am very frightened, I've lost days and years of sleep worrying about Julian Assange,\" Dame Vivienne told reporters.\n\nDame Vivienne Westwood said she was \"frightened\" for Mr Assange\n\n\"Julian Assange is the trigger, he is shining the light on all the corruption in the world.\"\n\nMr Shipton said his son was being treated like a hardened criminal. He said: \"Julian's in a glass box, he finds it very difficult to hear anything. I can't hear anything, I'm upstairs in the gallery.\"\n\nA mobile billboard van drove past featuring a \"Don't extradite Assange. Journalism is not a crime\" slogan and a picture of his face.\n\nThe hearing will last four weeks and is expected to hear from witnesses, including academics who will give evidence on journalistic practices.\n\nMr Assange was jailed for 50 weeks in May 2019 for breaching his bail conditions after going into hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.\n\nHe sought refuge in the embassy for seven years from 2012 until he was arrested in April 2019.\n\nA previous hearing at Woolwich Crown Court was adjourned shortly before the coronavirus pandemic prompted the UK's lockdown.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nTrain operators in England and Wales will lay on more services from today, getting back to about 90% of pre-pandemic levels. The government hopes it'll help with its drive to encourage people to return to offices and other workplaces. BBC transport correspondent Tom Burridge says rail bosses have a delicate balance to strike because they want more passengers back, but don't want a flood of commuters.\n\nPassengers are advised to check before they travel and plan their journeys for quieter times\n\nThe latest coronavirus figures - for Sunday - show the UK recorded the highest number of new cases on a single day since 22 May. The spike so far appears to be predominantly among young people - and in part due to greater testing - but the fear is that the incease subsequently spreads to the older and more vulnerable. See the situation in your area and find out how to get a test if you think you need one.\n\nMore than 9,000 trials have been delayed since the UK went into lockdown and lawyers are warning this morning that hundreds of thousands of people may have to wait until 2022 for justice. That's despite government measures designed to manage the pressure on courts, including holding suspects for longer in England and Wales while awaiting trial. Critics say delays in criminal courts are entirely of the government's making and pre-date coronavirus.\n\nHundreds of parents of children with special education needs have told BBC Panorama they struggled to access support during lockdown. While schools closed to the majority of children, the government said the most vulnerable could still attend, but families found that wasn't always the case. Watch Panorama: Fighting for an Education at 19:35 BST tonight, or later on the iPlayer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sofia is one of over one million young people with special educational needs and disabilities in the UK\n\nThe Tokyo Olympics will go ahead next year \"with or without Covid\", the vice-president of the International Olympic Committee says. John Coates said the postponed event would kick off on 23 July, calling them the \"Games that conquered Covid\". More than 11,000 athletes from about 200 countries were due to take part. Replay from BBC Radio 5live has been looking back on some of the greatest Olympic moments from years past.\n\nJapan's borders are currently largely closed to foreign visitors\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, Covid-19 is already the third-leading cause of death for African Americans this year, so what's behind the unequal threat? We take a look at the story behind the numbers.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The Duke of Sussex has paid back the cost of refurbishing Frogmore Cottage near Windsor Castle.\n\nThe cost, estimated at £2.4m in 2018-19, was covered by taxpayers through the Sovereign Grant, but the duke and duchess said they would repay it when they stepped back from royal duties.\n\nPrince Harry's spokesman said he had paid the bill in full by making a contribution to the grant.\n\nThe property will remain a UK residence for the duke and his family.\n\nIt comes days after the couple announced they had reached a deal with Netflix to make a range of programmes, some of which they may appear in.\n\nFrogmore Cottage sits in a secluded spot on the Queen's Windsor estate in Berkshire\n\nFrogmore Cottage should have been a rather lovely family home. Instead it became one of the reasons why, eventually, Harry and Meghan left Britain and the official side of the Royal Family.\n\nThe cost of renovation - £2.4m in 2018-19, with more to come after that - provoked critical commentary, and a wave of largely illusory stories about what the money had been spent on.\n\nJust as the couple were setting up their first place together and creating a home for their child, they were subject to what they thought was unfair and intrusive comment.\n\nFor decades, taxpayer funding has been a sticky subject for the Royal Family; it is a point of purchase for critics, who point to the Sovereign Grant and to the costs of security and ask whether the monarchy lives extravagantly and provides value for money.\n\nIn the negotiations over the couple stepping back from royal duties early this year, money - inevitably - was a serious issue.\n\nIt was Harry and Meghan who announced that they would repay the cost of renovating Frogmore Cottage. In such way a line is drawn, and the couple may perceive themselves to be free of any of the obligations they once laboured under.\n\nAnd Frogmore Cottage stands empty, a rather lonely monument to an unhappy chapter in the royal story.\n\nThe duke's spokesman said of the repayment: \"This contribution as originally offered by Prince Harry has fully covered the necessary renovation costs of Frogmore Cottage, a property of Her Majesty The Queen, and will remain the UK residence of the duke and his family.\"\n\nLast year's royal accounts showed the cost of the renovations was £2.4 million and was covered by the grant.\n\nIt is the money given to the Queen by the government and pays for the salaries of the royal household, official travel and upkeep of palaces.\n\nThe payment is based on the profits of the Crown Estate, a property business owned by the monarch but run independently.\n\nRevenue from the Crown Estate does not belong to the Queen, but goes straight to the Treasury which then grants it back to the Queen as a Sovereign Grant to support the monarch's official business.\n\nHarry and Meghan agreed to pay back the money as part of the plans drawn up when they quit as senior working royals in March.", "Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford has formed a taskforce to try and tackle child food poverty\n\nA Conservative MP has been criticised by Marcus Rashford for saying it was a \"parent's job to feed their children\".\n\nKevin Hollinrake, who represents Thirsk and Malton, originally tweeted about the success of the government's Eat Out to Help Out scheme.\n\nOne user replied asking why it took a footballer to stand up for hungry children, prompting the MP's remark.\n\nThe footballer, who has campaigned on the issue, said the MP should talk to families before commenting.\n\nMr Hollinrake has been contacted for comment.\n\nKevin Hollinrake had originally posted about the success of the government's Eat Out to Help Out scheme\n\nThe North Yorkshire MP's original tweet prompted one user, Bryan Barrett, to praise the scheme, but also ask:\n\n\"Whilst we're discussing food, why does it take footballer @MarcusRashford to make a stand for the hungry children in our society? Is that not the Government's job?\"\n\nMr Hollinrake replied: \"Where they can, it's a parent's job to feed their children.\"\n\nRashford's reply, which has attracted more than 80,000 likes, said: \"I would urge you to talk to families before tweeting. To this day I haven't met one parent who hasn't wanted or felt the responsibility to feed their children.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Marcus Rashford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Manchester United player successfully campaigned during the summer to extend free school meals and the 22-year-old recently joined forces with some of the biggest food brands to create a taskforce to try and cut child food poverty.\n\nAmong those who also replied was the chief executive of First Days Children's Charity, Emma Cantrell.\n\nShe said the MP's comment was typical of the \"type of ignorance that we encounter every day\" and added: \"We have also not come across a single parent who isn't desperate to provide everything their children need.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n• None Kevin Hollinrake - Member of Parliament for Thirsk and Malton The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People need to \"start taking this very seriously again\" – Prof Jonathan Van Tam\n\nThe latest \"big change\" in coronavirus infections across the UK is of \"great concern\", England's deputy chief medical officer has warned.\n\nProf Jonathan Van Tam said people have \"relaxed too much\" over the summer and \"we have got to start taking this very seriously again\".\n\nIf not, the UK will have \"a bumpy ride over the next few months\", he warned.\n\nHe said that infections among younger people in EU countries had later filtered through to older age groups.\n\nFrance and Spain are among a number of European countries that have seen a sharp rise in coronavirus cases in recent weeks, after lockdown restrictions were eased and testing for the disease was ramped up.\n\nOn Monday, Spain became the first country in western Europe to record 500,000 infections, after tallying more than 26,000 new infections over the weekend.\n\nProf Van Tam's comments came as more parts of the UK are to face tougher restrictions following a rise in the number of cases.\n\nOn Sunday UK authorities announced 2,988 new cases - the highest figure since 22 May, while a further 2,948 cases were reported in the 24 hours to 09:00 BST on Monday.\n\nStricter rules on home visits will be extended to two more areas in the west of Scotland from midnight.\n\nIn Wales, the county borough of Caerphilly is to be placed under a local lockdown from 18:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\n\"People have relaxed too much, now is the time for us to re-engage, and to realise that this a continuing threat to us,\" Prof Van Tam said.\n\nThe rise in cases we have seen over the past two days seems like quite a large jump.\n\nBut it is still well short of where we were in the spring.\n\nThe official figures show we hit 6,000 cases a day at points, but that was just the tip of the iceberg.\n\nTesting was only largely taking place in hospitals so virtually none of the infections in the community were being picked up.\n\nEstimates suggest there were about 100,000 cases a day at the peak.\n\nSo the fact that we have got close to 3,000 a day now when mass testing is available (albeit clearly not picking up every case) means we are a long way from where we were.\n\nBut there is alarm within government.\n\nWhile the majority of cases are in younger age groups, the more they rise the harder it becomes to keep the virus away from more vulnerable people.\n\nProf Van Tam added that hospital admissions and deaths were \"at a very low level\" in the UK and the rise in cases was most prominent among those aged between 17 and 21 - but the country risks following the trajectory of some EU countries.\n\n\"Where case numbers rise initially in the younger parts of the population they do in turn filter through and start to give elevated rates of disease and hospital admissions in the older age groups, and we know that then becomes a serious public health problem,\" he said.\n\n\"The fact that 17 to 21-year-olds are not becoming ill means they are lucky, but they also forget because the disease is not severe for them that they are potent spreaders.\"\n\nProf Van Tam added that the trend had moved away from \"specific hotspots\", such as the one that occurred in Leicester last month.\n\nInstead, \"there is a more general and creeping geographic trend across the UK that disease levels are now beginning to turn up\".\n\nHe urged public health officials and politicians to think about how the virus is managed not in the short term, but over the next six months and \"until the spring\".\n\nBBC health editor Hugh Pym said it was a \"blunt warning\" about the spread of the virus from Prof Van Tam, who implied the next week would be critical as officials and ministers studied the emerging data.\n\n\"This is a wake up call for the public to get real about social distancing from a medical leader who is clearly worried,\" our correspondent added.\n\nIt comes after Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced a change in England's quarantine policy, adopting an approach which allows islands to be treated differently to a country's mainland.\n\nHe said travellers arriving in England from seven Greek islands will have to self-isolate for 14 days from 04:00 BST on Wednesday.\n\nThey are Crete, Lesvos, Mykonos, Santorini, Serifos, Tinos, and Zakynthos (also known as Zante).", "Lord Frost (left) and Michel Barnier (right) will meet on Tuesday for the latest round of trade talks\n\nThe UK's chief Brexit negotiator has called for \"realism\" from the EU ahead of the next round of trade talks beginning in London.\n\nLord Frost said there was \"still time\" for the two sides to agree a post-Brexit trade deal for next year.\n\nBut he said the EU needed to recognise the UK's negotiating position came from that of a \"sovereign state\".\n\nHis words follow a pledge from Boris Johnson to walk away from the talks if a deal isn't done by 15 October.\n\nThe EU said it would \"do everything in [its] power to reach an agreement\" with the UK, but \"will be ready\" for a no-deal scenario.\n\nThe exchange also comes after No 10 revealed it would be introducing new legislation on customs rules in Northern Ireland, in case the negotiations fail.\n\nThe announcement has led to concerns from Brussels that the UK would not deliver on the withdrawal agreement, made ahead of its exit from the bloc in January.\n\nBut the government said the legislation would only result in \"minor clarifications\" and it was committed to the earlier deal.\n\nThe transition period - which sees the UK following a number of the EU's rules while the two sides try to negotiate a trade deal - is due to end on 31 December.\n\nIf a deal is not made and ratified by parliaments across Europe by then, the UK will move onto trading with the bloc on World Trade Organisation rules, which would involve tariffs. Critics fear this would damage the economy.\n\nMr Johnson has ruled out any extension to the talks and, despite both sides admitting to little progress recently, he has set a deadline of mid-October - when the European Council is due to meet.\n\nIn an email to Conservative Party members on Monday, the prime minister said if there was no agreement by that date, \"then I do not see that there will be a free trade agreement between us, and we should both accept that and move on\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Reality Check’s Chris Morris looks at where the UK and EU are struggling to agree on their future relationship\n\nLord Frost, who has led the UK's team of negotiators in talks since March, will meet his opposite number from the EU, Michel Barnier, on Tuesday at the start of the eighth round of talks between the two sides.\n\nHe was introduced as a peer for the first time in the House of Lords earlier, having been ennobled by Mr Johnson in July.\n\nLord Frost was introduced in the House of Lords earlier\n\nSpeaking ahead of his meeting with Mr Barnier, Lord Frost promised to \"drive home our clear message that we must make progress this week if we are to reach an agreement in time\".\n\nLord Frost added: \"We have now been talking for six months and can no longer afford to go over well-trodden ground. We need to see more realism from the EU about our status as an independent country.\n\n\"As we have done from the beginning in public and in private, I will reinforce our simple, reasonable request for a free trade agreement based on those the EU has signed before with like-minded partners.\"\n\nLord Frost said the UK had \"listened closely\" to the bloc's team and \"signalled flexibility\" on where it can move, but added: \"We have repeatedly made clear that key elements of our position derive from the fundamentals of being a sovereign state, and it's time for the EU to fully recognise this reality.\"\n\nHe said the UK was \"ramping up\" preparations for a no-deal outcome, but also said he hoped progress could be made this week.\n\nBeyond all the talk, there is a genuine frustration in government that the EU is yet to treat the UK as if it were a fully sovereign country.\n\nThat's matched on the EU side by similar irritation that the UK won't budge.\n\nBut the bad tempers do not necessarily mean that a deal won't be reached.\n\nAnd all the blood curdling vows don't mean that in the end there won't be compromise.\n\nEuropean Commission spokesman Dan Ferie said the EU had \"engaged constructively and in good faith\" with the talks so far and would be \"fully concentrated on making the most out of this week's negotiating round\".\n\nBut, while he said the bloc shared the UK's \"desire to reach a deal quickly\", it should be \"in line with the EU's long-term economic and political interests\".\n\nMr Ferie added: \"The EU has made numerous constructive proposals to move the negotiations forward.\n\n\"And Michel Barnier has repeatedly said that there needs to be enough time later this year for the European Parliament and the Council to have their say on any agreement.\n\n\"Whether or not there is an agreement in place by the end of the year, the UK's decision to leave the single market and the customs union will inevitably create barriers to trade across border exchanges that do not exist today.\"", "Police colleagues and members of the public have left flowers and paid tribute to an officer who was killed in the early hours of Friday. He was shot at Croydon Custody Centre and died in hospital.\n\nThe officer has not been officially named.\n\nA 23-year-old man is in a critical condition in hospital. It is thought he turned the gun on himself after shooting the officer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A British ex-soldier has been cleared over the death of an Iraqi teenager, after 17 years of investigations.\n\nSaeed Shabram's family say he drowned after being forced into a river by UK soldiers in Basra in 2003.\n\nBut a report published on Thursday said there was no reliable evidence that soldiers were responsible.\n\nMaj Robert Campbell, one of the accused soldiers, said he had \"finally been exonerated\" but that the allegations had \"destroyed\" his career.\n\nNone of the soldiers were ever charged over the death, despite a criminal inquiry by military police and further investigations by the now defunct Iraq Historical Allegations Team (IHAT).\n\nBut Mr Shabram's death became the subject of a judge-led inquiry by the Iraq Fatalities Investigations team.\n\nBaroness Heather Hallett, who led the Iraq Fatalities Investigations probe, said it was possible Mr Shabram's family had been misled by false witnesses who claimed he had been pushed into the water.\n\nShe said it was \"most likely\" that Mr Shabram \"jumped or fell\" into the water, in the process of trying to escape what he believed would be \"dire punishment for looting\".\n\nShe added there was no need for her to further explore the training and instructions given to British soldiers on dealing with looters or alleged looters, and that she had no recommendations to make.\n\n\"I am relieved that after eight investigations we have finally been exonerated,\" Maj Campbell told BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale.\n\n\"But I am angry that it took eight investigations, 17 years and destroyed my career,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm angry that the Army and MoD [Ministry of Defence] abandoned us. Angry that despite the two key Iraqi 'witnesses' being exposed as liars in 2006, the MoD and IHAT chose to believe them anyway and ground us into the dust.\n\n\"I'm grateful to Baroness Hallett for her findings, but I already knew I was innocent,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking to Radio 4's Today programme in 2018, Maj Campbell said he had not had a good night's sleep for 15 years, as a result of the repeated investigations. Ex-Army chief Lord Richard Dannatt told the same programme the soldier had gone through \"a 15-year nightmare\".\n\nVeterans Minister Johnny Mercer said in a statement that he hoped Thursday's findings \"will bring some closure and reassurance to the family and veterans involved in this process\".\n\nHe added: \"Nobody wants to see service personnel or veterans facing extensive reinvestigations into the same incident, and our Overseas Operations Bill will help provide greater certainty and protections in the future.\"\n\nThe government says the new law will protect the armed forces from \"vexatious prosecutions\" but critics argue it could decriminalise torture.\n\nThe Iraq Fatality Investigations (IFI) team was set up after the High Court ruled that investigations conducted by the Iraq Historical Allegations Team (IHAT) should be followed up in the form of an inquest.\n\nIHAT had been looking into allegations made against Iraq war veterans but was shut down after the human rights lawyer Phil Shiner, involved in many of the abuse allegation cases, was struck off for misconduct.\n\nThe £34m IHAT probe did not lead to any prosecutions and was branded as an \"unmitigated failure\" by MPs on the House of Commons Defence Committee.", "The government funded the \"Eat Out to Help Out\" scheme in August\n\nThe UK government borrowed £35.9bn in August as tackling the economic fallout of pandemic took its toll on the public finances, official figures show.\n\nThe figure - the difference between spending and tax income - was £30.5bn more than it borrowed in August last year.\n\nThe increase meant that the borrowing figure hit its highest amount for August since records began in 1993.\n\nBorrowing between April and August totalled £173.7bn - also a record.\n\nAugust's monthly borrowing figure was, however, less than economists had predicted at £38bn, according to Pantheon Macroeconomics.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) also revised down its estimate for UK borrowing in July, by more than £11bn, to £15.4bn, demonstrating how difficult tracking the economy during the pandemic can be.\n\nIt also said that total UK debt passed £2 trillion for the first time in history in August, rather than in July as previously thought.\n\nIn August, debt hit £2.024tn, £249.5bn more than the same time in 2019.\n\nThat figure now exceeds the size of the UK economy, the highest level of debt seen since the 1960s.\n\nAndrew Wishart, UK economist at Capital Economics, said that rising borrowing figures were down to the government absorbing \"much of the cost of the Covid-19 crisis\".\n\nThe government has been forced to cover a wide range coronavirus-related costs - from the furlough scheme and bailouts for rail firms to business rates holidays and VAT cuts for hospitality and tourism.\n\nIt has also set aside £500m to cover the cost of the \"Eat Out to Help Out\" scheme, where diners got a state-backed 50% discount on meals and soft drinks up to £10 each on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays in August.\n\nBut \"the big picture is that fiscal support will fade over the autumn causing many more job losses to be realised\", Mr Wishart added.\n\nThe latest figures from the ONS show that while billions have been pumped into propping up the economy, tax receipts have dropped sharply.\n\nThe amount collected by central government in taxes dropped to £37.3bn in August, which is £7.5bn less than a year before.\n\nThe amount of VAT, corporation tax and income tax collected fell \"considerably\", the ONS said.\n\nIt was another month of heavy government borrowing - though many economists thought it would be even more.\n\nAs always, the outlook will depend on specific spending and tax measures and the strength of the economy.\n\nThe leading headline from the chancellor's announcement yesterday was the coming replacement of the furlough scheme with the less generous Job Support Scheme.\n\nThat will curb spending compared with extending the furlough scheme, though it's almost certain to mean substantial job losses.\n\nAnother of his measures - the extension of the VAT cut for hospitality and tourism - will reduce tax revenue.\n\nThe resurgence in Covid cases and the renewed restrictions intended to contain the pandemic are likely to cast a shadow over the economic recovery.\n\nSome economists expect the economy to stagnate for the rest of the year. To the extent that does happen, it will undermine tax revenue.\n\nThe new figures came the day after Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a series of extensions to existing coronavirus programmes, including a replacement for the furlough scheme, which is due to finish at the end of October.\n\nUnder the new wage \"top-up\" scheme, if bosses bring back workers part-time, the government will help top up their wages to at least three-quarters of their full-time pay.\n\nPhilip Shaw, chief economist at Investec Bank, said that the government's borrowing figures may \"partly correct themselves\" next year as a number of the chancellor's measures expire.\n\nMr Shaw pointed out though that in order to bring down debt, the chancellor \"will have difficult decisions to make on fiscal policy\".\n\nBut \"with the focus currently on trying to maintain the recovery, this is not the time,\" he added.\n\nLooking ahead, the ONS said that the chancellor was likely to borrow about £370bn in the 2020 financial year.", "Shoppers will feel the impact of a no-deal Brexit at supermarket tills, the British Retail Consortium has warned.\n\nThe BRC said tariffs would add £3.1bn a year to the cost of importing food and drink unless the UK and EU can strike a free trade agreement.\n\n\"If there is no deal before Christmas, the increase in tariffs will leave retailers with nowhere to go other than to raise the price of food,\" it said.\n\nThe government said it was \"working hard\" to reach a deal.\n\nAndrew Opie, director of food at the BRC, said coronavirus was \"already making life hard for consumers\", particularly those on lower incomes.\n\n\"A no-deal Brexit will have a massive impact on their ability to afford essential goods,\" he added.\n\nThe EU is the UK's largest trading partner and the source of 80% of its imported food, the BRC said.\n\nBut if the UK is unable to reach a deal with the bloc, the average tariff on food it imports would be over 20%, the trade body warned.\n\nThose tariffs include a 48% levy on beef mince, 16% on cucumbers and 57% on cheddar cheese.\n\nUnder a new tariff schedule, set to come into effect in January, 85% of food imports from the EU will be subject to a tariff of more than 5%, the BRC said.\n\nThe longstanding post-Brexit promise is of free trade deals that will decrease taxes on imports - called tariffs - and lower prices for consumers.\n\nBut should no trade deal be reached with the EU, from January, one of the most noticeable impacts will be the new UK Global Tariff applying to imports of food and drink from the EU.\n\nUnderstandably, supermarkets have worked out the cost of applying these new tariffs in this British Retail Consortium exercise on their own supply chain data - the total is £3.1bn next year, versus zero this year. That is worth about £112 per household.\n\nAs an illustration, if the entire cost of the tariff were passed on to consumers a £3 pack of Irish beef mince could cost £4.08 and Spanish cucumbers could cost 47p instead of 43p.\n\nIn practice, some - but not all - these cost increases would be passed on, and some lower tariffs on imports from other places could offset those rises.\n\nBut concerns about tariffs on EU food and drink imports are one of the issues troubling retailers.\n\nThe BRC also said increases in \"physical checks, paperwork, and other non-tariff barriers\" will further push up the cost for retailers.\n\n\"With coronavirus affecting the livelihoods of millions of people in the UK, many households can ill afford higher prices for their weekly food shop,\" it said.\n\nIt claimed that the UK grocery sector is \"one of the most competitive in the world\", operating on tight margins.\n\nAs a result, it said, any additional costs would be passed on to customers.\n\n\"UK consumers have benefitted from great value, quality, and choice of food thanks to our ability to trade tariff free with the EU,\" Mr Opie said.\n\n\"There is now the risk of a £3bn tax bill for the food we cannot source here in the UK.\"\n\nA government spokeswoman said: \"Negotiations are ongoing and discussions will be continuing at the next formal round in Brussels next week.\"\n\n\"The UK is a significant importer of food and other goods, and avoiding tariffs should be beneficial to both sides, particularly given our shared commitment to high regulatory standards.", "Demand for coronavirus tests has almost trebled among young children in England this month - but only 1% were found to have the virus, figures show.\n\nIn the first two weeks of September, more than 200,000 under-nines were tested, according to government's test-and-trace programme.\n\nThat is nearly three times as many as in the previous fortnight.\n\nA large study review has also confirmed that children are less likely to be infected than adults.\n\nBut the role that children and adolescents play in transmitting the virus \"remains unclear\", it said.\n\nGovernment figures reveal that in England demand for tests increased across all age groups under 40, but was particularly noticeable among the under-20s.\n\nThis sharp rise in demand coincided with children returning to school in England.\n\nCombined with an increase in cases among young people and lab testing capacity being reached, this put pressure on the system and led to delays in accessing tests.\n\nOnly 1% of those children who had a test actually had the virus, compared with 3.5% in older age groups, including adolescents, and people in their 20s and 30s.\n\nSymptoms caused by colds and flu viruses shared around children who hadn't mixed for many months may have been a factor in the increased demand.\n\nAs winter approaches, when respiratory viruses are common and the symptoms overlap with coronavirus, even greater demand could be created among younger age groups.\n\nBut if children do become infected with the virus, they are at very low risk of becoming severely ill or dying from Covid-19.\n\nWriting in JAMA Pediatrics, a UK-led research team found that children and adolescents under the age of 20 had 44% lower odds of being infected with Sars-CoV-2 - the scientific name given to the coronavirus - than adults over 20. This was particularly apparent in children younger than 10.\n\nThis chimes with a previous finding that the under-20s are approximately half as susceptible to the virus as adults.\n\nThe latest review based its findings on 32 studies from 21 countries, mostly in East Asia and Europe, involving nearly 42,000 children and adolescents and 270,000 adults.\n\nBut the researchers were not able to come to any conclusions on whether children were any less likely to pass on the virus than adults.\n\nChildren are more likely to be asymptomatic when infected. The theory is that if they are not coughing or unwell with the virus, they are less likely to infect others.\n\nSo their role in transmission may be down to their risk of exposure, the quantity of the virus, or viral load, they develop, their behaviour and the social contacts they make across age groups.\n\nThe researchers said larger contact-tracing studies were needed to find out more about how the virus is spread by adults and children.\n\nNow that children throughout the UK are back at school, the need to understand this aspect of the virus is even more pressing.\n• None Coronavirus: Children 'half as likely to catch it'", "Nicola Sturgeon has written to Boris Johnson calling for urgent four-nation talks to tighten lockdown restrictions further.\n\nThe Scottish first minister cited scientific opinion that stronger action was needed to control coronavirus.\n\nMs Sturgeon also said more financial support was necessary to cushion the impact on businesses.\n\nIt comes as the chancellor prepares to unveil plans to minimise job losses as new Covid restrictions come into force.\n\nRishi Sunak is expected to replace the furlough scheme, which is set to expire next month..\n\nIn July, about 700,000 workers in Scotland, many in the hospitality sector, were still receiving some or all of their income through the scheme.\n\nThe Scottish government has already gone further than the Westminster government in introducing restrictions to limit the spread of the virus, by banning different households from meeting inside their homes.\n\nAs in other parts of the UK, a 22:00 \"curfew\" for bars and restaurants will be introduced in Scotland later this week - but at her daily coronavirus briefing on Wednesday, Ms Sturgeon hinted she believed this did not go far enough.\n\nShe said if more money had been available to help the hospitality sector it was \"likely\" she would have come to a \"different decision\".\n\nIn her letter to the prime minister, she said the collective agreement to drive down Covid to the lowest possible level was \"particularly welcome\".\n\nBut she continued: \"While all four governments announced new restrictions yesterday, there is clearly a significant strand of scientific opinion to the effect that bringing R back below one and the virus back under control will require measures beyond those which any of us have so far announced.\n\n\"In my view, there is considerable force in that opinion.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon has hinted that a 22:00 curfew on pubs and restaurants may not go far enough\n\nMs Sturgeon said experience from earlier this year had shown how essential acting \"quickly and decisively\" against the virus had been.\n\n\"In other words, if we believe further action will be required there is nothing to be gained - and potentially much to be lost, including lives - from delay.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said the four nations should discuss what further actions might be necessary, what support was required for affected sectors and what arrangements could be put in place to ensure that devolved administrations were not constrained when making what they judge to be essential public health decisions.\n\nThe Scottish government has repeatedly called for greater borrowing powers as it seeks to alleviate the impact of the pandemic.\n\nIn response to Ms Sturgeon's letter, the UK government highlighted the support being given through the Treasury to mitigate the effects of the pandemic.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"The prime minister held a Cobra meeting on Tuesday which was attended by the leaders of the devolved administrations.\n\n\"This crisis has shown clearly the value of Scotland being part of a strong United Kingdom, with the UK government providing the bulk of Covid testing in Scotland, the UK's armed forces playing a key role in providing support for Scottish communities, and the UK Treasury playing an absolutely critical role in supporting jobs and business across Scotland.\n\n\"We will continue to tackle this pandemic as one United Kingdom.\"", "A bull shark is believed to have carried out the attack on Mr Eddy\n\nA pregnant woman dived into the sea in the Florida Keys to save her husband from an attacking shark.\n\nPolice said Andrew Charles Eddy, 30, was snorkelling on Sombrero Reef but was bitten by the shark almost immediately after entering the water.\n\nHis wife, Margot Dukes-Eddy, saw the shark's dorsal fin and her husband's blood filling the water, and dived in \"without hesitation\", officials said.\n\nAfter she had pulled Mr Eddy to safety, other family members called 911.\n\nHe was airlifted to a trauma centre in Miami on Sunday where he was treated for severe shoulder injuries.\n\nRescue official Ryan Johnson told local media that Mr Eddy was in a \"critical condition\" when they arrived.\n\nThe couple, from the state of Georgia, were on holiday in Florida with family and had been sailing on a private boat together.\n\nA few others from their group were already snorkelling when Mr Eddy got into the water to join them.\n\nDeputy Christopher Aguanno wrote in the police report that there were other people, not from their group, snorkelling in the area as well.\n\nWitnesses later reported seeing a large shark about eight to 10ft long, which looked like a bull shark, swimming in the area earlier in the day.\n\nFlorida has the highest number of shark attacks in the world, with 21 reported in 2019, according to the Florida Museum. However, shark attacks worldwide are extremely rare.", "Quote Message: This is devastating news. No person should go to work never to return. No human being should be stripped of their life in a barbaric act of crime. Another hero has been taken from us in unwarranted violence. They protect us but who protects them? Another life is gone in a disgraceful act that reminds us of the danger our police officers face with every shift they begin. My heart is broken for yet another member of our blue line family, and all of his family, friends and colleagues who must now accept a life without him in it. My thoughts and love are resolutely with them.” from Lissie Harper\n\nThis is devastating news. No person should go to work never to return. No human being should be stripped of their life in a barbaric act of crime. Another hero has been taken from us in unwarranted violence. They protect us but who protects them? Another life is gone in a disgraceful act that reminds us of the danger our police officers face with every shift they begin. My heart is broken for yet another member of our blue line family, and all of his family, friends and colleagues who must now accept a life without him in it. My thoughts and love are resolutely with them.”", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Kiwanuka said he was \"so excited\" to win the Mercury Prize\n\nSinger-songwriter Michael Kiwanuka has won the 2020 Mercury Prize for his soul-searching third record, Kiwanuka.\n\nA lush, immersive album of politicised soul, it sees the star exploring themes of self-doubt, faith and civil rights.\n\nReleased last November, Kiwanuka beat best-sellers like Dua Lipa's Future Nostalgia and Stormzy's Heavy Is The Head to win the £25,000 prize.\n\n\"It's blown my mind,\" said the singer. \"Music is all I've ever wanted to do, so I'm over the moon.\"\n\nKiwanuka won on his third attempt, having been nominated for each of his previous albums: 2012's Home Again and 2016's Love & Hate.\n\n\"I was kind of resigned to the fact [that] if I don't win one this year, probably I'll never win one,\" he told BBC 6 Music.\n\nKiwanuka's victory was revealed by Radio 1's Annie Mac on The One Show, after Covid-19 restrictions made the traditional award ceremony impossible.\n\nThe DJ, who was on the judging panel alongside the likes of Jamie Cullum and Jorja Smith, said it had been a \"unanimous\" decision.\n\n\"I don't think any of the judges walked away unhappy,\" she said. \"Everyone felt the same thing about this album, which is that it thoroughly deserved to win the prize.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by MichaelKiwanukaVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nKiwanuka, whose Ugandan parents escaped Idi Amin's regime to settle in Muswell Hill, London, is a former session musician who dropped out of the Royal Academy of Music to become a solo artist.\n\nHe first came to attention after supporting Adele on her 2011 tour and winning the BBC's Sound of 2012. He released his debut album, Home Again, later that year.\n\nThe musician cemented his reputation with 2016's Love & Hate, which made him a star in the US when the opening song, Cold Little Heart, became the theme tune to the TV series Big Little Lies.\n\nThe self-titled album has given Kiwanuka his third Mercury Prize nomination and first win\n\nDespite his success, his latest album emerged from a period of crippling self-doubt.\n\n\"I've always had imposter syndrome,\" he told the BBC last year. \"I was always waiting for someone to find me out.\n\n\"But about a year and a half ago, I got tired of that way of thinking. I just went, 'This isn't helping anyone, least of all me.'\"\n\nThe result was Kiwanuka's opening track, You Ain't The Problem, on which the musician vows to stop getting in his own way, singing: \"I used to hate myself / You got the key / Break out the prison.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by BBC Music This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe record continues as a song cycle where Kiwanuka's own experiences and fears are interwoven with samples of civil rights campaigners and reflections on racial politics.\n\nOn the psych-rock soliloquy Hero, he compares the murder of 1960s Black Panther activist Fred Hampton with recent US police shootings. Exasperated, he turns to God for answers on the call-and-response coda of I've Been Dazed.\n\nReleased last November, the album earned rave reviews and reached number two in the UK charts.\n\nIt is the latest album reflecting the experiences of young black Britons to be chosen by Mercury judges. Kiwanuka is the fifth black male solo artist to win the award in the past six years. Rapper Dave won for Psychodrama last year.\n\nThe musician was the bookies' favourite to win, followed by Laura Marling, who has now been passed over four times.\n\nAnnouncing the winner on The One Show will undoubtedly gave Kiwanuka's record extra exposure. The prime-time BBC One programme regularly attracts three million viewers, compared with the 155,000 who tuned in to last year's final on BBC Four.\n\nMac explained that Kiwanuka had been informed of the result before the show, so that he could be invited to the studio.\n\nHowever, she shared a video of the moment she ambushed him with the news, as he was on his way to be interviewed by Jools Holland.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mercury Prize This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe star will celebrate his victory on a special edition of Later... With Jools at 22:00 BST on Friday night.\n\nThe shortlist was praised for highlighting female artists, who outnumbered men for the first time in the prize's 29-year history.\n\nBut organisers came under fire for excluding British-Asian artist Rina Sawayama because she does not hold a British passport.\n\nAfter the singer said she was \"heartbroken\" by the decision, the BPI, which organises both the Mercury Prize and the Brit Awards, said it would review its eligibility criteria.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lord Wolfson says it's going to be \"very uncomfortable\" for a lot of people who work in retail\n\nThe boss of one of the UK's most successful and resilient High Street chains has told the BBC that hundreds of thousands of traditional retail jobs may not survive in the wake of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nLord Wolfson, who runs clothing firm Next, said there was a clear threat to thousands of jobs, which are now \"unviable\" because the lockdown has triggered a permanent shift to online shopping.\n\n\"I wouldn't want to underestimate the difficulty that is going to cause a lot of people who work in retail, I think it's going to be very uncomfortable,\" he said.\n\nHis comments came just hours after the chancellor announced a new Job Support Scheme that would see the government top up the pay of people unable to work full time.\n\nBut the government's contribution to workers' pay will fall sharply compared with the furlough scheme. Under furlough, it initially paid 80% of a monthly wage up to £2,500 - under the new scheme this will drop to 22%.\n\n\"We don't think we need it,\" Lord Wolfson said. \"But we think there are other sectors that desperately will.\"\n\nAnd while he welcomed the chancellor's announcement, he said it was important that businesses eventually learn to live without government support.\n\n\"It seems like a very sensible scheme to me,\" he said. \"I think it's important that employers begin to pay a little bit more for the schemes and that employees get a little bit less - because otherwise I think there's a risk that our economy will just become hooked on it.\"\n\nNext is considered one of the best run retail businesses in the UK and Lord Wolfson was confident that compulsory redundancies in his own business would be minimal and new jobs would be added in call centres and distribution centres.\n\n\"We think by the time it gets to the end of October, there'll be enough work through the normal build up to Christmas to employ all the people that we've currently got on furlough,\" he said. \"We've got less than 10% of our staff on (furlough) at the moment.\" But he expressed fears for others.\n\nNext's sales have proved resilient compared to its rivals, even eking out a small profit for the first half of this year, thanks to its strong online business and a strong presence in retail parks, which have regained popularity as shoppers shunned city centres and public transport.\n\n\"I don't think so,\" Lord Wolfson said. \"But I think they're going to have to change and change very radically.\"\n\nHe wants to see that change come from \"the bottom up\", driven by entrepreneurs. And he thinks that freeing up property would be good for the country, especially if the government allows people to do what they want with those sites.\n\n\"The one thing that we are desperately short of in Britain is property, we haven't got enough space to live in,\" he said.\n\nThe value of city centre retail property is plummeting. Many tenants have found themselves unable to pay their rent and have relied on government intervention to save them from eviction by landlords.\n\nBut Lord Wolfson says we should not be too quick to demonise landlords as their investment will be needed to create the High Streets of the future.\n\n\"If city centres and town centres are going to regenerate, it is only going to be from the investment that landlords make in those properties.\"\n\nBut he says the confidence of those landlords would be damaged if tenants tear up rental agreements.\n\nBut one gripe he does share with his retail competitors is the increasing burden of business rates, which he says have become increasingly divorced from the value of the properties on which they are charged.\n\n\"Rates have become unfair,\" he said. \"One of the great principles of taxation is that it should be in proportion to your ability to pay. A gulf has opened up between what rates were being charged and what rates we should be charged at a fair price.\"\n\nBut that would leave a massive hole in government finances. Should the government raise rates on the warehouses and logistics centres of the online retailers?\n\n\"That is exactly what government should do,\" Lord Wolfson said. \"Over the last six or seven years the price of warehousing has gone up dramatically, and the price of shops have come down dramatically, but both of their rates have remained exactly the same.\n\n\"So we think that, actually, you could raise rates on warehousing between 30% and 50% and that would make up for some of the loss and that would be fair.\"\n\nLord Wolfson was a prominent supporter of Brexit - so what does he make of the dire warnings of thousands of trucks queuing on the roads of Kent, a chronic shortage of customs officers and potential chaos at the ports as the UK leaves the EU for real when the transition period ends in 97 days?\n\n\"There's a lot of speculation about what it will look like and I'm certainly not going to get involved in that type of speculation,\" he said. \"All I can say is that we've worked very hard for over two years on making sure that the company is ready to deal with all the administrative changes that will come with a no deal Brexit.\n\n\"I hope we don't, but if we do end up in that situation, certainly, the business I work for will be ready.\"", "The chancellor's statement is a radical attempt to provide a shot in the arm to the jobs market - at a very difficult time.\n\nBut the new jobs support scheme is a fraction of what we have seen over the past few months, and is concentrated on those deemed to be in \"viable\" jobs. It cannot prevent a sharp rise in unemployment in the coming months in \"non-viable\" jobs.\n\nIndeed, the economic impact of this package of several billion pounds is likely to be far outweighed, even by this week's announcement that the UK faces a six-month \"new normal\" of social restrictions.\n\nThe sight of Chancellor Rishi Sunak flanked by the Trade Unions Congress and the Confederation of British Industry bosses at Number 11 was meant to show the country that a non-ideological innovation to protect livelihoods was on the way.\n\nIt is an echo of German Chancellor Angela Merkel locking the heads of the equivalent organisations in a hotel for two days in order to come up with the \"short-time work\" policy, upon which the new jobs support scheme is based.\n\nIt will be possible to claim the coronavirus job retention bonus for reemploying furloughed workers, too. It has been tailored for the UK's more flexible jobs market. The chancellor has kept a careful eye on schemes from all around the world.\n\nBut the size of the scheme also reflects the phenomenal amount of borrowing that the government has done, and will continue to have to do, in terms of lost tax revenue as the recovery is subdued by ongoing restrictions.\n\nFunding conditions for government remain benign. But the Treasury is keeping an eye on how sensitive the public finances are now to even a small increase in market interest rates.\n\nThe Treasury has extended the bridge of support it put in place in March to cover the next six months.\n\nBut the new scheme requires everybody to chip in. That will be too much for many employers. We are about to find out just how many.", "Taio Cruz was only on TikTok for a matter of days before deleting his account.\n\nPop star Taio Cruz has opened up about his reasons for quitting TikTok, saying he wanted to preserve his mental health after having \"suicidal thoughts\".\n\nThe musician, whose hits include Dynamite and Break Your Heart, said he had been targeted by \"hateful\" videos and comments on the video-sharing app.\n\n\"My body was shaking and I had suicidal thoughts,\" he explained on Instagram.\n\n\"I pride myself on being mentally resilient so the fact that I felt that way, shocked even me.\"\n\nThe 35-year-old added: \"Some users posted hateful, mocking videos which spurred a feedback loop of negativity, where more and more people began to join in on the mockery and hate.\n\n\"My intention was to make some fun videos and interact with my fans, but some, whom I won't mention, were averse to that.\n\n\"For my own mental health, I would rather be where I'm welcomed, for now, TikTok is not that place. Social media shouldn't be like this, sadly it is.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by taiocruz This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe London-born singer rose to fame in the late 2000s, scoring two number one singles in the UK, and writing for artists including Jennifer Lopez, Usher and David Guetta.\n\nHe joined TikTok earlier this week and quickly gained 85,000 followers - but abruptly deleted all his videos on Wednesday, posting a message that read: \"Never in my life have I had a more negative experience than the past few days on here\".\n\n\"This community is not for me,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC understands that the musician was targeted by messages accusing of him of being irrelevant and \"begging for clout\".\n\nOne user who wrote, \"I just saw one of his videos [and] scrolled so fast,\" received a response from the star - who simply posted the shrug emoji.\n\nThe majority of the comments were posted beneath Cruz's own videos, which are no longer available.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by TaioCruzVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAfter the musician deactivated his account, fans sent him messages of support on social media.\n\n\"Your music has made me smile from when I was five,\" wrote one Instagram user. \"I'm so sorry, please remember how strong you are.\"\n\n\"We love you and we're looking forward to hearing more songs from you. You are an absolute legend,\" added another.\n\nTikTok star Dixie D'Amelio, who has 38 million followers on the platform, also expressed her concern.\n\n\"This makes me so sad,\" she wrote on Twitter. \"Y'all bullied a legit music artist off TikTok in under a week… WHAT??? Just be nice.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by dixie This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a statement provided to the BBC, a TikTok spokesperson said: \"We're a huge fan of Taio and are extremely disappointed he has experienced negativity from a limited number of users.\n\n\"TikTok is a safe space for our community and we have a zero tolerance approach to bullying and harassment.\n\n\"We are in discussions with Taio's management and this matter is under investigation with our Trust and Safety Team.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The impact of lockdown on visitor numbers to venues such as Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle will lead to an estimated £15m loss of income over the next three years, the Keeper of the Privy Purse said.\n\nAnd a 10-year £369m budget to refurbish Buckingham Palace is expected to be £20m short, Sir Michael Stevens added.\n\nHe said the royal household had \"no intention\" of asking for extra funding.\n\nSir Michael said the royal household would try to manage the \"financial challenges\" of the pandemic \"through our own efforts and efficiencies\".\n\nA pay freeze for royal staff was implemented in April and there is also a halt on recruitment, with only business-critical posts being filled, though staff have not been furloughed.\n\nThe financial report covers the 12 months to 31 March - shortly after the UK government brought in restrictions on daily life, to curb the spread of coronavirus.\n\nOther details revealed in the report include:\n\nThe Queen's Sovereign Grant from the Treasury increased to £82.4m in 2019-20, up £200,000 on the previous year.\n\nIt includes £33m set aside for major work to update the electrical cabling, plumbing and heating at Buckingham Palace.\n\nAll major expenditure areas have increased, from payroll (up £1.2m to £24.4m), to travel (up £700,000 to £5.3m), and housekeeping and hospitality (up £300,000 to £2.6m).\n\nAccording to a senior Palace source, Prince Harry and Meghan have made a \"substantial contribution\" to the Sovereign Grant for the rent and refurbishment of Frogmore Cottage, estimated at £2.4m in 2018-19. The payment will be disclosed in next year's report.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex's tour of southern Africa in 2019 was the most costly trip in the past year\n\nThe Sovereign Grant is funded by profits from the Crown Estate - a multibillion-pound property portfolio that ranges from London's Regent Street to Ascot Racecourse.\n\nThe estate is managed by an independent organisation, with any profit paid to the Treasury for the benefit of all UK taxpayers.\n\nRepublic, a campaign group calling for the abolition of the monarchy, said the Sovereign Grant was \"madness\" and should be scrapped.\n\nThe group's chief executive, Graham Smith, said: \"A 15% increase in travel costs when hospitals can't deliver the very best care to every person in need, when teachers are struggling to pay for the necessary books and equipment and the police are stretched to breaking point is scandalous.\"\n\nSeparate accounts published last week show the Crown Estate had a £345m profit for the Treasury for the last financial year but there were concerns about the future financial impact of Covid-19.\n\nThe Royal Collection Trust pays fees, in relation to running the opening of royal residences such as Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, to supplement the Sovereign Grant. But closures due to the lockdown are likely to cause its income to fall by tens of millions.", "Firefighting resources have been stretched to the limit by the scale and extent of the wildfires\n\nClimate change is driving the scale and impact of recent wildfires that have raged in California, say scientists.\n\nTheir analysis finds an \"unequivocal and pervasive\" role for global heating in boosting the conditions for fire.\n\nCalifornia now has greater exposure to fire risks than before humans started altering the climate, the authors say.\n\nLand management issues, touted by President Donald Trump as a key cause, can't by themselves explain the recent infernos.\n\nThe worst wildfires in 18 years have raged across California since August.\n\nThey have been responsible for more than 30 deaths and driven thousands of people from their homes.\n\nThe cause of the fires have become a political football, with California Governor Gavin Newsom blaming climate change for the conflagrations.\n\nPresident Trump, on the other hand, has dismissed this argument, instead pointing to land management practices as the key driver.\n\nNow, a review of scientific research into the reasons for these fires suggests rising temperatures are playing a major role.\n\nEarlier this year, the same research team published a review of the origins of Australia's dramatic fires that raged in the 2019-2020 season.\n\nThat study showed that climate change was behind an increase in the frequency and severity of fire weather - defined as periods of time with a higher risk of fire due to a combination of high temperatures, low humidity, low rainfall and high winds.\n\nThe new review covers more than 100 studies published since 2013, and shows that extreme fires occur when natural variability in the climate is superimposed on increasingly warm and dry background conditions resulting from global warming.\n\n\"In terms of the trends we're seeing, in terms of the extent of wildfires, and which have increased eight to ten-fold in the past four decades, that trend is driven by climate change,\" said Dr Matthew Jones from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, who led the review.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'It will get cooler': President Trump responds to warnings about climate change and wildfires\n\n\"Climate change ultimately means that those forests, whatever state they're in, are becoming warmer and drier more frequently,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"And that's what's really driving the kind of scale and impact of the fires that we're seeing today.\"\n\nIn the 40 years from 1979 to 2019, fire weather conditions have increased by a total of eight days on average across the world.\n\nHowever, in California the number of autumn days with extreme wildfire conditions has doubled in that period.\n\nThe authors of the review conclude that \"climate change is bringing hotter, drier weather to the western US and the region is fundamentally more exposed to fire risks than it was before humans began to alter the global climate\".\n\nThe researchers acknowledge that fire management practices in the US have also contributed to the build-up of fuel.\n\nNormally, fire authorities carry out controlled burnings in some areas to reduce the amount of fuel available when a wildfire strikes - but these have also suffered as a result of rising temperatures.\n\n\"When you do prescribed burns, you can only do it when the conditions aren't too hot and dry, because you need to be able to control the fire,\" said Prof Richard Betts from the UK Met Office and the University of Exeter who was part of the review team.\n\n\"But once you've passed the point where you've got hot, dry conditions for much of the year, you've lost your opportunity to do lots of prescribed burnings. So that makes matters worse and makes the land management challenge even greater.\"\n\nAnother factor in California has been the encroachment of human settlements into forested areas. This has put many more homes at risk of these blazes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five ways that show the scale of California's 2020 wildfires\n\nBetween 1940 and 2010, there was around a 100-fold increase in the number of houses built in dangerous fire zones in the western US.\n\n\"It's like building on floodplains as well, you know, people are putting themselves in harm's way, based on past statistics, which are no longer true,\" said Prof Betts.\n\n\"The past is no longer a guide to the future, for flooding and for fire and lots of other ways in which climate change is played out.\"\n\nThe researchers say that the conditions for wildfire are likely to continue to grow into the future, and according to Dr Jones, the resulting fires will likely get worse.\n\n\"It's pointing towards increases in fire weather that become increasingly intense, widespread and dramatic in the future,\" he said.\n\n\"And the more that we can do to limit the degree to which temperatures rise, is fundamental to how frequently we see dangerous fire weather in the future.\"\n\nFull details of the review can be found here.", "Pupils from better-off families found it easier to access learning during lockdown, says Mr Chalke\n\nPupil premium funding used to boost the education of the poorest children should be trebled, says the boss of a leading academy chain.\n\nDisadvantaged children were hit hardest by the lockdown, says Steve Chalke, founder of the Oasis Trust which runs 53 academies in England.\n\nThe learning gap between disadvantaged pupils and better off children \"has become a gulf\", he claims.\n\nThe government says it has already allocated £1bn to help pupils catch-up.\n\nBut Mr Chalke questions whether enough of this funding is earmarked for the pupils in most need.\n\nOasis Trust focuses on running schools in deprived areas, and Mr Chalke says he is particularly concerned by recent research which suggests pupils at schools like these fell further behind than better-off children during the lockdown.\n\nTheir teachers will have a tougher job of helping them catch up, he says.\n\nThe Chancellor has cancelled this autumn's budget to focus on emergency support during the pandemic.\n\nMr Chalke argues this support should include a fundamental rethink of the pupil premium, which was introduced by the coalition government in 2011 to boost the education of disadvantaged children.\n\nIt is a cash bonus paid to schools for any pupil who has been eligible for free school meals at any point during the previous six years, or for pupils who have been in care for more than six months continuously.\n\nMr Chalke argues more money is needed, specifically targeted at poorer pupils whose learning has been so badly harmed by the lockdown.\n\n\"Government should respond to the need before it causes irrevocable damage by trebling this funding, at least over the next three years, and focusing it on children living in persistent poverty and facing long-term disadvantage,\" he argues.\n\n\"It is vital that government makes this move now, to ensure that a generation of children, already disadvantaged before the Covid-19 lockdown but whose situations have deteriorated even further, are not completely abandoned, doomed to spend their lives struggling for opportunities their peers will have ready access to, rather than flourishing,\" he said.\n\nAcademy chain leader Steve Chalke, says government cash to help poor pupils catch-up is 'far too little'\n\nMr Chalke also says the government's £350m National Tutoring Programme which is aimed at helping the most disadvantaged pupils catch-up after the lockdown \"is far too little\".\n\nThis funding, for just one academic year, will not address the \"aching long-term need to narrow the disadvantage gap\", he says.\n\n\"It is the equivalent of a very poor quality sticking plaster being stretched across a wound that is far too deep to be healed by short-term interventions.\"\n\nMr Chalke argues that the whole designation of this money as \"catch-up funding\" is wrong.\n\n\"The focus on academic achievement, accompanied by a 'teach to the test' education strategy, fails totally to recognise the heart of the issue.\n\n\"Despite the fact that there is, at last, a focus on student wellbeing in the national curriculum, until we develop an education strategy that commits cash and learning time to working with the adverse and traumatic childhood experiences that many disadvantaged students suffer, and have suffered through lockdown, we are wasting public money.\n\n\"That's why the attainment gap has never been tackled successfully, despite the many millions already spent on improving outcomes for disadvantaged students.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Department for Education said the best place for disadvantaged children was back in school, where the government's £1bn Covid catch-up package was \"tackling the impact of lost teaching time\".\n\nThis includes £350m for disadvantaged students through the National Tutoring Programme, \"which is in addition to our £2.4bn pupil premium to improve these pupils' attainment and outcomes,\" said the statement.\n\n\"Head teachers and school leaders are best placed to make decisions about their pupils and which of them need the most support,\" said the spokeswoman.", "The minimum budget for most Asian weddings is £50,000, events manager Arum Javed says\n\nThe new 15-guest limit would be \"out of the question\" for South Asian weddings, according to an events manager who has lost all his bookings since March.\n\nArum Javed said Monsoon Venue Group, in Birmingham, was on \"shaky ground\".\n\nBefore Covid-19, British Asian weddings were traditionally lavish affairs, with multiple events that would tend to have 300 guests as a minimum.\n\nOn Tuesday it was announced the maximum number of people allowed at weddings was being cut from 30 to 15.\n\nThe change came as the government outlined a new set of restrictions aimed at limiting another rise in cases of the coronavirus.\n\n\"The average wedding you have 300 to 400 people, in some cases that pushes up to 1,500... people book at least a year-and-a-half in advance,\" said Mr Javed, who had 54 weddings planned for 2020.\n\nThe sales manager said the firm he works for had received no new bookings since March as people were \"cautious\" about weddings being able to go ahead.\n\nMr Javed, who has been furloughed, said the prime minister's announcement this week \"crippled us even more\".\n\n\"It's very hard managing the bride and groom, they're emotionally stressed, we're the bearers of bad news, they're feeling the strain as well,\" he said.\n\nRestrictions on 15 people at a wedding come into force on 28 September\n\n\"Restaurants allow track and trace, face coverings, these could be in place at a larger wedding, they could be socially-distanced, we can make sure people sit in their bubble,\" Mr Javed said.\n\n\"I don't see the difference between the restaurant and a wedding, you would still be Covid secure... the logic doesn't make any sense.\"\n\nThe last wedding the company had was at the end of January, with 1,400 people in attendance.\n\n\"We're a year behind with our sales - we've had to move everything to next year, over 52 weddings, 52 weeks in a year, there is not much space to add new ones.\"\n\nArum Javed said brides and grooms are \"emotionally stressed\"\n\nRose Nicholls from Telford was due to get married at Stoneleigh Abbey in Warwickshire on 21 March this year.\n\nShe postponed for exactly a year but said she was still unsure if her \"quite small and intimate\" 320-guest wedding would be able to take place next year.\n\n\"We don't want to reduce it further, we just really want to get married, when you've been waiting so long, it's so hard to give up your dream,\" Ms Nicholls, 26, said.\n\nShe and her fiancé Raj have been planning their three-day wedding for 18 months.\n\n\"It's a hard decision, do I give up or wait it out? We can't live together or go on holiday until we get married, so it's really hard.\"\n\nMs Nicholls said her wedding \"couldn't happen\" under current restrictions as her immediate family numbered 10, leaving her fiancé with only five guests and she would not want to \"offend\" family.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and Home Secretary Priti Patel joined Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick for a minute's silence\n\nA long-serving police officer has been shot dead at Croydon Custody Centre in south London.\n\nThe male sergeant was shot in the chest before the suspect turned the firearm on himself, sources have told the BBC.\n\nThe man had been brought to the custody suite in a police vehicle and the shooting happened during questioning about Covid-19, the BBC was told.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has confirmed it is investigating the incident.\n\nThe victim, who has not been named, is thought to have been a few weeks away from retirement and was described as \"one of a kind\" by a colleague.\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said it was believed the suspect - who is critically ill in hospital - was known to counter-terrorism police having been on their radar in the past, though the Metropolitan Police has not officially confirmed that.\n\nNo police firearms were discharged during the incident, which happened at about 02:15 BST at the Windmill Road centre.\n\nThe IOPC said in a statement that it had established the man was arrested for possession of Class B drugs with intent to supply, and possession of ammunition.\n\nThe police watchdog said the man had been handcuffed while officers prepared to search him using a metal detector.\n\n\"It is at the point that shots were fired, resulting in the fatal injuries to the officer and critical injuries to the man.\n\n\"A non-police issue firearm, which appears to be a revolver, has been recovered from the scene. Further ballistic work will be required.\"\n\nThe IOPC added that the Met Police was conducting a separate murder investigation into the death of its officer and it was working to ensure \"our investigation does not impact its enquiries\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick says all police \"are mourning a great loss\"\n\nA minute's silence was held for the officer, described by the Met Police chief as a \"much-loved colleague\".\n\nThe force's chief, Cressida Dick, said the policing family was \"deeply shocked and very sad\" following the death of the officer.\n\n\"I have visited and spoken to our officer's partner together with other colleagues and we are of course giving her the best support we can,\" she said\n\n\"My heartfelt condolences go to her, to their family, to his colleagues and his close friends.\n\n\"A murder investigation is under way and officers are working at several crime scenes to secure evidence and to establish the facts of what happened.\n\n\"Early indications are that the suspect shot himself, this has not yet of course been established as a fact.\"\n\nThe officer has been described as a professional and inspirational colleague\n\nDet Insp Richard Berns described his colleague as \"hard working and an inspiration to all who knew him\".\n\n\"It was a privilege to have worked with him and known him over so many years,\" he said.\n\n\"He was was one of a kind and will be deeply missed. Rest in peace my friend.\"\n\nCommunity police officer Jacqueline Kufuor was among those laying flowers outside the custody centre in tribute to her colleague.\n\nShe described the officer as \"a lovely guy\" and \"the nicest man I have ever met\".\n\nThe IOPC investigation will have several strands, our correspondent Danny Shaw added.\n\n\"It's likely to focus on the circumstances of the man's arrest - which officers were deployed during the operation; whether and how the suspect was searched; and if he was put into handcuffs,\" he said.\n\n\"The IOPC will also need to establish what happened at the police station and whether appropriate measures were put in place when the suspect was taken out of the police van.\"\n\nThe Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said the police were currently \"reviewing the safety of custody suites\" and \"there could be changes very soon to custody suites to make sure they are as safe as they can be\".\n\nFloral tributes were left at the custody centre by both police officers and members of the public\n\nEarlier, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"We owe a huge debt to those who risk their own lives to keep us safe.\"\n\nIn a post on social media he also said: \"My deepest condolences go to the family, friends and colleagues of the police officer who was killed in Croydon last night.\"\n\nA number of police officers have also been turning their social media profile pictures black with a blue stripe to pay their respect to the officer.\n\nThis appalling incident in Croydon appears to be absolutely unique - an officer shot by a man who was already inside a police facility - and the shock felt today underlines how rare it is for police officers in the UK to be killed by a suspect in the line of duty, relative to other nations.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police officer shot dead in Croydon is the 17th from the force to have been killed by a firearm since the Second World War.\n\nBut since the beginning of the 20th Century 73 police officers have been shot and killed by criminals in the UK, excluding all deaths in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe majority of those deaths - more than 50 - have occurred since 1945.\n\nPolice officers in other parts of the world are often puzzled why British constables are not routinely armed. But the fact is that there are very few criminal guns in circulation - and the culture of policing has never seen it as acceptable to be universally armed.\n\nHowever, Tasers are increasingly a common sight in the UK - and a massive survey of police officers recently found three-quarters would carry one of the less-than-lethal devices on the frontline, if given the choice.\n\nYogarajah Emmanuel, 43, who runs a shop opposite the custody suite, said he woke up at 02:30 BST to the sound of sirens.\n\n\"I looked out of my window and could see three ambulances,\" said Mr Emmanuel.\n\nYogarajah Emmanuel, who runs a shop opposite the custody suite, said he saw an ambulance speed away at 02:30 on Friday\n\n\"There was noise and all of a sudden one ambulance from inside the car park came out and sped off.\n\n\"This morning I heard it was a police officer and just felt so sad. They are all very good people and wave and say hello when they come to my shop.\"\n\nKen Marsh, chairman of the Met Police Federation, said news of the shooting was \"utterly devastating\".\n\n\"Officers across London are in shock and sick to their stomachs at the nature of his death,\" he said.\n\n\"Sadly, on very rare occasions officers make the ultimate sacrifice whilst fulfilling their role.\n\n\"When that happens we will ensure their bravery and sacrifice is never forgotten.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Students should not be made \"scapegoats\" for a wave of Covid outbreaks, says a lecturers' leader.\n\nJo Grady of the UCU university staff union said it was the \"completely predictable\" outcome of encouraging large numbers of students to return.\n\nWith universities in England starting term, she called for students to be able to study online from home.\n\nThe Department for Education says it is supporting universities to have a mix of online and face-to-face teaching.\n\nIn a further Covid outbreak, 1,700 students in two accommodation blocks at Manchester Metropolitan University have been told to stay in isolation for 14 days, after about 100 students tested positive.\n\nThe lecturers' union questioned the point of \"encouraging students to come to university to self-isolate for a fortnight\".\n\nDr Grady said tough restrictions on students in Scotland and increasing warnings for students in England did not mean outbreaks were a consequence of \"reckless behaviour\" by students.\n\nInstead she said outbreaks were the result of universities pushing for \"massive numbers\" of students to come back to campuses for the \"university experience\" and to sign up for accommodation.\n\n\"As far as I'm concerned, they were mis-sold,\" Dr Grady told the BBC.\n\nShe said it was \"irresponsible\" of universities to have been \"luring students back on the basis that they can have a social life at university and that they can have face-to-face teaching\".\n\nRather than bringing back more students in England, she said more teaching should be put online and students should be able to study from home.\n\n\"I think there has to be an alternative to keeping students locked in absurdly expensive accommodation, rather than having them at home,\" said Dr Grady.\n\nShe called for students to be released from their housing contracts and for a way for them to be able to make a safe way home.\n\nDr Grady warned of an increasingly chaotic situation in universities and criticised the response of not letting students return home from their university accommodation.\n\nShe said this was based on a \"boarding school\" perception of university life, adding that it might be important for some students to be able to go home, for instance if they were homesick or living with people who they did not like or felt threatened by.\n\nDr Grady wants universities to reduce face-to-face teaching, but said some universities were only doing it \"surreptitiously\", because of fears \"their nearest competitor isn't doing it\".\n\nMost universities were expecting to deliver lectures online, but it is also thought some seminars could be \"live and interactive\" but delivered online.\n\nLiverpool Hope and Liverpool John Moores are among those that have publicly moved more teaching online.\n\nUniversities UK says it us up to each individual university to decide how they will bring back students and whether they will switch to online lessons.\n\nThe Department for Education said it was working with universities and Public Health England on any measures needed to respond to Covid outbreaks.\n\n\"Protecting students' education and wellbeing is vital, so we are supporting universities to continue delivering a blend of online and face-to-face learning where possible in a Covid-secure way,\" said a department spokeswoman.\n\n\"As with other essential services, education staff should continue to go into work where necessary.\"", "Anti-racism protesters threw the statue of slave trader Edward Colston into Bristol harbour in June\n\nPublic statues of controversial historical figures should be \"retained and explained\" instead of being taken down, the government has said.\n\nCulture Minister Matt Warman told MPs the UK's heritage should not be removed from view \"however contentious\".\n\nThe toppling of slave trader Edward Colston's statue in Bristol in June, during Black Lives Matter protests, led to a fierce debate on the issue.\n\nMr Warman said statues played a role in \"teaching us about the past\".\n\nIn the government's first official policy statement about the issue, he told the Commons ministers believed in the \"right to retain statues however contentious\".\n\nA number of memorials to wealthy merchants who profited from the slave trade were removed this summer during a wave of anti-racism protests in the UK sparked by the murder of George Floyd in the US.\n\nA statue of the slave owner and philanthropist Edward Colston was torn down and thrown into Bristol harbour while a monument to Robert Milligan, an 18th Century Scottish merchant, was removed from London's Docklands and taken to a museum.\n\nOther institutions came under pressure to act, with the governing body of Oxford's Oriel College saying it backed the removal of a statue of imperialist Cecil Rhodes from its main building pending a review of its future.\n\nThere have been calls for statues of other major historical figures, including Sir Robert Clive and Sir Francis Drake, to be taken down as part of a reappraisal of the UK's colonial history.\n\nLabour-controlled councils across England have been carrying out an audit of statues on their land, while the National Trust recently outlined all its properties' historical links to the Atlantic slave trade and British Empire.\n\nThe statue of Cecil Rhodes in Oxford will stay in place until a review group reports back next year\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons in an adjournment debate about statues, Mr Warman said he wanted organisations to \"retain and explain not remove our heritage\".\n\nWhilst individuals such as Colston or Rhodes may have \"said or done things we may find deeply offensive\", he said they played an important role in teaching us about a past \"with all its faults\".\n\n\"We should seek to contextualise or reinterpret them in a way that enables to public to learn about them in their entirety,\" he added.\n\nFollowing a recent row over the playing of patriotic songs at the Last Night of the Proms, Boris Johnson said it was time the UK \"stopped our cringing embarrassment about our history\".", "Renee Zellweger and Joaquin Phoenix won the top acting prizes at the 2020 Bafta Film Awards\n\nThe Bafta Film Awards will have more nominees next year in an attempt to increase the diversity of the stars and film-makers who are up for honours.\n\nAll four acting categories as well as the best director award will have six nominees, instead of the usual five.\n\nTen titles will be in contention for the outstanding British film award - four more than the customary six.\n\nEarlier this year, Bafta was heavily criticised after picking an all-white line-up of acting nominees.\n\nMeanwhile, no female film-makers were nominated for the best director prize for the seventh year running.\n\nOrganisers carried out a \"detailed review\" as a result, and said they would now also seek to \"meaningfully target\" 1,000 new voting members from under-represented groups.\n\nThe move, they said, was one in a series of steps \"to ensure a more representative and inclusive membership that reflects today's British society\".\n\nDirector Andrew Onwubolu, aka Rapman, on the set of Blue Story\n\nIn January, Blue Story director Rapman was among Bafta's many critics, saying it had done his gritty urban drama \"dirty\" by not shortlisting it for any awards.\n\nBafta said the review had begun as \"a direct response\" to the lack of diversity in its 2020 nominations, but had \"soon expanded to encompass all aspects\" of the organisation.\n\nBafta - the British Academy of Film and Television Arts - said the expansion of its outstanding British film award would enable it to \"do more to champion the vast pool of multicultural British talent\".\n\n\"One of the key issues raised time and time again... was that too much deserving work was not being seen,\" said film committee chair Marc Samuelson.\n\n\"The changes we are implementing are designed to ensure these films are seen and judged on merit alone.\"\n\nChanges to campaigning rules will seek to ensure \"a fairer consideration of all films regardless of marketing budget\".\n\nBafta said this would ensure \"smaller\" films were not \"left out of the conversation\" and would have as much \"visibility\" as titles backed by major studios.\n\nChanges to Bafta's voting practices will ensure the best director jury will have a guaranteed number of female film-makers to choose from.\n\nThe final six nominees will be drawn from an expanded longlist of 20 names, half of which will be female.\n\nBafta said this would help to address \"a historic lack of female representation in the directing category\".\n\nKathryn Bigelow, pictured with Clive Owen in 2010, is the only female winner of the best director Bafta\n\nOnly five women have ever made the shortlist for the best director award, which Bafta first presented in 1969.\n\nKathryn Bigelow, the only woman to win, for The Hurt Locker in 2010, was also the last woman to be shortlisted when she was nominated in 2013 for Zero Dark Thirty.\n\nAll voting members will also now be required to take a \"specially designed bespoke\" course in \"conscious voter training\".\n\nBafta said that would help its members \"navigate and recognise the wider societal influences that can impact the voting process\".\n\nKrishnendu Majumdar is the first Bafta chair from a BAME background\n\nIn the case of the overall best film award, all voters will be required to watch all 15 movies on the longlist. The shortlist will continue to consist of five films.\n\nBafta's review was led by its chair Krishnendu Majumdar, Samuelson and a steering group that included former Doctor Who actor Noel Clarke, academic Sadia Habib and ITV's head of diversity Ade Rawcliffe.\n\nMr Majumdar praised them for \"bravely sharing their experiences of racism and discrimination\" during \"tough, chastening [and] captivating\" sessions.\n\nNoel Clarke played Mickey Smith in Doctor Who and has directed several films\n\n\"This is a watershed moment for Bafta,\" the TV producer said in a statement. \"The Academy has never opened itself up like this before.\"\n\nBafta's chief executive Amanda Berry concurred, saying the review was \"a fantastic opportunity... to make substantial cultural and organisational change\".\n\nBafta said \"significant changes\" to its Television Awards would be announced in October and that its Games and Children's Awards would also be reviewed.\n\nThe 2021 Bafta Film Awards are scheduled to take place on 11 April, two months later than usual due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAbout 1,700 university students have been told to self-isolate after 127 tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nStudents at two Manchester Metropolitan University accommodation blocks have been told to stay in their rooms for 14 days, even if they have no symptoms.\n\nStudents said \"police and security were outside\" and self-isolation had \"left morale really low\".\n\nA university spokesman said disciplinary action will be taken against any breaches.\n\nThe restrictions affect students in accommodation blocks at Birley campus and Cambridge Halls after \"127 students have tested positive with a number of others symptomatic or self-isolating\", Manchester City Council said.\n\nStudents across the city have been urged to attend virtual freshers' events and avoid big parties.\n\nBut some said they had no warning of a lockdown and are now trapped in halls of residence.\n\nStudents at two accommodation blocks are self-isolating for a fortnight\n\nMegan Tingy, who studies at Manchester Metropolitan, said on Friday \"We were getting ready to go out and looked out to security and police outside the halls. They say we can't leave.\n\n\"We haven't received any emails from university about this and they seem to be holding us in against our will.\"\n\nStudent Trisha Kakooza, who is from London, said: \"We had eight hours to go get food to last us for two weeks.\n\n\"We have to get any other food delivered, which is expensive.\n\n\"I have a job and it helps me make extra money since student finance isn't enough but now I can't go out to work.\n\n\"We can study remotely but I won't get paid by the agency I work for.\"\n\nChip Wilson, 19, said: \"We have been told we are not allowed to leave and, if we do, we cannot come back, so now we are all stuck inside.\n\n\"On top of all this, many of us here have Covid symptoms but we cannot get tests. We can only get drive-through tests and none of us have cars, and even if we did we can't leave now.\"\n\nMost parts of Greater Manchester have been subject to stricter restrictions since July after a spike in coronavirus cases.\n\nThe rate has also doubled in the city of Manchester to 1,026 positive tests in the week up to 22 September, compared to 515 cases in the previous week.\n\nThe lockdown comes as students in Scotland were told not to go to pubs, parties or restaurants this weekend in to stem the spread of the virus.\n\nNHS staff hand out test kits to Glasgow University students, who are also subject to restrictions\n\nJoe Barnes, who recently started at Manchester Metropolitan University, told BBC Breakfast that self-isolation had \"left the morale of my flat really low\".\n\nHe said lessons were being conducted online \"so theoretically I could go and study from home but that defeats the point - I've not just come for my studies but to meet new people and enjoy the experience.\"\n\nHe added: \"I've heard horror stories of massive parties in some of the halls around here… it is just frustrating that no one else could have foreseen that.\"\n\nThe National Union of Students said affected students should be able \"to return to their families if they wish, as being trapped in university accommodation will only add anxiety at an already difficult time\".\n\n\"All students affected must be supported by their universities with food deliveries, shopping and access to mental health services if needed,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nJo Grady, general secretary of the University and College Union, said the Manchester incident was \"the latest catastrophe in a week where wholly predictable - and predicted - Covid outbreaks have caused havoc on campuses across the UK\".\n\n\"We warned last month of the problems with moving thousands of students across the country and the time has come for urgent action from ministers and universities to protect staff and students.\"\n\nShe urged university leaders to drop face-to-face classes until the government improves the test-and-trace system.\n\nA university spokesman said: \"We are fully supportive of the [lockdown] decision.\n\n\"Services such as wellbeing support and the library will remain available to our students online.\n\n\"Our security teams will increase patrols to support the lockdown and we will take disciplinary action against any students found to have breached requirements.\"\n\nCouncillor Bev Craig, executive member for adult health and wellbeing for the city council, said: \"We understand that local residents may be concerned about this situation.\n\n\"We want to reassure them that the evidence so far suggests that transmission has been within the student community only and has not been more widespread.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nAre you a student in lockdown? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police across the UK \"are mourning a great loss,\" after an officer was shot dead at custody centre, the country's most senior police officer has said.\n\nA Met Police Sergeant died after being shot in the chest at the centre on Windmill Road, Croydon, shortly after 02:15 BST on Friday.\n\nA 23-year-old male suspect is critically ill after apparently turning the gun on himself.\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick offered her \"heartfelt condolences\" to the unnamed office's family.\n\nMs Dick said: \"The Met is a family. Policing is a family in London and across the UK and today we police we are all mourning a great loss.\n\n\"This terrible incident underlines once again how police officers face danger every day in their work to protect the public.\"\n\nShe added the Met was giving the officer's partner \"the best support we can\".", "City centres are far quieter than normal, more than six months into the crisis\n\nThe government has \"wasted\" three weeks of Whitehall bosses' time by twice changing its advice on civil servants working from home, a union says.\n\nFirst Division Association (FDA) general secretary Dave Penman said ministers had got themselves into a \"tizzy\" and had suggested staff were \"lazy\".\n\nIn March, civil servants were told to work from home if possible, but earlier this month ministers said 80% should come in once a week or more by October.\n\nBut, with Covid cases up, they reverted to the previous advice this week.\n\nThe government has promised to maintain \"productivity\" and \"cohesiveness\" within the Civil Service as the pandemic continues.\n\nOver the summer, with city-centre businesses such as shops and cafés suffering because of a lack of commuters, the government encouraged companies to bring more people back into the office where it was made safe.\n\nDowning Street argued that civil servants should set an example to the private sector and return to their usual workplace in greater numbers.\n\nAnd, at the start of this month, Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill and Alex Chisholm, chief operating officer of the Civil Service, wrote to permanent secretaries, who run government departments, telling them they should \"now move quickly to seek to bring more staff back into the office in a Covid-secure way\".\n\nMr Penman, whose FDA union represents senior civil servants, accused the government of putting \"political pressure\" on itself by briefing the media that civil servants were \"reluctant\" to return to offices - and then having to be seen to rectify this.\n\nAt the start of the coronavirus crisis, permanent secretaries had \"transformed their staff from being 95% office-based to 95% home-based in three weeks, while delivering the furlough scheme for the country\", he said.\n\n\"They did amazing work turning it around and then they got told to reverse much of it in the same timeframe. Well, that's going to hit productivity, the important things that government needs to be doing.\n\n\"And now we're back to where we were in the first place. At the same time you have civil servants being called lazy. It's all been such a waste of time and goodwill.\"\n\nDave Penman says government services have been adversely affected\n\nHuffpost reported this week that Home Office staff in central London had been told to bring in packed lunches, because of the time it took to get through Covid-19 checks and security.\n\n\"Ministers got themselves into a tizzy and ended up with this target of 80%,\" said Mr Penman. \"Then they committed to a timeframe. They didn't think it through.\"\n\nThe Cabinet Office, the Whitehall department which supports the prime minister, declined to comment on Mr Penman's remarks.\n\nBut official guidance states that civil servants in \"essential\" services should \"continue to go into work where necessary in a Covid-secure workplace\".\n\nIt adds that permanent secretaries \"know their departments best\" and will work with cabinet ministers to decide which colleagues should \"continue to attend the workplace to support ministers and maintain full delivery of public services\".\n\nThe situation will be kept under review to ensure \"safe working\" and that \"Civil Service productivity and cohesiveness do not falter at this crucial time\", it adds.", "The rate at which the Covid-19 virus is spreading appears to be speeding up.\n\nThe R number, indicating how fast the coronavirus epidemic is growing, has risen from 1.1-1.4 to 1.2-1.5.\n\nAn Office for National Statistics (ONS) survey estimated there were 9,600 new cases a day in England in the week to 19 September - up from 6,000 the week before and three times that being picked up by general testing.\n\nIt comes as more restrictions come into effect in parts of England and Wales.\n\nOn Friday, the daily number of positive cases in the UK picked up by coronavirus testing rose to a new high of 6,874, government figures show.\n\nA further 34 deaths were announced, although figures were not available for Scotland because of a power cut at the National Records of Scotland.\n\nInfection rates are highest in the north west of England and in London.\n\nAs infection rates rise, new restrictions are being brought into effect in the following areas:\n\nAn R or reproduction number above one means the epidemic is growing. It's a measure of how many extra people each coronavirus case is infecting,\n\nIn March, before any control measures were put in place, R was thought to be just under three.\n\nThe ONS's estimates of how much of the population is currently infected are based on testing a representative sample of people with or without symptoms.\n\nIt is different to the number published daily by the Department of Health and Social Care. That records positive cases in people with potential Covid symptoms who request tests.\n\nAnd in the week up to 19 September, the DHSC data showed roughly 3,000 positive tests a day in England - a total of 23,378.\n\nIn contrast, the ONS survey suggest there were actually 103,600 people in England with the virus, equating to an estimated one in 500 people in private homes.\n\nThe number does not include cases in hospitals and care homes.\n\nThe ONS said there was \"clear evidence\" of an increase in the number of people testing positive for Covid-19 in all age groups, but rates are currently highest in those aged 17-24.\n\nInfection rates are highest across the north of England and in London, with smaller increases seen in the Midlands.\n\nIn Wales, cases appear to have risen dramatically but because there are fewer people in the sample, there is a lot of uncertainty around the precise figure.\n\nBut central estimates suggest they could have risen almost seven-fold, from 1,500 people in total having Covid the previous week to more than 10,000.\n\nThe ONS has also begun surveying people in Northern Ireland, where early figures suggest one in 300 people had the virus in the period 6-19 September.\n\nThese figures only take us up to the end of last week, and as such may be an underestimate of the current situation.\n\nCases have been rising over the past few weeks, and have begun to translate to a rise in hospital admissions.\n\nData from the Covid Symptom Study app, run by King's College London and tech company ZOE, put the daily figure for England at 12,883 - higher than the ONS.\n\nIts figures are based on people who download and use the app, so it is not a random sample - but does include a larger number of positive tests.\n\nThe ZOE figures are also more up to date than the ONS's and so may be capturing more recent rises.", "Dr Tedros said he \"didn't believe\" the US's decision to withdraw from the WHO Image caption: Dr Tedros said he \"didn't believe\" the US's decision to withdraw from the WHO\n\nPresident Donald Trump \"doesn't have any good reason to withdraw\" the US from the World Health Organization (WHO), its Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said.\n\nPresident Trump announced the termination of the country's relationship with the WHO in May, accusing the UN agency of failing to hold China to account over the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n“My first reaction was, to be honest, I didn’t believe it,” Dr Tedros said in an interview with Time Magazine . \"Even now I believe that the US administration doesn’t have any good reason to withdraw from WHO.\"\n\nIn 2019, the US was the global health agency's largest single contributor, providing 15.18% of its total budget .\n\nDr Tedros said the impact of US withdrawal was uncertain, but stressed it was the country’s \"global leadership\" that mattered more to him than its financial contribution.\n\nNevertheless, Dr Tedros was hopeful co-operation would prevail over division, especially when vaccines against Covid-19 are distributed.\n\n\"The basic principle we're following now, in terms of distribution of the vaccines, is to give vaccines to some people in all countries, not all people in some countries,\" he said.", "Limits are being applied to certain products to prevent panic buying at Morrisons supermarkets\n\nShoppers at Morrisons face restrictions on the number of items they can purchase to prevent panic buying.\n\nThe supermarket chain has put a limit of three items per customer on some ranges, including toilet rolls and disinfectant products.\n\nIt said stock levels \"were good\", but the firm wanted to \"make sure they were available for everyone\".\n\nThe British Retail Consortium said supply chains were \"stronger than ever\".\n\nBradford-based Morrisons said restrictions would be sign-posted on shelf edges at tills.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"We have some products with limits on all year round such as paracetamol and so it works in just the same way.\"\n\nShelves at some stores were left depleted recently after the Government warned of rising coronavirus cases across the UK and the possibility of stricter lockdown measures.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium (BRC) has urged consumers to be considerate of others and \"shop as you normally would\".\n\nDespite scenes at some stores, supermarket giants Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's, Lidl and Aldi said they had \"good availability\" earlier in the week and had not experienced any shortages yet.\n\nTesco added its online capacity had more than doubled from 600,000 weekly delivery slots in March to 1.5 million in September.\n\nDirector of food and sustainability at the BRC, Andrew Opie, said: \"Supply chains are stronger than ever before and we do not anticipate any issues in the availability of food or other goods under a future lockdown.\n\n\"Nonetheless, we urge consumers to be considerate of others and shop as they normally would.\"\n\nAsda is to enforce the rules on face coverings during the pandemic and deploy 'safety marshals' at its stores\n\nMeanwhile, Asda is set to enforce rules on face coverings more strictly across its shops amid the pandemic.\n\nCustomers who do not have a covering when they enter a store will be offered a pack of disposable masks that they can pay for at the end of their trip.\n\nThe firm announced on Wednesday that it will create 1,000 new \"safety marshal\" roles across its 639 UK stores.\n\nDedicated staff will remind shoppers to wear face coverings in-store and provide customers with sanitised shopping baskets on arrival.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Neil is known as one of the BBC's most ferocious political interviewers\n\nBroadcaster Andrew Neil has paid tribute to the BBC after announcing he will be leaving after 25 years.\n\nThe 71-year-old journalist is to become chairman of new TV channel GB News, which is due to launch early next year.\n\nHe said he was leaving the BBC, where he has presented shows such as Daily Politics and helped front its election coverage, with a \"heavy heart\".\n\nThe BBC said he had \"informed and entertained millions of viewers\" over the years.\n\nNeil's last appearance for the BBC will be in early November when he will help lead its coverage of the US presidential election.\n\nThe former Sunday Times editor has been at the heart of the BBC's political coverage for the best part of three decades.\n\nAs well as presenting Daily Politics and its successor Politics Live, he was the host of the popular late-night discussion show This Week for many years.\n\nHis penetrating and often combative general election interviews with party leaders won him wide critical acclaim.\n\nHe was involved in a row with Downing Street prior to last year's election when he publicly challenged Boris Johnson on air to appear on his show, saying his absence from the screens represented a \"question of trust\".\n\nThe PM was the only one of the main party leaders not to be questioned by Neil.\n\nEarlier this year, the BBC said the weekly Andrew Neil Interview show, which had been broadcast since 2019, would not be recommissioned but it was in discussion with him about other formats.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnnouncing his departure, Neil said these discussions had not come to fruition and he had decided to take the role of chair of GB News, where he will also host a daily show.\n\n\"With heavy heart I announce I will be leaving the BBC,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\n\"Despite sterling efforts by new DG (director general) to come up with other programming opportunities, it could not quite repair damage done when Andrew Neil Show cancelled early summer.\"\n\nHe thanked everyone who had helped him during his time at the BBC, describing them as the \"best of the best\" and saying the corporation \"will always be special to me\".\n\nIn a statement, the BBC said it would like to give its \"heartfelt thanks\" to Neil, describing him as a \"formidable and talented broadcaster\".\n\n\"For years, he was at the heart of the irreverent and much-loved This Week and played a key role in the Daily and Sunday Politics, Politics Live and the BBC's general election coverage,\" it said.\n\n\"We are sorry the US election coverage will be his last BBC presentation for the foreseeable future but he will always be welcome at the BBC.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by BBC News Press Team This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGB News is a new 24-hour news channel which will compete with the BBC, ITV and Sky News. Its financial backers include the US media giant Discovery.\n\nThe BBC's media editor Amol Rajan said its launch and Neil's signing was a \"big moment for British culture\".", "Sir David will be seen in the Netflix documentary A Life On Our Planet in October\n\nSir David Attenborough has broken Jennifer Aniston's record for the fastest time to reach a million followers on Instagram.\n\nAt 94 years young, the naturalist's follower count raced to seven figures in four hours 44 minutes on Thursday, according to Guinness World Records.\n\nHis debut post said: \"Saving our planet is now a communications challenge.\"\n\nLast October, Friends star Aniston reached the milestone in five hours and 16 minutes.\n\nIn his first video, the veteran broadcaster told followers: \"I am making this move and exploring this new way of communication to me because, as we all know, the world is in trouble.\n\n\"Continents are on fire. Glaciers are melting. Coral reefs are dying. Fish are disappearing from our oceans. The list goes on and on. Saving our planet is now a communications challenge.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by davidattenborough This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe joins a varied list of public figures who have at some point held the record for the fastest to gain a million followers.\n\nSir David's total following rose to 2.5 million within 24 hours. However, he is some way behind the most-followed person overall - footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, who has 238 million.\n\n\"Social media isn't David's usual habitat,\" wrote collaborators Jonnie Hughes, a BBC film-maker, and Colin Butfield, of the World Wildlife Fund. \"So while he's recorded messages solely for Instagram, like the one in this post, we're helping to run this account.\"\n\nSir David's Instagram debut precedes the release of a book and a Netflix documentary, both titled A Life On Our Planet.\n\nThe film will see him reflect on his career and the decline of the planet's environment and biodiversity, which he has observed first-hand.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Netflix This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nSir David said he would use the platform to share videos explaining \"what the problems are and how we can deal with them\".\n\nSigning off, he invited viewers to \"join me - or as we used to say in those early days of radio, stay tuned\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The review said Boohoo had \"already made a significant start on putting things right.\"\n\nA review into an online fashion retailer's supply chain found it capitalised from lockdown opportunities without taking responsibility for those making its clothes.\n\nIt was one of \"many failings\" identified after concerns were raised about Boohoo's suppliers in Leicester.\n\nThe review by Boohoo said the firm did not intentionally profit from poor working conditions and low pay.\n\nThe company said it had already taken steps to address the issues raised.\n\nBoohoo said it was \"appalled\" by allegations made in the summer about its suppliers in Leicester, when the city was in a local lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMs Levitt found some workers in its supply chain had not always been properly compensated for their work and that many were not fully aware of their rights and their obligations.\n\nShe said Boohoo had \"capitalised on the commercial opportunities offered by lockdown\" but took no responsibility for the consequences for those making the clothes they sold.\n\nThe review also found senior directors at Boohoo knew about \"serious issues\" over how workers were treated months before it was reported.\n\nThe company said: \"Ms Levitt is satisfied that Boohoo did not deliberately allow poor conditions and low pay to exist within its supply chain.\n\n\"It did not intentionally profit from them and its business model is not founded on exploiting workers in Leicester.\"\n\nChief executive John Lyttle said the review identified \"significant and clearly unacceptable issues\" in the company's supply chain as well as the steps it had taken to address them.\n\nHe said: \"It is clear that we need to go further and faster to improve our governance, oversight and compliance.\"\n\nBoohoo said it recognised this was a widespread issue in the garment industry and committed to establishing and funding a Garment and Textiles Community Trust to address hardship.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "The government should do more to help women cope with the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic, a senior Conservative MP has said.\n\nCaroline Nokes said ministers needed to \"step in\" to ensure women were not disadvantaged when firms cut jobs.\n\nShe added she was \"disappointed\" the chancellor did not mention women in his winter jobs support package on Thursday.\n\nThe BBC has contacted the Treasury for a response.\n\nMs Nokes chairs Parliament's Women and Equalities Committee, which launched an inquiry in June into the gender impact of the post-Covid economic downturn.\n\nShe previously served as a minister at the Home Office under former PM Theresa May, but was not kept in a government role by Boris Johnson.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's World at One programme, she said: \"Women in many cases, in far too many cases, have been the first to be laid off.\"\n\nShe added she was \"disappointed that there wasn't specific reference of that\" in the package of measures announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak.\n\nWomen had been disproportionately affected by hits to sectors such as retail, she said, and by a drop in spaces at childcare settings due to social distancing.\n\n\"That makes it very difficult for all working parents, but specifically for women,\" she said.\n\nArguing that women were also more at risk of being furloughed, she said: \"I think there are still some terrible stereotypical attitudes about women being more likely to have caring responsibilities.\"\n\n\"The reality is within families it's still much more likely that a man will be earning more than a woman. There is still a gender pay gap.\n\n\"I think there is a really unfortunate reinforcement to that that's happening during this hideous period, and we are seeing a return to the employment trends of the 1970s.\"\n\nAsked whether the government needed to do more, she said: \"I really think the government has to step in here.\n\n\"They had done a fabulous job up until the pandemic hit at getting more women into work, we were at a record number of women in employment.\n\n\"I think it is absolutely essential that we try to maintain that, that we take specific measures that will make sure that women are not disadvantaged.\"\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies says women are around a third more likely than men to work in a sector heavily affected or entirely shut down due to the pandemic.\n\nThe think tank said one in six female employees work in retail and hospitality, compared to one in seven male workers.\n\nMs Nokes said the beauty industry, where nine in ten workers are estimated to be women, was particularly in need of further support.\n\nShe called for the sector to be eligible for the 15% emergency VAT cut offered to tourism and hospitality, which now is being extended from to 31 March 2021.\n\nShe urged ministers to consider \"radical\" ideas for the sector, such as discounts based on the Eat Out to Help Out scheme that ran in restaurants in August.\n\n\"You could see a 'Treat Out to Help Out' which would get that sector, where there is still much anxiety, back up and running again,\" she said.", "Jeffrey Plevey died while he was working at the derelict Citadel Church\n\nTwo men will appear in court to face gross negligence manslaughter charges, three years after a church collapsed in Cardiff, killing a worker inside.\n\nJeffrey Plevey, 55, died when the Citadel Chruch in Splott collapsed on 18 July 2017.\n\nKeith Young, 72, of Llandough, Vale of Glamorgan, and Stewart Swain, 53, from Cardiff, have been summonsed to appear at Cardiff Magistrates' Court.\n\nMr Young will also face a charge under the Health and Safety Act.\n\nHe faces a charge of failing to discharge a duty, while five companies and three other men have been summonsed to court in relation to offences under the Health and Safety at Work Act.\n\nSwain Scaffolding Ltd, South Wales Safety Consultancy Ltd, Amos Projects Ltd, Strongs Partnership Ltd and NJP Consultant Engineers Ltd also face charges as do Mark Gulley, 58, from Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, Richard Dean, 58, from Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent, and Philip Thomas, 55, from Thornhill, Cardiff.\n\nThey are all due to appear at Cardiff Magistrates' Court on 21 October.\n\nJeffrey Plevey was working inside the derelict church when it collapsed\n\nMr Plevey was found under rubble at the derelict church, where he was working at the time.\n\nThe building was being demolished when it collapsed.\n\nTwo other people escaped from the building and were treated for minor injuries.\n\nAn evidence file was submitted to the Crown Prosecution Service in January after a joint investigation between South Wales Police and the Health and Safety Executive.", "A trial of a new vaccine that appears to train the immune system to fight coronavirus has begun in the UK.\n\nEarly tests showed the jab, developed by US biotechnology company Novavax, leads to high levels of virus-fighting antibodies being produced.\n\nThe trial on 10,000 people will now see if the vaccine can prevent people getting ill.\n\nThe UK government has already ordered 60 million doses in case it proves successful.\n\nA vaccine that can protect people from Covid-19 is still widely seen as the main exit strategy from the restrictions on all our lives.\n\nThe Novavax jab is only the second to enter large scale trials in the UK; the other has been developed by the University of Oxford.\n\nSome of the vaccines being developed for Covid-19 use either completely new or barely proven technologies.\n\nNovavax are using traditional methods - proteins from the coronavirus that cannot replicate in the body and a chemical, called an adjuvant, to boost the immune response.\n\n\"It's a technology that we are more familiar with,\" Prof Paul Heath, who is leading the trial at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"This is an open field and we don't know what will work, that is the truthful answer here,. And that's the reason there are so many different vaccine candidates.\"\n\nEarly trial data on 83 people, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed the vaccine appeared safe.\n\nBlood samples from those injected showed the volunteers were producing antibodies that could neutralise the coronavirus and another part of the immune system, called T-cells, were also trained to fight the virus.\n\nWhile this is a promising sign, it is not enough to prove the vaccine can either stop infection or prevent someone developing the severest form of the disease.\n\nTen thousand people will take part in the trial and at least a quarter of them will be over 65, the age-group most at risk of severe Covid-19.\n\nSome of the volunteers will be picked from those who have signed up to take part in clinical trials run by the NHS.\n\nHalf will be given two doses of the vaccine, three weeks apart, and the rest will be given a dummy jab called a placebo.\n\nHowever, it will take months - probably early 2021 - before we know if the vaccine is successful.\n\nThe vaccine has been tested in animals and small numbers of people already\n\n\"This is a really exciting moment, this is only the second phase three efficacy trial in the UK,\" Prof Heath told the BBC.\n\n\"This vaccine looks like an excellent candidate to be protective against Covid-19, but we need now to prove that.\"\n\nThe vaccine will be manufactured in Stockton-on-Tees.\n\nKate Bingham, chairwoman of the government's Vaccines Taskforce, said: \"Finding a safe and effective vaccine that works for the majority of the UK population is the best way to tackle this devastating disease.\n\n\"Whilst social distancing, testing and other measures can help reduce the impact of coronavirus, the only long-term solution to beating it will be finding a vaccine.\"", "Kat Kingsley said she would be wary of giving out her personal details again\n\nA bus worker who sent \"creepy\" messages to a woman after getting her contact details from a test-and-trace form has been fired from the company.\n\nKat Kingsley, 25, from Hayle in Cornwall, went on the Original Tour bus in Windsor on 10 September.\n\nThree days later she received two messages from a member of staff saying he wanted to see her.\n\nA spokesman for the company said the employee had since been dismissed as a result of their investigation.\n\nThe company spokesman added the firm was also introducing a new system for test-and-trace, which meant personal data would be stored online and would not be accessible to staff.\n\nAs she got on the bus, Ms Kingsley said she gave her name and phone number to a staff member, who wrote them on a piece of paper as part of the NHS Test and Trace system.\n\nMs Kingsley said he later sent her text messages saying she had been \"living in his head\" and he admitted there was a risk to using \"data that's not supposed to be for me\".\n\nMs Kingsley described the messages as \"creepy\" and said she hoped his being fired would prevent others doing the same.\n\n\"He didn't resign, he went through the disciplinary process and I think he expected to keep his job but I got a call yesterday to say he had been fired,\" she said.\n\n\"I think it should teach him a lesson and hopefully deter anyone else who was considering breaching data [protection].\"\n\nThe messages were sent using the phone number Ms Kingsley had provided for the test-and-trace form\n\nThe Original Tour spokesman said the company's managing director would be speaking to Ms Kingsley \"to express to her our regret and apologies for the incident\".\n\nTest-and-trace launched in May in a bid to stop the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThe system is designed to be used to enable venues and services to contact people, using personal details given, if they may have come into contact with someone with Covid-19 while using their services.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Cardiff has seen 38.2 cases per 100,000 people in the past week\n\nCardiff council leader Huw Thomas has warned of potential restrictions on travel and different households mixing.\n\nHe told a virtual meeting of the authority that over the past seven days, the area has seen 38.2 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nMr Thomas said the city was on the verge of entering the Welsh Government's \"red zone\".\n\nHe said if that was to happen \"then I fully expect that we will be implementing further restrictions as we have seen elsewhere\" in south Wales.\n\nCardiff is home to 366,903 people and would be the seventh area to have tighter restrictions imposed.\n\nPeople living in Caerphilly, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Bridgend, Blaenau Gwent, Merthyr Tydfil and Newport cannot leave their areas without a reasonable excuse.\n\nShould Cardiff follow them into lockdown, it would mean more than a 1.2 million people - about a third of Wales' population - would be under tighter restrictions than the rest of the country.\n\nConservative councillor Jayne Cowan asked Mr Thomas if Cardiff would be put into a local lockdown in the next 48 hours.\n\nHe replied: \"We'll look at the numbers again in the morning and make a decision based on that.\"\n\nIt comes as Caerphilly's lockdown has been confirmed for at least a further seven days.\n\nMr Thomas said restrictions could be introduced \"at speed\" and could include a ban on households meeting or travel outside of Cardiff.\n\nThe council leader said the coronavirus test positivity rate stood at 3.8%, which exceeds the government's amber threshold of 2.5%.\n\nThere has been a sharp rise in hospital emergency attendance in the past week, he added, with the spread of infection \"most frequently found within household settings\".\n\n\"Our test trace and protect data suggests this is particularly in cases where family bubble rules have been breached, and also where people are mixing in indoor home settings and not following the rule of six,\" he said.\n\n\"The truth is that indoor mixing with people not in extended households in homes, cafes, bars and restaurants is happening far too frequently.\"\n\nCardiff city centre at the end of July\n\nMr Thomas said there had been a significant rise in those aged 35 to 50 testing positive.\n\nAny new restrictions would need to be introduced by the Welsh Government.\n\nMr Thomas said he met First Minister Mark Drakeford and Health Minister Vaughan Gething prior to Thursday night's council meeting.\n\nThe threshold for foreign countries to be added to the list of destinations where people need to quarantine for 14 days upon arrival in the UK is 20 cases per 100,000.\n\nCardiff councillor Jayne Cowan told BBC Radio Wales a local lockdown was \"inevitable\" but feared the impact on businesses.\n\n\"Many businesses won't survive another lockdown,\" she said.\n\n\"We're seeing many thousands of cases of people having livelihoods stripped away. As part of the first lockdown, I was made redundant from my part time job.\n\n\"The Welsh Government needs to come up with the goods.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative health spokesman, Andrew RT Davies, tweeted that a \"it's incumbent on the Welsh Labour government to bring forward a package of financial support for the many businesses (particularly hospitality) that will be devastated by the news\".\n\nHe said a blanket lockdown of the city \"really isn't local\".\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru health spokesman, said: \"Shutting pubs slightly earlier isn't going to be enough - the Welsh Government must think of a suite of new steps, which are perhaps stricter but for a shorter period, in order to control these new spikes.\"", "A sign on a pub window warns customers of the curfew\n\nPolice patrols have been stepped up across Scotland to ensure the smooth introduction of a new pub and restaurant curfew.\n\nAll hospitality must now close at 22:00 in the latest raft of measures designed to halt Covid transmission.\n\nScotland's chief constable promised extra policing as he urged citizens to act responsibly.\n\nHe also issued a blunt warning that organising, hosting or attending house parties was now breaking the law.\n\nThe Scottish government has revealed that 36% of positive cases handled by Test and Protect mention social exposure, through hospitality or socialising with friends and family.\n\nIt said the aim of the measures was to reduce the amount of time people can spend in licensed premises and therefore curtail the spread of the virus in high risk environments while still allowing businesses to trade.\n\nSoaring infection rates have prompted the introduction of strict measures on the hospitality industry across the UK.\n\nEvery pub has been ordered to observe the 22:00 curfew, with the threat of permanent closure for those who do not comply.\n\nChief Constable Iain Livingstone from Police Scotland said extra patrols would be deployed around closing time to ensure the change was being adhered to.\n\nAt Friday's Scottish government coronavirus briefing he said: \"Additional officers will be deployed across Scotland to support colleagues from local authorities and to monitor compliance.\n\n\"I think it's important for me to say that the vast majority of licensees have acted with great responsibility during this very challenging period - I pay credit to them and undertake that policing will continue to support and work with the licensed trade.\"\n\nChief Constable Iain Livingstone warned people that house parties were now illegal\n\nHe said that officers would \"continue to use good sense\" when enforcing the new rules.\n\nHe also issued a stark warning over the temptation to spill from the pub to a gathering within a house.\n\nThe chief constable admitted that the curfew could see an increase in house parties or gatherings as customers refused to end their nights early.\n\nBut he made it clear this would not be tolerated.\n\nHe said: \"During this extraordinary time where people's freedoms, liberty and family relationships are subject to restrictions never seen before, it is right and proper that the police service looks to engage with people, explain what is required of them.\n\n\"If they refuse to do what their fellow citizens, their neighbours are doing, we will take enforcement action.\n\n\"What is absolutely clear is that house parties and house gatherings are not permitted under any circumstances, there can be no excuse for arranging or attending a house party.\n\n\"You must not organise, host or attend a house party or house gathering, it is against the law.\"\n\nWith local \"September weekend\" public holidays in many areas, the curfew marks one of a set of increased measures introduced to combat the rise of new infections.\n\nOn Friday there were 558 new positive cases of coronavirus reported in Scotland since in the previous 24 hours - the highest daily total since the outbreak began.\n\nOf these, 255 were in Greater Glasgow and Clyde, where there has been a significant outbreak at University of Glasgow student accommodation\n\nStudents were ordered to quarantine and stay away from pubs after an outbreak at Glasgow University's Murano Halls\n\nStudents at all Scottish universities have been told not to visit hospitality venues this weekend and Universities Scotland said students who go to parties or socialise with anyone outside their accommodation risks losing their place at university.\n\nUniversities will adopt a \"yellow card/red card\" approach to breaches of discipline, with students warned the consequences could include \"potential discontinuation of study\".\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she sympathised with students and she hoped disciplinary action would only be taken as a \"last resort\" against those who \"flagrantly\" broke the rules.\n\nThe Scottish government also said it appreciated how difficult it was for pubs and other hospitality outlets, but that restrictions were based on the fundamental need to reduce transmissions.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Recent management information from our Covid-19 case management system suggests that around 36% of cases mention social/recreational exposure, including hospitality or socialising with friends/family.\n\n\"Although this data has many caveats and limitations, and therefore cannot prove causality in terms of where transmission has taken place, it does help guide our response to help prevent transmission in such settings.\"\n\nThe hospitality curfew comes a week after the \"rule of six\" came into effect in Scotland, limiting all gatherings, including those in pubs and restaurants, to no more than six adults from two households.\n\nVenues are also forbidden from playing background music, must enforce strict rules on hygiene and distancing, and record customers' details for track and trace data.\n\nHospitality industry organisations said the latest restrictions were a \"potentially fatal blow\" for many business.\n\nIndoor visits between households are also banned across Scotland for the foreseeable future until the risk of transmission is reduced.\n\nAre you a student in lockdown? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A long-serving police officer has been shot dead at Croydon Custody Centre in south London.\n\nThe male sergeant was shot in the chest before the suspect turned the firearm on himself, sources have told the BBC.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Cressida Dick, Sadiq Khan and Priti Patel all took part in the silence at New Scotland Yard, while colleagues of the killed officer gathered outside the Croydon Centre.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Barrister Alexandra Wilson says \"everyone should be treated with respect\" in court\n\nA black barrister mistaken for a defendant three times in one day has received an apology from court officials.\n\nCriminal and family lawyer Alexandra Wilson, 25, said the experience had left her \"absolutely exhausted\".\n\nShe lodged a formal complaint after being challenged by a security officer, a solicitor and a clerk.\n\nHer Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) apologised for the \"totally unacceptable behaviour\".\n\nMs Wilson, from Essex, said she had attended the magistrates' court - where barristers' traditional wigs and gowns are not usually worn - on Wednesday.\n\nUpon arrival, she said a security officer asked for her name and then searched for it on a list of defendants.\n\n\"I explained I was a barrister. He apologised and guided me through security,\" Ms Wilson said.\n\nAfter meeting her client, she tried to enter a courtroom to discuss the case with the prosecutor.\n\n\"Another barrister or solicitor sitting at the back of the court told me to go outside and wait and to sign in with the usher for my case.\n\n\"I explained again I was a barrister and she looked awfully embarrassed and said 'I see'.\n\nAlexandra Wilson, who specialises in family and criminal law, said she did not expect to \"constantly justify my existence at work\"\n\n\"At this point as I was already pretty annoyed, but I went over to the prosecutor and then the clerk told me very loudly to get out of the court room because I had to wait for my case to come on.\n\n\"I was nearly in tears, and I said again, 'I am a defence barrister', and she nodded her head and turned back to her computer.\"\n\nIn addition, she said, a member of the public thought she was a journalist and told her \"only lawyers can go in\" the courtroom.\n\n\"All of that in one day, it made me feel exhausted,\" she said.\n\n\"This really isn't ok... I don't expect to have to constantly justify my existence at work.\"\n\nEarlier this week, Alexandra Wilson, author of In Black and White, criticised Amazon for selling hats with the slogan \"Black Lives Don't Matter\"\n\nShe told the BBC she was \"quite often\" mistaken for a defendant but never so often in one day, and her experience had made her realise \"it's not nice being a defendant in court\".\n\n\"Everyone should be treated with respect,\" she said.\n\n\"The fact I was shouted at to get out of court isn't ok for defendants either.\"\n\nHMCTS acting chief executive, Kevin Sadler, said: \"I'm very sorry about your experience at court yesterday - it is totally unacceptable behaviour.\"\n\nHe said he would be investigating the role of his staff and contractors \"as a matter of urgency\".\n\n\"This is not the behaviour anyone should expect and certainly does not reflect our values,\" he added.\n\nMs Wilson said she was \"grateful\" for the apology and hoped it would lead \"to some real change\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Face coverings have been mandatory on public transport in England since 15 June\n\nFewer than 0.1% of people stopped by police for not wearing masks on trains received a fine, figures have revealed.\n\nBritish Transport Police (BTP) said it stopped 14,726 people from 15 July to 15 August for failing to comply, resulting in 14 fixed penalty notices.\n\nThe rules, introduced in June, state anyone travelling on public transport must wear a face covering.\n\nBTP said enforcement in the form of fixed penalty notices was only used as a \"last resort\".\n\nIt said, from 30 July to 8 September, officers recorded 50,729 \"interventions\" with passengers not wearing face coverings, with 3,545 - 7% - of those told to leave the train.\n\nThe figures, obtained through a Freedom of Information request, showed 37 fines had been issued between 15 June and 14 July. BTP said it did not hold complete data for how many people were stopped during that time.\n\nThe rules have led to rows on public transport, with some spilling over into violence.\n\nLast month, police said a train passenger was head-butted to the floor and repeatedly punched in the face for asking a fellow passenger to wear a face mask on a service between Slough and Langley in Berkshire.\n\nAnd in Bournemouth, a bus driver was hit over the head and kicked on the floor for refusing to let a man board without a face covering.\n\nMP Sammy Wilson was pictured on the London tube without a mask\n\nPoliticians have also been photographed breaking the rules.\n\nConservative MP for Devizes, Danny Kruger, apologised for forgetting to put on his face covering for a train journey from Hungerford to Paddington.\n\nDUP MP for East Antrim, Sammy Wilson, was also caught on camera by a fellow passenger on the London Underground without a mask.\n\nMr Wilson said he accepted he \"should have been\" wearing a face covering and he would \"accept whatever consequences there are\".\n\nA BTP spokesman said: \"British Transport Police has been working with rail industry staff since face coverings became mandatory on public transport in England on 15 June 2020 to engage with passengers, explain the importance of preventing the spread of the Covid-19 virus and encouraging people to wear face coverings.\n\n\"Enforcement, in the form of fixed penalty notices, has only been used as a last resort.\"\n\nRail campaign group Railfuture said it was difficult to strike a balance but said BTP had got it \"about right\".\n\nSpokesman Bruce Williamson said: \"We want a safe railway. We do not want to deter people from travelling.\n\n\"It looks like British Transport Police are doing this right. If fines are a last resort, it's good, they are not being heavy-handed.\"\n\nBTP has jurisdiction for the railway network in England, Scotland and Wales, which includes the London Underground, Docklands Light Railway, Croydon Tramlink, Midlands Metro, Glasgow Subway and part of the Tyne & Wear Metro.", "A local trader, who took this photo of a victim being treated, said there was panic outside his store\n\nTwo people have been stabbed and seriously hurt in Paris near the former offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.\n\nTwo suspects have been arrested. One of them was seized in the nearby Bastille area with blood on his clothing, police told the BBC.\n\nAnti-terrorism police have taken over the investigation.\n\nA security cordon has been set up in the 11th arrondissement in eastern Paris.\n\nNearby metro stations were closed and five schools in the area immediately went into lockdown. The schools were allowed to reopen some hours later.\n\nA blade - described as a machete or a meat cleaver - was recovered at the scene of the attack near the Boulevard Richard-Lenoir.\n\nPolice quoted by French media said the \"main suspect\" was from Pakistan and the second person arrested was from Algeria. They have not yet been named and any connection between them has not been disclosed.\n\nThe conditions of the victims have not been made public although French Prime Minister Jean Castex told reporters at the scene that their lives were not in danger.\n\nThe attack comes as a high-profile trial is under way in Paris of 14 people accused of helping two jihadists carry out the 2015 attack on Charlie Hebdo, in which 12 people were killed.\n\nThe two people wounded were staff at a TV production company, one of their colleagues told AFP news agency.\n\n\"Two colleagues were smoking a cigarette outside the building, in the street. I heard shouting. I went to the window and saw one of my colleagues, covered in blood, being chased by a man with a machete in the street,\" another member of staff at the Premières Lignes production firm said.\n\nThe firm has offices in the Rue Nicolas Appert, a side street off Boulevard Richard Lenoir where the former Charlie Hebdo offices are located. A mural to the 12 people killed in the Charlie Hebdo attack is nearby.\n\nThe satirical magazine has since moved to a secret location.\n\nMr Castex visited the scene accompanied by Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo.\n\nThe prime minister reiterated the government's \"firm commitment to combat terrorism by all possible means\".\n\nFrench Prime Minister Jean Castex visited the scene flanked by Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo\n\nAt a news conference, anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-François Ricard confirmed that the \"main perpetrator\" had been arrested and said a \"second individual\" was also in custody.\n\n\"The investigation will continue,\" he said.\n\nCharles Michel, President of the European Council and former Belgian PM, expressed his \"full solidarity with the French people\".\n\n\"All my thoughts are with the victims of this cowardly act of violence. Terror has no place on European territory,\" he tweeted.\n\nIn a tweet, Charlie Hebdo expressed its \"support and solidarity with its former neighbours... and the people affected by this odious attack\".\n\nCharlie Hebdo has marked the start of the trial by reprinting controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that sparked protests in several Muslim countries.\n\nIn response, the militant group al-Qaeda renewed its threat to the magazine.\n\nThe magazine's head of human resources said earlier this week that she had moved out of her home after receiving death threats.\n\nThe defendants in the trial are also accused of helping another jihadist carry out a related attack in which he shot dead a policewoman, then attacked a Jewish store, killing four people.\n\nThe 17 victims were killed over a period of three days. All three attackers were killed by police. The killings marked the beginning of a wave of jihadist attacks across France that left more than 250 people dead.\n\nThe public has been told to avoid the area in Paris's 11th arrondissement", "Magawa has won a gold medal for detecting mines in Cambodia\n\nAn African giant pouched rat has been awarded a prestigious gold medal for his work detecting land mines.\n\nMagawa has sniffed out 39 landmines and 28 unexploded munitions in his career.\n\nThe UK veterinary charity PDSA has presented him with its Gold Medal for \"life-saving devotion to duty, in the location and clearance of deadly landmines in Cambodia\".\n\nThere are thought to be up to six million landmines in the southeast Asian country.\n\nPDSA's Gold Medal is inscribed with the words \"For animal gallantry or devotion to duty\". Of the 30 animal recipients of the award, Magawa is the first rat.\n\nThe seven-year-old rodent was trained by the Belgium-registered charity Apopo, which is based in Tanzania and has been raising the animals - known as HeroRATs - to detect landmines and tuberculosis since the 1990s. The animals are certified after a year of training.\n\n\"To receive this medal is really an honour for us,\" Apopo chief executive Christophe Cox told the Press Association news agency. \"But also it is big for the people in Cambodia, and all the people around the world who are suffering from landmines.\"\n\nPDSA broadcast the award ceremony for Magawa on its website.\n\nAccording to Apopo, Magawa - born and raised in Tanzania - weighs 1.2kg (2.6lb) and is 70cm (28in) long. While that is far larger than many other rat species, Magawa is still small enough and light enough that he does not trigger mines if he walks over them.\n\nThe rats are trained to detect a chemical compound within the explosives, meaning they ignore scrap metal and can search for mines more quickly. Once they find an explosive, they scratch the top to alert their human co-workers.\n\nMagawa is capable of searching a field the size of a tennis court in just 20 minutes - something Apopo says would take a person with a metal detector between one and four days.\n\nIt takes the rats a year of training before they become certified land mine detectors, known as HeroRATs\n\nMagawa and his colleagues are working with the Cambodian Mine Action Centre to detect unexploded ordnance in the country\n\nHe works for just half an hour a day in the mornings and is nearing retirement age, but PDSA director general Jan McLoughlin said his work with Apopo was \"truly unique and outstanding\".\n\n\"Magawa's work directly saves and changes the lives of men, women and children who are impacted by these landmines,\" she told the Press Association. \"Every discovery he makes reduces the risk of injury or death for local people.\"\n\nAccording to the mine-clearing NGO the HALO Trust, Cambodia has recorded more than 64,000 casualties and some 25,000 amputees due to landmines since 1979. Many were laid during the country's civil war in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nIn January 2020, US President Donald Trump lifted restrictions on US landmine use, reversing a ban brought in by President Barack Obama in 2014.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Landmines: Why do they kill thousands every year?", "The UK has recorded 6,634 new coronavirus cases, the government has announced, making it the highest daily figure since mass testing began.\n\nAnother 40 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus.\n\nThe latest figures take the overall number of confirmed cases to 416,363, and total deaths to 41,902.\n\nMeanwhile, people arriving in the UK from Denmark, Slovakia, Iceland and Caribbean island Curacao will need to self-isolate for 14 days from Saturday.\n\nAfter falling from their April peak, confirmed new coronavirus cases in the UK have been rising again since July.\n\nThe latest surge in cases comes after Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced plans aimed at stopping mass job cuts over the winter months.\n\nThe government's new wage subsidy scheme, set to replace furlough, will see the government top up the pay of people unable to work full time.\n\nThe official records may show that the UK has just seen the highest number of new cases on a single day.\n\nBut it is, of course, nothing of the sort. At the peak of the pandemic in the spring we had such limited testing capacity that it was largely only hospital patients who were being checked.\n\nIt meant we were identifying just the tip of the iceberg.\n\nEstimates have suggested there may have been as many 100,000 cases a day at the peak.\n\nWe are clearly not capturing all the infections - even now with the mass testing that is available.\n\nSurveillance data last week suggested we may be identifying only about half of cases.\n\nBut that still puts the infection levels well below what they were in the spring.\n\nHospital admissions and deaths have also started creeping up, but are still very low.\n\nHealth experts have been clear we are now on the upwards path so we should expect this trend to continue.\n\nCrucial will be how quickly figures rise for all three measures, with the hospital cases and deaths the most important.\n\nEvidence from Spain and France, which started seeing rises a few weeks before us, offer some hope.\n\nCases have been climbing gradually - at least more gradually than the trajectory government scientists warned could lead the UK to 50,000 cases a day by mid-October.\n\nMr Sunak's measures come two days after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced further restrictions to help curb the spread of coronavirus, including a 22:00 closing time for all pubs, restaurants and hospitality venues, which have now come into force in England.\n\nThe sector will also be restricted, by law, to giving table service only.\n\nIn Scotland, university students have been asked not to go to pubs, parties or restaurants this weekend, in a bid to curb outbreaks at several institutions.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon apologised to students, saying she recognised Covid was \"making this special time of your lives so tough\".\n\nAnd in Wales, people in Cardiff are facing the prospect of local lockdown after council leader Huw Thomas said the city was on the verge of entering the Welsh Government's \"red zone\".\n\nThe decision to remove Denmark, Slovakia, Iceland and Caribbean island Curacao from the so-called \"travel corridor\" list takes effect from 04:00 BST on Saturday, the Department for Transport said.\n\nIt has been agreed with the devolved administrations so covers the whole of the UK, unlike some previous travel quarantine announcements.\n\nNo countries will be added to the UK travel corridor list this week, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said.\n\nSingapore and Thailand remain the most recent additions to England and Scotland's list, from 17 September.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Mr Shapps reminded passengers they were required by law to fill in a passenger locator form when entering the UK.\n\n\"This protects public health and ensures those who need to are complying with self-isolation rules,\" he said.\n\nThe form asks travellers to provide their contact details and UK address. Passengers can be fined up to £3,200 in England if they do not provide accurate contact details, or £1,920 in Wales.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nell Manson and Lucy Owens are self-isolating at the University of Glasgow\n\nStudents caught up in a spate of Covid outbreaks have questioned why university halls were allowed to open.\n\nThey have been told not to visit pubs or restaurants this weekend or go home after hundreds of students across Scotland tested positive for the virus.\n\nHowever, many have called the outbreaks inevitable given students were encouraged back to campus.\n\nThe Scottish government said all efforts were focused on stopping further transmission of the virus.\n\nOne of the worst affected halls is Glasgow University's Murano Street residences where at least 172 students have tested positive for Covid-19 and hundreds more are self isolating.\n\nLucy Owens, a student living in the Murano complex and who has coronavirus, questioned why students had been brought back given so much learning had moved online.\n\nShe asked on the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"What are we paying for? I could do everything I am doing from my house, so why have they sent us here?\n\n\"I know we're making the most of this accommodation because we're stuck in it all day but we're not really making the most of being at university.\n\n\"Putting two thousand students into such a confined area, something like this was bound to happen.\"\n\nFellow student Nell Manson said keeping students out of pubs and restaurants was not the answer.\n\nShe said: \"More things will be happening in accommodations.\n\n\"In pubs and restaurants there are lots of social distancing measures, you can't even get up from your table without a mask.\n\n\"It lends itself to people socialising in other ways where there's not such strict rules.\"\n\nStudents in Glasgow have been getting tests and told to self isolate\n\nTessa Morrison, 17, who is studying politics at Glasgow University, said she has had a positive Covid diagnosis and is living with 10 other people, some of whom also have the virus.\n\nThe students all have their own rooms but share two bathrooms and one kitchen.\n\nShe said it was \"difficult to avoid people\" in this setup, adding, \"They should have waited until at least Christmas to let us come here, I do think they are just trying to make money off us being in halls and they knew this was inevitably going to happen.\"\n\nGlasgow University said the positive cases were due to social activity during Freshers Week\n\nThere are currently about 250,000 students in Scotland, with up to 35,000 living in university halls and 10,000 in private halls.\n\nCovid outbreaks have been reported at halls of residence in Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen and Edinburgh.\n\nArturo Morselli, a student from Italy studying at St Andrews University but living in Dundee, said he felt left in limbo by the current situation.\n\nHe said: \"My belief is that universities are trying to avoid accountability in the sense that they are not taking decisions.\n\n\"We students are caught up in the fact that no one wants to take responsibility for what's going on and we are the ones caught up in it and we don't know if it's worth the money we are paying.\"\n\nIsobelle Robinson-Gordon described her university experience to date as \"very ostracising\"\n\nIsobelle Robinson-Gordon, a first year student at Edinburgh University, said her experience had been \"very isolating\" so far.\n\nShe said: \"I've moved to Edinburgh. I'm in accommodation, but all the learning is online. I'm frustrated.\n\n\"A lot of students are here and ready to learn, but it's all online. It's the lack of direction. It's debilitating.\n\n\"We've not had any guidance from the university. Everything we're learning is from the news media.\"\n\nHelen Kirkpatrick's daughter is a second year student at Glasgow's Strathclyde University and is staying in private halls.\n\nShe said: \"After going back there she has found out that all classes will be online for the first semester.\n\n\"She's signed an agreement and paid a lot of money to stay there and what for? Now she is essentially imprisoned?\n\n\"She could have studied at home - I think the Scottish government could have handled this a lot better.\"\n\nUniversities in Scotland have agreed to introduce a \"yellow card, red card\" system for breaches of student discipline that put students and others at risk, which could result in an end to their studies.\n\nHigher Education Minister Richard Lochhead said this, and curbs on going to hospitality this weekend, was about trying to stop the virus spreading.\n\nHe said: \"This is an ask of the student population of Scotland from universities. The Scottish government support that, but the universities are asking the students jointly across Scotland this weekend - given we've got a number of outbreaks of the virus and some campuses across Scotland - to have the weekend off from socialising out-with the households.\"\n\n\"The vast majority of students have been so responsible, it's a very tough time for them.\"\n\nMr Lochhead added that \"it's not stigmatising students, it's not about saying they're particularly to blame for what's happening.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the Scottish government was trying to strike the right balance between protecting public health and ensuring there is a \"degree of normality around education\".\n\nShe told Radio 1 Newsbeat: \"Students deserve to have a campus experience. They deserve to have some kind of normality in their life. So people will have different views about the rights and wrongs.\"", "Universities must make sure food and essentials are delivered to students self-isolating at campuses across Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nSeveral unis are dealing with coronavirus outbreaks, with many students in Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen and Edinburgh being told to stay in.\n\nThe first minister will remind university heads of their \"big responsibility\" to students later.\n\nScotland students have been told to avoid pubs and parties this weekend.\n\nThe stricter guidelines have been criticised by the National Union of Students Scotland as \"unjustified\" and \"deeply concerning\".\n\nPresident Matt Crilly said it showed a \"complete disregard\" for students' mental health and wellbeing.\n\nSpeaking to Radio 1 Newsbeat's political editor Daniel Rosney, Ms Sturgeon said she wasn't blaming students.\n\n\"It's not their fault, it's nobody's fault. Covid is nobody's fault.\n\n\"But we all have to play our parts and try and to get it under control.\"\n\nA total of 172 Glasgow University students have so far tested positive, with 600 in isolation, while all 500 residents at the Parker House halls in Dundee have been told to quarantine.\n\nThe first minister said students were being asked not to go to the pub just for this weekend, adding that it was incorrect to say the measures were in place for longer.\n\n\"I think last night, there was a sense that we were saying to students, for the foreseeable future, do not to go to pubs. That's not what we're saying.\"\n\nBut she didn't rule out that it could happen again.\n\n\"I've tried to be really straight with people in how we're dealing with this.\n\n\"I can't see into the future in any certain sense. I don't have a crystal ball.\"\n\nHousehold mixing is banned under stricter regulations announced this week for Scotland, and Nicola Sturgeon expects students to follow the rules.\n\nThat means the start of university is very different to normal.\n\nWhen asked about sex with new partners, she said: \"There are limits to what I'm going to say to students about the regulation of their intimate private lives.\n\n\"But I, a student, anybody else, is not allowed to be in somebody else's house right now.\n\n\"Because we know that is one of the big risks of the virus spreading.\"\n\nThose living alone who form extended households, couples not living together and those who need childcare and tradespeople do not have to observe the indoor visiting restriction.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Students in Sheffield talk about their last night of \"freedom\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said while she was concerned about the mental health impact of restrictions, there was a balance to find with physical health.\n\n\"My priority is to try and keep people safe from a virus that even for young people can do a lot of damage to their physical health.\n\n\"But the more quickly we can bring Covid back under control right now, hopefully, the sooner students can start to have a bit more normality in their lives.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK is to give £500m to a new global vaccine-sharing scheme designed to ensure treatments for Covid-19 are distributed fairly.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson made the announcement in a speech to the United Nations general assembly.\n\nHe called on world leaders to overcome their differences as he set out plans to prevent future global pandemics.\n\nHe also promised extra funding for the World Health Organization.\n\nMr Johnson told his foreign counterparts at the UN that the \"notion of the international community looks tattered\" after the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nHe called for states to \"reach across borders and repair these ugly rifts\", as he announced a plan, developed with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and The Wellcome Trust, to help stop future pandemics.\n\nThe proposals include developing a global network of \"zoonotic hubs\" to identify dangerous pathogens before they jump from animals to humans, as well as improving manufacturing capacity for treatments and vaccines.\n\nIn a pre-recorded speech on Saturday afternoon, the prime minister said: \"After nine months of fighting Covid, the very notion of the international community looks tattered.\n\n\"We know that we cannot continue in this way. Unless we unite and turn our fire against our common foe, we know that everyone will lose.\n\n\"Now is the time, therefore, here at what I devoutly hope will be the first and last ever Zoom UNGA, for humanity to reach across borders and repair these ugly rifts.\n\n\"Here in the UK, the birthplace of Edward Jenner who pioneered the world's first vaccine, we are determined to do everything in our power to work with our friends across the UN to heal those divisions and to heal the world.\"\n\nOther measures being proposed include designing a global pandemic early warning system, improving the ability to collect and analyse samples and distribute the findings.\n\nThe plan also calls for common protocols to be agreed on sharing data.\n\nMr Johnson is also proposing states reduce trade barriers on Covid-critical products, such as soap, to help the global response.\n\nThe £500m in aid funding will go to the Covax vaccines procurement pool, which aims to help poorer countries access a coronavirus jab when one is developed.\n\nThere are about 40 different coronavirus vaccines in clinical trials - including one being developed by the University of Oxford that is in an advanced stage of testing.\n\nA successful vaccine that can protect people from Covid-19 is still widely seen as the main exit strategy from the current restrictions on people's lives.\n\nHowever, Mr Johnson said \"we must never cut corners\" or \"sacrifice safety to speed\" in the search for a vaccine.\n\n\"Because it would be an absolute tragedy if, in our eagerness, we were to boost the nut-jobs - the anti-vaxers, dangerous obsessives who campaign against the whole concept of vaccination and who would risk further millions of lives,\" he said.\n\nThe PM also promised £340m to the World Health Organization over the next four years - a 30% increase on the previous period, making the UK one of its biggest donors.\n\nRomilly Greenhill, UK director of The One Campaign, which fights extreme poverty and preventable disease, said the British government was showing \"powerful leadership\" at a moment when it \"could not be more important\".\n\n\"It will give the global fight against Covid-19 a shot in the arm, helping ensure everyone, everywhere can access a vaccine.\"", "A defendant in Ohio made a daring escape from the courtroom while being sentenced for a drugs offence.\n\nNickolaus Garrison broke free of the deputies holding him and made a run for it - causing one officer to fly down the stairs head first.\n\nAfter three days at large, Garrison is now back in custody.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Police said all 43 regional forces in England and Wales were involved in the raids\n\nMore than 1,000 people have been arrested and an estimated £1.2m worth of drugs seized in a police crackdown on so-called \"county lines\" gangs.\n\nYoung and vulnerable people are used as couriers to move drugs and cash between cities and smaller towns.\n\nPolice said raids in the past week, involving all 43 regional forces in England and Wales, had been the most successful of their kind.\n\nAlmost 200 weapons and £526,000 in cash were also seized.\n\nDuring a week-long operation, police forces also shut down about 10% of the phone lines (102) being used for drug dealing.\n\nCounty lines is the term used to describe criminal gangs who move illegal drugs from big cities to more rural locations and sell them via dedicated mobile phone lines.\n\nIt is a \"business model\" which now dominates the drug trade, according to BBC home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds.\n\nInvestigators said restrictions imposed during the Covid-19 pandemic and a better understanding of mobile phone data had helped them target the drug dealers operating the lines.\n\nNikki Holland, director of investigations with the National Crime Agency, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"Drugs dealers were a lot more visible on empty trains and on roads that are less busy so it was much easier to be able to spot the drugs dealers.\"\n\nShe added the police forces had worked with phone companies to share intelligence with each other and now had a \"greater understanding\" of how phone lines are used when they are passed on from one group to another.\n\nBy liaising with law enforcement overseas the NCA had been able to \"choke the supply\" of drugs, she said.\n\nClass A drugs, £526,000 in cash and almost 200 weapons were seized\n\nKey to the county lines trade are mobile phone numbers advertised in smaller towns but controlled by gang leaders in cities like London, Birmingham and Liverpool.\n\nThe gangs send bulk text messages to customers informing them of what is on offer, with cocaine and heroin the most common drugs for sale.\n\nGangs then have to transport the drugs to the areas where they are sold, often using young or vulnerable people, who are enticed or threatened into being involved.\n\nThe phones used are usually pay-as-you-go, but police are obtaining communications data from network providers and analysing the calls and texts sent and received to work out who controls the line.\n\nThe evidence is so strong, defendants often plead guilty without going to trial, police said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'They are made to work in horrific circumstances'\n\nMetropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Graham McNulty, the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) lead for county lines, said: \"We know now what a county lines phone looks like.\"\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the results of the operation were \"hugely impressive\" and tackling county lines was a \"priority\" for the government.\n\nShe said it had invested £25m in the \"crucial work\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he wants to make a \"big bet\" on renewables, turning the UK into the \"Saudi Arabia\" of wind power.\n\nTalking via video link to a roundtable discussion at the UN in New York, he said the country held \"extraordinary potential\" for wind energy.\n\nHe said the UK should embrace a range of new technologies to achieve its goal of net zero emissions by 2050.\n\nThe UK holds the presidency of the UN climate conference, known as the COP.\n\nBut because of the coronavirus crisis, the annual gathering will not take place this year. It has instead been postponed until November 2021.\n\nThe prime minister said the UK had an ambitious agenda for the meeting and called on other countries to show similar ambition. He praised the recent pledge by China to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060.\n\nMr Johnson reiterated his government's pledge to \"build back greener\" after the Covid-19 pandemic, through a green industrial revolution. He promised to deliver thousands of new jobs in the process.\n\nAs regards wind power, Mr Johnson said: \"We've got huge, huge gusts of wind going around the north of our country - Scotland. Quite extraordinary potential we have for wind.\"\n\nOn the question of new technologies, the prime minister also said he wanted the UK to take the lead in carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, in which greenhouse gas emissions are captured from sources such as power stations and then stored underground.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK had \"quite extraordinary potential\" for wind power\n\nMr Johnson said this was a technology he \"barely believed was possible, but I am now a complete evangelist for\".\n\nHe said the country would also be investing in renewable hydrogen fuel technology to provide what he called \"grunt\" for \"trucks, for trains, even perhaps for planes - for vehicles that aren't readily capable of being moved by electric batteries\".\n\nLike many other countries, he said the UK government was also thinking of bringing forward the date for phasing out new petrol and diesel cars. It's thought that date will be 2030, with 2035 for plug-in hybrids - but this has not yet been confirmed. This would help accelerate the take-up of electric vehicles (EVs).\n\nThe government would be continuing its ongoing investments in solar power and nuclear energy: \"I do think nuclear has to be part of the mix,\" the prime minister said.\n\nSomething that might have got a bit lost amongst Mr Johnsons references to the UK not \"lagging on lagging\" or the need to get hydrogen \"grunt\" to power the nation's trucks was just how important the Glasgow conference is.\n\nIt was only at the UN climate conference in Paris in 2015 that the world actually agreed that all nations needed to do their bit to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nEven as the Paris conference closed, the participants knew the commitments made were not sufficient to meet the UN's stated goal of keeping temperature rises well below 2C.\n\nThat is why they agreed to review their ambitions every five years. The idea is that they will keep raising the bar, doubling down on the efforts to moderate climate change.\n\nMr Johnson's goal today was to urge them to bring the boldest possible carbon cuts at a new meeting marking the anniversary of the Paris agreement on 12 December.\n\nWhat they bring to that meeting will kick off a year of negotiations designed to get them to go even further eleven months later at Glasgow.\n\nSo Mr Johnson was beginning a process that will determine how successful the conference will be and - much more important - will also determine the future direction of global climate.\n\nThe UK plans to invest in hydrogen-powered vehicles\n\nIn addition, homes would have to be improved so that they emit far fewer emissions. \"Putting in lagging, changing the way the windows are configured, all kinds of things - changing the boilers. You can do so much to make a home less carbon-emitting.\n\n\"The UK may sometimes be accused of lagging in some things my friends, but we will never be lagging in lagging.\"\n\nMr Johnson said the UK's greenhouse gases were 8-10% down in 2020 on previous years. But added: \"The bad news is we've achieved that by sustaining an appalling economic shock in the form of coronavirus.\n\n\"The only way we've done - or we're going to do it - is as you can imagine because our planes aren't flying, our people aren't moving, our cars aren't travelling and our industry isn't producing emissions in the way that it normally would.\"\n\nAt the roundtable, Ursula Van der Leyen, president of the European Commission, said that keeping global temperature rise under 1.5C - considered the gateway to dangerous global warming - was still possible \"if we act quickly and if we act together\".", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Llanelli will be the first area that is not an entire county to be locked down Image caption: Llanelli will be the first area that is not an entire county to be locked down\n\nThe Welsh Government does not currently have any \"additional financial provision\" for businesses in local lockdown areas, according to the health minister.\n\nVaughan Gething said it was in discussion with the UK government about further support, but said Chancellor Rishi Sunak's statement on Thursday did not set out more cash for businesses affected.\n\nMr Gething said the Welsh Government's budget was to \"help us survive known threats we do have\".\n\nHe called on the UK government for a \"further package\".", "The Always Home Cam covers up its camera when not in flight\n\nAmazon's smart home security division Ring has unveiled a flying camera that launches if sensors detect a potential home break-in.\n\nIt is designed to activate only when residents are out, works indoors, and is limited to one floor of a building.\n\nThe firm also unveiled an online games-streaming service and a voice-activated screen that swivels about.\n\nBut one campaign group described the drone camera as Amazon's \"most chilling home surveillance product\" yet.\n\n\"It's difficult to imagine why Amazon thinks anyone wants flying internet cameras linked up to a data-gathering company in the privacy of their own home,\" said Silkie Carlo from Big Brother Watch.\n\n\"It's important to acknowledge the influence that Amazon's product development is having on communities and the growing surveillance market.\"\n\nWhen the Always Home Cam is triggered by a suspected break-in, owners will get a smartphone alert to let them see live footage.\n\nAmazon said that privacy had been \"top of mind\" when the machine was designed.\n\n\"It only reports when it's in motion, and when it's not in motion it actually sits in a dock where it's physically blocked from even being able to report,\" explained Leila Rouhi, president of Ring.\n\n\"In addition to that, it's built to be loud, so it's really privacy that you can hear.\"\n\nThe drone's rotor blades are inside a cage, which could help protect pets\n\nThe device is set to cost $250 (£192) when it goes on sale. At launch, it will only be available in the US.\n\n\"The Always Home Cam is an incredibly ambitious device that will seem like something from a science fiction movie for many consumers,\" commented Ben Wood from the consultancy CCS Insight.\n\n\"I expect it to generate a huge amount of interest from technology enthusiasts who are typically the people who embrace smart home technology first. However, it is also likely to provoke a huge discussion around privacy and the future role of technology in the home.\"\n\nThe Ring division also unveiled a new security camera designed for use in a car, which monitors for nearby activity when the vehicle is parked.\n\nIt can also start recording video if a driver is pulled over while on a journey, potentially allowing them to record an interaction with the police.\n\nRing's business has previously been criticised because it has encouraged users to share their recordings with the authorities. This has prompted claims that it is normalising surveillance technologies that can intrude on people's lives.\n\nThe division claims its existing products - including video doorbells, indoor video cameras, and smart alarm systems - have helped make neighbourhoods safer.\n\nGlobal consumer spending on smart home products is expected to fall about 15% this year to $44bn (£24.5bn) due to the economic downturn caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, according to market research firm Strategy Analytics. But it predicts a rebound in 2021.\n\nAmazon's rivals have previously accused it of anti-competitive behaviour by selling its products at a lower price than they cost to make, in order to secure market share.\n\nWhen questioned about sales of the firm's Echo speakers in July, chief executive Jeff Bezos said the firm did not lose money on the range when they were sold at \"list price\", but acknowledged they were often on promotion at a lower cost.\n\nAmazon's other big announcement was the launch of its long-rumoured cloud-based games-streaming service.\n\nLuna will run games on remote computer servers so that players do not need to buy a console or other dedicated devices beyond a controller.\n\nIts Luna+ channel will offer access to a selection of older games such as Control, Resident Evil: Biohazard, Sonic Mania and Metro: Exodus for $6 a month.\n\nMany gamers may be more interested in the forthcoming \"Ubisoft channel\", which will include the publisher's next Assassin's Creed game among other blockbuster releases. The monthly cost of the Ubisoft channel has yet to be disclosed.\n\nThe Luna Controller will cost extra on top of the service's subscription fee\n\nAt launch, Luna will work with Amazon's own Fire TV dongles, Windows and MacOS computers, as well as on iPhones and iPads via the web browser.\n\nSupport for iPhones and iPads is notable as Apple has restricted other high-profile games-streaming services that did not obey its App Store rules.\n\nLuna will compete with Google Stadia, which launched about a year ago and has struggled to establish itself in a busy marketplace.\n\nXbox Game Pass, PlayStation Now, Apple Arcade and EA Play are among other subscription services competing for players' money and attention.\n\nThe Luna controller connects directly to the wi-fi\n\nHowever, Amazon has the advantage of owning the hugely popular Twitch platform, where people watch each other play. This could help it promote Luna.\n\n\"Amazon is allowing third-party channels on Luna, but at an additional cost to the user,\" commented Piers Harding-Rolls from Ampere Analysis.\n\nHe added that this was the opposite strategy to Microsoft, which had recently revealed it was bundling EA Play with the ultimate edition of its Xbox Game Pass without raising its price.\n\n\"Amazon's approach is commercially more sustainable and flexible,\" Mr Harding-Rolls concluded.\n\nUsers in parts of the US are the only ones able to sign up for \"early access\" at this time.\n\nIt is easy to forget how quickly drone technology has developed.\n\nAlways Home Cam is straight out of a 1980s science-fiction movie. But this is 2020, and the technology for flying security drones is here.\n\nThe Always Home Cam (l) is launched from a dock and streams live video to a smartphone\n\nFor years, Amazon has been using drones to try to speed up its delivery network. And in the past, its patents have suggested these could also provide a surveillance service.\n\nBut using drones for security inside the home is a new development.\n\nThere are general worries that this is the thin end of a wedge.\n\nFuture products might include Ring drones that operate around your house at times other than a suspected burglary - maybe there will even be guard drones in the future.\n\nOther announcements during Amazon's virtual event included a revamp for the firm's Echo and smaller Echo Dot smart speakers, which now come in spherical designs.\n\nThe devices can now recognise when a child is speaking to them and adapt their responses accordingly - for example selecting \"kid-friendly\" songs when asked to play music.\n\nThe new Amazon Echo is spherical and covered in cloth\n\nThe firm said that a new computer chip inside would allow more artificial intelligence-related tasks to be processed locally, meaning responses to commands and questions could be given more quickly.\n\nAmazon also launched a new version of its Echo Show 10 smart screen, which can now rotate to stay facing its users as they move about. In addition, the built-in camera has been upgraded to a 13-megapixel component to allow it to digitally zoom in and track users.\n\nThis should help the machine keep the owner in view during a video chat, and mirrors the capabilities of Facebook's rival Portal product.\n\nThe device will also add support for Zoom video calls and Netflix, as well as retaining Amazon's proprietary services and Skype.\n\nThe Echo Show 10 can swivel and face the person who is speaking to it\n\nAmazon added that Alexa's voice would soon sound more natural, by adding pauses for Alexa to take a \"breath\".\n\nAnd it said the virtual assistant would soon become better at recognising when customers were talking to it and when they were talking to each other, after it had been activated by a wake word.\n\nThis should help it avoid responding to speech that is not directed at it.\n\nAmazon Echo is forecast to have 11.6 million smart speaker users in the UK by the end of 2020, according to research firm eMarketer. By contrast, it says the nearest competitor Google Home would have 3.7 million.\n• None Why Amazon knows so much about you", "London's local authority areas have not appeared in the watch-list before\n\nLondon has been added to the government's Covid-19 watch-list following a rise in cases in the city, officials have said.\n\nAll boroughs have been classed as areas of concern, but no additional restrictions have been announced.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said the city was at \"a worrying tipping point\" with hospital admissions increasing.\n\nCouncils in the city have urged residents to abide by current restrictions.\n\nThe watch-list, published each week, categorises local councils seeing a higher infection rate as \"areas of concern\", \"areas of enhanced support\" or \"areas of intervention\".\n\nTighter restrictions are usually introduced for areas in the third category.\n\nEarlier on Friday, London Councils - the group representing all 33 local authorities in the city - announced the city would be joining the list, saying it was a \"stark reminder\" to residents they must follow new rules announced this week.\n\nThe organisation called for a sustained boost to Covid-19 testing in the capital so infections can be monitored.\n\nSadiq Khan said the city had seen \"a sharp rise\" in NHS 111 calls, hospital admissions and patients in intensive care due to coronavirus\n\nMr Khan said testing capacity had been \"diverted away\" from the capital to other national hotspots, causing the number of tests in the city to drop by 43%.\n\n\"The lack of testing capacity is totally unacceptable,\" he said.\n\n\"It's vital that testing capacity is increased immediately in London and focused in the areas it is needed most. Any delay will mean letting the city down and will cost lives.\"\n\nThe most recent daily figures showed 584 coronavirus cases were reported across London. In the week to 21 September, Redbridge had the highest infection rate per 100,000 residents compared with other boroughs, at 55.4.", "Tesco has become the latest supermarket to place limits on the number of items shoppers can buy, following a similar move by rival Morrisons.\n\nIt now has a three-items per customer limit on flour, dried pasta, toilet roll, baby wipes and some wet wipes.\n\nThe supermarkets are acting to prevent a repeat of the panic-buying that led to shortages in March.\n\nThe managing director of Iceland told the BBC he is urging shoppers to \"calm down and carry on as normal\".\n\nRichard Walker said his supermarket chain was not currently considering limiting purchases on any lines. He said there had been a small uptick in interest in the \"usual suspect products\" like toilet roll, but it was \"nothing like last time\".\n\nMr Walker said that, in March and April, this had resulted in elderly and vulnerable people, as well as NHS workers, being faced with empty shelves. He described panic buying as socially divisive, only an option to those who can afford it.\n\nTesco said it had \"introduced bulk-buy limits on a small number of products\".\n\nIt said this was to \"ensure that everyone can keep buying what they need\".\n\n\"We have good availability, with plenty of stock to go round, and we would encourage our customers to shop as normal,\" it said.\n\nThe supermarket has introduced additional limits for a small number of products online, such as rice and canned veg.\n\nMorrisons introduced a limit of three items per customer on some ranges on Thursday, including toilet rolls and disinfectant products.\n\nIt said stock levels \"were good\", but it wanted to \"make sure they were available for everyone\".\n\nIn March, UK supermarkets were forced to take steps to prevent shoppers from panic-buying around the height of the pandemic.\n\nMany introduced limits on the number of certain items that customers could buy, such as flour, pasta or toilet roll.\n\nEnhanced measures introduced in recent weeks have not triggered stock-piling by customers, according to several supermarkets approached by the BBC earlier this week.Tesco joins Morrisons to limit sales of some items\n\nAsda said it still had good availability in-store and online, while Waitrose said it had \"good levels\" of stock and that it had also looked at the items people bought early in lockdown and planned ahead accordingly.\n\n\"We would like to reassure customers that there is no need to worry about buying more than they need,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium said supply chains were good and has urged consumers to \"shop as you normally would\".\n\nDirector of food and sustainability at the BRC, Andrew Opie, said: \"Supply chains are stronger than ever before and we do not anticipate any issues in the availability of food or other goods under a future lockdown.\n\n\"Nonetheless, we urge consumers to be considerate of others.\"\n\nAldi boss Giles Hurley has written to customers saying: \"There is no need to buy more than you usually would. I would like to reassure you that our stores remain fully stocked and ask that you continue to shop considerately.\"", "The 54-year-old was a keen rugby union coach as well as being a fan of performance motorcycles and weight-training\n\nA long-serving police officer shot dead in a custody centre in south London has been named as Sgt Matiu Ratana.\n\nNew Zealand-born Sgt Ratana, known as Matt, was shot in the chest in Croydon as a suspect, who was still in handcuffs, was being checked in.\n\nMet Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick described the 54-year-old as \"talented officer\" who was \"big in heart\".\n\nAfter the shooting at about 02:15 BST the suspect, 23, is then thought to have shot himself.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dame Cressida Dick paid tribute to Sgt Ratana, saying he was \"big in stature, big in heart\"\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said the man was arrested on suspicion of possession of Class B drugs with intent to supply and possession of ammunition.\n\nHe is currently in a critical condition in hospital.\n\nPolice officers have been arriving at Croydon Police Station to pay their respects\n\nThe IOPC confirmed he was handcuffed with his hands behind his back and had been taken to the custody centre in a police vehicle, before being escorted into the building.\n\nThe shots were fired as officers prepared to search the suspect, who was still handcuffed, with a metal detector, the IOPC said.\n\n\"A non-police issue firearm, which appears to be a revolver, has been recovered from the scene. Further ballistic work will be required,\" said IOPC regional director Sal Naseem.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and Home Secretary Priti Patel joined Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick for a minute's silence\n\nA minute's silence was held at 16:00 BST at New Scotland Yard and Croydon Police Station to pay tribute to Sgt Ratana, who was heavily involved in rugby coaching when he was not working.\n\nHe would have been eligible for retirement in just two months.\n\n\"Matt spent very nearly 30 years as a uniformed police officer serving the public of London,\" said Dame Cressida.\n\n\"He will be remembered so fondly in Croydon and missed there, as well as in the Met and the rugby world,\" she said.\n\nShe added that he \"leaves a partner and he leaves an adult son from a previous relationship. Our thoughts are with them.\"\n\nSgt Ratana joined the Met in 1991, having moved to the UK in 1989.\n\nHe was originally from the Hawke's Bay area of New Zealand and was educated at Palmerston North Boy's High School's, a town north of the capital, Wellington.\n\nThe officer has been described as a professional and inspirational colleague\n\nHe served in various parts of London including Hackney and Selhurst, with his last posting as custody sergeant in Croydon, where he managed suspects who are brought into the cells.\n\n\"He worked in our detention command at Croydon but frequently volunteered for duty in custody suites across London,\" Dame Cressida added.\n\nSgt Ratana had led rugby teams in Worthing, close to Goring-by-Sea where he then lived and in East Grinstead, where he was living when he died.\n\nRyan Morlen, assistant head coach at East Grinstead Rugby Club, described him as \"an absolutely lovely bloke\".\n\n\"He is a bloke who is just so passionate about what he does - it does not matter whether you're the most talented or least talented, he will treat you equal,\" he said.\n\nSgt Ratana had taken part in weightlifting competitions\n\nEarlier, BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said it was believed the suspect was known to counter-terrorism police.\n\nHe had been referred to the anti-extremism \"Prevent\" programme, though the Met said the murder inquiry was not being treated as terrorism-related.\n\nThe Met said a murder investigation was under way, but the shooting was not being treated as a counter-terrorism incident.\n\nDame Cressida said she understood \"the great concern about how this happened\" and that officers \"will establish the facts\".\n\n\"We owe it to Matt, his loved ones and all other officers. But we need to give investigators space to do their job,\" she said.\n\nLondon's Mayor Sadiq Khan earlier said the police were currently \"reviewing the safety of custody suites\" and \"there could be changes very soon\".\n\nTributes have been left outside Croydon Police Station\n\nPolice officers and members of the public have been arriving at Croydon Police Station during the day to lay tributes.\n\nThe owner of a gym in Lancing, Sussex, told the BBC how Sgt Ratana had helped when his business was going through financial difficulty.\n\nNeil Donohue, 54, said: \"He came in one day and gave me 200 quid out of the blue, I said no no, I can't accept that and gave it back to him.\n\n\"But the next day he wired it into my account. That's the sort of guy he was.\"\n\nA number of police officers have been turning their social media profile pictures black with a blue stripe to pay their respects.\n\nJohn Davies, a retired officer who worked with Sgt Ratana when he was based in Hillingdon, said he was \"a truly remarkable, strong and unique individual\" who \"left an impression on all those he came into contact with\".\n\nEast Grinstead RFC also released a tribute to their \"much-loved\" head coach.\n\n\"Matt was an inspiring and much-loved figure at the club and there are truly no words to describe how we are feeling,\" said Bob Marsh, the club's chairman, and the club's president Andy Poole.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank are expecting a baby early next year, Buckingham Palace has announced.\n\nA tweet from the Royal Family account said the couple were \"very pleased\" to announce the news.\n\nIt added: \"The Duke of York and Sarah, Duchess of York, Mr and Mrs George Brooksbank, The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh are delighted with the news.\"\n\nPosting a photo of herself and her husband on Instagram alongside another of some baby shoes, the princess said the couple were \"so excited\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by princesseugenie This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMessages of congratulation for the expectant parents have included one from Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nThe couple's baby will be the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh's ninth great-grandchild. Their eighth - the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's son, Archie Mountbatten-Windsor - was born last May.\n\nEugenie's parents, Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York, will become grandparents for the first time.\n\nThe baby boy or girl will be born 11th in line to the throne.\n\nBecause the child will be born down a female line of the Royal Family - and drinks executive Mr Brooksbank has no royal status - he or she will be plain Master or Miss Brooksbank, with no royal title.\n\nThis could change if the Queen decided to give Mr Brooksbank an earldom or issue Letters Patent to amend the rules.\n\nThe Royal Family were out in force at the couple's wedding in 2018\n\nPrincess Eugenie and Mr Brooksbank - who is European brand manager for Casamigos Tequila, co-founded by George Clooney - met when skiing in Switzerland in 2010.\n\nTheir wedding was watched on an extended episode of ITV's This Morning by an average of three million people, giving the channel its best ratings for the timeslot since William and Kate's marriage in 2011.\n\nCelebrities including Cara Delevingne and Robbie Williams were among the 850 guests, with an additional 1,200 members of the public invited to follow proceedings from the grounds.\n\nThe bride asked for a low back to show her scar\n\nPrincess Eugenie's wedding dress - designed by Peter Pilotto and Christopher De Vos - featured a low back, at her request, to show a scar from surgery she had to correct scoliosis when she was 12.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte, acted as pageboy and bridesmaid.\n\nThe beaming couple celebrated at a private evening dinner at Royal Lodge in Windsor Great Park\n\nPrince George and Princess Charlotte, were among the bridesmaids and page boys at Eugenie's wedding\n\nEugenie's sister, Princess Beatrice, married her property tycoon Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, at a small private ceremony in Windsor in July. She had been due to marry in May but coronavirus delayed the plans.", "There's a new acronym to add to Whitehall's alphabet soup of projects designed to soothe the harsh impacts of coronavirus.\n\nAfter CBILS, JRS (and many more) comes JSS - the Job Support Scheme - another policy put together by Chancellor Rishi Sunak.\n\nIt follows many weeks of calls for a replacement for furlough - the eye-wateringly expensive support system that saw a Tory chancellor decide to use public money to pay the wages of millions of people to prevent economic disaster.\n\nMr Sunak was always determined to resist demands just to extend the scheme, or Labour's push for carrying on supporting certain parts of the economy. And he has stuck to that.\n\nInstead, there's a scheme where employers will make the call as to whether or not their firms have a future beyond the pandemic - whether the sums add up to keep going in a time of economic distress in the hope of better times on the other side.\n\nThe plan is designed to stop the country waking up to a nightmare of mass unemployment.\n\nIn normal times it would be a huge step to take, with potentially a very hefty price tag. But nothing is normal right now.\n\nThe government has made a political choice to shrink the support that's been available under furlough. There's no pretence that jobs won't go.\n\nThe scheme is quite complicated and employers will be doing their sums to see if it's really worth their while.\n\nWhile the government took most of the burden under furlough, that's swung back to employers in a big way. And the Treasury won't officially put a number on how many jobs it hopes to save, or how many business will take up the offer.\n\nUnofficially there's an estimate in government that between two and five million people are likely to have their incomes topped up.\n\nAt the risk of stating the blindingly obvious, that is a vast range. If the scheme is the difference between jobs surviving or not, that spectrum of numbers suggests how little we can predict about the likely scale of unemployment in the months to come.\n\nWe know nothing at the moment about how the government proposes to pay the costs of all this in the years to come. But it is likely to be some time, not just months, before the public, or the public services, are asked truly to start to shoulder the costs.\n\nThe chancellor said it had been a hard decision to end furlough. It was always in fact his intention to do so, but in this announcement, the Treasury has publicly faced up to the reality that the costs of Covid will not be temporary.\n\nAll talk of a \"bounce back\", a rapid return to something like economic normality, has gone rapidly out of fashion.\n\nIt is only four months since the chancellor was reluctant even to admit we were in recession. But with cases on the rise, limits on our lives being rolled back in, there is no hiding now.\n• None What's the guidance for Covid in the UK now?", "Police patrol Soho in London, after ministers told pubs and restaurants to close earlier from Thursday\n\nMore than 40 Conservative MPs are backing an attempt to increase parliamentary scrutiny over further coronavirus restrictions in England.\n\nSenior Tory Sir Graham Brady has tabled an amendment that would see the House of Commons debate and vote on any future such measures.\n\nIt comes as MPs prepare to consider government legislation that will keep Covid-19 emergency powers in force.\n\nThe government said it was consulting MPs on public health measures.\n\nThe Coronavirus Act - which was passed in March - gave ministers emergency powers to respond to the pandemic but they were time-limited and need to be renewed by the House of Commons next week.\n\nBut a number of MPs are worried about how restrictions - including the limiting of pub and restaurant opening hours and the ban on meetings of more than six people - are being imposed.\n\nSir Graham, chairman of the 1922 Committee of Conservative backbenchers, has argued that too much power has been left in ministers' hands, with too little scrutiny.\n\nThe list of MPs who have signed up to back Sir Graham's amendment covers a wide spectrum from those newly elected last year, through to some committee chairs and former ministers.\n\nSenior Tory Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown said: \"It's disgraceful that really very far-reaching powers, curtailing people's civil liberties, have just been pushed through without a proper debate in Parliament.\"\n\nFormer minister Tobias Ellwood also backed the amendment, tweeting that six months after the act was passed it was time for \"parliamentary oversight to return\".\n\nThe amendment may not end up being debated or put to a vote when MPs consider the legislation next week.\n\nBut BBC political correspondent Helen Catt said that the number of Tory rebels suggested a real possibility of defeat for Prime Minister Boris Johnson - whose Commons majority is just under 80 - if it does go to a vote.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said ministers understood MPs and their constituents \"would be concerned about coronavirus\".\n\nThey added that the government continued to \"work closely with MPs\" and was happy to be held to account.", "The EU's Margrethe Vestager says the appeal will go before the European Court of Justice\n\nThe European Commission plans to appeal against a ruling that Apple does not have to pay 13bn euros (£11.6bn) in back taxes to Ireland.\n\nThe EU's General Court had ruled in July there was no evidence Apple had broken any rules on tax paid there.\n\nIreland never disputed the arrangement but the European Commission, which brought the case, argued it enabled Apple to avoid taxes on EU revenues.\n\nThe EU said paying the correct amount of tax was \"a top priority\".\n\nIn 2016, a court ruled that Apple had indeed been given illegal tax breaks by Dublin - but this was overturned in July 2020.\n\nThe European Commission claimed Ireland had allowed Apple to attribute nearly all its EU earnings to an Irish head office that existed only on paper, thereby avoiding paying tax on EU revenues.\n\nIreland has always said Apple's tax bill was in line with its regulations.\n\nEU executive vice-president and competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager, said in a statement: \"If member states give certain multinational companies tax advantages not available to their rivals, this harms fair competition in the European Union in breach of state aid rules.\n\n\"We need to continue our efforts to put in place the right legislation to address loopholes and ensure transparency.\"\n\nA new appeal will now go before a higher court, the European Court of Justice.", "The governor of the Bank of England has called for the government to \"stop and rethink\" the furlough scheme.\n\nThe Job Retention Scheme is due to finish at the end of next month.\n\nBut speaking on a webinar hosted by the British Chambers of Commerce, Andrew Bailey suggested specific sectors may benefit from further help.\n\nThere are fears unemployment could spike when the furlough scheme ends, as firms struggle to retain workers.\n\nIn August, Mr Bailey told the BBC he backed ending the scheme, saying workers should be helped to move on rather than stay in unproductive jobs.\n\nBut on Tuesday, he suggested he was now open-minded about further intervention.\n\nHe said the furlough scheme \"has been successful\" and that he supported the chancellor's decisions, not wanting to \"tie his hands\".\n\nBut he added: \"We have moved from a world of generalised employment protections, to specific and focused areas.\"\n\nMr Bailey noted that at the peak of the crisis, about 30% of private sector employers were using the furlough scheme, but it was now used most heavily by industries such as hospitality, retail and culture.\n\n\"[Furlough] has helped manage the shock, to firms and to labour [but now] the use of it, as far as we can tell, is more concentrated,\" he said.\n\n\"I think it is therefore sensible to stop and rethink the approach going forward, without any commitment to what that might be.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, Whitbread, which owns Premier Inn and Beefeater, announced plans to cut 6,000 staff just days after the furlough scheme is due to end in October. Meanwhile, Wetherspoon said it would shed up to 450 workers at pubs in airports.\n\nAnd Mr Bailey's comments were made just hours before the Prime Minister Boris Johnson took to his feet in the Commons to reinstate guidance that office workers stay at home and confirm that pubs and restaurants will be forced to close at 22:00 from Thursday.\n\nUK Hospitality said the move was \"effectively a lockdown\" for city centre bars and restaurants.\n\n\"This is a huge, huge blow to hospitality and it will be potentially fatal for many businesses,\" it said.\n\nMr Bailey's comments echo the opinion of Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, who has called on the government not to remove all support in one go.", "Hilda Robles at her home in San Antonio\n\nMinority communities in the US and elsewhere have sometimes turned to traditional money saving methods outside the formal banking system. The economic shock from the coronavirus pandemic could spur renewed interest in those savings clubs.\n\nWhen Hilda Robles recalls her first years in America, tears come to her eyes.\n\n\"I cried and even wanted to leave at one point because I felt alone,\" she says. \"I would ask people for help and they couldn't help me because they didn't understand Spanish and I didn't understand English.\"\n\nWhen she came to San Antonio, Texas some 20 years ago, even daily duties like getting to work or going to the doctor were feats of bilingual diplomacy and logistical planning - she had no car, no English and almost no one to turn to for help.\n\nOpening a bank account seemed impossible. \"When I stepped into a bank for the first time, I was told I couldn't open a bank account because I had no social security number,\" she says.\n\n\"Someone told me about a bank where I could open an account with no social security number, but the language barrier stopped me from going.\"\n\nHilda Robles moved to San Antonio about two decades ago\n\nSo Ms Robles, 49, went a different route - she started a tanda, an informal savings club popular in Latin America, with contributions from her extended relatives.\n\nMembers of the club each contribute a fixed sum to a pool of money on a regular, periodic schedule, with the lump sum going to one member each round until everyone gets paid.\n\nThis means that members get back what they put in over the course of the scheme, but by getting it in the form of a lump sum, the money can be put to use for purchases, investments or debt payments they otherwise could not afford. Members who get their \"hand\" early are effectively receiving an interest-free loan, while those who receive theirs later in the cycle are essentially withdrawing a lump of \"saved\" cash.\n\nWith the $5,000 lump sum she received for her turn of her tanda, Ms Robles bought her first car. Her relatives and friends in the savings club were able to put down payments on houses, pay for university tuition - and now, amid the Covid-19 pandemic, survive when their families have been out of work or sick.\n\nSince that first savings club 14 years ago, Ms Robles has run them continuously with only a few months break to organise the next one.\n\n\"It gives me a lot of joy to see people reach their goals because of the tandas without having to drown in debt from loans,\" she says. \"It's proof that among us Hispanics, we can get ahead here.\"\n\nHispanic-Americans are not alone in their use of this ancient savings mechanism that has parallels all over the globe, known generally as a rotating savings and credit association, or roscas.\n\nIn Mexico, they are popularly called tandas, but they are also known as huis, susus or ballot committees in various parts of the world. Immigrant communities continue their practice in the US.\n\nAs economic hardship accompanies the public health crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, for some families, traditional methods of saving outside the banking system have become a lifeline, especially for hard-hit immigrant communities with little access to mainstream sources of capital.\n\nFinancial access and security in America has become an increasingly pressing subject of discussion in 2020. Even before the pandemic, the US was behind other rich countries when it comes to accessing money and credit.\n\nSome seven percent of Americans over the age of 15 did not have any kind of bank accounts in the US in 2017, compared to less than one percent of Canadians, and less than four percent of Britons, according to the World Bank.\n\nA quarter of American adults - more than 80 million people - were \"unbanked\" or \"underbanked\", meaning either that they had no accounts entirely, or that they are forced to use alternative services besides traditional banks in order to get enough financial access to meet goals or obligations.\n\nTandas allow members to save money in order to receive an eventual lump sum\n\nHouseholds most likely to fall into the two categories were black or Hispanic, lack university qualifications and to be poor. To access loans, they must sometimes turn to non-bank lending options like payday lenders or loan sharks.\n\nThese shadow banking options can be risky, charge high interests and bring dire consequences for borrowers who struggle to pay - but a rosca can provide a safer, more trustworthy alternative.\n\n\"These systems are actually useful when we have bank systems that have a finite possibility,\" says Caroline Hossein, a professor of business and social studies at York University who studies roscas in communities in Canada.\n\n\"Banks only have a certain amount of money, and if you only have a certain amount of money, you're only going to dish it out to those that are less risky.\n\n\"So it makes perfect sense that people would engage in these kinds of mutual aid or money pooling systems.\"\n\nOften, they are run by women, whom Dr Hossein calls the \"banker ladies\" of the community.\n\n\"The banker lady, who might be the one organising it - you can be in touch with her anytime of day, it may be someone who lives in your neighbourhood so [there's] the ease of getting there.\n\n\"The paperwork is not as treacherous as it would be as a formal bank, so there's a kind of kinship that exists because it's people who voluntarily like and know each other.\"\n\nThough they tend to be \"more of a life line for people who have difficulty accessing banking, particularly on the lending side,\" such savings schemes are also used by more established members of communities who may have inherited knowledge about them from immigrant parents.\n\nBeyond access to a pool of money, \"a primary benefit is building 'bonds of mutual trust' within a network of trustworthy people,\" says Lee Martin of the University of California, Davis. Roscas are primarily beneficial for people without access to mainstream forms of credit, he says.\n\nBut because they are used by marginalised communities, studying their overall prevalence and use has been difficult, says Dr Hossein, who participates in a rosca - known as a su-su in her Afro-Carribean community - as part of her research.\n\n\"A lot of these roscas, particularly in places like Canada, the US or Europe, tend to be underground,\" she says, because many worry that the endeavour is seen as an unrespectable or even an illicit form of financing, only for those who are short of options. Clearly, unlike a savings account, they do not generate interest.\n\nYet economists believe they are probably quite common in the West. One survey of Korean-American garment business owners in Los Angeles from 2004 found that 77% of households had participated in a version of the lending scheme.\n\nSelf-lending within communities can have unexpected benefits. A rosca-like system among Chinese immigrants in Spain, for example, helped expatriate businessmen weather the Euro crisis of the late 2000s and 2010s.\n\nThe Chinese business community was \"largely insulated from the vagaries of the country's tottering retail banking system\" - precisely because the system that shut them out meant they turned to each other, reported the Financial Times in 2014.\n\nIn the 2020 Covid-19 crisis, families who participated in the tanda Ms Robles is running were able to pay their bills when some fell ill and could not work.\n\nFor most, it was their only source of cash, Ms Robles says - only one of the families has received a cheque from the government for coronavirus relief because they lack the papers to get onto the dole.\n\nLike any investment scheme, however, roscas are not risk-free. A participant could fail to pay their hand, or take their share and run.\n\nMs Robles says there have been rare times that she misplaced a contribution and had to make up the difference out of her own pocket, which can be costly.\n\nAs they operate on trust, usually within a deeply connected community, the social consequences of misdeeds dissuades wrong-doing.\n\nBut since they are run by privately, there is little legal recourse for cheating. And unlike putting money in a bank savings account, there is no interest paid.\n\nCould roscas catch on and become more mainstream? The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia asked just such a question in 2006, but was sceptical given the depth of trust it would require.\n\nAn attempt by Yahoo Finance to popularise a tanda app in 2018 was unsuccessful. The scheme shut down after only a few months due to, it would seem, lack of participation.\n\nThere are two big hurdles, as Dr Hossein sees it - the stigma attached to a non-traditional financial tool used by ethnic minority communities, and the barrier in trust that must be surmounted to put one's faith in other people to handle money.\n\nBut with the Covid-19 pandemic, a younger generation of North Americans with an interest in sharing resources and the technology to do so efficiently - from crowdfunding to forms of \"caremongering\" - roscas are bound to be a savings method that continue and evolve and expand.\n\nFor Mayra Martinez, 30, a university administration professional in Dallas, Texas, being in tandas has helped her learn about trust and foster a sense of obligation to save, which can otherwise be hard for young people like herself she says.\n\n\"It's not like your commitment to yourself, where you can easily say 'hmm, I'm not going to do that this month because I just don't want to,\" she says.\n\nIt is an added layer of security in an economic world that has been particularly unpredictable for young professionals, which Ms Martinez says she has seen first-hand - her sister and brother-in-law each recently tested positive for Covid-19 and could not work.\n\n\"She just happened to get her tanda this week,\" says Ms Martinez. Because of that, Ms Martinez says, her sister was able to tell her husband: \"It's ok\".\n\nThe tanda Ms Martinez is involved in now consists of family members from all generations and is run by her mother.\n\nWould she ever take over and start one for her own cohort of siblings and cousins once the older generations retire from such schemes?\n\n\"I wouldn't mind running one,\" she says, adding with a laugh, \"but it depends on which cousins.\"", "Brusthom Ziamani had written a four-page letter spelling out his \"expectation of immediate martyrdom\", jurors heard\n\nTwo prisoners wore fake suicide belts as they tried to kill a prison officer in a terrorist attack at a maximum security jail, a jury has heard.\n\nTerror convict Brusthom Ziamani, 25, and radicalised Baz Hockton, 26, attacked Neil Trundle at HMP Whitemoor, Cambridgeshire, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nProsecutors said the pair launched the \"carefully planned\" attack using makeshift weapons \"painstakingly constructed\" from limited materials.\n\nAnnabel Darlow QC told jurors the men wore imitation suicide belts and shouted \"Allahu Akbar\" - God is greatest - during the attack on 9 January.\n\nWhen another officer approached to intervene, Ziamani opened up his jacket to expose the fake suicide belt, and said: \"I've got a bomb,\" jurors were told.\n\nMs Darlow said: \"Both men strenuously and forcefully resisted all efforts to restrain them and after the attack Mr Ziamani attempted to barricade himself into his cell.\n\n\"It is the prosecution case that the defendants were motivated to commit the attack by extremist Islamic ideology. It was a terrorist attack,\" she said.\n\nBaz Hockton was radicalised in prison, jurors were told\n\nMs Darlow said items used in the attack on Mr Trundle included a \"shank\" - an improvised stabbing implement - formed from \"lumps of twisted metal\" covered in fabric.\n\nShe said the defendants had planned to lure their target to a store cupboard \"on the pretext of asking a prison officer to fetch a spoon\".\n\nA nurse and prison officer who attempted to intervene were both attacked and injured by Mr Ziamani, the court was told.\n\nA prison officer was attacked at HMP Whitemoor in January, the court was told.\n\nExtremist writings were recovered from both men, including a four-page letter handwritten by Ziamani spelling out his \"expectation of immediate martyrdom\" and \"strong belief in violent jihad\", jurors heard.\n\nThe prosecutor said Hockton had registered his Islamic faith at HMP Whitemoor but that had been \"corrupted into extremism\".\n\nMaterial was recovered his cell which set out his desire to become a martyr, the court was told.\n\nJurors were told that told that an alternative count of inflicting wounding with intent in relation to Prison Officer Trundle is available for Mr Ziamani.\n\nThe alternative charge need only be considered if the jury acquit him of attempted murder.\n\nMr Hockton has already pleaded guilty to that alternative offence, thereby accepting that he intended to cause really serious harm to Mr Trundle, but not accepting that he intended to kill him.\n\nMr Ziamani has pleaded guilty to assaulting the female prison officer and the nurse, the court was told.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The dark web \"is not a fairy tale\" said Europol\n\nPolice forces around the world have seized more than $6.5m (£5m) in cash and virtual currencies, as well as drugs and guns in a co-ordinated raid on dark web marketplaces.\n\nSome 179 people were arrested across Europe and the US, and 500kg (1,102lb) of drugs and 64 guns confiscated.\n\nIt ends the \"golden age\" of these underground marketplaces, Europol said.\n\n\"The hidden internet is no longer hidden\", said Edvardas Sileris, head of Europol's cyber-crime centre.\n\nThe operation, known as DisrupTor, was a joint effort between the Department of Justice and Europol. It is believed that the criminals engaged in tens of thousands of sales of illicit goods and services across the US and Europe.\n\nOf those arrested 119 were based in the US, two in Canada, 42 in Germany, eight in the Netherlands, four in the UK, three in Austria and one in Sweden.\n\nPolice are getting better at targeting operations on the dark web - a part of the internet that is accessible only through specialised tools. This latest raid follows the takedown of the Wall Street market last year, which was then thought to be the second-largest illegal online market on the dark web.\n\nMr Sileris said: \"Law enforcement is most effective when working together, and today's announcement sends a strong message to criminals selling or buying illicit goods on the dark web: the hidden internet is no longer hidden and your anonymous activity is not anonymous.\"\n\n\"With the spike in opioid-related overdose deaths during the Covid-19 pandemic, we recognise that today's announcement is important and timely,\" said FBI director Christopher Wray.\n\nKacey Clark, a researcher at dark web monitoring specialist Digital Shadows said: \"This is another further blow to organised cybercrime. The operation which took down the AlphaBay and Hansa marketplaces three years ago spooked cyber criminals, since it resulted in many follow up prosecutions as law enforcement pieced evidence together - often many months later.\n\n\"Wall Street market emerged from these ashes and was the most significant one in existence at the time. It would appear that law enforcement has followed the same pattern and that is why we are seeing arrests today.\"\n\nWill this truly herald the \"end of the golden era of dark web marketplaces\"?\n\nIn the short-term there could be a big impact. This operation follows other recent incidents that have shaken trust in dark web stores.\n\nLast month, another popular marketplace called Empire came to an abrupt close after a suspected \"exit scam\".\n\nIt's thought the administrators made off with members' funds, leaving customers' wallets empty and vendors needing to rebuild their shops somewhere else.\n\nThree other major sites have also been linked to exit scams in the last 12 months. So, the police operation comes at a time when many people may already be questioning their shopping habits.\n\nHowever, as we've seen in the past with big takedowns like AlphaBay, the lure of buying drugs and other illegal items on the internet means there will always be a market.\n\nOther sites will try to boost their security and anonymity, and it's likely more marketplaces will sprout up, potentially using even more innovative techniques to make it harder for law enforcement to find them.", "If Boris Johnson had decreed a year ago that he was going to call last orders on the pub at 10pm, the ravens might have left the Tower.\n\nBut given the terrible warnings from the government's top scientists on Monday, the kind of strict measures that ministers had been discussing - and the extent of restrictions that many people are already living with in some of our towns and cities - you might wonder if what the prime minister has ended up deciding is less stringent than it might have been.\n\nAs we have talked about many times, Downing Street is all too aware of the economic havoc the restrictions around the pandemic have caused.\n\nLogically, therefore, it has always only wanted to take action when it has felt absolutely urgent. It is also the case that, as we enter a second surge, more is understood about the virus itself.\n\nThat means the government ought to be able to take a more sophisticated approach to managing the spread, rather than blunt, blunderbuss nationwide measures.\n\nAt least for now, the prime minister has concluded there is a narrow but real chance to put the brakes on the outbreak before taking more draconian steps.\n\nSomething else has changed, though. There were strong voices in government arguing for more immediate action, wondering whether it was right to take steps rather than strides towards tougher controls.\n\nBut the political mood has shifted. It's not just that the chancellor worked to persuade Mr Johnson to stop short of full closures of anything yet, evidently with some success.\n\nNot just that, as one cabinet minister worried, dramatic restrictions would be \"hellishly unpopular\".\n\nAnd the atmosphere among Conservative MPs has changed too, with prominent backbenchers urging more caution, and complaining fiercely about how decisions have been made.\n\nFrom the broad smile of one of them, strolling in the sunshine outside Parliament on Monday, \"they seem to have started to listen\", confident that after a bumpy few weeks, MPs' pushing had started to have an effect.\n\nYet the prime minister, by his own admission, accepts the government did not understand enough, quickly enough at the start.\n\nUltimately the results of the decisions taken at the start of this second surge will be chalked up by his name.", "China will aim to hit peak emissions before 2030 and for carbon neutrality by 2060, President Xi Jinping has announced.\n\nMr Xi outlined the steps when speaking via videolink to the UN General Assembly in New York.\n\nThe announcement is being seen as a significant step in the fight against climate change.\n\nChina is the world's biggest source of carbon dioxide, responsible for around 28% of global emissions.\n\nWith global climate negotiations stalled and this year's conference of the parties (COP26) postponed until 2021, there had been little expectation of progress on the issue at the UN General Assembly.\n\nHowever China's president surprised the UN gathering by making a bold statement about his country's plans for tackling emissions.\n\nHe called on all countries to achieve a green recovery for the world economy in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAccording to the official translation, Mr Xi went on to say:\n\n\"We aim to have CO2 emissions peak before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060.\"\n\nUntil now China has said it would peak its emissions by 2030 at the latest, but it has avoided committing to a long-term goal.\n\nEmissions from China continued to rise in 2018 and 2019 even as much of the world began to shift away from fossil fuels.\n\nWhile the Covid-19 crisis this spring saw the country's emissions plunge by 25%, by June they had bounced back again as coal-fired plants, cement and other heavy industries went back to work.\n\nIn 2014 the US and China reached a surprise agreement on climate change\n\nObservers believe that in making this statement at this time, the Chinese leader is taking advantage of US reluctance to address the climate question.\n\n\"Xi Jinping's climate pledge at the UN, minutes after President Donald Trump's speech, is clearly a bold and well calculated move,\" said Li Shuo, an expert on Chinese climate policy from Greenpeace Asia.\n\n\"It demonstrates Xi's consistent interest in leveraging the climate agenda for geopolitical purposes.\"\n\nBack in 2014 Mr Xi and then US-President Barack Obama came to a surprise agreement on climate change, which became a key building block of the Paris agreement signed in December 2015.\n\nMr Xi has again delivered a surprise according to Li Shuo.\n\n\"By playing the climate card a little differently, Xi has not only injected much needed momentum to global climate politics, but presented an intriguing geopolitical question in front of the world: on a global common issue, China has moved ahead regardless of the US. Will Washington follow?\"\n\nThere are many questions about the announcement that remain unanswered, including what is meant exactly by carbon neutrality and what actions the country will take to get there.\n\n\"Today's announcement by President Xi Jinping that China intends to reach carbon neutrality before 2060 is big and important news - the closer to 2050 the better,\" said former US climate envoy Todd Stern.\n\n\"His announcement that China will start down this road right away by adopting more vigorous policies is also welcome. Simply peaking emissions 'before 2030' won't be enough to put China on the rapid path needed for carbon neutrality, but overall this is a very encouraging step.\"\n\nThis week has seen the second lowest Arctic sea ice minimum on record\n\nMost observers agreed that the announcement from China was a significant step, not least because of the country's role in financing fossil fuel development around the world.\n\n\"China isn't just the world's biggest emitter but the biggest energy financier and biggest market, so its decisions play a major role in shaping how the rest of the world progresses with its transition away from the fossil fuels that cause climate change,\" said Richard Black, director of the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU), a UK-based think tank.\n\n\"The announcement today is also a major fillip for the European Union, whose leaders recently urged President Xi to take exactly this step as part of a joint push on lowering emissions, showing that international moves to curb climate change remain alive despite the best efforts of Donald Trump and [Brazil's president] Jair Bolsonaro in the run-up to next year's COP26 in Glasgow.\"", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has used a national TV address to urge the public to \"summon the discipline and the resolve\" to follow the new coronavirus rules announced on Tuesday. This is his statement in full:\n\n\"Good evening, the struggle against Covid is the single biggest crisis the world has faced in my lifetime.\n\nIn less than a year this disease has killed almost a million people, and caused havoc to economies everywhere.\n\nHere in the UK we mourn every person we have lost, and we grieve with their families.\n\nAnd yet I am more certain than ever that this is a struggle that humanity will win, and we in this country will win - and to achieve what we must I want to talk to you directly tonight about the choices that we face - none of them easy - and why we must take action now.\n\nI know that we can succeed because we have succeeded before.\n\nWhen the sickness took hold in this country in March, we pulled together in a spirit of national sacrifice and community. We followed the guidance to the letter. We stayed at home, protected the NHS, and saved thousands of lives.\n\nAnd for months with those disciplines of social distancing we have kept that virus at bay.\n\nBut we have to acknowledge this is a great and freedom-loving country; and while the vast majority have complied with the rules there have been too many breaches - too many opportunities for our invisible enemy to slip through undetected.\n\nThe virus has started to spread again in an exponential way. Infections are up, hospital admissions are climbing.\n\nWe can see what is happening in France and Spain, and we know, alas, that this virus is no less fatal than it was in the spring, and that the vast majority of our people are no less susceptible, and the iron laws of geometrical progression are shouting at us from the graphs that we risk many more deaths, many more families losing loved ones before their time.\n\nAnd I know that faced with that risk the British people will want their government to continue to fight to protect them, you, and that is what we are doing, night and day.\n\nAnd yet the single greatest weapon we bring to this fight is the common sense of the people themselves - the joint resolve of this country to work together to suppress Covid now.\n\nSo today I set out a package of tougher measures in England - early closing for pubs, bars; table service only; closing businesses that are not Covid secure; expanding the use of face coverings, and new fines for those that fail to comply; and once again asking office workers to work from home if they can while enforcing the rule of six indoors and outdoors - a tougher package of national measures combined with the potential for tougher local restrictions for areas already in lockdown.\n\nI know that this approach - robust but proportionate - already carries the support of all the main parties in Parliament.\n\nAfter discussion with colleagues in the devolved administrations, I believe this broad approach is shared across the whole UK.\n\nAnd to those who say we don't need this stuff, and we should leave people to take their own risks, I say these risks are not our own.\n\nThe tragic reality of having Covid is that your mild cough can be someone else's death knell.\n\nAnd as for the suggestion that we should simply lock up the elderly and the vulnerable - with all the suffering that would entail - I must tell you that this is just not realistic, because if you let the virus rip through the rest of the population it would inevitably find its way through to the elderly as well, and in much greater numbers.\n\nThat's why we need to suppress the virus now, and as for that minority who may continue to flout the rules, we will enforce those rules with tougher penalties and fines of up to £10,000. We will put more police out on the streets and use the army to backfill if necessary.\n\nAnd of course I am deeply, spiritually reluctant to make any of these impositions, or infringe anyone's freedom, but unless we take action the risk is that we will have to go for tougher measures later, when the deaths have already mounted and we have a huge caseload of infection such as we had in the spring.\n\nIf we let this virus get out of control now, it would mean that our NHS had no space - once again - to deal with cancer patients and millions of other non-Covid medical needs.\n\nAnd if we were forced into a new national lockdown, that would threaten not just jobs and livelihoods but the loving human contact on which we all depend.\n\nIt would mean renewed loneliness and confinement for the elderly and vulnerable, and ultimately it would threaten once again the education of our children. We must do all we can to avoid going down that road again.\n\nBut if people don't follow the rules we have set out, then we must reserve the right to go further.\n\nWe must take action now because a stitch in time saves nine; and this way we can keep people in work, we can keep our shops and our schools open, and we can keep our country moving forward while we work together to suppress the virus.\n\nThat is our strategy, and if we can follow this package together, then I know we can succeed because in so many ways we are better prepared than before.\n\nWe have the PPE, we have the beds, we have the Nightingales, we have new medicines - pioneered in this country - that can help save lives.\n\nAnd though our doctors and our medical advisers are rightly worried about the data now, and the risks over winter, they are unanimous that things will be far better by the spring, when we have not only the hope of a vaccine, but one day soon - and I must stress that we are not there yet - of mass testing so efficient that people will be able to be tested in minutes so they can do more of the things they love.\n\nThat's the hope; that's the dream. It's hard, but it's attainable, and we are working as hard as we can to get there.\n\nBut until we do, we must rely on our willingness to look out for each other, to protect each other. Never in our history has our collective destiny and our collective health depended so completely on our individual behaviour.\n\nIf we follow these simple rules together, we will get through this winter together. There are unquestionably difficult months to come.\n\nAnd the fight against Covid is by no means over. I have no doubt, however, that there are great days ahead.\n\nBut now is the time for us all to summon the discipline, and the resolve, and the spirit of togetherness that will carry us through.", "Last updated on .From the section League Cup\n\nLeyton Orient's chairman says they \"can't be punished\" after Tuesday's Carabao Cup tie against Tottenham was called off because a number of O's players have coronavirus.\n\nSeveral of the squad tested positive after Saturday's draw with Mansfield.\n\nThis season, English Football League clubs do not have to do mandatory coronavirus tests on players and staff.\n\n\"If I was doing this again I would not do the testing,\" Orient chairman Nigel Travis told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"This is an incentive not to test and that is bad for football and bad for health and safety.\"\n\nLeague Two side Orient have been doing medical questionnaires every morning and said they would pay for testing to be done before Tuesday's cup tie, but Premier League opponents Spurs offered to cover the cost.\n\n\"That's why we can't be punished over this,\" Travis added. \"People should be incentivised to take the test, especially when Premier League clubs with their resources give us the opportunity to have all our players tested.\"\n\nDiscussions are ongoing over the implications of not holding the third-round match on Tuesday, with a further update to be provided in due course.\n\nTottenham are in action in the Europa League on Thursday.\n\nThe decision to call off the match was announced two hours before the scheduled 18:00 BST kick-off at the Breyer Group Stadium.\n\nOrient shut down their east London home and training ground after receiving the positive results following their league match against the Stags at the weekend, and held discussions with Public Health England about whether any further action needed to be taken.\n• None Plans for fans to return to sports in October called off\n• None Delayed return of fans could have 'devastating impact'\n\nThis season, English Football League (EFL) clubs do not have to carry out mandatory coronavirus testing of their players and staff.\n\n\"Leyton Orient, the EFL and the relevant authorities are conducting a thorough review of the club's Covid-19 secure procedures with the view to reopening the stadium and training ground as soon as possible,\" a statement said.\n\nThere is little room to rearrange the tie, with the fourth round of the EFL Cup scheduled to take place next week.\n\nLast week's draw handed Orient or Spurs a home tie against Chelsea or Barnsley.\n\nTottenham face Shkendija in the third qualifying round of the Europa League in North Macedonia on Thursday and, if they progress, the north London club will have a play-off match to qualify for the group stage seven days later.\n\nTuesday's match was set to be the first competitive meeting between Orient and Tottenham since January 2001.\n\nSpurs had previously announced they would donate their match shirts to the foundation set up in memory of their former player Justin Edinburgh.\n\nEdinburgh was manager at Orient when he died at the age of 49 after suffering a cardiac arrest in June 2019.\n• None Amazing recipes and food hacks that won't break the bank", "Coronavirus contributed to 1% of all deaths in England and Wales in the second week of this month.\n\nThat's among the lowest figures published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) since March when the pandemic took hold.\n\nIt's feared this will rise following recent increases in cases and hospitalisations.\n\nDeaths from all causes in England and Wales were higher than average in the week to 11 September.\n\nThis is likely to be because the August Bank Holiday delayed reporting, however.\n\nThe north west of England had the most deaths from coronavirus.\n\nThe ONS counted registrations where \"novel coronavirus\" was mentioned on the death certificate.\n\nAlthough coronavirus deaths remain relatively low, this week also marks the first time they have increased rather than decreased since the beginning of April.\n\nThe government is poised to introduce new restrictions on gatherings and hospitality, as cases of infection have begun to rise again.\n\nDeaths hit their lowest point since mid-March in the week to 4 September, with 78 deaths certificates mentioning coronavirus as a factor.\n\nBut analysis from Oxford University suggests that the number of Covid-19 deaths could be even lower.\n\nThe ONS count includes any death certificate that mentions Covid-19.\n\nThe Oxford analysis suggests that an increasing proportion of these death registrations mention Covid-19 without saying that the disease was a direct or underlying cause of the death.\n\nIn total, there were 51,818 deaths in England and Wales where coronavirus was mentioned on the death certificate - making up 12% of all deaths this year.\n\nThe ONS also looked at deaths among the working-age population between March and June, before many lockdown restrictions were eased.\n\nIt found of just over 5,000 deaths - 72% - were likely to be the result of an infection acquired before lockdown came into force.\n\nPeople working in factories, and in the care and leisure sectors, had a significantly higher risk of dying than the average population.", "People should be allowed to make their own choices over the Covid risk posed to themselves and their families, the Brexit Party says.\n\nThe party said it opposed the new restrictions being brought in by the Welsh Government.\n\nParty leader in the Senedd, Mark Reckless, said: \"We think it would be much better to trust to people's individual judgments, as to their risk and the risk of those they live with, and make their own decisions depending on the evolution of the virus.\"", "Face coverings are required on school buses in Scotland, but not in other parts of the UK\n\nSchool bus drivers have raised concerns about a lack of social distancing on services travelling at full capacity, with many children not wearing masks.\n\nThe Unite union said it was \"extremely worried\" drivers were at risk of catching Covid-19 on \"packed\" buses.\n\nSocial distancing is not mandatory on dedicated school buses under government guidance across the UK, although it should happen where possible.\n\nThe government says it is providing £40m to help increase capacity.\n\nGovernment guidance for England says that, where possible, social distancing should be \"maximised\" between individuals or \"bubbles\" of children who stay together throughout the course of the day.\n\nOther safety measures recommended include more frequent cleaning, maximising ventilation through opening windows and ceiling vents, and allocating seats to ensure children sit with their \"bubble\" if possible.\n\nThe guidance says the measures are an \"appropriate balance\" because the overall risk to children of serious illness from Covid-19 is very low, they do not mix with the general public on school buses, and services often carry the same children on a regular basis.\n\nSimilar guidance is in place for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nSheamus Greene, who drives a school bus in Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, which holds 45 children and travels at full capacity, says there is no social distancing on the service.\n\nHe says the bus carries children from eight different schools, who are on board for between 20 and 35 minutes.\n\nPupils over the age of 12 are advised to wear face coverings but Mr Greene says only around 50% on his bus do.\n\nUnlike on public transport, face coverings are not compulsory on dedicated school buses in Northern Ireland, Wales or England, although they are recommended. However, they should be worn by children aged five and over on services in Scotland.\n\nMr Greene, who is also a Sinn Féin councillor, says a plastic screen was installed around his driver's seat after he raised concerns with the education authority - but it is not airtight.\n\nHe says there is very little ventilation on the bus, with only one skylight window able to be opened and this has to be closed if it rains, which he fears will allow the virus to spread more easily.\n\nSheamus Greene says his bus is full to capacity\n\nChildren are at extremely low risk of becoming ill from Covid-19 but evidence on how likely they are to spread the virus is less certain.\n\nMr Greene, 55, says he is worried about transmitting the virus to family members at home, who have underlying health conditions making them more vulnerable to Covid-19.\n\n\"There's an awful lot of drivers in this area in their 70s and mid to late 60s, and I know some of them have underlying health problems as well,\" he adds.\n\n\"I don't know of any other job where people have been expected to do what school bus drivers have been expected to do - sit in a confined space with up to 50 people for six hours a day.\"\n\nMr Greene says he wants to see evidence that travelling without social distancing is safe - and, if it isn't, he says capacity should be reduced.\n\nA statement from the education authority said it had put in place a range of safety measures, in line with government advice, including distributing more than 150,000 items of PPE to drivers, installing screens and hand sanitiser dispensers on vehicles, and enhanced cleaning.\n\n\"Our drivers and escorts play a vital role in enabling children and young people to access education, and their health and wellbeing is important to us, so we are committed to keeping our guidance under review in line with government advice,\" the statement said.\n\nMichael - not his real name - drives a minibus for a special needs school in Surrey.\n\nWith children travelling in the vehicle for up to an hour-and-a-half each morning, Michael, who is 61 and asthmatic, says he is \"very worried\" about catching the virus.\n\n\"During the winter season colds are rife because they just go round and round the vehicle,\" he says.\n\n\"If the common cold can whizz around a vehicle very easily, it does concern me enormously that coronavirus could also spread come cold season.\"\n\nThe vehicle carries up to eight passengers but after Michael raised concerns with his employer the capacity was reduced to seven, allowing a one-seat gap between him and the next child.\n\nWhile the children wear masks, Michael - who does not want to use his real name for fear of losing his job - says they are not worn properly, with the children's noses often uncovered.\n\nHe wants capacity reduced to four passengers to enable social distancing and medical-grade masks for drivers.\n\nA Surrey County Council spokesman said both the council and the Department for Transport had provided guidance to schools and bus operators on how to safely run school transport.\n\n\"It's important that we all work together to ensure that appropriate measures are in place and the risk to passengers, drivers and passenger assistants is minimised, therefore we're always willing to discuss any concerns with transport operators,\" he said.\n\nSome buses in London have been designated for school pupils only\n\nUnite's national officer for passenger transport, Bobby Morton, says social distancing and face coverings should be mandatory on school buses.\n\nHe says a lack of consistency in guidance for public transport and dedicated school services means the situation varies across the country, with some buses \"packed\" full of children.\n\n\"I get call after call from drivers saying to me they're very, very fearful,\" he says.\n\n\"Not only could they be infected themselves but when they return home after their shift they could unwittingly be transmitting the virus to members of their family.\"", "The third and fourth earthquake struck on market day in the Bedfordshire town\n\nA town in Bedfordshire has experienced two earthquakes in one day.\n\nIt is the third and fourth time people in Leighton Buzzard have felt tremors in the space of two weeks.\n\nThe British Geological Survey (BGS) confirmed a 3.0-magnitude earthquake happened just north of the town at about 09:30 BST and a 2.1-magnitude tremor occurred at about 13:40.\n\nPeople reported their houses \"jolting and shaking\" when the larger quake struck.\n\nSince 8 September there have been four earthquakes in the town, the BGS confirmed.\n\nA 3.5-magnitude earthquake was felt by residents on that day, followed by a 2.1 magnitude tremor on 13 September.\n\nGlenn Ford, a BGS seismologist, said the latest two tremors were aftershocks from the first incident, but were \"earthquakes in their own right\".\n\nTuesday afternoon's tremor was \"20 times smaller\" than the one in the morning, but a few people had reported it to the organisation, he added.\n\nMatt Stewart, who lives about 1.5 miles (2.4km) from Leighton Buzzard in Eggington, was one of those who felt the larger earthquake, and said the tremors \"almost shook me out of bed\".\n\n\"It was as big as the first one, I think,\" he said. \"My wife ran downstairs and said, 'oh no, not another one'.\n\n\"It felt like a whoosh and then a boom coming up through the earth, then it shook the house and a couple of pictures fell off the wall upstairs, like the last time.\"\n\nThe British Geological Survey has released seismograms of the 09:30 BST earthquake\n\nMr Stewart described it as \"a horrible feeling\".\n\n\"You're just not in control and I'd like to know what's going on, as this is the third one - it's very strange.\"\n\nThe BGS said its provisional data suggested the earthquake originated at a depth of about 6.2 miles (10km).\n\nThe earth did not move during the morning's tremors quite as much as when the first earthquake hit two weeks ago at magnitude 3.5, was the general opinion of people shopping and working in the town.\n\nWesley Venn said: \"I was sat in the garden having a lovely cup of tea when all of a sudden I saw the fence shaking.\"\n\nHe described it as \"a little tremor, just to remind us that there are earthquakes about, apparently - in Leighton Buzzard\".\n\nHe added that \"the earth didn't move for me\" during the second quake - which he slept through - but he felt the other larger ones.\n\n\"I don't know if we're the San Andreas Fault of Bedfordshire... but it's a claim to fame.\n\n\"We will rebuild - where a plate fell off the shelf - we will rebuild.\"\n\nResident Wesley Venn joked the town might be \"the San Andreas Fault of Bedfordshire\"\n\nShop staff Carrie Wainer and Sarah Arkle said there was \"a massive bang\"\n\nCarrie Wainer, who works in a gift shop, said she heard \"a massive bang\", adding \"that was about it for us\".\n\n\"With what 2020's bringing us, this is just another one added on.\"\n\nShop owner Anthony Rosier said \"a few things might have moved a couple of inches\"\n\nModel railway store owner Anthony Rosier said there were \"two large bangs, the walls and units shook - then peace and quiet\".\n\nThe latest tremors had been \"a talking point\" and \"brings the buzz back\" to Leighton Buzzard, he said.\n\nMr Ford said: \"It's not an unusual thing to be seen in the UK... this relieves the built-up stress in the rocks.\"\n\nThey were \"nothing to do with fracking or anything like that,\" he said.\n\n\"It's typical British tectonic activity that's been going on for hundreds of years.\"\n\nMr Ford said the UK experiences about 200 to 300 earthquakes each year, but 90% are \"so minor that people can't perceive them\".\n\nWhile the UK has a few quakes of the same magnitude as Leighton Buzzard each year, it was \"absolutely tiny on the scale of worldwide earthquakes\" and \"more than a billion times smaller than the one that hit Japan in 2011\".\n\nHe added: \"If they felt this one in Japan, they wouldn't even look up from their morning coffee.\"\n\nDr Matthew Blackett, an earthquake expert from Coventry University, said the Leighton Buzzard tremors were likely caused by the fracturing of solid rock in \"hidden fault lines\", several hundred metres below the surface.\n\n\"What seems to have happened is that this was an initial earthquake in a hidden fault - some stress or other has caused it.\n\n\"These two subsequent events are a readjustment of the fault lines to come back to some sort of stability.\n\n\"The crust has to adjust itself to become stable again, that seems to have happened to the poor people of Leighton Buzzard.\n\n\"It is quite possible that that sequence is now done, but it might be that there are still stresses there.\n\n\"If there are [further tremors], I think it will only be minor events.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None How bad can earthquakes be in the UK?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Among today's announcements is the introduction of a 10pm closing time for the hospitality industry, as well as a table service-only rule.\n\nThe news has been greeted with concern by businesses in the sector.\n\nTom Stainer, chief executive of the Campaign for Real Ale, said pub customers and publicans wanted to stop the spread of the virus but said the government hadn't shown the evidence that pubs were disproportionately contributing to increased infections.\n\n\"It is additional pressure on already fragile pubs which are at real risk of closure,\" he said, pointing out there was currently no support on offer from the government.\n\nMr Stainer added the curfew would cut into several hours of \"high trading times\" at a time when the industry needed to pay off debts after the lockdown.\n\nAndy Lennox, founder of Zim Braai restaurants, said his business had lost 30% of its revenue \"overnight\" with the 10pm closing time and it was going to be \"very difficult\".\n\n\"The big thing now is what the support going to be, we need some kind of more flexi-furlough brought in that will allow us to add new employees to that, the VAT needs to stay - that 5% is massive,\" he said.\n\nMr Lennox added that Eat Out To Help Out had helped in August - but had only made back losses the industry had already suffered.", "Liverpool is one of many cities where there are extra restrictions\n\nIn many areas under local lockdown, cases and hospital admissions have continued to soar. Does that mean restrictions don't work?\n\nConsider the national lockdown in the spring. While it feels like it was one single policy, it was in fact a package of different measures. Schools, universities and offices shut. Pubs, restaurants and non-essential shops closed. No-one could mix with people from outside their household. People were advised not to use public transport and to limit the number of times they visited essential shops.\n\nTogether these had a dramatic impact on cases, and the number of coronavirus patients in hospital plummeted from 20,000 to about 800.\n\nHow much each part of that lockdown contributed is hard to say.\n\nThe rules were relaxed but then, at the end of June, Leicester became the first place to go into a local lockdown. Other cities, and whole regions, have followed. But so far, Leicester's lockdown is the only one to have come close to the strictness of the national policy. Shops and pubs were stopped from opening. Households were barred from mixing indoors. And new cases of the virus dropped by 60% during July. People in hospital beds with coronavirus fell from 88 to 18.\n\nSince Leicester, local lockdowns have multiplied. More than 15 million people - very roughly, a quarter of the UK population - have come under new curbs, in some form.\n\nAnd it's become harder to see whether they are working or not.\n\nAfter the first changes, cases continued to rise, throughout August. Then, after pub and restaurant closures, case rates dropped sharply. It is, however, too soon to say for sure that the stricter measures led directly to the decline.\n\nIn the rest of Greater Manchester, gatherings with other households were banned but shops, pubs and restaurants remained open. Cases have mostly kept climbing throughout these local restrictions.\n\nHowever, the latest week's data will be welcome news - suggesting the sharp increases might be levelling off. The rise in cases in many areas under local lockdown appears to be slowing, in line with the national picture.\n\nThis may be a sign that the England-wide \"rule of six\" is working.\n\nA large national study, published last week, confirmed the growth in cases was slowing across England, although overall levels remained high. But restrictions on households meeting - which have been seen at a local level - don't always lead to a slowing case rate. And this change in impact highlights the many factors involved which make it difficult to isolate the precise effect of local lockdowns.\n\nPeople don't necessarily change their behaviour exactly in line with rule changes.\n\nWhen concerns about cases rising begin to be reported, some people alter their behaviour before any law change. Other people, even when the rules come into place, don't obey them.\n\nSo it may be a question of timing: are people more ready to restrict their movements now than they were in August?\n\nTo complicate the figures further, other things have been going on at the same time as local lockdowns were being introduced, including summer holiday season and schools reopening.\n\nIn Leicester, cases fell when restrictions were introduced. When they were progressively eased in August and September, cases started to rise. But this rise coincided with more people travelling abroad. And with children going back to school.\n\nIn Greater Manchester, cases also rose over those months despite the area being in lockdown - albeit a looser version than Leicester's had been.\n\nUnpicking these different factors is a big challenge.\n\nLooking at \"positivity rates\" - the proportion of all tests that are positive, adjusting for different levels of testing - shows there have been increases in cases across England, with particularly sharp spikes in the North West and North East between the end of August and the end of September. Restrictions in those regions were only introduced between the middle of September and the beginning of October, making it too soon to see the impact of these rules.\n\nBut in Blackburn, which has been in lockdown long enough for an effect to be seen, there was also a rise in cases - though this has come back down in recent weeks.\n\nRecent increases in hospitalisations from coronavirus have highlighted the extent of the challenge facing the north of England. Though without up-to-date localised data, it is difficult to judge whether the impact on a local level - such as those in Blackburn - have helped prevent serious cases.\n\nThere's no doubt the national lockdown had a considerable impact on cases.\n\nFundamentally, the virus needs people to be in close contact and mixing between circles to spread through the population. How tight the restrictions are makes a difference - look at the experience of Leicester, compared with Oldham or Blackburn.\n\nBut so do the crucial issues of timing and compliance. A lockdown only works if people stick to it.\n\nThe data also indicates that any impact lockdowns do have is far from permanent - relax the restrictions and allow more contact, and the virus will quickly start to spread again.\n\nUnless and until a viable vaccine becomes available, government will be faced with the same choice: shut down large chunks of society or allow the virus to tear through communities, with little idea of the true toll that either will exact.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: FM says tighter restrictions expected 'within days'\n\nAdditional lockdown restrictions will \"almost certainly\" be put in place in Scotland in the next couple of days, Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nSpeaking at her daily briefing, the first minister said \"fast and urgent action\" was needed to tackle the growth of the virus.\n\nMs Sturgeon indicated that a package of new restrictions would be announced within the next 48 hours.\n\nA total of 255 new cases were recorded in the past 24 hours.\n\nThat represented 6.3% of those tested, the third day running the \"positivity rate\" has exceeded 5% - which the World Health Organization has said is a key benchmark for a virus to be considered under control.\n\nWhile no new deaths were reported, the number of people treated in hospital rose to 73, an increase of 10.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"I need to be absolutely straight with people across Scotland, that additional restrictions will almost certainly be put in place in Scotland over the next couple of days.\n\n\"Hopefully this will be with four-nations alignment, but if necessary it will have to happen without that.\"\n\nShe said a meeting of the UK government's Cobra emergency committee would take place, and that she would be speaking to Prime Minister Boris Johnson directly after the briefing.\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"In that call, I will impress upon the prime minister my view that we need decisive, urgent and, as far as possible given our individual responsibilities, co-ordinated action across the UK.\n\n\"I will be clear that I am willing to allow a bit more time for four-nations discussions to take place before making final decisions for Scotland, but I will be equally clear that the urgency of this situation will mean that we cannot, must not and will not wait too long.\"\n\nLater on Monday the UK's chief medical officers said the coronavirus alert level should move to Level 4, meaning that transmission of the virus was \"high or rising exponentially\".\n\nDowning Street confirmed Boris Johnson had spoken on the phone to the first ministers of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and that they would be taking part in a Cobra meeting scheduled for Tuesday morning.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"They all agreed to act with a united approach, as much as possible, in the days and weeks ahead.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted that she would make a statement to the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nIt is indeed a critical time in the trajectory of this virus. Cases are going up at a time when we are heading towards winter and the NHS will also have to deal with seasonal flu.\n\nThe first minister says \"difficult decisions\" are to be made in this trade-off. We are being told to prepare for further restrictions on daily life.\n\nThe government says keeping schools open and protecting the NHS are priorities, so what else will have to give?\n\nOne of the government's own advisers has said travel restrictions and pub curfews could feature.\n\nWe are in uncharted waters and no-one can predict what the winter will bring.\n\nWhat is clear is that we are all going to have to find ways to live with this virus for much longer than the next six months.\n\nMs Sturgeon gave no detail of what new restrictions would be introduced, but said the government was \"very close to a point of decision\".\n\n\"At the heart of this decision is a simple truth - the longer we wait to introduce new measures, the longer these measures are likely to be in place,\" she said.\n\n\"If we move sharply now to get the virus back under control we can minimise the time we all spend under any new restrictions.\"\n\nPublic health expert Prof Linda Bauld said the likely options could include travel restrictions and curfews or restrictions on hospitality.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Sturgeon added that there would be financial support for people required to self-isolate, particularly those on low incomes.\n\nWhile larger fines for non-compliance were under consideration, she said a better approach was to \"remove barriers\" to self-isolation.\n\nShe said: \"Nobody should be forced to choose between self-isolating for the collective good and paying their rent and feeding their families.\n\n\"If that is the choice people face, then it shouldn't be a surprise to us that compliance levels will be lower than we need them to be.\"\n\nThe first minister added that the \"collective action\" of the summer months had not been in vain, and without it the number of deaths would have been \"significantly higher\".\n\n\"We are in a much stronger position now than we would have been without that - but none of it was a magic wand that made the virus go away,\" she said.\n\n\"So as we face winter, as we face an acceleration of cases again, we must act to keep that under control.\"\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance earlier warned that without further restrictions there could be 50,000 new coronavirus a day by mid-October. This could lead to about 200 deaths a day UK-wide by the middle of November.\n\nScotland's interim chief medical officer, Gregor Smith, said cases in Scotland were roughly doubling every seven to nine days.\n\nAsked about suggestions that new restrictions might last for six months, Mr Sturgeon said this was \"the length of time we all likely to be living with some restrictions, but it is not necessarily going to be the same restrictions, of the same severity, for that period\".\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said people needed to heed the \"stark warnings\" about the virus.\n\n\"It is right that our governments work together to tackle this, because this is an issue that we need to get on top of,\" he said.", "Glastonbury Tor, in Somerset, which was found to have links to to successful compensation claims as a result of the abolition of slavery\n\nThe National Trust has revealed how more than 90 of its properties have connections to slavery and colonialism.\n\nThe links - at 93 properties - are highlighted in a report commissioned by the charity to tell the history of colonialism and slavery at its sites.\n\nSome, like Penrhyn Castle in north Wales, show how wealth derived from slavery was used for reconstruction.\n\nThe charity has said it is committed to sharing the histories of slavery and colonialism.\n\nIt has also pledged to add to its research, and admitted that it has more work to do.\n\nJohn Orna Orenstein, its director of culture and engagement, said it was about raising awareness.\n\nHe said: \"Just to be really clear, we're not making judgements about the past, what we're trying to do is reflect as accurately and comprehensively as we can the histories across a variety of places.\"\n\nThe National Trust is a conservation charity in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. There is a separate and independent National Trust for Scotland,\n\nThe report details links to plantation owners and those who were paid compensation for enslaved people freed through abolition, as well as those who gained their wealth through the slave trade.\n\nIt also includes properties with connections to people involved in colonial expansion, including leading figures in the East India Company, or senior figures in administering colonies, including Winston Churchill's home Chartwell.\n\nAnd those with important cultural links to Britain's colonial history, such as writer Rudyard Kipling's home in Sussex, Bateman's, or the home of historian Thomas Carlyle in London are highlighted.\n\nThe National Trust report shows how estates and stately homes such as Clandon Park, Surrey, and Hare Hall in Cheshire were linked to wealth from plantations or the slave trade.\n\nSome 29 properties cared for by the National Trust have links to successful compensation claims as a result of the abolition of slavery, such as Glastonbury Tor in Somerset, and Blickling Hall, Norfolk, the report shows.\n\nQuarry Bank Mill, Cheshire, was built using family wealth related to slavery, while Bath Assembly Rooms was connected to the wider colonial and slavery economies of the 18th Century, it highlights.\n\nPowis Castle in Wales, with its links to Clive of India, and Cragside, Northumberland, which was home to Sir William Armstrong who supplied guns to British military forces, are among those with imperial links.\n\nThe survey also documents those National Trust properties belonging to people who were involved in the abolition movement or the fight against colonial oppression.\n\nAnd it highlights the presence of African and Asian people working on English and Welsh estates.\n\nThe report draws on the trust's own archives and external evidence such as the Legacies of British Slave-ownership project run by University College London.\n\nDr Tarnya Cooper, the National Trust's curatorial and collections director, said a \"significant\" number of the properties in the charity's care have links to the colonisation of different parts of the world, and some to historic slavery.\n\n\"Colonialism and slavery were central to the national economy from the 17th to the 19th Centuries,\" she said.\n\nShe added that it was the charity's job, as a heritage charity, to research, interpret and openly share full and up-to-date information about its properties.\n\n\"This report is the fullest account to date of the links between places now in the care of the National Trust and colonialism and historic slavery,\" she said, though she added it was not exhaustive and would be added to as more research was done.\n\nThe research has been used to update online information and will be used to help the Trust review visitor information and displays at properties.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTensions between the US and China came to the fore of the annual UN General Assembly in New York, with US President Donald Trump blaming China for the spread of coronavirus.\n\nHe called for China to be held \"accountable\" for the pandemic.\n\nIn his speech, Chinese President Xi Jinping said his country had \"no intention to enter a Cold War with any country\".\n\nTies between the two world powers are strained on a number of fronts.\n\nThis year's summit at New York is largely being held virtually, with world leaders providing pre-recorded speeches.\n\nThe new format meant some of the geopolitical theatre normally on offer at the key UN meeting was absent. Each country was represented by a single delegate and there was little opportunity for one nation to rebut another.\n\nBut as often is the case for speeches to the assembly, President Trump used his address to tout his achievements and tear into a rival.\n\n\"We must hold accountable the nation which unleashed this plague on to the world - China,\" he said.\n\n\"In the earliest days of the virus China locked down travel domestically, while allowing flights to leave China and infect the world. China condemned my travel ban on their country, even as they cancelled domestic flights and locked citizens in their homes,\" he added.\n\nPresident Trump, whose own record on coronavirus is under close scrutiny as the US heads towards elections, has frequently accused Beijing of covering up the virus, saying they could have stopped the disease spreading. China has called the attacks an unfounded distraction.\n\nThe US death toll for coronavirus, at more than 200,000, is the highest in the world and President Trump has often downplayed the disease.\n\nTensions are high between the US and China on a number of other issues, including trade, technology, Hong Kong and China's treatment of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang province.\n\nThe US president's speech came in the form of a pre-recorded message\n\nSpeaking soon after the US leader, President Xi warned of the risks of a \"clash of civilisations\".\n\n\"We will continue to narrow differences and resolve disputes with others through dialogue and negotiation. We will not seek to develop only ourselves or engage in zero sum game,\" he said.\n\nIn remarks released ahead of Tuesday's speech, President Xi took a more overt swipe at the US, saying \"no country has the right to dominate global affairs, control the destiny of others, or keep advantages in development all to itself\", something China itself has been accused of by critics.\n\nAlso in his speech, President Xi said China - the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases - aims to hit peak emissions in 2030 and be carbon neutral by 2060.\n\nThis was a stump speech by President Trump, who faces re-election in 40 days time. He had Beijing firmly in his sights - blaming what he and his followers call the China virus for taking countless lives.\n\nMr Trump is trying to deflect attention from his own handling of the pandemic by heaping opprobrium on China, while emphasising US efforts to find a cure.\n\nWe will end the pandemic, the president pledged, saying thanks to US efforts three vaccines are in the final stage of development. For good measure, Mr Trump lumped the UN's World Health Organization into his critique of China - saying the international body, which he's withdrawing US funding from, is virtually controlled by China, blaming it for spreading what he called misinformation about the virus.\n\nThis was not a subtle speech. It was a clear attempt to shift blame as Americans are already voting in the presidential election.\n\nThe assembly was opened by UN Secretary-General António Guterres, who, without naming China or the US warned \"we must do everything to avoid a new Cold War\".\n\n\"We are moving in a very dangerous direction,\" he said. \"Our world cannot afford a future where the two largest economies split the globe in a great fracture - each with its own trade and financial rules and internet and artificial intelligence capacities.\"\n\nHe said there was no room for self-interest in the face of the coronavirus. \"Populism and nationalism have failed,\" he said. \"Those approaches to contain the virus have often made things manifestly worse.\"\n\nPresident Trump gave a very different vision in his speech, saying \"only when you take care of your own citizens will you find a true basis for co-operation\".", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nThe leaders of more than 100 sports bodies have written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to ask for emergency funding, warning of \"a lost generation of activity\" because of coronavirus.\n\nThe coalition of organisations says they are \"united in our concern that at a time when our role should be central to the nation's recovery, the future of the sector is perilous\".\n\nIn a letter seen by BBC Sport, the group urges the government to provide a \"sports recovery fund\" so the sector can \"survive and stabilise\".\n\nThe government announced on Tuesday that plans for spectators to be allowed to return to stadiums and venues from 1 October will not go ahead.\n\nThe letter written by the organisations, which include the Football Association, Premier League, Rugby Football Union, England and Wales Cricket Board and Lawn Tennis Association, adds: \"We require a comprehensive support package for the sport and physical sector to aid its recovery.\n\n\"This package must combine investment, tax incentives, and regulatory reform.\n\n\"Covid-19 has undermined our commercial revenue streams with both stadiums and leisure facilities closed or greatly reduced in capacity.\n\n\"The impact of this will potentially lead to a lost generation of sport and activity.\n\n\"We are particularly concerned about the impact on those whose participation has been limited during the pandemic. Physical activity levels, especially in the most vulnerable groups, are significantly below where they were tracking pre-Covid-19.\"\n\nThe arts industry was given a £1.57bn support package by the government in July.\n\nAlthough Sport England has handed out £200m for emergency cases, many in the sector believe more is needed.\n\nA series of sports bodies have announced job losses in recent weeks and warned they face major mounting losses if turnstiles are not opened soon.\n\nThe government is to ask sports bodies to assess the financial impact of several more months without paying spectators, and is understood to be preparing to work with organisations on what support might be needed to help them survive.\n\nIn the letter, the prime minister is told that sport and physical activity contributes more than £16bn and 600,000 jobs to the UK economy.\n\n\"Our sector will be at the forefront of your plans to improve the health and wellbeing of all communities…to solving societal issues…including reducing health inequalities, tackling obesity, cutting crime, easing loneliness, and enhancing social cohesion,\" the group adds.\n\n\"But to do so effectively, we require your government's backing.\"\n\nLisa Wainwight, chief executive of the Sport and Recreation Alliance, said: \"The strength of this coalition from the sports, recreation and activity sector cannot be ignored in its public call to the prime minister.\n\n\"The pandemic has put an incredible strain on our sector, which was forced to close for a prolonged period.\n\n\"It is imperative that our sector gets the support it requires from the government to get back to business, in order to ease the pressures on the NHS and play a central role in our nation's recovery.\"\n\nSwim England has reported that 22% of public pools remain closed and all those that are open have reduced capacity. Some 36% of clubs remain without access to pools.\n\nIndustry bodies Community Leisure UK and UK Active estimate leisure centres, swimming pools and community services face a shortfall of more than £800m this year.\n\nFormer sports minister Tracey Crouch added: \"This isn't just about the number of people on a pitch, field, court or in a pool or gym.\n\n\"This is about the whole ecosystem that supports sport, fitness and leisure and, if we're not careful, historic clubs and the jobs that support them will be lost, potentially for good. If government is going to shut sport down then it needs to provide a package of support to stop its decimation.\"\n• None Has cancel culture gone too far?", "Guess How Much I Love You was translated into 57 languages and sold more than 50 million copies worldwide\n\nSam McBratney, author of the children's classic book Guess How Much I Love You, has died at the age of 77.\n\nThe author, who was born in Belfast, died on 18 September, his publisher Walker Books announced on Monday.\n\nThe tale of two nutbrown hares, who try to express their affection for each other, became a children's classic.\n\nThe book is best remembered for ending with the now well-known phrase \"I love you to the moon and back\".\n\nThe illustrated children's book, which was first published in 1994, was translated into 57 languages and sold more than 50 million copies worldwide.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKaren Lotz, managing director of Walker Books Group, described McBratney as a \"profoundly lovely human being\".\n\n\"You could recognise his voice in a moment, he was an exceptionally talented wordsmith and always knew exactly what children would enjoy hearing the most,\" Ms Lotz said.\n\n\"His legacy of kindness and humour will burn bright and carry on through his stories,\" she added.\n• None Why is a children's book about rabbits being read at weddings?", "The prison, near Devizes, was inspected in August\n\nA prison's response to the Covid-19 pandemic led to it being \"less safe\" and \"less purposeful\", a report found.\n\nInspectors found \"troubling\" conditions at HMP Erlestoke, including violence, indiscipline and cases of self-harm.\n\nA scrutiny visit took place last month to assess how conditions had changed, since heavy restrictions were imposed at the start of the pandemic.\n\nA Prison Service spokesman said it had taken \"immediate action\" to address the issues identified in the report.\n\nSome inmates in the segregation unit were held in cells without running water or toilets for weeks at a time, the report found.\n\n\"We are urgently working to identify additional improvements we can make to prisoner safety, and Erlestoke will receive additional staff training and specialist support to help drive down violence,\" the Prison Service spokesman added.\n\nHM Chief Inspector of Prisons, Peter Clarke, said the response to the pandemic at the category C prison, near Devizes in Wiltshire, had \"led to a less safe, less decent and less purposeful prison\".\n\n\"Although the amount of time prisoners could spend out of their cells had been increased in the early stages of lockdown, during our visit... most prisoners still only received 45-minute sessions in the morning and the afternoon, and an additional half an hour one evening a week,\" he said.\n\n\"Prisoners reported being frustrated about daily delays in the delivery of this limited regime, and about the lack of activity.\"\n\nThe chief inspector of prisons has received a response which is \"in effect\" an action plan to address the issues\n\nOther concerns raised in the report included:\n\nMr Clarke said it was \"a very troubling visit\" with some issues \"systemic, arising from the apparent inflexibility of the recovery programme\".\n\n\"Well-led and properly supported local innovation and flexibility are now urgently needed to restore the acceptable treatment and conditions of the prisoners held there,\" he added.\n\nHe said he had raised concerns in a letter to Justice Secretary, Robert Buckland, and had received a response which was \"in effect\" an action plan to address the issues.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former Prime Minister Theresa May has said she \"cannot support\" the government's plan to override parts of its Brexit agreement with the EU.\n\nShe told MPs the move, which breaks international law, would damage \"trust in the United Kingdom\".\n\nThe Internal Market Bill will be voted on in the Commons on Tuesday, having passed its first hurdle last week.\n\nMinisters say it contains vital safeguards to protect Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.\n\nThe bill is designed to enable goods and services to flow freely across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland when the UK leaves the EU's single market and customs union on 1 January.\n\nBut it gives the government the power to change aspects of the EU withdrawal agreement, a legally binding deal governing the terms of the UK's exit from the EU earlier this year.\n\nMinisters say this is a failsafe mechanism in case the EU interprets the agreement, in particular the section on Northern Ireland, in an \"extreme and unreasonable\" way. The section - know as the protocol - is designed to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland,\n\nAs well as Mrs May, the other four living former prime ministers - Sir John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron - have spoken out against the bill.\n\nLabour is opposing it and some Conservative MPs have raised concerns over its legal implications.\n\nAmid all this, Prime Minister Boris Johnson last week agreed to amend the bill so that the Commons would get a vote before he could use the powers involved in breaking international law.\n\nBut Mrs May, whose own withdrawal agreement with the EU was repeatedly rejected by the Commons when she was prime minister, told MPs: \"Frankly, my view is to the outside world it makes no difference as to whether a decision to break international law is taken by a minister or by this Parliament - it is still a decision to break international law.\n\n\"This can only weaken the UK in the eyes of the world.\"\n\nShe added that, if the Internal Market Bill were passed, \"our reputation as a country that sticks by its word will have been tarnished\".\n\nThe Conservative MP for Maidenhead added that governments around the world had \"trust in the United Kingdom\", asking: \"Where will that trust be in future if they see a United Kingdom willing to break its word and break international law?\"\n\nMrs May also said there would be \"untold damage to the United Kingdom's reputation\".\n\nNorthern Ireland Minister Robin Walker said the government still hoped to reach a trade agreement with the EU.\n\nHe added: \"Through this bill, we are acting to uphold those priorities and deliver commitments we made in our election manifesto that we will provide unfettered access between Northern Ireland and Great Britain, and maintain and strengthen the integrity and smooth operation of our internal market.\"\n\nMr Walker also said there were \"harmful legal defaults in some interpretations\" of the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\n\"The consequences of this for Northern Ireland in that scenario would be very damaging,\" he told MPs. \"We cannot and will not run that risk.\"\n\nFor Labour, shadow Cabinet Office minister Paul Blomfield said giving MPs the power to decide whether to use measures in the bill the Commons did not \"resolve the issue\", which was \"the breach of international law\".\n\nSNP Westminster deputy leader Kirsten Oswald called the legislation \"a grubby power-grab which we cannot and will not support\" and that sections of it hung \"like a badge of dishonour around this prime minister's term of office\".", "As the US Covid-19 death toll passes 200,000, owners and directors of funeral homes across the country reflect on how the loss of life has affected the families and communities that they serve.", "And that brings our live page for the Labour leader's speech to a close.\n\nQuite the change from a packed conference hall, we are sure you will agree, but a clear pitch from Sir Keir Starmer on the direction he wants to take the party.\n\nYou can read more about what he said here.\n\nAnd don't forget to come back tomorrow where we will be bringing you live updates of this week's Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nHave a great day and see you soon!", "Maples are known by the scientific name, Acer\n\nOne in five maple species is threatened in the wild, according to the first full assessment of extinction risks.\n\nKnown for the vivid colour of their autumn leaves, the trees are popular in parks and gardens.\n\nBut in their natural habitats, they face a myriad of threats, including unsustainable logging, climate change, deforestation and forest fires.\n\nBotanists are calling for urgent action to protect rare maple trees.\n\nAnd they say seeds should be stored as an insurance policy against extinction.\n\nThe assessment of all 158 species of maple is part of an effort to map the conservation status of all tree species by the end of 2020. It was carried out by the group, Botanic Gardens Conservation International.\n\nConservation manager Dan Crowley told BBC News: \"Maples are some of our most familiar trees, particularly in autumn when they give us those wonderful displays of yellow, orange, red and purple colours.\n\n\"And whilst they are common in some of our open spaces, spaces where they are highly valued, several species are also highly threatened in the wild.\"\n\nMost wild maple species are found in China\n\nThe scientists say action is needed to ensure there is active conservation in protected forests where maples grow.\n\nAnd as a back-up, rare seeds should be collected and stored in botanic gardens.\n\nWhat we see in gardens and parks is just a small selection of the vast number found in the wild.\n\nAnd many of the specimens seen in urban spaces are grown from a small number of seeds collected by early plant hunters, with only limited genetic diversity.\n\nCurrently, 14 species of maple tree, including four that are critically endangered, are missing from arboretums and botanical gardens.\n\nDan Crowley added: \"We're highly responsible for the threats that some of these species face including urban development, agriculture and timber harvesting and we have the capabilities to conserve the species in the wild and also in our living collections, and we should act to do. \"\n\nThe paperbark maple has ornamental leaves and bark\n\nChina holds the greatest diversity of maple trees, with a total of 92 species. But threatened species also occur in other parts of Asia and the Americas.\n\nThe North American sugar maple is famous for giving us maple syrup, a favourite pancake topping for many.\n\nTwo little-known close relatives of the tree can be found in Mexico, where they are threatened by grazing, logging and forest fires.\n\nCommenting on the study, Kathy Willis, professor of biodiversity at the University of Oxford, said: \"These trees provide a number of important ecosystem services and their loss is not just a loss of a pretty iconic tree but also all the important benefits they provide to humans - maple syrup being but one of them.\"", "In much of the west of Scotland, people have not been allowed to meet in each others homes for some weeks.\n\nThat measure has now been extended to the whole of Scotland.\n\nThis is stricter than the rules in England but First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said it was the right stance to take to suppress the spread of the virus.\n\nThe regulations come into force on Friday but Ms Sturgeon urged everyone to comply from tomorrow.\n\nThe rules will be reviewed after three weeks.\n\nThe restrictions are different in public indoor spaces such as pubs, cafes and restaurants. Here it is the rule of six: two households with a maximum of six people.\n\nOutdoors, the rule is also up to six people from two households. Children under 12 are exempt from these limits.\n\nThere is no limit on children under 12 playing outdoors.\n\nYoung people aged 12 to 18 are also exempt from the two household limit and can meet outdoors in groups of up to six.\n\nFrom Friday, bars and restaurants will have to close at 10pm. That is the same as the new rule in England.\n• Work from home if possible\n• Do not car share with other households\n• Do not travel overseas during the October school holiday unless essential\n• The dates for the return of fans to sports stadiums has been postponed", "Artwork: Nasa wants to return to the Moon, but this time it wants to stay\n\nThe US space agency (Nasa) has formally outlined its $28bn (£22bn) plan to return to the Moon by 2024.\n\nAs part of a programme called Artemis, Nasa will send a man and a woman to the lunar surface in the first landing with humans since 1972.\n\nBut the agency's timeline is contingent on Congress releasing $3.2bn for building a landing system.\n\nAstronauts will travel in an Apollo-like capsule called Orion that will launch on a powerful rocket called SLS.\n\nSpeaking on Monday afternoon (US time), Nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine said: \"The $28bn represents the costs associated for the next four years in the Artemis programme to land on the Moon. SLS funding, Orion funding, the human landing system and of course the spacesuits - all of those things that are part of the Artemis programme are included.\"\n\nBut he explained: \"The budget request that we have before the House and the Senate right now includes $3.2bn for 2021 for the human landing system. It is critically important that we get that $3.2bn.\"\n\nArtwork: astronauts will travel to the Moon in a spacecraft called Orion\n\nThe US House of Representatives has already passed a Bill allocating $600m towards the lunar lander. But Nasa will need more funds to develop the vehicle in full.\n\nMr Bridenstine added: \"I want to be clear, we are exceptionally grateful to the House of Representatives that, in a bipartisan way, they have determined that funding a human landing system is important - that's what that $600m represents. It is also true that we are asking for the full $3.2bn.\"\n\nIn July 2019, Mr Bridenstine told CNN that the first woman astronaut to walk on the Moon in 2024 would be someone \"who has been proven, somebody who has flown, somebody who has been on the International Space Station already\". He also said it would be someone already in the astronaut corps.\n\nAt the time of this interview, there were 12 active woman astronauts. They have since been joined by five other female Nasa astronauts who graduated from training earlier this year. But it remains unclear whether any of the newest astronauts can fulfil the criteria in time to fly on the first landing mission in 2024.\n\nThe most recent class of astronaut graduates includes six women - five from Nasa and one from the Canadian Space Agency\n\nAsked about the timeline for choosing crew members for Artemis, the Nasa chief said he hoped to pick a team at least two years prior to the first mission.\n\nHowever, he said: \"I think it's important we start identifying the Artemis team earlier than not... primarily because I think it will serve as a source of inspiration.\"\n\nBy sending astronauts back to the Moon, the White House wants to renew American leadership in space. There are also plans to extract valuable deposits of water-ice from the lunar South Pole. These could be used to make rocket fuel on the Moon - at a lower cost than carrying it from Earth - serving as the foundation for a lunar economy.\n\nBut Vice President Mike Pence has also cited concerns about China's spacefaring ambitions. In January 2019, the East Asian superpower became the first nation to softly land a robot rover on the far side of the Moon. The country is now preparing for its first mission to deliver samples of lunar soil to labs on Earth.\n\nIt has been developing a next generation spacecraft for Chinese astronauts that could fly to deep space destinations such as the Moon. Though China isn't on a timeline to get there by 2024, it could make considerable progress towards such a goal this decade.\n\nThe new Nasa document outlines Phase 1 of the US plan, which includes an uncrewed test flight around the Moon - called Artemis-1 - in the autumn of 2021.\n\nNasa's human spaceflight chief Kathy Lueders said that Artemis-1 would last for about a month to test out all the critical systems.\n\nShe said that demonstration flight would reduce the risk for Artemis-2, which will repeat the trip around the Moon with astronauts.\n\nA new test has been added to this mission - a proximity operations demonstration. Shortly after Orion separates from the upper-stage of the SLS rocket - known as the interim cryogenic propulsion stage - astronauts will manually pilot the spacecraft as they approach and back away from the stage.\n\nArtwork: The SLS rocket is on track to make its maiden flight next year\n\nThis will assess Orion's handling qualities, along with the performance of the spacecraft's hardware and software.\n\nArtemis-3 will become the first mission to send astronauts to the lunar surface since Apollo 17 some 48 years ago.\n\nNasa has provided $967m (£763m) to several companies to work on designs for the landing vehicle that will take them there.\n\nLater in the decade, the plan calls for Nasa to establish a base for humans, called Artemis Base Camp, that would include the infrastructure needed for long-term exploration of the Moon.\n\nBy comparison with Artemis, the Apollo programme in the 1960s and 70s cost upwards of $250bn in inflation-adjusted US dollars.\n\nHowever, the $28bn for this new plan does not include money already spent developing the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.", "It's not a day for optimists, even though the prime minister himself is one of that tribe.\n\nTomorrow, it will be six months exactly since he told the nation to stay at home.\n\nThis time, Boris Johnson stopped well short of slamming the country's doors shut.\n\nBut what really stood out in his long statement in a miserable-looking Commons was his message that the limits put in place today will last another six months.\n\nEven if you are very fond of your own company, lucky enough to have a secure job you enjoy and a comfy spare room where you can do it, it is quite something to contemplate.\n\nThe government now expects that all our lives will be subject to restrictions of one kind or another for a whole year - March 2020 to March 2021.\n\nAs each month ticks by, it becomes harder to imagine a return to anything like normal political life, or, more importantly, the way we all live.\n\nWe may not be waiting for a return to life as we knew it, but grinding through a moment of change.\n\nBut if you were listening carefully, something else was different too.\n\nThe country became familiar with the slogan \"Stay At Home, Protect the NHS, Save Lives\" - it was emblazoned on government lecterns, repeated again and again by government ministers in interview after interview, on bus shelters, pop-up ads on the internet, wherever you looked.\n\nThat phrase was retired after the most intense period of the lockdown, but echoed today with one important additional condition.\n\nBoris Johnson's driver today was to \"save lives, protect the NHS\" and \"shelter the economy\".\n\nAs we discussed here yesterday, concerns about the economy played more strongly in Downing Street after fierce resistance from backbenchers, and arguments from the next-door neighbour in No 11 of the economic risks of a short, sharp closure programme.\n\nFears about how the country makes a living have always been part of the decision-making process for the government, grappling with these acute dilemmas.\n\nBut the political appetite inside the Tory party for sweeping restrictions has certainly dimmed.\n\nThe changes announced today do make economic recovery harder, the \"bounce back\" the government dreamt of looks harder to achieve, but they are not as draconian as they may otherwise have been.\n\nThe choices made by Nicola Sturgeon to restrict social lives much further than in England, as in Northern Ireland, point to that difference.\n\nMinisters used to make great play of following the science, now they are certainly following the politics too.\n\nOnly the unknowable progress of the disease will, in time, suggest which call was right.\n• None What's the guidance for Covid in the UK now?", "People and businesses have been reacting to the decision to impose local lockdowns in four more counties in south Wales.\n\nRestrictions come into force in Merthyr Tydfil, Bridgend, Blaenau Gwent and Newport at 18:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nPeople will not be able to enter or leave those areas except for a limited number of exemptions, such as work.\n\nCaerphilly went into lockdown on 8 September and Rhondda Cynon Taf followed on Thursday.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "The number of schools in England sending home groups of pupils because of Covid-19 incidents has quadrupled in a week, according to the latest official figures.\n\nBased on attendance last Thursday, they show 4% of schools not fully open because of confirmed or suspected cases - up from 1% the previous week.\n\nThis could mean about 900 schools sending home pupils.\n\nOverall attendance has also dipped slightly from 88% to 87%.\n\nThis means over a million children were off school that day, whether from Covid-related or other reasons, with more pupils missing from secondary schools than primary.\n\nThe fall in attendance should \"ring alarm bells\" for the government, said Paul Whiteman, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers.\n\n\"Clearly the failure of Covid testing sits at the heart of this. The inability of staff and families to successfully get tested when they display symptoms means that schools are struggling with staffing, children are missing school, and ultimately that children's education is being needlessly disrupted,\" said Mr Whiteman.\n\nThis is the second set of Department for Education attendance figures since schools returned in the autumn - and they show a significant increase in schools sending home groups of pupils or whole year groups because of concerns about coronavirus.\n\nBut they also show the number of schools which were fully open had increased - up from 92% to 94% - because the previous week's figures included schools that were still carrying out a phased start to the year or holding teacher training days.\n\nThe figures, based on responses from 76% of state schools, show almost no schools being completely closed - with 99.9% recorded as open.\n\nThis combination of more schools completing their reopening - and at the same time more schools sending pupils home because of Covid-19 - meant that the overall attendance figure balanced out as being similar to the previous week, from 88% to 87%.\n\nThis is well below what would be expected, with attendance rates usually around 95%.\n\nAn even lower proportion of vulnerable children, such as those with a social worker, were recorded as being at school, with an attendance rate of 81%.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said that with rising rates of infection and problems with Covid testing, the attendance figures were \"not at all surprising\".\n\n\"Frankly, it is a great relief that the situation is not a lot worse,\" said Mr Barton, who warned that even though schools were \"working incredibly hard to manage this very difficult situation\" it was going to be a \"long, hard winter\".\n\nProblems with getting Covid tests was making it harder for schools, said Kevin Courtney, joint leader of the National Education Union.\n\n\"This is eroding trust among parents, and it will be an uphill struggle for it to be regained,\" he warned.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson welcomed that 99.9% of schools were open, but said: \"As we would expect, this data shows a small number of pupils are self-isolating in line with public health advice.\"\n\nHe said schools were working \"tremendously hard to ensure protective measures are in place to reduce the risks of transmission\" and they had \"access to timely advice and support through our helpline if they have a positive case\".", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nFans may not to be able to return to watch live sporting events in England until the end of March at the earliest.\n\nAt a meeting on Tuesday, sports governing bodies - including those from football, rugby, cricket, Formula 1 and horse racing - were told to prepare for no spectators throughout the winter.\n\nOfficials from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) told the meeting, which was attended by Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden, that the ban on fans will be kept under review.\n\nPremiership Rugby chief executive Darren Childs said: \"The announcement that supporters will not be allowed into stadiums for up to six months cuts off crucial revenue for clubs who have already suffered significant financial losses from suspending the season and playing matches behind closed doors since March.\n\n\"We believe the lack of supporters in our grounds could cause irreparable damage to our clubs and the communities they serve, so we must find a way forward to avoid this.\"\n\nRalph Rimmer, the chief executive of the Rugby Football League (RFL), added: \"Today's call specifically focused on the postponement of the pilot event programme and the plans for socially distanced crowds and the further serious impact this will now have on sports.\n\n\"The secretary of state indicated that the postponement may last throughout the winter. The impact on rugby league and other sports is profound.\"\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson outlined a range of new restrictions for the country, including confirmation that plans to allow fans to return to sport from 1 October would not go ahead.\n\nThe plans had been placed under review earlier this month after a rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nThe UK's Covid-19 alert level has moved to 4, meaning transmission is \"high or rising exponentially\".\n\nThe prime minister also said restrictions are likely to remain in place for the next six months.\n\n\"We have to acknowledge the spread of the virus is now affecting our ability to reopen large sporting events,\" said the prime minister.\n• None 'Delayed return of fans is devastating for clubs, their employees and local businesses'\n• None Premier League clubs consider alternatives after proposed return of fans scrapped\n\nIn an address to the Commons on Tuesday, Johnson announced new restrictions for the country and those included the halting of the phased return of fans.\n\n\"We will not be able to do this from 1 October and I recognise the implications for our sports clubs, which are the life and soul of our communities,\" he added.\n\n\"The chancellor and the culture secretary are working urgently on what we can do now to support them.\"\n\nThe pilot programme, which was to trial events of up to 1,000 spectators, has also been paused.\n\nTwo Premiership rugby union matches - Bath v Gloucester on Tuesday and Bristol v Leicester next week - will now be played behind closed doors, as will a horse racing meeting at Newmarket later this week.\n\nThe majority of sports in England have been played behind closed doors since the coronavirus lockdown in March, including Premier League football fixtures and the FA Cup final, England's Test cricket matches and two Formula 1 races at Silverstone.\n\nSport events that took place with full crowds in March shortly before all fixtures were postponed and the UK locked down have come under scrutiny.\n\nThe impact of Liverpool's Champions League fixture against Atletico Madrid on the spread of coronavirus is being investigated by the city's council, while there have also been calls for an investigation into whether horse racing's Cheltenham Festival should have gone ahead.\n\nThe government defended its decision to allow such events to proceed before restrictions on mass gatherings were introduced.\n\n\"People look back now at the beginning of the pandemic at some of the major sporting events then and ask the question why were they allowed to go ahead,\" said Cabinet Secretary Michael Gove on BBC Breakfast earlier on Tuesday.\n\n\"What we must do is look at sporting events now with caution but we also recognise that sport is a vital part of this nation and we're looking at everything we can do to support our athletes, our great clubs, through what will be a challenging time.\"\n\nJulian Knight, the chair of the DCMS select committee, said: \"If we don't find a route map with smart solutions to allow sports and live events to gradually reopen, we risk decimation of our sporting and cultural infrastructure.\"\n\nThe leaders of more than 100 sports bodies have written to the prime minister to ask for emergency funding, warning of \"a lost generation of activity\" because of coronavirus.\n\nSport England has handed out £200m for emergency cases, but many in the sector believe more is needed.\n\nEarlier this month, Premier League chief executive Richard Masters told BBC Sport it was \"absolutely critical\" fans were allowed back inside stadiums as soon as possible and failure to do so would cost clubs £700m during the 2020-21 season.\n\nEnglish Football League (EFL) clubs lost £50m in gate receipts last season and estimate a £200m loss if there are no fans this season.\n\nThe Rugby Football Union (RFU) said no spectators at the forthcoming Autumn Nations Cup or Six Nations will result in losses of £60m.\n\nRFL chief executive Rimmer urged the government not to delay the return of crowds, with clubs facing a potential impact on revenues of \"up to £2m per week\".\n\nAt the end of August, 2,500 people watched a friendly between Brighton and Chelsea at the Seagulls' Amex Stadium - the first time fans had been allowed into a Premier League ground for almost six months.\n\nAbout 300 spectators were allowed to watch last month's World Snooker Championship final between Ronnie O'Sullivan and Kyren Wilson at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, but original plans to admit fans for all days of the tournament were reversed.\n\nArsenal's 9-1 victory over West Ham in the Women's Super League on 12 September saw up to 1,000 fans attend.\n\nMore than 2,500 spectators bought tickets for the first day of the St Leger meeting at Doncaster on 9 September, the first crowd at a British horse racing fixture in six months - but the rest of the meeting was then held behind closed doors.\n\nAlso on Tuesday, it was confirmed that indoor recreational team sports such as netball, basketball and five-a-side football will not be able to continue under the new restrictions, which limit numbers taking part to six.\n\nLarger fitness classes will be permitted, as long as they are organised so those taking part do not mix in groups of more than six.\n\nElite indoor sports are exempt, as are indoor sports played by children.\n\nThis is grim news for British sport, which teeters on the brink of an unprecedented crisis.\n\nOn one hand, it is no surprise, given rising cases of Covid-19, tighter restrictions and the criticism the government received for allowing events like the Cheltenham Festival to continue in March and not shutting down sooner.\n\nThe optics of allowing thousands of fans to travel to grounds while encouraging people to work from home was also seen as insurmountable.\n\nBut it will infuriate sports governing bodies that insist it is much safer for fans to be in highly regulated, socially distanced, often open-air venues and stadiums than watching on the TV in pubs, for instance.\n\nThey are not aware of any data or research which proves the return of fans would increase transmission. And they point to the fact that countries like Germany are allowing thousands of fans back inside grounds.\n\nSports are now being warned to brace themselves for several months without fans and report back to DCMS officials what impact this will have on their finances.\n\nFor the EFL and rugby clubs in particular, where matchday revenue is crucial, the answer will be potentially devastating. From non-league football and Olympic sports, through to grassroots clubs and community leisure facilities, the sector fears an existential crisis which could cost thousands of jobs and result in a slump in participation.\n\nPressure will now build on the government to come up with a similar emergency fund to the £1.57bn bailout the arts sector was handed in the summer. Calls for the Premier League to help prop up the football pyramid will also intensify.\n• None Amazing recipes and food hacks that won't break the bank", "Kaloti is a major participant in global gold refining with a substantial presence in Dubai\n\nA gold refiner that was used by criminals to launder drug money has been allowed to sell gold into global supply chains used to make smartphones and cars.\n\nInternational investigators concluded that the Dubai-based trader Kaloti was buying gold from criminal networks.\n\nThe US Treasury was urged by law enforcement six years ago to warn the world that it was a \"primary money laundering concern\".\n\nBut the warning was never given.\n\nAs a result, Kaloti has continued to sell tonnes of gold to companies in the supply chains of Apple, General Motors and Amazon, which use the precious metal in components. This has put firms and millions of consumers at risk of unwittingly funding criminal activity.\n\nThe US Treasury did not respond to requests for comment.\n\nKaloti's representatives said it \"vehemently denied\" it was knowingly involved in any crime or misconduct.\n\nConfidential documents seen by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and the BBC reveal the US Treasury was urged by investigators in 2014 to issue the warning after a three-year investigation.\n\nCodenamed \"Honey Badger\" and led by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the investigation concluded that Kaloti was involved in a scheme to transport or transfer \"tremendous amounts of illicit value through the use of gold as a commodity\".\n\nUnder the scheme described in the documents, criminals anywhere in the world could use drug money or other unlawfully obtained cash to buy scrap gold such as second-hand jewellery and bring it to Kaloti.\n\nIn exchange for the gold, according to investigators, Kaloti would offer bulk cash or send a wire transfer to them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn 2014, the DEA recommended that the US Treasury should publicly designate Kaloti a \"primary money laundering concern\" under the US Patriot Act, which would have made it too risky for global banks to do business with them, freezing the group out of the global financial system.\n\nBut the US Treasury never took action against Kaloti. Former officials said it put off a decision on the recommendation, concerned about the reaction of the United Arab Emirates, a key diplomatic ally, where Kaloti was based.\n\nWhen the UAE failed to act on its own initiative, the investigation was shelved.\n\nKaloti did not have the chance to see or challenge any of the evidence as they were not questioned by investigators and there could be undisclosed reasons justifying why the report wasn't acted upon. Attempts to obtain an explanation from the US Treasury failed to draw a response.\n\nThe investigation, which the US government has never made public, was supported by a flood of reports of suspicious activity from banks across the world handling Kaloti's money.\n\nLenders including Deutsche Bank and Barclays submitted 34 separate reports about Kaloti to the US Treasury's Financial Crime Enforcement Network (FinCEN), highlighting as suspicious thousands of transactions from 2007 to 2015 totalling $9.3bn (£7.26bn).\n\nIn 2017 a money laundering gang was convicted in France of laundering the proceeds of drug sales all over Europe including the UK.\n\nLast October, BBC Panorama revealed that a company controlled by the gang, Renade International, had sold $146m (£114m) of gold to Kaloti in 2012 alone - part of $5.2bn of gold purchases paid for with cash.\n\nKaloti vehemently denies ever acting improperly and says it has never been accused or contacted by any US authority about wrongdoing.\n\nIt says it performs full due diligence on all customers and suppliers.\n\nLawyers for the firm said it had successfully passed audits each year against all regulatory and legal standards.\n\nThe DEA-led taskforce investigating Kaloti submitted a report of their investigation and recommended the primary money laundering designation in August 2014.\n\nBut after the designation didn't materialise, gold sold by Kaloti has continued to end up in major supply chains.\n\nApple's list of approved suppliers includes entities which have purchased tonnes of gold from Kaloti, including Valcambi, one of the largest gold refiners in the world, based in Switzerland.\n\nAll modern smartphones feature components made with gold, which is a highly conductive metal.\n\nThis year the anti-corruption watchdog Global Witness reported that in 2018 and 2019, Valcambi purchased up to 20 tonnes of gold directly from Kaloti and a further 60 tonnes from a related entity.\n\nA further report by the Tech Transparency Project listed two further Swiss refiners which had purchased gold from Kaloti and were also on Apple's list of suppliers.\n\nValcambi said it would not confirm or deny buying gold from Kaloti. The company said it only purchases gold from its suppliers \"where the company can fully ensure the identification of the origin of the gold\".\n\nIn a statement, Apple said it was committed to responsibly sourcing for its products: \"If a refiner is unable or unwilling to meet our standards, they will be removed from our supply chain. Since 2015, we've stopped working with 63 refiners of gold for this reason.\n\n\"Several thorough and independent reviews have been conducted since 2015, and there is no evidence that any gold from Kaloti enters Apple products.\"\n\nBlack market gold can be used to launder profits from the drug trade\n\nKaloti is listed as being in the supply chain for General Motors and Amazon, according to data submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the US regulator.\n\nGeneral Motors, which uses gold in car parts such as catalytic converters, said it was committed to responsible sourcing of goods used in its manufacturing and had not done business with Kaloti directly.\n\nIt said none of its suppliers had shared any compliance issues or concerns regarding Kaloti.\n\nAmazon said it was \"committed to ensuring that the products and services we provide are produced in a way that respects human rights and the environment. We engage with suppliers that are committed to these same principles.\n\n\"We expect suppliers to support our effort to identify the origin of designated minerals used in our products.\"\n\nInvestigators who had worked for years to expose money laundering linked to Kaloti describe themselves as \"incredibly frustrated\" by the US Treasury's handling of the matter.\n\n\"We put a tremendous amount of work and effort over three years into the case - we all lived and breathed it,\" said one of the people on the DEA-led taskforce, speaking anonymously.\n\n\"We were very confident we had more than enough for them to be designated. It pissed us all off.\"", "Barclays will tell \"hundreds\" of UK staff who had gone back to the office to return to working from home.\n\nThe bank told the BBC it was making the move following the latest guidance from the government that people should work at home when they can.\n\nAbout 1,000 Barclays employees worldwide returned to the office over the summer.\n\nFrench bank Societe Generale and insurance giant Lloyd's of London also told UK staff to work from home again.\n\nBarclays said it would not be releasing a country-specific number on those returning to work from home.\n\nThe bank had said it would carry out a \"gradual\" return to the office in October, after chief executive Jess Staley signalled that he wanted employees working from home during the pandemic to return to the office \"over time\".\n\n\"It is important to get people back together in physical concentrations,\" he told Bloomberg TV in July.\n\nHowever, not all banks take the same view. NatWest has said staff can continue to work from home until next year.\n\nOn Tuesday, Societe Generale said it was also \"adapting its position in line with UK government guidance\", without stating the number of workers in its London offices would now work from home.\n\nLloyd's of London said it had told its 800 directly employed staff to work from home but that this did not apply to the independent brokers who use its Lime Street headquarters.\n\n\"Lloyd's underwriting room is certified as a Covid-secure environment and will remain open for market participants,\" the company said.\n\nBusiness groups have reacted with dismay to the prime minister's call for people to work at home where they can.\n\nThe CBI said that it was a \"crushing\" blow that would have a \"devastating impact\".\n\nIt marks a change in policy following a government advertising campaign to get people back to work where safe.\n\nCampaign group London First said it would discourage people from returning to workplaces and risk \"derailing an already fragile recovery\".\n\nCBI director-general Carolyn Fairbairn told the BBC: \"We know we need to avoid a second national lockdown at all if we possibly can, but I have to say these are crushing blows.\n\n\"The impact on people who are coming back into their offices, the impact on city centres, so dependent on the bustle of city life, our creative industries - this will have a devastating impact on people and businesses.\n\n\"And I think that the answer for business, and what I'm hearing in my conversations this morning, is make it a short, sharp shock if it has to happen.\"\n\nPublic transport is still a worry for many people\n\nAppearing on the Emma Barnett Show on Radio 5 live, she said she was speaking to the programme from her office and that \"about 15%\" of her people were in.\n\n\"They're excited about coming back, we need to plan to bring more people back. It's good for morale, it's good for learning, it's good for creativity and so many businesses are feeling that, so this is a backward move that won't be welcomed, and let's make it as short as it needs to be.\"\n\n\"The new restrictions must be regularly reviewed to minimise the damage to the economy while safeguarding the health of the nation in the round - not just physical health, but mental health and our economic health, said London First chief executive Jasmine Whitbread.\n\nShe also called for the government to extend business rates relief and to introduce a \"targeted\" version of the furlough scheme, which is due to end on 31 October.\n\nAs well as the change in stance on working from home, Boris Johnson also confirmed that pubs and restaurants in England will have to close at 22:00 from Thursday to stop the spread of the coronavirus. He warned that the new measures could last up to six months.\n\nMs Whitbread said: \"A targeted version of the furlough scheme would help those hardest hit in leisure, retail and hospitality.\"\n\nRoger Barker, director of policy at the Institute of Directors, said the spread of coronavirus was not wholly predictable, but the \"back and forth\" on office working would cause \"frustration\".\n\nHe added: \"Business leaders are eager for the government to focus on the foundations, issues like childcare, public transport, and getting the testing system firing on all cylinders.\"", "Amazon has since taken down the hats from sale and said sellers must follow their guidelines\n\nA barrister has criticised Amazon for selling hats with the slogan \"Black Lives Don't Matter\", marketed as being elegant and a \"nice present\".\n\nAlexandra Wilson, from Essex, said it was \"honestly embarrassing\" the company was selling the caps and questioned whether it had any checks in place.\n\nAmazon has since removed the hats, which were being sold by a third party.\n\nLast week the retailer faced criticism for selling T-shirts with the slogan \"Let's Make Down Syndrome Extinct\".\n\nMs Wilson, 25, who has previously been the subject of racist abuse, said it was \"really disappointing\" it took some time for the hats to be taken down.\n\nShe said she wanted to make sure the item was never sold again.\n\nAlexandra Wilson, who specialises in family and criminal law, reported the item to Amazon\n\n\"Multiple people reported it and racist material should be removed immediately,\" she said.\n\n\"Websites like Amazon definitely need to have better checks in place for both their descriptions and photos because this isn't the first time something like this has happened.\"\n\nThe hat, which cost £12.96, was described by the seller as \"high quality\" with a \"unique and fashionable\" design which was \"eye catching\". It said the hat's \"elegant\" appearance made it a \"nice present\" for family and friends.\n\nIn a statement, Amazon said: \"All sellers must follow our selling guidelines and those who do not will be subject to action including potential removal of their account. The product in question is no longer available.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Ministers have ruled out changes to make it easier for transgender people in England and Wales to have their gender legally recognised.\n\nThey have rejected calls for people to be able to self-identify their gender and change their birth certificates without a medical diagnosis.\n\nMinisters said reform of the 2004 Gender Recognition Act was not the \"top priority\" for trans people.\n\nThe UK's equalities watchdog said it was a \"missed opportunity\".\n\nBut women's rights groups applauded the decision as a \"victory for fairness and common sense\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the GRA and has anything actually changed?\n\nMinisters are pledging action to make it easier for trans people to obtain a Gender Recognition Certificate and to improve healthcare services for them.\n\nBut LGBT groups had urged them to go much further, by making it easier for people to legally transition from their birth sex and to provide greater protection under the law.\n\nCurrently, the Gender Recognition Act requires trans people to go through a long process in order to change their birth certificates.\n\nA \"self-ID\" process, allowing changes to birth certificates without a medical diagnosis, was one of the ideas put forward in a consultation undertaken by the last Conservative government, led by Theresa May.\n\nOf the 102,818 responses received, 64% said there should not be a requirement for a diagnosis of gender dysphoria in the future, on the grounds that being trans was neither a medical nor a mental health issue.\n\nBut, in a statement, Equalities Minister Liz Truss said she believed the law as it stood provided the right \"checks and balances\".\n\n\"We want transgender people to be free to live and to prosper in a modern Britain,\" she said.\n\n\"It is the government's view that the balance struck in this legislation is correct, in that there are proper checks and balances in the system and also support for people who want to change their legal sex.\n\n\"We have also come to understand that gender recognition reform, though supported in the consultation undertaken by the last government, is not the top priority for transgender people.\"\n\nIt's now nearly three years since Theresa May talked about \"de-medicalising\" the gender recognition process.\n\nAnd it raised hopes, in some quarters, that fundamental reforms were on the way.\n\nElsewhere, it raised fears that women's rights were set to be eroded.\n\nAnd as that debate raged, ministers seemed to retreat from the scene, unwilling or unsure about how to publicly deal with this political 'hot potato'.\n\nAnd although an official response remained missing in action, it did increasingly become clear that Boris Johnson's administration was unlikely to back what's known as self-ID.\n\nNow, finally, ministers have made up their mind.\n\nIt's a no to changing the law - albeit a yes to cutting the costs of the process.\n\nAnd there are promises to try and address some very real concerns about healthcare.\n\nWhile that move will be welcomed by many, such measures may also be perceived as a way of trying to sweeten the pill for those who are disappointed about the lack of legal reform.\n\nAfter the drawn out delays in Whitehall - and divisive debates in some communities - it's very doubtful that this government will seek to delve into the self-ID debate again any time soon.\n\nMs Truss said the 2010 Equality Act, landmark legislation passed towards the end of the last Labour government, \"clearly protects\" transgender people from discrimination while allowing service providers to restrict access to single sex spaces on the basis of biological sex if there is a clear justification.\n\nThe government is pledging to cut the time involved in applying for a Gender Recognition Certificate, making the process \"kinder and more straightforward\", as well as reducing the £140 cost to a \"nominal\" amount.\n\nAnd it is also promising to cut waiting times at NHS gender clinics.\n\nThe Equalities and Human Rights Commission welcomed the steps but said it regretted the fact that ministers had passed up an opportunity to \"simplify the law\".\n\n\"There is more to be done to increase understanding in wider society and address the divisive public dialogue in this space,\" a spokesman said.\n\nStonewall, which campaigns for equality for lesbian, bisexual, gay and trans people, said the \"minimal administrative\" changes being proposed were totally inadequate.\n\n\"While these moves will make the current process less costly and bureaucratic, they don't go anywhere near far enough toward meaningfully reforming the Act to make it easier for all trans people to go about their daily life,\" said the organisation's chief executive Nancy Kelley.\n\nAnd, in a joint statement, Amnesty International UK, Liberty and Human Rights Watch said it was a \"missed opportunity\" to ensure the law kept pace with \"human rights standards\".\n\n\"Research has found that medical barriers to gender recognition for trans people are unnecessarily intrusive and can harm their physical and mental health,\" the three organisations said.\n\n\"With medical requirements still in place, trans people will continue to be forced through harmful processes to have their gender legally recognised.\"\n\nBut Fair Play for Women, a group committed to defending the sex-based rights of women, said Ms Truss had made the right decision.\n\nIt said the government had \"acknowledged women are stakeholders too and policies must fairly balance the conflicting rights of trans people and women\".\n\n\"Trans people in the UK have some of the strongest legal protections in the world. That does not change today.\"\n\nIn Scotland, plans that would have allowed trans people to self-identify have been put on hold following criticism from across the political spectrum, including from within the SNP.\n\nA draft bill published by the Scottish government in December would have removed the requirement for people to provide medical evidence of their diagnosis of gender dysphoria.\n\nNo change is now expected before next year's Holyrood elections although Scottish minsters say they remain \"committed\" to updating the law so people can get a gender recognition certificate without \"unnecessary stress\".", "Six people were treated for injuries following the crash on Monday morning\n\nA man has died and an 11-year-old boy is in a life-threatening condition after a lorry crashed into a house in south-east London.\n\nEmergency services were called to Broad Walk, Kidbrooke, at 08:05 BST, where six people had been injured in the crash.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade (LFB) said the 29-year-old lorry driver was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nTwo other men were taken to hospital, London Ambulance Service (LAS) added.\n\nLFB said the crash had also caused structural damage to a house in Woolacombe Road.\n\nStation commander Nathan Hobson said: \"It was a challenging incident and it appears that a lorry collided with two cars and crashed into a house.\n\n\"Specialist urban search and rescue crews attended the scene and efforts were made to free the lorry driver but sadly he was pronounced dead at the scene.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA neighbour, who wished to remain anonymous, said the scene was \"utterly tragic\" after the lorry crashed just 30 metres from his home.\n\nHe added: \"I was preparing for the school run, all [of a] sudden police, ambulance siren, helicopter sound went on.\n\n\"Local traffic was controlled by police, then I heard people are talking about a lorry crashed into a house... then someone was sent off [in an] air ambulance.\n\n\"It's utterly tragic - my thoughts are with their loved ones.\"\n\nAnother neighbour, who also asked not to be named, described the crash as \"sounding like an earthquake\".\n\nGreenwich Council said it was not aware any of its vehicles or employees were involved in the crash\n\nLAS said six patients were treated for injuries at the scene.\n\nA spokesman added: \"Unfortunately, one patient was found to have died at the scene.\n\n\"Of the remaining five patients, we took three to hospital and two were discharged at the scene.\"\n\nOne patient was flown to a major trauma centre in London\n\nIt is understood one of the patients was flown by air ambulance to a major trauma centre in London.\n\nThe Met Police said the two men who were taken to hospital had been told their injuries were neither life-threatening nor life-changing.\n\nOfficers are still trying to find the driver's next of kin and a post-mortem examination will take place in due course.\n\nDet Con Neil Webb said the Met was appealing for dash-cam or home CCTV footage to help understand more about the crash.\n\n\"This is a traumatic incident and my thoughts are with those involved and their loved ones,\" he added.\n\nRoyal Borough of Greenwich Council said it was aware of the crash, but had been told \"no council vehicles or employees were involved\".\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Children are included in the new limits for social gatherings in England\n\nThe \"rule of six\", the latest limits on social gatherings in England, will not be changed to exempt children under 12, Michael Gove has insisted.\n\nThe new rules, which limit six people to meeting indoors and outdoors, come into effect on Monday.\n\nSimilar rules in Wales and Scotland do not include children under 11 and 12 respectively. But Mr Gove said the England rules were \"absolutely right\".\n\nIt comes as one scientist warned UK could lose control of the virus.\n\n\"One would have to say that we're on the edge of losing control,\" Prof Sir Mark Walport, a member of the government's Sage scientific advisory group told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"You've only got to look across the Channel to see what is happening in France and what's happening in Spain.\"\n\nProf Walport said it was very important that children go to school and students return to university - but social interactions would have to be limited in other areas.\n\n\"The only way to stop the spread of this infection is to reduce the number of people we all come into contact with,\" he added.\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove said the rule of six was \"well-understood\" as a public health message and had the public's support.\n\n\"As ever, the important thing is balance - eating out, seeing friends - that is fine, provided we do so in a way that is socially responsible, that's what the rule of six is about.\"\n\nHe said some people had \"unwittingly\" contributed to the spread of the virus because of the way they had interacted, adding: \"So therefore, a clear message - as simple as possible - makes it easier for all of us to do what is helpful to others.\"\n\nSpeaking on Radio 4, he added that there needed to be \"a degree of self-discipline and restriction\" in order to deal with the challenges posed by the rising number of coronavirus cases across England - and the escalating R number, which measures the rate at which the virus is transmitted.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast. he urged the public to behave in \"a responsible fashion\" amid fears people might treat it as a \"party weekend\", ahead of the new restrictions coming into effect next week.\n\n\"These rules and regulations are there for our protection, but also for the protection of the most vulnerable in society\", citing the elderly or those with underlying health conditions \"who face far grimmer consequences\" if they contract Covid-19.\n\n\"The onus is on all of us to do everything we can to make sure we abide by those rules.\n\n\"Then we can ensure, in due course, that these restrictions can be relaxed - and my hope, like so many, is that we can have a proper Christmas.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the R number and what does it mean?\n\nIn the immediate future, Mr Gove agreed fines could be necessary to enforce regulations. It follows a story in the Times, which says the government is looking at introducing fines for people who refuse to self-isolate when required.\n\n\"I don't want to see fines being levied, but even more I do not want to see people behaving in a way that puts the most vulnerable at risk,\" Mr Gove told Radio 4.\n\nAsked about Prof Walport's statement that the UK was \"losing control\", Mr Gove said it was \"a warning to us all\".\n\n\"There's a range of scientific opinion, but one thing on which practically every scientist is agreed is that we have seen an uptick in infection and therefore it is appropriate we take public health measures.\"\n\nThere are fears people will treat this weekend as a \"party weekend\" ahead of the new restrictions\n\nSage found that only about 20% of people who have symptoms or live in a household where someone else has symptoms adhere to self-isolation requirements.\n\n\"Sometimes there's an argument that's depicted, as though this is pernicious of the liberty of freedom-loving people - well there are restrictions, and I love freedom, but the one thing I think is even more important is that you exercise freedom with responsibility,\" said Mr Gove.\n\nSome Conservative backbenchers have protested about enhanced regulations, such as the rule of six, and pressed the government to follow Wales and Scotland in exempting young children.\n\nOn Friday, ex-minister Steve Baker said the latest government action amounted to \"arbitrary powers without scrutiny\" and MP Desmond Swayne said it was \"outrageous\" not to have a Parliamentary debate.\n\n\"This is not a fit legal environment for the British people,\" Mr Baker told the BBC.\n\n\"It's time to move to a voluntary system, unless the government can demonstrate otherwise and it is time for us to start living like a free people.\"\n\nSenior Conservative backbenchers are reported to be lobbying Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle to make sure that legislation is being reviewed every month, not every six months.\n\nWhat do you think about the decision to include children under 12 in the \"rule of six\" in England? How does it affect you? Tell us about your experience by emailinghaveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nOr use this form to get in touch:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website or contacts us via email at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, location and a contact number with any email.", "Addiction services in England could struggle to cope with \"soaring\" numbers of people misusing alcohol, the Royal College of Psychiatrists is warning.\n\nMany adults are drinking more since the coronavirus pandemic began, data shows.\n\nThe college estimates that in June, more than 8.4m people in England were drinking at higher-risk levels, up from 4.8m in February.\n\nIt says deep cuts made to addiction services could mean patients will miss out on life-saving care.\n\nThe rise in risky drinking comes at a time when more people addicted to opiates are seeking help from addiction services, says the college, referring to National Drug Treatment Monitoring System statistics showing 3,459 new adult cases in April - up 20% from 2,947 in the same month the previous year.\n\nGuidelines advise people drink no more than 14 units of alcohol (equivalent to six large glasses of wine or six pints of beer) a week, spreading consumption over three days or more.\n\nDrinking too much can damage your liver and increases the risk of other health conditions such as heart disease and stroke.\n\nPeople with alcohol use disorder are more likely to develop serious complications if they catch Covid-19.\n\nThe college is asking the government to invest millions more in addiction services.\n\nProf Julia Sinclair, chair of the college's addictions faculty, said: \"Covid-19 has shown just how stretched, under-resourced and ill-equipped addiction services are to treat the growing numbers of vulnerable people living with this complex illness.\n\n\"There are now only five NHS inpatient units in the country, and no resource anywhere in my region to admit people who are alcohol dependent with co-existing mental illness.\n\n\"Drug-related deaths and alcohol-related hospital admissions were already at all-time highs before Covid-19. I fear that unless the government acts quickly we will see these numbers rise exponentially.\"\n\nLaura Bunt from the drug, alcohol and mental health charity We Are With You said: \"Social isolation and a lack of a human connection is a big factor behind why some people turn to alcohol as a coping mechanism, so clearly the pandemic continues to be really tough for many people.\n\n\"When you consider that the UK had some of the highest levels of alcohol-related harms in Europe even before the lockdown in March, the need for government action now is clear.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"We have increased their funding this year, providing over £3.2 billion to spend on public health services like addiction.\n\n\"We support evidence-based approaches to reduce the health-related harms of drug misuse and, as part of our NHS Long Term Plan, alcohol care teams will be introduced in hospitals where alcohol-related admissions are high, intervening in 50,000 cases over five years to reduce harm.\"\n\nIf you are concerned about addiction, BBC Action Line has help and support.", "German carmaker Daimler, which owns Mercedes-Benz, has agreed to pay $1.5bn (£1.2bn) to resolve US government claims that it designed its diesel vehicles to cheat air pollution tests.\n\nThe firm was investigated for installing software to evade emissions laws in 250,000 Mercedes cars and vans.\n\nUS officials said they hoped the fine would deter future misbehaviour.\n\nDaimler called the deal an \"important step\" towards resolving diesel proceedings but denied the claims.\n\n\"By resolving these proceedings, Daimler avoids lengthy court actions with respective legal and financial risks,\" the company said.\n\nIn addition to the $1.5bn settlement with US authorities, Daimler said it had agreed to pay $700m to settle a class action lawsuit brought by owners.\n\nIt also disclosed \"further expenses of a mid three-digit-million EUR amount to fulfil requirements of the settlements.\"\n\nThe deals, which Daimler had said it was nearing last month, conclude an investigation that the US started in 2016, after \"defeat devices\" were discovered through testing.\n\nOfficials said that an $875m fine included in the $1.5bn settlement with authorities is the second-largest civil penalty the US has ever imposed under its Clear Air Act and the largest if measured on a per-vehicle basis.\n\nDaimler has also agreed to fix the affected cars, which were sold between 2009 and 2016, at no cost to their owners. US officials said that commitment was worth about $400m.\n\nAt a press conference on Monday, Andrew Wheeler, the head of the US Environmental Protection Agency, said: \"The message we are sending today is clear: We will enforce the law.\n\n\"If you try to cheat the system and mislead the public, you will be caught. Those who violate public trust in pursuit of profits will forfeit both.\"\n\nThe penalties are the latest in a wide-ranging scandal that has cast a cloud over the motor industry since 2015, when Volkswagen admitted to installing secret software on vehicles sold in the US.\n\nThe system allowed the cars to emit up to 40 times legally permitted emissions and evade detection during tests.\n\nVolkswagen later admitted the devices affected more than 11 million vehicles globally. The company more than $20bn to resolve claims in the US alone.\n\nBut investigations soon widened to other companies, including Ford, Mitsubishi, and Nissan.\n\nIn 2018, Daimler recalled more than 700,000 vehicles in Europe that had \"defeat devices\" installed. BMW and Porsche have also recalled cars over the issue.\n\nFiat Chrysler in Europe were raided this summer over the matter. The firm agreed to an estimated $800m settlement to resolve civil claims in the US in January.\n\nDaimler said the US settlement concerned vehicles that were not sold in the same configurations in Europe.", "JD Wetherspoon has said that 66 of its workers have tested positive for the coronavirus but maintains that visiting pubs is safe.\n\nThe company, which employs more than 41,000 people, said the vast majority of its pubs had recorded no positive tests for the virus.\n\nThere had been one or more cases among staff at 50 of its pubs.\n\nWetherspoon's boss Tim Martin dismissed claims by disease expert Professor Hugh Pennington that pubs are \"dangerous\".\n\nHe said: \"The situation with regard to pubs has been widely misunderstood.\"\n\nAberdeen University's Prof Pennington said last month that pubs are \"far, far more dangerous places to be\" when discussing sending children back to school during the pandemic.\n\nSince reopening on 4 July, the company said some 32 million people have visited its 861 open pubs.\n\nForty of its pubs have reported one worker testing positive for the coronavirus and six have disclosed two.\n\nIn addition, two pubs reported three staff testing positive and another two said four workers had.\n\nA spokesman for Wetherspoon said the pubs have not been closed for a deep clean.\n\nThe company said it has invested £15m in hygiene and social distancing measures at its premises.\n\nThe spokesman said: \"The advice Wetherspoon has received from the public health authorities is that employees should self-isolate if they come into close contact with someone who has tested positive. Close contact means within 2 metres for 15 minutes or more or 1 metre for 1 minute or more.\n\n\"Unless social distancing policies have not been observed, the health authorities, in our experience, do not normally advise closure.\"\n\nHe added that since the company's pubs reopened: \"Staff are conducting regular surface cleaning and numerous hand sanitisers have been installed in each pub.\"\n\nHe said each premises is cleaned throughout trading and at the end of the day.\n\nWetherspoon said 28 of the affected employees had returned to work. A spokesman for the company said the workers, as well as those who worked in close proximity to them, self-isolated for 14 days and were paid in full.\n\nThe chain said signing up to the NHS track-and-trace system was mandatory in its premises.\n\nThe company's spokesman said there was no list of the pubs that had been affected. \"Whenever there has been a situation we have dealt with the local press, public health and the council,\" he said.\n\nMr Martin argued that pubs and shops were safer than homes.\n\n\"It is much easier to inadvertently pass on the virus in someone's house, where people are more relaxed and less vigilant,\" he said.\n\nFrom Monday, social gatherings of more than six people have been banned both indoors and outdoors in England and Scotland and indoors only in Wales.\n\nIt follows a rise in new coronavirus cases, with a further 3,330 positive cases recorded in the UK on Sunday.\n\nMr Martin said there had not been a rush of people coming to its pubs before the so-called \"rule of six\" was introduced and trade was 22.5% below the equivalent Saturday last year.\n\nHe added: \"If pubs are closed, or restricted so much that they become unprofitable, a great deal of the strenuous effort of the hospitality industry's 3.2 million employees, currently engaged on upholding hygiene and social distancing standards, will be lost.\"", "The A83 at the Rest and Be Thankful has been hit by another landslide\n\nA trunk road through Argyll has been closed by a \"significant landslide\" for the second time in six weeks.\n\nThe A83 at the Rest and Be Thankful was covered in earth and debris as 75mm (3in) of rain fell in 24 hours.\n\nRoad operator Bear Scotland said the A83 and the nearby old military road would remain closed on Sunday night.\n\nIt added that the landslide had continued through the day and engineers were unable to conclude safety assessments.\n\nThe route only reopened on Monday following a 10,000 tonne landslide at the beginning of August.\n\nAbout 1,000 tonne of debris is thought to have moved down the hillside on Sunday morning, according to Bear Scotland.\n\nThe roads firm said it happened at the same place as the earlier landslide.\n\nMuch of it was \"caught\" in temporary mitigation measures including a pit and a rockfall barrier.\n\nEddie Ross, the road operator's north west representative, said: \"This is another major landslide event and the on-going nature of it and the continued heavy rain has meant we are unable to conclude a full safety assessment.\"\n\nHe said the roads have been closed because a \"safety-first approach\" was required.\n\nThe closures mean motorists will have to follow a 59-mile (95km) diversion.\n\nA Met Office yellow warning for rain is in place across parts of the west of Scotland until midnight on Sunday.\n\nThe Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) said 75mm (3in) of rain fell in 24 hours at the Rest and Be Thankful over the weekend.\n\nThere were similar levels of rainfall across the country and a series of flood warnings and alerts were in place.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows the extent of a landslip at the A83 Rest and Be Thankful\n\nSepa duty flood manager Mark Franklin said Scotland had been \"battered\" by another weekend of wet weather and there had been flooding in the west, central, north of and south of Scotland.\n\n\"Whilst Sunday sees an improving picture for central and southern Scotland, we'll see continued heavy rainfall across the day for the north west,\" he added.\n\n\"This is likely to result in further localised flooding of land and roads, as well as some transport disruption before improving on Monday.\n\n\"People living, working and travelling in these areas are advised to ensure they have signed up to Floodline and are prepared to take action to protect property.\"", "Alison Keen and her husband have four children so are already a group of six\n\nIndoor and outdoor social gatherings of more than six people will be banned in England from Monday as coronavirus restrictions are tightened. Although larger households are able to gather within their bubbles, some can no longer meet up with friends and family.\n\nBefore the pandemic hit, Alison Keen had planned a big party for her 40th birthday on 21 September. When lockdown happened, she postponed it until 2021 and instead had hoped for a family gathering. But now that too cannot go ahead.\n\nShe and her husband have four children, meaning the new \"rule of six\" applies solely to their family.\n\n\"I can't meet up with anyone just because I've got kids,\" said Mrs Keen, from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire.\n\n\"Mum's upset that she can't see me on my birthday and really annoyed that she could have come to see the kids last week, but not next week.\"\n\nMrs Keen said allowing her children, between six and 11, to go back to school but not have family gatherings \"seems daft\".\n\nThe family had thought her parents, who live in Birmingham, would be able to see Mrs Keen's two sisters, who both have fewer children. But from Tuesday additional restrictions in Birmingham will prevent this.\n\nMrs Keen's four children have all recently returned to school\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced the new rules \"to avoid a second national lockdown\" as the rate of infection climbs across the country.\n\nIt applies both indoors and outdoors and to all ages - although there are some exemptions, such as gatherings for work or school.\n\nThe new rules will be enforced by police who will have powers to issue fines and make arrests.\n\n\"I get they're trying to simplify the rules, but that's not how viruses work,\" said Mrs Keen.\n\n\"At the end of the day it's a new virus and as you learn, policies have to evolve. But it feels awful.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister said the new measures were \"not another national lockdown\"\n\nDee Jones, a mum of six from Telford, in Shropshire, said the new restrictions means she won't be able to see all of her children, five of whom have moved out and married.\n\nShe works two jobs and so only has one weekend off each month - the family would normally use that weekend to get together for a big meal.\n\n\"We can't do that now, unless my son-in-law sits out in the garden and eats his dinner there.\"\n\nThe \"rule of six\" will make it almost impossible to arrange seeing her family and already they are having to do so \"almost on a rota\".\n\nShe said a turkey, bought for the family's Easter meal, had been \"stuck in the freezer all throughout lockdown - if I didn't laugh about it I would have cried\", adding she was finding the restrictions \"quite depressing\".\n\n\"Honestly, it's ridiculous. I'm frustrated. We've done what we've been advised and there are clearly people out there who haven't.\"\n\nStephanie Raheel, from Yardley in Birmingham, has three children, Alina, Amaya and Arissa.\n\nHer husband's parents are at the heart of their family and they would usually meet them regularly with extended family members.\n\nTo go back to stricter measures will be hard, she said, \"especially for the children - it's hard for them to understand\".\n\nMrs Raheel's children, aged between three and six, have returned to school and nursery but she worries the restrictions will mean the older people in her family will miss out on special moments with her young daughters.\n\n\"Within our family we've had two babies born in lockdown,\" she said. \"The key moments, you want to celebrate with your loved ones.\n\n\"The grandparents too, they love to see the little ones.\"\n\nBirmingham has the second highest rate of infections in England - 85.4 per 100,000 people\n\nMrs Raheel said her mother-in-law is due to have an eye operation next week, something her husband and his six brothers are keen to support her with.\n\n\"We'll all just want to go and see her and check she's OK - when people are in need, it's difficult.\"\n\nShe is not sure how the family will be able to keep checking in on loved ones without breaking the new restrictions, but thinks they will just have to take it in turns to visit.\n\n\"Everyone is just a little bit puzzled about why it is six people, and they're not shutting restaurants and pubs - it just doesn't make any sense.\n\n\"There are so many different things you're allowed to do and not allowed to do, we just have to accept that's the way it is.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "A big chunk of ice has broken away from the Arctic's largest remaining ice shelf - 79N, or Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden - in north-east Greenland.\n\nThe ejected section covers about 110 square km; satellite imagery shows it to have shattered into many small pieces.\n\nThe loss is further evidence say scientists of the rapid climate changes taking place in Greenland.\n\n\"The atmosphere in this region has warmed by about 3C since 1980,\" said Dr Jenny Turton.\n\n\"And in 2019 and 2020, it saw record summer temperatures,\" the polar researcher at Friedrich-Alexander University in Germany told BBC News.\n\nNioghalvfjerdsfjorden is roughly 80km long by 20km wide and is the floating front end of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream - where it flows off the land into the ocean to become buoyant.\n\nAt its leading edge, the 79N glacier splits in two, with a minor offshoot turning directly north. It's this offshoot, or tributary, called Spalte Glacier, that has now disintegrated.\n\nThe ice is being attacked from above and below\n\nThe ice feature was already heavily fractured in 2019; this summer's warmth has been its final undoing. Spalte Glacier has become a flotilla of icebergs.\n\nLook closely at the satellite pictures and the higher air temperatures recorded in the region are obvious from the large number of melt ponds that sit on top of the shelf ice.\n\nThe presence of such liquid water is often problematic for ice platforms. If it fills crevasses, it can help to open them up. The water will push down on the fissures, driving them through to the base of the shelf in a process known as hydrofracturing. This will weaken an ice shelf.\n\nOceanographers have also documented warmer sea temperatures which mean the shelf ice is almost certainly being melted from beneath as well.\n\n\"79N became 'the largest remaining Arctic ice shelf' only fairly recently, after the Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland lost a lot of area in 2010 and 2012,\" explained Prof Jason Box from the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS).\n\n\"What makes 79N so important is the way it's attached to the interior ice sheet, and that means that one day - if the climate warms as we expect - this region will probably become one of the major centres of action for the deglaciation of Greenland.\"\n\nThe trunk of N79 is covered in melt ponds and streams\n\nThe Northeast Greenland Ice Stream drains about 15% of the interior ice sheet. The stream funnels its ice either down N79 or the glacial member just to the south, Zachariae Isstrom. Zachariae has already lost most of its floating ice shelf area.\n\nProf Box said N79 could resist longer because it was penned in right at its forward end by some islands. This lends a degree of stability. But, he added, the shelf continues to thin, albeit mostly further back along the trunk.\n\n\"This will likely lead to N79 disintegrating from the middle, which is kind of unique. I guess, though, that won't happen for another 10 or 20 years. Who knows?\" he told BBC News.\n\nJuly witnessed another large ice shelf structure in the Arctic lose significant area. This was Milne Ice Shelf on the northern margin of Canada's Ellesmere Island.\n\nEighty sq km broke free from Milne, leaving a still secure segment just 106 sq km in size. Milne was the largest intact remnant from a wider shelf feature that covered 8,600 sq km at the start of the 20th Century.\n\nThe fast pace of melting in Greenland was underlined in a study last month that analysed data from the US-German Grace-FO satellites. These spacecraft are able to track changes in ice mass by sensing shifts in the pull of local gravity. They essentially weigh the ice sheet.\n\nThe Grace mission found 2019 to have been a record-breaking year, with the ice sheet shedding some 530 billion tonnes. That's enough meltwater running off the land into the ocean to raise global sea-levels by 1.5mm.", "The US is embroiled in a debate over racism in the police\n\nPolice in the US state of Georgia say a sheriff's deputy has been fired after video emerged showing him pinning a black man to the floor and punching him in the face.\n\nRoderick Walker, 26, was a passenger in a car that was pulled over by deputies for an alleged broken rear light.\n\nAfter an altercation, police tried to arrest him.\n\nVideo shared on social media showed Mr Walker being held down by two white deputies, one of whom punches him.\n\nIn a statement, Clayton County Sheriff's Office said \"the deputy who repeatedly struck Roderick Walker\" was to lose his job \"for excessive use of force\".\n\nA criminal investigation has been turned over to the district attorney's office, the statement added.\n\nThe incident, which happened on Friday near the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, comes amid heightened tensions in the US over racism and police brutality.\n\nMr Walker's lawyer, Shean Williams, said his client had been a passenger in the lift-share car with his girlfriend, their five-month-old child and his stepson when police pulled them over.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Shomari Stone This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Walker became upset when he was asked for his identification as he hadn't been driving the car, Mr Williams said in a statement quoted by ABC News.\n\n\"He informed them that he did not have any ID and that he didn't need any since he was not driving a vehicle,\" he said.\n\n\"When they didn't like his question, they then demanded that he get out of a vehicle that he wasn't driving. It escalates to him being beaten on the ground, being tased, and almost dying. And they take him to jail.\"\n\nIn footage of the arrest, a child in the car yells \"Daddy\" and Mr Walker's girlfriend screams. One of the deputies says Mr Walker bit him.\n\nMr Williams said that his client lost consciousness at least twice during the arrest and denied biting the deputy.\n\nA photograph of Mr Walker taken later in custody shows him with a swollen left eye.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Kristen Clarke This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"My reaction to the video is that it just shows, unfortunately, another incident where an African American male's civil rights have been violated by people and officers and law enforcement who have the duty first to protect and serve,\" Mr Williams said.\n\nMr Walker is charged with two counts of obstructing officers and two counts of battery, ABC News reported.\n\nHis family and his lawyers are pressing to have him released from jail.\n\nIn recent months the US has been grappling with the treatment of African-Americans at the hands of the police, as well as wider questions about racism in society.\n\nDebates were triggered by the death in police custody in Minneapolis of another black man, George Floyd, in May.\n\nHis death sparked protests around the country, and abroad, and has ignited calls for police reform in the US.\n\nMore recently, the shooting of Jacob Blake, 29, in Wisconsin led to further violent protests.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nFrank Lampard says his expensively reshaped Chelsea side \"have to have intentions to be up there\" with champions Liverpool after they began their campaign with victory at Brighton.\n\nChelsea finished 33 points adrift of the Reds last season and lost both league fixtures against them but have spent around £200m this summer.\n\nTimo Werner - signed from RB Leipzig - and his Germany team-mate Kai Havertz - brought in from Bayer Leverkusen - made their debuts for a side forced to work hard for their win in Monday's game at Brighton.\n\nWerner was pacy and prominent in the victory, winning a 23rd-minute penalty when he was hauled down by Brighton keeper Mat Ryan, Jorginho scoring the resulting spot-kick.\n\nThe new signing had ice strapped to his leg at full-time following the collision to win the penalty but said he would be fit to face Liverpool in Sunday's game at Stamford Bridge.\n\nBrighton lost summer signing Adam Lallana to injury before the break but were back on level terms after 54 minutes when Leandro Trossard's 20-yard shot squirmed past Chelsea keeper Kepa Arrizabalaga.\n\nChelsea regained their lead two minutes later when Reece James ripped a 25-yard right-foot shot high past Ryan.\n\nBrighton should have equalised when Lewis Dunk somehow headed wide at the far post, paying the price for the miss when Kurt Zouma's shot was deflected past Ryan by Adam Webster.\n\n\"We definitely want to close that gap to Liverpool - we have to have intentions to be up there even though it is a big ask to win [the title],\" said Lampard, who has also signed midfielder Hakim Ziyech and defenders Xavier Mbuyamba, Malang Sarr, Ben Chilwell and Thiago Silva this summer.\n\n\"We are behind, it's step by step. Hopefully we can make big strides.\"\n• None How you rated the players\n\nRusty Chelsea will take the points\n\nLampard will be delighted to leave Brighton win three points after what was a mixed performance, perhaps understandable for the first Premier League outing of the season.\n\nLampard got what he wanted, apart from a debut goal, from Werner as he was a constant menace, always on the move and looking to use his speed to get behind the Brighton defence. He had no trouble adjusting to the tempo of the Premier League and there seems little doubt goals will come.\n\nHavertz was a more low-key presence on the right side of midfield in front of James but he worked hard in his 79 minutes and drew warm applause from Lampard for one lengthy recovery run back into his own penalty area to clear danger.\n\nChelsea were without injured left-back Chilwell, signed for £50m from Leicester City, and Silva as he has only just joined training and Lampard will be keen to get that influential duo into a defence that still looks vulnerable.\n\nTariq Lamptey's crosses caused trouble all night and Chelsea were grateful for that headed miss by Dunk at the far post when it looked easier to score.\n\nAnd once again there were questions over keeper Kepa, who got close to Trossard's shot but allowed it to creep in.\n\nIt seems his time is running out as Chelsea's first-choice goalkeeper, with the £20m signing of Rennes' Edouard Mendy apparently imminent.\n\nBrighton can take some satisfaction through the pain of a defeat that will leave manager Graham Potter bitterly frustrated.\n\nThe Seagulls acquitted themselves very well and had the game's outstanding performer in former Chelsea right-back Lamptey, who was industrious and creative in a top-class display.\n\nAnd the momentum appeared to be with Brighton when Trossard scored a deserved equaliser - only for them to concede a second within two minutes from James' thunderous finish.\n\nBrighton then wasted the best chance of the game when Dunk headed wide and were unable to recover as Chelsea re-established a two-goal lead.\n\nThis was, however, a very respectable performance. On the down side, Potter is facing the issue he must have feared when he signed Lallana from Liverpool.\n\nLallana is a great asset when fit - but therein lies the problem. He did not last the first half and has now failed to play 90 minutes in the Premier League since he faced Middlesbrough for Liverpool in May 2017.\n\n'We'll get better and better' - what they said\n\nBrighton manager Graham Potter to BBC Sport: \"The performance was good in many aspects; we more than matched Chelsea for long periods. I'm disappointed with the opening goal, but errors can happen. We were heavily punished with a wonder strike - and ultimately, if you concede three times it's hard to win football matches.\n\n\"You have moments against the big teams that you need to have go your way and we need to learn from that. But there are positives. Adam Lallana was enjoying the game, he brings that personality, we are pleased with what he has brought to us and we just have to help him get on the field more often.\"\n\nChelsea manager Frank Lampard to BBC Sport: \"To come to Brighton and win is a tough ask. We've only had a few days, so I didn't expect the kind of football we want to play. We had to do some of the more difficult things - resilience, throwing yourself in front of the ball, so I'm pleased.\n\n\"We've had a lot of quarantines, a lot of players who aren't match fit. That's how this season has started. There's a lot of strain on these players and hopefully we'll get better and better.\"\n\n2,000 points - the best of the stats\n• None This victory earned Chelsea their 2,000th point in the Premier League (1,077 games), making them the third side to reach that total since the competition began in 1992, after Manchester United (2,234) and Arsenal (2,014).\n• None Brighton have won just one of their 10 home Premier League games in 2020 (D4 L5), the fewest of any side to have played two or more home matches in the competition this calendar year.\n• None Since the start of last season, Chelsea's 20 away Premier League games have produced 81 goals (42 for, 39 against), at least 14 more than any other side on their travels.\n• None Chelsea have scored each of their past 16 penalties in the Premier League, since Eden Hazard missed from the spot against Manchester City in April 2017.\n• None Jorginho has scored all eight of the penalties he has taken for Chelsea in all competitions (excluding shootouts), including five in the Premier League.\n• None Since he joined Chelsea in 2018, Kepa Arrizabalaga has conceded more Premier League goals from outside the box (19) than any other goalkeeper. Indeed, excluding blocked shots, Kepa has conceded nine of the past 13 overall shots on target he has faced in the Premier League.\n• None Leandro Trossard has scored three goals in his past six Premier League games for Brighton, as many as he netted in his first 26 appearances in the competition before this.\n• None Kurt Zouma scored what was only his second Premier League goal for Chelsea (72nd appearance), and his first since September 2015 against Arsenal.\n\nBrighton host Portsmouth in the Carabao Cup on Thursday, 17 September (19:45 BST) and return to Premier League action at Newcastle on Sunday, 20 September (14:00).\n\nMeanwhile, Chelsea host champions Liverpool at Stamford Bridge on Sunday, 20 September (16:30) in the Premier League.\n• None Attempt saved. Ross Barkley (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Timo Werner.\n• None Adam Webster (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Lewis Dunk (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Adam Webster (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Substitution, Chelsea. César Azpilicueta replaces Jorginho because of an injury.\n• None Tariq Lamptey (Brighton and Hove Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Aaron Connolly (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Nine interesting facts about the famous chef", "The parents of a missing teenage girl have been charged with her murder.\n\nCambridgeshire Police said Bernadette Walker, 17, was reported missing from Peterborough on 21 July by her mother and father who said she had not been seen for three days.\n\nA murder investigation was opened even though her body has not been found.\n\nSarah Walker, 37, and Scott Walker, 50, both of Century Square, Millfield, Peterborough, are due to appear in court charged with murder.\n\nDet Supt Jon Hutchinson said: \"Whilst my team have made significant progress with this investigation in the last few days, we are yet to find Bernadette, therefore my plea is for anyone who has information on what has happened to her, or where she might be, to get in touch as a matter of urgency.\"\n\nBernadette's parents were charged with murder in the early hours of Monday, police said\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The daily count of people testing positive for coronavirus in Scotland has risen for the fourth day in a row.\n\nA total of 244 tested positive for Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, according to the Scottish government.\n\nIt is the second day in a row that the figure has exceeded 200 and the highest number of confirmed cases since 6 May.\n\nHowever, there were far fewer tests being carried out at that stage of the pandemic meaning many people with the virus did not appear in the statistics.\n\nOn Saturday there were 221 cases reported - the highest daily figure since 8 May.\n\nThe latest daily figures issued by the Scottish government reveal that:\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the statistics \"underline the need for all of us to be careful and abide by public health rules\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe statistics have been published ahead of the introduction of new rules forbidding groups of more than six people - and then from only two separate households - meeting up either inside or outside in Scotland.\n\nChildren under 12 from the two households are not counted in \"rule of six\" which comes into force on Monday.\n\nBut more than 1.75m people in Scotland are also constrained by further restrictions following a spike in cases in the greater Glasgow area.\n\nPeople in Glasgow city, Lanarkshire, East and West Dunbartonshire, Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire cannot meet other households at their own homes.\n\nThe latest figures show there were 104 new cases in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board area in the last 24 hours.\n\nThere were also 62 in Lanarkshire, 25 in Lothian, 12 in the Borders and 11 in Ayrshire and Arran.\n\nThe remaining positive cases were recorded in all of the remaining mainland health board areas.\n\nMeanwhile more than 868,000 have downloaded the Protect Scotland contact tracing app.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police made dozens of arrests as opposition supporters gathered for the march\n\nTens of thousands of people have been marching in the capital Minsk and other cities, in the latest of several weeks of mass protest against President Alexander Lukashenko.\n\nLarge numbers of police have been deployed, blocking key areas.\n\nPolice said they arrested about 400 people ahead of and during the protests, dubbed the March of Heroes.\n\nThe protests have been triggered by a widely disputed election a month ago and subsequent brutal police crackdown.\n\nDemonstrators want Mr Lukashenko to resign after alleging widespread ballot-rigging.\n\nBut the Belarusian leader - in power for 26 years - has denied the allegations and accuses Western nations of interfering.\n\nThe 66-year-old has promised to defend Belarus.\n\nMost opposition leaders are now under arrest or in exile.\n\nIt is the fifth successive Sunday of mass protests, with about 100,000 rallying each week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Jonah Fisher reports from Minsk as police turn their sights on female protesters\n\nEyewitnesses said the centre of Minsk was flooded with people. They marched on the elite residential area of Drozdy, where the country's top officials including President Lukashenko live, but were blocked by police.\n\nRallies are also being held in Brest, Gomel, Mogilyev and other cities.\n\nHowever, the Interior Ministry said that as of 15:00 local time (12:00 GMT) the protests involved no more than 3,000 people across the country.\n\nMr Lukashenko has refused to make any concessions to the opposition\n\nThe ministry said arrests were made in various districts of the capital, and that those detained were carrying flags and placards \"of an insulting nature\".\n\nIn many ways Sunday's demonstration was similar to previous weeks.\n\nWhen the march was at full strength the riot police had little choice but to watch on as the protesters filled the streets and waved their red and white flags.\n\nThe now famous \"Goose for a free Belarus\" was there, a bow tie round its neck, flapping its wings and posing for selfies. Plenty of families came too, determined to enjoy the warm weather.\n\nIt's on the side streets, and in the exposed moments when people arrive and disperse in smaller groups that the security forces strike.\n\nIt's not dignified or disciplined. The police, their faces usually covered, launch crude tackles at the protesters before dragging them kicking and screaming into waiting minivans.\n\nAfter five Sundays of huge demonstrations there's still no sign of enthusiasm dwindling or that the threat of violence is stopping people from coming.\n\nVideo footage showed men in balaclavas pulling people out of the crowds gathering for the start of the march and taking them to unmarked minibuses.\n\nProtests were triggered by elections on 9 August, in which Mr Lukashenko was handed an overwhelming victory amid widespread reports of vote-rigging.\n\nViolent clashes on several nights following the poll led to thousands of arrests, and details emerged of severe beatings by police and overcrowding in detention centres.\n\nThis produced a new wave of demonstrations, with weekend rallies drawing tens of thousands.\n\nMr Lukashenko has said he may establish closer ties with Russia, his main ally.\n\nOn at least two occasions in the past few weeks, he has been photographed near his residence in Minsk carrying a gun and being surrounded by his heavily armed security personnel.", "British perfume brand Jo Malone London has issued an apology to John Boyega for dropping an ad he made for them and replacing him with a Chinese actor.\n\nThe firm reshot the personal video the Star Wars actor made, in his home town of London, for the Chinese market.", "The bomb was detonated at the end of an Ariana Grande concert, killing 22 people\n\nBereaved families whose loved ones were killed in the Manchester Arena attack have shared their heartache as the inquiry heads into its second week.\n\nThe father of Martyn Hett was the first to present a \"pen portrait\" of his son, whose \"memory will shine brightly\".\n\nThe portraits will give each family the chance to present a personal insight into the lives of those who died.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed when Salman Abedi detonated a bomb as 14,000 fans left the arena in May 2017.\n\nThe inquiry comes more than three years after the bombing at the end of an Ariana Grande concert, which left hundreds more injured.\n\nIt was due to start in June, but was delayed by the trial of Abedi's brother Hashem, who was jailed for at least 55 years for 22 murders on 20 August.\n\nThe inquiry is being held at Manchester Magistrates' Court, less than a mile away from where the bombing happened.\n\nThe \"pen portraits\" will be provided by family members, or others on their behalf, reading out witness statements and playing music and videos to remember those who died.\n\nTributes were left in in St Ann's Square in Manchester city centre in the wake of the bombing\n\nPaul Greaney QC, counsel to the inquiry, said they would \"ensure the deceased and their families are at the centre of this process\".\n\n\"Each 'pen portrait' is deeply affecting. The experience will be moving and distressing... and exceptionally difficult for the families,\" he added.\n\nDuring the first \"pen portrait\", the inquiry heard a moving testimony from Mr Hett's father Paul.\n\n\"How would I describe Martyn's personality in one simple word? Fun. He had the most wicked sense of humour,\" Mr Hett said.\n\nThe 29-year-old, from Stockport, Greater Manchester, \"lit up everyone around him\", his father added.\n\nMartyn Hett, pictured centre, was \"so vibrant, so full of energy\"\n\nThe family of John Atkinson, 28, from Radcliffe in Bury, told the public inquiry he had a \"massively addictive personality\" and his \"smile would light the room up\".\n\n\"He loved everyone and everyone loved him,\" his parents Kevan and Daryl said.\n\n\"He was the centre of our world.\"\n\n\"He was the centre of our world,\" said John Atkinson's parents\n\nEilidh MacLeod, 14, from the Isle of Barra, was described as a \"bundle of fun\" with \"perfect quips, one-liners and an infectious laugh\".\n\nThe teenager, who loved playing the bagpipes, was \"growing into a lovely young woman with this fantastic gift she was able to express herself with\", her father Roderick said.\n\nHer former primary school teacher Michelle McLean said: \"The whole island community misses her - as her teacher she taught me to be a better person.\"\n\nEilidh MacLeod was described as a \"bundle of fun\"\n\nSorrell Leczkowski was \"hungry for knowledge\" and dreamed of studying in New York to fulfil her ambition to become an architect, her mother told the inquiry.\n\nThe 14-year-old had gone to the Manchester Arena with her family to collect her sister who was at the concert.\n\nHer mother Samantha and grandmother Pauline were both seriously injured.\n\nSorrell Leczkowski dreamed of studying in New York\n\nThe commemorative hearings are expected to conclude on 23 September.\n\nThe inquiry was set up to examine the background to the attack and the response of the emergency services.\n\nIts chairman, Sir John Saunders, will make a report and recommendations once all the evidence has been heard, which is expected to take up to six months.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "After almost seven months at home, it's finally back to school for millions of Italian children today.\n\nI grew up learning the three Rs, but today Italian children have to know the three Ms: Mascherina, Mani, Metro (mask, hands, metre).\n\nThere was the usual mix of first-day excitement and nerves. Ten-year-old Gabriele posed joyfully for a photo with his classmates in masks. His mother, an A&E doctor, was impressed to see them greeting each other with elbow bumps – not the usual bear hugs. \"The parents were far less disciplined,\" she remarked.\n\nMy seven-year-old is relieved to return to proper lessons with teachers, instead of \"full-time homework\". But she is sad that coronavirus means \"it's never going to be the same\". She's worried about playtime - \"what happens when it rains?\" - and nervous about all the new rules. So are the parents.\n\nWhich entrance will they use? What if you have two kids at the school? Borrowing in class is banned and everything has to be name-labelled. Each individual pencil?!\n\nMasks can only be removed once children are seated at their desks. At our school, washable masks aren't allowed: they must be surgical, changed daily, and for now provided by the parents.\n\nDisappointingly, our class sizes haven't been reduced or classrooms extended. Pigeon holes have simply been removed to make room to space out the desks.\n\nDespite our worries, my daughter is looking on the bright side: \"At least nobody can nick my pencil sharpener.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Debbie Noland wears full PPE when seeing patients and cleans the examination room between patients\n\nCovid-19 has transformed how GPs work - from having to wear full PPE instead of ordinary clothes, to seeing a huge decline in the number of patients they are seeing. Here's how one practice in Liverpool has adapted.\n\nDr Debbie Noland is living with a new reality.\n\nA few months ago, the Liverpool GP would have dressed relatively casually for a day seeing patients at the Ropewalks Practice in the city centre.\n\nNow she is in medical scrubs and full protective clothing - face mask, visor, gloves and apron.\n\n\"Now we are completely clinical, I look like I did when I was a medical student working in the hospital in surgery,\" says Dr Noland.\n\n\"It's definitely far more challenging - and the job is challenging enough without the extra stress.\n\n\"Having to go home and put your scrubs into a 60-degree wash, so you don't pass it on to your family. It's a completely different world than pre-Covid, that's for sure.\"\n\nEven when she is seeing patients with no Covid symptoms, Dr Noland needs to balance the risk of infection while, simultaneously, being able to check out potentially dangerous conditions.\n\n\"If you need to listen to somebody's chest or you need to listen to somebody's heart - you need to do that.\n\n\"I feel like I am as covered and protected as I possibly can be. I would much prefer to make sure that I am doing things properly than miss something.\"\n\nPatients are assessed in advance over the phone, including questions on whether or not they have coronavirus symptoms.\n\nBut since chest pain is exactly the type of thing that might indicate the development of another serious condition, some patients have to attend the surgery for an examination.\n\nIn between each appointment, Dr Noland must clean the room and change her personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\n\"When the patient has left, I'll clean down the room before anyone else comes in and change all my(PPE) so it is as safe as it possible can be. It may not be as approachable, but we are doing our best to make sure everyone can feel safe coming into a GP surgery.\"\n\nAll this means a much slower trickle of patients.\n\nThis time last year the surgery was seeing around 130 patients a day for GP appointments, blood tests or just to pick up a prescription.\n\nBut on the day we visited, just 24 patients attended the surgery, all by appointment only.\n\nThe surgery had previously introduced an online booking and assessment system last September, so most patients were accustomed to a more remote way of working.\n\nBut still, the change is stark: a normally busy waiting room now has just one patient at a time.\n\nDr Noland has to wipe down the consultation room between patients\n\nSome patients are happy to come to the surgery. But Dr Noland says there are growing fears over those who are too worried about the risk of infection to come in.\n\n\"The amount of people I have spoken to on the phone with anxiety and depression... They were probably keeping it together, but it's the last straw that broke the camel's back.\n\n\"They can't cope now. It has been a massive impact.\n\n\"People are still having heart attacks, they are still having strokes, they are still having cancer, unfortunately.\n\n\"And there are a lot of other people that are dying of other things that seem to have been forgotten a little bit.\n\n\"It's a massive hidden cost of lockdown and that is really worrying for all of us - because we think there is an epidemic [of non-Covid illnesses] and we are just waiting for it to come.\".\"\n\nThe surgery is divided into two zones, with Dr Noland seeing her Covid-free patients in the 'green zone' on the first floor of the building.\n\nDownstairs is the 'red zone, for those patients who are displaying Covid-19 symptoms, with a separate entrance to the rest of the surgery.\n\nThe receptionist, as well as the GP, wears full PPE.\n\nTina Atkins, the practice management partner, says the whole idea is to minimise exposure to infected patients.\n\n\"We don't have anything other than an examination couch and a chair - we don't use any of the IT equipment.\n\n\"We also say to patients if they arrive early: 'please stay in your car outside' because the slots are timed, so we don't cross-contaminate patients.\"\n\nRopewalks is a \"hub\" for nine practices in Liverpool. Each one directs coronavirus patients to the Ropewalks General Practice so the surrounding practices can maintain a Covid-free environment.\n\nAt the height of the pandemic, the surgery saw around 5-8 cases a day, but on the day we visited, no-one needed to be seen.\n\nPhone consultations are part of the new norm, especially when checking up on those who are shielding.\n\nPractice nurse Moira Cain says: \"With not going out at all, you're worried about people's mental health and their wellbeing. So the fact they're getting a phone call from someone who cares must be some reassurance.\n\n\"It's reassuring for us to know that they are eating, they are having food taken into them, they are sleeping ok - they haven't got any other symptoms.\"\n\nBut she adds: \"What we have found is the footfall to primary care, as well as A&E, is really reduced.\n\n\"Are people sitting at home with chest pain? With shortness of breath? Have they got swollen ankles? Because if they have, they should really come in.\"\n\nSocial distancing, PPE, the fear of infection - all are making an already tough job more challenging.\n\nBut GPs want their patients to know that, despite appearances - the empty waiting rooms, the 'red zone', they are still very much open for business.", "Stricter restrictions barring household visits in the west of Scotland have been extended for another week.\n\nThe measures cover 1.75 million people living in and around Glasgow.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon urged everyone living in the areas to follow the rules in a bid to \"get more control over the virus\".\n\nThe restrictions apply in Glasgow city, East and West Dunbartonshire, North and South Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, and East Renfrewshire.\n\nPeople living in the seven areas are not allowed to host others inside their home, or visit anyone else's home anywhere in Scotland.\n\nThe announcement comes on the same day that lockdown restrictions across the country were tightened, with gatherings now restricted to a maximum of six people from two households.\n\nThe Scottish government said reported cases of Covid-19 were higher than average in the seven council areas, although an \"early assessment\" had suggested the tougher measures were \"working to slow the increase in cases\".\n\nThe first minister said it was \"clearly regrettable\" that the restrictions would have to continue, but said \"we must act to get more control over the virus in these areas\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"I would ask everyone in the affected areas to continue being extra vigilant, to follow all guidance and to isolate and book a test if they have any symptoms. Do not lose ground now.\"\n\nThe only exception to the bar on indoor meetings is for those in extended households, while only essential indoor visits are being permitted in hospitals and care homes.\n\nPeople from two different households are still allowed to meet up outdoors and in hospitality settings, as long as groups do not exceed six and wider guidance around hygiene and physical distancing is followed.\n\nThe local restrictions will be reviewed again on Tuesday 22 September.\n\nThe rules, which had already covered Glasgow city, East and West Dunbartonshire, Renfrewshire, and East Renfrewshire, were extended to cover Lanarkshire on Friday.\n\nOn Saturday, those seven areas had the highest rates of new Covid-19 cases in Scotland. The seven-day rate is calculated by adding up all the new cases over the previous week, then dividing it by the total population of the area.", "US tech firm Oracle has confirmed that TikTok's owner has formally proposed it become a \"trusted technology partner\" to the video-sharing app.\n\nFull details of the tie-up have yet to be disclosed, but the aim is to avoid President Trump's threat to shut down the Chinese-owned service in the US.\n\nMr Trump has cited national security concerns, suggesting users' data could be accessed by Beijing under current arrangements.\n\nIt says it has taken \"extraordinary measures to protect the privacy and security of TikTok's US user data\", which is stored in the States and Singapore.\n\nOracle is a database specialist without experience of running a social media app targeted at the general public.\n\nEarlier in the day, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that the Trump administration had been contacted by the American firm to discuss plans to make TikTok a US-headquartered company. He said the White House intended to review the idea this week.\n\nMicrosoft had also attempted to buy the platform, but revealed it had been rejected on Sunday.\n\nTikTok has released a statement that does not make direct reference to Oracle.\n\n\"We can confirm that we've submitted a proposal to the Treasury Department which we believe would resolve the administration's security concerns,\" it said.\n\n\"This proposal would enable us to continue supporting our community of 100 million people in the US who love TikTok for connection and entertainment, as well as the hundreds of thousands of small business owners and creators who rely upon TikTok to grow their livelihoods and build meaningful careers.\"\n\nOracle's shares were trading about 5% higher in lunchtime trade in New York.\n\n\"While I can see the upside for Oracle from a cloud perspective, it is hard not to think how much of this deal rests on politics rather than tech,\" commented Carolina Milanesi from the Silicon Valley-based research firm Creative Strategies.\n\nOracle's chairman, the billionaire Larry Ellison, is a supporter of Mr Trump and in February held a fundraiser at his California home to aid the Republican leader's re-election campaign.\n\nThe White House is also taking a harsh line against other Chinese tech companies - including Huawei, Tencent and a number of artificial intelligence start-ups - restricting what business they can do with US counterparts without the administration's approval.\n\nPresident Trump had given TikTok's owner Bytedance until this week to secure a deal.\n\nFailure to do so would have seen US companies prevented from doing business with it from Sunday, and Bytedance being forced to give up TikTok's US operations one way or another by 12 November.\n\nThe app's US team sued the US government last month in an effort to challenge the moves.\n\nOracle was not the favourite to buy or otherwise link up to TikTok's US arm - Microsoft was the early frontrunner.\n\nBut as time wore on, Microsoft became increasingly concerned about what it would be acquiring.\n\nIt became clear that China might attempt to block the sale of the technology behind the app's powerful algorithm.\n\nPrivately there were concerns too that Microsoft was about to create a rod for its own back by becoming involved with a mass market, youth-focused social network - it already owns LinkedIn, but that caters for a very different audience.\n\nPolitical bias, child safety issues and right-wing militias are just some of the problems TikTok has had to deal with in the last few months.\n\nEven so, TikTok's hundreds of millions of users make it an attractive proposition in a sector where size is everything: if all your friends are on a platform, you too are more likely to join.\n\nOracle has decided it's worth the risk.\n\nThe big questions now are what exactly is Oracle's involvement, and will the tie-up be approved by the US and Chinese authorities.\n\nMarch 2012: Bytedance is established in China and launches Neihan Duanzi - an app to help Chinese users share memes\n\nAugust 2017: An international version of Douyin is launched under the brand TikTok in some parts of the world, but not the US at this time\n\nMay 2018: TikTok declared world's most downloaded non-game iOS app over first three months of the year, by market research firm Sensor Tower\n\nAugust 2018: Bytedance announces it is shutting down Musical.ly and is moving users over to TikTok\n\nFebruary 2019: TikTok fined in US over Musical.ly's handling of under-13s' data\n\nNovember 2019: The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (Cfius) opens national security investigation into TikTok\n\nMay 2020: TikTok hires Disney executive Kevin Meyer to become the division's chief executive and chief operating officer of Bytedance\n\nJune 2020: India bans TikTok among dozens of other Chinese apps\n\nJuly 2020: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and then President Trump, say TikTok might be banned\n\nAugust 2020: Microsoft and Oracle make rival approaches to acquire or otherwise operate TikTok in the US and three other markets. Mr Meyer announces he is leaving the company because the \"political environment has sharply changed\"\n\nSeptember 2020: TikTok says it has more than 100 million active users in Europe. It recently said it had a similar number in the US, and has been estimated to have more than 800 million engaged members worldwide", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday evening. We'll have another update for you on Tuesday morning.\n\nCrime minister Kit Malthouse has encouraged people to report their neighbours for any suspected breaches of the new \"rule of six\", which came in today. The new coronavirus restrictions make it illegal for more than six people to meet at indoor and outdoor social gatherings in England and Scotland, and indoor groups in Wales. Find out here what you can and can't do under the new regulations.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says she has \"very serious concerns\" about an apparent delay in processing coronavirus tests. She said she was worried a backlog of results was preventing her assessing the scale of the pandemic. The number of new daily confirmed UK cases was 2,621 on Monday - a fall after three consecutive days with more than 3,000 positive tests. Meanwhile, Labour said its leader Sir Keir Starmer was self-isolating after a family member showed possible symptoms.\n\nA new treatment that uses laboratory-made antibodies is to be trialled on Covid-19 patients in UK hospitals. These monoclonal antibodies will be given to about 2,000 people as part of the UK Recovery Trial, which previously found that a cheap steroid called dexamethasone could save lives. The first patients will be given the new drugs in the coming weeks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEight months after the curtain came down, the first musicals have confirmed plans to reopen in London's West End. Everybody's Talking About Jamie and Six will restart performances in mid-November. A number of safety measures will be in place at the reduced capacity shows, including the use of contactless tickets, temperature checks on entry and face coverings.\n\nEverybody's Talking About Jamie will return to the Apollo Theatre on 12 November\n\nPride events have been cancelled all over the world because of coronavirus, but not in Guernsey. The island, which has lifted nearly all of its Covid-19 restrictions, held the British Isles' first \"in person\" Pride event since the pandemic began. Thousands of people attended over the weekend, including performer Kalon Rae, who showed us what it was like.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Guernsey Pride: 'You can touch each other'\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nNew restrictions on social gatherings could stay in place until the end of the year, but what might that mean for Christmas celebrations?\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "GP practices are being told they must make sure patients can be seen face to face when they need such appointments.\n\nNHS England is writing to all practices to make sure they are communicating the fact doctors can be seen in person if necessary, as well as virtually.\n\nIt's estimated half of the 102 million appointments from March to July were by video or phone call, NHS Digital said.\n\nThe Royal College of GPs said any implication GPs had not been doing their job properly was \"an insult\".\n\nNHS England said research suggested nearly two thirds of the public were happy to have a phone or video call with their doctor - but that, ahead of winter, they wanted to make sure people knew they could see their GP if needed.\n\nNikki Kanani, medical director of primary care for NHS England, said GPs had adapted quickly in recent months to offer remote consultations and \"safe face-to-face care when needed\".\n\nShe added: \"While many people, particularly those most vulnerable to Covid-19, want the convenience of a consultation over the phone or video, the NHS has been and will continue to offer face-to-face appointments and I would urge anyone who feels they need medical support to come forward so they can get the care, support and advice they need - the NHS is here for you.\"\n\nNHS England said it would be reminding GPs they faced enforcement action if they failed to offer face-to-face appointments when necessary on medical grounds. Failure to do so was a breach of their contract, it said.\n\nProf Martin Marshall, chair of the Royal College of GPs, said general practice was \"open and has been throughout the pandemic\", with a predominantly remote service to help stop the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Debbie Noland wears full PPE when seeing patients and cleans the examination room between patients\n\nHe said: \"The college does not want to see general practice become a totally, or even mostly, remote service post-pandemic.\n\n\"However, we are still in the middle of a pandemic. We need to consider infection control and limit footfall in GP surgeries - all in line with NHS England's current guidance.\"\n\nHe said most patients had understood the changes and that clinical commissioning groups had been asked to work with GP practices where face-to-face appointments were not possible - for example, if all GPs were at a high risk from coronavirus.\n\n\"Any implication that they have not been doing their job properly is an insult to GPs and their teams who have worked throughout the pandemic, continued delivering the vast majority of patient care in the NHS and face an incredibly difficult winter ahead,\" he said.\n\nResearch from the college indicated that routine GP appointments were back to near-normal levels for this time of year, after decreasing at the height of the pandemic.\n\n\"Each and every day last week an estimated third of a million appointments were delivered face to face by general practices across the country,\" added Prof Marshall.\n\nIt comes as thousands of doctors say a second peak is likely this winter - and is their greatest fear.\n\nThe British Medical Association survey of more than 8,000 doctors and medical students found that 86% of them believed a second peak was likely, or very likely, in the next six months.\n\nThe survey indicated doctors thought the two most important measures to help prevent such a peak were having a fit-for-purpose test-and-trace system and a \"coherent, rapid and consistent approach to local outbreaks\".\n\nBMA council chair Dr Chaand Nagpaul said: \"We, as a profession, want, above all, to avoid a return to the scenes we saw in April, when hospitals were full with Covid-19 patients, and hundreds were dying every day. Meanwhile, thousands of others missed out on vital appointments and procedures as routine care was put on hold.\n\n\"But while the forecast in this survey may be bleak, it is not an inevitability if the government takes decisive, robust and timely action to stamp down the spread of the infection.\"\n\nHe called on the government to focus on \"sorting out the test-and-trace debacle once and for all\", adding: \"We are at a critical crossroads in the fight against this deadly virus.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nFormula 1 bosses are looking into whether Lewis Hamilton broke rules at the Tuscan Grand Prix by wearing a T-shirt highlighting police brutality.\n\nA spokesman for the FIA said the matter was \"under active consideration\".\n\nHe said the FIA was a non-political organisation and was considering if Hamilton's T-shirt broke its statutes.\n\nThe T-shirt said: \"Arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor\" - a black woman shot eight times in her Louisville, Kentucky home by US police in March.\n\nHamilton's shirt, which he wore during the pre-race anti-racism demonstration and on the podium, also said: \"Say her name.\"\n\nIt was not immediately clear which statute from governing body the FIA was at issue.\n\nAsked whether the FIA considered the T-shirt to be bearing a political message, the spokesman said: \"That's the consideration we are looking into.\"\n\nTaylor was one of a number of victims of incidents involving police violence in the US whose names have become rallying cries for equality and justice.\n\nHamilton said after winning the race on Sunday: \"I've been wanting to bring awareness to the fact there are people being killed on the street.\n\n\"And someone was killed in her own house and they were in the wrong house and those guys are still walking free.\"\n• None Long read: The story of Black Lives Matter in sport\n\nF1 and the FIA have mounted an anti-racism and pro-diversity campaign this year, which includes anti-racism demonstrations before every race.\n\nHamilton has been at the centre of the demonstrations, as the sport's most high-profile figure and its only black driver.\n\nThe spokesman said that the FIA had been working with Hamilton on its diversity programme this year.\n\nMercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff said on Saturday that Hamilton had the organisation's full support in his desire to highlight racial injustice and that it was up to him what T-shirts he wished to wear to demonstrate that.\n\nWolff said: \"No question - it is entirely his decision. Whatever he does, we will support.\n\n\"The team is fighting against any kind of racism and discrimination and it is Lewis's personal fight for Black Lives Matter and with all the support we can give him. It's his call.\"\n\nAfter the race, Mercedes responded to a Twitter user who asked that Hamilton \"keep politics out of F1\", saying: \"We're not bringing politics into F1; these are human rights issues that we're trying to highlight and raise awareness of.\"\n\nWolff added: \"Black Lives Matter is something that is important to all of us and we have supported Lewis all the way.\n\n\"The much broader movement is obviously the fight against any kind of racism and discrimination - and we as a team and as a corporate have always put an emphasis to fight against that injustice.\"\n\nThe only reference to politics in the statutes is a requirement on the FIA to \"refrain from manifesting discrimination on account of race, skin colour, gender, sexual orientation, ethnic or social origin, language, religion, philosophical or political opinion, family situation or disability in the course of its activities\".\n\nThe sporting code forbids competitors from \"affixing to their automobiles advertising that is political or religious in nature or that is prejudicial to the interests of the FIA\".", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is self-isolating after a member of his household \"showed possible symptoms of the coronavirus\", the party has said.\n\nThe person displaying symptoms has had a test and Sir Keir is now awaiting the results \"in line with NHS guidelines\", they added.\n\nThe Labour leader will not be speaking in Monday's Commons debate on the government's post-Brexit plans.\n\nHowever, he is not reported to have shown any coronavirus symptoms.\n\nSir Keir - who is due to address the TUC Congress on Tuesday - found out about the concerns over the member of his household following an appearance on LBC radio on Monday morning.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said: \"The prime minister has spoken to the leader of the opposition this morning and gave best wishes to him and his family.\"\n\nThe coronavirus infection rate is rising across the UK, with rules restricting the size of social gatherings coming into force in England, Scotland and Wales from Monday.\n\nA Labour spokesperson said: \"This morning Keir Starmer was advised to self-isolate after a member of his household showed possible symptoms of the coronavirus.\n\n\"The member of his household has now had a test. In line with NHS guidelines, Keir will self-isolate while awaiting the results of the test and further advice from medical professionals.\"\n\nThe hospital where she works, in occupational health, provides on-site testing for staff and their families who have symptoms.\n\nThe move comes ahead of what was to be one of Sir Keir's most important parliamentary performances since becoming Labour leader in April.\n\nInstead shadow business secretary - and former leader - Ed Miliband will open for the party in the debate over the government's Internal Market Bill on Monday afternoon.\n\nThe legislation attempts to override parts of the Brexit withdrawal agreement reached by the UK and EU.\n\nLast week, Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg announced he was self-isolating at home after one of his children showed symptoms of coronavirus.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson was taken into intensive care in April after he caught it.", "The Chain Home Tower at Great Baddow, Essex has been Grade II listed on the advice of Historic England\n\nA radar tower that helped win World War Two's Battle of Britain by providing early warning of Luftwaffe attacks has been given protected status.\n\nThe Chain Home Tower at Great Baddow in Essex has been Grade II listed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).\n\nIt is the only complete tower of its kind surviving in the British Isles.\n\nTony Calladine from Historic England said it was \"a testament to the men and women who developed the technology\".\n\nIt has been listed to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, which took place between July and October 1940.\n\nThe tower, one of five complete Chain Home masts still standing, was originally erected at RAF Canewdon in south-east Essex in 1937 and relocated to Great Baddow in 1956.\n\nThe tower, a prominent Essex landmark, was moved to the Marconi Company research site at Great Baddow\n\nChain Home was the first early warning radar network in the world and the first military radar system to be fully operational.\n\nAs well as detecting enemy planes, the technology was vital to the defence of London, through the tracking of destructive V1 flying bombs and V2 missiles later in World War Two.\n\nWhen the tower, which is 109m (358ft) high, was relocated in 1956 it was used in defence research and communications during the Cold War.\n\nIt was particularly crucial in the development of the radio guidance system for the British \"Blue Streak\" intercontinental ballistic missile.\n\nDaniel Black, who campaigned for the tower to be listed, said: \"This tower represents not only the innovation and brilliance of pre-war engineers and scientists but also the heritage of the local area.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dr David Hepburn was one of the first NHS doctors to become ill with Covid-19\n\nNew rules to curb a rise in the number of coronavirus cases could be \"shutting the door after the horse has bolted\", an intensive care doctor has warned.\n\nDavid Hepburn, from the Royal Gwent Hospital, was one of the first NHS doctors to become ill with Covid-19.\n\nHe said he feared a second wave had already started and could last six months amid a rise in cases in Newport linked to pubs and clubs in the city.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said closing such venues was an option.\n\nMr Gething said if people's behaviour does not change Wales could face a national lockdown within seven weeks' time.\n\nDr Hepburn's warning comes as the BMA warned that doctors' greatest fear was a \"very likely\" second wave.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wales Breakfast, Dr Hepburn said there was \"definitely a sense that things are ramping up again\", likening it to the situation in February \"before we started to get active cases in March\".\n\n\"It is worth emphasising there are patients in hospital in south Wales with Covid and it is only a matter of time before we start getting patients sick enough to end up with us [in intensive care],\" he told Oliver Hides.\n\nPublic Health Wales has named a number of pubs and bars in Newport where cases have been confirmed\n\nNew rules came into force in Wales on Monday, mandating the wearing of masks in shops and other indoor public spaces, and banning indoor meetings of more than six people from an extended household.\n\nOn Monday, Pembrokeshire council asked care homes for older people in the county to suspend all non-essential indoor visits from Tuesday.\n\nIt said it was a precautionary measure to help keep residents as safe as possible.\n\nVisits to care homes have already been stopped in Rhondda Cynon Taff and Caerphilly.\n\nThe changes come after two areas brought in new advice to avoid following Caerphilly into a local lockdown, with Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford warning Covid-19 was \"on the rise again\" as 20 people in 100,000 had the virus.\n\n\"There is still time if people obey the rules, wear masks and try to stay apart. We know that being outdoors is much better than being indoors, so if we have to meet up with someone you are much better doing it outdoors.\n\n\"We can turn it around, but I have a terrible feeling now we are shutting the door after the horse has bolted, and this increased activity at the minute is going to translate into another big wave for us in critical care in the next four to six weeks, which would be a shame.\"\n\nAt its peak, 49 patients were critically ill on ventilators at the Royal Gwent Hospital's intensive care unit in Newport - the unit's usual maximum capacity being 14 - with Dr Hepburn comparing it with \"scenes from a science fiction film\".\n\n86% of doctors and medical students who took part in a survey said they fear a \"very likely\" second wave\n\nDr Hepburn said if it was the start of a second wave it could last longer than the first wave because it was happening before the winter months when cases were expected to rise as people move indoors.\n\n\"It was fairly acute last time - it was all over by May, June last time,\" he explained.\n\n\"But if we see a big surge in hospital admissions this time, it could last for six months which would be a big problem.\"\n\nHe added: \"There was always going to be a natural ramping up but the question is now whether behaviour modification and whether people pulling together locally to avoid a big surge will work, and I really hope it does because I can tell you this now, I'm really not looking forward to going through it again.\"\n\nThe British Medical Association (BMA) has reported 86% of doctors and medical students who responded to a survey said a second peak was likely or very likely in the next six months.\n\n\"The survey results expose the greatest fears of doctors in Wales - fears borne out of their everyday experiences of treating patients with Covid-19 and witnessing the dramatic impact of the virus on the NHS,\" said Dr David Bailey, BMA Cymru Wales council chairman.\n\n\"As a profession, and I'm sure as a nation, we do not wish to return to the scenes we saw earlier in the year, where hospitals were full with Covid-19 patients, many people dying every day.\"\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said he would be willing to impose a national lockdown in Wales, even if other parts of the UK do not\n\nMr Gething said he was waiting to see the results of recent testing in Newport, Rhondda Cynon Taff and Merthyr Tydfil before deciding whether local measures were needed.\n\nHe said he could not rule out a national lockdown in Wales, even if other parts of the UK do not.\n\nLater at a press conference he added: \"If there isn't a change in behaviour we could well be not just seven weeks away from a potential national lockdown, but a lot quicker.\"\n\n\"If we see cases continue to rise… then we may be in a position to make that decision and need to make that decision sooner than the seven week period of time.\"", "Sir Patrick Vallance says he \"argued stronger than anyone for action for lockdown\"\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance has said he was rebuked for arguing strongly in favour of imposing Covid lockdown restrictions earlier this year, it has emerged.\n\nIn an email uncovered by a BBC Freedom of Information request, Sir Patrick reveals he was given a \"telling off\" from other senior officials.\n\nSome scientists argue lives could have been saved had a lockdown been introduced earlier. The government insists there was \"no delay\".\n\nIn a statement, the Department of Health and Social Care said government policy had been \"guided by the advice of world-renowned scientists\".\n\nThe UK has one of the highest number of coronavirus deaths per capita in the world, though officials insist it's too early to draw accurate comparisons with other countries. The Department for Health and Social Care insists there was no delay in locking down.\n\nThe email obtained by the BBC appears to be a discussion of a Sunday Times article in May criticising the delays in announcing a lockdown in March.\n\nIt's not known when the \"telling off\" occurred, but speaking to Parliament's science and technology committee in July, Sir Patrick referred to advice given by the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) on 16 March for \"additional social-distancing measures\" to be implemented \"as soon as possible\".\n\nA full lockdown was not introduced until 23 March. It's now thought the number of cases rose dramatically in the period just before that.\n\nIn the email, Sir Patrick writes that he \"argued stronger than anyone for action for lockdown\" but received a \"telling off\" from chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty and the then Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill.\n\nSir Patrick and Prof Whitty regularly appeared at news conferences together updating the public on measures taken to combat coronavirus, without noticeably disagreeing.\n\nOn 16 March, the government issued advice \"against all unnecessary social contact with others and unnecessary travel\" including warnings to avoid pubs, bars and restaurants. However, premises were not ordered to close until 20 March, whilst on 23 March a full lockdown was introduced whereby people could only leave the home for exercise or grocery shopping.\n• None Did 'herd immunity' change the course of the outbreak?", "Keeping out of lockdown \"depends on the choices that each one of us is prepared to make\", Health Minister Vaughan Gething said.\n\nHe told Monday's Welsh Government press conference that while cases were kept low during the summer, the autumn poses a challenge.\n\n\"The challenge comes back to how we've chosen to behave through the summer and going into the autumn,\" he said.\n\n\"We suppressed coronavirus pretty significantly through the summer, we were in a position with low levels of transmission to have further easements.\n\n\"The challenge is that we've seen some people relaxing too much perhaps and small instances where people know that they're breaking the rules, and in particular larger social gatherings in people's homes, and a couple of businesses that have not enforced the rules in terms of where their customers behave.\n\n\"Now that's a challenge for us and we see as I said in Caerphilly the infection rate has moved so more people over 40 and over 50 are testing positive.\n\n\"Their risks of harm are much greater than fit and healthy people in their teens and twenties so the risks are there.\n\n\"And of course it's about what our health and social care system prepares for what might come through the autumn, and the winter, and that's entirely the right thing to do our ability to keep out of lockdown depends on the choices that each one of us is prepared to make to help keep us safe.\"", "Blowing a ram's horn is a key feature of Rosh Hashanah - but extra care must be taken this year\n\nThe government has issued highly detailed dos and don'ts for the UK Jewish community as it celebrates its most important festivals of the year.\n\nRosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot normally involve packed synagogues and large family gatherings.\n\nThis year, synagogues will have to ensure social distancing and avoid communal prayer shawls and books.\n\nThe person blowing the shofar (ram's horn) for Rosh Hashanah should keep 2m from other worshippers.\n\nBeginning on Friday, the three-week period known as the Days of Awe is the central feature of the Jewish religious year, but many of its traditions will be impossible this year.\n\nA long checklist makes clear that synagogues can be used as long as Covid secure measures are in place.\n\nBut communal prayer books and prayer shawls, normally strewn around the synagogue, must be removed with worshippers told to bring their own prayer books.\n\nMicrophones should be used where possible, though these would normally be unacceptable in orthodox synagogues.\n\nMask-wearing is advised, and people should not mix in groups of more than six in line with the new limits on social gatherings.\n\nThe guidance acknowledges that the \"rule of six\" will have a particular impact on the tradition of hospitality around Sukkot - the Feast of Tabernacles, which marks the end of harvest and commemorates the Exodus from Egypt.\n\nRunning from 2 October to 9 October this year, the festival normally involves constructing \"sukkah\" the little shelter many Jews build in their gardens to eat in during the eight-day Succot festival.\n\nNormally guests would be invited and crammed inside, but now the limit is six people - unless the social bubble is bigger than that.\n\nSharing food or cutlery is out, as are social gatherings in a communal sukkah and \"sukkah crawls\" across the community.\n\nA central feature of Rosh Hashanah - the Jewish New Year - is the blowing of the shofar, a musical instrument made from a ram's horn that may present a risk for a virus spread through droplets.\n\nTo reduce the risk, the guidance says the shofar blower must be at least 2m from anyone else, and it should not be blown towards anyone.\n\nThere is also detailed guidance for a ceremony known as Tashlich, where on Rosh Hashanah worshippers go to a body of moving water like a river and figuratively throw away their sins.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Losing a ‘beacon of light’ of the UK’s ultra-Orthodox community to coronavirus\n\nAs well as the rule of six and social distancing, the guidance says items used during the ceremony should not be shared, such as prayer books or the breadcrumbs that some worshippers cast on the water.\n\nMeanwhile, the Prince of Wales has been appointed patron of a Jewish youth organisation as it celebrates in 125th year.\n\nNeil Martin, chief executive of the JLGB (Jewish Lads' and Girls' Brigade), said it is an \"absolute honour\" and praised the prince as \"a tremendous believer in the power of young people\".", "The torch relay toured the UK for 70 days ahead of the London 2012 Olympic Games\n\nAn automotive firm that made the 2012 London Olympic torch has gone into liquidation.\n\nPremier Sheet Metals said it blamed \"conditions within the automotive sector which were further compounded by the onset of Covid-19\".\n\nBased in Exhall, Warwickshire, the firm said a fall in sales had affected its cash flow and could no longer trade.\n\nIt produces sheet metal parts for the automotive sector, which has been struggling throughout the pandemic.\n\nThe first six months of the year saw the number of cars built in the UK slump to the lowest level since 1954.\n\nPremier Sheet Metals also made the 8,000 torches used in the relay that marked the opening of the 2012 games.\n\nA spokesman for the firm said despite \"substantial cash injections\", extra funding could not be secured, \"largely due to the absence of any certainty in the marketplace\".\n\n\"Following a review of the company's financial position and cashflow requirements by the company's advisors, it became apparent that Premier Sheet Metal (Coventry) Ltd could not generate sufficient sales and in turn cash flow to enable it to continue to trade,\" he added.\n\n\"Therefore, very regrettably, and after a period of over 25 years of trading, the decision was taken to commence the process of placing Premier Sheet Metal (Coventry) Limited into liquidation.\"\n\nOther companies within the group remain unaffected.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police were called to the M5 between Gloucester and Tewkesbury at about 05:20 BST\n\nA lorry driver died when he crashed into another HGV that had stopped to protect a stationary car on the M5.\n\nThe 37-year-old from Bristol died at the scene of the crash, near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, on Sunday morning.\n\nThe car driver, a 21-year-old man, was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and driving under the influence of drink and/or drugs.\n\nHe has since been released while inquiries continue.\n\nThe M5 was closed in both directions after the crash\n\nPolice were called to reports a car had lost control on the northbound carriageway between junctions 9 and 11 near Tewkesbury and Gloucester.\n\nA lorry had stopped to protect the vehicle from passing traffic and to check on the driver when another lorry crashed into it, police said.\n\nThe noise of the impact was heard several miles away by people in areas including Gotherington, Fiddington and Bishops Cleeve.\n\nFarmer Ray Knight, who lives near the M5, said he heard \"a great big bang\" at about 05:40 BST when he was feeding his cattle.\n\n\"I looked outside, didn't know what it was so carried on as normal and then a few minutes later, there was a second one.\n\n\"Ten minutes later we heard a third one [bang] and by that point you could see the black smoke and there was a glow in the sky, which I presume was a fire,\" Mr Knight said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ξll This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe motorway was closed in both directions following the crash.\n\nThe southbound carriageway reopened later on Sunday, with the northbound lanes fully reopening at about 02:52 BST on Monday.\n\nPolice are appealing for witnesses and dashcam footage.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teacher 'overwhelmed' since Who Wants To Be A Millionaire win\n\nA teacher who became the first person to win the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire jackpot in 14 years said he was \"overwhelmed\" by the response.\n\n\"I didn't expect the tsunami of interest,\" Don Fear, from Telford, said, adding people had \"fallen over themselves\" to congratulate him.\n\nFormer pupil and pub quiz mate Patrick Campbell told the BBC he was \"in tears\" when Mr Fear claimed his £1m prize.\n\nMr Fear is the sixth million-pound winner in the show's 22-year history.\n\nHe and Mr Campbell, 33, have been doing weekly quizzes at the Red Lion in Wellington for about seven years.\n\nMr Fear has joined his quiz team in Wellington for about seven years\n\n\"Don was my history teacher, myself and a few school friends set up a pub quiz and we kept in touch with him on Facebook and various things.\n\n\"We knew what a clever man he was so we invited him to join,\" he said.\n\nMr Campbell said watching his former teacher was \"so surreal\" - \"I could tell from the look of his eye he was confident he knew the answer\".\n\n\"That winning moment, I was in tears. I know what a lovely man he is, we're all so thrilled for him.\"\n\nMr Fear returned to his school - Haberdashers' Adams Grammar school in Newport - after the show aired on Friday but has since announced he will retire at the end of term in December.\n\nThe history and politics teacher said students and staff were clapping and cheering him as he went in and that \"quite a few pupils are trying to tap me up for a tenner\".\n\nAfter a 33-year career, Mr Fear said he would \"miss school hugely\" but hopes \"a new career as a travel guide is on the cards\", with Canada first on his wish-list.\n\n\"And then really it's a case of you name the place and I want to go there.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I have absolutely no desire to use these measures\"\n\nBoris Johnson has said the UK must reserve the right to override the Brexit deal to protect the country's \"economic and political integrity\".\n\nThe PM said legislation was needed to resolve \"tensions\" in the EU-UK deal.\n\nHe said it would ensure the UK could not be \"broken up\" by a foreign power and the EU was acting in an \"extreme way\", by threatening food exports.\n\nLabour said the PM had caused the \"mess\" by reneging on a deal he had previously called a \"triumph\".\n\nThe Internal Market Bill is expected to pass its first parliamentary test shortly, when MPs vote on it at about 22.00 BST, despite the reservations of many MPs that it gives the UK the power to break international law.\n\nA number of Conservative MPs have said they will not support the bill as it stands and some could register their concerns by abstaining.\n\nThe UK left the EU on 31 January, having negotiated and signed the withdrawal agreement with the bloc.\n\nA key part of the agreement - which is now an international treaty - was the Northern Ireland Protocol, designed to prevent a hard border returning to the island of Ireland.\n\nThe Internal Market Bill proposed by the government would override that part of that agreement when it comes to movement of goods between Northern Ireland and Britain and would allow the UK to re-interpret \"state aid\" rules on subsidies for firms in Northern Ireland, in the event of the two sides not agreeing a future trade deal.\n\nSpeaking at the start of the five-hour debate, the PM said the bill should be \"welcomed by everyone\" who cares about the \"sovereignty and integrity of the UK\".\n\nHe said the UK had signed up to the \"finely balanced\" withdrawal agreement, including the Northern Ireland Protocol, in \"good faith\" and was committed to honouring its obligations, including the introduction of \"light touch\" checks on trade between Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nBut he said additional \"protective powers\" were now necessary to guard against the EU's \"proven willingness\" to interpret aspects of the agreement in \"absurd\" ways, \"simply to exert leverage\" in the trade talks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ed Miliband says it is not an argument of Leave versus Remain, but “an argument about right versus wrong”.\n\n\"What we cannot tolerate now is a situation where our EU counterparts seriously believe they have the power to break up our country,\" he told MPs.\n\n\"We cannot have a situation where the very boundaries of our country can be dictated to by a foreign power or international organisation.\"\n\nHe also suggested the EU was threatening not to allow British firms to export products of animal origin to either the continent or Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Absurd and self-defeating as that action would be...the EU still have not taken this revolver off the table,\" he told MPs.\n\nHowever, he sought to reassure MPs that the powers were an \"insurance policy\" and Parliament would be given a vote before they were ever invoked, insisting \"I have absolutely no desire to use these measures\".\n\nBut former Labour leader Ed Miliband, standing in for Sir Keir Starmer after the Labour leader was forced to self-isolate at home, said the \"very act of passing the law\" would constitute a breach of international law.\n\nHe told MPs the PM \"could not blame anyone else\", having drawn up and signed the Brexit deal himself.\n\n\"It is his deal, it is his mess, it is his failure,\" he said. \"For the first time in his life, it is time to take responsibility and to fess up,\" he said. \"Either he was not straight with the country in the first place or he did not understand it.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is not just legislative hooliganism on any issue, it is on the most sensitive issue of all.\"\n\nAmong Tory MPs to speak out were ex-ministers Andrew Mitchell, Sir Bob Neill and Stephen Hammond, all of whom urged the government to settle differences with the EU through the arbitration process in the Agreement.\n\nConservative MP Charles Walker said the EU was a \"pain in the neck\" but urged the government not to \"press the nuclear button\" before all other options had been exhausted.\n\n\"I am not going to be voting for this bill at second reading because if you keep whacking a dog, don't be surprised when it bites you back,\" he said.\n\nAnd Former Chancellor Sajid Javid has joined the ranks of potential rebels, saying he could not see why it was necessary to \"pre-emptively renege\" on the withdrawal agreement.\n\n\"Breaking international law is never a step that should be taken lightly,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA senior government source told the BBC \"all options are on the table\" in terms of possible action against Tory MPs who do not support the bill.\n\nThe bill, which sets out how trade between different nations of the UK will operate after the UK leaves the EU single market on 31 December, is likely to face more difficulties in its later stages, especially in the House of Lords.\n\nThe DUP's Sammy Wilson welcomed the bill, but said his party still had concerns and would be tabling amendments to \"ensure Northern Ireland is not left in a state aid straight jacket and our businesses are not weighed down by unnecessary paperwork when trading within the United Kingdom\".\n\nThe SNP's Ian Blackford said the bill was the \"greatest threat\" to devolved government in Scotland since the establishment of the Scottish Parliament 20 years ago.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Cameron said he has “misgivings about what is being proposed”\n\n\"We are discussing the details of a bill which this government casually and brazenly admits breaks international and domestic law, he said.\n\nFive former prime ministers have raised concerns about the bill, including Boris Johnson's predecessor Theresa May - who is absent from Monday's debate as she is on a visit to South Korea.\n\nSpeaking earlier on Monday, David Cameron said \"passing an act of Parliament and then going on to break an international treaty obligation...should be the absolute final resort\".", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nSocial gatherings of more than six people have become illegal in England. Versions of the \"rule of six\" - explained in detail - are now in place right across the UK and are designed to provide clarity. However, there are significant differences between nations. It applies indoors and out in England and Scotland, but not in Wales and Northern Ireland. In Scotland and Wales, children under 11 and 12 respectively are exempt. A reminder of why this is all being brought in - that crucial R number is rising.\n\nEvery GP practice in England has been sent a letter telling them they must make sure patients can access face-to-face appointments where needed. It follows concerns that vulnerable people have been shut out due to the pandemic. The Royal College of GPs said it was an \"insult\" to suggest its members hadn't been doing their jobs properly. An estimated half of the 102 million appointments from March to July were by video or phone call. Read more on how GPs are changing the way they work.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Debbie Noland wears full PPE when seeing patients and cleans the examination room between patients\n\nEmployers in Britain are preparing for more than twice as many redundancies than they did at the height of the last recession. According to the Institute for Employment Studies, about 380,000 were planned from May to July this year - set against 180,000 over a comparable period in 2009. Redundancies could reach 735,000 this autumn, researchers say. TUC leader Frances O'Grady is urging the chancellor to \"stand by working families\" as the furlough scheme nears its end.\n\nMany household names have announced redundancy plans since the pandemic began\n\nGlobally, a new daily record of coronavirus infections has been set. The World Health Organization reported more than 307,000 new cases on Sunday. Deaths rose by more than 5,500, bringing the global total to 917,417. The biggest rises were in India, the US and Brazil, but countries across Europe are also seeing a surge in infections.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge and the National Portrait Gallery will today unveil a digital exhibition of photographs taken by members of the public during lockdown. More than 31,000 submissions poured in, along the themes of Helpers and Heroes, Your New Normal and Acts of Kindness. The final 100 selected by judges are moving and uplifting - take a look at a few in our gallery and see them all on the National Portrait Gallery's website.\n\nThe Stockport Spider-Men kept children entertained during lockdown\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, you may have heard about Covid marshals who'll be patrolling city centres to enforce the \"rule of six\". But who are they and what powers do they have?\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Officers were called to the beach at St Andrews Castle\n\nA gathering of about 50 young people on a Fife beach sparked a police response.\n\nOfficers were called to the beach at St Andrews Castle at about 21:50 on Friday.\n\nIt is understood that the group was made up of students who were adhering to social distancing guidelines and left the area when requested.\n\nA spokeswoman for Police Scotland said: \"Officers attended, gave advice and the group dispersed.\" No fines were issued or arrests made.\n\nCurrent Scottish government coronavirus guidance limits outdoor gatherings to 15 people from five other households.\n\nHowever, restrictions are due to change on Monday when people will only be able to meet in groups of no more than six.\n\nChildren aged under 12 will not be subject to the new \"rule of six\".\n\nA spokesman for the University of St Andrews said students, local young people and visitors often held parties and barbecues on local beaches at this time of year.\n\nHe said the vast majority were observing public health guidelines, remaining in small household groups and behaving responsibly.\n\n\"This is an incredibly difficult period for students, not just in St Andrews but across the country,\" he added.\n\n\"They have experienced a year like no other, far more than their fair share of disruption, and are facing a very different university experience from the one which tradition might have liked to promise.\n\n\"It is so important that while we remain cautious and prudent, and encourage our students to observe safe behaviour, we empower and support them to show what they can do during these enormously restrictive times. \"", "Businesses in Wales face challenges preparing for a potential no-deal Brexit because of debt taken on to deal with coronavirus, according to leaders.\n\nNine out of 10 members report cashflow problems over the pandemic, says the Federation of Small Businesses Wales.\n\nIt comes as tensions in the trade talks between the UK and the EU increased this week - leading some to believe a no-deal Brexit is more likely.\n\nJoshua Miles from FSB Wales said cashflow was firms' \"main issue\".\n\n\"One in five of our members have had government backed loans, others have gone into debt, used credit cards, some borrowed money from friends and relatives, and others have used their own life savings,\" he said.\n\n\"All of that means they just haven't had the time or money to prepare for something like a no-deal Brexit.\n\n\"That's going to be a real challenge for us going forward.\n\n\"It puts us in a very vulnerable position.\"\n\nGym boss Wendy Morris said she was worried about the economic impact of a no-deal Brexit\n\nCarwyn Jones, the Labour MS for Bridgend and former first minister, said Brexit makes the UK economy particularly vulnerable.\n\n\"Every other country in the world has to deal with Covid, but the UK is the only country that has to deal with Brexit.\n\n\"It means the UK as a whole is uniquely disadvantaged.\"\n\nBridgend Conservative MP Dr Jamie Wallis said: \"A Brexit deal is still a priority for the government, however, it must centre around free trade with other EU states.\n\n\"What's important is that any deal that we strike does not sacrifice the promise we made to the British to take back control of our money, borders and laws.\n\n\"That is what the people who voted to leave the European Union expect.\"\n\nWendy Morris, who runs Energie Fitness gym in Bridgend, said she was worried about the economic impact of a no-deal Brexit but just wants the government to \"get on with it\".\n\n\"I think quite honestly that any kind of deal, including a no-deal is better than the state of flux we're in at the moment,\" she said.\n\n\"We need certainty. It impacts on everybody and I'm concerned that because of coronavirus the government is looking in two different directions.\"\n\nViews are mixed among her clients.\n\nLisa Driscoll said: \"I know Brexit's coming but I think we should focus on coronavirus.\"\n\nDaniel Bayliss said: \"If, hopefully, we can get coronavirus under control, get some kind of certainty on the negotiations for Brexit, then things can start to look a bit more hopeful.\n\n\"At the moment I don't think many people feel hopeful.\"", "YouTube is facing a legal battle for allegedly breaching the privacy and data rights of under-13s in the UK.\n\nA claim lodged with the High Court against parent company Google accuses the firm of collecting children's data without parental consent.\n\nPrivacy expert Duncan McCann, who is bringing the action, argues this is a breach of UK and European (EU) law.\n\nA YouTube spokesperson said it does not comment on pending litigation and the platform is not for use by under-13s.\n\nMr McCann, a father of three children under the age of 13, believes that if the case is successful, damages of between £100 and £500 could be payable to those whose data was breached.\n\n\"When the internet first emerged, we used to be worried about how children used the internet, said Mr McCann.\n\n\"That is still a problem, but now it's a two-way street. We need to focus on how the internet is using our children, and ask ourselves if we're comfortable with them becoming a product for these digital platforms?\"\n\n\"That's the future I don't want,\" he added.\n\nHe told the BBC that the class action is the first in Europe brought against a technology firm on behalf of children. He says that estimated damages of more than £2bn are being sought for about five million British children as well as their parents or guardians.\n\nHe will argue that YouTube and Google have breached the UK's Data Protection Act and the EU's General Data Protection Regulations.\n\nThe case will focus on children who have watched YouTube since May 2018, when the new Data Protection Act became law.\n\n\"I think we're at the stage, where the only way we can move forward and hold these companies accountable is through the legal process,\" Mr McCann said.\n\nA YouTube spokesperson said: \"We don't comment on pending litigation. YouTube is not for children under the age of 13.\n\n\"We launched the YouTube Kids app as a dedicated destination for kids and have made further changes that allow us to better protect kids and families on YouTube,\" they added.\n\nThe video platform has also previously said that it does not sell its users' personal information to advertising companies.\n\nThe case is not expected before next autumn.\n\nMr McCann also told the BBC that it will also depend on the outcome of another data and privacy case being brought against Google.\n\nCampaign group Foxglove and law firm Hausfeld have also said they would support Mr McCann's case.", "The Trades Union Congress made a direct appeal to the chancellor on Monday\n\nThe TUC's leader is asking for government action to avert \"mass unemployment\" amid the pandemic.\n\nTrades Union Congress general secretary Frances O'Grady has told its annual meeting the chancellor must \"stand by working families\" as the furlough scheme nears its end.\n\nShe said: \"If the government doesn't act, we face a tsunami of job losses.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said supporting jobs was \"an absolute priority\".\n\nUnder the government's furlough scheme, workers placed on leave have been able to receive 80% of their pay, up to a maximum of £2,500 a month.\n\nTake-up has been significant, with 9.6 million workers furloughed since March.\n\nThe scheme is due to finish at the end of October and Chancellor Rishi Sunak has repeatedly ruled out an extension to it.\n\nSpeaking at the trade union body's congress in London on Monday, Ms O'Grady said time is running out to prevent huge job losses as the job retention scheme (JRS) comes to a close: \"Millions of livelihoods were saved [by the scheme] - both employees and the self-employed. From this Thursday, it will be just 45 days before the JRS ends.\n\n\"That's the notice period that companies have to give if they intend to make mass redundancies.\n\nThe TUC also called for a new \"job protection and skills deal\"\n\n\"Rishi Sunak, stand by working families - don't walk away. It's so much better to keep people working, paying their taxes, spending and helping to rebuild the economy.\"\n\nThe trade unions body is also calling for a new \"job protection and skills deal\", which would include mandatory training and \"up-skilling\" for workers placed on furlough, for example.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Supporting jobs is an absolute priority which is why we've set out a comprehensive 'Plan for Jobs' to protect, create and support jobs across the UK by providing significant, targeted support where it is needed the most.\n\n\"We are continuing to support livelihoods and incomes through our £2bn Kickstart scheme, creating incentives for training and apprenticeships, a £1,000 retention bonus for businesses that can bring furloughed employees back to work, and doubling the number of frontline work coaches to help people find work.\n\n\"We are also supporting and protecting jobs in the tourism and hospitality sectors through our VAT cut and last month's Eat Out to Help Out scheme.\"", "Six the Musical will be at the Lyric theatre in London from 14 November\n\nSix and Everybody's Talking About Jamie will become the first musicals back in the West End in mid-November, eight months after the curtain came down.\n\nThey will hit the stage three weeks after a string of non-musical shows reopen London's theatre district.\n\nThe Play That Goes Wrong, Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap and Adam Kay's This Is Going To Hurt will all admit socially distant audiences in October.\n\nVenue bosses said \"robust risk mitigation\" would be in place.\n\nThey include reduced capacities, contactless tickets, temperature tests and deep cleans, as well as hand sanitation, face coverings and track and trace.\n\nEverybody's Talking About Jamie is expected to return to the Apollo Theatre in November\n\nThe producers of Six, the hit show about Henry VIII's wives, will take a separate cast to The Lowry in Salford from late November.\n\nThe musical had been due to be staged in the Greater Manchester venue's 450-capacity Quays theatre over Christmas, but will move into the complex's 1,700-seater Lyric in order to accommodate all ticket holders while ensuring social distancing.\n\nThe queens will hit Salford two weeks after they return to the West End at another Lyric Theatre - on Shaftesbury Avenue - on 14 November.\n\n\"We are reconfiguring the entire stalls to absolutely comply with social distancing,\" Nimax Theatres boss Nica Burns told BBC Breakfast.\n\nPromising more legroom as one positive consequence of the new set-up, she added: \"We're taking out some of the rows. We feel very sure that we'll be able to keep this venue safe for our audiences.\"\n\nThe Apollo was covered in tape as part of the Live Theatre Missing campaign in July\n\nMost of the shows that have announced their reopening plans so far will be staged at Nimax venues.\n\nProducers hope Everybody's Talking About Jamie will resume at the Apollo in November, but the group's biggest production - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at the Palace - will not return until at least February.\n\n\"It's impossible to open a large show with social distancing,\" Burns said. \"These shows are very, very expensive and you simply can't meet your weekly costs. So we have to do smaller shows.\"\n\nThe company said it would be operating at a loss after the furlough scheme ends at the end of October.\n\n\"We looked at the financial and human cost of large-scale redundancies,\" a statement said. \"We preferred to put the potential redundancy monies towards employment rather than unemployment.\"\n\nThe Nimax plans will save 355 jobs. Separately, Six's producers said the two productions in London and Salford would account for 100 jobs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Behind the scenes at the Arts Theatre in London to meet the sassy women in King Henry VIII's life\n\nOne of the producers, Kenny Wax, called for news from the government about insurance and a date to welcome audiences without social distancing.\n\n\"We're desperate for some news on a government-backed insurance scheme, which would enable the bigger shows to open,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"That's one of the answers, and the second is the crucial thing, which is stage five of [Culture Secretary] Oliver Dowden's five-point plan, which is no social distancing. Those two things are the things that are going to get all of the West End back open, which of course drives tourism and the economy.\"\n\nA smattering of theatres have already reopened, including the Troubadour in Wembley, north London, where a musical based on the film Sleepless In Seattle had its world premiere in August.\n\nBut Andrew Lloyd Webber recently told MPs it was economically \"impossible\" to run theatres with social distancing, while fellow theatre impresario, Sir Cameron Mackintosh, said in June that shows including Hamilton, Les Miserables, Mary Poppins and The Phantom of the Opera would not return to the West End until 2021.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Drivers who kill others after speeding, racing or using a phone could receive life sentences under new legislation.\n\nThose who cause death by careless driving under the influence of drink or drugs could also get a life sentence.\n\nThe current maximum sentence for each crime is 14 years.\n\nThe sentencing reforms announced this week will be introduced in Parliament early next year. A new offence of causing serious injury by careless driving is also being proposed.\n\nCurrently, without that specific offence, drivers who cause injuries under such circumstances can only be convicted of careless driving - which has the maximum penalty of a fine.\n\nThe proposed law change was first announced in 2017, with Monday's announcement setting a timescale for when the legislation would come into force.\n\nThe increase will apply to offences in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, which has separate road safety laws.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland - also the Lord Chancellor - said: \"This government has been clear that punishments must fit the crime, but too often families tell us this isn't the case with killer drivers.\n\n\"So, today I am announcing that we will bring forward legislation early next year to introduce life sentences for dangerous drivers who kill on our roads, and ensure they feel the full force of the law.\"\n\nThe new legislation forms part of major sentencing reforms being announced in a White Paper this week.\n\nTeenagers convicted of murder in England and Wales could also receive whole-life terms under the proposals. This order means the criminal is kept in prison for the rest of their life without ever becoming eligible for parole.\n\nWith a life sentence, a prisoner is given a number of years they must spend in jail after which they will be eligible to apply for parole.\n\nLast year, 174 people were sentenced for causing death by dangerous driving\n\nA consultation carried out in 2016 gave support for the new driving offence measures from victims, road safety campaigners and people who had lost loved ones.\n\nOf the 9,000 who responded, 90% thought there should be a new offence of causing serious injury by careless driving.\n\nIn addition, 70% of those who responded agreed the maximum penalty for causing death by dangerous driving should be increased to life imprisonment.\n\nLast year, 174 people were sentenced for causing death by dangerous driving, and another 19 for causing death by careless driving while under the influence.", "Nicola Sturgeon has voiced \"very serious concerns\" about an apparent backlog of coronavirus test results.\n\nThe Scottish first minister said she was seeking \"urgent discussions\" with UK ministers over delays to results.\n\nOnly 70 new positive cases of the virus were confirmed in Scotland on Monday, compared with 244 on Sunday.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the figures were \"not yet complete\", and suggested that schools going back in England could be causing a spike in demand for tests.\n\nThe system in Scotland was hit by \"exceptional demand\" when pupils returned to schools in August.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said a \"significant\" number of people had been seeking tests, including some \"who do not have symptoms and are not otherwise eligible\" - but that capacity was at its highest level ever.\n\nThe \"vast bulk\" of Scotland's coronavirus testing is carried out as part of a UK-wide network of test centres and mobile testing units, with the results processed in Lighthouse labs such as the one in Glasgow.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the Scottish government had been \"fully engaged and involved in that system\", and wanted to work \"in partnership with the UK government\" to solve any problems.\n\nHowever, amid reports of a backlog of tests, she said UK ministers needed to \"share the scale and nature of the issues\" so that \"we can collectively and very quickly find solutions\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"We now have a very serious concern that the backlog of test results being faced by the UK lab network is starting to impact on the timeous reporting of Scottish results.\n\n\"We have reason to be concerned that the figures that have been reported today are not complete, because some of the turnaround of the tests done in Scotland over yesterday is longer.\n\n\"I'll be seeking urgent discussions later today with UK government counterparts just to make sure we are doing everything possible to get on top of this before it becomes a bigger issue.\"\n\nOn Sunday, the DHSC said the Test and Trace system was working and that \"our capacity is the highest it has ever been\".\n\nHowever, it added: \"We are seeing a significant demand for tests, including from people who do not have symptoms and are not otherwise eligible.\n\n\"New booking slots and home testing kits are made available daily for those who need them and we are targeting testing capacity at the areas that need it most, including those where there is an outbreak, and prioritising at-risk groups.\n\n\"Our laboratories are processing more than a million tests a week and we recently announced new facilities and technology to process results even faster.\"\n\nAt her daily coronavirus briefing, the first minister said Scotland was in a \"precarious situation\".\n\nEven with a lower number of positive results on Monday, they still represented 2.7% of people tested. A few weeks ago that figure was usually around or below 1%.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the number of new cases was trebling roughly every three weeks, a pattern which is \"not sustainable\".\n\nNew restrictions on the number of people who can meet up were imposed on Monday, limiting gatherings to six people from two households.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"We have to act now, we have to act quickly to prevent and even greater increase in cases as we go through autumn and into winter.\"", "UK-based computer chip designer ARM Holdings is being sold to the American graphics chip specialist Nvidia.\n\nThe deal values ARM at $40bn (£31.2bn), four years after it was bought by Japanese conglomerate Softbank for $32bn.\n\nARM's technology is at the heart of most smartphones, among many other devices.\n\nNvidia has promised to keep the business based in the UK, to hire more staff, and to retain ARM's brand.\n\nIt added that the deal would create \"the premier computing company for the age of artificial intelligence\" (AI).\n\n\"ARM will remain headquartered in Cambridge,\" said Nvidia's chief executive Jensen Huang.\n\n\"We will expand on this great site and build a world-class AI research facility, supporting developments in healthcare, life sciences, robotics, self-driving cars and other fields.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Nvidia chief explains why he wants to buy ARM\n\nA number of business leaders have signed an open letter calling on the Prime Minister to stop the merger.\n\nA senior government source told the BBC that it would not block the sale, but said conditions could be imposed on the takeover.\n\nSoftbank made commitments to secure jobs and keep ARM's headquarters in the UK until September next year.\n\n\"So far, when you read the announcement coming from Nvidia they said they will honour that Softbank has made at the time,\" said Sonja Laud, chief investment officer at Legal & General Investment Management.\n\n\"But with the expiry about to happen and obviously the Brexit negotiations under way it will be very interesting to see how this develops in the future.\"\n\nThis appears to address concerns that British jobs would be lost and decision-making shifted to the US. Last week, the Labour Party had urged the government to intervene.\n\nBut two of ARM's co-founders have raised other issues about the takeover.\n\nHermann Hauser and Tudor Brown had suggested ARM should remain \"neutral\", rather than be owned by a company like Nvidia, which produces its own processors.\n\nThe concern is that there would be a conflict of interest since ARM's clients would become dependent on a business with which many also compete for sales.\n\nMoreover, the two co-founders also claimed that once ARM was owned by an American firm, Washington could try to block Chinese companies from using its knowhow as part of a wider trade clash between the countries.\n\nHermann Hauser (left) and Tudor Brown (right) have warned the takeover would have negative consequences\n\n\"If ARM becomes a US subsidiary of a US company, it falls under the Cfius [Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States] regulations,\" Mr Hauser told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"[That] means that if hundreds of UK companies that incorporate ARM's [technology] in their products, want to sell it, and export it to anywhere in the world including China - which is a major market - the decision on whether they will be allowed to export it will be made in the White House and not in Downing Street.\"\n\nHe added that he believed the pledge to retain and increase the number of UK jobs was \"meaningless\" unless UK ministers stepped in to make it legally enforceable.\n\nBut ARM's chief executive played down the threat of export bans.\n\n\"It isn't to do with the ownership of the company, it's all to do with analysis of the product itself,\" Simon Segars told the BBC.\n\n\"The majority of our products are designed in the UK or outside the US, and the majority of our products don't fall under much of the US export control set of rules.\"\n\nMr Huang added that ARM had \"some of the finest computer scientists in the world\" in Cambridge and he intended to both retain them and attract others to what would become Nvidia's largest site in Europe.\n\nThe UK prime minister's spokesman said \"ministers have spoken to both companies\", adding that the government would be scrutinising the deal \"including what it means for the Cambridge HQ\".\n\nARM creates computer chip designs that others then customise to their own ends. It also develops instruction sets, which define how software controls processors.\n\nIt is based in Cambridge but also has offices across the world, including a joint venture in Shenzhen, China.\n\nHundreds of companies license its innovations including Apple, Samsung, Huawei and Qualcomm. To date, ARM says 180 billion chips have been made based on its solutions.\n\nWhen Softbank acquired ARM, it promised to keep the company's headquarters in the UK and to increase the number of local jobs, which it did.\n\nSoftbank's founder Masayoshi Son described the firm as being a \"crystal ball\" that would help him predict where tech was heading. But losses on other investments, including the office rental company WeWork, prompted a rethink.\n\nCalifornia-headquartered Nvidia overtook Intel to become the world's most valuable chipmaker in July.\n\nUntil now, it has specialised in high-end graphics processing units (GPUs). These are commonly used by gamers to deliver more detailed visuals, as well as by professionals for tasks including scientific research, machine learning, and cryptocurrency \"mining\".\n\nNvidia is also one of ARM's clients, using its designs to create its line-up of Tegra central processing units (CPUs).\n\nUnder the terms of the deal, Nvidia will pay Softbank $21.5bn in its own stock and $12bn in cash. It will follow with up to a further $5bn in cash or stock if certain targets are met.\n\nNvidia will also issue $1.5bn in equity to ARM's employees.\n\nMr Huang has already said that one of the changes he wants to make is to accelerate development of ARM's designs for CPUs used in computer servers - a rapidly growing sector.\n\nAmazon is among companies that are already betting on the tech.\n\nThe use of internet-based services has led to ever-growing demand for computer servers\n\nBut experts say one risk Nvidia faces is that the takeover could encourage ARM's wider client list to shift focus to a rival type of chip technology, which lags behind in terms of adoption but has the benefit of not being controlled by one company.\n\n\"ARM is facing growing competition from RISC-V, an open-source architecture,\" wrote CCS Insight's Geoff Blaber in a recent research note.\n\n\"If its partners believed that ARM's integrity and independence was compromised, it would accelerate the growth of RISC-V and in the process devalue ARM.\"\n\nMr Blaber also suggested regulators might block the deal.\n\n\"This process will take months if not years with a high chance of failure,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMr Huang has said that he expects it to take more than a year to \"educate\" regulators and answer all their questions, but said he had \"every confidence\" they would ultimately approve the investment.\n\nIt's a deal which the man who founded ARM says is a disaster.\n\nAnd many in the UK's technology industry will agree with Hermann Hauser.\n\nHe opposed the 2016 sale of the chip designer to Softbank but accepted that the Japanese firm stood by its guarantees to boost employment and research in Cambridge.\n\nBut a takeover by Nvidia, one of the many firms that licences ARM's designs, appears to pose a threat to its business model - why will its hundreds of other customers now have faith that they will have equal access to its technology?\n\nIn recent days leading figures in the Cambridge technology sector have lobbied Downing Street, calling for ministers to intervene to bring ARM back under UK ownership. There have been signs that the government is considering a more active industrial policy.\n\nDominic Cummings, who has talked of the need for the UK to have a trillion dollar tech company, is leading the drive for a more interventionist approach.\n\nNow, with Hermann Hauser and others warning that this deal will make Britain a US vassal state, the government is under pressure to step in and ensure that control over vital home-grown technology is not lost to a foreign power.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nAustria's Dominic Thiem clinched his first Grand Slam title after a gritty fightback from two sets down stunned Alexander Zverev in the US Open final.\n\nSecond seed Thiem, 27, had lost his previous three major finals and looked destined for another agonising defeat.\n\nBut 23-year-old Zverev, playing in his first Slam final, became edgy at key moments and Thiem took full advantage.\n\nBoth players failed to serve out victory in a tense decider before Thiem sealed a 2-6 4-6 6-4 6-3 7-6 (8-6) win.\n\nThiem took his third championship point when Zverev pulled a backhand wide, leaving the Austrian - who suffered cramp during the tie-break - falling flat on his back in celebration.\n\nWhen he climbed back to his feet, he found a gracious Zverev - with whom he is close friends - waiting to hug him at the net.\n\n\"I wish we could have two winners today, we both deserve it,\" Thiem told Zverev, whom he has known since they were juniors.\n\nThiem is the first player to claim a Grand Slam title from two sets down since Argentine Gaston Gaudio at the French Open in 2004.\n\nIt had been longer since anyone achieved this feat in New York, with Thiem emulating American Pancho Gonzales' comeback in 1949.\n• None Follow all the reaction to Thiem's first major win\n• None 'I dedicated my whole life to this' - new US Open champion Thiem\n\nThiem, who remains third in the world rankings, is the first man to win a maiden Grand Slam singles title since Croat Marin Cilic's 2014 US Open victory.\n\nThe absence of 2019 champion Rafael Nadal and Swiss great Roger Federer at the behind-closed-doors Grand Slam, plus the expulsion of top seed Novak Djokovic for hitting a line judge with a ball, opened the door for a new name to be etched on to a major trophy.\n\nThiem took his opportunity to become the first man outside the 'Big Three' to win the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon or US Open since Switzerland's Stan Wawrinka triumphed at Flushing Meadows in 2016.\n\nWhile this final was not of the same ilk as some recent Grand Slam classics, it developed into a gripping contest which was impossible to call right up to the very last ball.\n\nOdd moments of brilliance from both players were outweighed by mistakes, with the match eventually won by a battle of the minds as much as their techniques.\n\nThiem was the favourite to take advantage of the absence of the 'Big Three' and finally land his maiden Grand Slam title.\n\nThe Austrian had lost the past two French Open finals to Nadal, who cemented his place as the greatest clay-courter of all-time by winning his 11th and 12th titles at Roland Garros.\n\nThen he lost February's Australian Open final against Djokovic, who claimed a record eighth title in Melbourne.\n\nSo this was the first major final where the world number three was not playing one of the game's greats.\n\nWhether his jittery start came as a result of that additional expectation to achieve his ultimate career goal, or perhaps an Achilles injury that bothered him in Friday's semi-final against Daniil Medvedev, was unclear.\n\nEventually, he settled down to the task after trailing by two sets and a break. Thiem started to land more first serves and find more fizz in his returning game, as well as being aided by Zverev's own edginess starting to appear in the third and fourth sets.\n\nMomentum had now swung back to the Austrian and when he broke serve in the first game of the decider, it seemed like that might have been the catalyst for him to close out victory relatively comfortably.\n\nThat was not the case as the drama stepped up. Thiem hit a double fault on break point in the next game, then fought back from 0-30 in the sixth game after a stunning forehand winner down the line.\n\nLittle separated the pair as they were locked at 3-3, having won 139 points each in the match, and led to that riveting finale where they split four breaks of serves before the tie-break decided the outcome.\n\nLike Thiem, Zverev was also aiming to fulfil his much vaunted potential by winning a first Grand Slam title.\n\nThe 23-year-old made a confident start in his first major final as he moved into a two-set lead, but some of his weaknesses - particularly the tendency to hit double faults under pressure - began to appear.\n\nTwo double faults in the fifth-set tie-break gave the upper hand to Thiem, who eventually got over the line despite struggling physically in the final moments.\n\nZverev's heartbreak at the manner of his defeat was clear, breaking down in tears as he struggled through his runner-up speech.\n\nHe cried as he tried to thank his parents Alexander - also his coach - and Irina who were not in New York after testing positive for coronavirus.\n\n\"I miss them. I'm sure they are sitting at home pretty proud even though I lost. I wish one day I can bring the trophy home,\" he said.\n\nFor so long Zverev had been touted as a major winner but had failed to deliver on the Grand Slam stage.\n\nThat was until he reached his first Grand Slam semi-final at the Australian Open earlier this year - where he lost to Thiem - and then backed that up by going one better in New York.\n\n\"It was a tough battle and I wish you had missed a little bit more so I could lift that trophy,\" he told Thiem.\n\n\"To my team, the last two years haven't been easy but we are definitely on our way up.\"\n\nAn astonishing Grand Slam final - which had moments of sheer genius, and others which felt like intruding on private grief.\n\nFor the first two sets, Thiem was listless and horribly off key; Zverev often excelling in his first Grand Slam final.\n\nThe final set produced the best tennis of the match, but also moments of unbearable stress and pressure. Both served for the title, and in the tie-break Zverev's two double faults made the difference, after Thiem looked to have a case of terminal cramp.\n\nPerhaps we underestimated just how stressful it would be to win a Grand Slam in the absence of Djokovic, Federer and Nadal. Without any of them as opponents in the final, neither could pretend they had nothing to lose.\n\nIt will be a crushing disappointment to Zverev, but he has reached a semi-final and a final in this year's two majors, with still so much room to improve.\n\nThiem, meanwhile, is likely to become an even more formidable Grand Slam foe for Djokovic and Nadal.\n\nHe will think anything is possible right now, but surely even this extraordinary athlete will need more than 13 days to get ready for another tilt at a major title at the French Open in Paris.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "World champions England claimed an astonishing 24-run victory as Australia crumbled in the second one-day international at Emirates Old Trafford.\n\nChasing 232 to win the series, Australia were cruising at 144-2 before Chris Woakes and Jofra Archer induced a collapse of four wickets for three runs in 21 balls.\n\nA reeling Australia lost their final eight wickets for 63 runs as they were bowled out for 207, despite a valiant last-wicket partnership of 31 between Alex Carey and Josh Hazlewood.\n\nEngland earlier collapsed to 149-8, with leg-spinner Adam Zampa taking 3-36 before Adil Rashid and Tom Curran pushed them to 231-9.\n• None 'We've got the belief we can win from any position'\n\nCaptain Eoin Morgan said he wanted his side to learn how to \"win ugly\" and will be pleased with how they dragged themselves back into the game.\n\nArcher was as hostile as he has been for England, disrupting the opening batsmen first up before returning to the attack with Woakes and triggering a collapse.\n\nAs good as England were, this was an almost unbelievable collapse from Australia, who gifted wickets with poor shots, no foot movement and a generally bewildered air.\n\nEngland now have a chance to keep their five-year unbeaten run in home one-day series in the final match of the series at the same ground on Wednesday.\n\nWhen Archer and Woakes returned to the attack, with Marnus Labuschagne and Aaron Finch sharing a 107-run stand, it felt like the game was over.\n\nHowever, the two stifled the run-rate before Woakes trapped Labuschagne lbw, and six balls later Mitchell Marsh chopped Archer on to his stumps.\n\nWhen captain Finch, who had led the way with 73, was bowled by Woakes in the next over, England upped their intensity, and it paid off as Glenn Maxwell played a wild slog and was bowled.\n\nIt was the speed with which the collapse happened that was so surprising, with Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc falling to consecutive Sam Curran deliveries as the left-armer used all his variations.\n\nAustralia had this match within their grasp and, for the second time on this tour, they let it slip.\n\nAustralia created their own downfall, as the partnership between Finch and Labuschagne had highlighted England's struggle to take middle-order wickets - a skill that Liam Plunkett led the way in for so long.\n\nRashid could not find the right length on a pitch that offered some turn, while the Curran brothers, replacing Moeen Ali and Mark Wood, could not make the breakthrough.\n\nFinch and Labuschagne countered a tricky pitch with aggression and calm running, although Finch was dropped on 58 by Rashid in his follow-through.\n\nBut Australia twice had the chance to close this match out, the first coming with the ball when they failed to clean up England's tail, and secondly as they cruised past the halfway stage with the bat.\n\nThey will hope that Steve Smith, who again missed this match as a precaution following a blow to the head in the nets on Friday, will return to offer some stability to a slightly fragile line-up.\n\nThis was a far from vintage performance with the bat by England, who were suffocated by Australia's bowlers.\n\nRoot epitomised the struggles. He was hit three times by the pace bowlers - at one point requiring treatment after a blow to the knee from Starc - and in his desperation to rotate the strike, ran out Jason Roy via a superb throw from Marcus Stoinis at cover.\n\nDespite looking uncomfortable, Root and Morgan guided England to 90-2, Root just beginning to cut loose with back-to-back boundaries before he edged Zampa to slip in his first over.\n\nWith the run-rate going nowhere, wickets fell regularly. Jos Buttler was trapped lbw by Pat Cummins, Morgan fell in similar fashion to Zampa, Sam Billings chopped the leg-spinner on to his stumps and Sam Curran edged Starc behind.\n\nChris Woakes played a handy cameo but it was Rashid and Tom Curran who helped England finish strongly.\n\nThe final six overs went for 67 runs, including 18 off the otherwise excellent Cummins. Rashid slapped Cummins over deep mid-wicket for just the second six of England's innings as the two shared a 72-run stand.\n\nAustralia were clearly frustrated as they left the field, but that was nothing compared to how they will feel after the batting performance that was to follow.\n\n'England never know when they are beaten' - what they said\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan on BBC Test Match Special: \"It was an outstanding win - not from nowhere but having the bowlers execute plans as well as we did, particularly when Australia started to gather momentum in the Aaron Finch and Marnus Labuschagne partnership.\n\n\"Once we broke into partnerships it was very tough for batsmen to come in and get going. That was certainly the case when we were batting.\"\n\nOn his decision to bowl Jofra Archer and Chris Woakes out early: \"The game was getting away from us - there was no point Jofra having two or three overs left, and the same with Chris Woakes, if Australia are going to chase it down in the 42nd over. We went all in and the plan was to bowl Australia out.\"\n\nAustralia captain Aaron Finch: \"At the end of the day England were just too good. England scored 81 runs in the last 10 overs, which wasn't ideal.\n\n\"It was getting more difficult as the match went on but that's no excuse for the collapse. It probably wasn't the greatest viewer match but it was good to see an equal match between bat and ball.\"\n\nEngland bowler Chris Woakes: \"It's great to have someone like Jofra Archer in your team because when you're up against it you can give him the ball and you get that little bit of X-factor from him, which is brilliant.\"\n\nEx-England spinner Phil Tufnell on TMS: \"England never know when they are beaten. They always feel like they can drag it out of the fire.\"\n• None Nine interesting facts about the famous chef", "The Oruc Reis seismic research ship was surveying drilling prospects in disputed waters\n\nA Turkish research ship at the centre of a row with Greece over oil and gas exploration in a disputed area of the Eastern Mediterranean has returned to waters near southern Turkey.\n\nGreek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis welcomed the move as a \"positive first step\".\n\nTurkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said the move did not mean Turkey was \"giving up on our rights there\".\n\nTensions flared when Ankara sent the research ship to survey an area claimed by Greece, Turkey and Cyprus.\n\nAnkara has since faced potential sanctions from the European Union, which supports Greece and Cyprus.\n\nRatcheting pressure up further on Saturday, Mr Mitsotakis announced Greece was \"reinforcing its armed forces\" and would buy 18 French Rafale fighter jets, four frigates and four navy helicopters. He said the Greek military would increase by troop numbers by 15,000 over the next five years.\n\nGreece and Turkey are both Nato members, but have a history of border disputes and competing claims over maritime rights.\n\nOn 10 August, Turkey sent the seismic research ship Oruc Reis, accompanied by two auxiliary vessels, to search for potentially rich oil and gas deposits south of the Greek island of Kastellorizo. At the time, the Greek foreign ministry called the move a \"new serious escalation\" which \"exposed\" Turkey's \"destabilising role\".\n\nThere are also tensions around Cyprus over rival exploration rights. The Republic of Cyprus and Greece do not accept any such rights for Turkish-controlled northern Cyprus in the region.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Akar confirmed that the Oruc Reis had returned to Turkish waters. Ship-tracking websites showed it near the port of Antalya.\n\n\"There will be planned movements backwards and forwards,\" Mr Akar told state news agency Anadolu.\n\nLast week, Turkey's navy said that the Oruc Reis would continue operations in the area until 12 September. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said exploratory work would continue but there were no plans so far for an extension to the ship's mission.\n\nThe Turkish pro-government newspaper, Yeni Safak, said the decision not to extend the ship's mission was \"a step towards giving diplomacy a chance\".\n\nFrance has deployed Rafale fighters to the Eastern Mediterranean\n\n\"This is a positive first step. I hope there will be more of them,\" Greek PM Mitsotakis told a news conference in Thessaloniki on Sunday.\n\nFrance - which is at odds with Turkey over the crisis in Libya - recently deployed two Rafale fighter jets and a naval frigate in the Eastern Mediterranean because of the tensions between Greece and Turkey.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron said the French military would monitor the situation. He also urged Turkey to halt oil and gas exploration in disputed waters.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Miliband to Johnson: \"He hasn't read the bill\"\n\nA proposed law giving Boris Johnson's government the power to override parts of the Brexit agreement with the EU has passed its first hurdle in the Commons.\n\nMPs backed the Internal Market Bill by 340 votes to 263.\n\nMinisters say it contains vital safeguards to protect Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, if negotiations on a future trade deal break down.\n\nBut critics, including a number of Tory MPs, warned it risks damaging the UK by breaching international law.\n\nTwo Tory MPs voted against the bill on Monday night - Sir Roger Gale and Andrew Percy - while a further 30 abstained, although some of those may not have been for political reasons.\n\nAlthough the government has a majority of 80 in the Commons, it is braced for further rebellions in the coming weeks as the legislation receives detailed scrutiny.\n\nSeveral prominent Conservatives, including former Chancellor Sajid Javid - who appeared to abstain on Monday - have said they could not support the final bill unless it is amended.\n\nBut Home Secretary Priti Patel insisted it put the \"safeguards and mechanisms in place to ensure that we stay true to the people of Northern Ireland\".\n\nSir Roger Gale, the Tory MP for North Thanet in Kent, told the BBC's Newsnight he had voted against the bill as a \"matter of principle\" to uphold international law.\n\n\"I think that this is damaging our international reputation for honest and straight-dealing at a time when we are about to embark on a series of trade negotiations. I took a view that you fight this tooth and nail at every step.\"\n\nHe suggested other colleagues were \"holding their fire\" until later in the bill's passage, with a group led by ex-minister Sir Bob Neill pressing for a \"parliamentary lock\" on the government's ability to exercise the powers.\n\n\"I'm not remotely surprised that I am a tiny minority. I think that may change next Tuesday,\" he added.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, former Conservative leader Lord Hague also warned against breaching international law, saying it would be \"a serious foreign policy error\".\n\n\"It would have a lasting and damaging effect on our international reputation and standing, diminishing our ability to exert our influence and protect our interests.\"\n\nMs Patel told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the government was still working closely with the EU to \"settle on our future relationship\".\n\nBut she defended the bill, saying it stood by the party's manifesto commitments from the 2019 election to \"ensure peace, security and good governance for the whole of the United Kingdom\".\n\nThe bill is designed to enable goods and services to flow freely across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland when the UK leaves the EU's single market and customs union on 1 January.\n\nBut, controversially, it gives the government the power to change aspects of the EU withdrawal agreement, a legally-binding deal governing the terms of the UK's exit from the EU earlier this year.\n\nMinisters say this is a failsafe mechanism in case the EU interprets the agreement, in particular the Northern Ireland Protocol designed to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland, in an \"extreme and unreasonable\" way.\n\nBoris Johnson's government has a hefty majority. It was never going to lose Monday night's vote in the Commons.\n\nDowning Street calculates that most of the public won't pay that much attention to yet more Westminster argy-bargy about the Brexit process.\n\nIn turn, many Tory MPs are sure that the wrangling over the UK Internal Market Bill won't filter through to their constituents.\n\nAnd where it does, they would much more likely take the side of the government taking a tough line with the EU than share the concerns of former prime ministers or august lawyers foaming about the government's behaviour.\n\nAnd yet - first off, to state the obvious, opposition from former occupants of No 10, former chancellors and former cabinet ministers is not exactly a sign of peace and harmony.\n\nBut the resistance to No 10 goes beyond the usual suspects this time.\n\nDuring a five-hour debate, Mr Johnson claimed the EU's current approach could lead to excessive checks and even tariffs on goods moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nHe said the bill would ensure the UK's \"economic and political integrity\", accusing the EU of making unfair demands to \"exert leverage\" in the trade talks - including a threat to block food exports.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I have absolutely no desire to use these measures\"\n\nBut ministers also said they would listen to concerns, insisting that the powers being sought would only be used if other legal avenues had been exhausted and only if MPs explicitly voted to activate them.\n\nA government spokesman said it was vital the bill - which is expected to face stern opposition in the House of Lords - becomes law by the end of the year when EU law will cease to have effect in the UK.\n\n\"It will protect the territorial integrity of the UK and the peace in Northern Ireland, safeguarding trade and jobs across all four corners of the UK following the end of the transition period,\" he said.\n\nThe PM also held a call with Conservative members of the House of Lords on Monday night.\n\nLabour said the PM was reneging on a deal he himself signed earlier this year, and on which Conservative MPs campaigned in the 2019 election, and was \"trashing\" the UK's reputation.\n\nBut the Commons also voted against a Labour amendment to reject the bill entirely by 349 votes to 213.\n\nMPs will now begin detailed scrutiny of the bill on Tuesday with Conservative MPs seeking further assurances that the UK will not betray its treaty obligations.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer calls for “urgent talks” to set up “new targeted support” when the furlough scheme ends\n\nSir Keir Starmer has called on the government to replace the furlough scheme and outlaw \"firing and re-hiring\" methods to avoid the \"scarring effect\" of \"mass unemployment\".\n\nAlmost 10 million workers have been furloughed since March but the scheme is set to end on 31 October.\n\nThe Labour leader made an \"open offer\" to work on a plan with the PM including targeted support for badly-hit sectors.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said he would be \"creative\" in helping people find work.\n\nHe told Cabinet it was his \"top priority\", but said that \"indefinitely keeping people out of work is not the answer\".\n\nHowever, Employment Minister Mims Davies hinted there could be a more targeted approach when Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveils his budget later in the year.\n\nShe said there would be \"sectors that take longer to come back\" from the pandemic, adding: \"I don't think this government is afraid of supporting where we can [and we] have fiscal events where the chancellor can start to look at that.\"\n\nSir Keir's speech at this year's Trades Union Congress' annual conference comes as the latest UK unemployment figures are released, showing the highest level for two years.\n\nThe unemployment rate grew to 4.1% in the three months to July - compared with 3.9% previously - with young people were particularly hard hit.\n\nSir Keir made the case for replacing the job retention scheme - also known as the furlough scheme - which was introduced to support employers and staff during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nUnder it, employees placed on leave due to virus restrictions have received 80% of their pay up to a maximum of £2,500 a month.\n\nSince September, firms have had to start making a contribution to wages as part of the scheme winding down.\n\nThe government has been reluctant to extend the furlough scheme beyond October with Boris Johnson arguing that it would only keep people \"in suspended animation\".\n\nSpeaking to the conference via Zoom while isolating at home, Sir Keir said: \"We all know the furlough scheme can't go on as it is forever, but the truth is the virus is still with us and infections are increasing.\n\n\"It just isn't possible to get back to work or reopen businesses. It isn't a choice. It's the cold reality of this crisis.\n\n\"So it makes no sense at all for the government to pull support away now in one fell swoop.\"\n\nThe Labour leader said the government should hold urgent talks with his party, trade unions and businesses, and use a \"bit of imagination\" to create \"new targeted support that can replace the job retention scheme and develop those sectors where it is most needed\" - such as retail, hospitality and aviation.\n\n\"Imagine how powerful it would be if we all shared a national plan to protect jobs, create new ones and invest in skills and trade,\" he added.\n\n\"So I'm making an open offer to the prime minister: work with us to keep millions of people in work, work with the trade unions, work with businesses and do everything possible to protect jobs and deliver for workers. My door is open.\"\n\nPolitically, Keir Starmer's language was at least as interesting as his post-furlough policies.\n\nFirst, his call for a \"national plan\" and his offer of an \"open door\" to government.\n\nHe is attempting to appear as a consensus-builder, and placing responsibility for any lack of engagement on Boris Johnson.\n\nThis is felt to be a more effective tactic than unadulterated criticism - offering potential solutions as well as pointing out problems.\n\nIt has caused teeth-gnashing amongst some on his party's left, however.\n\nSecond, and perhaps more significantly, was the language he used to encase a commitment that Jeremy Corbyn could have made.\n\nThe re-hiring of employees on worse conditions was \"against British values\" and hit those who worked hard he said and should be banned.\n\nThis terminology is aimed at those residing amidst the ruins of the red wall, presenting left-wing positions that might appeal to them as \"patriotic\".\n\nThe question for the future is how far Keir Starmer will feel he has to change previous Labour policies rather than to re-badge them.\n\nOther proposals from Labour include expanding part-time working and rewarding employers who give people hours rather than cut jobs, and providing training and support for those who can't come back full-time.\n\n\"We know only too well the scarring effect massive mass unemployment will have on communities and families across the country,\" Sir Keir added.\n\n\"We cannot let that happen again.\"\n\nThe Labour leader praised trade unions as \"unsung heroes\" saying: \"Without you there would have been no furlough scheme, no life raft for seven million people.\"\n\nAnd he pledged to \"stand together\" with the unions under his leadership.\n\nDuring questions from union members, Sir Keir also called for a \"different approach\" to the care sector, which he said had been \"underpaid and undervalued\" for years.\n\nAnd asked about the return to workplaces, he criticised the government communications for \"being all over the place\" but said going back safely was \"in the best interest of everybody and in the best interests of the country\".", "The small town of Leighton Buzzard has experienced two earthquakes within a week\n\nLeighton Buzzard residents have felt a second earthquake within a week.\n\nThe British Geological Survey (BGS) said a 2.1-magnitude tremor was felt in the Bedfordshire town at 00:20 BST on Monday.\n\nIt comes after a 3.5-magnitude earthquake hit the town on Tuesday.\n\nThe BGS tweeted there had been \"a small number of reports\" from the public with one saying this earthquake \"felt slower and less intense\".\n\nOne Twitter user said: \"What is going on??? Just woken by another earthquake in Leighton Buzzard!\"\n\nLeighton Linslade Town Council mayor Dave Bowater said he slept through the second quake, but the first had been \"a little bit frightening\".\n\n\"We've had two now and the experts say that is one and the aftershock,\" he said. \"We should be done now.\"\n\nMr Bowater, who once spent 10 days living on the 14th floor of a hotel in Tokyo while a number of four and above-magnitude earthquakes took place, said he was surprised to experience two in Leighton Buzzard.\n\n\"It brings things sharply into focus when you can be hit that strongly out of the blue,\" he said.\n\nThe first earthquake struck just north of Leighton Buzzard and was also felt in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, and Milton Keynes and Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire.\n\nA BGS spokesman said the second tremor was more than 100 times smaller than the first.\n\nHe said it \"could have occurred because all the stress in the rocks was not relieved\" or because the first earthquake \"caused a slight change to the stress regime in that location\".\n• None How bad can earthquakes be in the UK?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Schools worked hard to get ready for the new term - but there are worries about lack of access to testing\n\nSchools in England are being \"severely hampered\" by delays in Covid tests for teachers, say head teachers.\n\nJules White, organiser of the WorthLess? network of over 5,000 heads, says there is growing frustration at the lack of access to testing.\n\nThis means teachers have to isolate and that \"serious staff shortages\" could force partial closures in school.\n\nBut a government spokeswoman said \"testing capacity is the highest it has ever been\".\n\nMr White, a West Sussex head teacher whose group grew out of a school funding campaign, has written to England's Education Secretary Gavin Williamson to warn of disruption from delays in Covid testing.\n\nHe warns that efforts to get pupils back for the autumn term are being seriously undermined by a \"test and trace system that is simply not working effectively enough\".\n\nThe group of head teachers, across 75 local authorities, warns that schools are struggling to cope with teachers not being able to get quickly tested for Covid-19 and find out whether they can get back to the classroom.\n\nThe head teachers say this is leaving staff in isolation and \"out of action\".\n\nThe letter warns that schools need to help pupils catch up and get ready for exams next year - and instead the lack of staff could mean even more lost lesson time.\n\nPupils are back in schools but they face safety measures against the spread of Covid-19\n\nThey also warn this uncertainty about Covid cases could be further compounded by seasonal \"coughs and colds\" - and that urgent action is needed on testing, rather than \"vague promises\".\n\n\"It is beyond frustration that we are now seeing teachers and support staff being unable to attend work because they cannot get a test or the results from it are far too slow,\" said Mr White.\n\n\"Time after time, schools are doing their utmost to support the national effort and time after time, we are left confounded by a lack of effective support from government.\"\n\nTehmina Hashmi, head of Bradford Academy in West Yorkshire, who is supporting the letter, warns of the confusion facing her school community over testing.\n\n\"It feels really tense in Bradford,\" she says, with parents reporting they cannot get Covid tests.\n\nMs Hashmi says after working hard to get the school ready through the summer, there is great \"frustration\" at what she says has been \"inept leadership\" over Covid testing.\n\nLast week Geoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said teachers were struggling to get tests locally and were being directed to testing sites hundreds of miles away.\n\nAn academy trust leader has called for a more \"robust strategy\" to help schools facing Covid cases among pupils or staff - as more schools are going to face disruption.\n\nSteve Chalke, chief executive of the Oasis academy trust, said that several of the trust's school have already had to send home year groups, affecting about 1,200 pupils.\n\nHe says that Covid testing needed to be available on the school site and results needed to be turned around quickly - and that eventually there would need to be routine, daily testing.\n\nMr Chalke argued that it would be better to accept the need for a planned rota system, with pupils switching between school and online learning at home, rather than having a \"rotation system by default\" each time a case was discovered.\n\nHe is also calling for a more \"credible\" approach to how next year's exam season will operate in a fair way and wants a big increase in the pupil premium, which provides schools with extra funding for disadvantaged pupils.\n\nA government spokeswoman said that testing levels have increased - \"but we are seeing a significant demand for tests. It is vital that children and school staff only get a test if they develop coronavirus symptoms\".\n\n\"If a positive case is confirmed in a school, swift action is being taken to ask those who have been in close contact to self-isolate, and Public Health England's local health protection teams continue to support and advise schools in this situation,\" said the government spokeswoman.\n\n\"Children who are self-isolating will receive remote education. We will continue to work with schools to ensure all appropriate steps are taken to keep pupils and staff safe.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Cameron said he has “misgivings about what is being proposed”\n\nDavid Cameron has become the fifth former prime minister to criticise a new bill attempting to override the Brexit withdrawal agreement.\n\nNo 10 says the Internal Market Bill was a \"critical piece of legislation for the UK\".\n\nBut Mr Cameron said he had \"misgivings\" over it and breaking an international treaty should be the \"final resort\".\n\nFormer Tory PMs Theresa May and Sir John Major, and Labour's Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have condemned the plan.\n\nHowever, Boris Johnson's official spokesman said the bill delivered a \"vital legal safety net\" so the government can \"take the necessary steps to ensure the integrity of UK's internal market\" - steps it hoped never to have to use.\n\nMPs have begun debating the bill at its second reading, with the PM making the opening remarks, and it is expected to pass this early stage after a vote at around 22:00.\n\nBut the legislation is likely to face more difficulties in its later stages, especially when the bill heads for debate in the Lords.\n\nFormer Attorney General Geoffrey Cox accused Mr Johnson of doing \"unconscionable\" damage to Britain's international reputation and said he would \"withhold\" his support for the bill in its current form.\n\nThe PM's special envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief, Tory MP Rehman Chishti, has resigned over the proposed law, saying: \"I have always acted in a manner which respects the rule of law... [and] voting for this bill as it currently stands would be contrary to the values I hold dearest.\"\n\nA senior government source told the BBC \"all options are on the table\" in terms of possible action against Tory MPs who do not support the bill.\n\nMr Miliband will stand in for Sir Keir Starmer at the opposition dispatch box after the Labour leader was forced to self-isolate at home when a member of his household developed possible coronavirus symptoms.\n\nThe UK left the EU on 31 January, having negotiated and signed the withdrawal agreement with the bloc.\n\nThe two sides are now in the closing weeks of negotiations for a post-Brexit trade deal before the transition period ends on 31 December - with informal talks taking place in Brussels this week.\n\nA key part of the withdrawal agreement - which is now an international treaty - was the Northern Ireland Protocol, designed to prevent a hard border returning to the island of Ireland.\n\nThe Internal Market Bill proposed by the government would override that part of that agreement when it came to goods and would allow the UK to modify or re-interpret \"state aid\" rules on subsidies for firms in Northern Ireland, in the event of the two sides not agreeing a future trade deal.\n\nLast week, Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis said the bill would \"break international law\" in a \"specific and limited way\", leading to swathes of criticism from all sides of the political spectrum.\n\nHere we go again... a Brexit deadline looms, there's a whole lot of noise about it in Westminster, and the UK and the EU can't agree.\n\nAnd yes, yet again, there is a swirling soup of jargon every other sentence.\n\nTake a few steps back though, and here is what this all amounts to - how the UK will trade with its nearest neighbours from January next year onwards and how the different parts of the UK will trade with each other.\n\nThis matters economically - and matters politically too.\n\nThe Brexit process has long exposed the tensions between the UK and Brussels, but don't underestimate the tensions it places on the UK as well.\n\nThose in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales who have long argued to be unshackled from London, as they see it, argue Brexit is the ultimate case study to illustrate their argument.\n\nAnd so the government at Westminster's delicate task is to extricate the UK from one union, the EU, while holding together another one, the UK.\n\nAll of these rows have that central aim at their core.\n\nMr Cameron - who called the EU referendum when he was PM - said he had \"misgivings about what is being proposed\".\n\nSpeaking to reporters, he said: \"Passing an act of Parliament and then going on to break an international treaty obligation is the very, very last thing you should contemplate. It should be the absolute final resort.\"\n\nMr Cameron said the \"bigger picture\" was about trying to get a trade deal with the EU, urging the government to \"keep that context [and] that big prize in mind.\"\n\nThe comments follow stronger criticism by the four other surviving former prime ministers of the UK.\n\nMrs May, who still sits as an MP in the Commons, said breaking international law would damage \"trust\" in the UK, while Mr Brown said it would be akin to \"self-harm\" for the country.\n\nSir John and Mr Blair - who were both in office during key periods of the Northern Ireland peace process - wrote a joint article in the Sunday Times accusing Mr Johnson of \"embarrassing\" the UK and urging MPs to reject the \"shameful\" attempt to override parts of the withdrawal agreement.\n\nEarlier, Policing Minister Kit Malthouse called the bill a \"practical\" step, saying it \"solves the problem that we're faced with\" over the future of trade with the EU.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast: \"What we've done is to say transparently that this is a situation which we think may occur - certainly that's what's being intimated from the EU. It's a problem we have to solve so here's a bill that solves it.\n\n\"In the end those people that oppose this bill have to tell us what the resolution is.\"\n\nOn Sunday, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland told the BBC the bill was an \"insurance policy\" in case the UK and EU do not agree a post-Brexit trade deal.\n\nHe said he hoped powers being sought by ministers would never be needed, and that he would resign if the UK ended up breaking international law \"in a way I find unacceptable\".\n\nBut Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused government ministers of handing out \"misinformation\" over the weekend and \"spinning\" the reasons they were pursuing the new bill.\n\nHe told LBC: \"[Mr Johnson] is making a mistake reneging on a treaty - that will have reputational damage for the UK.\n\n\"I would say to the prime minister, look go away, go back to the drawing board, drop these problems, don't act in this reckless and wrong way and we'll look again at the legislation.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Robert Buckland: \"If I see the rule of law being broken in a way that I find unacceptable then of course I will go\"\n\nThe bill has split opinion on the Tory backbenches.\n\nMP Sir Desmond Swayne said he would be supporting the bill, praising the government for preparing in case no trade deal is agreed by the end of the year.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"If the government didn't take precautions against that possibility, it would be utterly negligent. It is right it arm itself with the powers just in case.\"\n\nBut his colleague, and chair of the Justice Select Committee, Sir Bob Neill, said the government and its supporters needed to \"calm the language\".\n\nHe said there was already a mechanism for addressing the government's concerns, but he was willing to \"meet them half-way\" with an amendment to the bill - only allowing the elements that would break international law to be used if Parliament signs it off.", "A picture of Earth taken from a Rocket Lab Photon. The craft will go to Venus in 2023\n\nWith astronomers detecting a potential signature of life in the clouds of Venus, there's obviously going to be a big push to get some new space missions to the planet.\n\nWe don't know if the phosphine gas recently observed by telescopes is coming from floating microbes or has a simple non-biological origin. Right now, nothing is conclusive. But the only way we're likely to find out for sure is by taking some scientific instruments there.\n\nThe Japanese space agency's Akatsuki orbiter is the one mission at the planet at present, and it was built long before the phosphine question came up – so it's not really best-suited to study the issue.\n\nWhat's needed are some dedicated investigations. And the first opportunity we'll probably get to perform these will be with the private Rocket Lab company.\n\nThis start-up has been making waves with its small Electron rocket, which launches from the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand’s North Island.\n\nThe company's CEO, Peter Beck, is fascinated by Venus and has already announced his intention to send a mission there in 2023. He's funding and constructing it in-house.\n\nRocket Lab will do it with the Photon \"kick-stage\" that goes on the top of an Electron.\n\nIn Earth orbit, this stage does the final placement of small satellites in the part of the sky they want to operate. But the Photon is extremely capable and could shepherd a probe to another planet, and even carry some sensors of its own.\n\nBeck's plan is to drop off an atmospheric entry probe at Venus. As this falls through the “air”, it would radio back its observations of Venusian clouds to the Photon, which in turn would relay that data back to Earth.\n\nPeter Beck says Venus deserves a little more love from space missions\n\nThe entrepreneur's team is working on a payload mass of 37kg.\n\n\"That might not sound a lot, but 37kg can get you an awful lot of instrumentation, especially if you're now very targeted in what you're looking for and what you're trying to measure,” Beck told BBC News.\n\n\"Venus hasn't had a lot of love recently, and I think 2023 is the opportunity to put that right. It's very hard for governments to move quickly but a private mission can. We can go there for a small amount of money, and we can go there many times and have many goes at it, and iterate the learning.\"\n\nRocket Lab's Photon: It will drop off an entry probe to fall through the Venusian atmosphere\n\nIt’s true, the big space agencies operate by a different philosophy. They aim for super, high-fidelity science and engineering – but this means their top-notch missions fly infrequently and at high cost. It's a question of trade-offs.\n\nA Rocket Lab entry probe when it falls through the atmosphere at Venus is not going to spend long in the key zone where phosphine has been detected – between 50km and 60km in altitude. The measurements will be brief.\n\nIdeally, what you need is some sort of long-lived platform, dwelling in the clouds of Venus for weeks or months at a time. Like a balloon. That's the kind of thing big space agencies do.\n\n\"This would allow detailed measurement of cloud,\" explains Dr Colin Wilson from Oxford University, UK, who worked on the European Space Agency's Venus Express probe (2006-2014)\n\n\"We proposed such a mission – the European Venus Explorer – to Esa in 2010, unsuccessfully. This year, in a Nasa-run Venus Flagship Mission study, we proposed including a balloon that would explore the cloud layer for two months, with specific instruments designed to detect biological material if present.\"\n\nIt's a fantastic idea and follows in the pioneering footsteps of the Soviet Vega balloons at Venus in the 1980s, although they only worked for a couple of days.\n\nThe problem is that, even if approved for development, we wouldn't see a Nasa Venus flagship mission - and its balloon - fly until the 2030s at the earliest. And the more modest mission concepts now before Nasa and Esa for consideration are looking at launch slots no sooner than the back end of this decade. Which brings us back to the Rocket Lab type of approach if we want quicker results.\n\nProf Jane Greaves from Cardiff University led the team that detected phosphine in the atmosphere at Venus. She hopes scientists can find inventive ways of getting new probes to the planet.\n\n“I think in the fairly near-term, we'd like to send even just a really small probe that maybe some other mission could drop off on the way - you know, something going to the Sun. Perhaps it could drop a tiny 'lab on a chip' package through the atmosphere so we can get some new data back.\"\n\nPeter Beck's message is \"give me a call. If anybody wants to join the team, come join us. But, you know, the bus is leaving; we're going!\"\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) is urging government to create new green jobs to lift productivity after the pandemic.\n\nChief Dame Carolyn Fairbairn will say the UK must become a global leader in climate action at a virtual conference.\n\nShe will say the next Budget should invest in low-carbon technologies such as hydrogen and carbon capture.\n\nA government spokesperson said the prime minister is \"committed to tackling climate change\".\n\nDame Carolyn will open the industry body's first virtual conference about plans for zero emissions.\n\nIt's a far cry from times past when the CBI used to warn that tackling climate change could destroy jobs.\n\nFor several years now the group has promoted the opposite message: that targeted support for clean technologies can actually create jobs.\n\nThe prime minister and some of his colleagues have spoken of the need for a “green” recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut Dame Carolyn says actions must now underpin those promises.\n\nShe is expected to say: “For so many, this feels like a time of fiercely competing goals. The world faces two seemingly separate yet fundamental problems - Covid-19, the biggest health crisis in living memory, and climate change – the defining challenge of the modern era.\n\n“But they are not separate. The response to one affects success on the other. And the defining question is, how does the UK use this moment to rebuild our economy?\"\n\nShe says business urgently needs the government to publish a slew of policy documents.\n\nThat includes a long-term carbon-cutting plan – along with the energy white paper, National Infrastructure Strategy, and plans for the decarbonisation of transport, heat and buildings.\n\nShe will urge the UK to take a strong international lead: “Together business and government can lay the foundations for a strong, sustainable future.\n\n\"Not just for the UK, but through our global leadership, beyond our shores as well… a to-do list for this generation to pass on a better world to the next.”\n\nThe CBI also wants £500m of government cash to support the UK’s first commercial sustainable fuel plant.\n\nA government spokesperson told BBC News: “The prime minister is committed to tackling climate change and building back greener, and has set out his vision that the UK should have the most ambitious environmental programme of any country on earth.”\n\nThey said ministers have set out billions in support for a low-carbon economy.\n\nMany policies were in train, they continued, with consultations on ending coal power and phasing out new petrol and diesel cars, supporting renewable energy projects across the UK and announcing over £3bn to transform the energy efficiency of the UK’s homes and public buildings.", "The events had been expected to attract about 20,000 people to Southampton\n\nPublic health officials have cancelled two boat shows hours before they were due to start over coronavirus fears.\n\nBOATS2020, and the smaller sailing show MDL Ocean Village, were due to start in Southampton on Friday, with an expected 20,000 visitors over the next 10 days.\n\nThe organisers of BOATS2020 said they were told at about 18:30 BST that the event could not go ahead.\n\nSouthampton City Council said the decision was \"regrettable\" but made with public safety in mind.\n\nLesley Robinson, chief executive of British Marine, which organised BOATS2020, said she was \"desperately disappointed\" by the cancellation, \"especially receiving the news at the eleventh hour before opening\".\n\nShe added: \"Alongside our exhibitors, we were ready to open a show that exceeded all safety requirements. We are truly perplexed as to why we are unable to run the show at least until Monday in line with the government restrictions imposed yesterday.\n\n\"Public health and safety come first and naturally, as the show organiser, British Marine must comply with all guidance.\"\n\nBritish Marine's chief executive Lesley Robinson said she was \"desperately disappointed\" by the late cancellation\n\nAbout 230 boats had been brought to the city for the show.\n\nSouthampton City Council's director of public health, Debbie Chase, said: \"In Southampton and the South East, we have seen a lower rate of COVID-19 transmissions since lockdown ended.\n\n\"However, the national picture shows a concerning rise in cases, and with these events set to attract around 20,000 people from different parts of the UK over a 10-day period, it's important we act now to reduce the risk of infection.\"\n\nShe added: \"The decision, while regrettable, has been made after detailed analysis of the public health risks and discussions with our colleagues and partner agencies within the city. COVID-19 is still very much with us and we all need to stay alert, particularly at this sensitive time.\"", "Conservative minister Jacob Rees-Mogg is self-isolating at home after one of his children showed symptoms of coronavirus.\n\nHe said the child had been tested for the virus and the family was isolating while they waited for the test result.\n\nMr Rees-Mogg missed his weekly Thursday morning appearance at business questions, where he normally briefs MPs on the following week's Commons agenda.\n\nHe was replaced by the deputy chief whip, Stuart Andrew.\n\nMr Rees-Mogg, who has six children and is the MP for North East Somerset, tweeted his thanks to Mr Andrew.\n\nAt business questions, his Labour counterpart Valerie Vaz wished Mr Rees-Mogg and his family well, saying: \"We know it had to be something very, very serious for him not to be here.\"\n\nThe SNP's spokesman, Tommy Sheppard, said he would miss being \"patronised in the flesh\" by Mr Rees-Mogg.\n\nHe added: \"Can I also wish the Leader of the House and his family well. I can hardly hide my disappointment at his absence.\n\n\"After five long months of my own absence from this chamber, and sometimes problematic communication through the virtual proceedings, I have been looking forward to being patronised in the flesh rather than over the internet.\"\n\nDuring the coronavirus outbreak, several MPs had to stay away from parliament after showing symptoms of the virus.\n\nIn June, the Business Secretary Alok Sharma, was forced to self-isolate at home after falling ill in the Commons chamber. He tested negative for the virus 24 hours later.", "Scientists and health professionals have raised doubts about Prime Minister Boris Johnson's \"Operation Moonshot\" plan for mass coronavirus testing.\n\nThe PM hopes millions of Covid-19 tests - including some giving results within minutes - could be processed daily.\n\nBut experts say there are issues with laboratory capacity for current tests, while the technology for more rapid tests \"does not, as yet, exist\".\n\nThe British Medical Journal says leaked memos show the plan could cost £100bn.\n\nSpeaking after his announcement that gatherings in England are to be restricted to six people from Monday, Mr Johnson said the government was \"working hard\" to increase testing capacity to 500,000 tests a day by the end of October.\n\nAnd he said that \"in the near future\" he wanted to start using testing \"to identify people who are negative - who don't have coronavirus and who are not infectious - so we can allow them to behave in a more normal way, in the knowledge they cannot infect anyone else\".\n\nMr Johnson added: \"We believe that new types of test which are simple, quick and scalable will become available. They use swabs or saliva and can turn round results in 90 or even 20 minutes.\n\n\"Crucially, it should be possible to deploy these tests on a far bigger scale than any country has yet achieved - literally millions of tests processed every single day.\"\n\nMr Johnson said a mass-testing programme could be ready by the spring and could help the UK to avoid a second national lockdown.\n\nBut Dr Chaand Nagpaul, council chairman of the British Medical Association, said it was unclear how the so-called Operation Moonshot would work - given the \"huge problems\" currently seen with lab capacity.\n\nDr Nagpaul added the idea of opening up society based on people testing negative for the virus should be \"approached with caution\" because of the high rate of \"false negatives\" and the potential to miss those who are incubating the virus.\n\nMany experts believe plans to roll out mass rapid testing this winter is unrealistic. Piloting is still taking place to see if the technologies work - millions of tests would then need to be manufactured and distributed.\n\nThe focus on this \"moonshot\" plan is perhaps a distraction from the difficult decisions the country faces.\n\nThe level of infection is still low - despite the recent rises.\n\nBut do not expect them to stay this way.\n\nRespiratory viruses tend to do better in the autumn and winter because of the colder weather and fact people are indoors more.\n\nMinisters will then face the choice of more restrictions to try to curb the virus in the knowledge these will damage people's health in other ways as well as harming education and the economy.\n\nOr let the virus spread, while focusing efforts on protecting the vulnerable - that means protecting care homes and perhaps reintroducing shielding.\n\nLockdown bought us time, but simply deferred the problem.\n\nProgress has been made in the past six months - there are better treatments, more testing and a network of contact tracers - but perhaps not as much as hoped.\n\nThe UK - like all nations - faces a tricky act of balancing harms.\n\nDr David Strain, clinical senior lecturer at the University of Exeter and chairman of the BMA's medical academic staff committee, said the mass-testing strategy is \"fundamentally flawed\" and is \"based on technology that does not, as yet, exist\".\n\n\"The prime minister's suggestion that this will be as simple as 'getting a pregnancy test' that will give results within 15 minutes is unlikely, if not impossible, in the timescale he was suggesting to get the country back on track.\"\n\nWhile Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter, a statistician at the University of Cambridge, warned it could also lead to false positives - with hundreds of thousands of people being wrongly told they have coronavirus.\n\nEngland's deputy chief medical officer Dr Jenny Harries acknowledged that the \"the tricky thing with this is not so much the technology, which I'm sure we will have in the very short while in weeks to months, the issue actually is how it gets used in practice\".\n\n\"So that, if you have, for example, a false negative test, but you feel assured that you don't have the disease, you don't end up going back into the workplace.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Reality Check looks at why testing matters\n\nCurrently, between 150,000 and 200,000 tests are processed each day.\n\nTesting capacity is reported as being 350,000 a day - and this includes 250,000 swab tests (which check if you have the virus currently) as well as 100,000 antibody tests (which check if someone has already had the virus).\n\nEarlier this week a director of the government's test and trace programme in England issued a \"heartfelt\" apology for problems with the testing system, explaining that laboratories, not the testing sites themselves, were the \"critical pinch-point\".\n\nThe UK has drawn up plans to eventually carry out up to 10 million Covid-19 tests a day by early next year - at a cost of more than £100bn, which is approaching the entire annual budget for NHS England, according to a report in the BMJ.\n\nThe new rapid tests will be piloted in Salford from next month.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, said the technology needed to be \"tested carefully\" and it would be \"completely wrong to assume this is a slam dunk\".\n\nThe plans for mass testing come as Scotland launched its new contact tracing app, with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon urging as many people as possible to download it.\n\nThe contact tracing app being developed in England ran into technical problems and is currently being tested following a revamp.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Johnson set out a new \"rule of six\" in England, restricting gatherings to a maximum of six people, enforced by police able to issue fines or make arrests, after the UK reported more than 2,000 new coronavirus cases for the fourth consecutive day.\n\n\"If everyone does it [the rule of six], we may well be by Christmas in a position to look at it again,\" Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister said the new measures were \"not another national lockdown\"\n\nFormer government adviser Prof Neil Ferguson said the new measures will take about \"two to three weeks\" to see an effect on the number of cases.\n\n\"So we need to wait at this point and see how much we flatten the curve and then if that's not sufficient to bring the reproduction number below one, so the epidemic starts shrinking again, then yes, we may need to clamp down on other areas,\" he added.\n\nWhile young people are testing positive at higher rates, Prof Ferguson said it was unavoidable that the virus would resurge in all age groups.\n\nAsked about the return to work, he said: \"Certainly I think we should hesitate and maybe pause at the headlong rush to get everybody back into offices. But some people have to work and I completely understand the concerns in many quarters that everybody working at home has an economic impact, particularly on city centres.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a new law will also require businesses such as pubs, restaurants, hairdressers and cinemas to record customers' contact details.\n\nThe government has also published its coronavirus guidance for universities ahead of students returning later this month, with full online learning only as a last resort.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ayaan, Mikaeel and their community have raised thousands for the Yemen crisis\n\nTwo best friends who set up a lemonade stand to raise money for the people of Yemen received a donation from a very unexpected source - Angelina Jolie.\n\nSix-year-olds Ayaan Moosa and Mikaeel Ishaaq, from east London, created the stand after learning about the crisis.\n\nThe actress read about their campaign on the BBC News website and sent them a note saying she was sorry she could not buy any lemonade but wanted to donate.\n\nAyaan's mother said it had been \"a bit bizarre but amazing\" for the appeal.\n\nAngelina Jolie is a UNHCR special envoy and has previously spoken about the Yemen crisis\n\nAdeela Moosa explained the Hollywood star had first contacted her UK representative after finding out about Ayaan and Mikaeel's campaign, and they had then got in touch with the family.\n\nAt the weekend the boys, who live in Redbridge, received the \"lovely note\" from Ms Jolie along with \"a very generous donation\", Ms Moosa said.\n\nThe actress and director apologised that she could not buy any of the boys' lemonade\n\nAsked what the boys had first thought when they found out about it, Ms Moosa said they initially did not know who Ms Jolie was although \"their dads were very excited\".\n\nThey soon realised who the Tomb Raider and Maleficent star was after being shown various clips and films.\n\n\"Now they're getting the enormity of it all,\" she said.\n\nThe pair have sent a video message in response thanking Ms Jolie, telling her that: \"If you ever come to London, feel free to buy a glass of fresh lemonade.\"\n\nAlong with their community, Ayaan and Mikaeel have raised more than £67,000 for Yemen\n\nTens of thousands of people have been killed during the civil war in Yemen, while another 24 million are estimated to need humanitarian aid to survive.\n\nMs Jolie, who is a UNHCR special envoy, has previously spoken about the crisis in Yemen.\n\nMs Moosa said her donation had raised more awareness about the boys' efforts and they were being sent money from across the world for their ongoing online campaign, which has so far raised more than £67,000.\n\nAs for the best friends, they have both returned to school this week.\n\n\"It was much needed for all parties involved,\" Ms Moosa said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "CCTV caught Salman Abedi in the arena foyer just seconds before he blew himself up\n\nEvidence of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi discussing martyrdom was seized almost three years before the attack, an inquiry has heard.\n\nThe hearing was told Abedi, who killed 22 people in the May 2017 atrocity, had first been linked to \"subjects of interest\" in 2010.\n\nA mobile phone seized in February 2017 showed regular contact between Abedi and a convicted terrorist organiser.\n\nPaul Greaney QC said their relationship was of \"some significance\".\n\nThe inquiry heard the device was confiscated from British-Libyan national Abdalraouf Abdallah, who was jailed in 2016 for helping others to reach Syria.\n\nPhone analysis revealed he had been in contact with Abedi, who went to visit him in prison, in the months leading up to the attack.\n\nIn 2014, during investigations into Abdallah, counter terrorism police had evidence of discussions with Abedi regarding \"martyrdom, including the martyrdom of a senior al-Qaeda figure\", the inquiry heard.\n\nMr Greaney said Abdallah had refused to answer any questions put to him by inquiry staff, but investigators were \"determined\" to get to the bottom of their relationship.\n\nThe inquiry will also examine what intelligence and information was or should have been available to security services and the police about Abedi.\n\nMr Greaney said MI5 had received intelligence about Abedi on two separate occasions in the months prior to the bombing, \"the significance of which was not fully appreciated at the time\".\n\n\"In retrospect\", he said, it could \"be seen to be highly relevant to the planned attack\".\n\nOn 1 May 2017, the inquiry further heard, Abedi had been assessed as meeting the threshold to be considered for further investigation by MI5.\n\nHe was due to be considered for referral on 31 May 2017 but \"tragically this was overtaken by matters nine days earlier\", Mr Greaney said.\n\nThe inquiry is being held at Manchester Magistrates' Court, less than a mile away from where the bombing happened\n\nDuring the third day of proceedings, photographs of the 22 victims were displayed on a screen as the public inquiry heard their final movements.\n\nRelatives of some of the victims wiped away tears in the hearing room at Manchester Magistrates' Court, while other families watched proceedings from a nearby annexe.\n\nThe inquiry heard how 21 of the victim suffered injuries which were said to be unsurvivable.\n\nBut bomb blast experts believe the injuries of John Atkinson, 28, may have been potentially survivable.\n\nThe bombing after an Ariana Grande concert killed 22 people and injured hundreds more\n\nThe public inquiry will look at a number of factors including the emergency response to the bombing.\n\nIt was told how problems with communication and incorrect reports of an \"active shooter\" meant fire engines carrying specialist equipment and stretchers did not arrive for another two hours and six minutes after the blast at 22:31 BST on 22 May 2017.\n\nMr Greaney said the inquiry would need to consider \"whether that absence contributed or may have contributed to the loss of life that occurred\" and \"whether a better response by the emergency services would have saved more lives\".\n\n\"There can be no doubt there was a need for such joint working on the night of 22 May 2017 in Manchester,\" he said during the third day of the inquiry.\n\nThe hearing was told North West Fire Control was first notified at 22:34 BST that there had been an explosion and mass casualties, and police were looking for a second device.\n\nThey also received reports, wrongly, of an \"active shooter\" and some casualties with gunshot wounds.\n\nTributes were left in in St Ann's Square in Manchester city centre in the wake of the bombing\n\nBut there appeared to be confusion about whether Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) should follow procedures based on the incident being an explosion or a terror bombing.\n\nStation manager Simon Berry, of GMFRS, was told a rendezvous point was arranged with police at Manchester Cathedral nearby, but this was rejected in favour of a different \"muster point\" three miles away from the arena.\n\nThis decision would be \"critical\" to the understanding of how the fire service was delayed so long in deploying to the arena, Mr Greaney said.\n\nAn expert report on GMFRS's response to the attack found it \"inadequate and ineffective\" and said there was a lack of effective leadership, though \"no single individual\" was responsible for the failings.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The EU is demanding the UK ditches plans to change Boris Johnson's Brexit deal \"by the end of the month\" or risk jeopardising trade talks.\n\nThe UK has published a bill to rewrite parts of the withdrawal agreement it signed in January.\n\nThe EU said this had \"seriously damaged trust\" and it would not be \"shy\" of taking legal action against the UK.\n\nBut cabinet minister Michael Gove said the UK had made it \"perfectly clear\" it would not withdraw the bill.\n\nThe government says Parliament is sovereign and can pass laws which breach the UK's international treaty obligations.\n\nEU chief negotiator Michel Barnier said \"trust and confidence are and will be key\", after the latest round of UK-EU trade talks wrapped up in London on Thursday.\n\nHis UK counterpart David Frost said \"significant\" differences remained over a free trade deal, but added discussions would continue in Brussels next week.\n\nThe source of the EU's concern is Mr Johnson's proposed Internal Market Bill, which was published on Wednesday.\n\nIt addresses the Northern Ireland Protocol - an element of the withdrawal agreement designed to prevent a hard border returning to the island of Ireland.\n\nThe bill proposes no new checks on goods moving from Northern Ireland to Great Britain. It gives UK ministers powers to modify or \"disapply\" rules relating to the movement of goods that will come into force from 1 January, if the UK and EU are unable to strike a trade deal.\n\nThe publication of the bill prompted emergency talks between Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove and Maros Šefčovič, the European Commission Vice-President.\n\nAfter two sets of meetings today - one on the trade talks and the other on the government's plans to rewrite part of the agreed treaty from last year - there has been nothing less than a diplomatic explosion.\n\nThe EU issued a statement that was about as furious as any I've ever seen in this kind of context - demanding that the UK government withdraw the controversial plans to override the deal done with the EU last year by the end of the month, and threatening to take legal action if it doesn't happen.\n\nEssentially saying that there's no chance of trade talks, and hence no chance of a deal, unless the UK backs down.\n\nAt this stage, however, anyone with more than a passing acquaintance with this government would know that's inconceivable.\n\nIt is not, of course, impossible that further down the track the government may give way, or concede in quite a big way.\n\nBut right now, the chances of a move are slim to none.\n\nFollowing the discussions, the EU issued a strongly-worded statement warning that the withdrawal agreement was a legal obligation, adding that \"neither the EU nor the UK can unilaterally change, clarify, amend, interpret, disregard or disapply the agreement\".\n\nThe EU rejected the UK's arguments that the bill is designed to protect peace in Northern Ireland arguing that \"it does the opposite\".\n\nMr Šefčovič said that if the bill were to be adopted, it would constitute an \"extremely serious violation\" of the withdrawal agreement and of international law.\n\nHe urged the government to withdraw the bill \"by the end of the month\", adding that the withdrawal agreement \"contains a number of mechanisms and legal remedies to address violations of the legal obligations contained in the text - which the European Union will not be shy in using\".\n\nGermany's UK ambassador said he had not experienced \"such a fast, intentional and profound deterioration of a negotiation\" in his diplomatic career.\n\n\"If you believe in partnership between the UK and the EU like I do then don't accept it,\" he tweeted.\n\nMichael Gove arrives at the Cabinet Office ahead of talks with EU officials\n\nIn its response, the UK government said it would \"discharge its treaty obligations in good faith\", but added that \"in the difficult and highly exceptional circumstances in which we find ourselves, it is important to remember the fundamental principle of parliamentary sovereignty\".\n\n\"Parliament is sovereign as a matter of domestic law and can pass legislation which is in breach of the UK's treaty obligations. Parliament would not be acting unconstitutionally in enacting such legislation.\n\n\"Treaty obligations only become binding to the extent that they are enshrined in domestic legislation. Whether to enact or repeal legislation, and the content of that legislation, is for Parliament and Parliament alone.\"\n\nMr Gove \"said that, during the talks, he had \"made it perfectly clear that we would not be withdrawing this legislation\", adding that the government was \"absolutely serious\".\n\nThe Internal Market Bill will be formally debated by MPs in Parliament for the first time on Monday, 14 September.\n\nIt has come under increasing criticism from Conservative parliamentarians.\n\nFormer party leader Lord Howard said it would damage the UK's \"reputation for probity and respect for the rule of law\", while former Chancellor Lord Lamont asked ministers to \"think again\".\n\nBut Mr Gove said: \"I'm looking forward to the second reading of the bill next week. It's an opportunity for the government to set out in detail why we have this legislation.\"\n\nHe promised to fight for \"unfettered access for goods from Northern Ireland to the rest of the United Kingdom\".\n\nMr Johnson has defended the bill, saying it would \"ensure the integrity of the UK internal market\" and hand power to Scotland and Wales, while protecting the Northern Ireland peace process.\n\nBut critics say the move will damage the UK's international reputation after a minister admitted the plans break international law.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer urged the government to consider \"the reputational risk that it's taking in the proposed way forward\".\n\nMeanwhile, the latest round of formal talks over a post-Brexit trade deal concluded in London on Thursday.\n\nSpeaking afterwards, Mr Barnier said the EU had \"shown flexibility\" in an effort to \"find solutions\", but the UK had not \"not engaged\" on some \"major issues\".\n\nFor the UK side, Lord Frost said \"challenging areas remain and the divergences on some are still significant\".\n\nHe said the UK negotiators \"remain committed\" to reaching a deal by the middle of October and officials would \"continue discussions\" next week.", "There is more than one \"rule of six\". Who knew?\n\nIt's what a legendary Hollywood film editor used to describe the best of way making a must-watch movie, mixing six different elements like emotion and space (his name is Walter Murch, if you are on the hunt for trivia).\n\nThe other rule of six is part of the code that rules corporate takeovers, more familiar to City lawyers. You may indeed have your own obscure examples.\n\nBut ministers hope now the government's new rule of six will very quickly become familiar to the country and will immediately change people's behaviour too.\n\nFrom Monday, it will be illegal in England, apart from at school or work or under other few exceptions, to meet more than five other people at a time.\n\nThe police will have the power to stop that happening - you can read exactly how the new restrictions will work here.\n\nAfter weeks when the government has been trying to cheerlead the country back to the office, urging pupils back to school and taking steps to roll back coronavirus restrictions it is quite the change of tone, change of pace, and change of heart.\n\nThe prime minister also acknowledged publicly, after many weeks of questions about the layers of anomalies and different rules and regulations, that complicated messages had made the rules hard for people to follow.\n\nBoris Johnson can hope that the public in England will be willing to follow a new, clearer instruction. But it is not obvious that the public will all comply.\n\nThe reason for the change however, as we discussed yesterday, is crystal clear.\n\nThe number of cases has started to rise, and rise quickly, and ministers want to slam on the brakes.\n\nThe new rule is a significant move, and it's plain it could mean limits on our lives for many months. The prime minister today acknowledged that even Christmas may not be much like normal.\n\nThe changes are designed to prevent the disease taking off again, and to stop the need for another full national lockdown, something the government is desperate to avoid.\n\nBut other measures are waiting in the wings too.\n\nAt the bottom of the government's guidance issued today, there is a rather bland, technical sounding paragraph:\n\n\"The government will restrict the opening hours of premises, initially in local lockdown areas, with the option of national action in the future. This has been introduced in Bolton, following a steep rise in cases, and will seek to restrict activities that may lead to a spread in the virus.\"\n\nIn other words, if the rise in cases doesn't slow, the government could bring in a national curfew on opening hours, a more radical step.\n\nGovernment sources emphasise this is not about to happen.\n\nBut by laying out the option, it's clear the rule of six could be followed by more radical steps.", "The government should ban placing under-18s in care in unregulated homes amid concerns over sexual and criminal exploitation, the children's commissioner for England has said.\n\nSome vulnerable teenagers are \"at risk every day of the week\", Anne Longfield told BBC Newsnight.\n\nShe called them \"inappropriate\" places for any child.\n\nThe government is consulting on proposals to introduce new minimum standards to the sector.\n\nIt has already told local authorities to stop placing under 16s in these homes.\n\nBut Ms Longfield said the plans do not address \"the real problem\" of allowing older teenagers aged 16 and over in care to be placed in such accommodation.\n\nOne in eight children in care - around 12,000 - spent time in an unregulated home in 2018-19, her report reveals.\n\nIt comes following a year long investigation by BBC Newsnight into the care sector.\n\nIt also highlights evidence that providers linked to organised crime are exploiting the lack of regulation to gain access to children.\n\nPolice have told her that criminality in the sector is \"rife\" and children are being groomed to sell drugs and for sexual exploitation.\n\nUnlike children's homes registered with Ofsted, unregulated homes - often known as semi-independent or supported accommodation - are not inspected by a regulator in England or Wales.\n\nThe hostels, flats, bedsits and even caravans come with differing levels of staff support to help 16 to 18-year olds gain independence.\n\nThree-quarters (73%) of the sector is privately run and \"allows for high profit-making without the checks and balances that are seen in other care settings\", Ms Longfield said.\n\nChildren's Minister Vicky Ford said the government was taking steps to drive up the quality of care provided to vulnerable children.\n\nShe added: \"In some circumstances, semi-independent accommodation can be the right choice for 16 and 17 year-olds as they move towards adult life, but only when it is of high quality and meets their needs.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nBritish boxing legend and former world champion Alan Minter has died at the age of 69 after suffering from cancer.\n\nMinter, who won a bronze medal at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, claimed the undisputed world middleweight title against Italian Vito Antuofermo in Las Vegas in 1980.\n\nAfter he won a rematch against Antuofermo, Minter lost the title to Marvin Hagler inside three rounds at Wembley Arena later that year.\n\nHe had his last fight in 1981.\n\nHe experienced tragedy during his career, when Italian Angelo Jacopucci died as a result of injuries sustained in their European title fight in 1978.\n\nThere was a point early in Minter's professional career where he lost three fights in six months - all because of cuts.\n\nThe 1972 Olympic bronze medallist seemed to attract blood. After seeing a doctor about the ongoing issue he arrived at a conclusion - \"don't get hit in the first place\".\n\nThese days, few, if any of the belt-chasing Olympians who turn to the professional ranks would likely have much of a career left if they faced a similar string of defeats.\n\nBut Minter was a dogged man in a hard era. At the start of 1970, not one British boxer held a world title. They were tough to come by and even the British and European belts often only came along after one had paid their dues.\n\nMinter twice won the European title on the road and would find himself coming to terms with the tragic death of one of his opponents.\n\nThat he overcame cuts, a ruthless era, tragedy and still won a world title is testament to the character he was.\n\n\"If you can walk away after winning and defending a world title, you've done something special,\" he once told Boxing News.\n\nIn the way he did it and in the era he did it in, \"special\" feels like an understatement.", "A bust-up with Brussels was always a possible feature of this autumn.\n\nBut when EU top brass and their officials arrived in London this morning, it was not inevitable that it would come today.\n\nThere were whispers yesterday that one or other of the sides might flounce out - but \"wait and see\" seemed the order of the day.\n\nLate last night, chatter from sources in Brussels suggested they were unwilling to rise to what they see as the UK's provocation, to \"take the bait\", as it was expressed to me.\n\nBut after two sets of meetings today - one on the trade talks and the other on the government's plans to rewrite part of the agreed treaty from last year - there has been nothing less than a diplomatic explosion.\n\nThe EU issued a statement that was about as furious as any I've ever seen in this kind of context - demanding that the UK government withdraw the controversial plans to override the deal done with the EU last year by the end of the month, and threatening to take legal action if it doesn't happen.\n\nEssentially saying that there's no chance of trade talks, and hence no chance of a deal, unless the UK backs down.\n\nAt this stage however, anyone with more than a passing acquaintance with this government would know that's inconceivable.\n\nIt is not, of course, impossible that further down the track the government may give way, or concede in quite a big way.\n\nBut right now, the chances of a move are slim to none. The chances therefore of talks, that matter so much to our economy, moving very far are almost zilch - and therefore the chances of a deal are falling away.\n\nRemember last autumn, day-after-day-after-day the language between the two sides became more heated, brinkmanship more risky, the government's moves more audacious, and then, suddenly, a deal was done.\n\nAnd despite the EU's extraordinary statement, and serious stumbling blocks in the talks, the UK chief negotiator, Lord Frost, has now announced that the trade talks will still go ahead next week.\n\nThe added complication here is that the government can't be sure at all that their plans to change the Northern Irish parts of the existing treaty will pass through Parliament.\n\nResistance in the Lords is inevitable and while it's hard to gauge the final number, there is likely to be a rebellion from Tory MPs too.\n\nBut Downing Street right now is confident that MPs will back the plans in the end.\n\nWilling to forgo a trade deal - if that's what their changes mean - rather than back down on their plans, having chosen to take what insiders admit is a nuclear option, for now, they are willing to stand back and watch the explosion.", "The data measures the time between a sample is collected to the time the result is \"authorised\" in the lab\n\nThe speed at which coronavirus home tests have been processed in Wales has fallen dramatically.\n\nIn the final week of August, 8% of home tests were processed within a day and only 24% were processed within two days.\n\nAt the end of July, 50% of home tests were processed within a day and 88% within two.\n\nWelsh Government statisticians said the fall was due to demand exceeding Lighthouse laboratory capacity.\n\nThe delays have also meant that less than half of home tests had been processed within three days - this figure was 99% in July.\n\nLighthouse labs are a UK-wide network of specialist coronavirus laboratories and most Welsh tests are processed in them.\n\nOn Tuesday, the UK government apologised for the delays at Lighthouse labs and a backlog at the labs has led to a drop in available testing slots.\n\nCapacity problems at the labs have also resulted in people being asked to travel long distances to access drive-through tests.\n\nSome people reported being offered tests more than 50 miles (80km) from their homes.\n\nCoronavirus cases have been rising in Wales in recent weeks\n\nCoronavirus cases have been rising in parts of Wales over the past few days, with 165 new cases reported by Public Health Wales on Wednesday.\n\nThe spike has seen Caerphilly county placed in Wales' first local lockdown after 151 cases in the past seven days.\n\nMeanwhile, 100 cases have been reported in Rhondda Cynon Taff, prompting the council to open a temporary testing centre at Oldway House in Porth from 09:30 BST on Thursday for one week.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday, the Welsh Government said: \"We have raised this issue with the UK government, which runs the Lighthouse lab testing system and we expect these issues to be resolved quickly to ensure people in Wales who have suspected coronavirus symptoms can receive a test as close to home as possible.\n\n\"We have recently announced £32m to increase capacity to process tests at laboratories in Wales, which includes extending our regional labs to 24-hour operation and six new 'hot labs' at hospitals across Wales.\n\n\"This investment will increase our testing resilience ahead of the winter.\"", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash with a Volvo\n\nHarry Dunn's family say they have been told prosecutors do not believe the woman accused of killing the teenager in a crash had diplomatic immunity.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died last August when his motorbike was in collision with a car allegedly driven by Anne Sacoolas outside a US airbase in the UK.\n\nHis parents said the director of public prosecutions was \"actively considering\" a virtual trial of Mrs Sacoolas.\n\nThe US government has previously declined a UK extradition request.\n\nHowever, Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn said they were \"extremely disappointed\" and felt let down after their meeting with Max Hill QC at the Crown Prosecution Service headquarters.\n\nMrs Sacoolas, 42, the wife of a US intelligence official, claimed diplomatic immunity following the crash in Croughton, Northamptonshire, and was able to return to her home country, sparking an international controversy.\n\nShe was charged with causing death by dangerous driving in December but an extradition request was rejected by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.\n\nRadd Seiger, the family's spokesman, told reporters the family felt \"hopeless\" after the meeting and that the US had not changed its position on the immunity claimed by Mrs Sacoolas.\n\nMr Dunn's family have also filed a civil claim for damages against Mrs Sacoolas.\n\nMr Seiger said the claim for damages for wrongful death had been made at the courts in the US state of Virginia.\n\nAnne Sacoolas pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nCommenting after the meeting, Greg McGill, the CPS director of legal services, said: \"Today we have met with the family of Harry Dunn to update them on the various steps the CPS has taken over the last 10 months to secure justice in this tragic case.\n\n\"The challenges and complexity of this case are well known, but the CPS and other partners have been working tirelessly to do all they can so that Anne Sacoolas faces the charge we have brought - causing death by dangerous driving.\n\n\"We know this is a very difficult process for the family, which is why we wanted to assure them personally that we continue to seek justice for them and for the public.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Trials for 43,000 defendants are being listed for next year and some for 2022\n\nA judge has claimed he was put under \"improper and undue influence\" to keep a defendant in custody.\n\nJudge Keith Raynor refused to extend the time a teenager charged with drugs offences could be held in custody before his trial.\n\nWoolwich Crown Court heard Tesfa Young-Williams was charged with serious drug offences last October and had been in custody for 321 days because of delays.\n\nThat is 139 days beyond the custody time limit (CTL), the judge said.\n\nRefusing the further extension on Tuesday, Judge Raynor ruled government measures which include the creation of 10 Nightingale courts - temporary courts to help tackle the number of outstanding cases - were slow, not proportionate, lacked funding and that alternative, adequately-funded measures which would have worked were not adopted.\n\nIn a highly unusual move, Judge Raynor has made public communications with a senior judge in the lead-up to Mr Young-Williams' CTL hearing.\n\nJudge Raynor said he felt \"pressurised into granting the CTL extension application\" and \"was subjected to improper and undue influence to make a ruling extending the CTL in the case of R v Tesfa Young-Williams\".\n\nThe judge has now been told he will not be hearing a CTL application in another case but has said he wants to issue a formal complaint.\n\nCustody limits are in the spotlight because the Covid pandemic has led to an increased backlog of cases causing more defendants on remand awaiting trial to have their custody limits extended.\n\nSince lockdown began in March, the backlog of crown court cases has risen by 6,000 to 43,000.\n\nThe government has announced it will extend CTLs from six to eight months from the end of September. It also expects to have 250 usable jury trial rooms by November, as part of a so-called \"criminal courts recovery plan\".\n\nThe Ministry of Justice has pledged an extra 1,600 court staff and £80m towards a range of measures, including more Nightingale courts.\n\nConcerns have been raised that the distance between the senior judiciary and ministers is becoming too close.\n\nCriminal barrister Kirsty Brimelow QC said: \"The judiciary and the government are separate and distinct, so where there is a closeness between senior judiciary and government on policy, as there is here on custody time limits, there is real constitutional concern that this may compromise the independence of the judiciary.\"\n\nJudge Raynor's actions are exceptional and the senior judge he has criticised has said it would not be appropriate to comment.\n\nHowever, the allegations put the relationship between senior judges and the government firmly under scrutiny.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Scotland sets 'rule of six' for people meeting up\n\nThe number of people allowed to meet up in Scotland has been cut to six amid concerns about the coronavirus pandemic \"accelerating\".\n\nIt came as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a \"tightening and extension\" of lockdown rules.\n\nChanges planned for next week have been put back until at least 5 October.\n\nIt means that theatres, live music venues, indoor soft play facilities and indoor contact sports will not now open next Monday.\n\nUntil now, eight people from three households had been allowed to meet indoors in Scotland, and up to 15 from five households outdoors.\n\nThis will change to six people from two households, and will apply both indoors and outdoors - including in homes, gardens, pubs and restaurants.\n\nChildren under the age of 12 will not count towards the total, however.\n\nThe changes also mean spectators will not be able to return to sports stadia and other venues over the next three weeks - although two pilot events due take place at the weekend will still happen.\n\nScotland is currently recording three times more positive cases of the virus on average each day than it was three weeks ago - with a further 161 cases being logged on Thursday.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the spread of the virus was accelerating - albeit from a low base and not as rapidly as it was back in March and April.\n\nShe said this was \"not entirely unexpected\" given the recent steps to reopen the economy - but that further planned moves to lift lockdown had to be put on pause for now.\n\nThe first minister said: \"Right now, given the rise in cases, it's the only responsible decision we can reach.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon also said the reopening of offices and call centres will \"definitely not take place\" before October, saying that \"for now, working from home will remain the default position\".\n\nThe move to cut the number of people who can meet follows a similar move announced for England on Wednesday.\n\nThere will be \"limited exceptions\" to the rules for organised sports, places of worship and wedding and funeral services - which will be capped at 20 guests.\n\nThe new limits will officially come into force on Monday, although Ms Sturgeon said that she was asking people to immediately abide by the stricter new limits on gatherings.\n\nScotland's music industry has warned many venues may not survive the coronavirus lockdown\n\nIt will also become mandatory for staff working in hospitality premises such as pubs and restaurants to wear face coverings, and for customers to wear them while moving around.\n\nMs Sturgeon admitted the new announcements would be \"hard for people to hear\", but said they were necessary.\n\nShe said the rise in new cases was \"not as rapid as it was earlier in the year\" and that prevalence of the virus was lower \"thanks to the individual sacrifices that so any of you have made for the greater good\".\n\nShe said: \"We have grounds for cautious hope, but we have no grounds for complacency. It is vital to do everything we can to stop cases rising further before winter.\n\n\"These steps are necessary to help curb a virus that we know spreads rapidly whenever it gets the chance.\"\n\nShe insisted that the Test and Protect contact tracing system was \"working well\", adding that without this \"the virus would be spreading further and faster, and we would require to apply much stricter lockdown measures again\".\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives asked the government to consider moving more towards a strategy of mass community testing to complement Test and Protect.\n\nThe party's Holyrood leader, Ruth Davidson, said: \"Experts have said that mass community testing must also be part of the solution, if we are going to succeed in keeping the virus supressed through the winter.\n\n\"I would also urge the government to continue their work with Scotland's airports on a testing regime.\n\n\"The aviation sector needs all the help it can get, and stopping the virus will only be possible if we reach everyone coming into the country who may need to quarantine.\"", "Cosmetics giant L'Oreal is introducing make-up recycling bins across 1,000 UK stores in an environmental push.\n\nIts Maybelline brand and recycling firm TerraCycle will install the recycling points in branches of Tesco, Boots, Sainsbury's and Superdrug.\n\nL'Oreal's UK boss said the firm wants to \"lead the way\" in creating beauty recycling habits.\n\nBut Greenpeace said without reducing single-use plastic production, firms \"cannot claim they are doing enough\".\n\nFrom Thursday, consumers can drop off empty make-up products from any brand at the recycling bins in participating Tesco and Superdrug stores, which can be found online.\n\nBoots and Sainsbury's will follow at the end of September.\n\nCompacts, eyeshadow palettes, foundation or concealer tubes, mascara, eyeliner and lip products will be accepted, although make-up brushes, nail polish and aerosols will not.\n\nThe used items will be collected from the shops, sorted, cleaned and recycled into plastic pellets, which can be used to make other products, such as outdoor furniture.\n\nChains such as The Body Shop and skincare specialist Kiehl's, which is also owned by L'Oreal, already offer customers rewards for returning empty products to stores to be recycled.\n\nVismay Sharma, country manager of L'Oreal UK and Ireland, told the BBC that the firm had the \"ability to make impact at real scale\".\n\nThe recycling bins will be introduced across 1,000 UK shops\n\nNearly half of make-up wearers did not know that recycling beauty products was possible, according to a recent survey of more than 1,000 consumers by Maybelline.\n\nAsked what differentiates Maybelline and TerraCycle's new \"Make-up Not Make Waste\" scheme from other similar ones, Stephen Clarke, head of communications at TerraCycle, said that the number of stores participating meant it would be easier for consumers to recycle their beauty buys.\n\nHe also said the firm can recycle mixed materials, such as compacts with mirrors, as well as beauty items with pumps and triggers, which local councils won't necessarily do.\n\nHowever, environmental campaign group Greenpeace said that \"recycling will only ever get us so far\".\n\nWill McCallum, head of oceans at Greenpeace UK, said: \"Given the almost daily torrent of research revealing the extent to which plastic pollution is damaging our planet, it's frustrating to see a major plastic producer like the make-up industry fail to commit to reduce its overall plastic footprint.\n\n\"Without action plans to move towards reusable packaging and reduce single-use plastic production, companies cannot claim they are doing enough.\"\n\nMore than 120 billion units of packaging are produced globally every year by the cosmetics industry alone, according to the Zero Waste Week campaign.\n\nL'Oreal told the BBC that its global consumption of plastic totalled 137,000 tonnes in 2019.\n\nThe cosmetics firm has pledged that 100% of its plastic packaging will be refillable, reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2025.\n\nMr Sharma also said that the firm was dedicating €50m (£45.4m) to investing in recycling or plastic waste-related projects.", "The government has announced a \"truce\" on enforcement action for tenants facing eviction in England and Wales this Christmas.\n\nIt also said that evictions will not be enforced in areas subject to local lockdowns as the pandemic continues.\n\nHousing Secretary Robert Jenrick added that it has increased notice periods to six months in an \"unprecedented measure\".\n\nCampaign group Generation Rent said the government \"must offer [renters] more.\"\n\nThe government confirmed that court proceedings for evictions in England and Wales would restart on 21 September after being suspended for six months due to the coronavirus crisis.\n\nBut under new measures announced on Thursday, evictions will not be enforced by bailiffs if a local area is in lockdown that includes restrictions on gathering in homes.\n\nBailiffs will also be told that they should not enforce possession orders over Christmas, other than in \"the most serious circumstances\", such as cases involving domestic abuse or antisocial behaviour.\n\nThe government has not yet confirmed which dates the \"winter truce\" will cover for tenants in England and Wales.\n\n\"We have protected renters during the pandemic by banning evictions for six months - the longest eviction ban in the UK,\" Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick said.\n\n\"To further support renters we have increased notice periods to six months, an unprecedented measure to help keep people in their homes over the winter months.\n\n\"It's right that we strike a balance between protecting vulnerable renters and ensuring landlords whose tenants have behaved in illegal or anti-social ways have access to justice.\"\n\nThe new measures are aimed at ensuring potentially vulnerable tenants are not forced out of their homes \"at a time when public and local authorities may be dealing with an increased demand for services\", a statement said.\n\nMinisters extended the ban on evictions for four weeks in August, but campaign groups and housing charities had hoped that more would be done for renters who have seen a loss in income during the pandemic.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Batchelder: \"I don't know what the future holds\"\n\nAlicia Kennedy, director at Generation Rent, said: \"It is welcome that renters will not face eviction by bailiffs around Christmas or where there are lockdown measures.\n\n\"But outside that, thousands of renters who have had eviction notices during the pandemic still have no assurance from the government whether they can stay in their home.\n\n\"Those who have lost income will find it difficult to find a new home so face many months of uncertainty, getting deeper into debt.\"\n\nOne survey by homelessness charity Shelter suggested that more than 170,000 private tenants have been threatened with eviction by their landlord or letting agent, and 230,000 in England have fallen into arrears since the pandemic started.\n\nHowever, landlord groups have previously said that their members have been left \"powerless\" in dealing with the non-payment of rent.\n\nSome have called for more help in England to reduce the financial pressures on landlords, in addition to mortgage holidays.\n\nChris Norris, policy director for the National Residential Landlords Association, welcomed news that the courts would begin to hear possession cases again from 21 September.\n\n\"It is vital that this happens so that landlords can begin to take action against anti-social tenants, those committing acts of domestic violence and those with rent arrears that have nothing to do with Covid-19,\" he said.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nHarry Dunn's alleged killer Anne Sacoolas drove on the \"wrong side of the road for 20 seconds\" before the fatal crash, her lawyers said.\n\nBut she was \"otherwise driving cautiously and below the speed limit\", her legal representatives added.\n\nThey have issued a statement detailing the 43-year-old's side of the story.\n\nThe American was charged with causing death by dangerous driving after a crash in August 2019 which resulted in 19-year-old Mr Dunn's death.\n\nMrs Sacoolas claimed diplomatic immunity following the collision outside RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire.\n\nShe was able to return to her home country, sparking controversy.\n\nAnne Sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day in 2003, cited diplomatic immunity after a crash involving her car and Mr Dunn's motorbike outside RAF Croughton\n\nAccording to her lawyers, Ms Sacoolas \"instinctively\" began driving on the right-hand side, and could not see Mr Dunn due to \"the crest of a small hill\".\n\nIn a public statement, they said: \"Anne did everything she could to assist Harry. After the accident, she ran from her car and tried to help him.\n\n\"Anne then saw another motorist approach and flagged her down for more support.\n\n\"The other motorist immediately called for the emergency services and Anne made calls to alert the police from the nearby air force base.\n\n\"Tragically, it took over 40 minutes for the ambulance to arrive and nearly two hours passed before Harry was admitted to the hospital.\n\n\"Anne did not leave the scene until she was instructed to do so by the UK authorities.\"\n\nMrs Sacoolas's legal representatives also made an on-the-record statement regarding her position on the prospect of a virtual trial.\n\nThey said: \"We have been and remain willing to discuss a resolution, including the possibility of virtual proceedings, with the UK authorities.\"\n\nReacting to the suspect's statement and speaking on behalf of Mr Dunn's family, their spokesman Radd Seiger said: \"The parents have noted the statement issued this evening on behalf of Mrs Sacoolas.\n\n\"Their position is that these issues should not be aired in any form other than a court of law.\n\n\"Once again, they invite her to do the right thing and return to the UK to answer to the charges laid against her.\"\n\nMr Dunn's alleged killer returned to the US on a commercial flight after the US Embassy \"informed the Foreign Office of this decision and instructed Anne to return home\".\n\nMrs Sacoolas was charged in December but an extradition request submitted by the Home Office was refused in January.\n\nThe US State Department has since said the decision to reject the request was \"final\".", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Selected live radio and text commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, BBC Sounds, the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nSerena Williams kept alive her hopes of a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam singles title with a 4-6 6-3 6-2 win over Tsvetana Pironkova in the US Open quarter-finals.\n\nThe American six-time champion, 38, struggled early on with the variety of shots from the unranked player who was in her first tournament in three years.\n\nThe Bulgarian, 32, broke in the fifth game en route to taking the first set.\n\nPironkova tired as Williams took the second and broke twice in the third.\n\nWhenever you can birth a baby, honestly you can do anything\n\nThe veteran will now play former world number one Victoria Azarenka, whom she beat in the 2012 and 2013 US Open finals.\n\nWilliams said she could not afford another sluggish start if she is to reach her fifth Grand Slam final in three years.\n\n\"I was feeling it a little in my legs and an hour in, for some reason, I got more energy. I can't do that if I want to keep winning,\" said the American, who last won the US Open in 2014.\n\n\"I play again on Thursday. I am used to playing back to back to back, but I need to figure out how to start a little bit faster.\n\n\"I keep fighting, I never give up. You've got to keep going.\"\n• None Azarenka into first Grand Slam semi-final since 2013\n• None 'Without your gutsy actions, we wouldn't be here today' - Andreescu's open letter to 'Original 9'\n\nLike in her third-round match against Sloane Stephens, Williams made a slow start which Pironkova exploited on longer rallies and with her dangerous sliced forehand. The break seemed inevitable and came in the fifth game when the Bulgarian - a semi-finalist at Wimbledon in 2010 - hit a great double-handed backhand winner.\n\nThere were signs Williams was improving towards the end of that set, and although she did go a break down early in the second set, the American levelled immediately and then had break point in the following Pironkova service game.\n\nThat was saved, but the former world number 31 lost her serve again when she was out-thought and outplayed in the eighth game, decided by an error following a phenomenal 26-shot rally. Her more decorated opponent raised her arm and let out a cry of celebration and relief inside the near empty Arthur Ashe Stadium.\n\nBy this stage, Pironkova's points won on her first and second serves had dropped from 87% and 70%, respectively, down to 47% and 55% and the unforced errors were up from five to 10. It seemed the exertions of the near three-hour three-set match against Alize Cornet in the previous round were beginning to take their toll.\n\nWilliams also experienced a three-set contest in her last-16 match, but her stamina appeared to increase as this match went on. She broke twice more in the third set and booked her place in the semi-final with a game to love, which contained her 20th ace.\n\n'You play a match, go home and you're still changing diapers'\n\nDefeat brought an end to the fairytale return for the player from Plovdiv, who following a shoulder injury in 2017 decided to start a family and take time out from the sport.\n\nPironkova chose the Flushing Meadows tournament to mark her comeback and entered at the first-round stage courtesy of a protected ranking of 123rd - the position she occupied when she last played.\n\nWilliams paid tribute to the Bulgarian for reaching the last eight in her first tournament since 2017.\n\n\"It shows me how tough mums are,\" the former champion said. \"Whenever you can birth a baby, honestly you can do anything. We saw that today, she played unbelievable.\n\n\"I could barely win a match when I came back, so she's incredible. Her baby has to be younger than mine - you play a match, go home and you're still changing diapers, it's like a double life.\"\n• None Listen to unique tracks from Stormzy, Miley and Biffy Clyro\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone", "Ambassador Liu Xiaoming has had a Twitter account since late last year\n\nChina's UK embassy has asked Twitter to \"make thorough investigations\" after its ambassador's official account liked a pornographic clip.\n\nLiu Xiaoming's account also liked posts that criticised the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and showed blindfolded Uighurs being detained.\n\nOfficials claimed that \"anti-Chinese elements [had] viciously attacked\" Mr Liu's account in a \"despicable\" plot designed to \"deceive the public\".\n\nTwitter has yet to comment.\n\nThe activity first drew attention after the account liked a 10-second video posted by an adult-themed page containing clips with Chinese-language descriptions.\n\nA London-based human rights campaigner flagged this to other Twitter users just after 09:00 GMT with a screenshot as proof.\n\nThe clip was subsequently unliked by whoever was controlling the account.\n\nBut some other tweets remained liked for a time before they too were reversed.\n\nOne included claims that officials had \"paid lip service to non-interference\" in order to get away with killing members of the Chinese public.\n\nA second featured drone-captured footage of Uighur Muslims being taken to what the post described as a \"concentration camp\".\n\nBeijing has previously denied holding large numbers of people from the ethnic minority in camps against their will in the western Xinjiang region.\n\nAnd the ambassador denied his country was carrying out a programme of sterilisation of Uighur women, when he was shown the drone footage by the BBC earlier in the year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Liu Xiaoming told the BBC in July there was not a concentration camp in Xinjiang\n\nTwitter is blocked within mainland China. But over the past year Chinese officials have become more active on the platform, and Mr Liu's account was created in October.\n\nThe app's likes are sometimes used as a kind of bookmark facility rather than to express support, and the heart-shaped icon that activates them can be easily selected by mistake.\n\nSome of the social network's users have suggested the pornographic clip might have been liked by accident and then the others selected as part of a cover story.\n\nBut Chinese officials have dismissed the suggestion.\n\n\"The embassy has reported this to Twitter and urged the latter to make thorough investigations and handle this matter seriously,\" said a statement.\n\n\"The embassy reserves the right to take further actions and hope that the public will not believe or spread such rumour[s].\"\n\nMr Liu's account now only has two likes - both related to tweets it posted in 2019.\n\nIt has also tweeted a proverb in reaction to the affair, suggesting the ambassador is not concerned about being attacked: \"A good anvil does not fear the hammer.\"", "There have been 302 deaths in Rhondda Cynon Taff involving coronavirus since March - including two in care homes in the last six weeks\n\nPeople in two counties are being asked to wear face masks in work, shops and crowded public spaces in a bid to avoid another local Covid-19 lockdown.\n\nResidents of Rhondda Cynon Taff and Merthyr Tydfil have been asked by councils only to use public transport if \"essential\".\n\nThey have already been warned they face lockdown after an increase in cases.\n\nMerthyr Tydfil has the second highest coronavirus case rate in Wales - behind Caerphilly, already in lockdown.\n\nIn a joint statement, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taff councils, the local health board and police called for local residents to \"take action now\".\n\nTo take affect immediately, they want people to:\n\nBoth councils said schools would remain open and home-to-school transport would continue \"in accordance with the latest Public Health Wales guidance\".\n\nPublic health chiefs said people \"ignoring or disregarding\" social distancing was \"why transmission has increased\" in those areas.\n\n\"Our message for the public is that coronavirus has not gone away - and it can be a very serious illness - especially for older and vulnerable people,\" said Kelechi Nnoaham, public health director of Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board.\n\n\"We must all play our part to protect our vulnerable or older friends, family members and loved ones. Whilst we may not be seeing hospital admissions at the moment, it will only be a matter of weeks if we don't act now.\"\n\nThere were almost 3,000 Covid-19 UK confirmed cases in the last 24 hours as cases in Wales reached almost 19,000 on Thursday as 102 new positive cases were reported by Public Health Wales.\n\nHospital admissions of patients with coronavirus have doubled in the last week in the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board area.\n\nSix supermarkets in Rhondda Cynon Taff have already been given improvement orders, while warnings were given over a lack of social distancing due to small clusters around Porth, Penygraig and Tonypandy.\n\nThe highest rate for cases in Wales remains in Caerphilly county where there have been 91.1 cases per 100,000 of the population over the past seven days.\n\nIn Merthyr Tydfil, more than 6% of those tested in the last week had coronavirus.\n\nIt has the second highest case rate in Wales, with 54.7 cases per 100,000 people over the past seven days.\n\nCases have been rising in the council areas affected\n\nIn Rhondda Cynon Taff, there were nine further coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, making a total of 90 positive Covid-19 tests in the last week.\n\nThe situation there is \"stable at the moment\" according to council leader Andrew Morgan who said a full lockdown could be avoided as long as people followed the rules.\n\n\"Over the next week we can turn this round,\" he said.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Greenpeace says some destination countries don't use sufficient protective equipment\n\nThe UK approved the export of more than 32,000 tonnes of banned pesticides in 2018, according to environmental campaign group Greenpeace.\n\nThe shipments were among 81,615 tonnes of banned \"crop protection products\" planned by British and other European companies that year.\n\nUnder EU law, firms are still permitted to make and export chemicals whose use is restricted within the bloc itself.\n\nGreenpeace used freedom of information requests to unearth the data.\n\nThis was contained in hundreds of documents.\n\nThe group said almost 40% of planned exports by weight came from the UK. The next-highest exporter was Italy, with 11% of planned exports, or 9,350 tonnes.\n\nGreenpeace described the trade as \"exploitative hypocrisy\" and demanded the UK government put an end to it.\n\nThe campaign group's chief scientist, Doug Parr, said the UK should stop the manufacture and export of all banned pesticides and \"pressure the EU to do the same and close this loophole for good\".\n\nSome critics in importing nations claimed the practice was a \"double standard\" that placed a lower value on lives and ecosystems in poorer countries.\n\n\"Even though the climate is different, our bodies are made from the same matter,\" said Alan Tygel, spokesperson for the Permanent Campaign Against Pesticides and for Life, a Brazilian umbrella group of social movements and NGOs.\n\n\"Substances that are dangerous for Europeans, are also dangerous for Brazilians, Indians, Argentinians, and so on.\"\n\nThe majority of the exports notified from the UK (28,185 tonnes) were mixtures containing paraquat, a weedkiller that has been banned in the EU since 2007.\n\nParaquat is manufactured in Huddersfield by the biotech company Syngenta.\n\nIt is a very effective weedkiller that is widely used around the world but in concentrated doses can be very toxic.\n\nIt is often used in suicides, and scientists are investigating evidence of links between repeated exposure to the chemical and Parkinson's disease.\n\nSyngenta told the BBC it followed the law in every country in which it operates.\n\nIt said different parts of the world grew different crops in different climates with different weeds and other pests, and therefore needed different chemicals.\n\n\"It is very common that crop protection chemicals produced in countries where we have manufacturing plants are not necessarily registered or sold there,\" it said.\n\nAlmost half of the UK's 2018 paraquat shipments (14,000 tonnes) were destined for the United States, where Syngenta faces lawsuits from farmers who allege the weedkiller gave them Parkinson's disease.\n\nBut exports were also planned to low- and middle-income nations including Brazil, Mexico, India, Colombia, Ecuador, and South Africa, where protective equipment is less commonly used and government regulation on the use of dangerous chemicals is not so rigorous.\n\nThe other significant exports of banned pesticides notified from the UK in 2018 included up to 4,000 tonnes of the soil fumigant 1,3-Dichloropropene, produced by a subsidiary of the chemicals giant Ineos, which is majority owned by billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe, one of the richest individuals in the UK.\n\n1,3-Dichloropropene is classified as a probable carcinogen. It remains banned in the EU because of concerns related to consumer exposure, as well as risks of \"groundwater contamination\" and risks for \"birds, mammals, aquatic organisms and other non-target organisms\".\n\nIneos told the BBC the only exports of 1,3 Dicholoropropene from the UK were to Japan.\n\nIt said that all shipments of the product followed strict European rules on the export of dangerous chemicals.\n\nIn addition, the company said 1,3 Dicholoropropene helped to protect important food crops from disease and was \"still used in European Union countries but only under emergency procedures which are subject to national approvals\".", "Several trees on Llanrhystud beach were found after Storm Francis, which hit Wales in August\n\nA forest which was buried in sand more than 4,500 years ago may stretch further than thought after Storm Francis uncovered more hidden trees.\n\nThe petrified forest can often be seen in Borth, Ceredigion, after storms, but new trees have been seen 13 miles (21km) south in Llanrhystud.\n\nTests are being carried out at the Llanrhystud site to determine its age.\n\nDr Hywel Griffiths, from Aberystwyth University, said the find was \"both exciting and worrying\".\n\nDr Griffiths is part of a joint research project between groups in Wales and Ireland looking at coastal environmental change.\n\nHe said: \"It's exciting because it's additional evidence of these climate change processes that have been going on for so long.\n\n\"But also worrying because we are seeing these landscape changes occur more often. It's due to the impact and influence of the storms that feel like they are happening more.\"\n\nThe forest has become associated with a 17th Century myth of a sunken civilization known as Cantre'r Gwaelod, or the Sunken Hundred.\n\nAccording to the legend, the kingdom was lost at sea when Seithenyn, the guardian of sea defences, forgot to close the gates.\n\nIn one version of the myth, the forest stretched 20 miles to the west of Cardigan Bay.\n\nHistorian Gerald Morgan said: \"It's an addition to what we already know about the extraordinary number of petrified trees that have been found all along the coast of Wales.\n\n\"It's exciting because we have found another one that hasn't been recorded yet.\"\n\nLlanrhystud beach lies 13 miles south of Borth, where the previous forest was uncovered\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Council leaders in Rhondda Cynon Taff have warned about potential local lockdowns here\n\nHospital admissions of patients with coronavirus in a health board covering the south Wales valleys have doubled in the last week.\n\nThere were 72 admissions in Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board in the week to Tuesday, according to figures from NHS Wales.\n\nIt is the highest figure since the start of August.\n\nThere has been concern about rising infections in Rhondda Cynon Taff and Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nWelsh Government ministers and officials had been meeting on Thursday to discuss potentially introducing tighter restrictions within the Rhondda Cynon Taff area, but no announcement was made by the evening.\n\nInstead, local councils issued voluntary advice to wear masks in work and shops in an effort to avoid local lockdowns.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg executive director of public health Kelechi Nnoaham said local lockdowns for Rhondda Cynon Taff and Merthyr Tydfil were \"not very far\", but were \"not inevitable\" if people abided by the rules.\n\n\"There is more we can do to limit these infections within our communities and not go straight into lockdown territory.\"\n\nKelechi Nnoaham says he is worried by rising cases but the problem can be tackled by working together\n\nMr Nnoaham said some people who had come home from holidays who should be isolating were not, and that people needed to stop attending parties.\n\n\"I know how hard lockdown has been for people, and that they want to let go a little bit, that is perfectly human, but coronavirus has not gone away,\" he said.\n\n\"I am worried, but it is not hopeless. It is not an insurmountable problem, it feels like something we can tackle if we are working together with our communities.\"\n\nNumbers have also risen in the Aneurin Bevan health board area, which covers Caerphilly county, the area put into local lockdown earlier this week.\n\nThere were 76 hospital admissions in the week to 8 September - the highest total for 10 weeks.\n\nCaerphilly has the second highest rate for coronavirus infections in the UK in the last seven days, after Bolton, Greater Manchester.\n\nBut there are concerns if those infections start translating down the line into hospital admissions.\n\nThe seven-day average in total daily admissions to hospitals of confirmed and suspected Covid-19 cases in Wales is currently 54, about the same as last week.\n\nOverall, numbers of patients in hospital with coronavirus in Wales have continued to fall.\n\nThese include those in critical care.\n\nMeanwhile, separate weekly figures for the \"test, trace, protect\" system for contacting people with coronavirus and tracing contacts, shows 98% of the 1,860 positive cases since 21 June were reached and were able to provide details of their recent contacts.\n\nIn the most recent week, 96% of the 424 positive cases were reached.\n\nOf the 5,834 close contacts that were eligible for follow-up, 94% were successfully contacted and advised, according to NHS Wales.\n\nThe Welsh Government said this shows it was reaching more contacts than the system in England.", "Plans for spectators to attend sporting events in England from 1 October are to be reviewed, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed.\n\nJohnson, speaking at a Downing Street news conference, also said pilot events in September would be restricted to 1,000 fans with social distancing measures in place.\n\n“We must revise plans to pilot larger audiences in venues later this month and review our intention to return audiences to stadiums from 1 October,\" said Johnson.\n\n\"But that doesn't mean we are going to scrap the programme entirely. We are just going to have to review it and abridge it.\"\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said: \"In light of increasing transmission rates, the government is reviewing the proposed sports and business events pilots ahead of 1 October and we will unfortunately need to scale some back.\n\n\"We know fans and audiences are eager to return, and jobs depend on this too, so work continues around the clock on the 'moonshot project' with the ambition of having audiences back much closer to normal by Christmas, if safe to do so.\"\n\nThe majority of sports in England have been played behind closed doors since the coronavirus lockdown in March, including Premier League football, the FA Cup final, England Test matches and two Formula 1 races at Silverstone.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, Premier League chief executive Richard Masters said it was \"absolutely critical\" that fans were allowed back inside stadiums as soon as possible and failure to do so would cost clubs £700m during the 2020-21 season, which starts on Saturday.\n\nAt the end of August, 2,500 people watched a friendly between Brighton and Chelsea at the Seagulls' Amex Stadium - the first time fans had been allowed into a Premier League ground in almost six months.\n\nAbout 300 fans were allowed to watch last month's World Snooker Championship final between Ronnie O'Sullivan and Kyren Wilson at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, but original plans to admit fans for all days of the tournament were reversed.\n\nMore than 2,500 spectators bought tickets for Doncaster on Wednesday as the St Leger meeting started, the first crowd at a British horse racing fixture in six months, although the rest of the meeting will be held behind closed doors.\n\nThe Women's Super League match between Arsenal and West Ham on 12 September was one of the pilot events that were planned with a limited number of fans in attendance.\n\nOther planned pilot events include football's non-league finals day at Wembley on 27 September, race meetings at Warwick and Newmarket on 21 and 24 September respectively, a basketball exhibition match in Newcastle on 18 September and a speedway event in Ipswich on 26 September.\n• None Listen to unique tracks from Stormzy, Miley and Biffy Clyro", "Boris Johnson has urged MPs to support a bill which modifies the Brexit deal he signed with the EU in January.\n\nThe PM said the Internal Markets Bill would \"ensure the integrity of the UK internal market\" and hand power to Scotland and Wales.\n\nHe also claimed it would protect the Northern Ireland peace process.\n\nCritics say the move will damage the UK's international standing after a minister admitted the plans break international law.\n\nThe Scottish government has not ruled out legal action to prevent it becoming law.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"The Tories' proposed bill for a so-called UK internal market is an abomination. It is a naked power grab which would cripple devolution.\"\n\nThe Taoiseach (Ireland's prime minister) Micheál Martin has spoken to Mr Johnson \"in forthright terms\" about \"the breach of an international treaty, the absence of bilateral engagement and the serious implications for Northern Ireland\", the Irish government said.\n\nCabinet Office Minister Michael Gove will hold emergency talks in London on Thursday with EU Commissioner Maros Sefcovic to discuss the contents of the bill.\n\nThe European Commission had requested a meeting as soon as possible to clarify what the legislation means for the Brexit deal.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest scheduled round of negotiations on securing a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU are also due to wrap up on Thursday.\n\nCommission President Ursula von der Leyen tweeted: \"Very concerned about announcements from the British government on its intentions to breach the Withdrawal Agreement. This would break international law and undermines trust.\"\n\nDowning Street said the EU Withdrawal Agreement - repeatedly described as \"oven ready\" by Mr Johnson during last year's general election - contained \"ambiguities\" and lacked clarity in \"key areas\".\n\nThe PM's spokesman said it had been agreed \"at pace in the most challenging possible political circumstances\" to \"deliver on a decision by the British people\".\n\nIt had been signed \"on the assumption that subsequent agreements to clarify these aspects could be reached\", the spokesman added.\n\nThe new bill sets out rules for the operation of the UK internal market - trade between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - after the end of the Brexit transition period in January.\n\nThe bill explicitly states that these powers should apply even if they are incompatible with international law.\n\nMinisters say the legislation is needed to prevent \"damaging\" tariffs on goods travelling from the rest of the UK to Northern Ireland if negotiations with the EU on a free trade agreement fail.\n\nBut senior Conservatives have warned it risks undermining the UK's reputation as an upholder of international law.\n\nFormer PM Sir John Major fears the UK will lose its reputation for keeping its word\n\nFormer Prime Minister Sir John Major said: \"For generations, Britain's word - solemnly given - has been accepted by friend and foe. Our signature on any treaty or agreement has been sacrosanct.\"\n\nHe added: \"If we lose our reputation for honouring the promises we make, we will have lost something beyond price that may never be regained.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer urged the government to consider \"the reputational risk that it's taking in the proposed way forward\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer says the UK government should consider the “reputational risk” in its approach.\n\nBut Sir Keir - who campaigned for a second Brexit referendum - added that the \"way forward\" now was to get a trade deal, adding \"if you fail to get a deal, prime minister, you own that failure\".\n\n\"The outstanding issues are not difficult. They can be resolved. So what I say to the prime minister is, you promised a good deal, get on, negotiate it,\" he added.\n\n\"That's what's in the national interest and focus then on the issue in hand which is tackling this pandemic.\"\n\nIn the withdrawal agreement with the EU, Northern Ireland is still in the UK, but it has to follow elements of the EU's customs code.\n\nThis bill will be seen by the EU as a pretty brazen attempt to override the deal that has been done.\n\nThe bill contains the words \"notwithstanding\" - that basically means this law sets aside a law we have already agreed.\n\nThat was described to me earlier in the week as being a completely nuclear option.\n\nAnd they have pressed it.\n\nThis row isn't going to go away.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party, which has been pressing for changes to the Withdrawal Agreement, said the bill was a \"step forward\" but the government must ensure Northern Ireland is not \"restrained in a state aid straight jacket unlike the rest of the UK\".\n\nBut the deputy first minister of Northern Ireland, Sinn Fein's Michelle O' Neill, said the Withdrawal Agreement protected the Good Friday Agreement and it was \"astounding\" the UK government \"thinks its fine\" to wreck an international treaty they had signed up to.\n\nSpeaking at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"My job is to uphold the integrity of the UK but also to protect the Northern Ireland peace process and the Good Friday Agreement.\n\n\"And to do that, we need a legal safety net to protect our country against extreme or irrational interpretations of the Protocol, which could lead to a border down the Irish Sea, in a way that I believe would be prejudicial to the interests of the Good Friday Agreement and prejudicial to the interests of peace in our country. And that has to be our priority.\"\n\nCommenting on a similar argument by Health Secretary Matt Hancock, a former minister told the BBC: \"I cannot allow anyone to get away with saying the government is doing this to protect the peace process. This does the precise opposite.\"\n\nThe legislation will see Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland handed powers in areas such as air quality and building efficiency currently regulated at EU level.\n\nIt will also set up a new body - the Office for the Internal Market - to make sure standards adopted in different parts of the UK do not undermine cross-border trade.\n\nThe Scottish government fears the UK single market will cut across areas that are usually devolved.\n\nFor example, if the UK government decides some food imports are acceptable in England then they would also be allowed in Scotland, even though agriculture is devolved.\n\nThe new body will be able to issue non-binding recommendations to the UK Parliament and devolved administrations when clashes emerge.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ian Blackford asks Boris Johnson if he thinks he is above the law regarding a bill on future trade.\n\nThe SNP's leader at Westminster, Ian Blackford, described the Internal Markets Bill as \"nothing short of an attack on Scotland's parliament and an affront to people of Scotland\".\n\nMr Johnson said the bill would protect jobs and growth - and was a \"massive devolutionary act\" that would represent a \"very substantial transfer of power and sovereignty\" to Scotland and Wales.\n\nBut his words did not prevent the resignation of a senior Conservative in Wales, where the party is in opposition.\n\nDavid Melding, shadow Counsel General, said in his resignation letter that the PM's actions in the past few days had \"gravely aggravated\" the dangers facing \"our 313-year-old Union\".\n• None What are the sticking points in Brexit trade talks?", "Sister Bliss from dance act Faithless has said UK nightclubs have been \"left to rot in a corner\" amid the pandemic.\n\nThe government says clubs must stay shut \"in line with current scientific advice to control the virus\".\n\nThe musician and DJ told BBC Radio 6 Music club culture should be better protected.\n\n\"There's a lack of leadership at the top which means certain industries have been given support and then others have been completely ignored,\" she said.\n\n\"The electronic music scene and clubbing is definitely an incredible part of our cultural and economic force, and it travels all over the world globally.\n\n\"We really, I think, have been left to rot in a corner, so it's good to see that venues and artists are trying to galvanise it - with the Let the Music Play movement - trying to bring the plight of venues and freelancers, like myself, to the fore.\"\n\nThe Let the Music Play campaign saw 1,500 artists sign an open letter in July calling for support for the UK's music scene.\n\n\"All we can do is keep waving a flag and saying, 'We want support as well,'\" she told 6 Music's Georgie Rogers.\n\nFaithless performed at the BBC Music Awards in 2015\n\nThe government has announced a £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund, but there is uncertainty over how far this money will stretch and where it will go.\n\nSister Bliss's comments come on 6 Music's State of the Independents Day on Thursday, looking into the effects of the pandemic on the independent music sector.\n\nIn response, a government spokesman said: \"We know this is an incredibly difficult time for nightclubs, but they will need to remain closed for now in line with current scientific advice to control the virus.\n\n\"We continue to engage with industry representative and listen to their concerns.\n\n\"Throughout the pandemic, nightclubs have access to the government's unprecedented package of support to help businesses, which includes business rates relief, tax deferrals, the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and billions paid in loans and grants.\"\n\nWhile clubbing as we know it remains off the cards, some venues have been able to diversify in a bid to stay open and survive.\n\nVenues like Brixton Jamm and Escape to Freight Island in Manchester have been able to move things outside and host seated, socially distanced events with strict rules.\n\nMeanwhile, virtual clubbing has boomed, with DJs moving their sets online via social media or platforms like Boiler Room and United We Stream.\n\nLast week, the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) lent its support to The Global Nighttime Recovery Plan, which is looking at the \"the future of dancefloor\" by proposing flexible and open clubbing experiences.\n\nNTIA boss Michael Kill told BBC News the night time economy was \"on a cliff edge\", with furlough coming to an end soon. A government scheme meaning no business can be evicted for missing rent payments is also ending this month.\n\nAt the end of July, a survey of the association's members suggested that 58% fear they will not survive longer than two months without further government support. And 71% were already set to make more than half of their workforces redundant in a matter of weeks.\n\n\"We need the government to recognise the critical position the sector is in across the UK and work expediently to release a roadmap,\" Mr Kill said. \"But also act quickly to put a sector specific financial package together which will allow these businesses to survive and save jobs.\"\n\nJamz Supernova is a DJ on BBC Radio 1, 1Xtra and 6 Music\n\nDJ Jamz Supernova told 6 Music club culture has been undervalued in the UK for a long time.\n\n\"Nobody flies across the world to go to a restaurant,\" she declared. \"You will fly across the world if there's a great clubbing scene.\n\n\"So I felt there needs to be a lot of more transparency, communication, and funding.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "No more than six people from two households in the affected areas will be allowed to gather in a private garden\n\nRestrictions on visiting other households are to be reintroduced in parts of Northern Ireland after a rise in cases of coronavirus.\n\nThe new rules affect people in Ballymena town, those who live in the Belfast council area and addresses with postcodes BT43, BT28 and BT29.\n\nThose postcodes take in areas north east of Ballymena, and parts of Glenavy, Lisburn and Crumlin.\n\nPeople cannot visit other people's homes, but there are some exemptions.\n\nNo more than six people from two households in the affected areas will be allowed to gather in a private garden.\n\nAnd people living in them are being advised not to travel outside the zones unless it is necessary.\n\nThe measures, which mark the first series of localised restrictions to be imposed in Northern Ireland since the lockdown in March, will take effect next week and be in place for at least a fortnight.\n\nNorthern Ireland currently has the UK's highest rate of Covid-19 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill outlined the restrictions as they led their first joint press conference together at Stormont for 73 days.\n\nMrs Foster urged people living in the affected areas to \"please take action now and stop the spread of the virus\".\n\nArlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill gave their first press conference together in more than two months\n\n\"There is a creeping of the virus across Northern Ireland and we need people to work with us to stop that,\" she stressed.\n\nThe executive said it was asking medically vulnerable and older people living in the areas affected by the new restrictions to be \"particularly careful\" and follow all public health advice.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said hospitals and care homes in those areas would also be advised to limit visitors, with one family member being allowed to visit once a week.\n\nMore frequent visits may be allowed only in \"exceptional circumstances\", but that will be reviewed, she added.\n\n\"We may also have to add postcodes to this as the situation develops,\" she said.\n\nMrs Foster said the executive needed to limit social interactions between households in order to \"push down the rising curve of infection\" in the areas with the highest rates of the virus.\n\nThe deputy first minister urged people outside of the affected areas \"not to think they are invincible or immune\".\n\nMinisters also agreed to provide about 600 pubs in Northern Ireland which do not serve food with a new indicative date to reopen.\n\nThe executive agreed that drink-only pubs can provisionally reopen on 21 September, but this will have to be ratified closer to the time.\n\nArlene Foster said at present the \"villain\" was in our homes, not in businesses where customer numbers were regulated\n\nNon-food pubs in the Republic of Ireland are also aiming to reopen on the same date but it is being kept under review.\n\nProf Ian Young, NI's chief scientific adviser, told the press briefing he was satisfied the mitigations being taken by the hospitality industry would ensure it was safe to reopen.\n\nMrs Foster said at present, the \"villain is not in businesses where numbers of customers are regulated\".\n\n\"It's in our homes - it is the house party, it is the dinner party - it is the few people coming around for drinks or coffee,\" she added.\n\nHospitality Ulster said the decision to give pubs a new reopening date would \"help secure hundreds of businesses and thousands of jobs that have been hanging in the balance\".\n\nBar the police turning up outside on a doorstep in a residential area, we are seeing that they are really clamping down on those large social gatherings that according to the data are happening in those BT areas and also in Belfast.\n\nThey say that they can manage to enforce what is going on in bars and restaurants, that they are very happy with the behaviour, but really they can't manage what is going on inside houses and outside in gardens.\n\nIt is similar to what happened in Glasgow a number of weeks ago.\n\nObviously, Belfast is the most affected by this and people are being asked to really curtail going out; restricting how many people we can have in our back gardens and mixing between houses really is forbidden - but there are exemptions.\n\nAsked how the measures would be enforced, Mrs Foster said she \"hoped people will comply\".\n\nShe said she did not want it to reach the stage that measures had to be strictly enforced, but the law would be in place.\n\n\"We're always very aware we're asking people to do things they would not ordinarily do,\" the first minister added.\n\nThe executive has also agreed to set up a minister-led group to consider compliance and enforcement of the regulations, to ensure \"everyone follows the spirit and the letter of the law\".\n\nThe executive also agreed to give the green light to soft play areas in Northern Ireland reopening from Monday.\n\nThe Department of Health says the current R number - or reproduction rate - of coronavirus in Northern Ireland is between 0.3 and 1.4.\n\nThe R value is the number of people that one infected person will pass a virus on to, on average, and if the reproduction number is higher than one, then the number of cases increases very fast\n\nChief scientific adviser Prof Ian Young said although NI's R number estimate appeared lower than it has been in recent weeks, there had been a \"general increase in cases\".\n\nIt was also announced that from 04:00 BST on Saturday, anyone arriving in NI from Portugal, Hungary, French Polynesia and Réunion will be required to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nQuarantine-free travel is still allowed from the Portuguese islands, the Azores and Madeira.\n\nSweden will also be removed from the list of countries where quarantine measures are required.\n\nThe Department of Health said it would continue to monitor the situation in all countries.\n\nAll the announcements came as one more coronavirus-related death was recorded in the Newry, Mourne and Down area, with 79 new cases throughout NI also reported.\n\nThat brings the total to 568 deaths and 8,035 cases.\n\nIn the past seven days, there have been 177 new cases in the Belfast council area.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, no further deaths were reported on Thursday, with the total remaining at 1,781.\n\nThe Irish department of health revealed there had been 30,360 confirmed cases of the virus, after 196 more were recorded.", "Cases in Portugal have been rising since the country was made exempt from UK quarantine on 22 August\n\nTravellers from mainland Portugal to England will have to quarantine from 04:00 BST on Saturday, just weeks after the country was put on the safe list.\n\nWales and Scotland had already imposed the mandatory two weeks of self-isolation earlier this month.\n\nQuarantine-free travel is still allowed from the Portuguese islands, the Azores and Madeira.\n\nMeanwhile, Sweden has been made exempt from quarantine for Wales, England and Scotland.\n\nPeople travelling to England, Wales and Scotland from Hungary and Reunion will also be required to self-isolate, while England is additionally requiring arrivals from French Polynesia to quarantine.\n\nHungary has a seven-day rate of 31.6 infections per 100,000 people and French Polynesia's rate is 71.3.\n\nPortugal, one of the UK's most popular holiday destinations, was given an exemption from UK quarantine rules as recently as 22 August.\n\nBut since then the infection level has been rising. It now has 28.3 infections per 100,000 people, above the threshold of 20 per 100,000 people which the UK generally uses for adding countries to the quarantine list.\n\nPortugal expressed \"regret\" over the quarantine decision for the mainland, but said it valued the continued inclusion of the Azores and Madeira on the safe \"travel corridor\" list.\n\nIt comes as the UK's confirmed coronavirus cases rose by another 2,919, the fifth consecutive day that the figure has been more than 2,000. Another 14 deaths were reported within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said that because of \"enhanced data\" the government was able to assess the infection rates of islands separate to their mainland countries.\n\nOn Wednesday, quarantine requirements were also imposed on seven Greek islands, the first time that different self-isolation rules had been applied to the mainland of a country and its islands.\n\nMr Shapps also stressed that travellers must fill out the Passenger Locator Form on arrival to the UK, a day after the prime minister said enforcement of this part of the quarantine rules would be stepped up.\n\n\"It is a criminal offence not to complete the form and spot checks will be taking place,\" Mr Shapps said.\n\nFigures show that nearly 2m spot checks have been carried out to ensure travellers have filled out the form, and calls and text messages were made to 136,500 people to check they were quarantining.\n\nSuccessful contact, where the traveller has been spoken to or responded to a text, was made 66,773 times with 64,800 people confirming they were self-isolating. Just 34 fines have been issued.\n\nTravel industry body Abta, along with the chief executives of airlines such as easyJet, Ryanair and British Airways, is calling on the government to introduce testing on arrival at airports and to change quarantine policy so mainland regions can be treated differently.\n\n\"Every country, mainland or island that is taken off the government's travel list lessens the ability of travel businesses to operate and increases the necessity for the government to provide tailored industry support,\" said an Abta spokesman.\n\nRory Boland, editor of Which? Travel, said holidaymakers were now \"more acutely aware\" of the risks of travel abroad, but said the \"last-minute\" decisions meant many missed out on refunds or were \"extorted\" with additional airfares if they tried to rush home.\n\n\"It's obvious that the current travel corridor system is not working for passengers, and becoming completely detrimental to the already dwindling trust in the sector,\" he said.\n\nSweden adopted a lighter-touch strategy for dealing with the pandemic compared with most other European countries, deciding not to institute a widespread lockdown, and putting in place relatively few restrictions.\n\nThis was based partly on the idea of letting Covid-19 sweep through the population creating so-called herd immunity. Such an approach was considered but then abandoned in the UK.\n\nResearch published in August suggested exposure to coronavirus was similar in Stockholm and London, based on antibody tests, despite the different lockdown strategies.\n\nAre you in Portugal at the moment and planning to return to the UK before the new quarantine regulation begins? Share your views and experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Three children were seriously injured in the crash\n\nThree children were seriously injured when their school bus hit a railway bridge.\n\nThe double-decker's roof was torn off in the crash in Wellhouse Lane, Winchester, shortly after 08:10 BST.\n\nPupils from Henry Beaufort School \"started screaming\" when the roof fell on top of them, leaving a further 12 needing treatment for minor injuries.\n\nBus operator Stagecoach South said an investigation was under way. No arrests have been made.\n\nThe three badly hurt children were taken to hospital. Twelve other youngsters, two of whom were also taken to hospital, suffered minor injuries, Hampshire Constabulary said.\n\nAll pupils on board were aged between 11 and 16, the force said.\n\nPoppy, 11, who was sitting on the top deck of the bus, said the children had noticed the driver was \"going on a completely different route\" in the moments before the crash.\n\nShe said a metal pole struck her on the head and others were hurt by breaking glass.\n\n\"There was blood everywhere - everyone was in a rush to get down, but we were all trying to help each other,\" she added.\n\nZoe was on the top deck of the bus when the crash happened\n\nZoe, 14, who was also on the top deck, said the roof fell in on top of everyone \"and everyone started screaming\".\n\n\"It felt like 'am I going to live or am I going to die' - everyone was crying and shaking, it was a huge shock,\" she said.\n\nFifteen-year-old Robert, who was on the lower deck of the bus, said: \"I heard crashing upstairs. I thought we'd hit the side of the tunnel, then I saw the top of the bus falling down.\n\n\"Most of the people hurt just had cuts and were bleeding. But there were some people with bad injuries.\"\n\nThe children on board were all aged between 11 and 16\n\nInsp Andy Tester, of Hampshire Constabulary, said it was \"very lucky\" nobody was killed.\n\n\"That bus doesn't fit through the bridge - I can't think that a bus route would have been drawn [up] to take it through a bridge that is too low for the bus,\" he said.\n\nThe bridge has a warning sign above it that states vehicles with a height of more than 12ft (3.6m) should not enter.\n\nThe bus involved in the crash was believed to be about 14ft (4.3m) in height.\n\nThe bus had been on its way to Henry Beaufort School\n\nSue Hearle, head teacher of the Henry Beaufort School, said: \"This is a distressing incident and we are extremely relieved that it wasn't more serious.\"\n\nShe added she did not want to speculate on the circumstances of the crash and would be focusing on supporting the children affected.\n\nA spokesperson for Stagecoach South said: \"Our thoughts are with the children and their families.\n\n\"We are carrying out an internal investigation into the circumstances involved in the incident and we will continue to provide the emergency services with our full support.\"\n\nThe road remains closed between the junction with Andover Road North to School Lane.\n\nHampshire County Council said staff were providing support to the school \"including our education psychology team to help students and staff to deal with any trauma they may experience\".\n• None 'Everything fell on us and everyone was screaming'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The fire safety guidance for what materials could be used on Grenfell Tower was \"confusing\", the director of the company which installed the cladding has told an inquiry.\n\nRay Bailey, director of Harley Facades, said there was \"quite widespread\" confusion in the building industry at the time of the refurbishment.\n\nThe cladding has been blamed for fuelling the fire at the tower block.\n\nThe inquiry into the fire, which killed 72 people, is in its second phase.\n\nIt is now looking into how the 24-storey tower in west London came to be covered in such cladding during its refurbishment between 2012 and 2016, before the fire on 14 June 2017.\n\nThe inquiry is investigating whether the confusion about fire ratings was one of the reasons dangerous cladding and insulation was used to refurbish the tower.\n\nMr Bailey said he had a \"misunderstanding\" about which materials were approved for use on tall buildings.\n\nOne section of the guidance for meeting the government's building regulations stated that materials used on towers above 18m needed to have a Class 0 (zero) rating, though another European classification was equally acceptable.\n\nThe government has always insisted that another section of the guidance required the insulation used in cladding systems to be of \"limited combustibility\" as well.\n\nUnder questioning, Mr Bailey said he had believed at the time that if the materials were Class 0 \"throughout\" this also meant they were also classed as being of \"limited combustibility\" - in other words, less likely to burn.\n\nHowever, Class 0 is only a classification of the way the surface of a product such as cladding resists the spread of flames, not its overall combustibility.\n\nThe insulation panels used on Grenfell Tower were rated Class 0, but were not of limited combustibility. Neither was the cladding, Reynobond PE, which had a core made from flammable plastic.\n\nThe inquiry also heard that the manufacturer of the cladding - Arconic - had tested various configurations of its product in 2013, and found they had achieved poor ratings for fire safety.\n\nThe product performed worse when it was shaped into \"cassette\" boxes, the design used at Grenfell Tower.\n\nAccording to a manager's statement, shown at the inquiry, one test had to be stopped due to a 'flash-over', meaning the cladding could only be rated E, out of a possible A to F.\n\nThe tests were first revealed following a BBC investigation in 2018, which found the company did not pass the results to the body which issues product certificates in the UK, relied on by the building industry.\n\nThe certificate for Reynobond PE, the cladding used at Grenfell, stated it had a class B rating.\n\nArconic sent Mr Bailey this certificate in April 2014, as the materials for Grenfell were being chosen, but made no mention of the poor test results in the covering email.\n\nMr Bailey told the inquiry he was unaware of the tests.\n\nThe role of the manufacturer will be examined when it gives evidence later in the inquiry.\n\nThe inquiry continues. A separate government consultation on plans to improve fire safety regulations is due to close on 12 October.", "Shipping a coronavirus vaccine around the world will be the \"largest transport challenge ever\" according to the airline industry.\n\nThe equivalent of 8,000 Boeing 747s will be needed, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has said.\n\nThere is no Covid-19 vaccine yet, but IATA is already working with airlines, airports, global health bodies and drug firms on a global airlift plan.\n\nThe distribution programme assumes only one dose per person is needed.\n\n\"Safely delivering Covid-19 vaccines will be the mission of the century for the global air cargo industry. But it won't happen without careful advance planning. And the time for that is now,\" said IATA's chief executive Alexandre de Juniac.\n\nWhile airlines have been shifting their focus onto delivering cargo during the severe downturn in passenger flights, shipping vaccines is far more complex.\n\nNot all planes are suitable for delivering vaccines as they need a typical temperature range of between 2 and 8C for transporting drugs. Some vaccines may require freezing temperatures which would exclude more aircraft.\n\n\"We know the procedures well. What we need to do is scale them up to the magnitude that will be required,\" added Glyn Hughes, the industry body's head of cargo.\n\nFlights to certain parts of the world, including some areas of South East Asia, will be critical as they lack vaccine-production capabilities, he added.\n\nDistributing a vaccine across Africa would be \"impossible\" right now IATA says given the lack of cargo capacity, size of the region and the complexities of border crossings.\n\nTransportation will need \"almost military precision\" and will require cool facilities across a network of locations where the vaccine will be stored.\n\nAbout 140 vaccines are in early development, and around two dozen are now being tested on people in clinical trials.\n\nOne is being developed by the University of Oxford that is already in an advanced stage of testing.\n\nIATA has urged governments to begin careful planning now to ensure they are fully prepared once vaccines are approved and available for distribution.\n\nAlong with making sure they are handled and transported at controlled temperatures, security is another issue.\n\n\"Vaccines will be highly valuable commodities. Arrangements must be in place to keep ensure that shipments remain secure from tampering and theft,\" added IATA.", "Former UK Prime Minister Theresa May and ex-Transport Secretary Chris Grayling have joined voices to call on the current government to change its policy on aviation during the pandemic.\n\nMrs May told the House of Commons the aviation sector was important for jobs and Britain's standing around the world - and that it was a \"shame\" Boris Johnson's government had not moved quickly enough to encourage passengers.\n\nShe said that changes to the country's travel corridor policy had led to \"uncertainty\" and that stopping people flying into the UK would not change the fact \"the virus is here, we will continue to have cases of Covid\".\n\nAirport testing would \"mitigate the risk\" of people coming into the UK with coronavirus and the government should support trials at airports.\n\nMr Grayling told MPs he was speaking out because he felt passionately that the issue must be addressed \"urgently\".\n\nTesting - initially on a trial basis - \"has to be the way forward, this is vitally important for the industry\" and that testing would allow the reopening of transatlantic routes to North America.\n\n\"We have got to do this, and we have got to do it now,\" he said.", "New designs are being trialled that still \"pop\" when they open\n\nThe distinctive Pringles tube is being re-designed after criticism that it’s almost impossible to recycle.\n\nThe current container for the potato-based snack was condemned as a recycler’s nightmare.\n\nIt's a complex construction with a metal base, plastic cap, metal tear-off lid, and foil-lined cardboard sleeve.\n\nThe Recycling Association dubbed it the number one recycling villain – along with the Lucozade Sports bottle.\n\nNow Pringles' maker Kellogg's is trialling a simpler can – although experts say it’s not a full solution.\n\nThe existing version is particularly troublesome because it combines so many different materials\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome 90% of the new can is paper. Around 10% is a polyal (plastic) barrier that seals the interior to protect the food against oxygen and moisture which would damage the taste.\n\nBut how about the lid? Well, two options are on trial in some Tesco stores – a recyclable plastic lid and a recyclable paper lid. Kellogg's says these lids will still produce the distinctive \"pop\" associated with the product.\n\nSimon Ellin from the Recycling Association told BBC News: \"The Pringles tube has been a bastion of bad design from the recyclers' point of view.\n\n\"This new version is an improvement, and we broadly welcome it.\n\n\"But, frankly, if they are going to stick to a plastic lid that’ll just add to problems with plastic pollution - people on picnics leave them behind and they find their way into streams and the sea. That plastic lid has got to go.\"\n\nThe Recycling Association said many manufacturers needed to rethink their packaging\n\nKellogg's says its packaging must be airtight, or the food inside will be wasted.\n\nThe new designs have been 12 months in the making. Pringles have a shelf life of 15 months - and three million cans are made across Europe every day.\n\nMr Ellin said the polyal-coated card might be recyclable but the product would need to be tested in recycling mills.\n\nAnd what of the much-criticised Lucozade Sports bottle? Mr Ellin said its unchanged basic design was still a big problem, as machines found it hard to differentiate the plastic in the bottle and the plastic that makes up its outer sleeve.\n\nHe called on the makers, Suntory, to reduce the size of the external sleeve, as it has with the new Ribena bottle.\n\nThe firm said it was planning to do this for the new year.\n\nSuntory said it was working on a new material made entirely from seaweed extract that was 100% edible, biodegradable and compostable.\n\nEnvironmentalists say that trivial changes like these won't solve the world's ecological crises - but on a large scale they'll make a contribution.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says increasing numbers of people in England are seeking tests when they don't have any Covid-19 symptoms.\n\nHe said this \"inappropriate\" use of the system was making it harder for people who needed tests to get one.\n\nIt comes after the boss of England's testing system apologised to people who were struggling to get tests.\n\nThe Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer called for the government to \"accept there is a problem\" and \"get it fixed\".\n\nIn the Commons, Boris Johnson responded saying \"we are working flat out to address all the issues confronting us today\", adding that demand was \"acute\" and there were too many people requesting tests who did not have symptoms.\n\nUK labs have reached capacity, meaning some people are struggling to book tests or being sent long distances to get one.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid symptoms: What are they and how long should I self-isolate for?\n\nBut Mr Hancock gave the example of one school who sent a whole year group for tests, which is \"not appropriate\", he added.\n\nHe also described how some people who were going on holiday had sought to get tests.\n\nThe free tests are available to people with symptoms of coronavirus - a fever, new and continuous cough or a loss or change in sense of taste or smell.\n\nClaire tried to get a test for her son who had a cough and a temperature\n\nClaire Peposhi, who lives in north London, spent more than five hours online trying to order a home test kit for her eight-year-old son.\n\nHe had a cough and a slight temperature and had just returned to school.\n\nShe was offered testing 40 miles away from her home, but neither she nor her husband could get there, or afford the time off work.\n\n\"I have done nothing else this morning other than refresh the page,\" Claire says.\n\n\"I can't be alone in this.\"\n\nClaire says a sudden surge in need for tests \"was always going to happen\".\n\n\"It's not a surprise there are more colds around when kids are going back to school.\"\n\nMr Hancock denied the testing system was failing, pointing out the UK had the biggest testing system per head of population of all major European countries.\n\n\"Right now, we have the highest capacity for testing that we've ever had - increased compared to last week.\n\n\"And that testing means that we can find these cases, and therefore help keep the virus under control with the contact-tracing system as well.\n\n\"However, in the last couple of weeks we have seen an increase in demand, including an increase in demand for people who are not eligible for tests, and people who don't have symptoms,\" Mr Hancock said.\n\n\"We have seen an increase of about 25% of people who are coming forward that don't have symptoms and aren't eligible. They don't have a reason for it.\n\n\"I've even heard stories of people saying, 'I'm going on holiday next week, therefore I'm going to get a test'. No - that is not what the testing system is there for.\n\n\"We've got to be firmer, I'm afraid, with the rules around eligibility for testing.\"\n\nThe BBC has asked the Department of Health and Social Care how the 25% figure has been calculated, but is still waiting for a response.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said: \"It beggars belief that after weeks of encouraging people to have a test if feeling unwell, ministers are seeking to blame people for simply doing what they were advised.\n\n\"With children returning to school and thousands returning to the office, it's obvious extra testing capacity would be needed.\n\n\"The fact ministers failed to plan is yet more staggering incompetence.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, the director of testing in England, Sarah-Jane Marsh said she offered her \"heartfelt\" apologies to people who could not get a test.\n\nA new lab is due to open in Loughborough in about a fortnight, which will increase testing capacity by about a fifth.", "Thousands of students are preparing to return to university after the coronavirus lockdown\n\nUniversities should switch to full online learning only as a last resort in the event of a local coronavirus outbreak, new guidance says.\n\nThe hundreds of thousands of students due to arrive at England's universities in the coming weeks also face a ban on house parties under the \"rule of six\".\n\nStudents must limit socialising, staying within separate \"households\", and be taught in managed groups.\n\nThe mass return of students raises the risk of outbreaks, the guidance says.\n\nThe academics' union said it would be safer to switch most teaching online this term and allow students to return only when virus levels were lower.\n\nUCU general secretary Jo Grady added: \"Any country with a infection rate anywhere near that of our young people would be removed from the safe travel list.\n\n\"We cannot see why the government is insisting young people move around the country and engage in unnecessary face-to-face interactions.\n\n\"Moving learning online would remove the need for universities to consider teaching outside or opening doors and windows in the winter months as the guidance suggests.\"\n\nBut the Department for Education guidance reiterates the current position that courses will be provided using a blend of face-to-face and online learning, unless an outbreak occurs locally.\n\nWhere social distancing cannot be maintained, teaching sessions will be via technology or moved to more spacious premises.\n\nThe DfE also stressed there was no evidence face-to-face teaching was unsafe, as long as Covid precautions were maintained.\n\nAnd it highlighted government Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) advice online-only teaching \"would have an impact on students' mental health.\"\n\n\"Universities have been making a mammoth effort to safely reopen campuses and buildings to students this autumn,\" Universities Minister Michelle Donelan said.\n\n\"And the government has worked closely with them.\"\n\nCampuses have been closed since March and Sage suggests the university return \"could amplify local and national transmission\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Many university students are in the age bracket where we have seen the infection rates rise recently.\n\n\"My message to students is simple, 'Please, for the sake of your education and your parents' and your grandparents' health, wash your hands, cover your face, make space, and don't socially gather in groups of more than six, now and when term starts.\"\n\nHe added the updated guidance for universities on \"how they can operate in a Covid-secure way\" included a \"clear request not to send students home in the event of an outbreak, so as to avoid spreading the virus across the country\".\n\nThe guidance also asks universities to identify \"safer social activities\" for students and create Covid-secure campus bars and students' unions where they can socialise.\n\nAnd the government expects the universities to use incentives to encourage students to comply with social-distancing measures and disciplinary measures for serious breaches.\n\nVice-chancellors' group Universities UK said they had been working very hard to put Covid-secure safety measures in place.\n\nChief executive Alistair Jarvis said: \"Life across society will be different this autumn, with university life no exception, with differences to previous years.\n\n\"However, students can look forward to a high-quality, rewarding and enjoyable experience.\"\n\nAll universities are also required to plan for a tiered response, depending on the level of risk in the area.\n\nThe guidance comes as Exeter University signed a contract for tens of thousands of potential saliva tests this academic year.\n\nThe results will be provided within 24 hours and fed into the NHS Test and Trace system.\n\nSome other universities, including Leicester, Cambridge and East Anglia, are offering voluntary swab tests to staff and students.", "Peloton, which won an early celebrity fanbase for its exercise bikes and remote workout classes, has seen demand surge during the pandemic.\n\nThe firm's global membership base hit 3.1 million at the end of June, more than double a year earlier, as gym closures due to Covid-19 increased demand for at-home workouts.\n\nThe jump in sign-ups lifted revenue to $607m (£474m), up 172% year-on-year.\n\nBut it has also strained supply, prompting lengthy waits for equipment.\n\nThe firm had said it was slashing prices for its existing treadmill and bike, cutting the cost of the bike from $2,245 to $1,895 in an effort to make their products more accessible.\n\nThe move coincided with the launch of new, more expensive, versions of the same pieces of equipment.\n\nBut the firm, which relies on purchases of its machines fitted with touchscreens for most of its sales, said it did not expect delivery delays to improve much before the end of the year.\n\n\"Demand... remains strong and member engagement remains elevated, despite improving weather and the gradual reopening,\" chief executive John Foley said on an analyst call after the firm shared its quarterly results on Thursday.\n\nPeloton said the number of \"connected fitness\" subscribers, who access its remote classes via one of the firm's machines, jumped to more than 1.09 million at the end of June, up 113% in comparison with the same period last year.\n\nThose members are also working out more - averaging more than 24 workouts per month, compared to 12 one year ago.\n\nThe growth propelled the firm to its first quarterly profit of $89m, versus a loss of $47.4m last year.\n\nMr Foley told analysts he was not worried about demand subsiding after the pandemic, given the opportunities for global expansion.\n\nPeloton said it expected the number of subscribers to exceed 2 million over the next 12 months and forecast revenue for its next financial year of at least $3.5bn.\n\nThe results shared by the firm exceeded analyst expectations, prompting shares to rise 7% in after-hours trade.", "Ronald Bell (right) with brother and fellow band member Robert in 2014\n\nRonald Bell, one of the founder members of 1970s and 1980s pop group Kool & the Gang, has died at the age of 68.\n\nHe started the band with his brother Robert \"Kool\" Bell in 1964.\n\nThey became one of the era's most popular and influential soul and funk bands, with hits including Celebration, Ladies' Night and Get Down On It.\n\nTheir music also featured in several films including Saturday Night Fever, for which they received a Grammy in 1978, and Pulp Fiction.\n\nBell died at his home in the US Virgin Islands with his wife by his side, his publicist said. The cause of death was not given.\n\nA self-taught saxophonist and singer, he founded the group in New Jersey with Robert and five schoolfriends - Dennis Thomas, Robert Mickens, Charles Smith, George Brown and Ricky Westfield.\n\nThe band released 23 albums across their career\n\nTheir career was split into two distinct halves. In the early 70s, they scored US hits with the foot-stomping funk of songs like Jungle Boogie and Hollywood Swinging. Then, with the addition of vocalist James \"JT\" Taylor in 1979, they morphed into a hit-making R&B band, scoring the biggest commercial success of their career as they reached their 20th anniversary.\n\nAs musical director, Bell co-wrote all of their biggest hits, including the wedding disco classic Celebration.\n\nIt was his \"favourite song\" from the band's extensive back catalogue, he told the Reuters news agency in 2008.\n\n\"I had no clue, you know,\" he said. \"I was clueless, thinking that that was going to be a hit. I had no idea.\n\n\"But after all these years, there are times at the end of the show when I see all of these people singing a song, and after all of an hour and a half, you ask them to jump up and down and they still jump up and down. That's kind of overwhelming for me.\"\n\nThe group received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2015 for their contribution to the world of entertainment, and were inducted into the Songwriters' Hall Of Fame in 2018.\n\nBell was born and raised in Ohio, and picked up the music bug from his father, a professional boxer who was a close friend of jazz musicians Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis.\n\nUnable to afford drums, he and his brother taught themselves to play on makeshift instruments.\n\n\"I used to beat paint cans like bongos, and depending on how much paint was inside, this would determine the tone of the sounds we made,\" he later recalled.\n\nAfter the family moved to New Jersey in his teens, Bell's mother bought him a real set of bongos and he began to teach himself bass guitar, borrowing an instrument from the brother of his future bandmate Robert \"Spike\" Mickens.\n\nThe first incarnation of Kool & The Gang formed in 1964, but they cycled through several names - including Jazziacs, The New Dimensions, The Soul Town Band, the Jazz Birds and Kool & the Flames before settling on their final moniker in 1969.\n\nAlong the way, they combined their love of jazz with the gritty rhythms of street funk, creating a sound that would lead to their success in the 1970s.\n\n\"We used to play a lot of percussion in the streets in the 60s, go to the park and start beating on drums and stuff in the street,\" Bell told Rolling Stone.\n\n\"You had a hard time trying to get us to play R&B,\" he added. \"We were die-hard jazz musicians. We're not stooping to that.\"\n\nRobert (left) and Ronald Bell in the studio in the 1970s\n\nAs the Jazz Birds, they won the Apollo Theater's famed Amateur Night and landed a record deal with a small label called De-Lite Records.\n\nThree singles from their self-titled debut album hit the pop charts, with the instrumental track Kool & The Gang showcasing their raucous, horn-driven sound.\n\nTheir mainstream breakthrough came with 1973's Wild and Peaceful album. Lead single Funky Stuff became their first top 40 hit in the US, followed by Jungle Boogie and Hollywood Swinging, which both reached the top 10.\n\nJungle Boogie went on to become one of their signature songs - used in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction and sampled in Madonna's Erotica.\n\nIt was only written after the band's record label, in search of a top 10 single, pressured Kool & The Gang to record a cover of Soul Makossa by Manu Dibango.\n\n\"It would have been a hit,\" Bell later recalled. \"But we decided we were not going to record Soul Makossa - we'll come up with our own 'jungle music', not to be derogatory.\n\n\"We made the song up in the rehearsal, went in and recorded it that night. Jungle Boogie is one take.\"\n\nAs disco rose to prominence, the band struggled to replicate their early success - although they did win a Grammy for Open Sesame, their contribution to the multi-million-selling Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.\n\nThings changed with the addition of Taylor, a former nightclub singer, and producer Eumir Deodato, which led to a cleaner, pop-driven sound and the crossover single Ladies' Night.\n\nThe decision was prompted when the band found themselves on tour with the Jacksons and were told by the promoter that they needed a frontman. Taylor, chosen for his deep baritone \"like Nat King Cole\", was the only singer they auditioned.\n\nUnlike many of the funk bands of the 70s, Kool & The Gang thrived in the 1980s, scoring huge hits with sentimental ballads like Joanna and Cherish, as well as the party anthems Steppin' Out and Get Down On It, which is now their most-streamed song on Spotify.\n\nThe band won an outstanding contribution prize at the 2003 Mobo Awards\n\nPossibly their most enduring hit is Celebration, which was inspired by Bell's Islamic faith.\n\n\"I was reading the scripture about where God called the angels together, and made an announcement that he was going to create this being,\" he told Songwriter Universe.\n\n\"He gathered the angels together and they said, 'We don't know nothin', but we just celebrate you, God - we celebrate and praise you.'\"\n\n\"And I thought, I'm going to write a song about that, [with the line] 'Everyone around the world…Come on!'\n\n\"That's the intent... it was actually written for mankind.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe group found a new generation of fans in the 80s and 90s as their music was sampled in a raft of pop and hip-hop songs.\n\nWhen Public Enemy sampled three separate Kool & The Gang songs for Fear of a Black Planet, Bell voiced his approval.\n\n\"After Public Enemy, I was all in [with hip-hop],\" he told Rolling Stone in 2015. \"The music was all new to me. I sat and listened to Fear of a Black Planet and was thrilled. I thought that was amazing.\n\n\"You can practically hear [drummer] George [Brown] playing that break beat. You can hear our music in the background. You know it was compound and compact, but you can hear Kool & the Gang music in all that hip-hop.\"\n\nThe rise of hip-hop and the departure of Taylor in 1989 effectively ended Kool & The Gang's presence on the charts, but Bell continued to record and tour with the group as a legacy act in the 1990s and 2000s.\n\nAt the time of his death, he was working on a solo album called Kool Baby Brotha Band, as well as a series of animations about the band's childhood and career.\n\nIn an interview with Billboard last year, he said he felt grateful to have had a career in music.\n\n\"And for it to be this long,\" he added. \"For me, I'm most grateful for that, to still be relevant since [we were] 19.\"\n\nThe musician is survived by his wife Tia Sinclair Bell and 10 children; as well as his brother Robert and three other siblings. The family will hold a private funeral service, and have asked that fans donate to the children's charity the Boys and Girls Club of America.", "Concerns were raised over social distancing at the Department for Work and Pensions office in Leeds\n\nA government office failed to do enough to prevent the spread of coronavirus, a health and safety inspection found.\n\nWorkers were pictured gathered around a desk at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in Leeds where there have been two confirmed Covid-19 cases.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found management had failed to ensure social distancing was maintained.\n\nThe DWP said it had taken \"urgent action to rectify all issues identified\" at the Quarry House office.\n\nDuring the pandemic, the majority of DWP employees in Leeds have been working from home but there have still been hundreds of people in the office, located inside a landmark building on the eastern edge of the city centre.\n\nThere has been a recruitment drive at the DWP amid a rise in Universal Credit claimants due to coronavirus, a whistleblower told the BBC.\n\nQuarry House in Leeds is known locally as \"The Kremlin\" because of its imposing architecture\n\nThe whistleblower has been working at home for the DWP but said he was concerned for his health when returning to the building, which is also home to parts of the NHS.\n\nHe said: \"I hear stories about people congregating, not following outlaid guidance. In an office so big it is difficult to monitor 24/7.\n\n\"People I have spoken to are nervous about a return, they and I feel it is not yet safe enough to go back.\n\n\"The office was busy pre-Covid, I don't know where everyone would operate from in normal times let alone in a virus outbreak.\"\n\nThe HSE inspected the office on 27 August after receiving a report of a \"workplace concern\". During the visit photographs were taken, including one of workers standing close together.\n\nThe report compiled following the inspection said: \"You are failing to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety of your employees/agency staff at work because you have not implemented necessary measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19.\"\n\nThe DWP had risk assessed for the office being about 50% full, which the HSE said \"may be ambitious and unrealistic\", leading to a risk of \"congestion\" and making it more difficult to maintain social distancing.\n\nThe BBC has seen leaked messages showing the office has had at least two positive coronavirus cases among staff.\n\nTwo emails have recently been sent to workers saying people had been sent home from the affected floors and deep cleans carried out.\n\nCharles Law, industrial officer with the PCS union, said: \"It's extremely worrying for our members who work for the department, especially if they're expected to stop being at home and come into the workplace.\n\n\"It's shocking that the HSE would do such a damning report on a flagship DWP office and we're extremely concerned for the safety of our members.\"\n\nThe HSE confirmed that following the visit an official letter, known as a Notification of Contravention, was sent to the DWP.\n\nIn this letter, the DWP was warned a fee would need to be paid because of \"material breaches\" of health and safety law.\n\nIt was given a deadline of Tuesday 15 September to confirm action had been taken to remedy the issues highlighted in the report.\n\nIn a statement, a DWP spokesperson said: \"We take the health and safety of staff extremely seriously and have implemented Covid-secure measures across our sites to ensure they comply with government guidelines.\n\n\"We have taken urgent action to rectify all issues identified by the HSE.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mike Pompeo said the attack on Mr Navalny could \"prove costly for the Russians\"\n\nUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says there is a \"substantial chance\" that the suspected poisoning of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny was ordered by senior officials in Moscow.\n\nMr Pompeo said the US was evaluating how it would respond.\n\nNato and Germany say there is \"proof beyond doubt\" that Mr Navalny was attacked with a Novichok nerve agent.\n\nMr Pompeo's comments contrast with President Donald Trump who has refused to condemn Moscow.\n\nMr Navalny was airlifted to Berlin from Russia after falling ill on a flight from Siberia to Moscow last month.\n\nThe 44-year-old was brought out of an induced coma earlier this week with doctors at Berlin's Charité hospital saying he was responding to verbal stimuli but it was \"too early to gauge the potential long-term effects of his severe poisoning\".\n\nMr Pompeo gave his comments in an interview with the conservative US commentator Ben Shapiro, who asked if there would be any ramifications for the Russian government over apparent attacks on its political opponents.\n\nThe secretary of state said the US, along with the EU, had made clear to Russia \"our expectations that they will hold those responsible for this accountable. We'll do our best to come to a conclusion about who was responsible too\".\n\n\"I think people all around the world will see this kind of activity for what it is,\" he added. \"And when they see the effort to poison a dissident, they recognise that there is a substantial chance that this actually came from Russia\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe added that \"the world has matured and come to an understanding that this is not how normal countries operate, and this will prove costly for the Russians.\"\n\nMr Pompeo declined to say how the US would respond as \"I don't want to get in front of the president\", but said Washington would play its part to \"reduce the risk that things like this happen again\".\n\nPresident Trump has given no indication of how the US will respond to the poisoning, saying on Saturday: \"I don't know exactly what happened. I think it's tragic, it's terrible, it shouldn't happen. We haven't had any proof yet but I will take a look.\"\n\nNato has called for Russia to disclose its Novichok nerve agent programme to international monitors. Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said members were united in condemning the \"horrific\" attack on Mr Navalny.\n\nOn Wednesday, Russia's foreign ministry summoned the German ambassador to protest at what it called \"unfounded accusations and ultimatums against Russia\" and accused Berlin of using the Navalny case \"as a pretext to discredit our country\".\n\nThe German ambassador was summoned to the Russian foreign ministry over the Navalny case\n\nMr Navalny is an anti-corruption campaigner who has long been the most prominent face of opposition to President Vladimir Putin in Russia.\n\nHis supporters believe his tea was spiked at Tomsk airport on 20 August. He became ill during the flight, and the plane made an emergency landing in Omsk so he could be taken to hospital. Russian officials were persuaded to allow him to be airlifted to Germany two days later.\n\nA nerve agent from the Novichok group identified by Germany in the Navalny case was also used to poison ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, in England. They both survived but a local woman, Dawn Sturgess, died after coming into contact with the poison.\n\nBritain accused Russia's military intelligence of carrying out that attack in Salisbury. As part of a co-ordinated response, 20 countries expelled more than 100 Russian diplomats and spies. Russia denied any involvement.", "The UK government should consider a targeted extension of its furlough scheme, MPs have said.\n\nThe coronavirus crisis risks mass long-term unemployment and viable firms could go under without support, the Treasury Select Committee has warned.\n\nHowever, a blanket retention of the scheme would not be good value for money, it added.\n\nThe Treasury said it would \"continue to innovate in supporting incomes and employment.\"\n\nThe Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme is due to end on 31 October. Under it, workers placed on leave have received 80% of their pay up to a maximum of £2,500 a month.\n\nAt first, this was all paid for by the government. But firms had to start making a contribution to wages in September as the scheme began to wind down.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has previously said that extending furlough past October would only keep people \"in suspended animation\".\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak also ruled out an extension, instead saying that firms will be given £1,000 for every furloughed worker still in employment at the end of January.\n\nBut the committee's chairman, Mel Stride, said the chancellor \"should carefully consider targeted extensions\" to the scheme.\n\n\"The key will be assisting those businesses who, with additional support, can come through the crisis as sustainable enterprises, rather than focusing on those that will unfortunately just not be viable in the changed post-crisis economy.\"\n\nIn the second report of its inquiry into the economic impact of Covid-19, the committee also warned that the pandemic risked widening the gender pay gap due to the differences in hours of paid work in lockdown - especially if work patterns are changed permanently.\n\nThe MPs also said people should be able to reskill, and that small businesses should be able to fully participate in the government's Kickstart Scheme, which aims to create work placements for young people on universal credit.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) trade body said with the furlough scheme winding down, \"policymakers will need to look closely at measures to stem mass unemployment, including a successor scheme.\"\n\nFSB national chairman Mike Cherry said: \"The priority should be protecting viable small businesses - and all the jobs they provide - that have been disproportionately [hit] by the coronavirus crisis, including those caught by local lockdowns, subject to continued national restrictions, or with staff that have directly suffered because of Covid.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Julie changed jobs before lockdown - then became unemployed and ineligible for the furlough scheme\n\nThe Resolution Foundation, which campaigns on living standards, said that \"extending support for the hardest-hit sectors of the economy will be essential to limit the rise in unemployment Britain faces in the months ahead.\"\n\nTorsten Bell, the think tank's chief executive, said: \"This authoritative account of the economic impact of coronavirus should be required reading for Treasury officials planning the Autumn Budget against the highly uncertain backdrop of rising coronavirus case numbers.\n\n\"The chancellor will need to reconsider his plans to swiftly phase out support given the painful reality that the economic crisis is here to stay.\"\n\nThis week leading business groups warned that the UK risks a second wave of job cuts and a slower economic recovery if it does not extend its furlough scheme.\n\nGermany, Belgium, Australia and France have all decided to extend or launch new wage support schemes into next year.\n\nFormer Labour prime minister Gordon Brown told the BBC that the UK should emulate other countries' short-term working schemes.\n\nMr Brown said the end of the furlough scheme on 31 October was a \"cliff-edge\" that could trigger \"a tsunami of unemployment\".\n\n\"The government's got to change course here,\" he told the Today programme.\n\nShort-term working schemes would allow firms to reduce employees' working hours while keeping them in jobs, with the state topping up their salaries.\n\n\"You have got to send a signal that unemployment matters,\" he said. \"We don't want to destroy any more capacity and skills in the economy.\"\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said that by the time the UK scheme closes it will have helped to pay for 9.6 million jobs.\n\n\"We will continue to innovate in supporting incomes and employment,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"We're helping employees get back to work, where they want to be, through a £1,000 retention bonus.\n\n\"And we are creating new roles for young people with our Kickstart Scheme, creating incentives for training and apprenticeships, and supporting and protecting jobs in the tourism and hospitality sectors through our VAT cut and last month's Eat Out to Help Out scheme.\"\n\nThe UK's unemployment rate has been at 3.9% since the lockdown was introduced.\n\nBut the Bank of England expects that rate to double to 7.5% by the end of the year when the government-funded support schemes come to an end.\n\nThousands of job cuts have already been announced by firm such as Rolls-Royce, Costa Coffee, Pret A Manger, Pizza Express, British Airways and BP.", "British Airways owner IAG is cutting more flights over the next three months as it adjusts to the continuing collapse in demand for air travel.\n\nIAG, which also runs Aer Lingus and Iberia, said quarantine restrictions meant capacity this autumn would be 60% below 2019 levels.\n\nThe group said it had seen a \"delayed recovery\", and did not expect business to return to 2019 levels until 2023.\n\nIAG also said BA had reached the outline of a jobs agreement with Unite.\n\nThe union has been in a bitter dispute with BA over redundancies and pay cuts for cabin crew. BA has already reached a separate deal with pilots.\n\nThe airline, which is aiming to shed up to 13,000 jobs, said that by the end of August some 8,236 employees had left the business, \"mostly as a result of voluntary redundancy\".\n\nUnite stressed its cabin crew members still needed to approve the plan through a ballot and that negotiations remained ongoing.\n\n\"Unless and until Unite members agree to all and any proposals, no settlement has been reached and it is unhelpful and misleading for British Airways to suggest otherwise,\" said assistant general secretary Howard Beckett.\n\nIAG's decision to cut more flights than planned follows its previous forecast of a 46% reduction for the October-to-December period compared with the same quarter last year.\n\nIt said it had seen an \"almost complete cessation of new booking activity\" in April and May due to the pandemic, but the easing of country lockdowns boosted ticket sales in June.\n\nHowever, since July there had been an \"overall levelling off in bookings\" as the UK and other European countries re-imposed quarantine requirements for travellers returning from countries such as Spain.\n\nOn Tuesday, EasyJet revealed it will have flown \"slightly less\" than the 40% of pre-coronavirus pandemic capacity it previously said it would operate between July and September following the government's decision to impose quarantine restrictions for seven Greek islands.\n\nAirlines are among the firms hardest hit by the impact of the pandemic. British Airways plans to cut up to 13,000 jobs due to the crisis, while EasyJet and Virgin Atlantic are slashing 4,500 roles each.\n\nOperators say the UK's travel quarantine policy - which requires visitors to high risk countries to isolate on their return - is crushing demand and want the government to back testing at airports instead.\n\nUK government sources have indicated that they are looking at system where the two tests would be eight days apart to further minimise the risk of \"false negative\" results.\n\nThey are yet to approve the idea, however, while the prime minister last week warned testing at airports could give a \"false sense of security\".\n\nIn a joint letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday, Airlines UK, whose members include BA, Virgin, Ryanair and EasyJet, called for an extensions of the jobs furlough scheme and air passenger duty waiver.\n\n\"Our industry is in crisis,\" the letter said. \"In sum, we ask you to act urgently to implement a programme of recovery for our sector.\"\n\nIAG also announced on Thursday that it was tapping shareholders for €2.7bn (£2.5bn) to help shore up its finances.\n\nThe company said the money would be used to reduce debt and help it withstand a prolonged downturn in travel.\n\nUnder the fundraising, existing investors will buy new shares at a deeply discounted price - 36% below the closing price on Wednesday.\n\nThe group's largest shareholder, Qatar Airways, which has a 25.1% holding, has said it will buy its full entitlement.\n\nDetails of the rights issue, which was announced in July, come two days after new chief executive Luis Gallego took over from long-time boss Willie Walsh.", "The infection rate in Leeds has been rising over the last few weeks, officials said\n\nLeeds has been added to Public Health England's list as an \"area of concern\" following a rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nThe latest seven-day infection rate in the city has risen to 32.5 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nThe city council said being on the list did not mean more restrictions would be brought in immediately.\n\nHowever, it did mean increased monitoring of cases and potential additional steps if the infection rate did not start to fall.\n\nCouncil leader Judith Blake said: \"We have been working tirelessly with our partners and communities, doing everything within our power to keep the spread of this virus under control and to ensure Leeds stays open.\n\n\"We completely understand that these past six months have put a tremendous strain on everyone in Leeds and that being able to get out, socialise and enjoy ourselves has provided a massive lift.\n\n\"But it is absolutely crucial that if we want to continue to do that, we all do it sensibly and responsibly and follow the latest guidance which is there to keep us all safe,\" she added.\n\nThe council said many of the cases may be linked to social interaction and leisure activities.\n\nThe spread was \"broad and changeable across wards\", it said, with increasing numbers detected in young people aged 18-34.\n\nExtra Covid-19 restrictions imposed on some other parts of West Yorkshire are being eased.\n\nTattoo artist Nico Pantu said his business had the equipment needed to keep customers safe\n\nLocal businesses expressed concern over the impact of a potential local lockdown in Leeds.\n\nNico Pantu, owner of Grimm Tattoo Studio, said: \"If Leeds is to go back into lockdown, for us it could be catastrophic.\n\n\"Another lockdown would absolutely affect the whole city and most likely leave lasting damage to Leeds and its wide range of independent businesses.\"\n\nBar owner Stuart Dixon said it took a month for business to build back up after pubs reopened\n\nStuart Dixon, who owns the Doghouse Bar and 212 Cafe Bar, said: \"My concern is whether it will frighten people off again and ruin footfall for the bars, when we've literally just got back them to a position where we're managing.\n\n\"My worry would be if there's a local lockdown, are people going to not go out? That will destroy us. And will there be extra support from the government and council? Probably not.\n\n\"It's not their fault but if we have to keep shutting over the next year or so, I'm going to get the point where I'm just not going bother anymore because we'll just accumulate debt and then you end up just working to pay off debt.\"\n\nWest Yorkshire is a densely populated metropolitan county and some parts of it have been subject to restrictions because of coronavirus for a few weeks already.\n\nLeeds has escaped these local rules because infection rates weren't high but that's changed.\n\nThe latest seven-day infection rate shows the city has 29.4 cases per 100,000 people, with 44 new cases on Wednesday, according to council figures.\n\nThe local authority expected it to be added to Public Health England's weekly watchlist of areas of concern.\n\nThis doesn't mean any further restrictions at this stage but they could be imminent if infection rates continue to rise.\n\nLeeds, unlike neighbouring Bradford, has avoided stricter measures because its infection rates were much lower.\n\nHowever, there were 261 cases in the week up until 30 August, up from 167 in the week up until 23 August.\n\nAs an area of concern, Leeds would be subject to increased monitoring and could face additional measures if infection rates do not fall.\n\nOfficers issued seven fines to organisers of illegal events over the Bank Holiday weekend.\n\nProf Robert West, from University College London's Institute of Epidemiology, was asked whether issues in the city were \"inevitable\" following local outbreaks across West Yorkshire.\n\nHe said: \"The problem is that this remains a very infectious virus and what that means is that if you're near someone, with someone who has it, there's a good chance you'll get it.\"\n\nLast month, the council said it was introducing \"a series of targeted preventative steps\" following a cluster of cases in parts of Leeds.\n\nHowever the most recent rise is not isolated to specific parts of the city.\n\nA range of measures are now to be introduced including additional mobile testing units, door knocking in areas of high prevalence, and officials will work with bars, venues and restaurants to make sure they follow Test and Trace guidelines.\n\nThe authority will also work with West Yorkshire Police and community organisations to discourage gatherings and house parties, as well as working with schools, colleges and universities to try and ensure a safe return to education.\n\nPeople have been urged to follow guidance on social distancing, hand-washing, and wearing face masks while those with symptoms of the virus have been told to stay at home.\n\nThe council's public health director Victoria Eaton said: \"We've seen a tremendous amount of collective determination from people in Leeds to keep their city and each other safe through this crisis.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Early results from small trials on a Russian vaccine against Covid-19 have found it is safe and there were no serious side-effects in people.\n\n“Encouraging” and “so far so good” are some of the reactions from scientists in the UK – but there is still, clearly, a long way to go.\n\nTwo small trials, with 38 people in each, were carried out in two hospitals in Russia.\n\nAlthough the vaccine showed an antibody response in all participants in phase 2 (40 people), this doesn’t necessarily mean it would protect them from the virus.\n\nThat still hasn’t been established yet.\n\nFrom these results, we can tell that the vaccine - named Sputnik V - appeared to be safe in healthy people between the age of 18 and 60 for 42 days, because that was how long the study lasted.\n\nBut what about older people and those with underlying health conditions who are most at risk of Covid-19 – how safe is it for them and over a longer period of time?\n\nThis can only be answered after much larger, long-term randomised trials where the people taking part don’t know if they are receiving the vaccine or a dummy injection.\n\nThese will also tell scientists how effective the vaccine really is among a much wider population.\n\nThere have also been calls for openness and transparency. Of the many vaccines currently being trialled around the world, some will work better than others in certain situations and in certain groups of people, perhaps.\n\nSo knowing exactly how well they work and for whom is paramount – it is unlikely that one vaccine will be suitable for everyone.", "Thousands of videos, graphics and other images have been collected together to form a growing propaganda archive\n\nOne of the largest collections of online material belonging to the group calling itself Islamic State has been discovered by researchers at the Institute of Strategic Dialogue (ISD).\n\nThe digital library contains more than 90,000 items and has an estimated 10,000 unique visitors a month.\n\nExperts say it provides a way to continually replenish extremist content on the net.\n\nBut taking it down is difficult because the data is not stored in one place.\n\nAnd despite counter-terrorism authorities in Britain and the US having been alerted to this growing repository, it continues to grow.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe discovery came after the death of the prominent IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in October 2019.\n\nAt the time, many social media posts supporting the organisation contained a short link.\n\nIt led researchers to documents and videos in nine different languages.\n\nThey included details of attacks, including those on Manchester Arena on 22 May 2017, in London on 7 July 2005 and in the US on 11 September 2001.\n\n\"[There's] everything you need to know to plan and carry out an attack,\" said ISD deputy director Moustafa Ayad, who discovered the archive.\n\n\"Things that teach you how to be a better terrorist essentially.\"\n\nThis graphic relate to the London bombings in July 2005\n\nThe ISD named the library the Caliphate Cache.\n\nFor months the institute's researchers have studied how it evolves, how it is being administered and who is visiting it.\n\nThe data is spread across a decentralised system, rather than a single computer server.\n\nAnyone can share the content across the web, via servers based at multiple locations.\n\nAnd this hampers any effort to take it offline.\n\nBut as long as the Caliphate Cache remains live, it aids IS by providing a means to continuously seed out content.\n\nThe material is added to social-media comments pages and spread via bot accounts.\n\nAnother technique has been to target Twitter accounts linked to celebrities and athletes.\n\nFor example, IS hijacked an account belonging to a fan of the pop singer Justin Bieber and used it to promote material from the cache.\n\nThis image was posted within a tweet from a compromised Justin Bieber fan account\n\nIn another case, the group managed to fool the English rugby team's account into following one of its own by masquerading as a supporter.\n\n\"They understand how not just to game platforms, they understand the power of the content that is contained within the Caliphate Cache,\" Mr Ayad said.\n\nNot all the cache's content is violent.\n\nVisitors also encounter philosophies of IS, religious texts and propagandised versions of what an IS lifestyle looks like.\n\nThe researchers say this includes material runaway brides such as Shamima Begum would have seen.\n\nMost of those drawn to the Caliphate Cache are 18- to 24-year-old males in the Arab world, with 40% of the traffic coming from social media, largely via YouTube.\n\nThe ISD has also discovered the Caliphate Cache is not unique.\n\nThere are smaller repositories belonging to other extremist groups, many of which are also using decentralised platforms.\n\nThe library of material available for IS accounts to draw on continues to grow\n\n\"The attraction for jihadists of these platforms is that the developers of these decentralised platforms have no way of acting against content that is stored on user-operated servers or content that's shared across a dispersed network of users, \" BBC Monitoring senior jihadi specialist Mina Al-Lami said.\n\n\"It's really all about privacy, freedom and encryption.\n\nThe researchers have alerted the US Attorney's Office for Eastern District of New York, which prosecutes counter-terrorism cases, as well as the Met Police.\n\nThe authorities in New York have not commented.\n\nBut the Met acknowledged receiving the referral and said it was being assessed by specialist officers.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Selected live radio and text commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, BBC Sounds, the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nBritain's Johanna Konta was knocked out of the US Open in three sets by Sorana Cirstea.\n\nNinth seed Konta led by a set and a break but the Romanian world number 77 fought back to win 2-6 7-6 (7-5) 6-4 at Flushing Meadows.\n\nIt is a second early exit in a Grand Slam in 2020 for 29-year-old Konta, who lost in the first round of the Australian Open in January.\n\n\"My opponent played better than me, that's really about it,\" said Konta.\n\n\"She obviously raised her level and then we were battling toe-to-toe. She was better in the end.\n\n\"I did the best that I could. I really fought hard.\"\n• None Follow radio and text updates from day four\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nKonta, a quarter-finalist in 2019 at Flushing Meadows, had won their two previous meetings, including a controversial Fed Cup rubber in 2017 when Romania captain Ilie Nastase was sent off after swearing at the umpire and abusing Konta and Great Britain captain Anne Keothavong.\n\nKonta was visibly upset and the umpire halted the match for 25 minutes, with Cirstea later claiming the Briton had \"overreacted\".\n\nThere was no hint of controversy about their meeting in New York with Konta seemingly set for a routine win as she broke Cirstea's serve three times in the first set and then again to lead 2-1 in the second set.\n\nHowever, Cirstea broke back immediately and upped her level to turn the match around.\n\nKonta had break points at 4-4 and 5-5 in the second set but could not convert and was taken to a tie-break.\n\nCirstea dominated it and although Konta saved three set points, Cirstea levelled the match with an ace on her fourth opportunity.\n\nPoorly executed drop shots were an issue for Konta in the final set, and one particularly feeble effort helped Cirstea get the first break for 2-1.\n\nKonta levelled immediately but was now routinely having to fight to hold her own service games, winning only 34% of points on her second serve during the match.\n\nShe fought back from 0-30 down to go 3-2 up but a gripping seventh game - which lasted more than 10 minutes - proved pivotal, Cirstea converting her sixth break point by superbly picking up a volley.\n\nKonta had three break-back points in the next game but they were quickly snuffed out as Cirstea held for 5-3. Excellent serving allowed the Briton to stave off two match points in her next service game, but Cirstea was not fazed as she coolly sealed victory with an ace in two hours and 49 minutes.\n\nJohanna Konta does not tend to dwell on missed opportunities, but there will be plenty of frustration this match slipped away from such a promising position.\n\nMuch of that frustration can be directed at Sorana Cirstea for playing so well.\n\nThe Romanian served superbly, and from the middle of the second set onwards was able to sustain a level far above her ranking.\n\nKonta was unable to throw her off course, which will give new coach Thomas Hogstedt some food for thought as they head on to the clay.\n\nJamie Murray and fellow Briton Neal Skupski made an impressive start to their men's doubles campaign, beating fourth seeds Ivan Dodig and Filip Polasek 6-3 7-5.\n\nBriton Dom Inglot and Pakistan's Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi lost to Americans Jack Sock and Jackson Withrow with all three sets decided by tie-breaks.\n\nJonny O'Mara and Marcelo Arevalo of El Salvador were beaten in three sets by Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau.", "A quadcopter has been recorded releasing a payload of little bags, which Israeli police suspect contained \"a dangerous drug\", over Tel Aviv.\n\nIt followed activists who seek to legalise the drug in Israel promising free cannabis from the air on social media.\n\nWhile medical use of cannabis is permitted in the country, recreational use remains illegal.", "The star is trying to have her father removed as her legal guardian.\n\nBritney Spears has welcomed public scrutiny of the legal arrangement that has controlled various aspects her life and finances for more than a decade.\n\nA court-appointed guardian has been in charge of her affairs since her public breakdown in 2008. Her father Jamie has filled the role for most of that time.\n\nNow, the star is trying to remove him from power, and has argued the public has a right to know what is happening.\n\n\"The world is watching,\" said her lawyer in a court filing on Thursday.\n\nSpears' comments came in response to a motion from her father, who wanted to seal a recent filing in the case.\n\nThe star is \"vehemently opposed to this effort by her father to keep her legal struggle hidden away in the closet as a family secret\", said her lawyer Samuel Ingham III in the court documents.\n\nSpears' teams also appeared to endorse the #FreeBritney movement, which argues the star is being held against her will by people who stand to gain financially from her situation.\n\nIts supporters frequently protest outside court hearings, and the campaign has won support from celebrities including Cher, Miley Cyrus and actress Ariel Winter - who herself won emancipation from her mother as a teenager.\n\n\"At this point in her life when she is trying to regain some measure of personal autonomy, Britney welcomes and appreciates the informed support of her many fans,\" wrote Ingham.\n\nFans say Britney is being held hostage by her family, a claim the family denies\n\nJamie Spears has previously called the fan-led #FreeBritney movement \"a joke\" and characterised its supporters as \"conspiracy theorists\".\n\n\"I have to report every nickel and dime spent to the court every year. How the hell would I steal something?\" he said to the New York Post last year.\n\nBut Ingham challenged that idea in his latest court filing\n\n\"Britney's conservatorship has attracted an unprecedented level of scrutiny from mainstream media and social media alike,\" said the court papers.\n\n\"Far from being a conspiracy theory or a 'joke' as James reportedly told the media, in large part this scrutiny is a reasonable and even predictable result of James' aggressive use of the sealing procedure over the years to minimise the amount of meaningful information made available to the public.\"\n\nMr Spears and his lawyers have routinely sought to have legal filings sealed from the public and hearings held behind closed doors, arguing that the case involves private medical information, details about Spears' children and trade secrets that should be protected. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny has routinely approved their requests.\n\nIngham argued on Thursday that the strategy might have had \"merits\" years ago, when the pop musician was trying to restart her career, but that the situation has changed.\n\n\"The sealing motion is supposedly being brought by her father to 'protect' Britney's interests, but she is adamantly opposed to it,\" he wrote.\n\nSpears has been subject to a conservatorship since 2008, when she was twice admitted to a psychiatric ward.\n\nThe arrangement is usually reserved for people with a diminished capacity to make decisions for themselves, but they rarely last this long.\n\nIn a filing earlier this week, the 38-year-old indicated that she was happy for the conservatorship to continue - calling it \"voluntary\" - but she no longer wants her father to be in charge of her affairs.\n\nSpears has not performed live since 2018, and cancelled a planned Vegas residency in 2019\n\nJamie Spears and lawyer Andrew M Wallet were Britney's co-conservators from 2008 until the latter stepped down in 2019.\n\nMr Spears temporarily stepped down last year, citing health concerns, but retained control of her finances.\n\nJodi Montgomery then became conservator of Britney's personal affairs. In legal papers lodged last month, Britney said she wanted Montgomery to stay in the role and strongly objected to her father returning.\n\nIn a new filing on Wednesday, she added that she wants a wealth-management company called the Bessemer Trust, to oversee her $57.4 million (£42.5 million) fortune - a move that would push her father out entirely.\n\nHer father has requested that Mr Wallet be reinstated as conservator, and that documents relating to that request remain sealed. Spears has opposed both motions.\n\nHer lawyer also argued that the moment her father obtained the power to handle Spears' affairs, he \"surrendered a large measure of privacy as to the manner in which he exercises that power\".\n\n\"Transparency is an essential component in order for this court to earn and retain the public's confidence with respect to protective proceedings like this one,\" he wrote.\n\n\"In this case, it is not an exaggeration to say that the whole world is watching.\"\n\nA hearing on the conservatorship is scheduled for October. Last month, Judge Brenda Penny also extended the current version of the conservatorship until 1 February, 2021, in accordance with Spears' wishes.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Grocery chain the Co-op is opening 50 new stores and creating 1,000 new jobs this year.\n\nThe new roles come on top of the 1,000 posts it added during lockdown as demand from shoppers increased.\n\nThe extra jobs announced today will be spread across the new shops and 15 stores that are being enlarged.\n\nThe Co-op said its research had found that 70% of adults have relied on their local convenience store for food and other goods in recent months\n\nThe retailer also said that it had expanded its online shop.\n\nThe Co-op currently employs 55,000 workers across the UK and has 2,600 stores. The new stores will open in areas such as Wrexham, London, Poole, Leeds and Guildford.\n\nMeanwhile up to 12 new Co-op franchise stores are also set to launch this year, including at Oxford Brookes University and Stirling University, with more university locations planned for 2021.\n\n\"We continually look for new locations, sites which are definitively convenient in their community,\" said David Roberts, managing director of Co-op Property.\n\nHe said more than 100 of the Co-op's outlets would receive major makeovers as part of a £130m investment programme.\n\nThe chief executive of the Association of Convenience Stores, James Lowman, said: \"This commitment to investing in stores in the coming months is testament to the importance of the convenience sector.\"\n\nThe grocery sector has seen a surge in demand during the pandemic, and the big supermarket chains have also been creating jobs.\n\nLast month, Tesco said it would create 16,000 permanent jobs after the lockdown led to \"exceptional growth\" in its online business.\n\nWhile the grocery sector has done well, other parts of the economy have been hit hard by the pandemic.\n\nIt was announced on Friday that 540 workers at Nationwide Accident Repair Services have lost their jobs after the struggling business was sold to RunMyCar in a pre-packaged administration.\n\nAs part of the deal 30 of Nationwide's sites have been shut.\n\nFounded in 1993 in Witney, Oxfordshire, the business operated 115 garages across the country, as well as a mobile fleet of repair vans, servicing the accident repair market for UK insurers.\n\nBut the company suffered a substantial decline in business during lockdown as millions of motorists stayed off the road.\n\n\"As with many other businesses, the group had to weather major financial fallout due to the economic impact of Covid-19, which meant that trading volumes were significantly reduced,\" said Rob Lewis, joint administrator at PwC.\n\n\"Against that backdrop, the sale announced today reflects a significant positive outcome for the business, and we are especially pleased to have safeguarded 2,350 roles including apprentices, mechanics and technicians.\n\n\"Sadly we have had to make 540 staff redundant.\"", "A man has been sentenced for filming a naked woman in a hotel room while she was unconscious, following her five-year campaign for justice.\n\nChristopher Killick, 40, recorded a 62-second clip of Emily Hunt in an east London hotel in 2015.\n\nProsecutors repeatedly told Ms Hunt what he did was not illegal, until a Court of Appeal hearing in January.\n\nKillick, who previously pleaded guilty to voyeurism, was given a 30-month community order and fined £2,000.\n\nAt a Stratford Magistrates' Court hearing, he was also ordered to pay Ms Hunt £5,000 in compensation and put on the sexual offenders register for five years.", "The paddle steamer was badly damaged in Thursday's crash\n\nMore than 130 people were returned to the mainland on a late-night ferry after the Waverley's collision with Brodick Pier in Arran.\n\nMore than 200 passengers and 26 crew were onboard the paddle steamer when it crashed into the pier as it arrived at Brodick on Thursday evening.\n\nThe coastguard said 24 passengers were injured in the crash, with some airlifted to hospital on the mainland.\n\nThe boat's operators confirmed its sailing season is now over.\n\nThe Waverley set sail for the first time in two years less than a fortnight ago, an event which was itself delayed due to an \"unexpected technical and administration issue\".\n\nThe boat, described as the world's last seagoing paddle steamer, had been due to continue sailing until 12 September.\n\nWaverley Excursion, the company that owns and operates the paddle steamer, said on its website: \"[The] Waverley made heavy contact while berthing at Brodick Pier on Thursday 3rd September and will be unable to undertake any further sailings this season.\n\n\"An investigation into the incident is ongoing.\"\n\nThis was the scene on the boat moments after it struck the pier\n\nPolice, paramedics, coastguard and rescue helicopters were called to the pier when the alarm was raised at 17.15.\n\nEyewitnesses reported seeing people falling over when the boat struck the pier earlier in the day.\n\nRita McLeod, who was waiting to board the Waverley, said she saw people with head injuries, and heard of one who required an air ambulance.\n\n\"We were actually queued up waiting to get in when it crashed,\" she said.\n\n\"It came in bow first. It came in far too fast. We saw a lot of people falling and there were people taken away in ambulances.\n\n\"We saw a lot of people, pretty badly shaken, coming off.\"\n\nThe Caledonian Isles ferry was sent to pick up stranded passengers\n\nPassengers who had been waiting to board the paddle steamer had feared that they might have to spend the night at the terminal.\n\nBut Calmac's Caledonian Isles ferry was sent to pick them up late on Thursday night following discussions between Transport Scotland and the Marine and Coastguard Agency\n\nRobbie Drummond, managing director of CalMac, said: \"We were more than happy to help return passengers to the mainland and worked closely with agencies including Waverley Excursions, who transported everyone onwards once they landed in Ardrossan.\"\n\nHe added: \"I would like to extend my deep gratitude to the crew on the Caledonian Isles and at Brodick and Ardrossan\"", "The Prime Minister visited an HS2 construction site on Friday\n\nConstruction work on HS2 officially begins on Friday, with companies behind the controversial high-speed rail project expecting to create 22,000 jobs in the next few years.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said HS2 would \"fire up economic growth and help to rebalance opportunity\".\n\nHe endorsed the rail link in February, with formal government approval granted in April despite lockdown.\n\nBut critics said HS2 will also cost jobs, and vowed to continue protesting.\n\nHS2 is set to link London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It is hoped the 20-year project will reduce passenger overcrowding and help rebalance the UK's economy through investment in transport links outside London.\n\nHS2 Ltd chief executive Mark Thurston said the reality of high-speed journeys between Britain's biggest cities had moved a step closer.\n\nWhen the project was mooted in 2009, it was expected to cost an estimated £37.5bn and when the official price tag was set out in the 2015 Budget it came in at just under £56bn.\n\nBut an official government report has since warned that it could cost more than £100bn and be up to five years behind schedule.\n\nSome critics of HS2 describe it as a \"vanity project\" and say the money would be better spent on better connections between different parts of northern England. Others, such as the Stop HS2 pressure group, say it will cause considerable environmental damage.\n\nThe prime minister said HS2 was at the heart of government plans to \"build back better\" and would form \"the spine of our country's transport network\".\n\n\"But HS2's transformational potential goes even further,\" he added. \"By creating hundreds of apprenticeships and thousands of skilled jobs, HS2 will fire up economic growth and help to rebalance opportunity across this country for years to come.\"\n\nHS2's main works contractor for the West Midlands, the Balfour Beatty Vinci Joint Venture, has said it expects to be one of the biggest recruiters in the West Midlands over the next two years.\n\nUp to 7,000 skilled jobs would be required to complete its section of the HS2 route, it said, with women and under-25s the core focus for recruitment and skills investment.\n\nHS2 Ltd's Mr Thurston said the railway would be \"transformative\" for the UK.\n\n\"With the start of construction, the reality of high speed journeys joining up Britain's biggest cities in the North and Midlands and using that connectivity to help level up the country has just moved a step closer,\" he added.\n\nSpecial tunnelling machines will be needed for sections of the line\n\nCampaign group Stop HS2 said Boris Johnson and others who hail the creation of 22,000 jobs are \"rather less keen to mention that HS2 is projected to permanently displace almost that many jobs\".\n\nStop HS2 campaign manager Joe Rukin said: \"Trying to spin HS2 as a job creation scheme is beyond desperate. Creating 22,000 jobs works out at almost £2m just to create a single job.\"\n\nBut speaking on the BBC's Breakfast programme, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps disputed those figures.\n\n\"I can't see how there's an argument that making it easier to get about this country is somehow going to destroy jobs, quite the opposite in fact. It's clearly going to make the economy level up\", he said.\n\n\"Find those left behind areas, that have found themselves too disconnected before and join it together.\"\n\nStop HS2 chairwoman Penny Gaines called the project \"environmentally destructive\" to wildlife: \"This is why there are currently hundreds of activists camped out along the HS2 route. We don't expect them to go away any time soon.\"\n\nHowever, the Northern Powerhouse Partnership (NPP), which fights for investment in the regional economy, said such major infrastructure projects are transformative and called for the planned extensions of HS2 to be started as soon as possible.\n\n\"Increasing capacity on the North's rail network and better connecting our towns and cities will be vital in the economic regeneration of the Northern Powerhouse - both now and long in the future,\" said Henri Murison, director of the NPP.\n\nThis is an important symbolic move for HS2, but in the real world it changes very little.\n\nWork preparing for the new line - demolishing buildings and clearing sites for example - has already been going on for the past three years. And in some areas, construction work has also begun.\n\nBut the arguments over whether or not the railway should actually be built are continuing to rage.\n\nThe government has long insisted that it will help re-balance the country's economy, by promoting investment outside London. It now says the jobs created by the scheme will support the post-Covid recovery.\n\nBut opponents claim that lockdown has undermined the case for HS2 - by showing how easily people can work remotely, and how little business travel is really needed.\n\nSame dispute, new arguments. But now shovels are - officially - in the ground.\n\nThe government has also defended itself against criticism that the new line will no longer be needed, as people travel less as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Shapps acknowledged more people are working at home, but said the government was looking at the country's long term transport needs:\n\n\"We're not building this for what happens over the next couple of years or even the next 10 years, whilst we're building it. We're building this, as with the west coast and the east coast main lines, for 150 years and still going strong.\n\n\"I think it actually shows a lot of faith in the future of this country,\" he added.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland pulled off a remarkable fightback to beat Australia by two runs in a thrilling first Twenty20 at the Ageas Bowl.\n\nChasing 163, Australia were cruising to victory, needing just 39 from 38 balls with nine wickets remaining.\n\nBut the dismissal of Steve Smith, one of two wickets to fall in Adil Rashid's final over, sparked a collapse of 4-9 in 14 deliveries.\n\nAshton Agar was run out off the final ball of the penultimate over, leaving the tourists needing 15 from the final six balls.\n\nMarcus Stoinis hit a six from the second delivery of Tom Curran's over but still needed five from the final ball. Curran perfectly executed a yorker to see England take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.\n\nEngland had earlier been grateful for 66 from Dawid Malan and 44 from Jos Buttler in their underwhelming 162-7.\n\nThe second match at the same ground is on Sunday, live on BBC One from 13:50 BST.\n• None Relive thrilling finish and watch the best moments\n\nEngland's bowling improved significantly from the beginning of the Australia innings but they were only able to take victory thanks to an implosion by the tourists.\n\nOpener David Warner and Aaron Finch plundered the bowling to begin with. putting on 98 as Mark Wood and Jofra Archer bowled too short - the batsmen repeatedly hitting fours square off the back foot.\n\nEven when Finch hit Archer to long-off to fall for 46, Smith looked comfortable. He pulled his first ball - a 94mph delivery from Wood - for four.\n\nWhat followed was remarkable. Smith top-edged a sweep off Rashid when on 18 and Maxwell hit the final ball of the leg-spinner's spell to extra cover - an error which proved crucial.\n\nWarner departed for 56 two balls later - bowled off his pads by Archer - and in the following over Alex Carey was bowled by a fast delivery from Wood.\n\nThe wickets fell and runs dried up. There was not a boundary hit after a Smith six in the 14th over until Stoinis' big hit over extra cover with five balls left.\n\nStoinis had attempted to play himself in, backing himself to hit the required runs from the final over. He cleared the ropes once but also missed two other deliveries trying to power the ball away. Curran held his nerve where the Australia all-rounder did not.\n\nThis was Australia's first competitive match for almost six months because of the coronavirus pandemic, one mitigating factor.\n\nEngland's total did not look enough at halfway, never mind when Warner and Finch were were seemingly racing to victory.\n\nButtler had given England a quick start, seven boundaries coming in his 29-ball knock, including two straight sixes off spinner Ashton Agar in a second over that went for 16 runs.\n\nEngland were 64-1 when Buttler hit leg-spinner Adam Zampa to deep mid-wicket and afterwards had a collapse of their own. Eoin Morgan's side lost 5-60 as canny Australia bowling, largely spin and slower balls, proved effective.\n\nIt was left to Malan, retained in his position at number three, to muster a testing score for the hosts.\n\nAs wickets fell around him he was calm. He batted with relative composure until launching an attack against Zampa in the 18th over. He hit two sixes - one over mid-wicket and one over long-off - in an over that cost 22 and boosted England's failing innings.\n\nIt was Malan's eighth score of 50 or more in 14 T20 internationals.\n\nEngland still have players to come back - Jason Roy and Ben Stokes were missing from this game - but Malan, who made a match-winning knock in the second T20 against Pakistan, is fast making himself undroppable.\n\n'Our bowlers bailed us out' - what they said\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan: \"We didn't bat particularly well tonight - Dawid and Jos did. We should have got more runs.\n\n\"Our bowlers bailed us out. The bowlers really came good in the last eight overs. I'm delighted the guys showed belief and courage to try to take wickets. It was great that we stuck to our guns.\n\n\"Tom Curran followed on from a fantastic winter. It's great to see him calm in execution in the past few overs.\"\n\nEngland bowler Tom Curran: \"That's why we train. You want to be given the ball in the tough moments and try to stand up when the team needs you. I'm really pleased to get over the line.\n\n\"Morgan is unbelievable. He's been the world's best captain for a number of years. He's calm. He backs us. He's class.\"\n\nAustralia captain Aaron Finch: \"We knew England would keep coming hard and we probably struggled to find the boundary in that 12 to 18-over mark. That's something to work on.\n\n\"I would probably be more critical of myself and Davey, who got us off to a good start but couldn't go on to make the match-winning contribution.\"\n\nMan of the match Dawid Malan: \"I don't know what the secret is, but it's working so far.\n\n\"This white-ball team has been the strongest England have ever had. I don't know where I slot in.\"\n• None What do they really think about the return to school?", "People arriving in Wales and Scotland from Portugal must now self-isolate for 14 days, but the rules covering England and Northern Ireland are unchanged.\n\nThe difference between the nations has been criticised as confusing.\n\nThe rules for Wales apply from 04:00 BST on Friday, while in Scotland they begin 24 hours later on Saturday.\n\nCases in Portugal have risen in the past week beyond the threshold at which ministers generally consider imposing 14-day mandatory self-isolation.\n\nThe Department for Transport said decisions around adding or removing countries from the quarantine list \"take into account a range of factors\" - including how many people are being tested.\n\n\"Portugal has drastically increased its testing capacity, as well as taking measures to control the spread of the virus,\" said a spokesperson, adding it would closely monitor the situation.\n\nThe latest quarantine rules introduced in Wales apply to travellers from Portugal, Gibraltar, six Greek islands and French Polynesia.\n\nThe six islands are Crete, Mykonos, Zakynthos (or Zante), Lesvos, Paros and Antiparos.\n\nScotland has already reintroduced self-isolation measures for arrivals from Greece and has now added Portugal and French Polynesia to its list of countries requiring quarantine.\n\n\"This week's data shows an increase in test positivity and cases per 100k in Portugal,\" said Scottish justice minister Humza Yousaf.\n\nChanges to the rules for arrivals from Greece coming to England have been considered - but Greece will stay on its safe list for now.\n\nIn Portugal, the seven-day infection rate has increased from 15.3 to 23 per 100,000 people. This is above the threshold of 20 which is when the UK government generally considers triggering quarantine conditions.\n\nGreece's rate overall is below the threshold at 13.8 coronavirus cases per 100,000 people in the seven days to 2 September, down from 14.9 a week earlier.\n\nUK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said on Thursday: \"There are no English additions or removals today. We continue to keep the travel corridor list under constant review and won't hesitate to remove countries if needed.\"\n\n\"Nonetheless, holidaymakers are reminded - 14-day quarantine countries can and do change at very short notice.\"\n\nHe said the government takes several factors into account, including the prevalence of the virus as well as the level and rate of change, how many tests the country is doing, the extent of the contained outbreak and the government's actions.\n\nNorthern Ireland's department of health also confirmed that NI would not make any further changes at present.\n\nThe changes have drawn criticism from industry experts as well as holidaymakers.\n\n\"The quarantine policy is in tatters and dividing the United Kingdom,\" said Paul Charles, chief executive of travel consultancy firm The PC Agency.\n\n\"Consumers are totally confused by the different approaches and it's impossible to understand the government's own criteria any more on when to add or remove a country.\n\n\"The current strategy has to change. The weekly reviews have been causing anxiety and financial pain for so many consumers and travel firms,\" he added.\n\nRory Boland, editor of Which? Travel, said: \"Days of speculation around this announcement meant many people rushed to pay extortionate prices for flights back to England to avoid having to quarantine on their return - only to now find out there was no need.\n\n\"The government knows this and yet it continues to offer no clarity around how these decisions are made.\"\n\nOne aviation boss described travelling abroad right now as \"quarantine roulette\" because the list of destinations which are affected keeps changing.\n\nBut the governments in Westminster, Edinburgh and Cardiff are now clearly at odds over which countries pose a clear risk.\n\nPortugal's infection rate is above the UK government's benchmark of 20 cases of the virus for every 100,000 people.\n\nBut the UK government has surprised us all and not added Portugal to the list for England. It's not clear why.\n\nGreece is even more complicated as the Welsh government is opting for a policy where only people arriving from certain Greek islands have to self-isolate while Scotland has introduced a quarantine for arrivals from across Greece.\n\nFor months the travel industry has been lobbying the UK government for an approach where they consider particular regions in a country but ministers in London are not keen on the idea.\n\nThe quarantine was already hard or impossible to police.\n\nBut discrepancies between different UK nations makes it even harder as someone could, theoretically, fly into Newcastle from Greece and drive into Scotland. That person should self-isolate for 14 days, but no-one will be checking.\n\nSome holidaymakers have told the BBC they have paid as much as £1,000 for flights to get home from Portugal in anticipation of the rules changing.\n\nKelly, from Birmingham, and her family changed their flights home from the Algarve from Saturday to Friday at a cost of £900 to avoid potential quarantine because she did not want her children to miss out on two weeks of school.\n\nThe 45-year-old said the situation was \"absolutely disgusting\".\n\n\"It's cost us a lot more money and it's money we didn't need to spend now. We've lost an extra night in our villa - we won't get that back - we've got a hire car, so we're taking that back a day early.\"\n\nShe added: \"The government just change the goalposts left, right and centre at the moment. It's embarrassing.\"\n\nDamian Martin from Swansea - who is currently on holiday in Lagos, Portugal - said he only arrived earlier on Thursday.\n\n\"Work had been full on so I decided to go,\" said Damian\n\n\"I had already switched my holiday from Spain and I won't be able to come back early,\" he said. \"I will be able to self-isolate, I think, but I work for a supermarket so will have to check in with them.\"\n\nHe added: \"I'm supposed to be here eight nights. I might as well try to enjoy it.\n\nEvery year, more than two million Britons visit Portugal. Most head to the Algarve in the south, drawn by sunny Atlantic beaches, picturesque fishing villages and golf courses.\n\nDuring May and June, the Portuguese government reopened its restaurants, coffee shops, museums and beaches. Hotels have mainly reopened, but nightclubs remain closed.\n\nAre you currently on holiday in Portugal or Greece? Have you made plans to travel there? Share your thoughts by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A top ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned that the EU risks becoming irrelevant if it fails to act against Russia over the poisoning of opposition politician Alexei Navalny.\n\nNorbert Röttgen said a major gas deal with Russia must now be reconsidered.\n\nThe Russian government has been widely condemned after Germany confirmed on Wednesday that Mr Navalny had been poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent.\n\nHe is gravely ill in intensive care in Berlin's Charité hospital.\n\nMr Navalny was flown to the German capital after collapsing in pain on a flight in Siberia on 20 August. His supporters believe poison was put in his tea at Tomsk airport.\n\nMr Röttgen, chair of the German parliament's foreign affairs committee, demanded a tough EU response in the Navalny case. Novichok is an extremely toxic, military-grade weapon that experts say must have come from a state facility.\n\n\"Now, again, we are brutally confronted with the reality of the Putin regime, which treats people with contempt,\" Mr Röttgen told German public broadcaster ARD.\n\nHe noted that President Vladimir Putin had projected Russian power in Syria, Libya and Belarus, and said: \"The question is, are the Europeans always going to end up doing nothing? If so, then we'll become irrelevant, we won't be taken seriously.\"\n\nMembers of the Nato defence alliance will discuss the poisoning at a special meeting on Friday.\n\nMrs Merkel earlier said Mr Navalny was a victim of attempted murder and the world would look to Russia for answers.\n\nShe said there would be an \"appropriate joint response\" by the EU and Nato, describing the poisoning of Mr Navalny as \"an attack on the fundamental values and basic rights to which we are committed\".\n\nThe Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said poisoning someone with a nerve agent \"is considered a use of chemical weapons\". It called the alleged attack \"a matter of grave concern\" and pledged to help any state that asks for its help.\n\nThe Kremlin has not accepted the diagnosis in Germany, saying it has not seen German data on Mr Navalny's condition.\n\n\"There are no grounds to accuse the Russian state,\" Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for President Putin, told reporters, adding that Germany and other EU nations should not \"hurry with their assessments\".\n\nMr Röttgen warned that Germany would risk becoming dependent on Russia by completing Nord Stream 2, a controversial 1,225km (760-mile) gas pipeline owned by Russia's Gazprom.\n\nHe also warned that doing so would encourage Mr Putin to ignore Western protestations over the Navalny case and other attacks on his political opponents. Mr Röttgen is a candidate to succeed Mrs Merkel as chancellor next year.\n\nOn Tuesday Mrs Merkel reiterated her wish to see Nord Stream 2 completed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPresident Donald Trump has imposed sanctions on any firm that helps Gazprom to complete the project.\n\nHowever, his critics are asking why he has not commented on the targeting of Mr Navalny.\n\nHis rival in the presidential race, Joe Biden, accused the Kremlin of \"an outrageous and brazen attempt on Mr Navalny's life\".\n\n\"Donald Trump has refused to confront Putin, calling him a 'terrific person',\" Mr Biden said.\n\nMr Navalny was flown to Berlin on an emergency flight from Omsk in Siberia\n\nMr Navalny was put into a medically induced coma after falling ill. His team says he was poisoned on President Putin's orders. The Kremlin has dismissed the allegation.\n\nA team of German specialists has found \"unequivocal proof\" that a Novichok nerve agent was used.\n\nThe Charité hospital says it expects Mr Navalny's recovery to take a long time and cannot rule out long-term after-effects, but the agent's blockage of his cholinesterase enzyme is declining.\n\nOn Wednesday the Kremlin spokesman called on Germany for a full exchange of information and foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova complained the Novichok allegations were not backed up by evidence.\n\nNovichok has been in the news before. It was used to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the UK in 2018. While they survived, a British woman later died in hospital. The UK accused Russia's military intelligence of carrying out that attack.\n\nIn a co-ordinated move, 20 countries expelled more than 100 Russian diplomats and spies.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson condemned the latest attack as \"outrageous\". \"The Russian government must now explain what happened to Mr Navalny - we will work with international partners to ensure justice is done,\" he tweeted.\n\nThe EU has demanded a \"transparent\" investigation by the Russian government. \"Those responsible must be brought to justice,\" a statement read.\n\nThe US National Security Council (NSC) said the suspected poisoning was \"completely reprehensible\".\n\n\"We will work with allies and the international community to hold those in Russia accountable, wherever the evidence leads, and restrict funds for their malign activities,\" an NSC spokesman said.\n\nAlexei Navalny is a name President Putin refuses to say out loud.\n\nIt's an attempt to diminish his political significance, but the endless prosecutions, police detentions and giant fines Mr Navalny has faced over the years tell a different story about his impact.\n\nHe's certainly annoyed a lot of people, from those targeted by his anti-corruption investigations to Vladimir Putin himself. So it is possible someone wanted to resolve the \"Navalny problem\" for good.\n\nThe timing is largely irrelevant. Why now? Well, why not. But if whoever did this hoped to contain the fallout - a mysterious collapse, never explained by Russian doctors - the fact Navalny's team got him to Germany has blown that calculation.\n\nThe \"collapse\" is now a deliberate attack, and a major international scandal. The Kremlin response so far is familiar: deny, obfuscate, demand proof. Mr Putin's spokesman has even hinted that if Mr Navalny had been poisoned, then it must have happened in Germany because doctors here detected nothing suspicious.\n\nExpect to hear a lot more along those lines in the days to come.", "Portugal has been added to Scotland's quarantine list\n\nPassengers arriving in Scotland from Portugal after 04:00 on Saturday will have to self-isolate for 14 days, the Scottish government has confirmed.\n\nFrench Polynesia has also been added to Scotland's quarantine list.\n\nAnd travellers from Gibraltar have been warned that the territory was \"high up our watch list\" by Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf.\n\nEarlier this week Scotland announced similar quarantine restrictions for travellers from Greece.\n\nMinisters said they considered targeting regions of Portugal with the quarantine rule but ultimately decided a \"whole country approach\" was necessary.\n\nMr Yousaf said people should \"think very hard\" before embarking on non-essential travel during the pandemic.\n\n\"With Scotland's relatively low infection rate, importation of new cases is a significant risk to public health,\" he added.\n\n\"I would also encourage people who have returned to Scotland from Portugal or French Polynesia in the last few days to be particularly careful in their social contacts and to ensure they stick to the FACTS.\n\n\"I am also concerned by the level of infections in Gibraltar and we will be monitoring the situation there very carefully.\"\n\nHe said they were in regular discussions with the other three governments in the UK.\n\n\"We continue to closely monitor the situation in all parts of the world and base the decisions we make on the scientific evidence available,\" he said.\n\n\"The requirement for travellers to quarantine for 14 days on arrival from a non-exempt country is vital to help prevent transmission of the virus and to suppress it - not doing so poses a significant risk to wider public health across Scotland.\"\n\nWhen Derek Burt's mother was diagnosed with MND six weeks ago, she asked for \"one more trip\" - a holiday with her family.\n\nWith trips to Florida and Croatia already cancelled, when quarantine restrictions were lifted two weeks ago they settled on Portugal.\n\nAlthough the virus rates seemed on the high-side, he \"assumed the government knew what they were doing\" and would not return the country to the quarantine list.\n\n\"How stupid was I to show any faith in our countries' decision-makers?\" he said.\n\nThey have had an amazing week, and his mother was able to fulfil her wish to watch her grandchildren playing in the pool of their villa.\n\nBut now the family from Dunfermline in Fife is racing to get home to beat the new restrictions that come into force at 04:00 on Saturday.\n\nMr Burt said he is \"incredibly frustrated\" by the decision of the Scottish and Welsh governments, describing it as a \"complete shambles\".\n\nThe Scottish government will monitor the situation in Gibraltar carefully\n\nThe decision follows the Welsh government's announcement that travellers to Wales from six Greek islands and mainland Portugal would have to isolate from 04:00 on Friday.\n\nHowever, arrivals to England and Northern Ireland from Portugal and Greece will not be subject to the same restrictions.\n\nUK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Breakfast that the different rules across the UK were confusing for travellers, and said it was similar to the way lockdown had been applied across the four nations.\n\nHe added: \"We look at the data and then we do speak - but I'm afraid quite often come to slightly different outcomes which I appreciate is confusing for people\".\n\nHe described Portugal as being on a \"borderline\", adding that \"the opinion of England and Northern Ireland is that it did not justify quarantine this week\".\n\nThe seven-day infection rate in Portugal has increased from 15.3 to 23 per 100,000 people.\n\nA seven-day rate of 20 per 100,000 is the threshold above which the UK government generally considers triggering quarantine conditions.\n\nHolidaymakers have only been able to travel from Scotland to Portugal without quarantine restrictions since 22 August, when it was added to the government \"exemptions\" list..\n\nIt follows the addition of Greece to Scotland's quarantine list, which came into force on Thursday;\n\nMinisters blamed the decision on a \"significant rise\" in coronavirus cases being brought into Scotland from people who had been to Greece.\n\nThe moves have been criticised by leading figures in the aviation industry, who have compared job losses in the industry to the demise of the coal industry in the 1980s.\n\nThey want to see Covid-19 testing at airports so passengers can leave quarantine early.", "Casinos are among the businesses that can reopen from Tuesday\n\nA host of businesses including soft play centres, bowling alleys and casinos can finally reopen across the north of England from Tuesday.\n\nExtra Covid-19 restrictions imposed on Greater Manchester, Lancashire and West Yorkshire are being eased.\n\nIt means skating rinks, conference centres and exhibition halls can also resume, with the exception of Bolton - where the infection rate remains high.\n\nThe easing brings the north in line with changes in the rest of England.\n\nThe relaxation of measures also applies to socially-distanced indoor shows and close-contact services such as facials.\n\nHowever, a ban on people from different households meeting indoors remains in all areas of Greater Manchester except in Stockport and Wigan.\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said he welcomed the easing of restrictions for businesses in the county but added it was \"understandable that this won't apply in Bolton for the time being\".\n\n\"We will be working hard with Bolton Council and partners to move to a position where the restrictions on business opening can be eased as soon as possible,\" he added.\n\nDr Sakthi Karunanithi, director of public health for Lancashire, said the \"further easing of the restrictions is due to the hard work of local people, businesses and local organisations\".\n\n\"It's still really important to follow the guidance and keep the cases down. This way you can avoid further restrictions coming back again in the future,\" he added.\n\nBeauty treatments such as facials can resume, the government as confirmed\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said he was glad to make the changes \"because local lockdowns are working to control the virus\".\n\n\"We are seeing improvements in the rates of infection thanks to the huge efforts made by local communities and authorities working alongside our effective test and trace system,\" he added.\n\nStricter lockdown rules were imposed on Greater Manchester, east Lancashire and parts of West Yorkshire in July amid a rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nBut these tightened measures are under constant review and certain areas have seen restrictions eased in recent weeks, while others have seen stricter rules introduced.\n\nLeeds was designated \"an area of concern\" earlier after its seven-day infection rate rose to 32.5 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nThe boroughs of Greater Manchester were put into a tightened lockdown in July together, but they're coming out of it at a different pace.\n\nBolton, Trafford and Stockport had been singled out for rules to be relaxed on Wednesday, but councils in Trafford and Bolton sounded the alarm over a recent rise in cases and the decision for those two areas was reversed.\n\nNow Bolton has recorded the highest rate of new coronavirus cases in England for the week to 1 September, with 265 cases, equivalent to 92 per 100,000 residents.\n\nOver in Lancashire, when people in the eastern part of county were told they should not meet indoors, Rossendale looked to have been pulled in simply because it was surrounded by areas with high rates of infection.\n\nFor two weeks at the end of June and beginning of July it didn't have any new cases at all and until recently it would only see a few a day.\n\nThat changed last week with a big spike on Friday 28 August as 16 positive tests were recorded in one day.\n\nUnder the latest changes to the restrictions, every pool, gym and sports facility will now be able to open across the country from Tuesday.\n\nIndoor swimming pools, including water parks, indoor fitness and dance studios, indoor gyms and sports courts and facilities will also be able to open in Leicester and the remaining parts of Blackburn with Darwen and Bradford.\n\nNewark and Sherwood, Slough and Wakefield will be removed from the Public Health England \"watchlist\" while Leeds, South Tyneside, Middlesbrough, Corby and Kettering have been added \"as areas of concern\".\n\nNorfolk, Rossendale and Northampton will be added as \"areas of enhanced support\", which means the government will work with local authorities to provide additional resources - such as testing or contact tracing - to help bring the numbers of infections down.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ten wagons, each containing 75 tonnes of diesel, derailed and caught fire at Llangennech\n\nThere may be \"long-term effects\" from diesel spillage after a train derailed in Carmarthenshire, Natural Resources Wales has said.\n\nTen wagons, each containing 75 tonnes of diesel, derailed and spilled oil into the Loughor Estuary at Llangennech near Llanelli last week.\n\nHomes were evacuated and a major incident declared after the freight train derailed and burst into flames\n\nNRW said it had found evidence of diesel at various sites on the estuary.\n\nCockle beds and shell fisheries on the estuary have been closed since the spillage.\n\nThe fire lit up the sky in the surrounding area\n\nRobert Griffiths, a cockle picker and Secretary of the Burry Inlet Handgatherers Association said it was a difficult time for the industry.\n\n\"No work, no pay. If we don't go to work we don't get any money to pay our bills, our mortgages.\n\n\"Most of us don't know anything else. I've gathered cockles for over 25 years, some have been doing it over 40 years.\n\n\"That's all they've ever done. They have never had to fall back on something else, so they wait.\"\n\nRobert Griffiths says people in the cockle-picking industry cannot work\n\nThe estuary is part of the Carmarthen Bay and Estuaries Special Area of Conservation, and wildlife groups have already warned it could have a \"devastating impact\" on the environment.\n\nMr Griffiths said he was also worried about the effect the spillage would have on consumer confidence in their product, with suppliers turning away from the area.\n\n\"I suppose half the world knows now there's been an oil spill - due to the internet - in the Loughor Estuary.\n\n\"Is half the world going to buy a can of cockles because they may or may not have diesel in them? I don't know.\n\n\"They might turn around and say 'sorry boys, we've done a survey and our customers don't want them so we can't buy them'. It's hard.\"\n\nNatural Resources Wales was not able to investigate the damage of the spill until the fire was put out, which took 33 hours.\n\nBritish Transport Police's initial probe has ruled out criminal intent, and the Rail Accident Investigation Branch is examining the cause of the crash.\n\nThe driver and engineer of the DB Cargo train escaped unhurt.\n\nOn Saturday, NRW said the spill was \"no longer confined to the upper reaches of the estuary and had been observed at many locations as far as Crofty\".\n\nCriminal intent has been ruled out\n\nIoan Williams, from the agency, said experts would continue monitoring the area over the next few weeks.\n\n\"There may well be long-term effects, we don't know yet is the bottom line.\n\n\"This may take a period of time… and also, as the diesel starts to come out of the sand and manage to come a bit further down the estuary, we may see impacts a bit later on.\n\n\"It's a big clean-up operation… the cost will be substantial.\n\n\"This is a very important area, of European importance, there are a raft of designations here.\n\n\"Penclacwydd isn't far from here, it's very important for migratory wildfowl, it's important for the mussels, the cockles etc… and we are concerned about the impact that this may have.\"\n• None Network Rail – we run, look after and improve Britain's railway The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Portugal had previously been removed from the UK's quarantine list on 20 August\n\nTravellers arriving in Scotland from Portugal will have to self-isolate for 14 days under new quarantine rules that came into force on Saturday morning.\n\nScotland and Wales have added the country to their \"quarantine list\" - while England and Northern Ireland have not.\n\nUK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said it was a confusing position but the Scottish government insisted it was acting on scientific advice.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do I quarantine after returning from abroad?\n\nThe rules became effective from 04:00.\n\nFrench Polynesia is also now on Scotland's list of countries requiring quarantine, while self-isolation rules for Greece have been operating since Thursday.\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the decision to add Portugal came after coronavirus cases there rose above 20 per 100,000 of the population.\n\nMr Yousaf said: \"We are in the midst of a global pandemic and the situation in many countries can change suddenly.\n\n\"Therefore, people should think very hard before committing to non-essential travel abroad.\n\n\"With Scotland's relatively low infection rate, importation of new cases is a significant risk to public health.\"\n\nThe Scottish government was also closely monitoring the situation in Gibraltar, he added.\n\nBut the move was questioned by UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps who told the BBC the Scottish government had decided to \"jump the gun\" earlier in the week by adding Greece to its quarantine list without using data from the Joint Biosecurity Centre (JBC).\n\nOn Portugal, he said the decision had failed to take into account the increased level of testing. He said the positivity rate - the proportion of positive tests - was lower than it was when Portugal was added to the travel corridor list.\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish government, however, said Mr Shapps made his decision to keep Portugal on the travel corridor list before studying the latest JBC data.\n\nTravellers returning to Scotland will be required to self-isolate even if they have flown back to an airport in England.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson later downplayed the difference between UK nations when questioned during a visit to the West Midlands.\n\nWhile conceding the devolved administrations sometimes have different approaches, he insisted the UK was \"proceeding as one\".\n\n\"I think you will find if you dig below the surface of some of the surface differentiations you will find overwhelmingly the UK takes the same approach,\" he said.", "Eyewitnesses say the paddle steamer struck the pier\n\nA total of 24 people have been injured after the paddle steamer Waverley collided with Brodick Pier in Arran.\n\nThe Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said \"a number have been taken to hospital\" following the incident.\n\nPeople stranded in Arran were later due to be returned to the mainland by an emergency sailing of a CalMac ferry.\n\nPolice, paramedics, coastguards and rescue helicopters were scrambled to the scene after the alarm was raised at about 17:15 on Thursday.\n\nMCA said 213 passengers and 26 crew were on board the vessel when it struck the pier.\n\nOne passenger, Graham McWilliams, told BBC Scotland's The Nine about the moment of collision.\n\nHe said: \"As we came into the pier, everything seemed quite normal.\n\n\"Then there was a sudden crash, a loud bang, and the boat stopped very quickly. I saw people falling and it was quite distressing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Waverley crash: 'I saw one lady fly past the window'\n\nHe added: \"There was a lady that I saw who literally flew past the window.\"\n\nMr McWilliams said that, several hours after the accident, passengers were still milling about the ferry terminal at Brodick.\n\nHe said it was unclear if they would be able to leave the island or whether accommodation could be found for them.\n\nTransport Secretary Michael Matheson later tweeted to say arrangements had been made for CalMac to operate an emergency sailing to take the Waverley passengers back to the mainland.\n\nRita McLeod, who was waiting to board the Waverley, said she saw people being taken away in ambulances.\n\n\"We were actually queued up waiting to get in when it crashed,\" she said. \"It came in bow first. It came in far too fast.\"\n\n\"We saw a lot of people falling, a few people fell over. There were people taken away in ambulances.\n\n\"We saw a lot of people, pretty badly shaken, coming off.\"\n\nThe ship was due to into Brodick at about 17.00 after leaving Greenock in the morning.\n\nA fire engine and other emergency services were visible from the terminal building\n\nAnother eyewitness saw the crash from the departure terminal as she waited to board.\n\nAnne Cochrane from Bishopbriggs near Glasgow, said: \"It just crashed into the pier when it was coming back from the Holy Isle. We're just stuck in the departure terminal. We've had no information.\"\n\nThe Marine Accident Investigation Branch has been informed of the incident.\n\nThe Waverley has just returned to service after undergoing repairs\n\nThe Waverley set sail for the first time in two years less than two weeks ago, an event which was itself delayed due to an \"unexpected technical and administration issue\".\n\nThe ship, described as the world's last seagoing paddle steamer, missed the 2019 season as it waited for urgent repairs.\n\nA funding appeal was launched in June 2019 and it hit its target in December after receiving a £1m grant from the Scottish government to help with the restoration.\n\nThis paddle steamer, built by A & J Inglis of Glasgow and first launched in October 1946, has been involved in accidents before.\n\nIt struck the breakwater at Dunoon with 700 passengers on board, 12 of whom suffered minor injuries, in June 2009\n\nIn July 1977 it was badly damaged when it struck rocks near Dunoon.\n\nIn 2017, it was involved in another incident when it crashed into the pier at Rothesay.", "Jens Stoltenberg said there was \"proof beyond doubt\" Mr Navalny was poisoned with novichok\n\nNato has called for Russia to disclose its Novichok nerve agent programme to international monitors, following the poisoning of activist Alexei Navalny.\n\nSecretary General Jens Stoltenberg said members were united in condemning the \"horrific\" attack.\n\nHe added there was \"proof beyond doubt\" that a Novichok nerve agent was used against Mr Navalny.\n\nBut Russia has dismissed the diagnosis given by doctors in Germany, where he is being treated.\n\nSpeaking after an emergency Nato meeting, Mr Stoltenberg said the Kremlin \"must fully co-operate with the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on an impartial international investigation\".\n\n\"We also call on Russia to provide complete disclosure of the Novichok programme to the OPCW,\" he added.\n\nThe Soviet-era nerve agent was also used to poison ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the UK in 2018. Britain accused Russia's military intelligence of carrying out the attack, and - as part of a co-ordinated effort - 20 countries expelled more than 100 Russian diplomats and spies. Russia has denied any involvement.\n\nHowever Mr Stoltenberg stressed that Mr Navalny's poisoning, which took place in Russia and not in a Nato member state, was different to that of the Skripals.\n\n\"We strongly believe that this is a blatant violation of international law [banning the use of any chemical weapons], so it requires an international response, but I will not now speculate about exactly what kind of international response,\" he said.\n\nMr Navalny has been a prominent opponent to Russia's President Vladimir Putin\n\nBut several senior Russian MPs have brushed off Nato's latest demands.\n\n\"Until experts have either confirmed or denied the use of chemical substances subject to the Chemical Weapons Convention, calls for involving the OPCW appear, in my view, politicised,\" said Konstantin Kosachev of Russia's Federation Council.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Navalny, an anti-corruption campaigner, has long been the most prominent face of Russian opposition to President Vladimir Putin.\n\nHe fell ill last month while onboard a flight from Siberia to Moscow. The plane made an emergency landing in Omsk and Russian officials were persuaded to let him be airlifted to Germany two days later.\n\nThe Kremlin says it has not seen German data on Mr Navalny's condition, and so does not accept the diagnosis of poisoning.\n\nSince the incident, the EU has demanded a \"transparent\" investigation by the Russian government. The US National Security Council, too, has pledged to \"work with allies and the international community to hold those in Russia accountable\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grant Shapps says differences in UK quarantine rules are \"confusing\"\n\nDifferences in UK quarantine rules are \"confusing\" for travellers, Grant Shapps has admitted, as the four nations take varying approaches to countries with rising Covid-19 cases.\n\nThe transport secretary acknowledged people's frustrations, as Scotland and Wales asked arrivals from Portugal and parts of Greece to isolate, but England and Northern Ireland held off.\n\nWales' rules, including only six Greek islands, began at 04:00 BST on Friday.\n\nMr Shapps told BBC Breakfast the difference in quarantine rules was similar to the way lockdown had been applied across the UK.\n\n\"It is similar, unfortunately, with the quarantining where we look at the data and then we do speak, but, I'm afraid, quite often come to slightly different outcomes, which I appreciate is confusing for people,\" he said.\n\nHe described Portugal as being on a \"borderline\", adding that \"the opinion of England and Northern Ireland is that it did not justify quarantine this week\".\n\nMr Shapps told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that Scotland \"sort of jumped the gun\" by introducing restrictions for arrivals from the whole of Greece.\n\n\"I'm very keen and do try to coordinate... with the other administrations so we can both announce at the same time, and ideally both announce the same things, and this week that didn't work out,\" he said.\n\nThe seven-day infection rate in Portugal has increased from 15.3 to 23 per 100,000 people, above the threshold of 20.\n\nMr Shapps explained that cases per 100,000 people was just one measure taken into account by the UK's Joint Biosecurity Centre, with the test positivity rate also a factor.\n\nThe proportion of tests proving positive in Portugal was lower than it was when quarantine restrictions were lifted last month, Mr Shapps added.\n\nBut the minister warned: \"As I constantly say… we will have to move quickly if the figures change.\"\n\nDerek Burt, from Dunfermline in Fife, was trying to organise last-minute travel back to the UK before Scotland's quarantine begins when he spoke to the BBC from the Algarve.\n\nHe said he booked a trip to Portugal with his terminally ill mother because he \"assumed the government knew what they were doing\" and would not return the country to its quarantine list.\n\n\"How stupid was I to show any faith in our countries' decision-makers?\" he said.\n\nSome holidaymakers due to return to England told the BBC they paid around £1,000 for flights to get home from Portugal in anticipation of the rules changing - but that did not happen.\n\nKelly, from Birmingham, and her family changed their flights home from the Algarve from Saturday to Friday at a cost of £900 to avoid potential quarantine because she did not want her children to miss out on two weeks of school.\n\n\"It's cost us a lot more money and it's money we didn't need to spend now,\" she said.\n\nRon, who was preparing to travel to Manchester from Faro Airport on Friday, told the BBC flights for three people cost over £1,000.\n\n\"It would be good if governments could all get together... and come up with one set of policies which are applied reasonably consistently,\" he said.\n\nWhile Wales' advice has already changed, arrivals to Scotland from Portugal and French Polynesia will also have to self-isolate from 04:00 on Saturday. Scotland has already reintroduced quarantine for arrivals from Greece.\n\nThe measures will affect those who reside in Wales and Scotland but return to the UK via England.\n\nPortugal, Greece and French Polynesia are still on England and Northern Ireland's lists of travel corridors.\n\nThe latest quarantine rules introduced in Wales, which also apply to travellers from Gibraltar, affect six Greek islands - Crete, Mykonos, Zakynthos, Lesvos, Paros and Antiparos.\n\nWelsh health minister Vaughan Gething told Today that Wales has seen 30 coronavirus cases from four different flights from Zakynthos, two of which landed in England.\n\n\"I did not feel that there was any course of action other than taking some form of action,\" he said.\n\nScotland reintroduced self-isolation measures for arrivals from Greece earlier in the week, and has since added Portugal and French Polynesia to its list of countries requiring quarantine.\n\n\"This week's data shows an increase in test positivity and cases per 100,000 in Portugal,\" said Scottish justice minister Humza Yousaf.\n\nIt may look confusing and it may leave holidaymakers and other travellers scratching their heads as to why the quarantine rules are different depending on where you live in the UK. But this is devolution in action.\n\nThe new emergency coronavirus legislation introduced earlier this year gave the devolved administrations new powers to tackle the pandemic, adding to their existing control over many domestic issues.\n\nTheir chief medical officers give ministers their own own advice, though they do confer with their counterparts and through UK-wide committees.\n\nEdinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast have already shown a willingness to move at their own pace over easing lockdown restrictions and reopening schools.\n\nWith the R number (the speed at which the virus is spreading or receding) rising above the overall UK level in Scotland, it is perhaps no surprise that Holyrood wants to take its own initiatives on quarantine.\n\nThe much-publicised flight from Greece to Cardiff, with several cases traced to passengers, is another illustration of why a devolved administration has taken action.\n\nGreece's rate overall is below the 20 cases per 100,000 threshold, at 13.8 in the seven days to 2 September, down from 14.9 a week earlier.\n\nNorthern Ireland will not make further changes to quarantine rules at present, its department of health said.\n\nThe variety of rules across the four UK nations has drawn criticism from industry experts.\n\n\"The quarantine policy is in tatters,\" said Paul Charles, chief executive of travel consultancy firm The PC Agency.\n\n\"Consumers are totally confused by the different approaches.\"\n\nIt comes as the level of coronavirus among the community in England remains \"unchanged\", according to Office for National Statistics estimates based on a survey during the week ending 25 August.\n\nAre you returning to Wales or Scotland from Portugal or Greece? Have you decided to return early to avoid quarantine? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:", "Caerphilly county has seen the most infections per 100,000 people in Wales over the past week\n\nVisits to care homes in Caerphilly are to be stopped to protect residents from a rise in Covid-19 cases in the county.\n\nThe council said visits would cease with immediate effect.\n\nEarlier, a Public Health Wales official warned house parties and people failing to social distance has led to a worrying rise in cases.\n\nIn Caerphilly, 56 cases have been reported by Public Health Wales (PHW) over the past week, the highest number in Wales.\n\nResidents are being warned other coronavirus restrictions may return if the number of confirmed cases continue to rise across the area.\n\nThe council said the \"difficult\" but \"prudent\" decision to stop care home visits was \"not taken lightly\".\n\nCouncillor Carl Cuss, cabinet member for social services, said: \"We must put the health and wellbeing of our elderly and vulnerable residents first and I'm sure families will understand the pressing need to take this action.\n\n\"I fully appreciate that care home residents and their families will be very disappointed with this decision, but I would like to assure all concerned that the decision was taken in the best interest of protecting their health.\"\n\nThe council said care home visits would cease with immediate effect\n\nThe council said there would also be a temporary return to weekly testing at each care setting.\n\nEarlier on Friday, PHW's incident director for the virus Dr Robin Howe told Gareth Lewis on BBC Radio Wales the rise in the county should be a \"warning for the rest of Wales\".\n\nHe said: \"We've seen this uptick in cases getting to quite a worrying level in Caerphilly town, in Blackwood and other areas in the county so it's actually fairly widespread...\n\n\"People have not been following social distancing rules and having house parties and the like... it is a warning for the rest of Wales.\"\n\nHe said clusters had been seen elsewhere in the country: \"It's really how quickly we can identify these and bring them under control that will mark the success and whether we end up getting more such wider outbreaks.\"\n\nThe infection rate in Caerphilly over the past seven days has been recorded as 30.9 people per 100,000 population, the highest in Wales and far above the Welsh average of 7.4 per 100,000 people.\n\nA further 16 cases were reported on Friday in the county.\n\nJust below a quarter of the 233 new cases in Wales over the past week have been in Caerphilly.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford tweeted \"how quickly things can change\" if people do not social distance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBBC analysis of infection rates across the UK shows Caerphilly is currently ranked about 37th among 380 local authority areas.\n\nThe worst-hit areas in the last week are in Lancashire and Greater Manchester, with Bolton on 70 cases per 100,000 and Pendle on 77 cases.\n\nA mobile testing centre is being set up outside Caerphilly leisure centre\n\nThe chief executive of Caerphilly council tweeted to encourage people to use a new walk-in testing facility at Caerphilly Leisure Centre.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Christina Harrhy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emily Hartridge had built up a large social media presence on YouTube and Instagram\n\nA YouTuber killed in an e-scooter crash lost control due to an underinflated tyre, a coroner has concluded.\n\nTV presenter Emily Hartridge, 35, died instantly from multiple traumatic injuries when she was thrown under a lorry in Battersea.\n\nDr Fiona Wilcox said the scooter being \"unsuitably driven, too fast\" and the lack of air in the tyre had caused the crash.\n\nA record of inquest document seen by the BBC said the death was accidental.\n\nMs Hartridge, from Hambledon in Hampshire, was believed to have been the first person in the UK to be killed in a crash involving an e-scooter.\n\nHer \"10 Reasons Why\" videos on sex, relationships, love, gender and mental health, reached a YouTube audience of more than 354,000 subscribers.\n\nShe was on her way to a fertility clinic when she died near Queenstown Road roundabout on 12 July 2019.\n\nThe fatal crash happened at the junction of Queenstown Road and Queen's Circus\n\nThe inquest into her death was held remotely at Westminster Coroner's Court due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIn her conclusions, senior coroner Dr Wilcox wrote: \"Ms Hartridge was riding an electric scooter on Queenstown Road when she lost control after passing over an inspector hatch in the cycle lane and was thrown under the path of an HGV.\n\n\"She died instantly of injuries sustained by the HGV driving over her.\n\n\"The scooter was being unsuitably driven, too fast and with an underinflated tyre and this caused the loss of control and her death.\"\n\nMs Hartridge's boyfriend Jake Hazell had bought the scooter for her as a present.\n\nIn February, he told the BBC he regretted buying it and said he was constantly reminded of her death as he \"sees them on the road all the time\".\n\nMr Hazell also said he did not blame the lorry driver for her death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jake Hazell said earlier this year he wanted to speak openly about his mental health struggles since his girlfriend died\n\nMr Hazell said: \"For those who knew Emily she was just incredible - such an amazing person to be around and to call her my girlfriend was literally the best I felt in my life.\n\n\"But what she has taught me has got me through. I feel close to her, I still do the Instagram, still do the YouTube and continue her message that it is OK to have a tough time.\"\n\nAt the time of Ms Hartridge's accident, e-scooters were illegal to ride in the UK - unless on private land with landowner's permission.\n\nBut, on 1 August rental e-scooters became legal on roads in Great Britain in a bid to ease pressure on public transport amid the coronavirus crisis.\n\nGuidance for e-scooter-for-hire firms was published by the Department for Transport (DfT) - but under the new rules the vehicles were still banned on pavements, would be limited to 15.5mph and it was recommended riders wore helmets.\n\nThe Met Police said nobody had been arrested over Ms Hartridge's death.\n\nThe use of privately-owned e-scooters in London is illegal on public roads, but if you stand on any street corner it won't be long before you see them.\n\nE-scooter usage has overtaken the regulation and many are of poor quality.\n\nBut policy is shifting - the government is allowing trials, in some areas like Milton Keynes, of rental e-scooters that means there are minimum safety standards and requirements.\n\nIt won't be long before those trials end up in London with many of the big operators jostling for that contract.\n\nIf those trials are deemed successful - who knows?\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Andy Murray was overpowered by Felix Auger-Aliassime in the US Open second round, losing 6-2 6-3 6-4 in New York.\n\nMurray, 33, came back from two sets down in his first-round match on Tuesday but never threatened to do the same against the 20-year-old Canadian.\n\nHe was not able to create a break point against the 15th seed, who hit 52 winners to Murray's nine under the roof on Arthur Ashe Stadium.\n\nAuger-Aliassime will face Britain's Dan Evans or Corentin Moutet next.\n\nThe British number one and France's Moutet must finish their second-round match on Friday after heavy rain stopped play on Flushing Meadows' outside courts.\n\n\"He got quite a lot of free points with the first serve, and then even when I was getting a racket on it he was able to dictate off the first shot of the rally,\" said Murray.\n\n\"Physically, I actually did pretty well I thought in the first round. But I think the more tournaments that you play, the more matches that you play, you build up that sort of robustness in your body which right now I don't really have.\"\n• None Konta knocked out of US Open by Cirstea\n\nAlthough this defeat was very one-sided, Murray can take plenty of positives from the past two weeks at Flushing Meadows, having won two matches at the Western and Southern Open before coming from two sets and a break down to overcome Nishioka on Tuesday.\n\nThat victory was his first Grand Slam singles match since a career-saving hip resurfacing operation in January 2019. After returning in doubles, he missed last year's US Open to focus on his singles return and was then ruled out of January's Australian Open with a pelvic injury.\n\nGiven all that, it was a monumental effort to win in nearly four hours and 40 minutes against Nishioka but the effect was apparent in Thursday's night session as Murray struggled to live with Auger-Aliassime's dazzling array of shots.\n\nThe Canadian completely dominated the first set, dictating play from the baseline and hitting 18 winners to Murray's one.\n\nMurray was more competitive in the second set but Auger-Aliassime broke in the eighth game and an ace gave him a two-set lead.\n\nHe then converted his fourth break point in the fifth game of the final set and while Murray kept fighting, he only delayed the inevitable with the Canadian serving out the win to love.\n\nMurray will now turn his attention to the clay and preparing for the delayed French Open, which is due to start on 27 September at Roland Garros.\n\nAuger-Aliassime, who the US Open boys' title in 2016, will try to reach the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the first time when he faces Evans or Moutet.\n\nOn this evidence, the world number 21 will provide a tough test for most opponents if he manages to play at a similarly high standard.\n\nHis service game was particularly impressive against one of the game's great returners, hitting 24 aces and not allowing Murray to rack up a single break point.\n\n\"I think it's all come together. We've been away from tennis for five months and I've been working on my serve. Even with nerves I was able to serve well,\" said Auger-Aliassime.\n\n\"But in the back of your mind you know you are facing Andy Murray. You never know what tricks he's got in his pocket. To close it out is not easy. You're facing a great champion.\"\n\nA complete performance by the young Canadian offered Murray nothing in the way of encouragement.\n\nFifty-two winners flashed past him, 24 of them aces, and with his energy levels severely diminished by Tuesday's four-and-a-half-hour marathon, this was a bridge too far.\n\nMurray's emphasis will now be on rest, and the transition to clay for the French Open, which is likely to be his first appearance on the surface in more than three years.\n\nHe says he is more positive about his future than he was two months ago, but knows it will take many months before his body is properly ready for a gruelling Grand Slam fortnight.\n\nEvans with work to do\n\nEvans, seeded 23rd, trailed 4-6 6-3 6-5 in an entertaining contest when he and Moutet were forced off court at 7:20pm local time (00:20 BST) in New York.\n\nThe 30-year-old had fought off two set points for 77th-ranked Moutet in the third, but was a point away from holding serve and taking it into a tie-break when play stopped.\n\nNow they will return to court five - after fellow Briton Cameron Norrie's third-round match against Spain's Alejandro Davidovich Fokina - at about 18:30 BST on Friday.\n\nWhich player the enforced overnight break will favour remains to be seen, with neither having momentum in a fourth set where there had already been four breaks of serve before Moutet missed his chances to clinch the third.\n\nBoth men showed their frustrations throughout a gripping match where numerous errors were punctured by occasional brilliance, leading to a series of emotional outbursts from each side of the court.\n\nA slow start saw Evans in danger of losing the opener at 4-2 down before he fought back to win the next four games and gain an early advantage.\n\nThe Briton found himself in the same losing position in the second set, only this time he was unable to recover as 21-year-old Moutet kept his focus to level.\n\nThe pair hit 40 unforced errors between them in an erratic third set where there were 15 break points contested and it remained delicately poised when they were taken off court after almost three hours of play.\n• None What do they really think about the return to school?", "Filming a partner during sex without consent is voyeurism, Appeal Court judges have ruled.\n\nTony Richards, from Cardiff, was jailed for filming two sex workers, but argued his conviction should be quashed as the filming happened in a private setting.\n\nRejecting his appeal, judges ruled that the women he recorded had had a reasonable expectation of privacy.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Wednesday's ruling \"clarified this point of law\".\n\nRichards, 40, of Heritage Drive, Caerau, was jailed in August for 15 months for two counts of voyeurism and three counts of possessing indecent images of children.\n\nThe Appeal Court's rejection of his appeal is likely to have consequences for other cases, according to the Centre for Women's Justice (CWJ).\n\nEmily Hunt launched a legal challenge against a decision not to bring a prosecution against a man she said filmed her without consent\n\nOne such case is that of a naked, sleeping woman who says she was filmed by a man without her consent, the CWJ says.\n\nEmily Hunt launched a legal challenge last year against the CPS's decision not to bring a prosecution against the man, who she said filmed her without consent in May 2015.\n\nThe CWJ, which represented Ms Hunt, said the CPS would no longer oppose her challenge and would review its earlier decision, following the latest ruling.\n\nMs Hunt said: \"This decision was the clear, obvious and commonsense answer to a question no-one else was asking: is it illegal to video someone naked without their consent?\n\n\"Because the answer is obvious: yes it is. And the court agreed.\"\n\nMs Hunt was given permission by the court to intervene in the case after the CWJ learned the CPS would be opposing Richards's appeal.\n\nThe ruling at the Court of Appeal will have ramifications for other cases\n\nCWJ director Harriet Wistrich said: \"We would like to know why the CPS chose to argue opposite points in two separate cases.\"\n\nA CPS spokesman said: \"What constitutes a 'private act' for the purposes of the offence of voyeurism had never been conclusively defined by a higher court.\n\n\"Now this new judgment has clarified this point of law, the CPS will review its position in the judicial review brought by Emily Hunt.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has admitted differences in UK quarantine rules are \"confusing\" for travellers\n\nUK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has claimed Scotland \"jumped the gun\" by adding Greece to the quarantine list.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Scottish government moved Greece to the list of countries from where returning travellers have to self isolate for 14 days.\n\nThe Scottish government said its decisions on quarantine measures for travellers were based on the scientific evidence available.\n\nIt said judgements were made on how best to keep people in Scotland safe.\n\nMr Shapps also said that adding Portugal to the list had caused \"confusion\" and that Scotland and Wales had not taken the latest data into consideration.\n\nQuarantine for travellers coming from Portugal begins at 04:00 on Saturday.\n\nFrench Polynesia was also added to the list from 04:00 the same day.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Today programme, Mr Shapps said: \"On Wednesday the Scots - without using the joint bio-security centre data for this particular decision - decided that people from Greece would be excluded, and jumped the gun on that.\n\n\"It is their right to do it but it doesn't make the overall message any clearer.\"\n\nThe quarantine rule for travellers coming to Scotland from Greece came into force at 04:00 on Thursday.\n\nThe ruling also affects those coming in to English airports from those countries on the list, before travelling to Scotland.\n\nMr Shapps said \"ideally\" the UK government would try to co-ordinate with the other administrations on travel announcements but that this week \"it didn't work out\".\n\nThe UK is now split on its rules for Portugal. Quarantine for Welsh travellers began at 04:00 on Friday, Scots have to self-isolate from 04:00 on Saturday and English returners are not subject to any requirements to self isolate.\n\nPortugal, Greece and French Polynesia are still on England and Northern Ireland's lists of travel corridors.\n\nMr Shapps also claimed that the Scottish and Welsh governments may have made decisions on Portugal without seeing all the data.\n\nHe said: \"The Welsh administration had not noticed or not seen a second figure which is the percentage number of cases which test positive. That is really important because what we don't want to do is exclude countries for doing the right thing in carrying out lots of tests.\n\n\"When we brought Portugal into the travel corridor they had a test positivity rate of 1.8% but this week it was 1.6%, so the number had fallen.\"\n\nHe described Portugal as being on a \"borderline\", adding that \"the opinion of England and Northern Ireland is that it did not justify quarantine this week\".\n\nThe seven-day infection rate in Portugal has increased from 15.3 to 23 per 100,000 people.\n\nA seven-day rate of 20 per 100,000 is the threshold above which the UK government generally considers triggering quarantine conditions.\n\nHolidaymakers have only been able to travel from Scotland to Portugal without quarantine restrictions since 22 August, when it was added to the government \"exemptions\" list.\n\nThe Scottish government said that sometimes its decisions differed from those made by the other three governments.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"In the case of Greece, we had a worrying number of people in Scotland who tested positive for Covid-19 and who had returned from Greece within seven days of the onset of symptoms. We could not afford to ignore that growing threat to public health.\n\n\"In the case of Portugal, it was unfortunate that the UK government announced their decision yesterday before ministers from England, Scotland and Northern Ireland met and before considering the latest Joint Biosecurity Centre data. This indicated a significant rise in both the prevalence of the virus in Portugal and in test positivity.\"\n\nThe quarantine developments have been criticised by leading figures in the aviation industry, who have compared job losses in the industry to the demise of the coal industry in the 1980s.\n\nMike Tibbert, vice president of Scottish Passenger Agents' Association (SPAA) accused the Scottish government of playing games, with its \"half announcements and teasers\"\n\nHe said: \"The entire travel sector and the travelling public need consistency and clear, well timed messaging.\n\n\"But the toing and froing on the safe list versus quarantine is actually distracting from the main issue which is the total lack of immediate support for the travel sector and the complete absence of a strategic plan to save future travel.\n\n\"Once lost, our connectivity to the rest of the world - and consequently theirs to us - will disappear.\"", "La Boheme is being performed in a car park\n\nScottish Opera is beginning live performances again with a string of pop-up shows across the country - with musicians behind screens and singers staying three metres apart.\n\nWho could have imagined a year ago that the most anticipated live performance of 2020 would involve sitting in the car park of Scottish Opera's production centre as the rain poured down on a temporary canopy, and singers emerged from trailers with remnants of costumes and props from previous shows.\n\nThe musicians of the reduced orchestra were at least warm, tucked behind Perspex screens in the paint store.\n\nWelcome to music in the time of Covid.\n\nThis is an important milestone for Scottish Opera, the first national performing arts company to stage a live show for a real-life audience. Like everyone else, they've been making virtual work online, but this is a different thing entirely.\n\nThere is two metre social distancing for everyone - but it increases to three metres when performers are singing. That makes it hard for Rudolfo and Mimi in La Boheme to even get close enough to declare their love.\n\nYour tiny hand is frozen, he sings in one of the opera's most famous arias - but he can't possibly get close enough to tell.\n\nAnd anyway, everyone's hands are frozen after hanging around the car park for a couple of hours.\n\nBut instead of fighting against the pandemic and its restrictions, the team behind this new production embrace it - at least as much as they can.\n\nWhat might seem like a post-apocalyptic world where out-of-work artists, desperate to perform, scavenge for materials is actually strangely poignant, given the entire company have been in lockdown until now and many of the staff are freelance.\n\nIn a plush theatre, it's hard to share the despair of Puccini's struggling artists, or their fear of the sickness and poverty around them. But suddenly, it takes on a whole new meaning.\n\nEach of the national arts companies have their battles persuading taxpayers and successive governments that they have relevance and can reach a wide audience.\n\nOpera is often deemed elitist and expensive. For years, the company has attempted to broaden its appeal, to reach the young, the very young (with opera for babies) and those who would sooner be in a sports stadium than a theatre.\n\nBut Covid has set all that back. It will be months, maybe years, before any of the companies can reach the sort of numbers they did before.\n\nThe six performances of La Boheme in Glasgow will reach just over 100 people per night. But they're eager, even if it means sitting in a car park in the rain.\n\nTickets for the five initial shows were quickly snapped up, so much so that extra seating and an extra performance had to be added.\n\nThe performance will attract audiences of about 100 people\n\nThere's been a similar response to smaller pop up shows around the country, starting in Greenock on Friday, and it's not just audiences who have that pent-up enthusiasm for live performance. There isn't space or budget for a chorus, but regular singers are back as stewards for these shows.\n\nThe nearest model for this is not any of the grand productions staged at the Edinburgh International Festival, or in the Theatre Royal, but another tented production which was staged in Paisley two years ago.\n\nPagliacci was a massive outdoor production where members of the public sang alongside professional singers in a bold promenade production which was more Glastonbury than Glyndebourne, and showed how wide-reaching opera could be, and how much fun.\n\nHow much fun singing in the rain is going to be is anyone's guess... but after five months of lockdown, any singing is welcome.", "DaBaby, Lady Gaga and The Weeknd had some of the summer's biggest-selling songs\n\nDaBaby's Rockstar was the UK's biggest-selling song of the summer, says the Official Charts Company.\n\nNotching up 654,000 combined sales and streams over the summer, the brooding, guitar-driven rap song outsold hits by Lady Gaga and Harry Styles.\n\nIt was one of several best-sellers this summer to be boosted by TikTok, where it triggered a viral dance challenge.\n\nThe UK's second-biggest summer song, Jason Derulo's Savage Love, also started life on the video sharing app.\n\nOriginally an instrumental by New Zealand teenager Joshua Stylah (aka Jawsh 685), it was spotted by Derulo after it took off on TikTok.\n\nThe US star added vocals to the track, initially without crediting Stylah or obtaining permission for the sample. After Stylah signed a record deal with Columbia records, the song was released as a collaboration and climbed to the top of the charts.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Jason Derulo This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nSavage Love achieved 566,000 chart sales over the summer, closely followed by Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande's Rain On Me, which had 515,000 sales.\n\nThe pop divas were closely followed by The Weeknd, whose hit single Blinding Lights continued to sell over the summer after reaching number one earlier in the year.\n\nAn even longer-standing hit was Harry Styles' mouth-watering Watermelon Sugar, which was the seventh most popular song of the summer, despite making its chart debut last November.\n\nThe Official Charts combined sales and downloads with video and audio streams to compile its list.\n\nDaBaby's Rockstar had previously been named the most-streamed song of the summer by Spotify, while on YouTube, the top performers were Korean pop band Blackpink, whose single How You Like That was played more than 450 million times in June, July and August.\n\nDaBaby, who comes from North Carolina, has proved to be a master of meme-based marketing, achieving early attention by walking around the South by Southwest festival in Texas wearing only jewels and an adult-sized nappy.\n\nInitially, his \"internet presence was definitely bigger than the music,\" he told the New York Times last year, boasting, \"I'm so good at marketing\".\n\n\"Once I knew I had them looking, I turned up with the music,\" he added. \"I knew what I was doing - it was premeditated.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by DaBabyVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nRockstar was his first UK hit, propelled by a dance craze focusing on the song's hook on TikTok.\n\nThe platform, which allows users to make 15-second videos set to music, has become an increasingly powerful tool for marketing music.\n\nHits like Doja Cat's Say So, Megan Thee Stallion's Savage, and Lil Nas X's Grammy-winning Old Town Road all gained early attention on the app.\n\nTik Tok's music team actively promotes trending songs, scouring submissions for undiscovered talent, and facilitating collaborations among musicians and prominent creators.\n\nFourteen of the UK's top 20 best-selling songs this summer were popular on TikTok before hitting the charts, boosting the profile of lesser-known artists like Gracey, Powfu and Beabadoobee alongside more established acts such as Drake.\n\nHowever, while record companies increasingly look to the app to seed new hits, the Chinese-owned firm has been accused of being a threat to US national security by the Trump administration.\n\nTikTok was given 90 days to be sold to an American firm or face a ban in the US, leading to the resignation of chief executive Kevin Mayer.", "Barcelona's all-time leading goalscorer Lionel Messi says he is staying because it is \"impossible\" for any team to pay his release clause and he does not want to face \"the club I love\" in court.\n\nThe Argentine, 33, sent a fax to Barca last Tuesday saying he wanted to exercise a clause in his contract which he said allowed him to leave for free.\n\nBut the club said his 700m euro (£624m) release clause would have to be met.\n\n\"I thought and was sure that I was free to leave,\" Messi told Goal.\n\n\"I told the president and, well, the president always said that at the end of the season I could decide if I wanted to go or if I wanted to stay and in the end he did not keep his word.\n\n\"Now I am going to continue in the club because the president told me that the only way to leave was to pay the 700m clause, and that this is impossible.\"\n• None Why I don't think we've heard the end of Messi saga - Balague column\n• None Football Daily podcast: Messi stays - but will things ever be the same?\n\nMessi, whose contract expires next summer, says the fact he did not tell Barca he wanted to leave before 10 June was crucial, and had he done so his release clause would not have had to be met.\n\n\"Now they cling to the fact that I did not say it before 10 June, when it turns out that on 10 June we were competing for La Liga in the middle of this awful coronavirus and this disease altered all the season,\" he added.\n\n\"There was another way and it was to go to trial. I would never go to court against Barca because it is the club that I love, which gave me everything since I arrived.\n\n\"It is the club of my life, I have made my life here.\"\n\nMessi's father Jorge had held talks in Barcelona this week and insisted his son could leave for free, only for La Liga to back Barca's stance over the release clause.\n\nManchester City were among the clubs linked with Messi when he made clear he wanted to end his 20-year stay at the Nou Camp, nine days after an 8-2 defeat by Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarter-finals.\n\nThat result meant Barca ended the season with no silverware, and they replaced manager Quique Setien with former Everton and Netherlands manager Ronald Koeman.\n\nMessi is yet to train with his team-mates since Koeman's arrival and admits the club's lack of recent success influenced his decision to ask to leave.\n\n\"I looked further afield and I want to compete at the highest level, win titles, compete in the Champions League,\" he said.\n\n\"When I communicated my wish to leave to my wife and children, it was a brutal drama.\n\n\"The whole family began crying, my children did not want to leave Barcelona, nor did they want to change schools.\n\n\"I love Barcelona and I'm not going to find a better place than here anywhere. Still, I have the right to decide.\n\n\"I was going to look for new goals and new challenges. And tomorrow I could go back, because here in Barcelona I have everything.\"\n\n'This could get uglier' - analysis\n\nSo Messi is staying, but this saga is far from over.\n\nOne notable takeaway from his interview was his brutal assessment of club president Josep Maria Bartomeu, as he lamented: \"There has been no project or anything for a long time, they juggle and cover holes as they go along.\"\n\nBartomeu's tenure as president finishes in March but he will now come under heavy pressure to resign immediately, and it's hard to see how he and Messi can coexist in the same club after such a vicious character assassination.\n\nOf course, the big question also lingers: will Messi now leave on a free transfer next summer? If so, he will be allowed to negotiate his move in January, and that topic is sure to dominate headlines over the next few weeks.\n\nOne man in the middle of this is recently appointed coach Ronald Koeman, who has the task of somehow reintegrating the team's captain and key player within an utterly dysfunctional club still traumatised by the embarrassing 8-2 Champions League loss against Bayern Munich.\n\nAll the best, Ronald. This sorry story has a few more chapters to be written, and it could get uglier yet.\n\nFrom going to staying - a Messi timeline\n• 14 August - Messi and Barcelona are humiliated as they crash out of the Champions League with an 8-2 thrashing by eventual winners Bayern Munich in their one-off quarter-final tie.\n• 17 August - Head coach Quique Setien is sacked eight months after taking charge at the Nou Camp.\n• 18 August - Former Barca midfielder Ronald Koeman leaves his job as manager of the Netherlands to take over from Setien.\n• 25 August - Messi sends a burofax to Barca chiefs informing them he wishes to leave - with claims of disagreements between the player and the club of the validity of a contract clause which would allow him to go for free.\n• 30 August - Messi does not turn up for his scheduled Covid-19 test before Barcelona's start to pre-season training. Later, La Liga issues a statement siding with Barca in the dispute over whether Messi can depart for nothing.\n• 2 September - Messi and his father Jorge hold a meeting with Barca, and Jorge is reported in the Spanish press as saying it would be \"difficult\" for his son to stay at the Nou Camp.\n• 4 September - Messi's father writes to La Liga insisting his son is contractually allowed to leave Barcelona for free in the current transfer window. However, Messi later confirms his intention to stay because he does not want to take Barcelona to court.\n• None What do they really think about the return to school?", "The children, aged between one and eight, were found in a family home\n\nThe bodies of five children have been found in a flat in a large housing block in the western German city of Solingen, police say.\n\nPolice say they suspect the 27-year-old mother of killing the children before attempting to take her own life at a train station in nearby Düsseldorf.\n\nFew details have been provided, with no information about the cause of death.\n\nEmergency services were called to the residential block in the Hasseldelle area of the city on Thursday afternoon.\n\nResponding to call at about 13:45 local time (11:45 GMT), police said they arrived at the building in Solingen, in North Rhine-Westphalia state, to discover the bodies of five children - three girls and two boys - aged from one to eight.\n\nA sixth child, reportedly an 11-year-old boy, was said to have survived.\n\nThe children's grandmother, who lives 60km (37 miles) away in the city of Mönchengladbach, had alerted the emergency services, the German news website Bild reported.\n\nThe entrance to the block of flats has been sealed off and forensic officers are at the scene\n\nPolice spokesman Stefan Weiand said the children's mother had been \"seriously injured\" after throwing herself in front of a train in Düsseldorf and was being treated in hospital under police guard.\n\n\"Background and further details are not known at this point and that is what we are trying to find out,\" Mr Weiand told journalists, adding that police investigators were at the scene \"in full force\".\n\nPolice said they were hoping to learn more about the \"incredibly tragic occurrence\" after speaking with the mother.\n\nThe entrance to the block of flats in Solingen has been sealed off and images show police cars and ambulances lining the streets, with forensic officers also at the scene.\n\nA woman places a candle alongside a teddy at the residential building in Solingen, Germany\n\nThe mayor of Solingen, Tim Kurzbach, wrote on Facebook that he had visited the housing block where \"this terrible act took place\" after hearing the news.\n\n\"For me it is still incomprehensible,\" he wrote in the post, adding: \"Today is a day of mourning for all of Solingen.\"\n\nLater on Thursday, residents began leaving flowers and candles at the entrance to the building as a tribute.", "Henriett Szucs (left) and Mihrican Mustafa were subjected to \"very significant violence\", the trial heard\n\nA convicted sex offender has been found guilty of murdering two women whose bodies were found in his freezer.\n\nThe remains of Henriett Szucs and Mihrican Mustafa were discovered at Zahid Younis's flat in Canning Town, east London, in April 2019.\n\nProsecutors at Southwark Crown Court said Younis preyed on the vulnerable women, subjecting them to \"very significant violence\".\n\nHe received a life sentence, with a minimum jail term of 38 years.\n\nThe four-week trial heard police made the \"grim discovery\" when looking for the defendant at his home following a call about his welfare.\n\nHe was not in but officers gained entry and noticed the lockable freezer, around which flies were gathering.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After Younis refused to return from the cells for sentencing, Ms Mustafa's family spoke outside the court\n\nMs Szucs, 32, originally from Hungary, was last seen alive in 2016 and was killed shortly before the defendant bought the freezer in November that year, the court heard.\n\nYounis's second victim, 38-year-old Ms Mustafa, was last heard from in May 2018.\n\nMs Szucs and Ms Mustafa were \"vulnerable women living somewhat chaotic lives\", including periods of homelessness and drug addiction, the court heard.\n\nJurors were told Younis purchased the freezer shortly after killing Ms Szucs \"for the sole purpose\" of concealing her body.\n\nZahid Younis was in an abusive relationship with Henriett Szucs, the court heard\n\nThe nature of the crime scene meant a cause of death could not be established, but the scientific evidence showed that the women had been subjected to serious violence before their deaths.\n\nThey had both suffered numerous rib fractures while Ms Szucs had sustained \"dreadful\" head injuries and Ms Mustafa's sternum and larynx had been fractured.\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Harding said the freezer had been forced open by one of the officers on \"an old-fashioned police hunch\" about what was inside it.\n\nHe said: \"He broke open the freezer and discovered what could only be seen, at the time, as only one body.\n\n\"It actually took the freezer being taken away and X-rayed for it to be seen there was another body underneath that. It was a gruesome discovery for the officers.\"\n\nThe Met's missing person inquiry into Mihrican Mustafa - which started in 2018 - did not examine vital phone evidence, which would have shown contact with Younis around the time she vanished\n\nDet Ch Insp Harding described Ms Szucs as someone who had been in abusive relationships before and was preyed upon by Younis.\n\nShe moved in with him - although Younis denied having a long-term relationship with her - and \"we have shown that she was really in love with him in her own way\", the detective said.\n\n\"She wrote him letters that we found. Unfortunately to him, she did not mean anything.\"\n\nThe court heard that Younis has several previous convictions for assaulting partners.\n\nA BBC investigation has identified a series of issues relating to the case:\n\nYounis, known as \"Boxer\", denied murder but did admit putting the women in the freezer, pleading guilty to two counts of preventing the lawful and decent burial of a body.\n\nHe claimed he was out when Ms Szucs died at his flat and did not tell police because he was \"panicking\".\n\nThe jury was told he paid a man to help him get Ms Szucs' body into the freezer and that his accomplice later blackmailed him into putting Ms Mustafa's corpse in the same place.\n\nJurors deliberated for over 16 hours before returning majority verdicts.\n\nYounis showed no emotion as the verdicts were read out while members of Ms Mustafa's large family, who attended every day of the three-week trial, said \"yes\" in the public gallery.\n\nHer older sister, Mel Mustafa, said: \"Thank you God, thank you.\"\n\nThe defendant refused to return to court from the cells for sentencing, during which Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb described him as an \"arch deceiver\" who had \"spent a lifetime destroying lives\".\n\nShe added he had shown no remorse about killing \"two beautiful and creative women\" and he might never be released from prison.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n• None How warnings about Heni and Jan's killer were missed\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Restaurants have claimed more than 100 million meals under the Eat Out to Help Out scheme, Treasury figures show.\n\nDiners got a state-backed 50% discount on meals and soft drinks up to £10 each on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays during August.\n\nThe Treasury said restaurants have so far made 130,000 claims worth £522m, figures likely to rise as outlets have until the end of September to claim.\n\nRestaurant bookings surged during the scheme, especially on the final day.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said: \"From the get-go our mission has been to protect jobs, and to do this we needed to be creative, brave and try things that no government has ever done before.\n\n\"Today's figures continue to show Eat Out to Help Out has been a success. I want to thank everyone, from restaurant owners to waiters, chefs and diners, for embracing it and helping drive our economic recovery.\"\n\nAbout 84,700 restaurants signed up for Eat Out to Help Out.\n\nAccording to data from booking site OpenTable, restaurant reservations rose by 53% compared with the Monday-to-Wednesday period in August 2019.\n\nIn July, restaurant bookings were down 54% on Mondays-to-Wednesdays, compared with July 2019.\n\nThe final day of the scheme, Monday 31 August, saw a 216% jump in bookings against the equivalent day in 2019, according to OpenTable.\n\nThe government has set aside £500m to fund Eat Out to Help Out. About 80% of hospitality firms stopped trading in April and 1.4 million workers were furloughed - the highest proportions of any sector - according to government data.\n\nRishi Sunak said that to support jobs the government needed \"to be creative and brave\".\n\nHowever, the scheme has critics. Some pubs and restaurants pulled out in August, citing increased hostility towards staff trying to cope with the increased demand and need for social distancing. Some outlets were concerned the scheme could pull in diners earlier in the week to the detriment of weekend trade.\n\nIn July, the Institute for Fiscal Studies forecast the scheme would most likely be a \"giveaway\" that benefitted those well-off enough to eat out. And anti-obesity campaigners said the scheme \"would be a green light to promote junk food\".\n\nHowever, Stephen Wall, managing director and co-founder of the Pho restaurant chain, said it \"has really been amazing. It has certainly benefited our early-week figures and seems to have encouraged the British public to dine out safely, as our restaurants are filling up and staying busy throughout the weekend, too.\"\n\nAnd Jes Staley, chief executive of Barclays, said spending data collected by the bank suggested the scheme had given a \"real boost\" to the hospitality sector.\n\nHe added: \"Consumer feedback was also very encouraging, with almost one in five planning to continue dining out more often... and a similar number saying that they will return to restaurants that they would not have visited otherwise.\"\n\nMr Sunak has ruled out extending the scheme, but some pub and restaurant chains, including Pizza Hut and Bill's, have said they will finance similar offers this month following the jump in demand.", "[L-R] Bill Bailey, Clara Amfo, HRVY and Jacqui Smith will all hit the dancefloor\n\nFormer home secretary Jacqui Smith has been confirmed as the 12th and final celebrity contestant on this year's Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nSmith will join with stars including Bill Bailey, Clara Amfo, and HRVY.\n\nThe 2020 series will begin in October but will be shorter than usual, and judge Bruno Tonioli will have a reduced role amid coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe contestants will be staying in a hotel for two weeks ahead of pre-recording all the group dances.\n\nThe BBC also confirmed they will be able to rehearse, perform and go home to their family each night - following government guidelines.\n\nJacqui Smith was confirmed as the final celebrity dancer on Steve Wright's Radio 2 show on Friday afternoon.\n\nThe former Labour politician became the UK's first female home secretary in 2007 - under then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown - and has since worked as a political broadcaster.\n\n\"I was speechless with excitement at being asked to join Strictly - and that's very rare for me,\" said Smith.\n\n\"Fifty years ago, I got a bronze medal for Scottish Highland Dancing and it feels about time to return to dancing.\"\n\n\"I couldn't be in better hands with the Strictly team and I'm going to throw myself into the challenge. Watch out!\" she added.\n\nSmith is now the chair of the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and Sandwell Children's Trust. She also has a podast, called For the Many, that she presents with broadcaster Iain Dale.\n\nHRVY has a social media following of more than 10 million\n\nHRVY was revealed as a contestant on the Kiss breakfast show and said he was \"so thankful to be taking part\".\n\nThe pop singer, whose real name is Harvey Leigh Cantwell, has more than a billion combined streams to his name.\n\nHe has a social media following of more than 10 million and performed at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend in Middlesbrough last year.\n\nThe 21-year-old rose to fame after uploading his music videos to Facebook. He has since sold out UK and European tours and his debut album will be out later this year.\n\n\"Being on Strictly is going to be such an amazing experience and I'm so thankful to be taking part this year,\" he said.\n\n\"I think my mum is more excited that she'll be able to see me every Saturday night now!\"\n\nMaisie Smith is an actress and singer is best known for playing Tiffany Butcher-Baker in EastEnders.\n\n\"Get me in those sequins,\" she said, reacting to the news of her announcement.\n\n\"I can't wait to dive into the Strictly fancy dress box this winter!\"\n\nBefore storming into Albert Square as Bianca's daughter, Tiffany, Smith made her acting debut in the 2008 film, The Other Boleyn Girl - alongside Scarlett Johansson and Eddie Redmayne.\n\nHer role in the long-running BBC soap saw her scoop the award for best dramatic performance from a young actress, at the 2009 British Soap Awards.\n\nJamie Laing returns to the show this year, after having to pull out of last year's series before it began due to an injury.\n\nHe became a household name in 2011 on the Channel 4 reality show, Made in Chelsea, and this year launched his own podcast, 6 Degrees from Jamie and Spencer, alongside Spencer Matthews.\n\nHe also founded the sweets brand, Candy Kittens, in 2012.\n\n\"Here we go again, hopefully this time I can last long enough so my mum can see me dance,\" said Laing.\n\nHe added: \"The reason I'm doing it, is to make my mum proud but all I did last year was make her even more disappointed. Let's change that this year, can't wait!!\"\n\nJJ Chalmers' career as a Royal Marine Commando was cut short after he suffered life-changing injuries following an IED explosion in Afghanistan.\n\nThe blast crushed an eye socket, burst his eardrums, destroyed his right elbow, blew off two fingers on his left hand and left holes in his legs.\n\nAfter years of rehabilitation, including more than 30 operations, he went on to compete in the 2014 Invictus Games where he captained the Trike Cycling team and took home three medals.\n\nHe later embarked on a career in broadcasting, presenting coverage of the Rio Paralympics and anchoring BBC One's coverage of the Invictus Games.\n\nComparing Strictly to his military experience, he told ITV's Lorraine: \"I'm always looking for a challenge, I'm always looking to push myself outside of my comfort zone.\"\n\nDespite his injuries, Chalmers said he wanted to be treated like \"any other contestant\" and didn't want any \"special treatment\".\n\n\"Whoever I partner with they've got their work cut out,\" he added.\n\nBill Bailey is an comedian, actor and musician is known for appearances on TV shows like QI, Black Books and Never Mind the Buzzcocks.\n\n\"In these strange times we're living through, it feels right to do something different and take on a new challenge,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"I haven't been to stage school and learnt to dance. I haven't lived for the dance... I'm not really Lord of the Dance. I'm caretaker of the dance,\" he joked. \"It's going to be quite a challenge but then that's what this is about, taking on a new skill.\"\n\nBailey, 55, made his name on the stand-up circuit before becoming a regular panel show guest, TV and film actor, documentary presenter, and host of the BBC sketch show Is It Bill Bailey?\n\nHe is also a classically-trained musician and has published a guide to British birds. On Wednesday, in a review of his first live gig for six months, The Daily Telegraph said he \"remains one of the funniest, most brilliantly original comedians in the UK\".\n\nClara Amfo, who hosts BBC Radio 1's late morning slot, aid she \"couldn't wait to fully embrace\" the experience of Strictly.\n\nIn recent years, Amfo has presented coverage of Glastonbury, the Brit Awards, Radio 1's Big Weekend, the Bafta TV Awards and The Proms.\n\n\"As we know this year has been a real challenge and escapism through dancing is something I know we all enjoy,\" she said.\n\n\"So to be taught by a pro and live a fantasy is something that I can't wait to fully embrace, see you on the dancefloor!\"\n\nRanvir Singh is Good Morning Britain's political editor and occasional host, and also appears on other ITV programmes including Loose Women, Tonight and Eat, Shop, Save. She is about to start co-hosting a new Sunday morning show, All Around Britain.\n\nSingh said she felt \"complete terror\" at the idea of taking part, likening it to \"embarking on a rollercoaster\".\n\nShe previously worked as a producer and reporter for the BBC for 12 years, and presented BBC North West Tonight.\n\nSingh said: \"The initial feeling of being confirmed for Strictly is one of complete terror - feels like embarking on a rollercoaster, where you really want to do it but you are equally scared.\n\n\"Hopefully after the first dance I will feel exhilarated rather than sick!\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOlympic boxer Nicola Adams will make Strictly Come Dancing history by becoming the first contestant to be part of a same-sex pairing.\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast she was the one who suggested having a female partner when producers asked her to take part.\n\n\"I think it's really important,\" she said. \"It's definitely time for change.\n\nAdams won a gold medal for Great Britain at the London 2012 Olympics, and again in Rio in 2016. She retired from the sport last year.\n\nAward-winning actress and presenter Caroline Quentin is known for a range of acting roles, including Maddie in Jonathan Creek and DCI Janine Lewis in Blue Murder.\n\nShe has also starred in Kiss Me Kate, Life Begins and Life of Riley.\n\nHowever, arguably her most famous role was playing Dorothy in the hit 90s sitcom Men Behaving Badly.\n\nShe recently presented the documentary series Extraordinary Homes for BBC Two.\n\nQuentin said she was \"thrilled and terrified in equal measure to be taking part\" in this year's Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nHe played as a cornerback/safety in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys.\n\nBell then played for the Houston Texans, where he was named a recipient of the Ed Block Courage Award, one of the league's highest honours. He finished his professional career with the New York Giants.\n\nBell now co-hosts The Jason & Osi Podcast with another former NFL star, Osi Umenyiora, and the pair appear as pundits on the NFL Show on the BBC.\n\n\"Strictly is the epitome of British television and this year, more than ever, I'm so proud and humbled to be participating,\" he said.\n\n\"Strictly was the first show I ever watched when I moved to the UK and I'm a massive fan. My six-year-old daughter never got the chance to see me run out on the field at an NFL game but she is very excited about me taking to the dance floor. I hope I can do her proud.\"\n\nSinger and actor Max George shot to fame as a member of boy band The Wanted.\n\nHis former bandmate, Jay McGuiness, previously won Strictly Come Dancing in 2015.\n\nGeorge said he was \"buzzing to be on Strictly this year\", joking: \"I'm not really one for the dance floor, but I take a lot of comfort in the fact that Jay McGuiness set The Wanted's bar so low.\"\n\nThe Wanted had two number one singles in the UK - All Time Low and Glad You Came - with the latter reaching the top three in the US Billboard chart.\n\nAfter The Wanted took a break, Max moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career and starred in the sixth season of Glee as Clint. He recently returned to music as a solo artist.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "Virgin Atlantic is to cut 1,150 more jobs after completing a £1.2bn rescue plan that will secure its future for at least 18 months.\n\nThe airline had already cut more than 3,500 jobs out of the 10,000 employees it had at the beginning of the year.\n\nThe airline said it had to cut costs in order to survive.\n\n\"Until travel returns in greater numbers, survival is predicated on reducing costs further and continuing to preserve cash,\" it said.\n\n\"The outlook for transatlantic flying, which is core to Virgin Atlantic's business, remains uncertain with US-UK travel curtailed,\" the airline said.\n\nIt said the past six months had been \"the most challenging in Virgin Atlantic's history\", and that \"regrettably the airline must go further one last time with changes at scale, to ensure it emerges from this crisis\".\n\nThe carrier added that a 45-day consultation period would begin on Friday with unions.\n\nTo try to cut down on crew redundancies, it said it would introduce a voluntary, company-financed furlough scheme for 600 crew members when the government-backed scheme ends in October.\n\nPilots union Balpa said that it hoped to avoid pilot redundancies.\n\n\"Every single job lost to this crisis is a tragedy and we are doing everything we can to mitigate job losses across the board,\" said Balpa general secretary Brian Strutton.\n\n\"Despite no help from government, their financing is now secure,\" he added.\n\nThe Covid-19 pandemic has taken a dreadful toll on employment in the aviation industry.\n\nAirlines around the world have been haemorrhaging jobs, as they face a future in which fewer people travel, and fewer planes are able to fly.\n\nAnd it isn't just airlines. Aerospace firms, airports and groundhandling companies are also being forced to cut back.\n\nVirgin finds itself more exposed than many of its rivals, because it relies heavily on transatlantic traffic - and restrictions on travel to the US remain in force.\n\nThe company is hoping its £1.2bn rescue plan will enable it to ride out the storm. But to succeed, it still needs to turn itself into a much smaller business than it was just a few months ago.\n\nUS carrier Delta Air Lines, which owns 49% of Virgin Atlantic, said the rescue plan was \"an important part of protecting Delta's position in the UK, particularly in the critical London Heathrow market,\" as it vies against American Airlines and British Airways.\n\nThe pandemic has had a severe impact on the aviation industry as lockdowns and quarantines hit air travel. Airlines, airports and tour firms have collectively shed thousands of jobs.\n\nVirgin gained approval for its rescue plan from UK and US courts this week.\n\nThe £1.2bn deal involves £400m in new cash, half of which will come from its main shareholder, Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group.\n\nVirgin Atlantic chief executive Shai Weiss said: \"Together, we have achieved what many thought impossible and that is down to the efforts and sacrifices of so many across the company.\"\n\nHe called for \"urgent government action\" to introduce passenger testing to help remove travel restrictions.\n\nSince the 16 March it has not been possible for many travellers from the UK to get into the US if they do not have US citizenship and if they have been in the UK, Ireland, the Schengen zone, Iran, Brazil, or China within the past two weeks.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister says he \"can't be expected\" to agree with everyone who works with the government.\n\nFormer Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has been appointed as an unpaid trade adviser to the UK government.\n\nBoris Johnson rejected claims Mr Abbott was not suitable for the role, despite criticism over past comments on women, LGBT people and climate change.\n\nThe UK prime minister said he did \"not agree with those sentiments\".\n\nMr Abbott, who negotiated trade deals for Australia when in power, will not take part in post-Brexit talks between the UK and other countries.\n\nInstead, he will advise the new Board of Trade, set up to help ministers and encourage firms to do more business internationally.\n\nMr Abbott was a prominent opponent of same-sex marriage in Australia's 2017 referendum on the issue and has been accused of making homophobic and misogynist comments in the past.\n\nHe has also described the idea of climate change as \"faddish\" and, last year, claimed the world was \"in the grip of a climate cult\".\n\nAsked about the new appointee's past comments, Mr Johnson said he could not be expected to agree with all the views of everyone who worked with the government.\n\nHe said Mr Abbott had been elected by the \"great, liberal democratic nation of Australia,\" adding: \"I think that speaks for itself.\"\n\nThis government has recently had the word \"U-turn\" lobbed at it, a lot. But there's been no change of heart here.\n\nWhile the appointment of Tony Abbott has sparked serious concern in some quarters, the government has on this occasion decided it doesn't want to back down.\n\nPerhaps it doesn't want to hand critics more \"U-turn\" ammunition. And ministers have argued that Mr Abbott will bring real trade expertise.\n\nBut there may also be a calculation in Downing Street, rightly or wrongly, that this is a \"Westminster bubble\" issue - a story that, in the end, won't do the government significant political damage.\n\nOther advisers to the Board of Trade will include former Labour health secretary Patricia Hewitt, ex-Conservative Member of the European Parliament Daniel Hannan and economist and broadcaster Linda Yueh.\n\nMr Abbott, who was prime minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015, negotiated free-trade deals with Japan, China and South Korea.\n\nBut Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he had \"real concerns\" and \"wouldn't appoint\" Mr Abbott if he were prime minister.\n\nTony Abbott at the launch of sister Christine Forster's book in June\n\nShadow international development secretary Emily Thornberry said Mr Abbott was \"the wrong\" choice \"on every level\" and had \"no experience of detailed trade negotiations, no understanding of Brexit, no belief in climate change, no concern for workers' rights\".\n\nA group of equality activists - including actor Sir Ian McKellen and Doctor Who writer Russell T Davies - has written an open letter against Mr Abbott's appointment.\n\nIt says: \"This is a man who described abortion as 'the easy way out' and suggested that men may be 'by physiology or temperament more adapted to exercise authority or to issue command'.\"\n\n\"For all these reasons and more besides, this man is not fit to be representing the UK as our trade envoy,\" the letter adds.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said Mr Abbott had \"no place in any British government\".\n\nAnd the SNP's deputy Westminster leader, Kirsten Oswald, called the appointment \"beyond indefensible\".\n\nBut Mr Abbott's sister, Christine Forster, defended him against claims of misogyny and homophobia.\n\n\"As a woman who has always been part of his life and who came out to him as gay in my early 40s, I know incontrovertibly that Tony is neither of those things,\" she wrote on Twitter.\n\n\"In reality he is a man of great conviction and intellect; an unabashed conservative but with great compassion, respect for others, and an indelible sense of doing what is right.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Jonathan Blake breaks down the next round of Brexit negotiations\n\nThe Board of Trade will meet four times a year.\n\nInternational Trade Secretary Liz Truss, who will chair the body, said: \"At a time of increased protectionism and global insecurity, it's vital that the UK is a strong voice for open markets and that we play a meaningful role in reshaping global trading rules alongside like-minded countries.\"\n\nShe said she was bringing together \"a diverse group of people who share Britain's belief in free enterprise, democracy, and high standards and rules-based trade\".", "Brett Savage served in Afghanistan while in the Army\n\nThe parents of an Army veteran who is believed to have taken his life say he was failed by the Ministry Of Defence.\n\nBrett Savage, who was 32 and served in Afghanistan, had previously told BBC News NI that the army was not doing enough to help young soldiers when they returned to civilian life.\n\nHis body was found at his home in Newtownards at the weekend.\n\nHis parents Noel and Dolores Savage said that the Army \"did nothing\" to help their son.\n\n\"We are totally and utterly heartbroken,\" said Mrs Savage.\n\n\"He was my world. He would've done anything for anyone, he was so kind.\"\n\nBut he struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) when he left the Army.\n\nBrett Savage's parents at his funeral on Friday\n\n\"The doctor said that he could be walking down the street and it could be a noise or a smell and it would set him off,\" explained his mother.\n\n\"He just couldn't control it.\n\n\"When they go back from tours like that, they should have someone who can help them deal with all the emotions, with what they've seen and been through. There's nothing, they're just left.\n\n\"I feel very sad for all the ones who are going through all of this and I hope that if what happened to Brett is made public it'll maybe help somebody else and maybe the Army will step back and think of what to do when they're in these situations.\n\n\"When they're in the Army, they have their meals at certain times, do things at set times, and once they're out they don't have that.\n\n\"They can't cope with all the anger and emotions and what they've been through so they really do need some counselling and help. There is no help.\"\n\nVeterans' charity Beyond The Battlefield was a huge support for Brett Savage, his family say.\n\n\"All the Army do is count Brett like a number,\" his father Noel said.\n\n\"When he came back [from war] with the problems, I wouldn't let him go back and all they wanted to do was get him back so he ended up going AWOL.\"\n\nHis father told BBC News NI that he carried \"his demons\" and on bad days he would \"lock himself away and watch Star Wars from start to finish or some movies\".\n\n\"That's how he got through those couple of bad days and then he would bounce in to us, asking his mum what there was to eat.\n\n\"The demons had gone then, until the next time.\n\n\"Unfortunately they kept coming back.\n\n\"He just couldn't fathom his demons that he carried, and he carried them big time. Unfortunately they got him in the end.\n\n\"We thought he was OK. He did say he would never do what he did.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan Show on Friday, Ulster Unionist MLA and former soldier Doug Beattie spoke about his relationship with Mr Savage.\n\nHe said his death was \"devastating\" and that suicide was not just a problem in the military, but was \"societal\".\n\nMr Beattie said he had served together with him in the Royal Irish Regiment in Afghanistan, and Mr Savage was later under his command as an army reservist in Belfast.\n\n\"He was a young, fit man, a good-looking guy. Really enjoyed life, had many friends. Was sociable, personable. A really great soldier. Kind hearted,\" he said.\n\n\"I also saw how the demons were affecting him, I saw how his mental health degraded over time. We attempted at times to try and give him help.\n\n\"You always think: 'Was there one more thing that I could do? Could I have reached out to him for a cup of coffee? Could I give him a phone call?'\n\n\"There will be people out there who knew Brett who will be saying exactly the same as me.\"\n\nMr Beattie said the possibility of the minister of defence working with the families of soldiers to help facilitate their return from combat was something that should be considered.\n\nIn 2016, Brett Savage took part in a BBC NI radio documentary Losing the Battle.\n\nThe programme examined some of the mental health challenges facing many young soldiers in Northern Ireland after they returned from recent wars.\n\nThe then 29-year-old reflected on his own post-war struggles after his military service with the Royal Irish Regiment in Afghanistan ended.\n\nHe said: \"I didn't expect my life to be like this now. Never. You know, I can't sleep and stuff. Stupid things remind me of things.\"\n\nJohnny Mercer, the Minister for Defence, People and Veterans, said he was \"deeply saddened\" by Mr Savage's death.\n\n\"PTSD is a serious and debilitating condition. There is a range of help available, and I am determined to do all I can to make sure that veterans know where they can turn to in times of need.\"\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said it would be inappropriate to comment further until the coroner had concluded their investigation.\n\nThe chief executive officer of Beyond the Battlefield, a Northern Ireland-based veterans' charity which supported Mr Savage, described his death as \"untimely\".\n\nAnnemarie Hastings said Mr Savage had initially come to the charity seeking help and proceeded to assist the charity by reaching out to other veterans who were struggling after their military service ended.\n\nHis funeral service took place in Newtownards on Friday, not far from the local war memorial.\n\nFloral tributes have been placed at the memorial, one of them remembering Brett Savage as \"a warrior\".\n\nFor information and support on mental health, access the BBC Action Line.", "Vanity Fair said actor Robert Pattinson has tested positive for coronavirus - days after shooting resumed\n\nFilming for The Batman has been suspended again, days after it resumed following the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe pause in filming, confirmed by Warner Bros, is because lead actor Robert Pattinson has tested positive for the virus, according to US media.\n\nWarner Bros said a member of the production team was self-isolating but it did not say who.\n\nFilming began in Glasgow earlier this year but was halted due to the pandemic.\n\nA spokeswoman for the studios said: \"A member of The Batman production has tested positive for Covid-19, and is isolating in accordance with established protocols. Filming is temporarily paused.\"\n\nVanity Fair said British actor Pattinson, 34, caught the virus days after shooting resumed near London, after a six-month delay to filming.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Batman was seen with film crews at Glasgow's Necropolis cemetery\n\nThe Batman was initially due for release in June 2021 but has been delayed to October 2021.\n\nIn the latest film, directed by Matt Reeves, Twilight star Pattinson follows in the footsteps of Christian Bale, Ben Affleck, Michael Keaton and George Clooney in playing the Gotham City superhero.\n\nPattinson, who also co-stars in the current cinema hit Tenet, has not commented on the reports.", "Attending primary school puts children and staff at no greater risk of contracting coronavirus than staying at home, a study of 131 schools suggests.\n\nTests to find out who had already had the virus found similar levels of antibodies in pupils and teachers.\n\nBut the study, of 12,000 adults and children in England, was carried out in June and early July, when there were very few cases around.\n\nExperts say more studies are needed, when all children are attending school.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Health Correspondent Laura Foster explains what schools are doing to keep pupils safe\n\nFor the study, pupils and staff were tested during the last six weeks of the summer term when Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 children could return to school.\n\nSince then, millions of children across the UK have returned to the classroom, with lessons resuming in England and Wales in the past few days. Schools in Scotland and Northern Ireland reopened last month.\n\nSchools now look very different to what students were once used to, with pupils being told to stay in their \"bubble\" groups, follow one-way systems and social distance when necessary. Staggered start times have also been introduced, and hand-washing stations and screens installed.\n\nBubbles vary widely between schools. Some primary schools treat each class as a separate bubble, while secondary schools often have bubbles composed of entire year groups - sometimes of up to 300 children.\n\nChildren with a new classroom lay-out at a school in Southwark, south London\n\nScientists from Public Health England, who led the study, found just three people (one child and two staff) tested positive for the virus - 0.02% of those swabbed.\n\nThere was no evidence that any of these three people passed the virus on to others they lived with or worked with. This reflects previous research by PHE showing low numbers of cases and outbreaks in schools.\n\nA separate sample of 2,100 staff and children, who were tested for antibodies, found 10.6% of pupils and 12.7% of staff had previously had coronavirus.\n\nThis could suggest that children are as likely as adults to be infected, rather than being less susceptible to the disease.\n\nBut because so few positive cases in children are detected, it confirms previous research that they are likely to experience mild symptoms, or none at all.\n\nThe study found children and staff who attended school more frequently were no more likely to test positive for antibodies than those who did not attend school, or went less often.\n\nThis could indicate that infection levels in schools are simply reflecting virus levels in the communities where people live.\n\nHowever, some groups were more likely to have antibodies - they were non-white, lived in the same house as a healthcare worker and had experienced symptoms.\n\nSecondary schools were not included in the study, so no conclusions can be drawn about older children.\n\nDr Shamez Ladhani, consultant epidemiologist, from Public Health England said: \"This is the largest study of its kind in the country and suggests attending preschool and primary school brings no additional risk to either staff or students.\n\n\"Although these results are preliminary, they should be very reassuring to parents who may be anxious about their children returning to school.\"\n\nDr Liz Whittaker, clinical lecturer and consultant paediatrician, from Imperial College London, said it was a \"good quality study\" but \"limited by timing\" as there was very low transmission of coronavirus during the period studied.\n\n\"It is essential that studies such as these continue over the next few months, and importantly, are also performed in secondary school and college settings,\" she added.\n\nProf Ravindra Gupta, professor of clinical microbiology at the University of Cambridge, cautioned that schools would now be coping with two to six times more children, which could alter the results.\n\n\"There is less ability to socially distance than schools were able to in June. We must not be complacent and falsely reassured. We must ensure adequate monitoring and testing strategies to pick up infections in schools before they spread,\" he said.\n\nRegarding the finding that children were often asymptomatic, Prof Gupta said that meant \"children may still continue to attend school if we do not regularly test for the virus in schools\".\n• None National surveillance of pre-schools and primary schools for coronavirus infection in England The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says the quarantine system is \"an important part of our repertoire\"\n\nCoronavirus testing at airports may give a \"false sense of security\", Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said, after suggestions it could be used to cut quarantine times for travellers.\n\nMr Johnson said testing on arrival would only identify 7% of virus cases.\n\nIt comes after a senior Tory MP backed calls from the struggling aviation sector to introduce airport testing.\n\nFormer Brexit Secretary David Davis said testing could cut quarantine times to \"less than five days\".\n\nBut speaking during a visit to Solihull, the prime minister rejected Mr Davis's comments, saying: \"The quarantine system that we have has got to be an important part of our repertoire, of our toolbox, in fighting Covid.\"\n\nThe BBC has been told a cabinet decision on whether to introduce airport testing has been repeatedly postponed and now may never happen.\n\nMr Johnson said while he understood \"the difficulties\" the airline industry was facing, \"93% of the time you could have a real false sense of security, a false sense of confidence when you arrive and take a test\".\n\nThe government said that percentage was based on modelling by Public Health England.\n\nPeople entering the UK face 14 days of self-isolation unless they are travelling from countries that are exempt - a decision determined by the four nations' separate authorities.\n\nMr Johnson also insisted the UK was \"overwhelmingly... proceeding as one\" with regards to quarantine rules, after his transport secretary admitted that different rules across the four nations were \"confusing\".\n\nEarlier, Grant Shapps defended the decision not to impose restrictions on people entering England from Greece and Portugal - despite Scotland and Wales deciding to do so.\n\nHe described Portugal as being on a \"borderline\", adding that \"the opinion of England and Northern Ireland is that it did not justify quarantine this week\".\n\nMr Shapps said the four nations \"quite often come to slightly different outcomes, which I appreciate is confusing for people.\"\n\nIn Wales, people must now quarantine for two weeks if they arrive from Portugal, Gibraltar or six Greek islands: Crete, Mykonos, Zakynthos (also known as Zante), Lesvos, Paros and Antiparos.\n\nArrivals to Scotland from Portugal and French Polynesia will have to self-isolate from 04:00 on Saturday. Scotland has already reintroduced quarantine for arrivals from Greece.\n\nThe rules apply to where passengers live, not where they fly back to - so a traveller flying to England who lives in Wales must abide by Welsh quarantine rules.\n\nPortugal, Greece and French Polynesia are still on England and Northern Ireland's lists of travel corridors.\n\nHeathrow's chief executive, John Holland-Kaye, has been urging the government to introduce airport testing since May, arguing it will help save the economy.\n\nSpeaking before the prime minister's comments, Mr Holland-Kaye told the BBC that on-site testing facilities had already been set up and they were \"waiting for the government to give us the go-ahead\".\n\n\"It is frustrating that the government just has not made a decision to get on with this, when governments in other countries in Europe are getting on and making it happen,\" he said.\n\nSome countries, such as Iceland, offer travellers a choice on arrival if they have stayed in areas with high virus levels - anyone entering must either self-quarantine for 14 days or get tested for Covid-19.\n\nIt comes as a further 10 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for coronavirus in the UK, according to the latest figures.\n\nAnother 1,940 people have tested positive for the virus, bringing the total number of cases in the UK to 342,351.", "The level of coronavirus among the community in England remains \"unchanged\" for the week to 25 August, the Office for National Statistics suggests.\n\nIts latest survey of people in households estimates there were around 2,000 new cases of coronavirus per day.\n\nThis suggests that, despite outbreaks in some local areas, overall case numbers remain stable.\n\nThe ONS figures give one of the most accurate pictures of infections levels.\n\nThey are based on more than 151,000 swab tests collected from people at home, whether they have symptoms or not.\n\nBut there is always a margin for error in the figures because over the past six weeks of the study very few people have tested positive - just 71 from 68 households.\n\nThe figures also do not cover what is going on in hospitals or care homes, where infection rates are likely to be different.\n\nHowever, they continue to paint a picture of a stable level of infections among private households in England.\n\nThe ONS estimates that 27,100 people in the community had the virus during that week from 19 to 25 August.\n\nThis is similar to the estimate for the previous week and several weeks before that.\n\nIn Wales, during the week to 25 August, 1,400 people are estimated to have had Covid-19 - also unchanged from previous weeks.\n\nA different kind of test - an antibody test, using blood samples - which looks for evidence of people having previously had the infection, has been carried out on 7,000 people as part of the ONS study.\n\nResults suggest that around 6% of the population - or one in 17 people - have been infected with the coronavirus in the past.\n\nThis equates to 2.7 million people in England.\n\nThe R number for the UK is between 0.9 and 1.1, say the government's scientific advisors, which means the number of people with the virus is staying at a constant level.\n\nThe reproduction number or R is the average number of people that one infected person passes the virus onto.\n\nAn R number of 1 means that on average every person who is infected will infect one other person, meaning the total number of infections is stable.\n\nThis estimate of R is a guide to the general trend rather than a description of what is happening today.\n\nThe Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, said the ONS data showed that the government's approach, using contact tracing and local restrictions, was working and was helping the country \"to safely return to normal\".\n\n\"This reassuring news is testament to the hard work of everybody in following social distancing guidelines to protect themselves, their loved ones and the NHS.\"\n\nMr Hancock added: \"I would urge everybody to continue to be vigilant - wash your hands, wear a face covering and keep social distance from those outside your household - so we can keep the virus at bay.\"", "The main test used to diagnose coronavirus is so sensitive it could be picking up fragments of dead virus from old infections, scientists say.\n\nMost people are infectious only for about a week, but could test positive weeks afterwards.\n\nResearchers say this could be leading to an over-estimate of the current scale of the pandemic.\n\nBut some experts say it is uncertain how a reliable test can be produced that doesn't risk missing cases.\n\nProf Carl Heneghan, one of the study's authors, said instead of giving a \"yes/no\" result based on whether any virus is detected, tests should have a cut-off point so that very small amounts of virus do not trigger a positive result.\n\nHe believes the detection of traces of old virus could partly explain why the number of cases is rising while hospital admissions remain stable.\n\nThe University of Oxford's Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine reviewed the evidence from 25 studies where virus specimens from positive tests were put in a petri dish to see whether they would grow.\n\nThis method of \"viral culturing\" can indicate whether the positive test has picked up active virus which can reproduce and spread, or just dead virus fragments which won't grow in the lab, or in a person.\n\nThis is a problem we have known about since the start - and once again illustrates why data on Covid is far from perfect.\n\nBut what difference does it make? When the virus first emerged probably very little, but the longer the pandemic goes on the bigger the effect.\n\nThe flurry of information about testing and the R number creates confusion.\n\nBut however we cut it, the fact remains there are very low levels of infection in the UK overall, lower than a number of other European countries.\n\nWhere there are local outbreaks the system - by and large - seems to be having success in curbing them.\n\nAnd this comes after the opening up of society over the summer.\n\nOf course, the big question is what happens next, with schools back and winter around the corner.\n\nThere is a growing sense within the public health community that the UK is in a strong position - and certainly a return to the high levels of infection seen in the spring should be avoided.\n\nBut there is also extreme caution and an understandable desire for complacency not to creep in.\n\nThe PCR swab test - the standard diagnostic method - uses chemicals to amplify the virus's genetic material so that it can be studied.\n\nYour test sample has to go through a number of \"cycles\" in the lab before enough virus is recovered.\n\nJust how many can indicate how much of the virus is there - whether it's tiny fragments or lots of whole virus.\n\nThis in turn appears to be linked to how likely the virus is to be infectious - tests that have to go through more cycles are less likely to reproduce when cultured in the lab.\n\nBut when you take a coronavirus test, you get a \"yes\" or \"no\" answer. There is no indication of how much virus was in the sample, or how likely it is to be an active infection.\n\nA person shedding a large amount of active virus, and a person with leftover fragments from an infection that's already been cleared, would receive the same - positive - test result.\n\nBut Prof Heneghan, the academic who spotted a quirk in how deaths were being recorded, which led Public Health England to reform its system, says evidence suggests coronavirus \"infectivity appears to decline after about a week\".\n\nHe added that while it would not be possible to check every test to see whether there was active virus, the likelihood of false positive results could be reduced if scientists could work out where the cut-off point should be.\n\nThis could prevent people being given a positive result based on an old infection.\n\nAnd Prof Heneghan said that would stop people quarantining or being contact-traced unnecessarily, and give a better understanding of the current scale of the pandemic.\n\nPublic Health England agreed viral cultures were a useful way of assessing the results of coronavirus tests and said it had recently undertaken analysis along these lines.\n\nIt said it was working with labs to reduce the risk of false positives, including looking at where the \"cycle threshold\", or cut-off point, should be set.\n\nBut it said there were many different test kits in use, with different thresholds and ways of being read, which made providing a range of cut-off points difficult.\n\nBut Prof Ben Neuman, at the University of Reading, said culturing virus from a patient sample was \"not trivial\".\n\n\"This review runs the risk of falsely correlating the difficulty of culturing Sars-CoV-2 from a patient sample, with likelihood that it will spread,\" he said.\n\nProf Francesco Venturelli, an epidemiologist in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, which was hit hard by the virus in March, said there was \"not enough certainty\" about how long virus remains infectious during the recovering period.\n\nSome studies based on viral cultures reported about 10% of patients still had viable virus after eight days, he said.\n\nIn Italy, which had its peak earlier than the UK, \"for several weeks we were over-estimating cases\" because of people who acquired the infection several weeks before they were identified as positive.\n\nBut, as you move away from the peak, this phenomenon diminishes.\n\nProf Peter Openshaw at Imperial College London said PCR was a highly sensitive \"method of detecting residual viral genetic material\".\n\n\"This is not evidence of infectivity,\" he said. But the clinical consensus was that patients were \"very unlikely to be infectious beyond day 10 of disease\".\n• None Covid testing boss 'very sorry' for shortages", "The government has urged Whitehall bosses to \"move quickly\" to get more staff back into the office.\n\nIn a letter seen by the BBC, it says it is \"strongly encouraging\" attendance through rota systems, arguing this would be \"hugely beneficial\".\n\nThe government says it wants 80% of civil servants to be able to attend their usual workplace at least once a week by the end of the month.\n\nBut unions have described the government's attitude as outdated.\n\nThey said most civil servants should expect to keep working from home until the end of the year, and they would consider strike action if staff were forced to return when it was unsafe.\n\nThe letter applies to staff in England, with those elsewhere in the UK expected to follow local guidance and continue working from home.\n\nIt follows criticism that too few civil servants working from home because of coronavirus have returned to their desks, despite the easing of lockdown.\n\nAccording to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), there has been an increase in people travelling to work in the last two months, with fewer working exclusively from home.\n\nThey said 57% of working adults - out of 1,644 surveyed - reported that they had travelled to work at some point in the past seven days, while 20% had worked solely from home.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does a 'Covid-secure' workplace look like?\n\nThousands of businesses that rely on passing trade are suffering while offices stand empty, Dame Carolyn Fairbairn from the CBI has said.\n\nBut Alex Brazier, the Bank of England's executive director for financial stability, has warned that the government should not expect a \"sharp return\" to \"dense office environments\".\n\nIn the letter, sent to permanent secretaries - the highest officials in government departments - Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill and Alex Chisholm, chief operating officer of the Civil Service, say that \"getting more people back into work in a Covid-secure way will improve the public services we deliver\".\n\nThey add: \"We have seen a reduced level of social interaction among our colleagues, with the loss of some of the spontaneous interaction and cross-fertilisation between teams that drives innovation and sustained common purpose.\"\n\nBut they say staff safety \"remains our paramount concern\", and that workplace returns will be discussed with unions and staff groups.\n\nWorkplace guidance includes introducing one-way systems, staggered shift times and limiting the number of colleagues that staff members are exposed to in order to prevent the spread of the virus, such as only allowing a small number in lifts at any one time.\n\nThe letter goes on: \"Departments which are still below their departmental constraints should now move quickly to seek to bring more staff back into the office in a Covid-secure way, and take advantage of the return to schools this month and increased public transport availability.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has asked officials for a weekly update on progress.\n\nBoris Johnson is clearly worried about the impact of empty office districts in major cities - and has been urging people to discuss going back to the office, where it's safe to do so.\n\nSome Tory MPs want it to be the government's main priority now that schools are open again. They fear without movement soon, there could be extensive and lasting economic damage.\n\nEncouraging civil servants back into the office could be seen as leading by example, perhaps showing how a system might work for other employers.\n\nBut unions warn the workplace has changed forever and ministers would be better focussing on how to adapt to a new working world.\n\nThe FDA union, which represents senior civil servants, said this week that it estimated 30% to 40% would be able to return to the office by the end of the year.\n\nLeader Dave Penman accused ministers of \"sounding like Luddites\" in an era when technology made home working easier.\n\nMr Penman told BBC Radio 4's Today that one \"fundamental problem\" with the approach was that, on a practical level, government offices have a maximum capacity of around 50% because of coronavirus restrictions. He said the civil service was working \"very effectively\" from home.\n\nHe added it was \"quite clear\" that \"this is really about virtue signalling to the private sector that has already moved on\".\n\nAnd Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union, said he was prepared to consider industrial action \"as a last resort\" if workers' health and safety were \"put at risk\".\n\nMeanwhile, outsourcing firm Capita - a major government contractor - is planning to close more than a third of its offices in the UK permanently.", "An endangered white-handed gibbon: The right conservation strategies can save the day\n\nScientists have calculated how many mammals might be lost this century, based on fossil evidence of past extinctions.\n\nTheir predictions suggest at least 550 species will follow in the footsteps of the mammoth and sabre-toothed cat.\n\nWith every \"lost species\" we lose part of the Earth's natural history, they say.\n\nYet, despite these \"grim\" projections, we can save hundreds of species by stepping up conservation efforts.\n\nThe new research, published in the journal Science Advances, suggests that humans are almost entirely responsible for extinctions of mammals in past decades.\n\nAnd rates will escalate in the future if we don't take action now.\n\nDespite this \"alarming\" scenario, we could save hundreds if not thousands of species with more targeted and efficient conservation strategies, said Tobias Andermann of the Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre and the University of Gothenburg.\n\nIn order to achieve this, we must increase our collective awareness about the \"looming escalation of the biodiversity crisis, and take action in combatting this global emergency\".\n\n\"Time is pressing,\" he said. \"With every lost species, we irreversibly lose a unique portion of Earth's natural history.\"\n\nA mammoth skull at auction in New York City: Many more could follow this extinct species' path\n\nThe scientists compiled a large dataset of fossils, which provided evidence for the timing and scale of recent extinctions.\n\nTheir computer-based simulations predict large increases in extinction rates by the year 2100, based on the current threat status of species.\n\nAccording to these models, the extinctions that have occurred in past centuries only represent the tip of the iceberg, compared with the looming extinctions of the next decades.\n\n\"Reconstructing our past impacts on biodiversity is essential to understand why some species and ecosystems have been particularly vulnerable to human activities - which can hopefully allow us to develop more effective conservation actions to combat extinction,\" said Prof Samuel Turvey of ZSL (Zoological Society of London).\n\nLast year an intergovernmental panel of scientists said one million animal and plant species were now threatened with extinction.\n\nScientists have warned that we are entering the sixth mass extinction, with whatever we do now likely to define the future of humanity.\n• None 'Billions of years of evolutionary history' under threat", "Daniel Prude died a week after he was restrained by police\n\nThe US police officers involved in the suffocation death of a black man were following their training \"step by step\", the officers' union chief said.\n\nDaniel Prude - who suffered from mental health issues - died after being put in a \"spit hood\", designed to protect officers from detainees' saliva.\n\nThe mayor suspended the seven Rochester Police officers involved on Thursday.\n\nMr Prude, 41, died in March but his death has just recently been reported after body camera video was released.\n\nHis death came two months before that of George Floyd, whose killing while in police custody sparked widespread outrage and incited national and international demonstrations against police brutality and racism.\n\nThe officers' suspension this week is the first disciplinary action taken in the wake of Mr Prude's death. Contract rules mean that the officers will still be paid while on leave, according to city officials.\n\n\"To me, it looks like they were watching the training in front of them,\" said Michael Mazzaeo, president of the Rochester Police Locust Club on Friday. \"If there's a problem with that, let's change it.\"\n\nMr Mazzaeo further defended the officers, saying they were in a difficult position trying to help someone who appeared to have a mental illness, and they did not intend to harm Mr Prude.\n\nThe spit hood is standard equipment for officers, he said.\n\nMr Prude's brother, Joe, has said he called police on 23 March as Daniel was showing acute mental health problems. When officers arrived, he had been running naked through the streets in a light snow.\n\nMr Prude died in March, but his death has only just been reported\n\nPolice body camera video obtained by the family shows Mr Prude lying on the ground as officers restrain him. Mr Prude, who was not carrying a weapon, can be seen complying with officers immediately.\n\nWhile sitting on the road, he becomes agitated, alternately asking for money or a gun.\n\nHe spits repeatedly on the ground, but does not appear to offer any physical resistance, according to the footage.\n\nAn officer says that Mr Prude told them he has Covid-19, and they place the spit hood on him.\n\nOne officer can be seen pressing down on Mr Prude's head with both hands, saying \"stop spitting\". Mr Prude stops moving and goes quiet, and officers note he feels cold.\n\nParamedics are called and Mr Prude is taken to hospital in an ambulance. His family took him off life support days later on 30 March.\n\nThe Monroe County medical examiner ruled Mr Prude's death a homicide caused by \"complications of asphyxia in the setting of physical restraint\", according to a post-mortem examination.\n\nThe autopsy report also cited \"excited delirium\" and acute intoxication by phencyclidine, or the drug PCP, as contributing factors.\n\nNew York Attorney General Letitia James' office has launched an investigation into Mr Prude's death and Governor Andrew Cuomo has called for the case to be concluded \"as expeditiously as possible\".", "Coverage: Selected live radio and text commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, BBC Sounds, the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nDan Evans succumbed to the precocious talent of Frenchman Corentin Moutet in four sets as Britain's interest in the US Open singles ended on Friday.\n\nThe second-round match resumed after Thursday's rain suspension with Evans looking favourite to go 2-1 up in sets after moving to 4-1 in the tie-break.\n\nBut Moutet, 21, battled back to take the third set, then took the fourth to a tie-break having been 4-1 down.\n\nThe 23rd seed's exit swiftly followed compatriot Cameron Norrie's third-round defeat by Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, also on court five.\n\nEvans said he played a \"pretty bad match\" and blamed himself for the defeat.\n\n\"I didn't play great over the two days,\" said the 30-year-old.\n\n\"I was up in the match on numerous occasions. I have nothing to blame apart from myself. You have to win those matches. You have to win them to be a good player and go up the rankings. From the positions I was in, I didn't do anything really well.\"\n\nHe also paid tribute to Moutet, adding: \"His way of playing was awkward - I have to give him credit. He doesn't really have a game style or plan, and it's difficult. I thought today he served better. He makes you think twice about what you're going to do and play.\"\n\nMoutet will play Andy Murray's conqueror, Felix Auger-Aliassime, in the third round on Saturday.\n• None Zverev says he was told there was 'very little chance' Mannarino match would be played\n• None Djokovic cruises into US Open last 16\n• None Osaka comes through in three sets\n\nEvans seemed to play a mirror image of himself with the world number 77 explosive and quick around the court with plenty of variation in his play. They were also animated as they verbally expressed gripes both with themselves, each other and those in the crowd.\n\nIt was difficult to separate the pair on Thursday before their match was suspended, and on resumption it was no surprise Evans held his serve at 6-5 to take the third set into a tie-break.\n\nThe British number one raced into a 4-1 lead before errors on his forehand and backhand allowed Moutet to level and then move ahead as Evans found the net. A big first serve earned the 5ft 9in Frenchman the tie-break and the set.\n\nEvans regrouped and look a strong favourite to take the match into a decider by going into a 4-1 lead after breaking his opponent in the second game. But once again the plucky Moutet raised his level to break back in the seventh game with a delightful lob.\n\nEvans began to look exasperated while Moutet's service game was looking exceptional. The tie-break was a one-sided affair as the Briton's levels slumped, with a shot into the net handing his opponent victory.\n\nEarlier, Norrie led by a break in the third set but then lost 11 of the last 12 games as he fell to a 7-6 (7-2) 4-6 6-2 6-1 defeat in the third round in New York.\n\nThe unforced errors mounted for the 25-year-old in the final two sets, with Norrie making 57 overall.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nNorrie, ranked 76th, appeared to be establishing control in the match when he broke to lead 2-1 in the third set but world number 99 Davidovich Fokina levelled straight away and then ran away with the match as the Briton's performance dropped alarmingly.\n\nHe struggled desperately on serve in the closing stages, losing more than 60% of the points on his own delivery in the third set. The double faults then mounted at crucial stages in the fourth set with Norrie appearing to be having issues with his eyes.\n\nNorrie had fought back from two sets down and saved match points to beat ninth seed Diego Schwartzman in the first round, but he was not happy with the level of his performance then and certainly will not be with how he fell away against the 21-year-old.\n\nThe first two sets had been very competitive, if still error-strewn. After a break apiece, the first went to a tie-break which the Spaniard dominated, winning the last five points.\n\nNorrie saved three break points in the fourth game of the second set and then immediately pounced, chasing down a drop shot and sending a forehand down the line to go 3-2 up. After saving another break point at 5-4 up, a similar shot sealed the set for the Briton but it was to be largely downhill from there.\n\n\"I was real dehydrated and [my vision] got a little bit blurry at the start of the third when I broke. I was not really seeing the ball that clearly,\" Norrie said.\n\n\"Towards the end I managed to drink a little bit more and actually felt great in the fourth set but it was too late, he played freely and he played great.\"\n\nThere was success for Britain in the men's doubles second round with Joe Salisbury and American partner Rajeev Ram, the Australian Open champions, overcoming American brothers Ryan and Christian Harrison 6-2 6-4.\n\nDan Evans' versatility usually causes problems for others, but in this match he was often on the receiving end as Corentin Moutet zipped around the court to produce some breathtaking winners.\n\nThere is certainly no predictable pattern to the play of the 21-year-old left-hander, who has now matched his best Grand Slam performance.\n\nIt was a match Evans felt he should have won, and Cameron Norrie may feel similarly having gone an early break up in the third set.\n\nBut 11 of the last 12 games went Davidovich Fokina's way, as Norrie felt his eyesight deteriorate through dehydration.\n• None What do they really think about the return to school?", "People living nearby described hearing a \"huge explosion\" and said \"the whole place shook\"\n\nA large fire has broken out in an industrial building and people have been evacuated from the nearby area.\n\nOne resident of Hoo Marina, close to the blaze on Vicarage Lane, described hearing a \"huge explosion\" and an eyewitness said the \"place shook\".\n\nKent Fire and Rescue Service said about 200 people were removed from the area and advised others to keep windows and doors closed.\n\nCrews are to stay at the site overnight after the blaze started at 04:40 BST.\n\nThe flames could be seen from miles around, but no-one was injured.\n\nInvestigators are yet to establish how the fire started.\n\nMark Woodward, the incident commander for the fire service, said the building was used to store animal welfare equipment and some Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylinders had exploded in the blaze.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnother eyewitness told BBC Radio Kent he heard \"two massive bangs\" at about 05:00.\n\n\"We thought it was a thunderbolt because the whole place shook,\" he said.\n\n\"All I could see in the background was a red ball of fire and we were all told to evacuate.\"\n\nResidents in the area were advised to keep windows and doors closed\n\nMr Woodward said the blaze had been \"well contained\" and the fire service was \"considering how best to extinguish it\".\n\nAt its height, 10 fire engines were tackling the flames, and a 200 metre cordon was in place.\n\nUK Power Networks confirmed it sent engineers to the area at 10:00 after receiving reports of an interruption to power supplies to 13 properties.\n\nThe power supply to 40 customers was also cut as work continued to reconnect supplies, the company said.\n\nA spokeswoman said the fire had damaged an overhead power cable.\n\nRoads in the area were closed off by Medway Council while emergency teams dealt with the blaze.\n\nNo-one was injured in the blaze\n\nMany residents were sent to the Village Institute in Hoo, where an emergency rest centre was set up.\n\nChris Hosegood said the fire had been intense.\n\n\"As we walked up Vicarage Lane we looked back and saw the black smoke and all of a sudden the big fireballs.\n\n\"We could feel the heat half way up the lane,\" she said.\n\nAt 18:30 BST three fire engines were still at the scene, with firefighters saying they would remain for another one or two days.\n\nMost residents have been allowed to return home.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tony Blair: “People give a lot more information probably to their supermarkets than they will to the government.”\n\nFormer Prime Minister Tony Blair has said it is \"common sense to move in the direction of digital IDs\" as part of efforts to fight coronavirus.\n\nMr Blair said there should be a record kept by the government of those vaccinated against the virus.\n\nThe government recently set out plans to change laws to enable the use of digital identity across the UK.\n\nAs prime minister, Mr Blair launched a compulsory ID card scheme, but it was scrapped by the coalition government.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Newscast podcast, he said that once a coronavirus vaccine is in use \"you're going to want a record of the fact you've been vaccinated\".\n\n\"You'll want a record kept by the government of who's been vaccinated - this will be essential, again, to restoring confidence,\" he added.\n\nThe former PM argued that improvements in technology meant privacy issues \"can be dealt with\".\n\n\"You don't need a large amount of information,\" he said adding: \"People give a lot more information to their supermarkets than they do to the government.\"\n\nResponding to Mr Blair's comments, Silkie Carlo, Director of Big Brother Watch - a civil liberties campaign group - said: \"The idea of digital ID and vaccination checks could easily lead to a health apartheid that few would expect of a democratic country.\n\n\"Digital IDs would lead to sensitive records spanning medical, work, travel, and biometric data about each and every one of us being held at the fingertips of authorities and state bureaucrats.\n\n\"This dangerous plan would normalise identity checks, increase state control over law abiding citizens and create a honey pot for cybercriminals.\"\n\nMr Blair's comments come after the government announced plans to update existing laws on identity checking to allow digital identity \"to be used as widely as possible\".\n\nIt is does not propose resurrecting the ID card scheme, but is \"exploring how secure checks could be made against government data,\" according to the government announcement.\n\nDigital Infrastructure Minister Matt Warman said: \"Digital technology is helping us through the pandemic and continues to improve the way we live, work and access vital services.\n\n\"We want to make it easier for people to prove their identity securely online so transactions can become even quicker - it has the potential to add billions to our economy.\"\n\nMr Blair was a keen advocate of ID cards for all UK citizens, as a way of combating terrorism after 9/11, but it was later billed as an \"entitlement card\" to combat benefit fraud and illegal workers.\n\nThe former PM has argued since leaving office that ID cards are the only way to combat illegal immigration.\n\nThe ID card scheme began its rollout in November 2009, under Gordon Brown's premiership, but was scrapped in 2010 by the Conservative/Lib Dem coalition government which saw it as an infringement of civil liberties.\n\nDuring his interview with Newscast, Mr Blair also argued that coronavirus quarantine policies were \"killing\" international travel.\n\nHe said he didn't think the 14 day quarantine period for those returning from certain countries abroad was \"necessary\".\n\n\"The question is not how you eliminate the risk, it is how you contain it,\" he added.\n\nMr Blair also said it was a \"mystery\" to him why there hadn't been a more coordinated international effort to tackle the virus. \"I honestly don't understand the reason for that not happening,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking of poorer countries in Africa, he said: \"They can't do lockdown, it's just not possible, but as a result of the global crisis they're facing real food security problems, real supply problems.\"\n\nOn vaccines, he said he hoped we \"do not end up in a situation where wealthy countries get the vaccines and poor countries are scrabbling for them. This wouldn't just be morally wrong, it would be totally against our own interests\".", "Pret a Manger is to offer customers up to five coffees a day if they sign up to a monthly subscription service.\n\nThe chain is hoping that the price tag of £20 is low enough to win back some of the business lost in the pandemic.\n\nBut city centres, saturated with coffee shops, remain relatively deserted as many office workers continue to work from home.\n\nPret has already announced it is closing 30 outlets and laying off a third of its staff.\n\nPret boss Pano Christou told the BBC's Today programme: \"There's no doubt that workers will come into the office less often than beforehand. Pret needs to adapt itself to the changes of customer patterns and that's where we've been very focused.\"\n\nAlthough many of the sandwich chain's outlets are in central London, Mr Christou said that 40% of its business was in London suburbs and the home counties, where customers were starting to return \"much more swiftly\".\n\nHe added that Pret had seen its delivery business grow tenfold through the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe coffee and sandwich chain is launching YourPret Barista next week as part of new digital strategy which it hopes will help revive its fortunes.\n\nBriony Raven, Pret's director of coffee and packaging, said the scheme aimed to help persuade customers to see Pret as the default choice, in the same way they do other subscription services such as Netflix.\n\n\"It's Pret's way of doing loyalty,\" she said. \"It's about giving people an easy choice, when they come back into their everyday routine.\"\n\nFor the fixed monthly fee a customer can select any \"barista prepared\" drink from a skinny soya latte to a smoothie, using their phone to access the subscription, up to five times a day, seven days a week.\n\nTo prevent misuse by anyone planning to get in a round of coffees for their friends and colleagues, each drink must be collected 30 minutes apart.\n\nConsumer expert Kate Hardcastle said the £20 fee, with a month's free introductory trial, was an \"impressively low-ball offer\", illustrating how desperate retailers are to win people back and build loyalty.\n\n\"There has been a significant rise in subscription models over lockdown, everything from socks to gin, so people are into the idea,\" she said.\n\n\"But it's not going to be easy to translate to the coffee shop. What was once the daily latte is now interrupted. It may be that trips to the office are only once or twice a week rather than daily. Consumers are also well aware there could be regional lockdowns, which may mean they don't want to commit big amounts upfront.\"\n\nThe scheme appears to be designed around the \"new normal\", at a price that is still attractive even if you're only going to the office twice a week, said Natalie Berg an analyst with NBK retail.\n\n\"Pret is betting you'll buy a sandwich with that coffee and it becomes habitual,\" she said.\n\n\"Once you become a member of any subscription you want to get value so you use it more, spend more. So if you are a member, it's unlikely you'll go into Starbucks.\"\n\nThe scheme is \"revolutionary\", Ms Berg added, and shows the firm has recognised it needs to be creative in the current circumstances.\n\nAs well as tempting people back in-store, it paves the way for Pret to offer a range of other services via the new digital platform, allowing it to engage with customers more personally and tailor services according to their spending habits.\n\nPret said it had a number of other innovations in the pipeline, including extending its evening meal offer and deliveries. It has also started selling Pret-branded coffee on Amazon.\n\nDo you plan on taking advantage of Pret's monthly subscription service for coffee? Get in touch: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "A County Fermanagh man has been fined £1,000 for breaching Covid-19 travel rules - the first person in NI to be sanctioned in this way.\n\nIt is understood he went out socialising in Enniskillen on Sunday after returning from holiday in Spain, before later testing positive.\n\nPolice confirmed the fine was issued on Tuesday.\n\nIt comes as it emerged 23 prohibition notices have been issued to bars since they were allowed to reopen on 3 July.\n\nThe notices are issued if a premises breaks coronavirus regulations, and mean the business must rectify the breaches identified by police.\n\nIt does not necessarily mean a premises has to close.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Alan Todd said the notices were served at premises across all counties in Northern Ireland, and had been issued between 8 July and 2 September.\n\nBars with outside areas are able to serve alcohol on a table-service basis, while inside alcohol has to be served along with a meal, also on a table-service basis.\n\nAt the end of August Health Minister Robin Swann said there had been a \"blatant disregard\" for the regulations by some in the hospitality sector.\n\nThe reopening date for indoor pubs which only serve alcohol, theatres and private members' clubs has been pushed back due to the rise in cases of the virus.\n\nAnyone travelling to Northern Ireland from countries not on the so-called green list of exemptions is required to self-isolate for two weeks on arrival.\n\nIt is understood the man who was fined had recently returned from the Balearic Islands, as first reported by the Belfast Telegraph.\n\nACC Alan Todd said the management of Covid-19 travel rules was a matter for UK Border Force, and police acted on its recommendation about potential breaches.\n\nHe said police would also \"act on any significant concerns raised by members of the public\".\n\n\"As always, our approach remains to engage, explain and encourage and, only where necessary, enforce,\" he said.\n\n\"Everyone needs to continue to follow the government's guidance to help suppress the transmission of the virus and support our NHS.\"\n\nHe added it was \"encouraging to see\" that there had been a high level of compliance with the mandatory quarantine on travellers to Northern Ireland.\n• None Could police fine me for exercising?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emily Hunt said she \"had a lightbulb moment\" that she was drugged\n\nA woman seeking what is thought to be the UK's first crowdfunded private rape prosecution says she hopes to lead the way for those \"let down\" by the courts.\n\nEmily Hunt from London, claims she was drugged and raped in 2015.\n\nPolice investigated, but the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) felt there was insufficient evidence to proceed with a case.\n\nMs Hunt has hired a barrister who believes there are grounds for a criminal prosecution.\n\nMs Hunt - who has waived her right to anonymity - told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on the day of the alleged rape she woke up \"completely naked\" at 22:00 in a hotel room next to a man she had \"never seen\".\n\nHer last memory of that day was between 16:00 and 17:00, she said, when she had been having a meal with her father.\n\nWhen she \"finally came to\", she added, she had a \"light-bulb moment\" that she had been drugged.\n\n\"I'd never felt like that before. I'd lost five hours of my life and wound up somewhere where I didn't know how I got there.\"\n\nShe said she hid in the bathroom and phoned a friend, who rang the police.\n\nWith no memory of the encounter Ms Hunt was not aware they had had sex until police informed her they had found used condoms in the hotel room.\n\nThe man told police they had had sex but insisted it was consensual.\n\nMs Hunt believes it was rape as she would not have been in a state to consent.\n\nPolice told her the man had also \"filmed her naked and unconscious on the bed\" and carried out a sex act over her body.\n\nThe police referred her case to the CPS, who upon reviewing CCTV footage and toxicology tests decided there was not enough evidence to proceed.\n\nCCTV footage of Ms Hunt and the man showed them kissing and holding hands as they walked to the hotel after leaving a bar.\n\nToxicology tests, taken almost nine hours after her last memory, showed Ms Hunt was at least two times over the drink drive limit, but came back negative for any signs of the date rape drug GHB.\n\nMs Hunt believes the toxicology report was \"flawed\", and that CCTV footage - which she said showed her unable to stand without support - demonstrated how she could not have been in a position to give consent.\n\nShe estimated the cost of a potential private rape prosecution to be £50,000 - a sum she is hoping to crowdfund.\n\n\"It is an amazing thing that we as individuals can bring a criminal charge in a case where the system has let us down, that can result in a rapist going to jail,\" she said.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it \"carried out a thorough investigation following [Ms Hunt's] allegations\" and \"will always provide support to anyone who reports a serious sexual offence\".\n\nMs Hunt's complaints over its investigation were \"independently reviewed by the IPCC and not upheld\", it continued.\n\nThe CPS said \"having looked carefully at all the available evidence, a specialist prosecutor decided there was insufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction in this case\".\n\nA further review - conducted at the request of Ms Hunt - \"upheld the original decision\", it added.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.", "Pat Finucane, a 39-year-old Belfast solicitor, was shot dead in front of his wife and children\n\nThe UK government has been asked how it intends to comply with a Supreme Court ruling on the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane.\n\nThe Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has demanded \"concrete information\" by 22 October.\n\nMr Finucane was shot by loyalist paramilitaries in front of his young family at their home in February 1989.\n\nIn 2019, the Supreme Court ruled there had not been a human rights-compliant inquiry into his death.\n\nBut the justices ruled out a public inquiry of the type demanded by the family and said it was for the state to decide \"what form of investigation, if indeed any is now feasible, is required\".\n\nA UK government spokesperson says it is committed to \"taking forward these important issues as soon as possible\".\n\nThe Committee of Ministers is a decision-making body made up of the ministers for foreign affairs of the 47 member states of the Council of Europe.\n\nThe committee issued an eight-point document, which included a call for the authorities take a decision \"without delay\" on how to proceed.\n\nA general measure further expressed concern at the \"lack of detail\" in the government's approach to mechanisms to deal with the past.\n\nMr Finucane's widow Geraldine welcomed the statement, saying it was \"disappointing the UK government must be compelled in this way\".\n\n\"It would appear that the Committee of Ministers has now run out of patience and, like me, is demanding clear answers,\" she added.\n\nGeraldine Finucane has been involved in a long-running legal battle over her husband's murder\n\nDublin's Minister of Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has welcomed the decision in relation to both the Pat Finucane murder and the wider issue of legacy cases.\n\nThe Irish government said it was a \"matter of significant and increasing concern\" that the legislation to implement the Stormont House Agreement framework to deal with Troubles-related cases has not been progressed.\n\n\"Victims and survivors have had to wait for far too long for a suitable and effective system in Northern Ireland to deal with the legacy of the Troubles,\" the government said.\n\nMr Finucane was a high-profile solicitor and convicted members of the IRA were among his clients.\n\nIn February 2019, the Supreme Court judges said none of the inquiries into Mr Finucane's death, including the review carried out by Sir Desmond de Silva, had the capability \"of establishing all the salient facts\" about his killing or the liability of those who were responsible for his death.\n\nIn his 2012 review, Sir Desmond de Silva QC said the state had facilitated Mr Finucane's killing and made relentless efforts to stop the killers being caught.\n\nHowever, his report concluded there had been \"no overarching state conspiracy\".\n\nUpdate 9 October 2020: This article was amended to clarify the ruling of the Supreme Court with regard to a new investigation into the murder of Mr Finucane.", "Feargal Sharkey fronted Northern Irish punk band The Undertones, and in the 1980s had a huge hit as a solo artist with A Good Heart\n\nSinger Feargal Sharkey has criticised a water company for \"dumping\" thousands of hours' worth of sewage in a river.\n\nThe former Undertones front man, a \"life-long fly fisherman\", said the 12,734 hours of dumping in the River Kennet last year was \"utterly shocking\" and potentially illegal.\n\nThames Water acknowledged the duration of sewage discharge but said it was due to storms and so was \"heavily diluted\".\n\nIt added discharges into rivers stopped flooding in homes and streets.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSharkey, who fronted punk band The Undertones and went on to have a successful solo career in the 1980s, said: \"The UK Government was taken to court in 2012 regarding dumping sewage and allowing water companies to dump sewage into rivers.\n\n\"The court ruled that that should not be allowed to happen, and in fact ruled that it should only possibly ever happen in what the court referred to as 'exceptional circumstances'.\n\n\"Using Thames Water's own monitoring data, we now know that last year they spent 12,734 hours dumping sewage into the River Kennet.\n\n\"Well can someone please explain to me what the exceptional circumstances were?\"\n\nThe River Kennet is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and is one of England's most important chalk streams\n\nOn Twitter, Sharkey described the 46-mile river - a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) which runs from Malborough, Wiltshire, to Woolhampton, Berkshire - as \"one of the rarest habitats on earth\".\n\nA Thames Water spokesman said: \"We work hard to minimise storm discharges, while also looking at how we can improve the system for the future, including reducing groundwater infiltration and increasing capacity.\n\n\"We've also invested heavily in monitoring equipment to understand how frequently spills occur and help us plan improvements.\"\n\nHe added sewage discharges were not \"the only sources of pollutants\" but that \"animal faeces from livestock and wildlife, along with run-off from farms and roads, also contribute to the hazards\".\n\nSharkey said: \"In Thames Water you're talking about a company that has paid billions of pounds in dividends to shareholders. Perhaps they should have spent some of that money in maintaining and upgrading their sewage networks.\"\n\nA Thames Water spokesman said: \"Our shareholders are in it for the long term and have not taken a dividend for three years to prioritise investment in improving service for customers, and to protect the environment.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Italy's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, aged 83, is in hospital with early-stage double pneumonia after testing positive for coronavirus, Italian media report.\n\nHe spent the night in hospital in Milan for checks, having tested positive on Wednesday.\n\nEarlier his right-wing Forza Italia party said his condition was not a cause for concern, and \"he is fine\".\n\nThe media tycoon's partner and two of his children also tested positive.\n\nBerlusconi has been in self-isolation with his 30-year-old partner, the Forza Italia MP Marta Fascina, at his villa in Arcore near Milan, after holidaying in Sardinia.\n\nThe infection rate in Sardinia - famous for its Emerald Coast beaches - is higher than in much of Italy.\n\n\"A small precautionary hospitalisation was needed to monitor the progress of Covid-19 but he is fine,\" said Forza Italia senator Licia Ronzulli.\n\nLast month Berlusconi was at Villa Certosa, his luxury villa in Sardinia\n\nBerlusconi was transferred to an isolation ward at San Raffaele Hospital on Thursday night. Double pneumonia - inflammation of both lungs - is a common complication with Covid patients. The disease is generally more severe among the elderly and those with other medical conditions.\n\nBerlusconi, a billionaire who used to own AC Milan football team, remains popular in Italy and he has had many messages of support since being diagnosed.\n\nIn 2014 he was ordered to do a year of community service after being convicted of tax fraud. His business deals have long been under scrutiny, as have his romantic liaisons, including reports of raunchy \"bunga bunga\" parties.\n\nBerlusconi addressed party activists in Genoa by phone on Thursday, saying \"I'm continuing to work as best I can on the current election campaign\". Separately, he said he did not know how he had caught the virus.\n\nItaly will hold regional elections on 21-22 September, which had to be postponed at the height of the pandemic in Italy in spring.\n\nItaly has introduced swab tests for people arriving on the mainland from Sardinia\n\nLast month Berlusconi hosted businessman Flavio Briatore at his luxury Sardinia residence, Villa Certosa.\n\nMr Briatore, who tested positive for coronavirus in late August, owns a nightclub on the island called Billionaire and used to run the Benetton Formula One racing team.\n\nBerlusconi served as Italian prime minister four times and last year was elected to the European Parliament.\n\nAfter his conviction for tax fraud he was ejected from the Italian Senate and banned from public office. But later his ban was lifted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Police colleagues and members of the public have left flowers and paid tribute to an officer who was killed in the early hours of Friday. He was shot at Croydon Custody Centre and died in hospital.\n\nThe officer has not been officially named.\n\nA 23-year-old man is in a critical condition in hospital. It is thought he turned the gun on himself after shooting the officer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Shops were closed for about three months, before reopening in June\n\nUK shoppers may have lost a total of nearly £100m in unused vouchers during the coronavirus lockdown, the consumer group Which? has estimated.\n\nA survey of 2,000 adults suggested a quarter of people possessed a voucher that expired during lockdown.\n\nMany retailers contacted customers and offered to extend them - but a third of those with an expiring voucher did not get an extension and lost the money.\n\nWhich? urged people who were unable to use their vouchers to contact the shop.\n\nIt also warned of the risks of buying new vouchers because some well-known retailers had recently collapsed - and added that further coronavirus restrictions could make it difficult to spend them.\n\nNon-essential shops and businesses closed in March for several months, as part of the government's lockdown restrictions to deal with the pandemic.\n\nMany shops automatically extended the time that customers could spend their vouchers - as well as extending their return periods.\n\nShops eventually reopened throughout June (in Northern Ireland first, followed by England, Wales and then Scotland) with some long queues outside stores.\n\nIn its survey carried out in August, Which? found that nearly half of people with an expiring voucher had it automatically extended.\n\nOne in seven - or 15% - of people with a voucher had to to request an extension, with one customer telling Which? that a company told them \"hard luck, basically\".\n\nBut 36% - which could equate to an estimated 3.1 million people, according to Which? - did not receive an extension on their shopping vouchers.\n\nWhich? says the unspent vouchers were worth £31.70 on average, meaning around £98m was likely to have been lost across the whole of the UK.\n\nThe consumer group advised anyone who has a voucher that expired during lockdown to contact the retailer.\n\n\"If you have a voucher you were unable to use it is worth contacting the company,\" said consumer rights expert Adam French.\n\n\"Anyone considering buying a voucher should be aware of the risks, as some well-known retailers have collapsed in recent months and further coronavirus restrictions could make it difficult to spend vouchers and gift cards.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shops left empty by the crisis have been given a new lease of life", "Students should not be made \"scapegoats\" for a wave of Covid outbreaks, says a lecturers' leader.\n\nJo Grady of the UCU university staff union said it was the \"completely predictable\" outcome of encouraging large numbers of students to return.\n\nWith universities in England starting term, she called for students to be able to study online from home.\n\nThe Department for Education says it is supporting universities to have a mix of online and face-to-face teaching.\n\nIn a further Covid outbreak, 1,700 students in two accommodation blocks at Manchester Metropolitan University have been told to stay in isolation for 14 days, after about 100 students tested positive.\n\nThe lecturers' union questioned the point of \"encouraging students to come to university to self-isolate for a fortnight\".\n\nDr Grady said tough restrictions on students in Scotland and increasing warnings for students in England did not mean outbreaks were a consequence of \"reckless behaviour\" by students.\n\nInstead she said outbreaks were the result of universities pushing for \"massive numbers\" of students to come back to campuses for the \"university experience\" and to sign up for accommodation.\n\n\"As far as I'm concerned, they were mis-sold,\" Dr Grady told the BBC.\n\nShe said it was \"irresponsible\" of universities to have been \"luring students back on the basis that they can have a social life at university and that they can have face-to-face teaching\".\n\nRather than bringing back more students in England, she said more teaching should be put online and students should be able to study from home.\n\n\"I think there has to be an alternative to keeping students locked in absurdly expensive accommodation, rather than having them at home,\" said Dr Grady.\n\nShe called for students to be released from their housing contracts and for a way for them to be able to make a safe way home.\n\nDr Grady warned of an increasingly chaotic situation in universities and criticised the response of not letting students return home from their university accommodation.\n\nShe said this was based on a \"boarding school\" perception of university life, adding that it might be important for some students to be able to go home, for instance if they were homesick or living with people who they did not like or felt threatened by.\n\nDr Grady wants universities to reduce face-to-face teaching, but said some universities were only doing it \"surreptitiously\", because of fears \"their nearest competitor isn't doing it\".\n\nMost universities were expecting to deliver lectures online, but it is also thought some seminars could be \"live and interactive\" but delivered online.\n\nLiverpool Hope and Liverpool John Moores are among those that have publicly moved more teaching online.\n\nUniversities UK says it us up to each individual university to decide how they will bring back students and whether they will switch to online lessons.\n\nThe Department for Education said it was working with universities and Public Health England on any measures needed to respond to Covid outbreaks.\n\n\"Protecting students' education and wellbeing is vital, so we are supporting universities to continue delivering a blend of online and face-to-face learning where possible in a Covid-secure way,\" said a department spokeswoman.\n\n\"As with other essential services, education staff should continue to go into work where necessary.\"", "Dame Carolyn will step down as CBI boss in November\n\nA post-Brexit trade deal \"can and must be made\", the organisation representing British businesses has said ahead of further UK-EU trade talks on Monday.\n\nDame Carolyn Fairbairn, the boss of the Confederation of British Industry, said it was the time for \"the spirit of compromise to shine through\".\n\nThe Brexit transition period, in which the UK has kept to EU trading rules, ends on 31 December.\n\nThe UK and EU are yet to agree a deal that will govern their future trade.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said a trade agreement with the EU must be done by 15 October if it is going to be ready for the start of 2021.\n\nBut despite this, talks have run into problems. There are still key points of disagreement - including, for example, on fishing.\n\nThe next official round of talks - the ninth since March - begins on 28 September.\n\nThe CBI carried out a survey of 648 companies which found only 4% said they would prefer no deal to be agreed on trade.\n\nAnd half of firms said the impact of dealing with the coronavirus had negatively affected their preparations for next year, when the transition period ends.\n\n\"Next week Brexit talks enter the 11th hour,\" said Dame Carolyn. \"Now must be the time for political leadership and the spirit of compromise to shine through on both sides. A deal can and must be made.\n\n\"Businesses face a hat-trick of unprecedented challenges - rebuilding from the first wave of Covid-19, dealing with the resurgence of the virus and preparing for significant changes to the UK's trading relationship with the EU.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why is it so hard to reach a Brexit deal?\n\nShe added: \"A good deal will provide the strongest possible foundation as countries build back from the pandemic.\n\n\"It would keep UK firms competitive by minimising red tape and extra costs, freeing much-needed time and resource to overcome the difficult times ahead.\"\n\nAccording to BBC Europe editor Katya Adler, one EU diplomat said the two sides were \"90% there\" on agreeing technical issues.\n\nThe diplomat said the \"remaining 10% is political\" and \"if that can't be solved, then the 90% is irrelevant\".\n\nAny trade agreement will aim to eliminate tariffs and reduce other trade barriers. It will also aim to cover both goods and services.\n\nIf negotiators fail to reach a deal, the UK faces the prospect of trading with the EU under the basic rules set by the World Trade Organization (WTO).\n\nIf the UK has to trade under WTO rules, tariffs will be applied to most goods which UK businesses send to the EU.\n\nThis would make UK goods more expensive and harder to sell in Europe. The UK could also do this to EU goods, if it chooses to.", "An investigation has been launched and police are working with the Health and Safety Executive\n\nA six-year-old girl has died in hospital after she was struck by a falling tree at school.\n\nEmergency crews were called to Gosforth Park First School in Newcastle, at about 13:15 BST on Friday.\n\nNorthumbria Police said she died earlier on Saturday and her family was being supported \"at this incredibly difficult time\".\n\nAn investigation has been launched and police are working with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).\n\nLeanne Lamb, head teacher, said: \"Our entire school community has been shocked and devastated by the tragic news that one of our pupils passed away during the night, as a result of injuries suffered from a falling tree in the school grounds.\n\n\"First and foremost, our thoughts and prayers are with the child's family and friends as they come to terms with this tragic loss.\n\n\"As a school and community, we will take the time to mourn and are putting in place extra support for the staff and pupils, who are devastated by this incident.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK is to give £500m to a new global vaccine-sharing scheme designed to ensure treatments for Covid-19 are distributed fairly.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson made the announcement in a speech to the United Nations general assembly.\n\nHe called on world leaders to overcome their differences as he set out plans to prevent future global pandemics.\n\nHe also promised extra funding for the World Health Organization.\n\nMr Johnson told his foreign counterparts at the UN that the \"notion of the international community looks tattered\" after the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nHe called for states to \"reach across borders and repair these ugly rifts\", as he announced a plan, developed with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and The Wellcome Trust, to help stop future pandemics.\n\nThe proposals include developing a global network of \"zoonotic hubs\" to identify dangerous pathogens before they jump from animals to humans, as well as improving manufacturing capacity for treatments and vaccines.\n\nIn a pre-recorded speech on Saturday afternoon, the prime minister said: \"After nine months of fighting Covid, the very notion of the international community looks tattered.\n\n\"We know that we cannot continue in this way. Unless we unite and turn our fire against our common foe, we know that everyone will lose.\n\n\"Now is the time, therefore, here at what I devoutly hope will be the first and last ever Zoom UNGA, for humanity to reach across borders and repair these ugly rifts.\n\n\"Here in the UK, the birthplace of Edward Jenner who pioneered the world's first vaccine, we are determined to do everything in our power to work with our friends across the UN to heal those divisions and to heal the world.\"\n\nOther measures being proposed include designing a global pandemic early warning system, improving the ability to collect and analyse samples and distribute the findings.\n\nThe plan also calls for common protocols to be agreed on sharing data.\n\nMr Johnson is also proposing states reduce trade barriers on Covid-critical products, such as soap, to help the global response.\n\nThe £500m in aid funding will go to the Covax vaccines procurement pool, which aims to help poorer countries access a coronavirus jab when one is developed.\n\nThere are about 40 different coronavirus vaccines in clinical trials - including one being developed by the University of Oxford that is in an advanced stage of testing.\n\nA successful vaccine that can protect people from Covid-19 is still widely seen as the main exit strategy from the current restrictions on people's lives.\n\nHowever, Mr Johnson said \"we must never cut corners\" or \"sacrifice safety to speed\" in the search for a vaccine.\n\n\"Because it would be an absolute tragedy if, in our eagerness, we were to boost the nut-jobs - the anti-vaxers, dangerous obsessives who campaign against the whole concept of vaccination and who would risk further millions of lives,\" he said.\n\nThe PM also promised £340m to the World Health Organization over the next four years - a 30% increase on the previous period, making the UK one of its biggest donors.\n\nRomilly Greenhill, UK director of The One Campaign, which fights extreme poverty and preventable disease, said the British government was showing \"powerful leadership\" at a moment when it \"could not be more important\".\n\n\"It will give the global fight against Covid-19 a shot in the arm, helping ensure everyone, everywhere can access a vaccine.\"", "Police flanking one group outside the camp on Saturday\n\nAbout 150 protesters and counter-protesters have demonstrated outside an Army training camp in Pembrokeshire being used to house asylum seekers.\n\nThere was a visible police presence at the site in Penally, near Tenby.\n\nOne group of protesters carried banners including one which read \"not racist, not extremist, just concerned locals\". A second group has placards saying \"migrants and refugees welcome\".\n\nIt could house up to 230 asylum seekers while their claims are processed.\n\nSome asylum seekers are already being housed at the camp.\n\nSeveral protests have been staged in the area since it was revealed the site was one of several identified by the Home Office as suitable for asylum seekers.\n\nFirst Minster Mark Drakeford said the Penally camp had become a target for \"hard-right extremist\" protesters.\n\nSome people are carrying banner reading \"migrants and refugees welcome here\"\n\nOne woman, who did not want to be named, said she \"wasn't racist\" but was concerned about the number of migrants being brought to the camp.\n\nSue Hagerty, one of the counter-protesters, said she was at the site to \"welcome\" the asylum seekers.\n\n\"The men who are coming here, the only different between them and us is luck, and I want to be here to welcome them,\" she said.\n\n\"If I was in that situation and I had to flee to another country, I would hope they would be here to welcome me.\"\n\nLast week, the Home Office said it was working to find suitable accommodation for asylum seekers, with facilities in the south-east of England under strain.", "Sir David Attenborough has attended a private viewing of his new documentary at Kensington Palace, hosted by the Duke of Cambridge.\n\nDuring his visit, the naturalist gave Prince George a fossilised giant tooth from an extinct shark.\n\nThe young prince looked captivated as he handled the tooth of a carcharocles megalodon, a shark that was once a sea predator.\n\nSir David and Prince William both campaign on environmental issues.\n\nThe event was held in the palace grounds to allow for social distancing.\n\nWilliam and the veteran broadcaster watched A Life On Our Planet, in which Sir David reflects on the defining moments of his life's work and the devastating changes he has witnessed.\n\nThe young prince was fascinated by the tooth, found by Sir David in the 1960s\n\nSir David, 94, chatted to the Duke and Duchess and their three children, Princes George and Louis, and Princess Charlotte, after the screening.\n\nHe was interviewed by Prince William at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in 2019, where he warned humanity needed to act fast to prevent parts of the natural world being annihilated.\n\nThe couple and Sir David have worked together on the environment - including on the Earthshot Prize, a cash reward for solutions to environmental problems.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. January 2019: Prince William and Sir David discuss he environment in Davos\n\nThe giant shark tooth given to Prince George was found by Sir David during a family holiday to Malta in the late 1960s.\n\nIt was embedded in the island nation's soft yellow limestone, and is about 23 million years old.\n\nCarcharocles megalodon is believed to have grown up to 15 metres in length, twice the length of the great white shark.\n\nDavid Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet is released in cinemas on Monday and on Netflix on October 4.", "NHS staff hand out test kits to students at Glasgow University, where there has been a Covid-19 outbreak\n\nStudents have spoken of their worry and confusion at being locked down in their university halls, in a situation described by unions as \"shambolic\".\n\nUp to 1,700 students at Manchester Metropolitan University and hundreds at other institutions, including in Edinburgh and Glasgow, are self-isolating following Covid-19 outbreaks.\n\nIn Manchester, students are being prevented from leaving by security.\n\nUniversities UK said the wellbeing of students was \"the first priority\".\n\nRobert Halfon, the conservative chairman of the Education Select Committee, said 3,000 students were in lockdown at universities from Dundee to Exeter.\n\nHe called for the government and its scientific advisers to reassure students and families by setting out the policy for England - and warned having students in lockdown at Christmas would cause \"huge anguish\".\n\nMr Halfon said universities should also consider discounts to students who were not being taught face-to-face.\n\nManchester Met said it had introduced a 14-day self-isolation period at its accommodation at Birley and Cambridge Halls after 127 students tested positive for the virus.\n\nSome students there said they were getting ready to go out on Friday night when they looked outside to see security guards and police, who told them they could not leave.\n\nFirst-year Joe Byrne said: \"We have had no warning, support or advice from the university about how we get food etc, and instead have been left completely in the dark and practically locked up against our will.\"\n\nMegan Tingey said she was not contacted by the university about the lockdown before police turned up outside her Birley Vine accommodation.\n\n\"It was quite scary and confusing,\" she said. \"No one's really told us much and then the police turn up as well with security outside.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnother student, Ellie Jackson, told BBC News she had read about the halls lockdown in the local newspaper before receiving an email about it - and stressed the need for \"more guidance\" from the university.\n\nFor Ellie, it is the second period of self-isolation she and her five housemates have had to undertake.\n\n\"My course is all online - I haven't even been into university,\" she said. \"I could have done this at home. I don't think it's worth the money at the moment.\"\n\nIn a statement, Manchester Met said it had communicated with students \"as soon as we could but it was not possible to give significant advanced notice due to the requirement to implement the isolation almost immediately\".\n\n\"The communications we sent included details about how to access food and other provisions and we have been working with other partners, including local supermarkets, throughout the day to provide additional support,\" the statement said.\n\n\"Our security teams will increase patrols to support the lockdown and we will take disciplinary action against any students found to have breached requirements.\"\n\nStudents in some halls are confined to their flats at Manchester Metropolitan University\n\nMeanwhile, students across all of Scotland have been told not to go to pubs, parties or restaurants over the weekend and Universities Scotland has said students who socialise with anyone outside of their household risk losing their place at university.\n\nHundreds of students are isolating at Glasgow University because of two coronavirus clusters.\n\nThe university said it would offer a four-week rent rebate to all students in university residences in recognition of the \"difficult circumstances\" under which they were living.\n\nIt said those students would also be given £50 each to spend on food and it would invite local mobile food outlets to come to residences.\n\nA mobile testing unit has been set up at Murano Street Student Village in Glasgow\n\nReese Chamberlain, an international student at the University of Edinburgh, said his entire block at Holland House was \"locked down\" after a student tested positive.\n\n\"The situation is dire,\" he said. \"I already self-isolated when I arrived here and even then it was so difficult getting basic supplies.\"\n\nHe said there had been an \"exodus of students\" during the night on Friday, with more than 50 leaving the building.\n\nA spokesperson for the university said it was \"not asking for whole halls of student accommodation to self-isolate\" but there were currently \"a small number of positive cases\" and the university was providing care and support to those self-isolating.\n\nA sign reading \"students not criminals\" was displayed at Murano Street Student Village in Glasgow\n\nUniversity and College Union general secretary Jo Grady described the lockdown at Manchester Met as \"the latest catastrophe in a week where wholly predictable - and predicted - Covid outbreaks have caused havoc\".\n\nThere was \"no point encouraging students to come to university to self-isolate for a fortnight\", she added.\n\nAnd the National Union of Students (NUS) said students should be able to return to their families because being \"trapped\" in university accommodation would only add to their anxiety at an already difficult time.\n\nIt called for universities to support students with food deliveries and provide access to mental health services.\n\n\"We must remember this is happening because the government and universities told students to return to campus and this shambolic situation now demands flexibility,\" the union said.\n\nStudents \"must be able to leave rental contracts, access online learning or defer, and do what it takes to prioritise their safety\", the statement added.\n\nThe Department for Education said the government was working closely with universities in England to ensure they were prepared for the return of students.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Students should follow the latest health advice, just like the wider public, which means they should stay at university in the event that they have symptoms; have to isolate; there are additional restrictions imposed locally; or there is an outbreak on campus or in their accommodation.\"\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said students were \"not to blame\" for coronavirus outbreaks but backed universities taking disciplinary action as a \"last resort\" against those who broke the rules.\n\nUniversities UK, which represents 139 institutions, said the health and wellbeing of students, staff and local communities was the first priority for universities, which would continue to follow government guidance.\n\nHow are the rules affecting you? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced the UK will give £500m to a new global vaccine-sharing scheme.\n\nThe Covax vaccines procurement pool, aims to help poorer countries access a coronavirus jab when one is developed.\n\nAddressing the United Nations General Assembly via a pre-recorded video, the prime minister said 'the health of every country depends on the whole world having access to a safe and effective vaccine'.", "The Black Cuillin is a range of high mountains, ridges and rocky pinnacles\n\nMore than 130 years ago two men began a years' long adventure to discover, climb and map Skye's famous Black Cuillin.\n\nThe range of mountains forms one of the world's best-known landscapes.\n\nIt also poses some of the toughest climbing challenges in Britain with its narrow ridges, pinnacles and rock buttresses - huge blocks of rock that jut out from the mountains.\n\nThe Cuillin has 11 Munros - mountains of more than 3,000ft, (914m). A 12th Munro, Blà Bheinn, is often considered as an outlier to the main range.\n\nIn the late 19th Century, Prof Norman Collie, a scientist specialising in chemistry who was born in Alderley Edge near Manchester, teamed up with Skye-born mountain guide John Mackenzie to explore the Cuillin.\n\nSome of the mountains had been climbed before, but the range of coarse dark rock was largely unknown territory.\n\nMountaineers of the time were often drawn to climbing in the Alps. Perhaps they were put off tackling the Cuillin because of the long scrambles over loose rocks to reach the start of an ascent.\n\nCollie was first inspired to tackle the Cuillin during a fishing trip to Skye with his brother in 1886.\n\nJohn Mackenzie had formed his extensive knowledge of the Cuillin from an early age\n\nThe brothers visited the Sligachan Hotel and they sat at a window with a view of the distinctive pyramid-shaped 964m (3,163ft) Munro, Sgurr nan Gillean. Collie was impressed by the sight of two figures climbing on the mountain.\n\nThe Collies made two unsuccessful attempts to climb the mountain before seeking out the help of a local guide and crofter, Mackenzie.\n\nBorn in the small crofting township of Sconser, he had first climbed Sgurr nan Gillean when he was just 10 years old.\n\nA statue dedicated to Collie and Mackenzie has been planned for 17 years\n\nA statue dedicated to the mountaineers has been unveiled in Glen Sligachan.\n\nThe glen splits the Black Cuillin from the smaller hills of the Red Cuillin.\n\nFriday's unveiling followed 17 years of planning and fundraising led by a group of volunteers.\n\nIndividuals, local businesses and relatives of both Collie and Mackenzie contributed towards the £120,000 cost.\n\nIt was made by local artist Stephen Tinney and cast in bronze in a foundry in Ireland.\n\nThe Collie and Mackenzie Heritage Group said: \"The sculpture represents mountaineering both past and present as the Cuillin continues to draw climbers from around the world.\n\n\"Equally, we have the story of the crofter and the chemist who through mountaineering created strong respect for each other despite the social divides of the period.\"\n\nWhen he was 14, Mackenzie was involved in the first ascent of the Cuillin's 973m (3,192ft) peak Sgurr a' Ghreadaidh and four years later accompanied another climber for the first ascent of 944m (3,097ft) Sgurr Dubh Mor.\n\nArmed with good advice from Mackenzie, Collie and his brother successfully summitted Sgurr nan Gillean on their third attempt.\n\nCollie would go on to climb mountains all over the world, including in the Alps, Himalayas and Rockies, but he kept being drawn back to the Cuillin.\n\nCollie and Mackenzie forged a friendship while exploring the range.\n\nCollie, left, and Mackenzie were the first men to climb many of the Cuillin's mountains and formibable rocky features\n\nCollie sought to accurately measure and map the mountain range and with Mackenzie struck new routes up Sgurr nan Gillean and they made first ascents of other mountains.\n\nSgurr Mhic Choinnich, one of the most challenging Munros to climb in the Cuillin, was named after Mackenzie.\n\nThe men also discovered a large block of rock which Mackenzie named the Cioch, while Collie named the rockface it sits on, Sron na Ciche.\n\nYears later, the Cioch was used for a sword fight scene featuring Sean Connery in the cult sci-fi film Highlander.\n\nA statue to the men being installed in Glen Sligachan\n\nCollie and Mackenzie are regarded to be among the greatest pioneering mountaineers of their time, venturing into tough, uncharted territory in tweed clothing, hobnail boots and rope and with little to no chance of being rescued if they got into difficulty.\n\nMackenzie was a mountain guide for 50 years. He died in 1933.\n\nCollie spent the last years of his life living on Skye and was a permanent resident of the Sligachan Hotel.\n\nHe often sat at the window where he first pondered an ascent of Sgurr nan Gillean. The room today is known as the Collie Lounge.\n\nSgurr nan Gillean was the last mountain Collie climbed and when he died in 1942 he was buried in a grave next to Mackenzie's at Struan within sight of the Cuillin.", "Kat Kingsley said she would be wary of giving out her personal details again\n\nA bus worker who sent \"creepy\" messages to a woman after getting her contact details from a test-and-trace form has been fired from the company.\n\nKat Kingsley, 25, from Hayle in Cornwall, went on the Original Tour bus in Windsor on 10 September.\n\nThree days later she received two messages from a member of staff saying he wanted to see her.\n\nA spokesman for the company said the employee had since been dismissed as a result of their investigation.\n\nThe company spokesman added the firm was also introducing a new system for test-and-trace, which meant personal data would be stored online and would not be accessible to staff.\n\nAs she got on the bus, Ms Kingsley said she gave her name and phone number to a staff member, who wrote them on a piece of paper as part of the NHS Test and Trace system.\n\nMs Kingsley said he later sent her text messages saying she had been \"living in his head\" and he admitted there was a risk to using \"data that's not supposed to be for me\".\n\nMs Kingsley described the messages as \"creepy\" and said she hoped his being fired would prevent others doing the same.\n\n\"He didn't resign, he went through the disciplinary process and I think he expected to keep his job but I got a call yesterday to say he had been fired,\" she said.\n\n\"I think it should teach him a lesson and hopefully deter anyone else who was considering breaching data [protection].\"\n\nThe messages were sent using the phone number Ms Kingsley had provided for the test-and-trace form\n\nThe Original Tour spokesman said the company's managing director would be speaking to Ms Kingsley \"to express to her our regret and apologies for the incident\".\n\nTest-and-trace launched in May in a bid to stop the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThe system is designed to be used to enable venues and services to contact people, using personal details given, if they may have come into contact with someone with Covid-19 while using their services.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A defendant in Ohio made a daring escape from the courtroom while being sentenced for a drugs offence.\n\nNickolaus Garrison broke free of the deputies holding him and made a run for it - causing one officer to fly down the stairs head first.\n\nAfter three days at large, Garrison is now back in custody.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAbout 1,700 university students have been told to self-isolate after 127 tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nStudents at two Manchester Metropolitan University accommodation blocks have been told to stay in their rooms for 14 days, even if they have no symptoms.\n\nStudents said \"police and security were outside\" and self-isolation had \"left morale really low\".\n\nA university spokesman said disciplinary action will be taken against any breaches.\n\nThe restrictions affect students in accommodation blocks at Birley campus and Cambridge Halls after \"127 students have tested positive with a number of others symptomatic or self-isolating\", Manchester City Council said.\n\nStudents across the city have been urged to attend virtual freshers' events and avoid big parties.\n\nBut some said they had no warning of a lockdown and are now trapped in halls of residence.\n\nStudents at two accommodation blocks are self-isolating for a fortnight\n\nMegan Tingy, who studies at Manchester Metropolitan, said on Friday \"We were getting ready to go out and looked out to security and police outside the halls. They say we can't leave.\n\n\"We haven't received any emails from university about this and they seem to be holding us in against our will.\"\n\nStudent Trisha Kakooza, who is from London, said: \"We had eight hours to go get food to last us for two weeks.\n\n\"We have to get any other food delivered, which is expensive.\n\n\"I have a job and it helps me make extra money since student finance isn't enough but now I can't go out to work.\n\n\"We can study remotely but I won't get paid by the agency I work for.\"\n\nChip Wilson, 19, said: \"We have been told we are not allowed to leave and, if we do, we cannot come back, so now we are all stuck inside.\n\n\"On top of all this, many of us here have Covid symptoms but we cannot get tests. We can only get drive-through tests and none of us have cars, and even if we did we can't leave now.\"\n\nMost parts of Greater Manchester have been subject to stricter restrictions since July after a spike in coronavirus cases.\n\nThe rate has also doubled in the city of Manchester to 1,026 positive tests in the week up to 22 September, compared to 515 cases in the previous week.\n\nThe lockdown comes as students in Scotland were told not to go to pubs, parties or restaurants this weekend in to stem the spread of the virus.\n\nNHS staff hand out test kits to Glasgow University students, who are also subject to restrictions\n\nJoe Barnes, who recently started at Manchester Metropolitan University, told BBC Breakfast that self-isolation had \"left the morale of my flat really low\".\n\nHe said lessons were being conducted online \"so theoretically I could go and study from home but that defeats the point - I've not just come for my studies but to meet new people and enjoy the experience.\"\n\nHe added: \"I've heard horror stories of massive parties in some of the halls around here… it is just frustrating that no one else could have foreseen that.\"\n\nThe National Union of Students said affected students should be able \"to return to their families if they wish, as being trapped in university accommodation will only add anxiety at an already difficult time\".\n\n\"All students affected must be supported by their universities with food deliveries, shopping and access to mental health services if needed,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nJo Grady, general secretary of the University and College Union, said the Manchester incident was \"the latest catastrophe in a week where wholly predictable - and predicted - Covid outbreaks have caused havoc on campuses across the UK\".\n\n\"We warned last month of the problems with moving thousands of students across the country and the time has come for urgent action from ministers and universities to protect staff and students.\"\n\nShe urged university leaders to drop face-to-face classes until the government improves the test-and-trace system.\n\nA university spokesman said: \"We are fully supportive of the [lockdown] decision.\n\n\"Services such as wellbeing support and the library will remain available to our students online.\n\n\"Our security teams will increase patrols to support the lockdown and we will take disciplinary action against any students found to have breached requirements.\"\n\nCouncillor Bev Craig, executive member for adult health and wellbeing for the city council, said: \"We understand that local residents may be concerned about this situation.\n\n\"We want to reassure them that the evidence so far suggests that transmission has been within the student community only and has not been more widespread.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nAre you a student in lockdown? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Demand for coronavirus tests has almost trebled among young children in England this month - but only 1% were found to have the virus, figures show.\n\nIn the first two weeks of September, more than 200,000 under-nines were tested, according to government's test-and-trace programme.\n\nThat is nearly three times as many as in the previous fortnight.\n\nA large study review has also confirmed that children are less likely to be infected than adults.\n\nBut the role that children and adolescents play in transmitting the virus \"remains unclear\", it said.\n\nGovernment figures reveal that in England demand for tests increased across all age groups under 40, but was particularly noticeable among the under-20s.\n\nThis sharp rise in demand coincided with children returning to school in England.\n\nCombined with an increase in cases among young people and lab testing capacity being reached, this put pressure on the system and led to delays in accessing tests.\n\nOnly 1% of those children who had a test actually had the virus, compared with 3.5% in older age groups, including adolescents, and people in their 20s and 30s.\n\nSymptoms caused by colds and flu viruses shared around children who hadn't mixed for many months may have been a factor in the increased demand.\n\nAs winter approaches, when respiratory viruses are common and the symptoms overlap with coronavirus, even greater demand could be created among younger age groups.\n\nBut if children do become infected with the virus, they are at very low risk of becoming severely ill or dying from Covid-19.\n\nWriting in JAMA Pediatrics, a UK-led research team found that children and adolescents under the age of 20 had 44% lower odds of being infected with Sars-CoV-2 - the scientific name given to the coronavirus - than adults over 20. This was particularly apparent in children younger than 10.\n\nThis chimes with a previous finding that the under-20s are approximately half as susceptible to the virus as adults.\n\nThe latest review based its findings on 32 studies from 21 countries, mostly in East Asia and Europe, involving nearly 42,000 children and adolescents and 270,000 adults.\n\nBut the researchers were not able to come to any conclusions on whether children were any less likely to pass on the virus than adults.\n\nChildren are more likely to be asymptomatic when infected. The theory is that if they are not coughing or unwell with the virus, they are less likely to infect others.\n\nSo their role in transmission may be down to their risk of exposure, the quantity of the virus, or viral load, they develop, their behaviour and the social contacts they make across age groups.\n\nThe researchers said larger contact-tracing studies were needed to find out more about how the virus is spread by adults and children.\n\nNow that children throughout the UK are back at school, the need to understand this aspect of the virus is even more pressing.\n• None Coronavirus: Children 'half as likely to catch it'", "Natalya Romaniw stars in the opera, performed outdoors under social-distancing rules\n\nA night at the opera might summon up images of people in suits and ballgowns sitting in stalls and boxes overlooking a stage.\n\nBut when she performs in Europe's first drive-in opera this weekend, Welsh soprano Natalya Romaniw will be singing to an audience sitting in their cars.\n\nMs Romaniw, from Swansea, is starring in Puccini's La bohème, in the grounds of London's Alexandra Palace.\n\nThe 32-year-old said she felt \"lucky to be performing again\".\n\nSince the start of the coronavirus pandemic, performances have been cancelled with many venues remaining closed due to social-distancing measures.\n\nThe retelling of La bohème is set in modern-day London\n\nMs Romaniw was playing in an English National Opera production of Madam Butterfly, also by Puccini, when lockdown hit and she was suddenly forced out of work.\n\n\"Not being able to perform has been heart-breaking, frustrating, and it's been a sad time for our industry as a whole,\" she said.\n\nThen the soprano secured one of the lead roles in a retelling of Puccini's most famous work, which tells of the tragic romance of writer Rodolfo and seamstress Mimì, who dies of a respiratory condition.\n\nBut, with social distancing measures in place, this is a night at the opera with a difference - people will watch from their cars or sit outside after arriving by bike or on foot.\n\nTo adhere to government guidelines, the production has a double cast, chorus and orchestra who have alternated through the run. They have rehearsed and performed in two separate bubbles, while maintaining social distance.\n\nNatalya Romaniw says the cast performed in bubbles ahead of outdoor live shows\n\n\"Of course, there'll be a massive change for the audience to see us distanced, but I'm hoping we will pull it off because it's such heart-rending music you can't not be involved,\" Ms Romaniw said.\n\n\"It's an exciting new concept and no doubt it'll come with its challenges as we are such a tactile industry, but it'll be a challenge we'll desperately want to rise to, because we've been away from it for so long.\"\n\nShe added: \"The anticipation to get back was a really exciting one and I'm really happy and feel lucky to be performing again.\"", "Llanelli is the first town in Wales being put under a lockdown without the rest of its county\n\nWales' first town-only lockdown has come into force.\n\nLlanelli in Carmarthenshire had restrictions imposed from 18:00 BST on Saturday, making it the first town hit with restrictions which do not apply to the rest of the surrounding county.\n\nWales' two biggest cities - Cardiff and Swansea - will follow suit on Sunday evening following Covid-19 spikes.\n\nLlanelli MP Nia Griffith said lockdown would be \"a tricky time... but it's better to do it sooner than later\".\n\n\"What we don't want is to leave things too late and then wish we'd done more,\" she said.\n\n\"It will impact on different people in different ways but the general feeling is we that need to get on top of this.\"\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething told BBC Breakfast on Saturday the situation was \"very serious\" and comparable with cases in February.\n\n\"We ended large parts of NHS activity about two weeks later. We had a full lockdown three-and-a-bit weeks later,\" he said.\n\nPeople in 13 ward areas in Llanelli cannot now leave town, or mix indoors with anyone outside their own household.\n\nThe town has seen 85 coronavirus cases over the past week - compared to 24 across the rest of Carmarthenshire.\n\nCarmarthenshire council leader Emlyn Dole said it was \"worrying to see how sharply the number of positive cases has risen in the Llanelli area\".\n\n\"Action has had to be taken to help stop the spread and break the chain of infections concentrated in this area to prevent a whole county lockdown,\" he said.\n\nMr Dole told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast he thought the spike in cases was down to pubs and bars not \"paying as much heed to the restrictions as the rest of us\" in terms of social distancing.\n\nThe rate of infection across Llanelli has leapt to 152 cases per 100,000 of the population - it is just 18 per 100,000 for the rest of Carmarthenshire.\n\nIt places the town in the top three weekly infections rates across Wales, alongside Blaenau Gwent on 202 per 100,000 and Merthyr Tydfil at 169 per 100,000.\n\nMaria Battle, who chairs the Hywel Dda University Health Board serving south west Wales, said: \"Our local community has given us such tremendous support during the past few months.\n\n\"To protect the health of our people, including the most vulnerable, and to ensure our NHS resources are available to provide people with the care they need, we need the help of our Llanelli population and wider community now more than ever before.\"\n\nThere will be nine areas of Wales under restrictions\n\nExtra testing capacity is being introduced, with appointments at Parc y Scarlets, Ty'r Nant at Trostre, and the Carmarthen showground.\n\nHealth officials said there should be \"no reason for Llanelli residents to travel excessive distances for a test\".\n\nCardiff and Swansea go into lockdown from 18:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nSwansea hit a seven-day rate of 56 new cases of coronavirus per 100,000 on Friday, while Cardiff reached 38 cases per 100,000.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford urged people to behave as if the new restrictions were already in place, but told LBC that arrest by the police was a last resort.\n\n\"If there are people who clearly deliberately flout the law you have to enforce,\" he said.\n\n\"Yes, with fines if necessary. But for us that's the last resort, not the first resort.\n\n\"In Caerphilly [the first area in Wales to face local lockdown] we have had very, very good levels of co-operation.\n\n\"My experience is people are wanting to do the right thing.\"\n\nCardiff Central Labour MP Jo Stevens also warned residents: \"Don't take this weekend to go on a massive bender.\n\n\"It's not going to be helpful,\" she told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"If people do that this weekend, it does risk further infection rates and that means we'll be in local lockdown for longer.\"\n\nThomas Beynon, manager at Three Cliffs Bay Holiday Park, Gower, said he was expecting to cancel about 380 bookings before the season ends in November due to the new lockdown in Swansea.\n\nHe said it was \"hugely deflating\" and meant \"strange times again\" after the business was hit by the national lockdown earlier this year.\n\nMr Beynon said customers had been \"very supportive\" by transferring bookings to next year rather than cancelling and seeking a refund.\n\n\"We are extremely humbled,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police across the UK \"are mourning a great loss,\" after an officer was shot dead at custody centre, the country's most senior police officer has said.\n\nA Met Police Sergeant died after being shot in the chest at the centre on Windmill Road, Croydon, shortly after 02:15 BST on Friday.\n\nA 23-year-old male suspect is critically ill after apparently turning the gun on himself.\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick offered her \"heartfelt condolences\" to the unnamed office's family.\n\nMs Dick said: \"The Met is a family. Policing is a family in London and across the UK and today we police we are all mourning a great loss.\n\n\"This terrible incident underlines once again how police officers face danger every day in their work to protect the public.\"\n\nShe added the Met was giving the officer's partner \"the best support we can\".", "Police said they had been called to break up \"numerous\" parties at the university's main halls of residence complex\n\nPolice have been called to break up a number of parties at the University of Edinburgh's main halls of residence.\n\nOfficers said they had dispersed \"numerous\" groups on Friday night at Pollock Halls of Residence, which houses about 1,900 students.\n\nStudents in Scotland are being told not to go to pubs, parties or restaurants this weekend in an attempt to slow a spate of coronavirus outbreaks.\n\nThe university said a \"small number\" of students had tested positive.\n\nSome of the positive cases are understood to be at one of the Holland House blocks, which is part of Pollock Halls.\n\nA Holland House resident, Reese Chamberlain, contacted BBC Scotland to say he had been told his entire block was \"locked down\" after a positive test was detected.\n\nA spokesperson for the university said it was \"not asking for whole halls of student accommodation to self-isolate\".\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed they were called to Pollock Halls of Residence, on the edge of the Holyrood Park, after \"informants\" raised concerns the parties were breaching regulations that prevent more than one household mixing indoors.\n\nInsp David Hughes told BBC Scotland: \"Police Scotland attended and we've spoken to a number of the parties and dispersed those individuals. [Officers] provided education and advice as to what is and what isn't in line with current regulations.\n\n\"From a police perspective, we've been relatively well received there. We have had some people who were unhappy with the regulations - but more the laws that are in force currently rather than the police response.\"\n\nInsp Hughes said officers had broken up a number of small parties of five to seven students with people who were \"clearly not from the same household\".\n\nNo arrests were made and no fines were issued, he said.\n\nStudents in Scotland have been told not to visit pubs or restaurants or to hold parties\n\nThe officer added: \"It must feel strange to people of that age and you can understand their frustrations in relation to the current regulations but overall the reason that that's there is to protect the health of the United Kingdom.\"\n\nCases of Covid-19 have surged in Scotland over the last two weeks, with 714 positive tests confirmed on Saturday.\n\nUniversities in Scotland pledged last week to make it \"absolutely clear\" to students that they should not be holding parties or socialising with people outside their accommodation.\n\nThey have also been told they cannot return home under coronavirus laws in Scotland as they are deemed to have formed a new household with those they are now living with.\n\nHowever, international student Mr Chamberlain said there had been an \"exodus\" of students supposed to be in isolation in the early hours of Saturday morning.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland the situation in his Holland House block was \"dire\".\n\n\"A Zoom meeting was just now held for affected students of the same household, where a representative told a small group of students that the entire building, not just the affected household, was to be locked down imminently, causing chaos in the community,\" he said.\n\n\"Food was not delivered until late afternoon leaving me hungry and without supplies for the first part of the day.\n\n\"Now people are panicking because no one has actually received any real details about this, and no-one knows how will it will be enforced either. Some are out and about getting supplies not knowing if this already goes against the rules.\"\n\nA first-year student living in another block at Pollock Halls told the BBC there was a \"pretty weird vibe\" around the university.\n\n\"There's always police here now. It feels like we're being watched 24-7 which is a bit scary,\" she said.\n\n\"My friend's in Holland House and she said that the whole of the Holland House blocks had been locked down and there's been people patrolling to make sure that no-one's leaving.\"\n\nSome students said they felt there were being watched \"24-7\" by police and security\n\nAngus Graham-Rack, a first-year at the University of Edinburgh, said the restrictions placed on students had been a \"kick in the teeth\".\n\n\"We were all encouraged to come to halls of residence and meet new people, yet are now are being criticised for doing so,\" he said.\n\n\"We are all left wondering why we even bothered moving here since nobody I know has had any face-to-face interactions with staff yet - we may as well have done the course from home.\n\n\"It feels like we've been completely cheated as we were promised at least some sort of a student experience in the midst of the pandemic, yet now we're essentially confined to our own flats with signs plastered around the building ordering us to not socialise.\"\n\nHealth teams are also dealing with a big outbreak among students at Glasgow University, where 172 students have tested positive.\n\nThere are also outbreaks among students in Dundee and Aberdeen.\n\nA University of Edinburgh it was working with NHS Lothian's Health Protection team to ensure students were provided with \"the information and support they need\".\n\nA spokesperson added: \"We are asking students who have attended parties recently to be vigilant regarding any Covid-19 symptoms and for all students to follow guidance as appropriate.\n\n\"We are continuing to monitor the situation, keeping our students and staff informed as appropriate, and following all Scottish Government guidance.\n\n\"We are providing care and support - including mental health support - to those self-isolating both in University-owned and private accommodation.\"", "Restrictions will now apply in Wales' capital city\n\nWales' two biggest cities have gone into lockdown, which started at 18:00.\n\nThe changed status of Swansea and Cardiff took the number of Welsh local authority areas under heightened Covid restrictions to eight.\n\nIt follows the first localised lockdown in Wales, in the town of Llanelli in Carmarthenshire, which came into force on Saturday evening.\n\nIt means 1.5 million people - about half of Wales' population -are now under lockdown.\n\nEarlier on Sunday, it was confirmed that three other council areas - Neath Port Talbot, Torfaen and the Vale of Glamorgan - will face the same measures from 18:00 BST on Monday.\n\nThe restrictions are the same as those affecting people living in Merthyr Tydfil, Bridgend, Blaenau Gwent, Newport, Rhondda Cynon Taf and Caerphilly, which were already in lockdown.\n\nWhen asked if Wales could see a national lockdown, First Minister Mark Drakeford told the BBC's Politics Wales programme: \"We couldn't possibly rule it out.\n\n\"We're trying to do it in a way that balances both the health and the economic needs of Wales,\" he said.\n\nSwansea hit a seven-day rate of 56 new cases of coronavirus per 100,000 on Friday, while Cardiff reached 38 cases per 100,000.\n\nBut the number in Llanelli was 152 cases per 100,000 - which is why the Welsh Government decided to bring in restrictions there a day earlier.\n\nThe whole of Carmarthenshire was not put into lockdown because the rate in the rest of the local authority area was 18.\n\nLlanelli town is in the top three places with the highest weekly infections rates, alongside Blaenau Gwent on 202 per 100,000 and Merthyr Tydfil at 169 per 100,000.\n\nRhossili and other Gower beauty spots are out of bounds for anyone from outside Swansea\n\nUnder the rules, nobody is able to enter or leave the affected areas without a \"reasonable excuse\".\n\nPeople are allowed to travel outside their area for a limited number of reasons.\n\nThese include going to work if they are not able to work from home, to go to school, give care and buy food or medical supplies.\n\nHow are the rules affecting you? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Matt Ratana moved to the UK in 1989 and joined the Met Police two years later\n\nPolice investigating the fatal shooting of a police officer in south London say four crime scenes are being searched.\n\nSgt Matiu Ratana, from New Zealand, died in hospital on Friday after being shot in Croydon as a handcuffed suspect was being taken into custody.\n\nResidents near one of the search areas reported hearing a loud explosion as a 23-year-old suspect, who is thought to have shot himself, remains in hospital.\n\nThe Met commissioner said 54-year-old Sgt Ratana would be \"sorely missed\".\n\nSpeaking at the National Police Memorial in central London, Dame Cressida Dick said she \"hadn't been surprised at all\" by the number of tributes paid to him.\n\nLondon's mayor, the Met Police's commissioner and the home secretary laid wreaths\n\n\"Matt was an extraordinary person... He had a wonderful personality and he was very good at his job,\" she said, adding that he was also a \"proud kiwi\".\n\nThe commissioner also laid a wreath at the National Police Memorial in central London alongside Home Secretary Priti Patel and London's Mayor Sadiq Khan.\n\nSgt Ratana will be remembered at the National Police Memorial Day Service, alongside the six other officers who have died on duty in the past 12 months.\n\nThe Reverend Cannon David Wilbraham, who is leading the service - taking place online this year - said the event will show their \"sacrifice is not forgotten\" and allow the public \"to recognise the dedication to duty and the courage displayed\".\n\nRespects were paid at East Grinstead Rugby Club during two separate minute's silence\n\nSilences have also been held at a number of rugby clubs, including at East Grinstead where the 54-year-old was head coach.\n\nThe West Sussex club's Vice Chairman Matt Marriot said they had to arrange two separate minute's silences because the \"interest has been pretty enormous\", with \"people coming from all over the country\".\n\nHe said Sgt Ratana \"wasn't just our coach... he was a role model, a mentor and often a father figure\".\n\n\"We're going to mourn him as a family member,\" he added.\n\nPC Sarah D'Silva, who plays for the club's women's team as well as working at Croydon Police Station, said it felt \"extremely poignant\" joining the minute's silence.\n\nShe wore her police uniform to pay her respects to the 54-year-old, who she described as \"an absolutely fantastic character, full of life, with the biggest smile you've ever seen\".\n\nThe 54-year-old was a keen rugby union coach as well as being a fan of performance motorcycles and weight-training\n\nSgt Ratana was shot in the chest at Croydon Custody Centre at about 02:15 BST on Friday.\n\nOn Saturday evening, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stuart Cundy said the police were focusing on four crime scenes.\n\nResidents near one of the search areas, in Banstead, Surrey, reported hearing a loud explosion on Saturday morning.\n\nPeople living near the address in Park Road were woken by noises at about 05:40 BST.\n\nPolice guarded the entrance to a property on Park Road in Banstead\n\nThe BBC's Daniel De Simone said the Banstead address is down a long driveway and its land contains a series of concrete bunkers.\n\nMultiple police officers, including armed officers, were visible in the area and people had been informed that a controlled explosion had taken place, the BBC was told.\n\nA marked police car has been guarding the entrance to the property.\n\nPolice confirmed the other scenes undergoing searches are Croydon Custody Centre, where the shooting occurred, an area of London Road in Pollards Hill, where the suspect was initially arrested, and an address in Southbrook Road, Norbury.\n\nDescribing how the investigation was progressing, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Cundy said: \"We have recovered the gun from the custody suite where Matt was shot.\n\n\"We also have CCTV from that custody suite which shows the events, and we have body-worn video of our police officers who were involved in the circumstances surrounding the arrest of the suspect.\"\n\nThe murder investigation is expected to focus on the motive for the killing.\n\nThe suspect remains in a critical condition is hospital.\n\nA rugby ball and police helmet are among the tributes which have been left outside the custody centre\n\nThe suspect had initially been arrested for an alleged drugs offence and possession of ammunition.\n\nThe shots were fired as officers prepared to search the suspect - who was still handcuffed - with a metal detector, according to watchdog the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\n\"Several crime scenes\" were established on Friday and a cordon also remains in place around the Anderson Heights building in Norbury, south-west London, the Met has said.\n\nA concierge in the building told the BBC the 23-year-old suspect did not live in the block but was arrested outside it.\n\nAn area of London Road in Pollards Hill has been searched by forensic officers\n\nThe Met previously said the shooting was not terror-related.\n\nIt is believed the suspect was known to counter-terrorism police and his background may feature prominently in police inquiries, BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said.\n\nThe suspect had been referred to the anti-extremism government's Prevent programme, aimed to stop people joining extremist groups and carrying out terrorist activities.\n\nAs part of the IOPC investigation it is examining CCTV and police bodycam footage to establish how the shootings took place.\n\nThe watchdog said the suspect was in handcuffs, with his hands behind his back.\n\nA key part of that IOPC investigation will be to find out how thoroughly the suspect was searched before he was taken into custody.\n\nThe Met's chief said Sgt Ratana was \"highly respected\" among her officers\n\nSgt Ratana came to the UK in his early 20s in 1989 and joined the Met Police two years later.\n\nHe was originally from the Hawke's Bay area of New Zealand and was educated at Palmerston North Boys' High School, north of the capital, Wellington.\n\nSgt Ratana, who had a partner and an adult son from a previous relationship, would have been eligible for retirement in two months.\n\nBoris Johnson was among those who paid tribute to the officer, tweeting: \"My deepest condolences go to the family, friends and colleagues of the police officer who was killed in Croydon last night.\n\n\"We owe a huge debt to those who risk their own lives to keep us safe.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dame Cressida Dick paid tribute to Sgt Ratana, saying he was \"big in stature, big in heart\"\n\nNew Zealand PM Ms Ardern previously released a statement saying: \"To all Matiu's whanau (Maori for extended family) across the world, we share your sorrow and have all our condolences.\"\n\nNew Zealand Police - where Sgt Ratana worked between 2003 and 2008 before returning to the UK - also sent their condolences, adding: \"Policing is a family.\"\n\nWhen he was not working, Sgt Ratana was heavily involved in rugby coaching.\n\nEngland Rugby paid tribute to the 54-year-old, saying he \"gave so much for our sport\".\n\nCrystal Palace Football Club held a minute's silence before their match against Everton on Saturday, to \"pay our respects to local police officer Sgt Matt Ratana\".\n\nA minute's silence was also held before the London derby between Millwall and Brentford.\n\nA minute's silence was held before Crystal Palace's match against Everton\n\nNeil Donohue, a friend of Sgt Ratana who runs a gym he used to attend, described him as \"inspirational\" and \"the nicest, most generous man you could meet\".\n\nHe told the BBC the 54-year-old had gone into \"the custody side [of policing] purely because he had had enough out on the streets and he thought it was his safest option, just to see him through to his retirement\".\n\n\"It's just absolutely tragic,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and Home Secretary Priti Patel joined Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick for a minute's silence\n\nA number of police officers have turned their social media profile pictures black with a blue stripe to pay their respects.\n\nJohn Davies, a retired officer who worked with Sgt Ratana when he was based in Hillingdon, west London, said he was \"a truly remarkable, strong and unique individual\" who \"left an impression on all those he came into contact with\".\n\nDo you have any information you can share? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A sign on a pub window warns customers of the curfew\n\nPolice patrols have been stepped up across Scotland to ensure the smooth introduction of a new pub and restaurant curfew.\n\nAll hospitality must now close at 22:00 in the latest raft of measures designed to halt Covid transmission.\n\nScotland's chief constable promised extra policing as he urged citizens to act responsibly.\n\nHe also issued a blunt warning that organising, hosting or attending house parties was now breaking the law.\n\nThe Scottish government has revealed that 36% of positive cases handled by Test and Protect mention social exposure, through hospitality or socialising with friends and family.\n\nIt said the aim of the measures was to reduce the amount of time people can spend in licensed premises and therefore curtail the spread of the virus in high risk environments while still allowing businesses to trade.\n\nSoaring infection rates have prompted the introduction of strict measures on the hospitality industry across the UK.\n\nEvery pub has been ordered to observe the 22:00 curfew, with the threat of permanent closure for those who do not comply.\n\nChief Constable Iain Livingstone from Police Scotland said extra patrols would be deployed around closing time to ensure the change was being adhered to.\n\nAt Friday's Scottish government coronavirus briefing he said: \"Additional officers will be deployed across Scotland to support colleagues from local authorities and to monitor compliance.\n\n\"I think it's important for me to say that the vast majority of licensees have acted with great responsibility during this very challenging period - I pay credit to them and undertake that policing will continue to support and work with the licensed trade.\"\n\nChief Constable Iain Livingstone warned people that house parties were now illegal\n\nHe said that officers would \"continue to use good sense\" when enforcing the new rules.\n\nHe also issued a stark warning over the temptation to spill from the pub to a gathering within a house.\n\nThe chief constable admitted that the curfew could see an increase in house parties or gatherings as customers refused to end their nights early.\n\nBut he made it clear this would not be tolerated.\n\nHe said: \"During this extraordinary time where people's freedoms, liberty and family relationships are subject to restrictions never seen before, it is right and proper that the police service looks to engage with people, explain what is required of them.\n\n\"If they refuse to do what their fellow citizens, their neighbours are doing, we will take enforcement action.\n\n\"What is absolutely clear is that house parties and house gatherings are not permitted under any circumstances, there can be no excuse for arranging or attending a house party.\n\n\"You must not organise, host or attend a house party or house gathering, it is against the law.\"\n\nWith local \"September weekend\" public holidays in many areas, the curfew marks one of a set of increased measures introduced to combat the rise of new infections.\n\nOn Friday there were 558 new positive cases of coronavirus reported in Scotland since in the previous 24 hours - the highest daily total since the outbreak began.\n\nOf these, 255 were in Greater Glasgow and Clyde, where there has been a significant outbreak at University of Glasgow student accommodation\n\nStudents were ordered to quarantine and stay away from pubs after an outbreak at Glasgow University's Murano Halls\n\nStudents at all Scottish universities have been told not to visit hospitality venues this weekend and Universities Scotland said students who go to parties or socialise with anyone outside their accommodation risks losing their place at university.\n\nUniversities will adopt a \"yellow card/red card\" approach to breaches of discipline, with students warned the consequences could include \"potential discontinuation of study\".\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she sympathised with students and she hoped disciplinary action would only be taken as a \"last resort\" against those who \"flagrantly\" broke the rules.\n\nThe Scottish government also said it appreciated how difficult it was for pubs and other hospitality outlets, but that restrictions were based on the fundamental need to reduce transmissions.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Recent management information from our Covid-19 case management system suggests that around 36% of cases mention social/recreational exposure, including hospitality or socialising with friends/family.\n\n\"Although this data has many caveats and limitations, and therefore cannot prove causality in terms of where transmission has taken place, it does help guide our response to help prevent transmission in such settings.\"\n\nThe hospitality curfew comes a week after the \"rule of six\" came into effect in Scotland, limiting all gatherings, including those in pubs and restaurants, to no more than six adults from two households.\n\nVenues are also forbidden from playing background music, must enforce strict rules on hygiene and distancing, and record customers' details for track and trace data.\n\nHospitality industry organisations said the latest restrictions were a \"potentially fatal blow\" for many business.\n\nIndoor visits between households are also banned across Scotland for the foreseeable future until the risk of transmission is reduced.\n\nAre you a student in lockdown? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The rate at which the Covid-19 virus is spreading appears to be speeding up.\n\nThe R number, indicating how fast the coronavirus epidemic is growing, has risen from 1.1-1.4 to 1.2-1.5.\n\nAn Office for National Statistics (ONS) survey estimated there were 9,600 new cases a day in England in the week to 19 September - up from 6,000 the week before and three times that being picked up by general testing.\n\nIt comes as more restrictions come into effect in parts of England and Wales.\n\nOn Friday, the daily number of positive cases in the UK picked up by coronavirus testing rose to a new high of 6,874, government figures show.\n\nA further 34 deaths were announced, although figures were not available for Scotland because of a power cut at the National Records of Scotland.\n\nInfection rates are highest in the north west of England and in London.\n\nAs infection rates rise, new restrictions are being brought into effect in the following areas:\n\nAn R or reproduction number above one means the epidemic is growing. It's a measure of how many extra people each coronavirus case is infecting,\n\nIn March, before any control measures were put in place, R was thought to be just under three.\n\nThe ONS's estimates of how much of the population is currently infected are based on testing a representative sample of people with or without symptoms.\n\nIt is different to the number published daily by the Department of Health and Social Care. That records positive cases in people with potential Covid symptoms who request tests.\n\nAnd in the week up to 19 September, the DHSC data showed roughly 3,000 positive tests a day in England - a total of 23,378.\n\nIn contrast, the ONS survey suggest there were actually 103,600 people in England with the virus, equating to an estimated one in 500 people in private homes.\n\nThe number does not include cases in hospitals and care homes.\n\nThe ONS said there was \"clear evidence\" of an increase in the number of people testing positive for Covid-19 in all age groups, but rates are currently highest in those aged 17-24.\n\nInfection rates are highest across the north of England and in London, with smaller increases seen in the Midlands.\n\nIn Wales, cases appear to have risen dramatically but because there are fewer people in the sample, there is a lot of uncertainty around the precise figure.\n\nBut central estimates suggest they could have risen almost seven-fold, from 1,500 people in total having Covid the previous week to more than 10,000.\n\nThe ONS has also begun surveying people in Northern Ireland, where early figures suggest one in 300 people had the virus in the period 6-19 September.\n\nThese figures only take us up to the end of last week, and as such may be an underestimate of the current situation.\n\nCases have been rising over the past few weeks, and have begun to translate to a rise in hospital admissions.\n\nData from the Covid Symptom Study app, run by King's College London and tech company ZOE, put the daily figure for England at 12,883 - higher than the ONS.\n\nIts figures are based on people who download and use the app, so it is not a random sample - but does include a larger number of positive tests.\n\nThe ZOE figures are also more up to date than the ONS's and so may be capturing more recent rises.", "The government has fixed a problem with its new NHS coronavirus app in England and Wales which meant many positive test results were not being logged.\n\nUsers were unable to record a positive test result, if they had booked a test elsewhere and not via the app.\n\nBut the Department of Health said everyone who tests positive can now log it, however they booked the test.\n\nHowever, people who test negative are still unable to share their result if they did not book it via the app.\n\nAnyone who books a test via the app has their result automatically logged whether it is positive or negative, according to the government.\n\nBut tests taken as a result of Office for National Statistics surveys, and those processed by a NHS Hospital or Public Health England lab, were initially not able to be shared on the app, regardless of the result.\n\nHowever, on Saturday, the Department of Health said anyone who accesses a test elsewhere will, if they test positive, receive a code to input to the app.\n\nHowever a code is only received if the test is positive. Those who enter that they have symptoms without entering a result find a self-isolation countdown begins.\n\nThe spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Social Care said now \"everyone who receives a positive test result can log their result on the app\".\n\n\"A minority of people, such as hospital patients, who were unable to log their positive result can now request a code when contacted by NHS Test and Trace to input on their app,\" the spokeswoman said.\n\nThe ability to log a negative result is being looked into, she added, after user feedback suggested people wanted the ability to do so.\n\nPeople who have been using the app since its launch on Thursday, and who had already booked tests before downloading it, have found that they are unable to stop the self-isolation countdown after reporting symptoms if they then get a negative result, because it does not come with a code they can share.\n\nProf Deborah Ryan, who originally contacted the BBC, said: \"That's so confusing as the app doesn't tell you that can't enter a negative test booked outside it.\n\n\"And the app still tells you to quarantine if you entered symptoms. So this means I can't turn off the self-isolation alert in the app?\"\n\nThe self-isolation alert cannot be de-activated in this situation.\n\nIn Wales, lab test results come with notification tokens for the app, Ifan Evans, health director for digital technology and transformation, tweeted.\n\nThe Department of Health has said that using the app is \"entirely voluntary\" and advice to get a test or self-isolate cannot be enforced.\n\nTests booked via the app will have the results automatically shared with it, it said.\n\nAccording to the data analyst App Annie, the NHS Covid-19 app has been downloaded around 4m times so far.\n\n\"By downloading this app you are helping protect yourself and others. If you book your test via the app then the results will be automatically recorded in the app and the isolation countdown will be updated,\" said a DHSC spokesman.\n\nIf you are asked to self-isolate for 14 days because you have been in close contact with somebody who has tested positive, you are advised by health officials to do so even if you later test negative yourself.", "Students at Manchester Metropolitan University are isolating after more than 100 tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nMore than 1,700 students have been told to self-isolate. One told the BBC the situation had \"left morale really low\".\n\nA university spokesman said disciplinary action will be taken against any breaches.\n\nSeparately, students in Scotland were told not to go to pubs, parties or restaurants this weekend to stem the spread of the virus.\n\nPolice were called to break up several parties at the University of Edinburgh's main hall of residence on Friday night.\n\nSome students in Pollock Halls of Residence at the University of Edinburgh have also been told to \"lockdown\" because of a confirmed case of the virus.", "Molly Russell took her own life after looking at suicide and self harming content\n\nInstagram has passed thousands of pages of \"pretty dreadful\" material from the account of Molly Russell to her family's legal team, a court heard.\n\nThe 14-year-old killed herself in 2017 after viewing graphic images of self harm and suicide on the platform.\n\nA pre-inquest hearing on Friday was told not all the material had been studied yet as it was too difficult for lawyers and police to look at for long.\n\nA date for the inquest itself is yet to be set.\n\nThe inquest will look at how algorithms used by social media giants to keep users on the platform may have contributed to her death.\n\nOliver Sanders QC told Barnet's Coroner's Court how Instagram's parent company Facebook had recently released a \"significant volume\" of material relating to the case.\n\nHe said: \"We haven't been able to review it all yet. Some of it is pretty dreadful and it is not something that can be reviewed in a long sitting and certainly not late at night.\"\n\nHe added certain parts of the material had been redacted and lawyers and police were trying to find out why.\n\nThe court also heard the investigation was seeking the cooperation of Snapchat, WhatsApp, Pinterest, Facebook and Twitter, although until recently only Pinterest had co-operated fully.\n\nBut Snapchat could not disclose data without an order from a US court, WhatsApp had deleted Molly's account and Twitter was reluctant to handover material due to European data protection laws, the hearing was told.\n\nCoroner Andrew Walker said \"some or all\" of those social media companies could be named as interested parties in the inquest as they would be \"best placed\" to give technical information for the case.\n\nHe also asked for a psychologist with expertise in the potential psychological impacts of viewing extreme material to be appointed to give evidence.\n\nA further pre-inquest review is due to take place on 26 November.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A long-serving police officer has been shot dead at Croydon Custody Centre in south London.\n\nThe male sergeant was shot in the chest before the suspect turned the firearm on himself, sources have told the BBC.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Cressida Dick, Sadiq Khan and Priti Patel all took part in the silence at New Scotland Yard, while colleagues of the killed officer gathered outside the Croydon Centre.", "Karl Robinson said the club had endured a difficult week - even before their coach wouldn't start\n\nAlcohol spray used on a football club's coach to protect against coronavirus left the driver unable to take players and staff to an away match.\n\nOxford United had to change at their hotel and travel to their game at Accrington Stanley by car.\n\nIt is thought some of the spray in the air was picked up by a device that stops the coach driver starting the vehicle if alcohol has been consumed.\n\nThe club started the game at the bottom of League One on Saturday.\n\nKarl Robinson, the club's head coach, told BBC Radio Oxford before the match: \"Our coach has just broken down so we've just had to get changed at the hotel and make our way.\n\n\"This week has certainly been sent to test us. We had four players test for Covid-19 on Thursday.\" He added that they also have \"flu going round\".\n\nBBC Radio Oxford's Nathan Cooper said: \"[Oxford have] got quite a technical bus that not many at this level have got.\n\n\"When you get on board it sprays a sort of alcohol gel - a fine mist spray - which obviously helps with the current situation, so it sterilises the bus. Somehow that ended up affecting the bus itself.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's a crazy thing to happen but first of all you've got to say hats off to the club for trying. Not every club at this level has been doing that.\"\n\nTesting players for coronavirus is not mandatory in the Football League.", "A man and woman wear masks in Cardiff, which will see stricter rules from Sunday\n\nMore than a quarter of the UK population is set to be under stricter coronavirus rules, as new measures come into force this weekend.\n\nFrom Saturday in England, households in Leeds, Wigan, Stockport and Blackpool are banned from mixing in each other's homes or gardens.\n\nIn Wales, Llanelli became subject to new rules at 18:00 BST, with Cardiff and Swansea to follow 24 hours later.\n\nIt comes as the rate at which the virus is spreading appears to be speeding up.\n\nThere have been 6,042 new coronavirus infections in the UK over the past 24 hours, according to the latest government figures - and 34 deaths among those who tested positive for Covid-19 in the past 28 days.\n\nIt marks the fourth consecutive day that new infections across the UK have topped 6,000.\n\nScotland recorded 714 cases on Saturday, 156 more than on Friday and its highest number of cases confirmed in a single day since the start of the outbreak.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, where meeting other households indoors is also not allowed, 319 new cases have set a new daily record, up from Friday's 273. However mass testing was not available during the spring, when deaths were at their peak.\n\nThe R number - which indicates how many people someone with coronavirus infects - has risen in the last week and is now estimated to be between 1.2 and 1.5. A number above 1 means the virus is spreading within the community.\n\nMeanwhile, London Mayor Sadiq Khan said \"immediate action\" was needed to get coronavirus back under control in the capital, amid a \"sharp rise\" in cases, hospital admissions and patients in intensive care units.\n\nOn Friday, London was added to the government's Covid-19 watch-list - with all boroughs classed as areas of concern.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People in Leeds respond to the tighter rules\n\nIn England, the \"rule of six\" and a 22:00 closing time for pubs and restaurants applies nationally.\n\nBut extra restrictions are also in place in large parts of north-east and north-west England, West Yorkshire and the Midlands - where the infection rate is higher.\n\nThe latest rules for Leeds, Wigan, Stockport and Blackpool came into force at midnight and ban different households from mixing inside private homes or gardens.\n\nSupport bubbles are not affected and friends and family can still provide informal childcare for children under 14.\n\nPeople are also advised not to socialise with people they do not live with in any other settings, including bars, shops and parks.\n\nOn Saturday, Wales - where the R number is between 0.7 and 1.2 - saw its first town-only lockdown, with people in Llanelli in Carmarthenshire banned from leaving town or mixing indoors with anyone outside of their household.\n\nThe same rules will be brought in for Wales' two biggest cities - Cardiff and Swansea - at 18:00 on Sunday. People will not be able to enter or leave the areas without a reasonable excuse, the Welsh government has said.\n\nIt means by the end of the weekend, about half of Wales' population will be under lockdown - 1.5 million people.\n\nAnd the total number of people across the UK living under stricter rules will stand at 17 million.\n\nWelsh First Minister Mark Drakeford urged people in Cardiff to behave as if the new restrictions were in place until they came into force on Sunday.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething told Today restrictions were more focused on transmission in the home than the pub.\n\n\"We have good evidence it is contact in people's homes that is driving it primarily. That is then leaking into other areas where people have contact, including licensed premises,\" he said.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said he recognised \"the burden and impact these additional measures have on our daily lives but we must act collectively and quickly to bring down infections\".\n\nMeanwhile, students have spoken of their worry and frustration at being made to isolate in university accommodation, with little notice or guidance.\n\nUp to 1,700 students at Manchester Metropolitan University were told to self-isolate for two weeks in their student halls, after a spate of positive tests for Covid-19.\n\nIn a bid to stop the virus spreading in Scotland, students have been told not to socialise with anyone outside of their accommodation or go to pubs, parties or restaurants this weekend.\n\nHow are the rules affecting you? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Dennis Skinner was an ever-present in British politics for the best part of five decades\n\nA song about a former Labour MP has been topping the Amazon download charts ahead of Lady Gaga, Kylie Minogue and Bruce Springsteen.\n\nDennis Skinner, the so-called Beast of Bolsover, lost the seat he had held since 1970, in December.\n\nThe track Tony Skinner's Lad, by musician Robb Johnson, is a tribute to the acerbic politician, who grew up in Derbyshire.\n\nMr Johnson said he had always \"admired\" the ex-MP and trade unionist.\n\nBy Friday evening the track remained at number one in the Amazon best sellers, ahead of Magic by Kylie Minogue and Ghosts by Bruce Springsteen.\n\nIt also reached number 37 on Apple's iTunes chart and 19 in the Official Singles Download Chart.\n\nHowever, the fact that download sales account for only about 4.8% of the overall music market might explain why the song did not feature at all in the Official Singles Chart Top 100.\n\nThe song is a mix of Mr Skinner's speeches and quips, and lyrics referring to his parents and upbringing in Derbyshire, before his arrival at parliament 50 years ago.\n\n\"We thought it would be lovely to get Dennis Skinner into the charts,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"I suppose it's done so well because that's an indication of the great respect he is held in.\n\n\"On many levels I've admired him as a principled people's delegate to parliament. I've admired his politics and admired him even more that he enjoys singing.\"\n\nRobb Johnson said the success is down to Mr Skinner's own popularity\n\nMr Skinner underwent hip surgery ahead of the overnight count in his Derbyshire constituency, in December.\n\nFilm maker Daniel Draper who made Dennis Skinner: Nature of the Beast, a 2017 documentary about the life and times of the ex-MP, produced the track's video.\n\n\"It's a catchy little ditty,\" he said.\n\n\"I speak to [Skinner's] partner Lois quiet regularly. He seems to be doing well.\n\n\"The family have all been in touch about the song and its video. I know Dennis has seen it and Lois said he really likes it.\"\n\nMr Skinner is known for his support for the miners throughout the 1984-85 strike and fighting for their pension rights.\n\nHe was also suspended from the House of Commons numerous times for what was deemed \"unparliamentary language\".\n\nDennis Skinner (middle) with Michael Foot (left) and Tony Benn (right) in Blackpool, in 1980\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The 54-year-old was a keen rugby union coach as well as being a fan of performance motorcycles and weight-training\n\nA long-serving police officer shot dead in a custody centre in south London has been named as Sgt Matiu Ratana.\n\nNew Zealand-born Sgt Ratana, known as Matt, was shot in the chest in Croydon as a suspect, who was still in handcuffs, was being checked in.\n\nMet Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick described the 54-year-old as \"talented officer\" who was \"big in heart\".\n\nAfter the shooting at about 02:15 BST the suspect, 23, is then thought to have shot himself.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dame Cressida Dick paid tribute to Sgt Ratana, saying he was \"big in stature, big in heart\"\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said the man was arrested on suspicion of possession of Class B drugs with intent to supply and possession of ammunition.\n\nHe is currently in a critical condition in hospital.\n\nPolice officers have been arriving at Croydon Police Station to pay their respects\n\nThe IOPC confirmed he was handcuffed with his hands behind his back and had been taken to the custody centre in a police vehicle, before being escorted into the building.\n\nThe shots were fired as officers prepared to search the suspect, who was still handcuffed, with a metal detector, the IOPC said.\n\n\"A non-police issue firearm, which appears to be a revolver, has been recovered from the scene. Further ballistic work will be required,\" said IOPC regional director Sal Naseem.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and Home Secretary Priti Patel joined Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick for a minute's silence\n\nA minute's silence was held at 16:00 BST at New Scotland Yard and Croydon Police Station to pay tribute to Sgt Ratana, who was heavily involved in rugby coaching when he was not working.\n\nHe would have been eligible for retirement in just two months.\n\n\"Matt spent very nearly 30 years as a uniformed police officer serving the public of London,\" said Dame Cressida.\n\n\"He will be remembered so fondly in Croydon and missed there, as well as in the Met and the rugby world,\" she said.\n\nShe added that he \"leaves a partner and he leaves an adult son from a previous relationship. Our thoughts are with them.\"\n\nSgt Ratana joined the Met in 1991, having moved to the UK in 1989.\n\nHe was originally from the Hawke's Bay area of New Zealand and was educated at Palmerston North Boy's High School's, a town north of the capital, Wellington.\n\nThe officer has been described as a professional and inspirational colleague\n\nHe served in various parts of London including Hackney and Selhurst, with his last posting as custody sergeant in Croydon, where he managed suspects who are brought into the cells.\n\n\"He worked in our detention command at Croydon but frequently volunteered for duty in custody suites across London,\" Dame Cressida added.\n\nSgt Ratana had led rugby teams in Worthing, close to Goring-by-Sea where he then lived and in East Grinstead, where he was living when he died.\n\nRyan Morlen, assistant head coach at East Grinstead Rugby Club, described him as \"an absolutely lovely bloke\".\n\n\"He is a bloke who is just so passionate about what he does - it does not matter whether you're the most talented or least talented, he will treat you equal,\" he said.\n\nSgt Ratana had taken part in weightlifting competitions\n\nEarlier, BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said it was believed the suspect was known to counter-terrorism police.\n\nHe had been referred to the anti-extremism \"Prevent\" programme, though the Met said the murder inquiry was not being treated as terrorism-related.\n\nThe Met said a murder investigation was under way, but the shooting was not being treated as a counter-terrorism incident.\n\nDame Cressida said she understood \"the great concern about how this happened\" and that officers \"will establish the facts\".\n\n\"We owe it to Matt, his loved ones and all other officers. But we need to give investigators space to do their job,\" she said.\n\nLondon's Mayor Sadiq Khan earlier said the police were currently \"reviewing the safety of custody suites\" and \"there could be changes very soon\".\n\nTributes have been left outside Croydon Police Station\n\nPolice officers and members of the public have been arriving at Croydon Police Station during the day to lay tributes.\n\nThe owner of a gym in Lancing, Sussex, told the BBC how Sgt Ratana had helped when his business was going through financial difficulty.\n\nNeil Donohue, 54, said: \"He came in one day and gave me 200 quid out of the blue, I said no no, I can't accept that and gave it back to him.\n\n\"But the next day he wired it into my account. That's the sort of guy he was.\"\n\nA number of police officers have been turning their social media profile pictures black with a blue stripe to pay their respects.\n\nJohn Davies, a retired officer who worked with Sgt Ratana when he was based in Hillingdon, said he was \"a truly remarkable, strong and unique individual\" who \"left an impression on all those he came into contact with\".\n\nEast Grinstead RFC also released a tribute to their \"much-loved\" head coach.\n\n\"Matt was an inspiring and much-loved figure at the club and there are truly no words to describe how we are feeling,\" said Bob Marsh, the club's chairman, and the club's president Andy Poole.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir David will be seen in the Netflix documentary A Life On Our Planet in October\n\nSir David Attenborough has broken Jennifer Aniston's record for the fastest time to reach a million followers on Instagram.\n\nAt 94 years young, the naturalist's follower count raced to seven figures in four hours 44 minutes on Thursday, according to Guinness World Records.\n\nHis debut post said: \"Saving our planet is now a communications challenge.\"\n\nLast October, Friends star Aniston reached the milestone in five hours and 16 minutes.\n\nIn his first video, the veteran broadcaster told followers: \"I am making this move and exploring this new way of communication to me because, as we all know, the world is in trouble.\n\n\"Continents are on fire. Glaciers are melting. Coral reefs are dying. Fish are disappearing from our oceans. The list goes on and on. Saving our planet is now a communications challenge.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by davidattenborough This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe joins a varied list of public figures who have at some point held the record for the fastest to gain a million followers.\n\nSir David's total following rose to 2.5 million within 24 hours. However, he is some way behind the most-followed person overall - footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, who has 238 million.\n\n\"Social media isn't David's usual habitat,\" wrote collaborators Jonnie Hughes, a BBC film-maker, and Colin Butfield, of the World Wildlife Fund. \"So while he's recorded messages solely for Instagram, like the one in this post, we're helping to run this account.\"\n\nSir David's Instagram debut precedes the release of a book and a Netflix documentary, both titled A Life On Our Planet.\n\nThe film will see him reflect on his career and the decline of the planet's environment and biodiversity, which he has observed first-hand.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Netflix This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nSir David said he would use the platform to share videos explaining \"what the problems are and how we can deal with them\".\n\nSigning off, he invited viewers to \"join me - or as we used to say in those early days of radio, stay tuned\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Face coverings have been mandatory on public transport in England since 15 June\n\nFewer than 0.1% of people stopped by police for not wearing masks on trains received a fine, figures have revealed.\n\nBritish Transport Police (BTP) said it stopped 14,726 people from 15 July to 15 August for failing to comply, resulting in 14 fixed penalty notices.\n\nThe rules, introduced in June, state anyone travelling on public transport must wear a face covering.\n\nBTP said enforcement in the form of fixed penalty notices was only used as a \"last resort\".\n\nIt said, from 30 July to 8 September, officers recorded 50,729 \"interventions\" with passengers not wearing face coverings, with 3,545 - 7% - of those told to leave the train.\n\nThe figures, obtained through a Freedom of Information request, showed 37 fines had been issued between 15 June and 14 July. BTP said it did not hold complete data for how many people were stopped during that time.\n\nThe rules have led to rows on public transport, with some spilling over into violence.\n\nLast month, police said a train passenger was head-butted to the floor and repeatedly punched in the face for asking a fellow passenger to wear a face mask on a service between Slough and Langley in Berkshire.\n\nAnd in Bournemouth, a bus driver was hit over the head and kicked on the floor for refusing to let a man board without a face covering.\n\nMP Sammy Wilson was pictured on the London tube without a mask\n\nPoliticians have also been photographed breaking the rules.\n\nConservative MP for Devizes, Danny Kruger, apologised for forgetting to put on his face covering for a train journey from Hungerford to Paddington.\n\nDUP MP for East Antrim, Sammy Wilson, was also caught on camera by a fellow passenger on the London Underground without a mask.\n\nMr Wilson said he accepted he \"should have been\" wearing a face covering and he would \"accept whatever consequences there are\".\n\nA BTP spokesman said: \"British Transport Police has been working with rail industry staff since face coverings became mandatory on public transport in England on 15 June 2020 to engage with passengers, explain the importance of preventing the spread of the Covid-19 virus and encouraging people to wear face coverings.\n\n\"Enforcement, in the form of fixed penalty notices, has only been used as a last resort.\"\n\nRail campaign group Railfuture said it was difficult to strike a balance but said BTP had got it \"about right\".\n\nSpokesman Bruce Williamson said: \"We want a safe railway. We do not want to deter people from travelling.\n\n\"It looks like British Transport Police are doing this right. If fines are a last resort, it's good, they are not being heavy-handed.\"\n\nBTP has jurisdiction for the railway network in England, Scotland and Wales, which includes the London Underground, Docklands Light Railway, Croydon Tramlink, Midlands Metro, Glasgow Subway and part of the Tyne & Wear Metro.", "Police have clashed with demonstrators at a protest in central London against coronavirus restrictions.\n\nOfficers used batons to control the crowd, after bottles and water were thrown by demonstrators massed in Trafalgar Square.\n\nAt least three protesters and nine officers were injured, while 16 people were arrested.\n\nThe Met Police said the protest had been shut down because the crowd was not complying with social distancing.\n\nEarlier on Saturday, thousands gathered in central London to protest against the latest government rules, with very few wearing masks.\n\nProtests are exempt from the rule-of-six restrictions, but demonstrators must social distance; organisers must also submit a risk assessment.\n\nRules in England limit indoor and outdoor gatherings to six people, with some exceptions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters against the government's coronavirus restrictions were rallying in central London\n\nOfficers removed sound equipment and penned the crowd in Trafalgar Square as water and bottles were thrown at them by demonstrators - with some chanting \"pick your side\".\n\nPolice used batons against protesters, leaving some with visible injuries.\n\nReacting, London Mayor Sadiq Khan said: \"The reckless and violent behaviour of some protesters has left hard-working police officers injured and put the safety of our city, which is at a critical moment in the fight against this virus, at risk. This is totally unacceptable.\n\n\"We cannot let the sacrifices Londoners have made be undermined by the selfish behaviour of a small number.\n\n\"Violence of this kind towards officers will not be tolerated and perpetrators will feel the full force of the law.\"\n\nThe Met said the vast majority of crowds had now dispersed.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday afternoon, the Met said: \"Crowds in Trafalgar Square have not complied with the conditions of their risk assessment and are putting people in danger of transmitting the virus.\n\n\"This has voided their risk assessment and we have informed the event organisers they are no longer exempt from the regulations.\"\n\nPolice also confiscated a makeshift riot shield from one man.\n\nThe \"we do not consent\" rally came a week after a separate event which saw more than a dozen officers injured when a \"small minority\" targeted police and more than 32 arrests were made.\n\nCommenting on events on Saturday, Commander Ade Adelekan - who was leading the Met operation - said: \"As the crowds began to swell in Trafalgar Square, it became impossible for people maintain social distancing and keep each other safe.\n\n\"In the interest of public safety, officers then worked quickly to disperse crowds. I am grateful to those members of the demonstration who listened to officers and went home.\n\n\"However, I am very frustrated to see that nine officers were injured during clashes with a small minority of protestors. This is especially saddening in light of the injuries sustained by officers last weekend.\n\n\"We will be supporting those officers who were injured and I wish them a very speedy recovery.\"", "An airline union official says he believes that EasyJet is \"hanging by a thread\".\n\nIn a leaked recording obtained by BBC News, Martin Entwisle said the company was in a \"really, really dire situation.\"\n\nMr Entwisle made the comment after a meeting with the airline's chief financial officer, Andrew Findlay.\n\nEasyJet denies that Mr Entwisle's claims in the recording reflect what EasyJet or its finance officer said.\n\nThe meeting between Mr Entwisle, three other representatives of the pilots' union Balpa and senior EasyJet management took place two weeks ago.\n\nIn a subsequent presentation to EasyJet pilots, Mr Entwisle, an EasyJet captain and union rep, said, \"I think the easiest way to put it is that the company is hanging by a thread. The situation is dire.\n\n\"If we don't have a good summer next summer and make a considerable amount of money, we really are going to be out of a job.\"\n\nThe recording comes from the presentation, which was given by the union officials to their members as part of a process to encourage them to take up the airline's offer of part-time working in order to save jobs.\n\nThe language used by union rep Martin Entwisle is stark.\n\nHowever his presentation to fellow pilots at Easyjet, which was recorded and leaked to the BBC, is a pitch.\n\nEasyJet and Balpa were, at the time, in the process of thrashing out a deal to mitigate redundancies.\n\nAfter a prior meeting with Easyjet management, Mr Entwisle's overall message to colleagues is that these are such extreme times, that a deal, which would have seemed inconceivable six months ago, is their best bet.\n\nThe recording does shine a light on just how bleak this winter will be for Easyjet.\n\nBut there is nothing to suggest that the airline's predicament is any worse than that of any of its competitors.\n\nEvery airline has been burning cash for months and no-one can say when international travel will truly recover.\n\nThey've all restructured and flight schedules have been dramatically scaled back in the short to medium term.\n\nIt is vital for all of them that, by next summer, the situation has dramatically improved.\n\nLike all airlines, EasyJet had to take drastic measures in response to the pandemic. It placed around 80% of its pilots on the government's furlough scheme, and secured a £600m loan from the Treasury's emergency coronavirus fund. In May it announced that it planned to lay off up to 4,500 staff across Europe.\n\nBut the recording highlights other measures that EasyJet has apparently taken.\n\nThe airline, which at the start of the pandemic owned over 80% of its aircraft according to Mr Entwisle, has sold over 30% of them, and leased them back, to plough money into the company, and \"more aircraft are about to be sold\".\n\nEasyJet was forced to ground its entire fleet at the height of the pandemic\n\nMr Entwisle also said the winter is looking \"dire\" and will result in the airline cutting back significantly on its schedule. He claims that peak flying each day during the winter \"is not going to exceed 90 aircraft in the UK.\"\n\nThe aircraft have all been allocated to bases but \"some of it is absolutely horrendous - some bases are looking at in excess of 50 - 60% cuts, possibly this winter.\"\n\nEasyJet has previously said it was closing its bases at Newcastle and two London airports, Southend and Stansted.\n\nBalpa announced on Friday that it had reached agreement with EasyJet to avoid any compulsory redundancies. Sixty pilots have left voluntarily, while 1,500 have opted for part-time working, around 75% of all pilots at the airline.\n\nEasyJet employees protesting following the airline's decision to close its Stansted operations\n\nIn a statement EasyJet said: \"The recording does not reflect what EasyJet or its chief financial officer said. We have been clear the whole industry has been impacted by the pandemic, however, EasyJet has taken a prudent approach to capacity and the right actions on cash preservation.\n\n\"The airline continues to keep all liquidity options under review, but no decisions have been taken.\n\n\"Winter flying is always significantly lower than summer and EasyJet will continue with its prudent and dynamic approach to capacity over the winter. No decisions have been taken and we will update the market in due course.\"", "Public health teams are dealing with a number of large outbreaks among students in Scotland\n\nMore than 700 new cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in Scotland in the last 24 hours.\n\nScotland's National Clinical Director Jason Leitch said the pandemic was now \"accelerating\" in Scotland.\n\nThe daily total of 714 is the highest number of cases confirmed in a day since mass testing began, and 156 more than Friday's figure.\n\nThe Scottish government said 11.5% of those newly tested in the past 24 hours had been positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with recently confirmed Covid-19 has also risen by 10 to 99.\n\nThere were no further deaths reported in the past 24 hours, but one death was confirmed from the previous day, bringing the total to 2,511.\n\nMr Leitch said the trend in Scotland would now be for rises of \"300 to 400 to 600\" in the number of cases, rather than smaller increases.\n\n\"Our pandemic in Scotland is presently accelerating - and we need to manage it,\" he told the BBC.\n\nAround 3500 new cases have been confirmed in Scotland over the past seven days.\n\nThe current focus of Scotland's outbreak appears to be in Glasgow, which recorded a weekly case rate of 162.5 per 100,000 people on Thursday.\n\nThe rate is more than twice that of North Lanarkshire, which has the second highest rate among local authorities. It is also the highest seen in Scotland since the start of the outbreak in March.\n\nThe number of tests being carried out is far higher than at the peak of Scotland's outbreak in April - meaning more positive cases will be detected - but the percentage of positive tests is also rising.\n\nMr Leitch said restrictions on households mixing indoors, which were extended across the whole of Scotland on Tuesday, would take a while to have an affect.\n\n\"It's two, three weeks before you show any difference,\" he said.\n\n\"And we've now had universities and colleges back and you can see we now have hundreds of cases inside those institutions.\"\n\nPublic health teams in Scotland are currently dealing with a number of large outbreaks among students living in shared accommodation.\n\nMore than 170 students have tested positive in halls of residence at the University of Glasgow and there have been other outbreaks in Dundee, Aberdeen and Edinburgh.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS Fife has confirmed seven workers from Kettle Produce in Balmalcolm in Fife, have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nIt said all confirmed cases had mild symptoms and were currently isolating at home.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Scottish yacht owner has described how his boat was attacked by three killer whales off the coast of Spain.\n\nGraeme Walker, his wife Moira and their friend Stephen Robinson were targeted early on Tuesday morning.\n\nMr Walker, from Helensburgh in Argyll and Bute, felt a sudden jolt as he was at the helm of the 48ft yacht, before spotting one of the orcas.\n\nThe retired chief financial officer told BBC Scotland: \"We realised they were after the boat.\"\n\nDuring their 45-minute ordeal, off Cape Finisterre, they prepared the life raft as the Promise 3 was rocked and spun round.\n\nThey later discovered a 1.5sq ft chunk had been bitten out of the fibreglass rudder.\n\nSpeaking from La Coruna, where the yacht is undergoing repairs, Mr Walker said: \"I felt a thump on the boat and the helm was pulled out my hand.\n\n\"I was not really sure what was happening, then one of the animals broke the surface, on the left hand side of the boat, for breath.\"\n\nThe yacht's rudder was badly damaged by the whales\n\nMr Walker admitted he had been worried because \"you never know how these things are going to play out\".\n\nHe added: \"None of us have ever been through anything like this before.\"\n\nHe believes two juvenile orcas were responsible for the initial attack but a third one, which was \"a lot bigger\", soon arrived on the scene.\n\nMr Walker called the Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre (MRCC) in Finisterre who advised him to ensure the sail was down and the engine off.\n\nThe operator said the orcas would probably lose interest after 10 minutes - but they continued to attack the 12 tonne boat for 45 minutes.\n\nMr and Mrs Walker feared they might have to leave the yacht on a life raft\n\nMr Walker said: \"The boat would literally spin through 90 degrees when the animals came in. It was as pronounced as that.\n\n\"When they actually bit on the rudder and started shaking the rudder the wheel was spinning from side to side.\n\n\"You could not have touched it. You would have broken your arms.\"\n\nHis main fear was that a broken rudder could potentially have put a hole in the boat and resulted in it taking on water.\n\nMr Walker added: \"The good thing was it was light.\n\n\"If it had happened two hours earlier it would have been pitch dark, which would have been even more unpleasant.\"\n\nThe yacht is currently being repaired in La Coruna\n\nHe said everyone on board stayed calm and \"there was no screaming or bawling or anything like that.\"\n\nAt the time of the attack, the Walkers and Mr Robinson were 720 miles into a 1,600 mile journey from Almerimar in southern Spain to the Clyde coast of Scotland.\n\nOrcas are normally in the area where the attack happened to feed off tuna - but this is the first year they have been know to target boats.\n\nMr Walker said he first became aware of the problem after reading an article in The Guardian but did not realise the incidents had been so frequent.\n\nOn Tuesday the Spanish transport ministry banned boats of 15m or less from sailing close to the coast between Cape Prioriño Grande and Estaca de Bares point in Galicia for a week.\n\nDespite the restrictions he has been delayed in any event as his yacht will take a week to repair.\n\nWhen asked if, borrowing a famous line from Jaws, he now needs a \"bigger boat\", Mr Walker laughed and said it had crossed his mind.\n\nHe added: \"If I can get one that is steel then that might be the way to go.\"", "Pupils from better-off families found it easier to access learning during lockdown, says Mr Chalke\n\nPupil premium funding used to boost the education of the poorest children should be trebled, says the boss of a leading academy chain.\n\nDisadvantaged children were hit hardest by the lockdown, says Steve Chalke, founder of the Oasis Trust which runs 53 academies in England.\n\nThe learning gap between disadvantaged pupils and better off children \"has become a gulf\", he claims.\n\nThe government says it has already allocated £1bn to help pupils catch-up.\n\nBut Mr Chalke questions whether enough of this funding is earmarked for the pupils in most need.\n\nOasis Trust focuses on running schools in deprived areas, and Mr Chalke says he is particularly concerned by recent research which suggests pupils at schools like these fell further behind than better-off children during the lockdown.\n\nTheir teachers will have a tougher job of helping them catch up, he says.\n\nThe Chancellor has cancelled this autumn's budget to focus on emergency support during the pandemic.\n\nMr Chalke argues this support should include a fundamental rethink of the pupil premium, which was introduced by the coalition government in 2011 to boost the education of disadvantaged children.\n\nIt is a cash bonus paid to schools for any pupil who has been eligible for free school meals at any point during the previous six years, or for pupils who have been in care for more than six months continuously.\n\nMr Chalke argues more money is needed, specifically targeted at poorer pupils whose learning has been so badly harmed by the lockdown.\n\n\"Government should respond to the need before it causes irrevocable damage by trebling this funding, at least over the next three years, and focusing it on children living in persistent poverty and facing long-term disadvantage,\" he argues.\n\n\"It is vital that government makes this move now, to ensure that a generation of children, already disadvantaged before the Covid-19 lockdown but whose situations have deteriorated even further, are not completely abandoned, doomed to spend their lives struggling for opportunities their peers will have ready access to, rather than flourishing,\" he said.\n\nAcademy chain leader Steve Chalke, says government cash to help poor pupils catch-up is 'far too little'\n\nMr Chalke also says the government's £350m National Tutoring Programme which is aimed at helping the most disadvantaged pupils catch-up after the lockdown \"is far too little\".\n\nThis funding, for just one academic year, will not address the \"aching long-term need to narrow the disadvantage gap\", he says.\n\n\"It is the equivalent of a very poor quality sticking plaster being stretched across a wound that is far too deep to be healed by short-term interventions.\"\n\nMr Chalke argues that the whole designation of this money as \"catch-up funding\" is wrong.\n\n\"The focus on academic achievement, accompanied by a 'teach to the test' education strategy, fails totally to recognise the heart of the issue.\n\n\"Despite the fact that there is, at last, a focus on student wellbeing in the national curriculum, until we develop an education strategy that commits cash and learning time to working with the adverse and traumatic childhood experiences that many disadvantaged students suffer, and have suffered through lockdown, we are wasting public money.\n\n\"That's why the attainment gap has never been tackled successfully, despite the many millions already spent on improving outcomes for disadvantaged students.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Department for Education said the best place for disadvantaged children was back in school, where the government's £1bn Covid catch-up package was \"tackling the impact of lost teaching time\".\n\nThis includes £350m for disadvantaged students through the National Tutoring Programme, \"which is in addition to our £2.4bn pupil premium to improve these pupils' attainment and outcomes,\" said the statement.\n\n\"Head teachers and school leaders are best placed to make decisions about their pupils and which of them need the most support,\" said the spokeswoman.", "Jo Malone said her former company's treatment of John Boyega was \"despicable\"\n\nJo Malone has criticised the perfume brand bearing her name for their treatment of the actor John Boyega.\n\nMalone is no longer personally associated with the company, having sold it to Estee Lauder in 1999.\n\nThe company, Jo Malone London, apologised after replacing the Star Wars actor in an aftershave advert for the Chinese market.\n\n\"I am so horrified and disgusted about what has been done to John,\" Malone told ITV's Lorraine on Friday.\n\n\"How dare somebody treat him [like that], and he finds out he is replaced on social media?\n\n\"They never spoke to him. That for me is utterly despicable and is disgusting.\"\n\nJo Malone London re-shot the advert the Star Wars actor made, in his home town of London, for broadcast in China.\n\nWhile the script for the aftershave commercial - which was originally conceived and directed by the British star - remained largely the same, it saw him replaced by another actor, Liu Haoran.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Spot the difference: John Boyega advert and the Chinese version\n\nThe original version, entitled London Gent, showed Boyega hanging out with friends and family in Peckham, where he grew up, but they were also removed for Chinese audiences.\n\nBoyega stepped down as an ambassador for the company in protest over their decision.\n\nThe firm issued an apology to Boyega on Monday, saying: \"We deeply apologise for what, on our end, was a mistake in the local execution of the John Boyega campaign.\"\n\nJo Malone London reiterated their apology on Thursday, clarifying that the founder has not been involved with her former company since 2006.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jo Malone London This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFormer owner Malone expressed her dismay at being dragged into the situation on social media earlier this week.\n\nSpeaking to Lorraine on Friday, she added: \"From a personal level, I feel heartbroken by this and I don't know where to turn.\"\n\n\"This has gone global and my name has been associated,\" she went on. \"It's been done in my name but also people think it's me.\"\n\n\"If I'd have been standing in those shoes I promise you John this wouldn't have happened.\n\nMalone added: \"This man wasn't using his image to just promote something - he brought his creativity [to the advert].\"\n\nShe said Boyega \"brought his life story to people and to that brand and how dare somebody treat him [like that] and he finds out he's been replaced on social media. That's the bit that really gets to me.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "DIY items and homeware sales increased as lockdown meant we spent more time at home\n\nBritish retail sales have continued to increase for the fourth consecutive month, boosted by spending on household goods and DIY, according to official figures.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) said retail sales volumes rose by 0.8% between July and August.\n\nSales are now 4% higher than in March, when a pandemic was declared.\n\n\"Retail sales continued to grow, further surpassing their pre-pandemic level,\" the ONS said.\n\n\"Sales of household goods thrived as the demand for home improvement continued and, despite a dip this month, online sales remained high,\" said Jonathan Athow, deputy national statistician for economic statistics at the ONS.\n\nSpending on household goods was particularly strong in August, with retailers reporting a 9.9% jump in sales of homeware products compared with the pre-pandemic levels seen in February.\n\nBut August's increase was smaller than the post-lockdown rebound seen in July, when retail sales volumes grew 3.6%.\n\nOnline sales also fell by 2.5% in August when compared with the previous month. But the strong growth in the number of customers shopping online during the pandemic has meant that sales were still 46.8% higher than in February.\n\nAlthough online retailers might have seen higher numbers of clicks in recent months, many High Street stores are still struggling to attract customers after lockdown measures were eased nationally.\n\nThe volume of items sold in clothing shops, for example, still stood 15.9% below February's pre-pandemic levels in August.\n\n\"Clothing stores continued to struggle with sales still well below their February level. Overall, the switch to greater online sales means the High Street remains under pressure,\" Mr Athow added.\n\nHelen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, said: \"The recovery remains a mixed bag, with high growth in online sales, while city centre shops suffered as a result of low footfall.\"\n\nShe added: \"With further lockdowns looming, the government must provide clarity on the impact it will have for shops.\n\n\"Retailers have invested hundreds of millions making stores safe and secure for customers during the pandemic; this includes perspex screens, social distancing measures and additional hygiene measures. As such, retail remains a safe space for consumers, even under local lockdowns.\"\n\nWhile August saw some consumers returning to city centres to take advantage of the government's Eat Out to Help Out scheme, industry figures have suggested those areas might struggle to reach pre-pandemic levels of footfall.\n\nPaint is in, stilettos are out.\n\nThey may be our shopping bills, but they're being carefully scrutinised by the chancellor and the Bank of England. For retail sales make up about a quarter of our economy, an important guide to how well or not the recovery is going. And the level of spending is back above where it was prior to the pandemic.\n\nBut it's not just about how much, but why and what we are spending on. Is it a case of can't or won't?\n\nA drop in sales of clothing might reflect fewer people wanting or being able to browse on the High Street and put off by the inability to try on before you buy. If they think we are sitting on funds we can spend, measures like VAT cuts can give us the nudge to get out there and move the economy along.\n\nBut less spending on extra treats may also reflect lower incomes or nerves about job prospects. And that means we may need more support for saving and creating jobs - there are growing hints that we may hear more on that in the Budget\n\nAt this tricky time, a peek into the nation's shopping basket is more than just a nosy indulgence.\n\nEntrepreneur and ex-Dragons' Den star Theo Paphitis told the BBC's Today programme: \"It's really interesting as you see the confidence in the consumer in travelling outside their house. Our business outside the metropolitan areas... is remarkably stronger than it is within.\n\n\"It's the fact that people lose the confidence to go far outside their normal area of habitat,\" he said.\n\n\"It will never be the same again - I really can't see our stores ever reaching the levels in metropolitan areas that they did before, because I think the genie's out of the bottle.\"\n\nM&S announced in August it will cut 7,000 jobs across stores and management\n\nSeveral High Street chains also announced job cuts in August as they battled to shore up their businesses during the pandemic.\n\nSandwich chain Pret A Manger announced it would cut 3,000 jobs, or more than a third of its workforce, while department store chains Debenhams and M&S said they would be cutting 2,500 and 7,000 jobs.\n\nLisa Hooker, consumer markets leader at PwC, said that the run-up to Christmas would be crucial for retailers.\n\n\"Retailers will be hoping that the fragile recovery is not derailed by more widespread lockdowns, rising unemployment or dented consumer confidence,\" she said.", "Some UK railway franchises could be nationalised when emergency deals set up during the coronavirus pandemic expire on Sunday.\n\nInsiders said talks between the government and train firms on new deals were going \"right to the wire\".\n\nThe government has pumped billions of pounds into the railways to cover the fall in ticket revenue from low passenger numbers during the pandemic.\n\nBut sources said some contracts could be handed back to the government.\n\nMany private operators are expected to remain in place under similar emergency arrangements, but some may decide to opt out.\n\nThe Department for Transport said discussions were \"ongoing\" and it wouldn't comment on commercially-sensitive negotiations.\n\nIn the House of Commons on Thursday Labour's Jim McMahon said it was \"absolutely staggering\" that Transport Secretary Grant Shapps did not have an update on the situation at such a late stage.\n\nA deadline of this Sunday has been in place since March when the current emergency contracts were signed.\n\nMr Shapps said it was right that the negotiations with nine different companies were not done \"in public\".\n\nSecuring new agreements, even ones which will probably only cover the short-term control and finances of the railways, is complicated by two main factors.\n\nThe first is that no-one can say when passenger numbers on the railways will return to pre-pandemic levels.\n\nThe second is the fact that certain train companies were losing money before the pandemic.\n\nIn fact, at the beginning of the year ministers were poised to announce an overhaul of Britain's railways.\n\nReliability on certain networks had been poor and some train companies were losing money.\n\nThe government took control of the operator Northern in January. South Western Railway was heading in a similar direction.\n\nBut when the pandemic hit, the contracts between the Department for Transport and private companies were suspended, not scrapped.\n\nIt means some financial obligations from that period remain.\n\nThat backdrop and the uncertainty about future passenger numbers, and therefore the commercial viability of the railways in the longer-term, means certain rail operators might be tempted to opt out.\n\nEven if all of the train operators sign-up to a series of new emergency contracts by Sunday, a longer-term deal still needs to be worked-out.\n\nThe Department for Transport is said to favour a shift towards a \"concessionary model\" for the railways, which is already in operation on Merseyrail and the London Overground.\n\nIt means private companies run services for a fixed fee and any loss or profit falls to the government in charge.\n\nThis system, which shifts risk away from private firms, is said to be favoured by train companies operating large, complicated commuter networks.\n\nOperators in charge of intercity networks want to maintain some of the commercial flexibility that they had in the past, over things such as pricing.\n\nHowever solving the longer-term conundrum is made harder by the resurgence of the virus and the uncertainty that adds over passenger numbers.\n\nFor now, government guidelines over social-distancing are supposed to limit passenger numbers on trains to around 40% to 50%.", "Mark D'arcy-Smith was having a drink with a friend when another customer used the pub's ordering app to send a banana to his table.\n\nHe's been speaking to Radio 1 Newsbeat about his relief at seeing that customer convicted of a racially aggravated public order offence.\n\nMark, a 25-year-old black man, says staff at The Richmal Crompton Wetherspoon pub in Bromley, south-east London initially told him to take his complaint to head office.\n\nThe 30p banana was sent anonymously and police described the search for the sender as \"a painstaking investigation\".\n\nLouie Kincella, 20, was found guilty this week and ordered to pay £1280 in fines and court costs.\n\n\"It's been stressing me out in the last year that the investigation would not go as far as I hoped.\" Mark tells us.\n\n\"In the court I was with my dad and we both felt this massive weight lifted off our shoulders.\n\n\"It must have been the first time in ages that I got a good night's sleep.\"\n\nThe court hearing was the first time he had seen Kincella - and he was not what he expected.\n\n\"I was quite surprised as I had in my head what someone would look like.\n\n\"To see someone so young that was quite surprising to me.\"\n\nThe piece of fruit was sent to Mr D'arcy-Smith's table in the Richmal Crompton pub\n\nMark says he doesn't blame the server who brought the banana over but he had hoped the pub \"would be more supportive\".\n\n\"I can accept that not everyone is going to be knowledgeable of when something doesn't seem right.\n\n\"I was at peace with that. [I understand] they would have missed it.\"\n\nA Wetherspoon spokesman said the manager had met with Mr D'arcy-Smith \"to apologise to him, and the company does so once again now\".\n\nMark says police took the incident, in November last year, seriously from the start.\n\n\"From the get-go, when we first spoke [to police] they wanted to make sure they took it as seriously as I have.\n\n\"Whenever they did hit a road block they let me know that they were still investigating.\"\n\nMark works in consumer research and now wants to get back to focussing on his day job.\n\n\"You do hope [this means] you have less people feeling they can do what happened to me.\"\n\nKincella has been barred from the pub.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.\n• None Man fined for ordering banana for black man in pub", "Sir Van claims scientists are \"making up crooked facts\" to justify measures that \"enslave\" the population\n\nNorthern Ireland's health minister has described three new songs by Sir Van Morrison that protest against coronavirus lockdowns as \"dangerous\".\n\nIn the lyrics, Sir Van claims scientists are \"making up crooked facts\" to justify measures that \"enslave\" the population.\n\n\"The new normal, is not normal,\" he sings. \"We were born to be free\".\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said if Sir Van had scientific facts he should present them.\n\nSir Van Morrison refers to a debunked Covid-19 conspiracy theory in one of his new anti-lockdown songs.\n\nThe track As I Walked Out includes the lyrics: \"Well on the government website from the 21 March 2020 / It said COVID-19 was no longer high risk\".\n\nIt's a reference to a UK government page that stated \"Covid-19 is no longer considered to be a high consequence infectious disease (HCID) in the UK\".\n\nThat much is true - but that doesn't mean that coronavirus is harmless.\n\nThe HCID designation is given for very fatal diseases: for example Ebola, which kills more than 50% of infected people.\n\nCovid-19 was initially classified as HCID in January - when little was known about it.\n\nBy March, more information and testing prompted authorities to revise the classification.\n\nIt's now thought the Covid-19 fatality rate is closer to 1%. The danger, scientists say, is that it is also highly infectious, and there is no proven vaccine or treatment.\n\nThe government message was widely shared on social media, largely by coronavirus denialists and opponents of restrictions, who have cited it as \"evidence\" that the lockdown was based on a \"hoax\".\n\nMr Swann said: \"I don't know where he gets his facts. I know where the emotions are on this, but I will say that sort of messaging is dangerous.\n\n\"Our messaging is about saving lives.\n\n\"If Van wanted to sing a song about saving lives, then that would be more in keeping with where we are at the minute.\"\n\nHe added: \"If Van Morrison has counter-scientific facts that he's prepared to stand over, and have that debate with the chief scientific adviser, then I think that's how he should do it.\"\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said Sir Van should sing about saving lives\n\nMr Swann has warned that Northern Ireland could again face tighter restrictions if new cases of Covid-19 continue to rise.\n\nNiall Murphy, a prominent solicitor who was critically ill with Covid-19, described the songs as \"offensive and dangerous\".\n\n\"I had a ventilator placed down my gullet while I was in an induced coma for 14 days, and the same time in recovery, and then in and out of intensive care and I would not want anybody to experience that,\" he told BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme.\n\n\"This very serious solemn public health message is being sullied by someone who should know better.\"\n\nSean McGovern, a consultant in emergency medicine, said that figures showed that Covid-19 is the second most common cause of death in Northern Ireland, behind only cancer.\n\nHe added that it was \"wrong to use celebrity status to dilute the message and create problems\".\n\nBelfast city councillor Emmet McDonough-Brown, of the Alliance Party, said he has asked the council to consider revoking Sir Van's freedom of Belfast over the songs.\n\nHowever, DUP MP Sammy Wilson has defended Sir Van and said he was \"raising an important point\".\n\n\"It's a debate which has been going on for a long, long time, that we do ask the kind of questions that he has asked in these songs - how much of our freedom do we give to the government and how much should the government rely on us to use our common sense?\"\n\nSir Van recorded the three songs recently in Belfast and England.\n\nNo More Lockdown is the most strident of the three tracks. \"No more lockdown / No more government overreach,\" the musician sings in the chorus. \"No more fascist bullies / Disturbing our peace.\n\n\"No more taking of our freedom / And our God given rights / Pretending it's for our safety / When it's really to enslave.\"\n\nSir Van has previously caused controversy by denouncing what he called the \"pseudoscience\" around coronavirus.\n\nLaunching a campaign to \"save live music\" on his website last month, the 75-year-old said socially-distanced gigs were not economically viable.\n\n\"I call on my fellow singers, musicians, writers, producers, promoters and others in the industry to fight with me on this. Come forward, stand up, fight the pseudoscience and speak up.\"\n\nSir Van said his new songs would be released at two-week intervals with the first, Born To Be Free, arriving on 25 September.\n\nIn a statement announcing the songs, the musician said: \"I'm not telling people what to do or think, the government is doing a great job of that already.\n\nSir Van said his new songs would be released at two-week intervals\n\n\"It's about freedom of choice, I believe people should have the right to think for themselves.\"\n\nHowever, Mr Swann urged people to \"listen to the health advice coming from the professionals - the chief medical officer and the chief scientific adviser.\n\n\"They are the people who see the dangers.\n\n\"I know whose message I would rather listen to, that's the message of the professional, Dr Michael McBride and Professor Ian Young.\"", "Hundreds of pupils have been sent home from Olchfa Comprehensive School\n\nHundreds of children at one of Wales' biggest schools have been sent home to self-isolate after a pupil tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nOlchfa Comprehensive School has sent letters to parents of those affected advising them of what they have to do.\n\nA total of 455 sixth formers must stay at home for two weeks. No staff are self-isolating.\n\nHead teacher Hugh Davies has told parents of other pupils at the Swansea school that they may still attend.\n\nSwansea Council said the rest of the school was running normally and the authority was working with Public Health Wales and NHS Wales' Test Trace and Protect service to ensure appropriate measures were in place to protect students, staff and the wider community.\n\nA spokesman said: \"All close contacts of the case have been identified and have received appropriate advice to self-isolate. Children who have not been identified as a close contact do not need to self-isolate and do not require testing for the virus.\"\n\nHead teacher Hugh Davies has written to parents about the matter\n\nThe letter to parents of children who were not close contacts of the child with the positive test also advised them to continue to keep an eye on their children as a precaution.\n\nIt said parents should be alert to any symptoms of Covid-19 and should self isolate if they develop symptoms.\n\nIt is believed that more than 50 schools across Wales have reported Covid-19 incidents to date.\n\nAll Year Seven children at two Newport secondary schools were told to self-isolate after pupils tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nAt Bridgend's Bryntirion Comprehensive School, more than 200 pupils were sent home.\n\nIn Cardiff, eight children and three staff at Llanishen Fach Primary School were asked to self-isolate, while 57 youngsters and two employees at Whitchurch High School were also sent home.", "Footballer Lionel Messi can register his name as a trademark after a nine-year legal battle, the EU's top court has ruled.\n\nThe European Court of Justice dismissed an appeal from Spanish cycling company Massi and the EU's intellectual property office, EUIPO.\n\nThe Barcelona footballer first applied to trademark his surname as a sportswear brand in 2011.\n\nBut Massi argued the similarity between their logos would cause confusion.\n\nThe European Court of Justice (ECJ) said that the star player's reputation could be taken into account when weighing up whether the public would be able to tell the difference between the two brands.\n\nIn doing so, it upheld a ruling by the EU's General Court in 2018 that the footballer was too well known for confusion to arise.\n\nMassi, which sells cycle clothing and equipment, was successful in its initial challenge to the Barcelona striker's application. But it lost out when Lionel Messi brought an appeal to the General Court, which ruled in his favour.\n\nMessi, 33, who wears the number 10 shirt, has been crowned world football player of the year a record six times and is the world's highest-paid soccer player, according to Forbes. It puts his total earnings for 2020 at $126m (£97m).\n\nIn August, he made headlines by sending a fax to his club declaring his intention to leave.\n\nBut when Barcelona responded by insisting that any team that took him on would have to honour a €700m (£624m) release clause, he changed his mind, saying he did not want to face \"the club I love\" in court.", "Prosecutors say Jerry Harris could face up to 30 years in prison\n\nJeremiah \"Jerry\" Harris, one of the stars of the Netflix documentary series Cheer, has been arrested and charged with producing child sex images.\n\nMr Harris, 21, allegedly enticed an underage boy to produce sexually explicit videos and photos of himself, the US attorney's office said.\n\nAccording to court records, Mr Harris admitted to soliciting and receiving explicit images from the minor.\n\nBut a spokesperson for the star has denied the allegations.\n\nMr Harris was arrested on Thursday morning and later appeared in court in Chicago.\n\nHe did not enter a plea. A judge said a hearing would be held on Monday to determine if he will stay in custody or be released on bail, according to US media reports.\n\nMr Harris featured prominently in the popular series Cheer, which followed a cheerleading team from Navarro College in Texas as they sought a national title.\n\nMr Harris is accused of soliciting images from the minor from December 2018 to March 2020.\n\nThe victim informed Mr Harris during their initial online encounter that he was 13 years old, a criminal complaint says.\n\nIf convicted on the federal child pornography charge, Mr Harris faces up to 30 years in prison.\n\nThe charge comes after a lawsuit was filed earlier this week, in which Mr Harris was accused of child sexual exploitation and abuse of two alleged male victims.\n\nA spokesperson told CNN at the time that \"we categorically dispute the claims\" and \"are confident that when the investigation is completed the true facts will be revealed\".\n\nBut court documents say Mr Harris admitted during an interview with law enforcement officials to soliciting and receiving explicit images from one of the minors and \"at least between 10 to 15 other individuals he knew were minors\".\n\nOfficials say investigations are ongoing and have called for anyone with more information to come forward.\n\nCheer was an instant success when it was released on streaming service Netflix in January, and recently won two Emmy Awards.\n\nMr Harris gained popularity for his enthusiastic \"mat talk\" - when cheerleaders on the sidelines shout encouragement to teammates during difficult stunts.\n\nEarlier this year, he interviewed celebrities on the Oscars red carpet for The Ellen DeGeneres Show.\n• None Inside the world of the UK's student cheerleaders", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 4 and 11 September. Send your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs which can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you follow current coronavirus guidelines and take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nLinda Robertson from Longniddry discovered the Smoo cave in Durness on a staycation last week. \"What a wonderful site to behold,\" she said.\n\nA pine marten was Anne Patterson's \"surprise guest\" in her garden in Inverness. She said it was a lovely treat to see the animal so close.\n\nMary McClymont caught the sunrise at Coldingham Bay in the Borders just as the sun was rising, proving the early bird catches the... best pictures.\n\nEnd of an era: Glyn Booton was on his way to photograph the Queen of Scots steam train when he captured another great icon of its time on its journey to self-isolation along the A702.\n\nAndy Nicholson was out on a favourite walk on Craig Fonvuick above Killiecrankie looking up Glen Girnaig when he photographed this scene. He said the rainbow brought out the colours of the heather.\n\nTwo's company as a peacock butterfly and a bumblebee shared some space on a sedum plant in Joe Fitzpatrick's garden in Glenrothes.\n\nA horse and rider got the beach at Whiting Bay on Arran all to themselves as the evening sun sparkled on the water.\n\n\"Like a huge fire\" is how Ian Barnes from Lendalfoot describes this pic of the sun setting over the Mull of Kintyre, showing Ailsa Craig.\n\n\"I'm not sharing\". This cheeky face was caught chowing down on his lunch at Pollok Park by Rosie McGeachan from Glasgow.\n\nLinda Young from Dunfermline took a trip doon the watter in Glasgow in her RIB and passed the majestic Titan Crane which is 100 years old this year.\n\n\"Oi - got any peanuts?\" is what this gallus squirrel might be saying to Boss the beagle in a garden stand-off last week in Avonbridge, Falkirk. Gregor Wilson was there to witness the confrontation.\n\nTwo-year-old Daniel plays hide-and-seek in the bushes at his local park in Renfrew. His dad Allan tells us he had been asking to go there from the minute he woke up at 07:00, even in the rain.\n\nThis vision made Kevin Strachan look twice at the River Tay in Perth. Luckily, he had his camera ready to capture the \"snap\".\n\nGlasgow on a dreich night may be quiet and gloomy, but it's beautiful too, as seen by Graham Fraser.\n\nStuart Beattie spotted this solo hiker on the West Highland Way passing Buchaille Etive Mor, in a picture he calls \"96 miles of memories\".\n\nStephen Regel from Nottinghamshire must have been very quiet to not startle this little guy at Kinlochmoidart who was sniffing out some berry treats.\n\nIt must be lucky to find a double rainbow and a near-deserted beach and Andrew Bunyan found both at Seilebost beach on the Isle of Harris.\n\nItalian job: the Italian garden at Glamis Castle looks ready to star in its own movie - shot by Alan Fraser during a trip to visit relatives in the area.\n\nIt's not the USA. But there's definitely surfin' going on at Sandend beach on the Moray coast. Sam Ross caught these surfers, if not the wave, on a holiday to Cullen.\n\nCarl Taylor took this chilling picture at Bracklinn Falls in Callander just as the mist was coming down.\n\nA happy message from this painted pebble found by Joel Liwanag from Edinburgh on a marble bench after a long and tiring hike in Kinlochleven.\n\nBill Cameron from Lochaber is a lucky man. He got to see this stunning view of the remains of the old fort of Fort William at Loch Linnhe at sunset.\n\nMelissa Rarity from Ayr pretty much captured autumn in this one pic of a stunning tree in Fairlie Glen.\n\nHow accommodating of this stag to wander into Kim Gibson's shot from the Kingshouse Hotel in Glencoe just at the right time.\n\nCallum Kerr spotted the \"NHS Spitfire\" on Thursday as it toured Scotland's hospitals to show appreciation for workers' efforts during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nJane Sayliss spent hours watching the seals in Gruinard Bay, Wester Ross. She said this one seemed to wave at her before baring its teeth.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.", "The woman was transferred to another hospital during the cyber-attack\n\nGerman police have launched a homicide investigation after a woman died during a cyber-attack on a hospital.\n\nHackers disabled computer systems at Düsseldorf University Hospital and the patient died while doctors attempted to transfer her to another hospital.\n\nCologne prosecutors officially launched a negligent homicide case this morning saying hackers could be blamed.\n\nOne expert said, if confirmed, it would be the first known case of a life being lost as a result of a hack.\n\nThe ransomware attack hit the hospital on the night of 9 September, scrambling data and making computer systems inoperable.\n\nSuch attacks are one of the most serious threats in cyber-security with dozens of high profile attacks so far this year. The attackers can demand large payments in cryptocurrency Bitcoin in exchange for a software key that unlocks IT systems.\n\nThe female patient, from Düsseldorf, was due to have scheduled life-saving treatment and was transferred to another hospital in Wuppertal which is roughly 19 miles (30km) away.\n\nSome local reports suggest the hackers did not intend to attack the hospital and in fact were trying to target a different university. Once the hackers had realised their mistake it is reported they gave the hospital the decryption key without demanding payment before disappearing.\n\nDetectives have brought in cyber-security experts to ascertain whether there is a link between the hack and the patient's death, with the hospital also likely to be investigated.\n\nGermany's national cyber-security authority says it is on site at the hospital helping the hospital's IT staff rebuild systems.\n\nIts president Arne Schönbohm said hackers took advantage of a well-known vulnerability in a piece of VPN (virtual private network) software developed by Citrix, and warned other organisations to protect themselves from the flaw.\n\n\"We warned of the vulnerability as early as January and pointed out the consequences of its exploitation. Attackers gain access to the internal networks and systems and can still paralyse them months later.\n\n\"I can only stress that such warnings should not be ignored or postponed, but need appropriate measures immediately. The incident shows once again how seriously this risk must be taken.\"\n\nFormer chief executive of the UK's National Cyber Security Centre Ciaran Martin said: \"If confirmed, this tragedy would be the first known case of a death directly linked to a cyber-attack. It is not surprising that the cause of this is a ransomware attack by criminals rather than an attack by a nation state or terrorists.\n\n\"Although the purpose of ransomware is to make money, it stops systems working. So if you attack a hospital, then things like this are likely to happen. There were a few near misses across Europe earlier in the year and this looks, sadly, like the worst might have come to pass.\"\n\nLast month, technology giant Garmin is understood to have paid hackers a multi-million pound sum after its IT and production systems were taken offline in a ransomware attack.\n\nLaw enforcement agencies encourage victims not to pay ransoms arguing it fuels organised cyber-crime operations.", "Passengers who got out were \"unsure\" of what to do once they were on the wing\n\nPassengers were stuck on the wing of a plane during an emergency evacuation at Exeter airport, a report has found.\n\nCrew on the Flybe flight to Alicante on 28 February 2019 reported smoke filling the cabin and cockpit during take-off.\n\nAn Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) report said passengers escaping via overwing exits faced a \"large drop\" to the ground.\n\nSome then re-entered the plane to find an alternative escape route, creating a \"bottle-neck\" in the cabin.\n\nOne hundred passengers and five crew members were on-board when a pilot noticed the smoke.\n\nSeveral passengers commented that they found the rear slides very steep and were surprised by how quickly they slid down them. One elderly passenger broke their ankle while exiting via one of the rear slides\n\nSome passengers who tried to leave via overwing emergency exits were \"unsure\" of what to do once outside and said it was unclear they were supposed to climb down, the report said.\n\nThe report said flaps on the wings which would have reduced the drop to the ground - which was more than 2m - were not fully deployed due to the speed the aircraft's engines were shut down.\n\nThis meant many were \"reluctant to jump or slide off the wing\" and some re-entered the cabin in order to get to the escape slides.\n\nAndy Feaver, who was at the front of the plane and exited via a slide, said it was \"scary\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Andy Feaver This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe saw people standing on the wings.\n\n\"A lot of ladies and older people couldn't jump off,\" he said.\n\n\"Imagine if there was a fire in there, obviously you are going to jump but I think you would have broken your legs because it was so high.\"\n\nThe report found the fumes were caused by cleaning chemicals left after overnight maintenance to the engine.\n\nAn internal investigation by Flybe, which went into administration in March, identified \"a lack of specific training or assisting documentation\" for engineers completing the task.\n\nThe AAIB made four safety recommendations relating to overwing exits.", "A rapid test can accurately diagnose a coronavirus infection within 90 minutes without needing a specialist laboratory, say scientists.\n\nThe study by Imperial College London showed the \"lab-on-a-chip\" gave comparable results to current tests.\n\nThe device is already being used in eight NHS hospitals to quickly identify patients who are carrying the virus.\n\nHowever, experts warn that the kit will not be a solution to the beleaguered Test and Trace programme.\n\nThe device, developed by the company DnaNudge, can be used by anyone capable of taking a swab of the nose or throat.\n\nThe swab is placed inside a disposable blue cartridge which contains the chemicals needed for the test.\n\nThis in turn is slotted into a shoebox-sized machine to perform the analysis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"A device this small is effectively a laboratory\" - Prof Chris Toumazou, of DnaNudge, explains how the new test works\n\nThe study, published in the Lancet Microbe, compared results when samples from 386 people were given both the DnaNudge and standard laboratory tests.\n\n\"The performance was comparable, which is very reassuring when you're trying to bring in a new technology,\" said Prof Graham Cooke, from Imperial College London.\n\n\"Many tests involve a trade-off between speed and accuracy, but this test manages to achieve both.\"\n\nIf the lab tests said the patient was free of the virus, so did the rapid test. If the lab tests said the patient had the virus, the rapid test agreed 94% of the time.\n\nThe UK has already ordered 5,000 of the Nudgebox machines and 5.8 million of the disposable cartridges.\n\nHowever, there is a major drawback as each box can handle only one test at a time. So during a day, one box could perform around 16 tests.\n\nProf Cooke said: \"They are useful in clinical settings when you are trying to make a rapid decision.\"\n\nHe described a patient last week who was rapidly identified as having Covid and started on the drugs dexamethasone and remdesivir.\n\nThe tests could become even more useful for hospitals in the future as it is theoretically possible to test for coronavirus, flu and respiratory syncytial virus (a major reason young children are admitted to hospital) at the same time.\n\nHowever, the capacity issue means the test cannot solve the problems with NHS Test and Trace or help with Operation Moonshot and the plans for 10 million tests per day.\n\nTesting 60,000 people at a stadium ahead of a football match would require 60,000 boxes, but it may be useful at smaller venues.\n\nProf Lawrence Young, who was not part of the research and from the University of Warwick, said the technology was \"innovative\".\n\nHe added: \"The CovidNudge test could have an important role where near-patient, real-time decision-making is necessary, such as screening patients for admission to hospital or for surgery.\n\n\"[However,] this is not the answer to universal mass testing. \"", "Louella Fletcher-Michie was found dead in a wooded area on the edge of the Bestival site\n\nA man who gave his girlfriend drugs at a music festival and filmed her as she died will not face a retrial after his manslaughter conviction was overturned.\n\nCeon Broughton, 31, gave Louella Fletcher-Michie, daughter of Holby City actor John Michie, a fatal dose of a drug at Bestival in Dorset in 2017.\n\nHe was released from jail after his manslaughter conviction was quashed at the Court of Appeal last month.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service said it was \"not taking the matter further\".\n\nThe family of Miss Fletcher-Michie declined to comment, but Mr Michie posted a photo of his daughter on Instagram with the caption: \"Truth stands When the law falls Love is eternal\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBroughton, 31, a rapper from Enfield, north London, was initially jailed for eight-and-a-half years in 2019 over the death of 24-year-old Miss Fletcher-Michie.\n\nHe had given her hallucinogenic class A drug 2-CP at the festival.\n\nHis conviction for supplying the drug stands.\n\nCeon Broughton had denied the manslaughter of his girlfriend Louella Fletcher-Michie\n\nShe was found dead in woodland, 400m from the festival's hospital tent in the early hours of 11 September.\n\nIn August, three judges at the Court of Appeal ruled to overturn the conviction of manslaughter by gross negligence.\n\nOn Thursday, Karen Harrold, head of the CPS Appeals and Review Unit, said: \"After careful consideration of the Court of Appeal judgment in the Ceon Broughton case, the CPS is not taking the matter further.\"\n\nShe said police and prosecution built the \"strongest case they could\", including an expert medical witness who said it was significantly likely that with medical intervention, Ms Fletcher-Michie would have survived.\n\nMs Fletcher-Michie's father is actor John Michie, who starred in Holby City and Coronation Street\n\n\"However, the appeal judgment makes it clear that it must be proven with certainty that it was a lack of medical intervention which was the cause of death, and sadly there is no further evidence available to provide the necessary certainty in this case,\" she said.\n\n\"We have met with the family of Ms Fletcher-Michie to explain this decision in full and our thoughts remain with them at this difficult time.\"\n\nA statement issued by Broughton's lawyers when his conviction was overturned said: \"Ceon remains devastated by her death.\n\n\"He has always wished that he could have done more to save her.\n\n\"He loved Louella and she him, but he knows that no words will ever be sufficient to convey his sense of responsibility for what happened or to begin to remove the pain that others have been caused.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "David Stevens co-founded the motor insurance company with his wife Heather in 1991\n\nA boss is giving his staff £10m as a thank-you to mark his retirement.\n\nThe gift from Admiral's Chief Executive David Stevens and his wife Heather will be shared between 7,500 staff in south Wales and 3,000 overseas.\n\nFull-time workers will get £1,000 with part-time staff receiving £500.\n\nMr Stevens, who co-founded the Cardiff-based motor insurance company with his wife in 1991, said he was \"proud and fortunate to have worked with a such a special group of people\".\n\n\"Saying thank you to all Admiral staff in this way is the right thing to do,\" he said.\n\n\"Their hard work and dedication has allowed Admiral to grow from a start-up to over 11,000 staff worldwide.\n\n\"And all of this while remaining a great place to work. Thank you from myself and my wife to everyone at Admiral.\"\n\nIt follows a similar gesture by former chief executive - and fellow co-founder - Henry Engelhardt who gave a £1,000 retirement thank you to full-time staff back in 2016, which at the time came to about £7m.\n\nMr Stevens is being succeeded as chief executive by Milena Mondini de Focatilis.\n\nAdmiral was launched selling car insurance over the phone in Cardiff with a team of just 57.\n\nIts other UK offices are in Swansea and Newport, with overseas sites in Spain, Italy, France, Canada, the US and India.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch how London celebrated the start of 2020\n\nLondon's New Year's Eve fireworks have been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, the mayor has revealed.\n\nAbout 100,000 people normally pack the streets around Victoria Embankment for the annual event.\n\nHowever, Sadiq Khan told LBC that \"we simply can't afford to have numbers of people congregating\".\n\nHe said they were instead \"working on something people can enjoy in the comfort and safety of their living rooms on TV\".\n\nAbout 100,000 people attend the event in central London every year\n\nMore than 12,000 fireworks feature in the display, which is set to music and watched by about 12 million people on TV. For the past five years the event has been ticketed due to high demand.\n\nExplaining the need for something to replace the fireworks, Mr Khan said London \"really can't lose that slot... because New Year's Eve is a really good opportunity for the rest of the world to see how wonderful our city is\".\n\nHe added that it was important to \"continue investing in our city\" to try to attract tourists \"particularly during a recession\".\n\nA replacement for the event will be announced \"in due course\", the mayor's office said\n\nThe decision to cancel the event has been called \"a hammer blow to central London\", by one Conservative London Assembly member.\n\nTony Devenish, the member for West Central, said it \"effectively warns visitors to stay away on New year's Eve, which will inevitably hurt local businesses\".\n\nA mayoral spokesperson told the BBC that City Hall was \"working up plans to ensure that we usher in the new year in London in a spectacular but safe way\", adding that an announcement would be made \"in due course\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The pace of Europe's Covid-19 vaccination campaign has picked up and in many countries infection rates have been falling.\n\nLockdowns are gradually being eased as the summer tourist season gets under way, and there are plans for an EU-wide digital vaccination certificate to be in place by 1 July.\n\nNationwide curfew ended on 20 June, 10 days earlier than planned. Face masks are no longer required outdoors.\n\nRestaurants, cafes and bars can serve customers indoors, with 50% capacity and up to six people per table.\n\nStanding concerts will resume on 30 June and nightclubs on 9 July (with 75% capacity). People attending will need a health pass which shows either full vaccination, a negative test within the previous 72 hours, or else a previous coronavirus infection.\n\nMedical grade masks are compulsory in shops and on public transport.\n\nFrom 30 June, working from home will no longer be compulsory.\n\nOn 21 June, Italy's curfew was scrapped and the whole country, except for the northwest region of Valle d'Aosta, became \"white zone\" - the country's lowest-risk category.\n\nAmong the measures still in place are social distancing (1m) and the wearing of masks indoors (and in crowded outdoor places), and a ban on house parties and large gathering.\n\nNightclubs and discos are also closed.\n\nAll indoor businesses, with the exception of nightclubs, are open.\n\nThe government introduced a \"corona pass\" in April, the first to do so in Europe.\n\nThis shows - either on a phone or on paper - that you have been vaccinated, previously infected or that you have had a negative test within 72 hours.\n\nPeople need to show it for entry to cinemas, museums, hairdressers or indoor dining.\n\nThe Greek government is welcoming tourists from many countries, if they are fully vaccinated or can provide a negative coronavirus test.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in all public places and there is a curfew from 01:30-05:00, but bars, restaurants, museums and archaeological sites are all open.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Greek island of Milos is aiming to become \"Covid-free\" so it can welcome back tourists\n\nCinemas, theatres, museums and restaurants are open at 50% capacity. From 26 June, this increases to 75%.\n\nNightclubs and discos will also be allowed to reopen, with a limit of 150 people.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in enclosed spaces and 1.5m social distancing observed.\n\nShops, bars, restaurants and museums are open, although face coverings remain compulsory in most public places.\n\nNightclubs can now reopen in parts of Spain with low infection rates.\n\nIn Barcelona, they are restricted to 50% of capacity and can stay open until 03:30 - dancers have to wear masks.\n\nSpain began welcoming vaccinated tourists from 7 June. Most European travellers still have to present a negative Covid test on arrival.\n\nBrussels: Outdoor dining resumed in Belgium on 8 May\n\nShops, cinemas, gyms, cafes and restaurants are open, with restrictions. Households can invite up to four people inside.\n\nFrom 1 July, working from home will no longer be mandatory, if the situation continues to improve.\n\nCultural performances, shows and sports competitions can also go ahead, with limited numbers, and more people will be allowed at weddings and other ceremonies and parties.\n\nPortugal has lifted many of its restrictions but face coverings must still be worn in indoor public spaces and some outdoor settings.\n\nBars and nightclubs remain closed, and it's illegal to drink alcohol outdoors in public places, except for pavement cafés and restaurants.\n\nAlcohol cannot be sold after 21:00 unless it is with a meal.\n\nRestaurants, cafes and cultural venues have to close at 01:00 and have capacity limits.\n\nA weekend travel ban is in force in the Lisbon area, starting at 15:00 on Friday, with residents only allowed to leave for essential journeys.\n\nIn Lisbon and in Albufeira (Algarve), cafes, restaurants and non-essential shops have to close by 15:30 at the weekend and 22:30 on weekdays.\n\nPortugal's summer season looks uncertain, yet its Covid figures have improved\n\nRestaurants, cafes, museums and historic buildings have reopened with capacity limits.\n\nFrom 26 June, a number of restrictions are being lifted.\n\nAlcohol can be sold after 22:00, and nightclubs can open, with an entry pass system.\n\nEvents held in public venues such as cinemas, conference centres and concert halls will be allowed, subject to social distancing.\n\nMasks will no longer be compulsory except on public transport, airports and in secondary schools.\n\nOutdoor services in restaurants and bars returned in June. Theme parks, funfairs, cinemas and theatres, gyms and swimming pools, have reopened as well.\n\nFrom 5 July, restaurants and bars will be able to serve customers indoors. Weddings and other indoor events for up to 50 people will be permitted and the numbers at outdoor organised events will increase.\n\nSince June, pubs have been able to stay open until 22:30 and more people are now allowed at sports events, outdoor concerts, cinemas and markets.\n\nOn 1 July, limits on private gatherings will be raised, and the recommendation to interact with a small circle of people removed.\n\nFurther easing is planned on 15 July and in September.", "New restrictions aimed at halting the rise in coronavirus cases in north-east England have come into force, affecting almost two million people.\n\nThe temporary measures, which started at midnight, are to tackle \"concerning rates of infection\" in the region.\n\nThe rules affect Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland, Northumberland, South Tyneside, North Tyneside and the County Durham council area.\n\nPubs and restaurants must shut early and household-mixing has been limited.\n\nResponding to the rise in infections, Newcastle City Council leader Nick Forbes said: \"The evidence we've found from local testing is that it's spreading in three main areas - in pubs, in people's homes and in grassroots sports.\"\n\nMeanwhile, new rules banning separate households from meeting each other at home or in private gardens have been introduced in Lancashire, Merseyside, parts of the Midlands and West Yorkshire.\n\nThe measures, due to take effect from Tuesday, will also mean shorter opening hours for pubs and restaurants in parts of Lancashire and Merseyside.\n\nNorthumberland, Newcastle, Sunderland, North and South Tyneside, Gateshead and County Durham council areas are affected\n\nThe new measures for north-east England include:\n\nIt had been hoped that grandparents helping with childcare would be excluded from the restrictions - but they are not.\n\nMr Forbes tweeted that Newcastle City Council had \"specifically\" asked for this to be allowed.\n\nNorthumbria Police said it would provide a \"proportionate response\" to reports the rules being broken, and would assess the situation to determine the most appropriate course of action.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We will look to engage with people in the first instance, explaining the restrictions and encouraging them to follow the regulations.\n\n\"However, where necessary, we will take enforcement action.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'These decisions have a real impact': Health Secretary Matt Hancock confirms local lockdown in north-east England.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons on Thursday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"The data says that we must act now.\"\n\nHe said Sunderland currently had an infection rate of 103 cases per 100,000 people. In South Tyneside and Gateshead the latest published rates were 93.4 and 83.6 respectively.\n\nConcern has been raised about increased waiting times for coronavirus test results for people using community testing centres.\n\nIn Sunderland, drivers queued outside a Covid test centre, only to later find out it was empty.\n\nCouncils have requested additional funding to police the local lockdown\n\nCouncil leaders have also requested additional funding for policing, as well as extra testing facilities.\n\nShadow health secretary Jon Ashworth echoed the need for more testing capacity to be available in areas where there were tightened restrictions.\n\nHe said it was urgent the government \"fixes testing, fixes tracing\" or we face a \"very bleak winter indeed\".\n\nCounty Durham's director of public health Amanda Healy said: \"If we do want to be able to continue to go to work, to schools, to keep in contact with relatives but stop an increase in the cases we have seen, we are really urging people to adhere to the guidance coming out today.\"\n\nGateshead Council leader Martin Gannon said: \"Nobody welcomes these things but I would think the vast majority of people recognise these are extremely difficult times and we all need to act and pull together.\"\n\nSmall businesses broadly welcomed the lockdown but called for more support to adapt to the new measures.\n\nSimon Hanson, North East development manager for the Federation of Small Businesses, said it was \"absolutely critical\" that small and micro businesses were given grant support quickly to help them adapt and provide cashflow.\n\nIt is estimated than 10 million people in the UK currently face additional coronavirus restrictions, with local lockdowns covering parts of Scotland, south Wales, the north west and north east of England, Yorkshire and the Midlands.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nDo you live in one of the areas where restrictions are being reintroduced? How will you be affected? Share your views and experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. FM 'gives notice' that greater coronavirus restrictions are likely\n\n\"Hard but necessary\" decisions on further Covid restrictions may need to be taken to prevent another full-scale lockdown, Nicola Sturgeon has warned.\n\nThe first minister said the next few days would be \"critical\" in deciding which steps would be taken to stop the spread of Covid-19 in Scotland.\n\nShe said \"greater restrictions\" might be needed to \"interrupt\" that spread.\n\nAnd she said the introduction of more national restrictions would have to be considered.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the virus was on the rise and was spreading \"quite rapidly\".\n\n\"If we want to avoid another full-scale lockdown, doing nothing almost certainly isn't an option,\" she said.\n\n\"We have to consider now whether some national restrictions - we have national restrictions in place already, the six-two rule is a national restriction - do we need to have more national restrictions?\"\n\nThe new rule limiting social gatherings to a maximum of six people from two households came into effect on Monday.\n\nThere are currently tighter local restrictions in force in the west of Scotland which prevent people visiting each others' homes.\n\nTougher rules are being introduced in several parts of England, and the UK government is believed to be considering imposing fresh restrictions on the whole of England.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily briefing that there had been 203 positive tests in Scotland in the past 24 hours, and that one person who tested positive had died. That took the total number of deaths in Scotland under the measurement being used to 2,502.\n\n\"The bottom line here is this virus is on the rise again,\" the first minister said.\n\n\"Cases are rising quite rapidly. The percentage of tests is not as high as March but is rising. And the R number is now above one.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said she had met a group of senior Scottish government officials to assess the situation and that discussions would take place with the four UK nations in the coming days.\n\nShe has asked the prime minister to stage a Cobra meeting this weekend, although it is understood that UK government has no plans to hold a meeting.\n\n\"The virus could get out of our grip again but it hasn't happened yet and we have time to prevent it from happening,\" she said. \"That is down to the government and all of us.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon warned that the country was following the path of France, which four weeks ago was in the same position that Scotland is now.\n\nIt is now seeing 10,000 new cases a day, with hundreds of people in intensive care and the number of deaths increasing.\n\n\"We must make sure we interrupt that and don't end up where they are now,\" she said. \"We are facing the risk again of exponential growth in Covid.\n\n\"No-one wants to see another full-scale lockdown.\n\n\"And above all we want to keep schools and childcare open because we know how important that is to the education and to the broader wellbeing of children and young people.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon asked people to abide by the current rules.\n\n\"It may well be that if we are to interrupt and break this growth we will have to do more in the next few weeks,\" she added.\n\n\"This weekend will be critical in the assessment of how best to do that.\"\n\nThe leader of the Scottish Conservatives said he would support the introduction of any measures needed to help defeat the virus.\n\nDouglas Ross told BBC Scotland that every available option should be considered.\n\n\"We have seen the issues that we have if we don't get on top of it, and if we don't make the difficult decisions to reimpose some restrictions,\" he said.\n\n\"So everything that has to be done must be done to ensure we don't get a second wave of this pandemic that puts pressure on our hospitals and our NHS again.\n\n\"I support everything that can be done to support beating this terrible pandemic.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon has also urged people to take part in a UK-wide Covid infection survey.\n\nUp to 15,000 people in Scotland will be tested every fortnight. Households will be randomly selected for the survey and invited to participate.\n\nThose taking part will do their own tests and some will be asked to provide blood samples.\n\nThe tests will continue for up to a year and will help scientists see how many people are infected with the virus over time and how many people will ultimately have the infection.", "The singer is known for songs like Brown Eyed Girl and Gloria, and classic albums including Astral Weeks\n\nSir Van Morrison has accused the government of \"taking our freedom\" in three new songs that protest against the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nIn the lyrics, he claims scientists are \"making up crooked facts\" to justify measures that \"enslave\" the population.\n\n\"The new normal, is not normal,\" he sings. \"We were born to be free\".\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday, the prime minister said the government was doing \"everything in our power\" to prevent another nationwide lockdown.\n\n\"I don't want a second national lockdown - I think it would be completely wrong for this country,\" Boris Johnson told MPs at the Commons Liaison Committee.\n\n\"So when I see people arguing against the rule of six or saying that the government is coming in too hard on individual liberties and so on - I totally understand that and I sympathise with that, but we must, must defeat this disease.\"\n\nRecorded \"recently\" in Belfast and England, Sir Van's three new songs sit in a familiar vein of jazz and bluesy R&B. However, the lyrics recall the angry young man who fronted Northern Irish rock group Them in the 1960s.\n\nNo More Lockdown is the most strident of the three tracks. \"No more lockdown / No more government overreach,\" the musician sings in the chorus. \"No more fascist bullies / Disturbing our peace.\n\n\"No more taking of our freedom / And our God given rights / Pretending it's for our safety / When it's really to enslave.\"\n\nAnother song references a widely-shared Facebook post, of a screenshot from a UK government website saying, \"Covid-19 is no longer considered to be a high consequence infectious disease (HCID) in the UK\".\n\nWhile it is true that Covid-19 does not meet the criteria for an HCID - which typically has a high fatality rate (as much as 50% in the case of Ebola) - the disease is still considered highly infectious, with no specific vaccines or treatment currently available.\n\nNorthern Ireland's health minister Robin Swann has described the new songs as \"dangerous\".\n\n\"I don't know where he gets his facts,\" said Swann. \"I know where the emotions are on this, but I will say that sort of messaging is dangerous.\"\n\nSir Van has previously caused controversy by denouncing what he called the \"pseudoscience\" around coronavirus.\n\nLaunching a campaign to \"save live music\" on his website last month, the 75-year-old said socially distanced gigs were not economically viable.\n\n\"I call on my fellow singers, musicians, writers, producers, promoters and others in the industry to fight with me on this. Come forward, stand up, fight the pseudo-science and speak up.\"\n\nSome socially-distanced gigs have been called off this week, after a spike in the number of coronavirus cases\n\nThe Brown Eyed Girl songwriter has already played three socially-distanced gigs this month, and has two shows at The London Palladium next week but he says these types of concerts are unsustainable and he is worried about the future of live music.\n\n\"This is not a sign of compliance or acceptance of the current state of affairs, this is to get my band up and running and out of the doldrum,\" he said.\n\nThe Music Venue Trust estimates that 400 grass roots venues in the UK are at the risk of closing.\n\nSir Van said his new songs would be released at two-week intervals with the first, Born To Be Free, arriving on 25 September.\n\nIn a statement announcing the songs, the musician said: \"I'm not telling people what to do or think, the government is doing a great job of that already.\n\n\"It's about freedom of choice, I believe people should have the right to think for themselves.\"\n\nThe BBC has approached the government for a response.\n\nAlso on Friday, former Stone Roses star Ian Brown released a new track questioning the motives behind the lockdown, and indeed a vaccine.\n\nLittle Seed Big Tree includes lyrics about a \"false vaccine\" and a \"plan to chip us all, to have complete control\" - a conspiracy theory that has repeatedly been debunked.\n\nThe track arrived just weeks after the Stone Roses singer caused a stir on social media, by tweeting: \"No lockdown, no tests, no tracks, no masks, no vax.\"\n\nAfter he doubled down on those comments online on Thursday evening, another Mancunian singer Liam Gallagher - who cites Brown as one of his heroes - replied, with a simple; \"Ian. Shut up x\"\n\nGallagher's older brother Noel this week said on a podcast that he is also refusing to wear a \"pointless\" mask, despite UK restrictions.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Rhondda residents have expressed their concerns about coronavirus as the county returns to lockdown\n\nThere is a \"high risk\" that a spike in covid cases will lead to more hospital admissions and deaths in locked down areas of Wales, it has been warned.\n\nDr Robin Howe, of Public Health Wales, said older people are being infected in Caerphilly and Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT).\n\nIt comes as people in Rhondda expressed frustration at becoming the second area in Wales to return to lockdown after Caerphilly on Thursday.\n\nStrict rules came into force at 18:00 BST for RCT's 240,000 residents.\n\nUnder the lockdown, they will not be able to enter or leave the county without a reasonable excuse, such as travel for work or education.\n\nPeople will be banned from meeting those outside their own households indoors and pubs, bars and restaurants will have to shut by 23:00.\n\nFigures released on Thursday reveal more than half of all Covid-19 hospital admissions in Wales are in the Aneurin Bevan health board area, which covers Caerphilly and Newport, and Cwm Taf Morgannwg, which covers RCT.\n\n\"There is a high risk that with the level of cases in Caerphilly and RCT we will see increased hospital admissions,\" Dr Howe told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"And we are seeing older age groups now being infected and there is obviously a sad risk that we may be seeing deaths.\n\n\"We would expect that hospital admissions would be increasing around about now and we are perhaps starting to see that in Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board, and there may be deaths in the coming days.\"\n\nOn Thursday, residents could be seen forming a long queue outside a new mobile testing centre in Abercynon.\n\nIt follows an announcement on Wednesday by Wales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething, who pledged up to five extra mobile testing units for Covid-19 hotspots in Wales this week.\n\nColin Edrop, who owns The Bear Inn, in Llantrisant, said of the local lockdown: \"I'm not surprised, but it is frustrating because Llantrisant has been safe enough recently and other areas in RCT have made things worse.\n\n\"Shutting at 11 doesn't make a difference in my opinion, If people are going to get drunk they'll do it regardless.\n\n\"I would rather pubs be asked to close for two or three weeks so we can sort this all out.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rhondda Cynon Taf lockdown: 'It's got to happen'\n\nMr Edrop said he would be \"happy to close if asked\", but added: \"We need to be making money, so I will remain open with strict safety measures.\n\n\"We're definitely not seeing groups of youngsters in our local area, certainly not seeing that - we have a much older crowd thankfully.\n\n\"But it is a nightmare to maintain social distancing, people have forgotten about social distancing.\"\n\nThe lockdown will be reviewed by the Welsh Government in two weeks' time\n\nMum-of-two Victoria Vaughan, from Pontypridd, said she thought the move was \"too little too late\".\n\n\"I'm not surprised that a local lockdown is coming, as I think the guidance over the past few weeks has been too relaxed and people have been complacent,\" she said.\n\n\"The guidance is very unclear, there's confusion over what we can and can't do, but at the moment it's still not firm enough in my view.\"\n\nMs Vaughan said it made \"no sense\" she could not see family but could go to the pub.\n\n\"Pubs should close, that's where the problem is, the guidance needs to be black or white - at the moment it's grey,\" she said.\n\n\"I rely heavily on my mum for childcare, she lives in Cardiff. If we can't see her, that will have a detrimental impact on my ability to work from home.\"\n\nTeleri Jones, who owns The Old Library Cafe in Porth, welcomed the announcement despite it being \"bad news for business\".\n\nShe said she had noticed a change in people's behaviour recently: \"People have been worrying, especially those with health issues.\n\n\"They had been staying away, then gradually we saw them come back. But last week was much quieter, and with all the talk on the news I can see it being even quieter this week.\"\n\nRhondda MP Chris Bryant said some people not following Covid-19 guidelines had led to the spike.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales: \"There must be some people who think they have got some kind of magic cloak of invisibility which means the virus won't touch them or anyone they know or love... and we've got some people who go into anarchy mode and decided they're going to do whatever they want to do.\n\n\"If the UK government doesn't get on top of this testing issue we will lose control of the virus… if we lose control then we lose control of the NHS... as we go into the winter that could be very dangerous.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru councillor for Ystrad, Elyn Stephens, said there was an \"overwhelming sense of frustration with the pubs remaining open\".\n\nPeople formed a long queue at the new Abercynon mobile testing unit on Thursday\n\nHe said some residents were now in their second lockdown after being flooded four times this year.\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said there had been a \"rapid\" rise in cases in RCT, with 82.1 infections per 100,000 people over the past seven days.\n\nThe latest equivalent figure across Wales was 21.4 per 100,000.\n\nWednesday's rate of positive tests for the past week in RCT was 5.1% - the highest in Wales. Mr Gething previously warned a positive rate of 4% across Wales would trigger a national lockdown.\n\nFigures on Wednesday showed RCT's case rate had almost caught up with Caerphilly, which had 83.4 per 100,000 people over the past seven days.\n\nThe restrictions have been imposed despite people in RCT having been asked to take extra precautions last week.\n\nA review of the lockdown will be held in two weeks.", "Nearly two in three workers are now commuting again, as some employers ask their staff to return to offices during the pandemic.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that 62% of adult workers reported travelling to work last week.\n\nThat compares with 36% in late May, soon after the ONS began compiling the figures during lockdown.\n\nThe government has been encouraging workers to return to offices to help revive city centres.\n\nWhile the proportion of people travelling to work has increased, the ONS said 10% of the workforce remained on furlough leave.\n\nIt added that 20% of workers continued to do so exclusively from home.\n\nThe commuter data includes people who may be travelling to work exclusively, or they may be doing a mixture of commuting and working from home, the ONS said.\n\nBusiness groups have warned city centres could become \"ghost towns\" if more staff do not return, damaging small businesses that rely on passing trade from office workers.\n\nHowever, new research released on Thursday by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) suggests that working from home could be a permanent fixture for many, following the pandemic.\n\nAccording to the survey of 1,000 employers, 37% believe staff will regularly avoid the journey into the office following Covid-19 - up from just 18% before the pandemic.\n\nCIPD chief executive Peter Cheese said: \"The step-change shift to home working to adapt to lockdowns has taught us all a lot about how we can be flexible in ways of working in the future.\n\n\"Employers have learnt that, if supported and managed properly, home working can be as productive and innovative as office working and we can give more opportunity for people to benefit from better work-life balance.\"\n\nHowever, he said it did not suit everyone and that organisations would have to design working arrangements around people's needs while \"also meeting the needs of the business\".\n\nThe ONS also found that about one in 10 workers are still furloughed under the government's job retention scheme. Under the scheme, workers placed on leave have been able to receive 80% of their pay, up to a maximum of £2,500 a month.\n\nThat level is likely to fall in coming weeks as the government has started to scale back the amount of money it pays out to furloughed workers.\n\nCompanies who want to furlough their staff have had to pick up at least 10% of the bill since the beginning of September. In October, they will have to pay 20%.\n\nAlmost 10 million workers have been furloughed since March, but the scheme is set to end entirely on 31 October.", "People arriving from Singapore and Thailand in England and Scotland will not need to quarantine from Saturday morning, the government has said.\n\nThey have been added to the list of \"travel corridor\" countries.\n\nBut travellers coming from Slovenia and Guadeloupe will have to self-isolate for two weeks.\n\nBoth have also been added to Wales' quarantine list, while arrivals there from Gibraltar and Thailand will not need to self-isolate.\n\nThe changes come into force at 04:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nThe Department for Transport (DfT) said there had been \"a significant change in both the level and pace of confirmed cases of coronavirus\" in both Slovenia and Guadeloupe.\n\nData from Slovenia shows that its seven-day rate of cases is 29.1 per 100,000 people, up from 14.4 in the previous seven days.\n\nThe rate for Guadeloupe has risen more than six-fold in the past four weeks, the DfT said.\n\nWhen a country's rate rises above 20, the UK government considers imposing quarantine restrictions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do I quarantine after returning from abroad?\n\nTravellers who do not self-isolate when they are supposed to can be fined £1,000 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, or £480 in Scotland.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps reminded passengers they were required by law to fill in a passenger locator form.\n\nThe form asks travellers to provide their contact details and UK address. Passengers can be fined up to £3,200 in England if they do not provide accurate contact details, or £1,920 in Wales.\n\n\"This is vital in protecting public health and ensuring those who need to are complying with self-isolation rules,\" Mr Shapps said.\n\nThe decision to remove quarantine restrictions for arrivals from Thailand and Singapore is unlikely to lead in a surge of people from England visiting as both countries are only allowing people to enter for a limited number of reasons, such as if they have a work permit or are the spouse or child of a resident.\n\nDenmark retained its quarantine exemption, despite its seven-day case rate being 33.8.\n\nThe DfT urged employers to be \"understanding\" of people returning from Slovenia and Guadeloupe, as they will need to self-isolate.\n\nThe statement gave no update on the possible introduction of testing at airports as a way of reducing quarantine requirements.\n\nThe travel industry has demanded this should take place urgently to avoid further job losses.\n\nEarlier this week, British Airways boss Alex Cruz called for trials to be held for passengers flying between London and New York.\n\nHe said \"this is imperative\", adding that the airline is \"still fighting for our own survival\".\n\nLast week, Sweden was made exempt from quarantine for Wales, England and Scotland.\n\nAt the same time, Portugal was placed back on England's quarantine list after a rise in infections.\n\nIt comes as coronavirus cases in the UK rose by 3,395 on Thursday, government figures showed, while deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test increased by 21.", "Boris Johnson, asked if the government had eased lockdown too quickly, suggested discipline in adhering to social distancing restrictions had slipped.\n\n\"If you look at what's happened over the last few months, I think the British people have done a amazing job,\" he said.\n\n\"They got that peak under control, they brought it right down, they brought the number of infections right down by discipline and everybody adjusting our behaviours and the way we go about our lives - hands, face, space.\n\n\"And I think probably, truth to tell, what's happened here and what alas has happened in so many other countries is that people find it difficult to keep this up.\"\n\nHe said it was \"very difficult to maintain that kind of discipline for a long time\".\n\nAnd if the \"rule of six\" in England or the tighter restrictions in parts of the UK do not work in curbing the spread of the virus, \"then of course we are going to have to take further measures\", the prime minister said.\n\n\"But be in no doubt that we will want to be explaining what we are doing, taking people with us as we go and what I don't want to do is go into a second national lockdown of the kind we had in March, April - I don't want to do that again.\"", "Forrest Gump won six Oscars including best actor for Tom Hanks\n\nWriter Winston Groom, whose novel Forrest Gump was made into the hugely successful Oscar-winning 1994 film starring Tom Hanks, has died aged 77.\n\nThe book, about the childlike optimism of a slow-thinking but kind-hearted man, won six Oscars including best film and actor, plus three Golden Globes.\n\nDirected by Robert Zemeckis and also starring Sally Field and Robin Wright, it made $683m (£526m).\n\n\"Saddened to learn that Alabama has lost one of our most gifted writers,\" she wrote on Facebook, referencing Groom's time at university there, graduating in 1965.\n\n\"While he will be remembered for creating Forrest Gump, Winston Groom was a talented journalist and noted author of American history. Our hearts and prayers are extended to his family.\"\n\nAlabama University called Groom \"one of our legends\".\n\nAfter gaining his degree, he was in the US Army, which included a tour of duty in the Vietnam War, before working as reporter. He wrote Forrest Gump in 1985 and it was published the following year.\n\nTom Hanks and Sally Field played mother and son in the film\n\nThe film, seen through the eyes of Forrest Gump, has the presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson as a backdrop, along with the Vietnam War and Watergate.\n\nThroughout it all, Gump's main desire is to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart, played by Wright.\n\nMemorable quotes from Forrest Gump include the famous advice from his mother: \"Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get.\"\n\nGroom went on to write a follow-up in 1995 called Gump and Co and also wrote non-fiction including a book on the American Civil War.", "Schools in poor parts of England will struggle the most to help their pupils catch-up after the lockdown, says the Institute for Fiscal Studies.\n\nThe last 10 years have seen real-terms cuts amounting to 9% per pupil which fell hardest on schools in the poorest areas, says the IFS.\n\nAnd schools in poorer areas will get less of a boost from the extra £7.1bn earmarked for schools up to 2022-23.\n\nThe government says it is committed to \"levelling up\" educational opportunity.\n\nBut, according to this analysis, schools in poor areas will gain less than schools in more affluent areas from the government's education spending plans, leaving them \"badly placed\" to help their pupils catch-up on learning lost during lockdown.\n\nThe report authors want to see more of the extra funding targeted at the most disadvantaged areas.\n\nDuring lockdown the poorest pupils were the least able to access online learning or have quiet places to study and, because of this, IFS Research Fellow Luke Sibieta predicts \"a likely widening of educational inequalities\".\n\n\"Schools with more deprived pupils have seen the largest falls in spending over recent years and are set to see smaller funding increases than schools in more affluent areas from the government's new funding formula.\n\n\"Most of the Covid catch-up funding will be spread across all schools, regardless of disadvantage.\n\n\"This proves a strong case for greater targeting of additional funding to more deprived schools,\" Mr Sibieta said.\n\nOverall the extra cash will largely reverse the real-terms cuts of the last decade, and the funding plans will narrow the gap between the best and worst funded parts of the country, says the IFS.\n\nThe Department for Education says the lowest-funded schools will receive the greatest increases under its plans.\n\n\"We continue to target additional funding through the National Funding Formula for schools with high numbers of pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds.\n\n\"Our £1bn Covid catch-up package on top of this is helping level up opportunity for every young person up and down the country,\" said the DfE in a statement.\n\nHowever, the analysis finds that the plans will deliver funding increases of three to four percentage points less to schools in the poorest areas than to those in wealthier areas up to 2021.\n\nIt follows a decade in which the funding advantage for schools in deprived areas has shrunk from 35% per pupil to 25%, the analysis found.\n\nThe researchers say the government's National Tutoring Programme for five to 16-year-olds is the only part of the new funding package to be targeted at more deprived schools.\n\n\"It is also not at a scale that will allow schools to address the inequalities that have widened during lockdown,\" says the IFS.\n\nJosh Hillman, Director of Education at the Nuffield Foundation which co-funded the research said that not only were the most deprived pupils more likely to be behind in their learning \"their families are also at greater risk of poverty, food insecurity and job losses\".\n\n\"This could further entrench the disadvantage these children face.\n\n\"As this research shows, it is therefore crucial that schools in deprived areas receive adequate and well directed funding so tat they can help to close the disadvantage gap and ensure all children can reach their potential.\"\n\nDr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union said the study showed \"an historic failure of the nation's children\".\n\n\"It is also striking that despite government rhetoric of 'levelling up' the reverse is true.\"\n\nJulie McCulloch, director of policy at the Association of School and College Leaders said that while the £7.1bn in extra funding was welcome it would be \"largely absorbed\" by rising costs.\n\nShe said the government's refusal to reimburse the \"significant costs\" of Covid safety measures such as extra cleaning and more staff would put even more strain on budgets leaving even less money to spend on education.\n\n\"It is a desperate situation and the government has its head buried in the sand,\" said Ms McCulloch.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boats have been swept ashore and homes flooded by the storm\n\nStorm Sally has brought heavy rain and flooding to the Carolinas and Georgia, as it continues its path of destruction north from the US Gulf Coast.\n\nIt has already battered Florida and Alabama with rain and storm surges, downing power lines, turning roads into rivers and leaving homes submerged.\n\nOne person was killed, and hundreds of thousands are without power.\n\nSally has now weakened to a post-tropical cyclone, but meteorologists warn that tornadoes are still possible.\n\nThe wind ripped the roof off this house in Perdido Key, Florida\n\nBesides the fatality reported in Orange Beach, Alabama, one person is also missing from the small coastal city in south-west Alabama, according to Mayor Tony Kennon.\n\n\"It was an unbelievably freaky right turn of a storm that none of us ever expected,\" he told the Washington Post.\n\nPensacola, Florida, 30m (48 km) east of Orange Beach, was also badly hit, with a loose barge bringing down part of the city's Bay Bridge.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"That's my car... submerged\": Video shows flooded streets in Pensacola, Florida\n\nDowntown Pensacola was hit with up to 5ft of flooding and saw the highest storm surge on record. The storm brought \"four months of rain in four hours\" to the city, Pensacola fire chief Ginny Cranor told CNN.\n\nPictures show residents wading through waist-deep water, cars stranded in flooded streets, and homes entirely swamped by Wednesday's deluge.\n\nIn Gulf Shores, Alabama - near where Sally first made landfall as a hurricane on Wednesday - the storm sheared off the face of a beachside apartment complex. And 50 miles (80km) north-west in Mobile, Alabama, photos show the large steeple of El-Bethel Primitive Baptist Church toppled after the storm.\n\nSally hit Gulf Shores, Alabama, at 04:45 local time on Wednesday, with maximum wind speeds of 105mph (169 km/h).\n\nAccording to the National Hurricane Center (NHC), Category 2 hurricanes have sustained winds of 96 to 110 mph. The NHC says a Category 2 storm's \"extremely dangerous winds\" usually cause damage to homes and shallowly rooted trees.\n\nAs the storm moved north from the coast, some 550,000 residents in affected areas were left in the dark on Wednesday night, according to local reports.\n\nNow a post-tropical cyclone, the storm is expected to deposit up to 10in (25cm) of rain in Virginia and the Carolinas. It will likely cause widespread flash flooding, the NHC said on Thursday.\n\nMaximum wind speeds have decreased to 25mph as the storm moves north-east.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Armondo Moralez This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSally is one of at least five storms in the Atlantic Ocean. Officials are running out of letters to name the hurricanes as they near the end of their annual alphabetic list.\n\nHave you been affected by Hurricane Sally? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Students at St Andrews University have been asked to observe a voluntary lockdown this weekend.\n\nPrincipal Sally Mapstone has written to the students, asking them to \"remain in your rooms as much as possible\".\n\nShe has also asked them not to party or go to bars and restaurants, and to avoid mixing with people outside their households.\n\nShe said the move was in response to Nicola Sturgeon's comments about preventing a national lockdown.\n\nIn her \"urgent and important message\" to students, Ms Mapstone said she appreciated that some people may think her actions were \"premature\".\n\nPrincipal Sally Mapstone said she was taking \"pre-emptive and pro-active\" action\n\nBut she said society had \"acted too slowly in the past\" and that thousands of people had died unnecessarily as a result.\n\n\"It is now very clear that rates of covid infection are surging again in various parts of this country, and it is very likely that we are very close to a form of further national lockdown,\" she wrote.\n\n\"The first minister of Scotland has today spoken of the urgent need to interrupt the chain of transmission of the virus.\n\n\"In these circumstances, I am writing to all of our students to ask you to please observe a voluntary lockdown this weekend, effective from 7pm this evening.\"\n\nThe principal said all events planned for this weekend would be postponed, including all planned sports activity, society activity and events at the Byre Theatre, main library and chapel.\n\nCatering will continue as normal in halls of residence.\n\n\"I must stress that this is pre-emptive and proactive action,\" she added.\n\n\"There is no evidence that the virus is surging in our community. Rather it is because as a country we are now in a very fast-moving phase where early intervention is key, and hours make a difference.\n\n\"We will be keeping this situation under close review all weekend, and I will keep you informed of any further measures that may be necessary. We expect further information and intervention from government over or just after the weekend.\"\n\nAbout 50 students were cleared from a beach in St Andrews last weekend\n\nYazmin Taylor, from Kent, is a third-year student at St Andrews.\n\n\"I think it's a good pre-emptive step,\" she said.\n\n\"It's not in reaction to something, it's before the situation worsens. I think that's the trend in Scotland - to act before the situation escalates.\"\n\nShe said she did not think the move was in reaction to police being called to a beach party at St Andrews Castle last weekend.\n\nIt is understood that the group was made up of students who were adhering to social distancing guidelines, and who left the area when requested.\n\n\"There's 9,000 students here so I think that most students are following the rules,\" Yazmin added.\n\nFourth year student Sabeeh Mirza, from Pakistan, said he had only just finished two weeks in quarantine.\n\n\"I understand the need, of course, and I'm glad that St Andrews is taking pre-emptive action. But giving us a two-hour notice to go into a complete lockdown, in my opinion, is quite unfair on the student population in general,\" he said.\n\n\"If you look at the region, at least as far as I am aware, there has been no rise in cases whatsoever. I think it has lowest in Scotland. I think some things can be manged better.\"\n\nDan Marshal, president of St Andrews Student Association, told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime programme it was a welcome move.\n\n\"We've seen throughout this pandemic that it's really important to take early action and that taking action early has generally avoided loss of life and people getting ill, but also has avoided more strict and longer-lasting restrictions later on,\" he said.\n\n\"So this short-term intervention that's come early I think is broadly to be welcomed.\"\n\nHe also believed the vast majority of students had been following the rules.\n\n\"As far as I know, there's not been a great rise in cases in St Andrews and this really is a move that's designed to prevent any sort of infection taking hold,\" he added.\n\nEleven students at Napier University in Edinburgh have tested positive for Covid-19 following an outbreak at student accommodation.\n\nThe university is working closely with NHS Lothian's Test and Protect team, which is investigating the cluster at the Bainfield flats.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teenagers speak of their \"guilt and disgust\" after being blackmailed online\n\n\"He's threatened to share those pictures with my friends unless I send him more.\"\n\nMia, 13, was duped into sending sexual photographs to someone she met online, who she has now found out is an adult posing as someone else.\n\nCharities including the NSPCC and Meic - a helpline for younger people in Wales - are concerned more young people are sharing naked images of themselves.\n\nThey both said staff have seen an increase since lockdown.\n\n\"Many young people want to send them because it has been normalised in terms of social media,\" said Sabiha Azad, who works on Meic's helpline for children and young people.\n\n\"Young people are at home alone and wanting intimacy and don't know how to explore it healthily, so they're being pressured into sending things,\" she said.\n\n\"You can even get girls sending pictures on to their friends first to check if they look OK, or boys sharing the photos they get sent with others to compare them.\"\n\nThe charities believe a significant increase in the time teenagers are spending online and a lack of face-to-face interaction has added to the pressure.\n\nYoungsters have been urged to speak to someone about any problems they encounter\n\nMs Azad added: \"Speaking about the consequences is so important because this is the time that they can be exploited.\"\n\nThe charities said most cases were believed to involve 14 to 16-year-olds, with a lot of people cropping out their heads from photographs.\n\nHowever, Ms Azad said they often forget about other identifiable markers such as wallpaper, birth marks or piercings.\n\nBeing pressured to send nudes is a sign of a controlling relationship and, despite campaigns to tackle this during lockdown, Ms Azad believes many risks to younger people - such as being blackmailed and threatened - have been overlooked.\n\n\"I think there's a danger of forgetting young people, especially during the pandemic,\" she added.\n\n\"I think that girls definitely see the repercussions of sending nudes more, they're much more likely to be referred to specialist services for support. One person developed an eating disorder following her image being shared because of the negative comments people made.\n\n\"It's a very intimate image being shared and it may be shared to your family members. It often goes through schools, so everyone in that year group will probably see it, if not more.\"\n\nSmart phones and iPads have made it easier for people to share images\n\nMia (not her real name) contacted ChildLine after she met her blackmailer on Instagram and developed an online relationship with him.\n\n\"He convinced me to send pictures of myself which were sexual,\" she said.\n\n\"Now he's threatened to share those pictures with my friends unless I send him more.\"\n\nMia said she was too scared to tell her mum in case she got into trouble.\n\nAnother victim, Chloe (not her real name), 14, met \"a good-looking boy\" on a teenage dating app who made her feel special while she was having a tough time at home.\n\nWhen he started asking for nude photos, she said she \"agreed as a joke to talk dirty instead\".\n\nYoungsters are meeting people in chat rooms who are adults posing as children\n\nBut when she became uncomfortable, she blocked him, only for him to get in touch on another app, threatening to publish her profile picture next to the dirty messages.\n\n\"I feel so guilty and disgusted for leading him on,\" she said.\n\n\"He made me feel special when no-one else did.\n\n\"I don't want anyone to find out, after all most of it was my fault. I don't know what to do and I feel so guilty.\"\n\nIt is illegal for under-18s to send or receive nudes, with NSPCC Cymru's Lucy O'Callaghan saying prevention was vital to tackle the issue.\n\n\"Once a young person has sent a sexual image, it's out of their control,\" she said.\n\n\"Whilst they're in a relationship, their boyfriend or girlfriend might promise not to send the image onwards, but sometimes when that relationship breaks down the other young person can share it and that might lead to it being shared again and again.\n\n\"Then that can lead to bullying from from other young people. Sometimes when young people send one image, they can experience blackmail to send further images. So they can find themselves in a sort of a kind of a catch-22 situation.\"\n\nShe urged young people to seek support from an adult.", "A care worker visits a client at home in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, during the pandemic\n\nPeople visiting residents in care homes should be supervised at all times to ensure social distancing, according to a government winter plan for Covid-19.\n\nIt says visits must be limited and in \"areas of intervention\" they must be stopped altogether.\n\nSupport for care homes in the plan includes free personal protective equipment until next March.\n\nCouncils say the initiative is welcome, but there are significant gaps in funding.\n\nWriting to the heads of local authorities, Care Minister Helen Whately said \"now is the time to act\" to protect care homes.\n\nShe said visits are \"important for the wellbeing of residents and loved ones\" but that extra precautions are needed.\n\nThey include regular assessments by local authorities of whether visiting is safe in a particular area, with visits immediately halted in places listed as an \"area of intervention\", Public Health England's highest category of alert where local lockdown rules are imposed.\n\nIn every care home, visitors should be supervised \"at all times\" to ensure they keep to social distancing requirements and other infection control measures, the plan says.\n\nBefore the publication of the plan, Age UK said some people are \"dying of sadness\" in care homes because they have been cut off from loved ones for a prolonged period of time.\n\nCare homes in England were allowed to reopen again for family visits in July - as long as local authorities and public health teams said it was safe. A similar reopening of homes followed in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lynn hasn't seen her husband, who has dementia, for six weeks due to care home restrictions\n\nHowever, many homes have not yet fully reopened - either retaining strict rules over visitors or banning them completely.\n\nThe government has previously announced care homes would get £546m to try to reduce transmission of the virus as part of its winter plan.\n\nThe money will help to pay care workers their full wages when they are self-isolating, and ensures carers only work in one care home, reducing the spread of the virus.\n\nBBC social affairs correspondent Alison Holt said that for a sector still reeling from the high number of deaths, \"this plan is important\".\n\nProviding free PPE - such as masks - recognises the steep increase in the cost of supplies, she said.\n\nAnd a new role of chief nurse for social care, which will be created under the plan, \"should also provide a stronger national voice for the sector\".\n\nBut while welcoming the plan, some directors of council care services have said it does not address the need to pay care staff better.\n\nIt also does not provide the funding needed to meet the expected increase in demand, particularly for home care, over the winter, they added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How care home workers are trying to cope\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told the House of Commons the government would do \"whatever is humanly possible\" to protect care homes \"so they are a place of sanctuary this winter\".\n\nMinisters have also promised to make people in care homes a priority for coronavirus tests - along with the NHS - amid ongoing issues with the UK's testing system.\n\nCoronavirus swept through UK care homes during the peak of the outbreak, with tens of thousands of deaths.\n\nAlmost 30,000 more care home residents in England and Wales died during the coronavirus outbreak than during the same period in 2019, Office for National Statistics figures published in July show. But only two-thirds were directly attributable to Covid-19.\n\nAccording to the figures, there were just over 66,000 deaths of care home residents in England and Wales between 2 March and 12 June this year, compared to just under 37,000 deaths last year.", "A judge at Liverpool Crown Court said officers changing Cheryl Pile's clothes was \"an act of decency\"\n\nA woman who was changed out of vomit-soaked clothes after being arrested has failed in her bid to sue police.\n\nCheryl Pile \"emptied the contents of her stomach all over herself\" at a Liverpool Police station in April 2017.\n\nShe paid a £60 fine for being drunk and disorderly but brought a claim against the force alleging her human rights had been breached.\n\nA High Court judge rejected her case, and said changing her clothes had been \"an act of decency\".\n\nMr Justice Turner said the four female officers officers had \"not used more force than necessary\" and would have otherwise \"left the vulnerable claimant to marinade overnight in her own bodily fluids\".\n\nHe described her as having been \"too insensible with drink to have much idea of either where she was or what she was doing there\".\n\nDismissing Ms Pile's appeal, the judge said her claim had been brought \"to establish the liberty of inebriated English subjects to be allowed to lie undisturbed overnight in their own vomit-soaked clothing\".\n\nMs Pile had also claimed being monitored on CCTV while in a cell was a breach of her privacy.\n\nThe judge said this had been \"both lawful and necessary\" and it was \"fortunate\" she was being observed.\n\nA feed from the camera alerted officers when she later lost her balance, fell over, \"banged her head on the floor\" and was taken to hospital, he said.\n\nMr Justice Turner noted she had also \"abused an innocent taxi driver and behaved aggressively to police officers trying to do their job.\"\n\nHe said many would have found it to be a \"grotesque result\" if she had been awarded compensation \"because those same officers, as an act of decency, had then changed her into clean and dry clothing at a time when she was too drunk to know or care\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People formed a long queue at the new Abercynon mobile testing unit on Thursday\n\nThe UK health secretary should explain why people from England are being directed to a testing centre intended for people in locked-down Rhondda Cynon Taf, an MP has said.\n\nCynon Valley MP Beth Winter has written to Matt Hancock demanding to know why people from across the UK were being directed to a site in Abercynon.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said it \"simply did not make sense\".\n\nThe UK government said it was \"working around the clock\" to increase capacity.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf (RCT) became the second area in Wales to go into lockdown, after Caerphilly, following a rise in the rate of infection.\n\nOn Thursday, latest figures from Public Health Wales showed the area had overtaken Caerphilly with 83.7 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nDespite this, people from as far away as Weston-super-Mare, Bath and Bristol were given appointments at Abercynon.\n\nSpeaking to S4C's Newyddion 9 news programme, Janet Church, a receptionist at a GP's surgery in Bath, said she was not informed the testing centre was in an area that had been locked down.\n\nJanet Church, from Bath, and her daughter had no idea Rhondda Cynon Taf was in lockdown when they were allowed to book a test in Abercynon\n\n\"There was nothing whatsoever to say the county was under lockdown,\" she said.\n\n\"Now you're telling me, I think it's disgusting. To come all this way and to be told this place is on lockdown. We didn't know.\n\n\"But my daughter's got symptoms so we're going to have to risk it. There was nothing nearer available.\"\n\nMother-of-two Marina Symonds, a school teacher who travelled from Bristol, was told she had to get tested after her son was sent from school having developed a cough.\n\nShe said: \"I was not aware the county was in lockdown. I feel a little bit anxious that I'm bringing my children to an area that possibly could be a higher risk for them than it is at home.\"\n\nCynon Valley MP Beth Winter says a second testing centre at Abercynon leisure centre \"was intended to be for residents of RCT only\"\n\nMs Winter acknowledged there was increased demand on testing sites across the UK, but blamed it on \"persistent and serious operational failures\" in the large private sector Lighthouse Laboratories.\n\nShe said a second testing centre at Abercynon Sports Centre \"was intended to be for residents of RCT only\".\n\n\"Rhondda Cynon Taf residents are being asked to make sacrifices and comply with new local restrictions to combat the transmission of the virus,\" she said.\n\n\"These restrictions are being actively undermined by a poorly designed system which is creating unnecessary travel in and out of the [county].\n\n\"In my view, testing centres in areas subject to local restrictions should be reserved exclusively to local residents in those areas.\"\n\nThe UK government said it was \"doing everything possible to overcome this challenge\"\n\nA spokesperson for the UK government's Department of Health and Social Care said an \"unprecedented\" 200,000 tests were provided in the last week, with the \"vast majority\" of those within six miles of people's home.\n\nA spokesperson said only people with symptoms should request a test.\n\n\"We're doing everything possible to overcome this challenge - including by bringing in new labs that can process tens of thousands of tests a day, opening new test sites, and trialling new rapid tests that will give results on the spot,\" a spokesperson added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scientists are warning that, across Siberia, vast swathes of ground - normally frozen all year round - are thawing - with potentially devastating consequences for the climate. As it thaws, the earth is believed to be releasing huge amounts of greenhouse gases, accentuating the problem of global warming.\n\nBBC Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg has been to the remote Yakutia region to look at how thawing permafrost is affecting not just the climate, but the landscape and livelihoods in Siberia.", "The Immigration Enforcement unit has been repeatedly reorganised since being branded \"unfit for purpose\"\n\nThe Home Office has \"no idea\" what its £400m-a-year immigration enforcement unit achieves, meaning it is unprepared for Brexit, MPs have warned.\n\nThe cross-party Public Accounts Committee said a lack of diversity at the top of the department also risked a repeat of the Windrush scandal.\n\nIts policies may be based purely on \"assumption and prejudice\", it warned.\n\nA Home Office spokeswoman said it used a \"balanced\" approach to maintain \"a fair immigration system\".\n\nThe Home Office's 5,000-strong Immigration Enforcement directorate, and other parts of the system, have been repeatedly reorganised since being branded \"unfit for purpose\" 15 years ago by the then home secretary.\n\nThe latest massive changes will come in January to deal with the end of freedom of movement.\n\nIn the highly critical report, the influential committee said officials were reliant on \"disturbingly weak evidence\" to assess which immigration enforcement policies worked, and why.\n\nOfficials had no idea how many people are living illegally in the UK, no idea what their impact was on the economy and public services - and no means of countering claims that could \"inflame hostility\".\n\n\"We are concerned that if the department does not make decisions based on evidence, it instead risks making them on anecdote, assumption and prejudice,\" said the MPs.\n\n\"Worryingly, it has no idea of what impact it has achieved for the £400m spent each year.\"\n\nThe MPs said the the department showed too little concern over failures.\n\nIt risked a repeat of the Windrush scandal in which people with a right to be in the UK were treated as illegal immigrants because the Home Office had lost records of their status or did not believe the evidence they provided.\n\n\"The significant lack of diversity at senior levels of the department means it does not access a sufficiently wide range of perspectives when establishing rules and assessing the human impact of its decisions,\" said the MPs. \"Professional judgement cannot be relied upon if an organisation has blind spots, and the Windrush scandal demonstrated the damage such a culture creates.\"\n\nFrom January, unless the UK reaches a deal with Brussels, it will no longer be part of a system that obliges EU members to take back some migrants who have no right to be in another state.\n\nBut the MPs said they had been provided with \"no evidence\" that the Home Office had begun discussions \"internally\" or with EU nations over how to prepare for the possible impact of that change.\n\n\"Without putting new arrangements in place successfully,\" warned the MPs, \"There is a real risk that EU exit will actually make it more difficult to remove foreign national offenders and those who try to enter the country illegally.\"\n\nCommittee chairwoman Meg Hillier said: \"The Home Office has frighteningly little grasp of the impact of its activities in managing immigration.\n\n\"It accepts the wreckage that its ignorance and the culture it has fostered caused in the Windrush scandal - but the evidence we saw shows too little intent to change, and inspires no confidence that the next such scandal isn't right around the corner.\"\n\nMinnie Rahman, from the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, said the report \"paints a very accurate picture of a clueless, careless and cold-hearted Home Office\".\n\n\"We echo the PAC's call for urgent change. Immigration policy and practice must be based on robust evidence, proper staff training and a new culture of respect and care for individuals,\" she said.\n\n\"People's lives are in the Home Office's hands and in the context of Covid-19 and Brexit, there can be no more excuses.\"\n\nIn response to the report, a Home Office spokeswoman said: \"We have developed a balanced and evidence-based approach to maintaining a fair immigration system.\n\n\"Since 2010, we have removed more than 53,000 foreign national offenders and more than 133,000 people as enforced removals.\n\n\"On a daily basis we continue to tackle those who fail to comply with our immigration laws and abuse our hospitality by committing serious, violent and persistent crimes, with immigration enforcement continually becoming more efficient.\"", "Ripdorf fielded the minimum number of players needed to avoid paying a fine\n\nA German football team lost 37-0 to their local rivals after fielding only seven players who socially distanced throughout the match.\n\nRipdorf fielded the minimum number of players on Sunday because their opponents SV Holdenstedt II came into contact in a previous game with someone who tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nTheir team tested negative but Ripdorf said the conditions were not safe.\n\nIf Ripdorf had not played, they would have faced a €200 (£182) fine.\n\nThey had asked for the match - in the 11th tier of German football - to be postponed but the local association refused.\n\nRipdorf said they did not feel safe as at the time of the game 14 days had not yet passed since Holdenstedt players had come into contact with the person who tested positive.\n\nHoldenstedt's first team did not play in the match and the club fielded their second team.\n\nAt the beginning of the match, one of Ripdorf's players stepped onto the pitch, passed the ball to an opponent and the team then walked to the sidelines.\n\nRipdorf co-chair Patrick Ristow told ESPN: \"The Holdenstedt players did not understand. But we did not want to risk anything.\"\n\nHe added of his players: \"They did not go into direct duels and observed the social distancing rules, keeping two metres between them and Holdenstedt players.\"\n\nHoldenstedt did not hold back, scoring a goal every two or three minutes.\n\n\"There was no reason not to play this game,\" Holdenstedt coach Florian Schierwater said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Minister Vaughan Gething issues the threat of another national lockdown\n\nA bank holiday weekend party appears to be \"at the heart\" of a rapid rise in cases in Newport, ministers believe.\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the party led to 18 new cases of coronavirus, with infected people then visiting other venues on nights out.\n\nPeople in Newport have been warned to look out for symptoms if they visited seven pubs and bars in the city on specific dates in September.\n\nNow health experts have warned people against parties during the hot weather.\n\nA spell of sunny weather has been forecast for the next week to 10 days after highs of 31C (88F) in the UK on Monday - with Wales' hottest spot in Aberystwyth as the temperature hit 27C (80F).\n\nNewport now has the third highest coronavirus rate in Wales after a surge in cases as Wales recorded its highest daily Covid-19 case rate since 19 May.\n\nThe health minister warned Wales could have to go into national lockdown if people's behaviour does not change.\n\nMr Gething said the rise in cases in Newport had been similar to that seen in Caerphilly county, which is now in a local lockdown.\n\n\"At the heart of it appears to be a party over the bank holiday weekend, which led to 18 new cases of coronavirus, many of whom visited other venues on nights out while infectious.\"\n\nThe outbreak in Caerphilly had also been pinned in part on individuals socialising in people's homes.\n\nPeople descended on Cardiff Bay during the sunny spell in August\n\nBarry Island was packed during the last heatwave in Wales\n\nMr Gething said it could be two weeks before a peak is seen in Caerphilly, and more people in their 40s and 50s were testing positive there.\n\nNow Public Health Wales (PHW) has called on people not be \"tempted\" into having a party in the sunshine this week.\n\n\"The warm and sunny weather forecast for this week may be a temptation to throw a party or meet up with friends and acquaintances,\" said Kelechi Nnoaham, chairman of PHW's incident management team.\n\n\"Please, don't be tempted and keep working with us by sticking to social distancing guidelines, so that we can protect older and vulnerable people from coronavirus.\"\n\nPeople in Newport have been warned of a local lockdown if Covid-19 cases continue to rise\n\nPeople in Rhondda Cynon Taff and Merthyr Tydfil have been warned they face a lockdown unless the number of Covid-19 cases start to drop and PHW has revealed it is \"starting to see small numbers of hospital admissions of people with coronavirus\" across the Cwm Taf health board area.\n\nThe wearing of face masks has become compulsory in shops in Wales as the infection rate has surged, while no more than six people from extended households can meet indoors at any one time.\n\nBut rules to curb a rise in the number of coronavirus cases could be \"shutting the door after the horse has bolted\", an intensive care doctor in Newport has warned.\n\nPubs in Newport could be closed or have their opening hours restricted if they are linked to more Covid-19 cases\n\nIt comes after people who attended several bars in the city were told by PHW they should isolate and book a test immediately if they started to feel unwell.\n\nMr Gething said the Welsh Government could order pubs in Newport to close or restrict opening hours to stamp out transmission of the virus.\n\nHe said the situation in Merthyr Tydfil, which has also seen a rise in cases along with Rhondda Cynon Taff, was \"more complex\".\n\n\"There is a cluster of cases linked to people working in a company, we are also seeing cases linked to Caerphilly borough, as well as those associated with socialising without social distance and imported cases from holiday travel,\" he said.\n\nA lack of social distancing has been blamed for covid clusters in the Rhondda\n\nIn Rhondda Cynon Taff, the cases are \"largely centred on the lower Rhondda valley and are again linked to people socialising without social distancing and returning from holidays\".\n\nA small cluster of cases have also been linked to a caravan park.\n\nLast week people in the two areas were asked to take extra precautions, including only using public transport for essential purposes.\n\nStaying out of lockdown \"depends on the choices that each one of us is prepared to make\", the health minister said.\n\n\"The challenge is that we've seen some people relaxing too much perhaps and small instances where people know that they're breaking the rules and, in particular, larger social gatherings in people's homes, and a couple of businesses that have not enforced the rules in terms of where their customers behave.\"", "Dost is one of many Afghan interpreters who did not qualify for resettlement in the UK under the original scheme, but would now\n\nDozens more Afghan interpreters who worked with British forces in Afghanistan will be eligible to settle in the UK following a government decision to expand a relocation scheme.\n\nAbout 450 interpreters moved to the UK with their families under the original scheme, announced up in 2013.\n\nBut some of those who were ineligible said they were targeted by the Taliban.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said expanding the scheme was \"the honourable thing to do\".\n\nUnder the original scheme only those who had worked with the British on the frontline for a year or more, and were then made redundant, were eligible to apply.\n\nThis meant hundreds of Afghan interpreters who had worked for British forces in Helmand before they left in 2014 did not qualify for resettlement in the UK, leading to criticism from MPs and some former British military personnel.\n\nNow, following discussions between the defence and home secretaries, the government has announced an expansion of the resettlement scheme.\n\nIt means that Afghan interpreters who worked on the frontline with British troops for 18 months or more, between May 2006 and December 2014, but then resigned, will also be eligible to apply to resettle in the UK along with their families.\n\nMr Wallace and Home Secretary Priti Patel announced the expansion of the relocation scheme on a joint visit at Stanford Military Training Area in Norfolk, where they saw British troops prepare for a deployment to Kabul working alongside former Afghan interpreters who are now living in the UK.\n\nMr Wallace described the rule change as a \"thank you\" to the interpreters for their loyal service.\n\nAbout 100 more Afghan former interpreters will be eligible to apply to resettle under the new rules.\n\nMs Patel said: \"It's right that we do right by them, the very people that have served alongside our forces in one of the most hostile and difficult places in the world.\"\n\nAfghan interpreters worked with the Army on the frontline in Helmand Province\n\nMr Wallace and Ms Patel met Dost, a former Afghan interpreter taking part in the training who had already claimed asylum in the UK.\n\nDost did not qualify under the initial scheme. He had worked in Helmand as an interpreter for several years but says he had to resign when he received threats from the Taliban.\n\nOne of his colleagues had also been kidnapped and killed.\n\nIn 2010, he made his own way to the UK, via Turkey and France, to claim asylum. But under the new rules he would now be eligible to apply to resettle in the UK.\n\nHe said he was \"very happy\" that the relocation scheme was being expanded, but added he was still worried about the safety of those left behind.\n\nThe expanded relocation scheme still excludes dozens of Afghans who worked for British forces.\n\nAli* is one of many Afghan interpreters who is still ineligible for resettlement in the UK, even with the rule change\n\nAny interpreter who fled to a third country will not be eligible to apply. Those who worked for British forces for less than 18 months will also not qualify.\n\nThe BBC has spoken to one Afghan interpreter who worked for the Army in Helmand for seven months in 2010.\n\nWe have given him an alias to protect his identity.\n\n\"Ali\" is now living in Kabul. He moved there with the help of the British embassy after he received threats from the Taliban.\n\nHe says the Taliban and the Islamic State group make no distinction as to how long you worked for western military forces like the British. He says they \"will kill you because you have worked for the infidel\".\n\nAli* has received threats from the Taliban since working for the British\n\nThe risk, Ali says, is the same for anyone who worked for the coalition, no matter how long.\n\nBritain does have a separate scheme for those who have suffered \"intimidation\", which in theory allows Afghan interpreters to be resettled in the UK.\n\nBut while a number of former interpreters, like Ali, have been relocated within Afghanistan, none has yet been moved to the UK under the intimidation scheme.\n\nMr Wallace and Ms Patel insist that door is not closed. They say each individual will still be assessed on a case by case basis.\n\nWhile former interpreters like Ali welcome the expansion of the resettlement scheme, they still fear for the future.\n\nThere are hopes for the peace talks now taking place with the Taliban. But those talks have also seen hundreds of Taliban fighters released from prison.\n\nFor Ali and his family, the threat has not gone away.", "Pubs and restaurants could be shut for a few weeks as part of stricter measures across England to slow the surge of coronavirus cases.\n\nThe government is considering a short period of tighter rules which could be announced in the next week, BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said.\n\nSchools and most workplaces would be kept open during those weeks.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told the BBC the government is \"prepared to do what it takes\" against Covid-19.\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded a further 4,322 confirmed cases of coronavirus - the first time the daily total of positive tests has exceeded 4,000 since 8 May.\n\nAnother 27 deaths were reported within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nDescribed by the government as a \"circuit-break\", the measures being considered could involve re-introducing restrictions in public spaces for a period of a few weeks. Schools and workplaces would stay open.\n\nIdeas suggested by the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) include closing some parts of the hospitality sector.\n\nNo 10 is also considering limiting the opening hours of pubs and restaurants across the country, as has already happened in some areas.\n\nMr Hancock said there had been an \"acceleration\" in cases in the last couple of weeks, with the number of people admitted to hospital doubling about every eight days.\n\nHe stressed it was \"critical\" that people followed social distancing guidelines and local lockdown rules, where they applied, to \"avoid having to take serious further measures\".\n\nThe Office for National Statistics' weekly infections survey for England and Wales, used by the government to base its decisions, estimates there were about 6,000 new cases a day in England in the week to 10 September.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said the next few days will be \"critical\" to avoid another full-scale lockdown in Scotland.\n\nMs Sturgeon, Welsh First Minister, Mark Drakeford, and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer have all asked Boris Johnson for an emergency Cobra meeting to be called.\n\nAt a meeting on Wednesday night, the UK government's chief scientific adviser and medical adviser said they were forecasting a significant number of deaths by the end of October if there were no further interventions.\n\nBasic maths shows us how quickly coronavirus cases can, theoretically, soar.\n\nAround 4,000 infections a day, doubling every eight days, would be 128,000 new daily cases by the end of October.\n\nThat is not guaranteed to happen, and a change in our behaviour, the \"rule of six\" or restrictions like those in north-east England could improve the situation.\n\nThe point of a national \"circuit-break\" would be to achieve a controlled drop in the levels of coronavirus without needing a full lockdown.\n\nThis does two things, obviously it helps avoid having very high levels of the virus that could overwhelm hospitals.\n\nBut it also gives us more options. Any contact tracing programme or system of local lockdowns is far easier to implement when levels of the virus are low. The higher the number of cases, the fewer targeted measures the government has to use.\n\nThe problem is once the circuit-break is over, cases would begin to rise again and it may take multiple circuit breaks to get us through winter.\n\nMeanwhile, new rules have been announced for north-west England, the Midlands and West Yorkshire, to come into force from Tuesday, in an effort to control the spread of the virus.\n\nSimilar restrictions have already come into force in north-east England, affecting almost two million people, banning them from meeting people from other households and requiring restaurants and pubs to shut at 22:00 BST.\n\nBut it is understood the government turned down down a request from the local council in Leeds to bring in early closing for bars and pubs there.\n\nOther parts of the UK under local lockdown conditions include - including Birmingham, Greater Manchester, Caerphilly, and the Belfast council area.\n\nThe four nations of the UK are in charge of their own lockdown restrictions, with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland implementing slightly different rules to England.\n\nThe health secretary said the government's current approach was \"targeted interventions\" and stressed \"a national lockdown was the last line of defence\".\n\n\"The strategy is to keep the virus down as much as is possible whilst protecting education and the economy,\" Mr Hancock added.\n\n\"And throw everything at the science which eventually is the way we're going to spring out of this.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson is understood to be deeply reluctant to order another national lockdown, where everyone would be asked to stay at home and businesses to close.\n\nEarlier this week he described the potential impact of this on the economy as \"disastrous\". Chancellor Rishi Sunak is also understood to have warned ministers of the potential damage to the economy.\n\nThe government is also concerned about the impact of more restrictions on daily life on those who need treatment for non-Covid related illnesses.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this article? Do you have any questions? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Adnan Ahmed was convicted of five counts of threatening and abusive behaviour towards young women\n\nA so-called pickup artist who was jailed for targeting young women has had his conviction quashed on appeal.\n\nAdnan Ahmed - who called himself Addy A-game - secretly filmed himself approaching women in Glasgow and South Lanarkshire.\n\nThe 39-year-old was convicted last October of threatening and abusive behaviour towards five women.\n\nBut three judges at the Court of Criminal Appeal have now ruled the verdict was a miscarriage of justice.\n\nPolice Scotland launched an investigation after his actions were revealed by the BBC's The Social in 2019.\n\nThe self-styled \"lifestyle coach\" would approach women in the street, often secretly filming the encounter and posting videos offering advice to other men.\n\nIn the videos, he offered tips on how to overcome \"last-minute resistance\" to sex.\n\nFive young women, aged between 16 and 21, gave evidence at his trial - saying that they been intimidated by Mr Ahmed in Glasgow city centre and in Uddingston, South Lanarkshire.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Adnan Ahmed, also known as Addy A-game, approaches women in the street\n\nAfter a jury found him guilty, Sheriff Lindsay Wood sentenced Mr Ahmed, of Maryhill, Glasgow, to two years in prison.\n\nHe was also put on the sex offenders register for 10 years.\n\nBut lawyers acting for Mr Ahmed told the Court of Criminal Appeal earlier this year that Sheriff Wood conducted an inappropriate \"cross examination\" of their client when he finished giving evidence.\n\nDefence advocate Claire Mitchell QC said the questions asked by Sheriff Wood to Mr Ahmed \"would have led the independent observer to reach the view that the sheriff had formed an adverse view of his credibility\".\n\nShe added that Sheriff Wood's conduct resulted in her client being denied a fair and impartial trial.\n\nIn a written judgement issued on Friday, the three judges agreed.\n\nLord Turnbull wrote: \"The trial sheriff engaged in an exercise which could only be described as cross-examination.\n\n\"The informed and impartial observer would readily have concluded that the sheriff had formed an adverse view on the credibility of the appellant's evidence.\n\n\"The result was a miscarriage of justice and the appeal against conviction on each charge must be upheld on this ground.\"\n\nAdnan Ahmed, appearing here in one of his online videos, claimed they were educational\n\nA BBC investigation into Mr Ahmed's activities revealed he was part of a global network of \"pick-up artists\" who practise what they call \"game\".\n\nYouTube has since removed hundreds of videos and deactivated two channels run by Addy A-Game and another group called Street Attraction.\n\nMr Ahmed's legal team also told the appeal court that Sheriff Wood failed to properly explain the rules of corroboration to jurors in the case.\n\nMs Mitchell also told the court that the sheriff was wrong to reject a defence motion to have some of the charges thrown out on the basis that there wasn't enough evidence to allow jurors to return guilty verdicts.\n\nIn his report to the appeal court, Sheriff Wood said he believed there was enough evidence on these charges to be considered by the jurors.\n\nBut the judges disagreed and said the evidence did not show that Mr Ahmed was guilty of threatening behaviour.\n\nLord Turnbull wrote: \"It does not seem to us that a polite conversational request or compliment can be construed as threatening merely because it is uninvited or unwelcome.\"\n\nThe appeal judges also criticised Sheriff Wood for his actions when Mr Ahmed's lawyers attempted to object to the questions asked by the judge.\n\nLord Turnbull wrote: \"In the present case counsel was correct to object to the sheriff's questioning when she did.\n\n\"It is unacceptable for a judicial office holder to address a responsible practitioner by telling her to sit down.\n\n\"Such behaviour carries the risk of demeaning the standing of the judiciary in the eyes of both the legal profession and of the public.\"", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Baroness Harding: It is “quite hard to give you an accurate figure” on the level of demand for coronavirus tests\n\nDemand for coronavirus testing is \"significantly outstripping the capacity we have\", head of NHS Test and Trace Baroness Harding has told MPs.\n\nShe told the science and technology committee that the return to school meant test demand in England from under-17s had doubled.\n\nShe also acknowledged that results were also taking \"slightly longer\".\n\nBut she said she was \"very confident\" of raising capacity to 500,000 tests a day by the end of October.\n\n\"I am certain we will need more as we go beyond the end of October. We have plans to go beyond 500,000 a day,\" Baroness Harding said, before adding there was no formal target beyond the October deadline.\n\nThe test and trace programme has come under increasing pressure in recent days, with reports of people unable to access tests or being directed to test centres many miles away.\n\nFigures published on Thursday also showed the turnaround time for community tests was getting longer. Only a third of these tests came back in 24 hours in the week up to 9 September, compared to two-thirds a week earlier.\n\nIt comes as the UK reported another 3,395 confirmed cases of coronavirus, and a further 21 deaths were recorded within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nThe number of people calling 119 and visiting the website to book tests was three to four times the number of available tests, Baroness Harding told the committee - although she said that may exaggerate the problem as some people call repeatedly from different numbers.\n\nCommittee chairman Greg Clark said it was \"dispiriting\" that despite the \"entirely predictable\" circumstances of the return to schools and offices \"we haven't had the right capacity put in place\".\n\nBaroness Harding said they built the testing capacity for this autumn - which is now 242,817 a day - based on modelling from the Sage scientific advisory group.\n\n\"I don't think anybody was expecting to see the really sizable increase in demand that has happened over the last few weeks,\" she said.\n\nProf Carl Heneghan, a GP and epidemiologist at Oxford University, told the committee that the testing strategy was \"utter chaos\" at the moment because other illnesses with Covid-like symptoms such as colds and flu had risen by 50% in children in September.\n\nHe said there was only a \"slight increase\" in hospital admissions and deaths, however, and increased testing may explain some of the rise in cases.\n\n\"What's happening at the moment is the language and the rhetoric is making people so fearful and terrorised that they're going beyond the guidance because they're so fearful of what's coming next,\" he said.\n\nAn unpublished study suggested that coughs and fevers from other winter viruses could rise to 445,000 a day in December, overwhelming test capacity.\n\nIn Sunderland, meanwhile, more than 100 people were left waiting at an empty car park where they said they had been booked in for Covid-19 testing, although no staff or equipment was there.\n\nBolton Council, which faces the highest levels of infection nationally, said it was \"incredibly frustrated\" after problems with the national booking system led to long queues and people with appointments being turned away.\n\nSimilar problems were reported in Lewisham, south London, where the approach to the centre was \"gridlocked\".\n\nBaroness Harding said testing was limited by the laboratory processing capacity, and that they had to restrict the number of people at centres because it would be \"very dangerous\" to send too many samples to the laboratory that would then go untested.\n\nAn NHS Test and Trace survey showed 27% of people seeking tests had no symptoms but had only been in contact with an infected person. Tests should only be provided for members of the public with a continuous cough, a high temperature or a change in sense of smell or taste.\n\n\"We don't want to push away people who are scared,\" Baroness Harding said. But she added that they must \"protect the capacity we have for the people who most need it\".\n\nThe current priorities for testing are NHS patients, NHS staff and care home residents and staff. Together these account for 50% of testing, she said.\n\nAfter that, areas with serious outbreaks are given priority. Baroness Harding said they were looking at putting key workers next, particularly teachers, \"but work is still ongoing\".", "The car had been driving along a highway near Ponoka in Alberta\n\nA Canadian man has been charged with dangerous driving for allegedly taking a nap while his self-driving Tesla car clocked up more than 90mph (150km/h).\n\nPolice said both front seats were fully reclined, and the driver and passenger were apparently asleep when they were alerted to the incident in Alberta.\n\nWhen police turned on emergency lights and other vehicles moved out of the way, the Tesla Model S sped up.\n\nThe 20-year-old driver from British Columbia is due in court in December.\n\nHe had initially been charged with speeding and handed a 24-hour licence suspension for fatigue, but was subsequently charged with dangerous driving.\n\nThe incident happened near Ponoka, some 100km south of Edmonton, in July.\n\n\"Nobody was looking out the windshield to see where the car was going,\" Police Sgt Darri Turnbull told CBC News.\n\nHe said that when they put on their emergency lights the Tesla accelerated, with vehicles ahead of it moving out of the way.\n\n\"Nobody appeared to be in the car, but the vehicle sped up because the line was clear in front.\"\n\nHe added: \"I've been in policing for over 23 years, and the majority of that in traffic law enforcement, and I'm speechless. I've never, ever seen anything like this before but of course the technology wasn't there.\"\n\nTesla cars currently operate at a level-two Autopilot, which requires the driver to remain alert and ready to act, with hands on the wheel.\n\nTesla founder Elon Musk has said he expects his vehicles to be completely autonomous, with little driver input needed, by the end of the year.\n\nHowever, he added that there were \"many small problems\" that would need solving through real-world testing.", "The owners said the support they had received was \"beyond expectation\"\n\nLiverpool's oldest surviving cinema is to reopen its doors after receiving \"overwhelming\" support following its closure announcement.\n\nThe owners of Woolton Picture House said in July it would permanently close because of the impact of Covid-19.\n\nHowever, they have now \"looked again\" at the \"sustainability\" of the business and decided \"a passion for cinema continues\".\n\nThe building was initially closed on 18 March by the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nA statement on the cinema's Facebook page said it had been \"very heartwarming\" to see that the picture house was \"held so dear in the hearts and minds of so many\".\n\nIt said a fundraising page had been set up to support its reopening and it was \"truly thrilled\" to be announcing an opening date soon.\n\n\"The sense of community spirit and your words and actions of support have been beyond expectation and have illustrated very clearly that a passion for cinema continues within our community,\" it said.\n\nA plaque on the building celebrates it as \"the oldest surviving cinema in Liverpool\"\n\nThe single-screen cinema, which first opened on 26 December 1927, was originally built to host 800 people on wooden benches before more comfortable seating was added in the 1930s and has previously returned from two closures.\n\nHaving stayed open during World War Two, surviving the bombing of Liverpool, it was devastated by fire in the summer of 1958, but reopened three months later.\n\nIn 2006, the sudden deaths of its chief projectionist and owner in 2006 saw it closed again.\n\nIt reopened again in March 2007 and went on to feature in the 2009 John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy.\n\nIt also hosted the red carpet premiere of Indian blockbuster Madrasapattinam a year later.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alligator bellows: The first pair of sounds are in ambient air; the second pair are in heliox\n\nHave you heard the one about the alligator that performed the party trick of breathing in helium so it could talk in a funny voice?\n\nIt's not that hilarious but then you'd be careful never to smile at a crocodilian.\n\nStephan Reber and colleagues performed the experiment to try to understand how alligators might communicate.\n\nIt was a serious piece of research but its slightly comedic aspects have just won the team an Ig Nobel Prize.\n\nTen such awards were handed out on Thursday by the science humour magazine Annals of Improbable Research.\n\nThe annual Igs are intended as a bit of a spoof on the more sober Nobel science prizes.\n\nOther 2020 winners included the team that devised a method to identify narcissists by examining their eyebrows; and the group that wanted to see what happened when earthworms were vibrated at high frequency.\n\nAll this kind of stuff sounds daft, but when you dig a little deeper you realise much of the research lauded by the Ig Nobels is actually intended to tackle real-world problems and gets published in peer-reviewed, scholarly journals.\n\nA real Nobel Laureate, Andre Geim (bottom-left), prepares to hand the Ig Nobel Acoustics Prize to Stephan Reber (middle-top) and his team\n\nDr Reber told BBC News he was honoured to receive the Ig.\n\nHis team's study had attempted to show that crocodilians and other reptiles could advertise their body size through their vocalisations - something that mammals and birds can do when they call out.\n\n\"The resonances in your vocal tract sound lower overall if you're larger because it's a larger space in which the air can vibrate. We didn't know if reptiles actually had resonances. Frogs, amphibians, don't for example. So we needed a proof of concept that crocodilians actually have resonances,\" he explained.\n\nThis was achieved by putting an alligator in an enclosed tank that could be filled alternately with normal air and a supply of oxygen and helium (heliox). The vibrations of the vocal tissues don't change but the noise the animals are able to make will, because the speed of sound is different in the different gas mixtures.\n\nThe analysis of the frequency spectrum confirmed alligators' body size does indeed correlate with the resonances they produce. \"Although whether the animals can pick up on these cues, I haven't tested,\" the Lund University, Sweden, researcher said.\n\nThis is the 30th year the Ig Nobels have been presented.\n\nTheir usual home is the Sanders Theatre at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US; and the event is always a riotous affair that involves lots of paper plane throwing and a small girl who shouts \"boring\" at anyone who talks for too long.\n\nBut the Covid-19 crisis forced this year's ceremony online.\n\nEven so, some traditions were maintained, like the involvement of real Nobel Laureates. Dr Reber's team was presented with its Ig by Andre Geim, the UK-based researcher who won the Physics Nobel in 2010 for his work on graphene.\n\nThe Prof is something of a superstar having also won an Ig earlier in his career for levitating frogs.\n\nHere's a full list of the 2020 Ig Nobel winners. Each winning team was given a cash prize - of a 10 trillion dollar bill from Zimbabwe.\n\nFor Acoustics: Stephan Reber, Takeshi Nishimura, Judith Janisch, Mark Robertson, and Tecumseh Fitch, for inducing a female Chinese alligator to bellow in an airtight chamber filled with helium-enriched air.\n\nPsychology: Miranda Giacomin and Nicholas Rule, for devising a method to identify narcissists by examining their eyebrows.\n\nPeace: The governments of India and Pakistan, for having their diplomats surreptitiously ring each other's doorbells in the middle of the night, and then run away before anyone had a chance to answer the door.\n\nPhysics: Ivan Maksymov and Andriy Pototsky, for determining, experimentally, what happens to the shape of a living earthworm when one vibrates the earthworm at high frequency.\n\nEconomics: Christopher Watkins, Juan David Leongómez, Jeanne Bovet, Agnieszka Żelaźniewicz, Max Korbmacher, Marco Antônio Corrêa Varella, Ana Maria Fernandez, Danielle Wagstaff, and Samuela Bolgan, for trying to quantify the relationship between different countries' national income inequality and the average amount of mouth-to-mouth kissing.\n\nManagement: Xi Guang-An, Mo Tian-Xiang, Yang Kang-Sheng, Yang Guang-Sheng, and Ling Xian Si - five professional hitmen in Guangxi, China, who subcontracted a murder one to the other with none of them in the end actually carrying out the crime.\n\nEntomology: Richard Vetter, for collecting evidence that many entomologists (scientists who study insects) are afraid of spiders, which are not insects.\n\nMedicine: Nienke Vulink, Damiaan Denys, and Arnoud van Loon, for diagnosing a long-unrecognized medical condition: Misophonia, the distress at hearing other people make chewing sounds.\n\nMedical Education: Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom, Narendra Modi of India, Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico, Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, Donald Trump of the USA, Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, Vladimir Putin of Russia, and Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow of Turkmenistan, for using the Covid-19 viral pandemic to teach the world that politicians can have a more immediate effect on life and death than scientists and doctors can.\n\nMaterials Science: Metin Eren, Michelle Bebber, James Norris, Alyssa Perrone, Ashley Rutkoski, Michael Wilson, and Mary Ann Raghanti, for showing that knives manufactured from frozen human faeces do not work well.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "The US has had nearly seven million confirmed Covid-19 cases\n\nUS health officials have rowed back on controversial advice issued last month that said people without Covid-19 symptoms should not get tested.\n\nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now says anyone in close contact with a known infected person should take a test.\n\nFriday's \"clarification\" returns the CDC's stance on testing to its previous guidance, before the August alteration.\n\nReports said the controversial advice had not been given by scientists.\n\nSources quoted by the New York Times said it had been posted on the CDC website despite experts' objections.\n\nMost US states had then rejected the guidance, Reuters reported, in a stinging rebuke to the nation's top disease prevention agency.\n\nSome observers suggested the controversial move could have reflected a desire by President Donald Trump to reduce the growing tally of Covid-19 cases.\n\nAt a rally in June, Mr Trump told supporters he had urged officials to \"slow the testing down, please\". A White House official dismissed the remark as a joke.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CDC director vs President Trump on face masks and vaccines\n\nHowever, administration officials denied any political motive, telling Reuters that the change reflected \"current evidence and best public health practices\".\n\nExperts welcomed the change of tack on Friday.\n\n\"The return to a science-based approach to testing guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is good news for public health and for our united fight against this pandemic,\" said Thomas File, president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.\n\nIn its \"overview of testing\" for healthcare workers the CDC now says: \"Due to the significance of asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic transmission, this guidance further reinforces the need to test asymptomatic persons, including close contacts of a person with documented SARS-CoV-2 infection.\"\n\nIt advises people to take a test \"if you have been in close contact, such as within 6ft of a person with documented SARS-CoV-2 infection for at least 15 minutes and do not have symptoms\".\n\nThe US has recorded nearly seven million cases of coronavirus, more than a fifth of the world's total. It has the world's highest death toll, with nearly 200,000 fatalities.", "Amal Clooney has quit her role as the UK's envoy on press freedom \"in dismay\" at the government's willingness to break international law over Brexit.\n\nThe human rights lawyer said it was \"lamentable\" for Boris Johnson to be contemplating overriding the Brexit agreement he signed last year.\n\nShe could not tell others to honour legal obligations when the UK \"declares it does not intend to do so itself\".\n\nThe PM says he does not want to use the powers in the Internal Market Bill.\n\nBut he says the legislation is necessary to give the government the power to protect the UK and, particularly, Northern Ireland if trade talks fail and the EU acts \"unreasonably\".\n\nIn her resignation letter, Mrs Clooney, who is married to Hollywood actor George Clooney, said she had accepted the job last year because of the UK's historic role in upholding the international legal order.\n\nBut she said the government's attempts to pass the Internal Market Bill, which passed its first hurdle in the Commons last week, made her position \"untenable\".\n\nShe said she had decided to quit after speaking to foreign secretary Dominic Raab and getting \"no assurance that any change of position is imminent\".\n\nShe added: \"It is lamentable for the UK to be speaking of its intention to violate an international treaty signed by the prime minister less than a year ago.\n\n\"It has become untenable for me, as Special Envoy, to urge other states to respect and enforce international obligations while the UK declares that it does not intend to do so itself.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer says it was “the right decision\" for the “first-class lawyer” to stand down.\n\nMrs Clooney was appointed by Jeremy Hunt, Mr Raab's predecessor, during the final months of Theresa May's government and continued in the role after Boris Johnson took over in No 10.\n\nShe was the deputy chair of the high-level panel of legal experts which works with the UK and Canadian governments on their campaign to promote media freedom around the world.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer, who used to practice in the same barristers' chambers as Ms Clooney, said she had taken the right decision.\n\n\"I know Amal and she is a first class lawyer. I'm not surprised that she has quit because, like others, she's concluded that there is a conflict between a breach of international law - which the government seems intent on - and our reputation as a country in the world that abides by the rule of law,\" he said.\n\nHer resignation adds to a growing list of senior legal figures who have quit their roles in disquiet at the government's position.\n\nLord Keen resigned as Advocate General for Scotland on Wednesday, saying he found it \"increasingly difficult to reconcile\" his obligations as a lawyer with provisions in the legislation.\n\nThe government's most senior legal adviser - Sir Jonathan Jones, permanent secretary to the government legal department - had already resigned, as had the UK's envoy for the protection of religious freedoms, Tory MP Rehman Chishti.\n\nThe EU has demanded the government removes sections of the Bill which would give the UK the power to override agreements on the movement of goods between Northern Ireland and Britain and subsidies for NI companies.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis has admitted the powers, if they were ever used, would break the UK's treaty obligations under international law in a \"specific and limited\" way.\n\nThe prime minister has sought to quell a potential rebellion by Tory MPs next week by promising critics that the Commons will get a specific vote on the powers before the government can use them.\n\nBut former Conservative leader Lord Howard has said the PM needs to go further, saying it was a matter of principle and he doubted whether the Lords would back the bill as it stands.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nReal Madrid forward Gareth Bale arrived at Tottenham Hotspur's training ground on Friday as he neared a return to the club.\n\nWales international Bale, 31, is expected to rejoin Spurs on loan.\n\nHe flew into Luton Airport before travelling to the training ground in Enfield, north London.\n\nBale originally joined Spurs from Southampton in 2007 before moving to the Spanish giants for a then world record £85m in 2013.\n\nHe has gone on to score more than 100 goals for Real and won four Champions Leagues.\n\n\"Until I'm told Bale is a Tottenham player, I still think and feel and respect the fact he's a Real Madrid player,\" said Spurs boss Jose Mourinho.\n\nIt is also anticipated Real Madrid full-back Sergio Reguilon will complete his transfer to Tottenham on Friday. The 23-year-old Spain international played last season on loan at Sevilla, winning the Europa League.\n• None All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur's Amazon documentary reviewed\n\nBale's agent, Jonathan Barnett, told BBC Wales Sport on Wednesday that talks over a move were \"slowly progressing\".\n\nBarnett said: \"Gareth is closer to leaving Madrid than at any time in the last seven years. We are still negotiating. We shall see how it goes.\"\n\nSpurs boss Jose Mourinho refused to speculate on the discussions, saying: \"He is a Real Madrid player and I don't comment on players from other clubs. I have to respect that. It's better not to speak.\n\n\"I tried to sign him for Real Madrid, which was not possible to do during my time there. But the president followed my instinct and my knowledge and the season I left he brought Gareth to the club. It's not a secret, even Gareth knows that.\"\n\nIn July 2019, Real cancelled a deal for Bale to join Chinese Super League club Jiangsu Suning, and he played 20 times for the Spanish champions last season.\n\nTottenham were beaten 1-0 at home by Everton in their first game of the new Premier League campaign on Sunday.", "Actor Danny Masterson was arraigned on three rape charges at a court in Los Angeles\n\nActor Danny Masterson, best known for his role in the hit series That '70s Show, has appeared in court accused of raping three women in the early 2000s.\n\nHe is charged with raping the women, who were all in their 20s, between 2001 and 2003.\n\nMr Masterson, 44, denies the charges and has argued he was being persecuted for his high-profile membership of the Church of Scientology.\n\nIf convicted, the actor could face up to 45 years in prison.\n\nFree on $3.3m (£2.5m) bail since his arrest in mid-June, Mr Masterson made his first court appearance over the allegations in Los Angeles on Friday.\n\nWhile the actor did not enter a plea, his lawyer, Tom Mesereau, mounted a vigorous defence of his client, dismissing the charges against him as politically motivated.\n\nThe lawyer accused Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey of filing the charges for political gain ahead of a bid to retain her post in a November election.\n\n\"There have been repeated attempts to politicise this case,\" said Mr Mesereau, who also defended Michael Jackson against sexual misconduct allegations in a previous case. \"He is absolutely not guilty and we're going to prove it.\"\n\nMs Lacey is yet to comment, but Deputy District Attorney Reinhold Mueller dismissed Mr Mesereau allegations as \"false\" and \"pure speculation, with no basis in fact\".\n\nActor Danny Masterson, pictured in 2017, has denied the allegations against him\n\nFriday's court hearing was attended by all three of Mr Masterson's accusers, while about 20 of the actor's supporters stood outside the courtroom, unable to enter due to coronavirus regulations.\n\nThe allegations against Mr Masterson first came to light in 2017, when the #MeToo movement that inspired women to go public with misconduct allegations was gathering momentum.\n\nMr Masterson was removed from The Ranch - the Netflix comedy in which he starred - over the allegations.\n\nAt the time, Mr Masterson denied the \"outrageous allegations\" and vowed to clear his name \"once and for all\".\n\n\"Obviously, Mr Masterson and his wife are in complete shock considering that these nearly 20-year-old allegations are suddenly resulting in charges being filed, but they and their family are comforted knowing that ultimately the truth will come out,\" his lawyer Mr Mesereau said in a statement.\n\nThe charges came after a three-year investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department. Prosecutors did not file charges in two other cases due to insufficient evidence and the statute of limitations expiring.\n\nMr Masterson has been married to the actor and model Bijou Phillips since 2011.\n\nThat '70s Show - which also starred Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis - ran from 1998 to 2006, gaining huge international success.", "The boy was shot at about 08:40 BST on the Grange Farm estate in Kesgrave\n\nA teenager has been charged with attempted murder and firearms offences after a schoolboy was shot.\n\nThe victim was shot at about 08:40 BST on the Grange Farm estate in Kesgrave, Suffolk, on Monday.\n\nThe Year 11 Kesgrave High School pupil is in a critical condition.\n\nA 15-year-old boy from the Woodbridge area, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been charged with attempted murder and possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life.\n\nHe has also been charged with possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear of injury.\n\nThe boy has been remanded in custody and will appear via video link before Norwich Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.\n\nOfficers conducted a thorough search of the area around Friends Walk\n\nThe victim sustained serious injuries and was airlifted to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.\n\nFriends Walk was reopened earlier on Tuesday following the completion of police searches in the area.\n\nPolice said a \"long-barrelled gun\" had been recovered.\n\nPolice said a large police presence would remain in the area\n\nA police spokesman said officers would \"continue to engage with school children, teachers, parents and local residents to provide reassurance\".\n\n\"The constabulary will also have a police pod located in Through Jollys that will provide a strong visible presence to local people,\" the spokesman added.\n\nSupt Kerry Cutler said: \"Everybody is shocked, Kesgrave is on the outskirts of Ipswich, it is almost a semi-rural area, it's very much a residential area, this is not something we've seen in that area before and people will be impacted by it.\n\n\"The investigation goes on and we're still appealing for anybody who saw anything or has any information to come forward.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK's ambassador to the US quit after private comments about the Trump administration were leaked\n\nThe UK's former ambassador to the US has told BBC Newsnight he does not regret criticising Donald Trump in briefings later leaked to the media.\n\nKim Darroch quit last year after it emerged he described the US President's government as \"dysfunctional\", \"inept\" and \"divided\" in private letters.\n\nThe use of \"clear and direct\" language was not unusual for diplomats when reporting to ministers, he insisted.\n\nBut its disclosure to the media was a \"vindictive\" breach of trust, he said.\n\nLord Darroch left his post in July 2019 amid a huge diplomatic row over the leaking of a series of private cables, in which he had questioned the competence of the Trump administration and its handling of major foreign policy issues, such as relations with Iran.\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview with the BBC's Newsnight, to be broadcast at 22:45 BST on BBC Two, he said he accepted his position had become untenable after his observations became public, leading Mr Trump to describe him as a \"stupid guy\" and \"pompous fool\".\n\nBut he defended his conduct during his three years in Washington, saying it was the job of diplomats to report in unvarnished terms about the workings of foreign governments and how they could affect the UK national interest.\n\n\"I never regret the terms in which I'd reported,\" he said. \"I spent 40 years in the Foreign Office writing in these terms and people hitherto had thought it a strength and an asset.\n\n\"There is nothing unusual in reporting in clear and direct terms. Wikileaks shows American diplomats reporting in direct terms and the US embassy was reporting directly about how the UK government was handling Brexit.\"\n\nHe said he knew he was \"in trouble\" when a confidential letter sent in 2017 to a small group of colleagues, which described the early weeks of the Trump era as \"uniquely dysfunctional\", appeared in the Mail on Sunday.\n\nHe said he did not blame the newspaper for publishing the material but believed whoever had passed it onto them had acted in an \"irresponsible and vindictive\" way.\n\nIf their aim had been to get him replaced by a Brexit-supporting politician, such as the former UKIP leader Nigel Farage, rather than another career diplomat, they clearly failed, he said.\n\n\"I blame the leaker taking highly classified information of the most damaging kind to me and to US-UK relations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"If you're in the position of having to write in code because you can't trust your colleagues that way madness lies. You have to trust them and on this occasion that trust was misplaced.\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police launched a criminal probe into the leaking of the material in August 2019, with Commissioner Cressida Dick describing it as a \"very serious crime\".\n\nBoris Johnson, who at the time of Lord Darroch's exit was vying to be the next Conservative leader and prime minister, was criticised for not coming out in support of the UK diplomat and insisting he must stay in post.\n\nLord Darroch said it would have been \"nice\" if Mr Johnson had done so but understood why he wanted to keep his \"options open\" given the ambassador had been left \"dangling\" by the row.\n\nReflecting on his time in Washington and the current state of US-UK relations, he said the US President was \"not a politician\" in the conventional sense and it was not a surprise that Mr Johnson was \"fascinated\" by him.\n\nAsked if some of Mr Trump's approach to politics had rubbed off on Mr Johnson, he said it may be influencing his current \"negotiating style\" over a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU.\n\nThe PM has been criticised for threatening to change the terms of the legally-binding Withdrawal Agreement with the EU in the event the UK does not negotiate a trade deal.\n\n\"Trump famously said Theresa May should start Brexit negotiations by suing the EU, a mad dog negotiating style,\" Lord Darroch said.\n\n\"If you go back to the PM in 2018, he said if Trump was negotiating Brexit he would create chaos at the start and people would be outraged at what he was saying and there'd be huge rows and there might be a good outcome.\n\n\"We should think about that. That's when he was becoming dissatisfied with Brexit and now I watch the government conduct its future relationship I wonder if there's an element of Trump.\"\n\nLord Darroch, who became a member of the House of Lords in January, said he believed the so-called \"special relationship\" between the US and UK would remain strong whoever won November's presidential election.\n\nWhile Mr Johnson got on better with Mr Trump than his predecessor, this did not mean there would not be \"ups and downs\" if he were re-elected and that negotiations on a transatlantic trade deal would not be \"difficult\".\n\nAnd while Mr Trump's Democratic rival for the Presidency, Joe Biden, was an \"Anglophile\", he was vice-president in the Obama administration which famously said the UK would be at the \"back of the queue\" for a trade deal if it voted to leave the EU, added Lord Darroch.\n\n\"Biden said he'd have voted Remain so I have more questions about the relationship with a Democrat,\" he added.\n\nThe interview will be aired on BBC's Newsnight at 22:45 BST on BBC Two, or on iPlayer", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The names of the 22 victims were read out at the start of the inquiry\n\nSeveral people raised suspicions about the Manchester Arena suicide bomber in the minutes before he killed 22 people.\n\nSalman Abedi was reported to police and security ahead of the attack but one witness felt he was \"fobbed off\", a public inquiry has heard.\n\nThe witness had approached Abedi and asked him what was in his backpack while another said he thought he saw the suicide bomber praying.\n\nHundreds were injured in the bombing at the end of an Ariana Grande concert.\n\nInquiry proceedings began with Paul Greaney QC, counsel to the hearing at Manchester Magistrates' Court, reading the names of the 22 people who died on 22 May 2017.\n\n\"What happened that night was the most devastating terrorist attack in the UK for many years,\" he said.\n\n\"The inquiry will leave no stone unturned.\"\n\nFamilies, lawyers and chairman of the inquiry Sir John Saunders, a retired High Court judge, stood with heads bowed for a minute's silence before Mr Greaney's opening.\n\nSir John then formally opened the inquiry, adding \"this is an exercise in establishing the truth\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lisa Roussos: ''It should be about transparency''\n\n\"If I conclude things went wrong then I shall say so, but we are not looking for scapegoats. We are searching for the truth,\" he said.\n\n\"The explosion killed 22 people, including children, the youngest was eight years old.\n\n\"Salman Abedi blew himself up in the explosion but he intended as many people as possible would die with him.\"\n\nThe most sensitive evidence is likely to be heard at closed hearings, with both press and public excluded because of the risk to national security.\n\nThe public inquiry follows a trial in which a jury found Hashem Abedi guilty of helping his older sibling to plan the atrocity.\n\nHe was jailed for at least 55 years on 20 August for the 22 murders.\n\nThe inquiry will, among other things, look at the emergency response to the attack\n\nIn his opening statement, Mr Greaney told the inquiry \"experts consider that on 22 May there were missed opportunities to identify Salman Abedi as a threat and take mitigating action\".\n\nWhile there is evidence that suspicions were raised by members of the public in the minutes before the attack, \"no steward or British Transport Police (BTP) officer appear to have identified him as suspicious\", the inquiry heard.\n\nMr Greaney said experts concluded: \"If the presence of a potential suicide bomber had been reported, it is very likely that mitigating actions would've been taken that could have reduced the impact of the attack.\n\n\"This is because there was sufficient time between Abedi first being spotted by, and also reported to staff and his attack to effectively react.\"\n\nPaul Greaney QC read the names of each of those murdered by suicide bomber Salman Abedi during the first day of the inquiry\n\nOne member of the public, William Drysdale, spotted Salman Abedi and thought he was praying, less than an hour before he detonated his bomb.\n\nA second witness, Julie Merchant, approached BTP officer Jessica Bullough around 32 minutes before the deadly bombing to point out Abedi.\n\nMr Greaney said Ms Merchant cannot recall the details of the conversation with the officer but that it was \"to do with praying and political correctness\".\n\nThe officer cannot remember the conversation taking place, the hearing was told.\n\nShe was the first police officer to enter the City Rooms, where the bomb was detonated, after the attack, showing considerable bravery, Mr Greaney added.\n\nCCTV caught Salman Abedi in the arena foyer just seconds before he blew himself up\n\nTwo more witnesses, known only as A and B, also saw a man matching Salman Abedi's description acting suspiciously.\n\nMr A challenged Abedi, asking him what he had in his backpack.\n\nThe witness then spoke to a Mohammed Agha, an employee of Showsec which provided security to the Arena on behalf of the venue's owners SMG, at 22.14, some 17 minutes before the detonation but said he was \"fobbed off.\"\n\nMr Agha spoke to colleague Kyle Lawler about the matter, eight minutes before the bomb went off.\n\nBut neither security control nor anyone else was informed about the suspicious activity, the hearing was told, although Mr Lawler said in a statement he tried to contact control but could not get through.\n\nHe then spotted the man get up and start walking towards the arena entrance.\n\nHis statement continued: \"I just froze and did not get anything out on the radio. I knew at that point it was too late.\"\n\nThe hearings will take place in a room specially converted from two courtrooms at Manchester Magistrates' Court\n\nMr Greaney also said expert evidence would be heard about risk assessments at the Arena.\n\n\"There was no effective risk assessments that considered the threats from terrorism at Manchester Arena in early 2017, despite the severe threat level,\" he said.\n\nThe possible role of Salman Abedi's family in radicalising the suicide bomber and his brother needs to be assessed, the inquiry also heard.\n\nHashem Abedi was arrested in Libya the day after the bombing\n\nMr Greaney told the inquiry: \"Ismail Abedi, the brother of the killers, has been required by the inquiry legal team to answer a series of questions relating to what might, in general terms, be described as the issue of radicalisation.\n\n\"To date, he has declined to answer these questions on the basis that he maintains that his answers may tend to incriminate him.\"\n\nHe said similar requests to the brothers' parents, Ramadan and Samia, who are believed to be in Libya, \"have not been responded to, at least not in any substantive way\".\n\nThe chairman will make a report and recommendations once all the evidence has been heard by the inquiry, which is expected to take up to six months.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Would Andy Robertson help get the public health message to younger people? Image caption: Would Andy Robertson help get the public health message to younger people?\n\nDan Sanderson from the Telegraph asks if Lewis Capaldi or Andy Robertson might not be a better messenger for the TV and radio public health ads.\n\n\"Maybe Andy Robertson after a Scotland win last night?\" ponders the first minister.\n\nMs Sturgeon adds: \"We think about this all the time.\"\n\nThe government is very mindful about the types of message that works best with each part of the population.\n\nShe says there will soon be a marketing campaign aimed at young people.\n\nProf Leitch points out Andy Robertson has already done a video clip to help out.", "Lord Frost (left) and Michel Barnier (right) will meet on Tuesday for the latest round of trade talks\n\nThe UK's chief Brexit negotiator has called for \"realism\" from the EU ahead of the next round of trade talks beginning in London.\n\nLord Frost said there was \"still time\" for the two sides to agree a post-Brexit trade deal for next year.\n\nBut he said the EU needed to recognise the UK's negotiating position came from that of a \"sovereign state\".\n\nHis words follow a pledge from Boris Johnson to walk away from the talks if a deal isn't done by 15 October.\n\nThe EU said it would \"do everything in [its] power to reach an agreement\" with the UK, but \"will be ready\" for a no-deal scenario.\n\nThe exchange also comes after No 10 revealed it would be introducing new legislation on customs rules in Northern Ireland, in case the negotiations fail.\n\nThe announcement has led to concerns from Brussels that the UK would not deliver on the withdrawal agreement, made ahead of its exit from the bloc in January.\n\nBut the government said the legislation would only result in \"minor clarifications\" and it was committed to the earlier deal.\n\nThe transition period - which sees the UK following a number of the EU's rules while the two sides try to negotiate a trade deal - is due to end on 31 December.\n\nIf a deal is not made and ratified by parliaments across Europe by then, the UK will move onto trading with the bloc on World Trade Organisation rules, which would involve tariffs. Critics fear this would damage the economy.\n\nMr Johnson has ruled out any extension to the talks and, despite both sides admitting to little progress recently, he has set a deadline of mid-October - when the European Council is due to meet.\n\nIn an email to Conservative Party members on Monday, the prime minister said if there was no agreement by that date, \"then I do not see that there will be a free trade agreement between us, and we should both accept that and move on\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Reality Check’s Chris Morris looks at where the UK and EU are struggling to agree on their future relationship\n\nLord Frost, who has led the UK's team of negotiators in talks since March, will meet his opposite number from the EU, Michel Barnier, on Tuesday at the start of the eighth round of talks between the two sides.\n\nHe was introduced as a peer for the first time in the House of Lords earlier, having been ennobled by Mr Johnson in July.\n\nLord Frost was introduced in the House of Lords earlier\n\nSpeaking ahead of his meeting with Mr Barnier, Lord Frost promised to \"drive home our clear message that we must make progress this week if we are to reach an agreement in time\".\n\nLord Frost added: \"We have now been talking for six months and can no longer afford to go over well-trodden ground. We need to see more realism from the EU about our status as an independent country.\n\n\"As we have done from the beginning in public and in private, I will reinforce our simple, reasonable request for a free trade agreement based on those the EU has signed before with like-minded partners.\"\n\nLord Frost said the UK had \"listened closely\" to the bloc's team and \"signalled flexibility\" on where it can move, but added: \"We have repeatedly made clear that key elements of our position derive from the fundamentals of being a sovereign state, and it's time for the EU to fully recognise this reality.\"\n\nHe said the UK was \"ramping up\" preparations for a no-deal outcome, but also said he hoped progress could be made this week.\n\nBeyond all the talk, there is a genuine frustration in government that the EU is yet to treat the UK as if it were a fully sovereign country.\n\nThat's matched on the EU side by similar irritation that the UK won't budge.\n\nBut the bad tempers do not necessarily mean that a deal won't be reached.\n\nAnd all the blood curdling vows don't mean that in the end there won't be compromise.\n\nEuropean Commission spokesman Dan Ferie said the EU had \"engaged constructively and in good faith\" with the talks so far and would be \"fully concentrated on making the most out of this week's negotiating round\".\n\nBut, while he said the bloc shared the UK's \"desire to reach a deal quickly\", it should be \"in line with the EU's long-term economic and political interests\".\n\nMr Ferie added: \"The EU has made numerous constructive proposals to move the negotiations forward.\n\n\"And Michel Barnier has repeatedly said that there needs to be enough time later this year for the European Parliament and the Council to have their say on any agreement.\n\n\"Whether or not there is an agreement in place by the end of the year, the UK's decision to leave the single market and the customs union will inevitably create barriers to trade across border exchanges that do not exist today.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEngland played out a dreary deadlock with Denmark in Copenhagen as the Nations League meeting turned into a drab non-event.\n\nHarry Kane almost won it for England in the dying seconds when he went round Denmark keeper Kasper Schmeichel, only to see his shot cleared off the line by Mathias Jorgensen - but such a poor quality encounter barely deserved a dramatic finale.\n\nManager Gareth Southgate will have hoped for some talking points on the pitch after the off-field distraction that saw young duo Phil Foden and Mason Greenwood sent home for breaking Covid-19 protocols in Iceland.\n\nWolverhampton Wanderers captain Conor Coady made a measured England debut while Leeds United's Kalvin Phillips had a quiet introduction - and Aston Villa midfield man Jack Grealish finally got his long-awaited bow with 14 minutes left.\n\nDenmark had the better chances until Kane's late effort, with England keeper Jordan Pickford saving well from Kasper Dolberg in the first half and Christian Eriksen shooting over when well placed late on.\n\nEngland were sterile and conservative, creating very little apart from a Kane header off target and a low shot from Raheem Sterling that brought a smart save from Schmeichel before that late chance.\n\nArsenal youngster Ainsley Maitland-Niles became England's fourth debutant in the final minutes on a night of very little excitement.\n• None 'Southgate must address lack of productivity, positivity and ambition'\n• None Trust needs to be rebuilt with Foden and Greenwood - Southgate\n• None Football Daily podcast: England are dull and drab in Denmark\n\nEngland's ploy of playing a three-man central defence and effectively two holding midfielders in Phillips and Declan Rice afforded Denmark the sort of respect that might be better reserved for more elite sides.\n\nIt set the tone for a disappointing England performance, lacking in ambition and threat and one which would not have have deserved the late victory Kane almost gave them.\n\nThere is the usual context that this is effectively a pre-season game in an international guise for England's players but there was no excuse for such a lifeless display lacking in energy.\n\nEngland's attacking trio of Kane, Sterling and the anonymous Jadon Sancho were nowhere near their best but they could point to the fact that they were cut off from any sort of supply line by the manner of Southgate's set-up.\n\nThe team itself had an experimental air but there was no escaping England should have done much better than this.\n\nWolves captain Conor Coady was no shrinking violet as he made his England debut, making his presence felt and heard even before kick-off.\n\nAs silence fell on the largely deserted Parken Stadion in the seconds before the start, Coady's voice was heard bellowing instructions to his new England colleagues.\n\nThe 27-year-old looked at home with England, urging team-mates on throughout and shouting tactical instructions. He also played well and can be very satisfied with his first taste of senior international football, playing his part in the clean sheet.\n\nIt was a more subdued night for 24-year-old Leeds midfielder Phillips but it is worth remembering this is a player entering international football before even making his debut in the Premier League.\n\nEngland's system was not ideal for him and there were times in the first half when the game passed him by but he showed composure on the ball and did not waste possession, improving in the second half.\n\nGrealish can finally got the opportunity that will delight his many supporters but he had little time to influence affairs, apart from a couple of trademark jinking runs that came to nothing.\n\nMost debutants in competitive game since 1962 - match stats\n• None This was England's sixth goalless draw in 43 matches under Gareth Southgate - as many as Roy Hodgson played out in 56 games in charge. The last England manager to oversee more 0-0s was Bobby Robson (17).\n• None England managed just two shots on target, their fewest since their behind-closed-doors match against Croatia in October 2018 (also two).\n• None England have kept a clean sheet in five successive competitive matches for the first time since another run of five ending in March 2017.\n• None Denmark have kept a clean sheet in six of their past eight matches in all competitions, conceding just three goals in this time.\n• None England's first shot on target in this game came in the 70th minute courtesy of Raheem Sterling - it was the longest they had to wait since a World Cup match against Costa Rica in 2014 (80th minute).\n• None This was the first time the England men's team has named four debutants in a non-friendly match since October 1962 in a European Championship qualifier against Poland (Ray Charnley, Chris Crowe, Mike Hellawell, Alan Hinton).\n• None Phillips was the first Leeds United player to start for England since Danny Mills in 2003, while Coady was the first Wolves player to start for England since Steve Bull in 1990.\n• None Attempt blocked. Harry Kane (England) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kieran Trippier.\n• None Attempt missed. Simon Kjaer (Denmark) header from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Robert Skov with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Attempt blocked. Harry Kane (England) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jack Grealish.\n• None Attempt missed. Robert Skov (Denmark) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Andreas Christensen. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Behind the scenes of their title triumph\n• None Can you truly be one or the other?", "More than 170 new cases were reported in total, with 91 in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde\n\nNew coronavirus cases have been detected in every mainland health board area in Scotland in the past 24 hours.\n\nThere have been 176 positive tests across the country since Monday, including 91 in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde - where visiting restrictions are in force.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon also said that three people had died after testing positive for the virus.\n\nThis is the highest number of deaths by that measure since 30 June, she said.\n\nAs well as the 91 cases in the Greater Glasgow area, 32 were detected in NHS Lanarkshire and 16 in NHS Ayrshire and Arran.\n\nThe remainder were spread across the other mainland health boards - although there were no new cases in the Western Isles, Orkney or Shetland.\n\nThe Scottish government imposed new lockdown restrictions on Renfrewshire and East Dunbartonshire on Monday evening, and extended existing restrictions in Glasgow, East Renfrewshire and West Dunbartonshire for a further seven days.\n\nThe measures bar 1.1 million people in those areas from visiting other households and prohibit them from visiting homes in other local authorities.\n\nNew cases per 100,000 people, a key figure in the decision to impose local restrictions, have risen across Greater Glasgow and Clyde.\n\nIn West Dunbartonshire, there were more than 60 new cases per 100,000 people in the area, almost double the rate when visiting restrictions were imposed.\n\nThe same was true in Glasgow city, which had 22 new cases per 100,000, but has seen an increase to more than 44.\n\nIn Renfrewshire and East Dunbartonshire, the rate is 32.4 and 29.5 respectively.\n\nMeeting in pubs, restaurants and outdoor areas is still permitted - although the Scottish government said the situation would be monitored in the coming days.\n\nDirector of public health for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Dr Linda de Caestecker, warned that the rise in cases in some local authorities could be driven by the hospitality industry.\n\nShe said: \"When we examine the rate per 100,000 population it is highest in West Dunbartonshire where many cases relate to family gatherings and parties.\n\n\"The next highest rate is in Glasgow city where more cases are associated with visits to bars and restaurants.\"\n\nThe government said it was also keeping the situation in Inverclyde and Lanarkshire under review - although Ms Sturgeon said a rise in the number of cases in the two areas did not yet warrant additional restrictions.\n\nThe overall incidence rate of the virus in Scotland as a whole was 20 cases per 100,000 people, Ms Sturgeon said - although the figure was slightly higher for the five council areas which are under stricter measures.\n\nThere are tougher restrictions on visiting in five local authorities\n\nMs Sturgeon said the latest statistics were further evidence that the \"really unwelcome\" decision to impose more lockdown restrictions was a \"proportionate\" response to rising coronavirus cases.\n\nThe first minister also told her daily coronavirus briefing that she did not expect to be able to announce any further easing of restrictions elsewhere in the country when the Scottish government reviews its guidance on Thursday.\n\nMs Sturgeon has already said she is unlikely to be announcing any further lockdown easing this week\n\nShe added: \"At this time obviously we want to do everything possible to avoid the situation where more restrictions that have been lifted have to be re-imposed.\n\n\"The key to avoiding that rests with all of us - the decisions we make as individuals, still affect the safety and well being of our communities.\n\n\"So please do everything you can to avoid creating a bridge for the virus to cross over from one person to another, one household to another.\"\n\nThe first minister also criticised the \"really dangerous delusion\" that rising numbers of cases among younger people should not be a concern.\n\nShe said: \"The risk of a young person getting seriously ill or dying is thankfully lower, but it is not zero, and I would ask people of all ages to remember that.\n\n\"If transmission becomes established in the younger population, it will eventually reach the older and more vulnerable population. So to younger people, please think about your loved ones as well as yourselves, which I know everybody does.\n\n\"And to older people, be even more vigilant about hygiene and distancing if you're spending time with young relatives who may have been in pubs and restaurants.\"", "The company which installed cladding blamed for fuelling the Grenfell Tower fire has told an inquiry into the blaze that it did not check the design met fire safety requirements.\n\nRay Bailey, director of Harley Facades, said the firm relied on architects and building control officers to make sure designs were safe.\n\nHe accused supplier Celotex of misleading his firm about its safety.\n\nThe fire safety consultation is due to close on 12 October.\n\nThe fire at the west London tower block killed 72 people in 2017.\n\nA key question at this stage of the inquiry is how the companies involved allowed highly combustible cladding to be fitted to the outside of the 24-storey tower.\n\nMr Bailey said his firm was deceived that the insulation used on the project was safe for high-rises.\n\nHe said Polyisocyanurate (PIR) foam rigid insulation boards became widely used in construction around a decade ago.\n\nAsked about how much he knew about their fire risk, he said: \"When we were asked to use Celotex on Grenfell Tower, we were of the mindset that these new special super duper insulation products were acceptable providing they met certain criteria.\n\n\"Celotex made a big, big deal about their products being suitable, specifically designed for building over 18 metres.\n\n\"They used the term, which is very misleading now looking back, 'Class 0 throughout'.\"\n\nA Class 0 fire safety certificate is the minimum requirement for external surfaces of buildings.\n\nMr Bailey said: \"I think we carried out all possible reasonable checks... we didn't believe for one second that they would attempt to mislead us on this.\"\n\nHarley Facades managed the technical design and installation of cladding boxes that were added to frames on the building's exterior, to protect insulation panels from the rain.\n\nHowever under questioning from Richard Millett QC, Ray Bailey said he did not believe the \"buck stopped\" with the company for the safety of the design.\n\nHe said \"there is a raft of layers with Harley, with the architect, with the fire consultants, with building control to ensure that the... design is compliant.\"\n\nStephanie Barwise QC, a lawyer for a group of survivors and the bereaved, has previously accused Celotex of promoting its Rs5000 insulation despite senior executives knowing it should have been recalled after safety tests.\n\nCraig Orr QC, representing Celotex, previously said its marketing literature promoted the use of Rs5000 on buildings taller than 18 metres only on a \"rainscreen cladding system with the specific components\" used when it passed a fire safety test, and that it stipulated any changes to those components would \"need to be considered by the building designer\".\n\n\"The rainscreen cladding system described in Celotex's marketing literature bore no resemblance to the rainscreen cladding system installed at Grenfell Tower,\" he added.\n\nCelotex was marketed for use on tall buildings when used with a specific combination of other materials, despite being combustible.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brandon Lewis says Northern Ireland customs rules legislation do “break international law in a very specific and limited way”\n\nA government minister has said a new bill to amend the UK's Brexit deal with the EU will \"break international law\".\n\nConcerns had been raised about legislation being brought forward which could change parts of the withdrawal agreement, negotiated last year.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis conceded it would go against the treaty in a \"specific and limited way\".\n\nFormer PM Theresa May warned the change could damage \"trust\" in the UK over future trade deals with other states.\n\nThe permanent secretary to the Government Legal Department, Sir Jonathan Jones, has announced he is resigning from government in light of the bill, making him the sixth senior civil servant to leave Whitehall this year.\n\nSir Jonathan, who is the government's most senior lawyer, is understood to have believed the plans went too far in breaching the government's obligations under international law.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer condemned the bill and accused No 10 of \"reopening old arguments that had been settled\", saying the \"focus should be on getting a [trade] deal done\" with the EU.\n\nNo 10 revealed on Monday that it would be introducing a new UK Internal Market Bill that could affect post-Brexit customs and trade rules in Northern Ireland.\n\nDowning Street said it would only make \"minor clarifications in extremely specific areas\" - but it worried some in Brussels and Westminster that it could see the government try to change the withdrawal agreement, which became international law when the UK left the EU in January.\n\nThe row also comes at the start of the eighth round of post-Brexit trade deal talks between the UK and the EU.\n\nThe two sides are trying to secure a deal before the end of the transition period on 31 December, which will see the UK going onto World Trade Organisation rules if no agreement is reached.\n\nIrish Foreign Affairs Minister, Simon Coveney, called Mr Lewis' comments \"gravely concerning\", adding: \"Any unilateral departure from the terms of the withdrawal agreement would be a matter of considerable concern and a very serious step.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer says planned government legislation over Northern Ireland is “wrong”\n\nThe UK's chief Brexit negotiator, Lord David Frost, called for \"realism\" from his EU counterparts, saying he would \"drive home our clear message that we must make progress this week if we are to reach an agreement in time\".\n\nThe EU said it would \"do everything in [its] power to reach an agreement\" with the UK, but \"will be ready\" for a no-deal scenario.\n\nOn Monday, Boris Johnson said if a deal hadn't been done by the time the European Council meets on 15 October, the two sides should \"move on\" and accept the UK's exit without one.\n\nShadow Northern Ireland secretary, Louise Haigh, said it was \"deeply concerning\" that the prime minister \"appeared to be undermining the legal obligations of his own deal\" with the introduction of the new law while the negotiations are taking place.\n\nThe text of the new bill will not be published until Wednesday, although the government has confirmed it will deal with the issue of the so-called Northern Ireland Protocol - an element of the withdrawal agreement designed to prevent a hard border returning to the island of Ireland after Brexit.\n\nThe practicalities of the protocol - which will deal with issues of state aid (financial support given to businesses by governments) and whether there needs to be customs checks on goods - is still being negotiated by a joint UK and EU committee.\n\nBut Mr Lewis said the bill would take \"limited and reasonable steps to create a safety net\" if the negotiations failed.\n\nSpeaking during an urgent question on the bill, chair of the Justice Committee and Tory MP Bob Neill said the \"adherence to the rule of law is not negotiable\".\n\nHe asked Mr Lewis: \"Will he assure us that nothing proposed in this legislation does or potentially might breach international obligations or international legal arrangements?\"\n\nThe Northern Ireland secretary replied: \"Yes. This does break international law in a very specific and limited way.\"\n\nHe said the government was still working \"in good faith\" with the EU joint committee to overcome its concerns for the future of trade in Northern Ireland, but said there was \"clear precedence for UK and indeed other countries needing to consider their obligations if circumstances change\".\n\nSir Bob later told BBC Radio 4's PM the decision was \"troubling\", adding: \"Britain is a country which prides itself on standing by the rule of law... whether it is inconvenient or convenient for us.\n\n\"Whatever we seek to do, if we find something we signed up to 'inconvenient', I am afraid this doesn't mean we can renege on our contract... as that would damage our reputation long term.\"\n\nThis was an extremely unusual statement - a minister standing up in Parliament to say the government is planning to break international law.\n\nBrandon Lewis told the House of Commons that \"there are clear precedents for the UK and other countries needing to consider their international obligations as circumstances change\".\n\nThat may suggest, says Catherine Barnard, professor of law at the University of Cambridge, that the government is looking at Article 62 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, which enables a state to get out of its treaty obligations when circumstances change radically.\n\nBut those changed circumstances have to be pretty dramatic - something like the dissolution of Yugoslavia, when a recognised country ceases to exist.\n\nIn the case of the Northern Ireland Protocol, it is less than a year since the government negotiated the treaty in full knowledge of the sensitivity of the situation.\n\nAnd if the government does go ahead with legislation which appears to contradict the withdrawal agreement?\n\n\"There is a chance,\" says Prof Barnard, \"that the EU will decide to trigger the dispute resolution mechanism in the withdrawal agreement, which could lead to arbitration and a case before the European Court of Justice.\"\n\nTheresa May - who stood down as prime minister last year after her own Brexit deal failed to get the support of Parliament - said: \"The United Kingdom government signed the withdrawal agreement with the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\n\"This Parliament voted that withdrawal agreement into UK legislation. The government is now changing the operation of that agreement.\"\n\n\"How can the government reassure future international partners that the UK can be trusted to abide by the legal obligations of the agreements it signs?\"\n\nThe leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davey, also called it a \"sad and shocking state of affairs for our country\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Reality Check’s Chris Morris looks at where the UK and EU are struggling to agree on their future relationship\n\nSammy Wilson, who acts as Brexit spokesman for the Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party, said he was \"pleased\" to have the new bill that could deal with some of the issues that could affect his constituents - such as state aid and customs checks.\n\nBut he said the DUP had \"warned ministers of the impact of the withdrawal agreement\" early on, saying it was a \"union splitting, economy destroying and border creating agreement that has to be changed and replaced\".\n\nHe added: \"We will judge this bill on whether it delivers on these kind of issues.\"\n\nHowever, Claire Hanna, a Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) MP for Belfast South, said the protocol was \"a symptom… of four years of terrible political decision making\".\n\nShe added: \"It is now the law. This government is obliged to implement it in full.\"\n\nShe also \"cautioned\" Mr Lewis \"not to use the threat of a border on the island of Ireland or the hard won impartiality of the Good Friday Agreement as a cat's paw in this or any other negotiation.\"\n\nBut former Conservative leader, Sir Iain Duncan Smith, said the act that brought the withdrawal agreement into law in the UK allowed the government to \"reserve the right to make clarifications under the sovereignty clause\".\n\nMr Lewis agreed, saying the law would \"clarify... the points about what will apply in January if we are not able to get satisfactory and mutually suitable conclusions\" in negotiations.\n\nHe added: \"It is reasonable and sensible to give that certainty and clarity to the people and businesses of Northern Ireland.\"", "Kirsty Coy-Martin has recently been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after 23 years serving as a police officer, including many years on a child abuse investigation team.\n\nShe says teaching her therapy dog, Scooter, how to surf has changed her life.\n\nShe now hopes to bring surf therapy to the emergency services.\n\nIf you are concerned about any of the issues in this video, information and support is available at BBC Action Line.", "Tredomen is among the testing centres that have seen long queues\n\nThere are fears of a shortage of coronavirus tests as people rush to get symptoms checked in Caerphilly county, GPs have said.\n\nThe county is being placed in lockdown from 18:00 BST on Tuesday, following a spike in cases.\n\nThe British Medical Association (BMA) said the queues at the pop-up test centre in the town were \"horrific\".\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said testing had picked up the levels of community transmission.\n\nBut he acknowledged a UK-wide testing programme was facing challenges in coping with demand.\n\nChief executive of Caerphilly council, Christina Harrhy, urged people to only get tested if they were showing symptoms.\n\nDr David Bailey, chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA) in Wales and a GP in Caerphilly, said: \"The queues at the pop-up centre in Caerphilly yesterday were horrific, although we understand people were all getting tested.\n\n\"The capacity seems to be struggling across the UK, and people being sent across the country is hardly helpful with keeping people local and staying socially distanced.\"\n\nCaerphilly county has had more new cases in the past week - 98 - than anywhere else in Wales and more than the area has seen since the end of April.\n\nCommunity testing started in the county at the weekend, a total of 450 people were tested and 19 were positive for Covid-19.\n\nIn Bridgend county, people spoke of trying to book a test at a drive-through centre or a mobile unit via a UK online system, but being told their nearest available slot was at Bristol Airport, more than 60 miles away.\n\nWhile Andy, from Caerphilly, said he was unable to get a test for his two sons after they developed a cough.\n\n\"My partner took them down to the testing site at the leisure centre, but there was a three-hour queue. That was at 8am.\n\n\"She was told to go up to the new centre up in Penallta. She made her way up there, and there were already hundreds of cars.\n\n\"She was waiting in the queue and she was told at that point that if she didn't have ID for the children they couldn't be tested - how are you going to have ID for children with you?\"\n\nShehzad Malik was offered a test for his mother miles away after she developed a chest infection\n\nShehzad Malik, from Cardiff, also had problems while trying to get a test for his parents.\n\nHe said his mother was advised to get a test by her GP after developing a chest infection, but after hours of struggling with the system, was offered a test more than an hour's drive west of Cardiff.\n\nHe said: \"Yesterday I tried several times to book a drive-through test at my nearest test centre but to no avail.\n\n\"Once I had found the correct link I filled in the relevant information and each time I tried submitting the information online the page would not load to offer me a test.\n\n\"I kept trying online to get an appointment, almost every half hour from 2pm to 10pm, and the site kept crashing.\n\n\"Eventually, at about 22:15, I was able to upload all the information and was offered a Covid test in Carmarthen, 55 miles from my home in Cardiff.\"\n\nPeople will not be able to leave Caerphilly borough without good reason\n\nIn Gwynedd, GPs spoke of patients being sent miles to get tested after being concerned about symptoms, including shortness of breath, persistent coughs, and high temperatures.\n\nDr Huw Gwilym, who was on call at the Waunfawr surgery, said: \"There are examples of patients in Waunfawr being offered tests in Telford [125 miles], Oswestry [67 miles] and Aberystwyth [70 miles],\" he said.\n\n\"We are very concerned about the situation because it is unfair to ask people with Covid-19 symptoms, who are ill and should self-isolate, to travel for hours by car to get a test. We didn't expect such problems months into the pandemic.\"\n\nDr Eilir Hughes said people were requesting home tests but being told there were non avalaible\n\nDr Eilir Hughes, a GP in Nefyn, Gwynedd, said he was concerned people were being \"put off\" going to get tested due to being asked to travel miles from their homes.\n\n\"There are several reports that people are being offered a test in Manchester [125 miles] or Aberystwyth [75 miles] whilst they live here on the Llŷn Peninsula,\" he said.\n\n\"The truth is the nearest TTP testing centre is Llandudno [55 miles] which in itself is too far. People then request home tests and they are told they've ran out of stock.\n\nMr Gething said there were \"challenges\" about the way the UK-wide Lighthouse testing labs were running \"and its ability to cope with demand\".\n\nIn the most recent week for which figures are available 9,904 tests were processed in NHS Wales labs, while 26,067 were sent to Lighthouse labs.\n\nHe said: \"These are issues that my team have been raising through official levels. And I'm hoping to speak to other health ministers across the UK within the next day or two if possible - we sought a meeting today with colleagues in Northern Ireland as well - to be able to run through what is actually happening.\n\n\"None of us want to see people being asked to travel large distances which for some people won't be possible.\"\n\nMr Gething said mobile testing in Caerphilly had seen a large number of people attending.\n\nThat allowed the Welsh Government \"to pick up the levels of community transmission from people outside the clusters we've already been able to identify\", he said.\n\nA spokesman added: \"We have raised this issue with the UK government, which runs the Lighthouse Lab testing system and we expect these issues to be resolved quickly to ensure people in Wales who have suspected coronavirus symptoms can receive a test as close to home as possible.\n\n\"We have recently announced £32m to increase capacity to process tests at laboratories in Wales, which includes extending our regional labs to 24-hour operation and six new 'hot labs' at hospitals across Wales. This investment will increase our testing resilience ahead of the winter.\"", "Maria Kolesnikova told BBC Russian last month that \"to understand exactly what's going on, you really have to be here\"\n\nA detained Belarus opposition leader prevented officials from forcibly expelling her to Ukraine by tearing up her passport and throwing it out of a car window at the border, colleagues who travelled with her have said.\n\nOn Monday Maria Kolesnikova was forced into a van by masked men in Minsk.\n\nShe is one of three women who joined forces to challenge President Alexander Lukashenko in August's election.\n\n\"She was pushed into the back seat (of the car), she yelled that she wasn't going anywhere,\" Ms Kolesnikova's colleague Anton Rodnenkov told a news conference in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on Tuesday.\n\nMr Rodnenkov said he and another colleague had been kidnapped on Monday, driven between buildings, and interrogated with hoods over their heads and their hands tied.\n\nThey accepted an offer to leave Belarus with Ms Kolesnikova but when the car reached the border she refused to cross. The two men told journalists they did not know where she was now.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, officials in Belarus had claimed that Ms Kolesnikova was detained while trying to cross into Ukraine.\n\nMeanwhile, in an interview with Russian media on Tuesday, President Lukashenko insisted he would not step down from power.\n\nDozens of people were arrested in fresh protests in Minsk, the capital. In recent weeks thousands have faced down violence and threats of arrest in demonstrations against Mr Lukashenko, who has ruled the country since 1994.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ivan Kravtsov says Ms Kolesnikova tore her passport into pieces and then climbed through the rear car window\n\nThe EU has demanded the release of all political prisoners and says it is planning to impose sanctions.\n\nMs Kolesnikova is the last of three women leading the opposition to Mr Lukashenko to remain inside Belarus.\n\nThe main opposition leader, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, says she won 60-70% of the election in places where votes were properly counted. She fled to Lithuania after she was detained in August.\n\nOn Monday, witnesses saw masked men seize Ms Kolesnikova on a street in central Minsk and push her into a minibus. Anton Rodnenkov and his colleague Ivan Kravtsov were abducted while driving to her flat following reports of her disappearance, they told reporters in Kyiv.\n\nOfficials threatened to prosecute them until the two men accepted an offer to leave Belarus with Ms Kolesnikova.\n\n\"What they were interested in was getting Maria Kolesnikova outside the country. They said this was necessary to de-escalate the situation in Belarus,\" Mr Kravtsov said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What lies behind the Belarus protests?\n\nThe three were taken to the border with Ukraine by men in plain clothes early on Tuesday morning, Mr Rodnenkov said.\n\nBut when the car reached a checkpoint between the two countries, Ms Kolesnikova prevented her deportation by ripping up her passport and throwing away the pieces, he said.\n\n\"It was clear that she was being taken by force, she was resisting,\" Mr Rodnenkov said.\n\n\"She climbed, climbed from the car and she walked proudly to Belarusian territory,\" Mr Kravtsov said, adding: \"She's really a hero. You must understand that. She's very dedicated to what she's doing now.\"\n\nLast month Ms Kolesnikova told BBC Russian in an interview: \"To understand exactly what's going on, you really have to be here.\"\n\nThe Belarusian leader said if he stood down his supporters would be \"slaughtered\"\n\nMs Tikhanovskaya has called for her colleague to be immediately freed.\n\n\"By kidnapping people in broad daylight, Lukashenko is showing his weakness and fear,\" she said in a statement.\n\nAnother female activist, Olga Kovalkova, announced on Saturday she had fled to Poland amid threats of imprisonment.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Mr Lukashenko told Russian reporters that Ms Kolesnikova had been held for \"violating the rules on crossing the state border\".\n\nIn a sit-down interview, the long-term leader was quoted as saying he would not step down.\n\nHe conceded that some Belarusians might be \"fed up\" with his rule but he was adamant that he wouldn't leave office, according to the journalists.\n\nHe also asserted that he was the only person who could \"defend\" Belarus.\n\nAlexander Lukashenko calls Vladimir Putin \"big brother\" in this interview and he's increasingly dependent on Russia for support. But his comments reveal a confidence that Moscow needs him, too.\n\n\"You know what we agreed with the Russian establishment and leadership?\" he asked the panel of Russian state TV reporters on the sofas before him. \"That if Belarus breaks, Russia will be next.\"\n\nBack me up, Mr Lukashenko seemed to be saying to Moscow, and your own people won't get any bad ideas about ousting a long-standing leader through popular protests.\n\nAs usual, he claimed the unrest in Belarus was fomented by hostile outside forces, mainly America, via the internet.\n\nBut with opposition to his rule strong and persistent, Mr Lukashenko is now heavily reliant on his security forces.\n\nSo he had a message for them too. If I go, he argued, the riot police would be \"slaughtered, torn to pieces. And what have they done wrong?\"\n\nMr Lukashenko has twice appeared brandishing a gun during mass protests against his rule, and he told the reporters it was meant to show he had not fled.\n\nHe has accused Western powers of interference and is expected to visit Moscow \"in the coming days\" amid claims by Lithuania that he is planning deeper integration with Russia.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A 73-year-old great-grandmother has turned into an unlikely hero for demonstrators in Belarus", "File photo of an Indian Border Security Force guard near the India-China border\n\nChina has accused Indian troops of illegally crossing a disputed Himalayan border and firing \"provocative\" warning shots at patrolling soldiers.\n\nChina's military said its soldiers were \"forced to take countermeasures\", though it is not clear what they were.\n\nIndia rejected the allegations and accused Chinese troops of firing in the air during the face-off in the high-altitude Ladakh region.\n\nRelations between the countries have steadily deteriorated in recent months.\n\nIndia said the People's Liberation Army (PLA) had tried to approach a forward Indian position near the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and \"fired a few rounds in the air in an attempt to intimidate [our] own troops\".\n\n\"At no stage has the Indian army transgressed across the LAC or resorted to use of any aggressive means, including firing,\" the statement from India's military said.\n\nThe allegations of firing, if true, would be the first time in 45 years that shots had been fired there.\n\nA 1996 agreement between both countries bars the use of guns and explosives from the Line of Actual Control, as the disputed border is known, although soldiers have clashed there before.\n\nAccording to Chinese state media outlet the Global Times, the Indian troops had \"illegally crossed the Line of Actual Control (LAC) into the Shenpao mountain region near the south bank of Pangong Tso Lake\", quoting senior colonel Zhang Shuili, a spokesperson of the PLA.\n\nIndia's move \"seriously violated related agreements reached by both sides, stirred up tensions in the region... and is very vile in nature\", said Mr Zhang.\n\nBut India's statement added that the army was \"committed to maintaining peace\", adding that it was also \"determined to protect national integrity and sovereignty at all costs\".\n\nThe incident reportedly took place near the Pangong lake\n\nThe PLA spokesperson also called on the Indian side to \"immediately stop dangerous moves, withdraw personnel who crossed the LAC... and punish the personnel who fired the provocative shot\".\n\nThe tense confrontation comes just one day after India's military alerted Chinese officials of reports that five Indian civilians had been kidnapped by Chinese troops from an area near the disputed border.\n\nIndian cabinet minister KIren Rijiju tweeted on Tuesday that the PLA had responded to India's message.\n\n\"They have confirmed that the missing youths from Arunachal Pradesh have been found by their side,\" he said, adding that arrangements were being made to hand them over to Indian authorities.\n\nTensions rose in June when 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a violent skirmish with Chinese forces. Local media outlets said then that the soldiers had been \"beaten to death\".\n\nIn August, India accused China of provoking military tensions at the border twice within one week. Both charges were denied by China, which said that the border standoff was \"entirely\" India's fault.\n\nThe Line of Actual Control is poorly demarcated. The presence of rivers, lakes and snowcaps mean the line can shift.\n\nThe soldiers on either side - representing two of the world's largest armies - come face to face at many points. India has accused China of sending thousands of troops into Ladakh's Galwan valley and says China occupies 38,000sq km (14,700sq miles) of its territory. Several rounds of talks in the last three decades have failed to resolve the boundary disputes.\n\nThe two countries have fought only one war, in 1962, when India suffered a humiliating defeat.", "British employers planned more than 300,000 redundancies in June and July, as the coronavirus outbreak took its toll on the workplace.\n\n1,784 firms made plans to cut nearly 150,000 jobs in July, almost a sevenfold increase on July 2019.\n\nThe figures were obtained by a BBC Freedom of Information request.\n\nIn June 1,888 employers filed plans for 156,000 job cuts, a sixfold increase on the previous year.\n\nThe coronavirus lockdown and the resulting record-breaking economic downturn closed restaurants and shops and brought travel to a standstill, forcing many firms to cut staff.\n\nA spokesman for the government stressed that it had already protected 9.6 million jobs through the Job Retention Scheme, as well as paying out billions in loans and grants to thousands of businesses.\n\n\"We are continuing to support livelihoods and incomes through our Plan for Jobs to ensure that nobody is left without hope or opportunity. This includes a £1,000 retention bonus for businesses that can bring furloughed employees back to work,\" he said.\n\n\"We are also creating new roles for young people with our Kickstart scheme, creating incentives for training and apprenticeships, and supporting and protecting jobs in the tourism and hospitality sectors through our VAT cut and last month's Eat Out to Help Out scheme.\"\n\nBoots, John Lewis, Marks & Spencer, Zizzi owner Azzurri, and furniture retailer DFS were among the household names to announce redundancy plans in July. A survey found that one in three firms expected to make some staff redundant between July and September.\n\nFirms planning 20 or more redundancies at a single \"establishment\" must by law notify government via a form called HR1, saying how many posts they want to lose.\n\nBoth the number of firms filing notice and the number of positions at risk gives a strong early indication that large numbers of jobs are likely to go in coming months.\n\nBig high street names were among the companies announcing redundancies in July\n\nThe furlough scheme, where the government temporarily pays the wages of workers, is coming to an end in October, raising fears that employers will have to cut even more jobs later in the year.\n\n\"The reason this data is so useful is that all our other official data is coming through with a time lag,\" said Nye Cominetti, senior economist at the Resolution Foundation think tank.\n\n\"This puts policy makers in a really challenging situation. The main government support schemes are coming to an end, but in terms of the official data, we still don't know how big the jobs crisis is, or where we're heading as we move into the autumn.\"\n\nHe added that the data, taken alongside other business surveys and forecasts, paints \"a fairly bleak and consistent picture of the next couple of months\".\n\nEmployers planning fewer than 20 redundancies don't have to file notice, so the overall totals of redundancies being planned will be higher than these figures.\n\nOfficial employment statistics, which are typically a few months behind what is happening on the ground, don't yet show a big increase in the unemployment rate or redundancies.\n\nHowever, the government's own spending watchdog the Office for Budget Responsibility estimates that in a worst-case scenario, unemployment could hit four million next year.\n\nCompanies in Northern Ireland file HR1 forms with the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and they are not included in these figures.\n\nAre you currently on furlough from your job? Are you facing redundancy? Do you work in the retail, construction and hospitality sectors? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A \"sharp rise\" in coronavirus cases in recent days in the UK is \"concerning\", Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nHe told MPs that the increase had been across the whole country rather than in localised \"hotspots\", but there was \"no inevitability\" of a second spike.\n\nThe government's scientific advisers have given stark warnings, after 2,948 new UK cases were recorded on Monday.\n\nDowning Street said it would not rule out reducing the number of people who could meet in groups in England.\n\nAsked whether the government was considering a change in guidance, the prime minister's official spokesman said the regulations were being kept under review.\n\nThe guidance in England currently says two households can meet indoors. Outdoors up to six people from different households can meet - or up to 30 people from two households.\n\nMinisters have singled out young people in particular for not following social-distancing rules.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said Covid-19 rates are now rising, especially amongst people aged between the ages of 17 and 29.\n\nHe warned that if people stopped social distancing then \"Covid comes back\".\n\nBut another expert cited the government's \"confused messaging\" and said it was unfair to blame the young.\n\nOn Sunday 2,988 new cases were announced - the highest figure since 22 May.\n\nAt the peak of the virus in spring official figures showed there were 6,000 cases a day, although testing was largely only taking place in hospitals.\n\nEstimates suggest there were around 100,000 cases a day at that point.\n\nMr Hancock told MPs on the Commons Health Select Committee it was \"so important that people take their responsibilities seriously, and people don't become relaxed about this virus\".\n\nHe said the government's strategy was clear, with the first line of defence being social distancing, followed by testing and tracing, and then local action.\n\nHe added: \"I have taken quite robust action in areas where there are local spikes. I don't like doing that but I don't resile from doing it because it is necessary.\"\n\nHe also told the committee that the first \"credible\" cases of coronavirus reinfection were starting to be seen.\n\n\"Through genomic analysis you can see it is a different disease to the one the person got the first time around,\" he said.\n\n\"But in all the cases that I have seen it has been an asymptomatic second infection that has been picked up through asymptomatic testing.\"\n\nOn Monday Mr Hancock warned the UK could see a second spike in coronavirus cases if young people did not follow the rules.\n\nHis comments were echoed by Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick, who said there was a particular responsibility on younger people to follow government guidelines on Covid-19, so that infection rates would not spike again.\n\n\"We have to keep hammering the message home. Of course the people in those age categories are unlikely to become extremely unwell as a result of having the virus.\n\n\"But they are able to pass it on to others,\" he said.\n\n\"There's a responsibility on younger people to not just stay at home, obviously to go out and go to work and to enjoy pubs and restaurants, but to do so in accordance with the guidelines.\"\n\nMr Jenrick also said the UK was entering a \"period of particular concern\" with the number of coronavirus cases rising, adding \"we all have to be very cautious\".\n\nHowever, Prof Susan Michie, a behavioural expert on the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), was critical of the government's \"confused messaging\" over the coronavirus restrictions.\n\nShe told the BBC News Channel that the constant changing of the guidance and variations between nations had left young people \"very confused about what it is they are and aren't meant to be doing\".\n\nShe said ministers had almost signalled \"go out and about as usual\" to young people by lifting restrictions and added it was unfair to then say \"actually you are the problem\" rather than take any responsibility as a government for the messaging.\n\nAnother Sage member, Prof Andrew Hayward, told Radio 4's Today programme he was worried that the rise in virus cases over the last few days might \"get out of hand\" if control measures were not taken seriously.\n\nHe added: \"Generally it is local outbreaks, but there is also very worrying increases in cases, particularly over the last few days.\"\n\nOn Monday, his Sage colleague Prof Van Tam described the latest change in coronavirus infections across the UK as a \"great concern\", adding: \"People have relaxed too much. Now is the time for us to re-engage, and to realise that this a continuing threat to us.\"\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty reiterated concerns raised by his deputy Prof Van-Tam about a rise in cases.\n\nHe tweeted: \"We have, through the extraordinary efforts of the whole population, got Covid rates right down. They are now rising again especially in those aged 17 to 29.\n\n\"If we stop social distancing Covid comes back.\"\n\nMeanwhile, official weekly figures show the number of deaths linked to coronavirus have fallen to their lowest level since mid-March.\n\nA total of 101 deaths were registered during the week ending 28 August, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nThe Sage scientists' warnings come as more parts of the UK face tougher restrictions following a rise in the number of cases.\n\nIn Wales, the county borough of Caerphilly is to be placed under a local lockdown from 18:00 BST on Tuesday, lasting until at least October.\n\nWelsh Health Minister Vaughan Gething blamed a breakdown in social distancing, especially among extended households.\n\nStricter rules on visiting other people's homes were also extended to two more areas in the west of Scotland from midnight.\n\nMeanwhile, council leaders in north-east England have said the average number of new cases in the region has doubled to about 80 per day, in just over a week.\n\nA joint statement from seven council leaders said: \"We have seen cases where individuals with symptoms have had a test, then gone out and infected others before getting their results - reckless and selfish behaviour.\"", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "It is thought that a million people have been detained in camps in Xinjiang, China\n\nDisney is under fire for shooting its new film Mulan in parts of China where the government is accused of serious human rights abuses.\n\nThe final credits thank a government security agency in Xinjiang province, where about 1m people - mostly Muslim Uighurs - are thought to be detained.\n\nThe film was already the target of a boycott after its lead actress backed a crackdown on Hong Kong protesters.\n\nDisney has not commented on the row over the locations and the credits.\n\nChina says its detention camps in Xinjiang are necessary to improve security.\n\nThe live-action film, which is one of the biggest releases of the year, is a remake of the 1998 animated story of a young girl who takes her father's place in the army.\n\nBut fans in some Asian countries called for a boycott after Chinese-born actress Liu Yifei made comments supporting Hong Kong's police who have been accused of violence against pro-democracy protesters in recent months.\n\nThen, on Monday, social media users noticed that in the credits Disney thanked a number of government entities in Xinjiang, including the public security bureau in the city of Turpan and the \"publicity department of CPC Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomy Region Committee\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeannette Ng 吳志麗 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe public security bureau in Turpan is tasked with running China's \"re-education\" camps where Uighurs are held in detention, China expert Adrian Zenz told the BBC.\n\nThe \"publicity department\" named by Disney is responsible for producing state propaganda in the region, he adds.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC visits the camps where China’s Muslims have their \"thoughts transformed\"\n\nIt is believed that one million Uighur people have been forcibly detained in the high-security prison camps in recent years.\n\nLeaked documents and testimonies from camp survivors reveal that inmates are locked up, indoctrinated and punished, claims which China has dismissed as \"fake news\".\n\nIn 2018 a BBC investigation found evidence of security compounds built in the desert in Xinjiang.\n\nMr Zenz described Disney as \"an international corporation profiteering in the shadow of concentration camps\".\n\nThe World Uyghur Congress tweeted \"in the new Mulan, Disney thanks the public security bureau in Turpan, which has been involved in the internment camps in East Turkistan.\"\n\nActivist Shawn Zhang also criticised the company, writing \"how many thousands of Uighur were put into camps by Turpan Bureau of Public Security when filming Mulan there?\"\n\nTurpan was the site of the first \"re-education camps\" where Uighur women wearing veils or men wearing beards were detained, Mr Zenz explained. The public security bureau is also responsible for managing construction of the camps and hiring police to staff them, he added.\n\nThe earliest evidence of \"re-education\" work of Uighurs in Turpan is from August 2013, Mr Zenz claims.\n\nIn June, he issued a report which uncovered evidence that China was forcing Uighur women to be sterilised or fitted with contraceptive devices, a practice that China denies.\n\nChina says it is fighting the \"three evil forces\" of separatism, terrorism, and extremism in Xinjiang and says the camps are voluntary schools for anti-extremism training.\n\nIn 2017 Mulan director Niki Caro posted photos on Instagram from the capital of Xinjiang. The production team behind the film also told the Architectural Digest magazine that they spent months in Xinjiang to research filming locations.\n\nHong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong has also condemned Disney, tweeting that viewers watching Mulan are \"potentially complicit in the mass incarceration of Muslim Uighurs\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Joshua Wong 黃之鋒 😷 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A director of the government's test and trace programme in England has issued a \"heartfelt\" apology for problems with the coronavirus testing system.\n\nIn a tweet, Sarah-Jane Marsh explained it was the laboratories, not the testing sites themselves, that were the \"critical pinch-point\".\n\nThis comes as scientists have sounded the alarm about rising coronavirus cases.\n\nA new Lighthouse lab is due to open in Loughborough in about a fortnight.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said there had been a \"a problem with a couple of contracts\" which would take a matter of weeks to be \"sorted in the short term\".\n\nBut he said he had \"already put in certain solutions\" to make sure people didn't have to travel more than 75 miles for a test.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the testing programme was \"on the verge of collapse\".\n\nMs Marsh works as a deputy to Dido Harding, heading up the \"test\" element of the test and trace scheme.\n\nThe programme aims to find coronavirus cases through testing and, once confirmed, track down their contacts and tell them to isolate, in order to contain the virus.\n\nSome people with symptoms have struggled to access testing in recent days, raising concerns these efforts will be hampered.\n\n\"All of our testing sites have capacity, which is why they don't look overcrowded,\" Ms Marsh explained.\n\nInstead, appointments were restricted because of a blockage in processing capacity in the labs.\n\nCarly in Manchester was left \"angry and disappointed\" after she tried to book a test for her seven-year-old son, who had a fever and a cough.\n\n\"I tried 30 or 40 times before I was able to get through and then I was told there were no appointments.\n\n\"At every point I was told everywhere's rammed to capacity.\"\n\nBut when she did manage to get a space at a testing centre at Manchester airport, she says there was \"absolutely no-one there\".\n\nSome found the option of applying for a home kit was unavailable, only to be offered a drive-through testing appointment more than 100 miles from their home.\n\nRachel from Cardiff was directed to Dundee, more than 300 miles away, when she tried to apply for a test for her two sons, who had developed bad colds including symptoms she feared could be coronavirus.\n\nShe wasn't given the option of a home test.\n\nGavin on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland was directed more than 450 miles away to Portadown in Northern Ireland.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Sir Keir described \"heart-breaking stories\" from people who have been unable to get a test, found the website \"crashing\" or have been \"told to go miles and miles to get a test\".\n\n\"Nobody could argue that that's good governance,\" he said.\n\nHe also said the prime minister had to \"take responsibility\" for problems with the system and encouraged him to \"get on\" with holding a press conference on coronavirus.\n\nBut the Department of Health and Social Care insisted that NHS Test and Trace was \"working\" - with capacity the \"highest it has ever been\" and laboratories processing more than a million tests a week.\n\nA spokeswoman said there was \"significant demand\" for tests but new slots and home testing kits were \"made available daily\".\n\n\"We are targeting testing capacity at the areas that need it most, including those where there is an outbreak, as well as prioritising at-risk groups - and we recently announced new laboratory facilities and new technology to process results even faster,\" she said.\n\nLast week, the BBC revealed the government was reducing the numbers of tests available in some parts of the country in order to make enough available where there were outbreaks.\n\nFollowing this, Mr Hancock pledged that no-one would have to drive more than 75 miles for a test from Friday 4 September.\n\nHe told the BBC there had been \"operational challenges\".\n\nIn Parliament on Tuesday, he said: \"I appreciate that 75 miles is far longer than you'd want to go and the vast majority of tests are much closer than that.\"\n\nThere have been suggestions some of the reduced capacity is down to schools in Scotland reopening, causing additional demand for tests.\n\nThis could worsen as term has started for children across the UK.\n\nMs Marsh went on to tweet that additional labs were to due to open \"imminently\", alongside an expansion of non-laboratory based tests such as the two rapid test kits that were rolled out in hospitals from the beginning of August.\n\nIn a 28 August letter to Mr Hancock seen by the BBC, chairs of the South East's strategic co-ordinating groups, responsible for responding to emergencies, described the government's approach as \"short sighted and flawed\".\n\nThe group of chairs representing the South East, the most populous region in the UK, said they understood that testing sites were facing \"increasing demand and that laboratory capability has been matched to the areas of current high levels of prevalence\".\n\nThe South East is currently an area of relatively low prevalence.\n\nBut they said this would \"impede\" their view of infection rates in their communities and result in a \"lack of forewarning when infections rise in our areas\".\n\nThey asked for \"clear, honest, ongoing communication\" on the current state and prioritisation of testing capability.", "The arts are at the \"point of no return\" following damage from the coronavirus pandemic, Lord Lloyd-Webber has said.\n\nThe composer and theatre impresario told MPs it would be economically \"impossible\" to run theatres with social distancing.\n\n\"We simply have to get our arts sector back open and running,\" he told the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee.\n\n\"We are at the point of no return.\"\n\nIn July, Lord Lloyd-Webber staged a concert at the London Palladium as an experiment to see whether socially-distanced performances were viable.\n\nHe spent £100,000 on the pilot project in the hope that it could allow the theatre business to get up and running.\n\nHe hoped to prove that theatres could open safely at full capacity. However, the concert had to take place with hundreds of empty seats to comply with the government's social distancing guidelines.\n\nLord Lloyd-Webber staged a socially-distanced Beverley Knight concert at the London Palladium in July\n\nSince then, two major new indoor theatre productions have opened in London, but also with limited audience capacity. Most theatres, including those in the West End, are yet to reopen.\n\n\"There comes a point now when we really can't go on much more,\" Lord Lloyd-Webber said.\n\n\"Theatre is an incredibly labour-intensive business. In many ways putting on a show now is almost a labour of love.\n\n\"Very few shows hit the jackpot in the way a Hamilton, Lion King or Phantom of the Opera do.\"\n\nHe added that theatre productions were \"not like cinema, you can't just open the building\".\n\nThe government announced a £1.57bn support package earlier this year to support the arts, which was widely welcomed by the industry.\n\nBut Lord Lloyd-Webber stressed the importance of naming a date when theatres can reopen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andrew Lloyd Webber has previously said 'theatre can’t run with social distancing’\n\nHe also discussed the \"critical\" importance of clean air. \"I am absolutely confident that the air in the London Palladium and in all my theatres is purer than the air outside,\" he said.\n\nHe also suggested he could move his forthcoming production of Cinderella from the UK to a different location \"where people are being a little more helpful\". It was originally due to open in London's West End this month.\n\nRebecca Kane Burton, chief executive of the LW Theatres, the company that runs Lord Lloyd-Webber's venues, added: \"We don't want to open theatres on a socially distanced basis. I have no intention of opening buildings at 30% capacity.\"\n\nRecent months had been \"devastating and catastrophic\" for the sector, she said.\n\n\"It's a really bad, catastrophic time and we need to find a way out of it. It was disheartening that the pilot wasn't later seen as a way to getting full reopening.\"\n\nShe added: \"We need the time to plan. We can't switch on theatre like a tap. Christmas is hanging in the balance as we speak.\"\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden has suggested rapid testing could provide part of a solution for theatres\n\nA DCMS spokeswoman said the government was \"working flat out to support our world class performing arts sector through challenging times\".\n\nShe said: \"Our unprecedented £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund builds on £200m in emergency public funding to stabilise organisations, protect jobs and ensure work continues to flow to freelancers. This funding will support organisations of all sizes across the country, including theatres.\n\n\"Performances indoors and outdoors can now take place with a socially distanced audience and we are working at pace with the industry on innovative proposals for how full audiences might return safely as soon as possible. We also want the public to show their support by visiting theatres as they start to reopen.\"\n\nWriting in the Mail on Sunday at the weekend, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said the government was working on a project that would see some theatre return in time for pantomime season at Christmas.\n\nHe also suggested rapid testing could help ensure the return of theatres. \"Testing is the short-term key until we find a working vaccine. We're making exciting advances in quick turnaround testing, where on-the-day coronavirus tests could give people who test negative a pass to visit the theatre that evening,\" he wrote.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC News Channel, actor Simon Callow said that kind of testing is \"the dream\", adding: \"That's exactly the kind of thing we need to be exploring.\"\n\nHe also said the furlough scheme - which has helped some in the arts industry - should be extended beyond October. That was echoed by the director of the Theatres Trust, Jon Morgan.\n\n\"Without an early date for theatres to re-open fully and with the furlough scheme ending in October we will see further redundancies and the permanent closure of more theatres,\" he said in a statement.\n\nScene Change's This Is No Pantomime campaign launched earlier this week\n\nLucy Noble, artistic and commercial director of the Royal Albert Hall and chair of the National Arenas Association, told the DCMS Committee there were \"huge consequences to venues not being able to put performances on... serious financial consequences\".\n\nShe added: \"All venues are on their knees financially... When Oliver Dowden announced the £1.57 billion rescue package, the Royal Albert Hall was hailed as one of the crown jewels that this package would save.\n\n\"We have been told we are not eligible for any of the grant at all.\n\n\"We are only eligible to take a loan. We've already taken £10m worth of loans. We'd rather not get into any more debt.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Donald Trump delivered his Labour Day news conference from the White House\n\nDonald Trump and Joe Biden have been trading insults over each other's position on a vaccine for Covid-19.\n\nPresident Trump again hinted that a vaccine might be available before the November presidential election and accused his Democratic rivals of \"reckless anti-vaccine rhetoric\".\n\nMr Biden expressed scepticism that Mr Trump would listen to the scientists and implement a transparent process.\n\nThe US has six million cases of coronavirus, the highest in the world.\n\nThe virus has also claimed nearly 190,000 lives and fuelled a major recession, double-digit unemployment and sagging consumer confidence.\n\nLast week it emerged the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had urged states to consider \"waiving requirements\" in order to be able distribute a vaccine by 1 November - two days before the 3 November election.\n\nNo vaccine has yet completed clinical trials, leading some scientists to fear politics rather than health and safety is driving the push for a vaccine.\n\nBoth Mr Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris have questioned the president's credibility on the issue. Ms Harris said on Sunday she would not trust Mr Trump's word that a vaccine was safe, and Mr Biden also questioned whether the wider public would trust him too.\n\n\"He has said so many things that aren't true I am worried that if we do have a really good vaccine people are going to be reluctant to take it,\" Mr Biden said in Pennsylvania on Monday, Labour Day.\n\nJoe Biden was speaking while on the campaign trail in Pennsylvania\n\nBut he added that: \"If I could get a vaccine tomorrow, I'd do it. If it cost me the election I would do it. We need a vaccine and we need it now. We have to listen to the scientists.\"\n\nMr Trump, who is trailing in the polls, hit back at a White House news conference, calling Mr Biden \"stupid\" and Ms Harris \"the most liberal person in Congress... not a competent person in my opinion\".\n\nHe said they \"would destroy this country and would destroy this economy\", and added that they \"should immediately apologise for the reckless anti-vaccine rhetoric that they are talking right now\".\n\nThe president, at times asking journalists to take off their face masks when asking questions, again suggested a vaccine could be ready next month.\n\n\"We're going to have a vaccine very soon, maybe even before a very special date,\" he said.\n\nThe top US infectious diseases expert, Dr Anthony Fauci, has said that it is unlikely but \"not impossible\" that a vaccine could win approval in October, and Stephen Hahn of the Food and Drug Administration said it might be \"appropriate\" to approve a vaccine before clinical trials are complete if the benefits outweighed the risks.\n\nBut both scientists, the White House and the executives of five top pharmaceutical companies have made clear there will be no compromises on safety and effectiveness of a vaccine.\n\nThree vaccine trials in the US are in their final stages - each involving 30,000 people who will get shots, three weeks apart, and will then be monitored for coronavirus infections and side effects for anywhere from a week to two years, the Associated Press reports.", "People in several countries have been sharing a link to a webpage connected to the World Bank saying it shows test kits for Covid-19 were being exported in 2017, long before the disease was known to exist.\n\nThe claim on social media is that this is evidence the pandemic was planned all along – but this is false and we can settle any doubts about what’s going on.\n\nThe page is genuine and includes trade information under the heading “Covid-19 test kits exports by country in 2017”. So you can understand why this might have caused some confusion.\n\nIt’s from a database run by international organisations including the World Bank. According to the World Bank, the page was created to make it easier to find all of the previously existing products that are now being used for Covid-19.\n\nAll the medical devices listed on the site have had other uses for many years, but they were re-labelled to ease the tracking of items that are particularly important to tackle coronavirus.\n\nThe title of the page has been amended to “medical kits” and to avoid further misunderstanding includes a disclaimer that says, “The data here track previously existing medical devices that are now classified by the World Customs Organization as critical to tackling Covid-19.”\n\nThe claim appears to have emerged on English-language Facebook late last week and then spread across Twitter, Instagram and Reddit over the weekend.\n\nOver the past few days it has also been shared in Italian, German, Polish, Hebrew, Spanish, Dutch and other languages.\n\nThe allegations have also been amplified by opponents of vaccination and supporters of the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grant Shapps says the government now has the “data and capacity” to add and remove islands from quarantine list.\n\nTravellers arriving in England from seven Greek islands will have to self-isolate for 14 days from 04:00 BST on Wednesday, Grant Shapps has said.\n\nThe islands affected are Crete, Lesvos, Mykonos, Santorini, Serifos, Tinos, and Zakynthos (also known as Zante).\n\nThe government says islands can be treated differently from their mainland countries if infection rates differ.\n\nBut airlines have been critical of the time it has taken - Easyjet's boss said the change was \"too little, too late\".\n\nSpeaking to MPs in the Commons, Transport Secretary Mr Shapps said the government would use better data to pinpoint risks on popular islands.\n\nHe said that would provide \"increased flexibility\" to add or remove them from the quarantine list for England - distinct from mainland destinations - as infection rates change.\n\nHe said this would \"help boost\" the UK's travel industry while continuing to keeping the travelling public safe.\n\nMr Shapps said the coronavirus infection rate was still too high in Spain's Balearic and Canary Islands to remove them from the list of destinations from where travellers returning to England must quarantine.\n\nTravellers returning to England from Santorini must self-isolate for 14 days\n\nHe said the government was \"working actively on the practicalities\" of using coronavirus testing to cut the 14-day quarantine period for people arriving in the UK from high-risk countries.\n\nPurely testing people on arrival \"would not work\", Mr Shapps said, but quarantine combined with testing was \"more promising.\"\n\n\"My officials are now working with health experts with the aim of cutting the quarantine period without adding to infection risk or infringing our overall NHS test capacity,\" he said.\n\nHe added that if someone was unable to quarantine for 14 days after returning to the UK \"it might be best not to travel\".\n\nBeth Maybury, who is on holiday is Crete, says she feels more comfortable there than in the UK because it is \"less crowded\".\n\nThe 24-year-old from Leeds, who will return to England before the quarantine deadline, said: \"Bars etc just seem a lot quieter, the hotel seems not even at half capacity so there's plenty of room round the pool or beach. There just seems to be a lot more awareness in terms of masks too.\"\n\nKarl Brown, who is on holiday in Santorini with partner Lauren, says he \"can't believe\" it is on the quarantine list because the island is \"quiet\" and social distancing is in place.\n\nThe couple are due to fly back on Wednesday and say they are trying to change their flight as they are due back at work.\n\nDevolved governments set their own travel rules and there are variations across the UK nations on some countries, including Greece.\n\nTravellers arriving in Wales from six Greek islands must already quarantine - these islands are Crete, Lesvos, Mykonos, Paros and Antiparos and Zakynthos.\n\nThe Scottish government has imposed quarantine restrictions on the whole country of Greece. Northern Ireland currently has Greece on its list of countries exempt from quarantine.\n\nFor months, the UK government has been lukewarm about the idea of only applying travel quarantine on a regional basis.\n\nLast week it came under sustained pressure from bosses in the aviation sector.\n\nThey're desperate to know when international travel might recover in a meaningful way.\n\nOne airport boss was scathing, accusing the government of \"overseeing the demise of UK aviation\".\n\nThe Welsh government also then decided its travel quarantine would, in the case of Greece, be managed on a regional level, with six Greek islands added to its list.\n\nThe UK government says its decision to regionalise quarantine now for England is driven by improved availability of data at a regional level in countries abroad.\n\nBut the change isn't silencing the critics.\n\nEasyjet is the latest big name in travel to lay into the government. Its boss told me the situation is too confusing and much of the damage has already been done.\n\nHis warning to ministers: come-up with a substantial recovery plan for UK aviation or much of the damage to the sector will be permanent.\n\nLabour's shadow transport secretary Jim McMahon described the government's handling of the pandemic as \"chaotic\", saying that \"for months\" there had been no restrictions on travellers entering the UK.\n\n\"By the time restrictions were introduced, we were one of only a handful of countries in the world who had failed to take action,\" he said.\n\nJohan Lundgren, the boss of airline Easyjet, told the BBC the government's latest change to its quarantine rules was \"too little, too late\", as the peak of the summer holiday season had passed.\n\n\"This is something we have argued for a long time - it should not have been a blanket instrument when it comes to quarantine. It should be based on risk and on a much more targeted approach,\" he said.\n\nHe urged the government to devise a plan for UK aviation, warning that the sector would not recover in a meaningful way without one.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do I quarantine after returning from abroad?\n\nA spokesman for British Airways' owner IAG said it was \"evident\" in July that islands should be treated separately and the government was \"too slow in making obvious decisions\".\n\n\"For most families, summer is now over and the damage to the industry and the economy is done,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to get on with (testing). We are way behind other countries on what has to be a more nuanced approach.\"\n\nAirport Operators Association chief executive Karen Dee welcomed the change in approach but said it was unlikely to significantly improve consumer confidence, while quarantine was \"devastating the UK aviation industry\".\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK, which represents UK carriers, said a testing regime was \"urgently required\".\n\nHeathrow Airport welcomed the announcement that testing to shorten quarantine was being considered by the government and that air bridges to islands would be used where appropriate.\n\n\"If introduced, these vital policy changes would show the government understands how critical the restoration of air travel is to this country's economic recovery,\" a statement said.", "Supermarket chain Morrisons is to make thousands of temporary staff permanent as a surge in demand for online deliveries fuelled by the coronavirus pandemic continues.\n\nIceland also says that it has taken on thousands of staff.\n\nRivals such as Tesco are hiring more staff to support internet shopping after the lockdown accelerated the shift from visiting stores to online.\n\nMorrisons' decision coincides with a rise in coronavirus cases in the UK.\n\nThe UK's fourth-biggest supermarket chain is expected to announce the move on Thursday.\n\nMorrisons had about 97,000 workers before the pandemic and took on 45,000 extra temporary staff during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nAbout 25,000 of those staff are still working for the supermarket, and more than 6,000 have already been given permanent jobs.\n\nMorrisons is expected to announce on Thursday - when it publishes its interim results - that it plans to make thousands more temporary positions permanent in the coming weeks.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"Morrisons has been playing its full part in feeding the nation and that has required the largest recruitment drive our company has ever seen.\"\n\nSince March, supermarkets have seen a huge increase in demand, especially for online deliveries.\n\nOut of those 25,000 extra staff, Morrisons uses 9,000 to pick and deliver to deal with the surge in online demand.\n\nAs well as its own delivery service, Morrisons also partners Amazon and Deliveroo, and recently announced that customers could do a full Morrisons food shop on Amazon UK.\n\nExtra staff have also been needed in Morrisons supermarkets to keep them running properly, and to make sure the supermarkets conform to coronavirus safety guidelines.\n\nSupermarket chain Iceland said on Tuesday that it will have created more than 3,000 jobs between March this year and Christmas to cope with demand for home deliveries.\n\nIt said that lockdown in particular had boosted online orders, and that demand \"shows no sign of slowing down as the weather shifts over the coming weeks and months\".\n\nIt is also increasing its delivery fleet by just under a third.\n\nIceland added that it was partnering with UberEats in London to make deliveries from its Hackney store.\n\nThe closure of many High Street shops during the pandemic helped to drive up online sales, and for some firms that demand has continued.\n\nTesco said in August that it would create 16,000 new permanent jobs after \"exceptional growth\" in its online business.\n\nAmazon said last week that it would create a further 7,000 jobs this year to meet growing demand. In June, delivery firm DPD and B&Q owner Kingfisher said they would be hiring thousands more staff.\n\nHowever, many more thousands of people have lost their jobs in the UK.\n\nData obtained by the BBC showed that British employers planned more than 300,000 redundancies in June and July,\n\nAnd the government's Job Retention Scheme, which has protected 9.6 million jobs throughout the coronavirus lockdown, is due to come to an end in October.", "Last updated on .From the section Athletics\n\nThe weekly mass participation Parkrun events are set to resume in England by the end of October.\n\nParkrun events were suspended worldwide in March because of the global coronavirus pandemic.\n\nEvents will operate within Parkrun's government-approved Covid-19 framework, though there have been \"minimal changes\" to its operating model.\n\nParkrun said it was a \"watershed moment to drive change\" in creating a \"healthier and happier planet\".\n\nParkrun's chief executive Nick Pearson said they \"are not able to commit to the same timeline across the other Home Nations\" due to current restrictions across Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.\n\n\"However, we are aware of the implications of only opening in England and are continuing our work to overcome the challenges that this presents,\" he added.\n\nThe Parkrun movement was founded in Bushy Park, London in 2002 by Paul Sinton-Hewitt and is now in 22 countries.\n\nRunners or walkers can take part in 5km events on Saturday mornings while 2km junior events take place on Sunday mornings. Events are free and are run by volunteers.\n\nThere are 729 different locations across the UK staging the weekly events and more than two million runners have taken part.\n\nPearson added: \"Everything in life comes with a risk, and we know and accept that we cannot remove all risks from the Parkrun environment. However, it is also important to balance the public health benefits of reopening our events, against the associated public health risks.\n\n\"We now believe, having spent considerable time gathering and understanding the evidence, that the benefits to reopening Parkrun far outweigh the risks.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tracy Higginbottom said she had never experienced such aggression in more than 20 years\n\nA paramedic spat at by a patient was left feeling \"contaminated, broken and defeated\" and had to take a month off work to recover.\n\nTracy Higginbottom was assaulted on a night shift in north Cornwall in July.\n\nShe said she has \"never experienced\" that level of aggression before as the patient \"kicked and spat everywhere\".\n\nMore than 100 ambulance workers were physically assaulted on duty since lockdown, South Western Ambulance Service said.\n\nThere were 106 physical assaults reported between 23 March and 23 August, compared with 77 during the same time period in 2019.\n\nMs Higginbottom, who has been in the ambulance service for more than 20 years, said: \"Violence and aggression appear to be escalating, and is something we have to deal with as a part of our job. But I've never experienced anything quite like this.\"\n\nShe explained the patient was \"out of control and vulnerable\" after taking drugs and alcohol.\n\n\"It really kicked off in the ambulance. She was swearing, kicking and spitting everywhere.\n\n\"Afterwards I felt very distressed and traumatised. So I took some time out, because you need to be in the right frame of mind in my role.\"\n\nMs Higginbottom is now back at work and has decided not to press charges.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People in Bolton have spoken of their \"shock\" and \"disappointment\" at the new coronavirus restrictions.\n\nResidents have been barred from pubs, bars and cafes with only takeaways allowed.\n\nAll hospitality venues will close between 22:00 BST and 05:00 each day.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock blamed some pubs for spreading the virus in the Greater Manchester town which now has \"the highest case rate in the country.\"\n\n\"I have seen lots of drunk young people, hugging with no social distancing,\" he said.\n\n\"It is sad it has come to this and I'll lose a lot of money because of this.\n\n\"But if that's what we need to do, then that's what I'll do.\n\n\"We need to follow the rules to get rid of this terrible virus.\n\n\"Losing even one person is too much.\"\n\nThe landlady of the Ye Olde Man & Scythe pub, which dates back to 1251, spoke of her \"shock\" at the speed of the decision.\n\nLandlady Sonya Couperthwaite pulling a pint in one of the oldest pubs in Britain\n\nSonya Couperthwaite, 54, said: \"The way they shut us down, it's like a guillotine coming down on us.\n\n\"They could have given us 24 hours notice, so we could have let our customers know.\n\n\"I am really, really shocked.\"\n\nPeople have been queuing for coronavirus tests in Bolton\n\nLocal resident David Ellis, 72, said: \"It's a massive disappointment and shame for the town.\n\n\"A lot of people just are not taking this seriously and now it's come to this.\"\n\nThe Elephant & Castle pub will close during the tougher restrictions\n\nManager of The Elephant & Castle Steve Coyle said: \"We are disappointed but not surprised.\n\n\"We are not going to operate as a takeaway so we are just going to close - probably for a few weeks.\n\n\"We had all the measures in place including track and trace, social distancing and taking staff temperatures three times a day.\n\n\"But we could see we were swimming against the tide.\"\n\nHilary Martin, who owns Earthlings cafe, said: \"I'm in shock. I've only just heard.\n\n\"I don't know whether we are going to stay open as a takeaway or what this will mean for us.\n\n\"But this is the last thing we needed after all the hits we've taken in the last few months.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Wildfires rage across thousands of acres in California\n\nWildfires have burned through a record number of acres in California this year as firefighters continue to battle several large blazes across the state.\n\nThe state's department of forestry and fire protection, Cal Fire, says more than two million acres have burned, more than the size of Delaware.\n\nOne fire, El Dorado, which has spread over 7,000 acres, was started by a gender reveal party, officials say.\n\nLos Angeles County reported its highest ever temperature of 49.4C (121F) on Sunday. Although temperatures are expected to drop from Tuesday onwards it may bring strong winds which could fan the flames, the National Weather Service warns.\n\nMore than 14,000 firefighters continue to battle 24 fires across the state, Cal Fire said.\n\nThe largest blaze, known as the Creek Fire, has burned more than 78,000 acres since it broke out in the Sierra Mountains on Friday, and the authorities said none of it had been contained.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One blaze, dubbed the Creek Fire, has swept across thousands of acres in the Sierra National Forest\n\nThe fire has burned at least two dozen dwellings in the town of Big Creek, the Los Angeles Times reports. More than 200 hikers had to be airlifted out of the popular Mammoth Pool Reservoir after becoming trapped by flames on Saturday.\n\nValley Fire in San Diego County has burned through more than 10,000 acres, and prompted the evacuation of the remote town of Alpine; while Bobcat fire in Angeles National Forest has destroyed nearly 5,000 acres and saw the evacuation of the Mount Wilson Observatory.\n\nCal Fire blamed a \"smoke-generating pyrotechnic device, used during a gender reveal party\" for starting the The El Dorado fire in San Bernadino County. Gender reveal parties are celebrations announcing whether expecting parents are going to have a girl or a boy. In recent years, several large-scale parties have gone wrong, even resulting in the death of a woman in 2019.\n\nTens of thousands of acres are ablaze\n\nThe governor has declared a state of emergency in five counties\n\n\"Cal Fire reminds the public that with the dry conditions and critical fire weather, it doesn't take much to start a wildfire\", the tweet read.\n\nPeople who cause fires \"can be held financially and criminally responsible\", it added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCalifornia has seen nearly 1,000 wildfires since 15 August, often started by lightning strikes.\n\nCal Fire said that, not only had two million acres already burned this year, but there had been eight fatalities and more than 3,300 structures destroyed. In 2018, 1.96 million acres were burned - the highest since Cal Fire began tracking numbers in 1987 - the Associated Press reports.\n\nCal Fire spokesman Lynne Tolmachoff told AP that it was alarming how early the fires had begun this year. \"It's a little unnerving because September and October are historically our worst months for fires. It's usually hot, and the fuels really dry out. And we see more wind events\".\n\nStates of emergency have been issued in five Californian counties - Fresno, Madera, Mariposa, San Bernardino and San Diego - and people have been urged not to hike, after one hiker died.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Malibu Search Rescue This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nEngland forward Mason Greenwood says he \"only has himself to blame\" after being dropped over a breach of coronavirus quarantine guidelines in Iceland.\n\nManchester United's Greenwood, 18, and Manchester City midfielder Phil Foden, 20, were told to leave Gareth Southgate's squad on Monday.\n\nBoth players had made their senior international debuts in Saturday's 1-0 Nations League victory in Reykyavik.\n\nGreenwood said: \"I can only apologise for the embarrassment I have caused.\"\n\nHe added: \"In particular, I want to apologise to Gareth Southgate, for letting him down, when he had shown great trust in me.\"\n\n\"Playing for England was one of the proudest moments in my life and I only have myself to blame for this huge mistake.\n\n\"I promise my family, the fans, Manchester United and England that this is a lesson I will learn from.\"\n\nAccording to reports in Icelandic and other media, Foden and Greenwood allegedly met two women in a separate part of the hotel away from where the England team were staying.\n\nSouthgate described the players as \"naive\", adding: \"It's a very serious situation and we have treated it that way and have acted as quickly as we have been able to.\n\n\"We have dealt with it appropriately. I recognise their age but the whole world is dealing with this pandemic.\"\n\nIn a social media post on Monday, Foden said missing England's next match on Tuesday, against Denmark in the Nations League, \"hurts\" and he will \"learn a valuable lesson from this error in judgement\".\n\n\"I made a poor decision and and my behaviour didn't meet the standards expected of me,\" he wrote.\n\n\"I apologise to Gareth Southgate, to my England team-mates, to the staff, supporters and also to my club and my family.\"\n\nThe Football Association has launched a \"full investigation\" and apologised to the Football Association of Iceland, saying it is \"taking the appropriate steps\".\n\nA Reykjavik Metropolitan Police spokesperson told BBC Sport that Greenwood and Foden were both fined 250,000 Icelandic krona (£1,360).\n• None Behind the scenes of their title triumph\n• None Can you truly be one or the other?", "The legislation would give the UK government powers to spend cash on infrastructure in Wales\n\nPlans for a new law giving the UK government more powers to spend in Wales have been published.\n\nThe Internal Market Bill would transfer powers from the EU to the UK government to spend on areas such as economic development, infrastructure and sport.\n\nThe Welsh Government accused its UK counterpart of \"stealing powers\" from devolved governments.\n\nBut UK ministers said the law would allow them to replace existing EU funding programmes.\n\nFrom next year, powers which had been held by the EU will be transferred to the governments around the UK.\n\nThe UK government says the draft law is aimed at ensuring trade within the United Kingdom can continue \"unhindered\" under these new arrangements.\n\nMuch attention has been focused on the fact that the legislation could override key elements of UK ministers' Brexit deal with Brussels, in breach of international law.\n\nIn addition, the legislation will give ministers in Whitehall powers to spend money to replace EU funding programmes on areas that would otherwise be devolved to the Welsh Government.\n\nThe new spending powers include infrastructure, economic development, culture, sport, and support for educational, training and exchange opportunities.\n\nA senior UK government cabinet minister insisted the powers would \"drive our economic recovery from Covid-19 and support businesses and communities right across the UK\".\n\nMichael Gove, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, said: \"These new spending powers will mean that these decisions will now be made in the UK, focus on UK priorities and be accountable to the UK Parliament and people of the UK.\"\n\nMichael Gove said the powers would \"drive our economic recovery from Covid-19\"\n\nWelsh Secretary Simon Hart said it was \"vital\" that seamless trade continued between the four nations, and that \"investment must continue to flow unhindered\".\n\nBut the Welsh Government Minister for European Transition Jeremy Miles said the powers would \"sacrifice the future of the union by stealing powers from devolved administrations.\"\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said the bill \"provides ammunition to those people who would favour the breakup of the United Kingdom\".\n\n\"I'm in favour of a UK Common Market and I'm in favour of a UK-wide state aid regime, but the proposals in the white paper are absolutely not the right way to go about it,\" he told Sky News.\n\nPlaid Cymru Westminster leader Liz Saville Roberts said: \"This bill is the single biggest assault on devolution since its creation.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC later on Wednesday, Mr Hart said he found it \"pretty strange\" that Labour Welsh ministers and Plaid Cymru objected to UK government plans to spend money in Wales.\n\n\"Seems to me they're more anxious about protecting their little political clique in Cardiff than they are actually doing something about economies we tried to recover from Covid and move on from Brexit,\" he said.\n\nWales has been eligible for £375m a year from EU funds with the management shared between the EU and the Welsh Government.", "University students have been telling the BBC how they were only told that most of their courses in the coming term will be taught online after paying hundreds of pounds for accommodation far from home.\n\nSara is a third year student from Leeds, studying international development at King's College London, at a cost of £9,250 for the year. She says she was told her course would be completely online this term on 1 September - the day she began paying almost £3,000 for her accommodation.\n\nSara moved home to Leeds in March, at the start of lockdown, She says she has hardly had any lectures since February, when university staff went on strike.\n\nIn an email, seen by the BBC, she was then told \"all teaching for final year students\" will be online this term - including seminars and dissertation supervisions. In-person teaching in her second term \"will depend on the Covid-19 situation closer to the time\".\n\nIt's left her feeling short-changed. \"If I knew that we were going to be online for the first semester I wouldn't have got accommodation for this term at all,\" Sara says.\n\nShe says she's had little guidance about what campus life will look like and whether she will need to - or be able to - spend any time there.\n\n\"Do I need to be in London or not? Do I need to go in or not? There's no point in [just] sitting in my house,\" she says. \"I do think there should be some kind of reduction with everything online. You still get an education but they should reduce the amount you're paying.\"\n\nThe University of St Andrews also announced at the end of August that it was planning to phase in in-person teaching over the first seven weeks of term. It said only classes deemed to be \"essential\" would initially take place in-person.\n\nHowever, many students moving into halls for their first year had already signed their contracts by the time the announcement was made, while many second and third year students in private accommodation signed contracts months ago.\n\nLottie, a third-year student in philosophy and history of art, says the university had initially encouraged students to return to the town.\n\n\"In June or July, they said that all students should plan to come back to St Andrews at the start of term and it would be dual teaching - everything they could do in person they would do, with the rest online.\n\n\"They did say they would give people the option to study completely online from home, but when you applied to do that you needed to have a specific reason.\"\n\nRhiannon, another student at St Andrews studying international relations, is paying £525 a month for a room in a shared house.\n\n\"Our house has been empty since March. I would have stayed at home, and cancelled my rental contract. I actually tried to negotiate with my landlord in June because of the uncertainty and the landlord was completely inflexible.\"\n\nThe University of St Andrews said the first fortnight of term would have no in-person teaching, other than laboratory-based classes, classes in medicine and some practical classes. In-person teaching would then be phased in from week three to five, but would be limited to small group tutorials and seminars \"where the physical presence in a classroom is preferred to support the educational experience\".\n\nThe university currently plans to deliver \"all small group tutorials, seminars and classes smaller than 35 students in person\" from week seven of the term.\n\nIt blamed the sudden change on increased student numbers this year. \"The late changes to the way A-level and Higher exam results were calculated have obliged us to admit significantly more entrants than would otherwise have been the case,\" Principal Sally Mapstone said in a letter to staff and students.\n\n\"Our teaching arrangements are hugely important, but we are also focusing extremely closely on safety beyond the classroom, and how we support and ensure the safe behaviour of our student community in town,\" Mrs Mapstone added.\n\nKing's College London told the BBC it was \"prioritising the safety of our students and staff, by developing a flexible approach to the start of the new academic year\".\n\n\"Where possible, and it is safe to do so, we are planning for some small group teaching to take place on campus,\" the university said.\n\nStudents at several other universities have also contacted the BBC with similar stories. One said she only found out her course had moved online four days after her enrolment.\n\nUniversities UK, which represents 137 universities in the UK, said it expected the vast majority of universities to retain some in-person teaching. \"A recent survey by UUK suggested that 97% of respondents are planning some in-person teaching for the new academic year in line with government and public health guidance.\n\n\"In addition, the overwhelming majority are providing some in-person social activities and support and wellbeing. Most students will experience a blended offer of online and in-person underpinned by a safety first approach,\" it said.\n\nBut the National Union of Students called on universities to be \"honest and clear about the practicality of studies resuming\" and to \"provide support with housing, finances, digital learning, support services and transport if circumstances change\".\n\nNUS president Larissa Kennedy said government officials needed to offer a \"bigger package of financial support for student renters - many of whom have struggled to pay rent and fallen into arrears.\"", "Shoppers in Caerphilly, which is subject to a local lockdown\n\nExpect to see the prime minister back at the lectern, possibly with one of his top scientific advisers, once again, urging the population to take care.\n\nIt won't mark the beginning of another national lockdown. Nor will it be the start of a new draconian regime.\n\nBut do expect to hear the prime minister emphasising the need for the public to follow the existing rules - being careful about social contact with people, isolating if ill, and (what seemed in the early days almost quaint advice in the face of a distant threat), to wash your hands.\n\nAnd there will be a reduction in the numbers of people who are allowed to gather in groups indoors and outdoors in England from 30 down to six.\n\nThe reason for what may seem like a change of tone from the PM? Simple, the government is worried.\n\nIn the last four or five days there has been a significant rise in the number of coronavirus cases. It's not a gradual gentle drift upwards, but a sharp and obvious spike. The rate of positive tests is going up particularly among the 17-21s, but noticeable too among people in their 40s.\n\nAnd rather than appearing to be only a problem in particular areas, the increase is relatively consistent across the country - 79 local authorities in England, for example, reported weekly case rates above 20 per 100,000.\n\nThose factors mean there is deep concern in Number 10 that the statistics could be flagging the beginning of a generalised second wave of the pandemic.\n\nIt's important to say, the death rate is still very low. This could be the beginnings of a surge that has very different outcomes to the last terrible toll.\n\nBut in the early stages of the pandemic, the government had precious little information about what was going on. Since the early spring, a lot of effort has gone across government to gathering data to monitor how the disease is spreading. An early warning system was created, and it is flashing red.\n\nThere is a huge amount of guesswork about why the increase might be occurring, but there is no settled view on the specific factors. There is some evidence that some people who test positive are not always isolating.\n\nAnd as we can all see in daily life, there is a gradual but noticeable increase in people being out and about. And simply, more contacts mean more risk of spread of the disease.\n\nSo as the health secretary has done in recent days, the government is likely on Wednesday to focus on trying to choke off the rise in cases.\n\nThe recent zeal to get as many people as possible back to work may slightly fade. But millions of people in the last couple of months have had a taste of life returning to normal.\n\nPersuading people again to comply fastidiously to the rules won't be an easy task.", "EasyJet says it is expecting to fly fewer passengers because consumer confidence has been hit by UK coronavirus quarantine measures.\n\nThe airline expanded its schedule to 40% of its normal capacity last month, but now says it expects that to fall.\n\n\"Customer confidence to make travel plans has been negatively affected\" by \"constantly evolving government restrictions\", EasyJet said.\n\n\"We know our customers are as frustrated as we are,\" it added.\n\nOn Monday, the government added seven Greek islands to the quarantine list which means people return to England from these locations will have to isolate for 14 days.\n\nJohan Lundgren, the boss of EasyJet, told the BBC on Monday that the latest change to the quarantine rules - which means islands can be treated differently from their mainland countries if infection rates differ - was \"too little, too late\", as the peak of the summer holiday season had passed.\n\n\"This is something we have argued for a long time - it should not have been a blanket instrument when it comes to quarantine. It should be based on risk and on a much more targeted approach,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\nIn the airline's latest statement, Mr Lundgren said: \"Following the imposition of additional quarantine restrictions to seven Greek islands and the continued uncertainty this brings for customers, demand is now likely to be further impacted and therefore lower than previously anticipated,\"\n\n\"We now expect to fly slightly less than 40% of our planned schedule over the current quarter.\"\n\nThe airline said this would be achieved by \"continued schedule thinning as we continue to focus on profitable flying\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do I quarantine after returning from abroad?\n\nEasyJet, like other airlines, has been hit hard by lockdowns and travel restrictions around the world, with many announcing job cuts.\n\nIt has previously said it will cut up to 30% of its workforce - about 4,500 jobs - as it struggles with the effects of the pandemic.\n\nEasyJet said that in view of \"the continued level of uncertainty\", it would not be maintaining any forward-looking financial guidance for this financial year or the next.\n\n\"We know our customers are as frustrated as we are with the unpredictable travel and quarantine restrictions,\" said Mr Lundgren.\n\n\"We called on the government to opt for a targeted, regionalised and more predictable and structured system of quarantine many weeks ago so customers could make travel plans with confidence.\"\n\nHe added that it was difficult to overstate the impact that \"the pandemic and associated government policies\" had had on the whole industry.\n\nMr Lundgren called on the government to provide \"sector-specific support for aviation\", with a package of measures including the removal of Air Passenger Duty for at least 12 months.", "The rise in coronavirus cases across the UK has been laid firmly at the door of young people. Around half of new cases in recent weeks have been diagnosed in people in their 20s and 30s.\n\nSignificant numbers of cases have also been identified in people in their 40s and 50s, as well as teenagers.\n\nThat compares to the early days when most of the confirmed cases were in the older age groups.\n\nBut that was because the UK was largely only testing in hospitals. Younger adults are very unlikely to be sick enough to need hospital treatment, so they hardly showed up in the official figures.\n\nIf you look at results from antibody testing, to see if they had been exposed to the virus, the younger age groups were just as likely as older groups - if not more - to have been exposed.\n\nSo what is happening now appears to be simply a case of the virus re-establishing itself in a group that is the least at risk of serious complications, hence there are no signs of a significant increase in hospitalisations.", "More than 1.1 million people are now affected by tougher restrictions on home visits after they were extended to two more areas in the west of Scotland.\n\nThe measures came into force in East Dunbartonshire and Renfrewshire at midnight after a rise in cases.\n\nThe rules had already been reimposed in Glasgow city, West Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire last week.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said acting quickly now could \"stem the tide of transmission\" in the area.\n\nBut she has warned that there is a \"definite trend\" of rising case numbers across Scotland.\n\nMeasures were reimposed in parts of the greater Glasgow area last week in response to a rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nPeople are being told not to host people from other households inside their own homes, or visit another person's home.\n\nMeetings in pubs and restaurants and outdoor areas are still permitted - although the Scottish government said the hospitality sector would be monitored in the coming days to see whether restrictions should be extended.\n\nA further 78 positive cases were reported in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board on Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: \"The hope is that we will stem the tide\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was \"too early\" to say whether the fresh lockdown had had any effect on cases.\n\nThe measures are targeted at household meetings, with Ms Sturgeon saying it was \"still the view of public health teams that the significant factor driving transmission is people meeting up in their own homes\".\n\nShe said local authorities in the area would \"pay close attention to hospitality\" and would encourage people to act responsibly while using bars and restaurants.\n\nThe widened restrictions - which also mean there should only be \"essential\" visits to people in hospitals and care homes - will be reviewed in a week's time.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the measures are not yet being extended to Lanarkshire or Inverclyde - noting that levels of infection were \"significantly lower\" in Inverclyde.\n\nThe restrictions will now apply to apply to 179,000 people living in Renfrewshire and 108,000 in East Dunbartonshire.\n\nThe city of Glasgow has a population of 633,120, while there are 95,530 people in East Renfrewshire and 88,930 in West Dunbartonshire.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was \"regrettable we are in this position\", but that the measures banning household visits were \"considered proportionate but also the most effective\".\n\nShe added: \"If we act quickly and preventatively now, we can stem the tide of transmission and avoid having other restrictions put in place.\"\n\nThe first minister had earlier warned that a continuing rise in Covid-19 cases in Scotland could see her government \"put the brakes\" on the planned easing of some restrictions.\n\nAn average of 152 positive tests have been recorded each day over the past week - compared to 14 per day six weeks ago.\n\nThe number of hospital admissions and deaths has not risen as sharply, although Ms Sturgeon warned that \"this may just be a matter of time\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. An air ambulance was called to the scene\n\nA 15-year-old boy is in a critical condition after he was shot on the way to school.\n\nOfficers were called just after 08:40 BST to the Grange Farm estate in Kesgrave, Suffolk, where a person was later seen receiving medical treatment.\n\nKesgrave High School said it had been told the incident involved one of its Year 11 students. The victim, who was shot once, was flown to hospital.\n\nSuffolk Police have arrested a boy, 15, in connection with the shooting.\n\nThe suspect, who is said to be from the Woodbridge area, was arrested by armed police on suspicion of attempted murder.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police cordons remain in place around the Grange Farm estate\n\nAn Essex and Herts Air Ambulance landed on an area of grass and took off just before 10:00.\n\nPolice said they were treating the shooting \"as an isolated incident\" and do \"not believe there is any wider threat to the local community\". The Suffolk force said it was thought a single shot was fired in the incident.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Rob Jones said: \"Following this serious incident our priority is to keep everyone safe.\"\n\n\"There will be more police officers on patrol and to provide reassurance in the area and I would ask for anyone with information about this incident to come forward,\" he added.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson told the House of Commons: \"I think we're all shocked and saddened to learn about the incident in which a young person was seriously hurt on their way to school in Suffolk today.\n\n\"Our thoughts are very much with the young person, their family and the whole school community at this very difficult time.\"\n\nEyewitness Andy Watts told the BBC he was out walking his dog when he heard \"a gunshot and then I heard a great big scream\".\n\n\"It sounded like scaffolding falling down originally because it was a big, big crash,\" he said.\n\n\"I saw them working on the young lad over on the green; he was over there for quite a while while they were attending to him, a lot of ambulance staff and paramedics working on him.\"\n\nPhil Bennett, 38, said his father lived near the scene in Kesgrave and heard a gunshot.\n\nMr Bennett said he drove to check on his parents at their home in Lyon Close after seeing vague details of the incident on Facebook and becoming concerned.\n\n\"My dad heard a gunshot,\" he said. \"He's a retired paramedic - he's heard a lot of gunshots in his time, so he stayed indoors.\n\n\"The next thing he knew there were police piling in, then it's a scene of crime.\n\n\"It's hard to believe this has happened 100 metres from my mum's front door, that someone's been shot. It's terrible what's going on.\"\n\nKesgrave is a small town on the edge of Ipswich that has grown rapidly over the past 20 years.\n\nIt has two primary schools and a high school and is packed with families. I've been to the scene of the shooting, in the heart of the town's Grange Farm estate, and the sense of shock about what's happened is palpable.\n\nThis is a tight-knit community where many people know and look out for each other. The police have reassured people that this is an \"isolated incident\" but the feeling of concern remains.\n\nKesgrave High, which said the pupil was on his way to school at the time of the incident, said in a statement: \"Students in school are safe and we are managing the situation in constant, close communication with the police.\"\n\nIt is understood Monday was the first day back at school for its Year 11 pupils following the coronavirus lockdown and the summer holiday.\n\nFriends Walk and Through Jollys have been closed off and there is a partial closure in Ropes Drive. Police have urged the public to avoid these areas.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Twenty members of staff at Craigavon Area Hospital have tested positive for Covid-19\n\nThe chief executive of the Southern Health Trust has apologised following the death of a fourth haematology patient at Craigavon Area Hospital who had tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nShane Devlin said he and the trust were \"truly sorry for what has happened\".\n\nFollowing the death on Monday, Health Minister Robin Swann announced a level three Serious Adverse Incident (SAI) investigation.\n\nSeven patients on the Haematology ward remain \"very unwell\".\n\nFourteen patients on the the ward were confirmed to have the virus in a cluster identified last week, while another patient on Ward 3 South also tested positive.\n\nTwenty one members of staff, across the two wards, tested positive for Covid-19 and a further 56 are also self-isolating because of potential contact with the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, the Department of Health revealed on Tuesday there had been a further two deaths linked to Covid-19 in Northern Ireland.\n\nBoth were men living in the Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon area. One of them was over 80 years of age and the other was aged between 60 to 79.\n\nThe death toll recorded by the department now stands at 567.\n\nA further 40 positive cases of Covid-19 have been recorded, bringing the total to 7,908.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, health authorities reported one further coronavirus-related death and 307 new cases of Covid-19 in their latest daily figures.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths in the Republic to 1,778 and the total of confirmed cases to 30,080.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann says questions must be answered about the outbreaks at Craigavon Hospital\n\nThe chief executive of the Southern Trust said the organisation would co-operate fully with the SAI review which has been announced.\n\nMr Devlin told Good Morning Ulster the trust \"will be investigating thoroughly to understand what has happened, to make sure we can learn, because we need to learn\".\n\nHe said he was confident the outbreaks at Craigavon Area Hospital are now \"under control\".\n\n\"There is still a considerable human impact and we need to work with families to get through that,\" he added.\n\nHe said the important thing was to try and pin-point how the virus had entered the hospital wards in the first place.\n\nSDLP MLA for Newry and Armagh Justin McNulty said it has been \"devastatingly traumatic for the families involved\".\n\nHe has spoken to some of those who have lost family members and told Good Morning Ulster they \"want answers and they deserve answers\".\n\n\"Their loved ones went into hospital Covid-free and the virus has been transmitted to them inside the ward,\" he said.\n\n\"They are really angry about that and feel that their loved ones should still be with them.\"\n\nMr McNulty described a meeting with Mr Devlin to discuss the deaths as \"frank and blunt\".\n\nHe said he had relayed some concerns raised by the families of those who died about \"some inconsistencies that didn't sit well with them\".\n\nThe SDLP MLA said he was hopeful the independent inquiry would get to the bottom of what caused the outbreak, and that lessons will be learned.\n\n\"This ward, the patients are immuno-compromised. You would hope there would have been a ring of steel around the ward, but sadly that wasn't the case.\n\n\"We might never get an explanation for how the virus got into the ward, but hopefully the investigation will unearth that.\"", "The posters put up in Skin Kerr salon in Bootle have since been taken down\n\nA beauty salon that banned coronavirus talk and said Covid-19 does not exist is being investigated by police.\n\nSkin Kerr salon in Bootle put posters in its window and posted online stating masks weren't being worn by staff as \"you can't catch what doesn't exist\".\n\nMerseyside Police said officers would visit the salon on Aintree Road to \"remind\" the owner and staff of their responsibilities around Covid-19.\n\nThe shop window posters and social media posts have now been taken down.\n\nSefton Council said its environmental health team will also visit and the owners are due to meet with the council on Wednesday.\n\nCabinet member Councillor Paulette Lappin said the salon's stance was \"disappointing\".\n\n\"If the situation cannot be resolved satisfactorily during this meeting, and we are not satisfied that measures to keep customers and staff safe are in place, we will consider taking formal enforcement action,\" she said.\n\nIn a statement Sefton Council said coronavirus had been the cause of death for over 1,000 people in Merseyside hospitals and reminded local businesses and their customers of the importance of following the Government's COVID-19 guidance.\n\nSefton Community Policing Superintendent Graeme Robson said: \"My officers will be visiting the salon to speak to the staff and manager and reminding them of their continued responsibilities around Covid-19 and the safety and wellbeing of their staff and customers.\n\n\"We continue to remind the public and our local businesses that they should be continuing to follow the current Government guidance around social distancing, face coverings and test and trace.\"\n\nThe BBC has been unable to contact Skin Kerr for a response.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The existing Velindre Cancer Centre is based in Whitchurch - and the new facility would be close to this site\n\nLeading doctors and specialists have expressed \"deep concern\" about plans for a new cancer centre and have called for an independent review.\n\nFifty-seven cancer experts said they have concerns for patient safety at the new Velindre centre in Cardiff, which is due to open in 2022.\n\nIn a letter to Health Minister Vaughan Gething they said the £180m centre would not be fit for purpose.\n\nThe group of medical professionals said modern cancer treatments needed a range of services onsite, including surgery and intensive care.\n\nThey also argued the new centre should be located alongside an existing hospital and called for clarity on how the original decision to build a new stand-alone centre near the existing Velindre facility, in Whitchurch, was reached.\n\nThe letter, signed by surgeons, radiologists, GPs, anaesthetists and palliative care specialists, was also sent to Wales' chief medical officer, the local member of the Senedd Julie Morgan and the chief executive of the Welsh NHS.\n\nArtist's impression of the new Velindre Cancer Centre in Whitchurch\n\nThe letter said: \"We are committed to transforming cancer care for patients in south east Wales and believe there is an exceptional opportunity to get this right.\"\n\nIt adds the \"limitation of the proposed approach has already been apparent through review of other stand-alone cancer centres\", including Mount Vernon in Middlesex.\n\nSteve Ham, chief executive of Velindre University NHS Trust, said: \"We are continuing to work with our patients, clinicians and health board partners to further strengthen the model to ensure it is always fit for purpose. This will include independent external advice.\"\n\nThe trust in a statement added: \"We, like all our colleagues across the south east Wales area, have the interests of our patients at the heart of everything we do.\n\n\"We believe that the future model will improve the quality and safety of care; enhance patient experience; and improve the equity of access to treatment and research.\"\n\nOpposition to the new centre has largely centred on environmental concerns until now, with some people not happy about plans to build it at a local beauty spot.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People attended a socially distanced protest on the green space earmarked for a new cancer hospital.\n\nThere have been demonstrations and an online petition to try and save the Northern Meadows, an area of grassland and woods in the Whitchurch area of the city.\n\nBut there are also many supporters of the scheme.\n\nThe Velindre Trust has thousands of backers on its own online platforms and has said 60% of the land would continue to be available to the local community.\n\nThe trust added: \"We are committed to securing a future for the fields as a community asset.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said that the minister had responded to the letter confirming that the Velindre trust would seek independent advice on the clinical model for the new cancer hospital.\n\n\"The chief medical officer is also discussing the management of acutely unwell cancer patients with health board medical directors to ensure the current model of delivery is fit for purpose,\" said a spokesperson.", "Harry Harvey, an experienced walker, has now been reunited with family and friends\n\nAn 80-year-old hiker who went missing for three days in the Yorkshire Dales has spoken at a press conference arranged in a bid to track him down.\n\nHarry Harvey spent three nights wild camping after becoming separated from a walking group between Gunnerside and Tan Hill, North Yorkshire, on Saturday.\n\nA major search took place including police, the RAF and rescue dogs.\n\nHe was spotted by a wildlife photographer on Tuesday morning, who saw him waving at her near Keld.\n\nMr Harvey was about six miles (10km) from where he was last seen.\n\nHe was then taken by Land Rover to the nearby Tan Hill Inn, where he was reunited with family and friends at the press conference.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The moment Mr Harvey was reunited with family at the Tan Hill Inn\n\nSpeaking to journalists Mr Harvey, from Tynemouth in Tyne and Wear, said: \"I just got separated by getting caught in a really heavy hailstorm, a howling gale of wind.\n\n\"By the time I got my kit on it was getting really dark, so I missed what I would say was a turning. I had a plan B straight away, find somewhere safe to camp, put my tent up, keep warm, and that was it.\n\n\"The biggest problem I had was getting to Tynemouth from Keld, because I only had £21.05 in my pocket.\"\n\nMr Harvey said he had \"three good nights wild camping\".\n\n\"The place where we got separated was absolutely desolate, there was no chance of putting a tent up that's for sure, so I had to find somewhere safe, which is what I did.\"\n\nMr Harvey said he was never worried as he had \"all the kit and all the training\", adding he would rather not have the attention which he said was \"not my scene at all\".\n\nThe experienced hiker, who was reported missing on Sunday afternoon, said he could see search teams but did not realise they were looking for him.\n\nMr Harvey went missing in an area between Gunnerside Gill (pictured) and Tan Hill\n\nHis family said the past three days had been \"torture\" and they could not put the worry they had into words.\n\n\"We know he is experienced, but not three nights, that's taking it a little bit to the extreme,\" they said.\n\nInsp Mark Gee, from North Yorkshire Police, said: \"This is fantastic news. I want to thank all the search volunteers for their time, as well as gamekeepers, estate owners, farmers and local residents for their help and understanding.\n\n\"Thanks also to the Tan Hill, who looked after the volunteers and Mr Harvey's family.\"\n\nAnnette Pyrah, the photographer who found him, said she cried when she realised it was Mr Harvey.\n\n\"I was out taking photographs of grouse and instead of grouse I found Harry,\" she said.\n\n\"I had passed Tan Hill with a very heavy heart because I knew he hadn't been found and I thought after three days he's not going to be found. It was quite upsetting to see the police and sniffer dogs.\n\n\"I just looked up at the fell and this gentleman waved at me. I got out of my car and I said, 'Are you Harry? Have you been missing for three days?' And he said yes. And I started crying.\"\n\nMs Pyrah said he had a nasty bump on the head where he had fallen into a stream, but apart from that he was fit and well.\n\n\"I got him some help for his head and he rang his wife, which was the main thing,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jacob Billington was out with friends when he was stabbed on Sunday\n\nA 23-year-old man who was stabbed to death in Birmingham city centre has been named as Jacob Billington.\n\nMr Billington was attacked in Irving Street in the early hours of Sunday while he was out with old school friends, police said.\n\nSeven other people were injured at four locations over a period of 90 minutes.\n\nA 27-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder.\n\nWest Midlands Police said Mr Billington, from Crosby, Merseyside, was on a school reunion night out with friends.\n\nOne of the group, also 23, was seriously injured and remains in hospital in a critical condition.\n\nIn a statement Mr Billington's family said: \"Jacob was the light of our life and we have been devastated by his loss.\n\n\"He was a funny, caring and wonderful person who was loved by every single person he met.\n\n\"He lit up every room with his boundless energy and witty humour and the loss of such a special person will be felt by all who knew him for years to come.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPolice were first called out just after 00:30 BST on Sunday at Constitution Hill, where a man sustained a superficial injury.\n\nAbout 20 minutes later they were sent to Livery Street, near Snow Hill railway station, where they found a 30-year-old man with critical injuries and a woman who was also hurt.\n\nAt 01:50, officers were despatched to Irving Street, where Mr Billington was found with fatal injuries and his friend seriously hurt.\n\nAbout 10 minutes later, police were called to Hurst Street, in the city's Gay Village, to find a 22-year-old woman had been critically injured and two men less badly hurt.\n\nPolice initially reported the critically injured man's age as 19 and the critically injured woman's as 32.\n\nThe attacks happened at four locations across Birmingham city centre\n\nThe suspect was arrested at an address in the Selly Oak area of the city at about 04:00 on Monday and remains in custody.\n\nThree other people, two men and a woman, from the same property were arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.\n\nCh Supt Steve Graham said: \"Our thoughts and sympathies are with Jacob's family and friends after receiving such shocking news, particularly for those who were sharing their night out with him.\n\n\"It's utterly shocking that a friends' reunion should end so brutally.\n\n\"Equally the families of the other victims have been left devastated by the events of Sunday morning and we are working hard to discover what led to the apparently random attacks.\"\n\nQuestions have been raised about how the suspect was able to move around the city for 90 minutes.\n\nResponding to this, Chief Constable Dave Thompson said: \"Engaging in an ill-informed critique of this investigation, particularly at such an early stage, is both unhelpful and simply makes the job of the police harder.\"\n\nMr Thompson described the knife attacks as \"extraordinary\", adding: \"These are events quite unlike anything I have seen on our streets before.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fortnite and Apple have been locked in legal battle since August\n\nApple has fired back against claims by the maker of the Fortnite game that its control of the App Store gives it a monopoly.\n\nIn a response to the August lawsuit filed by Epic Games, Apple called those arguments \"self-righteous\" and \"self-interested\".\n\nIt denied that its 30% commission was anti-competitive and said the fight was \"a basic disagreement over money\".\n\nApple also said Epic Games had violated its contract and asked for damages.\n\nThe filing is the latest in a legal battle that started last month, after Fortnite offered a discount on its virtual currency for purchases made outside of the app, from which Apple receives a 30% cut.\n\nIn response, Apple blocked Epic's ability to distribute updates or new apps through the App Store, and Epic sued, alleging that Apple's App Store practices violate antitrust laws.\n\nThe court allowed Apple's ban on updates to continue as the case plays out, but the existing version of Fortnite still works, as does Epic's payment system.\n\nApple had said it would allow Fortnite back into the store if Epic removed the direct payment feature to comply with its developer agreement.\n\nBut Epic has refused, saying complying with Apple's request would be \"to collude with Apple to maintain their monopoly over in-app payments on iOS.\"\n\nIn its filing, Apple said Epic has benefited from Apple's promotion and developer tools, earning more than $600m (£462m) through the App Store.\n\nApple accused the firm, which it noted is backed by Chinese tech giant Tencent, of seeking a special deal before ultimately breaching its contract with the update.\n\n\"Although Epic portrays itself as a modern corporate Robin Hood, in reality it is a multi-billion dollar enterprise that simply wants to pay nothing for the tremendous value it derives from the App Store,\" it said in the filing.\n\nThe legal battle between the two companies comes as Apple faces increased scrutiny of its practices running the App Store.\n\nAt a hearing in Washington over the summer, politicians also raised concerns that Apple's control of the app store hurt competition.\n\nThe European Union is also investigating whether Apple's App Store practices violate competition rules.\n\nApple has denied those claims, arguing that its App Store has made it easier and cheaper for developers to distribute products.", "Hundreds were injured in the bombing at the end of an Ariana Grande concert\n\nOnly one paramedic was at the scene of the Manchester Arena bombing for the first 40 minutes after the explosion, an inquiry into the attack was told.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured when Salman Abedi detonated a suicide bomb as 14,000 fans left the arena in May 2017.\n\nThe inquiry heard the sole paramedic had arrived in the arena foyer 18 minutes after the bomb went off.\n\nBut at least eight ambulances had arrived nearby after 40 minutes.\n\nLead counsel Paul Greaney QC said the public inquiry would have to consider whether lives were lost as a result of a failure to co-ordinate the response of emergency services.\n\nWithin 10 minutes of the bomb exploding at 22:31 BST, 12 British Transport Police (BTP) officers had run into the arena foyer carrying first aid.\n\nCasualties were carried out on makeshift stretchers and only one actual stretcher was used on the night of the attack.\n\nThe final person was evacuated from the City Room - where the bombing happened - at 23:40 on a stretcher \"made of cardboard and a crowd control barrier\".\n\nThe bombing after an Ariana Grande concert killed 22 people and injured hundreds more\n\nThe inquiry also heard how John Atkinson, who was killed in the bombing, was only evacuated from the scene 46 minutes after the blast on a makeshift stretcher to a triage area nearby.\n\nHe remained there for another 24 minutes but chest compressions were only started on him one hour and 15 minutes after he was first injured in the blast.\n\n\"The issue of John Atkinson's survivability is, as we shall explore, a significant issue for the inquiry to consider,\" Mr Greaney added.\n\nThe inquiry was told BTP had primary responsibility for policing in the arena foyer and Greater Manchester Police (GMP) was not aware \"at an organisational level\" of the Ariana Grande concert.\n\n\"On the face of it that may seem surprising,\" Mr Greaney added.\n\nHe said BTP had \"primacy\" in this area due to the proximity of Victoria Station and the inquiry must consider whether that affected preparedness for any terror attack.\n\nThe inquiry will, among other things, look at the emergency response to the attack\n\n\"There is a legitimate question about whether it was appropriate that BTP, who specialise in the railways, should take the lead,\" he added.\n\nFollowing the blast, BTP declared a major incident at 22:39 but they did not communicate this to GMP and there was no attempt to integrate communications at the arena.\n\nThe inquiry heard the BTP officer, who thought he was acting as operational commander, was in Blackpool when the bomb went off.\n\nHe took a taxi to Manchester but \"by the time he arrived the need for an immediate response had long since passed\".\n\nMr Greaney said it appeared \"no one acted as a BTP operational commander for the policing response to the bombing\".\n\nGMP did not declare a major incident until 01:00 on 23 May, the inquiry heard.\n\nThe second day of the hearing was told there had been multi-agency exercises rehearsing for a terror attack, including one in 2016 for an incident at the Trafford Centre.\n\nMr Greaney said \"experts have expressed serious concerns about whether the necessary lessons were learned from it\".\n\nThe hearings will take place in a room specially converted from two courtrooms at Manchester Magistrates' Court\n\nAnother exercise, held in July 2016, rehearsed for an attack in the City Room at the arena - the exact scene of the attack in May 2017.\n\nThe inquiry is seeking to establish whether BTP took part in that exercise.\n\nThe first fire engine, which had stretchers, arrived at Manchester Arena two hours and six minutes after the explosion.\n\n\"An important issue for the inquiry to investigate will be how that came to pass and whether it made any difference,\" Mr Greaney added.\n\nBut he told the inquiry it was \"important we acknowledge the pressure that those who responded were under\".\n\n\"The inquiry process must not be used to vilify those who did their best on the night but made mistakes and could have done better,\" he added.\n\nCCTV caught Salman Abedi in the arena foyer just seconds before he blew himself up\n\nBTP officer Jessica Bullough, who was first to enter the foyer, described the scene of the attack as like a \"war zone\".\n\nTwo minutes after the explosion, PC Bullough radioed through, saying \"it's definitely a bomb - people are injured - at least 20 casualties\".\n\nShe then \"made the first of a number of requests for ambulances\".\n\nThe inquiry was told that 24 minutes later another officer radioed to control, saying \"you're going to hate me - where's our ambulances please?\".\n\nControl replied, saying \"we don't know. We're calling them again\".\n\nThe public inquiry follows a trial in which a jury found Hashem Abedi guilty of helping his older sibling to plan the atrocity.\n\nHe was jailed for at least 55 years on 20 August for the 22 murders.\n\nThe chairman of the inquiry Sir John Saunders will make a report and recommendations once all the evidence has been heard, which is expected to take up to six months.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police remain at the scene in Grange Farm, Kesgrave\n\nA \"long-barrelled gun\" has been recovered by police investigating the shooting of a 15-year-old boy on his way to school.\n\nThe victim was shot at about 08:40 BST on the Grange Farm estate in Kesgrave, Suffolk, on Monday.\n\nThe Year 11 Kesgrave High School pupil is in a critical condition and a 15-year-old boy is under arrest.\n\nSupt Kerry Cutler said police were not looking for anyone else in connection with the shooting.\n\nShe said: \"We have arrested an individual that we believe is involved in the incident and we also recovered a weapon.\"\n\nThe suspect, who is said to be from the Woodbridge area, was arrested by armed police on suspicion of attempted murder.\n\nDetectives have been granted a superintendent's extension to detain him for questioning for an additional 12 hours.\n\nA police cordon is in place at Friends Walk\n\nSupt Kerry Cutler said police were not looking for anyone else in connection with the shooting\n\nSuffolk Police said the two boys were known to each other and there was nothing to suggest the shooting was linked to organised criminality.\n\nThe force said a boy was seen getting into a car following the attack.\n\nOfficers added that a car had been seized and \"a long-barrelled firearm was recovered from inside it\".\n\nA temporary police station has been set up in Kesgrave and Supt Cutler said there was a large police presence, including officers from other forces.\n\nPolice said a large police presence would remain in the area\n\nSupt Cutler said: \"Everybody is shocked, Kesgrave is on the outskirts of Ipswich, it is almost a semi-rural area, it's very much a residential area, this is not something we've seen in that area before and people will be impacted by it.\n\n\"The investigation goes on and we're still appealing for anybody who saw anything or has any information to come forward.\"\n\nSuffolk Police said it was thought a single shot was fired on Friends Walk, off Through Jollys.\n\nFriends Walk remains closed off as police searches continue. Through Jollys and Ropes Drive reopened on Monday evening.\n\nThe injured boy was airlifted to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.\n\nA neighbour, who did not want to be named, said the victim's parents tended to the boy after he had been shot.\n\n\"They were very distraught, nothing like this ever happens in the estate,\" he said.\n\nFormer paramedic Richard Bennett, who lives near the scene, said he heard the gunshot and thought \"what on earth was going on\".\n\n\"As the day went on the tragedy unfolded, a 15-year-old boy had been shot, it's unbelievable,\" he said.\n\nEllie, whose brother is in the same year as the victim at Kesgrave High, said local people were in \"disbelief\".\n\nShe said: \"I've grown up here and went to Kesgrave High and I had an absolutely blissful experience there, and this area in Kesgrave it's thought of as such a safe place, there's children everywhere, there's families everywhere, it's not somewhere you'd ever think this would happen.\"\n• None Pupil shot on way to school in critical condition\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "HMRC is now reviewing 27,000 \"high risk\" cases where abuse or fraud is suspected\n\nUp to £3.5bn in Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme payments may have been claimed fraudulently or paid out in error, the government has said.\n\nHM Revenue and Customs told MPs on the Public Accounts Committee it estimates that 5-10% of furlough cash has been wrongly awarded.\n\nLatest data shows the programme has cost the government £35.4bn so far.\n\nThe scheme has paid 80% of the wages of workers placed on leave since March, up to a maximum of £2,500 a month.\n\nSpeaking to MPs on Monday, HMRC's permanent secretary, Jim Harra, said: \"We have made an assumption for the purposes of our planning that the error and fraud rate in this scheme could be between 5% and 10%.\n\n\"That will range from deliberate fraud through to error.\"\n\nThe Public Accounts Committee estimates that a total of £30bn in tax was lost in 2019 due to taxpayer error and fraud.\n\nBoth HM Treasury and HMRC were ordered to appear in front of MPs to explain how they were intending to reduce the problem.\n\n\"What we have said in our risk assessment is we are not going to set out to try to find employers who have made legitimate mistakes in compiling their claims, because this is obviously something new that everybody had to get to grips with in a very difficult time,\" said Mr Harra.\n\n\"Although we will expect employers to check their claims and repay any excess amount, what we will be focusing on is tackling abuse and fraud.\"\n\nSo far, 8,000 calls have been received to HMRC's fraud telephone hotline. HMRC is now looking into 27,000 \"high risk\" cases where they believe a serious error has been made in the amount an employer has claimed, he added.\n\nMr Harra advised that any employee who feels that their employer may have been fraudulently claiming furlough money can report it to HMRC by filling in a form on its website.\n\n\"While we can't get involved in any relationship between the employee and employer, we can certainly reclaim any grant that the employer is not entitled to, which includes grants they have not passed on in wages to their employees.\"\n\nThis is the first time that HMRC has spoken publicly about potential fraud affecting the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.\n\nSwetha Ramachandran, investment manager at GAM Investments, told the BBC: \"The speed with which they wanted to expedite this programme in order to ensure that this was available to employers, to minimise the damage that could have been caused, means there was always a likelihood that this was going to happen.\n\n\"So I don't think it's that surprising.\"\n\nShe said other government programmes, such as the Bounce Back Loans scheme or the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loans scheme, might suffer from similar problems.\n\n\"That won't probably emerge for a few months,\" she added.\n\nHMRC's Jim Harra: \"We will be focusing on is tackling abuse and fraud.\"\n\nIn July, centre-right think tank Policy Exchange warned that fraud and error could cost the government between £1.3bn and £7.9bn.\n\nThe think tank said the government's financial rescue scheme were vulnerable to scams because of the size of the packages and the speed at which measures were rushed through to save people and businesses from economic ruin.\n\nThe calculation is based on expected fraud rates for government expenditure from the Cabinet Office and the Department for Work and Pensions.\n\nThe report said the true value lost to fraud may be closer to the higher end of the estimate \"due to the higher than usual levels of fraud that accompany disaster management\".\n\nIt said: \"This is a serious squandering of public finances and properly resourced post event assurance will be required to reassure the public that every possible step has been taken to reduce this level of fraud.\"\n\nAt the time, a government spokesman said it was committed to \"extensive post payment reviews of stimulus and support payments, to find fraud and recover money for the taxpayer\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: \"We will restrict all hospitality to takeaways only\"\n\nTighter coronavirus restrictions have been introduced in Bolton, including only allowing takeaways and curtailing nightlife, after a rise in cases.\n\nAll hospitality venues will be limited to takeaway and must be closed to customers between 22:00 BST and 05:00 each day.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the town in Greater Manchester had \"the highest case rate in the country.\"\n\nA further 2,460 new coronavirus cases were reported across the UK on Tuesday.\n\nOverall, there have been 8,396 new cases reported since Sunday.\n\nA further 32 deaths within 28 days of a positive test across all settings were recorded on Tuesday - with the average number of daily deaths over the past week now around 11.\n\nMinisters and government advisers expressed concern over a \"sharp rise\" in cases and a \"heartfelt\" apology was issued following shortages in England's testing system.\n\nMr Hancock told the House of Commons on Tuesday: \"Unfortunately, after improving for several weeks, we've seen a very significant rise in cases in Bolton.\n\n\"The rise in cases in Bolton is partly due to socialising by people in their 20s and 30s. We know this from contact tracing.\n\n\"And through our contact tracing system we've identified a number of pubs at which the virus has spread significantly.\"\n\nHe said there were 120 cases per 100,000 in Bolton, which had already been under stricter lockdown measures.\n\nThe new measures, which came into force as Mr Hancock addressed the Commons, include:\n\nSchools in Bolton will continue to welcome pupils as usual, Bolton Council said.\n\nCouncil leader Cllr David Greenhalgh said: \"This is not something we want to do, but it is clear the virus is currently moving round the borough uncontrolled and so we need to halt the transmission rate.\"\n\nMuhammad Memon, 37, who owns Kids World clothing shop in Bolton town centre, said he had real fears about keeping his business afloat in light of the new restrictions.\n\n\"Town is empty. Four big retailers have shut down near me since lockdown,\" he said. \"There is no footfall.\"\n\n\"I am praying for help from the government,\" he added.\n\nThe Alma Inn pub and music venue in Bolton announced on Facebook it would now close permanently, two days after it said a customer tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nAs well as restricting hospitality venues, Mr Hancock said visitor limits will also be put in place in care homes in Bolton.\n\nThe health secretary said: \"I want us to learn the lesson from Spain, America and France - not to have to learn the lesson all over again ourselves through more hospitalisations and more deaths, and take this action locally in Bolton.\"\n\nThe move comes after plans to ease restrictions in Bolton were scrapped last week following a spike in Covid-19 cases.\n\nMr Hancock also told MPs that a strict local lockdown in Leicester had resulted in a \"very significant\" drop in cases, with measures there to be reviewed on Thursday.\n\nDemand at local coronavirus testing sites in Bolton has led to queues of people and cars\n\nIt came as students at universities across Greater Manchester, including in Bolton, have been warned they face sanctions if they break rules to limit the spread of coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile, Boris Johnson's official spokesman was asked whether the government was considering a change in guidance on household gatherings across England.\n\nThe spokesman said it was being kept under review and that ministers would not hesitate to act if needed.\n\nGuidance in England currently says two households can meet indoors. Outdoors up to six people from different households can meet - or up to 30 people from two households.\n\nThe UK government's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, said Covid-19 rates are now rising, especially amongst people between the ages of 17 and 29.\n\nHe warned that if people stopped social distancing then \"Covid comes back\".\n\nEngland's deputy chief medical officer Prof Jonathan Van Tam added: \"People have relaxed too much. Now is the time for us to re-engage, and to realise that this is a continuing threat to us.\"\n\nAlthough there has been a sharp rise in coronavirus cases reported in the last few days, the 30 deaths recorded on Tuesday are unrelated.\n\nIt takes time from becoming infected to developing symptoms. Someone who is very sick in hospital with coronavirus and who sadly dies will have caught the infection weeks before.\n\nEarlier, Mr Hancock told MPs that a \"sharp rise\" in coronavirus cases in recent days had been across the whole country rather than in localised \"hotspots\".\n\nOther parts of the UK are also facing tougher restrictions.\n\nStricter rules on visiting other people's homes were also extended to two more areas in the west of Scotland from midnight.", "The Duke of Sussex has paid back the cost of refurbishing Frogmore Cottage near Windsor Castle.\n\nThe cost, estimated at £2.4m in 2018-19, was covered by taxpayers through the Sovereign Grant, but the duke and duchess said they would repay it when they stepped back from royal duties.\n\nPrince Harry's spokesman said he had paid the bill in full by making a contribution to the grant.\n\nThe property will remain a UK residence for the duke and his family.\n\nIt comes days after the couple announced they had reached a deal with Netflix to make a range of programmes, some of which they may appear in.\n\nFrogmore Cottage sits in a secluded spot on the Queen's Windsor estate in Berkshire\n\nFrogmore Cottage should have been a rather lovely family home. Instead it became one of the reasons why, eventually, Harry and Meghan left Britain and the official side of the Royal Family.\n\nThe cost of renovation - £2.4m in 2018-19, with more to come after that - provoked critical commentary, and a wave of largely illusory stories about what the money had been spent on.\n\nJust as the couple were setting up their first place together and creating a home for their child, they were subject to what they thought was unfair and intrusive comment.\n\nFor decades, taxpayer funding has been a sticky subject for the Royal Family; it is a point of purchase for critics, who point to the Sovereign Grant and to the costs of security and ask whether the monarchy lives extravagantly and provides value for money.\n\nIn the negotiations over the couple stepping back from royal duties early this year, money - inevitably - was a serious issue.\n\nIt was Harry and Meghan who announced that they would repay the cost of renovating Frogmore Cottage. In such way a line is drawn, and the couple may perceive themselves to be free of any of the obligations they once laboured under.\n\nAnd Frogmore Cottage stands empty, a rather lonely monument to an unhappy chapter in the royal story.\n\nThe duke's spokesman said of the repayment: \"This contribution as originally offered by Prince Harry has fully covered the necessary renovation costs of Frogmore Cottage, a property of Her Majesty The Queen, and will remain the UK residence of the duke and his family.\"\n\nLast year's royal accounts showed the cost of the renovations was £2.4 million and was covered by the grant.\n\nIt is the money given to the Queen by the government and pays for the salaries of the royal household, official travel and upkeep of palaces.\n\nThe payment is based on the profits of the Crown Estate, a property business owned by the monarch but run independently.\n\nRevenue from the Crown Estate does not belong to the Queen, but goes straight to the Treasury which then grants it back to the Queen as a Sovereign Grant to support the monarch's official business.\n\nHarry and Meghan agreed to pay back the money as part of the plans drawn up when they quit as senior working royals in March.", "The 27-year-old was arrested at a property in Selly Oak in the early hours of Monday\n\nA man has been charged with murder and seven counts of attempted murder, after a series of stabbings across Birmingham city centre.\n\nZephaniah McLeod, aged 27, of Nately Grove, Selly Oak, is due in court on Wednesday, West Midlands Police said.\n\nJacob Billington, 23, was killed and seven others injured at four locations over a period of 90 minutes on Sunday.\n\nMr Billington, from Crosby, Merseyside, was stabbed in Irving Street while enjoying a night out with friends.\n\nA post-mortem examination concluded he died of a stab wound to the neck.\n\nMr Billington had been working as a library intern at Sheffield Hallam University and was also a drummer in a band.\n\nA university spokesman said: \"Jacob was a Sheffield Hallam graduate and had joined the library as a graduate intern, where his warmth and enthusiasm made him a greatly valued member of our team.\n\n\"Our thoughts and condolences are with his family, friends and colleagues.\"\n\nHis friend, Michael Callaghan, also 23 and a fellow band-mate, was seriously injured in the attack in Irving Street and remains in hospital in a critical condition.\n\nBoth men had previously attended Sacred Heart Catholic College in Crosby, where prayers were said on Monday evening for their families.\n\nIn a statement, the school said: \"We are saddened at the events in Birmingham which took Jacob's life and left Michael critically injured.\n\n\"We are praying for Michael's recovery and will never forget Jacob, his life touched so many in our school.\"\n\nJacob Billington, who was out with friends, was stabbed to death in Birmingham\n\nA 22-year-old woman, attacked in Hurst Street, remains critical but stable in hospital.\n\nAnother man, aged 30, remains in a serious condition in hospital, while four others have been discharged.\n\nDet Ch Insp Jim Munro said: \"Since these tragic events unfolded in the early hours of Sunday morning we've had a team of officers working non-stop on the investigation.\n\n\"Our driving focus is to secure justice for the victims, their family and friends. Our sympathies remain with everyone who's been impacted by these terrible crimes.\"\n\nThree people arrested early on Monday at an address in Selly Oak on suspicion of assisting an offender have all been released pending investigation, police said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People need to \"start taking this very seriously again\" – Prof Jonathan Van Tam\n\nThe latest \"big change\" in coronavirus infections across the UK is of \"great concern\", England's deputy chief medical officer has warned.\n\nProf Jonathan Van Tam said people have \"relaxed too much\" over the summer and \"we have got to start taking this very seriously again\".\n\nIf not, the UK will have \"a bumpy ride over the next few months\", he warned.\n\nHe said that infections among younger people in EU countries had later filtered through to older age groups.\n\nFrance and Spain are among a number of European countries that have seen a sharp rise in coronavirus cases in recent weeks, after lockdown restrictions were eased and testing for the disease was ramped up.\n\nOn Monday, Spain became the first country in western Europe to record 500,000 infections, after tallying more than 26,000 new infections over the weekend.\n\nProf Van Tam's comments came as more parts of the UK are to face tougher restrictions following a rise in the number of cases.\n\nOn Sunday UK authorities announced 2,988 new cases - the highest figure since 22 May, while a further 2,948 cases were reported in the 24 hours to 09:00 BST on Monday.\n\nStricter rules on home visits will be extended to two more areas in the west of Scotland from midnight.\n\nIn Wales, the county borough of Caerphilly is to be placed under a local lockdown from 18:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\n\"People have relaxed too much, now is the time for us to re-engage, and to realise that this a continuing threat to us,\" Prof Van Tam said.\n\nThe rise in cases we have seen over the past two days seems like quite a large jump.\n\nBut it is still well short of where we were in the spring.\n\nThe official figures show we hit 6,000 cases a day at points, but that was just the tip of the iceberg.\n\nTesting was only largely taking place in hospitals so virtually none of the infections in the community were being picked up.\n\nEstimates suggest there were about 100,000 cases a day at the peak.\n\nSo the fact that we have got close to 3,000 a day now when mass testing is available (albeit clearly not picking up every case) means we are a long way from where we were.\n\nBut there is alarm within government.\n\nWhile the majority of cases are in younger age groups, the more they rise the harder it becomes to keep the virus away from more vulnerable people.\n\nProf Van Tam added that hospital admissions and deaths were \"at a very low level\" in the UK and the rise in cases was most prominent among those aged between 17 and 21 - but the country risks following the trajectory of some EU countries.\n\n\"Where case numbers rise initially in the younger parts of the population they do in turn filter through and start to give elevated rates of disease and hospital admissions in the older age groups, and we know that then becomes a serious public health problem,\" he said.\n\n\"The fact that 17 to 21-year-olds are not becoming ill means they are lucky, but they also forget because the disease is not severe for them that they are potent spreaders.\"\n\nProf Van Tam added that the trend had moved away from \"specific hotspots\", such as the one that occurred in Leicester last month.\n\nInstead, \"there is a more general and creeping geographic trend across the UK that disease levels are now beginning to turn up\".\n\nHe urged public health officials and politicians to think about how the virus is managed not in the short term, but over the next six months and \"until the spring\".\n\nBBC health editor Hugh Pym said it was a \"blunt warning\" about the spread of the virus from Prof Van Tam, who implied the next week would be critical as officials and ministers studied the emerging data.\n\n\"This is a wake up call for the public to get real about social distancing from a medical leader who is clearly worried,\" our correspondent added.\n\nIt comes after Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced a change in England's quarantine policy, adopting an approach which allows islands to be treated differently to a country's mainland.\n\nHe said travellers arriving in England from seven Greek islands will have to self-isolate for 14 days from 04:00 BST on Wednesday.\n\nThey are Crete, Lesvos, Mykonos, Santorini, Serifos, Tinos, and Zakynthos (also known as Zante).", "The government will later publish plans which could override key elements of its Brexit deal with Brussels, in breach of international law.\n\nThe Internal Market Bill will set out how powers currently held by the EU will be shared out after the post-Brexit transition period ends.\n\nBut it has faced a backlash from senior Tories and prompted the resignation of a top civil servant.\n\nIt comes as the talks over a trade deal with the EU continue in London.\n\nThe Internal Market Bill could override parts of the Withdrawal Agreement that secured the UK's exit from the EU in January.\n\nMinisters say it is needed to prevent \"damaging\" tariffs on goods travelling from the rest of the UK to Northern Ireland if negotiations with the EU on a free trade agreement fail.\n\nBut senior Conservatives have warned it risks undermining the UK's reputation as an upholder of international law.\n\nTobias Ellwood, chairman of the Commons Defence Committee, said the UK would \"lose the moral high ground\" if the government went through with the changes.\n\nTom Tugendhat, chairman of the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee said: \"Our entire economy is based on the perception that people have of the UK's adherence to the rule of law.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock insisted the changes were necessary to protect the Northern Ireland peace process if the UK failed to get a free trade deal with the EU.\n\n\"The decision we've made is to put the peace process first, first and foremost as our absolute top international obligation,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nA former Cabinet minister, involved in putting together the Withdrawal Agreement, reacted furiously to Mr Hancock's claim.\n\nThe former minister, who did not want to be named, told the BBC: \"I cannot allow anyone to get away with saying the government is doing this to protect the peace process. This does the precise opposite.\n\n\"It is about the internal market in the UK and is more likely to lead to a hard border [between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland] which will imperil the peace process.\"\n\nThe permanent secretary to the Government Legal Department, Sir Jonathan Jones, has resigned from his role over concerns about the government breaching its obligations under international law.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brandon Lewis has said the bill contains powers that would break international law.\n\nIn the Commons on Tuesday, Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis admitted the bill would break international law in a \"very specific and limited way\".\n\nIt would allow the UK government to \"dis-apply\" the EU legal concept of \"direct effect\" - which gives EU law supremacy over UK law in areas covered by the Withdrawal Agreement - in \"certain, very tightly defined circumstances,\" he told MPs.\n\nThe Scottish government, meanwhile, has said it will not consent to a change in the law along these lines, arguing that it would undermines devolution.\n\nThe bill has also been attacked by the Welsh Brexit minister, Labour's Jeremy Miles, who accused the government of \"stealing powers from devolved administrations\".\n\n\"This bill is an attack on democracy and an affront to the people of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland,\" he added.\n\nThe legislation will see Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland handed powers in areas such as air quality and building efficiency currently regulated at EU level.\n\nIt will also set up a new body - the Office for the Internal Market - to make sure standards adopted in different parts of the UK do not undermine cross-border trade.\n\nThe new body will be able to issue non-binding recommendations to the UK Parliament and devolved administrations when clashes emerge.\n\nHowever, plans to hand UK ministers extra powers to ensure the application of customs and trade rules in Northern Ireland have prompted a row over the UK's legal obligations in its exit deal.\n\nUnder the UK's withdrawal agreement, Northern Ireland is due to stay part of the EU's single market for goods in a bid to avoid creating a hard border with the Irish Republic.\n\nIn parallel with talks over a post-Brexit trade deal, the UK and EU are negotiating the precise nature of new customs checks that will be required.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has accused Downing Street of \"reopening old arguments that had been settled\" and said the government should instead focus on securing a deal with the EU.\n\nFormer Conservative PM Theresa May warned the legislation could damage \"trust\" in the UK over future trade deals with other states.\n\nAnd French MEP Nathalie Loiseau said: \"The prime minister has promised to put a tiger in the tank in the negotiations. It seems for the time being he is putting an elephant in the china shop.\"\n• None What are the sticking points in Brexit trade talks?", "The quake was felt at about 09:45 BST in the town of Leighton Buzzard\n\nAn earthquake with a magnitude 3.3 has been felt across several towns in England.\n\nPeople living in Leighton Buzzard and Dunstable, Bedfordshire, and Milton Keynes and Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire said they felt it at about 09:45 BST.\n\nCarly Jan Smith, 31, in Dunstable, said it was \"really strong\" and lasted for about two seconds. Her whole room went from \"side to side\", she said.\n\nThe British Geological Survey said it struck just north of Leighton Buzzard.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by British Geological Survey This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBedfordshire Police said there were no reports of injuries, although it had received a large number of calls.\n\nAcross the border in Buckinghamshire, Thames Valley Police tweeted that is was not a major incident, adding that \"extra resources have been drafted in to clean up the mess created by the duty inspector's coffee\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDr Richard Luckett, of the British Geological Survey, confirmed the quake, saying: \"It was very minor on a global scale, but still quite large for the UK.\n\n\"We get about two of these a year.\"\n\nHe said there was a slight chance of aftershocks \"but they are very likely not to be felt\".\n\nBritish Geological has released the seismograms for the Leighton Buzzard 3.3 magnitude event\n\nJohn Yorke, a computer programmer in Woburn Sands, Bedfordshire, said: \"It felt like one subtle jolt to the house which made the windows vibrate.\n\n\"My initial thought was to look out of the window expecting to see a car had crashed into our property. I haven't felt anything like it before.\"\n\nMs Smith of Dunstable told BBC Three Counties Radio: \"I was in my room and I thought my stepdad was doing something in the garage because the whole room just went from side to side, really strongly.\n\n\"It was like the foundation beneath me had kind of jolted.\"\n\nKaren Cursons, a 56-year-old town councillor, added: \"We've been in Leighton Buzzard for 34 years and I have never felt anything like that.\"\n\nChristine Sawyer, who lives in a mobile home in Caddington, said it had left her \"really scared\" as she feared her property had broken off its mooring.\n\n\"The whole place shook, it felt like something had hit the side of the home,\" she said. \"My dog shot out of her chair.\"\n\nGavin Prechner was working from home in Leighton Buzzard.\n\nHe said: \"It felt like a car had crashed into my house, but then the rumbling and shaking continued.\n\n\"No damage to report apart from a hairline crack in the paint work in my upstairs office and some pictures looking wonky on the wall.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government's most senior lawyer is to quit his post over plans which could modify the Brexit withdrawal agreement.\n\nIt is understood Sir Jonathan Jones, permanent secretary to the Government Legal Department, was unhappy with a new bill to be unveiled on Wednesday.\n\nHe has resigned and will leave his post before his five-year term was due to end next April.\n\nHe is the sixth senior civil servant to announce his exit this year.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said Sir Jonathan believed the plans went too far in breaching the government's obligations under international law.\n\nA spokesman for the Attorney General's Office confirmed Sir Jonathan had resigned but did not comment further.\n\nThe Financial Times, which first reported the story, linked his departure to \"suggestions that Boris Johnson is trying to row back on parts of last year's Brexit deal relating to Northern Ireland\".\n\nThe newspaper added people \"close to Sir Jonathan said he was 'very unhappy' about the decision to overwrite parts of the Northern Ireland protocol\".\n\nThe resignation comes as the UK government is due to unveil an Internal Market Bill that could affect post-Brexit customs and trade rules in Northern Ireland.\n\nUnder the UK's exit deal, Northern Ireland is due to stay part of the EU's single market for goods in a bid to avoid creating a hard border with the Irish Republic.\n\nIn parallel with talks over a post-Brexit trade deal, the UK and EU are negotiating the precise nature of new customs checks that will be required.\n\nOn Tuesday, Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis said the bill would provide the UK with a \"safety net\" in case the talks to iron out border arrangements fail.\n\nHe told MPs the bill would break international law in a \"very specific and limited way\" by giving UK ministers the power to override EU law in \"tightly defined circumstances\" if border negotiations broke down.\n\nBut he insisted the UK's \"leading priority\" was to try to work out the application of the protocol through negotiation with the EU.\n\nWhether you loathe the government's abrasive style or love its ruthlessness, far from seeking a peaceful conclusion to Brexit, for No 10 there are plenty of fights still to have.\n\nAnd that may mean accelerating the number of top civil servants who are cleared out - or clear off of their own volition.\n\nSix permanent secretaries - who head government departments - have gone now.\n\nGiven the importance of the principle of the rule of law, one former permanent secretary told me Jonathan Jones' departure is \"absolutely massive, by far the most important yet\".\n\nAnd few at Westminster believe there won't be more to come.\n\nRead more from Laura here.\n\nSir Jonathan is the latest permanent secretary - a senior civil servant leading a government department - to leave office this year.\n\nRowena Collins Rice, director general at the Attorney General's Office, will also be leaving her post, the government confirmed earlier on Tuesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Kim Darroch: \"The idea that you could unilaterally rewrite part of the agreement is just unacceptable\"\n\nShe is expected to take up a new public role. Her departure was the result of a \"process dating back several months,\" officials said.\n\nAt the beginning of September, Simon Case was appointed as cabinet secretary and head of the civil service, after his predecessor Sir Mark Sedwill stood down.\n\nSir Mark's exit followed reports of tensions between him and senior members of Mr Johnson's team.\n\nSir Jonathan, who is a QC, was knighted in December 2019 for his legal services to the government. The honour recognised his work on constitutional issues and the EU Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nIn response to Sir Jonathan's resignation, the shadow attorney general, Lord Charlie Falconer, said he was \"an impressive lawyer and a loyal civil servant\".\n\nHe added: \"If he can't stay in public service, there must be something very rotten about this government. This resignation indicates that senior government lawyers think that the government is about to break the law.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat Brexit spokesperson Christine Jardine said it was \"unsurprising\" Sir Jonathan has resigned, given the government's approach.\n\n\"Any government figure of any integrity would be appalled at these plans,\" she added.\n\nDave Penman, general secretary of the FDA union - which represents senior civil servants - said both ministers and officials were obliged to uphold the rule of law.\n\n\"It's extraordinary that the government's most senior legal adviser has decided he has no choice but to resign over an issue that he presumably believes conflicts with his own and ministerial obligations,\" he added.", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman jailed in Iran, has been told she has to face another trial.\n\nThe charity worker is nearing the end of her five-year sentence for spying charges, which she has always denied.\n\nIranian state media said she was brought before a revolutionary court in the country's capital Tehran on Tuesday morning.\n\nThe Foreign Office said the new charge, which has not been made public, was \"indefensible and unacceptable\".\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested in April 2016 while travelling to visit her parents with her young British-born daughter, Gabriella.\n\nThe dual national was sentenced to five years in prison over allegations of plotting to overthrow the Iranian government, which she denies.\n\nEarlier this year, she was given temporary leave from prison because of the coronavirus outbreak and has been living at her parents' house with an ankle tag.\n\nBefore her arrest, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe lived in London with her husband Richard.\n\nHer MP, Tulip Siddiq, said she had spoken to Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe. \"I've been in touch with Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and can confirm that she was taken to court this morning and told she will face another trial on Sunday,\" she said.\n\n\"I know many people are concerned about her welfare and I'll keep everyone updated when we have more information.\n\n\"This is an extremely worrying development, and I know many people are concerned about Nazanin's welfare.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband describes how his daughter Gabriella is coping without her mother\n\nThe MP added: \"The last four years have been excruciating for her husband Richard and her daughter Gabriella, who is growing up without a mother.\n\n\"The United Nations have recognised Nazanin's imprisonment as arbitrary and unlawful, and any further court case is clearly unacceptable.\"\n\nMr Ratcliffe has previously expressed fears that she could face a second court case when her sentence ends.\n\nHe said she and other dual nationals are being held hostage because Iran wants the UK to pay a decades-old debt over an arms deal that was never fulfilled.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why one mother's personal plight is part of a complicated history between Iran and the UK (video published August 2019 and last updated in October 2019)\n\nThe human rights group, Amnesty International, said it appeared Iranian authorities were \"playing cruel political games with Nazanin\".\n\n\"Nazanin has already been convicted once after a deeply unfair trial, and there should be no question of her being put through that ordeal again,\" the charity's UK director Kate Allen said.\n\n\"As a matter of absolute urgency the UK government should make fresh representations on Nazanin's behalf, seeking to have any suggestion of a second trial removed.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office said in a statement: \"Iran bringing new charges against Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is indefensible and unacceptable.\n\nWe have been consistently clear that she must not be returned to prison.\"\n\nFormer Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt tweeted: \"Nazanin has already served most of her sentence for a crime she didn't commit.\n\n\"This is hostage diplomacy and Iran needs to know that Britain will not stand for it.\"\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's family and the UK government have always maintained her innocence and she has been given diplomatic protection by the Foreign Office - meaning the case is treated as a formal, legal dispute between Britain and Iran.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Richard Ratcliffe said he pushed the PM to be \"brave\" in regards to Iran", "If you have travelled on a motorway in the UK, there's a good chance you stopped at a Roadchef services\n\nA widow is calling on the UK government to act to allow thousands of victims of a share scandal to finally receive tax-free compensation.\n\nWorkers at Roadchef motorway services won a legal battle in 2014 after losing millions when shares in an employee scheme were transferred.\n\nIt then emerged a further £10m had been taken in taxes.\n\nIn 2018, that cash was returned - but a continuing dispute with tax officials means no full payout has been made.\n\nHM Revenue and Customs said it was working to bring the case to a conclusion.\n\n\"There's a lot of people who've died and haven't had the money,\" said Eleanor Nicholls, from Llanelli in Carmarthenshire.\n\nHer husband Michael was one of the workers who should have benefited.\n\nHe was one of more than 200 beneficiaries in Wales alone - with over 4,000 across the UK due payouts from the share scheme.\n\nHe worked for 18 years at the Pont Abraham Roadchef services, where the M4 ends at junction 49.\n\nBut the former steelworker died in February 2010 from lung cancer aged 68.\n\nMore than 10 years on, Eleanor is still waiting for the compensation.\n\nMichael Nicholls died aged 68 - his wife is still waiting for the share benefit payments he was due\n\nBack in 1998, when the scandal was uncovered, the GMB union estimated average payouts from the share scheme should have been about £90,000 for eligible workers.\n\nMost got about £2,300 at the time.\n\n\"We both worked tirelessly to put money aside for our children's future,\" said Eleanor, who is now 74, as she reflected on the decade since her husband died.\n\n\"I worked in a care home and he did the night shift at Roadchef so there was always someone in the house to look after my elderly mother, who was starting to get dementia.\n\n\"Ten years ago, we'd needed a break and managed to get to Spain.\n\n\"Michael was taken ill when we were away but I thought it was the hot weather.\n\n\"When we came home he went to have a chest X-ray and the doctor called me in and told me 'your husband is a very sick man'. It was two tumours, one on the lung and one on the brain.\n\n\"He only lasted six weeks.\"\n\nThere were more hard blows to follow for Eleanor and her family.\n\n\"Months later my mother died. All the money we'd saved for our retirement had to go to pay for the two funerals,\" she said.\n\n\"The money from Roadchef would have really helped.\n\n\"It could have eased the stress and anxiety at wondering if I could afford to stay in the home that myself, Michael and our family had worked so hard for over all these years, and the beautiful memories that we shared there.\"\n\nRoadchef is the third largest roadside services firm in the UK, operating sites such as Pont Abraham where Michael Nicholls worked\n\nIn 1986, the managing director of the motorway service chain was Patrick Gee.\n\nHe wanted to see workers benefit from an employee share scheme - where workers have a share of the ownership - not unlike how retailers such as John Lewis operate.\n\nHe established what was due to become the UK's very first Employee Share Ownership Plan - where staff could earn shares in the firm based on their length of service.\n\nBut then the Roadchef head died unexpectedly at the age of just 43.\n\nHis successor was Timothy Igram Hill, who managed to take control of the employees' shares, making him an estimated £27m when he sold the company to Japanese investors in 1998.\n\nBut the company secretary at the time, Tim Warwick, blew the whistle on his boss, and spent the next quarter of century helping those who had lost out from his home in Penarth in the Vale of Glamorgan.\n\nSadly he died suddenly in August in hospital in Cardiff, without seeing the dispute fully resolved.\n\nThe fight had also been taken up by the trust that that had originally been established to manage the scheme for the workers - and the Roadchef Employees Benefits Trust Limited (REBTL) sued Mr Igram Hill.\n\nWhile there was no suggestion he had acted illegally, in January 2014 the High Court ruled that Mr Ingram Hill had breached his fiduciary duty to Roadchef employees.\n\nAn out-of-court settlement was reached between him and REBTL in 2015, with hopes the matter was then resolved.\n\nBut then it emerged £10m of the share money had been handed over to HM Revenue and Customs.\n\nHM Revenue and Customs remains in dispute over compensation\n\nLegislation passed in 2003 should have meant employee share schemes like this are tax free.\n\nBut because the cash assets had already been taken from the original scheme five years earlier, it appeared the Roadchef workers had fallen through a legal gap.\n\nThen in 2018, HMRC returned the taxed cash to the trustees.\n\nHowever, a dispute still remains: Should those due to receive compensation be expected to pay tax individually on those payments?\n\nNo say the beneficiaries, backed by campaigners, trustees and a group of cross-party MPs.\n\nUntil this matter is finally resolved, the victims of this scandal are still waiting - 25 years after it happened.\n\nStill waiting: Eleanor Nicholls wants the dispute to be resolved after 25 years\n\n\"Michael died 10 years ago and I've been fighting all this time to get what's owed,\" she said.\n\n\"It's upsetting for me to have this all in my mind and re-do it all again. There's so much pressure on me. I get letters and think 'is this it? Has it finally been sorted out?'\n\n\"But all the letters say is 'sorry, sorry'. It's frustrating. I try to put it at the back of my mind, but it's hard.\n\n\"Bring it to an end, that's what I'd say to the government. We can't keep going on month after month, year after year like this.\n\n\"My husband's not here to see it and he would have just wanted to enjoy ourselves.\"\n\nShe has had the backing of her local MP, Labour Shadow Welsh Secretary Nia Griffith: \"Former Roadchef workers and their families, like Mrs Nicholls, need to get this money that is owed to them as soon as possible.\n\nThe share fund dispute is \"scandalous\" says Llanelli MP Nia Griffith\n\n\"It is scandalous that they have had to wait so long.\"\n\nThe company Roadchef said the share scheme trust established in the 1980s operates independently and it is not involved in the management of REBTL. It stressed it continues to \"support the trustees' efforts to resolve this matter\".\n\nA statement on the firm's website added: \"Subsequent delays relating to taxation have been a source of frustration for all concerned, and we hope to see a resolution as soon as possible.\"\n\nAn official for HM Revenue and Customs told BBC Wales: \"Due to taxpayer confidentiality, we cannot comment on the specifics of the case, but are working to bring it to a conclusion.\"", "A quadcopter has been recorded releasing a payload of little bags, which Israeli police suspect contained \"a dangerous drug\", over Tel Aviv.\n\nIt followed activists who seek to legalise the drug in Israel promising free cannabis from the air on social media.\n\nWhile medical use of cannabis is permitted in the country, recreational use remains illegal.", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nRaheem Sterling's late penalty gave England victory as they started their Uefa Nations League campaign in Iceland - despite the hosts squandering the chance to rescue a point by missing an injury-time spot-kick.\n\nIn an chaotic end to a largely dull encounter, Sterling looked to have secured three points for manager Gareth Southgate's side when he rolled in an 89th-minute spot-kick after his shot was handled by Sverrir Ingason, who was then sent off after receiving a second yellow card.\n\nEngland, who had earlier been reduced to 10 men after Kyle Walker was also sent off for second yellow card, had to survive that last-gasp scare when Iceland were awarded a penalty for Joe Gomez's foul but Birkir Bjarnason was wildly off target.\n\nEngland made hard work of the win against a stubborn and well-organised Iceland but were the better and more positive side.\n\nSouthgate's team, playing their first game since the 4-0 win in Kosovo in November, showed understandable rustiness with the Premier League restart still a week away and England were frustrated further when Walker was dismissed for a second yellow card with 20 minutes left.\n\nWalker's recall was marred by his challenge on Arnor Traustason - but England had an even bigger cause for complaint when an early goal from captain Harry Kane was ruled out for offside. There was no VAR for this game and replays showed Kane was onside as he pounced on Sterling's left-wing cross.\n\nThis was a lifeless affair behind closed doors against the side who humiliated England at Euro 2016 and Southgate will have learned little despite giving a debut to Manchester City's Phil Foden and introducing Manchester United teenage striker Mason Greenwood for his debut late on - but he will take the victory before Tuesday's game in Denmark.\n• None How you rated the players\n\nThere was very little positive for England in this match other than the victory itself but it must also be placed in the context of when this game was being played and its circumstances.\n\nThis was almost like a behind-closed-doors pre-season friendly in an international guise so it comes as no surprise that England lacked the sort of sharpness and inspiration that would have come with more match practice.\n\nSouthgate will have been delighted to give Foden the first of many England caps while Greenwood will also have enjoyed his taste of international action during his cameo after coming on as a substitute for Kane.\n\nSterling calmly rolled in the penalty that eventually gave England their opening Nations League win but Southgate will not have welcomed Walker's rash challenge, irrespective of the level of contact, that brought him his second yellow card and the clumsy foul by Gomez that almost threw Iceland that injury-time lifeline.\n\nEngland, as a plus, were patient and probing and, despite the colourless nature of the game, deserved the win, even though it arrived so late.\n\nEngland move on to face Denmark in Copenhagen on Tuesday buoyed by these opening three points and Southgate will have been delighted to spend so much time with his players after the international hiatus as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe was able to watch some of the younger players he introduced into the squad at close quarters and may be able to see them in England action once more against the Danes.\n\nIceland were defiant, as they always are, rigid in defence and lacking in attacking ambition, willing to simply keep England at arm's length and maybe land a counter-punch.\n\nThey almost did with that late penalty but England survived to make a winning restart to their international calendar.\n• None All three of England's victories in the Nations League have been by a different one-goal margin (3-2 v Spain, 2-1 v Croatia, 1-0 v Iceland).\n• None Iceland have lost all five of their Nations League games by an aggregate score of 1-14.\n• None Iceland failed to have a single shot on target in this match, while Sterling's winning penalty was England's only attempt on target in the second half.\n• None Sterling's goal was his 13th in all competitions for England, but his first from the penalty spot. He has had a hand in 17 goals in his last 12 appearances for England (11 goals, 6 assists).\n• None Danny Ings made his first appearance for England since October 2015 - 1,790 days ago. It is the longest gap between England games for an outfield player since Lee Dixon went 1,911 days between 1993 and 1999.\n• None Walker became the first England player to be sent off since Sterling v Ecuador in June 2014.\n• None Greenwood and Foden both made their England debuts in this match - it is the first time a Manchester United and a Manchester City player have earned their first England caps in the same game since September 1992 v Spain (Paul Ince and David White).\n• None Penalty missed! Bad penalty by Birkir Bjarnason (Iceland) right footed shot is just a bit too high. Birkir Bjarnason should be disappointed.\n• None Joseph Gomez (England) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Penalty conceded by Joseph Gomez (England) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Goal! Iceland 0, England 1. Raheem Sterling (England) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.\n• None Second yellow card to Sverrir Ingason (Iceland) for hand ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Raheem Sterling (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Penalty conceded by Sverrir Ingason (Iceland) with a hand ball in the penalty area.\n• None Offside, Iceland. Birkir Bjarnason tries a through ball, but Jón Dadi Bödvarsson is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Outsourcing firm Capita is to close over a third of its offices in the UK permanently, the BBC understands.\n\nThe firm, which is a major government contractor, is to end its leases on almost 100 workplaces.\n\nBusiness lobby group CBI has warned that the fall in office working is damaging city centre economies.\n\nIt comes as the government prepares to launch an advertising campaign encouraging more people to return to workplaces.\n\nThe BBC understands that Capita, which manages London's congestion charge, has been looking at various measures to help it simplify its business for some time, such as embracing more flexible working, which is supported by its employees.\n\nSo far, Capita has decided not to renew leases on 25 offices.\n\nA Capita spokesman said: \"We take seriously the responsibilities we have to the communities in which we operate and are mindful of the impact that potential office closures could have on small businesses.\n\n\"Capita's 45,000 employees work in offices spread right across towns and cities in the UK - we are committed to that continuing both now and in the long term.\n\n\"Following dialogue with our employees it has become very clear that they would like to work in a more flexible way, which will involve increased working from home, but they will still spend a significant amount of their time working from offices that are based in the heart of our local communities.\"\n\nAccording to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), which represents HR professionals, there was a taboo around flexible working prior to the pandemic - but seeing how employees worked from home during the coronavirus lockdown has opened the eyes of many employers.\n\nFlexible working is no longer viewed as being taboo by employers, showing a shift from \"presenteeism\"\n\n\"It's the biggest experiment we've ever had in homeworking,\" the CIPD's chief executive Peter Cheese told the BBC in an interview in July. \"Bosses are starting to shift towards judging output, rather than the number of hours spent in front of the computer.\"\n\nA recent BBC study found 50 major UK employers had no plans to return all staff to the office full time.\n\nWhile Prime Minister Boris Johnson is keen to reassure the public that it is safe for more people to return to workplaces, the CIPD is more circumspect about ensuring that employees do not feel pressured to do so.\n\nThe CIPD wants employers to consider:\n\n\"Working from home has proved to be a great success for many individuals and organisations. Recent CIPD research found that a majority of employers believe that homeworkers are either as productive as other workers, or more productive,\" said Mr Cheese.\n\n\"However, it's important that all employers take steps to support their employees' mental health and address concerns they may have while they work from home.\"\n\nThe CIPD says managers should be regularly checking in with their staff, discussing their well-being and wherever possible, ensuring decisions over working from home or returning to the workplace \"are based on individual choice and preference\".\n\nBut the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) warned this week that the thousands of local businesses relying on the passing trade of office workers are suffering.\n\nCity centres could become \"ghost towns\" if employees do not return to work, stressed CBI boss Dame Carolyn Fairbairn.\n\nBoth the CBI and the CIPD are in favour of using effective test and trace systems.\n\nHowever, an increasing number of employers say that home working - which was initially brought in as a temporary measure in lockdown - could become a more permanent state of affairs.\n\nLloyds Bank is reviewing its office space needs after concluding its staff worked well from home during lockdown\n\nThe law firm Linklaters said this week that all of its 5,300 staff could spend up to 50% of their time working remotely from now on.\n\nLloyds Banking Group is reviewing its office space needs and working practices after concluding that most of its 65,000 staff have worked effectively from home during the crisis.\n\nOthers including NatWest, Fujitsu, Facebook, Twitter and HSBC have also said they plan to allow much more flexible working in future.\n\nExperts say it could allow firms to cut their rent and utilities costs, while offering employees a better work-life balance.\n\nHowever, the CIPD doesn't feel that masses of white-collar workers will end up working from home permanently as a cost-cutting measure.\n\nInstead, it thinks office spaces will become places where just some staff are based, or that employees work in the office at different times and on different days on a rotation, and that the office space will be used more for face-to-face meetings.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland pulled off a remarkable fightback to beat Australia by two runs in a thrilling first Twenty20 at the Ageas Bowl.\n\nChasing 163, Australia were cruising to victory, needing just 39 from 38 balls with nine wickets remaining.\n\nBut the dismissal of Steve Smith, one of two wickets to fall in Adil Rashid's final over, sparked a collapse of 4-9 in 14 deliveries.\n\nAshton Agar was run out off the final ball of the penultimate over, leaving the tourists needing 15 from the final six balls.\n\nMarcus Stoinis hit a six from the second delivery of Tom Curran's over but still needed five from the final ball. Curran perfectly executed a yorker to see England take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.\n\nEngland had earlier been grateful for 66 from Dawid Malan and 44 from Jos Buttler in their underwhelming 162-7.\n\nThe second match at the same ground is on Sunday, live on BBC One from 13:50 BST.\n• None Relive thrilling finish and watch the best moments\n\nEngland's bowling improved significantly from the beginning of the Australia innings but they were only able to take victory thanks to an implosion by the tourists.\n\nOpener David Warner and Aaron Finch plundered the bowling to begin with. putting on 98 as Mark Wood and Jofra Archer bowled too short - the batsmen repeatedly hitting fours square off the back foot.\n\nEven when Finch hit Archer to long-off to fall for 46, Smith looked comfortable. He pulled his first ball - a 94mph delivery from Wood - for four.\n\nWhat followed was remarkable. Smith top-edged a sweep off Rashid when on 18 and Maxwell hit the final ball of the leg-spinner's spell to extra cover - an error which proved crucial.\n\nWarner departed for 56 two balls later - bowled off his pads by Archer - and in the following over Alex Carey was bowled by a fast delivery from Wood.\n\nThe wickets fell and runs dried up. There was not a boundary hit after a Smith six in the 14th over until Stoinis' big hit over extra cover with five balls left.\n\nStoinis had attempted to play himself in, backing himself to hit the required runs from the final over. He cleared the ropes once but also missed two other deliveries trying to power the ball away. Curran held his nerve where the Australia all-rounder did not.\n\nThis was Australia's first competitive match for almost six months because of the coronavirus pandemic, one mitigating factor.\n\nEngland's total did not look enough at halfway, never mind when Warner and Finch were were seemingly racing to victory.\n\nButtler had given England a quick start, seven boundaries coming in his 29-ball knock, including two straight sixes off spinner Ashton Agar in a second over that went for 16 runs.\n\nEngland were 64-1 when Buttler hit leg-spinner Adam Zampa to deep mid-wicket and afterwards had a collapse of their own. Eoin Morgan's side lost 5-60 as canny Australia bowling, largely spin and slower balls, proved effective.\n\nIt was left to Malan, retained in his position at number three, to muster a testing score for the hosts.\n\nAs wickets fell around him he was calm. He batted with relative composure until launching an attack against Zampa in the 18th over. He hit two sixes - one over mid-wicket and one over long-off - in an over that cost 22 and boosted England's failing innings.\n\nIt was Malan's eighth score of 50 or more in 14 T20 internationals.\n\nEngland still have players to come back - Jason Roy and Ben Stokes were missing from this game - but Malan, who made a match-winning knock in the second T20 against Pakistan, is fast making himself undroppable.\n\n'Our bowlers bailed us out' - what they said\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan: \"We didn't bat particularly well tonight - Dawid and Jos did. We should have got more runs.\n\n\"Our bowlers bailed us out. The bowlers really came good in the last eight overs. I'm delighted the guys showed belief and courage to try to take wickets. It was great that we stuck to our guns.\n\n\"Tom Curran followed on from a fantastic winter. It's great to see him calm in execution in the past few overs.\"\n\nEngland bowler Tom Curran: \"That's why we train. You want to be given the ball in the tough moments and try to stand up when the team needs you. I'm really pleased to get over the line.\n\n\"Morgan is unbelievable. He's been the world's best captain for a number of years. He's calm. He backs us. He's class.\"\n\nAustralia captain Aaron Finch: \"We knew England would keep coming hard and we probably struggled to find the boundary in that 12 to 18-over mark. That's something to work on.\n\n\"I would probably be more critical of myself and Davey, who got us off to a good start but couldn't go on to make the match-winning contribution.\"\n\nMan of the match Dawid Malan: \"I don't know what the secret is, but it's working so far.\n\n\"This white-ball team has been the strongest England have ever had. I don't know where I slot in.\"\n• None What do they really think about the return to school?", "Police and anti-immigration protesters have clashed outside the entrance to Dover harbour.\n\nAt one point, several officers restrained a person on the ground and in total 10 people were arrested.\n\nIt came as rival protests over migrants reaching the UK in small boats took place in the town.\n\nThe Kent Anti-Racism Network said it wanted to show \"solidarity\" with refugees, while opposing groups want \"to protect Britain's border\".\n\nA message was beamed on to the White Cliffs overnight by humanitarian charity Freedom From Torture.\n\nIt read: \"Rise above fear. Refugees welcome.\"\n\nPolice concentrated their officers in Market Square and at the railway station, and officers on horseback are also monitoring the situation.\n\nA group of about 60 people shouting \"freedom\" moved along Dover seafront, with many wearing Union flag masks and carrying flags.\n\nBut, addressing a crowd of about 100, Peter Keenan from Kent Refugee Help said when society sees people who are fleeing war and turns them away \"that says something about the state of your society\".\n\nHe continued: \"We are not those people.\"\n\nThe protest was in response to migrants crossing the Channel in boats\n\nIn a tweet, the Port of Dover had warned there was disruption on the A20 because of the protest and advised the local community to consider alternative routes and travellers to allow plenty of time for their journeys.\n\nProtesters blocked the dual carriageway in both directions, leaving traffic at a standstill, with some singing Rule, Britannia! as they marched towards the town.\n\nThere were further clashes with a group of at least 50 police officers by the A20.\n\nOfficers moved protesters along the road towards the town centre.\n\nBy about 15:00 BST, all protesters had largely dispersed with the last few pushed towards the train station.\n\nAt least 5,196 people have crossed the English Channel in about 318 boats in 2020.\n\nA sign was beamed on to the cliffs by campaigners\n\nPolice made ten arrests in total, on suspicion of racially aggravated public order, violent disorder and assaulting an emergency worker.\n\nOfficers said inquiries were ongoing to identify any further offences.\n\nBefore the protests, Ch Supt Nigel Brooks said: \"As a force, it is our responsibility to facilitate peaceful protests, however we will not tolerate violence or disorder.\"\n\nIt is thought groups from across the country travelled to Dover.\n\nProtesters gathered around the A20 and the harbour\n\nDover MP Natalie Elphicke had urged people to \"stay away\" to prevent a second wave of coronavirus.\n\nA Home Office spokeswoman said it had been aware of the protests and had contingency plans in place to minimise any potential disruption.\n\nFigures compiled by the BBC show at least 5,196 people crossed the Channel in about 318 boats in 2020.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alain Cocq, 57, suffers from a rare illness which causes the walls of his arteries to stick together\n\nFacebook says it will block a Frenchman suffering from an incurable condition from livestreaming his own death.\n\nAlain Cocq, 57, planned to broadcast his final days after starting to refuse food, drink and medicine on Saturday.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron had earlier denied his request for euthanasia.\n\nMr Cocq wants the law changed in France to allow terminally ill people to die as they wish. Some groups, including the Catholic Church, oppose euthanasia on moral grounds.\n\n\"The road to deliverance begins and believe me, I am happy,\" Mr Cocq posted on Facebook early on Saturday morning from his bed at home in Dijon, after announcing he had \"finished his last meal\".\n\n\"I know the days ahead are going to be difficult but I have made my decision and I am calm,\" he added.\n\nMr Cocq suffers from a degenerative disease, which causes the walls of his arteries to stick together.\n\nBut Facebook blocked the plan to livestream his death, stating that it did not allow portrayals of suicide.\n\n\"Although we respect [Mr Cocq's] decision to want to draw attention to this complex question, following expert advice we have taken measures to prevent the live broadcast on Alain's account,\" a Facebook spokesman told the AFP news agency.\n\n\"Our rules do not allow us to show suicide attempts.\"\n\nMr Cocq posts from his bed, where he is confined\n\nMr Cocq said Facebook was blocking his broadcasts until 8 September. He called upon his supporters to lobby the social media platform to change its stance.\n\n\"It is up to you now,\" he said.\n\nIn July, Mr Cocq penned a letter to Mr Macron, asking the president to allow him to die \"with dignity,\" describing his \"extremely violent suffering\".\n\nMr Macron said he was \"moved\" by the letter, but could not grant the request as he was \"not situated above the law\".\n\nEuthanasia is a controversial topic in France, with many supporting a right to die with dignity, while others - particularly religious conservatives - have opposed calls for its decriminalisation.", "The premises licence holder failed to co-operate fully, the council said\n\nA bar has been ordered to shut for \"blatantly disregarding\" social distancing measures.\n\nWolverhampton City Council said Blossoms in the city centre \"regularly failed to identify and implement adequate control measures\".\n\nCapacity levels at the venue in North Street have been \"continually exceeded\", the local authority added.\n\nThe bar's licence holder also failed to co-operate with the police and the council, officers said.\n\nOfficers at the council will work with the venue to \"implement a scenario where the premises can safely reopen\".\n\nCouncillor Steve Evans said: \"The licence holder's actions are causing a serious and imminent threat to public health.\n\n\"The closure of the premises is in response to regular and serious breaches of social distancing as well as other inadequate controls resulting in the potential spread of coronavirus.\"\n\nHe said the council was taking a \"zero-tolerance approach to those who flout the rules\".\n\nSupt Simon Inglis said: \"We do not make decisions to support such closure action lightly as we recognise the impact on the local economy and the wider community.\n\n\"However, it is absolutely clear that the way the venue is currently being run presents a significant risk to public health and preventing further harm has to take priority.\"\n\nFigures show the number of coronavirus cases in Wolverhampton for the week to 31 August was 27, down from 45 the seven days prior.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Portugal had previously been removed from the UK's quarantine list on 20 August\n\nTravellers arriving in Scotland from Portugal will have to self-isolate for 14 days under new quarantine rules that came into force on Saturday morning.\n\nScotland and Wales have added the country to their \"quarantine list\" - while England and Northern Ireland have not.\n\nUK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said it was a confusing position but the Scottish government insisted it was acting on scientific advice.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do I quarantine after returning from abroad?\n\nThe rules became effective from 04:00.\n\nFrench Polynesia is also now on Scotland's list of countries requiring quarantine, while self-isolation rules for Greece have been operating since Thursday.\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the decision to add Portugal came after coronavirus cases there rose above 20 per 100,000 of the population.\n\nMr Yousaf said: \"We are in the midst of a global pandemic and the situation in many countries can change suddenly.\n\n\"Therefore, people should think very hard before committing to non-essential travel abroad.\n\n\"With Scotland's relatively low infection rate, importation of new cases is a significant risk to public health.\"\n\nThe Scottish government was also closely monitoring the situation in Gibraltar, he added.\n\nBut the move was questioned by UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps who told the BBC the Scottish government had decided to \"jump the gun\" earlier in the week by adding Greece to its quarantine list without using data from the Joint Biosecurity Centre (JBC).\n\nOn Portugal, he said the decision had failed to take into account the increased level of testing. He said the positivity rate - the proportion of positive tests - was lower than it was when Portugal was added to the travel corridor list.\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish government, however, said Mr Shapps made his decision to keep Portugal on the travel corridor list before studying the latest JBC data.\n\nTravellers returning to Scotland will be required to self-isolate even if they have flown back to an airport in England.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson later downplayed the difference between UK nations when questioned during a visit to the West Midlands.\n\nWhile conceding the devolved administrations sometimes have different approaches, he insisted the UK was \"proceeding as one\".\n\n\"I think you will find if you dig below the surface of some of the surface differentiations you will find overwhelmingly the UK takes the same approach,\" he said.", "Police are treating the fire outside Allan McGregor's home as deliberate\n\nA police investigation is under way after a car belonging to Rangers player Allan McGregor was deliberately set on fire in the driveway outside his home.\n\nThe incident happened on Thursday at about 22:40 at the goalkeeper's house in the outskirts of Glasgow.\n\nA total of three fire engines were sent to the incident to extinguish the flames. No one was injured.\n\nPolice Scotland said the fire was \"being treated as wilful\" and its investigation was ongoing.\n\nIn a statement the force said they were made aware of the vehicle fire outside a property on Thursday night.\n\nThey added: \"The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service attended, nobody was injured and the fire is being treated as wilful.\n\n\"Inquiries are ongoing. Anyone with any information about this incident is asked to contact Police Scotland on 101 quoting incident number 3735 of 3 September.\"", "Jerusalem's Hadassah hospital has been recruiting recovered Covid-19 patients to volunteer inside its coronavirus wards to help patients there.\n\nUnder the pilot scheme, they visit patients in moderate or serious condition, who would otherwise be in isolation. The volunteers help the patients eat or just lend a listening ear.\n\nThe hospital believes the project to be the first of its kind in the world. And it is likely to be closely watched, given the still unclear science on how much antibody immunity recovered Covid-19 patients have.", "A notice in the window of the Pollokshaws Road KFC restaurant that has temporarily closed\n\nA branch of KFC in Glasgow has been closed after six members of staff tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe fast food restaurant on Pollokshaws Road has been shut for two weeks as a precaution, the company confirmed.\n\nAll of the affected staff are currently self-isolating at home and KFC said it has been liaising with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.\n\nA notice posted on the window of the branch said it was currently closed due to a \"technical issue\".\n\nThe outbreak comes after restrictions on movements were reintroduced in Glasgow on Wednesday after a spike in cases in the area.\n\nA spokesman for KFC said: \"Six team members at our Pollokshaws restaurant have tested positive for coronavirus.\n\n\"They're currently self-isolating at home in line with government guidance and it goes without saying we're wishing them a full and speedy recovery.\n\n\"We've been in close contact with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and we've taken the decision to close the restaurant for two weeks as a precaution.\"\n• None FM warns that virus is spreading again in Scotland", "City centres could become \"ghost towns\" if the prime minister does not do more to encourage workers to go back to the office, the head of the CBI says.\n\nDame Carolyn Fairbairn said allowing staff to work from home had helped keep firms afloat during the pandemic.\n\nBut as offices stood empty, thousands of local businesses that relied on the passing trade were suffering, she said.\n\nIt comes as a BBC study found 50 major UK employers had no plans to return all staff to the office full time.\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, Dame Carolyn said the UK's offices were \"vital drivers\" of the economy, supporting thousands of local firms, from dry cleaners to sandwich bars.\n\n\"The costs of office closure are becoming clearer by the day. Some of our busiest city centres resemble ghost towns, missing the usual bustle of passing trade.\n\n\"This comes at a high price for local businesses, jobs and communities,\" she said.\n\nShe said getting people back into offices and workplaces should be \"as important\" as the return to school, and directly appealed to Boris Johnson to \"do more to build confidence\".\n\nThis could include using \"effective test and trace\" systems or a campaign to encourage commuters back on to public transport.\n\nIn July, the government dropped its formal advice that people should work from home if possible. At the time, Boris Johnson told people to \"start to go back to work now if you can\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHowever, an increasing number of employers say that home working - which was initially brought in as a temporary measure in lockdown - could become a more permanent state of affairs.\n\nThe law firm Linklaters said this week that all of its 5,300 staff could spend up to 50% of their time working remotely from now on.\n\nLloyds Banking Group is reviewing its office space needs and working practices after concluding that most of its 65,000 staff have worked effectively from home during the crisis.\n\nOthers including NatWest, Fujitsu, Facebook, Twitter and HSBC have also said they plan to allow much more flexible working in future.\n\nExperts say it could allow firms to cut their rent and utilities costs, while offering employees a better work-life balance.\n\nDame Carolyn acknowledged home working had worked well for many and was likely to remain \"an option\".\n\nBut she warned of \"serious downsides\" including a lack of opportunities to train young people and foster better work and productivity in certain types of business.\n\nThe impact on local businesses has also been stark. Sandwich chain Pret a Manger - which relies on a lunchtime work crowd - said in June it was shutting 30 outlets and cutting 1,000 jobs amid a slump in demand. It has also cut its staff's hours.\n\n\"It's time for the UK to bring its workplaces back to life or we will look back with regret at the jobs lost, training missed and communities harmed,\" Dame Carolyn said.\n\nSome businesses catering to office workers have stayed afloat by adapting the way they operate.\n\nRich Bool, who works for the mobile coffee franchise Cafe2U in Chippenham told the BBC's Wake Up To Money that when offices closed he had to find new ways of approaching his customers.\n\n\"Some of that has been actually going to residential streets, where our normal clients ... are at home, working, and asked me to call and deliver to them\".\n\nAccording to Mr Bool, this attracted curious neighbours, who were also working at home and needed a break from the laptop.\n\n\"We almost created the new water cooler moment on the pavement,\" he said.\n\nSam Barber, a partner at Workshop, which offers co-working spaces in the centre of Winchester, says she has seen a significant increase in enquiries from people who no longer want to commute to London.\n\nShe told Wake Up to Money she sees a role for her company in bringing people back into the city centre.\n\n\"If we know that we can get people out of their offices, their bedrooms, wherever it is they're working, and into a flexible working space a couple of days a week ...then they're going to be shopping in local shops, they're going to be going to the local coffee shops.\"", "The president has previously said he does not believe the US has a systemic racism problem\n\nUS President Donald Trump has ordered federal agencies to stop racial sensitivity training, labelling it \"divisive, anti-American propaganda\".\n\nA memo to government agencies says it has come to his attention that millions of dollars of taxpayers' money have funded such \"trainings\".\n\nThe document says these sessions only foster resentment in the workforce.\n\nMr Trump has previously said he does not believe systemic racism is a problem in the US.\n\nThe memo comes amid the social justice protests that have swept the nation in recent months.\n\nFriday's two-page document from Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought is addressed to the heads of federal executive departments and agencies.\n\n\"All agencies are directed to begin to identify all contracts or other agency spending related to any training on 'critical race theory,' 'white privilege,' or any other training or propaganda effort that teaches or suggests either (1) that the United States is an inherently racist or evil country or (2) that any race or ethnicity is inherently racist or evil,\" it says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe memo says that \"according to press reports, employees across the Executive Branch have been required to attend trainings where they are told that 'virtually all White people contribute to racism' or where they are required to say that they 'benefit from racism'.\"\n\nAgain citing press reports, the text says that some of the training sessions \"have further claimed that there is racism embedded in the belief that America is the land of opportunity or the belief that the most qualified person should receive a job.\n\n\"These types of 'trainings' not only run counter to the fundamental beliefs for which our Nation has stood since its inception, but they also engender division and resentment within the Federal workforce.\"\n\nIt was not clear which reports Mr Vought was referring to or what prompted the memo. But such training sessions have been highlighted by the Discovery Institute, a conservative non-profit think tank based in Seattle.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One thing Americans find hard to talk about\n\nChris Rufo, one of its research fellows, told Fox News this week that the US Department of Treasury is among federal agencies that have hired such trainers.\n\nMr Rufo says his public records requests show these sessions have included teaching employees that white people uphold America's system of racism, and sending white male executives to mandatory training in which they write letters of apology to minorities.\n\nDemocratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, who will challenge Mr Trump for the White House in November, has vowed to fight systemic racism if elected.\n\n\"For generations, Americans who are black, brown, Native American, immigrant, haven't always been fully included in our democracy or our economy,\" the former vice-president said in July.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister says he \"can't be expected\" to agree with everyone who works with the government.\n\nFormer Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has been appointed as an unpaid trade adviser to the UK government.\n\nBoris Johnson rejected claims Mr Abbott was not suitable for the role, despite criticism over past comments on women, LGBT people and climate change.\n\nThe UK prime minister said he did \"not agree with those sentiments\".\n\nMr Abbott, who negotiated trade deals for Australia when in power, will not take part in post-Brexit talks between the UK and other countries.\n\nInstead, he will advise the new Board of Trade, set up to help ministers and encourage firms to do more business internationally.\n\nMr Abbott was a prominent opponent of same-sex marriage in Australia's 2017 referendum on the issue and has been accused of making homophobic and misogynist comments in the past.\n\nHe has also described the idea of climate change as \"faddish\" and, last year, claimed the world was \"in the grip of a climate cult\".\n\nAsked about the new appointee's past comments, Mr Johnson said he could not be expected to agree with all the views of everyone who worked with the government.\n\nHe said Mr Abbott had been elected by the \"great, liberal democratic nation of Australia,\" adding: \"I think that speaks for itself.\"\n\nThis government has recently had the word \"U-turn\" lobbed at it, a lot. But there's been no change of heart here.\n\nWhile the appointment of Tony Abbott has sparked serious concern in some quarters, the government has on this occasion decided it doesn't want to back down.\n\nPerhaps it doesn't want to hand critics more \"U-turn\" ammunition. And ministers have argued that Mr Abbott will bring real trade expertise.\n\nBut there may also be a calculation in Downing Street, rightly or wrongly, that this is a \"Westminster bubble\" issue - a story that, in the end, won't do the government significant political damage.\n\nOther advisers to the Board of Trade will include former Labour health secretary Patricia Hewitt, ex-Conservative Member of the European Parliament Daniel Hannan and economist and broadcaster Linda Yueh.\n\nMr Abbott, who was prime minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015, negotiated free-trade deals with Japan, China and South Korea.\n\nBut Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he had \"real concerns\" and \"wouldn't appoint\" Mr Abbott if he were prime minister.\n\nTony Abbott at the launch of sister Christine Forster's book in June\n\nShadow international development secretary Emily Thornberry said Mr Abbott was \"the wrong\" choice \"on every level\" and had \"no experience of detailed trade negotiations, no understanding of Brexit, no belief in climate change, no concern for workers' rights\".\n\nA group of equality activists - including actor Sir Ian McKellen and Doctor Who writer Russell T Davies - has written an open letter against Mr Abbott's appointment.\n\nIt says: \"This is a man who described abortion as 'the easy way out' and suggested that men may be 'by physiology or temperament more adapted to exercise authority or to issue command'.\"\n\n\"For all these reasons and more besides, this man is not fit to be representing the UK as our trade envoy,\" the letter adds.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said Mr Abbott had \"no place in any British government\".\n\nAnd the SNP's deputy Westminster leader, Kirsten Oswald, called the appointment \"beyond indefensible\".\n\nBut Mr Abbott's sister, Christine Forster, defended him against claims of misogyny and homophobia.\n\n\"As a woman who has always been part of his life and who came out to him as gay in my early 40s, I know incontrovertibly that Tony is neither of those things,\" she wrote on Twitter.\n\n\"In reality he is a man of great conviction and intellect; an unabashed conservative but with great compassion, respect for others, and an indelible sense of doing what is right.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Jonathan Blake breaks down the next round of Brexit negotiations\n\nThe Board of Trade will meet four times a year.\n\nInternational Trade Secretary Liz Truss, who will chair the body, said: \"At a time of increased protectionism and global insecurity, it's vital that the UK is a strong voice for open markets and that we play a meaningful role in reshaping global trading rules alongside like-minded countries.\"\n\nShe said she was bringing together \"a diverse group of people who share Britain's belief in free enterprise, democracy, and high standards and rules-based trade\".", "Attending primary school puts children and staff at no greater risk of contracting coronavirus than staying at home, a study of 131 schools suggests.\n\nTests to find out who had already had the virus found similar levels of antibodies in pupils and teachers.\n\nBut the study, of 12,000 adults and children in England, was carried out in June and early July, when there were very few cases around.\n\nExperts say more studies are needed, when all children are attending school.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Health Correspondent Laura Foster explains what schools are doing to keep pupils safe\n\nFor the study, pupils and staff were tested during the last six weeks of the summer term when Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 children could return to school.\n\nSince then, millions of children across the UK have returned to the classroom, with lessons resuming in England and Wales in the past few days. Schools in Scotland and Northern Ireland reopened last month.\n\nSchools now look very different to what students were once used to, with pupils being told to stay in their \"bubble\" groups, follow one-way systems and social distance when necessary. Staggered start times have also been introduced, and hand-washing stations and screens installed.\n\nBubbles vary widely between schools. Some primary schools treat each class as a separate bubble, while secondary schools often have bubbles composed of entire year groups - sometimes of up to 300 children.\n\nChildren with a new classroom lay-out at a school in Southwark, south London\n\nScientists from Public Health England, who led the study, found just three people (one child and two staff) tested positive for the virus - 0.02% of those swabbed.\n\nThere was no evidence that any of these three people passed the virus on to others they lived with or worked with. This reflects previous research by PHE showing low numbers of cases and outbreaks in schools.\n\nA separate sample of 2,100 staff and children, who were tested for antibodies, found 10.6% of pupils and 12.7% of staff had previously had coronavirus.\n\nThis could suggest that children are as likely as adults to be infected, rather than being less susceptible to the disease.\n\nBut because so few positive cases in children are detected, it confirms previous research that they are likely to experience mild symptoms, or none at all.\n\nThe study found children and staff who attended school more frequently were no more likely to test positive for antibodies than those who did not attend school, or went less often.\n\nThis could indicate that infection levels in schools are simply reflecting virus levels in the communities where people live.\n\nHowever, some groups were more likely to have antibodies - they were non-white, lived in the same house as a healthcare worker and had experienced symptoms.\n\nSecondary schools were not included in the study, so no conclusions can be drawn about older children.\n\nDr Shamez Ladhani, consultant epidemiologist, from Public Health England said: \"This is the largest study of its kind in the country and suggests attending preschool and primary school brings no additional risk to either staff or students.\n\n\"Although these results are preliminary, they should be very reassuring to parents who may be anxious about their children returning to school.\"\n\nDr Liz Whittaker, clinical lecturer and consultant paediatrician, from Imperial College London, said it was a \"good quality study\" but \"limited by timing\" as there was very low transmission of coronavirus during the period studied.\n\n\"It is essential that studies such as these continue over the next few months, and importantly, are also performed in secondary school and college settings,\" she added.\n\nProf Ravindra Gupta, professor of clinical microbiology at the University of Cambridge, cautioned that schools would now be coping with two to six times more children, which could alter the results.\n\n\"There is less ability to socially distance than schools were able to in June. We must not be complacent and falsely reassured. We must ensure adequate monitoring and testing strategies to pick up infections in schools before they spread,\" he said.\n\nRegarding the finding that children were often asymptomatic, Prof Gupta said that meant \"children may still continue to attend school if we do not regularly test for the virus in schools\".\n• None National surveillance of pre-schools and primary schools for coronavirus infection in England The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The level of coronavirus among the community in England remains \"unchanged\" for the week to 25 August, the Office for National Statistics suggests.\n\nIts latest survey of people in households estimates there were around 2,000 new cases of coronavirus per day.\n\nThis suggests that, despite outbreaks in some local areas, overall case numbers remain stable.\n\nThe ONS figures give one of the most accurate pictures of infections levels.\n\nThey are based on more than 151,000 swab tests collected from people at home, whether they have symptoms or not.\n\nBut there is always a margin for error in the figures because over the past six weeks of the study very few people have tested positive - just 71 from 68 households.\n\nThe figures also do not cover what is going on in hospitals or care homes, where infection rates are likely to be different.\n\nHowever, they continue to paint a picture of a stable level of infections among private households in England.\n\nThe ONS estimates that 27,100 people in the community had the virus during that week from 19 to 25 August.\n\nThis is similar to the estimate for the previous week and several weeks before that.\n\nIn Wales, during the week to 25 August, 1,400 people are estimated to have had Covid-19 - also unchanged from previous weeks.\n\nA different kind of test - an antibody test, using blood samples - which looks for evidence of people having previously had the infection, has been carried out on 7,000 people as part of the ONS study.\n\nResults suggest that around 6% of the population - or one in 17 people - have been infected with the coronavirus in the past.\n\nThis equates to 2.7 million people in England.\n\nThe R number for the UK is between 0.9 and 1.1, say the government's scientific advisors, which means the number of people with the virus is staying at a constant level.\n\nThe reproduction number or R is the average number of people that one infected person passes the virus onto.\n\nAn R number of 1 means that on average every person who is infected will infect one other person, meaning the total number of infections is stable.\n\nThis estimate of R is a guide to the general trend rather than a description of what is happening today.\n\nThe Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, said the ONS data showed that the government's approach, using contact tracing and local restrictions, was working and was helping the country \"to safely return to normal\".\n\n\"This reassuring news is testament to the hard work of everybody in following social distancing guidelines to protect themselves, their loved ones and the NHS.\"\n\nMr Hancock added: \"I would urge everybody to continue to be vigilant - wash your hands, wear a face covering and keep social distance from those outside your household - so we can keep the virus at bay.\"", "Protesters opposed to Covid-19 restrictions have gathered in Edinburgh as figures showed the highest weekly rise in cases since May.\n\nCoronavirus sceptics, vaccine conspiracy theorists and those opposed to mandatory mask-wearing staged a rally at Holyrood.\n\nIt comes as figures showed almost a thousand people tested positive for the virus this week in Scotland.\n\nIn the past seven days there were 994 confirmed cases.\n\nThe figure is almost double the 507 new cases in the week previous.\n\nScotland's national clinical director, Prof Jason Leitch described the protesters as \"deeply irresponsible\".\n\nHundreds of protesters joined the rally outside the Scottish Parliament\n\nHe said: \"I honestly do not understand it.\n\n\"I think it is irresponsible - do they think we're making it up? 194 countries are making up a viral pandemic.\n\n\"I would love to have not lived through the last six months, both in my job and what we have had to do to our country and many others.\n\n\"I think it is deeply irresponsible.\"\n\nHundreds of protesters marched to the parliament building in Edinburgh with flags and placards for the Scotland Against Lockdown protest, organised by the Saving Scotland Facebook group.\n\nA post advertising the event said it was \"time to stand up together, and listen to real scientific evidence in regards to the health of the Scottish people.\"\n\nThe group said lockdown was causing \"more harm than the virus\" and that Scots should say \"no to mandatory vaccines and masks. No to secondary lockdowns.\"\n\nPolice Scotland said it had been aware of the demonstration and that officers had provided a \"proportionate response\" and no arrests had been made.\n\nIn the past 24 hours, the number of cases in Scotland rose by 141. There were no new deaths.\n\nThe figures showed the biggest rise was in the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde area where 68 new cases were confirmed.\n\nThe last time weekly cases exceeded the current total was 17 May, although there have been changes to the Scottish government's reporting of figures since then, including incorporating the results of home testing kits from July.\n\nThe number of people who have tested positive for Covid-19 overall in Scotland now stands at 21,189 and the number of infected patients who have died remains at 2,496.\n\nAccording to the government's latest figures, NHS Lanarkshire saw another 20 cases - an increase on the 16 announced on Friday when it warned the region was close to having to reintroduce restrictions, similar to those imposed on other parts of western Scotland.\n\nNHS Grampian, where the Aberdeen bar cluster was identified last month, has recorded an increase of just two new cases.\n\nA total of seven cases have been discovered in Ayrshire and Arran, 14 in the Forth Valley, six in the Highlands, eight in Tayside and 14 by NHS Lothian.\n\nA single new case was identified by both NHS Borders and NHS Dumfries and Galloway.\n\nThe number of tests carried out fell to 15,618 - the lowest total since 24 August.\n\nThe number of new confirmed cases represents 1.5% of newly tested individuals, say the figures.\n\nAs of Friday night, two people were in intensive care with coronavirus and a further 251 infected people were in hospital, although that figure includes patients who may not be receiving treatment for the disease.", "Bolton residents are asked not to mix or use public transport unless absolutely necessary\n\nTougher measures are being introduced in Bolton in an effort to stop coronavirus cases rising and prevent a full local lockdown.\n\nThe infection rate in the area has risen to 99 cases per 100,000 people per week - the highest in England.\n\nThose aged between 18 and 49 account for more than 90% of cases.\n\nAnnouncing new and immediate measures affecting transport and social mixing, council bosses pleaded for \"everyone in Bolton to play their part\".\n\nResidents have been asked to only use public transport for essential purposes, which means travel to education, work, and essential matters such as hospital appointments.\n\nPeople have also been told not to mix with other households in any setting indoors or outdoors anywhere, except in their support bubble.\n\nIn a joint statement, council leader David Greenhalgh and chief executive Tony Oakham said: \"It has been a tough period for individuals, families and businesses but we don't want to throw away all our hard work by allowing the infection rate to rise even higher.\n\n\"Now, more than ever, we need everyone in Bolton to play their part.\n\n\"Nobody wants these restrictions to remain a moment longer than necessary and we believe these new measures will keep everyone safe and help avoid a full lockdown in Bolton.\"\n\nDr Helen Lowey, director of Public Health for Bolton Council, said: \"We are carrying out extra testing including giving out home testing kits, and are carrying out extra site visits to support businesses to be Covid secure, and carrying out enforcement where necessary.\n\nBolton's move comes as other parts of Greater Manchester, Lancashire and West Yorkshire move out of stricter lockdown measures.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. It is one of the world's longest and slowest pieces of music\n\nFans have flocked to a church in Germany to hear a chord change in a musical composition that lasts for 639 years.\n\nIt is the first change in the piece, As Slow As Possible, in seven years.\n\nThe work is by the avant-garde American composer, John Cage.\n\nIt began 19 years ago with a pause lasting nearly 18 months. The change of chord took place on the specially built organ on which the composition is being performed.\n\nThe Saint Burchardi Church in the city of Halberstadt started playing the music in 2001 and the last note change took place in 2013.\n\nThe music As Slow As Possible will end in 2640\n\nThe score is made up of eight pages of music, to be played at the piano or organ - very slowly.\n\nBut the wait for the next scheduled chord change will be quick in comparison - with 5 February 2022 slated as the date.\n\nThe piece will end in 2640.\n\nCage, who died in 1992 at the age of 79, wrote the piece in the 1980s.\n\nThe composer is arguably most famous for 4'33\".\n\nThe three-movement composition from 1952 is for any combination of instruments, but instructs performers not to play them. Listeners instead hear the sound of the surrounding environment during the four minutes and 33 seconds the work lasts.", "The main test used to diagnose coronavirus is so sensitive it could be picking up fragments of dead virus from old infections, scientists say.\n\nMost people are infectious only for about a week, but could test positive weeks afterwards.\n\nResearchers say this could be leading to an over-estimate of the current scale of the pandemic.\n\nBut some experts say it is uncertain how a reliable test can be produced that doesn't risk missing cases.\n\nProf Carl Heneghan, one of the study's authors, said instead of giving a \"yes/no\" result based on whether any virus is detected, tests should have a cut-off point so that very small amounts of virus do not trigger a positive result.\n\nHe believes the detection of traces of old virus could partly explain why the number of cases is rising while hospital admissions remain stable.\n\nThe University of Oxford's Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine reviewed the evidence from 25 studies where virus specimens from positive tests were put in a petri dish to see whether they would grow.\n\nThis method of \"viral culturing\" can indicate whether the positive test has picked up active virus which can reproduce and spread, or just dead virus fragments which won't grow in the lab, or in a person.\n\nThis is a problem we have known about since the start - and once again illustrates why data on Covid is far from perfect.\n\nBut what difference does it make? When the virus first emerged probably very little, but the longer the pandemic goes on the bigger the effect.\n\nThe flurry of information about testing and the R number creates confusion.\n\nBut however we cut it, the fact remains there are very low levels of infection in the UK overall, lower than a number of other European countries.\n\nWhere there are local outbreaks the system - by and large - seems to be having success in curbing them.\n\nAnd this comes after the opening up of society over the summer.\n\nOf course, the big question is what happens next, with schools back and winter around the corner.\n\nThere is a growing sense within the public health community that the UK is in a strong position - and certainly a return to the high levels of infection seen in the spring should be avoided.\n\nBut there is also extreme caution and an understandable desire for complacency not to creep in.\n\nThe PCR swab test - the standard diagnostic method - uses chemicals to amplify the virus's genetic material so that it can be studied.\n\nYour test sample has to go through a number of \"cycles\" in the lab before enough virus is recovered.\n\nJust how many can indicate how much of the virus is there - whether it's tiny fragments or lots of whole virus.\n\nThis in turn appears to be linked to how likely the virus is to be infectious - tests that have to go through more cycles are less likely to reproduce when cultured in the lab.\n\nBut when you take a coronavirus test, you get a \"yes\" or \"no\" answer. There is no indication of how much virus was in the sample, or how likely it is to be an active infection.\n\nA person shedding a large amount of active virus, and a person with leftover fragments from an infection that's already been cleared, would receive the same - positive - test result.\n\nBut Prof Heneghan, the academic who spotted a quirk in how deaths were being recorded, which led Public Health England to reform its system, says evidence suggests coronavirus \"infectivity appears to decline after about a week\".\n\nHe added that while it would not be possible to check every test to see whether there was active virus, the likelihood of false positive results could be reduced if scientists could work out where the cut-off point should be.\n\nThis could prevent people being given a positive result based on an old infection.\n\nAnd Prof Heneghan said that would stop people quarantining or being contact-traced unnecessarily, and give a better understanding of the current scale of the pandemic.\n\nPublic Health England agreed viral cultures were a useful way of assessing the results of coronavirus tests and said it had recently undertaken analysis along these lines.\n\nIt said it was working with labs to reduce the risk of false positives, including looking at where the \"cycle threshold\", or cut-off point, should be set.\n\nBut it said there were many different test kits in use, with different thresholds and ways of being read, which made providing a range of cut-off points difficult.\n\nBut Prof Ben Neuman, at the University of Reading, said culturing virus from a patient sample was \"not trivial\".\n\n\"This review runs the risk of falsely correlating the difficulty of culturing Sars-CoV-2 from a patient sample, with likelihood that it will spread,\" he said.\n\nProf Francesco Venturelli, an epidemiologist in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, which was hit hard by the virus in March, said there was \"not enough certainty\" about how long virus remains infectious during the recovering period.\n\nSome studies based on viral cultures reported about 10% of patients still had viable virus after eight days, he said.\n\nIn Italy, which had its peak earlier than the UK, \"for several weeks we were over-estimating cases\" because of people who acquired the infection several weeks before they were identified as positive.\n\nBut, as you move away from the peak, this phenomenon diminishes.\n\nProf Peter Openshaw at Imperial College London said PCR was a highly sensitive \"method of detecting residual viral genetic material\".\n\n\"This is not evidence of infectivity,\" he said. But the clinical consensus was that patients were \"very unlikely to be infectious beyond day 10 of disease\".\n• None Covid testing boss 'very sorry' for shortages", "Protesters gathered outside the sites - including Broxbourne in Hertfordshire - owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation\n\nExtinction Rebellion (XR) activists have delayed the distribution of several national newspapers after blocking access to three printing presses owned by Rupert Murdoch.\n\nProtesters targeted Newsprinters presses at Broxbourne in Hertfordshire, Knowsley in Merseyside, and near Motherwell, North Lanarkshire.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the action by demonstrators across the country was \"unacceptable\".\n\nXR used vehicles along with individual protesters chaining themselves to structures to block roads to the presses\n\nThe Sun tweeted to report copies of the paper would be delayed arriving at newsagents, adding the blockade was an \"attack on all the free press\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Sun This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Sun\n\nThe presses print the Rupert Murdoch-owned News Corp titles including the Sun, the Times, the Sun on Sunday, the Sunday Times, and the Scottish Sun. They also print the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, and the London Evening Standard.\n\nDemonstrators have accused the papers of failing to report on climate change.\n\nXR used vehicles to block roads to the printing plants, while individual protesters chained themselves to structures.\n\nVans were covered with banners with messages including \"Free the truth\" and \"Refugees are welcome here\".\n\nSome protesters chained themselves to bamboo structures to block the road outside the building in Hertfordshire\n\nBoris Johnson said on Twitter: \"A free press is vital in holding the government and other powerful institutions to account on issues critical for the future of our country, including the fight against climate change.\n\n\"It is completely unacceptable to seek to limit the public's access to news in this way.\"\n\nShadow Secretary of State for Digital Culture, Media and Sport, Jo Stephens, said: \"People have the right to read the newspapers they want.\n\n\"Stopping them from being distributed and printers from doing their jobs is wrong.\"\n\nAnd Home Secretary Priti Patel tweeted the overnight action by XR was an \"attack on democracy\".\n\nNewsprinters also condemned the protests as an \"attack on all of the free press\", which it said had affected workers going about their jobs and others such as newsagents who faced \"financial penalty\".\n\n\"Thanks to other industry partners, printing was transferred to other sites,\" it said.\n\nA protest near Motherwell passed peacefully with no arrests, police said\n\nTelegraph editor Chris Evans earlier emailed staff to say that although the paper was not XR's primary target, it was \"severely affected\".\n\nHe told them: \"I'm also very concerned - and I hope you are too - by the attack on free speech.\n\n\"Whatever your politics you should be worried by this. There are also questions for the police who perhaps placed the right of these few people to protest above the right of the rest of the people to read a free press.\"\n\nHertfordshire Police said officers were called to Great Eastern Road near the Broxbourne plant at about 22:00 BST, where they found about 100 protesters who had \"secured themselves to structures and one another\".\n\nBy 06:00 delivery lorries had still been unable to leave the site to distribute papers.\n\nOfficers said 50 people had been arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance.\n\nProtesters at the Knowsley site had been cleared by about 10:30 BST\n\nChief Constable Charlie Hall said the group's action had been \"an intentionally disruptive and unacceptable protest that had been pre-planned and carefully co-ordinated to create prolonged disruption to local businesses\".\n\nHertfordshire officers arrived \"within five minutes of the initial report\", he said, however, \"the nature of the protest required highly specialist resources and cutting equipment in order to safely remove the protesters from their locations\".\n\nEach one had to be individually released from a bamboo structure they had erected, Mr Hall added.\n\nAlthough business had resumed at the site, he said officers would remain there to monitor the area.\n\nMerseyside Police tweeted on Saturday morning that officers were at the Knowsley plant.\n\nThe site had been cleared of protesters by about 10:30 and 30 people had been arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass.\n\nPolice Scotland said in a statement the protest at the Eurocentral plant near Motherwell \"was peaceful and there were no issues\".\n\nXR has accused the newspapers and their owners of \"failure to report on the climate and ecological emergency\" and \"polluting national debate\" on dozens of social issues.\n\nThe Federation of Independent Retailers condemned the demonstrations, saying members left without supplies of papers were having \"to deal with angry customers who are unable to get their daily newspaper\".\n\nNational president Stuart Reddish said it also meant retailers were unable to get papers to elderly and vulnerable customers.\n\n\"Newsagents have played a critical role during Covid-19 in getting newspapers into the hands of readers and this is not helpful at a time when every sale counts,\" he added.\n\nExtinction Rebellion accused some of the papers of failing to report on climate change\n\nExtinction Rebellion has planned 10 days of action and is calling on the government to do more to act on climate change.\n\nIn an updated statement following the latest protest, a spokesman said: \"We are in an emergency of unprecedented scale and the papers we have targeted are not reflecting the scale and urgency of what is happening to our planet.\n\n\"To any small businesses disrupted by the action this morning we say, 'we're sorry. We hope that our actions seem commensurate with the severity of the crisis we face and that this day of disruption successfully raises the alarm about the greater disruption that is coming'.\"\n\nOn Thursday, more than 300 people were arrested during protests in central London.\n\nMeanwhile, climate change protesters have been warned they risk large fines if they fail to comply with coronavirus rules banning gatherings of more than 30 people.\n\nA procession of activists that set off walking from Brighton a week ago was due to march the final stretch to Parliament later.\n\nThe Met Police said risk assessments of the march in Westminster \"did not meet the required standard\" and have banned XR from taking a 20ft model boat named after teenage activist Greta Thunberg to the streets of Westminster.\n\nAt about 14:45 on Saturday a group accompanying the boat posted a video on social media saying members had been \"stopped on the A3 just after Kennington Park, by a lot of police and 14 police vans\".\n\nXR protesters gathered in Trafalgar Square in London had been largely dispersed, police said, and a spokeswoman for the Met Police said officers were also in Euston where a protester had locked themselves to a crane.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tony Abbott said he was \"proud\" to be helping the UK make the most of its \"post-Brexit opportunities\"\n\nTony Abbott has said he is looking forward to contributing his \"expertise\" in global commerce to his new role as a trade adviser to the UK government.\n\nThe former Australian PM was appointed to the unpaid role on Friday, despite criticism over his past comments on women, LGBT people and climate change.\n\nMr Abbott, who led Australia from 2013-15, posted on Twitter that he was \"only too keen\" to help the UK.\n\nBut Labour said he should have been disqualified from the role.\n\nMr Abbott will advise the new Board of Trade, set up to help ministers and encourage firms to do more business internationally, but will not be involved in post-Brexit talks between the UK and other countries.\n\nHis appointment has drawn criticism from opposition parties and equality activists, including Sir Ian McKellen and Doctor Who writer Russell T Davies, who said his past comments meant he was not \"fit\" for the role.\n\nThe former Australian PM opposed same-sex marriage in Australia's 2017 referendum and has been accused of making homophobic and misogynistic comments in the past.\n\nHe has also described the idea of climate change as \"faddish\", and last year claimed the world was \"in the grip of a climate cult\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he did \"not agree with those sentiments\", but rejected suggestions he was unsuitable for the role.\n\nIn a statement on Twitter, Mr Abbott said: \"A UK-Australia trade deal, maximising the movement of goods, services and people is clearly in the best interests of both our countries.\n\n\"It's important for the wider world that Britain make the most of its post-Brexit opportunities and I am proud to be playing a part.\n\n\"My government finalised trade deals between Australia and China, Japan and Korea. I'm looking forward to bringing that expertise to bear as Britain works towards mutually-beneficial improvements with its major trading partners.\"\n\nBut Labour shadow trade secretary Emily Thornberry told Radio 4's Today programme Mr Abbott should have been disqualified from the role.\n\nShe said: \"First is his history of offensive statements towards women, LGBT people, minority groups - the list is so long and so despicable that I think it speaks to his character and his values, and I don't think that's a character we should have representing Britain around the world.\n\n\"But secondly, I just don't think that he's the right person to advise Britain on its trade policy.\n\n\"He was never involved in detailed trade negotiations. There were many people who did the spade work, and he turned up and signed them. And he thinks that issues like climate change and workers' rights aren't important.\"\n\nAlexander Downer, a former Australian high commissioner to the UK, rejected suggestions his ally Mr Abbott was a misogynist.\n\nHe told Today: \"He is not a misogynist, he has appointed many women to positions - he was appointed to this position by a woman.\n\n\"I don't think it stacks up, I think it's just party politicking.\"\n\nMr Downer added that the \"huge\" trade deals achieved while Mr Abbott was PM had been a \"remarkable achievement\".\n\nOther advisers to the Board of Trade will include former Labour health secretary Patricia Hewitt, ex-Conservative Member of the European Parliament Daniel Hannan and Anne Boden, founder of the online-only bank Starling.\n\nMs Boden tweeted that she was \"pleased\" to be advising the Board of Trade, and that it was \"important\" to have \"challenging voices\" speaking to ministers.\n\nBut the financial technology expert added that she supported diversity and \"so did this woman\", linking to a 2012 speech by another former Australian prime minister, Julia Gillard, in which she accused Mr Abbott of being a misogynist in the Australian parliament.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Jonathan Blake breaks down the next round of Brexit negotiations\n\nThe UK is currently looking to agree its own trade agreements for the first time in more than 40 years after leaving the European Union in January.\n\nIt is conducting negotiations with the US, Japan, New Zealand and Australia.\n\nThe Board of Trade will meet four times a year.\n\nThe Department for International Trade has stressed that advisers to the board will have \"no direct role in striking trade deals\".\n\nTrade Secretary Liz Truss said: \"The new Board of Trade will play an important role in helping Britain make the case for free and fair trade across the UK and around the world.\"", "A temporary test centre is open outside the town's leisure centre daily until Tuesday at 18:00 BST\n\nResidents are being warned to increase social distancing to avoid \"another harsh lockdown\" after a spike in cases.\n\nCaerphilly's Member of the Senedd, Hefin David, made the comments with 62 cases reported locally in the past week, the highest number in Wales.\n\nA walk-in test centre opened outside Caerphilly Leisure Centre on Saturday for people with symptoms to get tested.\n\n\"This is in the hands of the community,\" Mr David told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"If people get back to serious social distancing, hand washing, limiting contact, we can get back to where we were.\n\n\"People have to take this seriously.\"\n\nVisits to care homes in Caerphilly have stopped to protect residents following the increase in cases.\n\nMr David said the results from tests at the temporary centre \"will guide what happens next and decisions that will be taken after that\".\n\n\"The thing I desperately don't want to see is another harsh lockdown...as we had in March,\" he said.\n\n\"The only way we are going to avoid doing that is if we get back to that disciplined process that we had and were doing so well at.\"\n\nOn Friday, a health official blamed \"having house parties and the like\" for a rise in cases in Caerphilly town, Blackwood, and other areas.\n\n\"People have not been following social distancing rules,\" said Dr Robin Howe, from Public Health Wales.\n\nThe infection rate in Caerphilly over the past seven days has been recorded as 34.2 people per 100,000 population, the highest in Wales and far above the Welsh average of 8.4 per 100,000 people.\n\nA further 14 cases were reported on Saturday in the county, taking the number of cases to 62.\n\nJust below a quarter of the 264 new cases in Wales over the past week have been in Caerphilly.\n\nThe testing centre outside Caerphilly Leisure Centre is open 08:00-16:00 BST on Saturday and Sunday and until 18:00 on Monday and Tuesday.\n\n\"This temporary testing centre will help us learn more about the rate of infection in Caerphilly, and will help us protect the residents of Caerphilly and Gwent,\" said Mererid Bowley, interim director of Public Health for Aneurin Bevan University Health Board.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government has urged Whitehall bosses to \"move quickly\" to get more staff back into the office.\n\nIn a letter seen by the BBC, it says it is \"strongly encouraging\" attendance through rota systems, arguing this would be \"hugely beneficial\".\n\nThe government says it wants 80% of civil servants to be able to attend their usual workplace at least once a week by the end of the month.\n\nBut unions have described the government's attitude as outdated.\n\nThey said most civil servants should expect to keep working from home until the end of the year, and they would consider strike action if staff were forced to return when it was unsafe.\n\nThe letter applies to staff in England, with those elsewhere in the UK expected to follow local guidance and continue working from home.\n\nIt follows criticism that too few civil servants working from home because of coronavirus have returned to their desks, despite the easing of lockdown.\n\nAccording to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), there has been an increase in people travelling to work in the last two months, with fewer working exclusively from home.\n\nThey said 57% of working adults - out of 1,644 surveyed - reported that they had travelled to work at some point in the past seven days, while 20% had worked solely from home.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does a 'Covid-secure' workplace look like?\n\nThousands of businesses that rely on passing trade are suffering while offices stand empty, Dame Carolyn Fairbairn from the CBI has said.\n\nBut Alex Brazier, the Bank of England's executive director for financial stability, has warned that the government should not expect a \"sharp return\" to \"dense office environments\".\n\nIn the letter, sent to permanent secretaries - the highest officials in government departments - Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill and Alex Chisholm, chief operating officer of the Civil Service, say that \"getting more people back into work in a Covid-secure way will improve the public services we deliver\".\n\nThey add: \"We have seen a reduced level of social interaction among our colleagues, with the loss of some of the spontaneous interaction and cross-fertilisation between teams that drives innovation and sustained common purpose.\"\n\nBut they say staff safety \"remains our paramount concern\", and that workplace returns will be discussed with unions and staff groups.\n\nWorkplace guidance includes introducing one-way systems, staggered shift times and limiting the number of colleagues that staff members are exposed to in order to prevent the spread of the virus, such as only allowing a small number in lifts at any one time.\n\nThe letter goes on: \"Departments which are still below their departmental constraints should now move quickly to seek to bring more staff back into the office in a Covid-secure way, and take advantage of the return to schools this month and increased public transport availability.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has asked officials for a weekly update on progress.\n\nBoris Johnson is clearly worried about the impact of empty office districts in major cities - and has been urging people to discuss going back to the office, where it's safe to do so.\n\nSome Tory MPs want it to be the government's main priority now that schools are open again. They fear without movement soon, there could be extensive and lasting economic damage.\n\nEncouraging civil servants back into the office could be seen as leading by example, perhaps showing how a system might work for other employers.\n\nBut unions warn the workplace has changed forever and ministers would be better focussing on how to adapt to a new working world.\n\nThe FDA union, which represents senior civil servants, said this week that it estimated 30% to 40% would be able to return to the office by the end of the year.\n\nLeader Dave Penman accused ministers of \"sounding like Luddites\" in an era when technology made home working easier.\n\nMr Penman told BBC Radio 4's Today that one \"fundamental problem\" with the approach was that, on a practical level, government offices have a maximum capacity of around 50% because of coronavirus restrictions. He said the civil service was working \"very effectively\" from home.\n\nHe added it was \"quite clear\" that \"this is really about virtue signalling to the private sector that has already moved on\".\n\nAnd Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union, said he was prepared to consider industrial action \"as a last resort\" if workers' health and safety were \"put at risk\".\n\nMeanwhile, outsourcing firm Capita - a major government contractor - is planning to close more than a third of its offices in the UK permanently.", "An endangered white-handed gibbon: The right conservation strategies can save the day\n\nScientists have calculated how many mammals might be lost this century, based on fossil evidence of past extinctions.\n\nTheir predictions suggest at least 550 species will follow in the footsteps of the mammoth and sabre-toothed cat.\n\nWith every \"lost species\" we lose part of the Earth's natural history, they say.\n\nYet, despite these \"grim\" projections, we can save hundreds of species by stepping up conservation efforts.\n\nThe new research, published in the journal Science Advances, suggests that humans are almost entirely responsible for extinctions of mammals in past decades.\n\nAnd rates will escalate in the future if we don't take action now.\n\nDespite this \"alarming\" scenario, we could save hundreds if not thousands of species with more targeted and efficient conservation strategies, said Tobias Andermann of the Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre and the University of Gothenburg.\n\nIn order to achieve this, we must increase our collective awareness about the \"looming escalation of the biodiversity crisis, and take action in combatting this global emergency\".\n\n\"Time is pressing,\" he said. \"With every lost species, we irreversibly lose a unique portion of Earth's natural history.\"\n\nA mammoth skull at auction in New York City: Many more could follow this extinct species' path\n\nThe scientists compiled a large dataset of fossils, which provided evidence for the timing and scale of recent extinctions.\n\nTheir computer-based simulations predict large increases in extinction rates by the year 2100, based on the current threat status of species.\n\nAccording to these models, the extinctions that have occurred in past centuries only represent the tip of the iceberg, compared with the looming extinctions of the next decades.\n\n\"Reconstructing our past impacts on biodiversity is essential to understand why some species and ecosystems have been particularly vulnerable to human activities - which can hopefully allow us to develop more effective conservation actions to combat extinction,\" said Prof Samuel Turvey of ZSL (Zoological Society of London).\n\nLast year an intergovernmental panel of scientists said one million animal and plant species were now threatened with extinction.\n\nScientists have warned that we are entering the sixth mass extinction, with whatever we do now likely to define the future of humanity.\n• None 'Billions of years of evolutionary history' under threat", "Daniel Prude died a week after he was restrained by police\n\nThe US police officers involved in the suffocation death of a black man were following their training \"step by step\", the officers' union chief said.\n\nDaniel Prude - who suffered from mental health issues - died after being put in a \"spit hood\", designed to protect officers from detainees' saliva.\n\nThe mayor suspended the seven Rochester Police officers involved on Thursday.\n\nMr Prude, 41, died in March but his death has just recently been reported after body camera video was released.\n\nHis death came two months before that of George Floyd, whose killing while in police custody sparked widespread outrage and incited national and international demonstrations against police brutality and racism.\n\nThe officers' suspension this week is the first disciplinary action taken in the wake of Mr Prude's death. Contract rules mean that the officers will still be paid while on leave, according to city officials.\n\n\"To me, it looks like they were watching the training in front of them,\" said Michael Mazzaeo, president of the Rochester Police Locust Club on Friday. \"If there's a problem with that, let's change it.\"\n\nMr Mazzaeo further defended the officers, saying they were in a difficult position trying to help someone who appeared to have a mental illness, and they did not intend to harm Mr Prude.\n\nThe spit hood is standard equipment for officers, he said.\n\nMr Prude's brother, Joe, has said he called police on 23 March as Daniel was showing acute mental health problems. When officers arrived, he had been running naked through the streets in a light snow.\n\nMr Prude died in March, but his death has only just been reported\n\nPolice body camera video obtained by the family shows Mr Prude lying on the ground as officers restrain him. Mr Prude, who was not carrying a weapon, can be seen complying with officers immediately.\n\nWhile sitting on the road, he becomes agitated, alternately asking for money or a gun.\n\nHe spits repeatedly on the ground, but does not appear to offer any physical resistance, according to the footage.\n\nAn officer says that Mr Prude told them he has Covid-19, and they place the spit hood on him.\n\nOne officer can be seen pressing down on Mr Prude's head with both hands, saying \"stop spitting\". Mr Prude stops moving and goes quiet, and officers note he feels cold.\n\nParamedics are called and Mr Prude is taken to hospital in an ambulance. His family took him off life support days later on 30 March.\n\nThe Monroe County medical examiner ruled Mr Prude's death a homicide caused by \"complications of asphyxia in the setting of physical restraint\", according to a post-mortem examination.\n\nThe autopsy report also cited \"excited delirium\" and acute intoxication by phencyclidine, or the drug PCP, as contributing factors.\n\nNew York Attorney General Letitia James' office has launched an investigation into Mr Prude's death and Governor Andrew Cuomo has called for the case to be concluded \"as expeditiously as possible\".", "Coverage: Selected live radio and text commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, BBC Sounds, the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nDan Evans succumbed to the precocious talent of Frenchman Corentin Moutet in four sets as Britain's interest in the US Open singles ended on Friday.\n\nThe second-round match resumed after Thursday's rain suspension with Evans looking favourite to go 2-1 up in sets after moving to 4-1 in the tie-break.\n\nBut Moutet, 21, battled back to take the third set, then took the fourth to a tie-break having been 4-1 down.\n\nThe 23rd seed's exit swiftly followed compatriot Cameron Norrie's third-round defeat by Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, also on court five.\n\nEvans said he played a \"pretty bad match\" and blamed himself for the defeat.\n\n\"I didn't play great over the two days,\" said the 30-year-old.\n\n\"I was up in the match on numerous occasions. I have nothing to blame apart from myself. You have to win those matches. You have to win them to be a good player and go up the rankings. From the positions I was in, I didn't do anything really well.\"\n\nHe also paid tribute to Moutet, adding: \"His way of playing was awkward - I have to give him credit. He doesn't really have a game style or plan, and it's difficult. I thought today he served better. He makes you think twice about what you're going to do and play.\"\n\nMoutet will play Andy Murray's conqueror, Felix Auger-Aliassime, in the third round on Saturday.\n• None Zverev says he was told there was 'very little chance' Mannarino match would be played\n• None Djokovic cruises into US Open last 16\n• None Osaka comes through in three sets\n\nEvans seemed to play a mirror image of himself with the world number 77 explosive and quick around the court with plenty of variation in his play. They were also animated as they verbally expressed gripes both with themselves, each other and those in the crowd.\n\nIt was difficult to separate the pair on Thursday before their match was suspended, and on resumption it was no surprise Evans held his serve at 6-5 to take the third set into a tie-break.\n\nThe British number one raced into a 4-1 lead before errors on his forehand and backhand allowed Moutet to level and then move ahead as Evans found the net. A big first serve earned the 5ft 9in Frenchman the tie-break and the set.\n\nEvans regrouped and look a strong favourite to take the match into a decider by going into a 4-1 lead after breaking his opponent in the second game. But once again the plucky Moutet raised his level to break back in the seventh game with a delightful lob.\n\nEvans began to look exasperated while Moutet's service game was looking exceptional. The tie-break was a one-sided affair as the Briton's levels slumped, with a shot into the net handing his opponent victory.\n\nEarlier, Norrie led by a break in the third set but then lost 11 of the last 12 games as he fell to a 7-6 (7-2) 4-6 6-2 6-1 defeat in the third round in New York.\n\nThe unforced errors mounted for the 25-year-old in the final two sets, with Norrie making 57 overall.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n\nNorrie, ranked 76th, appeared to be establishing control in the match when he broke to lead 2-1 in the third set but world number 99 Davidovich Fokina levelled straight away and then ran away with the match as the Briton's performance dropped alarmingly.\n\nHe struggled desperately on serve in the closing stages, losing more than 60% of the points on his own delivery in the third set. The double faults then mounted at crucial stages in the fourth set with Norrie appearing to be having issues with his eyes.\n\nNorrie had fought back from two sets down and saved match points to beat ninth seed Diego Schwartzman in the first round, but he was not happy with the level of his performance then and certainly will not be with how he fell away against the 21-year-old.\n\nThe first two sets had been very competitive, if still error-strewn. After a break apiece, the first went to a tie-break which the Spaniard dominated, winning the last five points.\n\nNorrie saved three break points in the fourth game of the second set and then immediately pounced, chasing down a drop shot and sending a forehand down the line to go 3-2 up. After saving another break point at 5-4 up, a similar shot sealed the set for the Briton but it was to be largely downhill from there.\n\n\"I was real dehydrated and [my vision] got a little bit blurry at the start of the third when I broke. I was not really seeing the ball that clearly,\" Norrie said.\n\n\"Towards the end I managed to drink a little bit more and actually felt great in the fourth set but it was too late, he played freely and he played great.\"\n\nThere was success for Britain in the men's doubles second round with Joe Salisbury and American partner Rajeev Ram, the Australian Open champions, overcoming American brothers Ryan and Christian Harrison 6-2 6-4.\n\nDan Evans' versatility usually causes problems for others, but in this match he was often on the receiving end as Corentin Moutet zipped around the court to produce some breathtaking winners.\n\nThere is certainly no predictable pattern to the play of the 21-year-old left-hander, who has now matched his best Grand Slam performance.\n\nIt was a match Evans felt he should have won, and Cameron Norrie may feel similarly having gone an early break up in the third set.\n\nBut 11 of the last 12 games went Davidovich Fokina's way, as Norrie felt his eyesight deteriorate through dehydration.\n• None What do they really think about the return to school?", "Thousands of students are preparing to return to university after the coronavirus lockdown\n\nA leading epidemiologist has warned the country is at a \"critical moment\" in the coronavirus pandemic, as students prepare to return to universities.\n\nDame Anne Johnson, of University College London, told the BBC data showed the highest number of detected infections was in young people.\n\nIt comes after government scientific advisors said \"significant outbreaks\" linked to universities were likely.\n\nUniversities have said steps are being taken to minimise risks on campuses.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Dame Anne, professor of infectious disease epidemiology at UCL, said: \"We are now seeing the highest number of infections or at least detected infections in younger people aged 20 to 29 and also going up to 45-year-olds.\"\n\nShe added that the data was \"not surprising\", as young people, she said, were more likely to have socialised with friends and family after lockdown restrictions were eased.\n\nThe latest figures from Public Health England (PHE) showed the highest coronavirus case rates were among 15 to 44-year-olds.\n\nIn the regions with the highest overall rates, and with most local authorities on its local lockdown watchlist, young working adults aged between 20 and 29-years-old were most affected.\n\nOn Saturday, the UK recorded 1,813 new infections, while 12 more people were reported to have died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nMeanwhile, the government's scientific advisory group, Sage, said in a document published on Friday there was a \"significant risk\" that higher education \"could amplify local and national transmission\".\n\n\"It is highly likely that there will be significant outbreaks associated with higher education, and asymptomatic transmission may make these harder to detect,\" the report added.\n\nIt comes as Bolton is placed under tougher coronavirus measures to stop the rising infection rate, now the highest in England at 99 cases per 100,000 people per week. People aged 18 to 49 account for 90% of cases.\n\nAnd in Leeds officials are urging young people to take responsibility for controlling the spread of coronavirus following an increase in house parties in the city.\n\nThe city has been added to the lockdown watchlist - along with Middlesbrough, South Tyneside, Corby and Kettering - meaning people there could face tougher restrictions if the number of infections continues to increase.\n\nCouncil leader Judith Blake said there had been an increase in music events, house parties and illegal raves, adding fines of £10,000 were being issued, and urged caution at a time when university students were set to return.\n\n\"We feel there is a bit of a complacency coming in. What we are seeing is the numbers are changing, and actually more young people are testing positive and they are spread around the city,\" she said.\n\nPolice and the council in Leeds issued seven fines to organisers of illegal raves last weekend\n\nDame Anne told the Today programme it was \"going to be incredibly important to communicate to young people the risks of transmitting coronavirus\", with particular emphasis on maintaining social distancing.\n\nShe said it should be highlighted \"that we need to avoid those situations where we have a lot of close contact, keep distanced\".\n\n\"When we can't do that wear face coverings, wash hands, and isolate when we're sick,\" she said.\n\nDame Anne also stressed the importance of infection control among vulnerable communities, particularly in care homes and hospitals.\n\nConcerns have also been raised that students could spread the virus when they travel from their family homes to university campuses.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, an associate professor at the University of Warwick and expert in infection modelling, told BBC Breakfast that the UK was mostly dealing with \"really local\" outbreaks, but the movement of students across the country could cause a wave of infection, especially as they return to families for Christmas.\n\nUniversities were trying to minimise the risk on campuses with strategies including online teaching, grouping students together within year groups, and putting in place local testing and tracing policies, he said.\n\nHe said that small group teaching was still happening in person, but would take place inside large lecture theatres to allow for social distancing.\n\nThe scientific advisory group Sage has advised universities to consider providing dedicated accommodation facilities to enable students who test positive to quarantine and minimise the risk of an outbreak.\n\nUniversities have also been urged to work with local authorities in addition to conducting their own test and trace programmes.", "A senior Bank of England official has cast doubt on the government's drive to get workers back to the office as coronavirus curbs are eased.\n\nAlex Brazier, the Bank's executive director for financial stability, said a \"sharp return\" to \"dense office environments\" should not be expected.\n\nSocial distancing guidelines in the workplace and public transport capacity were two factors holding people back.\n\n\"We should expect a more phased return,\" he told a committee of MPs.\n\n\"I feel safe coming to work, but I quite understand why many people might not,\" he said in evidence to the Treasury Committee.\n\n\"It's not possible to use office space, particularly in central London and dense places like that, with the intensity that we used to use it.\n\n\"It's not possible to bring lots of people back very suddenly.\"\n\nMr Brazier's remarks come after the government launched an ad campaign encouraging people to go back to the workplace.\n\nBusiness leaders have warned of economic damage being done to city centres as people stay away from offices.\n\nLast week, head of the CBI Dame Carolyn Fairbairn said the prime minister needed to do more to get workers to return, warning of a \"high price for local businesses, jobs and communities\".\n\nSome have warned city centres could become \"ghost towns\"\n\nHowever, an increasing number of employers say that home working - which was initially brought in as a temporary measure during lockdown - could become a more permanent state of affairs.\n\nThe law firm Linklaters, Lloyds Banking Group, NatWest, Fujitsu, Capita and Facebook are among those who plan to allow much more flexible working in the future.\n\nMeanwhile, 50 of the biggest UK employers questioned by the BBC said they had no plans to return all staff to the office full-time in the near future.\n\nOne of the main reasons given for the lack of a substantial return was that firms could not see a way of accommodating large numbers of staff while social distancing regulations were still in place.\n\nThis week, the government launched a campaign asking employers to reassure staff it is safe to return by highlighting measures taken to prevent the spread of Covid-19.\n\nBut there was confusion when Health Secretary Matt Hancock said he cared more about how employees performed than where they were working, contradicting other ministers.\n\nOn Wednesday, during Prime Minister's Questions in the Commons, Boris Johnson made several references to the need to get people back to work, saying he and his colleagues were working to get the country and the economy \"back on its feet\".\n\nThe PM's spokesman recently said: \"The message from the PM is he recognises the importance that returning to work has in stimulating the economy, and that's why we have changed the guidance to give employers more discretion in how employees can work safely.\"", "Police and the council issued seven fines to organisers of illegal raves last weekend\n\nYoung people in Leeds are being urged to take responsibility for controlling the spread of coronavirus following an increase in house parties in the city.\n\nLeeds was added to the Public Health England areas of concern as Covid rates rose to 32.5 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nCouncil leader Judith Blake said there had been an increase in music events, house parties and illegal raves adding fines of £10,000 were being given.\n\nShe urged caution at a time when university students were set to return.\n\nThe city council said infections were broadly spread across its local communities, suggesting they were linked to social and leisure activities rather than single sites - with increasing numbers among people aged between 18 and 34.\n\nMs Blake said it was premature to talk about a lockdown at this stage but the city was approaching a tipping point and restrictions would be considered.\n\n\"Unfortunately we have seen a rise in house parties, but we are working with police,\" Ms Blake said.\n\n\"Last weekend we issued, with the police, seven of the £10,000 fines for organisers of illegal raves.\"\n\nThe fines are part of newly-introduced legislation aimed at deterring illegal music events.\n\nElsewhere in West Yorkshire, Bradford, Kirklees and Calderdale feature on Public Health England's watchlist of areas that have seen infection rates increase.\n\nPolice issued a photograph of one event was shut down last weekend in Kitson Road, Leeds, following reports that it was in breach of coronavirus restrictions.\n\n\"We feel there is a bit of complacency coming in,\" Ms Blake said.\n\n\"This virus isn't going to be contained just among younger people.\n\n\"The fact is that the social distancing measures have been working, but if we relax and it starts to spread back into the older more vulnerable communities we are going to see increased hospitalisation and all the things we saw at the beginning of the virus.\"\n\nShe said the council had been working with the universities ahead of the return of students later this month.\n\n\"We want to really get across that the virus is still with us,\" Ms Blake said.\n\nThe West Yorkshire city has been named alongside South Tyneside, Corby, Middlesbrough and Kettering as an area for concern.\n\nWakefield, Neward and Sherwood, and Slough were all removed after case numbers fell.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mass arrests as crowds chant 'go away' to Belarus president\n\nBelarus police carried out mass arrests as tens of thousands of people again gathered for protests calling on leader Alexander Lukashenko to step down.\n\nMore than 50 people were detained on Sunday, rights groups said.\n\nVideo footage appeared to show police spraying an irritant directly into the faces of protesters in one city.\n\nIt was the 50th day of protests following August's disputed presidential vote. Earlier this week Mr Lukashenko held a secret inauguration.\n\nThe electoral commission says Mr Lukashenko won a sixth term with more than 80% of votes. But the opposition says he cheated and that they won the election with at least 60% of the vote.\n\nSeveral EU countries and the US say they do not recognise Mr Lukashenko as the legitimate president of Belarus.\n\nFor the seventh straight weekend Minsk saw a mass protest\n\nPolice admitted using tear gas and stun grenades to disperse what they called \"disobedient\" protesters in the eastern city of Gomel on Sunday.\n\nBut local media footage circulating online showed officers spraying a substance directly into people's faces. Many of the protesters were women, who retreated while shouting \"fascists\".\n\nActivists say at least 50 people were detained by police on Sunday\n\nMeanwhile in the capital Minsk, where tens of thousands of people gathered for the seventh straight weekend of protests, riot police pulled people out of crowds and hauled them away in vans, a Reuters news agency witness said.\n\nMr Lukashenko was quietly inaugurated on Wednesday morning, without any of the usual pre-publicity and fanfare.\n\nThe man who has ruled the former Soviet republic for 26 years said Belarus needed security and consensus \"on the brink of a global crisis\", an apparent reference to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"I cannot, I have no right to abandon the Belarusians,\" he added, without making reference to the mass rallies demanding his resignation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A 73-year-old great-grandmother has turned into an unlikely hero for demonstrators in Belarus\n\nHis main rival for president, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, and other key opposition figures are currently in self-imposed exile in neighbouring countries following a wave of arrests amid the demonstrations.\n\nMs Tikhanovskaya said on Wednesday that Mr Lukashenko was \"neither a legal nor a legitimate head of Belarus\".", "Students should not be made \"scapegoats\" for a wave of Covid outbreaks, says a lecturers' leader.\n\nJo Grady of the UCU university staff union said it was the \"completely predictable\" outcome of encouraging large numbers of students to return.\n\nWith universities in England starting term, she called for students to be able to study online from home.\n\nThe Department for Education says it is supporting universities to have a mix of online and face-to-face teaching.\n\nIn a further Covid outbreak, 1,700 students in two accommodation blocks at Manchester Metropolitan University have been told to stay in isolation for 14 days, after about 100 students tested positive.\n\nThe lecturers' union questioned the point of \"encouraging students to come to university to self-isolate for a fortnight\".\n\nDr Grady said tough restrictions on students in Scotland and increasing warnings for students in England did not mean outbreaks were a consequence of \"reckless behaviour\" by students.\n\nInstead she said outbreaks were the result of universities pushing for \"massive numbers\" of students to come back to campuses for the \"university experience\" and to sign up for accommodation.\n\n\"As far as I'm concerned, they were mis-sold,\" Dr Grady told the BBC.\n\nShe said it was \"irresponsible\" of universities to have been \"luring students back on the basis that they can have a social life at university and that they can have face-to-face teaching\".\n\nRather than bringing back more students in England, she said more teaching should be put online and students should be able to study from home.\n\n\"I think there has to be an alternative to keeping students locked in absurdly expensive accommodation, rather than having them at home,\" said Dr Grady.\n\nShe called for students to be released from their housing contracts and for a way for them to be able to make a safe way home.\n\nDr Grady warned of an increasingly chaotic situation in universities and criticised the response of not letting students return home from their university accommodation.\n\nShe said this was based on a \"boarding school\" perception of university life, adding that it might be important for some students to be able to go home, for instance if they were homesick or living with people who they did not like or felt threatened by.\n\nDr Grady wants universities to reduce face-to-face teaching, but said some universities were only doing it \"surreptitiously\", because of fears \"their nearest competitor isn't doing it\".\n\nMost universities were expecting to deliver lectures online, but it is also thought some seminars could be \"live and interactive\" but delivered online.\n\nLiverpool Hope and Liverpool John Moores are among those that have publicly moved more teaching online.\n\nUniversities UK says it us up to each individual university to decide how they will bring back students and whether they will switch to online lessons.\n\nThe Department for Education said it was working with universities and Public Health England on any measures needed to respond to Covid outbreaks.\n\n\"Protecting students' education and wellbeing is vital, so we are supporting universities to continue delivering a blend of online and face-to-face learning where possible in a Covid-secure way,\" said a department spokeswoman.\n\n\"As with other essential services, education staff should continue to go into work where necessary.\"", "Prince Charles spoke ahead of the online service to mark National Police Memorial Day\n\nPrince Charles has led tributes to police officers who have died in the line of duty including a sergeant who was shot dead two days ago.\n\nThe Prince of Wales said Sgt Matiu Ratana's death was the \"latest heartbreaking evidence of the risks\".\n\nThe 54-year-old who died after being shot by a handcuffed suspect was remembered during an online service for National Police Memorial Day.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said \"we own them a huge debt\".\n\nThe Met commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said the death of a police officer on duty was a \"rare thing\".\n\nShe said her thoughts were with grieving families as six other officers who have died on duty in the past 12 months were also remembered.\n\nSgt Ratana, from New Zealand, is the eighth police officer in the UK to be shot dead in the past 20 years.\n\nHe died in hospital on Friday after a shooting in Croydon Custody Centre. A 23-year-old suspect, who is thought to have shot himself, remains in a critical condition in hospital.\n\nMatt Ratana died in hospital after being shot as a handcuffed suspect was being taken into custody\n\nPrince Charles, who made an address ahead of the online service, said: \"I particularly wish to remember those officers who have so tragically lost their lives since we met in Glasgow last year.\n\n\"The dreadful incident in Croydon on Friday is the latest heartbreaking evidence of the risks faced by our officers daily.\n\n\"I would like to send my deepest sympathy to the families of each of these officers who have given their lives.\"\n\nReverend Cannon David Wilbraham led the 20-minute service online where a candle was lit to those who had died.\n\nThe service which included serving police officers, Prime Minister Boris Johnson would have been held at Lincoln Cathedral before coronavirus restrictions saw it move online.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"The police officers we remember today represent the very best of us. They laid down their lives to prevent us from coming to harm and we own them a huge debt.\"\n\nPC Andrew Harper married his childhood sweetheart Lissie four weeks before his death\n\nFamily members, including Lissie Harper wife of PC Andrew Harper also took part in the video that was recorded in advance.\n\nPC Harper, 28, died after he suffered sustained catastrophic injuries when he was dragged behind a getaway car in Berkshire last August.\n\nReverend Wilbraham said: \"In some ways it is all the more poignant for being online.\n\n\"The reality of loss must often be felt most in the home.\"\n\n\"It is a sharp focus on the dangers that are faced,\" he added.\n\nDavid Wilbraham, National Police chaplain, said the online memorial was \"a meaningful, emotive service\"\n\nJohn Apter, of the Police Federation of England and Wales, said: \"National Police Memorial Day ensures that police officers who gave their all are never forgotten.\n\n\"We must always remember them, their commitment and ultimate sacrifice to public service.\"\n\nThe service is held each year on the nearest Sunday to St Michael's Day, the patron saint of police.\n\nA small service was held at Lincoln Cathedral with Chief Constable Bill Skelly, Reverend Tanya Lord and Phil Clark from the Police Federation, where a candle was lit to those who had died in service.\n\nDame Cressida had earlier laid a wreath at the National Police Memorial in central London with Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and Home Secretary Priti Patel.\n\nAll three stood for a minute's silence to remember officers who had lost their lives while on duty.\n\nThe 2020 memorial service was due to be held at Lincoln Cathedral\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "American football legend Joe Montana and his wife have rescued their nine-month-old grandchild from a kidnapping attempt, authorities say.\n\nThe Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said the couple confronted a woman who had entered their home and grabbed the child from a playpen.\n\nAfter a \"tussle\", officials said the couple were able to retrieve the child.\n\n\"Scary situation, but thankful that everybody is doing well,\" the Hall of Fame quarterback tweeted.\n\n\"We appreciate respect for our privacy at this time,\" he added.\n\nMontana, who is now 64, spent most of his career with the San Francisco 49ers and is widely regarded as one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time. He was nicknamed \"the Comeback Kid\" during his heyday in the 1980s, because he was famous for setting up winning last-minute touchdowns.\n\nMontana played for the San Francisco 49ers from 1979 to 1992\n\nThe Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said a female intruder entered the couple's home in Malibu on Saturday evening and grabbed their sleeping grandchild.\n\nThe four-time Super Bowl champion and his wife Jennifer \"attempted to de-escalate the situation\" and asked the woman to give the child back, before \"a tussle ensued and Mrs Montana was able to safely pry the child out of the suspect's arms\", the sheriff's department said.\n\nThe suspect, identified as Sodsai Dalzell, fled the scene but was then caught and charged with kidnapping and burglary.", "Shadow justice secretary David Lammy has said that the introduction of a 22:00 curfew for pubs in England has led to people \"bubbling out of pubs\" at the same time.\n\nThe Labour MP said that drinkers were \"hanging around towns and they're potentially spreading the virus\".\n\nMr Lammy questioned the \"science\" behind the new restrictions, saying: \"It's not clear where that came from.\"\n\nBut the culture secretary said: \"There is definitely science behind it.\"\n\nOliver Dowden, speaking to BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, insisted: \"That's why we're requiring people to be seated in pubs and restaurants, so that stops the flow of them to and from the bar.\n\n\"We are reducing the closing times to stop people staying later and drinking.\"\n\n\"And the point about all of this is that everyone has their part to play. If we all play by the rules, we can ensure that there are not further, more draconian restrictions,\" the culture secretary added.\n\nUnder the new restrictions, which came into force on Thursday, all pubs, bars and restaurants in England are to shut no later than 22:00 each night. They are also restricted to table service only.\n\nBut concerns have been raised by both businesses and community groups that the new curfew encourages customers to all leave at once and to carry on drinking together at one person's home.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Liverpool Nightlife CIC This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBrewer and pub chain Greene King told the BBC: \"Without the usual slow 'wind-down' time that pubs would see with a gradual closure, customers were all leaving at once which presented more of a challenge for the pub teams managing people's safety on exiting the premises.\n\n\"We have also seen examples of people leaving our pubs to buy alcohol in shops to drink elsewhere,\" its statement said.\n\nIt is calling on the government to reconsider many of the measures - which were introduced since the number of Covid-19 infections started to increase again.\n\nThey urged additional help for the hospitality industry: \"The measures have not been well thought through and the combined impact of [the curfew], the challenges of table service-only and the fact that the government are unfairly targeting the hospitality sector has had a cumulative negative impact.\"\n\nPub chain operator Mitchells & Butlers, which runs brands like All Bar One, said it was too early to tell what impact the curfew might have on trade, although \"it creates an additional challenge as it forces customers to leave all at once rather than dispersing gradually\".\n\nA spokesman said it presented an extra hurdle \"in what are already very challenging and uncertain times for our industry\".\n\nThe boss of the Wetherspoon pub chain has also questioned the introduction of the 22:00 curfew.\n\nTim Martin said on Tuesday: \"The main problem with the 22:00 curfew is that it's another random and arbitrary move by the government, which lacks logic or scientific credibility.\"\n\nHe said that it would reduce sales for \"hard-pressed\" pubs and restaurants, while also increasing \"the level of unsupervised socialising\" at home and elsewhere.\n\nSpeaking on the Marr show, Prof Mark Woolhouse, who sits on the government's advisory body that models pandemics, said that modelling of the effect of the new curfew had not been carried out to his knowledge.\n\nHe explained: \"The models do not have the sort of granularity that you can explore in detail for closing times for pubs, or even different versions of the rule of six that we now have around the country.\n\n\"So those sorts of things have to be judgement calls based on the public health evidence.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department for Business said: \"These measures strike a balance between saving lives by protecting our NHS and the most vulnerable and minimising the wider impact on the economy and schools.\n\nShe said the government had taken \"immediate action\" as the latest data suggested a \"considerable rise\" in the infection rate from within the hospitality sector in recent weeks.\"\n\n\"We've acted decisively to support the hospitality sector throughout the coronavirus outbreak, and will keep all measures under constant review,\" she added.\n\nAfter falling from their April peak, confirmed new coronavirus cases in the UK have been rising again since early August.\n\nOn Sunday, the UK recorded a further 5,693 cases and 17 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nThe number of deaths recorded over the weekend tends to be lower than during the week because of reporting delays.", "Sri Lanka says it is sending 21 containers of waste back to the UK after they were found to contain hazardous material.\n\nCustoms officials said hospital waste was discovered in many of the 263 containers imported by a private firm.\n\nThe shipment was meant to be made up of used mattresses, carpets and rugs for potential recycling.\n\nMost of the containers have been stored in warehouses, with only a small amount of material having been re-exported.\n\nThe authorities said there was also plastic and polythene waste in the containers.\n\nLegal action was taken after the Sri Lanka authorities impounded the material in 2018.\n\nOfficials said the 21 containers left Sri Lanka on Saturday.\n\nCustoms spokesman Sunil Jayaratne said the original importation breached international and EU rules and regulations on hazardous waste and its disposal.\n\nEngland's Environment Agency said it was committed to tackling illegal waste exports.\n\nAn EA spokesperson said: \"We are in contact with the Sri Lankan authorities and have requested more information which would allow us to launch a formal investigation.\"\n\nSeveral other countries in the region have recently begun to return waste imported from foreign countries.\n\nIn January, Malaysia returned 42 shipping containers of illegally imported plastic waste to the UK.", "Dame Carolyn will step down as CBI boss in November\n\nA post-Brexit trade deal \"can and must be made\", the organisation representing British businesses has said ahead of further UK-EU trade talks on Monday.\n\nDame Carolyn Fairbairn, the boss of the Confederation of British Industry, said it was the time for \"the spirit of compromise to shine through\".\n\nThe Brexit transition period, in which the UK has kept to EU trading rules, ends on 31 December.\n\nThe UK and EU are yet to agree a deal that will govern their future trade.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said a trade agreement with the EU must be done by 15 October if it is going to be ready for the start of 2021.\n\nBut despite this, talks have run into problems. There are still key points of disagreement - including, for example, on fishing.\n\nThe next official round of talks - the ninth since March - begins on 28 September.\n\nThe CBI carried out a survey of 648 companies which found only 4% said they would prefer no deal to be agreed on trade.\n\nAnd half of firms said the impact of dealing with the coronavirus had negatively affected their preparations for next year, when the transition period ends.\n\n\"Next week Brexit talks enter the 11th hour,\" said Dame Carolyn. \"Now must be the time for political leadership and the spirit of compromise to shine through on both sides. A deal can and must be made.\n\n\"Businesses face a hat-trick of unprecedented challenges - rebuilding from the first wave of Covid-19, dealing with the resurgence of the virus and preparing for significant changes to the UK's trading relationship with the EU.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why is it so hard to reach a Brexit deal?\n\nShe added: \"A good deal will provide the strongest possible foundation as countries build back from the pandemic.\n\n\"It would keep UK firms competitive by minimising red tape and extra costs, freeing much-needed time and resource to overcome the difficult times ahead.\"\n\nAccording to BBC Europe editor Katya Adler, one EU diplomat said the two sides were \"90% there\" on agreeing technical issues.\n\nThe diplomat said the \"remaining 10% is political\" and \"if that can't be solved, then the 90% is irrelevant\".\n\nAny trade agreement will aim to eliminate tariffs and reduce other trade barriers. It will also aim to cover both goods and services.\n\nIf negotiators fail to reach a deal, the UK faces the prospect of trading with the EU under the basic rules set by the World Trade Organization (WTO).\n\nIf the UK has to trade under WTO rules, tariffs will be applied to most goods which UK businesses send to the EU.\n\nThis would make UK goods more expensive and harder to sell in Europe. The UK could also do this to EU goods, if it chooses to.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBusinesses in Wales hit by coronavirus will be offered £140m in grants, Economy Minister Ken Skates has said.\n\nNearly two-thirds of Wales' population are now living under lockdown after new measures were brought in at 18:00 BST.\n\nNeath Port Talbot (NPT), Torfaen and Vale of Glamorgan have joined eight other areas in lockdown, affecting almost two million people in total.\n\nThe country's two biggest cities - Cardiff and Swansea - had restrictions applied on Sunday evening.\n\nThe new rules mean no travel outside council boundaries other than for work, education or medical emergencies, with no indoor mixing allowed and no alcohol sales after 22:00.\n\nConwy, Denbighshire, Wrexham, Flintshire, Anglesey and Carmarthenshire are being \"closely monitored\" by Public Health Wales, meaning if cases continue to rise they could also face lockdowns.\n\nMr Skates said two new separate schemes would help businesses in those affected areas, similar to those announced in England.\n\n\"This £140m will no doubt make the difference between business survival and business death for thousands of enterprises,\" he said.\n\n\"It will make the difference between employment and unemployment for thousands more workers.\"\n\nThe first scheme, worth £60m, will be targeted at areas hit by this month's rolling announcements of local lockdowns.\n\nIt will offer grants of between £1,000 and £1,500 to businesses with a rateable value under £50,000 that can demonstrate a material impact because of the new restrictions.\n\nA second scheme, worth £80m, will provide larger grants to firms across Wales that can demonstrate plans for post-coronavirus recovery. Of that money, £20m has been earmarked for tourism and hospitality businesses.\n\nCafes and bars are particularly feeling the strain of having fewer customers\n\nMr Skates also said there was a \"significant gap\" in unemployment between Wales and the rest of the UK.\n\nDespite predictions Wales would be \"worst hit\", the rate of unemployment in Wales from May to July was 3.1%, compared to 4.1% for the whole of the UK, latest figures show.\n\nMr Skates said that difference was because Wales had \"the most generous package\" of support for businesses and was the \"equivalent of 15,000 jobs saved\".\n\nWelcoming the UK government's new Job Support Scheme, he added that \"direct interventions\" by the Welsh Government had secured more than 100,000 jobs.\n\nIn response, Welsh Secretary of State Simon Hart said the UK government had \"directly supported more than 500,000 jobs\" through its job support schemes.\n\nNeath Port Talbot has gone into lockdown, with restrictions stretching along the M4 corridor from Newport to Swansea\n\nThe new measures, introduced on Monday evening, mean half of Wales' 22 local authorities are now under local lockdown rules.\n\nNPT council leader Rob Jones said the area was seeing rising case rates.\n\n\"We need the help of everyone across Neath Port Talbot to prevent the increasing spread of coronavirus and to bring the infection rates back down.\"\n\nBut wedding planner Gail Windley told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast it was an \"incredibly frustrating\" time for everyone involved in weddings.\n\nWedding planner Gail Windley says one bride she is working with would be \"glad to get it over with\"\n\n\"The rug is being pulled from under your feet constantly,\" said Ms Windley, who lives in Neath Port Talbot.\n\nShe said one bride she was working with was \"very stressed\" and would be \"glad to get it over with\".\n\n\"A wedding is a milestone in your life - that's how your ancestors will trace you back - so it's heart-breaking to be involved in that and see it.\"\n\nTorfaen council leader Anthony Hunt said the local lockdown strategy was working in neighbouring Caerphilly and Newport, where he said numbers had \"dropped dramatically\".\n\nA businesswoman in Cwmbran said she was hoping the local lockdown would not affect her too much.\n\nRosa Newton says she feels better prepared this time round\n\n\"The majority of customers are local to Torfaen and I do online as well, so I am hoping, fingers crossed, that it's not too bad,\" said Rosa Newton, who owns an antiques and vintage shop in Cwmbran.\n\nMs Newton said she felt \"better prepared\" for tighter restrictions this time than she did for the national lockdown in March.\n\n\"Within the shop, it's all face masks, hand sanitiser - I feel safe and I feel my customers are safe,\" she said.\n\n\"I will switch to more online shopping. We have to just switch and do what we can as a business to keep going really.\"\n\nLiam Lazarus and his partner Bethan run a cafe in Swansea.\n\n\"It's crazy - it feels like the goal posts are changing in the industry all the time,\" he said.\n\n\"We were getting into a nice rhythm, so now this is happening we are taking a step back.\"\n\nCardiff Airport will remain open despite the Vale of Glamorgan going into lockdown\n\nCardiff Airport, near Rhoose in Vale of Glamorgan, will remain open despite the county going into lockdown because it is \"a vital part of the transport infrastructure in Wales\", according to interim CEO Spencer Birns.\n\n\"Local lockdown restrictions state that residents of areas in lockdown should not travel outside the area, unless there is a reasonable excuse to do so,\" he said.\n\n\"For those travelling from areas not in lockdown, there are currently no legal restrictions about travelling to the airport, as long as rules are obeyed when they do so.\"\n\nResidents of Pontypool will be affected by the latest changes\n\nVale of Glamorgan council leader Neil Moore said it had not been an easy decision but pointed to the rate of infection rising above 33 people per 100,000 in the county borough.\n\nBlaenau Gwent on 304.9 per 100,000 and Merthyr Tydfil at 227.1 per 100,000 currently have the highest rates of infection.\n\nEleven council areas and one town in Wales will be subject to extra restrictions from Monday night\n\nPlaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth said: \"With restrictions now impacting on two thirds of the population of Wales, I appeal to Welsh Government to give careful consideration to using more hyper-local measures where possible, focusing on specific clusters. \"This would be far more effective with a properly functioning and robust testing system of course, which highlights why this needs to be achieved with real urgency.\"\n\nWelsh local lockdown rules mean extended households are not allowed and people are barred from leaving or entering the council boundaries without a reasonable excuse.\n\nPeople are allowed to travel outside the area for a limited number of reasons including going to work if they are not able to work from home, to go to school, give care or buy food or medical supplies.\n\nBlaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Merthyr Tydfil, Newport and Rhondda Cynon Taf were already under lockdown, while Llanelli in Carmarthenshire became the first town to have restrictions imposed which do not apply to the wider county.\n\nCardiff and Swansea both went into lockdown at 18:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said the position in the \"north of Wales continues to be mixed\".\n\nA meeting with the leaders of all six councils in the area will take place in the next week.\n\n\"If we need to take action, we will, but the position isn't as clear there yet as it has been in the south and I want to make sure that we look at it with the detail it deserves,\" Mr Drakeford said.\n\nThe Conservative MP Simon Baynes's Clwyd South constituency falls within a large part of rural Denbighshire, one of the north Wales authorities with a rising rate of infection.\n\nHe used a speech in the House of Commons earlier on Monday to congratulate the UK government on consulting with Welsh counterparts on the latest covid measures introduced in England.\n\nLabour MPs criticising the UK government's approach to coronavirus should \"consider how the Welsh Government has dealt with many issues,\" he said.\n\nHe said many criticisms such as being \"late to lockdown\" were \"similar approaches as those taken by the Welsh Government\".\n\n\"We are all learning as the pandemic evolves... of course there are bumps in the road,\" he added.", "An investigation has been launched and police are working with the Health and Safety Executive\n\nA six-year-old girl has died in hospital after she was struck by a falling tree at school.\n\nEmergency crews were called to Gosforth Park First School in Newcastle, at about 13:15 BST on Friday.\n\nNorthumbria Police said she died earlier on Saturday and her family was being supported \"at this incredibly difficult time\".\n\nAn investigation has been launched and police are working with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).\n\nLeanne Lamb, head teacher, said: \"Our entire school community has been shocked and devastated by the tragic news that one of our pupils passed away during the night, as a result of injuries suffered from a falling tree in the school grounds.\n\n\"First and foremost, our thoughts and prayers are with the child's family and friends as they come to terms with this tragic loss.\n\n\"As a school and community, we will take the time to mourn and are putting in place extra support for the staff and pupils, who are devastated by this incident.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nAndy Murray's return to the clay proved to be a chastening experience as he lost in straight sets to Stan Wawrinka in the French Open first round.\n\nThe 33-year-old Scot was well below the level of 2015 champion Wawrinka, who eased to a 6-1 6-3 6-2 victory.\n\nMurray's exit came after British number one Dan Evans lost to Japan's Kei Nishikori in a fluctuating five-setter.\n\nEvans has lost on all three appearances in the main draw at Roland Garros after a 1-6 6-1 7-6 (7-3) 1-6 6-4 defeat.\n\nBritish number three Cameron Norrie and qualifier Liam Broady are left to carry the flag in the men's singles.\n\nMurray out of sorts on clay return\n\nExcitement and a sense of disbelief greeted the draw which pitted Murray against fellow three-time Grand Slam champion Wawrinka - who the Scot faced in his last match on clay over three years ago.\n\nFor Murray, it was a remarkable twist of fate which even left him \"amused\". He had not played on the surface since a brutal five-set semi-final against Wawrinka at Roland Garros in June 2017.\n\nThat proved to be the start of the hip trouble which left him needing two major surgeries and on the verge of retirement last year.\n\nWawrinka, 35, has also seen his career stalled by a knee injury in recent years and it led to plenty of intrigue about how a poignant reunion between the two veterans at Roland Garros would pan out.\n\nUltimately, it did not end up being much of a contest as 16th seed Wawrinka ruthlessly dismissed an out-of-sorts Murray.\n\nThe Briton had beaten Wawrinka when they met in the European Open final in Antwerp in October, but a repeat result never looked likely.\n\nThe Swiss has climbed back up the rankings after finding form and fitness, showing why in a one-sided first set where he broke serve three times and won two thirds of the points.\n\nMurray's first-serve percentage was down at a lowly 21% and that was punished by Wawrinka, whose heavy ball-striking was too much for Murray to handle.\n\nEven though Murray's service game slightly improved, he continued to look flat and unable to rouse the spirit which has seen him turn matches around so often in the past.\n\nAfterwards, Murray said he was trying to be calmer on court after regularly showing his frustration during matches in the recent Cincinnati Masters and US Open.\n\n\"It was something that was brought up to me and I tried to sort of keep my emotions in check,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't know whether that affected me in any way or not, but that was probably why it was quieter than usual.\"\n\nWawrinka maintained his level in the second and third sets as he continued to punch holes in Murray's defence, ending up with 42 winners as he cruised to victory in one hour and 37 minutes.\n\nThe match was played on a cold evening under the new floodlights on an open Court Philippe Chatrier, but Murray said the conditions were not a factor for his below-par performance.\n\n\"I didn't play well. I served under 40% first serves in the court, which is just not good enough against anyone, and especially someone as good as Stan,\" he said.\n\n\"You want to be serving in the 60%, that sort of region. You won't see many players serve under 40% the rest of the tournament.\"\n\nMurray had not played a clay-court match for more than three years before this one.\n\nHe prioritised the US Open while Wawrinka was getting in some clay-court practice on the Challenger Tour. But the difference between the two was still stark.\n\nMurray accepts he will never physically be the same as he was, and performances like this do make you wonder whether he can ever have the impact he would dearly love to have at Grand Slams.\n\nMotivation may come in the form of Sweden's former world number one Mats Wilander, who asked on Eurosport whether Murray still has the right to be taking wildcards from young players.\n\nThe aim for the rest of the season is to play as much as possible - starting with back-to-back indoor tournaments in Cologne next month.\n\nEvans still searching for an elusive Roland Garros win\n\nEvans admitted he could not have been handed much tougher a draw than Nishikori, who is ranked one place below the Briton after injury problems at 35th in the world.\n\nSo it proved. Once the obvious disappointment subsides, Evans will be able to take heart from a gritty display where he continued to hang in and show flashes of his quality.\n\nThe 30-year-old from Birmingham admits clay is not his favourite surface and, with Nishikori not quite in peak condition, it transpired to be an engaging and unpredictable battle between the pair.\n\nEvans initially looked more comfortable in the drizzle, allowing him to make the quicker start in a 29-minute opening set.\n\nWith the event taking place in autumn rather than its usual spot in May-June, the vastly different conditions have been a big talking point going into the tournament.\n\nBoth Evans and Nishikori were wrapped up in hoodies and long sleeves during the warm-up, with the Japanese player continuing to look cold in an uninspired first-set display where he won just 12 points.\n\nHowever, the match swung back in Nishikori's favour in a second set which mirrored the opener and then Evans had to battle to force a tie-breaker in a third lasting almost an hour and a half.\n\nThat momentum continued in his favour as Nishikori's level dropped again in the fourth and it led to a decider that nobody would have dared predict.\n\nNishikori, though, has a remarkable winning record in five-set matches - standing at 23-6 coming into this one. And, after surviving an Evans fightback from 3-0 down, again showed his steeliness to come through the decisive moments.\n\nTrailing 30-0 at 5-4, Nishikori remained focused and increased the intensity to break Evans' serve to clinch victory in three hours and 49 minutes.\n• None Has it gone too far?", "Mr Swinney told BBC Scotland it was \"appropriate that we look at contingencies\"\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney has confirmed contingency planning has started on potential changes to the Scottish election timetable.\n\nThe vote for the Scottish parliament is due to take place on Thursday 6 May 2021.\n\nSpeaking on the Politics Scotland programme, Mr Swinney said \"the focus\" was on sticking to that date.\n\nBut he said that \"it's appropriate that we look at contingencies in case that is not practical\".\n\nThe past week has seen additional restrictions put in place to deal with an upsurge in Covid-19 cases.\n\nAfter more than 700 new positive tests were reported on Saturday, Scotland's National Clinical Director Jason Leitch said the pandemic was now \"accelerating\" in Scotland.\n\n\"There's a great deal of uncertainty about the period that lies ahead,\" Mr Swinney said.\n\nBut he stressed that the intention was to work within the existing election timetable if at all possible.\n\n\"The government's plan - and parliament's plan - is that the election should take place as scheduled on the first Thursday in May.\n\n\"Obviously there are some contingencies being looked at by parliament, by all parties, and obviously they will continue to discuss these issues.\"\n\nThe deputy first minister emphasised the importance of people being allowed to vote.\n\nHe added: \"It's vital that we have that democratic process to enable the people of Scotland to choose their government and - certainly from the government's point of view - we want the election in May to go ahead as timetabled already.\"", "Barry Island is one of the major tourist attractions in the Vale of Glamorgan\n\nThree more counties are to be placed under local lockdowns on Monday, the Welsh Government has announced.\n\nNeath Port Talbot, Torfaen and Vale of Glamorgan will have tighter Covid-19 restrictions from 18:00 BST on Monday.\n\nIt means half of Wales' 22 local authority areas will be under local lockdowns, after rules came into force in Cardiff and Swansea on Sunday.\n\nAlmost two million people in Wales - two-thirds of the population - will be under local lockdowns.\n\nVale of Glamorgan council leader Neil Moore said it had not been an easy decision but pointed to the rate of infection rising to 34.4 people per 100,000 in the county borough.\n\n\"We have taken a decision today for early and preventative action,\" he said.\n\n\"One of the main reasons for this is that the sooner we stop the increase in transmission, the sooner the restrictions can be lifted.\n\n\"We must now all work together to make that possible.\"\n\nBlaenau Gwent on 202 per 100,000 and Merthyr Tydfil at 169 per 100,000 currently have the highest rates of infection.\n\nNeath Port Talbot will go into lockdown, meaning counties along the M4 corridor from Newport to Swansea will be under restrictions\n\nNeath Port Talbot council leader Rob Jones said: \"These restrictions are being imposed to protect public health, to protect you and your loved ones, and to stop people dying.\n\n\"Rates are much higher in local authority areas which border our county borough but we are now seeing rising rates here in Neath Port Talbot.\n\n\"We need the help of everyone across Neath Port Talbot to prevent the increasing spread of coronavirus and to bring the infection rates back down.\"\n\nMr Jones also urged people against panic buying, adding: \"There is no need to be concerned about stocks running low.\"\n\nTorfaen council leader Anthony Hunt said: \"I know the introduction of restrictions is always a difficult decision, but it is a decision I support in order to protect people's health and to try and break the chain of transmission in Torfaen and stop the situation from getting worse.\n\n\"We have already seen this strategy work effectively in Caerphilly and Newport where numbers have dropped dramatically due to people adhering to the new rules.\"\n\nCwmbran is one of the towns which will be affected by restrictions in Torfaen\n\nWelsh local lockdown rules mean extended households must end and people are not allowed to leave or enter the council boundaries without a reasonable excuse.\n\nPeople are allowed to travel outside the area for a limited number of reasons.\n\nThese include going to work if they are not able to work from home, to go to school, give care, or buy food or medical supplies.\n\nBlaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Merthyr Tydfil, Newport and Rhondda Cynon Taf were already under lockdown, while Llanelli in Carmarthenshire, became the first town to have restrictions imposed which do not apply to the wider county.\n\nCardiff and Swansea both went into lockdown at 18:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nEleven council areas and one town in Wales will be subject to extra restrictions from Monday night\n\nFrom Monday evening, almost 1.9m of Wales' 3.1m people will be subject to local coronavirus rules.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said: \"We are now taking further action and placing three more areas under local restrictions in south Wales - Neath Port Talbot, Torfaen, and the Vale of Glamorgan - because we are seeing rising rates in these three areas. These areas also share borders with local authority areas where rates are much higher.\n\n\"Introducing restrictions in any parts of Wales is always an incredibly difficult decision for us to make. But we're acting to protect people's health and to try and break the chain of transmission and stop the situation from getting worse.\n\n\"This is not a regional lockdown - this is a series of local restrictions in each local authority area to respond to a specific rise in cases in each area, which have distinct and unique chains of transmission.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative health spokesman Andrew RT Davies said: \"The first minister might not want it to be described as a 'regional lockdown' but with two million people in the south Wales corridor now under some form of restrictions that's unfortunately what it is.\"\n\nHe called for a more targeted approach - \"local not regional\" - and said there needed to be urgent financial support for businesses affected.\n\nMeanwhile Mr Drakeford said a meeting would take place next week with leaders of councils in north Wales, where he said the position \"continues to be mixed\".\n\n\"If we need to take action, we will, but the position isn't as clear there yet as it has been in the south and I want to make sure that we look at it with the detail it deserves,\" he added.", "Sir David Attenborough has attended a private viewing of his new documentary at Kensington Palace, hosted by the Duke of Cambridge.\n\nDuring his visit, the naturalist gave Prince George a fossilised giant tooth from an extinct shark.\n\nThe young prince looked captivated as he handled the tooth of a carcharocles megalodon, a shark that was once a sea predator.\n\nSir David and Prince William both campaign on environmental issues.\n\nThe event was held in the palace grounds to allow for social distancing.\n\nWilliam and the veteran broadcaster watched A Life On Our Planet, in which Sir David reflects on the defining moments of his life's work and the devastating changes he has witnessed.\n\nThe young prince was fascinated by the tooth, found by Sir David in the 1960s\n\nSir David, 94, chatted to the Duke and Duchess and their three children, Princes George and Louis, and Princess Charlotte, after the screening.\n\nHe was interviewed by Prince William at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in 2019, where he warned humanity needed to act fast to prevent parts of the natural world being annihilated.\n\nThe couple and Sir David have worked together on the environment - including on the Earthshot Prize, a cash reward for solutions to environmental problems.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. January 2019: Prince William and Sir David discuss he environment in Davos\n\nThe giant shark tooth given to Prince George was found by Sir David during a family holiday to Malta in the late 1960s.\n\nIt was embedded in the island nation's soft yellow limestone, and is about 23 million years old.\n\nCarcharocles megalodon is believed to have grown up to 15 metres in length, twice the length of the great white shark.\n\nDavid Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet is released in cinemas on Monday and on Netflix on October 4.", "NHS staff hand out test kits to students at Glasgow University, where there has been a Covid-19 outbreak\n\nStudents have spoken of their worry and confusion at being locked down in their university halls, in a situation described by unions as \"shambolic\".\n\nUp to 1,700 students at Manchester Metropolitan University and hundreds at other institutions, including in Edinburgh and Glasgow, are self-isolating following Covid-19 outbreaks.\n\nIn Manchester, students are being prevented from leaving by security.\n\nUniversities UK said the wellbeing of students was \"the first priority\".\n\nRobert Halfon, the conservative chairman of the Education Select Committee, said 3,000 students were in lockdown at universities from Dundee to Exeter.\n\nHe called for the government and its scientific advisers to reassure students and families by setting out the policy for England - and warned having students in lockdown at Christmas would cause \"huge anguish\".\n\nMr Halfon said universities should also consider discounts to students who were not being taught face-to-face.\n\nManchester Met said it had introduced a 14-day self-isolation period at its accommodation at Birley and Cambridge Halls after 127 students tested positive for the virus.\n\nSome students there said they were getting ready to go out on Friday night when they looked outside to see security guards and police, who told them they could not leave.\n\nFirst-year Joe Byrne said: \"We have had no warning, support or advice from the university about how we get food etc, and instead have been left completely in the dark and practically locked up against our will.\"\n\nMegan Tingey said she was not contacted by the university about the lockdown before police turned up outside her Birley Vine accommodation.\n\n\"It was quite scary and confusing,\" she said. \"No one's really told us much and then the police turn up as well with security outside.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnother student, Ellie Jackson, told BBC News she had read about the halls lockdown in the local newspaper before receiving an email about it - and stressed the need for \"more guidance\" from the university.\n\nFor Ellie, it is the second period of self-isolation she and her five housemates have had to undertake.\n\n\"My course is all online - I haven't even been into university,\" she said. \"I could have done this at home. I don't think it's worth the money at the moment.\"\n\nIn a statement, Manchester Met said it had communicated with students \"as soon as we could but it was not possible to give significant advanced notice due to the requirement to implement the isolation almost immediately\".\n\n\"The communications we sent included details about how to access food and other provisions and we have been working with other partners, including local supermarkets, throughout the day to provide additional support,\" the statement said.\n\n\"Our security teams will increase patrols to support the lockdown and we will take disciplinary action against any students found to have breached requirements.\"\n\nStudents in some halls are confined to their flats at Manchester Metropolitan University\n\nMeanwhile, students across all of Scotland have been told not to go to pubs, parties or restaurants over the weekend and Universities Scotland has said students who socialise with anyone outside of their household risk losing their place at university.\n\nHundreds of students are isolating at Glasgow University because of two coronavirus clusters.\n\nThe university said it would offer a four-week rent rebate to all students in university residences in recognition of the \"difficult circumstances\" under which they were living.\n\nIt said those students would also be given £50 each to spend on food and it would invite local mobile food outlets to come to residences.\n\nA mobile testing unit has been set up at Murano Street Student Village in Glasgow\n\nReese Chamberlain, an international student at the University of Edinburgh, said his entire block at Holland House was \"locked down\" after a student tested positive.\n\n\"The situation is dire,\" he said. \"I already self-isolated when I arrived here and even then it was so difficult getting basic supplies.\"\n\nHe said there had been an \"exodus of students\" during the night on Friday, with more than 50 leaving the building.\n\nA spokesperson for the university said it was \"not asking for whole halls of student accommodation to self-isolate\" but there were currently \"a small number of positive cases\" and the university was providing care and support to those self-isolating.\n\nA sign reading \"students not criminals\" was displayed at Murano Street Student Village in Glasgow\n\nUniversity and College Union general secretary Jo Grady described the lockdown at Manchester Met as \"the latest catastrophe in a week where wholly predictable - and predicted - Covid outbreaks have caused havoc\".\n\nThere was \"no point encouraging students to come to university to self-isolate for a fortnight\", she added.\n\nAnd the National Union of Students (NUS) said students should be able to return to their families because being \"trapped\" in university accommodation would only add to their anxiety at an already difficult time.\n\nIt called for universities to support students with food deliveries and provide access to mental health services.\n\n\"We must remember this is happening because the government and universities told students to return to campus and this shambolic situation now demands flexibility,\" the union said.\n\nStudents \"must be able to leave rental contracts, access online learning or defer, and do what it takes to prioritise their safety\", the statement added.\n\nThe Department for Education said the government was working closely with universities in England to ensure they were prepared for the return of students.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Students should follow the latest health advice, just like the wider public, which means they should stay at university in the event that they have symptoms; have to isolate; there are additional restrictions imposed locally; or there is an outbreak on campus or in their accommodation.\"\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said students were \"not to blame\" for coronavirus outbreaks but backed universities taking disciplinary action as a \"last resort\" against those who broke the rules.\n\nUniversities UK, which represents 139 institutions, said the health and wellbeing of students, staff and local communities was the first priority for universities, which would continue to follow government guidance.\n\nHow are the rules affecting you? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nManny Pacquiao's special assistant says that the eight-weight world champion hopes to fight Conor McGregor in 2021.\n\nJayke Joson added that a \"huge portion\" of Pacquiao's earnings would go to help coronavirus victims in the 41-year-old's native Philippines.\n\nFormer two-weight UFC champion McGregor, 32, tweeted on Friday that the the Irishman would be \"boxing Pacquiao next in the Middle East\".\n\n\"We don't deny it,\" Joson said in a statement on Saturday.\n\nWhile nothing has been signed yet, he added that negotiation between the two camps \"is now starting to move on\" and that both fighters are \"getting ready for this one epic last boxing fight\".\n• None McGregor: Who next after UFC 246? Khabib, Mayweather, Masvidal, Usman or Pacquiao?\n\nPacquiao is the only boxer ever to hold world titles in eight different divisions and in his last fight in July 2019 he beat Keith Thurman to become the oldest welterweight champion in history.\n\nHe now has a 62-7 record, with two draws, while McGregor's last fight - a win over Donald Cerrone at UFC 246 in January - gave him a 22-4 record in mixed martial arts.\n\nHis only previous professional boxing fight was a loss to Floyd Mayweather in August 2017.\n\nThe Las Vegas fight was one of the richest bouts in boxing history and generated more than £450m through 4.3m pay-per-view buys in North America, second only to 4.6m for Mayweather's win over Pacquiao in 2015.", "Additional police officers trained in combating cyber crime are to be deployed in Scotland.\n\nPolice Scotland has also announced plans to establish a \"centre of excellence\" for cyber crimes, with at least 150 specialist staff.\n\nIts focus will be on offences such as child sexual abuse, fraud, and the sharing of indecent images.\n\nThe force has said online sexual crimes against children have increased during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nJune was the busiest month ever for reported child sexual abuse.\n\nPolice Scotland recorded 226 crimes, an increase of 21% on the same month the previous year.\n\nDeputy chief constable Malcolm Graham said: \"The nature of crime is changing and Police Scotland needs to change with it. The online space is becoming a bigger part of the front line of policing every day.\n\n\"As well as keeping people safe on the streets, our officers and staff are keeping children safe on their computers and smartphones in every community in Scotland.\n\nMr Graham added: \"While cyber crimes are under-reported, we know we are stopping vulnerable people from being defrauded and adapting our techniques in response to criminals who are doing the same.\"\n\nThe centre for excellence is intended to bring together 100 officers and staff already working in cyber criminality and a further 50 staff initially.\n\nThere are further plans for this number to increase.\n\nThe cyber crime strategy will be put before the Scottish Police Authority board later this week.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAbout 1,700 university students have been told to self-isolate after 127 tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nStudents at two Manchester Metropolitan University accommodation blocks have been told to stay in their rooms for 14 days, even if they have no symptoms.\n\nStudents said \"police and security were outside\" and self-isolation had \"left morale really low\".\n\nA university spokesman said disciplinary action will be taken against any breaches.\n\nThe restrictions affect students in accommodation blocks at Birley campus and Cambridge Halls after \"127 students have tested positive with a number of others symptomatic or self-isolating\", Manchester City Council said.\n\nStudents across the city have been urged to attend virtual freshers' events and avoid big parties.\n\nBut some said they had no warning of a lockdown and are now trapped in halls of residence.\n\nStudents at two accommodation blocks are self-isolating for a fortnight\n\nMegan Tingy, who studies at Manchester Metropolitan, said on Friday \"We were getting ready to go out and looked out to security and police outside the halls. They say we can't leave.\n\n\"We haven't received any emails from university about this and they seem to be holding us in against our will.\"\n\nStudent Trisha Kakooza, who is from London, said: \"We had eight hours to go get food to last us for two weeks.\n\n\"We have to get any other food delivered, which is expensive.\n\n\"I have a job and it helps me make extra money since student finance isn't enough but now I can't go out to work.\n\n\"We can study remotely but I won't get paid by the agency I work for.\"\n\nChip Wilson, 19, said: \"We have been told we are not allowed to leave and, if we do, we cannot come back, so now we are all stuck inside.\n\n\"On top of all this, many of us here have Covid symptoms but we cannot get tests. We can only get drive-through tests and none of us have cars, and even if we did we can't leave now.\"\n\nMost parts of Greater Manchester have been subject to stricter restrictions since July after a spike in coronavirus cases.\n\nThe rate has also doubled in the city of Manchester to 1,026 positive tests in the week up to 22 September, compared to 515 cases in the previous week.\n\nThe lockdown comes as students in Scotland were told not to go to pubs, parties or restaurants this weekend in to stem the spread of the virus.\n\nNHS staff hand out test kits to Glasgow University students, who are also subject to restrictions\n\nJoe Barnes, who recently started at Manchester Metropolitan University, told BBC Breakfast that self-isolation had \"left the morale of my flat really low\".\n\nHe said lessons were being conducted online \"so theoretically I could go and study from home but that defeats the point - I've not just come for my studies but to meet new people and enjoy the experience.\"\n\nHe added: \"I've heard horror stories of massive parties in some of the halls around here… it is just frustrating that no one else could have foreseen that.\"\n\nThe National Union of Students said affected students should be able \"to return to their families if they wish, as being trapped in university accommodation will only add anxiety at an already difficult time\".\n\n\"All students affected must be supported by their universities with food deliveries, shopping and access to mental health services if needed,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nJo Grady, general secretary of the University and College Union, said the Manchester incident was \"the latest catastrophe in a week where wholly predictable - and predicted - Covid outbreaks have caused havoc on campuses across the UK\".\n\n\"We warned last month of the problems with moving thousands of students across the country and the time has come for urgent action from ministers and universities to protect staff and students.\"\n\nShe urged university leaders to drop face-to-face classes until the government improves the test-and-trace system.\n\nA university spokesman said: \"We are fully supportive of the [lockdown] decision.\n\n\"Services such as wellbeing support and the library will remain available to our students online.\n\n\"Our security teams will increase patrols to support the lockdown and we will take disciplinary action against any students found to have breached requirements.\"\n\nCouncillor Bev Craig, executive member for adult health and wellbeing for the city council, said: \"We understand that local residents may be concerned about this situation.\n\n\"We want to reassure them that the evidence so far suggests that transmission has been within the student community only and has not been more widespread.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nAre you a student in lockdown? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Llanelli is the first town in Wales being put under a lockdown without the rest of its county\n\nWales' first town-only lockdown has come into force.\n\nLlanelli in Carmarthenshire had restrictions imposed from 18:00 BST on Saturday, making it the first town hit with restrictions which do not apply to the rest of the surrounding county.\n\nWales' two biggest cities - Cardiff and Swansea - will follow suit on Sunday evening following Covid-19 spikes.\n\nLlanelli MP Nia Griffith said lockdown would be \"a tricky time... but it's better to do it sooner than later\".\n\n\"What we don't want is to leave things too late and then wish we'd done more,\" she said.\n\n\"It will impact on different people in different ways but the general feeling is we that need to get on top of this.\"\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething told BBC Breakfast on Saturday the situation was \"very serious\" and comparable with cases in February.\n\n\"We ended large parts of NHS activity about two weeks later. We had a full lockdown three-and-a-bit weeks later,\" he said.\n\nPeople in 13 ward areas in Llanelli cannot now leave town, or mix indoors with anyone outside their own household.\n\nThe town has seen 85 coronavirus cases over the past week - compared to 24 across the rest of Carmarthenshire.\n\nCarmarthenshire council leader Emlyn Dole said it was \"worrying to see how sharply the number of positive cases has risen in the Llanelli area\".\n\n\"Action has had to be taken to help stop the spread and break the chain of infections concentrated in this area to prevent a whole county lockdown,\" he said.\n\nMr Dole told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast he thought the spike in cases was down to pubs and bars not \"paying as much heed to the restrictions as the rest of us\" in terms of social distancing.\n\nThe rate of infection across Llanelli has leapt to 152 cases per 100,000 of the population - it is just 18 per 100,000 for the rest of Carmarthenshire.\n\nIt places the town in the top three weekly infections rates across Wales, alongside Blaenau Gwent on 202 per 100,000 and Merthyr Tydfil at 169 per 100,000.\n\nMaria Battle, who chairs the Hywel Dda University Health Board serving south west Wales, said: \"Our local community has given us such tremendous support during the past few months.\n\n\"To protect the health of our people, including the most vulnerable, and to ensure our NHS resources are available to provide people with the care they need, we need the help of our Llanelli population and wider community now more than ever before.\"\n\nThere will be nine areas of Wales under restrictions\n\nExtra testing capacity is being introduced, with appointments at Parc y Scarlets, Ty'r Nant at Trostre, and the Carmarthen showground.\n\nHealth officials said there should be \"no reason for Llanelli residents to travel excessive distances for a test\".\n\nCardiff and Swansea go into lockdown from 18:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nSwansea hit a seven-day rate of 56 new cases of coronavirus per 100,000 on Friday, while Cardiff reached 38 cases per 100,000.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford urged people to behave as if the new restrictions were already in place, but told LBC that arrest by the police was a last resort.\n\n\"If there are people who clearly deliberately flout the law you have to enforce,\" he said.\n\n\"Yes, with fines if necessary. But for us that's the last resort, not the first resort.\n\n\"In Caerphilly [the first area in Wales to face local lockdown] we have had very, very good levels of co-operation.\n\n\"My experience is people are wanting to do the right thing.\"\n\nCardiff Central Labour MP Jo Stevens also warned residents: \"Don't take this weekend to go on a massive bender.\n\n\"It's not going to be helpful,\" she told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"If people do that this weekend, it does risk further infection rates and that means we'll be in local lockdown for longer.\"\n\nThomas Beynon, manager at Three Cliffs Bay Holiday Park, Gower, said he was expecting to cancel about 380 bookings before the season ends in November due to the new lockdown in Swansea.\n\nHe said it was \"hugely deflating\" and meant \"strange times again\" after the business was hit by the national lockdown earlier this year.\n\nMr Beynon said customers had been \"very supportive\" by transferring bookings to next year rather than cancelling and seeking a refund.\n\n\"We are extremely humbled,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hundreds of students are isolating in university accommodation including at Glasgow University\n\nThe culture secretary has defended students going back to university in England after a union labelled the situation \"shambolic\".\n\nOliver Dowden told the Andrew Marr Show it was important students did not \"give up a year of their life\" by not going.\n\nLabour has called on the government to consider pausing the return after Covid outbreaks meant thousands of students had to isolate in their accommodation.\n\nA scientist who advises the government said the situation was \"inevitable\".\n\nMr Dowden said: \"Young people have paid a huge price during this crisis and I think it is only fair to try and get them back - we have got clear guidelines for them to follow.\"\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded a further 5,693 cases and 17 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nThe number of deaths recorded over the weekend tends to be lower than during the week because of reporting delays.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Oliver Dowden: \"They are going to university and paying the fees accordingly\".\n\nProf Mark Woolhouse, who sits on the government's pandemic modelling group SPI-M, said the situation was \"entirely predictable\" and had been modelled.\n\nHe said students were not to blame for the outbreaks and with students converging from around the country it was \"inevitable there would be some spread\".\n\nModelling showed the risk areas were first-year halls of residence and face-to-face teaching, he said.\n\nMeanwhile, three more Welsh counties are to face tighter coronavirus restrictions on Monday - which will mean almost two-thirds of the Welsh population will be under local lockdowns.\n\nStudents have been told to isolate in their accommodation at several universities in England and Scotland, including around 1,700 students at Manchester Metropolitan University - where students said they were being prevented from leaving by security guards and police.\n\nEllie Jackson, a first-year at Manchester Met, said: \"We knew it would be different but we didn't think it would be this different.\n\n\"We've been told, if we leave, we can't come back.\"\n\nFellow student Jaimick Shah said his flatmates had all tested negative but still had to isolate. \"We're struggling to get food because everyone is trying to order it at the same time,\" he said.\n\nManchester Met said it had communicated with students \"as soon as we could but it was not possible to give significant advanced notice due to the requirement to implement the isolation almost immediately\".\n\nThe university said it was \"urgently preparing a care package\" and financial support for affected students to ensure they had the essentials they needed.\n\nThe local University and College Union branch said it had raised concerns that \"the mass return of students would inevitably see institutions become Covid incubators\" - but it said these warnings went unheeded.\n\nIn Scotland there are outbreaks at the University of Glasgow, where 600 students have been isolating, as well as at universities in Dundee, Edinburgh and Aberdeen.\n\nCoronavirus restrictions in Scotland currently ban people from visiting other households in their home - meaning students cannot return home to another address in Scotland from university accommodation for a short stay without a reasonable excuse, such as a family emergency.\n\nHowever, new guidance issued by the Scottish government clarifies that students can return home on a long-term basis.\n\nStudents who have been told to self-isolate can return home if they need support to do so, including physical, financial or mental health support.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Lammy MP: \"The government is now threatening to lock them up at university\"\n\nSome students have questioned why they were told to return to their university accommodation when most of their teaching is being done remotely - and why they are still required to pay full tuition fees.\n\nMr Dowden said students' experience at the start of this term was \"not as it would be\" due to the crisis, but that they should still pay tuition fees as they were being taught.\n\nAsked by Andrew Marr if students should get their fees back, Mr Lammy said: \"It's clear that there are actually lots of universities struggling financially so there's a balance here to be struck. Many of us have gone online, the key now is to get students online successfully and for them to have face-to-face [tuition] where it is safe to do so.\"\n\nLabour's shadow education secretary Kate Green told BBC Breakfast the government should consider pausing the start of term while an \"effective, efficient testing system\" was put in place, with students given a choice of learning from home if they felt safer there.\n\nLarissa Kennedy, president of the National Union of Students, said the union had \"long called for online learning to be the default\".\n\n\"If [students'] quality of learning is severely impacted then we also need to see tuition fees reimbursed,\" she said.\n\nShe said students should be able to be released from rental contracts at their university accommodation and receive rent rebates so they could remain at home if they wished.\n\n\"We must remember this is happening because the government and universities told students to return to campus and this shambolic situation now demands flexibility,\" the union said.\n\nThousands more students in England are turning up for the new university term this weekend - but the big question is whether they should be heading in the opposite direction and studying from home.\n\nIs it wise or fair for universities to bring students back if they're at increasing risk of being in a Covid outbreak and having to self-isolate?\n\nAccommodation blocks, with shared facilities and filled with young people wanting to socialise, have already seen a wave of outbreaks. So should the brakes be applied to stop this pattern repeating itself?\n\nAfter recruiting record numbers of students and promising them a mix of online and face-to-face teaching, it would be a very awkward U-turn for universities to switch back to the academic equivalent of working from home.\n\nAnd would that mean refunds on accommodation and tuition fees?\n\nThere are likely to be some chaotic days ahead - and some big decisions to be made about whether to cut numbers on campus. And students must wonder how they've gone from being cooped up at home all summer to now being cooped up in university.\n\nMeanwhile, it has emerged that Education Secretary Gavin Williamson and Health Secretary Matt Hancock wrote to directors of public health on Wednesday about the return of universities.\n\nIn the letter, tweeted by Sheffield's director of public health Greg Fell, ministers said they should formulate \"a robust outbreak plan\" in collaboration with higher education providers.\n\nIn the case of local restrictions, they said public health directors should ensure measures in response, such as closing some or all face-to-face learning \"do not lead to a migration of students away from their term-time accommodation back to their family homes\".\n\nAre you a student? How are the rules affecting you? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "People eligible for the flu vaccination are to be offered appointments at new drive-through centres in Edinburgh.\n\nThe centres have opened as a direct response to the Covid-19 crisis. Walk-in clinics will be available for those without a car.\n\nThey should be able to vaccinate up to 500 people each day. They will operate every weekend until December.\n\nInterim deputy chief medical officer Dr Nicola Steedman has urged people to ensure they get the flu jab.\n\nShe said it could avoid the risk of contracting coronavirus and flu at the same time, which she described as \"extremely serious\".\n\nThe Edinburgh centres have been set up by the Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership (EHSCP).\n\nIts chief officer Judith Proctor said: \"This is the first time a drive-through model has been used for vaccinations in Scotland, and could provide a blueprint for how to deliver vaccination programmes successfully in the future.\n\n\"Details of where people can go to receive a flu vaccine will be available on the NHS Inform website.\"", "Paris is to put up a statue of a black woman involved in a 1802 rebellion against slavery on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe.\n\nThe woman, named only Solitude, was captured and possibly executed.\n\nOpening a public garden in her honour on Saturday, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo called Solitude a \"heroine\" and a \"strong symbol\".\n\nFrance's history of slavery has been under new scrutiny, in part because of the US Black Lives Matter protests.\n\nThere has been soul-searching over public commemoration of colonial figures such as 17th-Century statesman Jean-Baptiste Colbert, who codified overseas slavery and is remembered by a statue outside the national parliament in Paris.\n\nBut President Emmanuel Macron has spoken against removing statues or names of controversial figures, offering instead a \"clear-headed look at our history and our memory\".\n\nVery little is known for sure, with just one brief written mention in a 19th-Century history of Guadeloupe, according to Unesco.\n\nThat account records that Solitude, a mixed-race woman, was arrested among \"a band of insurgents\" during an uprising against slavery - which had been reinstated by Napoleon after being abolished during the French Revolution.\n\nShe was sentenced to death, the history notes, but allowed to give birth before being \"tortured\" - an ambiguous term which could mean she was indeed put to death, through flogging for example.\n\nSolitude was portrayed in a 1972 work of fiction by French writer André Schwarz-Bart and a statue already honours her in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe.\n\nThe Solitude Garden is located on Place du Général Catroux in north-western Paris, where a statue will be erected in time.\n\nWhile a statue of a black woman would be rare in the French capital, it would not be unprecedented. The US entertainer and French Resistance agent Josephine Baker (1906-75) has been honoured by both a square and a monument.", "Police said they had been called to break up \"numerous\" parties at the university's main halls of residence complex\n\nPolice have been called to break up a number of parties at the University of Edinburgh's main halls of residence.\n\nOfficers said they had dispersed \"numerous\" groups on Friday night at Pollock Halls of Residence, which houses about 1,900 students.\n\nStudents in Scotland are being told not to go to pubs, parties or restaurants this weekend in an attempt to slow a spate of coronavirus outbreaks.\n\nThe university said a \"small number\" of students had tested positive.\n\nSome of the positive cases are understood to be at one of the Holland House blocks, which is part of Pollock Halls.\n\nA Holland House resident, Reese Chamberlain, contacted BBC Scotland to say he had been told his entire block was \"locked down\" after a positive test was detected.\n\nA spokesperson for the university said it was \"not asking for whole halls of student accommodation to self-isolate\".\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed they were called to Pollock Halls of Residence, on the edge of the Holyrood Park, after \"informants\" raised concerns the parties were breaching regulations that prevent more than one household mixing indoors.\n\nInsp David Hughes told BBC Scotland: \"Police Scotland attended and we've spoken to a number of the parties and dispersed those individuals. [Officers] provided education and advice as to what is and what isn't in line with current regulations.\n\n\"From a police perspective, we've been relatively well received there. We have had some people who were unhappy with the regulations - but more the laws that are in force currently rather than the police response.\"\n\nInsp Hughes said officers had broken up a number of small parties of five to seven students with people who were \"clearly not from the same household\".\n\nNo arrests were made and no fines were issued, he said.\n\nStudents in Scotland have been told not to visit pubs or restaurants or to hold parties\n\nThe officer added: \"It must feel strange to people of that age and you can understand their frustrations in relation to the current regulations but overall the reason that that's there is to protect the health of the United Kingdom.\"\n\nCases of Covid-19 have surged in Scotland over the last two weeks, with 714 positive tests confirmed on Saturday.\n\nUniversities in Scotland pledged last week to make it \"absolutely clear\" to students that they should not be holding parties or socialising with people outside their accommodation.\n\nThey have also been told they cannot return home under coronavirus laws in Scotland as they are deemed to have formed a new household with those they are now living with.\n\nHowever, international student Mr Chamberlain said there had been an \"exodus\" of students supposed to be in isolation in the early hours of Saturday morning.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland the situation in his Holland House block was \"dire\".\n\n\"A Zoom meeting was just now held for affected students of the same household, where a representative told a small group of students that the entire building, not just the affected household, was to be locked down imminently, causing chaos in the community,\" he said.\n\n\"Food was not delivered until late afternoon leaving me hungry and without supplies for the first part of the day.\n\n\"Now people are panicking because no one has actually received any real details about this, and no-one knows how will it will be enforced either. Some are out and about getting supplies not knowing if this already goes against the rules.\"\n\nA first-year student living in another block at Pollock Halls told the BBC there was a \"pretty weird vibe\" around the university.\n\n\"There's always police here now. It feels like we're being watched 24-7 which is a bit scary,\" she said.\n\n\"My friend's in Holland House and she said that the whole of the Holland House blocks had been locked down and there's been people patrolling to make sure that no-one's leaving.\"\n\nSome students said they felt there were being watched \"24-7\" by police and security\n\nAngus Graham-Rack, a first-year at the University of Edinburgh, said the restrictions placed on students had been a \"kick in the teeth\".\n\n\"We were all encouraged to come to halls of residence and meet new people, yet are now are being criticised for doing so,\" he said.\n\n\"We are all left wondering why we even bothered moving here since nobody I know has had any face-to-face interactions with staff yet - we may as well have done the course from home.\n\n\"It feels like we've been completely cheated as we were promised at least some sort of a student experience in the midst of the pandemic, yet now we're essentially confined to our own flats with signs plastered around the building ordering us to not socialise.\"\n\nHealth teams are also dealing with a big outbreak among students at Glasgow University, where 172 students have tested positive.\n\nThere are also outbreaks among students in Dundee and Aberdeen.\n\nA University of Edinburgh it was working with NHS Lothian's Health Protection team to ensure students were provided with \"the information and support they need\".\n\nA spokesperson added: \"We are asking students who have attended parties recently to be vigilant regarding any Covid-19 symptoms and for all students to follow guidance as appropriate.\n\n\"We are continuing to monitor the situation, keeping our students and staff informed as appropriate, and following all Scottish Government guidance.\n\n\"We are providing care and support - including mental health support - to those self-isolating both in University-owned and private accommodation.\"", "Labour is \"very sympathetic\" to a bid by Conservative MPs to increase parliamentary scrutiny over coronavirus restrictions in England, shadow justice secretary David Lammy has said.\n\nTory Sir Graham Brady wants MPs to have a say on changes to lockdown rules.\n\nEx-Commons Speaker John Bercow and Steve Baker, a former Brexit minister, have also spoken in favour of the move.\n\nThe government says it wants to work with MPs while ensuring ministers can react quickly to suppress the virus.\n\nIt has also said MPs will get the chance to vote retrospectively on the 'rule of six', which puts a limit on the number of people at social gatherings.\n\nMr Lammy told the BBC's Andrew Marr he was \"very sympathetic\" to the amendment.\n\n\"We need more transparency... and we should be debating the regulations and rules for the country,\" he said.\n\nHowever he avoided committing support to Sir Graham, pointing out that Labour would table its own amendment and would wait and see if it was selected by Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle this week.\n\nIn March, Parliament passed the Coronavirus Act. It gave the government powers to respond to the pandemic, including moves such as postponing local elections, closing down pubs and allowing courts to use live links.\n\nThe powers granted by the act were time-limited and can only be extended with the House of Commons' approval.\n\nMPs will be asked to renew the powers on Wednesday but several have expressed concern and Sir Graham has tabled an amendment that would give Parliament a say over new national restrictions before they are brought into force.\n\nSpeaking to Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme Conservative MP and former Brexit Minister Mr Baker said: \"How do people think that liberty dies? It dies like this with government exercising draconian powers, without parliamentary scrutiny in advance, undermining the rule of law by having a shifting blanket of rules that no-one can understand.\"\n\nBBC parliamentary correspondent Mark D'arcy says the initial steer is that it is unlikely the Speaker would select Sir Graham's amendment, meaning it would not be put to a vote.\n\nBut, he says, the Speaker does consider the breadth of support for an amendment, including its level of cross-party appeal, so support from Labour figures would influence his decision.\n\nSir Graham, who is chairman of the 1922 Committee of Conservative backbenchers, has support from a wide spectrum of MPs including 50 other Conservatives, an ex-party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith and former-Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman.\n\nThe DUP also supports the move, while the SNP is said to be considering it.\n\nThe amendment also has support from Mr Bercow, former Speaker of the House of Commons.\n\nSpeaking to The World This Weekend on BBC Radio 4, he said the House of Commons had initially been prepared to \"cut the government some slack\" given the circumstances.\n\nBut, he said, since then 50 laws with potential and actual criminal sanctions had come into force, without Parliament having a say.\n\n\"That cannot continue if we are to call ourselves a democracy,\" he said.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said he would \"almost certainly\" vote for the amendment and accused the government of failing to come to Parliament \"when it should have done\".\n\nHowever he added that the amendment \"did not go far enough\" arguing that the original Coronavirus Act \"failed people\".\n\nSpecifically he pointed to a clause in the law which took away parts of councils' duty to provide care for disabled people.\n\n\"For the government to legislate to take away peoples' rights to care I think is outrageous,\" he said.\n\nThe government has said it is \"determined to take the right steps to protect\" those who are most vulnerable to the disease and that the care provisions implemented in the Coronavirus Act are only intended to be used when absolutely necessary.\n\nThe numbers don't look good for Downing Street.\n\nForty-plus Conservative MPs, combined with opposition parties, is enough to overturn Boris Johnson's majority.\n\nAnd there are now easily enough Tories behind the Brady amendment - while opposition groups are making some supportive sounds, albeit at various volumes.\n\nHowever, a big question mark hangs over this particular political showdown; namely whether the amendment will even be selected by the Speaker.\n\nBut even if this amendment falls, the grievance doesn't.\n\nIt's not hard to find an unhappy Tory MP wandering around Westminster at the moment.\n\nSome think that the dial has moved too far back towards restricting people's liberty.\n\nOr that parliament is being all-too-often ignored by ministers; even eroded as a democratic institution.\n\nThere's a view too that policies might emerge in better shape if they were stress-tested by the Commons.\n\nA counter argument is that - in an emergency - ministers don't want to hang about waiting for Parliament's permission to act.\n\nNo. 10 knows it's facing trouble and has been trying to stress that it's engaging with MPs.\n\nBut some of those MPs are past the point of being \"engaged\" with. They want a real say.", "Restrictions will now apply in Wales' capital city\n\nWales' two biggest cities have gone into lockdown, which started at 18:00.\n\nThe changed status of Swansea and Cardiff took the number of Welsh local authority areas under heightened Covid restrictions to eight.\n\nIt follows the first localised lockdown in Wales, in the town of Llanelli in Carmarthenshire, which came into force on Saturday evening.\n\nIt means 1.5 million people - about half of Wales' population -are now under lockdown.\n\nEarlier on Sunday, it was confirmed that three other council areas - Neath Port Talbot, Torfaen and the Vale of Glamorgan - will face the same measures from 18:00 BST on Monday.\n\nThe restrictions are the same as those affecting people living in Merthyr Tydfil, Bridgend, Blaenau Gwent, Newport, Rhondda Cynon Taf and Caerphilly, which were already in lockdown.\n\nWhen asked if Wales could see a national lockdown, First Minister Mark Drakeford told the BBC's Politics Wales programme: \"We couldn't possibly rule it out.\n\n\"We're trying to do it in a way that balances both the health and the economic needs of Wales,\" he said.\n\nSwansea hit a seven-day rate of 56 new cases of coronavirus per 100,000 on Friday, while Cardiff reached 38 cases per 100,000.\n\nBut the number in Llanelli was 152 cases per 100,000 - which is why the Welsh Government decided to bring in restrictions there a day earlier.\n\nThe whole of Carmarthenshire was not put into lockdown because the rate in the rest of the local authority area was 18.\n\nLlanelli town is in the top three places with the highest weekly infections rates, alongside Blaenau Gwent on 202 per 100,000 and Merthyr Tydfil at 169 per 100,000.\n\nRhossili and other Gower beauty spots are out of bounds for anyone from outside Swansea\n\nUnder the rules, nobody is able to enter or leave the affected areas without a \"reasonable excuse\".\n\nPeople are allowed to travel outside their area for a limited number of reasons.\n\nThese include going to work if they are not able to work from home, to go to school, give care and buy food or medical supplies.\n\nHow are the rules affecting you? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "I'm probably the only person around at BBC Llandaff that can remember the building that stood here before Broadcasting House.\n\nBaynton House, a ramshackle red sandstone Victorian mansion, seemed slightly spooky to me as a child, but if the original BH was a Scooby-Doo style haunted house, its replacement was straight out of Thunderbirds or Stingray.\n\nWhen the new BH opened in the 1960s, everything about it screamed modernity with its plate glass walls, bare concrete pillars and sleek space-age lines.\n\nInside though, something of the old lingered on, as tweedy men with pipes battled it out with bright young graduates from Oxbridge and the University of Wales, determined to drag Wales kicking and screaming into the second half of the 20th Century.\n\nBetween them they built the closest thing Wales has ever had to a dream factory.\n\nThe range of output in those early years was extraordinary to our eyes. C2, the home of television news for the whole of the building's existence, also housed children's programmes - Wales Today was regularly broadcast under the beady eyes of various teddy bears and gonks sitting at the far end of the studio.\n\nNext door, the enormous C1 was home over the years to Ryan and Ronnie, David Lloyd George, Crimewatch, the entire population of Cwmderi and all those election and referendum night marathons.\n\nTelevision was always slightly out on a limb at BH though. Radio sat at the heart of the building with its grandly named Concert Hall, home to an orchestra that seemed to change its name as often as it did conductors before becoming the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.\n\nStudio 2 was the home of radio audience discussion programmes and panel games, while the drama studio was packed with doors, windows and much else besides, required when sound effects had to be manufactured rather than played in.\n\nBack in the early days, with just a handful of TV channels and radio stations, people would watch or listen to pretty much anything and the programme makers were probably a bit freer to experiment than we are today.\n\nIt's hard to imagine BBC Wales choosing to broadcast half-hour programmes of Anglo-Welsh poetry in peak time today, but back in the 1970s, that's exactly what they did.\n\nBut then, those were the days when, as one manager put it, \"the BBC sailed on a sea of Chablis\". Maybe poetry seemed like a good idea after one glass too many!\n\nUltimately though, broadcasting is about people, not buildings, and in its later years, BH had come to resemble one of those grand old ocean liners, limping along on one engine and where nothing seemed to work quite as it should.\n\nFor most of us, the excitement of the new outweighs nostalgia for the old and, just as BH was cutting edge when it opened, the new studios in Central Square are state-of-the-art facilities.\n\nThat's not to say that there won't be the odd tear shed when the last programme has been broadcast from Llandaff, when the last dream has been dreamed and the factory is closed down for ever.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How BBC Wales' headquarters has changed over the years", "Matt Ratana moved to the UK in 1989 and joined the Met Police two years later\n\nPolice investigating the fatal shooting of a police officer in south London say four crime scenes are being searched.\n\nSgt Matiu Ratana, from New Zealand, died in hospital on Friday after being shot in Croydon as a handcuffed suspect was being taken into custody.\n\nResidents near one of the search areas reported hearing a loud explosion as a 23-year-old suspect, who is thought to have shot himself, remains in hospital.\n\nThe Met commissioner said 54-year-old Sgt Ratana would be \"sorely missed\".\n\nSpeaking at the National Police Memorial in central London, Dame Cressida Dick said she \"hadn't been surprised at all\" by the number of tributes paid to him.\n\nLondon's mayor, the Met Police's commissioner and the home secretary laid wreaths\n\n\"Matt was an extraordinary person... He had a wonderful personality and he was very good at his job,\" she said, adding that he was also a \"proud kiwi\".\n\nThe commissioner also laid a wreath at the National Police Memorial in central London alongside Home Secretary Priti Patel and London's Mayor Sadiq Khan.\n\nSgt Ratana will be remembered at the National Police Memorial Day Service, alongside the six other officers who have died on duty in the past 12 months.\n\nThe Reverend Cannon David Wilbraham, who is leading the service - taking place online this year - said the event will show their \"sacrifice is not forgotten\" and allow the public \"to recognise the dedication to duty and the courage displayed\".\n\nRespects were paid at East Grinstead Rugby Club during two separate minute's silence\n\nSilences have also been held at a number of rugby clubs, including at East Grinstead where the 54-year-old was head coach.\n\nThe West Sussex club's Vice Chairman Matt Marriot said they had to arrange two separate minute's silences because the \"interest has been pretty enormous\", with \"people coming from all over the country\".\n\nHe said Sgt Ratana \"wasn't just our coach... he was a role model, a mentor and often a father figure\".\n\n\"We're going to mourn him as a family member,\" he added.\n\nPC Sarah D'Silva, who plays for the club's women's team as well as working at Croydon Police Station, said it felt \"extremely poignant\" joining the minute's silence.\n\nShe wore her police uniform to pay her respects to the 54-year-old, who she described as \"an absolutely fantastic character, full of life, with the biggest smile you've ever seen\".\n\nThe 54-year-old was a keen rugby union coach as well as being a fan of performance motorcycles and weight-training\n\nSgt Ratana was shot in the chest at Croydon Custody Centre at about 02:15 BST on Friday.\n\nOn Saturday evening, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stuart Cundy said the police were focusing on four crime scenes.\n\nResidents near one of the search areas, in Banstead, Surrey, reported hearing a loud explosion on Saturday morning.\n\nPeople living near the address in Park Road were woken by noises at about 05:40 BST.\n\nPolice guarded the entrance to a property on Park Road in Banstead\n\nThe BBC's Daniel De Simone said the Banstead address is down a long driveway and its land contains a series of concrete bunkers.\n\nMultiple police officers, including armed officers, were visible in the area and people had been informed that a controlled explosion had taken place, the BBC was told.\n\nA marked police car has been guarding the entrance to the property.\n\nPolice confirmed the other scenes undergoing searches are Croydon Custody Centre, where the shooting occurred, an area of London Road in Pollards Hill, where the suspect was initially arrested, and an address in Southbrook Road, Norbury.\n\nDescribing how the investigation was progressing, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Cundy said: \"We have recovered the gun from the custody suite where Matt was shot.\n\n\"We also have CCTV from that custody suite which shows the events, and we have body-worn video of our police officers who were involved in the circumstances surrounding the arrest of the suspect.\"\n\nThe murder investigation is expected to focus on the motive for the killing.\n\nThe suspect remains in a critical condition is hospital.\n\nA rugby ball and police helmet are among the tributes which have been left outside the custody centre\n\nThe suspect had initially been arrested for an alleged drugs offence and possession of ammunition.\n\nThe shots were fired as officers prepared to search the suspect - who was still handcuffed - with a metal detector, according to watchdog the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\n\"Several crime scenes\" were established on Friday and a cordon also remains in place around the Anderson Heights building in Norbury, south-west London, the Met has said.\n\nA concierge in the building told the BBC the 23-year-old suspect did not live in the block but was arrested outside it.\n\nAn area of London Road in Pollards Hill has been searched by forensic officers\n\nThe Met previously said the shooting was not terror-related.\n\nIt is believed the suspect was known to counter-terrorism police and his background may feature prominently in police inquiries, BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said.\n\nThe suspect had been referred to the anti-extremism government's Prevent programme, aimed to stop people joining extremist groups and carrying out terrorist activities.\n\nAs part of the IOPC investigation it is examining CCTV and police bodycam footage to establish how the shootings took place.\n\nThe watchdog said the suspect was in handcuffs, with his hands behind his back.\n\nA key part of that IOPC investigation will be to find out how thoroughly the suspect was searched before he was taken into custody.\n\nThe Met's chief said Sgt Ratana was \"highly respected\" among her officers\n\nSgt Ratana came to the UK in his early 20s in 1989 and joined the Met Police two years later.\n\nHe was originally from the Hawke's Bay area of New Zealand and was educated at Palmerston North Boys' High School, north of the capital, Wellington.\n\nSgt Ratana, who had a partner and an adult son from a previous relationship, would have been eligible for retirement in two months.\n\nBoris Johnson was among those who paid tribute to the officer, tweeting: \"My deepest condolences go to the family, friends and colleagues of the police officer who was killed in Croydon last night.\n\n\"We owe a huge debt to those who risk their own lives to keep us safe.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dame Cressida Dick paid tribute to Sgt Ratana, saying he was \"big in stature, big in heart\"\n\nNew Zealand PM Ms Ardern previously released a statement saying: \"To all Matiu's whanau (Maori for extended family) across the world, we share your sorrow and have all our condolences.\"\n\nNew Zealand Police - where Sgt Ratana worked between 2003 and 2008 before returning to the UK - also sent their condolences, adding: \"Policing is a family.\"\n\nWhen he was not working, Sgt Ratana was heavily involved in rugby coaching.\n\nEngland Rugby paid tribute to the 54-year-old, saying he \"gave so much for our sport\".\n\nCrystal Palace Football Club held a minute's silence before their match against Everton on Saturday, to \"pay our respects to local police officer Sgt Matt Ratana\".\n\nA minute's silence was also held before the London derby between Millwall and Brentford.\n\nA minute's silence was held before Crystal Palace's match against Everton\n\nNeil Donohue, a friend of Sgt Ratana who runs a gym he used to attend, described him as \"inspirational\" and \"the nicest, most generous man you could meet\".\n\nHe told the BBC the 54-year-old had gone into \"the custody side [of policing] purely because he had had enough out on the streets and he thought it was his safest option, just to see him through to his retirement\".\n\n\"It's just absolutely tragic,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and Home Secretary Priti Patel joined Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick for a minute's silence\n\nA number of police officers have turned their social media profile pictures black with a blue stripe to pay their respects.\n\nJohn Davies, a retired officer who worked with Sgt Ratana when he was based in Hillingdon, west London, said he was \"a truly remarkable, strong and unique individual\" who \"left an impression on all those he came into contact with\".\n\nDo you have any information you can share? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nAndy Murray says he will not \"just brush aside\" a comprehensive three-set defeat by Swiss 16th seed Stan Wawrinka in the French Open first round.\n\nThe 33-year-old Scot won just six games in what was the joint heaviest Grand Slam defeat of his career.\n\nIt was his first appearance on a clay court since June 2017 following the hip injury which almost led to retirement.\n\n\"I should be analysing that hard and trying to understand why the performance was like that,\" he said.\n\nFormer world number one Murray looked flat throughout the 6-1 6-3 6-2 defeat and was punished as fellow three-time Grand Slam champion Wawrinka hit through him in a clinical display.\n\nA low first-serve percentage of 37% heavily contributed to the defeat, with Murray making 26 unforced errors and landing just 10 winners.\n\nThat led to his most comprehensive loss at a major since Rafael Nadal beat him 6-3 6-2 6-1 in the 2014 French Open semi-finals.\n• None Murray and Evans out of the French Open\n\nSeveral players have been critical of the conditions at Roland Garros, which is being played in colder and damper weather with the tournament having been moved back from its usual May-June slot because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe introduction of a new, heavier ball has also led to some complaints.\n\nMurray's match was played under floodlights on an open Court Philippe Chatrier on a chilly Parisian night, but he said the conditions were not a factor in his below-par performance.\n\n\"I don't feel like that's a valid reason,\" said Murray, who will next play at two indoor events being held in Cologne next month.\n\n\"Maybe to not enjoy the matches as much when it's like that, but not in terms of it affecting your performance in any way.\n\n\"I need to have a long, hard think about it.\n\n\"It's not for me the sort of match I would just brush aside and not give any thought to.\"\n\nAfterwards, former Grand Slam champion Mats Wilander questioned Murray's future and suggested on Eurosport that the Briton should \"stop taking wildcards\" from younger players.\n\nMurray, who replied with a sarcastic 'thumbs up' on Instagram to the Swede's comments, earlier said that while he would not be able to return to his physical peak, he remained confident he still had the technical ability to compete.\n\nHe pointed to his win over Germany's world number seven Alexander Zverev at the Cincinnati Masters last month as a case in point.\n\n\"There have been matches that I have played since I came back where I hit the ball well,\" Murray said.\n\n\"I know it wasn't the best match at times, but Zverev was a couple of points away from winning the US Open, and I won against him the week beforehand.\n\n\"It's going to be difficult for me to play the same level as I did before. I'm 33 now and I was ranked number one in the world, so it's difficult with all the issues that I have had. But I'll keep going.\"\n\nBroady and Norrie carry British hopes in the men's draw\n\nMurray's defeat followed the exit of British number one Dan Evans, who lost a fluctuating five-setter against former world number four Kei Nishikori, earlier on the opening day of the tournament on Sunday.\n\nThat leaves qualifier Liam Broady and British number three Cameron Norrie as the nation's only remaining hopes in the men's singles.\n\nBroady, 26, qualified for the main draw of a Grand Slam for the first time in his career at the 12th attempt.\n\nHis reward for winning three qualifying matches at Roland Garros is an opener against Czech Jiri Vesely at about 14:00 BST.\n\nNorrie, ranked 77th, follows Broady on court 10 against Colombian world number 153 Daniel Galan.\n• None Has it gone too far?", "Students at Manchester Metropolitan University are isolating after more than 100 tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nMore than 1,700 students have been told to self-isolate. One told the BBC the situation had \"left morale really low\".\n\nA university spokesman said disciplinary action will be taken against any breaches.\n\nSeparately, students in Scotland were told not to go to pubs, parties or restaurants this weekend to stem the spread of the virus.\n\nPolice were called to break up several parties at the University of Edinburgh's main hall of residence on Friday night.\n\nSome students in Pollock Halls of Residence at the University of Edinburgh have also been told to \"lockdown\" because of a confirmed case of the virus.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nJamie Vardy scored a hat-trick as Leicester City inflicted a remarkable defeat on Manchester City to go top of the Premier League.\n\nDespite going behind to a superb fourth-minute strike by former Foxes midfielder Riyad Mahrez, the visitors responded in stunning fashion.\n\nVardy levelled with a penalty before the break after he had been fouled by Kyle Walker, and he then sealed his second treble against Pep Guardiola's side from the spot, after he had cleverly turned home Timothy Castagne's cross to make it 2-1.\n\nJames Maddison scored for the first time since 1 January when he curled home a stunning fourth for Leicester.\n\nAnd although Nathan Ake pulled one back with his first goal since a £40m summer move from Bournemouth, a third Leicester penalty - this time converted by Youri Tielemans because Vardy had already gone off - completed a memorable afternoon for Brendan Rodgers' Foxes, who have started a top-flight season with three successive wins for the first time.\n\nIn contrast, Guardiola was suffering his worst home defeat as City boss, with his team now in the bottom half of the table.\n• None 'They were lucky' - Rodri says 'football was not fair' to Man City in Leicester defeat\n• None Reaction to Manchester City v Leicester and live text coverage of Sunday's Premier League games\n\nFor most of the opening period, the possibility of Leicester returning to the top of the table appeared remote.\n\nBut with Vardy they always have a chance. Even at the age of 33, the striker remains frighteningly fast.\n\nWalker is no slouch but the England right-back was panicked into making a rash challenge when the Leicester forward got ahead of him inside the box. Vardy's powerful spot-kick gave Ederson no chance of keeping it out.\n\nHis second penalty was equally emphatic after another City defender, Eric Garcia, had got himself into the wrong position as he tried to challenge Vardy.\n\nIn between, Vardy tucked home a poacher's effort Leicester's most celebrated old boy, Gary Lineker, would have been proud of. The supplier was Castagne, who is turning into a very astute purchase, given how willing the Belgian is to push forward from his right-back role as manager Rodgers demands.\n\nMaddison's return adds the dimension the Foxes lacked so badly as their 2019-20 season petered out into a relatively disappointing fifth-place finish.\n\nThe only sour note for the visitors were injuries to midfielder Dennis Praet and defender Jonny Evans.\n\nThe latter in particular may prompt some hard thinking among the Leicester hierarchy, given they had a £30m bid for Burnley centre-back James Tarkowski turned down on Friday.\n\nIt is now just a matter of time before Benfica defender Ruben Dias completes his move to the Eithad. And on this evidence, the Portugal international cannot come soon enough. The fee will be about £65m, with centre-back Nicolas Otamendi going the other way for about £13.7m in a separate deal.\n\nGuardiola has made the purchase of a right-sided central defender a priority before the transfer window closes on 5 October. He does not trust either Otamendi or England international John Stones in that role - and he knows if the situation is not addressed, the chances of City overhauling Liverpool are almost non-existent.\n\nAgainst Leicester, Eric Garcia, wearing a headguard to protect the 16 stitches he sustained during a training ground incident that kept him out of the season opener at Wolves, started in the position earmarked for 23-year-old Dias.\n\nIn defence, it was an orthodox role in a four-man backline. But as soon as the hosts were in possession - which was fairly often - Garcia became the central component of a back three, which skipper Fernandinho was part of, allowing Walker and Benjamin Mendy to turn into wing-backs.\n\nGarcia's future is unclear. The 19-year-old Spaniard has a year left on his contract, has refused to sign another and wants to go back to Barcelona.\n\nGuardiola spoke earlier this month about the need to deserve a new contract.\n\nThat requires his team to compete for trophies - and to do that they will need to perform a lot better than this.\n\nWith Gabriel Jesus and Sergio Aguero definitely missing next Saturday's trip to Leeds United, City need to solve their problems in attack, given Raheem Sterling failed to make much of an impact as a false nine and 17-year-old Liam Delap cannot be expected to shoulder the burden given his lack of experience.\n\nGuardiola will spend some time pondering the problem. However, given they have only played two games, he will do so with his team in 13th place, which is virtually unheard of in recent times.\n\nLeicester's best ever start - the stats\n• None It is the first time in 686 games that a side managed by Guardiola has conceded five goals.\n• None It is also the first time in 438 games at Etihad Stadium that City have let in five goals.\n• None This was only the second time Guardiola has lost his opening home game of a league season as a manager.\n• None Leicester have won their opening three games of a top-flight season for the first time.\n• None The Foxes have scored 12 goals in the Premier League this season, the most by a team in their first three matches since Manchester City (12) and Manchester United (13) in 2012-13.\n• None Leicester are the first Premier League side to score three penalties in a game, while Manchester City are the first side to concede three spot-kicks in the same fixture since Tottenham in October 2014.\n• None Vardy has now scored eight league goals against Manchester City since Guardiola took charge in 2016.\n• None Vardy is the only player to score two hat-tricks against sides managed by Guardiola.\n• None Since his Premier League debut in August 2014, Vardy has won more (19) and scored more (22) penalties than any other player in the competition.\n\nManchester City go to Burnley in the fourth round of the Carabao Cup on Wednesday (19:00 BST), before travelling to Elland Road to play newly promoted Leeds in the Premier League on Saturday (17:30).\n\nLeicester's next game is at home to West Ham United in the league on Sunday (12:00).\n• None Offside, Leicester City. James Justin tries a through ball, but Kelechi Iheanacho is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Ferran Torres (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 2, Leicester City 5. Youri Tielemans (Leicester City) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Benjamin Mendy (Manchester City) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt blocked. Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 2, Leicester City 4. Nathan Aké (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Ferran Torres.\n• None Attempt blocked. Kyle Walker (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.\n• None Substitution, Leicester City. Christian Fuchs replaces Jonny Evans because of an injury. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Has it gone too far?", "Matt Ratana moved to the UK in 1989 and joined the Met Police two years later\n\nThe suspect in the murder of a police officer in south London is Louis De Zoysa, the BBC has been told.\n\nNew Zealand-born Sgt Matiu Ratana, 54, died in hospital after being shot at the Croydon custody centre as a handcuffed suspect was taken into custody on Friday morning.\n\nMr De Zoysa, 23, from Norbury, who is thought to have shot himself, is critically ill in hospital.\n\nAnother man has been arrested on suspicion of supplying a firearm.\n\nOfficers made the arrest at about 02:00 BST in Norwich. The man is currently in custody.\n\nPolice have not been able to speak to the man suspected of shooting Sgt Ratana.\n\nHe had initially been arrested for an alleged drugs offence and possession of ammunition.\n\nThe shots were fired as officers prepared to search the suspect - who was still handcuffed - with a metal detector, according to watchdog the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).\n\nThe second arrest came as Sgt Ratana was remembered by friends and teammates at East Grinstead Rugby Club, where he was head coach.\n\nThe West Sussex club's vice chairman Matt Marriot said they had to arrange two separate minute's silences because the \"interest has been pretty enormous\", with \"people coming from all over the country\".\n\nHe said Sgt Ratana, who was known as Matt, had been \"a role model, a mentor and often a father figure\", and the club mourned him \"as a family member\".\n\nPC Sarah D'Silva, who plays for the club's women's team as well as working at Croydon Police Station, said it felt \"extremely poignant\" joining the minute's silence.\n\nShe wore her police uniform to pay her respects to Sgt Ratana, who she described as \"an absolutely fantastic character, full of life, with the biggest smile you've ever seen\".\n\nThe club's vice chairman said people had travelled from across the country to pay their respects\n\nMet Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick, speaking at the National Police Memorial in central London earlier, said she \"hadn't been surprised at all\" by the number of tributes paid to him.\n\n\"Matt was an extraordinary person... he had a wonderful personality and he was very good at his job,\" she said, adding that he was a \"proud Kiwi\".\n\nPrince Charles also paid tribute to Sgt Ratana during a National Police Memorial Day service, saying his death was the \"latest heartbreaking evidence of the risks\".\n\nLondon's mayor, the Met Police's commissioner and the home secretary laid wreaths\n\nOfficers have been focused on four crime scenes in London and Surrey as part of the investigation, including the house where Mr De Zoysa's parents live.\n\nSearches continue at Croydon Custody Centre, where the shooting happened, an address in Park Road, Banstead, Surrey, and an address in Southbrook Road, Norbury.\n\nThe search of another scene in Pollards Hill, where the suspect was initially arrested, has ended and cordons have been removed.\n\nResidents near one of the search areas, in Banstead, Surrey, reported hearing a loud noise on Saturday morning, and were later told a controlled explosion had taken place.\n\nThe Banstead address is down a long driveway and its land contains a series of concrete bunkers. A marked police car has been guarding the entrance to the property.\n\nPolice guarded the entrance to a property on Park Road in Banstead\n\nSgt Ratana was shot in the chest at Croydon Custody Centre at about 02:15 BST on Friday.\n\nOn Saturday evening, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stuart Cundy said police had \"recovered the gun from the custody suite where Matt was shot\".\n\n\"We also have CCTV from that custody suite which shows the events, and we have body-worn video of our police officers who were involved in the circumstances surrounding the arrest of the suspect,\" he added.\n\nThe murder investigation is expected to focus on the motive for the killing.\n\nMore flowers and tributes have been left outside Croydon Custody Suite\n\nThe force has previously said the shooting was not terror-related.\n\nIt is believed the suspect was known to counter-terrorism police and his background may feature prominently in police inquiries, BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said.\n\nThe suspect had been referred to the government's Prevent programme, aimed at stopping people joining extremist groups and carrying out terrorist activities.\n\nThe 54-year-old was a keen rugby union coach as well as being a fan of performance motorcycles and weight-training\n\nSgt Ratana came to the UK in his early 20s in 1989 and joined the Met Police two years later.\n\nHe was originally from the Hawke's Bay area of New Zealand and was educated at Palmerston North Boys' High School, north of the capital, Wellington.\n\nThe officer, who had a partner and an adult son from a previous relationship, would have been eligible for retirement in two months.\n\nNeil Donohue, who was a friend of the officer and runs a gym he used to attend, said Sgt Ratana had gone into \"the custody side [of policing] purely because he had had enough out on the streets and he thought it was his safest option, just to see him through to his retirement\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Karl Robinson said the club had endured a difficult week - even before their coach wouldn't start\n\nAlcohol spray used on a football club's coach to protect against coronavirus left the driver unable to take players and staff to an away match.\n\nOxford United had to change at their hotel and travel to their game at Accrington Stanley by car.\n\nIt is thought some of the spray in the air was picked up by a device that stops the coach driver starting the vehicle if alcohol has been consumed.\n\nThe club started the game at the bottom of League One on Saturday.\n\nKarl Robinson, the club's head coach, told BBC Radio Oxford before the match: \"Our coach has just broken down so we've just had to get changed at the hotel and make our way.\n\n\"This week has certainly been sent to test us. We had four players test for Covid-19 on Thursday.\" He added that they also have \"flu going round\".\n\nBBC Radio Oxford's Nathan Cooper said: \"[Oxford have] got quite a technical bus that not many at this level have got.\n\n\"When you get on board it sprays a sort of alcohol gel - a fine mist spray - which obviously helps with the current situation, so it sterilises the bus. Somehow that ended up affecting the bus itself.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's a crazy thing to happen but first of all you've got to say hats off to the club for trying. Not every club at this level has been doing that.\"\n\nTesting players for coronavirus is not mandatory in the Football League.", "A deal for the Premier League to support lower-league clubs during the coronavirus pandemic \"could be reached this coming week\".\n\nPlans for some fans to return to stadiums from 1 October will not go ahead because of the rising number of coronavirus cases, and it is feared the postponement could have a \"devastating\" impact on clubs.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden told the Andrew Marr Show that England's top flight needs to \"start looking after the football family as a whole\".\n\nHe added that he was hopeful an agreement could be made over the coming days.\n\n\"I've been in touch with the Premier League a lot over the past few days. They are working closely with the EFL (English Football League) to see how they can support them,\" said Dowden.\n\n\"The prime minister and I have been clear: the Premier League needs to start looking after the football family as a whole, and indeed they are having productive conversations.\n\n\"I am hopeful that they will reach a deal this coming week in relation to that, and then beyond that, look across at all sports.\"\n\nThe fan pilot programme, which had already been restricted to 1,000 people per game in September, has been paused. Dowden said there had been no positive cases from pilots that had already taken place but, under advice from the chief scientific adviser and the chief medical officer, \"it would not be wise to undertake any further easements\".\n\n\"It's not just in the stadium, it's the journey to and from the stadium as well. At each of those points there are chances for further social interaction and risk of virus spreads, so right now is not the time to do it,\" he added.\n\nDowden added that the Premier League \"appreciates\" its help is needed to support EFL clubs and that he is confident an agreement will soon be reached.\n\nIn response, Huddersfield Town chief executive Mark Devlin posted on social media: \"But Mr Dowden, irrespective of Premier League support, you need to let us start welcoming back fans and business partners into a safe stadia environment.\n\n\"So much work had been done on making our stadia as Covid safe as possible, you now need to let us all get on with it.\"\n\nIt is not yet known when fans will be able to return, with existing government restrictions likely to remain in place for six months.\n\nBut Dowden said the government was working with clubs and medical advisers to seek \"further innovations\" to decrease risks.\n\n\"We are continuing to explore what would be the ideal solution in the absence of a vaccine, which would be if you have large amount of in-day testing to give people a so-called freedom pass to be able to go into those stadiums,\" he said.\n\n\"We are exploring that. We are exploring further technological innovations. But we are also looking at how we can support the clubs through this difficult period.\"\n\nThe BBC was told earlier this month the EFL expected to be given details by the Premier League about what financial assistance it might offer by the end of September.\n\nWhile the Premier League will continue advancing solidarity payments earlier than normal, BBC Sport understands that, while accepting the need for speed and to be flexible in its approach, it is not completely clear what the EFL is asking for beyond a £250m 'bailout'.\n\nBBC Sport has been told the Premier League needs detailed analysis of what money is needed, for whom and precisely why. Without this, the organisation is reluctant to hand over a cheque at a time when its clubs are feeling huge financial pressure given they are losing the most in terms of fans being absent from stadiums.\n\nRespected football finance blogger Swiss Ramble posted on Thursday that the combined losses of Premier League clubs through the absence of matchday income would be at least £830m if no fans were allowed into stadiums for the remainder of the 2020-21 season.\n\nThat figure is regarded as a minimum as it does not take into account sums paid by fans buying merchandise on a matchday because that is calculated in a different revenue stream.\n• None Has it gone too far?", "A man and woman wear masks in Cardiff, which will see stricter rules from Sunday\n\nMore than a quarter of the UK population is set to be under stricter coronavirus rules, as new measures come into force this weekend.\n\nFrom Saturday in England, households in Leeds, Wigan, Stockport and Blackpool are banned from mixing in each other's homes or gardens.\n\nIn Wales, Llanelli became subject to new rules at 18:00 BST, with Cardiff and Swansea to follow 24 hours later.\n\nIt comes as the rate at which the virus is spreading appears to be speeding up.\n\nThere have been 6,042 new coronavirus infections in the UK over the past 24 hours, according to the latest government figures - and 34 deaths among those who tested positive for Covid-19 in the past 28 days.\n\nIt marks the fourth consecutive day that new infections across the UK have topped 6,000.\n\nScotland recorded 714 cases on Saturday, 156 more than on Friday and its highest number of cases confirmed in a single day since the start of the outbreak.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, where meeting other households indoors is also not allowed, 319 new cases have set a new daily record, up from Friday's 273. However mass testing was not available during the spring, when deaths were at their peak.\n\nThe R number - which indicates how many people someone with coronavirus infects - has risen in the last week and is now estimated to be between 1.2 and 1.5. A number above 1 means the virus is spreading within the community.\n\nMeanwhile, London Mayor Sadiq Khan said \"immediate action\" was needed to get coronavirus back under control in the capital, amid a \"sharp rise\" in cases, hospital admissions and patients in intensive care units.\n\nOn Friday, London was added to the government's Covid-19 watch-list - with all boroughs classed as areas of concern.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People in Leeds respond to the tighter rules\n\nIn England, the \"rule of six\" and a 22:00 closing time for pubs and restaurants applies nationally.\n\nBut extra restrictions are also in place in large parts of north-east and north-west England, West Yorkshire and the Midlands - where the infection rate is higher.\n\nThe latest rules for Leeds, Wigan, Stockport and Blackpool came into force at midnight and ban different households from mixing inside private homes or gardens.\n\nSupport bubbles are not affected and friends and family can still provide informal childcare for children under 14.\n\nPeople are also advised not to socialise with people they do not live with in any other settings, including bars, shops and parks.\n\nOn Saturday, Wales - where the R number is between 0.7 and 1.2 - saw its first town-only lockdown, with people in Llanelli in Carmarthenshire banned from leaving town or mixing indoors with anyone outside of their household.\n\nThe same rules will be brought in for Wales' two biggest cities - Cardiff and Swansea - at 18:00 on Sunday. People will not be able to enter or leave the areas without a reasonable excuse, the Welsh government has said.\n\nIt means by the end of the weekend, about half of Wales' population will be under lockdown - 1.5 million people.\n\nAnd the total number of people across the UK living under stricter rules will stand at 17 million.\n\nWelsh First Minister Mark Drakeford urged people in Cardiff to behave as if the new restrictions were in place until they came into force on Sunday.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething told Today restrictions were more focused on transmission in the home than the pub.\n\n\"We have good evidence it is contact in people's homes that is driving it primarily. That is then leaking into other areas where people have contact, including licensed premises,\" he said.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said he recognised \"the burden and impact these additional measures have on our daily lives but we must act collectively and quickly to bring down infections\".\n\nMeanwhile, students have spoken of their worry and frustration at being made to isolate in university accommodation, with little notice or guidance.\n\nUp to 1,700 students at Manchester Metropolitan University were told to self-isolate for two weeks in their student halls, after a spate of positive tests for Covid-19.\n\nIn a bid to stop the virus spreading in Scotland, students have been told not to socialise with anyone outside of their accommodation or go to pubs, parties or restaurants this weekend.\n\nHow are the rules affecting you? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn extra 400,000 hectares of English countryside will be protected to support the recovery of nature under plans announced by Boris Johnson.\n\nThe prime minister made the commitment at a virtual United Nations event.\n\nHe joined a global pledge from 65 leaders to reverse losses in the natural world by the same date.\n\nNational parks, areas of outstanding natural beauty and other protected areas make up 26% of land in England.\n\nMr Johnson promised the government would increase the amount of protected land in the UK to 30% by 2030.\n\nThe environment is a devolved matter but the government has said it will work with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, as well as landowners, to increase the amount of protected land across the UK.\n\nOn Monday, the prime minister signed the Leaders' Pledge for Nature, which includes commitments to prioritise a green recovery following the coronavirus pandemic, deliver ambitious biodiversity targets and increase financing for nature.\n\nMr Johnson said countries must turn \"words into action\" and \"agree ambitious goals and binding targets\".\n\n\"We can't afford dither and delay because biodiversity loss is happening today, it is happening at a frightening rate,\" he said.\n\n\"If left unchecked, the consequences will be catastrophic for us all.\"\n\n\"Extinction is forever - so our action must be immediate,\" he added.\n\nWorld leaders have often come together to strike deals over climate change, but a top level commitment on nature is much more rare.\n\nEnvironmentalists are delighted - they say nature is in freefall and urgently needs protection as roads, railways, housing and farmland cover the Earth.\n\nBut they say Boris Johnson must lead by example. They point out that around half of existing Sites of Special Scientific Interest in the UK are in poor condition, many through lack of funding.\n\nWhat's more, measures to protect wildlife in the Environment Bill are becalmed in the Commons for want of parliamentary time.\n\nCampaigners say if the UK is really taking nature seriously it must avoid trade deals that damage wildlife.\n\nIt must also clamp down on imports of food that have caused environmental destruction overseas - such as beef farming in the Amazon.\n\nMartin Harper, the RSPB's director of global conservation, said the 30% commitment could be a \"huge step towards addressing the crisis our wildlife is facing\".\n\n\"However, targets on paper won't be enough,\" he said. \"Those set a decade ago failed because they weren't backed up by action.\"\n\nMr Harper said the pledge must be put into domestic law \"as part of a suite of goals to restore the abundance and diversity of our wildlife, in every country in the UK\".\n\nCraig Bennett, chief executive of the Wildlife Trusts, said it was a \"good start\" but \"a much greater level of urgent action\" was needed to put nature into recovery, including rescuing wildlife sites currently in decline.\n\nHe said many National Parks and areas of outstanding natural beauty were \"severely depleted of wildlife because of overgrazing, poor management or intensive agricultural practices\", while around half of sites of special scientific interest were \"in a poor state and suffering wildlife declines\".", "The Prince of Wales has highlighted the impact of the pandemic on young people, saying it is a \"particularly difficult time to be young\".\n\nIn a rare article, published in the Sunday Telegraph, Prince Charles suggested there could be one million young people \"needing urgent help\".\n\nAnd he said the challenge of helping those in need was \"unquestionably vast, but it is not insurmountable\".\n\nThere have been many warnings over the impact of the virus on young people.\n\nResearchers warned that education gaps between richer and poorer pupils widened during the lockdown, while experts said the drop in face-to-face contact could damage teenagers in the long-run.\n\nAnd young people have also been hit hardest by unemployment, figures show.\n\nWriting in the Telegraph, Prince Charles said: \"For anyone, this is a difficult time - but it is a particularly difficult time to be young.\"\n\nHe compared the current situation to \"other times when hope was scarce\" - citing the concerns over youth unemployment in the 1970s that prompted him to set up his charity the Prince's Trust.\n\nThe charity helps people aged between 11 and 30 seek employment opportunities and life skills.\n\n\"This year, we celebrate the fact that over the last nearly 45 years, we have helped a million young people to change their lives for the better,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. An uncertain future: Young people and the pandemic\n\nBut he later added: \"Over all these years since the trust was launched, there has never been an easy time.\n\n\"However, there has never been a time as uniquely challenging as the present, when the pandemic has left perhaps another million young people needing urgent help to protect their futures.\n\n\"The task ahead is unquestionably vast, but it is not insurmountable.\"\n\nPrince Charles - who himself tested positive for the virus early on in the pandemic - set up the Young People Relief Fund to provide extra support to young people affected by the impact of the virus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Charles speaks for the first time since contracting the coronavirus in a recorded video message in support for the charity Age UK\n\nIt comes as thousands of students at universities across the UK are in lockdown following coronavirus outbreaks.\n\nMany students have expressed worry and confusion about the situation.\n\nMeanwhile, although schools reopened at the start of term, England's children's commissioner warned that around 400,000 pupils were still out of school.\n\nThe government's chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty has previously warned that children are more likely to be harmed by not returning to school than if they catch the virus.", "A Bank of England (BoE) policymaker has defended the potential use of negative interest rates, which could take the cost of borrowing below zero.\n\nSilvana Tenreyro told the Sunday Telegraph that evidence from other countries was \"encouraging\".\n\nOn Tuesday, the BoE governor played down the prospect of taking rates below zero, insisting it just needed to make sure it could do so if needed.\n\nThe Bank has so far responded to the pandemic by cutting rates to just 0.1%.\n\nIf interest rates are negative, the BoE charges for any deposits it holds on behalf of the banks. That encourages banks to lend the money to business rather than deposit it.\n\nIn an interview with the newspaper, Ms Tenreyro - an external member of the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee - said that evidence from other European countries and Japan suggested that negative interest rates had succeeded in cutting firms' borrowing costs and that banks would cope with the extra pressure on their finances, despite coronavirus.\n\nThe term \"interest rates\" is often used interchangeably with the Bank of England base rate.\n\nDescribed as the \"single most important interest rate in the UK\", the base rate determines how much interest the Bank of England pays to financial institutions that hold money with it, and what it charges them to borrow.\n\nHigh Street banks also use it to determine how much interest they pay to savers, as well as what they charge people who take out a loan or mortgage.\n\nThe Bank of England usually lowers interest rates when it wants people to spend more and save less.\n\nIn theory, taking interest rates below zero should have the same effect. But in practice, it's a bit more complicated.\n\n\"There has been almost full pass-through of negative rates into lending rates in most countries,\" Ms Tenreyro said.\n\nShe added that \"banks adapted well\" and that their profitability had increased where the policy had been introduced.\n\nBut earlier this week, BoE Governor Andrew Bailey played down the idea of taking rates below zero in the near future, and described the experience of other countries as a \"mixed bag\".\n\nMr Bailey said on Tuesday: \"It would be a cardinal sin in my view if we said we had a tool in the box which we didn't think could be operationally used.\n\n\"Yes it's in the tool bag, but that doesn't mean we're going to use negative rates,\" he added.\n\nThe Bank said in August that it was taking a closer look at the case for cutting interest rates even further. In September it also said that it would take a detailed look at how negatives interest rates might work in practice during the last three months of the year.\n\nIt has already cut interest rates to 0.1%, a record low, and pumped billions of pounds into the UK economy in a bid to fight the coronavirus-induced downturn.\n\nMs Tenreyro also said that the potential for more local lockdowns could, however, slow down or \"interrupt\" the UK's economic recovery.\n\nShe suggested it will be shaped like an \"interrupted, incomplete V\", at odds with other more upbeat forecasts.\n\nSpeaking on a British Chambers of Commerce web conference on Tuesday, Mr Bailey also urged caution over the \"hard yards ahead\" as the UK faces a rising number of Covid-19 infections.\n\nHe said: \"The latest news, that we are seeing a very unfortunate, faster return of Covid-19, is extremely difficult news for all of us and the whole country.\n\n\"That does reinforce the downside risks we have in our forecasts.\n\n\"The Bank of England will do everything we can within our remit and powers to support the businesses and people of this country.\"\n• None Speedy return to workplace 'not possible'", "World champion Josh Taylor knocked out Apinun Khongsong in an incredible first round to defend his WBA and IBF light welterweight titles.\n\nThe Scot, 29, struck the Thailand fighter with a left-hand body shot to send the undefeated 24-year-old crumpling to the canvas. Khongsong was eventually taken by stretcher from ringside in London's York Hall.\n\nTaylor now moves closer to a fight with WBO and WBC title holder Jose Ramirez on his quest to become the undisputed world champion.\n\n\"I felt it [the punch] sinking in straight away,\" he told BT Sport.\n\n\"I didn't know it had hurt him to that extent until I saw him on the floor.\n\n\"He [Khongsong] was the heaviest puncher I have ever been in with. I could feel the weight of his power. That switched me on to take my time and be patient.\n\n\"It was a great shot but I'd like to have shown what we've been working on in the gym. But you don't get paid overtime. I can go and get a pint and a pizza.\"\n\nIt took just two minutes and 41 seconds for the contest to be over, with Taylor's fierce hook to the gut the first real blow landed by the Prestonpans fighter.\n\nInstead, it was the largely unknown but undefeated IBF mandatory challenger who started on the front foot.\n\nBoth men came into the bout unscathed after 16 fights, with Khongsong - 13 knockouts to his name - fighting outside of Asia for the first time. With no partisan crowd there to cheer on Taylor, there was an air of the unknown as to what challenge he would face.\n\nThe early exchanges suggested it may be a tricky one. The man from Bangkok appeared lively, with Taylor forced to be patient as his opponent attempted to take the initiative. However, it did not take long for the world champion's moment to arrive.\n\nWith his opponent against the ropes, his guard high and a right hook missing its target, the Scot swung a thudding blow to the ribs. There was little delay as Khongsong slid to the floor.\n\nThe response from him was minimal as he writhed on the deck during the count, Taylor standing in the opposite corner, arms stretched out.\n\nAnd as he should. His dream fight is now almost within touching distance. Ramirez, and a truly iconic contest, may well be next.\n\n\"I want Jose Ramirez next, 100%,\" he added. \"He's a very good champion, hungry like myself, on the top of his game. I want that fight now; I feel I've got the beating of him.\n\n\"I've never ducked anyone, but to be honest I would rather wait until the fans are back, a fight of that magnitude would be better in front of a crowd.\"", "Police have clashed with demonstrators at a protest in central London against coronavirus restrictions.\n\nOfficers used batons to control the crowd, after bottles and water were thrown by demonstrators massed in Trafalgar Square.\n\nAt least three protesters and nine officers were injured, while 16 people were arrested.\n\nThe Met Police said the protest had been shut down because the crowd was not complying with social distancing.\n\nEarlier on Saturday, thousands gathered in central London to protest against the latest government rules, with very few wearing masks.\n\nProtests are exempt from the rule-of-six restrictions, but demonstrators must social distance; organisers must also submit a risk assessment.\n\nRules in England limit indoor and outdoor gatherings to six people, with some exceptions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters against the government's coronavirus restrictions were rallying in central London\n\nOfficers removed sound equipment and penned the crowd in Trafalgar Square as water and bottles were thrown at them by demonstrators - with some chanting \"pick your side\".\n\nPolice used batons against protesters, leaving some with visible injuries.\n\nReacting, London Mayor Sadiq Khan said: \"The reckless and violent behaviour of some protesters has left hard-working police officers injured and put the safety of our city, which is at a critical moment in the fight against this virus, at risk. This is totally unacceptable.\n\n\"We cannot let the sacrifices Londoners have made be undermined by the selfish behaviour of a small number.\n\n\"Violence of this kind towards officers will not be tolerated and perpetrators will feel the full force of the law.\"\n\nThe Met said the vast majority of crowds had now dispersed.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday afternoon, the Met said: \"Crowds in Trafalgar Square have not complied with the conditions of their risk assessment and are putting people in danger of transmitting the virus.\n\n\"This has voided their risk assessment and we have informed the event organisers they are no longer exempt from the regulations.\"\n\nPolice also confiscated a makeshift riot shield from one man.\n\nThe \"we do not consent\" rally came a week after a separate event which saw more than a dozen officers injured when a \"small minority\" targeted police and more than 32 arrests were made.\n\nCommenting on events on Saturday, Commander Ade Adelekan - who was leading the Met operation - said: \"As the crowds began to swell in Trafalgar Square, it became impossible for people maintain social distancing and keep each other safe.\n\n\"In the interest of public safety, officers then worked quickly to disperse crowds. I am grateful to those members of the demonstration who listened to officers and went home.\n\n\"However, I am very frustrated to see that nine officers were injured during clashes with a small minority of protestors. This is especially saddening in light of the injuries sustained by officers last weekend.\n\n\"We will be supporting those officers who were injured and I wish them a very speedy recovery.\"", "First-time buyers - often cited as the lifeblood of the UK housing market - are becoming less likely to buy a home than movers, researchers predict.\n\nFor more than a year, the highest proportion of sales were to people buying for the first time, according to property portal Zoopla.\n\nBut the squeeze on mortgage lending and increased interest from movers will change the dynamic this year and next.\n\nThe coronavirus crisis has changed conditions in the UK housing market.\n\nLockdown led to many people reconsidering their domestic arrangements, particularly as they have spent more time working from home.\n\nGardens and space, as well as proximity of family, have risen on the priority list. That has led some existing homeowners to look around for an alternative property.\n\nFirst-time buyers, in contrast, have seen their options squeezed as lenders tighten their criteria for granting a mortgage - demanding larger deposits and guarantees of secure employment.\n\nThe result, according to Zoopla, is that home movers will become the more likely buyers at the end of this year and next year.\n\nPent-up demand, and government incentives such as a stamp duty holiday, led to property portals and estate agents reporting a surge in interest when lockdown restrictions were lifted.\n\nThis resulted in some people, like Alex Phillips, buying their first home.\n\nThe 27-year-old teacher bought a terraced house in Newport in August, on the same street as the primary school he attended as a child.\n\n\"The situation meant viewings were not straightforward, but it all went through in two months,\" he said.\n\n\"I did not want to be in limbo and for this to be a starting point.\"\n\nHe said a mortgage adviser helped him secure a home loan with a 10% deposit, which he said was \"vital\" for affordability.\n\nIn August, agreed sales of homes with two bedrooms or fewer, excluding central London, were up 36% compared with the same month last year, according to property portal Rightmove.\n\n\"These types of homes are finding a buyer within 53 days on average, which is seven days quicker than last year,\" said Rightmove's director of property data, Tim Bannister.\n\nThis demand is expected to fade as mortgage restrictions feed through.\n\nZoopla research suggested demand from first-time buyers was already dropping following the post-lockdown peak, whereas demand from movers was \"holding steady\" at 37% higher than pre-Covid levels.\n\n\"First-time buyers have been a driving force of housing sales over the last decade,\" said Richard Donnell, research and insight director at Zoopla.\n\n\"They remain a key buyer group but lower availability of higher loan to value mortgages and increased movement by existing homeowners means a shift in the mix of home buyers into 2021.\"\n\nWhere can you afford to live? Try our housing calculator to see where you could rent or buy This interactive content requires an internet connection and a modern browser. Do you want to buy or rent? Use the buttons to increase or decrease the number of bedrooms: minimum one, maximum four. Alternatively, enter a number into the text input How much is your deposit? Enter your deposit below or adjust the deposit amount using the slider Return to 'How much is your deposit?' This calculator assumes you need a deposit of at least 5% of the value of the property to get a mortgage. The average deposit for UK first-time buyers is . How much can you pay monthly? Enter your monthly payment below or adjust the payment amount using the slider Return to 'How much can you pay monthly?' Your monthly payments are what you can afford to pay each month. Think about your monthly income and take off bills, council tax and living expenses. The average rent figure is for England and Wales. Amount of the that has housing you can Explore the map in detail below Search the UK for more details about a local area What does affordable mean? You have a big enough deposit and your monthly payments are high enough. The prices are based on the local market. If there are 100 properties of the right size in an area and they are placed in price order with the cheapest first, the “low-end” of the market will be the 25th property, \"mid-priced\" is the 50th and \"high-end” will be the 75th.", "Residents of Lake Jackson have been told to boil water before drinking it\n\nResidents of Lake Jackson, Texas, have been warned about using tap water after a deadly brain-eating microbe was found in the city's public water supply.\n\nTests confirmed the presence of Naegleria fowleri in the system. The amoeba can cause an infection of the brain, which is usually fatal.\n\nInfections are rare in the US, with 34 reported between 2009 and 2018.\n\nOfficials in Lake Jackson said they were disinfecting the water supply but did not know how long this would take.\n\nEight Texas communities were originally told on Friday night not to use their water supply for any reason except to flush toilets. The warning was lifted on Saturday for everywhere but Lake Jackson, a city of more than 27,000 residents.\n\nAuthorities in Lake Jackson later said that people could begin using the water, but must boil it before drinking it. Residents were also told to take other measures, including not allowing water to go up their noses while showering or bathing.\n\nThe city warned that children, elderly people, and people with weakened immune systems were \"particularly vulnerable\".\n\nOfficials said they were flushing the water system, and would then carry out tests to ensure the water was safe to use.\n\nAn investigation into the city's water supply began after a six-year-old boy contracted the microbe and died earlier this month, Lake Jackson City Manager Modesto Mundo told reporters.\n\nNaegleria fowleri occurs naturally in freshwater and is found around the world. It usually infects people when contaminated water enters the body through the nose and then travels to the brain.\n\nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says infection typically occurs when people go swimming or diving in \"warm freshwater places\".\n\nThe CDC says people cannot get infected by swallowing contaminated water, and it cannot be passed from person to person.\n\nThose infected with Naegleria fowleri have symptoms including fever, nausea and vomiting, as well as a stiff neck and headaches. Most die within a week.\n\nAn infection was previously confirmed in the US state of Florida earlier this year. At the time, health officials there urged locals to avoid nasal contact with water from taps and other sources.", "Personal protective equipment (PPE), such as masks and disposable gloves, is being left as litter, says Keep Wales Tidy\n\nAction is needed to limit the use of \"unnecessary\" single-use plastic during the pandemic, campaigners have said.\n\nDuring lockdown many chains banned the use of reusable cups for safety reasons, while disposable face masks have been found dropped on beaches.\n\nMicroplastics expert Dr Christian Dunn said the damage of single-use plastic \"would last forever\" and government action was needed.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it was working to reduce environmental impact.\n\nIn the aftermath of what has been called the Blue Planet effect, companies vowed to cut packaging and the use of disposable cups, with people encouraged to refill and reuse to cut single-use plastic.\n\nThe Welsh Government wants to send zero waste to landfills by 2050, with 70% of waste being recycled.\n\nBut when the coronavirus pandemic hit, some refill schemes were paused, due to concerns about the spread of the virus, and community groups across Wales reported an increase in litter.\n\nDr Dunn, head of The Plastic Research Centre of Wales at Bangor University, said while plastic was an important tool in preventing the spread of the virus and saving lives, the pandemic marked a \"back step\" in the fight against pollution.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lockdown: Litter and brawling on hottest day of the year\n\nDr Dunn said, while businesses struggled to keep afloat and people tried to stem the curb of the virus, some sadly had more to worry about than reusing cups.\n\nBut he said the rise in litter, especially of single-use plastic such as bottles and single-use masks, would have a lasting impact.\n\n\"The hope for all of us involved is that this is a blip, and when things return to some sort of normality, things will settle down,\" he said.\n\nSince 14 September, the wearing of face coverings has been mandatory in indoor public spaces across Wales.\n\nThe World Health Organisation recommends people use three layer fabric masks in communities, unless they are vulnerable, high risk or in a medical setting.\n\nBut disposable surgical masks contain plastic and cannot be recycled, with Welsh Government guidance telling people to put them in their household bin.\n\nBut Dr Dunn said while single-use personal protective equipment (PPE) was vital to help curb the spread of Covid-19 in medical environments, most people did not need to use them in their daily lives.\n\nDr Dunn said the Welsh Government needed to issue a clear public message or introduce a levy to stop throw-away masks being cheaper for the general public than reusable ones.\n\n\"While we need to be very conscious of the health implications, we cannot allow ourselves to be distracted,\" he said.\n\n\"Covid will eventually go away, plastic waste won't, it's here forever.\"\n\nClare Reed said she found a discarded face covering on a beach in Rhyl\n\nClare Reed, of the Marine Conservation Society, said a lot of progress was made before the pandemic to reduce single-use plastic, and then it was if it was \"all forgotten\".\n\nMs Reed said she found a discarded face mask on a beach in Rhyl, and the damage on the environment and wildlife was \"horrific\".\n\n\"I like to see the best in people, they may be falling out of people's pockets, but if you drop a mask today it will remain in the environment for many, many years,\" she said.\n\nAt least 2.5 billion coffee cups are thrown away each year in the UK, according to a UK government report published in 2018.\n\nWhile there is no official guidance barring the use of reusable cups, in March, at the start of the pandemic, many coffee chains banned the use of reusable cups due to safety reasons.\n\nIn July, 119 experts from across the globe signed a statement, concluding reusable containers posed no threat to the public during the pandemic.\n\nThe statement, organised by Greenpeace, claims there is no reason cups, bottles and jars cannot be used as long as they are thoroughly washed, but retailers should adopt \"contact-free\" systems for customers' reusable bags and cups.\n\nWhile some chains, including Starbucks, are now accepting them with systems for baristas not to touch the cups, many other independent chains are still only using disposable cups.\n\nThe Foodservice Packaging Association (FPA) said while there were strict hygiene rules in place in businesses, there was no guarantee a customer had washed their cup or bottle properly, and they could have been handled by many people.\n\nExecutive director Martin Kersh said businesses had spent a fortune on PPE to keep staff and customers safe, and many independents could not afford any more restrictions, expense or alternative systems to allow for reusable cup use.\n\n\"We don't want to take that independent fish and chip shop over the edge, we want them to survive, they're really struggling to do this,\" he said.\n\nPublic Health Wales (PHW), in charge of handling the pandemic, was unable to comment on the safety of reusable cups.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had encouraged people to use reusable washable face coverings \"wherever possible\", and had promoted the responsible disposal of masks in campaigns.\n\n\"There has been an increase in single-use items during the coronavirus pandemic and we are working with businesses to help reduce their environmental impact and to support recycled and re-usable alternatives,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"We are committed to reducing unnecessary single-use plastic in Wales and we are currently consulting on proposals to ban several commonly littered items.\"", "Yuko Takeuchi had taken the lead role in many TV series and films, including Miss Sherlock\n\nAward-winning Japanese actress Yuko Takeuchi has been found dead at her Tokyo home at the age of 40.\n\nShe was reportedly found by her actor husband Taiki Nakabayashi at their home in Shibuya Ward. Her death was confirmed at hospital.\n\nPolice launched an investigation, suspecting that the actress took her own life, Japanese media reported.\n\nMs Takeuchi was popular in Japan, known for the 1998 horror film Ringu which was adapted by Hollywood as The Ring.\n\nIn a statement, her talent agency Stardust Promotion said it was \"stunned and saddened by the news\".\n\nThe actress also played a female Sherlock Holmes in the 2018 HBO series Miss Sherlock, which was broadcast in several countries including the US.\n\nFor three years in a row, between 2004 and 2007, Ms Takeuchi won best actress in a leading role at the Japanese Academy Awards.\n\nAlong with her long list of acting credits, Ms Takeuchi's warm, smiling, woman-of-the-people image made her popular with advertisers, Variety Magazine reports.\n\nAlthough suicide has not been confirmed in Ms Takeuchi's case, it has been the cause of death for a number of Japanese talents recently, including the actress Sei Ashina earlier this month, actor Haruma Miura in July and wrestling star Hana Kimura in May.\n\nJapan has long battled one of the highest suicide rates in the industrialised world although figures have dropped since preventative measures were introduced more than a decade ago.\n\nIf you are feeling emotionally distressed and would like details of organisations which offer advice and support, click here. In the UK you can call for free, at any time, to hear recorded information on 0800 066 066. In Japan you can get help here.", "The events had been expected to attract about 20,000 people to Southampton\n\nPublic health officials have cancelled two boat shows hours before they were due to start over coronavirus fears.\n\nBOATS2020, and the smaller sailing show MDL Ocean Village, were due to start in Southampton on Friday, with an expected 20,000 visitors over the next 10 days.\n\nThe organisers of BOATS2020 said they were told at about 18:30 BST that the event could not go ahead.\n\nSouthampton City Council said the decision was \"regrettable\" but made with public safety in mind.\n\nLesley Robinson, chief executive of British Marine, which organised BOATS2020, said she was \"desperately disappointed\" by the cancellation, \"especially receiving the news at the eleventh hour before opening\".\n\nShe added: \"Alongside our exhibitors, we were ready to open a show that exceeded all safety requirements. We are truly perplexed as to why we are unable to run the show at least until Monday in line with the government restrictions imposed yesterday.\n\n\"Public health and safety come first and naturally, as the show organiser, British Marine must comply with all guidance.\"\n\nBritish Marine's chief executive Lesley Robinson said she was \"desperately disappointed\" by the late cancellation\n\nAbout 230 boats had been brought to the city for the show.\n\nSouthampton City Council's director of public health, Debbie Chase, said: \"In Southampton and the South East, we have seen a lower rate of COVID-19 transmissions since lockdown ended.\n\n\"However, the national picture shows a concerning rise in cases, and with these events set to attract around 20,000 people from different parts of the UK over a 10-day period, it's important we act now to reduce the risk of infection.\"\n\nShe added: \"The decision, while regrettable, has been made after detailed analysis of the public health risks and discussions with our colleagues and partner agencies within the city. COVID-19 is still very much with us and we all need to stay alert, particularly at this sensitive time.\"", "The former Minneapolis police officer charged with murdering George Floyd has appeared in court for the first time.\n\nDerek Chauvin was filmed pressing his knee on Mr Floyd's neck for almost nine minutes before he died in May.\n\nThree other former officers are charged with abetting and aiding murder.", "Restrictions will begin in the second city on Tuesday\n\nHouseholds in Birmingham have been banned from mixing in new lockdown measures announced following a spike in coronavirus cases.\n\nThe rate of infection has more than doubled in the city in a week to 90.3 cases per 100,000.\n\nThe measures also cover neighbouring Sandwell and Solihull, affecting more than 1.6 million people in total.\n\nThe restrictions will begin on Tuesday, it was announced at a regional meeting of council leaders.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"We never take these decisions lightly but social gatherings can spread the virus quickly and we need residents to abide by the new rules to break the chains of transmission.\"\n\nUnder the new rules, people are banned from meeting others who are not in their household or support bubble, indoors or in private gardens.\n\nBirmingham City Council confirmed people could still go out to shops, restaurants and other venues, in a maximum group of six from more than one household, but told people to be \"vigilant\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Birmingham residents have reacted to the new lockdown restrictions\n\nCouncil leader Ian Ward said data showed \"the infection rate has risen mainly due to social interactions, particularly private household gatherings\".\n\nFollowing earlier confusion around restrictions for the hospitality sector, Mr Ward tweeted: \"To clarify the situation, we have now agreed with government that the household restrictions which will come into force next Tuesday will not affect the hospitality sector (bars restaurants and cafes).\"\n\nHe said: \"You can continue to go to restaurants and pubs in a maximum group of six so that would allow you to meet another household.\n\n\"The reason for this difference is the data and information is telling us it's household gatherings together in one home where they are spreading the virus.\"\n\nWest Midlands mayor Andy Street said the restrictions were not about \"prevention of schools, workplaces, transport\" but about mixing of households.\n\nThe new rules on household mixing in the three areas will run alongside wider restrictions coming into force in England on Monday, banning social gatherings of more than six people.\n\nElsewhere in England on Friday, it was announced:\n\nBirmingham has one of the highest infection rates in England\n\nBirmingham's coronavirus infection stands at 90.3 cases per 100,000 people as of the week to 8 September. The rate has more than doubled from 35.9 per 100,000 the previous week.\n\nAccording to the government's more local data, Birmingham is home to five of the top 10 neighbourhoods with the highest number of positive cases in England.\n\nMany of these areas saw spikes in the latest week of available data, compared to the week previously - reflecting the overall trend for the city.\n\nSpringfield and Hall Green West, in the south east of the city, had the most cases with 42, a sharp rise on the previous full week, when only 11 were recorded.\n\nWake Green East and Moseley Bog, just south of Springfield, went from recording between 0 to 2 cases for the past four weeks, to 29 most recently.\n\nMr Ward said the virus has not \"weakened\", calling it \"relentless\".\n\nWith 892 cases in the latest seven-day period, he said there had been \"an increase of hospital admissions with Covid-19 and an increase in cases in care homes\".\n\nHe added: \"If a venue doesn't look safe and you're not asked for your contact details, take your business elsewhere.\"\n\nMr Ward also said there were currently no plans to postpone the start of the academic year for university students, with thousands expected back to the city's five universities in the coming weeks.\n\nChief Constable of West Midlands Police Dave Thompson said he understood it had been a \"tough time\", but urged people to act responsibly.\n\nEsabella's restaurant in Warwick Road, Solihull, has closed voluntarily after 25 people tested positive for the virus, one of them a staff member.\n\nBethany Kendle is due to move back to Birmingham and start a new job\n\nBethany Kendle is due to move back to Birmingham for a new job after spending lockdown with her parents in Hertfordshire.\n\nThe 22-year-old, who celebrates her 23rd birthday on Saturday, said she had planned to see old friends from her time at university.\n\n\"It's frustrating, everybody was just starting to spread their wings and it's all taken away again,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm living in a flat with two friends from university, so it's not the end of the world.\"\n\nMs Kendle, who graduated from the University of Birmingham earlier this year, said she found the rules \"quite vague\".\n\n\"People don't really know what's going on,\" she said. \"It's a difficult line to draw, especially when different parts of the country have different rules.\"\n\nSolihull and Sandwell are also affected by the new restrictions\n\nThe new restrictions are designed to stop the transmission of the virus in people's homes which is thought to be behind the increase in cases across the West Midlands conurbation.\n\nWe'll know if it's working if the infection rate starts to drop over the next few weeks.\n\nHealth officials have described this as a critical moment in the battle against the virus and hospitals are again starting to see small numbers of seriously ill Covid-19 patients.\n\nPolice will move from an approach of engagement to enforcement of the rules, but with more than 1.6 million people now covered by these restrictions, there will have to be an element of trust that they can be followed.\n\nAbby Stapleton is due to study psychology at Birmingham City University\n\nStudent Abby Stapleton, 19 and from Coventry, is due to move into halls of residence at Birmingham City University at the weekend and said the rise in cases had made her nervous.\n\n\"For the minute it is not too strict, I'm still able to move around for things that are necessities, but I'm nervous over catching it, it is a lot higher than Coventry,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir David Attenborough met some of the few remaining gorillas in the Virunga Mountains at the time some 40 years ago\n\nSir David Attenborough returns to our screens this weekend with a landmark new production.\n\nThe tone of the programme is very different from his usual work.\n\nFor once Britain's favourite naturalist is not here to celebrate the incredible diversity of life on Earth but to issue us all with a stark warning.\n\nThe one-hour film, Extinction: The Facts, will be broadcast on BBC One in the UK on Sunday 13 September at 20:00 BST.\n\n\"We are facing a crisis\", he warns at the start, \"and one that has consequences for us all.\"\n\nWhat follows is a shocking reckoning of the damage our species has wrought on the natural world.\n\nThere are the stunning images of animals and plants you would expect from an Attenborough production, but also horrific scenes of destruction.\n\nIn one sequence monkeys leap from trees into a river to escape a huge fire.\n\nIn another a koala limps across a road in its vain search for shelter as flames consume the forest around it.\n\nPangolins are trafficked in great numbers for their scales\n\nThere is a small army of experts on hand to quantify the scale of the damage to the ecosystems of the world.\n\nOf the estimated eight million species on Earth, a million are now threatened with extinction, one expert warns.\n\nSince 1970, vertebrate animals - birds, mammals, reptiles, fish and amphibians - have declined by 60%, another tells us.\n\nWe meet the world's last two northern white rhinos.\n\nThese great beasts used to be found in their thousands in Central Africa but have been pushed to the brink of extinction by habitat loss and hunting.\n\n\"Many people think of extinction being this imaginary tale told by conservationists,\" says James Mwenda, the keeper who looks after them, \"but I have lived it, I know what it is.\"\n\nJames Mwenda: 'Many people think of extinction being this imaginary tale'\n\nJames strokes and pets the giant animals but it becomes clear they represent the last of their kind when he tells us that Najin and Fatu are mother and daughter.\n\nSpecies have always come and gone, that's how evolution works. But, says Sir David, the rate of extinction has been rising dramatically.\n\nIt is reckoned to be now happening at 100 times the natural evolutionary rate - and is accelerating.\n\n\"Over the course of my life I've encountered some of the world's most remarkable species of animals,\" says Sir David, in one of the most moving sequences in the film.\n\n\"Only now do I realise just how lucky I've been - many of these wonders seem set to disappear forever.\"\n\nSir David is at pains to explain that this isn't just about losing the magnificent creatures he has featured in the hundreds of programmes he has made in his six decades as a natural history film-maker.\n\nThe loss of pollinating insects could threaten the food crops we depend on. Trees and other plants regulate water flow and produce the oxygen we breathe. Meanwhile, the seas are being emptied of fish.\n\nThere is now about 5% of trawler-caught fish left compared with before the turn of the 20th century, one expert says.\n\nTwo female rhinos are the last of their kind\n\nBut the pandemic provides perhaps the most immediate example of the risks of our ever-increasing encroachment into the natural world, as we have all been learning in the most brutal fashion over the last six months.\n\nThe programme tracks the suspected origins of coronavirus to populations of bats living in cave systems in Yunnan province in China.\n\nWe see the Chinese \"wet market\" in Wuhan which specialises in the sale of wild animals for human consumption and is thought to have been linked with many of the early infections.\n\nThe programme is uncompromising in its depiction of the crisis in the natural world, admits Serena Davies, who directed the programme.\n\n\"Our job is to report the reality the evidence presents,\" she explains.\n\nBut the programme does not leave the audience feeling that all is lost. Sir David makes clear there is still cause for hope.\n\n\"His aim is not to try and drag the audience into the depths of despair,\" says Ms Davies, \"but to take people on a journey that makes them realise what is driving these issues we can also solve them.\"\n\nWe see one of the most celebrated moments in all the films Sir David has made in his long career, the moment he met a band of gorillas in the mountains on the border between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda.\n\nGorillas face many threats but there is hope for their recovery\n\nA young gorilla called Poppy tries to take off his shoes as he speaks to the camera.\n\n\"It was an experience that stayed with me,\" says Sir David, \"but it was tinged with sadness, as I thought I might be seeing some of the last of their kind.\"\n\nThe programme makers have been back to Rwanda and, after a long trek, spot Poppy's daughter and granddaughter in the deep forest scrub.\n\nWe learn that the Rwandan government has worked with local people to protect the animal and that the gorillas are thriving.\n\nThere were 250 when Sir David visited in the 1970s, now there are more than 1,000.\n\nIt shows, says Sir David, what we can achieve when we put our minds to it.\n\n\"I may not be here to see it,\" he concludes, \"but if we make the right decisions at this critical moment, we can safeguard our planet's ecosystems, its extraordinary biodiversity and all its inhabitants.\"\n\nHis final line packs a powerful punch: \"What happens next\", says Sir David, \"is up to every one of us.\"\n\nYou can see David Attenborough's, Extinction: The Facts, on BBC One in the UK on Sunday 13 September at 20:00 BST.", "The EU is demanding the UK ditches plans to change Boris Johnson's Brexit deal \"by the end of the month\" or risk jeopardising trade talks.\n\nThe UK has published a bill to rewrite parts of the withdrawal agreement it signed in January.\n\nThe EU said this had \"seriously damaged trust\" and it would not be \"shy\" of taking legal action against the UK.\n\nBut cabinet minister Michael Gove said the UK had made it \"perfectly clear\" it would not withdraw the bill.\n\nThe government says Parliament is sovereign and can pass laws which breach the UK's international treaty obligations.\n\nEU chief negotiator Michel Barnier said \"trust and confidence are and will be key\", after the latest round of UK-EU trade talks wrapped up in London on Thursday.\n\nHis UK counterpart David Frost said \"significant\" differences remained over a free trade deal, but added discussions would continue in Brussels next week.\n\nThe source of the EU's concern is Mr Johnson's proposed Internal Market Bill, which was published on Wednesday.\n\nIt addresses the Northern Ireland Protocol - an element of the withdrawal agreement designed to prevent a hard border returning to the island of Ireland.\n\nThe bill proposes no new checks on goods moving from Northern Ireland to Great Britain. It gives UK ministers powers to modify or \"disapply\" rules relating to the movement of goods that will come into force from 1 January, if the UK and EU are unable to strike a trade deal.\n\nThe publication of the bill prompted emergency talks between Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove and Maros Šefčovič, the European Commission Vice-President.\n\nAfter two sets of meetings today - one on the trade talks and the other on the government's plans to rewrite part of the agreed treaty from last year - there has been nothing less than a diplomatic explosion.\n\nThe EU issued a statement that was about as furious as any I've ever seen in this kind of context - demanding that the UK government withdraw the controversial plans to override the deal done with the EU last year by the end of the month, and threatening to take legal action if it doesn't happen.\n\nEssentially saying that there's no chance of trade talks, and hence no chance of a deal, unless the UK backs down.\n\nAt this stage, however, anyone with more than a passing acquaintance with this government would know that's inconceivable.\n\nIt is not, of course, impossible that further down the track the government may give way, or concede in quite a big way.\n\nBut right now, the chances of a move are slim to none.\n\nFollowing the discussions, the EU issued a strongly-worded statement warning that the withdrawal agreement was a legal obligation, adding that \"neither the EU nor the UK can unilaterally change, clarify, amend, interpret, disregard or disapply the agreement\".\n\nThe EU rejected the UK's arguments that the bill is designed to protect peace in Northern Ireland arguing that \"it does the opposite\".\n\nMr Šefčovič said that if the bill were to be adopted, it would constitute an \"extremely serious violation\" of the withdrawal agreement and of international law.\n\nHe urged the government to withdraw the bill \"by the end of the month\", adding that the withdrawal agreement \"contains a number of mechanisms and legal remedies to address violations of the legal obligations contained in the text - which the European Union will not be shy in using\".\n\nGermany's UK ambassador said he had not experienced \"such a fast, intentional and profound deterioration of a negotiation\" in his diplomatic career.\n\n\"If you believe in partnership between the UK and the EU like I do then don't accept it,\" he tweeted.\n\nMichael Gove arrives at the Cabinet Office ahead of talks with EU officials\n\nIn its response, the UK government said it would \"discharge its treaty obligations in good faith\", but added that \"in the difficult and highly exceptional circumstances in which we find ourselves, it is important to remember the fundamental principle of parliamentary sovereignty\".\n\n\"Parliament is sovereign as a matter of domestic law and can pass legislation which is in breach of the UK's treaty obligations. Parliament would not be acting unconstitutionally in enacting such legislation.\n\n\"Treaty obligations only become binding to the extent that they are enshrined in domestic legislation. Whether to enact or repeal legislation, and the content of that legislation, is for Parliament and Parliament alone.\"\n\nMr Gove \"said that, during the talks, he had \"made it perfectly clear that we would not be withdrawing this legislation\", adding that the government was \"absolutely serious\".\n\nThe Internal Market Bill will be formally debated by MPs in Parliament for the first time on Monday, 14 September.\n\nIt has come under increasing criticism from Conservative parliamentarians.\n\nFormer party leader Lord Howard said it would damage the UK's \"reputation for probity and respect for the rule of law\", while former Chancellor Lord Lamont asked ministers to \"think again\".\n\nBut Mr Gove said: \"I'm looking forward to the second reading of the bill next week. It's an opportunity for the government to set out in detail why we have this legislation.\"\n\nHe promised to fight for \"unfettered access for goods from Northern Ireland to the rest of the United Kingdom\".\n\nMr Johnson has defended the bill, saying it would \"ensure the integrity of the UK internal market\" and hand power to Scotland and Wales, while protecting the Northern Ireland peace process.\n\nBut critics say the move will damage the UK's international reputation after a minister admitted the plans break international law.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer urged the government to consider \"the reputational risk that it's taking in the proposed way forward\".\n\nMeanwhile, the latest round of formal talks over a post-Brexit trade deal concluded in London on Thursday.\n\nSpeaking afterwards, Mr Barnier said the EU had \"shown flexibility\" in an effort to \"find solutions\", but the UK had not \"not engaged\" on some \"major issues\".\n\nFor the UK side, Lord Frost said \"challenging areas remain and the divergences on some are still significant\".\n\nHe said the UK negotiators \"remain committed\" to reaching a deal by the middle of October and officials would \"continue discussions\" next week.", "Jean-Sébastien Jacques has been Rio Tinto's chief executive since 2016\n\nThe boss of Rio Tinto, Jean-Sébastien Jacques, will step down following criticism of the mining giant's destruction of sacred Aboriginal sites.\n\nIn May, the world's biggest iron ore miner destroyed two ancient caves in Pilbara, Western Australia.\n\nThe company went ahead with blowing up the Juukan Gorge rock shelters despite the opposition of Aboriginal traditional owners.\n\nIt sparked widespread condemnation from shareholders and the public.\n\nOn Friday, the company said in a statement: \"Significant stakeholders have expressed concerns about executive accountability for the failings identified.\"\n\nThe board said Mr Jacques would remain as the chief executive until March or until a successor was appointed.\n\nOther senior executives, including the heads of the miner's iron ore and corporate relations divisions, will also leave the company at the end of the year.\n\nThe caves - seen as one of Australia's most significant archaeological research sites - had shown evidence of continuous human habitation dating back 46,000 years.\n\nThey sat above about eight million tonnes of high-grade iron ore, with an estimated value of £75m (A$132m; $96m).\n\nJuukan Gorge cave sites, seen before and after the destruction\n\nAustralia's parliament is currently holding an inquiry into the miner's actions.\n\nRio Tinto also held its own inquiry earlier this year, after which the company cut bonuses for directors and began attempts at repairing relations with Aboriginal communities.\n\n\"What happened at Juukan was wrong and we are determined to ensure that the destruction of a heritage site of such exceptional archaeological and cultural significance never occurs again at a Rio Tinto operation,\" said chairman Simon Thompson.\n\nArtefacts found at the caves include a 28,000-year-old animal bone tool and a 4,000-year-old belt made of plaited human hair. DNA testing had directly linked it to the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura (PKKP) people - the traditional owners of the land.\n\nAfter the caves were destroyed, a PKKP representative, John Ashburton, said losing the site was a \"devastating blow\".\n\n\"There are less than a handful of known Aboriginal sites in Australia that are as old as this one... Its importance cannot be underestimated,\" he said.\n\nLast week it was revealed that in the days running up to the caves' destruction in May, Rio Tinto hired lawyers in case opponents tried to seek injunctions to stop them.\n\nAlthough the company said it had permission for the work under Aboriginal heritage laws, critics said it suggested the miner was aware of the site's cultural importance.\n\nIn June, rival miner BHP also halted its plans to expand its mine in the Pilbara region in June following the outcry over Rio's actions.\n\nLast month, Rio Tinto said it had cut Mr Jacques' bonus by £2.7m. It also said Chris Salisbury, chief executive of iron ore, and Simone Niven, group executive of corporate relations, would lose more than half a million pounds each.\n\nBut Tom Stevenson, investment director at Fidelity International, said Rio Tinto's actions had been \"slow and misguided\".\n\n\"It was slow because when it knew the significance of those sites it could have reversed its position and it didn't,\" he said.\n\n\"And it is misguided because when it cut bonuses recently it effectively put a price on something which is basically priceless and I think that that was tin-eared really. I'm not surprised that we've moved onto this stage where the chief executive felt that he had to go.\"\n\nThe cultural value of the Juukan Gorge shelters is huge and so is the loss.\n\nThis decision to let the CEO go could be seen as a vindication after months of ongoing pressure from traditional landowners, other Aboriginal groups and shareholders who refused to stand for the destruction of one of Australia's most important archaeological sites.\n\nThe scandal also highlights the great imbalance of power between Australia's influential mining industry and traditional landowners; and what the government's responsibility should be to ensure the protection of historical and ancestral sites.\n\nLast month Mr Jacques and two senior executives were stripped of their multimillion-dollar bonuses for 2020. The move seemed to have backfired.\n\nMany saw cutting the pay of already very high-earning executives as showing a clear lack of touch, and nowhere near a satisfactory retribution for those responsible for overseeing community relations.\n\nRio Tinto chairman Simon Thompson said that the mining giant was determined to regain the trust of the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura people and other traditional owners.\n\nBut given how they've handled this scandal, it's hard to see that happening any time soon.", "The family of Breonna Taylor has said it is worried about a \"cover-up\" in the case of her killing in March.\n\nThe 26-year-old emergency medical technician was fatally shot when officers stormed her apartment in Louisville, Kentucky, on a search warrant for drugs.\n\n\"There are questions [that] still aren't answered,\" says her aunt Bianca Austin. \"We feel like we're just being lied to.\"\n\nLouisville Police did not respond to an interview request from the BBC.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A scammer explains to Kafui Okpattah how the fake licence scheme works\n\nScammers on social media who claim to work for the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency are selling \"full driving licences\" for £600, a BBC News investigation has found.\n\nThey claim to have inside access to driving test centres which allows them to book and pass practical driving tests without clients being present.\n\nThe Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency - which has responsibility for driving tests - said that was not possible.\n\nThey are money-making scams, it said.\n\nIt is illegal to drive without a valid licence. The punishment for doing so includes a fine of up to £1,000, up to six points on your licence and a possible disqualification.\n\nThe licence vendors claim to supply their clients with a plastic licence card and test certificate at their home address.\n\nThey also send clients an image of what appears to be their updated driving licence status as shown on the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency's (DVLA) \"view your licence\" webpage.\n\nThe client's driving status reads \"full driving licence\", which suggests they are on the DVLA database as registered to drive - despite having paid for their licence instead of taking and passing a driving test.\n\nBBC News has discovered that these images are fraudulent mock-ups of the DVLA's \"view your licence\" webpage and that the licence numbers clients are issued with are not on the agency's database.\n\nThe BBC sent the examples of the licences to the DVLA.\n\nIn response, the DVLA said: \"Only DVLA can issue a driving licence. We can confirm that the examples seen are not genuine.\"\n\nThe licence vendors advertise their service on social media platforms such as Instagram, but urge any potential clients to message them privately on WhatsApp.\n\nBBC News has acquired screenshots of text messages between clients and the licence vendors.\n\nThey show the vendor asking for personal details such as the client's address, date of birth and a passport photo - information the seller says is required to issue a licence.\n\nText messages seen by the BBC also show the licence vendor discussing payments with his clients and them thanking him for his service.\n\nTo find out more about how the scammers operate, BBC News sent text messages to a vendor posing as a potential client. The vendor is asked if the DVLA would find out but is assured they wouldn't because \"we [the vendors] work for DVLA\".\n\nIn a phone call with the BBC, which was covertly recorded, the vendor went into more detail about how the fraud is carried out.\n\n\"We usually book your test for you and pass it without you actually being there but it's gonna look like you were there\" he said.\n\n\"If you do wanna go ahead, I'll need your full name and provisional licence number.\"\n\nThe vendor suggested he was able to cheat the driving test and pass people without them being present, allowing them to have their licence updated to a \"full driving licence\".\n\nHe also told the BBC he could start the process that same day and everything would be done in \"five to seven days\".\n\nIn a statement responding to the BBC's investigation, the DVLA said: \"We are aware of these offers and are investigating similar claims.\n\n\"We have so far found no evidence to suggest these claims are true or anything more than money-making scams.\"\n\nScarlett (not her real name) tried to acquire a driving licence from the vendor.\n\nShe told the BBC she came across his account on Instagram and \"paid £500 for him to pass my driving test\".\n\nScarlett says that despite having paid the vendor, all she received was an image of her licence details.\n\n\"I checked the [licence] details he sent me but it was all fake,\" she says. \"I never received no licence just that picture.\n\n\"If you've found him, can you get my money back? I want my money back.\"\n\nBBC News has learnt of several others, like Scarlett, who've tried to acquire a driving licence from a licence vendor.\n\nThey come from different parts of the country, including Liverpool, Birmingham, North Yorkshire, Bradford and London.\n\nIn its statement to the BBC, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency warned members of the public against attempting to acquire licences illegally.\n\n\"The driving test is there to make sure all drivers have the skills and knowledge to use the roads safely and responsibly; trying to circumvent it is illegal and a serious danger to road users,\" it said.", "A bust-up with Brussels was always a possible feature of this autumn.\n\nBut when EU top brass and their officials arrived in London this morning, it was not inevitable that it would come today.\n\nThere were whispers yesterday that one or other of the sides might flounce out - but \"wait and see\" seemed the order of the day.\n\nLate last night, chatter from sources in Brussels suggested they were unwilling to rise to what they see as the UK's provocation, to \"take the bait\", as it was expressed to me.\n\nBut after two sets of meetings today - one on the trade talks and the other on the government's plans to rewrite part of the agreed treaty from last year - there has been nothing less than a diplomatic explosion.\n\nThe EU issued a statement that was about as furious as any I've ever seen in this kind of context - demanding that the UK government withdraw the controversial plans to override the deal done with the EU last year by the end of the month, and threatening to take legal action if it doesn't happen.\n\nEssentially saying that there's no chance of trade talks, and hence no chance of a deal, unless the UK backs down.\n\nAt this stage however, anyone with more than a passing acquaintance with this government would know that's inconceivable.\n\nIt is not, of course, impossible that further down the track the government may give way, or concede in quite a big way.\n\nBut right now, the chances of a move are slim to none. The chances therefore of talks, that matter so much to our economy, moving very far are almost zilch - and therefore the chances of a deal are falling away.\n\nRemember last autumn, day-after-day-after-day the language between the two sides became more heated, brinkmanship more risky, the government's moves more audacious, and then, suddenly, a deal was done.\n\nAnd despite the EU's extraordinary statement, and serious stumbling blocks in the talks, the UK chief negotiator, Lord Frost, has now announced that the trade talks will still go ahead next week.\n\nThe added complication here is that the government can't be sure at all that their plans to change the Northern Irish parts of the existing treaty will pass through Parliament.\n\nResistance in the Lords is inevitable and while it's hard to gauge the final number, there is likely to be a rebellion from Tory MPs too.\n\nBut Downing Street right now is confident that MPs will back the plans in the end.\n\nWilling to forgo a trade deal - if that's what their changes mean - rather than back down on their plans, having chosen to take what insiders admit is a nuclear option, for now, they are willing to stand back and watch the explosion.", "Stevie Lee (centre) was a member of the wrestling group Half Pint Brawlers, pictured here in 2011\n\nJackass star and TNA wrestler Stevie Lee has died at the age of 54.\n\nLee appeared in Johnny Knoxville's 2010 reality comedy film Jackass 3D, and was known in the ring as Puppet.\n\nHe died unexpectedly at home on Wednesday, his family confirmed on a GoFundMe page set up to help cover his funeral costs.\n\n\"Puppet has put smiles across the world with his hardcore attitude and lifestyle,\" a family statement read.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nStevie Lee Richardson appeared in the third big-screen outing for Knoxville's hit TV show, which saw a group of friends play dangerous stunts on each other.\n\nIn the film, Lee performed a stunt that involved pulling a gun on fellow TNA wrestler, Jeff Jarrett.\n\nThe movie topped the US box office 10 years ago, with opening weekend takings of $50m (£31.4m).\n\nLee's other on-screen credits included American Horror Story and Oz the Great and Powerful.\n\nHe was also a member of the wrestling group Half Pint Brawlers.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A teacher whose brother previously won the £500,000 prize has gone one better to win the jackpot on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?\n\nDonald Fear, 57, used just one 50/50 lifeline to become the first £1m winner in 14 years.\n\nBrother Davyth, who teaches geography, appeared on the show in September last year.\n\nMr Fear said his brother was his \"hero and best friend\". \"Other way around now,\" said presenter Jeremy Clarkson.\n\nThe history and politics teacher's final question on Friday's pre-recorded show was: \"In 1718, which pirate died in battle off the coast of what is now North Carolina?\"\n\nThe options were Calico Jack, Blackbeard, Bartholomew Roberts, and Captain Kidd.\n\nMr Fear, who lives in Telford, said he had taught piracy to a group of Year 8 students about eight years ago, and remembered the date of 1718.\n\n\"You don't be a history teacher for 33 years without knowing a few dates, and the date 1718 and Blackbeard leapt out at me instantly.\"\n\nClarkson expressed his amazement at the history teacher's knowledge throughout his run of 15 correct answers.\n\n\"It's like sitting next to the internet in a pink shirt,\" he said, describing him as \"an encyclopaedia with a moustache\".\n\nMr Fear is the sixth million-pound winner in the show's 22-year history.\n\nAfter his win, the father of four celebrated by going on a caravan holiday along the Northumberland coast with his wife of 33 years, nurse Debs.\n\nAnd his elder brother Davyth has also been part of his celebrations.\n\n\"He is so pleased for me,\" said Mr Fear.\n\n\"We went to spend a night in a hotel with our wives last week and got absolutely plastered and he kept poking me saying how pleased and how overjoyed he was by it.\"\n\nMr Fear said he wanted to give at least 70% of his winnings to his family and spend the rest on a \"comfortable retirement\".\n\nAnd that retirement is due to begin soon - since winning the jackpot, he has resigned from Haberdashers' Adams Grammar school in Newport, Shropshire.\n\nBut he said: \"The rules are you have to go at the end of a term.\n\n\"Actually, I never investigated the possibility of whether it would be possible not to go back at all - but how unfair to my A-level students that would be?\"\n\nMr Fear added: \"I was planning to go in two years anyway just before my 60th birthday.\n\n\"As it is, I'm going just after my 58th.\"", "A new Covid-19 contact-tracing app will be launched across England and Wales on 24 September, the government has announced.\n\nThe app will let people scan barcode-like QR codes to register visits to hospitality venues and will implement Apple and Google's method of detecting other smartphones.\n\nBusinesses are being asked to display QR code posters to support the app.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock described the launch as \"a defining moment\".\n\nThe first version of the NHS contact-tracing app, intended for the whole of the UK, was trialled on the Isle of Wight in May but later abandoned.\n\n\"We need to use every tool at our disposal to control the spread of the virus including cutting-edge technology,\" said Mr Hancock.\n\n\"The launch of the app later this month across England and Wales is a defining moment and will aid our ability to contain the virus at a critical time.\"\n\nAccording to the latest figures published by the Office for National Statistics, there were an estimated 3,200 new cases a day in England during the first week of September, compared with 2,000 the week before.\n\nSome hospitality venues have already been using their own QR code-based systems for test and trace but are now being asked to switch to the NHS version instead.\n\nUniversities, hospitals, leisure premises, civic centres and libraries are being asked to display posters in communal areas such as cafes, where people gather for longer than 15 minutes.\n\nAn alternative system, such as a handwritten register, must also be maintained for visitors who do not have smartphones, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nWelsh Health and Social Services Minister Vaughan Gething said launching a joint app with England was \"the most practical option\".\n\nHe added that the move reflects \"movement across our shared border\".\n\n\"It makes sense to use the same app, working in exactly the same way, regardless of which country you're in.\"\n\nIt has had a long and troubled gestation but the team behind the NHS Covid-19 app are hoping that they've finally got it right at a time when it can make a significant contribution to limiting the spread of the virus.\n\nBack in April, an app seemed to be a key weapon in the government's armoury but since Baroness Dido Harding took over the Test and Trace programme, it's been relegated to the \"cherry on the cake\".\n\nAround the world there are still doubts amongst those working on contact tracing apps about just how good Bluetooth is as a way of measuring the distance between people.\n\nBut the fact that pubs, restaurants and other hospitality businesses are now being told they have to do a better job of logging contact details of visitors presents an opportunity.\n\nThey may now see having QR codes for visitors as a simple way of complying with the rules, and that could encourage take-up of the app.\n\nThere has been some confusion about whether businesses will be complying with the rules on collecting customer data if they rely on the app. But I've been told that they will be compliant even though the nature of the app means none of the data will be visible either to them or to the authorities.\n\nScotland launched its own app on Thursday that has already been downloaded nearly 600,000 times.\n\nThe Protect Scotland app informs people if they have been in close contact with someone who later tests positive.\n\nNorthern Ireland was the first part of the UK to launch a contact-tracing app - StopCOVID NI was officially launched at the end of July.\n\nIn England, from Monday, social gatherings will be limited to up to six people - in a measure dubbed \"the rule of six\".\n\nIt has been criticised by some Conservative MPs who have said it should be subjected to more parliamentary scrutiny.\n\nScotland and Wales - which along with Northern Ireland have devolved powers to set their own coronavirus restrictions - also reduced the size of social gatherings to six people from Monday.\n\nIn Scotland, children under the age of 12 will not count towards the total, and in Wales the rule will not apply to children under 11 and up to 30 people can still meet outside.\n\nThe new measures followed a sustained rise in coronavirus cases, with over 2,000 positive cases recorded across the UK on five consecutive days this week.", "Wales' first minister says he's \"reluctant\" to give a date for when the new restrictions could be lifted.\n\nMark Drakeford said the situation will be reviewed and measures will be eased if they are \"no longer proportionate to the problem\".\n\nBut he stressed: \"If it remains necessary it will remain in force and if that does take us to the rest of this year, and regrettably, that is what we will have to do.\"\n\nMr Drakeford added families should still be able to get together over Christmas under the measures announced today.\n\n\"As far as Christmas in Wales is concerned, it's important to just identify another difference between our position and that across our border, which is that the figure of six does not include young children in Wales children under the age of 11 are not included\", he said.\n\n\"So family gatherings where children, parents and sometimes grandparents will work together to get together for Christmas will still be allowed in Wales.\"", "Trials for 43,000 defendants are being listed for next year and some for 2022\n\nA judge has claimed he was put under \"improper and undue influence\" to keep a defendant in custody.\n\nJudge Keith Raynor refused to extend the time a teenager charged with drugs offences could be held in custody before his trial.\n\nWoolwich Crown Court heard Tesfa Young-Williams was charged with serious drug offences last October and had been in custody for 321 days because of delays.\n\nThat is 139 days beyond the custody time limit (CTL), the judge said.\n\nRefusing the further extension on Tuesday, Judge Raynor ruled government measures which include the creation of 10 Nightingale courts - temporary courts to help tackle the number of outstanding cases - were slow, not proportionate, lacked funding and that alternative, adequately-funded measures which would have worked were not adopted.\n\nIn a highly unusual move, Judge Raynor has made public communications with a senior judge in the lead-up to Mr Young-Williams' CTL hearing.\n\nJudge Raynor said he felt \"pressurised into granting the CTL extension application\" and \"was subjected to improper and undue influence to make a ruling extending the CTL in the case of R v Tesfa Young-Williams\".\n\nThe judge has now been told he will not be hearing a CTL application in another case but has said he wants to issue a formal complaint.\n\nCustody limits are in the spotlight because the Covid pandemic has led to an increased backlog of cases causing more defendants on remand awaiting trial to have their custody limits extended.\n\nSince lockdown began in March, the backlog of crown court cases has risen by 6,000 to 43,000.\n\nThe government has announced it will extend CTLs from six to eight months from the end of September. It also expects to have 250 usable jury trial rooms by November, as part of a so-called \"criminal courts recovery plan\".\n\nThe Ministry of Justice has pledged an extra 1,600 court staff and £80m towards a range of measures, including more Nightingale courts.\n\nConcerns have been raised that the distance between the senior judiciary and ministers is becoming too close.\n\nCriminal barrister Kirsty Brimelow QC said: \"The judiciary and the government are separate and distinct, so where there is a closeness between senior judiciary and government on policy, as there is here on custody time limits, there is real constitutional concern that this may compromise the independence of the judiciary.\"\n\nJudge Raynor's actions are exceptional and the senior judge he has criticised has said it would not be appropriate to comment.\n\nHowever, the allegations put the relationship between senior judges and the government firmly under scrutiny.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government has announced a \"truce\" on enforcement action for tenants facing eviction in England and Wales this Christmas.\n\nIt also said that evictions will not be enforced in areas subject to local lockdowns as the pandemic continues.\n\nHousing Secretary Robert Jenrick added that it has increased notice periods to six months in an \"unprecedented measure\".\n\nCampaign group Generation Rent said the government \"must offer [renters] more.\"\n\nThe government confirmed that court proceedings for evictions in England and Wales would restart on 21 September after being suspended for six months due to the coronavirus crisis.\n\nBut under new measures announced on Thursday, evictions will not be enforced by bailiffs if a local area is in lockdown that includes restrictions on gathering in homes.\n\nBailiffs will also be told that they should not enforce possession orders over Christmas, other than in \"the most serious circumstances\", such as cases involving domestic abuse or antisocial behaviour.\n\nThe government has not yet confirmed which dates the \"winter truce\" will cover for tenants in England and Wales.\n\n\"We have protected renters during the pandemic by banning evictions for six months - the longest eviction ban in the UK,\" Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick said.\n\n\"To further support renters we have increased notice periods to six months, an unprecedented measure to help keep people in their homes over the winter months.\n\n\"It's right that we strike a balance between protecting vulnerable renters and ensuring landlords whose tenants have behaved in illegal or anti-social ways have access to justice.\"\n\nThe new measures are aimed at ensuring potentially vulnerable tenants are not forced out of their homes \"at a time when public and local authorities may be dealing with an increased demand for services\", a statement said.\n\nMinisters extended the ban on evictions for four weeks in August, but campaign groups and housing charities had hoped that more would be done for renters who have seen a loss in income during the pandemic.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Batchelder: \"I don't know what the future holds\"\n\nAlicia Kennedy, director at Generation Rent, said: \"It is welcome that renters will not face eviction by bailiffs around Christmas or where there are lockdown measures.\n\n\"But outside that, thousands of renters who have had eviction notices during the pandemic still have no assurance from the government whether they can stay in their home.\n\n\"Those who have lost income will find it difficult to find a new home so face many months of uncertainty, getting deeper into debt.\"\n\nOne survey by homelessness charity Shelter suggested that more than 170,000 private tenants have been threatened with eviction by their landlord or letting agent, and 230,000 in England have fallen into arrears since the pandemic started.\n\nHowever, landlord groups have previously said that their members have been left \"powerless\" in dealing with the non-payment of rent.\n\nSome have called for more help in England to reduce the financial pressures on landlords, in addition to mortgage holidays.\n\nChris Norris, policy director for the National Residential Landlords Association, welcomed news that the courts would begin to hear possession cases again from 21 September.\n\n\"It is vital that this happens so that landlords can begin to take action against anti-social tenants, those committing acts of domestic violence and those with rent arrears that have nothing to do with Covid-19,\" he said.", "Delphine Boël wants the same rights as her half siblings, her lawyer says\n\nThe love child of the former Belgian King Albert II is hoping a court will grant her the same rights and titles as her father's legitimate children.\n\nArtist Delphine Boël, 52, has taken her case to the appeals court in Brussels.\n\nKing Albert finally admitted he was Ms Boël's father in January this year, having fought her paternity claim for more than a decade.\n\nHer mother, Baroness Sybille de Selys Longchamps, claims she had an 18-year affair with Albert before he was king.\n\nRumours of an illegitimate child first emerged in 1999 in an unauthorised biography about Albert's wife Queen Paola, prompting a royal scandal and enduring media gossip in Belgium.\n\nMs Boël first alleged on the record that King Albert was her biological father during a 2005 interview, but it was not until he abdicated in 2013 - when he lost his immunity to prosecution - that she opened court proceedings.\n\nHer lawyer said on Thursday that she was seeking the same rights as Albert's three other children, Philippe, now King of Belgium, Prince Laurent and Princess Astrid.\n\n\"Delphine's position isn't that she wants or doesn't want to be princess,\" said Marc Uyttendaele.\n\n\"She doesn't want to be a cut-price child, she wants to have exactly the same privileges, titles and capacities as her brothers and her sister.\"\n\nReports suggest her children would also be eligible for a royal title if the court rules in her favour.\n\nAlbert's lawyer says she can only be given the title \"princess\" by royal decree, not by a court.\n\nPrincess Paola of Belgium (later Queen Paola) and Prince Albert of Belgium with their children in 1969\n\nBaroness Longchamps says the affair with the then Prince Albert of Liège lasted between 1966 and 1984, and he was a presence during Ms Boël's childhood.\n\nFollowing his older brother's death in 1993 at 62, Albert unexpectedly came to the throne.\n\nHe held the position until July 2013, when he announced his abdication - citing ill health - and was replaced by his son, Philippe.\n\nThe 86-year-old had resisted court orders to undergo DNA testing until he was facing fines of €5,000 per day (£4,611; $5,918, at current exchange rates) for refusing to do so.\n\nIn January, he announced he accepted Ms Boël as his fourth child after he \"learnt the results of the DNA tests\".\n\nMr Uyttendaele said at the time the admission was a \"relief\" for Ms Boël. \"Her life has been a long nightmare because of this quest for identity,\" he told RTL television.\n\nBelgium has a constitutional monarchy in which the king plays a largely ceremonial role.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. King Albert was sworn in as the sixth king of the Belgians on 9 August 1993", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nHarry Dunn's alleged killer Anne Sacoolas drove on the \"wrong side of the road for 20 seconds\" before the fatal crash, her lawyers said.\n\nBut she was \"otherwise driving cautiously and below the speed limit\", her legal representatives added.\n\nThey have issued a statement detailing the 43-year-old's side of the story.\n\nThe American was charged with causing death by dangerous driving after a crash in August 2019 which resulted in 19-year-old Mr Dunn's death.\n\nMrs Sacoolas claimed diplomatic immunity following the collision outside RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire.\n\nShe was able to return to her home country, sparking controversy.\n\nAnne Sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day in 2003, cited diplomatic immunity after a crash involving her car and Mr Dunn's motorbike outside RAF Croughton\n\nAccording to her lawyers, Ms Sacoolas \"instinctively\" began driving on the right-hand side, and could not see Mr Dunn due to \"the crest of a small hill\".\n\nIn a public statement, they said: \"Anne did everything she could to assist Harry. After the accident, she ran from her car and tried to help him.\n\n\"Anne then saw another motorist approach and flagged her down for more support.\n\n\"The other motorist immediately called for the emergency services and Anne made calls to alert the police from the nearby air force base.\n\n\"Tragically, it took over 40 minutes for the ambulance to arrive and nearly two hours passed before Harry was admitted to the hospital.\n\n\"Anne did not leave the scene until she was instructed to do so by the UK authorities.\"\n\nMrs Sacoolas's legal representatives also made an on-the-record statement regarding her position on the prospect of a virtual trial.\n\nThey said: \"We have been and remain willing to discuss a resolution, including the possibility of virtual proceedings, with the UK authorities.\"\n\nReacting to the suspect's statement and speaking on behalf of Mr Dunn's family, their spokesman Radd Seiger said: \"The parents have noted the statement issued this evening on behalf of Mrs Sacoolas.\n\n\"Their position is that these issues should not be aired in any form other than a court of law.\n\n\"Once again, they invite her to do the right thing and return to the UK to answer to the charges laid against her.\"\n\nMr Dunn's alleged killer returned to the US on a commercial flight after the US Embassy \"informed the Foreign Office of this decision and instructed Anne to return home\".\n\nMrs Sacoolas was charged in December but an extradition request submitted by the Home Office was refused in January.\n\nThe US State Department has since said the decision to reject the request was \"final\".", "Boris Johnson has urged Conservative MPs to back his plan to override part of the Brexit withdrawal agreement.\n\nIn a Zoom call with around 250 of them, he said the party must not return to \"miserable squabbling\" over Europe.\n\nThe EU has warned the UK it could face legal action if it does not ditch controversial elements of the Internal Market Bill by the end of the month.\n\nAnd a Tory MP has proposed an amendment to the bill, which would affect trade between Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, the European Parliament has threatened to scupper any UK-EU trade deal if the bill becomes UK law.\n\nThe two sides have less than five weeks to agree a deal before Mr Johnson's 15 October deadline - after which he says he is prepared to \"walk away\".\n\nInformal talks are due to resume on Monday, with the next official round of talks - the ninth since March - starting in Brussels on 28 September.\n\nThe Internal Market Bill, which will be formally debated in the House of Commons for the first time on Monday, addresses the Northern Ireland Protocol - the part of the Brexit withdrawal agreement designed to prevent a hard border returning to the island of Ireland.\n\nIf it became law it would give UK ministers powers to modify or \"disapply\" rules relating to the movement of goods between Britain and Northern Ireland that will come into force from 1 January, if the UK and EU are unable to strike a trade deal.\n\nThe EU says the planned changes must be scrapped or they risk jeopardising the UK-EU trade talks.\n\nBut the government has rejected this demand, arguing the measures in the bill are needed to protect the integrity of the UK and the peace process in Northern Ireland.\n\nIn his Zoom call with MPs on Friday, the prime minister did not take questions and a poor signal meant the video and audio connections were lost for several minutes.\n\nHe called for \"overwhelming support\" for the bill, describing it as \"absolutely vital\" to \"prevent a foreign or international body from having the power to break up our country\".\n\nMr Johnson added that he would not countenance \"the threat of a border down the Irish Sea\".\n\nBut he said there was still a \"very good chance\" of the UK and EU striking a deal by mid-October similar to that previously agreed between the EU and Canada - which got rid of most, but not all, tariffs on goods.\n\nBBC chief political correspondent Vicki Young said Tory MPs were \"looking for a sign of compromise\" from Mr Johnson, as they \"simply can't believe the government is prepared to break international law\", but the prime minister \"dug his heels in\".\n\nIn a column in the Daily Telegraph, Mr Johnson accused the EU of reinterpreting the Withdrawal Agreement to \"destroy the economic and territorial integrity of the UK\" and \"endanger peace and stability in Northern Ireland\".\n\n\"I have to say that we never seriously believed that the EU would be willing to use a treaty, negotiated in good faith, to blockade one part of the UK, to cut it off,\" he said.\n\nConservative backbencher Sir Bob Neill, who chairs the Commons Justice Committee, said he was not reassured by the prime minister's Zoom call.\n\nHe is tabling an amendment to the bill to try to force a separate parliamentary vote on any changes to the Withdrawal Agreement.\n\n\"I believe it is potentially a harmful act for this country, it would damage our reputation and I think it will make it harder to strike trade deals going forward,\" he said.\n\nAt around the same time as the prime minister was speaking, the European Parliament announced it would \"under no circumstances ratify\" any trade deal reached between the UK and EU if the \"UK authorities breach or threaten to breach\" the withdrawal agreement.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis has admitted parts of the bill, which would go against a treaty signed by the UK and EU, would \"break international law in a very specific and limited way\".\n\nThere is unease over this within the Conservative Party, with former leaders Theresa May, Lord Howard and Sir John Major urging Mr Johnson to think again.", "EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier is in London this week for Brexit talks\n\nWhen it comes to Brexit, all negotiations are inter-linked: EU-UK trade talks, the process to implement their divorce deal, negotiations on fishing rights and Brussels' deliberation on UK financial service.\n\nWhat happens in one area very much affects progress in the others. You cannot separate them entirely.\n\nWhich is why this week, as the war of words and wills between Brussels and Downing Street raged over the government's threat to throw a grenade at key parts of the divorce deal, everyone's thoughts turned immediately to the trade talks between the two sides.\n\nIn fact, they limp on. Negotiations are set to resume in Brussels on Monday. This, despite the EU ending the week by threatening Downing Street with legal action unless it rowed back on its threats to the Withdrawal Agreement by the end of the month.\n\nThe government insists it will not budge. So it is significant that the EU stopped short of threatening to press the nuclear button - shutting down trade talks altogether.\n\nWhy is that, when we know the EU is furious?\n\nFirst of all, Brussels still wants a deal with the UK, if at all possible, this autumn.\n\nSecondly, the sense in Brussels is that the government is trying to provoke the EU into abandoning the trade negotiations.\n\n\"We're not going to give them that satisfaction,\" a high-level EU diplomat told me. \"We refuse to be manipulated.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UK vs EU: Johnson and Michel Barnier set out competing visions on trade\n\nSo, despite bitter arguments over legislation on the one hand, and a huge list of outstanding issues still to be ironed out in bilateral trade talks; despite time and trust running out on both sides; neither the EU nor the UK seem to want to be the first ones to walk out the door.\n\nIt is still possible, of course, that the government's bill is stopped in the House of Lords or even beforehand by rebel MPs.\n\nIt is possible for the EU and UK to iron out their differences over the divorce deal and in trade talks. Concessions can always be \"dressed-up\" to look like victories, after all.\n\nIt has been done before. Remember last autumn? Finding agreement on the divorce deal seemed nigh on impossible - until it was not and a deal was signed.\n\nBut, right now that feels like a long shot. The chatter on both sides of the Channel is that \"no deal\" is becoming more likely by the day.", "US President Donald Trump and his political rival Joe Biden have been marking the 19th anniversary of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks.\n\nAlmost 3,000 people died when four hijacked airliners were crashed into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon and - after passengers fought back - the field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.\n\nBoth Mr Trump and Mr Biden visited the Flight 93 memorial in Shanksville on Friday, but at different times.\n\nRead more: US commemorates 19th anniversary of 9/11", "The restrictions affect seven areas in and around Glasgow\n\nTougher restrictions on home visits have been extended to Lanarkshire.\n\nPeople living in the area are not able to meet other households in their homes.\n\nSimilar measures are already in place in Glasgow, East and West Dunbartonshire, Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire.\n\nThe extension to North and South Lanarkshire means the restrictions now cover more than 1.75 million people in the west of Scotland.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon had earlier said that the number of new cases in the region was \"causing some particular concern\".\n\nA total of 205 positive cases of Covid-19 have been identified by Test and Protect in Lanarkshire in the past week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"It is clearly regrettable that these restrictions need to be extended to people living in Lanarkshire.\n\n\"I understand that this will not be welcome news for people living in these areas, especially ahead of the weekend, but we must act now to protect people and get more control over the virus in the area.\"\n\nThe restrictions will be reviewed next Friday, while those affecting the five other council areas will be reviewed on Monday.\n\nMore than 1.1 million people in the west of Scotland were already covered by the home visit restrictions. North and South Lanarkshire have a combined population of more than 661,000 people.\n\nThere have been 205 positive cases of the virus in Lanarkshire in the last week\n\nPeople living in the areas should also not visit someone else's home, no matter where it is - although those in extended households can continue to meet indoors.\n\nPeople from different households can continue to meet outdoors, and in pubs and restaurants, as long as they follow the guidance.\n\nOnly essential indoor visits will be allowed in hospitals and care homes, although outdoor visits to care homes will still be permitted.\n\nIf anyone is identified as a close contact of someone who has tested positive, their full household should self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nPublic health officials in Lanarkshire had warned last week that restrictions could be imposed if cases continue to rise.\n\nGabe Docherty, director of public health for NHS Lanarkshire, said: \"Although we enter into these restrictions with a heavy heart, I wholeheartedly welcome them.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Ms Sturgeon announced a reduction in the number of people who could meet, either indoors or outdoors, in Scotland.\n\nNo more than six people from two different households are allowed to gather together, although children under the age of 12 do not count towards the total.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily briefing on Friday that she had asked for advice on whether it would be possible to allow children from more than two households to meet in some circumstances - for example at birthday parties.\n\nShe said she hoped this could be clarified in the coming days.\n\nThe planned opening of theatres, live music venues and indoor soft play centres, which had been due to happen next Monday, has also been delayed until at least 5 October.", "Former Tory minister criticises lack of debate on virus laws\n\nAs we've reported, a number of Conservative backbenchers have been criticising the government's new coronavirus restrictions. Former minister Sir Christopher Chope is the latest to voice his concerns, telling the Commons earlier that MPs should have been able to debate the introduction of the \"draconian\" new measures. A new so-called \"rule of six\" is being introduced on Monday, limiting the number of people who can socialise together indoors or outdoors in England to six people. However, the statutory instrument needed to enact the rule change has yet to be laid before Parliament. Sir Christopher said he was \"very concerned about the lack of opportunity for people, the public first of all, to see the text of these new regulations, and I'm also concerned about the continuing reluctance of the government to give any opportunities to members to debate this\". He added: \"What we are talking about is the most draconian introduction of new restrictions on our liberty, with criminal sanctions, and we need to be made aware of what's happening and given the opportunity of debating it.\" Responding, Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle said \"the country should also know what's going on\".", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Google and Twitter have said they are clamping down further on misinformation online ahead of the US elections.\n\nMessaging platforms expect a flood of false claims and misleading posts ahead of the November vote.\n\nTwitter said it plans to more aggressively label and remove election-related tweets that are inaccurate.\n\nSearch engine Google said it would screen more auto-complete results to avoid voters being misled, particularly over reports claiming an early victory.\n\nOne of the concerns is that the widespread use of mail ballots in the US election due to the coronavirus pandemic could cause significant delays in tallying results. Experts fear this could allow misinformation to gain traction.\n\nOn Thursday, Google said that incorrect information about election results would not show up in searches.\n\nTwitter's changes could also affect tweets claiming victory before election results have been certified, along with misleading posts about ballot tampering.\n\nSocial media firms have been under pressure to combat misinformation after US intelligence agencies determined Russia used their platforms to meddle in the 2016 presidential election.\n\n\"We will not permit our service to be abused around civic processes, most importantly elections,\" Twitter wrote in its blog. \"Any attempt to do so - both foreign and domestic - will be met with strict enforcement of our rules, which are applied equally and judiciously for everyone.\"\n\nOn Friday, Microsoft warned that hackers with ties to Russia, China and Iran were attempting to snoop on people and groups involved with the US 2020 presidential election.\n\nThe US tech firm said the Russian hackers who breached the 2016 Democratic campaign were again involved.\n\nLast week, Facebook said it had dismantled a small network of accounts and pages that were part of a Russian influence operation.\n\nThe company said the campaign was linked to Russia's Internet Research Agency (IRA), an organisation close to the Russian government and accused of interference in the 2016 US election.\n\nTwitter also suspended five accounts from the same network. The operation centred around PeaceData, which claimed to be a non-profit news website in English and Arabic.\n\nThe messaging platform has clashed in recent months with President Donald Trump, who has posted frequently about potential fraud in the coming election while criticising Twitter for flagging his posts.\n\nIn Google's changes to auto-complete results, which predict what users are searching for, it will remove predictions \"that could be interpreted as claims for or against any candidate or political party\".\n\nIt will also remove the function that attempts to predict and complete search terms when people look up the status of voting locations, voting requirements or methods. Users will still be able to search for this information however.\n\nLast week, Facebook said it was creating a label for posts by candidates or campaigns that made premature claims of victory. It also said it would stop accepting new political ads in the week before Election Day.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome male voice choirs fear they will never sing again due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe body representing more than 90 Welsh choirs said social distancing rules and fears about members' safety posed an \"existential threat\".\n\nBeaufort Male Choir has begun rehearsing outdoors in a rugby club stand to ensure their safety.\n\nBut the choir's secretary said restrictions needed to be relaxed to allow safe rehearsals indoors.\n\nMale voice choirs have long been symbolic of Wales' cultural heritage and epitomise its reputation as a land of song.\n\nSince lockdown was announced in March, all choirs have had their rehearsals and concerts cancelled.\n\nIt has led to a loss of income for some, but all have missed the social activity that came with weekly rehearsals and tours.\n\nChris Evans had a \"tear in his eye\" when he heard the choir sing for the first time since lockdown\n\nChris Evans is secretary of the Beaufort Male Choir in Ebbw Vale and is also secretary of the Welsh Association of Male Choirs (WAMC).\n\nHe said: \"It's an existential issue for some. One, the demographics in choirs and in male choirs are quite old. So it means that there will be choristers who don't want to sing again.\n\n\"And if you're only a small choir and 50% of you decide they don't want to do it again, that means that existence is a challenge.\"\n\nHe added some choirs were struggling for venues in which to practise, and choirs had lost money over the summer.\n\nBeaufort Male Choir rehearsed last week for the first time since March in the stand at Ebbw Vale RFC, so the men could socially distance.\n\nBeaufort Male Choir, pictured with Tom Jones for the One Show in 2015, have had to rehearse separately during lockdown\n\nDuring lockdown the choir had been unable to rehearse, but members had been practising at home with recorded instructional videos from its musical director.\n\nMr Evans said rehearsals at the rugby ground had been an emotional reunion: The first song that they sang last week was [the Welsh hymn] Gwahoddiad.\n\n\"I wasn't singing because I was running the mask store, but it brought tears to the eyes... it was brilliant to sing again.\"\n\nThe choir, pictured before the pandemic, hopes to return to performances next year\n\nThe Welsh Association of Male Choirs surveyed its members about the pandemic and its report said:\n\nBeaufort's long choral history dates back to 1869 - this undated photo is one of those found by Chris Evans in the archives\n\nPresident of Beaufort Male Choir, Labour's Member of the Senedd for Blaenau Gwent Alun Davies, wants better guidance on rehearsals that would enable safe indoor practice sessions over the winter.\n\n\"There is nobody here who wants to break rules, and there is nobody here who wants to see people become ill as a consequence of what I am suggesting.\n\n\"But what we are looking at is having an element of normality that will be especially important as we face a winter, and those long dark cold months.\"\n\nDespite concerns for the future, the WMAC said 50% of the choirs it surveyed had begun booking concerts for 2021.\n\nIn the meantime, it said efforts were ongoing to keep in touch with members and encourage virtual rehearsals.", "Drone footage shows streets of houses that have been completely wiped out by wildfires in the US state of Oregon.\n\nSome residents have been allowed to return to where their houses once stood and are realising the extent of the damage to their communities.", "The film appears to show a boy at the wheel of a lorry, apparently on the M1 near Dungannon\n\nA 37-year-old man has been released on bail after a video appearing to show a boy driving a lorry on a motorway in Northern Ireland was shared online.\n\nIt is believed the incident happened on the M1 eastbound at Dungannon.\n\nPolice had appealed for anyone who recognised the boy or the voice in the video to contact them.\n\nThe man was arrested in Cookstown, County Tyrone, suspected of aiding and abetting driving while disqualified by reason of age.\n\nHe was also questioned on suspicion of cruelty to children.", "Public health officials have warned of \"worrying signs\" of infection among the elderly, as an official measure indicated the UK's epidemic is growing again.\n\nThe R number was raised to between 1 and 1.2 for the first time since March.\n\nAny number above one indicates the number of infections is increasing.\n\nThe number of new daily confirmed UK cases of the virus rose to 3,539 on Friday - an increase of more than 600 on the previous day.\n\nThe virus is still at much lower levels across the UK than at the peak in April, but a study of thousands of people in England found cases doubling every seven to eight days.\n\nIt found a marked rise in infections in the north and among young people.\n\nYvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said although younger people made up the greatest share of new cases, \"we're now starting to see worrying signs of infections occurring in the elderly, who are at far higher risk of getting seriously ill\".\n\nA PHE report says there has been \"a particularly steep increase\" in positive test results in the over-85s and, in the north-west of England, a rise in people from that age group being admitted to hospital.\n\nHowever, though cases are rising, the number of patients in hospital remains largely flat at 863.\n\nOf those, 78 are on ventilators, according to the latest government figures.\n\nMs Doyle warned people to follow social distancing rules, wash their hands regularly and wear a face covering in enclosed spaces.\n\nMeanwhile, Birmingham will become the latest area to bring in new restrictions after a spike in cases.\n\nHowever, lockdown restrictions will be eased further in Leicester on Tuesday to bring rules for businesses in the city more in line with the majority of England, the Department of Health said.\n\nThe city has been subject to tighter Covid-19 restrictions since 29 June after a rise in cases.\n\nAcross the UK, new laws on how many people can socialise are being introduced from Monday in an attempt to hold back the rise in infections.\n\nThe \"rule of six\" will restrict indoor and outdoor gatherings in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nPolice warned there was a \"real risk\" some people would treat this weekend as a \"party weekend\" before the new restrictions come in.\n\nJohn Apter, national chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales, said that would be \"incredibly irresponsible\" at a time of increasing cases and officers would \"make no apology\" for fining people where appropriate.\n\nThe rise in the R (reproduction) number - which describes how many others each infected person passes the virus on to - is one of several measures indicating the virus is spreading more widely in the UK.\n\nIf the R number is higher than one - as now - the numbers infected are growing, with higher numbers indicating that cases are multiplying more quickly.\n\nThree other large studies have also indicated a widespread resurgence of coronavirus across the UK population.\n\nThe UK is entering a new stage of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSince lockdown, we have been deciding how to react to falling cases. But now the R number has gone above the crucial level of 1 for the first time since March and is backed up by reams of data showing cases are growing again.\n\nThis is not just contained to hotspots like Bolton - one government adviser told me the rise was widespread across the country.\n\nThey said today was a \"wake-up call\" for the nation. There are already some signs that the number of people being admitted to hospital is starting to rise.\n\nBut this is not a repeat of the build-up to lockdown. Cases are at a much lower level and they are growing more slowly.\n\nPre-lockdown, the R number was around three and cases were doubling every three to four days. It is around half that now.\n\nCoronavirus is going to be a major challenge until we have a vaccine.\n\nSo the defining question as we head into a potentially difficult winter is how to balance keeping the virus in check with getting on with our lives.\n\nThe REACT study of more than 150,000 volunteers in England, one of the three new sources of data on community levels, found \"accelerating transmission\" at the end of August and start of September.\n\nIt said levels of infection were rising across England but particularly in the north east, north west and Yorkshire.\n\nAnd there were increases in positive cases in all age groups up to the age of 65, with highest rates of growth in 18-24 year olds.\n\nProf Paul Elliott, director of the study at Imperial College London, said the data clearly showed \"a concerning trend in coronavirus infections\" where cases are growing quickly across England and \"no longer concentrated in key workers\".\n\nHe said there was evidence of \"an epidemic in the community\" which was not the result of more people being tested.\n\nThe second set of data, from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates there were 39,700 new cases of the virus in England during the first week in September - 11,000 more than the previous week.\n\nThe ONS bases its figures on thousands of swab tests carried out in households, whether people have symptoms or not.\n\nIt estimated no increase in cases for the same week in Wales, but First Minister Mark Drakeford has announced people must now wear face masks in shops in response to rising case numbers in recent days.\n\nKatherine Kent, from the ONS infection survey, said the results suggested \"an increase in Covid-19 infections in England during recent weeks, with higher infection rates among 17-34 year olds\".\n\nNicola Sturgeon has warned that the average number of cases in Scotland has been \"more than trebling every three weeks\" with some areas of particular concern, including Lanarkshire and Greater Glasgow and Clyde.\n\nAnd the third set of figures, from the Covid symptom study app, which tracks the health of nearly four million people in the UK, also suggests a growth in new cases since the end of August - the first time since mid-June there has been a significant rise in numbers.\n\nProf James Naismith, from the University of Oxford, said younger people would also have been affected to the same extent in January if testing had been available.\n\n\"We know that medical treatment and scientific advances have improved significantly, thus even with infection rates as bad as March and April, there will be many fewer deaths.\n\n\"The more people wash their hands and practise social distancing - especially by and around the vulnerable - the lower the number of deaths and illness we will see,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The judge described it as a \"sophisticated operation\" run from the Walton area of Liverpool\n\nEighteen people have been jailed for their part in a gang that flooded north Wales with drugs.\n\nThey were arrested in September 2019 as part of the largest operation of its type ever carried out by North Wales Police.\n\nA judge at Mold Crown Court described it as a \"sophisticated operation\", involving encrypted mobile phones, lie detectors and even a plot to attack a former gang member who had fallen out of favour.\n\nPolice seized drugs with a street value of £2.1m.\n\nThe reach of the gang, based in Liverpool, stretched to Aberdeen and Cornwall.\n\nIt was an operation described as a classic example of a \"county lines\" conspiracy.\n\nThe group behind the supply, led by Colin Jones, were violent and were specifically targeted by police due to the threat posed to public safety.\n\nColin Jones and Richard Anderson met to exchange a white Mercedes car for cocaine in October 2018\n\nOfficers had spent nearly three years investigating the gang, right to the very top.\n\nColin Jones, based in Walton in Liverpool, was described as a drugs wholesaler who rarely got his hands dirty.\n\nWhen he was arrested, police found he had nine phones, and two encrypted devices. He hired lie detector specialists to check out his colleagues.\n\nAs well as selling drugs, he swapped them for sports cars.\n\nAnthony Stagg and Tony Stagg in Towyn to meet Colin Jones in August 2018\n\nColin Jones had a team of call handlers who answered what the gang called \"the Echo Line\".\n\nIn a three-month period in 2018, the hotline took over 100,000 calls. Police estimated it was selling several thousand pounds of drugs a day.\n\nDrugs were also sent up and down the UK, sometimes in packages sent from local post offices in Liverpool.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt one point the violence was turned on one of their former conspirators. Colin Jones and David Rawling were secretly recorded talking to an unknown hit man arranging an attack on Lee Murray.\n\nOfficers stepped in and stopped the attack, but believed a gun would have been involved.\n\nJudge Niclas Parry spent three days sentencing the gang. He said they had controlled a significant portion of the drugs trade in Deeside, casting a blight on the community.\n\nColin Jones was sentenced to 21 years in total with the other gang members given sentences from four to 15 and a half years.\n\nPolice say it is a significant victory against the supply of drugs from big cities into north Wales - but it remains a fight that will continue in the months to come.", "Four men aged 19 to 23 have been arrested in southern Italy in connection with the rape of two British girls, police say.\n\nPolice said the girls called officers at 03:30 on Tuesday to say they were attacked just after midnight.\n\nThe alleged incident happened in Marconia di Pisticci, in the Basilicata region, during a party in a villa. The girls were taken to hospital.\n\nThere was \"extreme brutality and cruelty\" in the attack, officers said.\n\nFour other men are also being investigated by officers in connection with the incident.\n\nPolice said the girls say they were initially approached by two of the men under investigation, whom they did not know.\n\nThey were then approached by other men at the party who \"took advantage\" of the fact the girls had been drinking, the statement said.", "The Challenger 2 tank has not been upgraded since 1998\n\nUK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has quashed speculation that the Army will mothball all its tanks.\n\nLast month, the Times reported military chiefs were considering the idea, under plans to modernise the armed forces.\n\nBut Mr Wallace told the BBC \"the idea that tanks won't be there for the Army, upgraded and modernised, is wrong\".\n\nHowever, he admitted a government review would mean \"letting go\" of some military equipment to invest in cyber, space and other new technologies.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to the Middle East, Mr Wallace said there would be a shift to forward-deploy British military forces around the world to protect UK interests and its allies.\n\nMr Wallace said a joint squadron of RAF and Qatar Typhoon jets would be based in Qatar for football's 2022 World Cup.\n\nHe announced a £23.8m investment in a UK logistics hub in the Port of Duqm to support more British army training in Oman, and which could be used to base the Royal Navy's new aircraft carriers.\n\nHe also confirmed that RAF jets would continue to target the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, with 23 strikes against extremist targets since March 2020.\n\nLast month, the Times reported on plans to mothball the Army's ageing 227 Challenger tanks as part of the government's integrated defence and security review - described as the most important defence review since the end of the Cold War.\n\nMr Wallace confirmed the review would mean \"letting go of some equipment that isn't serving any purpose or overmatched by adversaries\".\n\nHe said that would mean investing in new equipment for the RAF, Royal Navy and the Army. But he signalled that any cuts would not be as dramatic as some have reported.\n\nThat still leaves open the possibility of a reduction in the number of tanks. But Mr Wallace said that getting rid of all of them was not going to happen.\n\n\"We're going to make sure we have an armed forces fit for the 21st Century and meets our obligations to Nato and elsewhere…\n\n\"We are not scrapping all the British army's tanks and we will make sure the ones we maintain are up to date, lethal and defendable.\"\n\nMr Wallace said Britain also needed to meet the threat of long-range artillery and drones, which have recently been used by Russia against Ukraine to destroy its heavy armour.\n\nBen Wallace said his first duty was to make sure he delivered up-to-date equipment\n\nThe new port facilities at Duqm will triple the size of the existing UK base in Oman. They will also be used for British army training in Oman.\n\nThere's been speculation that the Army could switch its training for tanks from Canada to the Gulf state.\n\nWhile in Qatar, Mr Wallace also visited the US-led coalition headquarters co-ordinating the air campaign against the group calling itself the Islamic State.\n\nDespite IS losing most of its territory in Iraq and Syria, Mr Wallace said the threat was \"not going to go away\".", "Scammers on social media who claim to work for the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency are selling \"full driving licences\" for £600, a BBC News investigation has found.\n\nKafui Okpattah got one suspected scammer to explain to him how he could obtain a licence without having to attend the test.\n\nThe Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency - which has responsibility for driving tests - has said the scheme is not possible.", "Schools across Bristol will take part in the study\n\nA major research project to track coronavirus infections in schools and help head teachers prevent disruption is being piloted in Bristol.\n\nThe study aims to understand exactly how pupils transmit the virus, whether or not they are symptomatic.\n\nThe University of Bristol study will saliva-test 4,000 pupils and 1,000 staff from schools across the city once a month for six months.\n\nIt should provide vital information on how schools should deal with outbreaks.\n\nIt comes as some schools across the country have sent groups of pupils home to self-isolate after positive cases were found.\n\nSome have had to close temporarily for deep cleaning in an attempt to manage the risks.\n\nIt is just a week or so since schools re-opened after a sixth-month gap due to lockdown.\n\nExperts say children are less susceptible to infection than adults, and their symptoms are generally milder.\n\nBut more data is needed to fully understand the role children play in transmitting the virus.\n\nProf Caroline Relton, an epidemiologist at the University of Bristol, said researchers should be able to identify children with coronavirus, who do not show symptoms.\n\nShe said: \"The main thrust of the study is to understand the rates of infections and to jump on them very quickly, so we're giving heads the tools to spot infections early and to keep their schools open, and so permit the continuity of education.\"\n\nProf Caroline Relton hopes the study will help minimise disruption to education\n\nSchools and the NHS Test and Trace system will receive the data to help map infections in the city.\n\nResearchers will also work with schools, looking at attendance data, seating plans and timetables to help them put appropriate measures in place.\n\nSt Mary Redcliffe and Temple School in Bristol, where all pupils returned last week, is one of the first schools to become involved in the study.\n\nRipley, in Year 10, is just starting her GCSEs and will be volunteering for a test.\n\n\"I want to take part in it because I think it would be really useful to get tested even if you don't have any of the symptoms, to be extra sure,\" she said.\n\nReuben, in Year 8, thinks pupils might be surprised by a positive test but it would be useful to know.\n\n\"The benefits are you know you can take precautions. You can quickly isolate and help others stay safe and keep yourself safe.\"\n\nElijah, in Year 11, will take his GCSEs next summer and is keen that his year group faces the least possible disruption to their learning.\n\n\"We've had quite lot of months off school so keeping school open for our year right now is probably the best thing that can happen, so it will just mean a lot to everybody,\" he said.\n\nHead teacher Elisabeth Gilpin said: \"We were able to work with the scientists, to say: 'What do head teachers need to be able to keep their schools safe and to keep them open and to minimise the chance of closing?'\n\n\"So for us to get testing of a large percentage of the school population, even the asymptomatic people is just so exciting.\"\n\nHead teacher Elisabeth Gilpin says she is excited the school is taking part in the study\n\nStaff have also welcomed being part of the study.\n\nJean Miller, a receptionist at the school, is keen to take part: \"I've got grandchildren and I had glandular fever twice so my immune system isn't quite what it was and to know we have got the testing and we're as safe as we can possibly be is massively reassuring.\"\n\nA second study, by academics at Imperial College, will carry out at a deeper investigation of a number of confirmed cases in schools.\n\nThey aim to identify whether both symptomatic and asymptomatic children transmit the virus as well as looking at possible means of transmission both at school and within households.\n\nBoth studies are funded by the National Institute for Health Research and UK Research and Innovation.", "New designs are being trialled that still \"pop\" when they open\n\nThe distinctive Pringles tube is being re-designed after criticism that it’s almost impossible to recycle.\n\nThe current container for the potato-based snack was condemned as a recycler’s nightmare.\n\nIt's a complex construction with a metal base, plastic cap, metal tear-off lid, and foil-lined cardboard sleeve.\n\nThe Recycling Association dubbed it the number one recycling villain – along with the Lucozade Sports bottle.\n\nNow Pringles' maker Kellogg's is trialling a simpler can – although experts say it’s not a full solution.\n\nThe existing version is particularly troublesome because it combines so many different materials\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome 90% of the new can is paper. Around 10% is a polyal (plastic) barrier that seals the interior to protect the food against oxygen and moisture which would damage the taste.\n\nBut how about the lid? Well, two options are on trial in some Tesco stores – a recyclable plastic lid and a recyclable paper lid. Kellogg's says these lids will still produce the distinctive \"pop\" associated with the product.\n\nSimon Ellin from the Recycling Association told BBC News: \"The Pringles tube has been a bastion of bad design from the recyclers' point of view.\n\n\"This new version is an improvement, and we broadly welcome it.\n\n\"But, frankly, if they are going to stick to a plastic lid that’ll just add to problems with plastic pollution - people on picnics leave them behind and they find their way into streams and the sea. That plastic lid has got to go.\"\n\nThe Recycling Association said many manufacturers needed to rethink their packaging\n\nKellogg's says its packaging must be airtight, or the food inside will be wasted.\n\nThe new designs have been 12 months in the making. Pringles have a shelf life of 15 months - and three million cans are made across Europe every day.\n\nMr Ellin said the polyal-coated card might be recyclable but the product would need to be tested in recycling mills.\n\nAnd what of the much-criticised Lucozade Sports bottle? Mr Ellin said its unchanged basic design was still a big problem, as machines found it hard to differentiate the plastic in the bottle and the plastic that makes up its outer sleeve.\n\nHe called on the makers, Suntory, to reduce the size of the external sleeve, as it has with the new Ribena bottle.\n\nThe firm said it was planning to do this for the new year.\n\nSuntory said it was working on a new material made entirely from seaweed extract that was 100% edible, biodegradable and compostable.\n\nEnvironmentalists say that trivial changes like these won't solve the world's ecological crises - but on a large scale they'll make a contribution.", "The court heard Hajar Al Fahad \"was trying to portray herself beyond her means\"\n\nA woman stole a passenger's suitcase containing £76,000 worth of designer clothes and jewellery from a train.\n\nHajar Al Fahad, 26, learned the woman was wealthy after striking up a conversation with her on a London to south Wales train.\n\nShe admitted taking the suitcase containing items by Chanel and Cartier as the train arrived at Cardiff Central station, the city's crown court heard.\n\nAl Fahad was given an eight-month prison sentence, suspended for a year.\n\nIt wasn't until she reached her destination 40 miles away in Swansea that the victim realised her suitcase was missing.\n\nHajar Al Fahad's address was traced through her train ticket bought at Paddington station\n\nProsecutor Andrew Davies said the pair began talking when Al Fahad placed her luggage on top of the victim's.\n\nPolice traced the mother of two, of Llanrumney in Cardiff, through her purchase of a train ticket at London's Paddington station.\n\nOfficers found the majority of the items from the suitcase, which came to a total value of £76,559.\n\nHajar Al Fahad took photographs of herself wearing the items she had stolen\n\nA search of Al Fahad's mobile discovered internet searches for the items in the suitcase and photographs of herself wearing the items she had stolen.\n\nWhen questioned she said the suitcase was hers and later claimed the luxury goods inside were counterfeit.\n\nThe court heard Al Fahad \"added an element of fantasy\" to her conversation with the woman on the train in September 2018, by claiming she was wealthy herself and had a cleaner.\n\nMitigating, Tim Petrides said: \"She was trying to portray herself beyond her means and an element of fantasy came into the conversation.\n\n\"She has described her actions as a 'moment of madness' and in her own words to me, 'sorry is not enough'.\"\n\nHajar Al Fahad discovered her fellow passenger was wealthy in a chat on a London to Wales train\n\nJudge Catherine Richards said she accepted Al Fahad did not set out to steal from anyone but carried out an opportunistic theft.\n\nAs well the suspended sentence, the defendant was ordered to carry out a 20-day rehabilitation activity requirement and 150 hours unpaid work.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Peloton, which won an early celebrity fanbase for its exercise bikes and remote workout classes, has seen demand surge during the pandemic.\n\nThe firm's global membership base hit 3.1 million at the end of June, more than double a year earlier, as gym closures due to Covid-19 increased demand for at-home workouts.\n\nThe jump in sign-ups lifted revenue to $607m (£474m), up 172% year-on-year.\n\nBut it has also strained supply, prompting lengthy waits for equipment.\n\nThe firm had said it was slashing prices for its existing treadmill and bike, cutting the cost of the bike from $2,245 to $1,895 in an effort to make their products more accessible.\n\nThe move coincided with the launch of new, more expensive, versions of the same pieces of equipment.\n\nBut the firm, which relies on purchases of its machines fitted with touchscreens for most of its sales, said it did not expect delivery delays to improve much before the end of the year.\n\n\"Demand... remains strong and member engagement remains elevated, despite improving weather and the gradual reopening,\" chief executive John Foley said on an analyst call after the firm shared its quarterly results on Thursday.\n\nPeloton said the number of \"connected fitness\" subscribers, who access its remote classes via one of the firm's machines, jumped to more than 1.09 million at the end of June, up 113% in comparison with the same period last year.\n\nThose members are also working out more - averaging more than 24 workouts per month, compared to 12 one year ago.\n\nThe growth propelled the firm to its first quarterly profit of $89m, versus a loss of $47.4m last year.\n\nMr Foley told analysts he was not worried about demand subsiding after the pandemic, given the opportunities for global expansion.\n\nPeloton said it expected the number of subscribers to exceed 2 million over the next 12 months and forecast revenue for its next financial year of at least $3.5bn.\n\nThe results shared by the firm exceeded analyst expectations, prompting shares to rise 7% in after-hours trade.", "Emergency crews were sent to the scene in Newquay after the officer suffered the burns\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of attempting to murder a police officer who has been left with severe burns to his arms and legs.\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police said the officer was sent to Trevenson Road in Newquay, Cornwall, over reports a man was \"behaving aggressively\".\n\nThe officer suffered the \"severe but non life-threatening\" burns at the scene and has been taken to Treliske Hospital by air ambulance.\n\nA man, 30, from Newquay is in custody.\n\nCh Supt Ian Drummond-Smith said officers were called after a man who was living in a field without permission refused to leave when asked by bailiffs.\n\nHe described it as a \"very serious incident\", adding \"My thoughts are with our officer.\"\n\nHe said colleagues attended the scene \"within minutes\", and were assisted by members of the public and the bailiffs \"in bringing this to a safe resolution\".\n\nThe unnamed 51-year-old officer - a former Army soldier - suffered some significant burns to his body, Mr Drummond-Smith said.\n\n\"To the best of my knowledge his face was not burnt,\" he said.\n\n\"He is conscious, he is sat up in his hospital bed and he's talking to us on the telephone - he is in good spirits,\" he added.\n\nThe officer's colleagues posted a Twitter message on his behalf thanking \"all those who have sent kind messages of support\".\n\nCh Supt Ian Drummond-Smith said the officer had minor burns and some significant burns\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the incident was \"truly appalling and unacceptable\".\n\n\"My thoughts are with the brave officer and his loved ones at this time,\" she said.\n\nThe police officer had been sent to Trevenson Road when he was attacked\n\nFormer inspector at the force Dave Meredith said he had \"the privilege of working alongside this officer for over a decade\".\n\n\"You could find no better police officer and friend. All the best and get well soon mate,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Concerns were raised over social distancing at the Department for Work and Pensions office in Leeds\n\nA government office failed to do enough to prevent the spread of coronavirus, a health and safety inspection found.\n\nWorkers were pictured gathered around a desk at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in Leeds where there have been two confirmed Covid-19 cases.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found management had failed to ensure social distancing was maintained.\n\nThe DWP said it had taken \"urgent action to rectify all issues identified\" at the Quarry House office.\n\nDuring the pandemic, the majority of DWP employees in Leeds have been working from home but there have still been hundreds of people in the office, located inside a landmark building on the eastern edge of the city centre.\n\nThere has been a recruitment drive at the DWP amid a rise in Universal Credit claimants due to coronavirus, a whistleblower told the BBC.\n\nQuarry House in Leeds is known locally as \"The Kremlin\" because of its imposing architecture\n\nThe whistleblower has been working at home for the DWP but said he was concerned for his health when returning to the building, which is also home to parts of the NHS.\n\nHe said: \"I hear stories about people congregating, not following outlaid guidance. In an office so big it is difficult to monitor 24/7.\n\n\"People I have spoken to are nervous about a return, they and I feel it is not yet safe enough to go back.\n\n\"The office was busy pre-Covid, I don't know where everyone would operate from in normal times let alone in a virus outbreak.\"\n\nThe HSE inspected the office on 27 August after receiving a report of a \"workplace concern\". During the visit photographs were taken, including one of workers standing close together.\n\nThe report compiled following the inspection said: \"You are failing to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety of your employees/agency staff at work because you have not implemented necessary measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19.\"\n\nThe DWP had risk assessed for the office being about 50% full, which the HSE said \"may be ambitious and unrealistic\", leading to a risk of \"congestion\" and making it more difficult to maintain social distancing.\n\nThe BBC has seen leaked messages showing the office has had at least two positive coronavirus cases among staff.\n\nTwo emails have recently been sent to workers saying people had been sent home from the affected floors and deep cleans carried out.\n\nCharles Law, industrial officer with the PCS union, said: \"It's extremely worrying for our members who work for the department, especially if they're expected to stop being at home and come into the workplace.\n\n\"It's shocking that the HSE would do such a damning report on a flagship DWP office and we're extremely concerned for the safety of our members.\"\n\nThe HSE confirmed that following the visit an official letter, known as a Notification of Contravention, was sent to the DWP.\n\nIn this letter, the DWP was warned a fee would need to be paid because of \"material breaches\" of health and safety law.\n\nIt was given a deadline of Tuesday 15 September to confirm action had been taken to remedy the issues highlighted in the report.\n\nIn a statement, a DWP spokesperson said: \"We take the health and safety of staff extremely seriously and have implemented Covid-secure measures across our sites to ensure they comply with government guidelines.\n\n\"We have taken urgent action to rectify all issues identified by the HSE.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK government should consider a targeted extension of its furlough scheme, MPs have said.\n\nThe coronavirus crisis risks mass long-term unemployment and viable firms could go under without support, the Treasury Select Committee has warned.\n\nHowever, a blanket retention of the scheme would not be good value for money, it added.\n\nThe Treasury said it would \"continue to innovate in supporting incomes and employment.\"\n\nThe Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme is due to end on 31 October. Under it, workers placed on leave have received 80% of their pay up to a maximum of £2,500 a month.\n\nAt first, this was all paid for by the government. But firms had to start making a contribution to wages in September as the scheme began to wind down.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has previously said that extending furlough past October would only keep people \"in suspended animation\".\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak also ruled out an extension, instead saying that firms will be given £1,000 for every furloughed worker still in employment at the end of January.\n\nBut the committee's chairman, Mel Stride, said the chancellor \"should carefully consider targeted extensions\" to the scheme.\n\n\"The key will be assisting those businesses who, with additional support, can come through the crisis as sustainable enterprises, rather than focusing on those that will unfortunately just not be viable in the changed post-crisis economy.\"\n\nIn the second report of its inquiry into the economic impact of Covid-19, the committee also warned that the pandemic risked widening the gender pay gap due to the differences in hours of paid work in lockdown - especially if work patterns are changed permanently.\n\nThe MPs also said people should be able to reskill, and that small businesses should be able to fully participate in the government's Kickstart Scheme, which aims to create work placements for young people on universal credit.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) trade body said with the furlough scheme winding down, \"policymakers will need to look closely at measures to stem mass unemployment, including a successor scheme.\"\n\nFSB national chairman Mike Cherry said: \"The priority should be protecting viable small businesses - and all the jobs they provide - that have been disproportionately [hit] by the coronavirus crisis, including those caught by local lockdowns, subject to continued national restrictions, or with staff that have directly suffered because of Covid.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Julie changed jobs before lockdown - then became unemployed and ineligible for the furlough scheme\n\nThe Resolution Foundation, which campaigns on living standards, said that \"extending support for the hardest-hit sectors of the economy will be essential to limit the rise in unemployment Britain faces in the months ahead.\"\n\nTorsten Bell, the think tank's chief executive, said: \"This authoritative account of the economic impact of coronavirus should be required reading for Treasury officials planning the Autumn Budget against the highly uncertain backdrop of rising coronavirus case numbers.\n\n\"The chancellor will need to reconsider his plans to swiftly phase out support given the painful reality that the economic crisis is here to stay.\"\n\nThis week leading business groups warned that the UK risks a second wave of job cuts and a slower economic recovery if it does not extend its furlough scheme.\n\nGermany, Belgium, Australia and France have all decided to extend or launch new wage support schemes into next year.\n\nFormer Labour prime minister Gordon Brown told the BBC that the UK should emulate other countries' short-term working schemes.\n\nMr Brown said the end of the furlough scheme on 31 October was a \"cliff-edge\" that could trigger \"a tsunami of unemployment\".\n\n\"The government's got to change course here,\" he told the Today programme.\n\nShort-term working schemes would allow firms to reduce employees' working hours while keeping them in jobs, with the state topping up their salaries.\n\n\"You have got to send a signal that unemployment matters,\" he said. \"We don't want to destroy any more capacity and skills in the economy.\"\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said that by the time the UK scheme closes it will have helped to pay for 9.6 million jobs.\n\n\"We will continue to innovate in supporting incomes and employment,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"We're helping employees get back to work, where they want to be, through a £1,000 retention bonus.\n\n\"And we are creating new roles for young people with our Kickstart Scheme, creating incentives for training and apprenticeships, and supporting and protecting jobs in the tourism and hospitality sectors through our VAT cut and last month's Eat Out to Help Out scheme.\"\n\nThe UK's unemployment rate has been at 3.9% since the lockdown was introduced.\n\nBut the Bank of England expects that rate to double to 7.5% by the end of the year when the government-funded support schemes come to an end.\n\nThousands of job cuts have already been announced by firm such as Rolls-Royce, Costa Coffee, Pret A Manger, Pizza Express, British Airways and BP.", "Maria Zakharova posted this photo from the White House, with Sharon Stone's crossed legs below it\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has issued a rare apology to his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic for a senior Russian official's Facebook post which angered Mr Vucic.\n\nMr Vucic told Serbian TV about the apology and the Kremlin confirmed it.\n\nForeign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova posted a photo of Mr Vucic sitting opposite President Donald Trump in the White House and below it a photo of actress Sharon Stone's legs.\n\nThe provocative screenshot of the crossed legs came from the film Basic Instinct, in a scene where Sharon Stone's character briefly exposes herself.\n\nMs Zakharova's post said Mr Vucic looked as if he was being interrogated by President Trump.\n\n\"If you are invited to the White House but your chair stands like you are in an interrogation, you should sit like in the picture number 2. Whoever you are. Just trust me,\" Ms Zakharova wrote.\n\nMaria Zakharova was thought to be taking aim at Serbian-US ties\n\nOn Sunday she updated the post with an apology, saying her comments had been misunderstood. She said she was taking aim at American \"arrogance\", not the Serbian leader.\n\nOn Thursday Mr Vucic told Serbian TV: \"President Putin has never apologised to me for anything, and neither has [Russian Foreign Minister] Sergei Lavrov. But both did.\"\n\nMr Vucic said he had spoken to Mr Putin by phone, and he added: \"I think we have good relations and for me this was a passing, unimportant incident.\"\n\nMs Zakharova's post came after Mr Vucic had signed a co-operation deal with Kosovo at the White House, and has been seen as a sign of Russian irritation with Serbian-US ties.\n\nSerbia has long been a key ally of Russia's in the Balkans, and neither country recognises Kosovo's independence.\n\nMr Vucic was furious with Ms Zakharova's post. In televised comments he said \"Maria Zakharova speaks mostly about herself, and the primitivism and vulgarity she showed speaks of her, and by God, of those who placed her there\".\n• None Putin given lavish welcome in Serbia", "State for International Trade Liz Truss speaking to Japan\"s Minister for Foreign Affairs Toshimitsu Motegi at the Department for International Trade\n\nThe UK has struck its first major post-Brexit trade pact after signing a deal with Japan that aims to boost trade between the countries by about £15bn.\n\nInternational Trade Secretary Liz Truss said it was a \"historic moment\".\n\nShe said it would bring \"new wins\" for British businesses in manufacturing, food and drink, and tech industries.\n\nCritics said while the deal may be of symbolic importance it would boost UK GDP by only 0.07%, a fraction of the trade that could be lost with the EU.\n\nFriday's deal still needs approval by Japan's parliament, which the country's Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi forecast would be passed by January.\n\nMs Truss said the UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement means 99% of exports to Japan will be tariff-free.\n\n\"The agreement we have negotiated - in record time and in challenging circumstances - goes far beyond the existing EU deal, as it secures new wins for British businesses in our great manufacturing, food and drink, and tech industries,\" she said.\n\n\"From our automotive workers in Wales to our shoemakers in the North of England, this deal will help build back better as we create new opportunities for people throughout the whole of the UK and help level up our country.\"\n\nShe added that, strategically, the deal was an important step towards joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership and placing Britain at the centre of a network of free trade agreements.\n\nMajor Japanese investors in the UK such as Nissan and Hitachi would benefit from reduced tariffs on parts coming from Japan and streamlined regulatory procedures, the UK's trade department statement said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said Brexit gives Britain the freedom to strike trade deals with other countries around the world.\n\nBusiness leaders welcomed the agreement, but stressed that securing a deal with the EU remained the most important goal.\n\nThe director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, Adam Marshall, called the announcement a milestone, but added: \"Whilst this agreement is undoubtedly cause for celebration, securing a Free Trade Agreement with the EU remains critical to the future of businesses in the UK.\n\n\"We urge ministers to redouble their efforts to reach a comprehensive partnership with our largest trading partner at a crucial time in the negotiations.\"\n\nThe CBI also hailed the agreement, with director general Carolyn Fairbairn saying this \"breakthrough moment\" can be the first of many.\n\n\"It's a huge opportunity to secure new Japanese investment across a wider range of sectors and UK regions,\" she said.\n\nYou can almost hear the sighs of relief echoing around Westminster and within the business community.\n\nAfter weeks of wrangling, the first deal of the Brexit era has been struck, which ensures that 99% of British goods can enter Japan without tariffs, or extra charges.\n\nBut ultimately, this deal largely mirrors the agreement which already exists between the EU and Japan. And with trade with Japan accounting for just 2% of the UK's total, the expected boost to GDP of 0.07% over the long term is a tiny fraction of what might be lost from leaving the EU.\n\nAnd there is good reason for Japan cooperating to ensure this deal was secured in record time. It stands to get the lions share, 80%, of the total estimated £15bn boost to trade for both countries.\n\nEven then, the talks haven't been as speedy or straightforward as initially hoped - which may not bode well for negotiations elsewhere.\n\nAbout 99% of exports between the two nations will be tariff-free under the deal, with a particular focus on the food and drink, finance and tech sectors.\n\nManufacturing parts coming from Japan will benefit from reduced tariffs, as will British pork, beef and salmon travelling in the opposite direction.\n\nJapan's Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said: \"It was a very tough negotiation, but we reached the agreement in principle in about three months, at an unusually fast pace.\n\n\"While maintaining the high levels of access to the British market under the Japan-EU EPA, we improved our access to the British market on train cars and some auto parts.\"", "Some Tory MPs have criticised England's latest coronavirus rules that legally ban gatherings of more than six people.\n\nEx-minister Steve Baker said the action amounted to \"arbitrary powers without scrutiny\" and MP Desmond Swayne said it was \"outrageous\" not to have a Parliamentary debate.\n\nBBC Newsnight understands some MPs want the rules to be reviewed more often.\n\nThe health secretary says the new rules in England will not be kept in place \"any longer than we have to\".\n\nIt comes as coronavirus infections have increased in recent weeks in the UK, according to estimates from Office for National Statistics.\n\nThe government's latest R number - which measures the virus' ability to spread - is between 1 and 1.2 which means the epidemic is growing.\n\nAnd households in Birmingham will be banned from mixing under measures announced on Friday. The city has the second highest rate of Covid-19 infection in England, behind Bolton.\n\nMeanwhile, a Covid-19 contact-tracing app will be launched across England and Wales on 24 September, the government has announced.\n\nFrom Monday, the law change in England will ban more than six people meeting anywhere socially indoors or outdoors - dubbed the \"rule of six\".\n\nIt will not apply to schools, workplaces or Covid-secure weddings, funerals and organised team sports.\n\nThe rule will be enforced through a £100 fine if people fail to comply, doubling on each offence up to a maximum of £3,200.\n\nThe measures include the introduction of \"Covid-secure marshals\", to help ensure social distancing in town and city centres.\n\nScotland and Wales will also cut the number of people to allowed to meet up to six from Monday, amid concern over a sustained rise in cases.\n\nBut in Scotland children under the age of 12 will not count towards the total, and in Wales the rule will not apply to children under 11 and up to 30 can still meet outside.\n\nBut BBC Newsnight's political editor Nick Watt said there was a \"sour mood\" on the Tory benches, adding: \"Tory MPs do accept the government does need to introduce some measures to control the virus, but they want to clip the government's wings and that means demanding a greater role for Parliament.\"\n\nHe said senior Conservative backbenchers are lobbying Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle - who accused the government this week of bypassing Parliament - to make sure that legislation is being reviewed every month, not every six months.\n\nConservative MP Steve Baker described the new restrictions as \"madness\".\n\n\"When you look at the draconian nature of the imposition on the British people, the shifting and uncertain legal environment, the lack of scrutiny and what has changed about this disease, I think it's time now to say that this is not a fit legal environment for the British people,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"It's time to move to a voluntary system, unless the government can demonstrate otherwise and it is time for us to start living like a free people.\"\n\nHe said the decision to have Covid marshals \"will turn every space in Britain in the equivalent of going into airport security where we are badgered\".\n\n\"I'm not willing to live like this,\" he added.\n\nAnother ex-minister Sir Desmond Swayne said it was \"outrageous\" the laws had \"been made without consultation in Parliament\" and without any debate.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth told BBC Newsnight his party was \"obviously concerned about civil liberties as well\" and when the original piece of coronavirus legislation went through Parliament \"we did raise our concerns\".\n\n\"But we also are aware we are in the midst of the biggest public health crisis we've faced for over 100 years and we understand that decisive and upsetting, difficult action has to be taken,\" he said.\n\nAnnouncing the detail of the rule change in England on Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said \"we must act\" to avoid another lockdown, amid a rise in virus cases.\n\nMr Johnson said the rules had \"become quite complicated and confusing\" and the government was \"simplifying and strengthening\" them after feedback from police and the public.\n\nThe new \"rule of six\" means:\n\nThe prime minister also said on Wednesday the intention to return fans to stadiums from 1 October will be reviewed and pilot test events in September will be restricted to 1,000 fans.\n\nBut on Friday the Premier League wrote to the government to say its clubs will defer holding test events \"until a sufficient number of fans are allowed back to enable thorough trials to take place\".", "Artwork: D-Orbit's carrier platform has cameras that could also look for nearby space debris\n\nNew approaches to tracking satellites and debris in orbit are to get a boost from the UK Space Agency.\n\nUKSA is giving over £1m to seven firms to help advance novel sensor technologies and the smart algorithms needed to interpret their data.\n\nFinding better ways to surveil objects moving overhead has become a high priority issue.\n\nWith more and more satellites being launched, there's growing concern about the potential for collisions.\n\nA big worry is the burgeoning population of redundant hardware and junk in orbit - some 900,000 objects larger than 1cm by some counts, and all of it capable of doing immense damage to, or even destroying, an operational spacecraft in a high-velocity encounter.\n\nThe projects being supported by UKSA come from a mix of start-ups and more established companies.\n\nThe overriding goal is to improve ways to spot, characterise and track objects.\n\nUltimately, this is information which could be fed into the automated traffic management systems of the future that will keep functioning satellites out of harm's way.\n\nDeimos is developing technologies to track space objects from the UK\n\n\"We've known for a long while that the space environment is getting more difficult, more cluttered,\" said Jacob Geer from UKSA. \"Space surveillance and tracking is one of the key things we can do to keep safe those satellites we rely on now, and to make sure certain orbits don't become inaccessible for future generations because there's too much debris in them.\n\n\"We had 26 proposals come to us and I think we've selected a good cross-section of ideas in the seven companies we're supporting,\" he told BBC News.\n\nWhile a lot of these projects are still at the lab stage, D-Orbit's work is dedicated to pushing the capability of some of its hardware already in space.\n\nThe company recently launched a vehicle to carry and deploy a clutch of small satellites. This vehicle uses cameras to photograph its surroundings and to map the stars for the purposes of navigation.\n\nD-Orbit has the idea of using the cameras' imagery to also identify passing junk.\n\n\"One of the challenges in using star trackers is filtering out objects that are not supposed to be there - obviously, because you're trying to compare what you can see against a star catalogue,\" explained D-Orbit's Simon Reid. \"And, of course, it's those extra objects which in principal are the things that are potentially debris.\"\n\nThe funding announcement also coincides with the signing of a new partnership agreement between the Ministry of Defence and UKSA to work together on space domain awareness.\n\nBoth have valuable assets and interests in orbit that need protecting. And for the UK taxpayer, this investment was recently deepened with the purchase out of bankruptcy of the OneWeb satellite broadband company.\n\nThe UK government is now the part owner of one of the biggest spacecraft networks in the sky. OneWeb has so far launched 74 satellites in its communications constellation, with plans to put up thousands more.\n\nBusiness Secretary Alok Sharma said: \"Millions of pieces of space junk orbiting the Earth present a significant threat to UK satellite systems which provide the vital services that we all take for granted - from mobile communications to weather forecasting.\n\n\"By developing new AI and sensor technology, the seven pioneering space projects we are backing today will significantly strengthen the UK's capabilities to monitor these hazardous space objects, helping to create new jobs and protect the services we rely on in our everyday lives.\"\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "The bodies of 29 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer\n\nFour people have been jailed in Vietnam for their roles in the death of 39 migrants found in a lorry in Essex, according to state media reports.\n\nThe men, women and children were discovered in a refrigerated trailer in Grays on 23 October.\n\nThe four defendants were found guilty of \"organising, brokering illegal emigration\" after a one-day trial in Ha Tinh, VnExpress reported.\n\nThe state media outlet said one victim paid $22,000 for the illegal journey.\n\nThe four defendants, aged between 24 and 36, were given sentences ranging from two-and-a-half to seven-and-a-half years.\n\nThe bodies of the Vietnamese nationals were discovered at an industrial estate soon after the lorry arrived in the UK on a ferry from Zeebrugge in Belgium.\n\nTen teenagers, two of them 15-year-old boys, were among the dead.\n\nAn inquest heard their medical cause of death was asphyxia and hyperthermia.\n\nLast month haulier Ronan Hughes, 40, of Tyholland, County Monaghan, admitted manslaughter and conspiring to assist unlawful immigration at the Old Bailey while Eamonn Harrison, 23, of Mayobridge, County Down, denied 39 charges of manslaughter.\n\nGazmir Nuzi, 42, of Barclay Road, Tottenham, north London, pleaded guilty to a single charge of assisting unlawful immigration on or before 11 October 2019 and 18 April 2020.\n\nEarlier this year, lorry driver Maurice Robinson, 25, of Craigavon, County Armagh, pleaded guilty to 39 counts of manslaughter and conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration.\n\nMr Harrison now faces a trial expected to last five weeks starting on 5 October with three others.\n\nGheorghe Nica, 43, of Langdon Hills, Basildon, Essex, denies 39 counts of manslaughter and conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration.\n\nValentin Calota, 37, of Birmingham, and Christopher Kennedy, 23, of County Armagh, Northern Ireland, have each denied conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The bomb was detonated at the end of an Ariana Grande concert, killing 22 people\n\nThe family of a 15-year-old girl killed in the Manchester Arena bombing have shared how their \"hearts have been shattered into a million pieces\".\n\nThe loved ones of Megan Hurley presented a \"pen portrait\" of their \"amazing girl\" during the second week of the inquiry into the 2017 attack.\n\nThe portraits give each family the chance to present an insight into the lives of those who died.\n\nTwenty-two people died when a bomb was detonated as people left the arena.\n\nA slideshow of photographs documenting Megan's life were displayed on screen at Manchester Magistrates' Court as the family's lawyer read out words from her loved ones.\n\nMegan Hurley, from Liverpool, was 15 when she was killed in the attack\n\n\"Since the horrendous day in May 2017 our lives have been ruined for forever,\" her family wrote in their statement.\n\n\"Our hearts have been shattered into a million pieces. The pain we feel day in and day out, year upon year.\n\n\"Losing Megan has left an enormous and irreparable void in our lives. We miss you more than words can say, Megan.\n\n\"You will forever be our beautiful beauty queen.\"\n\nDeborah Hutchinson, mother of 19-year-old Courtney Boyle, from Gateshead, told the inquiry that she can still see her daughter's smile as she left the car that night.\n\n\"I will never forget the laughing in the car. As she left to get into the foyer she was complaining,\" she added.\n\n\"She was cold, all wrapped up in a blanket which was nothing unusual for Courtney.\"\n\n\"She had a beautiful heart and always put others first,\" she said.\n\nKelly Brewster was described as \"fun-loving, kind and thoughtful\"\n\nKelly Brewster was a \"larger than life\" character\" despite being \"tiny at just 5ft\", her family told the inquiry.\n\nThe 32-year-old, from Sheffield, was \"fun-loving, kind and thoughtful... but everyone knew she had to be taken seriously when she put her sky-scraper heels on\".\n\nThe family said she was \"so excited\" on the day of the Ariana Grande concert because her and her \"soulmate\" Ian Winslow had had an offer accepted on a new four-bedroom home that morning.\n\nThey said the couple were planning to have a baby and had already planned which room was going to be Ian's daughter's bedroom and the nursery.\n\n\"Kelly was the happiest she had ever been,\" the inquiry heard.\n\nFigen Murray, the mother of Martyn Hett, also presented a \"pen portrait\" to the inquiry.\n\nShe said the 29-year-old, from Stockport, Greater Manchester, had \"the most incredible passion for life\" and an \"energy that was exhausting at times\" living at \"100 miles an hour\".\n\n\"He had this catching charisma about him,\" she said. \"Everybody just loved him.\"\n\n\"He was proud of who he was, he believed in who he was.\"\n\nShe said his loss left \"this absolutely massive, gaping hole inside my soul.\"\n\nMartyn Hett was due to fly to America for the trip of a lifetime two days after the bombing\n\nThe inquiry comes more than three years after the bombing at the end of an Ariana Grande concert, which left hundreds more injured.\n\nIt was due to start in June, but was delayed by the trial of Salman Abedi's brother Hashem, who was jailed for at least 55 years for 22 murders on 20 August.\n\nThe commemorative hearings are expected to conclude on 23 September.\n\nThe inquiry was set up to examine the background to the attack and the response of the emergency services.\n\nIts chairman, Sir John Saunders, will make a report and recommendations once all the evidence has been heard, which is expected to take up to six months.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ex-Conservative MP Charlie Elphicke has been jailed for two years for sexually assaulting two women.\n\nElphicke, 49, the former MP for Dover, was convicted of groping the women in similar situations, nine years apart.\n\nHe denied the charges, but was found guilty of one count of sexual assault in 2007 and two further counts in 2016, after a trial at Southwark Crown Court.\n\nThe judge told Elphicke he was a \"sexual predator who used your success and respectability as a cover\".\n\nWithin minutes of his jailing, Elphicke confirmed he would appeal against his conviction, arguing he had not had a \"fair trial\".\n\nMrs Justice Whipple said Elphicke's denials had left his victims faced with the ordeal of giving evidence in court.\n\n\"They told the truth, and you told a pack of lies - not only to the jury, but your wife, the whips and the police,\" she told him during the sentencing hearing.\n\nDespite the fact the defendant's wife Natalie - the current Dover MP - ended their marriage when he was convicted in July, she agreed he had not had a fair trial and confirmed she would support his appeal.\n\nCharlie Elphicke's wife Natalie, the MP for Dover, supported him during the trial\n\nBefore Elphicke was sentenced, the court heard victim impact statements from both of the women he attacked.\n\nHis first victim, who was attacked at the then MP's London home in 2007, said his actions had had a \"lasting impact\" on her life, leaving her cautious of being around men.\n\nHe had forced the woman on to a sofa and groped her breast while trying to kiss her, before chasing her and chanting \"I'm a naughty Tory\", his trial had heard.\n\nThe second victim, a parliamentary worker aged in her 20s, said the assaults in 2016 left her with a feeling of \"fear and helplessness\".\n\n\"He stole a large part of my self-worth and self-esteem,\" she said in a statement read to the court.\n\nElphicke sexually assaulted her twice, the first involving him attempting to kiss her and groping her breast.\n\nIn the second assault several weeks later, he ran his hand up the inside of her thigh towards her groin.\n\nIan Winter QC, defending, had argued Elphicke should not be jailed because he had \"fully and completely\" learned his lesson.\n\n\"Shortly, Mr Elphicke's descent into total disgrace will be complete,\" Mr Winter said.\n\nAs well as his marriage ending he is estranged from his daughter as a result of the conviction, he added.\n\n\"The only further degradation would be to lose his liberty,\" Mr Winter said.\n\nElphicke had come to court with 34 character witnesses, including from some \"serving members of parliament,\" Mr Winter added. The names of the MPs were not disclosed in court.\n\nMrs Justice Whipple said she \"considered carefully\" whether the sentence should be suspended.\n\n\"[But] bearing in mind the gross breach of your position of power... I am satisfied that appropriate punishment can only be achieved by immediate custody,\" she said.\n\nHowever, a spokesman for Elphicke said his lawyers had begun an attempt to overturn the conviction.\n\n\"I know that I am innocent of any criminal wrongdoing and will continue to fight to clear my name,\" Elphicke said in a statement.\n\nMrs Elphicke confirmed she supported an appeal against conviction and \"today's excessive sentence,\" adding that \"the court seems to be on a bit of a mission\".\n\nThere was \"no doubt that Charlie behaved badly,\" but he had been denied a fair trial, she said.\n\nHe was suspended by the Conservatives when \"serious allegations\" were passed to police in November 2017, but the whip was restored ahead of a confidence vote against then-Prime Minister Theresa May in 2018.\n\nHe was again suspended after being charged with the three counts of sexual assault on 22 July 2019.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "GP Nina Abel, with her two children, could not get a prioritised test for medical staff where she lives in Wiltshire\n\nPeople trying to get Covid-19 tests have spoken of their frustration over the length of time to book, distance to travel and delays after they arrive.\n\nOne testing site in Abercynon, south Wales, reportedly ran out of kits.\n\nMany families had travelled there from England while some Welsh residents had been offered tests in England.\n\nThe Welsh Government said there were ongoing test issues at a UK-wide level, while contractors Serco said the Abercynon backlog had been cleared.\n\nAn official at the site told BBC Wales it had closed for a few hours while they fetched more tests from Swansea.\n\nNina Abel, from near Chippenham in Wiltshire, had a 90-minute drive with her children, aged five and two, to Abercynon in Rhondda Cynon Taf for a booked appointment at 09:30 BST on Tuesday.\n\n\"I spent all day yesterday refreshing the government website every 15 minutes to try to get appointments for my five-year-old, who's been in school over the last week,\" she said.\n\nDr Abel, a GP, is meant to be in work on Wednesday, but could not get a prioritised test through her local clinical commissioning group.\n\nShe was told to wait until 12:30 BST for the test in Abercynon because of delays after being informed there were no tests available at her appointed time.\n\n\"It's a deeply frustrating situation,\" she said.\n\nOn keeping her children fed and entertained in a car park, she added: \"I've only got snacks but we've got Frozen 2.\"\n\nOther people who travelled to Abercynon, in the south Wales valleys, had similar tales to tell.\n\nHannah Summers, from Bristol, drove earlier on Tuesday for an hour and 20 minutes for an appointment at 09:30 BST.\n\n\"We finally managed to get an appointment yesterday,\" she said.\n\n\"My daughter, who is five, has a heavy cold and it's turned into classic Covid symptoms.\n\n\"I tried from 3pm. We were offered Bristol but [the system] timed out and crashed,\" she said.\n\n\"This was our closest option. I work in early years and I'm a childminder so I've had to cancel everything.\"\n\nHer daughter Maia is with her for a test while her twin has stayed at home with their father.\n\nMs Summers said: \"The novelty is wearing off. I'm not sure I've got enough food.\n\n\"It's put all of us on hold. I can't go back to work until I get a negative result.\"\n\nShe said she had been told her QR code would still be valid for a test \"around midday\" despite it being for an 09:30 slot.\n\nMs Summers described the situation as \"chaotic\", adding: \"The online site is still showing Abercynon as having availability. So another load of people will have turned up.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Chris Bryant This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Milosh family have driven for two hours from near Taunton to get to Abercynon\n\nKelwicki and Justina Milosh from Wellington near Taunton, Somerset, had come with their three children aged nine, seven and five on the two-hour journey for tests after their seven-year-old developed a cough.\n\nThe couple both work in manufacturing and do not know if they will get paid while they get the tests done.\n\n\"We just had to find a toilet in Abercynon,\" Mr Milosh said.\n\n\"We've got water and snacks, but obviously if we have to wait until 12:15 we need something else. It took ages to book this - five hours at least.\n\n\"I was told yesterday people had come from London.\"\n\n\"Plenty of kids getting a cold or a little cough. They normally get colds in September when they go back to school.\n\n\"What if next week one of my other kids get a cough?\"\n\nLynette and Adrian Jones from Neath were given tests in Abercynon but had initially been offered tests in Warminster, 100 miles away\n\nWhile families from England spoke of delays and long journeys to Wales, a Welsh couple said it was \"ridiculous\" that they were offered tests in England.\n\nLynette and Adrian Jones, from Neath, condemned the system as a \"shambles\" after they were asked to go to Warminster, in Wiltshire, 100 miles away.\n\nThey said they were unable to get a test in closer centres to their home such as Margam or Swansea's Liberty Stadium.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taff council leader Andrew Morgan said he was aware of reports of people \"struggling to book a test in a local testing centre\" in the area, which has been struggling to avoid a local lockdown over case numbers.\n\n\"It is absolutely vital that capacity is increased to further develop our understanding of the prevalence of the virus in communities and identify any clusters that may exist to inform the test and trace operation,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile in north Wales, Julia Massey from Abergele in Conwy said she had to \"fight\" to get a Covid-19 test for her daughter aged 11 and son, aged seven, who both started displaying symptoms last week.\n\nWhen she went online to book tests, she was told the nearest were several hours away in Oldham, Greater Manchester.\n\nShe eventually managed to get her children tested at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd, but staff there told her they were \"only to test where absolutely necessary\".\n\n\"We're following the guidelines, but people seem really reluctant to allow us to have a test.\n\n\"And until we do, the children can't go back to school and I can't go back to work.\"\n\nA Serco spokesman for the Abercynon site said: \"It was closed for a short period because of operational issues but it reopened and the backlog has all been cleared.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokeswoman said: \"The problems people have been experiencing when trying to book a test are directly related to the ongoing UK-wide issues with the Lighthouse Lab system, which we urgently need to see resolved at a UK level.\n\n\"The health minister [in Wales] has repeatedly raised this with the [UK government's] secretary of state for health.\n\n\"We are moving as much NHS Wales testing capacity as we can into areas where testing is needed the most, as well as taking urgent action to switch over testing facilities to Welsh laboratories to further increase capacity while the UK government resolves these issues with the Lighthouse Lab system.\"", "Addiction services in England could struggle to cope with \"soaring\" numbers of people misusing alcohol, the Royal College of Psychiatrists is warning.\n\nMany adults are drinking more since the coronavirus pandemic began, data shows.\n\nThe college estimates that in June, more than 8.4m people in England were drinking at higher-risk levels, up from 4.8m in February.\n\nIt says deep cuts made to addiction services could mean patients will miss out on life-saving care.\n\nThe rise in risky drinking comes at a time when more people addicted to opiates are seeking help from addiction services, says the college, referring to National Drug Treatment Monitoring System statistics showing 3,459 new adult cases in April - up 20% from 2,947 in the same month the previous year.\n\nGuidelines advise people drink no more than 14 units of alcohol (equivalent to six large glasses of wine or six pints of beer) a week, spreading consumption over three days or more.\n\nDrinking too much can damage your liver and increases the risk of other health conditions such as heart disease and stroke.\n\nPeople with alcohol use disorder are more likely to develop serious complications if they catch Covid-19.\n\nThe college is asking the government to invest millions more in addiction services.\n\nProf Julia Sinclair, chair of the college's addictions faculty, said: \"Covid-19 has shown just how stretched, under-resourced and ill-equipped addiction services are to treat the growing numbers of vulnerable people living with this complex illness.\n\n\"There are now only five NHS inpatient units in the country, and no resource anywhere in my region to admit people who are alcohol dependent with co-existing mental illness.\n\n\"Drug-related deaths and alcohol-related hospital admissions were already at all-time highs before Covid-19. I fear that unless the government acts quickly we will see these numbers rise exponentially.\"\n\nLaura Bunt from the drug, alcohol and mental health charity We Are With You said: \"Social isolation and a lack of a human connection is a big factor behind why some people turn to alcohol as a coping mechanism, so clearly the pandemic continues to be really tough for many people.\n\n\"When you consider that the UK had some of the highest levels of alcohol-related harms in Europe even before the lockdown in March, the need for government action now is clear.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"We have increased their funding this year, providing over £3.2 billion to spend on public health services like addiction.\n\n\"We support evidence-based approaches to reduce the health-related harms of drug misuse and, as part of our NHS Long Term Plan, alcohol care teams will be introduced in hospitals where alcohol-related admissions are high, intervening in 50,000 cases over five years to reduce harm.\"\n\nIf you are concerned about addiction, BBC Action Line has help and support.", "German carmaker Daimler, which owns Mercedes-Benz, has agreed to pay $1.5bn (£1.2bn) to resolve US government claims that it designed its diesel vehicles to cheat air pollution tests.\n\nThe firm was investigated for installing software to evade emissions laws in 250,000 Mercedes cars and vans.\n\nUS officials said they hoped the fine would deter future misbehaviour.\n\nDaimler called the deal an \"important step\" towards resolving diesel proceedings but denied the claims.\n\n\"By resolving these proceedings, Daimler avoids lengthy court actions with respective legal and financial risks,\" the company said.\n\nIn addition to the $1.5bn settlement with US authorities, Daimler said it had agreed to pay $700m to settle a class action lawsuit brought by owners.\n\nIt also disclosed \"further expenses of a mid three-digit-million EUR amount to fulfil requirements of the settlements.\"\n\nThe deals, which Daimler had said it was nearing last month, conclude an investigation that the US started in 2016, after \"defeat devices\" were discovered through testing.\n\nOfficials said that an $875m fine included in the $1.5bn settlement with authorities is the second-largest civil penalty the US has ever imposed under its Clear Air Act and the largest if measured on a per-vehicle basis.\n\nDaimler has also agreed to fix the affected cars, which were sold between 2009 and 2016, at no cost to their owners. US officials said that commitment was worth about $400m.\n\nAt a press conference on Monday, Andrew Wheeler, the head of the US Environmental Protection Agency, said: \"The message we are sending today is clear: We will enforce the law.\n\n\"If you try to cheat the system and mislead the public, you will be caught. Those who violate public trust in pursuit of profits will forfeit both.\"\n\nThe penalties are the latest in a wide-ranging scandal that has cast a cloud over the motor industry since 2015, when Volkswagen admitted to installing secret software on vehicles sold in the US.\n\nThe system allowed the cars to emit up to 40 times legally permitted emissions and evade detection during tests.\n\nVolkswagen later admitted the devices affected more than 11 million vehicles globally. The company more than $20bn to resolve claims in the US alone.\n\nBut investigations soon widened to other companies, including Ford, Mitsubishi, and Nissan.\n\nIn 2018, Daimler recalled more than 700,000 vehicles in Europe that had \"defeat devices\" installed. BMW and Porsche have also recalled cars over the issue.\n\nFiat Chrysler in Europe were raided this summer over the matter. The firm agreed to an estimated $800m settlement to resolve civil claims in the US in January.\n\nDaimler said the US settlement concerned vehicles that were not sold in the same configurations in Europe.", "Hitachi has said it will suspend work on a multi-billion-pound UK nuclear project because of rising costs.\n\nThe decision puts thousands of jobs at risk if the £13bn plant at Wylfa Newydd in Anglesey, north Wales, is scrapped.\n\nThe Japanese firm had been in talks with the UK government since June about funding for the project, which was being built by its Horizon subsidiary.\n\nThe government said it had failed to agree terms with Hitachi. The nuclear industry said it was \"disappointing\".\n\nHitachi said it would also suspend work on another site, in Oldbury in Gloucestershire, \"until a solution can be found\".\n\nAbout 9,000 workers had been expected to be involved in building the two nuclear reactors, which were due to be operational by the mid-2020s.\n\nHitachi said the decision would cost it an estimated 300bn yen (£2.1bn) as \"extraordinary losses\".\n\nIt said it was suspending the project \"from the viewpoint of its economic rationality as a private enterprise\".\n\nHinkley, Moorside, Wylfa, Oldbury, Bradwell and Sizewell were identified as the sites for the most significant national wave of new nuclear power construction anywhere in the world.\n\nOf those six - only one is under construction, three have been abandoned and two face an uphill battle to get the green light.\n\nUnder those circumstances you might think the government would be embarrassed that its energy policy was in disarray. But it's not.\n\nThe collapse of the Wylfa and Oldbury projects today (following the abandonment of Moorside) is evidence of some new economic realities that have seen government enthusiasm for new nuclear fade.\n\nThe first and most obvious is the cost of building the darn things.\n\nThe Nuclear Industry Association says the UK has six sites that are licensed to build new nuclear power stations and eight sites that are currently generating power.\n\nHowever, it said that only one of the eight currently operating are due to be in use by 2030.\n\nThe GMB union warned of an energy crisis.\n\nDuncan Hawthorne, chief executive of Hitachi's Horizon subsidiary, said the Anglesey site remained \"the best site for nuclear development in the UK\" and that the company would \"keep the option to resume development in future\".\n\nThe new nuclear plant had been intended to have a generating capacity of 2,900 MW and have a 60-year operational life.\n\nThe decision puts the UK's nuclear policy under fresh scrutiny.\n\nIn November, plans to build a nuclear power station at Moorside in Cumbria were halted after Toshiba announced it was winding up its NuGeneration subsidiary, which was behind the project.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) said: \"As the Business Secretary [Greg Clark] set out in June, any deal needs to represent value for money and be the right one for UK consumers and taxpayers.\n\n\"Despite extensive negotiations and hard work by all sides, the government and Hitachi are unable to reach agreement to proceed at this stage.\"\n\nThe department added that the land was owned by Hitachi, which had indicated it wished to retain ownership while it discussed future options with the government.\n\nShadow business secretary Rebecca Long Bailey said the government's nuclear strategy was now \"lying in tatters\" and had \"escalated into a full-blown crisis\".\n\nThe news was greeted with dismay by the Nuclear Industry Association.\n\nTom Greatrex, chief executive of the association, said it was \"disappointing, not just for the Wylfa Newydd project but for Anglesey and the nuclear industry as a whole\".\n\n\"The urgent need for further new nuclear capacity in the UK should not be underestimated, with all but one of the UK's nuclear power plants due to come offline by 2030.\"\n\nSource: House of Commons Library except when other source given and BBC Reality Check\n\nJustin Bowden, the GMB union's national secretary for energy, said the decision raised \"the very real prospect of a UK energy crisis\".\n\n\"While the government has had its head up its proverbial backside over Brexit, vital matters like guaranteeing the country's future energy supply appear to have gone by the wayside.\"\n\nThe CBI described the news as a \"significant blow to the UK's future energy supply plans\".\n\nMatthew Fell, the CBI's chief UK policy director, said: \"The government has to demonstrate it is committed to meeting our climate change targets by supporting new low-carbon power supply.\n\n\"The loss of new nuclear projects could leave us more heavily dependent in the long run on fossil fuels, which could risk our legally binding climate targets.\"\n\nThe government says it has a range of options for meeting future energy demand, including renewables, storage, interconnectors, new nuclear and more.\n\nIf the Wylfa Newydd project is scrapped, it leaves the Hinkley Point power station in Somerset as the only new UK reactor still being built.\n\nThere are plans for new plants at Bradwell and Sizewell, but neither is currently under construction.\n\nThe British and Japanese prime ministers met earlier this month and Theresa May said she had raised the issue with her counterpart.", "Online grocer Ocado says its switch to delivering Marks & Spencer food has been \"successful\" and demand is rising despite a rocky start.\n\nThe firm, which previously delivered for Waitrose, had to cancel some orders when its new partnership launched on 1 September, angering customers.\n\nBut it said launch day had been its \"biggest forward order day to date\" amid excitement about the new tie-up.\n\nAverage shopper baskets have also grown by about five items since then.\n\nIt comes as the firm reported a 50% jump in sales for the third quarter of the year at its Ocado Retail business, in which M&S holds a 50% stake.\n\nOcado said it had benefited from continued strong demand for online shopping during lockdown, with weekly orders climbing 10% in the 13 weeks to 30 August.\n\nSome customers criticised Ocado when it launched its M&S range, saying orders made weeks earlier had been cancelled at the last minute.\n\nThe retailer also halted orders from its staff as it tried to clear an order backlog.\n\nHowever, on Tuesday, the firm said customers had \"responded positively to the switchover\", with \"demand for the new range driving both an increase in the number of products in customer baskets and strong forward demand\".\n\nIt added: \"The weighting of M&S products in the average Ocado basket is higher than Waitrose prior to the switchover, reflecting positive customer reaction to the addition of M&S to the range.\"\n\nAnalysts said the results were not only promising for Ocado, but also for M&S. Last year, some warned the retailer might have overpaid for its stake in the partnership at a time when its business was struggling.\n\nSophie Lund-Yates, an equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: \"This could bode well for Marks & Spencer, whose sales could do with a boost, and who staked a lot on this deal paying off.\n\n\"98% of customers are already shopping at M&S, though, so it will be interesting to see how many of these sales will have simply transferred from stores.\"\n\nOcado, which booked a pre-tax loss of £214.5m in 2019, said it expected strong underlying earnings of £40m this year because of continued demand for its services.\n\nBut it added: \"Uncertainties remain over the scale, and duration, of the ongoing impact of social distancing restrictions in the UK.\"\n\nThe firm has said the shift to online shopping during the pandemic could mean a \"permanent redrawing\" of the retail landscape.\n\nIn July boss Tim Steiner said that as a result of Covid-19, \"we have seen years of growth in the online grocery market condensed into a matter of months and we won't be going back\".", "Tiger King's Carole Baskin's debut on Dancing With The Stars was overshadowed by an advert shown in the break.\n\nIt was paid for by the family of the Netflix star's ex-husband Don Lewis, who is missing and presumed dead.\n\nThe family asked viewers to pass on information about his disappearance or Carole Baskin's alleged involvement.\n\nIn the Tiger King series, it was suggested she fed him to tigers at Big Cat Rescue - something she has denied multiple times.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of youtube video by Dancing With The Stars\n\nCarole Baskin was given the opportunity to appear on ABC's Dancing With The Stars after the success of the documentary earlier this year.\n\nIn Monday night's debut she performed a paso doble with pro dancer Pasha Pashkov that opened with him locked in a cage with stuffed tigers.\n\nIt was given 11 by the judges but it was the advert in the commercial break that got the biggest reaction online.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by Law Offices of Phillips & Hunt This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. End of youtube video 2 by Law Offices of Phillips & Hunt\n\nIt featured Don Lewis' three daughters - Gale, Lynda and Donna - plus his former assistant, Anne McQueen.\n\nIn the short film the eldest daughter Donna says: \"We need to know what happened to our father.\"\n\nThe family lawyer John Phillips also speaks and specifically names Carole Baskin.\n\n\"Don Lewis mysteriously disappeared in 1997, his family deserves answers, they deserve justice. Do you know who did this or if Carole Baskin was involved?\" he asks.\n\nThe family then offer a $100,000 (£78,000) reward for information and asked viewers to call a phone line.\n\nDon Lewis went missing 23 years ago. He disappeared a day before a scheduled trip to Costa Rica, and was declared legally dead in 2002.\n\nThe star of Tiger King, Joe Exotic, has repeatedly accused Carole of killing Don Lewis to get his money\n\nHe and Baskin started an animal sanctuary together in Tampa, Florida, which later became Big Cat Rescue Corporation. They were married at the time of his disappearance, but he had filed for a restraining order against her two months earlier.\n\nTheories about what happened to him formed part of the hit Netflix series, including suggestions that Baskin, who received most of his $6m (£4.5m) estate, was responsible for his disappearance.\n\nShe has strongly and repeatedly denied having anything to do with it.\n\n\"The unsavoury lies are better for getting viewers,\" she has said.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I'm a victim but feel like an inconvenience\"\n\nA dentist who was secretly stalked by a former patient has spoken of his shock that he was not told immediately his stalker had been released from custody.\n\nProsecutors said Thomas Baddeley - who was found with a \"murder kit\" - could only be charged with a minor offence because his victim Dr Ian Hutchinson had been unaware he was being stalked.\n\nA scheme for informing victims when an offender is released did therefore not apply, the Ministry of Justice said.\n\nThey said protocols had been followed.\n\nBaddeley, 42, from Bristol, secretly stalked the dentist for more than four years and was jailed for a total of 16 months in August after admitting stalking without fear, harm or intimidation and two counts of possessing offensive weapons.\n\nAn indefinite restraining order was imposed, including a ban on entering parts of Monmouthshire, with Baddeley facing up to five years' imprisonment if he breaches it.\n\nThomas Baddeley is now subject to an indefinite restraining order\n\nEarlier this month Chepstow dentist Dr Hutchinson told BBC Wales he felt \"let down by the law\" that Baddeley could not be charged with a more serious offence despite conducting \"systematic surveillance\" and having a \"murder kit\" of weaponry, bleach and plastic sheeting in his car.\n\nDr Hutchinson had been assured he would be informed when Baddeley was released, which was expected to happen sometime in the coming weeks.\n\nBut following the BBC Wales report he received a call from the probation service to let him know Baddeley had in fact been released straight after sentencing nearly four weeks earlier, due to time served on remand and delays hearing the case.\n\nGwent Police special protection officers are now discussing security measures with Dr Hutchinson - including the option of changing his identity and moving away.\n\nA crossbow was among the weapons found in Thomas Baddeley's car\n\nDr Hutchinson said it had left him feeling angry with the system and as a victim he had been treated as an \"inconvenience\".\n\nHe called for changes to the law to better reflect the risk posed by his stalker.\n\n\"Going equipped to commit a burglary is an offence. But going equipped to murder isn't. And that is just not acceptable,\" he said.\n\nThe victim \"could not have been more let down\", said Victims' Commissioner Dame Vera Baird\n\nThe Victims' Commissioner, Dame Vera Baird, said, \"As a victim this dentist could not have been more let down by the criminal justice system.\n\n\"I think the laws proved quite inadequate - he was clearly going to do serious harm if he had carried through what he wanted to do, and there is no charge that represents that.\"\n\nDame Vera said she was now considering raising this with the attorney general, and Plaid Cymru MP Liz Saville-Roberts has written to the director of public prosecutions to see if this case is indicative of a wider problem.\n\n\"You get no reassurance from any of this,\" added Dame Vera.\n\n\"From the inadequacy of the charge, the weakness of the sentence which follows, and then the absolute failure to tell him that theoretically this man is out, and not far away.\"\n\nStalking can escalate quickly, said Katy Bourne, police and crime commissioners' national lead on stalking\n\nKaty Bourne, the police and crime commissioners' national lead on stalking, was herself a victim of the crime.\n\nShe said victims must be safeguarded throughout the criminal justice process.\n\n\"Often the perpetrator may not actually approach the victim physically, but it's the fear of what they might do that really weighs heavily on the victim's mind,\" she said.\n\n\"I've spoken to victims [who] feel they'll only be taken seriously if something physical happens against them.\"\n\nThe Home Office said they were determined to tackle stalking.\n\n\"We introduced stalking protection orders in January, which protect victims and address the perpetrator's behaviour at the earliest opportunity,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"We've also doubled the maximum sentences for stalking and harassment to 10 years.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It's only the beginning of getting full justice\": Breonna Taylor's mother reacts to the settlement\n\nOfficials in Louisville, Kentucky have agreed to pay $12m (£9.3m) to the family of Breonna Taylor, a black woman who was killed in her home by police.\n\nTaylor was 26 when she was shot at least five times and killed on 13 March during a mistaken drugs raid.\n\nHer name has featured prominently in anti-racism protests in recent months.\n\nLonita Baker, a lawyer for Taylor's family, called the settlement just one \"layer\" in the effort to seek justice, and praised new police reforms.\n\n\"Justice for Breonna is multi-layered,\" said Ms Baker at a press conference on Tuesday alongside Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer.\n\nShe called the agreement \"tremendous, but only a portion\" of what the family hopes for, including the arrest of the officers involved in her death.\n\n\"Today what we did here was to do what we could do to bring a little bit of police reform and it's just a start,\" continued Ms Baker.\n\n\"But we finished the first mile in the marathon and we've got a lot more miles to go to until we achieve and cross that finish line.\"\n\nThe settlement includes a series of police reforms in the city, including a requirement that all search warrants be approved by a senior officer and giving a housing credit to officers who move to low-income neighbourhoods they patrol in the city.\n\nIn a short statement, Taylor's mother Tamika Palmer called for criminal charges against the officers and asked people to continue to say her daughter's name publicly in advocacy for police reforms.\n\nThe settlement is the largest financial sum paid in a police misconduct case in the city's history, according to the Louisville Courier Journal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Questions still aren't answered\": Breonna Taylor's family are worried about a \"cover-up\"\n\nTaylor's killing was propelled into the spotlight once again with the death George Floyd, an African-American man who died after a police officer knelt on his neck for minutes during an arrest in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in May.\n\nShortly after midnight on 13 March, three officers entered Taylor's apartment by executing a no-knock search warrant - a court document that authorises police to enter a home without warning.\n\nTaylor and her partner, Kenneth Walker, were reportedly asleep as the commotion began.\n\nThe officers exchanged fire with Mr Walker, a licensed gun owner who called 911 in the belief that the drug raid was a burglary. The officers - who fired more than 25 bullets - said they returned fire after one officer was shot and wounded.\n\nTaylor, a decorated emergency medical technician, was 26 when she died.\n\nDuring the exchange, Taylor, an emergency medical technician, was shot eight times and later died.\n\nNo drugs were found on the property.\n\nThe lawsuit filed by Taylor's family accuses the officers of battery, wrongful death, excessive force and gross negligence. It also says the officers were not looking for her or her partner, but for an unrelated suspect who did not live in the complex.\n\nHer family has also accused police of leading the raid as a plot to gentrify her neighbourhood. The city's mayor dismissed the allegation as \"outrageous\" and \"without foundation or supporting facts\".\n\nOne of the officers involved in the raid, Brett Hankison, was fired in June. The other two - Jonathan Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove - were placed on administrative leave.\n\nThe city's police chief was also fired in June after a separate police shooting.\n\nA grand jury could soon decide whether criminal charges should be filed against any of the officers.\n\nUntil Freedom, a social justice organisation that has held rallies for Taylor, released a statement saying: \"No amount of money will bring back Breonna Taylor.\"\n\n\"True justice is not served with cash settlements,\" the group added. \"We need those involved in her murder to be arrested and charged. We need accountability. We need justice.\"\n\nEarlier this year, Louisville's city council voted unanimously in favour of banning no-knock warrants. Similar legislation that would ban the warrants nationwide was introduced in the US Congress.", "The Fitness+ service can be viewed on an iPhone, iPad or via an Apple TV set-top box\n\nApple has unveiled a new personalised workout subscription service alongside new smartwatches and tablet computers.\n\nFitness+ collects health data gathered by an Apple Watch and then displays it alongside workout videos shown on a larger display.\n\nThe platform will compete with existing fitness apps on iOS from Peloton, Les Mills and Fiit.\n\nIt also poses a challenge to Fitbit, whose wearables benefit from their own health-coaching subscription service.\n\nAs many had forecast, Apple decided to hold back details of its next iPhones for a separate event.\n\nThe iPhone 12 was not unveiled but may have snuck in an appearance in a shot of Apple's labs\n\nLike some of its rivals, Fitness+ also allows competitive users to see how their own efforts compare with others who have completed the same fitness routine previously.\n\n\"Health-tracking continues to be a major focus for Apple, and its new Fitness+ service signals its intent to generate more revenue from its products in this area,\" commented Leo Gebbie from the consultancy CCS Insight.\n\nFitness+ will initially launch in six countries including the US and UK before the end of 2020.\n\nIt will cost £10 per month or £80 per year as a standalone service, which can be shared among members of the same family.\n\nFitness+ features cycling, dance, treadmill and yoga routines among others\n\nAlternatively, it can be purchased alongside other Apple services - including iCloud storage, Arcade video games and Apple Music - for about £30 per month - as part of the top tier of a bundle of services called Apple One.\n\nOther mixes of services can be subscribed to for lower fees.\n\n\"Support for 10 different workouts with and without equipment, and the fact it is being sold at a family price will make Fitness+ very attractive,\" said Carolina Milanesi from the Silicon Valley-based consultancy Creative Strategies.\n\n\"And I don't think bundling it with the other services is anti-competitive, as you are seeing other services do the same thing - for example Disney's Hulu TV service in the US with Spotify.\"\n\nSpotify, however, has suggested the bundles are another example of Apple abusing its \"dominant position\" and has called on regulators to intervene.\n\nChief executive Tim Cook introduced the virtual event from Apple's headquarters in California\n\nBut one personal trainer said he did not see the new service as competition for one-on-one sessions with an online coach.\n\n\"The real results come from support, accountability and understanding human behaviour, and being able to tailor a fitness regime to an individual so that it is sustainable,\" Sam Wake told the BBC.\n\nApple unveiled two new ranges of smartwatches: the high-end Series 6 Watch and lower-priced Watch SE.\n\nThe Series 6 introduces a blood-oxygen sensor to help manage conditions that affect the heart and lungs.\n\nIt measures SpO2 levels, which indicate how much oxygen is being carried by the user's red blood cells from the lungs to other parts of their body.\n\nApple suggested this could potentially act as means to detect the early onset of respiratory problems, although its small print says the feature is \"not intended for medical use\".\n\nSamsung, Huawei and Fitbit already sell smartwatches that provide the same facility. However, their ability to offer it has depended on the approval of local health regulators.\n\nApple has published a list of where it will offer the feature, confirming it includes the UK and most other countries.\n\nThe SE model lacks the new sensor, uses a slower processor and does not have an \"always-on\" display, but otherwise offers most of the features found in the more expensive model.\n\nThe new smartwatches can be customised with a cartoon-like character resembling the owner\n\nThese include sleep-tracking and a new facility targeted at children called Family Set-up. It can be set to trigger automatic location notifications to a child's parents when the wearer visits familiar places like their grandparents or school.\n\nIt also makes it possible to assign a unique phone number to a Watch, rather than using one that already belongs to an iPhone.\n\n\"A logical use would be for a parent to give a child a cellular-enabled Apple Watch so they can remain in contact,\" commented Mr Gebbie.\n\n\"We expect to see hand-me-down Watches used in this scenario, rather than a device bought specifically for this purpose.\"\n\nThe Series 6 range starts at £379 and SE at £269.\n\nApple's new iPad Air is the first product from the firm to be based on a new chip-manufacturing process that promises more processing power and better energy efficiency thanks to the fact that transistors can be packed together more densely than before.\n\nApple typically launches its new chips inside its iPhone before its iPads, but this year the release of its new handsets have been delayed by the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe company suggested the A14 processor would make it easier to edit 4K videos and do motion-tracking of real-world objects for augmented reality apps.\n\nThe machine has a fingerprint sensor built into one of its side buttons to reduce the size of the bezels, and also introduces a USB-C port, which until now had been limited to the more costly iPad Pro range.\n\nThe new iPad Air also has a slightly larger screen than before - 10.9in (27.7cm) - but it costs £100 more, starting at £579.\n\nThe firm also unveiled a new lower-priced basic iPad that uses the older A12 chip. It starts at £329, which is £20 less than before.\n\nDemand for tablets across the wider tech industry has risen since the start of the coronavirus pandemic as consumers increasingly used them for entertainment, home schooling and remote working.\n\nShipments in the April-to-July quarter were up 19% on the same period in 2019, according to research firm IDC, with Samsung, Amazon and Huawei among those making even bigger gains.\n\nAccording to IDC's figures, Apple's iPads remain the market leader, but only saw a 2% annual gain.\n\n\"Apple kept its volume but its rivals made strides via the opportunistic sale of cheaper devices,\" commented IDC's Marta Pinto.\n\nApple also announced that iOS 14 - the latest version of its mobile operating system - would be released on Wednesday,\n\nThis came as a surprise to many developers, who thought they had more time to submit corresponding new versions of their products to Apple's App Store.", "Junior civil servants asked to work on Brexit policy that they fear might break the law, have been advised to inform their managers, BBC Newsnight has learned.\n\nThe email advice - from senior civil servants in a major government department - sets out what staff should do if they are asked to work on a policy which might be \"inappropriate\".\n\nIt follows the publication of the Internal Market Bill, which ministers accept contains provisions which would break international law as agreed between the UK and EU,\n\nOne departmental e-mail is explicit that it is being sent following \"the government's announcement that it would break international law\"- the e-mail advises officials that if they should feel uncomfortable about what they are being asked to do, they must raise it with their superiors.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis last week confirmed to the House of Commons that should the full provisions of the bill be enacted, it would break the commitments the government made as part of the treaty it signed with the EU and therefore, would run counter to international law \"in a very specific and limited way\".\n\nHowever, civil servants' conduct is governed by the civil service code, which makes clear that civil servants must \"comply with the law and uphold the administration of justice\".\n\nThis has led to some disquiet within elements of the service that they may be asked to enact policies which run counter to their own code of behaviour.\n\nThe emails seen by Newsnight encourage staff to reacquaint themselves with the code and says that if they are concerned they are \"being asked to do something inappropriate by a fellow civil servant or a minister you should raise it with your line manager immediately\".\n\nIt is a very unusual move for senior civil servants to advise their colleagues to potentially refuse ministerial instruction.\n\nIt potentially raises the prospect of renewed tension between ministers and the service as the Brexit process continues.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nFrank Lampard says his expensively reshaped Chelsea side \"have to have intentions to be up there\" with champions Liverpool after they began their campaign with victory at Brighton.\n\nChelsea finished 33 points adrift of the Reds last season and lost both league fixtures against them but have spent around £200m this summer.\n\nTimo Werner - signed from RB Leipzig - and his Germany team-mate Kai Havertz - brought in from Bayer Leverkusen - made their debuts for a side forced to work hard for their win in Monday's game at Brighton.\n\nWerner was pacy and prominent in the victory, winning a 23rd-minute penalty when he was hauled down by Brighton keeper Mat Ryan, Jorginho scoring the resulting spot-kick.\n\nThe new signing had ice strapped to his leg at full-time following the collision to win the penalty but said he would be fit to face Liverpool in Sunday's game at Stamford Bridge.\n\nBrighton lost summer signing Adam Lallana to injury before the break but were back on level terms after 54 minutes when Leandro Trossard's 20-yard shot squirmed past Chelsea keeper Kepa Arrizabalaga.\n\nChelsea regained their lead two minutes later when Reece James ripped a 25-yard right-foot shot high past Ryan.\n\nBrighton should have equalised when Lewis Dunk somehow headed wide at the far post, paying the price for the miss when Kurt Zouma's shot was deflected past Ryan by Adam Webster.\n\n\"We definitely want to close that gap to Liverpool - we have to have intentions to be up there even though it is a big ask to win [the title],\" said Lampard, who has also signed midfielder Hakim Ziyech and defenders Xavier Mbuyamba, Malang Sarr, Ben Chilwell and Thiago Silva this summer.\n\n\"We are behind, it's step by step. Hopefully we can make big strides.\"\n• None How you rated the players\n\nRusty Chelsea will take the points\n\nLampard will be delighted to leave Brighton win three points after what was a mixed performance, perhaps understandable for the first Premier League outing of the season.\n\nLampard got what he wanted, apart from a debut goal, from Werner as he was a constant menace, always on the move and looking to use his speed to get behind the Brighton defence. He had no trouble adjusting to the tempo of the Premier League and there seems little doubt goals will come.\n\nHavertz was a more low-key presence on the right side of midfield in front of James but he worked hard in his 79 minutes and drew warm applause from Lampard for one lengthy recovery run back into his own penalty area to clear danger.\n\nChelsea were without injured left-back Chilwell, signed for £50m from Leicester City, and Silva as he has only just joined training and Lampard will be keen to get that influential duo into a defence that still looks vulnerable.\n\nTariq Lamptey's crosses caused trouble all night and Chelsea were grateful for that headed miss by Dunk at the far post when it looked easier to score.\n\nAnd once again there were questions over keeper Kepa, who got close to Trossard's shot but allowed it to creep in.\n\nIt seems his time is running out as Chelsea's first-choice goalkeeper, with the £20m signing of Rennes' Edouard Mendy apparently imminent.\n\nBrighton can take some satisfaction through the pain of a defeat that will leave manager Graham Potter bitterly frustrated.\n\nThe Seagulls acquitted themselves very well and had the game's outstanding performer in former Chelsea right-back Lamptey, who was industrious and creative in a top-class display.\n\nAnd the momentum appeared to be with Brighton when Trossard scored a deserved equaliser - only for them to concede a second within two minutes from James' thunderous finish.\n\nBrighton then wasted the best chance of the game when Dunk headed wide and were unable to recover as Chelsea re-established a two-goal lead.\n\nThis was, however, a very respectable performance. On the down side, Potter is facing the issue he must have feared when he signed Lallana from Liverpool.\n\nLallana is a great asset when fit - but therein lies the problem. He did not last the first half and has now failed to play 90 minutes in the Premier League since he faced Middlesbrough for Liverpool in May 2017.\n\n'We'll get better and better' - what they said\n\nBrighton manager Graham Potter to BBC Sport: \"The performance was good in many aspects; we more than matched Chelsea for long periods. I'm disappointed with the opening goal, but errors can happen. We were heavily punished with a wonder strike - and ultimately, if you concede three times it's hard to win football matches.\n\n\"You have moments against the big teams that you need to have go your way and we need to learn from that. But there are positives. Adam Lallana was enjoying the game, he brings that personality, we are pleased with what he has brought to us and we just have to help him get on the field more often.\"\n\nChelsea manager Frank Lampard to BBC Sport: \"To come to Brighton and win is a tough ask. We've only had a few days, so I didn't expect the kind of football we want to play. We had to do some of the more difficult things - resilience, throwing yourself in front of the ball, so I'm pleased.\n\n\"We've had a lot of quarantines, a lot of players who aren't match fit. That's how this season has started. There's a lot of strain on these players and hopefully we'll get better and better.\"\n\n2,000 points - the best of the stats\n• None This victory earned Chelsea their 2,000th point in the Premier League (1,077 games), making them the third side to reach that total since the competition began in 1992, after Manchester United (2,234) and Arsenal (2,014).\n• None Brighton have won just one of their 10 home Premier League games in 2020 (D4 L5), the fewest of any side to have played two or more home matches in the competition this calendar year.\n• None Since the start of last season, Chelsea's 20 away Premier League games have produced 81 goals (42 for, 39 against), at least 14 more than any other side on their travels.\n• None Chelsea have scored each of their past 16 penalties in the Premier League, since Eden Hazard missed from the spot against Manchester City in April 2017.\n• None Jorginho has scored all eight of the penalties he has taken for Chelsea in all competitions (excluding shootouts), including five in the Premier League.\n• None Since he joined Chelsea in 2018, Kepa Arrizabalaga has conceded more Premier League goals from outside the box (19) than any other goalkeeper. Indeed, excluding blocked shots, Kepa has conceded nine of the past 13 overall shots on target he has faced in the Premier League.\n• None Leandro Trossard has scored three goals in his past six Premier League games for Brighton, as many as he netted in his first 26 appearances in the competition before this.\n• None Kurt Zouma scored what was only his second Premier League goal for Chelsea (72nd appearance), and his first since September 2015 against Arsenal.\n\nBrighton host Portsmouth in the Carabao Cup on Thursday, 17 September (19:45 BST) and return to Premier League action at Newcastle on Sunday, 20 September (14:00).\n\nMeanwhile, Chelsea host champions Liverpool at Stamford Bridge on Sunday, 20 September (16:30) in the Premier League.\n• None Attempt saved. Ross Barkley (Chelsea) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Timo Werner.\n• None Adam Webster (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Lewis Dunk (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Adam Webster (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Substitution, Chelsea. César Azpilicueta replaces Jorginho because of an injury.\n• None Tariq Lamptey (Brighton and Hove Albion) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Aaron Connolly (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Nine interesting facts about the famous chef", "Sexual and violent offenders will serve at least two-thirds of jail terms, rather than half, as part of changes to the criminal justice system in England and Wales.\n\nAn overhaul of sentencing laws has been announced by the Justice Secretary Robert Buckland.\n\nWhole-life orders will also be extended to 18 to 20-year-olds convicted of terrorism causing mass loss of life.\n\nMr Buckland said it marked the end of \"complex and confusing\" laws.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons, Mr Buckland said the measures would \"keep offenders who pose a risk to the public off our streets for longer\".\n\nHe said they would \"help restore public confidence that robust sentences are executed in a way that better reflects the gravity of the crimes committed\".\n\nMr Buckland also said protecting the public meant \"finding new ways to break cycles of crime, to prevent a revolving door of short custodial sentences that we know offer little rehabilitative value\".\n\nMore help is being promised for those with mental health issues, addictions and neurodiverse conditions such as autism.\n\nIt comes after the criminal justice system ground to a halt during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThere are steep backlogs and delays for victims and defendants, who are facing trial dates years ahead.\n\nAmong the new interventions proposed in a White Paper published on Wednesday are:\n\nAnd offenders sentenced to between four and seven years in prison for serious crimes such as rape and manslaughter will no longer be automatically considered for release halfway through their jail terms.\n\nHowever, one charity boss warned that \"increasing the prison population through longer sentences will only add more pressure to this already stretched system\".\n\nCampbell Robb, chief executive of social justice charity Nacro, said the UK needed a system that \"gives victims justice, reduces re-offending and creates a safer UK for everyone - senselessly banging people up for longer will not deliver this.\"\n\nWhile tougher sentences are among the measures proposed, changes to criminal records to reduce the time offenders have to declare past crimes to employers are also included.\n\nA focus on supporting ex-offenders will see custodial sentences become \"spent\" after 12 months without reoffending, with convictions of up to four years no longer disclosed after a further four crime-free years.\n\nSentences of more than four years will not automatically be disclosed to employers after a further seven-year period of rehabilitation is completed.\n\nLabour's shadow justice secretary David Lammy welcomed the changes but sought assurance that new sentencing rules would not be applied \"gratuitously\".\n\n\"It would be wrong to abandon the general presumption in criminal law that when you're younger there is more opportunity for redemption and to turn your life around,\" he said.\n\nFor the past few days, the government has been trailing its White Paper with a series of eye-catching announcements promising tougher sentences for terrorists, violent offenders and motorists who kill.\n\nMany of the plans are likely to command broad public support while measures to relax criminal records disclosure rules have the potential to make a real difference to ex-offenders struggling to find work.\n\nBut the timing of the proposals is somewhat odd, as the government grapples with the biggest crisis the criminal justice system has faced in decades.\n\nProblems caused by the coronavirus have meant that a huge backlog of trials across England and Wales has got even bigger.\n\nThe sentencing changes, if they go ahead, won't help the tens of thousands of victims, witnesses and defendants caught up in the backlog who now face the prospect of waiting up to two years for their day in court.\n\nThe announcement of reforms to sentencing comes after lawyers warned hundreds of thousands of people may have to wait until 2022 for justice, due to delays in the Crown Courts.\n\nSince lockdown began in March, the backlog of Crown Court cases has risen by 6,000 to 43,000.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice has pledged an extra 1,600 court staff and £80m towards a range of measures, including more Nightingale courts.\n\nAnd Mr Buckland has told the BBC he would \"use every tool in the book\" to clear the case backlog.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Today programme, he said the situation in Magistrates' Courts was \"encouraging - with the number of cases being dealt with exceeding the number coming into the system\".\n\nAnd he said the Crown Courts had been \"unique\" compared to other countries, as it \"kept going\" throughout the pandemic.\n\nBut, he added: \"I am bearing down daily on my team in the Courts and Tribunals Service to make sure that they have got the resources they need to make the buildings safe and that judges and listing officers are doing everything they can to get those cases listed so we can achieve swift justice.\"\n\nMeanwhile detection rates for crimes remain low, having fallen from one-in-seven crime reports leading to a charge in 2015 to around one-in-14 last year.", "As China celebrates 30 days without any domestic cases of Covid-19, China’s top health body says it is now going to roll out counselling to people who have recovered from Covid-19.\n\nAccording to the official China Daily, social workers, volunteers and therapists will be made available to former patients , to help understand any physical, mental or financial help they might need.\n\nTheir data will be held on local medical databases, under a system that “emphasises the importance of protecting their privacy”.\n\nLocal health centres will also offer mental health assessments “based on informed consent and voluntary participation”.\n\nIn China, more than 80,000 people have recovered from Covid-19 since the beginning of the year. Mental health hotlines have been open since as early as January .\n\nBut mental health is a major concern in China. The official Xinhua news agency estimated last year that one in 10 Chinese people had mental health problems . That is 140 million people.\n\nPeople on Chinese social media have spoken often in recent months about how they have struggled as a result of strict lockdown procedures, working/studying at home, and finding work.\n\nThe government is particularly concerned that those who have recovered have experienced work and social stigma. However, it has urged people to be transparent if they have any ailments rather than hide their symptoms and risk the event of another localised outbreak.", "All the adults in the Coombes family from Liverpool have lost jobs due to coronavirus. They explain what it's like looking for work together.", "British perfume brand Jo Malone London has issued an apology to John Boyega for dropping an ad he made for them and replacing him with a Chinese actor.\n\nThe firm reshot the personal video the Star Wars actor made, in his home town of London, for the Chinese market.", "The Dáil (Irish parliament) was initially adjourned but it resumed business on Tuesday evening\n\nIrish Health Minister Stephen Donnelly has tested negative for Covid-19 after reporting feeling unwell.\n\nMembers of the Irish cabinet were told to restrict their movements after the country's health minister made the report on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nInitially it was announced that the cabinet would have to self-isolate and the Dáil (Irish parliament) would be adjourned indefinitely.\n\nHowever, the Dáil resumed business on Tuesday evening.\n\nThe restrictions on the cabinet have now been lifted.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish prime minister) Micheál Martin told Irish broadcaster RTÉ that the decision for the cabinet to restrict their movements came from \"an abundance of caution\".\n\nMinister for Climate Action, Communication Networks and Transport, Eamon Ryan, had already been isolating, as a member of his household awaits a test for Covid-19.\n\nOn Tuesday, three more deaths were reported in the Republic and 357 cases of the virus have been confirmed.\n\nEarlier, the Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Feargháil (Irish parliament speaker) told the Dáil shortly after 17:00 local time that after \"very serious information arising out of events today the Cabinet must now self-isolate\".\n\nHowever, the Dáil later reconvened after 20:00 - the Ceann Comhairle explained that he had been advised at the time that the parliament should be adjourned and then recalled by the taoiseach.\n\nMr Donnelly was present at a press conference on Tuesday morning when the Irish government unveiled a five-stage plan on living with Covid-19.\n\nThe plan outlined stricter rules for Dublin over the next few weeks because of the increase in infections in the city.\n\nPubs that do not serve food can reopen on 21 September, except in Dublin where they must stay closed\n\nFrom midnight on Tuesday, household visits in the city will be limited to six people from one other household.\n\nElsewhere, the limit will remain at six visitors from up to three households.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Micheál Martin said it is designed to provide a roadmap on how to live with Covid-19 for the next six months.\n\nHe said level five is the most restrictive and similar to what happened during the lockdown in March.\n\nHe said the country is currently at level two but because of the situation Dublin there were special modifications for the capital.\n\nHealth Minister Stephen Donnelly (right) was present at a press conference for a new Covid-19 plan on Tuesday morning\n\nTánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar told the news conference that virus cases have increased tenfold in Dublin over the last two months.\n\nMr Martin also told the news conference that Ireland would sign up for the European Commission's travel plan.\n\nThat plan has yet to be unveiled but is known to include countries on green, amber and red lists.\n\nHe indicated that crowds of 200 people will be allowed attend sporting events where the capacity of a stadium is 5,000.", "One court case awarded home carers in London more than £100,000\n\nThe government should guarantee that care workers are paid fairly, the UK's largest union has demanded.\n\nUnison's statement comes on the heels of a legal victory it helped win for homecare workers in north London.\n\nGeneral secretary Dave Prentis said: \"It's time the skills and experience of care staff were respected instead of them being underpaid and undervalued.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said it was \"clear\" that care workers must be paid at least the national minimum wage.\n\nCompanies contracted by Haringey Council were found to have breached wage rules after some carers were paid less than £4 per hour.\n\nA court awarded the carers more than £100,000 in backdated earnings following an employment tribunal ruling.\n\nCare service companies, Kaamil Education Limited, Diligent Care Services Limited and Premier Carewaiting Limited say they inherited the case when they took over the work contract from care provider, Sevacare.\n\nThe court found that when the employees were working with Sevacare, they should have been paid for travel time spent moving between patient visits during their working day.\n\nThe firms who took over the contracts were ordered to pay the claimants.\n\nWhen travel time was not paid, some carers worked up to 14 hours a day, but the average hourly pay recorded on their payslips was well below the legal minimum hourly rate.\n\nThe 10 claimants will receive an average settlement of £10,000 each, after a four-year legal battle.\n\nThe judgement said that travelling and waiting time of up to an hour between appointments should be compensated as working time.\n\nMr Prentis said: \"This is a major victory for these dedicated workers who dared take on their employers.\n\n\"These are the very same care staff who were applauded during the lockdown. They shouldn't have to work in a system that breeds such awful treatment,\" he added.\n\nJess (not her real name) also heralded the victory as \"great news and a big win\".\n\nShe still works for one of the firms and told the BBC that the outcome offered every key worker a voice. She hopes that the precedent set by the union's case would help others like her.\n\nHowever, she says that she still struggles on low wages.\n\n\"They were all clapping for us, but now it's all gone back to normal. And I think that is very bad. We work so hard,\" she says.\n\n\"It is difficult to make ends meet\", Jess adds. Any unexpected expenses push her over the edge and it takes longer to recover financially.\n\nTogether with others who were fighting the court case, she had gone to Parliament to testify about their working conditions and was told she was doing a \"fantastic job\".\n\nJess says that politicians \"only tell you what you want to hear\".\n\nShe adds: \"I've been here for ten years and it's not easy.\"\n\nA Local Government Association spokesperson told the BBC: \"We will consider this ruling carefully to assess any implications for local authorities\".\n\nThey added: \"Before the pandemic, adult social care services faced a funding gap of almost £4bn by 2025.\n\n\"Social care needs parity of esteem with the NHS, backed up by a genuine, long-term and sustainable funding settlement, which councils have been calling for long before the current crisis.\"\n\nMore than one million people work in social care and the majority, 83% are female, according to figures from the Resolution Foundation.\n\nA study the think tank did in April 2020 found that more than half of workers are paid less than the voluntary living wage and were five times more likely to be on a zero-hours contract.\n\nThe overwhelming majority of those working in social care are female, according to a think tank\n\nJess will remain in her job, but hopes things will change.\n\n\"Some of us, we can do more than key worker work, but we are doing it for a purpose. To give back. Some of my patients were key workers themselves.\"\n\nShe says it is time for the government to show care workers their support.\n\n\"Pay us some proper wages, so that we can feed our kids and pay our bills,\" says Jess.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"We are very clear that social care workers must be paid at least the national minimum wage, with those over 25 earning at least the national living wage, and they should be paid for the time spent caring for clients, travelling to appointments and waiting for them to start.\n\n\"We know there is a need for a long-term solution for social care and are looking at a range of proposals as part of our commitment to bringing forward a plan that puts the sector on a sustainable footing for the future.\"", "The Ukrainian and Israeli governments had called on Hasidic Jews not to travel to Uman this year\n\nHundreds of Hasidic Jews have been stranded at the border between Ukraine and Belarus as coronavirus restrictions impede an annual pilgrimage.\n\nThe pilgrims were travelling to the central Ukrainian town of Uman to visit the tomb of Rabbi Nahman, the founder of the Breslov Hasidic movement.\n\nEvery year thousands make the journey to mark the Jewish New Year, which in 2020 runs from 18 to 20 September.\n\nHowever, Ukraine has closed its borders to limit the spread of coronavirus.\n\nAs the pilgrims - many of them from Israel - attempted to enter Ukraine this week, they were stopped by border guards.\n\nThey began their journey despite appeals from both the Ukrainian and Israeli governments asking them not to travel to Uman this year, fearing a spike in coronavirus infections.\n\nUkrainian authorities said the Hasidic Jews were not exempt from the travel ban\n\nUkraine has restricted entry to foreigners from 28 August to 28 September to curb the spread of coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile, Israel has imposed a new national lockdown, with tough restrictions coming into effect on the first day of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.\n\nDespite this, Ukrainian authorities said hundreds more pilgrims were expected to seek entry to the country in the coming days.\n\nOn Tuesday, estimates varied as to how many were already at Ukraine's borders.\n\nTraffic had to be stopped at the border on Monday night\n\nBelarusian and Ukrainian authorities put the number at about 700, but the Times of Israel reported that there were at least 1,000 pilgrims trapped at the border.\n\nPictures from the border show dozens of Hasidic Jews wearing traditional dress and carrying luggage as they wandered along a road thronged by lorries.\n\nOn Monday night Ukrainian guards said they had to stop traffic on the crossing at Novi Yarylovychi, because the pilgrims were in the way.\n\nSome pilgrims had set up makeshift tents, while others slept on their luggage in front of the lorries.\n\n\"I spent the night on the bus, but most of them spent the night right on the road, some gathered branches in the forest and lit fires,\" one pilgrim told Reuters news agency. \"We have no food or water.\"\n\nThe Red Cross Society of Belarus said the pilgrims did not have \"enough resources to ensure their basic needs\" and assistance was being provided.\n\nBelarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has told officials to provide assistance to the pilgrims, accusing Ukraine of \"shutting its borders\" and leaving hundreds of people in neutral territory.\n\nUkraine's government has insisted it will not waive the travel restrictions.\n\n\"I don't know who promised to whom the passage of 3,000 citizens,\" the head of Ukraine's border service Serhiy Deyneko told pilgrims at the border. \"You were deceived.\"\n\nUkraine's border service head Serhiy Deyneko (R) spoke to pilgrims at the border\n\nOn Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky discussed the situation with Mr Deyneko, his office said. Ukraine had full control of the situation, it added.\n\nThe Belarusian border service said it was helping pilgrims return to Belarus, according to state news agency Belta.\n\nIn the meantime, many pilgrims remain camped out at the border, in the hope Ukrainian authorities will allow them to enter the country before Jewish New Year, Belta reported.", "Kim Kardashian West and dozens of other celebrities have announced they will freeze their social media accounts to protest against the spread of \"hate, propaganda and misinformation\".\n\n\"Misinformation shared on social media has a serious impact,\" Kardashian West wrote in a statement on Tuesday.\n\nThe move is part of the #StopHateforProfit campaign which was organised by civil rights activists.\n\nThe celebrities will freeze their accounts for 24 hours on Wednesday.\n\n\"I can't sit by and stay silent while these platforms continue to allow the spreading of hate, propaganda and misinformation - created by groups to sow division and split America apart,\" Kardashian West said.\n\n\"Misinformation shared on social media has a serious impact on our elections and undermines our democracy,\" she added.\n\nOther celebrities that have agreed to take part in the boycott include actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Sacha Baron Cohen and Jennifer Lawrence, as well as singer Katy Perry.\n\n\"I can't sit idly by while these platforms turn a blind eye to groups and posts spreading hateful disinformation,\" Perry wrote on Instagram.\n\nActor Ashton Kutcher, who has millions of followers and is also joining the boycott, said \"these tools were not built to spread hate [and] violence\".\n\nKaty Perry and Orlando Bloom have also joined the boycott\n\nThe organisers of the #StopHateforProfit campaign, which was launched in June, accuse Facebook and Instagram of not doing enough to stop hate speech and disinformation.\n\nThe group has focused on Facebook, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp and last year attracted advertising revenue of almost $70bn (£56.7bn).\n\nThousands of businesses and major civil rights groups - including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Anti-Defamation League (AD) - have signed up to the campaign.\n\n\"We are quickly approaching one of the most consequential elections in American history,\" the group said in a statement. \"Facebook's unchecked and vague 'changes' are falling dangerously short of what is necessary to protect our democracy.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Zuckerberg told the BBC's Simon Jack that Facebook would 'take down' coronavirus misinformation\n\nIn June, Facebook said it would label potentially harmful or misleading posts left up for their news value.\n\nFounder Mark Zuckerberg also said the social media company would ban advertising containing claims \"that people of a specific race, ethnicity, national origin, religious affiliation, caste, sexual orientation, gender identity or immigration status\" are a threat to others.\n\n\"The 2020 elections were already shaping up to be heated,\" he wrote in a statement. \"During this moment, Facebook will take extra precautions to help everyone stay safe [and] stay informed.\"\n\nBut the #StopHateforProfit campaign called for more to be done, and more than 90 companies subsequently paused advertising in support of its efforts.\n\nAs a result of the boycott, shares in Facebook fell dramatically and US media reported that $7.2bn had been knocked off Mr Zuckerberg's personal net worth.\n\nRegulators and policy-makers around the world are concerned about the growth of hate speech, not just on Facebook but on all social media platforms, with many countries launching enquiries into how the tech firms are dealing with the issue.", "The UK government should consider a targeted extension of its furlough scheme, MPs have said.\n\nThe coronavirus crisis risks mass long-term unemployment and viable firms could go under without support, the Treasury Select Committee has warned.\n\nHowever, a blanket retention of the scheme would not be good value for money, it added.\n\nThe Treasury said it would \"continue to innovate in supporting incomes and employment.\"\n\nThe Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme is due to end on 31 October. Under it, workers placed on leave have received 80% of their pay up to a maximum of £2,500 a month.\n\nAt first, this was all paid for by the government. But firms had to start making a contribution to wages in September as the scheme began to wind down.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has previously said that extending furlough past October would only keep people \"in suspended animation\".\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak also ruled out an extension, instead saying that firms will be given £1,000 for every furloughed worker still in employment at the end of January.\n\nBut the committee's chairman, Mel Stride, said the chancellor \"should carefully consider targeted extensions\" to the scheme.\n\n\"The key will be assisting those businesses who, with additional support, can come through the crisis as sustainable enterprises, rather than focusing on those that will unfortunately just not be viable in the changed post-crisis economy.\"\n\nIn the second report of its inquiry into the economic impact of Covid-19, the committee also warned that the pandemic risked widening the gender pay gap due to the differences in hours of paid work in lockdown - especially if work patterns are changed permanently.\n\nThe MPs also said people should be able to reskill, and that small businesses should be able to fully participate in the government's Kickstart Scheme, which aims to create work placements for young people on universal credit.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) trade body said with the furlough scheme winding down, \"policymakers will need to look closely at measures to stem mass unemployment, including a successor scheme.\"\n\nFSB national chairman Mike Cherry said: \"The priority should be protecting viable small businesses - and all the jobs they provide - that have been disproportionately [hit] by the coronavirus crisis, including those caught by local lockdowns, subject to continued national restrictions, or with staff that have directly suffered because of Covid.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Julie changed jobs before lockdown - then became unemployed and ineligible for the furlough scheme\n\nThe Resolution Foundation, which campaigns on living standards, said that \"extending support for the hardest-hit sectors of the economy will be essential to limit the rise in unemployment Britain faces in the months ahead.\"\n\nTorsten Bell, the think tank's chief executive, said: \"This authoritative account of the economic impact of coronavirus should be required reading for Treasury officials planning the Autumn Budget against the highly uncertain backdrop of rising coronavirus case numbers.\n\n\"The chancellor will need to reconsider his plans to swiftly phase out support given the painful reality that the economic crisis is here to stay.\"\n\nThis week leading business groups warned that the UK risks a second wave of job cuts and a slower economic recovery if it does not extend its furlough scheme.\n\nGermany, Belgium, Australia and France have all decided to extend or launch new wage support schemes into next year.\n\nFormer Labour prime minister Gordon Brown told the BBC that the UK should emulate other countries' short-term working schemes.\n\nMr Brown said the end of the furlough scheme on 31 October was a \"cliff-edge\" that could trigger \"a tsunami of unemployment\".\n\n\"The government's got to change course here,\" he told the Today programme.\n\nShort-term working schemes would allow firms to reduce employees' working hours while keeping them in jobs, with the state topping up their salaries.\n\n\"You have got to send a signal that unemployment matters,\" he said. \"We don't want to destroy any more capacity and skills in the economy.\"\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said that by the time the UK scheme closes it will have helped to pay for 9.6 million jobs.\n\n\"We will continue to innovate in supporting incomes and employment,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"We're helping employees get back to work, where they want to be, through a £1,000 retention bonus.\n\n\"And we are creating new roles for young people with our Kickstart Scheme, creating incentives for training and apprenticeships, and supporting and protecting jobs in the tourism and hospitality sectors through our VAT cut and last month's Eat Out to Help Out scheme.\"\n\nThe UK's unemployment rate has been at 3.9% since the lockdown was introduced.\n\nBut the Bank of England expects that rate to double to 7.5% by the end of the year when the government-funded support schemes come to an end.\n\nThousands of job cuts have already been announced by firm such as Rolls-Royce, Costa Coffee, Pret A Manger, Pizza Express, British Airways and BP.", "The baby was taken to hospital but died a short time later, police said\n\nTwo people have been arrested after a 12-day-old baby died after being attacked by a dog in Doncaster.\n\nEmergency services were called to Welfare Road, Woodlands, at about 15:30 on Sunday after reports of a dog attacking a child, police said.\n\nThe baby had been bitten by a dog causing serious injuries, South Yorkshire Police added.\n\nA 35-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman have been arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter.\n\nThey have both been bailed while inquiries take place, the force said.\n\nThe newborn was taken to hospital but died a short time later.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Blowing a ram's horn is a key feature of Rosh Hashanah - but extra care must be taken this year\n\nThe government has issued highly detailed dos and don'ts for the UK Jewish community as it celebrates its most important festivals of the year.\n\nRosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot normally involve packed synagogues and large family gatherings.\n\nThis year, synagogues will have to ensure social distancing and avoid communal prayer shawls and books.\n\nThe person blowing the shofar (ram's horn) for Rosh Hashanah should keep 2m from other worshippers.\n\nBeginning on Friday, the three-week period known as the Days of Awe is the central feature of the Jewish religious year, but many of its traditions will be impossible this year.\n\nA long checklist makes clear that synagogues can be used as long as Covid secure measures are in place.\n\nBut communal prayer books and prayer shawls, normally strewn around the synagogue, must be removed with worshippers told to bring their own prayer books.\n\nMicrophones should be used where possible, though these would normally be unacceptable in orthodox synagogues.\n\nMask-wearing is advised, and people should not mix in groups of more than six in line with the new limits on social gatherings.\n\nThe guidance acknowledges that the \"rule of six\" will have a particular impact on the tradition of hospitality around Sukkot - the Feast of Tabernacles, which marks the end of harvest and commemorates the Exodus from Egypt.\n\nRunning from 2 October to 9 October this year, the festival normally involves constructing \"sukkah\" the little shelter many Jews build in their gardens to eat in during the eight-day Succot festival.\n\nNormally guests would be invited and crammed inside, but now the limit is six people - unless the social bubble is bigger than that.\n\nSharing food or cutlery is out, as are social gatherings in a communal sukkah and \"sukkah crawls\" across the community.\n\nA central feature of Rosh Hashanah - the Jewish New Year - is the blowing of the shofar, a musical instrument made from a ram's horn that may present a risk for a virus spread through droplets.\n\nTo reduce the risk, the guidance says the shofar blower must be at least 2m from anyone else, and it should not be blown towards anyone.\n\nThere is also detailed guidance for a ceremony known as Tashlich, where on Rosh Hashanah worshippers go to a body of moving water like a river and figuratively throw away their sins.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Losing a ‘beacon of light’ of the UK’s ultra-Orthodox community to coronavirus\n\nAs well as the rule of six and social distancing, the guidance says items used during the ceremony should not be shared, such as prayer books or the breadcrumbs that some worshippers cast on the water.\n\nMeanwhile, the Prince of Wales has been appointed patron of a Jewish youth organisation as it celebrates in 125th year.\n\nNeil Martin, chief executive of the JLGB (Jewish Lads' and Girls' Brigade), said it is an \"absolute honour\" and praised the prince as \"a tremendous believer in the power of young people\".", "Two women affected by the state pension age being changed from 60 to 66 for women have lost their appeal against a High Court ruling.\n\nCampaigners claim women born in the 1950s have been treated unfairly by rapid changes to their pension age, due to reach 66 later this year.\n\nThey say introducing the same state pension age for men and women did not amount to unlawful discrimination.\n\nThe government welcomed the ruling, saying the changes were a \"long-overdue move towards gender equality\".\n\nJulie Delve, 62, and Karen Glynn, 63, backed by campaign group BackTo60, were challenging the pension age changes after losing a High Court fight against the Department for Work and Pensions last year.\n\nThe campaign groups associated with the court case represent almost four million women who were affected by the government decision to increase the state pension age from 60 to 66.\n\nMany on lower incomes say they are facing financial hardship as a result.\n\nCampaigners, however, say their fight is not over.\n\nJoanne Welch, founder and director of BackTo60, told the BBC she would now consider taking the case to the Supreme Court and would also draft legislation to bring a women's Bill of Rights.\n\nUnison, the UK's largest trade union, said raising the state pension age with \"next to no notice\" has had a calamitous effect on the retirement plans of a generation of women.\n\nIt called on MPs to intervene to help those women who were now struggling to make ends meet.\n\nPamela Satchwell had to carry on working post 60 after the pension age rules changed.\n\nShe did 16 hours a week as a carer for disabled children and people with ADHD.\n\nBut without a pension contribution to support her earnings, it was not enough. Pam's husband then died.\n\nShe subsequently lost her house because she could not afford her mortgage alone and she had to sell all of the jewellery her husband had given her.\n\nNow that she is 67, she is finally receiving her pension and she manages better financially.\n\n\"But it's too late now. I lost my home, I have none of the trinkets my husband gave me. I lost the life I had and I am never going to get it back,\" says Pam.\n\nAs for the women involved in the court case, Pam wishes people understood it is not so easy for that those who found out they could not retire.\n\n\"You can not just run out and find a job when you are in your 60s. Employers don't want people that age, \" she says.\n\nJulie Delve and Karen Glynn were in court last June when they told a judicial review that when they had not received their state pension at the age of 60, their lives had been affected disproportionately.\n\nThey argued the way the government had introduced the increase of the pension age was discriminatory. Some women thought they would retire at 60 but found they had to wait up to more than five years, leading to financial hardship.\n\nCampaigners say the workplace was less equal for many of this generation who were taking time out of their careers to raise children, were paid less than men and could not save as much in occupational pensions, so the change has hit them harder.\n\nThe senior justices said: \"Despite the sympathy that we, like the members of the Divisional Court [High Court], feel for the appellants and other women in their position, we are satisfied that this is not a case where the court can interfere with the decisions taken through the parliamentary process.\"\n\nThey said that \"in the light of the extensive evidence\" put forward by the government, they agreed with the High Court's assessment that \"it is impossible to say that the government's decision to strike the balance where it did - between the need to put state pension provision on a sustainable footing and the recognition of the hardship that could result for those affected by the changes - was manifestly without reasonable foundation\".\n\nThis issue led to a huge campaign, not always led by the same groups, which has garnered widespread support for women who believe their pensions were stolen from them.\n\nA different result in the general election could have changed the picture. Labour had promised to compensate those affected.\n\nThat avenue was closed for campaigners. Now, the BackTo60 group has lost another major court battle.\n\nDriven supporters may not be willing to give up, and will hope to take it to the next stage legally.\n\nBut with each defeat, their chances of actually seeing a greater pension become slimmer.\n\nUnison assistant general secretary Christina McAnea said: \"For a generation of women, this is nothing short of a disaster.\n\n\"Those on lower incomes have been left in dire straits, struggling to make ends meet with precious little support from the government.\"\n\nYvette Greenway Mansfield, chief executive of the charity, SOS the Silence of Suicide and the partner of the QC who argued the case in court, underlined the mental health impact the government's decision had had.\n\nShe cited a recent survey by her charity which garnered 20,000 responses about the pensions age change.\n\n\"People have been having thoughts of suicide, they are self harming,\" said Ms Mansfield. \"This is the unseen impact. This is not discussed anywhere near enough and I am hugely concerned for women.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Work and Pensions said they were pleased the court \"decided that due notice\" had been given to women.\n\nThey added: \"The government decided 25 years ago that it was going to make the state pension age the same for men and women as a long-overdue move towards gender equality.\n\n\"Raising state pension age in line with life expectancy changes has been the policy of successive administrations over many years.\"", "The torch relay toured the UK for 70 days ahead of the London 2012 Olympic Games\n\nAn automotive firm that made the 2012 London Olympic torch has gone into liquidation.\n\nPremier Sheet Metals said it blamed \"conditions within the automotive sector which were further compounded by the onset of Covid-19\".\n\nBased in Exhall, Warwickshire, the firm said a fall in sales had affected its cash flow and could no longer trade.\n\nIt produces sheet metal parts for the automotive sector, which has been struggling throughout the pandemic.\n\nThe first six months of the year saw the number of cars built in the UK slump to the lowest level since 1954.\n\nPremier Sheet Metals also made the 8,000 torches used in the relay that marked the opening of the 2012 games.\n\nA spokesman for the firm said despite \"substantial cash injections\", extra funding could not be secured, \"largely due to the absence of any certainty in the marketplace\".\n\n\"Following a review of the company's financial position and cashflow requirements by the company's advisors, it became apparent that Premier Sheet Metal (Coventry) Ltd could not generate sufficient sales and in turn cash flow to enable it to continue to trade,\" he added.\n\n\"Therefore, very regrettably, and after a period of over 25 years of trading, the decision was taken to commence the process of placing Premier Sheet Metal (Coventry) Limited into liquidation.\"\n\nOther companies within the group remain unaffected.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teacher 'overwhelmed' since Who Wants To Be A Millionaire win\n\nA teacher who became the first person to win the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire jackpot in 14 years said he was \"overwhelmed\" by the response.\n\n\"I didn't expect the tsunami of interest,\" Don Fear, from Telford, said, adding people had \"fallen over themselves\" to congratulate him.\n\nFormer pupil and pub quiz mate Patrick Campbell told the BBC he was \"in tears\" when Mr Fear claimed his £1m prize.\n\nMr Fear is the sixth million-pound winner in the show's 22-year history.\n\nHe and Mr Campbell, 33, have been doing weekly quizzes at the Red Lion in Wellington for about seven years.\n\nMr Fear has joined his quiz team in Wellington for about seven years\n\n\"Don was my history teacher, myself and a few school friends set up a pub quiz and we kept in touch with him on Facebook and various things.\n\n\"We knew what a clever man he was so we invited him to join,\" he said.\n\nMr Campbell said watching his former teacher was \"so surreal\" - \"I could tell from the look of his eye he was confident he knew the answer\".\n\n\"That winning moment, I was in tears. I know what a lovely man he is, we're all so thrilled for him.\"\n\nMr Fear returned to his school - Haberdashers' Adams Grammar school in Newport - after the show aired on Friday but has since announced he will retire at the end of term in December.\n\nThe history and politics teacher said students and staff were clapping and cheering him as he went in and that \"quite a few pupils are trying to tap me up for a tenner\".\n\nAfter a 33-year career, Mr Fear said he would \"miss school hugely\" but hopes \"a new career as a travel guide is on the cards\", with Canada first on his wish-list.\n\n\"And then really it's a case of you name the place and I want to go there.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I have absolutely no desire to use these measures\"\n\nBoris Johnson has said the UK must reserve the right to override the Brexit deal to protect the country's \"economic and political integrity\".\n\nThe PM said legislation was needed to resolve \"tensions\" in the EU-UK deal.\n\nHe said it would ensure the UK could not be \"broken up\" by a foreign power and the EU was acting in an \"extreme way\", by threatening food exports.\n\nLabour said the PM had caused the \"mess\" by reneging on a deal he had previously called a \"triumph\".\n\nThe Internal Market Bill is expected to pass its first parliamentary test shortly, when MPs vote on it at about 22.00 BST, despite the reservations of many MPs that it gives the UK the power to break international law.\n\nA number of Conservative MPs have said they will not support the bill as it stands and some could register their concerns by abstaining.\n\nThe UK left the EU on 31 January, having negotiated and signed the withdrawal agreement with the bloc.\n\nA key part of the agreement - which is now an international treaty - was the Northern Ireland Protocol, designed to prevent a hard border returning to the island of Ireland.\n\nThe Internal Market Bill proposed by the government would override that part of that agreement when it comes to movement of goods between Northern Ireland and Britain and would allow the UK to re-interpret \"state aid\" rules on subsidies for firms in Northern Ireland, in the event of the two sides not agreeing a future trade deal.\n\nSpeaking at the start of the five-hour debate, the PM said the bill should be \"welcomed by everyone\" who cares about the \"sovereignty and integrity of the UK\".\n\nHe said the UK had signed up to the \"finely balanced\" withdrawal agreement, including the Northern Ireland Protocol, in \"good faith\" and was committed to honouring its obligations, including the introduction of \"light touch\" checks on trade between Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nBut he said additional \"protective powers\" were now necessary to guard against the EU's \"proven willingness\" to interpret aspects of the agreement in \"absurd\" ways, \"simply to exert leverage\" in the trade talks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ed Miliband says it is not an argument of Leave versus Remain, but “an argument about right versus wrong”.\n\n\"What we cannot tolerate now is a situation where our EU counterparts seriously believe they have the power to break up our country,\" he told MPs.\n\n\"We cannot have a situation where the very boundaries of our country can be dictated to by a foreign power or international organisation.\"\n\nHe also suggested the EU was threatening not to allow British firms to export products of animal origin to either the continent or Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Absurd and self-defeating as that action would be...the EU still have not taken this revolver off the table,\" he told MPs.\n\nHowever, he sought to reassure MPs that the powers were an \"insurance policy\" and Parliament would be given a vote before they were ever invoked, insisting \"I have absolutely no desire to use these measures\".\n\nBut former Labour leader Ed Miliband, standing in for Sir Keir Starmer after the Labour leader was forced to self-isolate at home, said the \"very act of passing the law\" would constitute a breach of international law.\n\nHe told MPs the PM \"could not blame anyone else\", having drawn up and signed the Brexit deal himself.\n\n\"It is his deal, it is his mess, it is his failure,\" he said. \"For the first time in his life, it is time to take responsibility and to fess up,\" he said. \"Either he was not straight with the country in the first place or he did not understand it.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is not just legislative hooliganism on any issue, it is on the most sensitive issue of all.\"\n\nAmong Tory MPs to speak out were ex-ministers Andrew Mitchell, Sir Bob Neill and Stephen Hammond, all of whom urged the government to settle differences with the EU through the arbitration process in the Agreement.\n\nConservative MP Charles Walker said the EU was a \"pain in the neck\" but urged the government not to \"press the nuclear button\" before all other options had been exhausted.\n\n\"I am not going to be voting for this bill at second reading because if you keep whacking a dog, don't be surprised when it bites you back,\" he said.\n\nAnd Former Chancellor Sajid Javid has joined the ranks of potential rebels, saying he could not see why it was necessary to \"pre-emptively renege\" on the withdrawal agreement.\n\n\"Breaking international law is never a step that should be taken lightly,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA senior government source told the BBC \"all options are on the table\" in terms of possible action against Tory MPs who do not support the bill.\n\nThe bill, which sets out how trade between different nations of the UK will operate after the UK leaves the EU single market on 31 December, is likely to face more difficulties in its later stages, especially in the House of Lords.\n\nThe DUP's Sammy Wilson welcomed the bill, but said his party still had concerns and would be tabling amendments to \"ensure Northern Ireland is not left in a state aid straight jacket and our businesses are not weighed down by unnecessary paperwork when trading within the United Kingdom\".\n\nThe SNP's Ian Blackford said the bill was the \"greatest threat\" to devolved government in Scotland since the establishment of the Scottish Parliament 20 years ago.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Cameron said he has “misgivings about what is being proposed”\n\n\"We are discussing the details of a bill which this government casually and brazenly admits breaks international and domestic law, he said.\n\nFive former prime ministers have raised concerns about the bill, including Boris Johnson's predecessor Theresa May - who is absent from Monday's debate as she is on a visit to South Korea.\n\nSpeaking earlier on Monday, David Cameron said \"passing an act of Parliament and then going on to break an international treaty obligation...should be the absolute final resort\".", "Caerphilly went into lockdown last week\n\nWales should use micro-quarantines to avoid a second national lockdown in the winter, Plaid Cymru has said.\n\nIt came before the Welsh Government outlined how it will tackle coronavirus in the NHS during the winter months.\n\nPlaid said small areas could be locked down around clusters where there has been a higher rate of infection, rather than entire council area.\n\nCaerphilly county became the first place in Wales to go into local lockdown last week.\n\nIt includes an extra 5,000 NHS beds - half in field hospitals - to cope with winter pressures, including a potential second wave of Covid-19 in hospitals.\n\nEarlier, he warned of the risk of a further national lockdown if members of the public do not better respect social distancing rules.\n\nWelsh Conservative health spokesman Andrew RT Davies said the plan needs to be able to deal with both Covid-19 and the usual winter pressures in health and social care.\n\n\"Seeing the minister dismantling one £25m field hospital at the Principality stadium and building a smaller £33m one a few miles away does not fill you with confidence that the ministers plan will achieve this,\" he added.\n\nPlaid says people should be encouraged to keep records of their contacts with the help of an app\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price proposed a \"10-point coronavirus winter plan\", which included \"smart-lockdowns\" used in countries including Pakistan - with targeted lockdowns including a \"local economic package of support\".\n\n\"If we do not act, then winter could become a second wave that is even worse than the first, with little option than reintroducing a full lockdown,\" he said.\n\nThe party also proposed encouraging everyone to keep contact records, with the support of an app, and testing individuals who have been in contact with people with coronavirus, but do not have symptoms themselves.\n\nPlaid called for quick saliva tests to be implemented, national guidance for face masks in schools, and better use of ventilation.\n\nPeople should be asked to avoid closed, crowded and close-contact settings, Plaid said, calling for a new Covid-19 plan ahead of a vaccine.\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"Our contact tracing system is helping us to quickly identify confirmed cases and routes of transmission to allow us to respond swiftly.\n\n\"We have introduced new local restrictions in Caerphilly County Borough Council area in response to the rapid increase in this area and new national restrictions to slow the spread after seeing an overall increase in cases across Wales. Local authorities are also taking targeted local action.\n\n\"As the first minister said on Friday, this is a fast-moving situation and we have a small window to act to prevent a fresh coronavirus crisis in Wales. We need the help of everyone in the country to do that.\"\n\nIt later added said: \"The new Cardiff facility is designed to last for 20 years and is modular so can be moved to other sites.\n\n\"We have carried out a review of the extra bed capacity that will be needed across NHS Wales, using the latest projections and lessons learnt from earlier this year.\n\n\"A full plan of the extra capacity for all health boards will be published by the end of this month.\"", "The new Wylfa power station was to be built next to the old power plant on Anglesey\n\nPlans for a £15-£20bn nuclear power plant in Wales have been scrapped.\n\nWork on the Wylfa Newydd project on Anglesey was suspended in January last year because of rising costs after Hitachi failed to reach a funding agreement with the UK government.\n\nIsle of Anglesey council said the company had now confirmed in writing it is withdrawing from the project.\n\nCouncil leader Llinos Medi said: \"This is very disappointing, particularly at such a difficult time economically.\"\n\nHitachi shelved the scheme, the biggest energy project ever proposed in Wales, over funding issues.\n\nAnglesey council said it had received a letter from the Tokyo-based parent company confirming its decision.\n\nDeveloper Horizon Nuclear, which is owned by Hitachi, said it would not comment.\n\nThe UK government also declined to comment but the Welsh Affairs Committee has said the Wylfa nuclear power project withdrawal is \"a blow for Wales and the UK's ambition to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.\"\n\n\"This was set to be the largest energy project Wales had ever seen with a positive impact on skills and employment in the region,\" said committee chairman Stephen Crabb MP.\n\n\"With the nation's remaining nuclear plants ageing and the need for low-carbon, high yield plants needed to replace them urgent, it has never been more important than now to ensure energy security.\"\n\nWork on Wylfa was due to start this year\n\nMr Crabb added that Hitachi had given \"reassurances\" of its commitment to the project over the summer \"that gave hope to the workers who'd be needed to construct it and the high-skilled employees who would run it\".\n\nDevelopers said the plant would create up to 9,000 jobs during the construction phase and have a 60-year operational life.\n\nCampaigners against the project - a replacement for the original Wylfa plant shut in 2015 after 44 years of service - welcomed Hitachi's move claiming a \"nuclear power station would have endangered lives on Anglesey and beyond\".\n\nThe People Against Wylfa B action group said: \"It would have ruined the environment over an area which is 10 times greater than the current site.\"\n\nIt called on Hitachi to \"ensure that no nuclear scheme will happen on the site in the future\" and return the site to its \"former state, for community benefit\".\n\n\"Proposals to develop green energy schemes would be an area where Hitachi's expertise could create many jobs here,\" the group added.\n\nAnglesey council has called for a meeting with the Welsh and UK governments to discuss the future of the site.\n\nA two-reactor plant at Wylfa was earmarked as having the potential to power up to five million homes, but the project was put on hold as the upfront costs rose.\n\nWith 9,000 workers ready to start the construction phase, the decision in January 2019 was described as \"a tremendous blow\" to the Welsh economy by business leaders.\n\nThe company said in June it was hoping to secure extra funding from the UK government to resume the project but has now thrown in the towel.\n\nAs one of Wales' biggest proposed construction projects, Wylfa Newydd has faced turbulent times.\n\nThe company behind it, Hitachi, has always been concerned about the costs of building the new nuclear power plant.\n\nThe UK government went some way in offering financial support to the project but it wasn't enough to satisfy Hitachi's concerns over the financial risks.\n\nThe UK government also held a consultation on plans that would see energy customers pay upfront for the costs of construction.\n\nThe industry has been waiting for months for an outcome to that.\n\nWhen the UK government said nuclear was part of its push for green energy, the industry thought it was a positive sign for Wylfa Newydd.\n\nBut critics question how green nuclear energy really is, not to mention how safe it is.\n\nWales has been called the \"land of artists' impressions\" with many big schemes that are talked about and never happen.\n\nSupporters of Wylfa Newydd will be concerned it will become another of those, while its critics would be glad to see the back of the plans.\n\nEconomist Edward Jones said people were learning new skills in the hope of finding work at Wylfa Newydd\n\nThe decision will have \"a big effect on the economy\", according to Edward Jones, lecturer in economics at Bangor University.\n\n\"We are currently feeling the effect of Covid-19 and Brexit is around the corner, and we will feel the negative impact of that on the economy,\" he said.\n\n\"A lot of people were investing in learning new skills with the thought of getting jobs at Wylfa.\n\n\"We know businesses are investing in new production methods to be part of the supply chain of the nuclear power plant.\n\n\"The challenge now is to find other projects that can make use of these skills.\"\n\nMr Jones said other energy projects on the island, such as the Morlais tidal energy scheme, could make use of the investment already made.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel has said delays in testing for the public are \"unacceptable\".\n\nBBC Breakfast's Dan Walker read a list of examples where people had long waits for results or weren't able to get tests. The Home Secretary said the government were working to \"surge capacity\" to where it is needed.", "The testing system is facing an \"enormous challenge\" after a \"sharp rise\" in those seeking a Covid-19 test, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nWhen asked about reports of people struggling to get tested, Mr Hancock said it would take a \"matter of weeks\" to resolve the issues.\n\nHe said No 10 would update its testing policy shortly to prioritise the most urgent cases.\n\nTest slots have been limited due to bottlenecks in lab processing of swabs.\n\nThe rise in demand for tests had led to local shortages, with Labour saying no tests were available in virus \"hotspots\" over the weekend.\n\nHospital bosses have also warned that a lack of tests for NHS workers is putting services at risk.\n\nPeople have told the BBC of their frustration at being turned away from a walk-in test centre in Oldham, Greater Manchester.\n\nA woman attending the walk-in centre said staff told her that labs were struggling to turn tests around.\n\nBBC Health editor Hugh Pym said: \"There seem to be enough testing sites, but there are bottlenecks in the labs for processing the swabs taken. That's why they're limiting the amount of slots for the public, just when more people want to get tested.\"\n\nOne Cabinet minister told BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg this was a \"classic government problem\" where demand for a public service outstrips supply.\n\nThe minister, she said, was confident that \"underneath the noise\", the majority of people were getting the service they needed, when they needed it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC spoke to people trying to get tests at a centre in Oldham\n\nOn Saturday, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove told the BBC that the government was working to boost testing capacity through investment in new testing centres and so-called lighthouse labs.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she is hopeful that a backlog in test results will be resolved shortly, after \"constructive\" talks with Mr Hancock.\n\nThe UK government announced 3,105 new lab-confirmed cases on Tuesday, bringing the total number of positive tests to 374,228. Another 27 people have died within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test, bringing the overall death toll to 41,664.\n\nThe number of patients in mechanical ventilation beds across the UK has passed 100 for the first time in nearly two months. There were 106 patients on ventilation in the UK on Monday - the first time the figure has been over 100 since 24 July.\n\nUK-wide figures for today are yet to be published but there were 101 patients on ventilation in England alone on Tuesday.\n\nAround 220,000 tests are processed each day, according to government figures released last week, with a testing capacity of more than 350,000 - which includes swab tests and antibody tests. The aim is to increase that to 500,000 a day by the end of October.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons, Mr Hancock said there were \"operational challenges\" with testing which the government was \"working hard\" to fix.\n\nHe said throughout the pandemic they had prioritised testing according to need.\n\nMr Hancock said the \"top priority is and always has been acute clinical care\", followed by social care, where the government is sending \"over 100,000 tests a day\" due to the virus risks in care homes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: \"We're working around the clock to make sure everyone who needs a test can get a test\"\n\nConservative chairman of the Health and Social Care Committee Jeremy Hunt was among the MPs to question Mr Hancock on testing, saying a number of his constituents had to travel for tests, while one key worker had to wait a week for her results.\n\n\"A week ago today, the secretary of state told the Health Select Committee that he expected to have this problem solved in two weeks,\" Mr Hunt said.\n\n\"Is the secretary of state, given the efforts that his department is making, still confident that in a week's time we will have this problem solved?\"\n\n\"I think that we will be able to solve this problem in a matter of weeks,\" Mr Hancock replied.\n\nHe said demand was \"high\" but \"record capacity\" was being delivered, with plans to ensure tests are prioritised for those that need them most.\n\nDespite the health secretary's promises, there will be no easy solution to the shortages of tests.\n\nAll the expectations are that cases will go up. People are circulating more as society reopens and we are entering the period when respiratory viruses thrive.\n\nAs cases go up so will demands on the testing system. Even with the promise of more testing capacity in the coming weeks, the chances of shortages continuing remains a distinct possibility.\n\nA new lab is due to open later this month which will be able to carry out 50,000 tests a day. But this could easily be swallowed up.\n\nWhat it means is that testing will have to be prioritised where it is needed most. That will be in care homes, hospitals and among key workers, as well as where there are local outbreaks. The government's surveillance programme run by the Office for National Statistics will also be protected.\n\nBut this is not unique to the UK. Other countries are facing similar pressures. In fact, the UK is testing more people per head of population than Spain, France and Germany.\n\nIt promises to be a difficult winter across Europe.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said Mr Hancock was \"losing control of this virus\".\n\nHe said that after schools and offices reopened, extra demand on the system was \"inevitable\". He questioned why Mr Hancock did not use the summer \"to significantly expand\" NHS lab capacity and \"fix\" contact tracing.\n\nResponding, Mr Hancock said it was \"inevitable\" that demand would rise with a free service, adding the \"challenge\" was to ensure tests are prioritised for those who most need them.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel told BBC Breakfast the government was \"surging capacity\" where it was needed.\n\nShe said there is \"much more work\" to be done with Public Health England (PHE) and local public health bodies; and that No 10 would continue to work with PHE to \"surge where there is demand\" in hotspots.\n\nMs Patel also said England's new rule of six meant families should not stop in the street to talk to friends.", "The first official figures for school attendance in England for the autumn term show 88% of pupils went back.\n\nThis is a higher absence rate than the usual figure of about 5% but it is not broken down to show whether pupils were at home because of Covid outbreaks.\n\nThe figures show attendance last Thursday, based on responses from almost three quarters of state schools.\n\nSince the reopening, school leaders have warned that delays in testing are leading to year groups being sent home.\n\nIn the run-up to the new term the government called on parents to send their children back to school, with the assurance that safety measures would be in place to protect them from the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThere had been speculation that some parents would keep their children at home - but the Department for Education figures show almost nine in 10 returned.\n\nThe department also estimates that 92% of all state schools in England were fully open - and that 99.9% were at least partially open.\n\nPupils on their first day back at Riverside School in Barking, east London\n\nHowever, there have been repeated local cases of schools having to send home year groups of pupils, either because of infections or because of problems with getting Covid tests for staff or pupils:\n\nThe guidance for the safe reopening of schools in England had promised: \"The government will ensure that it is as easy as possible to get a test through a wide range of routes that are locally accessible, fast and convenient.\"\n\nBut the National Association of Head Teachers, while welcoming the numbers returning to school, warned that problems getting tests was \"causing chaos for schools right now and could jeopardise attendance remaining high\".\n\nThe WorthLess? network of 5,000 head teachers warned that lack of access to tests could create staff shortages and force schools into partial closure.\n\nSean Maher, head of Richard Challoner School in New Malden, Surrey, said the Covid testing system had become a \"complete and utter shambles\".\n\nHe said students wanted to be back in school, but there had been 70 away on Monday, with many of these absences attributable to the difficulties in getting tests.\n\nThe Netmums online parents' network has written an open letter to the government complaining about the difficulties for parents who are struggling to get a Covid test.\n\n\"It's broken, not working and needs fixing. Our children have been back at school for a week or so, and already the testing system is at breaking point. And so are we,\" says the letter.\n\nEngland's Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said: \"The best place for children and young people to learn is in the classroom, and it's encouraging to see that last week more than seven million pupils were back with their classmates and teachers at schools around the country.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nWe've just had the latest unemployment figures from the Office for National Statistics. The number of people on UK payrolls in August was about 695,000 lower than in March 2020. In the May to July quarter there was a particularly significant drop in the number of young people in employment. Overall, the unemployment rate grew to 4.1%, up from the previous figure of 3.9%. However, the ONS said the number of job vacancies continued to recover into August, fewer workers were on furlough and average hours worked rose. Read more on the ONS website too.\n\nThe furlough scheme comes to an end on 31 October, meaning those job numbers could get much worse. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is urging the government to replace it with a new system. It would be similar to that in Germany - explained here - rewarding employers who give people hours rather than cut jobs; providing training and support for those who can't come back full time, and targeting sectors most in need such as retail and aviation. The government says it's already implementing a plan to protect jobs - here we consider the likelihood of any extension to that.\n\nMany planned redundancies are still to be completed and it's feared the end of furlough will bring many more\n\nHospital bosses are warning that services are at risk due to staff having to self-isolate for days because they can't get tests for themselves or family members. Some patients are also not being tested in time for operations to go ahead, they say. Schools are being hit by similar problems, with head teachers warning of serious staff shortages and parents forced to keep children at home for days. The government says it's processing 200,000 tests a day on average and is working to boost that even further, with most capacity directed towards virus hotspots.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Reality Check looks at why testing matters\n\nExperts say the number of people drinking at higher-risk levels in England rose to more than 8.4m in June - up from 4.8m in February - and the impact of that could be huge. Addiction services could struggle to cope, the Royal College of Psychiatrists is warning, and when increased demand due to the pandemic meets deep cuts already made, the result will be many patients missing out on life-saving care. Check whether your drinking habits are healthy here.\n\nThe experts say alcohol misuse and a rise in opiate addiction are both piling pressure on services\n\nThe BBC is taking a close look today at the challenges of finding work during the pandemic. If you're struggling or know someone who is, get some inspiration from four women who started their own businesses during lockdown. Beauty box subscriptions, takeaway food, date night \"kits\" - they're succeeding despite the downturn. We also have some tips on job hunting more broadly and advice on the sectors hiring right now.\n\nNatalie James, Charlie Pears-Wallace, Mya Wander and Caroline Haegeman all took the leap during lockdown\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, as the UK's Jewish community prepares to celebrate its most important festivals of the year, find out more about the guidance being given to synagogues and ordinary families about how to stay safe.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Polly has lived in a small campervan for more than a year\n\n\"I don't want to live like this, no-one should live like this - but I don't have any options,\" says Polly Richardson who finds herself at the sharp end of the lack of affordable homes in England.\n\nFor more than a year, she has lived out of a small camper van.\n\n\"This is my home. I've two sets of clothes in a box. I've got my cups and saucers in this drawer, my pans under this bed, and I have a little camping cooker.\n\n\"Winter time was horrendous because there was no heating.\"\n\nThe 59-year-old grandmother of four from East Yorkshire is one of half-a-million households that aren't even counted as waiting for a council or housing association property, according to the National Housing Federation.\n\nNew research commissioned by the Federation from Heriot-Watt University says the real number of people in England waiting for such homes is 3.8 million, representing 1.6 million households, or 500,000 more than is indicated by official government data.\n\n\"I've got belongings in people's garages,\" says Polly.\n\nShe spent years working as a retail manager but after taking time off to look after her sick father, and then having a big argument with her sister, she found herself being forced to move into the van in March 2019.\n\n\"Without a job, you can't have a house. Without a house, they won't give you a job. I'm hoping somebody out there will give me a job,\" she says.\n\nThe National Housing Federation say 90,000 homes for social rent need to be built each year for the next decade to meet demand but, according to official figures, just 6,338 such homes were completed in 2018-19, down 84% since 2010-11.\n\nThe main advantage of social housing - where either the local council or a housing association are the landlord - is that it's more affordable than private rented accommodation, typically around 50% of market rents, and usually offers a more secure tenancy.\n\n\"What we are seeing is an escalating need for social housing and a lack of supply,\" says Kate Henderson, chief executive of the National Housing Federation.\n\n\"Investing in social housing would boost the economy, it would create thousands of jobs, it would support supply chains in the construction industry and it would provide better, more secure, safe housing for people in need.\"\n\nThe lack of suitable properties leaves large numbers of families living in overcrowded accommodation.\n\nAbigail McManus, a 27-year-old single mother lives in a two-bedroom flat in Leeds with her three young children - two daughters aged six and two and a little boy who's five months old.\n\nLeaving her house is a daily grind as she struggles to manoeuvre her double buggy down the stairs.\n\nAbigail has been bidding weekly for a three-bedroomed ground floor property for years, without success.\n\nShe says the council are encouraging her to search further afield to increase her chances being allocated somewhere suitable to live.\n\nBut she says: \"My whole family live on this estate, so I'd like to try and stay as close as possible.\n\n\"As a single parent, who doesn't drive, it would be hard for me to get anywhere and I'd feel more isolated than I already do, if I move too far from this area.\"\n\nMum of three Abigail McManus struggles to get her double buggy into her flat\n\nWhen she was prime minister, Theresa May altered the way in which councils could use funding to allow them to build more homes.\n\nHer government predicted the change would lead to 10,000 new council houses each year, a figure that hasn't been reached since 2013-14.\n\nWhile local authorities believe building that number is possible, experts say the pandemic could create problems in the construction industry.\n\nThe Ministry of Housing said it \"didn't recognise\" the figures in the new analysis carried out by the National Housing Federation, describing them as a \"major overestimation\".\n\nIt also highlighted its £11.5bn investment in affordable homes, to be spent between 2021 and 2026, some of which will be used on building homes for social rent.", "No government wants scenes like this.\n\nFamilies in Oldham, where there has been particular concern about the spread of coronavirus, are boiling over with frustration that they can't access tests.\n\nNot least a government that promised the public its testing system would be better than any other country's in the world.\n\nNot least a government that believes a properly functioning testing system is vital to keeping kids back in school and climbing out of recession as quickly as possible.\n\nNot least a government that knows testing is a crucial way to monitor and control the virus that saw such a terrible loss of life in the grim spring that we have all just lived through.\n\nThe system was scrambled together in a matter of months.\n\nThere seem to be problems with capacity in labs.\n\nHuge numbers of people are now getting tested.\n\nDemand has soared, with children going back to school, and ministers having initially encouraged people to come forward.\n\nThe government has been trying to move testing capacity around to areas where its most needed, promising now to deliver 100,000 tests a day to care homes, where people are particularly vulnerable.\n\nBut with varying statistics, it can be hard to work out exactly what is going on.\n\nThere is a mountain of anecdotal evidence of real frustration with the system, but this is what we know for sure.\n\nOne Cabinet minister told me yesterday it's a \"classic government problem\" where demand for a public service outstrips supply.\n\nThat minister was confident that \"underneath the noise\" the majority of people are getting the service they need and when they need it.\n\nBut in the House of Commons today you couldn't help but bump into MPs from all parties full of complaints from constituents about a lack of access.\n\nClaims from Jacob Rees Mogg today, that the system is a \"national success\" don't exactly scream empathy with people stuck in the system.\n\nAnd after a painful few months for many people in all sorts of ways, public patience is not elastic.\n\nThe prime minister last week even promised by early next year there could be 10 million tests a day.\n\nBut overpromising and underdelivering is not a reputation any government desires.", "Schools worked hard to get ready for the new term - but there are worries about lack of access to testing\n\nSchools in England are being \"severely hampered\" by delays in Covid tests for teachers, say head teachers.\n\nJules White, organiser of the WorthLess? network of over 5,000 heads, says there is growing frustration at the lack of access to testing.\n\nThis means teachers have to isolate and that \"serious staff shortages\" could force partial closures in school.\n\nBut a government spokeswoman said \"testing capacity is the highest it has ever been\".\n\nMr White, a West Sussex head teacher whose group grew out of a school funding campaign, has written to England's Education Secretary Gavin Williamson to warn of disruption from delays in Covid testing.\n\nHe warns that efforts to get pupils back for the autumn term are being seriously undermined by a \"test and trace system that is simply not working effectively enough\".\n\nThe group of head teachers, across 75 local authorities, warns that schools are struggling to cope with teachers not being able to get quickly tested for Covid-19 and find out whether they can get back to the classroom.\n\nThe head teachers say this is leaving staff in isolation and \"out of action\".\n\nThe letter warns that schools need to help pupils catch up and get ready for exams next year - and instead the lack of staff could mean even more lost lesson time.\n\nPupils are back in schools but they face safety measures against the spread of Covid-19\n\nThey also warn this uncertainty about Covid cases could be further compounded by seasonal \"coughs and colds\" - and that urgent action is needed on testing, rather than \"vague promises\".\n\n\"It is beyond frustration that we are now seeing teachers and support staff being unable to attend work because they cannot get a test or the results from it are far too slow,\" said Mr White.\n\n\"Time after time, schools are doing their utmost to support the national effort and time after time, we are left confounded by a lack of effective support from government.\"\n\nTehmina Hashmi, head of Bradford Academy in West Yorkshire, who is supporting the letter, warns of the confusion facing her school community over testing.\n\n\"It feels really tense in Bradford,\" she says, with parents reporting they cannot get Covid tests.\n\nMs Hashmi says after working hard to get the school ready through the summer, there is great \"frustration\" at what she says has been \"inept leadership\" over Covid testing.\n\nLast week Geoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said teachers were struggling to get tests locally and were being directed to testing sites hundreds of miles away.\n\nAn academy trust leader has called for a more \"robust strategy\" to help schools facing Covid cases among pupils or staff - as more schools are going to face disruption.\n\nSteve Chalke, chief executive of the Oasis academy trust, said that several of the trust's school have already had to send home year groups, affecting about 1,200 pupils.\n\nHe says that Covid testing needed to be available on the school site and results needed to be turned around quickly - and that eventually there would need to be routine, daily testing.\n\nMr Chalke argued that it would be better to accept the need for a planned rota system, with pupils switching between school and online learning at home, rather than having a \"rotation system by default\" each time a case was discovered.\n\nHe is also calling for a more \"credible\" approach to how next year's exam season will operate in a fair way and wants a big increase in the pupil premium, which provides schools with extra funding for disadvantaged pupils.\n\nA government spokeswoman said that testing levels have increased - \"but we are seeing a significant demand for tests. It is vital that children and school staff only get a test if they develop coronavirus symptoms\".\n\n\"If a positive case is confirmed in a school, swift action is being taken to ask those who have been in close contact to self-isolate, and Public Health England's local health protection teams continue to support and advise schools in this situation,\" said the government spokeswoman.\n\n\"Children who are self-isolating will receive remote education. We will continue to work with schools to ensure all appropriate steps are taken to keep pupils and staff safe.\"", "Restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic mean there are hardly any boats and ferries around Hong Kong.\n\nThe vulnerable Chinese white dolphin is making a comeback as a result, with sightings up about 30%.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel explains why \"mingling\" is against the latest Covid-19 restrictions\n\nFamilies stopping to talk in the street would be in breach of the rule of six restrictions, the home secretary has said.\n\nPriti Patel told the BBC that two families of four stopping for a chat on the way to the park was \"absolutely mingling\".\n\nShe said she would report her neighbours if they broke the rules.\n\nThe rules restrict indoor and outdoor gatherings in England and Scotland, and indoor groups in Wales.\n\nThe new measures mean police can break up groups larger than six, with fines of up to £3,200 if people flout the rules.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Ms Patel said that two families of four stopping for a chat on the way to the park was \"absolutely mingling\".\n\n\"You have got to put this in the context of coronavirus and keeping distance, wearing masks,\" she said.\n\n\"The rule of six is about making sure that people are being conscientious and not putting other people's health at risk.\"\n\nThe home secretary added: \"Mingling is people coming together. That is my definition of mingling.\"\n\nWhen asked if she would call the police on her neighbours if they breached the new coronavirus rules, Ms Patel told BBC Breakfast: \"I don't spend my time looking into people's gardens.\"\n\nPressed further on the topic, she said anybody would want to \"take responsibility\" to help to stop the spread of the virus, adding that if she saw gatherings of more than six, \"clearly I would report that\".\n\nMs Patel's comments echo those made by Policing Minister Kit Malthouse, who suggested that people should ring the non-emergency 101 number if they had concerns that people were breaching the law.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Radio 4 Today This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt comes as the national chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales called for guidance over enforcement of the measures.\n\nSpeaking to Good Morning Britain, John Apter said that police officers on the frontline were \"trying to interpret\" the rules, and were being accused of \"asking (people) to snitch on their neighbours\".\n\nHe added: \"Maybe we should have guidance, because we haven't had any yet.\"\n\nGovernment guidelines include exemptions for physical activities that can be done in groups of more than six, such as football, hockey and netball, as well as sailing, angling and polo.\n\nShooting - including hunting and paintball that requires a shotgun or firearms certificate licence - is also exempt as an organised sport.\n\nEarlier, Ms Patel defended the government's record on testing, following widespread reports of people struggling to get swabbed.\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast the government was \"surging capacity\" where it was needed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Clearly there is much more work that needs to be undertaken with Public Health England and the actual public health bodies in those particular local areas, and as a government obviously we work with Public Health England to surge where there is demand in local hotspot areas.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has said the system is facing an \"enormous challenge\" after a \"sharp rise\" in people seeking a test. He said it would take a \"matter of weeks\" to resolve the problems.", "The film will chart Madonna's rise to fame \"in a man's world\"\n\nPop icon Madonna has announced she will direct a film about her own life and career.\n\nThe star is also co-writing the movie with Diablo Cody, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Juno and Young Adult.\n\nThe script is expected to chart her rise from Michigan, to the slums of New York City, to global superstardom - via songs such as Like A Virgin and Vogue.\n\nThe star said the film would focus on music, adding: \"Music has kept me going and art has kept me alive.\"\n\nThe as-yet-untitled project will be Madonna's third as director after 2008's Filth and Wisdom and 2011's WE, which was based around King Edward VIII's affair with Wallis Simpson.\n\nThe latter film was panned by critics, and bombed at the box office, making just $2m (£1.5m) against a budget of $11m (£8.5m).\n\nHowever, rock and pop biopics are in the middle of a purple patch, with huge successes for Elton John's Rocketman and the Freddie Mercury film Bohemian Rhapsody, for which Rami Malek earned an Oscar.\n\nMadonna's entry to the genre will be made by Universal Pictures - which previously attracted the artist's anger by snapping up an unofficial script based on her life.\n\nMadonna is writing the script with Diablo Cody, with updates on Instagram\n\nNo casting or production timeline for the film has been announced, but the pop star has charted the early stages of scripting on her Instagram account.\n\nIn a Q&A with fans, she said the biopic would be about her \"struggle as an artist trying to survive in a man's world,\" adding that the journey covers a range of emotions: \"happy, sad, mad, crazy, good, bad and ugly\".\n\nShe added that the plot would address her relationship with artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, the fallout from her controversial Like A Prayer video and her experience filming Evita.\n\n\"I want to convey the incredible journey that life has taken me on as an artist, a musician, a dancer - a human being, trying to make her way in this world,\" Madonna said in a statement, confirming her directorial role.\n\n\"It's essential to share the roller coaster ride of my life with my voice and vision.\"\n\n\"There are so many untold and inspiring stories and who better to tell it than me?\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The new Wylfa power station would be built next to the old power plant on Anglesey\n\nHitachi has said it has no plans to sell a Welsh nuclear power site to a Chinese corporation after comments by Donald Trump.\n\nThe US president was quoted by the Sunday Times warning it not to sell Wylfa, on Anglesey, \"to China\".\n\nWork on the £13bn project was put on hold last year because of rising costs after Hitachi failed to reach a funding agreement with the UK government.\n\nA Horizon Energy spokesman said: \"We don't comment on speculation.\n\n\"Our focus remains on securing the conditions necessary to restart this crucial project, which would bring transformative economic benefits to the region and play a huge role in helping deliver the UK's climate change commitments.\"\n\nHorizon is owned by Hitachi and was set to lead the project to build the site.\n\nWylfa was earmarked as having the potential to power up to five million homes, but the project was put on hold as the upfront costs rose.\n\nWith 9,000 workers ready for the construction phase, the decision in January 2019 was described as \"a tremendous blow\" by business leaders.\n\nWork on Wylfa was due to start in 2020\n\nThe Sunday Times report said China's General Nuclear Power Corporation was keen to buy the site as part of plans to build a fleet of nuclear reactors.\n\n\"We are not aware of any plans to sell the project to China,\" Hitachi told the Reuters news agency.\n\nThe Wylfa plant was due to be operational by the mid-2020s.", "Building Wylfa Newydd was due to being construction in 2020\n\n\"Arguably we have the best site in Europe here for new nuclear build.\"\n\nThat's how Horizon Nuclear Power described its base on Anglesey in an interview with BBC Wales back in 2016.\n\nThe geography was right, with a skilled local community that had grown up around the old Wylfa plant on hand.\n\nAs the name suggests - Wylfa Newydd, a 'new Wylfa' - was meant to mark the start of a fresh chapter for nuclear power generation on the island.\n\nIt was an important step too towards realising the UK government's ambition for a fleet of modern reactors to supply us with electricity for decades to come.\n\nAlways upbeat and outwardly confident, Horizon had celebrated many \"milestones\" since taking on the scheme in 2009 - licences to use the reactors approved, applications for environmental permits and planning permission submitted.\n\nBut in the energy industry, rumours began to swirl about its parent company - Japanese tech giant Hitachi's commitment to the project.\n\nFinding investors to fund the upfront costs - which in 2018 had reportedly doubled to £20bn for Wylfa and another plant at Oldbury in Gloucestershire - seemed to have become a step too far.\n\nAnd negotiations in Westminster around the price to be paid for power from the plant are yet to produce any firm commitments.\n\nMinisters wanted the subsidy to be less than was agreed for Hinkley Point C in Somerset - a deal that was heavily criticised for being too expensive.\n\nIt has also been reported that Brexit uncertainty and a growing aversion to nuclear in Japan following the Fukushima disaster in 2011 have played a part.\n\nAll the while, the cost of renewable technologies has continued to plummet, making nuclear power look less and less attractive.\n\nThe project's difficulties have led to calls for a review of the UK's energy policy from opposition parties and industry leaders.\n\nThe new station would be built close to the old nuclear power station at Cemaes, which stopped production in 2015\n\nControl over energy developments in Wales is split between the Welsh and Westminster governments.\n\nBut when it comes to a project this big - with a generating capacity of 2900 MW - ministers in London take the lead.\n\nThey could decide to offer a different funding mechanism, or invest in the plant themselves to try to get Hitachi back on board.\n\nTheir priority is to secure affordable energy supplies in years to come, while cutting carbon emissions, which are driving global climate change.\n\nSo coal-fired power stations - like Aberthaw in the Vale of Glamorgan - are set to close by 2025. Extending that deadline or reverting to more gas generation would be highly controversial.\n\nNuclear has been seen as important because it is predictable low-carbon power, constantly feeding the national grid unlike the fluctuating output of wind and solar.\n\nIt currently accounts for more than a fifth of electricity generated in the UK.\n\nThe plan had been for several new plants to come on stream by the mid 2030s.\n\nIt would have seen the red segment in the graph above swallowing up the dark green and grey areas representing fossil fuels - with the help of more renewables too.\n\nBut so far only one proposal - Hinkley Point C - has made it off the drawing board - with experts warning of a looming energy gap.\n\nIf traditional, big plants are too costly, proponents of small modular reactors - such as the one proposed for Trawsfynydd in Gwynedd - could see this as an opportunity.\n\nOthers will call for significant investment in renewables, as well as battery storage.\n\nLast year a 22MW battery was installed at the largest onshore windfarm in Wales and England at Pen-y-Cymoedd near Neath.\n\nThe Welsh Government - which has control over energy schemes of up to 350 MW - has said it wants to see 70% of Wales' electricity needs met by renewables by 2030.\n\nBut ultimately, it will be policies penned in Westminster that have the greatest influence on large-scale projects capable of delivering a significant percentage of the UK's energy supply.\n\nBrexit may be dominating debate at the moment, but where we get our power from in 10 to 20 years' time is another huge issue the UK government will need to find time - and energy - to address.", "Testing at a drive-in mobile unit in Rhondda Cynon Taf on Saturday\n\nSome mobile testing units will be run by the Welsh NHS in a bid to control potential outbreaks after UK lab issues, the health minister has said.\n\nOn Friday tests in Wales were capped after increased demand saw UK-wide issues.\n\nVaughan Gething said the issues could go on \"for weeks\" and Wales would not rely on the Lighthouse labs programme.\n\nBut Welsh Secretary Simon Hart said the issues came after a \"huge demand for tests\".\n\nThe mobile testing units are new, run under the Lighthouse labs partnership between the private sector and UK and devolved governments.\n\nEach unit can normally carry out around 300 tests a day - but high demand around the UK as cases have risen has meant a limit of 60 was set for each mobile unit in Wales by the UK government.\n\nCapacity problems at the labs have resulted in people being asked to travel long distances to access drive-through tests, with some people reported being offered tests more than 50 miles (80km) from their homes.\n\nA mobile testing unit was set up in Porth, Rhondda, on Thursday and moved to Clydach Vale at the weekend\n\nFollowing a local lockdown imposed in Caerphilly, officials were told this week they had just days to \"get on top of\" rising infections in Rhondda Cynon Taff (RCT).\n\nBut on Friday, Council leader Andrew Morgan had said a \"huge effort\" would have to be made after the cap was introduced by the UK government.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Morgan confirmed that the area now had 300 drive through tests and 300 walk in tests available, following the limitations.\n\nDiscussions with the UK Government's Health Secretary Matt Hancock led to the limit being increased to 150 on Saturday before rising to 300 tests on Sunday.\n\nMr Morgan tweeted that \"Welsh agencies are using their capacity to boost numbers\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement programme Mr Gething said that the situation on Friday was \"unacceptable\" and lessons were being learnt rapidly.\n\n\"[These issues] are not going to be resolved for a period of weeks and we just can't have that position repeating itself several times over the next three weeks,\" he said.\n\nHe said that the Welsh Government had \"always wanted to build up have built up a significant NHS Wales testing capacity\", but that action was needed to safeguard Wales' resources.\n\n\"What I'm looking to do is to shift our mobile testing units, some of which are run through lighthouse labs where the tests are processed, and to try to move more of those to NHS Wales capacity, because that would mean we wouldn't have this problem,\" he said.\n\n\"If we have flare-ups and outbreaks or I need to put mobile testing resources in, we won't then rely on the lighthouse lab programme,\" he added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Andrew Morgan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Welsh Secretary Simon Hart MP said problems were being caused by \"huge demand\" for tests and that \"things don't always go to plan\".\n\nSpeaking on the BBC Politics Wales programme he said: \"I know that was a difficult, but short period.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer calls for “urgent talks” to set up “new targeted support” when the furlough scheme ends\n\nSir Keir Starmer has called on the government to replace the furlough scheme and outlaw \"firing and re-hiring\" methods to avoid the \"scarring effect\" of \"mass unemployment\".\n\nAlmost 10 million workers have been furloughed since March but the scheme is set to end on 31 October.\n\nThe Labour leader made an \"open offer\" to work on a plan with the PM including targeted support for badly-hit sectors.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said he would be \"creative\" in helping people find work.\n\nHe told Cabinet it was his \"top priority\", but said that \"indefinitely keeping people out of work is not the answer\".\n\nHowever, Employment Minister Mims Davies hinted there could be a more targeted approach when Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveils his budget later in the year.\n\nShe said there would be \"sectors that take longer to come back\" from the pandemic, adding: \"I don't think this government is afraid of supporting where we can [and we] have fiscal events where the chancellor can start to look at that.\"\n\nSir Keir's speech at this year's Trades Union Congress' annual conference comes as the latest UK unemployment figures are released, showing the highest level for two years.\n\nThe unemployment rate grew to 4.1% in the three months to July - compared with 3.9% previously - with young people were particularly hard hit.\n\nSir Keir made the case for replacing the job retention scheme - also known as the furlough scheme - which was introduced to support employers and staff during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nUnder it, employees placed on leave due to virus restrictions have received 80% of their pay up to a maximum of £2,500 a month.\n\nSince September, firms have had to start making a contribution to wages as part of the scheme winding down.\n\nThe government has been reluctant to extend the furlough scheme beyond October with Boris Johnson arguing that it would only keep people \"in suspended animation\".\n\nSpeaking to the conference via Zoom while isolating at home, Sir Keir said: \"We all know the furlough scheme can't go on as it is forever, but the truth is the virus is still with us and infections are increasing.\n\n\"It just isn't possible to get back to work or reopen businesses. It isn't a choice. It's the cold reality of this crisis.\n\n\"So it makes no sense at all for the government to pull support away now in one fell swoop.\"\n\nThe Labour leader said the government should hold urgent talks with his party, trade unions and businesses, and use a \"bit of imagination\" to create \"new targeted support that can replace the job retention scheme and develop those sectors where it is most needed\" - such as retail, hospitality and aviation.\n\n\"Imagine how powerful it would be if we all shared a national plan to protect jobs, create new ones and invest in skills and trade,\" he added.\n\n\"So I'm making an open offer to the prime minister: work with us to keep millions of people in work, work with the trade unions, work with businesses and do everything possible to protect jobs and deliver for workers. My door is open.\"\n\nPolitically, Keir Starmer's language was at least as interesting as his post-furlough policies.\n\nFirst, his call for a \"national plan\" and his offer of an \"open door\" to government.\n\nHe is attempting to appear as a consensus-builder, and placing responsibility for any lack of engagement on Boris Johnson.\n\nThis is felt to be a more effective tactic than unadulterated criticism - offering potential solutions as well as pointing out problems.\n\nIt has caused teeth-gnashing amongst some on his party's left, however.\n\nSecond, and perhaps more significantly, was the language he used to encase a commitment that Jeremy Corbyn could have made.\n\nThe re-hiring of employees on worse conditions was \"against British values\" and hit those who worked hard he said and should be banned.\n\nThis terminology is aimed at those residing amidst the ruins of the red wall, presenting left-wing positions that might appeal to them as \"patriotic\".\n\nThe question for the future is how far Keir Starmer will feel he has to change previous Labour policies rather than to re-badge them.\n\nOther proposals from Labour include expanding part-time working and rewarding employers who give people hours rather than cut jobs, and providing training and support for those who can't come back full-time.\n\n\"We know only too well the scarring effect massive mass unemployment will have on communities and families across the country,\" Sir Keir added.\n\n\"We cannot let that happen again.\"\n\nThe Labour leader praised trade unions as \"unsung heroes\" saying: \"Without you there would have been no furlough scheme, no life raft for seven million people.\"\n\nAnd he pledged to \"stand together\" with the unions under his leadership.\n\nDuring questions from union members, Sir Keir also called for a \"different approach\" to the care sector, which he said had been \"underpaid and undervalued\" for years.\n\nAnd asked about the return to workplaces, he criticised the government communications for \"being all over the place\" but said going back safely was \"in the best interest of everybody and in the best interests of the country\".", "The Unite union has called on the government to say it will extend its furlough scheme or face \"redundancy floodgates\" opening in the UK.\n\nMany workers can expect a \"miserable Christmas\" without targeted support for employers, the union warned.\n\nThe government's furlough programme will end on 31 October.\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said the government had \"not hesitated to act in creative and effective ways to support jobs and we will continue to do so\".\n\nWednesday marks 45 days before the end of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, which is the same amount of time employers must give for notice of redundancy.\n\nThe call comes amid growing evidence that the winding down of the scheme is leading to more plans for job cuts.\n\nThe number of firms that notified the government in June about plans to cut 20 or more jobs was five times higher than in the same month last year, figures obtained by the BBC show.\n\nA Freedom of Information request shows that in June, 1,778 firms said they were intending to cut more than 139,000 jobs in England, Wales and Scotland.\n\nIn total, nine million people have been furloughed for at least one three-week period since March,\n\nHowever, about 695,000 UK workers have gone from the payrolls of UK companies since then and it is feared that more will follow if the government stops paying to safeguard jobs.\n\nUnite said that without \"a clear and urgent sign\" from the government that it was responding to calls to extend the scheme, it feared that \"employers facing short-term struggles will issue redundancy notices\".\n\nThe government has been urged by MPs, business groups, unions and political opponents to continue the furlough programme, in which workers placed on leave receive 80% of their pay, up to a maximum of £2,500 a month.\n\nThe scheme, which has cost more than £35bn, was initially funded by the government, but firms started to contribute to wages in September after the scheme began to wind down.\n\nLast week, the Treasury Select Committee said the government should consider a targeted extension of the scheme.\n\nUnite general secretary Len McCluskey said a signal from the government would \"put a floor under struggling employers who are working hard to stabilise in the face of immense challenges\".\n\n\"With our competitor nations announcing the extension or modification of their jobs retention schemes, we ask that your government recognises the need for UK businesses and workers to receive similar support,\" Mr McCluskey wrote in a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nA spokeswoman said Unite wanted to see support for sectors including manufacturing, aviation infrastructure, aerospace and hospitality.\n\nThe government has repeatedly rebuffed the calls for an extension to the scheme, saying that it has served its purpose in cushioning the economy during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has said his priority is to find new ways to protect jobs.\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said: \"The furlough scheme has done what it was designed to do - save jobs and help people back into employment.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said the government had made \"unprecedented interventions\", including firms being given £1,000 for every furloughed worker still employed in January, business rates holidays, VAT cuts and the Kickstart scheme, which gives young people jobs experience.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Miliband to Johnson: \"He hasn't read the bill\"\n\nA proposed law giving Boris Johnson's government the power to override parts of the Brexit agreement with the EU has passed its first hurdle in the Commons.\n\nMPs backed the Internal Market Bill by 340 votes to 263.\n\nMinisters say it contains vital safeguards to protect Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, if negotiations on a future trade deal break down.\n\nBut critics, including a number of Tory MPs, warned it risks damaging the UK by breaching international law.\n\nTwo Tory MPs voted against the bill on Monday night - Sir Roger Gale and Andrew Percy - while a further 30 abstained, although some of those may not have been for political reasons.\n\nAlthough the government has a majority of 80 in the Commons, it is braced for further rebellions in the coming weeks as the legislation receives detailed scrutiny.\n\nSeveral prominent Conservatives, including former Chancellor Sajid Javid - who appeared to abstain on Monday - have said they could not support the final bill unless it is amended.\n\nBut Home Secretary Priti Patel insisted it put the \"safeguards and mechanisms in place to ensure that we stay true to the people of Northern Ireland\".\n\nSir Roger Gale, the Tory MP for North Thanet in Kent, told the BBC's Newsnight he had voted against the bill as a \"matter of principle\" to uphold international law.\n\n\"I think that this is damaging our international reputation for honest and straight-dealing at a time when we are about to embark on a series of trade negotiations. I took a view that you fight this tooth and nail at every step.\"\n\nHe suggested other colleagues were \"holding their fire\" until later in the bill's passage, with a group led by ex-minister Sir Bob Neill pressing for a \"parliamentary lock\" on the government's ability to exercise the powers.\n\n\"I'm not remotely surprised that I am a tiny minority. I think that may change next Tuesday,\" he added.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, former Conservative leader Lord Hague also warned against breaching international law, saying it would be \"a serious foreign policy error\".\n\n\"It would have a lasting and damaging effect on our international reputation and standing, diminishing our ability to exert our influence and protect our interests.\"\n\nMs Patel told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the government was still working closely with the EU to \"settle on our future relationship\".\n\nBut she defended the bill, saying it stood by the party's manifesto commitments from the 2019 election to \"ensure peace, security and good governance for the whole of the United Kingdom\".\n\nThe bill is designed to enable goods and services to flow freely across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland when the UK leaves the EU's single market and customs union on 1 January.\n\nBut, controversially, it gives the government the power to change aspects of the EU withdrawal agreement, a legally-binding deal governing the terms of the UK's exit from the EU earlier this year.\n\nMinisters say this is a failsafe mechanism in case the EU interprets the agreement, in particular the Northern Ireland Protocol designed to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland, in an \"extreme and unreasonable\" way.\n\nBoris Johnson's government has a hefty majority. It was never going to lose Monday night's vote in the Commons.\n\nDowning Street calculates that most of the public won't pay that much attention to yet more Westminster argy-bargy about the Brexit process.\n\nIn turn, many Tory MPs are sure that the wrangling over the UK Internal Market Bill won't filter through to their constituents.\n\nAnd where it does, they would much more likely take the side of the government taking a tough line with the EU than share the concerns of former prime ministers or august lawyers foaming about the government's behaviour.\n\nAnd yet - first off, to state the obvious, opposition from former occupants of No 10, former chancellors and former cabinet ministers is not exactly a sign of peace and harmony.\n\nBut the resistance to No 10 goes beyond the usual suspects this time.\n\nDuring a five-hour debate, Mr Johnson claimed the EU's current approach could lead to excessive checks and even tariffs on goods moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nHe said the bill would ensure the UK's \"economic and political integrity\", accusing the EU of making unfair demands to \"exert leverage\" in the trade talks - including a threat to block food exports.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I have absolutely no desire to use these measures\"\n\nBut ministers also said they would listen to concerns, insisting that the powers being sought would only be used if other legal avenues had been exhausted and only if MPs explicitly voted to activate them.\n\nA government spokesman said it was vital the bill - which is expected to face stern opposition in the House of Lords - becomes law by the end of the year when EU law will cease to have effect in the UK.\n\n\"It will protect the territorial integrity of the UK and the peace in Northern Ireland, safeguarding trade and jobs across all four corners of the UK following the end of the transition period,\" he said.\n\nThe PM also held a call with Conservative members of the House of Lords on Monday night.\n\nLabour said the PM was reneging on a deal he himself signed earlier this year, and on which Conservative MPs campaigned in the 2019 election, and was \"trashing\" the UK's reputation.\n\nBut the Commons also voted against a Labour amendment to reject the bill entirely by 349 votes to 213.\n\nMPs will now begin detailed scrutiny of the bill on Tuesday with Conservative MPs seeking further assurances that the UK will not betray its treaty obligations.", "Sportswear firm Nike has seen a huge rise in online sales as it bounces back from a coronavirus slump.\n\nThe US company saw digital sales rocket 82% during the June to August quarter, offsetting falling revenue in its stores.\n\nOn Tuesday, Nike posted revenue of $10.6bn (£8.3bn) as many of its key markets recovered including China.\n\nFor its previous quarter revenues were down by more than a third as it tackled store closures and lockdowns globally.\n\nNike chief executive John Donahoe said the shift to online sales could be a permanent trend.\n\n\"We know that digital is the new normal. The consumer today is digitally grounded and simply will not revert back,\" Mr Donahoe said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mike Martin led the Guildford Heat to becoming one of the most successful teams in the UK\n\nSales are growing in its major markets including China, Japan, South Korea and the UK, while its core North American market is declining.\n\nNike's shares rose more than 10% in late trading in the US, as the results were better than Wall Street had expected.\n\nNike has been using its website and shopping apps to release limited edition footwear.\n\nThe sportswear giant has been transforming itself to sell directly to customers over the past few years, reducing its store presence and retail partners.\n\nWhile many gyms have been closed during the pandemic, sportswear makers have reported strong demand for more casual attire as more people work and exercise at home.\n\nRival Adidas said last month that it was seeing improving sales trends while yoga pants maker Lululemon posted a 157% jump in its online business.\n\nLike many other retailers, Nike is still limiting the number of people who can come into its stores at once to try to help curb the spread of the virus.\n\nBut when people do visit, they're coming with the intent to buy, Nike said.", "The Treasury has scrapped plans for an Autumn Budget this year because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"As we heard this week, now is not the right time to outline long-term plans - people want to see us focused on the here and now,\" the Treasury said.\n\n\"So we are confirming today that there will be no Budget this autumn.\"\n\nThere will however be a spending review to set out the overall shape of government spending, BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg reported.\n\nTypically, the government outlines the state of the country's finances in the Budget and, crucially, proposes tax changes.\n\nBut any such decisions will now be put on hold until next year. Instead, the government will reveal how much each department is allowed to spend.\n\nA Treasury source told the BBC: \"No-one wanted to be in this situation but we need to respond to it.\n\n\"The chancellor has shown he has been creative in the past and we hope that people will trust us to continue in that vein.\"\n\nThe source said that \"giving people reassurance and businesses the help they need\" was \"uppermost\" in the chancellor's mind.\n\nAnother source said that \"jobs, jobs, jobs\", have always been the chancellor's priority.\n\nThe decision to scrap the Budget comes as no surprise, according to Genevieve Morris head of corporate tax at accountancy firm Blick Rothenberg.\n\n\"It would have been difficult for the chancellor to announce tax changes in the autumn which are aimed at recouping the costs of the pandemic, whilst the country is still in the grip of a second wave,\" she said.\n\n\"What we need from the chancellor now is a promise that there will not be overnight tax changes announced in the autumn, or reforms which put additional burden on individuals and businesses.\"\n\nNews of the decision to cancel the Budget came just hours after Chancellor Rishi Sunak said he would unveil his \"winter economy plan\".\n\n\"As our response to coronavirus adapts, tomorrow afternoon I will update the House of Commons on our plans to continue protecting jobs through the winter,\" he tweeted on Wednesday.\n\nThe chancellor has been facing mounting pressure to say what will happen after the government's furlough scheme expires at the end of October.", "The governor of the Bank of England has called for the government to \"stop and rethink\" the furlough scheme.\n\nThe Job Retention Scheme is due to finish at the end of next month.\n\nBut speaking on a webinar hosted by the British Chambers of Commerce, Andrew Bailey suggested specific sectors may benefit from further help.\n\nThere are fears unemployment could spike when the furlough scheme ends, as firms struggle to retain workers.\n\nIn August, Mr Bailey told the BBC he backed ending the scheme, saying workers should be helped to move on rather than stay in unproductive jobs.\n\nBut on Tuesday, he suggested he was now open-minded about further intervention.\n\nHe said the furlough scheme \"has been successful\" and that he supported the chancellor's decisions, not wanting to \"tie his hands\".\n\nBut he added: \"We have moved from a world of generalised employment protections, to specific and focused areas.\"\n\nMr Bailey noted that at the peak of the crisis, about 30% of private sector employers were using the furlough scheme, but it was now used most heavily by industries such as hospitality, retail and culture.\n\n\"[Furlough] has helped manage the shock, to firms and to labour [but now] the use of it, as far as we can tell, is more concentrated,\" he said.\n\n\"I think it is therefore sensible to stop and rethink the approach going forward, without any commitment to what that might be.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, Whitbread, which owns Premier Inn and Beefeater, announced plans to cut 6,000 staff just days after the furlough scheme is due to end in October. Meanwhile, Wetherspoon said it would shed up to 450 workers at pubs in airports.\n\nAnd Mr Bailey's comments were made just hours before the Prime Minister Boris Johnson took to his feet in the Commons to reinstate guidance that office workers stay at home and confirm that pubs and restaurants will be forced to close at 22:00 from Thursday.\n\nUK Hospitality said the move was \"effectively a lockdown\" for city centre bars and restaurants.\n\n\"This is a huge, huge blow to hospitality and it will be potentially fatal for many businesses,\" it said.\n\nMr Bailey's comments echo the opinion of Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, who has called on the government not to remove all support in one go.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keir Starmer says he would not “be doing a hypothetical for what would happen after May”.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has refused to rule out the possibility of supporting a second referendum on Scottish independence in the long term.\n\nBut he told the BBC a vote like the one held in 2014 was \"not needed\" soon and the focus should be on \"rebuilding\" the economy and services after coronavirus.\n\nHis party would not campaign for a referendum in next May's Scottish Parliament elections, he added.\n\nThe SNP government in Scotland wants to hold one as soon as possible.\n\nIn an interview with BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, Sir Keir also said Labour would \"betray\" voters \"if we don't take more seriously winning elections and actually changing lives\".\n\nAnd he argued Prime Minister Boris Johnson did not have \"the right character\" to deal with the challenges posed by the pandemic.\n\nWhen Scotland's voters were asked in a referendum in 2014 whether the country should become independent, 55% said no.\n\nBut the SNP has campaigned for a second poll since the UK's 2016 decision - in the Brexit referendum - to leave the EU.\n\nIt says the difference between the UK-wide result and that in Scotland - which chose by 62% to 38% to remain within the bloc - strengthens the case for independence.\n\nIt has also been suggested that, following the next UK general election, expected in 2024, Labour could need the support of the SNP if it wants to form a government. This might, it is added, require a deal on having another referendum.\n\nSir Keir said: \"We will be going into that election in May making it very clear that another divisive referendum on independence in Scotland is not what is needed.\n\n\"What is needed is an intense focus on rebuilding the economy, on making sure public services are rebuilt as well and dealing with the pandemic.\"\n\nPressed on what would happen after May, Sir Keir said: \"We don't know... In politics, people tell you with great certainty what is going to happen next year and the year after, but it doesn't always turn out that way.\"\n\nHe added: \"I am setting out the argument we will make into May. I am not doing a hypothetical of what will happen after that.\"\n\nThe Scottish government, led by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, had hoped to hold an independence referendum during the current term of the Scottish Parliament.\n\nHowever, ministers wanted to secure an agreement with the UK government to make sure any vote would be legally watertight, something Mr Johnson has repeatedly stated his opposition to.\n\nWork on preparations for a ballot was paused after coronavirus hit, but the Scottish government has promised to set out plans in a draft bill.\n\nLabour, once dominant in Scotland, currently has 23 Members of the Scottish Parliament, putting it third behind the SNP, on 61, and the Conservatives, on 31.\n\nSpeaking for the UK government, Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove raised doubts about the Labour leader's comments, saying: \"Sir Keir Starmer has a problem accepting referendum results.\n\n\"He tried to block Brexit, and now he wants to work with Nicola Sturgeon to renege on the Scottish referendum result and break up the UK.\"\n\nSir Keir replaced Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader in April, following the party's worst general election result - in terms of seats - since 1935.\n\nRecent UK opinion polls have suggested support for the party under his stewardship is now close to that for Mr Johnson's Conservatives.\n\nBut some trade unions, including Unite and the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), have raised concerns over Sir Keir's leadership.\n\nThe FBU has warned him not to \"water down\" pledges on workers' rights and the environment that he made when running for the job.\n\nIn his speech on Monday to Labour's annual conference, Sir Keir told his party to \"get serious about winning\".\n\nSpeaking to Laura Kuenssberg, he said: \"When you lose four elections in a row, you have lost the chance to change lives for the better and we have gifted the Tories a decade or more of power. That is not what the Labour Party is there for.\"\n\nHe also said: \"The Labour Party's historic mission was to represent working people in Parliament and to form governments to change lives, and we betray that if we don't take more seriously winning elections and actually changing lives.\"", "A true icon of the French chanson, Juliette Gréco, has died aged 93 after a fabled career that spanned eight decades.\n\nBorn in 1927, Gréco was imprisoned by the Nazis during World War Two, but afterwards began performing in cellar clubs and cafes.\n\nDressed in black, she became a muse to philosophers and writers including Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus.\n\nShe only stopped performing aged 89 after a farewell tour.\n\nGréco was also a celebrated actor, working with some of cinema's greats, such as Jean Cocteau and Ingrid Bergman, Orson Welles and Ava Gardner.\n\nIn France she achieved great success in the mid-1960s, playing the role of a schizophrenic in the spooky TV miniseries Belphégor.\n\nShe sang with Jacques Brel and Georges Brassens. Her haunting rendition of Sous le ciel de Paris (Under Paris Skies) is one of the classics of the French chanson.\n\nGréco's career began in the late 1940s but continued until 2016\n\nBut she was loved internationally too, from Germany to Japan and beyond. In 1967, she sang in front of 60,000 people in Berlin and in 2005 released an album of songs in German.\n\nShe was married three times but also had a long affair with jazz trumpeter Miles Davis.\n\nWhat was it about Gréco that makes her death touch us so deeply, asked Le Monde. Her voice, elegance, power, and flying, spinning hands, it said.\n\nGréco was less a composer than a great interpreter of other people's songs.\n\nThe French newspaper, Libération, said she spat and caressed \"the words like a Fauvist painter crushes colours onto his canvas with his knife\".\n\nSi Tu T'imagines, Parlez-moi d`Amour and Je Suis Comme Je Suis were the big hits of the early years. Later, there were collaborations with Serge Gainsbourg too.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool's home match against Arsenal has been brought forward by 15 minutes, with all midweek Premier League games to finish before the new UK pub curfew.\n\nThe game at Anfield on Monday will now kick off at 20:00 BST.\n\nThe other match taking place that evening - Fulham against Aston Villa - has also been brought forward by 15 minutes to 17:45.\n\nThey are the last midweek fixtures in September, with none yet to be scheduled for October.\n\nThe Premier League has also announced that every game over the weekend of 3-5 October will be shown live on Sky Sports or BT Sport.\n\nAll the matches that weekend will now be behind closed doors after the UK government scrapped plans to allow spectators to return to sports venues on a socially distanced basis from 1 October.\n• None Amazing recipes and food hacks that won't break the bank", "The Prime Minister defended his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nLabour Leader Sir Keir Starmer accused the prime minister of “losing control of testing” and “losing control of the virus”.\n\nHe said the prime minister was “really out of touch” with what parents were experiencing when trying to get coronavirus tests for their children.\n\nThe prime minister said it was an “epidemical fact” that the virus spreads person to person and that testing capacity was at “at a record high”.\n\nHe said Sir Keir should stop knocking the testing regime “from the side lines” as it was important to “encourage people to believe in it.”\n\nBoth the Labour leader and the SNP’s Westminster leader Ian Blackford called on the government to extend the furlough scheme beyond October.\n\nIan Blackford said workers were “facing the dogs” if the scheme wasn’t extended.\n\nAnd Labour backbencher Grahame Morris said there would be a “tsunami of job losses” if a targeted expansion wasn’t brought it.\n\nMr Johnson said the government would “bring forward creative and imaginative schemes to keep the economy going” and “keep them in work”.\n\nHe said the “essence” of what the government was doing was to “depress the virus, keep pupils in school, keep economy going”", "China will aim to hit peak emissions before 2030 and for carbon neutrality by 2060, President Xi Jinping has announced.\n\nMr Xi outlined the steps when speaking via videolink to the UN General Assembly in New York.\n\nThe announcement is being seen as a significant step in the fight against climate change.\n\nChina is the world's biggest source of carbon dioxide, responsible for around 28% of global emissions.\n\nWith global climate negotiations stalled and this year's conference of the parties (COP26) postponed until 2021, there had been little expectation of progress on the issue at the UN General Assembly.\n\nHowever China's president surprised the UN gathering by making a bold statement about his country's plans for tackling emissions.\n\nHe called on all countries to achieve a green recovery for the world economy in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAccording to the official translation, Mr Xi went on to say:\n\n\"We aim to have CO2 emissions peak before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060.\"\n\nUntil now China has said it would peak its emissions by 2030 at the latest, but it has avoided committing to a long-term goal.\n\nEmissions from China continued to rise in 2018 and 2019 even as much of the world began to shift away from fossil fuels.\n\nWhile the Covid-19 crisis this spring saw the country's emissions plunge by 25%, by June they had bounced back again as coal-fired plants, cement and other heavy industries went back to work.\n\nIn 2014 the US and China reached a surprise agreement on climate change\n\nObservers believe that in making this statement at this time, the Chinese leader is taking advantage of US reluctance to address the climate question.\n\n\"Xi Jinping's climate pledge at the UN, minutes after President Donald Trump's speech, is clearly a bold and well calculated move,\" said Li Shuo, an expert on Chinese climate policy from Greenpeace Asia.\n\n\"It demonstrates Xi's consistent interest in leveraging the climate agenda for geopolitical purposes.\"\n\nBack in 2014 Mr Xi and then US-President Barack Obama came to a surprise agreement on climate change, which became a key building block of the Paris agreement signed in December 2015.\n\nMr Xi has again delivered a surprise according to Li Shuo.\n\n\"By playing the climate card a little differently, Xi has not only injected much needed momentum to global climate politics, but presented an intriguing geopolitical question in front of the world: on a global common issue, China has moved ahead regardless of the US. Will Washington follow?\"\n\nThere are many questions about the announcement that remain unanswered, including what is meant exactly by carbon neutrality and what actions the country will take to get there.\n\n\"Today's announcement by President Xi Jinping that China intends to reach carbon neutrality before 2060 is big and important news - the closer to 2050 the better,\" said former US climate envoy Todd Stern.\n\n\"His announcement that China will start down this road right away by adopting more vigorous policies is also welcome. Simply peaking emissions 'before 2030' won't be enough to put China on the rapid path needed for carbon neutrality, but overall this is a very encouraging step.\"\n\nThis week has seen the second lowest Arctic sea ice minimum on record\n\nMost observers agreed that the announcement from China was a significant step, not least because of the country's role in financing fossil fuel development around the world.\n\n\"China isn't just the world's biggest emitter but the biggest energy financier and biggest market, so its decisions play a major role in shaping how the rest of the world progresses with its transition away from the fossil fuels that cause climate change,\" said Richard Black, director of the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU), a UK-based think tank.\n\n\"The announcement today is also a major fillip for the European Union, whose leaders recently urged President Xi to take exactly this step as part of a joint push on lowering emissions, showing that international moves to curb climate change remain alive despite the best efforts of Donald Trump and [Brazil's president] Jair Bolsonaro in the run-up to next year's COP26 in Glasgow.\"", "Scotland recorded 486 new positive coronavirus tests which represented the biggest single day's number since mass testing began.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the figures were concerning, and underlined why new restrictions had been imposed.\n\nBut she acknowledged many more people were being tested now than at the peak of the outbreak in mid-April.\n\nMs Sturgeon said 224 of the new cases were in Greater Glasgow and Clyde, with 107 in Lanarkshire and 57 in Lothian.\n\nThe number of positive tests was 103 higher than the figure recorded on Tuesday, bringing the total number of cases in Scotland to 25,495.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the number in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area included a \"significant\" outbreak at Glasgow University.\n\nTesting strategy has changed radically in Scotland since the peak of the outbreak and there is now widespread community testing, including near to university campuses.\n\nOn 15 April, 1,209 people were tested, but six times that number were being tested by mid-September.\n\nFrom Wednesday, people across Scotland were banned from visiting other people's homes, with Ms Sturgeon warning that the virus risks \"spiralling out of control\" unless urgent action is taken.\n\nThe move, which had already been in force in Glasgow and other areas of the west of Scotland, means the country has tougher coronavirus restrictions than England, where people can can still meet in groups of up to six in a house.\n\nScotland, like England, will also impose a 10pm curfew on pubs and restaurants from Friday - which the trade has warned could cost jobs and force some premises to close completely.\n\nScotland is currently carrying out about 10 times more tests every day than it was at the height of the outbreak in April.\n\nSpeaking at her daily briefing on Wednesday, the first minister said: \"The total number of positive cases reported yesterday was 486 - that is the highest number of positive cases we have ever recorded in a single day.\n\n\"It must be remembered that many more people are being tested now than was the case in the spring.\n\n\"Nevertheless, today's number represents 7.8% of people newly tested. That is obviously a real cause for concern, but it also underlines why we took very decisive and very tough action yesterday.\"\n\nMany pub and restaurant owners have criticised plan to impose a 10pm curfew from Friday\n\nMs Sturgeon also hinted that she would have taken tougher action on pubs than a 10pm curfew if she had \"the ability to bring more financial firepower to mitigate the jobs and economic impact\".\n\nBut Scottish Conservatives leader Douglas Ross accused her of \"making the usual, tired political points\", adding: \"The middle of the pandemic is the wrong time to raise long-standing constitutional grievances.\"\n\nThe BBC understands UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak is looking at options to replace the furlough scheme when it expires at the end of October.\n\nMs Sturgeon had said at the end of June that she believed Scotland was \"not far away\" from eliminating the virus.\n\nOn Wednesday, she said she could understand why many people felt like the country was now \"back to square one\" after the new nationwide restriction on visiting other homes was imposed.\n\nShe said this was \"emphatically not the case\", despite the recent resurgence in cases.\n\nThe first minister said: \"For a start, the action we took to suppress the virus over the summer meant that we have faced this resurgence from a lower base.\n\n\"That matters, and it is entirely thanks to the lockdown restrictions and all of the individual sacrifices that everyone has made.\"\n\nShe said the rise in the number of cases was accelerating, but was still \"not as rapid\" as earlier in the year.\n\nA protest against the continuing closure of soft play facilities across Scotland was held outside the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday\n\nAnd she insisted that the country's test and protect contact tracing system was \"working well\" and was succeeding in breaking transmission chains.\n\nHowever, Scottish Labour MSP Monica Lennon said the system had struggled to cope when schools returned in August, and said there was still not enough routine testing in hospitals, care homes and schools.\n\nShe also called for routine testing to be done in universities, adding: \"I think we have to be much more ambitious on testing in Scotland and right across the UK.\"\n\nMs Lennon said: \"We are still not testing enough. What we need to see in the coming days and weeks is mass testing being rolled out.\n\n\"We are in react mode and we didn't have the foresight to put measures in place\".\n\nAll 500 students at Parker House in Dundee are self-isolating\n\nSeveral universities across Scotland have been dealing with outbreaks of the virus in recent days - with 500 students at a hall of residence in Dundee being told to self-isolate after a positive case and several suspected cases emerged.\n\nIn a direct appeal to students, Ms Sturgeon said they must follow the rules on self-isolating if told to do so.\n\nAnd she said the government would not hesitate to toughen the rules for colleges and universities if necessary.\n\nIt later emerged that 124 students at the University of Glasgow had tested positive since the start of term, with social interaction in Freshers Week thought to be largely to blame.", "John Lennon would have been 80 on 9 October\n\nFor the first time, Sean Ono Lennon has interviewed Sir Paul McCartney about his relationship with his father, John.\n\n\"I look back on it now like a fan,\" says Sir Paul of meeting Lennon.\n\n\"How lucky was I to meet this strange Teddy Boy off the bus, who played music like I did and we get together and boy, we complemented each other!\"\n\nThe discussion will be part of a special two-part Radio 2 programme, John Lennon at 80, marking what would have been the late Beatle's birthday.\n\nDuring the chat, Sir Paul also plays one of the first ever Lennon-McCartney songs, Just Fun.\n\nWritten as the teenagers played truant from school, it has never been officially recorded - although a snippet was previously heard in the Beatles' Let It Be movie.\n\nSpeaking to Sean, Sir Paul admitted his first attempts at writing with John \"weren't very good\".\n\n\"Eventually, we started to write slightly better songs and then enjoyed the process of learning together so much that it really took off.\"\n\nThe documentary will also feature interviews with Sean's half-brother, Julian, and his godfather Sir Elton John.\n\nRadio 2 boss Helen Thomas said: \"John Lennon is one of the Radio 2 audience's most popular and best-loved musicians, so we're thrilled and honoured that Sean's first ever radio programme in which he talks at length about his father, alongside his brother Julian, Paul McCartney and Elton John, will be broadcast on our network.\"\n\nThe programmes will be available on 3 and 4 October, ahead of Lennon's birthday on 9 October.\n\nThe star was shot dead outside his New York apartment in 1980. Earlier this week, it emerged that his killer, Mark Chapman, had apologised to Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, at a parole hearing in August.\n\n\"I just want to reiterate that I'm sorry for my crime,\" Chapman told the parole board at the Wende Correctional Facility in New York.\n\n\"It was an extremely selfish act. I'm sorry for the pain that I caused to her [Ono]. I think about it all of the time.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has used a national TV address to urge the public to \"summon the discipline and the resolve\" to follow the new coronavirus rules announced on Tuesday. This is his statement in full:\n\n\"Good evening, the struggle against Covid is the single biggest crisis the world has faced in my lifetime.\n\nIn less than a year this disease has killed almost a million people, and caused havoc to economies everywhere.\n\nHere in the UK we mourn every person we have lost, and we grieve with their families.\n\nAnd yet I am more certain than ever that this is a struggle that humanity will win, and we in this country will win - and to achieve what we must I want to talk to you directly tonight about the choices that we face - none of them easy - and why we must take action now.\n\nI know that we can succeed because we have succeeded before.\n\nWhen the sickness took hold in this country in March, we pulled together in a spirit of national sacrifice and community. We followed the guidance to the letter. We stayed at home, protected the NHS, and saved thousands of lives.\n\nAnd for months with those disciplines of social distancing we have kept that virus at bay.\n\nBut we have to acknowledge this is a great and freedom-loving country; and while the vast majority have complied with the rules there have been too many breaches - too many opportunities for our invisible enemy to slip through undetected.\n\nThe virus has started to spread again in an exponential way. Infections are up, hospital admissions are climbing.\n\nWe can see what is happening in France and Spain, and we know, alas, that this virus is no less fatal than it was in the spring, and that the vast majority of our people are no less susceptible, and the iron laws of geometrical progression are shouting at us from the graphs that we risk many more deaths, many more families losing loved ones before their time.\n\nAnd I know that faced with that risk the British people will want their government to continue to fight to protect them, you, and that is what we are doing, night and day.\n\nAnd yet the single greatest weapon we bring to this fight is the common sense of the people themselves - the joint resolve of this country to work together to suppress Covid now.\n\nSo today I set out a package of tougher measures in England - early closing for pubs, bars; table service only; closing businesses that are not Covid secure; expanding the use of face coverings, and new fines for those that fail to comply; and once again asking office workers to work from home if they can while enforcing the rule of six indoors and outdoors - a tougher package of national measures combined with the potential for tougher local restrictions for areas already in lockdown.\n\nI know that this approach - robust but proportionate - already carries the support of all the main parties in Parliament.\n\nAfter discussion with colleagues in the devolved administrations, I believe this broad approach is shared across the whole UK.\n\nAnd to those who say we don't need this stuff, and we should leave people to take their own risks, I say these risks are not our own.\n\nThe tragic reality of having Covid is that your mild cough can be someone else's death knell.\n\nAnd as for the suggestion that we should simply lock up the elderly and the vulnerable - with all the suffering that would entail - I must tell you that this is just not realistic, because if you let the virus rip through the rest of the population it would inevitably find its way through to the elderly as well, and in much greater numbers.\n\nThat's why we need to suppress the virus now, and as for that minority who may continue to flout the rules, we will enforce those rules with tougher penalties and fines of up to £10,000. We will put more police out on the streets and use the army to backfill if necessary.\n\nAnd of course I am deeply, spiritually reluctant to make any of these impositions, or infringe anyone's freedom, but unless we take action the risk is that we will have to go for tougher measures later, when the deaths have already mounted and we have a huge caseload of infection such as we had in the spring.\n\nIf we let this virus get out of control now, it would mean that our NHS had no space - once again - to deal with cancer patients and millions of other non-Covid medical needs.\n\nAnd if we were forced into a new national lockdown, that would threaten not just jobs and livelihoods but the loving human contact on which we all depend.\n\nIt would mean renewed loneliness and confinement for the elderly and vulnerable, and ultimately it would threaten once again the education of our children. We must do all we can to avoid going down that road again.\n\nBut if people don't follow the rules we have set out, then we must reserve the right to go further.\n\nWe must take action now because a stitch in time saves nine; and this way we can keep people in work, we can keep our shops and our schools open, and we can keep our country moving forward while we work together to suppress the virus.\n\nThat is our strategy, and if we can follow this package together, then I know we can succeed because in so many ways we are better prepared than before.\n\nWe have the PPE, we have the beds, we have the Nightingales, we have new medicines - pioneered in this country - that can help save lives.\n\nAnd though our doctors and our medical advisers are rightly worried about the data now, and the risks over winter, they are unanimous that things will be far better by the spring, when we have not only the hope of a vaccine, but one day soon - and I must stress that we are not there yet - of mass testing so efficient that people will be able to be tested in minutes so they can do more of the things they love.\n\nThat's the hope; that's the dream. It's hard, but it's attainable, and we are working as hard as we can to get there.\n\nBut until we do, we must rely on our willingness to look out for each other, to protect each other. Never in our history has our collective destiny and our collective health depended so completely on our individual behaviour.\n\nIf we follow these simple rules together, we will get through this winter together. There are unquestionably difficult months to come.\n\nAnd the fight against Covid is by no means over. I have no doubt, however, that there are great days ahead.\n\nBut now is the time for us all to summon the discipline, and the resolve, and the spirit of togetherness that will carry us through.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"These are animals that are in danger,\" says a sanctuary volunteer\n\nA tortoise sanctuary has said it has received hundreds of phone calls from owners concerned local lockdowns will affect their pets' hibernation.\n\nEach winter about 200 tortoises hibernate at The International Tortoise Association's temperature-controlled facility in Sully, Vale of Glamorgan.\n\nBut the charity said about a third of its 500 members live in areas facing restrictions, so were unable to travel.\n\n\"These are animals that are in danger,\" a volunteer said.\n\nSix counties in Wales - Caerphilly, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Bridgend, Blaenau Gwent, Merthyr Tydfil and Newport are in lockdown, meaning people cannot enter or leave the counties without a reasonable excuse.\n\nThe charity's founder Ann Ovenstone said: \"They have to get them down to us to put them into hibernation, obviously, because the weather is totally unsuitable in most of Wales.\n\n\"So with all these counties that are now closed down, we will be a little bit worried that they won't be able to bring their tortoise down.\"\n\nVolunteer Celia Claypole has been fielding calls from owners\n\nVolunteer Celia Claypole said: \"We're having calls all the time with these people ringing worried that are they going be able to get to us.\n\n\"Are we going to be locked down? What's going to happen with their tortoise for the winter?\n\n\"These animals are due to go into hibernation and it's something that has to happen.\n\n\"It isn't more important than the health issue that is going on, but it is adding to the stress.\"\n\nTortoises can live to be more than 150 years old\n\nHibernation is vital for most tortoises due to their need to supplement their body with warm air in summer months - the cold-blooded creatures cannot regulate their own body temperature, so their metabolism slows in the colder months.\n\nWith climate conditions in the UK lower than those of tortoises' native habitats, some owners use carefully temperature-regulated environments, such as the Sully sanctuary, to store their hibernating pet over winter at the optimum temperature.\n\nAnn Ovenstone is concerned for the tortoises which would usually stay at the sanctuary during hibernation\n\nWelsh Government guidance published following the latest round of Covid-19 restrictions makes it clear that travel to collect or drop off a pet is not considered essential.\n\nHowever, there is provision for travel in cases of animal welfare but that has given the sanctuary's volunteers little comfort.\n\n\"We have tried to research to find out if we are coming under the category of an emergency,\" Ms Claypole said\n\n\"The way we look at it, these are animals that are in danger\".", "JavaScript seems to be disabled. Please enable JavaScript to take full advantage of iPlayer.", "Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney are interested in investing in Wrexham, the club have announced.\n\nDeadpool and Detective Pikachu star Reynolds and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's McElhenney will share their vision for the club with members at a special general meeting (SGM).\n\nThe fan-owned club's members have voted overwhelmingly for talks to proceed.\n\nAny potential takeover could lead to £2m being invested in the club, which has been in fan ownership since 2011.\n\nA total of 1,223 Wrexham Supporters Trust members - over 95% of those asked - voted for the move and 31 against at a special general meeting on Tuesday.\n\nTrust director Spencer Harris, who expects a further vote from fans on the outline of the deal \"in weeks rather than months\", told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast the deal is in its early stages, but he has known the identity of the would-be backers for some time.\n\n\"We've known for a little while, but we wanted to come as early as we could in the process to involve supporters,\" Harris told the programme.\n\n\"As everybody knows we are community owned and therefore this has become public knowledge a little bit earlier than it would in any other normal circumstance, but yeah it's out there now so people know all about it.\n\n\"We started talking through representatives of theirs, talking about the club, and we're now in a position where we are able, following the SGM on Tuesday night, to get into detailed discussions about what a takeover deal could look like.\n\n\"There is some way to go and at the end of the day it will be the supporters who decide what the future direction of the club will be.\"\n\nMr Reynolds, who was among the world's highest paid actors this year after appearing in the Netflix films 6 Underground and Red Notice, has been a shareholder in Aviation American Gin since 2018.\n\nIn August 2020 drinks giant Diageo bought Aviation American, along with three other spirits, as part of a $610m (£460m) deal.\n\nHarris has been impressed by their enthusiasm and approach to a possible takeover of the National League club.\n\n\"I've spoken to both of them several times,\" Harris explained.\n\n\"They are very serious, professional and successful people, not just as actors but in the business world as well and this is a very serious endeavour for them and they'll set out their vision in due course, but I know they are very passionate about this and have gone into a lot of depth to understand about the football club.\"\n\nSo far it is unclear why the Hollywood 'A-listers' are interested in a fifth-tier UK football club in north Wales.\n\n\"I think that's a question for them in good time,\" said Harris.\n\n\"I would answer 'why not?', because for us as Wrexham fans we are the third oldest professional team in the world, the oldest in Wales and play at the oldest international stadium anywhere in the world.\n\n\"We are a team with a proud history that's beaten Porto in the European Cup Winners Cup and there's lot's of potential at the club, so why not?\"\n\n\"But... I don't want to get in front of them setting out their vision for the club which they will do in due course.\"\n\nApproval from members for a deal would see the Trust relinquish control of running the club.\n\n\"It's very exciting news for a lot of people, but supporters will make a decision on whether this goes forward or not,\" explained Harris.\n\n\"Of course I would imagine we would see them at the Racecourse and we may have done already had it not been for Covid-19.\n\n\"It's a difficult time for all of football, not just at our level, even clubs at Premier League level are taking significant loans from government.\n\n\"We are in a relatively decent position versus many so there's no particular burning platform at the football club as we speak right now, however investment into any football club, especially at this level, does make quite some difference and obviously these are very serious professionals, successful people who I'm sure would have a lot to bring to any business.\"\n\nIt would not be the first time Hollywood stars have become involved with a Welsh club, with US star of The Office Mindy Kaling revealed as being among the stakeholders in an American consortium that purchased a controlling stake in Swansea City in 2016.", "It's not a day for optimists, even though the prime minister himself is one of that tribe.\n\nTomorrow, it will be six months exactly since he told the nation to stay at home.\n\nThis time, Boris Johnson stopped well short of slamming the country's doors shut.\n\nBut what really stood out in his long statement in a miserable-looking Commons was his message that the limits put in place today will last another six months.\n\nEven if you are very fond of your own company, lucky enough to have a secure job you enjoy and a comfy spare room where you can do it, it is quite something to contemplate.\n\nThe government now expects that all our lives will be subject to restrictions of one kind or another for a whole year - March 2020 to March 2021.\n\nAs each month ticks by, it becomes harder to imagine a return to anything like normal political life, or, more importantly, the way we all live.\n\nWe may not be waiting for a return to life as we knew it, but grinding through a moment of change.\n\nBut if you were listening carefully, something else was different too.\n\nThe country became familiar with the slogan \"Stay At Home, Protect the NHS, Save Lives\" - it was emblazoned on government lecterns, repeated again and again by government ministers in interview after interview, on bus shelters, pop-up ads on the internet, wherever you looked.\n\nThat phrase was retired after the most intense period of the lockdown, but echoed today with one important additional condition.\n\nBoris Johnson's driver today was to \"save lives, protect the NHS\" and \"shelter the economy\".\n\nAs we discussed here yesterday, concerns about the economy played more strongly in Downing Street after fierce resistance from backbenchers, and arguments from the next-door neighbour in No 11 of the economic risks of a short, sharp closure programme.\n\nFears about how the country makes a living have always been part of the decision-making process for the government, grappling with these acute dilemmas.\n\nBut the political appetite inside the Tory party for sweeping restrictions has certainly dimmed.\n\nThe changes announced today do make economic recovery harder, the \"bounce back\" the government dreamt of looks harder to achieve, but they are not as draconian as they may otherwise have been.\n\nThe choices made by Nicola Sturgeon to restrict social lives much further than in England, as in Northern Ireland, point to that difference.\n\nMinisters used to make great play of following the science, now they are certainly following the politics too.\n\nOnly the unknowable progress of the disease will, in time, suggest which call was right.\n• None What's the guidance for Covid in the UK now?", "Truck drivers will need a permit to enter Kent after the Brexit transition period ends, the government has said.\n\nThe announcement comes after a letter from cabinet minister Michael Gove warned that queues 7,000-trucks-long could clog up roads around the port of Dover and Channel Tunnel.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, Mr Gove said the Kent Access Permit system would be enforced by police and ANPR cameras.\n\nIt is intended to ensure drivers have all the paperwork they need, he said.\n\nDrivers of lorries weighing more than 7.5 tonnes will need to apply for the permits online and show that they have all the paperwork they need to ferry goods to Europe.\n\nMr Gove, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, responsible for no-deal planning, wrote to logistics groups with the government's \"reasonable worst-case scenario\" planning for when the UK leaves the EU's single market and customs union rules on 1 January.\n\nIn that scenario, he said just half of big businesses and 20% of small businesses would be ready for the strict application of new EU requirements at the border.\n\n\"In those circumstances that could mean between only 30% and 60% of laden HGVs would arrive at the border with the necessary formalities completed for the goods on board,\" he told MPs.\n\n\"They'd therefore be turned back by the French border authorities, clogging the Dover to Calais crossing.\"\n\nHe said it could lead to delays of up to two days for drivers waiting to cross the Channel. Although he said those queues were likely to subside after businesses learned from seeing their cargo denied access to the continent.\n\nThe transition period is due to expire at the end of the year but only a quarter of businesses are \"fully ready\" for the post-Brexit arrangements, Mr Gove said.\n\nImports will also be disrupted in January, according to the letter sent to the freight industry by Mr Gove.\n\nIt also raises the prospect of a winter spike in Covid-19 leading to absences of port and border staff.\n\nLabour's Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Rachel Reeves, said: \"It is incredible that ministers are only now admitting to their plans to arrest British truckers for entering Kent without new travel passports.\n\nWith just over three months to go, how are businesses meant to prepare amid this Conservative carnival of incompetence?'\"\n\nThe picture of chaos at the border might be familiar from a similar set of projections made for no-deal Brexit a year ago as part of what was known as Operation Yellowhammer.\n\nThe government says this is not a prediction but an illustration of what could be reasonably expected.\n\nMoreover, Mr Gove told parliament on Wednesday the government was \"absolutely determined to do everything that we can to secure a deal\".\n\nAccording to the Cabinet Office document, without a free trade deal and in its reasonable worst-case scenario, there may be \"maximum queues of 7,000 port-bound trucks in Kent and associated maximum delays of up to two days\".\n\n\"Both imports and exports could be disrupted to a similar extent,\" it says.\n\nThe EU is expected to impose full goods controls on the UK, stopping all freight without the correct documentation at the end of the transition period on 1 January.\n\nThe disruption is assumed to build in the first two weeks of January, and could last three months, or longer should France rigorously apply Schengen passport checks on hauliers at Dover and the Channel Tunnel.\n\nThe purpose of this stark communication is to try to get traders to act now to get ready for new border formalities that could help mitigate the disruption.\n\nMr Gove told the industry that this needs to happen irrespective of whether or not there is a deal in the UK-EU trade negotiations.\n\nIn response the freight industry says putting in place the measures needed to avoid border delays will be \"a huge challenge for government and industry\".\n\nLogistics UK, representing road, rail, sea and air haulage firms says it is urging businesses to quickly install and understand the new processes they will need to use.\n\nBut firms need early access to both UK and EU systems so that they can conduct testing and training before 1 January, it says.\n\nA recent meeting between the industry and government was described as a \"washout\", with insiders describing the relationship as \"fraught\" and hauliers fearful that they were being cast as the \"fall guys\" for delays and disruption likely in January.\n\nThere are further issues should there be no trade deal agreed. Hauliers would have to rely on special permits rationed by the Department for Transport, though a mutually beneficial deal here is possible.\n\nBut discussions on these issues await settlement of the impasse in negotiations on state aid and fisheries.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The government is \"not pointing the finger\" at hauliers, Michael Gove told the BBC\n\nIndustry sources have raised the possibility that the UK would have to sign up to EU rules limiting driver hours, in order to get access to EU roads.\n\nAnd there is a specific new reference to France imposing strict passport checks at the \"juxtaposed controls\" currently designed to offer seamless travel across the Channel.\n\n\"There also remains a risk of continuing disruption caused by Schengen controls being applied rigorously at the juxtaposed controls at the Port of Dover and Eurotunnel,\" the document says.", "Uncle Ben's Rice will change its name to Ben's Original and remove the image of a smiling, grey-haired black man from its packaging.\n\nThe change follows through on a pledge its owner Mars Food made in June to review the brand amid global protests over police brutality and racism.\n\nUncle Ben's entered the market in the 1940s and was for decades the best-selling rice in the US.\n\nIts marketing has been criticised for perpetuating racial stereotypes.\n\nTitles such as uncle and aunt were used in southern US states to refer to black people, instead of the more formal and respectful \"Miss\" or \"Mister\".\n\nThe name Uncle Ben's was supposedly inspired by a Texas farmer known for his high-quality rice. The company asked the head waiter at a fancy Chicago restaurant, Frank Brown, to pose as the face of the brand, which launched in 1947.\n\nIn 2007, the company sought to update its marketing with a campaign that cast Ben as chairman of the board, a move away from the previous, more servile presentation.\n\n\"We understand the inequities that were associated with the name and face of the previous brand, and as we announced in June, we have committed to change,\" Mars said.\n\nThe new packaging is expected to begin reaching shops in 2021.\n\nMars said it would also work with the National Urban League in the US to support black chefs with a $2m donation toward scholarships and invest $2.5m in Greenville, Mississippi, where the rice is made.\n\n\"The brand is not just changing its name and image on the package. It is also taking action to enhance inclusion and equity and setting out its new brand purpose to create opportunities that offer everyone a seat at the table,\" the company said.\n\nMars was one of several food giants that promised to review brands in the wake of the protests triggered by George Floyd's death.\n\nEarlier this year, Pepsi said it would overhaul the marketing for its popular Aunt Jemima line of syrups and foods, acknowledging the brand was based on a racial stereotype.\n• None Why firms are speaking out about George Floyd", "Olivia Campbell-Hardy had \"a smile which could cheer anyone up\", her father said\n\nA teenager killed in the Manchester Arena bombing attended the venue after being given a spare ticket, an inquiry has heard.\n\nOlivia Campbell-Hardy, 15, from Bury, was among three friends \"in the running\" for a spot at the Ariana Grande concert before the bombing.\n\nHer grandfather told the inquiry into the attack that she was given the ticket a few days before the event.\n\nSteve Goodman said \"the others didn't stand a chance\" of getting the ticket.\n\nHe said his granddaughter was a \"determined young lady\" and \"music was her life\".\n\nFamilies have been presenting \"pen portraits\" at the inquiry for the final day.\n\nThe portraits are designed to give an insight into the lives of those who died.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed in the bombing in May 2017.\n\nMr Goodman said without Olivia the \"void in their lives is immense\" and life had \"changed forever\".\n\nThe 15-year-old, who wanted to be a music teacher, loved singing and dancing, was \"boisterous and loud\" but also \"gentle\", he said.\n\nMr Goodman said Olivia had not always been well-behaved but managed to \"turn it around with her humour\".\n\nA slideshow of photographs documenting Olivia's life was also shown on a screen while songs featuring Olivia herself singing were played at the hearing at Manchester Magistrates' Court.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed in the Manchester Arena bombing\n\nThe court heard how Olivia had enjoyed \"hanging out with her grandparents\".\n\nMr Goodman said she had changed her plans so she could go on holiday with them but instead he had identified her body that week.\n\nOlivia was known for singing at large family gatherings and loved musicals, he said.\n\nHe said he was \"proud to be her Papa\" and \"our lives have changed forever\".\n\nMr Goodman also read a tribute from Olivia's father Andrew Hardy who, the court heard, was watching from an annexe.\n\nHe said she \"always gave 100%\", had a wonderful sense of humour, and was \"full-on\" from the moment she woke up until she went to sleep.\n\nShe had been dancing since the age of three and had sung at the Manchester Arena with Bury Young Voices singing group.\n\nOlivia was a \"loving child who liked to help people\" and had \"a smile which could cheer anyone up\", the court heard.\n\nJane Tweddle's daughters said she was full of laughter and love\n\nThe inquiry also heard from the three daughters of Jane Tweddle, 51, who was originally from Hartlepool.\n\nA statement from Isabelle, Harriet and Lily Taylor was read by their representative Adam Pater.\n\nThey said their \"warrior\" mother made sure they grew up in a house \"full of laughter\" and she \"always knew how to brighten someone's day and make them feel loved\".\n\nThe court heard Ms Tweddle loved to cook, had \"spontaneous ideas\" and anyone who spent \"even five minutes\" with her would be \"forever changed, and always for the better.\"\n\nMs Tweddle, a secondary school receptionist in Blackpool, was \"friendly and full of life\" and \"made for her job\", the inquiry heard.\n\nHer daughters said when they would ask her for the time their mother would reply: \"It's the time of your life - never forget it.\"\n\n\"We'll hold on to that forever...we love you endlessly, now we all have an angel to call by name,\" they said.\n\nMs Tweddle's mother Margaret Tweddle said what happened that night in Manchester was \"evil\" and \"we won't let evil win. Jane wouldn't want that\".\n\n\"Not a day goes by that I don't miss her smile, laughter and love of life,\" she said.\n\nIn the final pen portrait of the inquiry Alison Howe's best friend Tracy Green read her own tributes and one from Ms Howe's mother, Sue Cann.\n\nMs Howe, 45, from Royton, Oldham, was killed while waiting in the arena foyer with her friend, Lisa Lees, who also died.\n\nMs Green said everyone thought their best friend was perfect but \"mine really was\".\n\n\"She made everyone laugh and smile, even when it wasn't appropriate.\"\n\nThe court heard \"talented musician\" Ms Howe had been close to her mother Sue and had lived on the same street.\n\n\"She would come over and stick her face on the window to let me know she was there - even when she knew it drove me mad, and she would walk through the door laughing,\" Ms Cann said.\n\nThe pair would \"dare each other to do daft things\", go on shopping trips and spa weekends and were \"always laughing\", the court heard.\n\nMs Cann said her daughter \"adored her family. Steven and the children were her everything\".\n\nHer death had left an \"unbelievable\" gaping hole, she said.\n\n\"I still turn around when someone shouts Mum and it's like being stabbed in the heart\".\n\nThe court was shown a video of Alison's husband, Steven Howe.\n\nHe said he could not believe there was anybody as \"caring and well-liked\" as Alison who was \"fantastic inside and out\".\n\nThe family was \"absolutely destroyed\", he said, and it was \"never going to get any easier\".\n\nThe court heard Alison had become a mum to Stephen's four boys and had two daughters and \"couldn't have done a better job\".\n\nOne of the children, Harry had written a poem from her \"super -six\".\n\nHe said she was \"always the glue\" of the family and without her there would have been no laughs and no biscuits.\n\n\"So special, so wonderful, so beautiful and so true\", all six children would love her forever, he said.\n\nMartyn Hett's mother, Figen Murray earlier tweeted it had been heartbreaking to listen to the victims' stories but also a \"privilege to have got to know the persons behind the names\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Figen Murray This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nInquiry chairman Sir John Saunders, thanked the families for sharing their \"intensely personal memories\".\n\nHe said listening to the pen portraits had been a \"deeply affecting\" experience and put those who had died \"at the heart of this inquiry\".\n\n\"They are not a number. Each was an individual, each was unique, each loss of life was a separate tragedy,\" he said.\n\nThe chairman will write a report and recommendations once all the evidence has been heard, which is expected to take up to six months.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTensions between the US and China came to the fore of the annual UN General Assembly in New York, with US President Donald Trump blaming China for the spread of coronavirus.\n\nHe called for China to be held \"accountable\" for the pandemic.\n\nIn his speech, Chinese President Xi Jinping said his country had \"no intention to enter a Cold War with any country\".\n\nTies between the two world powers are strained on a number of fronts.\n\nThis year's summit at New York is largely being held virtually, with world leaders providing pre-recorded speeches.\n\nThe new format meant some of the geopolitical theatre normally on offer at the key UN meeting was absent. Each country was represented by a single delegate and there was little opportunity for one nation to rebut another.\n\nBut as often is the case for speeches to the assembly, President Trump used his address to tout his achievements and tear into a rival.\n\n\"We must hold accountable the nation which unleashed this plague on to the world - China,\" he said.\n\n\"In the earliest days of the virus China locked down travel domestically, while allowing flights to leave China and infect the world. China condemned my travel ban on their country, even as they cancelled domestic flights and locked citizens in their homes,\" he added.\n\nPresident Trump, whose own record on coronavirus is under close scrutiny as the US heads towards elections, has frequently accused Beijing of covering up the virus, saying they could have stopped the disease spreading. China has called the attacks an unfounded distraction.\n\nThe US death toll for coronavirus, at more than 200,000, is the highest in the world and President Trump has often downplayed the disease.\n\nTensions are high between the US and China on a number of other issues, including trade, technology, Hong Kong and China's treatment of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang province.\n\nThe US president's speech came in the form of a pre-recorded message\n\nSpeaking soon after the US leader, President Xi warned of the risks of a \"clash of civilisations\".\n\n\"We will continue to narrow differences and resolve disputes with others through dialogue and negotiation. We will not seek to develop only ourselves or engage in zero sum game,\" he said.\n\nIn remarks released ahead of Tuesday's speech, President Xi took a more overt swipe at the US, saying \"no country has the right to dominate global affairs, control the destiny of others, or keep advantages in development all to itself\", something China itself has been accused of by critics.\n\nAlso in his speech, President Xi said China - the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases - aims to hit peak emissions in 2030 and be carbon neutral by 2060.\n\nThis was a stump speech by President Trump, who faces re-election in 40 days time. He had Beijing firmly in his sights - blaming what he and his followers call the China virus for taking countless lives.\n\nMr Trump is trying to deflect attention from his own handling of the pandemic by heaping opprobrium on China, while emphasising US efforts to find a cure.\n\nWe will end the pandemic, the president pledged, saying thanks to US efforts three vaccines are in the final stage of development. For good measure, Mr Trump lumped the UN's World Health Organization into his critique of China - saying the international body, which he's withdrawing US funding from, is virtually controlled by China, blaming it for spreading what he called misinformation about the virus.\n\nThis was not a subtle speech. It was a clear attempt to shift blame as Americans are already voting in the presidential election.\n\nThe assembly was opened by UN Secretary-General António Guterres, who, without naming China or the US warned \"we must do everything to avoid a new Cold War\".\n\n\"We are moving in a very dangerous direction,\" he said. \"Our world cannot afford a future where the two largest economies split the globe in a great fracture - each with its own trade and financial rules and internet and artificial intelligence capacities.\"\n\nHe said there was no room for self-interest in the face of the coronavirus. \"Populism and nationalism have failed,\" he said. \"Those approaches to contain the virus have often made things manifestly worse.\"\n\nPresident Trump gave a very different vision in his speech, saying \"only when you take care of your own citizens will you find a true basis for co-operation\".", "As the UK introduces tighter covid restrictions, we look back at the six months since lockdown was first announced.\n\nRadio 1 Newsbeat followed young people from the moment life changed back on 23 March.\n\nHaamed is a junior doctor dealing with the sharp end of the medical impact of coronavirus and the tragic consequences. But he's also trying to plan his wedding.\n\nKathryn is also on the wards as a nurse. She's Australian... does she try and get home quickly or stick it out helping here?\n\nJade's another key worker - trying to keep the supermarket shelves stocked with food as shortages soon kick in.\n\nAnd teaching assistant Phoebe decides to move in with her boyfriend's family while worrying about her vulnerable grandparents who are at the other end of the country.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays on Radio 1, 1Xtra or Asian Network - or listen back here.", "McDonald's, Pret a Manger and similar restaurants without an alcohol licence will not need to serve customers at tables, the government has confirmed.\n\nOn Tuesday new rules governing hospitality were announced.\n\nThey mean pubs and other places with licensed premises must provide table service.\n\nConfusion had been sparked after Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab suggested on Wednesday that all restaurants could need table service.\n\nHe told the Today programme: \"In all of the restaurants and hospitality you can go in and order from the tables - what you can't do without a mask is just sit around and mill around.\n\n\"My understanding is that you need to be able to order from the tables. But of course the guidance will be very clear.\"\n\nThe updated guidelines specified that all pubs, bars, restaurants and other hospitality venues in England must have a 22:00 closing time from Thursday.\n\nThese measures are designed to slow the spread of coronavirus.\n\nCases and hospital admissions in the UK are rising again, which prompted the updated guidance.\n\nIndustry group UK Hospitality criticised the government approach, saying restaurants and pubs were having to make changes at short notice.\n\nUK Hospitality chief executive Kate Nicholls said: \"Our understanding is that quick-service restaurants will be exempt from the new rules, but there is certainly a degree of confusion.\n\n\"The government is clearly struggling to catch up with announcements and policy is changing on a daily basis.\n\n\"Businesses deserve better than this when they are expected to follow new rules at short notice. Particularly when those rules are going to have such an impact.\"\n\nMs Nicholls added that the previous guidelines were better for pubs and restaurants as they allowed businesses more flexibility in implementing coronavirus measures.\n\n\"Venues are not identical, even outwardly similar ones, so there is no one-size-fits-all approach that works.\n\n\"Business owners know what works from them in their venues. They are the best placed to know how to control the flow of customers through their business.\"\n\nThe new rules in England state businesses must take customers' contact details by law, so they can be traced if there is a coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThey can be fined up to £10,000 for not doing this, or if they take reservations of more than six, or do not enforce social distancing.\n\nStaff in hospitality venues must now wear masks, as must customers who are not seated at their table to eat or drink.\n\nThe penalty for not wearing a mask, or breaking the ''rule of six'' has doubled to £200 for a first offence.\n\nIn Wales, pubs, bars and restaurants will also have to close by 22:00 from Thursday, with supermarkets and off-licences not allowed to sell alcohol after that time.\n\nIn Scotland, a 22:00 curfew comes in on Friday.\n\nCustomers must wear face coverings if they are not seated at a table.\n• None Pubs in England to close at 10pm amid Covid spread", "Hay-on-Wye, home of a major book festival, is one area that will hold a trial\n\nA financial hub in a Methodist church and drop-and-go deposit points for small firms are among ideas being tested in cash-stricken communities.\n\nLocal people will also have access to cashback from convenience stores - even if they do no shopping.\n\nEight trials have been confirmed as part of a project to help solve problems with access to cash.\n\nThe closure of bank branches and cash machines has led to losses for local firms and has concerned consumers.\n\nThe plan for trials was drawn up in light of a major report warning that the country is \"sleepwalking\" into becoming a cashless society.\n\nIt concluded that eight million people in the UK rely on notes and coins, ranging from those without a bank account to people who are not comfortable with digital payments.\n\nThe eight trial areas, including remote communities such as the village of Botton, North Yorkshire, will test a range of ideas including pop-up Post Offices in small shops, and banking hubs in retail spaces.\n\nFifteen shops in four areas will trial the purchase-free cashback plan. Retailers will be remunerated for providing the service by payment services company PayPoint.\n\n\"It is critical that we find ways to protect the viability of cash, for consumers and communities alike,\" said Natalie Ceeney, who wrote the access to cash report and is overseeing the projects.\n\n\"These pilots are designed to find sustainable ways to keep cash viable locally, which, if successful, can then be rolled out more widely.\"\n\nReports on the progress, or otherwise, of the projects will be published in summer next year.\n\nMs Ceeney said that access to cash machines was not the only answer, particularly for businesses that needed to quickly deposit their takings. She said firm shouldn't have to shut their doors during the day to drive to the nearest bank miles away in another town.\n\nCash is vital to avoid overspending, says 20-year-old civil engineering apprentice Brandon Wilson\n\nNot long ago there were two banks with branches in Ampthill. Then there was one. Now there is none. Currently just one cash machine is left to serve a population of more than 8,000.\n\nResident Brandon Wilson, 20, told the BBC in June that using cash helped him stick more rigidly to his spending plans to ensure he did not spend beyond his means.\n\n\"In general I try and budget my daily routine and having the physical money there means it is harder to spend than just placing a piece of card on to a machine,\" he said.\n\nOther project areas chosen for the trials include the remote Lulworth Camp, a military barracks in Dorset miles away from the nearest cash machine.\n\nSmall towns with thousands of residents which have seen bank branches or cash dispensers disappear are also included, such as Ampthill, along with Rochford, in Essex, Denny near Falkirk, and Cambuslang in Lanarkshire.\n\nBurslem, in Staffordshire, is also on the list, as is Hay-on-Wye, which has a large number of bookshops and other small businesses but no bank branch to deposit notes and coins.\n\nMillisle, in Northern Ireland, has recently been added as the eighth area to take part in the pilots.\n\nEric Leenders, from UK Finance, which represents the UK banks, said the sector was committed to access to cash remaining \"free and widely accessible to those who need it\".\n\nMartin McTague, from the Federation of Small Businesses, said: \"While contactless undoubtedly marks the safest way to pay in the current climate, we have to ensure that coronavirus doesn't cause us to sleepwalk into a cashless society we're not ready for yet.\"", "The number of schools in England sending home groups of pupils because of Covid-19 incidents has quadrupled in a week, according to the latest official figures.\n\nBased on attendance last Thursday, they show 4% of schools not fully open because of confirmed or suspected cases - up from 1% the previous week.\n\nThis could mean about 900 schools sending home pupils.\n\nOverall attendance has also dipped slightly from 88% to 87%.\n\nThis means over a million children were off school that day, whether from Covid-related or other reasons, with more pupils missing from secondary schools than primary.\n\nThe fall in attendance should \"ring alarm bells\" for the government, said Paul Whiteman, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers.\n\n\"Clearly the failure of Covid testing sits at the heart of this. The inability of staff and families to successfully get tested when they display symptoms means that schools are struggling with staffing, children are missing school, and ultimately that children's education is being needlessly disrupted,\" said Mr Whiteman.\n\nThis is the second set of Department for Education attendance figures since schools returned in the autumn - and they show a significant increase in schools sending home groups of pupils or whole year groups because of concerns about coronavirus.\n\nBut they also show the number of schools which were fully open had increased - up from 92% to 94% - because the previous week's figures included schools that were still carrying out a phased start to the year or holding teacher training days.\n\nThe figures, based on responses from 76% of state schools, show almost no schools being completely closed - with 99.9% recorded as open.\n\nThis combination of more schools completing their reopening - and at the same time more schools sending pupils home because of Covid-19 - meant that the overall attendance figure balanced out as being similar to the previous week, from 88% to 87%.\n\nThis is well below what would be expected, with attendance rates usually around 95%.\n\nAn even lower proportion of vulnerable children, such as those with a social worker, were recorded as being at school, with an attendance rate of 81%.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said that with rising rates of infection and problems with Covid testing, the attendance figures were \"not at all surprising\".\n\n\"Frankly, it is a great relief that the situation is not a lot worse,\" said Mr Barton, who warned that even though schools were \"working incredibly hard to manage this very difficult situation\" it was going to be a \"long, hard winter\".\n\nProblems with getting Covid tests was making it harder for schools, said Kevin Courtney, joint leader of the National Education Union.\n\n\"This is eroding trust among parents, and it will be an uphill struggle for it to be regained,\" he warned.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson welcomed that 99.9% of schools were open, but said: \"As we would expect, this data shows a small number of pupils are self-isolating in line with public health advice.\"\n\nHe said schools were working \"tremendously hard to ensure protective measures are in place to reduce the risks of transmission\" and they had \"access to timely advice and support through our helpline if they have a positive case\".", "Yew Trees hospital closed for renovation work in the summer and has not reopened\n\nTen workers at a mental health unit have been suspended amid claims patients were \"dragged, slapped and kicked\".\n\nInspectors said CCTV footage recorded at the Yew Trees hospital in Kirby-le-Soken, Essex, appeared to show episodes of \"physical and emotional abuse\".\n\nThe details emerged in a Care Quality Commission (CQC) report after the unit was inspected in July and August.\n\nA spokeswoman for the care provider said footage had been passed to police.\n\nThe unannounced inspections were prompted by managers at Cygnet Health Care, who monitored CCTV footage of an incident on 18 July.\n\nAt the time, the 10-bed hospital held eight adult female patients with autism or learning disabilities.\n\nThe CQC reviewed 21 separate pieces of footage, concluding that 40% \"included examples of inappropriate staff behaviour\".\n\n\"People who lived there were subjected not only to poor care, but to abuse,\" a CQC spokesman said.\n\nWorkers were captured \"physically and emotionally abusing a patient\", and failing to use \"appropriate restraint techniques\", the report said.\n\nIt identified \"negative interactions where staff visibly became angry with patients\" and two cases where staff \"dragged patients across the floor\".\n\n\"We witnessed abusive, disrespectful, intimidating, aggressive and inappropriate behaviour,\" the inspectors said.\n\nSuspended workers \"included people we believe witnessed the alleged incidents and failed to report them,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nDr Kevin Cleary, the CQC's mental health lead, said the failure of some staff to raise the alarm \"perpetuated abuse and allowed a culture of poor care to become established\".\n\n\"Cygnet's leadership made efforts to address the harm people experienced while in its care, including suspending staff and making police referrals,\" he said.\n\n\"This does not change or excuse the fact that a culture was allowed to develop at this hospital which led to people suffering abuse.\"\n\nHe added: \"Any enforcement action we may take will be published as soon as legal restrictions allow.\"\n\nAnother Cygnet hospital, Thors Park in Brightlingsea, closed in June 2020 after it was rated inadequate by inspectors.\n\nA CQC report revealed that \"patients and others were placed at risk of harm\".\n\nHospital managers were investigating 27 members of staff, it said, and found \"poor employment screening\" among clinical support workers.\n\nA spokeswoman for Cygnet Health Care told the BBC: \"Cygnet has a zero-tolerance approach to any kind of abuse, which is why the well-established policies and processes we have in place to safeguard people in our care were backed up by the use of closed-circuit TV at Yew Trees.\n\n\"The safety and wellbeing of the people in our care is our absolute priority, and we are appalled by the actions of this small minority.\n\n\"We are also doing everything we can to assist the authorities to fully investigate what happened.\"\n\nTwo members of staff had been referred to police, she added.\n\nEssex Police has been approached for comment.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The third and fourth earthquake struck on market day in the Bedfordshire town\n\nA town in Bedfordshire has experienced two earthquakes in one day.\n\nIt is the third and fourth time people in Leighton Buzzard have felt tremors in the space of two weeks.\n\nThe British Geological Survey (BGS) confirmed a 3.0-magnitude earthquake happened just north of the town at about 09:30 BST and a 2.1-magnitude tremor occurred at about 13:40.\n\nPeople reported their houses \"jolting and shaking\" when the larger quake struck.\n\nSince 8 September there have been four earthquakes in the town, the BGS confirmed.\n\nA 3.5-magnitude earthquake was felt by residents on that day, followed by a 2.1 magnitude tremor on 13 September.\n\nGlenn Ford, a BGS seismologist, said the latest two tremors were aftershocks from the first incident, but were \"earthquakes in their own right\".\n\nTuesday afternoon's tremor was \"20 times smaller\" than the one in the morning, but a few people had reported it to the organisation, he added.\n\nMatt Stewart, who lives about 1.5 miles (2.4km) from Leighton Buzzard in Eggington, was one of those who felt the larger earthquake, and said the tremors \"almost shook me out of bed\".\n\n\"It was as big as the first one, I think,\" he said. \"My wife ran downstairs and said, 'oh no, not another one'.\n\n\"It felt like a whoosh and then a boom coming up through the earth, then it shook the house and a couple of pictures fell off the wall upstairs, like the last time.\"\n\nThe British Geological Survey has released seismograms of the 09:30 BST earthquake\n\nMr Stewart described it as \"a horrible feeling\".\n\n\"You're just not in control and I'd like to know what's going on, as this is the third one - it's very strange.\"\n\nThe BGS said its provisional data suggested the earthquake originated at a depth of about 6.2 miles (10km).\n\nThe earth did not move during the morning's tremors quite as much as when the first earthquake hit two weeks ago at magnitude 3.5, was the general opinion of people shopping and working in the town.\n\nWesley Venn said: \"I was sat in the garden having a lovely cup of tea when all of a sudden I saw the fence shaking.\"\n\nHe described it as \"a little tremor, just to remind us that there are earthquakes about, apparently - in Leighton Buzzard\".\n\nHe added that \"the earth didn't move for me\" during the second quake - which he slept through - but he felt the other larger ones.\n\n\"I don't know if we're the San Andreas Fault of Bedfordshire... but it's a claim to fame.\n\n\"We will rebuild - where a plate fell off the shelf - we will rebuild.\"\n\nResident Wesley Venn joked the town might be \"the San Andreas Fault of Bedfordshire\"\n\nShop staff Carrie Wainer and Sarah Arkle said there was \"a massive bang\"\n\nCarrie Wainer, who works in a gift shop, said she heard \"a massive bang\", adding \"that was about it for us\".\n\n\"With what 2020's bringing us, this is just another one added on.\"\n\nShop owner Anthony Rosier said \"a few things might have moved a couple of inches\"\n\nModel railway store owner Anthony Rosier said there were \"two large bangs, the walls and units shook - then peace and quiet\".\n\nThe latest tremors had been \"a talking point\" and \"brings the buzz back\" to Leighton Buzzard, he said.\n\nMr Ford said: \"It's not an unusual thing to be seen in the UK... this relieves the built-up stress in the rocks.\"\n\nThey were \"nothing to do with fracking or anything like that,\" he said.\n\n\"It's typical British tectonic activity that's been going on for hundreds of years.\"\n\nMr Ford said the UK experiences about 200 to 300 earthquakes each year, but 90% are \"so minor that people can't perceive them\".\n\nWhile the UK has a few quakes of the same magnitude as Leighton Buzzard each year, it was \"absolutely tiny on the scale of worldwide earthquakes\" and \"more than a billion times smaller than the one that hit Japan in 2011\".\n\nHe added: \"If they felt this one in Japan, they wouldn't even look up from their morning coffee.\"\n\nDr Matthew Blackett, an earthquake expert from Coventry University, said the Leighton Buzzard tremors were likely caused by the fracturing of solid rock in \"hidden fault lines\", several hundred metres below the surface.\n\n\"What seems to have happened is that this was an initial earthquake in a hidden fault - some stress or other has caused it.\n\n\"These two subsequent events are a readjustment of the fault lines to come back to some sort of stability.\n\n\"The crust has to adjust itself to become stable again, that seems to have happened to the poor people of Leighton Buzzard.\n\n\"It is quite possible that that sequence is now done, but it might be that there are still stresses there.\n\n\"If there are [further tremors], I think it will only be minor events.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None How bad can earthquakes be in the UK?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Clark had been deputy head at the school for 17 years\n\nA deputy head teacher has been killed by cows while out walking.\n\nDave Clark was in a field in Richmond, North Yorkshire, when it happened on Monday evening. He was reportedly walking his dogs at the time.\n\nIn a tribute, head teacher Jenna Potter said Mr Clark was the \"heart and soul\" of Richmond School. \"Our thoughts are with Dave's wife, his children and wider family at this difficult time.\"\n\nPolice say they are trying to establish the circumstances of his death.\n\nThe head teacher said: \"He was an enormous character, a brilliant school leader and simply a lovely man who enriched the life of everyone he came into contact with, just by being himself and doing what he did every day.\"\n\nShe said Mr Clark had joined the secondary school in 1997 and was promoted to deputy head in 2003. She said he was highly regarded by colleagues and students and expected very high standards from every pupil.\n\n\"All of this Dave did with a smile and a level of kindness and care that is seldom seen,\" she added.\n\nA spokesperson for North Yorkshire Police said the force had been called to a report of a man in his 50s being injured by cows in a field north of Richmond.\n\n\"He was treated by paramedics, but sadly he was pronounced dead at the scene.\"\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive has been informed, the force added.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "New rules over office romances are being rolled out at the investment giant BlackRock.\n\nThey will now extend to relationships outside the office in a bid to clamp down on conflicts of interest.\n\nBlackRock staff were already expected to tell managers if they were dating one of their 16,000 colleagues.\n\nBut the new policy, shared in a memo with staff, says they must disclose relationships with \"external partners\" with a connection to the firm.\n\nThe size of the New York based firm, which has more than $7tn under management and vast numbers of suppliers and clients around the globe, means that the new rules will have far-reaching implications, shining a probing light into the personal lives of potentially hundreds of thousands of people.\n\nIt follows the #Metoo movement, which revealed sexual harassment within a range of professional settings and focused attention on workplace strategies to clamp down on relationships between bosses and subordinates.\n\nMcDonald's chief executive Steve Easterbrook was removed last year after a relationship with a colleague came to light.\n\nAt BlackRock late last year senior executive Mark Wiseman, was fired for failing to disclose an affair with a colleague. He had been tipped as a possible successor to the firm's high profile chief executive Larry Fink.\n\nWhile many workplaces require staff to be open about relationships with colleagues, BlackRock's new policy is unusual in asking for information about partners at other firms.\n\nThe policy says they should disclose any personal relationship they have at any \"service provider, vendor, or other third party (including a client), if the non-BlackRock employee is within a group that interacts with BlackRock\", according to the internal memo, seen by the BBC.\n\nFormer McDonald's boss Steve Easterbrook lost his job over a relationship with a colleague\n\nThe aim is to tackle any conflicts of interest, or perceived conflicts of interest, by taking the matter out of the hands of the employee concerned and allowing human resources and lawyers at the firm assess whether there is a problem.\n\nBut there is a new urgency around managing private and professional boundaries thanks to the switch to working from home prompted by the pandemic.\n\n\"I can see why it is an issue for [BlackRock],\" says Tom McLaughlin, employment lawyer with BDBF. \"We are staring down the barrel of the majority of office workers working from home again. Employers will realise they do need to know more about people's domestic arrangements than they did before.\"\n\nThe new policy defines which relationships come under the new policy as any that could be \"susceptible to perceived impropriety, bias, favouritism, and/or abuse of authority within a work environment\".\n\nThat includes not only romantic or sexual relationships, but family connections and outside business interests,but not \"friendships with work colleagues.\"\n\nHowever it is not clear from the memo where the threshold lies, at what point does a friendship, or a series of dates, becomes significant enough to require disclosure.\n\nThere is no law prohibiting employers from asking questions about relationships, but the answers will need to be treated carefully to comply with privacy rules.\n\n\"The real crunch will come if there is a perceived conflict of interest,\" says Mr Tom McLaughlin.\n\nBlackRock says disclosures would be treated with discretion, and if necessary, \"alternative work arrangements\" may be put in place.\n\nDid you meet your partner through work contacts? Do you agree with BlackRock's new rules or do they go too far? Get in touch: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your response or send it via email to HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any response you send in.", "All 500 students at Parker House in Dundee are self-isolating\n\nHundreds of students have been told to self-isolate after a suspected Covid-19 outbreak in a halls of residence.\n\nAll 500 residents at Parker House in Dundee have been asked to quarantine until contact tracing is complete.\n\nA \"significant\" outbreak at Glasgow University and a number of Aberdeen University students testing positive have also been confirmed.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said it was \"really, really important\" that those affected followed advice on self-isolation.\n\nThe first minister said: \"As we've seen in the past few days, Covid can spread very quickly in shared living settings and halls of residence.\n\n\"So please follow the rules on self-isolation.\n\n\"Please know that we appreciate the sacrifices you are making at this very important stage of your lives.\"\n\nNHS Tayside is investigating three positive cases and a small number of suspected cases linked to Parker House.\n\nClose contacts of the positive case, who is a student of Abertay University, are being contacted.\n\nA total of 72 residents in Wavell House halls of residence in Aberdeen's Hillhead Student Village are being asked to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nThey have been offered access to food and other supplies and affected areas are undergoing a deep clean.\n\nThe university said it was aware of social gatherings outside the Hillhead Halls of Residence at the weekend, and that some students had been fined for breaching coronavirus guidelines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How should students be self-isolating? \"Stay in, stay apart, sleep alone, keep cleaning\"\n\nAn Aberdeen University spokesperson said: \"We appreciate this will be an anxious time for many but the safety of our staff, student and wider community are paramount.\n\n\"At the same time, it is vital that we all work together to comply with the guidelines to help keep our community safe and mitigate the risk of further spread.\"\n\nGlasgow University said it was also dealing with a number of virus cases in student residences.\n\nThe students affected are self-isolating and are being supported to ensure they have access to food and other supplies, the university said.\n\nStudents across Scotland returned to socially-distanced campuses earlier this month.\n\nStudents across Scotland returned to socially-distanced campuses earlier this month\n\nScotland's Deputy First Minister John Swinney was asked about the student cases and the country's contact tracing system on the BBC's Good Morning Scotland.\n\nHe told the programme the Test and Protect system was \"working well\" and said more than 90% of the contacts of positive cases were currently being traced.\n\nMr Swinney added: \"This is the highest of any country in the UK.\"\n\nThe deputy first minister also said some of the capacity for testing in Scotland had yet to be utilised.\n\nLast week 11 residents in a block of student flats tested positive following a cluster at the University of Napier in Edinburgh.\n• None 'This isn’t what I expected from university'", "Julian Assange’s fiancée has told the BBC she dreaded going public with their relationship.\n\nLawyer Stella Moris gave birth to the couple’s two young sons while the Wikileaks founder was living in the Ecuadorean embassy in London.\n\nMr Assange is now appearing at the Old Bailey fighting extradition to the United States for obtaining and publishing secret military documents a decade ago.\n\nThe BBC's Victoria Derbyshire has been speaking to Stella Moris in her first in depth British TV interview since their relationship was revealed in court documents.", "Sex offence convictions against 15 people are to be set aside because of \"legislative error,\" the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) has said.\n\nThe cases involve 17 victims, the majority of whom were children at the time the offences occurred.\n\nThe PPS has discovered \"a technical change in the law\" in 2009 meant the cases should not have been prosecuted in a magistrates court.\n\nIt said it is \"truly sorry\" for the distress the news will cause victims.\n\nThe PPS will now consider whether or not to re-run the cases in a crown court.\n\nThe cases cover offences of indecent assault or unlawful carnal knowledge which occurred between 1973 and 2009.\n\nOne was handed a prison term while others received suspended sentences.\n\nOne of the convicted offenders is still on the sex offenders register but will now be removed as a result of the error.\n\nThe PPS has said it is \"truly sorry\" for any distress caused\n\nPPS assistant director Ciaran McQuillan said: \"This development will have come as a great shock and disappointment to the victims.\n\n\"It will also cause uncertainty for the defendants involved.\n\n\"The PPS has arranged for delivery of letters to all those affected with a detailed explanation of how the situation arose and the steps we are now proposing to take.\"\n\nMr McQuillan said a fresh prosecutorial decision in each case will be taken within as short a time frame as possible and that engagement with the victims would be an important part of that process.\n\nAny new case would be heard before a crown court and it is likely that sentencing after any subsequent conviction would take account of punishments already handed down after the original invalid trials.\n\nThe PPS said it was discovered that an amendment to legislation in 2009, made by the UK government, had \"unintentionally removed\" three specific offences from those which could be prosecuted in a magistrates court.\n\nThat meant that from that point onwards the offences could only be prosecuted in the crown court.\n\nAs this change was inadvertent, it was not highlighted at the time to any of the agencies or practitioners in the criminal justice system, including the PPS.\n\nIt was first discovered in 2018 that a mistake had been made, with prosecutors working in the intervening period to identify the cases affected.\n\nAll the defendants were tried in magistrates' courts in Northern Ireland between 2009 and 2017.\n\nThe convictions that will be rescinded involve:\n\nNaomi Long said she was \"concerned\" about the impact on victims\n\nThe department will also have to decide whether new legislation is needed to correct the error.\n\nJustice Minister Naomi Long said she had spoken to the PPS about the error.\n\n\"I am particularly concerned about the impact on the victims of these offences and note that the PPS has been working closely with Victim Support and Nexus to ensure those affected are both advised of the problem sensitively and receive proper support from the outset,\" she said.\n\n\"I am assured that the PPS will be reapplying the prosecutorial test to determine whether any of the cases should result in fresh prosecutions.\"", "Belgium is to reduce the quarantine period for people with Coronavirus symptoms from 14 days to seven.\n\nIt’s one of a number of new measures for the country announced by the Belgian prime minister, Sophie Wilmès, on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThe new quarantine rule will apply from October.\n\nThe prime minister said: \"An isolation period of 14 days is often difficult to keep up. As a result we asked experts to look again at this.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Belgium’s Crisis Committee told the BBC that the new rules are based on latest scientific advice on the adequate length of time needed for self-isolation.\n\nPeople with coronavirus symptoms can take a test on the fifth day of quarantine and, if it is negative, they can end their isolation when the week is up. If it’s positive, they must complete a two-week isolation period then take another test.\n\nThe prime minister also announced that it will no longer be compulsory to wear a face mask outside from October, with the exception of heavily crowded areas.\n\nSophie Wilmès stated that rules on social contact will continue to be monitored. At the moment groups of up to 10 people can meet together at the same time, providing social-distancing rules are applied. The so called \"bubble\" rule will also continue. It means that people can chose five others to be in close contact with.\n\nSophie Wilmès defined close contact as “being physically close for more than 15 minutes, without socially distancing or wearing a mask.” Each person can choose to be in that bubble with five others for a month, before changing members of the group, if required.\n\nMeanwhile, figures show that there has been an average of 1,374 coronavirus cases a day in Belgium for the past week. That’s a 60% increase on cases recorded compared to the week before.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWomen should be protected under expanded hate crime laws, according to a new report from the Law Commission.\n\nThe independent body that advises government said misogyny should be treated in the same way as other discrimination when it is the motivation for a crime.\n\nCampaigners welcomed the proposal, including Labour MP Stella Creasy, who called it \"our moment for change\".\n\nThe Home Office said it was \"committed to stamping out hate crime\".\n\nSeven police forces in England and Wales class misogyny as a hate crime, but this definition has not been adopted across the board.\n\nWhen a crime is carried out against someone - such as assault, harassment or criminal damage - because of their race, religion, sexual orientation, disability or transgender identity, it is considered a hate crime and treated more seriously by the courts.\n\nBut campaigners have criticised the complex nature of the existing laws, and called for sex and gender to be added to the list.\n\nThe Law Commission has carried out a review into the legislation and is putting several recommendations into a consultation.\n\nIt said the \"vast majority of evidence\" suggested crimes were linked to misogyny.\n\nThe commission plans to make its official recommendations to the government in 2021.\n\nThe Home Office said it asked the commission to \"explore how to make current legislation more effective, and if there should be additional protective characteristics\" - and it will \"respond to the review in full when it is complete\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'He said I couldn't take a compliment'\n\nThe commissioner for criminal law, Professor Penney Lewis, said: \"Hate crime has no place in our society and we have seen the terrible impact that it can have on victims.\n\n\"Our proposals will ensure all protected characteristics are treated in the same way, and that women enjoy hate crime protection for the first time.\"\n\nCampaign and policy manager at Women's Aid, Lucy Hadley, welcomed the proposals.\n\nShe said: \"Sexism and women's inequality are the root causes of violence against women - including domestic abuse, sexual violence, street harassment including 'upskirting', and online forms of crime - and these often intersect with other identities, including race and ethnicity, sexuality and disability.\n\n\"Making clear that crimes happen to women 'because they are women' could help to send a clear message that women will be believed, protected and supported if they experience sexist violence and abuse.\"\n\nNadia - not her real name - is a survivor of domestic abuse, which she says was driven by the misogyny of her ex-partner.\n\nShe said: \"When I did not want to be sexually intimate with my ex-partner, he behaved as if he was entitled because, in his eyes, I was someone with no value, worth or respect - I was an object. My only purpose was to serve him.\"\n\nNadia said her ex-partner \"felt entitled\" to abuse her as he was a man who saw himself as superior to her.\n\n\"My opinions and feelings had no value and my needs weren't important - his were, they always came first,\" she added.\n\nAlthough financially independent, Nadia was never allowed to pay for meals or her car, as another form of control.\n\n\"When we were on holiday, he insisted that only he could exchange the money for foreign currency, which meant I had to ask him for money,\" she said. \"He wanted me to give up work.\n\n\"It was apparently because he was doing the right thing as a man but really it was to increase my dependency and isolate me further.\"\n\nNadia added: \"He had a huge sense of entitlement because he was a man. There was constant superiority over me and disdain for my mind.\n\n\"I believe that misogyny suited him and justified his abusive behaviour.\"\n\nMs Creasy, Labour MP for Walthamstow, has led calls for a change in the law and secured the commission's review in 2018.\n\nShe welcomed the findings, saying they would help the criminal justice system \"detect and prevent offences including sexual assault, rape and domestic abuse\".\n\nMs Creasy added: \"I now urge every woman who has walked with keys in her hands at night, been abused or attacked online or offline to come forward and be heard in this consultation.\n\n\"This is our moment for change - rather than asking women to pick a side of their identity to be protected, it's time to send a message that women should be equally able to live free from fear of assault or harm targeted at them simply for who they are.\"\n\nPeople are generally attacked because an assailant dislikes something about that person - their appearance, their views, the football team they support.\n\nWhat marks hate crime out is where the assailant says or does something that provides evidence they have targeted a person because of one of the five \"protected characteristics\".\n\nSo hate crimes often involve assaults on public-facing officials - traffic wardens, store detectives, NHS staff - where in the course of the incident the perpetrator abuses the victim on grounds of race, religion, sexual orientation, disability or transgender identity.\n\nIf sex and gender become protected characteristics in order to protect women, the same would apply.\n\nThe perpetrator's actions, or more likely the words they use, would have to evidence that they are targeting the victim on grounds of sex/gender.\n\nThe first force to introduce misogyny as a hate crime was Nottinghamshire Police in 2016.\n\nChief Inspector Louise Clarke, who leads the hate crime unit at the force, said it had taken numerous actions against perpetrators - and even where there was not sufficient evidence to support a prosecution, officers had spoken to men about their behaviour and explained the consequences.\n\nShe added: \"Ultimately, this is about giving women the ability and confidence to report this behaviour.\n\n\"Many men aren't even aware that this happens and are often shocked by the extent of the issues.\"\n\nThe issue was debated in Parliament's second debating chamber, Westminster Hall, in 2018. The then minister Victoria Atkins, replying to the debate, said the government needed to be careful when creating new laws that would \"would inadvertently conflict with principles of equality\".\n\nShe said: \"Equality of protection is a crucial element of ensuring public support for hate crime legislation.\n\n\"In other words, if we were to have hate crime in relation to gender, we would have to think carefully about whether that would apply to the entire population or just to half of it.\"\n\nThe Law Commission is also currently consulting on whether ageism, being a member of an alternative subculture (like goths and punks), or homelessness should also be added to the list of hate crime motivations.\n\nIt is also wants the \"stirring up hatred\" offence to be reformed, so it is less difficult to prosecute and gives equal footing to all the groups it affects.\n\nAnd it is recommending the extension of the offence of racist chanting at a football match to cover chanting based on sexual orientation.", "A Canadian woman has been charged in US federal court for allegedly posting a letter with deadly ricin poison to President Donald Trump.\n\nPascale Ferrier, of Quebec, was arrested at a border crossing in Buffalo, New York, on Sunday. Officials say she was carrying a gun.\n\nShe has pleaded not guilty to making threats against the president.\n\nThe letter she allegedly sent last week was discovered before it reached the White House.\n\nIn it, she called on Mr Trump to drop out of the US presidential race. The envelop contained ricin, a poison found naturally in castor beans.\n\n\"I found a new name for you: 'The Ugly Tyrant Clown',\" she wrote in the letter to Mr Trump, according to FBI charging documents filed ahead of her first court appearance in New York on Tuesday.\n\n\"I hope you like it. You ruin USA and lead them to disaster. I have US cousins, then I don't want the next 4 years with you as president. Give up and remove your application for this election.\"\n\nThe letter, which the FBI says had her fingerprints on it, referred to the poisoned note as \"a special gift\", adding: \"If it doesn't work, I'll find better recipe for another poison, or I might use my gun when I'll be able to come. \"\n\nThe suspect may have also sent ricin to five addresses in Texas, including a jail and a sheriff's office, according to the court documents.\n\nMs Ferrier appeared in court on Tuesday afternoon in Buffalo, New York, with the aid of a French-speaking translator, according to local media.\n\nShe asked for a court appointed defence lawyer during the hearing. That lawyer also requested an identity and probable cause hearing, to have the court determine that she is the individual named in the complaint.\n\nThe judge scheduled these next hearings for 28 September. She will be in the custody of the US Marshals until that time, as prosecutors argued she poses a flight risk.\n\nPascale Cecile Veronique Ferrier, 53, is a computer programmer who is originally from France, but became a Canadian citizen in 2015, according to Canadian media. Sources tell Reuters she retains dual French-Canadian citizenship. She was living in the Canadian province of Quebec.\n\nIn March 2019, she was arrested in Texas for unlawfully carrying a weapon and using a fake driver's licence, according to jail records. She was deported to Canada after officials found she had overstayed her visa and committed a crime while in the US, according to the New York Times.\n\nThe Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Secret Service are investigating the package, which was discovered at a processing facility for mail sent to the White House.\n\nThe presence of ricin was confirmed after several tests by the FBI, authorities said.\n\nA spokesman for the Mission, Texas, police department told the Associated Press on Monday an envelope was in the care of local officials and no-one had been hurt.\n\nAnother Texas Sheriff, Eddie Guerra in Hidalgo County, also confirmed envelopes with ricin were posted to staff there, but reported no injuries.\n\nOn Monday, the RCMP division in Quebec searched a residence in the Montreal suburb of Saint-Hubert that authorities said is linked to the suspect.\n\nSenior US Customs and Border Protection official Mark Morgan on Tuesday said that Ms Ferrier had told border officers \"she was wanted by the FBI for mailing envelopes with ricin to the White House and other locations\" when she approached the checkpoint on Sunday.\n\nOfficers found a gun, knife and ammunition in her car at the time of her arrest.\n\nRicin is a lethal substance that, if swallowed, inhaled or injected, can cause nausea, vomiting, internal bleeding and ultimately organ failure.\n\nNo known antidote exists for ricin. If a person is exposed to ricin, death can take place within 36 to 72 hours, depending on the dose received, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).\n\nCastor seeds, which are used to make the deadly ricin poison\n\nThe CDC said the poison - which has been used in terror plots - can be manufactured into a weapon in the form of a powder, mist or pellet.\n\nThe White House and other federal buildings have been the target of ricin packages in the past.\n\nIn 2014, a Mississippi man was sentenced to 25 years in prison for sending letters dusted with ricin to former President Barack Obama and other officials.\n\nTV actress Shannon Richardson, who was featured on the programme The Walking Dead, was jailed for 18 years in 2014 for mailing ricin to Mr Obama and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.\n\nFour years later, in 2018, a former Navy veteran was charged with sending toxic letters to the Pentagon and White House.", "Mercedes and other German carmakers have used government money to subsidise wages\n\nUnlike the UK, the Germans didn't have to invent a job support programme from scratch when the pandemic struck: they already had one oven-ready.\n\nWhile British companies were getting to grips with the novelty of furloughing workers at the government's expense, their German counterparts simply fell back on a tried and tested scheme.\n\nNow, while UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak is insisting that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme will not continue past October, Germany is extending its Kurzarbeit job subsidy measures until the end of 2021.\n\nAt the same time, France is following Germany's example and expects to be doing so for a couple of years.\n\nIn the UK, influential figures including former prime minister Gordon Brown are urging the government to bring in a German or French-style system after October.\n\nSo what are the German and French schemes and how do they work?\n\n\"I'm very glad we have this system,\" says Dr Volker Verch, director of the Central Westphalian employers' federation.\n\n\"We would have lost many more jobs, in my region and across the country, if we didn't have this Kurzarbeit,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Obviously it all has to be paid for, but it's worth it in terms of social harmony.\"\n\nWhen the British scheme began, it was based on paying workers to stay at home and do nothing. It was not until July that furloughed employees were able to go back to work part-time.\n\nHowever, the German system was always about short-time working - allowing employers to reduce employees' hours while keeping them in a job. The government pays workers a percentage of the money they would have got for working those lost hours.\n\nAccording to the Munich-based Ifo Institute for Economic Research, at the height of the pandemic, half of all German firms had at least some of their staff on the scheme.\n\nThat includes Rolls-Royce Power Systems, a German engineering company owned by Rolls-Royce Holdings and specialising in power generation and propulsion systems. It employs 9,000 people worldwide, 5,500 of them in Germany.\n\nChief executive Andreas Schell told the BBC that the company came relatively late to the Kurzarbeit scheme.\n\n\"When the crisis came, we were sitting on a good order book,\" he says. \"But we anticipated a reduction in orders, and we had less to do in the third quarter, so we had to adjust our capacity.\"\n\nIn June, the firm put 1,000 of its German employees on \"short-time working\". That rose to 1,800 in July, before falling back in August and September as workers went on holiday instead.\n\n\"It's a really good programme of support by the German government,\" says Mr Schell. \"Otherwise we would have suffered economically. But it also helps to mitigate the economic consequences for our employees. It offers flexibility to us as a company and that's a good thing.\"\n\nAndreas Schell has nothing but praise for the Kurzarbeit scheme\n\nKurzarbeit has a long pedigree, going back to the early 20th Century. However, it came to prominence during the global financial crisis of 2008-09, when it is thought to have saved up to half a million jobs.\n\nEven in normal times, it can be used by companies undergoing restructuring or suffering from seasonal fluctuations in their business.\n\nBut normally it lasts for only six months. During the pandemic, that has been increased to a maximum of 21 months, while the criteria have been changed to include more firms and workers.\n\nThe percentage of lost wages paid by the government will also go up in stages, from the usual 60% to 80% after the first six months.\n\nIn comparison with the UK's furlough scheme, the cost of Kurzarbeit seems relatively modest, perhaps reflecting its more limited scope.\n\nBerlin ploughed €23.5bn into bolstering the scheme at the start of the pandemic, then expanded it again in August, at an estimated cost of €10bn more, to run for all of next year.\n\nBy contrast, the Office for Budget Responsibility has estimated that the UK's furlough scheme will have cost £60bn, about twice as much as the Germans are spending, by the time it ends in October.\n\nThe French scheme, known as \"partial unemployment\" or \"partial activity\", also pre-dates the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt too is designed to subsidise the jobs of people on reduced working hours - and it's also intended for the long haul.\n\nUnder the French scheme, firms are allowed to cut employees' hours by up to 40% for up to three years. Employees still receive nearly all their normal salary, with the government paying a percentage of the cost.\n\nThe scheme is subject to all kinds of French bureaucracy, requiring firms to come to an agreement with unions and offer formal guarantees of job security, but the principle is the same as in Germany.\n\nOlivier Six is chief executive of two very different firms, both based in the Grenoble area.\n\nThe bigger of the two, CIC Orio, is a metallurgy company that employs 150 people making industrial boilers and other specialised equipment. The other, G-Tech Guidetti, specialises in making hiking accessories.\n\n\"When the crisis began, there was a loss of confidence,\" he told the BBC. \"Firms were sitting on their funds, nobody was paying anybody.\"\n\nG-Tech Guidetti, as a consumer-facing firm, was immediately hit by the lockdown, because all its stockists had to close, so all its 15 employees went on the partial activity scheme.\n\n\"But after confinement ended, there was a pick-up in consumption and the recovery was very strong,\" he says.\n\nCIC Orio, however, is still making use of the scheme. Its employees are currently working four days out of five, with the government compensating them for the lost day's earnings.\n\n\"It's fortunate that we have this scheme, because we're afraid that the crisis will come back again,\" he says. \"This will last a long time. There will probably be another year of very weak economic activity.\"\n\nThe French government describes its scheme as a \"bouclier anti-licenciements\" - that is, an anti-redundancy shield.\n\nFor now, it appears to be working. But with cases of coronavirus on the rise again in France, it's anyone's guess how long it might be needed.", "Tesla founder Elon Musk has announced technology that he says will make Tesla batteries cheaper and more powerful.\n\nAt a live presentation that Mr Musk labelled 'Battery Day' he also teased the possibility of a $25,000 (£19,600), fully-autonomous Tesla \"in about three years time\".\n\n\"This has always been our dream to make an affordable electric car,\" he said.\n\nBut the news didn't excite investors and $50bn was wiped off its stock market value.\n\nThe main announcement was Tesla's new larger cylindrical cells. It was claimed the new batteries will provide five times more energy, six times more power and 16% greater driving range.\n\nBut the technology announced is likely to take years to implement.\n\nTesla's approach includes integrating the battery so that it forms part of the structure of the vehicle, thereby reducing the effective weight of the battery.\n\nThe speech took place in front of 240 shareholders - each sitting in a Tesla Model 3.\n\nCentral to cheaper Teslas are innovations in the way the company designs batteries - radically improving their efficiency.\n\nProf Stanley Whittingham - who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry last year for his work on lithium-ion batteries - told the BBC that \"tackling all the opportunities is high risk, but high pay-off\".\n\n\"Many of us have suggested the same steps are necessary, but Tesla has the investment and will to make it happen. Not sure anyone else is willing to do this,\" he said.\n\nMr Musk also announced that as well as purchasing batteries from Panasonic and LG Chem - Tesla itself would begin to make them.\n\nIn April last year, Musk himself revealed problems with sourcing Panasonic batteries used in its Model 3 Tesla.\n\nOne expert said scaling up would be \"challenging\".\n\n\"Even with really experienced car manufacturers, we tend to see a very high scrap rate of production in the first couple of years,\" said Casper Rawles, head of price assessments at Benchmark Mineral Intelligence.\n\nMr Rawles also warned that so much of the content of the battery is expensive metals - \"You can only reduce the cost down to a point\".\n\nFour consecutive quarters of growth have helped Tesla's share price soar and it is now the most valuable car company in the world.\n\nThis is despite criticisms of Elon Musk that some of his technological advances have been exaggerated.\n\nEarlier this month, customer group Consumer Reports released a damning report about Tesla's automated driving services. The research concluded that \"for now, full self-driving capability… remains a misnomer\".\n\nAnd in July, Mr Musk said Tesla would be able to make its vehicles completely autonomous by the end of this year. The statement was met with scepticism by industry insiders.\n\nTesla's boss however announced that a \"beta\" version of the full Autopilot software would be available \"in a month or so\".\n\nMusk is no stranger to glitzy and sometimes bizarre public demonstrations.\n\nEarlier this month he unveiled a pig with a coin-sized computer chip in its brain to demonstrate his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.", "As the US Covid-19 death toll passes 200,000, owners and directors of funeral homes across the country reflect on how the loss of life has affected the families and communities that they serve.", "Claims the use of police helicopters at the Grenfell Tower fire made the flames worse and encouraged residents to head to the roof in the hope of rescue have been rejected by the police watchdog.\n\nIts report says no helicopter came close enough to cause downdraft which might have fanned the flames.\n\nIt also says there was no evidence that 999 call handlers suggested helicopters might be able to rescue residents.\n\nThe fire at the 24-storey tower in west London killed 72 people in June 2017.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has released an 80-page report following an investigation into the fire.\n\nIt was prompted by a complaint made three years ago by Nabil Choucair, who lost six members of his family at Grenfell Tower.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nabil Choucair says people should have been evacuated earlier\n\nThe complaint said that residents believed the helicopters they could see from their windows had been sent to rescue them from the roof of the building.\n\nIt also raised concerns that \"prop wash\" from the helicopters allowed the flames to spread more quickly.\n\nThe investigation examined calls between trapped residents and 999 handlers, as well as the movements of residents higher up the tower, to establish whether they had been motivated by the belief they would be rescued.\n\nPeople stuck on the upper floors of the Kensington tower block begged call handlers for an air rescue, after seeing police helicopters flying nearby during the fire.\n\nPolice helicopters were almost continuously present close to the tower between 01:44 BST on the night of the fire and 16:05 BST the following afternoon.\n\nThe report found that \"desperation\", led some residents, who were \"completely trapped\" to mistakenly believe they could be rescued by police helicopter.\n\nHowever, the helicopters sent by the National Police Air Service (NPAS) were not equipped for rescue, and rather were monitoring the scene for officers and other emergency responders on the ground.\n\nThe IOPC found that the deployment of the helicopters was justified.\n\nIt said the way some handlers managed calls from those in the building was \"unclear\" but it added that residents were not told to move to another floor for rescue.\n\nThe conclusion reads: \"A small number of people in Grenfell Tower, who were already of the belief that they were completely trapped, out of desperation and being aware of helicopter presence, developed the mistaken belief that a helicopter rescue was a possibility.\"\n\nIt also said \"films are likely to have influenced people's belief in what the helicopters can do\" and recommended that 999 staff should be trained to explain to the public that police helicopters were not capable of rescuing them.\n\nIt also concluded that \"none of the helicopters flew close enough to the tower for their rotor wash to have worsened the fire\".\n\nIOPC regional director Sal Naseem said: \"The recommendations we have made and which have been accepted aim to ensure that call operators communicate, to people who find themselves in similar horrific and life-threatening situations, the reality of the choices they have.\"\n\nA public inquiry into the fire is also being held and it is currently in its second phase.", "Mr Cameron says he understands the pain that Ms Taylor's death has caused.\n\n\"I understand that as an Attorney General who is responsible for all 120 counties... I understand that as a black man. How painful this is.\"\n\nMr Cameron says this is why it was \"incredibly important\" to his team to \"uncover every fact\".\n\nHe says that the criticism and scrutiny on his office was \"misplaced\".\n\n\"There was not a day that people in this office didn't go to sleep without thinking about this case.\n\n\"Criminal law is not meant to respond to every sorrow and grief and that is true here.\"\n\nMr Cameron, pausing a moment as he speaks, also says that if something like this were to happen to him, his mother \"would find it very hard\".\n\n\"I've seen that pain on Ms Palmer's face,\" he says, referencing Ms Taylor's mother. \"I've seen that pain in the community.\"", "The main sign bearing old name was removed from the building in June\n\nA famous music venue in Bristol named after slave trader Edward Colston has been given a new name.\n\nThe Colston Hall will now be known as Bristol Beacon.\n\nBristol Music Trust, which runs the venue, said it hoped the renaming would be \"a fresh start for the organisation and its place in the city\".\n\nThe hall is near where a statue of the 17th Century slave trader was torn down by protesters in June during an anti-racism protest.\n\nThe name was revealed at an event in the venue's foyer on Wednesday without a live audience due to Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nBristol's city poet Vanessa Kisuule wrote a work to mark the occasion - captured in a short film - and the Bristol Beacon name was revealed for the first time in the last line of the poem.\n\nLouise Mitchell, chief executive of the trust, said Bristol Beacon would be \"a symbol of hope and community\".\n\n\"A focal point for music in the city. A gathering space, illuminating the way ahead. A place of welcome, warmth and light,\" she said.\n\nThe news was welcomed by the city's elected mayor, who did attend the event.\n\nMarvin Rees said it was not the specific name that mattered \"but the fact the city has gone through a process to think about what it calls its iconic venues\".\n\nAnd deputy mayor Craig Cheney said the renaming \"also runs in a parallel with the city conversation reflecting on our history and how this understanding can be represented in our future\".\n\nBristolians took to social media to express their views, with one woman saying the name did not give credit to what the venue is or does.\n\nTwitter user Mike Norman called it a \"fantastic new name\" and a \"great moment for Bristol\".\n\nBut Clive Wilkinson said the venue had \"had three years to come up with something that sounds like a local free newspaper\".\n\nAnd Westcountrybird was concerned a large percentage of Bristolians would either mock it or not use the new name.\n\n\"The rebranding has divided the city worse than the football IMHO,\" she said.\n\nThe statue of Edward Colston was dragged through Bristol before being thrown into the harbour\n\nThe trust said it had consulted with 4,000 people across the city about the new name and it had been endorsed by the board of trustees.\n\nIt added the venue was built 150 years after Colston's death in 1721 with no financial investment or direct link to the man or his wealth.\n\nBosses originally announced in 2017 they planned to change the building's \"toxic\" name.\n\nThe \"Colston Hall\" lettering was physically removed from the building eight days after the statue was toppled.\n\nColston made his fortune through human suffering and between 1672 and 1689. In that period, ships were believed to have transported about 80,000 men, women and children from Africa to the Americas.\n\nColston was also a philanthropist, and Bristol honoured his benevolence, naming dozens of buildings, institutions, charities, schools, sports clubs, pubs, societies and roads after him.\n\nA new logo for the venue will be created over the next few months \"in partnership with local young emerging creatives\", a spokesperson added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Barclays will tell \"hundreds\" of UK staff who had gone back to the office to return to working from home.\n\nThe bank told the BBC it was making the move following the latest guidance from the government that people should work at home when they can.\n\nAbout 1,000 Barclays employees worldwide returned to the office over the summer.\n\nFrench bank Societe Generale and insurance giant Lloyd's of London also told UK staff to work from home again.\n\nBarclays said it would not be releasing a country-specific number on those returning to work from home.\n\nThe bank had said it would carry out a \"gradual\" return to the office in October, after chief executive Jess Staley signalled that he wanted employees working from home during the pandemic to return to the office \"over time\".\n\n\"It is important to get people back together in physical concentrations,\" he told Bloomberg TV in July.\n\nHowever, not all banks take the same view. NatWest has said staff can continue to work from home until next year.\n\nOn Tuesday, Societe Generale said it was also \"adapting its position in line with UK government guidance\", without stating the number of workers in its London offices would now work from home.\n\nLloyd's of London said it had told its 800 directly employed staff to work from home but that this did not apply to the independent brokers who use its Lime Street headquarters.\n\n\"Lloyd's underwriting room is certified as a Covid-secure environment and will remain open for market participants,\" the company said.\n\nBusiness groups have reacted with dismay to the prime minister's call for people to work at home where they can.\n\nThe CBI said that it was a \"crushing\" blow that would have a \"devastating impact\".\n\nIt marks a change in policy following a government advertising campaign to get people back to work where safe.\n\nCampaign group London First said it would discourage people from returning to workplaces and risk \"derailing an already fragile recovery\".\n\nCBI director-general Carolyn Fairbairn told the BBC: \"We know we need to avoid a second national lockdown at all if we possibly can, but I have to say these are crushing blows.\n\n\"The impact on people who are coming back into their offices, the impact on city centres, so dependent on the bustle of city life, our creative industries - this will have a devastating impact on people and businesses.\n\n\"And I think that the answer for business, and what I'm hearing in my conversations this morning, is make it a short, sharp shock if it has to happen.\"\n\nPublic transport is still a worry for many people\n\nAppearing on the Emma Barnett Show on Radio 5 live, she said she was speaking to the programme from her office and that \"about 15%\" of her people were in.\n\n\"They're excited about coming back, we need to plan to bring more people back. It's good for morale, it's good for learning, it's good for creativity and so many businesses are feeling that, so this is a backward move that won't be welcomed, and let's make it as short as it needs to be.\"\n\n\"The new restrictions must be regularly reviewed to minimise the damage to the economy while safeguarding the health of the nation in the round - not just physical health, but mental health and our economic health, said London First chief executive Jasmine Whitbread.\n\nShe also called for the government to extend business rates relief and to introduce a \"targeted\" version of the furlough scheme, which is due to end on 31 October.\n\nAs well as the change in stance on working from home, Boris Johnson also confirmed that pubs and restaurants in England will have to close at 22:00 from Thursday to stop the spread of the coronavirus. He warned that the new measures could last up to six months.\n\nMs Whitbread said: \"A targeted version of the furlough scheme would help those hardest hit in leisure, retail and hospitality.\"\n\nRoger Barker, director of policy at the Institute of Directors, said the spread of coronavirus was not wholly predictable, but the \"back and forth\" on office working would cause \"frustration\".\n\nHe added: \"Business leaders are eager for the government to focus on the foundations, issues like childcare, public transport, and getting the testing system firing on all cylinders.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nSix months after lockdown was imposed, the country must \"summon discipline, resolve and a spirit of togetherness\" to get through a second battle against coronavirus. That was the message from Boris Johnson on Tuesday night. He said there had been \"too many breaches\" of the rules which were leading to a surge in infections, and therefore, new restrictions were needed - here they are in full. The PM warned he'd have to get \"tougher\" if they were ignored or not effective, but health correspondent Nick Triggle says that's being weighed against the recognition within government that the public is tiring of the fight.\n\nBoris Johnson only decides the rules for England and he stopped short of joining Scotland and Northern Ireland in banning people visiting each other's homes. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon urged people in Scotland to comply from today, with enforcement being introduced on Friday. Exemptions are in place for certain groups of people. The feeling is it's almost inevitable that England will follow suit in the coming weeks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEmails sent by the government's most senior scientific and medical advisers, seen by the BBC, have revealed their alarm about claims at the start of the pandemic that they were pursuing a herd immunity strategy. That's the idea that if enough people are allowed to catch a disease and build up some immunity, ultimately it will no longer be able to spread. In one email from March, chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance asks for help to \"calm down\" academics who expressed anger at his repeated references to the concept and the delays in announcing a lockdown.\n\nProf Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance came under fire at the start of the pandemic\n\nAbout 600 drink-only bars in Northern Ireland can welcome back customers today for the first time since March. Until now, pubs could only sell alcohol if they also served food or if customers were outside. Northern Ireland hasn't yet imposed earlier closing, but in England, Scotland and Wales kicking out time will soon be 22:00 BST. Industry representatives want to align with the Republic of Ireland, where it's 23:30. The BBC has spoken to landlords who say early closing could halve their takings.\n\nChris Gorman's drone photos have revealed extraordinary scenes during the UK lockdown. From panic-buying to empty shopping centres and theme parks, he says \"every day provided a new and unique picture\". Check out some of his images.\n\nUnsold cars were stacked up on airport runways, like this one in Oxfordshire\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, meet the pop star doctor who decided to scrub up and help out on the wards again after coronavirus put paid to her tour.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "People in Scotland cannot visit other households, unless they are exempt\n\nIndoor visits between households in Scotland are now banned until further notice.\n\nExactly six months since the country was first put into lockdown in March, Scots are once again not allowed to welcome anyone else into their homes.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon urged people in Scotland to comply from Wednesday, with enforcement being introduced on Friday.\n\nExemptions are in place for certain groups of people.\n\nThose living alone who form extended households, couples not living together and those who need childcare and tradespeople do not have to observe the indoor visiting restriction.\n\nThe decision to limit interaction between households was based on evidence from the Test and Protect operation that indicated this was the main way the virus was spreading.\n\nThe measure was already in place for more than 1.75 million people in Glasgow and some neighbouring local authority areas where local lockdown restrictions began earlier this month.\n\nNow it has been extended across the whole of Scotland in a bid to get the virus under control before winter. Restrictions will be reviewed every three weeks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a TV address, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told the nation \"we will get through it\"\n\nMs Sturgeon told the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday that social interaction between different households was a key driver of transmission and such restrictions were the best way of bringing down the R-number.\n\nLater, in a televised address to the nation, she said: \"By staying out of other people's houses for now, we give ourselves the best chance of bringing Covid back under control.\"\n\nDo not meet people from any other households in your home or another person's home socially, unless they are in your extended household. These rules also apply to children\n\nChildren whose parents do not live in the same household can move between homes, as can non-cohabiting couples\n\nVery limited exemptions apply for childcare, and for tradespeople\n\nA maximum of six people from two households can meet in outdoor spaces\n\nYou should limit as far as possible the total number of households you meet in a day\n\nUnder-12s do not count towards the maximum number of households or number of people who can meet outdoors. Under-12s do not have to physically distance\n\nA maximum of six 12 to 17 year olds can meet in outdoor spaces, with no household limit. Physical distancing is still required\n\nA maximum of six people from two households can meet in public indoor spaces such as cafes, pubs and restaurants, subject to physical distancing rules.\n\nChildren under 12 from those two households do not count towards the limits\n\nIndoor and outdoor gatherings in Scotland were restricted to six people from two households just two weeks ago.\n\nHowever, the number of people testing positive for the virus has continued to increase since then.\n\nThe 383 new cases confirmed on Tuesday was the highest daily total since 15 April, and the sixth highest since the outbreak began in Scotland.\n\nThe first minister said hospital and intensive care admissions were also starting to rise, with more older people testing positive.\n\nDuring her televised statement, she said Scotland had to choose its priorities and those were saving lives and protecting health, keeping schools open and restarting NHS services.\n\nPubs, like Sloans in Glasgow, will have to close at 22:00 from Friday\n\nShe said: \"Never forget that humanity has come through even bigger challenges than this one. And though it doesn't feel like it now, this virus will pass.\n\n\"It won't last forever and one day, hopefully soon, we will be looking back on it, not living through it.\n\n\"If we stick with it - and, above all, if we stick together - we will get through it.\"\n\nFurther measures aimed at the hospitality industry will come into effect on Friday. All bars and restaurants will have to close at 22:00 in line with changes announced for England.\n\nThe first minister also asked urged people in Scotland not to book travel overseas for the October break \"unless it is absolutely essential\" and advised people not so share a car with anyone outside of their own household.\n\nShe also said she was keeping the option of a so-called circuit breaker, or short period of nationwide lockdown, under review. Such restrictions could be timed to coincide with the October school holidays, if deemed necessary.\n\nThe Scottish Secretary, Alister Jack, has said he does not agree with the \"one-size-fits all\" approach to a nationwide ban on household visits.\n\nMr Jack told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme on Wednesday that he supported the action taken by the UK government in imposing local lockdowns in parts of the north of England.\n\nHe said: \"The R number is very high in certain parts of Scotland and very low in other parts of Scotland.\n\n\"I would feel very sorry for people in the Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland, for instance, because there is very little prevalence of the virus up there.\n\n\"If you are an elderly person and you are lonely and not able to have visits, my sympathy goes out those people.\"\n\nHowever, Mr Jack insisted he did not believe the ban had \"gone too far\" in parts of Scotland.\n\nHe said: \"This is a devolved matter on health and it's a decision for the first minister.\n\n\"But it's the only part of the restrictions announced yesterday that we haven't agreed on across the UK.\"", "The Met Police said officers were injured in Barnet by a \"suspected corrosive substance\".\n\nEleven Met Police officers have been injured by a \"corrosive substance\" during a drugs raid in north London.\n\nThey had been called to an industrial area in Dale Close, Barnet, at about 13:50 BST.\n\nAll of the injured officers have been taken to hospital, but are not thought to be in a life-threatening condition, the Met said.\n\nA number of males were arrested on suspicion of drugs offences.\n\nThe London Ambulance Service (LAS) said four people other than the officers were also treated at the scene.\n\nA LAS spokeswoman said 15 people in total were taken to hospital for injuries - it is not thought any are life-threatening at this stage.\n\nShe added: \"We dispatched a number of resources including ambulance crews, two incident response officers, an advanced paramedic and medics in fast response cars.\n\n\"We also dispatched our hazardous area response team (HART). \"\n\nThe Met said it was in the process of informing the injured officers' families. Other officers remain at the scene.\n\nThe force's Directorate of Professional Standards had been informed, as was routine, it added.\n\nReacting to the injuries Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said he was \"shocked\" by the news.\n\n\"It is a stark reminder of the real dangers our hardworking officers face every day as they keep us safe,\" Mr Khan said.\n\n\"On behalf of all Londoners, I wish them a speedy recovery.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ministers have ruled out changes to make it easier for transgender people in England and Wales to have their gender legally recognised.\n\nThey have rejected calls for people to be able to self-identify their gender and change their birth certificates without a medical diagnosis.\n\nMinisters said reform of the 2004 Gender Recognition Act was not the \"top priority\" for trans people.\n\nThe UK's equalities watchdog said it was a \"missed opportunity\".\n\nBut women's rights groups applauded the decision as a \"victory for fairness and common sense\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the GRA and has anything actually changed?\n\nMinisters are pledging action to make it easier for trans people to obtain a Gender Recognition Certificate and to improve healthcare services for them.\n\nBut LGBT groups had urged them to go much further, by making it easier for people to legally transition from their birth sex and to provide greater protection under the law.\n\nCurrently, the Gender Recognition Act requires trans people to go through a long process in order to change their birth certificates.\n\nA \"self-ID\" process, allowing changes to birth certificates without a medical diagnosis, was one of the ideas put forward in a consultation undertaken by the last Conservative government, led by Theresa May.\n\nOf the 102,818 responses received, 64% said there should not be a requirement for a diagnosis of gender dysphoria in the future, on the grounds that being trans was neither a medical nor a mental health issue.\n\nBut, in a statement, Equalities Minister Liz Truss said she believed the law as it stood provided the right \"checks and balances\".\n\n\"We want transgender people to be free to live and to prosper in a modern Britain,\" she said.\n\n\"It is the government's view that the balance struck in this legislation is correct, in that there are proper checks and balances in the system and also support for people who want to change their legal sex.\n\n\"We have also come to understand that gender recognition reform, though supported in the consultation undertaken by the last government, is not the top priority for transgender people.\"\n\nIt's now nearly three years since Theresa May talked about \"de-medicalising\" the gender recognition process.\n\nAnd it raised hopes, in some quarters, that fundamental reforms were on the way.\n\nElsewhere, it raised fears that women's rights were set to be eroded.\n\nAnd as that debate raged, ministers seemed to retreat from the scene, unwilling or unsure about how to publicly deal with this political 'hot potato'.\n\nAnd although an official response remained missing in action, it did increasingly become clear that Boris Johnson's administration was unlikely to back what's known as self-ID.\n\nNow, finally, ministers have made up their mind.\n\nIt's a no to changing the law - albeit a yes to cutting the costs of the process.\n\nAnd there are promises to try and address some very real concerns about healthcare.\n\nWhile that move will be welcomed by many, such measures may also be perceived as a way of trying to sweeten the pill for those who are disappointed about the lack of legal reform.\n\nAfter the drawn out delays in Whitehall - and divisive debates in some communities - it's very doubtful that this government will seek to delve into the self-ID debate again any time soon.\n\nMs Truss said the 2010 Equality Act, landmark legislation passed towards the end of the last Labour government, \"clearly protects\" transgender people from discrimination while allowing service providers to restrict access to single sex spaces on the basis of biological sex if there is a clear justification.\n\nThe government is pledging to cut the time involved in applying for a Gender Recognition Certificate, making the process \"kinder and more straightforward\", as well as reducing the £140 cost to a \"nominal\" amount.\n\nAnd it is also promising to cut waiting times at NHS gender clinics.\n\nThe Equalities and Human Rights Commission welcomed the steps but said it regretted the fact that ministers had passed up an opportunity to \"simplify the law\".\n\n\"There is more to be done to increase understanding in wider society and address the divisive public dialogue in this space,\" a spokesman said.\n\nStonewall, which campaigns for equality for lesbian, bisexual, gay and trans people, said the \"minimal administrative\" changes being proposed were totally inadequate.\n\n\"While these moves will make the current process less costly and bureaucratic, they don't go anywhere near far enough toward meaningfully reforming the Act to make it easier for all trans people to go about their daily life,\" said the organisation's chief executive Nancy Kelley.\n\nAnd, in a joint statement, Amnesty International UK, Liberty and Human Rights Watch said it was a \"missed opportunity\" to ensure the law kept pace with \"human rights standards\".\n\n\"Research has found that medical barriers to gender recognition for trans people are unnecessarily intrusive and can harm their physical and mental health,\" the three organisations said.\n\n\"With medical requirements still in place, trans people will continue to be forced through harmful processes to have their gender legally recognised.\"\n\nBut Fair Play for Women, a group committed to defending the sex-based rights of women, said Ms Truss had made the right decision.\n\nIt said the government had \"acknowledged women are stakeholders too and policies must fairly balance the conflicting rights of trans people and women\".\n\n\"Trans people in the UK have some of the strongest legal protections in the world. That does not change today.\"\n\nIn Scotland, plans that would have allowed trans people to self-identify have been put on hold following criticism from across the political spectrum, including from within the SNP.\n\nA draft bill published by the Scottish government in December would have removed the requirement for people to provide medical evidence of their diagnosis of gender dysphoria.\n\nNo change is now expected before next year's Holyrood elections although Scottish minsters say they remain \"committed\" to updating the law so people can get a gender recognition certificate without \"unnecessary stress\".", "Prof Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance came under fire at the start of the pandemic\n\nAs the UK introduces fresh restrictions on social contact to curb the spread of coronavirus, controversy continues to rage about whether the government had initially considered trying a very different approach.\n\nAt the start of the pandemic, the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, spoke about \"herd immunity\" - the idea that once enough of a population had been exposed to the virus, they would build up natural immunity to it.\n\nSir Patrick and the government have both insisted this was never official policy. The government also denies there was any delay in locking down the country, as some critics have suggested.\n\nEmails obtained by the BBC reveal the alarm among the government's top scientific advisers at the reaction to Sir Patrick's words.\n\nIn one email from March, Sir Patrick asks for help to \"calm down\" academics who have expressed anger at his repeated references to herd immunity and the delays in announcing a lockdown.\n\nThe material, obtained by the BBC via a Freedom of Information Act request, consists of every email sent by Sir Patrick and chief medical officer for England, Professor Chris Whitty, from the start of February to the start of June, containing the words \"herd immunity\".\n\nThere is no reference in any email until after 13 March, when Sir Patrick discussed herd immunity in a number of media interviews.\n\n\"Our aim,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that morning, is to \"try and reduce the peak - not suppress it completely, also because most people get a mild illness, to build up some degree of herd immunity whilst protecting the most vulnerable\".\n\nTo many, his words appeared an unequivocal endorsement of herd immunity. They also appeared to explain the government's reluctance to order the kind of lockdowns and social distancing measures that were already in place in many other countries, despite cases increasing and worrying scenes in hospitals in Italy.\n\nCommuter stations were deserted at the height of lockdown\n\nSpeaking to Sky News on the same day, Sir Patrick talked about not suppressing the virus completely, to help avoid \"a second peak,\" and also to \"allow enough of us who are going to get mild illness to become immune to this\".\n\nWhen asked how much of the British population would need to contract the virus for herd immunity to become effective, he calmly replied \"probably around 60%\".\n\nWith an approximate 1% case fatality rate, the interviewer responded, that would mean \"an awful lot of people dying\".\n\nAt the time, there was no strong evidence that being infected by coronavirus would result in long-lasting immunity.\n\nThe following day, a group of more than 500 academics published a joint letter, criticising the lack of social distancing restrictions imposed by the government, adding that \"going for 'herd immunity' at this point does not seem a viable option, as this will put the NHS at an even stronger level of stress, risking many more lives than necessary\".\n\nBoris Johnson flanked by his top scientific advisers at the start of the pandemic\n\nIn an email to Sir Mark Walport, the UK's former chief scientific adviser, discussing the scientists' letter, Sir Patrick suggests the message in response should be \"herd immunity is not the strategy. The strategy is to flatten the curve… and to shield the elderly… As we do this we will see immunity in the community grow\".\n\nSir Patrick appears clearly rattled by the backlash to his use of the phrase.\n\nIn response to an email titled \"Covid-19 and herd immunity\", from an academic, he writes brusquely \"No it is NOT the plan\". He does not, however, explain his previous references to herd immunity.\n\nOn the same weekend, he writes to a colleague, \"anything you can do to calm our academic friends down over herd immunity would be greatly appreciated\".\n\nSir Mark Walport told the BBC he believed the interviews had been misunderstood.\n\nSocial distancing has been one of the main weapons against the virus\n\nHe suggested what Sir Patrick had meant when saying it was not desirable to completely suppress the virus, was that it would be so \"draconian and difficult to do that it would not be achievable\".\n\nOthers, however, have suggested, despite the denials, that \"herd immunity\" was indeed the strategy for a period of time.\n\nThe first public use of the term by a UK official appears to be in a BBC interview on 11 March with Dr David Halpern, chief executive of the government-owned Behavioural Insights Team, known as the \"nudge unit\", and a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage).\n\nHe told the BBC: \"You'll want to protect those at-risk groups so that they basically don't catch the disease and by the time they come out of their cocooning, herd immunity's been achieved in the rest of the population.\"\n\nHowever, the emails obtained by the BBC suggest herd immunity was under discussion as early as January.\n\nIn one email from April, Prof Whitty confers with colleagues about a report in the Times newspaper - in which an unnamed senior politician says he had conversations with Prof Whitty in January that \"were absolutely focused on herd immunity\".\n\nIn the email, Prof Whitty complains he has been misrepresented, stating he never thought herd immunity \"was actually a sensible aim of policy\", but suggesting the concept was talked about when answering \"questions put to me by ministers\".\n\nIn another email to the president of the Faculty of Public Health, which sets standards for health professionals - who had raised questions about the lack of testing - Prof Whitty insisted \"the government had never pursued a 'herd immunity strategy'\". He added it would not make \"epidemiological or public health sense\".\n\nIn a statement, a government spokesman said the emails \"make clear… herd immunity has never been a policy aim\".\n\nHowever, that is unlikely to put an end to the controversy, particularly given the lack of references to herd immunity prior to the interviews given by Sir Patrick on 13 March.\n\nCampaigners representing families of some of those who died in the pandemic are calling for a public inquiry into the government's response to the disease.", "The men, Jayden Dolman (l) and Daniel Mee were holidaying in Spain\n\nTwo friends lost their balance while embracing near a seafront wall and fell nine metres (30ft) on to the beach below, an inquest heard.\n\nDaniel Mee, 25, and Jayden Dolman, 20, died on 3 July 2019 during a holiday in Alicante, Spain.\n\nThe men had been \"larking about\" taking photographs when they toppled over a railing, the inquest in Taunton was told.\n\nMr Mee was pronounced dead at the scene while Mr Dolman later died in hospital.\n\nSomerset coroner Tony Williams said their friend Lewis Higgins witnessed what had happened.\n\n\"He said he and his friends Jayden and Daniel were walking from the villa to the nearest beach.\n\n\"They were taking pictures while they were walking. Daniel embraced Jayden. He saw them both close to the railings. Then they fell.\"\n\nMr Higgins told Spanish authorities the friends had been drinking during the day.\n\nThe inquest focused on the death of Mr Mee, a plumber from Bridgwater, as Mr Dolman's body was not repatriated to the UK.\n\nIt heard toxicology tests found the amount of alcohol in Mr Mee's blood was 215mg per 100ml of blood. The legal drink-drive limit is 80mg.\n\nMr Williams said Mr Mee's cause of death was a head injury and recorded a conclusion of accidental death.\n\nHe said: \"Daniel and Jayden are hugging close to the railings and during that, they have lost balance, they have gone over the railings and unfortunately fallen over where there is a steep drop of nine metres on the other side.\n\n\"Unfortunately, they have sustained injuries that have proved fatal.\"\n• None Two men fall to deaths from a wall in Spain\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is considered the de facto leader of Saudi Arabia\n\nA number of Saudi officials, including two members of the royal family, have been sacked.\n\nA royal decree said Saudi King Salman had relieved Prince Fahad bin Turki of his role as commander of joint forces in the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen.\n\nHis son, Abdulaziz bin Fahad, was also removed as a deputy governor.\n\nThe men, along with four other officials, face an investigation into \"suspicious financial dealings\" at the Ministry of Defence, the decree said.\n\nCrown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is the king's son and is considered Saudi Arabia's de-facto ruler, has spearheaded a campaign against alleged corruption in the government.\n\nHowever, critics say the high-profile arrests have been aimed at removing obstacles to the prince's hold on power.\n\nEarlier this year, the Wall Street Journal reported that three senior royals had been arrested, including the king's younger brother Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz and former crown prince Mohammed bin Nayef.\n\nThe most high-profile incident, in 2017, saw dozens of Saudi royal figures, ministers and businessmen detained at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh.\n\nMost of them were later released, but only after reaching settlements worth a total of $106.7bn (£75.6bn) with the Saudi state.\n\nCrown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, 35, won international praise when he promised a series of economic and social reforms to the deeply-conservative country after coming to power in 2016.\n\nHe has also been criticised over the continuing conflict in Yemen, where Saudi Arabia backs pro-government forces, and the harsh treatment of women's rights activists. despite the lifting of some restrictions including the right to drive.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA huge clear-up operation is continuing after a train crash spilled hundreds of tonnes of oil into a wildlife haven.\n\nTen wagons, each containing 75 tonnes of diesel, derailed and spilled oil into the Loughor Estuary, near Llanelli in Carmarthenshire, on Wednesday.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said oil has now spread as far as Crofty, Swansea, about 4.5 miles (7km) away.\n\nCockle beds and shell fisheries have been closed after advice from the Food Standards Agency.\n\nThe scene of devastation could be seen from above\n\nThe water was dark heading into the estuary\n\nThe Loughor Estuary is part of the Carmarthen Bay and Estuaries Special Area of Conservation, and local wildlife groups have already warned it could have a \"devastating impact\" on the environment.\n\nPeople were evacuated from their homes and a major incident was declared after a freight train carrying wagons of Puma Energy's diesel derailed and burst into flames, causing the fuel to spill into the estuary, which is a site of special scientific interest and home to wildfowl and wading birds.\n\nOn Sunday the oil had been spotted as far away as Crofty, Natural Resources Wales said\n\nNatural Resources Wales said it was \"doing everything in our power to mitigate the impacts of this incident\"\n\nNRW was not able to investigate the damage of the spill until the fire was put out, which took firefighters 33 hours.\n\nOn Saturday, NRW said the spill was \"no longer confined to the upper reaches of the estuary and has been observed at many locations as far as Crofty\".\n\nOn Tuesday, cranes are due to be brought in to start removing the wreckage from the tracks, with it estimated two wagons could be removed a day.\n\nNRW said thousands of litres of fuel had already been pumped from the wagons and the surrounding area.\n\nOver the weekend, trenches were dug and booms and absorbent pads put in place to try and contain the diesel, while \"vacuuming and skimming operations\" are also taking place, NRW said.\n\n\"These techniques have proved to be working well and are removing a considerable quantity of diesel from the water courses,\" a spokesman said.\n\nSamples are being taken, and an environment group made up of representatives from Public Health Wales, the Food Standards Agency, local councils, government departments and wildlife bodies has been formed to respond to the incident.\n\nDiesel has been pumped from the wagons ahead of their removal\n\nBen Wilson, NRW's incident manager, said: \"Our priority at this time is to work with our partners at the incident scene to contain the diesel spill and prevent it from polluting the Loughor Estuary any further.\n\n\"We also have monitoring teams out assessing the extent of the pollution. Their work will help the multi-agency Wales Environment Group to assess the wider environmental impact at sites such as the local fisheries and bathing water sites, and any effect on wildlife in the area.\"\n\nThe estuary is home to important shellfisheries and cockle beds, which have been closed as a \"precaution\" following advice from the Food Standards Agency, NRW said.\n\nThe map showing the observed presence of diesel in the Loughor Estuary on 29 August\n\nWhile Public Health Wales (PHW) said it was unlikely that anyone exposed to diesel for a short period of time would have any adverse health effects, it is sensible to avoid contact with diesel or the water in contaminated areas.\n\nAndrew Kibble of PHW said: \"If anyone gets diesel on their skin, they should remove any affected clothing and wash using soap and water and if they feel unwell seek medical attention.\n\n\"We would also advise that all pets are kept out of contact with the diesel and that members of the public do not pick up any birds or other animals affected by diesel from the shoreline.\"", "Seesha Dack was last seen on Sunday evening\n\nPolice searching for a 15-year-old girl who has been missing for two nights have found a body.\n\nSeesha Dack left her North Shields home at 17:00 BST on Sunday to meet friends, but did not return home, sparking a major search operation.\n\nA body has been found in the Tanners' Bank area of North Shields.\n\nFormal identification is yet to take place but police said they believe the body to be that of Ms Dack and her family has been informed.\n\nThere is not at this stage thought to be any third party involvement and a report will be prepared for the coroner.\n\nTanners' Bank has been sealed off with a police cordon\n\nSupt Barrie Joisce, of Northumbria Police, said: \"This is an extremely sad conclusion to an extensive investigation.\n\n\"Specialist officers are currently supporting Seesha's family during this incredibly difficult time and our thoughts are with them.\n\n\"We will continue to carry out inquiries to establish the circumstances around the death but at this stage we do not believe there to be any third party involvement.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alex Penn is concerned that his firm SSE Audio is losing talented staff\n\nAlex Penn has been planning for the unwinding of the government's coronavirus furlough scheme since July - but it doesn't make the job cuts any easier.\n\nFrom Tuesday, companies using the scheme are now having to contribute to workers' wages.\n\nAnd like many companies, Mr Penn's sound equipment firm SSE Audio has not seen a post-lockdown revival in business sufficient to keep everyone employed.\n\n\"We entered a consultation period in July,\" said the SSE co-managing director. \"We spoke to everybody in the company. We wanted to make sure we were preparing ourselves for the worst.\"\n\nSince March, the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme has paid 80% of the wages of workers placed on leave, up to a maximum of £2,500 a month.\n\nBut now that is going down to 70%, with the employer paying 10%.\n\nSaid Mr Penn: \"The fact that our costs would be ramping up in relation to the furlough scheme as of 1 September, that was when we decided we needed to go through our initial round of redundancies.\"\n\nThe firm, which provides sound systems for arena gigs such as the Reading and Leeds music festivals, is going from 200 employees to 150.\n\nThe impact of the pandemic has hit the arts and entertainment sector particularly hard, and Mr Penn fears a loss of talent.\n\n\"Many of our freelancers are already working in other jobs and we don't expect all of them to come back so it is really important that businesses like ours are protected,\" he said.\n\nMany other companies are also likely to began shedding more staff as the scheme unwinds, which is why some economists are predicting a huge jump in unemployment. Calls for the scheme to be extended are growing.\n\nIt is due to finish at the end of October and Chancellor Rishi Sunak has repeatedly ruled out an extension to it.\n\nLast month, he said it was \"wrong to keep people trapped\" in a situation where there was no realistic prospect of them having a job to go back to.\n\nFrom 1 September, the government will pay 70% of wages up to a cap of £2,187.50 a month. Employers are already paying employees' pension contributions and National Insurance, but will now have to pay 10% of salaries as well.\n\nIn October, the government will pay 60% of wages up to a cap of £1,875. The employers' share of the bill will then go up to 20% of wages.\n\nIt was hailed as groundbreaking: the scheme which provided a vital lifeline to businesses and more than 9.5 million workers.\n\nBut weaning UK businesses off the retention scheme will be the biggest challenge so far for Rishi Sunak.\n\nWith business far from usual, one in 12 workers continue to have their wages for paid by the state.\n\nThe chancellor is adamant that it's time to end the scheme as businesses reopen. The price-tag so far has crossed £35bn, the kind of level which points to tax rises further down the road.\n\nInstead, he points to other forms of support for job retention and creation that he's introduced, from a bonus scheme for employers keeping on staff to targeted VAT cuts for the hospitality industry.\n\nYet the chancellor's own independent forecaster reckons unemployment could reach rates not seen since the 1980s.\n\nMr Sunak admits he can't save every job. The challenge is to prevent a crisis which could ultimately be far more costly for the economy.\n\nThe increased cost of the scheme poses a problem for employers, who face difficult decisions about whether to make staff redundant.\n\nCraig Beaumont of the Federation of Small Businesses told the BBC's Today programme that one million small employers across the country had used the furlough scheme.\n\nHe said that 23% of small employers were considering reducing their headcount in the next three months.\n\n\"This is very very serious. That's a huge section of the economy,\" he said.\n\n\"Sixty per cent of those who work in the private sector do so for a small business, so if that happens without any intervention, then that's a huge increase in mass unemployment.\"\n\nAcas has seen a huge rise in calls to its redundancy advice line\n\nPaul Dales, chief UK economist at Capital Economics, told the programme that other countries, such as France and Germany, had extended comparable schemes.\n\nLast week, for instance, Germany agreed to extend a scheme that tops up pay for workers affected by the coronavirus pandemic until the end of 2021.\n\n\"The UK scheme, in that sense, looks a little bit short, especially when you take into account that the UK's economy is made up of a higher share of sectors that are hampered by social distancing,\" Mr Dales said.\n\nHowever, he added that many jobs were currently \"frozen\" and would not come back after the coronavirus crisis.\n\n\"You do want to start the process of reallocating those people to jobs that will be around for many many years,\" he said.\n\nSome businesses that are still suffering from the pandemic, including live music venues that have not yet reopened, are feeling the effects of the furlough tapering.\n\nTristan Moffat, operations director of the Piano Works bars in London's Farringdon and West End districts, told BBC Radio 5 live that his business had 104 members of staff on furlough.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What could post-lockdown nights out look like?\n\nThe bars are still closed at present, but the company is hoping to reopen them in October with strict social distancing measures in place.\n\nThe idea is that before customers even enter the club, they will have their temperatures taken and be sprayed with disinfectant in a special tunnel.\n\nBut that depends on the lifting of restrictions on audiences singing and dancing, as each venue has a six-piece band that plays non-stop music.\n\n\"If we're not able to reopen in the short term, then we would have very very difficult decisions ahead,\" he said.\n\nThe impending end of the scheme is already having an impact on the economy, analysts say.\n\nConciliation service Acas has said calls to its redundancy advice line almost tripled in June and July, as concerns mounted about the implications.\n\nSusannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: ''The unwinding of the furlough scheme has been followed by announcements of significant job losses across multiple sectors, particularly travel and retail.\n\n\"Although growth has been recovering as lockdown restrictions have eased, it has become increasingly clear that the government's job retention scheme has been masking the damage wreaked by the pandemic on jobs and the wider economy.\n\n\"As the scheme tapers further at the start of next month and the government stops subsidising wages altogether by 31 October, we would expect economic recovery to lose momentum as businesses across many industries are forced to lay off more staff.\"", "Breakfast clubs and after school care is \"essential\" for many families\n\nParents may be unable to return to work or could even stop their children going back to school amid uncertainty over childcare, a nursery has claimed.\n\nWhile schools gear up to welcome back pupils, many breakfast and after-school clubs are unable to fully reopen.\n\nCompanies providing care said they were still unsure when services could fully resume - leaving parents in the dark.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it expected more childcare places to become available as schools reopen.\n\nFor those parents unable to drop off and collect their children at school-time, clubs before and after classes are essential.\n\nHowever some companies that provide services such as \"wraparound\" care - looking after children both before and after school - are unable to fully reopen due to coronavirus restrictions.\n\nWhen schools closed in March, childcare providers could only offer services to children of key workers.\n\nServices have slowly increased but restrictions have had \"a massive impact\" on those businesses, said Claire Bailyes, of Little Inspirations in Tonyrefail, Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nThe company has seven locations across south-east Wales and said navigating the guidance, often at \"short notice\" and \"not clear at times\", had been difficult.\n\n\"Normally we would have school collections, breakfast club and after-school club\", said Ms Bailyes.\n\n\"However with everything going on it's very limited, so it's had a big impact on the nurseries and it's been very short notice to let parents know.\"\n\nWith many grandparents self-isolating, the lack of care is affecting parents' ability to return to work.\n\n\"There's been a lot of disappointment for parents. Some are not able to go back to work as they have to stay home with the children,\" she added.\n\n\"Some have even considered not sending their children to school as they're not going to be able to take and collect them.\n\n\"The staggered pick up times are just so awkward and many grandparents are not there because they are isolating or shielding.\"\n\n\"We don't have the flexibility to leave work early,\" said Owain Rogers\n\nOne parent facing uncertainty at how either he or his wife, who is a teacher, can drop off and collect their two sons is Owain Rogers, from Cardiff.\n\n\"That service is essential for us because we don't have a support network to pick up the kids at three o'clock,\" he said.\n\n\"We really depend on the after-school club to be able to go back to work because neither my wife or I have the flexibility to leave early.\n\n\"It's really hard to know what provision we can put in place. We're going to have to rely on friends, but then we feel a burden, and other families are in the same predicament - worrying about what's happening.\n\n\"I don't know why these clubs can't open as usual. Schools are open and people need to go back to work.\"\n\nChildcare providers have been inundated with queries from parents\n\nThe Welsh Government said almost 70% of childcare settings in Wales were now open, with more expected to resume services as schools reopen.\n\n\"We understand there may be some variations in service at the start of the autumn term as schools and childcare providers get used to the new ways of operating and we are working with local authorities to ensure childcare is available to families,\" it said.\n\n\"We also recently announced £4m in funding to support the childcare sector to ensure more providers re-open as schools return in September.\"\n\nIt added that school-run breakfast clubs were under a \"legal duty\" to resume at the start of the new term.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We would expect that as primary schools open, [school-run] breakfast clubs should operate as normal unless it would be unreasonable for them to do so.\"", "Dominic Raab and his top civil servant Philip Barton arrive at their new department\n\nThe UK government remains committed to spending 0.7% of national income on foreign aid, Dominic Raab has said.\n\nThe foreign secretary dismissed as \"tittle tattle\" reports that the £15bn aid budget could be cut to pay for more defence and intelligence spending.\n\nPress reports suggest Chancellor Rishi Sunak will cut aid spending to help pay off rising debts in his Autumn budget.\n\nBut Mr Raab said the 0.7% target was a manifesto commitment that was written into law.\n\nHis promise came as the newly-merged Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office began work, with a pledge to protect \"the world's poorest\" from coronavirus and famine.\n\nThe new department is opening after No 10 decided to combine the Foreign and Commonwealth Office with the Department for International Development (DfID).\n\nAsked if the 0.7% target would survive the merger, Mr Raab said: \"Oh, absolutely.\"\n\nHe added that the development expertise the UK has got will be \"the beating heart of this new department\".\n\nThe government is carrying out a review of defence and security policy, that is due to report back in November, and is also gearing up for the comprehensive spending review, which will set departmental budgets for the next few years.\n\nAccording to The Times, Rishi Sunak is arguing that the Ministry of Defence's plans for advanced cyber weaponry and AI-enabled drones must be paid for out of the aid budget.\n\nMr Raab said: \"Well, there is loads of tittle tattle, rather colourful, in the media and I am not going to prejudice the comprehensive spending review.\"\n\nHe added that the government was committed to helping the poorest around the world and \"making sure we link up aid with our wider foreign policy goals\".\n\nThe UK is one of the few countries to meet the UN's 0.7% aid target\n\nMr Raab has announced a £119m fund to tackle coronavirus and famine to mark the launch of the new, merged department.\n\nThe money will be targeted in Yemen, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Somalia, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Sudan and West Africa's Sahel region - all places where the outbreak has worsened conditions for people already struggling with extreme hunger, wars and/or climate change.\n\nThe foreign secretary also confirmed he would be appointing Nick Dyer - a director general at DfID - as the UK's first special envoy for famine prevention and humanitarian affairs.\n\nThe abolition of the Department for International Development may have been driven by political pressure from within the Conservative Party.\n\nBut the government argues that its merger with the Foreign Office will mean better, more joined-up policy.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said that by combining its diplomatic strength with its expertise in foreign aid, Britain could not only tackle global challenges, but also protect its interests.\n\nCritics fear the new Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office could mean the government weakens its commitment to spend 0.7% of national income on foreign aid.\n\nBut Downing Street insisted there'd been no change to that policy.\n\nThe two departments have a history of being merged and split up again, and the move to bring them together has long been mooted in Conservative circles.\n\nTory MP Harriet Baldwin - who held joint roles across the FCO and DfID - said it was \"really important to combine them\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"[The move] will really increase the impact of our diplomatic clout, as well as our development expertise across the world.\"\n\nBut Labour MP Hilary Benn, who was the international development secretary under Tony Blair, said he thought the merger was a \"mistake\" and questioned Mr Johnson's understanding of the department.\n\nHe told Today: \"The proof will be in how this new department develops and unfolds, but I think it will lead to less respect for what we are doing.\"\n\nBoris Johnson announced the merger in June, telling MPs it would ensure aid spending better reflected UK aims and that it was a \"long overdue reform\".\n\nHe said UK aid spending had \"been treated as some giant cashpoint in the sky that arrives without any reference to UK interests\".\n\nBut the PM pledged DfID's budget - which at £15bn last year dwarfed the £2.4bn spent by the Foreign Office - would be maintained\n\nMr Johnson's decision was criticised by three previous prime ministers - Conservative David Cameron, and Labour's Gordon Brown and Mr Blair.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson announced the merger to the Commons in June\n\nMr Cameron said it would mean \"less expertise, less voice for development at the top table and ultimately less respect for the UK overseas\".\n\nThe Commons International Development Committee also called the move \"impulsive\", saying the world's poorest \"will pay the greatest price\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer pledged to reinstate DfID if he were to win the next general election, saying the merger was \"the tactics of pure distraction\".", "Microsoft has developed a tool to spot deepfakes - computer-manipulated images in which one person's likeness has been used to replace that of another.\n\nThe software analyses photos and videos to give a confidence score about whether the material is likely to have been artificially created.\n\nThe firm says it hopes the tech will help \"combat disinformation\".\n\nOne expert has said it risks becoming quickly outdated because of the pace at which deepfake tech is advancing.\n\nTo address this, Microsoft has also announced a separate system to help content producers add hidden code to their footage so any subsequent changes can be easily flagged.\n\nDeepfakes came to prominence in early 2018 after a developer adapted cutting-edge artificial intelligence techniques to create software that swapped one person's face for another.\n\nThe process worked by feeding a computer lots of still images of one person and video footage of another. Software then used this to generate a new video featuring the former's face in the place of the latter's, with matching expressions, lip-synch and other movements.\n\nSince then, the process has been simplified - opening it up to more users - and now requires fewer photos to work.\n\nSome apps exist that require only a single selfie to substitute a film star's face with that of the user within clips from Hollywood movies.\n\nBut there are concerns the process can also be abused to create misleading clips, in which a prominent figure is made to say or act in a way that never happened, for political or other gain.\n\nEarly this year, Facebook banned deepfakes that might mislead users into thinking a subject had said something they had not. Twitter and TikTok later followed with similar rules of their own.\n\nMicrosoft's Video Authenticator tool works by trying to detect giveaway signs that an image has been artificially generated, which might be invisible to the human eye.\n\nThe Video Authenticator tool gives a percentage-based confidence score as to how likely a clip is to be a deepfake\n\nThese include subtle fading or greyscale pixels at the boundary of where the computer-created version of the target's face has been merged with that of the original subject's body.\n\nTo build it, the firm applied its own machine-learning techniques to a public dataset of about 1,000 deepfaked video sequences and then tested the resulting model against an even bigger face-swap database created by Facebook.\n\nOne technology advisor noted that deepfake videos remain relatively rare for now, and that most manipulated clips involve cruder re-edits done by a human. Even so, she welcomed Microsoft's intervention.\n\n\"The only really widespread use we've seen so far is in non-consensual pornography against women,\" commented Nina Schick, author of the book Deep Fakes and the Infocalypse.\n\n\"But synthetic media is expected to become ubiquitous in about three to five years, so we need to develop these tools going forward.\n\n\"However, as detection capabilities get better, so too will the generation capability - it's never going to be the case that Microsoft can release one tool that can detect all kinds of video manipulation.\"\n\nIn the short term, it said it hoped its existing product might help identify deepfakes ahead of November's US election.\n\nRather than release it to the public, however, it is only offering it via a third-party organisation, which in turn will provide it to news publishers and political campaigns without charge.\n\nThe reason for this is to prevent bad actors getting hold of the code and using it to teach their deepfake generators how to evade it.\n\nTo tackle the longer-term challenge, Microsoft has teamed up with the BBC, among other media organisations, to support Project Origin, an initiative to \"mark\" online content in a way that makes it possible to spot automatically any manipulation of the material.\n\nThe US tech firm will do this via a two-part process.\n\nFirstly, it has created an internet tool to add a digital fingerprint - in the form of certificates and \"hash\" values - to the media's metadata.\n\nSecondly, it has created a reader, to check for any evidence that the fingerprints have been affected by third-party changes to the content.\n\nMicrosoft says people will then be able to use the reader in the form of a browser extension to verify a file is authentic and check who has produced it.\n\nPhoto and video manipulation is crucial to the spread of often quite convincing disinformation on social media.\n\nBut right now complex or deepfake technology isn't always necessary. Simple editing technology is more often than not the favoured option.\n\nThat was the case with a recent manipulated video of US Presidential candidate Joe Biden, which has been viewed over two million times on social media.\n\nThe clip shows a TV interview during which Biden appeared to be falling asleep. But it was fake - the clip of the host was from a different TV Interview and snoring effects had been added.\n\nComputer-generated photos of people's faces, on the other hand, have already become common hallmarks of sophisticated foreign interference campaigns, used to make fake accounts appear more authentic.\n\nOne thing is for sure, more ways to spot media that has been manipulated or changed is not a bad thing in the fight against online disinformation.", "This small zinc casket containing ex-mayor Pierre David's heart was in the fountain\n\nAn ornate fountain in Verviers, eastern Belgium, has given up an object it held for more than a century: the heart of the city's first mayor.\n\nThe organ, sealed in a jar of alcohol inside a small zinc casket, was found during renovation of the fountain.\n\nThe casket is now on show in the city's Museum of Fine Arts. Mayor Pierre David died in 1839, but the fountain named after him was only inaugurated in 1883.\n\nAn engraving on the casket says it was placed in the monument at the time.\n\n\"The heart of Pierre David was solemnly placed in the monument on 25 June 1883\", it reads.\n\nThe casket was tucked away in this hollowed-out stone\n\nThe Verviers Alderman for Public Works, Maxime Degey, said \"an urban legend has become reality: the casket was in the upper part of the fountain, right near the bust of Pierre David, behind a stone which we had removed during the fountain's renovation\".\n\nQuoted by broadcaster RTBF, he said the casket found by the builders on 20 August was \"in really impeccable condition\".\n\nThe casket was hidden near the bust of Pierre David, nearly half-way up\n\nMayor Pierre David died in a fall aged 68, while working in his hayloft in 1839.\n\nThe city authorities launched a collection fund for a monument to honour him, and with his family's consent surgeons removed his heart, so that it could be entombed in the monument.\n\nThe Verviers official website - verviers.be - says it then took decades for the city to collect enough money to erect a suitably ornate monument.\n\nMeanwhile there were also arguments over how best to honour the city's first mayor, before the fountain at Place Verte went ahead.\n\nThe casket is in a special exhibition in Verviers Museum of Fine Arts\n\nHe lived through turbulent times, including the establishment of Belgium as an independent state in 1830.\n\nHe first served as Verviers mayor in 1800-1808, when today's Belgium was ruled from France.\n\nLater, Belgium's independence resulted from a revolution against Dutch rule in 1830, and in that year Pierre David was elected to serve as mayor again.\n\nThe mayor is remembered especially for having founded a fire service in Verviers in 1802 - a rare innovation at that time.\n\nHe was a Francophile who supported the ideology of the French Revolution, but then lived through the period of Dutch rule from 1815 to 1830.\n\nVerviers was badly damaged in the 1830 uprising, and Pierre David was given the task of restoring order in the city, as he was widely respected.\n\nThe David Fountain is being dismantled stone by stone for renovation", "Stormzy, who has previously headlined Glastonbury, was due to perform at Reading and Leeds this year\n\nReading and Leeds Festival will be back next year with six headliners split across two main stages in each site.\n\nThe event, which sees acts rotate between Reading and Leeds, had been due to happen last weekend but was called off due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nNow 2021's headliners will be Stormzy, Liam Gallagher, Post Malone, Catfish And The Bottlemen, Disclosure and Queens Of The Stone Age.\n\nUp to 200,000 fans are expected at next year's events - from 27 to 29 August.\n\nLiam Gallagher seems pretty pleased to be back on stage next year\n\nThe head of the event's promoters Festival Republic, Melvin Benn, said it was their \"most epic plan yet\".\n\n\"Two main stages, six headliners, the best line up of acts 2021 will see and 200,000 fans are going to celebrate the best music,\" he added.\n\nThe event, regarded by many live music fans as second only to Glastonbury in the annual UK music calendar, will also include AJ Tracey, Doja Cat, Lewis Capaldi, Mabel and Two Door Cinema Club, along with rappers Ashnikko, DaBaby and Fever 333.\n\nRapper Stormzy and former Oasis frontman Gallagher had been due to headline the 2020 events - along with rock band Rage Against The Machine - and the organisers were able to retain the services of both British superstars.\n\nGallagher said: \"Yes Brothers and Sisters, I come bearing good news...Yours Truly is headlining Reading & Leeds 2021. C'MON YOU KNOW. LG\"\n\nCatfish And The Bottlemen, who will headline the festival for the first time, told BBC Radio 1 it was a \"huge honour\" to have been asked to top the bill.\n\n\"We've always had it in the back of our minds since we first played the BBC Introducing stage [in 2013],\" the band's frontman Van McCann said.\n\n\"To be able to come back now and have that slot, it's a big one.\n\n\"We'll probably turn up with a few new songs.\"\n\nThe organisers are hoping fans will still enjoy attending - although it may not look quite like this next year\n\nHowever, some on social media complained about the lack of female artists among next year's headliners, all of whom are male.\n\nRobert accused the organisers of \"misogyny\", while another tweeted that the headliners were being outshone by the women featured in the 2021 line-up, but apparently \"deemed not headline-worthy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by robert This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by 𝕸𝖔𝖑 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe festival will still take place at the usual venues - Richfield Avenue in Reading and Bramham Park in Leeds. Tickets bought for this summer will remain valid, while refunds will also be available, organisers have said.\n\nReading and Leeds are both among the longest-running and largest music events in Britain. Reading has a capacity audience of 105,000 music fans, while Leeds can take 75,000.\n\nThe Reading Festival itself dates back to the the 1960s, and used to be best-known as a rock festival, but over the years it has included a more diverse line-up and added Leeds as a second site in 1999.\n\nLast year's headliners included The 1975, Post Malone, Twenty One Pilots and Foo Fighters. Other acts included Billie Eilish, Bastille, Blossoms, Yungblud, Pale Waves and The Distillers.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Samantha and Frankie tied the knot at their home in Loughbrickland, County Down\n\nA County Down woman whose circumstances persuaded Northern Ireland's devolved government to allow her wedding to go ahead during lockdown has passed away.\n\nSamantha Gamble, who had a terminal cancer diagnosis, and Frankie Byrne had been together for 12 years and had planned to marry at the end of May.\n\nBut coronavirus restrictions meant that weddings were not allowed.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said that she did not think anyone \"could have failed to be touched by the couple\".\n\nMrs Byrne, from Loughbrickland, died on Sunday in the Southern Area Hospice.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nStormont's first and deputy first ministers, Mrs Foster and Michelle O'Neill, said they had agreed to allow marriage ceremonies in which a person is terminally ill as part of the first steps in lifting lockdown measures in Northern Ireland after the couple's family lobbied politicians.\n\nThanking them for their decision, Mrs Byrne said they would \"never know what it means to us\".\n\nSamantha said her wedding meant \"everything\"\n\nOnly six people, including the bride, groom and registrar, could attend the garden ceremony with wider family joining via video link.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. All you need to know about Wales' schools returning full-time\n\nExams in Wales could be delayed in 2021, following the cancellation of this year's tests.\n\nEducation Minister Kirsty Williams said discussions would be held with regulator Qualifications Wales.\n\nThere have been calls for the exams to be cancelled again, but Ms Williams said she intended for them to go ahead.\n\nThere could be changes to how the qualifications are taught, with exam board WJEC looking at making changes like reducing set texts.\n\nIt follows controversy in August at the way A-level results were provided, before the system to judge pupils' grades was scrapped in favour of teacher assessments.\n\nExams in England are likely to be delayed where a UK government minister has promised a decision \"very soon\".\n\nChildren will head back to the classroom across Wales this week.\n\nAmid concerns about coronavirus, truancy fines will not be issued if pupils do not attend at the start of the school year, but this plan will be reviewed as the term develops.\n\nStudents had called on the government to use teacher-predicted grades\n\nSpeaking at a Welsh Government press conference, Ms Williams said: \"It is our intention at this time, to hold examinations next year.\n\n\"There are discussions about when those examinations may take place.\"\n\nThe minister said Qualifications Wales was speaking to other UK regulators \"as to whether it would be wise to move those examinations to a different point in the year, primarily to maximise teaching\".\n\nBut she said any delay would have a \"knock-on effect\" on matters such as progression and results day.\n\nWJEC had been \"working on amendments to specs that will be taught this term, to make them as manageable as possible for schools\", Ms Williams said.\n\nThat could include reducing case studies or set texts for literature students, changes she said \"go further\" than those made in England.\n\nDetails of a review of 2020's exams were announced last week - it will provide recommendations for how next year's qualifications are handled.\n\nThe UK Labour Party has called for next summer's GCSE and A-level exams to be pushed back in England.\n\nDelyth Jewell of Plaid Cymru said the final report of the independent review is not due until mid-December, \"which is too close for those sitting exams in January 2021\".\n\n\"The Welsh Government has an opportunity now to cancel exams, rather than waste valuable time delaying what many feel will be an inevitable decision,\" she said.\n\nMeanwhile, Ms Williams said new funding was being provided to give reopening schools extra teachers and support.\n\nThe £29m fund is targeted at Years 11, 12 and 13 as well as disadvantaged and vulnerable learners.\n\nIt will also be used to provide extra coaching support, personalised learning programmes and resources for exam year pupils.\n\nChildren in Wales start returning to school this week\n\nChildren will be expected to wear their uniform when they go back to school, Ms Williams told the press conference.\n\nShe said she wanted to see \"as much normality should be resumed\" where possible and it would be \"helpful\" if uniforms could be washed regularly, rather than being dry-cleaned.\n\nThe minister said it was important school children are tested if they have suspected coronavirus.\n\n\"All children who are exhibiting a new continuous cough, temperature, loss of taste and smell, will be required to take a test.\n\n\"I appreciate that as we enter into the winter months, other potential illnesses could well be confused but at this stage any child, or member of staff in school, are exhibiting any of these signs they will need to be tested\".\n\nKirsty Williams said discussions were ongoing about when next year's exams would be held\n\nSpeaking earlier on BBC Wales Breakfast, Ms Williams said that in the first few days of the catch-up sessions before the summer break, some parents had been \"reluctant\" to send their children back.\n\n\"When parents saw other children were returning to school, that it was being done as safely and securely as possible, and that the children were getting so much out of going to school, we saw confidence growing,\" she said.\n\n\"We want to have reassuring conversations with parents, rather than threatening them with fines.\"\n\nShe added: \"At this stage it is absolutely appropriate that we have those conversations to understand why parents may have concerns, why they don't want to send their children back, and to work with parents, school by school, on an individual basis, to reassure them.\"\n\nBut Ms Williams stated the situation in schools would be reviewed as the term progressed.\n\nThe UK's chief medical adviser has said children are more likely to be harmed by not returning to school than if they catch coronavirus.\n\nBut Ms Williams said while everything was being done to make sure schools were as safe as possible, there were \"no risk-free options\".", "As universities around the world start to reopen, students are coming to terms with new ways of learning and socialising.\n\nBBC OS on World Service radio has been hearing from students in different parts of the world, to find out their experiences of returning to university.\n\nKaddyja is a first-year student at the University of Alabama in the US, where more than 1,200 students have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\n\"I'm only in class with about eight to 12 other students,\" she says. \"We don't talk. I'm not used to that, especially coming from a high school where I knew almost everyone. My first few days, I remember just being bored in my dorm from being cooped up all day.\"\n\nButhmee is a first-year student at Tokyo International University in Japan, but is doing her studies from her home in Sri Lanka.\n\n\"I was hoping I would be in Japan right now with my friends starting university, starting a new life there.\"\n\nBut she says online learning has been an overall positive experience. \"We've had videos emailed to us on a daily basis. They've also connected us with counsellors.\"\n\nBut for Ricardo, a third-year student at Rey Juan Carlos University in Spain, the change from his first two years has been difficult.\n\n\"I'm very frustrated because I see how a lot of teachers are doing nothing. They say they have uploaded a document, but if you don't try to connect to us, to have video calls to explain things, I'm not going to understand. I'm paying the same price as when it was full attendance in campus.\"\n\nBut he understands the importance of social distancing, having caught Covid-19 while working at his family restaurant.\n\nHe and his friends are finding new ways of socialising. \"We're making video calls every day and using Netflix Party to watch films together. We are doing good.\"", "The trial of the alleged accomplices opens on Wednesday\n\nFrench satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has republished cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that made them the target of a deadly terror attack in 2015.\n\nRepublication comes a day before 14 people go on trial accused of helping the two Islamist attackers carry out their gun rampage on 7 January 2015.\n\nTwelve people were killed, including famous cartoonists. Five people died in a related attack in Paris days later.\n\nThe attacks began a wave of jihadist strikes across France.\n\nThe front cover of the latest edition features the 12 original cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, which were published in a Danish newspaper before appearing in Charlie Hebdo. One of the cartoons shows the prophet wearing a bomb instead of a turban. The French headline reads \"Tout ça pour ça\" (\"All of that for this\").\n\nIn its editorial, the magazine says that it has often been asked to carry on printing caricatures of the prophet since the 2015 killings.\n\n\"We have always refused to do so, not because it is prohibited - the law allows us to do so - but because there was a need for a good reason to do it, a reason which has meaning and which brings something to the debate,\" it says.\n\n\"To reproduce these cartoons in the week the trial over the January 2015 terrorist attacks opens seemed essential to us.\"\n\nFourteen people are accused of obtaining weapons and providing logistical support for the attackers of Charlie Hebdo's Paris offices, and subsequent attacks on a Jewish supermarket and a police officer.\n\nThe Hyper Cacher supermarket, where a gunman killed four people in January 2015\n\nThree of the accused are being tried in absentia as they are believed to have fled to northern Syria and Iraq.\n\nThere are believed to be some 200 plaintiffs in the trial and survivors of the attacks are expected to testify, France's RFI broadcaster reports.\n\nThe trial had been due to start in March but was postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. It is due to last until November.\n\nOn 7 January, brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi stormed the offices of Charlie Hebdo, and opened fire killing the editor Stéphane Charbonnier, known as Charb, four other cartoonists including Cabu, two columnists, a copy editor, a guest attending the meeting and the caretaker. The editor's bodyguard and a police officer were also killed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. As the manhunt for the attackers continues, here's a tribute to those killed - in 60 seconds\n\nAs police hunted down the two brothers - who were eventually killed - another siege began in the east of Paris. Amedy Coulibaly, who was an acquaintance of the Kouachi brothers, killed a policewoman before taking several people hostage at a Jewish supermarket. He killed four Jewish men on 9 January before being shot dead in a police standoff.\n\nIn a video recording, Coulibaly said the attacks had been carried in the name of the Islamic State group.\n\nCharlie Hebdo's anti-establishment satire - poking fun at the far right, and aspects of Catholicism and Judaism as well as Islam - had long drawn controversy.\n\nBut it was its portrayals of the Prophet Mohammed that led to death threats against the editorial team and a petrol bomb attack on its offices in 2011.\n\nCharb had strongly defended the cartoons as symbolic of freedom of speech. \"I don't blame Muslims for not laughing at our drawings,\" he told the Associated Press in 2012. \"I live under French law. I don't live under Koranic law.\"\n\nFollowing the 2015 attack, thousands of people took to the streets in protest and the hashtag #JeSuisCharlie (I am Charlie) began trending around the world.\n\nManaging editor Gerard Biard told the BBC in 2016 that the magazine's emergence as an international symbol had brought with it fresh criticism of its provocative and controversial tone, with many people calling for it to have more respect for the views - and beliefs - of others.", "The first minister has announced that restrictions on visiting other households are being reintroduced in the Glasgow area, after an increase in cases of coronavirus.\n\nNicola Sturgeon announced the move after 66 of the 154 new positive tests were recorded in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area.\n\nThe restrictions will apply to people living in Glasgow, West Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire.\n\nEarlier the first minister unveiled her plans for the next year and also updated the parliament on the latest on the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHere are the headlines from a busy day at Holyrood:\n• Young people will be guaranteed a job, education or formal training under a new £60m \"youth guarantee\"\n• The Scottish government is to set out its plans for a second independence referendum in a draft bill\n• The first minister announces a new \"proximity tracing app\" to combat the spread of Covid-19 called 'Protect Scotland'\n• University students could face disciplinary action if they break government coronavirus guidelines\n• A passenger who flew on a Tui flight from Zante to Glasgow has tested positive for coronavirus\n\nThat's all from us here on the live page, please take care and stay safe.", "Search and rescue teams, along with fishermen, are combing the area for the missing crew member\n\nThree sailors have died and one is missing after their tugboat capsized while they were helping to clear a major oil spill off Mauritius.\n\nFour others were rescued after the boat collided with a barge on Monday.\n\nThe accident happened two days after major protests in Mauritius over the government's handling of the clean up.\n\nAbout 1,000 tonnes of oil spilled into a sanctuary for rare wildlife after the Japanese ship MV Wakashio struck a coral reef on 25 July.\n\nConcern mounted further after 39 dead dolphins were found washed up on the shore last week. The cause of their deaths is not yet known but environmental campaigners believe it is linked to the spill and are demanding an inquiry.\n\nThe tugboat had been towing the unmanned barge back from the spill site in rough seas when the collision between them happened, the barge operator Taylor Smith Group said.\n\nThe eight crew members abandoned ship. Four were later rescued and taken to shore.\n\nPrime Minister Pravind Jugnauth visited the rescued sailors in hospital and said rescue teams were searching for the missing crew members, the BBC's Yasine Mohabuth reports from the capital Port Louis.\n\nMr Jugnauth has promised an investigation into the accident.\n\nHis government has also promised to set up a commission to investigate the spill itself after coming under pressure over its handling of the incident.\n\nMany Mauritians believe the government could have done more to prevent the spill. There is also criticism over the decision to deliberately sink part of the ship after it split in two.\n\nSaturday's protest was the biggest the country has seen in recent years\n\nThousands of people marched through Port Louis on Saturday calling on the government to resign.\n\nMany wore black and T-shirts with the inscription: \"I love my country. I'm ashamed of my government.\" They waved the national flag, while honking horns and drumming.\n\nOne protester told the BBC: \"They didn't do anything when the ship approached our coastline - 12 days they didn't do anything until the oil spill and now thousands of people and marine people are affected.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. More than 1,000 tonnes of oil has leaked into waters near Mauritius\n\nThe captain of the ship has been arrested and charged with endangering safe navigation. He has not yet commented.", "Thousands more people in England with type 2 diabetes will be offered the chance to try a soup-and-shake diet weight-loss plan for free on the NHS.\n\nStudies show switching to the low-calorie liquid diet can put diabetes into remission.\n\nExperts say they want to help people to be as fit as possible, particularly during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nObesity and type 2 diabetes are linked and both increase the risk of complications from Covid-19.\n\nSome NHS patients have already benefited from the year-long diet and exercise plan, which is why NHS England wants to expand the scheme to more people.\n\nPeople living with type 2 diabetes who are an unhealthy weight and have been diagnosed with the condition in the last six years will be considered for the scheme.\n\nAfter a few months on the shakes and soups, when some weight loss has been achieved, solid foods are reintroduced, with support to help the person maintain a nutritious diet and regular exercise.\n\nResults from one trial showed almost half of those who went on the diet achieved remission of their type 2 diabetes after one year.\n\nType 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease that is not linked to being overweight.\n\nProf Jonathan Valabhji, NHS national clinical director for diabetes and obesity, said: \"This is the latest example of how the NHS, through our Long Term Plan, is rapidly adopting the latest evidence-based treatments to help people stay well, maintain a healthy weight and avoid major diseases.\n\n\"There has never been a more important time to lose weight and put their type 2 diabetes into remission, so it's good news for thousands of people across the country that practical, supportive measures like this are increasingly available on the NHS.\"\n\nBev, who was one of the first patients to benefit from the diet during trials, said: \"My goal for the first eight weeks of the low-calorie diet was to lose 5% of my body weight - which I achieved in six weeks - and in total I've lost over 10kg, my type 2 diabetes is now in remission and I no longer have to take any medication - I am over the moon.\n\n\"Since the low-calorie diet programme, my mindset has totally changed for the better and I look at food differently now - my shopping habits are far healthier and, when I eat out, I'll go for a healthier option. The programme has taught me moderation.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The snakes were located inside the house\n\nA man in Australia got a shock when he returned home to find two snakes had crashed through his ceiling and were slithering around his Queensland house.\n\nDavid Tate found one snake in his bedroom and another in the living room on Monday. They weighed 22kg (3.4 stone) between them.\n\nSnake catcher Steven Brown said they were of \"exceptional size\".\n\nIt's thought the two male snakes could have been fighting over a female snake which has not yet been located.\n\nThe animals had fallen through the ceiling of the property\n\nMr Tait said he had previously seen snakes basking in the sun on his roof.\n\n\"When I came back...there was a large slab [of ceiling] on the kitchen table,\" he told The Courier-Mail.\n\nAfter seeing the state of his ceiling, he looked around and eventually found the animals.\n\nHe called in a snake catcher and the ordeal was over \"pretty quickly\".\n\n\"I certainly didn't want to handle them,\" he said.\n\nOne of the animals was located in the living room while another was found in the bedroom\n\nMr Brown from North Brisbane Snake Catchers and Relocation told the BBC: \"These two were of exceptional size compared to the common size that's usually come across.\"\n\nIt wasn't until he arrived at the house that he realised the animals had crashed through the ceiling, he said on Facebook.\n\n\"We are just coming into our snake season as today is the start of the breeding season and snakes will only get more active as the temperatures rise into our summer period,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMr Brown said that if people came across a snake, it was best to stand still and let the snake move on as they would not see you as a threat.\n\n\"All snakes want to do is escape any threat of danger,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment an Australian news report is interrupted by a snake biting the microphone", "Popular videoconferencing app Zoom has seen its revenues skyrocket as second quarter profits more than doubled due to the coronavirus crisis.\n\nRevenues leaped 355% to $663.5m (£496.3m) for the three months ending 31 July, beating analysts' expectations of $500.5m.\n\nProfits soared to $186m, while customer growth rose 458%, compared with the same period in 2019.\n\nVideo conferencing apps remain crucial due to the increase in remote working.\n\nZoom's shares hit a record high on Monday, closing at $325.10, as the firm raised its annual revenue forecast by more than 30% to the range of $2.37bn-$2.39bn, from its previous projection of $1.78bn-$1.80bn.\n\nKey to Zoom's success was its ability to add paying customers - high-budget corporate clients - as opposed to those who use its services for free.\n\nThe company said that its large customers - firms that generated more than $100,000 in revenue in the past year - doubled to 988 during the quarter.\n\nZoom, together with rivals Cisco Webex and Microsoft Teams, have all seen a surge in usage of their video conferencing platforms since coronavirus lockdown measures were imposed by multiple countries in March.\n\nBut Zoom's soaring popularity has also strained its infrastructure, with some outages last week as schools in many parts of the US resumed classes virtually.\n\nIts reputation also took a hit, as the new attention prompted hackers to hijack meetings and exposed a host of security flaws, revealing that the firm had sent user data to Facebook, had wrongly claimed the app had end-to-end encryption, and was allowing meeting hosts to track attendees.\n\nZoom has also faced political scrutiny for its ties to China - where it has more than 700 staff, including most of its product development team - which have prompted warnings that it is not fit for government use.", "Facebook has threatened to stop users from sharing news content in Australia as it prepares for a new law forcing it to pay publishers for their articles.\n\nRegulators want tech giants like Facebook and Google to pay for the content reposted from news outlets.\n\nLast month Google warned its users that its search services could be \"dramatically worse\" as a result.\n\nFacebook's latest move to block news sharing has escalated tensions between tech firms and regulators.\n\nThe social media network said that if the proposed legislation becomes law it will stop Australians from sharing news on Facebook and its subsidiary Instagram.\n\nThe Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has drawn up the rules to \"level the playing field\" between the tech giants and publishers that it says are struggling due to lost advertising revenue.\n\nThe ACCC responded to Facebook's threat to block news content saying it was \"ill-timed and misconceived\".\n\n\"The code simply aims to bring fairness and transparency to Facebook and Google's relationships with Australian news media businesses,\" ACCC chairman Rod Sims said.\n\nBut in a blog post, Facebook's managing director for Australia and New Zealand Will Easton, said the draft law \"misunderstands the dynamics of the internet and will do damage to the very news organisations the government is trying to protect\".\n\nHe argued it would force Facebook to pay for content that publishers voluntarily place on its platform to generate traffic back to their news sites.\n\nMr Easton claimed Facebook sent 2.3bn clicks from Facebook's newsfeed back to Australian news websites, worth around A$200m ($148m; £110m) during the first five months of the year.\n\nThe blocking of news \"is not our first choice - it is our last,\" he said, adding that Facebook's other services that allow family and friends to connect will not be affected.\n\nA Facebook spokesman told the BBC that it will \"provide specific details soon\" on how it will enforce the ban.\n\nSome business experts argue that tech firms should pay publishers for the quality news content that they repost.\n\n\"Google, Facebook and others have been getting away with giving it away for free for too long,\" Michael Wade, a professor at the IMD Business School in Switzerland and Singapore, told the BBC last month.\n\nGoogle and Facebook do pay for some news content in specific markets, and said they plan to roll these initiatives out to more countries.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chadwick Boseman: Five things to know\n\nNetflix delayed a virtual preview event for the film Ma Rainey's Black Bottom on Monday, following the death of its star, Chadwick Boseman.\n\nThe film adaptation of August Wilson's play, about the queen of the blues and her band in the 1920s, will be his final movie performance.\n\nBoseman, who appears alongside Viola Davis and Colman Domingo, died of cancer last week aged 43.\n\nTributes have been paid by producer Denzel Washington and Michael B Jordan.\n\nThe Black Panther actor's diagnosis was kept entirely private and came as a shock to many in the film industry and beyond.\n\nNetflix boss Ted Sarandos described Boseman as \"a superhero on screen and in life\".\n\n\"It's impossible to imagine working at the level he has while valiantly battling his illness,\" Sarandos said in a statement.\n\n\"His legacy as a person and an artist will inspire millions.\n\n\"Our thoughts and prayers are with him and his family during this difficult time,\" he added.\n\nIn the forthcoming movie, Boseman plays the ambitious trumpet player Levee, who has desires for musical success of his own, and for Rainey's girlfriend.\n\nDavis, who plays the titular role, tweeted that it was \"an honour\" acting beside the star.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Viola Davis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBoseman was not scheduled to appear at Monday's online event, but Davis and director George C Wolfe were due to take part in a Q&A session about the film, commenting on new preview footage.\n\nThe late actor's family have confirmed he had completed all of his filming for the role, and Wolfe said that working with him was \"a glorious experience\".\n\n\"Every day we all got to witness the ferocity of his talent and the gentleness of his heart,\" he said.\n\n\"A truly blessed, loving, gifted and giving human being.\"\n\nAccording to Variety, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is still due out this year, and \"there was no immediate word from Netflix about whether Boseman's death would impact its plans for the release\".\n\nThe film has been produced by Oscar-winning actor, Washington, who in fact played a major role in Boseman's life and career. Washington paid for his tuition fees when the future star was studying at the British American Drama Academy.\n\n\"He was a gentle soul and a brilliant artist, who will stay with us for eternity through his iconic performances over his short yet illustrious career,\" Washington told CNN.\n\nBoseman was viewed by many as the man who broke down screen barriers for black actors with his lead role as T'Challa/Black Panther in the Marvel superhero movie Black Panther in 2018.\n\nMichael B Jordan, who portrayed N'Jadaka/Erik \"Killmonger\" Stevens in the film, paid tribute on social media on Monday to the man he called his \"big brother\".\n\n\"I've been trying to find the words, but nothing comes close to how I feel\", he posted, alongside a series of photos of the two of them together.\n\n\"I've been reflecting on every moment, every conversation, every laugh, every disagreement, every hug ... everything.\n\n\"I wish we had more time. One of the last times we spoke, you said we were forever linked, and now the truth of that means more to me than ever.\"\n\nChadwick Boseman and Michael B. Jordan acted opposite one another in Black Panther\n\nJordan added that Boseman had \"paved the way for me\".\n\n\"You showed me how to be better, honour purpose, and create legacy,\" he wrote.\n\n\"I wish we had more time. Everything you've given the world... the legends and heroes that you've shown us we are... will live on forever.\"\n\nHe concluded that his friend's death had made him realise that \"time is short with people we love and admire,\" and promised to dedicate the rest of his life to living like him - \"with grace, courage, and no regrets\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by michaelbjordan This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEarlier, another Black Panther star, Winston Duke, wrote that he was \"absolutely devastated\" by the loss of \"my friend and hero\".\n\nHarrison Ford also paid tribute, saying: \"Chadwick Boseman was as compelling, powerful and truthful as the characters he chose to play.\n\n\"His intelligence, personal dignity and deep commitment inspired his colleagues and elevated the stories he told. He is as much a hero as any he played. He is loved and will be deeply missed.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Some primary school pupils in England returned to their classrooms at the beginning of June\n\nChildren in England are three months behind in their studies after lockdown, with boys and poor pupils worst hit, suggests a survey of teachers by an educational research organisation.\n\nThe learning gap between rich and poor pupils grew by almost half between March and July, the National Foundation for Educational Research has found.\n\nThe authors also warn a quick catch-up is unlikely.\n\nThe government says children must not lose out because of coronavirus.\n\nThe new term begins in England and Wales this week, after the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Schools are already back in Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe National Foundation for Educational Research's survey questioned a weighted sample of almost 3,000 heads and teachers in about 2,200 primary and secondary schools across England.\n\nThe research was carried out just before the end of term in July - and showed how much children had fallen behind by the end of the last school year.\n\nAlmost all the teachers questioned (98%) said their pupils were behind the place in the curriculum they would normally expect for the time of year.\n\nOverall, teachers said they had covered just 66% of their usual curriculum by July, putting pupils three months behind in their learning.\n\nIt comes days after a separate study showed the learning gap between rich and poor primary pupils had begun to widen, even before the pandemic.\n\nThe National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) report found teachers in the most deprived schools (those with the greatest proportion of pupils on free school meals) were more than three times as likely (53%) to say their pupils were at least four months behind, compared with those in the wealthiest schools (15%).\n\nEven for those pupils who had places in school last term, attendance was poor - only 56% of eligible pupils actually went back amid safety concerns from parents, the report reveals,\n\nAlmost three quarters of the teachers questioned thought they were unable to teach to their usual standard under the coronavirus regulations.\n\nOverall, teachers estimate 44% of their pupils are in need of intensive catch-up support, says the report, with teachers in the most deprived schools (57%) more likely to believe this than those in the wealthiest schools (32%).\n\nNFER chief social scientist, Dr Angela Donkin, welcomed the government's National Tutoring Programme but questioned \"whether the scale will be sufficient to meet the high demand for those requiring intensive support\".\n\nAlmost all the school leaders questioned (90%) predicted they could manage to open to all pupils safely, however more than three quarters (78%) expressed concerns, with many saying additional funding would be needed for more staff, cleaning and protective equipment.\n\nSeparately, head teachers and teachers criticised the government for \"last-minute\" guidance on what to do during virus outbreaks and local lockdowns, which was published on Friday.\n\nIn the NFER report, teachers urged better planning for further lockdowns, and called for more and better IT equipment for pupils and staff. More than a quarter of pupils (28%) were reported to have no access to a laptop or computer at home.\n\nThe authors said it was encouraging that the government was offering laptop and internet connections for disadvantaged pupils but that \"a much swifter dispatch of devices\" was needed, as well as more training for teachers.\n\n\"Whilst it is crucial that children catch up, we should not assume that teachers will immediately be able to deliver the same quality of teaching at the same speed, as before the pandemic,\" said Dr Donkin.\n\nMary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, asked the government to hire \"qualified teachers not currently in post\" to help reduce class sizes, which would in turn \"provide educational catch-up and ensure safety for all\".\n\nDr Bousted also urged a more flexible approach to exams next year, \"one which learns from the mistakes of this year\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Health Correspondent Laura Foster explains what schools are doing to keep pupils safe\n\nShadow education secretary Kate Green said on Monday that students starting Year 11 and 13 in September had \"a mountain to climb\", having missed months of schooling.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer called on Mr Williamson to face parliament to explain \"how he will protect\" children's futures.\n\n\"He needs to explain how he will make up for the damage already done, bring pupils up to speed and mitigate against the ongoing risk from the pandemic,\" Sir Keir added.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), called the NFER report \"another alarm bell\" for the government.\n\nThe head teachers' union is also calling for a temporary ban on fining parents and guardians if their children do not return to school.\n\nMr Whiteman said: \"If you are a parent and you are worried about safety, a fine is unlikely to make you feel any safer.\"\n\nThe Department for Education has said fines for school absences would only be used as a \"last resort\" in England.\n\nIn a statement, the department added: \"Throughout the pandemic we have invested in remote education, providing devices, routes and resources for the children who need them most and why our £1bn Covid catch-up package will tackle the impact of lost teaching time, including targeted funding for the most disadvantaged students.\"", "Emily Lewis, 15, was among 12 people on board the RIB when it struck a buoy\n\nA girl killed in a boat crash during a family sightseeing trip died from an abdominal injury, an inquest heard.\n\nEmily Lewis, 15, was among 12 people taken to hospital after the rigid inflatable boat (Rib) hit a buoy in Southampton Water on 22 August.\n\nAn inquest opening heard she was taken to Southampton General Hospital but later died of her injuries.\n\nMiss Lewis' mother Nikki and sister Amy, 19, who were also in the boat, both suffered broken arms.\n\nCoroner Christopher Wilkinson said Miss Lewis was accompanied to hospital by her father, Simon Lewis, from the Park Gate area of Southampton, who confirmed her identity to medics.\n\nMr Wilkinson said the teenager was \"rendered unconscious\" as a result of the crash off Netley, and later died after resuscitation attempts by medics failed.\n\nHe added a post-mortem examination carried out at Winchester hospital by forensic pathologist Dr Russell Delaney revealed a preliminary cause of death as an upper abdominal injury.\n\nThe coroner said that investigations were ongoing and adjourned the case for a full inquest on 5 May 2021.\n\nThe Southampton Harbour Master was seen inspecting buoys in the stretch of water where the crash happened\n\nIn a previously released statement, Miss Lewis' family said: \"We are all in shock that our beautiful daughter and sister is no longer with us.\n\n\"We suffered from broken bones, but the emotional pain far outweighs the physical.\"\n\nHampshire Constabulary is investigating the incident, which happened just after 10:00 BST, along with the Maritime and Coastguard Agency and Marine Accident Investigation Branch\n\nOfficers confirmed the Rib had been on a commercial trip run by a local company.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Selected live radio and text commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, BBC Sounds, the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nAndy Murray staged a stunning comeback against Yoshihito Nishioka in the US Open first round on his long-awaited return to Grand Slam singles tennis.\n\nThe 33-year-old came from two sets and a break down against the Japanese to win 4-6 4-6 7-6 (7-5) 7-6 (7-4) 6-4.\n\nThe Briton, whose last major singles match was at the 2019 Australian Open before career-saving hip surgery, started flat and dispirited.\n\nBut he found his fight and saved a match point to set up an epic win.\n\nThe Scot, who eventually claimed victory in four hours 39 minutes, will face Canadian 15th seed Felix Auger-Aliassime in the second round.\n• None Re-live the action from day two of the US Open\n\nMurray finds his voice and his spirit\n\nPlaying in an empty and quiet Arthur Ashe Stadium - a far cry from the noisy stage where Murray won his maiden Grand Slam title in 2012 - his early despondence was all the more noticeable.\n\nIn his BBC radio commentary David Law said \"Andy Murray does not look like Andy Murray\", such was his manner, as he quietly trudged around with shoulders slumped as he was outplayed.\n\nDuring the first two sets Murray barely berated himself for his five double faults and 30 unforced errors, seeming almost resigned to his fate before his energy levels - and his voice - began to rise towards the end of the third set.\n\nAnd that was when Andy Murray began to look exactly like Andy Murray.\n\nA roar greeted the blistering forehand that gave him two set points in the third-set tie-break and then he let it all out with a trademark \"come on!\" when Nishioka netted a backhand on the second.\n\nThe character that took him to three Grand Slam titles and the world number one ranking before his body so cruelly let him down shone through as he saved a match point with a crosscourt backhand at 6-5 in the fourth.\n\nIt would be nearly an hour later until he himself carved out his own match point, needing to recover from a break down in the fifth game of the fifth - which he did with a sumptuous backhand lob in the very next game - to stay on track.\n\nWhen Nishioka sent a backhand out on match point, Murray completed his 10th career comeback from two sets down and answered any lingering questions about whether he could still be competitive on the biggest stage.\n\nOn his last Grand Slam singles appearance in January 2019, Murray had broken down in tears when he said he feared he might have to retire because of a hip injury.\n\nBut he went on to have surgery later that month and just five months later was back in action, playing doubles and winning the Queen's title with Feliciano Lopez.\n\nHe played doubles and mixed doubles at Wimbledon that year and then made his singles return on the tour in August 2019.\n\nHe skipped last year's US Open to focus on his singles return and was then ruled out of January's Australian Open with a pelvic injury. Further chances to return to the Grand Slam singles stage were then lost because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe has been ticking off the 'since surgery' milestones ever since - a first singles title (October), a first win over a top-10 player (last week) and now he has crossed off three more.\n\nNot only his first Grand Slam singles match, but also a first win in one, and a first five-setter.\n\n\"I'm tired. My toes are the worst part I think,\" said Murray, who had treatment on his toes at the start of the fifth set. \"The big toes on both sides are pretty beat up. I did alright physically.\n\n\"At the beginning of the match I was apprehensive about playing a long match because I hadn't played one in a while.\n\n\"I was sort of pacing myself. Once I got two sets down I had to start putting the after-burners on and managed to get through.\"\n\nHe is the first player to return to singles after a hip re-surfacing operation, where the femur head is capped with metal and put into an artificial socket.\n\nHe will now find out how his new body copes with the recovery from a five-set thriller at a Grand Slam.\n\nAnd he knows exactly what he needs.\n\n\"They have an ice bath in the locker room and they said it was for emergencies,\" Murray said.\n\n\"For me this is an emergency right now. I'll ask and see if they'll allow me to use the ice bath. If not I'll try to get back to the hotel as quickly as I can.\n\n\"That's by far the most tennis I've played since the Aussie Open in 2019.\"\n\nInterestingly, there were echoes of that last Australian Open match in this one - then, he was on the wrong end of an almost identical scoreline when he lost 6-4 6-4 6-7 (5-7) 6-7 (4-7) 6-2 to Spain's Roberto Bautista Agut.\n• None British number ones Konta and Evans into second round\n\nMurray made a cagey start - pacing himself like a marathon runner, just in case the match went the distance.\n\nAnd when he then lost his way completely at the start of the second set, his Grand Slam return was in danger of turning rapidly flat.\n\nBut with an audience made up entirely of star players, who were watching on from their suites in the Arthur Ashe Stadium, Murray gradually inched his way back into the match.\n\nHis toes took a pounding, but his hip held up, and after an ice bath on site he could start to imagine doing it all again on Thursday.", "More than 100,000 pupils in Scotland are absent from school with attendance down to 84.5%, according to Scottish government figures.\n\nData collected from local authorities shows that more than 15.5% pupils were off school last Friday.\n\nHowever, only 22,821 of the absences are recorded as \"Covid-19 related\".\n\nThe Scottish government said it was common for other viral infections to circulate after a \"prolonged break\" away from school.\n\nScotland's largest teaching union, the EIS, told BBC Scotland it believed many parents were \"erring on the side of caution\" and keeping children who had cold symptoms off school.\n\nPupils in Scotland began returning to school on 11 August after being away since March.\n\nProvisional figures from 28 August show that 84.5% of pupils in Scottish schools were present, down from a confirmed 95.8% attendance on 17 August.\n\nAttendance remained above 90% until 21 August, before dropping to 89.2% on 24 August following the weekend.\n\nDuring the last decade, attendance levels over the whole school year have been between 93% and 94%.\n\nAbout 3% of pupils were absent last Friday for a Covid-related reason, with 12.3% absent for non-Covid reasons, including pupil exclusions.\n\nA Covid-related absence includes a \"positive test, showing symptoms, self-isolation, quarantining, and parents not sending their child to school against public health guidance\".\n\nThe Scottish government reported on Tuesday that almost 40,000 pupils had been tested for coronavirus since term started, with 117 positive results.\n\nAbsentee rates are higher than usual - but not dramatically higher.\n\nIn the week before schools closed in March, there were reports that between a third and a half of pupils at some schools were off.\n\nThe numbers provide reassurance most children are going to school but may also suggest that some parents are being cautious about sending them if they are slightly unwell - for instance suffering from a cold.\n\nEarlier this week the Scottish government's national clinical director Dr Jason Leitch wrote an open letter to parents.\n\nIn the letter he offered advice on what parents should do if children are suffering from bugs and colds.\n\nHe said that in many cases children would be well enough to attend.\n\nBut he also stressed that those with potential Covid 19 symptoms should self-isolate and get tested.\n\nSpeaking on Monday, Education Secretary John Swinney said it was common for \"colds and similar viral infections to circulate\" when pupils returned from a prolonged break.\n\n\"In many cases children will be well enough to attend school and continue their learning with little or no interruption to their education,\" he said.\n\n\"In other cases, for instance where they have quite a heavy cold with a runny nose, they may need to take a day or two off to recover.\"\n\nHe said any pupil with Covid-19 symptoms were required to self-isolate and seek a test.\n\nBut he added: \"In order to ensure that your child does not miss out on their education it is important to be clear on how Covid-19 symptoms differ from those of other infections that we normally see circulating at this time of year.\"\n\nNational clinical director Jason Leitch has also written to schools with guidance on what to do about pupils who develop non-Covid symptoms.\n\nLarry Flanagan, general secretary of the EIS, said the union had received reports of \"higher than normal illness absences\" in schools across Scotland, with indications that cold viruses were circulating among pupils.\n\nHe said significant numbers of pupils and staff were being affected in some areas.\n\n\"This may be the result of pupils and staff being isolated from others for a prolonged period, with the result that the virus is spreading more quickly now than schools have re-opened,\" he added.\n\n\"It is also likely to be the case that many parents will be erring on the side of caution in keeping their children off with cold symptoms at the present time.\"", "Police searching for a missing British diplomat have found a body in a forest in Hampshire.\n\nRichard Morris, from Bentley, was last seen running in Alton in the county on 6 May.\n\nHampshire Constabulary said officers had discovered a body in Alice Holt Forest and the death was not being treated as suspicious.\n\nFormal identification has not yet taken place, but the 52-year-old's family have been notified.\n\nPolice previously searched the forest, where Mr Morris was known to enjoy running.\n\nOfficers also inspected 2km (1.2 miles) of the River Wey, as well as scouring CCTV footage and carrying out house-to-house inquiries, before their search was scaled back.\n\nPolice said 50 officers and volunteers took part in initial searches of Alice Holt Forest\n\nFather-of-three Mr Morris, originally from Worcestershire, was the UK ambassador to Nepal for four years until 2019.\n\nBefore his disappearance he was appointed British High Commissioner to Fiji.\n\nMr Morris had also worked as head of the Pacific department at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), consul general in Sydney as well as director general of trade and investment in Australasia.\n\nIn a previous statement, the Foreign Office described him as a \"much-valued and well-liked colleague\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus in Scotland: No 'one-size-fits-all approach' for local lockdowns\n\nNicola Sturgeon has voiced concerns after 160 more people tested positive for coronavirus in Scotland.\n\nThe latest increase in new cases follows 123 reported on Sunday, with a number of \"clusters\" across Scotland.\n\nThe first minister said the rise in cases was \"partly the result of a greater number of people being tested\".\n\nBut she said it was \"undoubtedly a concern\" and that any connection between cases was being \"carefully considered\" by health protection teams.\n\nA total of 69 of the new cases were reported in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area, with Ms Sturgeon saying \"particularly close attention\" was being paid to this.\n\nHowever, she stressed that the positive results \"still represent less than 1% of people newly tested yesterday\".\n\nThe number of people in hospital with the virus has increased to 258, five of whom are in intensive care.\n\nThe first minister said it appeared the figures in the Glasgow area \"seem to reflect a number of small clusters, rather than one or two more significant outbreaks\".\n\nShe said ministers would consider whether any targeted action would be needed in the area, although she stressed that this might not necessarily mean a local lockdown - noting that \"lockdown increasingly means different things in different circumstances\".\n\nAnother 27 cases were reported in Lanarkshire, 18 in Lothian, and eight in Ayrshire and Arran - with Ms Sturgeon warning that the latter \"seem to be linked to indoor gatherings\".\n\nHowever, there were just four new cases in the Grampian area, with Ms Sturgeon saying this was \"further indication that the Aberdeen pub cluster is contained\".\n\nSwimming pools are now able to reopen to the public\n\nThe first minister said the fact that the number of cases reflected an increase in tests was \"an important bit of context to keep in mind\".\n\nBut she added: \"The number is a reminder to all of us that the virus is still a very real risk, it is a development that concerns me and it is one we are taking seriously.\"\n\nThe increase in cases comes as the latest easing of lockdown restrictions in Scotland comes into force, with gyms and swimming pools reopening.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"As we release ourselves from lockdown, we release the virus from lockdown too.\n\n\"Please follow the guidance - that's the only way we can make sure these reopenings can happen safely, and they don't spark an increase in transmission that could take us all back again.\n\n\"The figures demonstrate very clearly that this virus is still present across the country. The clusters we have seen show it will spread very rapidly if it gets the chance, and the admissions to intensive care last week remind us that the virus is still immensely dangerous for some people.\"\n• None Coronavirus in Scotland: Meeting indoors could be curtailed", "A BBC team has filmed riot police attacking and forcibly arresting university students in the capital of Belarus.\n\nThe students in Minsk were marking the start of the country's academic year with marches against Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for 26 years.\n\nProtests against his rule have continued across Belarus since the 9 August presidential election, which was widely regarded as rigged and rejected by the EU and US as neither free nor fair.\n\nMr Lukashenko has insisted he has the support of millions of Belarusians.\n\nThe BBC's Jonah Fisher was in Minsk when the attacks happened.\n\nRead more: Students held as protests mark new term in Belarus", "The return of pupils to schools in England this week will be a \"massive milestone\", says Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nBut he apologised to students for the \"stress and uncertainty\" of problems with A-level and GCSE results.\n\nMr Williamson told MPs the u-turn on results became necessary when \"too many inconsistencies\" appeared in grades.\n\nLabour's Shadow Education Secretary Kate Green accused him of a \"summer of chaos, incompetence and confusion\".\n\nThis week many pupils in England and Wales are going back to school - after the long disruption caused by the pandemic outbreak, with almost all schools expected to be ready to teach pupils full time.\n\nEngland's education secretary, speaking in the House of Commons, welcomed that pupils will be returning to a safe environment.\n\nBut for students caught up in the exam fiasco he said he \"can only apologise to them\".\n\nLabour's Ms Green pressed him on how many students might still have missed out on a first choice at university as a result of the confusion.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Health Correspondent Laura Foster explains what schools are doing to keep pupils safe\n\nA survey from YouGov also suggested there were still fears about safety in school - with 17% of parents \"seriously considering\" not sending back their children.\n\nThe polling firm has recorded growing confidence in sending pupils back, but this latest survey, as schools prepare to reopen, suggests a hard core of unconvinced parents.\n\nParents were more likely to back wearing masks in school, with 47% in favour and 36% against.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson, addressing the first Cabinet meeting since the summer break, said there was likely to be more of \"this wretched Covid still to come\" but he was \"absolutely confident\" that \"we are going to be able to deal with those outbreaks\".\n\nThe return to school has raised concerns about what will happen to next summer's A-levels and GCSEs, when so much teaching time has been lost.\n\nMr Williamson told MPs that exams would go ahead next summer - and there were plans being made \"to ensure that this is done as smoothly as possible\".\n\nSchools Minister Nick Gibb said earlier there would soon be a decision on whether exams would start later next summer - as previously suggested.\n\nIn June, Mr Williamson told MPs that he would consult with Ofqual, England's exam regulator, on \"how we can move those exams back, giving children extra time in order to be able to learn\".\n\nOfqual has suggested that relatively few changes will need to be made to how much is taught for exams - but heads' leader Geoff Barton criticised this as \"little more than tinkering at the edges\".\n\nThe ASCL head teachers' union has called for a reduction in the scale of the content of exam courses to take account of the amount of teaching time that has been lost.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says workers are going back to the office “in huge numbers”.\n\nThere have also been questions about what will happen if schools face local lockdowns - and whether there will have to be a back-up plan for teachers' predictions to be used again.\n\nWest Sussex head teacher Jules White said a month's delay for exams would only be \"window dressing\".\n\n\"The idea that all students, especially those who are disadvantaged, will rapidly catch up on vast amounts of subject content is naively optimistic and politicians from all sides must call for urgent and meaningful modifications to exams,\" said Mr White, who has organised school funding campaigns.\n\nLabour has called for the exams, usually taken in May and June, to be pushed back to mid-summer to help cope with the impact of coronavirus.\n\nThis year's exams were dogged by chaos and left teachers, parents and pupils calling for a major rethink of next summer's exams.\n\nNearly 40% of A-level grades awarded to students using an algorithm were below teachers' assessments, with disadvantaged students particularly badly affected.\n\nDays after the results were announced, and following widespread criticism, the government performed a U-turn and decided to base grades on teachers' recommendations instead.\n\nConservative MP Tim Loughton said the exam problems had been a \"shambles\" and that after such a \"turbulent\" summer when \"things have not gone as well as they should have done\", the government needed to \"get control of the agenda again\".\n\n\"I think a lot of people will find it surprising that we seem to have had a few heads roll who are civil servants and in charge in quangos but so far there has been no ministerial accountability and I think that is raising a few questions.\n\n\"Ministers have lost their jobs for a lot less, including education ministers,\" said Mr Loughton.", "A former private secretary to the Duke of Cambridge is set to be named the UK's top civil servant.\n\nSimon Case, who was made permanent secretary at 10 Downing Street earlier this year, is expected to be announced as cabinet secretary on Tuesday.\n\nThe PM will reveal the appointment at a cabinet meeting, sources told the BBC.\n\nFirst reported by the FT, it comes after Sir Mark Sedwill quit the role following reports of tensions between him and members of the PM's team.\n\nA Cabinet Office spokesman said: \"An official announcement on the new cabinet secretary will be made on Tuesday 1 September.\"\n\nMr Case, 41, has been a civil servant since 2006. He spent almost two years working as Prince William's right-hand man before temporarily moving to Number 10 earlier this year to assist with the coronavirus response.\n\nHis expected promotion to cabinet secretary comes two months after Sir Mark announced he was planning to step down from the role.\n\nIn a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Sir Mark said it was the right time to go as the government moved to the next phase of its coronavirus recovery plan.\n\nAs cabinet secretary, Sir Mark advised Mr Johnson on implementing policy and the conduct of government.\n\nThe new appointment also comes within the wider context of a \"fairly radical shake-up\" of the civil service, BBC political correspondent Nick Eardley said.\n\nThis year has seen a number of senior civil servants in various departments unexpectedly announce they are leaving their posts.\n\nJonathan Slater, the chief civil servant at the Department for Education, was sacked earlier this month following the row over A-level and GCSE results in England.\n\nHe became the fifth permanent secretary to leave his post in six months.\n\nSir Richard Heaton resigned as permanent secretary at the Ministry of Justice in July, saying it had been \"a privilege\" to lead at the Ministry of Justice, despite \"challenging years\".\n\nSir Philip Rutnam quit as permanent secretary of the Home Office in February, announcing he would take the Home Secretary Priti Patel to an employment tribunal.\n\nAnd Sir Simon McDonald announced in June he would step down in as permanent secretary of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in September \"at the request\" of the prime minister.", "Ed Sheeran and his wife Cherry Seaborn have announced the birth of their first child - a daughter named Lyra Antarctica Seaborn Sheeran.\n\nThe singer said the couple were on \"cloud nine\" after their daughter's arrival last week.\n\nSheeran returned to Instagram for the first time since December to share the news and thank the \"amazing delivery team\".\n\nHe added: \"We are completely in love with her.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by teddysphotos This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Ello! A quick message from me as I have some personal news that I wanted to share with you,\" Sheeran said in his first Instagram post since December 2019.\n\n\"Last week, with the help of an amazing delivery team, Cherry gave birth to our beautiful and healthy daughter - Lyra Antarctica Seaborn Sheeran.\n\n\"We are completely in love with her. Both mum and baby are doing amazing and we are on cloud nine over here. We hope that you can respect our privacy at this time. Lots of love and I'll see you when it's time to come back, Ed x\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "[L-R] Bill Bailey, Clara Amfo, HRVY and Jacqui Smith will all hit the dancefloor\n\nFormer home secretary Jacqui Smith has been confirmed as the 12th and final celebrity contestant on this year's Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nSmith will join with stars including Bill Bailey, Clara Amfo, and HRVY.\n\nThe 2020 series will begin in October but will be shorter than usual, and judge Bruno Tonioli will have a reduced role amid coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe contestants will be staying in a hotel for two weeks ahead of pre-recording all the group dances.\n\nThe BBC also confirmed they will be able to rehearse, perform and go home to their family each night - following government guidelines.\n\nJacqui Smith was confirmed as the final celebrity dancer on Steve Wright's Radio 2 show on Friday afternoon.\n\nThe former Labour politician became the UK's first female home secretary in 2007 - under then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown - and has since worked as a political broadcaster.\n\n\"I was speechless with excitement at being asked to join Strictly - and that's very rare for me,\" said Smith.\n\n\"Fifty years ago, I got a bronze medal for Scottish Highland Dancing and it feels about time to return to dancing.\"\n\n\"I couldn't be in better hands with the Strictly team and I'm going to throw myself into the challenge. Watch out!\" she added.\n\nSmith is now the chair of the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and Sandwell Children's Trust. She also has a podast, called For the Many, that she presents with broadcaster Iain Dale.\n\nHRVY has a social media following of more than 10 million\n\nHRVY was revealed as a contestant on the Kiss breakfast show and said he was \"so thankful to be taking part\".\n\nThe pop singer, whose real name is Harvey Leigh Cantwell, has more than a billion combined streams to his name.\n\nHe has a social media following of more than 10 million and performed at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend in Middlesbrough last year.\n\nThe 21-year-old rose to fame after uploading his music videos to Facebook. He has since sold out UK and European tours and his debut album will be out later this year.\n\n\"Being on Strictly is going to be such an amazing experience and I'm so thankful to be taking part this year,\" he said.\n\n\"I think my mum is more excited that she'll be able to see me every Saturday night now!\"\n\nMaisie Smith is an actress and singer is best known for playing Tiffany Butcher-Baker in EastEnders.\n\n\"Get me in those sequins,\" she said, reacting to the news of her announcement.\n\n\"I can't wait to dive into the Strictly fancy dress box this winter!\"\n\nBefore storming into Albert Square as Bianca's daughter, Tiffany, Smith made her acting debut in the 2008 film, The Other Boleyn Girl - alongside Scarlett Johansson and Eddie Redmayne.\n\nHer role in the long-running BBC soap saw her scoop the award for best dramatic performance from a young actress, at the 2009 British Soap Awards.\n\nJamie Laing returns to the show this year, after having to pull out of last year's series before it began due to an injury.\n\nHe became a household name in 2011 on the Channel 4 reality show, Made in Chelsea, and this year launched his own podcast, 6 Degrees from Jamie and Spencer, alongside Spencer Matthews.\n\nHe also founded the sweets brand, Candy Kittens, in 2012.\n\n\"Here we go again, hopefully this time I can last long enough so my mum can see me dance,\" said Laing.\n\nHe added: \"The reason I'm doing it, is to make my mum proud but all I did last year was make her even more disappointed. Let's change that this year, can't wait!!\"\n\nJJ Chalmers' career as a Royal Marine Commando was cut short after he suffered life-changing injuries following an IED explosion in Afghanistan.\n\nThe blast crushed an eye socket, burst his eardrums, destroyed his right elbow, blew off two fingers on his left hand and left holes in his legs.\n\nAfter years of rehabilitation, including more than 30 operations, he went on to compete in the 2014 Invictus Games where he captained the Trike Cycling team and took home three medals.\n\nHe later embarked on a career in broadcasting, presenting coverage of the Rio Paralympics and anchoring BBC One's coverage of the Invictus Games.\n\nComparing Strictly to his military experience, he told ITV's Lorraine: \"I'm always looking for a challenge, I'm always looking to push myself outside of my comfort zone.\"\n\nDespite his injuries, Chalmers said he wanted to be treated like \"any other contestant\" and didn't want any \"special treatment\".\n\n\"Whoever I partner with they've got their work cut out,\" he added.\n\nBill Bailey is an comedian, actor and musician is known for appearances on TV shows like QI, Black Books and Never Mind the Buzzcocks.\n\n\"In these strange times we're living through, it feels right to do something different and take on a new challenge,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"I haven't been to stage school and learnt to dance. I haven't lived for the dance... I'm not really Lord of the Dance. I'm caretaker of the dance,\" he joked. \"It's going to be quite a challenge but then that's what this is about, taking on a new skill.\"\n\nBailey, 55, made his name on the stand-up circuit before becoming a regular panel show guest, TV and film actor, documentary presenter, and host of the BBC sketch show Is It Bill Bailey?\n\nHe is also a classically-trained musician and has published a guide to British birds. On Wednesday, in a review of his first live gig for six months, The Daily Telegraph said he \"remains one of the funniest, most brilliantly original comedians in the UK\".\n\nClara Amfo, who hosts BBC Radio 1's late morning slot, aid she \"couldn't wait to fully embrace\" the experience of Strictly.\n\nIn recent years, Amfo has presented coverage of Glastonbury, the Brit Awards, Radio 1's Big Weekend, the Bafta TV Awards and The Proms.\n\n\"As we know this year has been a real challenge and escapism through dancing is something I know we all enjoy,\" she said.\n\n\"So to be taught by a pro and live a fantasy is something that I can't wait to fully embrace, see you on the dancefloor!\"\n\nRanvir Singh is Good Morning Britain's political editor and occasional host, and also appears on other ITV programmes including Loose Women, Tonight and Eat, Shop, Save. She is about to start co-hosting a new Sunday morning show, All Around Britain.\n\nSingh said she felt \"complete terror\" at the idea of taking part, likening it to \"embarking on a rollercoaster\".\n\nShe previously worked as a producer and reporter for the BBC for 12 years, and presented BBC North West Tonight.\n\nSingh said: \"The initial feeling of being confirmed for Strictly is one of complete terror - feels like embarking on a rollercoaster, where you really want to do it but you are equally scared.\n\n\"Hopefully after the first dance I will feel exhilarated rather than sick!\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOlympic boxer Nicola Adams will make Strictly Come Dancing history by becoming the first contestant to be part of a same-sex pairing.\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast she was the one who suggested having a female partner when producers asked her to take part.\n\n\"I think it's really important,\" she said. \"It's definitely time for change.\n\nAdams won a gold medal for Great Britain at the London 2012 Olympics, and again in Rio in 2016. She retired from the sport last year.\n\nAward-winning actress and presenter Caroline Quentin is known for a range of acting roles, including Maddie in Jonathan Creek and DCI Janine Lewis in Blue Murder.\n\nShe has also starred in Kiss Me Kate, Life Begins and Life of Riley.\n\nHowever, arguably her most famous role was playing Dorothy in the hit 90s sitcom Men Behaving Badly.\n\nShe recently presented the documentary series Extraordinary Homes for BBC Two.\n\nQuentin said she was \"thrilled and terrified in equal measure to be taking part\" in this year's Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nHe played as a cornerback/safety in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys.\n\nBell then played for the Houston Texans, where he was named a recipient of the Ed Block Courage Award, one of the league's highest honours. He finished his professional career with the New York Giants.\n\nBell now co-hosts The Jason & Osi Podcast with another former NFL star, Osi Umenyiora, and the pair appear as pundits on the NFL Show on the BBC.\n\n\"Strictly is the epitome of British television and this year, more than ever, I'm so proud and humbled to be participating,\" he said.\n\n\"Strictly was the first show I ever watched when I moved to the UK and I'm a massive fan. My six-year-old daughter never got the chance to see me run out on the field at an NFL game but she is very excited about me taking to the dance floor. I hope I can do her proud.\"\n\nSinger and actor Max George shot to fame as a member of boy band The Wanted.\n\nHis former bandmate, Jay McGuiness, previously won Strictly Come Dancing in 2015.\n\nGeorge said he was \"buzzing to be on Strictly this year\", joking: \"I'm not really one for the dance floor, but I take a lot of comfort in the fact that Jay McGuiness set The Wanted's bar so low.\"\n\nThe Wanted had two number one singles in the UK - All Time Low and Glad You Came - with the latter reaching the top three in the US Billboard chart.\n\nAfter The Wanted took a break, Max moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career and starred in the sixth season of Glee as Clint. He recently returned to music as a solo artist.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "Bolton has had its highest seven-day rate since late May\n\nA Covid spike in Bolton and Trafford has prompted council bosses to ask for restrictions to remain in place, a day before they were due to be lifted.\n\nTighter rules were introduced in July in Greater Manchester and parts of Yorkshire after concerns the virus was being spread between households.\n\nBolton currently has one of the highest rates of new virus cases per 100,000 residents in England.\n\nIts council said it had made the decision \"with a heavy heart\".\n\nOn Friday, the government said measures banning people from different households from meeting indoors or private gardens would be lifted in Bolton, Stockport, Trafford, Burnley, Hyndburn and parts of Bradford, Calderdale and Kirklees.\n\nBut Bolton Council said the \"unforeseen spike\" in the local infection rate means restrictions should remain in place \"until further notice\".\n\nBolton has recorded 170 new cases in the week to 29 August, up from 53 the week before, meaning it has one of the highest rates in England at 59 new cases per 100,000 residents.\n\nThe rate in Trafford has risen from 19.4 to 35.4, with 84 new cases.\n\nTighter Covid-19 rules were introduced in Greater Manchester in July\n\nThe decision would also mean certain businesses, including those offering close-contact services, will not reopen as planned.\n\nBolton council leader David Greenhalgh said: \"It is with a heavy heart that [we] have come to this decision and this will be incredibly disappointing for both residents and business owners.\n\n\"We urged the government to lift Bolton out of the additional restrictions at a time when infection rates were low. This was the right decision at the time.\n\n\"However, there has been a sudden and unforeseeable rise in the number of coronavirus cases in Bolton.\n\n\"We have always been led by the data, which means we have no choice but to act quickly to keep everyone safe.\"\n\nThe council said new cases in Bolton were spread across the borough and not limited to a single area, community or place of work.\n\nInfections between different households appear to be the main cause of the spike, with people aged 18-49 representing the overwhelming majority of new cases, it said.\n\nMeanwhile, Trafford recorded its highest seven-day infection rate since the end of July when the additional restrictions were imposed.\n\nCouncil leader Andrew Western had previously argued lifting restrictions there would be \"premature\" and the government had ignored the advice of local public health officials.\n\nIn a letter to the health secretary, he accused the government of causing \"chaos and confusion\" over the easing of lockdown measures in the borough.\n\nHe said Trafford has a \"significantly\" higher rate of cases than other Greater Manchester boroughs who are not due to see restrictions relaxed.\n\nMr Western has called for an \"urgent update\", saying \"the people of Trafford deserve better\".\n\nGreater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), which is made up of the 10 Greater Manchester councils and mayor Andy Burnham, has called on the government to agree on an exit strategy from the local restrictions on household gatherings.\n\n\"It is clear that more targeted, hyper-local door-to-door action is more effective than broad geographical restrictions,\" said a GMCA spokesperson.\n\n\"As soon as practically and safely possible, we want to see the whole of Greater Manchester coming back into line with the rest of country but with funding to provide enhanced local interventions where they are needed.\n\n\"However, before that is in place, it is accepted that the restrictions will need to continue in eight boroughs in the short term.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"We are working closely with leaders and local authorities across Greater Manchester and Lancashire in response to the changing situation and we keep all local restrictions under constant consideration.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Ron Jeremy is facing up to 90 years behind bars\n\nAdult film star Ron Jeremy has been charged with sexual violence against 13 more women, including a 15-year old, prosecutors in Los Angeles say.\n\nThey say the alleged assaults date back to 2004. The 67-year-old has already been charged with raping or assaulting four women between 2014 and 2019.\n\nRon Jeremy is one of the biggest names in pornography and has featured in over 1,700 films over four decades.\n\nIf convicted, he faces up to 250 years behind bars. He has denied wrongdoing.\n\nMr Jeremy, whose real name is Ronald Jeremy Hyatt, appeared in court in June. He was accused of raping a 25-year-old woman and 30 year-old woman, and sexually assaulting two others, aged 33 and 46.\n\nAt the time his lawyer denied the charges saying said that his client had been \"a paramour to over 4,000 women\" and that \"women throw themselves at him\".\n\nRon Jeremy appeared in court in Los Angeles in June\n\nBut prosecutors received further allegations of sexual violence in the days following his court appearance, the Los Angeles Times reported.\n\nThe new charges include a total of 20 counts of rape and sexual assault against the 13 women. The alleged victims range in age between 15 and 54.\n\nThe most recent charge relates to an assault allegedly carried out outside a business in Hollywood on New Year's Day this year.\n\nIn 2017, Rolling Stone magazine reported that more than a dozen women had accused Mr Jeremy of sexual misconduct, including groping, inappropriate touching, non-consensual digital penetration, and sexual assault.\n\nHe told the magazine he had \"never and would never rape anyone\".\n\nMr Jeremy is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for \"Most Appearances in Adult Films\" and was the subject of the 2001 documentary Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy.\n\nHe has also made numerous cameo appearances in computer games, Hollywood films and music videos for Moby, Guns N' Roses, Armin Van Buuren among others, as well as LMFAO's Sexy and I Know It.", "Manchester United and England striker Marcus Rashford speaks to BBC Breakfast's Sally Nugent about forming a taskforce with some of the UK's biggest food brands in a bid to help reduce child food poverty.", "Erick Morillo, the internationally-recognised DJ best known for the track I Like To Move It, has been found dead in Miami, local police have said.\n\nHis death comes less than a month after his arrest for sexually assaulting a female DJ after working a gig together.\n\nPolice said the 49-year old was found dead in his Miami Beach home, but have released few details as the investigation begins.\n\nHe released his 1994 hit I Like To Move It using the name Reel 2 Real.\n\nIt became a retro hit again after a remix was featured in the 2005 animated film Madagascar.\n\nMorillo had denied the sexual assault charge, but turned himself in after a rape kit identified him as the suspect, according to WPLG-TV in Florida.\n\nHe had been scheduled for a court hearing on Friday, the station reported.", "Travellers re-entering the UK from Greece currently do not have to quarantine\n\nQuarantine restrictions will be imposed on people travelling from Greece to Scotland, the Scottish government has announced.\n\nThey will be required to isolate for 14 days if they arrive in Scotland after 04:00 on Thursday.\n\nMinisters said they have taken the move due to a \"significant rise\" in cases of Covid-19 being brought into Scotland from people who have been to Greece.\n\nIt has been linked to travellers returning from the Greek islands.\n\nAs a result, the country has been been removed from the \"travel corridor\" exemption list on public health grounds.\n\nThe prevalence of Covid-19 in Greece is currently about 20 per 100,000, but a number of cases of the virus in Scotland have been traced back to travel from Greece.\n\nThey include a passenger who flew to Glasgow from Zante on 23 August.\n\nThe deputy first minister, John Swinney, told Good Morning Scotland that there had been \"an increased number of cases coming in from Greece as a consequence of international travel\".\n\nHe said: \"We judge, based on the evidence available to us, there is a necessity to apply that quarantine restriction and that's to essentially protect us here in Scotland from a spread of the virus as a consequence of importation from other countries.\"\n\nAsked why the restriction covered the whole of Greece when media reports suggested there was a particular problem with some islands, Mr Swinney said: \"The whole process of travel can generate some of the cases that are taking their course\".\n\nSo he said it was \"proportionate\" and designed to \"give us as much protection as possible here domestically to avoid a rise in cases and that's what we're trying to avoid at all possible costs\".\n\nHe added that it was important to take proportionate and targeted action where it was possible to do so.\n\nTravellers returning to the UK from the Greek island of Zante have tested positive for coronavirus\n\nScotland's chief medical officer Dr Gregor Smith said: \"There is a compelling public health risk around importation of the virus, especially given the number of imported cases linked to the Greek islands.\n\n\"The flow of travel between Scotland and Greece, and the behaviour we have seen from some of those travellers, means that on public health grounds there is a strong case - supported by public health directors - to remove Greece from the exemption list.\"\n\nGreece's Tourism Minister Harry Theoharis said the restrictions were \"a bit harsh\".\n\nHe said every country had a right to protect its citizens, but that Greece was \"well below\" the 20 cases per 100,000 threshold that the UK nations use as a guide for imposing quarantine restrictions on returning travellers.\n\nMr Theoharis added: \"We have put in place a comprehensive set of protocols and measures... We take targeted measures where we see concentration.\"\n\nHe added that Greece conducted the fifth most tests in Europe.\n\n\"We feel that we have taken every possible precaution\", he added.\n\nPeople travelling to Scotland from these countries are subject quarantine restrictions.\n\nHolidaymakers have tested positive for coronavirus after flights to the UK from Zante\n\nTravellers arriving home to Wales from Zante are also being asked to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said there were six clusters of cases, amounting to 30 infections, linked to flights from the Greek island.\n\nMeanwhile, ministers are considering re-imposing quarantine measures for those arriving in the UK from Portugal as coronavirus cases rise, sources have told the BBC.\n\nThe UK considers imposing quarantine on travellers when a country's infection rate exceeds 20 cases per 100,000, over seven days.\n\nBut each of the four nations can add or remove countries to their own list.\n\nMike Tibbert, vice president of the Scottish Passenger Agents' Association, said he is \"extremely concerned\" about the workload being placed on its members by the changing quarantine rules.\n\n\"The removal of Greece in this ongoing hokey-cokey of countries which are 'in or out' means it's impossible for Scots to plan or reorganise a holiday which they have already paid for. And equally impossible for our members to run a business,\" he said.", "The first minister has reintroduced restrictions on visiting other households in the Glasgow area after an increase in coronavirus cases.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the local lockdown measures will apply to people living in Glasgow, West Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire.\n\nThey will be in place for two weeks, but will be reviewed after a week.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nBritain's Cameron Norrie fought back from two sets down to earn a memorable win over Argentine ninth seed Diego Schwartzman on day one of the US Open.\n\nNorrie, ranked 76th, looked set for a routine defeat before turning it around to win 3-6 4-6 6-2 6-1 7-5 in New York.\n\nBoth struggled to hold serve in a match with 58 break points, Norrie saving two match points in the decider before winning in almost four hours.\n\nThe British number two won 2-6 7-5 7-5 6-0 against the unpredictable Bublik, who initially upset the Yorkshireman's rhythm before losing focus and allowing Edmund to take control.\n\nEdmund, 25, faces a tough task to reach the third round of a Grand Slam for the first time in seven attempts, however, with 17-time Grand Slam champion Djokovic lying in wait in round two.\n\nSerbia's world number one Djokovic, who has won all 24 of his matches in 2020, brushed aside Damir Dzumhur of Bosnia-Herzegovina in his opener.\n\n\"It was a nice win in terms of the mentality. I play well when I'm expressing myself and explosive, when I start matches not in the right way I have to force that out of me,\" said Edmund, who is ranked 44th.\n\n\"It was a good match to win, I could have fallen off and gone down two sets to love or two sets to one.\"\n\nThe four other Britons in the singles - Andy Murray, Dan Evans, Johanna Konta and Heather Watson - play on Tuesday.\n\nThe US Open is the first Grand Slam event to be held since the coronavirus pandemic and is being played behind closed doors at Flushing Meadows.\n\nA host of star names - including defending champions Rafael Nadal and Bianca Andreescu - have withdrawn because of health and travel fears, while Swiss great Roger Federer is missing because of a knee injury.\n• None 'A US Open like no other' - full preview\n\n'I was lucky to get through' - Norrie\n\nBritish number three Norrie was handed a tough draw by starting against a consistent and competitive player who is a two-time quarter-finalist at the US Open.\n\nThe 25-year-old Briton struggled with his timing in the first two sets, hitting 34 unforced errors to leave himself with an uphill battle to reach the second round.\n\nBut he cut the mistakes to just five in the third set and, combined with Schwartzman becoming frustrated after receiving a time violation, threatened a comeback.\n\n\"The first two sets I was rushing everything and going for too much. I didn't feel myself out there,\" Norrie said.\n\n\"I felt he had done almost nothing to be two-sets-to-love up. I wanted to hit the ball down the middle, get some rhythm and then I kept the momentum going.\"\n\nSchwartzman struggled to get out of his rut in the fourth, two breaks of serve by the Briton taking the match into a decider, where the break points continued to flow.\n\nAlthough world number 13 Schwartzman looked to be waning physically, he had chances at 5-3 and 5-4 to clinch victory before Norrie fought back again.\n\nNorrie's reward is another match against an Argentine opponent in the shape of 103rd-ranked Federico Coria.\n\n\"The tennis and the level wasn't that great but I had a good attitude throughout and I was happy with that,\" Norrie added.\n\n\"I'm lucky to get through that one. It was a tough one.\"\n• None Relive sets from Arctic Monkeys, Billie Eilish, The 1975 and more\n• None Selected tracks to bring peace to your day", "The swimmer was found just 500m off the coast of Dover\n\nA lone man attempting to swim the English Channel from Dover to Calais has been rescued following an eight-hour search.\n\nThe hunt was prompted by a call to the coastguard from a friend of the swimmer on Monday.\n\nA helicopter and lifeboats were launched as part of the rescue effort, and the man was eventually found by a boat just 500m off the coast of Dover.\n\nThe swimmer was brought to shore and was described as \"cold and tired\".\n\nThe rescue operation began just after midday.\n\nA coastguard spokesperson said: \"At around 12.10pm today HM Coastguard received a call from a member of the public with information that their friend was swimming unaccompanied to Calais from Dover.\n\n\"Coastguard rescue teams from Deal and Langdon, RNLI lifeboats from Dover and Dungness and coastguard search and rescue helicopters from Lydd and Lee-on-Solent were sent.\n\n\"Vessels in the area were asked to keep a sharp lookout and Kent Police, Dover Port Police and Dover Port were informed.\n\n\"The swimmer was spotted shortly before 8pm by a passing vessel only 500 metres off Dover and was taken onboard the RNLI Dungeness lifeboat, cold and tired but otherwise well.\n\n\"He has been brought to shore and will be checked over by South East Ambulance Service.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Extinction Rebellion said it planned to \"peacefully disrupt\" Parliament with 10 days of demonstrations\n\nAt least 90 people have been arrested at climate change protests causing disruption across England.\n\nExtinction Rebellion organised action in London and Manchester to urge the government to prepare for a \"climate crisis\".\n\nCampaigners were arrested after they sat in the middle of the road next to Parliament Square to stop traffic.\n\nIn Manchester, protesters have been urged to \"reconsider their actions\" following a rise in Covid-19 cases.\n\nThe Met said the protests could result in \"serious disruption\" to businesses and commuters\n\nExtinction Rebellion said it planned to \"peacefully disrupt the UK Parliament in London\" with 10 days of demonstrations until MPs backed the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill.\n\nOther planned events in the capital include a \"carnival of corruption\", which is due to take place outside the Treasury, and a \"walk of shame\" near the Bank of England.\n\nProtester Karen Wildin, a 56-year-old tutor from Leicester, said: \"I'm here today because I have serious concerns about the future of the planet - we need to put this above anything else.\n\n\"Never mind Covid, never mind A-levels, this is the biggest crisis facing us and we need to raise the message as loudly as possible.\n\n\"Not a lot has been done on this issue, everyone needs to hear the message.\"\n\nEvents across England were timed for the return of MPs from the summer holiday\n\nSarah Lunnon, a member of Extinction Rebellion, said: \"The failure to act on this issue will have a catastrophic impact on the future of us and the generations to come.\n\n\"We want to occupy Parliament Square to make our voices heard. Of course we're in the middle of a pandemic but we're balancing the risk, this is the biggest issue facing us.\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said Tuesday's gathering could only take place off the main roads at Parliament Square Gardens between 08:00 BST and 19:00. Boats, vehicles, trailers or other structures were banned from the procession.\n\nThe same rules apply for Wednesday's demonstrations.\n\nThe Met said as of 18:00 Tuesday a total of 90 people had been arrested on suspicion of public order offences.\n\nFootage posted online by Extinction Rebellion appeared to show John Lynes, a demonstrator in his 90s, being led away by police near Parliament Square while walking with a stick.\n\nMr Lynes, from St Leonards-on-Sea in East Sussex, has joined previous protests organised by the group.\n\nProtesters gathered in Westminster to urge the government to prepare for a \"climate crisis\"\n\nMet Commander Jane Connors said: \"The reason we have implemented these conditions is that we know these protests may result in serious disruption to local businesses, commuters and our communities and residents, which I will not tolerate.\"\n\nLast year, more than 1,700 arrests were made during Extinction Rebellion's 10-day Autumn Uprising.\n\nIn Manchester, a march is planned through the city and Oxford Street has been closed as part of five days of action.\n\nCity council deputy leader Nigel Murphy said planned demonstrations \"cannot adhere\" to social distancing rules.\n\nThe city has increased restrictions due to a recent rise in Covid-19 cases.\n\nMr Murphy said while the council respected \"the right to peaceful protest\" this should \"not be at the expense of local people\".\n\nHe said: \"We are in the midst of a global public health crisis and we would ask demonstrators to seriously reconsider their actions at the current time.\n\n\"Manchester is currently under increased restrictions to limit the spread of the virus because the number of cases has been rising. Gatherings larger than six should only take place if everyone is exclusively from two households or support bubbles.\"\n\nHe said the city had one of the \"most ambitious carbon targets in the UK\" and was \"working to become zero carbon by 2038\".\n\nA Titanic-themed demonstration was also held in in Southend-on-Sea where protesters said much of Essex would be underwater by 2050\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An estimated 3,000 people were at the event in the Dulais Valley in Neath Port Talbot\n\nEight people have now been fined up to £10,000 after an illegal rave that attracted 3,000 people, with arrests also made for public order offences and driving under the influence of drugs.\n\nThe unlicensed event at Banwen, on the edge of the Brecon Beacons, started Saturday night.\n\nThere were still 400 people at the site on Monday morning.\n\nSouth Wales Police Assistant Chief Constable Dave Thorne said drone footage would help identify organisers.\n\nOfficers believe 22 people were involved in planning the rave.\n\nA student who attended the rave admitted being taken aback by the scale of the event and likened it to a festival.\n\nMr Thorne said it \"caught us unaware\" but officers were quickly deployed after calls were received.\n\nHe added: \"It is 4,000 acres, a significant sized area, where there was an opencast mine but it is now forested.\n\n\"It is now generally used for rally driving, so you can understand how hostile the land is - and large.\n\n\"We used drones to try and picture where everyone was.\"\n\nVillagers in Banwen complained about noise through Saturday night into Sunday\n\nHe described a police helicopter and specialist officers sent to the event, with assistance from Dyfed-Powys Police and British Transport Police.\n\nThere were \"a few arrests\" he said, for public order offences, such as urinating in the street and drug taking.\n\nEight people have also been issued with fines of up to £10,000, under new legislation introduced by the Welsh Government last week to stop gatherings amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nVehicles have also been seized, and Mr Thorne said drone footage would be studied to try and identify the organisers.\n\nPolice think ravers travelled from across the UK to the illegal event in Banwen\n\nHe said the 400 people still there on Monday morning would be prosecuted if they did not leave by the end of the day.\n\n\"I'd like to appeal to those who have organised it to take a level of personal responsibility,\" he added.\n\n\"Local communities have been trying really hard to adhere to coronavirus rules and to have 3,000 people come in and not adhere to it, is really irresponsible.\"\n\nA girl who attended described there being a festival feel to the event\n\nNiamh, a student from Cardiff who attended, said she made a last minute decision to go and admitted being \"taken aback\" by the size of it\n\n\"Of course there's that level of feeling bad for the people around there, and I did, but I didn't understand until I went there how big it was,\" she said.\n\n\"It was more of a festival, spread across a good few acres of land.\"\n\nWhile she said she understood why people would think it was selfish, she said she had a mask on, social distanced and had hand sanitiser.\n\nShe added: \"If older people are allowed to sit in their garden with friends, go for dinner, go into shops, where you're still interacting with a lot of people, what's the difference with people socially distancing and having a dance in a forest outdoors?\n\n\"I think there's a lot of stigma around young people doing their version of socialising just because it's not the same as you going for dinner or into the shops in town, where you're around just as many people one metre apart. What's the difference with doing that outdoors in the woods?\"\n\nNiamh said the words \"illegal rave\" conjured images of \"a bunch of crazy people breaking the rules\", but she said: \"It was a very relaxed atmosphere and everyone was being as safe as they possibly could.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRestrictions on visiting other households have been reintroduced in Glasgow and two neighbouring areas after a rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nThe new rules affect more than 800,000 people in Glasgow city, West Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire.\n\nThey are being told not to host people from other households in their own homes or visit another person's home.\n\nThe restrictions came into effect from midnight. They will last for two weeks, but will be reviewed after a week.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Tuesday that 135 of the 314 new cases in Scotland over the past two days had been in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area.\n\nShe said Covid-19 continued to be a dangerous and potentially deadly virus.\n\n\"It is spreading again, particularly in these three local authority areas, and we believe that, in these areas, it is spreading primarily as a result of household gatherings,\" she said.\n\nThe restrictions affect 633,120 people living in Glasgow, 95,530 in East Renfrewshire and 88,930 in West Dunbartonshire.\n\nPeople living in those areas should also not visit someone else's home, no matter where it is.\n\nThe only exception is for those in extended households, who can continue to meet indoors.\n\nOnly essential indoor visits will be allowed in hospitals and care homes.\n\nPeople from different households can continue to meet outdoors as long as they follow the guidance, and outdoor visits to care homes are still permitted.\n\n\"I think this should be a wake-up call, not just for people in Glasgow city, West Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire,\" said the first minister.\n\n\"It should be a wake-up call for all of us to stick to the guidelines and stop this virus spreading any further or any faster.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said the reopening of schools had not been responsible for what had happened.\n\nShe said a \"very small number\" of school-age children had tested positive for the virus, and that this had mostly been driven by community transmission.\n\n\"Part of the reason that we have to take tough action, where necessary, to minimise community transmission is to stop that becoming a problem for schools,\" she said.\n\nShe added that the preventative action was designed to keep schools open and businesses operating.\n\nMs Sturgeon had raised concerns earlier in the day after the latest daily figures showed that 66 of the 154 new cases recorded in Scotland had been in the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde area.\n\nThat compared with an average of eight cases a day in the same area in the first two weeks of August.\n\nThe daily incidence rate of Covid-19 is now almost 33 new cases per 100,000 people in West Dunbartonshire, 22 in Glasgow and almost 19 in East Renfrewshire. The rate for the rest of Scotland is just over 10.\n\nThe local lockdown which was imposed in Aberdeen last month had been triggered by a rate of 14 cases per 100,000 population.\n\nDonald Macaskill, chief executive of Scottish Care, said the announcement was a bitter blow to care homes in the three affected local authority areas.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland's The Nine: \"Unfortunately it is the selfish behaviour and attitude of a few, who have put themselves first, which have meant that some of our most vulnerable citizens have been prevented from meeting their families.\n\n\"I am extremely disappointed that there will be hundreds of families not able to visit each other indoors in the next week or so.\"", "In a normal year, more than a million UK tourists visit Portugal's Algarve coast\n\nMinisters are considering reimposing quarantine measures for those arriving in the UK from Portugal as coronavirus cases rise, sources have told the BBC.\n\nThe country has recorded more than 20 cases per 100,000 people in the past week.\n\nNormally when a country surpasses that mark the UK government imposes 14 days of self-isolation on returning travellers.\n\nMinisters are expected to reach a decision on the measures by Thursday.\n\nThey will also have to decide whether the UK as a whole should follow Scotland, which has made a decision to add Greece to its own quarantine list, effective from 04:00 BST on Thursday.\n\nIt is the first of the four UK nations - each of which can add or remove countries to their own list - to make a decision on Greece, following several reports of people in the UK testing positive after holidaying on the island of Zante.\n\nWales, which says at least 16 people tested positive following a flight from the Greek island last week, says it has told passengers arriving on a plane at Cardiff Airport on Tuesday evening to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nMeanwhile, some travel industry leaders have suggested quarantine rules should only apply to people returning from specific regions where case numbers are high, such as resort islands - rather than having whole countries blacklisted.\n\nIt has been less than two weeks since Portugal came off the quarantine list and was put back on the UK's safe travel list, following a sustained period of falling cases in the country that put it below the \"20 per 100,000\" mark that satisfied the UK.\n\nBut now holidaymakers are scrambling to return from the country amid fears the country is again about to be taken off the list, based on the latest data.\n\nEasyJet has sold out all of its flights from Faro - which serves the Algarve - to airports in Britain for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.\n\nAnd British Airways is selling seats on a flight from Faro to Heathrow on Thursday for £554, while the same journey can be made seven days later for just £139.\n\nThousands of people have travelled from the UK to Portugal since the country was added to the UK's quarantine exemption list on 22 August.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tui boss Andrew Flintham says the government should consider \"regional travel corridors\"\n\nPortugal has recorded 21.1 virus cases per 100,000 people in the past week.\n\nThe UK considers imposing quarantine on travellers when a country's infection rate exceeds 20 cases per 100,000, over seven days.\n\nOver the past month, so-called travel corridors - which allow people to travel without having to self-isolate on their return - have been scrapped between England and at least 18 countries and territories.\n\nMinisters have said this cautious approach prevents coronavirus cases being imported.\n\nAndrew Flintham, head of Tui UK, has said the government should consider \"regional travel corridors\" - meaning quarantine measures would apply to people returning from regions over whole countries.\n\nHe said there were fewer cases in the popular Algarve, where most tourists are, than elsewhere in Portugal.\n\nUsing the example of Leicester, the first area in the UK to be placed under local lockdown, Mr Flintham told the BBC: \"In the UK we have a slightly different policy in the fact that we don't lock down the whole UK when the Leicester rate goes up.\n\n\"Can we apply the same kind of principle to almost allow us to operate to those places where the rates are low or are within those thresholds?\n\n\"We don't want to put anybody in danger but clearly it is not the same everywhere in a country,\" he added.\n\nIt is not the first time Tui has urged the government against slapping blanket quarantines on whole countries. Mr Flintham previously called for \"regionalised\" policy after quarantine measures were imposed on Spain in July.\n\nThe travel industry had hoped that the quarantine rules could be eased for the Balearic and Canary Islands, as data suggested there were lower rates of infection there than in mainland Spain.\n\nElsewhere, the boss of British Airways' parent firm, Willie Walsh, has accused the government of using \"arbitrary statistics to effectively ban 160 countries and in the process destroying the economy\".\n\nThe \"ever-changing\" quarantine requirements meant \"the UK has officially hung up the 'closed' sign\", he said, writing in the Times.\n\nLast week, Switzerland, Jamaica and the Czech Republic joined France, Spain and a number of others on the UK's quarantine list.\n\nUK tourists have spent thousands of pounds on new flights and ferries, and endured long drives in a race to get home before quarantine measures kick in.\n\nThe government has not commented on whether requirements for arrivals from Portugal will change again.\n\nAs soon as Portugal came off the quarantine list less than two weeks ago, John Cushing and his 12-year-old daughter Georgie headed straight out to the Algarve where he has a villa.\n\nNow the quarantine rules look set to change, he's facing a quandary.\n\n\"It's very precarious at the moment,\" says the 61-year-old company director.\n\n\"My daughter and I won't be able to leave the house when we get back to the UK on Saturday and there's a risk of being fined because I won't be able to send her back to school on Monday.\n\n\"She's in tears because she wants to go back to school but Ryanair is charging £1,000 to get back before the possible cut-off point.\n\n\"It's a very difficult decision to make [to pay for the early flight home] and I'm not really enjoying myself here now.\"\n\nEvery year, more than two million Britons visit Portugal, making up the largest number of overseas tourists to the country.\n\nMost head to the Algarve in the south, drawn by sunny Atlantic beaches, picturesque fishing villages and golf courses.\n\nOver May and June, the Portuguese government reopened its restaurants, coffee shops, museums and beaches. Hotels have mainly reopened, but nightclubs remain closed.\n\nThe government has warned that stricter measures will be put in place in mid-September as pupils return to school and some workers return to offices.\n\nAs of 31 August, the UK recorded 24 coronavirus cases per 100,000 people over the past fortnight while Portugal recorded 35.7, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.\n\nAre you currently on holiday in Portugal? Have you made plans to travel there? Share your thoughts by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This week marks the 75th anniversary of the official end of the Second World War, when Japan signed its deed of unconditional surrender. It ended six years of global conflict, which claimed the lives of more than 80 million people and changed the lives of hundreds of millions of others.\n\nThis week some of our colleagues at BBC News are relating their own families’ experiences in contributing to the people’s war effort. We start with Huw Edwards whose grandfather John Daniel Edwards was a merchant seaman, risking his life with thousands of others serving in the Atlantic Convoys.", "The boy was shot at about 08:40 BST on the Grange Farm estate in Kesgrave\n\nA teenager has been charged with attempted murder and firearms offences after a schoolboy was shot.\n\nThe victim was shot at about 08:40 BST on the Grange Farm estate in Kesgrave, Suffolk, on Monday.\n\nThe Year 11 Kesgrave High School pupil is in a critical condition.\n\nA 15-year-old boy from the Woodbridge area, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been charged with attempted murder and possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life.\n\nHe has also been charged with possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear of injury.\n\nThe boy has been remanded in custody and will appear via video link before Norwich Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.\n\nOfficers conducted a thorough search of the area around Friends Walk\n\nThe victim sustained serious injuries and was airlifted to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.\n\nFriends Walk was reopened earlier on Tuesday following the completion of police searches in the area.\n\nPolice said a \"long-barrelled gun\" had been recovered.\n\nPolice said a large police presence would remain in the area\n\nA police spokesman said officers would \"continue to engage with school children, teachers, parents and local residents to provide reassurance\".\n\n\"The constabulary will also have a police pod located in Through Jollys that will provide a strong visible presence to local people,\" the spokesman added.\n\nSupt Kerry Cutler said: \"Everybody is shocked, Kesgrave is on the outskirts of Ipswich, it is almost a semi-rural area, it's very much a residential area, this is not something we've seen in that area before and people will be impacted by it.\n\n\"The investigation goes on and we're still appealing for anybody who saw anything or has any information to come forward.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An e-sports company in which David Beckham owns a significant stake is seeking to raise £20m by listing its shares on the London Stock Exchange.\n\nGuild Esports will be the first in the UK to offer fans the chance to put money into backing its teams of gamers.\n\nE-sports, where spectators watch players video gaming, has seen its popularity rise during lockdown.\n\nThe company plans to field teams in the global online games Fortnite, CS:GO, Rocket League and Fifa.\n\nIt wants to build up its teams' skills using systems similar to the Premier League's talent academics.\n\nPrize and sponsorship money for e-sports run in the millions and audiences run to more than 100 million for some events, outstripping those for major sporting events such as Wimbledon and the Tour de France.\n\nFigures from from Newzoo, a games market insights company, show that 2019, e-sports had a total of 443 million viewers in 2020. Newzoo predicts the market will grow to 646 million viewers by 2023.\n\nThe shares will initially be offered to large investors next month, but afterwards will trade freely on the stock market where anyone can buy them.\n\nMoney raised from the initial share placing will be used to expand the business, including recruiting new players.\n\nThe investment further extends David Beckham's wide-ranging business interests, which include fashion, fragrances, whisky and a football club in Florida that he co-owns.\n\nGuild Esports said he would use his \"global influence and following to support the development of the company's brand and business\".\n\nBeckham is one of the founding shareholders in the business, holding what is described as a \"significant minority stake\", although the exact investment is undisclosed.\n\nHe is not the first footballer to spot the potential opportunities in e-sports. Wales and Real Madrid player Gareth Bale launched his e-sports organisation, Ellevens Esports, earlier this year.\n\nCarleton Curtis, the executive chairman of Guild Esports, said: \"Guild will be the first e-sports franchise to join the London stock market.\n\n\"It will provide us with the cache, credibility and capital to fulfil our ambition to become one of the world's top 10 e-sports franchises within three years.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nEngland played out a dreary deadlock with Denmark in Copenhagen as the Nations League meeting turned into a drab non-event.\n\nHarry Kane almost won it for England in the dying seconds when he went round Denmark keeper Kasper Schmeichel, only to see his shot cleared off the line by Mathias Jorgensen - but such a poor quality encounter barely deserved a dramatic finale.\n\nManager Gareth Southgate will have hoped for some talking points on the pitch after the off-field distraction that saw young duo Phil Foden and Mason Greenwood sent home for breaking Covid-19 protocols in Iceland.\n\nWolverhampton Wanderers captain Conor Coady made a measured England debut while Leeds United's Kalvin Phillips had a quiet introduction - and Aston Villa midfield man Jack Grealish finally got his long-awaited bow with 14 minutes left.\n\nDenmark had the better chances until Kane's late effort, with England keeper Jordan Pickford saving well from Kasper Dolberg in the first half and Christian Eriksen shooting over when well placed late on.\n\nEngland were sterile and conservative, creating very little apart from a Kane header off target and a low shot from Raheem Sterling that brought a smart save from Schmeichel before that late chance.\n\nArsenal youngster Ainsley Maitland-Niles became England's fourth debutant in the final minutes on a night of very little excitement.\n• None 'Southgate must address lack of productivity, positivity and ambition'\n• None Trust needs to be rebuilt with Foden and Greenwood - Southgate\n• None Football Daily podcast: England are dull and drab in Denmark\n\nEngland's ploy of playing a three-man central defence and effectively two holding midfielders in Phillips and Declan Rice afforded Denmark the sort of respect that might be better reserved for more elite sides.\n\nIt set the tone for a disappointing England performance, lacking in ambition and threat and one which would not have have deserved the late victory Kane almost gave them.\n\nThere is the usual context that this is effectively a pre-season game in an international guise for England's players but there was no excuse for such a lifeless display lacking in energy.\n\nEngland's attacking trio of Kane, Sterling and the anonymous Jadon Sancho were nowhere near their best but they could point to the fact that they were cut off from any sort of supply line by the manner of Southgate's set-up.\n\nThe team itself had an experimental air but there was no escaping England should have done much better than this.\n\nWolves captain Conor Coady was no shrinking violet as he made his England debut, making his presence felt and heard even before kick-off.\n\nAs silence fell on the largely deserted Parken Stadion in the seconds before the start, Coady's voice was heard bellowing instructions to his new England colleagues.\n\nThe 27-year-old looked at home with England, urging team-mates on throughout and shouting tactical instructions. He also played well and can be very satisfied with his first taste of senior international football, playing his part in the clean sheet.\n\nIt was a more subdued night for 24-year-old Leeds midfielder Phillips but it is worth remembering this is a player entering international football before even making his debut in the Premier League.\n\nEngland's system was not ideal for him and there were times in the first half when the game passed him by but he showed composure on the ball and did not waste possession, improving in the second half.\n\nGrealish can finally got the opportunity that will delight his many supporters but he had little time to influence affairs, apart from a couple of trademark jinking runs that came to nothing.\n\nMost debutants in competitive game since 1962 - match stats\n• None This was England's sixth goalless draw in 43 matches under Gareth Southgate - as many as Roy Hodgson played out in 56 games in charge. The last England manager to oversee more 0-0s was Bobby Robson (17).\n• None England managed just two shots on target, their fewest since their behind-closed-doors match against Croatia in October 2018 (also two).\n• None England have kept a clean sheet in five successive competitive matches for the first time since another run of five ending in March 2017.\n• None Denmark have kept a clean sheet in six of their past eight matches in all competitions, conceding just three goals in this time.\n• None England's first shot on target in this game came in the 70th minute courtesy of Raheem Sterling - it was the longest they had to wait since a World Cup match against Costa Rica in 2014 (80th minute).\n• None This was the first time the England men's team has named four debutants in a non-friendly match since October 1962 in a European Championship qualifier against Poland (Ray Charnley, Chris Crowe, Mike Hellawell, Alan Hinton).\n• None Phillips was the first Leeds United player to start for England since Danny Mills in 2003, while Coady was the first Wolves player to start for England since Steve Bull in 1990.\n• None Attempt blocked. Harry Kane (England) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kieran Trippier.\n• None Attempt missed. Simon Kjaer (Denmark) header from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Robert Skov with a cross following a set piece situation.\n• None Attempt blocked. Harry Kane (England) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jack Grealish.\n• None Attempt missed. Robert Skov (Denmark) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Andreas Christensen. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Behind the scenes of their title triumph\n• None Can you truly be one or the other?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brandon Lewis says Northern Ireland customs rules legislation do “break international law in a very specific and limited way”\n\nA government minister has said a new bill to amend the UK's Brexit deal with the EU will \"break international law\".\n\nConcerns had been raised about legislation being brought forward which could change parts of the withdrawal agreement, negotiated last year.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis conceded it would go against the treaty in a \"specific and limited way\".\n\nFormer PM Theresa May warned the change could damage \"trust\" in the UK over future trade deals with other states.\n\nThe permanent secretary to the Government Legal Department, Sir Jonathan Jones, has announced he is resigning from government in light of the bill, making him the sixth senior civil servant to leave Whitehall this year.\n\nSir Jonathan, who is the government's most senior lawyer, is understood to have believed the plans went too far in breaching the government's obligations under international law.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer condemned the bill and accused No 10 of \"reopening old arguments that had been settled\", saying the \"focus should be on getting a [trade] deal done\" with the EU.\n\nNo 10 revealed on Monday that it would be introducing a new UK Internal Market Bill that could affect post-Brexit customs and trade rules in Northern Ireland.\n\nDowning Street said it would only make \"minor clarifications in extremely specific areas\" - but it worried some in Brussels and Westminster that it could see the government try to change the withdrawal agreement, which became international law when the UK left the EU in January.\n\nThe row also comes at the start of the eighth round of post-Brexit trade deal talks between the UK and the EU.\n\nThe two sides are trying to secure a deal before the end of the transition period on 31 December, which will see the UK going onto World Trade Organisation rules if no agreement is reached.\n\nIrish Foreign Affairs Minister, Simon Coveney, called Mr Lewis' comments \"gravely concerning\", adding: \"Any unilateral departure from the terms of the withdrawal agreement would be a matter of considerable concern and a very serious step.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer says planned government legislation over Northern Ireland is “wrong”\n\nThe UK's chief Brexit negotiator, Lord David Frost, called for \"realism\" from his EU counterparts, saying he would \"drive home our clear message that we must make progress this week if we are to reach an agreement in time\".\n\nThe EU said it would \"do everything in [its] power to reach an agreement\" with the UK, but \"will be ready\" for a no-deal scenario.\n\nOn Monday, Boris Johnson said if a deal hadn't been done by the time the European Council meets on 15 October, the two sides should \"move on\" and accept the UK's exit without one.\n\nShadow Northern Ireland secretary, Louise Haigh, said it was \"deeply concerning\" that the prime minister \"appeared to be undermining the legal obligations of his own deal\" with the introduction of the new law while the negotiations are taking place.\n\nThe text of the new bill will not be published until Wednesday, although the government has confirmed it will deal with the issue of the so-called Northern Ireland Protocol - an element of the withdrawal agreement designed to prevent a hard border returning to the island of Ireland after Brexit.\n\nThe practicalities of the protocol - which will deal with issues of state aid (financial support given to businesses by governments) and whether there needs to be customs checks on goods - is still being negotiated by a joint UK and EU committee.\n\nBut Mr Lewis said the bill would take \"limited and reasonable steps to create a safety net\" if the negotiations failed.\n\nSpeaking during an urgent question on the bill, chair of the Justice Committee and Tory MP Bob Neill said the \"adherence to the rule of law is not negotiable\".\n\nHe asked Mr Lewis: \"Will he assure us that nothing proposed in this legislation does or potentially might breach international obligations or international legal arrangements?\"\n\nThe Northern Ireland secretary replied: \"Yes. This does break international law in a very specific and limited way.\"\n\nHe said the government was still working \"in good faith\" with the EU joint committee to overcome its concerns for the future of trade in Northern Ireland, but said there was \"clear precedence for UK and indeed other countries needing to consider their obligations if circumstances change\".\n\nSir Bob later told BBC Radio 4's PM the decision was \"troubling\", adding: \"Britain is a country which prides itself on standing by the rule of law... whether it is inconvenient or convenient for us.\n\n\"Whatever we seek to do, if we find something we signed up to 'inconvenient', I am afraid this doesn't mean we can renege on our contract... as that would damage our reputation long term.\"\n\nThis was an extremely unusual statement - a minister standing up in Parliament to say the government is planning to break international law.\n\nBrandon Lewis told the House of Commons that \"there are clear precedents for the UK and other countries needing to consider their international obligations as circumstances change\".\n\nThat may suggest, says Catherine Barnard, professor of law at the University of Cambridge, that the government is looking at Article 62 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, which enables a state to get out of its treaty obligations when circumstances change radically.\n\nBut those changed circumstances have to be pretty dramatic - something like the dissolution of Yugoslavia, when a recognised country ceases to exist.\n\nIn the case of the Northern Ireland Protocol, it is less than a year since the government negotiated the treaty in full knowledge of the sensitivity of the situation.\n\nAnd if the government does go ahead with legislation which appears to contradict the withdrawal agreement?\n\n\"There is a chance,\" says Prof Barnard, \"that the EU will decide to trigger the dispute resolution mechanism in the withdrawal agreement, which could lead to arbitration and a case before the European Court of Justice.\"\n\nTheresa May - who stood down as prime minister last year after her own Brexit deal failed to get the support of Parliament - said: \"The United Kingdom government signed the withdrawal agreement with the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\n\"This Parliament voted that withdrawal agreement into UK legislation. The government is now changing the operation of that agreement.\"\n\n\"How can the government reassure future international partners that the UK can be trusted to abide by the legal obligations of the agreements it signs?\"\n\nThe leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davey, also called it a \"sad and shocking state of affairs for our country\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Reality Check’s Chris Morris looks at where the UK and EU are struggling to agree on their future relationship\n\nSammy Wilson, who acts as Brexit spokesman for the Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party, said he was \"pleased\" to have the new bill that could deal with some of the issues that could affect his constituents - such as state aid and customs checks.\n\nBut he said the DUP had \"warned ministers of the impact of the withdrawal agreement\" early on, saying it was a \"union splitting, economy destroying and border creating agreement that has to be changed and replaced\".\n\nHe added: \"We will judge this bill on whether it delivers on these kind of issues.\"\n\nHowever, Claire Hanna, a Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) MP for Belfast South, said the protocol was \"a symptom… of four years of terrible political decision making\".\n\nShe added: \"It is now the law. This government is obliged to implement it in full.\"\n\nShe also \"cautioned\" Mr Lewis \"not to use the threat of a border on the island of Ireland or the hard won impartiality of the Good Friday Agreement as a cat's paw in this or any other negotiation.\"\n\nBut former Conservative leader, Sir Iain Duncan Smith, said the act that brought the withdrawal agreement into law in the UK allowed the government to \"reserve the right to make clarifications under the sovereignty clause\".\n\nMr Lewis agreed, saying the law would \"clarify... the points about what will apply in January if we are not able to get satisfactory and mutually suitable conclusions\" in negotiations.\n\nHe added: \"It is reasonable and sensible to give that certainty and clarity to the people and businesses of Northern Ireland.\"", "Gordon and Margaret Minto were shocked to learn that British Airways will not return the £4,748 they paid for their flights.\n\nBritish Airways passengers have told the BBC that they have been refused cash refunds for cancelled flights.\n\nGordon and Margaret Minto accepted vouchers instead after their flights to the United States were cancelled, the airline says.\n\n\"We were stunned... we looked at each other and said, 'we haven't asked for a voucher'. We haven't received one either\", says Margaret.\n\nBA said it will \"always provide a refund if a customer is eligible\".\n\nBut the Mintos from South Shields are among many holidaymakers who have found themselves in a stand-off with the airline after their flights were cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe airline maintains they accepted vouchers, while they all say they never wanted vouchers at all.\n\nUnder EU law, when a flight is cancelled passengers are entitled to their money back within seven days.\n\nAirlines are still free to offer them the chance to rebook or to take vouchers, which can be used on different flights in future, if that is what a customer prefers.\n\nThe Mintos had spent £4,748 on five tickets for them and family members to fly from Newcastle via London to Dallas and Las Vegas.\n\nThey say they always wanted a cash refund but communicating that wish to British Airways was difficult.\n\nThe airline used to offer an online facility where people could request money back for cancelled flights. It called it \"the quickest way\" to get a refund.\n\nBut when Covid-19 struck and thousands of flights were being cancelled, that option was removed from the company's website.\n\nBA says it was because its system was not set up to deal with that volume of traffic, so passengers who wanted refunds were asked to ring the company instead.\n\nThe problem was many passengers then struggled to get through on the phone lines too.\n\nThe Mintos gave up and emailed BA asking for their money back. They got a reply saying, as far as the airline was concerned, they had accepted vouchers already and could not exchange them for cash.\n\nAll the more puzzling, according to Margaret, was the response they got from a BA staff member when they did manage to get through on the telephone.\n\n\"They said, 'I'm sorry I cannot find anything on the system which shows that you've accepted a voucher and I am going to go to a superior and ring you back in three days'. That was the last we heard from them and that was two and a half weeks ago,\" she says.\n\nWhen the BBC contacted British Airways, the airline insisted Mr and Mrs Minto had filled out a voucher request form as there is \"no way\" in which its system would issue vouchers without one.\n\nYet other British Airways customers who were after cash refunds for cancelled flights are also claiming vouchers were automatically issued to them.\n\n\"I didn't complete a form asking for a voucher and, to the best of my knowledge, I didn't click anything asking for a voucher,\" says Terry Lloyd from Barnet in North London.\n\n\"In the end it seemed to me the only sensible option was to say to the customer services, 'well show me the form which you alleged I completed'. Despite repeated requests, they will not send it to me. I can only assume it's because it doesn't exist. I'm totally disenchanted with them. It is a pathetic piece of obfuscation on their part.\"\n\nOther customers say they filled out voucher application forms by mistake after logging into their accounts looking for ways to get their money back.\n\nDavid Hunter accepts that he made a mistake but feels that he was \"misled\" by British Airways' website.\n\nAt one stage the BA website displayed two buttons, one labelled \"change booking\" and the other labelled \"cancel booking\" with a message underneath which said: \"There's no extra cost for any changes and we offer a refund if you cancel your booking\".\n\nPeople who clicked \"cancel booking\" hoping for a refund were actually taken to an application form for vouchers.\n\nIt had \"Future Travel Voucher Application Form\" written in large letters at the top and a box to tick at the bottom acknowledging acceptance of vouchers, but several people seem to have missed that.\n\nDavid Hunter from Sutton in Surrey says he got \"suckered in\" by the previous page which promised a refund and filled out the form thinking that was what he was getting. He only realised his error after pressing submit and, within the hour, managed to get through to British Airways on the telephone.\n\n\"British Airways said 'no, that's it, that is what you selected that's what you're getting,\" he says, meaning he's stuck with a voucher for his £768 return flights to Seychelles.\n\nDavid Travers QC, a barrister specialising in trading standards and consumer protection law, believes the fact that a number of people have been misled does \"rather suggest\" that the British Airways website was misleading.\n\n\"There is something unattractive, people might think, about a large commercial concern playing 'gotcha' with a customer - if you read that more carefully you would have realised what we were doing.\n\n\"That is something the courts and the legislation have taken some trouble to treat with a degree of caution because of the inequality of the position between the consumer and the business,\" he says.\n\nBA says the voucher process is clearly worded but has failed to explain why part of its website appeared to offer a refund but took people to a voucher application form instead.\n\nThe regulator, the Civil Aviation Authority, says if consumers feel misled then they should open a complaint about their experience, first with the airline and then, if they are not satisfied with the response, they can seek redress via the approved alternative dispute resolution service, which in the case of British Airways is the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR).\n\n\"We will always provide a refund if a customer is eligible and we're offering flexibility if any of our customers need to change their flights,\" British Airways said in a statement.\n\n\"Since March we have provided more than 1.67 million customers with cash refunds and more than 1.3 million with vouchers to fly with us that they can use right up until April 2022\".\n\nYou & Yours is on air every weekday from 12:18 on BBC Radio 4", "Emily Bendell asked for membership in March and was turned down, so engaged lawyers to mount a legal challenge under the 2010 Equality Act\n\nAn entrepreneur is challenging a London private member's club over its \"gentlemen-only\" membership policy.\n\nEmily Bendell, founder of lingerie brand Bluebella, claims the Garrick Club's rules allowing women to attend only as guests of men violates the Equality Act 2010.\n\nThe exclusive West End club counts Sir Laurence Olivier and Charles Dickens among its former members.\n\nShe is now threatening legal action against the Garrick, demanding that it opens membership to women for the first time since it opened in 1831.\n\nTalking to the BBC she said: \"I had no idea that this male-only members club still existed and I was quite shocked and surprised that was the case.\n\n\"[It's] deeply troubling on a number of levels and so I thought I could see if there was anything there could be done about it.\n\n\"These are clubs that have people who run this country as members - what is that telling us? That we are not allowing women to be part of these networks and gatherings?\n\n\"By denying women access to these networks, it is detrimental to our cause, so I think it is important.\n\n\"I hope that the members of the Garrick Club can see that the world has moved on and do the right thing.\"\n\nThe Garrick Club which counts Sir Laurence Olivier and Charles Dickens among its former members has continued to be \"open to gentlemen members only\" throughout its 189-year history\n\nThe Garrick Club was founded by a group of \"literary gentlemen\" with the aim of bringing together actors and supporters of theatre.\n\nAlthough the Garrick does not allow female members it employs female members of staff and a letter has been sent to Ann Robbie, the secretary of the Garrick, with a request for a reply by 5 October.\n\nThe letter states the Garrick is bound, under section 29 of the Equality Act, not to discriminate against a person requiring or seeking to use its services.\n\nThe letter goes on to outline claims for direct and indirect sex discrimination in respect of its \"gentlemen-only\" policy.\n\nThe club, founded in 1831 and one of the oldest in the world, was originally formed as a meeting place for men working in drama\n\nMs Bendell's solicitors at Leigh Day said: \"Ms Bendell has a successful career and affinity to the arts and, just as any man in her position would have the opportunity to, she wishes to become a member of the Garrick Club and access the club's services.\n\n\"The Garrick is one of the oldest and best-known members' clubs in the world, but it is holding on to values that are outdated and quite simply not legal in this day and age. It provides services to the public and as such it is bound by the equalities law.\n\n\"Both the firm and Ms Bendell look forward to receiving confirmation that the Garrick Club intends to change its policy in relation to admission of female members.\"\n\nThe Garrick has been contacted for comment.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man who faced an unprecedented five trials over four years for the shooting of a mother-of-nine and her nephew has been found guilty of murder.\n\nAnnie Ekofo, 53, and Bervil Ekofo, 21, were killed in their home in East Finchley, north London, in 2016.\n\nObina Ezeoke first went on trial in 2017 but it collapsed, while juries in two more failed to reach verdicts and the other was halted by coronavirus.\n\nAt his fifth trial, the 28-year-old was found guilty of two counts of murder.\n\nAn Old Bailey jury convicted Ezeoke by a majority of 11 to one after deliberating for 41 hours over eight days.\n\nThe defendant was found guilty of two counts of murder after a fifth trial\n\nThe court heard Ezeoke, of Cambridge Heath, had \"crept noiselessly\" into Mrs Ekofo's home on 15 September 2016 just after dawn.\n\nHe then shot her 21-year-old nephew, who happened to be staying there that night, while he slept and killed Ms Ekofo in the hall when she went to investigate what had happened.\n\nProsecutor Mark Heywood QC said the 28-year-old drug dealer had gone to kill one of the teenage boys in the family as \"part of a vendetta of violence\".\n\n\"His hate was such that he did not falter when confronted by a second person - he simply took her life as well,\" he said.\n\nThe key evidence centred around firearms residue found in Ezeoke's car, which was used in the getaway, and on his top recovered from a female friend's home.\n\nEzeoke, who denied murder, told successive trials he had an alibi for the time of the shootings and suggested the gunshot residue in the vehicle must have been from a previous shooting.\n\nEzeoke crept into Ms Ekofo's house just before dawn to carry out the killings, the court heard\n\nWhen the fourth trial was halted, the defendant's lawyer James Scobie QC claimed the case should not go to a fifth trial, saying it \"would be oppressive\" and \"enough is enough\".\n\nBut Mr Heywood successfully argued the \"public interest\" in a case \"of this exceptional kind and such gravity\".\n\nSally-Anne Russell, from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Ezeoke's actions \"have devastated a family\".\n\n\"He went to the flat to carry out a revenge attack... When he couldn't find the person he was looking for, he murdered a young man and a mother-of-nine instead,\" she added.\n\nEzeoke will be sentenced on 1 October.\n• None Man to face fifth trial over same murder charges\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The 27-year-old was arrested at a property in Selly Oak in the early hours of Monday\n\nA man has been charged with murder and seven counts of attempted murder, after a series of stabbings across Birmingham city centre.\n\nZephaniah McLeod, aged 27, of Nately Grove, Selly Oak, is due in court on Wednesday, West Midlands Police said.\n\nJacob Billington, 23, was killed and seven others injured at four locations over a period of 90 minutes on Sunday.\n\nMr Billington, from Crosby, Merseyside, was stabbed in Irving Street while enjoying a night out with friends.\n\nA post-mortem examination concluded he died of a stab wound to the neck.\n\nMr Billington had been working as a library intern at Sheffield Hallam University and was also a drummer in a band.\n\nA university spokesman said: \"Jacob was a Sheffield Hallam graduate and had joined the library as a graduate intern, where his warmth and enthusiasm made him a greatly valued member of our team.\n\n\"Our thoughts and condolences are with his family, friends and colleagues.\"\n\nHis friend, Michael Callaghan, also 23 and a fellow band-mate, was seriously injured in the attack in Irving Street and remains in hospital in a critical condition.\n\nBoth men had previously attended Sacred Heart Catholic College in Crosby, where prayers were said on Monday evening for their families.\n\nIn a statement, the school said: \"We are saddened at the events in Birmingham which took Jacob's life and left Michael critically injured.\n\n\"We are praying for Michael's recovery and will never forget Jacob, his life touched so many in our school.\"\n\nJacob Billington, who was out with friends, was stabbed to death in Birmingham\n\nA 22-year-old woman, attacked in Hurst Street, remains critical but stable in hospital.\n\nAnother man, aged 30, remains in a serious condition in hospital, while four others have been discharged.\n\nDet Ch Insp Jim Munro said: \"Since these tragic events unfolded in the early hours of Sunday morning we've had a team of officers working non-stop on the investigation.\n\n\"Our driving focus is to secure justice for the victims, their family and friends. Our sympathies remain with everyone who's been impacted by these terrible crimes.\"\n\nThree people arrested early on Monday at an address in Selly Oak on suspicion of assisting an offender have all been released pending investigation, police said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The quake was felt at about 09:45 BST in the town of Leighton Buzzard\n\nAn earthquake with a magnitude 3.3 has been felt across several towns in England.\n\nPeople living in Leighton Buzzard and Dunstable, Bedfordshire, and Milton Keynes and Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire said they felt it at about 09:45 BST.\n\nCarly Jan Smith, 31, in Dunstable, said it was \"really strong\" and lasted for about two seconds. Her whole room went from \"side to side\", she said.\n\nThe British Geological Survey said it struck just north of Leighton Buzzard.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by British Geological Survey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBedfordshire Police said there were no reports of injuries, although it had received a large number of calls.\n\nAcross the border in Buckinghamshire, Thames Valley Police tweeted that is was not a major incident, adding that \"extra resources have been drafted in to clean up the mess created by the duty inspector's coffee\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDr Richard Luckett, of the British Geological Survey, confirmed the quake, saying: \"It was very minor on a global scale, but still quite large for the UK.\n\n\"We get about two of these a year.\"\n\nHe said there was a slight chance of aftershocks \"but they are very likely not to be felt\".\n\nBritish Geological has released the seismograms for the Leighton Buzzard 3.3 magnitude event\n\nJohn Yorke, a computer programmer in Woburn Sands, Bedfordshire, said: \"It felt like one subtle jolt to the house which made the windows vibrate.\n\n\"My initial thought was to look out of the window expecting to see a car had crashed into our property. I haven't felt anything like it before.\"\n\nMs Smith of Dunstable told BBC Three Counties Radio: \"I was in my room and I thought my stepdad was doing something in the garage because the whole room just went from side to side, really strongly.\n\n\"It was like the foundation beneath me had kind of jolted.\"\n\nKaren Cursons, a 56-year-old town councillor, added: \"We've been in Leighton Buzzard for 34 years and I have never felt anything like that.\"\n\nChristine Sawyer, who lives in a mobile home in Caddington, said it had left her \"really scared\" as she feared her property had broken off its mooring.\n\n\"The whole place shook, it felt like something had hit the side of the home,\" she said. \"My dog shot out of her chair.\"\n\nGavin Prechner was working from home in Leighton Buzzard.\n\nHe said: \"It felt like a car had crashed into my house, but then the rumbling and shaking continued.\n\n\"No damage to report apart from a hairline crack in the paint work in my upstairs office and some pictures looking wonky on the wall.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harry Harvey, an experienced walker, has now been reunited with family and friends\n\nAn 80-year-old hiker who went missing for three days in the Yorkshire Dales has spoken at a press conference arranged in a bid to track him down.\n\nHarry Harvey spent three nights wild camping after becoming separated from a walking group between Gunnerside and Tan Hill, North Yorkshire, on Saturday.\n\nA major search took place including police, the RAF and rescue dogs.\n\nHe was spotted by a wildlife photographer on Tuesday morning, who saw him waving at her near Keld.\n\nMr Harvey was about six miles (10km) from where he was last seen.\n\nHe was then taken by Land Rover to the nearby Tan Hill Inn, where he was reunited with family and friends at the press conference.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The moment Mr Harvey was reunited with family at the Tan Hill Inn\n\nSpeaking to journalists Mr Harvey, from Tynemouth in Tyne and Wear, said: \"I just got separated by getting caught in a really heavy hailstorm, a howling gale of wind.\n\n\"By the time I got my kit on it was getting really dark, so I missed what I would say was a turning. I had a plan B straight away, find somewhere safe to camp, put my tent up, keep warm, and that was it.\n\n\"The biggest problem I had was getting to Tynemouth from Keld, because I only had £21.05 in my pocket.\"\n\nMr Harvey said he had \"three good nights wild camping\".\n\n\"The place where we got separated was absolutely desolate, there was no chance of putting a tent up that's for sure, so I had to find somewhere safe, which is what I did.\"\n\nMr Harvey said he was never worried as he had \"all the kit and all the training\", adding he would rather not have the attention which he said was \"not my scene at all\".\n\nThe experienced hiker, who was reported missing on Sunday afternoon, said he could see search teams but did not realise they were looking for him.\n\nMr Harvey went missing in an area between Gunnerside Gill (pictured) and Tan Hill\n\nHis family said the past three days had been \"torture\" and they could not put the worry they had into words.\n\n\"We know he is experienced, but not three nights, that's taking it a little bit to the extreme,\" they said.\n\nInsp Mark Gee, from North Yorkshire Police, said: \"This is fantastic news. I want to thank all the search volunteers for their time, as well as gamekeepers, estate owners, farmers and local residents for their help and understanding.\n\n\"Thanks also to the Tan Hill, who looked after the volunteers and Mr Harvey's family.\"\n\nAnnette Pyrah, the photographer who found him, said she cried when she realised it was Mr Harvey.\n\n\"I was out taking photographs of grouse and instead of grouse I found Harry,\" she said.\n\n\"I had passed Tan Hill with a very heavy heart because I knew he hadn't been found and I thought after three days he's not going to be found. It was quite upsetting to see the police and sniffer dogs.\n\n\"I just looked up at the fell and this gentleman waved at me. I got out of my car and I said, 'Are you Harry? Have you been missing for three days?' And he said yes. And I started crying.\"\n\nMs Pyrah said he had a nasty bump on the head where he had fallen into a stream, but apart from that he was fit and well.\n\n\"I got him some help for his head and he rang his wife, which was the main thing,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The National Records of Scotland figures cover the period when the pandemic was at its peak in Scotland\n\nThe number of people who died in Scotland at the height of the coronavirus outbreak was a third higher than usual, according to official figures.\n\nNational Records of Scotland (NRS) said 18,201 deaths had been registered between April and June.\n\nThis was 4,515 higher than the five-year average.\n\nCovid-19 was the underlying cause in 3,739 deaths, accounting for 83% of the excess deaths.\n\nDeaths from diabetes, dementia and Alzheimer's Disease were about a quarter higher than the five-year average, the NRS said.\n\nAnd deaths from diseases of the genitourinary system increased by 22.5%.\n\nHowever, deaths from respiratory diseases decreased by 20.6% and deaths from transport accidents were down by 69.1%.\n\nChief Medical Officer Gregor Smith said the reasons for the higher than usual number of deaths would be better understood \"in the fullness of time\", and urged people to seek treatment for any medical concerns they may have.\n\nThe three-month period covers the height of the coronavirus lockdown in Scotland when schools and businesses were closed, and traffic on all roads was significantly reduced.\n\nRegular health care had been disrupted after NHS Scotland was placed on an emergency footing in mid-March to deal with the outbreak.\n\nAccident and Emergency attendances dropped to below half their normal levels during April, Public Health Scotland data shows.\n\nIt is also possible that some deaths attributed to other causes at the start of the outbreak were undiagnosed Covid-19 cases.\n\nDr Smith said there were \"signals\" from the latest data that \"shows excess deaths go beyond what we would expect directly from Covid\", highlighting those linked to Alzheimers and dementia in particular.\n\nHe said: \"We need to understand why that is the case - are these deaths being contributed to by Covid, or are they for some other reasons?\n\n\"Over the fullness of time we will be able to much better understand why these deaths are apparent in the system.\"\n\nEarlier in the pandemic there was a concern that an increase in deaths linked to cardiovascular conditions may have been down to \"people not presenting for treatment\" when they needed it.\n\nDr Smith said: \"The message we've had all along is that for these urgent conditions, the NHS remains open.\n\n\"If you have symptoms we urge you to seek help and don't just sit on it - there is capacity in the NHS for you to get the care you need.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon said Scotland was at a \"dangerous point\" in the fight against coronavirus, with cases on the rise\n\nAge Scotland said the steep rise in excess deaths from dementia, diabetes and other causes during the lockdown was \"extremely concerning\" and needed further investigation.\n\nThe charity's chief executive, Brian Sloan, said older people had \"borne the brunt\" of the pandemic and had been at greater risk of dying from other causes.\n\n\"While it's hard to speculate on the reasons, it's likely there is a link to the pandemic,\" he said.\n\n\"We know that health and social services were under a huge strain during these months, and many people were reluctant or unable to seek medical assistance.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said every death linked to the virus \"represents the loss of an irreplaceable individual\".\n\nThe latest NRS report said only two deaths had been recorded in the week to Sunday where coronavirus was mentioned on the death certificate, with none of them in care homes for the first time in the pandemic.\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon warned that people must be vigilant about increasing numbers of cases.\n\nAnd she did not rule out Scotland following England in reducing the number of people who can meet at the same time.\n\nShe said the number of new cases of coronavirus reported each day in Scotland had \"roughly trebled\" over the past three weeks.\n\nThe rolling seven day average of new daily cases over the past week was 152 - compared to 52 three weeks earlier.\n\nThe percentage of people tested who return a positive result has also gone up from being \"around 1%\" to consistently being around 2%.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"I hope you can see why the situation just now is a matter of concern to us, and why we need to continue to work as hard as we can to keep the virus under control.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Government efforts to fight child obesity risk getting lost in reorganisations and delays, a report warns.\n\nThe National Audit office says 20 years of targets and policies have had limited success and new initiatives may fall short too.\n\nIt points to a lack of urgency and coordination, while the child obesity problem worsens in parts of the UK.\n\nBritain has one of the highest child obesity rates in Western Europe.\n\nA fifth of 10- to 11-year-olds are obese, according to latest figures for England.\n\nObese children are much more likely to become obese adults, causing significant health risks.\n\nChildren from deprived areas or ethnic minorities are far more likely to be obese - and the problem is escalating.\n\nBut few interventions in the child obesity programme specifically address this, the NAO report says.\n\nAlthough the Department of Health and Social Care is responsible for setting and overseeing obesity policy in England, the cross-government nature of the child obesity programme means many projects are outside of its control.\n\nIn 2016, the government published the first chapter of its plan aimed at slashing the child obesity rate over the next decade, through measures such as a sugar tax on fizzy drinks.\n\nA second chapter was published in 2018, promising to reduce the gap in obesity between children from the most and least deprived areas by 2030.\n\nIn July 2020 - amid growing evidence of a link between obesity and an increased risk from coronavirus - the prime minister set out the next steps, which include:\n\nBut a ban on energy-drink sales to under-16s, mooted in 2018, has not gone ahead.\n\nAnd other policies, including the sugar tax on fizzy drinks, have not been fully evaluated to see what impact they have actually had, the NAO says.\n\nWithout assessing the success or failure of past strategies, the government will struggle to prioritise actions or apply lessons to its new approach with confidence of success, the report warns.\n\nAlthough there has been some progress in reducing sugar levels in popular foods, government will not meet its ambition to have industry reduce sugar by 20% in certain products by 2020, the report says.\n\nThere is also limited awareness and co-ordination across departments of wider factors and activities that may affect childhood obesity rates, such as sponsorship of sporting events by the food industry.\n\nNAO head Gareth Davies said while the new strategy announced in July signalled \"a greater intention\" to tackle obesity, the government must now act with urgency.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care official said: \"We are determined to tackle obesity across all ages and we have already taken significant action - cutting sugar from half of drinks on sale, funding exercise programmes in schools and working with councils to tackle child obesity locally.\n\n\"We are also taking bold action through our new and ambitious obesity strategy... to help families make healthy choices.\"\n\nBut Dr Layla McCay, from the NHS Confederation, said it appeared the government had not learned from the failures of past efforts.\n\n\"This is such an important moment for effective action but it risks becoming lost amidst reorganisation and delays,\" she said.\n\n\"At a time when obesity is in the spotlight for putting people with Covid-19 at greater risk of needing hospital admission or intensive care, it has never been clearer that an effective approach is needed.\"\n\nThe Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health said money must follow commitments.\n\n\"As ever, the communities that need these services most are those that have faced the most severe funding cuts,\" it added.", "CCTV caught Salman Abedi in the arena foyer just seconds before he blew himself up\n\nEvidence of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi discussing martyrdom was seized almost three years before the attack, an inquiry has heard.\n\nThe hearing was told Abedi, who killed 22 people in the May 2017 atrocity, had first been linked to \"subjects of interest\" in 2010.\n\nA mobile phone seized in February 2017 showed regular contact between Abedi and a convicted terrorist organiser.\n\nPaul Greaney QC said their relationship was of \"some significance\".\n\nThe inquiry heard the device was confiscated from British-Libyan national Abdalraouf Abdallah, who was jailed in 2016 for helping others to reach Syria.\n\nPhone analysis revealed he had been in contact with Abedi, who went to visit him in prison, in the months leading up to the attack.\n\nIn 2014, during investigations into Abdallah, counter terrorism police had evidence of discussions with Abedi regarding \"martyrdom, including the martyrdom of a senior al-Qaeda figure\", the inquiry heard.\n\nMr Greaney said Abdallah had refused to answer any questions put to him by inquiry staff, but investigators were \"determined\" to get to the bottom of their relationship.\n\nThe inquiry will also examine what intelligence and information was or should have been available to security services and the police about Abedi.\n\nMr Greaney said MI5 had received intelligence about Abedi on two separate occasions in the months prior to the bombing, \"the significance of which was not fully appreciated at the time\".\n\n\"In retrospect\", he said, it could \"be seen to be highly relevant to the planned attack\".\n\nOn 1 May 2017, the inquiry further heard, Abedi had been assessed as meeting the threshold to be considered for further investigation by MI5.\n\nHe was due to be considered for referral on 31 May 2017 but \"tragically this was overtaken by matters nine days earlier\", Mr Greaney said.\n\nThe inquiry is being held at Manchester Magistrates' Court, less than a mile away from where the bombing happened\n\nDuring the third day of proceedings, photographs of the 22 victims were displayed on a screen as the public inquiry heard their final movements.\n\nRelatives of some of the victims wiped away tears in the hearing room at Manchester Magistrates' Court, while other families watched proceedings from a nearby annexe.\n\nThe inquiry heard how 21 of the victim suffered injuries which were said to be unsurvivable.\n\nBut bomb blast experts believe the injuries of John Atkinson, 28, may have been potentially survivable.\n\nThe bombing after an Ariana Grande concert killed 22 people and injured hundreds more\n\nThe public inquiry will look at a number of factors including the emergency response to the bombing.\n\nIt was told how problems with communication and incorrect reports of an \"active shooter\" meant fire engines carrying specialist equipment and stretchers did not arrive for another two hours and six minutes after the blast at 22:31 BST on 22 May 2017.\n\nMr Greaney said the inquiry would need to consider \"whether that absence contributed or may have contributed to the loss of life that occurred\" and \"whether a better response by the emergency services would have saved more lives\".\n\n\"There can be no doubt there was a need for such joint working on the night of 22 May 2017 in Manchester,\" he said during the third day of the inquiry.\n\nThe hearing was told North West Fire Control was first notified at 22:34 BST that there had been an explosion and mass casualties, and police were looking for a second device.\n\nThey also received reports, wrongly, of an \"active shooter\" and some casualties with gunshot wounds.\n\nTributes were left in in St Ann's Square in Manchester city centre in the wake of the bombing\n\nBut there appeared to be confusion about whether Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) should follow procedures based on the incident being an explosion or a terror bombing.\n\nStation manager Simon Berry, of GMFRS, was told a rendezvous point was arranged with police at Manchester Cathedral nearby, but this was rejected in favour of a different \"muster point\" three miles away from the arena.\n\nThis decision would be \"critical\" to the understanding of how the fire service was delayed so long in deploying to the arena, Mr Greaney said.\n\nAn expert report on GMFRS's response to the attack found it \"inadequate and ineffective\" and said there was a lack of effective leadership, though \"no single individual\" was responsible for the failings.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A 13-year-old boy in Glendale, Utah, was shot several times by police officers after his mother called 911 for help with his mental health crisis.\n\nLinden Cameron, who has Asperger's, a form of autism, is now in a serious condition in hospital, his mother said.\n\nGolda Barton said she had believed police attending on Friday night would use \"the most minimal force possible\".\n\nSalt Lake City Police Sgt Keith Horrocks told reporters that the incident was now being investigated.\n\nSpeaking to local CBS-affiliate KUTV, Ms Barton said she told the 911 operator that her son needed to be taken to hospital for treatment.\n\nHe was experiencing a crisis because it was her first day back at work in almost a year and \"he has bad separation anxiety\", she said.\n\n\"I said, he's unarmed, he doesn't have anything, he just gets mad and he starts yelling and screaming,\" Ms Barton said. \"He's a kid, he's trying to get attention, he doesn't know how to regulate.\"\n\nAt a press conference, Sgt Horrocks said officers were called to a \"violent psych issue\" and reports that a boy - who they did not name - had made \"threats to some folks with a weapon\". He added that there was no indication when they attended that the boy was armed.\n\nAn officer shot the boy when he tried to flee on foot, Sgt Horrocks said.\n\nAs in other US cities, Salt Lake City saw protests against police brutality this summer\n\nAccording to an online fundraiser set up to raise money for medical bills, Linden Cameron has suffered \"injuries to his shoulder, both ankles, intestines and bladder\".\n\n\"The long-term effects of his injuries are still unknown, but it is likely that his recovery will be long and require multiple kinds of treatment,\" the page, set up by a friend of the family, says.\n\nAccording to data compiled and regularly updated by the Washington Post, 1,254 people with a mental illness have been shot dead by US police since the beginning of 2015. This represents 22% of all people shot and killed by police across the country over that period.", "Tredomen is among the testing centres that have seen long queues\n\nThere are fears of a shortage of coronavirus tests as people rush to get symptoms checked in Caerphilly county, GPs have said.\n\nThe county is being placed in lockdown from 18:00 BST on Tuesday, following a spike in cases.\n\nThe British Medical Association (BMA) said the queues at the pop-up test centre in the town were \"horrific\".\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said testing had picked up the levels of community transmission.\n\nBut he acknowledged a UK-wide testing programme was facing challenges in coping with demand.\n\nChief executive of Caerphilly council, Christina Harrhy, urged people to only get tested if they were showing symptoms.\n\nDr David Bailey, chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA) in Wales and a GP in Caerphilly, said: \"The queues at the pop-up centre in Caerphilly yesterday were horrific, although we understand people were all getting tested.\n\n\"The capacity seems to be struggling across the UK, and people being sent across the country is hardly helpful with keeping people local and staying socially distanced.\"\n\nCaerphilly county has had more new cases in the past week - 98 - than anywhere else in Wales and more than the area has seen since the end of April.\n\nCommunity testing started in the county at the weekend, a total of 450 people were tested and 19 were positive for Covid-19.\n\nIn Bridgend county, people spoke of trying to book a test at a drive-through centre or a mobile unit via a UK online system, but being told their nearest available slot was at Bristol Airport, more than 60 miles away.\n\nWhile Andy, from Caerphilly, said he was unable to get a test for his two sons after they developed a cough.\n\n\"My partner took them down to the testing site at the leisure centre, but there was a three-hour queue. That was at 8am.\n\n\"She was told to go up to the new centre up in Penallta. She made her way up there, and there were already hundreds of cars.\n\n\"She was waiting in the queue and she was told at that point that if she didn't have ID for the children they couldn't be tested - how are you going to have ID for children with you?\"\n\nShehzad Malik was offered a test for his mother miles away after she developed a chest infection\n\nShehzad Malik, from Cardiff, also had problems while trying to get a test for his parents.\n\nHe said his mother was advised to get a test by her GP after developing a chest infection, but after hours of struggling with the system, was offered a test more than an hour's drive west of Cardiff.\n\nHe said: \"Yesterday I tried several times to book a drive-through test at my nearest test centre but to no avail.\n\n\"Once I had found the correct link I filled in the relevant information and each time I tried submitting the information online the page would not load to offer me a test.\n\n\"I kept trying online to get an appointment, almost every half hour from 2pm to 10pm, and the site kept crashing.\n\n\"Eventually, at about 22:15, I was able to upload all the information and was offered a Covid test in Carmarthen, 55 miles from my home in Cardiff.\"\n\nPeople will not be able to leave Caerphilly borough without good reason\n\nIn Gwynedd, GPs spoke of patients being sent miles to get tested after being concerned about symptoms, including shortness of breath, persistent coughs, and high temperatures.\n\nDr Huw Gwilym, who was on call at the Waunfawr surgery, said: \"There are examples of patients in Waunfawr being offered tests in Telford [125 miles], Oswestry [67 miles] and Aberystwyth [70 miles],\" he said.\n\n\"We are very concerned about the situation because it is unfair to ask people with Covid-19 symptoms, who are ill and should self-isolate, to travel for hours by car to get a test. We didn't expect such problems months into the pandemic.\"\n\nDr Eilir Hughes said people were requesting home tests but being told there were non avalaible\n\nDr Eilir Hughes, a GP in Nefyn, Gwynedd, said he was concerned people were being \"put off\" going to get tested due to being asked to travel miles from their homes.\n\n\"There are several reports that people are being offered a test in Manchester [125 miles] or Aberystwyth [75 miles] whilst they live here on the Llŷn Peninsula,\" he said.\n\n\"The truth is the nearest TTP testing centre is Llandudno [55 miles] which in itself is too far. People then request home tests and they are told they've ran out of stock.\n\nMr Gething said there were \"challenges\" about the way the UK-wide Lighthouse testing labs were running \"and its ability to cope with demand\".\n\nIn the most recent week for which figures are available 9,904 tests were processed in NHS Wales labs, while 26,067 were sent to Lighthouse labs.\n\nHe said: \"These are issues that my team have been raising through official levels. And I'm hoping to speak to other health ministers across the UK within the next day or two if possible - we sought a meeting today with colleagues in Northern Ireland as well - to be able to run through what is actually happening.\n\n\"None of us want to see people being asked to travel large distances which for some people won't be possible.\"\n\nMr Gething said mobile testing in Caerphilly had seen a large number of people attending.\n\nThat allowed the Welsh Government \"to pick up the levels of community transmission from people outside the clusters we've already been able to identify\", he said.\n\nA spokesman added: \"We have raised this issue with the UK government, which runs the Lighthouse Lab testing system and we expect these issues to be resolved quickly to ensure people in Wales who have suspected coronavirus symptoms can receive a test as close to home as possible.\n\n\"We have recently announced £32m to increase capacity to process tests at laboratories in Wales, which includes extending our regional labs to 24-hour operation and six new 'hot labs' at hospitals across Wales. This investment will increase our testing resilience ahead of the winter.\"", "Kirsty Coy-Martin has recently been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after 23 years serving as a police officer, including many years on a child abuse investigation team.\n\nShe says teaching her therapy dog, Scooter, how to surf has changed her life.\n\nShe now hopes to bring surf therapy to the emergency services.\n\nIf you are concerned about any of the issues in this video, information and support is available at BBC Action Line.", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash with a Volvo\n\nHarry Dunn's family say they have been told prosecutors do not believe the woman accused of killing the teenager in a crash had diplomatic immunity.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died last August when his motorbike was in collision with a car allegedly driven by Anne Sacoolas outside a US airbase in the UK.\n\nHis parents said the director of public prosecutions was \"actively considering\" a virtual trial of Mrs Sacoolas.\n\nThe US government has previously declined a UK extradition request.\n\nHowever, Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn said they were \"extremely disappointed\" and felt let down after their meeting with Max Hill QC at the Crown Prosecution Service headquarters.\n\nMrs Sacoolas, 42, the wife of a US intelligence official, claimed diplomatic immunity following the crash in Croughton, Northamptonshire, and was able to return to her home country, sparking an international controversy.\n\nShe was charged with causing death by dangerous driving in December but an extradition request was rejected by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.\n\nRadd Seiger, the family's spokesman, told reporters the family felt \"hopeless\" after the meeting and that the US had not changed its position on the immunity claimed by Mrs Sacoolas.\n\nMr Dunn's family have also filed a civil claim for damages against Mrs Sacoolas.\n\nMr Seiger said the claim for damages for wrongful death had been made at the courts in the US state of Virginia.\n\nAnne Sacoolas pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nCommenting after the meeting, Greg McGill, the CPS director of legal services, said: \"Today we have met with the family of Harry Dunn to update them on the various steps the CPS has taken over the last 10 months to secure justice in this tragic case.\n\n\"The challenges and complexity of this case are well known, but the CPS and other partners have been working tirelessly to do all they can so that Anne Sacoolas faces the charge we have brought - causing death by dangerous driving.\n\n\"We know this is a very difficult process for the family, which is why we wanted to assure them personally that we continue to seek justice for them and for the public.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Beaches were closed along the Gold Coast following the attack\n\nAn Australian man has been killed in a shark attack off Queensland's Gold Coast, marking the first fatal attack at the tourist city's beaches in over 60 years.\n\nNick Slater, 46, was at Greenmount Beach at Coolangatta - a well-known surf spot - when a shark mauled his leg on Tuesday.\n\nNearby surfers found him floating in shallow water next to his board.\n\nHe was rushed to shore and given first aid but died at the scene.\n\nAuthorities closed an 18km (11-mile) section of beaches on Wednesday to conduct helicopter and jetski searches for the shark - reported to be a 3m great white.\n\n\"Once we know that the shark is not in the vicinity or we have tracked it, then the beach will be reopened,\" said the city's mayor Tom Tate.\n\nHe said it was the first shark death at a Gold Coast beach since 1958, adding authorities were investigating the event.\n\nMr Slater, a local real estate agent, had been surfing next to Snapper Rocks point, which hosted a World Surf League competition in March.\n\nNick Slater had been surfing at a popular beach\n\nOne witness told the Courier Mail newspaper Mr Slater had been bitten across the upper leg, and \"it was pretty much all taken\".\n\nA surfer who provided help, Jade Parker, said there was a large bite mark on Mr Slater's board.\n\n\"It was probably about the same circumference as a basketball… and there was a tooth still lodged in the fibreglass which I had to remove,\" he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.\n\nThe Gold Coast is one of Australia's most famous tourist destinations, popular for its long white-sand beaches, surfing breaks and inland waterways.\n\nIts beaches have been protected by shark nets and drumlines - baited hooks suspended underwater - since the 1960s, and shark attacks have been rare.\n\nOfficials said it was too early to say whether additional shark protection measures would be needed.\n\nThe Gold Coast saw a fatal shark attack in 2003, but that incident occurred inland in sprawling canals connected to the sea.\n\nMr Slater's death is the sixth fatal attack by a shark in Australia this year, with most occurring along the country's east coast.\n\nIn June, two surfers were fatally attacked in separate incidents off nearby northern New South Wales.", "Ambassador Liu Xiaoming has had a Twitter account since late last year\n\nChina's UK embassy has asked Twitter to \"make thorough investigations\" after its ambassador's official account liked a pornographic clip.\n\nLiu Xiaoming's account also liked posts that criticised the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and showed blindfolded Uighurs being detained.\n\nOfficials claimed that \"anti-Chinese elements [had] viciously attacked\" Mr Liu's account in a \"despicable\" plot designed to \"deceive the public\".\n\nTwitter has yet to comment.\n\nThe activity first drew attention after the account liked a 10-second video posted by an adult-themed page containing clips with Chinese-language descriptions.\n\nA London-based human rights campaigner flagged this to other Twitter users just after 09:00 GMT with a screenshot as proof.\n\nThe clip was subsequently unliked by whoever was controlling the account.\n\nBut some other tweets remained liked for a time before they too were reversed.\n\nOne included claims that officials had \"paid lip service to non-interference\" in order to get away with killing members of the Chinese public.\n\nA second featured drone-captured footage of Uighur Muslims being taken to what the post described as a \"concentration camp\".\n\nBeijing has previously denied holding large numbers of people from the ethnic minority in camps against their will in the western Xinjiang region.\n\nAnd the ambassador denied his country was carrying out a programme of sterilisation of Uighur women, when he was shown the drone footage by the BBC earlier in the year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Liu Xiaoming told the BBC in July there was not a concentration camp in Xinjiang\n\nTwitter is blocked within mainland China. But over the past year Chinese officials have become more active on the platform, and Mr Liu's account was created in October.\n\nThe app's likes are sometimes used as a kind of bookmark facility rather than to express support, and the heart-shaped icon that activates them can be easily selected by mistake.\n\nSome of the social network's users have suggested the pornographic clip might have been liked by accident and then the others selected as part of a cover story.\n\nBut Chinese officials have dismissed the suggestion.\n\n\"The embassy has reported this to Twitter and urged the latter to make thorough investigations and handle this matter seriously,\" said a statement.\n\n\"The embassy reserves the right to take further actions and hope that the public will not believe or spread such rumour[s].\"\n\nMr Liu's account now only has two likes - both related to tweets it posted in 2019.\n\nIt has also tweeted a proverb in reaction to the affair, suggesting the ambassador is not concerned about being attacked: \"A good anvil does not fear the hammer.\"", "Speaking at the latest government briefing on coronavirus, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the public needs to remember to take preventative measures to stop the spread of Covid-19. as the number of infections rises sharply across England.", "Plans for spectators to attend sporting events in England from 1 October are to be reviewed, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed.\n\nJohnson, speaking at a Downing Street news conference, also said pilot events in September would be restricted to 1,000 fans with social distancing measures in place.\n\n“We must revise plans to pilot larger audiences in venues later this month and review our intention to return audiences to stadiums from 1 October,\" said Johnson.\n\n\"But that doesn't mean we are going to scrap the programme entirely. We are just going to have to review it and abridge it.\"\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said: \"In light of increasing transmission rates, the government is reviewing the proposed sports and business events pilots ahead of 1 October and we will unfortunately need to scale some back.\n\n\"We know fans and audiences are eager to return, and jobs depend on this too, so work continues around the clock on the 'moonshot project' with the ambition of having audiences back much closer to normal by Christmas, if safe to do so.\"\n\nThe majority of sports in England have been played behind closed doors since the coronavirus lockdown in March, including Premier League football, the FA Cup final, England Test matches and two Formula 1 races at Silverstone.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, Premier League chief executive Richard Masters said it was \"absolutely critical\" that fans were allowed back inside stadiums as soon as possible and failure to do so would cost clubs £700m during the 2020-21 season, which starts on Saturday.\n\nAt the end of August, 2,500 people watched a friendly between Brighton and Chelsea at the Seagulls' Amex Stadium - the first time fans had been allowed into a Premier League ground in almost six months.\n\nAbout 300 fans were allowed to watch last month's World Snooker Championship final between Ronnie O'Sullivan and Kyren Wilson at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, but original plans to admit fans for all days of the tournament were reversed.\n\nMore than 2,500 spectators bought tickets for Doncaster on Wednesday as the St Leger meeting started, the first crowd at a British horse racing fixture in six months, although the rest of the meeting will be held behind closed doors.\n\nThe Women's Super League match between Arsenal and West Ham on 12 September was one of the pilot events that were planned with a limited number of fans in attendance.\n\nOther planned pilot events include football's non-league finals day at Wembley on 27 September, race meetings at Warwick and Newmarket on 21 and 24 September respectively, a basketball exhibition match in Newcastle on 18 September and a speedway event in Ipswich on 26 September.\n• None Listen to unique tracks from Stormzy, Miley and Biffy Clyro", "Boris Johnson has urged MPs to support a bill which modifies the Brexit deal he signed with the EU in January.\n\nThe PM said the Internal Markets Bill would \"ensure the integrity of the UK internal market\" and hand power to Scotland and Wales.\n\nHe also claimed it would protect the Northern Ireland peace process.\n\nCritics say the move will damage the UK's international standing after a minister admitted the plans break international law.\n\nThe Scottish government has not ruled out legal action to prevent it becoming law.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"The Tories' proposed bill for a so-called UK internal market is an abomination. It is a naked power grab which would cripple devolution.\"\n\nThe Taoiseach (Ireland's prime minister) Micheál Martin has spoken to Mr Johnson \"in forthright terms\" about \"the breach of an international treaty, the absence of bilateral engagement and the serious implications for Northern Ireland\", the Irish government said.\n\nCabinet Office Minister Michael Gove will hold emergency talks in London on Thursday with EU Commissioner Maros Sefcovic to discuss the contents of the bill.\n\nThe European Commission had requested a meeting as soon as possible to clarify what the legislation means for the Brexit deal.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest scheduled round of negotiations on securing a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU are also due to wrap up on Thursday.\n\nCommission President Ursula von der Leyen tweeted: \"Very concerned about announcements from the British government on its intentions to breach the Withdrawal Agreement. This would break international law and undermines trust.\"\n\nDowning Street said the EU Withdrawal Agreement - repeatedly described as \"oven ready\" by Mr Johnson during last year's general election - contained \"ambiguities\" and lacked clarity in \"key areas\".\n\nThe PM's spokesman said it had been agreed \"at pace in the most challenging possible political circumstances\" to \"deliver on a decision by the British people\".\n\nIt had been signed \"on the assumption that subsequent agreements to clarify these aspects could be reached\", the spokesman added.\n\nThe new bill sets out rules for the operation of the UK internal market - trade between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - after the end of the Brexit transition period in January.\n\nThe bill explicitly states that these powers should apply even if they are incompatible with international law.\n\nMinisters say the legislation is needed to prevent \"damaging\" tariffs on goods travelling from the rest of the UK to Northern Ireland if negotiations with the EU on a free trade agreement fail.\n\nBut senior Conservatives have warned it risks undermining the UK's reputation as an upholder of international law.\n\nFormer PM Sir John Major fears the UK will lose its reputation for keeping its word\n\nFormer Prime Minister Sir John Major said: \"For generations, Britain's word - solemnly given - has been accepted by friend and foe. Our signature on any treaty or agreement has been sacrosanct.\"\n\nHe added: \"If we lose our reputation for honouring the promises we make, we will have lost something beyond price that may never be regained.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer urged the government to consider \"the reputational risk that it's taking in the proposed way forward\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer says the UK government should consider the “reputational risk” in its approach.\n\nBut Sir Keir - who campaigned for a second Brexit referendum - added that the \"way forward\" now was to get a trade deal, adding \"if you fail to get a deal, prime minister, you own that failure\".\n\n\"The outstanding issues are not difficult. They can be resolved. So what I say to the prime minister is, you promised a good deal, get on, negotiate it,\" he added.\n\n\"That's what's in the national interest and focus then on the issue in hand which is tackling this pandemic.\"\n\nIn the withdrawal agreement with the EU, Northern Ireland is still in the UK, but it has to follow elements of the EU's customs code.\n\nThis bill will be seen by the EU as a pretty brazen attempt to override the deal that has been done.\n\nThe bill contains the words \"notwithstanding\" - that basically means this law sets aside a law we have already agreed.\n\nThat was described to me earlier in the week as being a completely nuclear option.\n\nAnd they have pressed it.\n\nThis row isn't going to go away.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party, which has been pressing for changes to the Withdrawal Agreement, said the bill was a \"step forward\" but the government must ensure Northern Ireland is not \"restrained in a state aid straight jacket unlike the rest of the UK\".\n\nBut the deputy first minister of Northern Ireland, Sinn Fein's Michelle O' Neill, said the Withdrawal Agreement protected the Good Friday Agreement and it was \"astounding\" the UK government \"thinks its fine\" to wreck an international treaty they had signed up to.\n\nSpeaking at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"My job is to uphold the integrity of the UK but also to protect the Northern Ireland peace process and the Good Friday Agreement.\n\n\"And to do that, we need a legal safety net to protect our country against extreme or irrational interpretations of the Protocol, which could lead to a border down the Irish Sea, in a way that I believe would be prejudicial to the interests of the Good Friday Agreement and prejudicial to the interests of peace in our country. And that has to be our priority.\"\n\nCommenting on a similar argument by Health Secretary Matt Hancock, a former minister told the BBC: \"I cannot allow anyone to get away with saying the government is doing this to protect the peace process. This does the precise opposite.\"\n\nThe legislation will see Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland handed powers in areas such as air quality and building efficiency currently regulated at EU level.\n\nIt will also set up a new body - the Office for the Internal Market - to make sure standards adopted in different parts of the UK do not undermine cross-border trade.\n\nThe Scottish government fears the UK single market will cut across areas that are usually devolved.\n\nFor example, if the UK government decides some food imports are acceptable in England then they would also be allowed in Scotland, even though agriculture is devolved.\n\nThe new body will be able to issue non-binding recommendations to the UK Parliament and devolved administrations when clashes emerge.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ian Blackford asks Boris Johnson if he thinks he is above the law regarding a bill on future trade.\n\nThe SNP's leader at Westminster, Ian Blackford, described the Internal Markets Bill as \"nothing short of an attack on Scotland's parliament and an affront to people of Scotland\".\n\nMr Johnson said the bill would protect jobs and growth - and was a \"massive devolutionary act\" that would represent a \"very substantial transfer of power and sovereignty\" to Scotland and Wales.\n\nBut his words did not prevent the resignation of a senior Conservative in Wales, where the party is in opposition.\n\nDavid Melding, shadow Counsel General, said in his resignation letter that the PM's actions in the past few days had \"gravely aggravated\" the dangers facing \"our 313-year-old Union\".\n• None What are the sticking points in Brexit trade talks?", "O'Farrell's other novels include This Must Be the Place and After You'd Gone\n\nAuthor Maggie O'Farrell has won this year's Women's Prize for Fiction for Hamnet, a novel inspired by and named after William Shakespeare's only son.\n\nThe Northern Irish writer beat Hilary Mantel, Bernardine Evaristo and three other authors to the £30,000 prize.\n\nHamnet is a fictionalised account of the life of the Bard's son, who died in 1596 when he was just 11.\n\nChair of judges Martha Lane Fox praised the book for expressing \"something profound about the human experience\".\n\nShe said: \"The euphoria of being in the same room for the final judging meeting was quickly eclipsed by the excitement we all feel about this exceptional winner.\"\n\nO'Farrell is the 25th recipient of the prize, which was first presented as the Orange Prize for Fiction in 1996. Previous winners include Eimear McBride, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith and Andrea Levy.\n\nIt must have been a particularly tough call spurning the Booker winners Hilary Mantel and Bernardine Evaristo. But Maggie O'Farrell is a worthy winner.\n\nHamnet is a beautifully written and intensely moving novel about grief and loss. But don't let that put you off.\n\nIt is also a richly drawn and immersive portrait of life in 16th Century England, from the smells of bread rolls baking in a hot kitchen to the sight of bees teeming on a honeycomb.\n\nIt is clever too. Shakespeare is never named. This is a book about a woman and her three children - and their lives are vividly imagined.\n\nAnd it is timely. Plague killed Hamnet in 1596 and there is a gripping chapter exploring how the disease reaches Stratford via a flea on a monkey in Alexandria and a glassmaker in Venice.\n\nTrade and travel are to blame and parallels with the current pandemic are unavoidable.\n\nEvaristo was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction for Girl, Woman, Other, which shared last year's Booker Prize with Margaret Atwood's The Testaments.\n\nMantel's nomination came for The Mirror and the Light, the conclusion to her trilogy of novels about Thomas Cromwell.\n\nThis is the fourth time the two-time Booker winner has missed out on the award, having been previously shortlisted in 2006, 2010 and 2013.\n\nAngie Cruz, Natalie Haynes and Jenny Offill were also nominated for Dominicana, A Thousand Ships and Weather respectively.\n\nThis year's award ceremony was to have taken place on 3 June, but was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nWednesday's virtual event saw O'Farrell named the winner in London and given her award in her home town of Edinburgh.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man with serious breathing issues says he was \"ambushed\" into wearing a face covering on a plane.\n\nEasyJet has apologised after one of its pilots was filmed threatening to remove the passenger from the flight.\n\nThe man was carrying an exemption card - but it was rejected by the crew on his journey from Jersey to Gatwick.\n\nFace coverings on UK public transport are mandatory but some people are allowed not to wear them, due to age, health or disability reasons.\n\nWearing a face covering is \"strongly recommended\" on the Island of Jersey, but certain groups are allowed not to wear them, including those with breathing difficulties.\n\nThe BBC has also been told of cases where people with lung conditions have been turned away from shops and other types of public transport because they were unable to wear a mask.\n\nCharities say exemptions must be respected by companies and understood by the public.\n\nWith masks now a part of daily life, the challenge for many is striking a balance between safety procedures and protecting vulnerable people.\n\nNick says he can't wear anything around his face or neck because he has chronic asthma.\n\n\"Whether it's a polo neck or a scarf round your face, the sensation is stifling. I just find it increasingly difficult to breathe,\" he says. \"It's like a steel belt round my chest.\"\n\nResearch suggests face coverings can help reduce the spread of coronavirus, particularly indoors where physical distancing is difficult.\n\nThe Department for Transport for England says those who are exempt can choose to carry a card, badge or a homemade sign.\n\nHowever, providing documentation is a personal choice and not necessary in law.\n\nNick showed his exemption card to the pilot\n\nNick had printed off an official exemption card from the government's website before flying to the island of Jersey to see his family in August.\n\nThe card was accepted on the flight out, but on the return journey the crew said it was not valid and he would have to wear a mask.\n\nNick refused. He says: \"The staff came to speak to me around six times. The 30-minute delay was seen as my fault and each visit whipped up more hostility among the passengers.\n\n\"I was insulted, shouted at, laughed at. It felt like everybody was against me.\"\n\nNick says he became so desperate he started filming on his phone.\n\nFootage shows the pilot refusing to accept his exemption card and saying if Nick didn't put on a mask, he \"was off\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNick eventually agreed, but says it caused him to hyperventilate during the hour-long flight.\n\n\"I would do anything to avoid wearing anything that restricts my breathing. That's more terrifying than being insulted by 100 passengers, but eventually I felt like I had no choice.\"\n\nShaken by the \"storm of abuse\" he says he received from other passengers, Nick requested partial anonymity when speaking to the BBC.\n\nEasyJet says all customers are required to wear a face covering but acknowledges some passengers may not be able to.\n\nA statement from the airline said: \"We have recently updated our policies in line with recent UK government guidance so that as well as a medical certificate, customers can alternatively provide a relevant document from a government website or lanyard.\n\n\"We are sorry that this new policy was not recognised by the crew on this occasion.\"\n\nThe airline described Nick's behaviour as \"disruptive\", but a passenger, who did not want to be named, said he behaved \"calmly\" in a \"stressful situation\".\n\n\"No-one seemed to care about his condition. The staff should have taken him away from the other passengers to have the conversation in private,\" he tells the BBC.\n\nAsthma UK and the British Lung Foundation called Nick's story a distressing case, but says there are others like him.\n\n\"The government is really clear there are exemptions from wearing a mask,\" explains Head of Policy, Sarah MacFadyen.\n\n\"The vast majority of people with lung conditions are fine wearing a mask, but for a small number it is impossible for them to breathe. That's why these exemptions are in place, so they can still go out and live their lives.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The fire safety guidance for what materials could be used on Grenfell Tower was \"confusing\", the director of the company which installed the cladding has told an inquiry.\n\nRay Bailey, director of Harley Facades, said there was \"quite widespread\" confusion in the building industry at the time of the refurbishment.\n\nThe cladding has been blamed for fuelling the fire at the tower block.\n\nThe inquiry into the fire, which killed 72 people, is in its second phase.\n\nIt is now looking into how the 24-storey tower in west London came to be covered in such cladding during its refurbishment between 2012 and 2016, before the fire on 14 June 2017.\n\nThe inquiry is investigating whether the confusion about fire ratings was one of the reasons dangerous cladding and insulation was used to refurbish the tower.\n\nMr Bailey said he had a \"misunderstanding\" about which materials were approved for use on tall buildings.\n\nOne section of the guidance for meeting the government's building regulations stated that materials used on towers above 18m needed to have a Class 0 (zero) rating, though another European classification was equally acceptable.\n\nThe government has always insisted that another section of the guidance required the insulation used in cladding systems to be of \"limited combustibility\" as well.\n\nUnder questioning, Mr Bailey said he had believed at the time that if the materials were Class 0 \"throughout\" this also meant they were also classed as being of \"limited combustibility\" - in other words, less likely to burn.\n\nHowever, Class 0 is only a classification of the way the surface of a product such as cladding resists the spread of flames, not its overall combustibility.\n\nThe insulation panels used on Grenfell Tower were rated Class 0, but were not of limited combustibility. Neither was the cladding, Reynobond PE, which had a core made from flammable plastic.\n\nThe inquiry also heard that the manufacturer of the cladding - Arconic - had tested various configurations of its product in 2013, and found they had achieved poor ratings for fire safety.\n\nThe product performed worse when it was shaped into \"cassette\" boxes, the design used at Grenfell Tower.\n\nAccording to a manager's statement, shown at the inquiry, one test had to be stopped due to a 'flash-over', meaning the cladding could only be rated E, out of a possible A to F.\n\nThe tests were first revealed following a BBC investigation in 2018, which found the company did not pass the results to the body which issues product certificates in the UK, relied on by the building industry.\n\nThe certificate for Reynobond PE, the cladding used at Grenfell, stated it had a class B rating.\n\nArconic sent Mr Bailey this certificate in April 2014, as the materials for Grenfell were being chosen, but made no mention of the poor test results in the covering email.\n\nMr Bailey told the inquiry he was unaware of the tests.\n\nThe role of the manufacturer will be examined when it gives evidence later in the inquiry.\n\nThe inquiry continues. A separate government consultation on plans to improve fire safety regulations is due to close on 12 October.", "The Kardashian-Jenner family in 2016. From left to right: Khloe, Lamar Odom, Kris, Kendall, Kourtney, Kanye, Kim, Caitlin and Kylie\n\nThe long-running TV reality show about the Kardashian family is coming to an end, Kim Kardashian West has announced.\n\n\"It is with heavy hearts that we've made the difficult decision as a family to say goodbye to Keeping Up With The Kardashians,\" she said in a statement posted on Twitter.\n\nThe show has run for 14 years, and made global mega-stars of Kim, her siblings, their parents, partners and children.\n\nThe final season, its 21st, will air in early 2021.\n\nExpressing her thanks to the \"thousands of individuals and businesses\" involved in the programme, Kim also added: \"I am so incredibly grateful to everyone who has watched and supported me and my family these past 14 incredible years.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kim Kardashian West This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"This show made us who we are and I will be forever in debt to everyone who played a role in shaping our careers and changing our lives forever,\" she went on.\n\nAfter news of the show's demise became known, her sister and co-star Khloe Kardashian tweeted: \"The emotions are overflowing today... change is tough but sometimes needed.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Khloé This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMost of the family were unknown when the show started in 2007. Kim had appeared in some episodes of her friend Paris Hilton's reality show and her attorney father, Robert, was known for defending OJ Simpson at his infamous murder trial. Robert Kardashian died in 2003.\n\nEarly shows focused on the lives of Kim and her sisters Kourtney and Khloe and their partners, including Kourtney's ex-boyfriend Scott Disick, Kim's ex-husband Kris Humphries and Khloe's ex-husband Lamar Odom.\n\nIt eventually brought in \"momager\" Kris Jenner, her now ex-husband Caitlyn Jenner - then the only famous figure in the show, as an Olympic gold medal-winning decathlete - and half sisters Kylie and Kendall Jenner.\n\nDespite being heavily-panned by critics and accused of making people famous for being famous, the show has enjoyed huge ratings, won awards and been one of E! channel's most successful shows.\n\nKim, 39, has since become one of the world's most celebrated women, with hundreds of millions of social media followers and a thriving beauty business. She married rapper Kanye West in 2014, with whom she has four children and a reputed joint net worth of more than a billion dollars. She recently spoke about her husband's mental health issues following a series of erratic statements from him as he began a run for the US presidency.\n\nKendall and Kylie Jenner were children when the show first began in 2007, but became stars in their own right, and are now - at the ages of 24 and 23 - among the world's most important influencers.\n\nIn 2019, the latter was named by Forbes magazine as the youngest self-made billionaire of all time thanks to her hugely popular cosmetics business. But in May, the magazine accused her family of inflating the value of her the business, and struck her from its list of billionaires.\n\nA spokesperson for E! said in a statement to CNN: \"While it has been an absolute privilege and we will miss them wholeheartedly, we respect the family's decision to live their lives without our cameras.\"\n\nReacting to the news, actress and singer Kat McPhee posted on Twitter: \"Congrats on a great run guys. Will always be a game changer.\"\n\nBut one Twitter user called Jennifer said she would be glad to see the back of the famous family.\n\n\"That is a miracle,\" she wrote. \"It has been rich trash on television since it started. Some things really should be kept private.\"", "The Scottish and UK governments have clashed in a fresh row about how powers will be shared out post-Brexit.\n\nPlans for how a UK-wide \"internal market\" will operate after the country leaves the EU have been published.\n\nUK Business Secretary Alok Sharma told BBC Scotland that the move would see \"the biggest transfer of powers in the history of devolution\".\n\nBut Scottish Constitution Secretary Mike Russell said this was a \"lie\" and that powers would really be taken away.\n\nThe proposals were set out in a white paper, with legislation to follow later in the year.\n\nWhen the UK cuts its final ties with the EU at the end of the Brexit transition period in the New Year, a raft of powers currently exercised from Brussels will return to more local control.\n\nThe Scottish and UK governments have been locked in a lengthy dispute about who will ultimately be responsible for issues such as air quality, animal welfare and food quality.\n\nMany powers are set to be directly controlled by the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish administrations, in fields including food labelling, energy efficiency and support for farmers.\n\nHowever, the UK government has said the devolved administrations will still have to accept goods and services from other parts of the UK - even if they have set different standards locally - to ensure a level playing field in the \"internal market\".\n\nScottish ministers believe this means standards across the country could be dragged down if the UK government makes concessions in new trade deals.\n\nAlok Sharma said it was important to give \"certainty\" to businesses\n\nMr Sharma told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that the move was a \"power surge\" for the devolved administrations.\n\nHe said: \"We've had a seamless UK internal market for hundreds of years and that's been very good in terms of free flow of goods and services within all part of the UK. Our plans are for this to continue after the transition period.\n\n\"Ultimately this is about certainty for businesses, its about protecting jobs and livelihoods and supporting investment decisions, it's going to be good for consumers as well and ultimately this is about underpinning the recovery.\n\n\"All devolved policy areas will stay devolved, and there will be the biggest transfer of powers in the history of devolution at the end of the transition period.\"\n\nThere has been a long-running row over how \"common frameworks\" of regulations will work across the four nations, with UK ministers saying it is vital for \"all UK companies to trade unhindered in every part of the UK\".\n\nThe government said there could be \"serious problems\" if Welsh lamb producers were unable to sell their products in Scotland, or if Scottish whisky producers were unable to buy barley from English farms because different rules were in place on either side of the border.\n\nMr Sharma said: \"The devolved nations can of course set their own regulations, but the key thing is that businesses are able to continue to trade.\n\n\"We have been working with the devolved administrations in terms of our common frameworks, which is about sitting down in a collaborative way and coming up with regulations that apply to the whole of the UK.\"\n\nMike Russell said the UK government was lying about the new powers\n\nMr Russell said Mr Sharma's claims about new powers for Holyrood were \"not true\", saying MSPs had already legislated in a series of areas highlighted.\n\nHe said: \"The list of powers that's been issued by the UK government is simply dishonest. It's one of the most shocking pieces of dishonesty I've seen from a government.\n\n\"It's a mishmash of things the Scottish Parliament already has, things they've already decided we won't have because of the frameworks, and things that could be automatically overridden by a decision by the UK government to take a power away.\n\n\"There aren't new powers for the Scottish Parliament, that is a lie. Nobody should be fooled by this - what is actually happening here is taking away very significant powers that will have an effect on our daily lives.\"\n\nMr Russell said the Scottish government had been happy to abide by the \"high and sensible standards\" set at an EU level, but said the UK government could \"lower those standards dramatically\" to win trade deals.\n\n\"The US will not give trade deals unless agriculture is involved, and US agriculture will drive down standards. That is what we are facing.\"\n\nMr Sharma insisted that the UK government \"has always set very high standards\", adding that \"in some areas our standards have been higher than those of the EU\".\n\nHe added: \"What we are not going to be doing in any of these agreements is compromising the very high environmental, animal welfare and food safety standards that we have.\"\n\nThere is a hint of déjà-vu about this continuation of a row that has been rumbling along pretty much ever since the UK voted to leave the EU more than four years ago.\n\nIs this a \"power grab\" or a \"power surge\"? As ever in politics, the answer is a bit more complicated than either side is letting on.\n\nThe operation of cross-border regulatory frameworks and state aid rules might not be hot talking points down the socially-distanced pub, so perhaps it is understandable that politicians are reaching for sweeping rhetoric rather than detail - particularly given their starkly opposed positions on the underlying issue of Brexit.\n\nBut ultimately these rules could have an important impact on everyday life. There are real concerns about whether the UK's new trade deals will see our markets opened up to sub-standard products from abroad - but also about the security of cross-border trade between the four nations, which is hugely important to many businesses.\n\nA lot of the nuance in this complex debate risks being lost amid the political rammy.", "Hundreds were injured in the bombing at the end of an Ariana Grande concert\n\nOnly one paramedic was at the scene of the Manchester Arena bombing for the first 40 minutes after the explosion, an inquiry into the attack was told.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured when Salman Abedi detonated a suicide bomb as 14,000 fans left the arena in May 2017.\n\nThe inquiry heard the sole paramedic had arrived in the arena foyer 18 minutes after the bomb went off.\n\nBut at least eight ambulances had arrived nearby after 40 minutes.\n\nLead counsel Paul Greaney QC said the public inquiry would have to consider whether lives were lost as a result of a failure to co-ordinate the response of emergency services.\n\nWithin 10 minutes of the bomb exploding at 22:31 BST, 12 British Transport Police (BTP) officers had run into the arena foyer carrying first aid.\n\nCasualties were carried out on makeshift stretchers and only one actual stretcher was used on the night of the attack.\n\nThe final person was evacuated from the City Room - where the bombing happened - at 23:40 on a stretcher \"made of cardboard and a crowd control barrier\".\n\nThe bombing after an Ariana Grande concert killed 22 people and injured hundreds more\n\nThe inquiry also heard how John Atkinson, who was killed in the bombing, was only evacuated from the scene 46 minutes after the blast on a makeshift stretcher to a triage area nearby.\n\nHe remained there for another 24 minutes but chest compressions were only started on him one hour and 15 minutes after he was first injured in the blast.\n\n\"The issue of John Atkinson's survivability is, as we shall explore, a significant issue for the inquiry to consider,\" Mr Greaney added.\n\nThe inquiry was told BTP had primary responsibility for policing in the arena foyer and Greater Manchester Police (GMP) was not aware \"at an organisational level\" of the Ariana Grande concert.\n\n\"On the face of it that may seem surprising,\" Mr Greaney added.\n\nHe said BTP had \"primacy\" in this area due to the proximity of Victoria Station and the inquiry must consider whether that affected preparedness for any terror attack.\n\nThe inquiry will, among other things, look at the emergency response to the attack\n\n\"There is a legitimate question about whether it was appropriate that BTP, who specialise in the railways, should take the lead,\" he added.\n\nFollowing the blast, BTP declared a major incident at 22:39 but they did not communicate this to GMP and there was no attempt to integrate communications at the arena.\n\nThe inquiry heard the BTP officer, who thought he was acting as operational commander, was in Blackpool when the bomb went off.\n\nHe took a taxi to Manchester but \"by the time he arrived the need for an immediate response had long since passed\".\n\nMr Greaney said it appeared \"no one acted as a BTP operational commander for the policing response to the bombing\".\n\nGMP did not declare a major incident until 01:00 on 23 May, the inquiry heard.\n\nThe second day of the hearing was told there had been multi-agency exercises rehearsing for a terror attack, including one in 2016 for an incident at the Trafford Centre.\n\nMr Greaney said \"experts have expressed serious concerns about whether the necessary lessons were learned from it\".\n\nThe hearings will take place in a room specially converted from two courtrooms at Manchester Magistrates' Court\n\nAnother exercise, held in July 2016, rehearsed for an attack in the City Room at the arena - the exact scene of the attack in May 2017.\n\nThe inquiry is seeking to establish whether BTP took part in that exercise.\n\nThe first fire engine, which had stretchers, arrived at Manchester Arena two hours and six minutes after the explosion.\n\n\"An important issue for the inquiry to investigate will be how that came to pass and whether it made any difference,\" Mr Greaney added.\n\nBut he told the inquiry it was \"important we acknowledge the pressure that those who responded were under\".\n\n\"The inquiry process must not be used to vilify those who did their best on the night but made mistakes and could have done better,\" he added.\n\nCCTV caught Salman Abedi in the arena foyer just seconds before he blew himself up\n\nBTP officer Jessica Bullough, who was first to enter the foyer, described the scene of the attack as like a \"war zone\".\n\nTwo minutes after the explosion, PC Bullough radioed through, saying \"it's definitely a bomb - people are injured - at least 20 casualties\".\n\nShe then \"made the first of a number of requests for ambulances\".\n\nThe inquiry was told that 24 minutes later another officer radioed to control, saying \"you're going to hate me - where's our ambulances please?\".\n\nControl replied, saying \"we don't know. We're calling them again\".\n\nThe public inquiry follows a trial in which a jury found Hashem Abedi guilty of helping his older sibling to plan the atrocity.\n\nHe was jailed for at least 55 years on 20 August for the 22 murders.\n\nThe chairman of the inquiry Sir John Saunders will make a report and recommendations once all the evidence has been heard, which is expected to take up to six months.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government will later publish plans which could override key elements of its Brexit deal with Brussels, in breach of international law.\n\nThe Internal Market Bill will set out how powers currently held by the EU will be shared out after the post-Brexit transition period ends.\n\nBut it has faced a backlash from senior Tories and prompted the resignation of a top civil servant.\n\nIt comes as the talks over a trade deal with the EU continue in London.\n\nThe Internal Market Bill could override parts of the Withdrawal Agreement that secured the UK's exit from the EU in January.\n\nMinisters say it is needed to prevent \"damaging\" tariffs on goods travelling from the rest of the UK to Northern Ireland if negotiations with the EU on a free trade agreement fail.\n\nBut senior Conservatives have warned it risks undermining the UK's reputation as an upholder of international law.\n\nTobias Ellwood, chairman of the Commons Defence Committee, said the UK would \"lose the moral high ground\" if the government went through with the changes.\n\nTom Tugendhat, chairman of the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee said: \"Our entire economy is based on the perception that people have of the UK's adherence to the rule of law.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock insisted the changes were necessary to protect the Northern Ireland peace process if the UK failed to get a free trade deal with the EU.\n\n\"The decision we've made is to put the peace process first, first and foremost as our absolute top international obligation,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nA former Cabinet minister, involved in putting together the Withdrawal Agreement, reacted furiously to Mr Hancock's claim.\n\nThe former minister, who did not want to be named, told the BBC: \"I cannot allow anyone to get away with saying the government is doing this to protect the peace process. This does the precise opposite.\n\n\"It is about the internal market in the UK and is more likely to lead to a hard border [between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland] which will imperil the peace process.\"\n\nThe permanent secretary to the Government Legal Department, Sir Jonathan Jones, has resigned from his role over concerns about the government breaching its obligations under international law.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brandon Lewis has said the bill contains powers that would break international law.\n\nIn the Commons on Tuesday, Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis admitted the bill would break international law in a \"very specific and limited way\".\n\nIt would allow the UK government to \"dis-apply\" the EU legal concept of \"direct effect\" - which gives EU law supremacy over UK law in areas covered by the Withdrawal Agreement - in \"certain, very tightly defined circumstances,\" he told MPs.\n\nThe Scottish government, meanwhile, has said it will not consent to a change in the law along these lines, arguing that it would undermines devolution.\n\nThe bill has also been attacked by the Welsh Brexit minister, Labour's Jeremy Miles, who accused the government of \"stealing powers from devolved administrations\".\n\n\"This bill is an attack on democracy and an affront to the people of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland,\" he added.\n\nThe legislation will see Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland handed powers in areas such as air quality and building efficiency currently regulated at EU level.\n\nIt will also set up a new body - the Office for the Internal Market - to make sure standards adopted in different parts of the UK do not undermine cross-border trade.\n\nThe new body will be able to issue non-binding recommendations to the UK Parliament and devolved administrations when clashes emerge.\n\nHowever, plans to hand UK ministers extra powers to ensure the application of customs and trade rules in Northern Ireland have prompted a row over the UK's legal obligations in its exit deal.\n\nUnder the UK's withdrawal agreement, Northern Ireland is due to stay part of the EU's single market for goods in a bid to avoid creating a hard border with the Irish Republic.\n\nIn parallel with talks over a post-Brexit trade deal, the UK and EU are negotiating the precise nature of new customs checks that will be required.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has accused Downing Street of \"reopening old arguments that had been settled\" and said the government should instead focus on securing a deal with the EU.\n\nFormer Conservative PM Theresa May warned the legislation could damage \"trust\" in the UK over future trade deals with other states.\n\nAnd French MEP Nathalie Loiseau said: \"The prime minister has promised to put a tiger in the tank in the negotiations. It seems for the time being he is putting an elephant in the china shop.\"\n• None What are the sticking points in Brexit trade talks?", "The UK's ambassador to the US quit after private comments about the Trump administration were leaked\n\nThe UK's former ambassador to the US has told BBC Newsnight he does not regret criticising Donald Trump in briefings later leaked to the media.\n\nKim Darroch quit last year after it emerged he described the US President's government as \"dysfunctional\", \"inept\" and \"divided\" in private letters.\n\nThe use of \"clear and direct\" language was not unusual for diplomats when reporting to ministers, he insisted.\n\nBut its disclosure to the media was a \"vindictive\" breach of trust, he said.\n\nLord Darroch left his post in July 2019 amid a huge diplomatic row over the leaking of a series of private cables, in which he had questioned the competence of the Trump administration and its handling of major foreign policy issues, such as relations with Iran.\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview with the BBC's Newsnight, to be broadcast at 22:45 BST on BBC Two, he said he accepted his position had become untenable after his observations became public, leading Mr Trump to describe him as a \"stupid guy\" and \"pompous fool\".\n\nBut he defended his conduct during his three years in Washington, saying it was the job of diplomats to report in unvarnished terms about the workings of foreign governments and how they could affect the UK national interest.\n\n\"I never regret the terms in which I'd reported,\" he said. \"I spent 40 years in the Foreign Office writing in these terms and people hitherto had thought it a strength and an asset.\n\n\"There is nothing unusual in reporting in clear and direct terms. Wikileaks shows American diplomats reporting in direct terms and the US embassy was reporting directly about how the UK government was handling Brexit.\"\n\nHe said he knew he was \"in trouble\" when a confidential letter sent in 2017 to a small group of colleagues, which described the early weeks of the Trump era as \"uniquely dysfunctional\", appeared in the Mail on Sunday.\n\nHe said he did not blame the newspaper for publishing the material but believed whoever had passed it onto them had acted in an \"irresponsible and vindictive\" way.\n\nIf their aim had been to get him replaced by a Brexit-supporting politician, such as the former UKIP leader Nigel Farage, rather than another career diplomat, they clearly failed, he said.\n\n\"I blame the leaker taking highly classified information of the most damaging kind to me and to US-UK relations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"If you're in the position of having to write in code because you can't trust your colleagues that way madness lies. You have to trust them and on this occasion that trust was misplaced.\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police launched a criminal probe into the leaking of the material in August 2019, with Commissioner Cressida Dick describing it as a \"very serious crime\".\n\nBoris Johnson, who at the time of Lord Darroch's exit was vying to be the next Conservative leader and prime minister, was criticised for not coming out in support of the UK diplomat and insisting he must stay in post.\n\nLord Darroch said it would have been \"nice\" if Mr Johnson had done so but understood why he wanted to keep his \"options open\" given the ambassador had been left \"dangling\" by the row.\n\nReflecting on his time in Washington and the current state of US-UK relations, he said the US President was \"not a politician\" in the conventional sense and it was not a surprise that Mr Johnson was \"fascinated\" by him.\n\nAsked if some of Mr Trump's approach to politics had rubbed off on Mr Johnson, he said it may be influencing his current \"negotiating style\" over a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU.\n\nThe PM has been criticised for threatening to change the terms of the legally-binding Withdrawal Agreement with the EU in the event the UK does not negotiate a trade deal.\n\n\"Trump famously said Theresa May should start Brexit negotiations by suing the EU, a mad dog negotiating style,\" Lord Darroch said.\n\n\"If you go back to the PM in 2018, he said if Trump was negotiating Brexit he would create chaos at the start and people would be outraged at what he was saying and there'd be huge rows and there might be a good outcome.\n\n\"We should think about that. That's when he was becoming dissatisfied with Brexit and now I watch the government conduct its future relationship I wonder if there's an element of Trump.\"\n\nLord Darroch, who became a member of the House of Lords in January, said he believed the so-called \"special relationship\" between the US and UK would remain strong whoever won November's presidential election.\n\nWhile Mr Johnson got on better with Mr Trump than his predecessor, this did not mean there would not be \"ups and downs\" if he were re-elected and that negotiations on a transatlantic trade deal would not be \"difficult\".\n\nAnd while Mr Trump's Democratic rival for the Presidency, Joe Biden, was an \"Anglophile\", he was vice-president in the Obama administration which famously said the UK would be at the \"back of the queue\" for a trade deal if it voted to leave the EU, added Lord Darroch.\n\n\"Biden said he'd have voted Remain so I have more questions about the relationship with a Democrat,\" he added.\n\nThe interview will be aired on BBC's Newsnight at 22:45 BST on BBC Two, or on iPlayer", "There is more than one \"rule of six\". Who knew?\n\nIt's what a legendary Hollywood film editor used to describe the best of way making a must-watch movie, mixing six different elements like emotion and space (his name is Walter Murch, if you are on the hunt for trivia).\n\nThe other rule of six is part of the code that rules corporate takeovers, more familiar to City lawyers. You may indeed have your own obscure examples.\n\nBut ministers hope now the government's new rule of six will very quickly become familiar to the country and will immediately change people's behaviour too.\n\nFrom Monday, it will be illegal in England, apart from at school or work or under other few exceptions, to meet more than five other people at a time.\n\nThe police will have the power to stop that happening - you can read exactly how the new restrictions will work here.\n\nAfter weeks when the government has been trying to cheerlead the country back to the office, urging pupils back to school and taking steps to roll back coronavirus restrictions it is quite the change of tone, change of pace, and change of heart.\n\nThe prime minister also acknowledged publicly, after many weeks of questions about the layers of anomalies and different rules and regulations, that complicated messages had made the rules hard for people to follow.\n\nBoris Johnson can hope that the public in England will be willing to follow a new, clearer instruction. But it is not obvious that the public will all comply.\n\nThe reason for the change however, as we discussed yesterday, is crystal clear.\n\nThe number of cases has started to rise, and rise quickly, and ministers want to slam on the brakes.\n\nThe new rule is a significant move, and it's plain it could mean limits on our lives for many months. The prime minister today acknowledged that even Christmas may not be much like normal.\n\nThe changes are designed to prevent the disease taking off again, and to stop the need for another full national lockdown, something the government is desperate to avoid.\n\nBut other measures are waiting in the wings too.\n\nAt the bottom of the government's guidance issued today, there is a rather bland, technical sounding paragraph:\n\n\"The government will restrict the opening hours of premises, initially in local lockdown areas, with the option of national action in the future. This has been introduced in Bolton, following a steep rise in cases, and will seek to restrict activities that may lead to a spread in the virus.\"\n\nIn other words, if the rise in cases doesn't slow, the government could bring in a national curfew on opening hours, a more radical step.\n\nGovernment sources emphasise this is not about to happen.\n\nBut by laying out the option, it's clear the rule of six could be followed by more radical steps.", "The government should ban placing under-18s in care in unregulated homes amid concerns over sexual and criminal exploitation, the children's commissioner for England has said.\n\nSome vulnerable teenagers are \"at risk every day of the week\", Anne Longfield told BBC Newsnight.\n\nShe called them \"inappropriate\" places for any child.\n\nThe government is consulting on proposals to introduce new minimum standards to the sector.\n\nIt has already told local authorities to stop placing under 16s in these homes.\n\nBut Ms Longfield said the plans do not address \"the real problem\" of allowing older teenagers aged 16 and over in care to be placed in such accommodation.\n\nOne in eight children in care - around 12,000 - spent time in an unregulated home in 2018-19, her report reveals.\n\nIt comes following a year long investigation by BBC Newsnight into the care sector.\n\nIt also highlights evidence that providers linked to organised crime are exploiting the lack of regulation to gain access to children.\n\nPolice have told her that criminality in the sector is \"rife\" and children are being groomed to sell drugs and for sexual exploitation.\n\nUnlike children's homes registered with Ofsted, unregulated homes - often known as semi-independent or supported accommodation - are not inspected by a regulator in England or Wales.\n\nThe hostels, flats, bedsits and even caravans come with differing levels of staff support to help 16 to 18-year olds gain independence.\n\nThree-quarters (73%) of the sector is privately run and \"allows for high profit-making without the checks and balances that are seen in other care settings\", Ms Longfield said.\n\nChildren's Minister Vicky Ford said the government was taking steps to drive up the quality of care provided to vulnerable children.\n\nShe added: \"In some circumstances, semi-independent accommodation can be the right choice for 16 and 17 year-olds as they move towards adult life, but only when it is of high quality and meets their needs.\"", "A man has appeared in court charged with murder and seven counts of attempted murder after a series of stabbings in Birmingham.\n\nZephaniah McLeod, 27, of Nately Grove, Selly Oak, appeared via video link at Birmingham Magistrates' Court.\n\nJacob Billington, 23, was killed and seven others were injured at four locations across the city centre over a period of 90 minutes on Sunday.\n\nMr McLeod was remanded in custody and is due at crown court on Thursday.\n\nHe spoke only to confirm his personal details during an appearance before two magistrates and was not asked for any pleas. There was no application for bail.\n\nThe victims of the attempted murder charges were Dimitar Bachvarov, Migle Dolobauskaite, Thomas Glassey, Michael Callaghan, Shane Rowley, Rhys Cummings and Ryan Bowers, the court was told.\n\nJacob Billington died of a stab wound to the neck\n\nA post-mortem examination found Mr Billington, a library intern at Sheffield Hallam University and originally from Crosby in Merseyside, died of a stab wound to the neck.\n\nHe was among a group of people enjoying a night out while visiting a friend studying in the city.\n\nFloral tributes have been left at the site where Jacob Billington was fatally stabbed\n\nHis old school friend Mr Callaghan, also 23 and a fellow band-mate, was seriously injured and remained in hospital in a critical condition on Wednesday.\n\nA 22-year-old woman, attacked in Hurst Street, was critical but stable in hospital, police said.\n\nAnother man, aged 30, was in a stable condition in hospital, while four others have been discharged.\n\nAnother tribute said his \"light was taken\" early\n\nThe attacks happened at four different locations across Birmingham city centre\n\nThree people arrested early on Monday in Selly Oak on suspicion of assisting an offender have all been released while inquiries continue, police have said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "That press conference can be broken into two parts.\n\nThe first is the sombre message - that the virus is increasing again and new restrictions must be brought in for England.\n\nFor many people, the limit on social gatherings will be significant and potentially upsetting.\n\nThe introduction of nationwide measures is a big deal and something ministers wanted to avoid.\n\nThey’re doing it because they’re worried.\n\nAt the same time, the PM wanted to inject some optimism.\n\nBoris Johnson is hoping mass tests - maybe daily - could allow people to leave the house in the morning knowing if they are transmitting the virus or not.\n\nThat would be a game changer.\n\nBut there are significant issues with the testing programme at the moment, and it is far from guaranteed, as the scientists made clear.", "Are young people to blame for the rise in UK coronavirus cases? That's what the health secretary told us this week.\n\nMatt Hancock told Radio 1 Newsbeat listeners: \"Don't kill your gran by catching coronavirus and then passing it on.\"\n\nBut many are unhappy with being singled out and say the government has been giving \"mixed messages\".\n\nSophie Morgan hasn't seen her grandparents since February and is taking care not to spread the virus.\n\nThe 23-year-old says other people her age are doing the same.\n\n\"I've cancelled a holiday to Italy and try to limit how much I need to go outside, even to the supermarket,\" she says.\n\n\"There's nothing that I'm doing which puts me at risk. Even with a nail appointment I'm wearing a mask.\"\n\nSophie feels the government waited too long to make face coverings mandatory\n\nLinzi Cormack has also changed her habits and is following the rules.\n\nShe's really cautious about touching door handles and surfaces.\n\n\"I use my feet to push them open and don't touch my face as much.\n\nHer life has become more online-focused because of the virus and not wanting to \"be around other people\".\n\n\"I've decided to shop online all of the time and stop going to supermarkets.\"\n\n\"It's not about catching it myself, it's about protecting others,\" Linzi says\n\nAnd as for the weekly drink in the pub - the higher number of positive cases mean Linzi isn't visiting as much as she normally would.\n\n\"I've been once since it reopened, and not for a long amount of time because I felt really uncomfortable.\"\n\nTom Hardy, who works in a school in Leicestershire, is a keen traveller but has stopped visiting different parts of the country.\n\n\"Mainly to protect the people around me. I'm also in a fairly high-risk job so I don't want to put my colleagues and students at risk.\"\n\nTom says the rules can cause a divide in friendship groups as some people are tired of the restrictions\n\nLike Linzi, the recent rise in cases has forced the 20-year-old to take more precautions.\n\n\"I've started shopping online a lot more, and not going to places as I did much outside of work.\"\n\nLinzi isn't surprised by the focus on young people because there are some \"who feel they are untouchable\" when it comes to the virus.\n\n\"Especially when people start drinking more, they become a bit careless.\"\n\nBut she says generalising is wrong and \"it's unfair to single out young people\" with some older people \"not wearing masks or social distancing\" in shops.\n\nSophie says the constant changing of rules may be to blame for people being confused and not always following them.\n\n\"Every update was confusing which means the rules are confusing and leave you thinking 'are we doing this now?'\"\n\nShe no longer pays attention to what the government says and says she is going to continue to wash her hands and keep her distance from people.\n\nTom disagrees with Sophie and says the government's been \"as clear as they can be\".\n\nHe says the young people visiting restaurant and bars have been encouraged by the government to do so through schemes like Eat Out to Help Out.\n\nAnd he adds it's important to consider the role mental health might play when someone breaks rules.\n\n\"Especially if you live at home with your parents, you can feel quite isolated from the people you used to spend a lot of time with.\n\n\"I'm not saying it's OK, but there are factors to suggest why people would.\"\n\nTom says he's followed all of the rules - with the exception of seeing his dad during lockdown.\n\n\"I made sure precautions were in place, but looking back, I probably shouldn't have done that.\"\n\nStarting university next week, Aisha says she needs to be “extra careful”\n\nAisha Mirza says there's been mixed messages from the government.\n\n\"The rules haven't been clear. By saying local lockdowns, but keeping some things open, it defeats the purpose because you are still mixing with people.\"\n\nShe says the government shouldn't be surprised by a spike after Eat Out to Help Out.\n\n\"We are used to meeting people regularly.\n\n\"So when the government starts making these things available to us, we're obviously going to make use of that right away,\" she says.\n\nThe 18-year-old adds: \"You do get minorities in all groups that mess about and don't do things right.\"\n\nDespite being \"fed up\" by restrictions, Sophie, Linzi and Tom and Aisha all agree about the threat of coronavirus and remain worried about the rising numbers in recent days.\n\n\"I think it's important to be worried and be cautious because there's people in my family who need to shield,\" Linzi says.\n\n\"It's more for other people. I couldn't live with myself if I passed it on to someone and they got really ill, it's horrible.\"\n\nTom's job is a cause for concern because of difficulties in keeping a distance.\n\n\"There's 1,200 people in the building, so it's hard to maintain a social distance from everyone,\" he adds.\n\nBut he will \"be careful\" and continue to see his family unless told otherwise by the government.\n\nWith no vaccine yet and the virus being quite new, Sophie is still worried.\n\n\"It's unheard of before. Everyone else might be getting on with it, but in the back of your head, you're still wondering.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "A social-distancing app which alerts someone when a colleague is too close is being used by Network Rail.\n\nMind The Gap was designed by London start-up Hack Partners for the company, to keep employees safe at work.\n\nThe technology uses audio and Bluetooth signals to detect if users are in close proximity to one another.\n\nNetwork Rail staff now use the app widely, and it's being rolled out to other companies.\n\n\"I am immensely proud of our entire workforce for the part they have played to keep the country running throughout the pandemic,\" Martin Frobisher, Network Rail's safety, technical and engineering director said.\n\n\"As we start to plan for a return to office working, we've been looking at absolutely everything to make sure we can continue to keep our people safe.\"\n\nEmployees can choose to download the app and set their desired distance, in line with government guidelines.\n\nThey will then receive a notification when another user of the app is too close.\n\nMind The Gap uses inaudible ultra-high frequency sounds and Bluetooth to calculate the distance between phones, so it does not require an active internet connection to work.\n\nThe app sends a notification if you are too close to your colleagues\n\nAlthough many contact-tracing apps have found it hard to accurately detect distances with Bluetooth, Hack Partners says the combination of the technology with audio measuring, gives an accuracy of between 6-8cm.\n\nThe app will continue to work in the background, which means it could drain phone battery.\n\nTests so far have shown that the high frequency sounds do not affect children, dogs, cats or hearing aids, said River Tamoor Baig, chief executive of Hack Partners.\n\n\"It's very easy to relax back into old patterns with colleagues and forget to distance, so this is a reminder,\" he said. \"Also, the sound notification can help users avoid awkward conversations with colleagues who may not be social distancing - a lot of us would find it difficult to tell our boss to move away!\"\n\nBuilt with user-privacy in mind, Mind The Gap does not track people and no sensitive data is collected, stored or shared. This means employers will not be able to monitor employees' movements, either past or present.\n\nAt Network Rail, downloading the app is optional for employees.\n\nHack Partners hopes workplaces will use the app to encourage those who want to return to the office to feel safer.\n\nThe firm is also in talks with contact-tracing app developers who are struggling to get accurate distance results using Bluetooth.\n\n\"Using technology to maintain social distancing has the potential to help restart the economy by enabling more people to work in offices, and give a much-needed boost to infrastructure projects through on-site construction work,\" said Will Cavendish, engineering consultancy Arup's digital lead.\n\n\"People naturally congregate in certain areas; navigating those could make an invaluable contribution to safely opening up public spaces.\"", "The legislation would give the UK government powers to spend cash on infrastructure in Wales\n\nPlans for a new law giving the UK government more powers to spend in Wales have been published.\n\nThe Internal Market Bill would transfer powers from the EU to the UK government to spend on areas such as economic development, infrastructure and sport.\n\nThe Welsh Government accused its UK counterpart of \"stealing powers\" from devolved governments.\n\nBut UK ministers said the law would allow them to replace existing EU funding programmes.\n\nFrom next year, powers which had been held by the EU will be transferred to the governments around the UK.\n\nThe UK government says the draft law is aimed at ensuring trade within the United Kingdom can continue \"unhindered\" under these new arrangements.\n\nMuch attention has been focused on the fact that the legislation could override key elements of UK ministers' Brexit deal with Brussels, in breach of international law.\n\nIn addition, the legislation will give ministers in Whitehall powers to spend money to replace EU funding programmes on areas that would otherwise be devolved to the Welsh Government.\n\nThe new spending powers include infrastructure, economic development, culture, sport, and support for educational, training and exchange opportunities.\n\nA senior UK government cabinet minister insisted the powers would \"drive our economic recovery from Covid-19 and support businesses and communities right across the UK\".\n\nMichael Gove, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, said: \"These new spending powers will mean that these decisions will now be made in the UK, focus on UK priorities and be accountable to the UK Parliament and people of the UK.\"\n\nMichael Gove said the powers would \"drive our economic recovery from Covid-19\"\n\nWelsh Secretary Simon Hart said it was \"vital\" that seamless trade continued between the four nations, and that \"investment must continue to flow unhindered\".\n\nBut the Welsh Government Minister for European Transition Jeremy Miles said the powers would \"sacrifice the future of the union by stealing powers from devolved administrations.\"\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said the bill \"provides ammunition to those people who would favour the breakup of the United Kingdom\".\n\n\"I'm in favour of a UK Common Market and I'm in favour of a UK-wide state aid regime, but the proposals in the white paper are absolutely not the right way to go about it,\" he told Sky News.\n\nPlaid Cymru Westminster leader Liz Saville Roberts said: \"This bill is the single biggest assault on devolution since its creation.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC later on Wednesday, Mr Hart said he found it \"pretty strange\" that Labour Welsh ministers and Plaid Cymru objected to UK government plans to spend money in Wales.\n\n\"Seems to me they're more anxious about protecting their little political clique in Cardiff than they are actually doing something about economies we tried to recover from Covid and move on from Brexit,\" he said.\n\nWales has been eligible for £375m a year from EU funds with the management shared between the EU and the Welsh Government.", "Shoppers in Caerphilly, which is subject to a local lockdown\n\nExpect to see the prime minister back at the lectern, possibly with one of his top scientific advisers, once again, urging the population to take care.\n\nIt won't mark the beginning of another national lockdown. Nor will it be the start of a new draconian regime.\n\nBut do expect to hear the prime minister emphasising the need for the public to follow the existing rules - being careful about social contact with people, isolating if ill, and (what seemed in the early days almost quaint advice in the face of a distant threat), to wash your hands.\n\nAnd there will be a reduction in the numbers of people who are allowed to gather in groups indoors and outdoors in England from 30 down to six.\n\nThe reason for what may seem like a change of tone from the PM? Simple, the government is worried.\n\nIn the last four or five days there has been a significant rise in the number of coronavirus cases. It's not a gradual gentle drift upwards, but a sharp and obvious spike. The rate of positive tests is going up particularly among the 17-21s, but noticeable too among people in their 40s.\n\nAnd rather than appearing to be only a problem in particular areas, the increase is relatively consistent across the country - 79 local authorities in England, for example, reported weekly case rates above 20 per 100,000.\n\nThose factors mean there is deep concern in Number 10 that the statistics could be flagging the beginning of a generalised second wave of the pandemic.\n\nIt's important to say, the death rate is still very low. This could be the beginnings of a surge that has very different outcomes to the last terrible toll.\n\nBut in the early stages of the pandemic, the government had precious little information about what was going on. Since the early spring, a lot of effort has gone across government to gathering data to monitor how the disease is spreading. An early warning system was created, and it is flashing red.\n\nThere is a huge amount of guesswork about why the increase might be occurring, but there is no settled view on the specific factors. There is some evidence that some people who test positive are not always isolating.\n\nAnd as we can all see in daily life, there is a gradual but noticeable increase in people being out and about. And simply, more contacts mean more risk of spread of the disease.\n\nSo as the health secretary has done in recent days, the government is likely on Wednesday to focus on trying to choke off the rise in cases.\n\nThe recent zeal to get as many people as possible back to work may slightly fade. But millions of people in the last couple of months have had a taste of life returning to normal.\n\nPersuading people again to comply fastidiously to the rules won't be an easy task.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says increasing numbers of people in England are seeking tests when they don't have any Covid-19 symptoms.\n\nHe said this \"inappropriate\" use of the system was making it harder for people who needed tests to get one.\n\nIt comes after the boss of England's testing system apologised to people who were struggling to get tests.\n\nThe Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer called for the government to \"accept there is a problem\" and \"get it fixed\".\n\nIn the Commons, Boris Johnson responded saying \"we are working flat out to address all the issues confronting us today\", adding that demand was \"acute\" and there were too many people requesting tests who did not have symptoms.\n\nUK labs have reached capacity, meaning some people are struggling to book tests or being sent long distances to get one.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid symptoms: What are they and how long should I self-isolate for?\n\nBut Mr Hancock gave the example of one school who sent a whole year group for tests, which is \"not appropriate\", he added.\n\nHe also described how some people who were going on holiday had sought to get tests.\n\nThe free tests are available to people with symptoms of coronavirus - a fever, new and continuous cough or a loss or change in sense of taste or smell.\n\nClaire tried to get a test for her son who had a cough and a temperature\n\nClaire Peposhi, who lives in north London, spent more than five hours online trying to order a home test kit for her eight-year-old son.\n\nHe had a cough and a slight temperature and had just returned to school.\n\nShe was offered testing 40 miles away from her home, but neither she nor her husband could get there, or afford the time off work.\n\n\"I have done nothing else this morning other than refresh the page,\" Claire says.\n\n\"I can't be alone in this.\"\n\nClaire says a sudden surge in need for tests \"was always going to happen\".\n\n\"It's not a surprise there are more colds around when kids are going back to school.\"\n\nMr Hancock denied the testing system was failing, pointing out the UK had the biggest testing system per head of population of all major European countries.\n\n\"Right now, we have the highest capacity for testing that we've ever had - increased compared to last week.\n\n\"And that testing means that we can find these cases, and therefore help keep the virus under control with the contact-tracing system as well.\n\n\"However, in the last couple of weeks we have seen an increase in demand, including an increase in demand for people who are not eligible for tests, and people who don't have symptoms,\" Mr Hancock said.\n\n\"We have seen an increase of about 25% of people who are coming forward that don't have symptoms and aren't eligible. They don't have a reason for it.\n\n\"I've even heard stories of people saying, 'I'm going on holiday next week, therefore I'm going to get a test'. No - that is not what the testing system is there for.\n\n\"We've got to be firmer, I'm afraid, with the rules around eligibility for testing.\"\n\nThe BBC has asked the Department of Health and Social Care how the 25% figure has been calculated, but is still waiting for a response.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said: \"It beggars belief that after weeks of encouraging people to have a test if feeling unwell, ministers are seeking to blame people for simply doing what they were advised.\n\n\"With children returning to school and thousands returning to the office, it's obvious extra testing capacity would be needed.\n\n\"The fact ministers failed to plan is yet more staggering incompetence.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, the director of testing in England, Sarah-Jane Marsh said she offered her \"heartfelt\" apologies to people who could not get a test.\n\nA new lab is due to open in Loughborough in about a fortnight, which will increase testing capacity by about a fifth.", "Fortnite and Apple have been locked in legal battle since August\n\nApple has fired back against claims by the maker of the Fortnite game that its control of the App Store gives it a monopoly.\n\nIn a response to the August lawsuit filed by Epic Games, Apple called those arguments \"self-righteous\" and \"self-interested\".\n\nIt denied that its 30% commission was anti-competitive and said the fight was \"a basic disagreement over money\".\n\nApple also said Epic Games had violated its contract and asked for damages.\n\nThe filing is the latest in a legal battle that started last month, after Fortnite offered a discount on its virtual currency for purchases made outside of the app, from which Apple receives a 30% cut.\n\nIn response, Apple blocked Epic's ability to distribute updates or new apps through the App Store, and Epic sued, alleging that Apple's App Store practices violate antitrust laws.\n\nThe court allowed Apple's ban on updates to continue as the case plays out, but the existing version of Fortnite still works, as does Epic's payment system.\n\nApple had said it would allow Fortnite back into the store if Epic removed the direct payment feature to comply with its developer agreement.\n\nBut Epic has refused, saying complying with Apple's request would be \"to collude with Apple to maintain their monopoly over in-app payments on iOS.\"\n\nIn its filing, Apple said Epic has benefited from Apple's promotion and developer tools, earning more than $600m (£462m) through the App Store.\n\nApple accused the firm, which it noted is backed by Chinese tech giant Tencent, of seeking a special deal before ultimately breaching its contract with the update.\n\n\"Although Epic portrays itself as a modern corporate Robin Hood, in reality it is a multi-billion dollar enterprise that simply wants to pay nothing for the tremendous value it derives from the App Store,\" it said in the filing.\n\nThe legal battle between the two companies comes as Apple faces increased scrutiny of its practices running the App Store.\n\nAt a hearing in Washington over the summer, politicians also raised concerns that Apple's control of the app store hurt competition.\n\nThe European Union is also investigating whether Apple's App Store practices violate competition rules.\n\nApple has denied those claims, arguing that its App Store has made it easier and cheaper for developers to distribute products.", "Well, that was a busy Prime Minister's Questions and the fall-out is likely to roll on throughout the day.\n\nWe will keep you updated on the reaction to the government's new Brexit law in our story here.\n\nAnd don't forget to visit our coronavirus live page for Boris Johnson's press conference at 16:00 BST (15:00 GMT).\n\nWe will see you next week.", "Richard Ratcliffe has campaigned for Nazanin's release for several years\n\nA new charge against Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman jailed in Iran, is \"a new stage in an long-running political game\", her husband Richard has claimed.\n\n\"She is clearly being held as a bargaining chip,\" Mr Ratcliffe said.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe is nearing the end of her sentence for spying charges, which she denies. But on Tuesday, she was told she would face a new trial.\n\nThe Foreign Office said British officials will try to attend the trial.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested in Tehran in April 2016. She had been visiting her parents with her young British-born daughter, Gabriella, who is now six.\n\nThe dual national was sentenced to five years in prison over allegations of plotting against the Iranian government - although no official charges have ever been made public.\n\nGabriella has now returned to the UK.\n\nEarlier this year, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was given temporary leave from prison because of the coronavirus outbreak and has been living at her parents' house in Tehran with an ankle tag.\n\nBut on Tuesday, she was told she will face another trial, which will be held on Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband describes how his daughter Gabriella is coping without her mother\n\nThe new charge had not previously been publicly disclosed, but Mr Ratcliffe said it was an allegation of \"spreading propaganda against the regime\".\n\n\"Her lawyer got to look at the file,\" he told BBC Radio 4 Today programme. \"It looks like the file is really a rehash of what she got convicted of first time round.\n\n\"But, you know, previously the evidence has changed between the lawyer reading it and what happens in the court case so we'll only really know on Sunday what she's going to be accused of.\"\n\nMr Ratcliffe told BBC Radio 4 that the news was \"certainly very tough for her\", adding: \"I spoke to her just before she went into court.\n\n\"That's probably when she was most terrified and in all honesty she had fears that she was being taken back to prison, not to court at all, it was a big trick.\"\n\n\"She's been really counting down the days until the end of her sentence and suddenly those goalposts look like they are about to move,\" he added to BBC Breakfast.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why one mother's personal plight is part of a complicated history between Iran and the UK (video published August 2019 and last updated in October 2019)\n\nMr Ratcliffe said his wife and other dual nationals are being held hostage because Iran wants the UK to pay a decades-old debt over an arms deal that was never fulfilled.\n\nThe UK owes Iran about £400m for some Chieftain tanks it promised the former Shah of Iran but never delivered after the 1979 revolution.\n\nThe UK has agreed to pay the money but can't until a legal way is found to get round the sanctions that currently make repayment impossible.\n\n\"Behind closed doors I've been warning the government that the closer we got to the end of her sentence without things being sorted, the more there was a risk of something happening, and so it's come to pass,\" said Mr Ratcliffe.\n\n\"This is definitely political, and it's definitely a new stage in an long-running political game.\"\n\nHe said: \"The UK needs to take a much firmer line to protecting its citizens. It did invoke diplomatic protection more than a year ago - it hasn't done very much with it.\"\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's family and the UK government have always maintained her innocence and she has been given diplomatic protection by the Foreign Office - meaning the case is treated as a formal, legal dispute between Britain and Iran.\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office said that British officials will seek to attend any new hearings in Iran against Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe.\n\nThey said in a statement: \"Iran bringing new charges against Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is indefensible and unacceptable.\n\n\"We have been consistently clear that she must not be returned to prison.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Richard Ratcliffe met the PM in January, and said he pushed him to be \"brave\" in regards to Iran", "Sir Ronald Harwood, the playwright and Oscar-winning screenwriter, has died.\n\nHis agent Judy Daish said he died of natural causes on Tuesday.\n\nIn a statement, she added: \"His wife Natasha died in 2013 and Sir Ronald is survived by their children Antony, Deborah and Alexandra.\"\n\nSouth African-born Sir Ronald was regarded as one of Britain's great post-war dramatists. His plays include The Dresser and Quartet, both of which were adapted for the screen.\n\nHe won the Academy Award for best adapted screenplay for the 2002 Roman Polanski film, The Pianist.\n\nSir Ronald, who passed away aged 85, received a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours list in 2010, two years after picking up a Bafta for best adapted screenplay for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le Scaphandre et le Papillon).\n\nIn a 2018 interview with The Boar, the University of Warwick's student newspaper, Sir Ronald was asked about what he hoped his artistic legacy might be.\n\nHe said: \"I don't think of my legacy - I think it's a rather pompous thing to think of! All I think of is, 'Are the plays going to live at all after my death?' And I would be very happy if they lived.\"", "Online retail giant Amazon paid £293m in tax in the UK last year, while its sales surged 26% to £13.73bn.\n\nThe firm, which employs 33,000 people in the UK, said the taxes included business rates, corporation tax, stamp duty and other contributions.\n\nAmazon and other tech firms have faced scrutiny over how much tax they pay in the UK, prompting the government to launch a digital sales tax in April.\n\nAmazon said it pays \"all taxes required in the UK\".\n\n\"We are investing heavily in creating jobs and infrastructure across the UK - more than £23bn since 2010,\" the company said in a statement.\n\n\"We pay all taxes required in the UK and every country where we operate,\" it said.\n\n\"Corporation tax is based on profits, not revenues, and our profits have remained low given retail is a highly-competitive, low margin business and we continue to invest heavily.\"\n\nIn April, the UK launched a 2% tax on digital sales amid concerns that big tech firms we re-routing their profits through low tax jurisdictions.\n\nDefending the plan, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said in June that the coronavirus crisis had made tech giants even \"more powerful and more profitable\".\n\nHe added that firms like Google, Amazon and Facebook needed \"to pay their fair share of tax\".\n\nAmazon has been expanding in the UK this year, as more people shop online due to lockdown restrictions.\n\nThe company said last week it would create a further 7,000 UK jobs this year to meet growing demand, taking its total permanent workforce to 40,000 by the end of the year.\n\nIt is also recruiting 20,000 seasonal posts for the festive period.\n\nAmazon is led by world's richest man Jeff Bezos, whose personal fortune rose as high as $200bn (£155bn) in recent weeks as tech firms' stock market valuations soared.\n\nThe company as a whole posted sales of $281bn for 2019 and net profits of $11.6bn.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nSocial gatherings of more than six people are to be banned in England in an effort to curb a steep rise in coronavirus cases. The ban will come in from Monday and be backed by law. There are exceptions - schools, workplaces, organised sports among them. We'll get more detail later, but here's what we know so far. Ministers and health advisers believe the country is at a critical moment and the average rate of new infections is now four times higher than it was in mid-July. However, here are five important reasons why it's not quite as simple as that.\n\nCase numbers are rising, but there hasn't - yet at least - been a corresponding rise in hospital admissions\n\nThe outcome of coronavirus vaccine trials is being closely watched around the world and hopes for the one being conducted by Oxford University and AstraZeneca are high. However, it's been temporarily halted worldwide after a volunteer taking part in the UK fell ill. BBC medical editor Fergus Walsh says such events are routine and it's thought the trial could resume within days. How close are we to having a vaccine? And when we do have one, how will we deliver it to seven billion people?\n\nThis is the second time the Oxford trial has been put on hold\n\nA man with chronic asthma says he was \"ambushed\" into wearing a face covering on an EasyJet flight, despite carrying an exemption card. One of its pilots was filmed threatening to remove the passenger. EasyJet has apologised, but charities say there are other stories of people with respiratory conditions being turned away from shops and public transport. Elsewhere this morning, find out why British Airways is in a stand-off with some of its customers over refunds.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nYoung people at university rely heavily on part-time work - commonly in hospitality or retail - to make ends meet while studying. But concerns are being raised about how many will manage this year given the struggles those sectors are facing and the job cuts they're experiencing. Website Save the Student is encouraging those affected to investigate other options such as scholarships, grants and bursaries.\n\nSolent University student Ellen Walsh says she's finding it hard to pay her bills\n\nTo help maintain his wellbeing during the coronavirus lockdown, photographer Tim Boddy turned to a natural process to create beautiful prints of flowers and leaves. Known as anthotypes, it uses a technique that dates back to the mid-1800s. See the results of his work.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, remember the R number? Expect to hear much more about it in the coming days as the government tries to control the spike in cases. Here's a reminder of what it's all about.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Caerphilly has been placed under lockdown following a spike in coronavirus cases.\n\nNo-one is allowed to leave the county without good reason, with strict measures brought in at 18:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\nFamily and friends living apart can no longer meet indoors, stay overnight or form extended households.\n\nThe rise in cases has been blamed on house parties and people failing to social distance.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nDoncaster Racecourse has been told by local health officials to stop spectators attending its St Leger meeting after Wednesday's opening day.\n\n\"On the grounds of public health and public safety I have instructed the course to hold the St Leger Festival behind closed doors from tomorrow,\" said Dr Rupert Suckling, director of Public Health for Doncaster.\n\nMore than 2,500 spectators bought tickets for Doncaster on Wednesday as the Leger meeting started amid uncertainty over new government rules.\n\nIt was the first crowd at a British horse racing fixture in six months - since the coronavirus pandemic lockdown - as part of a government pilot scheme for sporting events.\n\nArena Racing Company (Arc), which runs Doncaster Racecourse, confirmed the remainder of the four-day meeting will be held without spectators. It says the decision will cost the company about £250,000.\n\n\"It's cost a lot trying to get this right. The team have done an amazing job and I feel so sorry for them - some have only been back off furlough for two weeks,\" said Mark Spincer, the managing director of Arena's racing division.\n\n\"This isn't just a blow for racing, it's sport. It's going to make it slower and harder for everyone to get back, but we have to follow the advice.\"\n\nThe next racing pilots scheduled at Warwick and Newmarket this month are still set to go ahead, but with a reduced capacity of 1,000.\n\nThe government said on Tuesday night that social gatherings in England would reduce from a maximum of 30 to six people from Monday in response to rising numbers of coronavirus cases.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said more details will be announced on Wednesday.\n\nAny significant delay to the return of the public will be a hammer blow for racecourses and the racing industry\n\nThe rate of infection in Doncaster has been among the lowest in the country - and was at 10.6 per 100,000 on Wednesday.\n\nBut Doncaster mayor Ros Jones said the risk of holding the fixture with crowds was \"too great\" and welcomed the reversal.\n\n\"I believe holding the St Leger Festival behind closed doors is the right thing to do for the safety of the borough, given the latest change in Government's advice overnight and the increase in infection rates both in Doncaster and nationally,\" said the mayor.\n\n\"I welcome this decision and as I have said consistently that the risks were too great for Doncaster.\"\n\nRacing has been held behind closed doors since resuming on 1 June after a 10-week suspension because of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nUp to 3,640 people were permitted entry on Wednesday, and the racecourse says more than 2,500 tickets have been sold. A limit of 6,202 was planned on the other days, including Saturday, when the Leger - the world's oldest Classic race - is staged.\n\nSpectators had to sign up to a code of conduct and have been split into dedicated zones, with social distancing protocols in place.\n\nMore than 54,000 spectators attended the four-day meeting last year, including 27,000 on the Saturday.\n\nA trial attendance of 5,000 people was due to take place on the fifth and final day of Glorious Goodwood last month, but that was scrapped at the last minute after a spike in coronavirus cases across parts of Britain.\n• None Listen to unique tracks from Stormzy, Miley and Biffy Clyro", "Tom Gordon of The Herald asks whether there will be return to simpler, national messages as we head into winter and whether a national lockdown is likely.\n\nMs Sturgeon says she does not want to say whether one scenario is more likely than the other, but adds it would not be credible to rule anything out.\n\nThe simple measure at the start of the pandemic meant there was a simple message to stay at home, she adds, but says she does not want to go back to that being the message.\n\nThe first minister says the government is considering how to simplify the measures and regulations, and therefore the messages that flow from them.\n\nBut by definition it is not as straightforward as the messaging was at the start of the pandemic because the situation is more nuanced, she says.", "Sir Keir Starmer says Labour and the unions must \"stand together\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer has been warned against \"watering down\" the \"radical policies\" he promised during his campaign to become Labour leader.\n\nThe Fire Brigades Union told the BBC he must not \"cede any ground\" to the Conservatives and fight for \"root-and-branch\" reform of society.\n\nGeneral Secretary Matt Wrack added that he had not \"heard Keir make that case\" since becoming Labour leader in April.\n\nSir Keir has urged the party and unions to \"stand together like never before\".\n\nLabour's four-day annual conference, the first under his leadership, began on Saturday.\n\nRenamed Labour Connected, it is taking place online and will not feature votes, but the party's major figures will still give speeches and take part in discussions.\n\nIn his campaign to become leader, Sir Keir set out 10 pledges.\n\nAmong these was putting a \"Green New Deal at the heart of everything we do\", including a Clean Air Act to tackle pollution at a local level, and demanding \"international action\" on \"climate rights\".\n\nSir Keir also pledged to work \"shoulder-to-shoulder with trade unions to stand up for working people, tackle insecure work and low pay\".\n\nHe said a Labour government under him would repeal the Conservatives' 2016 Trade Union Act, which makes industrial action more difficult.\n\nThe FBU wants Sir Keir Starmer to follow through on plans to reverse curbs on industrial action\n\nMr Wrack, whose FBU is one of the more left-leaning of the 12 Labour-affiliated trade unions, said: \"Our present crisis has only made the case for that platform more urgent, but we haven't yet heard Keir make that case in opposition.\"\n\nHe said the Labour leader should promote the Socialist Green New Deal, agreed at last year's party conference.\n\nIt calls for net-zero carbon emissions by 2030, bringing the energy sector into public ownership and the creation of hundreds of thousands of jobs in the environment sector, on union-negotiated rates of pay.\n\nMr Wrack said: \"We look forward to seeing Keir making [the Socialist Green New deal] his own. But that can't mean any watering down of the radical policies we fought for.\n\n\"We don't want to see Labour cede any ground to the Tories, full stop - not least on the greatest issue of our time.\"\n\nMr Wrack called Labour Connected \"a chance for Keir and the shadow cabinet to prove to members that there will be no retreat on the policy pledges he was elected on\".\n\n\"Swapping to paper straws isn't going to save our planet,\" the FBU leader said. \"Nothing short of a root-and-branch transformation of our society and economic system will save our planet from the brink of destruction.\"\n\nHe added that rebuilding the economy after the pandemic \"should be seen as an opportunity to tackle the climate crisis as well\".\n\nThe FBU backed Rebecca Long-Bailey in the Labour leadership contest\n\nThe FBU split from Labour in 2004 following a dispute with Tony Blair's government over pay. It re-affiliated in 2015 when Jeremy Corbyn became leader.\n\nThe union backed Rebecca Long-Bailey, another on the left of the party, against Sir Keir in the leadership contest earlier this year.\n\nShe was sacked from the shadow cabinet in June after she re-tweeted an article Sir Keir said \"contained anti-Semitic conspiracy theories\".\n\nIn a separate development, Len McCluskey, leader of Unite, the UK's second-biggest union, has promised to review its financial support for Labour.\n\nAddressing the TUC Congress earlier this week, Sir Keir continued to promote a unifying message when he said: \"Labour and the trade union movement need to stand together like never before, to show the British people that we've got their back and their future too.\n\n\"We'll fight to protect jobs, incomes and working conditions at this time of national crisis, and show that there is a better, fairer society to come. That is our mission.\"\n\nLast week, TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady told the BBC that Sir Keir had made a \"really strong start\" as Labour leader.\n\nThe party has been contacted for a response to Mr Wrack's comments.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nTadej Pogacar is set to win the Tour de France ahead of strong favourite Primoz Roglic in one of the most dramatic turnarounds in the race's history.\n\nPogacar, 21, will be confirmed as the youngest winner for 111 years at the end of Sunday's largely processional stage to Paris.\n\nThe UAE-Team Emirates rider overhauled a 57-second deficit to Roglic, who was thought to be a far stronger rider on stage 20's time trial to La Planche des Belles Filles.\n\nIt will be a first Grand Tour victory for Slovenian Pogacar, who took the yellow jersey from compatriot Roglic after he had held it for 13 days.\n\nPogacar is now 59 seconds ahead of Roglic at the end of a day of drama reminiscent of the 1989 Tour, when Greg LeMond unexpectedly overhauled Laurent Fignon in a final-day time trial to win by eight seconds.\n\nRichie Porte of Trek-Segafredo will be on the podium in Paris for the first time, taking third, three minutes and 30 seconds down.\n\nPogacar won the stage, one minute 21 seconds ahead of Roglic's Jumbo-Visma team-mate Tom Dumoulin. Porte climbed to third overall after finishing in third place on the stage.\n\nBritain's Adam Yates of Mitchelton-Scott will finish ninth in the general classification, 9mins 25secs behind the winner.\n\nRoglic has looked imperious throughout the three-week race thanks to support from his powerful team, featuring some of the sport's best riders, including Dumoulin, Wout van Aert and Sepp Kuss.\n\nThe 36km stage from Lure to La Planche des Belles Filles was a challenging course that finished, unusually for time trial, with a category 1 climb. Roglic, 30, was considered a far better time triallist than Pogacar, and began the stage strongly.\n\nBut Roglic hit trouble at the changeover from super-fast specialist time-trial bikes to a more conventional road machine before the climb, struggling to clip into his pedals, wobbling when being pushed away and never seeming to find his typical rhythm.\n\nRoglic, who claimed his first Grand Tour victory at last year's Vuelta a Espana, looked desperate as he crossed the line, his helmet pushed upwards and slightly lop-sided, knowing already he had lost the race.\n\nDesperation turned to confusion and dejection as he sat on the ground in his full yellow skinsuit, trying to comprehend how he had committed one of modern cycling's biggest chokes.\n\nAnd as Pogacar sat down for his post-race TV interview, Roglic interrupted it to embrace his countryman.\n\n\"I just didn't push enough,\" said Roglic. \"It was like that. I was more and more without the power I needed but I gave it all until the end.\n\n\"We'll see what happens next. I can be happy with the racing we showed here so let's take positive things out of it.\"\n\nFrom a distant second, Pogacar takes it all\n\nRoglic had been favourite to win the 107th edition of cycling's greatest race, alongside defending champion Egan Bernal of Ineos Grenadiers.\n\nHowever, Bernal abandoned the race before stage 17 following a disastrous climb up the Grand Colombier on stage 15, where he cracked and lost more than seven minutes to Roglic.\n\nIt was one of the biggest downturns in form for a defending champion in recent history, and put an end to Ineos' record of winning every Tour since 2015, four of which were as Team Sky.\n\nIneos looked set to have something to celebrate as they tried to seal the polka dot King of the Mountains jersey through their second protected rider Richard Carapaz.\n\nBut despite 2019 Giro d'Italia winner Carapaz's attempts to deliberately ride a slow first section before blasting up the mountain, Pogacar's epic performance eclipsed him and he took the jersey.\n\nIt is the second of three jerseys Pogacar will claim at this year's race - he will also pick up the young riders' white jersey.\n\nIn total Pogacar picks up prize money of 500,000 euros (£458,270) for the yellow jersey, 25,000 euros (£22,900) for the King of the Mountains award, and a further 20,000 euros (£18,300) for being the best placed young rider.\n\n\"I'm really proud of the team,\" Pogacar said. \"They did such a big effort. We were dreaming of the yellow jersey from the start. Amazing.\n\n\"It was not just me today, we needed the whole team for the recon. I knew every corner and knew exactly where to accelerate. Congrats to all my team.\n\n\"I didn't hear anything on the radio in the final five kilometres because the fans were too loud so I just went full gas.\n\n\"My dream was just to be on the Tour de France and now I've won it. It's unbelievable.\"", "Labour is calling for guaranteed pay rises for care workers in England as the party prepares for what has been billed as a \"virtual\" party conference.\n\nIts deputy leader Angela Rayner will say low pay in the industry is a \"moral outrage\" given the sacrifices of staff during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMinimum pay rates of £9.30 an hour, and £10.75 in London, are needed to \"pay the rent or put the food on the table\".\n\nMinisters say 600,000 staff are gaining from a rise in the National Live Wage.\n\nThey are among those who will see their take home pay increase by £930 a year following April's 6% rise in the National Living Wage from £8.21 to £8.72 an hour.\n\nThe government has set a target of increasing it to more than £10.50 by 2024, which would represent 65% of median UK earnings.\n\nBut Ms Rayner will insist that the 1.2 million care workers in England deserve a \"real living wage\" now if they are to pay their bills and support their families.\n\nLabour has been forced to cancel its traditional party conference, which was due to be held in Liverpool, due to the virus, as have the other political parties.\n\nInstead, the party is holding a series of virtual events under the Labour Connected banner, starting with a Women's Connected event for female members on Saturday.\n\nThe party's leader Sir Keir Starmer is due to make a keynote speech - his first since being elected in April - on Tuesday in which he is expected to set out his vision for his party.\n\nMs Rayner, who was also elected in April, will use a series of media appearances on Saturday to attack the government's \"failure\" to adequately protect care homes and their staff during the pandemic.\n\nShe will claim the government's \"incompetence\" has contributed to the deaths of 15,000 care home residents and she will say that staff that have put their lives on the line deserve a better pay deal as quickly as possible.\n\nMs Rayner, who represented care workers as a Unison official before entering Parliament, will cite research suggesting the median hourly wage in the independent care sector before the pandemic was £8.10 an hour.\n\nShe will back the Living Wage Foundation's call for hourly pay rates of £9.30 an hour, and £10.75 in London, for the care sector, which the organisation says is needed for workers to get by and cope with the cost of living.\n\n\"The prime minister and government ministers have fallen over themselves to clap for our carers and offer them warm words, but applause and empty gestures don't pay the rent or put the food on the table,\" she will say.\n\n\"We can't clap our key workers and then abandon them. We can't go back to business as usual, where the very same people who have helped to get our country through this crisis are still underpaid and undervalued.\n\n\"After all their sacrifice and bravery, the very least that our care workers deserve is a pay rise.\"\n\nThe Conservatives said while ministers were not responsible for directly setting pay for care workers, changes to the National Living Wage meant a full-time worker will have seen their income go up by £3,600 since 2016.\n\n\"Tax cuts and increases to National Living Wage brought in by the Conservatives have benefitted millions of the lowest paid, including those who provide vital care,\" said the party's chairwoman Amanda Milling.\n\nConservative sources said Labour must explain how it would pay for pay rises for staff working in private homes.\n\nThe government is considering calls from the sector for a huge injection of funding as part of its current spending review, amid claims a further £7.5bn will be needed just to meet current pressures by 2025.\n\nBoris Johnson promised to find a lasting solution to the crisis in social care when he took office in July 2019 but a blueprint for future reforms is not now expected until next year.\n\nIn the meantime, ministers have pledged £1.5bn in additional funding each year as well as extra support to prepare care homes for a second wave of the virus, including free protective equipment for care workers, limiting the movement of staff between care homes and improved infection control measures.", "Dost is one of many Afghan interpreters who did not qualify for resettlement in the UK under the original scheme, but would now\n\nDozens more Afghan interpreters who worked with British forces in Afghanistan will be eligible to settle in the UK following a government decision to expand a relocation scheme.\n\nAbout 450 interpreters moved to the UK with their families under the original scheme, announced up in 2013.\n\nBut some of those who were ineligible said they were targeted by the Taliban.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said expanding the scheme was \"the honourable thing to do\".\n\nUnder the original scheme only those who had worked with the British on the frontline for a year or more, and were then made redundant, were eligible to apply.\n\nThis meant hundreds of Afghan interpreters who had worked for British forces in Helmand before they left in 2014 did not qualify for resettlement in the UK, leading to criticism from MPs and some former British military personnel.\n\nNow, following discussions between the defence and home secretaries, the government has announced an expansion of the resettlement scheme.\n\nIt means that Afghan interpreters who worked on the frontline with British troops for 18 months or more, between May 2006 and December 2014, but then resigned, will also be eligible to apply to resettle in the UK along with their families.\n\nMr Wallace and Home Secretary Priti Patel announced the expansion of the relocation scheme on a joint visit at Stanford Military Training Area in Norfolk, where they saw British troops prepare for a deployment to Kabul working alongside former Afghan interpreters who are now living in the UK.\n\nMr Wallace described the rule change as a \"thank you\" to the interpreters for their loyal service.\n\nAbout 100 more Afghan former interpreters will be eligible to apply to resettle under the new rules.\n\nMs Patel said: \"It's right that we do right by them, the very people that have served alongside our forces in one of the most hostile and difficult places in the world.\"\n\nAfghan interpreters worked with the Army on the frontline in Helmand Province\n\nMr Wallace and Ms Patel met Dost, a former Afghan interpreter taking part in the training who had already claimed asylum in the UK.\n\nDost did not qualify under the initial scheme. He had worked in Helmand as an interpreter for several years but says he had to resign when he received threats from the Taliban.\n\nOne of his colleagues had also been kidnapped and killed.\n\nIn 2010, he made his own way to the UK, via Turkey and France, to claim asylum. But under the new rules he would now be eligible to apply to resettle in the UK.\n\nHe said he was \"very happy\" that the relocation scheme was being expanded, but added he was still worried about the safety of those left behind.\n\nThe expanded relocation scheme still excludes dozens of Afghans who worked for British forces.\n\nAli* is one of many Afghan interpreters who is still ineligible for resettlement in the UK, even with the rule change\n\nAny interpreter who fled to a third country will not be eligible to apply. Those who worked for British forces for less than 18 months will also not qualify.\n\nThe BBC has spoken to one Afghan interpreter who worked for the Army in Helmand for seven months in 2010.\n\nWe have given him an alias to protect his identity.\n\n\"Ali\" is now living in Kabul. He moved there with the help of the British embassy after he received threats from the Taliban.\n\nHe says the Taliban and the Islamic State group make no distinction as to how long you worked for western military forces like the British. He says they \"will kill you because you have worked for the infidel\".\n\nAli* has received threats from the Taliban since working for the British\n\nThe risk, Ali says, is the same for anyone who worked for the coalition, no matter how long.\n\nBritain does have a separate scheme for those who have suffered \"intimidation\", which in theory allows Afghan interpreters to be resettled in the UK.\n\nBut while a number of former interpreters, like Ali, have been relocated within Afghanistan, none has yet been moved to the UK under the intimidation scheme.\n\nMr Wallace and Ms Patel insist that door is not closed. They say each individual will still be assessed on a case by case basis.\n\nWhile former interpreters like Ali welcome the expansion of the resettlement scheme, they still fear for the future.\n\nThere are hopes for the peace talks now taking place with the Taliban. But those talks have also seen hundreds of Taliban fighters released from prison.\n\nFor Ali and his family, the threat has not gone away.", "A British businessman, formerly of MI6, is under investigation for allegedly selling information to undercover spies from China, a Whitehall official says.\n\nFraser Cameron, who runs the EU-Asia Centre think tank, is suspected of passing sensitive information about the EU to two spies allegedly posing as Brussels-based journalists.\n\nHe is alleged to have exchanged the information for thousands of Euros.\n\nBut Mr Cameron told The Times the allegations were \"ridiculous\".\n\nThe businessman, who worked for Britain's Secret Intelligence Service from 1976 to 1991, says he has no access to any \"secret or confidential information\".\n\nMr Cameron, who has also worked for the Foreign Office and European Commission, told Politico that the allegations \"are without foundation\", saying he has \"a wide range of Chinese contacts as part of my duties with the EU-Asia Centre and some of them may have a double function\".\n\nA senior Whitehall official, who asked not to be named, told the BBC the investigation had been a long-running joint inquiry between British and Belgian intelligence and claimed that a breakthrough had come in recent months.\n\nHe said this was a great example of how closely British intelligence worked with its European partners.\n\nThe BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner says there have been growing fears about the extent of covert Chinese intelligence-gathering in Europe, including over sensitive negotiations between the EU and Britain over Brexit.\n\nBelgium's state security service is quoted by the Financial Times as saying Mr Cameron's alleged actions posed \"a clear threat towards the European institutions\" based in the Belgian capital.\n\nThe investigation is reportedly being run by Belgium's federal prosecutors.", "US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has spoken exclusively to the BBC's Razia Iqbal about the impeachment trial Donald Trump is expected to face in the US Senate.\n\nAt an awards ceremony held at the New York Public Library, the leading liberal judge on America's highest court, was asked if senators should remain impartial ahead of hearings where they will be the jurors.\n\nJustice Ginsburg, 86, was awarded the Berggruen Prize for philosophy and culture. The $1 million prize is awarded annually to someone whose ideas \"have profoundly shaped human understanding and advancement\" (she's donating the money to charity).\n\n\"Dissenting Opinion - an interview with Ruth Bader Ginsburg\" will be broadcast on BBC World News on Friday 20 December at 23:30 GMT (not in North America & Latin America); on Saturday 21 Dec at 05:30 and 10:30; and on Sunday 22 Dec at 11:30, 16:30, 22:30.\n\nYou can also listen to the full interview on BBC World Service Radio over the weekend.", "The letter was intercepted by law enforcement before it reached the White House, officials said\n\nA woman has been arrested on suspicion of sending a package containing ricin poison to US President Donald Trump, according to US immigration officials.\n\nThe unnamed woman was found at a border crossing in Buffalo, New York, as she tried to enter the US from Canada, and was reportedly carrying a gun.\n\nThe letter containing the deadly poison is believed to have come from Canada, according to investigators there.\n\nThe letter was discovered last week before it could reach the White House.\n\nRicin, a poison found naturally in castor beans, has been used in other attempted attacks against the White House in recent years.\n\nThe Trump administration is yet to comment on the reports.\n\nThe Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Secret Service are investigating the package, which was discovered at a processing facility for mail sent to the White House.\n\n\"At this time, there is no known threat to public safety,\" the FBI told CNN on Saturday.\n\nThe suspect may have also sent ricin to five addresses in Texas, including a jail and a sheriff's office, according to police.\n\nThe presence of ricin was confirmed after several tests by the FBI, authorities said.\n\nThe Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said on Saturday it was working with the FBI to investigate the \"suspicious letter sent to the White House\".\n\nA spokesman for the Mission, Texas, police department told the Associated Press on Monday an envelope was in the care of local officials and no one had been hurt.\n\nAnother Texas Sheriff, Eddie Guerra in Hidalgo County, also confirmed envelopes with ricin were posted to staff there, but reported no injuries.\n\nThe RCMP division in Quebec is leading a search of a residence in the Montreal suburb of St-Hubert, which authorities said on Monday is linked to the suspect.\n\nTheir chemicals and explosives team is on site, along with local police and fire units.\n\nThe suspect is due to appear in court on Tuesday in Buffalo.\n\nRicin is a lethal substance that, if swallowed, inhaled or injected, can cause nausea, vomiting, internal bleeding and ultimately organ failure.\n\nNo known antidote exists for ricin. If a person is exposed to ricin, death can take place within 36 to 72 hours, depending on the dose received, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).\n\nCastor seeds, which are used to make the deadly ricin poison\n\nThe CDC said the poison - which has been used in terror plots - can be manufactured into a weapon in the form of a powder, mist or pellet.\n\nThe White House and other federal buildings have been the target of ricin packages in the past.\n\nIn 2014, a Mississippi man was sentenced to 25 years in prison for sending letters dusted with ricin to former President Barack Obama and other officials.\n\nFour years later, in 2018, a former Navy veteran was charged with sending toxic letters to the Pentagon and White House.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Last updated on .From the section Tottenham\n\nTottenham have re-signed Wales forward Gareth Bale from Spanish champions Real Madrid on a season-long loan.\n\nBale, 31, left Spurs for a then world record £85m in 2013 and went on to score more than 100 goals and win four Champions Leagues with Real.\n\n\"It's nice to be back. It's such a special club to me. It's where I made my name,\" said Bale.\n\n\"Hopefully, now I can get some match fitness, get under way and really help the team and, hopefully, win trophies.\"\n\nSpurs said Bale has signed for them with a knee injury sustained playing for Wales earlier this month and they \"anticipate that he will be match fit after October's international break\".\n\nThat would mean the forward missing their next five games, with the club's first outing following the international break at home to West Ham on 17 October.\n\nBale originally joined Tottenham as a 17-year-old from Southampton in 2007 for an initial payment of £5m.\n\n\"I always thought when I did leave that I would love to come back,\" he added.\n\n\"I feel like it is a good fit. It's a good time for me. I'm hungry and motivated. I want to do well for the team and can't wait to get started.\"\n\nAt Real, Bale has also won two La Liga titles, one Copa del Rey, three Uefa Super Cups and three Club World Cups.\n\n\"I think by going to Madrid, winning trophies and going far with the national team I feel like I have that kind of winning mentality, how to win trophies,\" he said.\n\n\"You don't realise it until you're there and in those situations, in finals, how to kind of deal with the situation, the nerves, the pressure, and I think that all goes with experience.\n\n\"Hopefully I can bring that to the dressing room, bring a bit more belief to everybody that we can win a trophy, and the target is to do that this season, to be fighting on every front possible. I want to bring that mentality here, back to Tottenham.\"\n\nBale remains the most expensive British player in history, as well as the top-scoring British player in La Liga - with 80 goals and 40 assists in 171 league appearances, averaging a goal or assist every 104 minutes.\n\nHowever, a run of injuries, indifferent form and a deteriorating relationship with manager Zinedine Zidane had seen Bale become a marginal figure.\n• None The Premier League stars who have returned to former clubs\n\nFrom the world's most expensive signing to a player on the fringes\n\nReal eclipsed the £80m they paid Manchester United for Cristiano Ronaldo in 2009 to take Bale to the Bernabeu, with the forward signing an initial £300,000-a-week, six-year contract.\n\nHe extended his stay with a new six-year deal in 2016, reported to be worth £600,000 a week - and £150m over its duration - in salaries and bonuses.\n\nThe Welshman was hugely successful in his first few seasons at Real, scoring in the 2014 and 2018 Champions League finals, as well as the 2014 Copa del Rey final.\n\nBBC Sport readers voted Bale as the best British export of the Premier League era earlier this year, his 42% share comfortably eclipsing former England, Manchester United and Real Madrid winger David Beckham's 29%.\n\nBut, frustrated by a lack of playing time, Bale came close to a move to China last year before Real blocked it.\n\nAfter celebrating Wales' qualification for Euro 2020 with a banner reading \"Wales. Golf. Madrid. In that Order\" in November, he received a backlash in Spain and was jeered by Real fans in his first game back for the club.\n\nHis relationship with Zidane deteriorated to the extent Bale asked not to travel with the squad for the Champions League last-16 second-leg tie against Manchester City in August because he knew he had no chance of being involved.\n\nHe started just one match when the 2019-20 La Liga season resumed following the coronavirus shutdown and played only 100 minutes as Real won a first league title since 2017, and was conspicuously on the fringes of the team's celebrations.\n\nBale joins manager Jose Mourinho's other signings of this transfer window, joining goalkeeper Joe Hart, defender Matt Doherty, midfielder Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg and left-back Sergio Reguilon at the club.\n\nTottenham, Champions League finalists in 2019, were beaten 1-0 at home by Everton in their first match of the 2020-21 campaign on Sunday.\n\nThey finished sixth in the English top flight last season to qualify for the Europa League, seven points adrift of Chelsea in the final Champions League position.\n\nMourinho, beginning his first full campaign with Spurs after succeeding Mauricio Pochettino in December, tried to sign Bale when Real Madrid boss but the player arrived the season after the Portuguese's departure.\n• None All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur's Amazon documentary reviewed\n\nOpposition will be scared of Bale 'wow' factor - analysis\n\nGareth Bale has that \"wow\" factor, something only a few very special players in the world have got.\n\nWhen they play, they have a different aura and a presence on the pitch that affects everyone - even before they kick a ball.\n\nSo, Bale will not just have a positive effect on his new Tottenham team-mates and give them a massive confidence boost, he will change the way opposition players feel about facing Spurs.\n\nThey will be worried when they see his name on the teamsheet and then, when they face him on the pitch, I can tell you now they will drop off five yards because they will be scared of him - whoever they are.\n\nMore on the deal\n\nThe indications are that Tottenham will pay 40% of Bale's salary, which is in excess of £600,000 a week.\n\nThis figure may involve bonuses, so the actual payment may be less than £260,000 a week, but it will still place Bale above even Harry Kane, who signed a £200,000-a-week deal in 2018.\n\nHowever, coming less than six months after chairman Daniel Levy put staff on furlough, and less than four months after Tottenham took out a £175m loan from the Bank of England - which it expressly says will not be used to buy players and is more likely to help pay loans for their £1bn stadium - it still raises questions about the deal.\n\nAn astute operator with a keen business brain, Levy can presumably justify the move on two grounds.\n\nFirst, the impact Bale could have on Mourinho's squad, leading to success on the field and therefore more money off it. Secondly, Bale is a global star and will have a major commercial impact.\n\nBale's arrival puts question marks over the short-term futures of two midfielders: Dele Alli, replaced at half-time during Sunday's home defeat by Everton, and Tanguy Ndombele, a £63m club record signing last summer.\n• None In 146 Premier League games for Tottenham Bale scored 42 times. In his last season at Tottenham in 2012-2013, Bale was involved in 37 goals in all competitions for the club (26 goals, 11 assists) - only Robin van Persie (39) and Juan Mata (49) were involved in more for a Premier League club that season.\n• Nine came outside the box ; the most by any player in a single season in the competition's history.\n• None Bale is one of four Premier League players to win the PFA Players' Player of the Year on two occasions, after Alan Shearer, Thierry Henry and Ronaldo. He was also only the second Premier League player (along with Ronaldo) to win both this award alongside the Young Player of the Year award in the same season.\n• None Bale is one of seven players to score at least twice in a single Champions League final, and the only British player to do so.\n• None Since he joined Madrid in the summer of 2013, only Ronaldo (318) and Karim Benzema (235) have been involved in more competitive goals\n• None Over the past three seasons, Gareth Bale has seen his attempted dribbles drop to three or less per 90 minutes, compared to a high of 6.2 when at Tottenham and 5.8 in his first season at Real Madrid.\n\nHow is Bale's departure viewed in Madrid?\n\nThe view in Madrid is... finally, he's gone.\n\nWhether it's fair or not (and the man himself appears to be way past caring), that will be the immediate reaction of most Real Madrid fans to the news of Gareth Bale's departure.\n\nIn their minds, Bale's undeniably significant role in an impressive haul of silverware - including some genuinely sensational moments of match-winning brilliance - has been overshadowed by his startling lack of contribution in the past two years, during which time his attitude towards the club veered between disinterested apathy and hostile mockery.\n\nIn time, the acrimony of his past couple of years will be forgotten and a more generous perception will emerge, and it is already widely acknowledged that Bale was an undoubted success during his first five years in Spain.\n\nBut it can't be denied that he became an expensive burden by the end, and few fans will be sorry to see him leave.\n\nMost expensive transfers of all time\n\nFind all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.", "Visiting has been suspended at Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil, among others\n\nHospital visits have been suspended due to concern over rising cases of coronavirus in parts of south Wales.\n\nPeople will only be allowed to visit a patient receiving end-of-life care, or to support a pregnant woman due to give birth at hospitals in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT).\n\nVisits to care homes have also been stopped, Bridgend council said.\n\nRCT is currently subject to increased lockdown restrictions and there is increasing concern about nearby areas.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board said it had suspended visits to Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil and the Royal Glamorgan in Llantristant, as well as other units to \"protect\" patients and staff.\n\nIt said Covid-19 cases across its region were \"continuing to rise and are a real cause for concern\".\n\nFigures from Public Health Wales on Saturday showed Merthyr has 96.1 Covid-19 cases per 100,000 with 88.7 in RCT and 38.8 in Bridgend.\n\nThe average for Wales is 25.5 cases per 100,000.\n\nBridgend council said it and other authorities had suspended visits to care homes.\n\n\"The changes will mean that until further notice, friends and family members will no longer be able to see their loved ones in either outdoor visits or indoor visits,\" it said, in a statement.\n\n\"Virtual and online visits will be encouraged, and allowances will be made in circumstances where residents are nearing the end of their lives and with appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) requirements in place.\"", "Restaurants in Dublin will only be allowed to serve food outside to a maximum of 14 customers\n\nTighter Covid-19 restrictions have come into force in Dublin in an effort to stem rising levels of the virus.\n\nThe new rules came into force in the city and surrounding county at midnight on Friday.\n\nFor the next three weeks, people will be discouraged from leaving the city and county unless for essential reasons.\n\nThey are being asked to work from home where possible and only to make essential journeys on public transport.\n\nIn Dublin city visitors to private homes and gardens should be limited to a maximum number of six from one other household.\n\nThere are to be no organised indoor gatherings and outdoor gatherings are to be up to a maximum of 15.\n\nRestaurants and pubs that had been serving food will only be allowed to cater outdoors, to a maximum of 14 people, or provide a take-away service.\n\nPubs in the rest of the Republic, regardless of whether they serve food, will be allowed to open on Monday.\n\nOnly elite sporting fixtures are being allowed to take place. Sports training can continue but only outdoors and in pods of up to 15 while gym classes have been suspended.\n\nFuneral attendances are capped at 25 and the same cap will be introduced for weddings from Monday.\n\nThe new rules are based on recommendations from public health officials at the National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET).\n\nThe city and county is being moved from level two to level three of the country's five-level alert system. The government decides when to move between levels based on advice from the NPHET.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish prime minister) Micheál Martin said that without action there was a real threat Dublin could return to the worst days of the crisis.\n\n\"I know the restrictions will make many people angry but we have very clear advice that they will save lives,\" said Mr Martin.\n\nThree further deaths and 253 new Covid-19 cases were confirmed on Friday - 116 of them were in Dublin.\n\nIt brings the total number of coronavirus deaths to 1,792 in the country.\n\nPlacing Dublin at level three has the following implications for those living or working in Dublin:", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Dominic Raab's bodyguard has been \"removed from operational duties\" after allegedly leaving his gun on a plane at Heathrow.\n\nA cleaner is reported to have found the loaded Glock 19 pistol in its holster on a seat on the United Airlines flight after it landed in London on Friday.\n\nThe foreign secretary had been in Washington DC to speak to US politicians about Brexit.\n\nScotland Yard said an internal investigation was taking place.\n\nThe cleaner raised the alarm after finding the weapon, the Sun reported, and police boarded the plane - before realising the gun belonged to one of Mr Raab's close protection officers.\n\nA Metropolitan Police spokesman said: \"We are aware of the incident on a flight into the UK on Friday 18 September and we are taking this matter extremely seriously.\n\n\"The officer involved has since been removed from operational duties whilst an internal investigation into the circumstances is taking place.\"\n\nThe Sun reported that the officer took off his holster and put it on his seat before escorting the foreign secretary off the flight - leaving it behind.\n\nFormer Met chief superintendent Nick Aldworth told the BBC there were strict rules about the handling of firearms, but that human error does happen.\n\n\"This sort of thing is not common, but it does happen,\" he told the Today programme. \"It happens because human beings are in the system and human beings operate under an enormous amount of stress sometimes, particularly when they are managing armed operations or in the middle of an armed operation.\n\n\"This appears to be an unfortunate lapse in concentration for which the officer will pay a price in their career, in as much as they have been removed from operational duties, which is something they probably love doing, and sadly for them, will no longer be able to do.\"\n\nHe added that the Met takes such matters \"incredibly seriously\".\n\nIn February, a bodyguard for former prime minister David Cameron was investigated for reportedly leaving his gun in a plane toilet.\n\nIn that incident, the gun was found by a passenger on a British Airways flight from New York to London. Mr Cameron is entitled to continued security provided by the Metropolitan Police as a former prime minister.", "Actor Danny Masterson was arraigned on three rape charges at a court in Los Angeles\n\nActor Danny Masterson, best known for his role in the hit series That '70s Show, has appeared in court accused of raping three women in the early 2000s.\n\nHe is charged with raping the women, who were all in their 20s, between 2001 and 2003.\n\nMr Masterson, 44, denies the charges and has argued he was being persecuted for his high-profile membership of the Church of Scientology.\n\nIf convicted, the actor could face up to 45 years in prison.\n\nFree on $3.3m (£2.5m) bail since his arrest in mid-June, Mr Masterson made his first court appearance over the allegations in Los Angeles on Friday.\n\nWhile the actor did not enter a plea, his lawyer, Tom Mesereau, mounted a vigorous defence of his client, dismissing the charges against him as politically motivated.\n\nThe lawyer accused Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey of filing the charges for political gain ahead of a bid to retain her post in a November election.\n\n\"There have been repeated attempts to politicise this case,\" said Mr Mesereau, who also defended Michael Jackson against sexual misconduct allegations in a previous case. \"He is absolutely not guilty and we're going to prove it.\"\n\nMs Lacey is yet to comment, but Deputy District Attorney Reinhold Mueller dismissed Mr Mesereau allegations as \"false\" and \"pure speculation, with no basis in fact\".\n\nActor Danny Masterson, pictured in 2017, has denied the allegations against him\n\nFriday's court hearing was attended by all three of Mr Masterson's accusers, while about 20 of the actor's supporters stood outside the courtroom, unable to enter due to coronavirus regulations.\n\nThe allegations against Mr Masterson first came to light in 2017, when the #MeToo movement that inspired women to go public with misconduct allegations was gathering momentum.\n\nMr Masterson was removed from The Ranch - the Netflix comedy in which he starred - over the allegations.\n\nAt the time, Mr Masterson denied the \"outrageous allegations\" and vowed to clear his name \"once and for all\".\n\n\"Obviously, Mr Masterson and his wife are in complete shock considering that these nearly 20-year-old allegations are suddenly resulting in charges being filed, but they and their family are comforted knowing that ultimately the truth will come out,\" his lawyer Mr Mesereau said in a statement.\n\nThe charges came after a three-year investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department. Prosecutors did not file charges in two other cases due to insufficient evidence and the statute of limitations expiring.\n\nMr Masterson has been married to the actor and model Bijou Phillips since 2011.\n\nThat '70s Show - which also starred Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis - ran from 1998 to 2006, gaining huge international success.", "Test centres in Bolton have seen long queues as people try to get tested\n\nMore than 100 people turned up at an A&E asking for Covid-19 tests, sparking a plea from a hospital trust for anyone who was not seriously ill to stay away.\n\nBolton NHS Trust said dozens of people went to Royal Bolton Hospital because they could not get into test centres.\n\nThe trust says it shows NHS Test and Trace is \"failing\" but the government insists it is \"working\".\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said police and firefighters could soon be used as contact tracers.\n\nIt would provide more \"rigour\" to the national system, he said.\n\nBolton had the highest infection rate in England with 204 cases per 100,000 people recorded in the week to 13 September.\n\nThe total number of cases rose from 437 up until 6 September to 587 a week later.\n\nThe government said people who were not eligible were requesting tests\n\nThe trust's medical director Dr Francis Andrews, said people should only go to hospital if they were \"extremely unwell or referred by your GP\".\n\n\"We are extremely busy in our emergency department as a result of this increase,\" he said.\n\n\"Only attend this department if you have experienced a life-threatening accident or illness and need urgent medical attention.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Royal Albert Edward Infirmary in Wigan made a similar plea to stay away from A&E.\n\n\"We are receiving a high volume of patients coming to A&E requesting a COVID-19 test,\" it said in a post on its Facebook page.\n\nAnd Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool has urged parents not to bring children to its emergency department for a Covid-19 test after a \"big increase\" in people asking for tests there.\n\nBolton NHS Trust Chairwoman Prof Donna Hall said the government's approach was \"failing\".\n\nProf Hall said the situation now was different to the one in March when they had extra staff drafted in and were not expected to continue with planned operations.\n\n\"This failure of the test-and-trace system is placing huge pressure on the NHS and social care,\" she said.\n\n\"We had 100 people in our accident and emergency unit.\n\n\"We've now got 30 people who are Covid-positive and we've got five people in our high-dependency unit so this virus is not going away.\n\nShe said she felt there had been a lack of a cohesive strategy for both the containment of the virus and for the test and trace system.\n\nLancashire's director of public health said the system was at \"breaking point\" and was \"compromising our ability to stop the transmission\".\n\nTeacher Simon Foster says the testing system was an \"absolute mess\"\n\nTeacher Simon Foster said he developed a cough overnight and, because of his job teaching children with special needs - many of whom have diabetes - he needs to be tested .\n\n\"I have tried all day to book an appointment and I still don't have one,\" he said. \"It's an absolute mess.\"\n\n\"It keeps saying there was nothing available [and] there were no tests they could send by post either.\"\n\n\"I hope it is just a cough.... I can't go back to work until I get tested.\"\n\nDr Sakthi Karunanithi said it was \"beyond frustrating\", adding: \"The issue is lab capacity.\n\n\"We have our own community testing sites and were doing about 200 tests a day - [on Tuesday] we did 1,639 tests. We can't go on like this.\"\n\nBolton Council said a test centre had been due to open on Saturday at the Last Drop Village Hotel, in response to the growing number of cases, but was delayed when \"an external business\" failed to turn up.\n\nA spokesman said although the delay had been \"out of our hands\", the authority was \"working with the government and their partners to find out what has happened\".\n\nMr Burnham said 46% of named contacts were not being traced in Greater Manchester.\n\nHe said 100 police community support officers (PCSOs) and 100 fire officers would set up a unit to help contact people not being reached.\n\n\"It can't be the case going forwards that we fail to fix test, trace and isolate and just introduce blanket restrictions. I don't think people will accept that,\" he said.\n\n\"We think more rigour in contact tracing, quality contact with people and support to self isolate would help improve the system.\"\n\nPowers to bring in \"targeted\" restrictions, like changing a specific pub or supermarket's opening hours, were also being sought, Deputy Mayor Bev Hughes added.\n\nSteve Rumbelow, the chief executive at nearby Rochdale Council, told the Local Democracy Reporting Service there had been a \"noticeable change\" in people's behaviour across Greater Manchester and the testing system was in \"meltdown\".\n\nHe said it was \"largely\" because people were unable to get tested.\n\n\"It's not massive numbers, I don't want to over-egg it, but [it] indicates that people are starting to get concerned,\" he said.\n\n\"Test and trace is pretty much in meltdown.\n\n\"It's a major concern, and the way tests are being rationed is just not sustainable for containing the virus effectively going forward.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said NHS Test and Trace was \"working\", adding the system was \"processing a million tests a week, but we are seeing significant demand for tests, including from people who do not have symptoms and are not otherwise eligible\".\n\nHe said anyone with an appointment would not be turned away, and new booking slots and home testing kits were being made available daily.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nAre you in Bolton? Have you tried to get tested? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The woman fell from the car between Clacket Lane Services and Junction 6 of the M25\n\nA woman fell out of a moving car on the M25 while leaning out of the window to film a video for Snapchat.\n\nShe fell from the car into a \"live lane\" between junction six and the Clacket Lane Services at 01:30 BST, Surrey Police traffic officers tweeted.\n\nThe woman was not badly hurt but police said it was lucky \"she wasn't seriously injured or killed\".\n\nShe was treated at the scene by paramedics. No arrests have been made, police added.\n\nIn a post on Twitter, the Roads Policing Unit said: \"The front seat passenger was hanging out the car whilst filming a Snapchat video along the M25. She then fell out the car and into a live lane.\n\n\"It is only by luck she wasn't seriously injured or killed. #nowords\"\n\nSurrey officers tweeted the woman involved was lucky not to have been killed or injured\n\nA force spokesman said: \"Officers were called to the M25 between junction six and Clacket Lane Services shortly after 01:30 BST this morning following reports of a female falling out of a moving vehicle.\n\n\"The woman was treated by paramedics at the scene and her injuries were not life-threatening or life-changing.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Singapore is distributing tens of thousands of devices that can track who a person has interacted with.\n\nThe small bluetooth device is meant for those who do not own smartphones and cannot use a contact tracing app that was previously rolled out by the Singapore government.\n\nWhile there are some concerns over about data protection, authorities say the token helps vulnerable groups to feel safer when out and about.\n\nFor instance, the token helps elderly people keep a precise record of their whereabouts.", "British Airways told Lesley Anderson she had accepted vouchers even after she submitted this screenshot of its website\n\nA British Airways passenger was refused a refund for a cancelled flight even after she sent screenshots of the airline's website showing the option of a voucher was not mentioned.\n\nLesley Anderson says a voucher was issued \"automatically\" after she selected \"Cancel and refund flight\".\n\nShe is the latest person to accuse the airline of misleading its customers.\n\nBritish Airways has said there is \"no way\" that vouchers can be issued without customers requesting them.\n\nMs Anderson, from Irvine in Ayrshire, had been due to fly from Glasgow to London to celebrate her birthday, but disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic meant her flights were cancelled.\n\nAn email from BA included a link that took her to the \"Manage my booking\" section of its website, where she was presented with two main options: to rebook the cancelled flights \"free of charge\" or to get a \"full refund\" by cancelling the entire booking.\n\n\"I obviously chose the 'Cancel and refund flights' option,\" she says, \"which then took me to the British Airways webpage that said, 'Thanks for completing your travel voucher application.' I was a bit gobsmacked.\"\n\n\"I definitely did not fill in any information about my name, my flights. I did not click submit, nothing like that at all. It just took me straight to that page and it issued me automatically with a voucher.\"\n\nEven though Ms Anderson sent screenshots of the webpage showing that vouchers were not listed as an option and said she always wanted her money back, BA staff told her she had accepted vouchers and they could not be exchanged for cash.\n\nUnder EU law, when a flight is cancelled, passengers are entitled to their money back within seven days, although airlines can offer to rebook flights or issue vouchers for future travel, if that is what a customer prefers.\n\nIn Lesley's case, BA says that she filled in an application form and it is not possible for its online system to issue vouchers without that happening.\n\nBut numerous passengers have contacted Radio 4's consumer programme, You & Yours, with similar tales of receiving vouchers which they did not want.\n\nThe airline has said it will \"always provide a refund if a customer is eligible\".\n\n\"Since March, we have provided more than 2.1 million customers with cash refunds and more than 1.6 million with vouchers,\" BA said in a statement.\n\n\"Customers can request vouchers via our call centre, or by filling in details on an online vouchers form, and in each case, they are asked to confirm this before it is submitted.\"", "A care worker visits a client at home in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, during the pandemic\n\nPeople visiting residents in care homes should be supervised at all times to ensure social distancing, according to a government winter plan for Covid-19.\n\nIt says visits must be limited and in \"areas of intervention\" they must be stopped altogether.\n\nSupport for care homes in the plan includes free personal protective equipment until next March.\n\nCouncils say the initiative is welcome, but there are significant gaps in funding.\n\nWriting to the heads of local authorities, Care Minister Helen Whately said \"now is the time to act\" to protect care homes.\n\nShe said visits are \"important for the wellbeing of residents and loved ones\" but that extra precautions are needed.\n\nThey include regular assessments by local authorities of whether visiting is safe in a particular area, with visits immediately halted in places listed as an \"area of intervention\", Public Health England's highest category of alert where local lockdown rules are imposed.\n\nIn every care home, visitors should be supervised \"at all times\" to ensure they keep to social distancing requirements and other infection control measures, the plan says.\n\nBefore the publication of the plan, Age UK said some people are \"dying of sadness\" in care homes because they have been cut off from loved ones for a prolonged period of time.\n\nCare homes in England were allowed to reopen again for family visits in July - as long as local authorities and public health teams said it was safe. A similar reopening of homes followed in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lynn hasn't seen her husband, who has dementia, for six weeks due to care home restrictions\n\nHowever, many homes have not yet fully reopened - either retaining strict rules over visitors or banning them completely.\n\nThe government has previously announced care homes would get £546m to try to reduce transmission of the virus as part of its winter plan.\n\nThe money will help to pay care workers their full wages when they are self-isolating, and ensures carers only work in one care home, reducing the spread of the virus.\n\nBBC social affairs correspondent Alison Holt said that for a sector still reeling from the high number of deaths, \"this plan is important\".\n\nProviding free PPE - such as masks - recognises the steep increase in the cost of supplies, she said.\n\nAnd a new role of chief nurse for social care, which will be created under the plan, \"should also provide a stronger national voice for the sector\".\n\nBut while welcoming the plan, some directors of council care services have said it does not address the need to pay care staff better.\n\nIt also does not provide the funding needed to meet the expected increase in demand, particularly for home care, over the winter, they added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How care home workers are trying to cope\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told the House of Commons the government would do \"whatever is humanly possible\" to protect care homes \"so they are a place of sanctuary this winter\".\n\nMinisters have also promised to make people in care homes a priority for coronavirus tests - along with the NHS - amid ongoing issues with the UK's testing system.\n\nCoronavirus swept through UK care homes during the peak of the outbreak, with tens of thousands of deaths.\n\nAlmost 30,000 more care home residents in England and Wales died during the coronavirus outbreak than during the same period in 2019, Office for National Statistics figures published in July show. But only two-thirds were directly attributable to Covid-19.\n\nAccording to the figures, there were just over 66,000 deaths of care home residents in England and Wales between 2 March and 12 June this year, compared to just under 37,000 deaths last year.", "US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the history-making jurist, feminist icon and national treasure, has died, aged 87.\n\nGinsburg became only the second woman ever to serve as a justice on the nation's highest court.\n\nShe struggled against blatant sexism throughout her career as she climbed to the pinnacle of her profession.\n\nA lifelong advocate of gender equality, she was fond of joking that there would be enough women on the nine-seat Supreme Court \"when there are nine\".\n\nShe did not let up in her twilight years, remaining a scathing dissenter on a conservative-tilting bench, even while her periodic health scares left liberal America on edge.\n\nDespite maintaining a modest public profile, like most top judges, Ginsburg inadvertently became not just a celebrity, but a pop-culture heroine.\n\nShe may have stood an impish 5ft, but Ginsburg will be remembered as a legal colossus.\n\nShe was born to Jewish immigrant parents in the Flatbush neighbourhood of Brooklyn, New York City, in 1933 at the height of the Great Depression. Her mother, Celia Bader, died of cancer the day before Ginsburg left high school.\n\nShe attended Cornell University, where she met Martin \"Marty\" Ginsburg on a blind date, kindling a romance that spanned almost six decades until his death in 2010.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Meeting Marty was by far the most fortunate thing that ever happened to me,\" Ginsburg once said, adding that the man who would become her husband \"was the first boy I ever knew who cared that I had a brain\".\n\nThe couple married shortly after Ginsburg's graduation in 1954 and they had a daughter, Jane, the following year. While she was pregnant, Ginsburg was demoted in her job at a social security office - discrimination against pregnant women was still legal in the 1950s. The experience led her to conceal her second pregnancy before she gave birth to her son, James, in 1965.\n\nIn 1956, Ginsburg became one of nine women accepted to Harvard Law School, out of a class of about 500, where the dean famously asked that his female students tell him how they could justify taking the place of a man at his school.\n\nWhen Marty, also a Harvard Law alumnus, took a job as a tax lawyer in New York, Ginsburg transferred to Columbia Law School to complete her third and final year, becoming the first woman to work at both colleges' law reviews.\n\nDespite finishing top of her class, Ginsburg did not receive a single job offer after graduation.\n\n\"Not a law firm in the entire city of New York would employ me,\" she later said. \"I struck out on three grounds: I was Jewish, a woman and a mother.\"\n\nShe wound up on a project studying civil procedure in Sweden before becoming a professor at Rutgers Law School, where she taught some of the first classes on women and the law.\n\n\"The women's movement came alive at the end of the 60s,\" she said to NPR. \"There I was, a law school professor with time that I could devote to moving along this change.\"\n\nIn 1971, Ginsburg made her first successful argument before the Supreme Court, when she filed the lead brief in Reed v Reed, which examined whether men could be automatically preferred over women as estate executors.\n\n\"In very recent years, a new appreciation of women's place has been generated in the United States,\" the brief states. \"Activated by feminists of both sexes, courts and legislatures have begun to recognise the claim of women to full membership in the class 'persons' entitled to due process guarantees of life and liberty and the equal protection of the laws.\"\n\nThe court agreed with Ginsburg, marking the first time the Supreme Court had struck down a law because of gender-based discrimination.\n\nIn 1972, Ginsburg co-founded the Women's Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). That same year, Ginsburg became the first tenured female professor at Columbia Law School.\n\nShe was soon the ACLU's general counsel, launching a series of gender-discrimination cases. Six of these brought her before the Supreme Court, five of which she won.\n\nShe compared her role to that of a \"kindergarten teacher\", explaining gender discrimination to the all-male justices.\n\nHer approach was cautious and highly strategic. She favoured incrementalism, thinking it wise to dismantle sexist laws and policies one by one, rather than run the risk of asking the Supreme Court to outlaw all rules that treat men and women unequally.\n\nCognisant of her exclusively male audience on the court, Ginsburg's clients were often men. In 1975, she argued the case of a young widower who was denied benefits after his wife died in childbirth.\n\n\"His case was the perfect example of how gender-based discrimination hurts everyone,\" Ginsburg said.\n\nShe later said leading the legal side of the women's movement during this period - decades before joining the Supreme Court - counted as her greatest professional work.\n\n\"I had the good fortune to be alive in the 1960s, then, and continuing through the 1970s,\" she said. \"For the first time in history it became possible to urge before the courts successfully that equal justice under law requires all arms of government to regard women as persons equal in stature to men.\"\n\nIn 1980, Ginsburg was nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia as part of President Jimmy Carter's efforts to diversify federal courts.\n\nThough Ginsburg was often portrayed as a liberal firebrand, her days on the appeals court were marked by moderation.\n\nShe earned a reputation as a centrist, voting with conservatives many times and against, for example, re-hearing the discrimination case of a sailor who said he had been discharged from the US Navy for being gay.\n\nGinsburg with Senators Daniel Moynihan (left) and Joe Biden in 1993\n\nShe was nominated to the Supreme Court in 1993 by President Bill Clinton after a lengthy search process. Ginsburg was the second woman ever confirmed to that bench, following Sandra Day O'Connor, who was nominated by President Ronald Reagan in 1981.\n\nAmong Ginsburg's most significant, early cases was United States v Virginia, which struck down the men-only admissions policy at the Virginia Military Institute.\n\nWhile Virginia \"serves the state's sons, it makes no provision whatever for her daughters. That is not equal protection\", Ginsburg wrote for the court's majority. No law or policy should deny women \"full citizenship stature - equal opportunity to aspire, achieve, participate in and contribute to society based on their individual talents and capacities.\"\n\nDuring her time on the bench, Justice Ginsburg moved noticeably to the left. She served as a counterbalance to the court itself, which, with the appointment of Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh by President Donald Trump, slanted in favour of conservative justices.\n\nHer dissents were forceful - occasionally biting - and Ginsburg did not shy away from criticising her colleagues' opinions.\n\nIn 2013, objecting to the court's decision to strike down a significant portion of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by a 5-to-4 vote, Ginsburg wrote: \"The Court's opinion can hardly be described as an exemplar of restrained and moderate decision making.\"\n\nThe US Supreme Court justices pose for their official portrait in November 2018\n\nIn 2015, Ginsburg sided with the majority on two landmark cases - both massive victories for American progressives. She was one of six justices to uphold a crucial component of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare. In the second, Obergefell v Hodges, she sided with the 5-4 majority, legalising same-sex marriage in all 50 states.\n\nAs Ginsburg's legal career soared, her personal life was anchored by marriage to Marty.\n\nTheir relationship reflected a gender parity that was ahead of its time. The couple shared the childcare and housework, and Marty did virtually all of the cooking.\n\n\"I learned very early on in our marriage that Ruth was a fairly terrible cook and, for lack of interest, unlikely to improve,\" he said in a 1996 speech.\n\nProfessionally, Marty was a relentless champion of his wife. Clinton officials said it was his tireless lobbying that brought Ginsburg's name to the shortlist of potential Supreme Court nominees in 1993.\n\nHe reportedly told a friend that the most important thing he did in his own life \"is to enable Ruth to do what she has done\".\n\nAfter her confirmation, Ginsburg thanked Marty, \"who has been, since our teenage years, my best friend and biggest booster\".\n\nMarty Ginsburg holds the Bible for his wife as she is sworn in as Supreme Court Justice\n\nIn his final weeks, facing his own battle with cancer, Marty wrote a letter to his wife saying that other than parents and kids, \"you are the only person I have loved in my life.\n\n\"I have admired and loved you almost since the day we first met at Cornell.\"\n\nHe died in June 2010 after 56 years of marriage.\n\nThe next morning Ginsburg was on the bench at the Supreme Court to read an opinion on the final day of the term \"because [Marty] would have wanted it\", she later told the New Yorker magazine.\n\nGinsburg had five major run-ins with cancer herself.\n\nJustice O'Connor, who had breast cancer in the 1980s, was said to have suggested that Ginsburg schedule chemotherapy for Fridays so she could use the weekend to recover for oral arguments.\n\nIt worked: Ginsburg only missed oral arguments twice because of illness.\n\nGinsburg said she also followed the advice of opera singer Marilyn Horne, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2005.\n\n\"She said, 'I will live,'\" Ginsburg recalled to NPR. \"Not that, 'I hope I live', or, 'I want to live', but, 'I will live.'\"\n\nHer longevity brought immense relief to liberal America, which fretted that another vacancy on the court would allow its conservative majority to become even more ascendant during the Trump era.\n\nToward the end of her life, Ginsburg became a national icon. Due in part to her withering dissents, a young law student created a Tumblr account dedicated to Ginsburg called Notorious RBG - a nod to the late rapper The Notorious BIG.\n\nThe account introduced Ginsburg to a new generation of young feminists and propelled her to that rarest of distinctions for a judge: she became a cult figure.\n\nThe Notorious RBG was the subject of a documentary, an award-winning biopic and countless bestselling novels. She inspired Saturday Night Live skits and had her likeness plastered on mugs and T-shirts.\n\n\"It was beyond my wildest imagination that I would one day become the Notorious RBG,\" she said. \"I am now 86 years old and yet people of all ages want to take their picture with me.\"\n\nEvery aspect of her life was dissected and mythologised, from her workout routine to her love of hair scrunchies.\n\nAsked by NPR in 2019 if she had any regrets given the challenges she had faced in life, Ginsburg's supreme self-belief shone through.\n\n\"I do think I was born under a very bright star,\" she replied.", "John Turner's tenure as prime minister is the second shortest in Canada's history\n\nFormer Canadian Prime Minister John Turner, who was in office for just 79 days and led his Liberal Party to a huge defeat in 1984, has died aged 91.\n\nA lawyer by training, he served as justice and then finance minister from 1968-1975. He resigned after arguments with party leader Pierre Trudeau.\n\nTurner resumed his legal work and nine years later won the party leadership.\n\nHe called an election and then presided over what observers say was one of the worst campaigns in Canadian history.\n\nHis gaffes combined with growing public fatigue with the Liberals, who had been in power for 20 of the previous 21 years, resulted in his party falling from 135 seats in the 282-member House of Commons to just 40.\n\nThe Conservatives, under the leadership of Brian Mulroney, swept to power with 211 seats.\n\nDespite the result, Turner hung onto his post. In the 1988 election, Turner was a strong opponent of a proposed free trade agreement with the US but lost again to Mr Mulroney, but not as badly.\n\nHe resigned as a Liberal leader in 1990.\n\nAs justice minister, he defended reforms to Canada's Criminal Code that paved the way for LGBTQ rights and legal abortions. But in the finance ministry he faced economic pressures due to the global oil crisis.\n\nHis 79-day tenure as prime minister is the second shortest in the country's history.\n\nTurner died at home in Toronto on Friday night, Marc Kealey, a former aide speaking on behalf of his relatives told the Montreal Gazette. He is survived by his wife Geills and four children.", "The US has had nearly seven million confirmed Covid-19 cases\n\nUS health officials have rowed back on controversial advice issued last month that said people without Covid-19 symptoms should not get tested.\n\nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now says anyone in close contact with a known infected person should take a test.\n\nFriday's \"clarification\" returns the CDC's stance on testing to its previous guidance, before the August alteration.\n\nReports said the controversial advice had not been given by scientists.\n\nSources quoted by the New York Times said it had been posted on the CDC website despite experts' objections.\n\nMost US states had then rejected the guidance, Reuters reported, in a stinging rebuke to the nation's top disease prevention agency.\n\nSome observers suggested the controversial move could have reflected a desire by President Donald Trump to reduce the growing tally of Covid-19 cases.\n\nAt a rally in June, Mr Trump told supporters he had urged officials to \"slow the testing down, please\". A White House official dismissed the remark as a joke.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CDC director vs President Trump on face masks and vaccines\n\nHowever, administration officials denied any political motive, telling Reuters that the change reflected \"current evidence and best public health practices\".\n\nExperts welcomed the change of tack on Friday.\n\n\"The return to a science-based approach to testing guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is good news for public health and for our united fight against this pandemic,\" said Thomas File, president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.\n\nIn its \"overview of testing\" for healthcare workers the CDC now says: \"Due to the significance of asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic transmission, this guidance further reinforces the need to test asymptomatic persons, including close contacts of a person with documented SARS-CoV-2 infection.\"\n\nIt advises people to take a test \"if you have been in close contact, such as within 6ft of a person with documented SARS-CoV-2 infection for at least 15 minutes and do not have symptoms\".\n\nThe US has recorded nearly seven million cases of coronavirus, more than a fifth of the world's total. It has the world's highest death toll, with nearly 200,000 fatalities.", "Amal Clooney has quit her role as the UK's envoy on press freedom \"in dismay\" at the government's willingness to break international law over Brexit.\n\nThe human rights lawyer said it was \"lamentable\" for Boris Johnson to be contemplating overriding the Brexit agreement he signed last year.\n\nShe could not tell others to honour legal obligations when the UK \"declares it does not intend to do so itself\".\n\nThe PM says he does not want to use the powers in the Internal Market Bill.\n\nBut he says the legislation is necessary to give the government the power to protect the UK and, particularly, Northern Ireland if trade talks fail and the EU acts \"unreasonably\".\n\nIn her resignation letter, Mrs Clooney, who is married to Hollywood actor George Clooney, said she had accepted the job last year because of the UK's historic role in upholding the international legal order.\n\nBut she said the government's attempts to pass the Internal Market Bill, which passed its first hurdle in the Commons last week, made her position \"untenable\".\n\nShe said she had decided to quit after speaking to foreign secretary Dominic Raab and getting \"no assurance that any change of position is imminent\".\n\nShe added: \"It is lamentable for the UK to be speaking of its intention to violate an international treaty signed by the prime minister less than a year ago.\n\n\"It has become untenable for me, as Special Envoy, to urge other states to respect and enforce international obligations while the UK declares that it does not intend to do so itself.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer says it was “the right decision\" for the “first-class lawyer” to stand down.\n\nMrs Clooney was appointed by Jeremy Hunt, Mr Raab's predecessor, during the final months of Theresa May's government and continued in the role after Boris Johnson took over in No 10.\n\nShe was the deputy chair of the high-level panel of legal experts which works with the UK and Canadian governments on their campaign to promote media freedom around the world.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer, who used to practice in the same barristers' chambers as Ms Clooney, said she had taken the right decision.\n\n\"I know Amal and she is a first class lawyer. I'm not surprised that she has quit because, like others, she's concluded that there is a conflict between a breach of international law - which the government seems intent on - and our reputation as a country in the world that abides by the rule of law,\" he said.\n\nHer resignation adds to a growing list of senior legal figures who have quit their roles in disquiet at the government's position.\n\nLord Keen resigned as Advocate General for Scotland on Wednesday, saying he found it \"increasingly difficult to reconcile\" his obligations as a lawyer with provisions in the legislation.\n\nThe government's most senior legal adviser - Sir Jonathan Jones, permanent secretary to the government legal department - had already resigned, as had the UK's envoy for the protection of religious freedoms, Tory MP Rehman Chishti.\n\nThe EU has demanded the government removes sections of the Bill which would give the UK the power to override agreements on the movement of goods between Northern Ireland and Britain and subsidies for NI companies.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis has admitted the powers, if they were ever used, would break the UK's treaty obligations under international law in a \"specific and limited\" way.\n\nThe prime minister has sought to quell a potential rebellion by Tory MPs next week by promising critics that the Commons will get a specific vote on the powers before the government can use them.\n\nBut former Conservative leader Lord Howard has said the PM needs to go further, saying it was a matter of principle and he doubted whether the Lords would back the bill as it stands.", "British Airways is among many airlines hit hard by the pandemic, with problems in the sector having a knock-on effect on other industries\n\nThe first ministers of the devolved nations have called for \"urgent\" UK government intervention to help the struggling aerospace sector.\n\nScotland's Nicola Sturgeon, Mark Drakeford of Wales and Arlene Foster from Northern Ireland have signed a joint letter.\n\nThey believe a taskforce should be launched to help the industry, which has been hit hard by coronavirus.\n\nThe UK government said the industry was a \"critical part\" of the UK economy.\n\nA spokesman said it continued to work closely with the sector to ensure it can rebuild as the civil aviation market recovers.\n\nThe letter is also signed by leaders of the Unite union which brought the politicians together for the initiative.\n\nUnite says tens of thousands of jobs in the sector and associated industries are on the \"brink of being lost forever\".\n\nIn May, MPs were told up to 8,000 jobs could go in the aerospace sector in Wales.\n\nScotland has also been hit hard with more than 1,200 jobs likely to go at companies such as Rolls Royce and GE Caledonian.\n\nIn Northern Ireland Bombardier, Collins Aerospace and Thompson Aero have announced plans to lay off more than 1,300 staff.\n\nThe political leaders said the creation of an aerospace taskforce \"would be a positive signal to the sector\".\n\nThey added such a move would show \"all our governments remain committed to working together in order to preserve this sector that is hugely important to the whole of the UK\".\n\nAnd they stressed the need to act quickly, warning: \"Urgent intervention is now required to preserve capability and avert further damaging losses.\"\n\nThe proposed taskforce would include \"active participation\" from the governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, as well as unions and companies working in the sector.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"As we approach the closure of the furlough scheme at the end of October, there is a real possibility of significant job losses across the UK.\n\n\"We have repeatedly called for the UK government to reconsider its position and to extend the scheme, especially for sectors that have been particularly hard-hit like aerospace.\"\n\nShe added \"sector-specific approaches\" were necessary to prevent a \"severe\" long term impact.\n\nThe Scottish government has already set up an aerospace response group to help the industry address the challenges posed by the pandemic.\n\nPat Rafferty, Scottish secretary of Unite, said: \"Tens of thousands of highly-skilled jobs and those supported by the aerospace sector in the supply-chain are on the brink of being lost forever.\n\n\"It's clear that many of the measures required to support the sector reside with the UK government, which is why we are collectively asking the prime minister to immediately establish a UK aerospace taskforce to co-ordinate support.\"\n\nHe added the situation in Scotland alone \"risks a £185 million blow to the economy\".\n\nA UK government spokesman said: \"The aviation and aerospace sector remains a critical part of the UK economy and we will continue to work closely with industry through the Aerospace Growth Partnership to ensure it can rebuild as the civil aviation market recovers.\n\n\"The UK government is supporting the aerospace and aviation sectors with over £8.5bn in grants, loans and export guarantees.\n\n\"Through major R&D investment of nearly £2bn to 2026, we are also developing new tech to make air travel safer and greener while creating new, well-paid green jobs for decades to come.\"", "For some of those sunning themselves in London's St James's Park on Saturday afternoon, discussions ongoing just yards away at Downing Street on the tightening of national restrictions in England are at once both \"worrying\" and \"inevitable\".\n\nCouples and friends meeting for picnics and catch-ups told BBC News conflicting and confusing advice on what they can and cannot do during the pandemic runs alongside a general feeling of resignation over the prospect of national measures being tightened.\n\nRuth and Chris Parker, from Wigan but on a week's holiday after working non-stop since March, think the difference between social distancing in the north and south of England has been \"stark\".\n\n\"We were queuing for a pub in Putney last night and we had to just leave it,\" Chris, 48, says.\n\n\"There was no social distancing at all,\" Ruth, 49, adds. \"We ended up in Wagamamas, which was pretty well organised.\"\n\nThe couple say they think there has been a change in attitudes in the North West since a marked rise in coronavirus cases led to tighter local restrictions.\n\nWigan is one of the few areas in Greater Manchester to see local restrictions on households and movement lifted.\n\n\"People are now taking it pretty seriously there,\" says Chris, who conducted much of his work as a church minister virtually during the first lockdown.\n\n\"We do seem a bit better at social distancing,\" Ruth, a former music teacher, adds.\n\nA second lockdown has them worried, but Chris believes \"if it has to happen, it has to happen\".\n\n\"I think a national two-week lockdown is coming but not quite the full lockdown we had.\"\n\nRuth and Chris Parker described a \"stark\" difference in social distancing between the north and south of England\n\n\"It's not ideal,\" is Tom Duncan's view as he enjoys a meal deal with his partner Aisha.\n\nThe 21-year-old finance workers say they do not want to see another full lockdown with just a few permitted reasons for leaving home.\n\n\"Closing pubs and bars early seems fine,\" Tom says, \"But not being unable to see anyone again.\"\n\n\"It's going to have to happen as people don't care - people don't see it as a threat,\" Aisha adds.\n\n\"You can see when people have had a drink they don't socially distance.\"\n\nThe pair say they are now able to go back to their offices if they book a slot - but working from home has its advantages.\n\nIt also means a second lockdown \"doesn't really affect us,\" Aisha says. \"There's pros and cons to it.\"\n\nFinance workers Tom and Aisha said closing pubs and bars seemed reasonable but not a return to full restrictions on daily life\n\nNicola Evans, 24, who works for an engineering firm, says a second lockdown might not be the worst thing if it helps protect vulnerable people.\n\n\"I feel like, why not? If it's keeping people safe,\" she says.\n\n\"It's the way it is. Though I'd rather be able to see people.\n\n\"I'm working from home so it doesn't really affect me - as long as I'm able to get out of the house during the day.\n\n\"I've not gone back to the office yet, it keeps being postponed.\"\n\nBut for her friend Emmelia Georgio, 24, from Cyprus, the prospect of a second lockdown would throw a spanner into the final year of her Masters in dance movement psychotherapy.\n\n\"This year is already going to be very different,\" she says of her studies.\n\n\"It's a mix of online and in-person learning now, but I worry what would happen in a second lockdown.\n\n\"If there is a second lockdown it's hard to see how it is managed.\"\n\n\"We still have to pay fees and rent - and you think, 'what's the point in paying' if a lockdown happens,\" she adds.\n\nEmmelia, left, said a second lockdown would heavily impact her studies but Nicola said it would be worth it to keep people safe\n\nThere is little doubt about what will happen next for Antonia Brown and Ioanna Gkoutna - a second lockdown is \"inevitable\".\n\nIoanna, 21, arrived a week ago from her native Greece to begin a Masters at the University of Oxford.\n\n\"Compared to home, nobody here is taking things seriously,\" she says. \"I was really surprised when I came here. You're in Tescos, say, and so many people are not wearing masks and nobody is challenging them. The staff are not wearing masks.\"\n\nIoanna - from a part of Greece not covered by quarantine rules - thinks enforcement is crucial to any future lockdown.\n\n\"In Greece there is lots of enforcement of the rules,\" she says. \"I myself phoned the police when a man refused to wear a mask at the beach - if I did that here, what would even happen?\"\n\nAntonia, 22, from London, says \"London needs to wake up\" to the coronavirus once more.\n\n\"We're now talking about locking down harder but they had the audacity to say 'get back to work'.\"\n\nIoanna, left, said she felt lockdown was better enforced in her native Greece and Antonia said London needed to \"wake up\"\n\n\"We're running before we can walk,\" she adds.\n\n\"They're telling us to get out and spend money, and now the rates are going back up.\"\n\n\"Unless they enforce it, it won't make a difference,\" Ioanna adds, \"I've been [in the UK] for a week and haven't seen the police once.\"\n\nJust as Ioanna finishes speaking, a police officer passes on a bicycle taking a keen interest in those gathered for picnics in the park.\n\n\"Well, he's here now I guess.\"", "As climate change becomes a focus of the US election, energy companies stand accused of trying to downplay their contribution to global warming. In June, Minnesota's Attorney General sued ExxonMobil, among others, for launching a \"campaign of deception\" which deliberately tried to undermine the science supporting global warming. So what's behind these claims? And what links them to how the tobacco industry tried to dismiss the harms of smoking decades earlier?\n\nTo understand what's happening today, we need to go back nearly 40 years.\n\nMarty Hoffert leaned closer to his computer screen. He couldn't quite believe what he was seeing. It was 1981, and he was working in an area of science considered niche.\n\n\"We were just a group of geeks with some great computers,\" he says now, recalling that moment.\n\nBut his findings were alarming.\n\n\"I created a model that showed the Earth would be warming very significantly. And the warming would introduce climatic changes that would be unprecedented in human history. That blew my mind.\"\n\nA climate change protester outside the New York State Supreme Court during the ExxonMobil trial in October, 2019\n\nMarty Hoffert was one of the first scientists to create a model which predicted the effects of man-made climate change. And he did so while working for Exxon, one of the world's largest oil companies, which would later merge with another, Mobil.\n\nAt the time Exxon was spending millions of dollars on ground-breaking research. It wanted to lead the charge as scientists grappled with the emerging understanding that the warming planet could cause the climate to change in ways that could make life pretty difficult for humans.\n\nHoffert shared his predictions with his managers, showing them what might happen if we continued burning fossil fuels in our cars, trucks and planes.\n\nBut he noticed a clash between Exxon's own findings, and public statements made by company bosses, such as the then chief executive Lee Raymond, who said that \"currently, the scientific evidence is inconclusive as to whether human activities are having a significant effect on the global climate\".\n\n\"They were saying things that were contradicting their own world-class research groups,\" said Hoffert.\n\nAngry, he left Exxon, and went on to become a leading academic in the field.\n\n\"What they did was immoral. They spread doubt about the dangers of climate change when their own researchers were confirming how serious a threat it was.\"\n\nSo what changed? The record-breaking hot summer of 1988 was key. Big news in America, it gave extra weight to warnings from Nasa scientist Dr Jim Hansen that \"the greenhouse effect has been detected, and is changing our climate now\".\n\nPolitical leaders took notice. Then UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher acknowledged the great new global threat: \"The environmental challenge which confronts the whole world demands an equivalent response from the whole world.\"\n\nIn 1989, Exxon's strategy chief Duane Levine drew up a confidential presentation for the company's board, one of thousands of documents in the company's archive which were later donated to The University of Texas at Austin.\n\nLevine's presentation is an important document, often cited by researchers investigating Exxon's record on climate change science.\n\n\"We're starting to hear the inevitable call for action,\" it said, which risked what it called \"irreversible and costly draconian steps\".\n\n\"More rational responses will require efforts to extend the science and increase emphasis on costs and political realities.\"\n\nHow they made us doubt everything investigates how some of the world's most powerful interests made us doubt the connection between smoking and cancer, and how the same tactics were used to make us doubt climate change.\n\nListen to the podcast from BBC Radio 4 here\n\nKert Davies has scoured through Exxon's archive. He used to work as a research director at the environmental pressure group Greenpeace, where he looked into corporate opposition to climate change. This inspired him to set up The Climate Investigations Centre. He explains why this Exxon presentation mattered:\n\n\"They are worried the public will take this on, and enact radical changes in the way we use energy and affect their business, that's the bottom line.\"\n\nHe says this fear can also be seen in another document from the archive that sets out the so-called \"Exxon position\", which was to \"emphasise the uncertainty\" regarding climate change.\n\nResearchers argue this was just the start of a decades-long campaign to shape public opinion and to spread doubt about climate change.\n\nIn June 2020, the General Attorney of Minnesota Keith Ellison sued ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Institute (API) and Koch Industries for misleading the public over climate change. The lawsuit claims that \"previously unknown internal documents confirm that the defendant well understood the devastating effects that their products would cause to the climate\".\n\nIt says that despite this knowledge, the industry \"engaged in a public-relations campaign that was not only false, but also highly effective,\" which served to \"deliberately [undermine] the science\" of climate change.\n\nThe accusations against Exxon and others - which the company has called \"baseless and without merit\" - build on years of painstaking research by people like Kert Davies and Naomi Oreskes, professor of the history of science at Harvard University and co-author of Merchants of Doubt.\n\n\"Rather than accept the scientific evidence, they made the decision to fight the facts,\" she said.\n\nBut this isn't just about Exxon's past actions. In the same year as the Levine presentation, 1989, many energy companies and fossil fuel dependent industries came together to form the Global Climate Coalition, which aggressively lobbied US politicians and media.\n\nThen in 1991, the trade body that represents electrical companies in the US, the Edison Electric Institute, created a campaign called the Information Council for the Environment (ICE) which aimed to \"Reposition global warming as theory (not fact)\". Some details of the campaign were leaked to the New York Times.\n\n\"They ran advertising campaigns designed to undermine public support, cherry picking the data to say, 'Well if the world is warming up, why is Kentucky getting colder?' They asked rhetorical questions designed to create confusion, to create doubt,\" argued Naomi Oreskes.\n\nThe ICE campaign identified two groups which would be most susceptible to its messaging. The first was \"older, lesser educated males from larger households who are not typically information seekers\".\n\nThe second group was \"younger, low-income women,\" who could be targeted with bespoke adverts which would liken those who talked about climate change to a hysterical doom-saying cartoon chicken.\n\nThe Edison Electric Institute didn't respond to questions about ICE, but told the BBC that its members are \"leading a clean energy transformation, and are united in their commitment to get the energy they provide as clean as they can, as fast as they can\".\n\nBut back in the 1990 there were many campaigns like this.\n\n\"Unless 'climate change' becomes a non-issue,\" says another, leaked to the New York Times in 1997, \"there may be no moment when we can declare victory\".\n\nTo achieve victory, the industry planned to \"identify, recruit and train a team of five independent scientists to participate in media outreach\".\n\nThis important tactic assumed the public would be suspicious if oil industry executives dismissed climate change, but might trust the views of seemingly independent scientists.\n\nThese would be put forward to take part in debates on TV, potentially confusing a general audience who would see opposing scientists in white coats arguing about complex technical details without knowing who to believe.\n\nThe problem was, sometimes these \"white coats\" weren't truly independent. Some climate sceptic researchers were taking money from the oil industry.\n\nDrexel University emeritus professor Bob Brulle studied the funding for the climate change \"counter movement\". He identified 91 institutions which he says either denied or downplayed the risks of climate change, including the Cato Institute and the now-defunct George C Marshall Institute.\n\nHe found that between 2003 and 2007, ExxonMobil gave $7.2m (£5.6m) to such bodies, while between 2008 and 2010, the American Petroleum Institute trade body (API) donated just under $4m (£3m).\n\nIn its 2007 Corporate Citizenship Report, ExxonMobil said it would stop funding such groups in 2008.\n\nOf course many researchers would argue such money didn't influence their climate contrarian work. It seems some may have been motivated by something else.\n\nMost of the organisations opposing or denying climate change science were right-wing think tanks, who tended to be passionately anti-regulation.\n\nThese groups made convenient allies for the oil industry, as they would argue against action on climate change on ideological grounds.\n\nJerry Taylor spent 23 years with the Cato Institute - one of those right wing think tanks - latterly as vice president. Before he left in 2014, he would regularly appear on TV and radio, insisting that the science of climate change was uncertain and there was no need to act. Now, he realises his arguments were based on a misinterpretation of the science, and he regrets the impact he's had on the debate.\n\n\"For 25 years, climate sceptics like me made it a core matter of ideological identity that if you believe in climate change, then you are by definition a socialist. That is what climate sceptics have done.\"\n\nThe BBC asked the Cato Institute about its work on climate change, but it did not respond.\n\nThis ideological divide has had far-reaching consequences. Polls conducted in May 2020 showed that just 22% of Americans who vote Republican believed climate change is man-made, compared with 72% of Democrats.\n\nUnfortunately many of the \"expert scientists\" quoted by journalists to try to offer balance in their coverage of climate change were - like Jerry Taylor - making arguments based on their beliefs rather than relevant research.\n\n\"Usually these people have some scientific credentials, but they're not actually experts in climate science,\" says Harvard historian Naomi Oreskes.\n\nShe began digging into the background of leading climate sceptics, including Fred Seitz, a nuclear physicist and former president of the US National Academy of Sciences. She found he was deeply anti-communist, believing any government intervention in the marketplace \"would put us on the slippery slope to socialism\".\n\nShe also discovered that he had been active in the debates around smoking in the 1980s.\n\n\"That was a Eureka moment. We realised this was not a scientific debate. A person with expertise about climate change would in no way be an expert about oncology or public health or cardiovascular disease, or any of the key issues associated with tobacco.\n\n\"The fact that the same people were arguing in both cases was a clue that something fishy was going on. That's what led us to discover this pattern of disinformation that gets systemically used again and again.\"\n\nNaomi Oreskes spent years going through the tobacco archive at the University of California at San Francisco. It contains more than 14 million documents that were made available thanks to litigation against US tobacco firms.\n\nA strikingly familiar story emerged. Decades before the energy industry tried to undermine the case for climate change, tobacco companies had used the same techniques to challenge the emerging links between smoking and lung cancer in the 1950s.\n\nThe story began at Christmas 1953. In New York's luxurious Plaza Hotel, the heads of the tobacco companies met to discuss a new threat to their business model.\n\nDetails of the night's anxious conversations were recorded in a document written by public relations guru John Hill from Hill and Knowlton.\n\nWidely read mass-market magazines like Readers Digest and Time Life had begun publishing articles about the association between smoking and lung cancer. And researchers like those who had found that lab mice painted with cigarette tar got cancer were attracting increasing attention.\n\nAs John Hill wrote in the 1953 document, \"salesmen in the industry are frantically alarmed, and the decline in tobacco stocks on the stock exchange market has caused grave concern\".\n\nHill recommended fighting science with science. \"We do not believe the industry should indulge in any flashy or spectacular ballyhoo. There is no public relations [medicine] known to us at least, which will cure the ills of the industry.\"\n\nAs a later document by tobacco company Brown and Williamson summarised the approach: \"Doubt is our product, since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' that exists in the minds of the general public.\"\n\nNaomi Oreskes says this understanding of the power of doubt is vital.\n\n\"They realise they can't win this battle by making a false claim that sooner or later would be exposed. But if they can create doubt, that would be sufficient - because if people are confused about the issue, there's a good chance they'll just keep smoking.\"\n\nHill advised setting up the \"Tobacco Industry Research Committee\" to promote \"the existence of weighty scientific views which hold there is no proof that cigarette smoking is a cause of lung cancer\".\n\nAs in the climate change debate decades later, \"Project Whitecoat\" would pit scientist against scientist.\n\nAccording to Oreskes, the project targeted those who were already doing research into other causes of cancer or lung conditions - such as asbestos - which the tobacco industry could fund.\n\n\"The purpose of these programmes was not to advance scientific understanding, it was to create enough confusion that the American people would doubt the existing scientific evidence.\"\n\nJournalists were one of the tobacco industry's main targets. The Tobacco Industry Research Committee held meetings in its offices in the Empire State Building for major newspaper editors. It even persuaded one of the most famous broadcast journalists of the time, Edward R Murrow, to interview its experts.\n\nThe eventual edition of Murrow's celebrated television programme \"See It Now\" - broadcast in 1955 -shows Project Whitecoat in action, with tobacco industry funded scientists set against independent researchers.\n\nBut as would happen later with climate change, it was difficult for the audience at home to form an opinion when opposing scientists contradicted each other. Even Murrow ended up on the fence. \"We have no credentials for reaching conclusions on this subject,\" he said.\n\nIf doubt was the industry's true product, then it appeared to be a roaring success.\n\nFor decades, none of the legal challenges launched against the tobacco companies themselves succeeded.\n\nThis was partly due to the effectiveness of Project Whitecoat, as an internal memo from tobacco firm RJ Reynolds in May 1979 concludes: \"Due to favourable scientific testimony, no plaintiff has ever collected a penny from any tobacco company in lawsuits claiming that smoking causes lung cancer or cardiovascular illness - even though 117 such cases have been brought since 1954.\"\n\nBut pressure on the tobacco companies continued to mount. In 1997, the industry paid $350m (£272m) to settle a class action brought by flight attendants who had developed lung cancer and other illnesses which they argued were caused by second-hand cigarette smoke from passengers.\n\nThis settlement paved the way to a landmark ruling in 2006, when Judge Gladys Kessler found US tobacco companies guilty of fraudulently misrepresenting the health risks associated with smoking.\n\nJudge Kessler detailed how the industry \"marketed and sold their lethal products with zeal, with deception, with a single-minded focus on their financial success, and without regard for the human tragedy or social costs\".\n\nFlight attendant Norma Broin was the lead plaintiff in the passive smoking class action after developing lung cancer, despite being a non-smoker\n\nThe tobacco companies may have eventually lost their battle to hide the harms of smoking, but the blueprint drawn up by John Hill and his colleagues proved to be very effective.\n\n\"What he wrote is the same memo we have seen in multiple industries subsequently,\" says David Michaels, professor of public health at George Washington University, and author of The Triumph of Doubt, which details how the pesticides, plastics and sugar industries have also used these tactics.\n\n\"We called it 'the tobacco playbook', because the tobacco industry was so successful.\n\n\"They made a product that killed millions of people across the world, and the science has been very strong [about that] for many years, but through this campaign to manufacture uncertainty, they were able to delay first, formal recognition of the terrible impact of tobacco, and then delay regulation and defeat litigation for decades, with obviously terrible consequences.\"\n\nWe asked Hill and Knowlton about its work for the tobacco companies, but it did not respond.\n\nIn a statement, ExxonMobil told the BBC that \"allegations about the company's climate research are inaccurate and deliberately misleading\".\n\n\"For more than 40 years, we have supported development of climate science in partnership with governments and academic institutions. That work continues today in an open and transparent way.\n\n\"Deliberately cherry-picked statements attributed to a small number of employees wrongly suggest definitive conclusions were reached decades ago.\"\n\nExxonMobil added that it recently won the court case brought by the New York Attorney General which had accused the company of fraudulently accounting for the costs of climate change regulation.\n\nBut academics like David Michaels fear the use of uncertainty in the past to confuse the public and undermine science has contributed to a dangerous erosion of trust in facts and experts across the globe today, far beyond climate science or the dangers of tobacco.\n\nHe cites public attitudes to modern issues like the safety of 5G, vaccinations - and coronavirus.\n\n\"By cynically manipulating and distorting scientific evidence, the manufacturers of doubt have seeded in much of the public a cynicism about science, making it far more difficult to convince people that science provides useful - in some cases, vitally important - information.\n\n\"There is no question that this distrust of science and scientists is making it more difficult to stem the coronavirus pandemic.\"\n\nIt seems the legacy of \"the tobacco playbook\" lives on.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Hospitality curfews and travel curbs 'likely options'\n\nA further 350 new cases of coronavirus have been reported in Scotland, the highest daily increase since May.\n\nAccording to Scottish government figures, a further three people who tested positive for the virus have died.\n\nSixty four people were in hospital on Friday - nine in intensive care.\n\nThe figures bring the cumulative number of Covid-19 confirmed deaths in Scotland to 2,505 since the outbreak began.\n\nHowever going by monthly data from the National Records of Scotland, there have been 4,236 deaths where the virus is mentioned on a death certificate.\n\nGreater Glasgow and Clyde recorded 116 new cases, the highest increase among Scotland's health boards.\n\nScotland's national clinical director Jason Leitch told BBC Scotland that recent trends would trigger an examination of what the government restricts \"regionally and nationally\".\n\nHe said the nature of the spread of the virus meant \"the dashboard is flashing amber\" and that advice given to the Scottish government would now start to change.\n\n\"We're not in a position where national stay at home measures are the order of the day,\" he said.\"What we know is the principal risk is household mixing.\n\n\"Anything that restricts household mixing is attractive to the public health people.\n\n\"That gets you into hospitality territory, household gathering territory - all those things you've seen us think about previously particularly around the seven local authorities in the west that are under heavier restrictions.\"\n\nThe latest figures were announced after the first minister warned that tighter restrictions could be issued to combat a rise in cases.\n\nDaily Covid cases have steadily risen throughout September, however the 350 new cases show a marked jump compared with Friday's 203.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said \"greater restrictions\" might be needed to \"interrupt\" the spread of the virus, while preventing a full-scale lockdown.\n\nLinda Bauld, professor of public health at Edinburgh University, told BBC Scotland: \"The priority for the Scottish government and most people is keeping the schools open, keeping education going.\n\n\"If we don't want to see many more people going into hospital, we are going to have to pause other parts of the economy.\"\n\nShe added: \"Closures will be a last resort - the more restrictive lockdowns - and things like curfews may be an intermediate step but i think it's almost inevitable.\n\n\"The other thing i would anticipate in terms of the ongoing restrictions in meeting in each other's homes is we may see travel restrictions applied within the country, because obviously we don't want one area with higher cases to affect a neighbouring area.\"\n\nRestrictions on people visiting other households were reintroduced in Glasgow city, West Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire on 2 September after concerns about the number of cases.\n\nEarlier this week, the Scottish government paused the next set of changes to lockdown rules and toughened other measures.", "Pub curfews have come into force in Newcastle as part of new restrictions imposed in north-east England.\n\nAs part of the temporary measures, pubs and restaurants can only offer table service and have to shut at 22:00 BST.\n\nScott Jardine, who runs Classic Catering, said he had one customer in four hours on Friday night. He does not think the early closures will make a difference and said \"the virus doesn't die at 10 o'clock\".\n\nThe rules affect Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland, Northumberland, South Tyneside, North Tyneside and the County Durham council area.", "A few hundred US troops remain in Syria's north-east\n\nThe US has ramped up its military presence in Syria after a number of skirmishes with Russian forces intensified tensions in the country.\n\nUS officials said six Bradley Fighting Vehicles and about 100 troops were part of the deployment to north-east Syria.\n\nIncidents between US and Russian forces that patrol that part of the country have escalated this year.\n\nUS Navy Captain Bill Urban said the move would \"ensure the safety and security of Coalition forces\".\n\nHe added that, alongside the fighting vehicles, which had been based in Kuwait, the US would also deploy a \"Sentinel radar\" and increase \"the frequency of US fighter patrols over US forces\".\n\n\"The United States does not seek conflict with any other nation in Syria, but will defend Coalition forces if necessary,\" Mr Urban, a spokesman for US Central Command, said in a statement on Friday.\n\nMr Urban did not mention Russia by name, but a separate statement from a US official, first reported by NBC News, was more pointed.\n\n\"These actions and reinforcements are a clear signal to Russia to adhere to mutual de-confliction processes and for Russia and other parties to avoid unprofessional, unsafe and provocative actions in north-east Syria,\" the unnamed US official said.\n\nNBC News cited officials as saying the troops and vehicles were sent to deter Russian forces from entering a security area, where US coalition and Kurdish forces were operating.\n\nOver the years, there have been frequent interactions between US and Russian forces in Syria. But in recent weeks, incidents in north-east Syria have become increasingly belligerent.\n\nAt the end of August, seven American soldiers were injured in a collision with a Russian vehicle. The Russian and US governments blamed each other for the collision, which was filmed and posted to Twitter.\n\nA clip of the incident was broadcast by Russian website Rusvesna.su\n\nThe US said Russian forces had entered a \"security zone\" that they had agreed to stay out of. Russia, meanwhile, said it had given the US military prior warning that it would be patrolling there.\n\nThe US has about 500 troops in the area - far fewer than previously - to help secure it against any further threat from Islamic State (IS) jihadists. The\n\nThe Russians back Syrian government forces while the Americans support local Kurdish fighters, part of a civil war that has convulsed the country since 2011.\n\nRussia, which supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces, has long opposed the presence of the US military in the country.\n\nIn October 2019, US President Donald Trump decided to withdraw 1,000 US troops that were operating in support of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance.\n\nMonths later, Mr Trump said he had decided to keep a few hundred troops in the country to protect oil wells.", "Bolton is currently subject to tighter restrictions\n\nA returning holidaymaker who went on a pub crawl instead of self-isolating was partly responsible for Bolton's \"extreme spike\" in coronavirus cases, the town's council leader said.\n\nDavid Greenhalgh said the man tested positive for Covid-19 two days after the night out with friends in the town.\n\nHe said Bolton's high rate had been linked back to pubs and a \"cohort of people\" who refused to follow guidance.\n\nIt is currently subject to tighter restrictions to halt the rise.\n\nMr Greenhalgh told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the spike \"took us by surprise as we were arguing to have a further easing of restrictions at the time\".\n\nHe said: \"We had an extreme spike where we went from 12 cases per 100,000 and in less than three weeks we were up at 212 cases.\"\n\nThe rise led Bolton to have the highest rates of Covid-19 in the country.\n\n\"We had somebody who did not adhere to quarantine, did not stay the 14 days, literally went on a pub crawl with a number of mates,\" Mr Greenhalgh said.\n\n\"From that incident which took place over a weekend - (they) visited a number of premises - led to a large number of individual transmissions from that one person which you can imagine then is like holding back the tide because he then became symptomatic two days after they had all gone on this pub crawl.\n\n\"That is four or five days where all the people he was in contact with have been going about their normal day-to-day business.\"\n\nBolton is now subject to tougher measures than most of England, with hospitality venues only allowed to operate as takeaways and ordered to shut by 22:00.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Police say the shooting happened at an illegal house party (file photo)\n\nTwo people have been killed and 14 others wounded after a shooting at a house party in the state of New York.\n\nPolice in the city of Rochester said they arrived to find around 100 people running down the street.\n\n\"This is truly a tragedy of epic proportions,\" acting police chief Mark Simmons told reporters on Saturday.\n\nThe city's police have been under increasing pressure over the death of Daniel Prude, a black man who was hooded and restrained during an arrest.\n\nHe died in March, but the case only became public earlier this month. Rochester police chief La'Ron Singletary has since stepped down, saying that his handling of the case was being distorted. Seven officers have also been suspended.\n\nNo suspects have been arrested over Saturday's shooting and no motive has been identified.\n\nMr Simmons said the two victims, a man and a woman who have not been named, were aged between 18 and 22. None of the 14 others who were shot suffered life-threatening injuries.\n\nParties remain prohibited under New York state's coronavirus restrictions, according to Rochester city's website.\n\n\"This is yet another tragedy where individuals are having these illegal, unsanctioned house parties taking place in these properties, which number one is not safe because of Covid,\" said Mr Simmons.\n\n\"And then you add in alcohol and violence and it just becomes a recipe for disaster.\"\n\nRochester has seen regular protests over the death of Daniel Prude", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Selected live radio and text commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, BBC Sounds, the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nTop seed Novak Djokovic was disqualified from the US Open for accidentally hitting a ball at a line judge in his fourth-round match.\n\nDjokovic, 33, showed his frustration after losing serve to trail 6-5 against Spain's Pablo Carreno Busta.\n\nThe Serbian world number one took a ball out of his pocket and hit it behind him, striking the female line judge in her throat.\n\nAfter a lengthy discussion, he was defaulted by tournament officials.\n• None 'Djokovic will win again - hopefully with a little more humility'\n• None 'Sad and empty' Djokovic 'extremely sorry' for hurting line judge\n• None Right decision to disqualify Djokovic, says Henman\n\nA United States Tennis Association statement said: \"In accordance with the Grand Slam rulebook, following his actions of intentionally hitting a ball dangerously or recklessly within the court or hitting a ball with negligent disregard of the consequences, the tournament referee defaulted Novak Djokovic from the 2020 US Open.\n\n\"Because he was defaulted, Djokovic will lose all ranking points earned at the US Open and will be fined the prize money won at the tournament in addition to any or all fines levied with respect to the offending incident.\"\n\nOops you can't see this activity! To enjoy Newsround at its best you will need to have JavaScript turned on.\n\nDjokovic was the heavy favourite to win the men's singles title at the US Open, which is being played behind closed doors and is the first Grand Slam to take place since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nGoing into the encounter with 20th seed Carreno Busta, Djokovic had not lost a singles match in 2020.\n\nHe was aiming for an 18th Grand Slam triumph to move closer to rivals Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, who are not playing in New York, in the race to finish with the most men's major titles of all time.\n\nDjokovic's exit means there will be a new male Grand Slam champion for the first time since Marin Cilic won at Flushing Meadows in 2014.\n\nA player outside of Djokovic, Federer and Nadal will win a major for the first time since Stan Wawrinka won the US Open in 2016.\n\nCarreno Busta, who reached the US Open semi-finals in 2017, will play Denis Shapovalov in the quarter-finals after the 21-year-old Canadian 12th seed beat Belgium's David Goffin 6-7 (0-7) 6-3 6-4 6-3.\n\nDjokovic's costly moment of frustration - how the drama unfolded\n\nDjokovic had been playing well up until the game where he lost serve and had three set points at 5-4 before Carreno Busta fought back from 0-40 down.\n\nHowever, the world number one also showed a flash of his temper during that ninth game by whacking a ball into an advertising board after the Spaniard brought it back to deuce.\n\nLeon Smith, Great Britain's Davis Cup captain, said he was \"surprised\" Djokovic did not get a warning for that incident, and felt one might have prevented the controversy which followed.\n\nAfter Djokovic was defaulted, Smith told BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra: \"There has to be consistency, if someone hits a ball with that much venom and temper, call a warning.\n\n\"The second one can be dangerous and so it proved to be.\"\n\nIn what proved the final game, Djokovic fell and hurt his shoulder, immediately calling for a medical timeout when trailing 0-30. Following treatment, the match resumed with Carreno Busta sealing the game three points later.\n\nIt was then that Djokovic hit the ball away, striking the line judge.\n\nDjokovic appeared to plead his case to tournament referee Soeren Friemel and Grand Slam supervisor Andreas Egli during a long conversation at the net.\n\nEventually, however, he accepted his fate and shook hands with Carreno Busta, who looked shocked by what had happened as he waited for a decision in his chair.\n\nDjokovic left Flushing Meadows without doing his news conference and later posted an apology on his Instagram page.\n\n'The officials had no choice' - reaction\n\nDjokovic's opponent Pablo Carreno Busta: \"I didn't see the moment, I was looking at my coach, celebrating the break and then I saw the line judge on the floor. I was in shock.\n\n\"When they were talking at the net I was focused in case I had to continue playing. This moment was so long. Finally Novak gave me the hand.\n\n\"I think it was not intentional. I don't think anyone of us do this intentionally. It's just the moment. It was bad luck.\n\n\"Of course you can't do this. The rules are the rules. The referee and the supervisor did the right thing but it isn't easy to make this decision.\"\n\nGB Davis Cup captain Leon Smith on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra: \"It's a habit. He did it five minutes beforehand, with much more venom, and he was just lucky it hit the advertising board. It could have hit one of the ball kids.\"\n\nMartina Navratilova, winner of 18 Grand Slam singles titles: \"Unbelievable what just happened on the court at the US Open - Novak Djokovic defaulted for inadvertently but stupidly hitting a lineswoman in the throat with a ball and the officials had no choice but to default. Wow. Glad the woman is OK - we must do better than that.\"\n\nIf Novak Djokovic hadn't have been defaulted in that situation, can you imagine the outrage? What sort of light would that have shone on tennis neutrality and the decisions that these officials make?\n\nIt was an open and shut case to me.\n\nI don't see how you could argue that was not a disqualification. It doesn't matter how hard you hit the ball. I don't think he has any defence at all.\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Is Tom Hanks' Captain Sully all he appears?", "Security forces chased the attackers through the tourist areas of El Kantaoui\n\nSecurity officials in Tunisia say a police officer has been killed and another wounded in a knife attack in the coastal resort of Sousse.\n\nThree assailants were shot dead after the incident, which is being described as a terrorist attack.\n\nIn 2015 Sousse was the scene of one of Tunisia's worst attacks, when 38 people, most of them British tourists, were killed by a gunman.\n\nThe latest incident comes two days after a new government was sworn in.\n\nThe suspected militants rammed their vehicle into a National Guard checkpoint at a junction near the city's port.\n\n\"A patrol of two National Guard officers was attacked with a knife in the centre of Sousse,\" National Guard spokesman Houcem Eddine Jebabli said, according to the AFP news agency.\n\n\"One died as a martyr and the other was wounded and is hospitalised,\" he said.\n\nThe knifemen stole guns and a police vehicle during the attack before making off, Mr Jebabli said. Security forces took off after them through the tourist areas of El Kantaoui.\n\n\"In a firefight three terrorists were killed,\" he said, adding that two guns and the car were recovered.\n\nIt is unclear if the assailants were tied to any particular extremist group, but the wider threat in Tunisia in recent years has been from dispersed sleeper cells composed of jihadists that returned from Syria, Libya, and Iraq, says the BBC's Rana Jawad in the capital Tunis.\n\nThirty-eight people lost their lives when a gunman opened fire on tourists staying in El Kantaoui in June 2015. Thirty of those killed were British tourists staying at the Hotel Rui Imperial Marhaba.\n\nThe Islamic State (IS) said it was behind the attack by Tunisian student Seifeddine Rezgui.\n\nThe situation in Tunisia has improved greatly since then, although a state of emergency is in place.\n\nSince 2015, successive governments have changed their counter-terrorism strategy by focusing more on prevention, rather than response, our reporter says.\n\nCountries like Germany and the UK have contributed to training security forces.\n\nThis week Tunisia's parliament approved a new government formed by Prime Minister-designate Hichem Mechichi.\n\nMr Mechichi appointed technocrats to his government rather than members of political parties as had been the case in the past.", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nRaheem Sterling's late penalty gave England victory as they started their Uefa Nations League campaign in Iceland - despite the hosts squandering the chance to rescue a point by missing an injury-time spot-kick.\n\nIn an chaotic end to a largely dull encounter, Sterling looked to have secured three points for manager Gareth Southgate's side when he rolled in an 89th-minute spot-kick after his shot was handled by Sverrir Ingason, who was then sent off after receiving a second yellow card.\n\nEngland, who had earlier been reduced to 10 men after Kyle Walker was also sent off for second yellow card, had to survive that last-gasp scare when Iceland were awarded a penalty for Joe Gomez's foul but Birkir Bjarnason was wildly off target.\n\nEngland made hard work of the win against a stubborn and well-organised Iceland but were the better and more positive side.\n\nSouthgate's team, playing their first game since the 4-0 win in Kosovo in November, showed understandable rustiness with the Premier League restart still a week away and England were frustrated further when Walker was dismissed for a second yellow card with 20 minutes left.\n\nWalker's recall was marred by his challenge on Arnor Traustason - but England had an even bigger cause for complaint when an early goal from captain Harry Kane was ruled out for offside. There was no VAR for this game and replays showed Kane was onside as he pounced on Sterling's left-wing cross.\n\nThis was a lifeless affair behind closed doors against the side who humiliated England at Euro 2016 and Southgate will have learned little despite giving a debut to Manchester City's Phil Foden and introducing Manchester United teenage striker Mason Greenwood for his debut late on - but he will take the victory before Tuesday's game in Denmark.\n• None How you rated the players\n\nThere was very little positive for England in this match other than the victory itself but it must also be placed in the context of when this game was being played and its circumstances.\n\nThis was almost like a behind-closed-doors pre-season friendly in an international guise so it comes as no surprise that England lacked the sort of sharpness and inspiration that would have come with more match practice.\n\nSouthgate will have been delighted to give Foden the first of many England caps while Greenwood will also have enjoyed his taste of international action during his cameo after coming on as a substitute for Kane.\n\nSterling calmly rolled in the penalty that eventually gave England their opening Nations League win but Southgate will not have welcomed Walker's rash challenge, irrespective of the level of contact, that brought him his second yellow card and the clumsy foul by Gomez that almost threw Iceland that injury-time lifeline.\n\nEngland, as a plus, were patient and probing and, despite the colourless nature of the game, deserved the win, even though it arrived so late.\n\nEngland move on to face Denmark in Copenhagen on Tuesday buoyed by these opening three points and Southgate will have been delighted to spend so much time with his players after the international hiatus as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe was able to watch some of the younger players he introduced into the squad at close quarters and may be able to see them in England action once more against the Danes.\n\nIceland were defiant, as they always are, rigid in defence and lacking in attacking ambition, willing to simply keep England at arm's length and maybe land a counter-punch.\n\nThey almost did with that late penalty but England survived to make a winning restart to their international calendar.\n• None All three of England's victories in the Nations League have been by a different one-goal margin (3-2 v Spain, 2-1 v Croatia, 1-0 v Iceland).\n• None Iceland have lost all five of their Nations League games by an aggregate score of 1-14.\n• None Iceland failed to have a single shot on target in this match, while Sterling's winning penalty was England's only attempt on target in the second half.\n• None Sterling's goal was his 13th in all competitions for England, but his first from the penalty spot. He has had a hand in 17 goals in his last 12 appearances for England (11 goals, 6 assists).\n• None Danny Ings made his first appearance for England since October 2015 - 1,790 days ago. It is the longest gap between England games for an outfield player since Lee Dixon went 1,911 days between 1993 and 1999.\n• None Walker became the first England player to be sent off since Sterling v Ecuador in June 2014.\n• None Greenwood and Foden both made their England debuts in this match - it is the first time a Manchester United and a Manchester City player have earned their first England caps in the same game since September 1992 v Spain (Paul Ince and David White).\n• None Penalty missed! Bad penalty by Birkir Bjarnason (Iceland) right footed shot is just a bit too high. Birkir Bjarnason should be disappointed.\n• None Joseph Gomez (England) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Penalty conceded by Joseph Gomez (England) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Goal! Iceland 0, England 1. Raheem Sterling (England) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.\n• None Second yellow card to Sverrir Ingason (Iceland) for hand ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Raheem Sterling (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Penalty conceded by Sverrir Ingason (Iceland) with a hand ball in the penalty area.\n• None Offside, Iceland. Birkir Bjarnason tries a through ball, but Jón Dadi Bödvarsson is caught offside. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "An Austrian man has broken a world record, by standing in a box filled with ice for over two-and-a-half hours.\n\nJosef Koeberl beat the previous record for full-body contact, which he set himself last year, by over 25 minutes.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: \"We are concerned about this rise in cases\"\n\nA further 2,988 cases of coronavirus have been reported in the UK in the past 24 hours, government data showed.\n\nIt is the highest number reported on a single day since 22 May and a rise of 1,175 on Saturday, according to the UK government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said he was \"concerned\" about a rise in cases \"predominantly among young people\".\n\nTwo further deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded, taking the total number of UK deaths to 41,551.\n\nMr Hancock added: \"It's so important that everybody does their bit and follows the social distancing because it doesn't matter how old you are, how affected you might be by this disease, you can pass the disease on to others.\"\n\n\"So don't pass the disease on to your grandparents if you're a young person, everybody needs to follow the social distancing.\"\n\nDespite the sharp rise in cases, Mr Hancock said the government was right to reopen schools \"because of the impact on children of not getting an education\", adding that workplaces which have reopened are \"Covid-secure\".\n\nScotland recorded 208 new cases on Sunday, its highest daily increase for more than 17 weeks.\n\nWales recorded a further 98 cases, its highest daily rise since 30 June, and Northern Ireland recorded 106 new cases, its highest rise since 25 April.\n\nOverall, since the start of the pandemic, 347,152 cases have been confirmed in the UK.\n\nThe number of daily reported cases has been rising steadily and some of that has been put down to an increase in the number of people being tested.\n\nPut simply, the more you test the more new cases you will find. But the jump of more than one thousand in a day is a significant new spike.\n\nThe health secretary says the government is concerned and has renewed official calls for more vigilance on social distancing.\n\nWhat Matt Hancock and health officials are worried about is that the UK might follow the same path as France and Spain, where increases in infections amongst younger adults led after a few weeks to higher numbers of admissions to hospitals for older and more vulnerable patients.\n\nThe number of people seriously ill in hospital with Covid-19 has fallen and there were just two new daily reported deaths.\n\nMedical leaders and ministers can only hope that the spread of the virus amongst younger people does not get passed on to the elderly and those with underlying health problems.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said ministers needed to \"set out what is being done to get testing back on track and bring case numbers down\".\n\nHe said the increase in cases came on top of \"the ongoing testing fiasco where ill people are told to drive for miles for tests, and the poor performance of the contact tracing system\".\n\nIncreased demand led bosses in charge of the coronavirus testing system to apologise after it emerged UK labs were struggling to keep up.\n\nScreening capacity was described last week as being \"maxed out\" - 170,000 tests a day are being processed, up from 100,000 in mid June.\n\nProf Paul Hunter, an expert in outbreak response at the University of East Anglia, said some of the rise may be due to the system catching up after delays when it struggled to keep up with demand, but added it was still a \"marked increase\".\n\n\"Sadly it is beginning to look like we are moving into a period of exponential growth in the UK epidemic, and if so we can expect further increases over coming weeks,\" he said.\n\nBirmingham had the single largest increase in cases overnight, and the majority of new cases were in the north of England, said Yvonne Doyle, Public Health England's medical director.\n\nBut she said no single area accounted for the overnight change, with broad increases in Covid-19 cases across England.\n\nThe rise in positive tests came as tougher measures limiting household contacts were introduced in Bolton in an effort to stop coronavirus cases rising and prevent a full local lockdown.\n\nThe infection rate in the area has risen to 99 cases per 100,000 people per week - the highest in England.\n\nCommenting on Scotland's increase, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"While this reflects the substantial opening up of the economy, it reminds us of the need to deploy counter measures.\"\n\nShe added that the \"first line of defence\" is to \"take greater care on face coverings, hygiene and distance\".\n\nMeanwhile, speaking earlier on Sunday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the economy \"needs to have people back at work\".\n\nMr Raab acknowledged there was likely to be a \"bit more\" remote working in future.\n\nHowever, he added: \"It is important to send a message that we need to get Britain back up and running, the economy motoring on all cylinders.\"\n\nMr Raab also played down suggestions that coronavirus testing at airports would help travellers avoid mandatory quarantine.", "Daniel Prude died a week after he was restrained by police\n\nNew York's attorney general has said a grand jury will be formed to investigate the death of Daniel Prude, an unarmed black man who suffocated after being restrained by police.\n\nMr Prude - who suffered from mental health issues - died after officers put him in a \"spit hood\", designed to protect police from detainees' saliva.\n\nProtests have been held after footage of the incident in Rochester emerged.\n\nSeven police officers have been suspended.\n\nThe 41-year-old died in March however his death has only just been reported.\n\nAttorney General Letitia James said in a statement: \"The Prude family and the Rochester community have been through great pain and anguish. My office will immediately move to empanel a grand jury as part of our exhaustive investigation into this matter.\"\n\nThe move has been welcomed by Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. But a spokeswoman for the Rochester Police Department declined to comment.\n\nMr Prude's brother, Joe, told the New York Times: \"I am ecstatic about this. But right now I'm still waiting on seeing the indictment and them being prosecuted to the full extent of the law.\"\n\nJoe said he called police on 23 March as Daniel was showing acute mental health problems. When officers arrived, he had been running naked through the streets.\n\nIn body camera footage obtained from the police by Mr Prude's family, he can be seen lying on the ground as officers restrain him. While sitting on the road, he becomes agitated, alternately asking for money or a gun.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The USA's history of racial inequality has paved the way for modern day police brutality\n\nHe began spitting on the street, but does not appear to offer any physical resistance, according to the footage. An officer says that Mr Prude told them he had Covid-19, and they place the spit hood on him.\n\nOne officer can be seen pressing down on Mr Prude's head with both hands, saying \"stop spitting\". Mr Prude stops moving and goes quiet, and officers note he feels cold.\n\nParamedics are called and Mr Prude is taken to hospital. His family took him off life support a week later.\n\nThe medical examiner ruled his death as a homicide caused by \"complications of asphyxia in the setting of physical restraint\", with intoxication by the drug PCP, a contributing factor.\n\nProtests in Rochester have taken place nightly following the release of the footage\n\nMayor Warren said the city police chief had failed to inform her of the case until the beginning of last month.\n\nBut police chief La'Ron Singletary denied that his department had been trying to keep the details out of public view, and Michael Mazzaeo, president of the Rochester Police Locust Club, said the officers had followed their training \"step by step\".\n\nThe officers were only disciplined after the footage was released, five months after Mr Prude's death. Protests in the city have taken place nightly since the release of the footage.\n\nMr Prude's death came two months before that of George Floyd, whose killing while in police custody sparked widespread outrage and incited national and international demonstrations against police brutality and racism.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police are looking for this man after an attacker killed one victim and wounded seven other people\n\nFootage of a man suspected of killing one person and injuring seven others in a spate of stabbings across Birmingham city centre has been released.\n\nThe attacks in the early hours sparked a massive police manhunt for the suspect.\n\nA 23-year-old man was killed in Irving Street at 01:50 BST, West Midlands Police said. A man and a woman, aged 19 and 32, suffered critical injuries.\n\nFive other people, aged between 23 and 33, were also hurt.\n\nThey were taken to hospital and so far two have been discharged.\n\nThe public are urged to remain vigilant and not to approach the man pictured\n\nThe CCTV footage shows a man wearing a baseball cap and a dark hoodie with white drawstrings.\n\nAlso wearing dark-coloured trousers and shoes, he can be seen standing and walking on a street corner.\n\n\"At this stage we believe that the attacks were random and we have no indication of a motive,\" said Ch Supt Steve Graham, who urged the public to remain vigilant.\n\n\"We are appealing for anyone who recognises the man in the footage to contact us urgently. If you see him, please do not approach him, but dial 999 immediately.\"\n\nWest Midlands Police were first called to Constitution Hill where a man sustained a superficial injury just after 00:30 BST, then to Livery Street 20 minutes later, where the 19-year-old man was critically injured and a woman was also hurt.\n\nAn hour later at 01:50 BST, police were sent to Irving Street, where the 23-year-old died and another man suffered serious injuries.\n\nTen minutes later, they were called to Hurst Street where the 32-year-old woman was critically injured and two men suffered lesser injuries.\n\nThe stabbings do not appear to be terrorism related or gang related, police said.\n\nMr Graham added: \"We do not underestimate the impact that these incidents have had on the city of Birmingham today.\n\n\"We declared this a major incident at the earliest opportunity and we have drafted in scores of officers to help with the investigation and patrol the city to reassure residents and visitors that we are doing all we can to apprehend the person responsible.\"\n\nA cordon remains in place at the scenes of the stabbings\n\nMultiple witnesses saw the attacks, including Nikita Denton who was out celebrating her 29th birthday and helped stop one of the women bleeding in the street.\n\nAnother, restaurant owner Savvas Sfrantzis, described seeing the attacker walk calmly away after stabbing a woman repeatedly.\n\n\"I looked at him, facing him, and I can see he had a blade, small, not very big, and he was stabbing her in the neck.\n\n\"He was like very cold and he wasn't panicking and he wasn't reacting or anything. After he stabbed her between five and seven times... he walked off as if nothing has happened.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nikita Denton told the BBC the victim she helped was alone and in a state of shock\n\nOfficers have recovered a knife from a drain but Mr Graham said it was \"way too early\" to say if it was connected to the case.\n\nAt an earlier press conference he was asked how the knifeman was able to move through the city centre for more than two hours without being caught.\n\nMr Graham said the suspect's route through the city was \"relatively unusual\".\n\nHe added: \"There was no suggestion people had seen him running out, area searches were being made at the time, unfortunately the subject wasn't caught.\"\n\nAreas of the city centre have been cordoned off\n\nThe force's police and crime commissioner David Jamieson labelled the assaults \"disturbing\", with the violence unfolding as revellers had been enjoying the night.\n\nJulia Robinson, from the Southside Business Improvement District, said businesses were in \"shock\" and had worked through the night to provide police with CCTV footage from the area.\n\nWest Midlands Police said extras officers had \"flooded\" the city centre and forensic experts had examined four scenes.\n\nA heavy police presence remained throughout the day, with armed officers, patrols, riot vans and squad cars visible.\n\nWere you in the area? Did you witness what happened? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Crowded scenes like the ones during Brexit voting could return with regular testing, the Speaker suggested\n\nMPs could be tested daily for coronavirus to allow them to safely fill the chamber of the House of Commons, the Speaker has suggested.\n\nSir Lindsay Hoyle told Times Radio he had spoken to the NHS and government about getting \"a quick turnaround of tests\" to allow more MPs in.\n\nBut the Speaker said he would not \"compromise health and safety\".\n\nMPs wearing masks had been ruled out as it could make it harder for them to be recognised and make speeches, he said.\n\nThe pandemic has prompted some of the biggest changes to parliamentary procedure in centuries, with limited numbers allowed in both chambers so MPs can keep two metres apart.\n\nBut some MPs have criticised the subdued atmosphere with so many of them working remotely.\n\nAnd after Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg scrapped remote voting, there were lengthy queues to cast votes on motions and amendments because it is not considered safe for MPs to crowd into the traditional voting lobbies all at once.\n\nMasks for MPs \"really wouldn't work\", said Sir Lindsay Hoyle as he backed daily testing\n\nAsked about the prospect of regularly testing MPs so more of them could safely enter the Commons chamber, Mr Hoyle said: \"To be quite honest with you, I'd like to do it daily, not weekly. The problem is weekly testing doesn't tell you anything.\"\n\nHe said he had \"made approaches\" to the NHS and government to ask, \"Why can't we have a testing system?\"\n\nThey would need \"a quick turnaround of tests\" and Commons authorities were \"looking at it\".\n\nSir Lindsay said he agreed with Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg that masks for MPs \"really wouldn't work\" as it would be harder to recognise who was speaking and harder to be heard.\n\nSocial distancing has meant the Commons chamber has been a much quieter place\n\nAsked about reports that Prime Minister Boris Johnson wanted to see Parliament \"back to normal\" by Christmas, the Speaker said he wanted to make it happen but said he would not risk health and safety.\n\n\"We are a Covid-secure workplace - if we were to lose that status, the game is over,\" he said.\n\n\"It's about working in an efficient way. If people don't need to be here, why would we have them here?\"\n\nThe Speaker also said the advice was \"very clear\" that he should not reopen the bars in Parliament yet, adding that the Strangers' Bar \"doesn't lend itself to social distancing\".", "Police and anti-immigration protesters have clashed outside the entrance to Dover harbour.\n\nAt one point, several officers restrained a person on the ground and in total 10 people were arrested.\n\nIt came as rival protests over migrants reaching the UK in small boats took place in the town.\n\nThe Kent Anti-Racism Network said it wanted to show \"solidarity\" with refugees, while opposing groups want \"to protect Britain's border\".\n\nA message was beamed on to the White Cliffs overnight by humanitarian charity Freedom From Torture.\n\nIt read: \"Rise above fear. Refugees welcome.\"\n\nPolice concentrated their officers in Market Square and at the railway station, and officers on horseback are also monitoring the situation.\n\nA group of about 60 people shouting \"freedom\" moved along Dover seafront, with many wearing Union flag masks and carrying flags.\n\nBut, addressing a crowd of about 100, Peter Keenan from Kent Refugee Help said when society sees people who are fleeing war and turns them away \"that says something about the state of your society\".\n\nHe continued: \"We are not those people.\"\n\nThe protest was in response to migrants crossing the Channel in boats\n\nIn a tweet, the Port of Dover had warned there was disruption on the A20 because of the protest and advised the local community to consider alternative routes and travellers to allow plenty of time for their journeys.\n\nProtesters blocked the dual carriageway in both directions, leaving traffic at a standstill, with some singing Rule, Britannia! as they marched towards the town.\n\nThere were further clashes with a group of at least 50 police officers by the A20.\n\nOfficers moved protesters along the road towards the town centre.\n\nBy about 15:00 BST, all protesters had largely dispersed with the last few pushed towards the train station.\n\nAt least 5,196 people have crossed the English Channel in about 318 boats in 2020.\n\nA sign was beamed on to the cliffs by campaigners\n\nPolice made ten arrests in total, on suspicion of racially aggravated public order, violent disorder and assaulting an emergency worker.\n\nOfficers said inquiries were ongoing to identify any further offences.\n\nBefore the protests, Ch Supt Nigel Brooks said: \"As a force, it is our responsibility to facilitate peaceful protests, however we will not tolerate violence or disorder.\"\n\nIt is thought groups from across the country travelled to Dover.\n\nProtesters gathered around the A20 and the harbour\n\nDover MP Natalie Elphicke had urged people to \"stay away\" to prevent a second wave of coronavirus.\n\nA Home Office spokeswoman said it had been aware of the protests and had contingency plans in place to minimise any potential disruption.\n\nFigures compiled by the BBC show at least 5,196 people crossed the Channel in about 318 boats in 2020.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "The unidentified seeds appear to have been posted from China to US addresses\n\nAmazon says it has banned foreign sales of seeds in the US after thousands of Americans received unsolicited packets of seeds in the mail, most from China.\n\nThe online retail giant told the BBC that it will now only allow the sale of seeds by sellers based in the US.\n\nUS officials said gardeners should not plant seeds of unknown origin.\n\nThe packages are believed to be part of a global \"brushing\" scam to gain positive reviews for online selling sites.\n\nAmazon's new guidelines, in effect since 3 September, also prohibit the sale of seeds within America by non-US residents. It added that sellers may be banned if they do not follow the new guidelines.\n\nBut the retailer has not confirmed if its ban will extend to other countries.\n\nNews of the policy change was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.\n\nAt least 14 plant species have been identified among the mystery packages, including mint, lavender and roses.\n\nAmazon says it will only allow domestic sales of seeds in the US\n\nUnsolicited seed packages are also being reported in other countries, including the UK. Last month Scottish authorities advised people not to handle the seeds, for fear they could damage local ecosystems.\n\nIn an update on 11 August, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) said experts analysing the seeds found few problems with them, and that China was assisting with investigations.\n\nBut the USDA has warned people against planting the seeds, saying they could be non-native species or carry pests and diseases.\n\nSo-called \"brushing\" scams involve sellers sending out low value items such as seeds or rings. Each fake \"sale\" then generates an online review that appears to boost the seller's legitimacy.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "St Gwladys Primary School will remain open despite the positive test\n\nA class of 21 pupils has been told to self-isolate for two weeks after a member of staff at their school tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe pupils at St Gwladys Primary School in Bargoed, Caerphilly, must stay at home for 14 days, although the rest of the school will remain open.\n\n\"We fully appreciate this will cause concern to parents and children at the school,\" a council spokesman said.\n\nCaerphilly has seen 78 cases in the past week, the highest number in Wales.\n\nA walk-in test centre opened outside Caerphilly Leisure Centre on Saturday for people with symptoms to get tested.\n\nThe school and council said the parents of all the affected children had been contacted and they are working with the contact tracing system to protect other pupils and the wider community.\n\n\"We can confirm that a member of staff at the school has tested positive for coronavirus,\" a council spokesman said.\n\n\"It has been agreed, following advice from Public Health Wales, that 21 pupils from one class will be required to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\n\"It is important to note that all safety measures are in place throughout the school and that they are being followed strictly to limit any cross-contamination.\n\n\"The school remains open and it is not necessary for any other child to self-isolate, stay away from school or to be tested, unless they develop symptoms of Covid-19.\"\n\nA temporary test centre is open outside the town's leisure centre daily until Tuesday at 18:00 BST\n\nResidents have been warned to increase social distancing to avoid \"another harsh lockdown\" following the spike in cases.\n\n\"People have to take this seriously,\" said Caerphilly's Member of the Senedd, Hefin David.\n\n\"If people get back to serious social distancing, hand washing, limiting contact, we can get back to where we were.\"\n\nVisits to care homes in Caerphilly have stopped to protect residents following the increase in cases.\n\nOn Friday, a health official blamed \"having house parties and the like\" for a rise in cases in Caerphilly town, Blackwood, and other areas.\n\n\"People have not been following social distancing rules,\" said Dr Robin Howe, from Public Health Wales.\n\nThe infection rate in Caerphilly over the past seven days has been recorded as 43.1 people per 100,000 population, the highest in Wales and far above the Welsh average of 10.1 per 100,000 people.\n\nCases have also been confirmed at schools in Bridgend, Maesteg, Cwmbran and Carmarthen.", "A man who was stabbed to death in Birmingham has been described as \"the light of our life\" by his family who said he \"lit up every room\".\n\nWest Midlands Police said Jacob Billington, 23, was out with school friends from Liverpool visiting one of their group in Birmingham when he was attacked on Irving Street on Sunday morning.\n\nAnother friend, also 23, was seriously hurt and remains in a critical condition in hospital.\n\nHis family added Jacob was \"a funny, caring and wonderful person who was loved by every single person he met\" and \"we have been devastated by his loss\".\n\nThe force said another man, aged 30, who was stabbed in Livery Street and a 22-year-old woman, attacked in Hurst Street, remain in hospital in a critical condition.\n\nA 27-year-old man, arrested at his home in Selly Oak, remains in custody on suspicion of murder and seven counts of attempted murder.\n\nOfficers said three others, two men and a woman, were arrested from the same address on suspicion of assisting an offender.", "Airport coronavirus testing options should be explored as a way of cutting the number of travellers who must spend two weeks in quarantine, says Labour.\n\nA review of \"chaotic\" quarantine rules should consider a \"robust testing regime\", given the \"dire warnings\" from the travel industry, the party says.\n\nPM Boris Johnson has said airport tests would identify only 7% of cases and so could give a \"false sense of security\".\n\nAnd Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said testing was not a \"silver bullet\".\n\n\"That's why we have the quarantine,\" Mr Raab told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show.\n\n\"The idea that one test in an airport could resolve the quarantine issues... we couldn't safely do that,\" he said.\n\nA government spokesman said assessment of how testing might help was ongoing.\n\n\"Any potential change to the testing for arrivals would need to be robust in minimising the chance that positive cases are missed,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC has been told a cabinet decision on whether to introduce airport testing has been repeatedly postponed and now may never happen.\n\nIn a letter to Home Secretary Priti Patel, Labour argues the UK's quarantine arrangements are \"losing public confidence and undermining our ability to keep people safe and save jobs\".\n\nShadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show he was calling for a \"two test system\".\n\n\"It isn't just about a test in an airport,\" he said, adding that follow-up tests would improve the accuracy of the results.\n\n\"If the government had it [a two test system] up and running it would take away need for 14 day quarantine policy,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says the quarantine system is \"an important part of our repertoire\"\n\nPeople entering the UK face 14 days of self-isolation unless they are travelling from countries that are exempt - a status determined by the separate authorities in each of the four nations.\n\nIn recent weeks, Britons holidaying in France, Spain and the Netherlands have been caught out by the removal of exemptions at short notice.\n\nLast week, Scotland and Wales told arrivals from Portugal and parts of Greece to quarantine, while England and Northern Ireland held off.\n\nUK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps admitted it had created a \"confusing\" situation for travellers.\n\nIn theory, airport testing is a great idea and would reduce the length of time quarantine could take.\n\nBut there are a number of problems.\n\nThe incubation period for coronavirus - the point at which someone becomes infected to the point at which they show symptoms - can be up to 14 days.\n\nIn the early part of the incubation period the test may not pick up the virus.\n\nSo you cannot just test at the airport and think someone is clear. They would still have to quarantine and then the idea discussed is that they would be tested after maybe seven or 10 days.\n\nThat has a minimal effect on quarantine and would put the testing regime under even more strain.\n\nA more immediate solution - and one that has been put to the government - is to be a little more intelligent with the quarantine rules.\n\nIt is a rather blunt tool - some countries are on the quarantine list with infection rates only a little higher than the UK. And national infection rates miss the differences between regions.\n\nOne suggestion is you only insist on quarantine when a traveller has been in a high infection rate area. But of course that becomes even harder to enforce.\n\nIn his letter to the home secretary, Mr Thomas-Symonds calls for a review to report back within a fortnight.\n\n\"It should include outlining options for a robust testing regime in airports, and related follow-up tests, that could help to safely minimise the need for 14-day quarantine,\" he writes.\n\n\"Given the huge challenges being faced by the travel sector and the scale of job losses, it makes sense to look at this area as part of a wider package of improvements to the testing regime.\"\n\nHe also said there were \"serious concerns\" about the poor monitoring of incoming travellers, claiming \"less than a third of passenger-locator forms are checked\".\n\nAirlines have criticised the use of quarantine measures at a time when lockdowns around the world have contributed to a collapse in passenger demand.\n\nOn Friday, Virgin Atlantic announced plans to axe another 1,150 jobs after completing a £1.2bn rescue deal, months after making 3,150 redundancies as a result of the collapse in demand caused by the pandemic.\n\nOn-site testing facilities had already been set up at London's Heathrow Airport, chief executive John Holland-Kaye said last week.\n\n\"It is frustrating that the government just has not made a decision to get on with this, when governments in other countries in Europe are getting on and making it happen,\" he added.\n\nFrance and Germany are using testing at airports for passengers arriving from countries with a higher infection rate.\n\nAnd, on Friday, former Brexit Secretary David Davis said testing at UK airports - with passengers given results within two hours - could cut quarantine to \"less than five days\".\n\n\"If anybody is positive, they should be quarantined right there,\" he said, arguing the government could pay to house them in under-used airport hotels.\n\nHowever, the prime minister responded by pointing to Public Health England modelling suggesting only 7% of cases would be picked up.\n\nWhile he understood \"the difficulties\" the airline industry was facing, Mr Johnson said \"93% of the time you could have a real false sense of security, a false sense of confidence when you arrive and take a test\".\n\n\"The quarantine system that we have has got to be an important part of our repertoire, of our toolbox, in fighting Covid,\" he added.", "Matthew Robson was given a bottle of 18-year-old whisky every year for his birthday which is now worth £40,000\n\nA man whose father gave him 18-year-old whisky every year for his birthday is selling the collection to buy a house.\n\nMatthew Robson, from Taunton, was born in 1992 and over the course of his life his father Pete has spent about £5,000 on 28 bottles of Macallan single malt.\n\nThe collection is now worth more than £40,000 and has been put up for sale.\n\nThe 28-year-old said it \"probably wasn't\" the best gift for a young boy but with \"strict instructions never to open them\" they had become a nest egg.\n\nPete Robson said the whisky \"wasn't the only present\" he gave his son Matthew for his birthday\n\nMatthew said he was under \"strict instructions, never, never to open\" his whisky birthday presents\n\n\"Each year I received it as a birthday present,\" Matthew said. \"I thought it was quite a quirky little present as I was slightly too young to start drinking.\n\n\"But I was under strict instructions, never, never to open them and I tried my hardest and succeeded and they're all intact.\"\n\nHis father Pete, who is from Milnathort in Scotland, said the first bottle of 1974 whisky was bought to \"wet the baby's head\".\n\n\"I thought it would be interesting if I bought one every year and he'd end up with 18 bottles of 18-year-old whisky for his 18th birthday,\" he said.\n\n\"It wasn't the only present he got from us. It was just meant to be a unique present but it was a little bit of luck that we kept it going.\"\n\nWhisky broker, Mark Littler, said has been \"a lot of interest already\" in the collection\n\nSince then, experts say Macallan has become collectable and Matthew is hoping to sell his collection for £40,000 and use the money for a house deposit.\n\nIt is being sold by whisky broker Mark Littler, who has described it as a \"perfect set\".\n\n\"The value of Macallan has risen massively over the last five to 10 years,\" he said. \"To have such a vast collection of bottles is the real selling point of these.\"\n\nHe said there had been \"a lot of interest already\" in the collection, mostly from buyers in New York and Asia.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pierre Gasly took a stunning upset win in the Italian Grand Prix for Red Bull's Alpha Tauri team in one of the most remarkable races in history.\n\nLewis Hamilton was dominating until he was penalised for being called in for a stop when the pit lane was closed.\n\nTwo safety cars in quick succession mixed up the order and Gasly took the lead after Hamilton served his penalty.\n\nMcLaren's Carlos Sainz closed him down but the Frenchman just held him off to take his first grand prix victory.\n\nHamilton fought back from last place, 18 seconds off the back of the pack, to seventh, just two places behind team-mate Valtteri Bottas.\n• None Wolff to stay at Mercedes next year\n\nHow on earth did that happen?\n\nGasly's win sealed an amazing turnaround in fortunes for the likeable 24-year-old, who just over a year ago was demoted from the senior Red Bull team to what was Toro Rosso and was renamed over the winter.\n\nGasly has been outstanding ever since, including taking a second place in Brazil last year, and few will begrudge him this win.\n\nIt is the junior team's second grand prix victory - their first also coming at Monza, with Sebastian Vettel in 2008.\n\nBut it was a cruel twist of fortune for Sainz, who had been running in a superb second place to Hamilton and should have been in a position to benefit from the world champion's penalty.\n\nBut the timing of the pit stops around two mid-race safety cars and then a red flag effectively ended Sainz's hopes.\n\nHe, along with all the leaders, pitted during the first safety-car period, triggered by a breakdown for Kevin Magnussen's Haas.\n\nThis was when Mercedes made the error that cost Hamilton his 90th grand prix win, calling him in as soon as the safety car was thrown and not noticing that race director Michael Masi had closed the pit lane because marshals were dealing with Magnussen's car close to the entry.\n\nGasly had made his stop a couple of laps before the first safety car so did not stop again, and this promoted him to third behind Hamilton and Racing Point's Lance Stroll for a mixed-up field at the restart.\n\nFerrari's Charles Leclerc was soon into fourth place, passing both Alfa Romeo cars into the first chicane on the first lap of racing, but the Monegasque then lost control at the Parabolica and crashed heavily, causing the race to be reflagged for repairs to be made to the barriers.\n\nThe race was restarted with a standing start with Hamilton ahead of Stroll, Gasly, the Alfa Romeos of Kimi Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzi and Sainz.\n\nHamilton missed the pre-race anti-racism demonstration because of a timing mix-up following his return to the garage for a pre-race comfort break, and once the race started, what had been looking like a routine win turned on its head on Mercedes' fateful decision.\n\nThe race surrendered to him at the start, when Bottas was slow away and had a dreadful first lap, passed by car after car as he slipped down to sixth place.\n\nFrom then on, Hamilton was untouchable until Mercedes made their mistake.\n\nHamilton went to see the stewards during the stoppage to check the penalty was fair. He took the restart from pole, but stopped at the end of the first lap, and his penalty demoted him to last.\n\nHe soon started lapping three seconds faster than anyone else and caught the field in no time, scything past car after car for a useful haul of points.\n\nBottas, his car struggling with overheating and uncertain handling in right-hand corners, could not make progress and became stuck behind other cars all race.\n\nHis fifth place moves him ahead of Red Bull's Max Verstappen in the championship after the Dutchman retired with collision damage, but Hamilton is 47 points ahead - almost two clear wins - with the season close to its halfway point.\n\nStroll threw away his opportunity for a maiden win with a poor start, and Gasly moved into second behind Hamilton, who pitted at the end of the first lap of racing to serve his penalty.\n\nSainz then fought past Stroll into Turn One at the start of the second lap but took another four laps to catch and pass Raikkonen, by which time Gasly had a four-second lead.\n\nThe Spaniard closed that down to be right on his tail at the start of the last lap but Gasly managed to hold him off.\n\nHe is the first Frenchman to win a race since Olivier Panis won the Monaco Grand Prix for Ligier in similarly unlikely circumstances in 1996.\n\nWhat happens next?\n\nAnother race in Italy next weekend - this time the Tuscany Grand Prix, also named for Ferrari's 1,000th race. It is a prospect to savour on a new track to F1. Mugello is renowned as a challenging, fast and flowing circuit and all the drivers are looking forward to it.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Creek Fire has swept across thousands of acres in the Sierra National Forest\n\nHelicopters have rescued more than 200 people trapped after a wildfire set 45,000 acres alight and cut off a popular reservoir in California, officials say.\n\nAbout 20 of the people were hurt, some with burns.\n\nThe Creek Fire began on Friday in the Sierra National Forest, cutting off the Mammoth Pool Reservoir, 40 miles (60km) north-east of Fresno.\n\nThe temperature has hit 47C (117F), part of a record heatwave in the state.\n\nOn Sunday, Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in five Californian counties - Fresno, Madera, Mariposa, San Bernardino and San Diego - because of the wildfires.\n\nThe fast-moving Creek Fire started at about 18:45 on Friday (01:45 GMT on Saturday) in the forest, an area of steep and rugged terrain.\n\nNational forest spokesman Dan Tune said he did not know how close the fire was to the campsite, a popular boating and fishing destination.\n\nPicture taken inside a California National Guard helicopters during the evacuation\n\nTwo people refused to be rescued and stayed behind at the site.\n\nThe Fresno Convention Centre is being used to host the rescued people.\n\nMandatory evacuation orders are in now place for a number of areas in Madera County.\n\nAccording to California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, 0% of the fire is contained.\n\nCalifornia has seen nearly 1,000 wildfires since 15 August, often started by lightning strikes.\n\nOn Sunday, Los Angeles County recorded 49.4C (125F), a record temperature for the region.\n\nThe National Weather Service (NWS) said there could be \"rare, dangerous and very possibly fatal\" temperatures across parts of southern California.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Over 1,000 animals were rescued from deadly wildfires in northern California last month", "Jerusalem's Hadassah hospital has been recruiting recovered Covid-19 patients to volunteer inside its coronavirus wards to help patients there.\n\nUnder the pilot scheme, they visit patients in moderate or serious condition, who would otherwise be in isolation. The volunteers help the patients eat or just lend a listening ear.\n\nThe hospital believes the project to be the first of its kind in the world. And it is likely to be closely watched, given the still unclear science on how much antibody immunity recovered Covid-19 patients have.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lisa Roussos: ''It should be about transparency''\n\nLisa and Andrew Roussos say they feel as though they are stuck in May 2017.\n\nThat's when their eight-year-old daughter Saffie was killed in the Manchester Arena bombing.\n\nSaffie was the youngest victim of the attack.\n\nA little girl with striking big eyes and a mane of dark hair, who loved dancing and making people laugh. Lisa and Andrew say she was a real live-wire who \"never sat still\".\n\nThe pain of her loss is as great as ever.\n\n\"It's not something you get over, ever,\" Lisa says.\n\n\"Every morning you wake up. It happens again. She died that day, every day.\n\n\"That's just how it is. And we have to live with that.\"\n\nNow the Roussos family and the other families bereaved that night are steeling themselves for a difficult few months.\n\nThe public inquiry into the bombing, which starts hearing evidence on Monday, will examine every aspect of the attack, including whether it could have been prevented, the emergency response and the experiences of each of the 22 people who died.\n\nSaffie's parents say they still feel too raw to hear information about her last moments.\n\n\"I don't want to know about her injuries and what she went through,\" Lisa says.\n\n\"It's painful enough without knowing the details.\"\n\nBut the couple do have a lot of other questions which they want answers to.\n\nAndrew says the attack \"could have been prevented, it could have been stopped and Saffie and the others could have been here with us\".\n\n\"And that's what we want out of it,\" he says. \"To find out why there were so many wrongs.\"\n\nReferring to the way the emergency services responded to the attack, Lisa adds: \"It was just complete chaos, nobody had a clue what to do, how to react.\n\n\"It was just a complete shambles. For those people that did make mistakes, the police, fire service, MI5, for them to admit their mistakes I think would be a good thing for them, as well as us.\"\n\nShe went to the concert with her big sister Ashlee and their mum Lisa.\n\nAndrew came to collect them, with Saffie's 11-year-old brother Xander and the family's pet chihuahua Binky in tow.\n\nBy chance, a press photographer took some pictures of Andrew and Xander outside the arena, in the aftermath of the bomb.\n\nYou can see the shock and bewilderment on their faces, Xander clutching the dog as his father searched for his wife and children.\n\nThey came across Ashlee, sitting on the pavement outside the arena.\n\nShe was bleeding but conscious, and being looked after by members of the public.\n\nReassured by this, Andrew carried on looking for Lisa and Saffie.\n\nHe says: \"It was just like a horror movie, there were kids screaming there were kids injured on the floor.\n\n\"There were people around and they were all crying, it was just... I have no words.\"\n\nAndrew feels that the police were not in command.\n\n\"I asked every police officer that I went past,\" he says.\n\n\"They just said just keep looking.\n\n\"Nobody had control of it, because nobody gave me any indication of what to do, where the injured were.\n\n\"Nobody said to me, 'right stay here, let me make some phone calls let me get in touch with some people and see'. They just left you to just wander round.\"\n\nEight-year-old Saffie Roussos was the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena attack\n\nThey thought all of the injured had been brought out of the arena and had no idea that Lisa and Saffie were on the floor of the foyer just yards away from them.\n\nAndrew says: \"My daughter and my wife were lying on this floor. Do you know how that feels?\n\n\"I could have been with them, particularly Saffie. I could have been holding her hand, instead of a stranger. Imagine how she was feeling lying there?\"\n\nFather and son went to three hospitals before they found Lisa the next morning.\n\nAndrew says: \"They told me to prepare for the worst. If she was going to make it there was an 80-90% chance of her being paralysed from the neck down.\"\n\nAndrew was exhausted and already at rock bottom. But he still had hopes of finding Saffie alive.\n\nHe'd heard that children who were displaced at the arena were sheltering in nearby hotels. He grabbed a police officer at the hospital and pleaded again for information.\n\nFourteen hours after the explosion Andrew learned that Saffie was dead.\n\nAfter multiple operations, Lisa Roussos has defied the doctors' prediction of paralysis.\n\nShe is a gentle person with calm determination - and she rarely talks publicly about the horrors of the attack.\n\nShe tells me: \"The worst thing for me was - is - if Saffie could have been saved.\"\n\nI ask her if it's something that she plays over in her head?\n\n\"I have done, yeah,\" she says. \"To think that, not just Saffie, the other people. How could they leave injured people in the arena for hours? It's just madness.\n\n\"I remember lying there thinking help will be here soon, and in the end it felt like I was lying there for hours. [I thought] 'why is nobody coming?'\"\n\nThe Roussos family also have many questions for the security service MI5.\n\nThey want to hear the detail of what was known about the bomber Salman Abedi and his brother Hashem who helped to build the bomb.\n\nBut some of the hearings involving MI5 will be held behind closed doors, without the families or their lawyers expected to be present. They're being restricted on grounds of national security.\n\nLisa says: \"Obviously you're having to put your full trust in the (inquiry) chairman. But this inquiry is not about trust, it should be about transparency, and I feel that we won't get that without having a representative in the room.\"\n\nAndrew adds: \"We've got five or six law firms representing all the families, so let's have one barrister from each firm in that room.\n\n\"All I hear is lessons learned, but lessons haven't been learned, and lessons will never be learned, unless we get that transparency and honesty from the people involved to get the answers that we need.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nJos Buttler guided England to a six-wicket victory over Australia in the second Twenty20 international to clinch the three-match series.\n\nButtler batted throughout for his 77 from 54 balls as the hosts reached their target of 158 with seven balls left.\n\nAfter the loss of Jonny Bairstow, who hit his own wicket in the third over, Buttler batted patiently in a stand of 87 with Dawid Malan.\n\nMalan fell for 42, and Tom Banton and Eoin Morgan followed in a collapse of 3-29, but the assured Buttler held firm.\n\nWith 18 needed from the final two overs, Moeen Ali hit 10 from two balls before Buttler sealed the victory with a huge six.\n\nA brilliant start with the ball by England - led by Jofra Archer and Mark Wood's searing pace - had earlier left Australia 3-2 and then 30-3, before the tourists scrapped to their total.\n\nAfter snatching victory in Friday's series opener, England now lead 2-0 with only the final match on Tuesday to come.\n• None Salt to join ODI squad as reserve for Australia series\n\nIn the first game of the series Australia were cruising to victory before a late collapse saw England win.\n\nHere, when Malan holed out on the slog sweep at the end of an impressive knock, Banton top-edged to deep square leg and Morgan hit to extra cover, a similar twist was possible.\n\nHowever, Buttler provided what Australia lacked - a calm head to see the game home.\n\nHe was not his attacking usual self for much of the innings. Although the right-hander found boundaries effectively with trademark reverse sweeps, England only took 44 from the first six overs of their chase.\n\nInstead, he batted maturely with Malan and found the boundary when needed. One back-foot drive through the covers after the loss of Banton relieved pressure.\n\nButtler's presence as a set batsman allowed Moeen to attack the penultimate over and he hit Adam Zampa for six over extra cover before adding a four in the same region from the next ball.\n\nAustralia captain Aaron Finch's gamble to bowl his leg-spinner Zampa proved decisive. Buttler emphatically launched him down the ground and into the stands to end the game.\n\nThe win sees England claim a fifth T20 series win from their past six - the other was the drawn series against Pakistan last month.\n\nIn that time they have regularly impressed with the bat but their bowling has sometimes been criticised. They have often struggled for wickets in the first six overs of a match.\n\nOn this occasion, Archer removed David Warner with the third ball - Warner gloved a fast, rising delivery to the wicketkeeper - and Wood found the edge of Alex Carey in the next over.\n\nEngland's average speed in those first two overs was 90.6mph - the fastest opening two overs by England in a T20 - as Archer and Wood produced a fine opening spell.\n\nCaptain Morgan ran out Steve Smith for 10 with a direct hit from extra cover, meaning Australia were 39-3 after six overs. It was the fewest runs England had conceded in the powerplay in their past 13 T20s.\n\nFinch and Marcus Stoinis put on 49 but England continued to take wickets at crucial moments. Finch played on to Jordan on 40, Stoinis departed for 35 when he edged Adil Rashid to slip and Glenn Maxwell became Jordan's second victim in the penultimate over after starting to find his range.\n\nThe only negative from the bowling effort was that Archer's final over cost 18. He bowled three wides and was hit to six by Pat Cummins as Australia made it to a score that had looked beyond them.\n\nStill, Buttler ensured it was not enough.\n\n'Buttler one of the best in the world' - reaction\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan: \"When Jos Buttler is in the form he is, he really is one of the best players in the world. I thought Australia bowled really well today and fielded really well but there are some batsmen in the world that can take the game away from you and always look like chasing down the total, and Jos is one of those players.\n\n\"Jofra set the tone. It's as fast and as well as I've seen him bowl all summer.\"\n\nAustralia captain Aaron Finch: \"I thought we got to a score we could defend. We needed a few things to go right. Jos is a world-class player and if you don't get the guy who is opening out, you won't win the game.\n\n\"No matter what format or wherever the world, he's a great player. \"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"This England side are ruthless, they just know how to win games of cricket.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Savvas Sfrantzis: \"After he stabbed her...he walked as if nothing happened\"\n\nA knifeman who killed one man and wounded seven other people in a two-hour stabbing rampage across Birmingham city centre is being hunted by police.\n\nThe first stabbing was in Constitution Hill at 00:30 BST then the killer moved south, apparently attacking at random, officers said.\n\nThe stabbings did not appear terrorism related, gang related or connected to disorder, West Midlands Police said.\n\nMurder inquiry detectives said they were hunting a single suspect.\n\nThe force urged anyone with CCTV or mobile footage to contact them.\n\nOne man died, another man and a woman suffered critical injuries and five other people were left with non-life-threatening injuries.\n\nCh Supt Steve Graham said the attacker went on to stab people in Livery Street, Irving Street and finally in Hurst Street, where the city's Gay Village meets the Chinese Quarter, at about 02:20 BST.\n\nPolice said there was no evidence the stabbings were a hate crime.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nikita Denton told the BBC the victim she helped was alone and in a state of shock\n\nA woman who was out celebrating her 29th birthday described how she helped another woman who was \"on the street bleeding heavily\".\n\nNikita Denton, of Edgbaston, said: \"My best friend Jay held her head and talked her through everything the whole time and wouldn't leave her side.\n\n\"She looked very dazed and confused, she couldn't talk. But she was talking to my friend with blinks.\"\n\nWhen paramedics arrived they asked them for help.\n\n\"I got water and used the torch on my phone to help them see the wounds as they didn't have a torch at that time,\" she said.\n\n\"There were about four wounds.\"\n\nShe added: \"I'd hate to think if we weren't there that night as she would have been alone.\"\n\nPolice said it was \"not appropriate\" to speculate on the motivation\n\nCh Supt Graham said officers - some armed - remained across the city centre to reassure people.\n\nHe added they had received a number of descriptions of the suspect but would not be releasing any details for the time being.\n\nHe said: \"The events during the early hours of this morning are tragic, shocking and understandably frightening.\n\n\"It does appear to be a random attack because we haven't found any links between the victims, either in their nature or in where they were socialising.\n\n\"Please be assured that we are doing absolutely everything we can to find whoever was responsible and try to understand what exactly happened.\"\n\nCh Supt Steve Graham said it was too early say whether a knife found in a city centre drain was connected to the murder inquiry\n\nSavvas Sfrantzis, who was working nearby, said he saw a man stab a girl multiple times but people thought at first he was trying to take her necklace.\n\n\"He was like very cold and he wasn't panicking and he wasn't reacting or anything. After he stabbed her between five and seven times... he walked off as if nothing has happened,\" he said.\n\nOfficers earlier found a knife in a drain but Mr Graham said it was \"way too early\" to say if it was connected to the case.\n\n\"What I think it does suggest is the comprehensive nature of our inquiry - that already we've got people going down drains - we've got that level of detailed searches taking place,\" he said.\n\nDavid Nash, who was running the Village Inn in Hurst Street, said after a \"normal night\" he heard someone shout \"stop him - he's just stabbed somebody\" between 02:00 and 02:15.\n\n\"The bars were starting to wind down and the next thing we know the area is engulfed with armed response vehicles, normal police vehicles, police on foot, ambulances,\" he said.\n\n\"They just came from absolutely nowhere and the area was full of them and then the police helicopter was up.\"\n\nHe said he then saw paramedics treating two people who seemed to have been stabbed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video posted on social media shows a number of emergency service vehicles, and parts of the city centre have been cordoned off\n\nNathan Hudson, from West Midlands Ambulance Service, said 14 ambulances attended and he was among 11 paramedic officers who were also sent to help.\n\nA team of St John Ambulance volunteers based at the Arcadian nightspot also treated casualties.\n\nThe \"smirking\" attacker was seen walking past the Sidewalk nightclub shortly after stabbing at least two people further up the street\n\nHe tweeted: \"All my thoughts are with those affected by the terrible incident in Birmingham last night.\"\n\nWitness Cara Curran, a club promoter working in the Arcadian Centre, said it had been busier during the evening than it had been at any time since the start of lockdown.\n\nShe said she had finished her shift at about 00:30 BST and was drinking with colleagues when she heard a \"loud bang and quite a lot of commotion\".\n\nPolice set up a cordon at the junction of Hurst Street and Bromsgrove Street after the final stabbing\n\nThe streets in the area had already been closed to traffic due to coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) David Jamieson said police would be working with the council to see if there were \"any further measures that need to be taken in the city centre\", following the stabbings.\n\nA rise in violence was \"almost inevitable\" due to the pandemic, when people were suffering \"pent-up feelings\" and some were unsure of their futures, the Labour PCC said.\n\nOutside the cordoned-off area, much of the city centre, such as Birmingham's Bullring shopping centre and the Sealife Centre in Brindleyplace, is open as usual.\n\nWere you in the area? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 30 horses have been killed or mutilated around France in recent months\n\nPolice in France have launched a manhunt for two suspects after the latest in a spate of horse mutilations.\n\nForty officers have flown by helicopter to the town of Losne, near Dijon, after a horse was attacked on Sunday morning.\n\nDozens of horses have been killed or maimed around the country this year, prompting public outcry.\n\nPolice do not know why the animals are being targeted, nor whether it is the work of one person, or if initial attacks have inspired copycat killings.\n\nDuring the latest incident, the horse's owner called police at around 02:00 local time (01:00 BST) on Sunday after seeing lamp lights in his meadow.\n\nThe Dijon prosecutor's office told local media that the horse had been injured in its flank, although the injury was not very severe.\n\nMore than 30 other cases have been reported in France, with horses being left with their ears and genitals cut off. Another was found disembowelled.\n\nAs part of their investigation into one attack in Yonne, north-west of Dijon, last month, police released an artist's impression of an alleged perpetrator spotted at the scene.\n\nAgriculture Minister Julien Denormandie later pledged that those responsible for the attacks would be brought to justice.\n\n\"All branches of the state are mobilising to get justice done,\" said Mr Denormandie during a visit to Saint-Eusèbe, in central France, where a horse's ear had recently been cut off.\n\n\"There is clearly a professionalism, people acting with a certain level of technique,\" he added.\n\nSerge Lecomte, president of the French Equestrian Federation, accompanied Mr Denormandie during the visit.\n\n\"It is cruel savagery of a kind we have rarely seen before,\" he told AFP. \"Is it a cult? Cruelty towards animals is the precursor to cruelty towards humans\".", "Protesters opposed to Covid-19 restrictions have gathered in Edinburgh as figures showed the highest weekly rise in cases since May.\n\nCoronavirus sceptics, vaccine conspiracy theorists and those opposed to mandatory mask-wearing staged a rally at Holyrood.\n\nIt comes as figures showed almost a thousand people tested positive for the virus this week in Scotland.\n\nIn the past seven days there were 994 confirmed cases.\n\nThe figure is almost double the 507 new cases in the week previous.\n\nScotland's national clinical director, Prof Jason Leitch described the protesters as \"deeply irresponsible\".\n\nHundreds of protesters joined the rally outside the Scottish Parliament\n\nHe said: \"I honestly do not understand it.\n\n\"I think it is irresponsible - do they think we're making it up? 194 countries are making up a viral pandemic.\n\n\"I would love to have not lived through the last six months, both in my job and what we have had to do to our country and many others.\n\n\"I think it is deeply irresponsible.\"\n\nHundreds of protesters marched to the parliament building in Edinburgh with flags and placards for the Scotland Against Lockdown protest, organised by the Saving Scotland Facebook group.\n\nA post advertising the event said it was \"time to stand up together, and listen to real scientific evidence in regards to the health of the Scottish people.\"\n\nThe group said lockdown was causing \"more harm than the virus\" and that Scots should say \"no to mandatory vaccines and masks. No to secondary lockdowns.\"\n\nPolice Scotland said it had been aware of the demonstration and that officers had provided a \"proportionate response\" and no arrests had been made.\n\nIn the past 24 hours, the number of cases in Scotland rose by 141. There were no new deaths.\n\nThe figures showed the biggest rise was in the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde area where 68 new cases were confirmed.\n\nThe last time weekly cases exceeded the current total was 17 May, although there have been changes to the Scottish government's reporting of figures since then, including incorporating the results of home testing kits from July.\n\nThe number of people who have tested positive for Covid-19 overall in Scotland now stands at 21,189 and the number of infected patients who have died remains at 2,496.\n\nAccording to the government's latest figures, NHS Lanarkshire saw another 20 cases - an increase on the 16 announced on Friday when it warned the region was close to having to reintroduce restrictions, similar to those imposed on other parts of western Scotland.\n\nNHS Grampian, where the Aberdeen bar cluster was identified last month, has recorded an increase of just two new cases.\n\nA total of seven cases have been discovered in Ayrshire and Arran, 14 in the Forth Valley, six in the Highlands, eight in Tayside and 14 by NHS Lothian.\n\nA single new case was identified by both NHS Borders and NHS Dumfries and Galloway.\n\nThe number of tests carried out fell to 15,618 - the lowest total since 24 August.\n\nThe number of new confirmed cases represents 1.5% of newly tested individuals, say the figures.\n\nAs of Friday night, two people were in intensive care with coronavirus and a further 251 infected people were in hospital, although that figure includes patients who may not be receiving treatment for the disease.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. It is one of the world's longest and slowest pieces of music\n\nFans have flocked to a church in Germany to hear a chord change in a musical composition that lasts for 639 years.\n\nIt is the first change in the piece, As Slow As Possible, in seven years.\n\nThe work is by the avant-garde American composer, John Cage.\n\nIt began 19 years ago with a pause lasting nearly 18 months. The change of chord took place on the specially built organ on which the composition is being performed.\n\nThe Saint Burchardi Church in the city of Halberstadt started playing the music in 2001 and the last note change took place in 2013.\n\nThe music As Slow As Possible will end in 2640\n\nThe score is made up of eight pages of music, to be played at the piano or organ - very slowly.\n\nBut the wait for the next scheduled chord change will be quick in comparison - with 5 February 2022 slated as the date.\n\nThe piece will end in 2640.\n\nCage, who died in 1992 at the age of 79, wrote the piece in the 1980s.\n\nThe composer is arguably most famous for 4'33\".\n\nThe three-movement composition from 1952 is for any combination of instruments, but instructs performers not to play them. Listeners instead hear the sound of the surrounding environment during the four minutes and 33 seconds the work lasts.", "Rail firms are reassuring travellers major efforts have been taken to ensure their safety as services increase.\n\nTrains in England, Wales and Scotland were up to 90% of normal levels by Monday as schools reopen and people are encouraged to return to work.\n\nRail firms said anecdotal evidence suggested a slight increase in numbers but it was too soon for exact figures.\n\nWest Midlands Trains' Francis Thomas said there were \"big changes\", such as sanitising gel and one-way systems.\n\n\"If you haven't been to the railway station in the last couple of months you might find there's a one-way system at your local station, there's hand gel available and we've invested in anti-fogging machines that can spread an anti-viral on trains,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"And there's plenty of space. We reckon we can carry about 40% of normal loads before we start to breach social distancing.\"\n\nOne passenger told the BBC: \"I think you just have to get out… and then once you get out you kind of get rid of your fears.\"\n\nAnother reported there was plenty of space: \"I come in on the Chiltern Railways line into Marylebone and the trains were a lot, lot longer, and they've, barriered off certain seats. It wasn't too packed.\"\n\nJacqueline Starr, head of the Rail Delivery Group, which represents train operators and Network Rail, said rail services were \"doing everything they can\" to reassure people travel was safe.\n\nThe group said no service was reported as \"close to social distancing capacity\".\n\nTrain operators across the country have designed the new timetable, taking into consideration potentially busy stations and parts of routes that will experience higher demand for travel by schoolchildren.\n\nWhere possible, more frequent services will be put on or extra carriages added to create more room.\n\nStaff will also be on hand to explain the rules on wearing face coverings and maintaining social distancing to older children.\n\n\"Some train times will change so we're asking people to check before they travel and plan their journeys for quieter times if possible,\" said Ms Starr.\n\nOver the coming weeks, rail bosses have a delicate balance to strike.\n\nThey want more passengers back on the network, but they don't want a flood of commuters crowding trains and stations.\n\nUp to now, passenger numbers have remained low - on average, about a third of what it was before the pandemic.\n\nThe railways are not going back to where they were before the pandemic. Some services won't return. But in places, at certain times, more capacity will be created.\n\nDuring the pandemic, the government has been covering the huge cost of running the railways without passengers.\n\nSo there is also a financial incentive for ministers that passengers return.\n\nTrain companies are now working to manage passenger flows by warning people if a particular service is busy.\n\nSome modern trains, like those running on Southeastern and on Govia Thameslink, can monitor the weight load in carriages, allowing them to estimate the number of people on board.\n\nSoutheastern plans to share the data with passengers so they can avoid a specific train.\n\nThe Rail Delivery Group said that reducing the timetable during the coronavirus lockdown and then gradually increasing services again in phases had led to improvements in punctuality.\n\nPassengers are advised to check before they travel and plan their journeys for quieter times\n\nIn particular, train operators and Network Rail had learned lessons about the effects of \"wear and tear\" on railway infrastructure, the effects \"knock-on delays\" caused to intensely-used routes, and the time trains take at each station.\n\n\"Before Covid one train was leaving a station at every second - we were congested. Obviously what this has allowed us to do is to look at the timetable and its resilience and to see where we can improve and increase punctuality and build and maintain that as we build back up the timetable,\" Robert Nisbet, regional director at the Rail Delivery Group, told the BBC.\n\nMr Nisbet added that the crisis had prompted another look at the way fares are structured: \"The need for reform has never been stronger, specifically when it comes to fares.\"\n\nHe said the regulations that governed fares needed changing and that talks were being held with government on this issue - including changes to make season tickets more flexible.\n\nAt the end of August, the government launched an advertising campaign encouraging people to go back to the workplace.\n\nBusiness leaders have warned of damage being done to city centres as people stay away from offices.\n\nHowever, many employers have no plans to return workers to the office.\n\nThe BBC questioned 50 big employers ranging from banks to retailers to get a sense of when they expected to ask employees to return to the office.\n\nOne of the main reasons given for the lack of a substantial return was that firms could not see a way of accommodating large numbers of staff while social distancing regulations were still in place.", "Video posted on social media shows a number of emergency service vehicles in Birmingham.\n\nWest Midlands Police said they were called to reports of a stabbing at around 00:30 BST on Sunday, with other stabbings reported shortly afterwards.\n\nParts of the city centre have now been cordoned off by officers.", "Bolton residents are asked not to mix or use public transport unless absolutely necessary\n\nTougher measures are being introduced in Bolton in an effort to stop coronavirus cases rising and prevent a full local lockdown.\n\nThe infection rate in the area has risen to 99 cases per 100,000 people per week - the highest in England.\n\nThose aged between 18 and 49 account for more than 90% of cases.\n\nAnnouncing new and immediate measures affecting transport and social mixing, council bosses pleaded for \"everyone in Bolton to play their part\".\n\nResidents have been asked to only use public transport for essential purposes, which means travel to education, work, and essential matters such as hospital appointments.\n\nPeople have also been told not to mix with other households in any setting indoors or outdoors anywhere, except in their support bubble.\n\nIn a joint statement, council leader David Greenhalgh and chief executive Tony Oakham said: \"It has been a tough period for individuals, families and businesses but we don't want to throw away all our hard work by allowing the infection rate to rise even higher.\n\n\"Now, more than ever, we need everyone in Bolton to play their part.\n\n\"Nobody wants these restrictions to remain a moment longer than necessary and we believe these new measures will keep everyone safe and help avoid a full lockdown in Bolton.\"\n\nDr Helen Lowey, director of Public Health for Bolton Council, said: \"We are carrying out extra testing including giving out home testing kits, and are carrying out extra site visits to support businesses to be Covid secure, and carrying out enforcement where necessary.\n\nBolton's move comes as other parts of Greater Manchester, Lancashire and West Yorkshire move out of stricter lockdown measures.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Protesters gathered outside the sites - including Broxbourne in Hertfordshire - owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation\n\nExtinction Rebellion (XR) activists have delayed the distribution of several national newspapers after blocking access to three printing presses owned by Rupert Murdoch.\n\nProtesters targeted Newsprinters presses at Broxbourne in Hertfordshire, Knowsley in Merseyside, and near Motherwell, North Lanarkshire.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the action by demonstrators across the country was \"unacceptable\".\n\nXR used vehicles along with individual protesters chaining themselves to structures to block roads to the presses\n\nThe Sun tweeted to report copies of the paper would be delayed arriving at newsagents, adding the blockade was an \"attack on all the free press\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Sun This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Sun\n\nThe presses print the Rupert Murdoch-owned News Corp titles including the Sun, the Times, the Sun on Sunday, the Sunday Times, and the Scottish Sun. They also print the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, and the London Evening Standard.\n\nDemonstrators have accused the papers of failing to report on climate change.\n\nXR used vehicles to block roads to the printing plants, while individual protesters chained themselves to structures.\n\nVans were covered with banners with messages including \"Free the truth\" and \"Refugees are welcome here\".\n\nSome protesters chained themselves to bamboo structures to block the road outside the building in Hertfordshire\n\nBoris Johnson said on Twitter: \"A free press is vital in holding the government and other powerful institutions to account on issues critical for the future of our country, including the fight against climate change.\n\n\"It is completely unacceptable to seek to limit the public's access to news in this way.\"\n\nShadow Secretary of State for Digital Culture, Media and Sport, Jo Stephens, said: \"People have the right to read the newspapers they want.\n\n\"Stopping them from being distributed and printers from doing their jobs is wrong.\"\n\nAnd Home Secretary Priti Patel tweeted the overnight action by XR was an \"attack on democracy\".\n\nNewsprinters also condemned the protests as an \"attack on all of the free press\", which it said had affected workers going about their jobs and others such as newsagents who faced \"financial penalty\".\n\n\"Thanks to other industry partners, printing was transferred to other sites,\" it said.\n\nA protest near Motherwell passed peacefully with no arrests, police said\n\nTelegraph editor Chris Evans earlier emailed staff to say that although the paper was not XR's primary target, it was \"severely affected\".\n\nHe told them: \"I'm also very concerned - and I hope you are too - by the attack on free speech.\n\n\"Whatever your politics you should be worried by this. There are also questions for the police who perhaps placed the right of these few people to protest above the right of the rest of the people to read a free press.\"\n\nHertfordshire Police said officers were called to Great Eastern Road near the Broxbourne plant at about 22:00 BST, where they found about 100 protesters who had \"secured themselves to structures and one another\".\n\nBy 06:00 delivery lorries had still been unable to leave the site to distribute papers.\n\nOfficers said 50 people had been arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance.\n\nProtesters at the Knowsley site had been cleared by about 10:30 BST\n\nChief Constable Charlie Hall said the group's action had been \"an intentionally disruptive and unacceptable protest that had been pre-planned and carefully co-ordinated to create prolonged disruption to local businesses\".\n\nHertfordshire officers arrived \"within five minutes of the initial report\", he said, however, \"the nature of the protest required highly specialist resources and cutting equipment in order to safely remove the protesters from their locations\".\n\nEach one had to be individually released from a bamboo structure they had erected, Mr Hall added.\n\nAlthough business had resumed at the site, he said officers would remain there to monitor the area.\n\nMerseyside Police tweeted on Saturday morning that officers were at the Knowsley plant.\n\nThe site had been cleared of protesters by about 10:30 and 30 people had been arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass.\n\nPolice Scotland said in a statement the protest at the Eurocentral plant near Motherwell \"was peaceful and there were no issues\".\n\nXR has accused the newspapers and their owners of \"failure to report on the climate and ecological emergency\" and \"polluting national debate\" on dozens of social issues.\n\nThe Federation of Independent Retailers condemned the demonstrations, saying members left without supplies of papers were having \"to deal with angry customers who are unable to get their daily newspaper\".\n\nNational president Stuart Reddish said it also meant retailers were unable to get papers to elderly and vulnerable customers.\n\n\"Newsagents have played a critical role during Covid-19 in getting newspapers into the hands of readers and this is not helpful at a time when every sale counts,\" he added.\n\nExtinction Rebellion accused some of the papers of failing to report on climate change\n\nExtinction Rebellion has planned 10 days of action and is calling on the government to do more to act on climate change.\n\nIn an updated statement following the latest protest, a spokesman said: \"We are in an emergency of unprecedented scale and the papers we have targeted are not reflecting the scale and urgency of what is happening to our planet.\n\n\"To any small businesses disrupted by the action this morning we say, 'we're sorry. We hope that our actions seem commensurate with the severity of the crisis we face and that this day of disruption successfully raises the alarm about the greater disruption that is coming'.\"\n\nOn Thursday, more than 300 people were arrested during protests in central London.\n\nMeanwhile, climate change protesters have been warned they risk large fines if they fail to comply with coronavirus rules banning gatherings of more than 30 people.\n\nA procession of activists that set off walking from Brighton a week ago was due to march the final stretch to Parliament later.\n\nThe Met Police said risk assessments of the march in Westminster \"did not meet the required standard\" and have banned XR from taking a 20ft model boat named after teenage activist Greta Thunberg to the streets of Westminster.\n\nAt about 14:45 on Saturday a group accompanying the boat posted a video on social media saying members had been \"stopped on the A3 just after Kennington Park, by a lot of police and 14 police vans\".\n\nXR protesters gathered in Trafalgar Square in London had been largely dispersed, police said, and a spokeswoman for the Met Police said officers were also in Euston where a protester had locked themselves to a crane.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hundreds of thousands of people may wait until 2022 for justice despite a government announcement to speed up work in the Crown Courts, lawyers warn.\n\nMinisters unveiled measures - including holding suspects for longer in England and Wales - in an attempt to manage pressure on courts amid the pandemic.\n\nBut critics say delays in criminal courts are entirely of the government's making and pre-date coronavirus.\n\nMore than 9,000 trials have been put back since the UK went into lockdown.\n\nOn Sunday, the Ministry of Justice announced that it wants Parliament to pass temporary legislation to extend the time that defendants can be held in custody in England and Wales while awaiting trial.\n\nThe law is one of the most important wheels of the criminal justice machine because it ensures that justice is as swift as possible for both suspects and victims.\n\nAt present, defendants can only be held for 182 days after their first appearance in court, before there has to be an application to a judge to keep them inside for longer.\n\nUnder the government's proposal, from the end of this month that will be two months longer.\n\nIn practice, this decision builds more time into the court system - and it is part of a package of measures to manage the impact of coronavirus on the courts.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice's main offices in Westminster will house a temporary court to ease the backlog\n\nJudges and court managers are struggling to find enough space to safely manage the social distancing of hundreds of people who would normally come into their buildings every day.\n\nBut criminal barristers say that the government's case is disingenuous. They say the delays to justice are of the government's own making, not because of coronavirus.\n\nThey accuse ministers of taking a political decision to introduce yet more delay - which could lead to cases collapsing if witnesses withdraw cooperation - rather than finding the cash to get more courts operational.\n\nAccording to official figures, more than 37,000 Crown Court cases were outstanding before the pandemic struck the UK.\n\nThe Criminal Bar Association (CBA), which represents barristers who prosecute and defend across the country, says the backlog is now 43,000.\n\nIn recent years, the number of courtrooms in regular use has fallen as part of cuts to the courts budget - and as the number of sitting days has fallen, the backlog of cases has grown.\n\nJames Mulholland QC, chairman of the CBA, said that the delays to justice were damaging to suspects, victims and witnesses.\n\n\"You don't resolve the delays by incorporating further delays into the system,\" he said. \"The people you punish unfairly by this mechanism are not only those wrongly accused of crime, because not everyone in custody is guilty - but the witnesses who will have to wait even longer to be heard.\"\n\n\"The backlog could have gone away if the government had allowed judges to sit. Then along comes Covid, and the crisis that they've created, they can't properly address.\"\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland said the government's wider package of measures will get the criminal courts system \"back to where it needs to be\".\n\n\"This temporary extension to custody time limits will keep victims and the public safe, and we should not apologise for making that our priority,\" he said.\n\n\"At the same time, the measures I have announced today will get the criminal courts system back to where it needs to be - reducing delays and delivering speedier justice for all.\"\n\nThe latest plan includes installing plastic screens in often cramped and confined courtrooms to help reduce the risk of virus spread.\n\nThe government has already opened 10 \"Nightingale\" court sites - additional facilities to help manage the burden. But only two are dedicated to criminal work.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice has now pledged an extra 1,600 court staff and £80m towards more Nightingale courts for crime.\n\nBut barristers say the money being spent on warehousing defendants could be better spent on getting existing courts operational.", "Sgt Leonard Shrubsall was part of the seven man crew of a Short Stirling Bomber\n\nThe son of a crew member of a World War Two bomber that crashed into a lake in the Netherlands has welcomed the Dutch government operation to lift it.\n\nThe Short Stirling Bomber, based at RAF Downham Market in Norfolk, was lost returning from a 1943 raid on Germany.\n\nGunner Sgt Leonard Shrubsall's son Richard, 76, thought his father's plane had been lost over the sea.\n\nBut the plane had been found in a lake and the operation to recover it started on Monday.\n\nIt is expected to take four to five weeks.\n\nSgt Shrubsall's wife Beatrice kept a tin which contained the telegram and letter from King George VI about her husband\n\nSgt Shrubsall's wife Beatrice was three months pregnant with Richard when she received a telegram saying her 30-year-old husband had failed to return from the operation over Berlin.\n\nMr Shrubsall, from Iwade in Kent, welcomed the decision of the Dutch authorities to fund the raising of the plane, which landed in Lake Markermeer near Amsterdam, after it was shot down by a German night fighter.\n\n\"I am so pleased they found the plane and are going to raise it up. I think they realise what we did for the Dutch during the war and are looking to say 'thank you'.\" he said.\n\nMr Shrubsall's wife Janice, 76, said: \"We couldn't believe it when we got the letter.\"\n\nJanice and Richard Shrubsall had thought the bomber may have crashed into the sea\n\nMr Shrubsall said: \"I never thought we'd find him. We thought he'd come down over the North Sea, but he came down near Amsterdam.\"\n\nHe said he and his family were planning to go to the Netherlands in October to find out the results of the recovery operation.\n\nHe said he was not worried about concerns from some plane enthusiasts that the planned recovery was using a grabber rather than a dam because he believed the authorities in the Netherlands \"know what they are doing\".\n\nMrs Shrubsall said after Mr Shrubsall's mother died, they found \"she kept a tin, a small oval tin, with photographs (of Sgt Shrubsall) and letters he had written, and the telegram reporting him missing\".\n\nThe crew of the bomber were photographed earlier in the war in front of another aircraft\n\nThe crew of Short Stirling BK716 were:\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police were called to The Broadway, Bexley, at 21:33 BST\n\nFive men have been injured, one seriously, in a stabbing attack in south-east London.\n\nThe group were found after police were called to The Broadway, Bexley, at 21:33 BST on Saturday.\n\nOne had suffered potentially life-threatening injuries, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nFive suspects were arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm, the force said. Police have appealed for witnesses to contact them.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of students are preparing to return to university after the coronavirus lockdown\n\nA leading epidemiologist has warned the country is at a \"critical moment\" in the coronavirus pandemic, as students prepare to return to universities.\n\nDame Anne Johnson, of University College London, told the BBC data showed the highest number of detected infections was in young people.\n\nIt comes after government scientific advisors said \"significant outbreaks\" linked to universities were likely.\n\nUniversities have said steps are being taken to minimise risks on campuses.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Dame Anne, professor of infectious disease epidemiology at UCL, said: \"We are now seeing the highest number of infections or at least detected infections in younger people aged 20 to 29 and also going up to 45-year-olds.\"\n\nShe added that the data was \"not surprising\", as young people, she said, were more likely to have socialised with friends and family after lockdown restrictions were eased.\n\nThe latest figures from Public Health England (PHE) showed the highest coronavirus case rates were among 15 to 44-year-olds.\n\nIn the regions with the highest overall rates, and with most local authorities on its local lockdown watchlist, young working adults aged between 20 and 29-years-old were most affected.\n\nOn Saturday, the UK recorded 1,813 new infections, while 12 more people were reported to have died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nMeanwhile, the government's scientific advisory group, Sage, said in a document published on Friday there was a \"significant risk\" that higher education \"could amplify local and national transmission\".\n\n\"It is highly likely that there will be significant outbreaks associated with higher education, and asymptomatic transmission may make these harder to detect,\" the report added.\n\nIt comes as Bolton is placed under tougher coronavirus measures to stop the rising infection rate, now the highest in England at 99 cases per 100,000 people per week. People aged 18 to 49 account for 90% of cases.\n\nAnd in Leeds officials are urging young people to take responsibility for controlling the spread of coronavirus following an increase in house parties in the city.\n\nThe city has been added to the lockdown watchlist - along with Middlesbrough, South Tyneside, Corby and Kettering - meaning people there could face tougher restrictions if the number of infections continues to increase.\n\nCouncil leader Judith Blake said there had been an increase in music events, house parties and illegal raves, adding fines of £10,000 were being issued, and urged caution at a time when university students were set to return.\n\n\"We feel there is a bit of a complacency coming in. What we are seeing is the numbers are changing, and actually more young people are testing positive and they are spread around the city,\" she said.\n\nPolice and the council in Leeds issued seven fines to organisers of illegal raves last weekend\n\nDame Anne told the Today programme it was \"going to be incredibly important to communicate to young people the risks of transmitting coronavirus\", with particular emphasis on maintaining social distancing.\n\nShe said it should be highlighted \"that we need to avoid those situations where we have a lot of close contact, keep distanced\".\n\n\"When we can't do that wear face coverings, wash hands, and isolate when we're sick,\" she said.\n\nDame Anne also stressed the importance of infection control among vulnerable communities, particularly in care homes and hospitals.\n\nConcerns have also been raised that students could spread the virus when they travel from their family homes to university campuses.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, an associate professor at the University of Warwick and expert in infection modelling, told BBC Breakfast that the UK was mostly dealing with \"really local\" outbreaks, but the movement of students across the country could cause a wave of infection, especially as they return to families for Christmas.\n\nUniversities were trying to minimise the risk on campuses with strategies including online teaching, grouping students together within year groups, and putting in place local testing and tracing policies, he said.\n\nHe said that small group teaching was still happening in person, but would take place inside large lecture theatres to allow for social distancing.\n\nThe scientific advisory group Sage has advised universities to consider providing dedicated accommodation facilities to enable students who test positive to quarantine and minimise the risk of an outbreak.\n\nUniversities have also been urged to work with local authorities in addition to conducting their own test and trace programmes.", "Elinor Barker won gold in the team pursuit at the 2016 Rio Olympics\n\nCyclist Elinor Barker has said time spent weighing children at school after lockdown would be better used helping them find a sport they love.\n\nThe Olympic gold medallist from Cardiff said she had seen athletes starve and dehydrate themselves the day before being weighed for competitions.\n\nHer comments came after the National Obesity Forum's Tam Fry suggested checking children's weight this month.\n\nHe said weighing already happens and it would help pick up obesity early.\n\nMs Barker, 25, first outlined her views on Twitter after Mr Fry and other health experts said they wanted weigh-ins in September, and again in the spring, to keep kids on track.\n\nShe posted: \"I've seen a lot of educated, professional athletes basically starve themselves, completely dehydrate themselves the day before they've got a body comp in which we all get weighed.\"\n\nBody composition analysis is a way of examining what the body is formed of; by differentiating between fat, protein, minerals, and water a snapshot of health can be seen.\n\n\"I just don't think that shame is the way forward whatsoever,\" she said, speaking later to the BBC.\n\n\"I really think that time could be used to find sports that kids enjoy.\n\n\"Because you need to enjoy it and build it into a healthy lifestyle, you need to find something that you love.\n\n\"And I think a lot of kids don't enjoy PE because there's a lot of hand-eye co-ordination involved, a lot of competition involved in football, netball, rugby - the kind of sports you see during school.\"\n\nElinor Barker said sport needed to be \"a lifestyle\" as \"diets don't work\"\n\nShe said young people who did not enjoy these sports could learn about ones they might, including less-accessible sports such as \"canoeing or badminton or rock climbing\".\n\n\"Or any of the hundreds of sports that there are that you can get involved in,\" said Ms Barker.\n\nSport, she added, needed to be \"a lifestyle\" as \"diets don't work\".\n\nShe said there had not been a set of scales in her childhood home.\n\nWhen a number becomes \"the most important thing\", reason can go \"out of the window\", she added.\n\n\"Not having a number to track and not knowing even what I should weigh or what I had previously weighed, or anything like that, I think was super helpful in trying to just keep a healthy mindset I think,\" she said.\n\nMr Fry denied his suggestion of checking on school children's weight after the pandemic in any way amounted to \"fat shaming\".\n\nHe insisted children should be measured \"routinely\" in school to identify excess weight gain before it became a problem.\n\n\"Measuring height and weight should always be privately carried out in the school medical room and recorded or charted by the school nurse, doctor, etc,\" he said.\n\n\"The data should then inform medical intervention and the family.\n\nHe said child measurement programmes had been conducted in schools since 2005, adding they were a \"vital resource\" in knowing the health of UK children.\n\nBecause of lockdown \"we have no idea\" how the pandemic has affected children's weight, he said.\n\n\"My call to get children measured when they return to school would go towards rectifying that.\"\n\nMr Fry said he was \"absolutely sure\" obesity rates would rise because of lockdown.\n\n\"One thousand under-fours were treated for obesity in hospital last year because their weight gain was not picked up, and 25% of primary school entrants are overweight or obese,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK's chief Brexit negotiator has said the government is not \"scared\" of walking away from talks without a trade deal ready to come into force in 2021.\n\nDavid Frost told the Mail on Sunday the UK would leave the transition arrangement - which sees it follow many EU rules - \"come what may\" in December.\n\nAnd Dominic Raab said the \"EU's best moment to strike a deal is now.\"\n\nBut EU negotiator Michel Barnier has said he is \"worried and disappointed\" by a lack of concessions from the UK.\n\nHe was speaking after informal talks between the pair failed to find a breakthrough.\n\nAn eighth round of formal negotiations begins on Tuesday.\n\nBoth sides want a deal agreed next month in order to have it signed off by politicians on both sides of the Channel by the end of the transition period on 31 December.\n\nDifferences remain on issues such as fishing and the level of taxpayer support the UK will be able to provide for businesses, also referred to as state aid rules.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said the week ahead was \"a wake-up call for the EU\", adding \"the EU's best moment to strike a deal is now.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, he said the questions of fishing and state aid were \"the only two points holding us back\".\n\nOn fishing, he accused the EU of wanting to keep UK access to its fishing waters \"permanently low\". He also said providing state aid is \"an absolute critical element of policy making\" which UK political representatives should have control over.\n\nThe EU has said it wants full access for its boats to fish in UK waters in return for giving the UK fishing industry full access to EU markets.\n\nOn state aid, the EU has expressed concern that it could give business in the UK an unfair advantage over their European competitors and Mr Barnier has previously said the EU will require \"robust\" guarantees in this area if it is to agree a deal.\n\nLord Frost told the newspaper: \"A lot of what we are trying to do this year is to get them to realise that we mean what we say and they should take our position seriously.\"\n\nThe UK left the European Union in February but until the end of December it is in a transition period, where very little has actually changed.\n\nThe time left to negotiate a long-term arrangement between London and Brussels is tight, and the language from Lord Frost is defiant.\n\n\"We are not going to be a client state,\" he says. \"We are not going to accept provisions that lock us into the way the EU do things.\"\n\nWhile this is his first interview since the UK left the EU, officials in Brussels are familiar with his arguments. One described the remarks as \"unsurprising muscle-flexing\".\n\nSources there say what they can't accept is the UK having the freedom to undercut businesses on the continent in their own single market.\n\nThe time for compromise is running short. That doesn't mean it won't happen, but there's no guarantee it will.\n\nIn the interview, Lord Frost said wanting control over the country's money and affairs \"should not be controversial\".\n\n\"That's what being an independent country is about, that's what the British people voted for and that's what will happen at the end of the year,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't think that we are scared of this at all. We want to get back the powers to control our borders and that is the most important thing.\"\n\nThe government was \"fully ready\" to trade with the EU without a formal deal, he said.\n\nIn practice, this would mean taxes on exports and customs checks.\n\nIt's a scenario which road hauliers say would cause \"severe\" disruption to supply chains, with border management systems not yet up and running to make sure consignments are cleared to proceed to the EU.\n\nLast week, the Road Haulage Association said the UK was \"sleepwalking into a disaster\".\n\nLabour's shadow cabinet office minister Rachel Reeves said \"It would be the clearest evidence yet of this government's monumental incompetence if we ended the transition period without negotiating a trade deal with our most important market.\n\n\"As we enter an economic recession, ministers need to get a grip, support UK jobs and industries and deliver the trade deal with the EU they promised the British public.\"\n\nSpeaking to Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme, Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey accused the government of being \"very reckless\" and said failing to reach a deal with the EU would be \"a disaster for people's jobs\".\n\nAnd Gavin Barwell, chief of staff under Theresa May, hit back at Lord Frost's suggestion that the former prime minister's team \"blinked\" during EU negotiations tweeting: \"Given the withdrawal agreement and political declaration David Frost negotiated last autumn were 95% the work of his predecessors - and the 5% that was new involved giving in to the EU's key demand (for some customs processes when goods move GB to NI) - that quote's some brass neck.\"", "Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford has formed a taskforce to try and tackle child food poverty\n\nA Conservative MP has been criticised by Marcus Rashford for saying it was a \"parent's job to feed their children\".\n\nKevin Hollinrake, who represents Thirsk and Malton, originally tweeted about the success of the government's Eat Out to Help Out scheme.\n\nOne user replied asking why it took a footballer to stand up for hungry children, prompting the MP's remark.\n\nThe footballer, who has campaigned on the issue, said the MP should talk to families before commenting.\n\nMr Hollinrake has been contacted for comment.\n\nKevin Hollinrake had originally posted about the success of the government's Eat Out to Help Out scheme\n\nThe North Yorkshire MP's original tweet prompted one user, Bryan Barrett, to praise the scheme, but also ask:\n\n\"Whilst we're discussing food, why does it take footballer @MarcusRashford to make a stand for the hungry children in our society? Is that not the Government's job?\"\n\nMr Hollinrake replied: \"Where they can, it's a parent's job to feed their children.\"\n\nRashford's reply, which has attracted more than 80,000 likes, said: \"I would urge you to talk to families before tweeting. To this day I haven't met one parent who hasn't wanted or felt the responsibility to feed their children.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Marcus Rashford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Manchester United player successfully campaigned during the summer to extend free school meals and the 22-year-old recently joined forces with some of the biggest food brands to create a taskforce to try and cut child food poverty.\n\nAmong those who also replied was the chief executive of First Days Children's Charity, Emma Cantrell.\n\nShe said the MP's comment was typical of the \"type of ignorance that we encounter every day\" and added: \"We have also not come across a single parent who isn't desperate to provide everything their children need.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n• None Kevin Hollinrake - Member of Parliament for Thirsk and Malton The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A British ex-soldier has been cleared over the death of an Iraqi teenager, after 17 years of investigations.\n\nSaeed Shabram's family say he drowned after being forced into a river by UK soldiers in Basra in 2003.\n\nBut a report published on Thursday said there was no reliable evidence that soldiers were responsible.\n\nMaj Robert Campbell, one of the accused soldiers, said he had \"finally been exonerated\" but that the allegations had \"destroyed\" his career.\n\nNone of the soldiers were ever charged over the death, despite a criminal inquiry by military police and further investigations by the now defunct Iraq Historical Allegations Team (IHAT).\n\nBut Mr Shabram's death became the subject of a judge-led inquiry by the Iraq Fatalities Investigations team.\n\nBaroness Heather Hallett, who led the Iraq Fatalities Investigations probe, said it was possible Mr Shabram's family had been misled by false witnesses who claimed he had been pushed into the water.\n\nShe said it was \"most likely\" that Mr Shabram \"jumped or fell\" into the water, in the process of trying to escape what he believed would be \"dire punishment for looting\".\n\nShe added there was no need for her to further explore the training and instructions given to British soldiers on dealing with looters or alleged looters, and that she had no recommendations to make.\n\n\"I am relieved that after eight investigations we have finally been exonerated,\" Maj Campbell told BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale.\n\n\"But I am angry that it took eight investigations, 17 years and destroyed my career,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm angry that the Army and MoD [Ministry of Defence] abandoned us. Angry that despite the two key Iraqi 'witnesses' being exposed as liars in 2006, the MoD and IHAT chose to believe them anyway and ground us into the dust.\n\n\"I'm grateful to Baroness Hallett for her findings, but I already knew I was innocent,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking to Radio 4's Today programme in 2018, Maj Campbell said he had not had a good night's sleep for 15 years, as a result of the repeated investigations. Ex-Army chief Lord Richard Dannatt told the same programme the soldier had gone through \"a 15-year nightmare\".\n\nVeterans Minister Johnny Mercer said in a statement that he hoped Thursday's findings \"will bring some closure and reassurance to the family and veterans involved in this process\".\n\nHe added: \"Nobody wants to see service personnel or veterans facing extensive reinvestigations into the same incident, and our Overseas Operations Bill will help provide greater certainty and protections in the future.\"\n\nThe government says the new law will protect the armed forces from \"vexatious prosecutions\" but critics argue it could decriminalise torture.\n\nThe Iraq Fatality Investigations (IFI) team was set up after the High Court ruled that investigations conducted by the Iraq Historical Allegations Team (IHAT) should be followed up in the form of an inquest.\n\nIHAT had been looking into allegations made against Iraq war veterans but was shut down after the human rights lawyer Phil Shiner, involved in many of the abuse allegation cases, was struck off for misconduct.\n\nThe £34m IHAT probe did not lead to any prosecutions and was branded as an \"unmitigated failure\" by MPs on the House of Commons Defence Committee.", "Boris Johnson is to call on world leaders to commit to cutting greenhouse gas emissions and secure the planet for the next generation.\n\nThe prime minister will tell a meeting hosted by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres that climate action \"cannot be another victim of coronavirus\".\n\nHe will urge leaders to \"look ahead to how we will rebuild\" after the pandemic and how to \"build back better\".\n\nMr Johnson is expected to speak to leaders via video link.\n\nHis speech at Thursday's UN Climate Action Roundtable is part of the preparations for a global climate conference the UK is hosting in partnership with Italy in Glasgow in November next year.\n\nThe UN conference, known as COP26, is the most important round of climate talks since 2015, when the landmark Paris Agreement was secured, committing all countries to work to limit further rises in temperature.\n\nMr Johnson will also announce that the UK is to co-host an event with the UN on 12 December to mark the five-year anniversary of the Paris agreement.\n\nThe aim is that world leaders will use the December event to announce ambitious new targets for carbon reduction as part of the prelude to the Glasgow conference.\n\nAs part of the Paris Agreement all countries set their own targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nEvery five years they are supposed to announce new, more ambitious carbon reductions and set targets for when they will be able to reach what is known as \"net zero emissions\" - when greenhouse gas emissions are avoided completely or offset by planting trees or sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere.\n\nGetting nations to agree to deeper carbon cuts is essential if the Glasgow conference is to achieve the UN's aim of putting the world on track to keep global temperature rises below 2C.\n\n\"Look ahead to how we will rebuild, and how we can seize the opportunity to build back better,\" the prime minister will say.\n\n\"Let us be the leaders who secure the very health of the planet for our children, grandchildren and generations to come.\"\n\nCOP26 was due to have been held in Glasgow in November this year, but was postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Johnson wants to kick-start a year of action in the run-up to the climate conference.\n\nHe says he hopes the UK will serve as \"a launch pad for a global green industrial revolution.\"", "Scotland recorded 486 new positive coronavirus tests which represented the biggest single day's number since mass testing began.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the figures were concerning, and underlined why new restrictions had been imposed.\n\nBut she acknowledged many more people were being tested now than at the peak of the outbreak in mid-April.\n\nMs Sturgeon said 224 of the new cases were in Greater Glasgow and Clyde, with 107 in Lanarkshire and 57 in Lothian.\n\nThe number of positive tests was 103 higher than the figure recorded on Tuesday, bringing the total number of cases in Scotland to 25,495.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the number in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area included a \"significant\" outbreak at Glasgow University.\n\nTesting strategy has changed radically in Scotland since the peak of the outbreak and there is now widespread community testing, including near to university campuses.\n\nOn 15 April, 1,209 people were tested, but six times that number were being tested by mid-September.\n\nFrom Wednesday, people across Scotland were banned from visiting other people's homes, with Ms Sturgeon warning that the virus risks \"spiralling out of control\" unless urgent action is taken.\n\nThe move, which had already been in force in Glasgow and other areas of the west of Scotland, means the country has tougher coronavirus restrictions than England, where people can can still meet in groups of up to six in a house.\n\nScotland, like England, will also impose a 10pm curfew on pubs and restaurants from Friday - which the trade has warned could cost jobs and force some premises to close completely.\n\nScotland is currently carrying out about 10 times more tests every day than it was at the height of the outbreak in April.\n\nSpeaking at her daily briefing on Wednesday, the first minister said: \"The total number of positive cases reported yesterday was 486 - that is the highest number of positive cases we have ever recorded in a single day.\n\n\"It must be remembered that many more people are being tested now than was the case in the spring.\n\n\"Nevertheless, today's number represents 7.8% of people newly tested. That is obviously a real cause for concern, but it also underlines why we took very decisive and very tough action yesterday.\"\n\nMany pub and restaurant owners have criticised plan to impose a 10pm curfew from Friday\n\nMs Sturgeon also hinted that she would have taken tougher action on pubs than a 10pm curfew if she had \"the ability to bring more financial firepower to mitigate the jobs and economic impact\".\n\nBut Scottish Conservatives leader Douglas Ross accused her of \"making the usual, tired political points\", adding: \"The middle of the pandemic is the wrong time to raise long-standing constitutional grievances.\"\n\nThe BBC understands UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak is looking at options to replace the furlough scheme when it expires at the end of October.\n\nMs Sturgeon had said at the end of June that she believed Scotland was \"not far away\" from eliminating the virus.\n\nOn Wednesday, she said she could understand why many people felt like the country was now \"back to square one\" after the new nationwide restriction on visiting other homes was imposed.\n\nShe said this was \"emphatically not the case\", despite the recent resurgence in cases.\n\nThe first minister said: \"For a start, the action we took to suppress the virus over the summer meant that we have faced this resurgence from a lower base.\n\n\"That matters, and it is entirely thanks to the lockdown restrictions and all of the individual sacrifices that everyone has made.\"\n\nShe said the rise in the number of cases was accelerating, but was still \"not as rapid\" as earlier in the year.\n\nA protest against the continuing closure of soft play facilities across Scotland was held outside the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday\n\nAnd she insisted that the country's test and protect contact tracing system was \"working well\" and was succeeding in breaking transmission chains.\n\nHowever, Scottish Labour MSP Monica Lennon said the system had struggled to cope when schools returned in August, and said there was still not enough routine testing in hospitals, care homes and schools.\n\nShe also called for routine testing to be done in universities, adding: \"I think we have to be much more ambitious on testing in Scotland and right across the UK.\"\n\nMs Lennon said: \"We are still not testing enough. What we need to see in the coming days and weeks is mass testing being rolled out.\n\n\"We are in react mode and we didn't have the foresight to put measures in place\".\n\nAll 500 students at Parker House in Dundee are self-isolating\n\nSeveral universities across Scotland have been dealing with outbreaks of the virus in recent days - with 500 students at a hall of residence in Dundee being told to self-isolate after a positive case and several suspected cases emerged.\n\nIn a direct appeal to students, Ms Sturgeon said they must follow the rules on self-isolating if told to do so.\n\nAnd she said the government would not hesitate to toughen the rules for colleges and universities if necessary.\n\nIt later emerged that 124 students at the University of Glasgow had tested positive since the start of term, with social interaction in Freshers Week thought to be largely to blame.", "Truck drivers will need a permit to enter Kent after the Brexit transition period ends, the government has said.\n\nThe announcement comes after a letter from cabinet minister Michael Gove warned that queues 7,000-trucks-long could clog up roads around the port of Dover and Channel Tunnel.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, Mr Gove said the Kent Access Permit system would be enforced by police and ANPR cameras.\n\nIt is intended to ensure drivers have all the paperwork they need, he said.\n\nDrivers of lorries weighing more than 7.5 tonnes will need to apply for the permits online and show that they have all the paperwork they need to ferry goods to Europe.\n\nMr Gove, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, responsible for no-deal planning, wrote to logistics groups with the government's \"reasonable worst-case scenario\" planning for when the UK leaves the EU's single market and customs union rules on 1 January.\n\nIn that scenario, he said just half of big businesses and 20% of small businesses would be ready for the strict application of new EU requirements at the border.\n\n\"In those circumstances that could mean between only 30% and 60% of laden HGVs would arrive at the border with the necessary formalities completed for the goods on board,\" he told MPs.\n\n\"They'd therefore be turned back by the French border authorities, clogging the Dover to Calais crossing.\"\n\nHe said it could lead to delays of up to two days for drivers waiting to cross the Channel. Although he said those queues were likely to subside after businesses learned from seeing their cargo denied access to the continent.\n\nThe transition period is due to expire at the end of the year but only a quarter of businesses are \"fully ready\" for the post-Brexit arrangements, Mr Gove said.\n\nImports will also be disrupted in January, according to the letter sent to the freight industry by Mr Gove.\n\nIt also raises the prospect of a winter spike in Covid-19 leading to absences of port and border staff.\n\nLabour's Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Rachel Reeves, said: \"It is incredible that ministers are only now admitting to their plans to arrest British truckers for entering Kent without new travel passports.\n\nWith just over three months to go, how are businesses meant to prepare amid this Conservative carnival of incompetence?'\"\n\nThe picture of chaos at the border might be familiar from a similar set of projections made for no-deal Brexit a year ago as part of what was known as Operation Yellowhammer.\n\nThe government says this is not a prediction but an illustration of what could be reasonably expected.\n\nMoreover, Mr Gove told parliament on Wednesday the government was \"absolutely determined to do everything that we can to secure a deal\".\n\nAccording to the Cabinet Office document, without a free trade deal and in its reasonable worst-case scenario, there may be \"maximum queues of 7,000 port-bound trucks in Kent and associated maximum delays of up to two days\".\n\n\"Both imports and exports could be disrupted to a similar extent,\" it says.\n\nThe EU is expected to impose full goods controls on the UK, stopping all freight without the correct documentation at the end of the transition period on 1 January.\n\nThe disruption is assumed to build in the first two weeks of January, and could last three months, or longer should France rigorously apply Schengen passport checks on hauliers at Dover and the Channel Tunnel.\n\nThe purpose of this stark communication is to try to get traders to act now to get ready for new border formalities that could help mitigate the disruption.\n\nMr Gove told the industry that this needs to happen irrespective of whether or not there is a deal in the UK-EU trade negotiations.\n\nIn response the freight industry says putting in place the measures needed to avoid border delays will be \"a huge challenge for government and industry\".\n\nLogistics UK, representing road, rail, sea and air haulage firms says it is urging businesses to quickly install and understand the new processes they will need to use.\n\nBut firms need early access to both UK and EU systems so that they can conduct testing and training before 1 January, it says.\n\nA recent meeting between the industry and government was described as a \"washout\", with insiders describing the relationship as \"fraught\" and hauliers fearful that they were being cast as the \"fall guys\" for delays and disruption likely in January.\n\nThere are further issues should there be no trade deal agreed. Hauliers would have to rely on special permits rationed by the Department for Transport, though a mutually beneficial deal here is possible.\n\nBut discussions on these issues await settlement of the impasse in negotiations on state aid and fisheries.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The government is \"not pointing the finger\" at hauliers, Michael Gove told the BBC\n\nIndustry sources have raised the possibility that the UK would have to sign up to EU rules limiting driver hours, in order to get access to EU roads.\n\nAnd there is a specific new reference to France imposing strict passport checks at the \"juxtaposed controls\" currently designed to offer seamless travel across the Channel.\n\n\"There also remains a risk of continuing disruption caused by Schengen controls being applied rigorously at the juxtaposed controls at the Port of Dover and Eurotunnel,\" the document says.", "Former One Direction singer Zayn Malik and US model Gigi Hadid have welcomed a \"healthy and beautiful\" baby girl.\n\nAnnouncing the birth on Twitter, Malik, 27, shared a black-and-white picture of the baby girl's tiny hand clutching his finger.\n\nHe wrote alongside the image: \"The love I feel for this tiny human is beyond my understanding.\"\n\nHadid, 25, confirmed she was expecting in April while appearing on the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.\n\nShe told the US chat show host that she and Malik were \"happy and grateful for everyone's well wishes and support\".\n\nThe couple have been dating on and off since late 2015.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by zayn This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMalik is the third member of One Direction to become a father. Louis Tomlinson welcomed son Freddie in January 2016, while Liam Payne has a three-year-old son, Bear, with singer Cheryl.\n\nThe announcement came hours after the singer teased his first new music since 2018 album Icarus Falls.\n\nMalik tweeted a short section of the track Better, revealing it will arrive on Friday.\n\nEarlier this week, Hadid's father Mohamed wrote in a caption on Instagram that he was \"waiting patiently\" for the baby.\n\nHe added that \"grandpa\" was \"here and waiting to meet you... so excited\".", "Nicola Sturgeon has written to Boris Johnson calling for urgent four-nation talks to tighten lockdown restrictions further.\n\nThe Scottish first minister cited scientific opinion that stronger action was needed to control coronavirus.\n\nMs Sturgeon also said more financial support was necessary to cushion the impact on businesses.\n\nIt comes as the chancellor prepares to unveil plans to minimise job losses as new Covid restrictions come into force.\n\nRishi Sunak is expected to replace the furlough scheme, which is set to expire next month..\n\nIn July, about 700,000 workers in Scotland, many in the hospitality sector, were still receiving some or all of their income through the scheme.\n\nThe Scottish government has already gone further than the Westminster government in introducing restrictions to limit the spread of the virus, by banning different households from meeting inside their homes.\n\nAs in other parts of the UK, a 22:00 \"curfew\" for bars and restaurants will be introduced in Scotland later this week - but at her daily coronavirus briefing on Wednesday, Ms Sturgeon hinted she believed this did not go far enough.\n\nShe said if more money had been available to help the hospitality sector it was \"likely\" she would have come to a \"different decision\".\n\nIn her letter to the prime minister, she said the collective agreement to drive down Covid to the lowest possible level was \"particularly welcome\".\n\nBut she continued: \"While all four governments announced new restrictions yesterday, there is clearly a significant strand of scientific opinion to the effect that bringing R back below one and the virus back under control will require measures beyond those which any of us have so far announced.\n\n\"In my view, there is considerable force in that opinion.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon has hinted that a 22:00 curfew on pubs and restaurants may not go far enough\n\nMs Sturgeon said experience from earlier this year had shown how essential acting \"quickly and decisively\" against the virus had been.\n\n\"In other words, if we believe further action will be required there is nothing to be gained - and potentially much to be lost, including lives - from delay.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said the four nations should discuss what further actions might be necessary, what support was required for affected sectors and what arrangements could be put in place to ensure that devolved administrations were not constrained when making what they judge to be essential public health decisions.\n\nThe Scottish government has repeatedly called for greater borrowing powers as it seeks to alleviate the impact of the pandemic.\n\nIn response to Ms Sturgeon's letter, the UK government highlighted the support being given through the Treasury to mitigate the effects of the pandemic.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"The prime minister held a Cobra meeting on Tuesday which was attended by the leaders of the devolved administrations.\n\n\"This crisis has shown clearly the value of Scotland being part of a strong United Kingdom, with the UK government providing the bulk of Covid testing in Scotland, the UK's armed forces playing a key role in providing support for Scottish communities, and the UK Treasury playing an absolutely critical role in supporting jobs and business across Scotland.\n\n\"We will continue to tackle this pandemic as one United Kingdom.\"", "Sir Harold was one of Britain and America's best-known journalists\n\nThalidomide campaigners have paid tribute to investigative journalist Sir Harold Evans, who has died aged 92.\n\nThe British-American journalist, who led an investigation into the drug, died of heart failure in New York, his wife Tina Brown said.\n\nDavid Mason, whose daughter Louise Medus-Mansell was a Thalidomide victim, said Sir Harold played a \"pivotal\" role in securing compensation for survivors.\n\nSir Harold oversaw many campaigns as editor of the Sunday Times.\n\nHis 70-year career also saw him work as a magazine founder, book publisher, author and, at the time of his death, Reuters' editor-at-large.\n\nSir Harold's Thalidomide campaign was launched in 1972 and eventually forced the UK manufacturer, Distillers Company - at the time the Sunday Times's biggest advertiser - to increase the compensation received by victims.\n\nThalidomide, which first appeared in the UK in 1958, was prescribed to expectant mothers to control the symptoms of morning sickness.\n\nHowever, hundreds of these mothers in Britain, and many thousands across the world, gave birth to children with missing limbs, deformed hearts, blindness and other problems.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDavid Mason's daughter, Mrs Medus-Mansell, was born without arms and legs after her mother was prescribed Thalidomide during pregnancy.\n\nMr Mason told the BBC his first meeting with Sir Harold was \"pivotal\" to his campaign to secure further compensation for his daughter and other survivors.\n\n\"I'd been fighting this campaign for many years before meeting Harry, but the idea of the press campaign, and bringing public awareness to my campaign, was absolutely vital,\" he said.\n\n\"There's no doubt that without Harry's expertise, involvement and leadership with that, I would not have won the Thalidomide campaign.\n\n\"Week on week he was bashing Distillers, and brought about tremendous national coverage, and tremendous sympathy for the victims of Thalidomide, which helped me enormously.\"\n\nHe added that Sir Harold was a \"wonderful campaigning journalist, and a thoroughly nice man, very popular with everybody. He really was invaluable and I'll miss him greatly.\"\n\nMrs Medus-Mansell, who also campaigned for the rights of Thalidomide victims, died aged 56 in 2018 after years of poor health.\n\nLouise Medus-Mansell, pictured with Olivia Newton-John, was one of the last babies born with the effects of the drug\n\nGlen Harrison, a Thalidomide survivor and deputy chairman of the campaign group Thalidomide UK, also paid tribute following Sir Harold's death. He described him as \"an outstanding human being for our cause\".\n\nIn addition to helping to secure extra compensation for victims, Sir Harold fought a legal injunction to stop the Sunday Times from revealing the drug's developers had not gone through the proper testing procedures.\n\nSpeaking about his campaigning in a 2010 interview with the Independent, Sir Harold said: \"I tried to do - all I hoped to do - was to shed a little light. And if that light grew weeds, we'd have to try and pull them up.\"\n\nAfter 14 years as editor of the Sunday Times, Sir Harold went on to become the founding editor of Conde Nast Traveller magazine and later president of the publishing giant, Random House.\n\nOne of Britain and America's best-known journalists, Sir Harold also wrote several books about the press and in 2003 was given a knighthood for his services to journalism.\n\nA year earlier, a poll by the Press Gazette and the British Journalism Review named him the greatest newspaper editor of all time.\n\nAuthor and editor Tina Brown said on Twitter that her husband was \"the most magical of men\" and had been \"my soulmate for 39 years\".\n\nSir Harold Evans was appointed editor-at-large at the Reuters news agency in 2011\n\nSir Harold forged his reputation as editor of the Northern Echo in the 1960s, where his campaigns resulted in a national screening programme for cervical cancer and a posthumous pardon for Timothy Evans, wrongly hanged for murder in 1950.\n\nDespite his many notable campaigns, Sir Harold said newspaper campaigns should be selective, and he deplored what he saw as the invasion of privacy by the British tabloid press.\n\nAfter editing the Sunday Times Sir Harold edited the Times, but left in 1981 following a public falling-out with the paper's owner, Rupert Murdoch, over editorial independence.\n\nSir Harold and his second wife Tina Brown pictured in 1989, after their move to New York City\n\nWriting about their relationship, Sir Harold described his decision not to \"campaign against\" Mr Murdoch's takeover of the papers as \"the worst in my professional career\".\n\nHe added: \"My principal difficulty with Murdoch was my refusal to turn the paper into an organ of Thatcherism. That is what the Times became.\"\n\nHarry Evans personified not only the noblest possibilities of journalism, but of social mobility in the 20th Century too.\n\nBorn into what he called \"the respectable working-class\", his route to national and international acclaim via the streets of Manchester and Darlington - the latter as editor of the Northern Echo - is sadly a route few take today.\n\nHe embodied the most romantic ideal of an editor: a humble hack taking on mighty forces through the dogged pursuit of truth.\n\nThough he later fell out with Rupert Murdoch, and never forgave him, in his 14 years at the helm of the Sunday Times he redefined journalism itself.\n\nHe was a master craftsman, in a trade where practical wisdom was precious and vital; and he combined a flair for layout, projection and design with a remarkable nose for a story, particularly those with human suffering at their heart.\n\nBut above all he was brave. During his reign, it seemed no super-rich bully or powerful government could intimidate him.\n\nIn our era of information overload, diminished trust in journalism, and fewer people willing to pay for news, the nostalgia for what he represented is impossible to resist.\n\nAs he put it himself in the title of his wonderful memoir from 2009, he reached the top in Vanished Times.\n\nHe had the resources, and the time, to hold power to account - and he did uniquely well. Mixed with his charm and sheer decency, this put journalism itself in a debt to him that will never be fully serviced.\n\nIan Murray, executive director of the Society of Editors, said: \"Sir Harold Evans was a giant among journalists who strove to put the ordinary man and woman at the heart of his reporting.\"\n\nAfter leaving the Times, Sir Harold and his second wife, Tina Brown, moved to New York.\n\nShe edited Vanity Fair and the New Yorker, while he became founding editor of Conde Nast magazine.\n\nIn 2011, at the age of 82, Sir Harold was appointed editor-at-large at Reuters, the organisation's editor-in-chief describing him as \"one of the greatest minds in journalism\".", "World champion Ronnie O'Sullivan was knocked out of the European Masters by Irish teenager Aaron Hill.\n\nThe 18-year-old is ranked 115th in the world after turning professional in March and was not born when O'Sullivan, 44, won his first world title in 2001.\n\nIn his first match since winning his sixth world title in August, O'Sullivan fought back from 3-1 down to lead 4-3 but Hill took the last two frames to clinch a 5-4 win in the second round.\n\n\"If I'd lost after being 3-1 up, I'd have been disappointed. I am just so pleased with that victory.\"\n\nO'Sullivan looked to have survived a scare when he made a break of 102 to go 4-3 up in Milton Keynes, and then scored first during the deciding frame.\n\nBut Hill produced a break of 78 to wipe out a 28-point deficit and book a meeting with world number 33 Matthew Stevens in the last 32.\n\n\"I didn't just go out there and be happy to be there - I still wanted to win the match,\" added Hill.\n\n\"Everyone back home, my family and my friends must be buzzing. I just looked at my phone and I think it is going to take until Christmas to reply to everyone.\"\n\nO'Sullivan received a bye in the first round after five players had to withdraw because of coronavirus.\n\nThree-time world champion Mark Williams was also knocked out by a tour rookie on Thursday, losing 5-4 to 24-year-old Peter Devlin.\n\nAfter reaching the World Championship quarter-finals last month, O'Sullivan was asked if he would have believed he and Williams, 45, would still be performing at the top level 26 years after first facing each other.\n\n\"Probably not if you asked me then but when you look at the standard of play, I would say yes,\" he told BBC Two at the time.\n\n\"If you look at the younger players coming through, they are not that good really. Most of them would do well as half-decent amateurs, not even amateurs. They are so bad.\n\n\"A lot of them you see now, you look at them and think, 'I would have to lose an arm and a leg to fall out of the top 50'. That is why we are still hovering around, because of how poor it is down that end.\"\n\nHill responded to O'Sullivan's comments after Thursday's win, saying his words were \"in the back of my head\".\n\n\"I didn't worry about it,\" he added. \"I just said to myself when he said it, that one day I am going to show him what I can do. I think today was the day.\"", "Several major developers have formed a coalition to fight Apple over its app store policies.\n\nThe Coalition for App Fairness counts Spotify, Epic Games and Tinder owner Match Group among its founding members.\n\nIt claims Apple \"taxes consumers and crushes innovation\", criticising what it calls anti-competitive policies.\n\nApple, which is embroiled in legal action with some of the members, has long denied these accusations.\n\nGoogle, which runs the Play app store on Android, is not mentioned in the group's launch statement but is named elsewhere on its website, and accused of similar policies.\n\nThe coalition has been established as an independent non-profit organisation, and is open to other developers - regardless of size - to join.\n\nAlongside an 11-point \"vision\", the group has identified three key issues it will campaign on:\n\nSome of the founding members are longstanding public critics of Apple's policies in particular.\n\nEpic Games has in recent months been involved in a very public spat with Apple - and to a lesser extent, Google - after it deliberately breached their guidelines and began a legal battle over them.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpotify, meanwhile, has filed a complaint with the European Union against Apple's policies, while Tile has previously accused Apple of anti-competitive behaviour, making antitrust claims in the US and Europe.\n\nBasecamp, another member, is behind Hey - an email app which found itself at the centre of an enormous public dispute over the App Store earlier this year.\n\nAnd Prepear, a listed member, is a relatively small firm which recently found itself defending its logo from a trademark dispute after Apple said the pear shape was too similar to its own logo.\n\nIn a statement about the coalition, Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney said: \"The basic freedoms of developers are under attack.\n\n\"We are an advocate for any company that's ready to reclaim its rights and challenge the anti-competitive behaviours that exist on app stores today.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jaden \"Wolfiez\" Ashman became the youngest esports player to win a million dollars\n\nMatch Group, which owns Tinder and other dating apps, said it was joining because Apple's in-app purchase system \"forces consumers to pay higher prices by inserting Apple between app developers and their users, leading to customer confusion and dissatisfaction that has far-reaching implications for our businesses\".\n\nOther founding members include Blix, Blockchain.com, Deezer, the European Publishers Council, News Media Europe, Protonmail and SkyDemon.\n\nApple has yet to comment directly on the formation of the new group.\n\nBut it maintains that its 30% cut of App Store sales is in line with industry standards and other digital marketplaces.\n\nIt has also recently released new statistics on its investment in user security and privacy last year, including:\n\nSuch investments are one of the arguments Apple puts forward for retaining control of its ecosystem, arguing that it leads to increased security and safety for users.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe closure of the Ford engine plant in Bridgend has been a \"grieving process\" for the workforce and is \"devastating for the local community\", says a worker and union official.\n\nThe 1,700 highly-skilled, well-paid jobs \"can't be replaced\", said Andrew Pearson, Unite convener at the site.\n\nFord in Bridgend had been a driving force in the Welsh automotive industry since it began operating 40 years ago.\n\nThe closure decision in 2019 was blamed on \"changing customer demand and cost\".\n\nWorkers leaving the plant when the closure was announced in June 2019\n\nThe Welsh Government said at the time it was \"absolutely livid\" at Ford's decision and that it \"expected more\" from the car giant.\n\nCurrently, 999 staff are still working at the plant and BBC Wales believes a large number are expected to finish on Thursday with the others following on Friday with the final closure of the plant.\n\nAndrew Pearson said there were workers from 23 different Senedd constituencies\n\nMr Pearson, who has worked at the factory for 14 years, said: \"It was seen as a job for life and it was certainly life changing.\n\n\"I wanted to work for them for another 20 years and that's been taken away from me. So it's really tough for me personally and is tough for my family.\"\n\nHe added that Friday would be \"very, very emotional and upsetting\" for everyone at the plant and the local community.\n\nBut the Unite representative said workers at Ford lived in 23 constituencies across Wales so the impact would be felt well beyond Bridgend too.\n\nWhile Mr Pearson remains critical of Ford's decision to close the plant in the first place, he argued the company had done a lot to support workers over the past 15 months.\n\nThat included funding for retraining, skills development and community projects.\n\nA task force was set up to try to help bring new jobs and new companies to the area as well as support workers and the local community.\n\n\"We can't replace the high-value jobs,\" Mr Pearson argued. \"They're very well paid jobs, we're not going to be able to replace them. These jobs don't come about too often.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The story behind how the Ford engine plant in Bridgend was built between 1977 and 1980.\n\nBridgend, on the M4 corridor, has above average numbers working in manufacturing\n\nAt 76%, the employment rate in Bridgend is close to the average for Great Britain and a little higher than Wales as a whole (74%).\n\nBut it is heavily dependent on manufacturing, a sector that faces a great deal of uncertainty due to Covid-19 and Brexit.\n\nThe latest figures show 15.5% of employees work in the sector in Bridgend compared with 11.4% for Wales and 8.1% for Great Britain.\n\nAston Martin has employed hundreds of workers in the Vale of Glamorgan but there was disappointment in July when Ineos announced it was suspending plans to build its new 4x4 in Bridgend.\n\nTraining opportunities have also been limited due to the pandemic, according to Unite.\n\nThe trade union said nobody could blame the workforce for the end of production at Ford Bridgend.\n\n\"I want to make sure that we left with our heads held high,\" concluded Mr Pearson.\n\n\"This is about a global decision made by Ford Motor Company and it's certainly nothing to do with the performance or the commitment from our members in the plant over the last few years.\"\n\nTim Williams, chief executive of the Welsh Automotive Forum, said there was hope from the news that electric car battery firm Britishvolt was bringing hundreds of jobs to the Vale of Glamorgan.\n\n\"We have to make sure companies are anchored here in Wales and stay in Wales,\" said Mr Williams.\n\n\"The industry has a future of course but it's going to be down over the next couple of years.\"", "A bull shark is believed to have carried out the attack on Mr Eddy\n\nA pregnant woman dived into the sea in the Florida Keys to save her husband from an attacking shark.\n\nPolice said Andrew Charles Eddy, 30, was snorkelling on Sombrero Reef but was bitten by the shark almost immediately after entering the water.\n\nHis wife, Margot Dukes-Eddy, saw the shark's dorsal fin and her husband's blood filling the water, and dived in \"without hesitation\", officials said.\n\nAfter she had pulled Mr Eddy to safety, other family members called 911.\n\nHe was airlifted to a trauma centre in Miami on Sunday where he was treated for severe shoulder injuries.\n\nRescue official Ryan Johnson told local media that Mr Eddy was in a \"critical condition\" when they arrived.\n\nThe couple, from the state of Georgia, were on holiday in Florida with family and had been sailing on a private boat together.\n\nA few others from their group were already snorkelling when Mr Eddy got into the water to join them.\n\nDeputy Christopher Aguanno wrote in the police report that there were other people, not from their group, snorkelling in the area as well.\n\nWitnesses later reported seeing a large shark about eight to 10ft long, which looked like a bull shark, swimming in the area earlier in the day.\n\nFlorida has the highest number of shark attacks in the world, with 21 reported in 2019, according to the Florida Museum. However, shark attacks worldwide are extremely rare.", "Brexit protests on the the River Tyne in Newcastle\n\nAt any other time the prospect of the biggest change in the UK's trading arrangements with its biggest economic partner would dominate the thinking of almost every business.\n\nBut Covid-ravaged firms who have been in a fight for survival for the last six months have found it hard to find the time, money or bandwidth to give much thought to Brexit.\n\nAlthough the UK left the EU in January, it's business as usual until 31 December when the transition period ends and the reality of Brexit becomes apparent.\n\nWith just 98 days to go until then, a new survey from the British Chambers of Commerce has found that half of UK firms that trade internationally have not analysed the impact Brexit may have on their business.\n\nNick Hart from Hart Door systems in Newcastle confesses that he is one of them.\n\n\"To be totally honest, before you called me, I hadn't really thought about it. We don't do a lot of trade directly with the EU but a lot of my customers in the UK do. The big unknown is how much it will affect them and in turn how that will affect us,\" he told me.\n\nOne of his biggest customers is Nissan, which employs 7,000 people directly at its plant in Sunderland. And that supports tens of thousands more in the supply chain. Nissan exports more than 50% of the cars it makes in the North East to the EU. The Japanese firm has repeatedly warned that if the UK and the EU fail to strike a trade deal, the 10% tariff the EU imposes on all cars made anywhere outside the bloc could threaten the plant's future.\n\nNot far down the road, Ryan Maughan runs Avid Technology, which supplies components for electrical vehicles and relies on the EU for two thirds of its orders. If there is no deal he would reluctantly have to move a significant amount of production to the EU. He says the stress of that - on top of surviving Covid - has been immense.\n\n\"Covid has been a nightmare - all consuming. And now we've somehow got to find the extra time and resources to plan for Brexit. The stress for me is that I know I should be doing something to get ready, but I don't know what that is. I love the North East I want my business to stay here but if there's a bad deal or no deal that involves tariffs, I will have to move some of the operations to mainland Europe.\"\n\nThe North East is the part of the UK that is most reliant on EU exports. Nowhere else does the amount it sells to Europe exceed what it buys from Europe to such a degree. Nowhere else then has potentially more to lose from a failure to reach a deal.\n\nHowever, the North East is also a prime candidate for the kind of direct investment the government wants to make in the regions as part of its \"levelling up\" agenda, without any interference or permission needed from Brussels. One of the biggest stumbling blocks to securing a deal is a row over \"state aid\".\n\nThe EU doesn't want UK government-backed companies enjoying a competitive advantage. If the UK wants tariff-free access to EU markets, it must play on a level playing field.\n\nThe irony here is that EU governments spend far more on supporting the private sector than the UK has ever done. But Newcastle-based lawyer Alex Rose, a specialist in state-aid law, said that while the UK could do most of the things it says it wants to do under the current EU guidelines, if you are leaving, you might as well get to write your own rules.\n\n\"There is a really good opportunity here to create a Rolls-Royce state aid regime that will allow us to fund our priorities,\" he said. \"Those priorities might be environmental, they might be 'levelling up' - creating jobs in areas that have been economically underperforming. Ultimately, politically the referendum result seems to require a UK-specific state aid regime.\"\n\nBrian Palmer owns Tharsus Robotics, which makes high-tech equipment for Ocado - among others - and has just sealed a major contract with BMW. He says that is proof that UK companies can compete come what may - and agrees that state aid can help if done right.\n\n\"Well-targeted state aid can really help growing businesses be brave, make investment decisions ahead of time and really stretch themselves. So, if the government has a really clear policy and uses state aid wisely, I think that can be of benefit, but it cannot be at the risk of the reputation of the country as a trading nation,\" he said.\n\nBut to others it's a strange altar on which to sacrifice a trade deal. Why scupper a deal that almost all businesses say they want for the freedom to do something the UK has historically rarely done?\n\nTalks are still ongoing and both the EU and UK say they want a deal but progress is hard to discern. The chances of a no-deal Brexit have arguably never been higher.\n\nBattered bruised and fighting for survival, are businesses ready for a deeply uncertain three months ahead?\n\nNot according to Richard Swart from Berger Closures - another North East-based company enjoying success in a manufacturing niche - supplying the seals that keep the lids on drums and barrels. And 25% of those seals are sold to the EU.\n\n\"It's been an incredibly strange and depressing six months with the focus on survival which has pushed Brexit right down the list of priorities,\" he said.\n\nBut, surely business has had ample time before Covid struck to prepare for a range of Brexit outcomes. Why complain when there is 98 days to go? You hope for the best but prepare for the worst - right?\n\n\"We have talked to our customers and they have made it very clear that we must bear any additional costs of a no-deal. Remember in this case it is the government who has created the uncertainty,\" he said.\n\nThe British Chambers of Commerce agrees to an extent, saying there is a limit to what business can do when there are so many basic unanswered questions. What labelling will UK food and drink of EU export require? How will foreign-sourced components in UK-finished goods be treated? How will development funds that used to come from the EU be replaced? These and other mind, money, and time-draining issues are something the government could help with.\n\nThe BCC says the government's campaign encouraging business to 'Check, Change, Go' gives the impression that Brexit preparation is like getting an MOT - whereas the reality is that for many businesses, it's \"more akin to planning a moon landing\".\n\nMission control has other problems on its mind right now.", "From Thursday pubs, cafes and restaurants in Wales must stop serving alcohol at 22:00 every night\n\nPubs and other licenced venues will have to shut at 22:20 in Wales under new rules confirmed on Thursday night.\n\nIt is 20 minutes later than First Minister Mark Drakeford announced on Tuesday.\n\nVenues will need to stop selling alcohol at 22:00, under new rules aimed at tackling rising levels of coronavirus.\n\nThe law says people must be seated while eating and drinking, and while they are being served.\n\nPeople must wear a face mask while not sitting down and licensed premises cannot reopen until 06:00 under a law that came into effect at 18:00 on Thursday.\n\nThe move means rules are now different to England, where pubs and restaurants must close at 22:00.\n\nEarlier, Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the regulations would mean people needed to drink up and move on.\n\nHe said: \"We do recognise that if you simply had businesses open as long as they wish to be then you could have people ordering lots of alcohol and carrying on drinking.\n\n\"And equally, from a business point of view, they'll want some certainty about when it needs to end so they don't have to manage that sort of behaviour themselves.\"\n\nBut he said the main cause of the virus spreading was people visiting other people's homes:\n\n\"This is still really about how we understand the way coronavirus is spreading,\" he said.\n\n\"It is still largely in people's homes, having more contact than we should do with more people.\n\n\"And then pubs, restaurants and licensed facilities can be an additional source of where it can go.\"\n\nIt emerged on Wednesday that premises would have to stop selling alcohol at 22:00, rather than close.\n\nDan Warder, who owns two restaurants in Tenby and Narbeth in Pembrokeshire, and is part of the Welsh Independent Restaurant Collective, told BBC Radio Wales it was \"a little bit of a relief\" to have clarity that 22:00 was for last orders rather than closing.\n\nHe said getting clarity on rules for the industry had been an \"ongoing saga\", adding: \"It is an ever-changing landscape, there's lots of things we have to deal with at the moment and this is just another.\"", "Pharmacists and GP surgeries are having to limit flu jabs to the most at-risk groups due to increased demand.\n\nThe Boots chain has suspended its appointment booking system for anyone outside of the vulnerable groups, which include people aged over 65.\n\nIt said it faces \"unprecedented demand\" for vaccinations, but NHS England says enough stocks are available.\n\nThis year, up to 30 million people can be vaccinated in England, the government says.\n\nVaccines are delivered in batches to pharmacies and GPs so priority is given to the most at-risk groups.\n\nWithin the next few weeks it is likely that winter flu will start to circulate alongside the coronavirus.\n\nThis will potentially present an additional challenge to an already stretched healthcare system.\n\nThis year in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, for the first time the flu vaccine will be offered to the over-50s - over-55s in Scotland.\n\nBut this will only be after it has been given to those who normally get a free NHS jab - including the over-65s, pregnant women, and people with conditions like lung disease or diabetes.\n\nThis year, the free vaccination is being offered in England to:\n\nThe NHS offers the flu vaccine via your GP or your local pharmacy.\n\nIn a statement, Boots said: \"This year, our customers have been more conscious than ever about protecting the health of themselves and their families, and protecting against flu has been front-of-mind for many of us.\n\n\"As a result, we have seen more people than ever booking early to get their flu vaccinations.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Department of Health and Social Care said: \"Delivery of flu vaccinations is phased over the autumn and into winter, and priority is rightly given to those who are most at-risk with others being asked to wait to later in the year.\"\n\nDeliveries of flu vaccines for at-risk groups will continue in all areas in England throughout the winter months.\n\nThe Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) says other independent pharmacies have also had to slow down the rate of vaccination.\n\nRobbie Turner, RPS Director of Pharmacy, said: \"This year many more people are anticipating receiving a flu vaccination and they need assurance that sufficient stocks are available.\n\n\"We will continue to talk with government on the supply of vaccines, and how pharmacists can support those who are most at risk.\"\n\nProfessor Martin Marshall, Chair of the Royal College of GPs, said widespread flu vaccination would play a key role in preventing the NHS being overwhelmed this winter.\n\nHe said the government must ensure there is \"an adequate supply of vaccines for everyone who wants one\" among patients now eligible and called for guidance on who should be prioritised for the flu jab if supplies are limited.\n\nSupplying the vaccine - which needs to be refrigerated - is a logistical challenge. But NHS England says there are adequate stocks in place.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care says it will issue guidance shortly on how pharmacists and GPs can access additional stockpiles if needed.\n\nIt is unclear how bad flu might be this winter - some years are worse than others - but experts say the vaccine is a good match for the strain of flu that will be circulating.\n\nFlu, like coronavirus, is a viral infection that is passed on through coughs and sneezes. Social distancing, masks and handwashing should help reduce the spread of both.\n\nMost people with flu recover at home in a week, but people with chronic conditions or who are over 65 should call NHS 111.\n\nIf you think you have either flu or Covid-19, stay at home and self-isolate.\n\nBook a coronavirus test if you have:", "Google has removed images on Street View that allowed people to virtually walk to the summit of Uluru, in Australia's Northern Territory.\n\nParks Australia had requested user-generated images from the sacred site be immediately removed.\n\nAnd Google said it had removed them as soon as it had been alerted.\n\nUluru was closed to visitors a year ago at the request of the indigenous Anangu people, to whom the Australian government returned ownership in 1985.\n\nOnce better-known internationally as Ayers Rock, it is linked to many traditional stories of the Anangu.\n\nGoogle's Street View function provides 360-degree images of different environments, alongside people's own pictures.\n\nA Parks Australia official told ABC News it had \"alerted Google Australia to the user-generated images from the Uluru summit that have been posted on their mapping platform\".\n\nAnd it had requested the content \"be immediately removed in accordance with the wishes of Anangu, Uluru's traditional owners, and the national park's film and photography guidelines\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Uluru tourist: \"It is probably disrespectful but we climbed\"\n\nIn response, Google said: \"We understand Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park is deeply sacred to the Anangu people.\n\n\"As soon as Parks Australia raised their concerns about this user contribution, we removed the imagery.\"\n\nThe BBC understands that the content pre-dated the October 2019 ban on people climbing the monolith.\n\nSammy Wilson, who chaired the national park board which decided to close it to visitors, said at the time: \"It is an extremely important place, not a playground or theme park like Disneyland.\"\n\nBut huge crowds gathered in the weeks before the ban, with some social-media users capturing lines of visitors queuing up to make the climb.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Kiwanuka said he was \"so excited\" to win the Mercury Prize\n\nSinger-songwriter Michael Kiwanuka has won the 2020 Mercury Prize for his soul-searching third record, Kiwanuka.\n\nA lush, immersive album of politicised soul, it sees the star exploring themes of self-doubt, faith and civil rights.\n\nReleased last November, Kiwanuka beat best-sellers like Dua Lipa's Future Nostalgia and Stormzy's Heavy Is The Head to win the £25,000 prize.\n\n\"It's blown my mind,\" said the singer. \"Music is all I've ever wanted to do, so I'm over the moon.\"\n\nKiwanuka won on his third attempt, having been nominated for each of his previous albums: 2012's Home Again and 2016's Love & Hate.\n\n\"I was kind of resigned to the fact [that] if I don't win one this year, probably I'll never win one,\" he told BBC 6 Music.\n\nKiwanuka's victory was revealed by Radio 1's Annie Mac on The One Show, after Covid-19 restrictions made the traditional award ceremony impossible.\n\nThe DJ, who was on the judging panel alongside the likes of Jamie Cullum and Jorja Smith, said it had been a \"unanimous\" decision.\n\n\"I don't think any of the judges walked away unhappy,\" she said. \"Everyone felt the same thing about this album, which is that it thoroughly deserved to win the prize.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by MichaelKiwanukaVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nKiwanuka, whose Ugandan parents escaped Idi Amin's regime to settle in Muswell Hill, London, is a former session musician who dropped out of the Royal Academy of Music to become a solo artist.\n\nHe first came to attention after supporting Adele on her 2011 tour and winning the BBC's Sound of 2012. He released his debut album, Home Again, later that year.\n\nThe musician cemented his reputation with 2016's Love & Hate, which made him a star in the US when the opening song, Cold Little Heart, became the theme tune to the TV series Big Little Lies.\n\nThe self-titled album has given Kiwanuka his third Mercury Prize nomination and first win\n\nDespite his success, his latest album emerged from a period of crippling self-doubt.\n\n\"I've always had imposter syndrome,\" he told the BBC last year. \"I was always waiting for someone to find me out.\n\n\"But about a year and a half ago, I got tired of that way of thinking. I just went, 'This isn't helping anyone, least of all me.'\"\n\nThe result was Kiwanuka's opening track, You Ain't The Problem, on which the musician vows to stop getting in his own way, singing: \"I used to hate myself / You got the key / Break out the prison.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by BBC Music This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe record continues as a song cycle where Kiwanuka's own experiences and fears are interwoven with samples of civil rights campaigners and reflections on racial politics.\n\nOn the psych-rock soliloquy Hero, he compares the murder of 1960s Black Panther activist Fred Hampton with recent US police shootings. Exasperated, he turns to God for answers on the call-and-response coda of I've Been Dazed.\n\nReleased last November, the album earned rave reviews and reached number two in the UK charts.\n\nIt is the latest album reflecting the experiences of young black Britons to be chosen by Mercury judges. Kiwanuka is the fifth black male solo artist to win the award in the past six years. Rapper Dave won for Psychodrama last year.\n\nThe musician was the bookies' favourite to win, followed by Laura Marling, who has now been passed over four times.\n\nAnnouncing the winner on The One Show will undoubtedly gave Kiwanuka's record extra exposure. The prime-time BBC One programme regularly attracts three million viewers, compared with the 155,000 who tuned in to last year's final on BBC Four.\n\nMac explained that Kiwanuka had been informed of the result before the show, so that he could be invited to the studio.\n\nHowever, she shared a video of the moment she ambushed him with the news, as he was on his way to be interviewed by Jools Holland.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mercury Prize This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe star will celebrate his victory on a special edition of Later... With Jools at 22:00 BST on Friday night.\n\nThe shortlist was praised for highlighting female artists, who outnumbered men for the first time in the prize's 29-year history.\n\nBut organisers came under fire for excluding British-Asian artist Rina Sawayama because she does not hold a British passport.\n\nAfter the singer said she was \"heartbroken\" by the decision, the BPI, which organises both the Mercury Prize and the Brit Awards, said it would review its eligibility criteria.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The chancellor's statement is a radical attempt to provide a shot in the arm to the jobs market - at a very difficult time.\n\nBut the new jobs support scheme is a fraction of what we have seen over the past few months, and is concentrated on those deemed to be in \"viable\" jobs. It cannot prevent a sharp rise in unemployment in the coming months in \"non-viable\" jobs.\n\nIndeed, the economic impact of this package of several billion pounds is likely to be far outweighed, even by this week's announcement that the UK faces a six-month \"new normal\" of social restrictions.\n\nThe sight of Chancellor Rishi Sunak flanked by the Trade Unions Congress and the Confederation of British Industry bosses at Number 11 was meant to show the country that a non-ideological innovation to protect livelihoods was on the way.\n\nIt is an echo of German Chancellor Angela Merkel locking the heads of the equivalent organisations in a hotel for two days in order to come up with the \"short-time work\" policy, upon which the new jobs support scheme is based.\n\nIt will be possible to claim the coronavirus job retention bonus for reemploying furloughed workers, too. It has been tailored for the UK's more flexible jobs market. The chancellor has kept a careful eye on schemes from all around the world.\n\nBut the size of the scheme also reflects the phenomenal amount of borrowing that the government has done, and will continue to have to do, in terms of lost tax revenue as the recovery is subdued by ongoing restrictions.\n\nFunding conditions for government remain benign. But the Treasury is keeping an eye on how sensitive the public finances are now to even a small increase in market interest rates.\n\nThe Treasury has extended the bridge of support it put in place in March to cover the next six months.\n\nBut the new scheme requires everybody to chip in. That will be too much for many employers. We are about to find out just how many.", "The Met Police said officers were injured in Barnet by a \"suspected corrosive substance\".\n\nEleven Met Police officers have been injured by a \"corrosive substance\" during a drugs raid in north London.\n\nThey had been called to an industrial area in Dale Close, Barnet, at about 13:50 BST.\n\nAll of the injured officers have been taken to hospital, but are not thought to be in a life-threatening condition, the Met said.\n\nA number of males were arrested on suspicion of drugs offences.\n\nThe London Ambulance Service (LAS) said four people other than the officers were also treated at the scene.\n\nA LAS spokeswoman said 15 people in total were taken to hospital for injuries - it is not thought any are life-threatening at this stage.\n\nShe added: \"We dispatched a number of resources including ambulance crews, two incident response officers, an advanced paramedic and medics in fast response cars.\n\n\"We also dispatched our hazardous area response team (HART). \"\n\nThe Met said it was in the process of informing the injured officers' families. Other officers remain at the scene.\n\nThe force's Directorate of Professional Standards had been informed, as was routine, it added.\n\nReacting to the injuries Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said he was \"shocked\" by the news.\n\n\"It is a stark reminder of the real dangers our hardworking officers face every day as they keep us safe,\" Mr Khan said.\n\n\"On behalf of all Londoners, I wish them a speedy recovery.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nFormer Australia batsman Dean Jones has died at the age of 59.\n\nJones suffered a heart attack in Mumbai, where he was working as a commentator on television coverage of the Indian Premier League.\n\nStylish in the middle-order, Jones played 52 Tests from 1984 to 1992, averaging 46.55 and winning the Ashes on two occasions.\n\nHe was also part of the Australia team that won the World Cup in 1987, beating England in a thrilling final.\n\nHe is perhaps best remembered for his innings of 210 in the tied match between Australia and India in 1986.\n\nAfterwards, as a result of his exertions at the crease, he was admitted to hospital.\n\nJones also had spells in county cricket with Derbyshire and Durham, and, after retiring from playing, had further careers as a coach and broadcaster.\n\nCricket Australia chairman Earl Eddings said: \"Dean Jones was a hero to a generation of cricketers and will forever be remembered as a legend of this great game.\n\n\"Anyone who watched cricket in the 1980s and 1990s will fondly recall his cavalier approach at the crease and the incredible energy and passion he brought to every game he played.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan tweeted: \"This is so sad ... A hero of mine has gone far too soon ... always offered so much advice to us younger players when he played at Derby.\"\n\nAaron Finch, Australia limited-overs captain, wrote: \"Still in shock hearing the news of Deano's passing. Thoughts are with Jane and the family at this incredibly tough time. A great man with an amazing passion for the game.\"", "A sports club has said it is \"deeply sorry\" after about 100 people had to isolate and 14 Covid-19 cases were linked to an awards evening it held.\n\nUp to 80 attended the event at Drefach Cricket and Football Club in Carmarthenshire on 29 August.\n\nThe club apologised for \"the role we played in spreading the covid virus in our community\".\n\nIt said the event was moved indoors because the marquee it had intended to use was damaged.\n\nSigns were placed on the club\n\nDrefach FC Committee said it had issued the statement on its website to \"clarify the facts\" and \"dispel any misinformation that you may have heard\".\n\n\"The extensive covid guidelines required to keep patrons as safe as possible were not up to standard,\" it acknowledged.\n\n\"Although attempts were made to adhere to the guidelines there were areas that were lacking, we as Drefach Football Club must acknowledge our part in this management structure and can only apologise for not fully understanding and implementing these guidelines,\" it added.\n\nA closed sign was placed on the door of the sports club\n\nIt said the club had not received any sanctions for non-compliance with Covid guidelines but it was grateful to Carmarthenshire council for its help in bringing the premises up to standard.\n\nIt said a deep clean had been carried out, a designated volunteer Covid coordinator appointed and the closure order for the premises had been withdrawn.\n\n\"We hope this statement goes a small way to start to repair the trust the community places in Drefach Football Club and hope the misguided activity of the Senior Men's and Women's section has not tarnished the outstanding work done by so many coaches and volunteers throughout the club,\" it said.\n\n\"We are deeply sorry for our actions and we have learned from our mistakes. We hope all associated with the club can, in time, forgive us.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keir Starmer says he would not “be doing a hypothetical for what would happen after May”.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has refused to rule out the possibility of supporting a second referendum on Scottish independence in the long term.\n\nBut he told the BBC a vote like the one held in 2014 was \"not needed\" soon and the focus should be on \"rebuilding\" the economy and services after coronavirus.\n\nHis party would not campaign for a referendum in next May's Scottish Parliament elections, he added.\n\nThe SNP government in Scotland wants to hold one as soon as possible.\n\nIn an interview with BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, Sir Keir also said Labour would \"betray\" voters \"if we don't take more seriously winning elections and actually changing lives\".\n\nAnd he argued Prime Minister Boris Johnson did not have \"the right character\" to deal with the challenges posed by the pandemic.\n\nWhen Scotland's voters were asked in a referendum in 2014 whether the country should become independent, 55% said no.\n\nBut the SNP has campaigned for a second poll since the UK's 2016 decision - in the Brexit referendum - to leave the EU.\n\nIt says the difference between the UK-wide result and that in Scotland - which chose by 62% to 38% to remain within the bloc - strengthens the case for independence.\n\nIt has also been suggested that, following the next UK general election, expected in 2024, Labour could need the support of the SNP if it wants to form a government. This might, it is added, require a deal on having another referendum.\n\nSir Keir said: \"We will be going into that election in May making it very clear that another divisive referendum on independence in Scotland is not what is needed.\n\n\"What is needed is an intense focus on rebuilding the economy, on making sure public services are rebuilt as well and dealing with the pandemic.\"\n\nPressed on what would happen after May, Sir Keir said: \"We don't know... In politics, people tell you with great certainty what is going to happen next year and the year after, but it doesn't always turn out that way.\"\n\nHe added: \"I am setting out the argument we will make into May. I am not doing a hypothetical of what will happen after that.\"\n\nThe Scottish government, led by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, had hoped to hold an independence referendum during the current term of the Scottish Parliament.\n\nHowever, ministers wanted to secure an agreement with the UK government to make sure any vote would be legally watertight, something Mr Johnson has repeatedly stated his opposition to.\n\nWork on preparations for a ballot was paused after coronavirus hit, but the Scottish government has promised to set out plans in a draft bill.\n\nLabour, once dominant in Scotland, currently has 23 Members of the Scottish Parliament, putting it third behind the SNP, on 61, and the Conservatives, on 31.\n\nSpeaking for the UK government, Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove raised doubts about the Labour leader's comments, saying: \"Sir Keir Starmer has a problem accepting referendum results.\n\n\"He tried to block Brexit, and now he wants to work with Nicola Sturgeon to renege on the Scottish referendum result and break up the UK.\"\n\nSir Keir replaced Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader in April, following the party's worst general election result - in terms of seats - since 1935.\n\nRecent UK opinion polls have suggested support for the party under his stewardship is now close to that for Mr Johnson's Conservatives.\n\nBut some trade unions, including Unite and the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), have raised concerns over Sir Keir's leadership.\n\nThe FBU has warned him not to \"water down\" pledges on workers' rights and the environment that he made when running for the job.\n\nIn his speech on Monday to Labour's annual conference, Sir Keir told his party to \"get serious about winning\".\n\nSpeaking to Laura Kuenssberg, he said: \"When you lose four elections in a row, you have lost the chance to change lives for the better and we have gifted the Tories a decade or more of power. That is not what the Labour Party is there for.\"\n\nHe also said: \"The Labour Party's historic mission was to represent working people in Parliament and to form governments to change lives, and we betray that if we don't take more seriously winning elections and actually changing lives.\"", "Sharon, who lives in the Netherlands, was shocked to receive a letter saying her current account will be closed unless she can provide a UK address\n\n\"I was shocked to receive a notification saying that my bank account is going to be closed in two months,\" says Sharon Clarke, a Briton who has been living in the Netherlands for 20 years and who banks with Lloyds.\n\n\"They said that unless I provide a UK address, my account will be closed and I'll have to cut up my card.\"\n\nShe is one of thousands of British expats living in the EU who are being told their bank accounts will be closed because of Brexit.\n\nLloyds Bank has written to 13,000 personal and business customers, saying it will no longer be able to offer banking services once the Brexit transition period ends on 31 December.\n\nAnd Money Box found Barclays, Barclaycard and Coutts - which is owned by NatWest Group - are taking similar action.\n\nExperts say it is because lenders will lose their EU banking licences, making operating in some countries too costly.\n\nHowever, HSBC and Santander say they have no plans to close British expat accounts in the EU.\n\nMs Clarke says she has been given until early November to close her account and transfer all monies, standing orders and regular payments to another bank.\n\nShe says she has never had any financial problems with Lloyds, having banked with them \"for decades\".\n\nRobert Kane, who lives in Spain, was told to close his Barclaycard account\n\nBritons living in the Netherlands, Slovakia, Germany, Ireland, Italy and Portugal have all been sent similar letters.\n\nOne of them is Robert Kane, who lives in Spain and has a Barclaycard credit card.\n\n\"I find this an unbelievable situation that Barclaycard will lose so many thousands of customers because of Brexit,\" Robert says.\n\n\"I don't have a UK address as I live in Spain and have done for the last 14 years. They did not offer me any advice other than cut up my card, cancel any regular payments and carry on paying outstanding balances.\"\n\nA source at NatWest, which owns Coutts, says it has no intention of closing accounts unless there is no other option and any customers who may be affected will be contacted.\n\nBanks have told customers to cut up their bank cards if they don't have a UK address\n\nSarah Hall, a fellow at UK in a Changing Europe, a research unit at King's College London, says that EU-wide banking rules will not apply to Britain after Brexit.\n\nUK banks will no longer be allowed to provide services to customers in the EU without the right banking licences.\n\nThis is known as passporting, a system for banks in the EU which allows them to trade freely in any other state in the European Economic Area (EEA) without the need for more authorisation.\n\nSarah said that although HSBC and Santander will still offer banking, others feel it is not worthwhile commercially.\n\n\"Some UK banks decided the size and scale of the client base is small, not profitable enough to warrant a subsidiary, so they have determined they will exit that market. It's a potential postcode lottery.\n\n\"This means the market will be harder to navigate as a customer. It's less certain and could mean less choice and maybe higher interest and lower saving rates because of less competition.\"\n\nIn a statement, Lloyds said: \"We have written to a small number of customers living in affected EU countries to let them know that due to the UK's exit from the EU, regrettably we will no longer be able to provide them with some UK-based banking services.\"\n\nBarclays would not reveal how many accounts are going to be closed, but said it would be contacting affected customers.\n\nThe UK trade body UK Finance said the finance industry had been working hard to get ready for Brexit.\n\n\"Where possible, firms want to keep providing banking services to customers living in the EEA after the transition period.\n\n\"The impact on each customer will vary depending on the operating model of their bank or provider, the product or service being provided, and the legal and regulatory framework in the country in which they are resident.\"\n\nYou can hear more on BBC Radio 4's Money Box programme by listening again here.", "Renee Zellweger and Joaquin Phoenix won the top acting prizes at the 2020 Bafta Film Awards\n\nThe Bafta Film Awards will have more nominees next year in an attempt to increase the diversity of the stars and film-makers who are up for honours.\n\nAll four acting categories as well as the best director award will have six nominees, instead of the usual five.\n\nTen titles will be in contention for the outstanding British film award - four more than the customary six.\n\nEarlier this year, Bafta was heavily criticised after picking an all-white line-up of acting nominees.\n\nMeanwhile, no female film-makers were nominated for the best director prize for the seventh year running.\n\nOrganisers carried out a \"detailed review\" as a result, and said they would now also seek to \"meaningfully target\" 1,000 new voting members from under-represented groups.\n\nThe move, they said, was one in a series of steps \"to ensure a more representative and inclusive membership that reflects today's British society\".\n\nDirector Andrew Onwubolu, aka Rapman, on the set of Blue Story\n\nIn January, Blue Story director Rapman was among Bafta's many critics, saying it had done his gritty urban drama \"dirty\" by not shortlisting it for any awards.\n\nBafta said the review had begun as \"a direct response\" to the lack of diversity in its 2020 nominations, but had \"soon expanded to encompass all aspects\" of the organisation.\n\nBafta - the British Academy of Film and Television Arts - said the expansion of its outstanding British film award would enable it to \"do more to champion the vast pool of multicultural British talent\".\n\n\"One of the key issues raised time and time again... was that too much deserving work was not being seen,\" said film committee chair Marc Samuelson.\n\n\"The changes we are implementing are designed to ensure these films are seen and judged on merit alone.\"\n\nChanges to campaigning rules will seek to ensure \"a fairer consideration of all films regardless of marketing budget\".\n\nBafta said this would ensure \"smaller\" films were not \"left out of the conversation\" and would have as much \"visibility\" as titles backed by major studios.\n\nChanges to Bafta's voting practices will ensure the best director jury will have a guaranteed number of female film-makers to choose from.\n\nThe final six nominees will be drawn from an expanded longlist of 20 names, half of which will be female.\n\nBafta said this would help to address \"a historic lack of female representation in the directing category\".\n\nKathryn Bigelow, pictured with Clive Owen in 2010, is the only female winner of the best director Bafta\n\nOnly five women have ever made the shortlist for the best director award, which Bafta first presented in 1969.\n\nKathryn Bigelow, the only woman to win, for The Hurt Locker in 2010, was also the last woman to be shortlisted when she was nominated in 2013 for Zero Dark Thirty.\n\nAll voting members will also now be required to take a \"specially designed bespoke\" course in \"conscious voter training\".\n\nBafta said that would help its members \"navigate and recognise the wider societal influences that can impact the voting process\".\n\nKrishnendu Majumdar is the first Bafta chair from a BAME background\n\nIn the case of the overall best film award, all voters will be required to watch all 15 movies on the longlist. The shortlist will continue to consist of five films.\n\nBafta's review was led by its chair Krishnendu Majumdar, Samuelson and a steering group that included former Doctor Who actor Noel Clarke, academic Sadia Habib and ITV's head of diversity Ade Rawcliffe.\n\nMr Majumdar praised them for \"bravely sharing their experiences of racism and discrimination\" during \"tough, chastening [and] captivating\" sessions.\n\nNoel Clarke played Mickey Smith in Doctor Who and has directed several films\n\n\"This is a watershed moment for Bafta,\" the TV producer said in a statement. \"The Academy has never opened itself up like this before.\"\n\nBafta's chief executive Amanda Berry concurred, saying the review was \"a fantastic opportunity... to make substantial cultural and organisational change\".\n\nBafta said \"significant changes\" to its Television Awards would be announced in October and that its Games and Children's Awards would also be reviewed.\n\nThe 2021 Bafta Film Awards are scheduled to take place on 11 April, two months later than usual due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The shadow chancellor says half of her 40 requests for targeted wage support for workers have been “rebuffed” by the government.\n\nAfter the chancellor announced his job support scheme, Anneliese Dodds said it was a “relief this government has U-turned now”.\n\nShe said the delay will have “impacted on business confidence”.", "Two men have died and three others injured in a crash during a police pursuit.\n\nOfficers began pursuing a speeding car in Frederick Road, Salford, at about 23:40 BST on Wednesday before it crashed with two other vehicles.\n\nThe men from the car died, and a man and two women from one of the other vehicles were seriously injured.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has started an investigation into the crash.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said in line with procedure the crash had been referred to its professional standards branch.\n\nNo arrests have been made.\n\nA spokeswoman for the IOPC said: \"We have begun an independent investigation into a fatal road traffic collision in Salford last night which followed a police pursuit.\n\n\"We understand the pursuit involving an unmarked police car took place on Frederick Road, Salford at around 11.40 pm. The vehicle being pursued collided with two other public vehicles.\"\n\nThe spokeswoman added that \"sadly two men from the pursued vehicle have since been pronounced dead\".\n\nNo arrests have been made\n\nThe crash has been referred to Greater Manchester Police's Professional Standards Branch\n\nThe men from the car died, and a man and two women from one of the other vehicles were seriously injured\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Banham Poultry reopened on last week after it closed in August\n\nThe boss of a chicken factory hit by a coronavirus outbreak said the firm had to get rid of almost £4m worth of birds.\n\nBanham Poultry, based in Attleborough, Norfolk, had to close on 27 August but reopened last week.\n\nMore than 120 of its staff have tested positive for Covid-19 and the shutdown cost the business about £2m a week.\n\nManaging director Blaine van Rensburg said: \"It does put the company in danger.\"\n\nBut he said the firm was \"working with the government whether there can be any [financial] support\" and there were no plans for closure.\n\nThe closure of the factory meant 2.2m chickens were not processed and the company had to cull about 380,000.\n\nMr van Rensburg said the total stock loss was £3.8m.\n\n\"I don't think there are many business that can sustain a £3.8m hit to their income\", he added.\n\nBanham Poultry has introduced thermal imaging and a dry disinfectant mist through which staff and visitors enter, and a one-way system across the entire site.\n\nMr van Rensburg said the staff were \"safer on our site than they would be going into any supermarket in town\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a new Job Support Scheme to start in November.\n\nThe six-month scheme will replace furlough and means the government will pay part of workers' wages who have lost hours.\n\nThe chancellor also said he was extending help for the self-employed on \"similar terms\" to the existing job support scheme.", "Cineworld has warned it may need to raise more money in the event of further coronavirus restrictions or film delays due to Covid-19.\n\nIt swung to a $1.6bn (£1.3bn) loss for the six months to June as its cinemas were closed under lockdown.\n\n\"There can be no certainty as to the future impact of Covid-19 on the group,\" it said.\n\nThe cinema giant said it had reopened 561 out of 778 sites worldwide as lockdown restrictions have eased.\n\nSix of its theatres in the UK remain closed after cinemas were forced to shut temporarily for several months from mid-March in an attempt to contain the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThe lockdown closures meant group revenues sank to $712.4m in the first six months of the year, compared with $2.15bn a year earlier.\n\nThe group loss this year also marks a huge fall from the pre-tax profits of $139.7m seen in the first six months of 2019.\n\nCineworld said it was still in talks with lenders to negotiate waivers on banking agreements, which fall due in December and in June next year.\n\nThe company warned that it might have to take action if current measures aimed at preventing the spread of coronavirus were tightened.\n\n\"If governments were to strengthen restrictions on social gathering, which may therefore oblige us to close our estate again or further push back movie releases, it would have a negative impact on our financial performance and likely require the need to raise additional liquidity.\"\n\nIndependent London cinema Peckhamplex recently announced it was being forced to close its doors temporarily due to falling visitor numbers and delayed releases.\n\nIn an email to regular visitors, it said that \"the film distributors that we rent our films from are constantly re-scheduling the big titles to further and further away\".\n\nUnder current plans, the cinema will close on 25 September and hopes to reopen in November, around the time the next James Bond film is due to be released.\n\nBut Cineworld said recent trading had been \"encouraging considering the circumstances\", with solid demand for Christopher Nolan's spy film Tenet released earlier in September.\n\n\"Despite the difficult events of the last few months, we have been delighted by the return of global audiences to our cinemas toward the end of the first half, as well as by the positive customer feedback we have received from those that have waited patiently to see a movie on the big screen again,\" said chief executive Mooky Greidinger.\n\n\"Current trading has been encouraging considering the circumstances, further underpinning our belief that there remains a significant difference between watching a movie in a cinema - with high-quality screens and best-in-class sounds - to watching it at home.\"\n\nCineworld's share price fell by more than 13% on Thursday after the publication of its half-year results.\n\n\"Today's first half-year numbers serve to highlight the scale of the mountain that needs to be scaled by the sector as a whole,\" said Michael Hewson, senior analyst at CMC Markets.\n\nHe added that they \"certainly back up\" Cineworld's decision in June to pull out of a $2.1bn deal to buy the Canadian cinema chain Cineplex.\n\nThe two firms now face a legal battle after Cineplex announced it would sue Cineworld for $1.1bn in damages. Cineworld said on Thursday it had filed a counterclaim against the Canadian group for alleged \"losses suffered as a result of Cineplex's breaches\" of their agreement, as well as lost financing costs and advisory fees.", "Limits are being applied to certain products to prevent panic buying at Morrisons supermarkets\n\nShoppers at Morrisons face restrictions on the number of items they can purchase to prevent panic buying.\n\nThe supermarket chain has put a limit of three items per customer on some ranges, including toilet rolls and disinfectant products.\n\nIt said stock levels \"were good\", but the firm wanted to \"make sure they were available for everyone\".\n\nThe British Retail Consortium said supply chains were \"stronger than ever\".\n\nBradford-based Morrisons said restrictions would be sign-posted on shelf edges at tills.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"We have some products with limits on all year round such as paracetamol and so it works in just the same way.\"\n\nShelves at some stores were left depleted recently after the Government warned of rising coronavirus cases across the UK and the possibility of stricter lockdown measures.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium (BRC) has urged consumers to be considerate of others and \"shop as you normally would\".\n\nDespite scenes at some stores, supermarket giants Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's, Lidl and Aldi said they had \"good availability\" earlier in the week and had not experienced any shortages yet.\n\nTesco added its online capacity had more than doubled from 600,000 weekly delivery slots in March to 1.5 million in September.\n\nDirector of food and sustainability at the BRC, Andrew Opie, said: \"Supply chains are stronger than ever before and we do not anticipate any issues in the availability of food or other goods under a future lockdown.\n\n\"Nonetheless, we urge consumers to be considerate of others and shop as they normally would.\"\n\nAsda is to enforce the rules on face coverings during the pandemic and deploy 'safety marshals' at its stores\n\nMeanwhile, Asda is set to enforce rules on face coverings more strictly across its shops amid the pandemic.\n\nCustomers who do not have a covering when they enter a store will be offered a pack of disposable masks that they can pay for at the end of their trip.\n\nThe firm announced on Wednesday that it will create 1,000 new \"safety marshal\" roles across its 639 UK stores.\n\nDedicated staff will remind shoppers to wear face coverings in-store and provide customers with sanitised shopping baskets on arrival.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Scottish government accused of 'failing to plan' for return of students\n\nThe Scottish government should have been better prepared for coronavirus outbreaks at universities, opposition parties have claimed.\n\nHundreds of students have tested positive since universities returned earlier this month.\n\nOpposition leaders accused First Minister Nicola Sturgeon of a \"basic failure\" to anticipate the problem and provide more testing.\n\nMs Sturgeon insisted the country's testing system was working well.\n\nAnd she said the rising number of coronavirus cases underlined why tough new restrictions were introduced on Tuesday to \"get the virus back under control\".\n\nA further 465 positive tests were reported across Scotland on Thursday, representing 7.9% of people newly tested.\n\nThe figures are in part driven by outbreaks at a number of universities, where many students in halls of residences in Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen and Edinburgh have been told to self-isolate.\n\nA total of 172 Glasgow University students have so far tested positive, with 600 in isolation, while all 500 residents at the Parker House halls in Dundee have been told to quarantine.\n\nAnd 120 cases of coronavirus have been identified in an outbreak at Edinburgh Napier University.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do Glasgow students think of Covid tests?\n\nSt Andrews University asked students to observe a \"voluntary lockdown\" over the weekend, with concerns about the virus spreading among students arriving for the new term.\n\nThere has also been confusion about whether students in university accommodation are able to go back to their family home - with the Scottish government initially saying they could not.\n\nNational clinical director Prof Jason Leitch subsequently said students could go home for the weekend so long as they are not self-isolating and do not have Covid symptoms.\n\nBut he has since said they cannot return home because they are now in separate households from their family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jason Leitch This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Sturgeon was repeatedly challenged about the situation during her weekly question session at Holyrood, where she said \"some further measures\" would be introduced later.\n\nShe said the number of positive cases at universities was likely to increase, but said this underlined that the test and protect system \"is working, and we must continue to have confidence in that\".\n\nThe first minister also said more walk-in testing centres will opening near some universities in the coming days in addition to the two that are already open in Glasgow and St Andrews.\n\nCentres in Aberdeen and Edinburgh are due to open from Friday, with similar facilities also planned for , Dundee, Stirling and a second in Glasgow.\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said the spread of the virus at universities should have been predicted - and said there had been similar failures to anticipate a spike in demand for testing when schools returned in August.\n\nHe said the Scottish government had failed since \"day one\" of the pandemic to plan ahead, adding: \"This failure to test is a failure to contain the virus. This will cost people their health, their hopes and possibly their lives.\"\n\nMr Leonard also said action was needed to ensure students would not potentially have to spend Christmas away from their families.\n\nNicola Sturgeon insisted that Scotland's test and protect system was working as intended\n\nMs Sturgeon replied that rising case numbers proved that students were being tested, adding: \"It's really important we say to people that if you need tested, get tested - the capacity is there.\n\n\"The worst thing any of us could do right now would be to unfairly and unjustifiably undermine confidence in test and protect - that confidence, right now, is justified.\"\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson said there was a \"clear concern\" that the virus could spread from university campuses when students return home, asking if the government would consider routine testing - similar to the system employed in care homes.\n\nShe said: \"There is still time to get on top of these outbreaks before they spread more widely.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said she would consider such a move, but said \"routine testing is not some kind of pass out of all the other obligations\" and created a \"real risk of false assurance coming from negative tests\".\n\nThe point about preparation was also raised by Scottish Green co-leader Patrick Harvie, who said the situation with students was \"playing a significant role in relighting the fires of the pandemic here in Scotland\".\n\nHe said: \"The truth is that outbreaks like this should have been expected, and support and testing sites should have been in place before term started.\"\n\nScottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said routine testing would be \"an extra safety measure that would protect us all\", saying there was a risk of asymptomatic carriers \"unknowingly spreading the disease\".\n\nMs Sturgeon replied: \"Testing is vital here, but it is absolutely wrong to say it somehow an absence or shortage of testing available that is an issue with the outbreaks in student accommodation.\n\n\"If we weren't testing them, we wouldn't have seen these increases.\n\n\"We have to be careful that a negative test doesn't lead a student to say 'I'm fine, I don't need to bother with isolation or social distancing and abiding by all the rules'.\"", "Alesha Dixon wore a necklace with the letters BLM in gold on Saturday's episode\n\nOfcom has received more than 1,900 complaints over an episode of Britain's Got Talent in which Alesha Dixon wore a Black Lives Matter necklace.\n\nSaturday's episode saw Dixon, who is a judge on the show, wear a necklace which featured the letters BLM in gold.\n\nThe broadcasting regulator said the vast majority of the complaints it had received about the episode related to her choice of jewellery.\n\nThe number of complaints has risen from 1,675 on Monday to a total of 1,901.\n\nAn Ofcom spokesman said: \"We are assessing these complaints against our broadcasting rules, but are yet to decide whether or not to investigate.\"\n\nDixon wore the necklace after a performance by dance group Diversity earlier in the series, which sparked more than 24,500 complaints to Ofcom.\n\nTheir performance, which was inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, included a section where a white police officer (played by a dancer) stepped on Ashley Banjo's neck.\n\nIt was a reference to the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota earlier this year.\n\nOfcom cleared Diversity, whose members include Jordan Banjo and Perri Kiely, of any wrongdoing\n\nOther dancers crowded around Banjo with smartphones pretending to capture the incident on camera, while others performed with police riot shields.\n\nITV defended the performance, adding that it was \"authentic\" and \"heartfelt\".\n\nCritics complained that ITV's prime-time Saturday night entertainment show was an inappropriate platform for a political statement.\n\nBut Ofcom highlighted the importance of freedom of expression in artistic routines, adding that it would not investigate the complaints as it did not consider the performance to be racist.\n\nDixon's choice of jewellery on Saturday's episode was widely seen as an act of solidarity with the dance group following the controversy.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The UK chancellor has announced a new scheme which will see some workers get three quarters of their normal salaries for six months.\n\nRishi Sunak said it was \"impossible\" for him to predict the labour market, but added that the government needed \"evolve our support” for jobs.\n\nResponding to a question from BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg he said that he could not say which jobs would remain viable because of the coronavirus pandemic.", "Uncle Ben's Rice will change its name to Ben's Original and remove the image of a smiling, grey-haired black man from its packaging.\n\nThe change follows through on a pledge its owner Mars Food made in June to review the brand amid global protests over police brutality and racism.\n\nUncle Ben's entered the market in the 1940s and was for decades the best-selling rice in the US.\n\nIts marketing has been criticised for perpetuating racial stereotypes.\n\nTitles such as uncle and aunt were used in southern US states to refer to black people, instead of the more formal and respectful \"Miss\" or \"Mister\".\n\nThe name Uncle Ben's was supposedly inspired by a Texas farmer known for his high-quality rice. The company asked the head waiter at a fancy Chicago restaurant, Frank Brown, to pose as the face of the brand, which launched in 1947.\n\nIn 2007, the company sought to update its marketing with a campaign that cast Ben as chairman of the board, a move away from the previous, more servile presentation.\n\n\"We understand the inequities that were associated with the name and face of the previous brand, and as we announced in June, we have committed to change,\" Mars said.\n\nThe new packaging is expected to begin reaching shops in 2021.\n\nMars said it would also work with the National Urban League in the US to support black chefs with a $2m donation toward scholarships and invest $2.5m in Greenville, Mississippi, where the rice is made.\n\n\"The brand is not just changing its name and image on the package. It is also taking action to enhance inclusion and equity and setting out its new brand purpose to create opportunities that offer everyone a seat at the table,\" the company said.\n\nMars was one of several food giants that promised to review brands in the wake of the protests triggered by George Floyd's death.\n\nEarlier this year, Pepsi said it would overhaul the marketing for its popular Aunt Jemima line of syrups and foods, acknowledging the brand was based on a racial stereotype.\n• None Why firms are speaking out about George Floyd", "Italy's president to UK PM: 'We Italians love freedom too'\n\nThe president of Italy has rebuked UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson for suggesting that Britons were more \"freedom-loving\" than his compatriots. It was in parliament this week that Johnson was asked by a Labour MP whether Italy and Germany had lower Covid-19 infection rates than the UK because of more efficient testing and tracing. \"No\" the prime minister replied. \"There is an important difference between our country and many others around the world - ours is a freedom-loving country,\" he added. Now, Italian President Sergio Mattarella has responded, telling reporters: \"We Italians also love freedom – but seriousness is dear to us as well.\" Italy, the first country in Europe to be overwhelmed by the coronavirus and impose a national lockdown, appears to have brought the pandemic under control. Mask-wearing is scrupulous, testing is widespread and restrictions have remained in place for a long time. But in a country that fought for independence and liberation from Nazi occupation, its president has reminded Johnson that the love of freedom isn't exclusively a British value.", "Demonstrations have continued in Belarus since the president, Alexander Lukashenko, declared victory in last month's widely disputed election.\n\nA protester allegedly managed to evade authorities by jumping into a taxi outside Puškinskaja Station in Minsk, the capital of Belarus.\n\nBBC producer Abdujalil Abdurasulov has confirmed that the reporter who filmed this footage for Euroradio in Belarus is safe and that he and his colleague \"spent some time lying on the asphalt facing the ground\".\n\nThe taxi driver was hailed a hero by protesters on social media.", "Cardiff has seen 38.2 cases per 100,000 people in the past week\n\nCardiff council leader Huw Thomas has warned of potential restrictions on travel and different households mixing.\n\nHe told a virtual meeting of the authority that over the past seven days, the area has seen 38.2 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nMr Thomas said the city was on the verge of entering the Welsh Government's \"red zone\".\n\nHe said if that was to happen \"then I fully expect that we will be implementing further restrictions as we have seen elsewhere\" in south Wales.\n\nCardiff is home to 366,903 people and would be the seventh area to have tighter restrictions imposed.\n\nPeople living in Caerphilly, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Bridgend, Blaenau Gwent, Merthyr Tydfil and Newport cannot leave their areas without a reasonable excuse.\n\nShould Cardiff follow them into lockdown, it would mean more than a 1.2 million people - about a third of Wales' population - would be under tighter restrictions than the rest of the country.\n\nConservative councillor Jayne Cowan asked Mr Thomas if Cardiff would be put into a local lockdown in the next 48 hours.\n\nHe replied: \"We'll look at the numbers again in the morning and make a decision based on that.\"\n\nIt comes as Caerphilly's lockdown has been confirmed for at least a further seven days.\n\nMr Thomas said restrictions could be introduced \"at speed\" and could include a ban on households meeting or travel outside of Cardiff.\n\nThe council leader said the coronavirus test positivity rate stood at 3.8%, which exceeds the government's amber threshold of 2.5%.\n\nThere has been a sharp rise in hospital emergency attendance in the past week, he added, with the spread of infection \"most frequently found within household settings\".\n\n\"Our test trace and protect data suggests this is particularly in cases where family bubble rules have been breached, and also where people are mixing in indoor home settings and not following the rule of six,\" he said.\n\n\"The truth is that indoor mixing with people not in extended households in homes, cafes, bars and restaurants is happening far too frequently.\"\n\nCardiff city centre at the end of July\n\nMr Thomas said there had been a significant rise in those aged 35 to 50 testing positive.\n\nAny new restrictions would need to be introduced by the Welsh Government.\n\nMr Thomas said he met First Minister Mark Drakeford and Health Minister Vaughan Gething prior to Thursday night's council meeting.\n\nThe threshold for foreign countries to be added to the list of destinations where people need to quarantine for 14 days upon arrival in the UK is 20 cases per 100,000.\n\nCardiff councillor Jayne Cowan told BBC Radio Wales a local lockdown was \"inevitable\" but feared the impact on businesses.\n\n\"Many businesses won't survive another lockdown,\" she said.\n\n\"We're seeing many thousands of cases of people having livelihoods stripped away. As part of the first lockdown, I was made redundant from my part time job.\n\n\"The Welsh Government needs to come up with the goods.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative health spokesman, Andrew RT Davies, tweeted that a \"it's incumbent on the Welsh Labour government to bring forward a package of financial support for the many businesses (particularly hospitality) that will be devastated by the news\".\n\nHe said a blanket lockdown of the city \"really isn't local\".\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru health spokesman, said: \"Shutting pubs slightly earlier isn't going to be enough - the Welsh Government must think of a suite of new steps, which are perhaps stricter but for a shorter period, in order to control these new spikes.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nPlans to resume weekly mass participation Parkrun events in October have been scrapped due to stricter coronavirus rules.\n\nThe events, which take place in over 700 parks across the UK, were suspended in March because of the pandemic.\n\nParkrun is exempt from the government rules on social distancing as it is an organised outdoor sporting activity.\n\nBut Parkrun chief executive Nick Pearson said it \"would be insensitive to push forward with reopening\".\n\n\"Whilst we reluctantly accept this reality, Parkrun's absence will come at a cost,\" added Pearson.\n\n\"As we head into winter and face the many associated seasonal health issues (both in terms of Covid-19 and other mental and physical illnesses), we believe Parkrun has an incredibly important role to play in supporting public health.\"\n\nPearson added that Parkrun believes there is \"little or nominal risk of Covid-19 transmission at outdoor physical activity events such as Parkrun\".\n\nThe Parkrun movement was founded in Bushy Park, London in 2002 by Paul Sinton-Hewitt and is now in 22 countries.\n\nRunners or walkers can take part in 5km events on Saturday mornings while 2km junior events take place on Sunday mornings. Events are free and are run by volunteers.\n\nThere are 729 different locations across the UK staging the weekly events and more than two million runners have taken part.", "The richest person is China is a bottled water tycoon, knocking Alibaba founder Jack Ma from his mantle.\n\nZhong Shanshan founded Nongfu Spring in 1996 in the Zhejiang province on China's Eastern coast.\n\nThe Bloomberg Billionaires Index now puts Mr Shanshan in top spot with wealth of $58.7bn (£46.2bn).\n\nThe recent stock market listing of his bottled water firm and a controlling stake in a vaccine maker have helped boost his fortunes.\n\nNicknamed the \"Lone Wolf\", Mr Zhong is now Asia's second-richest person behind India's Mukesh Ambani, the billionaire behind Reliance Industries.\n\nMr Zhong now ranks 17th overall on its list of the world's top 500 richest people.\n\nMost of China's new billionaires come from the tech industry. But rising tensions between China and the US over Huawei, TikTok and WeChat have pushed down valuations of Chinese tech stocks.\n\nChina's food and grocery sector is now vying with its tech industry in producing the country's richest business people.\n\nIn April, Mr Zhong's Beijing Wantai Biological Pharmacy Enterprise listed on the Chinese stock market. His controlling stake in the firm saw his overall wealth jump as much as $20bn by August.\n\nThe pharma company says it has partnered with two universities to develop a candidate vaccine to fight Covid-19.\n\nNongfu Spring shares jumped 54% on the first day of trading earlier this month when they were listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange.\n\nNongfu Spring's red-capped bottles are sold nationwide from small stores to high-end hotels. The company also sells teas, flavoured vitamin drinks and juices.\n\nThe successful stock market listing propelled Mr Zhong into China's top three richest people alongside Alibaba's Mr Ma and Tencent boss Pony Ma.\n\nBut this week's downturn for tech stocks saw the Chinese tycoon move up the wealth rankings.\n\nMr Zhong may not stay ahead of Mr Ma, who has held the top spot for the past six years, for long.\n\nAlibaba-backed Ant Group is due to list on Chinese and Hong Kong stock exchanges next month, which will boost the tech boss's wealth even further.\n\nThe online payments firm could net Mr Ma an estimated $28bn if the company achieves the $250bn valuation it has been targeting.", "Pringles are now trying out a new pack design\n\nMany top UK grocery brands have non-recyclable packaging, with crisps, chocolate and cheese products among the worst offenders, says Which?\n\nThe tube containing Pringles crisps, now undergoing a redesign, was singled out as \"notoriously hard to recycle\" by the consumer organisation.\n\nBut Cadbury and Babybel were also found wanting in its latest investigation, which looked at 89 best-selling items.\n\nOnly 34% had packaging that was fully recyclable in rubbish collections.\n\nMeanwhile, 41% had no labelling to show if they could be recycled, said Which?\n\nIt called on the government to make recycling labelling simple, clear and mandatory.\n\nThe consumer organisation examined 10 different categories of items, including chocolate, fizzy drinks, crisps, yoghurts, juices, cheese, bread loaves and cereals.\n\nIt broke down each item's packaging into its component parts, weighed them and assessed whether each piece could be easily recycled.\n\nIn the cheese category, snack packs of Cathedral City and Babybel were packaged in plastic net bags, which are not only difficult to recycle but can also cause problems if they get caught up in the recycling machines accidentally.\n\nAlmost a third of chocolate packaging was not recyclable, including wrappers for KitKats, Cadbury Bitsa Wispa, M&Ms, Cadbury Dairy Milk bars and Cadbury Twirl Bites.\n\nThe Galaxy Smooth bar, meanwhile, had 100% recyclable packaging, but was not labelled as such.\n\nIt was a different story for the most recyclable category, fizzy drinks, which were found to be 100% recyclable.\n\nIn a separate survey, Which? found that the recyclability of grocery packaging is important to eight out of 10 people, while two-thirds often or always look for recycling info on grocery packaging before deciding how to dispose of it.\n\nKellogg, the maker of Pringles, said it was testing a new recycled paper tube at several Tesco stores, which could be used more widely if successful.\n\n''Kellogg is committed to 100% recyclable, compostable or reusable packaging by the end of 2025,\" it said.\n\nVarious brands, including Cathedral City, Babybel, Pringles and Nestle, which makes KitKats, said their packaging was recyclable at TerraCycle collection points.\n\nWhich? said Cadbury did not respond to its request for a reply.\n\nWhich? said some manufacturers had told it that food waste had a larger carbon footprint than plastic waste and that changing traditional packaging could lead to stale or damaged food.\n\nHowever, it said proper labelling would help consumers make informed decisions when buying groceries.\n\n\"Consumers are crying out for brands that take sustainability seriously and products that are easy to recycle, but for any real difference to be made to the environment, manufacturers need to maximise their use of recyclable and recycled materials and ensure products are correctly labelled,\" said Natalie Hitchins, Which? head of home products and services.\n\n\"To reduce the waste that goes to landfill, the government must make labelling mandatory, simple and clear, enabling shoppers to know exactly how to dispose of the packaging on the products they consume.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Barrister Alexandra Wilson says \"everyone should be treated with respect\" in court\n\nA black barrister mistaken for a defendant three times in one day has received an apology from court officials.\n\nCriminal and family lawyer Alexandra Wilson, 25, said the experience had left her \"absolutely exhausted\".\n\nShe lodged a formal complaint after being challenged by a security officer, a solicitor and a clerk.\n\nHer Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) apologised for the \"totally unacceptable behaviour\".\n\nMs Wilson, from Essex, said she had attended the magistrates' court - where barristers' traditional wigs and gowns are not usually worn - on Wednesday.\n\nUpon arrival, she said a security officer asked for her name and then searched for it on a list of defendants.\n\n\"I explained I was a barrister. He apologised and guided me through security,\" Ms Wilson said.\n\nAfter meeting her client, she tried to enter a courtroom to discuss the case with the prosecutor.\n\n\"Another barrister or solicitor sitting at the back of the court told me to go outside and wait and to sign in with the usher for my case.\n\n\"I explained again I was a barrister and she looked awfully embarrassed and said 'I see'.\n\nAlexandra Wilson, who specialises in family and criminal law, said she did not expect to \"constantly justify my existence at work\"\n\n\"At this point as I was already pretty annoyed, but I went over to the prosecutor and then the clerk told me very loudly to get out of the court room because I had to wait for my case to come on.\n\n\"I was nearly in tears, and I said again, 'I am a defence barrister', and she nodded her head and turned back to her computer.\"\n\nIn addition, she said, a member of the public thought she was a journalist and told her \"only lawyers can go in\" the courtroom.\n\n\"All of that in one day, it made me feel exhausted,\" she said.\n\n\"This really isn't ok... I don't expect to have to constantly justify my existence at work.\"\n\nEarlier this week, Alexandra Wilson, author of In Black and White, criticised Amazon for selling hats with the slogan \"Black Lives Don't Matter\"\n\nShe told the BBC she was \"quite often\" mistaken for a defendant but never so often in one day, and her experience had made her realise \"it's not nice being a defendant in court\".\n\n\"Everyone should be treated with respect,\" she said.\n\n\"The fact I was shouted at to get out of court isn't ok for defendants either.\"\n\nHMCTS acting chief executive, Kevin Sadler, said: \"I'm very sorry about your experience at court yesterday - it is totally unacceptable behaviour.\"\n\nHe said he would be investigating the role of his staff and contractors \"as a matter of urgency\".\n\n\"This is not the behaviour anyone should expect and certainly does not reflect our values,\" he added.\n\nMs Wilson said she was \"grateful\" for the apology and hoped it would lead \"to some real change\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Studies have found that eating too much liquorice can cause a dangerous drop in potassium levels\n\nA construction worker in the US state of Massachusetts was killed by his liquorice habit, doctors say.\n\nThe man, who has not been named but was 54 years old, ate about one-and-a-half bags of black liquorice every day.\n\nHe had suffered no symptoms before suddenly going into cardiac arrest in a fast food restaurant.\n\nDescribing the man's case in the New England Journal of Medicine, his doctors said the glycyrrhizic acid in liquorice was to blame.\n\n\"We are told that this patient has a poor diet and eats a lot of candy. Could his illness be related to candy consumption?\" Dr Elazer R Edelman said.\n\nHe said studies had shown glycyrrhizic acid - the active ingredient in liquorice - could cause \"hypertension, hypokalemia, metabolic alkalosis, fatal arrhythmias, and renal failure\" - all of which were seen in this patient.\n\nHypokalemia is when a person's potassium levels in their blood become dangerously low.\n\nThe patient had also recently changed the type of sweets he was eating. A few weeks before his death, he switched from red fruit-flavoured twists to another type made with black liquorice.\n\nAnother doctor, Dr Andrew L Lundquist, agreed in the report that the liquorice was to blame.\n\nHe wrote: \"Further investigation revealed a recent change to a liquorice-containing candy as the likely cause of his hypokalemia.\"", "The UK has recorded 6,634 new coronavirus cases, the government has announced, making it the highest daily figure since mass testing began.\n\nAnother 40 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus.\n\nThe latest figures take the overall number of confirmed cases to 416,363, and total deaths to 41,902.\n\nMeanwhile, people arriving in the UK from Denmark, Slovakia, Iceland and Caribbean island Curacao will need to self-isolate for 14 days from Saturday.\n\nAfter falling from their April peak, confirmed new coronavirus cases in the UK have been rising again since July.\n\nThe latest surge in cases comes after Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced plans aimed at stopping mass job cuts over the winter months.\n\nThe government's new wage subsidy scheme, set to replace furlough, will see the government top up the pay of people unable to work full time.\n\nThe official records may show that the UK has just seen the highest number of new cases on a single day.\n\nBut it is, of course, nothing of the sort. At the peak of the pandemic in the spring we had such limited testing capacity that it was largely only hospital patients who were being checked.\n\nIt meant we were identifying just the tip of the iceberg.\n\nEstimates have suggested there may have been as many 100,000 cases a day at the peak.\n\nWe are clearly not capturing all the infections - even now with the mass testing that is available.\n\nSurveillance data last week suggested we may be identifying only about half of cases.\n\nBut that still puts the infection levels well below what they were in the spring.\n\nHospital admissions and deaths have also started creeping up, but are still very low.\n\nHealth experts have been clear we are now on the upwards path so we should expect this trend to continue.\n\nCrucial will be how quickly figures rise for all three measures, with the hospital cases and deaths the most important.\n\nEvidence from Spain and France, which started seeing rises a few weeks before us, offer some hope.\n\nCases have been climbing gradually - at least more gradually than the trajectory government scientists warned could lead the UK to 50,000 cases a day by mid-October.\n\nMr Sunak's measures come two days after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced further restrictions to help curb the spread of coronavirus, including a 22:00 closing time for all pubs, restaurants and hospitality venues, which have now come into force in England.\n\nThe sector will also be restricted, by law, to giving table service only.\n\nIn Scotland, university students have been asked not to go to pubs, parties or restaurants this weekend, in a bid to curb outbreaks at several institutions.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon apologised to students, saying she recognised Covid was \"making this special time of your lives so tough\".\n\nAnd in Wales, people in Cardiff are facing the prospect of local lockdown after council leader Huw Thomas said the city was on the verge of entering the Welsh Government's \"red zone\".\n\nThe decision to remove Denmark, Slovakia, Iceland and Caribbean island Curacao from the so-called \"travel corridor\" list takes effect from 04:00 BST on Saturday, the Department for Transport said.\n\nIt has been agreed with the devolved administrations so covers the whole of the UK, unlike some previous travel quarantine announcements.\n\nNo countries will be added to the UK travel corridor list this week, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said.\n\nSingapore and Thailand remain the most recent additions to England and Scotland's list, from 17 September.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Mr Shapps reminded passengers they were required by law to fill in a passenger locator form when entering the UK.\n\n\"This protects public health and ensures those who need to are complying with self-isolation rules,\" he said.\n\nThe form asks travellers to provide their contact details and UK address. Passengers can be fined up to £3,200 in England if they do not provide accurate contact details, or £1,920 in Wales.", "Sir David as he appears in upcoming documentary A Life On Our Planet\n\nSir David Attenborough has signed up to Instagram for the first time to help spread his environmental message.\n\n\"I am making this move... because, as we all know, the world is in trouble,\" he said in his first video message on the social media platform.\n\n\"Continents are on fire. Glaciers are melting. Coral reefs are dying... The list goes on and on,\" he continued.\n\nWithin an hour of his first post, he had more than 200,000 followers, and by 16:15 BST he had 1.2m followers.\n\n\"Saving our planet is now a communications challenge,\" the veteran broadcaster said.\n\nTennis player Sir Andy Murray and body coach Joe Wicks were among those to post welcome messages.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSir David said he would use the platform to share videos explaining \"what the problems are and how we can deal with them\".\n\nConcluding his message, the 94-year-old invited viewers to \"join me - or as we used to say in those early days of radio, stay tuned.\"\n\nFrequent collaborators Jonnie Hughes and Colin Butfield will help manage the account and its various technical aspects.\n\n\"Social media isn't David's usual habitat,\" they wrote in a message accompanying the naturalist's introductory video.\n\nSir David's Instagram debut precedes the release of latest book and Netflix documentary, both titled A Life On Our Planet.\n\nThe film sees him reflect on his career and the decline of the planet's environment and biodiversity he has observed first-hand.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIt remains to be seen, though, if he will better the impressive debut Jennifer Aniston made on the platform last October.\n\nThe actress attracted almost five million followers in 12 hours after posting a selfie with her fellow Friends cast members.\n\nEarlier this year Dwayne \"The Rock\" Johnson was named the celebrity thought to be able to charge more than any one else for a sponsored Instagram post.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Helle Thorning-Schmidt and 19 other influential figures will act as independent arbiters of Facebook and Instagram\n\nFacebook's Oversight Board is \"opening its doors to business\" in mid-October.\n\nUsers will be able to file appeals against posts the firm has removed from its platforms, and the board can overrule decisions made by Facebook's moderators and executives, including chief executive Mark Zuckerberg.\n\nThe timing means that some rulings could relate to the US Presidential election, which is on 3 November.\n\nBut one member of the board told the BBC it expected to act slowly at first.\n\n\"In principle, we will be able to look at issues arising connected to the election and also after the election,\" Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the former Prime Minister of Denmark, explained.\n\n\"But if Facebook takes something down or leaves something up the day after the election, there won't be a ruling the day after.\n\n\"That's not why we're here. We're here to take principled decisions and deliberate properly.\"\n\nEarlier this week, Facebook's global affairs chief Nick Clegg told the Financial Times that if there was an \"extremely chaotic and, worse still, violent set of circumstances\" following a contested election result, it would act aggressively to \"significantly restrict the circulation of content on our platform\".\n\nIn theory, the 20-person panel - which has been likened to the US Supreme Court - could force the firm to reverse some of its judgements.\n\nMs Thorning-Schmidt said that the board had the capacity to examine \"expedited cases\" but preferred not to do so in its early days.\n\nFacebook first announced its plans to set up the Oversight Board a year ago, and it has taken until now to select its members and arrange how it will work in practice.\n\nThe members will be paid an undisclosed sum, but are intended to serve as an independent body, and will decide which cases to look into.\n\nTheir work will cover Facebook's main platform as well as the photo-centric app Instagram, which the company owns.\n\nIn addition to user complaints, the board can also examine issues that the company has raised itself.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Facebook watchdog will not rush into rulings\n\nFacebook has said it expects cases to be resolved within 90 days, including any action it is told to take.\n\nThe panel's decisions are supposed to be binding and set a precedent for subsequent moderation decisions.\n\nCritics of the scheme have suggested it is a \"fig leaf\" designed to help Facebook avoid being regulated by others.\n\nBut Ms Thorning-Schmidt said it was too early to write it off.\n\n\"It would be much better if the global community in the UN [United Nations] could come up with a content moderation system that could look into all social media platforms, but that is not going to happen,\" she said.\n\n\"So this is the second best.\n\n\"Give us two years to try to prove that it is better to have this board than not to have this board.\"\n\nThe following interview with Ms Thorning-Schmidt has been edited for brevity and clarity:\n\nHas Facebook already consulted the board about its plans to deal with election-related posts?\n\nIt's very important to keep a distance between the Oversight Board and Facebook. So we don't have much to do with Facebook right now. And they don't consult us on what they should be doing. And we don't think they should consult us.\n\nAnd just to be clear - in the days after the election, you might ask for a removed post to be put back up on Facebook or Instagram?\n\nYes, it is it is an option. But we are focused on quality rather than speed. Facebook has been criticised for moving fast and breaking things. We want to move slowly and try to create something which is sustainable in the long run. So if Facebook takes down something right after the election, or leaves something up, there won't be a ruling the day after from the Oversight Board.\n\nIn theory, the Oversight Board has the right to overrule Mark Zuckerberg himself. But since he still controls the majority of Facebook's voting shares, isn't there a risk he in turn overrules whatever you decided?\n\nIt was very, very clear to us when we were appointed that we will work with transparency and independence. If Facebook doesn't follow our decisions, it won't last very long. The obligation from Facebook, including, of course Mark Zuckerberg, is to follow our decisions. So that is the red line for us and not up for discussion.\n\nMark Zuckerberg has a disproportionate share of Facebook's voting rights given that he owns a 13% stake\n\nI don't think we should talk about these issues. We want to give this a serious go. I'm urging everyone to look at the Oversight Board and not make the perfect the enemy of the good. This is the best we have these days to try to regulate content on social media. I have not seen any other ways of doing this. And we are all committed to given this giving this a real chance.\n\nFacebook's not been short of controversies over recent years. There's been Cambridge Analytica, hate speech directed at the Rohingyas in Myanmar, a decision not to take down posts from Holocaust deniers, and a decision to take a less interventionist stance on some of President Trump's posts than Twitter has done. Which of these or other cases do you think might have turned out differently had the Oversight Board already existed?\n\nI understand that you want to discuss current examples. And I do find that fascinating as well. But I also think it would be wrong for a board member to go into concrete issues because it would pre-empt our decisions later on. There's been some quite horrific examples in the past, and there will probably be more horrific examples in the future. I have no doubt that the board will look into fact-checking and whether there was real harm caused by content that was left up for too long, which they should have taken down.\n\nSome critics are concerned that this is still a form of self-regulation, and what is needed is external intervention by politicians and official watchdogs.\n\nI think these big tech firms, social media platforms, need regulation in many areas. There is a need for regulation in terms of tax issues. And there's probably also a need for regulation in terms of data protection and how long you keep data. I've argued very adamantly for a duty of care for Facebook and other social media providers. But the board is not taking the place of regulation. Perhaps rather the opposite. The more rulings and decisions we make, the more it will become clear that we need a better conversation about content, and perhaps also more regulation around content.", "The NHS Covid-19 app is set to become available to everyone in England and Wales on Thursday\n\nA leading health charity is demanding details about how England and Wales' contact-tracing app fared in tests.\n\nThe app is due to launch on Thursday.\n\nIt has been trialled in the London Borough of Newham as well as the Isle of Wight, but data from from the pilots has not been made public.\n\nThe Health Foundation said it was particularly concerned the tech could exacerbate existing inequalities, leaving some people at greater risk of being infected.\n\nThe government has responded saying: \"We have spoken with groups with protected characteristics, such as age, ethnicity and disability, those experiencing health inequalities and those groups particularly impacted by coronavirus.\"\n\nThe NHS Covid-19 app has been in development since March in one form or another, and follows the release of parallel contact-tracing smartphone software in Northern Ireland and Scotland.\n\nAmong other functions, they use Bluetooth signals to determine when two people have been close together for five minutes or more, so that if one is later diagnosed as having the virus the other can be sent an alert telling them to self-isolate.\n\nTwo different versions of the app have been tested in the Isle of Wight.\n\nThe most recent release was also trialled in Newham specifically because of the wide diversity of the area's 267,066 residents.\n\nAccording to the Department for Health's Test and Trace team, which is responsible for the initiative:\n\nThe Newham test began in late August, but its findings have not been made public, leading the Health Foundation to call for greater transparency.\n\nThe charity called attention to a previously unreleased Ipsos Mori poll, which it said indicated that participants from black and minority ethnic backgrounds, women, younger and older age groups, and unemployed people were all among those with a relatively low awareness of the app.\n\nThose involved in the trial had to enter a code to begin, were told if they should self-isolate and were given a countdown timer\n\n\"Piloting the app in Newham was an opportunity to understand how it works among different populations,\" it said.\n\n\"But without publication of any findings from the pilot study, we do not know whether these major concerns have been addressed.\"\n\nIt added that one worry was that those who did not use the app would not benefit from up-to-date information about their risk of infection from others, potentially putting them more at risk.\n\nWhile the Test and Trace team has not published its results, it has detailed some of the steps it intends to take to encourage the app's adoption, including:\n\nThe BBC has been told the app will also launch with more than the six languages the test version currently provides.", "The Treasury has scrapped plans for an Autumn Budget this year because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"As we heard this week, now is not the right time to outline long-term plans - people want to see us focused on the here and now,\" the Treasury said.\n\n\"So we are confirming today that there will be no Budget this autumn.\"\n\nThere will however be a spending review to set out the overall shape of government spending, BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg reported.\n\nTypically, the government outlines the state of the country's finances in the Budget and, crucially, proposes tax changes.\n\nBut any such decisions will now be put on hold until next year. Instead, the government will reveal how much each department is allowed to spend.\n\nA Treasury source told the BBC: \"No-one wanted to be in this situation but we need to respond to it.\n\n\"The chancellor has shown he has been creative in the past and we hope that people will trust us to continue in that vein.\"\n\nThe source said that \"giving people reassurance and businesses the help they need\" was \"uppermost\" in the chancellor's mind.\n\nAnother source said that \"jobs, jobs, jobs\", have always been the chancellor's priority.\n\nThe decision to scrap the Budget comes as no surprise, according to Genevieve Morris head of corporate tax at accountancy firm Blick Rothenberg.\n\n\"It would have been difficult for the chancellor to announce tax changes in the autumn which are aimed at recouping the costs of the pandemic, whilst the country is still in the grip of a second wave,\" she said.\n\n\"What we need from the chancellor now is a promise that there will not be overnight tax changes announced in the autumn, or reforms which put additional burden on individuals and businesses.\"\n\nNews of the decision to cancel the Budget came just hours after Chancellor Rishi Sunak said he would unveil his \"winter economy plan\".\n\n\"As our response to coronavirus adapts, tomorrow afternoon I will update the House of Commons on our plans to continue protecting jobs through the winter,\" he tweeted on Wednesday.\n\nThe chancellor has been facing mounting pressure to say what will happen after the government's furlough scheme expires at the end of October.", "Hundreds of thousands of students have been returning to their university towns\n\nMatt Hancock has refused to rule out banning students from returning home at Christmas, to limit the spread of coronavirus outbreaks.\n\nThe health secretary was responding to a question about concerns that students could be spreading Covid-19, amid numerous university-based outbreaks.\n\nAt Glasgow University 120 students have tested positive for Covid-19 and are among 600 self-isolating there.\n\nAcademics had warned against the mass movement of the UK's million students.\n\nThe University and College Union had called for students to be taught wholly online, from home until Christmas, ahead of the start of term, but ministers advised some face-to-face learning was key to students' mental health.\n\nThis has meant up to a million students have returned to their university premises or are commuting there regularly.\n\nIn a response to a question on BBC Radio 4's Today Programme about whether students would be asked to stay in their university towns at Christmas, Mr Hancock said he had \"learned not to rule things out\".\n\n\"I don't want to have a situation like that and I very much hope we can avoid it.\n\n\"We have said throughout that our goal is to suppress the virus, whilst protecting the economy and protecting education.\n\n\"And protecting people in education whether it's school or university is obviously critical as is protecting the economy.\"\n\nHe added: \"In terms of universities, we are working very closely with them to try to make sure the students are safe, but that they can also get their education.\"\n\n\"I've learned not to rule things out and one of the challenges that we have is how to make sure people are as safe as possible.\"\n\nBut he added: \"This is not our goal, I don't want to leave you with the expectation - but we have to work on all contingencies at the moment.\"\n\nIt comes after a growing number of outbreaks on university campuses, with students isolating in their residential groups at Glasgow, Dundee and Liverpool.\n\nBoris Johnson has said universities have been given a \"clear request not to send students home in the event of an outbreak, so as to avoid spreading the virus across the country\".\n\nUniversity students are being urged not to hold parties in their halls of residence under the rule of six, and to avoid socialising in places that do not have Covid-19 protections in place.\n\nMany universities are warning students they face fines or even having their courses terminated if they do not follow the regulations.\n\nStudents are returning to campuses across the UK\n\nUniversities have taken extensive measures in their buildings to minimise risks on campuses and many lectures are already being taught online, but there is less control over what takes place off university premises.\n\nBut minutes of a recent meeting of the government's scientific advisory group on emergencies, suggest ministers were aware of the risks of bringing students back to university and sending them home at the end of term.\n\nThe minutes of the 1 September meeting said: \"Sage noted that risks of larger outbreaks spilling over from HE institutions are more likely to occur towards the end of the academic term, coinciding with Christmas and New Year period when students return home.\n\n\"This could pose risk to both local communities and families, and will require national oversight, monitoring and decision-making.\"\n\nUCU general secretary Jo Grady has said the evidence was clear that online learning should be the default position and that government should be working to prevent outbreaks not creating conditions for them.\n\nShe said:\" students and their parents will be rightly worried about being locked down in an unfamiliar area over Christmas.\n\n\"Locking students down at Christmas is based on a flawed boarding school vision of university that ignores the fact thousands of students and staff commute every day around the UK to and from university.\n\n\"Threatening to lock students up over the festive period is not the solution.\"\n\nShe also urged the government to act now, before thousands more students move onto campuses this weekend.\n\nIt was completely irresponsible to let students go back to university when outbreaks have already started, she added.\n\nUniversity leaders say they have working hard for months to ensure students can return to their campuses safely.\n\n\"Ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of students, staff and local communities in the new academic year is the number one priority for universities,\" said a Universities UK spokeswoman.\n\nAnd Larissa Kennedy, president of the National Union of Students said it was \"completely ridiculous that we could see a situation where students are being told to stay in university accommodation which is often quite small, quite cramped - and they might have to stay there over Christmas\".\n\n\"This would have an inordinate impact on students' wellbeing and mental health,\" she said.\n\n\"I really am calling on government to urgently invest in digital infrastructure so that people can access online learning if they want to do that.\n\n\"It's just not good enough that we're in a situation in September, that might mean that in December the student mental health crisis is further exacerbated by government's inaction.\"\n• None Universities: No parties and more online learning", "Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney are interested in investing in Wrexham, the club have announced.\n\nDeadpool and Detective Pikachu star Reynolds and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's McElhenney will share their vision for the club with members at a special general meeting (SGM).\n\nThe fan-owned club's members have voted overwhelmingly for talks to proceed.\n\nAny potential takeover could lead to £2m being invested in the club, which has been in fan ownership since 2011.\n\nA total of 1,223 Wrexham Supporters Trust members - over 95% of those asked - voted for the move and 31 against at a special general meeting on Tuesday.\n\nTrust director Spencer Harris, who expects a further vote from fans on the outline of the deal \"in weeks rather than months\", told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast the deal is in its early stages, but he has known the identity of the would-be backers for some time.\n\n\"We've known for a little while, but we wanted to come as early as we could in the process to involve supporters,\" Harris told the programme.\n\n\"As everybody knows we are community owned and therefore this has become public knowledge a little bit earlier than it would in any other normal circumstance, but yeah it's out there now so people know all about it.\n\n\"We started talking through representatives of theirs, talking about the club, and we're now in a position where we are able, following the SGM on Tuesday night, to get into detailed discussions about what a takeover deal could look like.\n\n\"There is some way to go and at the end of the day it will be the supporters who decide what the future direction of the club will be.\"\n\nMr Reynolds, who was among the world's highest paid actors this year after appearing in the Netflix films 6 Underground and Red Notice, has been a shareholder in Aviation American Gin since 2018.\n\nIn August 2020 drinks giant Diageo bought Aviation American, along with three other spirits, as part of a $610m (£460m) deal.\n\nHarris has been impressed by their enthusiasm and approach to a possible takeover of the National League club.\n\n\"I've spoken to both of them several times,\" Harris explained.\n\n\"They are very serious, professional and successful people, not just as actors but in the business world as well and this is a very serious endeavour for them and they'll set out their vision in due course, but I know they are very passionate about this and have gone into a lot of depth to understand about the football club.\"\n\nSo far it is unclear why the Hollywood 'A-listers' are interested in a fifth-tier UK football club in north Wales.\n\n\"I think that's a question for them in good time,\" said Harris.\n\n\"I would answer 'why not?', because for us as Wrexham fans we are the third oldest professional team in the world, the oldest in Wales and play at the oldest international stadium anywhere in the world.\n\n\"We are a team with a proud history that's beaten Porto in the European Cup Winners Cup and there's lot's of potential at the club, so why not?\"\n\n\"But... I don't want to get in front of them setting out their vision for the club which they will do in due course.\"\n\nApproval from members for a deal would see the Trust relinquish control of running the club.\n\n\"It's very exciting news for a lot of people, but supporters will make a decision on whether this goes forward or not,\" explained Harris.\n\n\"Of course I would imagine we would see them at the Racecourse and we may have done already had it not been for Covid-19.\n\n\"It's a difficult time for all of football, not just at our level, even clubs at Premier League level are taking significant loans from government.\n\n\"We are in a relatively decent position versus many so there's no particular burning platform at the football club as we speak right now, however investment into any football club, especially at this level, does make quite some difference and obviously these are very serious professionals, successful people who I'm sure would have a lot to bring to any business.\"\n\nIt would not be the first time Hollywood stars have become involved with a Welsh club, with US star of The Office Mindy Kaling revealed as being among the stakeholders in an American consortium that purchased a controlling stake in Swansea City in 2016.", "Former Sunday Times editor Sir Harold Evans has died at the age of 92.\n\nThe British-American journalist, who led an investigation into the drug Thalidomide, died of heart failure in New York, his wife Tina Brown said.\n\nHis 70-year career also saw him work as a magazine founder, book publisher, author and - at the time of his death - Reuters' editor-at-large.\n\nSir Harold was editor of the Sunday Times for 14 years and oversaw many campaigns in that time.\n\nHe then went on to become the founding editor of Conde Nast Traveller magazine and later president of the publishing giant, Random House.\n\nOne of Britain and America's best-known journalists, Sir Harold also wrote several books about the press and in 2003 was given a knighthood for his services to journalism.\n\nA year earlier, a poll by the Press Gazette and the British Journalism Review named him the greatest newspaper editor of all time.\n\nAuthor and editor Tina Brown said on Twitter that her husband was \"the most magical of men\" and had been \"my soulmate for 39 years\".\n\nSir Harold Evans was appointed editor-at-large at the Reuters news agency in 2011\n\nSir Harold forged his reputation as editor of the Northern Echo in the 1960s, where his campaigns resulted in a national screening programme for cervical cancer and a posthumous pardon for Timothy Evans, wrongly hanged for murder in 1950.\n\nDuring his tenure as editor of the Sunday Times, his notable campaigns included fighting the Distillers Company for greater compensation for those affected by Thalidomide.\n\nBut he said campaigns should be selective, and he deplored what he saw as the invasion of privacy by the British tabloid press.\n\nThalidomide, which first appeared in the UK in 1958, was prescribed to expectant mothers to control the symptoms of morning sickness.\n\nHowever, hundreds of these mothers in Britain, and many thousands across the world, gave birth to children with missing limbs, deformed hearts, blindness and other problems.\n\nSir Harold's campaign, launched in 1972, eventually forced the UK manufacturer, Distillers Company - at the time the Sunday Times's biggest advertiser - to increase the compensation payments.\n\nHe also fought a legal injunction to stop the paper revealing the drug's developers had not gone through the proper testing procedures.\n\nSpeaking about his campaigning in a 2010 interview with the Independent, Sir Harold said: \"I tried to do - all I hoped to do - was to shed a little light. And if that light grew weeds, we'd have to try and pull them up.\"\n\nSir Harold and his second wife Tina Brown pictured in 1989, after their move to New York City\n\nSir Harold later edited the Times but left in 1981 following a public falling-out with the paper's owner, Rupert Murdoch, over editorial independence.\n\nWriting about their relationship, Sir Harold described his decision not to \"campaign against\" Mr Murdoch's takeover of the papers as \"the worst in my professional career\".\n\nHe added: \"My principal difficulty with Murdoch was my refusal to turn the paper into an organ of Thatcherism. That is what the Times became.\"\n\nHarry Evans personified not only the noblest possibilities of journalism, but of social mobility in the 20th Century too.\n\nBorn into what he called \"the respectable working-class\", his route to national and international acclaim via the streets of Manchester and Darlington - the latter as editor of the Northern Echo - is sadly a route few take today.\n\nHe embodied the most romantic ideal of an editor: a humble hack taking on mighty forces through the dogged pursuit of truth.\n\nThough he later fell out with Rupert Murdoch, and never forgave him, in his 14 years at the helm of the Sunday Times he redefined journalism itself.\n\nHe was a master craftsman, in a trade where practical wisdom was precious and vital; and he combined a flair for layout, projection and design with a remarkable nose for a story, particularly those with human suffering at their heart.\n\nBut above all he was brave. During his reign, it seemed no super-rich bully or powerful government could intimidate him.\n\nIn our era of information overload, diminished trust in journalism, and fewer people willing to pay for news, the nostalgia for what he represented is impossible to resist.\n\nAs he put it himself in the title of his wonderful memoir from 2009, he reached the top in Vanished Times.\n\nHe had the resources, and the time, to hold power to account - and he did uniquely well. Mixed with his charm and sheer decency, this put journalism itself in a debt to him that will never be fully serviced.\n\nJournalists have paid tribute to his campaigning work on the Thalidomide scandal and other injustices. Alan Rusbridger, former editor of the Guardian, said he was a \"master craftsman of journalism\" who \"was the editor we all wanted to be\".\n\nAndrew Neil, a former editor of the Sunday Times, described Sir Harold as the \"greatest editor of his generation\" and one with an \"unerring instinct for a story\".\n\nAuthor Robert Harris told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that Sir Harold was an outsider coming in to the Sunday Times, the \"son of a railway man who wanted to take on the establishment\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson, who once worked as a journalist at the Times newspaper, described Sir Harold as a \"true pioneer of investigative journalism\" who \"will always be remembered\" for \"tirelessly campaigning on behalf of those who were affected\" by the Thalidomide scandal that he exposed.\n\nIan Murray, executive director of the Society of Editors, said: \"Sir Harold Evans was a giant among journalists who strove to put the ordinary man and woman at the heart of his reporting.\"\n\nAnd Glen Harrison, a Thalidomide survivor and deputy chairman of the campaign group Thalidomide UK, described Sir Harold as \"an outstanding human being for our cause\".\n\nAfter leaving the Times, Sir Harold and his second wife, Tina Brown, moved to New York.\n\nShe edited Vanity Fair and the New Yorker, while he became founding editor of Conde Nast magazine.\n\nIn 2011, at the age of 82, Sir Harold was appointed editor-at-large at Reuters, the organisation's editor-in-chief describing him as \"one of the greatest minds in journalism\".", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he wants to make a \"big bet\" on renewables, turning the UK into the \"Saudi Arabia\" of wind power.\n\nTalking via video link to a roundtable discussion at the UN in New York, he said the country held \"extraordinary potential\" for wind energy.\n\nHe said the UK should embrace a range of new technologies to achieve its goal of net zero emissions by 2050.\n\nThe UK holds the presidency of the UN climate conference, known as the COP.\n\nBut because of the coronavirus crisis, the annual gathering will not take place this year. It has instead been postponed until November 2021.\n\nThe prime minister said the UK had an ambitious agenda for the meeting and called on other countries to show similar ambition. He praised the recent pledge by China to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060.\n\nMr Johnson reiterated his government's pledge to \"build back greener\" after the Covid-19 pandemic, through a green industrial revolution. He promised to deliver thousands of new jobs in the process.\n\nAs regards wind power, Mr Johnson said: \"We've got huge, huge gusts of wind going around the north of our country - Scotland. Quite extraordinary potential we have for wind.\"\n\nOn the question of new technologies, the prime minister also said he wanted the UK to take the lead in carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, in which greenhouse gas emissions are captured from sources such as power stations and then stored underground.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK had \"quite extraordinary potential\" for wind power\n\nMr Johnson said this was a technology he \"barely believed was possible, but I am now a complete evangelist for\".\n\nHe said the country would also be investing in renewable hydrogen fuel technology to provide what he called \"grunt\" for \"trucks, for trains, even perhaps for planes - for vehicles that aren't readily capable of being moved by electric batteries\".\n\nLike many other countries, he said the UK government was also thinking of bringing forward the date for phasing out new petrol and diesel cars. It's thought that date will be 2030, with 2035 for plug-in hybrids - but this has not yet been confirmed. This would help accelerate the take-up of electric vehicles (EVs).\n\nThe government would be continuing its ongoing investments in solar power and nuclear energy: \"I do think nuclear has to be part of the mix,\" the prime minister said.\n\nSomething that might have got a bit lost amongst Mr Johnsons references to the UK not \"lagging on lagging\" or the need to get hydrogen \"grunt\" to power the nation's trucks was just how important the Glasgow conference is.\n\nIt was only at the UN climate conference in Paris in 2015 that the world actually agreed that all nations needed to do their bit to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nEven as the Paris conference closed, the participants knew the commitments made were not sufficient to meet the UN's stated goal of keeping temperature rises well below 2C.\n\nThat is why they agreed to review their ambitions every five years. The idea is that they will keep raising the bar, doubling down on the efforts to moderate climate change.\n\nMr Johnson's goal today was to urge them to bring the boldest possible carbon cuts at a new meeting marking the anniversary of the Paris agreement on 12 December.\n\nWhat they bring to that meeting will kick off a year of negotiations designed to get them to go even further eleven months later at Glasgow.\n\nSo Mr Johnson was beginning a process that will determine how successful the conference will be and - much more important - will also determine the future direction of global climate.\n\nThe UK plans to invest in hydrogen-powered vehicles\n\nIn addition, homes would have to be improved so that they emit far fewer emissions. \"Putting in lagging, changing the way the windows are configured, all kinds of things - changing the boilers. You can do so much to make a home less carbon-emitting.\n\n\"The UK may sometimes be accused of lagging in some things my friends, but we will never be lagging in lagging.\"\n\nMr Johnson said the UK's greenhouse gases were 8-10% down in 2020 on previous years. But added: \"The bad news is we've achieved that by sustaining an appalling economic shock in the form of coronavirus.\n\n\"The only way we've done - or we're going to do it - is as you can imagine because our planes aren't flying, our people aren't moving, our cars aren't travelling and our industry isn't producing emissions in the way that it normally would.\"\n\nAt the roundtable, Ursula Van der Leyen, president of the European Commission, said that keeping global temperature rise under 1.5C - considered the gateway to dangerous global warming - was still possible \"if we act quickly and if we act together\".", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "The government says there is high demand for coronavirus tests\n\nPeople are waiting longer for test results from England's community Covid testing centres, figures show.\n\nOnly 28% of tests carried out in these venues came back in 24 hours in the week up to 16 September.\n\nThat is down from one in three last week, and two in three the week before, NHS Test and Trace said.\n\nJust over 5% of tests took more than three days to turn around. It comes as the government is struggling to increase lab capacity to process tests.\n\nAccess to community testing has had to be rationed because the network of five Lighthouse Labs, which process tests done in the community, are struggling to keep up with demand.\n\nThe opening of a sixth lab in Newport has been delayed from August.\n\nThe government said that lab and a seventh in Loughborough would be open by next month, helping to double lab capacity to 500,000 by the end of October.\n\nThere are three types of community testing centres - drive-thrus, walk-ins and mobile units that are deployed to hotspot areas.\n\nTurnaround times for kits posted out to care homes and people's private homes improved, however. The government has been prioritising care homes for testing in recent weeks amid the shortage of tests.\n\nTesting carried out in hospitals is processed by their own labs, and nine in 10 test results are provided in 24 hours.\n\nThe weekly data released by NHS Test and Trace also includes figures for the performance of contact tracers.\n\nThey obtained contact details for 77,500 close contacts of people who had tested positive, reaching three-quarters of them to ask them to self-isolate.\n\nNHS Test and Trace boss Baroness Dido Harding said the system was facing \"unprecedented demand\".\n\nThe data shows over the past two weeks more than 200,000 children under nine have been tested - nearly three times more than were tested the two weeks before that, suggesting the return to school did lead to an increase in this age group seeking tests. Less than 1% tested positive.\n\nBaroness Harding added: \"We continue to work tirelessly to build our testing capacity to meet this and our target of 500,000 tests a day, building our lab network and testing sites across the country.\"\n\nMeanwhile, people living in England and Wales are being urged to download the government's contact-tracing app following its official release.\n\nNHS Covid-19 instructs users to self-isolate for 14 days if it detects they were nearby someone who has the virus.\n\nIt also has a check-in scanner to alert owners if a venue they have visited is found to be an outbreak hotspot.\n\nAnyone aged 16 and over is being asked to install the app on to their smartphone.", "The Always Home Cam covers up its camera when not in flight\n\nAmazon's smart home security division Ring has unveiled a flying camera that launches if sensors detect a potential home break-in.\n\nIt is designed to activate only when residents are out, works indoors, and is limited to one floor of a building.\n\nThe firm also unveiled an online games-streaming service and a voice-activated screen that swivels about.\n\nBut one campaign group described the drone camera as Amazon's \"most chilling home surveillance product\" yet.\n\n\"It's difficult to imagine why Amazon thinks anyone wants flying internet cameras linked up to a data-gathering company in the privacy of their own home,\" said Silkie Carlo from Big Brother Watch.\n\n\"It's important to acknowledge the influence that Amazon's product development is having on communities and the growing surveillance market.\"\n\nWhen the Always Home Cam is triggered by a suspected break-in, owners will get a smartphone alert to let them see live footage.\n\nAmazon said that privacy had been \"top of mind\" when the machine was designed.\n\n\"It only reports when it's in motion, and when it's not in motion it actually sits in a dock where it's physically blocked from even being able to report,\" explained Leila Rouhi, president of Ring.\n\n\"In addition to that, it's built to be loud, so it's really privacy that you can hear.\"\n\nThe drone's rotor blades are inside a cage, which could help protect pets\n\nThe device is set to cost $250 (£192) when it goes on sale. At launch, it will only be available in the US.\n\n\"The Always Home Cam is an incredibly ambitious device that will seem like something from a science fiction movie for many consumers,\" commented Ben Wood from the consultancy CCS Insight.\n\n\"I expect it to generate a huge amount of interest from technology enthusiasts who are typically the people who embrace smart home technology first. However, it is also likely to provoke a huge discussion around privacy and the future role of technology in the home.\"\n\nThe Ring division also unveiled a new security camera designed for use in a car, which monitors for nearby activity when the vehicle is parked.\n\nIt can also start recording video if a driver is pulled over while on a journey, potentially allowing them to record an interaction with the police.\n\nRing's business has previously been criticised because it has encouraged users to share their recordings with the authorities. This has prompted claims that it is normalising surveillance technologies that can intrude on people's lives.\n\nThe division claims its existing products - including video doorbells, indoor video cameras, and smart alarm systems - have helped make neighbourhoods safer.\n\nGlobal consumer spending on smart home products is expected to fall about 15% this year to $44bn (£24.5bn) due to the economic downturn caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, according to market research firm Strategy Analytics. But it predicts a rebound in 2021.\n\nAmazon's rivals have previously accused it of anti-competitive behaviour by selling its products at a lower price than they cost to make, in order to secure market share.\n\nWhen questioned about sales of the firm's Echo speakers in July, chief executive Jeff Bezos said the firm did not lose money on the range when they were sold at \"list price\", but acknowledged they were often on promotion at a lower cost.\n\nAmazon's other big announcement was the launch of its long-rumoured cloud-based games-streaming service.\n\nLuna will run games on remote computer servers so that players do not need to buy a console or other dedicated devices beyond a controller.\n\nIts Luna+ channel will offer access to a selection of older games such as Control, Resident Evil: Biohazard, Sonic Mania and Metro: Exodus for $6 a month.\n\nMany gamers may be more interested in the forthcoming \"Ubisoft channel\", which will include the publisher's next Assassin's Creed game among other blockbuster releases. The monthly cost of the Ubisoft channel has yet to be disclosed.\n\nThe Luna Controller will cost extra on top of the service's subscription fee\n\nAt launch, Luna will work with Amazon's own Fire TV dongles, Windows and MacOS computers, as well as on iPhones and iPads via the web browser.\n\nSupport for iPhones and iPads is notable as Apple has restricted other high-profile games-streaming services that did not obey its App Store rules.\n\nLuna will compete with Google Stadia, which launched about a year ago and has struggled to establish itself in a busy marketplace.\n\nXbox Game Pass, PlayStation Now, Apple Arcade and EA Play are among other subscription services competing for players' money and attention.\n\nThe Luna controller connects directly to the wi-fi\n\nHowever, Amazon has the advantage of owning the hugely popular Twitch platform, where people watch each other play. This could help it promote Luna.\n\n\"Amazon is allowing third-party channels on Luna, but at an additional cost to the user,\" commented Piers Harding-Rolls from Ampere Analysis.\n\nHe added that this was the opposite strategy to Microsoft, which had recently revealed it was bundling EA Play with the ultimate edition of its Xbox Game Pass without raising its price.\n\n\"Amazon's approach is commercially more sustainable and flexible,\" Mr Harding-Rolls concluded.\n\nUsers in parts of the US are the only ones able to sign up for \"early access\" at this time.\n\nIt is easy to forget how quickly drone technology has developed.\n\nAlways Home Cam is straight out of a 1980s science-fiction movie. But this is 2020, and the technology for flying security drones is here.\n\nThe Always Home Cam (l) is launched from a dock and streams live video to a smartphone\n\nFor years, Amazon has been using drones to try to speed up its delivery network. And in the past, its patents have suggested these could also provide a surveillance service.\n\nBut using drones for security inside the home is a new development.\n\nThere are general worries that this is the thin end of a wedge.\n\nFuture products might include Ring drones that operate around your house at times other than a suspected burglary - maybe there will even be guard drones in the future.\n\nOther announcements during Amazon's virtual event included a revamp for the firm's Echo and smaller Echo Dot smart speakers, which now come in spherical designs.\n\nThe devices can now recognise when a child is speaking to them and adapt their responses accordingly - for example selecting \"kid-friendly\" songs when asked to play music.\n\nThe new Amazon Echo is spherical and covered in cloth\n\nThe firm said that a new computer chip inside would allow more artificial intelligence-related tasks to be processed locally, meaning responses to commands and questions could be given more quickly.\n\nAmazon also launched a new version of its Echo Show 10 smart screen, which can now rotate to stay facing its users as they move about. In addition, the built-in camera has been upgraded to a 13-megapixel component to allow it to digitally zoom in and track users.\n\nThis should help the machine keep the owner in view during a video chat, and mirrors the capabilities of Facebook's rival Portal product.\n\nThe device will also add support for Zoom video calls and Netflix, as well as retaining Amazon's proprietary services and Skype.\n\nThe Echo Show 10 can swivel and face the person who is speaking to it\n\nAmazon added that Alexa's voice would soon sound more natural, by adding pauses for Alexa to take a \"breath\".\n\nAnd it said the virtual assistant would soon become better at recognising when customers were talking to it and when they were talking to each other, after it had been activated by a wake word.\n\nThis should help it avoid responding to speech that is not directed at it.\n\nAmazon Echo is forecast to have 11.6 million smart speaker users in the UK by the end of 2020, according to research firm eMarketer. By contrast, it says the nearest competitor Google Home would have 3.7 million.\n• None Why Amazon knows so much about you", "Lord O'Donnell served as cabinet secretary under three prime ministers\n\nThe UK government has \"over-promised and under-delivered\" as it deals with coronavirus, a former head of the civil service has argued in a speech.\n\nLord O'Donnell said \"strategy\" and \"leadership\" had been lacking.\n\nAnd he said PM Boris Johnson had used \"political capital\" by keeping senior aide Dominic Cummings in place after his long drive north during lockdown.\n\nThe government said its \"clear\" strategy was to save lives, while protecting the economy and education.\n\nThis week it tightened up rules in England on the size of social gatherings, pub and restaurant opening hours, and the use of face coverings.\n\nThe changes came amid a rising infection rate and after the government's two most senior pandemic advisers warned there could be 50,000 cases a day by October.\n\nMeanwhile, the number of daily recorded UK Covid-19 cases rose by a quarter to 6,178 on Wednesday.\n\nIn his speech to the Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank, Lord O'Donnell said: \"We have to ask why a country with such reputed health and intelligence institutions has been so incapable of combating the Covid-19 pandemic.\"\n\nThe crossbench peer - who served as cabinet secretary under prime ministers Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron - added: \"A litany of new rules and a steady stream of leaks reflects a government struggling to emerge from firefighting mode.\n\n\"Without a clear strategy, strong leadership and the use of good evidence from a range of human sciences, there is a risk that our efforts to emerge from this pandemic will be protracted and extremely costly.\"\n\nLord O'Donnell also said: \"In addition to some operational failings, ministers have frequently broken one of the cardinal rules: they have over-promised and under-delivered.\"\n\nThe new coronavirus measures have divided opinion among scientists, with some claiming they do not go far enough but others saying they are a shift towards more coherent policy.\n\nOn Wednesday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab defended them as \"balanced, targeted and proportionate\".\n\nHe said there would always be the \"Goldilocks criticism\" of the government - that it was doing \"too much or too little\".\n\nDominic Cummings faced the media in May as he explained his trip to County Durham\n\nIt emerged during lockdown that Mr Cummings, Mr Johnson's most senior adviser, had driven from London to County Durham with his wife and child.\n\nThere were calls to sack Mr Cummings and claims he had broken the law, but he insisted he had acted \"reasonably\" and lawfully.\n\nMr Johnson, who himself had been hospitalised by Covid-19 earlier in the crisis, backed his aide and he kept his job.\n\nIn his speech, Lord O'Donnell said the prime minister had \"used up his political capital\" in doing so.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Throughout the pandemic the government has taken advice from a wide range of scientific and medical experts.\n\n\"At every stage we have struck a delicate balance between saving lives by protecting our NHS and minimising the wider impact of our restrictions.\"", "Mercedes and other German carmakers have used government money to subsidise wages\n\nUnlike the UK, the Germans didn't have to invent a job support programme from scratch when the pandemic struck: they already had one oven-ready.\n\nWhile British companies were getting to grips with the novelty of furloughing workers at the government's expense, their German counterparts simply fell back on a tried and tested scheme.\n\nNow, while UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak is insisting that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme will not continue past October, Germany is extending its Kurzarbeit job subsidy measures until the end of 2021.\n\nAt the same time, France is following Germany's example and expects to be doing so for a couple of years.\n\nIn the UK, influential figures including former prime minister Gordon Brown are urging the government to bring in a German or French-style system after October.\n\nSo what are the German and French schemes and how do they work?\n\n\"I'm very glad we have this system,\" says Dr Volker Verch, director of the Central Westphalian employers' federation.\n\n\"We would have lost many more jobs, in my region and across the country, if we didn't have this Kurzarbeit,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Obviously it all has to be paid for, but it's worth it in terms of social harmony.\"\n\nWhen the British scheme began, it was based on paying workers to stay at home and do nothing. It was not until July that furloughed employees were able to go back to work part-time.\n\nHowever, the German system was always about short-time working - allowing employers to reduce employees' hours while keeping them in a job. The government pays workers a percentage of the money they would have got for working those lost hours.\n\nAccording to the Munich-based Ifo Institute for Economic Research, at the height of the pandemic, half of all German firms had at least some of their staff on the scheme.\n\nThat includes Rolls-Royce Power Systems, a German engineering company owned by Rolls-Royce Holdings and specialising in power generation and propulsion systems. It employs 9,000 people worldwide, 5,500 of them in Germany.\n\nChief executive Andreas Schell told the BBC that the company came relatively late to the Kurzarbeit scheme.\n\n\"When the crisis came, we were sitting on a good order book,\" he says. \"But we anticipated a reduction in orders, and we had less to do in the third quarter, so we had to adjust our capacity.\"\n\nIn June, the firm put 1,000 of its German employees on \"short-time working\". That rose to 1,800 in July, before falling back in August and September as workers went on holiday instead.\n\n\"It's a really good programme of support by the German government,\" says Mr Schell. \"Otherwise we would have suffered economically. But it also helps to mitigate the economic consequences for our employees. It offers flexibility to us as a company and that's a good thing.\"\n\nAndreas Schell has nothing but praise for the Kurzarbeit scheme\n\nKurzarbeit has a long pedigree, going back to the early 20th Century. However, it came to prominence during the global financial crisis of 2008-09, when it is thought to have saved up to half a million jobs.\n\nEven in normal times, it can be used by companies undergoing restructuring or suffering from seasonal fluctuations in their business.\n\nBut normally it lasts for only six months. During the pandemic, that has been increased to a maximum of 21 months, while the criteria have been changed to include more firms and workers.\n\nThe percentage of lost wages paid by the government will also go up in stages, from the usual 60% to 80% after the first six months.\n\nIn comparison with the UK's furlough scheme, the cost of Kurzarbeit seems relatively modest, perhaps reflecting its more limited scope.\n\nBerlin ploughed €23.5bn into bolstering the scheme at the start of the pandemic, then expanded it again in August, at an estimated cost of €10bn more, to run for all of next year.\n\nBy contrast, the Office for Budget Responsibility has estimated that the UK's furlough scheme will have cost £60bn, about twice as much as the Germans are spending, by the time it ends in October.\n\nThe French scheme, known as \"partial unemployment\" or \"partial activity\", also pre-dates the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt too is designed to subsidise the jobs of people on reduced working hours - and it's also intended for the long haul.\n\nUnder the French scheme, firms are allowed to cut employees' hours by up to 40% for up to three years. Employees still receive nearly all their normal salary, with the government paying a percentage of the cost.\n\nThe scheme is subject to all kinds of French bureaucracy, requiring firms to come to an agreement with unions and offer formal guarantees of job security, but the principle is the same as in Germany.\n\nOlivier Six is chief executive of two very different firms, both based in the Grenoble area.\n\nThe bigger of the two, CIC Orio, is a metallurgy company that employs 150 people making industrial boilers and other specialised equipment. The other, G-Tech Guidetti, specialises in making hiking accessories.\n\n\"When the crisis began, there was a loss of confidence,\" he told the BBC. \"Firms were sitting on their funds, nobody was paying anybody.\"\n\nG-Tech Guidetti, as a consumer-facing firm, was immediately hit by the lockdown, because all its stockists had to close, so all its 15 employees went on the partial activity scheme.\n\n\"But after confinement ended, there was a pick-up in consumption and the recovery was very strong,\" he says.\n\nCIC Orio, however, is still making use of the scheme. Its employees are currently working four days out of five, with the government compensating them for the lost day's earnings.\n\n\"It's fortunate that we have this scheme, because we're afraid that the crisis will come back again,\" he says. \"This will last a long time. There will probably be another year of very weak economic activity.\"\n\nThe French government describes its scheme as a \"bouclier anti-licenciements\" - that is, an anti-redundancy shield.\n\nFor now, it appears to be working. But with cases of coronavirus on the rise again in France, it's anyone's guess how long it might be needed.", "Some men who have suffered domestic abuse have slept in cars or tents in the gardens of friends or relatives\n\nCharities dealing with men who suffer domestic abuse have seen pleas for help jump by up to 60% during the lockdown.\n\nThe Respect Men's Advice Line said some victims had told them they had sought refuge by sleeping in cars or in tents in the gardens of friends or relatives.\n\nThe charity said it had received 13,812 calls and emails between April and July in lockdown compared to 8,648 in the same period in 2019.\n\nRespect's Ippo Panteloudakis said the pandemic had made the problem worse.\n\nHe said: \"It was absolutely clear the lockdown period exacerbated everyone's domestic abuse experiences.\n\n\"They were talking about increases in violence, increases in psychological abuse and becoming homeless as a result of the domestic abuse and not having anywhere to go.\n\n\"We had reports from men sleeping in their cars overnight or sleeping in their friends' or parents' gardens in tents.\"\n\nThe advice line said the biggest increase in contact with abuse victims came through emails and the service saw the volume increase by 96% from 372 emails in June 2019 to 728 in June 2020.\n\nOn average it received 22 emails a day and 92 phone calls as the lockdown took hold from April to June.\n\nMen Standing Up service manager Nikasha Khan said the coronavirus restrictions meant more of the work was done on the telephone\n\nBradford-based charity Men Standing Up takes male domestic abuse referrals from across the country.\n\nIt started up six years ago and has dealt with more than 4,000 cases.\n\nMen Standing Up has so-called crash pads and emergency accommodation for men for up to 14 days.\n\nBefore the coronavirus lockdown it ran a support group and helped victims attend court for hearings over restraining orders or to go to GP appointments.\n\nService manager Nikasha Khan said: \"It's gone from them being able to pick up the phone and say 'I'm feeling really down, could we go out for a coffee?'.\n\n\"That's had to stop unfortunately because of the restrictions so we've been trying to provide as much telephone support as possible and give them that emotional support that they need but they have been struggling with that.\"\n\nA man who contacted Men Standing Up for help said he had wanted to kill himself because of the domestic abuse he suffered\n\nOne man in West Yorkshire who was directed to Men Standing Up by the advice line said he asked for help as he had wanted to kill himself after suffering years of psychological abuse including gaslighting, controlling behaviour and financial abuse.\n\nThe man, who did not want to reveal his identity, said: \"I needed help, I needed to get out of this place because I was watched everywhere I was going - every single step.\n\n\"It was killing me from inside and I needed to get out to see the world.\n\n\"I used to cry all the time, I just used to isolate myself in my room and I used to be there for days.\n\n\"If it wasn't for Men Standing Up I wouldn't have known what to do - I could've been dead.\n\n\"With men they just keep it inside them, just keep quiet and pass the time and just for the sake of the kids they do it, but it doesn't get any easier, it just gets worse.\"\n\nEan Monk from the charity said: \"The service was set up as a response to the growing number of men who were accessing our homelessness services who were saying the primary reason for homelessness was domestic abuse.\"\n\nMore than 40,000 calls and contacts were made to the National Domestic Abuse Helpline during the first three months of lockdown, most by women seeking help, figures showed.\n\nIn June, calls and contacts were nearly 80% higher than usual, said the charity Refuge, which runs the helpline.\n\nAnd as restrictions initially eased, there was a surge in women seeking refuge places to escape their abusers, the charity said.\n\nIf you've been affected by any issues in this story you can find support via the BBC Action Line here.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The men, Jayden Dolman (l) and Daniel Mee were holidaying in Spain\n\nTwo friends lost their balance while embracing near a seafront wall and fell nine metres (30ft) on to the beach below, an inquest heard.\n\nDaniel Mee, 25, and Jayden Dolman, 20, died on 3 July 2019 during a holiday in Alicante, Spain.\n\nThe men had been \"larking about\" taking photographs when they toppled over a railing, the inquest in Taunton was told.\n\nMr Mee was pronounced dead at the scene while Mr Dolman later died in hospital.\n\nSomerset coroner Tony Williams said their friend Lewis Higgins witnessed what had happened.\n\n\"He said he and his friends Jayden and Daniel were walking from the villa to the nearest beach.\n\n\"They were taking pictures while they were walking. Daniel embraced Jayden. He saw them both close to the railings. Then they fell.\"\n\nMr Higgins told Spanish authorities the friends had been drinking during the day.\n\nThe inquest focused on the death of Mr Mee, a plumber from Bridgwater, as Mr Dolman's body was not repatriated to the UK.\n\nIt heard toxicology tests found the amount of alcohol in Mr Mee's blood was 215mg per 100ml of blood. The legal drink-drive limit is 80mg.\n\nMr Williams said Mr Mee's cause of death was a head injury and recorded a conclusion of accidental death.\n\nHe said: \"Daniel and Jayden are hugging close to the railings and during that, they have lost balance, they have gone over the railings and unfortunately fallen over where there is a steep drop of nine metres on the other side.\n\n\"Unfortunately, they have sustained injuries that have proved fatal.\"\n• None Two men fall to deaths from a wall in Spain\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emergency crews were sent to the scene of the incident in Newquay\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with assaulting a police officer who sustained severe burns in Cornwall.\n\nBlagovest Hadjigueorguiev, 30, faces charges of arson with intent, GBH with intent against a police officer, and attempted GBH with intent.\n\nPC Darral Mares was airlifted to Royal Cornwall Hospital from Trevenson Road, Newquay, on Friday.\n\nMr Hadjigueorguiev, of no fixed address, did not enter a plea at Truro Magistrates' Court.\n\nHe was remanded in custody and is due to appear at Truro Crown Court on 13 October.\n\nThe 51-year-old officer is said to be in a \"stable condition\" at Derriford Hospital.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The former Minneapolis police officer charged with murdering George Floyd has appeared in court for the first time.\n\nDerek Chauvin was filmed pressing his knee on Mr Floyd's neck for almost nine minutes before he died in May.\n\nThree other former officers are charged with abetting and aiding murder.", "Children are included in the new limits for social gatherings in England\n\nThe \"rule of six\", the latest limits on social gatherings in England, will not be changed to exempt children under 12, Michael Gove has insisted.\n\nThe new rules, which limit six people to meeting indoors and outdoors, come into effect on Monday.\n\nSimilar rules in Wales and Scotland do not include children under 11 and 12 respectively. But Mr Gove said the England rules were \"absolutely right\".\n\nIt comes as one scientist warned UK could lose control of the virus.\n\n\"One would have to say that we're on the edge of losing control,\" Prof Sir Mark Walport, a member of the government's Sage scientific advisory group told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"You've only got to look across the Channel to see what is happening in France and what's happening in Spain.\"\n\nProf Walport said it was very important that children go to school and students return to university - but social interactions would have to be limited in other areas.\n\n\"The only way to stop the spread of this infection is to reduce the number of people we all come into contact with,\" he added.\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove said the rule of six was \"well-understood\" as a public health message and had the public's support.\n\n\"As ever, the important thing is balance - eating out, seeing friends - that is fine, provided we do so in a way that is socially responsible, that's what the rule of six is about.\"\n\nHe said some people had \"unwittingly\" contributed to the spread of the virus because of the way they had interacted, adding: \"So therefore, a clear message - as simple as possible - makes it easier for all of us to do what is helpful to others.\"\n\nSpeaking on Radio 4, he added that there needed to be \"a degree of self-discipline and restriction\" in order to deal with the challenges posed by the rising number of coronavirus cases across England - and the escalating R number, which measures the rate at which the virus is transmitted.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast. he urged the public to behave in \"a responsible fashion\" amid fears people might treat it as a \"party weekend\", ahead of the new restrictions coming into effect next week.\n\n\"These rules and regulations are there for our protection, but also for the protection of the most vulnerable in society\", citing the elderly or those with underlying health conditions \"who face far grimmer consequences\" if they contract Covid-19.\n\n\"The onus is on all of us to do everything we can to make sure we abide by those rules.\n\n\"Then we can ensure, in due course, that these restrictions can be relaxed - and my hope, like so many, is that we can have a proper Christmas.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the R number and what does it mean?\n\nIn the immediate future, Mr Gove agreed fines could be necessary to enforce regulations. It follows a story in the Times, which says the government is looking at introducing fines for people who refuse to self-isolate when required.\n\n\"I don't want to see fines being levied, but even more I do not want to see people behaving in a way that puts the most vulnerable at risk,\" Mr Gove told Radio 4.\n\nAsked about Prof Walport's statement that the UK was \"losing control\", Mr Gove said it was \"a warning to us all\".\n\n\"There's a range of scientific opinion, but one thing on which practically every scientist is agreed is that we have seen an uptick in infection and therefore it is appropriate we take public health measures.\"\n\nThere are fears people will treat this weekend as a \"party weekend\" ahead of the new restrictions\n\nSage found that only about 20% of people who have symptoms or live in a household where someone else has symptoms adhere to self-isolation requirements.\n\n\"Sometimes there's an argument that's depicted, as though this is pernicious of the liberty of freedom-loving people - well there are restrictions, and I love freedom, but the one thing I think is even more important is that you exercise freedom with responsibility,\" said Mr Gove.\n\nSome Conservative backbenchers have protested about enhanced regulations, such as the rule of six, and pressed the government to follow Wales and Scotland in exempting young children.\n\nOn Friday, ex-minister Steve Baker said the latest government action amounted to \"arbitrary powers without scrutiny\" and MP Desmond Swayne said it was \"outrageous\" not to have a Parliamentary debate.\n\n\"This is not a fit legal environment for the British people,\" Mr Baker told the BBC.\n\n\"It's time to move to a voluntary system, unless the government can demonstrate otherwise and it is time for us to start living like a free people.\"\n\nSenior Conservative backbenchers are reported to be lobbying Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle to make sure that legislation is being reviewed every month, not every six months.\n\nWhat do you think about the decision to include children under 12 in the \"rule of six\" in England? How does it affect you? Tell us about your experience by emailinghaveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nOr use this form to get in touch:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website or contacts us via email at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, location and a contact number with any email.", "Five people have been arrested as part of an investigation into an NI crime group suspected of attempting to import cocaine worth £1m.\n\nThe National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation was supported by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).\n\nOn Thursday three men were detained in the Essex area and two more in North Wales.\n\nAt the same time three lorries were seized.\n\nFour of those arrested are known to be based in Northern Ireland, the other man is from the north of England. They are all aged between 21 and 59.\n\nThey are suspected of being involved in the importation of class A drugs from the continent.\n\nThe five men were questioned by NCA officers, and have now been released on bail.\n\nSpecialist Border Force officers were called in to conduct detailed searches of the HGVs.\n\nSpecialist Border Force officers were called in to conduct detailed searches of the HGVs\n\nIn one, a complex concealment was located, which once opened was found to contain about 21 kilos of cocaine.\n\nAt the same time officers from the NCA and PSNI time carried out searches at a number of properties in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe investigation has also been supported throughout by An Garda Síochána (Irish police) and the Organised Crime Task Force.\n\nNCA Regional Head of Investigations Gerry McLean said the seizures \"prevented a large quantity of drugs from reaching our streets, and denied criminals an important avenue for smuggling.\"\n\n\"This is a highly significant operation in terms of our activity to target organised crime impacting on Northern Ireland,\" he added.\n\nHe thanked colleagues from the PSNI, Garda and Border Force.\n\nDet Supt Rachel Shields, from the PSNI, said detectives had been working in collaboration with the NCA in relation to this operation for some time.\n\n\"These arrests and seizure are significant in terms of the quantity seized, and in terms of the disruption caused to organised criminals,\" she said.\n\n\"We will continue to work closely with, and support the NCA in their work to disrupt the nefarious activities of organised crime groups,\" she added", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir David Attenborough met some of the few remaining gorillas in the Virunga Mountains at the time some 40 years ago\n\nSir David Attenborough returns to our screens this weekend with a landmark new production.\n\nThe tone of the programme is very different from his usual work.\n\nFor once Britain's favourite naturalist is not here to celebrate the incredible diversity of life on Earth but to issue us all with a stark warning.\n\nThe one-hour film, Extinction: The Facts, will be broadcast on BBC One in the UK on Sunday 13 September at 20:00 BST.\n\n\"We are facing a crisis\", he warns at the start, \"and one that has consequences for us all.\"\n\nWhat follows is a shocking reckoning of the damage our species has wrought on the natural world.\n\nThere are the stunning images of animals and plants you would expect from an Attenborough production, but also horrific scenes of destruction.\n\nIn one sequence monkeys leap from trees into a river to escape a huge fire.\n\nIn another a koala limps across a road in its vain search for shelter as flames consume the forest around it.\n\nPangolins are trafficked in great numbers for their scales\n\nThere is a small army of experts on hand to quantify the scale of the damage to the ecosystems of the world.\n\nOf the estimated eight million species on Earth, a million are now threatened with extinction, one expert warns.\n\nSince 1970, vertebrate animals - birds, mammals, reptiles, fish and amphibians - have declined by 60%, another tells us.\n\nWe meet the world's last two northern white rhinos.\n\nThese great beasts used to be found in their thousands in Central Africa but have been pushed to the brink of extinction by habitat loss and hunting.\n\n\"Many people think of extinction being this imaginary tale told by conservationists,\" says James Mwenda, the keeper who looks after them, \"but I have lived it, I know what it is.\"\n\nJames Mwenda: 'Many people think of extinction being this imaginary tale'\n\nJames strokes and pets the giant animals but it becomes clear they represent the last of their kind when he tells us that Najin and Fatu are mother and daughter.\n\nSpecies have always come and gone, that's how evolution works. But, says Sir David, the rate of extinction has been rising dramatically.\n\nIt is reckoned to be now happening at 100 times the natural evolutionary rate - and is accelerating.\n\n\"Over the course of my life I've encountered some of the world's most remarkable species of animals,\" says Sir David, in one of the most moving sequences in the film.\n\n\"Only now do I realise just how lucky I've been - many of these wonders seem set to disappear forever.\"\n\nSir David is at pains to explain that this isn't just about losing the magnificent creatures he has featured in the hundreds of programmes he has made in his six decades as a natural history film-maker.\n\nThe loss of pollinating insects could threaten the food crops we depend on. Trees and other plants regulate water flow and produce the oxygen we breathe. Meanwhile, the seas are being emptied of fish.\n\nThere is now about 5% of trawler-caught fish left compared with before the turn of the 20th century, one expert says.\n\nTwo female rhinos are the last of their kind\n\nBut the pandemic provides perhaps the most immediate example of the risks of our ever-increasing encroachment into the natural world, as we have all been learning in the most brutal fashion over the last six months.\n\nThe programme tracks the suspected origins of coronavirus to populations of bats living in cave systems in Yunnan province in China.\n\nWe see the Chinese \"wet market\" in Wuhan which specialises in the sale of wild animals for human consumption and is thought to have been linked with many of the early infections.\n\nThe programme is uncompromising in its depiction of the crisis in the natural world, admits Serena Davies, who directed the programme.\n\n\"Our job is to report the reality the evidence presents,\" she explains.\n\nBut the programme does not leave the audience feeling that all is lost. Sir David makes clear there is still cause for hope.\n\n\"His aim is not to try and drag the audience into the depths of despair,\" says Ms Davies, \"but to take people on a journey that makes them realise what is driving these issues we can also solve them.\"\n\nWe see one of the most celebrated moments in all the films Sir David has made in his long career, the moment he met a band of gorillas in the mountains on the border between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda.\n\nGorillas face many threats but there is hope for their recovery\n\nA young gorilla called Poppy tries to take off his shoes as he speaks to the camera.\n\n\"It was an experience that stayed with me,\" says Sir David, \"but it was tinged with sadness, as I thought I might be seeing some of the last of their kind.\"\n\nThe programme makers have been back to Rwanda and, after a long trek, spot Poppy's daughter and granddaughter in the deep forest scrub.\n\nWe learn that the Rwandan government has worked with local people to protect the animal and that the gorillas are thriving.\n\nThere were 250 when Sir David visited in the 1970s, now there are more than 1,000.\n\nIt shows, says Sir David, what we can achieve when we put our minds to it.\n\n\"I may not be here to see it,\" he concludes, \"but if we make the right decisions at this critical moment, we can safeguard our planet's ecosystems, its extraordinary biodiversity and all its inhabitants.\"\n\nHis final line packs a powerful punch: \"What happens next\", says Sir David, \"is up to every one of us.\"\n\nYou can see David Attenborough's, Extinction: The Facts, on BBC One in the UK on Sunday 13 September at 20:00 BST.", "Nicolás Maduro also said the Venezuelan authorities had foiled a plot to cause an explosion at another oil refinery\n\nVenezuelan President Nicolás Maduro says a \"US spy\" has been captured near two oil refineries in the country's north-western state of Falcón.\n\nIn a televised address, Mr Maduro said the man was seized with weapons and large amounts of cash near the Amuay and Cardon refineries on Thursday.\n\nHe said the man was \"serving as a marine on CIA bases in Iraq\". He gave no further details.\n\nThe US has so far made no public comment on the issue.\n\nSeparately, Mr Maduro said that the Venezuelan authorities had recently foiled a plot to cause an explosion at El Palito refinery in the northern Carabobo state. He did not elaborate.\n\nLast month, a Venezuelan court sentenced two former American soldiers to 20 years in prison for trying to overthrow Mr Maduro.\n\nLuke Denman and Airan Berry were found guilty of conspiracy, illicit trafficking of weapons and terrorism.\n\nThe pair were among 13 people arrested in May as they attempted to enter Venezuela by sea from Colombia.\n\nUS President Donald Trump, long an opponent of socialist President Maduro, has denied accusations by Venezuela that he was behind that incident.\n\nWashington backs opposition leader Juan Guaidó and recognises him as the country's legitimate leader.\n\nRelations between the US and Venezuela are tense. Mr Maduro has accused America of manipulating political opposition to steal the country's vast oil wealth.\n\nAmerica and Mr Guaidó, meanwhile, have blamed the president for Venezuela's economic collapse.", "The annual Strictly Come Dancing special in Blackpool will not take place this year, the BBC has confirmed.\n\nA BBC spokesman said while contestants would not physically go to Blackpool's Tower Ballroom in 2020, they would still be \"celebrating the iconic venue\" from Elstree studio.\n\nIt follows changes made to the show due to coronavirus restrictions.\n\nBeginning on 12 October, the forthcoming BBC One series will be shorter than usual.\n\nThere will be no red carpet launch show or Christmas special, either.\n\nContestants will be staying in a hotel for two weeks ahead of pre-recording all the group dances.\n\nStrictly's annual special at Blackpool, filmed in one of the country's most historic ballrooms, is seen by contestants and the professional dancers alike as one of the highlights of the series.\n\nThe show has filmed at the venue since 2004, taking regular breaks. However, since 2013 there has been a Blackpool special annually.\n\nBlackpool is renowned for being a home for ballroom dancing, having hosted the Blackpool Dance Festival since 1920. That event is taking place online this year as a result of coronavirus.\n\nA BBC spokesman said: \"Blackpool is a milestone moment in every series of Strictly that our audience, our celebs and professional dancers look forward to.\n\n\"Whilst we'll be unable to physically go to Blackpool this series, we'll still be celebrating this iconic venue and bringing it to life from our studio in Elstree.\"\n\nIt comes after former home secretary Jacqui Smith was confirmed as the 12th and final celebrity contestant for 2020.\n\nSmith will join with stars including Bill Bailey, Clara Amfo, and HRVY.\n\nThis year, fans have been asked to apply for tickets for the live shows in groups of four so they can attend as a family bubble.\n\nThey will be placed at socially distanced cabaret-style tables and in balcony seating.\n\nSuccessful applicants have also been asked to provide their own plain black face coverings.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove: \"What we can't have... is the EU disrupting or putting at threat the integrity of the UK\"\n\nMichael Gove has defended plans to override parts of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement as a means of protecting the \"integrity\" of the UK.\n\nThe Cabinet Office minister said the UK was being \"generous\" with the EU over the Brexit negotiations.\n\nThe EU has threatened legal action over the Internal Market Bill, which ministers say will break international law in a \"specific and limited way\".\n\nPM Boris Johnson is urging Tory MPs to back it, after some raised concerns.\n\nThe bill, which will be formally debated in the House of Commons for the first time on Monday, addresses the Northern Ireland Protocol - the part of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement designed to prevent a hard border returning to the island of Ireland.\n\nIf this became law it would give UK ministers powers to modify or \"disapply\" rules relating to the movement of goods between Britain and Northern Ireland that will come into force from 1 January, if the UK and EU are unable to strike a trade deal.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis told the Commons the bill, which would go against the Withdrawal Agreement signed by the UK and EU, would \"break international law in a very specific and limited way\".\n\nBut Mr Gove said the attorney general had said the proposal would be consistent with the rule of law - and that it was important to have an \"insurance policy\".\n\nHe insisted the government was being \"proportionate and generous\" in its approach to the EU talks.\n\nMr Gove said: \"These steps are a safety net, they're a long-stop in the event, which I don't believe will come about but we do need to be ready for, that the EU follow through on what some have said they might do which is, in effect, to separate Northern Ireland from the rest of the United Kingdom.\"\n\nWhile admitting it was a \"crunch moment\", he insisted \"we have got the support of our own MPs\".\n\nThe EU and UK have less than five weeks to agree a deal before Mr Johnson's 15 October deadline - after which he says he is prepared to \"walk away\".\n\nInformal talks are due to resume on Monday, with the next official round of talks - the ninth since March - starting in Brussels on 28 September.\n\nThe EU says the planned changes must be scrapped or they risk jeopardising the UK-EU trade talks and the European Parliament says will \"under no circumstances ratify\" any trade deal reached between the UK and EU if the \"UK authorities breach or threaten to breach\" the Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nBoris Johnson said he would not countenance \"the threat of a border down the Irish Sea\"\n\nOn Friday Mr Johnson had a Zoom call with about 250 of his MPs, in which he said the party could not return to \"miserable squabbling\" over Europe.\n\nConservative backbencher Sir Bob Neill, who chairs the Commons Justice Committee, said he was not reassured by the prime minister's Zoom call. He is tabling an amendment to the bill to try to force a separate parliamentary vote on any changes to the Withdrawal Agreement.\n\n\"I believe it is potentially a harmful act for this country, it would damage our reputation and I think it will make it harder to strike trade deals going forward,\" he said.\n\nAnd on Saturday, Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood - who is chairman of the Defence Select Committee - also voiced his concern.\n\n\"I don't want us to lose our way, to lose our reputation as a force for good, as an exemplar holding up the international rule of law,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm afraid that's where I find myself not wishing to support this particular bill, because it does mean that we would be challenging unilaterally a Treaty. And that goes against the principle of everything we stand for.\"\n\nFormer Conservative party leaders Theresa May, Lord Howard and Sir John Major are also among senior figures urging Mr Johnson to think again.\n\nBoth Ireland and the EU have warned that Mr Johnson's plans pose a serious risk to the peace process rather than protecting the Good Friday Agreement, as the government claims.\n\nWriting that it had become clear there might be a \"serious misunderstanding\" between the UK and EU over the Withdrawal Agreement, Mr Johnson said the UK must be protected from what he called a \"disaster\" of the EU being able to \"carve up our country\" and \"endanger peace and stability in Northern Ireland\".\n\nHe said there was still a \"very good chance\" of the UK and EU striking a deal by mid-October similar to that previously agreed between the EU and Canada - which got rid of most, but not all, tariffs on goods.\n\nBut in a column in the Daily Telegraph, he accused the EU of adopting an \"extreme\" interpretation of the Northern Ireland Protocol to impose \"a full-scale trade border down the Irish Sea\" that could stop the transport of food from Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Gove told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it would be \"irrational\" not to allow the transportation of food in such a way, which would happen if the UK was not granted third-country listing. Such a listing is needed for the export of food.", "Trials of a Covid-19 vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University will resume after being paused due to a reported side effect in a patient in the UK.\n\nOn Tuesday, AstraZeneca said the studies were being paused while it investigated whether the adverse reaction was linked with the vaccine.\n\nBut on Saturday, the university said it had been deemed safe to continue.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock welcomed the news that the trials would resume.\n\n\"This pause shows we will always put safety first. We will back our scientists to deliver an effective vaccine as soon as safely possible,\" he added.\n\nThe university said in a statement that it was \"expected\" that \"some participants will become unwell\" in large trials such as this one.\n\nIt added that the studies could now resume following the recommendations of an independent safety review committee and the UK regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency.\n\nIt would not disclose information about the patient's illness for confidentiality reasons, but the New York Times reported that a volunteer in the UK trial had been diagnosed with transverse myelitis, an inflammatory syndrome that affects the spinal cord and can be caused by viral infections.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) says nearly 180 vaccine candidates are being tested around the world but none has yet completed clinical trials.\n\nHopes have been high that the vaccine might be one of the first to come on the market, following successful phase 1 and 2 testing.\n\nIts move to Phase 3 testing in recent weeks has involved some 30,000 participants in the US as well as in the UK, Brazil and South Africa. Phase 3 trials in vaccines often involve thousands of participants and can last several years.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told the Downing Street press conference on Wednesday what had happened in the Oxford trial was not unusual.\n\nThe news comes after Prof Sir Mark Walport, a member of the government's scientific advisory group Sage, warned the UK was \"on the edge of losing control of the virus\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"You've only got to look across the Channel to see what is happening in France and what's happening in Spain.\"\n\nOfficial figures released on Saturday showed a further 3,497 people have tested positive with the virus in the UK. It is the second day in a row that number of daily reported cases has exceeded 3,000.\n\nIt brings the overall number of confirmed cases so far to 365,174. Meanwhile, the government figures revealed that a further nine people have died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19, bring the UK death toll to 41,623.\n\nOfficial figures indicate the UK's coronavirus epidemic is growing again, after the R number - the reproduction rate of the virus - was raised to between 1 and 1.2 for the first time since March.\n\nMeanwhile, daily coronavirus cases in Scotland have reached a four-month high, according to the Scottish government's latest data.\n\nA total of 221 people tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours - the highest daily figure since 8 May, when there were 225 positive tests.\n\nNew \"rule of six\" restrictions intended to halt the rises are due come into force on Monday.\n\nIn England indoor and outdoor gatherings of more than six people will be banned, except in certain circumstances such as for work or school. Those breaking the rules could be fined.\n\nIn Scotland, socialising will be limited to a maximum of six people inside and outside - but unlike England they must be from two households, and children under 12 are exempt.\n\nIn Wales, also from Monday, it will be illegal for more than six people from an extended household to meet indoors - but up to 30 can still meet outdoors.\n\nLocalised restrictions for parts of Northern Ireland, including Belfast and Ballymena, are to come into force on Monday, aimed at reducing contacts between people in homes in the affected areas.\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove agreed fines might be necessary to ensure people self-isolate when required.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I don't want to see fines being levied, but even more I do not want to see people behaving in a way that puts the most vulnerable at risk.\"", "A bust-up with Brussels was always a possible feature of this autumn.\n\nBut when EU top brass and their officials arrived in London this morning, it was not inevitable that it would come today.\n\nThere were whispers yesterday that one or other of the sides might flounce out - but \"wait and see\" seemed the order of the day.\n\nLate last night, chatter from sources in Brussels suggested they were unwilling to rise to what they see as the UK's provocation, to \"take the bait\", as it was expressed to me.\n\nBut after two sets of meetings today - one on the trade talks and the other on the government's plans to rewrite part of the agreed treaty from last year - there has been nothing less than a diplomatic explosion.\n\nThe EU issued a statement that was about as furious as any I've ever seen in this kind of context - demanding that the UK government withdraw the controversial plans to override the deal done with the EU last year by the end of the month, and threatening to take legal action if it doesn't happen.\n\nEssentially saying that there's no chance of trade talks, and hence no chance of a deal, unless the UK backs down.\n\nAt this stage however, anyone with more than a passing acquaintance with this government would know that's inconceivable.\n\nIt is not, of course, impossible that further down the track the government may give way, or concede in quite a big way.\n\nBut right now, the chances of a move are slim to none. The chances therefore of talks, that matter so much to our economy, moving very far are almost zilch - and therefore the chances of a deal are falling away.\n\nRemember last autumn, day-after-day-after-day the language between the two sides became more heated, brinkmanship more risky, the government's moves more audacious, and then, suddenly, a deal was done.\n\nAnd despite the EU's extraordinary statement, and serious stumbling blocks in the talks, the UK chief negotiator, Lord Frost, has now announced that the trade talks will still go ahead next week.\n\nThe added complication here is that the government can't be sure at all that their plans to change the Northern Irish parts of the existing treaty will pass through Parliament.\n\nResistance in the Lords is inevitable and while it's hard to gauge the final number, there is likely to be a rebellion from Tory MPs too.\n\nBut Downing Street right now is confident that MPs will back the plans in the end.\n\nWilling to forgo a trade deal - if that's what their changes mean - rather than back down on their plans, having chosen to take what insiders admit is a nuclear option, for now, they are willing to stand back and watch the explosion.", "A teacher whose brother previously won the £500,000 prize has gone one better to win the jackpot on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?\n\nDonald Fear, 57, used just one 50/50 lifeline to become the first £1m winner in 14 years.\n\nBrother Davyth, who teaches geography, appeared on the show in September last year.\n\nMr Fear said his brother was his \"hero and best friend\". \"Other way around now,\" said presenter Jeremy Clarkson.\n\nThe history and politics teacher's final question on Friday's pre-recorded show was: \"In 1718, which pirate died in battle off the coast of what is now North Carolina?\"\n\nThe options were Calico Jack, Blackbeard, Bartholomew Roberts, and Captain Kidd.\n\nMr Fear, who lives in Telford, said he had taught piracy to a group of Year 8 students about eight years ago, and remembered the date of 1718.\n\n\"You don't be a history teacher for 33 years without knowing a few dates, and the date 1718 and Blackbeard leapt out at me instantly.\"\n\nClarkson expressed his amazement at the history teacher's knowledge throughout his run of 15 correct answers.\n\n\"It's like sitting next to the internet in a pink shirt,\" he said, describing him as \"an encyclopaedia with a moustache\".\n\nMr Fear is the sixth million-pound winner in the show's 22-year history.\n\nAfter his win, the father of four celebrated by going on a caravan holiday along the Northumberland coast with his wife of 33 years, nurse Debs.\n\nAnd his elder brother Davyth has also been part of his celebrations.\n\n\"He is so pleased for me,\" said Mr Fear.\n\n\"We went to spend a night in a hotel with our wives last week and got absolutely plastered and he kept poking me saying how pleased and how overjoyed he was by it.\"\n\nMr Fear said he wanted to give at least 70% of his winnings to his family and spend the rest on a \"comfortable retirement\".\n\nAnd that retirement is due to begin soon - since winning the jackpot, he has resigned from Haberdashers' Adams Grammar school in Newport, Shropshire.\n\nBut he said: \"The rules are you have to go at the end of a term.\n\n\"Actually, I never investigated the possibility of whether it would be possible not to go back at all - but how unfair to my A-level students that would be?\"\n\nMr Fear added: \"I was planning to go in two years anyway just before my 60th birthday.\n\n\"As it is, I'm going just after my 58th.\"", "People in the UK must not treat this weekend as a \"party\" before the new \"rule of six\" coronavirus restrictions come into force on Monday, a police union has warned.\n\nThe Police Federation said there was a \"real risk\" that the public would \"take advantage of the current situation\".\n\nThe new rules limit gatherings to six people indoors and outdoors in England.\n\nIt comes as one scientist warned the UK was \"on the edge of losing control\" of the virus.\n\nEngland's new rule of six applies to all ages, although there are some exemptions, such as gatherings for work. Those who fail to follow the new rules can be fined by police - £100 for a first offence, doubling on each further offence up to £3,200.\n\nIn Scotland, socialising will be limited to a maximum of six people inside and outside - but unlike England they must be from two households, and children under 12 are exempt.\n\nIn Wales, also from Monday, it will be illegal for more than six people from an extended household to meet indoors - but up to 30 can still meet outdoors.\n\nIn Northern Ireland last month, meanwhile, the number of people who could gather indoors in a private home was reduced from 10 people from four households to six people from two households.\n\nWith the introduction of the new rules in England and Wales delayed until Monday, John Apter, the chairman of the Police Federation for England and Wales, said: \"There is a real risk some members of the public will take advantage of the current situation and treat this weekend as a party weekend ahead of the tighter restrictions being introduced on Monday.\n\n\"Using the current situation as an opportunity and excuse to party would be incredibly irresponsible and put pressure not only on policing, but potentially on the ambulance service and NHS.\"\n\nTim Robson, the North East's representative on the National Pubwatch scheme, said he expected police officers would strictly monitor bars over the weekend to ensure they are operating safely.\n\n\"There is an anticipation that everyone is going to have a big last binge, but people are starting to get fearful and a lot of licensed premises have already been clamped down on by the police,\" he said.\n\nMr Robson, a former police officer, said it would be up to licensees to manage their premises and break up large groups from gathering together unsafely.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"If the restrictions are urgent why are they waiting until Monday? Why aren't they coming in now?\"\n\nOn Saturday, the government announced there were a further 3,497 coronavirus cases in the UK.\n\nIn Scotland, daily coronavirus cases have hit a four-month high, with a total of 221 people testing positive for the virus in the past 24 hours - the highest daily figure since May 8.\n\nThe virus is still at much lower levels across the UK than at the peak in April, but a study of thousands of people in England found cases are doubling every seven to eight days.\n\nProf Sir Mark Walport, a member of the government's Sage scientific advisory group, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"One would have to say that we're on the edge of losing control.\n\n\"You've only got to look across the Channel to see what is happening in France and what's happening in Spain.\"\n\nIt comes as the final clinical trials for a vaccine, developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, are set to resume. They were put on hold last weekend after a participant became unwell.\n\nThe AstraZeneca-Oxford University vaccine - in which 18,000 people from around the world are taking part - is seen as a strong contender among dozens being developed globally.\n\nMeanwhile, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove said the rule of six was \"well-understood\" as a public health message and had the public's support.\n\n\"As ever, the important thing is balance - eating out, seeing friends - that is fine, provided we do so in a way that is socially responsible, that's what the rule of six is about,\" he told the BBC.\n\nHe added that there needed to be \"a degree of self-discipline and restriction\" in order to deal with the challenges posed by the rising number of coronavirus cases across England - and the escalating R number, which measures the rate at which the virus is transmitted.\n\nHowever, Mr Gove also conceded fines could be necessary to enforce regulations.\n\n\"I don't want to see fines being levied, but even more I do not want to see people behaving in a way that puts the most vulnerable at risk,\" he said.\n\nThe R number has been raised to between 1 and 1.2 for the first time since March. Any number above one indicates the number of infections is increasing.\n\nAnd in addition to a general rise in cases in the community, the government's latest coronavirus surveillance report shows a sharp rise in people over the age of 85 testing positive.\n\nAsked about Prof Walport's statement that the UK was \"losing control\", Mr Gove said it was \"a warning to us all\".\n\n\"There's a range of scientific opinion but one thing on which practically every scientist is agreed is that we have seen an uptick in infection and therefore it is appropriate we take public health measures.\"\n\nIt comes after people across England told BBC News they are struggling to access coronavirus tests.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said last week that no-one should have to travel more than 75 miles for a test, after the BBC revealed some were being sent hundreds of miles away.\n\nBut some have now reported being unable to book a swab at all.\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) said testing capacity was targeted at the hardest-hit areas.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nDebutants Callum Wilson and Jeff Hendrick both scored as Newcastle made a winning start to the 2020-21 Premier League season against an uninspiring West Ham.\n\nWilson, a £20m summer signing from Bournemouth, was a threat throughout as the Magpies won their opening game for the first time since 2012.\n\nSteve Bruce's side were well worth their victory despite the Hammers twice hitting the crossbar.\n\nWilson prodded in Hendrick's flick-on to open the scoring, while the Republic of Ireland midfielder, who joined on a free transfer, sealed victory with a late effort into the top-left corner.\n\nWhile Pablo Fornals and Angelo Ogbonna both hit crossbar for the hosts, too often their attacks lacked the cutting edge to trouble a resolute Newcastle defence.\n\nAnd it ensured their miserable recent starts to Premier League campaigns continued, as they became the first club to lose their opening match for the fifth consecutive season.\n\nMagpies manager Steve Bruce had said he was pleased to see owner Mike Ashley \"flex his muscles\" with the summer arrivals of Wilson and Jamal Lewis, plus free agents Ryan Fraser and Hendrick.\n\nAnd even more pleasingly for Bruce, Wilson, Lewis and Hendrick all made an immediate impression for their new employers.\n\nWilson, who appears to thrive when facing the Hammers, was undoubtedly the pick of the bunch.\n\nThe 28-year-old's pace and movement caused problems well before he scored his eighth goal in nine outings against West Ham, twice going close from Lewis deliveries from the left and teeing up Jonjo Shelvey after a surging run from his own half.\n\nHe also appeared to benefit from the freedom and flicks that Andy Carroll's robust presence provided alongside him.\n\nNewcastle had the fourth worst goal-scoring record in the top flight last term and Bruce will hope that combination can help to remedy that problem.\n\nWilson's goal was a result of his opportunism after Carroll had got across the near post to flick on Javier Manquillo's cross, and Hendrick's late right-foot shot put the seal on a fine night for Newcastle's new boys.\n\nWest Ham were bottom of the Premier League after the opening round of fixtures in each of the past three seasons.\n\nAnd despite this performance not being as humbling as their heavy defeats against both Manchester clubs and Liverpool, it did highlight the need for manager David Moyes to bring in some reinforcements.\n\nWhile they have been able to complete the permanent signing of Tomas Soucek, the Czech international has not exactly provided any fresh impetus, having spent the second half of last term on loan at the club.\n\nYoung winger Grady Diangana was controversially sold and three of the club's most expensive players, including record signing Sebastien Haller, started as substitutes.\n\nWhile Andriy Yarmolenko, Felipe Anderson and Haller were all brought off the bench, there was little suggestion that the Hammers, who only managed three shots on target, were going to mount a comeback.\n\n'Callum will give us something different' - what they said\n\nWest Ham boss David Moyes speaking to BBC MOTD: \"I think you are always trying to improve the squad but that wasn't the reason we lost tonight. We have to analyse that.\n\n\"We had a good pre-season, we were feeling good after finishing the season well so we were disappointed with tonight.\n\n\"We need to get better with the players we have and they can be better, undoubtedly.\"\n\nNewcastle manager Steve Bruce told Sky Sports: \"I wouldn't say best week but when you come away from the Premier League and win 2-0 with two new signings scoring, it helps the cause.\n\n\"There was not much in it and we have a striker who scored typical striker's goal. Callum Wilson enjoys playing against West Ham and it was good to see them two get off the mark. We were worthy winners.\n\n\"We have been missing the goals, Callum will give us something different and makes the squad better. He can only help the situation.\n\n\"We have made progress, it is a long season and cannot get carried away but the last week has been a positive week for everybody, the impact the signings have made, the supporters in particular will like the look of them,\n\n\"That is certainly the best I have seen of Andy Carroll since the year he has been back. He has scored a coupe goals in pre-season and when he plays like that and he stays well, we know what sort of competitor he is.\"\n• None Newcastle United have won 10 Premier League away games against West Ham United - their joint-best such tally in the competition (10 vs Tottenham Hotspur).\n• None West Ham have lost more season openers in the Premier League than any other team in the competition's history (14).\n• None Newcastle recorded their first opening weekend victory in the Premier League since beating Tottenham Hotspur in August 2012.\n• None West Ham manager David Moyes has lost nine of his last 13 matchday one fixtures in the Premier League (W4), including his last two (also for Sunderland in 2016-17).\n• None Newcastle's Jeff Hendrick scored and assisted in a single Premier League game for the first time in his career (123rd appearance).\n• None Newcastle's Callum Wilson has scored eight goals in nine league games against West Ham, more than he has netted against any other side in his league career.\n• None West Ham midfielder Declan Rice made his 100th appearance for the club in the Premier League.\n\nWest Ham host Charlton in the second round of the Carabao Cup on Tuesday (19:30 BST) before travelling to Arsenal in the Premier League on Saturday, 19 September (20:00 BST).\n\nNewcastle are also in EFL Cup action on Tuesday (19:30 BST) when they welcome Blackburn to St James' Park before facing Brighton at home in their next Premier League game on Sunday, 20 September (14:00 BST)\n• None Attempt blocked. Miguel Almirón (Newcastle United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Andriy Yarmolenko (West Ham United) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Tomas Soucek.\n• None Offside, Newcastle United. Javier Manquillo tries a through ball, but Joelinton is caught offside.\n• None Offside, West Ham United. Aaron Cresswell tries a through ball, but Sébastien Haller is caught offside.\n• None Goal! West Ham United 0, Newcastle United 2. Jeff Hendrick (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Miguel Almirón.\n• None Offside, Newcastle United. Miguel Almirón tries a through ball, but Joelinton is caught offside.\n• None Andy Carroll (Newcastle United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Sébastien Haller (West Ham United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Ryan Fredericks with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Michail Antonio (West Ham United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Andriy Yarmolenko (West Ham United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Comedians try to make sense of 2020\n• None Go behind the scenes with West Ham Women", "A-level results day started terribly for Grace Kirman. The sixth former in Norwich had been waiting anxiously to hear whether she would get the grades needed for her dream university place.\n\nBut it was bad news and a rejection email had arrived. The grades produced by the exam algorithm had been lower than her teachers predicted - and the offer to study biochemistry at Oxford University was disappearing before her eyes.\n\n\"It wasn't my fault and it was really unfair,\" said the student from Notre Dame High School.\n\nShe'd worked extremely hard for her A-levels, it had been her big ambition, she'd been on a university outreach scheme for disadvantaged youngsters, and she'd been quietly confident of getting the A* and two A grades needed.\n\nBut this summer's exams had been cancelled by the Covid-19 pandemic - and England's exam watchdog Ofqual had produced an alternative way of calculating grades.\n\nHer teachers had expected three A*s - but the algorithm produced results of three As. It might be a small margin for a statistician, but it was a difference that she said \"could change her life\".\n\n\"I was so disappointed, I knew I was equally intelligent,\" she said. And she was angry too at the way doors suddenly seemed to be closing.\n\nBrian Conway, chief executive of the St John the Baptist academy trust responsible for the school, was beginning to see other inexplicable results arriving.\n\n\"The tragedy of results day was when people you would bet your house on getting a grade C were given a U grade,\" he said.\n\nSomething was going badly wrong - and the school decided to challenge the results, and in Grace's case, to get in touch with Oxford to try to overturn the rejection.\n\nThere were problems with exams across the UK this summer, but in England it's the Department for Education and Ofqual which will face public scrutiny to explain the confusion, the colossal U-turns and resignations.\n\nThe algorithm for replacement grades mostly relied on two key pieces of information - how pupils had been ranked in order of ability and the results of schools and colleges in previous years.\n\nOf less influence were teachers' predictions and how individual pupils themselves had done in previous exams.\n\nIt was designed to stop grade inflation and in effect replicated the results of previous years - but it meant a serious risk of disadvantage for talented individuals in schools that had a history of low results.\n\nIt would be like being told you'd failed a driving test on the grounds that people from where you lived usually failed their driving test. That might be the case, but it's hard to take when you hadn't even started the car.\n\nBut if the aim was to keep grades in line with previous years, the opposite happened. There were stratospheric increases particularly at A-level - with more than half of students getting A*s and As in some subjects.\n\nWhile the scrutiny will focus on what went wrong in past weeks, the bigger fallout could be from what it changes in the future. A major unintended consequence could be a radical shake-up of England's university admissions, with plans believed to be in the pipeline.\n\nThis summer has shown the problems with estimated grades - raising the issue of whether such predictions should still be used for university offers, rather than waiting until students have their actual results.\n\nSchools Minister Nick Gibb this week described as \"compelling\" the argument made by former universities minister Chris Skidmore that the \"entire admissions system to university should now be reformed\". Also expect in the forthcoming months to hear some big questions about the future role of Ofqual.\n\nEngland's Education Secretary Gavin Williamson, facing calls for his resignation over the exams fiasco, will have to defend himself in front of the Education Select Committee this week.\n\nThe committee's chairman, Robert Halfon, likened the exam problems to the Charge of the Light Brigade, where no-one, particularly Ofqual, seemed able to heed the warnings to stop.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson, who originally called the results \"robust\" and then blamed a \"mutant algorithm\", has accused critics of relying on \"Captain Hindsight\". But more evidence of foresight in warnings is emerging too.\n\nBarnaby Lenon, chairman of the Independent Schools Council, told the BBC he had warned in stakeholder meetings with Ofqual about the dangers of attaching so much weight to schools' previous results, and so little to teachers' estimates. \"It was always going to be a hashed job,\" he said.\n\nHe thinks Ofqual and the Department for Education had begun to prioritise sounding publicly confident rather than being open about the shortcomings. Mr Lenon, a former head teacher of Harrow School and former Ofqual board member, had made his concerns public.\n\nOn 7 July, at the Festival of Higher Education at the University of Buckingham, he predicted unreliability and unfairness in the results and warned Ofqual was being asked to do a \"terrible thing\" in producing these calculated grades.\n\nDanger signals couldn't be dismissed as politically motivated. On 26 May, a warning was sent from the New Schools Network, which supports free schools and has strong ties to Conservative education policy.\n\nThe group's director Unity Howard, wrote to Sally Collier, the now resigned head of Ofqual, and to Gavin Williamson: \"It is easy to bury these arrangements in scientific modelling, but the issues here will affect at least a generation of children, but more likely those that come after it too.\"\n\nIt included warnings from seven schools and trusts - and it's understood the group held a meeting with Ofqual.\n\nThe Northern Powerhouse, a lobby group for the north of England chaired by former Tory chancellor George Osborne, had also been flagging concerns about BTec vocational exams as well as A-levels and GCSEs.\n\nFrank Norris, working with the Northern Powerhouse on education, told the BBC the \"proposed algorithm design was always going to put the average performance of schools above individual merit\".\n\nWith worries not allayed, the Northern Powerhouse wrote to Sally Collier on 9 August, drawing attention to their high level of concern about a disproportionate impact on poorer communities. On 11 July, the Education Select Committee pointed to unanswered questions about the fairness of how grades would be calculated.\n\nOfqual was not unaware of these worries, not least because the regulator says it was giving its own advice to ministers about the risks - and right to the top.\n\nJulie Swan, Ofqual's executive director of general qualifications, said 10 Downing Street had been briefed on 7 August, highlighting risks over so-called \"outlier students\" - the bright pupils whose grades might be reduced because they were in low-performing schools.\n\nThere were also weekly meetings with education minister Nick Gibb. Kate Green, Labour's Shadow Education Secretary, said in the House of Commons this week the exam controversy had caused \"huge distress to students and their parents\" - and asked Mr Gibb why he had failed to respond to warnings. \"These warnings were not ignored,\" said Mr Gibb. \"Challenges that were made by individuals were raised with Ofqual and we were assured by the regulator that overall the model was fair,\" he told MPs. It was only when grades were published that \"anomalies and injustices\" became apparent, said Mr Gibb.\n\nA common thread to the warnings was although the results might work smoothly in terms of national statistics, maintaining a similar pattern to previous years, this would be at the cost of individual unfairness. The standardisation process, which tended to push down teachers' grades, would also not apply to subjects with smaller numbers of entries, such as classics and modern languages - with accusations this would benefit independent schools.\n\nGrace Kirman was one of these \"anomalies\" - her future hanging in the balance. But when had this year's exams really begun to go into tailspin? If you wanted to pinpoint a moment, it might be about 36 hours before Grace and hundreds of thousands of young people were finding out their results.\n\nThat was the heatwave night of Tuesday 11 August, ahead of A-level results being released on Thursday. In Scotland there had been a U-turn on grades, and pressure was building for a response in England.\n\nWhen it came, it left Ofqual completely wrong-footed and unable to explain how it would work. The Department for Education had informed them of a major change that would allow schools to appeal over grades on the basis of their mock test results. It was announced late in the evening as an extra \"safety net\" and \"triple lock\", but was eventually ditched within the week.\n\nBut head teachers, who had been on a low-boil all summer, went into volcanic mode - attacking this last-minute change as \"panicked and chaotic\". This sudden rule change meant a school could appeal for an upgrade if a mock test had been higher than the calculated grade about to be issued.\n\nThis infuriated head teachers who said mocks were carried out in many different and inconsistent ways. Sometimes they had been deliberately marked down as a scare tactic and some schools had not taken them at all. Therefore, they said, they could not be used to decide such important results.\n\nHeads' leader Geoff Barton said at that point he knew this approach to exams had become \"unsustainable\". It had been \"fatally undermined\" by an unworkable decision, which he said represented a \"complete failure of leadership\". Mr Halfon said it also raised the fundamental question about who was really in charge - and if Ofqual wasn't really acting independently, then what was its purpose?\n\nResults day on 13 August added to the confusion. These calculated grades produced the highest results in the history of A-levels - but in the background was a growing volume of protest over the algorithm reducing 40% of grades below teachers' predictions. MPs saw emails arriving in their in-trays, upset parents took to Twitter, lawyers warned of multiple legal challenges, universities didn't know if grades were going to be changed on appeal and marchers were waving placards demanding a U-turn.\n\nOn Saturday 15 August, matters became even more bizarre. Ofqual published plans for appeals over mock tests - but in the evening Gavin Williamson rang Sally Collier disagreeing with the guidance and it was taken down again from the website.\n\nAccording to Ofqual chairman Roger Taylor, the situation was \"rapidly going out of control\" - and on Sunday the watchdog took the momentous decision to switch to centre assessed grades - the results estimated by schools.\n\nThis biggest U-turn of the summer was made public the next day and the education secretary told students he was \"incredibly sorry\".\n\nSally Collier, who has talked of her admiration for Edith Cavell, the nurse executed during the First World War, later stepped down as chief regulator and has made no comment since.\n\nAt the Department for Education, it was the senior civil servant, Jonathan Slater, who lost his job, with accusations that he had been \"scapegoated\". The blame game had begun almost immediately. Ofqual's argument has been they knew the risks of the iceberg ahead, but they had warned ministers and been told not to change direction.\n\nThe politicians in turn say they had heard the iceberg warnings, but Ofqual had assured them it would be safe. \"The finger of blame is pointed at everyone else,\" says heads' leader Mr Barton.\n\nWhat has baffled school leaders is why, with almost five months between the cancellation of exams and the issuing of calculated grades, there wasn't a more thorough attempt to test the reliability of results in advance, including with real schools. Ofqual's defence to all of this, according to Mr Halfon, could be summed up as: \"Not me, guv.\"\n\nThere are also questions about the delays for results for BTec students - and MP Shabana Mahmood said it was disgraceful how they had been \"left languishing at the back of the queue\". There is another uncomfortable truth from the U-turn, which Barnaby Lenon said will have created a \"different kind of injustice\". Schools which were over-generous in their predictions will have got better grades than those which were more painstaking.\n\nThings eventually turned out well for Grace\n\nMr Conway, leader of Notre Dame's academy trust where Grace was at school, said his staff had put a \"huge effort\" into making sure every estimated grade was accurate and evidence based - and carried out their own moderation process to guard against grade inflation. But there are persistent rumours of other exam centres which have ended up with implausibly high grades for many of their students.\n\nPupils could have unfairly been \"bumped off\" university places as a result, said Mr Lenon. When Mr Williamson faces the select committee this week he is likely to argue that no-one wanted to cancel exams, but the pandemic forced them to find an alternative - and when there were problems his department took swift action.\n\n\"It was not a decision that was taken lightly. It was taken only after serious discussions with a number of parties, including, in particular, the exam regulator, Ofqual,\" he told MPs this week. \"We have had to respond, often at great speed, to find the best way forward, given what we knew about the virus at the time.\"\n\nOther education ministers around the UK faced similar problems and eventually came up with similar answers, said Mr Williamson.\n\nAnd Grace got her place back at Oxford. \"I just couldn't believe it. It's been a dream of mine for so long. \"I wish I could have woken up to an acceptance - but I appreciate it now even more. \"It was a flawed system,\" she said. \"And they could have been kinder, especially after everything over the summer.\"", "Police in Paris say they've detained more than 200 people, after the \"yellow vest\" movement attempted to revive its anti-government protests.\n\nIn 2018 and 2019 demonstrations by the movement sometimes brought parts of France to a standstill.", "Wales was taking a more phased approach to reopening, but all four UK nations are now carrying out roughly the same levels of treatment\n\nDentists are \"firefighting\" to deal with a \"huge backlog\" and will not catch up until 2021, the Welsh general practitioners committee chairman said.\n\nTom Bysouth also warned many of Wales' 500 surgeries were facing the threat of redundancies or even closure.\n\nHe said untreated fillings could make teeth irreparable with signs of mouth cancer not being picked up.\n\nThe British Dental Association called for support, saying if practices fail, patients will have \"nowhere to go\".\n\n\"It will take a long time to catch up. Effectively, if we were acting in normal circumstances, it would take at least another six months,\" Mr Bysouth said.\n\n\"We're prioritising the more urgent care - but as an example, I took four people off our fillings list yesterday, and put three on.\n\n\"If it stays the same, it won't be in 2020 we catch up, but 2021. We are chasing the tail.\"\n\nMr Bysouth works at dental practices in Llandeilo and Llandovery, Carmarthenshire\n\nMr Bysouth is also concerned that, with people not having routine check-ups, signs of mouth cancer may be missed and fillings will get worse, making teeth irreparable.\n\n\"Before lockdown, a typical practice with three dentists would see around 60 to 80 people a day, but that dramatically reduced over lockdown in order to comply with social distancing measures,\" he said.\n\nSome had been seeing as few as 10 a day when they reopened because of Welsh Government rules around ventilating surgeries.\n\nBut new guidelines that came into effect in August meant a new patient can now be seen every 20 minutes not every hour, greatly increasing the number.\n\nWith laboratories not having the same level of orders for items such as crowns and bridges, Mr Bysouth also believes there could be a knock-on effect with these struggling\n\nMr Bysouth estimates there are about 500 practices in Wales, the vast majority of which carry out a mixture of NHS and private work.\n\nHowever, with government financial support only available for NHS work, he believed those that did less of it were in a \"precarious\" position.\n\nHe said: \"There is a risk some may have to close, let staff go or reduce their hours. Like any business model, it needs to be viable. They are as vulnerable as any business.\n\n\"People already face a 90-minute round trip in parts of Wales and 15% of practices are taking on new patients. And this was pre-Covid.\"\n\nRoutine dental appointments have been cancelled with only urgent work carried out\n\nMaxine Bullock, from Llantrisant, is hoping to finally have teeth out in October after waiting in \"horrendous\" pain for more than six months.\n\n\"My appointment was due three days after lockdown. I now need three teeth out not two... and for the last three months its been terrible,\" she said.\n\n\"Every time I ring, it goes to the end of the next month.\"\n\nSue O'Connor, from Welshpool, has been waiting since last October to have a wisdom tooth removed, but lockdown has caused even more delay.\n\n\"The tooth they were trying to save is now broken with half missing,\" she said.\n\nThere have been calls for government to support private dental practices in the same way support is offered to other businesses\n\nMelanie Goodridge, from Fishguard, said: \"I have a broken tooth and it's sharp and cutting my tongue and I can't eat and can just about swallow. They told me to call back in three weeks.\"\n\nThe BDA estimates during lockdown patients seen on the NHS fell by as much as 98% and with practices paid for each one treated, for many this makes it \"impossible to stay afloat\" without help.\n\n\"NHS practices have been offered support,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"But most practices are mixed - doing both private and NHS work. There's been no meaningful help for private practice.\n\n\"If these practices fail, their patients have nowhere to go.\"\n\nThe BDA called for rates holidays for private dentists, the same enjoyed by other businesses, and said the end of the furlough scheme would be a \"a major challenge\" for them as they are operate at \"a fraction of capacity\".\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said it had created the most generous support package in the UK to help businesses, but added: \"It is clear the UK government needs to step up and provide additional funding to help businesses through this pandemic.\"\n\nThe UK Treasury said its furlough and self-employment support schemes had protected dental jobs, and added that firms would get a £1,000 bonus for each member of staff retained.", "Daily coronavirus cases in Scotland have hit a four-month high, the latest Scottish government statistics show.\n\nA total of 221 people tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours - the highest daily figure since 8 May, when there were 225 positive tests.\n\nHowever there were far fewer tests being carried out at that stage of the pandemic, meaning many people with the virus did not appear in the statistics.\n\nThe latest figures also show there were no more confirmed Covid deaths.\n\nIt comes as tougher coronavirus restrictions are imposed on people in North and South Lanarkshire.\n\nThey are not allowed to meet other households in their homes, or visit other peoples' homes.\n\nSimilar measures are already in place in Glasgow, East and West Dunbartonshire, Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire.\n\nThe daily statistics also show that 106 of the positive tests were recorded in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board area.\n\nIn the NHS Lanarkshire area there were 48 new cases, and there were 35 in Lothian.\n\nThere was at least one positive case in each of the mainland health board areas.\n\nOn Twitter, the first minister urged people to follow public health advice.\n\n\"More than ever we must remember that what we do as individuals just now affects the wellbeing of everyone. Let's look after each other,\" she added.\n\nAnd Prof Jason Leitch, Scotland's national clinical director, admitted that 221 positive cases was a \"big number compared to what we have got used to\".\n\n\"As we've opened up it's inevitable the virus has found new ways of getting from household to household - and that's all it wants to do; it wants to find new people to infect,\" he told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"You've seen us take fairly harsh interventions and restrictions to some areas - that won't work instantly. It will need days, weeks, even a number of weeks, to show in the numbers.\n\n\"It's not good news, but it's what we expected. The virus doesn't work in 24 hour cycles - it works in two to three week cycles.\"\n\nProf Leitch acknowledged that many people may be starting to feel \"lockdown fatigue\" more than six months into the crisis.\n\nBut we can't \"simply wish [coronavirus] away\", he added.\n\nThe increase in cases in recent weeks has led to a change in the rules when it comes to groups meeting.\n\nUntil now, eight people from three households had been allowed to meet indoors in Scotland, and up to 15 from five households outdoors.\n\nBut from Monday, this will change to six people from two households and will apply both indoors and outdoors in Scotland - including in homes, gardens, pubs and restaurants.\n\nOn Saturday, Scotland's contact tracing app, Protect Scotland, had been downloaded 800,000 times.\n\nThe app, which was launched earlier in the week, uses Bluetooth technology to alert users if they have been in prolonged close contact with someone who has since tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nAn Oxford University study claimed that even with an uptake of just 15%, a contact tracing app can drive down infections by about 8% and deaths by about 6% - if it is part of a manual track and trace strategy.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said it was a \"big milestone\", adding that it amounted to approximately 20% of the adult population.\n\n\"We know it will make a difference at that level\". she said, \"but the more who use it, the bigger that difference will be\".\n\nShe urged Scots to encourage their friends and family members to download the app.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier is in London this week for Brexit talks\n\nWhen it comes to Brexit, all negotiations are inter-linked: EU-UK trade talks, the process to implement their divorce deal, negotiations on fishing rights and Brussels' deliberation on UK financial service.\n\nWhat happens in one area very much affects progress in the others. You cannot separate them entirely.\n\nWhich is why this week, as the war of words and wills between Brussels and Downing Street raged over the government's threat to throw a grenade at key parts of the divorce deal, everyone's thoughts turned immediately to the trade talks between the two sides.\n\nIn fact, they limp on. Negotiations are set to resume in Brussels on Monday. This, despite the EU ending the week by threatening Downing Street with legal action unless it rowed back on its threats to the Withdrawal Agreement by the end of the month.\n\nThe government insists it will not budge. So it is significant that the EU stopped short of threatening to press the nuclear button - shutting down trade talks altogether.\n\nWhy is that, when we know the EU is furious?\n\nFirst of all, Brussels still wants a deal with the UK, if at all possible, this autumn.\n\nSecondly, the sense in Brussels is that the government is trying to provoke the EU into abandoning the trade negotiations.\n\n\"We're not going to give them that satisfaction,\" a high-level EU diplomat told me. \"We refuse to be manipulated.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UK vs EU: Johnson and Michel Barnier set out competing visions on trade\n\nSo, despite bitter arguments over legislation on the one hand, and a huge list of outstanding issues still to be ironed out in bilateral trade talks; despite time and trust running out on both sides; neither the EU nor the UK seem to want to be the first ones to walk out the door.\n\nIt is still possible, of course, that the government's bill is stopped in the House of Lords or even beforehand by rebel MPs.\n\nIt is possible for the EU and UK to iron out their differences over the divorce deal and in trade talks. Concessions can always be \"dressed-up\" to look like victories, after all.\n\nIt has been done before. Remember last autumn? Finding agreement on the divorce deal seemed nigh on impossible - until it was not and a deal was signed.\n\nBut, right now that feels like a long shot. The chatter on both sides of the Channel is that \"no deal\" is becoming more likely by the day.", "Prosecutors said the woman used a circular saw to cut off her hand (file photo)\n\nA Slovenian woman has been found guilty of deliberately sawing off her own hand as part of an insurance scam.\n\nA court in the capital Ljubljana found that Julija Adlesic, 22, had taken out five insurance policies in the year before her injury. She had claimed it happened as she cut branches.\n\nAdlesic stood to gain more than €1m (£900,000, $1.16m) in payouts.\n\nShe now faces two years in prison, while her boyfriend has been given a three-year sentence.\n\nAdlesic and a number of relatives were arrested in 2019 after she arrived in hospital with her hand cut off above the wrist.\n\nThe court found that she and her boyfriend had intentionally left the severed hand behind rather than bringing it with them to ensure the disability was permanent. However, authorities recovered it in time to sew it back on.\n\nProsecutors said the woman's boyfriend had also made internet searches about artificial hands in the days beforehand.\n\nProsecutors said this was proof that the injury was intentional.\n\nAdlesic's boyfriend's father was also given a one-year suspended sentence.\n\nThroughout the trial, Adlesic had denied intentionally cutting off her hand.\n\nHad the fraudulent claim been successful, the couple would have received more than half a million euros as a lump sum, with the rest paid in monthly instalments.", "US President Donald Trump and his political rival Joe Biden have been marking the 19th anniversary of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks.\n\nAlmost 3,000 people died when four hijacked airliners were crashed into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon and - after passengers fought back - the field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.\n\nBoth Mr Trump and Mr Biden visited the Flight 93 memorial in Shanksville on Friday, but at different times.\n\nRead more: US commemorates 19th anniversary of 9/11", "Boris Johnson has urged Conservative MPs to back his plan to override part of the Brexit withdrawal agreement.\n\nIn a Zoom call with around 250 of them, he said the party must not return to \"miserable squabbling\" over Europe.\n\nThe EU has warned the UK it could face legal action if it does not ditch controversial elements of the Internal Market Bill by the end of the month.\n\nAnd a Tory MP has proposed an amendment to the bill, which would affect trade between Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, the European Parliament has threatened to scupper any UK-EU trade deal if the bill becomes UK law.\n\nThe two sides have less than five weeks to agree a deal before Mr Johnson's 15 October deadline - after which he says he is prepared to \"walk away\".\n\nInformal talks are due to resume on Monday, with the next official round of talks - the ninth since March - starting in Brussels on 28 September.\n\nThe Internal Market Bill, which will be formally debated in the House of Commons for the first time on Monday, addresses the Northern Ireland Protocol - the part of the Brexit withdrawal agreement designed to prevent a hard border returning to the island of Ireland.\n\nIf it became law it would give UK ministers powers to modify or \"disapply\" rules relating to the movement of goods between Britain and Northern Ireland that will come into force from 1 January, if the UK and EU are unable to strike a trade deal.\n\nThe EU says the planned changes must be scrapped or they risk jeopardising the UK-EU trade talks.\n\nBut the government has rejected this demand, arguing the measures in the bill are needed to protect the integrity of the UK and the peace process in Northern Ireland.\n\nIn his Zoom call with MPs on Friday, the prime minister did not take questions and a poor signal meant the video and audio connections were lost for several minutes.\n\nHe called for \"overwhelming support\" for the bill, describing it as \"absolutely vital\" to \"prevent a foreign or international body from having the power to break up our country\".\n\nMr Johnson added that he would not countenance \"the threat of a border down the Irish Sea\".\n\nBut he said there was still a \"very good chance\" of the UK and EU striking a deal by mid-October similar to that previously agreed between the EU and Canada - which got rid of most, but not all, tariffs on goods.\n\nBBC chief political correspondent Vicki Young said Tory MPs were \"looking for a sign of compromise\" from Mr Johnson, as they \"simply can't believe the government is prepared to break international law\", but the prime minister \"dug his heels in\".\n\nIn a column in the Daily Telegraph, Mr Johnson accused the EU of reinterpreting the Withdrawal Agreement to \"destroy the economic and territorial integrity of the UK\" and \"endanger peace and stability in Northern Ireland\".\n\n\"I have to say that we never seriously believed that the EU would be willing to use a treaty, negotiated in good faith, to blockade one part of the UK, to cut it off,\" he said.\n\nConservative backbencher Sir Bob Neill, who chairs the Commons Justice Committee, said he was not reassured by the prime minister's Zoom call.\n\nHe is tabling an amendment to the bill to try to force a separate parliamentary vote on any changes to the Withdrawal Agreement.\n\n\"I believe it is potentially a harmful act for this country, it would damage our reputation and I think it will make it harder to strike trade deals going forward,\" he said.\n\nAt around the same time as the prime minister was speaking, the European Parliament announced it would \"under no circumstances ratify\" any trade deal reached between the UK and EU if the \"UK authorities breach or threaten to breach\" the withdrawal agreement.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis has admitted parts of the bill, which would go against a treaty signed by the UK and EU, would \"break international law in a very specific and limited way\".\n\nThere is unease over this within the Conservative Party, with former leaders Theresa May, Lord Howard and Sir John Major urging Mr Johnson to think again.", "Boris Johnson has urged Conservative MPs to back his plan to override part of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nIn a Zoom call with about 250 of them, he said the party must not return to \"miserable squabbling\" over Europe.\n\nThe EU has warned the UK it could face legal action if it does not ditch controversial elements of the Internal Market Bill by the end of the month.\n\nAnd a Tory MP has proposed an amendment to the bill, which would affect trade between Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, the European Parliament has threatened to scupper any UK-EU trade deal if the bill becomes UK law.\n\nThe two sides have less than five weeks to agree a deal before Mr Johnson's 15 October deadline - after which he says he is prepared to \"walk away\".\n\nInformal talks are due to resume on Monday, with the next official round of talks - the ninth since March - starting in Brussels on 28 September.\n\nThe Internal Market Bill, which will be formally debated in the House of Commons for the first time on Monday, addresses the Northern Ireland Protocol - the part of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement designed to prevent a hard border returning to the island of Ireland.\n\nIf it became law it would give UK ministers powers to modify or \"disapply\" rules relating to the movement of goods between Britain and Northern Ireland that will come into force from 1 January, if the UK and EU are unable to strike a trade deal.\n\nThe EU says the planned changes must be scrapped or they risk jeopardising the UK-EU trade talks.\n\nBut the government has rejected this demand, arguing the measures in the bill are needed to protect the integrity of the UK and the peace process in Northern Ireland.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis has admitted parts of the bill, which would go against the Withdrawal Agreement signed by the UK and EU, would \"break international law in a very specific and limited way\".\n\nIn his Zoom call with MPs on Friday, the prime minister did not take questions and a poor signal meant the video and audio connections were lost for several minutes.\n\nHe called for \"overwhelming support\" for the bill, describing it as \"absolutely vital\" to \"prevent a foreign or international body from having the power to break up our country\".\n\nMr Johnson added that he would not countenance \"the threat of a border down the Irish Sea\".\n\nBut he said there was still a \"very good chance\" of the UK and EU striking a deal by mid-October similar to that previously agreed between the EU and Canada - which got rid of most, but not all, tariffs on goods.\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove told BBC Breakfast he believed the government had the support of Tory MPs - and those in other parties - to pass the controversial bill, but added \"we are reaching a crunch moment\".\n\nBBC chief political correspondent Vicki Young said Tory MPs had been \"looking for a sign of compromise\" from Mr Johnson, because they \"simply can't believe the government is prepared to break international law\", but the prime minister \"dug his heels in\".\n\nIn a column in the Daily Telegraph, Mr Johnson defended the government's plans to override parts of the Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nHe accused the EU of adopting an \"extreme\" interpretation of the Northern Ireland Protocol to impose \"a full-scale trade border down the Irish Sea\" that could stop the transport of food from Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\n\"I have to say that we never seriously believed that the EU would be willing to use a treaty, negotiated in good faith, to blockade one part of the UK, to cut it off,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove: \"What we can't have... is the EU disrupting or putting at threat the integrity of the UK\"\n\nMr Gove told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it would be \"irrational\" not to allow the transportation of food in such a way, which would happen if the UK was not granted third-country listing. Such a listing is needed for the export of food.\n\nThe PM said it had become clear that there might be a \"serious misunderstanding\" between the UK and EU over the Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nHe said the UK must be protected from what he called a \"disaster\" of the EU being able to \"carve up our country\" and \"endanger peace and stability in Northern Ireland\".\n\nMr Gove said the attorney general had said the government was acting within the rule of law - and that it was important to have an \"insurance policy\".\n\nHe insisted the government was being \"proportionate and generous\" in its approach to the EU talks.\n\nConservative backbencher Sir Bob Neill, who chairs the Commons Justice Committee, said he was not reassured by the prime minister's Zoom call.\n\nHe is tabling an amendment to the bill to try to force a separate parliamentary vote on any changes to the Withdrawal Agreement.\n\n\"I believe it is potentially a harmful act for this country, it would damage our reputation and I think it will make it harder to strike trade deals going forward,\" he said.\n\nAt about the same time as the prime minister was speaking, the European Parliament announced it would \"under no circumstances ratify\" any trade deal reached between the UK and EU if the \"UK authorities breach or threaten to breach\" the Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nThere is unease over this within the Conservative Party, with former leaders Theresa May, Lord Howard and Sir John Major urging Mr Johnson to think again.", "Iran has executed a wrestler accused of murder, defying international appeals for him to be spared.\n\nNavid Afkari, 27, was sentenced to death over the murder of a security guard during a wave of anti-government protests in 2018.\n\nHe said he had been tortured into making a confession.\n\nHuman rights organisation Amnesty International described Afkari's execution as a \"travesty of justice\".\n\nIn a leaked recording released by the group, Afkari says: \"If I am executed, I want you to know that an innocent person, even though he tried and fought with all his strength to be heard, was executed.\"\n\nAfkari was executed by hanging in the southern city of Shiraz, according to state media.\n\nHis lawyer said his client had been prevented from seeing his family before his death, as required under Iranian law.\n\n\"Were you in such a hurry to carry out the sentence that you deprived Navid of a last visit?\" Hassan Younesi said on Twitter.\n\nThere had been many calls to stop the execution, including from a union representing 85,000 athletes worldwide.\n\nThe World Players Association said he had been \"unjustly targeted\" for taking part in the protests, and called for Iran's expulsion from world sport if it went ahead with the execution.\n\nUS President Donald Trump also appealed for mercy, saying the wrestler's \"sole act was an anti-government demonstration on the streets\".\n\nThe International Olympic Committee (IOC) called his execution \"very sad news\" and said their thoughts were with his family and friends.\n\n\"It is deeply upsetting that the pleas of athletes from around the world and all the behind-the-scenes work of the IOC... did not achieve our goal,\" their statement said.\n\nAfkari's brothers Vahid and Habib were sentenced to 54 and 27 years in prison in the same case, according to human rights activists in Iran.\n\nIn an audio recording leaked from the prison where he was being held, Afkari had said he had been tortured. His mother said her sons were forced to testify against each other.\n\nHis lawyer had said on Twitter that, contrary to Iranian news reports, there was no video of the moment of the security guard's killing. He added that footage used as evidence in the case was taken an hour before the crime took place.\n\nThe Iranian authorities have denied accusations of torture.\n\nAfkari was a national champion in wrestling, a sport that has a long history and is hugely popular in Iran.\n\nIn 2018, protesters in cities across Iran took to the streets over economic hardship and political repression.", "The man in his 20s was being questioned at a police station in south London\n\nA man has been arrested after an explosive device was posted to a residential property.\n\nPolice were called to reports of a suspicious package at an address in Cricklewood, north London, at about 09:10 BST on Thursday.\n\nThe package was found to be a small improvised explosive device.\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of attempting to cause an explosion, or making or keeping explosives with intent to endanger life or property.\n\nThe man in his 20s was detained at an address in Cambridge and taken into custody by counter-terrorism police.\n\nThe Met Police said two addresses were being searched in Cambridge.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Public health officials have warned of \"worrying signs\" of infection among the elderly, as an official measure indicated the UK's epidemic is growing again.\n\nThe R number was raised to between 1 and 1.2 for the first time since March.\n\nAny number above one indicates the number of infections is increasing.\n\nThe number of new daily confirmed UK cases of the virus rose to 3,539 on Friday - an increase of more than 600 on the previous day.\n\nThe virus is still at much lower levels across the UK than at the peak in April, but a study of thousands of people in England found cases doubling every seven to eight days.\n\nIt found a marked rise in infections in the north and among young people.\n\nYvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said although younger people made up the greatest share of new cases, \"we're now starting to see worrying signs of infections occurring in the elderly, who are at far higher risk of getting seriously ill\".\n\nA PHE report says there has been \"a particularly steep increase\" in positive test results in the over-85s and, in the north-west of England, a rise in people from that age group being admitted to hospital.\n\nHowever, though cases are rising, the number of patients in hospital remains largely flat at 863.\n\nOf those, 78 are on ventilators, according to the latest government figures.\n\nMs Doyle warned people to follow social distancing rules, wash their hands regularly and wear a face covering in enclosed spaces.\n\nMeanwhile, Birmingham will become the latest area to bring in new restrictions after a spike in cases.\n\nHowever, lockdown restrictions will be eased further in Leicester on Tuesday to bring rules for businesses in the city more in line with the majority of England, the Department of Health said.\n\nThe city has been subject to tighter Covid-19 restrictions since 29 June after a rise in cases.\n\nAcross the UK, new laws on how many people can socialise are being introduced from Monday in an attempt to hold back the rise in infections.\n\nThe \"rule of six\" will restrict indoor and outdoor gatherings in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nPolice warned there was a \"real risk\" some people would treat this weekend as a \"party weekend\" before the new restrictions come in.\n\nJohn Apter, national chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales, said that would be \"incredibly irresponsible\" at a time of increasing cases and officers would \"make no apology\" for fining people where appropriate.\n\nThe rise in the R (reproduction) number - which describes how many others each infected person passes the virus on to - is one of several measures indicating the virus is spreading more widely in the UK.\n\nIf the R number is higher than one - as now - the numbers infected are growing, with higher numbers indicating that cases are multiplying more quickly.\n\nThree other large studies have also indicated a widespread resurgence of coronavirus across the UK population.\n\nThe UK is entering a new stage of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSince lockdown, we have been deciding how to react to falling cases. But now the R number has gone above the crucial level of 1 for the first time since March and is backed up by reams of data showing cases are growing again.\n\nThis is not just contained to hotspots like Bolton - one government adviser told me the rise was widespread across the country.\n\nThey said today was a \"wake-up call\" for the nation. There are already some signs that the number of people being admitted to hospital is starting to rise.\n\nBut this is not a repeat of the build-up to lockdown. Cases are at a much lower level and they are growing more slowly.\n\nPre-lockdown, the R number was around three and cases were doubling every three to four days. It is around half that now.\n\nCoronavirus is going to be a major challenge until we have a vaccine.\n\nSo the defining question as we head into a potentially difficult winter is how to balance keeping the virus in check with getting on with our lives.\n\nThe REACT study of more than 150,000 volunteers in England, one of the three new sources of data on community levels, found \"accelerating transmission\" at the end of August and start of September.\n\nIt said levels of infection were rising across England but particularly in the north east, north west and Yorkshire.\n\nAnd there were increases in positive cases in all age groups up to the age of 65, with highest rates of growth in 18-24 year olds.\n\nProf Paul Elliott, director of the study at Imperial College London, said the data clearly showed \"a concerning trend in coronavirus infections\" where cases are growing quickly across England and \"no longer concentrated in key workers\".\n\nHe said there was evidence of \"an epidemic in the community\" which was not the result of more people being tested.\n\nThe second set of data, from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates there were 39,700 new cases of the virus in England during the first week in September - 11,000 more than the previous week.\n\nThe ONS bases its figures on thousands of swab tests carried out in households, whether people have symptoms or not.\n\nIt estimated no increase in cases for the same week in Wales, but First Minister Mark Drakeford has announced people must now wear face masks in shops in response to rising case numbers in recent days.\n\nKatherine Kent, from the ONS infection survey, said the results suggested \"an increase in Covid-19 infections in England during recent weeks, with higher infection rates among 17-34 year olds\".\n\nNicola Sturgeon has warned that the average number of cases in Scotland has been \"more than trebling every three weeks\" with some areas of particular concern, including Lanarkshire and Greater Glasgow and Clyde.\n\nAnd the third set of figures, from the Covid symptom study app, which tracks the health of nearly four million people in the UK, also suggests a growth in new cases since the end of August - the first time since mid-June there has been a significant rise in numbers.\n\nProf James Naismith, from the University of Oxford, said younger people would also have been affected to the same extent in January if testing had been available.\n\n\"We know that medical treatment and scientific advances have improved significantly, thus even with infection rates as bad as March and April, there will be many fewer deaths.\n\n\"The more people wash their hands and practise social distancing - especially by and around the vulnerable - the lower the number of deaths and illness we will see,\" he said.", "Three hours before the death, police attended the same location following a noise complaint and reports a smoke alarm had been activated\n\nA man has been stabbed to death at a flat in London, with another arrested on suspicion of murder following a stand-off with police.\n\nThe victim, believed to be in his 60s, was found with multiple stab wounds in Priestley House, Wembley, at about 10:00 BST.\n\nPolice said while paramedics attempted to save him, a man, aged 45, barricaded himself into a nearby address.\n\nAfter negotiations, a Taser was deployed and he was arrested.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said the victim and suspect were known to each other.\n\nThree hours before the death, police had attended the same location following a noise complaint and reports a smoke alarm had been activated.\n\nThe Met said a man inside the property was spoken to and officers left.\n\nDue to the previous police attendance, the Met's Directorate of Professional Standards has been informed.\n\nThe victim was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A motion of no confidence in the Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard has been withdrawn.\n\nMr Leonard had been expected to face a vote at a meeting of the party's governing body on Saturday.\n\nThe motion was submitted after four Labour MSPs called for his resignation last week, citing poor election results and polling under his command.\n\nSpeaking after the meeting, Mr Leonard said it was time to end \"internal plotting\".\n\nAnd he called for \"unity not division\" within the party.\n\n\"It's time for Scottish Labour to stand together and to stand with the Scottish people at a time when risks caused by pandemic are rising again and when the economy is on the edge of a deep recession with jobs and livelihoods in peril,\" he said.\n\n\"There must be an end to the internal plotting and we must unite to hold the Scottish government to account and to offer a real alternative.\n\n\"I firmly believe that I am the best person to lead us into next year's elections with a plan for jobs and real economic and social transformation which I know is shared by Keir Starmer.\n\n\"I have listened to the concerns expressed about me, I will treat those with respect and humility, and I will fight with every ounce of my being to improve the fortunes of the party in the run up to next year's election.\"\n\nThe motion was withdrawn after being discussed at the the party's Scottish Executive Committee (SEC).\n\nThe committee is made up of elected representatives as well as trade union officials and representatives of the party's grassroots membership.\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard was a close ally of former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn\n\nMr Leonard, who was a close ally of former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, still enjoys the support of many on the left of the party.\n\nBut his critics point to the party's dismal opinion poll ratings as proof that change is needed.\n\nOpinion polls suggest Scottish Labour is trailing a distant third behind the SNP and Scottish Conservatives ahead of the election next May.\n\nScottish Labour is currently the third largest in the Scottish Parliament, behind the SNP and Conservatives, and lost all but one of its MPs in last year's general election.", "Four men aged 19 to 23 have been arrested in southern Italy in connection with the rape of two British girls, police say.\n\nPolice said the girls called officers at 03:30 on Tuesday to say they were attacked just after midnight.\n\nThe alleged incident happened in Marconia di Pisticci, in the Basilicata region, during a party in a villa. The girls were taken to hospital.\n\nThere was \"extreme brutality and cruelty\" in the attack, officers said.\n\nFour other men are also being investigated by officers in connection with the incident.\n\nPolice said the girls say they were initially approached by two of the men under investigation, whom they did not know.\n\nThey were then approached by other men at the party who \"took advantage\" of the fact the girls had been drinking, the statement said.", "The Challenger 2 tank has not been upgraded since 1998\n\nUK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has quashed speculation that the Army will mothball all its tanks.\n\nLast month, the Times reported military chiefs were considering the idea, under plans to modernise the armed forces.\n\nBut Mr Wallace told the BBC \"the idea that tanks won't be there for the Army, upgraded and modernised, is wrong\".\n\nHowever, he admitted a government review would mean \"letting go\" of some military equipment to invest in cyber, space and other new technologies.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to the Middle East, Mr Wallace said there would be a shift to forward-deploy British military forces around the world to protect UK interests and its allies.\n\nMr Wallace said a joint squadron of RAF and Qatar Typhoon jets would be based in Qatar for football's 2022 World Cup.\n\nHe announced a £23.8m investment in a UK logistics hub in the Port of Duqm to support more British army training in Oman, and which could be used to base the Royal Navy's new aircraft carriers.\n\nHe also confirmed that RAF jets would continue to target the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, with 23 strikes against extremist targets since March 2020.\n\nLast month, the Times reported on plans to mothball the Army's ageing 227 Challenger tanks as part of the government's integrated defence and security review - described as the most important defence review since the end of the Cold War.\n\nMr Wallace confirmed the review would mean \"letting go of some equipment that isn't serving any purpose or overmatched by adversaries\".\n\nHe said that would mean investing in new equipment for the RAF, Royal Navy and the Army. But he signalled that any cuts would not be as dramatic as some have reported.\n\nThat still leaves open the possibility of a reduction in the number of tanks. But Mr Wallace said that getting rid of all of them was not going to happen.\n\n\"We're going to make sure we have an armed forces fit for the 21st Century and meets our obligations to Nato and elsewhere…\n\n\"We are not scrapping all the British army's tanks and we will make sure the ones we maintain are up to date, lethal and defendable.\"\n\nMr Wallace said Britain also needed to meet the threat of long-range artillery and drones, which have recently been used by Russia against Ukraine to destroy its heavy armour.\n\nBen Wallace said his first duty was to make sure he delivered up-to-date equipment\n\nThe new port facilities at Duqm will triple the size of the existing UK base in Oman. They will also be used for British army training in Oman.\n\nThere's been speculation that the Army could switch its training for tanks from Canada to the Gulf state.\n\nWhile in Qatar, Mr Wallace also visited the US-led coalition headquarters co-ordinating the air campaign against the group calling itself the Islamic State.\n\nDespite IS losing most of its territory in Iraq and Syria, Mr Wallace said the threat was \"not going to go away\".", "The temple would have been a \"major landmark in the region\", according to archaeologist Will Bowden\n\nA dig has revealed \"one of the largest\" temple buildings in Roman Britain.\n\nThe 2nd Century temple site at Caistor St Edmund, near Norwich, has been known about since 1957, but its true scale has only just emerged.\n\nIt was built by the Iceni tribe, best known for their leader Boudicca who rebelled against the Romans in AD61.\n\nArchaeologist Prof Will Bowden said its size, 20m by 20m (65ft by 65ft), showed \"how important this cult was to the Iceni\".\n\nThe depth of the foundations indicates a substantial masonry building up to 15m (49ft) high\n\nThe community archaeology group Caistor Roman Project spent three weeks at the temple site in 2019, working in partnership with the University of Nottingham.\n\nProf Bowden, the project director, said the post-excavation process had since been completed and this \"confirmed that we were looking at a building that was exceptional\".\n\nHe said it was \"one of the largest of its type in Roman Britain\" which \"indicates not only the importance with which the site was regarded but also that the Iceni had the resources to construct major public buildings should they choose to\".\n\nIt has remained unknown which gods were worshipped there. Evidence of the worship of Roman gods has been found but the Iceni could have also dedicated the temple to a local deity, as happened at Bath.\n\nThe 2nd Century building, which was built on the site of an earlier Romano-Celtic temple, was surrounded by a precinct with two gates\n\nBoudicca led her Iceni tribe in a revolt against the Romans between AD60 and AD61\n\nCaistor was the site of Venta Icenorum, the smallest Roman regional capital in Britain.\n\nIts forum - the main public building - was less than a quarter of the size of Verulamium, now known as St Albans.\n\nHistorians saw its small scale as a sign of the Iceni's impoverishment after Queen Boudicca led the Iceni tribe against the Romans.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Toots Hibbert had reportedly been tested for coronavirus in the last two weeks\n\nJamaican reggae pioneer Frederick Nathaniel \"Toots\" Hibbert has died at the age of 77.\n\nThe legendary musician fronted the reggae and ska band Toots & the Maytals from the early 1960s.\n\nHibbert \"passed away peacefully\" in Kingston, Jamaica surrounded by his family, the group announced on Friday.\n\nAs yet it is unknown how Hibbert died, although he had been tested for coronavirus in the last two weeks and was put into intensive care.\n\nHibbert is credited with popularising reggae music and even naming the genre - his 1968 single \"Do the Reggay\" is the first song to use the term.\n\nOther popular tracks include Pressure Drop, Sweet and Dandy, and 54-46 That's My Number.\n\nIn a statement, the band and Hibbert's family thanked medical staff \"for their care and diligence\". He is survived by his wife and seven of his eight children.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Toots & The Maytals This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Toots & The Maytals\n\nHis death comes just weeks before the release of Got to Be Tough, the band's first full-length album in more than a decade.\n\nDescribed as \"the world's greatest living reggae singer\" in a Rolling Stone profile last month, his vocal style has been compared to Otis Redding. The magazine lists him as one of the 100 greatest singers of all time.\n\nTributes poured in for the legendary musician on social media.\n\nUK actor and comedian Sir Lenny Henry said he was \"so sorry\" to hear of his death.\n\n\"His music was a constant in our house growing up,\" he tweeted. \"His voice was powerful and adaptable to funk, soul, country, AND reggae. Rest in power.\"\n\nReggae and pop group UB40 said Hibbert's music \"influenced and inspired us to love reggae music from an early age\", while UK artist Ghostpoet wrote: \"Another legend returns to the earth. What an impact he made in his time here.\"\n\nAnd Ziggy Marley - son of reggae icon Bob Marley - wrote on Twitter that Hibbert was \"a father figure to me\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Ziggy Marley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nNaomi Osaka demonstrated her growing maturity to fight back against Victoria Azarenka in a compelling US Open final and claim her third Grand Slam title.\n\nJapanese fourth seed Osaka, 22, won 1-6 6-3 6-3 for her second US Open title.\n\nOsaka was overwhelmed in the first set and in danger of trailing 3-0 in the second but then won 10 of the next 12 games to seize the momentum.\n\nThe Belarusian, 31, in her first major final since 2013, was broken for 5-3 in the decider before Osaka served out.\n\nOsaka shrieked with joy as she took her second match point, then calmly lay on the court and stared at the New York sky as she contemplated her latest achievement.\n\nOsaka's level raised considerably as Azarenka was unable to maintain the intensity she showed in a one-sided opening set.\n\nThe fightback ensured Osaka, who won the 2018 US Open and 2019 Australian Open, maintained her record of winning every Grand Slam final she has played in.\n\n\"I don't want to play you in any more finals, I didn't really enjoy that, it was a really tough match for me,\" Osaka jokingly told Azarenka.\n\nShe added: \"It was really inspiring for me because I used to watch you play here when I was younger. I learned a lot, so thank you.\"\n• None Re-live how Osaka won her second US Open title\n• None 'I've tried to mature' - Osaka on how coronavirus break helped her win US Open\n\nAnother US Open title for Osaka - but a contrasting occasion\n\nOsaka's maiden victory at Flushing Meadows two years ago came in straight sets against Serena Williams in a hostile environment following the American's infamous argument with umpire Carlos Ramos.\n\nIt left Osaka in tears as she stood on the podium waiting to collect her first Grand Slam trophy.\n\nThis second success could not have been more different.\n\nHere she had to fight back from a set down against an inspired Azarenka - and navigate a tricky decider which could have swung either way - on an Arthur Ashe Stadium left virtually empty because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAnd even in what were still strange circumstances, Osaka could this time enjoy the moment with a beaming smile as she lifted the prize in the company of her team and rapper boyfriend Cordae - even if she had to take the trophy from the table herself rather than be presented with it because of social distancing rules.\n\nOsaka looked a little lost as Azarenka overwhelmed her in a fast start, hitting 13 unforced errors and struggling to cope with the Belarusian's proactive play and controlled aggression.\n\nDraping a towel over her head at changeovers was a sign of Osaka's concerns. Her attempts to collect her thoughts and regain her composure did not initially work, however.\n\nAnother wayward forehand prompted a frustrated Osaka to throw her racquet to the floor in disgust.\n\nEventually, though, the mental resilience which she says she has developed over recent months came to the fore.\n\n\"I just thought it would be embarrassing to lose this under an hour,\" said Osaka, who will rise to third in the world after her win.\n\nThat resulted in a major momentum shift in her favour as Azarenka threatened to move 3-0 ahead in the second set.\n\nA rasping forehand by Osaka at 40-30 proved pivotal, not only in the game, but ultimately in the whole match as she seized control to level.\n\nThe former world number one maintained that level in the decider to earn a 4-1 lead, but was unable to convert one of four break points to move 5-1 ahead.\n\nThat might have proved costly when Azarenka immediately put the set back on serve, only for Osaka to battle back again by winning what proved to be the final two games.\n\nNot only has Osaka impressed on court during the Cincinnati Masters-US Open bubble in the past month, she has also won many admirers for her activism in the fight against racism and police brutality in the United States.\n\nA few days before the start of the US Open, Osaka pulled out of her Western and Southern Open semi-final in protest at the shooting of Jacob Blake, a black man, by police in Wisconsin.\n\nBefore her US Open first-round match, she wore a face mask with the name of Breonna Taylor, a black woman who was shot dead by a policeman in March.\n\nOsaka, who has Japanese and Haitian parents and was brought up in the United States, said she had seven masks with seven different names.\n\nHer target was to reveal all of them by reaching Saturday's final and that provided her with extra motivation to win the title, according to her coach Wim Fissette.\n\n\"I felt the point was to make people start talking,\" Osaka said after her victory.\n\n\"I've been inside the bubble and not sure what's going on in the outside world. The more retweets it gets, the more people talk about it.\"\n\nAzarenka wins hearts but falls short of another Slam\n\nFormer world number one Azarenka was aiming to complete a remarkable renaissance by landing her first Grand Slam title since defending her Australian Open crown in 2013.\n\nFew had predicted she would compete for the sport's biggest prizes again after a turbulent past few years.\n\nAzarenka took time away from the sport to give birth in December 2016 and had her comeback stalled by a lengthy custody battle over son Leo.\n\nLast week she admitted she had thought about quitting when the WTA Tour was suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nShe had won only one match in the previous year going into last month's restart, but came back from the enforced break reinvigorated and possessing a fresh perspective on life.\n\nThat enabled her to win a first WTA title in four years when Osaka pulled out of their scheduled Western & Southern Open final with a hamstring injury - and she continued her form in the Grand Slam.\n\nUltimately though, she could not become the fourth mother to win a major title as Osaka consigned her to a third defeat in a US Open final.\n\nWhen Osaka won the title two years ago, boos rang around the Arthur Ashe Stadium as Serena Williams had been docked a game.\n\nThis time virtual silence greeted her triumph - but again she had to do it the hard way.\n\nAzarenka played an almost flawless first set, and it was only when four games from defeat that Osaka found her range and some serious power.\n\nThe 22-year-old has taken some knocks over the past 18 months as she came to terms with life as one of the world's highest profile athletes.\n\nA first-round defeat at last year's Wimbledon was perhaps the hardest to take - but look at her now.\n\nNot only is she playing with supreme confidence once again, but is also able to use her influence to promote social justice in a very assured and unassuming way.\n• None Comedians try to make sense of 2020\n• None Go behind the scenes with West Ham Women", "Bernadette Walker, 17, has been missing since 21 July\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the disappearance of a teenage girl.\n\nBernadette Walker, 17, was reported missing from Peterborough on 21 July by her parents after she had not been seen for three days.\n\nPolice have been carrying out inquiries and searches but declared a murder investigation even though a body has not been found.\n\nA man in his 50s from Peterborough is being questioned by police.\n\nBernadette Walker was reported missing by her parents\n\nDet Ch Insp Jerry Waite said: \"Whilst we hope we do find Bernadette alive and well, there is every possibility this may not be the case therefore my team and I will do everything possible to find out what has happened to her and bring any offenders to justice.\"\n\nPolice urged anyone with information on her whereabouts to get in touch.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The speed limit will be cut to 60mph in areas with higher levels of nitrogen dioxide\n\nThe speed limit will be cut on parts of four motorways before October in a trial to reduce pollution, Highways England has said.\n\nIt will be reduced from 70mph to 60mph in areas that have seen higher than recommended levels of nitrogen dioxide.\n\nThe trial will take place on stretches of nearly five miles.\n\nIt will be on M6 junctions 6 to 7 by Witton, M1 junctions 33 to 34 by Rotherham, M602 junctions 1 to 3 by Eccles and M5 1 to 2 by Oldbury.\n\nNitrogen dioxide (NO2) released from car exhausts is a serious air pollutant and indirectly contributes to the warming of the planet.\n\nThe impact of the new 60mph limit will be reviewed in a year's time\n\nIvan Le Fevre, head of environment at Highways England said: \"Ultimately the air quality challenge will be solved 'at the tailpipe' by vehicle manufacturers and changes in vehicle use.\n\n\"Until this happens we will continue our extensive programme of pioneering research and solutions.\"\n\nThe Department for Transport said the trial was among a number of measures to improve air quality.\n\nAs part of a plan to bring down NO2 levels, the government aims to end the sale of all new conventional petrol and diesel cars and vans before 2040.\n\nIt has been consulting on bringing this forward to 2035, or earlier if a faster transition appears feasible, as well as looking at including hybrids for the first time.\n\nThe consultation's outcome will be announced at a later date.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police urged people to let them know about any planned, unlicensed events\n\nA woman has been arrested after more than 300 people attended a silent disco in an industrial unit.\n\nThe unlicensed music event took place at Twyford Industrial Estate in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, on 30 August.\n\nPolice had been made aware a small gathering for a wedding party with social distancing would be held.\n\nA 50-year-old woman was arrested in London on suspicion of money laundering and breaking licensing rules.\n\nCh Insp Stuart Orton said: \"In the current climate with Covid circulating ever more virulently in the community, and the latest legislative changes regarding the permitted size of gatherings, it is imperative that the public abide by social distancing regulations.\n\n\"Breaches will be dealt with robustly and to the full extent of the law.\"\n\nHe said police were made aware of a gathering at the unit but were told it would be a small gathering for a wedding party and that social distancing measures would be in place.\n\nA closure order was granted, banning anyone from entering the industrial unit for three months.\n\nHertfordshire Police was seeking to freeze funds believed to have been made from the event, which it said included a specialised sound system and the unlawful sale of alcohol.\n\nThe force appealed for people to come forward with information about planned unlicensed events.\n\nSocial gatherings of more than six people will be illegal in England from Monday - with some exemptions - following a steep rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nIt will be enforced through a £100 fine if people fail to comply, doubling on each offence up to a maximum of £3,200.\n\nAt present, the guidance says two households of any size are allowed to meet indoors or outdoors, or up to six people from different households outdoors. Until now the police have had no powers to stop gatherings unless they exceeded 30.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Terence Conran, the British designer who revolutionised retail and decor, has died at the age of 88.\n\nBest known as the founder of Habitat, he brought modern style and simplicity to UK homes in the 1960s and later helped found the Design Museum.\n\n\"He was a visionary who enjoyed an extraordinary life and career that revolutionised the way we live in Britain,\" said a family statement.\n\n\"He was adored by his family and friends and we will miss him dearly.\"\n\nSir Terence at the launch of the Swinging London exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum in 2019\n\nThe statement added: \"It gives us great comfort to know that many of you will mourn with us but we ask that you celebrate Terence's extraordinary legacy and contribution to the country he loved so dearly.\"\n\nHe \"promoted the best of British design, culture and the arts around the world\", with \"a very simple belief that good design improves the quality of people's lives\".\n\nSir Terence started his career in the late 1940s, but became a household name as one of the key designers of the swinging '60s.\n\nHis empire would go on to span restaurants, architecture and household retail brands including Mothercare, but it was for his accessible and fashionable furniture, interiors and homeware that he remains best-known.\n\nPictured in the Terence Conran Suite at Boundary in Shoreditch in 2009\n\nHe pioneered flat-pack furniture years before Ikea arrived on British shores, helping to lower the prices of his cutting-edge designs in his bid to \"democratise good design\".\n\nDesign Museum director Tim Marlow led the tributes, saying it was \"a privilege and an inspiration to know him\".\n\nIn a statement, Marlow wrote: \"Terence Conran was instrumental in the re-designing of post-war Britain and his legacy is huge.\n\n\"He is revered by generations of designers, from Mary Quant and David Mellor to Thomas Heatherwick and Jonny Ive.\n\n\"He changed the way we lived and shopped and ate. He also created a great institution - the Design Museum - of which he was justifiably proud and with which he remained fully engaged right to the end of his extraordinary life.\"\n\nDesigner and architect George Clarke, gardener and broadcaster Monty Don, and restaurant critic Marina O'Loughlin were among others paying tribute.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by George Clarke This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Monty Don This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Marina O'Loughlin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfter studying textile design and setting up his own furniture studio, Conran joined an architectural firm in 1950 and worked on the subsequent year's Festival of Britain.\n\nAs the '50s went on, his ambitious and wide-ranging approach to design and business became clear. A furniture workshop, a French-inspired restaurant and a coffee shop eventually led him to form the Conran Design Group. The company also designed interiors and retail spaces, including a shop for pioneering '60s fashion designer Quant.\n\nConran opened the first Habitat store on the Fulham Road in 1964, selling taste-making and trend-setting furniture, art, home and cookery products to a burgeoning young clientele who wanted to break from drab post-war austerity.\n\n\"It is hard to overstate how uninteresting London was then,\" he later said. \"You could go along a terrace of houses, and every living room you looked in was the exactly the same, with the same extremely dreary furniture.\"\n\nConran was heavily influenced by continental European styles, and is credited with introducing duvets to Britain.\n\nHabitat rapidly expanded across the UK, and he went on to take over Mothercare and British Home Stores, as well as running other ventures, such as his extensive and influential restaurant business - including Bibendum and Quaglino's - and The Conran Shop. He also wrote numerous books about design and food.\n\n\"The restaurants, hotels and bars we have designed or operated, the shops, the interiors, the buildings, the products and furniture or the books I have written - design is the one thing that connects them all and they add up to what I call a style of life,\" he said.\n\nHe was married four times, including to Shirley Conran, who helped launch Conran Design before becoming the author of self-help books like Superwoman and the racy bestseller Lace.\n\nTheir sons Jasper and Sebastian Conran both became designers, while his other three children - Tom, Sophie and Ned - by his third wife, food writer Caroline, have forged successful careers in the creative sector, notably in food writing and as restaurateurs.", "The charity hopes to reopen Tedworth House in Wiltshire as a recovery centre for wounded, injured and sick service veterans\n\nMilitary charity Help for Heroes says 142 staff roles are at risk, as its income has dropped by nearly a third during the pandemic.\n\nThe charity, which supports wounded veterans and their families, says there are likely to be about 80 redundancies.\n\nIt relies on donations for 97% of its funding, but its fundraisers have been cancelled or postponed since March.\n\nCharity chief Melanie Waters said: \"These tough decisions have been made to protect the future of the charity.\"\n\nThree Help for Heroes recovery centres - in Yorkshire, Devon and Essex - will remain closed indefinitely as Help for Heroes focuses on face-to-face community and online-based support.\n\nThe charity said demand for its services rose by 33% during May and June - compared to the same period last year - as the consequences of the national lockdown impacted on veterans' mental health.\n\nRequests for help with physical conditions also increased by nearly a third over the same period.\n\nMeanwhile, the charity - which furloughed 130 staff at the start of the pandemic - said it anticipates funding will remain down by around a third for the foreseeable future, as the economy struggles to recover.\n\nMs Waters said a major restructure was the only way the charity could continue with its work.\n\n\"In 2007, we made a promise on behalf of the nation to provide lifetime support to wounded veterans, and their families, and we are striving to keep that promise,\" she said in a statement on their website.\n\n\"The crisis has had a devastating impact on the whole UK charity sector, with lasting consequences, and it has hit us hard.\"\n\nThe charity said it was working closely with the Ministry of Defence \"to provide core recovery activities for wounded, injured or sick service personnel\" and hoped to reopen its Tedworth House recovery centre in Wiltshire, with social distancing measures in place - as well as their community office in Wales.\n\nLast year, the charity - which was set up in 2007 by former Army Captain Bryn Parry and wife Emma - raised around £27m.\n\n\"We remain absolutely committed to our wounded and their families and will continue fighting for, and changing the lives of, those we support for as long as they need it,\" said Ms Waters.\n• None BBC apologises to Help for Heroes", "Artwork: D-Orbit's carrier platform has cameras that could also look for nearby space debris\n\nNew approaches to tracking satellites and debris in orbit are to get a boost from the UK Space Agency.\n\nUKSA is giving over £1m to seven firms to help advance novel sensor technologies and the smart algorithms needed to interpret their data.\n\nFinding better ways to surveil objects moving overhead has become a high priority issue.\n\nWith more and more satellites being launched, there's growing concern about the potential for collisions.\n\nA big worry is the burgeoning population of redundant hardware and junk in orbit - some 900,000 objects larger than 1cm by some counts, and all of it capable of doing immense damage to, or even destroying, an operational spacecraft in a high-velocity encounter.\n\nThe projects being supported by UKSA come from a mix of start-ups and more established companies.\n\nThe overriding goal is to improve ways to spot, characterise and track objects.\n\nUltimately, this is information which could be fed into the automated traffic management systems of the future that will keep functioning satellites out of harm's way.\n\nDeimos is developing technologies to track space objects from the UK\n\n\"We've known for a long while that the space environment is getting more difficult, more cluttered,\" said Jacob Geer from UKSA. \"Space surveillance and tracking is one of the key things we can do to keep safe those satellites we rely on now, and to make sure certain orbits don't become inaccessible for future generations because there's too much debris in them.\n\n\"We had 26 proposals come to us and I think we've selected a good cross-section of ideas in the seven companies we're supporting,\" he told BBC News.\n\nWhile a lot of these projects are still at the lab stage, D-Orbit's work is dedicated to pushing the capability of some of its hardware already in space.\n\nThe company recently launched a vehicle to carry and deploy a clutch of small satellites. This vehicle uses cameras to photograph its surroundings and to map the stars for the purposes of navigation.\n\nD-Orbit has the idea of using the cameras' imagery to also identify passing junk.\n\n\"One of the challenges in using star trackers is filtering out objects that are not supposed to be there - obviously, because you're trying to compare what you can see against a star catalogue,\" explained D-Orbit's Simon Reid. \"And, of course, it's those extra objects which in principal are the things that are potentially debris.\"\n\nThe funding announcement also coincides with the signing of a new partnership agreement between the Ministry of Defence and UKSA to work together on space domain awareness.\n\nBoth have valuable assets and interests in orbit that need protecting. And for the UK taxpayer, this investment was recently deepened with the purchase out of bankruptcy of the OneWeb satellite broadband company.\n\nThe UK government is now the part owner of one of the biggest spacecraft networks in the sky. OneWeb has so far launched 74 satellites in its communications constellation, with plans to put up thousands more.\n\nBusiness Secretary Alok Sharma said: \"Millions of pieces of space junk orbiting the Earth present a significant threat to UK satellite systems which provide the vital services that we all take for granted - from mobile communications to weather forecasting.\n\n\"By developing new AI and sensor technology, the seven pioneering space projects we are backing today will significantly strengthen the UK's capabilities to monitor these hazardous space objects, helping to create new jobs and protect the services we rely on in our everyday lives.\"\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "The self-driving Volvo hit a pedestrian at 39mph, despite the presence of a safety driver\n\nThe back-up driver of an Uber self-driving car that killed a pedestrian has been charged with negligent homicide.\n\nElaine Herzberg, aged 49, was hit by the car as she wheeled a bicycle across the road in Tempe, Arizona, in 2018.\n\nInvestigators said the car's safety driver, Rafael Vasquez, had been streaming an episode of the television show The Voice at the time.\n\nMs Vasquez pleaded not guilty, and was released to await trial.\n\nUber will not face criminal charges, after a decision last year that there was \"no basis for criminal liability\" for the corporation.\n\nThe accident was the first death on record involving a self-driving car, and resulted in Uber ending its testing of the technology in Arizona.\n\nLengthy investigations by police and the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found that human error was mostly to blame for the crash.\n\nMs Vasquez was in the driver's seat, and had the ability to take over control of the vehicle in an emergency.\n\nDash-cam footage released by police showed Ms Vasquez looking down, away from the road, for several seconds immediately before the crash, while the car was travelling at 39mph (63km/h).\n\nPolice say that although her first name was listed on her driver's licence as Rafael, Ms Vasquez identifies as a woman and goes by Rafaela.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRecords from the streaming service Hulu also seemed to show that her device had been streaming a television show at the time.\n\nA police report from June 2018 labelled the fatal collision as \"entirely avoidable\" if the driver had been watching the road.\n\nThe NTSB, meanwhile, identified the probable cause of the accident as failure of the operator to monitor their surroundings, and the automated system, \"because she was visually distracted throughout the trip by her personal cell phone\".\n\nNTSB vice chairman Bruce Landsberg wrote in the report: \"On this trip, the safety driver spent 34% of the time looking at her cell phone while streaming a TV show.\"\n\nMs Vasquez was charged on 27 August, and made her first appearance in court on 15 September. The trial is now set for February next year.\n\nIn May 2018, when Elaine Herzberg was killed, confidence in autonomous vehicle technology was at an all-time high.\n\nEveryone from Elon Musk to the British Chancellor Philip Hammond was telling us that robo-taxis and other autonomous vehicles would be on the roads within a couple of years, cutting congestion and delivering a big boost to road safety.\n\nBut the accident in Arizona punctured that confidence.\n\nIt showed that however smart the machine learning in the autonomous systems, mixing robots with humans as cars made the journey towards full autonomy was going to prove a real challenge.\n\nNot only did Uber have to halt its testing programme for a while, but rivals such as Google's Waymo became notably more cautious in their trials. Only today it is being reported that the Chinese tech giant Baidu is pushing back the full rollout of its robo-taxis until 2025, partly because of confusion about regulations.\n\nAs long as \"self-driving\" cars still need a human safety driver behind the wheel, there will be confusion about whose fault it is when something goes wrong - but going fully autonomous is such a huge leap that even the boldest tech firm is likely to be very cautious about going first.\n\nDespite the decision not to levy criminal charges against Uber itself, the company did not escape criticism.\n\nThe NTSB report said that Uber's \"inadequate safety risk assessment procedures\" and \"ineffective oversight of vehicle operators\" were contributing factors. It accused the company of having an \"inadequate safety culture\".\n\nThe vehicle's automatic systems failed to identify Ms Herzberg and her bicycle as an imminent collision danger in the way they were supposed to, the NTSB found.\n\nDays before the crash, an employee had warned his superiors that the vehicles were unsafe, were routinely in accidents, and raised concerns about the training of operators.\n\nFollowing the crash, authorities in Arizona suspended Uber's ability to test self-driving cars on the state's public roads, and Uber ended its tests in the state. It received permission to carry out tests in the state of California earlier this year.", "It's been a busy day in Westminster... but it is time for us to bring this page to a close.\n\nWith the resignation of Lord Keen breaking as we go, there is sure to be more coming out of SW1 tonight.\n\nSo follow us on Twitter @BBCPolitics and keen an eye on our pages of the BBC News website for more updates.\n\nSee you again next week for more PMQs action.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It's only the beginning of getting full justice\": Breonna Taylor's mother reacts to the settlement\n\nOfficials in Louisville, Kentucky have agreed to pay $12m (£9.3m) to the family of Breonna Taylor, a black woman who was killed in her home by police.\n\nTaylor was 26 when she was shot at least five times and killed on 13 March during a mistaken drugs raid.\n\nHer name has featured prominently in anti-racism protests in recent months.\n\nLonita Baker, a lawyer for Taylor's family, called the settlement just one \"layer\" in the effort to seek justice, and praised new police reforms.\n\n\"Justice for Breonna is multi-layered,\" said Ms Baker at a press conference on Tuesday alongside Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer.\n\nShe called the agreement \"tremendous, but only a portion\" of what the family hopes for, including the arrest of the officers involved in her death.\n\n\"Today what we did here was to do what we could do to bring a little bit of police reform and it's just a start,\" continued Ms Baker.\n\n\"But we finished the first mile in the marathon and we've got a lot more miles to go to until we achieve and cross that finish line.\"\n\nThe settlement includes a series of police reforms in the city, including a requirement that all search warrants be approved by a senior officer and giving a housing credit to officers who move to low-income neighbourhoods they patrol in the city.\n\nIn a short statement, Taylor's mother Tamika Palmer called for criminal charges against the officers and asked people to continue to say her daughter's name publicly in advocacy for police reforms.\n\nThe settlement is the largest financial sum paid in a police misconduct case in the city's history, according to the Louisville Courier Journal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Questions still aren't answered\": Breonna Taylor's family are worried about a \"cover-up\"\n\nTaylor's killing was propelled into the spotlight once again with the death George Floyd, an African-American man who died after a police officer knelt on his neck for minutes during an arrest in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in May.\n\nShortly after midnight on 13 March, three officers entered Taylor's apartment by executing a no-knock search warrant - a court document that authorises police to enter a home without warning.\n\nTaylor and her partner, Kenneth Walker, were reportedly asleep as the commotion began.\n\nThe officers exchanged fire with Mr Walker, a licensed gun owner who called 911 in the belief that the drug raid was a burglary. The officers - who fired more than 25 bullets - said they returned fire after one officer was shot and wounded.\n\nTaylor, a decorated emergency medical technician, was 26 when she died.\n\nDuring the exchange, Taylor, an emergency medical technician, was shot eight times and later died.\n\nNo drugs were found on the property.\n\nThe lawsuit filed by Taylor's family accuses the officers of battery, wrongful death, excessive force and gross negligence. It also says the officers were not looking for her or her partner, but for an unrelated suspect who did not live in the complex.\n\nHer family has also accused police of leading the raid as a plot to gentrify her neighbourhood. The city's mayor dismissed the allegation as \"outrageous\" and \"without foundation or supporting facts\".\n\nOne of the officers involved in the raid, Brett Hankison, was fired in June. The other two - Jonathan Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove - were placed on administrative leave.\n\nThe city's police chief was also fired in June after a separate police shooting.\n\nA grand jury could soon decide whether criminal charges should be filed against any of the officers.\n\nUntil Freedom, a social justice organisation that has held rallies for Taylor, released a statement saying: \"No amount of money will bring back Breonna Taylor.\"\n\n\"True justice is not served with cash settlements,\" the group added. \"We need those involved in her murder to be arrested and charged. We need accountability. We need justice.\"\n\nEarlier this year, Louisville's city council voted unanimously in favour of banning no-knock warrants. Similar legislation that would ban the warrants nationwide was introduced in the US Congress.", "A second Welsh local lockdown is to start in Rhondda Cynon Taff on Thursday, Health Minister Vaughan Gething has announced.\n\n\"We need to introduce local restrictions in the area to control and ultimately to reduce the spread of the virus and protect people's health,\" he told a press conference.\n\nThe lockdown will start at 18:00 BST and has been prompted by a rise in cases to 82.1 infections per 100,000 people over the past seven days.\n\nThe restrictions will be similar to those brought in in Caerphilly, meaning people can only leave to go to work if they cannot work from home, to access education, health care, food and essentials or for legal obligations.\n\nHowever, unlike Caerphilly, pubs and restaurants have been told to close at 23:00.\n\nMr Gething said pubs were a \"factor in transmission in RCT [Rhondda Cynon Taff] in a way that we didn't have evidence for within Caerphilly\".", "England's education secretary has defended the Covid-19 testing system for schools.\n\nGavin Williamson insisted schools were being prioritised, highlighting that they can now order tests from the NHS directly.\n\nEarlier, unions and head teachers warned Prime Minister Boris Johnson of their \"deep sense of foreboding\" about further delays in the testing system, which has seen many teachers and pupils unable to access a Covid-19 test since the new school year began\n\nMr Williamson told the education select committee direct access to the test-kit ordering system for schools came into effect on Wednesday morning, two weeks after the start of term.\n\nHe described the direct supply line for schools as \"unique\".\n\nHe said he had met Baroness Dido Harding, who runs NHS Test and Trace in England, to emphasise the importance and priority of schools and ensure testing is always available to them.\n\nBut he cautioned that only people with coronavirus symptoms should be tested, not the whole \"cohort\" who are sent home.\n\nGeneral Secretary of the NASUWT teaching union, Dr Patrick Roach, said \"schools are unable to cope with a situation that is becoming increasingly out of control\".", "Lego will start replacing plastic packaging with paper bags from 2021 as the toy brick maker aims to become more sustainable.\n\nLego said it had been prompted by letters from children asking it to remove the single-use plastic bags.\n\nIt said it would be investing up to $400m (£310m) over three years to improve its sustainability efforts.\n\nLego bricks themselves are made of plastic, although the company is exploring alternative materials.\n\n\"We have received many letters from children about the environment asking us to remove single-use plastic packaging,\" Lego Group chief executive Niels B Christiansen said.\n\n\"We have been exploring alternatives for some time and the passion and ideas from children inspired us to begin to make the change,\" he added.\n\nFrom next year the toy company will start introducing recyclable paper bags, certified by the Forest Stewardship Council, to package its loose bricks.\n\nThis is part of Lego's ambition to make all its packaging sustainable by the end of 2025.\n\n\"Children liked the paper bags being trialled in 2021 as they were environmentally friendly and easy to open,\" Mr Christiansen added.\n\nPressure has been growing on retailers to reduce their use of plastic bags and packaging. However it is not always straightforward to ensure alternatives aren't more carbon intensive to produce, transport and recycle.\n\nLego said its investment would also go into educational programmes and efforts to make the company more sustainable in other areas.\n\nIn 2015, the Danish firm set a target to make its products from sustainable materials by 2030. As part of this pledge it will expand the use of bio-bricks, such as those using sugar cane as a component.\n\nEarlier this month Lego said sales and profits had risen in the first half of this year as consumers bought more of their products during lockdowns to restrict the spread of coronavirus. It said families bought bigger and more complicated Lego sets to keep themselves busy.\n\nThe toy maker plans still plans to open 120 new Lego stores around the world this year despite the pandemic which saw most bricks-and-mortar shops closed for extended periods.", "England's education secretary has defended the Covid-19 testing system for schools, saying they can now order tests from the NHS directly.\n\nGavin Williamson said schools were being prioritised, amid claims by head teachers of problems accessing tests.\n\nHe stressed pupils sent home due to a Covid-19 case at their school should only seek tests if they have symptoms.\n\nHead teachers have written to the prime minister about their fears of further delays as virus cases rise.\n\nIn their letter, teaching unions also called for easier access to public health advice to deal with Coronavirus cases in schools.\n\nThe heads of the Association of School and College Leaders and the National Association of Head Teachers warned Boris Johnson of \"a deep sense of foreboding\" about further delays in the system and called on the government to step up.\n\nSome schools in England had close their doors just after reopening, while others have told whole year groups or classes, which form \"bubbles\", to self-isolate for two weeks following confirmed cases.\n\nMr Williamson told the education select committee direct access to the test-kit ordering system for schools came into effect on Wednesday morning, two weeks after the start of this term.\n\nHe told MPs: \"We have always been conscious that, with children coming back into school, there was going to be a situation where people would need more access to testing.\n\n\"This was why we have ensured these deliveries of testing kits,\" he said, and why \"just this morning we have opened up the ordering system for schools\".\n\n\"The support that we are putting towards education - this is something quite unique - that schools can be able to pull that supply directly from the NHS.\"\n\nSome teachers are teaching from home via video link\n\nHe had met Baroness Dido Harding, who runs NHS Test and Trace in England, to emphasize the importance and priority of schools and ensure testing is always available to them, he said.\n\nHe said only people with coronavirus symptoms should be tested, not the whole \"cohort\" who are sent home.\n\nRobert Halfon, committee chairman, asked Mr Williamson if he could \"guarantee\" pupils and teachers who needed Covid-19 tests would be able to get them locally within 48 hours in the event of an outbreak.\n\nMr Williamson did not respond to that question but said schools were in a unique position to be able to have testing kits on site.\n\nEach school and college was given 10 home-testing kits at the start of term and schools can order more kits online from today, the minister added.\n\nA spokesman for the Northern Power House - an organisation seeking to boost industry and education in north of England - said problems were particularly difficult in parts of the north west with higher virus rates.\n\nAnd these areas have have high levels of economic deprivation, she said.\n\n\"Poorer pupils already lag behind their classmates and they are falling further and further behind when schools close, as they are less likely to have access to at-home support or technology.\n\n\"These children have been effectively hit by a triple-whammy of long-term disadvantage, school closures and now testing chaos.\n\n\"With challenges getting testing already wreaking havoc on our education system, it is also the lack of consistency in direction from the Department for Education and public health authorities which is frustrating school leaders when faced with decisions on whether to send home whole 'bubbles' or not.\n\n\"Without urgent steps from the government to address these issues, it will be the most vulnerable children who will pay the highest price.\"\n\nGeneral secretary of the NASUWT teaching union, Dr Patrick Roach, suggested the system was not working.\n\nHe said: \"Areas where additional local restrictions have been introduced, due to the increase in the R (reproduction) number, are now unable to cope with demand for tests.\n\n\"Teachers, support staff and children and young people are unable to access tests where they have Covid-19 symptoms. Employers are struggling to deal with the implications and consequences.\"\n\nLocal authorities across the country - including in the North West of England - are struggling to cope with demand, he added.\n\nHe highlighted the situation in Bury, where hundreds of pupils are self-isolating, and Salford, where the council has been inundated with requests for tests from schools.\n\nDr Roach said: \"Schools appear to be seeking to do their utmost to carry on.\n\n\"However, we have reports that schools are unable to cope with a situation that is becoming increasingly out of control.\"", "Barbados has announced its intention to remove Queen Elizabeth as its head of state and become a republic.\n\n\"The time has come to fully leave our colonial past behind,\" the Caribbean island nation's government said.\n\nIt aims to complete the process in time for the 55th anniversary of independence from Britain, in November 2021.\n\nA speech written by Prime Minister Mia Mottley said Barbadians wanted a Barbadian head of state.\n\n\"This is the ultimate statement of confidence in who we are and what we are capable of achieving,\" the speech read.\n\nBuckingham Palace said that it was a matter for the government and people of Barbados.\n\nA source at Buckingham Palace said that the idea \"was not out of the blue\" and \"has been mooted and publicly talked about many times\", BBC royal correspondent Jonny Dymond said.\n\nThe statement was part of the Throne Speech, which outlines the government's policies and programmes ahead of the new session of parliament.\n\nWhile it is read out by the governor-general, it is written by the country's prime minister.\n\nThe speech also quoted a warning from Errol Barrow, Barbados's first prime minister after it gained independence, who said that the country should not \"loiter on colonial premises\".\n\nThe speech was written by Prime Minister Mia Mottley\n\nHis is not the only voice in Barbados that has been suggesting a move away from the monarchy. A constitutional review commission recommended republican status for Barbados in 1998.\n\nAnd Ms Mottley's predecessor in officer, Freundel Stuart, also argued for a \"move from a monarchical system to a republican form of government in the very near future\".\n\nBarbados would not be the first former British colony in the Caribbean to become a republic. Guyana took that step in 1970, less than four years after gaining independence from Britain. Trinidad and Tobago followed suit in 1976 and Dominica in 1978.\n\nAll three stayed within the Commonwealth, a loose association of former British colonies and current dependencies, along with some countries that have no historical ties to Britain.\n\nIt is actually quite unusual for a country to remove the Queen as its head of state. The last to do so was Mauritius in 1992. Other Caribbean countries like Dominica, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago became republics in the 1970s.\n\nMany of the 15 countries that are currently part of the Queen's realm seem to value the relationship it provides with her and the United Kingdom.\n\nOf course, some have talked for years of slipping the royal anchor and establishing their own heads of state. But other political objectives often get in the way.\n\nCertainly this is not the first time that politicians in Barbados have declared their intention to become a republic.\n\nThe question is whether this decision will be matched by others. Jamaica has in the past suggested that this is a route it might follow.\n\nWhat is significant is that the prime minister of Barbados cast the decision as \"leaving our colonial past behind\".\n\nIn the context of the Black Lives Matter movement, it will be interesting to see if this sparks wider political pressure on other Caribbean governments to go the same way.\n\nAnd if this happens, and the removal of the Queen as head of state is placed on a par with, say, the removal of a statue of a slave trader, then that could pose difficult questions for both the British royal family and the Commonwealth.", "Sunderland Council said its cases were three times higher than the national rate\n\nSunderland, Gateshead, South Tyneside and Newcastle have been added to Public Health England's Coronavirus watchlist.\n\nSunderland Council said there were 244 new cases in seven days; 75 cases per 100,000 people which is three times higher than the national rate.\n\nCouncil leader Graeme Miller said there would be \"enhanced support\" rather than restrictions.\n\nA local lockdown was \"close\" if there was not a \"rapid and drastic reduction in the number of cases\", he said.\n\n\"The virus is spreading across Sunderland and we need to work together to stop it.\"\n\nAreas on the \"enhanced support\" watchlist are given additional resources by the government, such as greater levels of testing.\n\nGateshead said cases had more than trebled in the past seven days with 113 new ones in the first week of September, equating to about 55 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nNewcastle City Council said there had been 145 new cases in the past seven days, equating to 48 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nThe authority's director of public health, Eugene Milne, said almost 60% of people in the city who tested positive in the past two weeks were from the 18 to 30 age group.\n\nEnhanced support is the second of three tiers on the watchlist, with the highest level resulting in government intervention in a bid to help slow the spread of the virus.\n\nMiddlesbrough and Hartlepool are on the lowest tier as areas of \"concern\".\n\nGateshead's director of public health has warned the town could see direct government intervention in one or two weeks if cases keep rising.\n\nAlice Wiseman said the borough doesn't \"have much time, we have to move fast\".\n\n\"Unless we can get a hold on this there will be more restrictions on people's lives.\"\n\nBusiness owners in Gateshead like Julie Oxley fear a potential second lockdown\n\nLow Fell businesswoman Julie Oxley said another lockdown would \"kill\" the economy.\n\n\"We just survived one lockdown, if there is another lockdown how on earth are we supposed to pay the bills that still have to be paid?\" she said.\n\nMaureen Bowe said it would force her to close her hair salon.\n\n\"If people stick to common sense things like wearing masks, washing their hands and social distancing it would be fine,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nThe testing system is struggling with enormous demand, and in the next few days we expect to hear how those with the greatest need will be prioritised. NHS and care home staff and patients will be first in line. Frustration in some areas is clearly growing - in Bolton, for example, a \"high volume of patients\" turned up to accident and emergency asking for a test on Tuesday. Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said time was running out to fix things. Three families tell us why they've been left in limbo by testing delays, and we fact-check three government claims about how well the system is coping.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC spoke to people trying to get tests at a centre in Oldham\n\nThe head of the Unite union has warned the \"redundancy floodgates\" could open if the Treasury fails to continue its job retention programme in some form. The furlough scheme is due to end on 31 October, and Unite says without \"a clear and urgent sign\" from the government that it's responding to calls to extend it, employers will feel they have no choice but to issue redundancy notices very soon. Radio 1 Newsbeat has spoken to some young people about how they've coped with redundancy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chancellor Rishi Sunak told the BBC that people 'want to be in work' rather than on furlough\n\nFigures just published show the UK's inflation rate fell sharply to 0.2% in August from 1% in July as the effect of the Eat Out to Help Out scheme pushed down restaurant prices. The initiative offered diners 50% off food on certain weekdays and proved hugely popular. The cut in VAT from 20% to 5% in the hospitality sector also contributed. Why does the inflation rate matter? Let us explain.\n\nThe Bank of England aims to keep inflation around 2% - a little bit encourages people to spend their money sooner rather than later\n\nDonald Trump has insisted that far from downplaying the risk of coronavirus, he in fact, \"up-played\" it \"in many ways\". The president hit back after it emerged he told journalist Bob Woodward earlier this year that he \"wanted to always play it down... because I don't want to create a panic\". Mr Trump also repeated his suggestion that a vaccine could be ready \"within weeks\" despite scepticism from US health experts. He was speaking at a town hall meeting in Pennsylvania - a key battleground state in November's presidential election.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The lost six weeks when the US failed to control the virus\n\nTwo surgeons have created a device to protect doctors at high risk of catching coronavirus. Ajith George and Chris Coulson wanted to help medics carrying out nasendoscopy procedures - where a small flexible tube fitted with a camera is inserted into the nose. That often makes patients cough, splutter and sneeze, increasing the chances of passing on infection. They were prompted to act after the death of ear, nose and throat surgeon Amged El-Hawrani with Covid-19 in March.\n\nFour thousand of the SNAP devices will be provided to NHS hospitals for free\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, as India surpasses five million confirmed cases, the relentlessly rising case numbers are causing another emergency - in mental health. Many patients are at risk of suffering from PTSD, but the country lacks the infrastructure to treat them.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "There is fear in India as Covid-19 cases continue to surge\n\nIn India, relentlessly rising case numbers are causing another emergency - serious mental health problems among Covid-19 patients, writes the BBC's Vikas Pandey.\n\nRajesh Tiwari, 42, has developed a serious phobia of any screen which is bigger than his mobile phone. He thinks big screens, especially TV sets and computer monitors, are giant creatures who can attack him.\n\nMr Tiwari began experiencing hallucinations after a long stay in an intensive care unit. In early June he had tested positive for coronavirus and he was admitted to a private hospital as his condition worsened. Five days later he was put on a ventilator.\n\nMr Tiwari recovered after nearly three weeks in the hospital. But he soon realised that his recovery was not complete.\n\n\"I am better now because I sought treatment, but the first few weeks after my discharge from the hospital were very difficult,\" he said in an interview.\n\nMany cities have been struggling to cope with the rise in cases\n\nMr Tiwari's family was elated to bring him home, but after a while they realised that everything was not right with him. One day, he screamed at the TV set and attempted to smash it. The family had to stop watching TV and nobody was allowed to use laptops at home. Mr Tiwari said he was struggling to forget the images of monitors constantly beeping and flashing numbers in the ICU.\n\nAmit Sharma and his family had a similar experience. Mr Sharma, 49, spent 18 days in the ICU and saw people die every day. Young and old, men and women - all kinds of Covid-19 patients were dying around him.\n\n\"One day, two patients around me died and their bodies were there for several hours,\" he said. \"I just can't get those images out of my head. I still fear Covid might kill me.\"\n\nMr Sharma is struggling to forget the traumatic experience. He became very quiet at home after his recovery, his uncle said. \"And whenever he talked, it was always about the patients he had seen dying in the Covid ward,\" he said.\n\nICU is most of India's hospitals have been flooded with Covid patients\n\nMany recovering coronavirus patients in India are experiencing mental health distress, said Dr Vasant Mundra, a senior psychiatrist at Mumbai's PD Hinduja hospital, particularly those who were on a ventilator or spent a long time in an ICU.\n\n\"The brain is already exhausted by the time you get to the hospital. And then the mayhem of the Covid wards overwhelms your senses,\" Dr Mundra said.\n\nCovid-19 patients are not allowed to meet family and they don't get to see the faces of their doctors and nurses, who are wearing protective masks at all times. That was disrupting patients' ability to form trust with their doctor, said Dr A Fathahudeen, the head of the critical care department at Ernakulam Medical College in southern India, in turn disrupting their recovery.\n\nRecovery from coronavirus can be a lonely experience, and doctors say when a patient experiences life threatening events as well the chance of post traumatic stress drastically increases. Symptoms include depression, anxiety, flashbacks, and hallucinations, Dr Mundra said.\n\nAnd yet, mental health issues associated with coronavirus patients are not getting enough attention, doctors warn. There are few mentions in government press conferences or in the media. Prominent mental health expert Dr Soumitra Pathare said he was not surprised.\n\n\"What you are seeing during the pandemic is a reflection of India's poor investment in mental health facilities,\" he said.\n\nIndia lacks facilities and experts to treat mental health patients, and the situation is worse in smaller towns where people are often not able even to recognise symptoms.\n\nMillions of people in India have lost their jobs during the pandemic\n\nMuch of India's mental health treatment infrastructure is concentrated in cities, leaving 80%-90% of the population with little or no access to mental health specialists, said Dr Pathare - adding that the gap is becoming clearer during the pandemic. If the government failed to recognise and address the problem soon India would be facing a \"mental health pandemic\", he said.\n\nA good starting point would be making people more aware of symptoms, Dr Pathare said. And the next step would be to improve mental health facilities, especially in smaller towns. \"I am aware it won't happen overnight, but we have to start somewhere,\" he said.\n\nDoctors are working in special Covid-19 wards across the country\n\nKamna Chhibber, the head of the mental health department at Fortis hospital in Delhi, said she had witnessed a sharp rise in the number of people reaching out for help during the pandemic. A long lockdown, uncertainty over the future, and the need to be constantly alert had made people more anxious, and more people were coming to the hospital to talk generally about anxiety and depression, Ms Chhibber said.\n\nThe problem was becoming \"more serious with each passing day\", she said.\n\nDoctors are now urging for mental health to be addressed as part of post-Covid treatment protocols. Each hospital needed to do something, said Dr Fathahudeen, or \"we may save people from Covid but lose them to depression and PTSD\".\n\nThe names of the patients have been changed to protect their identities.", "The baby was taken to hospital but died a short time later, police said\n\nTwo people have been arrested after a 12-day-old baby died after being attacked by a dog in Doncaster.\n\nEmergency services were called to Welfare Road, Woodlands, at about 15:30 on Sunday after reports of a dog attacking a child, police said.\n\nThe baby had been bitten by a dog causing serious injuries, South Yorkshire Police added.\n\nA 35-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman have been arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter.\n\nThey have both been bailed while inquiries take place, the force said.\n\nThe newborn was taken to hospital but died a short time later.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Test centres in Bolton have seen long queues as people try to get tested\n\nMore than 100 people turned up at an A&E asking for Covid-19 tests, sparking a plea from a hospital trust for anyone who was not seriously ill to stay away.\n\nBolton NHS Trust said dozens of people went to Royal Bolton Hospital because they could not get into test centres.\n\nThe trust says it shows NHS Test and Trace is \"failing\" but the government insists it is \"working\".\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said police and firefighters could soon be used as contact tracers.\n\nIt would provide more \"rigour\" to the national system, he said.\n\nBolton had the highest infection rate in England with 204 cases per 100,000 people recorded in the week to 13 September.\n\nThe total number of cases rose from 437 up until 6 September to 587 a week later.\n\nThe government said people who were not eligible were requesting tests\n\nThe trust's medical director Dr Francis Andrews, said people should only go to hospital if they were \"extremely unwell or referred by your GP\".\n\n\"We are extremely busy in our emergency department as a result of this increase,\" he said.\n\n\"Only attend this department if you have experienced a life-threatening accident or illness and need urgent medical attention.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Royal Albert Edward Infirmary in Wigan made a similar plea to stay away from A&E.\n\n\"We are receiving a high volume of patients coming to A&E requesting a COVID-19 test,\" it said in a post on its Facebook page.\n\nAnd Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool has urged parents not to bring children to its emergency department for a Covid-19 test after a \"big increase\" in people asking for tests there.\n\nBolton NHS Trust Chairwoman Prof Donna Hall said the government's approach was \"failing\".\n\nProf Hall said the situation now was different to the one in March when they had extra staff drafted in and were not expected to continue with planned operations.\n\n\"This failure of the test-and-trace system is placing huge pressure on the NHS and social care,\" she said.\n\n\"We had 100 people in our accident and emergency unit.\n\n\"We've now got 30 people who are Covid-positive and we've got five people in our high-dependency unit so this virus is not going away.\n\nShe said she felt there had been a lack of a cohesive strategy for both the containment of the virus and for the test and trace system.\n\nLancashire's director of public health said the system was at \"breaking point\" and was \"compromising our ability to stop the transmission\".\n\nTeacher Simon Foster says the testing system was an \"absolute mess\"\n\nTeacher Simon Foster said he developed a cough overnight and, because of his job teaching children with special needs - many of whom have diabetes - he needs to be tested .\n\n\"I have tried all day to book an appointment and I still don't have one,\" he said. \"It's an absolute mess.\"\n\n\"It keeps saying there was nothing available [and] there were no tests they could send by post either.\"\n\n\"I hope it is just a cough.... I can't go back to work until I get tested.\"\n\nDr Sakthi Karunanithi said it was \"beyond frustrating\", adding: \"The issue is lab capacity.\n\n\"We have our own community testing sites and were doing about 200 tests a day - [on Tuesday] we did 1,639 tests. We can't go on like this.\"\n\nBolton Council said a test centre had been due to open on Saturday at the Last Drop Village Hotel, in response to the growing number of cases, but was delayed when \"an external business\" failed to turn up.\n\nA spokesman said although the delay had been \"out of our hands\", the authority was \"working with the government and their partners to find out what has happened\".\n\nMr Burnham said 46% of named contacts were not being traced in Greater Manchester.\n\nHe said 100 police community support officers (PCSOs) and 100 fire officers would set up a unit to help contact people not being reached.\n\n\"It can't be the case going forwards that we fail to fix test, trace and isolate and just introduce blanket restrictions. I don't think people will accept that,\" he said.\n\n\"We think more rigour in contact tracing, quality contact with people and support to self isolate would help improve the system.\"\n\nPowers to bring in \"targeted\" restrictions, like changing a specific pub or supermarket's opening hours, were also being sought, Deputy Mayor Bev Hughes added.\n\nSteve Rumbelow, the chief executive at nearby Rochdale Council, told the Local Democracy Reporting Service there had been a \"noticeable change\" in people's behaviour across Greater Manchester and the testing system was in \"meltdown\".\n\nHe said it was \"largely\" because people were unable to get tested.\n\n\"It's not massive numbers, I don't want to over-egg it, but [it] indicates that people are starting to get concerned,\" he said.\n\n\"Test and trace is pretty much in meltdown.\n\n\"It's a major concern, and the way tests are being rationed is just not sustainable for containing the virus effectively going forward.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said NHS Test and Trace was \"working\", adding the system was \"processing a million tests a week, but we are seeing significant demand for tests, including from people who do not have symptoms and are not otherwise eligible\".\n\nHe said anyone with an appointment would not be turned away, and new booking slots and home testing kits were being made available daily.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nAre you in Bolton? Have you tried to get tested? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The testing system is facing an \"enormous challenge\" after a \"sharp rise\" in those seeking a Covid-19 test, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nWhen asked about reports of people struggling to get tested, Mr Hancock said it would take a \"matter of weeks\" to resolve the issues.\n\nHe said No 10 would update its testing policy shortly to prioritise the most urgent cases.\n\nTest slots have been limited due to bottlenecks in lab processing of swabs.\n\nThe rise in demand for tests had led to local shortages, with Labour saying no tests were available in virus \"hotspots\" over the weekend.\n\nHospital bosses have also warned that a lack of tests for NHS workers is putting services at risk.\n\nPeople have told the BBC of their frustration at being turned away from a walk-in test centre in Oldham, Greater Manchester.\n\nA woman attending the walk-in centre said staff told her that labs were struggling to turn tests around.\n\nBBC Health editor Hugh Pym said: \"There seem to be enough testing sites, but there are bottlenecks in the labs for processing the swabs taken. That's why they're limiting the amount of slots for the public, just when more people want to get tested.\"\n\nOne Cabinet minister told BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg this was a \"classic government problem\" where demand for a public service outstrips supply.\n\nThe minister, she said, was confident that \"underneath the noise\", the majority of people were getting the service they needed, when they needed it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC spoke to people trying to get tests at a centre in Oldham\n\nOn Saturday, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove told the BBC that the government was working to boost testing capacity through investment in new testing centres and so-called lighthouse labs.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she is hopeful that a backlog in test results will be resolved shortly, after \"constructive\" talks with Mr Hancock.\n\nThe UK government announced 3,105 new lab-confirmed cases on Tuesday, bringing the total number of positive tests to 374,228. Another 27 people have died within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test, bringing the overall death toll to 41,664.\n\nThe number of patients in mechanical ventilation beds across the UK has passed 100 for the first time in nearly two months. There were 106 patients on ventilation in the UK on Monday - the first time the figure has been over 100 since 24 July.\n\nUK-wide figures for today are yet to be published but there were 101 patients on ventilation in England alone on Tuesday.\n\nAround 220,000 tests are processed each day, according to government figures released last week, with a testing capacity of more than 350,000 - which includes swab tests and antibody tests. The aim is to increase that to 500,000 a day by the end of October.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons, Mr Hancock said there were \"operational challenges\" with testing which the government was \"working hard\" to fix.\n\nHe said throughout the pandemic they had prioritised testing according to need.\n\nMr Hancock said the \"top priority is and always has been acute clinical care\", followed by social care, where the government is sending \"over 100,000 tests a day\" due to the virus risks in care homes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: \"We're working around the clock to make sure everyone who needs a test can get a test\"\n\nConservative chairman of the Health and Social Care Committee Jeremy Hunt was among the MPs to question Mr Hancock on testing, saying a number of his constituents had to travel for tests, while one key worker had to wait a week for her results.\n\n\"A week ago today, the secretary of state told the Health Select Committee that he expected to have this problem solved in two weeks,\" Mr Hunt said.\n\n\"Is the secretary of state, given the efforts that his department is making, still confident that in a week's time we will have this problem solved?\"\n\n\"I think that we will be able to solve this problem in a matter of weeks,\" Mr Hancock replied.\n\nHe said demand was \"high\" but \"record capacity\" was being delivered, with plans to ensure tests are prioritised for those that need them most.\n\nDespite the health secretary's promises, there will be no easy solution to the shortages of tests.\n\nAll the expectations are that cases will go up. People are circulating more as society reopens and we are entering the period when respiratory viruses thrive.\n\nAs cases go up so will demands on the testing system. Even with the promise of more testing capacity in the coming weeks, the chances of shortages continuing remains a distinct possibility.\n\nA new lab is due to open later this month which will be able to carry out 50,000 tests a day. But this could easily be swallowed up.\n\nWhat it means is that testing will have to be prioritised where it is needed most. That will be in care homes, hospitals and among key workers, as well as where there are local outbreaks. The government's surveillance programme run by the Office for National Statistics will also be protected.\n\nBut this is not unique to the UK. Other countries are facing similar pressures. In fact, the UK is testing more people per head of population than Spain, France and Germany.\n\nIt promises to be a difficult winter across Europe.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said Mr Hancock was \"losing control of this virus\".\n\nHe said that after schools and offices reopened, extra demand on the system was \"inevitable\". He questioned why Mr Hancock did not use the summer \"to significantly expand\" NHS lab capacity and \"fix\" contact tracing.\n\nResponding, Mr Hancock said it was \"inevitable\" that demand would rise with a free service, adding the \"challenge\" was to ensure tests are prioritised for those who most need them.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel told BBC Breakfast the government was \"surging capacity\" where it was needed.\n\nShe said there is \"much more work\" to be done with Public Health England (PHE) and local public health bodies; and that No 10 would continue to work with PHE to \"surge where there is demand\" in hotspots.\n\nMs Patel also said England's new rule of six meant families should not stop in the street to talk to friends.", "Universities and colleges are facing a wave of cyber-attacks\n\nUniversities and colleges are being warned by the UK's cyber-security agency that rising numbers of cyber-attacks are threatening to disrupt the start of term.\n\nThe National Cyber Security Centre has issued an alert after a recent spike in attacks on educational institutions.\n\nThese have been \"ransomware\" incidents which block access to computer systems.\n\nPaul Chichester, the NCSC's director of operations, says such attacks are \"reprehensible\".\n\nThe return to school, college and university, already facing problems with Covid-19, now faces an increased risk from cyber-attacks, which the security agency says could \"de-rail their preparations for the new term\".\n\nThe cyber-security body, part of the GCHQ intelligence agency, says attacks can have a \"devastating impact\" and take weeks or months to put right.\n\nNewcastle University and Northumbria have both been targeted by cyber-attacks this month, and a group of further education colleges in Yorkshire and a higher education college in Lancashire faced attacks last month.\n\nThe warning from the NCSC follows a spate of ransomware attacks against academic institutions - in which malicious software or \"malware\" is used to lock out users from their own computer systems, paralysing online services, websites and phone networks.\n\nThe security agency says this is often followed by a ransom note demanding payment for the recovery of this frozen or stolen data - sometimes with the added threat of publicly releasing sensitive information.\n\nUniversities have frequently been targets of cyber-attacks - with up to a thousand attacks per year in the UK.\n\nAttacks can be attempts to obtain valuable research information that is commercially and politically sensitive. Universities also hold much personal data about students, staff and, in some cases, former students who might have made donations.\n\nEarlier this summer more than 20 universities and charities in the UK, US and Canada were caught up in a ransomware cyber-attack involving a cloud computing supplier, Blackbaud.\n\nA Freedom of Information inquiry in July, carried out by the TopLine Comms digital public relations company, found 35 UK universities, out of 105 responses, had faced ransomware attacks over the past decade. There were 25 which had not had attacks - and a further 43 which declined to answer.\n\nThe warning from the NCSC highlights the vulnerability of online systems for remote working, as increased numbers of staff are working from home.\n\n\"Phishing\" attacks, where people are tricked into clicking on a malicious link such as in an email, also remains a common pathway for such ransomware attempts, says the advice.\n\nMr Chichester of the NCSC says: \"The criminal targeting of the education sector, particularly at such a challenging time, is utterly reprehensible.\"\n\n\"I would strongly urge all academic institutions to take heed of our alert.\"\n\nUniversities UK says data security has had to become a priority for higher education - and that \"protections are in place to manage threats as much as possible\".\n\nThe universities body also says it is working with the NCSC to produce \"robust guidance on cyber-security\" which will be released later this academic year.", "No government wants scenes like this.\n\nFamilies in Oldham, where there has been particular concern about the spread of coronavirus, are boiling over with frustration that they can't access tests.\n\nNot least a government that promised the public its testing system would be better than any other country's in the world.\n\nNot least a government that believes a properly functioning testing system is vital to keeping kids back in school and climbing out of recession as quickly as possible.\n\nNot least a government that knows testing is a crucial way to monitor and control the virus that saw such a terrible loss of life in the grim spring that we have all just lived through.\n\nThe system was scrambled together in a matter of months.\n\nThere seem to be problems with capacity in labs.\n\nHuge numbers of people are now getting tested.\n\nDemand has soared, with children going back to school, and ministers having initially encouraged people to come forward.\n\nThe government has been trying to move testing capacity around to areas where its most needed, promising now to deliver 100,000 tests a day to care homes, where people are particularly vulnerable.\n\nBut with varying statistics, it can be hard to work out exactly what is going on.\n\nThere is a mountain of anecdotal evidence of real frustration with the system, but this is what we know for sure.\n\nOne Cabinet minister told me yesterday it's a \"classic government problem\" where demand for a public service outstrips supply.\n\nThat minister was confident that \"underneath the noise\" the majority of people are getting the service they need and when they need it.\n\nBut in the House of Commons today you couldn't help but bump into MPs from all parties full of complaints from constituents about a lack of access.\n\nClaims from Jacob Rees Mogg today, that the system is a \"national success\" don't exactly scream empathy with people stuck in the system.\n\nAnd after a painful few months for many people in all sorts of ways, public patience is not elastic.\n\nThe prime minister last week even promised by early next year there could be 10 million tests a day.\n\nBut overpromising and underdelivering is not a reputation any government desires.", "Coughs and fevers increase every winter, which will lead to high demand for coronavirus tests\n\nIf most people with a cough or fever request a coronavirus test this winter, there won't be enough tests every day for five months, a study estimates.\n\nBased on normal levels of coughs and fever alone - which are common symptoms of flu and cold - demand will peak in December.\n\nThe researchers say current UK testing capacity should be \"immediately scaled up to meet this high predicted demand\".\n\nA new lab will increase the number of tests processed, officials say.\n\nCombined with new technology and new tests, the government plans to reach 500,000 tests a day by the end of October.\n\nBut the capacity of the system is currently much less (about 244,000) and demand has risen, resulting in people being sent hundreds of miles for tests or not being able to order home test kits.\n\nThe study, which has not yet been published or evaluated, estimated the number of people with a cough or fever last winter in England and predicted the impact of those people requesting Covid-19 tests this winter.\n\nCoronavirus swab tests are offered to people with one of three symptoms - a new, continuous cough; a high temperature; or loss of smell or taste.\n\nBut fever and cough are also common symptoms of other respiratory viruses which are at high levels every winter.\n\nThe research team, from University College London, Lancaster University and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, predicted that coughs and fevers would jump from about 155,000 cases a day in August to:\n\nAnd if 80% of people with coughs or fevers requested a test, daily demand for UK testing would exceed current capacity for five months straight, from October to February.\n\nIn December, demand would be highest with about 147,000 tests needing to be processed each day over and above the number that labs are able to process.\n\nEven if 60% of people with a cough or fever requested a test, the system would exceed capacity in December and January, the study predicted.\n\nIf only 40% got tested, current capacity could manage to cope with demand.\n\nDr Rob Aldridge, study author from the Institute of Health Informatics at UCL, said there was a danger that more vulnerable people from poorer areas would be most affected by a lack of testing.\n\n\"We want everyone with symptoms to get a test so we have to make it easy and rapid.\n\n\"Without increased capacity, we won't be able to identify clusters of cases and won't know when action is required,\" he added.\n\nThe results are based on nearly 900 adults and children keeping track of their symptoms in a diary which was kept for six months.\n\nOut of a total of 585 episodes of cough or fever, there were 431 coughs, 57 fevers, and 97 episodes of both cough and fever symptoms.\n\nThe study said the government's ambition to increase swab testing capacity to 500,000 tests per day \"must be a priority\".\n\nOtherwise, the researchers said, UK testing capacity \"could be overwhelmed, leading to failure of the NHS Test and Trace service and an inability to control the further spread of Covid-19\",", "Richard Morris's family said they were \"devastated by his loss\"\n\nThe family of a British high commissioner found dead in a Hampshire forest have said they are \"devastated by his loss\".\n\nRichard Morris, from Bentley, was last seen running in Alton in the county on 6 May.\n\nHampshire Constabulary has formally identified a body found in Alice Holt Forest on 31 August as Mr Morris.\n\nIn a statement relatives described him as \"a loving and loyal husband, father, son and brother\".\n\nThey went on to say he was \"described as funny, kind and smart by his diplomatic colleagues\" and had worked for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) \"with professionalism and integrity for nearly 30 years\".\n\n\"His empathy and kindness to those around him earned him respect wherever he went, evidenced by the messages of love, friendship and support we have received from all over the world,\" they said.\n\nPolice said 50 officers and volunteers took part in initial searches of Alice Holt Forest\n\nFather-of-three Mr Morris, originally from Worcestershire, was the UK ambassador to Nepal for four years until 2019.\n\nBefore his disappearance he was appointed British High Commissioner to Fiji.\n\nMr Morris had also worked as head of the Pacific department at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), consul general in Sydney as well as director general of trade and investment in Australasia.\n\nPolice previously said the death was not being treated as suspicious.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The region's leaders say people must self-isolate while waiting for test results\n\nThere are \"deep concerns\" among local authority leaders about the growing number of coronavirus cases in the north-east of England.\n\nThe leaders of seven councils have issued a statement urging people to help avoid a \"devastating\" lockdown.\n\nThey say average daily cases have doubled in just over a week and are averaging about 80 per day.\n\nGateshead, South Tyneside and Middlesbrough are currently among the top 20 areas in England for cases.\n\nThe statement has been issued by the leaders of Newcastle, South Tyneside, Gateshead, North Tyneside, Northumberland, Durham County and Sunderland councils along with the North of Tyne Mayor.\n\nThey are particularly concerned about cases among young adults and say in the seven days up to 5 September, almost 66% of cases were people under the age of 30.\n\nTheir statement says: \"We all have to do our bit and to play our part if we are to prevent a potential second wave.\n\n\"The impact that would have on our health service and the possibility of an economically-damaging lockdown would be devastating.\n\n\"We ask that individuals protect themselves to protect others and to protect our region, as well as call on all businesses to make sure their premises and operations are Covid-secure.\"\n\nThey are urging people who have symptoms or are asked to take a test to self-isolate until they have the results.\n\n\"We have seen cases where individuals with symptoms have had a test, then gone out and infected others before getting their results - reckless and selfish behaviour,\" the statement says.\n\nA \"significant minority\" also believed it was acceptable to have house parties, hold events with unregulated crowds and ignore the rules they said.\n\nUp to 300 people who attended a charity football match on the border of Sunderland and Durham on 30 August have been told to self-isolate after 28 people tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe statement said: \"What we do know is infection rates are rising quickly. We cannot allow it to get out of control.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "Thanks for following our live coverage of the Welsh Government's press briefing on the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nToday, another 240,000 people will be preparing for restrictions to their daily lives, as a local lockdown begins in Rhondda Cynon Taf at 18:00 BST on Thursday.\n\nThe measures mean no one will be allowed to enter or leave the area without reasonable excuse, while pubs and bars will have to close at 23:00 BST every night from tomorrow.\n\nThe restrictions will be reviewed in two weeks' time.\n\nWhat we also learned today:\n• There have been no new deaths with coronavirus in Wales for the 15th day running, but there have been 199 new cases\n• A number of pubs and bars have been closed in Rhondda Cynon Taf after breaching coronavirus regulations\n• Up to five extra mobile testing centres will be deployed this week to cope with local hot spots\n• There will be an extra 5,000 NHS beds - half in field hospitals - to cope with winter pressures, and any second wave of coronavirus\n• Health Minister Vaughan Gething decided not to include his own mother in his so-called bubble, due to the risk he posed to her as he meets so many people\n\nWe'll keep you updated on the coronavirus situation in Wales via the BBC Wales News website and social media channels.", "Tredomen is among the testing centres that have seen long queues\n\nThere are fears of a shortage of coronavirus tests as people rush to get symptoms checked in Caerphilly county, GPs have said.\n\nThe county is being placed in lockdown from 18:00 BST on Tuesday, following a spike in cases.\n\nThe British Medical Association (BMA) said the queues at the pop-up test centre in the town were \"horrific\".\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said testing had picked up the levels of community transmission.\n\nBut he acknowledged a UK-wide testing programme was facing challenges in coping with demand.\n\nChief executive of Caerphilly council, Christina Harrhy, urged people to only get tested if they were showing symptoms.\n\nDr David Bailey, chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA) in Wales and a GP in Caerphilly, said: \"The queues at the pop-up centre in Caerphilly yesterday were horrific, although we understand people were all getting tested.\n\n\"The capacity seems to be struggling across the UK, and people being sent across the country is hardly helpful with keeping people local and staying socially distanced.\"\n\nCaerphilly county has had more new cases in the past week - 98 - than anywhere else in Wales and more than the area has seen since the end of April.\n\nCommunity testing started in the county at the weekend, a total of 450 people were tested and 19 were positive for Covid-19.\n\nIn Bridgend county, people spoke of trying to book a test at a drive-through centre or a mobile unit via a UK online system, but being told their nearest available slot was at Bristol Airport, more than 60 miles away.\n\nWhile Andy, from Caerphilly, said he was unable to get a test for his two sons after they developed a cough.\n\n\"My partner took them down to the testing site at the leisure centre, but there was a three-hour queue. That was at 8am.\n\n\"She was told to go up to the new centre up in Penallta. She made her way up there, and there were already hundreds of cars.\n\n\"She was waiting in the queue and she was told at that point that if she didn't have ID for the children they couldn't be tested - how are you going to have ID for children with you?\"\n\nShehzad Malik was offered a test for his mother miles away after she developed a chest infection\n\nShehzad Malik, from Cardiff, also had problems while trying to get a test for his parents.\n\nHe said his mother was advised to get a test by her GP after developing a chest infection, but after hours of struggling with the system, was offered a test more than an hour's drive west of Cardiff.\n\nHe said: \"Yesterday I tried several times to book a drive-through test at my nearest test centre but to no avail.\n\n\"Once I had found the correct link I filled in the relevant information and each time I tried submitting the information online the page would not load to offer me a test.\n\n\"I kept trying online to get an appointment, almost every half hour from 2pm to 10pm, and the site kept crashing.\n\n\"Eventually, at about 22:15, I was able to upload all the information and was offered a Covid test in Carmarthen, 55 miles from my home in Cardiff.\"\n\nPeople will not be able to leave Caerphilly borough without good reason\n\nIn Gwynedd, GPs spoke of patients being sent miles to get tested after being concerned about symptoms, including shortness of breath, persistent coughs, and high temperatures.\n\nDr Huw Gwilym, who was on call at the Waunfawr surgery, said: \"There are examples of patients in Waunfawr being offered tests in Telford [125 miles], Oswestry [67 miles] and Aberystwyth [70 miles],\" he said.\n\n\"We are very concerned about the situation because it is unfair to ask people with Covid-19 symptoms, who are ill and should self-isolate, to travel for hours by car to get a test. We didn't expect such problems months into the pandemic.\"\n\nDr Eilir Hughes said people were requesting home tests but being told there were non avalaible\n\nDr Eilir Hughes, a GP in Nefyn, Gwynedd, said he was concerned people were being \"put off\" going to get tested due to being asked to travel miles from their homes.\n\n\"There are several reports that people are being offered a test in Manchester [125 miles] or Aberystwyth [75 miles] whilst they live here on the Llŷn Peninsula,\" he said.\n\n\"The truth is the nearest TTP testing centre is Llandudno [55 miles] which in itself is too far. People then request home tests and they are told they've ran out of stock.\n\nMr Gething said there were \"challenges\" about the way the UK-wide Lighthouse testing labs were running \"and its ability to cope with demand\".\n\nIn the most recent week for which figures are available 9,904 tests were processed in NHS Wales labs, while 26,067 were sent to Lighthouse labs.\n\nHe said: \"These are issues that my team have been raising through official levels. And I'm hoping to speak to other health ministers across the UK within the next day or two if possible - we sought a meeting today with colleagues in Northern Ireland as well - to be able to run through what is actually happening.\n\n\"None of us want to see people being asked to travel large distances which for some people won't be possible.\"\n\nMr Gething said mobile testing in Caerphilly had seen a large number of people attending.\n\nThat allowed the Welsh Government \"to pick up the levels of community transmission from people outside the clusters we've already been able to identify\", he said.\n\nA spokesman added: \"We have raised this issue with the UK government, which runs the Lighthouse Lab testing system and we expect these issues to be resolved quickly to ensure people in Wales who have suspected coronavirus symptoms can receive a test as close to home as possible.\n\n\"We have recently announced £32m to increase capacity to process tests at laboratories in Wales, which includes extending our regional labs to 24-hour operation and six new 'hot labs' at hospitals across Wales. This investment will increase our testing resilience ahead of the winter.\"", "Sexual and violent offenders will serve at least two-thirds of jail terms, rather than half, as part of changes to the criminal justice system in England and Wales.\n\nAn overhaul of sentencing laws has been announced by the Justice Secretary Robert Buckland.\n\nWhole-life orders will also be extended to 18 to 20-year-olds convicted of terrorism causing mass loss of life.\n\nMr Buckland said it marked the end of \"complex and confusing\" laws.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons, Mr Buckland said the measures would \"keep offenders who pose a risk to the public off our streets for longer\".\n\nHe said they would \"help restore public confidence that robust sentences are executed in a way that better reflects the gravity of the crimes committed\".\n\nMr Buckland also said protecting the public meant \"finding new ways to break cycles of crime, to prevent a revolving door of short custodial sentences that we know offer little rehabilitative value\".\n\nMore help is being promised for those with mental health issues, addictions and neurodiverse conditions such as autism.\n\nIt comes after the criminal justice system ground to a halt during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThere are steep backlogs and delays for victims and defendants, who are facing trial dates years ahead.\n\nAmong the new interventions proposed in a White Paper published on Wednesday are:\n\nAnd offenders sentenced to between four and seven years in prison for serious crimes such as rape and manslaughter will no longer be automatically considered for release halfway through their jail terms.\n\nHowever, one charity boss warned that \"increasing the prison population through longer sentences will only add more pressure to this already stretched system\".\n\nCampbell Robb, chief executive of social justice charity Nacro, said the UK needed a system that \"gives victims justice, reduces re-offending and creates a safer UK for everyone - senselessly banging people up for longer will not deliver this.\"\n\nWhile tougher sentences are among the measures proposed, changes to criminal records to reduce the time offenders have to declare past crimes to employers are also included.\n\nA focus on supporting ex-offenders will see custodial sentences become \"spent\" after 12 months without reoffending, with convictions of up to four years no longer disclosed after a further four crime-free years.\n\nSentences of more than four years will not automatically be disclosed to employers after a further seven-year period of rehabilitation is completed.\n\nLabour's shadow justice secretary David Lammy welcomed the changes but sought assurance that new sentencing rules would not be applied \"gratuitously\".\n\n\"It would be wrong to abandon the general presumption in criminal law that when you're younger there is more opportunity for redemption and to turn your life around,\" he said.\n\nFor the past few days, the government has been trailing its White Paper with a series of eye-catching announcements promising tougher sentences for terrorists, violent offenders and motorists who kill.\n\nMany of the plans are likely to command broad public support while measures to relax criminal records disclosure rules have the potential to make a real difference to ex-offenders struggling to find work.\n\nBut the timing of the proposals is somewhat odd, as the government grapples with the biggest crisis the criminal justice system has faced in decades.\n\nProblems caused by the coronavirus have meant that a huge backlog of trials across England and Wales has got even bigger.\n\nThe sentencing changes, if they go ahead, won't help the tens of thousands of victims, witnesses and defendants caught up in the backlog who now face the prospect of waiting up to two years for their day in court.\n\nThe announcement of reforms to sentencing comes after lawyers warned hundreds of thousands of people may have to wait until 2022 for justice, due to delays in the Crown Courts.\n\nSince lockdown began in March, the backlog of Crown Court cases has risen by 6,000 to 43,000.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice has pledged an extra 1,600 court staff and £80m towards a range of measures, including more Nightingale courts.\n\nAnd Mr Buckland has told the BBC he would \"use every tool in the book\" to clear the case backlog.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Today programme, he said the situation in Magistrates' Courts was \"encouraging - with the number of cases being dealt with exceeding the number coming into the system\".\n\nAnd he said the Crown Courts had been \"unique\" compared to other countries, as it \"kept going\" throughout the pandemic.\n\nBut, he added: \"I am bearing down daily on my team in the Courts and Tribunals Service to make sure that they have got the resources they need to make the buildings safe and that judges and listing officers are doing everything they can to get those cases listed so we can achieve swift justice.\"\n\nMeanwhile detection rates for crimes remain low, having fallen from one-in-seven crime reports leading to a charge in 2015 to around one-in-14 last year.", "The Dáil (Irish parliament) was initially adjourned but it resumed business on Tuesday evening\n\nIrish Health Minister Stephen Donnelly has tested negative for Covid-19 after reporting feeling unwell.\n\nMembers of the Irish cabinet were told to restrict their movements after the country's health minister made the report on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nInitially it was announced that the cabinet would have to self-isolate and the Dáil (Irish parliament) would be adjourned indefinitely.\n\nHowever, the Dáil resumed business on Tuesday evening.\n\nThe restrictions on the cabinet have now been lifted.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish prime minister) Micheál Martin told Irish broadcaster RTÉ that the decision for the cabinet to restrict their movements came from \"an abundance of caution\".\n\nMinister for Climate Action, Communication Networks and Transport, Eamon Ryan, had already been isolating, as a member of his household awaits a test for Covid-19.\n\nOn Tuesday, three more deaths were reported in the Republic and 357 cases of the virus have been confirmed.\n\nEarlier, the Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Feargháil (Irish parliament speaker) told the Dáil shortly after 17:00 local time that after \"very serious information arising out of events today the Cabinet must now self-isolate\".\n\nHowever, the Dáil later reconvened after 20:00 - the Ceann Comhairle explained that he had been advised at the time that the parliament should be adjourned and then recalled by the taoiseach.\n\nMr Donnelly was present at a press conference on Tuesday morning when the Irish government unveiled a five-stage plan on living with Covid-19.\n\nThe plan outlined stricter rules for Dublin over the next few weeks because of the increase in infections in the city.\n\nPubs that do not serve food can reopen on 21 September, except in Dublin where they must stay closed\n\nFrom midnight on Tuesday, household visits in the city will be limited to six people from one other household.\n\nElsewhere, the limit will remain at six visitors from up to three households.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Micheál Martin said it is designed to provide a roadmap on how to live with Covid-19 for the next six months.\n\nHe said level five is the most restrictive and similar to what happened during the lockdown in March.\n\nHe said the country is currently at level two but because of the situation Dublin there were special modifications for the capital.\n\nHealth Minister Stephen Donnelly (right) was present at a press conference for a new Covid-19 plan on Tuesday morning\n\nTánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar told the news conference that virus cases have increased tenfold in Dublin over the last two months.\n\nMr Martin also told the news conference that Ireland would sign up for the European Commission's travel plan.\n\nThat plan has yet to be unveiled but is known to include countries on green, amber and red lists.\n\nHe indicated that crowds of 200 people will be allowed attend sporting events where the capacity of a stadium is 5,000.", "The new Wylfa power station would have been built next to the old power plant on Anglesey\n\nPlans for a £15-£20bn nuclear power plant in Wales have been scrapped.\n\nWork on the Wylfa Newydd project on Anglesey was suspended in January last year because of rising costs after Hitachi failed to reach a funding agreement with the UK government.\n\nHitachi has now confirmed it is withdrawing from the project, after Isle of Anglesey council said it had received the news on Tuesday.\n\nIt would have created up to 9,000 jobs during construction.\n\nHitachi said it made the decision given 20 months had passed since the project had paused \"and the investment environment has become increasingly severe due to the impact of Covid-19\".\n\nMinister for Economy and North Wales Ken Skates said: \"The news from Hitachi today is deeply disappointing.\n\n\"There has been a tremendous effort by Horizon Nuclear Power, Ynys Mon Council, the North Wales region and all our partners to bring this important project forward. Now is the time to continue with this strong partnership and build upon those efforts.\n\n\"We must not lose sight that Wylfa remains one the best sites in the UK for new nuclear development.\"\n\nWork on Wylfa was due to start this year\n\nHitachi said it would coordinate with the UK government and other bodies over handling the planned construction sites and other matters.\n\nDeveloper Horizon's chief executive Duncan Hawthorne said: \"I understand this announcement will be disappointing for our many supporters who had hoped to see our project through to completion and I would personally like to thank you for your support throughout our time on this project.\n\n\"Nuclear power has a critical role to play in helping tackle our energy needs, meeting our climate change targets and levelling up the economy through green growth and job creation.\"\n\nHitachi is also scrapping its project at Oldbury on Severn in Gloucestershire despite describing both sites as \"highly desirable\" for new nuclear plants.\n\nMr Hawthorne said: \"We will do our utmost to facilitate the prospects for development which will bring the major local, national and environmental benefits that nuclear can uniquely deliver as we push to transition to a net zero carbon economy by 2050.\"\n\nThe UK government said it remained committed to nuclear power and recognised the announcement was \"very disappointing news\" for the people of north Wales.\n\n\"Nuclear power will play a key role in the UK's future energy mix as we transition to a low-carbon economy, including through our investments in small and advanced modular reactors,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"That's why we previously offered a significant package of potential support to this project that went well beyond what any government has been willing to consider in the past.\n\n\"This included taking a one third equity stake, providing all of the required debt financing to complete construction, and providing generous financial support through our Contract for Difference scheme.\"\n\nThe UK government said it remains willing to discuss a replacement for the original Wylfa plant, which shut in 2015 after 44 years of service, with viable companies.\n\nThere has been a long campaign against a new nuclear station\n\nAnglesey council was told on Tuesday that Hitachi was withdrawing, and council leader Llinos Medi said: \"This is very disappointing, particularly at such a difficult time economically.\"\n\nHowever campaigners against the project have welcomed Hitachi's move claiming a new nuclear power station would have \"endangered lives on Anglesey and beyond\".\n\nThe People Against Wylfa B action group said: \"It would have ruined the environment over an area which is 10 times greater than the current site.\"\n\nIt called on Hitachi to \"ensure that no nuclear scheme will happen on the site in the future\" and return the site to its \"former state, for community benefit\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two police officers committed gross misconduct by posting \"offensive and inappropriate\" TikTok videos while in uniform, a misconduct panel has found.\n\nPCs Amy Taylor and April Cooper of Cambridgeshire Police posted clips of themselves \"shouting offensive language\" in a police car and dancing inappropriately in a police station.\n\nThe officers told the hearing the videos were \"to boost morale\".\n\nBoth officers were given final written warnings.\n\nChief Constable Nick Dean said: \"There is no doubt in my mind that the clips have damaged the reputation of this constabulary.\"\n\nThey were reported by a member of the public who had seen the videos and felt they were \"unprofessional\".\n\nIn one video both officers were in uniform \"dancing in an inappropriate way utilising fire marshal tabards\".\n\nIn another video clip PC Cooper was seen in uniform shouting \"coronavirus\" down a phone with the caption \"when calling in sick at work and they ask what's up\".\n\nMr Dean said in his ruling: \"This clip was made in the height of a pandemic which is still ongoing yet you appear to be insensitive to the many thousands who have suffered and the vital role that emergency services and other agencies played in this outbreak, and continue to do so.\n\n\"This clearly shows a lack of respect and sensitivity to those that were suffering or indeed their families and friends.\n\n\"The respect shown to your colleagues in behaving this way demonstrates a lack of respect for them and a lack of self-control by you both.\n\n\"It cannot be said that this was a momentary lapse of concentration.\"\n\nThe hearing was told the reach of the videos on social media had been extensive before they were taken down.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There is no need for British Airways to lay off cabin crew and then rehire them on inferior terms, boss Alex Cruz has said.\n\nUnions and MPs had accused the airline of following a \"fire and rehire\" policy, which saw some employees facing pay cuts of up to 50%.\n\nBut Mr Cruz told MPs \"there will be no need to issue new contracts\", subject to staff approval.\n\nBA reached the outline of a jobs agreement with union Unite last week.\n\nThe pair have been in a bitter dispute over BA's plans to shed up to 13,000 jobs and cut pay, amid a collapse in demand for air travel.\n\nSpeaking to the Transport Select Committee, Mr Cruz said it was a matter of \"regret\" that it took 73 days for BA's non-pilot unions to sit down and negotiate.\n\nBut Labour MP Sam Tarry responded: \"I would argue that if you hadn't put a metaphorical gun to their head then that might not have happened.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Cruz said the airline would now follow the \"standard methodology\" of union agreements and make amendments to existing contracts.\n\nDetails are still being worked out and ballots of some staff are yet to be held.\n\nLong-serving cabin crew members face a 15% pay reduction, while hoping to retain many of the allowances which constitute a significant part of their overall pay.\n\n\"We have reached agreements in a majority of areas,\" Mr Cruz said.\n\n\"We very much hope that the result of the ballots will be to accept those ballots.\"\n\nIn relation to whether or not BA will have to make 13,000 staff redundant, Mr Cruz said that the company didn't \"need to get to that number\".\n\nHowever, a large number of long-serving cabin crew have taken voluntary redundancy and many staff felt that the terms being offered at the time meant that was their only choice.\n\nMr Cruz told MPs that the pandemic had \"devastated our business... and we're still fighting for our own survival\".\n\nLast week the airline flew about 187,000 passengers - about 25%-30% of its normal flight schedule.\n\n\"Everyone is facing decisions we never wanted to face,\" Mr Cruz said.\n\nHe said he had taken a 33% pay cut during the pandemic, reducing his salary from the £805,000 he earned in 2019.\n\nBut he refused to comment on an £833,000 bonus paid to the outgoing boss of BA's parent company, Willie Walsh.\n\nIAG faced a backlash from shareholders over that payment to Mr Walsh who left the company last week.", "The outbreak is linked to a charity match at Burnside Working Men's Club\n\nUp to 300 people who attended a charity football match are being told to self-isolate after 28 people tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe event at Burnside Working Men's Club (WMC), in Fencehouses on the border of Sunderland and Durham, took place on 30 August.\n\nAnyone who attended must self-isolate for 14 days from then.\n\nBurnside WMC said \"if we knew at the time what we know now\" then the match \"would never have gone ahead\".\n\nIn a statement it wished everyone affected a \"speedy recovery\" and admitted safety precautions on the day \"were not strict enough\".\n\nDurham County Council has been working with Sunderland City Council and Public Health England to manage the response.\n\nDurham's director of public health Amanda Healy said contact tracing was being carried out to find anyone who had been in close contact with someone who tested positive.\n\nShe added: \"However, we are also asking anyone who was at the charity event on Sunday 30 August to immediately self-isolate up until midnight on the 13th, unless they're contacted individually by NHS Test and Trace with further advice.\n\n\"We are also asking people in the community who have already had a test which has come back negative to self-isolate for 14 days from the 30th because it can take up to 14 days for symptoms to appear.\n\n\"This is essential if we are to stop the spread of the virus in this community as quickly as possible.\"\n\nBurnside WMC's statement said: \"It is with deep regret and sadness that our charity football match has caused a significant rise in positive Covid-19 cases and tests in the DH4/DH5 area.\n\n\"It was a football match planned with the aim to raise money for an incredible charity group that is close to the club's heart.\n\n\"I would hope that people understand that if we knew at the time what we know now, this football match would never have gone ahead.\"\n\nOn Saturday another football match was called off in neighbouring South Tyneside, which has been added to England's watchlist as an \"area of concern\".\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "The Unite union has called on the government to say it will extend its furlough scheme or face \"redundancy floodgates\" opening in the UK.\n\nMany workers can expect a \"miserable Christmas\" without targeted support for employers, the union warned.\n\nThe government's furlough programme will end on 31 October.\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said the government had \"not hesitated to act in creative and effective ways to support jobs and we will continue to do so\".\n\nWednesday marks 45 days before the end of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, which is the same amount of time employers must give for notice of redundancy.\n\nThe call comes amid growing evidence that the winding down of the scheme is leading to more plans for job cuts.\n\nThe number of firms that notified the government in June about plans to cut 20 or more jobs was five times higher than in the same month last year, figures obtained by the BBC show.\n\nA Freedom of Information request shows that in June, 1,778 firms said they were intending to cut more than 139,000 jobs in England, Wales and Scotland.\n\nIn total, nine million people have been furloughed for at least one three-week period since March,\n\nHowever, about 695,000 UK workers have gone from the payrolls of UK companies since then and it is feared that more will follow if the government stops paying to safeguard jobs.\n\nUnite said that without \"a clear and urgent sign\" from the government that it was responding to calls to extend the scheme, it feared that \"employers facing short-term struggles will issue redundancy notices\".\n\nThe government has been urged by MPs, business groups, unions and political opponents to continue the furlough programme, in which workers placed on leave receive 80% of their pay, up to a maximum of £2,500 a month.\n\nThe scheme, which has cost more than £35bn, was initially funded by the government, but firms started to contribute to wages in September after the scheme began to wind down.\n\nLast week, the Treasury Select Committee said the government should consider a targeted extension of the scheme.\n\nUnite general secretary Len McCluskey said a signal from the government would \"put a floor under struggling employers who are working hard to stabilise in the face of immense challenges\".\n\n\"With our competitor nations announcing the extension or modification of their jobs retention schemes, we ask that your government recognises the need for UK businesses and workers to receive similar support,\" Mr McCluskey wrote in a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nA spokeswoman said Unite wanted to see support for sectors including manufacturing, aviation infrastructure, aerospace and hospitality.\n\nThe government has repeatedly rebuffed the calls for an extension to the scheme, saying that it has served its purpose in cushioning the economy during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has said his priority is to find new ways to protect jobs.\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said: \"The furlough scheme has done what it was designed to do - save jobs and help people back into employment.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said the government had made \"unprecedented interventions\", including firms being given £1,000 for every furloughed worker still employed in January, business rates holidays, VAT cuts and the Kickstart scheme, which gives young people jobs experience.", "Save the Children said around 60 British children are trapped in Syria\n\nThe UK has rescued a British child from Syria as part of efforts to return unaccompanied minors stranded amid the fallout of the Islamic State conflict.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said repatriating the child was \"the right thing to do\".\n\nHe said each case of orphans or unaccompanied children trapped in Syria was assessed \"carefully\".\n\nSave the Children said some 60 British children were in Syrian refugee camps, many aged under five.\n\nMany of the younger children are born in Syria to British parents and have never lived in the UK.\n\nThe recent repatriation was first reported by Sky News, which said a team left the Middle Eastern country with the child on Tuesday.\n\nMr Raab said on Twitter: \"Pleased we have been able to bring home a British child from Syria. As I have said previously, we assess each case carefully.\n\n\"Safely facilitating the return of orphans or unaccompanied British children, where possible, is the right thing to do.\"\n\nSave the Children said many of the children fled areas controlled by IS and have endured \"dire conditions\" in camps - adding that Covid-19 was now present in both camps where the charity works.\n\n\"It's hard to contain the disease in a place where social distancing is not possible,\" Save the Children's Sonia Khush told BBC News, calling it \"a recipe for unfolding disaster\".\n\nThe process of repatriation takes many months, Ms Khush said - although the charity is not directly involved in the negotiations, only in helping prepare the child for resettlement in the UK.\n\nShe said they tried to focus on the \"positive\" elements of repatriation - the opportunity to live more comfortably, go to school, enjoy typical childhood experiences \"like riding a bike, for example\".\n\n\"But the children do have fears,\" said Ms Khush. \"They have been through so much in their short lives already.\"\n\nOften children have been repeatedly displaced as fighting escalates across the country.\n\n\"They have a lot of questions about what's going to happen to them - and it's quite difficult to take them away from what, for them, is a home,\" she explained.\n\n\"It's difficult too for the children left behind. They have been each other's family.\"", "The Fitness+ service can be viewed on an iPhone, iPad or via an Apple TV set-top box\n\nApple has unveiled a new personalised workout subscription service alongside new smartwatches and tablet computers.\n\nFitness+ collects health data gathered by an Apple Watch and then displays it alongside workout videos shown on a larger display.\n\nThe platform will compete with existing fitness apps on iOS from Peloton, Les Mills and Fiit.\n\nIt also poses a challenge to Fitbit, whose wearables benefit from their own health-coaching subscription service.\n\nAs many had forecast, Apple decided to hold back details of its next iPhones for a separate event.\n\nThe iPhone 12 was not unveiled but may have snuck in an appearance in a shot of Apple's labs\n\nLike some of its rivals, Fitness+ also allows competitive users to see how their own efforts compare with others who have completed the same fitness routine previously.\n\n\"Health-tracking continues to be a major focus for Apple, and its new Fitness+ service signals its intent to generate more revenue from its products in this area,\" commented Leo Gebbie from the consultancy CCS Insight.\n\nFitness+ will initially launch in six countries including the US and UK before the end of 2020.\n\nIt will cost £10 per month or £80 per year as a standalone service, which can be shared among members of the same family.\n\nFitness+ features cycling, dance, treadmill and yoga routines among others\n\nAlternatively, it can be purchased alongside other Apple services - including iCloud storage, Arcade video games and Apple Music - for about £30 per month - as part of the top tier of a bundle of services called Apple One.\n\nOther mixes of services can be subscribed to for lower fees.\n\n\"Support for 10 different workouts with and without equipment, and the fact it is being sold at a family price will make Fitness+ very attractive,\" said Carolina Milanesi from the Silicon Valley-based consultancy Creative Strategies.\n\n\"And I don't think bundling it with the other services is anti-competitive, as you are seeing other services do the same thing - for example Disney's Hulu TV service in the US with Spotify.\"\n\nSpotify, however, has suggested the bundles are another example of Apple abusing its \"dominant position\" and has called on regulators to intervene.\n\nChief executive Tim Cook introduced the virtual event from Apple's headquarters in California\n\nBut one personal trainer said he did not see the new service as competition for one-on-one sessions with an online coach.\n\n\"The real results come from support, accountability and understanding human behaviour, and being able to tailor a fitness regime to an individual so that it is sustainable,\" Sam Wake told the BBC.\n\nApple unveiled two new ranges of smartwatches: the high-end Series 6 Watch and lower-priced Watch SE.\n\nThe Series 6 introduces a blood-oxygen sensor to help manage conditions that affect the heart and lungs.\n\nIt measures SpO2 levels, which indicate how much oxygen is being carried by the user's red blood cells from the lungs to other parts of their body.\n\nApple suggested this could potentially act as means to detect the early onset of respiratory problems, although its small print says the feature is \"not intended for medical use\".\n\nSamsung, Huawei and Fitbit already sell smartwatches that provide the same facility. However, their ability to offer it has depended on the approval of local health regulators.\n\nApple has published a list of where it will offer the feature, confirming it includes the UK and most other countries.\n\nThe SE model lacks the new sensor, uses a slower processor and does not have an \"always-on\" display, but otherwise offers most of the features found in the more expensive model.\n\nThe new smartwatches can be customised with a cartoon-like character resembling the owner\n\nThese include sleep-tracking and a new facility targeted at children called Family Set-up. It can be set to trigger automatic location notifications to a child's parents when the wearer visits familiar places like their grandparents or school.\n\nIt also makes it possible to assign a unique phone number to a Watch, rather than using one that already belongs to an iPhone.\n\n\"A logical use would be for a parent to give a child a cellular-enabled Apple Watch so they can remain in contact,\" commented Mr Gebbie.\n\n\"We expect to see hand-me-down Watches used in this scenario, rather than a device bought specifically for this purpose.\"\n\nThe Series 6 range starts at £379 and SE at £269.\n\nApple's new iPad Air is the first product from the firm to be based on a new chip-manufacturing process that promises more processing power and better energy efficiency thanks to the fact that transistors can be packed together more densely than before.\n\nApple typically launches its new chips inside its iPhone before its iPads, but this year the release of its new handsets have been delayed by the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe company suggested the A14 processor would make it easier to edit 4K videos and do motion-tracking of real-world objects for augmented reality apps.\n\nThe machine has a fingerprint sensor built into one of its side buttons to reduce the size of the bezels, and also introduces a USB-C port, which until now had been limited to the more costly iPad Pro range.\n\nThe new iPad Air also has a slightly larger screen than before - 10.9in (27.7cm) - but it costs £100 more, starting at £579.\n\nThe firm also unveiled a new lower-priced basic iPad that uses the older A12 chip. It starts at £329, which is £20 less than before.\n\nDemand for tablets across the wider tech industry has risen since the start of the coronavirus pandemic as consumers increasingly used them for entertainment, home schooling and remote working.\n\nShipments in the April-to-July quarter were up 19% on the same period in 2019, according to research firm IDC, with Samsung, Amazon and Huawei among those making even bigger gains.\n\nAccording to IDC's figures, Apple's iPads remain the market leader, but only saw a 2% annual gain.\n\n\"Apple kept its volume but its rivals made strides via the opportunistic sale of cheaper devices,\" commented IDC's Marta Pinto.\n\nApple also announced that iOS 14 - the latest version of its mobile operating system - would be released on Wednesday,\n\nThis came as a surprise to many developers, who thought they had more time to submit corresponding new versions of their products to Apple's App Store.", "Junior civil servants asked to work on Brexit policy that they fear might break the law, have been advised to inform their managers, BBC Newsnight has learned.\n\nThe email advice - from senior civil servants in a major government department - sets out what staff should do if they are asked to work on a policy which might be \"inappropriate\".\n\nIt follows the publication of the Internal Market Bill, which ministers accept contains provisions which would break international law as agreed between the UK and EU,\n\nOne departmental e-mail is explicit that it is being sent following \"the government's announcement that it would break international law\"- the e-mail advises officials that if they should feel uncomfortable about what they are being asked to do, they must raise it with their superiors.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis last week confirmed to the House of Commons that should the full provisions of the bill be enacted, it would break the commitments the government made as part of the treaty it signed with the EU and therefore, would run counter to international law \"in a very specific and limited way\".\n\nHowever, civil servants' conduct is governed by the civil service code, which makes clear that civil servants must \"comply with the law and uphold the administration of justice\".\n\nThis has led to some disquiet within elements of the service that they may be asked to enact policies which run counter to their own code of behaviour.\n\nThe emails seen by Newsnight encourage staff to reacquaint themselves with the code and says that if they are concerned they are \"being asked to do something inappropriate by a fellow civil servant or a minister you should raise it with your line manager immediately\".\n\nIt is a very unusual move for senior civil servants to advise their colleagues to potentially refuse ministerial instruction.\n\nIt potentially raises the prospect of renewed tension between ministers and the service as the Brexit process continues.", "One rocket hit a shopfront in the Israeli coastal city of Ashdod, wounding two men\n\nThere has been a fresh round of violence between Palestinian militants in Gaza and Israel, after a ceremony in Washington at which Israel and two Gulf Arab states normalised their relations.\n\nMilitants fired two rockets into Israel on Tuesday night. One hit the coastal city of Ashdod, wounding two men.\n\nAnother barrage of 13 rockets was launched before dawn on Wednesday.\n\nIn retaliation, the Israeli military bombed sites in Gaza it said belonged to the Palestinian group Hamas.\n\n\"I'm not surprised that the Palestinian terrorists fired at Israel precisely during this historic ceremony,\" Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told reporters before leaving Washington.\n\n\"They want to turn back the peace. In that, they will not succeed,\" he added.\n\n\"We will strike at all those who raise a hand to harm us, and we will reach out to all those who extend the hand of peace to us.\"\n\nThe Israeli military said it struck Hamas targets in Gaza in response to the rockets\n\nHamas, which controls Gaza, warned Israel that it would \"pay the price for any aggression against our people or resistance sites and the response will be direct\".\n\n\"We will increase and expand our response to the extent that the occupation [Israel] persists in its aggression,\" it added.\n\nThe flare-up started while Mr Netanyahu and the foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain were on the White House lawn, signing historic normalisation agreements brokered by US President Donald Trump.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. (September 2020) Donald Trump on Israel-UAE-Bahrain deals: 'We mark the dawn of a new Middle East'\n\nMr Trump said the deals would \"serve as the foundation for a comprehensive peace across the entire region\".\n\n\"After decades of division and conflict we mark the dawn of a new Middle East,\" he declared.\n\nBut the move has deeply angered Palestinians, who accuse the Arab countries of reneging on a promise not to embrace ties with Israel until Palestinian statehood is achieved.\n\nPalestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas warned that \"peace, security and stability will not be achieved in the region until the Israeli occupation ends\".\n\nBefore the UAE and Bahrain, the only other Arab countries in the Middle East to recognise Israel officially were Egypt and Jordan, who signed peace treaties in 1978 and 1994 respectively.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"That's my car... submerged\": Video shows flooded streets in Pensacola, Florida\n\nTropical Storm Sally has left more than half a million Americans without power as its torrential rains and storm surges lashed the US Gulf coast.\n\nSally weakened after it made landfall as a Category 2 hurricane on Wednesday, but the slow-moving storm continues to batter Florida and Alabama.\n\nOne person was killed and hundreds were rescued from flooded areas.\n\nPensacola, in Florida, was badly hit, with a loose barge bringing down part of the Bay Bridge.\n\n\"Catastrophic and life-threatening flooding continues over portions of the Florida Panhandle and southern Alabama,\" the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.\n\nThe wind ripped the roof off this house in Perdido Key, Florida\n\nThe storm has brought \"four months of rain in four hours\" to the city, Pensacola fire chief Ginny Cranor told CNN.\n\nOne person died and another was missing in the town of Orange Beach, Alabama, the mayor said without giving further details.\n\nSally made landfall at Gulf Shores, Alabama, at 04:45 local time on Wednesday, with maximum wind speeds of 105mph (169 km/h).\n\nAccording to the NHC, Category 2 hurricanes have sustained winds of 96 to 110 mph. The NHC says a Category 2 storm's \"extremely dangerous winds\" usually cause damage to homes and shallowly rooted trees.\n\nThe storm later become a tropical depression with winds decreasing to 35mph, but it has been the torrents of rainfall and high storm surges that have caused most damage.\n\nAs the storm moved north from the coast, some 550,000 residents in affected areas were left in the dark on Wednesday night, according to local reports.\n\nSally is one of several storms in the Atlantic Ocean, with officials running out of letters to name the hurricanes as they near the end of their annual alphabetic list.\n\nRainfall is being measured in feet rather than inches in some places, but 18in (45cm) has been recorded across many areas.\n\nFlooding to a depth of 5ft hit central Pensacola. The storm surge was the third worst ever to hit the city. Police there told people not to go out to look at the damage, saying: \"It's slowing our progress down. Please stay at home!\"\n\nAlthough the winds did not have the devastating power of the deadly Hurricane Laura, which struck last month, they still ripped boats from moorings and sent one barge careering into the under-construction Bay Bridge. They were certainly high enough to topple high-sided vehicles.\n\nOne of the barges that broke free in Pensacola, Florida\n\nAnother barge got loose and headed for the Escambia Bay Bridge but luckily ran ashore.\n\nThe sheriff of Escambia County said it had not been expecting the devastation wrought by Sally.\n\nOverturned vehicle in Mobile, Alabama. Many roads there were hit by falling trees\n\nCavin Hollyhand, 50, who lives in Mobile, Alabama, told Reuters: \"The rain is what stands out with this one: It's unreal.\"\n\nThere remains \"a danger of life-threatening inundation\" on the Florida-Alabama border, the NHC said.\n\nAlabama Governor Kay Ivey said many areas around Mobile were seeing historic flood levels and urged people to heed warnings.\n\nThe pier at Gulf State Park in Alabama suffered significant damage.\n\nGulf Shores in Alabama hosted Sally's landfall and its torrential rain\n\nThe latest on power cuts from the poweroutage.us website lists some 290,000 customers without electricity in Alabama and 253,000 more in Florida.\n\nAs well as pylons being brought down, many trees were uprooted.\n\nRain appeared to fall sideways in Alabama, which led to submerged roads as the storm inched ashore. Other areas along the coast were also affected, with beaches and highways swamped in Mississippi and low-lying properties in Louisiana covered by the rising waters.\n\nAlabama, Florida and Mississippi all declared states of emergency ahead of the storm.\n\nJohn De Block, at the National Weather Service in Birmingham, Alabama, told the New York Times that Sally was drifting \"at the speed of a child in a candy shop\".\n\nSally's pace may be linked to climate change, according to experts. A 2018 study in Nature magazine found that the speed at which hurricanes and tropical storms move over an area had decreased by 10% between 1949 and 2016, a drop that was linked to an increase in total rainfall.\n\n\"Sally has a characteristic that isn't often seen, and that's a slow forward speed and that's going to exacerbate the flooding,\" NHC deputy director Ed Rappaport told the Associated Press.\n\nIn addition to Sally, there are four other tropical cyclones - Paulette, Rene, Teddy and Vicky - swirling in the Atlantic Ocean basin.\n\nIf only one more storm is officially named - Wilfred has already been chosen - meteorologists will run out of preselected names for the rest of the year and so will begin naming new storms after the Greek alphabet.\n\nHave you been affected by Hurricane Sally? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The U-turn in this summer's exams in England became unavoidable, as numbers challenging grades would have overwhelmed the appeals system, said Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nFacing questions from MPs over the exams fiasco, he defended the principle of using calculated grades, but said too many \"inconsistencies\" emerged.\n\nMr Williamson also denied making the exams watchdog take down its guidance.\n\nHe also told MPs schools would be able to order more Covid-19 testing kits.\n\nWith head teachers warning that schools might have to send home pupils because of delays with testing, Mr Williamson said he had met Baroness Harding, head of the test and trace system, to emphasise that testing for schools had to be a \"priority\".\n\nSchools can now order replacement testing kits, he said, after they were sent an initial batch of 10 per school.\n\nBut he would not commit to a \"48-hour guarantee\" for turning around test results, as suggested by Education Select Committee chairman Robert Halfon.\n\nThe education secretary was giving evidence to MPs about the chaos surrounding this summer's A-level, GCSE and vocational exams.\n\nMr Williamson said that when the decision to cancel exams was taken in March, there was a need for \"certainty\" - and it was not feasible to plan for conventional exams, which might later have to be scrapped.\n\nHe stood by the decision to use calculated grades instead - saying they were fairer for pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds - but said the problems and errors emerged when results were issued.\n\nGavin Williamson told MPs that he did not give instructions to Ofqual to remove appeals guidance\n\n\"The reality was there were too many inconsistencies in terms of the grades. That was one of the real challenges - and that lead to a lack of public confidence in the awarded grades,\" he told MPs.\n\nThere had been confusion over a decision to allow appeals to be made over mock test results - with the exam regulator Ofqual publishing rules for how this would work and then taking them down the same day.\n\nMr Williamson denied that he had ordered this - saying that he had wanted changes, but it had not been his decision to remove the guidance.\n\nThe volume of appeals that would have been expected from allowing the use of mock test results was such that the appeals system would not have been able to cope, he told MPs.\n\n\"What became increasingly clear,\" he said, \"was that an appeals system now, no matter how robust, no matter how wide, how open was not going to be sufficient to address the number of youngsters applying\".\n\nAnd in response, in a major U-turn, results were then switched to the \"centre assessment grades\" submitted by schools, with mock tests being ditched for appeals.\n\n\"Pupils, teachers, parents and taxpayers deserve better answers than this,\" he said. The responses to the committee did not really explain \"what went wrong with the grading process this summer\", said Mr Barton.\n\nThere were protests calling for a U-turn after the original grades were issued\n\nDavid Blunkett, a former Labour education secretary, said later that in the end the \"buck stops with the education secretary\".\n\nQuestioned on blurred lines of responsibility and accountability between ministers and Ofqual, the education secretary emphasised that Ofqual was not subject to his oversight.\n\n\"Ofqual is most clearly very independent,\" he said.\n\nHe also refused to be drawn into questions over whether Ofqual \"got it wrong\" in their approach to awarding exams, instead offering praise for Sally Collier, the chief regulator, who resigned following the exams crisis.\n\nIn terms of recognising early warnings that there could be problems with the algorithm system - Mr Williamson said the Department for Education did not get any detailed view of results until the week they were published.\n\nBut he also suggested he would not be able to share with MPs a briefing about the exams given to officials at 10 Downing Street a week before results were published.\n\nAsked whether Ofqual's reputation had been badly damaged, he said: \"What we both failed to recognise was the fact that we weren't in peace time.\n\n\"But we were in a very different situation in terms of the global pandemic.\"\n\nAnd the education secretary refused to be drawn into questions about whether his most senior civil servant had resigned due to providing unsatisfactory advice.\n\nAsked about next year's exams, Mr Williamson said it was \"vital and so important that we get the exams series up and running for 2021\".\n\n\"I have repeatedly told Parliament that we are going ahead with exams next year,\" he said.\n\nHis department was planning for a potentially different approach that could see \"extra capacity within schools and a wider use of public buildings for exam sectors\", he added.", "Ex-Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has landed a £100,000 job advising the owner of some of the UK's top ports.\n\nThe Conservative MP is working for Hutchison Ports, which operates Harwich and Felixstowe among other terminals.\n\nAccording to the MPs' register of financial interests, he will be paid for seven hours work a week for a year.\n\nThe appointment has been approved by a Whitehall watchdog despite it raising concerns of a \"perceived risk\" that it may give the firm an unfair advantage.\n\nThe Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (ACOBA) said Mr Grayling had reassured them he would not be advising the company on its commercial maritime activities or risks and opportunities associated with Brexit.\n\nThe watchdog said the role would be limited to advising the firm, which also operates London Thamesport, on its environmental strategy and its engagement with local enterprise bodies.\n\nIt said the MP must comply with these and other conditions, including a ban on him lobbying ministers on behalf of the company or giving advice on UK government tenders, until July 2021, two years after he left the cabinet.\n\nMr Grayling stepped down as transport secretary when Boris Johnson became PM in July 2019, having served under his predecessor Theresa May for three years.\n\nMPs are allowed to take on second jobs - and while some have argued that representing constituents should be a full-time occupation, others say working in \"the real world\" keeps members of Parliament grounded in reality.\n\nFor ex-members of the government, however, taking on paid work is slightly trickier - particularly if they have only recently given up their ministerial red boxes.\n\nThere are rules on appointments set by the government, with compliance overseen by ACOBA.\n\nFormer ministers and ex-senior civil servants are are expected to seek advice from the watchdog and follow its advice if they want to start a job less than two years after leaving government.\n\nHowever although the watchdog has the power to put information about appointments into the public domain, it has no formal enforcement powers.\n\nIn 2017, a committee of MPs described ACOBA as \"a toothless regulator\".\n\nAnd in the same year, Labour's then shadow cabinet office minister Jon Trickett said it was \"populated with establishment figures\".\n\nCritics of Mr Grayling say he made a series of poor decisions during his time in the job, including awarding a contract to a group of ferry operators to provide extra capacity after the UK left the EU - one of which had never sailed a vessel.\n\nThe contracts, which Mr Grayling described as an insurance policy, were later cancelled. The National Audit Office estimated that the costs incurred to the taxpayer could be as high as £56.6m.\n\nMr Johnson sought to install the MP for Epsom and Ewell as chair of the powerful Commons Intelligence and Security Committee in July.\n\nBut MPs on the committee voted to back his colleague Julian Lewis instead. Mr Grayling has since quit the committee.", "Almost two million people in north-east England are expected to face restrictions as coronavirus cases rise.\n\nNorthumberland, Newcastle, Sunderland, North and South Tyneside, Gateshead and County Durham council areas are in discussions to get the measures.\n\nThese may include pubs closing earlier and restrictions on households mixing.\n\nIt comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the Sun: \"The only way to make sure the country is able to enjoy Christmas is to be tough now.\"\n\nHe previously said the government was doing \"everything in our power\" to avoid another nationwide lockdown.\n\nThe PM also told the newspaper the government is promising £546m as part of a plan to help protect care homes from coronavirus this winter.\n\nA full announcement detailing the new measures for the North East is expected later on Thursday.\n\n\"The number of cases has been rising rapidly in many parts of the country, but in particular in the North East, and so a decision has been made to impose further restrictions there,\" Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick told ITV's Peston programme on Wednesday.\n\n\"And a full announcement will be made tomorrow and so people living in that part of the country should watch out for that. And the measures will come into play at midnight on Thursday evening.\"\n\nMPs from the area met with Health Minister Nadine Dorries on Wednesday evening.\n\nBBC Newsnight political editor Nicholas Watt said a Labour MP told him measures would include pubs closing at 22:00 BST, no mixing with other households and public transport only for essential travel.\n\nNewcastle City Council leader Nick Forbes said the temporary measures would mainly be a restriction on social gatherings.\n\n\"The evidence we've found from local testing is that it's spreading in three main areas: in pubs, in people's homes and in grassroots sports,\" he said.\n\n\"So [council leaders] have put together a series of requests to government for additional restrictions around these areas for a fixed period of time to try to prevent a damaging full lockdown.\"\n\nThe council leaders had also requested additional funding for policing to enforce the measures, as well as additional local testing facilities, Mr Forbes added.\n\n\"All of the testing facilities in our region are more or less at full capacity every day - we're hearing stories of people being sent 200 miles to get a test and that's not acceptable.\n\n\"That's why we've asked as council leaders for more resources immediately, because we need to make sure anyone with symptoms gets an immediate test and gets the result back straight away.\"\n\nGateshead is among the areas due to face tougher local restrictions\n\nThe North East has seen a resurgence of coronavirus in recent weeks and four boroughs were last week placed on the government's watchlist for areas needing \"enhanced support\".\n\nOn Monday, councils in the seven areas of Newcastle, Northumberland, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Gateshead, County Durham and Sunderland called for new restrictions.\n\nBBC analysis of the government's figures shows that, as of Wednesday, Bolton had the highest rate in England at 204.1 per 100,000 people in the week to 13 September.\n\nSunderland's rate was 82.1 per 100,000 people, South Tyneside was 93.4, Gateshead was 81.7, Newcastle was 64.1, North Tyneside was 46.7, with County Durham at 37.4 and Northumberland at 25.7.\n\nIn total there were 1,106 new cases in a seven-day period.\n\nA spokesman for the Department of Health and Social Care said: \"We constantly monitor infection rates across the country and keep all measures under review in consultation with local leaders.\n\n\"Any changes to local restrictions will be announced in the usual way.\"\n\nOther parts of the UK, including Birmingham and Greater Manchester, are already subject to increased measures.\n\nIn an interview with the Sun on Thursday, Mr Johnson compared the graph showing UK virus cases to the humps on a camel's back, saying the aim is to \"stop the surge\" in cases and \"flatten the second hump\".\n\nHe said he did not want to lock down sections of the economy, but that the government \"will be looking at\" requiring pubs to close early.\n\nOn Wednesday, the prime minister told a committee of MPs a second national lockdown would be potentially \"disastrous\" for the UK.\n\nHe admitted there was not enough testing capacity - amid widespread reports of difficulties obtaining them - and said new nationwide restrictions such as the \"rule of six\" were necessary to \"defeat\" the disease.\n\nCoronavirus cases across the UK increased by 3,991, taking the total to 378,219, according to figures from the government.\n\nWhile parts of north-west England have consistently had the highest rates of new infections for some time now, areas of the North East have also been reporting big increases.\n\nIn the week to 30 August Sunderland had 24 cases. Two weeks later it was 228.\n\nThe rise in South Tyneside was also very large, up from 70 cases in the last week of August to 141 in the week to 13 September.\n\nParts of the region are recording rates they haven't seen since May, when the country was still subject to most of the full lockdown measures.\n\nTesting capacity has increased since then but there have been shortages due to the recent surge in demand.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nDo you live in one of the areas where restrictions are being reintroduced? How will you be affected? Do you have any questions? Share your views and experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:", "The widespread introduction of Covid marshals to towns and cities in England is \"unlikely\" and \"almost impossible\", some local authorities have said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson suggested the marshals would enforce rules about social distancing, gathering in groups and wearing masks.\n\nBut a lack of detail has been criticised by council and health officials.\n\nLocal authorities \"are best placed to determine the model of deployment and responsibilities of marshals in their areas\" and \"further details will be set out in due course\", a government spokesman said.\n\nBut Bob Cook, leader of Stockton Council, said the announcement had \"caused a lot of confusion\".\n\n\"We've had no answers to any of these questions. It's a very strange way of doing things,\" Mr Cook said.\n\n\"Things would be a lot clearer if the government would actually talk to local councils before making such announcements.\"\n\nMr Johnson has said marshals could also be volunteers or current members of council staff.\n\nA Cheshire East spokesman said any new responsibilities would \"have to be fully funded by Whitehall\", while Southend's public safety councillor, Martin Terry, said: \"We can't do things out of thin air. The government has to put money on the table.\"\n\nNewcastle City Council leader Nick Forbes complained authorities were given just days to hire and train the marshals \"with no extra funding or resources to help\" and accused the government of \"serial incompetence\".\n\nSpokespeople for Lewisham, North Yorkshire and Swindon councils have also said they need more information about what marshals are actually expected to do, what powers they will have, how they will be paid for.\n\nThe prime minister has also been criticised for the manner of the announcement.\n\nLewisham Council's cabinet member for finance, Amanda DeRyk, said she learned about the plans on the radio.\n\n\"You're like, hang on a minute, that's the first we've heard,\" she said.\n\n\"There's this sort of policy of decision making by sensational announcement. I heard that on [Radio 4's] the Today Programme\".\n\nThe Local Government Association said: \"Even if marshals were rolled out in great numbers, they will not have enforcement powers so it is important that residents do not expect councils to be able to act when they cannot\" and \"any new responsibilities for councils in this area will have to be fully funded\".\n\nA few areas of the country - including Leeds and Cornwall - have already introduced marshals to give \"friendly help and guidance\".\n• None Who are the Covid marshals and do they have any powers?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Richard Burns decided to move out of his family home at the start of school term\n\nA father with an immunodeficiency disease has decided to stop all physical contact with his family due to his children returning to school.\n\nRichard Burns, from Bangor, County Down, is in the \"extremely vulnerable category\" due to his medical condition.\n\nHe said he made the decision \"for his own safety\" and so that his daughters could continue their education.\n\nRichard has been told by his immunologist if he were to contract Covid-19 it could be fatal.\n\nHis body is incapable of producing B cells, which are responsible for generating antibodies to help fight off infections.\n\nThe condition, which he has had since birth, means he is required to infuse blood plasma to \"top up\" his immune system every three weeks.\n\nHe said: \"For me, it's really serious. I developed bronchitis when I was younger and because of that I've developed serious lung problems.\"\n\nRichard now keeps in contact with his pregnant wife, Patricia, and two children, Eleanor and Rosa, virtually\n\nThe Department of Education (DoE) advises that pupils with vulnerable family members can have an individual risk-assessment conducted \"in conjunction with parents, health professionals and school leaders\".\n\nThey said these should be \"developed and implemented on a setting-by-setting basis\".\n\nA risk assessment can provide a graded number-based system on the \"likelihood\", \"severity\" and \"risk\" that someone is likely to be exposed to coronavirus with certain safety measures in place.\n\nHowever, Richard said the risk assessment that was carried out at his daughter's school \"did not reassure him for his own safety\" and described it as \"just a lot of numbers on a page\".\n\n\"This is my life we are talking about, I need to take every precaution possible,\" Richard said.\n\nRichard said it was \"heart-breaking\" not being there for his four-year-old daughter Rosa's very first day of primary school\n\nFor many parents, seeing their children return to school brought back some semblance of normality. However, for Richard it was quite the opposite.\n\nDespite shielding officially ending on 1 August, Richard took the decision to continue shielding with his family.\n\nBut at the start of school term he decided to move out of his family home and into his mother's house in Millisle, County Down.\n\nHe now lives in a closed-off area in the house, he has limited contact with his mother and they maintain a constant social-distance.\n\nRichard now keeps in contact with his pregnant wife, Patricia, and two children, Eleanor and Rosa, entirely virtually with extended family helping out during his physical absence.\n\n\"We don't want the girls to be disadvantaged,\" said Richard. \"They've already lost so much schooling already, but the only option we felt as a family was for me to move out.\n\n\"It's impossible to completely eliminate the risk, but it is so important that everything is done to at least minimise it.\n\n\"I just don't understand how that could be the case when schools have reopened with full classes of pupils and with them being in there full-time.\n\n\"I wouldn't have moved out if there was a mixture of online learning from home and reduced class sizes which had initially been suggested - I could've accepted that.\"\n\nThe Department of Education (DoE) has said pupils or children of parents in the vulnerable category \"can attend their education setting\".\n\nNorth Down MP Stephen Farry has said \"parents are bouncing back between schools and GPs to get situations addressed\"\n\nMP for North Down Stephen Farry has called on the executive to give more clarity to parents and schools.\n\n\"It is very concerning the lengths that my constituent feels compelled to go to protect his family,\" Mr Farry told BBC News NI.\n\n\"Education guidance exists in a vacuum, and parents are bouncing back between schools and GPs to get situations addressed.\"\n\nThe DoE told BBC News NI the Department of Health had issued guidance for people deemed most vulnerable.\n\nAccording to latest public health advice, those considered vulnerable are encouraged to \"stay at home as much as possible\".\n\nWhen going outside and socialising, they are advised to be \"particularly careful to adhere to social distancing guidelines and other guidance\".\n\nThe DoE also said that officials were currently \"working to prepare new guidance, which will include updated advice on risk-assessments.\"", "A second national lockdown would be likely to have \"disastrous\" financial consequences for the UK, the prime minister has said.\n\nAppearing at a committee of MPs, Boris Johnson said the government was doing \"everything in our power\" to prevent another nationwide lockdown.\n\nThis was why new restrictions - such as the \"rule of six\" - were necessary to \"defeat\" the disease, he said.\n\nThe PM also admitted there was not enough testing capacity.\n\nEarlier, he blamed a \"colossal spike\" in demand for ongoing problems in accessing tests and results being delayed.\n\nOn Wednesday, coronavirus cases in the UK increased by 3,991, taking the total to 378,219, according to figures from the government.\n\nA further 20 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19. This brings the UK death total by this criterion to 41,684.\n\nAmid the increase in coronavirus cases, Mr Johnson was asked by the Commons Liaison Committee whether the UK could afford another national lockdown.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"I don't want a second national lockdown - I think it would be completely wrong for this country and we are going to do everything in our power to prevent it.\n\n\"And can we afford it? I very much doubt that the financial consequences would be anything but disastrous, but we have to make sure that we defeat the disease by the means that we have set out.\n\n\"So when I see people arguing against the rule of six or saying that the government is coming in too hard on individual liberties and so on - I totally understand that and I sympathise with that, but we must, must defeat this disease.\"\n\nFrom Monday, new rules came into force, restricting indoor and outdoor gatherings in England and Scotland, and indoor groups in Wales.\n\nA second national lockdown is extremely unlikely for two reasons.\n\nFirstly, it is hugely damaging - to the economy, to education and to wider health for reasons other than Covid.\n\nYou only need to look at the latest figures for falling cancer referrals, the hours spent out of school and the rising unemployment to see the cost of the UK's spring lockdown.\n\nSecondly, the government and its medical advisers have a much better grasp of the virus.\n\nCurrent infection rates and hospitalisations remain much lower than they were in the spring and, despite the problems with testing, there is pretty rich data on exactly where the virus is and how quickly it is spreading.\n\nEven if things get worse, officials are quite confident the NHS will cope.\n\nBut that does not mean there won't be further restrictions - or that it won't be a very difficult winter with a high number of deaths.\n\nThe ban of gatherings of more than six people could be just the first step.\n\nThere is also talk of curfews, forcing hospitality venues to close at 22:00 BST.\n\nThis tactic was used in Belgium to curb the rise in cases, and has been deployed to tackle the outbreak in Bolton.\n\nAt this stage, it is unlikely this will be used nationally.\n\nInstead, expect it to be an option for virus hotspots, along with banning visits to other people's housing which has been used in the North West and West Yorkshire.\n\nShielding could, though, be re-introduced across the country at some point, along with bans on visits to care homes, in an attempt to protect the most vulnerable groups.\n\nMr Johnson also admitted there was not enough coronavirus testing capacity amid reports of people struggling to get tests and results being delayed.\n\nHe told the committee: \"We don't have enough testing capacity now because, in an ideal world, I would like to test absolutely everybody that wants a test immediately.\"\n\nHe promised there would be capacity for 500,000 tests a day by the end of October.\n\nBut he urged people without symptoms to stay away from testing centres - although he acknowledged why they may want to find out if they had Covid-19.\n\n\"What has happened is demand has massively accelerated just in the last couple of weeks,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Labour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner, who stood in for Sir Keir Starmer at Prime Minister's Questions, said Mr Johnson had \"time and again\" made pledges on testing, but \"then breaks those promises\".\n\n\"They've had six months to get this right and yet the prime minister still can't deliver on his promises,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Angela Rayner stood in for Keir Starmer at Prime Minister's Questions\n\nMPs at the liaison committee also asked the prime minister about his aim of having a \"pregnancy-style test\" in place within months, which would have a role in fulfilling his \"Operation Moonshot\" ambition for mass testing.\n\nThe government has said it £500m has been set aside to invest in its mass testing plans.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"I am going to be cautious and say that I can't sit here today and say that we have such a 'pregnancy-style test'... today.\n\n\"It is right for government to invest in such a project.\"\n\nCommittee chairman Sir Bernard Jenkin told Mr Johnson musicians, singers and performers had \"fallen through the cracks of the support schemes available\".\n\nMr Johnson said the best way to help the sector was to \"get these businesses going again and to get the theatres lit again, by having the virus down and having a testing regime that allows us to do that\".\n\nHe also said an inquiry into the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic would \"look at everything that has gone wrong and gone right\".\n\nBut he said it would not be a \"good use of official time at the moment\" and declined to indicate when the inquiry could begin.\n\nEarlier, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland said plans to put the NHS top of the list for coronavirus tests will be published in the coming days,.\n\nPeople in care homes would also be a priority, while schools could be considered, Mr Buckland said.\n\nResolving delays with testing was \"the number one issue\", he added.", "Georgina Callander was \"one in many millions\", said her mother\n\nThe mother of a teenager killed in the arena bomb has spoken of \"unbearable pain\" and told a public inquiry she wished it was \"me not her\" who died.\n\nGeorgina Callander's mother Lesley filmed a \"pen portrait\" tribute to her daughter which was played to the court.\n\nMs Callander said she wanted to go to the hearing but \"could not bear\" to go to Manchester after the attack in which 22 people died in May 2017.\n\nShe added she had been left \"numb, weak and in emotional and physical pain\".\n\nThe portraits give each family the chance to present an insight into the lives of those who died.\n\nThe bomb was detonated at the end of an Ariana Grande concert, killing 22 people\n\nGeorgina, from Tarleton, Lancashire was \"one in many millions\", her mother told the inquiry into the terror attack at Manchester Magistrates' Court, which is now in its second week.\n\nMs Callander spoke of her \"unbearable pain\" as she relived holding Georgina in her arms during her last moments, saying it had been a \"daily living nightmare\" since her \"senseless, pointless murder\".\n\n\"That night has done everything to destroy every single living cell in my body.\n\n\"I find it excruciatingly hard to live without Georgina.\"\n\nShe added: \"I wish it would have been me and not her.\"\n\nGeorgina's older brothers Daniel and Harry also paid tribute, with the former saying she was \"like a ray of sunshine on the darkest of days\".\n\nMarcin, 42, and Angelika Klis, 39, pictured on the evening of the 22 May 2017 before the bombing\n\nThe children of Marcin and Angelika Klis presented a \"pen portrait\" of their parents.\n\nThe couple's daughters Aleksandra and Patrycja said they \"were so in love as if they were teenagers without a care in the world\".\n\nIn a statement read out by their legal representative, they told the inquiry how they had not \"just lost our parents but we have lost our best friends and protectors\".\n\n\"They did everything in their power to ensure we had everything we wanted and more. They would always put our needs before their own.\"\n\nThe couple, from York, \"were soulmates and they didn't want to be without each other\", their daughters said.\n\n\"Mum and Dad's love was incredibly strong. Something we should all aspire for in life.\"\n\nThe husband of Lisa Lees, 43, from Oldham, told the inquiry how his wife started her own business using massage to help terminally ill children.\n\n\"Lisa was a true angel, caring and beautiful, both inside and out,\" he said.\n\nThe mother-of-two was \"the heart and soul of our family\" who \"had so much more to give in life\", the inquiry heard.\n\nHer daughter India paid tribute to her mum, who had also trained and qualified as a teacher, saying she \"was the most beautiful, selfless and positive person I knew\".\n\nWhile her mother Elaine Hunter said: \"She used to laugh all the time and all her friends would say what an infectious laugh she had, she really did light up a room when she walked in.\"\n\nLisa Lees, 43, was described as \"beautiful, both inside and out\"\n\nThe inquiry comes more than three years after the bombing at the end of an Ariana Grande concert that left hundreds more injured.\n\nThe inquiry was due to start in June, but was delayed by the trial of Salman Abedi's brother Hashem, who was jailed for at least 55 years for 22 murders on 20 August.\n\nThe commemorative hearings are expected to conclude on 23 September.\n\nThe inquiry was set up to examine the background to the attack and the response of the emergency services.\n\nIts chairman Sir John Saunders will make a report and recommendations once all the evidence has been heard, which is expected to take up to six months.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A new freight management system will not be ready when the EU transition period ends, an industry body has warned.\n\nThe Smart Freight system, which is seen as vital for preventing delays after the Brexit transition on 1 January, will only be in a beta - or test - version.\n\nBut the government insists it will be a fully operational digital service.\n\nIt has reassured industry that the system will be operational by December.\n\nThe Smart Freight system ensures that trucks are carrying the correct documentation before they travel to ports.\n\nThe new system is designed to reduce delays at ports, and to better manage traffic into Dover and queues of lorries building up along the M2 and M20 motorways in Kent.\n\nTruck drivers could face a fine if they arrive at ports without the proper documentation, but the government insists this will be a last resort, and unnecessary if they follow the rules.\n\nLogistics UK, which represents freight businesses, said it was informed by government officials on Monday that a beta - or test - version would be available in December, but would not be fully operational until April.\n\nIn a statement, the Director of Policy at Logistics UK Elizabeth de Jong said it was unacceptable and a \"massive blow to UK businesses and the economy\".\n\nBut the government now says \"beta\" is a standard labelling practice for a digital service that is fully operational.", "Sony has matched the price of the forthcoming flagship PlayStation 5 to that of Microsoft's Xbox Series X.\n\nLast time round, the PS4 significantly undercut the Xbox One at launch.\n\nSony also confirmed the PS5's \"digital edition\" - which does not have a disc drive - would cost about 40% more than the low-end Xbox Series S.\n\nBoth PS5 consoles are set to be released on 19 November in the UK, and 12 November in the US, Japan and Australia.\n\nThat puts them slightly later than Microsoft's 10 November launch date.\n\nMarvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales will be one of the PS5's exclusive titles\n\nSony was the clear leader in the previous generation of the so-called console wars.\n\nThe various PlayStation 4 consoles outsold the Xbox One range by a factor of more than two to one.\n\nBut the £449/$500/€500 cost of the Japanese firm's new top-end machine and £360/$400/€400 price of the digital edition means it may be a closer battle this time, at least to begin with.\n\nSome industry-watchers believe Microsoft's combination of a £250 price for the XBox Series S and the value offered by the Xbox Game Pass subscription service could give the US firm an advantage.\n\nMicrosoft offers members its first-party blockbuster games at launch in its games library, unlike Sony's existing PlayStation Now services, which is limited to older major releases.\n\nSony's decision to price some of its first PS5 releases at £70 - including the \"ultimate edition\" of a new Spider-Man game, and Demon's Souls - represents a rise, and will also have to be taken into consideration.\n\nIt showed off a new subscription service called the PlayStation Plus Collection for the PS5.\n\nPS5 owners will be able to play the PS4's God of War and are being promised a sequel of their own\n\nBut it appeared to focus on the PS4's greatest hits - including Last of Us Remastered, God of War and Bloodborne - rather than any of the PS5's forthcoming releases.\n\n\"Microsoft has a really appealing offering with the Xbox Series S pricing at just £250, and Sony doesn't really have an answer to that for people who just want the cheapest possible entry point to next-generation gaming,\" video games journalist Laura Dale told the BBC.\n\n\"However, people who want to play any of Sony's first-party franchises are unlikely to be swayed to Xbox just because it's cheaper.\"\n\nOne key difference between the two companies' strategies is that the Xbox Series S delivers lower-resolution graphics than the Series X because it has less powerful components, while Sony has opted only to remove the Blu-ray drive from its entry-level machine.\n\nOn that basis, its marketers may still argue it provides a better-value way to experience the full power of what next-generation games can deliver.\n\nThe trailer for the new Final Fantasy game said it would only be released on the PS5 and PCs\n\nEven so, it is likely Sony will instead focus its appeal on the draw of its \"console exclusive\" titles.\n\nTo that end, during its latest virtual event it showed trailers and gameplay for:\n\nSony also teased its forthcoming God of War sequel Ragnarok, which it said would be released next year, but only showed off an animated logo.\n\n\"It is possible that PS5 will have launched three console-exclusive titles before Xbox Series X manages to launch its first - Halo Infinite, with no date in 2021 specified as of yet,\" said Louise Shorthouse, a games analyst at Omdia.\n\n\"Consumers also tend to stick with the same console brands across generations, so Sony is in an incredibly strong position.\"\n\nMany of the games on show had been previewed at an earlier event in June.\n\nHogwarts Legacy is an open-world game set more than 100 years before Harry Potter was born\n\nBut there was also a first look at the much anticipated Harry Potter spin-off Hogwarts Legacy. The role-playing game will be a cross-platform release in 2021.\n\n\"The two higher-spec consoles are close to each other in terms of specification - the Xbox has more storage, but the PS5's is slightly faster,\" said Nicky Danino, a gaming expert at the University of Central Lancashire.\n\n\"But there are still reasons why people will pick a specific console. What platform your friends play on, for example, is highly influential.\"\n\nIt looks like Sony is almost trolling arch-rival Microsoft by matching the PS5's price to that of the Xbox Series X.\n\nThe gambit will have surprised many industry observers.\n\nXbox felt forced to reveal its prices last week following a leak. And this seemed to gift PlayStation a second-mover advantage.\n\nBut when I spoke to PlayStation's chief executive Jim Ryan, he was adamant that the PS5's price points had been set since the beginning of the year. Likewise, he said, today's announcement had been in his diary for some time.\n\nOn paper the Xbox Series X is the more powerful machine.\n\nBut PlayStation has a solid line-up of platform-exclusive titles.\n\nAnd the delay to Halo Infinite - after fans complained that footage shown earlier in the year was underwhelming - has been a big blow to Microsoft's original launch plans.\n\nBut is the PS5 fighting the last generation's console war?\n\nXbox has a compelling offer with its Game Pass Ultimate subscription service. So even if Xbox doesn't sell as many physical consoles as PlayStation, it may still prove to be at least as profitable.\n\nWhen I questioned Mr Ryan about the possibility of a similar service, he said PlayStation was about big blockbuster games that cost a lot to make, so a similar subscription service model would not make financial sense.\n\nWe will find out whether he sticks to that strategy in 2021 or beyond once supply meets demand.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Two people have been critically injured in the crash\n\nFive people have been injured after a multi-vehicle crash involving a bus and several cars.\n\nMore than 70 homes lost power after the crash affected a power cable in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nFirefighters worked to free people trapped at Trebanog Road in Porth at about 09:00 BST on Wednesday.\n\nTwo people, a man and a woman who were in separate vehicles, are in a critical condition in hospital, according to South Wales Police.\n\nThe force said the other casualties, including the driver of the coach, needed hospital treatment but their injuries were not thought to be serious.\n\nThe crash involved a bus, a van, a large goods vehicle and several cars.\n\nFive people were injured, with three taken to hospital\n\nA trail of damage was left following the crash\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service said it took three people to hospital - two to University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, and one to Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Pontyclun.\n\nThree people were freed from the wreckage while a further two managed to get out themselves.\n\nWestern Power is also at the scene dealing with the power cuts in the area.\n\nThe road is expected to stay shut \"for some time\" and South Wales Police asked people to avoid the area.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Twenty-nine German police officers have been suspended for sharing pictures of Adolf Hitler and depictions of refugees in gas chambers on their phones.\n\nThe officers also used far-right chatrooms where swastikas and other Nazi symbols were shared, officials in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) said.\n\nNRW Interior Minister Herbert Reul said it was a \"disgrace for NRW police\".\n\nIt follows several other incidences of far-right extremism among the German security services.\n\nMore than 200 police officers were involved in raids on 34 police stations and private homes linked to 11 main suspects. The officers are said to have shared more than 100 neo-Nazi images in WhatsApp groups.\n\nSome of the suspects face charges of spreading Nazi propaganda and hate speech. Others are accused of not reporting their colleagues' actions.\n\n\"This is the worst and most repulsive kind of hate-baiting,\" Mr Reul said, adding that he expected the investigation to find more chats with offensive content.\n\n\"I'm appalled and ashamed,\" said Frank Richter, the police chief in the city of Essen where most of the suspects were based. \"It is hard to find words.\"\n\nMr Reul has now launched an investigation into the extent of extremism among the state's police.\n\n\"Right-wing extremists and neo-Nazis have absolutely no place in the North Rhine-Westphalia police, our police,\" he said, and the authorities had to show a \"crystal clear political profile\" that rejected the far right.\n\nGermany's police and security services have faced accusations that they are not doing enough to root out extremists within their ranks.\n\nIn July prosecutors said they had arrested a former police officer and his wife who are suspected of sending threats to well-known figures of immigrant background, including several ethnically Turkish lawmakers.\n\nThe emails were signed \"NSU 2.0\", a reference to the \"National Socialist Underground\" neo-Nazi gang, which committed 10 racist murders between 2000 and 2007.\n\nThe scandal has already seen the Hesse state police chief Udo Münch resign after it emerged that police computers were used to find out details of a left-wing politician who later received one of the threatening emails.\n\nMeanwhile, in June, Germany's defence minister ordered the partial dissolution of the elite KSK commando force after growing criticism over right-wing extremism in its ranks.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nGlenn Maxwell and Alex Carey's record-breaking 212-run partnership steered Australia to a thrilling one-day series victory over England at Emirates Old Trafford.\n\nChasing 303, Maxwell hit a blistering 108 from 90 balls and Carey a more measured 106 as a belligerent partnership rescued Australia from 73-5.\n\nMaxwell fell with 15 balls remaining and Carey holed out at the end of the 49th over to leave Australia needing 10 runs from the final six balls.\n\nHowever, Mitchell Starc pummelled the first ball from Adil Rashid for six, and a swept boundary ensured Australia sneaked over the line with two balls remaining.\n\nThe defeat ended England's five-year unbeaten run in home ODI series, as well as being their first series loss of the summer.\n\nJonny Bairstow had earlier made 112 to help England recover from losing two wickets to the first two deliveries of the innings and post 302-7.\n\nEngland could have dismissed Carey for nine had Jofra Archer not overstepped when the Australia wicketkeeper was caught at third man off a ballooning top edge.\n\nCarey went on to make England pay - hitting his first ODI century, with he and Maxwell surpassing Brad Haddin and Mike Hussey's stand of 165 against West Indies in 2006 to compile Australia's highest sixth-wicket partnership in ODIs.\n\nThis was the end of a long summer for England, but a welcome win for Australia, who were whitewashed on their last limited-overs visit in 2018.\n• None Morgan rues missed chances in Australia defeat but reflects on 'amazing' summer\n\nWhen a furious Marnus Labuschagne was run out at 73-5, Australia looked to be out of the contest, but Maxwell picked the perfect moment to play the definitive innings for his country that he has long threatened.\n\nMaxwell, who is known as 'The Big Show', divides opinion in Australia but there are few players as watchable as he is when on song.\n\nA half-century came up from 48 balls; the next over, Rashid was smashed so hard and so high over the short leg-side boundary the ball rattled off the glass of the enormous Point building.\n\nCarey was the less flashy part of the partnership. He used an angled bat to guide the ball around the field, bringing up his fifth ODI half-century with a fine clip through mid-wicket off Chris Woakes.\n\nThe two ran superbly, putting the England fielders under pressure, and the pace bowlers seemed to lose their lines, with eight wides not helping their cause.\n\nAustralia were 222-5 with 10 overs remaining but both players hit out, Maxwell reaching just his second ODI hundred with another leg-side six, before Carey flashed a single off Woakes to reach three figures for the first time.\n\nMemories of their second ODI collapse may have lingered when Maxwell and Carey fell with the finish line in sight, but this time Australia claimed the win and, with it, the series.\n\nThe world champions will be left to rue missed chances.\n\nAs well as Archer's no ball, England were not up to their usual standard in the field, with two dropped catches and several scruffy dives allowing Maxwell and Carey to rotate the strike.\n\nEngland had this game in their grasp. Woakes continued an excellent all-round performance by having opposition captain Aaron Finch trapped lbw and seeing Marcus Stoinis slap a slower ball to Eoin Morgan at mid-wicket inside the first 10 overs.\n\nWhen Joe Root chipped in with his part-time off-spin to bowl a beleaguered David Warner and have Mitchell Marsh caught behind, everything was going right for the hosts.\n\nBut with Root bowling an over or two more than necessary, and Maxwell dismantling Rashid with the short boundaries, England allowed the pair to get their eye in.\n\nEngland found themselves 0-2 after just two balls in a disastrous start on a fresh pitch.\n\nJason Roy sliced Starc's first ball to Maxwell at backward point before Root was lbw to a pacy inswinger, but Bairstow marshalled a fine recovery.\n\nSupported first by Eoin Morgan and then Sam Billings, Bairstow found the aggression that worked so well in the World Cup. He was strong on the pull shot against the pace bowlers and, as the pitch slowed, he adapted well, taking singles where they were available.\n\nHe brought up his 10th ODI century with a towering six off Pat Cummins before Billings joined in the attack, lofting Starc into the car park as he reached his half-century.\n\nLeg-spinner Adam Zampa once again impressed for Australia, forcing errors out of Morgan and Jos Buttler as they were caught at mid-off and cover respectively, before Billings top-edged a reverse sweep to end a 114-run stand.\n\nWhen Bairstow was bowled by a Cummins slower ball, England's tail could have subsided, but Woakes was at his best. His half-century came up from just 38 balls and included an astonishing reverse scoop off Josh Hazlewood.\n\nIt was a good total on a decent pitch, but Maxwell and Carey's brilliance left England just short.\n\n'The cricket this summer has been remarkable'\n\nEx-England captain Michael Vaughan on Test Match Special: \"What we've witnessed in the last few months in terms of drama has been remarkable. When you think the players have been locked up in cricket grounds, they have produced so many dramatic moments.\n\n\"I think that's a big moment for Australia. From where they were on Sunday, if they'd lost that game, and it looked like they would going into the last over, I don't know how Justin Langer would have picked them up. I don't know what he could have said. They deserved to win.\"\n\nEngland captain Eoin Morgan: \"Alex Carey and Glenn Maxwell played outstandingly well. It's always an interesting challenge, one that the bowlers are always up for. The bowlers never gave up.\n\n\"Sometimes when you're beaten by the better side you've just got to put your hand up and today was one of those games.\"\n\nAustralia captain Aaron Finch: \"It was an incredible game of cricket, action aplenty.\n\n\"Yeah, we thought we were in trouble, absolutely. Maxi is in the team to do a specific role, to try to swing the momentum. He dragged it back. That partnership was fantastic. I'm really proud of both of them.\n\n\"I don't think there are many bowlers in the world who can hang with him when he's having one of those days.\"", "People requiring A&E will be urged to book an appointment through NHS 111 under a trial in parts of England.\n\nThe aim is to direct patients to the most clinically-appropriate service and to help reduce pressure on emergency departments as staff battle winter pressures, such as coronavirus and flu.\n\nThe pilots are live in Cornwall, Portsmouth, Hampshire and Blackpool and have just begun in Warrington.\n\nIf they are successful, they could be rolled out to all trusts in December.\n\nHowever, people with a life-threatening condition should still call 999.\n\nUnder the new changes, patients will still be able to seek help at A&E without an appointment, but officials say they are likely to end up waiting longer than those who have gone through 111.\n\nMore NHS 111 call handlers are being brought in to take on the additional workload, alongside extra clinicians, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nA campaign called Help Us Help You will launch later in the year to urge people to use the new service.\n\nThe government has also pledged an extra £150m of funding to expand and upgrade 25 more A&Es to reduce overcrowding and improve infection control ahead of winter. This was in addition to the £300m announced for a number of trusts to upgrade their facilities, it said.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"During the peak of the pandemic we saw millions of people using NHS 111 to get the best possible advice on Covid-19, and other urgent NHS services.\n\n\"These pilots will build on this and test whether we can deliver quicker access to the right care, provide a better service for the public and ensure our dedicated NHS staff aren't overwhelmed.\"\n\nThis trial scheme, which seems likely to be adopted at hospitals across England, will see big changes to what people are familiar with at A&E.\n\nPeople who are not seriously ill will be actively discouraged from arriving at emergency departments without an appointment.\n\nThey won't be turned away, but they have been warned there could be even longer waits than before.\n\nOn the other hand, those who have called NHS 111 first and been directed to A&E will get a confirmed time to see an appropriate clinician.\n\nThey could just as easily be directed to an urgent treatment centre or a mental health professional.\n\nThere's the understandable aim of cutting unnecessary visits, so reducing overcrowding in waiting areas at a time when hospitals want to reduce the risk of Covid-19 transmission.\n\nBut for the plan to work, a big public information campaign is required and people will need to have confidence they can get through quickly to an NHS 111 call handler when they need to.\n\nData from the Department for Health and Social Care suggests there are 14.4 million A&E attendances in England that have not gone through NHS 111, a GP or via an ambulance.\n\nIt said 2.1 million attendances do not result in admission or treatment.\n\nChris Hopson, the chief executive of NHS Providers, said trusts will welcome the funding, as it will \"enable them to provide better care for their patients this winter\", adding that the 111 proposals were the \"right approach\".\n\nCaroline Abrahams, charity director at Age UK, said the 111 scheme could have advantages for many older people, including avoiding waiting in crowded A&Es.\n\n\"However, it is important to stress that older people who have difficulty using the phone will not be turned away if they go straight to A&E as before,\" she said.\n\nThe government also announced a consultation on new targets for waiting times in A&E is being launched as ministers prepare to scrap the current four-hour target.\n\nDr Katherine Henderson, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said: \"Expansion of NHS 111 will help patients to be seen more quickly by the service most appropriate to their needs.\n\n\"We are pleased to have reached the consultation phase of how A&E performance is measured with a focus on the safe, timely care of the very sickest patients, and look forward to the publication of the proposals.\"", "Southend Council urged people only to turn up at the facility on Short Street if they had an appointment.\n\nCouncil leader Ian Gilbert said he was \"concerned\" at the queues.\n\n\"Please only book a test if you have coronavirus symptoms.\n\n\"If you book or turn up for a test without symptoms, you are taking testing capacity away from those people who really need it.\"", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Kim Kardashian West and dozens of other celebrities have announced they will freeze their social media accounts to protest against the spread of \"hate, propaganda and misinformation\".\n\n\"Misinformation shared on social media has a serious impact,\" Kardashian West wrote in a statement on Tuesday.\n\nThe move is part of the #StopHateforProfit campaign which was organised by civil rights activists.\n\nThe celebrities will freeze their accounts for 24 hours on Wednesday.\n\n\"I can't sit by and stay silent while these platforms continue to allow the spreading of hate, propaganda and misinformation - created by groups to sow division and split America apart,\" Kardashian West said.\n\n\"Misinformation shared on social media has a serious impact on our elections and undermines our democracy,\" she added.\n\nOther celebrities that have agreed to take part in the boycott include actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Sacha Baron Cohen and Jennifer Lawrence, as well as singer Katy Perry.\n\n\"I can't sit idly by while these platforms turn a blind eye to groups and posts spreading hateful disinformation,\" Perry wrote on Instagram.\n\nActor Ashton Kutcher, who has millions of followers and is also joining the boycott, said \"these tools were not built to spread hate [and] violence\".\n\nKaty Perry and Orlando Bloom have also joined the boycott\n\nThe organisers of the #StopHateforProfit campaign, which was launched in June, accuse Facebook and Instagram of not doing enough to stop hate speech and disinformation.\n\nThe group has focused on Facebook, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp and last year attracted advertising revenue of almost $70bn (£56.7bn).\n\nThousands of businesses and major civil rights groups - including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Anti-Defamation League (AD) - have signed up to the campaign.\n\n\"We are quickly approaching one of the most consequential elections in American history,\" the group said in a statement. \"Facebook's unchecked and vague 'changes' are falling dangerously short of what is necessary to protect our democracy.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Zuckerberg told the BBC's Simon Jack that Facebook would 'take down' coronavirus misinformation\n\nIn June, Facebook said it would label potentially harmful or misleading posts left up for their news value.\n\nFounder Mark Zuckerberg also said the social media company would ban advertising containing claims \"that people of a specific race, ethnicity, national origin, religious affiliation, caste, sexual orientation, gender identity or immigration status\" are a threat to others.\n\n\"The 2020 elections were already shaping up to be heated,\" he wrote in a statement. \"During this moment, Facebook will take extra precautions to help everyone stay safe [and] stay informed.\"\n\nBut the #StopHateforProfit campaign called for more to be done, and more than 90 companies subsequently paused advertising in support of its efforts.\n\nAs a result of the boycott, shares in Facebook fell dramatically and US media reported that $7.2bn had been knocked off Mr Zuckerberg's personal net worth.\n\nRegulators and policy-makers around the world are concerned about the growth of hate speech, not just on Facebook but on all social media platforms, with many countries launching enquiries into how the tech firms are dealing with the issue.", "Brenda Silverman was one of the first patients to be treated as part of Moorfields' \"cataract drive\"\n\nOne of the world's largest eye hospitals is quadrupling its number of cataract operations, in an attempt to tackle the backlog caused by Covid-19.\n\nMoorfields Eye Hospital, in London, is aiming to perform nearly 1,000 cataract removals in six days\n\nWaiting lists for all planned procedures in England are at record levels after many services were paused.\n\nOver two million people have waited over 18 weeks for surgery, the highest number since records began in 2007.\n\nIn July, NHS trusts in England were told they should get back to about 80% of last year's levels of in-patient procedures by the end of September.\n\nCataracts are cloudy patches on the lens that cause loss of sight.\n\nAnd surgery to replace the affected lens with an artificial one is the most commonly performed operation in the UK.\n\nIt usually takes about 20-40 minutes under local anaesthetic.\n\nAnd Moorfields aims to have patients in and out within 90 minutes.\n\nOne of more than 100 patients being operated on at the specialist hospital in a single day, Brenda Silverman, 77, had to isolate for three days, and take a coronavirus test, before her surgery could go ahead.\n\nBefore the operation, she said: \"I haven't been seeing so well.\n\n\"The glare and the blinding at night is awful.\"\n\nAnd afterwards, she said: \"Everything is in focus.\n\n\"There's nothing I can't see.\n\n\"Everything is bright and cheerful.\"\n\nCataract service director Vincenzo Maurino said Moorfields had had to rethink \"almost everything to make this possible\".\n\n\"Doing four times more what we were doing will ensure our waiting list, which has gone up to four months, will come down significantly,\" he said.\n\n\"Also, we don't know what the future has ahead so we want to learn from this experience, repeat it or find other ways or be adaptable.\"\n\nThe \"cataract drive\" will use eight operating theatres, including those at Moorfields's private facility.\n\nAnd 80 St John Ambulance volunteers will assist with pre-operative assessments and accompanying patients.\n\nAn NHS official said: \"Elective surgery has already rebounded from around a third of its usual rate during the peak of Covid to well over two-thirds in August, with further increases since then.\n\n\"Staff are working hard to ensure that clinics, diagnostic facilities and theatres are as safe as possible.\n\n\"So if you or a loved one have worrying symptoms, please don't put off seeing your GP.\n\n\"And if you're then asked to attend a hospital appointment, please do.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There has been a surge in reports of so-called revenge porn this year, with campaigners saying the problem has been exacerbated by lockdown.\n\nAround 2,050 reports were made to a government-funded helpline, a 22% rise from last year.\n\nAs cases have remained high despite coronavirus restrictions easing, those that run the service fear this is \"the new normal\".\n\nSharing pornography without consent is illegal in England, Scotland and Wales.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Laura Bullock talks about how her ex-boyfriend shared naked pictures of her\n\nRecent research by domestic violence charity Refuge found that one in seven young women has received threats that intimate photos will be shared without their consent.\n\nThere have been more cases of non-consensual pornography reported to a dedicated UK helpline so far this year than in all of 2019.\n\nAround two-thirds of cases reported to the helpline involve women.\n\nHelpline manager Sophie Mortimer said the sustained rise is evidence of behaviour triggered by the lockdown, and greater awareness of the crime and support.\n\nThe helpline is run by the charity South West Grid for Learning (SWGfL), part of the UK Safer Internet Centre.\n\nThe charity has helped remove 22,515 images this year - 94% of those reported by victims.\n\nDavid Wright, director of the UK Safer Internet Centre, said: \"The lockdown produced an extreme set of circumstances which are bringing a lot of problems.\n\n\"What we are seeing here, however, suggests something more long-term has happened which could mean we will be busier than ever before. It's worrying to think this could be the new normal.\"\n\nResearch by domestic violence charity Women's Aid found that more than 60% of survivors living with their abuser reported that the abuse they experienced got worse during the pandemic.\n\nCampaign and policy manager Lucy Hadley said: \"Disclosing private sexual images - or threatening to do so - is a common form of abuse, and is particularly harming young women.\"\n\n\"Image based forms of abuse - such as so-called revenge porn - must be taken just as seriously as abuse in 'real life',\" she added.\n\nFolami Prehaye's former partner posted explicit pictures of her online in 2014.\n\nHe was given a six-month suspended sentence for harassment and distributing indecent images.\n\nMiss Prehaye founded the website Victims of Internet Crime: Speak Out! to provide ongoing emotional support for victims of these kinds of offences.\n\nShe said: \"There is no wonder that there has been an increase of cases during lockdown as more and more people have been forced to build relationships online.\n\n\"The problem has always been there, its just that lockdown made it more apparent, and an easier place for predatory sexual exploitation.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by domestic abuse or violence, the following organisations may be able to help.", "Carbon dioxide emissions from plug-in hybrid cars are as much as two-and-a-half times higher than official tests suggest, according to new research.\n\nPlug-in hybrid vehicles are powered by an electric motor using a battery that is recharged by being plugged in or via an on-board petrol or diesel engine.\n\nThey account for 3% of new car sales.\n\nBut analysis from pressure groups Transport and Environment and Greenpeace suggest they emit an average of 120g of CO2 per km.\n\nThat compares with the 44g per km in official \"lab\" tests\n\nPlug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) are sold as a low-carbon alternative to traditional vehicles and conventional hybrids - which cannot be recharged from an external source - and are proving increasingly popular.\n\nThe new research is published as the government considers whether to bring forward a proposed ban on the sale of new petrol, diesel and conventional hybrid cars from 2035 to 2030.\n\nThe BBC understands one suggestion is that plug-in hybrids should be given a stay of execution, with new sales allowed to continue until 2035.\n\nThat's because they can offer a 20- to 40-mile range as a purely electric vehicle and are therefore potentially significantly less polluting than other vehicles.\n\nBut this new analysis from Transport and Environment and Greenpeace suggests they don't offer anything like the carbon dioxide savings claimed for them by manufacturers.\n\nThe official tests indicate that plug-in hybrids emit an average of 44g per km of CO2. These tests are conducted on a circuit and see vehicles driven in a way that regulators consider \"normal\".\n\nThe real figure, however, according to the report, is more like 120g per km.\n\nThe pressure groups have analysed what they say is \"real-world\" data on fuel efficiency collected from some 20,000 plug-in hybrid drivers around Europe.\n\nThese are drivers who have chosen to record their mileage and fuel consumption for surveys or who drive company or leased vehicles whose fuel efficiency is recorded.\n\nAccording to this data-set the lifetime emissions of a plug-in hybrid average around 28 tonnes of CO2.\n\nBy comparison, the average petrol or diesel car is estimated to emit between 39 and 41 tonnes of CO2 from fuel during its lifetime, a conventional hybrid would typically emit more like 33 tonnes.\n\nAccording to these figures a plug-in hybrid would only deliver an emissions reduction of about a third on a typical petrol or diesel car - far less than the official estimates.\n\nThe motor industry acknowledges that lab tests don't always reflect real-world use but criticised the report, saying it uses emissions data from a test that is two years old.\n\n\"PHEVs provide a flexibility few other technologies can yet match with extended range for longer, out-of-town journeys and battery power in urban areas, reducing emissions and improving city air quality,\" Mike Hawes, the chief executive of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders told the BBC.\n\nHe says he expects the range and performance will continue to improve, making them an \"essential stepping stone to a fully electric vehicle\".\n\nGreenpeace meanwhile describes PHEVs as \"the car industry's wolf in sheep's clothing\".\n\n\"They may seem a much more environmentally friendly choice,\" says Rebecca Newsom, the pressure group's head of politics, \"but false claims of lower emissions are a ploy by car manufacturers to go on producing SUVs and petrol and diesel engines.\"\n\nTransport and Environment's analysis says a key problem with plug-in hybrids is that so many owners rarely actually charge their cars, meaning they rely on the petrol or diesel engine.\n\nAnother is that many plug-in hybrid models include design features that automatically turn on the petrol/diesel engine at start-up on a cold day, or will kick in that engine if driver accelerates hard.\n\nThe latter mode means that the car's emissions will depend a lot on the driver's behaviour.\n\n\"If you always charge the battery and tend to do lots of short journeys, they will have very low emissions,\" says Nick Molden, who runs Emissions Analytics, a company that specialises in vehicle emissions evaluation.\n\n\"If you never charge the battery and drive very aggressively then they can have significantly higher emissions than the equivalent petrol or diesel model,\" he continues.", "A significant drop in the number of child sexual abuse cases reported to police during lockdown masks the true extent of what's happened to vulnerable children, police chiefs say.\n\nNational Police Chiefs Council data shows reports in England and Wales fell by 25% between April and August, compared with the same period in 2019.\n\nBut officers told BBC Newsnight this does not represent the true picture.\n\nAnd senior officers are warning child protection referrals will now rise.\n\nChief Constable Simon Bailey said he suspected the 25% fall was \"a false and misleading picture\" of what children may have experienced during those months.\n\n\"Those children that would have been exposed to those adverse experiences during lockdown, it is only going to emerge when they spend time within the safe environment of a school, in contact with their teachers, who are very, very good and adept at identifying those signs - the indicators that something is not right within that child's life,\" he said.\n\nSupt Chris Truscott, of South Wales Police, agreed there were limited opportunities during lockdown for vulnerable children to disclose harmful behaviour, which would start to come to light only now schools were back.\n\nHe too expected an increase in referrals officers would have had no way of identifying during lockdown.\n\n\"If they were vulnerable before the pandemic, then the likelihood is that vulnerability will have increased over that period of time,\" Supt Truscott said.\n\n\"So I think what we are likely to see is that trickle effect turning more into a river type effect where all of that six months of lockdown experiences which children perhaps have been through [are] aired.\"\n\nSupt Truscott is the national police lead on Early Action Together, a multi-agency programme in Wales that aims to stop those with adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) - such as living with domestic abuse, divorce, a parent with addictions or in prison, and physical or sexual abuse - entering the criminal justice system.\n\nAt Pencoed Comprehensive, in Bridgend, assistant head teacher Rob Green said staff training in how pupils' behaviour could indicate traumatic experiences outside school had helped vulnerable children progress.\n\nExclusions are down by almost 60% and attendance has risen.\n\nBut Mr Greene added: \"Because of what has happened and the changes families have had, maybe losing jobs, some families that now have to make do and go without because of the economic climate we are in, the pressure within the family will increase.\n\n\"So I do think we will have a lot more support we will need to put in place and we will be supporting our pupils as best we can.\"\n\nIn England, meanwhile, those responsible for child protection are concerned there is not yet the same integrated approach.\n\nMr Bailey, who heads the Norfolk force, said England had \"some work to do\" putting in place the right joined-up policy.\n\n\"It needs to be the golden core that is woven through the fabric of everything that we do, be it in the police service, be it in the Ministry of Justice, be it in the Department for Education, the Department for Health,\" he said.\n\n\"We all have a responsibility to ensure that future generations of children have the opportunity to succeed and to thrive.\n\n\"And if we get this right, and the golden core of safeguarding and caring for children and nurturing children, so they can optimise all the things that are going for them, then actually we will take a significant step forward.\"\n\nThe Department for Education said it had invested funds to support vulnerable children.\n\nAnd its advice for schools was clear: \"Continue to identify and report any incidences of abuse or harm.\"\n\n\"We are placing social workers in schools to help spot the signs of abuse and neglect more quickly and work with teachers to support children at risk,\" it added.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 on weekdays, catch up on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "The incident happened in the Santander Triathalon last weekend\n\nA Spanish athlete is being applauded on social media after he sacrificed a top tier win in the 2020 Santander Triathlon to give it to a competitor who took a wrong turn on the course.\n\nBritish athlete James Teagle was on course to win third place in the competition in Spain last weekend when he made a mistake metres from the finish.\n\nDiego Méntrida overtook him but noticed the error and stopped to allow Teagle to cross first.\n\n\"He deserved it,\" Méntrida said later.\n\nThe race took place on 13 September but footage from the race has spread on social media in the past day, as many congratulate 21-year-old Méntrida for his show of sportsmanship.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by diegomentrida This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Friday Méntrida was awarded honorary third place by the organisers and the same €300 (£274) prize money as Teagle, according to Spanish newspaper El Mundo.\n\n\"This is something my parents and my club taught me since I was a child. In my view it should be a normal thing to do,\" Méntrida wrote on Instagram on Saturday where he thanked followers for applauding him.\n\nTeagle's wrong turn happened less than 100m from the end of the race when he mistakenly ran towards spectators in a fenced area.\n\n\"He didn't notice the signs or they were misaligned,\" Méntrida told Eurosport after the race.\n\nMéntrida had been behind Teagle and overtook him to continue on the final stretch - but then slowed his pace to allow his competitor to catch up.\n\nTeagle shook hands with Méntrida in gratitude and stepped over the finishing line.\n\n\"When I saw that he had missed the route, I just stopped. James deserved this medal,\" Méntrida told Eurosport, adding that he would do the same a second time.\n\nThe race winner Javier Gomez Noya described his gesture as \"the best in history\".\n\nFootballer Adrián San Miguel said on Twitter that it demonstrated \"the real values of sport\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adrián San Miguel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Anneliese Dodds says the government should be “focussed on job, job, jobs” in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds has accused the government of mismanaging billions of pounds spent in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nIn a speech to party members on Monday, she accused ministers of a \"cavalier\" approach to public spending during the crisis.\n\nBut she called for firms in struggling sectors to get extra support to retain workers, or provide training.\n\nMs Dodds called for a change in approach to managing the economic downturn during a speech to Labour's online conference, which ends on Tuesday.\n\nShe unveiled proposals for a jobs recovery scheme targeted at sectors that have been closed or on reduced capacity because of social distancing rules.\n\nThe party's annual four-day gathering looks a lot different this year.\n\nThe event, rebranded as Labour Connected, is taking place entirely online rather than in a conference venue.\n\nAs a result, there will be no scenes of packed halls and delegates hoping to speak waving items of clothing and other props to try and get themselves noticed.\n\nPolicy won't be decided on the floor of the conference but there are members' discussions and policy panels - on issues such as the future of work, communities, support for young people and the green economy.\n\nThere is the usual packed fringe programme and there will also be speeches, which will be streamed online.\n\nAs well as Anneliese Dodds, we'll also be hearing later on Monday from shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds. Each speaker is expected to use Labour's recently unveiled New Leadership slogan as their backdrop.\n\nYou'll have to wait to hear more about leader Sir Keir Starmer's keynote speech on Tuesday, although - unlike his address to the TUC last week when he was self-isolating - he won't be speaking from his own home.\n\nIn a bid to stem job losses, she also called for £3bn in funding to be brought forward to retrain the unemployed or those at risk of losing their jobs.\n\nShe urged ministers to provide additional support to viable but indebted firms due to start repaying government loans from next spring.\n\nAnd she vowed to \"restore trust\" with the private sector, adding that she understands the \"critical role business plays in creating jobs\".\n\n\"Recover jobs, retrain workers and rebuild business. Three steps to a better, more secure future,\" she said.\n\n\"This is an ambitious Labour vision - where security and fairness aren't just aspirations, but where they are a reality for families and communities across our country.\"\n\nLabour has called for the furlough scheme to be extended in sectors such as hospitality.\n\nIn her first conference speech since being appointed shadow chancellor in April, Ms Dodds also accused the Conservatives of mismanaging public funds in response to the crisis.\n\nShe pointed to actions, including the recall of unused testing kits and a decision not to use 50m face masks bought for the NHS, as examples of waste.\n\nShe also unveiled party analysis which claims the government's job retention bonus scheme will hand £2.6bn to firms who would have retained staff anyway.\n\n\"You're only as cavalier with public money as our current chancellor, if you don't know the value of it,\" she said.\n\n\"As chancellor, I would ensure that public money was always spent wisely. Targeted where it's needed most. Not splurged where it isn't.\"\n\nLabour has previously called for the scheme, which will pay firms £1,000 for each employee brought back from furlough and employed until January, to be reviewed.\n\nThe CBI said it agreed that a more targeted approach was needed but it could not be overly bureaucratic as firms needed \"simple and quick\" solutions.\n\n\"Labour clearly recognise the unrelenting pressure firms are facing,\" the employer group's chief economist Rain Newton-Smith said.\n\n\"All parties agree that saving good jobs today is far better than picking up the pieces tomorrow. That needs bold action as the UK heads into a challenging autumn.\"\n\nFor the government, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Steve Barclay said Labour was offering nothing more than former leader Jeremy Corbyn's \"recycled economic plans\".\n\nHe said they would hold the UK back and \"hinder our recovery from coronavirus\".\n\n\"This Conservative government is getting on with delivering its plan for jobs - creating, supporting and protecting employment across every corner of our country,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Charles says millions of people are desperate for more action, rather than words\n\nThe Prince of Wales has warned the climate crisis will \"dwarf\" the impact of coronavirus.\n\nIn a recorded message, to be played at the virtual opening of Climate Week on Monday, Prince Charles said \"swift and immediate action\" was needed.\n\nThe prince said Covid-19 provided a \"window of opportunity\" to reset the economy for a more \"sustainable and inclusive future\".\n\nHe added that the pandemic was \"a wake-up call we cannot ignore\".\n\nIn his message, recorded from Birkhall in the grounds of Balmoral, Prince Charles said: \"Without swift and immediate action, at an unprecedented pace and scale, we will miss the window of opportunity to 'reset' for... a more sustainable and inclusive future.\"\n\n\"[The environmental] crisis has been with us for far too many years - decried, denigrated and denied,\" he said.\n\n\"It is now rapidly becoming a comprehensive catastrophe that will dwarf the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.\"\n\nHis comments come as a new poll suggests there is growing concern among citizens all over the world about climate change, although there are big differences about the level of urgency required to tackle the issue.\n\nCharles, 71, tested positive for coronavirus in March after displaying mild symptoms.\n\nHe has been championing environmental causes for decades and has previously called for members of the Commonwealth to work together to tackle climate change.\n\nIn January, he urged business and political leaders to embrace a sustainable future at the Davos summit, where he also met teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg.\n\nThe global lockdown led to a dramatic drop in greenhouse gases and air pollutants but a study last month suggested this would have a \"negligible\" impact on rising temperatures.\n\nThe analysis suggested that by 2030, global temperatures would only be 0.01C lower than expected.\n\nBut the researchers, led by the University of Leeds, stressed that a green recovery could significantly alter the long term outlook and keep the world from exceeding 1.5C of warming by the middle of this century.", "The cancelled M4 plans have been a bone of contention between UK and Welsh ministers\n\nThe UK government has published plans for a new law to give it more powers to spend in Wales.\n\nUnder the draft legislation powers currently resting at EU level would be transferred to UK ministers, giving them the ability to spend on economic development and infrastructure, for example.\n\nThis has sparked a political row, with Welsh ministers accusing their UK counterparts of \"stealing powers\" from them. UK ministers say they are simply using the legislation to replace current EU funding programmes.\n\nThe move also raises some questions:\n\nDoes this mean the UK government could build the M4 relief road?\n\nUK ministers have long been in favour of building a new road to cut congestion on the motorway south of Newport, and were frustrated when First Minister Mark Drakeford cancelled the scheme last year because of its £1.6bn cost and its impact on the environment.\n\nIt is tempting to believe this bill would give the UK government the ability to send in the bulldozers and build the 14-mile relief road, but it's not that simple.\n\nA planning inspector said the case for a relief road was \"compelling\"\n\nYes, UK ministers would be giving themselves infrastructure powers - but they would still also need the support of Welsh Government which controls big road projects to build the motorway.\n\nUnder the current administration in Cardiff that would be unlikely.\n\nIt would, however, give them the power to fund it - the same goes for other large infrastructure projects.\n\nAs most planning in Wales is devolved, it operates nationally through the Welsh Government and locally through councils.\n\nHow much does the UK government say its wants to spend in Wales?\n\nThis is still unclear - the UK government has not given a figure.\n\nThis bill does not set out exactly what UK government funds will replace EU ones - we're told that's coming in the autumn.\n\nPreviously, Wales had been eligible for £375m a year from EU funds.\n\nThe Conservatives manifesto at the 2019 general election committed them to matching EU funds for each of the four nations \"at a minimum\".\n\nUltimate political authority still resides with the UK Parliament at Westminster\n\nDoes this mean the Welsh Government can't spend on things such as culture, sport and economic development anymore?\n\nNo - it still will be able to.\n\nBut the reason Welsh ministers have accused the UK government of \"stealing powers\" is because the legislation would also give the UK government the power to spend on these areas, which it hasn't been able to since devolution in 1999.\n\nThe Welsh Government had also managed the EU cash the bill is replacing, in conjunction with the European Union.\n\nUK ministers, however, claim they aren't taking any powers away but are just replacing EU programmes.\n\nDoes that mean the Welsh Government will get less money from the UK government?\n\nA spokesperson for No.10 said UK government spending in these areas wouldn't come from Wales' block grant.\n\nThat's the money the Welsh Government gets from the UK Treasury to spend on devolved areas including health, education and economic development.\n\nBut the spokesperson said spending powers would be \"discussed\" at the UK government's next spending review.\n\nMost of the money Welsh ministers have to spend comes from the UK Treasury\n\nCan the Welsh Government stop this going ahead?\n\nThis proposed law has faced opposition from devolved governments.\n\nThe UK Parliament is sovereign - which means Westminster can pass laws for all parts of the UK, including if it involves things usually controlled from Cardiff or Edinburgh.\n\nBut it the UK Parliament will not normally make laws in this way without the consent of the Welsh and Scottish parliaments, and Northern Ireland Assembly.\n\nYet this convention, known as the Sewel convention, isn't legally binding - and the UK government has ignored it occasionally in the past.\n\nA bill is a draft law. It doesn't become law until it's been voted through the House of Commons with a majority.\n\nIt will go through a number of debates - and possibly be amended - before it gets to its final stage to become law.\n\nHowever, the current UK government has a large majority in the House of Commons - meaning unless some of their own MPs rebel it is easier for them to pass new laws.", "Holiday camp operator Butlin's has yet to tell 1,000 furloughed workers what their future is when the government's wage subsidy scheme ends next month.\n\nA document sent to staff and seen by the BBC suggests employees either take paid holiday if they have any remaining or unpaid leave if not.\n\nButlin's is currently operating at 50% capacity and is heading into the winter months when income falls significantly.\n\nIt said no decision had been made about workers on the government scheme.\n\nThe company said: \"Since we reopened Butlin's we've worked hard to bring back as many of our team as possible whilst ensuring we're safe and secure.\n\n\"There has been no decision made regarding our team who are still furloughed.\"\n\nButlin's - whose workers are known for their distinctive red jackets - has 6,000 employees in total. It is part of the privately-owned Bourne Leisure Group which also operates Haven caravan sites and Warner Leisure Hotels with a total workforce of 15,000.\n\nBefore the government's Job Retention Scheme was announced, Bourne Leisure warned that 10,000 jobs would be at risk without government help.\n\nBourne Leisure has since secured hundreds of millions of pounds in government support in the form of loans, furlough payments and deferred VAT and business rates since the pandemic struck.\n\nBourne Leisure paid out over £60m in 2019 to the three families that own the firm - the Harris, Cook and Allen families - reportedly taking the total paid out in dividends to £600m over the last 15 years.\n\nA staff member told the BBC \"I can't believe a great British holiday brand, owned by muliti-millionaires wants staff to take unpaid leave after furlough\".\n\nIt is just one example of the uncertainty facing millions of employees still having a dwindling proportion of their wages paid by the government as the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme winds down before its planned withdrawal on 31 October.\n\nAs the date approaches, businesses will have to consult with staff on how many of them they intend to make redundant.\n\nMenzies Aviation which provides services at Luton Airport this week informed 176 workers - half its workforce - that their jobs were at risk when furlough ends.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has ruled out extending the furlough scheme\n\nHowever, union sources told the BBC they had been surprised that there had not been more notifications given that companies with over 100 employees, who intend to make over 100 people redundant are obliged to consult with staff 45 days before termination.\n\nUnions, business groups and politicians across the political divide have been lobbying the government to find a replacement for the furlough scheme that all acknowledge has saved millions from unemployment.\n\nSo far the government has ruled out any extension but Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said he is \"open to creative ideas\".\n\nAdditional support may yet be forthcoming for regions hit by additional and increasingly widespread lockdown measures. It is thought future schemes will focus more on retraining and creating new jobs rather than returning those still on furlough to the jobs many think they still have but in reality do not.", "People reported queues for attractions, gridlocked traffic and little social distancing in Blackpool on Saturday\n\nVisitors have flocked to Blackpool despite police warning against having a \"last blast\" in the resort before tighter restrictions come into force.\n\nPeople reported queues for attractions, heavy traffic, little social distancing and few people wearing masks indoors.\n\nLancashire will be subject to tighter restrictions from Tuesday after significant increases in Covid-19 cases, but Blackpool is exempt.\n\nPolice had said they were preparing for large crowds over the weekend.\n\nGem Concannon, 36, from Northwich, Cheshire, said she had visited the resort on Saturday with her family.\n\nShe said: \"It was heaving, hardly anyone was wearing masks or social distancing. It was shocking.\n\n\"I've never seen it that busy before.\"\n\nPolice had said they were preparing for large crowds in Blackpool over the weekend\n\nOn Friday, Lancashire Police deputy chief constable Terry Woods appealed for people not to have one \"last blast\" before the restrictions come into place.\n\nHe said: \"Going to Blackpool this weekend if you're not from [there] and mingling in any large crowds - that wouldn't be looking after your family.\n\n\"Make sensible decisions to protect yourselves, going to Blackpool in mass numbers is quite the opposite of protecting yourselves.\"\n\nBlackpool's director of public health Dr Arif Rajpura said: \"It is absolutely critical that residents and businesses adhere to the new 'rule of six' restrictions and follow all Covid guidelines around social distancing and wearing of face coverings.\n\n\"The same advice goes to those visiting our resort. The only way to stop the spread of the virus is to respect the rules which are there for a reason.\"\n\nThe new restrictions across other parts of Lancashire ban households from meeting each other at home or in private gardens.\n\nPubs and restaurants must also shut at 22:00 BST.\n\nInfection rates in Blackpool are lower than in some parts of the county but the area has seen an increase in positive cases.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n• None New Covid-19 rules for North West and Midlands", "Sir Keir Starmer says Labour and the unions must \"stand together\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer has been warned against \"watering down\" the \"radical policies\" he promised during his campaign to become Labour leader.\n\nThe Fire Brigades Union told the BBC he must not \"cede any ground\" to the Conservatives and fight for \"root-and-branch\" reform of society.\n\nGeneral Secretary Matt Wrack added that he had not \"heard Keir make that case\" since becoming Labour leader in April.\n\nSir Keir has urged the party and unions to \"stand together like never before\".\n\nLabour's four-day annual conference, the first under his leadership, began on Saturday.\n\nRenamed Labour Connected, it is taking place online and will not feature votes, but the party's major figures will still give speeches and take part in discussions.\n\nIn his campaign to become leader, Sir Keir set out 10 pledges.\n\nAmong these was putting a \"Green New Deal at the heart of everything we do\", including a Clean Air Act to tackle pollution at a local level, and demanding \"international action\" on \"climate rights\".\n\nSir Keir also pledged to work \"shoulder-to-shoulder with trade unions to stand up for working people, tackle insecure work and low pay\".\n\nHe said a Labour government under him would repeal the Conservatives' 2016 Trade Union Act, which makes industrial action more difficult.\n\nThe FBU wants Sir Keir Starmer to follow through on plans to reverse curbs on industrial action\n\nMr Wrack, whose FBU is one of the more left-leaning of the 12 Labour-affiliated trade unions, said: \"Our present crisis has only made the case for that platform more urgent, but we haven't yet heard Keir make that case in opposition.\"\n\nHe said the Labour leader should promote the Socialist Green New Deal, agreed at last year's party conference.\n\nIt calls for net-zero carbon emissions by 2030, bringing the energy sector into public ownership and the creation of hundreds of thousands of jobs in the environment sector, on union-negotiated rates of pay.\n\nMr Wrack said: \"We look forward to seeing Keir making [the Socialist Green New deal] his own. But that can't mean any watering down of the radical policies we fought for.\n\n\"We don't want to see Labour cede any ground to the Tories, full stop - not least on the greatest issue of our time.\"\n\nMr Wrack called Labour Connected \"a chance for Keir and the shadow cabinet to prove to members that there will be no retreat on the policy pledges he was elected on\".\n\n\"Swapping to paper straws isn't going to save our planet,\" the FBU leader said. \"Nothing short of a root-and-branch transformation of our society and economic system will save our planet from the brink of destruction.\"\n\nHe added that rebuilding the economy after the pandemic \"should be seen as an opportunity to tackle the climate crisis as well\".\n\nThe FBU backed Rebecca Long-Bailey in the Labour leadership contest\n\nThe FBU split from Labour in 2004 following a dispute with Tony Blair's government over pay. It re-affiliated in 2015 when Jeremy Corbyn became leader.\n\nThe union backed Rebecca Long-Bailey, another on the left of the party, against Sir Keir in the leadership contest earlier this year.\n\nShe was sacked from the shadow cabinet in June after she re-tweeted an article Sir Keir said \"contained anti-Semitic conspiracy theories\".\n\nIn a separate development, Len McCluskey, leader of Unite, the UK's second-biggest union, has promised to review its financial support for Labour.\n\nAddressing the TUC Congress earlier this week, Sir Keir continued to promote a unifying message when he said: \"Labour and the trade union movement need to stand together like never before, to show the British people that we've got their back and their future too.\n\n\"We'll fight to protect jobs, incomes and working conditions at this time of national crisis, and show that there is a better, fairer society to come. That is our mission.\"\n\nLast week, TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady told the BBC that Sir Keir had made a \"really strong start\" as Labour leader.\n\nThe party has been contacted for a response to Mr Wrack's comments.", "Alexander III reigned 1249-86 and was from the House of Dunkeld - the same Scottish royal family that included Macbeth, who reigned 1040-57\n\nA Scottish medieval coin turned into jewellery has been declared treasure after being \"lost\" and then found hundreds of miles away in England.\n\nThe silver coin featuring the head of Alexander III of Scotland dates from 1280-6 and was discovered in Long Stratton, Norfolk in August 2019.\n\nThe penny was worn as either a pendant or brooch by someone who was religious, coin expert Dr Adrian Marsden said.\n\nHe added that the coin \"had travelled some way\".\n\nDr Marsden, a numismatist at Norfolk Historic Environment Service, said it \"must have been eventually lost\" in the county until it was rediscovered last year by a metal detectorist in a field.\n\nThe exact location of the find is not being disclosed.\n\nThe historian said the item would have been worn as a religious symbol as the side with the cross was the one intended for display, rather than the head side of the coin.\n\n\"There is also settings for gems [which were no longer present] which represent the five wounds of Christ, so it is symbolic and adds to the religious dimension,\" he said.\n\nDr Marsden believed the owner \"would have been relatively well-off\" as the penny was the equivalent of half a day's wage at the time.\n\n\"It would have been a bit of a luxury and the owner would have some social status,\" he said.\n\n\"The coin was probably equivalent to £20 in today's money.\"\n\nThe Norwich Castle Museum hopes to acquire the coin and add it to a collection of similar items.\n\nIt was declared treasure at an inquest at Norfolk Coroner's Court earlier this month.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion, please email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nTadej Pogacar is set to win the Tour de France ahead of strong favourite Primoz Roglic in one of the most dramatic turnarounds in the race's history.\n\nPogacar, 21, will be confirmed as the youngest winner for 111 years at the end of Sunday's largely processional stage to Paris.\n\nThe UAE-Team Emirates rider overhauled a 57-second deficit to Roglic, who was thought to be a far stronger rider on stage 20's time trial to La Planche des Belles Filles.\n\nIt will be a first Grand Tour victory for Slovenian Pogacar, who took the yellow jersey from compatriot Roglic after he had held it for 13 days.\n\nPogacar is now 59 seconds ahead of Roglic at the end of a day of drama reminiscent of the 1989 Tour, when Greg LeMond unexpectedly overhauled Laurent Fignon in a final-day time trial to win by eight seconds.\n\nRichie Porte of Trek-Segafredo will be on the podium in Paris for the first time, taking third, three minutes and 30 seconds down.\n\nPogacar won the stage, one minute 21 seconds ahead of Roglic's Jumbo-Visma team-mate Tom Dumoulin. Porte climbed to third overall after finishing in third place on the stage.\n\nBritain's Adam Yates of Mitchelton-Scott will finish ninth in the general classification, 9mins 25secs behind the winner.\n\nRoglic has looked imperious throughout the three-week race thanks to support from his powerful team, featuring some of the sport's best riders, including Dumoulin, Wout van Aert and Sepp Kuss.\n\nThe 36km stage from Lure to La Planche des Belles Filles was a challenging course that finished, unusually for time trial, with a category 1 climb. Roglic, 30, was considered a far better time triallist than Pogacar, and began the stage strongly.\n\nBut Roglic hit trouble at the changeover from super-fast specialist time-trial bikes to a more conventional road machine before the climb, struggling to clip into his pedals, wobbling when being pushed away and never seeming to find his typical rhythm.\n\nRoglic, who claimed his first Grand Tour victory at last year's Vuelta a Espana, looked desperate as he crossed the line, his helmet pushed upwards and slightly lop-sided, knowing already he had lost the race.\n\nDesperation turned to confusion and dejection as he sat on the ground in his full yellow skinsuit, trying to comprehend how he had committed one of modern cycling's biggest chokes.\n\nAnd as Pogacar sat down for his post-race TV interview, Roglic interrupted it to embrace his countryman.\n\n\"I just didn't push enough,\" said Roglic. \"It was like that. I was more and more without the power I needed but I gave it all until the end.\n\n\"We'll see what happens next. I can be happy with the racing we showed here so let's take positive things out of it.\"\n\nFrom a distant second, Pogacar takes it all\n\nRoglic had been favourite to win the 107th edition of cycling's greatest race, alongside defending champion Egan Bernal of Ineos Grenadiers.\n\nHowever, Bernal abandoned the race before stage 17 following a disastrous climb up the Grand Colombier on stage 15, where he cracked and lost more than seven minutes to Roglic.\n\nIt was one of the biggest downturns in form for a defending champion in recent history, and put an end to Ineos' record of winning every Tour since 2015, four of which were as Team Sky.\n\nIneos looked set to have something to celebrate as they tried to seal the polka dot King of the Mountains jersey through their second protected rider Richard Carapaz.\n\nBut despite 2019 Giro d'Italia winner Carapaz's attempts to deliberately ride a slow first section before blasting up the mountain, Pogacar's epic performance eclipsed him and he took the jersey.\n\nIt is the second of three jerseys Pogacar will claim at this year's race - he will also pick up the young riders' white jersey.\n\nIn total Pogacar picks up prize money of 500,000 euros (£458,270) for the yellow jersey, 25,000 euros (£22,900) for the King of the Mountains award, and a further 20,000 euros (£18,300) for being the best placed young rider.\n\n\"I'm really proud of the team,\" Pogacar said. \"They did such a big effort. We were dreaming of the yellow jersey from the start. Amazing.\n\n\"It was not just me today, we needed the whole team for the recon. I knew every corner and knew exactly where to accelerate. Congrats to all my team.\n\n\"I didn't hear anything on the radio in the final five kilometres because the fans were too loud so I just went full gas.\n\n\"My dream was just to be on the Tour de France and now I've won it. It's unbelievable.\"", "The financial secrets of hundreds of world leaders, politicians and celebrities has been exposed in another huge leak of financial documents.\n\nDubbed the Pandora Papers it features almost 12 million files from companies providing offshore services in tax havens around the world.\n\nThe data was obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) in Washington DC, which has organised the biggest ever global investigation, spanning 117 countries and involving more than 600 journalists. In the UK the investigation has been led by BBC Panorama and the Guardian.\n\nThe files are the latest in a series of whistleblower-led investigations that have rocked the world of finance in recent years.\n\nSo let's round up the other major leaks of the past decade.\n\nIn September 2020 the FinCEN Files exposed the failure of major global banks to stop money laundering and financial crime. They also revealed how the UK is often the weak link in the financial system and how London is awash with Russian cash.\n\nThe files included more than 2,000 suspicious activity reports (SARs), filed by financial institutions to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Agency, or FinCEN, a part of the US Treasury Department. They also include 17,641 records obtained through Freedom of Information (FOI) requests and other sources.\n\nThey were obtained by BuzzFeed News which shared them with the ICIJ and 400 journalists around the world, including BBC Panorama, which led the investigation in the UK.\n\nA huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which revealed the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nWho leaked the data? The BBC does not know the identity of the source. The 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the ICIJ. Panorama led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries.\n\nA confidential settlement was later reached between the BBC, the Guardian and Appleby over the reporting of the leaked documents, which Appleby said were taken by hackers. The Guardian and BBC said the reports were in the public interest but did not give more detail about the settlement.\n\nUntil Pandora this leak was seen as the daddy of them all in data size. If you thought the Wikileaks dump of sensitive diplomatic cables in 2010 was a big deal, this carried 1,500 times more data.\n\nSüddeutsche Zeitung's \"brothers\". Despite surnames that sound exactly the same, these two leading lights of the Panama Papers investigation, Frederik Obermaier (L) and Bastian Obermayer, are not related\n\nThe Panama Papers came about after an anonymous source contacted reporters at German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung in 2015 and supplied encrypted documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca. It sells anonymous offshore companies that help the owners hide their business dealings.\n\nOverwhelmed by the scale of the dump, which eventually grew to 2.6 terabytes of data, the Süddeutsche Zeitung called in the ICIJ, which led to the involvement of about 100 other partner news organisations, including the BBC's Panorama.\n\nAfter more than a year of scrutiny, the ICIJ and its partners jointly published the Panama Papers on 3 April 2016, with the database of documents going online a month later.\n\nWho was named? Where do we start? A few of the news partners focused on how associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin shuffled cash around the globe. Not that the Russians cared much. The prime ministers of Iceland and Pakistan came to far stickier ends, the former quitting and the latter being thrown out of office by the Supreme Court. Overall the financial dealings of a dozen current and former world leaders, more than 120 politicians and public officials and countless billionaires, celebrities and sports stars were exposed.\n\nWho leaked the data? John Doe. Yes, we know. It's not a real name. In US crime series it is mostly used to label anonymous victims but Mr (or Ms) Doe's manifesto, released a month after publication, reveals a self-styled revolutionary. The real identity is still unknown.\n\nFive months after the Panama Papers, the ICIJ published revelations from the Bahamas corporate registry. The 38GB cache revealed the offshore activities of \"prime ministers, ministers, princes and convicted felons\", it said. Former EU competition commissioner Neelie Kroes admitted an \"oversight\" in failing to disclose her interest in an offshore company.\n\nThis ICIJ investigation, involving hundreds of journalists from 45 countries, including BBC Panorama, went public in February 2015.\n\nIt focused on HSBC Private Bank (Suisse), a subsidiary of the banking giant, and so lifted the lid on dealings in a country where banking secrecy is taken for granted.\n\nThe leaked files covered accounts up to the year 2007, linked with more than 100,000 individuals and legal entities from more than 200 countries.\n\nThe ICIJ said the subsidiary had served \"those close to discredited regimes\" and \"clients who had been unfavourably named by the United Nations\".\n\nHSBC admitted that the \"compliance culture and standards of due diligence\" at the subsidiary at the time were \"lower than they are today\".\n\nWho was named? The ICIJ said HSBC had profited from \"arms dealers, bag men for Third World dictators, traffickers in blood diamonds and other international outlaws\".\n\nIt also cited those close to the regimes of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, former Tunisian President Ben Ali and Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.\n\nWho leaked the data? Actually, we know this one. The ICIJ investigation was based on data originally leaked by the French-Italian software engineer and whistleblower Hervé Falciani, though the ICIJ got it later from another source. From 2008 onwards he passed information on HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) to French authorities, who in turn passed them to other relevant governments. Mr Falciani was indicted in Switzerland. He was held in detention in Spain but was later released and now lives in France.\n\nOr LuxLeaks for short. Another extensive ICIJ investigation, which revealed its findings in November 2014.\n\nIt centred on how professional services company PricewaterhouseCoopers helped multinational companies gain hundreds of favourable tax rulings in Luxembourg between 2002 and 2010.\n\nThe ICIJ said multinationals had saved billions by channelling money through Luxembourg, sometimes at tax rates of less than 1%. One address in Luxembourg was home to more than 1,600 companies, it said.\n\nThe leak of documents was first exposed in 2012 after a joint investigation between Panorama and France2 which lifted the lid on the tax agreements of UK pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline and media company Northern & Shell.\n\nWho was named? Pepsi, IKEA, AIG and Deutsche Bank were among those named.\n\nA second tranche of leaked documents said the Walt Disney Co and Skype had funnelled hundreds of millions of dollars in profits through Luxembourg subsidiaries. They and the other firms denied any wrongdoing.\n\nJean-Claude Juncker had been PM of Luxembourg when it enacted many of its tax avoidance rules. He had been appointed president of the European Commission just a few days before the leak came out. He said he had not encouraged avoidance.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jean-Claude Juncker says he is \"politically responsible for what happened\"\n\nEurosceptics went to town and pushed a censure motion against him and his commission. It was rejected. But the EU did investigate, and by 2016 had proposed a yet-to-be realised common tax scheme for the EU.\n\nWho leaked the data? Frenchman Antoine Deltour, a former PricewaterhouseCoopers employee, was the main man, saying he had acted in the public interest. Another PwC employee, Raphael Halet, helped him.\n\nThe pair, along with journalist Edouard Perrin, were all charged in Luxembourg after a PwC complaint. A first verdict was later revisited, watering down sentences, with Deltour given a six-month suspended jail term which was later quashed. Halet received a small fine and Mr Perrin was acquitted.\n\nThis was about a tenth of the size of the Panama Papers but was seen as the biggest exposé of international tax fraud ever when the ICIJ and its news partners went public in November 2012 and April 2013.\n\nSome 2.5 million files revealed the names of more than 120,000 companies and trusts in hideaways such as the British Virgin Islands and the Cook Islands.\n\nBBC Panorama exposed a flourishing tax evasion industry in the UK in an undercover investigation based on the files.\n\nWho was named? The usual suspects. A mix of politicians, government officials and their families, with the Russians notable, but also those in China, Azerbaijan, Canada, Thailand, Mongolia and Pakistan. The Philippines - in the form of the family of late strongman Ferdinand Marcos - get a dishonourable mention. To be fair, the ICIJ does point out that the leaks are not necessarily evidence of illegal actions.\n\nWho leaked the data? The ICIJ cites \"two financial service providers, a private bank in Jersey and the Bahamas corporate registry\" as the sources, but says nothing more other than it was \"data obtained\".\n\nThe Pandora Papers is a leak of almost 12 million documents and files exposing the secret wealth and dealings of world leaders, politicians and billionaires. The data was obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in Washington DC and has led to one of the biggest ever global investigations.\n\nMore than 600 journalists from 117 countries have looked at the hidden fortunes of some of the most powerful people on the planet. BBC Panorama and the Guardian have led the investigation in the UK.\n\nPandora Papers coverage: follow reaction on Twitter using #PandoraPapers, in the BBC News app, or watch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "Australia looks set to record its lowest daily coronavirus increase for three months, with just 18 new cases reported so far.\n\nThe state of Victoria - the epicentre of the country's Covid-19 outbreak - recorded 14 new infections to Sunday morning, down from 21 the day before.\n\nNew South Wales and Queensland reported two cases each. The remaining states are yet to report their figures, but rarely record any new cases.\n\nFigures were last this low on 23 June.\n\nVictoria's Premier Daniel Andrews said the numbers were \"cause for great optimism\". His state, which has accounted for 75% of Australia's 26,900 cases and 90% of its 849 deaths, has been under lockdown since early July.\n\nMelbourne, the capital of Victoria, has been under tighter restrictions than other areas, including a curfew and stay-at-home orders. Anti-lockdown protests in the city have become a regular sight.\n\nOn Sunday, demonstrators gathered in the central business district, according to local media. Saturday's protest, in a park, saw protesters being dispersed by police on horseback.\n\nProtests have become a regular sight in Melbourne\n\nHowever, Mr Andrews has defended the state's strict lockdown, pointing to rising cases in Europe.\n\n\"It's heartbreaking to see all of those communities have given - all the sacrifice they've made - and now they've got cases running perhaps more wildly than their first wave,\" he told reporters.\n\n\"Some of these nations as well, I see a bit of commentary around the place about how... death rates in second waves are lower. That's not what the data's saying. That's not what the data in Europe is saying. You've got to see it off.\"\n\nMelbourne has started to ease its restrictions, saying it will lift the curfew and exercise limits on 26 October if there are fewer than five new cases per day.", "A British businessman, formerly of MI6, is under investigation for allegedly selling information to undercover spies from China, a Whitehall official says.\n\nFraser Cameron, who runs the EU-Asia Centre think tank, is suspected of passing sensitive information about the EU to two spies allegedly posing as Brussels-based journalists.\n\nHe is alleged to have exchanged the information for thousands of Euros.\n\nBut Mr Cameron told The Times the allegations were \"ridiculous\".\n\nThe businessman, who worked for Britain's Secret Intelligence Service from 1976 to 1991, says he has no access to any \"secret or confidential information\".\n\nMr Cameron, who has also worked for the Foreign Office and European Commission, told Politico that the allegations \"are without foundation\", saying he has \"a wide range of Chinese contacts as part of my duties with the EU-Asia Centre and some of them may have a double function\".\n\nA senior Whitehall official, who asked not to be named, told the BBC the investigation had been a long-running joint inquiry between British and Belgian intelligence and claimed that a breakthrough had come in recent months.\n\nHe said this was a great example of how closely British intelligence worked with its European partners.\n\nThe BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner says there have been growing fears about the extent of covert Chinese intelligence-gathering in Europe, including over sensitive negotiations between the EU and Britain over Brexit.\n\nBelgium's state security service is quoted by the Financial Times as saying Mr Cameron's alleged actions posed \"a clear threat towards the European institutions\" based in the Belgian capital.\n\nThe investigation is reportedly being run by Belgium's federal prosecutors.", "Huge banners bearing the portrait of Janusz Walus can often be seen draped around football stadiums in Poland calling for the freedom of a man serving a life sentence in South Africa for the 1993 murder of prominent anti-apartheid leader Chris Hani.\n\nMany feared that Hani's killing could provoke a racial war, coming at a crucial point in talks for the white minority to hand over power, which eventually happened when Nelson Mandela became president the following year after the country's first all-race elections.\n\nIt is unclear how Walus became a symbol for young Polish nationalists and fascists but about 10 years ago, he started receiving letters from supporters in Poland, journalist Cezary Lazarewicz, who interviewed Walus for his book, told the BBC.\n\n\"They wrote to him that they admired him because he tried to stop communism in South Africa, that he is the great hope of the white race,\" he said.\n\nIn pictures and videos posted online some of the football fans in the stands are carrying scarves with the hashtag #StayStrongBrother printed on them.\n\nIt's inspired by a song dedicated to him which includes the lyrics: \"A few men could ever take the step you did, to enter the path of glory and victory\".\n\n\"The fans are not calling on Walus' release on humanitarian grounds, but they are glorifying what he did and the ideology,\" Dr Rafal Pankowski, from Never Again association, an anti-racist group, told the BBC.\n\nThe song, which is sung in English, is \"a good example of the internationalisation of contemporary white nationalism,\" he adds.\n\nWalus, an immigrant from Poland who had acquired South African citizenship, and his co-defendant Clive Derby-Lewis, were sentenced to death shortly after Hani's killing, but the sentence was commuted to life sentence after South Africa abolished the death penalty.\n\nThey both appealed for amnesty during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in 1997, with Walus saying that he was driven by political, anti-communist motives to kill Hani, who was then the secretary-general of the South African Communist Party (SACP), and also a leading figure in the armed wing of the African National Congress. The two parties were close allies in the fight against apartheid.\n\nDerby-Lewis, who provided the gun used to kill Hani, died in 2016, a year after he was granted parole for health reasons.\n\nWalus, who is serving his life sentence at a maximum security prison in Pretoria, continues to find fame online.\n\nEven more shockingly, the range of merchandise supporting him and celebrating him as a \"political prisoner\" has been sold on a South African-owned online market website.\n\nThe BBC confirmed that scarves, a T-shirt, and a sticker bearing the name and image of Janusz Walus had been put up for sale on OLX's Polish website. These items have since been removed.\n\nScarves from several football clubs were among those removed from OLX\n\nOLX is owned by technology-investment company Prosus, a subsidiary of South African-based global tech giant Naspers.\n\nThe Never Again association reported the sale of the Walus items and other \"racist\" items to OLX.\n\n\"Promoting fascism or racial hatred is prohibited by the Polish law but the implementation of the law is notoriously weak,\" Dr Pankowski said.\n\nThis T-shirt was put up for sale on the OLX platform\n\nOLX Poland's regulations also prohibit selling items containing \"content inciting hatred based on national, ethnic, racial, religious differences or due to non-denominational status\".\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, Naspers said that \"right-wing elements in Poland have violated the terms of use of the OLX Poland platform. Although they only managed to do so to a very limited extent, any content that incites violence, racism, or discrimination is abhorrent and contrary to the values and beliefs of our organisation\".\n\n\"Our systems use technology automatically to identify and remove listings that violate OLX's policies,\" spokesperson Shamiela Letsoalo said.\n\nThe Walus items were not listed under his name and so the system missed them, the statement said, adding that they were \"swiftly removed\" after the team was notified.\n\nBut this isn't enough for SACP spokesman Alex Mashilo, who told the BBC that Naspers had \"to take action, more than what they said out of convenience\".\n\nHe added that the party would \"consider this matter further and decide the next steps to adopt\".\n\nOne explanation for the rise in visibility of Walus' cause is a series of court and government decisions which led to the quashing of a 2016 decision to release him on parole.\n\nHani's family and the SACP had opposed the move even after South African authorities stripped Walus of his citizenship in 2017, clearing the way for him to be deported to Poland if he was freed from prison.\n\nIn March, the justice ministry finally ruled out his release.\n\nWalus is \"unrepentant except for his pretences to be seen to be complying with parole eligibility,\" Mr Mashilo said.\n\n\"The uncorrectable assassin who almost plunged South Africa into a civil war with far-reaching implications must not be released on parole. As things stand, there has been no full disclosure of the truth and all the circumstances surrounding Hani's assassination,\" Mr Mashilo added.\n\nHe said questions remained about the gun used to kill Hani.\n\n\"The murder weapon that the man pulled the trigger of was taken from military armoury. Who took it, whose hands did it go through... to [get to] its destination, Walus, and his assassination of Hani?\" he asked.\n\nSupporters of the ruling ANC party have also been opposed to freeing Walus on parole\n\nThe last time most South Africans saw Walus was during the TRC sessions, answering questions about Hani's murder.\n\nAt some point during the hearings he locked his head in a slightly titled position and shot a blank but searing stare across the room - it's a look like this which can be seen on display in scarves and banners in Polish football stadiums.\n\nLast year an audio message from Walus was uploaded to YouTube and Facebook, in which he thanked his fans for raising legal fees and buying sports equipment.\n\nWalus told Polish journalist Lazarewicz he believes black people and white people should live separately\n\nWhen Lazarewicz visited Walus two years ago for an interview, he found a man who, 25 years after his incarceration, was unrelenting in his convictions.\n\n\"Four years ago Walus met in prison with Hani's daughter - Lindiwe. He told her [that] when he lost his father [in 1997] then he understood that Chris Hani was not only a communist, but he was also a father and husband,\" Lazarewicz said.\n\n\"Walus told me that he was very sorry for killing Lindiwe's father. But he never regretted [killing a] communist leader. He told me, in 1993, there was a war in South Africa and he felt like a soldier... he still believes in the system of racial segregation and that whites and blacks should live apart,\" he added.\n\nThis could explain why Walus has become an icon of white supremacist groups.\n\nSo even as his supporters call for his freedom in football games in Poland, it's their shared allegiance to a racist ideology that will block any chance of parole and confine him to prison for the rest of his life.", "The letter was intercepted by law enforcement before it reached the White House, officials said\n\nA woman has been arrested on suspicion of sending a package containing ricin poison to US President Donald Trump, according to US immigration officials.\n\nThe unnamed woman was found at a border crossing in Buffalo, New York, as she tried to enter the US from Canada, and was reportedly carrying a gun.\n\nThe letter containing the deadly poison is believed to have come from Canada, according to investigators there.\n\nThe letter was discovered last week before it could reach the White House.\n\nRicin, a poison found naturally in castor beans, has been used in other attempted attacks against the White House in recent years.\n\nThe Trump administration is yet to comment on the reports.\n\nThe Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Secret Service are investigating the package, which was discovered at a processing facility for mail sent to the White House.\n\n\"At this time, there is no known threat to public safety,\" the FBI told CNN on Saturday.\n\nThe suspect may have also sent ricin to five addresses in Texas, including a jail and a sheriff's office, according to police.\n\nThe presence of ricin was confirmed after several tests by the FBI, authorities said.\n\nThe Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said on Saturday it was working with the FBI to investigate the \"suspicious letter sent to the White House\".\n\nA spokesman for the Mission, Texas, police department told the Associated Press on Monday an envelope was in the care of local officials and no one had been hurt.\n\nAnother Texas Sheriff, Eddie Guerra in Hidalgo County, also confirmed envelopes with ricin were posted to staff there, but reported no injuries.\n\nThe RCMP division in Quebec is leading a search of a residence in the Montreal suburb of St-Hubert, which authorities said on Monday is linked to the suspect.\n\nTheir chemicals and explosives team is on site, along with local police and fire units.\n\nThe suspect is due to appear in court on Tuesday in Buffalo.\n\nRicin is a lethal substance that, if swallowed, inhaled or injected, can cause nausea, vomiting, internal bleeding and ultimately organ failure.\n\nNo known antidote exists for ricin. If a person is exposed to ricin, death can take place within 36 to 72 hours, depending on the dose received, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).\n\nCastor seeds, which are used to make the deadly ricin poison\n\nThe CDC said the poison - which has been used in terror plots - can be manufactured into a weapon in the form of a powder, mist or pellet.\n\nThe White House and other federal buildings have been the target of ricin packages in the past.\n\nIn 2014, a Mississippi man was sentenced to 25 years in prison for sending letters dusted with ricin to former President Barack Obama and other officials.\n\nFour years later, in 2018, a former Navy veteran was charged with sending toxic letters to the Pentagon and White House.", "Last updated on .From the section Tottenham\n\nTottenham have re-signed Wales forward Gareth Bale from Spanish champions Real Madrid on a season-long loan.\n\nBale, 31, left Spurs for a then world record £85m in 2013 and went on to score more than 100 goals and win four Champions Leagues with Real.\n\n\"It's nice to be back. It's such a special club to me. It's where I made my name,\" said Bale.\n\n\"Hopefully, now I can get some match fitness, get under way and really help the team and, hopefully, win trophies.\"\n\nSpurs said Bale has signed for them with a knee injury sustained playing for Wales earlier this month and they \"anticipate that he will be match fit after October's international break\".\n\nThat would mean the forward missing their next five games, with the club's first outing following the international break at home to West Ham on 17 October.\n\nBale originally joined Tottenham as a 17-year-old from Southampton in 2007 for an initial payment of £5m.\n\n\"I always thought when I did leave that I would love to come back,\" he added.\n\n\"I feel like it is a good fit. It's a good time for me. I'm hungry and motivated. I want to do well for the team and can't wait to get started.\"\n\nAt Real, Bale has also won two La Liga titles, one Copa del Rey, three Uefa Super Cups and three Club World Cups.\n\n\"I think by going to Madrid, winning trophies and going far with the national team I feel like I have that kind of winning mentality, how to win trophies,\" he said.\n\n\"You don't realise it until you're there and in those situations, in finals, how to kind of deal with the situation, the nerves, the pressure, and I think that all goes with experience.\n\n\"Hopefully I can bring that to the dressing room, bring a bit more belief to everybody that we can win a trophy, and the target is to do that this season, to be fighting on every front possible. I want to bring that mentality here, back to Tottenham.\"\n\nBale remains the most expensive British player in history, as well as the top-scoring British player in La Liga - with 80 goals and 40 assists in 171 league appearances, averaging a goal or assist every 104 minutes.\n\nHowever, a run of injuries, indifferent form and a deteriorating relationship with manager Zinedine Zidane had seen Bale become a marginal figure.\n• None The Premier League stars who have returned to former clubs\n\nFrom the world's most expensive signing to a player on the fringes\n\nReal eclipsed the £80m they paid Manchester United for Cristiano Ronaldo in 2009 to take Bale to the Bernabeu, with the forward signing an initial £300,000-a-week, six-year contract.\n\nHe extended his stay with a new six-year deal in 2016, reported to be worth £600,000 a week - and £150m over its duration - in salaries and bonuses.\n\nThe Welshman was hugely successful in his first few seasons at Real, scoring in the 2014 and 2018 Champions League finals, as well as the 2014 Copa del Rey final.\n\nBBC Sport readers voted Bale as the best British export of the Premier League era earlier this year, his 42% share comfortably eclipsing former England, Manchester United and Real Madrid winger David Beckham's 29%.\n\nBut, frustrated by a lack of playing time, Bale came close to a move to China last year before Real blocked it.\n\nAfter celebrating Wales' qualification for Euro 2020 with a banner reading \"Wales. Golf. Madrid. In that Order\" in November, he received a backlash in Spain and was jeered by Real fans in his first game back for the club.\n\nHis relationship with Zidane deteriorated to the extent Bale asked not to travel with the squad for the Champions League last-16 second-leg tie against Manchester City in August because he knew he had no chance of being involved.\n\nHe started just one match when the 2019-20 La Liga season resumed following the coronavirus shutdown and played only 100 minutes as Real won a first league title since 2017, and was conspicuously on the fringes of the team's celebrations.\n\nBale joins manager Jose Mourinho's other signings of this transfer window, joining goalkeeper Joe Hart, defender Matt Doherty, midfielder Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg and left-back Sergio Reguilon at the club.\n\nTottenham, Champions League finalists in 2019, were beaten 1-0 at home by Everton in their first match of the 2020-21 campaign on Sunday.\n\nThey finished sixth in the English top flight last season to qualify for the Europa League, seven points adrift of Chelsea in the final Champions League position.\n\nMourinho, beginning his first full campaign with Spurs after succeeding Mauricio Pochettino in December, tried to sign Bale when Real Madrid boss but the player arrived the season after the Portuguese's departure.\n• None All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur's Amazon documentary reviewed\n\nOpposition will be scared of Bale 'wow' factor - analysis\n\nGareth Bale has that \"wow\" factor, something only a few very special players in the world have got.\n\nWhen they play, they have a different aura and a presence on the pitch that affects everyone - even before they kick a ball.\n\nSo, Bale will not just have a positive effect on his new Tottenham team-mates and give them a massive confidence boost, he will change the way opposition players feel about facing Spurs.\n\nThey will be worried when they see his name on the teamsheet and then, when they face him on the pitch, I can tell you now they will drop off five yards because they will be scared of him - whoever they are.\n\nMore on the deal\n\nThe indications are that Tottenham will pay 40% of Bale's salary, which is in excess of £600,000 a week.\n\nThis figure may involve bonuses, so the actual payment may be less than £260,000 a week, but it will still place Bale above even Harry Kane, who signed a £200,000-a-week deal in 2018.\n\nHowever, coming less than six months after chairman Daniel Levy put staff on furlough, and less than four months after Tottenham took out a £175m loan from the Bank of England - which it expressly says will not be used to buy players and is more likely to help pay loans for their £1bn stadium - it still raises questions about the deal.\n\nAn astute operator with a keen business brain, Levy can presumably justify the move on two grounds.\n\nFirst, the impact Bale could have on Mourinho's squad, leading to success on the field and therefore more money off it. Secondly, Bale is a global star and will have a major commercial impact.\n\nBale's arrival puts question marks over the short-term futures of two midfielders: Dele Alli, replaced at half-time during Sunday's home defeat by Everton, and Tanguy Ndombele, a £63m club record signing last summer.\n• None In 146 Premier League games for Tottenham Bale scored 42 times. In his last season at Tottenham in 2012-2013, Bale was involved in 37 goals in all competitions for the club (26 goals, 11 assists) - only Robin van Persie (39) and Juan Mata (49) were involved in more for a Premier League club that season.\n• Nine came outside the box ; the most by any player in a single season in the competition's history.\n• None Bale is one of four Premier League players to win the PFA Players' Player of the Year on two occasions, after Alan Shearer, Thierry Henry and Ronaldo. He was also only the second Premier League player (along with Ronaldo) to win both this award alongside the Young Player of the Year award in the same season.\n• None Bale is one of seven players to score at least twice in a single Champions League final, and the only British player to do so.\n• None Since he joined Madrid in the summer of 2013, only Ronaldo (318) and Karim Benzema (235) have been involved in more competitive goals\n• None Over the past three seasons, Gareth Bale has seen his attempted dribbles drop to three or less per 90 minutes, compared to a high of 6.2 when at Tottenham and 5.8 in his first season at Real Madrid.\n\nHow is Bale's departure viewed in Madrid?\n\nThe view in Madrid is... finally, he's gone.\n\nWhether it's fair or not (and the man himself appears to be way past caring), that will be the immediate reaction of most Real Madrid fans to the news of Gareth Bale's departure.\n\nIn their minds, Bale's undeniably significant role in an impressive haul of silverware - including some genuinely sensational moments of match-winning brilliance - has been overshadowed by his startling lack of contribution in the past two years, during which time his attitude towards the club veered between disinterested apathy and hostile mockery.\n\nIn time, the acrimony of his past couple of years will be forgotten and a more generous perception will emerge, and it is already widely acknowledged that Bale was an undoubted success during his first five years in Spain.\n\nBut it can't be denied that he became an expensive burden by the end, and few fans will be sorry to see him leave.\n\nMost expensive transfers of all time\n\nFind all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.", "Pupils are back in schools but they face safety measures against the spread of Covid-19\n\nAround one in 20 children in England are out of school due to issues linked to the pandemic and lockdown, the Children's Commissioner has suggested.\n\nAnne Longfield stressed the number of schools who have sent pupils home due to a Covid-19 case was very small.\n\nThere were many others, she said, with special needs or emotional problems, who had not yet returned from lockdown.\n\nBut getting Covid tests to schools quickly was a test the government could not afford to fail, she added.\n\nSome eight million children attend England's schools and colleges, so 5% is about 400,000 pupils.\n\nMs Longfield told BBC News that the number of children back in school was good, thanks to the heroic efforts of teachers and school staff.\n\nAnd the number of schools forced to close due to an outbreak, or having to send pupils or class groups home, was very small, she said.\n\nThis is despite numerous reports of schools sending children home.\n\nShe urged parents and schools to \"hold their nerve\".\n\nHowever, quoting official figures, she added: \"We know that 10% of children are away from the classroom, not necessarily with Coronavirus,\n\n\"We think 5% of children are out of the classroom on average on a regular day - outside of the pandemic.\n\n\"But there will be children with SEND [Special Educational Needs and Disabilities], and there will be children, often troubled teens, who haven't been in school over this period of time who will need extra help to get them back into school.\"\n\n\"We also know there are a lot of the children that aren't in school don't have symptoms themselves, but are in year groups with children who might.\"\n\nShe stressed: \"So there needs to be extra clarity from the government in terms of who does need to not be in school if there are symptoms.\n\n\"Also teachers need that help from public health officials locally, to be able to make those really difficult decisions, and really difficult risk assessments of how they can keep their schools going.\n\n\"This is a test for government that they cannot afford not to pass,\" she said.\n\nThere was a danger that the goodwill of parents and teachers that had seen a successful return to school would be lost by the lack of access to testing, she warned.\n\n\"A lot of problems come because teachers are showing symptoms and therefore need to be tested and this affects the schools, especially small ones, because there comes a point when you can't run a school because there aren't enough staff.\"\n\nTeachers and schools needed to be prioritised for testing along with health care professionals, she said.\n\nShe warned that the situation with suspected Covid cases would worsen when children get the usual rounds of seasonal colds and flu.\n\n\"That's going to be really difficult for teachers to be able to manage if they don't have the test and don't have the back-up they need to make those really difficult decisions.\"\n\nHer comments come after a snapshot survey of heads, mainly in primary schools in England, painted a worrying picture of schools struggling to get tests for pupils or staff.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers survey, which had 736 responses from its 30,000 members, suggested that, where a suspected Covid case had hit a school, the system of public health support was not working well.\n\nOf those who replied, 82% had children not attending because they could not get a test, while 87% had children not attending while waiting for results.\n\nThis compared to 14% with confirmed cases of Covid-19.\n\nNAHT general secretary Paul Whiteman said: \"Tests for Covid-19 need to be readily available for everyone so that pupils and staff who get negative results can get back into school quickly.\n\n\"But we are hearing the same thing repeatedly from our members across the country. Chaos is being caused by the inability of staff and families to successfully get tested when they display symptoms.\n\n\"This means schools are struggling with staffing, have children missing school, and ultimately that children's education is being needlessly disrupted.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said 99.9% of schools were open with the vast majority of pupils attending.\n\n\"Where staff or children have symptoms of Covid-19, testing capacity is the highest it has ever been, and we are working to provide further priority access for teachers.\n\n\"Schools only need to identify close contacts and ask them to self-isolate if and when a case is confirmed from a positive test result.\n\n\"Close contacts of confirmed cases must follow the full 14 day self-isolation period and should only seek a test if they have symptoms.\"", "The woman fell from the car between Clacket Lane Services and Junction 6 of the M25\n\nA woman fell out of a moving car on the M25 while leaning out of the window to film a video for Snapchat.\n\nShe fell from the car into a \"live lane\" between junction six and the Clacket Lane Services at 01:30 BST, Surrey Police traffic officers tweeted.\n\nThe woman was not badly hurt but police said it was lucky \"she wasn't seriously injured or killed\".\n\nShe was treated at the scene by paramedics. No arrests have been made, police added.\n\nIn a post on Twitter, the Roads Policing Unit said: \"The front seat passenger was hanging out the car whilst filming a Snapchat video along the M25. She then fell out the car and into a live lane.\n\n\"It is only by luck she wasn't seriously injured or killed. #nowords\"\n\nSurrey officers tweeted the woman involved was lucky not to have been killed or injured\n\nA force spokesman said: \"Officers were called to the M25 between junction six and Clacket Lane Services shortly after 01:30 BST this morning following reports of a female falling out of a moving vehicle.\n\n\"The woman was treated by paramedics at the scene and her injuries were not life-threatening or life-changing.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The musician had been undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.\n\nHe is best known for his performances on the Black Sabbath frontman's critically-acclaimed debut album, Blizzard of Ozz, and was also the drummer in heavy metal band Uriah Heep.\n\nOsbourne wrote on Facebook: \"It's been 39 years since I've seen Lee but he lives for ever on the records he played on for me.\"\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by Ozzy Osbourne This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nIn a tribute posted on the band's Twitter page, fellow Uriah Heep member Mick Box wrote: \"Lee was one of the kindest men on earth, as well as being a brother he was an incredible drummer, singer and song writer!\n\n\"He had a passion for life bar none and was much loved by the fans, as well as anyone who crossed his path! Rock in peace my friend.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Uriah Heep This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBorn in Bournemouth in 1947, Kerslake joined Uriah Heep in 1971.\n\nIn the early 1980s he recorded Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman with Ozzy Osbourne.\n\nLee Kerslake (second left) was a drummer in heavy metal band Uriah Heep\n\nIn 2004, alongside bassist Robert Daisley, Kerslake lost a US Supreme Court appeal to claim royalties for their work on the two albums.\n\nIn December 2018 Kerslake revealed he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer but the same month joined Uriah Heep on stage for a performance in London.", "The Mumbles Coastguard Cliff Rescue Team had reports of a car that had gone over the embankment\n\nA woman and her six-year-old daughter have been injured and taken to hospital after they were hit by a vehicle on a footpath near a beach.\n\nThe young girl and her 35-year-old mother were hit by a car in Bracelet Bay car park in Mumbles, Swansea.\n\nSouth Wales Police said a car had gone over an embankment and on to the path.\n\nPolice initially said the woman was seriously hurt but later confirmed her injuries were \"not life changing or life threatening\".\n\nThe 84 year-old driver of the car was not injured.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBoth the injured woman and the girl were taken by ambulance to Morriston Hospital in Swansea and police said the young girl had suffered \"minor injuries\".\n\nThe air ambulance, coastguard and fire crews also attended the scene and The Mumbles Coastguard Cliff Rescue Team said on Twitter it had been \"to assist with a car that had gone over the embankment\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Sunday morning. We'll have another update for you on Monday.\n\nThe government has said it will introduce a new legal duty requiring people in England to self-isolate if they test positive for coronavirus, or are traced as a close contact. From 28 September, those who refuse an order to self-isolate could be fined up to £10,000. The new measures also include a one-off support payment of £500 for those on lower incomes. The PM is still considering tightening restrictions further after a surge in cases across the UK - another 4,422 cases were recorded on Saturday.\n\nLesley Anderson had been due to fly from Glasgow to London to celebrate her birthday, but disruption caused by the pandemic meant her British Airways flights were cancelled. She says a voucher was issued \"automatically\" after she selected \"cancel and refund flight\". BA has said there is \"no way\" that vouchers can be issued without customers requesting them. You can read the full story here from Ms Anderson, who is the latest person to accuse the airline of misleading its customers.\n\nThousands of devices which can track where a person has been and who they have interacted with are being distributed in Singapore. The small Bluetooth device is meant for those who do not own smartphones and cannot use a contact tracing app. Authorities say the token helps vulnerable groups to feel safer when out and about.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Covid tracing tokens being issued in Singapore\n\nCoronavirus has robbed politicos of the chance to mingle in their hundreds at party conferences this autumn. Instead, Conservatives, Labourites and Liberal Democrats will have to watch their leaders speak via Zoom. The parties insist the events will be as vibrant and interesting as possible, but, as Labour's gets under way this weekend, what are the big things to look out for and how much has changed?\n\nTwenty photos capturing life during lockdown have been selected as part of a competition to feature on a video with reggae band UB40. The winning image was of a deserted dual carriageway by Jack Crook. See more of the top entries.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nIn winter, a blocked or runny nose, a sore throat and a cough are common, so how do you know if you have Covid-19? Check your symptoms here.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "American Bryson DeChambeau produced a wonderful final-round display to win the US Open by six shots and claim the first major title of his career.\n\nThe 27-year-old was the only player to break par at the notoriously difficult Winged Foot, in New York.\n\nRenowned for his big-hitting approach, the world number nine showed maturity and composure to card an impressive three-under 67 to win on six under par.\n\nMatthew Wolff faded on the back nine, shooting 75 to finish second at level.\n\nSouth Africa's Louis Oosthuizen, who finished third at two over, and Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy were the only non-Americans to place inside the top 10.\n\nWorld number four McIlroy ended joint eighth at six over after a final-day 75 that included two double bogeys, while England's Lee Westwood was a stroke further back.\n\nDeChambeau dedicated the win to his parents, who he said had \"given up so much for me\".\n\nHe began the day two behind 21-year-old overnight leader Wolff and was the only player to shoot an under par round on Sunday.\n\nDeChambeau was firmly in control by the time they hit the final stretch after playing the front nine in 33 shots - two under par - and he then had one birdie and eight pars in his final nine holes.\n\nWolff, who was hoping to become the first debutant to win the championship since Francis Ouimet in 1907, dropped four shots on the run-in as the pressure built.\n\nDeChambeau becomes only the second player to win the men's US Open at Winged Foot with a score under par, joining 1984 champion Fuzzy Zoeller.\n\n\"It's just an honour, it has been a lot of hard work,\" he said\n\n\"At nine, that was when I first thought this could be a reality. I made an eagle, I had shocked myself to do that, and I thought 'I can do it'.\n\n\"Then I said 'no, you have to focus on each and every hole'. Throughout the back nine I kept saying 'no, you still have three, four, five holes to go', whatever it was.\n\n\"I had to keep focused and make sure I executed each shot the best I could do.\"\n• None How DeChambeau bulked up in major hunt\n\nDeChambeau's unique methods have divided opinion since he turned professional in 2016. Fans find them innovative, critics call them irritating.\n\nThe former physics student's experiments have seen him dubbed 'The Scientist', tinkering with oversized grips, cutting all his clubs to the same length and most recently piling on more than 40lbs in the past year.\n\nThat helped turn him into the longest average driver on the PGA Tour last season and he said in the build-up to the US Open he would look to overpower the difficult West Course at Winged Foot.\n\nDeChambeau claims to have been fuelling his muscle growth with a 3,000-3,500 calorie daily diet that packs in 400g of protein, and his length off the tee has helped fuel the debate around whether tournament balls should be introduced.\n\nBut for all the tinkering, chuntering and pursuit of power, the American showed great composure and an air of calmness to execute his game plan on a superb final day at Mamaroneck.\n\nThe obsessive DeChambeau, who makes extensive calculations before each shot, was at the practice range under the floodlights on Saturday night after only hitting three fairways during a third-round 70, and the work paid off.\n\nHe wiped out Wolff's two-shot lead within four holes. Wolff bogeyed the par-three third before DeChambeau rolled in his opening birdie of the day at the fourth.\n\nWhen Wolff dropped another shot at five, DeChambeau was the sole leader.\n\nBoth then bogeyed the eighth to give the rest of the field a sniff, only to card a pair of eagles on the par-five ninth to turn it into a two-horse race.\n\nIt soon became a DeChambeau procession.\n\nA frustrated Wolff, who carded a superb 65 on Saturday to lead on five under, fell away with bogeys at 10 and 14, before a double bogey at 16 ended any slim hopes he held of victory in only his second major appearance.\n\n\"I battled hard. Things just didn't go my way,\" said Wolff. \"But first US Open, second place is something to be proud of.\"\n\nDeChambeau, who finished tied fourth with Wolff at last month's US PGA Championship, rolled in another birdie at 11 and proceeded to complete a bogey-free back nine.\n\nIt meant, as he headed to the 18th tee with a six-shot lead, there would be none of the drama that accompanied the last US Open to be staged at Winged Foot, when Geoff Ogilvy won by one stroke at five over after Phil Mickelson and Colin Montgomerie double-bogeyed the last.\n\nInstead, DeChambeau was able to look into the camera and send love to his family as he walked up the final fairway, before rolling in a par putt and throwing his arms in the air in delight.\n\nHe becomes just the third player after Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods to win an NCAA individual title, the US Amateur title and a US Open.\n\n\"There were times that I went to school without any lunch money, and we had to make baloney sandwiches and didn't have anything to eat,\" DeChambeau added.\n\n\"We had some very, very difficult times, but every single day they always wanted the best for me, and they always gave me the opportunity to go golf, go practise, and go get better.\n\n\"This one's for my parents, it's for my whole team. All the work, all the blood, sweat, and tears we put into it, it just means the world to me.\"\n\nMcIlroy's hopes over on the first\n\nFour-time major champion McIlroy said he felt he had a chance if he was within six shots heading into the final day.\n\nThat was the gap to leader Wolff when he teed off on Sunday, but his hopes of winning a second US Open title and first major in six years quickly unravelled with a double bogey at the first.\n\nMcIlroy's tee shot found the fairway and he was on the green in two, only to four-putt from 90 feet after his first attempt failed to get over a ridge in the putting surface and rolled back towards him.\n\nThe 31-year-old added two more bogeys before clawing shots back at the ninth and 11th but a bogey on the 15th and a second double bogey at the 16th saw him fade again.\n\nMcIlroy's was not the only drama on the first, as Harris English, who started the day at level par, lost his ball in the rough to the left of the opening fairway and had to return to the tee.\n\nClub members had been employed as spotters throughout the week, but despite their efforts and those of English and playing partner Xander Schauffele, the ball could not be found within the three-minute time limit.\n\nEnglish recovered to finish in fourth place at three over with Schauffele, one of the favourites before the tournament, a stroke further back.\n\nWorld number one Dustin Johnson, who came into the week with two wins and two second-placed finishes in his past four events, carded a final-round 70 to climb into a tie for sixth on five over par.\n• None Delicious recipes and food hacks that won't break the bank\n• None How well do you know your coffee?", "Singapore is distributing tens of thousands of devices that can track who a person has interacted with.\n\nThe small bluetooth device is meant for those who do not own smartphones and cannot use a contact tracing app that was previously rolled out by the Singapore government.\n\nWhile there are some concerns over about data protection, authorities say the token helps vulnerable groups to feel safer when out and about.\n\nFor instance, the token helps elderly people keep a precise record of their whereabouts.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock has defended new lockdown guidelines which could see some people in England fined £10,000 if they fail to self-isolate.\n\nHe also urged the public to report people they see breaking the rule of six, which states no more than six people should be gathered inside, adding that he would call the police on a neighbour ignoring that.\n\nAnd if people don't follow the rules, Mr Hancock said he would not rule out \"more stringent enforcement\".\n\nThe prime minister is understood to be considering a ban on households mixing, and reducing opening hours for pubs.\n\nA further 4,422 new Covid-19 cases and 27 deaths were reported in the UK on Saturday.", "UK firms have voluntarily returned more than £215m to the government in furlough scheme payments they did not need or took in error.\n\nAccording to HMRC figures, some 80,433 employers have returned cash they were given to help cover workers' salaries.\n\nThe money returned is a tiny part of the £35.4bn claimed under the scheme up until 16 August, the latest date for which statistics are available.\n\nOfficials believe £3.5bn may have been paid out in error or to fraudsters.\n\nHMRC said it welcomed employers who have voluntarily returned grants.\n\nUnder the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) - or furlough scheme - workers placed on leave have received 80% of their pay, up to a maximum of £2,500 a month.\n\nAt first this was all paid for by the government, but firms are now having to make a contribution to wages as well.\n\nAs of 15 September, companies and other bodies had returned £215,756,121 in grants, according to data obtained by the PA news agency through a freedom of information request.\n\nSome of the money was returned, while other firms simply claimed smaller payouts the next time they were given furlough cash.\n\nHMRC said: \"HMRC welcomes those employers who have voluntarily returned CJRS grants to HMRC because they no longer need the grant, or have realised they've made errors and followed our guidance on putting things right.\"\n\nThe CJRS was launched in April to support businesses that could not operate, or had to cut staffing levels, during lockdown. But companies have been urged to repay the taxpayer cash they receive if they feel they can afford to do so.\n\nHousebuilders Redrow, Barratt and Taylor Wimpey have both returned all the furlough money they have claimed. So too have Games Workshop, distribution giant Bunzl and the Spectator magazine.\n\nOthers such as Primark and John Lewis have said they will not claim money under the Jobs Retention Bonus, which pays firms £1,000 for every employee they bring back from furlough and keep employed until the end of January.\n\nThe government has rejected calls to extend the furlough scheme when it ends on 31 October, despite warnings that it could trigger a wave of job cuts.\n\nHMRC said: \"To tackle the impact the pandemic had on people's jobs, businesses and livelihoods, the government introduced one of the most generous and comprehensive packages of support in the world, including the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.\n\n\"So far, the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme has helped 1.2 million employers across the UK furlough 9.6 million jobs, protecting people's livelihoods.\"\n• None Rightmove and Compass say no to job retention bonus", "British Airways told Lesley Anderson she had accepted vouchers even after she submitted this screenshot of its website\n\nA British Airways passenger was refused a refund for a cancelled flight even after she sent screenshots of the airline's website showing the option of a voucher was not mentioned.\n\nLesley Anderson says a voucher was issued \"automatically\" after she selected \"Cancel and refund flight\".\n\nShe is the latest person to accuse the airline of misleading its customers.\n\nBritish Airways has said there is \"no way\" that vouchers can be issued without customers requesting them.\n\nMs Anderson, from Irvine in Ayrshire, had been due to fly from Glasgow to London to celebrate her birthday, but disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic meant her flights were cancelled.\n\nAn email from BA included a link that took her to the \"Manage my booking\" section of its website, where she was presented with two main options: to rebook the cancelled flights \"free of charge\" or to get a \"full refund\" by cancelling the entire booking.\n\n\"I obviously chose the 'Cancel and refund flights' option,\" she says, \"which then took me to the British Airways webpage that said, 'Thanks for completing your travel voucher application.' I was a bit gobsmacked.\"\n\n\"I definitely did not fill in any information about my name, my flights. I did not click submit, nothing like that at all. It just took me straight to that page and it issued me automatically with a voucher.\"\n\nEven though Ms Anderson sent screenshots of the webpage showing that vouchers were not listed as an option and said she always wanted her money back, BA staff told her she had accepted vouchers and they could not be exchanged for cash.\n\nUnder EU law, when a flight is cancelled, passengers are entitled to their money back within seven days, although airlines can offer to rebook flights or issue vouchers for future travel, if that is what a customer prefers.\n\nIn Lesley's case, BA says that she filled in an application form and it is not possible for its online system to issue vouchers without that happening.\n\nBut numerous passengers have contacted Radio 4's consumer programme, You & Yours, with similar tales of receiving vouchers which they did not want.\n\nThe airline has said it will \"always provide a refund if a customer is eligible\".\n\n\"Since March, we have provided more than 2.1 million customers with cash refunds and more than 1.6 million with vouchers,\" BA said in a statement.\n\n\"Customers can request vouchers via our call centre, or by filling in details on an online vouchers form, and in each case, they are asked to confirm this before it is submitted.\"", "Merthyr Tydfil's council leader claims some have \"lost their discipline\" over social distancing\n\nThe Welsh Government may have to consider stricter enforcement if people continue to break Covid-19 rules, according a minister.\n\nEluned Morgan said they would need to \"look at the evidence as to who is breaking the rules\".\n\nShe also said Welsh ministers had not had a chance to discuss a change of policy on fines in England.\n\nThe UK government is introducing £10,000 fines for people who fail to self-isolate.\n\nIts new measures also include a one-off £500 support payment for those on lower incomes.\n\nInternational Relations Minister Ms Morgan told BBC Politics Wales: \"We need people to follow the rules and we need to make sure there is carrot as well as stick.\n\n\"We want to know a bit more about the carrot.\n\n\"They're saying that people will have £500 to help them to stay home.\n\n\"If that's the case, we want to know whether that money will be coming to Wales as well,\" she added.\n\nQueue outside an opticians in Merthyr Tydfil\n\nThe Welsh Government said they already had the powers to potentially introduce a system to fine people up to £1,000 if they do not self-isolate.\n\n\"Whether or not this is made a legal obligation, it is crucial that anyone with symptoms of coronavirus stays at home to prevent the onward spread of this infectious disease - this includes while waiting for the results of a test,\" they said in a statement.\n\nMerthyr Tydfil council leader Kevin O'Neill claimed on Saturday that some people in the area had \"lost their discipline\".\n\nRates in Merthyr Tydfil over the past week have overtaken neighbouring Rhondda Cynon Taf, which was placed in a local lockdown on Thursday.\n\nWales' deputy chief medical officer Dr Chris Jones said there was evidence \"people have become a little less concerned about the risk that the virus poses and are taking more risks in their everyday lives\".\n\n\"The crucial thing is that when somebody has symptoms, they isolate themselves from contact with others,\" he told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement programme.\n\n\"And that's quite a tough thing to do.\"\n\nHe also said there was a lot of variation in the rate of transmission of the virus across Wales, with hotspots in the south.\n\nIn light of the differing picture across the country, he said taking Wales-wide \"measures may be disproportionate for people in areas where the virus is less troublesome\".\n\nMost of Wales' Covid-19 tests are processed at UK-wide lighthouse labs, which are struggling to deal with a backlog of tests.\n\nLaboratories in Swansea, Cardiff and Rhyl are testing suspected Covid-19 samples around the clock\n\nThe Welsh Government has pledged more tests would be available next week that will be processed by the Welsh NHS.\n\nAsked when the Welsh Government became aware of testing problems at Lighthouse labs, Ms Morgan said: \"We clearly became aware when people were unable to get their tests.\n\n\"There's been considerable pressure from the Welsh Government constantly asking the health minister in England what they're doing, how they can improve the situation and we've had to pick up the slack.\"\n\nPressed on whether the Welsh Government had been too slow to shift the processing of the tests from the lighthouse labs to Welsh NHS labs, the minister said: \"We have been nimble and we have tried to change things.\n\n\"We've moved to 24-hour processing at the three labs in Wales; one in Swansea, one in Cardiff and one in Rhyl.\n\n\"We've tried to shift the mobile analysis that's happening from the Lighthouse Labs to Public Health Wales and we're making sure that we're increasing the number of mobile units as well,\" she added.", "The legislation would give the UK government powers to spend cash on infrastructure in Wales\n\nPlans for a new law giving the UK government more powers to spend in Wales have been published.\n\nThe Internal Market Bill would transfer powers from the EU to the UK government to spend on areas such as economic development, infrastructure and sport.\n\nThe Welsh Government accused its UK counterpart of \"stealing powers\" from devolved governments.\n\nBut UK ministers said the law would allow them to replace existing EU funding programmes.\n\nFrom next year, powers which had been held by the EU will be transferred to the governments around the UK.\n\nThe UK government says the draft law is aimed at ensuring trade within the United Kingdom can continue \"unhindered\" under these new arrangements.\n\nMuch attention has been focused on the fact that the legislation could override key elements of UK ministers' Brexit deal with Brussels, in breach of international law.\n\nIn addition, the legislation will give ministers in Whitehall powers to spend money to replace EU funding programmes on areas that would otherwise be devolved to the Welsh Government.\n\nThe new spending powers include infrastructure, economic development, culture, sport, and support for educational, training and exchange opportunities.\n\nA senior UK government cabinet minister insisted the powers would \"drive our economic recovery from Covid-19 and support businesses and communities right across the UK\".\n\nMichael Gove, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, said: \"These new spending powers will mean that these decisions will now be made in the UK, focus on UK priorities and be accountable to the UK Parliament and people of the UK.\"\n\nMichael Gove said the powers would \"drive our economic recovery from Covid-19\"\n\nWelsh Secretary Simon Hart said it was \"vital\" that seamless trade continued between the four nations, and that \"investment must continue to flow unhindered\".\n\nBut the Welsh Government Minister for European Transition Jeremy Miles said the powers would \"sacrifice the future of the union by stealing powers from devolved administrations.\"\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said the bill \"provides ammunition to those people who would favour the breakup of the United Kingdom\".\n\n\"I'm in favour of a UK Common Market and I'm in favour of a UK-wide state aid regime, but the proposals in the white paper are absolutely not the right way to go about it,\" he told Sky News.\n\nPlaid Cymru Westminster leader Liz Saville Roberts said: \"This bill is the single biggest assault on devolution since its creation.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC later on Wednesday, Mr Hart said he found it \"pretty strange\" that Labour Welsh ministers and Plaid Cymru objected to UK government plans to spend money in Wales.\n\n\"Seems to me they're more anxious about protecting their little political clique in Cardiff than they are actually doing something about economies we tried to recover from Covid and move on from Brexit,\" he said.\n\nWales has been eligible for £375m a year from EU funds with the management shared between the EU and the Welsh Government.", "John Turner's tenure as prime minister is the second shortest in Canada's history\n\nFormer Canadian Prime Minister John Turner, who was in office for just 79 days and led his Liberal Party to a huge defeat in 1984, has died aged 91.\n\nA lawyer by training, he served as justice and then finance minister from 1968-1975. He resigned after arguments with party leader Pierre Trudeau.\n\nTurner resumed his legal work and nine years later won the party leadership.\n\nHe called an election and then presided over what observers say was one of the worst campaigns in Canadian history.\n\nHis gaffes combined with growing public fatigue with the Liberals, who had been in power for 20 of the previous 21 years, resulted in his party falling from 135 seats in the 282-member House of Commons to just 40.\n\nThe Conservatives, under the leadership of Brian Mulroney, swept to power with 211 seats.\n\nDespite the result, Turner hung onto his post. In the 1988 election, Turner was a strong opponent of a proposed free trade agreement with the US but lost again to Mr Mulroney, but not as badly.\n\nHe resigned as a Liberal leader in 1990.\n\nAs justice minister, he defended reforms to Canada's Criminal Code that paved the way for LGBTQ rights and legal abortions. But in the finance ministry he faced economic pressures due to the global oil crisis.\n\nHis 79-day tenure as prime minister is the second shortest in the country's history.\n\nTurner died at home in Toronto on Friday night, Marc Kealey, a former aide speaking on behalf of his relatives told the Montreal Gazette. He is survived by his wife Geills and four children.", "The tourist attraction closed in the coronavirus lockdown\n\nA tourist attraction in Somerset is to close for the foreseeable future with the loss of 40 jobs, its parent company has said.\n\nLongleat Enterprises said Cheddar Caves and Gorge would not reopen this year and it \"could not seeing that changing in 2021\".\n\n\"The effect of the pandemic on our operations has been profound,\" it said.\n\nThe staff, all based at Cheddar, will now be entering into a formal redundancy process.\n\nOther businesses that neighbour the attraction remain open.\n\nCheddar Caves and Gorge features a series of caves, a museum and cafe and also offers rock climbing activities in the gorge itself.\n\nLongleat Enterprises says it hopes to reopen in a \"bigger, better way\"\n\nThe company, which also runs Longleat Safari Park, said the decision had been made in part because of the \"trajectory of the virus in 2021 and associated guidance and rules\".\n\n\"With great regret amid the ongoing uncertainty and long timescales involved we have to consider making redundancies, which will affect the vast majority of our staff working at Cheddar,\" it added.\n\nHR director Simon Askew said they hoped to \"reopen, in a way which is bigger and better than before\" at some point in the future.\n\n\"This would not be the end of Cheddar as a wonderful attraction, but it would mean we have to close the gates, for some time,\" he said.\n\n\"As you will appreciate, our primary focus, at this time, is ensuring that we deal with our staff who are impacted in a way which is as fair as possible.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "For some of those sunning themselves in London's St James's Park on Saturday afternoon, discussions ongoing just yards away at Downing Street on the tightening of national restrictions in England are at once both \"worrying\" and \"inevitable\".\n\nCouples and friends meeting for picnics and catch-ups told BBC News conflicting and confusing advice on what they can and cannot do during the pandemic runs alongside a general feeling of resignation over the prospect of national measures being tightened.\n\nRuth and Chris Parker, from Wigan but on a week's holiday after working non-stop since March, think the difference between social distancing in the north and south of England has been \"stark\".\n\n\"We were queuing for a pub in Putney last night and we had to just leave it,\" Chris, 48, says.\n\n\"There was no social distancing at all,\" Ruth, 49, adds. \"We ended up in Wagamamas, which was pretty well organised.\"\n\nThe couple say they think there has been a change in attitudes in the North West since a marked rise in coronavirus cases led to tighter local restrictions.\n\nWigan is one of the few areas in Greater Manchester to see local restrictions on households and movement lifted.\n\n\"People are now taking it pretty seriously there,\" says Chris, who conducted much of his work as a church minister virtually during the first lockdown.\n\n\"We do seem a bit better at social distancing,\" Ruth, a former music teacher, adds.\n\nA second lockdown has them worried, but Chris believes \"if it has to happen, it has to happen\".\n\n\"I think a national two-week lockdown is coming but not quite the full lockdown we had.\"\n\nRuth and Chris Parker described a \"stark\" difference in social distancing between the north and south of England\n\n\"It's not ideal,\" is Tom Duncan's view as he enjoys a meal deal with his partner Aisha.\n\nThe 21-year-old finance workers say they do not want to see another full lockdown with just a few permitted reasons for leaving home.\n\n\"Closing pubs and bars early seems fine,\" Tom says, \"But not being unable to see anyone again.\"\n\n\"It's going to have to happen as people don't care - people don't see it as a threat,\" Aisha adds.\n\n\"You can see when people have had a drink they don't socially distance.\"\n\nThe pair say they are now able to go back to their offices if they book a slot - but working from home has its advantages.\n\nIt also means a second lockdown \"doesn't really affect us,\" Aisha says. \"There's pros and cons to it.\"\n\nFinance workers Tom and Aisha said closing pubs and bars seemed reasonable but not a return to full restrictions on daily life\n\nNicola Evans, 24, who works for an engineering firm, says a second lockdown might not be the worst thing if it helps protect vulnerable people.\n\n\"I feel like, why not? If it's keeping people safe,\" she says.\n\n\"It's the way it is. Though I'd rather be able to see people.\n\n\"I'm working from home so it doesn't really affect me - as long as I'm able to get out of the house during the day.\n\n\"I've not gone back to the office yet, it keeps being postponed.\"\n\nBut for her friend Emmelia Georgio, 24, from Cyprus, the prospect of a second lockdown would throw a spanner into the final year of her Masters in dance movement psychotherapy.\n\n\"This year is already going to be very different,\" she says of her studies.\n\n\"It's a mix of online and in-person learning now, but I worry what would happen in a second lockdown.\n\n\"If there is a second lockdown it's hard to see how it is managed.\"\n\n\"We still have to pay fees and rent - and you think, 'what's the point in paying' if a lockdown happens,\" she adds.\n\nEmmelia, left, said a second lockdown would heavily impact her studies but Nicola said it would be worth it to keep people safe\n\nThere is little doubt about what will happen next for Antonia Brown and Ioanna Gkoutna - a second lockdown is \"inevitable\".\n\nIoanna, 21, arrived a week ago from her native Greece to begin a Masters at the University of Oxford.\n\n\"Compared to home, nobody here is taking things seriously,\" she says. \"I was really surprised when I came here. You're in Tescos, say, and so many people are not wearing masks and nobody is challenging them. The staff are not wearing masks.\"\n\nIoanna - from a part of Greece not covered by quarantine rules - thinks enforcement is crucial to any future lockdown.\n\n\"In Greece there is lots of enforcement of the rules,\" she says. \"I myself phoned the police when a man refused to wear a mask at the beach - if I did that here, what would even happen?\"\n\nAntonia, 22, from London, says \"London needs to wake up\" to the coronavirus once more.\n\n\"We're now talking about locking down harder but they had the audacity to say 'get back to work'.\"\n\nIoanna, left, said she felt lockdown was better enforced in her native Greece and Antonia said London needed to \"wake up\"\n\n\"We're running before we can walk,\" she adds.\n\n\"They're telling us to get out and spend money, and now the rates are going back up.\"\n\n\"Unless they enforce it, it won't make a difference,\" Ioanna adds, \"I've been [in the UK] for a week and haven't seen the police once.\"\n\nJust as Ioanna finishes speaking, a police officer passes on a bicycle taking a keen interest in those gathered for picnics in the park.\n\n\"Well, he's here now I guess.\"", "As climate change becomes a focus of the US election, energy companies stand accused of trying to downplay their contribution to global warming. In June, Minnesota's Attorney General sued ExxonMobil, among others, for launching a \"campaign of deception\" which deliberately tried to undermine the science supporting global warming. So what's behind these claims? And what links them to how the tobacco industry tried to dismiss the harms of smoking decades earlier?\n\nTo understand what's happening today, we need to go back nearly 40 years.\n\nMarty Hoffert leaned closer to his computer screen. He couldn't quite believe what he was seeing. It was 1981, and he was working in an area of science considered niche.\n\n\"We were just a group of geeks with some great computers,\" he says now, recalling that moment.\n\nBut his findings were alarming.\n\n\"I created a model that showed the Earth would be warming very significantly. And the warming would introduce climatic changes that would be unprecedented in human history. That blew my mind.\"\n\nA climate change protester outside the New York State Supreme Court during the ExxonMobil trial in October, 2019\n\nMarty Hoffert was one of the first scientists to create a model which predicted the effects of man-made climate change. And he did so while working for Exxon, one of the world's largest oil companies, which would later merge with another, Mobil.\n\nAt the time Exxon was spending millions of dollars on ground-breaking research. It wanted to lead the charge as scientists grappled with the emerging understanding that the warming planet could cause the climate to change in ways that could make life pretty difficult for humans.\n\nHoffert shared his predictions with his managers, showing them what might happen if we continued burning fossil fuels in our cars, trucks and planes.\n\nBut he noticed a clash between Exxon's own findings, and public statements made by company bosses, such as the then chief executive Lee Raymond, who said that \"currently, the scientific evidence is inconclusive as to whether human activities are having a significant effect on the global climate\".\n\n\"They were saying things that were contradicting their own world-class research groups,\" said Hoffert.\n\nAngry, he left Exxon, and went on to become a leading academic in the field.\n\n\"What they did was immoral. They spread doubt about the dangers of climate change when their own researchers were confirming how serious a threat it was.\"\n\nSo what changed? The record-breaking hot summer of 1988 was key. Big news in America, it gave extra weight to warnings from Nasa scientist Dr Jim Hansen that \"the greenhouse effect has been detected, and is changing our climate now\".\n\nPolitical leaders took notice. Then UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher acknowledged the great new global threat: \"The environmental challenge which confronts the whole world demands an equivalent response from the whole world.\"\n\nIn 1989, Exxon's strategy chief Duane Levine drew up a confidential presentation for the company's board, one of thousands of documents in the company's archive which were later donated to The University of Texas at Austin.\n\nLevine's presentation is an important document, often cited by researchers investigating Exxon's record on climate change science.\n\n\"We're starting to hear the inevitable call for action,\" it said, which risked what it called \"irreversible and costly draconian steps\".\n\n\"More rational responses will require efforts to extend the science and increase emphasis on costs and political realities.\"\n\nHow they made us doubt everything investigates how some of the world's most powerful interests made us doubt the connection between smoking and cancer, and how the same tactics were used to make us doubt climate change.\n\nListen to the podcast from BBC Radio 4 here\n\nKert Davies has scoured through Exxon's archive. He used to work as a research director at the environmental pressure group Greenpeace, where he looked into corporate opposition to climate change. This inspired him to set up The Climate Investigations Centre. He explains why this Exxon presentation mattered:\n\n\"They are worried the public will take this on, and enact radical changes in the way we use energy and affect their business, that's the bottom line.\"\n\nHe says this fear can also be seen in another document from the archive that sets out the so-called \"Exxon position\", which was to \"emphasise the uncertainty\" regarding climate change.\n\nResearchers argue this was just the start of a decades-long campaign to shape public opinion and to spread doubt about climate change.\n\nIn June 2020, the General Attorney of Minnesota Keith Ellison sued ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Institute (API) and Koch Industries for misleading the public over climate change. The lawsuit claims that \"previously unknown internal documents confirm that the defendant well understood the devastating effects that their products would cause to the climate\".\n\nIt says that despite this knowledge, the industry \"engaged in a public-relations campaign that was not only false, but also highly effective,\" which served to \"deliberately [undermine] the science\" of climate change.\n\nThe accusations against Exxon and others - which the company has called \"baseless and without merit\" - build on years of painstaking research by people like Kert Davies and Naomi Oreskes, professor of the history of science at Harvard University and co-author of Merchants of Doubt.\n\n\"Rather than accept the scientific evidence, they made the decision to fight the facts,\" she said.\n\nBut this isn't just about Exxon's past actions. In the same year as the Levine presentation, 1989, many energy companies and fossil fuel dependent industries came together to form the Global Climate Coalition, which aggressively lobbied US politicians and media.\n\nThen in 1991, the trade body that represents electrical companies in the US, the Edison Electric Institute, created a campaign called the Information Council for the Environment (ICE) which aimed to \"Reposition global warming as theory (not fact)\". Some details of the campaign were leaked to the New York Times.\n\n\"They ran advertising campaigns designed to undermine public support, cherry picking the data to say, 'Well if the world is warming up, why is Kentucky getting colder?' They asked rhetorical questions designed to create confusion, to create doubt,\" argued Naomi Oreskes.\n\nThe ICE campaign identified two groups which would be most susceptible to its messaging. The first was \"older, lesser educated males from larger households who are not typically information seekers\".\n\nThe second group was \"younger, low-income women,\" who could be targeted with bespoke adverts which would liken those who talked about climate change to a hysterical doom-saying cartoon chicken.\n\nThe Edison Electric Institute didn't respond to questions about ICE, but told the BBC that its members are \"leading a clean energy transformation, and are united in their commitment to get the energy they provide as clean as they can, as fast as they can\".\n\nBut back in the 1990 there were many campaigns like this.\n\n\"Unless 'climate change' becomes a non-issue,\" says another, leaked to the New York Times in 1997, \"there may be no moment when we can declare victory\".\n\nTo achieve victory, the industry planned to \"identify, recruit and train a team of five independent scientists to participate in media outreach\".\n\nThis important tactic assumed the public would be suspicious if oil industry executives dismissed climate change, but might trust the views of seemingly independent scientists.\n\nThese would be put forward to take part in debates on TV, potentially confusing a general audience who would see opposing scientists in white coats arguing about complex technical details without knowing who to believe.\n\nThe problem was, sometimes these \"white coats\" weren't truly independent. Some climate sceptic researchers were taking money from the oil industry.\n\nDrexel University emeritus professor Bob Brulle studied the funding for the climate change \"counter movement\". He identified 91 institutions which he says either denied or downplayed the risks of climate change, including the Cato Institute and the now-defunct George C Marshall Institute.\n\nHe found that between 2003 and 2007, ExxonMobil gave $7.2m (£5.6m) to such bodies, while between 2008 and 2010, the American Petroleum Institute trade body (API) donated just under $4m (£3m).\n\nIn its 2007 Corporate Citizenship Report, ExxonMobil said it would stop funding such groups in 2008.\n\nOf course many researchers would argue such money didn't influence their climate contrarian work. It seems some may have been motivated by something else.\n\nMost of the organisations opposing or denying climate change science were right-wing think tanks, who tended to be passionately anti-regulation.\n\nThese groups made convenient allies for the oil industry, as they would argue against action on climate change on ideological grounds.\n\nJerry Taylor spent 23 years with the Cato Institute - one of those right wing think tanks - latterly as vice president. Before he left in 2014, he would regularly appear on TV and radio, insisting that the science of climate change was uncertain and there was no need to act. Now, he realises his arguments were based on a misinterpretation of the science, and he regrets the impact he's had on the debate.\n\n\"For 25 years, climate sceptics like me made it a core matter of ideological identity that if you believe in climate change, then you are by definition a socialist. That is what climate sceptics have done.\"\n\nThe BBC asked the Cato Institute about its work on climate change, but it did not respond.\n\nThis ideological divide has had far-reaching consequences. Polls conducted in May 2020 showed that just 22% of Americans who vote Republican believed climate change is man-made, compared with 72% of Democrats.\n\nUnfortunately many of the \"expert scientists\" quoted by journalists to try to offer balance in their coverage of climate change were - like Jerry Taylor - making arguments based on their beliefs rather than relevant research.\n\n\"Usually these people have some scientific credentials, but they're not actually experts in climate science,\" says Harvard historian Naomi Oreskes.\n\nShe began digging into the background of leading climate sceptics, including Fred Seitz, a nuclear physicist and former president of the US National Academy of Sciences. She found he was deeply anti-communist, believing any government intervention in the marketplace \"would put us on the slippery slope to socialism\".\n\nShe also discovered that he had been active in the debates around smoking in the 1980s.\n\n\"That was a Eureka moment. We realised this was not a scientific debate. A person with expertise about climate change would in no way be an expert about oncology or public health or cardiovascular disease, or any of the key issues associated with tobacco.\n\n\"The fact that the same people were arguing in both cases was a clue that something fishy was going on. That's what led us to discover this pattern of disinformation that gets systemically used again and again.\"\n\nNaomi Oreskes spent years going through the tobacco archive at the University of California at San Francisco. It contains more than 14 million documents that were made available thanks to litigation against US tobacco firms.\n\nA strikingly familiar story emerged. Decades before the energy industry tried to undermine the case for climate change, tobacco companies had used the same techniques to challenge the emerging links between smoking and lung cancer in the 1950s.\n\nThe story began at Christmas 1953. In New York's luxurious Plaza Hotel, the heads of the tobacco companies met to discuss a new threat to their business model.\n\nDetails of the night's anxious conversations were recorded in a document written by public relations guru John Hill from Hill and Knowlton.\n\nWidely read mass-market magazines like Readers Digest and Time Life had begun publishing articles about the association between smoking and lung cancer. And researchers like those who had found that lab mice painted with cigarette tar got cancer were attracting increasing attention.\n\nAs John Hill wrote in the 1953 document, \"salesmen in the industry are frantically alarmed, and the decline in tobacco stocks on the stock exchange market has caused grave concern\".\n\nHill recommended fighting science with science. \"We do not believe the industry should indulge in any flashy or spectacular ballyhoo. There is no public relations [medicine] known to us at least, which will cure the ills of the industry.\"\n\nAs a later document by tobacco company Brown and Williamson summarised the approach: \"Doubt is our product, since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' that exists in the minds of the general public.\"\n\nNaomi Oreskes says this understanding of the power of doubt is vital.\n\n\"They realise they can't win this battle by making a false claim that sooner or later would be exposed. But if they can create doubt, that would be sufficient - because if people are confused about the issue, there's a good chance they'll just keep smoking.\"\n\nHill advised setting up the \"Tobacco Industry Research Committee\" to promote \"the existence of weighty scientific views which hold there is no proof that cigarette smoking is a cause of lung cancer\".\n\nAs in the climate change debate decades later, \"Project Whitecoat\" would pit scientist against scientist.\n\nAccording to Oreskes, the project targeted those who were already doing research into other causes of cancer or lung conditions - such as asbestos - which the tobacco industry could fund.\n\n\"The purpose of these programmes was not to advance scientific understanding, it was to create enough confusion that the American people would doubt the existing scientific evidence.\"\n\nJournalists were one of the tobacco industry's main targets. The Tobacco Industry Research Committee held meetings in its offices in the Empire State Building for major newspaper editors. It even persuaded one of the most famous broadcast journalists of the time, Edward R Murrow, to interview its experts.\n\nThe eventual edition of Murrow's celebrated television programme \"See It Now\" - broadcast in 1955 -shows Project Whitecoat in action, with tobacco industry funded scientists set against independent researchers.\n\nBut as would happen later with climate change, it was difficult for the audience at home to form an opinion when opposing scientists contradicted each other. Even Murrow ended up on the fence. \"We have no credentials for reaching conclusions on this subject,\" he said.\n\nIf doubt was the industry's true product, then it appeared to be a roaring success.\n\nFor decades, none of the legal challenges launched against the tobacco companies themselves succeeded.\n\nThis was partly due to the effectiveness of Project Whitecoat, as an internal memo from tobacco firm RJ Reynolds in May 1979 concludes: \"Due to favourable scientific testimony, no plaintiff has ever collected a penny from any tobacco company in lawsuits claiming that smoking causes lung cancer or cardiovascular illness - even though 117 such cases have been brought since 1954.\"\n\nBut pressure on the tobacco companies continued to mount. In 1997, the industry paid $350m (£272m) to settle a class action brought by flight attendants who had developed lung cancer and other illnesses which they argued were caused by second-hand cigarette smoke from passengers.\n\nThis settlement paved the way to a landmark ruling in 2006, when Judge Gladys Kessler found US tobacco companies guilty of fraudulently misrepresenting the health risks associated with smoking.\n\nJudge Kessler detailed how the industry \"marketed and sold their lethal products with zeal, with deception, with a single-minded focus on their financial success, and without regard for the human tragedy or social costs\".\n\nFlight attendant Norma Broin was the lead plaintiff in the passive smoking class action after developing lung cancer, despite being a non-smoker\n\nThe tobacco companies may have eventually lost their battle to hide the harms of smoking, but the blueprint drawn up by John Hill and his colleagues proved to be very effective.\n\n\"What he wrote is the same memo we have seen in multiple industries subsequently,\" says David Michaels, professor of public health at George Washington University, and author of The Triumph of Doubt, which details how the pesticides, plastics and sugar industries have also used these tactics.\n\n\"We called it 'the tobacco playbook', because the tobacco industry was so successful.\n\n\"They made a product that killed millions of people across the world, and the science has been very strong [about that] for many years, but through this campaign to manufacture uncertainty, they were able to delay first, formal recognition of the terrible impact of tobacco, and then delay regulation and defeat litigation for decades, with obviously terrible consequences.\"\n\nWe asked Hill and Knowlton about its work for the tobacco companies, but it did not respond.\n\nIn a statement, ExxonMobil told the BBC that \"allegations about the company's climate research are inaccurate and deliberately misleading\".\n\n\"For more than 40 years, we have supported development of climate science in partnership with governments and academic institutions. That work continues today in an open and transparent way.\n\n\"Deliberately cherry-picked statements attributed to a small number of employees wrongly suggest definitive conclusions were reached decades ago.\"\n\nExxonMobil added that it recently won the court case brought by the New York Attorney General which had accused the company of fraudulently accounting for the costs of climate change regulation.\n\nBut academics like David Michaels fear the use of uncertainty in the past to confuse the public and undermine science has contributed to a dangerous erosion of trust in facts and experts across the globe today, far beyond climate science or the dangers of tobacco.\n\nHe cites public attitudes to modern issues like the safety of 5G, vaccinations - and coronavirus.\n\n\"By cynically manipulating and distorting scientific evidence, the manufacturers of doubt have seeded in much of the public a cynicism about science, making it far more difficult to convince people that science provides useful - in some cases, vitally important - information.\n\n\"There is no question that this distrust of science and scientists is making it more difficult to stem the coronavirus pandemic.\"\n\nIt seems the legacy of \"the tobacco playbook\" lives on.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWestminster Abbey has held a memorial service marking 80 years since the Battle of Britain, in the venue's first major event since lockdown.\n\nThe battle, fought entirely in the air, was a dramatic turning point in World War Two.\n\nThe abbey has held a service of thanksgiving on Battle of Britain Sunday every year since 1944.\n\nA flypast took place after the service, with a Hurricane and three Spitfires flying over central London.\n\nThis year's memorial service had significantly lower attendance and social distancing in place.\n\nFewer than 100 guests attended the service, which usually attracts about 2,000 people.\n\nThey included Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who gave a reading at the service, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord Stirrup, representing the Prince of Wales.\n\nChief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Mike Wigston, also gave a reading.\n\nGuests wore masks - but those giving readings were allowed to remove them before doing so.\n\nEach chair was placed two metres apart to allow social distancing, with protective plastic screens separating the north and south transepts of the abbey.\n\nThe prime minister removed his mask before giving a reading\n\nIn his address, Chaplain in Chief the Venerable Air Vice Marshal John Ellis, honoured NHS staff and key workers in the \"fight against an invisible army\", drawing comparisons between the Battle of Britain and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe said: \"Once again there have been sacrifices made, often quiet, often humble, unnoticed by many.\n\n\"Although starkly different events, each of them has two things that are so important for our humanity - service and value. We have seen the selfless giving to a greater cause.\"\n\nA statement from the organisers said the service on Sunday morning was \"reduced in stature but not in spirit\".\n\nThe last major service to take place at the venue was the Commonwealth Day service held on 9 March, two weeks before the UK went into lockdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe service, which remembered the 1,497 pilots and aircrew who died, was led by the Dean of Westminster Abbey, Dr David Hoyle.\n\nAlthough the battle took place between July and October in 1940, 15 September is Battle of Britain Day - the date of a decisive victory by the RAF.\n\nThe RAF defended the skies over southern England, as Hitler's Luftwaffe flew daily attacks ahead of a planned invasion.\n\nSome 1,120 Luftwaffe aircraft were sent to attack London, but were repelled by 630 RAF fighters - and two days later Hitler postponed his plans to invade Britain.\n\nCommemorations have been limited this year due to coronavirus restrictions, but a variety of tributes took place across the UK, including special exhibitions from the Imperial War Museum.", "Police launched a homicide investigation after the death near Bangor's Waverley Hotel\n\nA 20-year-old man has died after he was injured in a \"disturbance\" near a hotel on Saturday night.\n\nPolice said they launched a \"homicide\" inquiry when the local man died after the incident near the Waverley Hotel, Bangor, Gwynedd.\n\nA local man is in custody after being arrested in the area of the hotel on Station Road, at about 22:30 BST.\n\nThe victim was treated by paramedics but died in hospital. The coroner has been informed.\n\nNorth Wales Police are appealing for witnesses and the force said: \"Our thoughts remain with the family who are being supported by specially trained officers.\"\n\nStaff from the hotel, which is opposite Bangor train station, were \"commended\" for helping the victim and they sent \"their condolences to the family who sadly lost their son\".", "Vladimir Putin and Arkady Rotenberg have been friends since childhood\n\nOne of Vladimir Putin's closest friends may have used Barclays Bank in London to launder money and dodge sanctions, leaked documents suggest.\n\nBillionaire Arkady Rotenberg has known the Russian president since childhood.\n\nFinancial restrictions, or sanctions, were imposed on Mr Rotenberg by the US and the EU in 2014, which means Western banks could face serious consequences for doing business with him.\n\nBarclays says it met all its legal and regulatory duties.\n\nA leak of confidential files - banks' \"suspicious activity reports\" - reveal how companies believed to be controlled by Mr Rotenberg kept the secret accounts.\n\nThe documents, known as the FinCEN Files, have been seen by the BBC's Panorama programme.\n\nIn March 2014 the US hit Russia with economic sanctions following the annexation of Crimea in Ukraine.\n\nThe Treasury Department designated Mr Rotenberg, 68, and his brother Boris, 63, \"members of the Russian leadership's inner circle\".\n\nThe pair had sparred and trained in the same judo gym as Putin when they were young.\n\nThe businessman and Russian president attending judo training in Sochi last year\n\nIn recent years, Arkady Rotenberg's companies built roads, a gas pipeline and a power station through contracts awarded by the Russian state.\n\nThe US Treasury said the brothers \"provided support to Putin's pet projects\" and \"made billions of dollars in contracts for Gazprom and the Sochi Winter Olympics awarded to them by Putin\".\n\nIn 2018, the US added Arkady Rotenberg's son Igor to its list of sanctioned individuals.\n\nThe aim of the sanctions is to cut off named people from the entire Western financial system.\n\nYet the Rotenbergs appear to have continued moving cash through the UK and US.\n\nIn 2008, Barclays opened an account for a company called Advantage Alliance.\n\nThe leaked documents show the company moved £60m between 2012 and 2016. Many of the transactions occurred after the Rotenberg brothers had been sanctioned.\n\nIn July this year, an investigation by the US Senate accused the Rotenbergs of using secretive purchases of expensive art to evade sanctions - one of the companies involved in the scheme was Advantage Alliance.\n\nUS investigators concluded there was strong evidence that Advantage Alliance was owned by Arkady Rotenberg, and that the company had used its Barclays account in London to buy millions of dollars of art for him.\n\nA report noted how \"secrecy, anonymity, and a lack of regulation create an environment ripe for laundering money and evading sanctions\". Auction houses in the US and UK \"failed to ask basic questions\" about the buyers of the art.\n\nDespite the sanctions, Arkady appears to have paid $7.5m to acquire the René Magritte painting La Poitrine.\n\nIn 17 June 2014 a company linked to Arkady sent the cash from Moscow to Alliance's Barclays account in London. The following day Barclays sent the cash to the seller in New York.\n\nIn April 2016, Barclays began an internal investigation of multiple accounts it suspected of being linked to the Rotenbergs.\n\nSix months later, the bank closed Advantage's account after becoming concerned that it was being used to move suspect funds.\n\nBut the leaked suspicious activity reports (SARs) show that other Barclays accounts with suspected links to the Rotenbergs remained open until 2017.\n\nOne such company was Ayrton Development Limited.\n\nAccording to the files, Barclays were suspicious of Ayrton's activities and concluded that \"[Arkady] Rotenberg is the true owner of Ayrton\".\n\nBarclays did not comment when asked by Panorama about how many accounts it suspects were owned by the Rotenbergs.\n\nA spokesperson for Barclays said: \"We believe that we have complied with all our legal and regulatory obligations including in relation to US sanctions.\"\n\n\"Given the filing of a SAR is not itself evidence of any actual wrongdoing, we would only terminate a client relationship after careful and objective investigation and analysis of the evidence, balancing potential financial crime suspicions with the risk of 'de-banking' an innocent customer.\"\n\nThe FinCen Files is a leak of secret documents which reveal how major banks have allowed dirty money around the world. They also show how the UK is often the weak link in the financial system and how London is awash with Russian cash.\n\nThe files were obtained by BuzzFeed News which shared them with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and 400 journalists around the world. Panorama has led research for the BBC.\n\nFinCEN Files: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #FinCENfiles; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"FinCEN Files\" Watch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only).", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer: 'Government is losing control of where the virus is'\n\nSir Keir Starmer has called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to apologise for a \"near collapse\" in the government's coronavirus test and trace system.\n\nThe Labour leader told the BBC ministers had \"lost control of where the virus is\", making the need for further restrictions \"more likely\".\n\nHe added that \"fixing testing\" should be the \"number one priority\".\n\nThe health secretary said extra resources were being put towards speeding up test results.\n\nMatt Hancock blamed a spike in those without symptoms seeking tests for an increase in demand, but said this had fallen in the last week or so.\n\nBut he admitted the proportion of test results being turned around within the government's 24-hour target period \"clearly needs to go up\".\n\nSir Keir's call for an apology over testing comes as the government introduces fines of up to £10,000 for people who fail to self-isolate after being ordered to do so.\n\nA new legal duty in England will require people to self-isolate if they test positive for the virus, or are traced as a close contact, from 28 September.\n\nThe UK government hopes the new fines will be replicated in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, which have powers to set their own coronavirus rules.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, Sir Keir said Labour would support \"whatever measure\" ministers take to suppress virus cases.\n\nBut he added: \"If I were the prime minister, I would apologise for the fact we're in this situation with testing.\n\n\"Throughout the summer, we were saying 'prepare for the autumn'. Instead, we had the exams fiasco.\n\n\"I would make fixing testing the number one priority, and reinstate the daily press conferences so we know what's going on.\"\n\nAsked whether problems with testing made a second nationwide lockdown more likely, Sir Keir said: \"I don't think a lockdown is inevitable.\n\n\"But I do think it's now more likely because of the near collapse of testing\".\n\nThe warning comes after the head of England's test and trace system said earlier this week that demand for tests was \"significantly outstripping\" supply.\n\nBaroness Harding told MPs the return of children to school classrooms meant test demand in England among under-17s had doubled.\n\n\"I don't think anybody was expecting to see the really sizable increase in demand that has happened over the last few weeks,\" she said.\n\nAlso speaking to Andrew Marr, Mr Hancock said: \"Thankfully, the demand has come down a bit this week.\"\n\nHe said the government had been \"clearer and more stringent\" about prioritising tests for \"people who need them, who have symptoms\".\n\nAhead of the expected publication of a list of which people will be put at the front of the queue for tests, he said: \"We need to be clear about that prioritisation.\"\n\n\"We also need to build that [testing] capacity,\" he added.\n\nSchoolchildren around the UK have been returning to classrooms over the past few weeks\n\nMeanwhile Sir Keir has also called for children to be prioritised for testing, adding there was a \"desperate\" need for increased testing to keep schools open.\n\nHe said children should be put in the \"same position\" as key workers, with tests available within 24 hours and results reported within a further day.\n\nSpeaking on Sky News, he said sending pupils and whole year groups home whilst children await test results could prevent a \"meaningful return\" to classrooms.\n\nHe added that this would require a total testing capacity bigger than the 500,000 target currently promised by the government by the end of next month.\n\nSir Keir's interview comes as he prepares to address Labour members next week during the party's online conference, which began on Saturday.\n\nRenamed Labour Connected, the four-day event replaces the party's traditional party conference in Liverpool, which has been cancelled due to the pandemic.\n\nSir Keir said the event would give the party an opportunity for \"changing and refocusing on winning the next election\".\n\nBut ahead of the event, he has been warned against \"watering down\" the \"radical policies\" of his leadership campaign by the head of the Labour-affiliated Fire Brigades Union.", "Alexei Navalny was flown to Berlin for treatment in August after falling ill\n\nThe German government's announcement on Wednesday that Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny has been poisoned by a sophisticated nerve agent known as a Novichok makes this case even more serious than it already was.\n\nMost importantly, it will increase suspicions that, despite its denials, the Russian state was behind his poisoning.\n\nNovichok - meaning \"newcomer\" in Russian - applies to a group of synthetically produced nerve agents originally developed by the Soviet Union in a laboratory in Uzbekistan before the USSR disintegrated in 1991.\n\nWestern intelligence agencies believe that Novichok has since been refined into a hard-to-detect assassination weapon in covert techniques practised by operatives of the GRU, Russian military intelligence, including being smeared on to door handles.\n\nNovichok can be deployed in both liquid and solid forms.\n\nTwo of those operatives were widely believed to have poisoned the Russian defector Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury in 2018 using Novichok. A local Wiltshire resident, Dawn Sturgess, subsequently died after handling the contents of the discarded perfume bottle used to disguise the nerve agent.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On the trail of Russians Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, who UK police believe carried out a nerve agent attack in Salisbury in March 2018\n\nWestern governments reacted forcefully to this failed assassination attempt on British soil. In a co-ordinated move, 20 countries expelled more than a hundred Russian diplomats and spies, dealing a huge blow to Moscow's intelligence-gathering networks in the West.\n\nEven covert agents in deep cover inside Britain, whom Moscow believed were operating undetected by MI5, the security service, were ordered to leave.\n\nThis was all in marked contrast to the mild British government response - since criticised - to the poisoning of former KGB officer and defector Alexander Litvinenko in 2006. After the agonising death in a London hospital by radioactive Polonium poisoning of this former Russian colonel, branded as a traitor by the Kremlin, an investigation dragged on for years while the two Russian suspects remained at large in Russia.\n\nCritics believe the lack of a forceful response by the West encouraged hardliners in the Kremlin to sanction the targeting abroad of those considered traitors to the Russian state.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alexei Navalny: 'Putin is the tsar of corruption'\n\nToday, Alexei Navalny has no shortage of enemies. As a vigorous campaigner against corruption, he has amassed millions of young followers but also angered those people whose nefarious activities have been exposed in his popular videos. There are plenty of people both in government and in business circles who would like to see him removed from the public sphere.\n\nBut Novichok, unlike naturally occurring toxins that can be refined from natural products found in the countryside, is not something casually cooked up by amateurs. It is a military-grade chemical weapon that tends to point the finger of suspicion towards the Russian state.\n\nAlthough Mr Navalny appeared to be poisoned on Russian soil, rather than in a Nato member country, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel said \"there were now very serious questions which only the Russian government could and must answer\".\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab echoed that comment, saying that the Russian government had a clear case to answer about what happened to Mr Navalny. He said Britain would now work closely with Germany and other allies to show there were consequences for using banned chemical weapons. In Washington, the White House National Security Council issued a statement saying it would work with allies to hold those in Russia accountable.\n\nThe former British Army officer and chemical weapons expert, Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, has been warning for years that the unchecked use of chemical weapons against rebels and civilians alike in populated areas by the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria sends a dangerous signal.\n\nHow governments now react to this latest use of a Novichok nerve agent against a public political figure will be influenced in part by the findings of the global chemical watchdog, the Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons, the OPCW.\n\nThe chairman of Britain's Parliamentary Defence Committee, Tobias Ellwood MP, tweeted: \"Russia/Novichok - again. A test for the West on how we collectively respond.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Earnshaw (left) and Gaukroger took part in the \"frenzied and senseless\" attack\n\nA factory supervisor died after being stabbed more than 100 times by two youths wielding a samurai sword, a court has heard.\n\nRobert Wilson, 53, was attacked after he asked the pair to leave the car park of a factory in Huddersfield on 16 January, Leeds Crown Court was told.\n\nEarnshaw was jailed for a minimum of 22 years and Gaukroger was ordered to serve 16 years and eight months.\n\nMr Justice Lavender said both youths had been heavily intoxicated at the time they had carried out the \"frenzied and senseless attack\".\n\nRobert Wilson was brutally attacked outside the factory where he worked\n\nHe said Mr Wilson had done them \"no wrong\".\n\nPeter Makepeace QC, prosecuting, earlier told the court the youths had been seen in the factory car park and Mr Wilson, from Birstall, and two other colleagues went to move them on.\n\nAt one point Mr Wilson put his phone to his ear to talk to the remote security firm, and Earnshaw started shouting at him, claiming he was being filmed.\n\nHe then pulled a samurai sword from his trousers and pursued Mr Wilson as and he and his colleagues tried to get away.\n\nAudio of the attack, caught on Mr Wilson's phone by the security company, was played in which Gaukroger, who was 15 at the time, demanded the sword at one point saying: \"Pass me the shank, pass me the shank.\"\n\nEarnshaw inflicted multiple blows and kicks to Mr Wilson before he passed the weapon to Gaukroger who then also inflicted a number of severe blows.\n\nA samurai sword was used to inflict more than 100 injuries on Mr Wilson\n\nMr Wilson died at the scene, despite efforts by police and paramedics to save him.\n\nA post-mortem examination revealed \"at least 100 sharp force injuries to the body\" in the region of the head, neck and upper body.\n\nMr Wilson's wife, Elaine, said in her impact statement that her husband's death had been \"soul-destroying\".\n\nMrs Wilson told the defendants: \"I want you to know you have taken the life of a much respected and admired man.\"\n\nShe said to receive a letter from one of them saying it was \"the worst night of my life\" and \"I'm sorry\" had sickened her.\n\n\"It has shocked me to realise I have such hate,\" she added.\n\nMr Wilson's colleague, John Badejo, was also injured in the attack. Earnshaw admitted wounding with intent and was jailed for nine years to run concurrently with his murder sentence.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Richard Rogers with a model of the Lloyds building in 1995\n\nRichard Rogers, one of the world's most successful and influential architects, has stepped down from his firm after more than 40 years.\n\nLord Rogers, 87, designed landmark buildings including the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Millennium Dome in London and the Welsh Assembly in Cardiff.\n\nHe is one of a handful of architects credited with shaping modern cities.\n\nHe has retired from Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners, which he founded as the Richard Rogers Partnership in 1977.\n\nThe Pompidou Centre and other buildings were controversial when they opened\n\nInside the Lloyds building in London, which opened in 1986\n\nHe has won most of architecture's major honours, including the prestigious Pritzker Prize in 2007 and the Stirling Prize twice. He was knighted in 1991.\n\nHe came to prominence in the 1970s and 80s with two buildings that were controversial at the time for putting amenities like lifts and air conditioning ducts on the outside - the Pompidou, which he designed with Renzo Piano, and the Lloyds building in London.\n\nHis critics have included Prince Charles, who has spoken about his dislike of Lord Rogers' designs on several occasions.\n\nBut that did not prevent the architect from going to strength to strength around the world. His other creations included the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, the Welsh Assembly in Cardiff, Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport and Terminal 4 of Madrid's Barajas Airport.\n\nThe Millennium Dome is now the O2 Arena\n\nThe piazza as a public meeting place is often central to his ideas. \"The concept that cities contain places where people can exchange ideas and meet others - that's the most exciting thing,\" he told the BBC World Service in 2013.\n\nMore recently, he built 3 World Trade Center in New York, an 80-storey skyscraper on the site of the former Twin Towers.\n\nBut he has said his favourite project was one of his first, and the most personal - the modernist house he designed for his parents in Wimbledon in the late 1960s.\n\nLord Rogers was behind the design for Heathrow Terminal 5\n\nHe also advised on urban planning in cities including London and Barcelona. He chaired the influential Urban Task Force on the state of the UK's cities from 1998-2001.\n\nHis company will now be led by partners Ivan Harbour and Graham Stirk, and under its constitution will drop Rogers' name within the next two years, according to Building Design.\n\nRogers Stirk Harbour & Partners gives 20% of its profits to charity - around £500,000 a year, according to its website.\n• None Changing the City: An Audience with Richard Rogers", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Selected live radio and text commentaries on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra, BBC Sounds, the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nAndy Murray staged a stunning comeback against Yoshihito Nishioka in the US Open first round on his long-awaited return to Grand Slam singles tennis.\n\nThe 33-year-old came from two sets and a break down against the Japanese to win 4-6 4-6 7-6 (7-5) 7-6 (7-4) 6-4.\n\nThe Briton, whose last major singles match was at the 2019 Australian Open before career-saving hip surgery, started flat and dispirited.\n\nBut he found his fight and saved a match point to set up an epic win.\n\nThe Scot, who eventually claimed victory in four hours 39 minutes, will face Canadian 15th seed Felix Auger-Aliassime in the second round.\n• None Re-live the action from day two of the US Open\n\nMurray finds his voice and his spirit\n\nPlaying in an empty and quiet Arthur Ashe Stadium - a far cry from the noisy stage where Murray won his maiden Grand Slam title in 2012 - his early despondence was all the more noticeable.\n\nIn his BBC radio commentary David Law said \"Andy Murray does not look like Andy Murray\", such was his manner, as he quietly trudged around with shoulders slumped as he was outplayed.\n\nDuring the first two sets Murray barely berated himself for his five double faults and 30 unforced errors, seeming almost resigned to his fate before his energy levels - and his voice - began to rise towards the end of the third set.\n\nAnd that was when Andy Murray began to look exactly like Andy Murray.\n\nA roar greeted the blistering forehand that gave him two set points in the third-set tie-break and then he let it all out with a trademark \"come on!\" when Nishioka netted a backhand on the second.\n\nThe character that took him to three Grand Slam titles and the world number one ranking before his body so cruelly let him down shone through as he saved a match point with a crosscourt backhand at 6-5 in the fourth.\n\nIt would be nearly an hour later until he himself carved out his own match point, needing to recover from a break down in the fifth game of the fifth - which he did with a sumptuous backhand lob in the very next game - to stay on track.\n\nWhen Nishioka sent a backhand out on match point, Murray completed his 10th career comeback from two sets down and answered any lingering questions about whether he could still be competitive on the biggest stage.\n\nOn his last Grand Slam singles appearance in January 2019, Murray had broken down in tears when he said he feared he might have to retire because of a hip injury.\n\nBut he went on to have surgery later that month and just five months later was back in action, playing doubles and winning the Queen's title with Feliciano Lopez.\n\nHe played doubles and mixed doubles at Wimbledon that year and then made his singles return on the tour in August 2019.\n\nHe skipped last year's US Open to focus on his singles return and was then ruled out of January's Australian Open with a pelvic injury. Further chances to return to the Grand Slam singles stage were then lost because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe has been ticking off the 'since surgery' milestones ever since - a first singles title (October), a first win over a top-10 player (last week) and now he has crossed off three more.\n\nNot only his first Grand Slam singles match, but also a first win in one, and a first five-setter.\n\n\"I'm tired. My toes are the worst part I think,\" said Murray, who had treatment on his toes at the start of the fifth set. \"The big toes on both sides are pretty beat up. I did alright physically.\n\n\"At the beginning of the match I was apprehensive about playing a long match because I hadn't played one in a while.\n\n\"I was sort of pacing myself. Once I got two sets down I had to start putting the after-burners on and managed to get through.\"\n\nHe is the first player to return to singles after a hip re-surfacing operation, where the femur head is capped with metal and put into an artificial socket.\n\nHe will now find out how his new body copes with the recovery from a five-set thriller at a Grand Slam.\n\nAnd he knows exactly what he needs.\n\n\"They have an ice bath in the locker room and they said it was for emergencies,\" Murray said.\n\n\"For me this is an emergency right now. I'll ask and see if they'll allow me to use the ice bath. If not I'll try to get back to the hotel as quickly as I can.\n\n\"That's by far the most tennis I've played since the Aussie Open in 2019.\"\n\nInterestingly, there were echoes of that last Australian Open match in this one - then, he was on the wrong end of an almost identical scoreline when he lost 6-4 6-4 6-7 (5-7) 6-7 (4-7) 6-2 to Spain's Roberto Bautista Agut.\n• None British number ones Konta and Evans into second round\n\nMurray made a cagey start - pacing himself like a marathon runner, just in case the match went the distance.\n\nAnd when he then lost his way completely at the start of the second set, his Grand Slam return was in danger of turning rapidly flat.\n\nBut with an audience made up entirely of star players, who were watching on from their suites in the Arthur Ashe Stadium, Murray gradually inched his way back into the match.\n\nHis toes took a pounding, but his hip held up, and after an ice bath on site he could start to imagine doing it all again on Thursday.", "England is under pressure to reconsider quarantine rules for Greece after Scotland and Wales introduced new measures over concerns about rising coronavirus cases.\n\nFrom tomorrow anyone from Scotland who travels to Greece will need to self-isolate on their return.\n\nWelsh passengers arriving back from the island of Zakynthos will have to do the same.\n\nMeanwhile, ministers are considering reimposing quarantine measures for those arriving in the UK from Portugal as coronavirus cases rise, sources have told the BBC.\n\nNo announcement on travel rules for Greece or for Portugal is expected today.\n\nTravel announcements usually take place on a Thursday or Friday, Transport correspondent Tom Burridge says.\n\nOur correspondent says the UK government's rules \"has been a messy affair\".\n\n\"The picture has been complicated further by the fact that the quarantine is a public health policy and so the Welsh and Scottish Governments can diverge from Westminster and classify countries differently,\" he says.\n\n\"Now the Welsh government is bringing in testing on arrival for passengers too.\n\n\"That's awkward for the UK government because, for months, the aviation sector has been asking ministers to give their backing to testing at airports so people who test negative wouldn't have to quarantine for the full 14 days.\"", "[L-R] Bill Bailey, Clara Amfo, HRVY and Jacqui Smith will all hit the dancefloor\n\nFormer home secretary Jacqui Smith has been confirmed as the 12th and final celebrity contestant on this year's Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nSmith will join with stars including Bill Bailey, Clara Amfo, and HRVY.\n\nThe 2020 series will begin in October but will be shorter than usual, and judge Bruno Tonioli will have a reduced role amid coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe contestants will be staying in a hotel for two weeks ahead of pre-recording all the group dances.\n\nThe BBC also confirmed they will be able to rehearse, perform and go home to their family each night - following government guidelines.\n\nJacqui Smith was confirmed as the final celebrity dancer on Steve Wright's Radio 2 show on Friday afternoon.\n\nThe former Labour politician became the UK's first female home secretary in 2007 - under then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown - and has since worked as a political broadcaster.\n\n\"I was speechless with excitement at being asked to join Strictly - and that's very rare for me,\" said Smith.\n\n\"Fifty years ago, I got a bronze medal for Scottish Highland Dancing and it feels about time to return to dancing.\"\n\n\"I couldn't be in better hands with the Strictly team and I'm going to throw myself into the challenge. Watch out!\" she added.\n\nSmith is now the chair of the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and Sandwell Children's Trust. She also has a podast, called For the Many, that she presents with broadcaster Iain Dale.\n\nHRVY has a social media following of more than 10 million\n\nHRVY was revealed as a contestant on the Kiss breakfast show and said he was \"so thankful to be taking part\".\n\nThe pop singer, whose real name is Harvey Leigh Cantwell, has more than a billion combined streams to his name.\n\nHe has a social media following of more than 10 million and performed at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend in Middlesbrough last year.\n\nThe 21-year-old rose to fame after uploading his music videos to Facebook. He has since sold out UK and European tours and his debut album will be out later this year.\n\n\"Being on Strictly is going to be such an amazing experience and I'm so thankful to be taking part this year,\" he said.\n\n\"I think my mum is more excited that she'll be able to see me every Saturday night now!\"\n\nMaisie Smith is an actress and singer is best known for playing Tiffany Butcher-Baker in EastEnders.\n\n\"Get me in those sequins,\" she said, reacting to the news of her announcement.\n\n\"I can't wait to dive into the Strictly fancy dress box this winter!\"\n\nBefore storming into Albert Square as Bianca's daughter, Tiffany, Smith made her acting debut in the 2008 film, The Other Boleyn Girl - alongside Scarlett Johansson and Eddie Redmayne.\n\nHer role in the long-running BBC soap saw her scoop the award for best dramatic performance from a young actress, at the 2009 British Soap Awards.\n\nJamie Laing returns to the show this year, after having to pull out of last year's series before it began due to an injury.\n\nHe became a household name in 2011 on the Channel 4 reality show, Made in Chelsea, and this year launched his own podcast, 6 Degrees from Jamie and Spencer, alongside Spencer Matthews.\n\nHe also founded the sweets brand, Candy Kittens, in 2012.\n\n\"Here we go again, hopefully this time I can last long enough so my mum can see me dance,\" said Laing.\n\nHe added: \"The reason I'm doing it, is to make my mum proud but all I did last year was make her even more disappointed. Let's change that this year, can't wait!!\"\n\nJJ Chalmers' career as a Royal Marine Commando was cut short after he suffered life-changing injuries following an IED explosion in Afghanistan.\n\nThe blast crushed an eye socket, burst his eardrums, destroyed his right elbow, blew off two fingers on his left hand and left holes in his legs.\n\nAfter years of rehabilitation, including more than 30 operations, he went on to compete in the 2014 Invictus Games where he captained the Trike Cycling team and took home three medals.\n\nHe later embarked on a career in broadcasting, presenting coverage of the Rio Paralympics and anchoring BBC One's coverage of the Invictus Games.\n\nComparing Strictly to his military experience, he told ITV's Lorraine: \"I'm always looking for a challenge, I'm always looking to push myself outside of my comfort zone.\"\n\nDespite his injuries, Chalmers said he wanted to be treated like \"any other contestant\" and didn't want any \"special treatment\".\n\n\"Whoever I partner with they've got their work cut out,\" he added.\n\nBill Bailey is an comedian, actor and musician is known for appearances on TV shows like QI, Black Books and Never Mind the Buzzcocks.\n\n\"In these strange times we're living through, it feels right to do something different and take on a new challenge,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"I haven't been to stage school and learnt to dance. I haven't lived for the dance... I'm not really Lord of the Dance. I'm caretaker of the dance,\" he joked. \"It's going to be quite a challenge but then that's what this is about, taking on a new skill.\"\n\nBailey, 55, made his name on the stand-up circuit before becoming a regular panel show guest, TV and film actor, documentary presenter, and host of the BBC sketch show Is It Bill Bailey?\n\nHe is also a classically-trained musician and has published a guide to British birds. On Wednesday, in a review of his first live gig for six months, The Daily Telegraph said he \"remains one of the funniest, most brilliantly original comedians in the UK\".\n\nClara Amfo, who hosts BBC Radio 1's late morning slot, aid she \"couldn't wait to fully embrace\" the experience of Strictly.\n\nIn recent years, Amfo has presented coverage of Glastonbury, the Brit Awards, Radio 1's Big Weekend, the Bafta TV Awards and The Proms.\n\n\"As we know this year has been a real challenge and escapism through dancing is something I know we all enjoy,\" she said.\n\n\"So to be taught by a pro and live a fantasy is something that I can't wait to fully embrace, see you on the dancefloor!\"\n\nRanvir Singh is Good Morning Britain's political editor and occasional host, and also appears on other ITV programmes including Loose Women, Tonight and Eat, Shop, Save. She is about to start co-hosting a new Sunday morning show, All Around Britain.\n\nSingh said she felt \"complete terror\" at the idea of taking part, likening it to \"embarking on a rollercoaster\".\n\nShe previously worked as a producer and reporter for the BBC for 12 years, and presented BBC North West Tonight.\n\nSingh said: \"The initial feeling of being confirmed for Strictly is one of complete terror - feels like embarking on a rollercoaster, where you really want to do it but you are equally scared.\n\n\"Hopefully after the first dance I will feel exhilarated rather than sick!\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOlympic boxer Nicola Adams will make Strictly Come Dancing history by becoming the first contestant to be part of a same-sex pairing.\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast she was the one who suggested having a female partner when producers asked her to take part.\n\n\"I think it's really important,\" she said. \"It's definitely time for change.\n\nAdams won a gold medal for Great Britain at the London 2012 Olympics, and again in Rio in 2016. She retired from the sport last year.\n\nAward-winning actress and presenter Caroline Quentin is known for a range of acting roles, including Maddie in Jonathan Creek and DCI Janine Lewis in Blue Murder.\n\nShe has also starred in Kiss Me Kate, Life Begins and Life of Riley.\n\nHowever, arguably her most famous role was playing Dorothy in the hit 90s sitcom Men Behaving Badly.\n\nShe recently presented the documentary series Extraordinary Homes for BBC Two.\n\nQuentin said she was \"thrilled and terrified in equal measure to be taking part\" in this year's Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nHe played as a cornerback/safety in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys.\n\nBell then played for the Houston Texans, where he was named a recipient of the Ed Block Courage Award, one of the league's highest honours. He finished his professional career with the New York Giants.\n\nBell now co-hosts The Jason & Osi Podcast with another former NFL star, Osi Umenyiora, and the pair appear as pundits on the NFL Show on the BBC.\n\n\"Strictly is the epitome of British television and this year, more than ever, I'm so proud and humbled to be participating,\" he said.\n\n\"Strictly was the first show I ever watched when I moved to the UK and I'm a massive fan. My six-year-old daughter never got the chance to see me run out on the field at an NFL game but she is very excited about me taking to the dance floor. I hope I can do her proud.\"\n\nSinger and actor Max George shot to fame as a member of boy band The Wanted.\n\nHis former bandmate, Jay McGuiness, previously won Strictly Come Dancing in 2015.\n\nGeorge said he was \"buzzing to be on Strictly this year\", joking: \"I'm not really one for the dance floor, but I take a lot of comfort in the fact that Jay McGuiness set The Wanted's bar so low.\"\n\nThe Wanted had two number one singles in the UK - All Time Low and Glad You Came - with the latter reaching the top three in the US Billboard chart.\n\nAfter The Wanted took a break, Max moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career and starred in the sixth season of Glee as Clint. He recently returned to music as a solo artist.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "Cheap steroids can save the lives of patients who are critically ill with Covid-19, studies show.\n\nThe findings confirm the results of an earlier trial, which has already led to steroids being used widely for Covid patients in intensive care.\n\nThe new results, published in JAMA, show eight lives would be saved for every 100 patients treated.\n\nThe researchers said the findings were impressive, but stressed steroids were not a coronavirus cure.\n\nIn June, the UK's Recovery trial found the first drug - a steroid called dexamethasone - that could save the lives of people with severe Covid.\n\nThe latest study brings together all clinical trials involving steroids on coronavirus patients around the world.\n\nIt confirms dexamethasone works and that another steroid, hydrocortisone, is equally effective.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Katherine Millbank spent 15 days in hospital and was part of the Recovery trial\n\n\"At the beginning of the year, at times it felt almost hopeless knowing that we had no specific treatments,\" said Prof Anthony Gordon, from Imperial College London.\n\n\"It was a very worrying time, yet less than six months later we've found clear, reliable evidence in high quality clinical trials of how we can tackle this devastating disease.\"\n\nThe studies were on only the sickest hospital patients. Most people recover having only experienced mild symptoms.\n\nSteroids calm down inflammation and the immune system, which is why they are already used in conditions like arthritis and asthma, as well as in some severe infections.\n\nThe drugs are not thought to be helpful in the early stages of a coronavirus infection - when symptoms include a cough, fever or a sudden loss of taste or smell.\n\nBut as the disease develops, the immune system can go into overdrive, damaging the lungs and other organs.\n\nIt is this stage of Covid that steroids are thought to help with.\n\n\"At the point at which you reach for an oxygen cylinder for a patient with Covid, you probably should be reaching for the prescription for corticosteroids,\" said Prof Martin Landray, from the University of Oxford.\n\n\"These results are instantly useable; they are widely available, cheap, well-understood drugs that reduce mortality.\"\n\nDoctors are already using dexamethasone after the results earlier in the year, but the hope is that having the choice of different drugs will increase access to the treatment around the world.\n\nThe drugs can either be swallowed as tablets or given via intravenous drip.\n\nThe research so far has focused on low doses of steroids. There is no evidence that higher doses would be more effective.\n\nNew guidelines for doctors are expected to be released by the World Health Organization.\n\nIn the UK, NHS chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said: \"Just as we did with dexamethasone, the NHS will now take immediate action to ensure that patients who could benefit from treatment with hydrocortisone do so, adding a further weapon in the armoury in the worldwide fight against Covid-19.\"", "The first minister has reintroduced restrictions on visiting other households in the Glasgow area after an increase in coronavirus cases.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the local lockdown measures will apply to people living in Glasgow, West Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire.\n\nThey will be in place for two weeks, but will be reviewed after a week.", "Pubs in the Glasgow area will not need to close as part of the new restrictions\n\nScotland's deputy first minister has defended a decision to keep pubs open in greater Glasgow despite new limits on social contact.\n\nRestrictions on visiting other households were reintroduced in Glasgow and two neighbouring areas on Tuesday.\n\nJohn Swinney said a rise in Covid cases was driven by household contacts and not the hospitality sector.\n\nThe new rules affect more than 800,000 people in Glasgow City, West Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire.\n\nA further 86 new coronavirus cases in the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde area were confirmed on Wednesday - accounting for more than half of the total for the whole of Scotland, which was 156.\n\nMr Swinney told BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme that it was important to take \"early action\" in the three areas to avoid having to take \"more significant action\" later which could affect the economy and schools.\n\nHe explained: \"It's necessary because we feel we have to nip this particular problem in the bud in the west of Scotland.\n\n\"Across the whole of the country the number of positive cases per 100,000 is 9.2. In West Dunbartonshire it's 32.6, in Glasgow it's 21.8 and in East Renfrewshire it's 18.8 - so we've got sizeably different position in these three local authority areas.\"\n\nThese figures compare to a rate of 67.8 in Pendle, Lancashire, which was top of Public Health England's watchlist in its latest surveillance report.\n\nThe weekly rate of 32.6 in West Dunbartonshire is similar to the rates in Salford and Bury in Greater Manchester, which sit in the top third of the watchlist.\n\nThe restrictions are different to ones introduced in Aberdeen in August, which included a five-mile travel limit for leisure and holidays, as well as the closure of pubs and restaurants.\n\nThe contrast has been criticised by Douglas Lumsden, the co-leader of Aberdeen City Council and Conservative group leader.\n\nIn a series of tweets, he said: I hope that @NicolaSturgeon will explain to businesses in Aberdeen that were forced to close, why Glasgow businesses are not being forced to close.\n\n\"Aberdeen was locked down for 3 weeks, no hospitality, no travel, no visiting. Glasgow lockdown = no visiting.\"\n\nHe added: \"Glasgow lockdown. No household gatherings so meet your pals in the pub instead.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Douglas Lumsden This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Glasgow city, West Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire people are being told not to host people from other households in their own homes or visit another person's home.\n\nThe restrictions came into effect from midnight. They will last for two weeks, but will be reviewed after a week.\n\nPeople living in those areas should also not visit someone else's home, no matter where it is.\n\nMr Swinney said he understood Mr Lumsden's frustration, but said the councillor should be \"careful with some of his language\".\n\n\"The problem in Aberdeen stemmed from the hospitality sector, so we had to focus on the hospitality sector,\" he said.\n\n\"Here in Glasgow, we don't have evidence of that taking its course, so it would be inappropriate and disproportionate to take that action.\n\n\"We have got evidence from the contact tracing that has been undertaken on an extensive basis that this is predominantly emanating from household contacts.\"\n\nMr Swinney said the Scottish government needed to get on top of the rise in cases before it led to a more \"widespread problem\" in the west of Scotland and the whole country.\n\nAnnouncing the restrictions on Tuesday, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, said they should be a \"wake-up call\" for the whole country to stick to government guidelines on preventing the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThe first minister added that Covid-19 continued to be a dangerous and potentially deadly virus which was spreading in the Glasgow area \"primarily as a result of household gatherings\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi says her salon visit was a \"setup\" and they her an apology.\n\nThe most powerful elected US Democrat, Nancy Pelosi, has visited a hair salon in San Francisco, breaking rules that only allow service outdoors, in order to control the spread of coronavirus.\n\nMs Pelosi was also seen with a face mask around her neck rather than over her mouth. She has criticised President Donald Trump for not wearing a mask.\n\nA spokesman said she did not realise she was breaking her home city's rules.\n\nMr Trump said she was being \"decimated\" after lecturing everyone else.\n\nThousands of California businesses have shut as part of measures to fight coronavirus.\n\nSecurity camera footage from eSalon SF shows Nancy Pelosi without a mask on\n\nThe footage obtained by Fox News showed the House of Representatives speaker inside the premises of eSalon SF on Monday.\n\nA stylist, who was wearing a mask, was shown following her.\n\nMrs Pelosi - who always wears masks in public - often admonishes Republicans to \"listen to the science\" on the pandemic.\n\nDefending her visit, spokesman Drew Hammill said in a statement: \"This business offered for the Speaker to come in on Monday and told her they were allowed by the city to have one customer at a time in the business.\"\n\n\"The Speaker complied with the rules as presented to her by this establishment.\"\n\nMrs Pelosi has herself previously cited US Centers for Disease Control guidelines recommending that Americans wear face masks in public, especially when physical distancing measures are difficult.\n\nAfter Monday's appointment, the House speaker appeared on MSNBC with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background.\n\nShe told the network that Mr Trump had \"slapped science right in the face\" last week by allowing an audience of mainly mask-less invitees on the White House lawn to watch his speech to the Republican convention.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe salon owner, Erica Kious, told Fox News she rents chairs to a stylist, who notified her that Mrs Pelosi's assistant had called, saying her boss wanted to come in for a wash and blow dry.\n\nMs Kious told the cable network: \"It was a slap in the face that she went in, you know, that she feels that she can just go and get her stuff done while no one else can go in, and I can't work.\"\n\nMore than 5,000 businesses in the San Francisco Bay area alone have closed since March, over 2,000 of them permanently, during the pandemic, according to a recent study of Yelp data.\n\nOutdoor haircuts were allowed in California from Tuesday, under new rules announced by the mayor, but indoor salons remain shut.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'They want to throw God's wonderful breathing system out'\n\nThey tweeted: \"Speaker Pelosi has pushed policies that would keep our economy closed and our small businesses shut down.\n\n\"But for herself? A salon visit whenever she pleases.\"\n\nThe House speaker has previously said Republicans could help create the conditions to safely reopen if they would only \"listen to the scientists\".\n\nMrs Pelosi has also repeatedly criticised Mr Trump's decision to largely spurn face coverings, calling him a \"coward\" and saying: \"Real men wear masks.\"\n\nThe US president reminded the speaker of her statements, vowing to win the House in elections in November.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd he praised the salon owner for \"turning her in\".\n\nThe coronavirus outbreak has infected more than six million people in the US, while some 185,000 deaths have been recorded.", "In a normal year, more than a million UK tourists visit Portugal's Algarve coast\n\nMinisters are considering reimposing quarantine measures for those arriving in the UK from Portugal as coronavirus cases rise, sources have told the BBC.\n\nThe country has recorded more than 20 cases per 100,000 people in the past week.\n\nNormally when a country surpasses that mark the UK government imposes 14 days of self-isolation on returning travellers.\n\nMinisters are expected to reach a decision on the measures by Thursday.\n\nThey will also have to decide whether the UK as a whole should follow Scotland, which has made a decision to add Greece to its own quarantine list, effective from 04:00 BST on Thursday.\n\nIt is the first of the four UK nations - each of which can add or remove countries to their own list - to make a decision on Greece, following several reports of people in the UK testing positive after holidaying on the island of Zante.\n\nWales, which says at least 16 people tested positive following a flight from the Greek island last week, says it has told passengers arriving on a plane at Cardiff Airport on Tuesday evening to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nMeanwhile, some travel industry leaders have suggested quarantine rules should only apply to people returning from specific regions where case numbers are high, such as resort islands - rather than having whole countries blacklisted.\n\nIt has been less than two weeks since Portugal came off the quarantine list and was put back on the UK's safe travel list, following a sustained period of falling cases in the country that put it below the \"20 per 100,000\" mark that satisfied the UK.\n\nBut now holidaymakers are scrambling to return from the country amid fears the country is again about to be taken off the list, based on the latest data.\n\nEasyJet has sold out all of its flights from Faro - which serves the Algarve - to airports in Britain for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.\n\nAnd British Airways is selling seats on a flight from Faro to Heathrow on Thursday for £554, while the same journey can be made seven days later for just £139.\n\nThousands of people have travelled from the UK to Portugal since the country was added to the UK's quarantine exemption list on 22 August.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tui boss Andrew Flintham says the government should consider \"regional travel corridors\"\n\nPortugal has recorded 21.1 virus cases per 100,000 people in the past week.\n\nThe UK considers imposing quarantine on travellers when a country's infection rate exceeds 20 cases per 100,000, over seven days.\n\nOver the past month, so-called travel corridors - which allow people to travel without having to self-isolate on their return - have been scrapped between England and at least 18 countries and territories.\n\nMinisters have said this cautious approach prevents coronavirus cases being imported.\n\nAndrew Flintham, head of Tui UK, has said the government should consider \"regional travel corridors\" - meaning quarantine measures would apply to people returning from regions over whole countries.\n\nHe said there were fewer cases in the popular Algarve, where most tourists are, than elsewhere in Portugal.\n\nUsing the example of Leicester, the first area in the UK to be placed under local lockdown, Mr Flintham told the BBC: \"In the UK we have a slightly different policy in the fact that we don't lock down the whole UK when the Leicester rate goes up.\n\n\"Can we apply the same kind of principle to almost allow us to operate to those places where the rates are low or are within those thresholds?\n\n\"We don't want to put anybody in danger but clearly it is not the same everywhere in a country,\" he added.\n\nIt is not the first time Tui has urged the government against slapping blanket quarantines on whole countries. Mr Flintham previously called for \"regionalised\" policy after quarantine measures were imposed on Spain in July.\n\nThe travel industry had hoped that the quarantine rules could be eased for the Balearic and Canary Islands, as data suggested there were lower rates of infection there than in mainland Spain.\n\nElsewhere, the boss of British Airways' parent firm, Willie Walsh, has accused the government of using \"arbitrary statistics to effectively ban 160 countries and in the process destroying the economy\".\n\nThe \"ever-changing\" quarantine requirements meant \"the UK has officially hung up the 'closed' sign\", he said, writing in the Times.\n\nLast week, Switzerland, Jamaica and the Czech Republic joined France, Spain and a number of others on the UK's quarantine list.\n\nUK tourists have spent thousands of pounds on new flights and ferries, and endured long drives in a race to get home before quarantine measures kick in.\n\nThe government has not commented on whether requirements for arrivals from Portugal will change again.\n\nAs soon as Portugal came off the quarantine list less than two weeks ago, John Cushing and his 12-year-old daughter Georgie headed straight out to the Algarve where he has a villa.\n\nNow the quarantine rules look set to change, he's facing a quandary.\n\n\"It's very precarious at the moment,\" says the 61-year-old company director.\n\n\"My daughter and I won't be able to leave the house when we get back to the UK on Saturday and there's a risk of being fined because I won't be able to send her back to school on Monday.\n\n\"She's in tears because she wants to go back to school but Ryanair is charging £1,000 to get back before the possible cut-off point.\n\n\"It's a very difficult decision to make [to pay for the early flight home] and I'm not really enjoying myself here now.\"\n\nEvery year, more than two million Britons visit Portugal, making up the largest number of overseas tourists to the country.\n\nMost head to the Algarve in the south, drawn by sunny Atlantic beaches, picturesque fishing villages and golf courses.\n\nOver May and June, the Portuguese government reopened its restaurants, coffee shops, museums and beaches. Hotels have mainly reopened, but nightclubs remain closed.\n\nThe government has warned that stricter measures will be put in place in mid-September as pupils return to school and some workers return to offices.\n\nAs of 31 August, the UK recorded 24 coronavirus cases per 100,000 people over the past fortnight while Portugal recorded 35.7, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.\n\nAre you currently on holiday in Portugal? Have you made plans to travel there? Share your thoughts by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "With grumblings on the Tory benches about the government’s recent performance Boris Johnson needed a good PMQs to mark the return to parliament.\n\nHis political opponents – perhaps unsurprisingly – criticised the number of policy U-turns in recent months.\n\nWhile ministers have repeatedly said they’re responding to changing science as the pandemic progresses, the speed and frequency of policy shifts is the crux of concern among some Conservative backbenchers.\n\nKeir Starmer returned to what some supporters have called a ‘forensic’ style of questioning in pushing the prime minister for detail on the exam results crisis.\n\nBoris Johnson responded with a wide-ranging attack on the Labour leader which led to a tetchy exchange.\n\nBut with another shift in policy – this time on local lockdowns in Trafford and Bolton – taking place as the prime minister was at the dispatch box, it seems unlikely his performance was enough to silence critics - including those within his own party.", "The BBC has reversed its decision not to have Rule, Britannia! and Land of Hope and Glory sung at The Last Night of the Proms.\n\nThe U-turn follows fierce criticism sparked by reports that the lyrics were being dropped due to associations with colonialism and slavery.\n\nLast week, the BBC said the decision to perform orchestral-only versions was prompted by Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nHowever, a \"select\" group of singers will now perform the songs after all.\n\n\"The pandemic means a different Proms this year and one of the consequences, under Covid-19 restrictions, is we are not able to bring together massed voices,\" the BBC said in a new statement.\n\n\"For that reason we took the artistic decision not to sing Rule, Britannia! and Land of Hope and Glory in the Hall.\"\n\nBut, the statement added, the BBC had been \"looking hard at what else might be possible\" and had found \"a solution\".\n\nThe socially-distanced BBC Singers took part in the First Night of the Proms\n\n\"Both pieces will now include a select group of BBC Singers. This means the words will be sung in the Hall, and as we have always made clear, audiences will be free to sing along at home.\"\n\nAt The First Night of the Proms, 18 socially-distanced members of the BBC Singers performed in the Royal Albert Hall's otherwise empty stalls, with the orchestra on stage.\n\nThe BBC's original decision to play instrumental versions on the Last Night on 12 September prompted Prime Minister Boris Johnson to intervene.\n\n\"I cannot believe... that the BBC is saying that they will not sing the words of Land of Hope And Glory or Rule Britannia! as they traditionally do at the end of The Last Night of The Proms,\" he told reporters last week.\n\n\"I think it's time we stopped our cringing embarrassment about our history, about our traditions, and about our culture, and we stopped this general bout of self-recrimination and wetness.\"\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said: \"Confident forward-looking nations don't erase their history, they add to it.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, a Number 10 spokesman said the prime minister \"welcomes the decision\" to backtrack.\n\nSpeaking to Conservative MPs, Mr Johnson said: \"I do think this country is going through an orgy of national embarrassment about some of the things that other people around the world love most about us.\n\n\"People love our traditions and our history with all its imperfections. It's crazy for us to go around trying to censor it. It's absolutely absurd and I think we should speak out loud and proud for the UK and our history.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Oliver Dowden This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA spokesman for Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was the \"right decision\", but added: \"Enjoying patriotic songs does not and should not be a barrier to examining our past and learning lessons from it.\"\n\nLast week, the BBC said the move to drop the lyrics was down to the fact fewer performers could appear on stage because of social distancing rules. The songs would be performed as usual next year, the corporation pledged.\n\nOutgoing director general Tony Hall defended the \"creative conclusion\" that was reached, but admitted the question of dropping songs had been discussed. Lord Hall handed over to new director general Tim Davie on Tuesday.\n\nThose arguing that songs like Land of Hope and Glory shouldn't be performed included Chi-chi Nwanoku, who runs the Chineke! Orchestra, which performed at the Proms in 2017 and 2019.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"We find it offensive. For any conscious black person who is aware of their history, the empire and colonialism, for example, they will struggle to enjoy the patriotic jingoism of these songs.\"\n\nBroadcaster and choirmaster Gareth Malone also suggested the anthems were outdated, tweeting: \"It's time for Rule Britannia! to go.\"", "House prices continued their post-lockdown recovery in August, notching up their highest monthly rise in more than 16 years, says the Nationwide.\n\n\"House prices have now reversed the losses recorded in May and June and are at a new all-time high,\" said its chief economist, Robert Gardner.\n\nPrices rose by 2% last month, it said, taking the average price to £224,123.\n\nHowever, forecasters expect a drop in prices again when the economic impact of the virus is felt on jobs.\n\nThis is likely to coincide with the easing of pent-up demand from lockdown, which is part of the reason for the latest rise in prices.\n\nThe Nationwide said the recovery in housing market activity had been \"unexpectedly rapid\".\n\nIt said the increase in August was the highest since February 2004, when house prices rose by 2.7%. As a result, annual house price growth accelerated to 3.7%, from 1.5% in July.\n\nRival mortgage lender, the Halifax, had already suggested a similar rise in prices over the summer.\n\nThe recent increase in prices has been the result of a range of factors, including demand carried over from lockdown or brought forward owing to the temporary suspension of stamp duty for some homes in England and Northern Ireland. In addition, the number of sales is still comparatively low, making prices more volatile.\n\nFirst-time buyers will not welcome any rise in prices, and many will struggle with securing a mortgage as lenders tighten their criteria for offering a loan.\n\nAnyone unable to offer a relatively large deposit and whose job is a risk amid the economic effects of the virus is likely to find it harder to get a home loan than before the outbreak.\n\n\"This rebound reflects a number of factors. Pent-up demand is coming through, where decisions taken to move before lockdown are progressing,\" said Mr Gardner.\n\nHe added that \"behavioural shifts\" could be boosting activity, with people reassessing their housing needs after life in lockdown.\n\n\"These trends look set to continue in the near term, further boosted by the recently announced stamp duty holiday, which will serve to bring some activity forward.\n\n\"However, most forecasters expect labour market conditions to weaken significantly in the quarters ahead as a result of the after-effects of the pandemic and as government support schemes wind down.\n\n\"If this comes to pass, it would likely dampen housing activity once again in the quarters ahead.\"\n\nThe government's official forecaster, the Office for Budget Responsibility, has predicted house price falls, particularly next year.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation think tank has warned that these predicted price falls could lead to some existing owners becoming trapped by negative equity - when the property is worth less than the mortgage secured on it.\n\nMarket commentators said the short-term boom in the market had been surprising, but many do not expect it to last.\n\nLucy Pendleton, director of estate agents James Pendleton, said: \"Buyers emboldened by the stamp duty holiday have been engaged in a pitched battle for property, delivering a barnstorming recovery for the market.\n\n\"A stunning proportion of properties are now going for asking price or more, and offers are flooding in. It's like lockdown was a bad dream.\"\n\nBut Andrew Montlake, managing director of mortgage broker Coreco, said: \"Two words: reality check. As strong as the property market is right now, it will not last.\n\n\"Demand is understandably strong after lockdown and the added bonus of the stamp duty holiday, but unemployment is rising by the day and the economic outlook is highly uncertain as the furlough scheme ends.\n\n\"In the final months of the year we will start to see a reversal in the current rate of house price growth.\"\n\nThe figures were published as the UK's biggest housebuilder, Barratt, said its pre-tax profit fell 46% to £491.8m in the year to the end of June.\n\nIt completed 5,252 fewer homes than the previous year, a drop of 29%, as building sites were forced to close for weeks during the pandemic. However, it said forward sales were more positive.", "Enhanced Covid-19 measures have been lifted in Burnley and Hyndburn\n\nLockdown measures to stop the spread of Covid-19 have been eased in parts of Lancashire.\n\nPeople living in Burnley and Hyndburn can now socialise indoors in groups of up to two households.\n\nTightened measures were imposed at the end of July amid a rise in cases.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said it would continue to work with local leaders to \"keep all local restrictions under constant consideration\".\n\nCouncillor Miles Parkinson OBE, leader of Hyndburn Borough Council, previously welcomed the news the enhanced restrictions were to be lifted but warned that residents must not become complacent.\n\nLeader of Burnley Council, Charlie Briggs, also called on residents to remain vigilant, adding \"I know it has been tough but your sacrifice has paid off\".\n\nHyndburn recorded a rate of just under 25 cases per 100,000 people in the week to 29 August.\n\nWhile that was up on the week before, it is still lower than two weeks earlier, when it recorded over 38 cases per 100,000.\n\nBurnley's rate is 28 per 100,000, up from 25 per 100,000 but still down on two weeks before, when it was about 48 per 100,000.\n\nBoth areas are still well above the overall rate for England, which stands at about 12 cases per 100,000 people in a week, which is why public health chiefs are urging caution.\n\nThe measures have also been lifted in Stockport, parts of Bradford, excluding Bradford city and Keighley town, parts of Calderdale, excluding Halifax, and parts of Kirklees, excluding Dewsbury and Batley.\n\nAccording to government rules, people living in these areas can now:\n\nBut the government has made a U-turn on its decision to ease measures in Trafford and Bolton following a rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokeswoman said: \"We are working closely with leaders and local authorities across Greater Manchester and Lancashire in response to the changing situation and we keep all local restrictions under constant consideration.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Ruben Bousquet had eaten the popcorn at the same cinema before, the inquest heard\n\nA 14-year-old boy died after suffering an allergic reaction to popcorn he ate at a cinema, a coroner has ruled.\n\nRuben Bousquet was with his parents at the Odeon in Greenwich, south east London, on 18 April 2019, when he became unwell.\n\nHe was \"exquisitely sensitive to food allergies\" including cow's milk, raw egg and soya, the inquest heard.\n\nCoroner Andrew Harris said the popcorn had been cross-contaminated with milk, triggering Ruben's fatal reaction.\n\nOn the evening Ruben fell ill his family rushed home to get his EpiPen, which he had left behind, but they were too late, the inquest heard.\n\nSouthwark Coroner's Court was told Ruben had regularly visited the same IMAX cinema and had eaten the same brand of sweet popcorn before.\n\nMr Harris said the cinema's food supplier Thomas Tucker Ltd had failed to carry out risk assessments when changing factory locations.\n\nRuben Bousquet was watching a film with his parents at Odeon cinema in Greenwich when he suffered his attack\n\nIn September 2019 the company went into administration after the Food Standards Agency launched an allergy alert when it was revealed the firm's popcorn products may have contained undeclared milk.\n\nOdeon \"terminated\" its contract with Thomas Tucker Ltd in the same month, the court heard.\n\nIn his ruling, Mr Harris said he could not be sure whether the cross-contamination happened in the production process or at the kiosk where it was bought.\n\nRuben's mum, Judith Bousquet, said the family were \"disappointed\" the coroner was unable to determine when the popcorn had been contaminated.\n\nMr Harris said: \"He ate some sweet unpackaged popcorn purchased from a cinema in Greenwich and began to feel unwell.\n\n\"He was driven home to access his emergency treatment for anaphylaxis and became distressed about 15 minutes after consumption, about three minutes from home.\n\n\"Ruben then collapsed and was given adrenaline injections twice and effective CPR.\"\n\nRuben was taken to Evelina Children's Hospital and found to \"have irretrievable brain damage\".\n\nMr Harris gave Ruben's cause of death as \"an acute anaphylaxis to cow's milk allergen from cross contamination of popcorn\".\n\nHe added: \"The popcorn manufactured and was free from milk protein but had become cross contaminated at some stage.\n\n\"Ruben was under the impression it was free of allergens and had he asked staff then that is what they would have believed too.\"\n\nMr Harris said he will decide whether to make a report to prevent future deaths later this month.\n\nSpeaking after the ruling, Mrs Bousquet said: \"To not put food labels as an advisory for the public to make a choice would seem to put profit before consumers.\n\n\"Ruben was in that 1% bracket of being affected - are they waiting for another death to make any changes?\"\n\nOdeon said: \"The popcorn ordered from our supplier, Thomas Tucker Ltd, was specified as 'allergen-free'.\n\n\"Once we were informed in June 2019 that certain popcorn samples sourced from this supplier tested positive for milk proteins, we immediately opened an investigation and introduced additional allergen advice to all of our cinemas.\n\n\"We have confidence in the robust procedures we have in place concerning food safety and the sourcing of products, and our teams use careful processes to protect popcorn and all other products from cross contamination in our cinemas.\"\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt were killed by a knifeman who had been released from jail on licence\n\nA catalogue of failings have been found in the way people convicted of terror-related offences are monitored by the authorities in England and Wales.\n\nAn independent review found \"gaps\" in the powers used to check up on such offenders.\n\nAnd it highlighted an \"unreliable\" flow of information about their behaviour, such as remarks \"glorifying\" terrorism.\n\nThe review was launched after convicted terrorist Usman Khan killed two people in an attack in London in November.\n\nKhan had been on licence from prison when he fatally stabbed Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt at Fishmongers' Hall near London Bridge on 29 November last year.\n\nJustice Minister Chris Philp said the government was legislating to require terrorism offenders to take lie detector tests - a measure the report endorses - and said other proposals were being considered.\n\nJonathan Hall QC, who conducted the review, said the authorities tended to \"over-focus\" on the impact of restrictions on offenders when they were let out - rather than considering the \"overall risk\" they posed.\n\nHe said meetings involving different public protection agencies, such as the police, the prison service and probation officers, were \"dominated by information exchange rather than active management\", with a single case taking two hours to discuss.\n\nMr Hall criticised a risk assessment tool used by the Prison and Probation Service in England and Wales, which he said \"seriously minimised\" the severity of terrorism offences and \"accepted the offender's characterisation (and in some cases denials)\" of their crimes.\n\n\"It was suggested to me that one possible reason was that [the risk assessment tool] is often completed by a prison psychologist, in a therapeutic context in which the offender's 'buy-in' to the process is deemed to be particularly important,\" he said.\n\nAmong other problems the report found a \"significant gap\" in the authorities' ability to monitor the risk of terrorism posed by \"dangerous\" offenders convicted of non-terror related offences.\n\nIt also said opportunities to reduce the risk offenders posed was \"lost\" because of an \"unreliable\" flow of information about their behaviour in prison, such as comments \"glorifying\" terrorism, overheard by jail staff.\n\nMr Hall added that there was a \"surprisingly limited\" circle of knowledge about terrorism offenders in the community, with police borough commanders in London \"not always aware\" of the identity of such individuals in their area.\n\nHe called for a \"cultural shift\" so that information was shared more widely.\n\nThe report, which makes 45 recommendations, was completed in May - three months after a second attack involving a released terrorism prisoner.\n\nSudesh Amman, had recently been freed from prison when he stabbed two people on Streatham High Road, in south London in February.", "The valuation of US tech giant Apple has continued to surge, surpassing the entire value of all the members of the UK's top share index.\n\nApple's shares rose 4% on Tuesday, valuing it at $2.3 trillion (£1.7tn), compared to the £1.5tn value of all the companies in the FTSE 100.\n\nApple shares fell back on Wednesday, but remained ahead of the London index at the close of trading on Wednesday.\n\nIt is just two weeks since Apple became the first US firm to be valued at $2tn.\n\nInvestors have been snapping up US tech stocks as demand for tech goods has surged amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMore people are relying on technology to work and shop from home, and Apple has been one of the major beneficiaries.\n\nThe iPhone-maker has seen its share price more than double since March, when panic about the coronavirus pandemic swept the world's stock markets.\n\nDemand for Apple's shares was also said to be boosted on Tuesday by company's decision to divide its shares, swapping four new ones for every old one investors held. The move is expected to make it easier for individuals to invest.\n\nBy contrast, market-watchers said London-listed companies, which include lockdown-hit oil companies and banks, have performed sluggishly compared to the runaway share prices of big US-listed tech firms.\n\n\"The FTSE 100 is a dinosaur, full of rather lumbering old-world stocks with precious little growth to offer,\" said Neil Wilson, chief market analyst for Markets.com. He added that it is also \"a very good proxy for the global economy, which we know is on its knees\".\n\nWith the exception of Ocado, \"there is no tech to speak of, which is where the real money has been made this year,\" he added.\n\n\"Whilst the US has Zoom, we have BT and Vodafone. The US boasts Netflix and Amazon - the FTSE can muster ITV and Sainsbury's.\"\n\nThe FTSE 100 is trading at 5,972 points, down 22% from its 2020 high of 7,675 in January.\n\nBy contrast, the Nasdaq index in the US, which includes many large tech companies, hit a fresh record on Tuesday. It has almost doubled since the collapse in share prices in the immediate aftermath of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nSome investors have warned that that all markets - including those trading in stocks, bonds and commodities - are overvalued at the moment.\n\nStimulus from central banks to support struggling economies - including quantitative easing and historic low interest rates - have buoyed the value of many companies and assets.\n\nIn another sign of booming tech valuations, Tesla's 12% stock gain propelled founder Elon Musk's personal fortune to $115bn this week, briefly making him the third-richest person in the world, according to Bloomberg. He temporarily overtook Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.", "Sci-fi blockbuster Tenet has given a welcome shot in the arm to the UK and Ireland's cinemas, taking £5.33 million in its first week on release.\n\nChristopher Nolan's sci-fi spy thriller is the first major studio release since cinemas began reopening in July.\n\nTenet opened in more than 600 UK and Irish cinemas last week having had its launch delayed several times.\n\nThe Showcase cinema chain said its ticket sales increased by 75% ahead of the film's eagerly anticipated release.\n\nTenet also performed well internationally, taking $53.6m (£40m) from sites in the Middle East, Europe and South Korea.\n\nThe film, a time-bending action drama set in numerous countries, will open in the US, Russia and China later this week.\n\nWarner Bros chairman Toby Emmerich said the studio \"couldn't be more pleased\" by the film's \"fantastic start\".\n\nHe said British film-maker Nolan had \"once again delivered an event-worthy motion picture that demands to be seen on the big screen\".\n\nFace masks are currently mandatory in UK and Irish cinemas, which are operating at a reduced capacity due to social distancing guidelines.\n\nTakings have been modest since they began reopening in July, with only one other title making more than £1m over that period.\n\nThat film was the Russell Crowe road rage thriller Unhinged, whose takings now stand at £1.2m after five weeks on release.\n\nTenet's closest official competitor over the weekend was Onward, which opened in cinemas before the coronavirus lockdown in March.\n\nThe fantastical Pixar animation made £185,028 last weekend, bringing its overall takings since release to £6.65m.\n\nTechnically, though, it was outperformed by The New Mutants, which had a weekend of previews ahead of its release on Friday.\n\nThe X-Men spin-off made £222,000 from those preview screenings, according to figures posted by the Box Office Mojo website.\n\nTenet's box office performance will be keenly scrutinised by rival studios as they prepare to unveil their own Covid-affected product.\n\nThat includes James Bond film No Time to Die, which is due to open in November having had its earlier release date in April put back.\n\nA new trailer for the film, which will see Daniel Craig make his final appearance as secret agent 007, will be released on Thursday.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keir Starmer says Boris Johnson must extend the job retention scheme as it was “desperately needed”.\n\nBoris Johnson was accused of \"governing in hindsight\" over a series of U-turns, as he appeared before MPs at PMQs for the first time since July.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer claimed the prime minister was \"making it up as he goes along\".\n\nAnd he said even Mr Johnson's own MPs had \"run out of patience\" after what he claimed was 12 U-turns over the summer.\n\nThe PM hit back by calling Sir Keir \"captain hindsight\" over the exam results debacle.\n\nHe accused the Labour leader of \"leaping on a bandwagon, opposing a policy that he supported two weeks ago\".\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford claimed Mr Johnson had made eight U-turns this year - and he called for a ninth to extend the government's job retention scheme, which ends next month, echoing a call made by Sir Keir.\n\nThe PM insisted \"indefinite furlough\" was not the answer to help the economy through the pandemic.\n\nWith grumblings on the Tory benches about the government's recent performance Boris Johnson needed a good PMQs to mark the return to parliament.\n\nHis political opponents - perhaps unsurprisingly - criticised the number of policy U-turns in recent months.\n\nWhile ministers have repeatedly said they're responding to changing science as the pandemic progresses, the speed and frequency of policy shifts is the crux of concern among some Conservative backbenchers.\n\nKeir Starmer returned to what some supporters have called a \"forensic\" style of questioning in pushing the prime minister for detail on the exam results crisis.\n\nBoris Johnson responded with a wide-ranging attack on the Labour leader which led to a tetchy exchange.\n\nBut with another shift in policy - this time on local lockdowns in Trafford and Bolton - taking place as the prime minister was at the dispatch box, it seems unlikely his performance was enough to silence critics - including those within his own party.\n\nIn heated exchanges, Sir Keir told the PM: \"This has been a wasted summer. The government should have spent it preparing for the autumn and winter.\n\n\"Instead, they have lurched from crisis to crisis, U-turn to U-turn.\"\n\nHe accused the government of \"serial incompetence\", and asked: \"Will the prime minister take responsibility and finally get a grip?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ian Blackford calls on the government to “change tack for a ninth time” and extend the job retention scheme.\n\nMr Johnson hit back by citing a series of alleged U-turns made by Sir Keir in the past and - in a reference to his predecessor as Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn - accusing him of supporting \"an IRA-condoning politician who wanted to get out of Nato\".\n\nSpeaker Sir Lindsey Hoyle intervened to warn the prime minster \"to answer the questions that have been put\" to him.\n\nA clearly angry Sir Keir said: \"As Director of Public Prosecutions, I prosecuted serious terrorists for five years, working with the intelligence and security forces and with the police in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"I ask the prime minister to have the decency to withdraw that comment.\"\n\nSpeaking afterwards, Labour sources said they would not be taking the matter further, but added that the PM had supported a peerage for former Brexit Party MEP, Claire Fox, who had once been a member of a far left party which defended an IRA attack,", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said \"swift and decisive action\" had been needed\n\nParts of Greater Manchester will not have lockdown restrictions eased as planned following a government U-turn.\n\nMeasures in Bolton and Trafford were due to be eased overnight after a fall in cases earlier in August.\n\nBut they will \"now remain under existing restrictions\" following \"a significant change in the level of infection rates over the last few days\", the government announced.\n\nThe region's mayor Andy Burnham said the U-turn had been \"complete chaos\".\n\nThe boroughs had been due to allow people from different households to meet indoors and businesses to offer close contact services such as facials, but that has now been halted.\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said the decision was made \"in collaboration with local leaders after reviewing the latest data\" which showed infection rates had more than trebled in Bolton in under a week and doubled in Trafford since the last review.\n\n\"We have always been clear we will take swift and decisive action where needed to contain outbreaks,\" he added.\n\nA spokesman for Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer described the U-turn as \"utterly chaotic\" and it gave people \"no confidence in the government's approach\".\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Mr Burnham compared the government's weekly announcements on local coronavirus restrictions as \"like waiting for the white smoke out of the Vatican\".\n\n\"It's not working, it's confusing people, it's causing anger and resentment,\" he added.\n\n\"In my view, it's local councils that need to be in the driving seat here, working then in consultation with the government.\"\n\nTrafford's Labour council leader Andrew Western tweeted: \"We should never have been put in this mess in the first place; this has massively damaged public confidence in measures.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBolton Council leader David Greenhalgh said it would have been \"irresponsible not to recognise the unpredicted spike we have seen in Bolton\".\n\nHe said he recognised \"many people will be extremely frustrated and annoyed by this decision\" but the borough had recorded the second highest increase in positive cases in the country.\n\nA Covid-19 spike in Bolton and Trafford prompted council bosses to ask for restrictions to remain in place a day before they were due to be lifted.\n\nBolton currently has one of the highest rates of new virus cases per 100,000 residents in England.\n\nChris Green, Conservative MP for Bolton West, had argued that restrictions should be eased in his constituency.\n\nBut, following the U-turn, he said the government had based its decision on recent data which he hadn't seen.\n\nHe has since tweeted to say he was \"disappointed at how this important decision has been communicated because of the impact this will have on people's lives\".\n\nLockdown restrictions were eased on Wednesday in Stockport, Burnley, Hyndburn, parts of Bradford, excluding Bradford city and Keighley town, parts of Calderdale, excluding Halifax, and parts of Kirklees, excluding Dewsbury and Batley.\n\nAccording to government rules, people living in these areas can now:\n\nMeasures were imposed at the end of July amid a rise in cases.\n\nStockport has joined Wigan in being allowed to have two households socialise indoors.\n\nBut in Bolton, Trafford, Manchester, Salford, Rochdale, Bury and Tameside it is still banned. In Oldham people are advised not to meet up with other households outdoors as well.\n\nThe rise in cases in Trafford and Bolton shows how quickly the situation with coronavirus can change.\n\nOn Friday the government announced it was easing the localised lockdown restrictions in parts of Greater Manchester from Wednesday - a decision it has now reversed in those two areas.\n\nPointing to data for the week to 20 August, it said \"cases in Bolton and Stockport fell from 25.6 (per 100,000 residents) to 18.9, and 23 to 15.1 respectively, and Trafford fell from 27.1 to 17.8.\"\n\nYet even then, there was concern that the rate was rising. The Labour leader of Trafford Council, Andrew Western, said the more recent data had shown a \"slight increase\".\n\nBy Tuesday, the spike in Bolton had also become apparent and council leaders in both areas were calling for the easing of restrictions to not go ahead.\n\nAccording to data released on Tuesday evening, Trafford's rate for the week to 29 August was more than 35 cases per 100,000.\n\nIn Bolton it was 59 cases per 100,000, driven in particular by high numbers of cases on 27, 28 and 29 August.\n\nCatalina Sastra, who runs the Party and Play, funhouse in Bolton was planning to re-open next week but said the changes were confusing.\n\n\"We're teetering on the edge... we are due to open with an online booking system, temperature reading, we've had all the screens put up... but it's just if it's on or if it's off\", she said.\n\n\"It's a bit like playing hokey-cokey. Are we in or are we out?\"\n\nBolton has had its highest seven-day rate since late May\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokeswoman said: \"We are working closely with leaders and local authorities across Greater Manchester and Lancashire in response to the changing situation and we keep all local restrictions under constant consideration.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Erick Morillo, the internationally-recognised DJ best known for the track I Like To Move It, has been found dead in Miami, local police have said.\n\nHis death comes less than a month after his arrest for sexually assaulting a female DJ after working a gig together.\n\nPolice said the 49-year old was found dead in his Miami Beach home, but have released few details as the investigation begins.\n\nHe released his 1994 hit I Like To Move It using the name Reel 2 Real.\n\nIt became a retro hit again after a remix was featured in the 2005 animated film Madagascar.\n\nMorillo had denied the sexual assault charge, but turned himself in after a rape kit identified him as the suspect, according to WPLG-TV in Florida.\n\nHe had been scheduled for a court hearing on Friday, the station reported.", "Travellers re-entering the UK from Greece currently do not have to quarantine\n\nQuarantine restrictions will be imposed on people travelling from Greece to Scotland, the Scottish government has announced.\n\nThey will be required to isolate for 14 days if they arrive in Scotland after 04:00 on Thursday.\n\nMinisters said they have taken the move due to a \"significant rise\" in cases of Covid-19 being brought into Scotland from people who have been to Greece.\n\nIt has been linked to travellers returning from the Greek islands.\n\nAs a result, the country has been been removed from the \"travel corridor\" exemption list on public health grounds.\n\nThe prevalence of Covid-19 in Greece is currently about 20 per 100,000, but a number of cases of the virus in Scotland have been traced back to travel from Greece.\n\nThey include a passenger who flew to Glasgow from Zante on 23 August.\n\nThe deputy first minister, John Swinney, told Good Morning Scotland that there had been \"an increased number of cases coming in from Greece as a consequence of international travel\".\n\nHe said: \"We judge, based on the evidence available to us, there is a necessity to apply that quarantine restriction and that's to essentially protect us here in Scotland from a spread of the virus as a consequence of importation from other countries.\"\n\nAsked why the restriction covered the whole of Greece when media reports suggested there was a particular problem with some islands, Mr Swinney said: \"The whole process of travel can generate some of the cases that are taking their course\".\n\nSo he said it was \"proportionate\" and designed to \"give us as much protection as possible here domestically to avoid a rise in cases and that's what we're trying to avoid at all possible costs\".\n\nHe added that it was important to take proportionate and targeted action where it was possible to do so.\n\nTravellers returning to the UK from the Greek island of Zante have tested positive for coronavirus\n\nScotland's chief medical officer Dr Gregor Smith said: \"There is a compelling public health risk around importation of the virus, especially given the number of imported cases linked to the Greek islands.\n\n\"The flow of travel between Scotland and Greece, and the behaviour we have seen from some of those travellers, means that on public health grounds there is a strong case - supported by public health directors - to remove Greece from the exemption list.\"\n\nGreece's Tourism Minister Harry Theoharis said the restrictions were \"a bit harsh\".\n\nHe said every country had a right to protect its citizens, but that Greece was \"well below\" the 20 cases per 100,000 threshold that the UK nations use as a guide for imposing quarantine restrictions on returning travellers.\n\nMr Theoharis added: \"We have put in place a comprehensive set of protocols and measures... We take targeted measures where we see concentration.\"\n\nHe added that Greece conducted the fifth most tests in Europe.\n\n\"We feel that we have taken every possible precaution\", he added.\n\nPeople travelling to Scotland from these countries are subject quarantine restrictions.\n\nHolidaymakers have tested positive for coronavirus after flights to the UK from Zante\n\nTravellers arriving home to Wales from Zante are also being asked to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said there were six clusters of cases, amounting to 30 infections, linked to flights from the Greek island.\n\nMeanwhile, ministers are considering re-imposing quarantine measures for those arriving in the UK from Portugal as coronavirus cases rise, sources have told the BBC.\n\nThe UK considers imposing quarantine on travellers when a country's infection rate exceeds 20 cases per 100,000, over seven days.\n\nBut each of the four nations can add or remove countries to their own list.\n\nMike Tibbert, vice president of the Scottish Passenger Agents' Association, said he is \"extremely concerned\" about the workload being placed on its members by the changing quarantine rules.\n\n\"The removal of Greece in this ongoing hokey-cokey of countries which are 'in or out' means it's impossible for Scots to plan or reorganise a holiday which they have already paid for. And equally impossible for our members to run a business,\" he said.", "The information commissioner said it was \"astonishing\" these protections were not already built in to websites\n\nApps, social media platforms and online games that are specifically targeted at children will now have to put privacy at the heart of their design.\n\nA code of practice outlining how children's data should be protected has come into force and firms have 12 months to comply with the new rules.\n\nIf they do not, they could face huge fines imposed by the Information Commissioner's Office.\n\nSome questioned whether the code would bring about real change.\n\nInformation commissioner Elizabeth Denham said it was an important step towards protecting children online.\n\n\"A generation from now we will all be astonished that there was ever a time when there wasn't specific regulation to protect kids online. It will be as normal as putting on a seatbelt.\n\n\"This code makes clear that kids are not like adults online, and their data needs greater protections.\"\n\nShe said the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) recognised that it could be difficult for smaller businesses to comply with the code and would offer \"help and support\" over the coming year.\n\nAmong the tenets of the code are:\n\nOthers who must conform to the code include educational websites, streaming services that use, analyse and profile children's data and the makers of connected toys.\n\nThe ICO has the power to fine firms up to 4% of their global turnover if they breach data protection guidelines. The organisation has previously said it will take more severe action when it sees harm to children.\n\nIn September last year, YouTube was fined $170m (£139m) for collecting data on children under 13 without the consent of their parents, following a US investigation by the Federal Trade Commission.\n\nThe scope of protections needed for children online was huge and the ICO might not be up to the job, said one digital rights campaigner, Jen Persson.\n\n\"The code is well-intentioned, and if enforced, may bring about some more focused change in the approach of some apps and platforms to stop collecting excessive data from children for example, and start to meet the requirements of core data protection law in place for over 20 years.\n\n\"The key risks are that since the ICO has not enforced to date on behalf of children in its current remit of concrete data protection law, that it may be seen as not having the capability to enforce those new things in the code that go beyond that and are subjective, such as the best interests of the child, or that outstrip the ICO technical knowledge and capacity.\"\n\nAndy Burrows, head of child safety online policy at the NSPCC, said he hoped the code would force a rethink on the content provided to children.\n\n\"Tech firms have a year to prepare for this transformative code that will force them to take online harms seriously, so there can be no more excuses for putting children at risk.\n\n\"For the first time, high-risk social networks will have a legal duty to assess their sites for sexual abuse risks and no longer serve up harmful self-harm and suicide content to children.\"\n• None New safety code for kids' online toys and apps", "Nicola Adams won gold medals at the Olympics in 2012 and 2016\n\nOlympic boxer Nicola Adams will make Strictly Come Dancing history by becoming the first contestant to be part of a same-sex pairing.\n\nShe told BBC Breakfast she was the one who suggested having a female partner when producers asked her to take part.\n\n\"I think it's really important,\" she said. \"It's definitely time for change.\n\n\"It's definitely time to move on and be more diverse, and this is a brilliant step in the right direction.\" Her dance partner has not yet been revealed.\n\nAdams said she didn't mind who she's paired up with, but added: \"I'd only be wanting somebody who's maybe a little bit on the short side because I'm a little bit small.\"\n\nShe told Breakfast: \"It will be nice for the LGBT community to be able to see there are same-sex couples on the show as well.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAdams won a gold medal for Great Britain at the London 2012 Olympics, and again in Rio in 2016. She retired from the sport last year.\n\nAsked whether the idea to have a female partner came from her or the show's producers, she explained: \"I asked the show about it. They wanted to know if I wanted to be on the show and I said, 'Yeah, I'll do it, but I want to dance with another female dance partner.'\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Strictly Come Dancing professionals Johannes and Graziano dance together\n\nStrictly has previously featured two male professionals dancing together in a one-off routine, when Johannes Radebe and Graziano di Prima performed to Emeli Sande's Shine last year.\n\nSome applauded the show for the routine, but the BBC received 189 complaints from viewers who found it offensive.\n\nAdams will be the first celebrity to be part of a same-sex couple in the BBC One show's 16-year history.\n\nSinger Will Young, who took part in Strictly in 2016, welcomed the news. \"I think it's fantastic, as long as it's done in the right way and it's not done in a sensationalised way, in a sort of cursory way, which I'm sure it won't be,\" he told Breakfast.\n\nThose applauding the move on Twitter included 2018 Strictly champion Stacey Dooley, fellow former contestant Dr Ranj Singh, and ice skater Matt Evers.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEarlier this year, Evers was part of the first same-sex couple on ITV's Dancing On Ice, along with pop star Ian Watkins - better known as H from Steps.\n\nIn July, there were reports that Westlife star Mark Feehily would be part of a same-sex pairing on Strictly this year. So far, six celebrities have been confirmed.\n\nAdams will join Clara Amfo, Max George, Ranvir Singh, Caroline Quentin and Jason Bell on the dancefloor.\n\n\"I can't dance at all, so this is going to be a totally new challenge for me,\" Adams said. \"The only thing I've been doing is TikToks, and that's about as far as my dancing goes.\"\n\nThe 18th series of Strictly will begin in October but will be shorter than usual, and judge Bruno Tonioli will have a reduced role amid coronavirus restrictions.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "An emergency airlift to Berlin from Omsk was organised for Mr Navalny\n\nSeveral prominent critics of Kremlin policies - ex-spies, journalists and politicians - have been poisoned in the past two decades.\n\nIn the UK, two Russian ex-secret service agents were targeted: Alexander Litvinenko fatally with radioactive polonium-210 in 2006, and Sergei Skripal with the toxic nerve agent Novichok in 2018. The Kremlin denied any involvement.\n\nAlexei Navalny, who has been physically attacked before, appears to be the latest victim. Yet much remains unclear.\n\nMysterious poisonings involving Russians often remain mysterious - a distinct advantage for assassins, compared with say an old-fashioned shooting in the street.\n\nProf Mark Galeotti, a Russia expert at the Royal United Services Institute, told the BBC that \"poison has two characteristics: subtlety and theatricality\".\n\n\"It's so subtle that you can deny it, or make it harder to prove. And it takes time to work, there's all kinds of agony, and the poisoner can deny it with a sly wink, so everyone gets the hint.\"\n\nAlexei Navalny is Russia's best-known anti-corruption campaigner and opposition activist. His slick, hard-hitting videos on social media have drawn many millions of views, and made him a thorn in the side of the Kremlin.\n\nFor years Mr Navalny has rallied his supporters across Russia\n\nA victim poisoned before a long flight can be stuck in the air long enough for the assassin to make an easy getaway. Mr Navalny, 44, fell acutely ill on a flight from Tomsk in Siberia on 20 August - so ill that it had to be diverted to Omsk.\n\nRussian investigative reporter and Putin critic Anna Politkovskaya, shot dead in 2006, claimed to have been poisoned on a flight to the North Caucasus in 2004, when she felt sick and fainted.\n\nSimilarly, a slow-acting poison - polonium-210 - killed Litvinenko excruciatingly and it was weeks before the rare toxin was identified. As an alpha-particle emitter its radiation was not detected by a Geiger counter.\n\nThe two alleged Russian killers - state agents, according to the subsequent UK inquiry - had plenty of time to fly home unsuspected.\n\nMr Navalny has accumulated many enemies in Russia, not just among supporters of President Vladimir Putin, whose United Russia party he labels \"the party of crooks and thieves\". Mr Putin was a secret service officer in the Soviet KGB before becoming president in 2000.\n\nMr Galeotti says that in this case \"the Russian state seems to have been caught off-balance, which implies it wasn't a centrally planned operation\". \"This suggests it was the act of a powerful Russian, but not necessarily the state.\"\n\nNow fighting for his life in Berlin's Charité hospital, Mr Navalny is in an induced coma, being treated for \"poisoning with a substance from the group of cholinesterase inhibitors\".\n\nThe hospital says the specific toxin remains unknown - tests are being done to identify it. But the poison's effect - inhibition of the enzyme cholinesterase in the body - \"was confirmed by multiple tests in independent laboratories\".\n\nThat is the effect of military nerve agents, such as sarin, VX or the even more toxic Novichok. They interfere with the brain's chemical signals to the muscles, causing spasms, shortness of breath, heart palpitations and collapse.\n\nMr Navalny's spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh suspects that poison was slipped into the cup of black tea he drank at a Tomsk airport cafe. He had not eaten anything before the flight, she says.\n\nThat ominously echoes the case of Litvinenko, who drank poisoned tea in a London hotel.\n\nA prominent anti-Putin activist based in the US, Vladimir Kara-Murza, says he suffered similar symptoms to Mr Navalny's in 2015 and 2017. His alleged poisoning remains a mystery.\n\nPoison, he told the BBC, \"is becoming sort of a favoured tool of Russian security services\" and \"a sadistic tool\".\n\n\"It is excruciating to go through this... I had to learn to walk again after the first poisoning and coma.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vladimir Kara-Murza on the dangers to President Putin's critics\n\nWhen the plane landed in Omsk on 20 August medics rushed Mr Navalny into intensive care already comatose, and put him on a ventilator.\n\nMr Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov says the Berlin doctors' diagnosis of poisoning is not yet conclusive, so it is too early to launch an official investigation. Earlier he said the Kremlin wished Mr Navalny well, when permission was granted to fly him to Berlin.\n\nThere is speculation that the delay in Omsk, before Mr Navalny's transfer to Berlin, could have helped erase traces of the poison.\n\nThe Omsk doctors have also been criticised for suggesting that the problem was a \"low blood sugar level\" and apparently failing to spot nerve agent symptoms.\n\nDr Konstantin Balonov, a US-based anaesthesiologist, told BBC Russian that that failure was \"strange, to say the least\". Moscow toxicologists also consulted the Omsk doctors and \"they must have concluded that it was a toxin from that [chemical] group\".\n\nThere are suspicions of a cover-up, as unidentified police were quickly on the scene, blocking access. The doctors insisted that no poison was detected in Mr Navalny's urine.\n\nIt has emerged that atropine - an antidote to nerve agent - was administered in Omsk.\n\nBut Mikhail Fremderman, previously an intensive care specialist in St Petersburg, said that \"in poisoning cases such as this, atropine must be given intravenously, for a long period\". That may not have happened in Omsk, he told BBC Russian, adding that the medical data has not been released.\n\nProf Alastair Hay, a leading British toxicologist and chemical weapons expert, says this type of nerve agent is at the \"extremely toxic\" end of a broad spectrum of organophosphates.\n\nThat large group of possible poisons makes the agent already hard to identify. Some much milder organophosphates are used in insecticide and in medical therapies.\n\n\"It only requires a small dose to kill someone, which can be effectively disguised in a drink,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Work carried out at Porton Down is normally highly classified\n\nThere are yet more advantages, from the assassin's point of view. \"A simple blood test doesn't tell you what the agent is - you need a more sophisticated test, very expensive equipment. Many hospital labs don't have that expertise,\" Prof Hay said.\n\nIn the UK, that capability is restricted to Porton Down, a high-security chemical and biological research centre.\n\nThe UK and Russia are among 190 signatories to the global Chemical Weapons Convention, which bans chemical weapons use and research, beyond small quantities allowed for developing antidotes and protective equipment.\n\nAfter the Cold War Russia destroyed its vast chemical weapons stockpile - about 40,000 tonnes - under international supervision, Prof Hay noted.\n\nA biopsy on Georgi Markov revealed this tiny pellet, believed to have contained ricin\n\nExotic chemicals were also used in some Cold War \"hits\" - for example the notorious umbrella killing of Bulgarian anti-communist journalist Georgi Markov in London in 1978. At the time Bulgaria was an ally of the Soviet Union.\n\nThe suspected poison was ricin, released from a tiny pellet found in the autopsy. The killer had stabbed it straight into Markov's bloodstream with the umbrella - a far more potent delivery method than if he had swallowed it.", "Policing protests and spitting incidents during the pandemic have contributed to a rise in assaults\n\nA survey of more than 40,000 police officers in England and Wales found that almost four in ten said they had been assaulted in the last year.\n\nThe research by the College of Policing also found 88% of officers said they had been assaulted during their career.\n\nThree-quarters of police officers said they wanted to carry Taser stun guns every day.\n\nBut police chiefs are investigating racial disparities in Taser use.\n\nNational Police Chiefs Council head Martin Hewitt, who commissioned the research, said he was shocked by the scale of the assaults and that a third of officers said they were unhappy with the personal safety training they received.\n\nPolice chiefs are calling for a new offence of targeting police officers with a vehicle, as well as for spitting and hate crimes to be considered as aggravating factors when suspects are brought to court.\n\nCoughing and spitting incidents during the pandemic, protests and illegal raves have driven a rise in attacks in recent months, with provisional data showing attacks up 24% year-on-year in the four weeks to 7 June.\n\nIn 2018-19, there were 31,000 assaults on officers - equivalent to 328 assaults per 1,000 constables, up from 284 per 1,000 the previous year.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the increase in assaults on officers was \"simply unacceptable\", adding that the government was consulting on doubling the maximum sentence for assaulting an emergency worker to two years.\n\nChe Donald, vice-chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales, said officers and the majority of the public were \"appalled by the atrocious levels of violence colleagues have faced recently\" and police chiefs must take \"swift action\".\n\nThe report found that 87% believed all frontline officers should have the option to deploy with Tasers. Three-quarters of police officers said that they personally wanted to carry a Taser.\n\nAt the moment, only around 17,000 of the 123,000 police officers in England and Wales are trained to carry the stun guns.\n\nThis major study of violence and policing reveals worrying disparities in the preparation given to officers - with some on the frontline receiving just a quarter of the training of colleagues elsewhere in England and Wales.\n\nBut one of today's studies from the College of Policing reveals an apparent racial disparity in how officers themselves use force.\n\nThe study of more than 45,000 incidents across 16 forces looked for patterns in when officers resort to force - including Tasers - when detaining suspects.\n\nIt found that the odds of officers drawing equipment or weapons, but not using them, was higher when the suspect was identified as black.\n\nThe research also found that white suspects were in fact more likely to end up injured. The upshot is that the data doesn't answer all the questions about the apparent racial disparities - as it also indicates that other factors may be influencing decisions to use force, such as mental illness.\n\nChiefs have ordered more research into this very complex area - because they don't know why these disparities exist - and therefore it's not clear how to minimise them.\n\nKent Chief Constable Alan Pughsley, the NPCC lead on officer safety, said that Tasers are \"fallible\" and officers should not be \"over-reliant\" on them.\n\nAlmost all officers said they thought Tasers were \"very effective\" or \"fairly effective\" but research into the use of the weapons found that although drawing a Taser may act as a deterrent, assaults and injuries were no more or less likely when they were carried.\n\nFigures show Tasers and other \"less lethal\" weapons are more likely to be used against black people, and the NPCC is commissioning research to find out why.\n\nThe College of Policing report also said:", "\"I have changed since then,\" said Byrne\n\nTalking Heads frontman David Byrne has apologised for a video in which he impersonates people of colour using black and brownface.\n\nThe promotional video for 1984's concert film Stop Making Sense, sees the star interviewing himself, while playing several different reporters.\n\nAfter the clip resurfaced on social media, Byrne issued a statement expressing his regret and dismay.\n\n\"I acknowledge it was a major mistake in judgement,\" he wrote.\n\nAdmitting that the sketch showed \"a real lack of understanding\", he added: \"It's like looking in a mirror and seeing someone else - you're not, or were not, the person you thought you were.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nByrne joins a number of performers and comedians who have been forced to acknowledge blackface performances in recent months, as protests over the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and, more recently, the shooting of Jacob Blake, led to broader calls for accountability.\n\nAnt and Dec said they were \"sincerely sorry\" for impersonating people of colour on past episodes of Saturday Night Takeaway, and US chat show host Jimmy Kimmel apologised for his \"thoughtless\" portrayals of black stars like Snoop Dogg, Oprah Winfrey and basketball player Karl Malone.\n\nComedian Tina Fey withdrew four episodes of her show 30 Rock which portrayed characters in blackface, adding in a letter that she was sorry \"for the pain they have caused\".\n\nMatt Lucas and David Walliams also issued a statement about the sketch show Little Britain, saying: \"we regret that we played characters of other races\".\n\nByrne said his apology came after a journalist highlighted the existence of the Stop Making Sense sketch.\n\n\"We have huge blind spots about ourselves- well, I certainly do,\" he said. \"I'd like to think I am beyond making mistakes like this, but clearly at the time I was not.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"One hopes that folks have the grace and understanding to allow that someone like me, anyone really, can grow and change, and that the past can be examined with honesty and accountability.\"\n\nReferencing the closing line of his Tony Award-winning stage show American Utopia - \"I need to change too\" - he added, \"I believe I have changed since then.\"\n\nThe TV adaptation of American Utopia, directed by Spike Lee, premieres at the virtual Toronto Film Festival later this month.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRestrictions on visiting other households have been reintroduced in Glasgow and two neighbouring areas after a rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nThe new rules affect more than 800,000 people in Glasgow city, West Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire.\n\nThey are being told not to host people from other households in their own homes or visit another person's home.\n\nThe restrictions came into effect from midnight. They will last for two weeks, but will be reviewed after a week.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Tuesday that 135 of the 314 new cases in Scotland over the past two days had been in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area.\n\nShe said Covid-19 continued to be a dangerous and potentially deadly virus.\n\n\"It is spreading again, particularly in these three local authority areas, and we believe that, in these areas, it is spreading primarily as a result of household gatherings,\" she said.\n\nThe restrictions affect 633,120 people living in Glasgow, 95,530 in East Renfrewshire and 88,930 in West Dunbartonshire.\n\nPeople living in those areas should also not visit someone else's home, no matter where it is.\n\nThe only exception is for those in extended households, who can continue to meet indoors.\n\nOnly essential indoor visits will be allowed in hospitals and care homes.\n\nPeople from different households can continue to meet outdoors as long as they follow the guidance, and outdoor visits to care homes are still permitted.\n\n\"I think this should be a wake-up call, not just for people in Glasgow city, West Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire,\" said the first minister.\n\n\"It should be a wake-up call for all of us to stick to the guidelines and stop this virus spreading any further or any faster.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said the reopening of schools had not been responsible for what had happened.\n\nShe said a \"very small number\" of school-age children had tested positive for the virus, and that this had mostly been driven by community transmission.\n\n\"Part of the reason that we have to take tough action, where necessary, to minimise community transmission is to stop that becoming a problem for schools,\" she said.\n\nShe added that the preventative action was designed to keep schools open and businesses operating.\n\nMs Sturgeon had raised concerns earlier in the day after the latest daily figures showed that 66 of the 154 new cases recorded in Scotland had been in the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde area.\n\nThat compared with an average of eight cases a day in the same area in the first two weeks of August.\n\nThe daily incidence rate of Covid-19 is now almost 33 new cases per 100,000 people in West Dunbartonshire, 22 in Glasgow and almost 19 in East Renfrewshire. The rate for the rest of Scotland is just over 10.\n\nThe local lockdown which was imposed in Aberdeen last month had been triggered by a rate of 14 cases per 100,000 population.\n\nDonald Macaskill, chief executive of Scottish Care, said the announcement was a bitter blow to care homes in the three affected local authority areas.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland's The Nine: \"Unfortunately it is the selfish behaviour and attitude of a few, who have put themselves first, which have meant that some of our most vulnerable citizens have been prevented from meeting their families.\n\n\"I am extremely disappointed that there will be hundreds of families not able to visit each other indoors in the next week or so.\"", "Richard Leonard's leadership has been criticised by some sections of the party since he took over from Kezia Dugdale three years ago\n\nFour Scottish Labour MSPs have called on the party's leader, Richard Leonard, to quit ahead of next year's Scottish Parliament election.\n\nJames Kelly resigned as the party's justice spokesman, saying he had no confidence in Mr Leonard's leadership.\n\nSocial security spokesman Mark Griffin has also quit, with backbenchers Jenny Marra and Daniel Johnson adding their voices to calls for Mr Leonard to go.\n\nMr Leonard has vowed to lead the party into the election.\n\nHe accused the MSPs of waging an \"internal war\" against him, and said he would be fighting the election on a platform of \"building a National Care Service, establishing a quality Jobs Guarantee scheme and reviving Scotland's economy with a Green New Deal\".\n\nMr Leonard added: \"If any party representative thinks an internal faction fight is more important than this agenda, then they will have to answer to party members and the voters whom we serve\".\n\nHe took over the leadership from Kezia Dugdale in 2017 - but there have been concerns about his performance from some senior party figures ever since.\n\nOpinion polls suggest Scottish Labour is trailing a distant third behind the SNP and Scottish Conservatives ahead of the election next May.\n\nThe party slumped to fifth in last year's European elections after winning just 9.3% of the votes - down from 26% in the previous election in 2014.\n\nJenny Marra said Mr Leonard's leadership had been tied to that of Mr Corbyn, and it was now time for him to go\n\nIn his resignation statement, Mr Kelly said that Mr Leonard's personal polling ratings were particularly low - even among the party's own supporters.\n\nHe added: \"Such poor ratings would produce a catastrophic result from which the party would struggle to recover.\n\n\"I have no confidence in your ability to shape the party's message, strategy and organisation. I know that this is a view shared by other parliamentarians, party members and indeed many members of the public.\n\n\"It is clear that after nearly three years in charge you are not able to take the party forward. I firmly and sincerely believe that it is in the best interests of the party that you stand down as leader.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Neil Findlay MSP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHis views were echoed by Ms Marra, who told The Times that the party risked \"catastrophe\" if it did not change course.\n\nShe described Mr Leonard, who was seen as being a close ally of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, as being \"utterly committed to the party, the cause and is liked by everyone\".\n\nBut she added: \"Richard is a stalwart of our party but he cannot lead us. That's the unavoidable truth and change is our best hope.\n\n\"Richard's leadership was tied from the start to the disaster of Jeremy Corbyn's project. It remains so in the public's view and they simply will not give the party a hearing as things stand.\n\n\"We need new energy, a new approach and to turn a new page.\"\n\nJames Kelly has resigned as the party's justice spokesman over Mr Leonard's leadership\n\nA third MSP, Daniel Johnson, tweeted his support for Ms Marra and Mr Kelly - saying: \"It is time to recognise the situation we are in and for Richard to step down.\"\n\nMr Johnson said he had attempted to raise his concerns and make constructive suggestions but claimed that these had gone unheeded, and there had been no change in approach or performance.\n\nHe added: \"Continuing like this will be disastrous for our party and is why I no longer have confidence in Richard Leonard's leadership.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Griffin said polls suggested that fewer than half of the voting public knows who Mr Leonard is - and that most of those who do, including a majority of Scottish Labour voters, have a negative opinion of him.\n\nHe added: \"We cannot hope to improve when any criticism, public or private, is dismissed as factional\".\n\nHowever, Mr Leonard was backed by Scottish Labour MSP Neil Findlay, who is also on the left of the party.\n\nMr Findlay tweeted that the colleagues who were calling for Mr Leonard's head were \"pathetic\" and guilty of \"treachery with a snarl\".\n\nThis is an attempt to topple the Scottish Labour leader - and it may not be over yet.\n\nBefore he quit as the party's justice spokesman, James Kelly privately approached Richard Leonard to ask him to stand down.\n\nI am told he did so on behalf of a sizeable group of Labour MSPs, certainly more than the four who have now spoken out publicly.\n\nWhat's less clear is if any of them would be prepared to challenge him to a formal leadership contest.\n\nMr Leonard has told the BBC he intends to lead the party into the 2021 Holyrood election and has questioned the suitability of his critics to stand in that contest.\n\nThe party has yet to make its list selections and it's understood Mr Leonard favours a gender balanced system that may squeeze out some existing MSPs.\n\nMr Kelly insists his concern is not for himself but for the future of the Scottish Labour party, which has lost ground in elections and opinion polls while Richard Leonard has been in charge.", "Harry and Meghan at the Commonwealth Service at Westminster Abbey in March\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex have reached a deal with streaming giant Netflix to make a range of programmes, some of which they may appear in.\n\n\"Our focus will be on creating content that informs but also gives hope,\" said Prince Harry and wife Meghan.\n\n\"As new parents, making inspirational family programming is also important to us,\" they continued.\n\nNetflix chief Ted Sarandos said he was \"incredibly proud\" the royal couple had made the company \"their creative home\".\n\nThe multi-year deal will encompass documentaries, docu-series, feature films, scripted shows and children's programming.\n\nIt comes six months on from the couple stepping down from royal life and moving to California to live away from the media spotlight.\n\n\"Our lives, both independent of each other, and as a couple have allowed us to understand the power of the human spirit: of courage, resilience, and the need for connection,\" said the couple in a statement.\n\n\"Through our work with diverse communities and their environments, to shining a light on people and causes around the world, our focus will be on creating content that informs but also gives hope.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Harry can currently be seen in Paralympics documentary Rising Phoenix\n\n\"As new parents, making inspirational family programming is also important to us, as is powerful storytelling through a truthful and relatable lens.\"\n\nThe pair said they were \"pleased to work with Netflix, saying its \"unprecedented reach\" would \"help us share impactful content that unlocks action\".\n\nSarandos said Netflix was \"excited about telling stories\" with the couple \"that can help build resilience and increase understanding for audiences everywhere\".\n\nAccording to Deadline, projects already in development include \"an innovative nature docu-series and an animated series that celebrates inspiring women\".\n\nThe royal couple will make their shows for Netflix under the banner of an as yet unnamed production company.\n\nThe Duke of Sussex can currently be seen on the streaming service in Rising Phoenix, a documentary about the Paralympic Games.\n\nMeghan previously partnered with Disney to narrate Elephant, a documentary about the species for its Disneynature outlet.\n\nThis week's announcement follows the recent publication of Finding Freedom, a book about the couple's life in the Royal Family.\n\nA spokesman for the Sussexes said they had not been interviewed for the book, which describes a culture of increasing tension between the Sussexes and other family members.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ignition: This solid rocket booster will be used for missions to the Moon\n\nEngineers have fired a booster rocket that will help send Americans back to the Moon in 2024.\n\nAt 20:05 BST (15:05 EDT) the booster, which was secured to the ground, expelled an immense column of flame for two minutes.\n\nTwo of these booster types will form part of Nasa's huge Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, the biggest launcher built since the Saturn V in the 1960s.\n\nWednesday's rocket firing was carried out at a test site in Promontory, Utah.\n\nThe facility is operated by aerospace giant Northrop Grumman.\n\nThe huge Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) provide most of the thrust in the first two minutes of the SLS's ride to space.\n\nThe test was designed to investigate the performance and manufacturing quality of the booster's rocket motor. It will also help teams evaluate potential new materials, processes, and improvements for the boosters beyond the first landing on the Moon in 2024.\n\nMeasuring 54m (177ft) long and 4m (12ft) wide, the SLS booster is the largest and most powerful solid propellant booster ever built.\n\nTwo SRBs sit on either side of the SLS core stage\n\nIt burns around six tonnes of propellant every second, generating more thrust than 14 four-engine jumbo commercial airliners.\n\nCharles Precourt, vice president, propulsion systems at Northrop Grumman and a former Nasa astronaut, said: \"It's important to me to ensure we have what is necessary to establish a presence on the Moon and then go on to Mars.\n\n\"Testing our rocket boosters is how we can help ensure astronauts can explore space safely.\"\n\nThe SLS consists of a huge core stage with four engines at its base. Two SRBs are attached on each side of the core and provide 75% of the thrust during the first two minutes of the ascent to space.\n\nBoth the core and boosters are derived from technology used in the space shuttle, which was retired in 2011.\n\nAble to produce a total thrust of more than eight million pounds, the SLS will supply the power necessary to launch crewed missions to the Moon, and eventually - it is hoped - Mars.\n\nNasa plans to launch the giant rocket on its maiden flight next year. This mission, called Artemis 1, will see an unpiloted Orion capsule sent on a loop around the Moon.\n\nTeams at Nasa's Kennedy Space Center are already assembling the solid rocket boosters for this mission.\n\nFor Artemis 2, four astronauts will travel around the Moon in 2023, followed a year later by the first crewed landing since 1972.\n\nMeanwhile, engineers in Mississippi have resumed their \"Green Run\" testing of the massive SLS core stage, after operations were paused in response to the threat from tropical storms Marco and Laura.\n\nThe B-2 test stand at Nasa's Stennis Space Center, where the SLS core stage is being put through its paces\n\nThe Green Run consists of eight tests, four of which have been completed since the core stage arrived at Nasa's Stennis Space Center near Bay St Louis in January. The fifth, which has just started, will aim to check out rocket controls and hydraulics.\n\nNasa's head of human spaceflight Kathy Lueders said she hoped the programme could stay on track for a \"hot fire\" test in October.\n\nDuring the hot fire, all four of the powerful RS-25 engines at the base of the core stage are fired for about eight minutes - the time it takes for the SLS to get from the ground to orbit.", "Influencers and advertisers should be forced to declare digitally altered photos on social media, the body representing UK girl guides has said.\n\nThe Girlguiding charity has backed a proposed law by a backbench MP that would force social media users and advertisers to label images where bodies or faces have been edited.\n\nThe bill is designed to address unrealistic portrayals of beauty in the media and online.\n\nCritics have said it is unenforceable.\n\nThe Girlguiding Advocate panel, whose members are aged 14 to 25, welcomed the proposals.\n\nThe panel cited its own research which suggests around half of young women aged between 11 and 21 regularly use apps or filters to make photos of themselves look better online.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Do you retouch your selfies?\n\n\"The 'perfect' images girls are encountering in their daily lives are having a devastating impact on self-esteem and confidence,\" said 15-year-old panel member Alice.\n\n\"These enhanced images create a false society where how girls look is perceived to be the most important aspect about them.\"\n\nDr Luke Evans MP, a Tory member of the Health and Social Care Committee and a GP, was inspired to introduce the bill after seeing first-hand the effects of these images on people's mental health.\n\n\"We know how damaging this is, as you're warping people's perspective of reality, whether that's slimming down for women or bulking up for men,\" he added.\n\nThe law would require advertisers, broadcasters or publishers to display a warning label when bodies or faces are digitally altered.\n\nSimilar legislation already exists in France. There, any commercial image that has been enhanced must feature a label of \"edited photograph\", or companies face a fine.\n\nThe stock images agency Getty has also banned retouched images from its commercial category.\n\nDr Evans has met the Advertising Standards Agency - which has previously banned some airbrushed advertisements - and hopes to have talks with social media firms soon.\n\nHe said he would like to see rule-breakers apologise and issue a correction, or be fined.\n\nTechnology reporter Cristina Criddle edited this photo on a free app in under 10 minutes to illustrate extreme editing\n\nSome have said this would be difficult to enforce on social media, as it would rely on users policing themselves or others reporting them.\n\n\"While some pictures look obviously edited, there are still fine tweaks anyone can make, which can be hard to identify,\" commented Unsah Malik, author of Slashed: The Ultimate Social Media and Influencer Marketing Guide.\n\n\"This begs the question to what extent the new rules will be put in place, and how much we can trust influencers to tell the truth.\n\n\"This then leaves us in the same position of setting unrealistic beauty standards.\"\n\nUnsah Malik said it was hard to identify subtle editing\n\nNick Ede, a brand expert, said there should be flexibility in the rules.\n\n\"If you are specifically using a product that you are promoting, and don't declare that you have manipulated an image, that is false advertising - for example, a face cream and you've smoothed out your skin,\" he explained. \"But if you are posting generic images that are part of your brand, then I don't think you should have to have any kind of accountability.\n\n\"Treating people like they are a packet of cigarettes with what basically is a government health warning is just ridiculous.\"\n\nDr Evans accepts that his recommendations would be hard to enforce.\n\n\"Just because it's difficult in principle, doesn't mean we should not do it,\" he responded. \"Social media companies have a role to play, allowing people to see what is true reality.\n\n\"These influencers have large audiences and need to be transparent - labelling content is not a huge ask.\"\n\nRahi Chadda says people should be free to edit their own images\n\nInfluencers have spoken out against the proposals, saying it puts too much pressure on them.\n\nOne model with more than 700,000 followers said people can follow at their own discretion.\n\n\"It is an individual's choice how they wish to represent themselves through social media,\" Rahi Chadda added.\n\n\"It impacts their own mental health also. If by editing the photos they feel more confident, then that's a personal choice which shouldn't be judged.\n\n\"Transparency is something which influencers are working toward at their own pace.\"\n\nThe Ten Minute Rule Bill will be heard in Parliament on 15 September. If it passes, it can be incorporated into existing legislation or debated in the House of Commons.", "Seesha Dack was last seen on Sunday evening\n\nPolice searching for a 15-year-old girl who has been missing for two nights have found a body.\n\nSeesha Dack left her North Shields home at 17:00 BST on Sunday to meet friends, but did not return home, sparking a major search operation.\n\nA body has been found in the Tanners' Bank area of North Shields.\n\nFormal identification is yet to take place but police said they believe the body to be that of Ms Dack and her family has been informed.\n\nThere is not at this stage thought to be any third party involvement and a report will be prepared for the coroner.\n\nTanners' Bank has been sealed off with a police cordon\n\nSupt Barrie Joisce, of Northumbria Police, said: \"This is an extremely sad conclusion to an extensive investigation.\n\n\"Specialist officers are currently supporting Seesha's family during this incredibly difficult time and our thoughts are with them.\n\n\"We will continue to carry out inquiries to establish the circumstances around the death but at this stage we do not believe there to be any third party involvement.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The seven member boyband has made history with their new track 'Dynamite'\n\nIn a year where much of the world has been brought to standstill, BTS stands out. Unable to perform live and show off their electric choreography on some of the biggest stages across the world, they took a fresh approach: disco.\n\nNot only has it proved to be a success, their single Dynamite has broken records and they've become the first all-Korean pop act to top the Billboard 100 singles chart.\n\nRM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V and Jungkook told me how their fans - and a hit single of course - had helped them through the recent uncertainty.\n\nThey didn't manage to answer all of my questions, including the one most fans ask- when are they going to do their mandatory military service in South Korea. But judging by their tweets, they have been overwhelmed and even in tears at the success of their single. Even the South Korean President, Moon Jae-in tweeted to call it a \"splendid feat.\"\n\nBTS keep in contact with their fans - or \"ARMY\" - on social media. It's a constant conversation with a stream of pictures and videos. This year, more than any other, it seems that may have proved invaluable connection for both the band and their followers.\n\nCongratulations on the success of Dynamite. How does it feel to rise through the world charts including in the UK?\n\nRM: We are so humbled to achieve all these incredible feats, including the Official Singles Chart. A big thank you to our ARMY! \"Dynamite\" was created in the hopes of bringing some vibrant energy that the world needs right now. We are extremely happy to see people around the world enjoying it.\n\nJung Kook: Thank you ARMY for being so awesome!\n\nYou said that \"due to Covid-19, people in the world have been going through tough times and you wanted to share some positive energy with your fans\". Do you feel the final product has achieved that goal?\n\nRM: We would dare say that it has, to some extent! The only thing we want for them is to forget everything and just rock their head and move their body to the beat.\n\nOne of the real joys of BTS is seeing you perform live. I can speak from experience that it is electric. How are you coping without those live performances?\n\nSuga: Our world tour plans had to be altered due to COVID-19 and honestly we felt dispirited. We missed the stage and our fans. In order to alleviate this sense of frustration, we planned an online concert in June.\n\nEven though we couldn't see each other in person, our fans' heartfelt support from all around the world reached us. This made us realise that there are various ways to support and comfort each other even such times.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. K-pop sensation BTS speak to BBC, backstage at the O2 Arena\n\nDid you enjoy the disco element to the track?\n\nJ-hope: Because we are not the disco generation, I did my research by watching videos and tried to embody that vibe as much as possible. It was really fun and had me hooked. Haven't you been hooked as well?\n\nHow difficult has this year been for you as a band?\n\nJimin: It's been a tough year for everyone, and we're not an exception either. We were unable to do many things that we had planned. And as artists who need to connect with people on stage, this was most disheartening. But we are finding ways to cope with this situation, and \"Dynamite\" was one way for us to do that.\n\nCan we talk a bit about your donation to Black Lives Matter. Why did you decide to donate the money? And what was your reaction when you saw your fans had matched the donation?\n\nRM: We think our Twitter message speaks for itself. We stand against racial discrimination and condemn violence, and all have the right to be respected. We were really thankful to know that the fans were also with us.\n\nWhy after all these years did you decide to release a song in English?\n\nV: We all loved this song when we first heard it. It felt fresh, different from what we've done so far. In a musical aspect, we thought that singing in English will best fit the song. So there was a unanimous consent amongst us to do it in English.\n\nWhat message do you have for fans who are struggling around the world?\n\nJin: I'm not sure if this can be of any help, but I want to tell you to cheer up and stay strong no matter how hard life is now. Let's try to find together our small joys in the midst of this. Also, listen to Dynamite that will make your time at home more fun!\n\nThe seven member boyband has made history with their new track 'Dynamite'", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has blamed a \"mutant algorithm\" for this summer's exam results fiasco.\n\n\"I am afraid your grades were almost derailed by a mutant algorithm and I know how stressful that must have been,\" he told pupils at a school.\n\nAn algorithm - a maths calculation - was initially used to determine A-level and GCSE results this year but it was scrapped after problems emerged.\n\nThe top civil servant at the Department for Education has also now been sacked.\n\nJonathan Slater was due to stand down next year, but will now leave the department by next week.\n\nMr Johnson made his comments about the algorithm during a visit to a secondary school in Coalville, Leicestershire, on Wednesday.\n\nThe National Education Union (NEU) called Mr Johnson's comments \"brazen\" and accused him of trying to \"idly shrug away a disaster that his own government created\".\n\nThe prime minister had previously defended the controversial exam results as a \"robust set of grades\". His government later made a U-turn following anger over the algorithm and decided to use predicted grades from teachers instead.\n\nSpeaking to pupils earlier, Mr Johnson empathised with the problems young people had faced with their exam grades but said he was \"very, very glad that it has finally been sorted out\".\n\nResults for this year's exams were caught up in confusion\n\nThe prime minister said education was the \"great liberator\" and the biggest risk for young people was not Covid-19 - but was \"continuing to be out of school\".\n\nMr Johnson told pupils they needed to be in school to think about ideas and questions - such as \"Is Harry Potter sexist? The answer is no, by the way.\"\n\nBut the remarks on exam problems angered the biggest teachers' union, who saw it as evading responsibility.\n\nKevin Courtney, joint leader of the NEU, said parents and teachers would be \"horrified to see the leader of this country treat his own exams fiasco like some minor passing fad\".\n\n\"It is certain to put a long-lasting dent in the government's reputation on education.\"\n\nThe exam chaos has also led to the Boris Johnson removing the most senior civil servant at the Department for Education, permanent secretary Jonathan Slater.\n\nA statement said \"the prime minister has concluded that there is a need for fresh official leadership\" at the department.\n\nThe role as the department's most senior civil servant will be taken on in an interim basis by Susan Acland-Hood.\n\nIt follows the resignation of Sally Collier as head of the Ofqual exam watchdog for England.\n\nSo what does the departure of Jonathan Slater mean - and why does it matter?\n\nFor his union, the FDA - and for Labour - it is straightforwardly a sign that, when things go wrong, the buck now firmly stops with the officials and not government ministers.\n\nAngry Conservative MPs were being privately reassured that \"heads would roll\" after the exams controversy - and both a senior civil servant, and the head of Ofqual, have now departed while Gavin Williamson and his education ministers remain in post.\n\nBut something of a pattern is emerging.\n\nIn February the most senior official at the Home Office resigned - and took the government to court claiming there had been a \"vicious and orchestrated campaign\" against him.\n\nOther senior civil servants have made less of a fuss but have nonetheless left their jobs: the most senior Whitehall mandarin - Sir Mark Sedwill - recently moved; the head of the Foreign Office announced an earlier than expected departure; and it was announced last month that the permanent secretary at the Ministry of Justice would be leaving, too.\n\nCabinet office minister Michael Gove has talked about reforming the civil service - in a speech in June, he said government departments recruited in their own image and their assumptions were \"inescapably metropolitan\". So a strategic rethink and an increased turnover of senior Whitehall personnel are probably not entirely unrelated.\n\nBut what might worry senior civil servants more is that they might be sacrificed for short term news management, rather than as the result of a strategic master plan.\n\nAnd there is a risk this, in turn, might affect the quality of those who apply for senior civil service roles.\n\nBoth departures followed the high-profile problems caused by replacement grades for A-levels, GCSEs and vocational qualifications for exams cancelled in the pandemic.\n\nThis focused on an \"algorithm\" which was accused of producing unfair results - which after a U-turn was replaced by teachers' estimated grades.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said: \"It is abundantly clear that things have not gone well at the Department for Education and Ofqual, culminating in the debacle over this year's GCSE and A-level grades.\n\n\"But it is pretty unsavoury that civil servants appear to be carrying the can while ministers remain unscathed.\"\n\nLabour's shadow education secretary Kate Green said: \"Parents will be looking on in dismay at a government in complete chaos just a matter of days before children will return to schools.\"", "Dominic Raab and his top civil servant Philip Barton arrive at their new department\n\nThe UK government remains committed to spending 0.7% of national income on foreign aid, Dominic Raab has said.\n\nThe foreign secretary dismissed as \"tittle tattle\" reports that the £15bn aid budget could be cut to pay for more defence and intelligence spending.\n\nPress reports suggest Chancellor Rishi Sunak will cut aid spending to help pay off rising debts in his Autumn budget.\n\nBut Mr Raab said the 0.7% target was a manifesto commitment that was written into law.\n\nHis promise came as the newly-merged Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office began work, with a pledge to protect \"the world's poorest\" from coronavirus and famine.\n\nThe new department is opening after No 10 decided to combine the Foreign and Commonwealth Office with the Department for International Development (DfID).\n\nAsked if the 0.7% target would survive the merger, Mr Raab said: \"Oh, absolutely.\"\n\nHe added that the development expertise the UK has got will be \"the beating heart of this new department\".\n\nThe government is carrying out a review of defence and security policy, that is due to report back in November, and is also gearing up for the comprehensive spending review, which will set departmental budgets for the next few years.\n\nAccording to The Times, Rishi Sunak is arguing that the Ministry of Defence's plans for advanced cyber weaponry and AI-enabled drones must be paid for out of the aid budget.\n\nMr Raab said: \"Well, there is loads of tittle tattle, rather colourful, in the media and I am not going to prejudice the comprehensive spending review.\"\n\nHe added that the government was committed to helping the poorest around the world and \"making sure we link up aid with our wider foreign policy goals\".\n\nThe UK is one of the few countries to meet the UN's 0.7% aid target\n\nMr Raab has announced a £119m fund to tackle coronavirus and famine to mark the launch of the new, merged department.\n\nThe money will be targeted in Yemen, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Somalia, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Sudan and West Africa's Sahel region - all places where the outbreak has worsened conditions for people already struggling with extreme hunger, wars and/or climate change.\n\nThe foreign secretary also confirmed he would be appointing Nick Dyer - a director general at DfID - as the UK's first special envoy for famine prevention and humanitarian affairs.\n\nThe abolition of the Department for International Development may have been driven by political pressure from within the Conservative Party.\n\nBut the government argues that its merger with the Foreign Office will mean better, more joined-up policy.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said that by combining its diplomatic strength with its expertise in foreign aid, Britain could not only tackle global challenges, but also protect its interests.\n\nCritics fear the new Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office could mean the government weakens its commitment to spend 0.7% of national income on foreign aid.\n\nBut Downing Street insisted there'd been no change to that policy.\n\nThe two departments have a history of being merged and split up again, and the move to bring them together has long been mooted in Conservative circles.\n\nTory MP Harriet Baldwin - who held joint roles across the FCO and DfID - said it was \"really important to combine them\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"[The move] will really increase the impact of our diplomatic clout, as well as our development expertise across the world.\"\n\nBut Labour MP Hilary Benn, who was the international development secretary under Tony Blair, said he thought the merger was a \"mistake\" and questioned Mr Johnson's understanding of the department.\n\nHe told Today: \"The proof will be in how this new department develops and unfolds, but I think it will lead to less respect for what we are doing.\"\n\nBoris Johnson announced the merger in June, telling MPs it would ensure aid spending better reflected UK aims and that it was a \"long overdue reform\".\n\nHe said UK aid spending had \"been treated as some giant cashpoint in the sky that arrives without any reference to UK interests\".\n\nBut the PM pledged DfID's budget - which at £15bn last year dwarfed the £2.4bn spent by the Foreign Office - would be maintained\n\nMr Johnson's decision was criticised by three previous prime ministers - Conservative David Cameron, and Labour's Gordon Brown and Mr Blair.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson announced the merger to the Commons in June\n\nMr Cameron said it would mean \"less expertise, less voice for development at the top table and ultimately less respect for the UK overseas\".\n\nThe Commons International Development Committee also called the move \"impulsive\", saying the world's poorest \"will pay the greatest price\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer pledged to reinstate DfID if he were to win the next general election, saying the merger was \"the tactics of pure distraction\".", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Wednesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Health Correspondent Laura Foster explains what schools are doing to keep pupils safe\n\nHundreds of thousands of people in Glasgow and two neighbouring areas are waking up to the return of some lockdown measures. Following a rise in virus cases, they're being told not to mix with people from other households inside homes. Meanwhile, local restrictions affecting more than a million people in parts of Greater Manchester, Lancashire and West Yorkshire have been eased - despite strong opposition from two councils, Bolton and Trafford.\n\nThe UK government and the devolved administrations will hold urgent discussions later about introducing new quarantine measures for travellers. Scotland and Wales have already set out different rules for people arriving from Greece - and travel firm Tui has cancelled all holidays to a party resort on the island of Zante. Ministers are also concerned about a rise in cases in Portugal, less than two weeks after travel to the country was opened up.\n\nTui said it was forced to act because customers were failing to observe virus safety measures\n\nCovid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice, which says it represents 1,600 families who've lost loved ones to coronavirus, have accused Boris Johnson of being \"heartless\" after he declined to meet them. The prime minister had said he would \"of course\" meet anyone in their position, but days later wrote to them saying he was \"unable\" to do so. They've made that letter public.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice is calling for an independent, judge-led, statutory public inquiry\n\nA £2bn scheme launches today with the aim of helping young people struggling during the pandemic into work. The Kickstart initiative will offer \"a future of opportunity and hope\", according to the Treasury. Firms are being encouraged to sign up as soon as possible, and in return, the government will pay them £1,500 to help set up support and training. Read more on the sectors hiring at the moment.\n\nTesco has confirmed it plans to take part in Kickstart\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, as many of the pupils going back to class today are required to don face coverings, we've pulled together all the rules around when you need to mask up, in schools and beyond.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Insp Rob Taylor, who leads the rural crime team, said all of the animals were in a \"terrible condition\"\n\nHundreds of animals kept in \"harrowing conditions\" have been rescued from land in Gwynedd.\n\nMore than 91 horses, 122 geese, ducks and chickens and three rabbits were removed from land in the Pwllheli area on Tuesday, North Wales Police said.\n\nTwo horses had to be put down, and a woman was arrested on suspicion of assaulting an officer.\n\nRob Taylor, from North Wales Rural Crime Team, described it as an \"appalling day\".\n\nSgt Rob Taylor said the conditions were \"terrible\"\n\nOne of the horses destroyed had suffered a broken leg when it was a foal, which had not been properly treated, leaving it lame for the whole of its adult life, police said. Another was blind.\n\nThe \"large scale cruelty case\" was a joint operation between the RSPCA and North Wales Police.\n\nMr Taylor said all the animals rescued were in a \"terrible condition\" but were now being cared for elsewhere.\n\n\"A truly harrowing day for all of the team and a case will be taken against the person responsible,\" he said.\n\n\"All cruelty is horrendous, but this rates on a high scale because of the numbers of animals involved.\"\n\nThe woman arrested has been released on police bail pending further investigation.\n\nDead horses under covers could be seen in photos taken by police at the scene\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Carwyn Jones was first minister from 2009 to 2018 and is still a member of the Senedd for Bridgend\n\nEx-first minister of Wales Carwyn Jones has revealed he came close to stepping down from the job earlier than he did due to the strain on his family.\n\nHe said that he thought about walking away from the role when his daughter was going through a \"difficult time\".\n\nMr Jones said that being away so much made him question if \"she needed a dad who is at home more\".\n\nDiscussing his book, \"Not Just Politics\", he also warns Wales could become independent by accident.\n\nMr Jones, first minister from 2009 to 2018, said that one occasion stood out \"when my daughter was going through a difficult time, as sometimes adopted children do\".\n\n\"She found things very difficult,\" he told BBC Wales.\n\n\"At that point I did start to think does she need a dad who is at home more?\n\n\"But she came through it, she's a great kid.\"\n\nCarwyn Jones became first minister in December 2009, after Rhodri Morgan stepped down\n\nMr Jones also talked about his wife Lisa's diagnosis with leukaemia in the 1990s and how they did not allow the illness to get in the way of their plans for the future.\n\n\"Very fortunately Lisa recovered. She had a bone marrow transplant from her brother, within a year she was pretty much back to normal and was strong, and she's a very brave person,\" he said.\n\n\"Life carried on and it was important that life carried on. When Lisa was ill a lot of people who were diagnosed didn't make it.\n\n\"Lisa was one of the fortunate ones, and 25 years on there has been no recurrence at all of the illness.\n\n\"I think it's important that when you get cancer you carry on. That you don't let it get in the way of your life and carry on with your plans.\"\n\nCarl Sargeant was found dead days after Carwyn Jones sacked him amid allegations of inappropriate behaviour\n\nMr Jones admitted that the death of the sacked Welsh Government minister Carl Sargeant would be one event that \"inevitably leaves a mark on you\".\n\nMr Sargeant was found dead at his home days after the then-first minister dismissed him in November 2017, after being accused of inappropriate conduct towards women.\n\nFive months later, Mr Jones announced he would be stepping down as first minister, saying he had been through the \"darkest of times\".\n\nIn the book Mr Jones reveals that following Mr Sargeant's death he was clinically depressed, he received counselling and was prescribed with antidepressants.\n\nBut Mr Jones doesn't believe this should have been made public at the time.\n\n\"I don't think it's appropriate when you have a grieving family to start talking about yourself and the challenges that you face. I think people would see that as a bit of a distraction to be fair,\" he said.\n\n\"I would never have felt comfortable with talking about what I was going through when there is a family that had gone through much worse.\n\n\"These things are not appropriate. There comes a time to discuss these things but it wasn't then.\"\n\nFormer Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn joined Carwyn Jones on the 2017 general election campaign trail in Cardiff\n\nAnother theme that Mr Jones tackles in the book is the future of the United Kingdom.\n\n\"I've never accepted that it's a choice between the status quo and independence,\" he said.\n\n\"I think there is another way, a kind of federation, where you've got four equal nations who opt into that federation.\"\n\nMr Jones believes that there is a great appetite for constitutional change in the Labour Party.\n\n\"I think (Labour leader) Keir Starmer gets it. I'm not saying his view will be exactly the same as mine in terms of parliamentary sovereignty, it may be a different model,\" he added.\n\nMr Jones also warns that Wales could become independent by accident.\n\n\"You have to bear in mind that if Scotland can leave the UK, Wales can leave the UK, so can England,\" he said.\n\n\"And you see Scotland leaving, that might well start to create a drive for English nationalism, independence for England.\n\n\"There are lots of forces that seem unlikely and ridiculous, and would have seemed so years ago, which now are not as ridiculous as they might be. These are the things we have to deal with.\"", "Clusters of coronavirus cases have been linked to the Greek island of Zakynthos, also known as Zante\n\nMinisters are facing pressure to decide whether tourists returning to England from Greece should quarantine, after Scotland and Wales introduced their own measures.\n\nScotland has said travellers arriving from Greece must quarantine for 14 days after 04:00 BST on Thursday.\n\nAnd Wales has asked arrivals from the Greek island Zakynthos to quarantine.\n\nIt comes as travel company Tui cancelled all holidays to a resort on the Greek island after virus clusters.\n\nThe firm said it would no longer be offering trips to the resort of Laganas, on Zakynthos, from Thursday because of customers failing to follow coronavirus safety measures.\n\nSix clusters of cases have been linked to flights from the island - also known as Zante.\n\nGreece has insisted it is doing \"everything in our power\" to keep UK holidaymakers safe.\n\nThe country's tourism minister, Haris Theoharis, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We're taking specific targeted measures where we see specific concentrations of cases. Measures that have been successful and have been working in the past few days.\"\n\nNumbers in bars and restaurants on Zakynthos are being limited to reduce the spread of the virus\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said there were six clusters of cases, amounting to more than 30 infections, linked to flights from the Greek island in the past week - including two flights which landed in England.\n\nHe called for an \"early meeting with the UK government and devolved nations\" to discuss changing the rules.\n\nHis comments came shortly after the Scottish government announced its own decision.\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf said: \"With Scotland's relatively low infection rate, importation of new cases from Greece is a significant risk to public health.\"\n\nStruggling to keep up? You're not alone! The UK government's travel quarantine has been a messy affair.\n\nThere was real chaos when restrictions were re-imposed on arrivals from Spain at the height of a busy summer weekend.\n\nAfter that, ministers tried to bring in a more structured approach by reviewing each country's infection rate throughout each week and announcing any changes on Thursdays or Fridays.\n\nHowever the picture has been complicated further by the fact that the quarantine is a public health policy and so the Welsh and Scottish Governments can diverge from Westminster and classify countries differently.\n\nNow the Welsh government is bringing in testing on arrival for passengers too.\n\nThat's awkward for the UK government because, for months, the aviation sector has been asking ministers to give their backing to testing at airports so people who test negative wouldn't have to quarantine for the full 14 days.\n\nAviation bosses are frustrated about the delay over any announcement on that.\n\nAnd all the twists and turns over quarantine makes life for any foreign travel business incredibly hard.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK's biggest tour operator Tui is suspending its holidays in the resort of Laganas on Zakynthos.\n\nAndrew Flintham, managing director of Tui UK and Ireland, said anyone who had booked to go the resort after 3 September would be refunded for the cancellation, but that trips to all other resorts on Zakynthos would continue as normal.\n\nHe said: \"The health and safety of our colleagues and customers is our primary concern and recent cases show that some customers are not following social distancing and Covid safety measures.\n\n\"It is therefore the right thing to do to protect and reduce a now identified potential risk to others by no longer offering holidays to this specific resort.\"\n\nNearly 200 people faced self-isolation after at least 16 passengers on a Tui flight from Zakynthos to Cardiff Airport tested positive for the virus. Some people claimed passengers were not following Covid-19 rules.\n\nWhen a country surpasses 20 cases per 100,000 people in the past week, the UK government normally imposes 14 days of self-isolation on returning travellers.\n\nThere were 14.3 coronavirus cases per 100,000 people in Greece in the seven days to 1 September, up from 14.1 a week earlier. But several cases of the virus in Scotland have been traced back to Greece, including a passenger on a Tui flight from Zante to Glasgow on 23 August.\n\nTui said customers due to travel to Greece from Scotland would be able to amend or cancel their holiday in light of the quarantine announcement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tui boss Andrew Flintham says the government should consider \"regional travel corridors\"\n\nMeanwhile, ministers are considering reimposing quarantine measures for those arriving in the UK from Portugal as coronavirus cases rise, sources have told the BBC.\n\nIt has been less than two weeks since a travel corridor was established between Portugal and the UK, following a sustained period of falling cases in the country that put it below 20 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nBut in the seven days up to 1 September, the seven-day rate has increased from 14.2 to 22.7.\n\nEvery year, more than two million Britons visit Portugal, making up the largest number of overseas tourists to the country.\n\nOver May and June, the Portuguese government reopened its restaurants, coffee shops, museums and beaches. Hotels have mainly reopened, but nightclubs remain closed.\n\nThe government has not commented on whether requirements for arrivals from Portugal will change again.\n\nLast week, Switzerland, Jamaica and the Czech Republic joined France, Spain and other destinations on the UK's quarantine list.", "A BBC team has filmed riot police attacking and forcibly arresting university students in the capital of Belarus.\n\nThe students in Minsk were marking the start of the country's academic year with marches against Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for 26 years.\n\nProtests against his rule have continued across Belarus since the 9 August presidential election, which was widely regarded as rigged and rejected by the EU and US as neither free nor fair.\n\nMr Lukashenko has insisted he has the support of millions of Belarusians.\n\nThe BBC's Jonah Fisher was in Minsk when the attacks happened.\n\nRead more: Students held as protests mark new term in Belarus", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nThree Paris St-Germain players have tested positive for coronavirus, the Ligue 1 club said on Wednesday.\n\nThe French champions, who lost in the Champions League final last month, have not revealed the players involved.\n\n\"All of the players and coaching staff will continue to undergo tests in the coming days,\" a club statement said.\n\nThe French league is already under way but PSG are due to start their title defence at Racing Lens on 10 September after being given an extended break.\n\nThe opening game of the Ligue 1 season between Marseille and Saint-Etienne had to be postponed last month after four home players tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe French league told clubs last week its protocol for dealing with coronavirus meant more than three positive cases at a club was likely to lead to a postponement.\n\nThe 2019-20 campaign was curtailed in April because of the Covid-19 pandemic, with Paris St-Germain, 12 points clear at the top, awarded the title.", "Bolton has had its highest seven-day rate since late May\n\nA Covid spike in Bolton and Trafford has prompted council bosses to ask for restrictions to remain in place, a day before they were due to be lifted.\n\nTighter rules were introduced in July in Greater Manchester and parts of Yorkshire after concerns the virus was being spread between households.\n\nBolton currently has one of the highest rates of new virus cases per 100,000 residents in England.\n\nIts council said it had made the decision \"with a heavy heart\".\n\nOn Friday, the government said measures banning people from different households from meeting indoors or private gardens would be lifted in Bolton, Stockport, Trafford, Burnley, Hyndburn and parts of Bradford, Calderdale and Kirklees.\n\nBut Bolton Council said the \"unforeseen spike\" in the local infection rate means restrictions should remain in place \"until further notice\".\n\nBolton has recorded 170 new cases in the week to 29 August, up from 53 the week before, meaning it has one of the highest rates in England at 59 new cases per 100,000 residents.\n\nThe rate in Trafford has risen from 19.4 to 35.4, with 84 new cases.\n\nTighter Covid-19 rules were introduced in Greater Manchester in July\n\nThe decision would also mean certain businesses, including those offering close-contact services, will not reopen as planned.\n\nBolton council leader David Greenhalgh said: \"It is with a heavy heart that [we] have come to this decision and this will be incredibly disappointing for both residents and business owners.\n\n\"We urged the government to lift Bolton out of the additional restrictions at a time when infection rates were low. This was the right decision at the time.\n\n\"However, there has been a sudden and unforeseeable rise in the number of coronavirus cases in Bolton.\n\n\"We have always been led by the data, which means we have no choice but to act quickly to keep everyone safe.\"\n\nThe council said new cases in Bolton were spread across the borough and not limited to a single area, community or place of work.\n\nInfections between different households appear to be the main cause of the spike, with people aged 18-49 representing the overwhelming majority of new cases, it said.\n\nMeanwhile, Trafford recorded its highest seven-day infection rate since the end of July when the additional restrictions were imposed.\n\nCouncil leader Andrew Western had previously argued lifting restrictions there would be \"premature\" and the government had ignored the advice of local public health officials.\n\nIn a letter to the health secretary, he accused the government of causing \"chaos and confusion\" over the easing of lockdown measures in the borough.\n\nHe said Trafford has a \"significantly\" higher rate of cases than other Greater Manchester boroughs who are not due to see restrictions relaxed.\n\nMr Western has called for an \"urgent update\", saying \"the people of Trafford deserve better\".\n\nGreater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), which is made up of the 10 Greater Manchester councils and mayor Andy Burnham, has called on the government to agree on an exit strategy from the local restrictions on household gatherings.\n\n\"It is clear that more targeted, hyper-local door-to-door action is more effective than broad geographical restrictions,\" said a GMCA spokesperson.\n\n\"As soon as practically and safely possible, we want to see the whole of Greater Manchester coming back into line with the rest of country but with funding to provide enhanced local interventions where they are needed.\n\n\"However, before that is in place, it is accepted that the restrictions will need to continue in eight boroughs in the short term.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"We are working closely with leaders and local authorities across Greater Manchester and Lancashire in response to the changing situation and we keep all local restrictions under constant consideration.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "An artist's impression of the last moments before the merger of two black holes\n\nImagine the energy of eight Suns released in an instant.\n\nThis is the gravitational \"shockwave\" that spread out from the biggest merger yet observed between two black holes.\n\nThe signal from this event travelled for some seven billion years to reach Earth but was still sufficiently strong to rattle laser detectors in the US and Italy in May last year.\n\nResearchers say the colliding black holes produced a single entity with a mass 142 times that of our Sun.\n\nThis is noteworthy. Science has long traced the presence of black holes on the sky that are quite a bit smaller or even very much larger. But this new observation inaugurates a novel class of so-called intermediate-sized black holes in the range of 100-1,000 Sun (or solar) masses.\n\nThe analysis is the latest to come out of the international LIGO-VIRGO collaboration, which operates three super-sensitive gravitational wave-detection systems in America and Europe.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe collaboration's laser interferometer instruments \"listen\" for the vibrations in space-time that are generated by truly cataclysmic cosmic events - and on 21 May, 2019, they were all triggered by a sharp signal lasting just one-tenth of a second.\n\nComputer algorithms determined the source to be the end-stage moments of two in-spiralling black holes - one with a mass 66 times that of our Sun, and the other with 85 solar masses.\n\nThe distance to the merger was calculated to be the equivalent of 150 billion trillion km.\n\n\"It's astounding, really,\" said Prof Nelson Christensen from the Côte d'Azur Observatory in France. \"This signal propagated for seven billion years. So this event happened 'just before halftime' for the Universe, and now it's mechanically moved our detectors here on Earth,\" he explained to BBC News.\n\nThe European VIRGO laser lab is based in Italy's province of Pisa\n\nThe involvement of an 85-solar-mass object in the collision has made collaboration scientists sit up because their understanding of how black holes form from the death of a star can't really account for something on this scale.\n\nStars, when they exhaust their nuclear fuel, will experience an explosive core collapse to produce a black hole - if they're sufficiently big. But the physics that's assumed to operate inside stars suggests the production of black holes in the particular mass range between 65 and 120 solar masses is impossible. Dying stars that might yield such entities actually tear themselves apart and leave nothing behind.\n\nIf the science is correct on this point then the most likely explanation for the existence of an 85-solar-mass object is that it was itself the result of an even earlier black hole union.\n\nAnd that, believes Prof Martin Hendry, from Glasgow University, UK, has implications for how the Universe evolved.\n\n\"We're talking here about a hierarchy of mergers, a possible pathway to make bigger and bigger black holes,\" he said. \"So, who knows? This 142-solar-mass black hole may have gone on to have merged with other very massive black holes - as part of a build-up process that goes all the way to those supermassive black holes we think are at the heart of galaxies.\"\n\nThe discovery suggests there is a hierarchy of mergers that lead to ever bigger black holes\n\nThe LIGO-VIRGO collaboration is reporting the 21 May, 2019, event (catalogued as GW190521) in two scholarly papers.\n\nOne is in the journal Physical Review Letters and describes the discovery. The second can be found in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, and discusses the signal's physical properties and scientific implications.\n\nGW190521 is one of over 50 gravitational wave triggers presently being investigated at the laser laboratories.\n\nThe pace of research has increased rapidly since the collaboration made its first, Nobel-Prize-winning detection of gravitational waves in 2015.\n\n\"We are increasing the sensitivity of the detectors and, yes, we could end up making more than one detection a day. We will have a rain of black holes! But this is beautiful because we will learn so much more about them,\" Prof Alessandra Buonanno, director at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, told BBC News.\n\nThe laser labs are constantly being upgraded to improve their sensitivity\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Extinction Rebellion said it planned to \"peacefully disrupt\" Parliament with 10 days of demonstrations\n\nAt least 90 people have been arrested at climate change protests causing disruption across England.\n\nExtinction Rebellion organised action in London and Manchester to urge the government to prepare for a \"climate crisis\".\n\nCampaigners were arrested after they sat in the middle of the road next to Parliament Square to stop traffic.\n\nIn Manchester, protesters have been urged to \"reconsider their actions\" following a rise in Covid-19 cases.\n\nThe Met said the protests could result in \"serious disruption\" to businesses and commuters\n\nExtinction Rebellion said it planned to \"peacefully disrupt the UK Parliament in London\" with 10 days of demonstrations until MPs backed the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill.\n\nOther planned events in the capital include a \"carnival of corruption\", which is due to take place outside the Treasury, and a \"walk of shame\" near the Bank of England.\n\nProtester Karen Wildin, a 56-year-old tutor from Leicester, said: \"I'm here today because I have serious concerns about the future of the planet - we need to put this above anything else.\n\n\"Never mind Covid, never mind A-levels, this is the biggest crisis facing us and we need to raise the message as loudly as possible.\n\n\"Not a lot has been done on this issue, everyone needs to hear the message.\"\n\nEvents across England were timed for the return of MPs from the summer holiday\n\nSarah Lunnon, a member of Extinction Rebellion, said: \"The failure to act on this issue will have a catastrophic impact on the future of us and the generations to come.\n\n\"We want to occupy Parliament Square to make our voices heard. Of course we're in the middle of a pandemic but we're balancing the risk, this is the biggest issue facing us.\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said Tuesday's gathering could only take place off the main roads at Parliament Square Gardens between 08:00 BST and 19:00. Boats, vehicles, trailers or other structures were banned from the procession.\n\nThe same rules apply for Wednesday's demonstrations.\n\nThe Met said as of 18:00 Tuesday a total of 90 people had been arrested on suspicion of public order offences.\n\nFootage posted online by Extinction Rebellion appeared to show John Lynes, a demonstrator in his 90s, being led away by police near Parliament Square while walking with a stick.\n\nMr Lynes, from St Leonards-on-Sea in East Sussex, has joined previous protests organised by the group.\n\nProtesters gathered in Westminster to urge the government to prepare for a \"climate crisis\"\n\nMet Commander Jane Connors said: \"The reason we have implemented these conditions is that we know these protests may result in serious disruption to local businesses, commuters and our communities and residents, which I will not tolerate.\"\n\nLast year, more than 1,700 arrests were made during Extinction Rebellion's 10-day Autumn Uprising.\n\nIn Manchester, a march is planned through the city and Oxford Street has been closed as part of five days of action.\n\nCity council deputy leader Nigel Murphy said planned demonstrations \"cannot adhere\" to social distancing rules.\n\nThe city has increased restrictions due to a recent rise in Covid-19 cases.\n\nMr Murphy said while the council respected \"the right to peaceful protest\" this should \"not be at the expense of local people\".\n\nHe said: \"We are in the midst of a global public health crisis and we would ask demonstrators to seriously reconsider their actions at the current time.\n\n\"Manchester is currently under increased restrictions to limit the spread of the virus because the number of cases has been rising. Gatherings larger than six should only take place if everyone is exclusively from two households or support bubbles.\"\n\nHe said the city had one of the \"most ambitious carbon targets in the UK\" and was \"working to become zero carbon by 2038\".\n\nA Titanic-themed demonstration was also held in in Southend-on-Sea where protesters said much of Essex would be underwater by 2050\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The government “cannot carry on doing exactly what we did this year forever”, says the chancellor\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has reassured recently-elected Tory MPs there will not be a \"horror show of tax rises with no end in sight\", as the government deals with the costs of coronavirus.\n\nHe urged the 2019 Conservative intake to show trust to overcome the \"short-term challenges\" the party faces.\n\nSome MPs have expressed fears U-turns are hurting the government's standing.\n\nMr Sunak accidentally revealed the wording of his statement while holding his notes outside 11 Downing Street.\n\nThe Conservative Party, which won an 80-seat majority at December's general election, has seen its opinion poll lead over Labour cut in recent weeks.\n\nThis has led to concerns among some MPs who won seats in traditional Labour heartlands in the Midlands and northern England, known previously as its \"red wall\".\n\nAn unnamed \"red wall\" Conservative told the Press Association MPs in these areas, and others in marginal seats, were \"jittery\" following a series of U-turns on subjects including exam results, the wearing of face coverings and school meal funding. They described the situation as a \"megadisaster\".\n\nAnd Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, treasurer of the 1922 Committee of Tory MPs, warned against \"own goals\", saying: \"We may have a big majority but that still doesn't mean to say that we shouldn't be as competent as possible as a government.\"\n\nA photographer picked up the words in Rishi Sunak's statement\n\nIt was reported at the weekend that substantial corporation tax rises and capital gains tax changes are being considered by the Treasury to deal with the enormous costs of coronavirus. But the government dismissed this as \"speculation\".\n\nThe wording of Mr Sunak's statement, read out during a meeting in Parliament on Wednesday with Tory MPs first elected in 2019, which the prime minister also attended, was revealed when a photographer noticed the chancellor holding a script sheet while leaving 11 Downing Street.\n\nIt read: \"We will need to do some difficult things, but I promise you, if we trust one another we will be able to overcome the short-term challenges.\"\n\nReferring to the reports that there could be tax increases to pay for costs incurred during the pandemic, including the furlough scheme, it added: \"Now this doesn't mean a horror show of tax rises with no end in sight.\"\n\nIt continued: \"But it does mean treating the British people with respect, being honest with them about the challenges we face and showing them how we plan to correct our public finances and give our country the dynamic, low-tax economy we all want to see.\"\n\nWith more MPs back at Westminster, the prime minister and his chancellor took the opportunity to reassure restless Tory backbenchers about the government's strategy.\n\nHow to pay for the huge package of interventions to deal with the pandemic and its effects is at the forefront of Rishi Sunak's mind ahead of the Budget later this autumn.\n\nBorrowing has ballooned and the prime minister has already promised there will be no return to austerity.\n\nBut there is nervousness among Tory MPs about rumours of tax rises and about the government's decision-making and messaging more broadly.\n\nMr Sunak told his Conservative colleagues that ministers needed to show people the plan for correcting public finances. He faces difficult choices while devising it.\n\nGovernment sources denied the revelation of the chancellor's words in this way was \"embarrassing\", adding that they would have become a matter of public record anyway.\n\nDiscussing the coronavirus crisis, Boris Johnson told the MPs: \"I know it's been tough. I've got to warn you, it's about to get tougher. The waters are about to get choppier. But we are going to deal with it.\"\n\nThe prime minister later addressed a meeting of all backbench Conservative MPs, with the 1922 Committee getting together for the first time since Parliament's summer recess.\n\nOne MP present said he had been \"full of beans\", while a minister added that both the day's meetings had been about \"calming the troops\".", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Laura Foster explains how the Novichok nerve agent works and what to do if you think you've been exposed to it.", "Torsten Müller-Ötvös said business was back to \"far more normal\" levels\n\nThe boss of carmaker Rolls-Royce has said global demand for luxury vehicles is rebounding despite the pandemic.\n\nBoss Torsten Müller-Ötvös told the BBC that markets in Asia, Europe and the US were now \"more or less back to normal\".\n\nMr Müller-Ötvös was speaking at the launch of the new Rolls-Royce Ghost, the company's latest model, which is expected to retail at around £250,000.\n\nHe said sales for the first half of 2020 were down 30%, but now \"times are starting to become better and better\".\n\nMr Müller-Ötvös described the launch of the new Rolls-Royce Ghost, a complete redesign of the most successful car in the firm's history, as a \"seminal moment\".\n\nAt the height of the coronavirus pandemic, Rolls-Royce shut down production for a couple of weeks, while dealerships around the world followed suit.\n\nThe slump in sales came after a bumper year in 2019, which Mr Müller-Ötvös described as \"the best-ever year in the 116-year history of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars\".\n\n\"But of course, then Covid happened,\" he added.\n\nSince then, the firm had seen an \"upward trend\", he said. \"Business is coming back to what I would call far more normal.\"\n\nThe Rolls-Royce boss rejected suggestions that the carmaker was overly dependent on one region for its sales, saying it was \"well balanced worldwide\".\n\nAlthough the US was its biggest market and China was important, there was also strong demand in countries such as the UK, which accounted for 10% of its sales, he said.", "It's more than 160 days since schools sent home pupils at the beginning of the lockdown. No-one at the time, in those bewildering March days, could have known when children would return.\n\nThe leaves that were starting to appear on the trees when children hurried home are now about to turn brown. It's been a long and strange summer.\n\nExams were cancelled and there were replacement results. And then those results were cancelled too. There was constant confusion over whether or not pupils were going back to school.\n\nHome-schooling didn't always really happen and rites of passage such as leaving events had to be called off. There were more u-turns than a handwriting text book.\n\nMany pupils will not have been to school since they were brought home in March\n\nBut children are now going back full-time for the new school year. The \"new normal\" became a lockdown cliche, but going back to school in September is a rare case of the old normal.\n\nSo what's it going to be like for these returning pupils? What should parents be saying to them? Are they going to be able to get back to learning after months of lie-ins and Netflix?\n\n\"I think there's a real need to recognise the physical, mental and emotional impact of going back,\" says leading educational psychologist, Daniel O'Hare.\n\nChildren are likely to be \"drained\" by the sudden \"overload\" of being in school after being cocooned at home for so long, says Dr O'Hare, joint chair-elect of the British Psychological Society's education and child psychology division.\n\n\"It will be very new to go back into that full-on setting with 30 children in a class,\" he says.\n\nWhat makes it more complicated, says Dr O'Hare, is that the lockdown has been experienced by families in such different ways.\n\nSchool dinners will be back on the menu as the new term starts\n\nFor some children, there will have been worries about their families catching the virus, or facing pressures over money, insecure jobs and lack of space.\n\n\"But on the other hand, there will be a population of children who have experienced lockdown as very positive,\" says Dr O'Hare.\n\nThey will not have had the stresses of school and they might have enjoyed spending more time together with their parents.\n\nThe lockdown saw a temporary reinvention of family life, with those parents working from home seeing more of their children than would ever usually be possible. When this finishes, children and perhaps also their parents could miss this closeness.\n\nSchools have been getting their safety plans ready for when pupils return\n\nDr O'Hare says it would be a misunderstanding to think this follows socio-economic lines, with middle class families having had a better time during the lockdown.\n\n\"We have spoken to children from disadvantaged families and they said that they really enjoyed spending so much time with mum and they loved playing games and that it was better than before,\" he said.\n\n\"You know there's a real mix of stories coming from children about going back to school.\"\n\nIt means many different, contradictory responses which schools will have to address.\n\nSome researchers have warned of increased mental health worries while at the same time others have said teenagers' anxiety levels have gone down during the pandemic.\n\n\"Children have missed school and all of the social benefits that it brings,\" says Dr O'Hare, who works with the local education authority in Gloucestershire and at the University of Bristol.\n\nFor children who have \"challenging home circumstances\", he says there might be a relief at being back at school.\n\nBut uncertainty also creates stress and the new school year could look very different.\n\nWhat will it be like getting up for school after months of lie-ins and without a routine?\n\nDr O'Hare says parents can help to reduce anxiety by letting children know what changes to expect - how they will be in separate \"bubbles\", the one-way systems, the transport arrangements, the changes to timetables and the hand washing.\n\nAnother educational psychologist, Will Shield, based at the University of Exeter, says children should be told that it's \"absolutely ok to be concerned\" about going back and to talk about any particular worries.\n\n\"It is important that teachers and parents let pupils know it is perfectly normal to be concerned about being away from home or worried about learning they may have missed, alongside feeling excited and happy about returning to school,\" said Dr Shield.\n\nDr O'Hare says research shows children might be frightened of catching coronavirus and putting their family at risk.\n\nHand washing is going to be an important part of the new school routine\n\nFriendship groups could have changed and there might be anxiety about falling behind with school work after so much missed time, he says,\n\nThe children's charity Barnardos has published research suggesting that 4% of children might try to refuse to return to school at all.\n\nA survey for Netmums suggested a fifth of parents were still worried about the safety of going back to school, while a YouGov poll suggested about one in six parents was \"seriously considering\" keeping their children out of school.\n\nBut Dr O'Hare says not to predict or expect problems, because the biggest reaction might be about seeing friends again.\n\nThere was a first wave of school returns for primary pupils in June\n\n\"The conversation can also be positive. What are they looking forward to? Who are they looking forward to seeing? I think it's about trying to promote that sense of excitement,\" he says.\n\nHe recommends \"watchful waiting - just being aware of the different reactions that children can have\" and keeping talking to them about how they feel about going back.\n\n\"Because some children might seem fine and it's not until three or four weeks later that they have a massive outburst.\"\n\nAfter a year without precedent, it seems appropriate the advice is not to make any assumptions about what happens next.", "Small children were among those arriving in Dover after crossing the English Channel\n\nMore than 400 migrants have crossed the English Channel in small boats - a record for a single day.\n\nBorder Force has intercepted 416 people, including young children, on board 28 boats, the Home Office has confirmed.\n\nSome of the migrants were carrying children too young to walk.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson earlier on Wednesday said the UK had become \"a target and a magnet for those who would exploit vulnerable people in this way\".\n\nMore than 100 migrants arrived in Dover after being picked up by Border Force and RNLI vessels\n\nA further 53 people were rescued by French authorities after getting into difficulties before reaching British waters.\n\nSome 145 people had crossed the Channel in 18 small boats on Tuesday.\n\nRough seas brought on by Storm Francis made crossings impossible at the end of August, but conditions have improved in the first two days of September.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons during Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"I have a great deal of sympathy with those who are desperate as to put their children in dinghies or in children's paddling pools and try to cross the channel.\n\n\"But I have to say what they're doing is falling prey to criminal gangs and they are breaking the law.\"\n\nHe added: \"It also undermines the legitimate claims of others who seek asylum in this country.\n\n\"We will address the rigidities in our laws that make this country, I'm afraid, a target and a magnet for those who would exploit vulnerable people in this way.\"\n\nOne group landed at Shakespeare Beach in Dover\n\nMore than 1,468 migrants made the crossing by small boat in August despite a vow from Home Secretary Priti Patel to make the dangerous route \"unviable\".\n\nThe Home Office does not provide information on how many children are making the crossing on small boats.\n\nHome Office minister Chris Philp told the Commons on Wednesday the government was attempting to return 1,000 people who had arrived in the UK, having \"previously claimed asylum in European countries, and under the regulations legally should be returned there\".\n\nMore than 7,400 migrants have crossed the Channel in small boats since January 2019.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "'My son can only go to nursery for two hours a day'\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live has been putting questions from listeners to experts on this morning's Your Call programme. Sarah in Cardiff got in touch about the issue juggling work around reduced nursery hours - her three-year-old's nursery hours have been reduced to just two hours a day. \"I'm able to work flexibly but his hours have been cut to 09:10 until 11:10, so that they can manage the amount of children going in, and if you work then that is nigh on impossible. “I have a lot of parents saying to me that they don't know how they're going to cope with it and wraparound care. They've got unsympathetic employers.\" Anne Longfield, England's children's commissioner, said: \"School hours have never fitted with office hours and as school hours start being more flexible it makes it more difficult. \"We may all think because schools are opening that it is going to be much easier now for parents to be able to work, but it isn't always going to be the case.\" \"Employers really need to support their workers,” she added. Click here to listen back to the special Your Call programme on BBC Sounds.", "This week marks the 75th anniversary of the official end of the Second World War, when Japan signed its deed of unconditional surrender. It ended six years of global conflict, which claimed the lives of more than 80 million people and changed the lives of hundreds of millions of others.\n\nThis week some of our colleagues at BBC News are relating their own families’ experiences in contributing to the people’s war effort. 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